Several Methods on the Limit Problem of Integration

If the expression of a limit contains definite integral, we call this kind of limit as the limit of integration. This paper takes the graduate entrance exams of some famous universities in China as examples, and gives several methods to solve the limit problem of integration by comprehensively utilizing the characteristics and operational properties of integral

A Brief History of Elliptic Integral Addition Theorems

The discovery of elliptic functions emerged from investigations of integral addition theorems. An addition theorem for a function f is a formula expressing f(u+v) in terms of f(u) and f(v). For a function defined as a definite integral with a variable upper limit, an addition theorem takes the form of an equation between the sum of two such integrals, with upper limits u and v, and an integral whose upper limit is a certain function of u and v.In this paper, we briefly sketch the role which the investigation of such addition theorems has played in the development of the theory of elliptic intgrals and elliptic functions

Principles of Discrete Time Mechanics: IV. The Dirac Equation, Particles and Oscillons

We apply the principles of discrete time mechanics discussed in earlier papers to the first and second quantised Dirac equation. We use the Schwinger action principle to find the anticommutation relations of the Dirac field and of the particle creation operators in the theory. We find new solutions to the discrete time Dirac equation, referred to as oscillons on account of their extraordinary behaviour. Their principal characteristic is that they oscillate with a period twice that of the fundamental time interval T of our theory. Although these solutions can be associated with definite charge, linear momentum and spin, such objects should not be observable as particles in the continuous time limit. We find that for non-zero T they correspond to states with negative squared norm in Hilbert space. However they are an integral part of the discrete time Dirac field and should play a role in particle interactions analogous to the role of longitudinal photons in conventional quantum electrodynamics.Comment: 27 pages LateX; published versio

Hierarchical Structure of Azbel-Hofstader Problem: Strings and loose ends of Bethe Ansatz

We present numerical evidence that solutions of the Bethe Ansatz equations for a Bloch particle in an incommensurate magnetic field (Azbel-Hofstadter or AH model), consist of complexes-"strings". String solutions are well-known from integrable field theories. They become asymptotically exact in the thermodynamic limit. The string solutions for the AH model are exact in the incommensurate limit, where the flux through the unit cell is an irrational number in units of the elementary flux quantum. We introduce the notion of the integral spectral flow and conjecture a hierarchical tree for the problem. The hierarchical tree describes the topology of the singular continuous spectrum of the problem. We show that the string content of a state is determined uniquely by the rate of the spectral flow (Hall conductance) along the tree. We identify the Hall conductances with the set of Takahashi-Suzuki numbers (the set of dimensions of the irreducible representations of $U_q(sl_2)$ with definite parity). In this paper we consider the approximation of noninteracting strings. It provides the gap distribution function, the mean scaling dimension for the bandwidths and gives a very good approximation for some wave functions which even captures their multifractal properties. However, it misses the multifractal character of the spectrum.Comment: revtex, 30 pages, 6 Figs, 8 postscript files are enclosed, important references are adde

Olshanski spherical functions for infinite dimensional motion groups of fixed rank

Consider the Gelfand pairs $(G_p,K_p):=(M_{p,q} \rtimes U_p,U_p)$ associated with motion groups over the fields $\mathbb F=\mathbb R,\mathbb C,\mathbb H$ with $p\geq q$ and fixed $q$ as well as the inductive limit $p\to\infty$,the Olshanski spherical pair $(G_\infty,K_\infty)$. We classify all Olshanski spherical functions of $(G_\infty,K_\infty)$ as functions on the cone $\Pi_q$ of positive semidefinite $q\times q$-matrices and show that they appear as (locally) uniform limits of spherical functions of $(G_p,K_p)$ as $p\to\infty$. The latter are given by Bessel functions on $\Pi_q$. Moreover, we determine all positive definite Olshanski spherical functions and discuss related positive integral representations for matrix Bessel functions. We also extend the results to the pairs $(M_{p,q} \rtimes (U_p\times U_q),(U_p\times U_q))$ which are related to the Cartan motion groups of non-compact Grassmannians. Here Dunkl-Bessel functions of type B (for finite $p$) and of type A (for $p\to\infty$) appear as spherical functions