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Practice of physical activity, prosocial behavior and self-concept in adolescents: connections in school contexts
A new multisymplectic unified formalism for second-order classical field theories
We present a new multisymplectic framework for second-order classical field
theories which is based on an extension of the unified Lagrangian-Hamiltonian
formalism to these kinds of systems. This model provides a straightforward and
simple way to define the Poincar\'e-Cartan form and clarifies the construction
of the Legendre map (univocally obtained as a consequence of the constraint
algorithm). Likewise, it removes the undesirable arbitrariness in the solutions
to the field equations, which are analyzed in-depth, and written in terms of
holonomic sections and multivector fields. Our treatment therefore completes
previous attempt to achieve this aim. The formulation is applied to describing
some physical examples; in particular, to giving another alternative
multisymplectic description of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.Comment: 52 pp. Revision of our previous paper. Minor corrections on the
statement of some results. A new example is added (Section 6.1). Conclusions
and bibliography have been enlarged, and some comments on the higher-order
case have been adde
Profits, Markups and Entry: Fiscal Policy in an Open Economy
In this paper we develop a general model of an imperfectly competitive small open economy. There is a traded and non-traded sector, whose outputs are combined in order to produce a single final good that can be either consumed or invested. We make general assumptions about preferences and technology, and analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economy. We find that the fiscal multiplier is between zero and one, and provide sufficient conditions for it to be increasing in the degree of imperfect competition. We also are able to compare the multiplier under free-entry and with a fixed number of firms and welfare. A simple graphical representation of the model is developed.Imperfect competition, open economy, fiscal policy
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