Iterated monoidal categories

We develop a notion of an n-fold monoidal category and show that it corresponds in a precise way to the notion of an n-fold loop space. Specifically, the group completion of the nerve of such a category is an n-fold loop space, and free n-fold monoidal categories give rise to a finite simplicial operad of the same homotopy type as the classical little cubes operad used to parametrize the higher H-space structure of an n-fold loop space. We also show directly that this operad has the same homotopy type as the n-th Smith filtration of the Barratt-Eccles operad and the n-th filtration of Berger's complete graph operad. Moreover, this operad contains an equivalent preoperad which gives rise to Milgram's small model for tom" width="56" alt="View the MathML source" title="View the MathML source" src="http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0001870803000653-si1.gif"> when n=2 and is very closely related to Milgram's model of tom" width="62" alt="View the MathML source" title="View the MathML source" src="http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0001870803000653-si2.gif"> for n>2.     

On the commutator of the Marcinkiewicz integral

tom" width="49" alt="View the MathML source" title="View the MathML source" src="http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0022247X02004985-si1.gif"> boundedness is considered for the commutator of higher-dimensional Marcinkiewicz integral. Some conditions implying the tom" width="49" alt="View the MathML source" title="View the MathML source" src="http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0022247X02004985-si2.gif"> and the tom" width="49" alt="View the MathML source" title="View the MathML source" src="http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0022247X02004985-si3.gif"> boundedness for the commutator of the Marcinkiewicz integral are obtained.     

Speeding up the FMMR perfect sampling algorithm: A case study revisited

In a previous paper by the second author, two Markov chain Monte Carlo perfect sampling algorithms—one called coupling from the past (CFTP) and the other (FMMR) based on rejection sampling—are compared using as a case study the move‐to‐front (MTF) self‐organizing list chain. Here we revisit that case study and, in particular, exploit the dependence of FMMR on the user‐chosen initial state. We give a stochastic monotonicity result for the running time of FMMR applied to MTF and thus identify the initial state that gives the stochastically smallest running time; by contrast, the initial state used in the previous study gives the stochastically largest running time. By changing from worst choice to best choice of initial state we achieve remarkable speedup of FMMR for MTF; for example, we reduce the running time (as measured in Markov chain steps) from exponential in the length n of the list nearly down to n when the items in the list are requested according to a geometric distribution. For this same example, the running time for CFTP grows exponentially in n. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2003     

DEA方法进行规模收益分析的几点注记

自从 Banker等人 ( 1 984)用 DEA方法进行规模收益分析 ,已有越来越多的学者也在进行相关的研究 .研究主要从两个方面进行 :基于 DEA输入模型的方法和基于 DEA输出模型的方法 .这两类方法所应用的模型、条件、结论都有所不同 ,但在应用中有些文章将它们混淆在一起 .本文针对应用中容易出现的错误 ,给出反例和正确的判别规模收益状况的充分必要条件 .并由规模收益的定义 ,建议使用 DEA—输出模型进行规模收益分析 .     

动态特性的参数设计在差示光度法测金中的应用

本文提出对动态特性参数设计使用相关系数与信噪比作为内表指标进行分析 ,并使用该分析方法优化了差示光度法测较高浓度金矿样的试验条件。     

Local field enhancements on gold and silver nanostructures for aperture near field spectroscopy

Optical properties of silver and gold semi-continuous films near the percolation threshold are investigated by scanning near field optical microscopy (SNOM) operating in the collection/transmission mode. The electromagnetic enhanced fields, due to plasmon-polariton localizations, are observed and the intensity distribution is shown to present high intensity variations that increase with the wavelength. The local fields are also demonstrated to be polarization dependent. The intensity distribution is investigated as function of the incident wavelength both for gold and silver films. The calculated probability distribution function (PDF) exhibits an exponential decay for large enhancement factors and is proved to be wavelength dependent.     

Single-particle quadrupole electromagnetic transitions in p-shell and sd-shell nuclei

Electron scattering Coulomb form factors for the single-particle quadrupole transitions in p-shell and sd-shell nuclei have been studied. Core polarization effects are included through a microscopic theory that includes excitations from the core orbits up to higher orbits with 2ω excitations. The modified surface delta interaction is adopted as a residual interaction. The results are discussed for the ( 1p _1/2 ^-1↦1p _3/2 ^-1) proton transition in ¹⁵N, ( 1d _5/2↦2s _1/2) neutron transition in ¹⁷O and ( 1d _3/2 ^-1↦2s _1/2 ^-1) proton transition in ³⁹K. The inclusion of core polarization effects modifies the form factors markedly and describes the experimental data very well in both the absolute strength and the momentum transfer dependence. Received: 18 April 2002 / Accepted: 1 July 2002 / Published online: 6 March 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: baguniv@uruklink.net Communicated by A. Molinari     

Elliptic dichroism in hydrogen ionization by a coherent superposition of two harmonics

The two-photon ionization of the hydrogen atom from its ground state by a two-colour electromagnetic field consisting of two odd harmonics of the same IR laser is analyzed. The influence of the state of polarization of the bichromatic field on the azimuthal angular distribution and the dependence of the elliptic dichroism on the photon frequencies are reported. Received 11 December 2002 Published online 29 April 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: fritz.ehlotzky@uibk.ac.at     

Fitting models to correlated data III: A comparison between residual analysis and other methods

Applications of the χ² test, the F test, the Durbin-Watson d test, and the f (or Sign) test, to examples of correlated data treatment, show important drawbacks with the d test and (apparently) with the f test. An analytical approach based on residual analysis suggests an improvement in their use that leads to better results at lowest order; it also points out a distinction between goodness-of-fit tests, as the f test, and goodness-of-modeling tests, as the χ² and F tests. The residual analysis method is applied to the same examples; it looks faster, simpler, and often more accurate than the classical ones.