Asymptotics for rank and crank moments

Moments of the partition rank and crank statistics have been studied for their connections to combinatorial objects such as Durfee symbols, as well as for their connections to harmonic Maass forms. This paper proves a conjecture due to Bringmann and Mahlburg that refined a conjecture of Garvan. Garvan's conjecture states that the moments of the crank function are always larger than the moments of the rank function, even though the moments have the same main asymptotic term. The proof uses the Hardy-Ramanujan method to provide precise asymptotic estimates for rank and crank moments and their differences.Comment: 11 page

Partition identity bijections related to sign-balance and rank

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83).In this thesis, we present bijections proving partitions identities. In the first part, we generalize Dyson's definition of rank to partitions with successive Durfee squares. We then present two symmetries for this new rank which we prove using bijections generalizing conjugation and Dyson's map. Using these two symmetries we derive a version of Schur's identity for partitions with successive Durfee squares and Andrews' generalization of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities. This gives a new combinatorial proof of the first Rogers-Ramanujan identity. We also relate this work to Garvan's generalization of rank. In the second part, we prove a family of four-parameter partition identities which generalize Andrews' product formula for the generating function for partitions with respect number of odd parts and number of odd parts of the conjugate. The parameters which we use are related to Stanley's work on the sign-balance of a partition.by Cilanne Emily Boulet.Ph.D

Quantum Chaos: Spectral Fluctuations and Overlap Distributions of the Three Level Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model

We test the prediction that quantum systems with chaotic classical analogs have spectral fluctuations and overlap distributions equal to those of the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GOE). The subject of our study is the three level Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model of nuclear physics. This model differs from previously investigated systems because the quantum basis and classical phase space are compact, and the classical Hamiltonian has quartic momentum dependence. We investigate the dynamics of the classical analog to identify values of coupling strength and energy ranges for which the motion is chaotic, quasi-chaotic, and quasi-integrable. We then analyze the fluctuation properties of the eigenvalues for those same energy ranges and coupling strength, and we find that the chaotic eigenvalues are in good agreement with GOE fluctuations, while the quasi-integrable and quasichaotic levels fluctuations are closer to the Poisson fluctuations that are predicted for integrable systems. We also study the distribution of the overlap of a chaotic eigenvector with a basis vector, and find that in some cases it is a Gaussian random variable as predicted by GOE. This result, however, is not universal. </p

Quantum local asymptotic normality and other questions of quantum statistics

This thesis is entitled Quantum Local Asymptotic Normality and other questions of Quantum Statistics ,. Quantum statistics are statistics on quantum objects. In classical statistics, we usually start from the data. Indeed, if we want to predict the weather, and can measure the wind or the temperature, we can measure both. On the other hand the laws of physics themselves forbid us to measure simultaneously the speed and the position of an electron. We therefore have to start with the observed object itself, and choose the best measurement for our purposes. My main result is that, for all statistical purposes, numerous copies of the same spin (magnetic state of an electron) is equivalent to a Gaussian state of a quantum harmonic oscillator, typically laser light. We can extend this to higher dimensions. As an application, we get an (asymptotically) optimal estimation scheme for unknown spins. The idea is to transform the spins into laser light, and use the already known optimal estimation methods for laser light. The thesis furthermore includes four smaller problems, notably how to estimate a unitary (natural) evolution very quickly, and how best to decide which is the state of a quantum object, among a finite numberUBL - phd migration 201