Skew loops in flat tori

We produce skew loops—loops having no pair of parallel tangent lines—homotopic to any loop in a flat torus or other quotient of R ⁿ . The interesting case here is n = 3. More subtly for any n, we characterize the homotopy classes that will contain a skew loop having a specified loop as tangent indicatrix. A fellowship from the Lady Davis foundation helped support this work.     

A scheme related to the Brauer loop model

We introduce the Brauer loop scheme, where • is a certain degeneration of the ordinary matrix product. Its components of top dimension, ⌊N²/2⌋, correspond to involutions π∈SN having one or no fixed points. In the case N even, this scheme contains the upper-upper scheme from [A. Knutson, Some schemes related to the commuting variety, J. Algebraic Geom., in press, math.AG/0306275] as a union of (N/2)! of its components. One of those is a degeneration of the commuting variety of pairs of commuting matrices.The Brauer loop model is an integrable stochastic process studied in [J. de Gier, B. Nienhuis, Brauer loops and the commuting variety, J. Stat. Mech. (2005) P01006, math.AG/0410392], based on earlier related work in [M.J. Martins, B. Nienhuis, R. Rietman, An intersecting loop model as a solvable super spin chain, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 (1998) 504-507, cond-mat/9709051], and some of the entries of its Perron-Frobenius eigenvector were observed (conjecturally) to equal the degrees of the components of the upper-upper scheme.Our proof of this equality follows the program outlined in [P. Di Francesco, P. Zinn-Justin, Inhomogeneous model of crossing loops and multidegrees of some algebraic varieties, math-ph/0412031]. In that paper, the entries of the Perron-Frobenius eigenvector were generalized from numbers to polynomials, which allowed them to be calculated inductively using divided difference operators. We relate these polynomials to the multidegrees of the components of the Brauer loop scheme, defined using an evident torus action on E. As a consequence, we obtain a formula for the degree of the commuting variety, previously calculated up to 4×4 matrices.     

均值矩阵的函数的所有可容许估计

对于多元正态线性模型Ｙｎｘｍ～Ｎ（Ｘθ,σ２∑Ｖ）,在四种不同的可容许意义下,本文研究了ＳＸθ的线性估计ＬＹ＋Ｄ在一切估计类中的可容许性在适当条件下得到了充要条件,在一般情况给出了充分条件和必要条件．     

具有细链双曲无穷远鞍点的二次系统

本文得到：具有细链双曲无穷远鞍点和一个细焦点的二次系统至多存在一个极限环,若有细无穷远分界线环S,则其内部不存在极限环,其稳定性与它包围的奇点的稳定性相反．     

Auxiliary field loop expansion of the effective action for a class of stochastic partial differential equations

We present an alternative to the perturbative (in coupling constant) diagrammatic approach for studying stochastic dynamics of a class of reaction diffusion systems. Our approach is based on an auxiliary field loop expansion for the path integral representation for the generating functional of the noise induced correlation functions of the fields describing these systems. The systems we consider include Langevin systems describable by the set of self interacting classical fields ?_i(x,t)${?}_i(x,t)$ in the presence of external noise η_i(x,t)${\eta }_i(x,t)$, namely (∂_t−ν∇²)?−F[?]=η$({\partial }_t-\nu {\nabla }^2)?-F\left[?\right]=\eta$, as well as chemical reaction annihilation processes obtained by applying the many-body approach of Doi–Peliti to the Master Equation formulation of these problems. We consider two different effective actions, one based on the Onsager–Machlup (OM) approach, and the other due to Janssen–deGenneris based on the Martin–Siggia–Rose (MSR) response function approach. For the simple models we consider, we determine an analytic expression for the Energy landscape (effective potential) in both formalisms and show how to obtain the more physical effective potential of the Onsager–Machlup approach from the MSR effective potential in leading order in the auxiliary field loop expansion. For the KPZ equation we find that our approximation, which is non-perturbative and obeys broken symmetry Ward identities, does not lead to the appearance of a fluctuation induced symmetry breakdown. This contradicts the results of earlier studies.     

A chronological test of ocean-bottom spreading in the North Atlantic

Fission-track and K-Ar dating of basaltic glass from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge gives results which are consistent with the proposal of ocean-floor spreading. Correlation exists between the magnetic anomaly patterns over the Crest Mountains at 45°N and the age of the outcropping basalts. The observed sequences of ages progressing outward from the Median Valley 11,000, 230,000, 310,000, 750.000, 8,000,000, and 16,000,000 years constitute strong, direct support for the idea of ocean-bottom spreading.     

Thin-film multi-layer capacitors using Bi2Mg2/3Nb4/3O7 (BMNO) pyrochlore thin films via radio-frequency sputtering

Thin-film multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) were prepared using high-dielectric constant Bi₂Mg_2/3Nb_4/3O₇ thin-films deposited at room temperature via radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. The multi-layer capacitors, in sizes 0402, 0603 and 1005, were well equipped with both inner and outer Cu electrodes. The capacitances of the bi-layer capacitors were twice that of the single-layer version in sizes 0402, 0603, and 1005. The 200 nm-thick Bi₂Mg_2/3Nb_4/3O₇ thin-films would be suitable for thin-film multi-layer capacitor applications.     

The Kantowski-Sachs Space-Time in Loop Quantum Gravity

We extend the ideas introduced in the previous work to a more general space-time. In particular we consider the Kantowski-Sachs space time with space section with topology . In this way we want to study a general space time that we think to be the space time inside the horizon of a black hole. In this case the phase space is four dimensional and we simply apply the quantization procedure suggested by loop quantum gravity and based on an alternative to the Schroedinger representation introduced by H. Halvorson. Through this quantization procedure we show that the inverse of the volume density and the Schwarzschild curvature invariant are upper bounded and so the space time is singularity free. Also in this case we can extend dynamically the space time beyond the classical singularity. PACS number: 04.60.Pp, 04.70.Dy