We study the Morita equivalence for fermion theories on noncom-mutative two-tori. For rational values of the θ parameter (in appropriate units) we show the equivalence between an abelian noncommu-tative fermion theory and a nonabelian theory of twisted fermions on ordinary space. We study the chiral anomaly and compute the determinant of the Dirac operator in the dual theories showing that the ...

Vagueness is a pervasive feature of natural languages that is challenging semantic theories and theories of language evolution alike. We focus here on the latter, addressing the challenge of how to account for the emergence of vague meanings in signaling game models of language evolution. We suggest that vagueness is a natural property of meaning that evolves when boundedly rational agents repe...

Abstract Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? This paper responds to this ever‐significant question by scrutinizing people's belief theories Turkey. Building on Max Weber's theory of rationalization, it proposes that value‐laden and instrumentally rational predispositions, namely religiosity partisanship, predict beliefs theories. current study tests hypothesis analyzing two nationwide...

Language comprehension, as with all other cases of the extraction of meaningful structure from perceptual input, takes places under noisy conditions. If human language comprehension is a rational process in the sense of making use of all available information sources, then we might expect uncertainty at the level of word-level input to affect sentence-level comprehension. However, nearly all co...

Language comprehension, as with all other cases of the extraction of meaningful structure from perceptual input, takes places under noisy conditions. If human language comprehension is a rational process in the sense of making use of all available information sources, then we might expect uncertainty at the level of word-level input to affect sentence-level comprehension. However, nearly all co...

Fractional statistics and quantum chaos are both phenomena associated with the non-local storage of quantum information. In this article, we point out a connection between the butterfly effect in (1+1)-dimensional rational conformal field theories and fractional statistics in (2+1)-dimensional topologically ordered states. This connection comes from the characterization of the butterfly effect ...

Computer offences and crimes against corporate computer systems have increasingly become a major challenge to information security management in the Internet-enabled global economy and society. In this study, we attempt to develop a theoretical model that integrates three main stream criminology theories, i.e., general deterrence, rational choice, and individual propensity. We submit that, whil...

The N = ∞ vector O(N) model is a solvable, interacting field theory in three dimensions (D). In a recent paper with A. Chubukov and J. Ye [1], we have computed a universal number, c̃, characterizing the size dependence of the free energy at the conformally-invariant critical point of this theory. The result [1] for c̃ can be expressed in terms of polylogarithms. Here, we use non-trivial polylogar...

We consider orientifold actions involving the permutation of two identical factor theories. The corresponding crosscap states are constructed in rational conformal field theory. We study group manifolds, in particular the examples SU(2)×SU(2) and U(1)×U(1) in detail, comparing conformal field theory results with geometry. We then consider orientifolds of tensor products of N = 2 minimal models,...

The effectiveness of IT investments is known to depend on intangible assets such as work practices. However current systems analysis has no concern about them due to the mindset of rational organization and functionalism. We rethink systems analysis in a new view of organizations proposed by Kay and colleagues who apply autopoiesis and complex theories to reconstruct the basis of organizational...