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Reflection and transmission of dipole radiation in presence of an extended boundary, rough and smooth
Reflection and transmission of dipole radiation with rough or smooth boundarie
Precision polarimetry with real-time mitigation of optical-window birefringence
Optical-window birefringence is frequently a major obstacle in experiments
measuring changes in the polarization state of light traversing a sample under
investigation. It can contribute a signal indistinguishable from that due to
the sample and complicate the analysis. Here, we explore a method to measure
and compensate for the birefringence of an optical window using the reflection
from the last optical surface before the sample. We demonstrate that this
arrangement can cancel out false signals due to the optical-window
birefringence-induced ellipticity drift to about 1%, for the values of total
ellipticity less than 0.25 rad
boosting in kernel regression
In this paper, we investigate the theoretical and empirical properties of
boosting with kernel regression estimates as weak learners. We show that
each step of boosting reduces the bias of the estimate by two orders of
magnitude, while it does not deteriorate the order of the variance. We
illustrate the theoretical findings by some simulated examples. Also, we
demonstrate that boosting is superior to the use of higher-order kernels,
which is a well-known method of reducing the bias of the kernel estimate.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/08-BEJ160 the Bernoulli
(http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical
Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm
Cold Compressed Baryonic Matter with Hidden Local Symmetry and Holography
I describe a novel phase structure of cold dense baryonic matter predicted in
a hidden local symmetry approach anchored on gauge theory and in a holographic
dual approach based on the Sakai-Sugimoto model of string theory. This new
phase is populated with baryons with half-instanton quantum number in the
gravity sector which is dual to half-skyrmion in gauge sector in which chiral
symmetry is restored while light-quark hadrons are in the color-confined phase.
It is suggested that such a phase that aries at a density above that of normal
nuclear matter and below or at the chiral restoration point can have a drastic
influence on the properties of hadrons at high density, in particular on
short-distance interactions between nucleons, e.g., multi-body forces at short
distance and hadrons -- in particular kaons -- propagating in a dense medium.
Potentially important consequences on the structure of compact stars will be
predicted.Comment: 15 pages, to appear in proceedings of "Strong Coupling Gauge Theories
in LHC Era (SCGT09)," Nagoya, Japa
Solutions of Conformal Turbulence on a Half Plane
Exact solutions of conformal turbulence restricted on a upper half plane are
obtained. We show that the inertial range of homogeneous and isotropic
turbulence with constant enstrophy flux develops in a distant region from the
boundary. Thus in the presence of an anisotropic boundary, these exact
solutions of turbulence generalize Kolmogorov's solution consistently and
differ from the Polyakov's bulk case which requires a fine tunning of
coefficients. The simplest solution in our case is given by the minimal model
of and moreover we find a fixed point of solutions when
become large.Comment: 10pages, KHTP-93-07, SNUCTP-93-3
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