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Fourth Order Gradient Symplectic Integrator Methods for Solving the Time-Dependent Schr\"odinger Equation
We show that the method of splitting the operator
to fourth order with purely positive coefficients produces excellent algorithms
for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. These algorithms require
knowing the potential and the gradient of the potential. One 4th order
algorithm only requires four Fast Fourier Transformations per iteration. In a
one dimensional scattering problem, the 4th order error coefficients of these
new algorithms are roughly 500 times smaller than fourth order algorithms with
negative coefficient, such as those based on the traditional Ruth-Forest
symplectic integrator. These algorithms can produce converged results of
conventional second or fourth order algorithms using time steps 5 to 10 times
as large. Iterating these positive coefficient algorithms to 6th order also
produced better converged algorithms than iterating the Ruth-Forest algorithm
to 6th order or using Yoshida's 6th order algorithm A directly.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phy
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Deliberative Agenda Setting: Piloting Reform of Direct Democracy in California
Can the people deliberate to set the agenda for direct democracy in large scale states? How might such an institution work? The 2011 California Deliberative Poll piloted a solution to this problem helping to produce proposals that went to the ballot and also to the legislature. The paper reports on how this pilot worked and what it suggests about a possible institution to solve the deliberative agenda setting problem. The legislative proposal passed the legislature but the ballot proposition (Prop 31) failed. However, we show that the proposals actually deliberated on by the people might well have passed if not encumbered by additional elements not deliberated on by the public that drew opposition. The paper ends with an outline of how the process of deliberative agenda setting for the initiative might work, vetting proposals once every two years that could get on the ballot for a greatly reduced cost in signature collections. Adding deliberation to the agenda setting process would allow for a thoughtful and informed public will formation to determine the agenda for direct democracy
Testing for positive edge responses in a fragmented landscape in the Eastern Tiger (Papilio glaucus) and the Spicebush (P. troilus) swallowtail butterflies
Landscape changes such as habitat fragmentation and habitat loss are contributing to a global decline in biodiversity. While habitat fragmentation research has mainly focused on species that avoid edges, or the boundaries between different landcover types (negative edge response), a hypothesized resource distribution model predicts that species that require complementary resources in different landcovers will be most abundant at edges (positive edge response). Adults of Eastern Tiger (Papilio glaucus) and Spicebush (P. troilus) swallowtail butterflies require forests for oviposition sites and meadows for nectar resources. I examined the relative abundance and flight orientation of both species in relation to the forest/meadow edge to evaluate their edge response. Overall, I found that their distribution and flight behaviour was consistent with the positive edge response model, however there were differences between species and sexes. My results suggest that some degree of forest fragmentation in southernwestern Ontario can actually benefit some native species
Rank-finiteness for modular categories
We prove a rank-finiteness conjecture for modular categories: up to
equivalence, there are only finitely many modular categories of any fixed rank.
Our technical advance is a generalization of the Cauchy theorem in group theory
to the context of spherical fusion categories. For a modular category
with , the order of the modular -matrix, the Cauchy
theorem says that the set of primes dividing the global quantum dimension
in the Dedekind domain is identical to that
of .Comment: 25 pages (last version). Version 2: removed weakly integral rank 6
and integral rank 7 section, improved rank 5 classification up to monoidal
equivalence. Version 3: removed rank 5 classification (note title
change)--this will be published separately. Significantly improved expositio
On Alexander Wylie’s Jottings on the Science of the Chinese Arithmetic
Oral Presentation(Theme 2): R102Starting from August of 1852 the British Protestant missionary and sinologist, Alexander Wylie
(1815–1887), published in nine instalments an account Jottings on the Science of the Chinese Arithmetic
in the newspaper North China Herald. He explained clearly the purpose of his account at the beginning:
‘The object of the following desultory notes, made from time to time, in the course of some
researches entered upon, with another purpose in view, is to draw attention to the state of the
arithmetical science in China, a subject which has not been so fully explored as it might with
advantage, and on which some erroneous statements have been current in modern publications.’
Alexander Wylie is a well-known figure in the last quarter of the Qing Dynasty for his contribution
in transmitting Western science into China during the latter half of the 19th century. In mathematics
he was known for translating three treatises in collaboration with the Qing mathematician Li Shanlan
(1811–1882) — Supplementary Elements of Geometry in 1856 but published in 1865 (believed to be
based on the English translation of Book VII to XV of Elements by Henry Billingsley in 1570), Treatise
of Algebra in 1859 (based on Elements of Algebra by Agustus De Morgan in 1835) and Analytical
Geometry and Differential and Integral Calculus Step by Step in 1859 (based on Elements of Analytical
Geometry and of the Differential and Integral Calculus of Elias Loomis in 1850). He was also the author
of Compendium of Arithmetic published in 1853.
This presentation will discuss the knowledge of Chinese science and mathematics which most
European sinologists of the 18th and 19th centuries possessed and the low regard they held it in,
but the viewpoint of which was critically examined by Wylie in his account.published_or_final_versio
Extrapolated High-Order Propagators for Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations
We present a new class of high-order imaginary time propagators for
path-integral Monte Carlo simulations by subtracting lower order propagators.
By requiring all terms of the extrapolated propagator be sampled uniformly, the
subtraction only affects the potential part of the path integral. The
negligible violation of positivity of the resulting path integral at small time
steps has no discernable affect on the accuracy of our method. Thus in
principle arbitrarily high order algorithms can be devised for path-integral
Monte Carlo simulations. We verify this claim is by showing that fourth, sixth,
and eighth order convergence can indeed be achieved in solving for the ground
state of strongly interacting quantum many-body systems such as bulk liquid
He.Comment: 9 pages and 3 figures. Submitted to J. Chem. Phy
The home team advantage gives football referees something to ruminate about
Observation suggests that referees significantly contribute to the home team advantage in football. The atmosphere created by the home team fans is thought to be the major contributing factor, but the extent of this influence is dependent on the referee. The Decision-Specific Reinvestment Scale was developed to identify those individuals susceptible to disrupted decision making under pressure as a result of their tendency to overinvolve consciousness in decision making (Decision Reinvestment) or as a result of their tendency to ruminate upon poor decisions made in the past (Decision Rumination). We asked qualified referees to make a series of video-based decisions to examine whether the home team advantage effect was associated with a high or low tendency for Decision Reinvestment or Decision Rumination. We showed that referees categorized as high Decision Ruminators disproportionately made decisions in favour of the home team. The tendency to ruminate upon poor decisions may help explain some of the variance in the home team advantage effect shown by different referees. We conclude that aspects of personality should be considered in the development of training programs designed to improve and standardise football refereeing.published_or_final_versio
Bilateral Anterior Shoulder Dislocation
Introduction: Unilateral anterior shoulder dislocation is one of the most common problems encountered in orthopedic practice. However, simultaneous bilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulders is quite rare.
Case Presentation: We report a case of a 75-year-old woman presented with simultaneous bilateral anterior shoulder dislocation following a trauma, complicated with a traction injury to the posterior cord of the brachial plexus.
Conclusions: Bilateral anterior shoulder dislocation is very rare. The excessive traction force during closed reduction may lead to nerve palsy. Clear documentation of neurovascular status and adequate imaging before and after a reduction should be performed
On classification of modular categories by rank
The feasibility of a classification-by-rank program for modular categories
follows from the Rank-Finiteness Theorem. We develop arithmetic, representation
theoretic and algebraic methods for classifying modular categories by rank. As
an application, we determine all possible fusion rules for all rank= modular
categories and describe the corresponding monoidal equivalence classes.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1310.705
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