A statistical mechanical approach to granular material is proposed. Using lattice models from standard Statistical Mechanics and results from a mean field replica approach we find a jamming transition in granular media closely related to the glass transition in super-cooled liquids. These models reproduce the logarithmic relaxation in granular compaction and reversible-irreversible lines, in ag...

A finite size scaling theory for the partition function zeroes and thermodynamic functions of O(N) φ 4-theory in four dimensions is derived from renormalization group methods. The leading scaling behaviour is mean-field like with multiplicative logarithmic corrections which are linked to the triviality of the theory. These logarithmic corrections are independent of N for odd thermodynamic quant...

This paper demonstrates that basic statistics (mean, variance) of the logarithm of the variate itself can be used in the calculation of differential entropy among random variables known to be multiples and powers of a common underlying variate. For the same set of distributions, the variance of the differential self-information is shown also to be a function of statistics of the logarithmic var...

There are limitations in using monthly rainfall totals in studies of rainfall climatology as well as in hydrological and agricultural investigations. Variations in rainfall may be considered to result from frequency changes in the daily rainfall of the respective regime. In the present study, daily rainfall data of the stations inside the Koyna catchment has been analysed for the period of 1961...

There are three classical divergence measures in the literature on information theory and statistics, namely, Jeffryes-Kullback-Leiber’s J-divergence, Sibson-Burbea-Rao’s JensenShannon divegernce and Taneja’s arithemtic geometric mean divergence. These bear an interesting relationship among each other and are based on logarithmic expressions. The divergence measures like Hellinger discriminatio...

In this paper we have considered an inequality having 11 divergence measures. Out of them three are logarithmic such as Jeffryes-Kullback-Leiber [4] [5] J-divergence. Burbea-Rao [1] Jensen-Shannon divergence and Taneja [7] arithmetic-geometric mean divergence. The other three are non-logarithmic such as Hellinger discrimination, symmetric χ−divergence, and triangular discrimination. Three more ...

We investigated the phase transition behavior of a binary spreading process in two dimensions for different particle diffusion strengths (D). We found that N>2 cluster mean-field approximations must be considered to get consistent singular behavior. The N=3,4 approximations result in a continuous phase transition belonging to a single universality class along the D subset (0,1) phase transition...

Seventeen lines, each homozygous for a different X chromosome but all with a common autosomal genetic blackground, were constructed and assayed for abdominal bristle number to determine whether dosage compensation operates for sex-linked genes affecting this character. --The regression coefficient of male mean on female mean using a logarithmic scale was 0.90 +/- 0.13 and the genetic regression...

We study the properties of random walks on complex trees. We observe that the absence of loops is reflected in physical observables showing large differences with respect to their looped counterparts. First, both the vertex discovery rate and the mean topological displacement from the origin present a considerable slowing down in the tree case. Second, the mean first passage time (MFPT) display...