Conic Projections with Three or More Standard Parallels

The basic property of all map projections is the distribution of inevitable distortions. Conic projections with one or two standard parallels are mentioned in the literature. These are parallels with the property that the distortion of length, area and angles equals zero at each of their points. It turns out that there are conic projections with no standard parallels, as well as those with more than two standard parallels. Such projections exist not only in theory, but examples of such projections can also be constructed.

Uncertain Independent Increment Processes are Contour Processes

Uncertain processes are used to model dynamic indeterminate systems associated with human uncertainty, and uncertain independent increment processes are a type of uncertain processes with independent uncertain increments. This paper mainly verifies a basic property about the sample paths of uncertain independent increment processes, which states that uncertain independent increment processes defined on a continuous uncertainty space are contour processes, a type of uncertain processes with a spectrum of sample paths as the skeletons. Based on this property, the extreme values and the time integral of an uncertain independent increment process are investigated, and their inverse uncertainty distributions are obtained.

Homotopy Perturbation Method for the Fractal Toda Oscillator

The fractal Toda oscillator with an exponentially nonlinear term is extremely difficult to solve; Elias-Zuniga et al. (2020) suggested the equivalent power-form method. In this paper, first, the fractal variational theory is used to show the basic property of the fractal oscillator, and a new form of the Toda oscillator is obtained free of the exponential nonlinear term, which is similar to the form of the Jerk oscillator. The homotopy perturbation method is used to solve the fractal Toda oscillator, and the analytical solution is examined using the numerical solution which shows excellent agreement. Furthermore, the effect of the order of the fractal derivative on the vibration property is elucidated graphically.

On The Formulation of Bianchi Identity from Action Principle

In this letter, we investigate the basic property of the Hilbert-Einstein action principle and its infinitesimal variation under suitable transformation of the metric tensor. We find that for the variation in action to be invariant, it must be a scalar so as to obey the principle of general covariance. From this invariant action principle, we eventually derive the Bianchi identity (where, both the 1st and 2nd forms are been dissolved) by using the Lie derivative and Palatini identity. Finally, from our derived Bianchi identity, splitting it into its components and performing cyclic summation over all the indices, we eventually can derive the covariant derivative of the Riemann curvature tensor. This very formulation was first introduced by S Weinberg in case of a collision less plasma and gravitating system. We derive the Bianchi identity from the action principle via this approach; and hence the name ‘Weinberg formulation of Bianchi identity’.

Effect of molecular chirality on the collagen self-assembly

Chirality is a basic property of nature and plays an important role in several biological activities of living organisms. However, the function of chirality in the self-assembly of natural collagen...

Alexius Meinong's Extraontology

The notion of Ausersein/outbeing, proposed by Alexius Meinong, was for a long time in the shadow of the principle of the Ausersein of a pure object, which made it possible to make non-existent objects part of a judgment. This principle was adopted by many followers of Meinong within the framework of analytical philosophy, but the very concept of Ausersein was almost totally ignored. When it’s become an object of research, there appeared several interpretations of it. It was interpreted either as a way of describing the ontological status of non-existent objects, or as a basic property of all objects without exception. Dale Jacquette suggests interpreting Ausersein as extraontology, i.e. a metasemantic category that includes all items. In this article, we will analyse the arguments of modern interpreters of this notion and try to find out which interpretation is most correct.

Characterizations of variational convergence of bifunctions defined on products of two sets

We present definitions of types of variational convergence of finite-valued bifunctions defined on rectangular domains and establish characterizations of these convergences. In the introduction, we present the origins of the research on variational convergence and then we lead to the specific problem of this paper. The content of the paper consists of 3 parts: variational convergance of fucntion; variational convergance of bifunction; and characterizations of variational convergence of bifunction, this part is the main results of this paper. In section 2, we presented the definition of epi convergence and presented a basic property problem that will be used to extend and develop the next two sections. In section 3, we start to present a new definition, the definition of convergence epi / hypo, minsup and maxinf. To clearly understand of these new definitions we have provided comments (remarks) and some examples which reader can check these definitions. The above contents serve the main result of this paper will apply in part 4. Now, we will explain more detail for this part as follows. Firstly, variational convergence of bifunctions is characterized by the epi- and hypo-convergence of related unifunctions, which are slices sup- and inf-projections. The second characterization expresses the equivalence of variational convergence of bifunctions and the same convergence of the so-called proper bifunctions defined on the whole product spaces. In the third one, the geometric reformulation, we establish explicitly the interval of all the limits by computing formulae of the left- and right-end limit bifunctions, and this is necessary and sufficient conditions of the sequence bifunctions to attain epi / hypo, minsup and maxinf convergence.