Three-body clusters are studied in the algebraic cluster model. Particular attention is paid to the case of three identical particles. It is shown in a geometrical analysis that the harmonic oscillator, the deformed oscillator and the oblate symmetric top are contained as special solutions. An application of the oblate top limit to the nucleus 12 C suggests that the low-lying spectrum can be de...

The linearly damped oscillator equation is considered with the damping term generalized to a Caputo fractional derivative. The order of the derivative being considered is 0 ≤ v ≤ 1. At the lower end v 0 the equation represents an undamped oscillator and at the upper end v 1 the ordinary linearly damped oscillator equation is recovered. A solution is found analytically, and a comparison with the...

Protein ubiquitination and degradation play important roles in many biological functions and are associated with many human diseases. It is well known that for biochemical oscillations to occur, proper degradation rates of the participating proteins are needed. In most mathematical models of biochemical reactions, linear degradation kinetics has been used. However, the degradation kinetics in r...

In this paper, we develop a physiological oscillator model of which the output mimics the shape of the R-R interval Poincaré plot. To validate the model, simulations of various nervous conditions are compared with heart rate variability (HRV) data obtained from subjects under each prescribed condition. For a variety of sympathovagal balances, our model generates Poincaré plots that undergo alte...

This paper analyzes the influence of phase noise and distortion on the performance of oscillator-based sensor data acquisition systems. Circuit noise inherent to the oscillator circuit manifests as phase noise and limits the SNR. Moreover, oscillator nonlinearity generates distortion for large input signals. Phase noise analysis of oscillators is well known in the literature, but the relationsh...

A relaxation oscillator model of neural spiking dynamics is applied to the task of finding downbeats in rhythmical patterns. The importance of downbeat discovery or 'beat induction' is discussed, and the relaxation oscillator model is compared to other oscillator models. In a set of computer simulations the model is tested on 35 rhythmical patterns. The model performs well, making good predicti...

Working in the framework of the ab−initio no-core shell model, we derive two-body effective interactions microscopically for specific harmonic-oscillator basis spaces from the realistic Argonne V 8 ′ nucleon-nucleon potential. However, our two-body effective interaction is only the dominant part of the A−body (A ≥ 3) effective interaction, which also contains three-, four-and, in general, up to...