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Empirical predictions of an intrinsically disordered protein theory approach to glycan/lectin reaction kinetics
Newly-developed methods from the theory of intrinsically disordered proteins can be applied to the flexible glycan structures that coat cellular surfaces and provide rich channels for biological information transmission. Extension of a mechanistic 'arm-in-sleeve' model via a nonrigid molecule symmetry analysis leads to expectation of empirical observation of punctuated 'spectral' classifications in glycan/lectin interaction, parameterized by an appropriate index of glycan frond length or other index of topological complexity, possibly requiring groupoid classifications analogous to quasicrystals
Electroweak Interactions: Summary
The session on precision studies of electroweak interactions is summarized.
The contributions address the bilinear, trilinear, quartic as well as
heavy-quark interactions of the electroweak gauge bosons. This makes up a
picture of the physics of electroweak symmetry and symmetry breaking which can
be investigated with the proposed design of e+e- Linear Colliders and
detectors.Comment: 8 pages, no figures, uses aipproc.sty. Contribution to the Linear
Collider Workshop 2000, Fermilab, October 200
Asymptotics of Nonlinear LSE Precoders with Applications to Transmit Antenna Selection
This paper studies the large-system performance of Least Square Error (LSE)
precoders which~minimize~the~input-output distortion over an arbitrary support
subject to a general penalty function. The asymptotics are determined via the
replica method in a general form which encloses the Replica Symmetric (RS) and
Replica Symmetry Breaking (RSB) ans\"atze. As a result, the "marginal
decoupling property" of LSE precoders for -steps of RSB is derived. The
generality of the studied setup enables us to address special cases in which
the number of active transmit antennas are constrained. Our numerical
investigations depict that the computationally efficient forms of LSE precoders
based on "-norm" minimization perform close to the cases with
"zero-norm" penalty function which have a considerable improvements compared to
the random antenna selection. For the case with BPSK signals and restricted
number of active antennas, the results show that RS fails to predict the
performance while the RSB ansatz is consistent with theoretical bounds.Comment: 5 pages; 2 figures; to be presented at ISIT 201
Next nearest neighbour Ising models on random graphs
This paper develops results for the next nearest neighbour Ising model on
random graphs. Besides being an essential ingredient in classic models for
frustrated systems, second neighbour interactions interactions arise naturally
in several applications such as the colour diversity problem and graphical
games. We demonstrate ensembles of random graphs, including regular
connectivity graphs, that have a periodic variation of free energy, with either
the ratio of nearest to next nearest couplings, or the mean number of nearest
neighbours. When the coupling ratio is integer paramagnetic phases can be found
at zero temperature. This is shown to be related to the locked or unlocked
nature of the interactions. For anti-ferromagnetic couplings, spin glass phases
are demonstrated at low temperature. The interaction structure is formulated as
a factor graph, the solution on a tree is developed. The replica symmetric and
energetic one-step replica symmetry breaking solution is developed using the
cavity method. We calculate within these frameworks the phase diagram and
demonstrate the existence of dynamical transitions at zero temperature for
cases of anti-ferromagnetic coupling on regular and inhomogeneous random
graphs.Comment: 55 pages, 15 figures, version 2 with minor revisions, to be published
J. Stat. Mec
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