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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work
This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in relation to their economic and social characteristics. On average, the workers spent 12 percent of the free time in uncompensated work for the company, 43 percent in other work (mostly housework, childcare, and other nonmarket chores), and 45 percent in leisure-time activities such as resting, reading, and hobbies. Ceteris paribus, education and income were positively related to percentage of time spent in company work, and age was negatively related. Time spent in other work rose with the presence of children, especially for women. Employee reaction to the program was generally favorable; married women were most positive and married men least positive. Workers 45 years of age and over were significantly more positive than those 35-44. There was a strong connection between time use and reaction to the program; workers who spent more of their free time working without pay at the company or in home production were much less positive than those who spent more time in leisure activities.
The relativistic self-energy in nuclear dynamics
It is a well known fact that Dirac phenomenology of nuclear forces predicts
the existence of large scalar and vector mean fields in matter. To analyse the
relativistic self-energy in a model independent way, modern high precision
nucleon-nucleon () potentials are mapped on a relativistic operator basis
using projection techniques. This allows to compare the various potentials at
the level of covariant amplitudes were a remarkable agreement is found. It
allows further to calculate the relativistic self-energy in nuclear matter in
Hartree-Fock approximation. Independent of the choice of the nucleon-nucleon
interaction large scalar and vector mean fields of several hundred MeV
magnitude are generated at tree level. In the framework of chiral EFT these
fields are dominantly generated by contact terms which occur at next-to-leading
order in the chiral expansion. Consistent with Dirac phenomenology the
corresponding low energy constants which generate the large fields are closely
connected to the spin-orbit interaction in scattering. The connection to
QCD sum rules is discussed as well.Comment: 49 pages, 13 figure
Simple Current Actions of Cyclic Groups
Permutation actions of simple currents on the primaries of a Rational
Conformal Field Theory are considered in the framework of admissible weighted
permutation actions. The solution of admissibility conditions is presented for
cyclic quadratic groups: an irreducible WPA corresponds to each subgroup of the
quadratic group. As a consequence, the primaries of a RCFT with an order n
integral or half-integral spin simple current may be arranged into multiplets
of length k^2 (where k is a divisor of n) or 3k^2 if the spin of the simple
current is half-integral and k is odd.Comment: Added reference, minor change
Dynamic Glass Transition in Two Dimensions
The question about the existence of a structural glass transition in two
dimensions is studied using mode coupling theory (MCT). We determine the
explicit d-dependence of the memory functional of mode coupling for
one-component systems. Applied to two dimensions we solve the MCT equations
numerically for monodisperse hard discs. A dynamic glass transition is found at
a critical packing fraction phi_c^{d=2} = 0.697 which is above phi_c^{d=3} =
0.516 by about 35%. phi^d_c scales approximately with phi^d_{\rm rcp} the value
for random close packing, at least for d=2, 3. Quantities characterizing the
local, cooperative 'cage motion' do not differ much for d=2 and d=3, and we
e.g. find the Lindemann criterion for the localization length at the glass
transition. The final relaxation obeys the superposition principle, collapsing
remarkably well onto a Kohlrausch law. The d=2 MCT results are in qualitative
agreement with existing results from MC and MD simulations. The mean squared
displacements measured experimentally for a quasi-two-dimensional binary system
of dipolar hard spheres can be described satisfactorily by MCT for monodisperse
hard discs over four decades in time provided the experimental control
parameter Gamma (which measures the strength of dipolar interactions) and the
packing fraction phi are properly related to each other.Comment: 14 pages, 15 figure
Deformations of Fuchsian Systems of Linear Differential Equations and the Schlesinger System
We consider holomorphic deformations of Fuchsian systems parameterized by the
pole loci. It is well known that, in the case when the residue matrices are
non-resonant, such a deformation is isomonodromic if and only if the residue
matrices satisfy the Schlesinger system with respect to the parameter. Without
the non-resonance condition this result fails: there exist non-Schlesinger
isomonodromic deformations. In the present article we introduce the class of
the so-called isoprincipal deformations of Fuchsian systems. Every isoprincipal
deformation is also an isomonodromic one. In general, the class of the
isomonodromic deformations is much richer than the class of the isoprincipal
deformations, but in the non-resonant case these classes coincide. We prove
that a deformation is isoprincipal if and only if the residue matrices satisfy
the Schlesinger system. This theorem holds in the general case, without any
assumptions on the spectra of the residue matrices of the deformation. An
explicit example illustrating isomonodromic deformations, which are neither
isoprincipal nor meromorphic with respect to the parameter, is also given
Lectures on conformal field theory and Kac-Moody algebras
This is an introduction to the basic ideas and to a few further selected
topics in conformal quantum field theory and in the theory of Kac-Moody
algebras.Comment: 59 pages, LaTeX2e, extended version of lectures given at the Graduate
Course on Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Models (Budapest, August
1996), to appear in Springer Lecture Notes in Physic
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