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A function has vanishing mean oscillation (VMO) on R up(n) if its mean oscillation - the local average of its pointwise deviation from its mean value - both is uniformly bounded over all cubes within R up(n) and converges to zero with the volume of the cube. The more restrictive class of functions with vanishing lower oscillation (VLO) arises when the mean value is replaced by the minimum value in this definition. It is shown here that each VMO function is the difference of two functions in VLO.
Adiabatic vacuum states are a well-known class of physical states for linear quantum fields n Robertson-Walker spacetimes. We extend the definition of adiabatic vacua to general spacetime manifolds by using the notion of the Sobolev wavefront set. This definition is also applicable to interacting field theories. Hadamard states form a special subclass of the adiabatic vacua. We analyze physical properties of adiabatic vacuum representations of the Klein-Gordon field on globally hyperbolic spacetme manifolds (factoriality, quasiequivalence, local definteness, Haag duality) and construct them explicitly, if the manifold has a compact Cauchy surface.
In the middle of the 19th century the question whether expanding civilization and industrialization had an effect on climate was discussed intensely worldwide. It was feared that increasing deforestation would lead to continuous decrease in rainfall. This first scientific discussion about climate change as the result of human intervention was strongly influenced by the research Alexander von Humboldt and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault had undertaken when they investigated the falling water levels of Lake Valencia in Venezuela. This essay aims to clarify the question whether Alexander von Humboldt can be counted among the leading figures of modern environmentalism on account of this research as is being claimed by Richard H. Grove in his influential book Green Imperialism. Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 (1995).
Asymptotic algebras
(2001)
It is shown that bounded solutions to semilinear elliptic Fuchsian equations obey complete asymptoic expansions in terms of powers and logarithms in the distance to the boundary. For that purpose, Schuze's notion of asymptotic type for conormal asymptotics close to a conical point is refined. This in turn allows to perform explicit calculations on asymptotic types - modulo the resolution of the spectral problem for determining the singular exponents in the asmptotic expansions.
This study examines how the size of trade unions relative to the la- bor force impacts on the desirability of different organizational forms of self-financing unemployment insurance (UI) for workers, firms, and with reference to an efficiency criterion. For this purpose, we respectively nu- merically compare the outcome of a model with a uniform payroll tax to a model where workers pay taxes according to their systematic risk of unemployment. Our results highlight the importance of the bargaining structure for the assessment of a particular UI scheme. Most importantly, it depends on the size of the unions whether efficiency favors a uniform or a differentiated UI scheme.
We study the minimal and maximal closed extension of a differential operator A on a manifold B with conical singularities, when A acts as an unbounded operator on weighted Lp-spaces over B,1 < p < ∞. Under suitable ellipticity assumptions we can define a family of complex powers A up(z), z ∈ C. We also obtain sufficient information on the resolvent of A to show the boundedness of the pure imaginary powers. Examples concern unique solvability and maximal regularity of the solution of the Cauchy problem u' - Δu = f, u(0) = 0, for the Laplacian on conical manifolds.
We consider the norm closure A of the algebra of all operators of order and class zero in Boutet de Monvel's calculus on a manifold X with boundary ∂X. We first describe the image and the kernel of the continuous extension of the boundary principal symbol homomorphism to A. If X is connected and ∂X is not empty, we then show that the K-groups of A are topologically determined. In case the manifold, its boundary, and the cotangent space of its interior have torsion free K-theory, we get Ki(A,k) congruent Ki(C(X))⊕Ksub(1-i)(Csub(0)(T*X)),i = 0,1, with k denoting the compact ideal, and T*X denoting the cotangent bundle of the interior. Using Boutet de Monvel's index theorem, we also prove that the above formula holds for i = 1 even without this torsion-free hypothesis. For the case of orientable, two-dimensional X, Ksub(0)(A) congruent Z up(2g+m) and Ksub(1)(A) congruent Z up(2g+m-1), where g is the genus of X and m is the number of connected components of ∂X. We also obtain a composition sequence 0 ⊂ k ⊂ G ⊂ A, with A/G commutative and G/k isomorphic to the algebra of all continuous functions on the cosphere bundle of ∂X with values in compact operators on L²(R+).
One of the rules-of-thumb of colloid and surface physics is that most surfaces are charged when in contact with a solvent, usually water. This is the case, for instance, in charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions, where the surface of the colloidal particles are charged (usually with a charge of hundreds to thousands of e, the elementary charge), monolayers of ionic surfactants sitting at an air-water interface (where the water-loving head groups become charged by releasing counterions), or bilayers containing charged phospholipids (as cell membranes). In this work, we look at some model-systems that, although being a simplified version of reality, are expected to capture some of the physical properties of real charged systems (colloids and electrolytes). We initially study the simple double layer, composed by a charged wall in the presence of its counterions. The charges at the wall are smeared out and the dielectric constant is the same everywhere. The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) approach gives asymptotically exact counterion density profiles around charged objects in the weak-coupling limit of systems with low-valent counterions, surfaces with low charge density and high temperature (or small Bjerrum length). Using Monte Carlo simulations, we obtain the profiles around the charged wall and compare it with both Poisson-Boltzmann (in the low coupling limit) and the novel strong coupling (SC) theory in the opposite limit of high couplings. In the latter limit, the simulations show that the SC leads in fact to asymptotically correct density profiles. We also compare the Monte Carlo data with previously calculated corrections to the Poisson-Boltzmann theory. We also discuss in detail the methods used to perform the computer simulations. After studying the simple double layer in detail, we introduce a dielectric jump at the charged wall and investigate its effect on the counterion density distribution. As we will show, the Poisson-Boltzmann description of the double layer remains a good approximation at low coupling values, while the strong coupling theory is shown to lead to the correct density profiles close to the wall (and at all couplings). For very large couplings, only systems where the difference between the dielectric constants of the wall and of the solvent is small are shown to be well described by SC. Another experimentally relevant modification to the simple double layer is to make the charges at the plane discrete. The counterions are still assumed to be point-like, but we constraint the distance of approach between ions in the plane and counterions to a minimum distance D. The ratio between D and the distance between neighboring ions in the plane is, as we will see, one of the important quantities in determining the influence of the discrete nature of the charges at the wall over the density profiles. Another parameter that plays an important role, as in the previous case, is the coupling as we will demonstrate, systems with higher coupling are more subject to discretization effects than systems with low coupling parameter. After studying the isolated double layer, we look at the interaction between two double layers. The system is composed by two equally charged walls at distance d, with the counterions confined between them. The charge at the walls is smeared out and the dielectric constant is the same everywhere. Using Monte-Carlo simulations we obtain the inter-plate pressure in the global parameter space, and the pressure is shown to be negative (attraction) at certain conditions. The simulations also show that the equilibrium plate separation (where the pressure changes from attractive to repulsive) exhibits a novel unbinding transition. We compare the Monte Carlo results with the strong-coupling theory, which is shown to describe well the bound states of systems with moderate and high couplings. The regime where the two walls are very close to each other is also shown to be well described by the SC theory. Finally, Using a field-theoretic approach, we derive the exact low-density ("virial") expansion of a binary mixture of positively and negatively charged hard spheres (two-component hard-core plasma, TCPHC). The free energy obtained is valid for systems where the diameters d_+ and d_- and the charge valences q_+ and q_- of positive and negative ions are unconstrained, i.e., the same expression can be used to treat dilute salt solutions (where typically d_+ ~ d_- and q_+ ~ q_-) as well as colloidal suspensions (where the difference in size and valence between macroions and counterions can be very large). We also discuss some applications of our results.