Zero-mass fermions in Coulomb and Aharonov-Bohm potentials in 2+1 dimensions

We consider the motion of a relativistic charged zero-mass fermion in Coulomb and Aharonov-Bohm potentials in 2+1 dimensions. With these singular external potentials, we construct one-parameter self-adjoint Dirac Hamiltonians classified by self-adjoint boundary conditions. We show that if the so-called effective charge becomes overcritical, then virtual (quasistationary) bound states occur. The wave functions corresponding to these states have large amplitudes near the Coulomb center, and their energy spectrum is quasidiscrete and consists of a number of broadened levels of a width related to the inverse lifetime of the quasistationary state. We derive equations for the quasidiscrete spectra and quasistationary state lifetimes and solve these equations in physically interesting cases. We study the so-called local densities of state, which can be assessed in physical experiments, as functions of the energy and the problem parameters, investigating these densities both analytically and graphically.     

Fermion bound states in the Aharonov-Bohm field in 2+1 dimensions

We find exact solutions of the Dirac equation that describe fermion bound states in the Aharonov-Bohm potential in 2+1 dimensions with the particle spin taken into account. For this, we construct self-adjoint extensions of the Hamiltonian of the Dirac equation in the Aharonov-Bohm potential in 2+1 dimensions. The self-adjoint extensions depend on a single parameter. We select the range of this parameter in which quantum fermion states are bound. We demonstrate that the energy levels of particles and antiparticles intersect. Because solutions of the Dirac equation in the Aharonov-Bohm potential in 2+1 dimensions describe the behavior of relativistic fermions in the field of the cosmic string in 3+1 dimensions, our results can presumably be used to describe fermions in the cosmic string field.     

The <Emphasis Type="Italic">SU</Emphasis>(3) symmetry and macroscopic dynamics of magnets with spin <Emphasis Type="Italic">s</Emphasis> = 1

In the Hamiltonian approach, we derive nonlinear dynamic equations for magnetic media with spin s = 1. We introduce two types of magnetic exchange Hamiltonians corresponding to the Casimir invariants of the SU(3) group. We find the spectra of spin and quadrupole waves corresponding to the states with different symmetries under the time reversal transformation. We consider the effect of dissipative processes and find relaxation fluxes caused by the exchange symmetry of the magnetic Hamiltonian.     

Singular point perturbation of an odd operator in ℤ2-Graded space

In the paper we study supersymmetric models for point interaction perturbations of operators of Dirac type and their spectral properties. Such models are considered in the class of odd self-adjoint operators in ℤ₂-graded Pontryagin space. We present in detail the previously considered realization method of strongly singular perturbation by means of their embedding into the theory of self-adjoint extensions. We describe odd self-adjoint extensions of odd symmetric operators with deficiency indices (1,1) in ℤ₂-graded Pontryagin space and squares of such extensions using Krein’s formula for the resolvent. The results obtained are refined in application to singular perturbations of odd self-adjoint differential operators. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 924–940, December, 1999.     

Unique continuation of some dispersive waves

We demonstrate that a complex-valued wave on space-time Rⁿ⁺¹ , obtained from square-integrable but not necessarily smooth nonzero initial data and having a suitable Hamiltonian generator or dispersion relation, cannot vanish on a measurable rectangle in Rⁿ⁺¹ . Nor can the product of two such waves vanish in such a rectangle - even waves arising from distinct Hamiltonians or dispersion relations. Examples include the solutions of the free particle Schrödinger equation, the positive energy solutions of the free particle Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, and the positive frequency solutions of the wave equation. Nonlocalization results of this type were obtained by the physicist G. C. Hegerfeldt.     

Some weak self-adjoint Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in financial mathematics

In Gandarias (2011) [12] one of the present authors has introduced the concept of weak self-adjoint equations. This definition generalizes the concept of self-adjoint and quasi self-adjoint equations that were introduced by Ibragimov (2006) [11]. In this paper we find a class of weak self-adjoint Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations which are neither self-adjoint nor quasi self-adjoint. By using a general theorem on conservation laws proved in Ibragimov (2007) [9] and the new concept of weak self-adjointness (Gandarias, 2011) [12] we find conservation laws for some of these partial differential equations.     

First Order Approach and Index Theorems for Discrete and Metric Graphs

The aim of the present paper is to introduce a unified notion of Laplacians on discrete and metric graphs. In order to cover all self-adjoint vertex conditions for the associated metric graph Laplacian, we develop systematically a new type of discrete graph operators acting on a decorated graph. The decoration at each vertex of degree d is given by a subspace of , generalising the fact that a function on the standard vertex space has only a scalar value. We illustrate the abstract concept by giving classical examples throughout the article. Our approach includes infinite graphs as well. We develop the notion of exterior derivative, differential forms, Dirac and Laplace operators in the discrete and metric case, using a supersymmetric framework. We calculate the (supersymmetric) index of the discrete Dirac operator generalising the standard index formula involving the Euler characteristic of a graph. Finally, we show that for finite graphs, the corresponding index for the metric Dirac operator agrees with the discrete one.     

Hierarchy of symplectic forms for the Schrödinger and the Dirac equations on a line

A sequence of symplectic forms have been constructed, relative to each of which the Korteweg-de Vries equation and all its higher analogs are Hamiltonian. The well-known conservation laws serve as the Hamiltonians. An analogous system of forms has been constructed also for a family of equations solvable by use of the inverse scattering problem for the Dirac operator. The results are used in the investigation of the connection between various non-linear evolution equations.     

伪自伴量子系统的酉演化与绝热定理

经典量子系统的哈密尔顿是自伴算子.哈密尔顿算符的自伴性不仅确保了系统遵循酉演化,而且也保证了它自身具有实的能量本征值.但是,确实有一些物理系统,其哈密尔顿是非自伴的,但也具有实的能量本征值,这种具有非自伴哈密尔顿的系统就是非自伴量子系统.具有伪自伴哈密尔顿的系统是一类特殊的非自伴量子系统,其哈密尔顿相似于一个自伴算子.本文研究伪自伴量子系统的酉演化与绝热定理.首先,给出了伪自伴算子定义及其等价刻画;其次,对于伪自伴哈密尔顿系统,通过构造新内积,证明了伪自伴哈密尔顿在新内积下是自伴的,并给出了系统在新内积下为酉演化的充分必要条件.最后,建立了伪自伴量子系统的绝热演化定理及与绝热逼近定理.     

Spontaneous fermion creation in the coulomb field and Aharonov-Bohm potential in 2+1 dimensions

We find exact solutions of the Dirac equation and the fermion energy spectrum in the Coulomb (vector and scalar) potential and Aharonov-Bohm potential in 2+1 dimensions taking the particle spin into account. We describe the fermion spin using the two-component Dirac equation with the additional (spin) parameter introduced by Hagen. We consider the effect of creation of fermion pairs from the vacuum by a strong Coulomb field in the Aharonov-Bohm potential in 2+1 dimensions. We obtain transcendental equations implicitly determining the electron energy spectrum near the boundary of the lower energy continuum and the critical charge. We numerically solve the equation for the critical charge. We show that for relatively weak magnetic flows, the critical charge decreases (compared with the case with no magnetic field) if the energy of interaction of the electron spin magnetic moment with the magnetic field is negative and increases if this energy is positive. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 158, No. 2, pp. 250–262, February, 2009.     

Ergodic semigroups of positivity preserving self-adjoint operators

We prove that an ergodic semigroup of positivity preserving self-adjoint operators is positivity improving. We also present a new proof (using Markov techniques) of the ergodicity of semigroups generated by spatially cutoff P(?)₂ Hamiltonians.     

Approximation of eigenvalues below the essential spectra of singular second-order symmetric linear difference equations

This paper is concerned with approximation of eigenvalues below the essential spectra of singular second-order symmetric linear difference equations with at least one endpoint in the limit point case. A sufficient condition is firstly given for that the k-th eigenvalue of a self-adjoint subspace (relation) below its essential spectrum is exactly the limit of the k-th eigenvalues of a sequence of self-adjoint subspaces. Then, by applying it to singular second-order symmetric linear difference equations, the approximation of eigenvalues below the essential spectra is obtained, i.e., for any given self-adjoint subspace extension of the corresponding minimal subspace, its k-th eigenvalue below its essential spectrum is exactly the limit of the k-th eigenvalues of a sequence of constructed induced regular self-adjoint subspace extensions.     

Conservation laws for a variable coefficient nonlinear diffusion–convection–reaction equation

We find the Lie point symmetries of a class of second-order nonlinear diffusion–convection–reaction equations containing an unspecified coefficient function of the independent variable t and determine the subclasses of these equations which are nonlinearly self-adjoint. By using a general theorem on conservation laws proved recently by N.H. Ibragimov we establish conservation laws corresponding to the aforementioned Lie point symmetries, one by one, for the simultaneous system of the original equation together with its adjoint equation through a formal Lagrangian. Particularly, for the nonlinearly self-adjoint subclasses, we construct conservation laws for the corresponding equations themselves.     

Hypercomplex Functional Calculi and Function Theories in Clifford Analysis

Some properties of hypercomplex functions (the null solutions of the polynomial Dirac operators in Rⁿ⁺¹) in Clifford Analysis are discussed, their hypercomplex functional calculi for an n-tuple non-commuting self-adjoint operators A are constructed by the use of Cauchy integral formulas, the polynomial approaches to functional calculi are also considered. Although these hypercomplex function theories have different representative forms, their hypercomplex functional calculi are the same as the monogenic functional calculus.     

Dirac Operators on Hermitian Spin Surfaces

We prove the conformal invariance of the dimension of thekernel of any of the self-adjoint Dirac operators associated to thecanonical Hermitian connections on Hermitian spin surface. In the caseof a surface of nonnegative conformal scalar curvature we estimate thefirst eigenvalue of the self-adjoint Dirac operator associated to theChern connection and list the surfaces on which its kernel isnontrivial.     

On the Similarity of Sturm–Liouville Operators with Non-Hermitian Boundary Conditions to Self-Adjoint and Normal Operators

We consider one-dimensional Schrödinger-type operators in a bounded interval with non-self-adjoint Robin-type boundary conditions. It is well known that such operators are generically conjugate to normal operators via a similarity transformation. Motivated by recent interests in quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonians in quantum mechanics, we study properties of the transformations and similar operators in detail. In the case of parity and time reversal boundary conditions, we establish closed integral-type formulae for the similarity transformations, derive a non-local self-adjoint operator similar to the Schrödinger operator and also find the associated “charge conjugation” operator, which plays the role of fundamental symmetry in a Krein-space reformulation of the problem.