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Iterated Differential Forms II: Riemannian Geometry Revisited
A natural extension of Riemannian geometry to a much wider context is
presented on the basis of the iterated differential form formalism developed in
math.DG/0605113 and an application to general relativity is given.Comment: 12 pages, extended version of the published note Dokl. Math. 73, n. 2
(2006) 18
On the continuous spectral component of the Floquet operator for a periodically kicked quantum system
By a straightforward generalisation, we extend the work of Combescure from
rank-1 to rank-N perturbations. The requirement for the Floquet operator to be
pure point is established and compared to that in Combescure. The result
matches that in McCaw. The method here is an alternative to that work. We show
that if the condition for the Floquet operator to be pure point is relaxed,
then in the case of the delta-kicked Harmonic oscillator, a singularly
continuous component of the Floquet operator spectrum exists. We also provide
an in depth discussion of the conjecture presented in Combescure of the case
where the unperturbed Hamiltonian is more general. We link the physics
conjecture directly to a number-theoretic conjecture of Vinogradov and show
that a solution of Vinogradov's conjecture solves the physics conjecture. The
result is extended to the rank-N case. The relationship between our work and
the work of Bourget on the physics conjecture is discussed.Comment: 25 pages, published in Journal of Mathematical Physic
Discretized rotation has infinitely many periodic orbits
For a fixed k in (-2,2), the discretized rotation on Z^2 is defined by
(x,y)->(y,-[x+ky]). We prove that this dynamics has infinitely many periodic
orbits.Comment: Revised after referee reports, and added a quantitative statemen
Presymplectic current and the inverse problem of the calculus of variations
The inverse problem of the calculus of variations asks whether a given system
of partial differential equations (PDEs) admits a variational formulation. We
show that the existence of a presymplectic form in the variational bicomplex,
when horizontally closed on solutions, allows us to construct a variational
formulation for a subsystem of the given PDE. No constraints on the
differential order or number of dependent or independent variables are assumed.
The proof follows a recent observation of Bridges, Hydon and Lawson and
generalizes an older result of Henneaux from ordinary differential equations
(ODEs) to PDEs. Uniqueness of the variational formulation is also discussed.Comment: v2: 17 pages, no figures, BibTeX; minor corrections, close to
published versio
Tails of probability density for sums of random independent variables
The exact expression for the probability density for sums of a
finite number of random independent terms is obtained. It is shown that the
very tail of has a Gaussian form if and only if all the random
terms are distributed according to the Gauss Law. In all other cases the tail
for differs from the Gaussian. If the variances of random terms
diverge the non-Gaussian tail is related to a Levy distribution for
. However, the tail is not Gaussian even if the variances are
finite. In the latter case has two different asymptotics. At small
and moderate values of the distribution is Gaussian. At large the
non-Gaussian tail arises. The crossover between the two asymptotics occurs at
proportional to . For this reason the non-Gaussian tail exists at finite
only. In the limit tends to infinity the origin of the tail is shifted
to infinity, i. e., the tail vanishes. Depending on the particular type of the
distribution of the random terms the non-Gaussian tail may decay either slower
than the Gaussian, or faster than it. A number of particular examples is
discussed in detail.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Resonant transparency of materials with negative permittivity
It is shown that the transparency of opaque material with negative
permittivity exhibits resonant behavior. The resonance occurs as a result of
the excitation of the surface waves at slab boundaries. Dramatic field
amplification of the incident evanescent fields at the resonance improves the
resolution of the the sub-wavelength imaging system (superlens). A finite
thickness slab can be totally transparent to a \textit{p}-polarized obliquely
incident electromagnetic wave for certain values of the incidence angle and
wave frequency corresponding to the excitation of the surface modes. At the
resonance, two evanescent waves have a finite phase shift providing non-zero
energy flux through the non-transparent region
The graded Jacobi algebras and (co)homology
Jacobi algebroids (i.e. `Jacobi versions' of Lie algebroids) are studied in
the context of graded Jacobi brackets on graded commutative algebras. This
unifies varios concepts of graded Lie structures in geometry and physics. A
method of describing such structures by classical Lie algebroids via certain
gauging (in the spirit of E.Witten's gauging of exterior derivative) is
developed. One constructs a corresponding Cartan differential calculus (graded
commutative one) in a natural manner. This, in turn, gives canonical generating
operators for triangular Jacobi algebroids. One gets, in particular, the
Lichnerowicz-Jacobi homology operators associated with classical Jacobi
structures. Courant-Jacobi brackets are obtained in a similar way and use to
define an abstract notion of a Courant-Jacobi algebroid and Dirac-Jacobi
structure. All this offers a new flavour in understanding the
Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism.Comment: 20 pages, a few typos corrected; final version to be published in J.
Phys. A: Math. Ge
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