We extend the notion of Evolutionarily Stable Strategies introduced by Maynard Smith & Price [6] in 1973 for models ruled by a single fitness matrix A, to the framework of stochastic games developed by Lloyd Shapley [13] in 1953 where, at discrete stages in time, players play one of finitely many matrix games, while the transitions from one matrix game to the next follow a jointly controlled Ma...

We have studied the ground-state properties of the symmetric and asymmetric one-dimensional periodic Anderson model as a function of band filling and the model parameters (V , U, and E f) using the local mean-field ~LMF! approach. We have constructed the phase diagram for both cases and have calculated the energy, local moment, and occupation number of the f level. The LMF approach can reveal t...

This paper focuses on an infinite-server queue modulated by an independently evolving finite-state Markovian background process, with transition rate matrix Q ≡ (qij)i,j=1. Both arrival rates and service rates are depending on the state of the background process. The main contribution concerns the derivation of central limit theorems for the number of customers in the system at time t ≥ 0, in t...

The stability of the equilibria of time-invariant nonlinear dynamical systems with discrete time scale is investigated. We present an elementary proof showing that in the case of a stable equilibrium and continuously di€erentiable state transition function, all eigenvalues of the Jacobian computed at the equilibrium must be inside or on the unit circle. We also demonstrate via numerical example...

This paper presents a novel modeling and control approach for the aggregation of large numbers of heterogeneous thermostatically controlled loads, such as refrigerators, electric water heaters, and air conditioners, and their usage for Demand Response. Unlike traditional Demand Response methods that act on time scales of hours, this approach is able to provide short-term (e.g., second-to-second...

Light front field theories are known to have the usual infra-red divergences of the equal time theories, as well as new ‘spurious’ infra-red divergences. The former kind of IR divergences are usually treated by giving a small mass to the gauge particle. An alternative method to deal with these divergences is to calculate the transition matrix elements in a coherent state basis. In this paper we...

A method is described for folding polymers to specific target conformations. The approach uses a fast but approximate dynamics algorithm, coupled with a genetic algorithm that is used to evolve the large number of free parameters needed. The dynamics algorithm uses a state transition matrix approach. At each time step, the distances between pairs of atoms are adjusted by shifting them from Dij ...

A method is described for folding polymers to specific target conformations. The approach uses a fast but approximate dynamics algorithm, coupled with a genetic algorithm that is used to evolve the large number of free parameters needed. The dynamics algorithm uses a state transition matrix approach. At each time step, the distances between pairs of atoms are adjusted by shifting them from Dij ...

Speaker models for blind source separation are typically based on HMMs consisting of vast numbers of states to capture source spectral variation, and trained on large amounts of isolated speech. Since observations can be similar between sources, inference relies on sequential constraints from the state transition matrix which are, however, quite weak. To avoid these problems, we propose a strat...

In this article we analyze the nuclear matrix elements (NME) of the neutrinoless double beta decays (0νββ) of the nuclei 48Ca, 76Ge, 82Se, 124Sn, 128Te, 130Te and 136Xe in the framework of the interacting shell model (ISM). We study the relative value of the different contributions to the NME’s, such as higher order terms in the nuclear current, finite nuclear size effects and short range corre...