Publications (29)
On tau functions associated with linear systems
Gordon Blower, Samantha L. Newsham
Let be a linear system in continuous time with input and output space and state space . The function determines a Hankel…
Transportation on spheres via an entropy formula
Gordon Blower
The paper proves transportation inequalities for probability measures on spheres for the Wasserstein metrics with respect to cost functions that are powers of the geodesic distance…
Operational calculus and integral transforms for groups with finite propagation speed
Gordon Blower, Ian Doust
Let be the generator of a strongly continuous cosine family on a complex Banach space . The paper develops an operational calculus for integral…
Hankel operators that commute with second-order differential operators
Gordon Blower
Suppose that is a continuous and self-adjoint Hankel operator on and that with . If and are both quadratic, h…
Linear systems, spectral curves and determinants
Gordon Blower, Ian Doust
Let be a continuous time linear system with state space a separable complex Hilbert space , where generates a strongly continuous contraction semigroup $(e^{-tA}…
Statistical Mechanics of the Periodic Benjamin-Ono Equation
Gordon Blower, Caroline Brett, Ian Doust
The periodic Benjamin-Ono equation is an autonomous Hamiltonian system with a Gibbs measure on . The paper shows that the Gibbs measures on bounded balls of …
Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and spectral concentration for the cubic Schrödinger equation
Gordon Blower, Caroline Brett, Ian Doust
The nonlinear Schrödinger equation NLSE(p, β), -iu_t=-u_{xx}+β| u|^{p-2} u=0, arises from a Hamiltonian on infinite-dimensional phase space \Lp^2(\mT). For p\leq 6, Bourgain (Co…
On determinant expansions for Hankel operators
Gordon Blower, Yang Chen
Let be a semiclassical weight which is generic in Magnus's sense, and the corresponding sequence of orthogonal polynomials. The paper expresses the Christo…
Hasimoto frames and the Gibbs measure of periodic nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Gordon Blower, Azadeh Khaleghi, Moe Kuchemann-Scales
The paper interprets the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation as a Hamiltonian system with infinite dimensional phase space. There is a Gibbs measure which is invariant under the…
On tau functions for orthogonal polynomials and matrix models
Gordon Blower
Let v be a real polynomial of even degree, and let Ïbe the equilibrium probability measure for v with support S; so that v(x)\geq 2\int \log |x-y| Ï(dy)+C_v for some constant C_v…
Hill's Spectral Curves and the Invariant Measure of the Periodic KdV Equation
Gordon Blower, Caroline Brett, Ian Doust
This paper analyses the periodic spectrum of Schrödinger's equation when the potential is real, periodic, random and subject to the invariant measure of th…
Concentration of the invariant measures for the periodic Zakharov, KdV, NLS and Gross--Piatevskii equations in 1D and 2D
Gordon Blower
This paper concerns Gibbs measures for some nonlinear PDE over the -torus . The Hamiltonian $H=\int_{{\bf T}^D} \Vert\nabla u\Vert^2 - \int_{{\bf T}^D} \vert u\v…
Functional calculus on Venturi for Groups with Finite Propagation Speed
Gordon Blower, Ian Doust
Let be a complete Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded below and Laplace operator . The paper develops a functional calculus for the cosine family $\cos…
The noncommutative KP hierarchy and its solution via descent algebra
Gordon Blower, Simon J. A. Malham
We give the solution to the complete noncommutative Kadomtsev--Petviashvili (KP) hierarchy. We achieve this via direct linearisation which involves the Gelfand--Levitan--Marchenko…
Kernels and point processes associated with Whittaker functions
Gordon Blower, Yang Chen
This article considers Whittaker's function where is real and is real or purely imaginary. Then arises as the scattering funct…
The algebraic structure of the non-commutative nonlinear Schrodinger and modified Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy
Gordon Blower, Simon J. A. Malham
We prove that each member of the non-commutative nonlinear Schrodinger and modified Korteweg--de Vries hierarchy is a Fredholm Grassmannian flow, and for the given linear dispersio…
On linear systems and tau functions associated with Lame's equation and Painleve's equation VI
Gordon Blower
Painleve's transcendental differential equation P_{VI} may be expressed as the consistency condition for a pair of linear differential equations with 2 by 2 matrix coefficients wit…
Center of mass distribution of the Jacobi unitary ensembles: Painleve V, asymptotic expansions
Longjun Zhan, Gordon Blower, Yang Chen +1
In this paper, we study the probability density function, , of the center of mass of the finite Jacobi unitary ensembles with parameters a…
Operators associated with the soft and hard spectral edges of unitary ensembles
Gordon Blower
Using Hankel operators and shift-invariant subspaces on Hilbert space, this paper develops the theory of the operators associated with soft and hard edges of eigenvalue distributio…
Linear systems, Hankel products and the sinh-Gordon equation
Gordon Blower, Ian Doust
Let be a linear system in continuous time with input and output space and state space . The scattering functions de…
Concentration inequalities on product spaces with applications to Markov processes
Gordon Blower, François Bolley
For a stochastic process with state space some Polish space, this paper gives sufficient conditions on the initial and conditional distributions for the joint law to satisfy Gaussi…
Linear systems, determinants and solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation
Gordon Blower, Simon J. Malham
Let be a linear system in continuous time with input and output space and state space . The scattering (or impulse response) functions $Ï_{(x)}(t…
Direct linearisation of the non-commutative Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations
Gordon Blower, Simon J. A. Malham
We prove that the non-commutative Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation and a `lifted' modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (mKP) equation are directly linearisable, and thus integrable…
Single-use MIMO system, Painlevé transcendents and double scaling
Hongmei Chen, Min Chen, Gordon Blower +1
In this paper we study a particular Painlevé V (denoted ) that arises from Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. Such a appears throug…
Linear systems and determinantal random point fields
Gordon Blower
Tracy and Widom showed that fundamentally important kernels in random matrix theory arise from differential equations with rational coefficients. More generally, this paper conside…
Integrable operators and the squares of Hankel operators
Gordon Blower
Integrable operators arise in random matrix theory, where they describe the asymptotic eigenvalue distributions of large self-adjoint random matrices from the generalized unitary e…
Mixed moments of characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices
Emma C. Bailey, Sandro Bettin, Gordon Blower +4
Following the work of Conrey, Rubinstein and Snaith and Forrester and Witte we examine a mixed moment of the characteristic polynomial and its derivative for matrices from the unit…
Convexity and transport for the isentropic Euler equations on the sphere
Gordon Blower
The paper considers the Euler system of PDE on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of positive curvature without boundary, and the sphere in particular. The paper…
A logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the invariant measure of the periodic Korteweg--de Vries equation
Gordon Blower
The periodic KdV equation u_t=u_{xxx}+βuu_x arises from a Hamiltonian system with infinite-dimensional phase space L^2(T). Bourgain has shown that there exists a Gibbs measure νo…