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Fermion Schwinger's function for the SU(2)-Thirring model
We study the Euclidean two-point function of Fermi fields in the
SU(2)-Thirring model on the whole distance (energy) scale. We perform
perturbative and renormalization group analyses to obtain the short-distance
asymptotics, and numerically evaluate the long-distance behavior by using the
form factor expansion. Our results illustrate the use of bosonization and
conformal perturbation theory in the renormalization group analysis of a
fermionic theory, and numerically confirm the validity of the form factor
expansion in the case of the SU(2)-Thirring model.Comment: 27 pages, harvmac.tex, references added, typos correcte
Adaptive Energy Preserving Methods for Partial Differential Equations
A method for constructing first integral preserving numerical schemes for
time-dependent partial differential equations on non-uniform grids is
presented. The method can be used with both finite difference and partition of
unity approaches, thereby also including finite element approaches. The schemes
are then extended to accommodate -, - and -adaptivity. The method is
applied to the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the Sine-Gordon equation and
results from numerical experiments are presented.Comment: 27 pages; some changes to notation and figure
Full discretisation of semi-linear stochastic wave equations driven by multiplicative noise
A fully discrete approximation of the semi-linear stochastic wave equation
driven by multiplicative noise is presented. A standard linear finite element
approximation is used in space and a stochastic trigonometric method for the
temporal approximation. This explicit time integrator allows for mean-square
error bounds independent of the space discretisation and thus do not suffer
from a step size restriction as in the often used St\"ormer-Verlet-leap-frog
scheme. Furthermore, it satisfies an almost trace formula (i.e., a linear drift
of the expected value of the energy of the problem). Numerical experiments are
presented and confirm the theoretical results
On the variational structure of breather solutions
In this paper we give a systematic and simple account that put in evidence
that many breather solutions of integrable equations satisfy suitable
variational elliptic equations, which also implies that the stability problem
reduces in some sense to the study of the spectrum of explicit linear
systems (\emph{spectral stability}), and the understanding of how bad
directions (if any) can be controlled using low regularity conservation laws.
We exemplify this idea in the case of the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV),
Gardner, and sine-Gordon (SG) equations. Then we perform numerical simulations
that confirm, at the level of the spectral problem, our previous rigorous
results, where we showed that mKdV breathers are and stable,
respectively. In a second step, we also discuss the Gardner and the Sine-Gordon
cases, where the spectral study of a fourth-order linear matrix system is the
key element to show stability. Using numerical methods, we confirm that all
spectral assumptions leading to the stability of SG breathers
are numerically satisfied, even in the ultra-relativistic, singular regime. In
a second part, we study the periodic mKdV case, where a periodic breather is
known from the work of Kevrekidis et al. We rigorously show that these
breathers satisfy a suitable elliptic equation, and we also show numerical
spectral stability. However, we also identify the source of nonlinear
instability in the case described in Kevrekidis et al. Finally, we present a
new class of breather solution for mKdV, believed to exist from geometric
considerations, and which is periodic in time and space, but has nonzero mean,
unlike standard breathers.Comment: 55 pages; This paper is an improved version of our previous paper
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