642 research outputs found
Calculation of X-Ray Signals from Karolyhazy Hazy Space-Time
Karolyhazy's hazy space-time model, invented for breaking down macroscopic
interferences, employs wave-like gravity disturbances. If so, then electric
charges would radiate permanently. Here we discuss the observational
consequences of the radiation. We find that such radiation is excluded by
common experimental situations.Comment: 7 pages, PlainTe
Critique of proposed limit to space--time measurement, based on Wigner's clocks and mirrors
Based on a relation between inertial time intervals and the Riemannian
curvature, we show that space--time uncertainty derived by Ng and van Dam
implies absurd uncertainties of the Riemannian curvature.Comment: 5 pages, LaTex, field "Author:" correcte
Applications of Commutator-Type Operators to -Groups
For a p-group G admitting an automorphism of order with exactly
fixed points such that has exactly fixed points,
we prove that G has a fully-invariant subgroup of m-bounded nilpotency class
with -bounded index in G. We also establish its analogue for Lie
p-rings. The proofs make use of the theory of commutator-type operators.Comment: 11 page
Different sensing mechanisms in single wire and mat carbon nanotubes chemical sensors
Chemical sensing properties of single wire and mat form sensor structures
fabricated from the same carbon nanotube (CNT) materials have been compared.
Sensing properties of CNT sensors were evaluated upon electrical response in
the presence of five vapours as acetone, acetic acid, ethanol, toluene, and
water. Diverse behaviour of single wire CNT sensors was found, while the mat
structures showed similar response for all the applied vapours. This indicates
that the sensing mechanism of random CNT networks cannot be interpreted as a
simple summation of the constituting individual CNT effects, but is associated
to another robust phenomenon, localized presumably at CNT-CNT junctions, must
be supposed.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures,Applied Physics A: Materials Science and
Processing 201
Small amplitude quasi-breathers and oscillons
Quasi-breathers (QB) are time-periodic solutions with weak spatial
localization introduced in G. Fodor et al. in Phys. Rev. D. 74, 124003 (2006).
QB's provide a simple description of oscillons (very long-living spatially
localized time dependent solutions). The small amplitude limit of QB's is
worked out in a large class of scalar theories with a general self-interaction
potential, in spatial dimensions. It is shown that the problem of small
amplitude QB's is reduced to a universal elliptic partial differential
equation. It is also found that there is the critical dimension, ,
above which no small amplitude QB's exist. The QB's obtained this way are shown
to provide very good initial data for oscillons. Thus these QB's provide the
solution of the complicated, nonlinear time dependent problem of small
amplitude oscillons in scalar theories.Comment: 24 pages, 19 figure
Kant's philosophy of the aesthetic and the philosophy of praxis
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2012 Association for Economic and Social Analysis.This essay seeks to reconstruct the terms for a more productive engagement with Kant than is typical within contemporary academic cultural Marxism, which sees him as the cornerstone of a bourgeois model of the aesthetic. The essay argues that, in the Critique of Judgment, the aesthetic stands in as a substitute for the missing realm of human praxis. This argument is developed in relation to Kant's concept of reflective judgment that is in turn related to a methodological shift toward inductive and analogical procedures that help Kant overcome the dualisms of the first two Critiques. This reassessment of Kant's aesthetic is further clarified by comparing it with and offering a critique of Terry Eagleton's assessment of the Kantian aesthetic as synonymous with ideology
An analytic approach to the late ISW effect in a Lambda dominated universe
The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect in a Lambda dominated universe can be
an important factor in the evolution of cosmic microwave background
fluctuations. With the inclusion of cosmological constant we present the
complete analytic solution of the covariant linear perturbations of the
Einstein equations in the Newtonian gauge, in the case of a spatially flat
(K=0), Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe, filled with pressureless ideal
fluid. We use the analytic time dependence of the perturbation potentials to
derive the anisotropy power spectrum of the late ISW effect. We choose the
scale invariant Harrison-Zeldovich spectrum for obtaining the C_l momenta and
show the agreement of our results with earlier, numeric calculations.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
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