D=(0|2) Dirac--Maxwell--Einstein Theory as a Way for Describing Supersymmetric Quartions

Drawing an analogy with the Dirac theory of fermions interacting with electromagnetic and gravitational field we write down supersymmetric equations of motion and construct a superfield action for particles with spin 1/4 and 3/4 (quartions), where the role of quartion momentum in effective (2+1)--dimensional space-time is played by an abelian gauge superfield propagating in a basic two-dimensional Grassmann-odd space with a cosmological constant showing itself as the quartion mass. So, the (0|2) (0 even and 2 odd) dimensional model of quartions interacting with the gauge and gravitational field manifests itself as an effective (2+1)-dimensional supersymmetric theory of free quartions.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX, report DFPD/93/TH/4

Towards a Complete Twistorization of the Heterotic String

In $D=3,4,6$ and 10 space--time dimensions considered is a string model invariant under transformations of $N=1$ space--time supersymmetry and $n=D-2$ local worldsheet supersymmetry with the both Virasoro constraints solved in the twistor form. The twistor solution survives in a modified form even in the presence of the heterotic fermions.Comment: 11 pages, latex, report no. Goteborg-ITP-94-1

Measures of algebraic approximation to Markoff extremal numbers

Let xi be a real number which is neither rational nor quadratic over Q. Based on work of Davenport and Schmidt, Bugeaud and Laurent have shown that, for any real number theta, there exist a constant c>0 and infinitely many non-zero polynomials P in Z[T] of degree at most 2 such that |theta-P(xi)| < c |P|^{-gamma} where gamma=(1+sqrt{5})/2 denotes for the golden ratio and where the norm |P| of P stands for the largest absolute value of its coefficients. In the present paper, we show conversely that there exists a class of transcendental numbers xi for which the above estimates are optimal up to the value of the constant c when one takes theta=R(xi) for a polynomial R in Z[T] of degree d = 3, 4 or 5 but curiously not for degree d=6, even with theta = 2 xi^6.Comment: 27 page

On comparison of the estimators of the Hurst index and the diffusion coefficient of the fractional Gompertz diffusion process

We study some estimators of the Hurst index and the diffusion coefficient of the fractional Gompertz diffusion process and prove that they are strongly consistent and most of them are asymptotically normal. Moreover, we compare the asymptotic behavior of these estimators with the aid of computer simulations.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure