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Effectively Closed Infinite-Genus Surfaces and the String Coupling
The class of effectively closed infinite-genus surfaces, defining the
completion of the domain of string perturbation theory, can be included in the
category , which is characterized by the vanishing capacity of the ideal
boundary. The cardinality of the maximal set of endpoints is shown to be
2^{\mit N}. The product of the coefficient of the genus-g superstring
amplitude in four dimensions by in the limit is an
exponential function of the genus with a base comparable in magnitude to the
unified gauge coupling. The value of the string coupling is consistent with the
characteristics of configurations which provide a dominant contribution to a
finite vacuum amplitude.Comment: TeX, 33 page
Heat-transfer and pressure drop correlations for hydrogen and nitrogen flowing through tungsten wire mesh at temperatures to 5200 deg r
Heat transfer and friction pressure drop for forced convection of hydrogen and nitrogen through electrically heated tungsten wire mes
A 4500 deg R /2500 deg K/ flowing-gas facility
High temperature flowing gas heater consisting of four stages for heating gase
Behavioural clusters and predictors of performance during recovery from stroke
We examined the patterns and variability of recovery post-stroke in multiple behavioral domains. A large cohort of first time stroke patients with heterogeneous lesions was studied prospectively and longitudinally at 1-2 weeks, 3 months and one year post-injury with structural MRI to measure lesion anatomy and in-depth neuropsychological assessment. Impairment was described at all timepoints by a few clusters of correlated deficits. The time course and magnitude of recovery was similar across domains, with change scores largely proportional to the initial deficit and most recovery occurring within the first three months. Damage to specific white matter tracts produced poorer recovery over several domains: attention and superior longitudinal fasciculus II/III, language and posterior arcuate fasciculus, motor and corticospinal tract. Finally, after accounting for the severity of the initial deficit, language and visual memory recovery/outcome was worse with lower education, while the occurrence of multiple deficits negatively impacted attention recovery
A Computational Procedure to Detect a New Type of High Dimensional Chaotic Saddle and its Application to the 3-D Hill's Problem
A computational procedure that allows the detection of a new type of
high-dimensional chaotic saddle in Hamiltonian systems with three degrees of
freedom is presented. The chaotic saddle is associated with a so-called
normally hyperbolic invariant manifold (NHIM). The procedure allows to compute
appropriate homoclinic orbits to the NHIM from which we can infer the existence
a chaotic saddle. NHIMs control the phase space transport across an equilibrium
point of saddle-centre-...-centre stability type, which is a fundamental
mechanism for chemical reactions, capture and escape, scattering, and, more
generally, ``transformation'' in many different areas of physics. Consequently,
the presented methods and results are of broad interest. The procedure is
illustrated for the spatial Hill's problem which is a well known model in
celestial mechanics and which gained much interest e.g. in the study of the
formation of binaries in the Kuiper belt.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, pdflatex, submitted to JPhys
Dipole Moments of ff-Bonded Complexes
This paper deals with the information which can be obtained
from dielectric measurements about the structure of H-bonded
complexes in the liquid phase.
In the first part the basic equations used in the determination
of the dipole moments in the liquid phase are discussed. For pure
polar liquid Onsager\u27s equations lead to values of the moments
which may differ from those of the gas phase. According to Kirkwood
these deviations are due to preferential orientation effects
between the molecules. In pure liquids these deviations are only
very important in the case of the formation of H-bonds.
The interpretation of experimental dipole data for self associated
compounds such as alcohols, carboxylic acids, amides, amines,
anilines and pyridines is presented.
A method used for the experimental determination of dipole
moments for one-one hydrogen bonded complexes is discussed.
μab depends not only on the moments of the separate partners μa
and μb but also on the angles -&a and Db which these moments
form with the direction of the hydrogen bond. Furthermore, flab ....
also depends on the dipole increment, /),.μ, originated by the displacements
of electrons and nuclei brought about by the formation
of the. ...b ond.
/),.μ in turn, will depend on the f),.pKa, the difference between
the pK. of the conjugated acid of the proton acceptor and that of
the acid. Sigmoidal curves are obtained which can be interpreted
as resulting from a tautomerism between »normal« and »proton
transfer« hydrogen bonds.
The dependence of /),.μ on the enthalpy of bond formation,
- /),.Hh, also gives a sigmoidal curve which is approximately the
same for all H-bonds of a given kind (0-H ... 0, 0-H ... N etc.)
in a given solvent.
This dependence can be used for the calculation of /),.μ. Using
this value with the experimental moments μab• μa and /lb it is then
possible to deduce angular parameters for a given H-bonded complex.
A few examples are discussed
Integrable Deformations of Algebraic Curves
A general scheme for determining and studying integrable deformations of
algebraic curves, based on the use of Lenard relations, is presented. We
emphasize the use of several types of dynamical variables : branches, power
sums and potentials.Comment: 10 Pages, Proceedings Workshop-Nonlinear Physics: Theory and
Experiment, Gallipoli 200
On parity functions in conformal field theories
We examine general aspects of parity functions arising in rational conformal
field theories, as a result of Galois theoretic properties of modular
transformations. We focus more specifically on parity functions associated with
affine Lie algebras, for which we give two efficient formulas. We investigate
the consequences of these for the modular invariance problem.Comment: 18 pages, no figure, LaTeX2
Polymer-mediated entropic forces between scale-free objects
The number of configurations of a polymer is reduced in the presence of a
barrier or an obstacle. The resulting loss of entropy adds a repulsive
component to other forces generated by interaction potentials. When the
obstructions are scale invariant shapes (such as cones, wedges, lines or
planes) the only relevant length scales are the polymer size R_0 and
characteristic separations, severely constraining the functional form of
entropic forces. Specifically, we consider a polymer (single strand or star)
attached to the tip of a cone, at a separation h from a surface (or another
cone). At close proximity, such that h<<R_0, separation is the only remaining
relevant scale and the entropic force must take the form F=AkT/h. The amplitude
A is universal, and can be related to exponents \eta governing the anomalous
scaling of polymer correlations in the presence of obstacles. We use
analytical, numerical and epsilon-expansion techniques to compute the exponent
\eta for a polymer attached to the tip of the cone (with or without an
additional plate or cone) for ideal and self-avoiding polymers. The entropic
force is of the order of 0.1 pN at 0.1 micron for a single polymer, and can be
increased for a star polymer.Comment: LaTeX, 15 pages, 4 eps figure
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