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    Thermodynamics of Quasi Conformal Theories From Gauge/Gravity Duality

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    We use gauge/gravity duality to study the thermodynamics of a generic almost conformal theory, specified by its beta function. Three different phases are identified, a high temperature phase of massless partons, an intermediate quasi-conformal phase and a low temperature confining phase. The limit of a theory with infrared fixed point, in which the coupling does not run to infinity, is also studied. The transitions between the phases are of first order or continuous, depending on the parameters of the beta function. The results presented follow from gauge/gravity duality; no specific boundary theory is assumed, only its beta function.Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures

    Beings in their own right? Exploring Children and young people's sibling and twin relationships in the Minority World

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    This paper examines the contributions that the sociological study of sibship and twinship in the Minority World can make to childhood studies. It argues that, in providing one forum within which to explore children and young people's social relationships, we can add to our understanding of children and young people's interdependence and develop a more nuanced understanding of agency. As emergent subjects, children, young people and adults are in a process of ‘becoming’. However, this does not mean that they can ‘become’ anything they choose to. The notion of negotiated interdependence (Punch 2002) is useful in helping us to grasp the contingent nature of children and young people's agency

    Composing JSON-based Web APIs

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    International audienceThe development of Web APIs has become a discipline that companies have to master to succeed in the Web. The so-called API economy is pushing companies to provide access to their data by means of Web APIs, thus requiring web developers to study and integrate such APIs into their applications. The exchange of data with these APIs is usually performed by using JSON, a schemaless data format easy for computers to parse and use. While JSON data is easy to read, its structure is implicit, thus entailing serious problems when integrating APIs coming from di erent vendors. Web developers have therefore to understand the domain behind each API and study how they can be composed. We tackle this issue by presenting an approach able to both discover the domain of JSON-based Web APIs, and identify composition links among them. Our approach allows developers to easily visualize what is behind APIs and how they can be composed to be used in their applications

    Spatial correlators in strongly coupled plasmas

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    We numerically calculate the spatial correlators of the scalar and pseudoscalar operators F2F^2 and FF~F\tilde F, in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory at zero and finite-temperature on the lattice. We compare the results over the distances 12T<r<32T\frac{1}{2T}<r<\frac{3}{2T} to the free-field prediction, to the operator-product expansion as well as to the strongly coupled large-NcN_c \sN=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, where results are obtained by AdS/CFT methods. For Tc<T<1.15TcT_c<T<1.15T_c, both channels exhibit stronger spatial correlations than in the vacuum, and we give an explanation for this, using sum-rules and the operator-product expansion. The AdS/CFT calculation provides a semi-quantitatively successful description of the vacuum-subtracted F2F^2 correlator, renormalized in the 3-loop MS‟\overline{\rm MS} scheme, in the interval of temperatures 1.2<T/Tc<1.91.2<T/T_c<1.9, while the free-field prediction has the wrong sign. The FF~F\tilde F and F2F^2 correlators are predicted to have the same functional form both at weak coupling and in the strongly coupled SYM theory. The Yang-Mills plasma does not meet that expectation below 2Tc2T_c. Instead we find that strong fluctuations of FF~F\tilde F are present at least up to that temperature. We discuss the impact of our results on our understanding of the quark-gluon plasma.Comment: 32 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables; added some references, more detailed captions, conclusions unchange

    Experimental behaviour of stainless steel cellular beam in fire

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    This paper appeared in a special Issue: Proceedings of Nordic Steel 201

    Striped instability of a holographic Fermi-like liquid

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    We consider a holographic description of a system of strongly-coupled fermions in 2+1 dimensions based on a D7-brane probe in the background of D3-branes. The black hole embedding represents a Fermi-like liquid. We study the excitations of the Fermi liquid system. Above a critical density which depends on the temperature, the system becomes unstable towards an inhomogeneous modulated phase which is similar to a charge density and spin wave state. The essence of this instability can be effectively described by a Maxwell-axion theory with a background electric field. We also consider the fate of zero sound at non-zero temperature.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures; v2: added discussion and one figure. Typos correcte

    Holographic Conformal Window - A Bottom Up Approach

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    We propose a five-dimensional framework for modeling the background geometry associated to ordinary Yang-Mills (YM) as well as to nonsupersymmetric gauge theories possessing an infrared fixed point with fermions in various representations of the underlying gauge group. The model is based on the improved holographic approach, on the string theory side, and on the conjectured all-orders beta function for the gauge theory one. We first analyze the YM gauge theory. We then investigate the effects of adding flavors and show that, in the holographic description of the conformal window, the geometry becomes AdS when approaching the ultraviolet and the infrared regimes. As the number of flavors increases within the conformal window we observe that the geometry becomes more and more of AdS type over the entire energy range.Comment: 20 Pages, 3 Figures. v2: references adde
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