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Language as a Geometry in Wittgenstein"s Tractatus
In TLP 4.011, while admitting that propositions expressed
by the phonetic notation, or the alphabet, just like the
written notes of a piece of music, do not seem at first sight
to be pictures of what they represent, the Tractatus insists
that those "sign-languages" (that is, the phonetic notation
and the written musical notes) prove to be pictures of what
they represent (that is, our speech and the piece of music,
respectively) "even in the ordinary sense". (TLP 4.016 also
says that "alphabetic script developed out of [hieroglyphic
script] without losing what was essential to depiction".) So,
contrary to the view of some commentators (e.g. Pears
1987, 115-121), instead of making an analogy here, the
Tractatus holds that a proposition is a picture literally. How
can a proposition be a picture literally
Spectrum of single-photon emission and scattering in cavity optomechanics
We present an analytic solution describing the quantum state of a single
photon after interacting with a moving mirror in a cavity. This includes
situations when the photon is initially stored in a cavity mode as well as when
the photon is injected into the cavity. In addition, we obtain the spectrum of
the output photon in the resolved-sideband limit, which reveals spectral
features of the single-photon strong-coupling regime in this system. We also
clarify the conditions under which the phonon sidebands are visible and the
photon-state frequency shift can be resolved.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Strange-Beauty Meson Production at Colliders
The production rates and transverse momentum distributions of the
strange-beauty mesons and at colliders are calculated
assuming fragmentation is the dominant process. Results are given for the
Tevatron in the large transverse momentum region, where fragmentation is
expected to be most important.Comment: Minor changes in the discussion section. Also available at
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~cheung/paper.htm
Long decoding runs for Galileo's convolutional codes
Decoding results are described for long decoding runs of Galileo's convolutional codes. A 1 k-bit/sec hardware Viterbi decoder is used for the (15, 1/4) convolutional code, and a software Viterbi decoder is used for the (7, 1/2) convolutional code. The output data of these long runs are stored in data files using a data compression format which can reduce file size by a factor of 100 to 1 typically. These data files can be used to replicate the long, time-consuming runs exactly and are useful to anyone who wants to analyze the burst statistics of the Viterbi decoders. The 1 k-bit/sec hardware Viterbi decoder was developed in order to demonstrate the correctness of certain algorithmic concepts for decoding Galileo's experimental (15, 1/4) code, and for the long-constraint-length codes in general. The hardware decoder can be used both to search for good codes and to measure accurately the performance of known codes
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