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'Magis rythmus quam metron': the structure of Seneca's anapaests, and the oral/aural nature of Latin poetry
The aim of this contribution is twofold. The empirical focus is the metrical structure of Seneca's anapaestic odes. On the basis of a detailed formal analysis, in which special attention is paid to the delimitation and internal structure of metrical periods, I argue against the dimeter colometry traditionally assumed. This conclusion in turn is based on a second, more methodological claim, namely that in establishing the colometry of an ancient piece of poetry, the modern metrician is only allowed to set apart a given string of metrical elements as a separate metron, colon or period, if this postulated metrical entity could 'aurally' be distinguished as such by the hearer
The distillability problem revisited
An important open problem in quantum information theory is the question of
the existence of NPT bound entanglement. In the past years, little progress has
been made, mainly because of the lack of mathematical tools to address the
problem. (i) In an attempt to overcome this, we show how the distillability
problem can be reformulated as a special instance of the separability problem,
for which a large number of tools and techniques are available. (ii) Building
up to this we also show how the problem can be formulated as a Schmidt number
problem. (iii) A numerical method for detecting distillability is presented and
strong evidence is given that all 1-copy undistillable Werner states are also
4-copy undistillable. (iv) The same method is used to estimate the volume of
distillable states, and the results suggest that bound entanglement is
primarily a phenomenon found in low dimensional quantum systems. (v) Finally, a
set of one parameter states is presented which we conjecture to exhibit all
forms of distillability.Comment: Several corrections, main results unchange
Noncommutative smoothness and coadjoint orbits
Raf Bocklandt and the author have proved in math.AG/0010030 that certain
quotient varieties of representations of deformed preprojective algebras are
coadjoint orbits for the necklace Lie algebra of the corresponding quiver. A
conjectural ringtheoretical explanation of these results was given in terms of
noncommutative smoothness in the sense of C. Procesi. In this paper we prove
these conjectures. The main tool in the proof is the etale local description
due to W. Crawley-Boevey in math.AG/0105247. Along the way we determine the
smooth locus of the so called Marsden-Weinstein reductions for quiver
representations
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