On duality of the noncommutative extension of the Maxwell-Chern-Simons model

We study issues of duality in 3D field theory models over a canonical noncommutative spacetime and obtain the noncommutative extension of the Self-Dual model induced by the Seiberg-Witten map. We apply the dual projection technique to uncover some properties of the noncommutative Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory up to first-order in the noncommutative parameter. A duality between this theory and a model similar to the ordinary self-dual model is estabilished. The correspondence of the basic fields is obtained and the equivalence of algebras and equations of motion are directly verified. We also comment on previous results in this subject.Comment: Revtex, 9 pages, accepted for publication PL

On the dimensional dependence of duality groups for massive p-forms

We study the soldering formalism in the context of abelian p-form theories. We develop further the fusion process of massless antisymmetric tensors of different ranks into a massive p-form and establish its duality properties. To illustrate the formalism we consider two situations. First the soldering mass generation mechanism is compared with the Higgs and Julia-Toulouse mechanisms for mass generation due to condensation of electric and magnetic topological defects. We show that the soldering mechanism interpolates between them for even dimensional spacetimes, in this way confirming the Higgs/Julia-Toulouse duality proposed by Quevedo and Trugenberger \cite{QT} a few years ago. Next, soldering is applied to the study of duality group classification of the massive forms. We show a dichotomy controlled by the parity of the operator defining the symplectic structure of the theory and find their explicit actions.Comment: Reference [8] has been properly place

Adubação orgânica no arroz de terras altas: relacionamentos entre brusone, esterilidade de espiguetas e produtividade.

O trabalho foi conduzido adotando-se o Sistema Plantio Direto, na Embrapa Arroz e Feijão, Fazenda Capivara, no município de Santo Antônio de Goiás, GO. Foram avaliados, no ano agrícola 2001/02, os efeitos residuais de cinco tratamentos de adubação orgânica, de um experimento realizado em 2000/01, sob Sistema Plantio Convencional.bitstream/CNPAF/19924/1/comt_42.pd

INVERSE PROBLEM OF A ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL IN MULTILAYER HEAT CONDUCTION

The inverse problem in conducting heat is related to the determination of the boundary condition, rate of heat generation, or thermophysical properties, using temperature measurements at one or more positions of the solid. The inverse problem in conducting heat is mathematically one of the ill-posed problems, because its solution extremely sensitive to measurement errors. For a well-placed problem the following conditions must be satisfied: the solution must exist, it must be unique and must be stable on small changes of the input data. The objective of the work is to estimate the heat flux generated at the tool-chip-chip interface in a manufacturing process. The term "estimation" is used because in the temperature measurements, errors are always present and these affect the accuracy of the calculation of the heat flow

AN INVERSE PROBLEM USING GREEN’S FUNCTIONS AND TFBGF METHOD TO INDENTIFICATE A MOVING HEAT SOURCE IN 3D HEAT CONDUCTION

Moving heat source are present in numerous practical problems in engineering. For example, machining process as the Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), laser welding, friction stirwleing process or milding problem. Moving heat source are also present in biological heating as the metabolism or in heat thermal treatment. All these cases, the heat input identification is a complex task and represents an important factor in the process optimization. The aim of this work is to investigate both the temperature field as the heat flux delivered to a piece during a process with moving heat source

Delineamento e parametrização ambiental de microbacias hidrográficas para o Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Bacias hidrográficas são unidades de gestão e planejamento ambiental para monitoramento hidrológico, conservação do solo e disciplinamento do uso da terra, devido à importância na produção de água em qualidade e quantidade. A Política Nacional dos Recursos Hídricos (Lei 9433 de 1997, Decreto 2612 de 1998) tem como finalidade organizar a gestão de BH entre usuários de água, envolvendo setores produtivos e da sociedade civil, em diferentes esferas administrativas, o que exige uma subdivisão do território em Grandes Bacias, Sub-bacias e Microbacias hidrográficas. Para o Estado do Rio de Janeiro existem delineamentos de BH em regiões específicas, resultantes do programa de despoluição da Baía de Guanabara (PDBG) e do projeto GEROE. Para uma subdivisão em maior escala e para todo o Estado do Rio, foi executada uma delimitação automática com edição de sub-bacias hidrográficas, sendo estas bacias posteriormente parametrizadas com a finalidade de indicar o grau de vulnerabilidade por meio de uma análise multicritério. O resultado indica que as bacias mais vulneráveis concentram-se na região noroeste e norte do Estado, sendo que as que apresentaram maior grau de vulnerabilidade acompanham o Rio Paraíba do Sul da região central do Estado até sua foz, sendo considerada, portanto, uma indicação de áreas para programas de recuperação ambiental

Could the cosmic acceleration be transient? A cosmographic evaluation

A possible slowing down of the cosmic expansion is investigated through a cosmographic approach. By expanding the luminosity distance to fourth order and fitting the SN Ia data from the most recent compilations (Union, Constitution and Union 2), the marginal likelihood distributions for the deceleration parameter today suggest a recent reduction of the cosmic acceleration and indicate that there is a considerable probability for $q_0>0$. Also in contrast to the prediction of the $\Lambda$CDM model, the cosmographic $q(z)$ reconstruction permits a cosmic expansion history where the cosmic acceleration could already have peaked and be presently slowing down, which would imply that the recent accelerated expansion of the Universe is a transient phenomenon. It is also shown that to describe a transient acceleration the luminosity distance needs to be expanded at least to fourth order. The present cosmographic results depend neither on the validity of general relativity nor on the matter-energy contents of the Universe.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravit