Transcendental Deconstruction, Transcendent Justice

Transcendent communities

Online communities are potential arenas for informal and lifelong learning. Even though technology fosters internal sharing and collaboration in online communities, it also presents excessively strong external boundaries. These silo-like structures lead to fragmentation, counteracting cross-community collaboration and interdisciplinary learning. We are revising our own online community software...

The Quest for a Transcendental Experience: A Deconstruction of Binary Oppositions in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild

Spherical Deconstruction

We present evidence that N = 1 * SUSY Yang-Mills provides a decon-struction of a six-dimensional gauge theory compactified on a two-sphere. The six-dimensional theory is a twisted compactification of N = (1, 1) SUSY Yang-Mills theory of the type considered by Maldacena and Nunez (MN) in [1]. In particular, we calculate the full classical spectrum of the N = 1 * theory with gauge group U (N) in ...

Transcendental Elitism

Asymptotic behavior of the Lerch transcendent function

For complex parameters λ and s, consider the Lerch transcendent Φ(λ, s, z) = ∑∞ k=0 λ (k + z)−s as a function of the complex variable z. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of this function as Re s→ −∞.