A closer look at non-decoupling D -terms

A closer look at non-decoupling D-terms

Article history: Received 29 March 2016 Received in revised form 12 April 2016 Accepted 7 May 2016 Available online 11 May 2016 Editor: J. Hisano Non-decoupling D-terms are an attractive possibility to enhance the tree-level mass of the standard model like Higgs boson in supersymmetric models. We discuss here for the case of a new Abelian gauge group two effects usually neglected in literature:...

A Closer Look at Preduction

In a recent paper Jun Arima formalises the idea of preduc-tion { a non-monotonic schema providing a common basis for inductive and analogical reasoning. We examine some of the implications of this schema, as well as its connections with prototypes and conceptual spaces. A generalised version of his schema is motivated and developed to address diiculties with asymmetry and disjuncts.

A Closer Look at HMAC

Bellare, Canetti and Krawczyk [BCK96] show that cascading an ε-secure (fixed input length) PRF gives an O(εnq)-secure (variable input length) PRF when making at most q prefix-free queries of length n blocks. We observe that this translates to the same bound for NMAC (which is the cascade without the prefix-free requirement but an additional application of the PRF at the end), and give a matchin...

A Closer Look at Trumping1

According to Schaffer (2000a), “trumping preemption” is a category of redundant causation distinct from early and late preemption and from overdetermination. I show that the putative causal difference between causal processes in cases thought to be trumping preemption generates early preemption or overdetermination rather than trumping. I draw a novel lesson from cases thought to be trumping: t...

A closer look at follicular lymphoma.