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On the automorphisms of moduli spaces of curves
In the last years the biregular automorphisms of the Deligne-Mumford's and
Hassett's compactifications of the moduli space of n-pointed genus g smooth
curves have been extensively studied by A. Bruno and the authors. In this paper
we give a survey of these recent results and extend our techniques to some
moduli spaces appearing as intermediate steps of the Kapranov's and Keel's
realizations of , and to the degenerations of Hassett's spaces
obtained by allowing zero weights.Comment: 15 pages. The material of version 1 has been reorganized and expanded
in this paper and in arXiv:1307.6828 on automorphisms of Hassett's moduli
space
Existence of covers with fixed ramification in positive characteristic
We discuss two elementary constructions for covers with fixed ramification in
positive characteristic. As an application, we compute the number of certain
classes of covers between projective lines branched at 4 points and obtain
information on the structure of the Hurwitz curve parametrizing these covers
Local heat-transfer performance and mechanisms in radial flow between parallel disks
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Ferromagnetic insulating phase in Pr{1-x}Ca{x}MnO3
A ferromagnetic insulating (FM-I) state in Pr0.75Ca0.25MnO3 has been studied
by neutron scattering experiment and theoretical calculation. The insulating
behavior is robust against an external magnetic field, and is ascribed to
neither the phase separation between a ferromagnetic metallic (FM-M) phase and
a non-ferromagnetic insulating one, nor the charge ordering. We found that the
Jahn-Teller type lattice distortion is much weaker than PrMnO3 and the magnetic
interaction is almost isotropic. These features resembles the ferromagnetic
metallic state of manganites, but the spin exchange interaction J is much
reduced compared to the FM-M state. The theoretical calculation based on the
staggered type orbital order well reproduces several features of the spin and
orbital state in the FM-I phase.Comment: REVTeX4, 10 pages, 9 figure
On the birational section conjecture with local conditions
A birationally liftable Galois section s of a hyperbolic curve X/k over a
number field k yields an adelic point x(s) in the smooth completion of X. We
show that x(s) is X-integral outside a set of places of Dirichlet density 0, or
s is cuspidal. The proof relies on -quotients of for
some open U of X.
If k is totally real or imaginary quadratic, we prove that all birationally
adelic, non-cuspidal Galois sections come from rational points as predicted by
the section conjecture of anabelian geometry. As an aside we also obtain a
strong approximation result for rational points on hyperbolic curves over Q or
imaginary quadratic fields.Comment: Theorem C (and Section 7) of the original version have been deleted
due to a gap in the proof. This is the journal versio
Recombination kinetics of a dense electron-hole plasma in strontium titanate
We investigated the nanosecond-scale time decay of the blue-green light
emitted by nominally pure SrTiO following the absorption of an intense
picosecond laser pulse generating a high density of electron-hole pairs. Two
independent components are identified in the fluorescence signal that show a
different dynamics with varying excitation intensity, and which can be
respectively modeled as a bimolecular and unimolecolar process. An
interpretation of the observed recombination kinetics in terms of interacting
electron and hole polarons is proposed
Mainstreaming of climate extreme risk into fiscal and budgetary planning: application of stochastic debt and disaster fund analysis in Austria
While ageing-related costs are perceived as the major drivers of fiscal pressure in the EU, concerns over climate-related public expenditures have received comparatively little attention in securing the EU’s long-term fiscal sustainability. Using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios as bridging concept for linking the assessment of public cost of demography- and climate-related expenditures, this study proposes a climate risk mainstreaming methodology. We apply a stochastic debt model and assess the potential flood risk in Austria to the public debt and the national disaster fund. Our results indicate that public debt under no fiscal consolidation is estimated to increase from the current level of 84.5% relative to GDP in 2015 to 92.1% in 2030, with macroeconomic variability adding further risk to the country’s baseline public debt trajectory. The study finds that the estimated public contingent liability due to expected flood risk is small relative to the size of economy. The existing earmarked disaster risk reduction (DRR) funding will likely reduce the risk of frequent-and-low impact floods, yet the current budgetary arrangement may be insufficient to deal with rising risk of extreme floods in the future. This prompts the need for further discussions regarding potential reforms of the disaster fund. As many EU member states are in the early stages of designing climate change policy strategies, the proposed method can support the mainstreaming of climate-related concerns into longer-term fiscal and budgetary planning
Roles of Bond Alternation in Magnetic Phase Diagram of RMnO3
In order to investigate nature of the antiferromagnetic structures in
perovskite RMnO3, we study a Heisenberg J1-J2 model with bond alternation using
analytical and numerical approaches. The magnetic phase diagram which includes
incommensurate spiral states and commensurate collinear states is reproduced.
We discuss that the magnetic structure with up-up-down-down spin configuration
(E-type structure) and the ferroelectricity emerge cooperatively to stabilize
this phase. Magnetoelastic couplings are crucial to understand the magnetic and
electric phase diagram of RMnO3.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State in the absence of a Magnetic Field
We propose that in a system with pocket Fermi surfaces, a pairing state with
a finite total momentum q_tot like the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state
can be stabilized even without a magnetic field. When a pair is composed of
electrons on a pocket Fermi surface whose center is not located at Gamma point,
the pair inevitably has finite q_tot. To investigate this possibility, we
consider a two-orbital model on a square lattice that can realize pocket Fermi
surfaces and we apply fluctuation exchange approximation. Then, by changing the
electron number n per site, we indeed find that such superconducting states
with finite q_tot are stabilized when the system has pocket Fermi surfaces.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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