Search results for "Gravitational singularity"
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On stability of generic subriemannian caustic in the three-space
2000
Abstract The singularities of exponential mappings in subriemannian geometry are interesting objects, that are already non-trivial at the local level, contrarily to their Riemannian analogs. The simplest case is the three-dimensional contact case. Here we show that the corresponding generic caustics have moduli at the origin, and the first module that occurs has a simple geometric interpretation. On the contrary, we prove a stability result of the “big wave front”, that is, of the graph of the multivalued arclength function, reparametrized in a certain way. This object is a three-dimensional surface, which has also the natural structure of a wave front. The projection on the three-dimension…
Tree Singularities: Limits, Series and Stability
2013
A tree singularity is a surface singularity that consists of smooth components, glued along smooth curves in the pattern of a tree. Such singularities naturally occur as degenerations of certain rational surface singularities. To be more precise, they can be considered as limits of certain series of rational surface singularities with reduced fundamental cycle. We introduce a general class of limits, construct series deformations for them and prove a stability theorem stating that under the condition of finite dimensionality of T 2 the base space of a semi-universal deformation for members high in the series coincides up to smooth factor with the “base space of the limit”. The simplest tree…
On C1 robust singular transitive sets for three-dimensional flows
1998
Abstract The main goal of this paper is to study robust invariant transitive sets containing singularities for C 1 flows on three-dimensional compact boundaryless manifolds: they are partially hyperbolic with volume expanding central direction. Moreover, they are either attractors or repellers. Robust here means that this property cannot be destroyed by small C 1 -perturbations of the flow.
Rescaling principle for isolated essential singularities of quasiregular mappings
2012
We establish a rescaling theorem for isolated essential singularities of quasiregular mappings. As a consequence we show that the class of closed manifolds receiving a quasiregular mapping from a punctured unit ball with an essential singularity at the origin is exactly the class of closed quasiregularly elliptic manifolds, that is, closed manifolds receiving a non-constant quasiregular mapping from a Euclidean space.
Rotation Forms and Local Hamiltonian Monodromy
2017
International audience; The monodromy of torus bundles associated with completely integrable systems can be computed using geometric techniques (constructing homology cycles) or analytic arguments (computing discontinuities of abelian integrals). In this article, we give a general approach to the computation of monodromy that resembles the analytical one, reducing the problem to the computation of residues of polar 1-forms. We apply our technique to three celebrated examples of systems with monodromy (the champagne bottle, the spherical pendulum, the hydrogen atom) and to the case of non-degenerate focus-focus singularities, re-obtaining the classical results. An advantage of this approach …
Geometric and numerical techniques to compute conjugate and cut loci on Riemannian surfaces
2014
International audience; We combine geometric and numerical techniques - the Hampath code - to compute conjugate and cut loci on Riemannian surfaces using three test bed examples: ellipsoids of revolution, general ellipsoids, and metrics with singularities on S2 associated to spin dynamics.
Minimum Time Control of the Restricted Three-Body Problem
2012
The minimum time control of the circular restricted three-body problem is considered. Controllability is proved on an adequate submanifold. Singularities of the extremal flow are studied by means of a stratification of the switching surface. Properties of homotopy maps in optimal control are framed in a simple case. The analysis is used to perform continuations on the two parameters of the problem: The ratio of the masses, and the magnitude of the control.
On some Riemannian aspects of two and three-body controlled problems
2009
The flow of the Kepler problem (motion of two mutually attracting bodies) is known to be geodesic after the work of Moser [20], extended by Belbruno and Osipov [2, 21]: Trajectories are reparameterizations of minimum length curves for some Riemannian metric. This is not true anymore in the case of the three-body problem, and there are topological obstructions as observed by McCord et al. [19]. The controlled formulations of these two problems are considered so as to model the motion of a spacecraft within the influence of one or two planets. The averaged flow of the (energy minimum) controlled Kepler problem with two controls is shown to remain geodesic. The same holds true in the case of o…
Parabolic equations with nonlinear singularities
2011
Abstract We show the existence of positive solutions u ∈ L 2 ( 0 , T ; H 0 1 ( Ω ) ) for nonlinear parabolic problems with singular lower order terms of the asymptote-type. More precisely, we shall consider both semilinear problems whose model is { u t − Δ u + u 1 − u = f ( x , t ) in Ω × ( 0 , T ) , u ( x , 0 ) = u 0 ( x ) in Ω , u ( x , t ) = 0 on ∂ Ω × ( 0 , T ) , and quasilinear problems having natural growth with respect to the gradient, whose model is { u t − Δ u + ∣ ∇ u ∣ 2 u γ = f ( x , t ) in Ω × ( 0 , T ) , u ( x , 0 ) = u 0 ( x ) in Ω , u ( x , t ) = 0 on ∂ Ω × ( 0 , T ) , with γ > 0 . Moreover, we prove a comparison principle and, as an application, we study the asymptotic behav…
I. Glass Transition. Theoretical concepts on the glass transition of polymers and their test by computer simulation
1996
Various organic molecules, in particular polymers, are extremely good glass formers and allow the study of supercooled melts near the glass transition in metastable equilibrium. Theories of the glass transition imply such an equilibrium (e.g. mode-coupling theory, or Gibbs-di Marzio theory) and can hence be tested in these systems. Simplified lattice models for polymer melts (e.g. the bond fluctuation model) have been developed that can very efficiently be studied by Monte-Carlo simulation, and although they fail to accurately describe the local structure, they describe many features of the experiments very well. In this model, the mechanism of the glass transition is a competition between …