Monodromy- and spectrum-preserving deformations I

A method for solving certain nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations is developed. The central idea is to study monodromy preserving deformations of linear ordinary differential equations with regular and irregular singular points. The connections with isospectral deformations and with classical and recent work on monodromy preserving deformations are discussed. Specific new results include the reduction of the general initial value problem for the Painlevé equations of the second type and a special case of the third type to a system of linear singular integral equations. Several classes of solutions are discussed, and in particular the general expression for rational solutions for the second Painlevé equation family is shown to be –d/dx ln(₊/_–), where ₊ and _– are determinants. We also demonstrate that each of these equations is an exactly integrable Hamiltonian system. The basic ideas presented here are applicable to a broad class of ordinary and partial differential equations; additional results will be presented in a sequence of future papers.     

Graphical solution of special kinetic differential equations

A system of homogeneous linear differential equations describes the time evolution of many dynamic systems in physics. chemistry, and biology (e.g. radioactive decay, chemical kinetics of monomolecular reactions, etc.). A graph-theory approach for the direct solution of this system represented by an acyclic reaction graph is elaborated. Applying this simple method one can construct the time-dependent solution immediately from the corresponding reaction graph.I would like to express my thanks to Drs. Z. Slanina and P. Hadrava for many helpful discussions and critical comments concerning the subject of this communication. I am greatly indebted to Prof. V. Kvasnika for all the support and understanding he has given to my work in this field.     

The geometry of the hyperbolic system for an anisotropic perfectly elastic medium

We evaluate the fundamental solution of the hyperbolic system describing the generation and propagation of elastic waves in an anisotropic solid by studying the homology of the algebraic hypersurface defined by the characteristic equation, also known as the slowness surface. Our starting point is the Herglotz-Petrovsky-Leray integral representation of the fundamental solution. We find an explicit decomposition of the latter solution into integrals over vanishing cycles associated with the isolated singularities on the slowness surface. As is well known in the theory of isolated singularities, integrals over vanishing cycles satisfy a system of differential equations known as Picard-Fuchs equations. Such equations are linear and can have at most regular singular points. We discuss a method to obtain these equations explicitly. Subsequently, we use the monodromy properties around the regular singular points to find the asymptotic behavior according to the different types of singularities that may appear on a wave front in three dimensions. This is a method alternative to the one that arises in the Maslov theory of oscillating integrals. Our work sheds new light on how to compute and classify the Cagniard-De Hoop contour in the complex radial horizontal slowness plane; this contour is used in numerical integration schemes to obtain the full time behaviour of the fundamental solution for a given direction of propagation.     

Asymptotic regularizations and shocks in noninductive heat-current-free relativistic fluids

We have developed elsewhere (cf. [1]) a method, which we call asymptotic regularizations, designed to give shock and infinitesimal shock wave equations for systems of partial differential equations. What we intend to do here is to illustrate its usefulness when applied to a specific system of partial differential equations, namely, that of noninductive, heatcurrent-free perfect relativistic fluids.     

Stability borders and classification of density perturbation propagations in deDonder-gauge on a cosmological background

We investigate the propagation and the stability borders of density and metric perturbations on a cosmological background in linear perturbation theory in deDonder-gauge. We obtain the algebraic equations for the generally time-dependent stability borders by setting the typical time for perturbation contrasts infinite in the set of differential equations, while all other typical times stay finite. In dD-gauge there are in general three stability borders whereas in synchronous gauge there is only one. In the limiting cases of radiation perturbations and dustlike perturbations we obtain in deDonder-gauge no stability border resp. only one stability border (the ordinary Jeans limit). The first case is in contrast to the synchronous gauge and means that radiation perturbations cannot become unstable. During the recombination there could be three stability borders. We classify the propagation solutions and the systems of differential equations governing them by comparing the characteristic times in the original general system of differential equations, in deDonder-gauge and synchronous gauge. The greatest differences for the propagation of density contrasts arise from the presence of a gravitational wave time scale in deDonder-gauge. This becomes significant if the density perturbations are relativistic with respect to the velocity of sound. Gravitational retardation effects are the origin of the 6-dimensionality of the solution space for density contrasts. This reflects the necessity and physical meaning of gauge solutions.     

Exact travelling solutions for some nonlinear physical models by ( <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis>′/ <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis>)-expansion method

In this paper, we establish exact solutions for some special nonlinear partial differential equations. The (G′/G)-expansion method is used to construct travelling wave solutions of the two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation, Dodd–Bullough–Mikhailov and Schrödinger–KdV equations, which appear in many fields such as, solid-state physics, nonlinear optics, fluid dynamics, fluid flow, quantum field theory, electromagnetic waves and so on. In this method we take the advantage of general solutions of second-order linear ordinary differential equation (LODE) to solve many nonlinear evolution equations effectively. The (G′/G)-expansion method is direct, concise and elementary and can be used with a wider applicability for handling many nonlinear wave equations.     

Differential Equations Compatible with KZ Equations

We define a system of dynamical differential equations compatible with the KZ differential equations. The KZ differential equations are associated to a complex simple Lie algebra g. These are equations on a function of n complex variables z _i taking values in the tensor product of n finite dimensional g-modules. The KZ equations depend on the dual variable in the Cartan subalgebra of g. The dynamical differential equations are differential equations with respect to the dual variable. We prove that the standard hypergeometric solutions of the KZ equations also satisfy the dynamical equations. As an application we give a new determinant formula for the coordinates of a basis of hypergeometric solutions.     

Monopoles and Baker functions

The work in this paper pertains to the solutions of Nahm's equations, which arise in the Atiyah-Drinfield-Hitchin-Manin-Nahm construction of solutions to the Bogomol'nyi equations for static monopoles. This paper provides an explicit construction of the solution of Nahm's equations which satisfy regularity and reality conditions. The Lax form of Nahm's equations is reduced to a standard eigenvalue problem by a special gauge transformation. These equations may then be solved by the method of Baker-Krichever. This leads to a compact representation of the solutions of Nahm's equations. The regularity condition is shown to be related to the monodromy of the gauge reduced linear operator. Hitchin showed that the solutions of Nahm's equations can be characterized by an algebraic curve and some data on that curve. Here, this characterization reduces to a transcendental equation involving certain loop integrals of a meromorphic differential. Donaldson coordinatized the moduli space ofk-monopoles by a class of rational maps from the Riemann sphere to itself. The data of a Baker function is equivalent to this map. This method gives an apriori construction of the (known) two monopole solutions. We also give a generalization of the two monopole solution to a class of elliptic solutions of arbitrary charge. These solutions correspond to reducible curves with elliptic components and the associated Donaldson rational function has a simple partial fraction expansion.Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant Number DMS-8701318 and the Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences, sponsored by AFOSR Contract F49620-86-C0130 with the University Research Initiative Program at the University of Arizona     

The Gaussian effective potential and stochastic partial differential equations

We investigate arbitrary stochastic partial differential equations subject to translation invariant and temporally white noise correlations from a nonperturbative framework. The method that we expose first casts the stochastic equations into a functional integral form, then it makes use of the Gaussian effective potential approach, which is an useful tool for describing symmetry breaking. We apply this method to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and find that the system exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking in and (3+1) Euclidean dimensions, providing insight into the evolution of the system configuration due to the presence of noise correlations. A simple and systematic approach to the renormalization, without explicit regularization, is employed.     

Space-time as a micromorphic continuum

We review generally-covariant Lagrangians for the field of linear coframes in ann-dimensional manifold. Discussed are Lagrangians invariant under the internal groupGL(n, ) and under its pseudo-Euclidean subgroups. It is shown that group spaces of semisimple Lie groups and certain of their modifications are natural vacuumlike solutions for allGL(n, )-invariant models. In some sense the signature of space-time may be interpreted as a consequence of differential equations; the velocity of light is an integration constant.     

Diode-pumped Tm: YAG solid-state lasers with indirect and direct manifold pumping

We study the continuous-wave (cw) characteristics of both two-manifold and three-manifold Tm: YAG laser pumped at _p 1.8 µm or _p = 0.785 µm and lasing at ₁ = 2.02 µm. The three-manifold rate equations are adiabatically reduced to their two-manifold form. For each pumping scheme, the steady-state rate equations are combined with the cw differential equations for the forward- and reverse-lasing fields and the pump-depletion differential equation. These three coupled cw differential equations are solved analytically. This gives the linear flux-conservation law between the input pump and the laser output, the minimum crystal length, and optimal output couplings. We show that the major difference between these two pumping schemes is due to the different pump effective absorption cross sections and not the two-for-one cross relaxation. Our example shows that the minimum intensity threshold and optimal crystal length are smaller for pumping at _tp = 0.785 µm than pumping at _p 1.8 µm.     

Implementation of three reliable methods for finding the exact solutions of (2 + 1) dimensional generalized fractional evolution equations

In this study, we have implemented the three methods namely extended \((G^{\prime}/G)\)-expansion, extended \((1/G^{\prime})\)-expansion and \((G^{\prime}/G,\,\,1/G)\)-expansion methods to determine exact solutions for the (2 + 1) dimensional generalized time–space fractional differential equations. We use Conformable fractional derivative and its properties in this research to convert fractional differential equations to ordinary differential equations with integer order. By using above mentioned methods, three types of traveling wave solutions are successfully obtained which have been expressed by the hyperbolic, trigonometric, and rational function solutions. The considered methods and transformation techniques are efficient and consistent for solving nonlinear time and space-fractional differential equations.     

Construction of new exact solutions to time-fractional two-component evolutionary system of order 2 via different methods

This paper is concerned with the applications of five different methods including the sub-equation method, the tanh method, the modified Kudryashov method, the \(\left( \frac{G'}{G}\right)\)-expansion method and the Exp-function method to construct exact solutions of time-fractional two-component evolutionary system of order 2. We first convert this type of fractional equations to the nonlinear ordinary differential equations by means of fractional complex transform. Then, the five methods are adopted to solve the nonlinear ordinary differential equations. As a result, some new exact solutions are obtained. It is also shown that each of the considered methods can be used as an alternative for solving fractional differential equations.     

A Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory of gravity

We postulate the energy-momentum functionE for the ECSK theory of gravity and formulate the functional Hamiltonian equation in terms of the energy-momentum functionE and the symplectic 2-form . The system of partial differential equations which follows from the functional Hamilton equation is equivalent to the system of variational equations of the ECSK theory. The Hamiltonian method gives rise to a natural division of these equations into 10 constraint equations and the set of dynamical equations. We discuss the geometric sense of the constraint equations and their relations to the initial value problem.     

Transition factor method for discrete master equations; and application to chemical reactions

We introduce transition factors and derive equations for them which are equivalent to the originalN-dimensional discrete master equation. After transition to continuous variables we obtain nonlocal partial differential equations for these transition factors which are slowly varying variables. Finally we consider a chemical reaction system. Using this method the corresponding master equation is exactly solvable in a very simple manner.     

Quantum Trajectories, State Diffusion, and Time-Asymmetric Eventum Mechanics

We show that the quantum stochastic Langevin model for continuous in time measurements provides an exact formulation of the von Neumann uncertainty error-disturbance principle. Moreover, as it was shown in the 1980s, this Markov model induces all stochastic linear and nonlinear equations of the phenomenological informational dynamics such as quantum state diffusion and spontaneous localization by a simple quantum filtering method. Here we prove that the quantum Langevin equation is equivalent to a Dirac-type boundary-value problem for the second quantized input offer waves from future in one extra dimension, and to a reduction of the algebra of the consistent histories of past events to an Abelian subalgebra for the trajectories of the output particles. This result supports the wave-particle duality in the form of the thesis of Eventum Mechanics that everything in the future is constituted by quantized waves, everything in the past by trajectories of the recorded particles. We demonstrate how this time arrow can be derived from the principle of quantum causality for nondemolition continuous in time measurements.     

Representations of affine Lie algebras,ellipticr-matrix systems,and special functions

The author considers an elliptic analogue of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations—the consistent system of linear differential equations arising from the elliptic solution of the classical Yang-Baxter equation for the Lie algebra . The solutions of this system are interpreted as traces of products of intertwining operators between certain representations of the affine Lie algebra. A new differential equation for such traces characterizing their behavior under the variation of the modulus of the underlying elliptic curve is deduced. This equation is consistent with the original system.It is shown that the system extended by the new equation is modular invariant, and the corresponding monodromy representations of the modular group are defined. Some elementary examples in which the system can be solved explicitly (in terms of elliptic and modular functions) are considered. The monodromy of the system is explicitly computed with the help of the trace interpretation of solutions. Projective representations of the braid group of the torus and representations of the double affine Hecke algebra are obtained.     

Perturbative Solutions of the Extended Constraint Equations in General Relativity

The extended constraint equations arise as a special case of the conformal constraint equations that are satisfied by an initial data hypersurface in an asymptotically simple space-time satisfying the vacuum conformal Einstein equations developed by H. Friedrich. The extended constraint equations consist of a quasi-linear system of partial differential equations for the induced metric, the second fundamental form and two other tensorial quantities defined on , and are equivalent to the usual constraint equations that satisfies as a space-like hypersurface in a space-time satisfying Einstein’s vacuum equation. This article develops a method for finding perturbative, asymptotically flat solutions of the extended constraint equations in a neighbourhood of the flat solution on Euclidean space. This method is fundamentally different from the ‘classical’ method of Lichnerowicz and York that is used to solve the usual constraint equations.