Minor Myers, Jr.

Myers Effect and Tachyon Condensation

D0-branes are unstable in the presence of an R-R field strength background. A fuzzy twosphere is classically stable under such a background, this phenomenon being called the Myers effect. We analyze this effect from the viewpoint of tachyon condensation. It is explicitly shown that a fuzzy two-sphere is realized by the condensation of tachyons which appear from strings connecting different D0-b...

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, Jr . MERCURY IN SEDIMENTS

In recent years, the Coastal Water Research Project has conducted surveys of the distribution of certain trace substances in sediments around the major municipal wastewater outfalls off southern California. Because of high levels of heavy metals found in sediments near Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts outfall system off Whites Point in 1970, detailed surveys of the Palos Verdes shelf wer...

On extensions of Myers' theorem

Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold and h a smooth function on M. Let h (x) = inf jvj=1 (Ric x (v; v) ? 2Hess(h) x (v; v)). Here Ric x denotes the Ricci curvature at x and Hess(h) is the Hessian of h. Then M has nite fundamental group if h ? h < 0. Here h =: + 2L rh is the Bismut-Witten Laplacian. This leads to a quick proof of recent results on extension of Myers' theorem to mani-folds with...

Reply to Myers et al.

The authors agree with Myers et al. [1] that biodegradable materials represent a useful alternative in the management of tricuspid valve endocarditis repair. Our statement of dividing tricuspid valve repair choices in prosthetic and non-prosthetic techniques adequately sets the main cornerstones of surgical therapy: first, minimizing, as much as possible, the resulting valve regurgitation follo...