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Primordial magnetic seed field amplification by gravitational waves: comment on gr-qc/0503006
We consider the amplification of cosmological magnetic fields by
gravitational waves as it was recently presented in [gr-qc/0503006]. That study
confined to infinitely conductive environments, arguing that on spatially flat
Friedmann backgrounds the gravito-magnetic interaction proceeds always as if
the universe were a perfect conductor. We explain why this claim is not correct
and then re-examine the Maxwell-Weyl coupling at the limit of ideal
magnetohydrodynamics. We find that the scales of the main results of
[gr-qc/0503006] were not properly assessed and that the incorrect scale
assessment has compromised both the physical and the numerical results of the
paper. This comment aims to clarify these issues on the one hand, while on the
other it takes a closer look at the gauge-invariance and the nonlinearity of
[gr-qc/0503006].Comment: Revised version, to appear in PR
Optimal Routing of Energy-aware Vehicles in Networks with Inhomogeneous Charging Nodes
We study the routing problem for vehicles with limited energy through a
network of inhomogeneous charging nodes. This is substantially more complicated
than the homogeneous node case studied in [1]. We seek to minimize the total
elapsed time for vehicles to reach their destinations considering both
traveling and recharging times at nodes when the vehicles do not have adequate
energy for the entire journey. We study two versions of the problem. In the
single vehicle routing problem, we formulate a mixed-integer nonlinear
programming (MINLP) problem and show that it can be reduced to a lower
dimensionality problem by exploiting properties of an optimal solution. We also
obtain a Linear Programming (LP) formulation allowing us to decompose it into
two simpler problems yielding near-optimal solutions. For a multi-vehicle
problem, where traffic congestion effects are included, we use a similar
approach by grouping vehicles into "subflows". We also provide an alternative
flow optimization formulation leading to a computationally simpler problem
solution with minimal loss in accuracy. Numerical results are included to
illustrate these approaches.Comment: To appear in proceeding of 22nd Mediterranean Conference on Control
and Automation, MED'1
Generalised Entropy MDPs and Minimax Regret
Bayesian methods suffer from the problem of how to specify prior beliefs. One
interesting idea is to consider worst-case priors. This requires solving a
stochastic zero-sum game. In this paper, we extend well-known results from
bandit theory in order to discover minimax-Bayes policies and discuss when they
are practical.Comment: 7 pages, NIPS workshop "From bad models to good policies
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