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Holomorphic structures on the quantum projective line
We show that much of the structure of the 2-sphere as a complex curve
survives the q-deformation and has natural generalizations to the quantum
2-sphere - which, with additional structures, we identify with the quantum
projective line. Notably among these is the identification of a quantum
homogeneous coordinate ring with the coordinate ring of the quantum plane. In
parallel with the fact that positive Hochschild cocycles on the algebra of
smooth functions on a compact oriented 2-dimensional manifold encode the
information for complex structures on the surface, we formulate a notion of
twisted positivity for twisted Hochschild and cyclic cocycles and exhibit an
explicit twisted positive Hochschild cocycle for the complex structure on the
sphere.Comment: 22 pages, no figures. Published in IMR
Moduli Spaces of Instantons on Toric Noncommutative Manifolds
We study analytic aspects of U(n) gauge theory over a toric noncommutative
manifold . We analyse moduli spaces of solutions to the self-dual
Yang-Mills equations on U(2) vector bundles over four-manifolds ,
showing that each such moduli space is either empty or a smooth Hausdorff
manifold whose dimension we explicitly compute. In the special case of the
four-sphere we find that the moduli space of U(2) instantons with
fixed second Chern number is a smooth manifold of dimension .Comment: 44 pages, no figure
The Image of the Hyper City
Since the nineteenth and twentieth century, information has been pivotal both in the cultural tradition and then in the economic tradition. While the Fordism economic model and its specialisation requirements originated a simplistic zoning and single-use development approach to the design of a city. It, however, determined a fragmented growth of cities. Inevitably, the zoning as an urban strategy affected the architectural scale. Nevertheless, the idea of information, commercial goods and thereby people freely able to flow through the city allowed architects and urban designer to conceive new types of urban infrastructures. For example, trains, which were designed on the model of urban âarteries and veins.â Over time, the persistence of urban and architectural segmentation has strengthened social and economic inequalities among urban society. In addition, information has played a more vital role in this strengthening process. The technological achievements of the twenty-first century such as information technologies have significantly affected cities. The new informational patterns have provided new ways of designing, and in turn how societies experience cities. These âquantified citiesâ consist of digital data that dynamically interacts with âquantified human beings.â Consequently, a renewed urban semiotics is established, which is built around an alternate sociological comprehension. Is this new urban semiotics able to heal an ill and divided urban body? The paper will investigate a new concept of âquantified cityâ based on the notion of âHyper-Reality,â and its inhabitants who are entering in a âpost-humanâ condition while living in a dynamic urban environment. In particular, the critical analysis will be used as a âtoolâ for redefining the perception of the city (i.e., the image of the Hyper City) through inhabitantsâ (post-humansâ) relational patterns which are technologically mediated (i.e., Google Maps, Uber, Instagram, etc.). The more traditional notion of urbanisation is questioned with a focus on how the an urban society is embedded within the digital condition and the notion of a city
âThe Open Typologyâ: Towards Socially Sustainable Architectural and Care Types
One aspect that characterises the twenty-first century is its accomplishments such as better health-care
systems, improved economies, a reduction in infant mortality and a growing number of adults living
longer. However, these accomplishments can have a downside. For example, people are living longer
while at the same time dementia rates are increasing significantly. With the increase in demand for
high-dependency-related services, while at the same time costs are spiralling possibly out of control of
societal budgets, there is a need for a shift in the care model. Additionally, difficulties in defining a
clear dividing line between normal ageing and pathological ageing have led to a stigmatisation of older
adults as a social and economic burden. This type of segregation and stigmatisation must be addressed
to ensure future care delivery is inclusive. The positive benefits of an inclusive care system are both
social and economic, and at an individual level it can positively impact upon an older adultâs mental and
physical well-being
Noncommutative families of instantons
We construct -deformations of the classical groups SL(2,H) and Sp(2).
Coacting on the basic instanton on a noncommutative four-sphere ,
we construct a noncommutative family of instantons of charge 1. The family is
parametrized by the quantum quotient of by .Comment: v2: Minor changes; computation of the pairing at the end of Sect. 5.1
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Sub-structure formation in starless cores
Motivated by recent observational searches of sub-structure in starless
molecular cloud cores, we investigate the evolution of density perturbations on
scales smaller than the Jeans length embedded in contracting isothermal clouds,
adopting the same formalism developed for the expanding Universe and the solar
wind. We find that initially small amplitude, Jeans-stable perturbations
(propagating as sound waves in the absence of a magnetic field), are amplified
adiabatically during the contraction, approximately conserving the wave action
density, until they either become nonlinear and steepen into shocks at a time
, or become gravitationally unstable when the Jeans length
decreases below the scale of the perturbations at a time . We
evaluate analytically the time at which the perturbations enter
the non-linear stage using a Burgers' equation approach, and we verify
numerically that this time marks the beginning of the phase of rapid
dissipation of the kinetic energy of the perturbations. We then show that for
typical values of the rms Mach number in molecular cloud cores, is
smaller than , and therefore density perturbations likely dissipate
before becoming gravitational unstable. Solenoidal modes grow at a faster rate
than compressible modes, and may eventually promote fragmentation through the
formation of vortical structures.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Dirac operators on all Podles quantum spheres
We construct spectral triples on all Podles quantum spheres. These
noncommutative geometries are equivariant for a left action of and
are regular, even and of metric dimension 2. They are all isospectral to the
undeformed round geometry of the 2-sphere. There is also an equivariant real
structure for which both the commutant property and the first order condition
for the Dirac operators are valid up to infinitesimals of arbitrary order.Comment: 24 pages, no figures; v2: minor correction
ADAS analysis of the differential emission measure structure of the inner solar corona. II. A study of the `quiet Sun' inhomogeneities from SOHO CDS-NIS spectra
We present a study of the differential emission measure (DEM) of a `quiet
Sun' area observed in the extreme ultraviolet at normal incidence by the
Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on the SOHO spacecraft. The data used for
this work were taken using the NISAT_S observing sequence. This takes the full
wavelength ranges from both the NIS channels (308-381 Angtr. and 513-633
Angst.) with the 2 arcsec by 240 arcsec slit, which is the narrowest slit
available, yielding the best spectral resolution. In this work we contrast the
DEM from subregions of 2 by 80 arcsec with that obtained from the mean
spectrum of the whole raster (20 by 240 arcsec). We find that the DEM
maintains essentially the same shape in the subregions, differing by a constant
factor between 0.5 and 2 from the mean DEM, except in areas were the electron
density is below cm and downflow velocities of 50 km/s
are found in the transition region. Such areas are likely to contain plasma
departing from ionisation equilibrium, violating the basic assumptions
underlying the DEM method. The comparison between lines of Li-like and Be-like
ions may provide further evidence of departure from ionisation equilibrium. We
find also that line intensities tend to be lower where velocities of the order
of 30 km/s or higher are measured in transition region lines. The DEM analysis
is also exploited to improve the line identification performed by Brooks et al
(1999) and to investigate possible elemental abundance variations from region
to region. We find that the plasma has composition close to photospheric in all
the subregions examined.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables. Table 5 is available only online. A
copy of Table 5 can be found at http://webusers.ct.astro.it/acl/table5.dat.
The ReadMe file is at http://webusers.ct.astro.it/acl/ReadMe. Accepted by
Astronomy and Astrophysic
A Method for the Measurement of Digitizersâ Absolute Phase Error
A lot of engineering applications, from telecommunications to power systems, require
accurate measurement of phase angles. Some of them, like synchrophasor measurement and
calibration of instrument transformers with digital output, in order to reach high phase
measurement accuracy, require the knowledge of phase error of digitizers. Therefore, in this
paper a method for the measurement of digitizersâ absolute phase errors is proposed. It adopts a
sinewave and two square waves, that are the digitizer sample clock and a phase reference signal.
Combining the measurements of the relative phase differences between the adopted signals it is
possible to accurately evaluate the absolute phase error of a digitize
A new approach to analyzing solar coronal spectra and updated collisional ionization equilibrium calculations. II. Additional ionization rate coefficients
We have reanalyzed SUMER observations of a parcel of coronal gas using new
collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE) calculations. These improved CIE
fractional abundances were calculated using state-of-the-art electron-ion
recombination data for K-shell, L-shell, Na-like, and Mg-like ions of all
elements from H through Zn and, additionally, Al- through Ar-like ions of Fe.
They also incorporate the latest recommended electron impact ionization data
for all ions of H through Zn. Improved CIE calculations based on these
recombination and ionization data are presented here. We have also developed a
new systematic method for determining the average emission measure () and
electron temperature () of an isothermal plasma. With our new CIE data and
our new approach for determining average and , we have reanalyzed
SUMER observations of the solar corona. We have compared our results with those
of previous studies and found some significant differences for the derived
and . We have also calculated the enhancement of coronal elemental
abundances compared to their photospheric abundances, using the SUMER
observations themselves to determine the abundance enhancement factor for each
of the emitting elements. Our observationally derived first ionization
potential (FIP) factors are in reasonable agreement with the theoretical model
of Laming (2008).Comment: 147 pages (102 of which are online only tables and figures).
Submitted to ApJ. Version 2 is updated addressing the referee's repor
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