The Scaling Limit of Polymer Pinning Dynamics and a One Dimensional Stefan Freezing Problem

We consider the stochastic evolution of a 1 + 1-dimensional interface (or polymer) in the presence of a substrate. This stochastic process is a dynamical version of the homogeneous pinning model. We start from a configuration far from equilibrium: a polymer with a non-trivial macroscopic height profile, and look at the evolution of a space-time rescaled interface. In two cases, we prove that this rescaled interface has a scaling limit on the diffusive scale (space rescaled by L in both dimensions and time rescaled by L ² where L denotes the length of the interface) which we describe. When the interaction with the substrate is such that the system is unpinned at equilibrium, then the scaling limit of the height profile is given by the solution of the heat equation with Dirichlet boundary condition ; when the attraction to the substrate is infinite, the scaling limit is given by a free-boundary problem which belongs to the class of Stefan problems with contracting boundary, also referred to as Stefan freezing problems. In addition, we prove the existence and regularity of the solution to this problem until a maximal time, where the boundaries collide. Our result provides a new rigorous link between Stefan problems and Statistical Mechanics.     

Equation of state for the Universe from similarity symmetries

In this paper we proposed to use the group of analysis of symmetries of the dynamical system to describe the evolution of the Universe. This method is used in searching for the unknown equation of state. It is shown that group of symmetries enforce the form of the equation of state for noninteracting scaling multifluids. We showed that symmetries give rise to the equation of state in the form p =-Λ + w ₁ρ(a) + w ₂ a ^β + 0 and energy density ρ = Λ+ρ₀₁ a ^-3(1+w) +ρ₀₂ a ^α +ρ₀₃ a ^-3, which is commonly used in cosmology. The FRW model filled with scaling fluid (called homological) is confronted with the observations of distant type Ia supernovae. We found the class of model parameters admissible by the statistical analysis of SNIa data.We showed that the model with scaling fluid fits well to supernovae data. We found that Ω_m,0 ≃ 0.4 and n ≃ -1 (β = -3n), which can correspond to (hyper) phantom fluid, and to a high density universe. However if we assume prior that Ω_m,0 = 0.3 then the favoured model is close to concordance ΛCDM model. Our results predict that in the considered model with scaling fluids distant type Ia supernovae should be brighter than in the ΛCDM model, while intermediate distant SNIa should be fainter than in the ΛCDM model. We also investigate whether the model with scaling fluid is actually preferred by data over ΛCDM model. As a result we find from the Akaike model selection criterion: it prefers the model with noninteracting scaling fluid.     

Electron-positron scaling in bound state models

We investigate scaling assuming a generalized vector meson dominance picture. The vector mesons are described as relativistic quark-antiquark bound states by a Bethe-Salpeter equation which yields the mass spectrum and the coupling to e⁺e^? pairs. We discuss the spin structure and find that scaling can occur only for a γ_μ type amplitude. We solve the BS equation using a generalized WKB approximation and find scaling, independent of the detailed shape of the interaction. This means that scaling in e⁺e^? annihilation does not select a particular “confinement potential”. The scaling constant depends on the current renormalization constant and on the details of the relativistic spin structure.     

Scaling distribution of large transverse momenta

We compute the structure function of large k_T scaling law in the framework of a multiperipheral or parton model. This function depends on two scaling variables. We show that recent NAL data are in perfect agreement with the same 1/k_T⁸ law observed at ISR. The observed apparent change of the scaling power is faked by the neglect of the dependence on one of the scaling variables.     

The functional renormalization group and O(4) scaling

The critical behavior of the chiral quark-meson model is studied within the Functional Renormalization Group (FRG). We derive the flow equation for the scale-dependent thermodynamic potential at finite temperature and density in the presence of a symmetry-breaking external field. We perform a set of approximations to formulate and solve the FRG flow equation in the presence of fermionic degrees of freedom and test their influence on the O(4) critical properties expected in the quark-meson model. Within this scheme, the critical scaling behavior of the order parameter, its transverse and longitudinal susceptibilities as well as the correlation lengths near the chiral phase transition are computed for vanishing baryon density. We focus on the scaling properties of these observables at non-vanishing external field when approaching the critical point from the symmetric as well as from the broken phase. We confront our numerical results with the Widom–Griffiths form of the magnetic equation of state, obtained by a systematic ε expansion of the scaling function.     

Uniform Regularity Close to Cross Singularities in an Unstable Free Boundary Problem

We introduce a new method for the analysis of singularities in the unstable problem $$ \Delta u = -\chi_{\{u >0 \}}, $$ which arises in solid combustion as well as in the composite membrane problem. Our study is confined to points of “supercharacteristic” growth of the solution, i.e. points at which the solution grows faster than the characteristic/invariant scaling of the equation would suggest. At such points the classical theory is doomed to fail, due to incompatibility of the invariant scaling of the equation and the scaling of the solution. In the case of two dimensions our result shows that in a neighborhood of the set at which the second derivatives of u are unbounded, the level set {u = 0} consists of two C ¹-curves meeting at right angles. It is important that our result is not confined to the minimal solution of the equation but holds for all solutions.     

Electroproduction and annihilation scaling laws in a dual model

Scaling laws for large virtual photon mass (q²) in electroproduction and annihilation are studied in the framework of a simple planar dual model. We find, as has recently been conjectured, that the scaling behaviour depends on the number of space-time dimensions spanned by large momenta. In particular, for a certain range of parameters in the model, we find that the annihilation cross section is dominated by the one-dimensional configuration and increases with q² relative to its canonical behaviour while the electroproduction total cross section is dominated by the two-dimensional configuration and has the canonical Bjorken scaling behavior. In general the scaling laws and therefore the structure of events in the model are distinctively different from the conventional parton model. The problem of consistency of planar dual tree diagrams with unitarity sum rules is discussed.     

Anomalous scaling exponents in nonlinear models of turbulence

We propose a new approach to the old-standing problem of the anomaly of the scaling exponents of nonlinear models of turbulence. We construct, for any given nonlinear model, a linear model of passive advection of an auxiliary field whose anomalous scaling exponents are the same as the scaling exponents of the nonlinear problem. The statistics of the auxiliary linear model are dominated by "statistically preserved structures" which are associated with exact conservation laws. The latter can be used, for example, to determine the value of the anomalous scaling exponent of the second order structure function. The approach is equally applicable to shell models and to the Navier-Stokes equations.     

非线性漂移的Fokker-Planck方程的非定态解

本文用格林函数方法讨论Fokker-Planck方程的非定态问题,将标度理论的“标度区”和“最终时区”统一考虑。在标度理论的头两个时区,所得结果与标度理论的解一致。当t→∞时,所得的非定态解趋于Fokker-Planck方程的定态解,解决了标度区分布函数在稳定点发散的问题,避免了“标度区”和“最终时区”对接的困难。 关键词：     

The ϵ-expansion and parametric models for the ising equation of state in the critical region

The scaling equation of state for a system with short range interactions and a one-component order parameter is calculated to order ?³ in the ?-expansion. The results are not compatible with the linear parametric model.     

Renormalization group analysis of boundary conditions in potential scattering

We analyze how a short distance boundary condition for the Schrödinger equation must change as a function of the boundary radius by imposing the physical requirement of phase shift independence on the boundary condition. The resulting equation can be interpreted as a variable phase equation of a complementary boundary value problem. We discuss the corresponding infrared fixed points and the perturbative expansion around them generating a short distance modified effective range theory. We also discuss ultraviolet fixed points, limit cycles, and attractors with a given fractality which take place for singular attractive potentials at the origin. The scaling behavior of scattering observables can analytically be determined and is studied with some emphasis on the low energy nucleon-nucleon interaction via singular pion exchange potentials. The generalization to coupled channels is also studied.     

Bound State Solutions of the Klein-Gordon Equation for the Mathews-Lakshmanan Oscillator

We study a boundary-value problem for the Klein-Gordon equation that is inspired by the well-known Mathews-Lakshmanan oscillator model. By establishing a link to the spheroidal equation, we show that our problem admits an infinite number of discrete energies, together with associated solutions that form an orthogonal set in a weighted L ²-Hilbert space.     

Dynamical and spatial aspects of sandpile cellular automata

The Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld cellular automaton is simulated in 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 dimensions. We define a (new) set of scaling exponents by introducing the concept of conditional expectation values. Scaling relations are derived and checked numerically and the critical dimension is discussed. We address the problem of the mass dimension of the avalanches and find that the avalanches are noncompact for dimensions larger than 2. The scaling of the power spectrum derives from the assumption that the instantaneous dissipation rate of the individual avalanches obeys a simple scaling relation. Primarily, the results of our work show that the flow of sand down the slope does not have a 1/f power spectrum in any dimension, although the model does show clear critical behavior with scaling exponents depending on the dimension. The power spectrum behaves as 1/f ² in all the dimensions considered.     

Non-Intersecting Squared Bessel Paths: Critical Time and Double Scaling Limit

We consider the double scaling limit for a model of n non-intersecting squared Bessel processes in the confluent case: all paths start at time t = 0 at the same positive value x = a, remain positive, and are conditioned to end at time t = 1 at x = 0. After appropriate rescaling, the paths fill a region in the tx–plane as n → ∞ that intersects the hard edge at x = 0 at a critical time t = t ^*. In a previous paper, the scaling limits for the positions of the paths at time t ≠ t ^* were shown to be the usual scaling limits from random matrix theory. Here, we describe the limit as n → ∞ of the correlation kernel at critical time t ^* and in the double scaling regime. We derive an integral representation for the limit kernel which bears some connections with the Pearcey kernel. The analysis is based on the study of a 3 × 3 matrix valued Riemann-Hilbert problem by the Deift-Zhou steepest descent method. The main ingredient is the construction of a local parametrix at the origin, out of the solutions of a particular third-order linear differential equation, and its matching with a global parametrix.     

The Arctic Curve of the Domain-Wall Six-Vertex Model

The problem of the form of the ‘arctic’ curve of the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions in its disordered regime is addressed. It is well-known that in the scaling limit the model exhibits phase-separation, with regions of order and disorder sharply separated by a smooth curve, called the arctic curve. To find this curve, we study a multiple integral representation for the emptiness formation probability, a correlation function devised to detect spatial transition from order to disorder. We conjecture that the arctic curve, for arbitrary choice of the vertex weights, can be characterized by the condition of condensation of almost all roots of the corresponding saddle-point equations at the same, known, value. In explicit calculations we restrict to the disordered regime for which we have been able to compute the scaling limit of certain generating function entering the saddle-point equations. The arctic curve is obtained in parametric form and appears to be a non-algebraic curve in general; it turns into an algebraic one in the so-called root-of-unity cases. The arctic curve is also discussed in application to the limit shape of q-enumerated (with 0<q ≤4) large alternating sign matrices. In particular, as q→0 the limit shape tends to a nontrivial limiting curve, given by a relatively simple equation.     

Strict entropy production bounds and stability of the rate of convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation

We first consider the Boltzmann equation with a collision kernel such that all kinematically possible collisions are run at equal rates. This is the simplest Boltzmann equation having the compressible Euler equations as a scaling limit. For it we prove a stability result for theH-theorem which says that when the entropy production is small, the solution of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation is necessarily close to equilibrium in the entropie sense, and therefore strongL ¹ sense. We use this to prove that solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation converge to equilibrium in the entropie sense with a rate of convergence which is uniform in the initial condition for all initial conditions belonging to certain natural regularity classes. Every initial condition with finite entropy andp ^th velocity moment for some p>2 belongs to such a class. We then extend these results by a simple monotonicity argument to the case where the collision rate is uniformly bounded below, which covers a wide class of slightly modified physical collision kernels. These results are the basis of a study of the relation between scaling limits of solutions of the Boltzmann equation and hydrodynamics which will be developed in subsequent papers; the program is described here.On leave from School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.On leave from C.F.M.C. and Departamento de Matemática da Faculdade de Ciencias de Lisboa, 1700 Lisboa codex, Portugal.     

Scaling of a Slope: The Erosion of Tilted Landscapes

We formulate a stochastic equation to model the erosion of a surface with fixed inclination. Because the inclination imposes a preferred direction for material transport, the problem is intrinsically anisotropic. At zeroth order, the anisotropy manifests itself in a linear equation that predicts that the prefactor of the surface height–height correlations depends on direction. The first higher order nonlinear contribution from the anisotropy is studied by applying the dynamic renormalization group. Assuming an inhomogeneous distribution of soil substrate that is modeled by a source of static noise, we estimate the scaling exponents at first order in an ε-expansion. These exponents also depend on direction. We compare these predictions with empirical measurements made from real landscapes and find good agreement. We propose that our anisotropic theory applies principally to small scales and that a previously proposed isotropic theory applies principally to larger scales. Lastly, by considering our model as a transport equation for a driven diffusive system, we construct scaling arguments for the size distribution of erosion “events” or “avalanches.” We derive a relationship between the exponents characterizing the surface anisotropy and the avalanche size distribution, and indicate how this result may be used to interpret previous findings of power-law size distributions in real submarine avalanches.     

惰性物质等离子体物态方程研究

对高温高压下惰性等离子体的电离度和物态方程，给出了一种基于Thomas-Feimi(TF)统计模型的简化计算新方法，即首先对TF模型电离势的数值结果进行函数逼近，得出近似计算电离势的简单解析函数；在局部热动平衡情况下，假定离子数密度n(Z^*)为Z^*的连续函数，再由Debye-Hückel修正的 Saha 方程，得出了一个便于数值求解的电离度的近似计算公式，从而建立了一种惰性等离子体物态方程的简化模型，并对氦、氖、氩三种惰性物质等离子体进行了计算.计算结果与其他文献计算结果和实验值均符合很好.所提出的简单模型也适用于计算混合物物态方程，在高温高密度强电离等离子体领域将有更为广阔的应用前景.