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On a Periodic Soliton Cellular Automaton
We propose a box and ball system with a periodic boundary condition (pBBS).
The time evolution rule of the pBBS is represented as a Boolean recurrence
formula, an inverse ultradiscretization of which is shown to be equivalent with
the algorithm of the calculus for the 2Nth root. The relations to the pBBS of
the combinatorial R matrix of are also discussed.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure
Detection of extrasolar planets by the large deployable reflector
The best wavelength for observing Jupiter-size planetary companions to stars other than the Sun is one at which a planet's thermal emission is strongest; typically this would occur in the far-infrared region. It is assumed that the orbiting infrared telescope used is diffraction-limited so that the resolution of the planet from the central star is accomplished in the wings of the star's Airy pattern. Proxima Centauri, Barnard's Star, Wolf 359, and Epsilon Eridani are just a few of the many nearest main-sequence stars that could be studied with the large deployable relfector (LDR). The detectability of a planet improves for warmer planets and less luminous stars; therefore, planets around white dwarfs and those young planets which have sufficient internal gravitational energy release so as to cause a significant increase in their temperatures are considered. If white dwarfs are as old as they are usually assumed to be (5-10 billion yr), then only the nearest white dwarf (Sirius B) is within the range of LDR. The Ursa Major cluster and Perseu cluster are within LDR's detection range mainly because of their proximity and young age, respectively
Exploring Vacuum Structure around Identity-Based Solutions
We explore the vacuum structure in bosonic open string field theory expanded
around an identity-based solution parameterized by . Analyzing the
expanded theory using level truncation approximation up to level 20, we find
that the theory has the tachyon vacuum solution for . We also find
that, at , there exists an unstable vacuum solution in the expanded
theory and the solution is expected to be the perturbative open string vacuum.
These results reasonably support the expectation that the identity-based
solution is a trivial pure gauge configuration for , but it can be
regarded as the tachyon vacuum solution at .Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures; new numerical data up to level (20,60) included;
Contribution to the proceedings of "Second International Conference on String
Field Theory and Related Aspects" (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow,
Russia, April 12-19, 2009
Modified Spin Wave Analysis of Low Temperature Properties of Spin-1/2 Frustrated Ferromagnetic Ladder
Low temperature properties of the spin-1/2 frustrated ladder with
ferromagnetic rungs and legs, and two different antiferromagnetic next nearest
neighbor interaction are investigated using the modified spin wave
approximation in the region with ferromagnetic ground state. The temperature
dependence of the magnetic susceptibility and magnetic structure factors is
calculated. The results are consistent with the numerical exact diagonalization
results in the intermediate temperature range. Below this temperature range,
the finite size effect is significant in the numerical diagonalization results,
while the modified spin wave approximation gives more reliable results. The low
temperature properties near the limit of the stability of the ferromagnetic
ground state are also discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure
Separation of colour degree of freedom from dynamics in a soliton cellular automaton
We present an algorithm to reduce the coloured box-ball system, a one
dimensional integrable cellular automaton described by motions of several
colour (kind) of balls, into a simpler monochrome system. This algorithm
extracts the colour degree of freedom of the automaton as a word which turns
out to be a conserved quantity of this dynamical system. It is based on the
theory of crystal basis and in particular on the tensor products of sl_n
crystals of symmetric and anti-symmetric tensor representations.Comment: 19 page
Max-Plus Algebra for Complex Variables and Its Application to Discrete Fourier Transformation
A generalization of the max-plus transformation, which is known as a method
to derive cellular automata from integrable equations, is proposed for complex
numbers. Operation rules for this transformation is also studied for general
number of complex variables. As an application, the max-plus transformation is
applied to the discrete Fourier transformation. Stretched coordinates are
introduced to obtain the max-plus transformation whose imaginary part coinsides
with a phase of the discrete Fourier transformation
Monte Carlo Simulations of Globular Cluster Evolution - II. Mass Spectra, Stellar Evolution and Lifetimes in the Galaxy
We study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters using our new 2-D Monte
Carlo code, and we calculate the lifetimes of clusters in the Galactic
environment. We include the effects of a mass spectrum, mass loss in the
Galactic tidal field, and stellar evolution. We consider initial King models
containing N = 10^5 - 3x10^5 stars, and follow the evolution up to core
collapse, or disruption, whichever occurs first. We find that the lifetimes of
our models are significantly longer than those obtained using 1-D Fokker-Planck
(F-P) methods. We also find that our results are in very good agreement with
recent 2-D F-P calculations, for a wide range of initial conditions. Our
results show that the direct mass loss due to stellar evolution can
significantly accelerate the mass loss through the tidal boundary, causing most
clusters with a low initial central concentration (Wo <~ 3) to disrupt quickly
in the Galactic tidal field. Only clusters born with high initial central
concentrations (Wo >~ 7) or steep initial mass functions are likely to survive
to the present and undergo core collapse. We also study the orbital
characteristics of escaping stars, and find that the velocity distribution of
escaping stars in collapsing clusters looks significantly different from the
distribution in disrupting clusters. We calculate the lifetime of a cluster on
an eccentric orbit in the Galaxy, such that it fills its Roche lobe only at
perigalacticon. We find that such an orbit can extend the lifetime by at most a
factor of a few compared to a circular orbit in which the cluster fills its
Roche lobe at all times.Comment: 32 pages, including 10 figures, to appear in ApJ, minor corrections
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Entropy production by Q-ball decay for diluting long-lived charged particles
The cosmic abundance of a long-lived charged particle such as a stau is
tightly constrained by the catalyzed big bang nucleosynthesis. One of the ways
to evade the constraints is to dilute those particles by a huge entropy
production. We evaluate the dilution factor in a case that non-relativistic
matter dominates the energy density of the universe and decays with large
entropy production. We find that large Q balls can do the job, which is
naturally produced in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Factorization, reduction and embedding in integrable cellular automata
Factorized dynamics in soliton cellular automata with quantum group symmetry
is identified with a motion of particles and anti-particles exhibiting pair
creation and annihilation. An embedding scheme is presented showing that the
D^{(1)}_n-automaton contains, as certain subsectors, the box-ball systems and
all the other automata associated with the crystal bases of non-exceptional
affine Lie algebras. The results extend the earlier ones to higher
representations by a certain reduction and to a wider class of boundary
conditions.Comment: LaTeX2e, 20 page
Fundamental Cycle of a Periodic Box-Ball System
We investigate a soliton cellular automaton (Box-Ball system) with periodic
boundary conditions. Since the cellular automaton is a deterministic dynamical
system that takes only a finite number of states, it will exhibit periodic
motion. We determine its fundamental cycle for a given initial state.Comment: 28 pages, 6 figure
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