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Small oscillations and the Heisenberg Lie algebra
The Adler Kostant Symes [A-K-S] scheme is used to describe mechanical systems
for quadratic Hamiltonians of on coadjoint orbits of the
Heisenberg Lie group. The coadjoint orbits are realized in a solvable Lie
algebra that admits an ad-invariant metric. Its quadratic induces
the Hamiltonian on the orbits, whose Hamiltonian system is equivalent to that
one on . This system is a Lax pair equation whose solution can
be computed with help of the Adjoint representation. For a certain class of
functions, the Poisson commutativity on the coadjoint orbits in
is related to the commutativity of a family of derivations of the
2n+1-dimensional Heisenberg Lie algebra . Therefore the complete
integrability is related to the existence of an n-dimensional abelian
subalgebra of certain derivations in . For instance, the motion
of n-uncoupled harmonic oscillators near an equilibrium position can be
described with this setting.Comment: 17 pages, it contains a theory about small oscillations in terms of
the AKS schem
Global Sensitivity Analysis of Environmental, Water Quality, Photoreactivity, and Engineering Design Parameters in Sunlight Inactivation of Viruses
Tzitz\'eica transformation is a dressing action
We classify the simplest rational elements in a twisted loop group, and prove
that dressing actions of them on proper indefinite affine spheres give the
classical Tzitz\'eica transformation and its dual. We also give the group point
of view of the Permutability Theorem, construct complex Tzitz\'eica
transformations, and discuss the group structure for these transformations
Health economic burden that wounds impose on the National Health Service in the UK
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of wounds managed by the UK's National Health Service (NHS) in 2012/2013 and the annual levels of healthcare resource use attributable to their management and corresponding costs. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort analysis of the records of patients in The Health Improvement Network (THIN) Database. Records of 1000 adult patients who had a wound in 2012/2013 (cases) were randomly selected and matched with 1000 patients with no history of a wound (controls). Patients' characteristics, wound-related health outcomes and all healthcare resource use were quantified and the total NHS cost of patient management was estimated at 2013/2014 prices. RESULTS: Patients' mean age was 69.0 years and 45% were male. 76% of patients presented with a new wound in the study year and 61% of wounds healed during the study year. Nutritional deficiency (OR 0.53; p<0.001) and diabetes (OR 0.65; p<0.001) were independent risk factors for non-healing. There were an estimated 2.2 million wounds managed by the NHS in 2012/2013. Annual levels of resource use attributable to managing these wounds and associated comorbidities included 18.6 million practice nurse visits, 10.9 million community nurse visits, 7.7 million GP visits and 3.4 million hospital outpatient visits. The annual NHS cost of managing these wounds and associated comorbidities was pound5.3 billion. This was reduced to between pound5.1 and pound4.5 billion after adjusting for comorbidities. CONCLUSIONS: Real world evidence highlights wound management is predominantly a nurse-led discipline. Approximately 30% of wounds lacked a differential diagnosis, indicative of practical difficulties experienced by non-specialist clinicians. Wounds impose a substantial health economic burden on the UK's NHS, comparable to that of managing obesity ( pound5.0 billion). Clinical and economic benefits could accrue from improved systems of care and an increased awareness of the impact that wounds impose on patients and the NHS.Ye
Pre-registered controlled comparison of auditory function reveals no difference between hospitalised adults with and without COVID-19
Conformally parametrized surfaces associated with CP^(N-1) sigma models
Two-dimensional conformally parametrized surfaces immersed in the su(N)
algebra are investigated. The focus is on surfaces parametrized by solutions of
the equations for the CP^(N-1) sigma model. The Lie-point symmetries of the
CP^(N-1) model are computed for arbitrary N. The Weierstrass formula for
immersion is determined and an explicit formula for a moving frame on a surface
is constructed. This allows us to determine the structural equations and
geometrical properties of surfaces in R^(N^2-1). The fundamental forms,
Gaussian and mean curvatures, Willmore functional and topological charge of
surfaces are given explicitly in terms of any holomorphic solution of the CP^2
model. The approach is illustrated through several examples, including surfaces
immersed in low-dimensional su(N) algebras.Comment: 32 page
Algebraic construction of the Darboux matrix revisited
We present algebraic construction of Darboux matrices for 1+1-dimensional
integrable systems of nonlinear partial differential equations with a special
stress on the nonisospectral case. We discuss different approaches to the
Darboux-Backlund transformation, based on different lambda-dependencies of the
Darboux matrix: polynomial, sum of partial fractions, or the transfer matrix
form. We derive symmetric N-soliton formulas in the general case. The matrix
spectral parameter and dressing actions in loop groups are also discussed. We
describe reductions to twisted loop groups, unitary reductions, the matrix Lax
pair for the KdV equation and reductions of chiral models (harmonic maps) to
SU(n) and to Grassmann spaces. We show that in the KdV case the nilpotent
Darboux matrix generates the binary Darboux transformation. The paper is
intended as a review of known results (usually presented in a novel context)
but some new results are included as well, e.g., general compact formulas for
N-soliton surfaces and linear and bilinear constraints on the nonisospectral
Lax pair matrices which are preserved by Darboux transformations.Comment: Review paper (61 pages). To be published in the Special Issue
"Nonlinearity and Geometry: Connections with Integrability" of J. Phys. A:
Math. Theor. (2009), devoted to the subject of the Second Workshop on
Nonlinearity and Geometry ("Darboux Days"), Bedlewo, Poland (April 2008
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