67 research outputs found
Studying the influence of supply pulse duration on the phase composition of iron oxides obtained by the plasma-dynamic method
Magnetic materials and in particular iron oxides are of a great practical interest. The magnetite phase and the unique epsilon phase of iron oxide can be especially pointed out. The main difficulty in the synthesis of the epsilon phase is connected with the fact that it can exist only in a nanoscale state and is extremely difficult to obtain. We used the method of direct plasma dynamic synthesis, which allows to obtain multiphase powders of iron oxides containing both the epsilon phase and magnetite. It was found that by varying the initial parameters of the power system, namely the pulse duration by increasing the capacitance of the capacitive energy storage, it is possible to influence the phase composition of the obtained products and to achieve the preferential output of the epsilon phase. In addition, in the mode with the maximum pulse duration, when the best product is obtained from the point of the epsilon phase output, the system efficiency of converting the stored energy into released energy significantly increases. In general, it has been established that such a regime is most favorable for the system operation for the purpose of the iron oxides synthesis
Super-A-polynomials for Twist Knots
We conjecture formulae of the colored superpolynomials for a class of twist
knots where p denotes the number of full twists. The validity of the
formulae is checked by applying differentials and taking special limits. Using
the formulae, we compute both the classical and quantum super-A-polynomial for
the twist knots with small values of p. The results support the categorified
versions of the generalized volume conjecture and the quantum volume
conjecture. Furthermore, we obtain the evidence that the Q-deformed
A-polynomials can be identified with the augmentation polynomials of knot
contact homology in the case of the twist knots.Comment: 22+16 pages, 16 tables and 5 figures; with a Maple program by Xinyu
Sun and a Mathematica notebook in the ancillary files linked on the right; v2
change in appendix B, typos corrected and references added; v3 change in
section 3.3; v4 corrections in Ooguri-Vafa polynomials and quantum
super-A-polynomials for 7_2 and 8_1 are adde
HOMFLY and superpolynomials for figure eight knot in all symmetric and antisymmetric representations
Explicit answer is given for the HOMFLY polynomial of the figure eight knot
in arbitrary symmetric representation R=[p]. It generalizes the old
answers for p=1 and 2 and the recently derived results for p=3,4, which are
fully consistent with the Ooguri-Vafa conjecture. The answer can be considered
as a quantization of the \sigma_R = \sigma_{[1]}^{|R|} identity for the
"special" polynomials (they define the leading asymptotics of HOMFLY at q=1),
and arises in a form, convenient for comparison with the representation of the
Jones polynomials as sums of dilogarithm ratios. In particular, we construct a
difference equation ("non-commutative A-polynomial") in the representation
variable p. Simple symmetry transformation provides also a formula for
arbitrary antisymmetric (fundamental) representation R=[1^p], which also passes
some obvious checks. Also straightforward is a deformation from HOMFLY to
superpolynomials. Further generalizations seem possible to arbitrary Young
diagrams R, but these expressions are harder to test because of the lack of
alternative results, even partial.Comment: 14 page
In the Realm of the Geometric Transitions
We complete the duality cycle by constructing the geometric transition duals
in the type IIB, type I and heterotic theories. We show that in the type IIB
theory the background on the closed string side is a Kahler deformed conifold,
as expected, even though the mirror type IIA backgrounds are non-Kahler (both
before and after the transition). On the other hand, the Type I and heterotic
backgrounds are non-Kahler. Therefore, on the heterotic side these backgrounds
give rise to new torsional manifolds that have not been studied before. We show
the consistency of these backgrounds by verifying the torsional equation.Comment: 60 pages, 2 .eps figures, Harvmac; v2: Minor typos corrected and
references added; v3: Some more typos corrected. Final version to appear in
Nucl. Phys.
Dipole-Deformed Bound States and Heterotic Kodaira Surfaces
We study a particular N = 1 confining gauge theory with fundamental flavors
realised as seven branes in the background of wrapped five branes on a rigid
two-cycle of a non-trivial global geometry. In parts of the moduli space, the
five branes form bound states with the seven branes. We show that in this
regime the local supergravity solution is surprisingly tractable, even though
the background topology is non-trivial. New effects such as dipole deformations
may be studied in detail, including the full backreactions. Performing the
dipole deformations in other ways leads to different warped local geometries.
In the dual heterotic picture, which is locally given by a C* fibration over a
Kodaira surface, we study details of the geometry and the construction of
bundles. We also point out the existence of certain exotic bundles in our
framework.Comment: 40 pages, 3 .eps figures, Harvma
Optimizing the process of plasma dynamic synthesis for increasing the yield and purity of e-Fe2O3 phase
Various crystalline modifications of iron oxide are widely used in different fields of science and technology, however, a special attention has recently been paid to the synthesis of the epsilon phase e-Fe2O3. The existing problems connected with the synthesis and production of this phase in the form of a dispersed powdered product significantly limit the possibilities of its application and studying the properties. In this regard, the search and development of high-performance method for the synthesis of the e-Fe2O3 phase is an urgent task. In this paper, the possibility of optimizing the well-known method of plasma dynamic synthesis for obtaining products with a high content of the e-Fe2O3 phase was studied. The influence of the power supply pulse duration on the energy parameters of the synthesis process and the characteristics of the powdered products were studied in detail. It was established that an increase in the pulse duration due to the introduction of an additional inductance into the discharge circuit while simultaneously maintaining the magnitude of the arc discharge current at a level of 120 kA allows obtaining a product with the epsilon phase content of ~ 65 wt.%
Superpolynomials for toric knots from evolution induced by cut-and-join operators
The colored HOMFLY polynomials, which describe Wilson loop averages in
Chern-Simons theory, possess an especially simple representation for torus
knots, which begins from quantum R-matrix and ends up with a trivially-looking
split W representation familiar from character calculus applications to matrix
models and Hurwitz theory. Substitution of MacDonald polynomials for characters
in these formulas provides a very simple description of "superpolynomials",
much simpler than the recently studied alternative which deforms relation to
the WZNW theory and explicitly involves the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients.
A lot of explicit expressions are presented for different representations
(Young diagrams), many of them new. In particular, we provide the
superpolynomial P_[1]^[m,km\pm 1] for arbitrary m and k. The procedure is not
restricted to the fundamental (all antisymmetric) representations and the torus
knots, still in these cases some subtleties persist.Comment: 23 pages + Tables (51 pages
Studying the influence of supply pulse duration on the phase composition of iron oxides obtained by the plasma-dynamic method
Magnetic materials and in particular iron oxides are of a great practical interest. The magnetite phase and the unique epsilon phase of iron oxide can be especially pointed out. The main difficulty in the synthesis of the epsilon phase is connected with the fact that it can exist only in a nanoscale state and is extremely difficult to obtain. We used the method of direct plasma dynamic synthesis, which allows obtaining multiphase powders of iron oxides containing both the epsilon phase and magnetite. It was found that by varying the initial parameters of the power system, namely the pulse duration by increasing the capacitance of the capacitive energy storage, it is possible to influence the phase composition of the obtained products and to achieve the preferential output of the epsilon phase. In addition, in the mode with the maximum pulse duration, when the best product is obtained from the point of the epsilon phase output, the system efficiency of converting the stored energy into released energy significantly increases. In general, it has been established that such a regime is most favorable for the system operation for the purpose of the iron oxides synthesis
Faces of matrix models
Partition functions of eigenvalue matrix models possess a number of very
different descriptions: as matrix integrals, as solutions to linear and
non-linear equations, as tau-functions of integrable hierarchies and as
special-geometry prepotentials, as result of the action of W-operators and of
various recursions on elementary input data, as gluing of certain elementary
building blocks. All this explains the central role of such matrix models in
modern mathematical physics: they provide the basic "special functions" to
express the answers and relations between them, and they serve as a dream model
of what one should try to achieve in any other field.Comment: 10 page
Chern-Simons Modified General Relativity
Chern-Simons modified gravity is an effective extension of general relativity
that captures leading-order, gravitational parity violation. Such an effective
theory is motivated by anomaly cancelation in particle physics and string
theory. In this review, we begin by providing a pedagogical derivation of the
three distinct ways such an extension arises: (1) in particle physics, (2) from
string theory and (3) geometrically. We then review many exact and approximate,
vacuum solutions of the modified theory, and discuss possible matter couplings.
Following this, we review the myriad astrophysical, solar system, gravitational
wave and cosmological probes that bound Chern-Simons modified gravity,
including discussions of cosmic baryon asymmetry and inflation. The review
closes with a discussion of possible future directions in which to test and
study gravitational parity violation.Comment: 104 pages, 2 figures, 186 references, Invited Review accepted for
publication in Phys. Repts. This version corrects a minor typo in Eq. (174)
of the published versio
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