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Judgement aggregation functions and ultraproducts
The relationship between propositional model theory and social decision making via premise-based procedures is explored. A one-to-one correspondence between ultrafilters on the population set and weakly universal, unanimity-respecting, systematic judgment aggregation functions is established. The proof constructs an ultraproduct of profiles, viewed as propositional structures, with respect to the ultrafilter of decisive coalitions. This representation theorem can be used to prove other properties of such judgment aggregation functions, in particular sovereignty and monotonicity, as well as an impossibility theorem for judgment aggregation in finite populations. As a corollary, Lauwers and Van~Liedekerke's (1995) representation theorem for preference aggregation functions is derived.Judgment aggregation function; ultraproduct; ultrafilter
A simple approach to the correlation of rotovibrational states in four-atomic molecules
The problem of correlation between quantum states of four-atomic molecules in
different geometrical configurations is reviewed in detail. A general, still
simple rule is obtained which allows one to correlate states of a linear
four-atomic molecule with those of any kind of non-linear four-atomic molecule.Comment: 16 pages (+8 figures), Postscript (ready to print!
Reactions of C({\it a}) with selected saturated alkanes: A temperature dependence study
We present a temperature dependence study on the gas phase reactions of the
C({\it a}) radical with a selected series of saturated alkanes
(CH, CH, n-CH, i-CH, and n-CH) by
means of pulsed laser photolysis/laser-induced fluorescence technique. The
bimolecular rate constants for these reactions were obtained between 298 and
673 K. A pronounced negative temperature effect was observed for n-CH,
i-CH, and n-CH and interpreted in terms of steric hindrance
of the more reactive secondary or tertiary C-H bonds by less reactive CH
groups. Detailed analysis of our experimental results reveals quantitatively
the temperature dependence of reactivities for the primary, secondary, and
tertiary C-H bonds in these saturated alkanes and further lends support to a
mechanism of hydrogen abstraction.Comment: 26 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, 30 references; accepted to JC
Predicting and verifying transition strengths from weakly bound molecules
We investigated transition strengths from ultracold weakly bound 41K87Rb
molecules produced via the photoassociation of laser-cooled atoms. An accurate
potential energy curve of the excited state (3)1Sigma+ was constructed by
carrying out direct potential fit analysis of rotational spectra obtained via
depletion spectroscopy. Vibrational energies and rotational constants extracted
from the depletion spectra of v'=41-50 levels were combined with the results of
the previous spectroscopic study, and they were used for modifying an ab initio
potential. An accuracy of 0.14% in vibrational level spacing and 0.3% in
rotational constants was sufficient to predict the large observed variation in
transition strengths among the vibrational levels. Our results show that
transition strengths from weakly bound molecules are a good measure of the
accuracy of an excited state potential.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
Controlled Production of Sub-Radiant States of a Diatomic Molecule in an Optical Lattice
We report successful production of sub-radiant states of a two-atom system in
a three-dimensional optical lattice starting from doubly occupied sites in a
Mott insulator phase of a quantum gas of atomic ytterbium. We can selectively
produce either sub-radiant 1g state or super-radiant 0u state by choosing the
excitation laser frequency. The inherent weak excitation rate for the
sub-radiant 1g state is overcome by the increased atomic density due to the
tight-confinement in a three-dimensional optical lattice. Our experimental
measurements of binding energies, linewidth, and Zeeman shift confirm
observation of sub-radiant levels of the 1g state of the Yb_2 molecule.Comment: To be published in Phys. Rev. Let
Graph Convolutional Networks for Model-Based Learning in Nonlinear Inverse Problems
The majority of model-based learned image reconstruction methods in medical imaging have been limited to
uniform domains, such as pixelated images. If the underlying
model is solved on nonuniform meshes, arising from a finite
element method typical for nonlinear inverse problems, interpolation and embeddings are needed. To overcome this, we
present a flexible framework to extend model-based learning
directly to nonuniform meshes, by interpreting the mesh as a
graph and formulating our network architectures using graph
convolutional neural networks. This gives rise to the proposed
iterative Graph Convolutional Newton-type Method (GCNM),
which includes the forward model in the solution of the inverse
problem, while all updates are directly computed by the network
on the problem specific mesh. We present results for Electrical
Impedance Tomography, a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse
problem that is frequently solved via optimization-based methods,
where the forward problem is solved by finite element methods.
Results for absolute EIT imaging are compared to standard
iterative methods as well as a graph residual network. We
show that the GCNM has strong generalizability to different
domain shapes and meshes, out of distribution data as well
as experimental data, from purely simulated training data and
without transfer training
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