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Operations between sets in geometry
An investigation is launched into the fundamental characteristics of
operations on and between sets, with a focus on compact convex sets and star
sets (compact sets star-shaped with respect to the origin) in -dimensional
Euclidean space . For example, it is proved that if , with three
trivial exceptions, an operation between origin-symmetric compact convex sets
is continuous in the Hausdorff metric, GL(n) covariant, and associative if and
only if it is addition for some . It is also
demonstrated that if , an operation * between compact convex sets is
continuous in the Hausdorff metric, GL(n) covariant, and has the identity
property (i.e., for all compact convex sets , where
denotes the origin) if and only if it is Minkowski addition. Some analogous
results for operations between star sets are obtained. An operation called
-addition is generalized and systematically studied for the first time.
Geometric-analytic formulas that characterize continuous and GL(n)-covariant
operations between compact convex sets in terms of -addition are
established. The term "polynomial volume" is introduced for the property of
operations * between compact convex or star sets that the volume of ,
, is a polynomial in the variables and . It is proved that if
, with three trivial exceptions, an operation between origin-symmetric
compact convex sets is continuous in the Hausdorff metric, GL(n) covariant,
associative, and has polynomial volume if and only if it is Minkowski addition
On the large-Q^2 behavior of the pion transition form factor
We study the transition of non-perturbative to perturbative QCD in situations
with possible violations of scaling limits. To this end we consider the singly-
and doubly-virtual pion transition form factor at all
momentum scales of symmetric and asymmetric photon momenta within the
Dyson-Schwinger/Bethe-Salpeter approach. For the doubly virtual form factor we
find good agreement with perturbative asymptotic scaling laws. For the
singly-virtual form factor our results agree with the Belle data. At very large
off-shell photon momenta we identify a mechanism that introduces quantitative
modifications to Efremov-Radyushkin-Brodsky-Lepage scaling.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures, v3:contents revised, version published in PL
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