620 research outputs found
Mathematical models describing the effects of different tax evasion behaviors
Microscopic models describing a whole of economic interactions in a closed
society are considered. The presence of a tax system combined with a
redistribution process is taken into account, as well as the occurrence of tax
evasion. In particular, the existence is postulated, in relation to the level
of evasion, of different individual taxpayer behaviors. The effects of the
mentioned different behaviors on shape and features of the emerging income
distribution profile are investigated qualitatively and quantitatively.
Numerical solutions show that the Gini inequality index of the total population
increases when the evasion level is higher, but does not depend significantly
on the evasion spread. For fixed spread, the relative difference between the
average incomes of the worst evaders and honest taxpayers increases
approximately as a quadratic function of the evasion level.Comment: To appear in J. of Economic Interaction and Coordinatio
Network rewiring in the - plane
We generate correlated scale-free networks in the configuration model through
a new rewiring algorithm which allows to tune the Newman assortativity
coefficient and the average degree of the nearest neighbors (in the
range , ). At each attempted rewiring
step, local variations and are computed and then the step
is accepted according to a standard Metropolis probability , where is a variable temperature. We prove a general relation between
and , thus finding a connection between two variables
which have very different definitions and topological meaning. We describe
rewiring trajectories in the - plane and explore the limits of maximally
assortative and disassortative networks, including the case of small minimum
degree () which has previously not been considered. The size of
the giant component and the entropy of the network are monitored in the
rewiring. The average number of second neighbours in the branching
approximation is proven to be constant in the rewiring, and
independent from the correlations for Markovian networks. As a function of the
degree, however, the number of second neighbors gives useful information on the
network connectivity and is also monitored.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figure
The Bass diffusion model on finite Barabasi-Albert networks
Using a mean-field network formulation of the Bass innovation diffusion model
and exact results by Fotouhi and Rabbat on the degree correlations of
Barabasi-Albert networks, we compute the times of the diffusion peak and
compare them with those on scale-free networks which have the same scale-free
exponent but different assortativity properties. We compare our results with
those obtained by Caldarelli et al. for the SIS epidemic model with the
spectral method applied to adjacency matrices. It turns out that diffusion
times on finite Barabasi-Albert networks are at a minimum. This may be due to a
little-known property of these networks: although the value of the
assortativity coefficient is close to zero, they look disassortative if one
considers only a bounded range of degrees, including the smallest ones, and
slightly assortative on the range of the higher degrees. We also find that if
the trickle-down character of the diffusion process is enhanced by a larger
initial stimulus on the hubs (via a inhomogeneous linear term in the Bass
model), the relative difference between the diffusion times for BA networks and
uncorrelated networks is even larger, reaching for instance the 34% in a
typical case on a network with nodes.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures. Misspelling in citations correcte
The effect of the motion of the Sun on the light-time in interplanetary relativistic experiments
In 2002 a measurement of the effect of solar gravity upon the phase of
coherent microwave beams passing near the Sun has been carried out with the
Cassini mission, allowing a very accurate measurement of the PPN parameter
. The data have been analyzed with NASA's Orbit Determination Program
(ODP) in the Barycentric Celestial Reference System, in which the Sun moves
around the centre of mass of the solar system with a velocity of
about 10 m/sec; the question arises, what correction this implies for the
predicted phase shift. After a review of the way the ODP works, we set the
problem in the framework of Lorentz (and Galilean) transformations and evaluate
the correction; it is several orders of magnitude below our experimental
accuracy. We also discuss a recent paper \cite{kopeikin07}, which claims wrong
and much larger corrections, and clarify the reasons for the discrepancy.Comment: Final version accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity (8 Jan. 2008
"Corrigendum to ""Coupling of high-resolution meteorological and wave models over southern Italy"", published in Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 9, 1267?1275, 2009"
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Dynamic hysteresis from zigzag domain walls
We investigate dynamic hysteresis in ferromagnetic thin films with zigzag
domain walls. We introduce a discrete model describing the motion of a wall in
a disordered ferromagnet with in-plane magnetization, driven by an external
magnetic field, considering the effects of dipolar interactions and anisotropy.
We analyze the effects of external field frequency and temperature on the
coercive field by Monte Carlo simulations, and find a good agreement with the
experimental data reported in literature for Fe/GaAs films. This implies that
dynamic hysteresis in this case can be explained by a single propagating domain
wall model without invoking domain nucleation.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figures; minor modifications and two figures adde
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