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Four problems with global carbon markets: a critical review
This article offers a critique of global carbon markets and trading, with a special focus on the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. It explores
problems with the use of tradable permits to address climate change revolving around four areas: homogeneity, justice, gaming, and information. Homogeneity problems arise from the non-linear nature of climate change and sensitivity of emissions, which complicate attempts to calculate carbon offsets. Justice problems involve issues of dependency and the concentration of wealth among the rich, meaning carbon trading often counteracts attempts to reduce poverty. Gaming problems include pressures to promote high-volume, least-cost projects and the
consequences of emissions leakage. Information problems encompass transaction costs related to carbon trading and market participation and the comparatively weak institutional capacity of project evaluators
Scattering of relativistic particles with Aharonov-Bohm-Coulomb interaction in two dimensions
The Aharonov-Bohm-Coulomb potentials in two dimensions may describe the
interaction between two particles carrying electric charge and magnetic flux,
say, Chern--Simons solitons, or so called anyons. The scattering problem for
such two-body systems is extended to the relativistic case, and the scattering
amplitude is obtained as a partial wave series. The electric charge and
magnetic flux is (, ) for one particle and (, ) for the
other. When , and takes on integer
or half integer values, the partial wave series is summed up approximately to
give a closed form. The results exhibit some nonperturbative features and
cannot be obtained from perturbative quantum electrodynamics at the tree level.Comment: revtex, 11 pages, no figur
Stopping power of hot QCD plasma
The partonic energy loss has been calculated taking both the hard and soft
contributions for all the processes, revealing the importance of the
individual channels. Cancellation of the intermediate separation scale has been
exhibited. Subtleties related to the identical final state partons have
properly been taken into account. The estimated collisional loss is compared
with its radiative counter part. We show that there exists a critical energy
() below which the collisional loss is more than its radiative
counterpart. In addition, we present closed form formulas for both the
collision probabilities and the stopping power ()Comment: revised version, section added, 9pages with 5 figure
Supersymmetric Method for Constructing Quasi-Exactly and Conditionally-Exactly Solvable Potentials
Using supersymmetric quantum mechanics we develop a new method for
constructing quasi-exactly solvable (QES) potentials with two known
eigenstates. This method is extended for constructing conditionally-exactly
solvable potentials (CES). The considered QES potentials at certain values of
parameters become exactly solvable and can be treated as CES ones.Comment: 17 pages, latex, no figure
A quantum exactly solvable non-linear oscillator related with the isotonic oscillator
A nonpolynomial one-dimensional quantum potential representing an oscillator,
that can be considered as placed in the middle between the harmonic oscillator
and the isotonic oscillator (harmonic oscillator with a centripetal barrier),
is studied. First the general case, that depends of a parameter , is
considered and then a particular case is studied with great detail. It is
proven that it is Schr\"odinger solvable and then the wave functions
and the energies of the bound states are explicitly obtained. Finally it
is proven that the solutions determine a family of orthogonal polynomials
related with the Hermite polynomials and such that: (i) Every
is a linear combination of three Hermite polynomials, and (ii)
They are orthogonal with respect to a new measure obtained by modifying the
classic Hermite measure.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figure
Supersymmetric quantum mechanics with nonlocal potentials
We consider supersymmetric quantum mechanical models with both local and
nonlocal potentials. We present a nonlocal deformation of exactly solvable
local models. Its energy eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are determined exactly.
We observe that both our model Hamiltonian and its supersymmetric partner may
have normalizable zero-energy ground states, in contrast to local models with
nonperiodic or periodic potentials.Comment: 4 pages, REVTeX, Minor revisions for clarificatio
Thermal Radiation from Au + Au Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 200 GEV/A Energy
The transverse momentum distribution of the direct photons measured by the
PHENIX collaboration in collisions at GeV/A has been
analyzed. It has been shown that the data can be reproduced reasonably well
assuming a deconfined state of thermalized quarks and gluons with initial
temperature more than the transition temperature for deconfinement inferred
from lattice QCD. The value of the initial temperature depends on the equation
of state of the evolving matter. The sensitivities of the results on various
input parameters have been studied. The effects of the modifications of
hadronic properties at non-zero temperature have been discussed.Comment: minor modifications in the text, accepted for publicatio
PT-symetrically regularized Eckart,Poeschl-Teller and Hulthen potentials
Version 1: The well known Eckart's singular s-wave potential is
PT-symmetrically regularized and continued to the whole real line. The new
model remains exactly solvable and its bound states remain proportional to
Jacobi polynomials. Its real and discrete spectrum exhibits several unusual
features.
Version 2: Parity times time-reversal symmetry of complex Hamiltonians with
real spectra is usually interpreted as a weaker mathematical substitute for
Hermiticity. Perhaps an equally important role is played by the related
strengthened analyticity assumptions. In a constructive illustration we
complexify a few potentials solvable only in s-wave. Then we continue their
domain from semi-axis to the whole axis and get the new exactly solvable
models. Their energies come out real as expected. The new one-dimensional
spectra themselves differ quite significantly from their s-wave predecessors.Comment: Original 10-page letter ``PT-symmetrized exact solution of the
singular Eckart oscillator" is extended to a full pape
Tensor Coupling and Vector Mesons in Dense Nuclear Matter
The effects of magnetic interaction between vector mesons and nucleons on the
propagation (mass and width) of the -meson in particular moving through
very dense nuclear matter is studied and the modifications, qualitative and
quantitative, due to the relevant collective modes (zero-sound and plasma
frequencies) of the medium discussed. It is shown that the -mesons
produced in high-energy nuclear collisions will be longitudinally polarized in
the region of sufficiently dense nuclear matter, in the presence of such an
interaction.Comment: Plain Latex file. Three figures, not appended, may be obtained on
request to [email protected]
Quasi-classical path integral approach to supersymmetric quantum mechanics
{}From Feynman's path integral, we derive quasi-classical quantization rules
in supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSY-QM). First, we derive a SUSY
counterpart of Gutzwiller's formula, from which we obtain the quantization rule
of Comtet, Bandrauk and Campbell when SUSY is good. When SUSY is broken, we
arrive at a new quantization formula, which is found as good as and even
sometime better than the WKB formula in evaluating energy spectra for certain
one-dimensional bound state problems. The wave functions in the stationary
phase approximation are also derived for SUSY and broken SUSY cases. Insofar as
a broken SUSY case is concerned, there are strong indications that the new
quasi-classical approximation formula always overestimates the energy
eigenvalues while WKB always underestimates.Comment: 13 pages + 5 figures, complete paper submitted as postscript file, to
appear in Phys. Rev.
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