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Elliptic boundary value problems associated with isometric group actions
No full textGiven a manifold with boundary endowed with an action of a discrete group on it, we consider the algebra of operators generated by elements in the Boutet de Monvel algebra of pseudodifferential boundary value problems and shift operators acting on functions on the manifold and its boundary. Provided that the group is of polynomial growth and its action is isometric, we construct a Chern character for elliptic elements in this algebra with values in a de Rham type cohomology of the fixed point manifolds for the group action and obtain an index formula in terms of this Chern character. Our index formula contains as special cases the index formula by Fedosov for boundary value problems in the Boutet de Monvel algebra and the index formula by Nazaikinskii, Savin and Sternin for operators on a closed manifold associated with an isometric group action. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Index of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems Associated with Isometric Group Actions
No full textAbstract: Given a compact manifold with boundary, endowed with an isometric action of a discrete group of polynomial growth, we state an index theorem for elliptic elements in the algebra of nonlocal operators generated by the Boutet de Monvel algebra of pseudodifferential boundary value problems on the manifold and the shift operators associated with the group action. © 2020, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd
Periodic Cyclic Cocycles on the Boutet de Monvel Symbol Algebra
No full textAbstract Boutet de Monvel constructed an algebra of boundary value problems for pseudodifferential operators on a manifold with boundary. We define periodic cyclic cocycles on the algebra of symbols of Boutet de Monvel operators. Cocycles of this form enable one to interpret the index formula for elliptic pseudodifferential boundary value problems in the Boutet de Monvel calculus due to Fedosov as the Chern–Connes pairing with the classes in -theory defined by elliptic symbols. We also consider the equivariant case. Namely, we construct periodic cyclic cocycles on the crossed product of the symbol algebra by a group acting on this algebra by automorphisms. Such crossed products arise in index theory of nonlocal boundary value problems with shift operators. DOI 10.1134/S106192082204002
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Class of Fredholm Boundary Value Problems for the Wave Equation with Conditions on the Entire Boundary
No full textWe study boundary value problems for the wave equation with conditions on the entire boundary and obtain sufficient conditions for the Fredholm solvability of the problem in suitable function spaces. It turns out that these conditions depend on the properties of the geodesic flow. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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