The linear canonical transform describes the effect of first-order quadratic phase optical systems on a wave field. Several recent papers have developed sampling rules for the numerical approximation of the transform. However, sampling an analog function according to existing rules will not generally permit the reconstruction of the analog linear canonical transform of that function from its sa...

Following hep-th/0305177, we write the boundary state of half S-brane in bosonic string theory as a grand canonical partition function of a unitary matrix model. From this representation, it follows that the annulus amplitude can be written as a grand canonical partition function of a unitary two-matrix model. We also show that the contribution of the exponentially growing couplings to the time...

The one-dimensional asymmetric exclusion process (ASEP) is a paradigm for nonequilibrium dynamics, in particular driven diffusive processes. It is usually considered in a canonical ensemble in which the number of sites is fixed. We observe that the grand-canonical partition function for the ASEP is remarkably simple. It allows a simple direct derivation of the asymptotics of the canonical norma...

A divergence function defines a Riemannian metric g and dually coupled affine connections ∇ and ∇∗ with respect to it in a manifold M . When M is dually flat, that is flat with respect to ∇ and ∇∗, a canonical divergence is known, which is uniquely determined from (M, g,∇,∇∗). We propose a natural definition of a canonical divergence for a general, not necessarily flat, M by using the geodesic ...

The main purpose of this article is to extend some of the ideas from Schubert calculus to the more general setting of Hamiltonian torus actions on compact symplectic manifolds with isolated fixed points. Given a generic component Ψ of the moment map, which is a Morse function, we define a canonical class αp in the equivariant cohomology of the manifold M for each fixed point p ∈ M. When they ex...

We propose a method to find the QCD critical point at finite density calculating the canonical partition function ZC(T, N) by Monte-Carlo simulations of lattice QCD, and analyze data obtained by a simulation with two-flavor p4-improved staggered quarks with pion mass mπ ≈ 770MeV. It is found that the shape of an effective potential changes gradually as the temperature decreases and a first orde...

This paper presents a new uniquely solvable boundary integral equation for computing the conformal mapping, its derivative and its inverse from bounded multiply connected regions onto the five classical canonical slit regions. The integral equation is derived by reformulating the conformal mapping as an adjoint Riemann-Hilbert problem. From the adjoint Riemann-Hilbert problem, we derive a bound...

In these notes we construct a quantization functor, associating a Hilbert space H(V ) to a finite dimensional symplectic vector space V over a finite field Fq. As a result, we obtain a canonical model for the Weil representation of the symplectic group Sp (V ). The main technical result is a proof of a stronger form of the Stonevon Neumann theorem for the Heisenberg group over Fq. Our result an...