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Four quotient set gems
Our aim in this note is to present four remarkable facts about quotient sets.
These observations seem to have been overlooked by the Monthly, despite its
intense coverage of quotient sets over the years.Comment: 9 pages, to appear in the American Mathematical Monthl
Four Quotient Set Gems
Our aim in this note is to present four remarkable facts about quotient sets. These observations seem to have been overlooked by the MONTHLY, despite its intense coverage of quotient sets over the years
Causal particle detectors and topology
We investigate particle detector responses in some topologically non-trivial
spacetimes. We extend a recently proposed regularization of the massless scalar
field Wightman function in 4-dimensional Minkowski space to arbitrary
dimension, to the massive scalar field, to quotients of Minkowski space under
discrete isometry groups and to the massless Dirac field. We investigate in
detail the transition rate of inertial and uniformly accelerated detectors on
the quotient spaces under groups generated by ,
, ,
and some higher dimensional generalizations.
For motions in at constant and on the latter three spaces the response
is time dependent. We also discuss the response of static detectors on the RP^3
geon and inertial detectors on RP^3 de Sitter space via their associated global
embedding Minkowski spaces (GEMS). The response on RP^3 de Sitter space, found
both directly and in its GEMS, provides support for the validity of applying
the GEMS procedure to detector responses and to quotient spaces such as RP^3 de
Sitter space and the RP^3 geon where the embedding spaces are Minkowski spaces
with suitable identifications.Comment: 47 pages, 9 figure
India in the Global and Regional Trade - Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms’ Decision to Export
This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et al (2003) and De Rosa (2007) in analyzing the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our focus is on applying the gravity model to analyze Indias trade flows (exports and imports) with its trading partners around the world and to examine the impact of various PTAs in which India or its trading partner or both are members. Clearly this is of interest, since, from 1991 India is aggressively negotiating and concluding PTAs of which South Asian preferential trade (and later free trade) agreement is the most prominent. We find that India is not well served by its pursuit of PTAs and should instead push for multilateral trade liberalisation by contributing to conclusion of the Doha round of negotiations with an agreement beneficial to all WTO members. The second and the more recent strand is the analysis of trade flows using data on exports of individual firms. It is well known that in all countries of the world relatively few firms participate in world trade, thus suggesting that characteristics of a firm (such as its size and productivity) are relevant besides country level barriers on trade matter for participation in world trade. This strand is rapidly growing. Ours is one of the very few attempts at modeling and estimating the decision of Indian firms on their participation using firm level data. The paper reports on our preliminary results. We have also collected primary data from a sample survey of firms to explore this issue deeper. While these data are yet to be fully analyzed, nevertheless some preliminary descriptive tables summarizing them are included in an Appendix.Non-discriminatory trade liberalisation, Gravity Model, Intrabloc trade effect, trade diversion, trade creation, Firm heterogeneity, Probability of exporting, Export performance, Logit, Probit, Fixed effect, Random effect, Tobit Model
On the p-adic denseness of the quotient set of a polynomial image
The quotient set, or ratio set, of a set of integers is defined as . We consider the case in which
is the image of under a polynomial ,
and we give some conditions under which is dense in .
Then, we apply these results to determine when is dense in
, where is the set of numbers of the form , with integers. This allows us to answer a
question posed in [Garcia et al., -adic quotient sets, Acta Arith. 179,
163-184]. We end leaving an open question
FERENGI: Redshifting galaxies from SDSS to GEMS, STAGES and COSMOS
We describe the creation of a set of artificially "redshifted" galaxies in
the range 0.1<z<1.1 using a set of ~100 SDSS low redshift (v<7000 km/s) images
as input. The intention is to generate a training set of realistic images of
galaxies of diverse morphologies and a large range of redshifts for the GEMS
and COSMOS galaxy evolution projects. This training set allows other studies to
investigate and quantify the effects of cosmological redshift on the
determination of galaxy morphologies, distortions and other galaxy properties
that are potentially sensitive to resolution, surface brightness and bandpass
issues. We use galaxy images from the SDSS in the u, g, r, i, z filter bands as
input, and computed new galaxy images from these data, resembling the same
galaxies as located at redshifts 0.1<z<1.1 and viewed with the Hubble Space
Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (HST ACS). In this process we take into
account angular size change, cosmological surface brightness dimming, and
spectral change. The latter is achieved by interpolating a spectral energy
distribution that is fit to the input images on a pixel-to-pixel basis. The
output images are created for the specific HST ACS point spread function and
the filters used for GEMS (F606W and F850LP) and COSMOS (F814W). All images are
binned onto the desired pixel grids (0.03" for GEMS and 0.05" for COSMOS) and
corrected to an appropriate point spread function. Noise is added corresponding
to the data quality of the two projects and the images are added onto empty sky
pieces of real data images. We make these datasets available from our website,
as well as the code - FERENGI: "Full and Efficient Redshifting of Ensembles of
Nearby Galaxy Images" - to produce datasets for other redshifts and/or
instruments.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, 3 table
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