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Difference schemes with point symmetries and their numerical tests
Symmetry preserving difference schemes approximating second and third order
ordinary differential equations are presented. They have the same three or
four-dimensional symmetry groups as the original differential equations. The
new difference schemes are tested as numerical methods. The obtained numerical
solutions are shown to be much more accurate than those obtained by standard
methods without an increase in cost. For an example involving a solution with a
singularity in the integration region the symmetry preserving scheme, contrary
to standard ones, provides solutions valid beyond the singular point.Comment: 26 pages 7 figure
Complete intersections and mod p cochains
We give homotopy invariant definitions corresponding to three well known
properties of complete intersections, for the ring, the module theory and the
endomorphisms of the residue field, and we investigate them for the mod p
cochains on a space, showing that suitable versions of the second and third are
equivalent and that the first is stronger. We are particularly interested in
classifying spaces of groups, and we give a number of examples.
This paper follows on from arXiv:0906.4025 which considered the classical
case of a commutative ring and arXiv:0906.3247 which considered the case of
rational homotopy theory.Comment: To appear in AG
A new two-dimensional lattice model that is "consistent around a cube"
For two-dimensional lattice equations one definition of integrability is that
the model can be naturally and consistently extended to three dimensions, i.e.,
that it is "consistent around a cube" (CAC). As a consequence of CAC one can
construct a Lax pair for the model. Recently Adler, Bobenko and Suris conducted
a search based on this principle and certain additional assumptions. One of
those assumptions was the "tetrahedron property", which is satisfied by most
known equations. We present here one lattice equation that satisfies the
consistency condition but does not have the tetrahedron property. Its Lax pair
is also presented and some basic properties discussed.Comment: 8 pages in LaTe
Multiscale expansion and integrability properties of the lattice potential KdV equation
We apply the discrete multiscale expansion to the Lax pair and to the first
few symmetries of the lattice potential Korteweg-de Vries equation. From these
calculations we show that, like the lowest order secularity conditions give a
nonlinear Schroedinger equation, the Lax pair gives at the same order the
Zakharov and Shabat spectral problem and the symmetries the hierarchy of point
and generalized symmetries of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation.Comment: 10 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the NEEDS 2007
Conferenc
Integrability of Differential-Difference Equations with Discrete Kinks
In this article we discuss a series of models introduced by Barashenkov,
Oxtoby and Pelinovsky to describe some discrete approximations to the \phi^4
theory which preserve travelling kink solutions. We show, by applying the
multiple scale test that they have some integrability properties as they pass
the A_1 and A_2 conditions. However they are not integrable as they fail the
A_3 conditions.Comment: submitted to the Proceedings of the workshop "Nonlinear Physics:
Theory and Experiment.VI" in a special issue di Theoretical and Mathematical
Physic
Continuous Symmetries of Difference Equations
Lie group theory was originally created more than 100 years ago as a tool for
solving ordinary and partial differential equations. In this article we review
the results of a much more recent program: the use of Lie groups to study
difference equations. We show that the mismatch between continuous symmetries
and discrete equations can be resolved in at least two manners. One is to use
generalized symmetries acting on solutions of difference equations, but leaving
the lattice invariant. The other is to restrict to point symmetries, but to
allow them to also transform the lattice.Comment: Review articl
On the Geometry of Surface Stress
We present a fully general derivation of the Laplace--Young formula and
discuss the interplay between the intrinsic surface geometry and the extrinsic
one ensuing from the immersion of the surface in the ordinary euclidean
three-dimensional space. We prove that the (reversible) work done in a general
surface deformation can be expressed in terms of the surface stress tensor and
the variation of the intrinsic surface metric
Levi-Civita,Tullio
International audienceTullio Levi-Civita (29 March 1873 to 29 December 1941) has been an Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist, known above all for his work on the absolute differential calculus. Levi-Civita came from a rigorous and creative school of mathematical physicists and was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. LeviCivita’s work included outstanding results in pure and applied mathematics and in celestial and analytic mechanics but also celebrated textbooks. These last, even those written in Italian, have influenced mathematical physicists all over the world.Levi-Civita has perfected some conceptual tools of great importance in modern science, particularly in general relativity, number theory, and continuum mechanics
Infinitely many symmetries and conservation laws for quad-graph equations via the Gardner method
The application of the Gardner method for generation of conservation laws to
all the ABS equations is considered. It is shown that all the necessary
information for the application of the Gardner method, namely B\"acklund
transformations and initial conservation laws, follow from the multidimensional
consistency of ABS equations. We also apply the Gardner method to an asymmetric
equation which is not included in the ABS classification. An analog of the
Gardner method for generation of symmetries is developed and applied to
discrete KdV. It can also be applied to all the other ABS equations
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