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The cohomology ring of weight varieties and polygon spaces
We use a theorem of Tolman and Weitsman to find explicit formul\ae for the
rational cohomology rings of the symplectic reduction of flag varieties in C^n,
or generic coadjoint orbits of SU(n), by (maximal) torus actions. We also
calculate the cohomology ring of the moduli space of points in CP^k, which
is isomorphic to the Grassmannian of k-planes in C^n, by realizing it as a
degenerate coadjoint orbit.Comment: 31 pages, 1 figur
Self-Similar Random Processes and Infinite-Dimensional Configuration Spaces
We discuss various infinite-dimensional configuration spaces that carry
measures quasiinvariant under compactly-supported diffeomorphisms of a manifold
M corresponding to a physical space. Such measures allow the construction of
unitary representations of the diffeomorphism group, which are important to
nonrelativistic quantum statistical physics and to the quantum theory of
extended objects in d-dimensional Euclidean space. Special attention is given
to measurable structure and topology underlying measures on generalized
configuration spaces obtained from self-similar random processes (both for d =
1 and d > 1), which describe infinite point configurations having accumulation
points
On the Fock space for nonrelativistic anyon fields and braided tensor products
We realize the physical N-anyon Hilbert spaces, introduced previously via
unitary representations of the group of diffeomorphisms of the plane, as N-fold
braided-symmetric tensor products of the 1-particle Hilbert space. This
perspective provides a convenient Fock space construction for nonrelativistic
anyon quantum fields along the more usual lines of boson and fermion fields,
but in a braided category. We see how essential physical information is thus
encoded. In particular we show how the algebraic structure of our anyonic Fock
space leads to a natural anyonic exclusion principle related to intermediate
occupation number statistics, and obtain the partition function for an
idealised gas of fixed anyonic vortices.Comment: Added some references, more explicit formulae for the discrete case
and remark on partition function. 25 pages latex, no figure
Some Variations on Maxwell's Equations
In the first sections of this article, we discuss two variations on Maxwell's
equations that have been introduced in earlier work--a class of nonlinear
Maxwell theories with well-defined Galilean limits (and correspondingly
generalized Yang-Mills equations), and a linear modification motivated by the
coupling of the electromagnetic potential with a certain nonlinear Schroedinger
equation. In the final section, revisiting an old idea of Lorentz, we write
Maxwell's equations for a theory in which the electrostatic force of repulsion
between like charges differs fundamentally in magnitude from the electrostatic
force of attraction between unlike charges. We elaborate on Lorentz'
description by means of electric and magnetic field strengths, whose governing
equations separate into two fully relativistic Maxwell systems--one describing
ordinary electromagnetism, and the other describing a universally attractive or
repulsive long-range force. If such a force cannot be ruled out {\it a priori}
by known physical principles, its magnitude should be determined or bounded
experimentally. Were it to exist, interesting possibilities go beyond Lorentz'
early conjecture of a relation to (Newtonian) gravity.Comment: 26 pages, submitted to a volume in preparation to honor Gerard Emch
v. 2: discussion revised, factors of 4\pi corrected in some equation
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