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Variables adapted to the quantum dynamics of spherically symmetric models are introduced, which further simplify the spherically symmetric volume operator and allow an explicit computation of all matrix elements of the Euclidean and…
For a class of linear elliptic equations of general type with rapidly oscillating coefficients, we use the sigma-convergence method to prove the homogenization result and a corrector-type result. In the case of asymptotic periodic…
Section 1 refines the theory of harmonic and potential maps. Section 2 defines a generalized Lorentz world-force law and shows that any PDEs system of order one generates such a law in suitable geometrical structure. In other words, the…
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