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极限形状与复Burgers方程

Limit shapes and the complex burgers equation

Richard Kenyon, Andrei Okounkov

摘要:

在本文中,我们研究了R^3中的曲面,它们是由二聚体模型产生的一类随机曲面模型中的极限形状。极限形状是表面张力泛函的最小化者,也就是说,对于固定的边界条件,它们最小化仅取决于表面的斜率的量(表面张力)的积分。作为斜率的函数的表面张力具有奇异性并且不是严格凸的,这导致在极限形状中形成小平面和边缘。我们发现一个变量的变化,减少了欧拉-拉格朗日方程的变分问题的复杂的无粘Burgers方程(复杂的Hopf方程)。因此,方程可以用任意的全纯函数来求解,这在精神上有点类似于极小曲面的维尔斯特拉斯参数化。我们进一步表明,对于一个自然稠密的边界条件,问题中的全纯函数,事实上,代数。因此,代数几何的工具可以用来研究极小化,特别是它们的奇点的形成。这说明了几个明确计算的例子。

英文摘要:

In this paper we study surfaces in R^3 that arise as limit shapes in a class of random surface models arising from dimer models. The limit shapes are minimizers of a surface tension functional, that is, they minimize, for fixed boundary conditions, the integral of a quantity (the surface tension) depending only on the slope of the surface. The surface tension as a function of the slope has singularities and is not strictly convex, which leads to formation of facets and edges in the limit shapes. We find a change of variables that reduces the Euler-Lagrange equation for the variational problem to the complex inviscid Burgers equation (complex Hopf equation). The equation can thus be solved in terms of an arbitrary holomorphic function, which is somewhat similar in spirit to Weierstrass parametrization of minimal surfaces. We further show that for a natural dense set of boundary conditions, the holomorphic function in question is, in fact, algebraic. The tools of algebraic geometry can thus be brought in to study the the minimizers and, especially, the formation of their singularities. This is illustrated by several explicitly computed examples.

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