In English, the adverb only/merely contributes to both the assertion and the presupposition of the sentence in which it occurs (Horn 1969, Klinedinst 2005, van Rooij & Schulz 2007, Beaver & Clark 2008, Roberts 2006, 2011, a.o.). The sentence in (1) presupposes that the janitor is ranked low on some contextually relevant scale (scalarity) and asserts that Maria did not talk to a person of a high...

The isosinglet scalar mesons f0(1710), f0(1500), f0(1370) and their mixing are studied. Two recent lattice results are employed as the starting point; one is the approximate SU(3) symmetry in the scalar sector above 1 GeV for the connected insertion part without qq̄ annihilation, and the other is the scalar glueball mass at 1710 MeV in the quenched approximation. In the SU(3) symmetry limit, f0(...

in his paper mentioned in the title, which appears in the same issue of this journal, mehdi radjabalipour derives the cyclic decomposition of an algebraic linear transformation. a more general structure theory for linear transformations appears in irving kaplansky's lovely 1954 book on infinite abelian groups. we present a translation of kaplansky's results for abelian groups into the...

The identification of fJ(1710) as the lightest scalar glueball is supported at present by two different sets of calculations. For the valence approximation to the infinite volume continuum limit of the lightest scalar glueball mass, a calculation on GF11 [1], using 25000 to 30000 gauge configurations, gives 1740 ± 71 MeV. An independent calculation by the UKQCD-Wuppertal [2] collaboration, usin...

The isosinglet scalar mesons f0(1710), f0(1500), f0(1370) and their mixing are studied. We employ two recent lattice results as the starting point; one is the isovector scalar meson a0(1450) which displays an unusual property of being nearly independent of quark mass for quark masses smaller than that of the strange, and the other is the scalar glueball mass at 1710 MeV in the quenched approxim...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we characterize the class of orthogonality preserving operators on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $H$ as scalar multiples of unitary operators between $H$ and some closed subspaces of $H$‎. ‎We show that any circle (centered at the origin) is the spectrum of an orthogonality preserving operator‎. ‎Also‎, ‎we prove that every compact normal operator is a strongly orthogo...