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Phasefield theory for fractional diffusion-reaction equations and applications
This paper is concerned with diffusion-reaction equations where the classical
diffusion term, such as the Laplacian operator, is replaced with a singular
integral term, such as the fractional Laplacian operator. As far as the
reaction term is concerned, we consider bistable non-linearities. After
properly rescaling (in time and space) these integro-differential evolution
equations, we show that the limits of their solutions as the scaling parameter
goes to zero exhibit interfaces moving by anisotropic mean curvature. The
singularity and the unbounded support of the potential at stake are both the
novelty and the challenging difficulty of this work.Comment: 41 page
Chromospheric explosions
Three issues relative to chromospheric explosions were debated. (1) Resolved: The blue-shifted components of x-ray spectral lines are signatures of chromospheric evaporation. It was concluded that the plasma rising with the corona is indeed the primary source of thermal plasma observed in the corona during flares. (2) Resolved: The excess line broading of UV and X-ray lines is accounted for by a convective velocity distribution in evaporation. It is concluded that the hypothesis that convective evaporation produces the observed X-ray line widths in flares is no more than a hypothesis. It is not supported by any self-consistent physical theory. (3) Resolved: Most chromospheric heating is driven by electron beams. Although it is possible to cast doubt on many lines of evidence for electron beams in the chromosphere, a balanced view that debaters on both sides of the question might agree to is that electron beams probably heat the low corona and upper chromosphere, but their direct impact on evaporating the chromosphere is energetically unimportant when compared to conduction. This represents a major departure from the thick-target flare models that were popular before the Workshop
Power sums and Homfly skein theory
The Murphy operators in the Hecke algebra H_n of type A are explicit
commuting elements, whose symmetric functions are central in H_n. In [Skein
theory and the Murphy operators, J. Knot Theory Ramif. 11 (2002), 475-492] I
defined geometrically a homomorphism from the Homfly skein C of the annulus to
the centre of each algebra H_n, and found an element P_m in C, independent of
n, whose image, up to an explicit linear combination with the identity of H_n,
is the m-th power sum of the Murphy operators. The aim of this paper is to give
simple geometric representatives for the elements P_m, and to discuss their
role in a similar construction for central elements of an extended family of
algebras H_{n,p}.Comment: Published by Geometry and Topology Monographs at
http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon4/paper15.abs.htm
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Do you want to bet? The prevalence of problem gambling amongst athletes in the UK
This presentation was given as part of the 2011 London Workshop on Problem Gambling: Theory and (Best) Practice by Dr Daniel Rhind from the Sports Sciences subject area at Brunel University. The workshop was organised by Professor Fernand Gobet and Dr Marvin Schiller and hosted by Brunel University on the 13th September 2011
Manifestly supersymmetric M-theory
In this paper, the low-energy effective dynamics of M-theory,
eleven-dimensional supergravity, is taken off-shell in a manifestly
supersymmetric formulation. We show that a previously proposed relaxation of
the superspace torsion constraints does indeed accommodate a current
supermultiplet which lifts the equations of motion corresponding to the
ordinary second order derivative supergravity lagrangian. Whether the auxiliary
fields obtained this way can be used to construct an off-shell lagrangian is
not yet known. We comment on the relation and application of this completely
general formalism to higher-derivative (R^4) corrections. Some details of the
calculation are saved for a later publication.Comment: 13 pages, plain tex. v2: minor changes, one ref. adde
Sedimentation stacking diagrams of binary mixtures of thick and thin hard rods
We use Onsager theory and the local density approximation to study
sedimentation-diffusion equilibrium density profiles of binary mixtures of
thick and thin hard rods. We construct stacking diagrams for three diameter
ratios, and find that even a simple spindle-shaped phase diagram with only
isotropic-nematic demixing can lead to counter-intuitive stacking sequences
such as an isotropic phase sandwiched between two nematic phases. For the most
complex phase diagram considered here, we find sixteen distinct stacking
sequences, including several with five sedimented layers. By adding
sedimentation paths to composition-pressure and density-density phase diagrams
and calculating density and composition profiles, we show that conclusions
about bulk phase diagrams of binary mixtures on the basis of
sedimentation-diffusion equilibria should be drawn warily.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, extended discussion in section 4, added
references, minor changes to figures (results unchanged
Educational Administration: Theory and Practice
Educational Administration: Theory & Practice: Vol 25, Issue
Multiaccess Channels with State Known to One Encoder: Another Case of Degraded Message Sets
We consider a two-user state-dependent multiaccess channel in which only one
of the encoders is informed, non-causally, of the channel states. Two
independent messages are transmitted: a common message transmitted by both the
informed and uninformed encoders, and an individual message transmitted by only
the uninformed encoder. We derive inner and outer bounds on the capacity region
of this model in the discrete memoryless case as well as the Gaussian case.
Further, we show that the bounds for the Gaussian case are tight in some
special cases.Comment: 5 pages, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information theory,
ISIT 2009, Seoul, Kore
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