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Instabilities near the QCD phase transition in the holographic models
The paper discusses phenomena close to the critical QCD temperature, using
the holographic model. One issue studied is the overcooled high-T phase, in
which we calculate quasi normal sound modes. We do not find instabilities
associated with other first order phase transitions, but nevertheless observe
drastic changes in sound propagation/dissipation. The rest of the paper
considers a cluster of the high-T phase in the UV in coexistence with the low-T
phase, in a simplified ansatz in which the wall separating them is positioned
only in the holographic coordinate. This allows to find the force on the wall
and classical motion of the cluster. When classical motion is forbidden, we
evaluate tunneling probability through the remaining barrier.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
Implementing efficient allocations in a model of financial intermediation
In a finite-trader version of the Diamond-Dybvig (1983) model, the symmetric, ex-ante efficient allocation is implementable by a direct mechanism (i.e., each trader announces the type of his own ex-post preference) in which truthful revelation is the strictly dominant strategy for each trader. When the model is modified by formalizing the sequential-service constraint (cf. Wallace, 1988), the truth-telling equilibrium implements the symmetric, ex-ante efficient allocation with respect to iterated elimination of strictly dominated strategies.Econometric models
Diamond and Dybvig's classic theory of financial intermediation : what's missing?
The article shows that in a finite-trader version of the Diamond and Dybvig model (1983), the ex ante efficient allocation can be implemented as a unique equilibrium. This is so even in the presence of the sequential service constraint, as emphasized by Wallace (1988), whereby the bank must solve a sequence of maximization problems as depositors contact it at different times. A three-trader example with constant relative risk-aversion utility is used in order to illustrate clearly the requirements that the sequential service constraint imposes on implementation.Bank failures
Bias and Sensitivity Analysis When Estimating Treatment Effects from the Cox Model with Omitted Covariates
Omission of relevant covariates can lead to bias when estimating treatment or exposure effects from survival data in both randomized controlled trials and observational studies. This paper presents a general approach to assessing bias when covariates are omitted from the Cox model. The proposed method is applicable to both randomized and non‐randomized studies. We distinguish between the effects of three possible sources of bias: omission of a balanced covariate, data censoring and unmeasured confounding. Asymptotic formulae for determining the bias are derived from the large sample properties of the maximum likelihood estimator. A simulation study is used to demonstrate the validity of the bias formulae and to characterize the influence of the different sources of bias. It is shown that the bias converges to fixed limits as the effect of the omitted covariate increases, irrespective of the degree of confounding. The bias formulae are used as the basis for developing a new method of sensitivity analysis to assess the impact of omitted covariates on estimates of treatment or exposure effects. In simulation studies, the proposed method gave unbiased treatment estimates and confidence intervals with good coverage when the true sensitivity parameters were known. We describe application of the method to a randomized controlled trial and a non‐randomized study
Retained Herrick Plug.
A 79-year-old female with a history of keratoconjunctivitis sicca presented with several years of epiphora of both eyes. Thirteen years earlier, intracanalicular Herrick lacrimal plugs (Lacrimedics, Eastsound, WA, USA) had been placed in both eyes to treat her dry eye syndrome. After 13 years the patient felt the epiphora was intolerable and underwent endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) of the left, then the right side. Intraoperatively, during the right endoscopic DCR, a Herrick lacrimal plug was found in the common canaliculus into the lacrimal sac. Postoperatively, the patient did well with improved epiphora. The Herrick plug is designed to be intracanalicular, and this case illustrates that the plug can migrate and be retained for many years. Collared punctal plugs have a lower risk of this type of complication
Conformal Anomaly Of Submanifold Observables In AdS/CFT Correspondence
We analyze the conformal invariance of submanifold observables associated
with -branes in the AdS/CFT correspondence. For odd , the resulting
observables are conformally invariant, and for even , they transform with a
conformal anomaly that is given by a local expression which we analyze in
detail for Comment: 11 p
Toward the AdS/CFT gravity dual for High Energy Collisions: I.Falling into the AdS
In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence we discuss the gravity dual of a
high energy collision in a strongly coupled SYM gauge theory. We
suggest a setting in which two colliding objects are made of non-dynamical
heavy quarks and antiquarks, which allows to treat the process in classical
string approximation. Collision ``debris'' consist of closed as well as open
strings. If the latter have ends on two outgoing charges, and thus are being
``stretched'' along the collision axes. We discuss motion in AdS of some simple
objects first -- massless and massive particles -- and then focus on open
strings. We study the latter in a considerable detail, concluding that they
rapidly become ``rectangular'' in proper time -spatial rapidity
coordinates with well separated fragmentation part and a near-free-falling
rapidity-independent central part. Assuming that in the collisions of ``walls''
of charges multiple stretching strings are created, we also consider the motion
of a 3d stretching membrane. We then argue that a complete solution can be
approximated by two different vacuum solutions of Einstein eqns, with matter
membrane separating them. We identify one of this solution with
Janik-Peschanski stretching black hole solution, and show that all objects
approach its (retreating) horizon in an universal manner.Comment: v2 was redone, with new material and different introduction. It now
includes introduction to the second paper of the series as well, in which we
calculate "holograms" of falling objects, namely their stress tensor on the
boundar
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