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Equilibrium Points of an AND-OR Tree: under Constraints on Probability
We study a probability distribution d on the truth assignments to a uniform
binary AND-OR tree. Liu and Tanaka [2007, Inform. Process. Lett.] showed the
following: If d achieves the equilibrium among independent distributions (ID)
then d is an independent identical distribution (IID). We show a stronger form
of the above result. Given a real number r such that 0 < r < 1, we consider a
constraint that the probability of the root node having the value 0 is r. Our
main result is the following: When we restrict ourselves to IDs satisfying this
constraint, the above result of Liu and Tanaka still holds. The proof employs
clever tricks of induction. In particular, we show two fundamental
relationships between expected cost and probability in an IID on an OR-AND
tree: (1) The ratio of the cost to the probability (of the root having the
value 0) is a decreasing function of the probability x of the leaf. (2) The
ratio of derivative of the cost to the derivative of the probability is a
decreasing function of x, too.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Resource Bounded Immunity and Simplicity
Revisiting the thirty years-old notions of resource-bounded immunity and
simplicity, we investigate the structural characteristics of various immunity
notions: strong immunity, almost immunity, and hyperimmunity as well as their
corresponding simplicity notions. We also study limited immunity and
simplicity, called k-immunity and feasible k-immunity, and their simplicity
notions. Finally, we propose the k-immune hypothesis as a working hypothesis
that guarantees the existence of simple sets in NP.Comment: This is a complete version of the conference paper that appeared in
the Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP International Conference on Theoretical
Computer Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.81-95, Toulouse, France,
August 23-26, 200
Role of the Landau-Migdal Parameters with the Pseudovector and the Tensor Coupling in Relativistic Nuclear Models -- The Quenching of the Gamow-Teller Strength --
Role of the Landau-Migdal parameters with the pseudovector () and the
tensor coupling () is examined for the giant Gamow-Teller (GT) states in
the relativistic random phase approximation (RPA). The excitation energy is
dominated by both and in a similar way, while the GT strength is
independent of and in the RPA of the nucleon space, and is
quenched, compared with that in non-relativistic one. The coupling of the
particle-hole states with nucleon-antinucleon states is expected to quench the
GT strength further through .Comment: 7 pages, ReVTe
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