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An Introduction to Hyperholomorphic Spectral Theories and Fractional Powers of Vector Operators
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to give an overview of the spectral theories associated with the notions of holomorphicity in dimension greater than one. A first natural extension is the theory of several complex variables whose Cauchy formula is used to define the holomorphic functional calculus for n-tuples of operators (A1, ... , An). A second way is to consider hyperholomorphic functions of quaternionic or paravector variables. In this case, by the Fueter-Sce-Qian mapping theorem, we have two different notions of hyperholomorphic functions that are called slice hyperholomorphic functions and monogenic functions. Slice hyperholomorphic functions generate the spectral theory based on the S-spectrum while monogenic functions induce the spectral theory based on the monogenic spectrum. There is also an interesting relation between the two hyperholomorphic spectral theories via the F-functional calculus. The two hyperholomorphic spectral theories have different and complementary applications. We finally discuss how to define the fractional Fourier’s law for nonhomogeneous materials using the spectral theory on the S-spectrum
Evolution by Schrödinger equation of Aharonov-Berry superoscillations in centrifugal potential
No full textIn recent years, we have investigated the evolution of superoscillations under Schrödinger equation with non-singular potentials. In all those cases, we have shown that superoscillations persist in time. In this paper, we investigate the centrifugal potential, which is a singular potential, and we show that the techniques developed to study the evolution of superoscillations in the case of the Schrödinger equation with a quadratic Hamiltonian apply to this setting. We also specify, in the case of the centrifugal potential, the notion of super-shift of the limit solution, a fact explained in the last section of this paper. It then becomes apparent that superoscillations are just a particular case of super-shift
Berezin transform of slice functions
No full textIn a recent paper, we introduced the Berezin transform of quaternionic linear operators and we obtained some properties in the setting of weighted Bergman spaces of slice hyperholomorphic functions. Here, we define the Berezin transform of slice functions, which corresponds to the case of a multiplication operator by certain quaternion-valued slice functions
Universality property of the S-functional calculus, noncommuting matrix variables and Clifford operators
Get PDF\ua9 2022 Elsevier Inc.Spectral theory on the S-spectrum was born out of the need to give quaternionic quantum mechanics a precise mathematical foundation (Birkhoff and von Neumann [8] showed that a general set theoretic formulation of quantum mechanics can be realized on real, complex or quaternionic Hilbert spaces). Then it turned out that spectral theory on S-spectrum has important applications in several fields such as fractional diffusion problems and, moreover, it allows one to define several functional calculi for n-tuples of noncommuting operators. With this paper we show that the spectral theory on the S-spectrum is much more general and it contains, just as particular cases, the complex, the quaternionic and the Clifford settings. In fact, the S-spectrum is well defined for objects in an algebra that has a complex structure and for operators in general Banach modules. We show that the abstract formulation of the S-functional calculus goes beyond quaternionic and Clifford analysis, indeed the S-functional calculus has a certain universality property. This fact makes the spectral theory on the S-spectrum applicable to several fields of operator theory and allows one to define functions of noncommuting matrix variables, and operator variables, as a particular case
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
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
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