@article {2024, title = {Optimisation{\textendash}Based Coupling of Finite Element Model and Reduced Order Model for Computational Fluid Dynamics}, year = {2024}, author = {Ivan Prusak and Davide Torlo and Monica Nonino and Gianluigi Rozza} } @booklet {2023, title = {An optimisation-based domain-decomposition reduced order model for parameter-dependent non-stationary fluid dynamics problems}, year = {2023}, author = {Ivan Prusak and Davide Torlo and Monica Nonino and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2023, title = {An optimisation{\textendash}based domain{\textendash}decomposition reduced order model for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations}, volume = {151}, year = {2023}, month = {2023/12/01/}, pages = {172 - 189}, abstract = {

The aim of this work is to present a model reduction technique in the framework of optimal control problems for partial differential equations. We combine two approaches used for reducing the computational cost of the mathematical numerical models: domain{\textendash}decomposition (DD) methods and reduced{\textendash}order modelling (ROM). In particular, we consider an optimisation{\textendash}based domain{\textendash}decomposition algorithm for the parameter{\textendash}dependent stationary incompressible Navier{\textendash}Stokes equations. Firstly, the problem is described on the subdomains coupled at the interface and solved through an optimal control problem, which leads to the complete separation of the subdomain problems in the DD method. On top of that, a reduced model for the obtained optimal{\textendash}control problem is built; the procedure is based on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition technique and a further Galerkin projection. The presented methodology is tested on two fluid dynamics benchmarks: the stationary backward{\textendash}facing step and lid-driven cavity flow. The numerical tests show a significant reduction of the computational costs in terms of both the problem dimensions and the number of optimisation iterations in the domain{\textendash}decomposition algorithm.

}, keywords = {Computational fluid dynamics, Domain decomposition, Optimal control, Proper orthogonal decomposition, Reduced order modelling}, isbn = {0898-1221}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898122123004248}, author = {Ivan Prusak and Monica Nonino and Davide Torlo and Francesco Ballarin and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2022, title = {Kernel-based active subspaces with application to computational fluid dynamics parametric problems using discontinuous Galerkin method}, journal = {International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering}, volume = {123}, year = {2022}, pages = {6000-6027}, doi = {10.1002/nme.7099}, author = {Francesco Romor and Marco Tezzele and Andrea Lario and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2022, title = {An SIR{\textendash}like kinetic model tracking individuals{\textquoteright} viral load}, journal = {Networks and Heterogeneous Media}, year = {2022}, pages = {-}, author = {Rossella Della Marca and Nadia Loy and Andrea Tosin} } @article {ArndtBangerthFeder-2022-a, title = {The \textttdeal.II Library, Version 9.4}, journal = {Journal of Numerical Mathematics}, year = {2022}, author = {Daniel Arndt and Wolfgang Bangerth Marco Feder and Marc Fehling and Rene Gassm{\"o}ller and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Peter Munch and Jean-Paul Pelteret and Simon Sticko and Bruno Turcksin and David Wells} } @article {PeschkaZafferiHeltai-2022-a, title = {Variational Approach to Fluid{\textendash}Structure Interaction via GENERIC}, journal = {Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics}, year = {2022}, author = {Dirk Peschka and Andrea Zafferi and Luca Heltai and Marita Thomas} } @article {romor2020athena, title = {ATHENA: Advanced Techniques for High dimensional parameter spaces to Enhance Numerical Analysis}, journal = {Software Impacts}, volume = {10}, year = {2021}, pages = {100133}, doi = {10.1016/j.simpa.2021.100133}, author = {Francesco Romor and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2021, title = {On the comparison of LES data-driven reduced order approaches for hydroacoustic analysis}, journal = {Computers \& Fluids}, volume = {216}, year = {2021}, pages = {104819}, abstract = {

In this work, Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) and Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) methodologies are applied to hydroacoustic dataset computed using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) coupled with Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings (FWH) analogy. First, a low-dimensional description of the flow fields is presented with modal decomposition analysis. Sensitivity towards the DMD and POD bases truncation rank is discussed, and extensive dataset is provided to demonstrate the ability of both algorithms to reconstruct the flow fields with all the spatial and temporal frequencies necessary to support accurate noise evaluation. Results show that while DMD is capable to capture finer coherent structures in the wake region for the same amount of employed modes, reconstructed flow fields using POD exhibit smaller magnitudes of global spatiotemporal errors compared with DMD counterparts. Second, a separate set of DMD and POD modes generated using half the snapshots is employed into two data-driven reduced models respectively, based on DMD mid cast and POD with Interpolation (PODI). In that regard, results confirm that the predictive character of both reduced approaches on the flow fields is sufficiently accurate, with a relative superiority of PODI results over DMD ones. This infers that, discrepancies induced due to interpolation errors in PODI is relatively low compared with errors induced by integration and linear regression operations in DMD, for the present setup. Finally, a post processing analysis on the evaluation of FWH acoustic signals utilizing reduced fluid dynamic fields as input demonstrates that both DMD and PODI data-driven reduced models are efficient and sufficiently accurate in predicting acoustic noises.

}, keywords = {Dynamic mode decomposition, Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings, Hydroacoustics, Large eddy simulation, Model reduction, Proper orthogonal decomposition}, issn = {0045-7930}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2020.104819}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045793020303893}, author = {Mahmoud Gadalla and Marta Cianferra and Marco Tezzele and Giovanni Stabile and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @mastersthesis {tezzele2021phd, title = {Data-driven parameter and model order reduction for industrial optimisation problems with applications in naval engineering}, year = {2021}, school = {SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies}, type = {phd}, author = {Marco Tezzele} } @unpublished {2021, title = {A data-driven partitioned approach for the resolution of time-dependent optimal control problems with dynamic mode decomposition}, year = {2021}, author = {Eleonora Donadini and Maria Strazzullo and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {ArndtBangerthBlais-2021-h, title = {The deal.II Library, Version 9.3}, journal = {Journal of Numerical Mathematics}, year = {2021}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/jnma-2021-0081}, author = {Daniel Arndt and Wolfgang Bangerth and Bruno Blais and Marc Fehling and Rene Gassm{\"o}ller and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and Uwe K{\"o}cher and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Peter Munch and Jean-Paul Pelteret and Sebastian Proell and Konrad Simon and Bruno Turcksin and David Wells and Jiaqi Zhang} } @article {ST21, title = {Doulbeault and J-invariant Cohomologies on Almost Complex Manifolds}, journal = {Complex Analysis and Operator Theory}, volume = {15}, year = {2021}, month = {09/2021}, type = {Article}, abstract = {In this paper we relate the cohomology of $J$-invariant forms to the Dolbeault cohomology of an almost complex manifold. We find necessary and sufficient condition for the inclusion of the former into the latter to be true up to isomorphism. We also extend some results obtained by J. Cirici and S. O. Wilson about the computation of the left-invariant cohomology of nilmanifolds to the setting of solvmanifolds. Several examples are given.}, keywords = {Almost Complex Manifolds, Cohomology of Lie Algebra, Compact four-manifold, Dolbeault Cohomology, Fr{\"o}licher Spectral Sequence, Solvmanifold}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11785-021-01156-w}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11785-021-01156-w}, author = {Lorenzo Sillari and Adriano Tomassini} } @article {2021, title = {Hull Shape Design Optimization with Parameter Space and Model Reductions, and Self-Learning Mesh Morphing}, journal = {Journal of Marine Science and Engineering}, volume = {9}, year = {2021}, pages = {185}, abstract = {

In the field of parametric partial differential equations, shape optimization represents a challenging problem due to the required computational resources. In this contribution, a data-driven framework involving multiple reduction techniques is proposed to reduce such computational burden. Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and active subspace genetic algorithm (ASGA) are applied for a dimensional reduction of the original (high fidelity) model and for an efficient genetic optimization based on active subspace property. The parameterization of the shape is applied directly to the computational mesh, propagating the generic deformation map applied to the surface (of the object to optimize) to the mesh nodes using a radial basis function (RBF) interpolation. Thus, topology and quality of the original mesh are preserved, enabling application of POD-based reduced order modeling techniques, and avoiding the necessity of additional meshing steps. Model order reduction is performed coupling POD and Gaussian process regression (GPR) in a data-driven fashion. The framework is validated on a benchmark ship.

}, issn = {2077-1312}, doi = {10.3390/jmse9020185}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/9/2/185}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @unpublished {romor2021las, title = {A local approach to parameter space reduction for regression and classification tasks}, year = {2021}, note = {Submitted}, author = {Francesco Romor and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @conference {romor2020pamm, title = {Multi-fidelity data fusion for the approximation of scalar functions with low intrinsic dimensionality through active subspaces}, booktitle = {Proceedings in Applied Mathematics \& Mechanics}, volume = {20}, number = {S1}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Wiley Online Library}, organization = {Wiley Online Library}, doi = {10.1002/pamm.202000349}, author = {Francesco Romor and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {14318, title = {Multi-fidelity data fusion through parameter space reduction with applications to automotive engineering}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14396}, year = {2021}, author = {Francesco Romor and Marco Tezzele and Markus Mrosek and Carsten Othmer and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {tezzele2020pygem, title = {PyGeM: Python Geometrical Morphing}, journal = {Software Impacts}, volume = {7}, year = {2021}, pages = {100047}, abstract = {PyGeM is an open source Python package which allows to easily parametrize and deform 3D object described by CAD files or 3D meshes. It implements several morphing techniques such as free form deformation, radial basis function interpolation, and inverse distance weighting. Due to its versatility in dealing with different file formats it is particularly suited for researchers and practitioners both in academia and in industry interested in computational engineering simulations and optimization studies.}, keywords = {Free form deformation, Geometrical morphing, Inverse distance weighting, Python, Radial basis functions interpolation}, issn = {2665-9638}, doi = {10.1016/j.simpa.2020.100047}, author = {Marco Tezzele and Nicola Demo and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2020, title = {A supervised learning approach involving active subspaces for an efficient genetic algorithm in high-dimensional optimization problems}, journal = {SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing}, volume = {43}, year = {2021}, chapter = {B831}, abstract = {

In this work, we present an extension of the genetic algorithm (GA) which exploits the active subspaces (AS) property to evolve the individuals on a lower dimensional space. In many cases, GA requires in fact more function evaluations than others optimization method to converge to the optimum. Thus, complex and high-dimensional functions may result intractable with the standard algorithm. To address this issue, we propose to linearly map the input parameter space of the original function onto its AS before the evolution, performing the mutation and mate processes in a lower dimensional space. In this contribution, we describe the novel method called ASGA, presenting differences and similarities with the standard GA method. We test the proposed method over n-dimensional benchmark functions {\textendash} Rosenbrock, Ackley, Bohachevsky, Rastrigin, Schaffer N. 7, and Zakharov {\textendash} and finally we apply it to an aeronautical shape optimization problem.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1345219}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07282}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @conference {2020, title = {Advances in reduced order methods for parametric industrial problems in computational fluid dynamics}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems, ECCM 2018 and 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2018}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

Reduced order modeling has gained considerable attention in recent decades owing to the advantages offered in reduced computational times and multiple solutions for parametric problems. The focus of this manuscript is the application of model order reduction techniques in various engineering and scientific applications including but not limited to mechanical, naval and aeronautical engineering. The focus here is kept limited to computational fluid mechanics and related applications. The advances in the reduced order modeling with proper orthogonal decomposition and reduced basis method are presented as well as a brief discussion of dynamic mode decomposition and also some present advances in the parameter space reduction. Here, an overview of the challenges faced and possible solutions are presented with examples from various problems.

}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85075395686\&partnerID=40\&md5=fb0b1a3cfdfd35a104db9921bc9be675}, author = {Gianluigi Rozza and M.H. Malik and Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Michele Girfoglio and Giovanni Stabile and Andrea Mola} } @inbook {RozzaHessStabileTezzeleBallarin2020, title = {Basic ideas and tools for projection-based model reduction of parametric partial differential equations}, booktitle = {Model Order Reduction, Volume 2 Snapshot-Based Methods and Algorithms}, year = {2020}, pages = {1 - 47}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, organization = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin, Boston}, isbn = {9783110671490}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671490-001}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9783110671490/10.1515/9783110671490-001.xml}, author = {Gianluigi Rozza and Martin W. Hess and Giovanni Stabile and Marco Tezzele and F. Ballarin} } @article {2020, title = {On the blow-up of GSBV functions under suitable geometric properties of the jump set}, journal = {Advances in Calculus of Variations}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/acv-2019-0068}, author = {Emanuele Tasso} } @article {2020, title = {On the continuity of the trace operator in GSBV (Ω) and GSBD (Ω)}, journal = {ESAIM: COCV}, volume = {26}, year = {2020}, month = {2020///}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2019014}, author = {Emanuele Tasso} } @article {ArndtBangerthDavydov-2020-a, title = {The deal.II finite element library: Design, features, and insights}, journal = {Computers and Mathematics with Applications}, year = {2020}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2020.02.022}, author = {Daniel Arndt and Wolfgang Bangerth and Denis Davydov and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Jean-Paul Pelteret and Bruno Turcksin and David Wells} } @article {ArndtBangerthBlais-2020-a, title = {The deal.II library, Version 9.2}, journal = {Journal of Numerical Mathematics}, volume = {28}, number = {3}, year = {2020}, pages = {131{\textendash}146}, author = {Daniel Arndt and Wolfgang Bangerth and Bruno Blais and Thomas C. Clevenger and Marc Fehling and Alexander V. Grayver and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Peter Munch and Jean-Paul Pelteret and Reza Rastak and Ignacio Tomas and Bruno Turcksin and Zhuoran Wang and David Wells} } @article {2020, title = {Energy-dissipation balance of a smooth moving crack}, volume = {483}, year = {2020}, month = {2020/03/15/}, pages = {123656}, abstract = {

In this paper we provide necessary and sufficient conditions in order to guarantee the energy-dissipation balance of a Mode III crack, growing on a prescribed smooth path. Moreover, we characterize the singularity of the displacement near the crack tip, generalizing the result in [10] valid for straight fractures.

}, keywords = {Energy-dissipation balance, Fracture dynamics, Wave equation in time-dependent domains}, isbn = {0022-247X}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022247X19309242}, author = {Maicol Caponi and Ilaria Lucardesi and Emanuele Tasso} } @article {2020, title = {Enhancing CFD predictions in shape design problems by model and parameter space reduction}, journal = {Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences}, volume = {7}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

In this work we present an advanced computational pipeline for the approximation and prediction of the lift coefficient of a parametrized airfoil profile. The non-intrusive reduced order method is based on dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) and it is coupled with dynamic active subspaces (DyAS) to enhance the future state prediction of the target function and reduce the parameter space dimensionality. The pipeline is based on high-fidelity simulations carried out by the application of finite volume method for turbulent flows, and automatic mesh morphing through radial basis functions interpolation technique. The proposed pipeline is able to save 1/3 of the overall computational resources thanks to the application of DMD. Moreover exploiting DyAS and performing the regression on a lower dimensional space results in the reduction of the relative error in the approximation of the time-varying lift coefficient by a factor 2 with respect to using only the DMD.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s40323-020-00177-y}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05237}, author = {Marco Tezzele and Nicola Demo and Giovanni Stabile and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {stupovski2020existence, title = {Existence of Riemannian metrics with positive biorthogonal curvature on simply connected 5-manifolds}, journal = {Archiv der Mathematik}, year = {2020}, pages = {1{\textendash}9}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {

Using the recent work of Bettiol, we show that a first-order conformal deformation of Wilking{\textquoteright}s metric of almost-positive sectional curvature on $S2\times S3$ yields a family of metrics with strictly positive average of sectional curvatures of any pair of 2-planes that are separated by a minimal distance in the 2-Grassmanian. A result of Smale allows us to conclude that every closed simply connected 5-manifold with torsion-free homology and trivial second Stiefel{\textendash}Whitney class admits a Riemannian metric with a strictly positive average of sectional curvatures of any pair of orthogonal 2-planes.

}, doi = {10.1007/s00013-020-01511-x}, url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00013-020-01511-x}, author = {Boris Stupovski and Rafael Torres} } @article {Bonelli:2020xps, title = {Gauge theories on compact toric manifolds}, year = {2020}, month = {7}, doi = {10.1007/s11005-021-01419-9}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Francesco Fucito and Morales, Jose Francisco and Massimiliano Ronzani and Sysoeva, Ekaterina and Alessandro Tanzini} } @book {2020, title = {Kernel-based Active Subspaces with application to CFD parametric problems using Discontinuous Galerkin method}, year = {2020}, author = {Francesco Romor and Marco Tezzele and Lario, Andrea and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2020, title = {Reduced order isogeometric analysis approach for pdes in parametrized domains}, journal = {Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering}, volume = {137}, year = {2020}, pages = {153-170}, abstract = {

In this contribution, we coupled the isogeometric analysis to a reduced order modelling technique in order to provide a computationally efficient solution in parametric domains. In details, we adopt the free-form deformation method to obtain the parametric formulation of the domain and proper orthogonal decomposition with interpolation for the computational reduction of the model. This technique provides a real-time solution for any parameter by combining several solutions, in this case computed using isogeometric analysis on different geometrical configurations of the domain, properly mapped into a reference configuration. We underline that this reduced order model requires only the full-order solutions, making this approach non-intrusive. We present in this work the results of the application of this methodology to a heat conduction problem inside a deformable collector pipe.

}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-48721-8_7}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089615035\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-48721-8_7\&partnerID=40\&md5=7b15836ae65fa28dcfe8733788d7730c}, author = {Fabrizio Garotta and Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Massimo Carraturo and Alessandro Reali and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2020, title = {Reduced order methods for parametric optimal flow control in coronary bypass grafts, toward patient-specific data assimilation}, journal = {International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical EngineeringInternational Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical EngineeringInt J Numer Meth Biomed Engng}, volume = {n/a}, year = {2020}, month = {2020/05/27}, pages = {e3367}, abstract = {

Abstract Coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) surgery is an invasive procedure performed to circumvent partial or complete blood flow blockage in coronary artery disease. In this work, we apply a numerical optimal flow control model to patient-specific geometries of CABG, reconstructed from clinical images of real-life surgical cases, in parameterized settings. The aim of these applications is to match known physiological data with numerical hemodynamics corresponding to different scenarios, arisen by tuning some parameters. Such applications are an initial step toward matching patient-specific physiological data in patient-specific vascular geometries as best as possible. Two critical challenges that reportedly arise in such problems are: (a) lack of robust quantification of meaningful boundary conditions required to match known data as best as possible and (b) high computational cost. In this work, we utilize unknown control variables in the optimal flow control problems to take care of the first challenge. Moreover, to address the second challenge, we propose a time-efficient and reliable computational environment for such parameterized problems by projecting them onto a low-dimensional solution manifold through proper orthogonal decomposition-Galerkin.

}, keywords = {coronary artery bypass grafts, data assimilation, flow control, Galerkin methods, hemodynamics modeling, Optimization, patient-specific simulations, Proper orthogonal decomposition, reduced order methods}, isbn = {2040-7939}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3367}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cnm.3367?af=R}, author = {Zakia Zainib and F. Ballarin and Stephen E. Fremes and Piero Triverio and Laura Jim{\'e}nez-Juan and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2020, title = {Topology change and selection rules for high-dimensional spin(1,n)0-Lorentzian cobordisms}, journal = {Transactions of the american mathematical society}, volume = {373}, year = {2020}, pages = {1731-1747}, type = {Journal article}, chapter = {1731}, doi = {10.1090/tran/7939}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/108858}, author = {Gleb Smirnov and Rafael Torres} } @article {2020, title = {Weak formulation of elastodynamics in domains with growing cracks}, volume = {199}, year = {2020}, month = {2020/08/01}, pages = {1571 - 1595}, abstract = {

In this paper, we formulate and study the system of elastodynamics on domains with arbitrary growing cracks. This includes homogeneous Neumann conditions on the crack sets and mixed general Dirichlet{\textendash}Neumann conditions on the boundary. The only assumptions on the crack sets are to be $$(n-1)$$-rectifiable with finite surface measure, and increasing in the sense of set inclusions. In particular, they might be dense; hence, the weak formulation must fall outside the usual context of Sobolev spaces and Korn{\textquoteright}s inequality. We prove existence of a solution for both the damped and undamped systems, while in the damped case we are also able to prove uniqueness and an energy balance.

}, isbn = {1618-1891}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-019-00932-y}, author = {Emanuele Tasso} } @article {Gigli2019, title = {Benamou{\textendash}Brenier and duality formulas for the entropic cost on RCD*(K,N) spaces}, journal = {Probability Theory and Related Fields}, year = {2019}, month = {Apr}, abstract = {

In this paper we prove that, within the framework of $\textsf{RCD}^\star(K,N)$ spaces with $N\<\infty$, the entropic cost (i.e. the minimal value of the Schr{\"o}dinger problem) admits:A threefold dynamical variational representation, in the spirit of the Benamou{\textendash}Brenier formula for the Wasserstein distance; A Hamilton{\textendash}Jacobi{\textendash}Bellman dual representation, in line with Bobkov{\textendash}Gentil{\textendash}Ledoux and Otto{\textendash}Villani results on the duality between Hamilton{\textendash}Jacobi and continuity equation for optimal transport;A Kantorovich-type duality formula, where the Hopf{\textendash}Lax semigroup is replaced by a suitable {\textquoteleft}entropic{\textquoteright} counterpart.We thus provide a complete and unifying picture of the equivalent variational representations of the Schr{\"o}dinger problem as well as a perfect parallelism with the analogous formulas for the Wasserstein distance. Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below are a relevant class of $\textsf{RCD}^*(K,N)$ spaces and our results are new even in this setting.

}, issn = {1432-2064}, doi = {10.1007/s00440-019-00909-1}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-019-00909-1}, author = {Nicola Gigli and Luca Tamanini} } @article {gadalla19bladex, title = {BladeX: Python Blade Morphing}, journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software}, volume = {4}, number = {34}, year = {2019}, pages = {1203}, doi = {10.21105/joss.01203}, author = {Mahmoud Gadalla and Marco Tezzele and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @conference {2019, title = {A complete data-driven framework for the efficient solution of parametric shape design and optimisation in naval engineering problems}, booktitle = {8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2019}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

In the reduced order modeling (ROM) framework, the solution of a parametric partial differential equation is approximated by combining the high-fidelity solutions of the problem at hand for several properly chosen configurations. Examples of the ROM application, in the naval field, can be found in [31, 24]. Mandatory ingredient for the ROM methods is the relation between the high-fidelity solutions and the parameters. Dealing with geometrical parameters, especially in the industrial context, this relation may be unknown and not trivial (simulations over hand morphed geometries) or very complex (high number of parameters or many nested morphing techniques). To overcome these scenarios, we propose in this contribution an efficient and complete data-driven framework involving ROM techniques for shape design and optimization, extending the pipeline presented in [7]. By applying the singular value decomposition (SVD) to the points coordinates defining the hull geometry {\textemdash} assuming the topology is inaltered by the deformation {\textemdash}, we are able to compute the optimal space which the deformed geometries belong to, hence using the modal coefficients as the new parameters we can reconstruct the parametric formulation of the domain. Finally the output of interest is approximated using the proper orthogonal decomposition with interpolation technique. To conclude, we apply this framework to a naval shape design problem where the bulbous bow is morphed to reduce the total resistance of the ship advancing in calm water.

}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85075342565\&partnerID=40\&md5=d76b8a1290053e7a84fb8801c0e6bb3d}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @conference {2019, title = {A complete data-driven framework for the efficient solution of parametric shape design and optimisation in naval engineering problems}, booktitle = {VIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

In the reduced order modeling (ROM) framework, the solution of a parametric partial differential equation is approximated by combining the high-fidelity solutions of the problem at hand for several properly chosen configurations. Examples of the ROM application, in the naval field, can be found in [31, 24]. Mandatory ingredient for the ROM methods is the relation between the high-fidelity solutions and the parameters. Dealing with geometrical parameters, especially in the industrial context, this relation may be unknown and not trivial (simulations over hand morphed geometries) or very complex (high number of parameters or many nested morphing techniques). To overcome these scenarios, we propose in this contribution an efficient and complete data-driven framework involving ROM techniques for shape design and optimization, extending the pipeline presented in [7]. By applying the singular value decomposition (SVD) to the points coordinates defining the hull geometry {\textendash}- assuming the topology is inaltered by the deformation {\textendash}-, we are able to compute the optimal space which the deformed geometries belong to, hence using the modal coefficients as the new parameters we can reconstruct the parametric formulation of the domain. Finally the output of interest is approximated using the proper orthogonal decomposition with interpolation technique. To conclude, we apply this framework to a naval shape design problem where the bulbous bow is morphed to reduce the total resistance of the ship advancing in calm water.

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05982}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {ArndtBangerthClevenger-2019-a, title = {The deal.II Library, Version 9.1}, journal = {Journal of Numerical Mathematics}, year = {2019}, author = {Daniel Arndt and Wolfgang Bangerth and Thomas C. Clevenger and Denis Davydov and Marc Fehling and Garcia-Sanchez, Daniel and Harper, Graham and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and Martin Kronbichler and Maguire Kynch, Ross and Matthias Maier and Jean-Paul Pelteret and Bruno Turcksin and David Wells} } @article {ArndtBangerthClevenger-2019-a, title = {The deal.II Library, Version 9.1}, journal = {Journal of Numerical Mathematics}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This paper provides an overview of the new features of the finite element library deal.II, version 9.1.}, issn = {15702820}, doi = {10.1515/jnma-2019-0064}, author = {Daniel Arndt and Wolfgang Bangerth and Thomas C. Clevenger and Denis Davydov and Marc Fehling and Garcia-Sanchez, Daniel and Harper, Graham and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and Martin Kronbichler and Maguire Kynch, Ross and Matthias Maier and Jean-Paul Pelteret and Bruno Turcksin and David Wells} } @conference {2019, title = {Efficient reduction in shape parameter space dimension for ship propeller blade design}, booktitle = {8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2019}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

In this work, we present the results of a ship propeller design optimization campaign carried out in the framework of the research project PRELICA, funded by the Friuli Venezia Giulia regional government. The main idea of this work is to operate on a multidisciplinary level to identify propeller shapes that lead to reduced tip vortex-induced pressure and increased efficiency without altering the thrust. First, a specific tool for the bottom-up construction of parameterized propeller blade geometries has been developed. The algorithm proposed operates with a user defined number of arbitrary shaped or NACA airfoil sections, and employs arbitrary degree NURBS to represent the chord, pitch, skew and rake distribution as a function of the blade radial coordinate. The control points of such curves have been modified to generate, in a fully automated way, a family of blade geometries depending on as many as 20 shape parameters. Such geometries have then been used to carry out potential flow simulations with the Boundary Element Method based software PROCAL. Given the high number of parameters considered, such a preliminary stage allowed for a fast evaluation of the performance of several hundreds of shapes. In addition, the data obtained from the potential flow simulation allowed for the application of a parameter space reduction methodology based on active subspaces (AS) property, which suggested that the main propeller performance indices are, at a first but rather accurate approximation, only depending on a single parameter which is a linear combination of all the original geometric ones. AS analysis has also been used to carry out a constrained optimization exploiting response surface method in the reduced parameter space, and a sensitivity analysis based on such surrogate model. The few selected shapes were finally used to set up high fidelity RANS simulations and select an optimal shape.

}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85075395143\&partnerID=40\&md5=b6aa0fcedc2f88e78c295d0f437824d0}, author = {Andrea Mola and Marco Tezzele and Mahmoud Gadalla and Valdenazzi, Federica and Grassi, Davide and Padovan, Roberta and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {GENTIL2019, title = {An entropic interpolation proof of the HWI inequality}, journal = {Stochastic Processes and their Applications}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

The HWI inequality is an {\textquotedblleft}interpolation{\textquotedblright}inequality between the Entropy H, the Fisher information I and the Wasserstein distance W. We present a pathwise proof of the HWI inequality which is obtained through a zero noise limit of the Schr{\"o}dinger problem. Our approach consists in making rigorous the Otto{\textendash}Villani heuristics in Otto and Villani (2000) taking advantage of the entropic interpolations, which are regular both in space and time, rather than the displacement ones.

}, keywords = {Entropic interpolations, Fisher information, Relative entropy, Schr{\"o}dinger problem, Wasserstein distance}, issn = {0304-4149}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2019.04.002}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304414918303454}, author = {Ivan Gentil and Christian L{\'e}onard and Luigia Ripani and Luca Tamanini} } @article {Bawane:2017gjf, title = {N=2 gauge theories on unoriented/open four-manifolds and their AGT counterparts}, journal = {JHEP}, volume = {07}, year = {2019}, pages = {040}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP07(2019)040}, url = {http://inspirehep.net/record/1631219/}, author = {Aditya Bawane and Benvenuti, Sergio and Giulio Bonelli and Muteeb, Nouman and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2019, title = {A non-intrusive approach for the reconstruction of POD modal coefficients through active subspaces}, journal = {Comptes Rendus - Mecanique}, volume = {347}, year = {2019}, pages = {873-881}, abstract = {

Reduced order modeling (ROM) provides an efficient framework to compute solutions of parametric problems. Basically, it exploits a set of precomputed high-fidelity solutions{\textemdash}computed for properly chosen parameters, using a full-order model{\textemdash}in order to find the low dimensional space that contains the solution manifold. Using this space, an approximation of the numerical solution for new parameters can be computed in real-time response scenario, thanks to the reduced dimensionality of the problem. In a ROM framework, the most expensive part from the computational viewpoint is the calculation of the numerical solutions using the full-order model. Of course, the number of collected solutions is strictly related to the accuracy of the reduced order model. In this work, we aim at increasing the precision of the model also for few input solutions by coupling the proper orthogonal decomposition with interpolation (PODI){\textemdash}a data-driven reduced order method{\textemdash}with the active subspace (AS) property, an emerging tool for reduction in parameter space. The enhanced ROM results in a reduced number of input solutions to reach the desired accuracy. In this contribution, we present the numerical results obtained by applying this method to a structural problem and in a fluid dynamics one.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crme.2019.11.012}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85075379471\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.crme.2019.11.012\&partnerID=40\&md5=dcb27af39dc14dc8c3a4a5f681f7d84b}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @conference {2019, title = {Shape optimization through proper orthogonal decomposition with interpolation and dynamic mode decomposition enhanced by active subspaces}, booktitle = {8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2019}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

We propose a numerical pipeline for shape optimization in naval engineering involving two different non-intrusive reduced order method (ROM) techniques. Such methods are proper orthogonal decomposition with interpolation (PODI) and dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). The ROM proposed will be enhanced by active subspaces (AS) as a pre-processing tool that reduce the parameter space dimension and suggest better sampling of the input space. We will focus on geometrical parameters describing the perturbation of a reference bulbous bow through the free form deformation (FFD) technique. The ROM are based on a finite volume method (FV) to simulate the multi-phase incompressible flow around the deformed hulls. In previous works we studied the reduction of the parameter space in naval engineering through AS [38, 10] focusing on different parts of the hull. PODI and DMD have been employed for the study of fast and reliable shape optimization cycles on a bulbous bow in [9]. The novelty of this work is the simultaneous reduction of both the input parameter space and the output fields of interest. In particular AS will be trained computing the total drag resistance of a hull advancing in calm water and its gradients with respect to the input parameters. DMD will improve the performance of each simulation of the campaign using only few snapshots of the solution fields in order to predict the regime state of the system. Finally PODI will interpolate the coefficients of the POD decomposition of the output fields for a fast approximation of all the fields at new untried parameters given by the optimization algorithm. This will result in a non-intrusive data-driven numerical optimization pipeline completely independent with respect to the full order solver used and it can be easily incorporated into existing numerical pipelines, from the reference CAD to the optimal shape.

}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85075390244\&partnerID=40\&md5=3e1f2e9a2539d34594caff13766c94b8}, author = {Marco Tezzele and Nicola Demo and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2019, title = {Weighted Reduced Order Methods for Parametrized Partial Differential Equations with Random Inputs}, journal = {PoliTO Springer Series}, year = {2019}, pages = {27-40}, abstract = {

In this manuscript we discuss weighted reduced order methods for stochastic partial differential equations. Random inputs (such as forcing terms, equation coefficients, boundary conditions) are considered as parameters of the equations. We take advantage of the resulting parametrized formulation to propose an efficient reduced order model; we also profit by the underlying stochastic assumption in the definition of suitable weights to drive to reduction process. Two viable strategies are discussed, namely the weighted reduced basis method and the weighted proper orthogonal decomposition method. A numerical example on a parametrized elasticity problem is shown.

}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-04870-9_2}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85084009379\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-04870-9_2\&partnerID=40\&md5=446bcc1f331167bbba67bc00fb170150}, author = {L. Venturi and D. Torlo and F. Ballarin and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2018, title = {On the Cauchy problem for the wave equation on time-dependent domains}, number = {SISSA;19/2018/MATE}, year = {2018}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {We introduce a notion of solution to the wave equation on a suitable class of time-dependent domains and compare it with a previous de nition. We prove an existence result for the solution of the Cauchy problem and present some additional conditions which imply uniqueness.}, url = {http://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/35314}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @inbook {tezzele2018combined, title = {Combined parameter and model reduction of cardiovascular problems by means of active subspaces and POD-Galerkin methods}, booktitle = {Mathematical and Numerical Modeling of the Cardiovascular System and Applications}, year = {2018}, pages = {185{\textendash}207}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Marco Tezzele and F. Ballarin and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {20.500.11767_81694, title = {The deal.II Library, Version 9.0}, journal = {JOURNAL OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1515/jnma-2018-0054}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/jnma-2018-0054}, author = {Giovanni Alzetta and Daniel Arndt and Wolfgang Bangerth and Boddu, Vishal and Brands, Benjamin and Denis Davydov and Rene Gassm{\"o}ller and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and Kormann, Katharina and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Jean-Paul Pelteret and Bruno Turcksin and David Wells} } @article {TezzeleSalmoiraghiMolaRozza2018, title = {Dimension reduction in heterogeneous parametric spaces with application to naval engineering shape design problems}, journal = {Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences}, volume = {5}, number = {1}, year = {2018}, month = {Sep}, pages = {25}, abstract = {

We present the results of the first application in the naval architecture field of a methodology based on active subspaces properties for parameters space reduction. The physical problem considered is the one of the simulation of the hydrodynamic flow past the hull of a ship advancing in calm water. Such problem is extremely relevant at the preliminary stages of the ship design, when several flow simulations are typically carried out by the engineers to assess the dependence of the hull total resistance on the geometrical parameters of the hull, and others related with flows and hull properties. Given the high number of geometric and physical parameters which might affect the total ship drag, the main idea of this work is to employ the active subspaces properties to identify possible lower dimensional structures in the parameter space. Thus, a fully automated procedure has been implemented to produce several small shape perturbations of an original hull CAD geometry, in order to exploit the resulting shapes to run high fidelity flow simulations with different structural and physical parameters as well, and then collect data for the active subspaces analysis. The free form deformation procedure used to morph the hull shapes, the high fidelity solver based on potential flow theory with fully nonlinear free surface treatment, and the active subspaces analysis tool employed in this work have all been developed and integrated within SISSA mathLab as open source tools. The contribution will also discuss several details of the implementation of such tools, as well as the results of their application to the selected target engineering problem.

}, doi = {10.1186/s40323-018-0118-3}, author = {Marco Tezzele and Filippo Salmoiraghi and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @proceedings {demo2018efficient, title = {An efficient shape parametrisation by free-form deformation enhanced by active subspace for hull hydrodynamic ship design problems in open source environment}, year = {2018}, publisher = {International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers}, address = {Sapporo, Japan}, abstract = {In this contribution, we present the results of the application of a parameter space reduction methodology based on active subspaces to the hull hydrodynamic design problem. Several parametric deformations of an initial hull shape are considered to assess the influence of the shape parameters considered on the hull total drag. The hull resistance is typically computed by means of numerical simulations of the hydrodynamic flow past the ship. Given the high number of parameters involved - which might result in a high number of time consuming hydrodynamic simulations - assessing whether the parameters space can be reduced would lead to considerable computational cost reduction. Thus, the main idea of this work is to employ the active subspaces to identify possible lower dimensional structures in the parameter space, or to verify the parameter distribution in the position of the control points. To this end, a fully automated procedure has been implemented to produce several small shape perturbations of an original hull CAD geometry which are then used to carry out high-fidelity flow simulations and collect data for the active subspaces analysis. To achieve full automation of the open source pipeline described, both the free form deformation methodology employed for the hull perturbations and the solver based on unsteady potential flow theory, with fully nonlinear free surface treatment, are directly interfaced with CAD data structures and operate using IGES vendor-neutral file formats as input files. The computational cost of the fluid dynamic simulations is further reduced through the application of dynamic mode decomposition to reconstruct the steady state total drag value given only few initial snapshots of the simulation. The active subspaces analysis is here applied to the geometry of the DTMB-5415 naval combatant hull, which is which is a common benchmark in ship hydrodynamics simulations.}, keywords = {Active subspaces, Boundary element method, Dynamic mode decomposition, Fluid structure interaction, Free form deformation, Fully nonlinear potential, Numerical towing tank}, issn = {978-1-880653-87-6}, url = {https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/ISOPE-I-18-481}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2018, title = {Existence for elastodynamic Griffith fracture with a weak maximal dissipation condition}, number = {SISSA;04/2018/MATE}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We consider a model of elastodynamics with fracture evolution, based on energy-dissipation balance and a maximal dissipation condition. We prove an existence result in the case of planar elasticity with a free crack path, where the maximal dissipation condition is satisfied among suitably regular competitor cracks.}, url = {http://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/35308}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Cristopher J. Larsen and Rodica Toader} } @article {demo2018ezyrb, title = {EZyRB: Easy Reduced Basis method}, journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software}, volume = {3}, number = {24}, year = {2018}, pages = {661}, doi = {10.21105/joss.00661}, url = {https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00661}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {SalmoiraghiScardigliTelibRozza2018, title = {Free-form deformation, mesh morphing and reduced-order methods: enablers for efficient aerodynamic shape optimisation}, journal = {International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics}, volume = {32}, number = {4-5}, year = {2018}, pages = {233-247}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, abstract = {

In this work, we provide an integrated pipeline for the model-order reduction of turbulent flows around parametrised geometries in aerodynamics. In particular, free-form deformation is applied for geometry parametrisation, whereas two different reduced-order models based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) are employed in order to speed-up the full-order simulations: the first method exploits POD with interpolation, while the second one is based on domain decomposition. For the sampling of the parameter space, we adopt a Greedy strategy coupled with Constrained Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations, in order to guarantee a good compromise between space exploration and exploitation. The proposed framework is tested on an industrially relevant application, i.e. the front-bumper morphing of the DrivAer car model, using the finite-volume method for the full-order resolution of the Reynolds-Averaged Navier{\textendash}Stokes equations.

}, doi = {10.1080/10618562.2018.1514115}, author = {Filippo Salmoiraghi and Scardigli, Angela and Telib, Haysam and Gianluigi Rozza} } @conference {tezzele2018model, title = {Model Order Reduction by means of Active Subspaces and Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Parametric Hull Shape Design Hydrodynamics}, booktitle = {Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future: Proceedings of NAV 2018: 19th International Conference on Ship \& Maritime Research}, year = {2018}, publisher = {IOS Press}, organization = {IOS Press}, address = {Trieste, Italy}, abstract = {We present the results of the application of a parameter space reduction methodology based on active subspaces (AS) to the hull hydrodynamic design problem. Several parametric deformations of an initial hull shape are considered to assess the influence of the shape parameters on the hull wave resistance. Such problem is relevant at the preliminary stages of the ship design, when several flow simulations are carried out by the engineers to establish a certain sensibility with respect to the parameters, which might result in a high number of time consuming hydrodynamic simulations. The main idea of this work is to employ the AS to identify possible lower dimensional structures in the parameter space. The complete pipeline involves the use of free form deformation to parametrize and deform the hull shape, the full order solver based on unsteady potential flow theory with fully nonlinear free surface treatment directly interfaced with CAD, the use of dynamic mode decomposition to reconstruct the final steady state given only few snapshots of the simulation, and the reduction of the parameter space by AS, and shared subspace. Response surface method is used to minimize the total drag.}, doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-870-9-569}, url = {http://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/49270}, author = {Marco Tezzele and Nicola Demo and Mahmoud Gadalla and Andrea Mola and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {demo2018pydmd, title = {PyDMD: Python Dynamic Mode Decomposition}, journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software}, volume = {3}, number = {22}, year = {2018}, pages = {530}, doi = {10.21105/joss.00530}, url = {https://joss.theoj.org/papers/734e4326edd5062c6e8ee98d03df9e1d}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {gigli2018second, title = {Second order differentiation formula on RCD(K, N) spaces}, journal = {Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni}, volume = {29}, number = {2}, year = {2018}, pages = {377{\textendash}386}, author = {Nicola Gigli and Luca Tamanini} } @article {1802.02463, title = {Second order differentiation formula on RCD*(K,N) spaces}, year = {2018}, author = {Nicola Gigli and Luca Tamanini} } @conference {demo2018shape, title = {Shape Optimization by means of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Dynamic Mode Decomposition}, booktitle = {Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future: Proceedings of NAV 2018: 19th International Conference on Ship \& Maritime Research}, year = {2018}, publisher = {IOS Press}, organization = {IOS Press}, chapter = {212}, address = {Trieste, Italy}, abstract = {Shape optimization is a challenging task in many engineering fields, since the numerical solutions of parametric system may be computationally expensive. This work presents a novel optimization procedure based on reduced order modeling, applied to a naval hull design problem. The advantage introduced by this method is that the solution for a specific parameter can be expressed as the combination of few numerical solutions computed at properly chosen parametric points. The reduced model is built using the proper orthogonal decomposition with interpolation (PODI) method. We use the free form deformation (FFD) for an automated perturbation of the shape, and the finite volume method to simulate the multiphase incompressible flow around the deformed hulls. Further computational reduction is done by the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) technique: from few high dimensional snapshots, the system evolution is reconstructed and the final state of the simulation is faithfully approximated. Finally the global optimization algorithm iterates over the reduced space: the approximated drag and lift coefficients are projected to the hull surface, hence the resistance is evaluated for the new hulls until the convergence to the optimal shape is achieved. We will present the results obtained applying the described procedure to a typical Fincantieri cruise ship.}, doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-870-9-212}, url = {http://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/49229}, author = {Nicola Demo and Marco Tezzele and Gianluca Gustin and Gianpiero Lavini and Gianluigi Rozza} } @conference {2018, title = {SRTP 2.0 - The evolution of the safe return to port concept}, booktitle = {Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future - Proceedings of NAV 2018: 19th International Conference on Ship and Maritime Research}, year = {2018}, abstract = {

In 2010 IMO (International Maritime Organisation) introduced new rules in SOLAS with the aim of intrinsically increase the safety of passenger ships. This requirement is achieved by providing safe areas for passengers and essential services for allowing ship to Safely Return to Port (SRtP). The entry into force of these rules has changed the way to design passenger ships. In this respect big effort in the research has been done by industry to address design issues related to the impact on failure analysis of the complex interactions among systems. Today the research activity is working to bring operational matters in the design stage. This change of research focus was necessary because human factor and the way to operate the ship itself after a casualty on board may have a big impact in the design of the ship/systems. Also the management of the passengers after a casualty is becoming a major topic for safety. This paper presents the state of the art of Italian knowledge in the field of system engineering applied to passenger ship address to safety improvement and design reliability. An overview of present tools and methodologies will be offered together with future focuses in the research activity.

}, doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-870-9-665}, author = {D. Cangelosi and A. Bonvicini and M. Nardo and Andrea Mola and A. Marchese and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {2018, title = {Stabilized weighted reduced basis methods for parametrized advection dominated problems with random inputs}, journal = {SIAM-ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification}, volume = {6}, year = {2018}, pages = {1475-1502}, abstract = {

In this work, we propose viable and eficient strategies for stabilized parametrized advection dominated problems, with random inputs. In particular, we investigate the combination of the wRB (weighted reduced basis) method for stochastic parametrized problems with the stabilized RB (reduced basis) method, which is the integration of classical stabilization methods (streamline/upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) in our case) in the ofine-online structure of the RB method. Moreover, we introduce a reduction method that selectively enables online stabilization; this leads to a sensible reduction of computational costs, while keeping a very good accuracy with respect to high-fdelity solutions. We present numerical test cases to assess the performance of the proposed methods in steady and unsteady problems related to heat transfer phenomena.

}, doi = {10.1137/17M1163517}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058246502\&doi=10.1137\%2f17M1163517\&partnerID=40\&md5=6c54e2f0eb727cb85060e988486b8ac8}, author = {D. Torlo and F. Ballarin and Gianluigi Rozza} } @article {20.500.11767_47950, title = {The deal.II Library, Version 8.5}, journal = {JOURNAL OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS}, volume = {25}, year = {2017}, pages = {137{\textendash}145}, doi = {10.1515/jnma-2017-0058}, url = {https://www.dealii.org/deal85-preprint.pdf}, author = {Daniel Arndt and Wolfgang Bangerth and Denis Davydov and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Jean-Paul Pelteret and Bruno Turcksin and David Wells} } @article {BERSHTEIN201740, title = {Gauge theories on compact toric surfaces, conformal field theories and equivariant Donaldson invariants}, journal = {Journal of Geometry and Physics}, volume = {118}, year = {2017}, note = {Interactions between Geometry and Physics. A Special Issue in Honor of Ugo Bruzzo{\textquoteright}s 60th Birthday}, pages = {40 - 50}, abstract = {

We show that equivariant Donaldson polynomials of compact toric surfaces can be calculated as residues of suitable combinations of Virasoro conformal blocks, by building on AGT correspondence between $\mathcal{N}=2$\ supersymmetric gauge theories and two-dimensional conformal field theory. Talk presented by A.T. at the conference Interactions between Geometry and Physics {\textemdash} in honor of Ugo Bruzzo{\textquoteright}s 60th birthday 17{\textendash}22 August 2015, Guaruj{\'a}, S{\~a}o Paulo, Brazil, mostly based on Bawane et al. (0000) and Bershtein et al. (0000).

}, keywords = {AGT, Donaldson invariants, Equivariant localization, Exact partition function, Supersymmetry, Virasoro conformal blocks}, issn = {0393-0440}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2017.01.012}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0393044017300165}, author = {Mikhail Bershtein and Giulio Bonelli and Massimiliano Ronzani and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {luzzatto_2017, title = {Integrability of dominated decompositions on three-dimensional manifolds}, journal = {Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems}, volume = {37}, number = {2}, year = {2017}, pages = {606{\textendash}620}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, abstract = {


We investigate the integrability of two-dimensional invariant distributions (tangent sub-bundles) which arise naturally in the context of dynamical systems on 3-manifolds. In particular, we prove unique integrability of dynamically dominated and volume-dominated Lipschitz continuous invariant decompositions as well as distributions with some other regularity conditions.

}, doi = {10.1017/etds.2015.64}, author = {Stefano Luzzatto and Sina T{\"u}reli and Khadim Mbacke War} } @article {dal2017lower, title = {Lower semicontinuity of a class of integral functionals on the space of functions of bounded deformation}, journal = {Advances in Calculus of Variations}, volume = {10}, number = {2}, year = {2017}, pages = {183{\textendash}207}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, abstract = {

We study the lower semicontinuity of some free discontinuity functionals with linear growth defined on the space of functions with bounded deformation. The volume term is convex and depends only on the Euclidean norm of the symmetrized gradient. We introduce a suitable class of surface terms, which make the functional lower semicontinuous with respect to $L^1$ convergence.

}, doi = {10.1515/acv-2015-0036}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Gianluca Orlando and Rodica Toader} } @article {2015, title = {A lower semicontinuity result for a free discontinuity functional with a boundary term}, journal = {Journal de Math{\'e}matiques Pures et Appliqu{\'e}es}, volume = {108}, year = {2017}, pages = {952-990}, chapter = {952}, abstract = {

We study the lower semicontinuity in $GSBV^{p}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^{m})$ of a free discontinuity functional $\mathcal{F}(u)$ that can be written as the sum of a crack term, depending only on the jump set $S_{u}$, and of a boundary term, depending on the trace of $u$ on $\partial\Omega$. We give sufficient conditions on the integrands for the lower semicontinuity of $\mathcal{F}$. Moreover, we prove a relaxation result, which shows that, if these conditions are not satisfied, the lower semicontinuous envelope of $\mathcal{F}$ can be represented by the sum of two integrals on $S_{u}$ and $\partial\Omega$, respectively.

}, doi = {10.1016/j.matpur.2017.05.018}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/15979}, author = {Stefano Almi and Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {MR3663616, title = {Maximal amplitudes of finite-gap solutions for the focusing Nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger Equation}, journal = {Comm. Math. Phys.}, volume = {354}, number = {2}, year = {2017}, pages = {525{\textendash}547}, issn = {0010-3616}, doi = {10.1007/s00220-017-2895-9}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00220-017-2895-9}, author = {Marco Bertola and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {Narain2017, title = {Real topological string amplitudes}, journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics}, volume = {2017}, number = {3}, year = {2017}, month = {Mar}, pages = {80}, abstract = {

We discuss the physical superstring correlation functions in type I theory (or equivalently type II with orientifold) that compute real topological string amplitudes. We consider the correlator corresponding to holomorphic derivative of the real topological amplitude $\mathcal{G_\chi}$, at fixed worldsheet Euler characteristic $\chi$. This corresponds in the low-energy effective action to $\mathcal{N}=2$ Weyl multiplet, appropriately reduced to the orientifold invariant part, and raised to the power $g{\textquoteright}= -\chi+ 1$. We show that the physical string correlator gives precisely the holomorphic derivative of topological amplitude. Finally, we apply this method to the standard closed oriented case as well, and prove a similar statement for the topological amplitude $\mathcal{F}_g$.

}, issn = {1029-8479}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP03(2017)080}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2017)080}, author = {Narain, K. S. and Nicol{\`o} Piazzalunga and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {1701.03932, title = {Second order differentiation formula on compact RCD*(K,N) spaces}, year = {2017}, author = {Nicola Gigli and Luca Tamanini} } @article {PhysRevLett.119.033901, title = {Universality of the Peregrine Soliton in the Focusing Dynamics of the Cubic Nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger Equation}, journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.}, volume = {119}, year = {2017}, month = {Jul}, pages = {033901}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.033901}, url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.033901}, author = {Tikan, Alexey and Billet, Cyril and Gennady El and Alexander Tovbis and Marco Bertola and Sylvestre, Thibaut and Gustave, Francois and Randoux, Stephane and Genty, Go{\"e}ry and Suret, Pierre and Dudley, John M.} } @conference {2016, title = {Advances in geometrical parametrization and reduced order models and methods for computational fluid dynamics problems in applied sciences and engineering: overview and perspectives}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the ECCOMAS Congress 2016, VII European Conference on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering,}, year = {2016}, month = {06/2016}, publisher = {ECCOMAS}, organization = {ECCOMAS}, address = {Crete, Greece}, abstract = {

Several problems in applied sciences and engineering require reduction techniques in order to allow computational tools to be employed in the daily practice, especially in iterative procedures such as optimization or sensitivity analysis. Reduced order methods need to face increasingly complex problems in computational mechanics, especially into a multiphysics setting. Several issues should be faced: stability of the approximation, efficient treatment of nonlinearities, uniqueness or possible bifurcations of the state solutions, proper coupling between fields, as well as offline-online computing, computational savings and certification of errors as measure of accuracy. Moreover, efficient geometrical parametrization techniques should be devised to efficiently face shape optimization problems, as well as shape reconstruction and shape assimilation problems. A related aspect deals with the management of parametrized interfaces in multiphysics problems, such as fluid-structure interaction problems, and also a domain decomposition based approach for complex parametrized networks. We present some illustrative industrial and biomedical problems as examples of recent advances on methodological developments.

}, author = {Filippo Salmoiraghi and F. Ballarin and Giovanni Corsi and Andrea Mola and Marco Tezzele and Gianluigi Rozza}, editor = {Papadrakakis, M. and Papadopoulos, V. and Stefanou, G. and Plevris, V.} } @article {2013, title = {On the area of the graph of a piecewise smooth map from the plane to the plane with a curve discontinuity}, journal = {ESAIM: COCV}, volume = {22}, number = {arXiv:1310.2443;}, year = {2016}, pages = {29-63}, abstract = {

In this paper we provide an estimate from above for the value of the relaxed area functional for a map defined on a bounded domain of the plane with values in the plane and discontinuous on a regular simple curve with two endpoints. We show that, under suitable assumptions, the relaxed area does not exceed the area of the regular part of the map, with the addition of a singular term measuring the area of a disk type solution of the Plateau{\textquoteright}s problem spanning the two traces of the map on the jump. The result is valid also when the area minimizing surface has self intersections. A key element in our argument is to show the existence of what we call a semicartesian parametrization of this surface, namely a conformal parametrization defined on a suitable parameter space, which is the identity in the first component. To prove our result, various tools of parametric minimal surface theory are used, as well as some result from Morse theory.

}, keywords = {Area functional}, doi = {10.1051/cocv/2014065}, url = {https://www.esaim-cocv.org/articles/cocv/abs/2016/01/cocv140065/cocv140065.html}, author = {Giovanni Bellettini and Lucia Tealdi and Maurizio Paolini} } @article {MR3589917, title = {On asymptotic regimes of orthogonal polynomials with complex varying quartic exponential weight}, journal = {SIGMA Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl.}, volume = {12}, year = {2016}, pages = {Paper No. 118, 50 pages}, issn = {1815-0659}, doi = {10.3842/SIGMA.2016.118}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2016.118}, author = {Marco Bertola and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {20.500.11767_14497, title = {The deal.II Library, Version 8.3}, journal = {ARCHIVE OF NUMERICAL SOFTWARE}, volume = {4}, year = {2016}, pages = {1{\textendash}11}, doi = {10.11588/ans.2016.100.23122}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-ans-231226}, author = {Wolfgang Bangerth and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and G. Kanschat and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Bruno Turcksin} } @article {20.500.11767_14498, title = {The deal.II library, Version 8.4}, journal = {JOURNAL OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS}, volume = {24}, year = {2016}, pages = {135{\textendash}141}, doi = {10.1515/jnma-2016-1045}, url = {https://www.math.clemson.edu/ heister/preprints/deal84-preprint.pdf}, author = {Wolfgang Bangerth and Denis Davydov and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and G. Kanschat and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Bruno Turcksin and David Wells} } @article {Bershtein2016, title = {Exact results for N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on compact toric manifolds and equivariant Donaldson invariants}, journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics}, volume = {2016}, number = {7}, year = {2016}, month = {Jul}, pages = {23}, abstract = {

We provide a contour integral formula for the exact partition function of $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ gauge theories on compact toric four-manifolds by means of supersymmetric localisation. We perform the explicit evaluation of the contour integral for $U(2)\; \mathcal{N}=2^\star$ theory on $\mathbb{P}^2$ for all instanton numbers. In the zero mass case, corresponding to the $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory, we obtain the generating function of the Euler characteristics of instanton moduli spaces in terms of mock-modular forms. In the decoupling limit of infinite mass we find that the generating function of local and surface observables computes equivariant Donaldson invariants, thus proving in this case a longstanding conjecture by N. Nekrasov. In the case of vanishing first Chern class the resulting equivariant Donaldson polynomials are new.

}, issn = {1029-8479}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP07(2016)023}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2016)023}, author = {Mikhail Bershtein and Giulio Bonelli and Massimiliano Ronzani and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {DalMaso2016, title = {Fracture models for elasto-plastic materials as limits of gradient damage models coupled with plasticity: the antiplane case}, journal = {Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations}, volume = {55}, number = {3}, year = {2016}, month = {Apr}, pages = {45}, abstract = {

We study the asymptotic behavior of a variational model for damaged elasto-plastic materials in the case of antiplane shear. The energy functionals we consider depend on a small parameter $\varepsilon$, which forces damage concentration on regions of codimension one. We determine the $\Gamma$-limit as $\varepsilon$ tends to zero and show that it contains an energy term involving the crack opening.

}, issn = {1432-0835}, doi = {10.1007/s00526-016-0981-z}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-016-0981-z}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Gianluca Orlando and Rodica Toader} } @article {doi:10.1142/S0129167X16500610, title = {A Frobenius theorem for corank-1 continuous distributions in dimensions two and three}, journal = {International Journal of Mathematics}, volume = {27}, number = {08}, year = {2016}, pages = {1650061}, abstract = {

We formulate a notion of (uniform) asymptotic involutivity and show that it implies (unique) integrability of corank-1 continuous distributions in dimensions three or less. This generalizes and extends a classical Frobenius theorem, which says that an involutive C1 distribution is uniquely integrable.

}, doi = {10.1142/S0129167X16500610}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129167X16500610}, author = {Stefano Luzzatto and Sina T{\"u}reli and Khadim Mbacke War} } @article {doi:10.1080/14689367.2015.1057480, title = {Integrability of C1 invariant splittings}, journal = {Dynamical Systems}, volume = {31}, number = {1}, year = {2016}, pages = {79-88}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, abstract = {

We derive some new conditions for integrability of dynamically defined C1 invariant splittings, formulated in terms of the singular values of the iterates of the derivative of the diffeomorphism which defines the splitting.

}, doi = {10.1080/14689367.2015.1057480}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14689367.2015.1057480}, author = {Stefano Luzzatto and Sina T{\"u}reli and Khadim Mbacke War} } @article {MR3592329, title = {Rogue waves in multiphase solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation}, journal = {Proc. A.}, volume = {472}, number = {2194}, year = {2016}, pages = {20160340, 12}, issn = {1364-5021}, doi = {10.1098/rspa.2016.0340}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2016.0340}, author = {Marco Bertola and Gennady El and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {BKT-sobolev, title = {On Sobolev instability of the interior problem of tomography}, journal = {Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications}, year = {2016}, author = {Marco Bertola and Alexander Katsevich and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {Benvenuti2016, title = {Symmetry enhancements via 5d instantons, qW-algebrae and (1,0) superconformal index}, journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics}, volume = {2016}, number = {9}, year = {2016}, month = {Sep}, pages = {53}, abstract = {

We explore $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ superconformal six-dimensional theories arising from M5 branes probing a transverse $A_k$ singularity. Upon circle compactification to 5 dimensions, we describe this system with a dual pq-web of five-branes and propose the spectrum of basic five-dimensional instanton operators driving global symmetry enhancement. For a single M5 brane, we find that the exact partition function of the 5d quiver gauge theory matches the 6d (1, 0) index, which we compute by letter counting. We finally show that S-duality of the pq-web implies new relations among vertex correlators of $q\mathcal{W}$ algebrae.

}, issn = {1029-8479}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP09(2016)053}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)053}, author = {Benvenuti, Sergio and Giulio Bonelli and Massimiliano Ronzani and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2015, title = {Anisotropic mean curvature on facets and relations with capillarity}, number = {Geometric Flows;1}, year = {2015}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, abstract = {

We discuss the relations between the anisotropic calibrability of a facet F of a solid crystal E, and the capillary problem on a capillary tube with base F. When F is parallel to a facet of the Wulff shape, calibrability is equivalent to show the existence of an anisotropic subunitary vector field in $F, with suitable normal trace on the boundary of the facet, and with constant divergence equal to the anisotropic mean curvature of F. When the Wulff shape is a cylynder, assuming E convex at F, and F (strictly) calibrable, such a vector field is obtained by solving the capillary problem on F in absence of gravity and with zero contact angle. We show some examples of facets for which it is possible, even without the strict calibrability assumption, to build one of these vector fields. The construction provides, at least for convex facets of class C^{1,1}, the solution of the total variation flow starting at 1_F.

}, doi = {10.1515/geofl-2015-0005}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34481}, author = {Stefano Amato and Lucia Tealdi and Giovanni Bellettini} } @article {MR3346719, title = {Asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials with complex varying quartic weight: global structure, critical point behavior and the first Painlev{\'e} equation}, journal = {Constr. Approx.}, volume = {41}, number = {3}, year = {2015}, pages = {529{\textendash}587}, issn = {0176-4276}, doi = {10.1007/s00365-015-9288-0}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00365-015-9288-0}, author = {Marco Bertola and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {2015, title = {A class of Hamiltonians for a three-particle fermionic system at unitarity}, year = {2015}, note = {This SISSA preprint is composed of 29 pages and is recorded in PDF format}, abstract = {We consider a quantum mechanical three-particle system made of two identical fermions of mass one and a different particle of mass $m$, where each fermion interacts via a zero-range force with the different particle. In particular we study the unitary regime, i.e., the case of infinite two-body scattering length. The Hamiltonians describing the system are, by definition, self-adjoint extensions of the free Hamiltonian restricted on smooth functions vanishing at the two-body coincidence planes, i.e., where the positions of two interacting particles coincide. It is known that for $m$ larger than a critical value $m^* \simeq (13.607)^{-1}$ a self-adjoint and lower bounded Hamiltonian $H_0$ can be constructed, whose domain is characterized in terms of the standard point-interaction boundary condition at each coincidence plane. Here we prove that for $m\in(m^*,m^{**})$, where $m^{**}\simeq (8.62)^{-1}$, there is a further family of self-adjoint and lower bounded Hamiltonians $H_{0,\beta}$, $\beta \in \mathbb{R}$, describing the system. Using a quadratic form method, we give a rigorous construction of such Hamiltonians and we show that the elements of their domains satisfy a further boundary condition, characterizing the singular behavior when the positions of all the three particles coincide.}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34469}, author = {Michele Correggi and Gianfausto Dell{\textquoteright}Antonio and Domenico Finco and Alessandro Michelangeli and Alessandro Teta} } @article {2015, title = {The deal.II Library, Version 8.2}, journal = {Archive of Numerical Software, vol. 3, n. 100, (2015), pages : 1-8}, year = {2015}, abstract = {This paper provides an overview of the new features of the finite element library deal.II version 8.2}, doi = {10.11588/ans.2015.100.18031}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34464}, author = {Wolfgang Bangerth and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and G. Kanschat and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Bruno Turcksin and T. D. Young} } @article {2015, title = {Existence for constrained dynamic Griffith fracture with a weak maximal dissipation condition}, year = {2015}, abstract = {There are very few existence results for fracture evolution, outside of globally minimizing quasi-static evolutions. Dynamic evolutions are particularly problematic, due to the difficulty of showing energy balance, as well as of showing that solutions obey a maximal dissipation condition, or some similar condition that prevents stationary cracks from always being solutions. Here we introduce a new weak maximal dissipation condition and show that it is compatible with cracks constrained to grow smoothly on a smooth curve. In particular, we show existence of dynamic fracture evolutions satisfying this maximal dissipation condition, subject to the above smoothness constraints, and exhibit explicit examples to show that this maximal dissipation principle can indeed rule out stationary cracks as solutions.}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35045}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Cristopher J. Larsen and Rodica Toader} } @conference {calore2015experience, title = {Experience on vectorizing lattice Boltzmann kernels for multi-and many-core architectures}, booktitle = {International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics}, year = {2015}, pages = {53{\textendash}62}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Calore, Enrico and Nicola Demo and Schifano, Sebastiano Fabio and Tripiccione, Raffaele} } @mastersthesis {2015, title = {Integrability of Continuous Tangent Sub-bundles}, year = {2015}, school = {SISSA}, abstract = {In this thesis, the main aim is to study the integrability properties of continuous tangent sub-bundles, especially those that arise in the study of dynamical systems. After the introduction and examples part we start by studying integrability of such sub-bundles under different regularity and dynamical assumptions. Then we formulate a continuous version of the classical Frobenius theorem and state some applications to such bundles, to ODE and PDE. Finally we close of by stating some ongoing work related to interactions between integrability, sub-Riemannian geometry and contact geometry.}, keywords = {Dynamical Systems, Global Analysis, Frobenius Theorem, Integrability}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34630}, author = {Sina T{\"u}reli} } @article {MR3305428, title = {Meromorphic differentials with imaginary periods on degenerating hyperelliptic curves}, journal = {Anal. Math. Phys.}, volume = {5}, number = {1}, year = {2015}, pages = {1{\textendash}22}, issn = {1664-2368}, doi = {10.1007/s13324-014-0088-7}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13324-014-0088-7}, author = {Marco Bertola and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {Bawane2015, title = {N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on S^2xS^2 and Liouville Gravity}, journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics}, volume = {2015}, number = {7}, year = {2015}, month = {Jul}, pages = {54}, abstract = {

We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on four manifolds admitting an isometry. Generalized Killing spinor equations are derived from the consistency of supersymmetry algebrae and solved in the case of four manifolds admitting a $U(1)$ isometry. This is used to explicitly compute the supersymmetric path integral on $S^2 \times S^2$ via equivariant localization. The building blocks of the resulting partition function are shown to contain the three point functions and the conformal blocks of Liouville Gravity.

}, issn = {1029-8479}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP07(2015)054}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2015)054}, author = {Aditya Bawane and Giulio Bonelli and Massimiliano Ronzani and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2015, title = {The phototransduction machinery in the rod outer segment has a strong efficacy gradient}, number = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America;Volume 112, issue 20; pp. E2715-E2724}, year = {2015}, note = {Open Access article}, publisher = {National Academy of Sciences}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.1423162112}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35157}, author = {Monica Mazzolini and Giuseppe Facchetti and L. Andolfi and R. Proietti Zaccaria and S. Tuccio and J. Treud and Claudio Altafini and Enzo M. Di Fabrizio and Marco Lazzarino and G. Rapp and Vincent Torre} } @mastersthesis {2015, title = {The relaxed area of maps from the plane to the plane with a line discontinuity, and the role of semicartesian surfaces.}, year = {2015}, school = {SISSA}, abstract = {In this thesis we study the relaxation of the area functional w.r.t. the L^1 topology of a map from a bounded planar domain with values in the plane and jumping on a segment. We estimate from above the singular contribution of this functional due to the presence of the jump in terms of the infimum of the area among a suitable family of surfaces that we call semicartesian surfaces. In our analysis, we also introduce a different notion of area, namely the relaxation of the area w.r.t. a convergence stronger than the L^1 convergence, whose singular contribution is completely characterized in terms of suitable semicartesian area minimizing problems. We propose also some examples of maps for which the two notions of relaxation are different: these examples underline the highly non-local behaviour of the L^1-relaxation, and justify the introduction of the other functional. Some result about the existence of a semicartesian area-minimizing surface is also provided.}, keywords = {Area functional}, author = {Lucia Tealdi} } @article {2015, title = {Results on the minimization of the Dirichlet functional among semicartesian parametrizations}, year = {2015}, note = {The article is compsed of 18 pages and is recorded in PDF format}, abstract = {

We start to investigate the existence of conformal minimizers for the Dirichlet functional in the setting of the so-called semicartesian parametrizations, adapting to this context some techniques used in solving the classical Plateau{\textquoteright}s problem. The final goal is to find area minimizing semicartesian parametrizations spanning a Jordan curve obtained as union of two graphs; this problem appeared in the study of the relaxed area functional for maps from the plane to the plane jumping on a line.

}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34488}, author = {Lucia Tealdi and Giovanni Bellettini and Maurizio Paolini} } @article {2015, title = {Semicartesian surfaces and the relaxed area of maps from the plane to the plane with a line discontinuity}, year = {2015}, note = {The preprint is compsed of 37 pages and is recorded in PDF format}, abstract = {

We address the problem of estimating the area of the graph of a map u, defined on a bounded planar domain O and taking values in the plane, jumping on a segment J, either compactly contained in O or having both the end points on the boundary of O. We define the relaxation of the area functional w.r.t. a sort of uniform convergence, and we characterize it in terms of the infimum of the area among those surfaces in the space spanning the graphs of the traces of u on the two side of J and having what we have called a semicartesian structure. We exhibit examples showing that the relaxed area functional w.r.t the L^1 convergence may depend also on the values of u far from J, and on the relative position of J w.r.t. the boundary of O; these examples confirm the non-local behaviour of the L^1 relaxed area functional, and justify the interest in studying the relaxation w.r.t. a stronger convergence. We prove also that the L^1 relaxed area functional in non-subadditive for a rather class of maps.

}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34483}, author = {Lucia Tealdi and Giovanni Bellettini and Maurizio Paolini} } @article {2014, title = {Discrete one-dimensional crawlers on viscous substrates: achievable net displacements and their energy cost}, number = {Mechanics Research Communications}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {We study model one-dimensional crawlers, namely, model mechanical systems that can achieve self-propulsion by controlled shape changes of their body (extension or contraction of portions of the body), thanks to frictional interactions with a rigid substrate. We evaluate the achievable net displacement and the related energetic cost for self-propulsion by discrete crawlers (i.e., whose body is made of a discrete number of contractile or extensile segments) moving on substrates with either a Newtonian (linear) or a Bingham-type (stick-slip) rheology. Our analysis is aimed at constructing the basic building blocks towards an integrative, multi-scale description of crawling cell motility.}, keywords = {Cell migration}, doi = {10.1016/j.mechrescom.2013.10.023}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34449}, author = {Giovanni Noselli and Amabile Tatone and Antonio DeSimone} } @article {2014, title = {Laplace equation in a domain with a rectilinear crack: higher order derivatives of the energy with respect to the crack length}, number = {Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications}, year = {2014}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {

We consider the weak solution of the Laplace equation in a planar domain with a straight crack, prescribing a homogeneous Neumann condition on the crack and a nonhomogeneous Dirichlet condition on the rest of the boundary. For every k we express the k-th derivative of the energy with respect to the crack length in terms of a finite number of coefficients of the asymptotic expansion of the solution near the crack tip and of a finite number of other parameters, which only depend on the shape of the domain.

}, keywords = {cracked domains, energy release rate, higher order derivatives, asymptotic expansion of solutions}, doi = {10.1007/s00030-014-0291-0}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7271}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Gianluca Orlando and Rodica Toader} } @article {2014, title = {Pfaffian representations of cubic surfaces}, number = {Geometriae dedicata;volume 168; issue 1; pages 69-86;}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {

Let K be a field of characteristic zero. We describe an algorithm which requires a homogeneous polynomial F of degree three in K[x0,x1,x2,x3] and a zero a of F in P3 K and ensures a linear Pfaffian representation of V(F) with entries in K[x0,x1,x2,x3], under mild assumptions on F and a. We use this result to give an explicit construction of (and to prove the existence of) a linear Pfaffian representation of V (F), with entries in K'[x0,x1,x2,x3], being K' an algebraic extension of K of degree at most six. An explicit example of such a construction is given.

}, doi = {10.1007/s10711-012-9818-x}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34688}, author = {Fabio Tanturri} } @article {2014, title = {Quasi-static crack growth in hydraulic fracture}, journal = {Nonlinear Analysis}, volume = {109}, number = {Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications;109}, year = {2014}, pages = {301-318}, publisher = {Elsevier}, type = {Journal article}, chapter = {301}, abstract = {

We present a variational model for the quasi-static crack growth in hydraulic fracture in the framework of the energy formulation of rate-independent processes. The cracks are assumed to lie on a prescribed plane and to satisfy a very weak regularity assumption.

}, doi = {10.1016/j.na.2014.07.009}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/17350}, author = {Stefano Almi and Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {2014, title = {Rate-independent damage in thermo-viscoelastic materials with inertia}, number = {SISSA;52/2014/MATE}, year = {2014}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {We present a model for rate-independent, unidirectional, partial damage in visco-elastic materials with inertia and thermal effects. The damage process is modeled by means of an internal variable, governed by a rate-independent flow rule. The heat equation and the momentum balance for the displacements are coupled in a highly nonlinear way. Our assumptions on the corresponding energy functional also comprise the case of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli phase-field model (without passage to the brittle limit). We discuss a suitable weak formulation and prove an existence theorem obtained with the aid of a (partially) decoupled time-discrete scheme and variational convergence methods. We also carry out the asymptotic analysis for vanishing viscosity and inertia and obtain a fully rate-independent limit model for displacements and damage, which is Independent of temperature.}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7444}, author = {Giuliano Lazzaroni and Riccarda Rossi and Marita Thomas and Rodica Toader} } @article {berto-Tovbis-Katsevich-CPAM, title = {Singular Value Decomposition of a Finite Hilbert Transform Defined on Several Intervals and the Interior Problem of Tomography: The Riemann-Hilbert Problem Approach}, journal = {Comm. Pure Appl. Math.}, year = {2014}, author = {Marco Bertola and Alexander Katsevich and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {2014, title = {Six-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories, quantum cohomology of instanton moduli spaces and gl(N) Quantum Intermediate Long Wave Hydrodynamics}, number = {Journal of high energy physics;volume 2014; issue 7; article number 141;}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We show that the exact partition function of U(N) six-dimensional gauge theory with eight supercharges on C^2 x S^2 provides the quantization of the integrable system of hydrodynamic type known as gl(N) periodic Intermediate Long Wave (ILW). We characterize this system as the hydrodynamic limit of elliptic Calogero-Moser integrable system. We compute the Bethe equations from the effective gauged linear sigma model on S^2 with target space the ADHM instanton moduli space, whose mirror computes the Yang-Yang function of gl(N) ILW. The quantum Hamiltonians are given by the local chiral ring observables of the six-dimensional gauge theory. As particular cases, these provide the gl(N) Benjamin-Ono and Korteweg-de Vries quantum Hamiltonians. In the four dimensional limit, we identify the local chiral ring observables with the conserved charges of Heisenberg plus W_N algebrae, thus providing a gauge theoretical proof of AGT correspondence.}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP07(2014)141}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34546}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Antonio Sciarappa and Alessandro Tanzini and Petr Vasko} } @article {2014, title = {Some remarks on a model for rate-independent damage in thermo-visco-elastodynamics}, number = {SISSA;53/2014/MATE}, year = {2014}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {This note deals with the analysis of a model for partial damage, where the rateindependent, unidirectional flow rule for the damage variable is coupled with the rate-dependent heat equation, and with the momentum balance featuring inertia and viscosity according to Kelvin-Voigt rheology. The results presented here combine the approach from Roubicek [1] with the methods from Lazzaroni/Rossi/Thomas/Toader [2] and extend the analysis to the setting of inhomogeneous time-dependent Dirichlet data.}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7463}, author = {Giuliano Lazzaroni and Riccarda Rossi and Marita Thomas and Rodica Toader} } @article {2014, title = {The stringy instanton partition function}, number = {Journal of high energy physics;volume 2014; issue 1; article number 038;}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We perform an exact computation of the gauged linear sigma model associated to a D1-D5 brane system on a resolved A_1 singularity. This is accomplished via supersymmetric localization on the blown-up two-sphere. We show that in the blow-down limit C^2/Z_2 the partition function reduces to the Nekrasov partition function evaluating the equivariant volume of the instanton moduli space. For finite radius we obtain a tower of world-sheet instanton corrections, that we identify with the equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants of the ADHM moduli space. We show that these corrections can be encoded in a deformation of the Seiberg-Witten prepotential. From the mathematical viewpoint, the D1-D5 system under study displays a twofold nature: the D1-branes viewpoint captures the equivariant quantum cohomology of the ADHM instanton moduli space in the Givental formalism, and the D5-branes viewpoint is related to higher rank equivariant Donaldson-Thomas invariants of P^1 x C^2.}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP01(2014)038}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34589}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Antonio Sciarappa and Alessandro Tanzini and Petr Vasko} } @article {10829, title = {A variational model for the quasi-static growth of fractional dimensional brittle fractures}, number = {Interfaces and Free Boundaries}, year = {2014}, publisher = {European Mathematical Society}, abstract = {

We propose a variational model for the irreversible quasi-static evolution of brittle fractures having fractional Hausdorff dimension in the setting of two-dimensional antiplane and plane elasticity. The evolution along such irregular crack paths can be obtained as $\Gamma$-limit of evolutions along one-dimensional cracks when the fracture toughness tends to zero.

}, keywords = {Variational models}, doi = {10.4171/IFB/328}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6983}, author = {Simone Racca and Rodica Toader} } @article {2014, title = {Vortex Partition Functions, Wall Crossing and Equivariant Gromov{\textendash}Witten Invariants}, number = {Communications in mathematical physics;volume 333; issue 2; pages 717-760;}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {In this paper we identify the problem of equivariant vortex counting in a (2,2) supersymmetric two dimensional quiver gauged linear sigma model with that of computing the equivariant Gromov{\textendash}Witten invariants of the GIT quotient target space determined by the quiver. We provide new contour integral formulae for the I and J-functions encoding the equivariant quantum cohomology of the target space. Its chamber structure is shown to be encoded in the analytical properties of the integrand. This is explained both via general arguments and by checking several key cases. We show how several results in equivariant Gromov{\textendash}Witten theory follow just by deforming the integration contour. In particular, we apply our formalism to compute Gromov{\textendash}Witten invariants of the C3/Zn orbifold, of the Uhlembeck (partial) compactification of the moduli space of instantons on C2, and of An and Dn singularities both in the orbifold and resolved phases. Moreover, we analyse dualities of quantum cohomology rings of holomorphic vector bundles over Grassmannians, which are relevant to BPS Wilson loop algebrae.}, doi = {10.1007/s00220-014-2193-8}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34652}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Antonio Sciarappa and Alessandro Tanzini and Petr Vasko} } @article {2014, title = {Where best to place a Dirichlet condition in an anisotropic membrane?}, number = {SISSA;61/2014/MATE}, year = {2014}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {We study a shape optimization problem for the first eigenvalue of an elliptic operator in divergence form, with non constant coefficients, over a fixed domain $\Omega$. Dirichlet conditions are imposed along $\partial\Omega$ and, in addition, along a set $\Sigma$ of prescribed length ($1$-dimensional Hausdorff measure). We look for the best shape and position for the supplementary Dirichlet region $\Sigma$ in order to maximize the first eigenvalue. We characterize the limit distribution of the optimal sets, as their prescribed length tends to infinity, via $\Gamma$-convergence.}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7481}, author = {Paolo Tilli and Davide Zucco} } @article {2013, title = {Asymptotics of the first Laplace eigenvalue with Dirichlet regions of prescribed length}, number = {SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis;volume 45; issue 6; pp. 3266-3282}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics}, abstract = {We consider the problem of maximizing the first eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian (possibly with nonconstant coefficients) over a fixed domain $\Omega$, with Dirichlet conditions along $\partial\Omega$ and along a supplementary set $\Sigma$, which is the unknown of the optimization problem. The set $\Sigma$, which plays the role of a supplementary stiffening rib for a membrane $\Omega$, is a compact connected set (e.g., a curve or a connected system of curves) that can be placed anywhere in $\overline{\Omega}$ and is subject to the constraint of an upper bound $L$ to its total length (one-dimensional Hausdorff measure). This upper bound prevents $\Sigma$ from spreading throughout $\Omega$ and makes the problem well-posed. We investigate the behavior of optimal sets $\Sigma_L$ as $L\to\infty$ via $\Gamma$-convergence, and we explicitly construct certain asymptotically optimal configurations. We also study the behavior as $p\to\infty$ with $L$ fixed, finding connections with maximum-distance problems related to the principal frequency of the $\infty$-Laplacian.}, doi = {10.1137/130916825}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35141}, author = {Paolo Tilli and Davide Zucco} } @article {2013, title = {Common dynamical features of sensory adaptation in photoreceptors and olfactory sensory neurons.}, journal = {Nature. Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 1251, Published : 13 February 2013}, year = {2013}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {

Sensory systems adapt, i.e., they adjust their sensitivity to external stimuli according to the ambient level. In this paper we show that single cell electrophysiological responses of vertebrate olfactory receptors and of photoreceptors to different input protocols exhibit several common features related to adaptation, and that these features can be used to investigate the dynamical structure of the feedback regulation responsible for the adaptation. In particular, we point out that two different forms of adaptation can be observed, in response to steps and to pairs of pulses. These two forms of adaptation appear to be in a dynamical trade-off: the more adaptation to a step is close to perfect, the slower is the recovery in adaptation to pulse pairs and viceversa. Neither of the two forms is explained by the dynamical models currently used to describe adaptation, such as the integral feedback model.

}, doi = {10.1038/srep01251}, author = {Giovanna De Palo and Giuseppe Facchetti and Monica Mazzolini and Anna Menini and Vincent Torre and Claudio Altafini} } @article {2013, title = {Crawlers in viscous environments: linear vs nonlinear rheology}, journal = {International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 56, 142-147 (2013)}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {We study model self-propelled crawlers which derive their propulsive capabilities from the tangential resistance to motion offered by the environment. Two types of relationships between tangential forces and slip velocities are considered: a linear, Newtonian one and a nonlinear one of Bingham-type. Different behaviors result from the two different rheologies. These differences and their implications in terms of motility performance are discussed. Our aim is to develop new tools and insight for future studies of cell motility by crawling.}, doi = {10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2013.02.007}, author = {Antonio DeSimone and Federica Guarnieri and Giovanni Noselli and Amabile Tatone} } @article {2013, title = {The deal.II Library, Version 8.1}, number = {arXiv:1312.2266;}, year = {2013}, note = {5 pages}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {This paper provides an overview of the new features of the finite element library deal.II version 8.0.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7236}, author = {Wolfgang Bangerth and Timo Heister and Luca Heltai and G. Kanschat and Martin Kronbichler and Matthias Maier and Bruno Turcksin and T. D. Young} } @article {2013, title = {Early phase of plasticity-related gene regulation and SRF dependent transcription in the hippocampus}, journal = {PloS one. Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2013 : e68078}, number = {PMID:23935853;}, year = {2013}, note = {The article is composed of 15 pages}, publisher = {Public Library of Science}, abstract = {Hippocampal organotypic cultures are a highly reliable in vitro model for studying neuroplasticity: in this paper, we analyze the early phase of the transcriptional response induced by a 20 {\textmu}M gabazine treatment (GabT), a GABA-Ar antagonist, by using Affymetrix oligonucleotide microarray, RT-PCR based time-course and chromatin-immuno-precipitation. The transcriptome profiling revealed that the pool of genes up-regulated by GabT, besides being strongly related to the regulation of growth and synaptic transmission, is also endowed with neuro-protective and pro-survival properties. By using RT-PCR, we quantified a time-course of the transient expression for 33 of the highest up-regulated genes, with an average sampling rate of 10 minutes and covering the time interval [10:90] minutes. The cluster analysis of the time-course disclosed the existence of three different dynamical patterns, one of which proved, in a statistical analysis based on results from previous works, to be significantly related with SRF-dependent regulation (p-value<0.05). The chromatin immunoprecipitation (chip) assay confirmed the rich presence of working CArG boxes in the genes belonging to the latter dynamical pattern and therefore validated the statistical analysis. Furthermore, an in silico analysis of the promoters revealed the presence of additional conserved CArG boxes upstream of the genes Nr4a1 and Rgs2. The chip assay confirmed a significant SRF signal in the Nr4a1 CArG box but not in the Rgs2 CArG box.}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0068078}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7287}, author = {Giovanni Iacono and Claudio Altafini and Vincent Torre} } @article {BertolaKatsevichTovbis1, title = {Inversion formulae for the $\romancosh$-weighted Hilbert transform}, journal = {Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.}, volume = {141}, number = {8}, year = {2013}, pages = {2703{\textendash}2718}, issn = {0002-9939}, doi = {10.1090/S0002-9939-2013-11642-4}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2013-11642-4}, author = {Marco Bertola and Katsevich, A. and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {2013, title = {N=2 gauge theories on toric singularities, blow-up formulae and W-algebrae}, number = {arXiv:1208.0790;}, year = {2013}, note = {33 pages, 1 figure; v2: discussions on U(1) gauge theory and\r\n Frenkel-Kac construction have been added in section 5.1, and typos corrected;\r\n v3: published version; v4: typos corrected}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {We compute the Nekrasov partition function of gauge theories on the\r\n(resolved) toric singularities C^2/\\Gamma in terms of blow-up formulae. We\r\ndiscuss the expansion of the partition function in the \\epsilon_1,\\epsilon_2\r\n\\to 0 limit along with its modular properties and how to derive them from the\r\nM-theory perspective. On the two-dimensional conformal field theory side, our\r\nresults can be interpreted in terms of representations of the direct sum of\r\nHeisenberg plus W_N-algebrae with suitable central charges, which can be\r\ncomputed from the fan of the resolved toric variety.We provide a check of this\r\ncorrespondence by computing the central charge of the two-dimensional theory\r\nfrom the anomaly polynomial of M5-brane theory. Upon using the AGT\r\ncorrespondence our results provide a candidate for the conformal blocks and\r\nthree-point functions of a class of the two-dimensional CFTs which includes\r\nparafermionic theories.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6577}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Alessandro Tanzini and Futoshi Yagi} } @article {11011, title = {Nonabelian Lie algebroid extensions}, number = {SISSA preprint;06/2014/mate}, year = {2013}, abstract = {

We classify nonabelian extensions of Lie algebroids in the holomorphic or algebraic category, and introduce and study a spectral sequence that one can attach to any such extension and generalizes the Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence associated to an ideal in a Lie algebra. We compute the differentials of the spectral sequence up to $d_2$

}, keywords = {Lie algebroids, nonabelian extensions, spectral sequences}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Igor Mencattini and Pietro Tortella and Vladimir Rubtsov} } @article {2001, title = {Some remarks on the viscous approximation of crack growth}, journal = {Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S}, volume = {6}, number = {SISSA;24/2011/M}, year = {2013}, publisher = {SISSA}, chapter = {131-146}, abstract = {

We describe an existence result for quasistatic evolutions of cracks in antiplane elasticity obtained in [16] by a vanishing viscosity approach, with free (but regular enough) crack path. We underline in particular the motivations for the choice of the class of admissible cracks and of the dissipation potential. Moreover, we extend the result to a model with applied forces depending on time.

}, keywords = {Variational models}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4206}, author = {Giuliano Lazzaroni and Rodica Toader} } @article {2013, title = {Stabilization of Stochastic Quantum Dynamics via Open and Closed Loop Control}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Volume 58, Issue 1, 2013, Article number6228517, Pages 74-85}, year = {2013}, abstract = {In this paper, we investigate parametrization-free solutions of the problem of quantum pure state preparation and subspace stabilization by means of Hamiltonian control, continuous measurement, and quantum feedback, in the presence of a Markovian environment. In particular, we show that whenever suitable dissipative effects are induced either by the unmonitored environment, or by non-Hermitian measurements, there is no need for feedback, as open-loop time-invariant control is sufficient to achieve stabilization of the target set in probability. Constructive necessary and sufficient conditions on the form of the control Hamiltonian can be provided in this case. When time-invariant control is not sufficient, state stabilization can be attained by the addition of filtering-based feedback control}, doi = {10.1109/TAC.2012.2206713}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6503}, author = {Claudio Altafini and Francesco Ticozzi and K. Nishio} } @article {2013, title = {Symplectic instanton bundles on P3 and {\textquoteright}t Hooft instantons}, year = {2013}, note = {This preprint has been published with the title "Moduli of symplectic instanton vector bundles of higher rank on projective space P-3 " in CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, Volume: 10, issue 4, Augst 2012, pages 1232-1245.}, institution = {arXiv:1312.5554 [math.AG]}, abstract = {We introduce the notion of tame symplectic instantons by excluding a kind of pathological monads and show that the locus $I^*_{n,r}$ of tame symplectic instantons is irreducible and has the expected dimension, equal to $4n(r+1)-r(2r+1)$. The proof is inherently based on a relation between the spaces $I^*_{n,r}$ and the moduli spaces of {\textquoteright}t Hooft instantons.}, url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34486}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Dimitri Markushevich and Alexander Tikhomirov} } @article {BertolaTovbisNLS2, title = {Universality for the focusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation at the gradient catastrophe point: rational breathers and poles of the \it Tritronqu{\'e}e solution to Painlev{\'e} I}, journal = {Comm. Pure Appl. Math.}, volume = {66}, number = {5}, year = {2013}, pages = {678{\textendash}752}, issn = {0010-3640}, doi = {10.1002/cpa.21445}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21445}, author = {Marco Bertola and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {2012, title = {Crawling motility through the analysis of model locomotors: two case studies}, journal = {The European Physical Journal E, Volume 35, Issue 9, September 2012, Article number85}, number = {PMID:22972227;}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We study model locomotors on a substrate, which derive their propulsive capabilities from the tangential (viscous or frictional) resistance offered by the substrate. Our aim is to develop new tools and insight for future studies of cellular motility by crawling and of collective bacterial motion. The purely viscous case (worm) is relevant for cellular motility by crawling of individual cells. We re-examine some recent results on snail locomotion in order to assess the role of finely regulated adhesion mechanisms in crawling motility. Our main conclusion is that such regulation, although well documented in several biological systems, is not indispensable to accomplish locomotion driven by internal deformations, provided that the crawler may execute sufficiently large body deformations. Thus, there is no snail theorem. Namely, the crawling analog of the scallop theorem of low Reynolds number hydrodynamics does not hold for snail-like crawlers. The frictional case is obtained by assuming that the viscous coefficient governing tangential resistance forces, which act parallel and in the direction opposite to the velocity of the point to which they are applied, depends on the normal force acting at that point. We combine these surface interactions with inertial effects in order to investigate the mechanisms governing the motility of a bristle-robot. This model locomotor is easily manufactured and has been proposed as an effective tool to replicate and study collective bacterial motility.}, doi = {10.1140/epje/i2012-12085-x}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7017}, author = {Antonio DeSimone and Amabile Tatone} } @article {2012, title = {Gauge Theories on ALE Space and Super Liouville Correlation Functions}, journal = {Lett. Math. Phys. 101 (2012) 103-124}, number = {arXiv:1107.4609v1;}, year = {2012}, note = {21 pages}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {We present a relation between N=2 quiver gauge theories on the ALE space O_{P^1}(-2) and correlators of N=1 super Liouville conformal field theory, providing checks in the case of punctured spheres and tori. We derive a blow-up formula for the full Nekrasov partition function and show that, up to a U(1) factor, the N=2^* instanton partition function is given by the product of the character of \\\\hat{SU}(2)_2 times the super Virasoro conformal block on the torus with one puncture.}, doi = {10.1007/s11005-012-0553-x}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4305}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2012, title = {Modeling and control of quantum systems: An introduction}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Volume 57, Issue 8, 2012, Article number6189035, Pages 1898-1917}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers}, abstract = {The scope of this work is to provide a self-contained introduction to a selection of basic theoretical aspects in the modeling and control of quantum mechanical systems, as well as a brief survey on the main approaches to control synthesis. While part of the existing theory, especially in the open-loop setting, stems directly from classical control theory (most notably geometric control and optimal control), a number of tools specifically tailored for quantum systems have been developed since the 1980s, in order to take into account their distinctive features: the probabilistic nature of atomic-scale physical systems, the effect of dissipation and the irreversible character of the measurements have all proved to be critical in feedback-design problems. The relevant dynamical models for both closed and open quantum systems are presented, along with the main results on their controllability and stability. A brief review of several currently available control design methods is meant to provide the interested reader with a roadmap for further studies}, doi = {10.1109/TAC.2012.2195830}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6505}, author = {Claudio Altafini and Francesco Ticozzi} } @article {2011, title = {Moduli of symplectic instanton vector bundles of higher rank on projective space $\\mathbb{P}^3$}, journal = {Central European Journal of Mathematics 10, nr. 4 (2012) 1232}, number = {arXiv:1109.2292v1;}, year = {2012}, note = {14 pages}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {Symplectic instanton vector bundles on the projective space $\\mathbb{P}^3$ constitute a natural generalization of mathematical instantons of rank 2. We study the moduli space $I_{n,r}$ of rank-$2r$ symplectic instanton vector bundles on $\\mathbb{P}^3$ with $r\\ge2$ and second Chern class $n\\ge r,\\ n\\equiv r({\\rm mod}2)$. We give an explicit construction of an irreducible component $I^*_{n,r}$ of this space for each such value of $n$ and show that $I^*_{n,r}$ has the expected dimension $4n(r+1)-r(2r+1)$.}, doi = {10.2478/s11533-012-0062-2}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4656}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Dimitri Markushevich and Alexander Tikhomirov} } @article {2011, title = {SBV regularity for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Hamiltonian depending on (t,x)}, journal = {Siam Journal on Mathematical Analysis}, volume = {44}, number = {SISSA;13/2011/M}, year = {2012}, pages = {2179-2203}, publisher = {SISSA}, doi = {10.1137/110827272}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/14066}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Daniela Tonon} } @article {2012, title = {SBV-like regularity for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a convex Hamiltonian}, journal = {Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications}, volume = {391}, number = {SISSA;45/2011/M}, year = {2012}, pages = {190-208}, publisher = {SISSA}, doi = {10.1016/j.jmaa.2012.02.017}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/13909}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Daniela Tonon} } @article {tonon2012some, title = {Some applications of the SBV Regularity Theorem for entropy solutions of 1D scalar conservation laws to ConvectionTheory and sticky particles}, journal = {Riv. Mat. Univ. Parma}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, year = {2012}, pages = {163{\textendash}175}, abstract = {

We show how it is possible to apply the SBV Regularity Theorem for entropy solutions of one-dimensional scalar conservation laws, proved by Ambrosio and De Lellis, to Convection Theory and sticky particles. In the multi-dimensional case we present a counterexample which prevent us from using the same approach.

}, url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00918409}, author = {Daniela Tonon} } @article {2012, title = {Stability for a System of N Fermions Plus a Different Particle with Zero-Range Interactions}, journal = {Rev. Math. Phys. 24 (2012), 1250017}, number = {arXiv:1201.5740;}, year = {2012}, publisher = {World Scientific}, abstract = {We study the stability problem for a non-relativistic quantum system in\\r\\ndimension three composed by $ N \\\\geq 2 $ identical fermions, with unit mass,\\r\\ninteracting with a different particle, with mass $ m $, via a zero-range\\r\\ninteraction of strength $ \\\\alpha \\\\in \\\\R $. We construct the corresponding\\r\\nrenormalised quadratic (or energy) form $ \\\\form $ and the so-called\\r\\nSkornyakov-Ter-Martirosyan symmetric extension $ H_{\\\\alpha} $, which is the\\r\\nnatural candidate as Hamiltonian of the system. We find a value of the mass $\\r\\nm^*(N) $ such that for $ m > m^*(N)$ the form $ \\\\form $ is closed and bounded from below. As a consequence, $ \\\\form $ defines a unique self-adjoint and bounded from below extension of $ H_{\\\\alpha}$ and therefore the system is stable. On the other hand, we also show that the form $ \\\\form $ is unbounded from below for $ m < m^*(2)$. In analogy with the well-known bosonic case, this suggests that the system is unstable for $ m < m^*(2)$ and the so-called Thomas effect occurs.}, doi = {10.1142/S0129055X12500171}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6069}, author = {Michele Correggi and Gianfausto Dell{\textquoteright}Antonio and Domenico Finco and Alessandro Michelangeli and Alessandro Teta} } @article {2012, title = {Vertices, vortices \& interacting surface operators}, journal = {JHEP 06(2012)178}, number = {SISSA;03/2011/FM-EP}, year = {2012}, note = {22 pages, 4 figures}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {We show that the vortex moduli space in non-abelian supersymmetric N=(2,2) gauge theories on the two dimensional plane with adjoint and anti-fundamental matter can be described as an holomorphic submanifold of the instanton moduli space in four dimensions. The vortex partition functions for these theories are computed via equivariant localization. We show that these coincide with the field theory limit of the topological vertex on the strip with boundary conditions corresponding to column diagrams. Moreover, we resum the field theory limit of the vertex partition functions in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions formulating their AGT dual description as interacting surface operators of simple type. Analogously we resum the topological open string amplitudes in terms of q-deformed generalized hypergeometric functions proving that they satisfy appropriate finite difference equations.}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP06(2012)178}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4134}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini and Zhao Jian} } @article {2012, title = {Wild quiver gauge theories}, journal = {JHEP 02(2012)031}, number = {arXiv:1112.1691v1;}, year = {2012}, note = {34 pages}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {

We study $N=2$ supersymmetric $SU(2)$ gauge theories coupled to non-Lagrangian superconformal field theories induced by compactifying the six dimensional $A_1 (2,0)$ theory on Riemann surfaces with irregular punctures. These are naturally associated to Hitchin systems with wild ramification whose spectral curves provide the relevant Seiberg-Witten geometries. We propose that the prepotential of these gauge theories on the Omega-background can be obtained from the corresponding irregular conformal blocks on the Riemann surfaces via a generalization of the coherent state construction to the case of higher order singularities.

}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP02(2012)031}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5184}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2011, title = {Adaptation as a genome-wide autoregulatory principle in the stress response of yeast.}, journal = {IET systems biology. 2011 Jul; 5(4):269-79}, number = {PMID:21823758;}, year = {2011}, publisher = {The Institution of Engineering and Technology}, abstract = {The gene expression response of yeast to various types of stresses/perturbations shows a common functional and dynamical pattern for the vast majority of genes, characterised by a quick transient peak (affecting primarily short genes) followed by a return to the pre-stimulus level. Kinetically, this process of adaptation following the transient excursion can be modelled using a genome-wide autoregulatory mechanism by means of which yeast aims at maintaining a preferential concentration in its mRNA levels. The resulting feedback system explains well the different time constants observable in the transient response, while being in agreement with all the known experimental dynamical features. For example, it suggests that a very rapid transient can be induced also by a slowly varying concentration of the gene products.}, doi = {10.1049/iet-syb.2009.0050}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5106}, author = {F Eduati and B Di Camillo and G Toffolo and Claudio Altafini and Giovanna De Palo and Mattia Zampieri} } @article {2011, title = {Covered by lines and Conic connected varieties}, journal = {Le Matematiche 66 (2011) 137-151}, number = {arXiv:1105.5918;}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Universita\\\' di Catania, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica}, abstract = {We study some properties of an embedded variety covered by lines and give a\\r\\nnumerical criterion ensuring the existence of a singular conic through two of\\r\\nits general points. We show that our criterion is sharp. Conic-connected,\\r\\ncovered by lines, QEL, LQEL, prime Fano, defective, and dual defective\\r\\nvarieties are closely related. We study some relations between the above\\r\\nmentioned classes of objects using celebrated results by Ein and Zak.}, doi = {10.4418/2011.66.2.12}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5788}, author = {Simone Marchesi and Alex Massarenti and Saeed Tafazolian} } @article {2011, title = {A Decomposition Theorem for BV functions}, journal = {Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis}, volume = {10}, number = {SISSA;20/2009/M}, year = {2011}, pages = {1549-1566}, publisher = {American Institute of Mathematical Sciences}, doi = {10.3934/cpaa.2011.10.1549}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/14599}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Daniela Tonon} } @article {2011, title = {Energy release rate and stress intensity factor in antiplane elasticity}, journal = {Journal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees 95 (2011) 565-584}, number = {SISSA;67/2009/M}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {In the setting of antiplane linearized elasticity, we show the existence of the stress intensity factor and its relation with the energy release rate when the crack path is a C1,1 curve. Finally, we show that the energy release rate is continuous with respect to the Hausdorff convergence in a class of admissible cracks.}, doi = {10.1016/j.matpur.2011.01.001}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3780}, author = {Giuliano Lazzaroni and Rodica Toader} } @article {2011, title = {Generalized matrix models and AGT correspondence at all genera}, journal = {JHEP, Volume 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Article number055}, number = {arXiv:1011.5417;}, year = {2011}, note = {This version is published in : Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Article number055}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {We study generalized matrix models corresponding to n-point Virasoro\r\nconformal blocks on Riemann surfaces with arbitrary genus g. Upon AGT\r\ncorrespondence, these describe four dimensional N=2 SU(2)^{n+3g-3} gauge\r\ntheories with generalized quiver diagrams. We obtain the generalized matrix\r\nmodels from the perturbative evaluation of the Liouville correlation functions\r\nand verify the consistency of the description with respect to degenerations of\r\nthe Riemann surface. Moreover, we derive the Seiberg-Witten curve for the N=2\r\ngauge theory as the spectral curve of the generalized matrix model, thus\r\nproviding a check of AGT correspondence at all genera.}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP07(2011)055}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6568}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Alessandro Tanzini and Futoshi Yagib} } @article {2011, title = {Instantons on ALE spaces and Super Liouville Conformal Field Theories}, number = {arXiv:1106.2505v1;}, year = {2011}, note = {10 pages}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {We provide evidence that the conformal blocks of N=1 super Liouville\\r\\nconformal field theory are described in terms of the SU(2) Nekrasov partition\\r\\nfunction on the ALE space O_{P^1}(-2).}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4262}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2011, title = {The Liouville side of the vortex}, journal = {JHEP 09(2011)096}, number = {arXiv:1107.2787v1;}, year = {2011}, note = {25pages,11figures}, publisher = {SISSA}, abstract = {We analyze conformal blocks with multiple (semi-)degenerate field insertions in Liouville/Toda conformal field theories an show that their vector space is fully reproduced by the four-dimensional limit of open topological string amplitudes on the strip with generic boundary conditions associated to a suitable quiver gauge theory. As a byproduct we identify the non-abelian vortex partition function with a specific fusion channel of degenerate conformal blocks.}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP09(2011)096}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4304}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini and Jian Zhao} } @article {Fedeli2011, title = {Metastable equilibria of capillary drops on solid surfaces: a phase field approach}, journal = {Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics}, volume = {23}, number = {5}, year = {2011}, month = {Sep}, pages = {453{\textendash}471}, abstract = {

We discuss a phase field model for the numerical simulation of metastable equilibria of capillary drops resting on rough solid surfaces and for the description of contact angle hysteresis phenomena in wetting. The model is able to reproduce observed transitions of drops on micropillars from Cassie{\textendash}Baxter to Wenzel states. When supplemented with a dissipation potential which describes energy losses due to frictional forces resisting the motion of the contact line, the model can describe metastable states such as drops in equilibrium on vertical glass plates. The reliability of the model is assessed by a detailed comparison of its predictions with experimental data on the maximal size of water drops that can stick on vertical glass plates which have undergone different surface treatments.

}, issn = {1432-0959}, doi = {10.1007/s00161-011-0189-6}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-011-0189-6}, author = {Livio Fedeli and Turco, Alessandro and Antonio DeSimone} } @article { ISI:000296627000002, title = {A MODEL FOR CRACK PROPAGATION BASED ON VISCOUS APPROXIMATION}, journal = {{MATHEMATICAL MODELS \& METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES}}, volume = {{21}}, number = {{10}}, year = {2011}, month = {{OCT}}, pages = {{2019-2047}}, publisher = {{WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD}}, type = {{Article}}, address = {{5 TOH TUCK LINK, SINGAPORE 596224, SINGAPORE}}, abstract = {

{In the setting of antiplane linearized elasticity, we show the existence of quasistatic evolutions of cracks in brittle materials by using a vanishing viscosity approach, thus taking into account local minimization. The main feature of our model is that the path followed by the crack need not be prescribed a priori: indeed, it is found as the limit (in the sense of Hausdorff convergence) of curves obtained by an incremental procedure. The result is based on a continuity property for the energy release rate in a suitable class of admissible cracks.}

}, keywords = {Brittle fracture, Crack propagation, energy derivative, energy release rate, free-discontinuity problems, Griffith{\textquoteright}s criterion, local minimizers, stress intensity factor}, vanishing viscosity, {Variational models}, issn = {{0218-2025}}, doi = {{10.1142/S0218202511005647}}, author = {Giuliano Lazzaroni and Rodica Toader} } @article {2011, title = {Poincar{\'e} polynomial of moduli spaces of framed sheaves on (stacky) Hirzebruch surfaces}, journal = {Communications in Mathematical Physics 304 (2011) 395-409}, volume = {304}, number = {SISSA;56/2009/FM}, year = {2011}, month = {06/2011}, pages = {395-409}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {

We perform a study of the moduli space of framed torsion-free sheaves on Hirzebruch surfaces by using localization techniques. We discuss some general properties of this moduli space by studying it in the framework of Huybrechts-Lehn theory of framed modules. We classify the fixed points under a toric action on the moduli space, and use this to compute the Poincare polynomial of the latter. This will imply that the moduli spaces we are considering are irreducible. We also consider fractional first Chern classes, which means that we are extending our computation to a stacky deformation of a Hirzebruch surface. From the physical viewpoint, our results provide the partition function of N=4 Vafa-Witten theory on total spaces of line bundles on P1, which is relevant in black hole entropy counting problems according to a conjecture due to Ooguri, Strominger and Vafa.

}, doi = {10.1007/s00220-011-1231-z}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3738}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Rubik Poghossian and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2011, title = {Quantum Hitchin Systems via beta-deformed Matrix Models}, number = {arXiv:1104.4016v2;}, year = {2011}, note = {29 pages; v2. refs. added and typos corrected}, institution = {SISSA}, abstract = {

We study the quantization of Hitchin systems in terms of beta-deformations of generalized matrix models related to conformal blocks of Liouville theory on punctured Riemann surfaces. We show that in a suitable limit, corresponding to the Nekrasov-Shatashvili one, the loop equations of the matrix model reproduce the Hamiltonians of the quantum Hitchin system on the sphere and the torus with marked points. The eigenvalues of these Hamiltonians are shown to be the epsilon1-deformation of the chiral observables of the corresponding N=2 four ndimensional gauge theory. Moreover, we find the exact wave-functions in terms of the matrix model representation of the conformal blocks with degenerate field insertions.

}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4181}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2011, title = {Quasistatic crack evolution for a cohesive zone model with different response to loading and unloading: a Young measures approach}, journal = {ESAIM: COCV 17 (2011) 1-27}, number = {SISSA;56/2007/M}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press / EDP Sciences}, abstract = {A new approach to irreversible quasistatic fracture growth is given, by means of Young measures. The study concerns a cohesive zone model with prescribed crack path, when the material gives different responses to loading and unloading phases. In the particular situation of constant unloading response, the result contained in [6] is recovered. In this case, the convergence of the discrete time approximations is improved.}, doi = {10.1051/cocv/2009037}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2355}, author = {Filippo Cagnetti and Rodica Toader} } @article {2010, title = {Chern-Simons theory on L(p,q) lens spaces and Gopakumar-Vafa duality}, journal = {J. Geom. Phys. 60 (2010) 417-429}, number = {SISSA;56/2008/FM}, year = {2010}, abstract = {We consider aspects of Chern-Simons theory on L(p,q) lens spaces and its relation with matrix models and topological string theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds, searching for possible new large N dualities via geometric transition for non-SU(2) cyclic quotients of the conifold. To this aim we find, on one hand, some novel matrix integral representations of the SU(N) CS partition function in a generic flat background for the whole L(p,q) family and provide a solution for its large N dynamics; on the other, we perform in full detail the construction of a family of would-be dual closed string backgrounds via conifold geometric transition from T^*L(p,q). We can then explicitly prove that Gopakumar-Vafa duality in a fixed vacuum fails in the case q>1, and briefly discuss how it could be restored in a non-perturbative setting.}, doi = {10.1016/j.geomphys.2009.11.006}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2938}, author = {Andrea Brini and Luca Griguolo and Domenico Seminara and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2010, title = {Hitchin systems, N=2 gauge theories and W-gravity}, journal = {Phys. Lett. B 691 (2010) 111-115}, number = {SISSA;60/2009/EP-FM}, year = {2010}, abstract = {We propose some arguments supporting an M-theory derivation of the duality recently discovered by Alday, Gaiotto and Tachikawa between two-dimensional conformal field theories and N=2 superconformal gauge theories in four dimensions. We find that A_{N-1} Toda field theory is the simplest two-dimensional conformal field theory quantizing the moduli of N M5-branes wrapped on a Riemann surface. This leads us to identify chiral operators of the N=2 gauge theories with W-algebra currents. As a check of this correspondence we study some relevant OPE\\\'s obtaining that Nekrasov\\\'s partition function satisfies W-geometry constraints.}, doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2010.06.027}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3831}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2010, title = {Moore-Read Fractional Quantum Hall wavefunctions and SU(2) quiver gauge theories}, number = {SISSA;14/2010/FM}, year = {2010}, abstract = {We identify Moore-Read wavefunctions, describing non-abelian statistics in fractional quantum Hall systems, with the instanton partition of N=2 superconformal quiver gauge theories at suitable values of masses and \\\\Omega-background parameters. This is obtained by extending to rational conformal field theories the SU(2) gauge quiver/Liouville field theory duality recently found by Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa. A direct link between the Moore-Read Hall $n$-body wavefunctions and Z_n-equivariant Donaldson polynomials is pointed out.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3852}, author = {Raoul Santachiara and Alessandro Tanzini} } @conference {10.1007/978-90-481-9195-6_4, title = {A Phase Field Approach to Wetting and Contact Angle Hysteresis Phenomena}, booktitle = {IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials}, year = {2010}, pages = {51{\textendash}63}, publisher = {Springer Netherlands}, organization = {Springer Netherlands}, address = {Dordrecht}, abstract = {

We discuss a phase field model for the numerical simulation of contact angle hysteresis phenomena in wetting. The performance of the model is assessed by comparing its predictions with experimental data on the critical size of drops that can stick on a vertical glass plate.

}, isbn = {978-90-481-9195-6}, author = {Antonio DeSimone and Livio Fedeli and Turco, Alessandro}, editor = {Hackl, Klaus} } @article {2010, title = {Quasistatic crack growth in elasto-plastic materials: the two-dimensional case}, journal = {Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 196 (2010) 867-906}, number = {SISSA;62/2008/M}, year = {2010}, abstract = {We study a variational model for the quasistatic evolution of elasto-plastic materials with cracks in the case of planar small strain associative elasto-plasticity.}, doi = {10.1007/s00205-009-0258-1}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2964}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {2010, title = {Taming open/closed string duality with a Losev trick}, journal = {JHEP 06(2010)063}, number = {SISSA;17/2010/FM-EP}, year = {2010}, abstract = {A target space string field theory formulation for open and closed B-model is provided by giving a Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization of the holomorphic Chern-Simons theory with off-shell gravity background. The target space expression for the coefficients of the holomorphic anomaly equation for open strings are obtained. Furthermore, open/closed string duality is proved from a judicious integration over the open string fields. In particular, by restriction to the case of independence on continuous open moduli, the shift formulas of [7] are reproduced and shown therefore to encode the data of a closed string dual.}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP06(2010)063}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3855}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Andrea Prudenziati and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2010, title = {A time-dependent perturbative analysis for a quantum particle in a cloud chamber}, journal = {Annales Henri Poincare 11 (2010) 539-564}, number = {arXiv.org;0907.5503v1}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We consider a simple model of a cloud chamber consisting of a test particle (the alpha-particle) interacting with two other particles (the atoms of the vapour) subject to attractive potentials centered in $a_1, a_2 \\\\in \\\\mathbb{R}^3$. At time zero the alpha-particle is described by an outgoing spherical wave centered in the origin and the atoms are in their ground state. We show that, under suitable assumptions on the physical parameters of the system and up to second order in perturbation theory, the probability that both atoms are ionized is negligible unless $a_2$ lies on the line joining the origin with $a_1$. The work is a fully time-dependent version of the original analysis proposed by Mott in 1929.}, doi = {10.1007/s00023-010-0037-4}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3969}, author = {Gianfausto Dell{\textquoteright}Antonio and Rodolfo Figari and Alessandro Teta} } @article {2010, title = {Uhlenbeck-Donaldson compactification for framed sheaves on projective surfaces}, number = {SISSA;59/2010/FM}, year = {2010}, abstract = {We construct a compactification $M^{\\\\mu ss}$ of the Uhlenbeck-Donaldson type for the moduli space of slope stable framed bundles. This is a kind of a moduli space of slope semistable framed sheaves. We show that there exists a projective morphism $\\\\gamma \\\\colon M^s \\\\to M^{\\\\mu ss}$, where $M^s$ is the moduli space of S-equivalence classes of Gieseker-semistable framed sheaves. The space $M^{\\\\mu ss}$ has a natural set-theoretic stratification which allows one, via a Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence, to compare it with the moduli spaces of framed ideal instantons.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4049}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Dimitri Markushevich and Alexander Tikhomirov} } @article {BertolaTovbis1, title = {Universality in the profile of the semiclassical limit solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation at the first breaking curve}, journal = {Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN}, number = {11}, year = {2010}, pages = {2119{\textendash}2167}, issn = {1073-7928}, doi = {10.1093/imrn/rnp196}, url = {http://0-dx.doi.org.mercury.concordia.ca/10.1093/imrn/rnp196}, author = {Marco Bertola and Alexander Tovbis} } @article {2009, title = {Characterization of the time course of changes of the evoked electrical activity in a model of a chemically-induced neuronal plasticity}, journal = {BMC Research Notes (2009) 2:13}, year = {2009}, publisher = {BioMed Central}, abstract = {BACKGROUND: Neuronal plasticity is initiated by transient elevations of neuronal networks activity leading to changes of synaptic properties and providing the basis for memory and learning 1. An increase of electrical activity can be caused by electrical stimulation 2 or by pharmacological manipulations: elevation of extracellular K+ 3, blockage of inhibitory pathways 4 or by an increase of second messengers intracellular concentrations 5. Neuronal plasticity is mediated by several biochemical pathways leading to the modulation of synaptic strength, density of ionic channels and morphological changes of neuronal arborisation 6. On a time scale of a few minutes, neuronal plasticity is mediated by local protein trafficking 7 while, in order to sustain modifications beyond 2-3 h, changes of gene expression are required 8. FINDINGS: In the present manuscript we analysed the time course of changes of the evoked electrical activity during neuronal plasticity and we correlated it with a transcriptional analysis of the underlying changes of gene expression. Our investigation shows that treatment for 30 min. with the GABAA receptor antagonist gabazine (GabT) causes a potentiation of the evoked electrical activity occurring 2-4 hours after GabT and the concomitant up-regulation of 342 genes. Inhibition of the ERK1/2 pathway reduced but did not abolish the potentiation of the evoked response caused by GabT. In fact not all the genes analysed were blocked by ERK1/2 inhibitors. CONCLUSION: These results are in agreement with the notion that neuronal plasticity is mediated by several distinct pathways working in unison.}, doi = {10.1186/1756-0500-2-13}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3706}, author = {Frederic D. Broccard and Silvia Pegoraro and Maria Elisabetta Ruaro and Claudio Altafini and Vincent Torre} } @article {2009, title = {Decoupling A and B model in open string theory: topological adventures in the world of tadpoles}, journal = {JHEP 06 (2009) 046}, number = {SISSA;26/2009/FM-EP}, year = {2009}, abstract = {In this paper we analyze the problem of tadpole cancellation in open topological strings. We prove that the inclusion of unorientable worldsheet diagrams guarantees a consistent decoupling of A and B model for open superstring amplitudes at all genera. This is proven by direct microscopic computation in Super Conformal Field Theory. For the B-model we explicitly calculate one loop amplitudes in terms of analytic Ray-Singer torsions of appropriate vector bundles and obtain that the decoupling corresponds to the cancellation of D-brane and orientifold charges. Local tadpole cancellation on the worldsheet then guarantees the decoupling at all loops. The holomorphic anomaly equations for open topological strings at one loop are also obtained and compared with the results of the Quillen formula.}, doi = {10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/046}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3632}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Andrea Prudenziati and Alessandro Tanzini and Yang Jie} } @article {2009, title = {Exact results for topological strings on resolved Yp,q singularities}, journal = {Comm. Math. Phys. 289 (2009) 205-252}, number = {SISSA;22/2008/FM}, year = {2009}, doi = {10.1007/s00220-009-0814-4}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2631}, author = {Andrea Brini and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2009, title = {Initial value problem of the Whitham equations for the Camassa-Holm equation}, journal = {Physica D 238 (2009) 55-66}, number = {arXiv.org;0805.2558v1}, year = {2009}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {We study the Whitham equations for the Camassa-Holm equation. The equations are neither strictly hyperbolic nor genuinely nonlinear. We are interested in the initial value problem of the Whitham equations. When the initial values are given by a step function, the Whitham solution is self-similar. When the initial values are given by a smooth function, the Whitham solution exists within a cusp in the x-t plane. On the boundary of the cusp, the Whitham equation matches the Burgers solution, which exists outside the cusp.}, doi = {10.1016/j.physd.2008.08.016}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3429}, author = {Tamara Grava and Virgil U. Pierce and Fei-Ran Tian} } @article {2009, title = {Topological branes, p-algebras and generalized Nahm equations}, journal = {Phys. Lett. B 672 (2009) 390-395}, number = {SISSA;47/2008/FM}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Inspired by the recent advances in multiple M2-brane theory, we consider the generalizations of Nahm equations for arbitrary p-algebras. We construct the topological p-algebra quantum mechanics associated to them and we show that this can be obtained as a truncation of the topological p-brane theory previously studied by the authors. The resulting topological p-algebra quantum mechanics is discussed in detail and the relation with the M2-M5 system is pointed out in the p=3 case, providing a geometrical argument for the emergence of the 3-algebra structure in the Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson theory}, doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2009.01.051}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2702}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini and Maxim Zabzine} } @article {2008, title = {Decomposition results for functions with bounded variation}, journal = {Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. (9) 1 (2008) 497-505}, year = {2008}, publisher = {Unione Matematica Italiana}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3535}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {2008, title = {Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing in one-dimensional optical lattices}, journal = {Phys. Rev. B 77 (2008) 245105}, number = {arXiv.org;0712.3364v1}, year = {2008}, abstract = {

Spin-polarized attractive Fermi gases in one-dimensional (1D) optical lattices are expected to be remarkably good candidates for the observation of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase. We model these systems with an attractive Hubbard model with population imbalance. By means of the density-matrix renormalization-group method we compute the pairing correlations as well as the static spin and charge structure factors in the whole range from weak to strong coupling. We demonstrate that pairing correlations exhibit quasi-long range order and oscillations at the wave number expected from FFLO theory. However, we also show by numerically computing the mixed spin-charge static structure factor that charge and spin degrees of freedom appear to be coupled already for small imbalance. We discuss the consequences of this coupling for the observation of the FFLO phase, as well as for the stabilization of the quasi-long range order into long-range order by coupling many identical 1D systems, as in quasi-1D optical lattices.

}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.77.245105}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2694}, author = {Matteo Rizzi and Marco Polini and Miguel A. Cazalilla and M.R. Bakhtiari and Mario P. Tosi and Rosario Fazio} } @article {2008, title = {Instanton counting on Hirzebruch surfaces}, number = {SISSA;55/2008/FM}, year = {2008}, abstract = {We perform a study of the moduli space of framed torsion free sheaves on Hirzebruch surfaces by using localization techniques. After discussing general properties of this moduli space, we classify its fixed points under the appropriate toric action and compute its Poincare\\\' polynomial. From the physical viewpoint, our results provide the partition function of N=4 Vafa-Witten theory on Hirzebruch surfaces, which is relevant in black hole entropy counting problems according to a conjecture due to Ooguri, Strominger and Vafa.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2852}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Rubik Poghossian and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2008, title = {Topological Gauge Theories on Local Spaces and Black Hole Entropy Countings}, journal = {Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 12 (2008) 1429-1446}, number = {SISSA;43/2007/EP}, year = {2008}, abstract = {We study cohomological gauge theories on total spaces of holomorphic line bundles over complex manifolds and obtain their reduction to the base manifold by U(1) equivariant localization of the path integral. We exemplify this general mechanism by proving via exact path integral localization a reduction for local curves conjectured in hep-th/0411280, relevant to the calculation of black hole entropy/Gromov-Witten invariants. Agreement with the four-dimensional gauge theory is recovered by taking into account in the latter non-trivial contributions coming from one-loop fluctuations determinants at the boundary of the total space. We also study a class of abelian gauge theories on Calabi-Yau local surfaces, describing the quantum foam for the A-model, relevant to the calculation of Donaldson-Thomas invariants.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1992}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2007, title = {Black Holes, Instanton Counting on Toric Singularities and q-Deformed Two-Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory}, number = {SISSA;61/2006/FM}, year = {2007}, abstract = {We study the relationship between instanton counting in N=4 Yang-Mills theory on a generic four-dimensional toric orbifold and the semi-classical expansion of q-deformed Yang-Mills theory on the blowups of the minimal resolution of the orbifold singularity, with an eye to clarifying the recent proposal of using two-dimensional gauge theories to count microstates of black holes in four dimensions. We describe explicitly the instanton contributions to the counting of D-brane bound states which are captured by the two-dimensional gauge theory. We derive an intimate relationship between the two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and Chern-Simons theory on generic Lens spaces, and use it to show that the correct instanton counting is only reproduced when the Chern-Simons contributions are treated as non-dynamical boundary conditions in the D4-brane gauge theory. We also use this correspondence to discuss the counting of instantons on higher genus ruled Riemann surfaces.}, doi = {10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.02.030}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1888}, author = {Luca Griguolo and Domenico Seminara and Richard J. Szabo and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2007, title = {The complete one-loop spin chain for N=2 Super-Yang-Mills}, number = {SISSA;99/2004/FM}, year = {2007}, note = {Contributed to NATO Advanced Study Institute and EC Summer School on String Theory: From Gauge Interactions to Cosmology, Cargese, France, 7-19 Jun 2004.}, abstract = {We show that the complete planar one-loop mixing matrix of the N=2 Super Yang--Mills theory can be obtained from a reduction of that of the N=4 theory. For composite operators of scalar fields, this yields an anisotropic XXZ spin chain, whose spectrum of excitations displays a mass gap.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2309}, author = {Paolo Di Vecchia and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2007, title = {Computing Amplitudes in topological M-theory}, number = {SISSA;74/2006/FM}, year = {2007}, abstract = {We define a topological quantum membrane theory on a seven dimensional manifold of $G_2$ holonomy. We describe in detail the path integral evaluation for membrane geometries given by circle bundles over Riemann surfaces. We show that when the target space is $CY_3\\\\times S^1$ quantum amplitudes of non-local observables of membranes wrapping the circle reduce to the A-model amplitudes. \\nIn particular for genus zero we show that our model computes the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants. Moreover, for membranes wrapping calibrated homology spheres in the $CY_3$, we find that the amplitudes of our model are related to Joyce invariants.}, doi = {10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/023}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1901}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini and Maxim Zabzine} } @article {2007, title = {Critical voltages and blocking stresses in nematic gels}, journal = {Eur. Phys. J. E 24 (2007) 303-310}, number = {SISSA;31/2007/M}, year = {2007}, abstract = {We use a recently proposed model to study the dynamics of director remodeling in nematic gels under combined electro-mechanical loading. Focusing on a model specimen, we describe the critical volt-ages that must be exceeded to achieve mesogen reorientation, and the blocking stresses that prevent alignment of the nematic mesogens with the electric field. The corresponding phase diagram shows that the dynamic thresholds defined above are different from those predicted on the sole basis of energetics. Multistep loading programs are used to explore the energy landscape of our model specimen, showing the existence of multiple local minima under the same voltage and applied stress. This leads us to conclude that hysteresis should be expected in the electro-mechanical response of nematic gels.}, doi = {10.1140/epje/i2007-10240-2}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2553}, author = {Antonio DeSimone and Antonio Di Carlo and Luciano Teresi} } @article {2007, title = {The holomorphic anomaly for open string moduli}, journal = {JHEP 10 (2007) 060}, number = {SISSA;55/2007/EP}, year = {2007}, abstract = {We complete the holomorphic anomaly equations for topological strings with their dependence on open moduli. We obtain the complete system by standard path integral arguments generalizing the analysis of BCOV (Commun. Math. Phys. 165 (1994) 311) to strings with boundaries. We study both the anti-holomorphic dependence on open moduli and on closed moduli in presence of Wilson lines. By providing the compactification a\\\' la Deligne-Mumford of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with boundaries, we show that the open holomorphic anomaly equations are structured on the (real codimension one) boundary components of this space.}, doi = {10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/060}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2113}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2007, title = {Luther-Emery Phase and Atomic-Density Waves in a Trapped Fermion Gas}, journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 030404}, number = {arXiv.org;cond-mat/0609346v1}, year = {2007}, abstract = {

The Luther-Emery liquid is a state of matter that is predicted to occur in one-dimensional systems of interacting fermions and is characterized by a gapless charge spectrum and a gapped spin spectrum. In this Letter we discuss a realization of the Luther-Emery phase in a trapped cold-atom gas. We study by means of the density-matrix renormalization-group technique a two-component atomic Fermi gas with attractive interactions subject to parabolic trapping inside an optical lattice. We demonstrate how this system exhibits compound phases characterized by the coexistence of spin pairing and atomic-density waves. A smooth crossover occurs with increasing magnitude of the atom-atom attraction to a state in which tightly bound spin-singlet dimers occupy the center of the trap. The existence of atomic-density waves could be detected in the elastic contribution to the light-scattering diffraction pattern.

}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.030404}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2056}, author = {Gao Xianlong and Matteo Rizzi and Marco Polini and Rosario Fazio and Mario P. Tosi and Vivaldo L. Jr. Campo and Klaus Capelle} } @article {2007, title = {On a notion of unilateral slope for the Mumford-Shah functional}, journal = {NoDEA 13 (2007) 713-734}, number = {SISSA;78/2004/M}, year = {2007}, abstract = {In this paper we introduce a notion of unilateral slope for the Mumford-Shah functional, and provide an explicit formula in the case of smooth cracks. We show that the slope is not lower semicontinuous and study the corresponding relaxed functional.}, doi = {10.1007/s00030-006-4054-4}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2059}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {2006, title = {Almost Global Stochastic Feedback Stabilization of Conditional Quantum Dynamics}, number = {SISSA;80/2005/M}, year = {2006}, abstract = {We propose several parametrization-free solutions to the problem of quantum state reduction control by means of continuous measurement and smooth quantum feedback. In particular, we design a feedback law for which almost global stochastic feedback stabilization can be proved analytically by means of Lyapunov techinques. This synthesis arises very naturally from the physics of the problem, as it relies on the variance associated with the quantum filtering process.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1727}, author = {Claudio Altafini and Francesco Ticozzi} } @article {2006, title = {An artificial viscosity approach to quasistatic crack growth}, number = {SISSA;43/2006/M}, year = {2006}, abstract = {We introduce a new model of irreversible quasistatic crack growth in which the evolution of cracks is the limit of a suitably modified $\\\\epsilon$-gradient flow of the energy functional, as the \\\"viscosity\\\" parameter $\\\\epsilon$ tends to zero.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1850}, author = {Rodica Toader and Chiara Zanini} } @article {2006, title = {Large Parameter Behavior of Equilibrium Measures}, number = {SISSA;92/2005/FM}, year = {2006}, abstract = {We study the equilibrium measure for a logarithmic potential in the presence of an external field V*(x) + tp(x), where t is a parameter, V*(x) is a smooth function and p(x) a monic polynomial. When p(x) is of an odd degree, the equilibrium measure is shown to be supported on a single interval as |t| is sufficiently large. When p(x) is of an even degree, the equilibrium measure is supported on two disjoint intervals as t is negatively large; it is supported on a single interval for convex p(x) as t is positively large and is likely to be supported on multiple disjoint intervals for non-convex p(x).}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1789}, author = {Tamara Grava and Fei-Ran Tian} } @article {2006, title = {N=1 superpotentials from multi-instanton calculus}, number = {SISSA;73/2005/FM}, year = {2006}, abstract = {In this paper we compute gaugino and scalar condensates in N = 1 supersymmetric gauge\\ntheories with and without massive adjoint matter, using localization formulae over the multi-instanton moduli space. Furthermore we compute the chiral ring relations among the correlators of the N = 1* theory and check this result against the multi-instanton computation finding agreement.}, doi = {10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/031}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1773}, author = {Francesco Fucito and Jose F. Morales and Rubik Poghossian and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2006, title = {On topological M-theory}, number = {SISSA;64/2005/FM}, year = {2006}, abstract = {We construct a gauge fixed action for topological membranes on G2-manifolds such that its bosonic part is the standard membrane theory in a particular gauge. We prove that quantum mechanically the path-integral in this gauge localizes on associative submanifolds.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1765}, author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini and Maxim Zabzine} } @article {2006, title = {Topological symmetry of forms, N=1 supersymmetry and S-duality on special manifolds}, journal = {J. Geom. Phys. 56 (2006) 2379-2401}, number = {arXiv.org;hep-th/0412014v2}, year = {2006}, abstract = {We study the quantization of a holomorphic two-form coupled to a Yang-Mills field on special manifolds in various dimensions, and we show that it yields twisted supersymmetric theories. The construction determines ATQFT\\\'s (Almost Topological Quantum Field Theories), that is, theories with observables that are invariant under changes of metrics belonging to restricted classes. For Kahler manifolds in four dimensions, our topological model is related to N=1 Super Yang-Mills theory. Extended supersymmetries are recovered by considering the coupling with chiral multiplets. We also analyse Calabi-Yau manifolds in six and eight dimensions, and seven dimensional G_2 manifolds of the kind recently discussed by Hitchin. We argue that the two-form field could play an interesting role for the study of the conjectured S-duality in topological string. We finally show that in the case of real forms in six dimensions the partition function of our topological model is related to the square of that of the holomorphic Chern-Simons theory, and we discuss the uplift to seven dimensions and its relation with the recent proposals for the topological M-theory.}, doi = {10.1016/j.geomphys.2005.12.006}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2168}, author = {Laurent Baulieu and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2005, title = {Quasistatic Crack Growth in Nonlinear Elasticity}, journal = {Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 176 (2005) 165-225}, number = {SISSA;2/2004/M}, year = {2005}, abstract = {In this paper, we prove a new existence result for a variational model of crack growth in brittle materials proposed in [15]. We consider the case of $n$-dimensional finite elasticity, for an arbitrary $n\\\\ge1$, with a quasiconvex bulk energy and with prescribed boundary deformations and applied loads, both depending on time.}, doi = {10.1007/s00205-004-0351-4}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2293}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Gilles A. Francfort and Rodica Toader} } @article {2005, title = {Stress-dilatancy based modelling of granular materials and extensions to soils with crushable grains}, journal = {Int. J. Numer. Anal. Met. 29 (2005) 73-101}, number = {SISSA;74/2004/M}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Stress-dilatancy relations have played a crucial role in the understanding of the mechanical behaviour of soils and in the development of realistic constitutive models for their response. Recent investigations on the mechanical behaviour of materials with crushable grains have called into question the validity of classical relations such as those used in critical state soil mechanics.\\nIn this paper, a method to construct thermodynamically consistent (isotropic, three-invariant) elasto-plastic models based on a given stress-dilatancy relation is discussed. Extensions to cover the case of granular materials with crushable grains are also presented, based on the interpretation of some classical model parameters (e.g. the stress ratio at critical state) as internal variables that evolve according to suitable hardening laws.}, doi = {10.1002/nag.405}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2165}, author = {Antonio DeSimone and Claudio Tamagnini} } @article {2005, title = {Topological vector symmetry, topological gauge fixing of BRSTQFT and construction of maximal supersymmetry}, number = {SISSA;24/2005/FM}, year = {2005}, abstract = {The scalar and vector topological Yang-Mills symmetries determine a closed and consistent sector of Yang-Mills supersymmetry. We provide a geometrical construction of these symmetries, based on a horizontality condition on reducible manifolds. This yields globally well-defined scalar and vector topological BRST operators. These operators generate a subalgebra of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, which is small enough to be closed off-shell with a finite set of auxiliary fields and large enough to determine the Yang-Mills supersymmetric theory. Poincar{\'e} supersymmetry is reached in the limit of flat manifolds. The arbitrariness of the gauge functions in BRSTQFTs is thus removed by the requirement of scalar and vector topological symmetry, which also determines the complete supersymmetry transformations in a twisted way. Provided additional Killing vectors exist on the manifold, an equivariant extension of our geometrical framework is provided, and the resulting \\\"equivariant topological field theory\\\" corresponds to the twist of super Yang-Mills theory on omega backgrounds.}, doi = {10.1088/1126-6708/2005/08/037}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1741}, author = {Laurent Baulieu and Guillaume Bossard and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2004, title = {Blow-up solutions for the Schr{\"o}dinger equation in dimension three with a concentrated nonlinearity}, journal = {Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Anal. Non Lineaire 21 (2004) 121-137}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {We present some results on the blow-up phenomenon for the Schroedinger equation in dimension three with a nonlinear term supported in a fixed point. We find sufficient conditions for the blow up exploiting the moment of inertia of the solution and the uncertainty principle. In the critical case, we discuss the additional symmetry of the equation and construct a family of explicit blow up solutions.}, doi = {10.1016/j.anihpc.2003.01.002}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2998}, author = {Riccardo Adami and Gianfausto Dell{\textquoteright}Antonio and Rodolfo Figari and Alessandro Teta} } @article {2004, title = {Quasi-static evolution in brittle fracture: the case of bounded solutions}, journal = {Quad. Mat. Dip. Mat. Seconda Univ. Napoli 14 (2004) 245-266}, number = {SISSA;3/2004/M}, year = {2004}, abstract = {The main steps of the proof of the existence result for the quasi-static evolution of cracks in brittle materials, obtained in [7] in the vector case and for a general quasiconvex elastic energy, are presented here under the simplifying assumption that the minimizing sequences involved in the problem are uniformly bounded in $L^\\\\infty$.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2229}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Gilles A. Francfort and Rodica Toader} } @article {2004, title = {Semiclassical analysis of constrained quantum systems}, journal = {J. Phys. A 37 (2004) 5605-5624}, number = {arXiv.org;math-ph/0312034v2}, year = {2004}, publisher = {IOP Publishing}, abstract = {We study the dynamics of a quantum particle in R^(n+m) constrained by a strong potential force to stay within a distance of order hbar (in suitable units) from a smooth n-dimensional submanifold M. We prove that in the semiclassical limit the evolution of the wave function is approximated in norm, up to terms of order hbar^(1/2), by the evolution of a semiclassical wave packet centred on the trajectory of the corresponding classical constrained system.}, doi = {10.1088/0305-4470/37/21/007}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2997}, author = {Gianfausto Dell{\textquoteright}Antonio and Lucattilio Tenuta} } @article {2003, title = {Effective dynamics for Bloch electrons: Peierls substitution and beyond}, number = {arXiv.org;math-ph/0212041v2}, year = {2003}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We consider an electron moving in a periodic potential and subject to an additional slowly varying external electrostatic potential, $\\\\phi(\\\\epsi x)$, and vector potential $A(\\\\epsi x)$, with $x \\\\in \\\\R^d$ and $\\\\epsi \\\\ll 1$. We prove that associated to an isolated family of Bloch bands there exists an almost invariant subspace of $L^2(\\\\R^d)$ and an effective Hamiltonian governing the evolution inside this subspace to all orders in $\\\\epsi$. To leading order the effective Hamiltonian is given through the Peierls substitution. We explicitly compute the first order correction. From a semiclassical analysis of this effective quantum Hamiltonian we establish the first order correction to the standard semiclassical model of solid state physics.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3040}, author = {Gianluca Panati and Herbert Spohn and Stefan Teufel} } @article {2003, title = {Multi-instanton calculus and equivariant cohomology}, journal = {J.High Energy Phys. 2003,no.5,054,24 pp.}, number = {SISSA;75/2002/FM}, year = {2003}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, doi = {10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/054}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1645}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Jose F. Morales and Francesco Fucito and Alessandro Tanzini} } @article {2003, title = {A note on the integral representation of functionals in the space SBD(O)}, journal = {Rend. Mat. Appl. 23 (2003) 189-201}, number = {SISSA;14/2001/M}, year = {2003}, publisher = {Rendiconti di Matematica}, abstract = {In this paper we study the integral representation in the space SBD(O) of special functions with bounded deformation of some L^1-norm lower semicontinuous functionals invariant with respect to rigid motions.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3064}, author = {Francois Ebobisse and Rodica Toader} } @article {2003, title = {Space-adiabatic perturbation theory}, journal = {Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 7 (2003) 145-204}, number = {arXiv.org;math-ph/0201055v3}, year = {2003}, publisher = {International Press}, abstract = {We study approximate solutions to the Schr\\\\\\\"odinger equation $i\\\\epsi\\\\partial\\\\psi_t(x)/\\\\partial t = H(x,-i\\\\epsi\\\\nabla_x) \\\\psi_t(x)$ with the Hamiltonian given as the Weyl quantization of the symbol $H(q,p)$ taking values in the space of bounded operators on the Hilbert space $\\\\Hi_{\\\\rm f}$ of fast {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}internal\\\'\\\' degrees of freedom. By assumption $H(q,p)$ has an isolated energy band. Using a method of Nenciu and Sordoni \\\\cite{NS} we prove that interband transitions are suppressed to any order in $\\\\epsi$. As a consequence, associated to that energy band there exists a subspace of $L^2(\\\\mathbb{R}^d,\\\\Hi _{\\\\rm f})$ almost invariant under the unitary time evolution. We develop a systematic perturbation scheme for the computation of effective Hamiltonians which govern approximately the intraband time evolution. As examples for the general perturbation scheme we discuss the Dirac and Born-Oppenheimer type Hamiltonians and we reconsider also the time-adiabatic theory.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3041}, author = {Gianluca Panati and Herbert Spohn and Stefan Teufel} } @article {2002, title = {A model for the quasi-static growth of a brittle fracture: existence and approximation results}, journal = {Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 12 (2002), no. 12, 1773}, number = {SISSA;115/00/M}, year = {2002}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, abstract = {We study a variant of the variational model for the quasi-static growth of brittle fractures proposed by Francfort and Marigo.9 The main feature of our model is that, in the discrete-time formulation, in each step we do not consider absolute minimizers of the energy, but, in a sense, we look for local minimizers which are sufficiently close to the approximate solution obtained in the previous step. This is done by introducing in the variational problem an additional term which penalizes the L2-distance between the approximate solutions at two consecutive times. We study the continuous-time version of this model, obtained by passing to the limit as the time step tends to zero, and show that it satisfies (for almost every time) some minimality conditions which are slightly different from those considered in Refs. 9 and 8, but are still enough to prove (under suitable regularity assumptions on the crack path) that the classical Griffith\\\'s criterion holds at the crack tips. We also prove that, if no initial crack is present and if the data of the problem are sufficiently smooth, no crack will develop in this model, provided the penalization term is large enough.}, doi = {10.1142/S0218202502002331}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1571}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {2002, title = {A model for the quasi-static growth of brittle fractures based on local minimization}, journal = {Math.Models Methods Appl. Sci., 12 (2002) , p.1773-1800.}, number = {SISSA;51/2002/M}, year = {2002}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, abstract = {We study a variant of the variational model for the quasi-static growth of brittle fractures proposed by Francfort and Marigo.9 The main feature of our model is that, in the discrete-time formulation, in each step we do not consider absolute minimizers of the energy, but, in a sense, we look for local minimizers which are sufficiently close to the approximate solution obtained in the previous step. This is done by introducing in the variational problem an additional term which penalizes the L2-distance between the approximate solutions at two consecutive times. We study the continuous-time version of this model, obtained by passing to the limit as the time step tends to zero, and show that it satisfies (for almost every time) some minimality conditions which are slightly different from those considered in Refs. 9 and 8, but are still enough to prove (under suitable regularity assumptions on the crack path) that the classical Griffith\\\'s criterion holds at the crack tips. We also prove that, if no initial crack is present and if the data of the problem are sufficiently smooth, no crack will develop in this model, provided the penalization term is large enough.}, doi = {10.1142/S0218202502002331}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1621}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {2002, title = {A Model for the Quasi-Static Growth of Brittle Fractures: Existence and Approximation Results}, journal = {Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 162 (2002) 101-135}, number = {SISSA;30/2001/M}, year = {2002}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We give a precise mathematical formulation of a variational model for the irreversible quasi-static evolution of brittle fractures proposed by G.A. Francfort and J.-J. Marigo, and based on Griffith\\\'s theory of crack growth. In the two-dimensional case we prove an existence result for the quasi-static evolution and show that the total energy is an absolutely continuous function of time, although we can not exclude that the bulk energy and the surface energy may present some jump discontinuities. This existence result is proved by a time discretization process, where at each step a global energy minimization is performed, with the constraint that the new crack contains all cracks formed at the previous time steps. This procedure provides an effective way to approximate the continuous time evolution.}, doi = {10.1007/s002050100187}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3056}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {2002, title = {Space-adiabatic perturbation theory in quantum dynamics}, journal = {Physical review letters. 2002 Jun; 88(25 Pt 1):250405}, number = {PMID:12097080;}, year = {2002}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, abstract = {A systematic perturbation scheme is developed for approximate solutions to the time-dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation with a space-adiabatic Hamiltonian. For a particular isolated energy band, the basic approach is to separate kinematics from dynamics. The kinematics is defined through a subspace of the full Hilbert space for which transitions to other band subspaces are suppressed to all orders, and the dynamics operates in that subspace in terms of an effective intraband Hamiltonian. As novel applications, we discuss the Born-Oppenheimer theory to second order and derive for the first time the nonperturbative definition of the g factor of the electron within nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics.}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.250405}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5985}, author = {Gianluca Panati and Herbert Spohn and Stefan Teufel} } @article {2001, title = {Gamma-limit of periodic obstacles}, journal = {Acta Appl. Math., 2001, 65, 207-215}, number = {SISSA;37/00/M}, year = {2001}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, abstract = {We compute the Gamma-limit of a sequence obstacle functionals in the case of periodic obstacles.}, doi = {10.1023/A:1010668530972}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1495}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Paola Trebeschi} } @article {2001, title = {On the Multi-Instanton Measure for Super Yang-Mills Theories}, journal = {Nuclear Phys. B 611 (2001), no. 1-3, 205--226.}, number = {SISSA;74/00/FM}, year = {2001}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, doi = {10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00349-2}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1531}, author = {Ugo Bruzzo and Francesco Fucito and Alessandro Tanzini and Gabriele Travaglini} } @article {2000, title = {3D superconformal theories from Sasakian seven-manifolds: new nontrivial evidences for AdS_4/CFT_3}, journal = {Nucl.Phys. B577 (2000) 547-608}, number = {SISSA;113/99/FM}, year = {2000}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, doi = {10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00098-5}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1327}, author = {Davide Fabbri and Pietro Fr{\'e} and Leonardo Gualtieri and Cesare Reina and Alessandro Tomasiello and Alberto Zaffaroni and Alessandro Zampa} } @article {2000, title = {Reduction of bi-Hamiltonian systems and separation of variables: an example from the Boussinesq hierarchy}, journal = {Theor. Math. Phys. 122 (2000) 176-192}, number = {SISSA;123/98/FM}, year = {2000}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We discuss the Boussinesq system with $t_5$ stationary, within a general framework for the analysis of stationary flows of n-Gel\\\'fand-Dickey hierarchies. We show how a careful use of its bihamiltonian structure can be used to provide a set of separation coordinates for the corresponding Hamilton--Jacobi equations.}, doi = {10.1007/BF02551195}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3219}, author = {Gregorio Falqui and Franco Magri and G. Tondo} } @article {1998, title = {Diffusion of a particle in presence of N moving point sources}, journal = {Annales Poincare Phys.Theor.69:413-424,1998}, number = {SISSA;9/96/ILAS/FM}, year = {1998}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/134}, author = {Gianfausto Dell{\textquoteright}Antonio and Rodolfo Figari and Alessandro Teta} } @article {1998, title = {Limits of variational problems for Dirichlet forms in varying domains}, journal = {Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees. Volume 77, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 89-116}, year = {1998}, publisher = {SISSA}, doi = {10.1016/S0362-546X(98)00067-4}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6440}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Virginia De Cicco and Lino Notarantonio and Nicoletta A. Tchou} } @mastersthesis {1997, title = {Some Problems in the Asymptotic Analysis of Partial Differential Equations in Perforated Domains}, year = {1997}, school = {SISSA}, keywords = {Dirichlet problems}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5698}, author = {Rodica Toader} } @article {1997, title = {Statistics in space dimension two}, journal = {Lett. Math. Phys. 40 (1997), no. 3, 235-256}, number = {SISSA;5/96/ILAS/FM}, year = {1997}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, abstract = {We construct as a selfadjoint operator the Schroedinger hamiltonian for a system of $N$ identical particles on a plane, obeying the statistics defined by a representation $\\\\pi_1$ of the braid group. We use quadratic forms and potential theory, and give details only for the free case; standard arguments provide the extension of our approach to the case of potentials which are small in the sense of forms with respect to the laplacian. We also comment on the relation between the analysis given here and other approaches to the problem, and also on the connection with the description of a quantum particle on a plane under the influence of a shielded magnetic field (Aharanov-Bohm effect).}, doi = {10.1023/A:1007361832622}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/130}, author = {Gianfausto Dell{\textquoteright}Antonio and Rodolfo Figari and Alessandro Teta} } @article {1996, title = {A capacity method for the study of Dirichlet problems for elliptic systems in varying domains}, journal = {Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 96 (1996), 257--277}, number = {SISSA;87/95/M}, year = {1996}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/989}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {1994, title = {Limits of Dirichlet problems in perforated domains: a new formulation}, journal = {Rend. Istit. Mat. Univ. Trieste 26 (1994) 339-360}, number = {SISSA;167/1994/M}, year = {1994}, publisher = {Universit{\`a} degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3649}, author = {Gianni Dal Maso and Rodica Toader} } @article {1990, title = {Quadratic forms for singular perturbations of the Laplacian}, journal = {Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 26 (1990), no. 5, 803--817}, number = {SISSA;165/88/FM}, year = {1990}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/757}, author = {Alessandro Teta} } @mastersthesis {1989, title = {Singular perturbation of the Laplacian and connections with models of random media}, year = {1989}, school = {SISSA}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6348}, author = {Alessandro Teta} }