Using a direct approach the return map near a focus of a planar vector field with nilpotent linear part is found as a convergent power series which is a perturbation of the identity and whose terms can be calculated iteratively. The first nontrivial coefficient is the value of an Abelian integral, and the following ones are explicitly given as iterated integrals.

We develop a new operator quantization scheme for gauge theories where no gauge fixing for gauge fields is needed. The scheme allows one to avoid the Gribov problem and construct a manifestly Lorentz invariant path integral that can be used in the non-perturbative domain. We discuss briefly an application of the method to Abelian projections of QCD.

The return map for planar vector fields with nilpotent linear part (having a center or a focus and under an assumption generically satisfied) is found as a convergent power series whose terms can be calculated iteratively. The first nontrivial coefficient is the value of an Abelian integral, and the following ones are explicitly given as iterated integrals built with algebraic functions.

The GPS meteorology (GPS/MET) experiment, led by the Universities Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), consists of a GPS receiver aboard a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite which was launched on 3 April 1995. During a radio occultation the LEO satellite rises or sets relative to one of the 24 GPS satellites at the Earth's horizon. Thereby the atmospheric layers are successively sounded by...

AbstractLet W be a non-empty subset of a free group. The automorphism of a group G is said to be a marginal automorphism, if for all x in G,x^−1alpha(x) in W^*(G), where W^*(G) is the marginal subgroup of G.In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient condition for a purelynon-abelian p-group G, such that the set of all marginal automorphismsof G forms an elementary abelian p-group.

The quantum gravity path integral involves a sum over topologies that invites comparisons to worldsheet string theory and Feynman diagrams of field theory. However, the latter are naturally associated with non-abelian algebra fields, while former has been argued define an abelian superselected observables partition-function-like quantities at asymptotic boundary. We resolve this apparent tensio...

The set of integral ows on a nite graph ? is naturally an integral lattice 1 (?) in the Euclidean space Ker((1) of harmonic real-valued functions on the edge set of ?. Various properties of ? (bipartite character, girth, complexity, separability) are shown to correspond to properties of 1 (?) (parity, minimal norm, determinant, decomposability). The dual lattice of 1 (?) is identiied to the int...

In some forms of superstring theory particular theta-functions come up as partition functions. The associated Abelian varieties come either from certain cohomology groups of the underlying universe or, in more recent theories (e.g. [Witten] [Mo-Wi]), are linked to their K-groups. Expressed in mathematical terms, one canonically associates to the cohomology or the K-theory of an even dimensional...