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The «Enterprise of Innovation» in hard times: corporate culture and performance in Italian high- tech companies
On the absence of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background
The magnification of distant sources by mass clumps at lower ()
redshifts is calculated analytically. The clumps are initially assumed to be
galaxy group isothermal spheres with properties inferred from an extensive
survey. The average effect, which includes strong lensing, is exactly
counteracted by the beam divergence in between clumps (more precisely, the
average reciprocal magnification cancels the inverse Dyer-Roeder
demagnification). This conclusion is in fact independent of the matter density
function within each clump, and remains valid for arbitrary densities of matter
and dark energy. When tested against the CMB, a rather large lensing induced
{\it dispersion} in the angular size of the primary acoustic peaks of the TT
power spectrum is inconsistent with WMAP observations. The situation is
unchanged by the use of NFW profiles for the density distribution of groups.
Finally, our formulae are applied to an ensemble of NFW mass clumps or
isothermal spheres having the parameters of galaxy {\it clusters}. The acoustic
peak size dispersion remains unobservably large, and is also excluded by WMAP.
For galaxy groups, two possible ways of reconciling with the data are proposed,
both exploiting maximally the uncertainties in our knowledge of group
properties. The same escape routes are not available in the case of clusters,
however, because their properties are well understood. Here we have a more
robust conclusion: neither of the widely accepted models are good description
of clusters, or important elements of physics responsible for shaping zero
curvature space are missing from the standard cosmological model. When all the
effects are accrued, it is difficult to understand how WMAP could reveal no
evidence whatsoever of lensing by groups and clusters.Comment: ApJ v628, pp. 583-593 (August 1, 2005
Tav e grandi opere: non è solo un problema di costi
Le grandi opere non solo costano tanto, ma sono spesso inutili. Per giustificarle ci si affida a previsioni di aumento del traffico poco
realistiche. Sono necessarie analisi costi-benefici terze, indipendenti e interamente riproducibili
Per un pugno di opere
La svolta decisa dal governo per le infrastrutture medie e piccole dovrebbe essere adottata anche per quelle grandi, abbandonando così
l’idea che le opere “strategiche” generino una forte domanda. Altrimenti, dovremo rassegnarci ai cantieri “stop and go”. E al moltiplicarsi dei
costi
Regularity bounds by minimal generators and Hilbert function
Let be the regularity of the Hilbert function of a projective curve in \mbox {P}^n_K over an algebraically closed field and
be degrees for which there exists a complete intersection of type () containing properly . Then the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of is bounded above by max .We investigate the sharpness of the above bound, which is achieved by curves algebraically linked to ones having degenerate general hyperplane section
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