Bogoliubov Spectrum of Interacting Bose Gases

We study the large‐N limit of a system of N bosons interacting with a potential of intensity 1/N. When the ground state energy is to the first order given by Hartree's theory, we study the next order, predicted by Bogoliubov's theory. We show the convergence of the lower eigenvalues and eigenfunctions towards that of the Bogoliubov Hamiltonian (up to a convenient unitary transform). We also prove the convergence of the free energy when the system is sufficiently trapped. Our results are valid in an abstract setting, our main assumptions being that the Hartree ground state is unique and nondegenerate, and that there is complete Bose‐Einstein condensation on this state. Using our method we then treat two applications: atoms with “bosonic” electrons on one hand, and trapped two‐dimensional and three‐dimensional Coulomb gases on the other hand. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Convergence analysis of the LDG method applied to singularly perturbed problems

Considering a two‐dimensional singularly perturbed convection–diffusion problem with exponential boundary layers, we analyze the local discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method that uses piecewise bilinear polynomials on Shishkin mesh. A convergence rate O(N^‐1 lnN) in a DG‐norm is established under the regularity assumptions, while the total number of mesh points is O(N²). The rate of convergence is uniformly valid with respect to the singular perturbation parameter ε. Numerical experiments indicate that the theoretical error estimate is sharp. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2013     

Maximal commutative subalgebras of matrix algebras

Maximal commutative subalgebras of the algebra of n by n matrices over a field k very rarely have dimension smaller than n. There is a (B, N)-construction which yields subalgebras of this kind. The Courter's algebra that is of this kind was shown a (B, N)-construction where B is the Schur algebra of size 4 and N = k ⁴. That is, the Courter's algebra is isomorphic to B ? (k ⁴)², the idealization of (k ⁴)². It was questioned how many isomorphism classes can be produced by varying the finitely generated faithful B-module N. In this paper, we will show that the set of all algebras B ? N ² fall into a single isomorphism class, where B is the Schur algebra of size 4 and N a finitely generated faithful B-module.     

Ergodicity of 2D stochastic Ginzburg–Landau–Newell equations driven by degenerate noise

The current paper is devoted to stochastic Ginzburg–Landau–Newell equation with degenerate random forcing. The existence and pathwise uniqueness of strong solutions with H¹‐initial data is established, and then the existence of an invariant measure for the Feller semigroup is shown by Krylov–Bogoliubov theorem. Because of the coupled items in the stochastic Ginzburg–Landau–Newell equations, the higher order momentum estimates can be only obtained in the L²‐norm. We show the ergodicity of invariant measure for the transition semigroup by asymptotically strong Feller property and the support property. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Using Random Quasi-Monte-Carlo Within Particle Filters,With Application to Financial Time Series

This article presents a new particle filter algorithm which uses random quasi-Monte-Carlo to propagate particles. The filter can be used generally, but here it is shown that for one-dimensional state-space models, if the number of particles is N, then the rate of convergence of this algorithm is N^?1. This compares favorably with the N^?1/2 convergence rate of standard particle filters. The computational complexity of the new filter is quadratic in the number of particles, as opposed to the linear computational complexity of standard methods. I demonstrate the new filter on two important financial time series models, an ARCH model and a stochastic volatility model. Simulation studies show that for fixed CPU time, the new filter can be orders of magnitude more accurate than existing particle filters. The new filter is particularly efficient at estimating smooth functions of the states, where empirical rates of convergence are N^?3/2; and for performing smoothing, where both the new and existing filters have the same computational complexity.     

Global Well‐Posedness of the Three‐Dimensional Primitive Equations with Only Horizontal Viscosity and Diffusion

In this paper, we consider the initial boundary value problem of the three‐dimensional primitive equations for planetary oceanic and atmospheric dynamics with only horizontal eddy viscosity in the horizontal momentum equations and only horizontal diffusion in the temperature equation. Global well‐posedness of the strong solution is established for any H² initial data. An N‐dimensional logarithmic Sobolev embedding inequality, which bounds the L^∞‐norm in terms of the L^q‐norms up to a logarithm of the L^p‐norm for p > N of the first‐order derivatives, and a system version of the classic Grönwall inequality are exploited to establish the required a~priori H² estimates for global regularity.© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Talagrand＇s T2-transportation Inequality w.r.t, a Uniform Metric for Diffusions

Using the method of Girsanov transformation, we establish the Talagrand‘s T2-inequality for diffusion on the path space C([0, N], R^d) with respect to a uniform metric, with the constant independent of N. This improves the known results for the L2-metric.     

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL FOR INVESTIGATING AGRICULTURALLY DRIVEN LAND TRANSFORMATION IN THE NORTH CENTRAL UNITED STATES

Land transformation from grassland to cropland in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) has become a growing concern among many stakeholders. A growing body of work has sought to determine the amount and rate of land use change with less emphasis on the systemic structures or feedback processes of land use decisions. This paper presents the development of a system dynamics simulation model to integrate ecological, economic, and social components influencing land use decisions, including cattle ranching, cropland production, rural communities, land quality, and public policies. Evaluation indicated that the model satisfactorily predicted historical land, agricultural commodity, and rural community data from the model structure. Reference modes for key variables, including the farmland area, were characterized by a bias correction of 0.999, root mean squared error of prediction of 0.053, R² of 0.921, and concordance correlation coefficient of 0.0959. The model was robust under extreme and varying sensitivity tests, as well as adequately predicting land use under changing system context. The model's major contributions were the inclusion of decision‐making feedbacks from economic and social signals with connectivity to land quality and elasticity values that drive land transformation. Limitations include lack of spatial input and output capabilities useful for visual interfacing.     

New Solvable Variants of the Goldfish Many‐Body Problem

A technique to manufacture solvable variants of the “goldfish” many‐body problem is introduced, and several many‐body problems yielded by it are identified and discussed, including cases featuring multiperiodic or isochronous dynamics.     

Local Semicircle Law for Random Regular Graphs

We consider random d‐regular graphs on N vertices, with degree d at least (log N)⁴. We prove that the Green's function of the adjacency matrix and the Stieltjes transform of its empirical spectral measure are well approximated by Wigner's semicircle law, down to the optimal scale given by the typical eigenvalue spacing (up to a logarithmic correction). Aside from well‐known consequences for the local eigenvalue distribution, this result implies the complete (isotropic) delocalization of all eigenvectors and a probabilistic version of quantum unique ergodicity.© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Effective Dynamics of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation on Large Domains

We consider the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation posed on the box [0,L]^d with periodic boundary conditions. The aim is to describe the long‐time dynamics by deriving effective equations for it when L is large and the characteristic size ɛ of the data is small. Such questions arise naturally when studying dispersive equations that are posed on large domains (like water waves in the ocean), and also in the theory of statistical physics of dispersive waves, which goes by the name of “wave turbulence.” Our main result is deriving a new equation, the continuous resonant (CR) equation, which describes the effective dynamics for large L and small ɛ over very large timescales. Such timescales are well beyond the (a) nonlinear timescale of the equation, and (b) the euclidean timescale at which the effective dynamics are given by (NLS) on ℝ^d. The proof relies heavily on tools from analytic number theory, such as a relatively modern version of the Hardy‐Littlewood circle method, which are modified and extended to be applicable in a PDE setting.© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

On realization of the Kreĭn–Langer class Nκ of matrix‐valued functions in Pontryagin spaces

In this paper the realization problems for the Kre?n–Langer class N_κ of matrix‐valued functions are being considered. We found the criterion when a given matrix‐valued function from the class N_κ can be realized as linear‐fractional transformation of the transfer function of canonical conservative system of the M. Livsic type (Brodskii–Livsic rigged operator colligation) with the main operator acting on a rigged Pontryagin space Π_κ with indefinite metric. We specify three subclasses of the class N_κ (R) of all realizable matrix‐valued functions that correspond to different properties of a realizing system, in particular, when the domains of the main operator of a system and its conjugate coincide, when the domain of the hermitian part of a main operator is dense in Π_κ . Alternatively we show that the class N_κ (R) can be realized as transfer matrix‐functions of some canonical impedance systems with self‐adjoint main operators in rigged spaces Π_κ . The case of scalar functions of the class N_κ (R) is considered in details and some examples are presented. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Scaling limits for internal aggregation models with multiple sources

We study the scaling limits of three different aggregation models on ℤ ^d : internal DLA, in which particles perform random walks until reaching an unoccupied site; the rotor-router model, in which particles perform deterministic analogues of random walks; and the divisible sandpile, in which each site distributes its excess mass equally among its neighbors. As the lattice spacing tends to zero, all three models are found to have the same scaling limit, which we describe as the solution to a certain PDE free boundary problem in ℝ ^d . In particular, internal DLA has a deterministic scaling limit. We find that the scaling limits are quadrature domains, which have arisen independently in many fields such as potential theory and fluid dynamics. Our results apply both to the case of multiple point sources and to the Diaconis-Fulton smash sum of domains.     

Finite Time Blow-up for a Non-linear Parabolic Equation with a Gradient Term and Applications

We give new finite time blow-up results for the non-linear parabolic equations u_t−Δu = u^p and u_t−Δu+μ∣∇u∣^q = u^p. We first establish an a priori bound in L^p+1 for the positive non-decreasing global solutions. As a consequence, we prove in particular that for the second equation on ℝ^N, with q = 2p/(p+1) and small μ>0, blow-up can occur for any N≥1, p>1, (N−2)p<N+2 and without energy restriction on the initial data. Incidentally, we present a simple model in population dynamics involving this equation.     

Post-Coulombian Dynamics at Order c-3

Summary. We study the dynamics of N charges interacting with the Maxwell field. If their initial velocities are small compared to the velocity of light, c , then in lowest order their motion is governed by the static Coulomb Lagrangian. We investigate higher-order corrections with an explicit control on the error terms. The Darwin correction, order |v/c| ² , has been proved previously. In this contribution we obtain the dissipative corrections due to radiation damping, which are of order |v/c| ³ relative to the Coulomb dynamics. If all particles have the same charge-to-mass ratio, the dissipation would vanish at that order. Received February 7, 2001; accepted September 21, 2001 Online publication November 30, 2001     

On Gevrey solvability and regularity

In this paper we study global C^∞ and Gevrey solvability for a class of sublaplacian defined on the torus T ³. We also prove Gevrey regularity for a class of solutions of certain operators that are globally C^∞ hypoelliptic in the N ‐dimensional torus (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Laplace-type exact asymptotic formulas for the Bogoliubov Gaussian measure

We obtain new asymptotic formulas for two classes of Laplace-type functional integrals with the Bogoliubov measure. The principal functionals are the L^p functionals with 0 < p < ∞ and two functionals of the exact-upper-bound type. In particular, we prove theorems on the Laplace-type asymptotic behavior for the moments of the L^p norm of the Bogoliubov Gaussian process when the moment order becomes infinitely large. We establish the existence of the threshold value p ₀ = 2+4π ² /β ² ω ₂ , where β > 0 is the inverse temperature and ω > 0 is the harmonic oscillator eigenfrequency. We prove that the asymptotic behavior under investigation differs for 0 < p < p ₀ and p > p ₀ . We obtain similar asymptotic results for large deviations for the Bogoliubov measure. We establish the scaling property of the Bogoliubov process, which allows reducing the number of independent parameters.     

The heat equation under conditions on the moments in higher dimensions

We consider the heat equation on the N‐dimensional cube (0, 1)^N and impose different classes of integral conditions, instead of usual boundary ones. Well‐posedness results for the heat equation under the condition that the moments of order 0 and 1 are conserved had been known so far only in the case of , for which such conditions can be easily interpreted as conservation of mass and barycenter. In this paper we show that in the case of general N the heat equation with such integral conditions is still well‐posed, upon suitably relaxing the notion of solution. Existence of solutions with general initial data in a suitable space of distributions over (0, 1)^N are proved by introducing two appropriate realizations of the Laplacian and checking by form methods that they generate analytic semigroups. The solution thus obtained turns out to solve the heat equation only in a certain distributional sense. However, one of these realizations is tightly related to a well‐known object of operator theory, the Krein–von Neumann extension of the Laplacian. This connection also establishes well‐posedness in a classical sense, as long as the initial data are L²‐functions.     

Ergodicity and Lyapunov Functions for Langevin Dynamics with Singular Potentials

We study Langevin dynamics of N particles on ℝ^d interacting through a singular repulsive potential, e.g., the well-known Lennard-Jones type, and show that the system converges to the unique invariant Gibbs measure exponentially fast in a weighted total variation distance. The proof of the main result relies on an explicit construction of a Lyapunov function. In contrast to previous results for such systems, our result implies geometric convergence to equilibrium starting from an essentially optimal family of initial distributions. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Gauss‐Green theorem for weakly differentiable vector fields,sets of finite perimeter,and balance laws

We analyze a class of weakly differentiable vector fields F : ?ⁿ → ?ⁿ with the property that F ∈ L^∞ and div F is a (signed) Radon measure. These fields are called bounded divergence‐measure fields. The primary focus of our investigation is to introduce a suitable notion of the normal trace of any divergence‐measure field F over the boundary of an arbitrary set of finite perimeter that ensures the validity of the Gauss‐Green theorem. To achieve this, we first establish a fundamental approximation theorem which states that, given a (signed) Radon measure μ that is absolutely continuous with respect to ??^{N ? 1} on ?^N, any set of finite perimeter can be approximated by a family of sets with smooth boundary essentially from the measure‐theoretic interior of the set with respect to the measure ||μ||, the total variation measure. We employ this approximation theorem to derive the normal trace of F on the boundary of any set of finite perimeter E as the limit of the normal traces of F on the boundaries of the approximate sets with smooth boundary so that the Gauss‐Green theorem for F holds on E. With these results, we analyze the Cauchy flux that is bounded by a nonnegative Radon measure over any oriented surface (i.e., an (N ? 1)‐dimensional surface that is a part of the boundary of a set of finite perimeter) and thereby develop a general mathematical formulation of the physical principle of the balance law through the Cauchy flux. Finally, we apply this framework to the derivation of systems of balance laws with measure‐valued source terms from the formulation of the balance law. This framework also allows the recovery of Cauchy entropy flux through the Lax entropy inequality for entropy solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.