Orthogonal polynomials on a family of Cantor sets and the problem of iterations of quadratic mappings

We first study a family of invariant transformations for the integer moment problem. The fixed point of these transformations generates a positive measure with support on a Cantor set depending on a parameter q. We analyze the structure and properties of the set of orthogonal polynomials with respect to this measure. Among these polynomials, we find the iterates of the canonical quadratic mapping: F(x)=(x–q) ², q2. It appears that the measure is invariant with respect to this mapping. Algebraic relations among these polynomials are shown to be analytically continuable below q=2, where bifurcation doubling among stable cycles occurs. As the simplest possible consequence we analyze the neighborhood of q=2 (transition region) for q<2.     

Expanding direction of the period doubling operator

We prove that the period doubling operator has an expanding direction at the fixed point. We use the induced operator, a Perron-Frobenius type operator, to study the linearization of the period doubling operator at its fixed point. We then use a sequence of linear operators with finite ranks to study this induced operator. The proof is constructive. One can calculate the expanding direction and the rate of expansion of the period doubling operator at the fixed point.     

Hierarchy of Chaotic Maps with an Invariant Measure

We give hierarchy of one-parameter family (, x) of maps at the interval [0, 1] with an invariant measure. Using the measure, we calculate Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, or equivalently Lyapunov characteristic exponent of these maps analytically, where the results thus obtained have been approved with the numerical simulation. In contrary to the usual one-parameter family of maps such as logistic and tent maps, these maps do not possess period doubling or period-n-tupling cascade bifurcation to chaos, but they have single fixed point attractor for certain values of the parameter, where they bifurcate directly to chaos without having period-n-tupling scenario exactly at those values of the parameter whose Lyapunov characteristic exponent begins to be positive.     

Schrödinger invariance and strongly anisotropic critical systems

The extension of strongly anisotropic or dynamical scaling to local scale invariance is investigated. For the special case of an anisotropy or dynamical exponent =z=2, the group of local scale transformation considered is the Schrödinger group, which can be obtained as the nonrelativistic limit of the conformal group. The requirement of Schrödinger invariance determines the two-point function in the bulk and reduces the three-point function to a scaling form of a single variable. Scaling forms are also derived for the two-point function close to a free surface which can be either spacelike or timelike. These results are reproduced in several exactly solvable statistical systems, namely the kinetic Ising model with Glauber dynamics, lattice diffusion, Lifshitz points in the spherical model, and critical dynamics of the spherical model with a nonconserved order parameter. For generic values of , evidence from higher-order Lifshitz points in the spherical model and from directed percolation suggests a simple scaling form of the two-point function.     

Field theory of critical behaviour in driven diffusive systems

We present a field theoretic renormalisation group study for the critical behaviour of a diffusive system with a single conserved density subjected to an external driving force. The anisotropies induced by the external field require the introduction of two critical parameters associated with transverse and longitudinal order. The transition to transverse order is governed by a fixed point which is infrared stable below five dimensions. With the help of Ward-Takahashi identities based on Galilei invariance, we derive scaling forms for density correlation functions, critical exponents to all orders in =5–d, and the equation of state, taking care of a dangerous irrelevant composite operator. The transition is continuous and of mean-field type, with anomalous long-wavelength and long-time correlations in the longitudinal direction only. For the transition to longitudinal order, no infrared stable fixed point is found. An analysis of the mean-field equations indicates that the transition is discontinuous.     

Renormalization group analysis of a simple hierarchical fermion model

A simple hierarchical fermion model is constructed which gives rise to an exact renormalization transformation in a 2-dimensional, parameter space. The behaviour of this transformation is studied. It has two hyperbolic fixed points for which the existence of aglobal critical line is proven. The asymptotic behaviour of the transformation is used to prove the existence of the thermodynamic limit in a certain domain in parameter space. Also the existence of a continuum limit for these theories is investigated using informatioin about the asymptotic renomralization behaviour. It turns out that the trivial fixed point gives rise to a twoparameter family of continuum limits corresponding to that part of parameter space where the renormalization trajectories originate at this fixed point. Although the model is not very realistic it serves as a simple example of the application of the renormalization group to proving the existence of the thermodynamic limit and the continuum limit of lattice models. Moreover, it illustrates possible complications that can arise in global renormalization group behaviour, and that might also be present in other models where no global analysis of the renormalization transformation has yet been achieved.A part of the material here presented was used in the author's thesis     

Symmetry properties of the motion of charged bodies in general relativity

This article proposes a group-invariant approach to the study of the motion of charged test bodies in space-time manifolds, which consists of studying the symmetry properties of space-time and electromagnetic fields represented by continuous transformation groups which preserve the invariant structure of the equation of motion. The following aspects of the proposed approach are considered. The defining transformation equations are found in the class of point transformations xⁱ=ⁱ + t_i(x), which preserve the invariance of the Lorentz force, and transformations perserving the invariance of the entire class of charge trajectories. The obtained results are specified for the Einstein-Maxwell electrovacuum spaces.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebenykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 89–92, April, 1982.     

A concept of homeomorphic defect for defining mostly conjugate dynamical systems

A centerpiece of dynamical systems is comparison by an equivalence relationship called topological conjugacy. We present details of how a method to produce conjugacy functions based on a functional fixed point iteration scheme can be generalized to compare dynamical systems that are not conjugate. When applied to nonconjugate dynamical systems, we show that the fixed-point iteration scheme still has a limit point, which is a function we now call a "commuter"-a nonhomeomorphic change of coordinates translating between dissimilar systems. This translation is natural to the concepts of dynamical systems in that it matches the systems within the language of their orbit structures, meaning that orbits must be matched to orbits by some commuter function. We introduce methods to compare nonequivalent systems by quantifying how much the commuter function fails to be a homeomorphism, an approach that gives more respect to the dynamics than the traditional comparisons based on normed linear spaces, such as L(2). Our discussion addresses a fundamental issue-how does one make principled statements of the degree to which a "toy model" might be representative of a more complicated system?     

Low temperature properties of the hierarchical classical vector model

We obtain low temperature properties of the classical vector model in a hierarchical formulation in three or more dimensions. We consider the lattice model in a zero or non-zero magnetic field, where the single site spin variable R ^v has a density proportional to for large . Using renormalization group methods we obtain a convergent expansion for the free energy with zero magnetic field. For non-zero fields a shift formula is used to obtain the effective action generated by the renormalization group transformation (RGT). To obtain the pure state zero field free energy and spontaneous magnetization we take the thermodynamic limit together with the zero field limit at a specified rate. The spontaneous magnetization,m, is calculated, is non-zero and the pure state free energy coincides, as expected, with the zero field free energy. Also the sequence of zero field actions does not have a limit but we show that the sequence of actions generated from the original action shifted bym does; the limiting action corresponds to a non-canonical Gaussian fixed point of the RGT.     

Gluon condensates,quark matter equation of state and quark stars

We consider here quark matter equation of state including strange quarks and taking into account a nontrivial vacuum structure for QCD with gluon condensates. The parameters of condendsate function are determined from minimisation of the thermodynamic potential. The scale parameter of the gluon condensates is fixed from the SVZ parameter in the context of QCD sum rules at zero temperature and zero baryon density. The equation of state for strange matter at zero temperature as derived is used to study quark star structure using Tolman Oppenheimer Volkoff equations. Stable solutions for quark stars are obtained with a large Chandrasekhar limit as 3.2M and radii around 17 kms.     

The equations of Wilson's renormalization group and analytic renormalization

In the present series of two papers we solve exactly Wilson's equations for a long-range effective hamiltonian. These equations arise when one seeks a fixed point of the Wilson's renormalization group transformations in the formulation of perturbation theory. The first paper has a general character. Wilson's renormalization transformation and its modifications are defined and the group property for them is established. Some topological aspects of the renormalization transformations are discussed. A space of projection hamiltonians is introduced and a theorem on the invariance of this space with respect to the renormalization transformations is proved.     

Universal volume of groups and anomaly of Vogel’s symmetry

We show that integral representation of universal volume function of compact simple Lie groups gives rise to six analytic functions on \({ CP }^2\), which transform as two triplets under group of permutations of Vogel’s projective parameters. This substitutes expected invariance under permutations of universal parameters by more complicated covariance. We provide an analytic continuation of these functions and calculate their change (anomaly) under permutations of parameters (Vogel’s symmetry). This last relation is universal generalization, for an arbitrary simple Lie group and, moreover, to an arbitrary point in Vogel’s plane, of the Kinkelin’s reflection relation on Barnes’ \(G(1+N)\) function. Kinkelin’s relation gives asymmetry of the \(G(1+N)\) function (which is essentially reciprocal of the volume function for \({ SU }(N)\) groups) under \(N\leftrightarrow -N\) transformation (which is equivalent of the permutation of Vogel’s parameters for \({ SU }(N)\) groups), and coincides with above-mentioned anomaly of permutations at the \({ SU }(N)\) line on Vogel’s plane. Our results also give an anomaly of Vogel’s symmetry of the universal partition function of Chern–Simons theory on three-dimensional sphere. This effect is analogous to modular covariance, instead of invariance, of partition functions of appropriate gauge theories under modular transformation of couplings.     

Explicit inertial range renormalization theory in a model for turbulent diffusion

The inertial range for a statistical turbulent velocity field consists of those scales that are larger than the dissipation scale but smaller than the integral scale. Here the complete scale-invariant explicit inertial range renormalization theory for all the higher-order statistics of a diffusing passive scalar is developed in a model which, despite its simplicity, involves turbulent diffusion by statistical velocity fields with arbitrarily many scales, infrared divergence, long-range spatial correlations, and rapid fluctuations in time-such velocity fields retain several characteristic features of those in fully developed turbulence. The main tool in the development of this explicit renormalization theory for the model is an exact quantum mechanical analogy which relates higher-order statistics of the diffusing scalar to the properties of solutions of a family ofN- body parabolic quantum problems. The canonical inertial range renormalized statistical fixed point is developed explicitly here as a function of the velocity spectral parameter, which measures the strength of the infrared divergence: for<2, mean-field behavior in the inertial range occurs with Gaussian statistical behavior for the scalar and standard diffusive scaling laws; for>2 a phase transition occurs to a fixed point with anomalous inertial range scaling laws and a non-Gaussian renormalized statistical fixed point. Several explicit connections between the renormalization theory in the model and intermediate asymptotics are developed explicitly as well as links between anomalous turbulent decay and explicit spectral properties of Schrödinger operators. The differences between this inertial range renormalization theory and the earlier theories for large-scale eddy diffusivity developed by Avellaneda and the author in such models are also discussed here.     

Scaling properties of ℤ k- 1 actions on the circle

We derive universal scaling properties for ^k–1 actions on the circle whose generators have rotation numbers algebraic of degreek. As fork=2 these properties can be explained for arbitraryk in terms of a renormalization group transformation. It has at least one trivial fixed point corresponding to an action whose generators are pure rotations. The spectrum of the linearized transformation in this fixed point is analyzed completely. The fixed point is hyperbolic with a (k–1)-dimensional unstable manifold. In the casek=2 the known results are therefore recovered.     

Parameter renormalization of maps based on potential function

A systematic way for deriving the parameter renormalization group equation for one-dimensional maps is presented and the critical behavior of periodic doubling is investigated. Introducing a formal potential function in one-parameter cases, it is shown that accumulation points correspond to local potential maxima and universal constants are easily determined. The estimates of accumulation points and universal constants match the known values asymptotically when the order of potential grows large. The potential function shows scaling in the parameter space with the universal convergent rate at the accumulation point similar to the Feigenbaum universal function. For two-parameter cases, a parameter reduction transformation is found to be useful to determine some important fixed points. A locally defined potential function is introduced and its scaling property is discussed. (c) 1997 American Institute of Physics.     

A generalization of Vaidya's radiation metric

In this paper we show that if Vaidya's radiation metric is considered from the point of view of kinetic theory in general relativity, the corresponding phase space distribution function can be generalized in a particular way. The new family of spherically symmetric radiation metrics obtained contains Vaidya's as a limiting situation. The Einstein field equations are solved in a comoving coordinate system. Two arbitrary functions of a single variable are introduced in the process of solving these equations. Particular examples considered are a stationary solution, a nonvacuum solution depending on a single parameter, and several limiting situations.     

Fixed points of renormalization group for the hierarchical fermionic model

A fermionic version of Dyson's hierarchical model is defined. An exact renormalization group transformation is given as a rational transformation of two-dimensional parameter space. Two branches of nontrivial fixed points are described, one of which bifurcates from the trivial Gaussian branch. The existence of the thermodynamic limit for these branches of fixed points is investigated.     

Quadratic-Like Dynamics of Cubic Polynomials

A small perturbation of a quadratic polynomial f with a non-repelling fixed point gives a polynomial g with an attracting fixed point and a Jordan curve Julia set, on which g acts like angle doubling. However, there are cubic polynomials with a non-repelling fixed point, for which no perturbation results into a polynomial with Jordan curve Julia set. Motivated by the study of the closure of the Cubic Principal Hyperbolic Domain, we describe such polynomials in terms of their quadratic-like restrictions.     

Modification of normal metal transport by the superconducting proximity effect

When a normal (N) metal makes intimate contact with a superconductor (S), the density of states in the normal metal is modified by the proximity effect. As a consequence, if a point contact is made with the normal metal the resulting tunnel conductance,G, is a function of the distance,x, from the N-S interface. We show that, for allx, G possesses a minimum at zero voltage and at finite voltage,G equals that of the structure without superconductivity present. The conductance is independent of the magnitude of the superconducting order parameter but depends upon the amount of normal scattering at the N-S interface.     

Scaling of Mandelbrot sets generated by critical point preperiodicity

Letzf (z) be a complex holomorphic function depending holomorphically on the complex parameter . If, for =0, a critical point off ₀ falls after a finite number of steps onto an unstable fixed point off ₀, then, in the parameter space, near 0, an infinity of more and more accurate copies of the Mandelbrot set appears. We compute their scaling properties.On leave from the University of Geneva