We study the covariance properties of the equations satisfied by the generating functions of the chiral operators R and T of supersymmetric SO(N)/Sp(N) theories with symmetric/antisymmetric tensors. It turns out that T is an affine connection. As such it cannot be integrated along cycles on Riemann surfaces. This explains the discrepancies observed by Kraus and Shigemori. Furthermore, by means ...

Inspired by the Weierstrass representation of smooth affine minimal surfaces with indefinite metric, we propose a constructive process producing a large class of discrete surfaces that we call discrete affine minimal surfaces. We show that they are critical points of an affine area functional defined on the space of quadrangular discrete surfaces. The construction makes use of asymptotic coordi...

We discuss the local differential geometry of convex affine spheres in R and of minimal Lagrangian surfaces in Hermitian symmetric spaces. In each case, there is a natural metric and cubic differential holomorphic with respect to the induced conformal structure: these data come from the Blaschke metric and Pick form for the affine spheres and from the induced metric and second fundamental form ...

Recently the operator algebra, including the twisted affine primary fields, and a set of twisted KZ equations were given for the WZW permutation orbifolds. In the first part of this paper we extend this operator algebra to include the so-called orbifold Virasoro algebra of each WZW permutation orbifold. These algebras generalize the orbifold Virasoro algebras (twisted Virasoro operators) found ...

Numerical solution of PDE optimal control problems involving affine pointwise control constraints is investigated. Optimality conditions are derived and a semi-smooth Newton method is presented. Global and local superlinear convergence of the method are obtained for linear problems. Differently from box constraints, in the case of general affine constraints a proper weighting of the control cos...

in this paper we describe how the degrees of the irreducible characters of the affine subgroups of the classical groups under consideration can be found inductively. in [4] gow obtained certain character degrees for all of the affine subgroups of the classical groups. we apply the method of fischer to the above groups and, in addition to the character degrees given in [4], we obtain some new ch...