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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, EarlyView.
Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
wiley   +1 more source

A Note on Infinities in Eternal Inflation

, 2008
In some well-known scenarios of open-universe eternal inflation, developed by Vilenkin and co-workers, a large number of universes nucleate and thermalize within the eternally inflating mega-universe. According to the proposal, each universe nucleates at
A. Guth, A. Vilenkin, A. Vilenkin, D. Hilbert, G.F.R. Ellis, G.F.R. Ellis, G.F.R. Ellis, George F. R. Ellis, J. Garriga, J. Knobe, R.H. Boyer, W. Rindler, William R. Stoeger   +12 more
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Asymmetric sanctions and corruption: Theory and practice in China

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Asymmetric punishment of partners in crime, intended to incentivize whistle‐blowing, may increase detection and deterrence. The idea is age‐old but its use against corruption is not frequent. We study a 1997 Chinese reform that strengthened such asymmetries for some forms of bribery.
Maria Perrotta Berlin, Martin Dufwenberg, Bei Qin, Giancarlo Spagnolo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

End-of-the-world branes and inflationary predictions for rocky and swampy landscapes

Journal of High Energy Physics
Making cosmological predictions in a multiverse is a fundamental theoretical challenge. Assuming that (quasi-)de Sitter vacua are quantum mechanically described by a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, we develop a detailed framework for making explicit ...
Bjoern Friedrich, Arthur Hebecker, Alexander Westphal   +2 more
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Regulating Eternal Inflation II: The Great Divide

, 2006
In a previous paper, two of the authors presented a "regulated" picture of eternal inflation. This picture both suggested and drew support from a conjectured discontinuity in the amplitude for tunneling from positive to negative vacuum energy, as the ...
Anthony Aguirre, B. Freivogel ., L. Dyson, M. Cvetic, Matthew Johnson, R. Bousso, R. Penrose, T. Banks, T. Banks, T. Banks, T. Banks, T. Banks, T. Banks, T. Banks, Tom Banks   +14 more
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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead, David Jordan, Francis Kennedy, Jack Seddon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal Inflation

, 2009
We study a statistical model defined by a conformally invariant distribution of overlapping spheres in arbitrary dimension d. The model arises as the asymptotic distribution of cosmic bubbles in d+1 dimensional de Sitter space, and also as the asymptotic
A. Strominger, A. Zamolodchikov, A.H. Guth, B. Freivogel, B. Freivogel, B.B. Mandelbrot, Ben Freivogel, E. Witten, G.A. Ray, J. Garriga, K. Kratky, L. Dyson, L. Dyson, L. Susskind, L. Susskind, Matthew Kleban, N. Goheer, P. Di Francesco, R. Bousso, R. Meester, S. Chang   +20 more
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Do Banks Learn From Natural Disasters? Evidence From the U.S. Financial Sector

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether U.S. banks learn from natural disasters. We explore several potential channels of adjustment and find that exposed banks primarily respond by adopting precautionary capital measures. This behaviour is evident both in the long run, when assessing divergent trends in the evolution of equity over time, and in the short
Dennis Dreusch, Gunnar Niemann, Peter Reichling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Constructibility Principle

Философия и космология
The issue with current scientific models is that many models are speculative or paradoxical constructions central to Philosophy and Cosmology. The Constructibility Principle in this paper introduces a demarcation criterion.
Michael Aaron Cody
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(No) Eternal Inflation and Precision Higgs Physics

, 2008
Even if nothing but a light Higgs is observed at the LHC, suggesting that the Standard Model is unmodified up to scales far above the weak scale, Higgs physics can yield surprises of fundamental significance for cosmology.
A. Sirlin, A. Strominger, ATLAS collaboration, B. Freivogel ., C. Vafa, CMS collaboration, D.N. Page, E. Witten, Giovanni Villadoro, I.V. Krive, I.Y. Kobzarev, J.R. Espinosa, L. Susskind, Leonardo Senatore, N. Arkani-Hamed, N. Arkani-Hamed, N. Arkani-Hamed, N.V. Krasnikov, Nima Arkani-Hamed, O.V. Tarasov, Particle Data Group collaboration, R. Bousso, Sergei Dubovsky, Supernova Cosmology Project collaboration, Supernova Search Team collaboration, T. Banks, T. Banks, T. Banks, T.E.W. Group   +28 more
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