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Gravitational Waves from Wobbling Pulsars
The prospects for detection of gravitational waves from precessing pulsars
have been considered by constructing fully relativistic rotating neutron star
models and evaluating the expected wave amplitude from a galactic source.
For a "typical" neutron matter equation of state and observed rotation rates,
it is shown that moderate wobble angles may render an observable signal from a
nearby source once the present generation of interferometric antennas becomes
operative.Comment: PlainTex, 7 pp. , no figures, IAG/USP Rep. 6
The parameter at three loops and elliptic integrals
We describe the analytic calculation of the master integrals required to
compute the two-mass three-loop corrections to the parameter. In
particular, we present the calculation of the master integrals for which the
corresponding differential equations do not factorize to first order. The
homogeneous solutions to these differential equations are obtained in terms of
hypergeometric functions at rational argument. These hypergeometric functions
can further be mapped to complete elliptic integrals, and the inhomogeneous
solutions are expressed in terms of a new class of integrals of combined
iterative non-iterative nature.Comment: 14 pages Latex, 7 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of "Loops and
Legs in Quantum Field Theory - LL 2018", 29 April - 4 May 2018, Po
Validação do método analítico de determinação de nitrogênio total para atender a DOQ-CGRE-008 de 2010 do Inmetro.
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Iterated Elliptic and Hypergeometric Integrals for Feynman Diagrams
We calculate 3-loop master integrals for heavy quark correlators and the
3-loop QCD corrections to the -parameter. They obey non-factorizing
differential equations of second order with more than three singularities,
which cannot be factorized in Mellin- space either. The solution of the
homogeneous equations is possible in terms of convergent close integer power
series as Gau\ss{} hypergeometric functions at rational argument. In
some cases, integrals of this type can be mapped to complete elliptic integrals
at rational argument. This class of functions appears to be the next one
arising in the calculation of more complicated Feynman integrals following the
harmonic polylogarithms, generalized polylogarithms, cyclotomic harmonic
polylogarithms, square-root valued iterated integrals, and combinations
thereof, which appear in simpler cases. The inhomogeneous solution of the
corresponding differential equations can be given in terms of iterative
integrals, where the new innermost letter itself is not an iterative integral.
A new class of iterative integrals is introduced containing letters in which
(multiple) definite integrals appear as factors. For the elliptic case, we also
derive the solution in terms of integrals over modular functions and also
modular forms, using -product and series representations implied by Jacobi's
functions and Dedekind's -function. The corresponding
representations can be traced back to polynomials out of Lambert--Eisenstein
series, having representations also as elliptic polylogarithms, a -factorial
, logarithms and polylogarithms of and their -integrals.
Due to the specific form of the physical variable for different
processes, different representations do usually appear. Numerical results are
also presented.Comment: 68 pages LATEX, 10 Figure
Uso da máxima verossimilhança restrita e transformação canonica para estimação de parâmetros genético de características de crescimento em bovinos.
Estimativas de parâmetros genético foram obtidas para o peso ao nascimento(Y1), peso observado (Y2) e ajustado (Y3) a desmama, aos doze meses de idade (Y4) e ganho de peso da desmama aos doze meses de idade (Y5) de animais da raça Canchim. O metodo multivariado da máxima verossimilhança restrita (REML), com a mesma matriz de desenho para todas as características, foi aplicada a um modelo touros que incluiu, alem do efeito medio, sexo, ano, época de nascimento, interação ano x época e idade da vaca e touro e erro como efeitos aleatórios, para estimar variância e covariancia
3-loop Massive Contributions to the DIS Operator Matrix Element
Contributions to heavy flavour transition matrix elements in the variable
flavour number scheme are considered at 3-loop order. In particular a
calculation of the diagrams with two equal masses that contribute to the
massive operator matrix element is performed. In the Mellin
space result one finds finite nested binomial sums. In -space these sums
correspond to iterated integrals over an alphabet containing also square-root
valued letters.Comment: 4 pages, Contribution to the Proceedings of QCD '14, Montpellier,
July 201
Visser's Massive Gravity Bimetric Theory Revisited
A massive gravity theory was proposed by Visser in the late nineties. This
theory, based on a backgroung metric and on an usual
dynamical metric has the advantage of being free of ghosts
as well as discontinuities present in other massive theories proposed in the
past. In the present investigation, the equations of Visser's theory are
revisited with a particular care on the related conservation laws.\ It will be
shown that a multiplicative factor is missing in the graviton tensor originally
derived by Visser, which has no incidence on the weak field approach but
becomes important in the strong field regime when, for instance, cosmological
applications are considered. In this case, contrary to some previous claims
found in the literature, we conclude that a non-static background metric is
required in order to obtain a solution able to mimic the CDM
cosmology.Comment: 10 pages - Accepted for publication in Physical Review
Territorial development and Community currencies
Brazilian community development banks (CDBs) have established various coordinated financial mechanisms aiming to restructure poor and peripheral local economies. Their development strategy includes an instrument to facilitate access to microfinance and a community currency, combined with the definition of vocational training programmes and support for business start- ups. Put together, these different activities constitute the endogenous and resilient territorial development strategy defined by CDBs. Little scientific literature has been devoted to the study of community currencies in this process. This article presents an overview of the symbolic meanings conveyed by the currency of Banco Palmas, the first and most prominent CDB. First, we present some historical and territorial characteristics of Banco Palmas. Second, we analyse the symbolic role of its currency: money as a bond/link (the building of the community on its territory); money as a medium for institutionalisation (of the community itself and to the exogenous actors, as to define a federative project); and finally money as a vector-catalyst (when the plasticity of money allows to explore its different formats and so, to adapt it to the new perspectives of community and territorial development)
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