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Curve-counting invariants for crepant resolutions
We construct curve counting invariants for a Calabi-Yau threefold
equipped with a dominant birational morphism . Our invariants
generalize the stable pair invariants of Pandharipande and Thomas which occur
for the case when is the identity. Our main result is a PT/DT-type
formula relating the partition function of our invariants to the
Donaldson-Thomas partition function in the case when is a crepant
resolution of , the coarse space of a Calabi-Yau orbifold
satisfying the hard Lefschetz condition. In this case, our partition function
is equal to the Pandharipande-Thomas partition function of the orbifold
. Our methods include defining a new notion of stability for
sheaves which depends on the morphism . Our notion generalizes slope
stability which is recovered in the case where is the identity on .
Our proof is a generalization of Bridgeland's proof of the PT/DT correspondence
via the Hall algebra and Joyce's integration map.Comment: In this version, Jim Bryan has been added as an author and the
required boundedness result for our stability condition has been added. arXiv
admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1002.4374 by other author
How the Marsden Fund has failed to achieve its full potential in the ESA panel: evidence of limitations in scope, biased outcomes, and futile applications
We have analysed the scope of proposals funded by the ‘Earth Sciences and Astronomy’ (ESA) panel of the Marsden Fund for the period 2004 to 2013. The scope of proposals funded is very limited and does not reflect the full remit of the panel: the successful projects fail to encompass the quality and quantity of research being undertaken within the Earth sciences community in New Zealand, and a number of sub-disciplines that seek to address fundamental and important problems within the Earth sciences are largely excluded. Moreover, nearly 50% of the funded proposals for the past decade have been made to just two institutions. To address these limitations, we suggest that: (1) a review is undertaken to examine and widen the scope of the panel to encompass sub-disciplines that demonstrably are never or rarely funded; (2) the composition of panel members be examined and modified to reflect a much wider scope of sub-disciplines within the Earth sciences; and (3) a review of the wide discrepancies in funding distributions on an institutional basis be undertaken. We want to ensure that a more representative range of sub-disciplines, in keeping with modern and realistic definitions of the Earth sciences, is funded through this panel, and so we also recommend the formation of a new panel for ‘Environmental and Earth-system Sciences’ that could encompass the research involving modern-day processes so that applications in these sub-disciplines are not pointless. In addition, it is clear that a very substantial increase in funding to the Marsden Fund must be sought
Can conventional theory explain the unconventional recovery?
An argument that the sluggishness of the current economic recovery reflects a permanent, structural change in the economy that may not be easily addressed using the standard monetary/fiscal incentives called for in the conventional view of business cycles, and that structural adjustment is a critical component of all economic fluctuations.Business cycles ; Economic conditions - United States
Hang With Your Buddies to Resist Intersection Attacks
Some anonymity schemes might in principle protect users from pervasive
network surveillance - but only if all messages are independent and unlinkable.
Users in practice often need pseudonymity - sending messages intentionally
linkable to each other but not to the sender - but pseudonymity in dynamic
networks exposes users to intersection attacks. We present Buddies, the first
systematic design for intersection attack resistance in practical anonymity
systems. Buddies groups users dynamically into buddy sets, controlling message
transmission to make buddies within a set behaviorally indistinguishable under
traffic analysis. To manage the inevitable tradeoffs between anonymity
guarantees and communication responsiveness, Buddies enables users to select
independent attack mitigation policies for each pseudonym. Using trace-based
simulations and a working prototype, we find that Buddies can guarantee
non-trivial anonymity set sizes in realistic chat/microblogging scenarios, for
both short-lived and long-lived pseudonyms.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure
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