Using iterative evaluation of the real-time path integral expression, we calculate four-time correlation functions for one-dimensional systems coupled to model dissipative environments. We use these correlation functions to calculate response functions relevant to third order infrared or seventh order Raman experiments for harmonic, Morse, and quadratic-quartic potentials interacting with harmo...

The paper presents a Semi-Analytical Finite Element (SAFE) formulation coupled with a 2.5D Boundary Element Method (BEM) for the computation of the dispersion properties of viscoelastic waveguides with arbitrary cross-section and embedded in unbounded isotropic viscoelastic media. Attenuation of guided modes is described through the imaginary component of the axial wavenumber, which accounts fo...

This paper is concerned with the existence, nonexistence, uniqueness, and multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of eigenvalue problems of nonlinear fractional differential equations with a nonlinear integral term and a disturbance parameter in the boundary conditions. By using fixed point index theory we give the critical curve of eigenvalue λ and disturbance parameterμ that divides th...

This paper provides a new two-grid discretization method for solving partial differential equation or integral equation eigenvalue problems. In 2001, Xu and Zhou introduced a scheme that reduces the solution of an eigenvalue problem on a finite element grid to that of one single linear problem on the same grid together with a similar eigenvalue problem on a much coarser grid. By solving a sligh...

This paper provides a new two-grid discretization method for solving partial differential equation or integral equation eigenvalue problems. In 2001, Xu and Zhou introduced a scheme that reduces the solution of an eigenvalue problem on a finite element grid to that of one single linear problem on the same grid together with a similar eigenvalue problem on a much coarser grid. By solving a sligh...

We study the large N limit of the Itzykson – Zuber integral and show that the leading term is given by the exponent of an action functional for the complex inviscid Burgers (Hopf) equation evaluated on its particular classical solution; the eigenvalue densities that enter in the IZ integral being the imaginary parts of the boundary values of this solution. We show how this result can be applied...

Throughout K(x, s) is assumed to be real valued and continuous for A x A (A=[a, i>] is a finite closed interval of the real line). For definiteness we fix the domain 2(T) of the integral operator (1) as the Hubert space L2(A); it should be emphasized at this point that K(x, s) is not necessarily a symmetric kernel. It will be clear from the subsequent analysis that the nature of the spectral se...