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Complete intersections in simplicial toric varieties
Given a set of nonzero
vectors defining a simplicial toric ideal , where is an arbitrary field, we provide an algorithm for
checking whether is a complete intersection. This algorithm
does not require the explicit computation of a minimal set of generators of
. The algorithm is based on the application of some new results
concerning toric ideals to the simplicial case. For homogenous simplicial toric
ideals, we provide a simpler version of this algorithm. Moreover, when is
an algebraically closed field, we list all ideal-theoretic complete
intersection simplicial projective toric varieties that are either smooth or
have one singular point.Comment: 28 pages, 2 tables. To appear in Journal of Symbolic Computatio
Chomp on numerical semigroups
We consider the two-player game chomp on posets associated to numerical
semigroups and show that the analysis of strategies for chomp is strongly
related to classical properties of semigroups. We characterize, which player
has a winning-strategy for symmetric semigroups, semigroups of maximal
embedding dimension and several families of numerical semigroups generated by
arithmetic sequences. Furthermore, we show that which player wins on a given
numerical semigroup is a decidable question. Finally, we extend several of our
results to the more general setting of subsemigroups of ,
where is a finite abelian group.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figures, 1 table (improved exposition
Electric-magnetic duality in linearized Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity
Known as a symmetry of vacuum Maxwell equations, the electric-magnetic
duality can be lifted actually to a symmetry of an action. The Lagrangian of
this action is written in terms of two vector potentials, one electric and one
magnetic, and while it is manifestly invariant under duality rotations, it is
not manifestly Lorentz covariant. This duality symmetry exists also in
linearized gravity in four dimensions, and can be lifted off shell too. In
dimensions, the link between linearized gravity and its dual can also be seen
from the point of view of a parental action. This is defined by a first order
Lagrangian (with the help of some auxiliary variables) that delivers both
Fierz-Pauli theory and its dual. In this work we use this formalism to
implement the electric-magnetic duality in the nonrelativistic deviation of
Fierz-Pauli theory arising from Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity. Because this
theory breaks diffeomorphism invariance, one finds that such implementation
includes some peculiarities.Comment: v1: 23 pages, 4 figures, edited with LaTeXila 2.4.0 and wxMaxima
12.04.0 for the graphics (Maxima version: 5.27.0). arXiv admin note: text
overlap with arXiv:1306.1092 by other authors; v2: 24 pages, 4 figures,
references added, negligence (leading to poor version management and
miscommunication) rectified; v3: typos and grammar corrected, minor changes
to uniformize convention
Average diagonal entropy in non-equilibrium isolated quantum systems
The diagonal entropy was introduced as a good entropy candidate especially
for isolated quantum systems out of equilibrium. Here we present an analytical
calculation of the average diagonal entropy for systems undergoing unitary
evolution and an external perturbation in the form of a cyclic quench. We
compare our analytical findings with numerical simulations of various many-body
quantum systems. Our calculations elucidate various heuristic relations
proposed recently in the literature.Comment: 5 pages + 4 page "Supplemental material", 2 figure
Non-stationary Job Search When Jobs Do Not Last Forever: A Structural Estimation to Evaluate Alternative Unemployment Insurance Systems
This paper considers a job search model where the environment is not constant throughout the unemployment spell and where jobs do not last forever. In this situation, reservation wages can be lower than they would be in a model without consideration of such separations, but also they can initially be higher precisely because of this non-stationarity of the model. Moreover, the time-dependence of reservation wages is stronger than it is when separations are not controlled for. The model is estimated structurally by using Spanish data for the period 1985-1996. The main finding is that, although at the beginning the decrease in reservation wages is the main determinant of the exit from unemployment, as time progresses the job offer arrival rate comes to be the only significant factor, given that acceptance probabilities become equal to one. The estimated parameters are used to evaluate the effect of different Unemployment Insurance designs on unemployment duration. Accordingly, one can draw the conclusion that a sufficiently decreasing pattern in unemployment benefits makes this duration to be 8.4% lower.Job Search, Nonstationarity, Unemployment, Separation probability, Structural estimation, Unemployment Insurance.
Retirement incentives, individual heterogeneity and labour transitions of employed and unemployed workers
Un informe que analiza la incidencia de las polĂticas pĂşblicas relevantes en edades prĂłximas a la jubilaciĂłn sobre las decisiones laborales de de trabajadores empleados y desempleados.Retirement, unemployment, incentives, Pension system, Unobserved heterogeneity, Spain
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