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Nonlocal QED admits a finitely induced gauge field action
The Letter reconsiders a result obtained by Chr\'etien and Peierls in 1954
within nonlocal QED in 4D [Proc. Roy. Soc. London A 223, 468]. Starting from
secondly quantized fermions subject to a nonlocal action with the kernel and gauge covariantly coupled to an external
U(1) gauge field they found that for the induced gauge field action
cannot be made finite irrespectively of the choice of the nonlocality . But, the general case naturally to be studied admits a finitely
induced gauge field action, as the present Letter demonstrates.Comment: 10 pages LATEX. Paper also available at
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0962-8444%2819951208%29451%3A1943%3C571%3ANQE
AAF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V; erratum at
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1364-5021%2819960608%29452%3A1949%3C1503%3AEN
QEAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-
Tracing scientific influence
Scientometrics is the field of quantitative studies of scholarly activity. It
has been used for systematic studies of the fundamentals of scholarly practice
as well as for evaluation purposes. Although advocated from the very beginning
the use of scientometrics as an additional method for science history is still
under explored. In this paper we show how a scientometric analysis can be used
to shed light on the reception history of certain outstanding scholars. As a
case, we look into citation patterns of a specific paper by the American
sociologist Robert K. Merton.Comment: 25 pages LaTe
Isocliny in spinor space and Wilson fermions
We show that Clifford algebras are closely related to the study of isoclinic
subspaces of spinor spaces and, consequently, to the Hurwitz-Radon matrix
problem. Isocliny angles are introduced to parametrize gamma matrices, i.e.,
matrix representations of the generators of finite-dimensional Clifford
algebras C(m,n). Restricting the consideration to the Clifford algebra C(4,0),
this parametrization is then applied to the study of Dirac traces occurring in
Euclidean lattice quantum field theory within the hopping parameter expansion
for Wilson fermions.Comment: 31 pages LaTeX, 2 figure
Contextualization of topics - browsing through terms, authors, journals and cluster allocations
This paper builds on an innovative Information Retrieval tool, Ariadne. The
tool has been developed as an interactive network visualization and browsing
tool for large-scale bibliographic databases. It basically allows to gain
insights into a topic by contextualizing a search query (Koopman et al., 2015).
In this paper, we apply the Ariadne tool to a far smaller dataset of 111,616
documents in astronomy and astrophysics. Labeled as the Berlin dataset, this
data have been used by several research teams to apply and later compare
different clustering algorithms. The quest for this team effort is how to
delineate topics. This paper contributes to this challenge in two different
ways. First, we produce one of the different cluster solution and second, we
use Ariadne (the method behind it, and the interface - called LittleAriadne) to
display cluster solutions of the different group members. By providing a tool
that allows the visual inspection of the similarity of article clusters
produced by different algorithms, we present a complementary approach to other
possible means of comparison. More particular, we discuss how we can - with
LittleAriadne - browse through the network of topical terms, authors, journals
and cluster solutions in the Berlin dataset and compare cluster solutions as
well as see their context.Comment: proceedings of the ISSI 2015 conference (accepted
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