Trustee Fundraising Dialogue

Summary of a 2009 BC Library Conference session dedicated to exploring what BC public libraries are doing to fundraise, and how library trustees are helping

Quantum liquids of particles with generalized statistics

We propose a phenomenological approach to quantum liquids of particles obeying generalized statistics of a fermionic type, in the spirit of the Landau Fermi liquid theory. The approach is developed for fractional exclusion statistics. We discuss both equilibrium (specific heat, compressibility, and Pauli spin susceptibility) and nonequilibrium (current and thermal conductivities, thermopower) properties. Low temperature quantities have the same temperature dependences as for the Fermi liquid, with the coefficients depending on the statistics parameter. The novel quantum liquids provide explicit realization of systems with a non-Fermi liquid Lorentz ratio in two and more dimensions. Consistency of the theory is verified by deriving the compressibility and $f$-sum rules.Comment: 14 pages, Revtex, no figures; typos correcte

Increasing stability for the inverse problem for the Schr\"odinger equation

In this article, we study the increasing stability property for the determination of the potential in the Schr\"odinger equation from partial data. We shall assume that the inaccessible part of the boundary is flat and homogeneous boundary condition is prescribed on this part. In contrast to earlier works, we are able to deal with the case when potentials have some Sobolev regularity and also need not be compactly supported inside the domain

Algebra of Observables for Identical Particles in One Dimension

The algebra of observables for identical particles on a line is formulated starting from postulated basic commutation relations. A realization of this algebra in the Calogero model was previously known. New realizations are presented here in terms of differentiation operators and in terms of SU(N)-invariant observables of the Hermitian matrix models. Some particular structure properties of the algebra are briefly discussed.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, uses epsf, 1 eps figure include

On increasing stability in the two dimensional inverse source scattering problem with many frequencies

In this paper, we will study increasing stability in the inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation in the plane when the source term is assumed to be compactly supported in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with sufficiently smooth boundary. Using the Fourier transform in the frequency domain, bounds for the Hankel functions and for scattering solutions in the complex plane, improving bounds for the analytic continuation, and exact observability for wave equation led us to our goals which are a sharp uniqueness and increasing stability estimate with larger wave numbers interval.Comment: Submitted to Inverse Problem