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Quantumlike Chaos in the Frequency Distributions of the Bases A, C, G, T in Drosophila DNA
Continuous periodogram power spectral analyses of fractal fluctuations of
frequency distributions of bases A, C, G, T in Drosophila DNA show that the
power spectra follow the universal inverse power-law form of the statistical
normal distribution. Inverse power-law form for power spectra of space-time
fluctuations is generic to dynamical systems in nature and is identified as
self-organized criticality. The author has developed a general systems theory,
which provides universal quantification for observed self-organized criticality
in terms of the statistical normal distribution. The long-range correlations
intrinsic to self-organized criticality in macro-scale dynamical systems are a
signature of quantumlike chaos. The fractal fluctuations self-organize to form
an overall logarithmic spiral trajectory with the quasiperiodic Penrose tiling
pattern for the internal structure. Power spectral analysis resolves such a
spiral trajectory as an eddy continuum with embedded dominant wavebands. The
dominant peak periodicities are functions of the golden mean. The observed
fractal frequency distributions of the Drosophila DNA base sequences exhibit
quasicrystalline structure with long-range spatial correlations or
self-organized criticality. Modification of the DNA base sequence structure at
any location may have significant noticeable effects on the function of the DNA
molecule as a whole. The presence of non-coding introns may not be redundant,
but serve to organize the effective functioning of the coding exons in the DNA
molecule as a complete unit.Comment: 46 pages, 9 figure
Quantum states of indefinite spins: From baryons to massive gravitino
I review theory and phenomenology of
(K/2,K/2)*[(1/2,0)+(0,1/2)] states.
First I make the case that the observed nucleon and Delta (1232) excitations
(up to Delta(1600)) are exhausted by unconstrained (K/2,K/2)*[(1/2,0)+(0,1/2)]
states with K=1,3, and 5, which originate from rotational and vibrational
excitations of an underlying quark--diquark configuration.
Second, I consider the simplest case of K=1 and show that the
\gamma^\mu\psi_\mu =0 constraint of the Rarita-Schwinger framework is a
short-hand of:
- 1/3 (1/m^2 W^2 +3/4)\psi_\mu = \psi_\mu, the covariant definition of the
unique invariant subspace of the squared Pauli-Lubanski vector, W^2, that is a
parity singlet and of highest spin-3/2 at rest.
I suggest to work in the 16 dimensional vector spinor space
\Psi= A *\psi rather than keeping Lorentz and spinor indices separated and
show that the above second order equation guarantees the covariant description
of a has-been spin-3/2 states at rest without invoking further supplementary
conditions.
In gauging the latter equation minimally and, in calculating the determinant,
one obtains a pathology-free energy-momentum dispersion relation, thus avoiding
the classical Velo-Zwanziger problem of imaginary energies in the presence of
an external electromagnetic field.Comment: Review talk at "Zacatecas Forum in Physics 2002" on theory and
phenomenology of (K/2,K/2)*[(1/2,0)+(0,1/2)] state
Strange Messages: Chemical and Thermal Freeze-out in Nuclear Collisions
Thermal models are commonly used to interpret heavy-ion data on particle
yields and spectra and to extract the conditions of chemical and thermal
freeze-out in heavy-ion collisions. I discuss the usefulness and limitations of
such thermal model analyses and review the experimental and theoretical
evidence for thermalization in nuclear collisions. The crucial role of
correlating strangeness production data with single particle spectra and
two-particle correlation measurements is pointed out. A consistent dynamical
picture for the heavy-ion data from the CERN SPS involves an initial
prehadronic stage with deconfined color and with an appreciable isotropic
pressure component. This requires an early onset of thermalization.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures, talk given at Strange Quark Matter '98, Padova,
Italy, 20-24 July 1998, to be published in J. Phys. G 25; final version with
updated reference
Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetry, holography on null-surfaces and area proportionality of "light-slice" entropy
It is shown that certain kinds of behavior, which hitherto were expected to
be characteristic for classical gravity and quantum field theory in curved
spacetime, as the infinite dimensional Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetry, holography
on event horizons and an area proportionality of entropy, have in fact an
unnoticed presence in Minkowski QFT. This casts new light on the fundamental
question whether the volume propotionality of heat bath entropy and the
(logarithmically corrected) dimensionless area law obeyed by
localization-induced thermal behavior are different geometric parametrizations
which share a common primordeal algebraic origin. Strong arguments are
presented that these two different thermal manifestations can be directly
related, this is in fact the main aim of this paper. It will be demonstrated
that QFT beyond the Lagrangian quantization setting receives crucial new
impulses from holography onto horizons. The present paper is part of a project
aimed at elucidating the enormous physical range of "modular localization". The
latter does not only extend from standard Hamitonian heat bath thermal states
to thermal aspects of causal- or event- horizons addressed in this paper. It
also includes the recent understanding of the crossing property of formfactors
whose intriguing similarity with thermal properties was, although sometimes
noticed, only sufficiently understood in the modular llocalization setting.Comment: 42 pages, changes, addition of new results and new references, in
this form the paper will appear in Foundations of Physic
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