Gehring and Pommerenke have shown that if the Schwarzian derivative S f of an analytic function f in the unit disk D satisfies ISf(z)] ~_ 2(1 I z [2 ) -2, then f (D) is a Jordan domain except when f (D) is the image under a M6bius transformation of an infinite parallel strip. The condition ISf(z)l <_ 2(1 lzl2) -2 is the classical sufficient condition for univalence of Nehari. In this paper we s...

Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing incom...

Numerous economic historians have suggested that institutions which supported contract enforcement were necessary for impersonal exchange to emerge in medieval Europe. Yet this literature cannot account for the bill of exchange, an important financial instrument that was legally enforced in both the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds but remained relegated to personal networks in only the fo...

We construct a supersymmetric standard model in the context of the Z12−I orbifold compactification of the heterotic string theory. The gauge group is SU(3)c × SU(2)L ×U(1)Y ×U(1)4 × [SO(10) ×U(1)3]′. We obtain three chiral families, 3 × {Q, dc, uc, L, ec, νc}, and Higgs doublets. There are numerous neutral singlets many of which can have VEVs so that low energy phenomenology on Yukawa couplings...

We provide an application of the theory group actions to study musical scales. For any G, finite G-set S, and real number t, we define t-power diameter diamt(G,S) be size maximal orbit S divided by mean elements S. The symmetric S11 acts on set all tonic scales, where a scale is subset Z12 containing 0. show that for t∈[−1,1], among subgroups G S11, heptatonic scales largest subgroup Γ, its con...

Abstract We present morphologies of galaxies at z ≳ 9 resolved by JWST/NIRCam 2–5 μ m imaging. Our sample consists 22 galaxy candidates identified stringent dropout and photo- criteria in GLASS, CEERS, SMACS J0723, Stephan’s Quintet flanking fields, one which has been spectroscopically = 11.44. perform surface brightness (SB) profile fitting with GALFIT for six bright a signal-to-noise ratio 10...

One Muslim is Enough!” Evidence from a Field Experiment in France Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games and a formal model, we show that t...

state z ∈ Z contains a state s ∈ S if state s is reachable by action a ∈ A and it holds that fO(a, s) = o. Reachable means that there exists a state s ∈ S such that fS(s, a) = s. Note that the resulting abstract state space is ambiguous, since some abstract states may overlap now. For example, if a state s ∈ S is reachable by the two actions a1, a2 and it holds that fO(a1, s) = o1 and fO(a2, s)...

Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women’s propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency...