20 research outputs found
Pseudo-Abelian integrals along Darboux cycles: A codimension one case
AbstractWe investigate a polynomial perturbation of an integrable, non-Hamiltonian system with first integral of Darboux type. In the paper [M. Bobieński, P. Mardešić, Pseudo-Abelian integrals along Darboux cycles, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., in press] the generic case was studied. In the present paper we study a degenerate, codimension one case. We consider 1-parameter unfolding of a non-generic case. The main result of the paper is an analog of Varchenko–Kchovanskii theorem for pseudo-Abelian integrals
A 2-Surface Quantization of the Lorentzian Gravity
This is a contribution to the MG9 session QG1-a. A new quantum representation
for the Lorentzian gravity is created from the Pullin vaccum by the operators
assigned to 2-complexes. The representation uses the original, spinorial
Ashtekar variables, the reality conditions are well posed and Thiemann's
Hamiltonian is well defined. The results on the existence of a suitable Hilbert
product are partial. They were derived in collaboration with Abhay Ashtekar.Comment: QG1-a session of MG
On the reduction of the degree of linear differential operators
Let L be a linear differential operator with coefficients in some
differential field k of characteristic zero with algebraically closed field of
constants. Let k^a be the algebraic closure of k. For a solution y, Ly=0, we
determine the linear differential operator of minimal degree M and coefficients
in k^a, such that My=0. This result is then applied to some Picard-Fuchs
equations which appear in the study of perturbations of plane polynomial vector
fields of Lotka-Volterra type
Special metrics and Triality
We investigate a new 8-dimensional Riemannian geometry defined by a generic
closed and coclosed 3-form with stabiliser PSU(3), and which arises as a
critical point of Hitchin's variational principle. We give a Riemannian
characterisation of this structure in terms of invariant spinor-valued 1-forms,
which are harmonic with respect to the twisted Dirac operator \Db on
. We establish various obstructions to the existence of
topological reductions to PSU(3). For compact manifolds, we also give
sufficient conditions for topological PSU(3)-structures that can be lifted to
topological SU(3)-structures. We also construct the first known compact example
of an integrable non-symmetric PSU(3)-structure. In the same vein, we give a
new Riemannian characterisation for topological quaternionic K\"ahler
structures which are defined by an -invariant self-dual
4-form. Again, we show that this form is closed if and only if the
corresponding spinor-valued 1-form is harmonic for \Db and that these
equivalent conditions produce constraints on the Ricci tensor.Comment: 41 pages. v2: typos corrected, presentation improved v3: final
versio
Background independent quantizations: the scalar field I
We are concerned with the issue of quantization of a scalar field in a
diffeomorphism invariant manner. We apply the method used in Loop Quantum
Gravity. It relies on the specific choice of scalar field variables referred to
as the polymer variables. The quantization, in our formulation, amounts to
introducing the `quantum' polymer *-star algebra and looking for positive
linear functionals, called states. The assumed in our paper homeomorphism
invariance allows to determine a complete class of the states. Except one, all
of them are new. In this letter we outline the main steps and conclusions, and
present the results: the GNS representations, characterization of those states
which lead to essentially self adjoint momentum operators (unbounded),
identification of the equivalence classes of the representations as well as of
the irreducible ones. The algebra and topology of the problem, the derivation,
all the technical details and more are contained in the paper-part II.Comment: 13 pages, minor corrections were made in the revised versio
On the Number of Zeros of Abelian Integrals: A Constructive Solution of the Infinitesimal Hilbert Sixteenth Problem
We prove that the number of limit cycles generated by a small
non-conservative perturbation of a Hamiltonian polynomial vector field on the
plane, is bounded by a double exponential of the degree of the fields. This
solves the long-standing tangential Hilbert 16th problem. The proof uses only
the fact that Abelian integrals of a given degree are horizontal sections of a
regular flat meromorphic connection (Gauss-Manin connection) with a
quasiunipotent monodromy group.Comment: Final revisio
Finite cyclicity of slow-fast Darboux systems with a two-saddle loop
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