Quasiperiodic function

Abstract: Heterotic supergravity with (1+3)--dimensional domain wall configurations and (warped) internal, six dimensional, almost-Kahler manifolds $\ ^6\mathbf{X}$ are studied. Considering ten dimensional spacetimes with nonholonomic distributions and conventional double fibrations, 2+2+...=2+2+3+3, and associated $SU(3)$ structures on internal space, we generalize for real, internal, almost symplectic gravitational structures the constructions with gravitational and gauge instantons of tanh-kink type. They include the first $\alpha ^{\prime}$ corrections to the heterotic supergravity action, parameterized in a form to imply nonholonomic deformations of the Yang-Mills sector and corresponding Bianchi identities. We show how it is possible to construct a variety of solutions depending on the type of nonholonomic distributions and deformations of 'prime' instanton configurations characterized by two real supercharges. This corresponds to $\mathcal{N}=1/2$ supersymmetric, nonholonomic manifolds from the four dimensional point of view. Our method provides a unified description of embedding nonholonomically deformed tanh-kink-type instantons into half-BPS solutions of heterotic supergravity. This allows us to elaborate new geometric methods of constructing exact solutions of motion equations, with first order $\alpha ^{\prime}$ corrections to the heterotic supergravity. Such a formalism is applied for general and/or warped almost-Kahler configurations, which allows us to generate nontrivial (1+3)-d domain walls and black hole deformations determined by quasiperiodic internal space structures. This formalism is utilized in our associated publication [EPJC 77 (2017) 17, arXiv: 1608.01980] in order to construct and study generic off-diagonal nonholonomic deformations of the Kerr metric, encoding contributions from heterotic supergravity.

Abstract: Consider the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic plane waves by a doubly periodic surface in R 3. The medium above the surface is supposed to be homogeneous and isotropic with a constant dielectric coefficient, while the material below is perfectly conducting. This paper is concerned with the existence of quasiperiodic solutions for any frequency. Based on an equivalent variational formulation established by the mortar technique of Nitsche, we verify the existence of solutions for a broad class of incident waves including plane waves. The only assumption is that the grating profile is a Lipschitz biperiodic surface. Note that the solvability result of the present paper covers the resonance case where Rayleigh frequencies are allowed. Finally, non-uniqueness examples are presented in the resonance case and in the case of TE or TM polarization for classical gratings.

Abstract: A very serious concern of scientists dealing with crystal structure refinement, including theoretical research, pertains to the characteristic bias in calculated versus measured diffraction intensities, observed particularly in the weak reflection regime. This bias is here attributed to corrective factors for phonons and, even more distinctly, phasons, and credible proof supporting this assumption is given. The lack of a consistent theory of phasons in quasicrystals significantly contributes to this characteristic bias. It is shown that the most commonly used exponential Debye–Waller factor for phasons fails in the case of quasicrystals, and a novel method of calculating the correction factor within a statistical approach is proposed. The results obtained for model quasiperiodic systems show that phasonic perturbations can be successfully described and refinement fits of high quality are achievable. The standard Debye–Waller factor for phonons works equally well for periodic and quasiperiodic crystals, and it is only in the last steps of a refinement that different correction functions need to be applied to improve the fit quality.