Existence and invariance of twisted products on a symplectic manifold

It is now well-known [1] that the twisted product on the functions defined on a symplectic manifold, play a fundamental role in an invariant approach of quantum mechanics. We prove here a general existence theorem of such twisted products. If a Lie group G acts by symplectomorphisms on a symplectic manifold and if there is a G-invariant symplectic connection, the manifold admits G-invariant Vey twisted products. In particular, if a homogeneous space G/H admits an invariant linear connection, T ^*(G/H) admits a G-invariant Vey twisted product. For the connected Lie group G, the group T ^*G admits a symplectic structure, a symplectic connection and a Vey twisted product which are bi-invariant under G.     

An Energy Gap for Yang-Mills Connections

Consider a Yang-Mills connection over a Riemann manifold M = M ⁿ , n ≥ 3, where M may be compact or complete. Then its energy must be bounded from below by some positive constant, if M satisfies certain conditions, unless the connection is flat.     

Fedosov Deformation Quantization as a BRST Theory

The relationship is established between the Fedosov deformation quantization of a general symplectic manifold and the BFV-BRST quantization of constrained dynamical systems. The original symplectic manifold ℳ is presented as a second class constrained surface in the fibre bundle ?^* _ρℳ which is a certain modification of a usual cotangent bundle equipped with a natural symplectic structure. The second class system is converted into the first class one by continuation of the constraints into the extended manifold, being a direct sum of ?^* _ρℳ and the tangent bundle Tℳ. This extended manifold is equipped with a nontrivial Poisson bracket which naturally involves two basic ingredients of Fedosov geometry: the symplectic structure and the symplectic connection. The constructed first class constrained theory, being equivalent to the original symplectic manifold, is quantized through the BFV-BRST procedure. The existence theorem is proven for the quantum BRST charge and the quantum BRST invariant observables. The adjoint action of the quantum BRST charge is identified with the Abelian Fedosov connection while any observable, being proven to be a unique BRST invariant continuation for the values defined in the original symplectic manifold, is identified with the Fedosov flat section of the Weyl bundle. The Fedosov fibrewise star multiplication is thus recognized as a conventional product of the quantum BRST invariant observables. Received: 28 April 2000 / Accepted: 6 December 2000     

On a covariant version of Caianiello’s model

Caianiello’s derivation of Quantum Geometry through an isometric embedding of the spacetime (M, g̃) in the pseudo-Riemannian structure (T*M, g* _AB ) is reconsidered. In the new derivation, using a non-linear connection and the bundle formalism, we obtain a Lorentzian-type structure in the 4-dimensional manifold M that is covariant under arbitrary local coordinate transformations in M. We obtain that if models with maximal acceleration are non-trivial, gravity should be supplied with other interactions in a unification framework.     

La première valeur propre de l'opérateur de Dirac sur les variétés kählériennes compactes

K.D. Kirchberg [Ki1] gave a lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a spin compact Kähler manifoldM of odd complex dimension with positive scalar curvature. We prove that manifolds of real dimension 8l+6 satisfying the limiting case are twistor space (cf. [Sa]) of quaternionic Kähler manifold with positive scalar curvature and that the only manifold of real dimension 8l+2 satisfying the limiting case is the complex projective spaceCP ^4l+1.     

Riccion from higher-dimensional space-time with D-dimensional sphere as a compact manifold and one-loop renormalization

Lagrangian density of riccions is obtained with the quartic self-interacting potential using higher-derivative gravitational action in (4 +D)-dimensional space-time withS ^D as a compact manifold. It is found that the resulting four-dimensional theory for riccions is one-loop multiplicatively renormalizable. Renormalization group equations are solved and its solutions yield many interesting results such as (i) dependence of extra dimensions on the enegy mass scale showing that these dimensions increase with the increasing mass scale up toD = 6, (ii) phase transition at 3.05 × 10¹⁶ GeV and (iii) dependence of gravitational and other coupling constants on energy scale. Results also suggest that space-time above 3.05 × 10¹⁶ GeV should be fractal. Moreover, dimension of the compact manifold decreases with the decreasing energy mass scale such thatD = 1 at the scale of the phase transition. Results imply invisiblity of S¹ at this scale (which is 3.05 × 10¹⁶ GeV).     

Quantization of Forms on the Cotangent Bundle

We consider the following construction of quantization. For a Riemannian manifold $M$ the space of forms on T ^{⋆ M} is made into a space of (full) symbols of operators acting on forms on M. This gives rise to the composition of symbols, which is a deformation of the (“super”)commutative multiplication of forms. The symbol calculus is exact for differential operators and the symbols that are polynomial in momenta. We calculate the symbols of natural Laplacians. (Some nice Weitzenb?ck like identities appear here.) Formulae for the traces corresponding to natural gradings of Ω (T ^{⋆ M} ) are established. Using these formulae, we give a simple direct proof of the Gauss–Bonnet–Chern Theorem. We discuss these results in connection with a general question of the quantization of forms on a Poisson manifold. Received: 12 November 1998 / Accepted: 1 March 1999     

Resonances Near the Real Axis¶for Transparent Obstacles

The purpose of this paper is to study the resonances for the transmission problem for a strictly convex obstacle in R ⁿ n≥ 2. If the speed of propagation in the interior of the body is strictly less than that in the exterior, we obtain an infinite sequence of resonances tending rapidly to the real axis. These resonances are associated with a quasimode for the transmission problem. The main ingredient of the paper is the construction of a quasimode the frequency support of which coincides with the corresponding gliding manifold . To do this we first find a global symplectic normal form for pairs of glancing hypersurfaces in a neighborhood of and then we separate the variables microlocally near the whole glancing manifold . Received: 27 January 1999 / Accepted: 27 April 1999     

Non-holonomic and semi-holonomic frames in terms of Stiefel and Grassmann tangent bundles

We prove that the bundles of non-holonomic and semi-holonomic second-order frames of a real or complex manifold M can be obtained as extensions of the bundle F²(M) of second-order jets of (holomorphic) diffeomorphisms of into M, where or . If and is the bundle of -linear frames of M we will associate to the tangent bundle two new bundles and with fibers of type the Stiefel manifold and the Grassmann manifold , respectively, where . The natural projection of onto defines a -principal bundle. We have found that the subset of given by the horizontal n-planes is an open sub-bundle isomorphic to the bundle of semi-holonomic frames of second-order of M. Analogously, the subset of given by the horizontal n-bases is an open sub-bundle which is isomorphic to the bundle of non-holonomic frames of second-order of M. Moreover the restriction of the former projection still defines a -principal bundle. Since a linear connection is a horizontal distribution of n-planes invariant under the action of it therefore determines a -reduction of the bundle , in a bijective way. This is a new proof of a theorem of Libermann.     

Bäcklund transformations for harmonic maps in two independent variables

Bäcklund transformations for harmonic maps are described as the action of the structure group on harmonic one-forms or as gauge transformations of the soliton connection constructed via embedding the configuration manifold into a flat space. As an illustration, Bäcklund transformations for maps fromM ² to the Poincaré upper half-plane and for maps determining stationary vacuum gravitational fields with axial symmetry are obtained.     

Gravity theory on Poisson manifold with R‐flux

A novel gravity theory based on Poisson Generalized Geometry is investigated. A gravity theory on a Poisson manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric is constructed from a contravariant version of the Levi‐Civita connection, which is based on the Lie algebroid of a Poisson manifold. Then, we show that in Poisson Generalized Geometry the R‐fluxes are consistently coupled with such a gravity. An R‐flux appears as a torsion of the corresponding connection in a similar way as an H‐flux which appears as a torsion of the connection formulated in the standard Generalized Geometry. We give an analogue of the Einstein‐Hilbert action coupled with an R‐flux, and show that it is invariant under both β‐diffeomorphisms and β‐gauge transformations.     

On the b-completion of certain quotient spaces

Given a manifold M with a connection and a finite group A of affine transformations, we show that the b-completion (or Schmidt's completion) of the quotient manifold M/A is the quotient, under the extended action of A, of the b-completion of M.     

Homogeneous Manifold,Loop Algebra,Coupled KdV System and Generalised Miura Transformation

Abstract

Coupled KdV equations are deduced by considering the homogeneous manifold corresponding to the homogeneous Heisenberg subalgebra of the Loop group (L(S ¹, SL(2,C)). Utilisation of Birkhoff decomposition and further subalgebra consideration leads to a new generalised form of Miura map and two sets of modified equations. A second set of Miura transformation can also be generated leading to complicated form of coupled integrable systems.     

A connection between fermionic strings and quantum gravity states: a loop space approach

We present physical arguments-based on loop space representations for Dirac/Klein Gordon determinants—that some suitable Fermionic String Ising Models at the critical point and defined on the space-time base manifold M ì R³{M \subset R^3} are formal quantum states of the gravitational field when quantized in the Ashtekar-Sen connection canonical formalism. These results complements the author previous string-loop space studies on the subject.     

Gravitation theory in the spacetimeR×S 3

A geometric formulation of the gravitation theory in the spacetime R × S ³ is given. A linear connection is introduced on the tangent bundle T(R × S ³ ) and then the connection coefficients and the Riemann curvature tensor are calculated. It is shown that their expressions differ from those of Carmeli and Malin [Found. Phys.17, 407 (1987)] by supplementary terms due to the noncommutativity of derivatives used on the spacetime R × S ³ . The Einstein field equations are written as usually and a comparison with other results is given. Finally, some observations about a possible gauge theory of gravitation in the spacetime R × S ³ are made.     

Properties of doubly excited states of H- and He associated with the manifolds from N = 6 up to N = 25

This paper discusses theory and results on ¹P⁰ doubly excited states (DES) in He and in H^- of very high excitation, up to the N = 25 manifold. Our calculations employed full configuration interaction (CI) with large hydrogenic basis sets and produced correlated wavefunctions for the four lowest roots at each hydrogenic manifold by excluding open channels and the small contribution of series belonging to lower thresholds. The suitability of the hydrogenic basis sets for such calculations is justified, apart from their practicality, by the fact that, by computing from them natural orbitals, the results were shown to be the same with those of earlier multiconfigurational Hartree-Fock (MCHF) calculations on low-lying DES. In total, 160 states were computed, most of them for the first time. Their energy spectrum should be of use to possible future photoabsorption experiments. For certain low-lying DES up to N = 13, for which previous reliable results are available, comparison of the calculated energies shows good agreement. The correlated wavefunctions contain systematically chosen single and double excitations from each hydrogenic manifold of interest. From their analysis, we determined the “goodness" of different quantum numbers and the geometry (average angles and radii) as a function of excitation. For the Sinano lu-Herrick ( K , T ) classification scheme, whose basis is a restricted CI with hydrogenic functions and which has thus far been tested only on low-lying DES, we established that, whereas T remains a good index as energy increases, K does not. Consequently, a more flexible than K quantum number is needed in order to account for most of the additional correlation. This number, represented by F = N - K - 1, where N and K are not good numbers anymore, produces consistently a much higher degree of purity than the ( K , T ) scheme does, especially as N increases and as the relative significance of various virtual excitations due to electron correlation increases. Among the four states of each manifold, in all cases in H^- and in most cases in He, the three are of the intrashell type and one is of the intershell type with ( F , T ) = (0, 0). The lowest intrashell states and the lowest intershell states exhibit a wide angle geometry tending to 180 ^° as N ↦∞. Received 10 September 2001 and Received in final form 12 November 2001     

Bases for qudits from a nonstandard approach to <Emphasis Type="Italic">SU</Emphasis>(2)

Bases of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces (in dimension d) of relevance for quantum information and quantum computation are constructed from angular momentum theory and su(2) Lie algebraic methods. We report on a formula for deriving in one step the (1 + p)p qupits (i.e., qudits with d = p a prime integer) of a complete set of 1 + p mutually unbiased bases in C ^p . Repeated application of the formula can be used for generating mutually unbiased bases in C ^d with d = p ^e (e ≥ 2) a power of a prime integer. A connection between mutually unbiased bases and the unitary group SU(d) is briefly discussed in the case d = p ^e .     

Versal Deformations of a Dirac Type Differential Operator

Abstract

If we are given a smooth differential operator in the variable x ∈ R/2πZ, its normal form, as is well known, is the simplest form obtainable by means of the Diff(S ¹)-group action on the space of all such operators. A versal deformation of this operator is a normal form for some parametric infinitesimal family including the operator. Our study is devoted to analysis of versal deformations of a Dirac type differential operator using the theory of induced Diff(S ¹)-actions endowed with centrally extended Lie-Poisson brackets. After constructing a general expression for tranversal deformations of a Dirac type differential operator, we interpret it via the Lie-algebraic theory of induced Diff(S ¹)-actions on a special Poisson manifold and determine its generic moment mapping. Using a Marsden-Weinstein reduction with respect to certain Casimir generated distributions, we describe a wide class of versally deformed Dirac type differential operators depending on complex parameters.     

A universal phase space for particles in Yang-Mills fields

Given a principal G-bundle P over M and a Hamiltonian G-space Q, one may construct the reduced symplectic manifold (T*P x Q)₀. When a connection on P is chosen, this manifold becomes a bundle over T*M with fibre Q. It is shown that this bundle is precisely the phase space constructed by Sternberg for a classical particle in a Yang-Mills field.Research partially supported by NSF Grant MCS 74-23180.A01.