The deconstruction exercise

The deconstruction of constructivism.

June/July 2002 • American Psychologist vites the replacement of one with the other. PDP connectionism provides a synthetic perspective on the dialectical tension created by this play of apparent opposites by centering inquiry on constructivist network principles that govern the emergence of mind from brain. Connectionism brings postmodernist constructive assumptions to bear regarding how percep...

Spherical Deconstruction

We present evidence that N = 1 * SUSY Yang-Mills provides a decon-struction of a six-dimensional gauge theory compactified on a two-sphere. The six-dimensional theory is a twisted compactification of N = (1, 1) SUSY Yang-Mills theory of the type considered by Maldacena and Nunez (MN) in [1]. In particular, we calculate the full classical spectrum of the N = 1 * theory with gauge group U (N) in ...

On the Deconstruction of Time

In this note we discuss the possibility to get a time rather than space in the scenario of (de)construction of new dimension. 1. Recently it was suggested in refs. [1, 2] that a four-dimensional gauge theory with a large gauge symmetry behaves in the infrared region in a manner which is very similar to a five-dimensional gauge theory with a smaller gauge group. This leads to an idea of (De)cons...

Caring for Deconstruction

Deconstructing Dimensional Deconstruction

Dimensional deconstruction (DD) abstracts from higher dimensional models features of related 4–dimensional ones. DD was proposed in Refs. [1–3] as a scheme for constructing models of naturally light composite Higgs boson. These are models in which—without fine–tuning of parameters—the composite Higgs’s mass M and vacuum expectation value v are much lighter than its binding energy scale Λ. We re...