Effects of turbulent transfer on critical behavior

Using the field theory renormalization group, we study the critical behavior of two systems subjected to turbulent mixing. The first system, described by the equilibrium model A, corresponds to the relaxational dynamics of a nonconserved order parameter. The second system is the strongly nonequilibrium reaction-diffusion system, known as the Gribov process or directed percolation process. The turbulent mixing is modeled by the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation with a random stirring force with the correlator ∞ δ(t − t′)p ^4−d−y, where p is the wave number, d is the space dimension, and y is an arbitrary exponent. We show that the systems exhibit various types of critical behavior depending on the relation between y and d. In addition to known regimes (original systems without mixing and a passively advected scalar field), we establish the existence of new strongly nonequilibrium universality classes and calculate the corresponding critical dimensions to the first order of the double expansion in y and ɛ = 4 − d (one-loop approximation).     

Convergence to equilibrium of critical branching particle systems and superprocesses,and related nonlinear partial differential equations

We consider a class of multitype particle systems in ^d undergoing spatial diffusion and critical stable multitype branching, and their limits known as critical stable multitype Dawson-Watanabe processes, or superprocesses. We show that for large classes of initial states, the particle process and the superprocess converge in distribution towards known equilibrium states as time tends to infinity. As an application we obtain the asymptotic behavior of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations whose solution is related to the distribution of both the particle process and the superprocess.Research partially supported by CONACyT (Mexico), CNRS (France) and BMfWuF (Austria).     

Derivation of lower critical magnetic field for anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau model in superconductivity

In this paper, the authors discuss the vortex structure of an anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau model for superconducting thin film proposed by Du. We obtain the estimate for the lower critical magnetic field $ H_{C_1 } $ H_{C_1 } which is the first critical value of h _ex corresponding to the first phase transition in which vortices appear in the superconductor. We also find local minimizers of the anisotropic superconducting thin film with a large parameter κ, and for the applied magnetic field near the critical field we discuss the asymptotic behavior of the local minimizers.     

Incommensurable state of a spin density wave and superconductivity in quasi-two-dimensional systems with an anisotropic energy spectrum

We investigate phase transitions in quasi-two-dimensional systems with an anisotropic energy spectrum and a deviation from the half-filling of the energy band (μ ≠ 0). We demonstrate the possibility of the transition of an insulator into a half-metallic state when the nesting condition is violated because the parameter μ ≠ 0 and of taking the umklapp processes into account. We obtain the basic equations for the parameters of the superconducting (Δ) and magnetic (M) orders and determine the conditions for the emergence of superconductivity on the background of a spin-density-wave state and also for the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. We show that the transition of a magnetic system into a superconducting state as the parameter μ increases can be a first-order phase transition at low temperatures. We also obtain an expression for the heat capacity jump C _S -C _N at T = T _c , which depends on M and μ and differs essentially from the case of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. We also consider the transformations related to the density of electron states of the relevant anisotropic system, which can undergo essential changes under pressure or doping.     

Elliptic equations in weighted Sobolev spaces of infinite order with L1 data

We deal with the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for a class of strongly nonlinear boundary value problems of higher order with L¹ data in anisotropic‐weighted Sobolev spaces of infinite order. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Bohman‐Frieze process near criticality

The Erd?s‐Rényi process begins with an empty graph on n vertices, with edges added randomly one at a time to the graph. A classical result of Erd?s and Rényi states that the Erd?s‐Rényi process undergoes a phase transition, which takes place when the number of edges reaches n/2 (we say at time 1) and a giant component emerges. Since this seminal work of Erd?s and Rényi, various random graph models have been introduced and studied. In this paper we study the Bohman‐Frieze process, a simple modification of the Erd?s‐Rényi process. The Bohman‐Frieze process also begins with an empty graph on n vertices. At each step two random edges are presented, and if the first edge would join two isolated vertices, it is added to a graph; otherwise the second edge is added. We present several new results on the phase transition of the Bohman‐Frieze process. We show that it has a qualitatively similar phase transition to the Erd?s‐Rényi process in terms of the size and structure of the components near the critical point. We prove that all components at time t_c ? ? (that is, when the number of edges are (t_c ? ?)n/2) are trees or unicyclic components and that the largest component is of size Ω(?^‐2log n). Further, at t_c + ?, all components apart from the giant component are trees or unicyclic and the size of the second‐largest component is Θ(?^‐2log n). Each of these results corresponds to an analogous well‐known result for the Erd?s‐Rényi process. Our proof techniques include combinatorial arguments, the differential equation method for random processes, and the singularity analysis of the moment generating function for the susceptibility, which satisfies a quasi‐linear partial differential equation. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2013     

On the dimensions of anisotropic quadratic forms in I4

Let WF denote the Witt ring of a field F of characteristic ≠2 and let I ⁿ F denote the n-th power of the ideal IF of even-dimensional forms in WF. The Arason-Pfister Hauptsatz states that if 0≠ϕ∈I ⁿ F is anisotropic then dim ϕ≥ 2 ⁿ . Pfister also showed that if ϕ∈I ³ F is anisotropic and dim ϕ>8 then dim ϕ≥12. We extend this result to I ⁴ F and show that if ϕ∈I ⁴ F is anisotropic and dim ϕ>16 then dim ϕ≥24 and we provide some results on anisotropic 24-dimensional forms in I ⁴ F. Oblatum 5-IV-1996 & 11-III-1997     

Microscopic theory of superconductivity in MgB<Subscript>2</Subscript>-type systems in a magnetic field: A neighborhood of <Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis><Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">c</Emphasis>2</Subscript>

We calculate the upper critical magnetic field H _c2 in the framework of a microscopic superconductivity theory with two energy bands of different dimensions on the Fermi surface with the cavity topology typical of the compound MgB₂ taken into account (an anisotropic system). We assume an external magnetic field parallel to the crystallographic z axis. We obtain analytic formulas in the low-temperature range (T/T_c ≪ 1) and also near the critical temperature ((T-T_c)/T_c ≪ 1). We compare the temperature dependence of H_c2 for a two-band anisotropic system with that of H _c2 ⁰ corresponding to a two-band isotropic system (with Fermi-surface cavities of the same topology). We determine the role of the band-structure anisotropy, the positive curvature of the upper critical field near the critical temperature, and the important role of the ratio v₁/v₂ of the velocities on the Fermi surface in determining H_c2. We also obtain the values of the parameters Δ₁ and Δ₂ along the line of the critical magnetic field. This paper is dedicated to the 90th birthday of Professor D. N. Zubarev __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 113–128, January, 2008.     

Inhomogeneous Current States in a Gauged Two-Component Ginzburg-Landau Model

We consider the energy bounds of inhomogeneous current states in doped antiferromagnetic insulators in the framework of the two-component Ginzburg-Landau model. Using the formulation of this model in terms of the gauge-invariant order parameters (the unit vector n, spin stiffness field ρ², and particle momentum c), we show that this strongly correlated electron system involves a geometric small parameter that determines the degree of packing in the knots of filament manifolds of the order parameter distributions for the spin and charge degrees of freedom. We find that as the doping degree decreases, the filament density increases, resulting in a transition to an inhomogeneous current state with a free energy gain.__________Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 144, No. 1, pp. 182–189, July, 2005.     

The scaling window of the 2‐SAT transition

We consider the random 2‐satisfiability (2‐SAT) problem, in which each instance is a formula that is the conjunction of m clauses of the form x∨y, chosen uniformly at random from among all 2‐clauses on n Boolean variables and their negations. As m and n tend to infinity in the ratio m/n→α, the problem is known to have a phase transition at α_c=1, below which the probability that the formula is satisfiable tends to one and above which it tends to zero. We determine the finite‐size scaling about this transition, namely the scaling of the maximal window W(n, δ)=(α_?(n,δ), α₊(n,δ)) such that the probability of satisfiability is greater than 1?δ for α<α_? and is less than δ for α>α₊. We show that W(n,δ)=(1?Θ(n^?1/3), 1+Θ(n^?1/3)), where the constants implicit in Θ depend on δ. We also determine the rates at which the probability of satisfiability approaches one and zero at the boundaries of the window. Namely, for m=(1+ε)n, where ε may depend on n as long as |ε| is sufficiently small and |ε|n^1/3 is sufficiently large, we show that the probability of satisfiability decays like exp(?Θ(nε³)) above the window, and goes to one like 1?Θ(n^?1|ε|^?3 below the window. We prove these results by defining an order parameter for the transition and establishing its scaling behavior in n both inside and outside the window. Using this order parameter, we prove that the 2‐SAT phase transition is continuous with an order parameter critical exponent of 1. We also determine the values of two other critical exponents, showing that the exponents of 2‐SAT are identical to those of the random graph. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 18: 201–256 2001     

Anisotropic Meshless Frames on ℝ n

We present a construction of anisotropic multiresolution and anisotropic wavelet frames based on multilevel ellipsoid covers (dilations) of ℝ ⁿ . The wavelets we construct are C ^∞ functions, can have any prescribed number of vanishing moments and fast decay with respect to the anisotropic quasi-distance induced by the cover. The dual wavelets are also C ^∞, with the same number of vanishing moments, but with only mild decay with respect to the quasi-distance. An alternative construction yields a meshless frame whose elements do not have vanishing moments, but do have fast anisotropic decay.     

On weak mixing in lattice models

Summary. For lattice models on ℤ ^d , weak mixing is the property that the influence of the boundary condition on a finite decays exponentially with distance from that region. For a wide class of models on ℤ², including all finite range models, we show that weak mixing is a consequence of Gibbs uniqueness, exponential decay of an appropriate form of connectivity, and a natural coupling property. In particular, on ℤ², the Fortuin-Kasteleyn random cluster model is weak mixing whenever uniqueness holds and the connectivity decays exponentially, and the q-state Potts model above the critical temperature is weak mixing whenever correlations decay exponentially, a hypothesis satisfied if q is sufficiently large. Ratio weak mixing is the property that uniformly over events A and B occurring on subsets Λ and Γ, respectively, of the lattice, |P(A∩B)/P(A)P(B)−1| decreases exponentially in the distance between Λ and Γ. We show that under mild hypotheses, for example finite range, weak mixing implies ratio weak mixing. Received: 27 August 1996 / In revised form: 15 August 1997     

Korn inequality for a thin rod with rounded ends

We consider an elastic rod with rounded ends and diameter proportional to a small parameter h > 0. The roundness of the ends is described by an exponent m ∈ (0,1). We derive for the rod an asymptotically sharp Korn inequality with a special weighted anisotropic norm. Weight factors with m‐dependent powers of h appear both in the anisotropic norm and the Korn inequality itself, and we discover three critical values m = 1 ∕ 4, m = 1 ∕ 2 and m = 3 ∕ 4 at which these exponents are crucially changed. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Clustering and ensembles inequivalence in the φ and φ mean-field Hamiltonian models

We investigate a model of globally coupled conservative oscillators. Two different algebraic potentials are considered that display in the canonical ensemble either a second (φ⁴) or both a second and a first-order phase transition separated by tricritical points (φ⁶). The stability of highly clustered states appearing in the low temperature/energy region is studied both analytically and numerically for the φ⁴-model. Moreover, long-lived out-of-equilibrium states appear close to the second-order phase transition when starting with “water-bag” initial conditions, in analogy with what has been found for the Hamiltonian mean-field model. The microcanonical simulations of the φ⁶-model show strong hysteretic effects and metastability near the first-order phase transition and a narrow region of negative specific heat.     

Crack Singularities for General Elliptic Systems

We consider general homogeneous Agmon‐Douglis‐Nirenberg elliptic systems with constant coefficients complemented by the same set of boundary conditions on both sides of a crack in a two‐dimensional domain. We prove that the singular functions expressed in polar coordinates (r, θ) near the crack tip all have the form r^{k + 1/2}φ(θ) with k ≥ 0 integer, with the possible exception of a finite number of singularities of the form r^k log r φ(θ). We also prove results about singularities in the case when the boundary conditions on the two sides of the crack are not the same, and in particular in mixed Dirichlet‐Neumann boundary value problems for strongly coercive systems: in the latter case, we prove that the exponents of singularity have the form with real η and integer k. This is valid for general anisotropic elasticity too.     

Percolation in Voronoi tilings

We consider a percolation process on a random tiling of ℝ^d into Voronoi cells based on points of a realization of a Poisson process. We prove the existence of a phase transition as the proportion p of open cells is varied and provide estimates for the critical probability p_c. Specifically, we prove that for large d, 2^−d(9d log d)⁻¹ ≤ p_c(d) ≤ C2^−d log d. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2005     

Hyperuniform and rigid stable matchings

We study a stable partial matching τ of the d‐dimensional lattice with a stationary determinantal point process Ψ on R^d with intensity α>1. For instance, Ψ might be a Poisson process. The matched points from Ψ form a stationary and ergodic (under lattice shifts) point process Ψ^τ with intensity 1 that very much resembles Ψ for α close to 1. On the other hand Ψ^τ is hyperuniform and number rigid, quite in contrast to a Poisson process. We deduce these properties by proving more general results for a stationary point process Ψ, whose so‐called matching flower (a stopping set determining the matching partner of a lattice point) has a certain subexponential tail behavior. For hyperuniformity, we also additionally need to assume some mixing condition on Ψ. Furthermore, if Ψ is a Poisson process then Ψ^τ has an exponentially decreasing truncated pair correlation function.     

Ergodicity of the Finite and Infinite Dimensional α-Stable Systems

Abstract

Some finite and infinite dimensional perturbed α-stable dynamics are constructed and studied in this article. We prove that the finite dimensional system is strongly mixing, while in the infinite dimensional case that the functional coercive inequalities are not available, we develop and apply a technique to prove the point-wise ergodicity for systems with sufficiently small interaction in a large subspace of Ω = R ^{Z d} .     

On the mixing time of a simple random walk on the super critical percolation cluster

 We study the robustness under perturbations of mixing times, by studying mixing times of random walks in percolation clusters inside boxes in Z ^d . We show that for d≥2 and p>p _c (Z ^d ), the mixing time of simple random walk on the largest cluster inside is Θ(n ² ) – thus the mixing time is robust up to a constant factor. The mixing time bound utilizes the Lovàsz-Kannan average conductance method. This is the first non-trivial application of this method which yields a tight result. Received: 16 December 2001 / Revised version: 13 August 2002 / Published online: 19 December 2002     

Component structure of the vacant set induced by a random walk on a random graph

We consider random walks on several classes of graphs and explore the likely structure of the vacant set, i.e. the set of unvisited vertices. Let Γ(t) be the subgraph induced by the vacant set of the walk at step t. We show that for random graphs G_n,p (above the connectivity threshold) and for random regular graphs G_r,r ≥ 3, the graph Γ(t) undergoes a phase transition in the sense of the well‐known ErdJW‐RSAT1100590x.png ‐Renyi phase transition. Thus for t ≤ (1 ‐ ε)t^*, there is a unique giant component, plus components of size O(log n), and for t ≥ (1 + ε)t^* all components are of size O(log n). For G_n,p and G_r we give the value of t^*, and the size of Γ(t). For G_r, we also give the degree sequence of Γ(t), the size of the giant component (if any) of Γ(t) and the number of tree components of Γ(t) of a given size k = O(log n). We also show that for random digraphs D_n,p above the strong connectivity threshold, there is a similar directed phase transition. Thus for t ≤ (1 ‐ ε)t^*, there is a unique strongly connected giant component, plus strongly connected components of size O(log n), and for t ≥ (1 + ε)t^* all strongly connected components are of size O(log n). © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2012