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OPEN REGIONALISM IN APEC: IMPACTS ON U.S. AGRICULTURE AND TRADE
APEC's "open regionalism" calls for free-trade in APEC but with benefits also accruing to non-APEC members. This study shows that "open regionalism" provides strong incentives for non-APEC economies to also liberalize their policies to maintain competitiveness. Inclusion of agriculture is critical to total U.S. welfare gains because of current high protection rates in East Asia.Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Relations/Trade,
Lorentz violation dispersion relation and its application
We derive a modified dispersion relation (MDR) in the Lorentz violation
extension of quantum electrodynamics (QED) sector in the standard model
extension (SME) framework. Based on the extended Dirac equation and
corresponding MDR, we observe the resemblance of the Lorentz violation coupling
with spin-gravity coupling. We also develop a neutrino oscillation mechanism
induced by the presence of nondiagonal terms of Lorentz violation couplings in
2-flavor space in a 2-spinor formalism by explicitly assuming neutrinos to be
Marjorana fermions. We also obtain a much stringent bound ()
on one of the Lorentz violation parameters by applying MDR to the ultrahigh
energy cosmic ray (UHECR) problem.Comment: 22 Latex pages, final version in publicatio
Controlling quantum state transfer in spin chain with the confined field
As a demonstration of the spectrum-parity matching condition (SPMC) for
quantum state transfer, we investigate the propagation of single-magnon state
in the Heisenberg chain in the confined external tangent magnetic field
analytically and numerically. It shows that the initial Gaussian wave packet
can be retrieved at the counterpart location near-perfectly over a longer
distance if the dispersion relation of the system meets the SPMC approximately.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure
Oscillation Phenomena in the disk around the massive black hole Sagittarius A*
We report the detection of radio QPOs with structure changes using the Very
Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 43 GHz. We found conspicuous patterned changes of
the structure with P = 16.8 +- 1.4, 22.2 +- 1.4, 31.2 +- 1.5, 56.4 +- 6 min,
very roughly in a 3:4:6:10 ratio. The first two periods show a rotating one-arm
structure, while the P = 31.4 min shows a rotating 3-arm structure, as if
viewed edge-on. At the central 50 microasec the P = 56.4 min period shows a
double amplitude variation of those in its surroundings. Spatial distributions
of the oscillation periods suggest that the disk of SgrA* is roughly edge-on,
rotating around an axis with PA = -10 degree. Presumably, the observed VLBI
images of SgrA* at 43 GHz retain several features of the black hole accretion
disk of SgrA* in spite of being obscured and broadened by scattering of
surrounding plasma.Comment: 24 pages, 20 figures, revised version submitted to MN main journal
(2010, Jan., 12th
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