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Stability of Three- and Four-Body Coulomb Systems
We discuss the stability of three- and four-particle system interacting by
pure Coulomb interactions, as a function of the masses and charges of the
particles. We present a certain number of general properties which allow to
answer a certain number of questions without or with less numerical
calculations.Comment: latex file, 15 pages, 8 figure
The status of the heavy quark systems
We review various inequalities on the order and the spacing of energy levels,
wave function at the origin, etc... which were obtained since 1977 in the
framework of the Schrodinger equation and applied to quarkonium and also to
muonic atoms and alcaline atoms. We also present a fit of mesons and baryons
made of b, c, s quarks and antiquarks, keeping the 1981 parameters and
comparing with present experimental data.Comment: 21 pages, 3 figure
Free group automorphisms with many fixed points at infinity
A concrete family of automorphisms alpha_n of the free group F_n is
exhibited, for any n > 2, and the following properties are proved: alpha_n is
irreducible with irreducible powers, has trivial fixed subgroup, and has 2n-1
attractive as well as 2n repelling fixed points at bdry F_n. As a consequence
of a recent result of V Guirardel there can not be more fixed points on bdry
F_n, so that this family provides the answer to a question posed by G Levitt.Comment: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 29
April 200
Investigation of the Role of Elastic Unitarity in High-Energy Scattering: Gribov's Theorem and the Froissart Bound
We re-examine V. Gribov's theorem of 1960 according to which the total
cross-section cannot approach a finite non-zero limit with, at the same time, a
diffraction peak having a finite slope. We are very close to proving by an
explicit counter-example that elastic unitarity in the elastic region is an
essential ingredient of the proof. By analogy, we raise the question of the
saturation of the Froissart-Martin bound, for which no examples incorporating
elastic unitarity exist at the present time.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figures, latex with sproc.st
Scattering problems in elastodynamics
In electromagnetism, acoustics, and quantum mechanics, scattering problems
can routinely be solved numerically by virtue of perfectly matched layers
(PMLs) at simulation domain boundaries. Unfortunately, the same has not been
possible for general elastodynamic wave problems in continuum mechanics. In
this paper, we introduce a corresponding scattered-field formulation for the
Navier equation. We derive PMLs based on complex-valued coordinate
transformations leading to Cosserat elasticity-tensor distributions not obeying
the minor symmetries. These layers are shown to work in two dimensions, for all
polarizations, and all directions. By adaptative choice of the decay length,
the deep subwavelength PMLs can be used all the way to the quasi-static regime.
As demanding examples, we study the effectiveness of cylindrical elastodynamic
cloaks of the Cosserat type and approximations thereof
LUX likelihood and limits on spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP couplings with LUXCalc
We present LUXCalc, a new utility for calculating likelihoods and deriving
WIMP-nucleon coupling limits from the recent results of the LUX direct search
dark matter experiment. After a brief review of WIMP-nucleon scattering, we
derive LUX limits on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon couplings over a broad
range of WIMP masses, under standard assumptions on the relevant astrophysical
parameters. We find that, under these and other common assumptions, LUX
excludes the entire spin-dependent parameter space consistent with a dark
matter interpretation of DAMA's anomalous signal, the first time a single
experiment has been able to do so. We also revisit the case of spin-independent
couplings, and demonstrate good agreement between our results and the published
LUX results. Finally, we derive constraints on the parameters of an effective
dark matter theory in which a spin-1 mediator interacts with a fermionic WIMP
and Standard Model fermions via axial-vector couplings. A detailed appendix
describes the use of LUXCalc with standard codes to place constraints on
generic dark matter theories.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures. Software package included as ancillary files.
v2: added references, Baksan limits. v3: clarifications and small
corrections, results unchange
Masculinity: Understanding Authority Across Institutional Settings as Social Control
Masculinity is observed here as it relates to authority, and as it functions within discourse surrounding the American penal and health care institutions. Understandings of race and gender are dictated by beliefs that masculinity can be âachieved,â or functions as a value within society. This piece works to stress that masculinity is instead a worldview, which assists in the distinguishing and perpetuation of dichotomy tied to plays of superiority and inferiority. It is for this reason, when recognizing masculinity within a capitalist global context, abolition becomes a necessary approach, when attempting to confront masculinized authority and institutions
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