scholarly journals Schuster.: Deterministic Chaos/Green, Schwarz, Witten: Superstring Theory/Kursunoglu, Wigner: Reminiscences about a great Physicist: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac/Regis: Who got Einstein's Office?/Sang: Joseph von Fraunhofer/Kramish: Der Greif, Paul Rosbaud -

1988 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-90
Author(s):  
S. Großmann ◽  
H. A. Kastrup ◽  
H. B. G. Casimir ◽  
H. B. G. Casimir ◽  
G. Hellbardt ◽  
...  
2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Włodzimierz Klonowski ◽  
Pawel Stepien ◽  
Robert Stepien

Over 20 years ago, Watt and Hameroff (1987 ) suggested that consciousness may be described as a manifestation of deterministic chaos in the brain/mind. To analyze EEG-signal complexity, we used Higuchi’s fractal dimension in time domain and symbolic analysis methods. Our results of analysis of EEG-signals under anesthesia, during physiological sleep, and during epileptic seizures lead to a conclusion similar to that of Watt and Hameroff: Brain activity, measured by complexity of the EEG-signal, diminishes (becomes less chaotic) when consciousness is being “switched off”. So, consciousness may be described as a manifestation of deterministic chaos in the brain/mind.


1988 ◽  
Vol 49 (C2) ◽  
pp. C2-413-C2-416
Author(s):  
M. TACHIKAWA ◽  
K. TANII ◽  
F.-L. HONG ◽  
T. TOHEI ◽  
M. KAJITA ◽  
...  

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1204
Author(s):  
John H. Graham

Phenotypic variation arises from genetic and environmental variation, as well as random aspects of development. The genetic (nature) and environmental (nurture) components of this variation have been appreciated since at least 1900. The random developmental component (noise) has taken longer for quantitative geneticists to appreciate. Here, I sketch the historical development of the concepts of random developmental noise and developmental instability, and its quantification via fluctuating asymmetry. The unsung pioneers in this story are Hugo DeVries (fluctuating variation, 1909), C. H. Danforth (random variation between monozygotic twins, 1919), and Sewall Wright (random developmental variation in piebald guinea pigs, 1920). The first pioneering study of fluctuating asymmetry, by Sumner and Huestis in 1921, is seldom mentioned, possibly because it failed to connect the observed random asymmetry with random developmental variation. This early work was then synthesized by Boris Astaurov in 1930 and Wilhelm Ludwig in 1932, and then popularized by Drosophila geneticists beginning with Kenneth Mather in 1953. Population phenogeneticists are still trying to understand the origins and behavior of random developmental variation. Some of the developmental noise represents true stochastic behavior of molecules and cells, while some represents deterministic chaos, nonlinear feedback, and symmetry breaking.


1991 ◽  
Vol 67 (21) ◽  
pp. 2930-2932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven B. Giddings ◽  
Andrew Strominger
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2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shai M. Chester ◽  
Michael B. Green ◽  
Silviu S. Pufu ◽  
Yifan Wang ◽  
Congkao Wen

Abstract We study modular invariants arising in the four-point functions of the stress tensor multiplet operators of the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 SU(N) super-Yang-Mills theory, in the limit where N is taken to be large while the complexified Yang-Mills coupling τ is held fixed. The specific four-point functions we consider are integrated correlators obtained by taking various combinations of four derivatives of the squashed sphere partition function of the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2∗ theory with respect to the squashing parameter b and mass parameter m, evaluated at the values b = 1 and m = 0 that correspond to the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 theory on a round sphere. At each order in the 1/N expansion, these fourth derivatives are modular invariant functions of (τ,$$ \overline{\tau} $$ τ ¯ ). We present evidence that at half-integer orders in 1/N , these modular invariants are linear combinations of non-holomorphic Eisenstein series, while at integer orders in 1/N, they are certain “generalized Eisenstein series” which satisfy inhomogeneous Laplace eigenvalue equations on the hyperbolic plane. These results reproduce known features of the low-energy expansion of the four-graviton amplitude in type IIB superstring theory in ten-dimensional flat space and have interesting implications for the structure of the analogous expansion in AdS5× S5.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (13) ◽  
pp. 835-844
Author(s):  
ILIA GOGOLADZE ◽  
MIRIAN TSULAIA

We suggest a new mechanism for electroweak symmetry breaking in the supersymmetric Standard Model. Our suggestion is based on the presence of an anomalous U (1)A gauge symmetry, which naturally arises in the four-dimensional superstring theory, and heavily relies on the value of the corresponding Fayet–Illiopoulos ξ-term.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 13686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas B. A. Mélo ◽  
Guillermo F. R. Palacios ◽  
Pedro V. Carelli ◽  
Lúcio H. Acioli ◽  
José R. Rios Leite ◽  
...  

1988 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 1247-1259
Author(s):  
D. G. Markushevich ◽  
M. A. Ol'shanetskii ◽  
A. M. Perelomov

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