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Rotationally induced vortices in optical cavity modes
We show that vortices appear in the modes of an astigmatic optical cavity
when it is put into rotation about its optical axis. We study the properties of
these vortices and discuss numerical results for a specific realization of such
a set-up. Our method is exact up to first order in the time-dependent paraxial
approximation and involves bosonic ladder operators in the spirit of the
quantum-mechanical harmonic oscillator.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in a special issue
(singular optics 2008) of Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optic
08221 Abstracts Collection -- Geometric Modeling
From May 26 to May 30 2008 the Dagstuhl Seminar 08221 ``Geometric Modeling\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI),
Schloss Dagstuhl.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of
seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
Surface remeshing by local hermite diffuse interpolation
International audienceWe propose a method to build a three-dimensional adapted surface mesh with respect to a mesh size map driven by surface curvature. The data needed to optimize the mesh have been reduced to an initial mesh. The building of a local geometrical model but continuous over the whole domain is based on a local Hermite diffuse interpolation calculated from the nodes of the initial mesh and from the normal vectors to the surface. The optimization procedures involve extracting from the surface mesh sets of triangles sharing the same node or the same edge and then remeshing the outer contour to a higher criterion (size or shape). These procedures may be used in order to refine or coarsen the mesh but also in a final step to enhance the shape quality of the elements. Examples demonstrate the ability of the method to create adapted meshes of complex surfaces while meeting high-quality standards and a good respect of the geometrical surface
A diffusion-driven Characteristic Mapping method for particle management
We present a novel particle management method using the Characteristic
Mapping framework. In the context of explicit evolution of parametrized curves
and surfaces, the surface distribution of marker points created from sampling
the parametric space is controlled by the area element of the parametrization
function. As the surface evolves, the area element becomes uneven and the
sampling, suboptimal. In this method we maintain the quality of the sampling by
pre-composition of the parametrization with a deformation map of the parametric
space. This deformation is generated by the velocity field associated to the
diffusion process on the space of probability distributions and induces a
uniform redistribution of the marker points. We also exploit the semigroup
property of the heat equation to generate a submap decomposition of the
deformation map which provides an efficient way of maintaining evenly
distributed marker points on curves and surfaces undergoing extensive
deformations
Toeplitz Quantization of K\"ahler Manifolds and
For general compact K\"ahler manifolds it is shown that both Toeplitz
quantization and geometric quantization lead to a well-defined (by operator
norm estimates) classical limit. This generalizes earlier results of the
authors and Klimek and Lesniewski obtained for the torus and higher genus
Riemann surfaces, respectively. We thereby arrive at an approximation of the
Poisson algebra by a sequence of finite-dimensional matrix algebras ,
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