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Mining Complex Hydrobiological Data with Galois Lattices
We have used Galois lattices for mining hydrobiological data. These data are
about macrophytes, that are macroscopic plants living in water bodies. These
plants are characterized by several biological traits, that own several
modalities. Our aim is to cluster the plants according to their common traits
and modalities and to find out the relations between traits. Galois lattices
are efficient methods for such an aim, but apply on binary data. In this
article, we detail a few approaches we used to transform complex
hydrobiological data into binary data and compare the first results obtained
thanks to Galois lattices
Superfluid to Mott-insulator transition in an anizotropic two--dimensional optical lattice
We study the superfluid to Mott-insulator transition of bosons in an optical
anizotropic lattice by employing the Bose-Hubbard model living on a
two-dimensional lattice with anizotropy parameter . The compressible
superfluid state and incompressible Mott-insulator (MI) lobes are efficiently
described analytically, using the quantum U(1) rotor approach. The ground state
phase diagram showing the evolution of the MI lobes is quantified for arbitrary
values of , corresponding to various kind of lattices: from square,
through rectangular to almost one-dimensional.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Mining Complex Hydrobiological Data with Galois Lattices
International audienceWe used Galois lattices for mining hydrobiological data about macrophytes, i.e. macroscopic plants living in water bodies. These plants are characterized by several biological traits, that are divided into several modalities. Our aim was to cluster the plants according to their common traits and modalities and to find out the relations between the traits. Galois lattices are efficient methods for such an aim, but apply to binary data. In this article, we detail a few of the approaches we used to turn complex hydrobiological data into binary data and compare the first results obtained thanks to Galois lattices
Line operators from M-branes on compact Riemann surfaces
In this paper, we determine the charge lattice of mutually local Wilson and
't Hooft line operators for class S theories living on M5-branes wrapped on
compact Riemann surfaces. The main ingredients of our analysis are the
fundamental group of the N-cover of the Riemann surface, and a quantum
constraint on the six-dimensional theory. This latter plays a central role in
excluding some of the possible lattices and imposing consistency conditions on
the charges. This construction gives a geometric explanation for the mutual
locality among the lines, fixing their charge lattice and the structure of the
four-dimensional gauge group.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figure
Dynamic Models of Segregation in Small-World Networks
Schelling (1969, 1971a,b, 1978) considered a simple proximity model of segregation where individual agents only care about the types of people living in their own local geographical neighborhood, the spatial structure being represented by one- or two-dimensional lattices. In this paper, we argue that segregation might occur not only in the geographical space, but also in social environments. Furthermore, recent empirical studies have documented that social interaction structures are well-described by small-world networks. We generalize Schelling's model by allowing agents to interact in small-world networks instead of regular lattices. We study two alternative dynamic models where agents can decide to move either arbitrarily far away (global model) or are bound to choose an alternative location in their social neighborhood (local model). Our main result is that the system attains levels of segregation that are in line with those reached in the lattice-based spatial proximity model. Thus, Schelling's original results seem to be robust to the structural properties of the network.Spatial proximity model, Social segregation, Schelling, Proximity preferences, Social networks, Small worlds, Scale-free networks, Best-response dynamics
Instanton classical solutions of SU(3) fixed point actions on open lattices
We construct instanton-like classical solutions of the fixed point action of
a suitable renormalization group transformation for the SU(3) lattice gauge
theory. The problem of the non-existence of one-instantons on a lattice with
periodic boundary conditions is circumvented by working on open lattices. We
consider instanton solutions for values of the size (0.6-1.9 in lattice units)
which are relevant when studying the SU(3) topology on coarse lattices using
fixed point actions. We show how these instanton configurations on open
lattices can be taken into account when determining a few-couplings
parametrization of the fixed point action.Comment: 23 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps figures, epsfig.sty; some comments adde
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