Complex powers of the wave operator.
We establish a composition calculus for Fourier integral operators associated with a class of smooth canonical relations . These canonical relations, which arise naturally in integral geometry, are such that : is a Whitney fold and : is a blow-down mapping. If , , then a class of pseudodifferential operators with singular symbols. From this follows boundedness of with a loss of 1/4 derivative.
Consider a bifurcation problem, namely, its bifurcation equation. There is a diffeomorphism linking the actual solution set with an unfolded normal form of the bifurcation equation. The differential of this diffeomorphism is a valuable information for a numerical analysis of the imperfect bifurcation. The aim of this paper is to construct algorithms for a computation of . Singularity classes containing bifurcation points with , are considered.
We study the rate of concentration of a Brownian bridge in time one around the corresponding geodesical segment on a Cartan-Hadamard manifold with pinched negative sectional curvature, when the distance between the two extremities tends to infinity. This improves on previous results by A. Eberle, and one of us . Along the way, we derive a new asymptotic estimate for the logarithmic derivative of the heat kernel on such manifolds, in bounded time and with one space parameter...
By considering an abelian Chern-Simons model, we are led to study the existence of solutions of the Liouville equation with singularities on a flat torus. A non-existence and degree counting for solutions are obtained. The former result has an application in the Chern-Simons model.