The liquid-gas phase transition for homogeneous symmetric nuclear matter is studied in the mean-field approximation. Critical properties are computed using a comprehensive group of Skyrme and Gogny forces in an effort to elucidate the effective interaction dependence of the results. Analytical models for the thermodynamical and critical properties are discussed and compared to an extensive set ...

We suggest a new correlation in diffractive production of 2 “clusters” A + B → AB with large intrinsic angular momenta for each A and B cluster. These correlations are expected in the context of the “color dipole picture” for high energy collision and reflect the approximate conservation of dipole direction during the collision. This conservation is in particular manifest when the two dipoles, ...

We exhibit a family of infinite, finitely-presented, nilpotent-byabelian groups. Each member of this family is a solvable S-arithmetic group that is related to Baumslag-Solitar groups, and everyone of these groups has a quasi-isometry group that is virtually a product of a solvable real Lie group and a solvable p-adic Lie group. In addition, we propose a candidate for a polycyclic group whose q...

We report on a high statistics numerical study of the crystalline random surface model with extrinsic curvature on lattices of up to 64 points. The critical exponents at the crumpling transition are determined by a number of methods all of which are shown to agree within estimated errors. The correlation length exponent is found to be ν = 0.71(5) from the tangenttangent correlation function whe...

We formulate the optimum personal paging area problem as an interval estimation problem, with an aim to reduce the paging signaling cost by minimizing the size of the paging area. A paging algorithm is developed to set-up the optimal one-step paging area that contains the locations of a mobile user with a high probability and thus to gain a coverage that is matched to the user’s time-varying mo...

The 2D quasi-geostrophic (QG) equation is a two dimensional model of the 3D incompressible Euler equations. When dissipation is included in the model then solutions always exist if the dissipation’s wave number dependence is super-linear. Below this critical power the dissipation appears to be insufficient. For instance, it is not known if the critical dissipative QG equation has global smooth ...