We discuss the ordering of a spin-1 condensate when quenched from its paramagnetic phase to its ferromagnetic phase by reducing the magnetic field. We first elucidate the nature of the equilibrium quantum phase transition. Quenching rapidly through this transition reveals XY ordering either at a specific wave vector, or the "light-cone" correlations familiar from relativistic theories, dependin...

Surround suppression (SS) refers to a reduction in the effective stimulus contrast in one visual location produced by a stimulus presented in an adjacent location. This type of suppression is tuned for orientation and spatial frequency and is thought to be a cortical process. In this paper we used psychophysical measurements to determine whether S-cone-driven signals are affected by surround su...

In this paper we study a special class of convex optimization problems called conically ordered convex programs (COCP), where the feasible region is given as the level set of a vector-valued nonlinear mapping, expressed as a nonnegative combination of convex functions. The nonnegativity of the vectors is defined using a pre-described conic ordering. The new model extends the ordinary convex pro...

The objective of this paper is to deal with the fuzzy conic programming problems. The aim here is to derive weak and strong duality theorems for a general fuzzy conic programming. Toward this end, The convexity-like concept of fuzzy mappings is introduced and then a specific ordering cone is established based on the parameterized representation of fuzzy numbers. Under this setting, duality theo...

The problem of estimating certain functionals defined on a group of linear operators generating a group induced cone (GIC) ordering is studied. A result of Berman and Plemmons [Math. Inequal. Appl., 2(1):149–152, 1998] is extended from the sum function to Schur-convex functions. It is shown that the problem has a closed connection with both Schur type inequality and weak group majorization. Som...

A comparison theorem is stated for Markov processes in polish state spaces. We consider a general class of stochastic orderings induced by a cone of real functions. The main result states that stochastic monotonicity of one process and comparability of the infinitesimal generators imply ordering of the processes. Several applications to convex type and to dependence orderings are given. In part...

In this paper, by using the famous Brouwer fixed point theorem, some existence theorems of strong efficient solutions for the strong vector equilibrium problems are obtained on noncompact sets of general real Hausdorff topological vector spaces without assuming that the dual of the ordering cone has a weak∗ compact base. Moreover, the closeness and the convexity of the strong efficient solution...

Motivated by applications to (directionally) Lipschitz functions, we provide a general result on the almost everywhere Gâteaux differentiability of real-valued functions on separable Banach spaces, when the function is monotone with respect to an ordering induced by a convex cone with nonempty interior. This seemingly arduous restriction is useful, since it covers the case of directionally Lips...

We consider the (massive) Gross-Neveu model using the light cone quantization where we solve the constraints explicitly. We show that the vacuum is trivial and that the quantization fails when m = 0. We discuss how the running coupling constant emerges as a pure normal ordering effect in this context and the bound state equation. E-mail [email protected], 22105::PESANDO, 31890::I PESANDO. W...