Spectral stability analysis for solitary waves is developed in the context of the Hamiltonian system of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations. The linear eigenvalue problem for a non-self-adjoint operator is studied with two self-adjoint matrix Schrödinger operators. Sharp bounds on the number and type of unstable eigenvalues in the spectral problem are found from the inertia law for quadrati...

We perform a semi-classical study of chiral symmetry breaking and of the spectrum of the Dirac operator in QCD with adjoint fermions. For this purpose we calculate matrix elements of the adjoint Dirac operator between instanton zero modes and study their symmetry properties. We present simulations of the instanton ensemble for different numbers of Majorana fermions in the adjoint representation...

A number of algorithmdevelopments are presented for adjoint methods using the “discrete” approach in which the discretization of the nonlinear equations is linearized and the resulting matrix is then transposed. With a new iterative procedure for solving the adjoint equations, exact numerical equivalence is maintained between the linear and adjoint discretizations. The incorporation of strong b...

Here we give brief account of hermitian symplectic spaces, showing that they are intimately connected to symmetric as well as self-adjoint extensions of a symmetric operator. Furthermore we find an explicit parameterisation of the Lagrange Grassmannian in terms of the unitary matrices U(n). This allows us to explicitly describe all self-adjoint boundary conditions for the Schrödinger operator o...

Let g(z, x) denote the diagonal Green's matrix of a self-adjoint m × m matrix-valued Schrödinger operator H = − d 2 dx 2 Im + Q(x) in L 2 (R) m , m ∈ N. One of the principal results proven in this paper states that for a fixed x 0 ∈ R and all z ∈ C + , g(z, x 0) and g ′ (z, x 0) uniquely determine the matrix-valued m × m potential Q(x) for a.e. x ∈ R. We also prove the following local version o...