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Minuscule representations, invariant polynomials, and spectral covers
Given a minuscule representation of a simple Lie algebra, we find an
algebraic model for the action of a regular element and show that these models
can be glued together over the adjoint quotient, viewed as the set of all
regular conjugacy classes of the Lie algebra. There are partial results in the
case of a quasiminuscule representation, and a conjecture in the case of a
general irreducible finite-dimensional representation. The method of proof is
to relate the question to a problem concerning holomorphic principal bundles
over cuspidal cubic curves.Comment: LaTeX, 42 pages, final version, to appear in the proceedings of the
University of Missouri conference on Hilbert schemes, vector bundles and
representation theory, new material on extensions and the adjoint
representation of a simply laced Lie algebra adde
Implications of the r-mode instability of rotating relativistic stars
Several recent surprises appear dramatically to have improved the likelihood
that the spin of rapidly rotating, newly formed neutron stars (and, possibly,
of old stars spun up by accretion) is limited by a nonaxisymmetric instability
driven by gravitational waves. Except for the earliest part of the spin-down,
the axial l=m=2 mode (an r-mode) dominates the instability, and the emitted
waves may be observable by detectors with the sensitivity of LIGO II. A review
of these hopeful results is followed by a discussion of constraints on the
instability set by dissipative mechanisms, including viscosity, nonlinear
saturation, and energy loss to a magnetic field driven by differential
rotation.Comment: 20 pages LaTeX2e (stylefile included), 6 eps figures. Review to
appear in the proceedings of the 9th Marcel Grossman Meeting, World
Scientific, ed. V. Gurzadyan, R. Jantzen, R. Ruffin
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