My point is that if we are intelligibly to attribute attitudes and beliefs, or usefully to describe motions as behaviour, then we are committed to finding, in the pattern of behaviour, belief, and desire, a large degree of rationality and consistency ... .The limit thus placed on the social sciences is set not by nature, but by us when we decide to view men as rational agents with goals and pur...

A bstract In this note we study the spectral form factor in SYK model large q limit at infinite temperature. We construct analytic solutions for saddle point equations that describe slope and ramp regions of time dependence. These points are obtained by taking different approaches to limit: region is described a replica-diagonal solution replica-nondiagonal solution. find onset behavior happens...

A new kinetic model for binary mixtures and its Lattice Boltzman (LB) discretization is presented. In the hydrodynamic limit the model recovers the Navier-Stokes and the Stefan-Maxwell binary diffusion equations. The thermodynamic consistency is ensured by the defined non-negative entropy production within the domain of applicability of the model. The present formulation is able to simulate mix...

I review recent work on massive higher (s > 1) spins in constant curvature (deSitter) spaces. Some of the novel properties that emerge are: partial masslessness and new local gauge invariances, unitarily forbidden ranges of mass, correlation between fermions/bosons and nagative/positive cosmological constant Λ and finally the consistency requirement that in the limit of infinite spin towers, Λ ...

Using the model of random censorship, a necessary and sufficient condition for the consistency of the standard (actuarial) life table estimate of a survival distribution is derived. We establish the asymptotic normality of this estimate, showing that Greenwood's variance formula is nearly correct. In the case of a continuous survival distribution we establish limiting normality for the product ...

Strong consistency and asymptotic normality of the Gaussian pseudo-maximum likelihood estimate of the parameters in a wide class of ARCH(∞) processes are established. The conditions are shown to hold in case of exponential and hyperbolic decay in the ARCH weights, though in the latter case a faster decay rate is required for the central limit theorem than for the law of large numbers. Particula...

In this paper we present an approach based on genetic algorithms for determining optimal RDF query paths. The performance of this approach is benchmarked against the performance of a two-phase optimization algorithm. For more complex queries, the genetic algorithm RDFGA generally outperforms two-phase optimization in solution quality, execution time needed, and consistency in performance. Setti...

We study the knot invariant based on the quantum dilogarithm function. This invariant can be regarded as a non-compact analogue of Kashaev’s invariant, or the colored Jones invariant, and is defined by an integral form. The 3-dimensional picture of our invariant originates from the pentagon identity of the quantum dilogarithm function, and we show that the hyperbolicity consistency conditions i...

We analyze the general solution of the Wess-Zumino consistency condition in abelian lattice gauge theories, without taking the classical continuum limit. We find that, if the anomaly density is a local pseudo-scalar field on the lattice, the non-trivial anomaly is always proportional to the anomaly coefficient in the continuum theory. The possible extension of this result to non-abelian theorie...

In this work, we propose a new way of splitting the flux function of the isentropic compressible Euler equations at low Mach number into stiff and non-stiff parts. Following the IMEX methodology, the latter ones are treated explicitly, while the first ones are treated implicitly. The splitting is based on the incompressible limit solution, which we call reference solution (RS). An analysis conc...