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The Cambridge controversies in the theory of capital: contributions from the complex plane
A controversy in capital theory concerns reswitching. When two production techniques are compared, reswitching occurs when one technique is cheapest at low interest rates, switches to being more expensive at higher rates, and then reswitches to being cheapest at yet higher rates. Some believe this inconsistency undermines neoclassical economics. The time-value-of-money (TVM) equation is at the core of the puzzle. The equation is a polynomial having n roots, implying n interest rates. In most analyses, including reswitching, one interest rate is used and the remaining rates are ignored. This analysis demonstrates that every TVM equation has a ‘dual’ form employing all interest rates. The dual of the reswitching equation explains the puzzle
Constraints on two-lepton, two quark operators
Physics from beyond the Standard Model, such as leptoquarks, can induce four
fermion operators involving a quark, an anti-quark, a lepton and an
anti-lepton. We update the (flavour dependent) constraints on the coefficients
of such interactions, arising from collider searches for contact interactions,
meson decays and other rare processes. We then make naive estimates for the
magnitude of the coefficients, as could arise in texture models or from inverse
hierarchies in the kinetic term coefficients. These estimates suggest that rare
Kaon decays could be a good place to look for such operators.Comment: Modified presentation (to constrain coefficients of four fermion
interactions, rather than gauge invariant operators), some numbers corrected,
and minor changes. 28 pages, 18 table
Differential Recursion Relations for Laguerre Functions on Symmetric Cones
Let be a symmetric cone and the corresponding simple Euclidean
Jordan algebra. In \cite{ado,do,do04,doz2} we considered the family of
generalized Laguerre functions on that generalize the classical
Laguerre functions on . This family forms an orthogonal basis for
the subspace of -invariant functions in , where
is a certain measure on the cone and where is the group of
linear transformations on that leave the cone invariant and fix
the identity in . The space supports a highest
weight representation of the group of holomorphic diffeomorphisms that act
on the tube domain In this article we give an explicit
formula for the action of the Lie algebra of and via this action determine
second order differential operators which give differential recursion relations
for the generalized Laguerre functions generalizing the classical creation,
preservation, and annihilation relations for the Laguerre functions on
A Framework for Designing MIMO systems with Decision Feedback Equalization or Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding
We consider joint transceiver design for general Multiple-Input
Multiple-Output communication systems that implement interference
(pre-)subtraction, such as those based on Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE)
or Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP). We develop a unified framework for
joint transceiver design by considering design criteria that are expressed as
functions of the Mean Square Error (MSE) of the individual data streams. By
deriving two inequalities that involve the logarithms of the individual MSEs,
we obtain optimal designs for two classes of communication objectives, namely
those that are Schur-convex and Schur-concave functions of these logarithms.
For Schur-convex objectives, the optimal design results in data streams with
equal MSEs. This design simultaneously minimizes the total MSE and maximizes
the mutual information for the DFE-based model. For Schur-concave objectives,
the optimal DFE design results in linear equalization and the optimal THP
design results in linear precoding. The proposed framework embraces a wide
range of design objectives and can be regarded as a counterpart of the existing
framework of linear transceiver design.Comment: To appear in ICASSP 200
Properties of developmental gene regulatory networks
The modular components, or subcircuits, of developmental gene regulatory networks (GRNs) execute specific developmental functions, such as the specification of cell identity. We survey examples of such subcircuits and relate their structures to corresponding developmental functions. These relations transcend organisms and genes, as illustrated by the similar structures of the subcircuits controlling the specification of the mesectoderm in the Drosophila embryo and the endomesoderm in the sea urchin, even though the respective subcircuits are composed of nonorthologous regulatory genes
Multipliers of embedded discs
We consider a number of examples of multiplier algebras on Hilbert spaces
associated to discs embedded into a complex ball in order to examine the
isomorphism problem for multiplier algebras on complete Nevanlinna-Pick
reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In particular, we exhibit uncountably many
discs in the ball of which are multiplier biholomorphic but have
non-isomorphic multiplier algebras. We also show that there are closed discs in
the ball of which are varieties, and examine their multiplier
algebras. In finite balls, we provide a counterpoint to a result of Alpay,
Putinar and Vinnikov by providing a proper rational biholomorphism of the disc
onto a variety in such that the multiplier algebra is not all
of . We also show that the transversality property, which is one
of their hypotheses, is a consequence of the smoothness that they require.Comment: 34 pages; the earlier version relied on a result of Davidson and
Pitts that the fibre of the maximal ideal space of the multiplier algebra
over a point in the open ball consists only of point evaluation. This result
fails for , and has necessitated some changes; to appear in
Complex Analysis and Operator Theor
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