On the spectrum of genera of quotients of the Hermitian curve

We investigate the genera of quotient curves $\mathcal H_q/G$ of the $\mathbb F_{q^2}$-maximal Hermitian curve $\mathcal H_q$, where $G$ is contained in the maximal subgroup $\mathcal M_q\leq{\rm Aut}(\mathcal H_q)$ fixing a pole-polar pair $(P,\ell)$ with respect to the unitary polarity associated with $\mathcal H_q$. To this aim, a geometric and group-theoretical description of $\mathcal M_q$ is given. The genera of some other quotients $\mathcal H_q/G$ with $G\not\leq\mathcal M_q$ are also computed. Thus we obtain new values in the spectrum of genera of $\mathbb F_{q^2}$-maximal curves. A plane model for $\mathcal H_q/G$ is obtained when $G$ is cyclic of order $p\cdot d$, with $d$ a divisor of $q+1$

Economic inequality and mobility in kinetic models for social sciences

Statistical evaluations of the economic mobility of a society are more difficult than measurements of the income distribution, because they require to follow the evolution of the individuals' income for at least one or two generations. In micro-to-macro theoretical models of economic exchanges based on kinetic equations, the income distribution depends only on the asymptotic equilibrium solutions, while mobility estimates also involve the detailed structure of the transition probabilities of the model, and are thus an important tool for assessing its validity. Empirical data show a remarkably general negative correlation between economic inequality and mobility, whose explanation is still unclear. It is therefore particularly interesting to study this correlation in analytical models. In previous work we investigated the behavior of the Gini inequality index in kinetic models in dependence on several parameters which define the binary interactions and the taxation and redistribution processes: saving propensity, taxation rates gap, tax evasion rate, welfare means-testing etc. Here, we check the correlation of mobility with inequality by analyzing the mobility dependence from the same parameters. According to several numerical solutions, the correlation is confirmed to be negative.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures. Proceedings of the Sigma-Phi Conference on Statistical Physics, Rhodes, 201

Extended Hamiltonians and shift, ladder functions and operators

In recent years, many natural Hamiltonian systems, classical and quantum, with constants of motion of high degree, or symmetry operators of high order, have been found and studied. Most of these Hamiltonians, in the classical case, can be included in the family of extended Hamiltonians, geometrically characterized by the structure of warped manifold of their configuration manifold. For the extended manifolds, the characteristic constants of motion of high degree are polynomial in the momenta of determined form. We consider here a different form of the constants of motion, based on the factorization procedure developed by S. Kuru, J. Negro and others. We show that an important subclass of the extended Hamiltonians admits factorized constants of motion and we determine their expression. The classical constants may be non-polynomial in the momenta, but the factorization procedure allows, in a type of extended Hamiltonians, their quantization via shift and ladder operators, for systems of any finite dimension.Comment: 25 page

Indicator function and complex coding for mixed fractional factorial designs

In a general fractional factorial design, the $n$-levels of a factor are coded by the $n$-th roots of the unity. This device allows a full generalization to mixed-level designs of the theory of the polynomial indicator function which has already been introduced for two level designs by Fontana and the Authors (2000). the properties of orthogonal arrays and regular fractions are discussed