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We discuss approximations of the vertex coupling on a star-shaped quantum graph of n edges in the singular case when the wave functions are not continuous at the vertex and no edge-permutation symmetry is present. It is shown that the CheonShigehara technique using interactions with nonlinearly scaled couplings yields a 2n-parameter family of boundary conditions in the sense of norm resolvent topology. Moreover, using graphs with additional edges, one can approximate the {n+1\choose 2}-parameter family of all time-reversal invariant couplings.

We consider a charged quantum particle living in the Lobachevsky plane and interacting with a homogeneous magnetic field perpendicular to the plane and a point interaction which is transported adiabatically along a closed loop \mathcal{C} in the plane. We show that the bound-state eigenfunction acquires at that the Berry phase equal to 2 times the number of the flux quanta through the area encircled by \mathcal{C} .

The original motivation for solving of the Einstein equation is to understand space-time in the absence of matter; see the essay by Tod in this volume for an overview of the mathematics of general relativity. The equation governs the manner in which space-time is inuenced by the sole force of gravity. As is well known, singularities such as black holes can occur. The study of the vacuum Einstein equations is a difficult problem in nonlinear hyperbolic systems; see the essay by Christodoulou in this volume. Complete space-times with nontrivial gravitational radiation are not well understood.

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