which is a symplectic analog of the well-known de Rham–Hodge ∗operator on oriented Riemannian manifolds: one should use the symplectic form instead of the Riemannian metric. Going further, one can define operator δ = ± ∗ d∗, δ = 0. The form α is called symplectically harmonic if dα = 0 = δα. However, unlike de Rham–Hodge case, there exist simplectically harmonic forms which are exact. Because o...

Following the analytic approach to thermodynamics developed by Stückelberg, we study the evolution equations of a closed thermodynamic system consisting of point particles in a fluid. We obtain a system of coupled differential equations describing the mechanical and the thermal evolution of the system. The coupling between these evolution equations is due to the action of a viscous friction ter...

Recently there has been much interest in the Liouville type theorems for harmonic maps. For a detailed survey and progress in this direction, see the works by Hildebrandt [4], Eells and Lemaire [2]. Here we would like to mention that for all known results, the conditions on the harmonic maps can be divided into two kinds. The first of these conditions concerns the finiteness of the energy of th...

Vibrational dynamics of folded proteins is studied using a Gaussian model in which the protein is viewed as a network, residues representing the junctions, and the connectivity being established by a single parameter harmonic potential. Application to seven proteins showed that the local packing density plays a major role in determining the vibrational spectrum at time scales of picoseconds. At...

Starting from the study of one-dimensional potentials in quantum mechanics having a small distance behavior described by a harmonic oscillator, we extend this way of analysis to models where such a behavior is not generally expected. In order to obtain significant results we approach the problem by a renormalization group method that can give a fixed point Hamiltonian that has the shape of a ha...

Algebraic approach to the integrability condition called shape invariance is briefly reviewed. Various applications of shape-invariance available in the literature are listed. A class of shape-invariant bound-state problems which represent two-level systems are examined. These generalize the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian. Coherent states associated with shape-invariant systems are discussed. For ...

The interaction of a gravitational wave with a system made of an RLC circuit forming one end of a mechanical harmonic oscillator is investigated. We show that, in some configurations, the coherent interaction of the wave with both the mechanical oscillator and the RLC circuit gives rise to a mechanical quality factor increase of the electromagnetic signal. When this system is used as an amplifi...

It is known that the standard and inverted harmonic oscillator are different. Replacing thus ω by ±iω in regular necessary going to give H^{r}. This replacement would lead anti- PT-symmetric Hamiltonian (∓iH^{os}). The pseudo-hermiticity relation has been used here relate anti-PT-symmetric oscillator. By using a simple algebra, we introduce ladder operators describing reproduce analytical solut...

For x x1, x2, . . . , xn ∈ 0, 1 n and r ∈ {1, 2, . . . , n}, the symmetric function Fn x, r is defined as Fn x, r Fn x1, x2, . . . , xn; r ∑ 1≤i1<i2 ···<ir≤n ∏r j 1 1 xij / 1−xij , where i1, i2, . . . , in are positive integers. In this paper, the Schur convexity, Schur multiplicative convexity, and Schur harmonic convexity of Fn x, r are discussed. As consequences, several inequalities are est...