Weak gravitational lensing by large scale structure affects the number counts of faint galaxies through the “magnification bias” and thus affects the measurement of the angular two-point correlation function ω(θ). At faint magnitudes the clustering amplitude will decrease differently with limiting magnitude than expected from Limber’s equation. The amplitude will hit a minimum and then rise wit...

We extend the analysis of [1] of the Standard Model Higgs inflation accounting for two-loop radiative corrections to the effective potential. As was expected, higher loop effects result in some modification of the interval for allowed Higgs masses mmin < mH < mmax, which somewhat exceeds the region in which the Standard Model can be considered as a viable effective field theory all the way up t...

Abstruct-Multiple trellis-coded modulation (MTCM) of MPSK employs separate designs, which are optimum at high SNR, for the Rayleigh fading channel and the AWGN channel, in order to meet the different design criteria for the two channels. The separate designs are no longer optimum if the channel conditions are interchanged, if the channel is Rician, or if the SNR’s are moderate. In this paper, a...

A repeat in a string is a substring that occurs more than once. A repeat is extendible if every occurrence of the repeat has an identical letter either on the left or on the right; otherwise, it is maximal. A multirepeat is a repeat that occurs at least mmin times (mmin ≥ 2) in each of at least q ≥ 1 strings in a given set of strings. In this paper, we describe a family of efficient algorithms ...