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Lyapunov vs. Geometrical Stability Analysis of the Kepler and the Restricted Three Body Problem
In this letter we show that although the application of standard Lyapunov
analysis predicts that completely integrable Kepler motion is unstable, the
geometrical analysis of Horwitz et al [1] predicts the observed stability. This
seems to us to provide evidence for both the incompleteness of the standard
Lyapunov analysis and the strength of the geometrical analysis. Moreover, we
apply this approach to the three body problem in which the third body is
restricted to move on a circle of large radius which induces an adiabatic time
dependent potential on the second body. This causes the second body to move in
a very interesting and intricate but periodic trajectory; however, the standard
Lyapunov analysis, as well as methods based on the parametric variation of
curvature associated with the Jacobi metric, incorrectly predict chaotic
behavior. The geometric approach predicts the correct stable motion in this
case as well.Comment: 9 pages, 14 figure
SUSY transformation of the Green function and a trace formula
An integral relation is established between the Green functions corresponding
to two Hamiltonians which are supersymmetric (SUSY) partners and in general may
possess both discrete and continuous spectra. It is shown that when the
continuous spectrum is present the trace of the difference of the Green
functions for SUSY partners is a finite quantity which may or may not be equal
to zero despite the divergence of the traces of each Green function. Our
findings are illustrated by using the free particle example considered both on
the whole real line and on a half line
Changes at Work
Assesses the changing nature of work, the meaning of work, dissatisfaction with work, and interest in work reform.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1137/thumbnail.jp
Second Thoughts on Work
Assesses the changing nature of work, the meaning of work, dissatisfaction with work, and interest in work reform.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1137/thumbnail.jp
Whittaker-Hill equation and semifinite-gap Schroedinger operators
A periodic one-dimensional Schroedinger operator is called semifinite-gap if
every second gap in its spectrum is eventually closed. We construct explicit
examples of semifinite-gap Schroedinger operators in trigonometric functions by
applying Darboux transformations to the Whittaker-Hill equation. We give a
criterion of the regularity of the corresponding potentials and investigate the
spectral properties of the new operators.Comment: Revised versio
Convergence of expansions in Schr\"odinger and Dirac eigenfunctions, with an application to the R-matrix theory
Expansion of a wave function in a basis of eigenfunctions of a differential
eigenvalue problem lies at the heart of the R-matrix methods for both the
Schr\"odinger and Dirac particles. A central issue that should be carefully
analyzed when functional series are applied is their convergence. In the
present paper, we study the properties of the eigenfunction expansions
appearing in nonrelativistic and relativistic -matrix theories. In
particular, we confirm the findings of Rosenthal [J. Phys. G: Nucl. Phys. 13,
491 (1987)] and Szmytkowski and Hinze [J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 29, 761
(1996); J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 29, 6125 (1996)] that in the most popular
formulation of the R-matrix theory for Dirac particles, the functional series
fails to converge to a claimed limit.Comment: Revised version, accepted for publication in Journal of Mathematical
Physics, 21 pages, 1 figur
Inverse Spectral-Scattering Problem with Two Sets of Discrete Spectra for the Radial Schroedinger Equation
The Schroedinger equation on the half line is considered with a real-valued,
integrable potential having a finite first moment. It is shown that the
potential and the boundary conditions are uniquely determined by the data
containing the discrete eigenvalues for a boundary condition at the origin, the
continuous part of the spectral measure for that boundary condition, and a
subset of the discrete eigenvalues for a different boundary condition. This
result extends the celebrated two-spectrum uniqueness theorem of Borg and
Marchenko to the case where there is also a continuous spectru
Inverse eigenvalue problem for discrete three-diagonal Sturm-Liouville operator and the continuum limit
In present article the self-contained derivation of eigenvalue inverse
problem results is given by using a discrete approximation of the Schroedinger
operator on a bounded interval as a finite three-diagonal symmetric Jacobi
matrix. This derivation is more correct in comparison with previous works which
used only single-diagonal matrix. It is demonstrated that inverse problem
procedure is nothing else than well known Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization in
Euclidean space for special vectors numbered by the space coordinate index. All
the results of usual inverse problem with continuous coordinate are reobtained
by employing a limiting procedure, including the Goursat problem -- equation in
partial derivatives for the solutions of the inversion integral equation.Comment: 19 pages There were made some additions (and reformulations) to the
text making the derivation of the results more precise and understandabl
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