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Development and modification of a digital program for final approach to landing
The development and implementation of a dynamic digital computer simulator which may be used to evaluate aircraft performance when operating under the control and guidance of various navigation, landing, and flight control systems are discussed. The digital computer program may be used to simulate and evaluate the relationships and interactions between various factors such as the microwave landing system, avionics receivers and onboard processors, aircraft aerodynamics, aircraft automatic control systems, control surfaces, and wind and other external effects. The models used to represent aircraft aerodynamics, control system and control surfaces; weather and wind effects; and the microwave landing system are described. Example results are presented for a simulation of a Boeing 737 using two sample control systems while subjected to various atmospheric conditions and microwave landing system errors. The limitations and performance capabilities of these control systems are discussed in terms of their ability to utilize the microwave landing system signal
Refinement and validation of two digital Microwave Landing System (MLS) theoretical models
Two digital microwave landing system theoretical models are considered which are generic models for the Doppler and scanning-beam frequency reference versions of the MLS. These models represent errors resulting from both system noise and discrete multipath. The data used for the validation effort were obtained from the Texas Instrument conventional scanning beam and the Hazeltine Doppler feasibility hardware versions of the MLS. Topics discussed include tape read software, time history plots, computation of power spectral density, smoothed power spectra, best-fit models, different equations for digital simulation, and discrete multipath errors
Zero Modes for the D=11 Membrane and Five-Brane
There exist extremal p-brane solutions of supergravity for
p=2~and~5. In this paper we investigate the zero modes of the membrane and the
five-brane solutions as a first step toward understanding the full quantum
theory of these objects. It is found that both solutions possess the correct
number of normalizable zero modes dictated by supersymmetry.Comment: Minor typos corrected, one reference added, agrees with published
version. 9 RevTeX pages, 1 figure include
Putting String/Fivebrane Duality to the Test
According to string/fivebrane duality, the Green-Schwarz factorization of the
spacetime anomaly polynomial into means that just
as is the anomaly polynomial of the string worldsheet so
should be the anomaly polynomial of the fivebrane worldvolume. To test
this idea we perform a fivebrane calculation of and find perfect
agreement with the string one--loop result.Comment: 14 pages, CERN TH-6614/92, CTP-TAMU 60/9
Vacuum interpolation in supergravity via super p-branes
We show that many of the recently proposed supersymmetric p-brane solutions
of d=10 and d=11 supergravity have the property that they interpolate between
Minkowski spacetime and a compactified spacetime, both being supersymmetric
supergravity vacua. Our results imply that the effective worldvolume action for
small fluctuations of the super p-brane is a supersingleton field theory for
, as has been often conjectured in the past.Comment: 8p
A Comment on String Solitons
We derive an exact string-like soliton solution of D=10 heterotic string
theory. The solution possesses instanton structure in the
eight-dimensional space transverse to the worldsheet of the soliton.Comment: 4 page
Timelike Hopf Duality and Type IIA^* String Solutions
The usual T-duality that relates the type IIA and IIB theories compactified
on circles of inversely-related radii does not operate if the dimensional
reduction is performed on the time direction rather than a spatial one. This
observation led to the recent proposal that there might exist two further
ten-dimensional theories, namely type IIA^* and type IIB^*, related to type IIB
and type IIA respectively by a timelike dimensional reduction. In this paper we
explore such dimensional reductions in cases where time is the coordinate of a
non-trivial U(1) fibre bundle. We focus in particular on situations where there
is an odd-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime AdS_{2n+1}, which can be
described as a U(1) bundle over \widetilde{CP}^n, a non-compact version of CP^n
corresponding to the coset manifold SU(n,1)/U(n). In particular, we study the
AdS_5\times S^5 and AdS_7\times S^4 solutions of type IIB supergravity and
eleven-dimensional supergravity. Applying a timelike Hopf T-duality
transformation to the former provides a new solution of the type IIA^* theory,
of the form \widetilde{CP}^2\times S^1\times S^5. We show how the Hopf-reduced
solutions provide further examples of ``supersymmetry without supersymmetry.''
We also present a detailed discussion of the geometrical structure of the
Hopf-fibred metric on AdS_{2n+1}, and its relation to the horospherical metric
that arises in the AdS/CFT correspondence.Comment: Latex, 26 page
Abelian gauge theories on compact manifolds and the Gribov ambiguity
We study the quantization of abelian gauge theories of principal torus
bundles over compact manifolds with and without boundary. It is shown that
these gauge theories suffer from a Gribov ambiguity originating in the
non-triviality of the bundle of connections whose geometrical structure will be
analyzed in detail. Motivated by the stochastic quantization approach we
propose a modified functional integral measure on the space of connections that
takes the Gribov problem into account. This functional integral measure is used
to calculate the partition function, the Greens functions and the field
strength correlating functions in any dimension using the fact that the space
of inequivalent connections itself admits the structure of a bundle over a
finite dimensional torus. The Greens functions are shown to be affected by the
non-trivial topology, giving rise to non-vanishing vacuum expectation values
for the gauge fields.Comment: 33 page
Resolution of Cosmological Singularities
We show that a class of 3+1 dimensional Friedmann-Robertson-Walker
cosmologies can be embedded within a variety of solutions of string theory. In
some realizations the apparent singularities associated with the big bang or
big crunch are resolved at non-singular horizons of higher-dimensional
quasi-black hole solutions (with compactified real time); in others plausibly
they are resolved at D-brane bound states having no conventional space-time
interpretation.Comment: 11 pages, latex. Two references added, one typo correcte
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