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    New non-linear equations and modular form expansion for double-elliptic Seiberg-Witten prepotential

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    Integrable N-particle systems have an important property that the associated Seiberg-Witten prepotentials satisfy the WDVV equations. However, this does not apply to the most interesting class of elliptic and double-elliptic systems. Studying the commutativity conjecture for theta-functions on the families of associated spectral curves, we derive some other non-linear equations for the perturbative Seiberg-Witten prepotential, which turn out to have exactly the double-elliptic system as their generic solution. In contrast with the WDVV equations, the new equations acquire non-perturbative corrections which are straightforwardly deducible from the commutativity conditions. We obtain such corrections in the first non-trivial case of N=3 and describe the structure of non-perturbative solutions as expansions in powers of the flat moduli with coefficients that are (quasi)modular forms of the elliptic parameter.Comment: 25 page

    Fluctuation Induced Forces in Non-equilibrium (Diffusive) Dynamics

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    Thermal fluctuations in non-equilibrium steady states generically lead to power law decay of correlations for conserved quantities. Embedded bodies which constrain fluctuations in turn experience fluctuation induced forces. We compute these forces for the simple case of parallel slabs in a driven diffusive system. The force falls off with slab separation dd as kBT/dk_B T/d (at temperature TT, and in all spatial dimensions), but can be attractive or repulsive. Unlike the equilibrium Casimir force, the force amplitude is non-universal and explicitly depends on dynamics. The techniques introduced can be generalized to study pressure and fluctuation induced forces in a broad class of non-equilibrium systems.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
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