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We study spectral properties of Dirac operators on bounded domains $Omega subset mathbb{R}^3$ with boundary conditions of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar type and which depend on a parameter $tauinmathbb{R}$; the case $tau = 0$ corresponds to the MIT bag model. We show that the eigenvalues are parametrized as increasing functions of $tau$, and we exploit this monotonicity to study the limits as $tau to pm infty$. We prove that if $Omega$ is not a ball then the first positive eigenvalue is greater than the one of a ball with the same volume for all $tau$ large enough. Moreover, we show that the first positive eigenvalue converges to the mass of the particle as $tau downarrow -infty$, and we also analyze its first order asymptotics.
The Dirac operator, acting in three dimensions, is considered. Assuming that a large mass $m>0$ lies outside a smooth and bounded open set $OmegasubsetR^3$, it is proved that its spectrum is approximated by the one of the Dirac operator on $Omega$ with the MIT bag boundary condition. The approximation, which is developed up to and error of order $o(1/sqrt m)$, is carried out by introducing tubular coordinates in a neighborhood of $partialOmega$ and analyzing the corresponding one dimensional optimization problems in the normal direction.
In modern mathematical and theoretical physics various generalizations, in particular supersymmetric or quantum, of Riemann surfaces and complex algebraic curves play a prominent role. We show that such supersymmetric and quantum generalizations can be combined together, and construct supersymmetric quantum curves, or super-quantum curves for short. Our analysis is conducted in the formalism of super-eigenvalue models: we introduce $beta$-deformed version of those models, and derive differential equations for associated $alpha/beta$-deformed super-matrix integrals. We show that for a given model there exists an infinite number of such differential equations, which we identify as super-quantum curves, and which are in one-to-one correspondence with, and have the structure of, super-Virasoro singular vectors. We discuss potential applications of super-quantum curves and prospects of other generalizations.
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of strong interaction and accounts for the internal structure of hadrons. Physicists introduced phe- nomenological models such as the M.I.T. bag model, the bag approximation and the soliton bag model to study the hadronic properties. We prove, in this paper, the existence of excited state solutions in the symmetric case and of a ground state solution in the non-symmetric case for the soliton bag and the bag approximation models thanks to the concentration compactness method. We show that the energy functionals of the bag approximation model are Gamma -limits of sequences of soliton bag model energy functionals for the ground and excited state problems. The pre- compactness, up to translation, of the sequence of ground state solutions associated with the soliton bag energy functionals in the non-symmetric case is obtained combining the Gamma -convergence theory and the concentration-compactness method. Finally, we give a rigorous proof of the original derivation of the M.I.T. bag equations done by Chodos, Jaffe, Johnson, Thorn and Weisskopf via a limit of bag approximation ground state solutions in the spherical case. The supersymmetry property of the Dirac operator is the key point in many of our arguments.
In this work we study Dirac operators on two-dimensional domains coupled to a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. We focus on the infinite-mass boundary condition (also called MIT bag condition). In the case of bounded domains, we establish the asymptotic behavior of the low-lying (positive and negative) energies in the limit of strong magnetic field. Moreover, for a constant magnetic field $B$, we study the problem on the half-plane and find that the Dirac operator has continuous spectrum except for a gap of size $a_0sqrt{B}$, where $a_0in (0,sqrt{2})$ is a universal constant. Remarkably, this constant characterizes certain energies of the system in a bounded domain as well. We discuss how these findings, together with our previous work, give a fairly complete description of the eigenvalue asymptotics of magnetic two-dimensional Dirac operators under general boundary conditions.
We prove that among all triangles of given diameter, the equilateral triangle minimizes the sum of the first $n$ eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian, when $n geq 3$. The result fails for $n=2$, because the second eigenvalue is known to be minimal for the degenerate acute isosceles triangle (rather than for the equilateral) while the first eigenvalue is 0 for every triangle. We show the third eigenvalue is minimal for the equilateral triangle.