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Snyder's Model -- de Sitter Special Relativity Duality and de Sitter Gravity
Between Snyder's quantized space-time model in de Sitter space of momenta and
the \dS special relativity on \dS-spacetime of radius with Beltrami
coordinates, there is a one-to-one dual correspondence supported by a minimum
uncertainty-like argument. Together with Planck length , should be a fundamental constant. They lead to a
dimensionless constant . These indicate that physics at these two scales should be dual to
each other and there is in-between gravity of local \dS-invariance
characterized by . A simple model of \dS-gravity with a gauge-like action on
umbilical manifolds may show these characters. It can pass the observation
tests and support the duality.Comment: 32 page
Optimal View Angle in Collective Dynamics of Self-propelled Agents
We study a system of self-propelled agents in which each agent has a part of
omnidirectional or panoramic view of its sensor disc, the field of vision of
the agent in this case is only a sector of a disc bounded by two radii and the
included arc. The inclination of these two radii is characterized as the view
angle. Contrary to our intuition, we find that, the non-omnidirectional-view
for swarm agents with periodic boundary conditions in noiseless Vicsek model
can accelerate the transient process of the emergence of the ordered state. One
consequent implication is that, there are generally superfluous communications
in the Vicsek Model, which may even obstruct the possible fast swarm emergence.
This phenomenon may invoke further efforts and attentions to explore the
underlying mechanism of the emergence in self-propelled agents.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Global fitness profiling of fission yeast deletion strains by barcode sequencing
A genome-wide deletion library is a powerful tool for probing gene functions and one has recently become available for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Here we use deep sequencing to accurately characterize the barcode sequences in the deletion library, thus enabling the quantitative measurement of the fitness of fission yeast deletion strains by barcode sequencing
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