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Wildcard dimensions, coding theory and fault-tolerant meshes and hypercubes
Hypercubes, meshes and tori are well known interconnection networks for parallel computers. The sets of edges in those graphs can be partitioned to dimensions. It is well known that the hypercube can be extended by adding a wildcard dimension resulting in a folded hypercube that has better fault-tolerant and communication capabilities. First we prove that the folded hypercube is optimal in the sense that only a single wildcard dimension can be added to the hypercube. We then investigate the idea of adding wildcard dimensions to d-dimensional meshes and tori. Using techniques from error correcting codes we construct d-dimensional meshes and tori with wildcard dimensions. Finally, we show how these constructions can be used to tolerate edge and node faults in mesh and torus networks
Tree expansion in time-dependent perturbation theory
The computational complexity of time-dependent perturbation theory is
well-known to be largely combinatorial whatever the chosen expansion method and
family of parameters (combinatorial sequences, Goldstone and other Feynman-type
diagrams...). We show that a very efficient perturbative expansion, both for
theoretical and numerical purposes, can be obtained through an original
parametrization by trees and generalized iterated integrals. We emphasize above
all the simplicity and naturality of the new approach that links perturbation
theory with classical and recent results in enumerative and algebraic
combinatorics. These tools are applied to the adiabatic approximation and the
effective Hamiltonian. We prove perturbatively and non-perturbatively the
convergence of Morita's generalization of the Gell-Mann and Low wavefunction.
We show that summing all the terms associated to the same tree leads to an
utter simplification where the sum is simpler than any of its terms. Finally,
we recover the time-independent equation for the wave operator and we give an
explicit non-recursive expression for the term corresponding to an arbitrary
tree.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figure
The spectra of Manhattan street networks
AbstractThe multidimensional Manhattan street networks constitute a family of digraphs with many interesting properties, such as vertex symmetry (in fact they are Cayley digraphs), easy routing, Hamiltonicity, and modular structure. From the known structural properties of these digraphs, we determine their spectra, which always contain the spectra of hypercubes. In particular, in the standard (two-dimensional) case it is shown that their line digraph structure imposes the presence of the zero eigenvalue with a large multiplicity
The spectra of Manhattan street networks
The multidimensional Manhattan street networks constitute a family of digraphs
with many interesting properties, such as vertex symmetry (in fact they are Cayley
digraphs), easy routing, Hamiltonicity, and modular structure. From the known
structural properties of these digraphs, we determine their spectra, which always
contain the spectra of hypercubes. In particular, in the standard (two-dimensional)
case it is shown that their line digraph structure imposes the presence of the zero
eigenvalue with a large multiplicity
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