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Integral Invariants of 3-Manifolds
This note describes an invariant of rational homology 3-spheres in terms of
configuration space integrals which in some sense lies between the invariants
of Axelrod and Singer and those of Kontsevich.Comment: 39 pages, AMS-LaTeX, to appear in J. Diff. Geo
The Thomson scattering cross section in a magnetized, high density plasma
We calculate the Thomson scattering cross section in a non-relativistic,
magnetized, high density plasma -- in a regime where collective excitations can
be described by magnetohydrodynamics. We show that, in addition to cyclotron
resonances and an elastic peak, the cross section exhibits two pairs of peaks
associated with slow and fast magnetosonic waves; by contrast, the cross
section arising in pure hydrodynamics possesses just a single pair of Brillouin
peaks. Both the position and the width of these magnetosonic-wave peaks depend
on the ambient magnetic field and temperature, as well as transport and
thermodynamic coefficients, and so can therefore serve as a diagnostic tool for
plasma properties that are otherwise challenging to measure.Comment: Main paper: pp 1-8. Appendix: pp 8-10. 2 figure
Wilson surfaces and higher dimensional knot invariants
An observable for nonabelian, higher-dimensional forms is introduced, its
properties are discussed and its expectation value in BF theory is described.
This is shown to produce potential and genuine invariants of higher-dimensional
knots.Comment: 31 pages, 9 figure
Civil Rights - Education: Do Violations of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) Create an Enforceable Right under the Meaning of 42 U.S.C. 1983
Evaluating detection limits of next-generation sequencing for the surveillance and monitoring of international marine pests
Most surveillance programmes for marine invasive species (MIS) require considerable taxonomic expertise, are laborious, and are unable to identify species at larval or juvenile stages. Therefore, marine pests may go undetected at the initial stages of incursions when population densities are low. In this study, we evaluated the ability of the benchtop GS Junior™ 454 pyrosequencing system to detect the presence of MIS in complex sample matrices. An initial in-silico evaluation of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and the nuclear small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU) genes, found that multiple primer sets (targeting a ca. 400 base pair region) would be required to obtain species level identification within the COI gene. In contrast a single universal primer set was designed to target the V1–V3 region of SSU, allowing simultaneous PCR amplification of a wide taxonomic range of MIS. To evaluate the limits of detection of this method, artificial contrived communities (10 species from 5 taxonomic groups) were created using varying concentrations of known DNA samples and PCR products. Environmental samples (water and sediment) spiked with one or five 160 hr old Asterias amurensis larvae were also examined. Pyrosequencing was able to recover DNA/PCR products of individual species present at greater than 0.64% abundance from all tested contrived communities. Additionally, single A. amurensis larvae were detected from both water and sediment samples despite the co-occurrence of a large array of environmental eukaryotes, indicating an equivalent sensitivity to quantitative PCR. NGS technology has tremendous potential for the early detection of marine invasive species worldwide
A study of electric motors for use in liquid and gaseous helium Engineering report no. 3530
Electric motor design and operation in liquid and gaseous helium environment
A Note on the Equality of Algebraic and Geometric D-Brane Charges in WZW Models
The algebraic definition of charges for symmetry-preserving D-branes in
Wess-Zumino-Witten models is shown to coincide with the geometric definition,
for all simple Lie groups. The charge group for such branes is computed from
the ambiguities inherent in the geometric definition.Comment: 12 pages, fixed typos, added references and a couple of remark
Elastic-plastic analysis of frames - including axial force effect on moment capacity, May 1966
Elastic-plastic analysis of frames- including axial force effect on moment capacity
A method is presented for analyzing the elastic-plastic behavior of frames which account for the reduction of plastic moment capacity due to the presence of axial force
Proton imaging of stochastic magnetic fields
Recent laser-plasma experiments report the existence of dynamically
significant magnetic fields, whose statistical characterisation is essential
for understanding the physical processes these experiments are attempting to
investigate. In this paper, we show how a proton imaging diagnostic can be used
to determine a range of relevant magnetic field statistics, including the
magnetic-energy spectrum. To achieve this goal, we explore the properties of an
analytic relation between a stochastic magnetic field and the image-flux
distribution created upon imaging that field. We conclude that features of the
beam's final image-flux distribution often display a universal character
determined by a single, field-scale dependent parameter - the contrast
parameter - which quantifies the relative size of the correlation length of the
stochastic field, proton displacements due to magnetic deflections, and the
image magnification. For stochastic magnetic fields, we establish the existence
of four contrast regimes - linear, nonlinear injective, caustic and diffusive -
under which proton-flux images relate to their parent fields in a qualitatively
distinct manner. As a consequence, it is demonstrated that in the linear or
nonlinear injective regimes, the path-integrated magnetic field experienced by
the beam can be extracted uniquely, as can the magnetic-energy spectrum under a
further statistical assumption of isotropy. This is no longer the case in the
caustic or diffusive regimes. We also discuss complications to the
contrast-regime characterisation arising for inhomogeneous, multi-scale
stochastic fields, as well as limitations currently placed by experimental
capabilities on extracting magnetic field statistics. The results presented in
this paper provide a comprehensive description of proton images of stochastic
magnetic fields, with applications for improved analysis of given proton-flux
images.Comment: Main paper pp. 1-29; appendices pp. 30-84. 24 figures, 2 table
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