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Does related variety matter for creative employment growth?
Little progress has been made in the mitigation of the controversies surrounding creativity and its role for local economic development (FLORIDA, 2002; PECK, 2005). Moreover, creative industries seem to have been denied, so far, a prominent role in the intense debate about the impact of localization or urbanization economies on innovation and growth. Taking departure in the void between these two streams of literature, I deploy the concept of «related variety», as formulated by BOSCHMA (2005) and FRENKEN, VAN OORT and VERBURG (2007), to verify if well-diversified and
interdependent creative industries determine more pronounced local creative employment growth. A pooled OLS panel model has been estimated for 73 Italian provinces (2008-2010), using the total amount of creative workers as dependent variable and the variety indexes as main regressors. The results are mostly consistent with the main hypothesis: related variety, in terms of complementarity between sectors, has a positive and significant effect on provincial creative employment growth
Leptogenic Supersymmetry at the LHC
Leptogenic Supersymmetry is a scenario characterized by copious lepton
production in cascade decays. Due to the high lepton multiplicity and the lack
of significant missing energy, leptogenic supersymmetry provides very clean
channels which can be probed already with the early LHC data. Furthermore, the
Higgs may be discovered in the h->b bbar mode because the leptons accompanying
Higgs production efficiently suppress the background.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of SUSY 09,
Northeastern University, Boston, M
Skew group algebras of Jacobian algebras
For a quiver with potential with an action of a finite cyclic group
, we study the skew group algebra of the Jacobian algebra
. By a result of Reiten and Riedtmann, the quiver
of a basic algebra Morita equivalent to is known. Under some assumptions on the action of , we explicitly
construct a potential on such that . The original quiver with potential can then be
recovered by the skew group algebra construction with a natural action of the
dual group of . If is self-injective, then is as well,
and we investigate this case. Motivated by Herschend and Iyama's
characterisation of 2-representation finite algebras, we study how cuts on
behave with respect to our construction.Comment: 34 pages, comments welcome. Final version, to appear in Journal of
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On Resonant Leptogenesis
It has been recently shown that the quantum Boltzmann equations may be
relevant for the leptogenesis scenario. In particular, they lead to a
time-dependent CP asymmetry which depends upon the previous dynamics of the
system. This memory effect in the CP asymmetry is particularly important in
resonant leptogenesis where the asymmetry is generated by the decays of nearly
mass-degenerate right-handed neutrinos. We study the impact of the nontrivial
time evolution of the CP asymmetry in resonant leptogenesis, both in the
one-flavour case and with flavour effects included. We show that significant
qualitative and quantitative differences arise with respect to the case in
which the time dependence of the CP asymmetry is neglected.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures. IOP LaTeX class used. Minor corrections and
references added. Matches the version published in JCA
On the Impact of Flavour Oscillations in Leptogenesis
When lepton flavour effects in thermal leptogenesis are active, they
introduce important differences with respect to the case in which they are
neglected, the so-called one-flavour approximation. We investigate analytically
and numerically the transition from the one-flavour to the two-flavour case
when the -lepton flavour becomes distinguishable from the other two
flavours. We study the impact of the oscillations of the asymmetries in lepton
flavour space on the final lepton asymmetries, for the hierarchical
right-handed neutrino mass spectrum. Flavour oscillations project the lepton
state on the flavour basis very efficiently. We conclude that flavour effects
are relevant typically for M_1\lsim 10^{12} GeV, where is the mass of
the lightest right-handed neutrino.Comment: 24 pages, 9 figures. Minor corrections; version published in JCA
Quantum Boltzmann Equations and Leptogenesis
The closed time-path formalism is a powerful Green's function formulation to
describe non-equilibrium phenomena in field theory and it leads to a complete
non-equilibrium quantum kinetic theory. We make use of this formalism to write
down the set of quantum Boltzmann equations relevant for leptogenesis. They
manifest memory effects and off-shell corrections. In particular, memory
effects lead to a time-dependent CP asymmetry whose value at a given instant of
time depends upon the previous history of the system. This result is
particularly relevant when the asymmetry is generated by the decays of nearly
mass-degenerate heavy states, as in resonant or soft leptogenesis.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures. IOP LaTeX class used. Minor corrections and
references added. Matches the version published in JCA
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