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For any field $\Bbb F$ and positive integers $m,n,d$ with $(m,n)\not= (1,1)$, Farb and Wolfson defined the certain affine varieties ${\rm Poly}^{d,m}_n(\Bbb F)$ as generalizations of spaces first studied by Arnold, Vassiliev, Segal and others. As a natural generalization of this, for each fan $\Sigma$ and $r$-tuple $D=(d_1,\cdots ,d_r)$ of positive integers, the current authors defined spaces ${\rm Poly}^{D,\Sigma}_n(\Bbb F)$, where $r$ is the number of one dimensional cones in $\Sigma$. These spaces can also be regarded as generalizations of the space ${\rm Hol}^*_D(S^2,X_\Sigma)$ of based rational curves from the Riemann sphere $S^2$ to the toric variety $X_\Sigma$ of degree $D$, where $X_\Sigma$ denotes the toric variety (over $\Bbb C$) corresponding to the fan $\Sigma$. In this paper, we define spaces ${\rm Q}^{D,\Sigma}_n(\Bbb F)$ ($\Bbb F=\Bbb R$ or $\Bbb C$) which are real analogues of ${\rm Poly}^{D,\Sigma}_n(\Bbb F)$ and which can be viewed as a generalizations of spaces considered by Arnold, Vassiliev and others in the context of real singularity theory. We prove that homotopy stability holds for these spaces and compute the stability dimensions explicitly., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2105.14601, arXiv:2009.04255

We continue our study of the topology of the spaces of $m$ tuples of real polynomials with common degree $d$ and without common roots of multiplicity $n$, and in particular their stability properties with respect to $d$. In an earlier paper we have proved a homotopy stability result and determined the stable homotopy types of such spaces in the case $m n >=4$. In the case $m n= 3$ we could only prove stability in homology. In this paper we prove the corresponding homotopy result for the case $(m,n)=(3,1)$. in the appendix we also deal with the case ${m,n)={1,2}$., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2212.05494

For each pair $(m,n)$ of positive integers with $(m,n)\not= (1,1)$ and an arbitrary field $\bf F$ with algebraic closure $\overline{\bf F}$, let $\rm Po^{d,m}_n(\bf F)$ denote the space of $m$-tuples $(f_1(z),\cdots ,f_m(z))\in \bf F [z]^m$ of $\bf F$-coefficients monic polynomials of the same degree $d$ such that the polynomials $\{f_k(z)\}_{k=1}^m$ have no common root in $\overline{\bf F}$ of multiplicity $\geq n$. These spaces $\rm Po^{d,m}_n(\bf F)$ were first defined and studied by B. Farb and J. Wolfson as generalizations of spaces first studied by Arnold, Vassiliev and Segal and others in several different contexts. In previous we determined explicitly the homotopy type of this space in the case $\bf F =\Bbb C$. In this paper, we investigate the case $\bf F =\Bbb R$.

The space of non-resultant systems of bounded multiplicity for a toric variety X is a generalization of the space of rational curves on it. In our earlier work we proved a homotopy stability theorem and determined explicitly the homotopy type of this space for the case X = CP^m. In this paper we consider the case of a general non-singular toric variety and prove a homotopy stability theorem generalising the one for CP^m., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1707.02603

We investigate the homotopy type of the space of tuples of polynomials inducing base-point preserving algebraic maps from the circle S1 to a toric variety X{\Sigma}. In particular, we prove a homotopy stability result for this space by combining the Vassiliev spectral sequence and the scanning map., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1707.02603

The Verwey transition in magnetite (Fe$_3$O$_4$) is the first metal-insulator transition ever observed and involves a concomitant structural rearrangement and charge-orbital ordering. Due to the complex interplay of these intertwined degrees of freedom, a complete characterization of the low-temperature phase of magnetite and the mechanism driving the transition have long remained elusive. It was demonstrated in recent years that the fundamental building blocks of the charge-ordered structure are three-site small polarons called trimerons. However, electronic collective modes of this trimeron order have not been detected to date, and thus an understanding of the dynamics of the Verwey transition from an electronic point of view is still lacking. Here, we discover spectroscopic signatures of the low-energy electronic excitations of the trimeron network using terahertz light. By driving these modes coherently with an ultrashort laser pulse, we reveal their critical softening and hence demonstrate their direct involvement in the Verwey transition. These findings represent the first observation of soft modes in magnetite and shed new light on the cooperative mechanism at the origin of its exotic ground state., Comment: 20 pages, 18 figures

For positive integers $d,m,n\geq 1$ with $(m,n)\not= (1,1)$ and $\Bbb K=\Bbb R$ or $\Bbb C$, let $Q^{d,m}_{n}(\Bbb K)$ denote the space of $m$-tuples $(f_1(z),\cdots ,f_m(z))\in \Bbb K [z]^m$ of $\Bbb K$-coefficients monic polynomials of the same degree $d$ such that polynomials $\{f_k(z)\}_{k=1}^m$ have no common {\it real} root of multiplicity $\geq n$ (but may have complex common root of any multiplicity). %% These spaces can be regarded as one of generalizations of the spaces defined and studied by Arnold and Vassiliev, and they may be also considered as the real analogues of the spaces studied by B. Farb and J. Wolfson. In this paper, we shall determine their homotopy types explicitly and generalize some previously obtained results., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1612.06793

Spaces of holomorphic maps from the Riemann sphere to various complex manifolds (holomorphic curves ) have played an important role in several area of mathematics. In a seminal paper G. Segal investigated the homotopy type of holomorphic curves on complex projective spaces and M. Guest on compact smooth toric varieties.. Recently Mostovoy and Villanueva, obtained a far reaching generalisation of these results, and in particular (for holomorphic curves) improved the stability dimension obtained by Guest. In this paper, we generalize their result to holomorphic curves, on certain non-compact smooth toric varieties.

For positive integers $m,n, d\geq 1$ with $(m,n)\not= (1,1)$ and a field $\Bbb F$ with its algebraic closure $\overline{\Bbb F}$, let $\text{Poly}^{d,m}_n(\Bbb F)$ denote the space of all $m$-tuples $(f_1(z),\cdots ,f_m(z))\in \Bbb F [z]$ of monic polynomials of the same degree $d$ such that polynomials $f_1(z),\cdots ,f_m(z)$ have no common root in $\overline{\Bbb F}$ of multiplicity $\geq n$. These spaces were defined by Farb and Wolfson in \cite{FW} as generalizations of spaces first studied by Arnold, Vassiliev, Segal and others in different contexts. In \cite{FW} they obtained algebraic geometrical and arithmetic results about the topology of these spaces. In this paper we investigate the homotopy type of these spaces for the case $\Bbb F =\mathbb{C}$. Our results generalize those of \cite{FW} for $\Bbb F =\Bbb C$ and also results of G. Segal \cite{Se}, V. Vassiliev \cite{Va} and F.Cohen-R.Cohen-B.Mann-R.Milgram \cite{CCMM} for $m\geq 2$ and $n\geq 2$.

Symmetry breaking across phase transitions often causes changes in selection rules and emergence of optical modes which can be detected via spectroscopic techniques or generated coherently in pump-probe experiments. In second-order or weakly first-order transitions, fluctuations of the order parameter are present above the ordering temperature, giving rise to intriguing precursor phenomena, such as critical opalescence. Here, we demonstrate that in magnetite (Fe$_3$O$_4$) light excitation couples to the critical fluctuations of the charge order and coherently generates structural modes of the ordered phase above the critical temperature of the Verwey transition. Our findings are obtained by detecting coherent oscillations of the optical constants through ultrafast broadband spectroscopy and analyzing their dependence on temperature. To unveil the coupling between the structural modes and the electronic excitations, at the origin of the Verwey transition, we combine our results from pump-probe experiments with spontaneous Raman scattering data and theoretical calculations of both the phonon dispersion curves and the optical constants. Our methodology represents an effective tool to study the real-time dynamics of critical fluctuations across phase transitions.

The purpose of this paper is to study the topology of certain toric varieties $X_I$, arising as quotients of the action of $\C^*$ on complements of arrangements of coordinate subspaces in $\C^n$, and to improve the homotopy stability dimension for the inclusion map $i_d:\Hol_d^*(S^2,X_I)\to \Map_d^*(S^2,X_I)$ given in \cite{GKY1} by using spectral sequences induced from simplicial resolutions.

Magnetite, Fe$_3$O$_4$, is the first magnetic material discovered and utilized by mankind in Ancient Greece, yet it still attracts attention due to its puzzling properties. This is largely due to the quest for a full and coherent understanding of the Verwey transition that occurs at $T_V=124$ K and is associated with a drop of electric conductivity and a complex structural phase transition. A recent detailed analysis of the structure, based on single crystal diffraction, suggests that the electron localization pattern contains linear three-Fe-site units, the so-called trimerons. Here we show that whatever the electron localization pattern is, it partially survives up to room temperature as short-range correlations in the high-temperature cubic phase, easily discernible by diffuse scattering. Additionally, {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculations reveal that characteristic features in these diffuse scattering patterns can be correlated with the Fermi surface topology., Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures

The problem of approximating the infinite dimensional space of all continuous maps from an algebraic variety $X$ to an algebraic variety $Y$ by finite dimensional spaces of algebraic maps arises in several areas of geometry and mathematical physics. An often considered formulation of the problem (sometimes called the Atiyah-Jones problem after \cite{AJ}) is to determine a (preferably optimal) integer $n_D$ such that the inclusion from this finite dimensional algebraic space into the corresponding infinite dimensional one induces isomorphisms of homology (or homotopy) groups through dimension $n_D$, where $D$ denotes a tuple of integers called the "degree" of the algebraic maps and $n_D\to\infty$ as $D\to\infty$. In this paper we investigate this problem in the case when $X$ is a real projective space and $Y$ is a smooth compact toric variety.

We have studied experimentally the responses of high quality single crystals of stoichiometric synthetic magnetite to applied weak dc and ac magnetic fields in the range of 6 K to 60 K, far below the Verwey transition. The results can be compared to so called Magnetic After Effects (MAE) measurements, which are the most extensive magnetic measurements of magnetite at these temperatures. We present a novel point of view on the relaxation phenomena encountered at these temperatures - the Low Temperature Anomaly, addressing the striking difference between the results of conventional ac susceptibility measurements and those accompanying MAE measurements, i.e. periodic excitations with strong magnetic pulses. We also draw a connection between this anomaly and the so called glass-like transition and discuss possible mechanisms responsible for these effects.

We present the results of inelastic x-ray scattering for magnetite and analyze the energies and spectral widths of the phonon modes with different symmetries in a broad range of temperature 125

We study the homotopy types of certain spaces closely related to the spaces of algebraic (rational) maps from the $m$ dimensional real projective space into the $n$ dimensional complex projective space for $2\leq m\leq 2n$ (we conjecture this relation to be a homotopy equivalence). In an earlier article we proved that the homotopy types of the terms of the natural degree filtration approximate closer and closer the homotopy type of the space of continuous maps and obtained bounds that describe the closeness of the approximation in terms of the degrees of the maps. Here we improve the estimates of the bounds by using new methods introduced in \cite{Mo3} and used in \cite{KY4}. In addition, in the the last section, we prove a special case ($m=1$) of the conjecture stated in \cite{AKY1} that our spaces are homotopy equivalent to the spaces of algebraic maps.

We show that the space $\tilde{A}_{d}(m,n)$ consisting of all real projective classes of $(n+1)$-tuples of real coefficients homogeneous polynomials of degree $d$ in $(m+1)$ variables, without common real roots except zero, has the same homology as the space $ \Map(\RP^m,\Bbb \RP^n)$ of continuous maps from the $m$-dimensional real projective space $\RP^m$ into the $n$ real dimensional projective space $\RP^n$ up to dimension %in dimensions smaller than $(n-m)(d+1)-1$. This considerably improves the main result of \cite{AKY1}.

We study the homotopy types of spaces of algebraic (rational) maps from real projective spaces into complex projective spaces. In a previous paper we have shown that the inclusion of the first space into the second one is a homotopy equivalence. In this paper we prove that the homotopy types of the terms of the natural "degree" filtration approximate closer and closer the homotopy type of the space of continuous maps and obtain bounds that describe the closeness of the approximation in terms of the degree. Moreover, we compute the homotopy groups of the spaces in low dimensions.

We consider the inclusion of the space of algebraic (regular) maps between real algebraic varieties in the space of all continuous maps. For a certain class of real algebraic varieties, which include real projective spaces, it is well known that the space of real algebraic maps is a dense subset of the space of all continuous maps. Our first result shows that, for this class of varieties, the inclusion is also a homotopy equivalence. After proving this, we restrict the class of varieties to real projective spaces. In this case, the space of algebraic maps has a ` minimum degree\rq filtration by finite dimensional subspaces and it is natural to expect that the homotopy types of the terms of the filtration approximate closer and closer the homotopy type of the space of continuous mappings as the degree increases. We prove this and compute the lower bounds of this approximation for ` even\rq components of these spaces (more precisely, we prove a very similar and closely related result, and state this one as a conjecture).