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Three Dimensional Gauge Theory with Topological and Non-topological Mass: Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Analysis
Three dimensional (abelian) gauged massive Thirring model is bosonized in the
large fermion mass limit. A further integration of the gauge field results in a
non-local theory. A truncated version of that is the Maxwell Chern Simons (MCS)
theory with a conventional mass term or MCS Proca theory. This gauge invariant
theory is completely solved in the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalism, with
the spectra of the modes determined. Since the vector field constituting the
model is identified (via bosonization) to the fermion current, the charge
current algebra, including the Schwinger term is also computed in the MCS Proca
model.Comment: Eight pages, Latex, No figures
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On the composition of government spending, optimal fiscal policy, and endogenous growth: Theory and evidence
In an endogenous growth model with two public services with differing
productivities, this paper analytically characterises optimal fiscal policy for a
decentralised economy, whereby the optimal values of the growth rate, tax rate and
expenditure shares on the two public goods are linked directly to their productivity
parameters. Using panel data for 15 developing countries over 28 years, we show
using GMM techniques, that current (capital) spending has positive (negative) and
significant effects on the growth rate, contrary to commonly held views. Our
theoretical results extend, and our empirical results modify those obtained by
Devarajan et al. (1996)
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Is democracy beneficial for growth in countries with low ethnic diversity?
We study the impact of democracy on economic growth for a panel of the most and least ethnically diverse nations as documented by Easterly and Levine (1997). Using a GMM system to capture endogeneity and simultaneity, we find that democracy exerts a direct positive impact on growth, in addition to ameliorating the adverse effects of ethnic diversity on growth, unlike some of the results of the previous empirical literature
The impact of government expenditure on growth: Empirical evidence from a heterogeneous panel
This paper investigates the impact of government expenditure on growth, in
a heterogeneous panel for 15 developing countries. Using GMM techniques, we show
that countries with substantial government expenditure have strong growth effects,
which vary considerably across the nations
Anemia in Antiretroviral NaĂŻve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India
Background: Hematological manifestations are common throughout the course of HIV infection. Impact of anemia is the most significant among them. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the etiologies underlying anemia in HIV/AIDS. Methods This was a non randomized cross sectional observational study conducted in a tertiary care hospital of India over a period of 2 years. One hundred and fifty HIV patients were screened. Thorough clinical and laboratory evaluation was done in 50 randomly selected anemic cases. Results: Proper etiological diagnosis could be reached in 46 patients. Among them correlation between Hb% and CD4 count was statistically insignificant (p = 0.074, r = 0.47) whereas it was significant with absolute lymphocyte and CD4 count (p = 0.006, r = 0.41). There was better correlation of bone marrow iron status with percent saturation of transferrin (p = 0.003, r = 0.54) than with serum ferritin (p = 0.055, r = 0.09). Bone marrow iron status did not have any relationship with CD4 count. Anemia of chronic disease was the commonest etiology (37%) followed by HIV related myelodysplastic syndrome (31%), iron deficiency anemia (13%), bone marrow suppression due to direct involvement by some infective process (7%). Aplastic anemia, multiple myeloma, Hodgkinâs disease, pure red cell aplasia, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and vitamin B12 deficiency were detected in one case (2%) each. Conclusions: Etiologies of anemia in HIV/AIDS are multifactorial with anemia of chronic disease being the commonest. For screening of iron deficiency in this group, percent saturation is a better tool than serum ferritin. Absolute lymphocyte count can sometimes be used as a surrogate marker of immunological status in antiretroviral naĂŻve HIV patients, particularly in resource poor areas
Study of supersolidity in the two-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model
We derive an effective Hamiltonian for the two-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein
model in the regimes of strong electron-electron and strong electron-phonon
interactions by using a nonperturbative approach. In the parameter region where
the system manifests the existence of a correlated singlet phase, the effective
Hamiltonian transforms to a Hamiltonian for hard-core-bosons
on a checkerboard lattice. We employ quantum Monte Carlo simulations, involving
stochastic-series-expansion technique, to obtain the ground state phase
diagram. At filling , as the strength of off-site repulsion increases, the
system undergoes a first-order transition from a superfluid to a diagonal
striped solid with ordering wavevector or
. Unlike the one-dimensional situation, our results in the
two-dimensional case reveal a supersolid phase (corresponding to the diagonal
striped solid) around filling and at large off-site repulsions.
Furthermore, for small off-site repulsions, we witness a valence bond solid at
one-fourth filling and tiny phase-separated regions at slightly higher
fillings.Comment: Accepted in EPJ
Diffusion of a passive scalar from a no-slip boundary into a two-dimensional chaotic advection field
Using a time-periodic perturbation of a two-dimensional steady separation bubble on a plane no-slip boundary to generate chaotic particle trajectories in a localized region of an unbounded boundary layer flow, we study the impact of various geometrical structures that arise naturally in chaotic advection fields on the transport of a passive scalar from a local 'hot spot' on the no-slip boundary. We consider here the full advection-diffusion problem, though attention is restricted to the case of small scalar diffusion, or large Peclet number. In this regime, a certain one-dimensional unstable manifold is shown to be the dominant organizing structure in the distribution of the passive scalar. In general, it is found that the chaotic structures in the flow strongly influence the scalar distribution while, in contrast, the flux of passive scalar from the localized active no-slip surface is, to dominant order, independent of the overlying chaotic advection. Increasing the intensity of the chaotic advection by perturbing the velocity held further away from integrability results in more non-uniform scalar distributions, unlike the case in bounded flows where the chaotic advection leads to rapid homogenization of diffusive tracer. In the region of chaotic particle motion the scalar distribution attains an asymptotic state which is time-periodic, with the period the same as that of the time-dependent advection field. Some of these results are understood by using the shadowing property from dynamical systems theory. The shadowing property allows us to relate the advection-diffusion solution at large Peclet numbers to a fictitious zero-diffusivity or frozen-field solution, corresponding to infinitely large Peclet number. The zero-diffusivity solution is an unphysical quantity, but is found to be a powerful heuristic tool in understanding the role of small scalar diffusion. A novel feature in this problem is that the chaotic advection field is adjacent to a no-slip boundary. The interaction between the necessarily non-hyperbolic particle dynamics in a thin near-wall region and the strongly hyperbolic dynamics in the overlying chaotic advection field is found to have important consequences on the scalar distribution; that this is indeed the case is shown using shadowing. Comparisons are made throughout with the flux and the distributions of the passive scalar for the advection-diffusion problem corresponding to the steady, unperturbed, integrable advection field
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