272 research outputs found
Magic Supergravities, N= 8 and Black Hole Composites
We present explicit U-duality invariants for the R, C, Q, O$ (real, complex,
quaternionic and octonionic) magic supergravities in four and five dimensions
using complex forms with a reality condition. From these invariants we derive
an explicit entropy function and corresponding stabilization equations which we
use to exhibit stationary multi-center 1/2 BPS solutions of these N=2 d=4
theories, starting with the octonionic one with E_{7(-25)} duality symmetry. We
generalize to stationary 1/8 BPS multicenter solutions of N=8, d=4
supergravity, using the consistent truncation to the quaternionic magic N=2
supergravity. We present a general solution of non-BPS attractor equations of
the STU truncation of magic models. We finish with a discussion of the
BPS-non-BPS relations and attractors in N=2 versus N= 5, 6, 8.Comment: 33 pages, references added plus brief outline at end of introductio
Stochastic resonance and noise delayed extinction in a model of two competing species
We study the role of the noise in the dynamics of two competing species. We
consider generalized Lotka-Volterra equations in the presence of a
multiplicative noise, which models the interaction between the species and the
environment. The interaction parameter between the species is a random process
which obeys a stochastic differential equation with a generalized bistable
potential in the presence of a periodic driving term, which accounts for the
environment temperature variation. We find noise-induced periodic oscillations
of the species concentrations and stochastic resonance phenomenon. We find also
a nonmonotonic behavior of the mean extinction time of one of the two competing
species as a function of the additive noise intensity.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 17 panels. To appear in Physica
Stochastic synchronization in globally coupled phase oscillators
Cooperative effects of periodic force and noise in globally Cooperative
effects of periodic force and noise in globally coupled systems are studied
using a nonlinear diffusion equation for the number density. The amplitude of
the order parameter oscillation is enhanced in an intermediate range of noise
strength for a globally coupled bistable system, and the order parameter
oscillation is entrained to the external periodic force in an intermediate
range of noise strength. These enhancement phenomena of the response of the
order parameter in the deterministic equations are interpreted as stochastic
resonance and stochastic synchronization in globally coupled systems.Comment: 5 figure
Portraits of Complex Networks
We propose a method for characterizing large complex networks by introducing
a new matrix structure, unique for a given network, which encodes structural
information; provides useful visualization, even for very large networks; and
allows for rigorous statistical comparison between networks. Dynamic processes
such as percolation can be visualized using animations. Applications to graph
theory are discussed, as are generalizations to weighted networks, real-world
network similarity testing, and applicability to the graph isomorphism problem.Comment: 6 pages, 9 figure
Statistics of Cycles: How Loopy is your Network?
We study the distribution of cycles of length h in large networks (of size
N>>1) and find it to be an excellent ergodic estimator, even in the extreme
inhomogeneous case of scale-free networks. The distribution is sharply peaked
around a characteristic cycle length, h* ~ N^a. Our results suggest that h* and
the exponent a might usefully characterize broad families of networks. In
addition to an exact counting of cycles in hierarchical nets, we present a
Monte-Carlo sampling algorithm for approximately locating h* and reliably
determining a. Our empirical results indicate that for small random scale-free
nets of degree exponent g, a=1/(g-1), and a grows as the nets become larger.Comment: Further work presented and conclusions revised, following referee
report
Phase Transitions and Oscillations in a Lattice Prey-Predator Model
A coarse grained description of a two-dimensional prey-predator system is
given in terms of a 3-state lattice model containing two control parameters:
the spreading rates of preys and predators. The properties of the model are
investigated by dynamical mean-field approximations and extensive numerical
simulations. It is shown that the stationary state phase diagram is divided
into two phases: a pure prey phase and a coexistence phase of preys and
predators in which temporal and spatial oscillations can be present. The
different type of phase transitions occuring at the boundary of the prey
absorbing phase, as well as the crossover phenomena occuring between the
oscillatory and non-oscillatory domains of the coexistence phase are studied.
The importance of finite size effects are discussed and scaling relations
between different quantities are established. Finally, physical arguments,
based on the spatial structure of the model, are given to explain the
underlying mechanism leading to oscillations.Comment: 11 pages, 13 figure
Segregation in the annihilation of two-species reaction-diffusion processes on fractal scale-free networks
In the reaction-diffusion process on random scale-free
(SF) networks with the degree exponent , the particle density decays
with time in a power law with an exponent when initial densities of
each species are the same. The exponent is for and for . Here, we examine the reaction
process on fractal SF networks, finding that even for . This slowly decaying behavior originates from the segregation effect:
Fractal SF networks contain local hubs, which are repulsive to each other.
Those hubs attract particles and accelerate the reaction, and then create
domains containing the same species of particles. It follows that the reaction
takes place at the non-hub boundaries between those domains and thus the
particle density decays slowly. Since many real SF networks are fractal, the
segregation effect has to be taken into account in the reaction kinetics among
heterogeneous particles.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words
We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages and chronological subsets of the data we confirm that two scaling regimes characterize the word frequency distributions, with only the more common words obeying the classic Zipf law. Using corpora of unprecedented size, we test the allometric scaling relation between the corpus size and the vocabulary size of growing languages to demonstrate a decreasing marginal need for new words, a feature that is likely related to the underlying correlations between words. We calculate the annual growth fluctuations of word use which has a decreasing trend as the corpus size increases, indicating a slowdown in linguistic evolution following language expansion. This ââcooling patternââ forms the basis of a third statistical regularity, which unlike the Zipf and the Heaps law, is dynamical in nature
Invariants of Lie algebras extended over commutative algebras without unit
We establish results about the second cohomology with coefficients in the
trivial module, symmetric invariant bilinear forms and derivations of a Lie
algebra extended over a commutative associative algebra without unit. These
results provide a simple unified approach to a number of questions treated
earlier in completely separated ways: periodization of semisimple Lie algebras
(Anna Larsson), derivation algebras, with prescribed semisimple part, of
nilpotent Lie algebras (Benoist), and presentations of affine Kac-Moody
algebras.Comment: v3: added a footnote on p.10 about a wrong derivation of the correct
statemen
An algorithm for counting circuits: application to real-world and random graphs
We introduce an algorithm which estimates the number of circuits in a graph
as a function of their length. This approach provides analytical results for
the typical entropy of circuits in sparse random graphs. When applied to
real-world networks, it allows to estimate exponentially large numbers of
circuits in polynomial time. We illustrate the method by studying a graph of
the Internet structure.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, minor corrections, accepted versio
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