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Single- and double-vortex vector solitons in self-focusing nonlinear media
We study two-component spatial optical solitons carrying an angular momentum
and propagating in a self-focusing saturable nonlinear medium. When one of the
components is small, such vector solitons can be viewed as a self-trapped
vortex beam that guides either the fundamental or first-order guided mode, and
they are classified as single- and double-vortex vector solitons. For such
composite vortex beams, we demonstrate that a large-amplitude guided mode can
stabilize the ring-like vortex beam which usually decays due to azimuthal
modulational instability. We identify different types of these vector vortex
solitons and demonstrate both vortex bistability and mutual stabilization
effect.Comment: 7 pages, 13 figure
A note on covers of fibred hyperbolic manifolds
For each surface of genus we construct pairs of conjugate
pseudo-Anosov maps, and , and two non-equivalent covers
, , so that the lift of to
with respect to coincides with that of with
respect to . The mapping tori of the and their lift provide
examples of pairs of hyperbolic -manifolds so that the first is covered by
the second in two different ways.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
A comparative analysis of executive information systems in organisations in South Africa and Spain
Executive Information Systems (EIS) grew out of the information needs of executives and are designed to serve the needs of users in strategic planning and decision-making. EIS are high risk information technology (IT) implementation projects. With the emergence of global information technologies, existing paradigms are being altered which are spawning new considerations for IT implementation. Web-based technologies are causing a revisit to existing IT implementation models, including those for EIS. The authors compare two recent survey studies of EIS implementation in well-established organisations in South Africa and Spain. From a comparative analysis, the authors report six identified similarities and three differences in EIS in these countries
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