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Quarter-fraction factorial designs constructed via quaternary codes
The research of developing a general methodology for the construction of good
nonregular designs has been very active in the last decade. Recent research by
Xu and Wong [Statist. Sinica 17 (2007) 1191--1213] suggested a new class of
nonregular designs constructed from quaternary codes. This paper explores the
properties and uses of quaternary codes toward the construction of
quarter-fraction nonregular designs. Some theoretical results are obtained
regarding the aliasing structure of such designs. Optimal designs are
constructed under the maximum resolution, minimum aberration and maximum
projectivity criteria. These designs often have larger generalized resolution
and larger projectivity than regular designs of the same size. It is further
shown that some of these designs have generalized minimum aberration and
maximum projectivity among all possible designs.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOS656 the Annals of
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
General U(N) gauge transformations in the realm of covariant Hamiltonian field theory
A consistent, local coordinate formulation of covariant Hamiltonian field
theory is presented. While the covariant canonical field equations are
equivalent to the Euler-Lagrange field equations, the covariant canonical
transformation theory offers more general means for defining mappings that
preserve the action functional - and hence the form of the field equations -
than the usual Lagrangian description. Similar to the well-known canonical
transformation theory of point dynamics, the canonical transformation rules for
fields are derived from generating functions. As an interesting example, we
work out the generating function of type F_2 of a general local U(N) gauge
transformation and thus derive the most general form of a Hamiltonian density
that is form-invariant under local U(N) gauge transformations.Comment: 36 pages, Symposium on Exciting Physics: Quarks and gluons/atomic
nuclei/biological systems/networks, Makutsi Safari Farm, South Africa, 13-20
November 2011; Exciting Interdisciplinary Physics, Walter Greiner, Ed., FIAS
Interdisciplinary Science Series, Springer International Publishing
Switzerland, 201
An introduction to DSmT
The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even
paradoxical or high conflicting sources of information has always been, and
still remains today, of primal importance for the development of reliable
modern information systems involving artificial reasoning. In this
introduction, we present a survey of our recent theory of plausible and
paradoxical reasoning, known as Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT), developed for
dealing with imprecise, uncertain and conflicting sources of information. We
focus our presentation on the foundations of DSmT and on its most important
rules of combination, rather than on browsing specific applications of DSmT
available in literature. Several simple examples are given throughout this
presentation to show the efficiency and the generality of this new approach
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