Similarity structure of wave-collapse

Similarity transformations of the cubic Schrödinger equation (CSE) are investigated. The transformations are used to remove the explicit time variation in the CSE and reduce it to differential equations in the spatial variables only. Two different methods for similarity reduction are employed and the significance of similarity in the evolution of a collapsing wave packet is investigated. Numerical solutions in radial symmetry demonstrate that the similarity behaviour is local in space and time, and that some similarity solutions must be classified as improper solutions. The nature of the collapsing singularity is reexamined.     

Coupling shape dynamics to matter gives spacetime

Shape dynamics is a metric theory of pure gravity, equivalent to general relativity, but formulated as a gauge theory of spatial diffeomporphisms and local spatial conformal transformations. In this paper we extend the construction of shape dynamics form pure gravity to gravity-matter systems and find that there is no fundamental obstruction for the coupling of gravity to standard matter. We use the matter gravity system to construct a clock and rod model for shape dynamics which allows us to recover a spacetime interpretation of shape dynamics trajectories.     

The bond-algebraic approach to dualities

An algebraic theory of dualities is developed based on the notion of bond algebras. It deals with classical and quantum dualities in a unified fashion explaining the precise connection between quantum dualities and the low temperature (strong-coupling)/high temperature (weak-coupling) dualities of classical statistical mechanics (or (Euclidean) path integrals). Its range of applications includes discrete lattice, continuum field and gauge theories. Dualities are revealed to be local, structure-preserving mappings between model-specific bond algebras that can be implemented as unitary transformations, or partial isometries if gauge symmetries are involved. This characterization permits us to search systematically for dualities and self-dualities in quantum models of arbitrary system size, dimensionality and complexity, and any classical model admitting a transfer matrix or operator representation. In particular, special dualities such as exact dimensional reduction, emergent and gauge-reducing dualities that solve gauge constraints can be easily understood in terms of mappings of bond algebras. As a new example, we show that the ?₂ Higgs model is dual to the extended toric code model in any number of dimensions. Non-local transformations such as dual variables and Jordan–Wigner dictionaries are algorithmically derived from the local mappings of bond algebras. This permits us to establish a precise connection between quantum dual and classical disorder variables. Our bond-algebraic approach goes beyond the standard approach to classical dualities, and could help resolve the long-standing problem of obtaining duality transformations for lattice non-Abelian models. As an illustration, we present new dualities in any spatial dimension for the quantum Heisenberg model. Finally, we discuss various applications including location of phase boundaries, spectral behavior and, notably, we show how bond-algebraic dualities help constrain and realize fermionization in an arbitrary number of spatial dimensions.     

Adaptive registration of diffusion tensor images on lie groups

With diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), more exquisite information on tissue microstructure is provided for medical image processing. In this paper, we present a locally adaptive topology preserving method for DTI registration on Lie groups. The method aims to obtain more plausible diffeomorphisms for spatial transformations via accurate approximation for the local tangent space on the Lie group manifold. In order to capture an exact geometric structure of the Lie group, the local linear approximation is efficiently optimized by using the adaptive selection of the local neighborhood sizes on the given set of data points. Furthermore, numerical comparative experiments are conducted on both synthetic data and real DTI data to demonstrate that the proposed method yields a higher degree of topology preservation on a dense deformation tensor field while improving the registration accuracy.     

Endomorphism semigroups and lightlike translations

Borchers and Wiesbrock have studied the one-parameter semigroups of endomorphisms of von Neumann algebras that appear as lightlike translations in the theory of algebras of local observables, showing that they automatically transform under the appropriate modular automorphisms as under velocity transformations. Here, these results are abstracted and analyzed as essentially operator-theoretic. Criteria are then established for a spatial derivation of a von Neumann algebra to generate a one-parameter semigroup of endomorphisms, and all of this is combined to establish a von Neumann-algebraic converse to the Borchers and Wiesbrock results. This sort of analysis is then applied to questions of isotony and covariance for local algebras, to show that Poincaré covariance together with a domain condition for the translations can imply isotony.This research was partly supported by a fellowship from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.     

Invariants for a Class of Nongeneric Three-Qubit States

We investigate the equivalence of quantum states under local unitary transformations. A complete set of invariants under local unitary transformations are presented for a class of non-generic three-qubit mixed states. It is shown that two such states in this class are locally equivalent if and only if all these invariants have equal values for them.     

Internal symmetries of cellular automata via their polynomial representation

A polynomial representation of elementary cellular automata (ECA) is used to give a complete characterization of the local internal symmetries of all ECA. It is also shown that the polynomial representation is a natural choice for the study of local internal transformations of all cellular automata with two symbols. This is achieved by proving that local internal transformations are simply expressed in this representation as sums of polynomials. (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics.     

Equivalent nonlocal nucleon-nucleon potentials

The local nucleon-nucleon potential which contains a strong repulsive core is often replaced by an equivalent weak but non-local potential. Such potentials can be obtained by unitary transformations of the two-body Hamiltonian. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived which must be fulfilled by the unitary transformations in order to give equivalent potentials. Special examples of unitary transformations with this property are investigated.     

Gauge interaction as periodicity modulation

The paper is devoted to a geometrical interpretation of gauge invariance in terms of the formalism of field theory in compact space–time dimensions (Dolce, 2011) [8]. In this formalism, the kinematic information of an interacting elementary particle is encoded on the relativistic geometrodynamics of the boundary of the theory through local transformations of the underlying space–time coordinates. Therefore gauge interactions are described as invariance of the theory under local deformations of the boundary. The resulting local variations of the field solution are interpreted as internal transformations. The internal symmetries of the gauge theory turn out to be related to corresponding space–time local symmetries. In the approximation of local infinitesimal isometric transformations, Maxwell’s kinematics and gauge invariance are inferred directly from the variational principle. Furthermore we explicitly impose periodic conditions at the boundary of the theory as semi-classical quantization condition in order to investigate the quantum behavior of gauge interaction. In the abelian case the result is a remarkable formal correspondence with scalar QED.     

Linking covariant and canonical general relativity via local observers

Hamiltonian gravity, relying on arbitrary choices of ‘space,’ can obscure spacetime symmetries. We present an alternative, manifestly spacetime covariant formulation that nonetheless distinguishes between ‘spatial’ and ‘temporal’ variables. The key is viewing dynamical fields from the perspective of a field of observers—a unit timelike vector field that also transforms under local Lorentz transformations. On one hand, all fields are spacetime fields, covariant under spacetime symmeties. On the other, when the observer field is normal to a spatial foliation, the fields automatically fall into Hamiltonian form, recovering the Ashtekar formulation. We argue this provides a bridge between Ashtekar variables and covariant phase space methods. We also outline a framework where the ‘space of observers’ is fundamental, and spacetime geometry itself may be observer-dependent.     

On a generalization of the hidden symmetry transformations for the principal chiral model

Nonlocal hidden symmetry transformations with a generalized structure and boundary conditions at spatial infinity for the principal chiral model are proposed. Additional restrictions on these transformations following from the requirement for the existence of an infinite set of conserved nonlocal charges are analyzed. The corresponding Lie algebra is more general than the Kac-Moody one.     

Nonrigid image registration using similarity measure based on spatially weighted global probability distribution function

In nonrigid image registration, similarity measures including spatial information have been shown to perform better than those measures without spatial information. In this work, we provide new insight to the relationships among regional mutual information, regional probability distribution functions (PDFs) and global PDFs, and propose a novel nonrigid registration scheme with spatially weighted global probability distribution function (SWGPDF). Similarity measures based on SWGPDF (SWGPDFSM) are constructed. Three different spatial sub-region division methods are compared: the equally spaced sub-region (ESSR), the local binary pattern sub-region (LBPSR) and the gradient sub-region (GSR). The registration scheme applies B-spline based free form deformations (FFDs) as the transformation model. A Parzen window and linear interpolation are used to construct histograms. The SWGPDFSM registration scheme with ESSR space division is compared with the traditional global mutual information (gMI), the traditional global normalized mutual information (gNMI), regional mutual information and the SWGPDFSM with LBPSR or GSR space division. The test results show that SWGPDFSM scheme with ESSR space division outperforms the other schemes for elastically aligning images in the presence of big geometrical transformations, bias fields and illumination changes.     

Soft gauge algebras

Gauge transformations whose algebra closes only modulo field dependent terms (soft gauge algebras) are studied in detail. The results are explicitly applied to a supersymmetric gauge theory, to gravity and to conformal gravity, all seen as gauge theories overx-space; the obvious applications to supergravity are pointed out. A consistency requirement for the gauge transformations of those fields which appear in the algebra is seen to rule out “local translations” as independent gauge transformations.     

Shape dynamics in 2 + 1 dimensions

Shape Dynamics is a formulation of General Relativity where refoliation invariance is traded for local spatial conformal invariance. In this paper we explicitly construct Shape Dynamics for a torus universe in 2 + 1 dimensions through a linking gauge theory that ensures dynamical equivalence with General Relativity. The Hamiltonian we obtain is formally a reduced phase space Hamiltonian. The construction of the Shape Dynamics Hamiltonian on higher genus surfaces is not explicitly possible, but we give an explicit expansion of the Shape Dynamics Hamiltonian for large CMC volume. The fact that all local constraints are linear in momenta allows us to quantize these explicitly under a certain assumption on the kinematic Hilbert space, and the quantization problem for Shape Dynamics turns out to be equivalent to reduced phase space quantization. We consider the large CMC-volume asymptotics of conformal transformations of the wave function. We then discuss the similarity of Shape Dynamics on the 2-torus with the explicitly constructible strong gravity Shape Dynamics Hamiltonian in higher dimensions.     

Local internal supersymmetry of the free Maxwell theory

The free Maxwell theory is shown to possess an extended gauge invariance consisting of local internal supersymmetry transformations in addition to the usual local phase transformations. The Maxwell lagrangian is derived as a particular gauge choice in the extended theory.     

Local Invariants for a Class of Tripartite Quantum Mixed States

We study the equivalence of tripartite mixed states under local unitary transformations. The nonlocal properties for a class of tripartite quantum states in ${\mathbb C}^K \otimes {\mathbb C}^M \otimes {\mathbb C}^N$ composite systems are investigated and a complete set of invariants under local unitary transformations for these states is presented. It is shown that two of these states are locally equivalent if and only if all these invariants have the same values.     

CONSTRUCTION OF INTERACTING ACTIONS OF BOSONIC OPEN STRINGS AND CLOSED STRINGS BY SYMMETRY PRINCIPLES

Following Kaku's way, various interacting actions of bosonic open strings as well as closed strings are constructed, which are invariant under. local reparametrization transformations, string group and global transformations of a Lie group. Similar to open string, a multiplication rule of closed string fields is given which also satisfies associative law as in open string case.     

基于快速骨架提取的三维目标识别(英文)

针对三维目标识别问题,提出了一种基于快速骨架提取的方法。根据骨架所反映的目标拓扑结构,建立了不同目标局部结构之间的对应关系;而在对应的局部曲线段上,采用基于曲线配准的方法进行匹配;以各个局部匹配的成本之和评估不同目标的相似性.这种方法在目标出现一定程度的视觉变形时仍具有较好的识别效果,同时避免了基于曲线方法的匹配目标的局部,而忽略局部之间相互的空间组织的缺点所造成的误匹配.算例结果表明这种算法对于三维目标有较好的识别效果.     

A METHOD ON DERIVATION OF GAUGE FIELDS

Usually the study of gauge field is based on the wave function. By discussing thebehaviour of Dirac particles in gravitation, one has a famous difficulty, that is, thewave functions appear as scalars under general coordinate transformations. In thispaper, a method is suggested to constitute the gauge fields directly from algebraicstructures, Lie algebra and Jordan algebra. We introduce a concept called represen-tation group of algebras, the transformations, of wave function are connected with therepresentation group. The global and local representation groups are connected withglobal and local transformations of wave function respectively. According to thismethod we find that it is equivalent to the usual one for all of the problems concernedwith internal freedom as Yang-Mills field etc. For spinors, one can introduce gravi-tation by changing the algebraic structure, one find that the vierbein is unneccessaryand the wave functions transform as spinors corresponding to Dirac theory. Somerelated problems are also discussed.     

The T-dual symmetries of a bosonic string

We investigate whether the symmetry transformations of a bosonic string are connected by T-duality. We start with a standard closed string theory. We continue with a modified open string theory, modified to preserve the symmetry transformations possessed by the closed string theory. Because the string theory is conformally invariant world-sheet field theory, in order to find the transformations which preserve the physics, one has to demand the isomorphism between the conformal field theories corresponding to the initial and the transformed field configurations. We find the symmetry transformations corresponding to the similarity transformation of the energy-momentum tensor, and find that their generators are T-dual. Particularly, we find that the general coordinate and local gauge transformations are T-dual, so we conclude that T-duality in addition to the well-known exchanges, transforms symmetries of the initial and its T-dual theory into each other.