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Isotrivial VMRT-structures of complete intersection type
The family of varieties of minimal rational tangents on a quasi-homogeneous
projective manifold is isotrivial. Conversely, are projective manifolds with
isotrivial varieties of minimal rational tangents quasi-homogenous? We will
show that this is not true in general, even when the projective manifold has
Picard number 1. In fact, an isotrivial family of varieties of minimal rational
tangents needs not be locally flat in differential geometric sense. This leads
to the question for which projective variety Z, the Z-isotriviality of
varieties of minimal rational tangents implies local flatness. Our main result
verifies this for many cases of Z among complete intersections.Comment: Some errors in Section 8 and Lemma 8.1 corrected. To appear in The
Asian Journal of Mathematics (AJM) special issue dedicated to Ngaiming Mok's
60th birthda
Comment on "Geometric phases for mixed states during cyclic evolutions"
It is shown that a recently suggested concept of mixed state geometric phase
in cyclic evolutions [2004 {\it J. Phys. A} {\bf 37} 3699] is gauge dependent.Comment: Comment to the paper L.-B. Fu and J.-L. Chen, J. Phys. A 37, 3699
(2004); small changes; journal reference adde
SEASAT views oceans and sea ice with synthetic aperture radar
Fifty-one SEASAT synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the oceans and sea ice are presented. Surface and internal waves, the Gulf Stream system and its rings and eddies, the eastern North Pacific, coastal phenomena, bathymetric features, atmospheric phenomena, and ship wakes are represented. Images of arctic pack and shore-fast ice are presented. The characteristics of the SEASAT SAR system and its image are described. Maps showing the area covered, and tables of key orbital information, and listing digitally processed images are provided
Chiral Corrections to Hyperon Axial Form Factors
We study the complete set of flavor changing hyperon axial current matrix
elements at small momentum transfer. Using partially quenched heavy baryon
chiral perturbation theory, we derive the chiral and momentum behavior of the
axial and induced pseudoscalar form factors. The meson pole contributions to
the latter posses a striking signal for chiral physics. We argue that the study
of hyperon axial matrix elements enables a systematic lattice investigation of
the efficacy of three flavor chiral expansions in the baryon sector. This can
be achieved by considering chiral corrections to SU(3) symmetry predictions,
and their partially quenched generalizations. In particular, despite the
presence of eight unknown low-energy constants, we are able to make
next-to-leading order symmetry breaking predictions for two linear combinations
of axial charges.Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected and a new NLO prediction adde
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