一维离散平均曲率方程Neumann问题解的存在性

用紧向量场方程的解集连通理论给出一维离散平均曲率方程Neumann问题的上下解方法, 并给出其解的存在性结果.     

考虑非税收入的税制结构对经济增长的影响以新疆为例

为研究新疆地区税制结构以及非税收入对经济增长的影响,建立了包含税收结构与非税收入的内生增长理论模型,并依据新疆1994～2018年度政府税收收入、非税收入以及地区生产总值(GDP)的数据构建了向量自回归模型(VAR),通过脉冲响应分析和方差分解分析研究了各变量的显著性和动态效应.研究结果表明:新疆地区资本税总体上有利于经济增长,劳动税对经济增长有抑制作用,消费税有略微负向影响,非税收入长期内不利于经济增长.因此新疆地方政府应该加强所得税相关政策实施监管,注重制造业发展困境,并加大非税收入的管理公开度.     

I ain’t afraid of no ghost

This paper criticizes the traditional philosophical account of the quantization of gauge theories and offers an alternative. On the received view, gauge theories resist quantization because they feature distinct mathematical representatives of the same physical state of affairs. This resistance is overcome by a sequence of ad hoc modifications, justified in part by reference to semiclassical electrodynamics. Among other things, these modifications introduce ”ghosts”: particles with unphysical properties which do not appear in asymptotic states and which are said to be purely a notational convenience. I argue that this sequence of modifications is unjustified and inadequate, making it a poor basis for the interpretation of ghosts. I then argue that gauge theories can be quantized by the same method as any other theory. On this account, ghosts are not purely notation: they are coordinates on the classical configuration space of the theory—specifically, on its gauge structure. This interpretation does not fall prey to the standard philosophical arguments against the significance of ghosts, due to Weingard. Weingard’s argumentative strategy, properly applied, in fact tells in favor of ghosts’ physical significance.     

Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach

Despite remarkable efforts, it remains notoriously difficult to equip quantum theory with a coherent ontology. Hence, Healey (2017, 12) has recently suggested that “quantum theory has no physical ontology and states no facts about physical objects or events”, and Fuchs et al. (2014, 752) similarly hold that “quantum mechanics itself does not deal directly with the objective world”. While intriguing, these positions either raise the question of how talk of ‘physical reality’ can even remain meaningful, or they must ultimately embrace a hidden variables-view, in tension with their original project. I here offer a neo-Kantian alternative. In particular, I will show how constitutive elements in the sense of Reichenbach (1920) and Friedman (1999, 2001) can be identified within quantum theory, through considerations of symmetries that allow the constitution of a ‘quantum reality’, without invoking any notion of a radically mind-independent reality. The resulting conception will inherit elements from pragmatist and ‘QBist’ approaches, but also differ from them in crucial respects. Furthermore, going beyond the Friedmanian program, I will show how non-fundamental and approximate symmetries can be relevant for identifying constitutive principles.     

On miracles and spacetime

What have recently been dubbed two ‘miracles’ of general relativity—(1) that all non-gravitational interactions are locally governed by Poincaré invariant dynamical laws; and (2) that, in the regime of experimental practice in which curvature effects may be ignored, the local Poincaré symmetries of the dynamical laws governing matter fields coincide with the local Poincaré symmetries of the dynamical metric field—remain unaccounted for in that theory. In this paper, I demonstrate that these two ‘miracles’ admit of a natural explanation in one particular successor theory to general relativity—namely, perturbative string theory. I argue that this point has important implications when considering both the ‘chronogeometricity’ (that is, the object in question being surveyed by rods and clocks built from matter fields) and spatiotemporal status of the dynamical metric field in both general relativity and perturbative string theory.     

不同农药残留标准下家庭农场种植行为选择

文章建立了政府与家庭农场农户之间的博弈模型,探讨在不同农药残留标准下政府如何对生态种植行为进行激励.研究表明,在宽松的农药残留标准下,政府可通过征收农药税等方式提高农药成本来激励农户选择生态种植,生态补贴及超标罚款的效果不明显;在严格的农药残留标准下,当农产品抽查难度较大时,政府可选择降低检查概率,同时大幅度提高农药价格来增加农户使用生态种植的动机;当政府对农药成本控制力较低或农药价格增量的边际效益较小时,政府应提高其检查概率,同时提高对于农药残留超标的罚款及生态种植的补贴来激励农户使用生态种植.     

基于混合流量预测的虚拟网络拓扑重构方法

目前在构建虚拟网络时, 为满足用户动态变化的带宽需求, 虚拟网络控制平台通常把虚拟链路带宽设置为流量最大值, 一定程度上造成了资源浪费。针对这一问题, 提出一种基于混合流量预测的虚拟网络拓扑重构方法, 利用基于参数优化选择的混合流量预测算法对下一周期的网络流量进行预测, 根据流量预测结果进行拓扑重构, 在避免出现乒乓效应的同时节省更多带宽资源。为了提高流量预测算法的精度与效率, 首先采用小波分解方法将流量数据分解为高频的细节时间序列和低频的近似时间序列, 然后利用基于粒子群优化的相空间重构方法, 对该时间序列进行特征提取构建训练样本。之后分别采用混沌模型对细节时间序列进行训练预测, 采用极限学习机(extreme learning machine, ELM)神经网络对近似时间序列进行训练预测。仿真结果表明, 所提的流量预测算法在保证预测精度的同时, 运行时间更短, 预测效率更高, 进而保证了拓扑重构方法可以节省更多的带宽资源。     

基于八叉树优化的MoM-PO/PTD混合算法分析目标电磁散射及辐射问题

在综合利用矩量法(method of moments, MoM)和物理光学(physical optics, PO)方法的过程中, 要精准识别和划分PO位置处于点光源照射情况下的暗区和亮区。传统的识别划分手段的时间复杂度为O(N²), 当面片数量N增多时, 所需的时间呈现出急剧增长的趋势。文中应用八叉树和后向追踪算法, 对PO亮区判断过程进行加速, 可将时间复杂度由N²降为NlgN。由于计算PO区域电流时没有考虑边缘绕射造成的影响, 导致计算误差较大。鉴于此, 本文在计算过程中引入物理绕射理论对混合算法加以改进, 并通过与FEKO中的MoM相比较, 说明了修正后的混合算法能够有效提升计算精度。     

人工智能心理学研究的知识图谱分析

借助CitespaceⅢ对选自WoS的人工智能心理学研究文献进行知识图谱探析,结合自动聚类视图与议题标签展现了人工智能心理学领域的6个知识聚类:#0人工智能解决问题议题;#1人工与人类认知共性议题;#2人工智能学习议题;#3人工智能脑科学议题;#4人工智能环境认知议题;#5人工智能表征议题。在深入探究各聚类的核心与热点知识的基础上分析了人工智能心理学发展的各阶段特征:1.上世纪50年代图灵和米勒等人对机器认知与学习等概念的猜想与初探;2.70-90年代纽厄尔、西蒙和莱尔德等人基于模块记忆与层级分析对人工智能信息处理模型的系统性构建;3.本世纪初基于神经生理学的降维数据认知理论的发展;4.当下人工智能贝叶斯大脑与深度学习理论的兴起。     

Intervening on time derivatives

Interventionism analyses causal influence in terms of correlations of changes under a distribution of interventions. But the correspondence between correlated changes and causal influence is not obvious. I probe its plausibility with a problem-case involving variables related as time derivative (velocity) to integral (position), such that the latter variable must change given an intervention on the former unless dependencies are introduced among the testing and controlling interventions. Under the orthodox criteria such interventions will fail to be appropriate for causal analysis. I consider various alternatives, including permitting control interventions to be chancy, restricting the available models and mitigating variation of off-path variables. None of these work. I then present a fourth suggestion which modifies the interventionist criteria in order to permit interventions which can influence other variables than just their own targets. The correspondence between correlated changes and causal influence can thereby saved when dependencies are introduced among such interventions. This modification and the required dependencies, I argue, are perfectly in line with practice and may also assist in a wider class of cases.