83 research outputs found
On the S-matrix of the Sub-leading Magnetic Deformation of the Tricritical Ising Model in Two Dimensions
We compute the -matrix of the Tricritical Ising Model perturbed by the
subleading magnetic operator using Smirnov's RSOS reduction of the
Izergin-Korepin model. The massive model contains kink excitations which
interpolate between two degenerate asymmetric vacua. As a consequence of the
different structure of the two vacua, the crossing symmetry is implemented in a
non-trivial way. We use finite-size techniques to compare our results with the
numerical data obtained by the Truncated Conformal Space Approach and find good
agreement.Comment: 21 page
Interspecific differences in root foraging precision cannot be directly inferred from species' mycorrhizal status or fine root economics
Nutrient acquisition in plants can be represented by a suite of intercorrelated root traits such as root diameter, nitrogen content, root tissue density and specific root length. However, it is unclear how a plant's ability to precisely forage for nutrients in a heterogeneous soil environment (i.e. the precision of placing roots into nutrient-rich areas) relates to these traits. Mycorrhizal symbiosis also affects the relationship between the fine root traits and root foraging precision because fungal hyphae may be used for foraging instead of roots. Hypotheses matching high root foraging precision with low mycorrhizal colonization or ‘fast' acquisitive strategies of plants have been raised based either on data from tree species or a limited number of herbaceous species.
To test these hypotheses, we compiled data quantifying the experimentally measured degree to which root biomass responded to patchy substrate nutrient concentrations (i.e. root foraging precision) for 123 herbaceous grassland species using a partial meta-analysis. We tested root foraging precision relationship with root traits involved in nutrient acquisition and mycorrhizal symbiosis (root diameter, specific root length, root tissue density, root tissue nitrogen content and mycorrhizal colonization). The root foraging precision data came from four different pot experiments, and the trait data were extracted from publicly available trait databases. We used a phylogenetically informed approach in order to detect the degree of conservation of the relationships.
We found that root foraging precision was not significantly correlated with other fine root traits and mycorrhizal colonization. Thus, it appears unrelated to the main dimensions of the nutrient acquisition space of herbaceous species, namely acquisitive–conservative strategy and outsourcing of acquisition to the fungi. Also, we found only a very weak phylogenetic signal in root foraging precision of 123 species. Our results suggest that root foraging precision constitutes another distinct, evolutionarily independent dimension in herbaceous species' trait space.acceptedVersio
The Sub-leading Magnetic Deformation of the Tricritical Ising Model in 2D as RSOS Restriction of the Izergin-Korepin Model
We compute the -matrix of the Tricritical Ising Model perturbed by the
subleading magnetic operator using Smirnov's RSOS reduction of the
Izergin-Korepin model. We discuss some features of the scattering theory we
obtain, in particular a non trivial implementation of crossing-symmetry,
interesting connections between the asymptotic behaviour of the amplitudes, the
possibility of introducing generalized statistics, and the monodromy properties
of the OPE of the unperturbed Conformal Field Theory.Comment: (13 pages
ADE functional dilogarithm identities and integrable models
We describe a new infinite family of multi-parameter functional equations for
the Rogers dilogarithm, generalizing Abel's and Euler's formulas. They are
suggested by the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz approach to the Renormalization
Group flow of 2D integrable, ADE-related quantum field theories. The known sum
rules for the central charge of critical fixed points can be obtained as
special cases of these. We conjecture that similar functional identities can be
constructed for any rational integrable quantum field theory with factorized
S-matrix and support it with extensive numerical checks.Comment: LaTeX, 9 pages, no figure
Form-factors of the sausage model obtained with bootstrap fusion from sine-Gordon theory
We continue the investigation of massive integrable models by means of the
bootstrap fusion procedure, started in our previous work on O(3) nonlinear
sigma model. Using the analogy with SU(2) Thirring model and the O(3) nonlinear
sigma model we prove a similar relation between sine-Gordon theory and a
one-parameter deformation of the O(3) sigma model, the sausage model. This
allows us to write down a free field representation for the
Zamolodchikov-Faddeev algebra of the sausage model and to construct an integral
representation for the generating functions of form-factors in this theory. We
also clear up the origin of the singularities in the bootstrap construction and
the reason for the problem with the kinematical poles.Comment: 16 pages, revtex; references added, some typos corrected. Accepted
for publication in Physical Review
Towards the Construction of Wightman Functions of Integrable Quantum Field Theories
The purpose of the ``bootstrap program'' for integrable quantum field
theories in 1+1 dimensions is to construct a model in terms of its Wightman
functions explicitly. In this article, this program is mainly illustrated in
terms of the sine-Gordon and the sinh-Gordon model and (as an exercise) the
scaling Ising model. We review some previous results on sine-Gordon breather
form factors and quantum operator equations. The problem to sum over
intermediate states is attacked in the short distance limit of the two point
Wightman function for the sinh-Gordon and the scaling Ising model.Comment: LATEX 18 pages, Talk presented at the '6th International Workshop on
Conformal Field Theories and Integrable Models', in Chernologka, September
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Exact S-matrices for supersymmetric sigma models and the Potts model
We study the algebraic formulation of exact factorizable S-matrices for
integrable two-dimensional field theories. We show that different formulations
of the S-matrices for the Potts field theory are essentially equivalent, in the
sense that they can be expressed in the same way as elements of the
Temperley-Lieb algebra, in various representations. This enables us to
construct the S-matrices for certain nonlinear sigma models that are invariant
under the Lie ``supersymmetry'' algebras sl(m+n|n) (m=1,2; n>0), both for the
bulk and for the boundary, simply by using another representation of the same
algebra. These S-matrices represent the perturbation of the conformal theory at
theta=pi by a small change in the topological angle theta. The m=1, n=1 theory
has applications to the spin quantum Hall transition in disordered fermion
systems. We also find S-matrices describing the flow from weak to strong
coupling, both for theta=0 and theta=pi, in certain other supersymmetric sigma
models.Comment: 32 pages, 8 figure
A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex and heritable eating disorder characterized by dangerously low body weight. Neither candidate gene studies nor an initial genome-wide association study (GWAS) have yielded significant and replicated results. We performed a GWAS in 2907 cases with AN from 14 countries (15 sites) and 14 860 ancestrally matched controls as part of the Genetic Consortium for AN (GCAN) and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 3 (WTCCC3). Individual association analyses were conducted in each stratum and meta-analyzed across all 15 discovery data sets. Seventy-six (72 independent) single nucleotide polymorphisms were taken forward for in silico (two data sets) or de novo (13 data sets) replication genotyping in 2677 independent AN cases and 8629 European ancestry controls along with 458 AN cases and 421 controls from Japan. The final global meta-analysis across discovery and replication data sets comprised 5551 AN cases and 21 080 controls. AN subtype analyses (1606 AN restricting; 1445 AN binge-purge) were performed. No findings reached genome-wide significance. Two intronic variants were suggestively associated: rs9839776 (P=3.01 × 10(-7)) in SOX2OT and rs17030795 (P=5.84 × 10(-6)) in PPP3CA. Two additional signals were specific to Europeans: rs1523921 (P=5.76 × 10(-)(6)) between CUL3 and FAM124B and rs1886797 (P=8.05 × 10(-)(6)) near SPATA13. Comparing discovery with replication results, 76% of the effects were in the same direction, an observation highly unlikely to be due to chance (P=4 × 10(-6)), strongly suggesting that true findings exist but our sample, the largest yet reported, was underpowered for their detection. The accrual of large genotyped AN case-control samples should be an immediate priority for the field
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