Recently, Mullins calculated the Casson-Walker invariant of the 2-fold cyclic branched cover of an oriented link in S in terms of its Jones polynomial and its signature, under the assumption that the 2-fold branched cover is a rational homology 3-sphere. Using elementary principles, we provide a similar calculation for the general case. In addition, we calculate the LMO invariant of the p-fold ...

The expulsion of magnetic flux lines from a growing superconducting core of a quark star has been investigated. The idea of impurity diffusion in molten alloys and an identical mechanism of baryon number transport from hot quark-gluon-plasma phase to hadronic phase during quark-hadron phase transition in the early universe, micro-second after big bang has been used. The possibility of Mullins-S...

Figure 2—Upper Mullins Valley, ADV. Arrows point to oriented polygon fields with radial/orthogonal geometry. Down valley is to image right. THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF ORIENTED-NETWORK POLYGONALLY PATTERNED GROUND; THE ANTARCTIC DRY VALLEYS AS MARS ANALOGUE. Joseph S. Levy, James W. Head, and David R. Marchant; 1 Dept. Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence RI, 02912, 2 Department of...

Elastomeric materials experience stretch-induced softening as evidenced by a pre-stretched material exhibiting a signi1cantly more compliant response than that of the virgin material. In this paper, we propose a fully three-dimensional constitutive model for the observed softening of the stress–strain behavior. The model adopts the Mullins and Tobin concept of an evolution in the underlying har...