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Fitting the Quark and Lepton Masses in String Theories
The capability of string theories to reproduce at low energy the observed
pattern of quark and lepton masses and mixing angles is examined, focusing the
attention on orbifold constructions, where the magnitude of Yukawa couplings
depends on the values of the deformation parameters which describe the size and
shape of the compactified space. A systematic exploration shows that for ,
, --I and possibly orbifolds a correct fit of the physical
fermion masses is feasible. In this way the experimental masses, which are
low--energy quantities, select a particular size and shape of the compactified
space, which turns out to be very reasonable (in particular the modulus
defining the former is ). The rest of the orbifolds are rather
hopeless and should be discarded on the assumption of a minimal scenario. On the other hand, due to stringy selection
rules, there is no possibility of fitting the Kobayashi--Maskawa parameters at
the renormalizable level, although it is remarked that this job might well be
done by non--renormalizable couplings.Comment: 19 page
The Standard Model instability and the scale of new physics
We apply a general formalism for the improved effective potential with
several mass scales to compute the scale M of new physics which is needed to
stabilize the Standard Model potential in the presence of a light Higgs. We
find, by imposing perturbativity of the new physics, that M can be as large as
one order of magnitude higher than the instability scale of the Standard Model.
This implies that, with the present lower bounds on the Higgs mass, the new
physics could easily (but not necessarily) escape detection in the present and
future accelerators.Comment: latex2e, 12 pages, 3 figure
F-term inflation in Superstring Theories
A supersymmetric inflationary stage dominated by an -term has the problem
that the flatness of the potential is spoiled by supergravity corrections, that
is the slow-roll parameter gets contributions of order unity. We show
that in -term inflationary models based on strings there is natural way of
obtaining small values of . This happens in models of hybrid inflation
based on orbifold constructions, in which a modulus field is responsible
for the large value of the potential during inflation, and a second field
with appropriate modular weight is responsible for the roll-over. We
illustrate the mechanism with a model in which the inflaton potential is
provided by gaugino condensation, leading to succesful inflation.Comment: 9 pages, LaTe
Discovering unbounded episodes in sequential data
One basic goal in the analysis of time-series data is
to find frequent interesting episodes, i.e, collections
of events occurring frequently together in the input sequence.
Most widely-known work decide the interestingness of an episode from a
fixed user-specified window width or interval, that bounds the
subsequent sequential association rules.
We present in this paper, a more intuitive definition that
allows, in turn, interesting episodes to grow during the mining without any
user-specified help. A convenient algorithm to
efficiently discover the proposed unbounded episodes is also implemented.
Experimental results confirm that our approach results useful
and advantageous.Postprint (published version
Statistical strategies for pruning all the uninteresting association rules
We propose a general framework to describe formally the
problem of capturing the intensity of implication for
association rules through statistical metrics.
In this framework we present properties that influence the
interestingness of a rule, analyze the conditions that
lead a measure to perform a perfect prune at a time,
and define a final proper order to sort the surviving
rules. We will discuss why none of the currently employed
measures can capture objective interestingness, and
just the combination of some of them, in a multi-step fashion,
can be reliable. In contrast, we propose a new simple modification
of the Pearson coefficient that will meet all the necessary
requirements. We statistically infer the convenient cut-off
threshold for this new metric by empirically describing its
distribution function through simulation. Final experiments
serve to show the ability of our proposal.Postprint (published version
SUSY and BSM in the face of LHC-14
In this talk I review the motivations for physics beyond the Standard Model
at the TeV scale and the prospects for their detection in the second Run of
LHC. Then I focus in the supersymmetric case, paying special attention to the
formulation and implications of the Natural SUSY scenario.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of the X SILAFAE, Medellin, Colombia,
November 24-28 201
Study of Minimal String Unification in Orbifold Models
We study the construction of the minimal supersymmetric standard model from
the orbifold models. We use a target-space duality anomaly cancellation
and a unification of gauge couplings as constraints. It is shown that some
models obtained through a systematical search realize the unification of SU(3)
and SU(2) coupling constants.Comment: 11 pages, KANAZAWA-93-08, LaTeX fil
Lessons from the Andean Community Integration. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series. Vol. 6, No. 12 June 2006
[From the Introduction]. Ever since it was born in the sixties, the Andean Regional Integration Process has attempted to become a strategy to promote a harmonious and balanced development among the Andean Countries. This paper has tree mains goals: (a) To explain and analyse the theoretical concept of the Andean New Regionalism in the framework of Latin American region in a comparative perspective with the European Model of Regional Integration; (b) To show the coexistence of two different regional integration models. Where the dominating one during the sixties was known as old regionalism, and the other that is currently being used is known as new regionalism, and (c) To analyse the way in which this coexistence appears to be an obstacle for the Andean countries to define their regional integration model and to advance toward their main goal: the balanced and harmonious development of each and every country member
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