The Dirac Operator on <Emphasis Type="Italic">SU</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis></Subscript>(2)

We construct a 3⁺-summable spectral triple over the quantum group SU_q(2) which is equivariant with respect to a left and a right action of The geometry is isospectral to the classical case since the spectrum of the operator D is the same as that of the usual Dirac operator on the 3-dimensional round sphere. The presence of an equivariant real structure J demands a modification in the axiomatic framework of spectral geometry, whereby the commutant and first-order properties need be satisfied only modulo infinitesimals of arbitrary high order.Partially supported by Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) under grant 2 P03B 022 25.Regular Associate of the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">f</Emphasis>(<Emphasis Type="Italic">R</Emphasis>) Cosmology from <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-theory

From a macroscopic theory of the quantum vacuum in terms of conserved relativistic charges (generically denoted by q ^(a) with label a), we have obtained, in the low-energy limit, a particular type of f(R) model relevant to cosmology. The macroscopic quantum-vacuum theory allows us to distinguish between different phenomenological f(R) models on physical grounds. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Hypercontractivity on the <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Araki-Woods Algebras

Extending a work of Carlen and Lieb, Biane has obtained the optimal hypercontractivity of the q-Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup on the q-deformation of the free group algebra. In this note, we look for an extension of this result to the type III situation, that is for the q-Araki-Woods algebras. We show that hypercontractivity from L ^p to L ² can occur if and only if the generator of the deformation is bounded.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-plane-wave solutions of <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Weyl gravity

The solutions of the q-deformed equations of quantum conformal Weyl gravity in terms of q-deformed plane waves are given. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Exact Results for Topological Strings on Resolved <Emphasis Type="Italic">Y</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic"> p</Emphasis>,<Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis></Superscript> Singularities

We obtain exact results in α′ for open and closed A-model topological string amplitudes on a large class of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds by using their correspondence with five dimensional gauge theories. The toric Calabi-Yaus that we analyze are obtained as minimal resolution of cones over Y ^p,q manifolds and give rise via M-theory compactification to SU(p) gauge theories on . As an application we present a detailed study of the local case and compute open and closed genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants of the orbifold. We also display the modular structure of the topological wave function and give predictions for higher genus amplitudes. The mirror curve in this case is the spectral curve of the relativistic A ₁ Toda chain. Our results also indicate the existence of a wider class of relativistic integrable systems associated to generic Y ^p,q geometries.     

The <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-boson-fermion realizations of the quantum superalgebra <Emphasis Type="Italic">U</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis></Subscript>(<Emphasis Type="Italic">osp</Emphasis>(1/2))

We show that our construction of realizations for algebras and quantum algebras can be generalized to quantum superalgebras too. We studyan example of quantum superalgebra U _q (osp(1/2)) and give the boson-fermion realization with respect to one pair of q-boson operators and one pair of fermions.     

Inclusive measure of |<Emphasis Type="Italic">V</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">ub</Emphasis></Subscript>| with the analytic coupling model

By analyzing B→X _u ℓ ν _ℓ spectra with a model based on soft-gluon resummation and an analytic time-like QCD coupling, we obtain

Fitting Cosmological Data to the Function <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>(<Emphasis Type="Italic">z</Emphasis>) from GR Theory: Modified Chaplygin Gas

In the Friedmann cosmology, the deceleration of the expansion q plays a fundamental role. We derive the deceleration as a function of redshift q(z) in two scenarios: ΛCDM model and modified Chaplygin gas (MCG) model. The function for the MCG model is then fitted to the cosmological data in order to obtain the cosmological parameters that minimize χ ². We use the Fisher matrix to construct the covariance matrix of our parameters and reconstruct the q(z) function. We use Supernovae Ia, WMAP5, and BAO measurements to obtain the observational constraints. We determined the present acceleration as q ₀ = − 0.65 ±0.19 for the MCG model using the Union2 dataset of SNeIa, BAO, and CMB and q ₀ = − 0.67 ±0.17 for the Constitution dataset, BAO and CMB. The transition redshift from deceleration to acceleration was found to be around 0.80 for both datasets. We have also determined the dark energy parameter for the MCG model: Ω _X0 = 0.81 ±0.03 for the Union2 dataset and Ω _X0 = 0.83 ±0.03 using the Constitution dataset.     

Identities involving values of Bernstein, <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Bernoulli,and <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Euler polynomials

In this paper, we give relations involving values of q-Bernoulli, q-Euler, and Bernstein polynomials. Using these relations, we obtain some interesting identities on the q-Bernoulli, q-Euler, and Bernstein polynomials.     

On the multiple <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Genocchi and Euler numbers

The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic study of some families of multiple q-Genocchi and Euler numbers by using the multivariate q-Volkenborn integral (= p-adic q-integral) on ℤ _p . The investigation of these q-Genocchi numbers and polynomials of higher order leads to interesting identities related to these objects. The results of the present paper cover earlier results concerning ordinary q-Genocchi numbers and polynomials. This paper is supported by Jangjeon Research Institute for Mathematical Science (JRIMS-11R-2007).     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Exponentials on quantum spaces

We present explicit formulae for q-exponentials on quantum spaces which could be of particular importance in physics, i.e. the q-deformed Minkowski space and the q-deformed Euclidean space with two, three or four dimensions. Furthermore, these formulae can be viewed as 2-, 3- or 4-dimensional analogues of the well-known q-exponential function.Received: 21 January 2004, Revised: 19 May 2004, Published online: 7 September 2004     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Integration on quantum spaces

In this article we present explicit formulae for q-integration on quantum spaces which could be of particular importance in physics, i.e., q-deformed Minkowski space and q-deformed Euclidean space in three or four dimensions. Furthermore, our formulae can be regarded as a generalization of Jacksons q-integral to three or four dimensions and provide a new possibility for an integration over the whole space being invariant under translations and rotations.Received: 9 September 2003, Published online: 26 November 2003     

Lifting <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-difference operators for Askey-Wilson polynomials and their weight function

We determine an explicit form of a q-difference operator that transforms the continuous q-Hermite polynomials H _n (x|q) of Rogers into the Askey-Wilson polynomials p _n (x; a, b, c, d|q) on the top level in the Askey q-scheme. This operator represents a special convolution-type product of four one-parameter q-difference operators of the form ɛ _q (c _q D _q ) (where c _q are some constants), defined as Exton’s q-exponential function ɛ _q (z) in terms of the Askey-Wilson divided q-difference operator D _q . We also determine another q-difference operator that lifts the orthogonality weight function for the continuous q-Hermite polynomialsH _n (x|q) up to the weight function, associated with the Askey-Wilson polynomials p _n (x; a, b, c, d|q).     

Perturbation foundation of <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-deformed dynamics

In the q-deformed theory the perturbation approach can be expressed in terms of two pairs of undeformed position and momentum operators. There are two configuration spaces. Correspondingly there are two q-perturbation Hamiltonians; one originates from the perturbation expansion of the potential in one configuration space, the other one originates from the perturbation expansion of the kinetic energy in another configuration space. In order to establish a general foundation of the q-perturbation theory, two perturbation equivalence theorems are proved. The first is Equivalence Theorem I: Perturbation expressions of the q-deformed uncertainty relations calculated by two pairs of undeformed operators are the same, and the two q-deformed uncertainty relations undercut Heisenberg's minimal one in the same style. The general Equivalence Theorem II is: for any potential (regular or singular) the expectation values of two q-perturbation Hamiltonians in the eigenstates of the undeformed Hamiltonian are equivalent to all orders of the perturbation expansion. As an example of singular potentials the perturbation energy spectra of the q-deformed Coulomb potential are studied. Received: 6 September 2002 / Revised version: 21 October 2002 / Published online: 14 April 2003 RID="a" ID="a" e-mail: jzzhang@physik.uni-kl.de, jzzhang@ecust.edu.cn     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">K</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">e</Emphasis>3</Subscript> decays and CKM unitarity

We present a detailed numerical study of the K_e3 decays to in chiral perturbation theory with virtual photons and leptons. We describe the extraction of the CKM matrix element |V_us| from the experimental K_e3 decay parameters. We propose a consistency check of the K ⁺ _e3 and K⁰_e3 data that is largely insensitive to the dominating theoretical uncertainties, in particular the contributions of . Our analysis is highly relevant in view of the recent high statistics measurement of the K ⁺ _e3 branching ratio by E865 at Brookhaven which does not indicate any significant deviation from CKM unitarity but rather a discrepancy with the present K⁰_e3 data.Received: 22 January 2004, Published online: 30 April 2004Work supported in part by IHP-RTN, Contract No. HPRN-CT2002-00311 (EURIDICE) and by Acciones Integradas, Project No. 19/2003 (Austria), HU2002-0044 (MCYT, Spain)     

A note on <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Bernstein polynomials

Recently, Simsek-Acikgoz [17] and Kim-Jang-Yi [9] have studied the q-extension of Bernstein polynomials. In the present paper, we suggest q-extensions of Bernstein polynomials of degree n which differ from the q-Bernstein polynomials of Simsek-Acikgoz [17] and Kim-Jang-Yi [9]. Using these q-Bernstein polynomials, we derive fermionic p-adic integral representations of several q-Bernstein-type polynomials. Finally, we investigate identities between q-Bernstein polynomials and q-Euler numbers.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">B</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">B</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">s</Emphasis></Subscript> decay constants from moments of finite energy sum rules in QCD

We use an appropriate combination of moments of finite energy sum rules in QCD in order to compute the B _q -meson decay constants f _B and . We perform the calculation using a two-loop computation of the imaginary part of the pseudoscalar two point function in terms of the running bottom quark mass. The results are stable against the so-called QCD duality threshold, and they are in agreement with the estimates obtained from Borel transform QCD sum rules and lattice computations.Received: 28 July 2004, Revised: 10 September 2004, Published online: 23 November 2004PACS: 12.38.Bx, 12.38.LgSupported by MCYT-FEDER under contract FPA2002-00612.     

Spectroscopy and Regge trajectories of heavy quarkonia and <Emphasis Type="Italic">B</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">c</Emphasis></Subscript> mesons

The mass spectra of charmonia, bottomonia and B _c mesons are calculated in the framework of the QCD-motivated relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach. The dynamics of heavy quarks and antiquarks is treated fully relativistically without application of the nonrelativistic v ²/c ² expansion. The known one-loop radiative corrections to the heavy quark potential are taken into account perturbatively. The heavy quarkonium masses are calculated up to rather high orbital and radial excitations (L=5, n _r =5). On this basis the Regge trajectories are constructed both in the total angular momentum J and radial quantum number n _r . It is found that the daughter trajectories are almost linear and parallel, while parent trajectories exhibit some nonlinearity in the low mass region. Such nonlinearity is most pronounced for bottomonia and is only marginal for charmonia. The obtained results are compared with the available experimental data, and a possible interpretation of the new charmonium-like states above open charm production threshold is discussed.     

The isospin-symmetry-breaking effects in <Emphasis Type="Italic">K</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">e</Emphasis>4</Subscript> decays

The final-state interaction of pions in K _e4 decay allows to obtain the value of the isospin and angular-momentum-zero ππ scattering length a ₀⁰.We take into account the electromagnetic interaction of pions and isospin-symmetry-breaking effects caused by different masses of neutral and charged pions and estimate the impact of these effects on the procedure of scattering-length extraction from K _e4 decays.     

Multiple two-variable <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-adic <Emphasis Type="Italic">q-L</Emphasis>-function and its behavior at <Emphasis Type="Italic">s</Emphasis> = 0

The objective of this paper is to construct a multiple p-adic q-L-function of two variables which interpolates multiple generalized q-Bernoulli polynomials. By using this function, we solve a question of Kim and Cho. We also define a multiple partial q-zeta function which is related to the multiple q-L-function of two variables. Finally, we give a finite-sum representation of the multiple p-adic q-L-function of two variables and prove a multiple q-extension of the generalized formula of Diamond and Ferrero-Greenberg.