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The vector BPS baby Skyrme model
We investigate the relation between the BPS baby Skyrme model and its vector
meson formulation, where the baby Skyrme term is replaced by a coupling between
the topological current and the vector meson field . The
vector model still possesses infinitely many symmetries leading to infinitely
many conserved currents which stand behind its solvability. It turns out that
the similarities and differences of the two models depend strongly on the
specific form of the potential. We find, for instance, that compactons (which
exist in the BPS baby Skyrme model) disappear from the spectrum of solutions of
the vector counterpart. Specifically, for the vector model with the old baby
Skyrme potential we find that it has compacton solutions only provided that a
delta function source term effectively screening the topological charge is
inserted at the compacton boundary. For the old baby Skyrme potential squared
we find that the vector model supports exponentially localized solitons, like
the BPS baby Skyrme model. These solitons, however, saturate a BPS bound which
is a nonlinear function of the topological charge and, as a consequence, higher
solitons are unstable w.r.t. decay into smaller ones, which is at variance with
the more conventional situation (a linear BPS bound and stable solitons) in the
BPS baby Skyrme model.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figure
Thermodynamics of the BPS Skyrme model
One problem in the application of the Skyrme model to nuclear physics is that
it predicts too large a value for the compression modulus of nuclear matter.
Here we investigate the thermodynamics of the BPS Skyrme model at zero
temperature and calculate its equation of state. Among other results, we find
that classically (i.e. without taking into account quantum corrections) the
compressibility of BPS skyrmions is, in fact, infinite, corresponding to a zero
compression modulus. This suggests that the inclusion of the BPS submodel into
the Skyrme model lagrangian may significantly reduce this too large value,
providing further evidence for the claim that the BPS Skyrme model may play an
important role in the description of nuclei and nuclear matter.Comment: Latex, 26 pages, 1 figure; v2: some typos corrected, version accepted
for publication in Phys. Rev.
Baryon chemical potential and in-medium properties of BPS skyrmions
We continue the investigation of thermodynamical properties of the BPS Skyrme
model. In particular, we analytically compute the baryon chemical potential
both in the full field theory and in a mean-field approximation. In the full
field theory case, we find that the baryon chemical potential is always exactly
proportional to the baryon density, for arbitrary solutions. We further find
that, in the mean-field approximation, the BPS Skyrme model approaches the
Walecka model in the limit of high density - their thermodynamical functions as
well as the equation of state agree in this limit. This fact allows to read off
some properties of the -meson from the BPS Skyrme action, even though
the latter model is entirely based on the (pionic) Skyrme field. On the
other hand, at low densities, at the order of the usual nuclear matter density,
the equations of state of the two models are no longer universal, such that a
comparison depends on some model details. Still, also the BPS Skyrme model
gives rise to nuclear saturation in this regime, leading, in fact, to an exact
balance between repulsive and attractive forces. The perfect fluid aspects of
the BPS Skyrme model, which, together with its BPS properties, form the base of
our results, are shown to be in close formal analogy with the Eulerian
formulation of relativistic fluid dynamics. Within this analogy, the BPS Skyrme
model, in general, corresponds to a non-barotropic perfect fluid.Comment: Latex, 28 pages, 3 figure
TGRS Observations of Positron Annihilation in Classical Novae
The TGRS experiment on board the Wind spacecraft has many advantages as a sky
monitor --- broad field of view (~2 pi) centered on the south ecliptic pole),
long life (1994-present), and stable low background and continuous coverage due
to Wind's high altitude high eccentricity orbit. The Ge detector has sufficient
energy resolution (3-4 keV at 511 keV) to resolve a cosmic positron
annihilation line from the strong background annihilation line from beta-decays
induced by cosmic ray impacts on the instrument, if the cosmic line is
Doppler-shifted by this amount. Such lines (blueshifted) are predicted from
nucleosynthesis in classical novae. We have searched the entire TGRS database
for 1995-1997 for this line, with negative results. In principle such a search
could yield an unbiased upper limit on the highly-uncertain Galactic nova rate.
We carefully examined the times around the known nova events during this
period, also with negative results. The upper limit on the nova line flux in a
6-hr interval is typically <3.8 E-3 photon/(cm2 s) at 4.6 sigma. We performed
the same analysis for times around the outburst of Nova Vel 1999, obtaining a
worse limit due to recent degradation of the detector response caused by cosmic
ray induced damage.Comment: 5 pp. inc. 3 figs. Proc. 5th Compton Symposium (AIP Conf. Series),
ed. M. McConnell, in pres
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Engineering Morphological Development in a Robotic Bipedal Walking Problem: An Empirical Study
Financiado para publicación en acceso aberto: Universidade da Coruña/CISUG[Abstract]: In living beings, the natural development of the body has been shown to facilitate learning. The application of these natural developmental principles in robotics have been considered in different robotic morphologies and scenarios, leading to mixed results. Development was found to be beneficial for learning in some instances, but also irrelevant or detrimental in others. This mix of results and scenarios has allowed researchers to extract some notions about the conditions that must be fulfilled or set to apply morphological development successfully. Notions that we have organized to set a series of design conditions to successfully apply morphological development. Thus, in this article, we are going to focus on the study of one of them that has been frequently addressed by researchers in their studies in very general terms. It can be described as the need to achieve a suitable synergy among the different components involved in the development and learning process: morphological development strategy, controller, task, and learning algorithm. In particular, we have concentrated on empirically determining the influence of five developmental strategies, implemented in different ways, applied at different speeds and deployed in different orders and combinations, over the problem of a NAO robot controlled by an artificial neural network obtained through a neuroevolutionary algorithm learning a bipedal walking task. The results obtained permit providing a more detailed description of what a suitable synergy implies and how it can be utilized to design more successful morphological developmental processes to improve robot learning.Xunta de Galicia ; EDC431C-2021/39Research supported by the European Commission Horizon program PILLAR-Robots project, grant 101070381, the Xunta de Galicia and the European Regional Development Funds under grant EDC431C-2021/39 and the Spanish Science and Education Ministry through grant PID2021-126220OB-100. We wish to acknowledge the support received from the Centro de Investigación de Galicia ‘‘CITIC”, funded by Xunta de Galicia and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund-Galicia 2014-2020 Program), by grant ED431G 2019/01 and the Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)Xunta de Galicia; ED431G 2019/0
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