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Knowing Values and Public Inspection
We present a basic dynamic epistemic logic of "knowing the value". Analogous
to public announcement in standard DEL, we study "public inspection", a new
dynamic operator which updates the agents' knowledge about the values of
constants. We provide a sound and strongly complete axiomatization for the
single and multi-agent case, making use of the well-known Armstrong axioms for
dependencies in databases
The Fermion Generations Problem in the Gust in the Free World-Sheet Fermion Formulation
In the framework of the four dimensional heterotic superstring with free
fermions we present a revised version of the rank eight Grand Unified String
Theories (GUST) which contain the -gauge family symmetry. We also
develop some methods for building of corresponding string models. We explicitly
construct GUST with gauge symmetry and or
and consider the full massless spectrum for our string models.
We consider for the observable gauge symmetry the diagonal subgroup
of the rank 16 group or . We discuss the possible fermion matter and Higgs sectors in
these theories. We study renormalizable and nonrenormolizable contributions to
the superpotential. There has to exist "superweak" light chiral matter () in GUST under consideration. The understanding of quark and lepton mass
spectra and family mixing leaves a possibility for the existence of an
unusually low mass breaking scale of the family gauge symmetry (some
TeV).Comment: 68 page
Gap opening in graphene by simple periodic inhomogeneous strain
Using ab-initio methods, we show that the uniform deformation either leaves
graphene (semi)metallic or opens up a small gap yet only beyond the mechanical
breaking point of the graphene, contrary to claims in the literature based on
tight-binding (TB) calculations. It is possible, however, to open up a global
gap by a sine-like one-dimensional inhomogeneous deformation applied along any
direction but the armchair one, with the largest gap for the corrugation along
the zigzag direction (~0.5 eV) without any electrostatic gating. The gap
opening has a threshold character with very sharp rise when the ratio of the
amplitude A and the period of the sine wave deformation lambda exceeds
(A/lambda)_c ~0.1 and the inversion symmetry is preserved, while it is
threshold-less when the symmetry is broken, in contrast with TB-derived
pseudo-magnetic field models.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures; (v2) added figures illustrating opening gap in
Graphene mesh on BN, expanded analysis illustrating absence of
pseudo-magnetic fields in deformed Graphen
The Paths of Unification In The GUST With The G x G Gauge Groups of E(8) x E(8)
In the framework of the four dimensional heterotic superstring with free
fermions we discuss the rank eight and/or sixteen Grand Unified String Theories
(GUST) which contain the SU(3)_H - gauge family symmetry. We explicitly
investigate the paths of the unification in the GUST with gauge symmetry G x G
= [SU(5) x U(1) x (SU(3) x U(1))_H]^2. We show that the GUSTs with the G x G
gauge group allow to make the scale of unification to be consistent with the
string scale M_SU = g_{string} * 5 * 10^17 GeV.Comment: 18 pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses epsf.st
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