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Using Qualitative Hypotheses to Identify Inaccurate Data
Identifying inaccurate data has long been regarded as a significant and
difficult problem in AI. In this paper, we present a new method for identifying
inaccurate data on the basis of qualitative correlations among related data.
First, we introduce the definitions of related data and qualitative
correlations among related data. Then we put forward a new concept called
support coefficient function (SCF). SCF can be used to extract, represent, and
calculate qualitative correlations among related data within a dataset. We
propose an approach to determining dynamic shift intervals of inaccurate data,
and an approach to calculating possibility of identifying inaccurate data,
respectively. Both of the approaches are based on SCF. Finally we present an
algorithm for identifying inaccurate data by using qualitative correlations
among related data as confirmatory or disconfirmatory evidence. We have
developed a practical system for interpreting infrared spectra by applying the
method, and have fully tested the system against several hundred real spectra.
The experimental results show that the method is significantly better than the
conventional methods used in many similar systems.Comment: See http://www.jair.org/ for any accompanying file
Nonrelativistic conformal field theories
We study representations of the Schr\"odinger algebra in terms of operators
in nonrelativistic conformal field theories. We prove a correspondence between
primary operators and eigenstates of few-body systems in a harmonic potential.
Using the correspondence we compute analytically the energy of fermions at
unitarity in a harmonic potential near two and four spatial dimensions. We also
compute the energy of anyons in a harmonic potential near the bosonic and
fermionic limits.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures; added a comment on the convergence of epsilon
expansion
Secure Grouping Protocol Using a Deck of Cards
We consider a problem, which we call secure grouping, of dividing a number of
parties into some subsets (groups) in the following manner: Each party has to
know the other members of his/her group, while he/she may not know anything
about how the remaining parties are divided (except for certain public
predetermined constraints, such as the number of parties in each group). In
this paper, we construct an information-theoretically secure protocol using a
deck of physical cards to solve the problem, which is jointly executable by the
parties themselves without a trusted third party. Despite the non-triviality
and the potential usefulness of the secure grouping, our proposed protocol is
fairly simple to describe and execute. Our protocol is based on algebraic
properties of conjugate permutations. A key ingredient of our protocol is our
new techniques to apply multiplication and inverse operations to hidden
permutations (i.e., those encoded by using face-down cards), which would be of
independent interest and would have various potential applications
Approximate Sum Rules of CKM Matrix Elements from Quasi-Democratic Mass Matrices
To extract sum rules of CKM matrix elements, eigenvalue problems for
quasi-democratic mass matrices are solved in the first order perturbation
approximation with respect to small deviations from the democratic limit. Mass
spectra of up and down quark sectors and the CKM matrix are shown to have clear
and distinctive hierarchical structures. Numerical analysis shows that the
absolute values of calculated CKM matrix elements fit the experimental data
quite well. The order of the magnitude of the Jarlskog parameter is estimated
by the relation .Comment: Latex, 15 pages, no figure
Effect of Age-Specific Predation on Age Distribution and Survival of the Giant African Snail, Achatina fulica
Liberating Efimov physics from three dimensions
When two particles attract via a resonant short-range interaction, three
particles always form an infinite tower of bound states characterized by a
discrete scaling symmetry. It has been considered that this Efimov effect
exists only in three dimensions. Here we review how the Efimov physics can be
liberated from three dimensions by considering two-body and three-body
interactions in mixed dimensions and four-body interaction in one dimension. In
such new systems, intriguing phenomena appear, such as confinement-induced
Efimov effect, Bose-Fermi crossover in Efimov spectrum, and formation of
interlayer Efimov trimers. Some of them are observable in ultracold atom
experiments and we believe that this study significantly broadens our horizons
of universal Efimov physics.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures, contribution to a special issue of Few-Body
Systems devoted to Efimov Physic
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