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A New Proof of the Faithfulness of Brauer's Representation of Temperley-Lieb Algebras
The faithfulness of the orthogonal group case of Brauer's representation of
the Brauer centralizer algebras restricted to their Temperley-Lieb subalgebras,
which was established by Vaughan Jones, is here proved in a new, elementary and
self-contained, manner.Comment: 10 pages, minor correction
Gamma-ray bursts: a Centauro's cry?
A new candidate for the gamma-ray bursts central engine is proposed: if in
some energetic cosmic event a macroscopic amount of bubbles of the disoriented
chiral condensate can be formed, then their subsequent decays will produce a
relativistic fireball without the baryon loading problem. The neutron star to
strange star transition is considered as a candidate example of such cosmic
event.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX, somewhat modified, references adde
Thomas rotation and Mocanu paradox -- not at all paradoxical
Non-commutativity of the Einstein velocity addition, in case of non-collinear
velocities, seemingly gives rise to a conflict with reciprocity principle.
However, Thomas rotation comes at a rescue and the paradox is avoided. It is
shown that such a resolution of the so called Mocanu paradox is completely
natural from the point of view of basic premises of special relativity.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, revtex
Comment on the sums
This is a comment on the papers N. D. Elkies, Amer. Math. Monthly 110 (2003),
561-573 and Cvijovic and J. Klinowski, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 142 (2002),
435-439. We provide an explicit expression for the kernel of the integral
operator introduced in the first paper. This explicit expression considerably
simplifies the calculation of S(n) and enables a simple derivation of Cvijovic
and Klinowski's integral representation for .Comment: 11 pages, to be published in Georgian Mathematical Journal.
arXiv:1003.3602 is more extended version of this short not
Maxwell's demon through the looking glass
Mechanical Maxwell's demons, such as Smoluchowski's trapdoor and Feynman's
ratchet and pawl need external energy source to operate. If you cease to feed a
demon the Second Law of thermodynamics will quickly stop its operation.
Nevertheless, if the parity is an unbroken symmetry of nature, it may happen
that a small modification leads to demons which do not need feeding. Such
demons can act like perpetuum mobiles of the second kind: extract heat energy
from only one reservoir, use it to do work and be isolated from the rest of
ordinary world. Yet the Second Law is not violated because the demons pay their
entropy cost in the hidden (mirror) sector of the world by emitting mirror
photons.Comment: 28 pages, 3 figures, revtex
TeV scale gravity, mirror universe, and ... dinosaurs
This is somewhat extended version of the talk given at the Gran Sasso Summer
Institute: Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics. It describes general
ideas about mirror world, extra spatial dimensions and dinosaur extinction.
Some suggestions are made how these seemingly different things can be related
to each other.Comment: 36 pages, 6 figures, presented at the Gran Sasso Summer Institute:
Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics, 13-24 September, 1999. New
references added and some misprints corrected. To be published in Acta Phys.
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Pionium in the elementary particle decays
Some atomic decays of elementary particles with pionium
(-dimesoatom) in the final state are considered. Only for K-meson
atomic decays are the corresponding branching ratios big enough to make their
experimental study realistic. The order corrections to the lifetime
of pionium are also calculated.Comment: 12 pages, to appear in Pis'ma Zh. Eks. Teor. Fiz. 60(1994),67
SO(8) Colour as possible origin of generations
A possible connection between the existence of three quark-lepton generations
and the triality property of SO(8) group (the equality between 8-dimensional
vectors and spinors) is investigated.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures is now included in the electronic version (this
is the only reason for the replacement), text not changed (except correcting
some small typos
SETI and muon collider
Intense neutrino beams that accompany muon colliders can be used for
interstellar communications. The presence of multi-TeV extraterrestrial muon
collider at several light-years distance can be detected after one year run of
IceCube type neutrino telescopes, if the neutrino beam is directed towards the
Earth. This opens a new avenue in SETI: search for extraterrestrial muon
colliders.Comment: 3 pages, ReVTeX
Citations and the Zipf-Mandelbrot's law
A curious observation was made that the rank statistics of scientific
citation numbers follows Zipf-Mandelbrot's law. The same pow-like behavior is
exhibited by some simple random citation models. The observed regularity
indicates not so much the peculiar character of the underlying (complex)
process, but more likely, than it is usually assumed, its more stochastic
nature.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures, important reference and note were adde
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