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Matrix-valued Monge-Kantorovich Optimal Mass Transport
We formulate an optimal transport problem for matrix-valued density
functions. This is pertinent in the spectral analysis of multivariable
time-series. The "mass" represents energy at various frequencies whereas, in
addition to a usual transportation cost across frequencies, a cost of rotation
is also taken into account. We show that it is natural to seek the
transportation plan in the tensor product of the spaces for the two
matrix-valued marginals. In contrast to the classical Monge-Kantorovich
setting, the transportation plan is no longer supported on a thin zero-measure
set.Comment: 11 page
Heavy-ion physics: freedom to do hot, dense, exciting QCD
In these two lectures I review the basics of heavy-ion collisions at
relativistic energies and the physics we can do with them. I aim to cover the
basics on the kinematics and observables in heavy-ion collider experiments, the
basics on the phenomenology of the nuclear matter phase diagram, some of the
model building and simulations currently used in the heavy-ion physics
community and a selected list of amazing phenomenological discoveries and
predictions.Comment: These lectures were given at the 2019 CERN Latin-American School of
High-Energy Physics in Cordoba, Argentina, 13 - 26 March 2019 and the notes
have been submitted to proceedings of CLASHEP 2019. These lecture notes are
based on previous Heavy-Ion and extreme QCD lectures given at CLASHEP by A.
Ayala (2017), E. Fraga (2015) and J. Takahashi (2013
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