We consider an electron constrained to move on a surface with revolution symmetry in the presence of a constant magnetic field B parallel to the surface axis. Depending on B and the surface geometry the transverse part of the spectrum typically exhibits many crossings which change to avoided crossings if a weak symmetry breaking interaction is introduced. We study the effect of such perturbations on the quantum propagation. This problem admits a natural reformulation to which tools from molecular dynamics can be applied. In turn, this leads to the study of a perturbation theory for the time dependent BornOppenheimer approximation.

The construction of local reduced-order models via multiscale basis functions has been an area of active research. In this paper, we propose online multiscale basis functions which are constructed using the offline space and the current residual. Online multiscale basis functions are constructed adaptively in some selected regions based on our error indicators. We derive an error estimator which shows that one needs to have an offline space with certain properties to guarantee that additional online multiscale basis function will decrease the error. This error decrease is independent of physical parameters, such as the contrast and multiple scales in the problem. The offline spaces are constructed using Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Methods (GMsFEM). We show that if one chooses a sufficient number of offline basis functions, one can guarantee that additional online multiscale basis functions will reduce

We study knots in 3d Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group SL(N,C), in the context of its relation with 3d N=2 theory (the so-called 3d-3d correspondence). The defect has either co-dimension 2 or co-dimension 4 inside the 6d (2,0) theory, which is compactified on a 3-manifold M^. We identify such defects in various corners of the 3d-3d correspondence, namely in 3d SL(N,C) Chern-Simons theory, in 3d N=2 theory, in 5d N=2 super Yang-Mills theory, and in the M-theory holographic dual. We can make quantitative checks of the 3d-3d correspondence by computing partition functions at each of these theories. This Letter is a companion to a longer paper, which contains more details and more results.

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Let <i>A</i> and <i>B</i> be non-negative self-adjoint operators in a separable Hilbert space such that their form sum <i>C</i> is densely defined. It is shown that the Trotter product formula holds for imaginary parameter values in the <i>L</i> ²-norm, that is, one has <div class="gsh_dspfr"> \lim_{no+\infty} \int\limits^T_{-T} \left\|\left(e^{-itA/n}e^{-itB/n} ight)^nh - e^{-itC}hight\|^2dt = 0