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STOCK PRICES AND EXCHANGE RATES IN AUSTRALIA: ARE COMMODITY PRICES THE MISSING LINK?
The relationship between stock prices and exchange rates is an important topic of long standing. But there are still significant gaps in our knowledge of this area, not least, the ambiguity about the sign of the effect of a change in one of these variables on the other. While there are many possible reasons for this ambiguity, one which we explore in the Australian context in this paper is the omission of commodity prices. We show that a bivariate relationship which omits commodity prices performs badly but that once commodity prices are added to the relationship, our results are plausible and robust. We also throw light on the commodity-currency issue and show that the link from the exchange rate to commodity prices is stronger and more consistent than that in the opposite direction.
Hydrogeologic and other considerations related to the selection of sanitary-landfill sites in Ohio
Applied geology of the Bismarck-Mandan area, North Dakota
The Bismarck-Mandan area includes about 350 square miles located along both sides of\u27 the Missouri River in south-central North Dakota. The area can be divided into two major physiographic divisions: the broad Missouri River floodplain and the nearly flat uplands which are dissected by minor streams. Geologic units in the area include Upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary sandstone, siltstone, and shale and Quaternary sand, silt, clay, and gravel.
Expansion of residential areas around the cities of Bismarck and Mandan results in conflicts in land-use between agricultural, urban, and resource development. This study consists of detailed geologic maps and a series of interpretive land-use maps that are intended to provide technical input for planning decisions to help resolve these conflicts.
The mineral resources include moderate amounts of high-quality sand and gravel, abundant clay, and abundant riprap stone. To insure maximum use of the sand and gravel reserve, residential and industrial de.relopmet1t should not be allowed to cover the deposits.
The highest quality water in the area is from the Missouri River. Ground-water can be found in large amounts in shallow Quaternary sand and gravel aquifers that follow the stream valleys. Groundwater is also present in small amounts in shallow aquifers in. the Cannonball and Tongue River Formations and in even smaller am01mts in the Hell Creek Formation. However, the quality of water taken from these bedrock aquifers is usually low. Low-quality water can be produced in large quantities from the Dakota Aquifer, at a depth of about 1000 meters. The best sources for irrigation water are the Missouri River and the sand and gravel aquifers on the Missouri River floodplain.
General construction involves few problems on the flat uplands. The bearing strength is generally high and the water table is low. Scattered large granitic boulders cause some excavation problems. Areas where the shale of the Cannonball Formation has been exposed on steep slopes are often subject to slumping and soil creep.
Construction problems can also be expected on the flat Missouri River valley and along the other streams. Flooding is common along all the streams except the Missouri River. Water tables are very high and many areas are poorly drained. The bearing strength of most of the materials in the lowlands is low to moderate.
Safe waste disposal should be little problem on most of the flat uplands. The at least along the numerous small gullies and intermittent streams should be avoided for landfill or lagoon sites. Problems resulting from shallow water tables and flooding make the lowland areas poorly suited as waste disposal sites
Noncommutative gauge fields coupled to noncommutative gravity
We present a noncommutative (NC) version of the action for vielbein gravity
coupled to gauge fields. Noncommutativity is encoded in a twisted star product
between forms, with a set of commuting background vector fields defining the
(abelian) twist. A first order action for the gauge fields avoids the use of
the Hodge dual. The NC action is invariant under diffeomorphisms and twisted
gauge transformations. The Seiberg-Witten map, adapted to our geometric setting
and generalized for an arbitrary abelian twist, allows to re-express the NC
action in terms of classical fields: the result is a deformed action, invariant
under diffeomorphisms and usual gauge transformations. This deformed action is
a particular higher derivative extension of the Einstein-Hilbert action coupled
to Yang-Mills fields, and to the background vector fields defining the twist.
Here noncommutativity of the original NC action dictates the precise form of
this extension. We explicitly compute the first order correction in the NC
parameter of the deformed action, and find that it is proportional to cubic
products of the gauge field strength and to the symmetric anomaly tensor
D_{IJK}.Comment: 18 pages, LaTe
Noncommutative deformation of four dimensional Einstein gravity
We construct a model for noncommutative gravity in four dimensions, which
reduces to the Einstein-Hilbert action in the commutative limit. Our proposal
is based on a gauge formulation of gravity with constraints. While the action
is metric independent, the constraints insure that it is not topological. We
find that the choice of the gauge group and of the constraints are crucial to
recover a correct deformation of standard gravity. Using the Seiberg-Witten map
the whole theory is described in terms of the vierbeins and of the Lorentz
transformations of its commutative counterpart. We solve explicitly the
constraints and exhibit the first order noncommutative corrections to the
Einstein-Hilbert action.Comment: LaTex, 11 pages, comments added, to appear in Classical and Quantum
Gravit
Instruments and channels in quantum information theory
While a positive operator valued measure gives the probabilities in a quantum
measurement, an instrument gives both the probabilities and the a posteriori
states. By interpreting the instrument as a quantum channel and by using the
typical inequalities for the quantum and classical relative entropies, many
bounds on the classical information extracted in a quantum measurement, of the
type of Holevo's bound, are obtained in a unified manner.Comment: 12 pages, revtex
On the concepts of radial and angular kinetic energies
We consider a general central-field system in D dimensions and show that the
division of the kinetic energy into radial and angular parts proceeds
differently in the wavefunction picture and the Weyl-Wigner phase-space
picture. Thus, the radial and angular kinetic energies are different quantities
in the two pictures, containing different physical information, but the
relation between them is well defined. We discuss this relation and illustrate
its nature by examples referring to a free particle and to a ground-state
hydrogen atom.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev.
The Moyal-Lie Theory of Phase Space Quantum Mechanics
A Lie algebraic approach to the unitary transformations in Weyl quantization
is discussed. This approach, being formally equivalent to the
-quantization, is an extension of the classical Poisson-Lie formalism
which can be used as an efficient tool in the quantum phase space
transformation theory.Comment: 15 pages, no figures, to appear in J. Phys. A (2001
Quantum Mechanics as an Approximation to Classical Mechanics in Hilbert Space
Classical mechanics is formulated in complex Hilbert space with the
introduction of a commutative product of operators, an antisymmetric bracket,
and a quasidensity operator. These are analogues of the star product, the Moyal
bracket, and the Wigner function in the phase space formulation of quantum
mechanics. Classical mechanics can now be viewed as a deformation of quantum
mechanics. The forms of semiquantum approximations to classical mechanics are
indicated.Comment: 10 pages, Latex2e file, references added, minor clarifications mad
Wigner Trajectory Characteristics in Phase Space and Field Theory
Exact characteristic trajectories are specified for the time-propagating
Wigner phase-space distribution function. They are especially simple---indeed,
classical---for the quantized simple harmonic oscillator, which serves as the
underpinning of the field theoretic Wigner functional formulation introduced.
Scalar field theory is thus reformulated in terms of distributions in field
phase space. Applications to duality transformations in field theory are
discussed.Comment: 9 pages, LaTex2
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