274 research outputs found
Scaling asymptotics for quantized Hamiltonian flows
In recent years, the near diagonal asymptotics of the equivariant components
of the Szeg\"{o} kernel of a positive line bundle on a compact symplectic
manifold have been studied extensively by many authors. As a natural
generalization of this theme, here we consider the local scaling asymptotics of
the Toeplitz quantization of a Hamiltonian symplectomorphism, and specifically
how they concentrate on the graph of the underlying classical map
Local trace formulae and scaling asymptotics in Toeplitz quantization, II
In the spectral theory of positive elliptic operators, an important role is
played by certain smoothing kernels, related to the Fourier transform of the
trace of a wave operator, which may be heuristically interpreted as smoothed
spectral projectors asymptotically drifting to the right of the spectrum. In
the setting of Toeplitz quantization, we consider analogues of these, where the
wave operator is replaced by the Hardy space compression of a linearized
Hamiltonian flow, possibly composed with a family of zeroth order Toeplitz
operators. We study the local asymptotics of these smoothing kernels, and
specifically how they concentrate on the fixed loci of the linearized dynamics.Comment: Typos corrected. Slight expository change
The first coefficients of the asymptotic expansion of the Bergman kernel of the spin^c Dirac operator
We establish the existence of the asymptotic expansion of the Bergman kernel
associated to the spin-c Dirac operators acting on high tensor powers of line
bundles with non-degenerate mixed curvature (negative and positive eigenvalues)
by extending the paper " On the asymptotic expansion of Bergman kernel "
(math.DG/0404494) of Dai-Liu-Ma. We compute the second coefficient b_1 in the
asymptotic expansion using the method of our paper "Generalized Bergman kernels
on symplectic manifolds" (math.DG/0411559).Comment: 21 pages, to appear in Internat. J. Math. Precisions added in the
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Toeplitz operators on symplectic manifolds
We study the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization on symplectic manifolds making use
of the full off-diagonal asymptotic expansion of the Bergman kernel. We give
also a characterization of Toeplitz operators in terms of their asymptotic
expansion. The semi-classical limit properties of the Berezin-Toeplitz
quantization for non-compact manifolds and orbifolds are also established.Comment: 40 page
Realizations of Differential Operators on Conic Manifolds with Boundary
We study the closed extensions (realizations) of differential operators
subject to homogeneous boundary conditions on weighted L_p-Sobolev spaces over
a manifold with boundary and conical singularities. Under natural ellipticity
conditions we determine the domains of the minimal and the maximal extension.
We show that both are Fredholm operators and give a formula for the relative
index.Comment: 41 pages, 1 figur
The Zakharov-Shabat spectral problem on the semi-line: Hilbert formulation and applications
The inverse spectral transform for the Zakharov-Shabat equation on the
semi-line is reconsidered as a Hilbert problem. The boundary data induce an
essential singularity at large k to one of the basic solutions. Then solving
the inverse problem means solving a Hilbert problem with particular prescribed
behavior. It is demonstrated that the direct and inverse problems are solved in
a consistent way as soon as the spectral transform vanishes with 1/k at
infinity in the whole upper half plane (where it may possess single poles) and
is continuous and bounded on the real k-axis. The method is applied to
stimulated Raman scattering and sine-Gordon (light cone) for which it is
demonstrated that time evolution conserves the properties of the spectral
transform.Comment: LaTex file, 1 figure, submitted to J. Phys.
Fractional-order operators: Boundary problems, heat equations
The first half of this work gives a survey of the fractional Laplacian (and
related operators), its restricted Dirichlet realization on a bounded domain,
and its nonhomogeneous local boundary conditions, as treated by
pseudodifferential methods. The second half takes up the associated heat
equation with homogeneous Dirichlet condition. Here we recall recently shown
sharp results on interior regularity and on -estimates up to the boundary,
as well as recent H\"older estimates. This is supplied with new higher
regularity estimates in -spaces using a technique of Lions and Magenes,
and higher -regularity estimates (with arbitrarily high H\"older estimates
in the time-parameter) based on a general result of Amann. Moreover, it is
shown that an improvement to spatial -regularity at the boundary is
not in general possible.Comment: 29 pages, updated version, to appear in a Springer Proceedings in
Mathematics and Statistics: "New Perspectives in Mathematical Analysis -
Plenary Lectures, ISAAC 2017, Vaxjo Sweden
Algebraic construction of the Darboux matrix revisited
We present algebraic construction of Darboux matrices for 1+1-dimensional
integrable systems of nonlinear partial differential equations with a special
stress on the nonisospectral case. We discuss different approaches to the
Darboux-Backlund transformation, based on different lambda-dependencies of the
Darboux matrix: polynomial, sum of partial fractions, or the transfer matrix
form. We derive symmetric N-soliton formulas in the general case. The matrix
spectral parameter and dressing actions in loop groups are also discussed. We
describe reductions to twisted loop groups, unitary reductions, the matrix Lax
pair for the KdV equation and reductions of chiral models (harmonic maps) to
SU(n) and to Grassmann spaces. We show that in the KdV case the nilpotent
Darboux matrix generates the binary Darboux transformation. The paper is
intended as a review of known results (usually presented in a novel context)
but some new results are included as well, e.g., general compact formulas for
N-soliton surfaces and linear and bilinear constraints on the nonisospectral
Lax pair matrices which are preserved by Darboux transformations.Comment: Review paper (61 pages). To be published in the Special Issue
"Nonlinearity and Geometry: Connections with Integrability" of J. Phys. A:
Math. Theor. (2009), devoted to the subject of the Second Workshop on
Nonlinearity and Geometry ("Darboux Days"), Bedlewo, Poland (April 2008
Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-ray laser.
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) signal primarily through G proteins or arrestins. Arrestin binding to GPCRs blocks G protein interaction and redirects signalling to numerous G-protein-independent pathways. Here we report the crystal structure of a constitutively active form of human rhodopsin bound to a pre-activated form of the mouse visual arrestin, determined by serial femtosecond X-ray laser crystallography. Together with extensive biochemical and mutagenesis data, the structure reveals an overall architecture of the rhodopsin-arrestin assembly in which rhodopsin uses distinct structural elements, including transmembrane helix 7 and helix 8, to recruit arrestin. Correspondingly, arrestin adopts the pre-activated conformation, with a ∼20° rotation between the amino and carboxy domains, which opens up a cleft in arrestin to accommodate a short helix formed by the second intracellular loop of rhodopsin. This structure provides a basis for understanding GPCR-mediated arrestin-biased signalling and demonstrates the power of X-ray lasers for advancing the frontiers of structural biology
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