Motivated by recent discussions on the possible role of quantum computation in plasma simulations, here we present different approaches to Koopman's Hilbert-space formulation classical mechanics context Vlasov-Maxwell kinetic theory. The celebrated Koopman-von Neumann construction is provided with two Hamiltonian structures: one canonical and recovers usual Clebsch representation Vlasov density...

We study existence and rigidity (W1-isolatedness) of nonregular abnormal extremals of completely nonholonomic 2-distribution (nonregularity means that such extremals do not satisfy the strong generalized Legendre-Clebsch condition). Introducing the notion of diagonal form of the second variation, we generalize some results of A. Agrachev and A. Sarychev about rigidity of regular abnormal extrem...

-Presently studied is the problem of maximizing the altitude of a rocket in vertical flight in a resisting medium, when the amount of propellant is specified, known as the Goddard problem. The case is studied in which the drag coefficient is a function of the Mach number, witnessing a sharp increase in the transonic region. Analysis shows the possibility of a more complex switching structure th...

Let Φ be a reduced root system of rank r. A Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series for Φ is a Dirichlet series in r complex variables s1, . . . , sr, initially converging for Re(si) sufficiently large, that has meromorphic continuation to C and satisfies functional equations under the transformations of C corresponding to the Weyl group of Φ. A heuristic definition of such series was given in [BB...

Quantum Lie algebras are generalizations of Lie algebras which have the quantum parameter h built into their structure. They have been defined concretely as certain submodules Lh(g) of the quantized enveloping algebras Uh(g). On them the quantum Lie bracket is given by the quantum adjoint action. Here we define for any finite-dimensional simple complex Lie algebra g an abstract quantum Lie alge...

The 1|1-supertransvectants are the osp(1|2)-invariant bilinear operations on weighted densities on the supercircle S, the projective version of R. These operations are analogues of the famous Gordan transvectants (or Rankin-Cohen brackets). We prove that supertransvectants coincide with the iterated Poisson and ghost Poisson brackets on R and apply this result to construct star-products.