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Non-circular rotating beams and CMB experiments
This paper is concerned with small angular scale experiments for the
observation of cosmic microwave background anisotropies. In the absence of
beam, the effects of partial coverage and pixelisation are disentangled and
analyzed (using simulations). Then, appropriate maps involving the CMB signal
plus the synchrotron and dust emissions from the Milky Way are simulated, and
an asymmetric beam --which turns following different strategies-- is used to
smooth the simulated maps. An associated circular beam is defined to estimate
the deviations in the angular power spectrum produced by beam asymmetry without
rotation and, afterwards, the deviations due to beam rotation are calculated.
For a certain large coverage, the deviations due to pure asymmetry and
asymmetry plus rotation appear to be very systematic (very similar in each
simulation). Possible applications of the main results of this paper to data
analysis in large coverage experiments --as PLANCK-- are outlined.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, to appear in A&
Trade Shoks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Oil-Exporting Economy
In this paper we analyze the role of trade shocks in shaping aggregate fluctuations in Venezuela from 1950 to 1995. To this end a stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy whose main productive activity rests in the exports of a single basic product is specified. Shocks to the terms of trade which are directly associated to oil price changes are modelled as a foreign transfer. We find that this approach gives predictions that are consistent with the time series properties of Venezuela when i) the income efect of consumption more than compensates the substitution effect that generates the oil transfer and, ii) there is imperfect capital mobility. In particular, our model specification captures the observed patterns of the main aggregates after the oil resource boom of 1974.Trade shocks, Aggregate fuctuations, Emerging economies.
How Noisy Data Affects Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming
Noise is a consequence of acquiring and pre-processing data from the
environment, and shows fluctuations from different sources---e.g., from
sensors, signal processing technology or even human error. As a machine
learning technique, Genetic Programming (GP) is not immune to this problem,
which the field has frequently addressed. Recently, Geometric Semantic Genetic
Programming (GSGP), a semantic-aware branch of GP, has shown robustness and
high generalization capability. Researchers believe these characteristics may
be associated with a lower sensibility to noisy data. However, there is no
systematic study on this matter. This paper performs a deep analysis of the
GSGP performance over the presence of noise. Using 15 synthetic datasets where
noise can be controlled, we added different ratios of noise to the data and
compared the results obtained with those of a canonical GP. The results show
that, as we increase the percentage of noisy instances, the generalization
performance degradation is more pronounced in GSGP than GP. However, in
general, GSGP is more robust to noise than GP in the presence of up to 10% of
noise, and presents no statistical difference for values higher than that in
the test bed.Comment: 8 pages, In proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, German
Vacuum type I spacetimes and aligned Papapetrou fields: symmetries
We analyze type I vacuum solutions admitting an isometry whose Killing
2--form is aligned with a principal bivector of the Weyl tensor, and we show
that these solutions belong to a family of type I metrics which admit a group
of isometries. We give a classification of this family and we study the
Bianchi type for each class. The classes compatible with an aligned Killing
2--form are also determined. The Szekeres-Brans theorem is extended to non
vacuum spacetimes with vanishing Cotton tensor.Comment: 19 pages; a reference adde
Type I vacuum solutions with aligned Papapetrou fields: an intrinsic characterization
We show that Petrov type I vacuum solutions admitting a Killing vector whose
Papapetrou field is aligned with a principal bivector of the Weyl tensor are
the Kasner and Taub metrics, their counterpart with timelike orbits and their
associated windmill-like solutions, as well as the Petrov homogeneous vacuum
solution. We recover all these metrics by using an integration method based on
an invariant classification which allows us to characterize every solution. In
this way we obtain an intrinsic and explicit algorithm to identify them.Comment: 14 pages; v2: added new section, references and tabl
An intrinsic characterization of 2+2 warped spacetimes
We give several equivalent conditions that characterize the 2+2 warped
spacetimes: imposing the existence of a Killing-Yano tensor subject to
complementary algebraic restrictions; in terms of the projector (or of the
canonical 2-form ) associated with the 2-planes of the warped product. These
planes are principal planes of the Weyl and/or Ricci tensors and can be
explicitly obtained from them. Therefore, we obtain the necessary and
sufficient (local) conditions for a metric tensor to be a 2+2 warped product.
These conditions exclusively involve explicit concomitants of the Riemann
tensor. We present a similar analysis for the conformally 2+2 product
spacetimes and give an invariant classification of them. The warped products
correspond to two of these invariant classes. The more degenerate class is the
set of product metrics which are also studied from an invariant point of view.Comment: 18 pages; submitted to Class. Quantum Grav
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