69 research outputs found

    On L-infinity morphisms of cyclic chains

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    Recently the first two authors constructed an L-infinity morphism using the S^1-equivariant version of the Poisson Sigma Model (PSM). Its role in deformation quantization was not entirely clear. We give here a "good" interpretation and show that the resulting formality statement is equivalent to formality on cyclic chains as conjectured by Tsygan and proved recently by several authors.Comment: 11 page

    From Maximum of Intervisit Times to Starving Random Walks

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    Very recently, a fundamental observable has been introduced and analyzed to quantify the exploration of random walks: the time τk\tau_k required for a random walk to find a site that it never visited previously, when the walk has already visited kk distinct sites. Here, we tackle the natural issue of the statistics of MnM_n, the longest duration out of τ0,…,τn−1\tau_0,\dots,\tau_{n-1}. This problem belongs to the active field of extreme value statistics, with the difficulty that the random variables τk\tau_k are both correlated and non-identically distributed. Beyond this fundamental aspect, we show that the asymptotic determination of the statistics of MnM_n finds explicit applications in foraging theory and allows us to solve the open dd-dimensional starving random walk problem, in which each site of a lattice initially contains one food unit, consumed upon visit by the random walker, which can travel S\mathcal{S} steps without food before starving. Processes of diverse nature, including regular diffusion, anomalous diffusion, and diffusion in disordered media and fractals, share common properties within the same universality classes

    Survival probability of stochastic processes beyond persistence exponents

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    For many stochastic processes, the probability S(t)S(t) of not-having reached a target in unbounded space up to time tt follows a slow algebraic decay at long times, S(t)∼S0/tθS(t)\sim S_0/t^\theta. This is typically the case of symmetric compact (i.e. recurrent) random walks. While the persistence exponent θ\theta has been studied at length, the prefactor S0S_0, which is quantitatively essential, remains poorly characterized, especially for non-Markovian processes. Here we derive explicit expressions for S0S_0 for a compact random walk in unbounded space by establishing an analytic relation with the mean first-passage time of the same random walk in a large confining volume. Our analytical results for S0S_0 are in good agreement with numerical simulations, even for strongly correlated processes such as Fractional Brownian Motion, and thus provide a refined understanding of the statistics of longest first-passage events in unbounded space

    Derived coisotropic structures I: affine case

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    We define and study coisotropic structures on morphisms of commutative dg algebras in the context of shifted Poisson geometry, i.e. PnP_n-algebras. Roughly speaking, a coisotropic morphism is given by a Pn+1P_{n+1}-algebra acting on a PnP_n-algebra. One of our main results is an identification of the space of such coisotropic structures with the space of Maurer--Cartan elements in a certain dg Lie algebra of relative polyvector fields. To achieve this goal, we construct a cofibrant replacement of the operad controlling coisotropic morphisms by analogy with the Swiss-cheese operad which can be of independent interest. Finally, we show that morphisms of shifted Poisson algebras are identified with coisotropic structures on their graph.Comment: 49 pages. v2: many proofs rewritten and the paper is split into two part

    Universal star products

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    One defines the notion of universal deformation quantization: given any manifold MM, any Poisson structure ¶\P on MM and any torsionfree linear connection ∇\nabla on MM, a universal deformation quantization associates to this data a star product on (M,¶)(M,\P) given by a series of bidifferential operators whose corresponding tensors are given by universal polynomial expressions in the Poisson tensor ¶\P, the curvature tensor RR and their covariant iterated derivatives. Such universal deformation quantization exist. We study their unicity at order 3 in the deformation parameter, computing the appropriate universal Poisson cohomology.Comment: To appear in Letters in Mathematical Physic

    The quantization of the symplectic groupoid of the standard Podles sphere

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    We give an explicit form of the symplectic groupoid that integrates the semiclassical standard Podles sphere. We show that Sheu's groupoid, whose convolution C*-algebra quantizes the sphere, appears as the groupoid of the Bohr-Sommerfeld leaves of a (singular) real polarization of the symplectic groupoid. By using a complex polarization we recover the convolution algebra on the space of polarized sections. We stress the role of the modular class in the definition of the scalar product in order to get the correct quantum space.Comment: 33 pages; minor correction

    Grothendieck-Teichm\"uller and Batalin-Vilkovisky

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    It is proven that, for any affine supermanifold MM equipped with a constant odd symplectic structure, there is a universal action (up to homotopy) of the Grothendieck-Teichm\"uller Lie algebra grt1\mathfrak{grt}_1 on the set of quantum BV structures (i. e.\ solutions of the quantum master equation) on MM

    Detection of two new RRATs at 111 MHz

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    A search for pulse signals in a area with declinations of +52\degr <\delta <+55\degr was carried out on the LPA LPI radio telescope. When processing ten months of observations recorded in six frequency channels with a channel width of 415 kHz and a total bandwidth of 2.5 MHz, 22 thousand events were found with a pronounced dispersion delay of signals over frequency channels, i.e. having signs of pulsar pulses. It turned out that the found pulses belong to four known pulsars and two new rotating radio transients (RRATs). An additional pulse search conducted in 32-channel data with a channel width of 78 kHz revealed 8 pulses for the transient J0249+52 and 7 pulses for the transient J0744+55. Periodic radiation of transients was not detected. The analysis of observations shows that the found RRATs are most likely pulsars with nullings, where the proportion of nulling is greater than 99.9\%.Comment: published in Astronomy Reports, translated by Yandex translator with correction of scientific lexis, 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl

    Compatibility with cap-products in Tsygan's formality and homological Duflo isomorphism

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    In this paper we prove, with details and in full generality, that the isomorphism induced on tangent homology by the Shoikhet-Tsygan formality L∞L_\infty-quasi-isomorphism for Hochschild chains is compatible with cap-products. This is a homological analog of the compatibility with cup-products of the isomorphism induced on tangent cohomology by Kontsevich formality L∞L_\infty-quasi-isomorphism for Hochschild cochains. As in the cohomological situation our proof relies on a homotopy argument involving a variant of {\bf Kontsevich eye}. In particular we clarify the r\^ole played by the {\bf I-cube} introduced in \cite{CR1}. Since we treat here the case of a most possibly general Maurer-Cartan element, not forced to be a bidifferential operator, then we take this opportunity to recall the natural algebraic structures on the pair of Hochschild cochain and chain complexes of an A∞A_\infty-algebra. In particular we prove that they naturally inherit the structure of an A∞A_\infty-algebra with an A∞A_\infty-(bi)module.Comment: The first and second Section on B∞B_\infty-algebras and modules have been completely re-written, with new results; partial revision of Section 3; the proofs in Section 4 and 5 have been re-formulated in a more general context; we added Section 8 on globalisatio
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