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Maximal chain descent orders
This paper introduces a partial order on the maximal chains of any finite
bounded poset which has a CL-labeling . We call this the maximal
chain descent order induced by , denoted . As a first
example, letting be the Boolean lattice and its standard
EL-labeling gives isomorphic to the weak order of type A. We
discuss in depth other seemingly well-structured examples: the max-min
EL-labeling of the partition lattice gives maximal chain descent order
isomorphic to a partial order on certain labeled trees, and particular cases of
the linear extension EL-labelings of finite distributive lattices produce
maximal chain descent orders isomorphic to partial orders on standard Young
tableaux. We observe that the order relations which one might expect to be the
cover relations, those given by the "polygon moves" whose transitive closure
defines the maximal chain descent order, are not always cover relations.
Several examples illustrate this fact. Nonetheless, we characterize the
EL-labelings for which every polygon move gives a cover relation, and we prove
many well known EL-labelings do have the expected cover relations. One
motivation for is that its linear extensions give all of the
shellings of the order complex of whose restriction maps are defined by the
descents with respect to . This yields strictly more shellings of
than the lexicographic ones induced by . Thus, the maximal chain
descent order might be thought of as encoding the structure of
the set of shellings induced by .Comment: 48 pages, 21 figure
Frog Model Wakeup Time on the Complete Graph
The frog model is a system of random walks where active particles set sleeping particles in motion. On the complete graph with n vertices it is equivalent to a well-understood rumor spreading model. We given an alternate and elementary proof that the wakeup time, that is, the expected time for every particle to be activated, is &Theta(log n). Additionally, we give an explicit distributional equation for the wakeup time as a mixture of geometric random variables
Reaction-Based Indicator Displacement Assay (RIA) for the Selective Colorimetric and Fluorometric Detection of Peroxynitrite
Using the self-assembly of aromatic boronic acids with Alizarin Red S (ARS), we developed a new chemosensor for the selective detection of peroxynitrite. Phenylboronic acid (PBA), benzoboroxole (BBA) and 2-(N, N-dimethylaminomethyl) phenylboronic acid (NBA) were employed to bind with ARS to form the complex probes. In particular, the ARS-NBA system with a high binding affinity can preferably react with peroxynitrite over hydrogen peroxide and other ROS/RNS due to the protection of the boron via the solvent-insertion B-N interaction. Our simple system produces a visible colorimetric change and on-off fluorescence response towards peroxynitrite. By coupling a chemical reaction that leads to an indicator displacement, we have developed a new sensing strategy, referred to herein as RIA (Reaction-based Indicator displacement Assay).China Scholarship Council (CSC)University of Bath Full Fees ScholarshipChemistr
Beyond Zeroes and Ones: The Effect of Income on the Severity and Evolution of Civil Conflict
Victory or repudiation? Predicting winners in civil wars using international financial markets
We develop a method to estimate which side will win a civil war using data from international financial markets. The key insight we deliver is that, for typical sovereign debt contracts, the probability of debt repayment will equal the probability of victory in a civil war. We test our predictor for standard outcomes in civil wars, including when the incumbent government loses (the Chinese Nationalists), when a new government is installed by a foreign power and decides to repudiate debt (the restoration of Ferdinand VII of Spain), and when there is a secession (the U.S. Confederacy). For China, markets were predicting a Communist victory three years before it happened. For the U.S. markets never gave the South much more than a 40 percent chance of maintaining the Confederacy. For Spain, markets considered the restoration of Ferdinand VII as likely (probabilities above 50%) as soon as France declared its intention to send military forces to the area.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe