115 research outputs found
Radical pro drop and the morphology of pronouns
We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number, or some other nominal feature. Other types of languages cannot omit pronouns freely, although they may have agreement-based pro drop. This generalization can for the most part be derived from three assumptions. (a) Spell-out rules for pronouns may target nonterminal categories. (b) Pro drop is zero spell-out (i.e., deletion) of regular pronouns. (c) Competition between spell-out rules is governed by the Elsewhere Principle. A full derivation relies on an acquisitional strategy motivated by the absence of negative evidence. We test our proposal using data from a sample of twenty languages and The World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. 2005)
Wall-crossing, free fermions and crystal melting
We describe wall-crossing for local, toric Calabi-Yau manifolds without
compact four-cycles, in terms of free fermions, vertex operators, and crystal
melting. Firstly, to each such manifold we associate two states in the free
fermion Hilbert space. The overlap of these states reproduces the BPS partition
function corresponding to the non-commutative Donaldson-Thomas invariants,
given by the modulus square of the topological string partition function.
Secondly, we introduce the wall-crossing operators which represent crossing the
walls of marginal stability associated to changes of the B-field through each
two-cycle in the manifold. BPS partition functions in non-trivial chambers are
given by the expectation values of these operators. Thirdly, we discuss crystal
interpretation of such correlators for this whole class of manifolds. We
describe evolution of these crystals upon a change of the moduli, and find
crystal interpretation of the flop transition and the DT/PT transition. The
crystals which we find generalize and unify various other Calabi-Yau crystal
models which appeared in literature in recent years.Comment: 61 pages, 14 figures, published versio
Wall-crossing of D4-D2-D0 and flop of the conifold
We discuss the wall-crossing of the BPS bound states of a non-compact
holomorphic D4-brane with D2 and D0-branes on the conifold. We use the
Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula and analyze the BPS degeneracy in
various chambers. In particular we obtain a relation between BPS degeneracies
in two limiting attractor chambers related by a flop transition. Our result is
consistent with known results and predicts BPS degeneracies in all chambers.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures; v2: typos corrected; v3: minor changes, a
reference added, version to be published in JHE
Multiple D4-D2-D0 on the Conifold and Wall-crossing with the Flop
We study the wall-crossing phenomena of D4-D2-D0 bound states with two units
of D4-brane charge on the resolved conifold. We identify the walls of marginal
stability and evaluate the discrete changes of the BPS indices by using the
Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula. In particular, we find that the
field theories on D4-branes in two large radius limits are properly connected
by the wall-crossings involving the flop transition of the conifold. We also
find that in one of the large radius limits there are stable bound states of
two D4-D2-D0 fragments.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figures; v2: typos corrected, minor changes, a reference
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Wall Crossing, Quivers and Crystals
We study the spectrum of BPS D-branes on a Calabi-Yau manifold using the 0+1
dimensional quiver gauge theory that describes the dynamics of the branes at
low energies. The results of Kontsevich and Soibelman predict how the
degeneracies change. We argue that Seiberg dualities of the quiver gauge
theories, which change the basis of BPS states, correspond to crossing the
"walls of the second kind." There is a large class of examples, including local
del Pezzo surfaces, where the BPS degeneracies of quivers corresponding to one
D6 brane bound to arbitrary numbers of D4, D2 and D0 branes are counted by
melting crystal configurations. We show that the melting crystals that arise
are a discretization of the Calabi-Yau geometry. The shape of the crystal is
determined by the Calabi-Yau geometry and the background B-field, and its
microscopic structure by the quiver Q. We prove that the BPS degeneracies
computed from Q and Q' are related by the Kontsevich Soibelman formula, using a
geometric realization of the Seiberg duality in the crystal. We also show that,
in the limit of infinite B-field, the combinatorics of crystals arising from
the quivers becomes that of the topological vertex. We thus re-derive the
Gromov-Witten/Donaldson-Thomas correspondence
Statistical model and BPS D4-D2-D0 counting
We construct a statistical model that correctly reproduces the BPS partition
function of D4-D2-D0 bound states on the resolved conifold. We prove that the
known partition function of the BPS indices is reproduced by the counting
"triangular partitions" problem. The wall-crossing phenomena in our model are
also studied.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures; v2: typos corrected, minor change
Evidence for Duality of Conifold from Fundamental String
We study the spectrum of BPS D5-D3-F1 states in type IIB theory, which are
proposed to be dual to D4-D2-D0 states on the resolved conifold in type IIA
theory. We evaluate the BPS partition functions for all values of the moduli
parameter in the type IIB side, and find them completely agree with the results
in the type IIA side which was obtained by using Kontsevich-Soibelman's
wall-crossing formula. Our result is a quite strong evidence for string
dualities on the conifold.Comment: 24 pages, 13 figures, v2: typos corrected, v3: explanations about
wall-crossing improved and figures adde
Quivers, YBE and 3-manifolds
We study 4d superconformal indices for a large class of N=1 superconformal
quiver gauge theories realized combinatorially as a bipartite graph or a set of
"zig-zag paths" on a two-dimensional torus T^2. An exchange of loops, which we
call a "double Yang-Baxter move", gives the Seiberg duality of the gauge
theory, and the invariance of the index under the duality is translated into
the Yang-Baxter-type equation of a spin system defined on a "Z-invariant"
lattice on T^2. When we compactify the gauge theory to 3d, Higgs the theory and
then compactify further to 2d, the superconformal index reduces to an integral
of quantum/classical dilogarithm functions. The saddle point of this integral
unexpectedly reproduces the hyperbolic volume of a hyperbolic 3-manifold. The
3-manifold is obtained by gluing hyperbolic ideal polyhedra in H^3, each of
which could be thought of as a 3d lift of the faces of the 2d bipartite
graph.The same quantity is also related with the thermodynamic limit of the BPS
partition function, or equivalently the genus 0 topological string partition
function, on a toric Calabi-Yau manifold dual to quiver gauge theories. We also
comment on brane realization of our theories. This paper is a companion to
another paper summarizing the results.Comment: 61 pages, 16 figures; v2: typos correcte
Simulation of an SEIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees
The spread of infectious diseases crucially depends on the pattern of
contacts among individuals. Knowledge of these patterns is thus essential to
inform models and computational efforts. Few empirical studies are however
available that provide estimates of the number and duration of contacts among
social groups. Moreover, their space and time resolution are limited, so that
data is not explicit at the person-to-person level, and the dynamical aspect of
the contacts is disregarded. Here, we want to assess the role of data-driven
dynamic contact patterns among individuals, and in particular of their temporal
aspects, in shaping the spread of a simulated epidemic in the population.
We consider high resolution data of face-to-face interactions between the
attendees of a conference, obtained from the deployment of an infrastructure
based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices that assess mutual
face-to-face proximity. The spread of epidemics along these interactions is
simulated through an SEIR model, using both the dynamical network of contacts
defined by the collected data, and two aggregated versions of such network, in
order to assess the role of the data temporal aspects.
We show that, on the timescales considered, an aggregated network taking into
account the daily duration of contacts is a good approximation to the full
resolution network, whereas a homogeneous representation which retains only the
topology of the contact network fails in reproducing the size of the epidemic.
These results have important implications in understanding the level of
detail needed to correctly inform computational models for the study and
management of real epidemics
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