Resistance and Oppression in Su-Chen Christine Lim’s Novels: A Radical Feminist Analysis

This study analyzes the Chinese women’s resistance to oppression by women themselves in Su-Chen Christine Lim’s novels: “A Bit of Earth”, “Fistful of Colours”, “Gift from the Gods” and “Rice Bowl”. These novels depict the problems faced by Chinese women owing to the patriarchal practices and the long-standing Confucian beliefs that are found to be inherent within the Chinese society. It is found that oppressions by women unto women in the Chinese society happen due to a number of reasons. This study attempts to answer the “when”, “how” and “why” of oppressions of women by women in the selected novels. This study also aspires to delve into the counter-measures that women as victims take to reduce, to stop or even to face the adverse effects of oppression. Concepts like subjugation, alienation, separatism, confrontation and escapism mark the kind of resistance that the female characters in Su-Chen Christine Lim’s novels adopt to cope with various forms of “accepted” oppressions.This study also highlights the quest for discovery of “self “or the assertion of self- identification- a perpetual area of women’s struggle. The Radical Feminist Theory is used to analyze and highlight female oppression and resistance found in the novels, and this will shed more light on the existence of oppression by women unto women, especially in a quagmire with women’s mind-set moulded by just being in a patriarchal society.Key Words: Su-Chen Christine Lim; Chinese women’s resistance to oppressio

On the Klainerman-Machedon Conjecture of the Quantum BBGKY Hierarchy with Self-interaction

We consider the 3D quantum BBGKY hierarchy which corresponds to the $N$-particle Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We assume the pair interaction is $N^{3\beta -1}V(N^{\beta}\bullet).$ For interaction parameter $\beta \in(0,\frac23)$, we prove that, as $N\rightarrow \infty ,$ the limit points of the solutions to the BBGKY hierarchy satisfy the space-time bound conjectured by Klainerman-Machedon in 2008. This allows for the application of the Klainerman-Machedon uniqueness theorem, and hence implies that the limit is uniquely determined as a tensor product of solutions to the Gross-Pitaevski equation when the $N$-body initial data is factorized. The first result in this direction in 3D was obtained by T. Chen and N. Pavlovi\'{c} (2011) for $\beta \in (0,\frac14)$ and subsequently by X. Chen (2012) for $\beta\in (0,\frac27]$. We build upon the approach of X. Chen but apply frequency localized Klainerman-Machedon collapsing estimates and the endpoint Strichartz estimate in the estimate of the potential part to extend the range to $\beta\in (0,\frac23)$. Overall, this provides an alternative approach to the mean-field program by Erd\"os-Schlein-Yau (2007), whose uniqueness proof is based upon Feynman diagram combinatorics.Comment: v2, final version for Journal of the European Mathematical Society. v1 is a less technical versio

Exact spectrum for n electrons in the single band Hubbard model

The energy spectrum and the correlation functions for n electrons in the one-dimensional single band Hubbard model with periodic boundary conditions are calculated exactly. For that purpose the Hamiltonian is transformed into a set of Hamiltonians, corresponding to systems of spinless fermions.\ud Our results include the results of Mei and Chen, presented in a recent paper

Global Minima for Transition Metal Clusters Described by Sutton-Chen Potentials

Using a Monte Carlo minimization approach we report the global minima for metal clusters modelled by the Sutton-Chen family of potentials with N<81, where N is the number of atoms. The resulting structures are discussed in the light of both experimental and theoretical data for clusters of the appropriate elements.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures, revte