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    Inhomogeneous quenches in the transverse field Ising chain: scaling and front dynamics

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    We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of the transverse field quantum Ising chain evolving from an inhomogeneous initial state given by joining two macroscopically different semi-infinite chains. We obtain integral expressions for all two-point correlation functions of the Jordan-Wigner Majorana fermions at any time and for any value of the transverse field. Using this result, we compute analytically the profiles of various physical observables in the space-time scaling limit and show that they can be obtained from a hydrodynamic picture based on ballistically propagating quasiparticles. Going beyond the hydrodynamic limit, we analyze the approach to the non-equilibrium steady state and find that the leading late time corrections display a lattice effect. We also study the fine structure of the propagating fronts which are found to be described by the Airy kernel and its derivatives. Near the front we observe the phenomenon of energy back-flow where the energy locally flows from the colder to the hotter region

    On some covering problems in geometry

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    We present a method to obtain upper bounds on covering numbers. As applications of this method, we reprove and generalize results of Rogers on economically covering Euclidean nn-space with translates of a convex body, or more generally, any measurable set. We obtain a bound for the density of covering the nn-sphere by rotated copies of a spherically convex set (or, any measurable set). Using the same method, we sharpen an estimate by Artstein--Avidan and Slomka on covering a bounded set by translates of another. The main novelty of our method is that it is not probabilistic. The key idea, which makes our proofs rather simple and uniform through different settings, is an algorithmic result of Lov\'asz and Stein.Comment: 9 pages. IMPORTANT CHANGE: In previous versions of the paper, the illumination problem was also considered, and I presented a construction of a body close to the Euclidean ball with high illumination number. Now, I removed this part from this manuscript and made it a separate paper, 'A Spiky Ball'. It can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.0078

    Marine science from cartographic viewpoint: from research to education in Hungary | Tengertan térképészet szemmel: a kutatåstól az oktatåsig Magyarorszågon

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    KĂ©t Ă©s fĂ©l Ă©vtizedes magyar kutatĂĄsok, valamint a tĂ©mĂĄhoz kapcsolĂłdĂł kĂŒlföldi szakirodalom magyar adaptĂĄciĂłja Ă©s szintĂ©zise eredmĂ©nyekĂ©ppen, ma mĂĄr korszerƱ Ă©s elegendƑ tudĂĄssal rendelkezĂŒnk ahhoz, hogy a tengerfenĂ©knek a szĂĄrazföldek leĂ­rĂłföldrajzĂĄhoz hasonlĂł rĂ©szletessĂ©gƱ leĂ­rĂĄsĂĄt adjuk. Ez adta az ötletet, hogy kurzust szervezzĂŒnk a Miskolci Ă©s a Szegedi Egyetemen „Tengertan I. – MorfolĂłgia”, illetve „Tengertan tĂ©rkĂ©pĂ©sz szemmel” cĂ­mmel. Jelen tanulmĂĄnyban összegzem kutatĂĄsaim törtĂ©netĂ©t, hĂĄlĂĄs tisztelettel Klinghammer IstvĂĄn professzor Ășrnak. A tudomĂĄnyos munkĂĄssĂĄgomhoz kapcsolĂłdĂł sikerek kĂ©t idƑszakra Ă©s kĂ©t kĂŒlönbözƑ hasznosĂ­tĂĄsi terĂŒletre oszthatĂłk. Az elsƑ idƑszakban (1974–90) az eredmĂ©nyek gyakorlati hasznosulĂĄsa jellemzƑ, nem vĂ©letlenĂŒl, hiszen ekkor a KartogrĂĄfiai VĂĄllalat munkatĂĄrsa voltam. MĂ­g a mĂĄsodik – nagyjĂĄbĂłl az 1990-es Ă©vek elejĂ©n elkezdƑdött – idƑszakban az ELTE oktatĂłjakĂ©nt a kutatĂĄs ĂĄttevƑdött az egyetemre, hallgatĂłk bevonĂĄsĂĄval folyt, de az ezredfordulĂł elejĂ©ig „csak” nemzetközi visszhangot is kivĂĄltĂł elmĂ©leti eredmĂ©nyek szĂŒlettek, az eredmĂ©nyek ugyan folyamatosan beĂ©pĂŒltek az oktatĂĄsba, azonban „lĂĄtvĂĄnyosabb hasznosĂ­tĂĄsuk” kĂŒlönbözƑ kiadvĂĄnyokban csak 2003 Ă©s 2004 folyamĂĄn valĂłsulhatott meg. SzĂŒksĂ©gesnek lĂĄtom azonban a fizikai oceanogrĂĄfia eredmĂ©nyeinek tĂ©rkĂ©pi szintĂ©zisĂ©t, összegzĂ©sĂ©t Ă©s „honosĂ­tĂĄsĂĄt” is. A 2004-ben a TopogrĂĄf–NyĂ­r-Karta kiadta „Nagy VilĂĄgatlaszba” elkĂ©szĂ­tettem a 32 oldalas TENGERFENÉK-DOMBORZAT cĂ­mƱ fejezetet. A kiadĂłval tovĂĄbbi 40 oldalnyi tematikus tĂ©rkĂ©ppel kibƑvĂ­tett kiadĂĄsrĂłl tĂĄrgyalunk, a felsƑoktatĂĄs Ă©s a doktorkĂ©pzĂ©s szĂĄmĂĄra. After having pursued research of marine science for two and half decades, and after having synthesized international literature on this discipline and adapted it to the Hungarian language, we are in possession of a level of modern knowledge sufficient to give a detailed and adequate description of the seafloor, similar to descriptive geography of continents. This gave us the idea to organize a course at the University of Miskolc and Szeged as well with the titles „Marine Science I – Morphology”and „Marine Science from Cartographic Viewpoint”. This paper gives a summary of the history of this research, with grateful respects to Professor IstvĂĄn Klinghammer. My achievements in research can be divided in two periods fundamentally different in practical respect. In the first period (1974–90), when I was working for the KartogrĂĄfiai VĂĄllalat, my results were typically utilized in practice. During the second period, which began in the early 1990s, being a lecturer at Eötvös LorĂĄnd University, I transferred my research to the university, where several students joined the project. Until the first years of the new millennium, we could „only” achieve theoretical results; although these results elicited international reaction and were incorporated in education, they could be utilized in various publications „spectacularly” only during 2003 and 2004. I also find the cartographical synthesis, summary and „nationalization” of results of physical oceanography important. I prepared a chapter of 32 pages with the title „Seafloor Relief”, which was published in 2004 by TopogrĂĄf–NyĂ­r-Karta in their „Great World Atlas”. We are negotiating with the publishing company about a more comprehensive publication including 40 new pages of thematic maps for the university and postgraduate training

    On the Schneider-Vigneras functor for principal series

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    We study the Schneider-Vigneras functor attaching a module over the Iwasawa algebra Λ(N0)\Lambda(N_0) to a BB-representation for irreducible modulo π\pi principal series of the group GLn(F)\mathrm{GL}_n(F) for any finite field extension F∣QpF|\mathbb{Q}_p.Comment: After major revision, 21 pages, to appear in Journal of Number Theor
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