Related papers: Variational proof of conditional expectations
In this letter I stress the role of causal reversibility (time-symmetry), together with causality and locality, in the justification of the quantum formalism. Firstly, in the algebraic quantum formalism, I show that the assumption of…
The existence of a random attractor in H^1(R^3) \times L^2(R^3) is proved for the damped semilinear stochastic wave equation defined on the entire space R^3. The nonlinearity is allowed to have a cubic growth rate which is referred to as…
The dynamics at the critical-point of a general first-order quantum phase transition in a finite system is examined, from an algebraic perspective. Suitable Hamiltonians are constructed whose spectra exhibit coexistence of states…
We compare and contrast various notions of the "critical locus" of a complex analytic function on a singular space. After choosing a topological variant as our primary notion of the critical locus, we justify our choice by generalizing L\^e…
Let $U_F$ be the Floquet operator of a time periodic hamiltonian $H(t)$. For each positive and discrete observable $A$ (which we call a {\em probe energy}), we derive a formula for the Laplace time average of its expectation value up to…
In this paper, we investigate whether Variational Principles can be associated with the Helmholtz equation subject to impedance (absorbing) boundary conditions. This model has been extensively studied in the literature from both…
It is shown that second variations of the causal action can be decomposed into a sum of three terms, two of which being positive and one being small. This gives rise to an approximate decoupling of the linearized field equations into the…
Let $D \subseteq A$ be an inclusion of unital abelian $C^*$-algebras. In this note we characterize (in topological terms) when there is a unique conditional expectation $E:A \to D$, at least when $A$ is separable. As an application, we…
In this paper we consider an SPDE where the leading term is a second order operator with periodic boundary conditions, coefficients which are measurable in $(t,\omega)$, and H\"older continuous in space. Assuming stochastic parabolicity…
For the fractional Laplace equation, a surprising observation is the non-uniqueness for the basic Dirichlet type problems. In this paper, a somewhat sharp uniqueness condition for the fractional Laplace equation is established. We derive…
We analyze spectral properties of the operator $H=\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} -\frac{\partial^2}{\partial y^2} +\omega^2y^2-\lambda y^2V(x y)$ in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)$, where $\omega\ne 0$ and $V\ge 0$ is a compactly supported and…
We provide new conditions under which the alternating projection sequence converges in norm for the convex feasibility problem where a linear subspace with finite codimension $N\geq 2$ and a lattice cone in a Hilbert space are considered.…
This work develops, from a functional analytic perspective, the construction of random variables in Lebesgue spaces L^p. It extends classical notions of measurability, integrability, and expectation to L^p valued functions, using Pettis's…
In this paper we construct a wavelet basis in weighted L^2 of Euclidean space possessing vanishing moments of a fixed order for a general locally finite positive Borel measure. The approach is based on a clever construction of Alpert in the…
We present a conjecture for the exact expression of finite volume expectation values in excited states in integrable quantum field theories, which is an extension of an earlier conjecture to the case of general diagonal factorized…
We consider several types of quantum critical phenomena from finite-density gauge-gravity duality which to different degrees lie outside the Landau-Ginsburg-Wilson paradigm. These include: (1) a "bifurcating" critical point, for which the…
We generalize the respective ``double recurrence'' results of Bourgain and of the second author, which established for pairs of $L^{\infty}$ functions on a finite measure space the a.e. convergence of the discrete bilinear ergodic averages…
We establish a continuous embedding $W^{s(\cdot),2}(\Omega)\hookrightarrow L^{\alpha(\cdot)}(\Omega)$, where the variable exponent $\alpha(x)$ can be close to the critical exponent $2_{s}^*(x)=\frac{2N}{N-2\bar{s}(x)}$, with…
We combine the "evolving constants" approach to the construction of observables in canonical quantum gravity with the Page--Wootters formulation of quantum mechanics with a relational time for generally covariant systems. This overcomes the…
An inverse problem of finding an obstacle and the boundary condition on its surface from the fixed-energy scattering data is studied. A new method is developed for a proof of the uniqueness results. The method does not use the discreteness…