The centripetal force law and the equation of motion for a particle on a curved hypersurface

It is pointed out that the current form of extrinsic equation of motion for a particle constrained to remain on a hypersurface is in fact a half-finished version for it is established without regard to the fact that the particle can never depart from the geodesics on the surface. Once the fact be taken into consideration, the equation takes that same form as that for centripetal force law, provided that the symbols are re-interpreted so that the law is applicable for higher dimensions. The controversial issue of constructing operator forms of these equations is addressed, and our studies show the quantization of constrained system based on the extrinsic equation of motion is favorable.Comment: 5 pages, major revisio

Heisenberg equation for a nonrelativistic particle on a hypersurface: from the centripetal force to a curvature induced force

In classical mechanics, a nonrelativistic particle constrained on an $N-1$ curved hypersurface embedded in $N$ flat space experiences the centripetal force only. In quantum mechanics, the situation is totally different for the presence of the geometric potential. We demonstrate that the motion of the quantum particle is "driven" by not only the the centripetal force, but also a curvature induced force proportional to the Laplacian of the mean curvature, which is fundamental in the interface physics, causing curvature driven interface evolution.Comment: 4 page

Supersymmetric KdV equation: Darboux transformation and discrete systems

For the supersymmetric KdV equation, a proper Darboux transformation is presented. This Darboux transformation leads to the B\"{a}cklund transformation found early by Liu and Xie \cite{liu2}. The Darboux transformation and the related B\"{a}cklund transformation are used to construct integrable super differential-difference and difference-difference systems. The continuum limits of these discrete systems and of their Lax pairs are also considered.Comment: 13pages, submitted to Journal of Physics

Almost Sure Frequency Independence of the Dimension of the Spectrum of Sturmian Hamiltonians

We consider the spectrum of discrete Schr\"odinger operators with Sturmian potentials and show that for sufficiently large coupling, its Hausdorff dimension and its upper box counting dimension are the same for Lebesgue almost every value of the frequency.Comment: 12 pages, to appear in Commun. Math. Phy