I review recent constraints on and claimed detections of a time-varying fine-structure constant α. Our results are consistent with no variation in α from the epoch of recombination to the present day, and restrict any such variation to be less than about 4%. The forthcoming MAP and Planck experiments will be able to break most of the currently existing degeneracies between α and other cosmologi...

We compute the boundary entropies for the allowed boundary conditions of the SU (2)-invariant principal chiral model at level k = 1. We used the reflection factors determined in ref.[27]. As a by-product we obtain some miscellaneous results such as the ground-state energy for mixed boundary conditions as well as the degeneracies of the Kondo model in the underscreened and exactly screened cases...

Stripping techniques combined with an adequate replication policy across the Grid offers the possibility to improve significatively data access and processing times, while eliminating the need for local data mirroring, so saving significatively on storage costs. First results on a local cluster following a simple strategy are presented.

The spectrum of eigenenergies of a quantum integrable system whose hamil-tonian depends on a single parameter shows degeneracies (crossings) when the parameter varies. We derive a semiclassical expression for the density of crossings in the plane energy-parameter, that is the number of crossings per unit of energy and unit of parameter, in terms of classical periodic orbits. We compare the resu...

We compute the boundary entropies for the allowed boundary conditions of the SU (2)-invariant principal chiral model at level k = 1. We used the reflection factors determined in a previous work. As a by-product we obtain some miscellaneous results such as the ground-state energy for mixed boundary conditions as well as the degeneracies of the Kondo model in the underscreened and exactly screene...

I discuss the physics case of the standard Neutrino Factory facility coupled to an iron detector to exploit the so-called ‘Golden-Channel’. The performance of the facility is impressive, although it is not free from degeneracies arising from a combination of physics and instrumental limitations. Nevertheless, one could explore at great depth the parameter of the leptonic mixing matrix as well a...

We study exact representations for offset curves and surfaces, for equal-distance curves and surfaces, and for fixedand variable-radius blending surfaces. The representations are myekeme of nonlinear equationn that define the curves and surfaces as natural projections from a bigherdimeneional space into &space. We show that the systems derived by-naively trsnalating the geometric constrainb def...

The (exclusion) statistics of parafermions is used to study degeneracies of quasiholes over the paired (or in general clustered) quantum Hall states. Focus is on the Zk and su(3)k/u(1) 2 parafermions, which are used in the description of spin-polarized and spin-singled clustered quantum Hall states.