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Discretization of Information Collecting Situations and Continuity of Compensation Rules
A canonical procedure is described, which associates to each infinite information collecting situation a related information collecting situation with finite state and action spaces, in such a way that the two corresponding IC-games are near to each other.Compensations for informants are then also near to each other in the two IC-situations, if they are based on continuous compensation rules.cooperative games;information
Clockwork / Linear Dilaton: Structure and Phenomenology
The linear dilaton geometry in five dimensions, rediscovered recently in the
continuum limit of the clockwork model, may offer a solution to the hierarchy
problem which is qualitatively different from other extra-dimensional scenarios
and leads to distinctive signatures at the LHC. We discuss the structure of the
theory, in particular aspects of naturalness and UV completion, and then
explore its phenomenology, suggesting novel strategies for experimental
searches. In particular, we propose to analyze the diphoton and dilepton
invariant mass spectra in Fourier space in order to identify an approximately
periodic structure of resonant peaks. Among other signals, we highlight
displaced decays from resonantly-produced long-lived states and
high-multiplicity final states from cascade decays of excited gravitons.Comment: 39 pages + appendices, 27 figures; v2: minor improvements; published
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Manipulation of single-photon states encoded in transverse spatial modes: possible and impossible tasks
Controlled generation and manipulation of photon states encoded in their
spatial degrees of freedom is a crucial ingredient in many quantum information
tasks exploiting higher-than-two dimensional encoding. Here, we prove the
impossibility to arbitrarily modify -level state superpositions (quits)
for , encoded in the transverse modes of light, with optical components
associated to the group of symplectic transforms (Gaussian operations).
Surprisingly, we also provide an explicit construction of how non-Gaussian
operations acting on mode subspaces do enable to overcome the limit . In
addition, this set of operations realizes the full SU(3) algebra.Comment: Published in PR
Share Opportunity Sets and Cooperative Games
In many share problems there is a priori given a natural set of possible divisions to solve the sharing problem.Cooperative games related to such share sets are introduced, which may be helpful in solving share problems.Relations between properties of share sets and properties of games are investigated.The average lexicographic value for share sets and for cooperative games is studied.cooperative games;bankruptcy games;average lexicographic value;opportunity sets
Theory of Weak Hypernuclear Decay
The weak nonmesonic decay of Lambda-hypernuclei is studied in the context of
a one-meson-exchange model. Predictions are made for the decay rate, p/n
stimulation ratio and the asymmetry in polarized hypernuclear decay.Comment: Standard 41 page Latex fil
No New Symmetries of the Vacuum Einstein Equations
In this note we examine some recently proposed solutions of the linearized
vacuum Einstein equations. We show that such solutions are {\it not} symmetries
of the Einstein equations, because of a crucial integrability condition.Comment: 9 pages, Te
Intrinsic switching field distribution of arrays of Ni80Fe20 nanowires probed by magnetic force microscopy
The progress of magnetization reversal of weakly packed ferromagnetic
Ni80Fe20 nanowire arrays of different diameters (40, 50, 70 and 100 nm)
electrodeposited in polycarbonate membranes was studied by magnetic force
microscopy (MFM). For such a low packing density of nanomagnets, the dipolar
interactions between neighbouring wires can be neglected. The intrinsic
switching field distribution has been extracted from in situ MFM images and its
width was found to be considerably smaller than for densely packed nanowire
arrays.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Journal of Superconductivity and
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The impact of stapling technique and surgeon specialism on anastomotic failure after right-sided colorectal resection. An international multi-centre, prospective audit
There is little evidence to support choice of technique and configuration for stapled anastomoses after right hemicolectomy and ileocaecal resection. This study aimed to determine the relationship between stapling technique and anastomotic failure
The cool core state of Planck SZ-selected clusters versus X-ray selected samples: evidence for cool core bias
We characterized the population of galaxy clusters detected with the SZ
effect with Planck, by measuring the cool core state of the objects in a
well-defined subsample of the Planck catalogue. We used as indicator the
concentration parameter Santos et al. (2008). The fraction of cool core
clusters is and does not show significant indications of
evolution in the redshift range covered by our sample. We compare the
distribution of the concentration parameter in the Planck sample with the one
of the X-ray selected sample MACS (Mann & Ebeling, 2011): the distributions are
significantly different and the cool core fraction in MACS is much higher (). Since X-ray selected samples are known to be biased towards cool
cores due to the presence of their prominent surface brightness peak, we
simulated the impact of the "cool core bias" following Eckert et al. (2011). We
found that it plays a large role in the difference between the fractions of
cool cores in the two samples. We examined other selection effects that could
in principle bias SZ-surveys against cool cores but we found that their impact
is not sufficient to explain the difference between Planck and MACS. The
population of X-ray under-luminous objects, which are found in SZ-surveys but
missing in X-ray samples (Planck Collaboration 2016), could possibly contribute
to the difference, as we found most of them to be non cool cores, but this
hypothesis deserves further investigation.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRA
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