Geometric investigations of a vorticity model equation

This article consists of a detailed geometric study of the one-dimensional vorticity model equation $$\omega_{t} + u\omega_{x} + 2\omega u_{x} = 0, \qquad \omega = H u_{x}, \qquad t\in\mathbb{R},\; x\in S^{1}\,,$$ which is a particular case of the generalized Constantin-Lax-Majda equation. Wunsch showed that this equation is the Euler-Arnold equation on $\operatorname{Diff}(S^{1})$ when the latter is endowed with the right-invariant homogeneous $\dot{H}^{1/2}$-metric. In this article we prove that the exponential map of this Riemannian metric is not Fredholm and that the sectional curvature is locally unbounded. Furthermore, we prove a Beale-Kato-Majda-type blow-up criterion, which we then use to demonstrate a link to our non-Fredholmness result. Finally, we extend a blow-up result of Castro-C\'ordoba to the periodic case and to a much wider class of initial conditions, using a new generalization of an inequality for Hilbert transforms due to C\'ordoba-C\'ordoba.Comment: 30 pages; added references; corrected typo

Isometric Immersions and the Waving of Flags

In this article we propose a novel geometric model to study the motion of a physical flag. In our approach a flag is viewed as an isometric immersion from the square with values into $\mathbb R^3$ satisfying certain boundary conditions at the flag pole. Under additional regularity constraints we show that the space of all such flags carries the structure of an infinite dimensional manifold and can be viewed as a submanifold of the space of all immersions. The submanifold result is then used to derive the equations of motion, after equipping the space of isometric immersions with its natural kinetic energy. This approach can be viewed in a similar spirit as Arnold's geometric picture for the motion of an incompressible fluid.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figur

The world financial scene: balancing risks and rewards

International finance ; Martin, Preston ; Banks and banking, Central

Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering in a Harmonic Potential

The discrete energy-eigenvalues of two nucleons interacting with a finite-range nuclear force and confined to a harmonic potential are used to numerically reconstruct the free-space scattering phase shifts. The extracted phase shifts are compared to those obtained from the exact continuum scattering solution and agree within the uncertainties of the calculations. Our results suggest that it might be possible to determine the amplitudes for the scattering of complex systems, such as n-d, n-t or n-alpha, from the energy-eigenvalues confined to finite volumes using ab-initio bound-state techniques.Comment: 19 pages, 13 figure

Geodesic completeness of the H3/2H^{3/2} metric on Diff(S1)\mathrm{Diff}(S^{1})

Of concern is the study of the long-time existence of solutions to the Euler--Arnold equation of the right-invariant $H^{3/2}$-metric on the diffeomorphism group of the circle. In previous work by Escher and Kolev it has been shown that this equation admits long-time solutions if the order $s$ of the metric is greater than $3/2$, the behaviour for the critical Sobolev index $s=3/2$ has been left open. In this article we fill this gap by proving the analogous result also for the boundary case. The behaviour of the $H^{3/2}$-metric is, however, still different from its higher order counter parts, as it does not induce a complete Riemannian metric on any group of Sobolev diffeomorphisms