Social psychology shows that the effect of a persuasive argument depends on characteristics of the person to be persuaded, including the person’s involvement with the topic and the discrepancy between the person’s current position on the topic and the argument’s position. Via a series of experiments, this paper provides insight into how the receiver’s position can be modelled computationally, a...

This paper is concerned with the analysis and synthesis of linear positive systems based on linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). We first show that the celebrated Perron–Frobenius theorem can be proved concisely by a duality-based argument. Again by duality, we next clarify a necessary and sufficient condition under which a Hurwitz stable Metzler matrix admits a diagonal Lyapunov matrix with some...

The color matrix elements of the ghost triangle diagram that appears in the triple gluon vertex and the ghost-ghost-gluon triangle diagram that appears in the ghost-gluon-ghost vertex are calculated. The ghost-ghost-gluon triangle contains a loop consisting of two color diagonal ghosts and one gluon and a loop consisting of two color antisymmetric ghosts and one gluon. Consequently, the pQCD ar...

We study the ground state Ψ0 = aX |X of N hard-core bosons on a finite lattice in configu-aY can be interpreted as probabilities Pa(X). Let E0 denote the energy of the ground state and |∂X| the number of nearest-neighbour particle-hole pairs in the configuration X. We prove the concentration of Pa onto X with |∂X| in a |E0|-neighbourhood of |E0|, show that the average of aX over configurations ...

Color matrix elements of the ghost triangle diagram that appears in the triple gluon vertex and the ghost-ghost-gluon triangle diagram that appears in the ghost-gluon-ghost vertex are calculated. The ghost-ghost-gluon triangle contains a loop consisting of two color diagonal ghost and one gluon and a loop consisting of two color antisymmetric ghost and one gluon. Consequently the pQCD argument ...

Two generalizations of Komll os' theorem for functions and multifunctions with values in a Banach space are presented. The rst generalization is partly new and the second one is a Komll os-type result of a completely new nature. It requires the Radon-Nikodym property for the Banach space and its dual. In both cases our approach relies on using Komll os' theorem by means of a diagonal extraction...

Color matrix elements of the ghost triangle diagram that appears in the triple gluon vertex and the ghost-ghost-gluon triangle diagram that appears in the ghost-gluon-ghost vertex are calculated. The ghost-ghost-gluon triangle contains a loop consisting of two color diagonal ghost and one gluon and a loop consisting of two color antisymmetric ghost and one gluon. Consequently the pQCD argument ...

We study the existence of solutions anH-system for a revolution surface without boundary for H depending on the radius f . Under suitable conditions we prove that the existence of a solution is equivalent to the solvability of a scalar equation N(a) = L/√2, where N : ⊂ R+ → R is a function depending on H . Moreover, using the method of upper and lower solutions we prove existence results for so...