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Maintaining technical excellence requires a national plan
To meet the challenge of technical excellence, AIA established a rocket propulsion committee to develop the National Rocket Propulsion Strategic Plan. Developing such a plan required a broad spectrum of experience and disciplines. The Strategic Plan team needed the participation of industry, government, and academia. The plan provides, if followed, a means for the U.S. to maintain technical excellence and world leadership in rocket propulsion. To implement the National Rocket Propulsion Strategic Plan is to invest in the social, economic, and technological futures of America. The plan lays the basis for upgrading existing propulsion systems and a firm base for future full scale development, production, and operation of rocket propulsion systems for space, defense, and commercial applications
Holographic Shell Model: Stack Data Structure inside Black Holes
We suggest that bits of information inhabit, universally and holographically,
the entire black hole interior, a bit per a light sheet unit interval of order
Planck area difference. The number of distinguishable (tagged by a binary code)
configurations, counted within the context of a discrete holographic shell
model, is given by the Catalan series. The area entropy formula is recovered,
including the universal logarithmic correction, and the equipartition of mass
per degree of freedom is proven. The black hole information storage resembles a
stack data structure.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
PHOTOS Interface in C++; Technical and Physics Documentation
For five years now, PHOTOS Monte Carlo for bremsstrahlung in the decay of
particles and resonances has been available with an interface to the C++ HepMC
event record. The main purpose of the present paper is to document the
technical aspects of the PHOTOS Monte Carlo installation and present version
use. A multitude of test results and examples are distributed together with the
program code.
The PHOTOS C++ physics precision is better than its FORTRAN predecessor and
more convenient steering options are also available. An algorithm for the event
record interface necessary for process dependent photon emission kernel is
implemented. It is used in Z and W decays for kernels of complete first order
matrix elements of the decays. Additional emission of final state lepton pairs
is also available.
Physics assumptions used in the program and properties of the solution are
reviewed. In particular, it is explained how the second order matrix elements
were used in design and validation of the program iteration procedure. Also, it
is explained that the phase space parametrization used in the program is exact.Comment: Updated version; for the program as of April 201
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
Suppression of Dephasing of Optically Trapped Atoms
Ultra-cold atoms trapped in an optical dipole trap and prepared in a coherent
superposition of their hyperfine ground states, decohere as they interact with
their environment. We demonstrate than the loss in coherence in an "echo"
experiment, which is caused by mechanisms such as Rayleigh scattering, can be
suppressed by the use of a new pulse sequence. We also show that the coherence
time is then limited by mixing to other vibrational levels in the trap and by
the finite lifetime of the internal quantum states of the atoms
Semicrossed Products of Operator Algebras by Semigroups
We examine the semicrossed products of a semigroup action by
-endomorphisms on a C*-algebra, or more generally of an action on an
arbitrary operator algebra by completely contractive endomorphisms. The choice
of allowable representations affects the corresponding universal algebra. We
seek quite general conditions which will allow us to show that the C*-envelope
of the semicrossed product is (a full corner of) a crossed product of an
auxiliary C*-algebra by a group action.
Our analysis concerns a case-by-case dilation theory on covariant pairs. In
the process we determine the C*-envelope for various semicrossed products of
(possibly nonselfadjoint) operator algebras by spanning cones and
lattice-ordered abelian semigroups.
In particular, we show that the C*-envelope of the semicrossed product of
C*-dynamical systems by doubly commuting representations of
(by generally non-injective endomorphisms) is the full corner of a C*-crossed
product. In consequence we connect the ideal structure of C*-covers to
properties of the actions. In particular, when the system is classical, we show
that the C*-envelope is simple if and only if the action is injective and
minimal.
The dilation methods that we use may be applied to non-abelian semigroups. We
identify the C*-envelope for actions of the free semigroup by
automorphisms in a concrete way, and for injective systems in a more abstract
manner. We also deal with C*-dynamical systems over Ore semigroups when the
appropriate covariance relation is considered.Comment: 100 pages; comments and references update
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