The CPT Group of the Dirac Field

Using the standard representation of the Dirac equation, we show that, up to signs, there exist only two sets of consistent solutions for the matrices of charge conjugation (C), parity (P), and time reversal (T), which give the transformation of fields , and , where and . These sets are given by , , and , , . Then , and two successive applications of the parity transformation to fermion fields necessarily amount to a 2 rotation. Each of these sets generates a non abelian group of 16 elements, respectively, and , which are non isomorphic subgroups of the Dirac algebra, which, being a Clifford algebra, gives a geometric nature to the generators, in particular to charge conjugation. It turns out that and , where is the dihedral group of eight elements, the group of symmetries of the square, and 16E is a non trivial extension of by , isomorphic to a semidirect product of these groups; S₆ and S₈ are the symmetric groups of six and eight elements. The matrices are also given in the Weyl representation, suitable for taking the massless limit, and in the Majorana representation, describing self-conjugate fields. Instead, the quantum operators C, P and T, acting on the Hilbert space, generate a unique group , which we call the CPT group of the Dirac field. This group, however, is compatible only with the second of the above two matrix solutions, namely with , which is then called the matrix CPT group. It turns out that , where is the dicyclic group of 8 elements and S₁₀ is the symmetric group of 10 elements. Since , the quaternion group, and , the 0-sphere, then .     

On the Product of Real Spectral Triples

The product of two real spectral triples and , the first of which is necessarily even, was defined by A.Connes as given by and, in the even-even case, by . Generically it is assumed that the real structure obeys the relations , , , where the -sign table depends on the dimension n modulo 8 of the spectral triple. If both spectral triples obey Connes' >-sign table, it is seen that their product, defined in the straightforward way above, does not necessarily obey this -sign table. In this Letter, we propose an alternative definition of the product real structure such that the -sign table is also satisfied by the product.     

Tunneling Across an Inhomogeneous Delta-Barrier

The authors deal with the tunneling of electrons across an inhomogeneous delta-barrier defined by the potential energy (where 0$$ " align="middle" border="0"> and 0$$ " align="middle" border="0"> are two constants). In particular, the perpendicular incidence of an electron with a given value of the wave vector is considered. The electron is forward-scattered into the region behind the barrier (region 2: 0$$ " align="middle" border="0"> ), i. e. the wave function is composed of plane waves with all wave vectors such that and \left. 0 \right)} $$ " align="middle" border="0"> ) (where ). Therefore, if 0$$ " align="middle" border="0"> , the wave function of the electron is represented as , where . An approximate formula is derived for the amplitude . The authors pay a special attention to the flow density and calculate this function in two cases: 1. for the plane and 2. for high values of is the diffraction angle). The authors discuss the relevance of their diffraction problem in a prospective quantum-mechanical theory of the tunneling of electrons across a randomly inhomogeneous Schottky barrier.     

Dirac-Hestenes Lagrangian

We formulate the variational principle of theDirac equation within the noncommutative even space-timesubalgebra, the Clifford -algebra . A fundamental ingredient in ourmultivectorial algebraic formulation is a -complex geometry, . We derive the Lagrangian for theDirac-Hestenes equation and show that it must be mapped on , where denotes an -algebra of functions.     

Covariant (hh′)-Deformed Bosonic and Fermionic Algebras as Contraction Limits of q-Deformed Ones

GL_h(n) ×GL_h(m)-covariant (hh)-bosonic[or (hh)-fermionic] algebras are built in terms of thecorresponding R_h and -matrices by contracting theGL_q(n) × -covariant q-bosonic (or q-fermionic) algebras , = 1, 2.When using a basis of wherein theannihilation operators are contragredient to thecreation ones, this contraction procedure can be carried out for any n, m values. Whenemploying instead a basis wherein the annihilationoperators, like the creation ones, are irreducibletensor operators with respect to the dual quantumalgebra U_q(gl(n)) , a contraction limit only exists forn, m {1, 2, 4, 6, . . .}. For n = 2, m = 1, andn = m = 2, the resulting relations can be expressed interms of coupled (anti)commutators (as in the classical case), by usingU_h(sl(2)) [instead of s1(2)] Clebsch-Gordancoefficients. Some U_h(sl(2)) rank-1/2irreducible tensor operators recently constructed byAizawa are shown to provide a realization of (2, 1).     

Fractional Spin Through Quantum Affine Algebras with Vanishing Central Charge

We study the fractional decomposition of the quantum enveloping affine algebras and with vanishing central charge in the limit . This decomposition is based on the bosonic representation and can be related to fractional supersymmetry and k-fermionic spin. The quantum affine algebras and the classical ones are equivalent in the fermionic realization.     

How to Describe the Space-Time Structure with Nets of C*-Algebras

The major subject of algebraic quantum fieldtheory is the study of nets of local C*-algebras, i.e.,maps ( ) assigning to each open,relatively compact region of space-time (M, g) aC*-algebra ( ), whose self-adjoint elements describe localobservables measurable in the region . A question discussed recently in a number ofpapers is how much information about the geometricstructure of the underlying space-time (M, g) is encoded in the algebraicstructure of the net ( ). Followingthese ideas, it is demonstrated in this paper howspace-time-related concepts like causality and observerscan be described in a purely algebraic way, i.e., using only thelocal algebras ( ).These results are then used to show how the space-time(M, g) can be reconstructed from the set _loc := { ( )| M open, compact} of local algebras.     

Observables and Statistical Maps

This article begins with a review of the framework of fuzzy probability theory. The basic structure is given by the -effect algebra of effects (fuzzy events) and the set of probability measures on a measurable space . An observable is defined, where is the value space of X. It is noted that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between states on and elements of and between observables and -morphisms from to . Various combinations of observables are discussed. These include compositions, products, direct products, and mixtures. Fuzzy stochastic processes are introduced and an application to quantum dynamics is considered. Quantum effects are characterized from among a more general class of effects. An alternative definition of a statistical map is given and it is shown that any statistical map has a unique extension to a statistical operator. Finally, various combinations of statistical maps are discussed and their relationships to the corresponding combinations of observables are derived.     

Energy Levels of Interacting Fields in a Box

We study the influence of boundary conditions on energy levels of interacting fields in a box and discuss some consequences when we hange the size of the box. In order to do this we calculate the energy levels of bound states of a scalar massive field nteracting with another scalar field through the Lagrangian = > in a one-dimensional box on which we impose Dirichlet boundary conditions. We find that the gap between the bound states changes with the size of the box in a nontrivial way. For the case where the masses of the two fields are equal and for large box the energy levels of Dashen-Hasslacher-Neveu (DHN model) are recovered and we have a kind of boson condensate for the ground state. Below a critical box size the ground-state level splits, which we interpret as particle-antiparticle production under small perturbations of box size. Below other critical sizes, and , of the box, the ground state and firstexcited state merge in the continuum part of the spectrum.     

Finitary Spacetime Sheaves of Quantum Causal Sets: Curving Quantum Causality

A locally finite, causal, and quantal substitute for a locally Minkowskian principal fiber bundle of modules of Cartan differential forms over a bounded region X of a curved C -smooth spacetime manifold M with structure group G that of orthochronous Lorentz transformations L ⁺ := SO(1,3), is presented. is usually regarded as the kinematical structure of classical Lorentzian gravity when the latter is viewed as a Yang-Mills type of gauge theory of a sl(2, {})-valued connection 1-form . The mathematical structure employed to model this replacement of is a principal finitary spacetime sheaf of quantum causal sets with structure group G _n, which is a finitary version of the continuous group G of local symmetries of General Relativity, and a finitary Lie algebra g _n-valued connection 1-form on it, which is a section of its subsheaf . is physically interpreted as the dynamical field of a locally finite quantum causality, whereas its associated curvature as some sort of finitary and causal Lorentzian quantum gravity.     

Long-Time Asymptotics of Solutions to the Cauchy Problem for the Defocusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Finite-Density Initial Data. II. Dark Solitons on Continua

For Lax-pair isospectral deformations whose associated spectrum, for given initial data, consists of the disjoint union of a finitely denumerable discrete spectrum (solitons) and a continuous spectrum (continuum), the matrix Riemann–Hilbert problem approach is used to derive the leading-order asymptotics as of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation ( NLSE), , with finite-density initial data

Multipoint Series of Gromov–Witten Invariants of CP1

We derive explicit formulas for the multipoint series of in degree 0 from the Toda hierarchy, using the recursions of the Toda hierarchy. The Toda equation then yields inductive formulas for the higher degree multipoint series of . We also obtain explicit formulas for the Hodge integrals , in the cases i=0 and 1.     

On the Algebra of Arrow Diagrams

The purpose of this Letter is to develop further the Gauss diagram approach to finite-type link invariants. In this context we introduce Gauss diagrams counterparts to chord diagrams, 4T relation, weight systems arising from Lie algebras, and an algebra of unitrivalent graphs modulo the STU relation. The counterparts, respectively, are arrow diagrams, 6T relation, weights arising from the solutions of the classical Yang–Baxter equation, and an algebra of acyclic arrow graphs (modulo an oriented version of the STU relation). The algebra encodes, in a graphical form, the main properties of Lie bialgebras, similarly to the well-known relation of the algebra of unitrivalent graphs to Lie algebras. We show that the oriented and relations hold, and that is isomorphic to the algebra of arrow diagrams. As an application, we consider an appropriate link-homotopy version of the algebra . Using this algebra, we construct a Gauss diagram invariants of string links up to link-homotopy, with values both in the algebra and in . We observe that this construction gives the universal Milnor's link-homotopy -invariants.     

On the Modified Korteweg–De Vries Equation

We consider the large time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the modified Korteweg–de Vries equation , with initial data . We assume that the coefficient is real, bounded and slowly varying function, such that , where . We suppose that the initial data are real-valued and small enough, belonging to the weighted Sobolev space . In comparison with the previous paper (Internat. Res. Notices 8 (1999), 395–418), here we exclude the condition that the integral of the initial data u ₀ is zero. We prove the time decay estimates and for all , where . We also find the asymptotics for large time of the solution in the neighborhood of the self-similar solution.     

A Generator for the Weert Superpotential

Weert found a superpotential for the bounded part of the Maxwelltensor associatedto the Lienard–Wiechert field. Here we obtain afourth-rank generator for the superpotential .     

Bound States in a Locally Deformed Waveguide: The Critical Case

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian for astrip in with one straight boundary and a width , where $f$ is a smooth function of acompact support with a length 2b. We show that in the criticalcase, , the operator has nobound statesfor small .On the otherhand, a weakly bound state existsprovided . In thatcase, there are positive c ₁,c ₂ suchthat the corresponding eigenvalue satisfies for all sufficiently small.     

Norm Inequalities for Positive Operators

Let A, B be positive operators on a Hilbert space, z any complex number, m any positive integer, and any unitarily invariant norm. We show that and Some related inequalities are also obtained.     

Linearity of the Transverse Poisson Structure to a Coadjoint Orbit

We prove a simple formula for the transverse Poisson structure to a coadjoint orbit (in the dual of a Lie algebra ) and use it in examples such as and . We also give a sufficient condition on the isotropy subalgebra of so that the transverse Poisson structureto the coadjoint orbit of is linear.     

Total Electron Emission from Metals Due to the Impact of Highly-Charged Xe Ions with Energies Up to MeV

Total electron emission from metals due to the impact of multiply charged ions, , may significantly influence quantitative measurements of ion current in corpuscular diagnostics. The value of (/q) was determined for Xe ions impacting clean polycrystalline copper as a function of ion charge state and of ion kinetic energy, keV/q, i.e. in the energy region up to keV/amu, where there is a lack of such data. For highly charged projectile ions, was found to have a clear minimum as a function of E _i. With decreasing charge state of the projectile ion this minimum shifts to a lower energy and becomes shallower. This observation is in agreement with compiled results of other authors. Limits for values of are estimated and discussed.     

Preferred Invariant Symplectic Connections on Compact Coadjoint Orbits

Let be the Haag--Kastler net generated by the (2) chiral current algebra at level 1. We classify the SL(2, )-covariant subsystems by showing that they are all fixed points nets ^H for some subgroup H of the gauge automorphisms group SO(3) of . Then, using the fact that the net ₁ generated by the (1) chiral current can be regarded as a subsystem of , we classify the subsystems of ₁. In this case, there are two distinct proper subsystems: the one generated by the energy-momentum tensor and the gauge invariant subsystem .