Investigations into Light-front Quartic Interactions for Massless Fields (I): Non-constructibility of Higher Spin Quartic Amplitudes

The dynamical commutators of the light-front Poincar\'e algebra yield first order differential equations in the $p^+$ momenta for the interaction vertex operators. The homogeneous solution to the equation for the quartic vertex is studied. Consequences as regards the constructibility assumption of quartic higher spin amplitudes from cubic amplitudes are discussed. The existence of quartic contact interactions unrelated to cubic interactions by Poincar\'e symmetry indicates that the higher spin S-matrix is not constructible. Thus quartic amplitude based no-go results derived by BCFW recursion for Minkowski higher spin massless fields may be circumvented.Comment: 28 pages. Small change of title (one instance of the word "quartic" removed) Minor corrections. Typos corrected. References adde

An Improvement on the Br\'ezis-Gallou\"et technique for 2D NLS and 1D half-wave equation

We revise the classical approach by Br\'ezis-Gallou\"et to prove global well posedness for nonlinear evolution equations. In particular we prove global well--posedness for the quartic NLS posed on general domains $\Omega$ in $\R^2$ with initial data in $H^2(\Omega)\cap H^1_0(\Omega)$, and for the quartic nonlinear half-wave equation on $\R$ with initial data in $H^1(\R)$

Cubic and quartic transformations of the sixth Painleve equation in terms of Riemann-Hilbert correspondence

A starting point of this paper is a classification of quadratic polynomial transformations of the monodromy manifold for the 2x2 isomonodromic Fuchsian systems associated to the Painleve VI equation. Up to birational automorphisms of the monodromy manifold, we find three transformations. Two of them are identified as the action of known quadratic or quartic transformations of the Painleve VI equation. The third transformation of the monodromy manifold gives a new transformation of degree 3 of Picard's solutions of Painleve VI.Comment: Added: classification of quadratic transformations of the Monodromy manifold; new cubic (and quartic) transformations for Picard's case. 26 Pages, 3 figure

Constructions of diagonal quartic and sextic surfaces with infinitely many rational points

In this note we construct several infinite families of diagonal quartic surfaces \begin{equation*} ax^4+by^4+cz^4+dw^4=0, \end{equation*} where $a,b,c,d\in\Z\setminus\{0\}$ with infinitely many rational points and satisfying the condition $abcd\neq \square$. In particular, we present an infinite family of diagonal quartic surfaces defined over \Q with Picard number equal to one and possessing infinitely many rational points. Further, we present some sextic surfaces of type $ax^6+by^6+cz^6+dw^i=0$, $i=2$, $3$, or $6$, with infinitely many rational points.Comment: revised version will appear in International Journal of Number Theor

On two-dimensional integrable models with a cubic or quartic integral of motion

Integrable two-dimensional models which possess an integral of motion cubic or quartic in velocities are governed by a single prepotential, which obeys a nonlinear partial differential equation. Taking into account the latter's invariance under continuous rescalings and a dihedral symmetry, we construct new integrable models with a cubic or quartic integral, each of which involves either one or two continuous parameters. A reducible case related to the two-dimensional wave equation is discussed as well. We conjecture a hidden D_{2n} dihedral symmetry for models with an integral of n-th order in the velocities.Comment: 1+10 pages; v2: structure improved, introduction extended, one ref. added, version published in JHE

Solving the quartic with a pencil

This expository paper presents the general solution of a quartic equation as a jump off point to introduce Lefschetz fibrations. It should be accessible to a broad audience.Comment: final versio