Effect algebras have important applications in the foundations of quantum mechanics and in fuzzy probability theory. An effect algebra that possesses a convex structure is called a convex effect algebra. Our main result shows that any convex effect algebra admits a representation as a generating initial interval of an ordered linear space. This result is analogous to a classical representation theorem for convex structures due to M.H. Stone.

We give a systematic discussion of the relation between q-difference equations which are conditionally $U_q\left(\right)$-invariant and subsingular vectors of Verma modules over $U_q\left(\right)$ (the Drinfeld-Jimbo q-deformation of a semisimple Lie algebra over ℂg or ℝ). We treat in detail the cases of the conformal algebra, = su(2,2), and its complexification, = sl(4). The conditionally invariant equations are the q-deformed d’Alembert equation and a new equation arising from a subsingular vector proposed by Bernstein-Gel’fand-Gel’fand....

In this paper we study the irreducible finite dimensional representations of the quantized enveloping algebra ${\mathcal{U}}_q\left(g\right)$ associated to $g=sl\left(3\right)$, at the roots of unity. It is known that these representations are parametrized, up to isomorphisms, by the conjugacy classes of the group $G=SL\left(3\right)$. We get a complete classification of the representations corresponding to the submaximal unipotent conjugacy class and therefore a proof of the De Concini-Kac conjecture about the dimension of the ${\mathcal{U}}_q\left(g\right)$-modules at the roots of $1$ in the...

We describe the action of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra on some vector spaces that arise as relative Kauffman bracket skein modules of tangles in the punctured torus. We show how this action determines the Reshetikhin-Turaev representation of the punctured torus. We rephrase our results to describe the quantum group quantization of the moduli space of flat SU(2)-connections on the punctured torus with fixed trace of the holonomy around the boundary.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35P25, 81U20, 35S30, 47A10, 35B38.We study the microlocal structure of the resolvent of the semiclassical Schrödinger operator with short range potential at an energy which is a unique non-degenerate global maximum of the potential. We prove that it is a semiclassical Fourier integral operator quantizing the incoming and outgoing Lagrangian submanifolds associated to the fixed hyperbolic point. We then discuss two applications of this result to describing...

We consider an optimal control problem describing a laser-induced population transfer on a $n$-level quantum system. For a convex cost depending only on the moduli of controls (i.e. the lasers intensities), we prove that there always exists a minimizer in resonance. This permits to justify some strategies used in experimental physics. It is also quite important because it permits to reduce remarkably the complexity of the problem (and extend some of our previous results for $n=2$ and $n=3$): instead of looking...

We consider an optimal control problem describing a laser-induced population transfer on a n-level quantum system. For a convex cost depending only on the moduli of controls (i.e. the lasers intensities), we prove that there always exists a minimizer in resonance. This permits to justify some strategies used in experimental physics. It is also quite important because it permits to reduce remarkably the complexity of the problem (and extend some of our previous results for n=2 and n=3): instead...

We consider the 3D Schrödinger operator $H=H_0+V$ where $H_0={(-i\nabla -A)}^2-b$, $A$ is a magnetic potential generating a constant magneticfield of strength $b\>0$, and $V$ is a short-range electric potential which decays superexponentially with respect to the variable along the magnetic field. We show that the resolvent of $H$ admits a meromorphic extension from the upper half plane to an appropriate Riemann surface $ℳ$, and define the resonances of $H$ as the poles of this meromorphic extension. We study their distribution near any fixed...

Nous étudions les résonances de Rayleigh créées par un obstacle strictement convexe à bord analytique en dimension 2. Nous montrons qu’il existe exactement deux suites de résonances $\left(z_{k,+}\right)$ et $\left(z_{k,-}\right)$ convergeant exponentiellement vite vers l’axe réel dans un voisinage polynomial de l’axe réel, et exponentiellement proches d’une suite de quasimodes réels. De plus, $k^{-1}\Re z_{k,\pm }$ est un symbole analytique d’ordre 0 en la variable $k^{-1}$ dont on donne le premier terme du développement. Nous construisons pour cela des quasimodes...