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The overlap Dirac operator as a continued fraction
We use a continued fraction expansion of the sign-function in order to obtain
a five dimensional formulation of the overlap lattice Dirac operator. Within
this formulation the inverse of the overlap operator can be calculated by a
single Krylov space method and nested conjugate gradient procedures are
avoided. We point out that the five dimensional linear system can be made well
conditioned using equivalence transformations on the continued fractions.Comment: 7 pages, Talk given at the Third International Workshop on Numerical
Analysis and Lattice QCD, Edinburgh, June 200
Plateau's problem for integral currents in locally non-compact metric spaces
The purpose of this article is to prove existence of mass minimizing integral
currents with prescribed possibly non-compact boundary in all dual Banach
spaces and furthermore in certain spaces without linear structure, such as
injective metric spaces and Hadamard spaces. We furthermore prove a
weak-compactness theorem for integral currents in dual spaces of separable
Banach spaces. Our theorems generalize results of Ambrosio-Kirchheim, Lang, the
author, and recent results of Ambrosio-Schmidt
Filling invariants at infinity and the Euclidean rank of Hadamard spaces
In this paper we study a homological version of the higher-dimensional
divergence invariants defined by Brady and Farb. We show that they are
quasi-isometry invariants in the class of proper cocompact Hadamard spaces in
the sense of Alexandrov and that they can moreover be used to detect the
Euclidean rank of such spaces. We thereby extend results of Brady-Farb,
Leuzinger, and Hindawi from the setting of symmetric spaces of non-compact type
to that of singular Hadamard spaces. Finally, we exhibit the optimal power for
the growth of the divergence above the rank for symmetric spaces of non-compact
type and for Hadamard spaces with strictly negative upper curvature bound.Comment: In this new version we add a theorem which shows that the homological
divergence functions are quasi-isometry invariants in the class of proper
cocompact Hadamard spaces. This extends the corresponding theorem of Brady
and Far
Compactness for manifolds and integral currents with bounded diameter and volume
By Gromov's compactness theorem for metric spaces, every uniformly compact
sequence of metric spaces admits an isometric embedding into a common compact
metric space in which a subsequence converges with respect to the Hausdorff
distance. Working in the class or oriented -dimensional Riemannian manifolds
(with boundary) and, more generally, integral currents in metric spaces in the
sense of Ambrosio-Kirchheim and replacing the Hausdorff distance with the
filling volume or flat distance, we prove an analogous compactness theorem in
which we replace uniform compactness of the sequence with uniform bounds on
volume and diameter.Comment: Some changes made to the introduction; some references adde
Flat convergence for integral currents in metric spaces
It is well known that in compact local Lipschitz neighborhood retracts in
Euclidean space flat convergence for integer rectifiable currents amounts just
to weak convergence. In the present paper we extend this result to integral
currents in complete metric spaces admitting a local cone type inequality.
These include in particular all Banach spaces as well as complete CAT(k)-spaces
(metric spaces of curvature bounded above by k in the sense of Alexandrov). The
main result can be used to prove the existence of minimal elements in a fixed
Lipschitz homology class in compact metric spaces admitting local cone type
inequalities or to conclude that integral currents which are weak limits of
sequences of absolutely area minimizing integral currents are again absolutely
area minimizing
The asymptotic rank of metric spaces
In this article we define and study a notion of asymptotic rank for metric
spaces and show in our main theorem that for a large class of spaces, the
asymptotic rank is characterized by the growth of the higher filling functions.
For a proper, cocompact, simply-connected geodesic metric space of
non-curvature in the sense of Alexandrov the asymptotic rank equals its
Euclidean rank.Comment: Theorem 4.1 in Version 2 and its proof have been moved into a new
paper, see reference in the new version. Some new references have been adde
Gromov hyperbolic spaces and the sharp isoperimetric constant
In this article we exhibit the largest constant in a quadratic isoperimetric
inequality which ensures that a geodesic metric space is Gromov hyperbolic. As
a particular consequence we obtain that Euclidean space is a borderline case
for Gromov hyperbolicity in terms of the isoperimetric function. We prove
similar results for the linear filling radius inequality. Our results
strengthen and generalize theorems of Gromov, Papasoglu and others.Comment: Improved exposition and structure, new introduction, which includes
an outline of the proof; partially new proof, not relying on asymptotic cones
anymor
Centrality Dependence of Delta-eta, Delta-phi Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions
In these proceedings, a measurement of two-particle correlations with a high
transverse momentum trigger particle (pT_trig > 2.5 GeV/c) is presented for
Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV over the uniquely broad longitudinal
acceptance of the PHOBOS detector (-4 < Delta-eta < 2). As in p+p collisions,
the near-side is characterized by a peak of correlated partners at small angle
relative to the trigger. However, in central Au+Au collisions an additional
correlation extended in Delta-eta and known as the 'ridge' is found to reach at
least |Delta-eta| = 4. The ridge yield is largely independent of Delta-eta over
the measured range, and it decreases towards more peripheral collisions. For
the chosen pT_trig cut of 2.5 GeV/c, the ridge yield is consistent with zero
for events with less than roughly 100 participating nucleons.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings for the 2009 QCD session of the
Moriond conferenc
Nilpotent groups without exactly polynomial Dehn function
We prove super-quadratic lower bounds for the growth of the filling area
function of a certain class of Carnot groups. This class contains groups for
which it is known that their Dehn function grows no faster than . We
therefore obtain the existence of (finitely generated) nilpotent groups whose
Dehn functions do not have exactly polynomial growth and we thus answer a
well-known question about the possible growth rate of Dehn functions of
nilpotent groups
Aperture optical antennas
This contribution reviews the studies on subwavelength aperture antennas in
the optical regime, paying attention to both the fundamental investigations and
the applications. Section 2 reports on the enhancement of light-matter
interaction using three main types of aperture antennas: single subwavelength
aperture, single aperture surrounded by shallow surface corrugations, and
subwavelength aperture arrays. A large fraction of nanoaperture applications is
devoted to the field of biophotonics to improve molecular sensing, which are
reviewed in Section 3. Lastly, the applications towards nano-optics (sources,
detectors and filters) are discussed in Section 4.Comment: Published as chapter in "Optical Antennas," editied by M. Agio qnd A.
Alu, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2013
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