Bethe subalgebras in affine Birman--Murakami--Wenzl algebras and flat connections for q-KZ equations

Commutative sets of Jucys-Murphyelements for affine braid groups of $A^{(1)},B^{(1)},C^{(1)},D^{(1)}$ types were defined. Construction of $R$-matrix representations of the affine braid group of type $C^{(1)}$ and its distinguish commutative subgroup generated by the $C^{(1)}$-type Jucys--Murphy elements are given. We describe a general method to produce flat connections for the two-boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations as necessary conditions for Sklyanin's type transfer matrix associated with the two-boundary multicomponent Zamolodchikov algebra to be invariant under the action of the $C^{(1)}$-type Jucys--Murphy elements. We specify our general construction to the case of the Birman--Murakami--Wenzl algebras. As an application we suggest a baxterization of the Dunkl--Cherednik elements $Y's$ in the double affine Hecke algebra of type $A$

The Issues of Development of a Creative Professional

The article covers the issues of engineering education. The authors take as a premise that the most important quality of an engineer is his/her creativity, therefore the goal of engineering education is to form and develop students’ creativity. This article evaluates the opportunity of developing the creative constituent of engineers’ skills. The authors draw the conclusion about the lack of disciplines that would favor the development of creativity. They focus on the over-disciplinary function of the Philosophical and Methodological Problems of Science and Engineering discipline; the function allows to regard the history and methodology of science as a foundation for development of creative skills that ensure the innovative activity of future engineers

Methodological Foundations of Engineering Education

A problem of methodology choice for engineering education is considered. The Authors focused on matching it with purposes of maximal efficiency and effectiveness of schooling engineers and maximal satisfying needs of society and economics in competent cadres

A note on quantization operators on Nichols algebra model for Schubert calculus on Weyl groups

We give a description of the (small) quantum cohomology ring of the flag variety as a certain commutative subalgebra in the tensor product of the Nichols algebras. Our main result can be considered as a quantum analog of a result by Y. Bazlov

From the quantum Jacobi-Trudi and Giambelli formula to a nonlinear integral equation for thermodynamics of the higher spin Heisenberg model

We propose a nonlinear integral equation (NLIE) with only one unknown function, which gives the free energy of the integrable one dimensional Heisenberg model with arbitrary spin. In deriving the NLIE, the quantum Jacobi-Trudi and Giambelli formula (Bazhanov-Reshetikhin formula), which gives the solution of the T-system, plays an important role. In addition, we also calculate the high temperature expansion of the specific heat and the magnetic susceptibility.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX; some explanations, 2 figures, one reference added; typos corrected; to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Ge

Ground state and low excitations of an integrable chain with alternating spins

An anisotropic integrable spin chain, consisting of spins $s=1$ and $s=\frac{1}{2}$, is investigated \cite{devega}. It is characterized by two real parameters $\bar{c}$ and $\tilde{c}$, the coupling constants of the spin interactions. For the case $\bar{c}<0$ and $\tilde{c}<0$ the ground state configuration is obtained by means of thermodynamic Bethe ansatz. Furthermore the low excitations are calculated. It turns out, that apart from free magnon states being the holes in the ground state rapidity distribution, there exist bound states given by special string solutions of Bethe ansatz equations (BAE) in analogy to \cite{babelon}. The dispersion law of these excitations is calculated numerically.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX, uses ioplppt.sty and PicTeX macro

Billiard Representation for Multidimensional Cosmology with Intersecting p-branes near the Singularity

Multidimensional model describing the cosmological evolution of n Einstein spaces in the theory with l scalar fields and forms is considered. When electro-magnetic composite p-brane ansatz is adopted, and certain restrictions on the parameters of the model are imposed, the dynamics of the model near the singularity is reduced to a billiard on the (N-1)-dimensional Lobachevsky space, N = n+l. The geometrical criterion for the finiteness of the billiard volume and its compactness is used. This criterion reduces the problem to the problem of illumination of (N-2)-dimensional sphere by point-like sources. Some examples with billiards of finite volume and hence oscillating behaviour near the singularity are considered. Among them examples with square and triangle 2-dimensional billiards (e.g. that of the Bianchi-IX model) and a 4-dimensional billiard in ``truncated'' D = 11 supergravity model (without the Chern-Simons term) are considered. It is shown that the inclusion of the Chern-Simons term destroys the confining of a billiard.Comment: 27 pages Latex, 3 figs., submit. to Class. Quantum Gra

Boundary Ground Ring in Minimal String Theory

We obtain relations among boundary states in bosonic minimal open string theory using the boundary ground ring. We also obtain a difference equation that boundary correlators must satisfy.Comment: 28 pages, 1 figur

Boundary bound states and boundary bootstrap in the sine-Gordon model with Dirichlet boundary conditions.

We present a complete study of boundary bound states and related boundary S-matrices for the sine-Gordon model with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Our approach is based partly on the bootstrap procedure, and partly on the explicit solution of the inhomogeneous XXZ model with boundary magnetic field and of the boundary Thirring model. We identify boundary bound states with new ``boundary strings'' in the Bethe ansatz. The boundary energy is also computed.Comment: 25 pages, harvmac macros Report USC-95-001