63 research outputs found
On the quantization of polygon spaces
Moduli spaces of polygons have been studied since the nineties for their
topological and symplectic properties. Under generic assumptions, these are
symplectic manifolds with natural global action-angle coordinates. This paper
is concerned with the quantization of these manifolds and of their action
coordinates. Applying the geometric quantization procedure, one is lead to
consider invariant subspaces of a tensor product of irreducible representations
of SU(2). These quantum spaces admit natural sets of commuting observables. We
prove that these operators form a semi-classical integrable system, in the
sense that they are Toeplitz operators with principal symbol the square of the
action coordinates. As a consequence, the quantum spaces admit bases whose
vectors concentrate on the Lagrangian submanifolds of constant action. The
coefficients of the change of basis matrices can be estimated in terms of
geometric quantities. We recover this way the already known asymptotics of the
classical 6j-symbols
Gibbs and Quantum Discrete Spaces
Gibbs measure is one of the central objects of the modern probability,
mathematical statistical physics and euclidean quantum field theory. Here we
define and study its natural generalization for the case when the space, where
the random field is defined is itself random. Moreover, this randomness is not
given apriori and independently of the configuration, but rather they depend on
each other, and both are given by Gibbs procedure; We call the resulting object
a Gibbs family because it parametrizes Gibbs fields on different graphs in the
support of the distribution. We study also quantum (KMS) analog of Gibbs
families. Various applications to discrete quantum gravity are given.Comment: 37 pages, 2 figure
Analyse semi-classique des opérateurs courbes en TQFT
In this thesis we study the asymptotics of some invariants of 3-manifolds, known as "quantum invariants" which were defined by Witten, Reshetikhin and Turaev. These invariants are part of a TQFT structure, that is a monoidal functor for a category of cobordism to the category of complex vector spaces. In this setting, curves on surfaces induce endomorphisms of TQFT vector spaces, called curve operators, which are one of the main object in our study. All these invariants depend of an integer parameter r, and we are interested in their behavior when r tends to infinity. We can then see that quantum invariants are related to more geometric objects, like the moduli space of conjugacy classes of SU2 representations of the fundamental group of a surface. The thesis is divided in 3 parts: in the first one we introduce the notion of TQFT and the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants, then we give basic properties of the SU2-moduli spaces and explain the general approach of geometric quantification. In the second one we present a result on the asymptotics of matrix coefficients of curve operators. Using skein calculus and a theorem of Bullock, we express the first two terms of their expansion in terms of trace functions on the SU2-moduli space associated to multicurves. The final part gives an asymptotic expansion of matrix coefficents of quantum representations. A geometric model for TQFT vector spaces is defined, and we show that curve operators can be seen as Toeplitz operators in this model. Standard tools of semi-classical analysis allow us to deduce the result from this.Witten, Reshetikhin et Turaev ont défini des invariants des variétés topologiques de dimension 3, dits "quantiques" qui s'étendent en une structure de TQFT, c'est-à-dire un foncteur monoïdal d'une catégorie de cobordismes vers la catégorie des espaces vectoriels complexes. Nous étudions ici leur asymptotique. Dans ce cadre, les courbes sur une surface induisent des endomorphismes des espaces de TQFT, appelés opérateurs courbes, qui sont l'un des objets centraux du mémoire. Tous ces invariants dépendant d'un paramètre entier r, on s'intéresse à leur comportement quand r tend vers l'infini. On s'aperçoit alors que les invariants quantiques sont liés à des objets plus géométriques, comme les espaces des modules des représentations dans SU2 du groupe fondamental d'une surface. La première partie de la thèse introduit la notion de TQFT et les invariants de Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev, puis donne des rudiments de géométrie de l'espace des modules SU2 d'une surface et de quantification géométrique. La deuxième partie présente un résultat sur l'asymptotique des coefficients de matrices des opérateurs courbes en TQFT. A partir de calcul d'écheveau et d'un théorème de Bullock, on relie les deux premiers termes de leur développement aux fonctions traces associées aux multicourbes. Cette thèse aboutit dans la troisième partie à un résultat asymptotique pour les coefficients de matrices des représentations quantiques. Un modèle géométrique est proposé pour les espaces de TQFT associés aux surfaces, et il est montré que les opérateurs courbes s'identifient alors à des opérateurs de Toeplitz. Des méthodes standards d'analyse semi-classiques permettent d'en déduire le résultat
New Directions for Contact Integrators
Contact integrators are a family of geometric numerical schemes which
guarantee the conservation of the contact structure. In this work we review the
construction of both the variational and Hamiltonian versions of these methods.
We illustrate some of the advantages of geometric integration in the
dissipative setting by focusing on models inspired by recent studies in
celestial mechanics and cosmology.Comment: To appear as Chapter 24 in GSI 2021, Springer LNCS 1282
Maximal diameter of integral circulant graphs
Integral circulant graphs are proposed as models for quantum spin networks
that permit a quantum phenomenon called perfect state transfer. Specifically,
it is important to know how far information can potentially be transferred
between nodes of the quantum networks modelled by integral circulant graphs and
this task is related to calculating the maximal diameter of a graph. The
integral circulant graph has the vertex set and vertices and are adjacent if ,
where . Motivated by the result on
the upper bound of the diameter of given in [N. Saxena, S. Severini,
I. Shparlinski, \textit{Parameters of integral circulant graphs and periodic
quantum dynamics}, International Journal of Quantum Information 5 (2007),
417--430], according to which represents one such bound, in this paper
we prove that the maximal value of the diameter of the integral circulant graph
of a given order with its prime factorization
, is equal to or , where
, depending on whether
or not, respectively. Furthermore, we show that, for a given
order , a divisor set with can always be found such that
this bound is attained. Finally, we calculate the maximal diameter in the class
of integral circulant graphs of a given order and cardinality of the
divisor set and characterize all extremal graphs. We actually show
that the maximal diameter can have the values , , and
depending on the values of and . This way we further improve the upper
bound of Saxena, Severini and Shparlinski and we also characterize all graphs
whose diameters are equal to , thus generalizing a result in that
paper.Comment: 29 pages, 1 figur
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