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Non-Hausdorff Symmetries of C*-algebras
Symmetry groups or groupoids of C*-algebras associated to non-Hausdorff
spaces are often non-Hausdorff as well. We describe such symmetries using
crossed modules of groupoids. We define actions of crossed modules on
C*-algebras and crossed products for such actions, and justify these
definitions with some basic general results and examples.Comment: very minor changes. To appear in Math. An
Design and optimization of electrochemical microreactors for continuous electrosynthesis
The study focuses on the design and construction, as well as the theoretical and experimental optimization of electrochemical filter press microreactors for the electrosynthesis of molecules with a high added value. The main characteristics of these devices are firstly a high-specific electrochemical area to increase conversion and selectivity, and secondly the shape and size of themicrochannels designed for a uniform residence time distribution of the fluid. A heat exchanger is integrated into the microstructured electrode to rapidly remove (or supply) the heat required in exo- or endothermic reactions. The microreactors designed are used to perform-specific electrosynthesis reactions such as thermodynamically unfavorable reactions (continuous NADH regeneration), or reactions with high enthalpy changes
Constraints on the Cosmic Infra-Red Background based on BeppoSAX and CAT spectra of Mkn 501
The TeV and X-ray data obtained by the imaging Cherenkov telescope CAT and X-ray satellite BeppoSAX during the remarkable flare of Mkn 501 in April 16, 1997 are used to constrain the flux of the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) using different CIB models. We show that a non-negligible absorption of gamma-rays due to the CIB could take place already in the low-energy (sub-TeV) domain of the spectrum of Mkn 501. This implies that the data of the low-energy threshold CAT telescope contain very important information about the CIB at short wavelengths, 0.4 mum <= lambda <= 3. mum. The analysis of almost simultaneous spectroscopic measurements of Mkn 501 in a high state by CAT and BeppoSAX in the framework of the standard homogeneous Synchrotron-Self-Compton (SSC) framework model leads to the conclusion that the density of the near-infrared background with typical ``starlight spectrum'' around 1 mum should be between 5 and 35 nW m^-2 sr^-1 (99 % CL), with most likely value around 20 nW m^-2 sr^-1. Also we argue that the CAT gamma-ray data alone allow rather robust upper limits on the CIB, lambda F_lambda <= 60 nW m^-2 sr^-1 at 1 mum, taking into account that for any reasonable scenario of gamma-ray production the differential intrinsic spectrum of gamma-ray hardly could be flatter than dN/dE == E^-1. This estimate agrees, within statistical and systematic uncertainties, with recent reports about tentative detections of the CIB at 2.2 and 3.5 mum by the Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE), as well as with the measurements of the background radiation at optical wavelengths from absolute photometry. We also discuss the impact of the intergalactic absorption effect in derivation of the SSC parameters for the jet in Mkn 501
Cartan subalgebras in C*-algebras of Hausdorff etale groupoids
The reduced -algebra of the interior of the isotropy in any Hausdorff
\'etale groupoid embeds as a -subalgebra of the reduced
-algebra of . We prove that the set of pure states of with unique
extension is dense, and deduce that any representation of the reduced
-algebra of that is injective on is faithful. We prove that there
is a conditional expectation from the reduced -algebra of onto if
and only if the interior of the isotropy in is closed. Using this, we prove
that when the interior of the isotropy is abelian and closed, is a Cartan
subalgebra. We prove that for a large class of groupoids with abelian
isotropy---including all Deaconu--Renault groupoids associated to discrete
abelian groups--- is a maximal abelian subalgebra. In the specific case of
-graph groupoids, we deduce that is always maximal abelian, but show by
example that it is not always Cartan.Comment: 14 pages. v2: Theorem 3.1 in v1 incorrect (thanks to A. Kumjain for
pointing out the error); v2 shows there is a conditional expectation onto
iff the interior of the isotropy is closed. v3: Material (including some
theorem statements) rearranged and shortened. Lemma~3.5 of v2 removed. This
version published in Integral Equations and Operator Theor
Constrained Dynamics of Universally Coupled Massive Spin 2-spin 0 Gravities
The 2-parameter family of massive variants of Einstein's gravity (on a
Minkowski background) found by Ogievetsky and Polubarinov by excluding lower
spins can also be derived using universal coupling. A Dirac-Bergmann
constrained dynamics analysis seems not to have been presented for these
theories, the Freund-Maheshwari-Schonberg special case, or any other massive
gravity beyond the linear level treated by Marzban, Whiting and van Dam. Here
the Dirac-Bergmann apparatus is applied to these theories. A few remarks are
made on the question of positive energy. Being bimetric, massive gravities have
a causality puzzle, but it appears soluble by the introduction and judicious
use of gauge freedom.Comment: 6 pages; Talk given at QG05, Cala Gonone (Italy), September 200
Характеристики температурного режиму приповерхневих шарів гірських порід за даними досліджень на геофізичній станції "Лисовичі" (Передкарпаття)
В роботі за даними спеціальних польових геотермічних досліджень (так званого вертикального геотермічного зондування) на станції “Лисовичі” поблизу м. Моршина в Передкарпатті, проведених геотермічною апаратурою з кварцовими термочастотними датчиками, проаналізовано сезонні особливості температурного режиму верхніх шарів гірських порід та ґрунтів.В работе по данным специальных полевых геотермических исследований (так называемого вертикального геотермического зондирования) на станции “Лисовичи” вблизи г. Моршина в Предкарпатье, проведенных геотермической аппаратурой с кварцевыми термочастотными датчиками, проанализированы сезонные особенности температурного режима верхних слоев горных пород и грунтов.In the article by data of the special fields geothermal researches (so-called vertical geothermal sounding) in the station “Lysovychy” near-by Morshyn in Precarpathians carried out by a geothermal apparatus with quartzs termofrequency sensors the seasonal peculiarities of temperature regime of rocks near surface layers and ground are analysed
Assesment of potential swelling of Pressurized Water Reactor internals The GONDOLE experiment in Osiris reactor
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Type I D-branes in an H-flux and twisted KO-theory
Witten has argued that charges of Type I D-branes in the presence of an
H-flux, take values in twisted KO-theory. We begin with the study of real
bundle gerbes and their holonomy. We then introduce the notion of real bundle
gerbe KO-theory which we establish is a geometric realization of twisted
KO-theory. We examine the relation with twisted K-theory, the Chern character
and provide some examples. We conclude with some open problems.Comment: 23 pages, Latex2e, 2 new references adde
Quantized reduction as a tensor product
Symplectic reduction is reinterpreted as the composition of arrows in the
category of integrable Poisson manifolds, whose arrows are isomorphism classes
of dual pairs, with symplectic groupoids as units. Morita equivalence of
Poisson manifolds amounts to isomorphism of objects in this category.
This description paves the way for the quantization of the classical
reduction procedure, which is based on the formal analogy between dual pairs of
Poisson manifolds and Hilbert bimodules over C*-algebras, as well as with
correspondences between von Neumann algebras. Further analogies are drawn with
categories of groupoids (of algebraic, measured, Lie, and symplectic type). In
all cases, the arrows are isomorphism classes of appropriate bimodules, and
their composition may be seen as a tensor product. Hence in suitable categories
reduction is simply composition of arrows, and Morita equivalence is
isomorphism of objects.Comment: 44 pages, categorical interpretation adde
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