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Epistemic Peer Disagreement
We offer a critical survey of the most discussed accounts of epistemic peer disagreement that are found in the recent literature. We also sketch an alternative approach in line with a pluralist understanding of epistemic rationality
Local power of the LR, Wald, score and gradient tests in dispersion models
We derive asymptotic expansions up to order for the nonnull
distribution functions of the likelihood ratio, Wald, score and gradient test
statistics in the class of dispersion models, under a sequence of Pitman
alternatives. The asymptotic distributions of these statistics are obtained for
testing a subset of regression parameters and for testing the precision
parameter. Based on these nonnull asymptotic expansions it is shown that there
is no uniform superiority of one test with respect to the others for testing a
subset of regression parameters. Furthermore, in order to compare the
finite-sample performance of these tests in this class of models, Monte Carlo
simulations are presented. An empirical application to a real data set is
considered for illustrative purposes.Comment: Submitted for publicatio
Unstable g-modes in Proto-Neutron Stars
In this article we study the possibility that, due to non-linear couplings,
unstable g-modes associated to convective motions excite stable oscillating
g-modes. This problem is of particular interest, since gravitational waves
emitted by a newly born proto-neutron star pulsating in its stable g-modes
would be in the bandwidth of VIRGO and LIGO. Our results indicate that
nonlinear saturation of unstable modes occurs at relatively low amplitudes, and
therefore, even if there exists a coupling between stable and unstable modes,
it does not seem to be sufficiently effective to explain, alone, the excitation
of the oscillating g-modes found in hydrodynamical simulations.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear on Class. Quant. Gra
Relativistic r-modes and shear viscosity
We derive the relativistic equations for stellar perturbations, including in
a consistent way shear viscosity in the stress-energy tensor, and we
numerically integrate our equations in the case of large viscosity. We consider
the slow rotation approximation, and we neglect the coupling between polar and
axial perturbations. In our approach, the frequency and damping time of the
emitted gravitational radiation are directly obtained. We find that,
approaching the inviscid limit from the finite viscosity case, the continuous
spectrum is regularized. Constant density stars, polytropic stars, and stars
with realistic equations of state are considered. In the case of constant
density stars and polytropic stars, our results for the viscous damping times
agree, within a factor two, with the usual estimates obtained by using the
eigenfunctions of the inviscid limit. For realistic neutron stars, our
numerical results give viscous damping times with the same dependence on mass
and radius as previously estimated, but systematically larger of about 60%.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Albert
Einstein Century International Conference, Paris, France, July 200
Large N and double scaling limits in two dimensions
Recently, the author has constructed a series of four dimensional
non-critical string theories with eight supercharges, dual to theories of light
electric and magnetic charges, for which exact formulas for the central charge
of the space-time supersymmetry algebra as a function of the world-sheet
couplings were obtained. The basic idea was to generalize the old matrix model
approach, replacing the simple matrix integrals by the four dimensional matrix
path integrals of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, and the Kazakov
critical points by the Argyres-Douglas critical points. In the present paper,
we study qualitatively similar toy path integrals corresponding to the two
dimensional N=2 supersymmetric non-linear sigma model with target space CP^n
and twisted mass terms. This theory has some very strong similarities with N=2
super Yang-Mills, including the presence of critical points in the vicinity of
which the large n expansion is IR divergent. The model being exactly solvable
at large n, we can study non-BPS observables and give full proofs that double
scaling limits exist and correspond to universal continuum limits. A complete
characterization of the double scaled theories is given. We find evidence for
dimensional transmutation of the string coupling in some non-critical string
theories. We also identify en passant some non-BPS particles that become
massless at the singularities in addition to the usual BPS states.Comment: 38 pages, including an introductory section that makes the paper
self-contained, two figures and one appendix; v2: typos correcte
From interacting particle systems to random matrices
In this contribution we consider stochastic growth models in the
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class in 1+1 dimension. We discuss the large
time distribution and processes and their dependence on the class on initial
condition. This means that the scaling exponents do not uniquely determine the
large time surface statistics, but one has to further divide into subclasses.
Some of the fluctuation laws were first discovered in random matrix models.
Moreover, the limit process for curved limit shape turned out to show up in a
dynamical version of hermitian random matrices, but this analogy does not
extend to the case of symmetric matrices. Therefore the connections between
growth models and random matrices is only partial.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures; Contribution to StatPhys24 special issue; minor
corrections in scaling of section 2.
High-order myopic coronagraphic phase diversity (COFFEE) for wave-front control in high-contrast imaging systems
The estimation and compensation of quasi-static aberrations is mandatory to
reach the ultimate performance of high-contrast imaging systems. COFFEE is a
focal plane wave-front sensing method that consists in the extension of phase
diversity to high-contrast imaging systems. Based on a Bayesian approach, it
estimates the quasi-static aberrations from two focal plane images recorded
from the scientific camera itself. In this paper, we present COFFEE's extension
which allows an estimation of low and high order aberrations with nanometric
precision for any coronagraphic device. The performance is evaluated by
realistic simulations, performed in the SPHERE instrument framework. We develop
a myopic estimation that allows us to take into account an imperfect knowledge
on the used diversity phase. Lastly, we evaluate COFFEE's performance in a
compensation process, to optimize the contrast on the detector, and show it
allows one to reach the 10^-6 contrast required by SPHERE at a few resolution
elements from the star. Notably, we present a non-linear energy minimization
method which can be used to reach very high contrast levels (better than 10^-7
in a SPHERE-like context)Comment: Accepted in Optics Expres
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