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Boris Zupancic

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Weighted blowups and 3d Poisson desingularizations

We establish existence of functorial orbifold reductions of singularities for Poisson subvarieties in smooth Poisson threefolds. Namely, we show that with enough weighted blowups, one can reduce the singularities of such Poisson subvarieties to certain simple, explicit, local normal forms: Du Val surface singularities where the Poisson structure is locally Jacobian, and plane curves lying in the vanishing locus of a particular linear Poisson structure. The proof combines Abramovich--Temkin--Włodarczyk and McQuillan's recent approach to resolution of singularities for varieties via weighted blowups with some new normal forms for three-dimensional Poisson brackets derived via Poisson cohomology. Along the way, we describe necessary and sufficient conditions for a polyvector field to lift to the weighted blowup of an orbifold along a suborbifold, generalizing criteria of Polishchuk for unweighted blowups of Poisson structures on smooth varieties.

math.AG

Fuzzy Dark Matter Dynamics and the Quasiparticle Hypothesis

Dark matter may be composed of ultra-light bosons whose de Broglie wavelength in galaxies is of order 1 kpc. The standard model for this fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a complex scalar field that obeys the Schrödinger-Poisson equations. The wavelike nature of FDM leads to fluctuations in the gravitational field that can pump energy into the stellar components of a galaxy. Heuristic arguments and theoretical analyses suggest that these fluctuations can be modelled by replacing FDM with a system of quasiparticles (QPs). We test this hypothesis by comparing self-consistent simulations of a Schrödinger field with those using a system of QPs in one spatial dimension. Simulations of pure FDM systems allow us to derive a phenomenological relation between the number of QPs that is required to model FDM with a given de Broglie wavelength. We also simulate systems of FDM and stars and find that the FDM pumps energy into the stars whether it is described by QPs or a Schrödinger field with the FDM adiabatically contracting and the stellar system adiabatically expanding. However, we find that QPs overestimate dynamical heating.

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