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On time-varying collaboration networks
The patterns of scientific collaboration have been frequently investigated in
terms of complex networks without reference to time evolution. In the present
work, we derive collaborative networks (from the arXiv repository)
parameterized along time. By defining the concept of affine group, we identify
several interesting trends in scientific collaboration, including the fact that
the average size of the affine groups grows exponentially, while the number of
authors increases as a power law. We were therefore able to identify, through
extrapolation, the possible date when a single affine group is expected to
emerge. Characteristic collaboration patterns were identified for each
researcher, and their analysis revealed that larger affine groups tend to be
less stable
Asymmetric exclusion model with several kinds of impurities
We formulate a new integrable asymmetric exclusion process with
kinds of impurities and with hierarchically ordered dynamics.
The model we proposed displays the full spectrum of the simple asymmetric
exclusion model plus new levels. The first excited state belongs to these new
levels and displays unusual scaling exponents. We conjecture that, while the
simple asymmetric exclusion process without impurities belongs to the KPZ
universality class with dynamical exponent 3/2, our model has a scaling
exponent . In order to check the conjecture, we solve numerically the
Bethe equation with N=3 and N=4 for the totally asymmetric diffusion and found
the dynamical exponents 7/2 and 9/2 in these cases.Comment: to appear in JSTA
Exactly solvable interacting vertex models
We introduce and solvev a special family of integrable interacting vertex
models that generalizes the well known six-vertex model. In addition to the
usual nearest-neighbor interactions among the vertices, there exist extra
hard-core interactions among pair of vertices at larger distances.The
associated row-to-row transfer matrices are diagonalized by using the recently
introduced matrix product {\it ansatz}. Similarly as the relation of the
six-vertex model with the XXZ quantum chain, the row-to-row transfer matrices
of these new models are also the generating functions of an infinite set of
commuting conserved charges. Among these charges we identify the integrable
generalization of the XXZ chain that contains hard-core exclusion interactions
among the spins. These quantum chains already appeared in the literature. The
present paper explains their integrability.Comment: 20 pages, 3 figure
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