Publications

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• The impact of the diffusion parameter on the passage time of the folding process

  Marcelo Tozo Araujo, Jorge Chahine, Elso Drigo Filho, Regina Maria Ricotta

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 015 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  Recently, a mathematical method to solve the Fokker Plank equation (FPE) enabled the analysis of the protein folding kinetics, through the construction of the temporal evolution of the probability density. A symmetric tri-stable potential function was used to describe the unfolded and folded states of the protein as well as an intermediate state of the protein. In this paper, the main points of the methodology are reviewed, based on the algebraic Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics (SQM) formalism, and new results on the kinetics of the evolution of the system characterized in terms of the diffusion parameter are presented.

• Comments on the negative grade KdV hierarchy

  Y. F. Adans, Jose F. Gomes, G. V. Lobo, A. H. Zimerman

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 014 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  The construction of negative grade KdV hierarchy is proposed in terms of a Miura-gauge transformation. Such gauge transformation is employed within the zero curvature representation and maps the Lax operator of the mKdV into its couterpart within the KdV setting. Each odd negative KdV flow is obtained from an odd and its subsequent even negative mKdV flows. The negative KdV flows are shown to inherit the two different vacua structure that characterizes the associated mKdV flows.

  1 citation

• Two entangled and scientifically impactful lives: Jiří Patera, Pavel Winternitz and the Montréal school of mathematical physics

  Luc Vinet

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 012 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  This text offers a personal account of the scientific legacy of two giants of mathematical physics at the turn of the Millenium and their heritage in Canada, their land of adoption.

• Tchavdar Dimitrov Palev - In memoriam

  N. I. Stoilova

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 011 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  Tchavdar Dimitrov Palev – In memoriam

• Kurt Bernardo Wolf memorial lecture

  George Pogosyan, Mariano A. del Olmo

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 010 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  A personal view of the Mexican mathematical physicist Kurt Bernardo Wolf (1942-2022) is presented here.

• Jordan meets Freudenthal. A black hole exceptional story

  Alessio Marrani

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 009 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  Within the extremal black hole attractors arising in ungauged $\mathcal{N}≥ 2$-extended Maxwell Einstein supergravity theories in $3+1$ space-time dimensions, we provide an overview of the stratification of the electric-magnetic charge representation space into "large" orbits and related "moduli spaces", under the action of the (continuous limit of the) non-compact $U$-duality Lie group. While each "large" orbit of the $U$-duality supports a class of attractors, the corresponding " moduli space" is the proper subspace of the scalar manifold spanned by those scalar fields on which the Attractor Mechanism is inactive. We present the case study concerning $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity theories with symmetric vector multiplets' scalar manifold, which in all cases (with the exception of the minimally coupled models) have the electric-magnetic charge representation of $U$-duality fitting into a reduced Freudenthal triple system over a cubic (simple or semi-simple) Jordan algebra.

• On the unexpected fate of scientific ideas: An archeology of the Carroll group

  Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 006 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  In 1965, I published a paper, exhibiting a hitherto unknown limit of the Lorentz group, which I christened "Carroll group" due to its seemingly paradoxical physical contents. Since I saw it as more curious than relevant, I published it in French in a journal somewhat afar from the mainstream of theoretical physics at that time. It was most gratifying to witness the quite unexpected favour this paper started to enjoy half a century later, so much that a so-called "Carrollian physics" is now developing, with applications in various domains of forefront theoretical physics, such as quantum gravitation, supersymmetry, string theory, etc. I offer this narrative as an example of the very diverse time scales with which scientific ideas may develop — or not.

  2 citations

• Dark matter as a QCD effect in an anti de Sitter geometry: Cosmogonic implications of de Sitter, anti de Sitter and Poincaré symmetries

  Gilles Cohen-Tanoudji, Jean-Pierre Gazeau

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 004 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  The $\Lambda$CDM standard model of cosmology involves two dark components of the universe, dark energy and dark matter. Whereas dark energy is usually associated with the (positive) cosmological constant $\Lambda$ associated with a de Sitter geometry, we propose to explain dark matter as a pure QCD effect, namely a gluonic Bose Einstein condensate with the status of a Cosmic Gluonic Background (CGB). This effect is due to the trace anomaly viewed as an effective negative cosmological constant determining an Anti de Sitter geometry and accompanying baryonic matter at the hadronization transition from the quark gluon plasma phase to the colorless hadronic phase. Our approach also allows to assume a ratio Dark/Visible equal to 11/2.

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• The acceptance speech of the 2022 Weyl-Wigner award

  Nicolai Reshetikhin

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 003 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  This is the acceptance speech for the 2022 Weyl-Wigner award.

• Laudatio of Dr. Erik Panzer, 2020 Hermann Weyl Prize

  María Antonia Lledó Barrena

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 002 (2023) · published 23 November 2023 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  Erik Panzer, from the University of Oxford, has been awarded the 2020 Hermann Weyl Prize of the International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, for "his pioneering achievements in the calculation of amplitudes in gauge theories, for developing new mathematical structures that exploit the language of symmetries, and for his contribution to the description of important physical phenomena present in nature."