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'The' Market for Higher Education: Does It Really Exist?
Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular inquiry. Market definition is an essential preliminary step before any academic or policy investigation can properly be made into the forces that determine the behavior of the buyers and sellers of higher education, those who provide inputs into the education process, or those who fund or otherwise subsidize it. The authors spell out the key economic dimensions of a market, and illustrate their relevance for research that seeks to analyze the players and policies in the many distinct domestic and international markets that exist for the inputs and outputs of the higher education sector.competition, efficiencies, market boundaries, markets, higher education, public policy
A Note on Flux Induced Superpotentials in String Theory
Non-vanishing fluxes in M-theory and string theory compactifications induce a
superpotential in the lower dimensional theory. Gukov has conjectured the
explicit form of this superpotential. We check this conjecture for the
heterotic string compactified on a Calabi-Yau three-fold as well as for warped
M-theory compactifications on Spin(7) holonomy manifolds, by performing a
Kaluza-Klein reduction.Comment: 19 pages, no figure
Analytical ground state for the three-band Hubbard model
For the calculation of charge excitations as those observed in, e.g.,
photo-emission spectroscopy or in electron-energy loss spectroscopy, a correct
description of ground-state charge properties is essential. In strongly
correlated systems like the undoped cuprates this is a highly non-trivial
problem. In this paper we derive a non-perturbative analytical approximation
for the ground state of the three-band Hubbard model on an infinite, half
filled CuO_2 plane. By comparison with Projector Quantum Monte Carlo
calculations it is shown that the resulting expressions correctly describe the
charge properties of the ground state. Relations to other approaches are
discussed. The analytical ground state preserves size consistency and can be
generalized for other geometries, while still being both easy to interpret and
to evaluate.Comment: REVTeX, 8 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Linear Sigma Models with Torsion
Gauged linear sigma models with (0,2) supersymmetry allow a larger choice of
couplings than models with (2,2) supersymmetry. We use this freedom to find a
fully linear construction of torsional heterotic compactifications, including
models with branes. As a non-compact example, we describe a family of metrics
which correspond to deformations of the heterotic conifold by turning on
H-flux. We then describe compact models which are gauge-invariant only at the
quantum level. Our construction gives a generalization of symplectic reduction.
The resulting spaces are non-Kahler analogues of familiar toric spaces like
complex projective space. Perturbatively conformal models can be constructed by
considering intersections.Comment: 40 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure; references added; a new section on
supersymmetry added; quantization condition revisite
String vacua with flux from freely-acting obifolds
A precise correspondence between freely-acting orbifolds (Scherk-Schwarz
compactifications) and string vacua with NSNS flux turned on is established
using T-duality.
We focus our attention to a certain non-compact Z_2 heterotic freely-acting
orbifold with N=2 supersymmetry (SUSY). The geometric properties of the T-dual
background are studied. As expected, the space is non-Kahler with the most
generic torsion compatible with SUSY. All equations of motion are satisfied,
except the Bianchi identity for the NSNS field, that is satisfied only at
leading order in derivatives, i.e. without the curvature term. We point out
that this is due to unknown corrections to the standard heterotic T-duality
rules.Comment: 13 pages, no figures; v2: references added and rearranged, version to
appear in JHE
-Particle Spectrum in the Reaction p+B
Using a simple phenomenological parametrization of the reaction amplitude we
calculated -particle spectrum in the reaction p+B at the resonance proton energy 675 KeV. The parametrization
includes Breit-Wigner factor with an energy dependent width for intermediate
state and the Coulomb and the centrifugal factors in -particle
emission vertexes. The shape of the spectrum consists of a well defined peak
corresponding to emission of the primary and a flat shoulder going
down to very low energy. We found that below 1.5 MeV there are 17.5% of
's and below 1 MeV there are 11% of them.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Compactifications of Heterotic Theory on Non-Kahler Complex Manifolds: I
We study new compactifications of the SO(32) heterotic string theory on
compact complex non-Kahler manifolds. These manifolds have many interesting
features like fewer moduli, torsional constraints, vanishing Euler character
and vanishing first Chern class, which make the four-dimensional theory
phenomenologically attractive. We take a particular compact example studied
earlier and determine various geometrical properties of it. In particular we
calculate the warp factor and study the sigma model description of strings
propagating on these backgrounds. The anomaly cancellation condition and
enhanced gauge symmetry are shown to arise naturally in this framework, if one
considers the effect of singularities carefully.
We then give a detailed mathematical analysis of these manifolds and
construct a large class of them. The existence of a holomorphic (3,0) form is
important for the construction. We clarify some of the topological properties
of these manifolds and evaluate the Betti numbers. We also determine the
superpotential and argue that the radial modulus of these manifolds can
actually be stabilized.Comment: 75 pages, Harvmac, no figures; v2: Some new results added, typos
corrected and references updated. Final version to appear in JHE
Interference effects in above-threshold ionization from diatomic molecules: determining the internuclear separation
We calculate angle-resolved above-threshold ionization spectra for diatomic
molecules in linearly polarized laser fields, employing the strong-field
approximation. The interference structure resulting from the individual
contributions of the different scattering scenarios is discussed in detail,
with respect to the dependence on the internuclear distance and molecular
orientation. We show that, in general, the contributions from the processes in
which the electron is freed at one center and rescatters off the other obscure
the interference maxima and minima obtained from single-center processes.
However, around the boundary of the energy regions for which rescattering has a
classical counterpart, such processes play a negligible role and very clear
interference patterns are observed. In such energy regions, one is able to
infer the internuclear distance from the energy difference between adjacent
interference minima.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures; discussions slightly modified and an additional
figure inserted for clarit
MQCD, ('Barely') G_2 Manifolds and (Orientifold of) a Compact Calabi-Yau
We begin with a discussion on two apparently disconnected topics - one
related to nonperturbative superpotential generated from wrapping an M2-brane
around a supersymmetric three cycle embedded in a G_2-manifold evaluated by the
path-integral inside a path-integral approach of [1], and the other centered
around the compact Calabi-Yau CY_3(3,243) expressed as a blow-up of a degree-24
Fermat hypersurface in WCP^4[1,1,2,8,12]. For the former, we compare the
results with the ones of Witten on heterotic world-sheet instantons [2]. The
subtopics covered in the latter include an N=1 triality between Heterotic, M-
and F-theories, evaluation of RP^2-instanton superpotential, Picard-Fuchs
equation for the mirror Landau-Ginsburg model corresponding to CY_3(3,243),
D=11 supergravity corresponding to M-theory compactified on a `barely' G_2
manifold involving CY_3(3,243) and a conjecture related to the action of
antiholomorphic involution on period integrals. We then show an indirect
connection between the two topics by showing a connection between each one of
the two and Witten's MQCD [3]. As an aside, we show that in the limit of
vanishing "\zeta", a complex constant that appears in the Riemann surfaces
relevant to definining the boundary conditions for the domain wall in MQCD, the
infinite series of [4] used to represent a suitable embedding of a
supersymmetric 3-cycle in a G_2-mannifold, can be summed.Comment: 37 pages, LaTex; PARTLY based on talks given at ``Seventh Workshop on
QCD" [session on "Strings, Branes and (De-)Construction"], Jan 6-10, 2003, La
Cittadelle, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France; Fourth Workshop on ``Gauge Fields
and Strings", Feb 25-Mar 1, 2003, Jena, Germany; ``XII Oporto Meeting on
Geometry, Topology and Strings", July 17-20, 2003, Oporto, Portugal; "SQS03"
- International Workshop on "Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries', July
24-29, 2003, JINR, Dubna, Russia; poster presented at ``XIV International
Congress on Mathematical Physics", July 28-Aug 2, 2003, Lisbon, Portuga
N=1 Non-Abelian Tensor Multiplet in Four Dimensions
We carry out the N=1 supersymmetrization of a physical non-Abelian tensor
with non-trivial consistent couplings in four dimensions. Our system has three
multiplets: (i) The usual non-Abelian vector multiplet (VM) (A_\mu{}^I,
\lambda^I), (ii) A non-Abelian tensor multiplet (TM) (B_{\mu\nu}{}^I, \chi^I,
\varphi^I), and (iii) A compensator vector multiplet (CVM) (C_\mu{}^I, \rho^I).
All of these multiplets are in the adjoint representation of a non-Abelian
group G. Unlike topological theory, all of our fields are propagating with
kinetic terms. The C_\mu{}^I-field plays the role of a Stueckelberg compensator
absorbed into the longitudinal component of B_{\mu\nu}{}^I. We give not only
the component lagrangian, but also a corresponding superspace reformulation,
reconfirming the total consistency of the system. The adjoint representation of
the TM and CVM is further generalized to an arbitrary real representation of
general SO(N) gauge group. We also couple the globally N=1 supersymmetric
system to supergravity, as an additional non-trivial confirmation.Comment: 18 pages, no figur
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