Axiomatic foundations of quantum physics: Critiques and misunderstandings. Piron's question-proposition system

Some of the most frequent misconceptions about axiomatic quantum physics are discussed with the aim of clarifying their true significance, taking Piron's approach as conceptual framework. In particular, we deal with the following topics: the wrong identification of Piron's questions and Mackey's questions, and some curious alleged empirical consequences; the role of propositions as suitable equivalence classes of questions, their partial order structure, and the paradoxical consequences of the erroneous assignment to questions of some lattice properties involving propositions; the logical and the empirical purport of some negative theorems; the standard Hilbert space model of the theory and the consequent metaphysical disasters related to some identifications, which are peculiar of this model. A controversy between Foulis-Piron-Randall and Hadjisavvas-Thieffine-Mugur-Schächter is analyzed on the basis of the proposed Hilbert space model (in which Piron's questions are realized by Hilbertian effects, i.e., linear bounded operatorsF such that which clarify the different point of views. As an example, we treat the unsharp localization operators inL ₂().     

An asymptotic-preserving well-balanced scheme for the hyperbolic heat equationsUn schema « équilibre » et « asymptotic-preserving » pour les equations de la chaleur hyperboliques

We propose here a well-balanced numerical scheme for the one-dimensional Goldstein–Taylor system which is endowed with all the stability properties inherent to the continuous problem and works in both rarefied and diffusive regimes. To cite this article: L. Gosse, G. Toscani, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 334 (2002) 337–342.     

Stochastic Lyapunov method

This paper is devoted to stability properties of solutions to stochastic differential equations obtained by a stochastic Lyapunov method.     

Elliptic operators with unbounded drift coefficients and Neumann boundary condition

We study the realization A_N of the operator in L2(Ω,μ) with Neumann boundary condition, where Ω is a possibly unbounded convex open set in , U is a convex unbounded function, DU(x) is the element with minimal norm in the subdifferential of U at x, and is a probability measure, infinitesimally invariant for . We show that A_N is a dissipative self-adjoint operator in L2(Ω,μ). Log-Sobolev and Poincaré inequalities allow then to study smoothing properties and asymptotic behavior of the semigroup generated by A_N.     

Schauder estimates for elliptic equations in Banach spaces associated with stochastic reaction–diffusion equations

We consider some reaction–diffusion equations perturbed by white noise and prove Schauder estimates for the elliptic problem associated with the generator of the corresponding transition semigroup, defined in the Banach space of continuous functions. This requires the proof of some new interpolation result.     

Regularity for minimizers of functionals with p – q growth

We prove higher integrability for the gradient of vector-valued minimizers of some integral functionals with p – q growth. Received February 9, 1998     

The set union problem with dynamic weighted backtracking

We consider an extension of the set union problem, in which dynamic weighted backtracking over sequences of unions is permitted. We present a new data structure which can support each operation inO(logn) time in the worst case. We prove that this bound is tight for pointer based algorithms. Furthermore, we design a different data structure to achieve better amortized bounds. The space complexity of both our data structures isO(n). Motivations for studying this problem arise in logic programming memory management.Work partially supported by NSF Grant CCR-88-14977, by the ESPRIT II Basic Research Actions Program of the EC under contract No. 3075 (Project ALCOM), and by the Italian MURST Project Algoritmi e Strutture di Calcolo.Partially supported by an IBM Graduate Fellowship.     

Small values of signed harmonic sums

For every $\tau \in \mathbb{R}$ and every integer N, let ${\mathfrak{m}}_N(\tau )$ be the minimum of the distance of τ from the sums ${\sum }_{n=1}^N{s}_n/n$, where $s_1,\dots ,s_n\in \{?1,+1\}$. We prove that ${\mathfrak{m}}_N(\tau )<\exp ?(?C{(\log ?N)}^2)$, for all sufficiently large positive integers N (depending on C and τ), where C is any positive constant less than $1/\log ?4$.