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We study the most general continuous transformation on the generators of bilinear master equations of a quantum oscillator. We find that transformation operators that preserve the hermiticity of density operators and conserve the…
For a given constant $\lambda > 0$ and a bounded Lipschitz domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n \geq 2$), we establish that almost-minimizers of the functional $$ J(\mathbf{v}; D) = \int_D \sum_{i=1}^{m} \left|\nabla v_i(x) \right|^p+…
Let $V = < x^{\lambda_i}p_{ij}(x), i=1,...,n, j=1, ..., N_i > $ be a space of quasi-polynomials in $x$ of dimension $N=N_1+...+N_n$. The regularized fundamental differential operator of $V$ is the polynomial differential operator…
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