SINCE this condition was first described (Butler, 1930), only a handful ofcases has been added to the literature. In view of its infrequency, some cases are presented and compared with previous descriptions. Perhaps the name, although anatomically descriptive, is unfortunate, for it would imply that the condition has some relationship with the better-known conical cornea. In fact, there is no e...

In this paper we consider the possibility of replacing the diffraction axicon and the conical axicon on the gradient lens with a linear variation of the refractive index. Analytically and numerically using the finite-difference timedomain method we performed a comparative study of the Gaussian beam diffraction on diffraction mikro-axicon, conical axicon and gradient microlens consisting of subw...

Crinoids, members of the phylum Echinodermata, are passive suspension feeders and catch plankton without producing an active feeding current. Today, the stalked forms are known only from deep water habitats, where flow conditions are rather constant and feeding velocities relatively low. For feeding, they form a characteristic parabolic filtration fan with their arms recurved backwards into the...

Ionic transport in charged conical nanopores is known to give rise to ion current rectification. The present study shows that the rectification direction can be inverted when using electrolyte solutions at very low ionic strengths. To elucidate these phenomena, electroneutral conical nanopores containing a perm-selective region at the tip have been investigated and shown to behave like classica...

We consider the Born-Oppenheimer problem near conical intersection in two dimensions. For energies close to the crossing energy we describe the wave function near an isotropic crossing and show that it is related to generalized hypergeometric functions 0F3. This function is to a conical intersection what the Airy function is to a classical turning point. As an application we calculate the anoma...

Hyperbolic systems of second-order differential equations are considered in a domain with conical points at the boundary; in particular, the equations of elastodynamics are discussed. The asymptotics of solutions near conical points is studied. The “hyperbolic character” of the asymptotics shows itself in the properties of the coefficients (stress intensity factors) depending on time. Some form...

By applying ’Darmois-Israel formalism’, we establish a new class of thin shell wormhole in the context of global monopole resulting from the breaking of a global O(3) symmetry. Since global monopole is asymptotically conical ( no longer asymptotically flat ), we call it as conical thin shell wormhole. Different characteristics of this conical thin shell wormhole, namely, time evolution of the t...

Vickers and Wilson ([26]) have shown global hyperbolicity of the conical spacetime in the sense of well-posedness of the initial value problem for the wave equation in generalized functions. We add the aspect of metric splitting and preliminary thoughts on Cauchy hypersurfaces and causal curves. AMS Mathematics Subject Classi cation (2010): 46F30, 83C75