Excited states in the full QCD hadron spectrum on a 163×4016^3 \times 40 lattice

We report the hadron mass spectrum obtained on a $16^3 \times 40$ lattice at $\beta = 5.7$ using two flavors of staggered fermions with $m a = 0.01$. We calculate the masses of excited states that have the same quantum numbers as the $\pi$, $\rho$ and $N$. They are obtained by a combined analysis of the hadron correlators from sources of size $16^3$ and $8^3$. We also report on the hadron spectrum for a wide range of valence quark masses.Comment: Contribution to Lattice 95. 4 pages. Compressed, uuencoded postscript file. Send questions to [email protected]

Observer-Based Controller Design for Systems on Manifolds in Euclidean Space

A method of designing observers and observer-based tracking controllers is proposed for nonlinear systems on manifolds via embedding into Euclidean space and transversal stabilization. Given a system on a manifold, we first embed the manifold and the system into Euclidean space and extend the system dynamics to the ambient Euclidean space in such a way that the manifold becomes an invariant attractor of the extended system, thus securing the transversal stability of the manifold in the extended dynamics. After the embedding, we design state observers and observer-based controllers for the extended system in one single global coordinate system in the ambient Euclidean space, and then restrict them to the original state-space manifold to produce observers and observer-based controllers for the original system on the manifold. This procedure has the merit that any existing control method that has been developed in Euclidean space can be applied globally to systems defined on nonlinear manifolds, thus making nonlinear controller design on manifolds easier. The detail of the method is demonstrated on the fully actuated rigid body system.Comment: SICE Annual Conference, Nara, Japan, September, 201

Some sufficient conditions for infinite collisions of simple random walks on a wedge comb

In this paper, we give some sufficient conditions for the infinite collisions of independent simple random walks on a wedge comb with profile \{f(n), n\in \ZZ\}. One interesting result is that if $f(n)$ has a growth order as $n\log n$, then two independent simple random walks on the wedge comb will collide infinitely many times. Another is that if \{f(n); n\in \ZZ\} are given by i.i.d. non-negative random variables with finite mean, then for almost all wedge comb with such profile, three independent simple random walks on it will collide infinitely many times

On the ratchet analysis of a cracked welded pipe

This paper presents the ratchet limit analysis of a pipe with a symmetric crack in a mismatched weld by using the extended Linear Matching Method (LMM). Two loading conditions are considered: i) a cyclic temperature load and a constant internal pressure; and ii) a cyclic temperature load and a constant axial tension. Individual effects of i) the geometry of the Weld Metal (WM), ii) the size of the crack, iii) the location of the crack and iv) the yield stress of WM on the ratchet limits, maximum temperature ranges to avoid ratchetting and limit loads are investigated. Influence functions of the yield stress of WM on the maximum temperature ranges and limit loads are generated. The results confirm the applicability of the extended LMM to the cracked welded pipe

CROSS PRODUCT CENSORING IN A DEMAND SYSTEM WITH LIMITED DEPENDENT VARIABLES: A MULTIVARIATE PROBIT MODEL APPROACH

Demand and Price Analysis,

Gravitational instantons with faster than quadratic curvature decay (II)

This is our second paper in a series to study gravitational instantons, i.e. complete hyperk\"aler 4-manifolds with faster than quadratic curvature decay. We prove two main theorems: 1.The asymptotic rate of gravitational instantons to the standard models can be improved automatically. 2.Any ALF-D_k gravitational instanton must be the Cherkis-Hitchin-Ivanov-Kapustin-Lindstr\"om-Ro\v{c}ek metric.Comment: We add a corollary and the applications, correct the asymptotic rate of the multi-Taub-NUT metri