Crossover to the Stochastic Burgers Equation for the WASEP with a Slow Bond

We consider the weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process in the presence of a slow bond and starting from the invariant state, namely the Bernoulli product measure of parameter \({\rho \in (0,1)}\). The rate of passage of particles to the right (resp. left) is \({\frac{1}{2} + \frac{a}{2n^{\gamma}}}\) (resp. \({\frac{1}{2} - \frac{a}{2n^{\gamma}}}\)) except at the bond of vertices \({\{-1,0\}}\) where the rate to the right (resp. left) is given by \({\frac{\alpha}{2n^\beta} + \frac{a}{2n^{\gamma}}}\) (resp. \({\frac{\alpha}{2n^\beta}-\frac{a}{2n^{\gamma}}}\)). Above, \({\alpha > 0}\), \({\gamma \geq \beta \geq 0}\), \({a\geq 0}\). For \({\beta < 1}\), we show that the limit density fluctuation field is an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process defined on the Schwartz space if \({\gamma > \frac{1}{2}}\), while for \({\gamma = \frac{1}{2}}\) it is an energy solution of the stochastic Burgers equation. For \({\gamma \geq \beta =1}\), it is an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process associated to the heat equation with Robin’s boundary conditions. For \({\gamma \geq \beta > 1}\), the limit density fluctuation field is an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process associated to the heat equation with Neumann’s boundary conditions.     

Off-Diagonal Decay of Toric Bergman Kernels

We study the off-diagonal decay of Bergman kernels \({\Pi_{h^k}(z,w)}\) and Berezin kernels \({P_{h^k}(z,w)}\) for ample invariant line bundles over compact toric projective kähler manifolds of dimension m. When the metric is real analytic, \({P_{h^k}(z,w) \simeq k^m {\rm exp} - k D(z,w)}\) where \({D(z,w)}\) is the diastasis. When the metric is only \({C^{\infty}}\) this asymptotic cannot hold for all \({(z,w)}\) since the diastasis is not even defined for all \({(z,w)}\) close to the diagonal. Our main result is that for general toric \({C^{\infty}}\) metrics, \({P_{h^k}(z,w) \simeq k^m {\rm exp} - k D(z,w)}\) as long as w lies on the \({\mathbb{R}_+^m}\)-orbit of z, and for general \({(z,w)}\), \({{\rm lim\,sup}_{k \to \infty} \frac{1}{k} {\rm log} P_{h^k}(z,w) \,\leq\, - D(z^*,w^*)}\) where \({D(z, w^*)}\) is the diastasis between z and the translate of w by \({(S^1)^m}\) to the \({\mathbb{R}_+^m}\) orbit of z. These results are complementary to Mike Christ’s negative results showing that \({P_{h^k}(z,w)}\) does not have off-diagonal exponential decay at “speed” k if \({(z,w)}\) lies on the same \({(S^1)^m}\)-orbit.     

On Essential Self-Adjointness for Magnetic Schrödinger and Pauli Operators on the Unit Disc in $${\mathbb {R}^2}$$

We study the question of magnetic confinement of quantum particles on the unit disk \({\mathbb {D}}\) in \({\mathbb {R}^2}\) , i.e. we wish to achieve confinement solely by means of the growth of the magnetic field \({B(\vec x)}\) near the boundary of the disk. In the spinless case, we show that \({B(\vec x)\ge \frac{\sqrt 3}{2}\cdot\frac{1}{(1-r)^2}-\frac{1}{\sqrt 3}\frac{1}{(1-r)^2\ln \frac{1}{1-r}}}\) , for \({|\vec x|}\) close to 1, insures the confinement provided we assume that the non-radially symmetric part of the magnetic field is not very singular near the boundary. Both constants \({\frac{\sqrt 3}{2}}\) and \({-\frac{1}{\sqrt 3}}\) are optimal. This answers, in this context, an open question from Colin de Verdière and Truc (Ann Inst Fourier 2011, Preprint, arXiv:0903.0803v3). We also derive growth conditions for radially symmetric magnetic fields which lead to confinement of spin 1/2 particles.     

On the Convexity of the KdV Hamiltonian

Motivated by perturbation theory, we prove that the nonlinear part \({H^{*}}\) of the KdV Hamiltonian \({H^{kdv}}\), when expressed in action variables \({I = (I_{n})_{n \geqslant 1}}\), extends to a real analytic function on the positive quadrant \({\ell^{2}_{+}(\mathbb{N})}\) of \({\ell^{2}(\mathbb{N})}\) and is strictly concave near \({0}\). As a consequence, the differential of \({H^{*}}\) defines a local diffeomorphism near 0 of \({\ell_{\mathbb{C}}^{2}(\mathbb{N})}\). Furthermore, we prove that the Fourier-Lebesgue spaces \({\mathcal{F}\mathcal{L}^{s,p}}\) with \({-1/2 \leqslant s \leqslant 0}\) and \({2 \leqslant p < \infty}\), admit global KdV-Birkhoff coordinates. In particular, it means that \({\ell^{2}_+(\mathbb{N})}\) is the space of action variables of the underlying phase space \({\mathcal{F}\mathcal{L}^{-1/2,4}}\) and that the KdV equation is globally in time \({C^{0}}\)-well-posed on \({\mathcal{F}\mathcal{L}^{-1/2,4}}\).     

The Structure of the Kac–Wang–Yan Algebra

The Lie algebra \({\mathcal{D}}\) of regular differential operators on the circle has a universal central extension \({\hat{\mathcal{D}}}\). The invariant subalgebra \({\hat{\mathcal{D}}^+}\) under an involution preserving the principal gradation was introduced by Kac, Wang, and Yan. The vacuum \({\hat{\mathcal{D}}^+}\)-module with central charge \({c \in \mathbb{C}}\), and its irreducible quotient \({\mathcal{V}_c}\), possess vertex algebra structures, and \({\mathcal{V}_c}\) has a nontrivial structure if and only if \({c \in \frac{1}{2}\mathbb{Z}}\). We show that for each integer \({n > 0}\), \({\mathcal{V}_{n/2}}\) and \({\mathcal{V}_{-n}}\) are \({\mathcal{W}}\)-algebras of types \({\mathcal{W}(2, 4,\dots,2n)}\) and \({\mathcal{W}(2, 4,\dots, 2n^2 + 4n)}\), respectively. These results are formal consequences of Weyl’s first and second fundamental theorems of invariant theory for the orthogonal group \({{\rm O}(n)}\) and the symplectic group \({{\rm Sp}(2n)}\), respectively. Based on Sergeev’s theorems on the invariant theory of \({{\rm Osp}(1, 2n)}\) we conjecture that \({\mathcal{V}_{-n+1/2}}\) is of type \({\mathcal{W}(2, 4,\dots, 4n^2 + 8n + 2)}\), and we prove this for \({n = 1}\). As an application, we show that invariant subalgebras of \({\beta\gamma}\)-systems and free fermion algebras under arbitrary reductive group actions are strongly finitely generated.     

Time Delay for the Dirac Equation

We consider time delay for the Dirac equation. A new method to calculate the asymptotics of the expectation values of the operator \({\int\limits_{0} ^{\infty}{\rm e}^{iH_{0}t}\zeta(\frac{\vert x\vert }{R}) {\rm e}^{-iH_{0}t}{\rm d}t}\), as \({R \rightarrow \infty}\), is presented. Here, H₀ is the free Dirac operator and \({\zeta\left(t\right)}\) is such that \({\zeta\left(t\right) = 1}\) for \({0 \leq t \leq 1}\) and \({\zeta\left(t\right) = 0}\) for \({t > 1}\). This approach allows us to obtain the time delay operator \({\delta \mathcal{T}\left(f\right)}\) for initial states f in \({\mathcal{H} _{2}^{3/2+\varepsilon}(\mathbb{R}^{3};\mathbb{C}^{4})}\), \({\varepsilon > 0}\), the Sobolev space of order \({3/2+\varepsilon}\) and weight 2. The relation between the time delay operator \({\delta\mathcal{T}\left(f\right)}\) and the Eisenbud–Wigner time delay operator is given. In addition, the relation between the averaged time delay and the spectral shift function is presented.     

Universal Probability Distribution for the Wave Function of a Quantum System Entangled with its Environment

A quantum system (with Hilbert space \({\mathcal {H}_{1}}\)) entangled with its environment (with Hilbert space \({\mathcal {H}_{2}}\)) is usually not attributed to a wave function but only to a reduced density matrix \({\rho_{1}}\). Nevertheless, there is a precise way of attributing to it a random wave function \({\psi_{1}}\), called its conditional wave function, whose probability distribution \({\mu_{1}}\) depends on the entangled wave function \({\psi \in \mathcal {H}_{1} \otimes \mathcal {H}_{2}}\) in the Hilbert space of system and environment together. It also depends on a choice of orthonormal basis of \({\mathcal {H}_{2}}\) but in relevant cases, as we show, not very much. We prove several universality (or typicality) results about \({\mu_{1}}\), e.g., that if the environment is sufficiently large then for every orthonormal basis of \({\mathcal {H}_{2}}\), most entangled states \({\psi}\) with given reduced density matrix \({\rho_{1}}\) are such that \({\mu_{1}}\) is close to one of the so-called GAP (Gaussian adjusted projected) measures, \({GAP(\rho_{1})}\). We also show that, for most entangled states \({\psi}\) from a microcanonical subspace (spanned by the eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian with energies in a narrow interval \({[E, E+ \delta E]}\)) and most orthonormal bases of \({\mathcal {H}_{2}}\), \({\mu_{1}}\) is close to \({GAP(\rm {tr}_{2} \rho_{mc})}\) with \({\rho_{mc}}\) the normalized projection to the microcanonical subspace. In particular, if the coupling between the system and the environment is weak, then \({\mu_{1}}\) is close to \({GAP(\rho_\beta)}\) with \({\rho_\beta}\) the canonical density matrix on \({\mathcal {H}_{1}}\) at inverse temperature \({\beta=\beta(E)}\). This provides the mathematical justification of our claim in Goldstein et al. (J Stat Phys 125: 1193–1221, 2006) that GAP measures describe the thermal equilibrium distribution of the wave function.     

A Remark on CFT Realization of Quantum Doubles of Subfactors: Case Index { < 4}

It is well known that the quantum double \({D(N\subset M)}\) of a finite depth subfactor \({N\subset M}\), or equivalently the Drinfeld center of the even part fusion category, is a unitary modular tensor category. It is big open conjecture that all (unitary) modular tensor categories arise from conformal field theory. We show that for every subfactor \({N\subset M}\) with index \({[M:N] < 4}\) the quantum double \({D(N\subset M)}\) is realized as the representation category of a completely rational conformal net. In particular, the quantum double of \({E_6}\) can be realized as a \({\mathbb{Z}_2}\)-simple current extension of \({{{\rm SU}(2)}_{10}\times {{\rm Spin}(11)}_1}\) and thus is not exotic in any sense. As a byproduct, we obtain a vertex operator algebra for every such subfactor. We obtain the result by showing that if a subfactor \({N\subset M }\) arises from \({\alpha}\)-induction of completely rational nets \({\mathcal{A}\subset \mathcal{B}}\) and there is a net \({\tilde{\mathcal{A}}}\) with the opposite braiding, then the quantum \({D(N\subset M)}\) is realized by completely rational net. We construct completely rational nets with the opposite braiding of \({{{\rm SU}(2)}_k}\) and use the well-known fact that all subfactors with index \({[M:N] < 4}\) arise by \({\alpha}\)-induction from \({{{\rm SU}(2)}_k}\).     

On the Asymptotic Behavior of a Log Gas in the Bulk Scaling Limit in the Presence of a Varying External Potential I

We study the determinant \({\det(I-\gamma K_s), 0 < \gamma < 1}\) , of the integrable Fredholm operator K _s acting on the interval (?1, 1) with kernel \({K_s(\lambda, \mu)= \frac{\sin s(\lambda - \mu)}{\pi (\lambda-\mu)}}\) . This determinant arises in the analysis of a log-gas of interacting particles in the bulk-scaling limit, at inverse temperature \({\beta=2}\) , in the presence of an external potential \({v=-\frac{1}{2}\ln(1-\gamma)}\) supported on an interval of length \({\frac{2s}{\pi}}\) . We evaluate, in particular, the double scaling limit of \({\det(I-\gamma K_s)}\) as \({s\rightarrow\infty}\) and \({\gamma\uparrow 1}\) , in the region \({0\leq\kappa=\frac{v}{s}=-\frac{1}{2s}\ln(1-\gamma)\leq 1-\delta}\) , for any fixed \({0 < \delta < 1}\) . This problem was first considered by Dyson (Chen Ning Yang: A Great Physicist of the Twentieth Century. International Press, Cambridge, pp. 131–146, 1995).     

Non-Negative Integral Level Affine Lie Algebra Tensor Categories and Their Associativity Isomorphisms

For a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra \({\mathfrak{g}}\), we use the vertex tensor category theory of Huang and Lepowsky to identify the category of standard modules for the affine Lie algebra \({{\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}}}\) at a fixed level \({\ell\in\mathbb{N}}\) with a certain tensor category of finite-dimensional \({\mathfrak{g}}\)-modules. More precisely, the category of level ? standard \({{\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}}}\)-modules is the module category for the simple vertex operator algebra \({L_{\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}}(\ell, 0)}\), and as is well known, this category is equivalent as an abelian category to \({\mathbf{D}(\mathfrak{g},\ell)}\), the category of finite-dimensional modules for the Zhu’s algebra \({A{(L_{\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}}(\ell, 0))}}\), which is a quotient of \({U(\mathfrak{g})}\). Our main result is a direct construction using Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations of the associativity isomorphisms in \({\mathbf{D}(\mathfrak{g},\ell)}\) induced from the associativity isomorphisms constructed by Huang and Lepowsky in \({{L_{\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}}(\ell, 0) - \mathbf{mod}}}\). This construction shows that \({\mathbf{D}(\mathfrak{g},\ell)}\) is closely related to the Drinfeld category of \({U(\mathfrak{g})}\)[[h]]-modules used by Kazhdan and Lusztig to identify categories of \({{\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}}}\)-modules at irrational and most negative rational levels with categories of quantum group modules.     

Hölder Regularity of the Solutions of the Cohomological Equation for Roth Type Interval Exchange Maps

There is a general method for constructing a soliton hierarchy from a splitting \({{L_{\pm}}}\) of a loop group as positive and negative sub-groups together with a commuting linearly independent sequence in the positive Lie algebra \({\mathcal{L}_{+}}\). Many known soliton hierarchies can be constructed this way. The formal inverse scattering associates to each f in the negative subgroup \({L_-}\) a solution \({u_{f}}\) of the hierarchy. When there is a 2 co-cycle of the Lie algebra that vanishes on both sub-algebras, Wilson constructed a tau function \({\tau_{f}}\) for each element \({f \in L_-}\). In this paper, we give integral formulas for variations of \({\ln\tau_{f}}\) and second partials of \({\ln\tau_{f}}\), discuss whether we can recover solutions \({u_{f}}\) from \({\tau_{f}}\), and give a general construction of actions of the positive half of the Virasoro algebra on tau functions. We write down formulas relating tau functions and formal inverse scattering solutions and the Virasoro vector fields for the \({GL(n,\mathbb{C})}\)-hierarchy.     

Braidings of Tensor Spaces

Let V be a braided vector space, i.e., a vector space together with a solution \({\hat{R}\in {{End}}(V\otimes V)}\) of the Yang–Baxter equation. Denote \({T(V):=\bigoplus_k V^{\otimes k}}\) . We associate to \({\hat{R}}\) a one-parameter family of solutions \({T(\hat{R})\in {\rm End}(T(V)\otimes T(V))}\) of the Yang–Baxter equation on the tensor space T (V). Main ingredients of the solution are braid analogues of the binomial coefficients and of the Pochhammer symbols. The association \({\hat{R}\rightsquigarrow T(\hat{R})}\) is functorial with respect to V.     

Constraining the electric charges of some astronomical bodies in Reissner–Nordström spacetimes and generic <Emphasis Type="Italic">r</Emphasis><Superscript>−2</Superscript>-type power-law potentials from orbital motions

We put independent model dynamical constraints on the net electric charge Q of some astronomical and astrophysical objects by assuming that their exterior spacetimes are described by the Reissner-Nordström, metric, which induces an additional potential \({U_{\rm RN} \propto Q^2 r^{-2}}\). From the current bounds \({\Delta \dot \varpi}\) on any anomalies in the secular perihelion rate \({\dot \varpi}\) of Mercury and the Earth–mercury ranging Δρ, we have \({\left|Q_{\odot}\right| \lesssim 1-0.4 \times 10^{18}\ {\rm C}}\). Such constraints are ~60–200 times tighter than those recently inferred in literature. For the Earth, the perigee precession of the Moon, determined with the Lunar Laser Ranging technique, and the intersatellite ranging Δρ for the GRACE mission yield \({\left|Q_{\oplus} \right| \lesssim 5-0.4 \times 10^{14}\ {\rm C}}\). The periastron rate of the double pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B system allows to infer \({\left|Q_{\rm NS} \right| \lesssim 5\times 10^{19}\ {\rm C}}\). According to the perinigricon precession of the main sequence S2 star in Sgr A^*, the electric charge carried by the compact object hosted in the Galactic Center may be as large as \({\left|Q_{\bullet} \right| \lesssim 4\times 10^{27} \ {\rm C}}\). Our results extend to other hypothetical power-law interactions inducing extra-potentials \({U_{\rm pert} = \Psi r^{-2}}\) as well. It turns out that the terrestrial GRACE mission yields the tightest constraint on the parameter \({\Psi}\), assumed as a universal constant, amounting to \({|\Psi| \lesssim 5\times 10^{9}\ {\rm m^4\ s^{-2}}}\).     

The Exoticness and Realisability of Twisted Haagerup–Izumi Modular Data

The quantum double of the Haagerup subfactor, the first irreducible finite depth subfactor with index above 4, is the most obvious candidate for exotic modular data. We show that its modular data \({\mathcal{D}{\rm Hg}}\) fits into a family \({\mathcal{D}^\omega {\rm Hg}_{2n+1}}\) , where n ≥  0 and \({\omega\in \mathbb{Z}_{2n+1}}\) . We show \({\mathcal{D}^0 {\rm Hg}_{2n+1}}\) is related to the subfactors Izumi hypothetically associates to the cyclic groups \({\mathbb{Z}_{2n+1}}\) . Their modular data comes equipped with canonical and dual canonical modular invariants; we compute the corresponding alpha-inductions, etc. In addition, we show there are (respectively) 1, 2, 0 subfactors of Izumi type \({\mathbb{Z}_7, \mathbb{Z}_9}\) and \({\mathbb{Z}_3^2}\) , and find numerical evidence for 2, 1, 1, 1, 2 subfactors of Izumi type \({\mathbb{Z}_{11},\mathbb{Z}_{13},\mathbb{Z}_{15},\mathbb{Z}_{17},\mathbb{Z}_{19}}\) (previously, Izumi had shown uniqueness for \({\mathbb{Z}_3}\) and \({\mathbb{Z}_5}\)), and we identify their modular data. We explain how \({\mathcal{D}{\rm Hg}}\) (more generally \({\mathcal{D}^\omega {\rm Hg}_{2n+1}}\)) is a graft of the quantum double \({\mathcal{D} Sym(3)}\) (resp. the twisted double \({\mathcal{D}^\omega D_{2n+1}}\)) by affine so(13) (resp. so\({(4n^2+4n+5)}\)) at level 2. We discuss the vertex operator algebra (or conformal field theory) realisation of the modular data \({\mathcal{D}^\omega {\rm Hg}_{2n+1}}\) . For example we show there are exactly 2 possible character vectors (giving graded dimensions of all modules) for the Haagerup VOA at central charge c = 8. It seems unlikely that any of this twisted Haagerup-Izumi modular data can be regarded as exotic, in any reasonable sense.     

Harmonic Pinnacles in the Discrete Gaussian Model

The 2D Discrete Gaussian model gives each height function \({\eta : {\mathbb{Z}^2\to\mathbb{Z}}}\) a probability proportional to \({\exp(-\beta \mathcal{H}(\eta))}\), where \({\beta}\) is the inverse-temperature and \({\mathcal{H}(\eta) = \sum_{x\sim y}(\eta_x-\eta_y)^2}\) sums over nearest-neighbor bonds. We consider the model at large fixed \({\beta}\), where it is flat unlike its continuous analog (the Discrete Gaussian Free Field). We first establish that the maximum height in an \({L\times L}\) box with 0 boundary conditions concentrates on two integers M, M + 1 with \({M\sim \sqrt{(1/2\pi\beta)\log L\log\log L}}\). The key is a large deviation estimate for the height at the origin in \({\mathbb{Z}^{2}}\), dominated by “harmonic pinnacles”, integer approximations of a harmonic variational problem. Second, in this model conditioned on \({\eta\geq 0}\) (a floor), the average height rises, and in fact the height of almost all sites concentrates on levels H, H + 1 where \({H\sim M/\sqrt{2}}\). This in particular pins down the asymptotics, and corrects the order, in results of Bricmont et al. (J. Stat. Phys. 42(5–6):743–798, 1986), where it was argued that the maximum and the height of the surface above a floor are both of order \({\sqrt{\log L}}\). Finally, our methods extend to other classical surface models (e.g., restricted SOS), featuring connections to p-harmonic analysis and alternating sign matrices.     

Pentagon Equation Arising from State Equations of a C*-Bialgebra

The direct sum \({{\mathcal O}_{*}}\) of all Cuntz algebras has a non-cocommutative comultiplication \({\Delta_{\varphi}}\) such that there exists no antipode of any dense subbialgebra of the C*-bialgebra \({({\mathcal O}_{*},\Delta_{\varphi})}\). From states equations of \({{\mathcal O}_{*}}\) with respect to the tensor product, we construct an operator W for \({({\mathcal O}_{*},\Delta_{\varphi})}\) such that W* is an isometry, \({W(x\otimes I)W^{*}=\Delta_{\varphi}(x)}\) for each \({x\in {\mathcal O}_{*}}\) and W satisfies the pentagon equation.     

Entanglement Rates and the Stability of the Area Law for the Entanglement Entropy

We develop in this paper the principles of an associative algebraic approach to bulk logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs). We concentrate on the closed \({\mathfrak{gl}(1|1)}\) spin-chain and its continuum limit—the \({c=-2}\) symplectic fermions theory—and rely on two technical companion papers, Gainutdinov et al. (Nucl Phys B 871:245–288, 2013) and Gainutdinov et al. (Nucl Phys B 871:289–329, 2013). Our main result is that the algebra of local Hamiltonians, the Jones–Temperley–Lieb algebra JTL _N , goes over in the continuum limit to a bigger algebra than \({\boldsymbol{\mathcal{V}}}\), the product of the left and right Virasoro algebras. This algebra, \({\mathcal{S}}\)—which we call interchiral, mixes the left and right moving sectors, and is generated, in the symplectic fermions case, by the additional field \({S(z,\bar{z})\equiv S_{\alpha\beta} \psi^\alpha(z)\bar{\psi}^\beta(\bar{z})}\), with a symmetric form \({S_{\alpha\beta}}\) and conformal weights (1,1). We discuss in detail how the space of states of the LCFT (technically, a Krein space) decomposes onto representations of this algebra, and how this decomposition is related with properties of the finite spin-chain. We show that there is a complete correspondence between algebraic properties of finite periodic spin chains and the continuum limit. An important technical aspect of our analysis involves the fundamental new observation that the action of JTL _N in the \({\mathfrak{gl}(1|1)}\) spin chain is in fact isomorphic to an enveloping algebra of a certain Lie algebra, itself a non semi-simple version of \({\mathfrak{sp}_{N-2}}\). The semi-simple part of JTL _N is represented by \({U \mathfrak{sp}_{N-2}}\), providing a beautiful example of a classical Howe duality, for which we have a non semi-simple version in the full JTL _N image represented in the spin-chain. On the continuum side, simple modules over \({\mathcal{S}}\) are identified with “fundamental” representations of \({\mathfrak{sp}_\infty}\).     

Disappearance of Mott Oscillations in Sub-barrier Elastic Scattering of Identical Nuclei and Atomic Ions

The scattering of identical nuclei at low energies exhibits conspicuous Mott oscillations which can be used to investigate the presence of components in the predominantly Coulomb interaction arising from several physical effects. It is found that at a certain critical value of the Sommerfeld parameter the Mott oscillations disappear and the cross section becomes quite flat. We call this effect Transverse Isotropy (TI). The critical value of the Sommerfeld parameter at which TI sets in is found to be \({\eta_{c} = \sqrt{3s + 2}}\), where s is the spin of the nuclei participating in the scattering. No TI is found in the Mott scattering of identical Fermionic nuclei. The critical center of mass energy corresponding to \({\eta_c}\) is found to be \({E_c = 0.40}\) MeV for \({\alpha + \alpha}\) (s = 0), 1.2 MeV for \({^{6}}\)Li + \({^{6}}\)LI (s = 1) and 7.1 MeV for \({^{10}}\)B + \({^{10}}\)B (s = 3). We further found that the inclusion of the nuclear interaction induces a significant modification in the TI. We suggest measurements at these sub-barrier energies for the purpose of extracting useful information about the nuclear interaction between light heavy ions. We also suggest extending the study of the TI to the scattering of identical atomic ions.     

Two Dimensional Water Waves in Holomorphic Coordinates

In this article we investigate spectral properties of the coupling \({H + V_\lambda}\), where \({H = -i\alpha \cdot \nabla+m\beta}\) is the free Dirac operator in \({\mathbb{R}^3}\), \({m > 0}\) and \({V_\lambda}\) is an electrostatic shell potential (which depends on a parameter \({\lambda \in \mathbb{R}}\)) located on the boundary of a smooth domain in \({\mathbb{R}^3}\). Our main result is an isoperimetric-type inequality for the admissible range of \({\lambda}\)’s for which the coupling \({H + V_\lambda}\) generates pure point spectrum in \({(-m, m)}\). That the ball is the unique optimizer of this inequality is also shown. Regarding some ingredients of the proof, we make use of the Birman–Schwinger principle adapted to our setting in order to prove some monotonicity property of the admissible \({\lambda}\)’s, and we use this to relate the endpoints of the admissible range of \({\lambda}\)’s to the sharp constant of a quadratic form inequality, from which the isoperimetric-type inequality is derived.     

Quantum Electrodynamics of Atomic Resonances

A simple model of an atom interacting with the quantized electromagnetic field is studied. The atom has a finite mass m, finitely many excited states and an electric dipole moment, \({\vec{d}_0 = -\lambda_{0} \vec{d}}\), where \({\| d^{i}\| = 1, i = 1, 2, 3,}\) and \({\lambda_0}\) is proportional to the elementary electric charge. The interaction of the atom with the radiation field is described with the help of the Ritz Hamiltonian, \({-\vec{d}_0 \cdot \vec{E}}\), where \({\vec{E}}\) is the electric field, cut off at large frequencies. A mathematical study of the Lamb shift, the decay channels and the life times of the excited states of the atom is presented. It is rigorously proven that these quantities are analytic functions of the momentum \({\vec{p}}\) of the atom and of the coupling constant \({\lambda_0}\), provided \({\vert\vec{p} \vert < mc}\) and \({\vert \Im \vec{p} \vert}\) and \({\vert \lambda_{0} \vert}\) are sufficiently small. The proof relies on a somewhat novel inductive construction involving a sequence of ‘smooth Feshbach–Schur maps’ applied to a complex dilatation of the original Hamiltonian, which yields an algorithm for the calculation of resonance energies that converges super-exponentially fast.