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Building Ideapreneurship Capability: Delivering Differentiated Customer Value From the Frontline
[Excerpt] Transformational innovation appears to be a dominant aspiration of most leading firms. While such innovation efforts are pervasive across industries and regions, the results from these endeavors can be highly varied. Instead of a single-minded focus on transformational innovation, could incremental innovation, if directly tied to real customer need, be a powerful opportunity for growth and sustainability in this dynamic world? HCL Technologies, a global IT services firm based in Noida, India believes so
Dilaton Interactions in QCD and in the Electroweak Sector of the Standard Model
We overview the structure of the effective action involving a dilaton and a
Higgs in the Standard Model, which has been computed recently for the neutral
currents sector. We discuss the role of the dilatation current () and of
an effective degree of freedom appearing in the correlator, with
any neutral current, which can be interpreted as a Nambu-Goldstone mode
generated by the anomalous breaking of the dilatation symmetry.Comment: 4 pages, presented at the workshop "QCD@work", Lecce June 18-21 201
Massless Scalar Degrees of Freedom in QCD and in the Electroweak Sector from the Trace Anomaly
The interaction of QCD and electroweak sector with gravity is characterized
by the generation of a massless pole in a specific form factor present in the
1-loop effective action. We briefly illustrate how to single out this behaviour
in perturbation theory, by taking as an example the vertex, with
denoting the energy momentum tensor of the Standard Model. The breaking of
scale invariance, due to the trace anomaly, is then related to the appearance
of a local degree of freedom in the effective action, which is of dilaton type.Comment: 5 pages, presented at the workshop "QCD@work", Lecce, June 18-21,
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Tool use induces complex and flexible plasticity of human body representations
Plasticity of body representation fundamentally underpins human tool use. Recent studies have demonstrated remarkably complex plasticity of body representation in humans, showing that such plasticity: (1) occurs flexibly across multiple time-scales, and (2) involves multiple body representations responding differently to tool use. Such findings reveal remarkable sophistication of body plasticity in humans, suggesting that Vaesen may overestimate the similarity of such mechanisms in humans and non-human primates
BCFW recursion for TMD parton scattering
We investigate the application of the BCFW recursion relation to scattering
amplitudes with one off-shell particle in a Yang-Mills theory with fermions. We
provide a set of conditions of applicability of the BCFW recursion, stressing
some important differences with respect to the pure on-shell case. We show how
the formulas for Maximally-Helicity-Violating (MHV) configurations with any
number of partons, which are well known in the fully on-shell case, are
generalized to this kinematic regime. We also derive analytic expressions for
all the helicity configurations of the 5-point color-stripped tree-level
amplitudes for any of the partons being off the mass shell.Comment: Some typos in text and formulas correcte
Three and Four Point Functions of Stress Energy Tensors in D=3 for the Analysis of Cosmological Non-Gaussianities
We compute the correlation functions of 3 and 4 stress energy tensors
in D=3 in free field theories of scalars, abelian gauge fields, and fermions,
which are relevant in the analysis of cosmological non-gaussianities. These
correlators appear in the holographic expressions of the scalar and tensor
perturbations derived for holographic cosmological models. The result is simply
adapted to describe the leading contributions in the gauge coupling to the same
correlators also for a non abelian SU(N) gauge theory. In the case of the
bispectrum, our results are mapped and shown to be in full agreement with the
corresponding expressions given in a recent holographic study by Bzowski,
McFadden and Skenderis. In the 4-T case we present the completely traced
amplitude plus all the contact terms. These are expected to appear in a fourth
order extension of the holographic formulas for the 4-point functions of scalar
metric perturbations.Comment: 29 pages, 3 figure
Conformal anomaly actions for dilaton interactions
We discuss, in conformally invariant field theories such as QCD with massless
fermions, a possible link between the perturbative signature of the conformal
anomaly, in the form of anomaly poles of the 1-particle irreducible effective
action, and its description in terms of Wess-Zumino actions with a dilaton. The
two descriptions are expected to capture the UV and IR behaviour of the
conformal anomaly, in terms of fundamental and effective degrees of freedom
respectively, with the dilaton effective state appearing in a nonlinear
realization. As in the chiral case, conformal anomalies seem to be related to
the appearance of these effective interactions in the 1PI action in all the
gauge-invariant sectors of the Standard Model. We show that, as a consequence
of the underlying anomalous symmetry, the infinite hierarchy of recurrence
relations involving self-interactions of the dilaton is entirely determined
only by the first four of them. This relation can be generalized to any even
space-time dimension.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
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