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Binary Stellar Population Synthesis Model
Using Yunnan evolutionary population synthesis (EPS) models, we present
integrated colours, integrated spectral energy distributions (ISEDs) and
absorption-line indices defined by the Lick Observatory image dissector scanner
(Lick/IDS) system, for an extensive set of instantaneous-burst binary stellar
populations (BSPs) with interactions. By comparing the results for populations
with and without interactions we show that the inclusion of binary interactions
makes the appearance of the population substantially bluer. This effect raises
the derived age and metallicity of the population.
To be used in the studies of modern spectroscopic galaxy surveys at
intermediate/high spectral resolution, we also present intermediate- (3A) and
high-resolution (~0.3A) ISEDs and Lick/IDS absorption-line indices for BSPs. To
directly compare with observations the Lick/IDS absorption indices are also
presented by measuring them directly from the ISEDs.Comment: 2 pages 2 figure
Lattice gluodynamics at negative g^2
We consider Wilson's SU(N) lattice gauge theory (without fermions) at
negative values of beta= 2N/g^2 and for N=2 or 3. We show that in the limit
beta -> -infinity, the path integral is dominated by configurations where links
variables are set to a nontrivial element of the center on selected non
intersecting lines. For N=2, these configurations can be characterized by a
unique gauge invariant set of variables, while for N=3 a multiplicity growing
with the volume as the number of configurations of an Ising model is observed.
In general, there is a discontinuity in the average plaquette when g^2 changes
its sign which prevents us from having a convergent series in g^2 for this
quantity. For N=2, a change of variables relates the gauge invariant
observables at positive and negative values of beta. For N=3, we derive an
identity relating the observables at beta with those at beta rotated by +-
2pi/3 in the complex plane and show numerical evidence for a Ising like first
order phase transition near beta=-22. We discuss the possibility of having
lines of first order phase transitions ending at a second order phase
transition in an extended bare parameter space.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, uses revtex, Eqs. 15-17 corrected, minor change
Darwinian Data Structure Selection
Data structure selection and tuning is laborious but can vastly improve an
application's performance and memory footprint. Some data structures share a
common interface and enjoy multiple implementations. We call them Darwinian
Data Structures (DDS), since we can subject their implementations to survival
of the fittest. We introduce ARTEMIS a multi-objective, cloud-based
search-based optimisation framework that automatically finds optimal, tuned DDS
modulo a test suite, then changes an application to use that DDS. ARTEMIS
achieves substantial performance improvements for \emph{every} project in
Java projects from DaCapo benchmark, popular projects and uniformly
sampled projects from GitHub. For execution time, CPU usage, and memory
consumption, ARTEMIS finds at least one solution that improves \emph{all}
measures for () of the projects. The median improvement across
the best solutions is , , for runtime, memory and CPU
usage.
These aggregate results understate ARTEMIS's potential impact. Some of the
benchmarks it improves are libraries or utility functions. Two examples are
gson, a ubiquitous Java serialization framework, and xalan, Apache's XML
transformation tool. ARTEMIS improves gson by \%, and for
memory, runtime, and CPU; ARTEMIS improves xalan's memory consumption by
\%. \emph{Every} client of these projects will benefit from these
performance improvements.Comment: 11 page
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