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    A PLL-based approach to clock synchronization for trajectory rebuilding in event-triggered communication systems.

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    In this paper the problem of the temporal characteristics preservation of a sampled trajectory after its data transmission is faced. The considered system consists of one master node, the sender of the sampled data, and one slave node, the receiver. An event-triggered philosophy is adopted for the communication system, without any kind of data time-stamping procedure. After an initial analysis of the system and the signals of interest, it is developed a simple interface, able to overcome at the same time typical problems, like drift, jitter and data flow control, in clock synchronization and data communication. This interface implements a controller based on the well-known phaselocking technique. At last, simulations show the efficiency of this approach

    Higher order Linking Numbers, Curvature and Holonomy

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    A differential geometric approach to Milnor-Massey higher order linking numbers for generic links is devised, via Chen's theory of iterated path integrals. Massey linking numbers arise from curvature forms of nilpotent "topological" connections, determined by the link structure, and interpreted in terms of intersection theory, leading to a fairly easy computation thereof. A version of the Turaev-Porter theorem expressing equality of Milnor and Massey linking numbers is also exhibited along the same lines, by computing suitable flat connection parallel transport operators in two different ways

    On the Coadjoint Orbits of Rotational Perfect Fluids

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    In this paper the structure of vortex coadjoint orbits pertaining to perfect fluids having smooth vorticities in R^3, within the framework set up by J. Marsden and A. Weinstein [Physica D 7, 305-323 (1983)], in terms of an associated Hamiltonian Kaehler manifold (the Clebsch manifold, described in terms of the so-called Clebsch variables) is investigated. The topological quantization of Mikhailov and Kuznetsov is related to geometric quantization. Natural candidates for the coherent states on the Clebsch manifold are also exhibited

    A Geometric Approach to Quantum Vortices

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    In this paper a geometrical description is given of the theory of quantum vortices first developed by M.Rasetti and T.Regge, relying on the symplectic techniques introduced by J.Marsden and A.Weinstein and of the Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau geometric quantization prescription. The RR current algebra is intepreted as the natural hamiltonian algebra associated to a certain coadjoint orbit of the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms of R^3. and the Feynman-Onsager relation is traced back to the integrality of the orbit

    Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

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    The A.A. outline the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome describing its natural history, etiology, pathology, anatomo-pathology and the clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic principles

    Compact Binary Coalescences: Astrophysical Processes and Lessons Learned

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    On 11 February 2016, the LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, a signal caught by the LIGO interferometers on 14 September 2015, and produced by the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The discovery represented the beginning of an entirely new way to investigate the Universe. The latest gravitational-wave catalog by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA brings the total number of gravitational-wave events to 90, and the count is expected to significantly increase in the next years, when additional ground-based and space-born interferometers will be operational. From the theoretical point of view, we have only fuzzy ideas about where the detected events came from, and the answers to most of the five Ws and How for the astrophysics of compact binary coalescences are still unknown. In this work, we review our current knowledge and uncertainties on the astrophysical processes behind merging compact-object binaries. Furthermore, we discuss the astrophysical lessons learned through the latest gravitational-wave detections, paying specific attention to the theoretical challenges coming from exceptional events (e.g., GW190521 and GW190814)
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