642 research outputs found
Effects of off great-circle propagation on the phase of long-period surface waves
Surface wave phase corrections for departures from great-circle propagation are computed using two-point ray-tracing through the aspherical earth model M84C of Woodhouse & Dziewonski (1984). For Rayleigh and Love waves with periods in the range 100–250 s, we determine whether these corrections provide significant variance reductions in source determinations compared with corrections calculated assuming great-circle propagation through the heterogeneous structure. For most source-receiver geometries, the off great-circle travel-time effects are small (< 10 s) for second and third orbits (e.g. R2 and R3), and their application in source determinations does not significantly reduce the data variance. This suggests that for the loworder heterogeneous models currently available the geometrical optics approximation is valid for long-period low orbit surface waves. Off great-circle phase anomalies increase quasi-linearly with increasing orbit number, indicating that the geometrical optics approximation degrades for higher orbits, which emphasizes the importance of developing higher order approximations for free-oscillation studies.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73147/1/j.1365-246X.1987.tb05217.x.pd
Color Skyrmions in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
We consider the general formulation of nonabelian fluid dynamics based on
symmetry considerations. We point out that, quite generally, this admits
solitonic excitations which are the color analog of skyrmions. Some general
properties of the solitons are discussed.Comment: LaTeX, 13 pages, references adde
Difference Operator Approach to the Moyal Quantization and Its Application to Integrable Systems
Inspired by the fact that the Moyal quantization is related with nonlocal
operation, I define a difference analogue of vector fields and rephrase quantum
description on the phase space. Applying this prescription to the theory of the
KP-hierarchy, I show that their integrability follows to the nature of their
Wigner distribution. Furthermore the definition of the ``expectation value''
clarifies the relation between our approach and the Hamiltonian structure of
the KP-hierarchy. A trial of the explicit construction of the Moyal bracket
structure in the integrable system is also made.Comment: 19 pages, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Operatorial quantization of Born-Infeld Skyrmion model and hidden symmetries
The SU(2) collective coordinates expansion of the Born-Infeld\break Skyrmion
Lagrangian is performed. The classical Hamiltonian is computed from this
special Lagrangian in approximative way: it is derived from the expansion of
this non-polynomial Lagrangian up to second-order variable in the collective
coordinates. This second-class constrained model is quantized by Dirac
Hamiltonian method and symplectic formalism. Although it is not expected to
find symmetries on second-class systems, a hidden symmetry is disclosed by
formulating the Born-Infeld Skyrmion %model as a gauge theory. To this end we
developed a new constraint conversion technique based on the symplectic
formalism. Finally, a discussion on the role played by the hidden symmetry on
the computation of the energy spectrum is presented.Comment: A new version of hep-th/9901133. To appear in JP
Quantization of Nonstandard Hamiltonian Systems
The quantization of classical theories that admit more than one Hamiltonian
description is considered. This is done from a geometrical viewpoint, both at
the quantization level (geometric quantization) and at the level of the
dynamics of the quantum theory. A spin-1/2 system is taken as an example in
which all the steps can be completed. It is shown that the geometry of the
quantum theory imposes restrictions on the physically allowed nonstandard
quantum theories.Comment: Revtex file, 23 pages, no figure
The "Symplectic Camel Principle" and Semiclassical Mechanics
Gromov's nonsqueezing theorem, aka the property of the symplectic camel,
leads to a very simple semiclassical quantiuzation scheme by imposing that the
only "physically admissible" semiclassical phase space states are those whose
symplectic capacity (in a sense to be precised) is nh + (1/2)h where h is
Planck's constant. We the construct semiclassical waveforms on Lagrangian
submanifolds using the properties of the Leray-Maslov index, which allows us to
define the argument of the square root of a de Rham form.Comment: no figures. to appear in J. Phys. Math A. (2002
Killing Tensors and Conformal Killing Tensors from Conformal Killing Vectors
Koutras has proposed some methods to construct reducible proper conformal
Killing tensors and Killing tensors (which are, in general, irreducible) when a
pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors exist in a given space. We give
the completely general result demonstrating that this severe restriction of
orthogonality is unnecessary. In addition we correct and extend some results
concerning Killing tensors constructed from a single conformal Killing vector.
A number of examples demonstrate how it is possible to construct a much larger
class of reducible proper conformal Killing tensors and Killing tensors than
permitted by the Koutras algorithms. In particular, by showing that all
conformal Killing tensors are reducible in conformally flat spaces, we have a
method of constructing all conformal Killing tensors (including all the Killing
tensors which will in general be irreducible) of conformally flat spaces using
their conformal Killing vectors.Comment: 18 pages References added. Comments and reference to 2-dim case.
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Natural and projectively equivariant quantizations by means of Cartan Connections
The existence of a natural and projectively equivariant quantization in the
sense of Lecomte [20] was proved recently by M. Bordemann [4], using the
framework of Thomas-Whitehead connections. We give a new proof of existence
using the notion of Cartan projective connections and we obtain an explicit
formula in terms of these connections. Our method yields the existence of a
projectively equivariant quantization if and only if an \sl(m+1,\R)-equivariant
quantization exists in the flat situation in the sense of [18], thus solving
one of the problems left open by M. Bordemann.Comment: 13 page
Towards systematic and evidence-based conservation planning for western chimpanzees
As animal populations continue to decline, frequently driven by large‐scale land‐use change, there is a critical need for improved environmental planning. While data‐driven spatial planning is widely applied in conservation, as of yet it is rarely used for primates. The western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) declined by 80% within 24 years and was uplisted to Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2016. To support conservation planning for western chimpanzees, we systematically identified geographic areas important for this taxon. We based our analysis on a previously published data set of modeled density distribution and on several scenarios that accounted for different spatial scales and conservation targets. Across all scenarios, typically less than one‐third of areas we identified as important are currently designated as high‐level protected areas (i.e., national park or IUCN category I or II). For example, in the scenario for protecting 50% of all chimpanzees remaining in West Africa (i.e., approximately 26,500 chimpanzees), an area of approximately 60,000 km2 was selected (i.e., approximately 12% of the geographic range), only 24% of which is currently designated as protected areas. The derived maps can be used to inform the geographic prioritization of conservation interventions, including protected area expansion, “no‐go‐zones” for industry and infrastructure, and conservation sites outside the protected area network. Environmental guidelines by major institutions funding infrastructure and resource extraction projects explicitly require corporations to minimize the negative impact on great apes. Therefore, our results can inform avoidance and mitigation measures during the planning phases of such projects. This study was designed to inform future stakeholder consultation processes that could ultimately integrate the conservation of western chimpanzees with national land‐use priorities. Our approach may help in promoting similar work for other primate taxa to inform systematic conservation planning in times of growing threats
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