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    Sur certaines relations entre les intégrales trajectorielles et l'opérateur de translation et son dual dans l'espace de Poisson canonique

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    We study the relationship between the translation operator, its dual and the pathwise integral on the Poisson space with weak conditions on the processes

    Red Queen Coevolution on Fitness Landscapes

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    Species do not merely evolve, they also coevolve with other organisms. Coevolution is a major force driving interacting species to continuously evolve ex- ploring their fitness landscapes. Coevolution involves the coupling of species fit- ness landscapes, linking species genetic changes with their inter-specific ecological interactions. Here we first introduce the Red Queen hypothesis of evolution com- menting on some theoretical aspects and empirical evidences. As an introduction to the fitness landscape concept, we review key issues on evolution on simple and rugged fitness landscapes. Then we present key modeling examples of coevolution on different fitness landscapes at different scales, from RNA viruses to complex ecosystems and macroevolution.Comment: 40 pages, 12 figures. To appear in "Recent Advances in the Theory and Application of Fitness Landscapes" (H. Richter and A. Engelbrecht, eds.). Springer Series in Emergence, Complexity, and Computation, 201

    Pauli graphs, Riemann hypothesis, Goldbach pairs

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    Let consider the Pauli group Pq=\mathcal{P}_q= with unitary quantum generators XX (shift) and ZZ (clock) acting on the vectors of the qq-dimensional Hilbert space via Xs>=s+1>X|s> =|s+1> and Zs>=ωss>Z|s> =\omega^s |s>, with ω=exp(2iπ/q)\omega=\exp(2i\pi/q). It has been found that the number of maximal mutually commuting sets within Pq\mathcal{P}_q is controlled by the Dedekind psi function ψ(q)=qpq(1+1p)\psi(q)=q \prod_{p|q}(1+\frac{1}{p}) (with pp a prime) \cite{Planat2011} and that there exists a specific inequality ψ(q)q>eγloglogq\frac{\psi (q)}{q}>e^{\gamma}\log \log q, involving the Euler constant γ0.577\gamma \sim 0.577, that is only satisfied at specific low dimensions qA={2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,18,30}q \in \mathcal {A}=\{2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,18,30\}. The set A\mathcal{A} is closely related to the set A{1,24}\mathcal{A} \cup \{1,24\} of integers that are totally Goldbach, i.e. that consist of all primes p2p2) is equivalent to Riemann hypothesis. Introducing the Hardy-Littlewood function R(q)=2C2pnp1p2R(q)=2 C_2 \prod_{p|n}\frac{p-1}{p-2} (with C20.660C_2 \sim 0.660 the twin prime constant), that is used for estimating the number g(q)R(q)qln2qg(q) \sim R(q) \frac{q}{\ln^2 q} of Goldbach pairs, one shows that the new inequality R(Nr)loglogNreγ\frac{R(N_r)}{\log \log N_r} \gtrapprox e^{\gamma} is also equivalent to Riemann hypothesis. In this paper, these number theoretical properties are discusssed in the context of the qudit commutation structure.Comment: 11 page

    A lattice model for the line tension of a sessile drop

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    Within a semi--infinite thre--dimensional lattice gas model describing the coexistence of two phases on a substrate, we study, by cluster expansion techniques, the free energy (line tension) associated with the contact line between the two phases and the substrate. We show that this line tension, is given at low temperature by a convergent series whose leading term is negative, and equals 0 at zero temperature

    Contribució a la flora dels macromicets de l'illa de Mallorca

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    Com a resultat de les prospeccions micològiques realitzades a Mallorca entre els anys 1983 i 1990, donem a conèixer un catàleg de 218 taxons (8 Ascomycetes i 210 Basidiomycetes), dels quals creiem que 74 corresponen a citacions noves per a l'illa. En destaquem, entre d'altres: Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link, Daldinia vernicosa (Schw.) Ces. et de Not., Dichomitus campestris (Quél.) Domanski et Ori., Agaricus lanipes (Moell. et Schaeff.) Sing., Amanita boudieri Barla, Clitocybe lituus (Fr.) Metr., Hygrocybe reai Mre., Inocybe tenebrosa Quél., Leucopaxillus tricolor (Peck) Kühn, i Russula seperina Dupain

    The shape of ecological networks

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    We study the statistics of ecosystems with a variable number of co-evolving species. The species interact in two ways: by prey-predator relationships and by direct competition with similar kinds. The interaction coefficients change slowly through successful adaptations and speciations. We treat them as quenched random variables. These interactions determine long-term topological features of the species network, which are found to agree with those of biological systems.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

    Synchronization and Stability in Noisy Population Dynamics

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    We study the stability and synchronization of predator-prey populations subjected to noise. The system is described by patches of local populations coupled by migration and predation over a neighborhood. When a single patch is considered, random perturbations tend to destabilize the populations, leading to extinction. If the number of patches is small, stabilization in the presence of noise is maintained at the expense of synchronization. As the number of patches increases, both the stability and the synchrony among patches increase. However, a residual asynchrony, large compared with the noise amplitude, seems to persist even in the limit of infinite number of patches. Therefore, the mechanism of stabilization by asynchrony recently proposed by R. Abta et. al., combining noise, diffusion and nonlinearities, seems to be more general than first proposed.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev.

    Some asymptotic properties of duplication graphs

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    Duplication graphs are graphs that grow by duplication of existing vertices, and are important models of biological networks, including protein-protein interaction networks and gene regulatory networks. Three models of graph growth are studied: pure duplication growth, and two two-parameter models in which duplication forms one element of the growth dynamics. A power-law degree distribution is found to emerge in all three models. However, the parameter space of the latter two models is characterized by a range of parameter values for which duplication is the predominant mechanism of graph growth. For parameter values that lie in this ``duplication-dominated'' regime, it is shown that the degree distribution either approaches zero asymptotically, or approaches a non-zero power-law degree distribution very slowly. In either case, the approach to the true asymptotic degree distribution is characterized by a dependence of the scaling exponent on properties of the initial degree distribution. It is therefore conjectured that duplication-dominated, scale-free networks may contain identifiable remnants of their early structure. This feature is inherited from the idealized model of pure duplication growth, for which the exact finite-size degree distribution is found and its asymptotic properties studied.Comment: 19 pages, including 3 figure

    Link Prediction Based on Local Random Walk

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    The problem of missing link prediction in complex networks has attracted much attention recently. Two difficulties in link prediction are the sparsity and huge size of the target networks. Therefore, the design of an efficient and effective method is of both theoretical interests and practical significance. In this Letter, we proposed a method based on local random walk, which can give competitively good prediction or even better prediction than other random-walk-based methods while has a lower computational complexity.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
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