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THE PORTRAYAL OF ANDREJ HLINKA IN SLOVAK HISTORIOGRAPHY
Th e paper analyzes the course of the process of historical research of the personality of Andrej Hlinka. One of the most signifi cant fi gures of the Slovak history in general became the subject of interest of the Slovak historians only gradually, slowly and with big diffi culties. Nevertheless, historians´ opinions which have been formed in particular period connections refl ect specifi - cally and typically the peripeties of the development of the Slovak national issue and phases of interest (disinterest) of historiography in this personality, and they represent a unique source of the view of collective historical memory of the national community, of the formally desired and naturally formed development of the community´s notion of the values of its own past.No historical monograph on Hlinka was published in 1939-1989. However, important references, period evaluations and observations can be found in synthetically oriented works of the following historians: František Hrušovský, František Bokes, Július Mésároš and Ľubomír Lipták and others. Th e personality of Hlinka was either suppressed or evaluated one-sidedly negatively. Th e year 1968 brought a certain change in this direction and revaluation of Hlinka’s personality. Th e period of normalization in 70s and 80s created a larger space to remember Hlinka’s personality, however, its interpretation was again shift ed towards negative side. The social and political change aft er 1989 and current state of research corroborate natural comeback of the personality in its environment, however, they also mirror a disproportion between spontaneously preserved “heritage of (the Slovak) historical memory” (heritage of the memory of majority of the national community, respectively) and institutionally created “memory of the heritage”.
Spectral Properties of the Attractive Hubbard Model
Deviations from Fermi liquid behavior are well documented in the normal state
of the cuprate superconductors, and some of these differences are possibly
related to pre-formed pairs appearing at temperatures above T_c. In order to
test these ideas we have investigated the attractive Hubbard model within a
self-consistent, conserving ladder approximation. In this version of the
theory, no feature is present which can be related to the pseudo gap found in
the high-T_c materials. Further, the interactions between two-particle bound
states change the physics of the superconducting instability in a profound
fashion, and lead to a completely different phenomenology that one predicts
based on the non-self-consistent version of the same theory.Comment: 4 pages including 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the
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The electron gas with a strong pairing interaction: Three particle correlations and the Thouless instability
We derive simplified Faddeev type equations for the three particle T-matrix
which are valid in the Hubbard model where only electrons with opposite spins
interact. Using the approximation of dynamical mean field theory these
equations are partially solved numerically for the attractive Hubbard model. It
is shown that the three particle T-matrix contains a term vanishing
at the Thouless (or BCS) instability where the two-particle T-matrix diverges.
Based on the three particle term we further derive the low density - strong
coupling extension for the two-particle vertex function. We therefore
understand our equations as a step towards a systematic low density expansion
from the weak coupling BCS theory towards the stronger coupling limit.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
Level statistics and localization in a 2D quantum percolation problem
A two dimensional model for quantum percolation with variable tunneling range
is studied. For this purpose the Lifshitz model is considered where the
disorder enters the Hamiltonian via the nondiagonal elements. We employ a
numerical method to analyze the level statistics of this model. It turns out
that the level repulsion is strongest around the percolation threshold. As we
go away from the maximum level repulsion a crossover from a GOE type behavior
to a Poisson like distribution is indicated. The localization properties are
calculated by using the sensitivity to boundary conditions and we find a strong
crossover from localized to delocalized states.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
A geometric characterization of -optimal designs for heteroscedastic regression
We consider the common nonlinear regression model where the variance, as well
as the mean, is a parametric function of the explanatory variables. The
-optimal design problem is investigated in the case when the parameters of
both the mean and the variance function are of interest. A geometric
characterization of -optimal designs in this context is presented, which
generalizes the classical result of Elfving [Ann. Math. Statist. 23 (1952)
255--262] for -optimal designs. As in Elfving's famous characterization,
-optimal designs can be described as representations of boundary points of a
convex set. However, in the case where there appear parameters of interest in
the variance, the structure of the Elfving set is different. Roughly speaking,
the Elfving set corresponding to a heteroscedastic regression model is the
convex hull of a set of ellipsoids induced by the underlying model and indexed
by the design space. The -optimal designs are characterized as
representations of the points where the line in direction of the vector
intersects the boundary of the new Elfving set. The theory is illustrated in
several examples including pharmacokinetic models with random effects.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOS708 the Annals of
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
On the theory of light scattering in molecular liquids
The theory of light scattering for a system of linear molecules with
anisotropic polarizabilities is considered. As a starting point for our theory,
we express the result of a scattering experiment in VV and VH symmetry as
dynamic correlation functions of tensorial densities with
and . , denote indices of spherical harmonics. To account for all
observed hydrodynamic singularities, a generalization of the theory of
Schilling and Scheidsteger \cite{schilling97} for these correlation functions
is presented, which is capable to describe the light scattering experiments
from the liquid regime to the glassy state. As a microscopic theory it fulfills
all sum rules contrary to previous {\em phenomenological} theories. We
emphasize the importance of the helicity index for the microscopic theory
by showing, that only the existence of components lead to the well known
Rytov dip in liquids and to the appearance of transversal sound waves in VH
symmetry in the deeply supercooled liquid and the glass. Exact expressions for
the phenomenological frequency dependent rotation translation coupling
coefficients of previous theories are derived.Comment: 30 pages including 15 figures, submitted to EPJ B, revised version a
detailed discussion on the depolarization ratio is added and the discussion
on the hydrodynamic analysis is enlarge
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