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Measurement of low turbulence levels with a thermoanemometer
The trend for decreasing the drag of aircraft is retention of laminar flow in the boundary layer over a large portion of the surface. The laminar boundary layer was studied in a low turbulence wind tunnel for low subsonic velocities. The method used and results of measurements of very low levels of turbulence are presented. Measurements were performed by a constant-resistance thermoanemometer
On the validity of ADM formulation in 2D quantum gravity
We investigate 2d gravity quantized in the ADM formulation, where only the
loop length is retained as a dynamical variable of the gravitation, in
order to get an intuitive physical insight of the theory. The effective action
of is calculated by adding scalar fields of conformal coupling, and the
problems of the critical dimension and the time development of are
addressed.Comment: 12 page
New nonlocal effective action
We suggest a new method for the calculation of the nonlocal part of the
effective action. It is based on resummation of perturbation series for the
heat kernel and its functional trace at large values of the proper time
parameter. We derive a new, essentially nonperturbative, nonlocal contribution
to the effective action in spacetimes with dimensions .Comment: 28 pages, latex, no figures, typos are corrected, presentation
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On third Poisson structure of KdV equation
The third Poisson structure of KdV equation in terms of canonical ``free
fields'' and reduced WZNW model is discussed. We prove that it is
``diagonalized'' in the Lagrange variables which were used before in
formulation of 2D gravity. We propose a quantum path integral for KdV equation
based on this representation.Comment: 6pp, Latex. to appear in ``Proceedings of V conference on
Mathematical Physics, String Theory and Quantum Gravity, Alushta, June 1994''
Teor.Mat.Fiz. 199
An Exact Solution to O(26) Sigma Model coupled to 2-D Gravity
By a mapping to the bosonic string theory, we present an exact solution to
the O(26) sigma model coupled to 2-D quantum gravity. In particular, we obtain
the exact gravitational dressing to the various matter operators classified by
the irreducible representations of O(26). We also derive the exact form of the
gravitationally modified beta function for the original coupling constant
. The relation between our exact solution and the asymptotic solution
given in ref[3] is discussed in various aspects.Comment: 10 pages, pupt-144
Identification of earthquake precursors in the hydrogeochemical and geoacoustic data for the Kamchatka peninsula by flicker-noise spectroscopy
A phenomenological systems approach for identifying potential precursors in
multiple signals of different types for the same local seismically active
region is proposed based on the assumption that a large earthquake may be
preceded by a system reconfiguration (preparation) at different time and space
scales. A nonstationarity factor introduced within the framework of
flicker-noise spectroscopy, a statistical physics approach to the analysis of
time series, is used as the dimensionless criterion for detecting qualitative
(precursory) changes within relatively short time intervals in arbitrary
signals. Nonstationarity factors for chlorine-ion concentration variations in
the underground water of two boreholes on the Kamchatka peninsula and
geacoustic emissions in a deep borehole within the same seismic zone are
studied together in the time frame around a large earthquake on October 8,
2001. It is shown that nonstationarity factor spikes (potential precursors)
take place in the interval from 70 to 50 days before the earthquake for the
hydrogeochemical data and at 29 and 6 days in advance for the geoacoustic data.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures; to be published in Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sc
Confinement in Gauge Theories from the Condensation of World-Sheet Defects in Liouville String
We present a Liouville-string approach to confinement in four-dimensional
gauge theories, which extends previous approaches to include non-conformal
theories. We consider Liouville field theory on world sheets whose boundaries
are the Wilson loops of gauge theory, which exhibit vortex and spike defects.
We show that world-sheet vortex condensation occurs when the Wilson loop is
embedded in four target space-time dimensions, and show that this corresponds
to the condensation of gauge magnetic monopoles in target space. We also show
that vortex condensation generates a effective string tension corresponding to
the confinement of electric degrees of freedom. The tension is independent of
the string length in a gauge theory whose electric coupling varies
logarithmically with the length scale. The Liouville field is naturally
interpreted as an extra target dimension, with an anti-de-Sitter (AdS)
structure induced by recoil effects on the gauge monopoles, interpreted as D
branes of the effective string theory. Black holes in the bulk AdS space
correspond to world-sheet defects, so that phases of the bulk gravitational
system correspond to the different world-sheet phases, and hence to different
phases of the four-dimensional gauge theory. Deconfinement is associated with a
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of vortices on the Wilson-loop world
sheet, corresponding in turn to a phase transition of the black holes in the
bulk AdS space.Comment: 29 pages LATEX, three eps figures incorporate
On the Significance of the Quantity "A Squared"
We consider the gauge potential A and argue that the minimum value of the
volume integral of A squared (in Euclidean space) may have physical meaning,
particularly in connection with the existence of topological structures. A
lattice simulation comparing compact and non-compact ``photodynamics'' shows a
jump in this quantity at the phase transition, supporting this idea.Comment: 6 pages, one figur
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