Letters in Mathematical Physics

We show that a test space consisting of the unit sphere of a real or complex inner product spaceS and of the set all maximal orthonormal systems inS, is algebraic iffS is Dacey or, equivalently, iffS is complete. In addition, we present another completeness criterion.

We provide a model for an open invariant neighborhood of any orbit in a symplectic manifold endowed with a canonical proper symmetry. Our results generalize the constructions of Marle and Guillemin and Sternberg for canonical symmetries that have an associated momentum map. In these papers the momentum map played a crucial role in the construction of the tubular model. The present work shows that in the construction of the tubular model, the so-called Chu map, can be used instead, which exists for any canonical action, unlike the momentum map. Hamilton's equations for any invariant Hamiltonian function take on a particularly simple form in these tubular variables. As an application we will find situations, that we will call tubewise Hamiltonian, in which the existence of a standard momentum map in invariant neighborhoods is guaranteed.

The quantum deformation of the group of motions of the plane and its Pontryagin dual are described in detail. It is shown that the Pontryagin dual is a quantum deformation of the group of transformations of the plane generated by translations and dilations. An explicit expression for the unitary bicharacter describing the Pontryagin duality is found. The Heisenberg commutation relations are written down.

In the present paper, we consider a p-adic Ising model on a Cayley tree of order three. The existence of $$G_k^{(2)}$$ -periodic non-translation-invariant p-adic generalized Gibbs measures of this model is investigated. Moreover, the boundedness of such kinds of measures is established, which yields the occurrence of a phase transition.

A global connection on the Connes Marcolli renormalization bundle relates β-functions of a class of regularization schemes by gauge transformations, as well as local solutions to β-functions over curved space–time.

Ordinary theta functions can be considered as holomorphic sections of line bundles over tori. We show that one can define generalized theta functions as holomorphic elements of projective modules over noncommutative tori (theta vectors). The theory of these new objects is not only more general, but also much simpler than the theory of ordinary theta-functions. It seems that the theory of theta vectors should be closely related to Manin's theory of quantized theta functions, but we don't analyze this relation.

In this letter we prove that the unrolled small quantum group, appearing in quantum topology, is a Hopf subalgebra of Lusztig’s quantum group of divided powers. We do so by writing down non-obvious primitive elements with the correct adjoint action. As application, we explain how this gives a realization of the unrolled quantum group as operators on a conformal field theory and match some calculations on this side. In particular, our results explain a prominent weight shift that appears in Feigin and Tipunin (Logarithmic CFTs connected with simple Lie algebras, preprint, 2010. arXiv:1002.5047 ). Our result extends to other Nichols algebras of diagonal type, including super-Lie algebras.

The process of the reduction of a principal fibre bundle P(M, G) to a reduced subbundle Q(M, H) is analysed in view of applications to the description of symmetries of gauge theories. The main idea is to relate symmetries of the nonuniqueness of the reduction by gauging the different ways in which for each fiber the unbroken group H is imbedded into the large group G. Gauge theories encompassing gravitation are especially taken into account.