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Staging Revolution: Form and Violence in La noche de los asesinos
Written within the first years of the Cuban revolution, José Triana’s La noche de los asesinos (1965) has traditionally been read as either a revolutionary or an antirevolutionary play. This article argues that more than its historical and political context, revolution constitutes La noche’s form. The concept of revolution as a violent, paradigm-shattering phenomenon relates to La noche’s shifting and unstable dramatic spaces. Triana creates a complex performative space that turns La noche into a dramaturgical exploration of revolution as violent change and transformation. Through Franz Fanon’s theoretical understanding of structural violence, this article ultimately investigates how La noche offers important insights into the experiential and emotional processes of the Cuban subject within the historical process of the revolution
Fundamentals of 3-D Neutron Kinetics and Current Status
This lecture includes the following topics: 1) A summary of the cell and lattice calculations used to generate the neutron reaction data for neutron kinetics, including the spectral and burn up calculations of LWR cells and fuel assembly lattices, and the main nodal kinetics parameters: mean neutron generation time and delayed neutron fraction; 2) the features of the advanced nodal methods for 3-D LWR core physics, including the treatment of partially inserted control rods, fuel assembly grids, fuel burn up and xenon and samarium transients, and ex core detector responses, that are essential for core surveillance, axial offset control and operating transient analysis; 3) the advanced nodal methods for 3-D LWR core neutron kinetics (best estimate safety analysis, real time simulation); and 4) example applications to 3-D neutron kinetics problems in transient analysis of PWR cores, including model, benchmark and operational transients without, or with simple, thermal-hydraulics feedback
Generalized multi-Proca fields
We extend previous results on healthy derivative self-interactions for a
Proca field to the case of a set of massive vector fields. We obtain non-gauge
invariant derivative self-interactions for the vector fields that maintain the
appropriate number of propagating degrees of freedom. In view of the potential
cosmological applications, we restrict to interactions with an internal
rotational symmetry. We provide a systematical construction order by order in
derivatives of the fields and making use of the antisymmetric Levi-Civita
tensor. We then compare with the one single vector field case and show that the
interactions can be broadly divided into two groups, namely the ones obtained
from a direct extension of the generalized Proca terms and genuine multi-Proca
interactions with no correspondence in the single Proca case. We also discuss
the curved spacetime version of the interactions to include the necessary
non-minimal couplings to gravity. Finally, we explore the cosmological
applications and show that there are three different vector fields
configurations giving rise to isotropic solutions. Two of them have already
been considered in the literature and the third one, representing a combination
of the first two, is new and offers unexplored cosmological scenarios.Comment: 13 page
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