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Dualities in Humor: Incongruity Meets Ridicule
This paper argues in favour of a fruitful assembling of traditional dualities observed in humour (disparagement vs. incongruity, positive vs. critical aspects). After reviewing misogelastic (i.e. denigrating) and carnivalesque (i.e. enthusiastic) positions, we attempt to classify and understand both the historical alternatives and their contemporary counterparts, particularly dealing with the social vs. the cognitive divide. Here it is championed that social and cognitive dimensions must be approached in an entangled way, as part of a social semiotics. In our view, reversal theory approaches have captured the essential complication in humour, the playful mode present in interaction, plus the asymmetry implied in interpretation. Then, both the social sides of sanction and solidarity in humorous practices and the incongruous and derisive aspects of cognitive humorous triggers, show interesting correspondences and what we here have called grid effects, i.e. the combination of ridicule and incongruity both with humorous and less humorous counterparts. Moreover, the basic duality of the social (with its disciplinary or rebellious aspects) and the cognitive (having an abrupt imbalance at its core) presumably responds to the origin of social rules, through embarrassment and shame, on the one hand, as well as to the original conditions of the human mind, working on extended connectivity and figuration, on the other hand, as two complementary sides of social semiotics
A note on the evolution of the Whitney sphere along mean curvature flow
We study the evolution of the Whitney sphere along the Lagrangian mean
curvature flow. We show that equivariant Lagrangian spheres in
satisfying mild geometric assumptions collapse to a point in finite time and
the tangent flows converge to a Lagrangian plane with multiplicity two.Comment: 13 pages, typos corrected, 2 figure
The Galactic Center region viewed by H.E.S.S
The Galactic center region is the most active region in the Milky Way
harboring a wealth of photon sources at all wavelengths. H.E.S.S. observations
of the Galactic Center (GC) region revealed for the first time in very high
energy (VHE, E> 100 GeV) gamma-rays a detailed view of the innermost 100 pc of
the Milky Way and provided a valuable probe for the acceleration processes and
propagation of energetic particles near the GC. H.E.S.S. has taken more than
180 hours of good-quality observations toward the GC region since the
experience started in 2003. A strong and steady gamma-ray source has been
detected coincident in position with the supermassive black hole Sgr A*.
Besides the central pointlike source, a diffuse emission extended along the
Galactic Plane has been detected within about 1 around the GC. An
accurate analysis of the Galactic center region suggests that the diffuse
emission may dominate highest energy end of the overall GC source spectrum. I
will review the current VHE view by H.E.S.S. of the GC region and briefly
discuss the theoretical models which explain VHE gamma-ray emissions of the
central source and the diffuse emission.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, proceeding of the SF2A 2011 meetin
The Importance of the Algorithmic Information Theory to Construct a Possible Example Where NP#P
In this short communication, it is shown a simple problem using quantum
circuits for which the algorithmic information theory guarantee that the
minimal length of the algorithm able to solve it grows exponentially with the
number of qubits.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figur
Two-Layer Quantum Key Distribution
Recently a new quantum key distribution protocol using coherent and thermal
states was proposed. In this work this kind of two-layer QKD protocol is
formalized and its security against the most common attacks, including external
control and Trojan horse attacks, is discussed.Comment: Fourteen pages and two figure
The Relation between Disentangled States and Algorithmic Information Theory
In this short communication it is proposed the general form of a n-qubit
disentangled state as a irreducible sentence, in the sense explained by the
algorithmic information theory, whose length increases in a non-polynomial way
when the number of qubits increases.Comment: 3 page
The Importance of the Algorithmic Information Theory to Construct a Possible Example Where NP # P - II: An Irreducible Sentence
In this short communication it is discussed the relation between disentangled
states and algorithmic information theory aiming to construct an irreducible
sentence whose length increases in a non-polynomial way when the number of
qubits increases.Comment: 2 page
Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems
The theory of uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems was initiated in the
1960's (though its roots stretch far back into the 19th century) by S. Smale,
his students and collaborators, in the west, and D. Anosov, Ya. Sinai, V.
Arnold, in the former Soviet Union. It came to encompass a detailed description
of a large class of systems, often with very complex evolution. Moreover, it
provided a very precise characterization of structurally stable dynamics, which
was one of its original main goals. The early developments were motivated by
the problem of characterizing structural stability of dynamical systems, a
notion that had been introduced in the 1930's by A. Andronov and L. Pontryagin.
Inspired by the pioneering work of M. Peixoto on circle maps and surface flows,
Smale introduced a class of gradient-like systems, having a finite number of
periodic orbits, which should be structurally stable and, moreover, should
constitute the majority (an open and dense subset) of all dynamical systems.
Stability and openness were eventually established, in the thesis of J. Palis.
However, contemporary results of M. Levinson, based on previous work by M.
Cartwright and J. Littlewood, provided examples of open subsets of dynamical
systems all of which have an infinite number of periodic orbits.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figures, enciclopedia articl
Measure-theoretical properties of center foliations
Center foliations of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms may exhibit
pathological behavior from a measure-theoretical viewpoint: quite often, the
disintegration of the ambient volume measure along the center leaves consists
of atomic measures. We add to this theory by constructing stable examples for
which the disintegration is singular without being atomic. In the context of
diffeomorphisms with mostly contracting center direction, for which upper
leafwise absolute continuity is known to hold, we provide examples where the
center foliation is not lower leafwise absolutely continuous
Existence and uniqueness of maximizing measures for robust classes of local diffeomorphisms
We prove existence of maximal entropy measures for an open set of
non-uniformly expanding local diffeomorphisms on a compact Riemannian manifold.
In this context the topological entropy coincides with the logarithm of the
degree, and these maximizing measures are eigenmeasures of the transfer
operator. When the map is topologically mixing, the maximizing measure is
unique and positive on every open set.Comment: 15 page
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