Exploring Periodic Orbit Expansions and Renormalisation with the Quantum Triangular Billiard

Details Exploring Periodic Orbit Expansions and Renormalisation with the Quantum Triangular Billiard Exploring Periodic Orbit Expansions and Renormalisation with the Quantum Triangular Billiard

1996-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9607005v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

50 pages LaTeX2e. Uses graphicx, amsmath, amsfonts, psfrag and subfigure. 17 figures. To appear Annals of Physics, southern sp

Scientific paper

10.1006/aphy.1996.0113

A study of the quantum triangular billiard requires consideration of a boundary value problem for the Green's function of the Laplacian on a trianglar domain. Our main result is a reformulation of this problem in terms of coupled non--singular integral equations. A non--singular formulation, via Fredholm's theory, guarantees uniqueness and provides a mathematically firm foundation for both numerical and analytic studies. We compare and contrast our reformulation, based on the exact solution for the wedge, with the standard singular integral equations using numerical discretisation techniques. We consider in detail the (integrable) equilateral triangle and the Pythagorean 3-4-5 triangle. Our non--singular formulation produces results which are well behaved mathematically. In contrast, while resolving the eigenvalues very well, the standard approach displays various behaviours demonstrating the need for some sort of ``renormalisation''. The non-singular formulation provides a mathematically firm basis for the generation and analysis of periodic orbit expansions. We discuss their convergence paying particular emphasis to the computational effort required in comparision with Einstein--Brillouin--Keller quantisation and the standard discretisation, which is analogous to the method of Bogomolny. We also discuss the generalisation of our technique to smooth, chaotic billiards.

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