Mehler-Fock transforms and retarded radiative Green functions on hyperbolic and spherical spaces

We develop the theory of causal radiation Green functions on hyperbolic and hyperspherical spaces using a constructive approach based on generalized Mehler-Fock transforms. This approach focuses for $H^d$ on the kernel of the transformation expressed in terms of hyperbolic angles $\theta$ with $0\leq\theta<\infty$. The kernel provides an explicit representation for the generalized delta distribution which acts as the source term for the radiation, and allows easy implementation of the causality or retardation condition and determination of the Green function. We obtain the corresponding kernel distribution on $S^d$ by analytic continuation of the kernel distribution of the Helmholtz equation on $H^d$, then show that this construction leads to the proper retarded Green function for the wave equation. That result is then used to establish the validity of a new generalized Mehler-Fock transformation for $0\leq\theta<\pi$. The present results clarify and extend those obtained recently by Cohl, Dang, and Dunster.Comment: Important correction on left-hand side of Eq. (78), other minor corrections; 17 pages, submitted to J. Math. Phy

Temporal breakdown and Borel resummation in the complex Langevin method

We reexamine the Parisi-Klauder conjecture for complex e^{i\theta/2} \phi^4 measures with a Wick rotation angle 0 <= \theta/2 < \pi/2 interpolating between Euclidean and Lorentzian signature. Our main result is that the asymptotics for short stochastic times t encapsulates information also about the equilibrium aspects. The moments evaluated with the complex measure and with the real measure defined by the stochastic Langevin equation have the same t -> 0 asymptotic expansion which is shown to be Borel summable. The Borel transform correctly reproduces the time dependent moments of the complex measure for all t, including their t -> infinity equilibrium values. On the other hand the results of a direct numerical simulation of the Langevin moments are found to disagree from the `correct' result for t larger than a finite t_c. The breakdown time t_c increases powerlike for decreasing strength of the noise's imaginary part but cannot be excluded to be finite for purely real noise. To ascertain the discrepancy we also compute the real equilibrium distribution for complex noise explicitly and verify that its moments differ from those obtained with the complex measure.Comment: title changed, results on parameter dependence of t_c added, exposition improved. 39 pages, 7 figure

Concentration estimates for band-limited spherical harmonics expansions via the large sieve principle

We study a concentration problem on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ for band-limited spherical harmonics expansions using large sieve methods. We derive upper bounds for concentration in terms of the maximum Nyquist density. Our proof uses estimates of the spherical harmonics coefficients of certain zonal filters. We also demonstrate an analogue of the classical large sieve inequality for spherical harmonics expansions

Gauss Quadrature for Freud Weights, Modulation Spaces, and Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund Inequalities

We study Gauss quadrature for Freud weights and derive worst case error estimates for functions in a family of associated Sobolev spaces. For the Gaussian weight $e^{-\pi x^2}$ these spaces coincide with a class of modulation spaces which are well-known in (time-frequency) analysis and also appear under the name of Hermite spaces. Extensions are given to more general sets of nodes that are derived from Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities. This generalization can be interpreted as a stability result for Gauss quadrature

Group theoretical approach to quantum fields in de Sitter space I. The principal series

Using unitary irreducible representations of the de Sitter group, we construct the Fock space of a massive free scalar field. In this approach, the vacuum is the unique dS invariant state. The quantum field is a posteriori defined by an operator subject to covariant transformations under the dS isometry group. This insures that it obeys canonical commutation relations, up to an overall factor which should not vanish as it fixes the value of hbar. However, contrary to what is obtained for the Poincare group, the covariance condition leaves an arbitrariness in the definition of the field. This arbitrariness allows to recover the amplitudes governing spontaneous pair creation processes, as well as the class of alpha vacua obtained in the usual field theoretical approach. The two approaches can be formally related by introducing a squeezing operator which acts on the state in the field theoretical description and on the operator in the present treatment. The choice of the different dS invariant schemes (different alpha vacua) is here posed in very simple terms: it is related to a first order differential equation which is singular on the horizon and whose general solution is therefore characterized by the amplitude on either side of the horizon. Our algebraic approach offers a new method to define quantum field theory on some deformations of dS space.Comment: 35 pages, 2 figures ; Corrected typo, Changed referenc