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Where is My Attention?
Attention is the key to all learning. Indeed, it is what will save our lives on a daily basis. In all my Communication courses, it is one of the first things I put forward as a question that students may ask of themselves as a check on their âinternal considering.â
Philosopher/practitioner George Gurdjieff (1866-1949) called the constant rumble in our minds of random condemnations and re-imaginings of past events as âinternal considering.â He felt it was detrimental to ourselves and our relationships with others; it is, I maintain, a constant âself consideringâ that takes us away from the present and âbeing here now.â So recognizing that we are often not paying attention to what is happening in the space we are in now, with the people we are with now, is the first step in correcting this distracting state of affairs
Non-universal disordered Glauber dynamics
We consider the one-dimensional Glauber dynamics with coupling disorder in
terms of bilinear fermion Hamiltonians. Dynamic exponents embodied in the
spectrum gap of these latter are evaluated numerically by averaging over both
binary and Gaussian disorder realizations. In the first case, these exponents
are found to follow the non-universal values of those of plain dimerized
chains. In the second situation their values are still non-universal and
sub-diffusive below a critical variance above which, however, the relaxation
time is suggested to grow as a stretched exponential of the equilibrium
correlation length.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, brief addition
Complete Positivity for Mixed Unitary Categories
In this article we generalize the \CP^\infty-construction of dagger
monoidal categories to mixed unitary categories. Mixed unitary categories
provide a setting, which generalizes (compact) dagger monoidal categories and
in which one may study quantum processes of arbitrary (infinite) dimensions.
We show that the existing results for the \CP^\infty-construction hold in
this more general setting. In particular, we generalize the notion of
environment structures to mixed unitary categories and show that the
\CP^\infty-construction on mixed unitary categories is characterized by this
generalized environment structure.Comment: Lots of figure
Filament Hunting: Integrated HI 21cm Emission From Filaments Inferred by Galaxy Surveys
Large scale filaments, with lengths that can reach tens of Mpc, are the most
prominent features in the cosmic web. These filaments have only been observed
indirectly through the positions of galaxies in large galaxy surveys or through
absorption features in the spectra of high redshift sources. In this study we
propose to go one step further and directly detect intergalactic medium
filaments through their emission in the HI 21cm line. We make use of high
resolution cosmological simulations to estimate the intensity of this emission
in low redshift filaments and use it to make predictions for the direct
detectability of specific filaments previously inferred from galaxy surveys, in
particular the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Given the expected signal of these
filaments our study shows that HI emission from large filaments can be observed
by current and next generation radio telescopes. We estimate that gas in
filaments of length 15 Mpc with relatively small
inclinations to the line of sight () can be observed in
hours with telescopes such as GMRT or EVLA, potentially providing
large improvements over our knowledge of the astrophysical properties of these
filaments. Due to their large field of view and sufficiently long integration
times, upcoming HI surveys with the Apertif and ASKAP instruments will be able
to detect large filaments independently of their orientation and curvature.
Furthermore, our estimates indicate that a more powerful future radio telescope
like SKA-2 can be used to map most of these filaments, which will allow them to
be used as a strong cosmological probe.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRA
Quasi integral of motion for axisymmetric potentials
We present an estimate of the third integral of motion for axisymmetric
three-dimensional potentials. This estimate is based on a Staeckel
approximation and is explicitly written as a function of the potential. We
tested this scheme for the Besancon Galactic model and two other disc-halo
models and find that orbits of disc stars have an accurately conserved third
quasi integral.
The accuracy ranges from of 0.1% to 1% for heights varying from z = 0~kpc to
z= 6 kpc and Galactocentric radii R from 5 to 15kpc.
We also tested the usefulness of this quasi integral in analytic distribution
functions of disc stellar populations: we show that the distribution function
remains approximately stationary and that it allows to recover the potential
and forces by applying Jeans equations to its moments.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astron. and Astrophy
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