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 $SU(3)_H$-gauge family symmetry. We also develop some methods for building of corresponding string models. We explicitly construct GUST with gauge symmetry $G = SU(5) \times U(1)\times (SU(3) \times U(1))_H$ and $G = SO(10)\times (SU(3) \times U(1))_H$ or $E(6)\times SU(3)_H$ $\subset E(8)$ and consider the full massless spectrum for our string models. We consider for the observable gauge symmetry the diagonal subgroup $G^{symm}$ of the rank 16 group $G \times G$ $\subset SO(16) \times SO(16)$ or $\subset E(8) \times E(8)$. 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 ($m_H^f < M_W$) 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 $SU(3)_H$ 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