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Level 2.5 large deviations for continuous time Markov chains with time periodic rates
We consider an irreducible continuous time Markov chain on a finite state
space and with time periodic jump rates and prove the joint large deviation
principle for the empirical measure and flow and the joint large deviation
principle for the empirical measure and current. By contraction we get the
large deviation principle of three types of entropy production flow. We derive
some Gallavotti-Cohen duality relations and discuss some applications.Comment: 37 pages. corrected versio
Perturbative analysis of disordered Ising models close to criticality
We consider a two-dimensional Ising model with random i.i.d. nearest-neighbor
ferromagnetic couplings and no external magnetic field. We show that, if the
probability of supercritical couplings is small enough, the system admits a
convergent cluster expansion with probability one. The associated polymers are
defined on a sequence of increasing scales; in particular the convergence of
the above expansion implies the infinite differentiability of the free energy
but not its analyticity. The basic tools in the proof are a general theory of
graded cluster expansions and a stochastic domination of the disorder
A nonequilibrium extension of the Clausius heat theorem
We generalize the Clausius (in)equality to overdamped mesoscopic and
macroscopic diffusions in the presence of nonconservative forces. In contrast
to previous frameworks, we use a decomposition scheme for heat which is based
on an exact variant of the Minimum Entropy Production Principle as obtained
from dynamical fluctuation theory. This new extended heat theorem holds true
for arbitrary driving and does not require assumptions of local or close to
equilibrium. The argument remains exactly intact for diffusing fields where the
fields correspond to macroscopic profiles of interacting particles under
hydrodynamic fluctuations. We also show that the change of Shannon entropy is
related to the antisymmetric part under a modified time-reversal of the
time-integrated entropy flux.Comment: 23 pages; v2: manuscript significantly extende
Long range correlations and phase transition in non-equilibrium diffusive systems
We obtain explicit expressions for the long range correlations in the ABC
model and in diffusive models conditioned to produce an atypical current of
particles.In both cases, the two-point correlation functions allow to detect
the occurrence of a phase transition as they become singular when the system
approaches the transition
Expedição caminhos da terra: levantamento final das construções em adobe na região norte e nordeste do estado do Ceará
A região norte e nordeste do Estado do Ceará foi tema, ao longo do ano de 2009 e parte de 2010, da elaboração de um levantamento detalhado sobre suas construções em terra crua, especialmente em adobe. Neste período, oito expedições rodoviárias foram realizadas, sendo três delas com estudantes de graduação do curso de engenharia civil da UFC - Universidade Federal do Ceará. Foram coletadas amostras de terra para ensaios nos laboratórios da UFC, feita a documentação fotográfica e aplicados questionários em 32 localidades, totalizando cerca de 7.000 km de expedição rodoviária. Foram levantados dados de vários aspectos relevantes para a pesquisa, quais sejam: composição da terra, granulometria, plasticidade, processos de secagem do adobe, resistência mecânica à compressão, além de aspectos ligados ao detalhamento do revestimento, traço de rebocos e detalhes de fundação. A análise dos dados coletados permite compreender a construção em adobe na região. Esta pesquisa pode ajudar na manutenção do sistema construtivo tradicional, bem como na busca de um caminho de reavaliação das possibilidades de adaptações técnicas à casa típica do semi-árido cearense
Mapeamento das construções existentes em adobe no Estado do Ceará, Brasil: Expedição Caminhos da Terra
Uma investigação sobre o processo construtivo em terra, no nordeste do Brasil especialmente no
estado do Ceará, é o tema desse trabalho, levando a definição de um estudo, que trouxesse
instrumentos, para caracterizar as técnicas utilizadas, a classificação do tipo de solo e os elementos
construtivos utilizados nessa região. Definiu-se então uma expedição rodoviária denominada
CAMINHOS DA TERRA, expedição que se propõe a mapear em torno de 7000 km, e
aproximadamente 40 municípios e distritos no estado, documentando a cultura das construções em
adobe, suas peculiaridades de região pra região, as construções mais representativas, sejam elas de
caráter histórico, ou construções atuais, através de seus construtores populares, tentando assim, um
caráter documental, sobre o volume real de construções em adobe no estado, bem como o estudo da
sua técnica construtiva, e possibilidade de manutenção, como alternativa construtiva de baixo custo
A diffusive system driven by a battery or by a smoothly varying field
We consider the steady state of a one dimensional diffusive system, such as
the symmetric simple exclusion process (SSEP) on a ring, driven by a battery at
the origin or by a smoothly varying field along the ring. The battery appears
as the limiting case of a smoothly varying field, when the field becomes a
delta function at the origin. We find that in the scaling limit, the long range
pair correlation functions of the system driven by a battery turn out to be
very different from the ones known in the steady state of the SSEP maintained
out of equilibrium by contact with two reservoirs, even when the steady state
density profiles are identical in both models
Pattern densities in fluid dimer models
In this paper, we introduce a family of observables for the dimer model on a
bi-periodic bipartite planar graph, called pattern density fields. We study the
scaling limit of these objects for liquid and gaseous Gibbs measures of the
dimer model, and prove that they converge to a linear combination of a
derivative of the Gaussian massless free field and an independent white noise.Comment: 38 pages, 3 figure
Primordial perturbations and inflation in holographic cosmology
We consider an inflationary scenario in the holographic braneworld with a
cosmological fluid occupying the 3+1 dimensional brane located at the
holographic boundary of an asymptotic ADS bulk. The contribution of the
boundary conformal field can be represented as a modification of Einstein's
equations on the boundary. Using these effective Einstein equations we
calculate the cosmological perturbations and derive the corresponding power
spectra assuming a general -essence type of inflaton. We find that the
braneworld scenario affects the scalar power spectrum only in the speed of
sound dependence on the slow-roll parameters whereas there is no change in the
tensor power spectrum. This implies that the changes in the spectral indices
appear at the second order in the slow-roll parameter expansion.Comment: v2: 19 pages, 1 figure. Appendices and references added. Accepted in
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