Boundary terms and their Hamiltonian dynamics

It is described how the standard Poisson bracket formulas should be modified in order to incorporate integrals of divergences into the Hamiltonian formalism and why this is necessary. Examples from Einstein gravity and Yang-Mills gauge field theory are given.Comment: Talk at 29th Ahrenshoop Symposium in Buckow 1995, 6 pages, espcrc2.sty, twoside.sty, fleqn.sty, amssymb.sty, no figure

Two-phonon γ\gamma-vibrational states in rotating triaxial odd-AA nuclei

Distribution of the two phonon $\gamma$ vibrational collectivity in the rotating triaxial odd-$A$ nucleus, $^{103}$Nb, that is one of the three nuclides for which experimental data were reported recently, is calculated in the framework of the particle vibration coupling model based on the cranked shell model plus random phase approximation. This framework was previously utilized for analyses of the zero and one phonon bands in other mass region and is applied to the two phonon band for the first time. In the present calculation, three sequences of two phonon bands share collectivity almost equally at finite rotation whereas the $K=\Omega+4$ state is the purest at zero rotation.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review

On localization properties of Fourier transforms of hyperfunctions

In [Adv. Math. 196 (2005) 310-345] the author introduced a new generalized function space $\mathcal U(R^k)$ which can be naturally interpreted as the Fourier transform of the space of Sato's hyperfunctions on $R^k$. It was shown that all Gelfand--Shilov spaces $S^{\prime 0}_\alpha(R^k)$ ($\alpha>1$) of analytic functionals are canonically embedded in $\mathcal U(R^k)$. While the usual definition of support of a generalized function is inapplicable to elements of $S^{\prime 0}_\alpha(R^k)$ and $\mathcal U(R^k)$, their localization properties can be consistently described using the concept of {\it carrier cone} introduced by Soloviev [Lett. Math. Phys. 33 (1995) 49-59; Comm. Math. Phys. 184 (1997) 579-596]. In this paper, the relation between carrier cones of elements of $S^{\prime 0}_\alpha(R^k)$ and $\mathcal U(R^k)$ is studied. It is proved that an analytic functional $u\in S^{\prime 0}_\alpha(R^k)$ is carried by a cone $K\subset R^k$ if and only if its canonical image in $\mathcal U(R^k)$ is carried by $K$.Comment: 21 pages, final version, accepted for publication in J. Math. Anal. App

Quadratic algebras and integrable chains

Using Krichever-Phong's universal formula, we show that a multiplicative representation linearizes Sklyanin quadratic brackets for a multi-pole Lax function with a spectral parameter. The spectral parameter can be either rational or elliptic. As a by-product, we obtain an extension of a Sklyanin algebra in the elliptic case. Krichever-Phong's formula provides a hierarchy of symplectic structures, and we show that there exists a non-trivial cubic bracket in Sklyanin's case.Comment: 24 page

Integrability of the Pentagram Map

The pentagram map was introduced by R. Schwartz in 1992 for convex planar polygons. Recently, V. Ovsienko, R. Schwartz, and S. Tabachnikov proved Liouville integrability of the pentagram map for generic monodromies by providing a Poisson structure and the sufficient number of integrals in involution on the space of twisted polygons. In this paper we prove algebraic-geometric integrability for any monodromy, i.e., for both twisted and closed polygons. For that purpose we show that the pentagram map can be written as a discrete zero-curvature equation with a spectral parameter, study the corresponding spectral curve, and the dynamics on its Jacobian. We also prove that on the symplectic leaves Poisson brackets discovered for twisted polygons coincide with the symplectic structure obtained from Krichever-Phong's universal formula.Comment: 33 pages, 1 figure; v3: substantially revise

Bering's proposal for boundary contribution to the Poisson bracket

It is shown that the Poisson bracket with boundary terms recently proposed by Bering (hep-th/9806249) can be deduced from the Poisson bracket proposed by the present author (hep-th/9305133) if one omits terms free of Euler-Lagrange derivatives ("annihilation principle"). This corresponds to another definition of the formal product of distributions (or, saying it in other words, to another definition of the pairing between 1-forms and 1-vectors in the formal variational calculus). We extend the formula (initially suggested by Bering only for the ultralocal case with constant coefficients) onto the general non-ultralocal brackets with coefficients depending on fields and their spatial derivatives. The lack of invariance under changes of dependent variables (field redefinitions) seems a drawback of this proposal.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX, amssym

Gravitationally dresed RG flows and zig-zag invariant strings

We propose a world-sheet realization of the zigzag-invariant bosonic and fermionic strings as a perturbed Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model at large negative level $k$ on a group manifold $G$ coupled to 2D gravity. In the large $k$ limit the zigzag symmetry can be obtained as a result of a self-consistent solution of the gravitationally dressed RG equation. The only solution found for simple group is $G=SL(2)$. More general target-space geometries can be obtained via tensoring of various cosets based on SL(2). In the supersymmetric case the zigzag symmetry fixes the maximal target-space dimension of the confining fermionic string to be seven.Comment: 16 pages, corrected typos, version to be published in Phys.Lett.