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Racah Polynomials and Recoupling Schemes of
The connection between the recoupling scheme of four copies of
, the generic superintegrable system on the 3 sphere, and
bivariate Racah polynomials is identified. The Racah polynomials are presented
as connection coefficients between eigenfunctions separated in different
spherical coordinate systems and equivalently as different irreducible
decompositions of the tensor product representations. As a consequence of the
model, an extension of the quadratic algebra is given. It is
shown that this algebra closes only with the inclusion of an additional shift
operator, beyond the eigenvalue operators for the bivariate Racah polynomials,
whose polynomial eigenfunctions are determined. The duality between the
variables and the degrees, and hence the bispectrality of the polynomials, is
interpreted in terms of expansion coefficients of the separated solutions
Periodic Manifolds with Spectral Gaps
We investigate spectral properties of the Laplace operator on a class of
non-compact Riemannian manifolds. For a given number we construct periodic
(i.e. covering) manifolds such that the essential spectrum of the corresponding
Laplacian has at least open gaps. We use two different methods. First, we
construct a periodic manifold starting from an infinite number of copies of a
compact manifold, connected by small cylinders. In the second construction we
begin with a periodic manifold which will be conformally deformed. In both
constructions, a decoupling of the different period cells is responsible for
the gaps.Comment: 21 pages, 3 eps-figures, LaTe
Note on 'N-pseudoreductions' of the KP hierarchy
The group-theoretical side of N-pseudoreductions is discussed. The resulting equations are shown to be easy transformations of the N-KdV hierarch
On the structure of graded transitive Lie algebras
We study finite-dimensional Lie algebras of polynomial vector fields in variables that contain the vector fields and . We show that the maximal ones always contain a semi-simple subalgebra , such that for an with . Moreover a maximal algebra has no trivial -module in the space spanned by . The possible algebras are described in detail, as well as all -modules that constitute such maximal . All maximal are described explicitly for
Federalism in the Taft Court Era: Can It Be “Revived”?
This Article analyzes the Supreme Court\u27s view of federalism during the decade of the 1920s. It offers a detailed discussion of four jurisprudential areas: congressional power, dormant Commerce Clause doctrine, intergovernmental tax immunity, and judicial centralization through the enforcement of federal common law and constitutional rights. The resurgent federalism of the contemporary Court is typically characterized as reviving pre-New Deal principles. This Article concludes, however, that any such revival is highly implausible. It offers four reasons for this conclusion. First, the pre-New Deal Court conceived federalism in terms of the ideal of dual sovereignty, which imagined that the federal government and the states regulated distinct and exclusive spheres of social and economic life. But because the national market had by the twentieth century become thoroughly integrated, this ideal produced doctrinal incoherence in the areas of both intergovernmental tax immunity and the dormant Commerce Clause. The application of the ideal of dual sovereignty also significantly undercut state power, because it invited the pre-New Deal Court to prohibit states from regulating the exclusively federal area of interstate commerce. For these reasons the modern Court has abandoned the ideal of dual sovereignty in its doctrine of intergovernmental tax immunity and the dormant Commerce Clause. Contemporary opinions in these areas imagine federal and state interests as intermingled and overlapping, rather than as separated into discrete spheres. The modern view actually offers more protection for state regulations than did the ideal of dual sovereignty espoused by the pre-New Deal Court. Second, the pre-New Deal Court understood itself as a common law court authorized to articulate the deepest experiences and values of the American people. This authority transcended the distinction between federal and state power, which is why the pre-New Deal Court never conceived itself as an agent of a federal government that was potentially in tension with state sovereignty. The Court never understood the centralization resulting from judicial decisionmaking as a federalism issue. The Court freely regulated intimate areas of state life through the promulgation of general common law. The pre-New Deal Court\u27s common law authority was regarded as even more fundamental than Congress\u27s claim to articulate the national will. The triumph of Holmesian positivism in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins transformed the Court into an instrument of specifically federal law. The federalism implications of judicial decisionmaking in the areas of common law and constitutional rights were thus made manifest for the first time. The Court\u27s authority to impose structural limitations on congressional power was also profoundly altered. Third, the pre-New Deal Court, like the country generally, regarded the federal government as a potentially distant, bureaucratic, and oppressive institution. States were by contrast conceptualized as sites of democratic self-government. Federalism was typically conceived as the problem of reconciling centralization with self-government. Thus federal and state regulations, even of the same subject matter, were not regarded as equivalent. State regulation was self-chosen; federal regulation was potentially coercive. This view of the federal government was pushed to the margins of American political culture when the crisis of the New Deal legitimated the national government\u27s authority to speak as the genuine representative of an authentic national democratic will. Combined with the demise of the Court\u27s common law authority, this transformation of Congress\u27s legitimacy undercut the Court\u27s ability to second-guess Congress\u27s vision of national priorities when reviewing the limits of congressional power. Fourth, the pre-New Deal Court conceived structure and rights as complementary and mutually dependent concepts. The Court defined individual rights in ways designed to serve structural principles, like the integration of the national market. And it defined structural principles, like the limits of congressional power, in terms of the individual rights affected by federal legislation. Because the Lochnerism of the pre-New Deal Court inclined it to protect freedom of contract, it sought to impose limits on congressional power that were highly sensitive to the nature of the economic transactions regulated by federal legislation. Modern constitutional thinking, by contrast, sharply distinguishes structure from rights, and it does not seek to protect the same kind of economic rights as did pre-New Deal Lochnerism. The revival of pre-New Deal federalism, in short, would require the contemporary Court to restore an ideal of dual sovereignty that in important doctrinal areas is not only incoherent, but deeply antagonistic to state power; to reassert its authority as a common law court; to resurrect an image of Congress as a national legislature unsupported by a genuine national democratic will; and to dismantle the contemporary distinction between structure and rights so as to limit congressional power in ways designed to protect rights of substantive due process
A Qualitative Study of the Effects of the University of Arkansas Autism Support Program
Abstract
Individuals who have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder are often united by the following characteristics: difficulty communicating and interacting with others, inhibited ability to function socially, difficulty functioning academically or at work, and trouble transitioning to independent lifestyles (Lord, 2013). The purpose of this study was to determine how undergraduate students with Autism Spectrum Disorder perceive the helpfulness of the University of Arkansas Autism Support Program in the following areas: reducing college- related stress, facilitating academic success, facilitating social success, and preparing individuals for independent adult roles. In short, the study sought to determine the effects of the University of Arkansas Autism Support Program on participating undergraduate students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Data was collected via a paper and pencil questionnaire and an oral interview for undergraduate members of the University of Arkansas Autism Support Program to complete. The results of this study are beneficial to any individual who has a connection to autism in academia (i.e. students with autism spectrum disorders, autism support program employees, peers, professors, researchers, family members, etc.) and provides useful qualitative data on the strengths and weaknesses of one of many college-level autism support programs through the eyes of participating students
Eigenvalues in Spectral Gaps of a Perturbed Periodic Manifold
We consider a non-compact Riemannian periodic manifold such that the
corresponding Laplacian has a spectral gap. By continuously perturbing the
periodic metric locally we can prove the existence of eigenvalues in a gap. A
lower bound on the number of eigenvalue branches crossing a fixed level is
established in terms of a discrete eigenvalue problem. Furthermore, we discuss
examples of perturbations leading to infinitely many eigenvalue branches coming
from above resp. finitely many branches coming from below.Comment: 30 pages, 3 eps-figures, LaTe
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