Resonances, radiation damping and instabilitym in Hamiltonian nonlinear wave equations

We consider a class of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations which are Hamiltonian and are perturbations of linear dispersive equations. The unperturbed dynamical system has a bound state, a spatially localized and time periodic solution. We show that, for generic nonlinear Hamiltonian perturbations, all small amplitude solutions decay to zero as time tends to infinity at an anomalously slow rate. In particular, spatially localized and time-periodic solutions of the linear problem are destroyed by generic nonlinear Hamiltonian perturbations via slow radiation of energy to infinity. These solutions can therefore be thought of as metastable states. The main mechanism is a nonlinear resonant interaction of bound states (eigenfunctions) and radiation (continuous spectral modes), leading to energy transfer from the discrete to continuum modes. This is in contrast to the KAM theory in which appropriate nonresonance conditions imply the persistence of invariant tori. A hypothesis ensuring that such a resonance takes place is a nonlinear analogue of the Fermi golden rule, arising in the theory of resonances in quantum mechanics. The techniques used involve: (i) a time-dependent method developed by the authors for the treatment of the quantum resonance problem and perturbations of embedded eigenvalues, (ii) a generalization of the Hamiltonian normal form appropriate for infinite dimensional dispersive systems and (iii) ideas from scattering theory. The arguments are quite general and we expect them to apply to a large class of systems which can be viewed as the interaction of finite dimensional and infinite dimensional dispersive dynamical systems, or as a system of particles coupled to a field. Oblatum: 6-XI-1998 & 12-VI-1998 / Published online: 14 January 1999     

Some properties of the basis finite automaton

The present paper discusses non-deterministic finite Rabin-Scott’s automata. The majority of works recently dealing with this subject were, in fact, concerned only with properties of a canonical form automata or of some objects equivalent to it. This article continues the series of works in which the authors state a different point of view, describing the finite automata as just another invariant of the given regular language called basis finite automaton. In this article the authors argue on some new properties for the basis finite automaton. One of them is included into basis automaton’s table of binary relations. It is stated that this table can not contain either identical strings or identical columns. Another property depicts a possibility to obtain any finite automaton for a given regular language by the process of duplicating or combining some of its states.     

Multiple Equilibria and Thresholds Due to Relative Investment Costs

A dynamic model of the firm is studied in which investment costs depend on the magnitude of the investment relative to the stock of capital goods. It is shown that in general nonunique steady states can exist which can be stable or unstable. It is possible that unstable steady states occur in the concave domain of the Hamiltonian. For a particular specification, a scenario occurs with two stable steady states and one unstable steady state. The two stable steady states are long run equilibria; which one of them is reached in the long run depends on the initial state. In case the Hamiltonian is locally concave around the unstable steady state, this steady state is the threshold that separates the domain of initial conditions that each of the stable steady states attracts. The unstable steady state is a node and investment is a continuous function of the capital stock. If the unstable steady state lies in the nonconcave domain of the Hamiltonian, this steady state can either be a node or a focus. Furthermore, continuity can (but need not) be retained similarly to the concave case, a fact which has been entirely overlooked in the literature.     

The set of quantum states and its averaged dynamic transformations

In this paper we consider the set of quantum states and passages to the limit for sequences of quantum dynamic semigroups in the mentioned set. We study the structure of the set of extreme points of the quantum state set and represent an arbitrary state as an integral over the set of one-dimensional orthogonal projectors; the obtained representation is similar to the spectral decomposition of a normal state. We apply the obtained results to the analysis of sequences of quantum dynamic semigroups which occur in the regularization of a degenerate Hamiltonian.     

A variable gravity model of the otolith membrane

This paper describes a finite difference model of the otolith membrane which allows the acceleration due to gravity to vary, thus simulating conditions of gravity on the lunar and planetary surfaces.The differential coefficients of the second-order system of elliptic partial differential equations governing the steady state displacements of points of the membrane are replaced by finite differences. The resulting system of difference equations is seen to be consistent with the system of differential equations and to have a truncation error of order four.A close approximation to the physical boundary of a typical otolith membrane is used and two sets of numerical experiments are carried out which which simulate rotations of the membrane on the Moon and on a number of planets.The displacements at thirty nodes of the membrane are computed by solving the linear system of sixty equations obtained by applying the difference equations to each of the thirty nodes. The numerical results obtained are seen to be in general agreement with experimental results reported in the literature.     

Generalized coherent states for oscillators connected with Meixner and Meixner—Pollaczek polynomials

The authors continue to study generalized coherent states for oscillator-like systems connected with a given family of orthogonal polynomials. In this work, we consider oscillators connected with Meixner and Meixner— Pollaczek polynomials and define generalized coherent states for these oscillators. A completeness condition for these states is proved by solution of a related classical moment problem. The results are compared with the other authors ones. In particular, we show that the Hamiltonian of the relativistic model of a linear harmonic oscillator can be treated as the linearization of a quadratic Hamiltonian, which arises naturally in our formalism. Bibliography: 56 titles. The authors dedicate this work to their friend and colleague P. P. Kulish on the occasion of his 60th birthday __________ Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 317, 2004, pp. 66–93.     

Existence of breathing patterns in globally coupled finite-size nonlinear lattices

We prove the existence of time-periodic solutions representing breathing patterns in general nonlinear Hamiltonian finite-size lattices with global coupling. As a first step the existence of localised solutions of a two site segment, where one oscillator performs larger-amplitude motion compared to the other one, is established. To this end the existence problem is converted into a fixed point problem for an operator on some appropriate function space which is solved by means of Schauder’s Fixed Point Theorem. For isoenergetic states the degree of localisation can be tuned in a wide range by changing the initial data and the coupling strength. Subsequently, it is proven that a related localised state can be excited in the extended nonlinear lattice forming a breathing pattern with a single site of large amplitude against a background of uniform small-amplitude states. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that also spatial patterns are possible that are built up from any combination of the small-amplitude state and the large-amplitude state.     

New second branch of the spectrum of the BCS Hamiltonian and a “pseudogap”

The BCS Hamiltonian of superconductivity has the second branch of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. It consists of wave functions of pairs of electrons in ground and excited states. The continuous spectrum of excited pairs is separated by a nonzero gap from the point of the discrete spectrum that corresponds to the pair in the ground state. The corresponding grand partition function and free energy are exactly calculated. This implies that, for low temperatures, the system is in the condensate of pairs in the ground state. The sequence of correlation functions is exactly calculated in the thermodynamic limit, and it coincides with the corresponding sequence of the system with approximating Hamiltonian. The gap in the spectrum of excitations depends continuously on temperature and is different from zero above the critical temperature corresponding to the first branch of the spectrum. In our opinion, this fact explains the phenomenon of “pseudogap.” Published in Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 57, No. 11, pp. 1508–1533, November, 2005.     

Numerical Solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations by an Upwind Finite Volume Method

In this paper we present a finite volume method for solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman(HJB) equations governing a class of optimal feedback control problems. This method is based on a finite volume discretization in state space coupled with an upwind finite difference technique, and on an implicit backward Euler finite differencing in time, which is absolutely stable. It is shown that the system matrix of the resulting discrete equation is an M-matrix. To show the effectiveness of this approach, numerical experiments on test problems with up to three states and two control variables were performed. The numerical results show that the method yields accurate approximate solutions to both the control and the state variables.     

The Green’s Function in the Problem of Charge Dynamics on A One-Dimensional Lattice with An Impurity Center

In the “tight-binding” approximation (the Hückel model), we consider the evolution of the charge wave function on a semi-infinite one-dimensional lattice with an additional energy U at a single impurity site. In the case of the continuous spectrum (for |U| < 1) where there is no localized state, we construct the Green’s function using the expansion in terms of eigenfunctions of the continuous spectrum and obtain an expression for the time Green’s function in the form of a power series in U. It unexpectedly turns out that this series converges absolutely even in the case where the localized state is added to the continuous spectrum. We can therefore say that the Green’s function constructed using the states of the continuous spectrum also contains an implicit contribution from the localized state.     

Steady flow generated by the differential rotation of a porous disk of finite thickness

When a body of fluid bounded by a porous disk of finite thickness is disturbed from a state of rigid rotation by an enhanced (or reduced) angular velocity of the disk, a few authors followed Darcys model and observed that the centrifugal pumping occurs through the entire porous layer regarded as a convection zone. The shear stress can develop only at the edge of the porous layer. We use a porous disk of high permeability that allows the fluid in the porous disk to deform in response to the changing angular velocity. Based on the Birkmans model, we solve for the steady non-linear flow and observe that there arises (i) a convection zone of nearly uniform angular velocity at the boundary (within the porous layer) and (ii) a transition zone adjacent to the convection zone which provides a smooth transition to the interior. This makes the model relevant to some astrophysical situations as described by some authors [1, 3]. The two point boundary value problem is solved subject to the boundary conditions, the far field conditions, and the matching conditions at the fluid-porous medium interface. The solution is obtained using a numerical procedure known as the method of Adjoints.     

Steady flow generated by the differential rotation of a porous disk of finite thickness

When a body of fluid bounded by a porous disk of finite thickness is disturbed from a state of rigid rotation by an enhanced (or reduced) angular velocity of the disk, a few authors followed Darcys model and observed that the centrifugal pumping occurs through the entire porous layer regarded as a convection zone. The shear stress can develop only at the edge of the porous layer. We use a porous disk of high permeability that allows the fluid in the porous disk to deform in response to the changing angular velocity. Based on the Birkmans model, we solve for the steady non-linear flow and observe that there arises (i) a convection zone of nearly uniform angular velocity at the boundary (within the porous layer) and (ii) a transition zone adjacent to the convection zone which provides a smooth transition to the interior. This makes the model relevant to some astrophysical situations as described by some authors [1, 3]. The two point boundary value problem is solved subject to the boundary conditions, the far field conditions, and the matching conditions at the fluid-porous medium interface. The solution is obtained using a numerical procedure known as the method of Adjoints.Received: June 13, 2002; revised: July 7, 2003     

KAM-tori near an analytic elliptic fixed point

We study the accumulation of an elliptic fixed point of a real analytic Hamiltonian by quasi-periodic invariant tori. We show that a fixed point with Diophantine frequency vector ω ₀ is always accumulated by invariant complex analytic KAM-tori. Indeed, the following alternative holds: If the Birkhoff normal form of the Hamiltonian at the invariant point satisfies a Rüssmann transversality condition, the fixed point is accumulated by real analytic KAM-tori which cover positive Lebesgue measure in the phase space (in this part it suffices to assume that ω ₀ has rationally independent coordinates). If the Birkhoff normal form is degenerate, there exists an analytic subvariety of complex dimension at least d + 1 passing through 0 that is foliated by complex analytic KAM-tori with frequency ω ₀. This is an extension of previous results obtained in [1] to the case of an elliptic fixed point.     

A symplectic map and its application to the persistence of lower dimensional invariant tori

We give a nonlinear symplectic coordinator transformation, which can move the normal frequencies of the lower dimensional torus up to (k,w) where ω is the frequency vector of the torus. That means the normal frequencies with a difference (k,w) may be regarded as the same. As an application, we derive a persistence result on lower dimensional tori of nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems when the second Melnikov’s condition is partially violated.     

On the stability of the equilibrium states for Hamiltonian dynamical systems arising in non–equilibrium thermodynamics

In this paper we consider a thermodynamic system with an internal state variable, and study the stability of its equilibrium states by exploiting the reduced entropy inequality. Remarkably, we derive a Hamiltonian dynamical system ruling the evolution of the system in a suitable thermodynamic phase space. The use of the Hamiltonian formalism allows us to prove the equivalence of the asymptotic stability at constant temperature, at constant entropy and at constant energy, thus extending some classical results by Coleman and Gurtin (J. Chem. Phys., 47, 597–613, 1967).     

PT-对称算子的表示及非正交量子态的区分

经典量子系统中的哈密尔顿为自伴算子，这不仅保证了系统能量本征值全部为实数，而且相应的本征态（单位长度的特征向量）构成了状态空间的一组正规正交基.然而存在一类PT-对称的物理系统，哈密尔顿的自伴性（共轭转置）被物理的PT-对称性所代替.一个完整的PT-对称哈密尔顿，其谱全部为实数且能构造一个合理的CPT-内积.本文研究一类PT-对称算子.固定时间反演算子T，得到宇称算子P的矩阵表示，进而给出每一组PT-对称哈密尔顿的具体表示形式.作为应用，选择一组确定的{P，T}算子，及PT-对称的哈密尔顿，给出两个在传统量子力学中不正交的量子态区分的刻画.     

三维方形单元PATTERN的周期流线

应用扰动广义Hamilton系统理论研究Rayleigh-Benard对流三维方形单元Pattern周期流线的存在性.所得结果说明本文的方法给出了三维对流模型的流线周期行为的清晰描述,从而提供了某些实验结果的精确解释.     

Bloch Hamiltonians and topologically ordered states

We consider a universal representation for the Hamiltonian of systems in topologically ordered phase states. We show that for strongly correlated electronic systems, the Hamiltonian expressed in terms of projectors of the Temperley-Lieb algebra on the spin singlet state has the form of a two-dimensional Bloch matrix in the case of doubly linked excitation world lines; in this case, different topological orderings are separated by a quantum critical point where the matrix elements of the Hamiltonian vanish. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 160, No. 1, pp. 220–228, July, 2009.     

A computational glimpse at the Leibniz and Frege hierarchies

In this paper we consider, from a computational point of view, the problem of classifying logics within the Leibniz and Frege hierarchies typical of abstract algebraic logic. The main result states that, for logics presented syntactically, this problem is in general undecidable. More precisely, we show that there is no algorithm that classifies the logic of a finite consistent Hilbert calculus in the Leibniz and in the Frege hierarchies.