Symmetries of Discrete Dynamical Systems Involving Two Species

The Lie point symmetries of a coupled system of two nonlinear differential-difference equations are investigated. It is shown that in special cases the symmetry group can be infinite dimensional, in other cases up to 10 dimensional. The equations can describe the interaction of two long molecular chains, each involving one type of atoms.Comment: 40 pages, no figures, typed in AMS-LaTe

Discrete systems related to some equations of the Painlev\'e-Gambier classification

We derive integrable discrete systems which are contiguity relations of two equations in the Painlev\'e-Gambier classification depending on some parameter. These studies extend earlier work where the contiguity relations for the six transcendental Painlev\'e equations were obtained. In the case of the Gambier equation we give the contiguity relations for both the continuous and the discrete system.Comment: 10 page

Constructing Integrable Third Order Systems:The Gambier Approach

We present a systematic construction of integrable third order systems based on the coupling of an integrable second order equation and a Riccati equation. This approach is the extension of the Gambier method that led to the equation that bears his name. Our study is carried through for both continuous and discrete systems. In both cases the investigation is based on the study of the singularities of the system (the Painlev\'e method for ODE's and the singularity confinement method for mappings).Comment: 14 pages, TEX FIL

Linearisable Mappings and the Low-Growth Criterion

We examine a family of discrete second-order systems which are integrable through reduction to a linear system. These systems were previously identified using the singularity confinement criterion. Here we analyse them using the more stringent criterion of nonexponential growth of the degrees of the iterates. We show that the linearisable mappings are characterised by a very special degree growth. The ones linearisable by reduction to projective systems exhibit zero growth, i.e. they behave like linear systems, while the remaining ones (derivatives of Riccati, Gambier mapping) lead to linear growth. This feature may well serve as a detector of integrability through linearisation.Comment: 9 pages, no figur

Point Symmetries of Generalized Toda Field Theories II Applications of the Symmetries

The Lie symmetries of a large class of generalized Toda field theories are studied and used to perform symmetry reduction. Reductions lead to generalized Toda lattices on one hand, to periodic systems on the other. Boundary conditions are introduced to reduce theories on an infinite lattice to those on semi-infinite, or finite ones.Comment: 26 pages, no figure

Parallel Electromechanical model of the heart

In this paper, we present a high performance computational electromechanical model of the heart, coupling between electrical activation and mechanical deformation and running efficiently in up to thousands of processors. The electrical potential propagation is modelled by FitzHugh-Nagumo or Fenton-Karma models, with fiber orientation. The mechanical deformation is treated using anisotropic hyper-elastic materials in a total Lagrangian formulation. Several material models are assessed, such as models based on biaxial tests on excised myocardium or orthotropic formulations. Coupling is treated using the Cross-Bridges model of Peterson. The scheme is implemented in Alya, which run simulations in parallel with almost linear scalability in a wide range computer sizes, up to thousands of processors. The computational model is assessed through several tests, including those to evaluate its parallel performance.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

Solutions to the Optical Cascading Equations

Group theoretical methods are used to study the equations describing \chi^{(2)}:\chi^{(2)} cascading. The equations are shown not to be integrable by inverse scattering techniques. On the other hand, these equations do share some of the nice properties of soliton equations. Large families of explicit analytical solutions are obtained in terms of elliptic functions. In special cases, these periodic solutions reduce to localized ones, i.e., solitary waves. All previously known explicit solutions are recovered, and many additional ones are obtainedComment: 21 page

Algebraic entropy for algebraic maps

We propose an extension of the concept of algebraic entropy, as introduced by Bellon and Viallet for rational maps, to algebraic maps (or correspondences) of a certain kind. The corresponding entropy is an index of the complexity of the map. The definition inherits the basic properties from the definition of entropy for rational maps. We give an example with positive entropy, as well as two examples taken from the theory of Backlund transformations