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Analyticity of the SRB measure for a class of simple Anosov flows
We consider perturbations of the Hamiltonian flow associated with the
geodesic flow on a surface of constant negative curvature. We prove that, under
a small perturbation, not necessarely of Hamiltonian character, the SRB measure
associated to the flow exists and is analytic in the strength of the
perturbation. An explicit example of "thermostatted" dissipative dynamics is
constructed.Comment: 23 pages, corrected typo
Late cretaceous extensional tectonics and associated igneous activity on the northern margin of the Gulf of Mexico Basin
Major, dominantly compressional, orogenic episodes (Taconic, Acadian, Alleghenian) affected eastern North America during the Paleozoic. During the Mesozoic, in contrast, this same region was principally affected by epeirogenic and extensional tectonism; one episode of comparatively more intense tectonic activity involving extensive faulting, uplift, sedimentation, intrusion and effusion produced the Newark Series of eposits and fault block phenomena. This event, termed the Palisades Disturbance, took place during the Late Triassic - Earliest Jurassic. The authors document a comparable extensional tectonic-igneous event occurring during the Late Cretaceous (Early Gulfian; Cenomanian-Santonian) along the southern margin of the cratonic platform from Arkansas to Georgia
A head-up display for mid-air drone recovery
During mid-air retrieval of parachute packages, the absence of a natural horizon creates serious difficulties for the pilot of the recovery helicopter. A head-up display (HUD) was tested in an attempt to solve this problem. Both a roll-stabilized HUD and a no-roll (pitch only) HUD were tested. The results show that fewer missed passes occurred with the roll-stabilized HUD when the horizon was obscured. The pilots also reported that the workload was greatly reduced. Roll-stabilization was required to prevent vertigo when flying in the absence of a natural horizon. Any HUD intended for mid-air retrieval should display pitch, roll, sideslip, airspeed, and vertical velocity
The use of Kodak aerochrome infrared color film, type 2443, as a remote sensing tool
An infrared color film, Kodak Aerochrome, type 2443, has replaced the 8443 film. The 2443 has lower contrast than the 8443 film, and allows deeper probing into areas that appear as solid black shadows on the 8443 film. The cyan layer of 2443 is approximately 1 1/2 stops slower, at a density of 1.4, than the yellow and magenta emulsion layers
Inversely Unstable Solutions of Two-Dimensional Systems on Genus-p Surfaces and the Topology of Knotted Attractors
In this paper, we will show that a periodic nonlinear, time-varying
dissipative system that is defined on a genus-p surface contains one or more
invariant sets which act as attractors. Moreover, we shall generalize a result
in [Martins, 2004] and give conditions under which these invariant sets are not
homeomorphic to a circle individually, which implies the existence of chaotic
behaviour. This is achieved by studying the appearance of inversely unstable
solutions within each invariant set.Comment: 19 pages with 20 figures, AMS La-TeX, to be published in
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chao
Current and future graphics requirements for LaRC and proposed future graphics system
The findings of an investigation to assess the current and future graphics requirements of the LaRC researchers with respect to both hardware and software are presented. A graphics system designed to meet these requirements is proposed
Squeezed state purification with linear optics and feed forward
A scheme for optimal and deterministic linear optical purification of mixed
squeezed Gaussian states is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The
scheme requires only linear optical elements and homodyne detectors, and allows
the balance between purification efficacy and squeezing degradation to be
controlled. One particular choice of parameters gave a ten-fold reduction of
the thermal noise with a corresponding squeezing degradation of only 11%. We
prove optimality of the protocol, and show that it can be used to enhance the
performance of quantum informational protocols such as dense coding and
entanglement generation.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Statistical mechanics of damage phenomena
This paper applies the formalism of classical, Gibbs-Boltzmann statistical
mechanics to the phenomenon of non-thermal damage. As an example, a non-thermal
fiber-bundle model with the global uniform (meanfield) load sharing is
considered. Stochastic topological behavior in the system is described in terms
of an effective temperature parameter thermalizing the system. An equation of
state and a topological analog of the energy-balance equation are obtained. The
formalism of the free energy potential is developed, and the nature of the
first order phase transition and spinodal is demonstrated.Comment: Critical point appeared to be a spinodal poin
Collisions of boosted black holes: perturbation theory prediction of gravitational radiation
We consider general relativistic Cauchy data representing two nonspinning,
equal-mass black holes boosted toward each other. When the black holes are
close enough to each other and their momentum is sufficiently high, an
encompassing apparent horizon is present so the system can be viewed as a
single, perturbed black hole. We employ gauge-invariant perturbation theory,
and integrate the Zerilli equation to analyze these time-asymmetric data sets
and compute gravitational wave forms and emitted energies. When coupled with a
simple Newtonian analysis of the infall trajectory, we find striking agreement
between the perturbation calculation of emitted energies and the results of
fully general relativistic numerical simulations of time-symmetric initial
data.Comment: 5 pages (RevTex 3.0 with 3 uuencoded figures), CRSR-107
Finite type approximations of Gibbs measures on sofic subshifts
Consider a H\"older continuous potential defined on the full shift
A^\nn, where is a finite alphabet. Let X\subset A^\nn be a specified
sofic subshift. It is well-known that there is a unique Gibbs measure
on associated to . Besides, there is a natural nested
sequence of subshifts of finite type converging to the sofic subshift
. To this sequence we can associate a sequence of Gibbs measures
. In this paper, we prove that these measures weakly converge
at exponential speed to (in the classical distance metrizing weak
topology). We also establish a strong mixing property (ensuring weak
Bernoullicity) of . Finally, we prove that the measure-theoretic
entropy of converges to the one of exponentially fast.
We indicate how to extend our results to more general subshifts and potentials.
We stress that we use basic algebraic tools (contractive properties of iterated
matrices) and symbolic dynamics.Comment: 18 pages, no figure
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