92 research outputs found
Crime, Russian Revolution and the Original of the Soviet Regime
В современной западной интерпретации революция обычно означает переход от одного социально-экономического и политического порядка к другому. Однако в некоторых случаях революция ведет к общей социальной деградации и росту преступности. Именно это имело место в годы Русской революции(ий) и Гражданской войны (1917–1918). Усиление большевистского террора и последующее тоталитарное окостенение общества было, по крайней мере отчасти, следствием этой деградации.Most international researchers tend to interpret revolution as a transition from one socio-economic and political order to another. In certain cases, however, the revolution may lead to social degradation and an increase in crime, which is exactly what happened during the Russian Revolution(s) and the Civil War (1917–1918). The Red Terror and the moral numbness, which was one of the manifestations of the totalitarian state, were to a certain degree caused by this degradation
Time-Translation Invariance of Scattering Maps and Blue-Shift Instabilities on Kerr Black Hole Spacetimes
In this paper, we provide an elementary, unified treatment of two distinct
blue-shift instabilities for the scalar wave equation on a fixed Kerr black
hole background: the celebrated blue-shift at the Cauchy horizon (familiar from
the strong cosmic censorship conjecture) and the time-reversed red-shift at the
event horizon (relevant in classical scattering theory).
Our first theorem concerns the latter and constructs solutions to the wave
equation on Kerr spacetimes such that the radiation field along the future
event horizon vanishes and the radiation field along future null infinity
decays at an arbitrarily fast polynomial rate, yet, the local energy of the
solution is infinite near any point on the future event horizon. Our second
theorem constructs solutions to the wave equation on rotating Kerr spacetimes
such that the radiation field along the past event horizon (extended into the
black hole) vanishes and the radiation field along past null infinity decays at
an arbitrarily fast polynomial rate, yet, the local energy of the solution is
infinite near any point on the Cauchy horizon.
The results make essential use of the scattering theory developed in [M.
Dafermos, I. Rodnianski and Y. Shlapentokh-Rothman, A scattering theory for the
wave equation on Kerr black hole exteriors, preprint (2014) available at
\url{http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8379}] and exploit directly the time-translation
invariance of the scattering map and the non-triviality of the transmission
map.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figure
Ranks of twists of elliptic curves and Hilbert's Tenth Problem
In this paper we investigate the 2-Selmer rank in families of quadratic
twists of elliptic curves over arbitrary number fields. We give sufficient
conditions on an elliptic curve so that it has twists of arbitrary 2-Selmer
rank, and we give lower bounds for the number of twists (with bounded
conductor) that have a given 2-Selmer rank. As a consequence, under appropriate
hypotheses we can find many twists with trivial Mordell-Weil group, and
(assuming the Shafarevich-Tate conjecture) many others with infinite cyclic
Mordell-Weil group. Using work of Poonen and Shlapentokh, it follows from our
results that if the Shafarevich-Tate conjecture holds, then Hilbert's Tenth
Problem has a negative answer over the ring of integers of every number field.Comment: Minor changes. To appear in Inventiones mathematica
Developing international business relationships in a Russian context
The collapse of the former Soviet Union has opened up a wealth of business opportunities for companies seeking new markets in the Russian Federation. Despite this, firms intending to do business in Russia have found themselves hampered by cultural differences in business practices and expectations. As Russia integrates into the global economy, understanding such practices and the managerial mindset of business people is crucial for managers who hope to navigate Russia's complex markets. This study draws on the trust literature and adopts quantitative tools to deconstruct the Russian 'Sviazi' system of social capital business networking. We develop a model isolating three dimensions of Sviazi: one an affective or emotional component; the second, a conative component; and the third, a cognitive component. The model provides a useful guide for helping foreign firms to succeed in Russia, while also serving as a basis for further research in the field.
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"Feed from the Service": Corruption and Coercion in the State-University Relations in Central Eurasia
Education in Central Eurasia has become one of the industries, most affected by corruption. Corruption in academia, including bribery, extortions, embezzlement, nepotism, fraud, cheating, and plagiarism, is reflected in the region’s media and addressed in few scholarly works. This paper considers corruption in higher education as a product of interrelations between the government and academia. A substantial block of literature considers excessive corruption as an indicator of a weak state. In contrast to standard interpretations, this paper argues that in non-democratic societies corruption is used on a systematic basis as a mechanism of direct and indirect administrative control over higher education institutions. Informal approval of corrupt activities in exchange for loyalty and compliance with the regime may be used in the countries of Central Eurasia for the purposes of political indoctrination. This paper presents the concept of corruption and coercion in the state-university relations in Central Eurasia and outlines the model which incorporates this concept and the “feed from the service” approach. It presents implications of this model for the state-university relations and the national educational systems in Central Eurasia in general and offers some suggestions on curbing corruption
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