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Construction of sequences with high Nonlinear Complexity from the Hermitian Function Field
We provide a sequence with high nonlinear complexity from the Hermitian
function field over . This sequence was
obtained using a rational function with pole divisor in certain
collinear rational places on , where . In
particular we improve the lower bounds on the th-order nonlinear complexity
obtained by H. Niederreiter and C. Xing; and O. Geil, F. \"Ozbudak and D.
Ruano
Benchmarking in a rotating annulus: a comparative experimental and numerical study of baroclinic wave dynamics
The differentially heated rotating annulus is a widely studied tabletop-size
laboratory model of the general mid-latitude atmospheric circulation. The two
most relevant factors of cyclogenesis, namely rotation and meridional
temperature gradient are quite well captured in this simple arrangement. The
radial temperature difference in the cylindrical tank and its rotation rate can
be set so that the isothermal surfaces in the bulk tilt, leading to the
formation of baroclinic waves. The signatures of these waves at the free water
surface have been analyzed via infrared thermography in a wide range of
rotation rates (keeping the radial temperature difference constant) and under
different initial conditions. In parallel to the laboratory experiments, five
groups of the MetStr\"om collaboration have conducted numerical simulations in
the same parameter regime using different approaches and solvers, and applying
different initial conditions and perturbations. The experimentally and
numerically obtained baroclinic wave patterns have been evaluated and compared
in terms of their dominant wave modes, spatio-temporal variance properties and
drift rates. Thus certain ``benchmarks'' have been created that can later be
used as test cases for atmospheric numerical model validation
On the critical nature of plastic flow: one and two dimensional models
Steady state plastic flows have been compared to developed turbulence because
the two phenomena share the inherent complexity of particle trajectories, the
scale free spatial patterns and the power law statistics of fluctuations. The
origin of the apparently chaotic and at the same time highly correlated
microscopic response in plasticity remains hidden behind conventional
engineering models which are based on smooth fitting functions. To regain
access to fluctuations, we study in this paper a minimal mesoscopic model whose
goal is to elucidate the origin of scale free behavior in plasticity. We limit
our description to fcc type crystals and leave out both temperature and rate
effects. We provide simple illustrations of the fact that complexity in rate
independent athermal plastic flows is due to marginal stability of the
underlying elastic system. Our conclusions are based on a reduction of an
over-damped visco-elasticity problem for a system with a rugged elastic energy
landscape to an integer valued automaton. We start with an overdamped one
dimensional model and show that it reproduces the main macroscopic
phenomenology of rate independent plastic behavior but falls short of
generating self similar structure of fluctuations. We then provide evidence
that a two dimensional model is already adequate for describing power law
statistics of avalanches and fractal character of dislocation patterning. In
addition to capturing experimentally measured critical exponents, the proposed
minimal model shows finite size scaling collapse and generates realistic shape
functions in the scaling laws.Comment: 72 pages, 40 Figures, International Journal of Engineering Science
for the special issue in honor of Victor Berdichevsky, 201
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Finite Fields: Theory and Applications
Finite ïŹelds are the focal point of many interesting geometric, algorithmic and combinatorial problems. The workshop was devoted to progress on these questions, with an eye also on the important applications of ïŹnite ïŹeld techniques in cryptography, error correcting codes, and random number generation
Non-linear axisymmetric pulsations of rotating relativistic stars in the conformal flatness approximation
We study non-linear axisymmetric pulsations of rotating relativistic stars
using a general relativistic hydrodynamics code under the assumption of a
conformal flatness. We compare our results to previous simulations where the
spacetime dynamics was neglected. The pulsations are studied along various
sequences of both uniformly and differentially rotating relativistic polytropes
with index N = 1. We identify several modes, including the lowest-order l = 0,
2, and 4 axisymmetric modes, as well as several axisymmetric inertial modes.
Differential rotation significantly lowers mode frequencies, increasing
prospects for detection by current gravitational wave interferometers. We
observe an extended avoided crossing between the l = 0 and l = 4 first
overtones, which is important for correctly identifying mode frequencies in
case of detection. For uniformly rotating stars near the mass-shedding limit,
we confirm the existence of the mass-shedding-induced damping of pulsations,
though the effect is not as strong as in the Cowling approximation. We also
investigate non-linear harmonics of the linear modes and notice that rotation
changes the pulsation frequencies in a way that would allow for various
parametric instabilities between two or three modes to take place. We assess
the detectability of each obtained mode by current gravitational wave detectors
and outline how the empirical relations that have been constructed for
gravitational wave asteroseismology could be extended to include the effects of
rotation.Comment: 24 pages, 20 figures; minor corrections, added extended discussion
and one figure in one subsectio
Trees and after: The concept of text topology: Some applications to verb-form distributions in language corpora
International audienceThe model described here relies on the key concepts of topology, i.e. neighbourhood and equivalence of shape. A linguistic object L is studied in text T by means of one or several local questions Q. The set of successive local answers is processed so as to provide a global function characterizing the textual space under scrutiny. We begin with short sequences of tenses to illustrate the way in which to explore originally Emile Benveniste's concepts of history and discourse . We then supply life-size examples of other objects selected for their heuristic value. We go on to demonstrate the model at work on the distribution of strings of finite (F) and non-finite (n) verbal forms in the LOB Corpus of English. A topological chart is produced as the synthetic image mirroring the locations of the relevant linguistic entities throughout the text. All the individual strings concatenating any number of F and n are classified in a table. Alternatively, individual full-text strings can be extracted. We then proceed to refine the notion of lexical distribution in "rafales" in a lemmatized corpus of Latin texts, the purpose being to test the stability of the distributions in individual texts of selected verbs and assess whether a verb's behaviour is related to its semantic status. The final section is devoted to other Latin texts. The use of segments of equal length makes it possible to draw up the narrative profile of each author as revealed by his handling of tenses in main clauses
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