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T. Jayaraman

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Crop Type Identification for Smallholding Farms: Analyzing Spatial, Temporal and Spectral Resolutions in Satellite Imagery

The integration of the modern Machine Learning (ML) models into remote sensing and agriculture has expanded the scope of the application of satellite images in the agriculture domain. In this paper, we present how the accuracy of crop type identification improves as we move from medium-spatiotemporal-resolution (MSTR) to high-spatiotemporal-resolution (HSTR) satellite images. We further demonstrate that high spectral resolution in satellite imagery can improve prediction performance for low spatial and temporal resolutions (LSTR) images. The F1-score is increased by 7% when using multispectral data of MSTR images as compared to the best results obtained from HSTR images. Similarly, when crop season based time series of multispectral data is used we observe an increase of 1.2% in the F1-score. The outcome motivates further advancements in the field of synthetic band generation.

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Peak Electricity Demand and Global Warming in the Industrial and Residential areas of Pune : An Extreme Value Approach

Industrial and residential activities respond distinctly to electricity demand on temperature. Due to increasing temperature trend on account of global warming, its impact on peak electricity demand is a proxy for effective management of electricity infrastructure. Few studies explore the relationship between electricity demand and temperature changes in industrial areas in India mainly due to the limitation of data. The precise role of industrial and residential activities response to the temperature is not explored in sub-tropical humid climate of India. Here, we show the temperature sensitivity of industrial and residential areas in the city of Pune, Maharashtra by keeping other influencing variables on electricity demand as constant. The study seeks to estimate the behaviour of peak electricity demand with the apparent temperature (AT) using the Extreme Value Theory. Our analysis shows that industrial activities are not much influenced by the temperature whereas residential activities show around 1.5-2% change in average electricity demand with 1 degree rise in AT. Further, we show that peak electricity demand in residential areas, performed using stationary and non-stationary GEV models, are significantly influenced by the rise in temperature. The study shows that with the improvement in data collection, better planning for the future development, accounting for the climate change effects, will enhance the effectiveness of electricity distribution system. The study is limited to the geographical area of Pune. However, the methods are useful in estimating the peak power load attributed to climate change to other geographical regions located in subtropical and humid climate.

stat.AP

Fractional two-branes, toric orbifolds and the quantum McKay correspondence

We systematically study and obtain the large-volume analogues of fractional two-branes on resolutions of orbifolds C^3/Z_n. We study a generalisation of the McKay correspondence proposed in hep-th/0504164 called the quantum McKay correspondence by constructing duals to the fractional two-branes. Details are explicitly worked out for two examples -- the crepant resolutions of C^3/Z_3 and C^3/Z_5.

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A quantum McKay correspondence for fractional 2p-branes on LG orbifolds

We study fractional 2p-branes and their intersection numbers in non-compact orbifolds as well the continuation of these objects in Kahler moduli space to coherent sheaves in the corresponding smooth non-compact Calabi-Yau manifolds. We show that the restriction of these objects to compact Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces gives the new fractional branes in LG orbifolds constructed by Ashok et. al. in hep-th/0401135. We thus demonstrate the equivalence of the B-type branes corresponding to linear boundary conditions in LG orbifolds, originally constructed in hep-th/9907131, to a subset of those constructed in LG orbifolds using boundary fermions and matrix factorization of the world-sheet superpotential. The relationship between the coherent sheaves corresponding to the fractional two-branes leads to a generalization of the McKay correspondence that we call the quantum McKay correspondence due to a close parallel with the construction of branes on non-supersymmetric orbifolds. We also provide evidence that the boundary states associated to these branes in a conformal field theory description corresponds to a sub-class of the boundary states associated to the permutation branes in the Gepner model associated with the LG orbifold.

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D-branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Superpotentials

We show how to compute terms in an expansion of the world-volume superpotential for fairly general D-branes on the quintic Calabi-Yau using linear sigma model techniques, and show in examples that this superpotential captures the geometry and obstruction theory of bundles and sheaves on this Calabi-Yau.

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Disc Instantons in Linear Sigma Models

We construct a linear sigma model for open-strings ending on special Lagrangian cycles of a Calabi-Yau manifold. We illustrate the construction for the cases considered by Aganagic and Vafa in hep-th/0012041. This leads naturally to concrete models for the moduli space of open-string instantons. These instanton moduli spaces can be seen to be intimately related to certain auxiliary boundary toric varieties. By considering the relevant Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky (GKZ) differential equations of the boundary toric variety, we obtain the contributions to the worldvolume superpotential on the A-branes from open-string instantons. By using an ansatz due to Aganagic, Klemm and Vafa in hep-th/0105045, we obtain the relevant change of variables from the linear sigma model to the non-linear sigma model variables - the open-string mirror map. Using this mirror map, we obtain results in agreement with those of AV and AKV for the counting of holomorphic disc instantons.

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D-branes and Vector Bundles on Calabi-Yau Manifolds: a view from the Helix

We review some recent results on D-branes on Calabi-Yau (CY) manifolds. We show the existence of structures (helices and quivers) which enable one to make statements about large families of D-branes in various phases of the Gauged Linear Sigma Model (GLSM) associated with the CY manifold. A comparison of the quivers of two phases leads to the prediction that certain D-brane configurations will decay as one moves across phases. We discuss how boundary fermions can be used to realise various D-brane configurations associated with coherent sheaves in the GLSM with boundary. This is based on the talk presented by S.G. at Strings 2001, Mumbai.

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Boundary Fermions, Coherent Sheaves and D-branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds

We construct boundary conditions in the gauged linear sigma model for B-type D-branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds that correspond to coherent sheaves given by the cohomology of a monad. This necessarily involves the introduction of boundary fields, and in particular, boundary fermions. The large-volume monodromy for these D-brane configurations is implemented by the introduction of boundary contact terms. We also discuss the construction of D-branes associated to coherent sheaves that are the cohomology of complexes of arbitrary length. We illustrate the construction using examples, specifically those associated with the large-volume analogues of the Recknagel-Schomerus states with no moduli. Using some of these examples we also construct D-brane states that arise as bound states of the above rigid configurations and show how moduli can be counted in these cases.

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D-branes, Exceptional Sheaves and Quivers on Calabi-Yau manifolds: From Mukai to McKay

We present a method based on mutations of helices which leads to the construction (in the large volume limit) of exceptional coherent sheaves associated with the $(\sum_al_a=0)$ orbits in Gepner models. This is explicitly verified for a few examples including some cases where the ambient weighted projective space has singularities not inherited by the Calabi-Yau hypersurface. The method is based on two conjectures which lead to the analog,in the general case, of the Beilinson quiver for $\BP^n$. We discuss how one recovers the McKay quiver using the gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) near the orbifold or Gepner point in Kähler moduli space.

hep-th

On D-branes from Gauged Linear Sigma Models

We study both A-type and B-type D-branes in the gauged linear sigma model by considering worldsheets with boundary. The boundary conditions on the matter and vector multiplet fields are first considered in the large-volume phase/non-linear sigma model limit of the corresponding Calabi-Yau manifold, where we also find that we need to add a contact term on the boundary. These considerations enable to us to derive the boundary conditions in the full gauged linear sigma model, including the addition of the appropriate boundary contact terms, such that these boundary conditions have the correct non-linear sigma model limit. Most of the analysis is for the case of Calabi-Yau manifolds with one Kahler modulus (including those corresponding to hypersurfaces in weighted projective space), though we comment on possible generalizations.

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On the Landau-Ginzburg description of Boundary CFTs and special Lagrangian submanifolds

We consider Landau-Ginzburg (LG) models with boundary conditions preserving A-type N=2 supersymmetry. We show the equivalence of a linear class of boundary conditions in the LG model to a particular class of boundary states in the corresponding CFT by an explicit computation of the open-string Witten index in the LG model. We extend the linear class of boundary conditions to general non-linear boundary conditions and determine their consistency with A-type N=2 supersymmetry. This enables us to provide a microscopic description of special Lagrangian submanifolds in C^n due to Harvey and Lawson. We generalise this construction to the case of hypersurfaces in P^n. We find that the boundary conditions must necessarily have vanishing Poisson bracket with the combination (W(ϕ)-\bar{W}(\barϕ)), where W(ϕ) is the appropriate superpotential for the hypersurface. An interesting application considered is the T^3 supersymmetric cycle of the quintic in the large complex structure limit.

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Worldsheet approaches to D-branes on supersymmetric cycles

We consider D-branes wrapped around supersymmetric cycles of Calabi-Yau manifolds from the viewpoint of N=2 Landau-Ginzburg models with boundary as well as by consideration of boundary states in the corresponding Gepner models. The Landau-Ginzburg approach enables us to provide a target space interpretation for the boundary states. The boundary states are obtained by applying Cardy's procedure to combinations of characters in the Gepner models which are invariant under spectral flow. We are able to relate the two descriptions using the common discrete symmetries of the two descriptions. We are thus able to provide an extension to the boundary of the bulk correspondence between Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds and the corresponding Gepner models.

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D-branes and the Conifold Singularity

We analyze in detail the description of type IIB theory on a Calabi-Yau three-fold near a conifold singularity in terms of intersecting D-branes. In particular we study the singularity structure of higher derivative $F$-terms of the form $F_g W^{2g}$ where $W$ is the gravitational superfield. This singularity is expected to be due to a one -loop contribution from a charged soliton hypermultiplet becoming massless at the conifold point. In the intersecting D-brane description this soliton is described by an open string stretched between the two D-branes. After identifying the graviphoton vertex as a closed string operator we show that $F_g$'s have the expected singularity structure in the limit of vanishing soliton mass.

hep-th

A proposal for the geometry of W_n gravity

We relate the Teichmuller spaces obtained by Hitchin to the Teichmuller spaces of $WA_{n}$-gravity. The relationship of this space to $W$-gravity is obtained by identifying the flat $PSL(n+1,{\BR})$ connections of Hitchin to generalised vielbeins and connections. This is explicitly demonstrated for $WA_2=W_3$ gravity. We show how $W$-diffeomorphisms are obtained in this formulation. We find that particular combinations of the generalised connection play the role of projective connections. We thus obtain $W$-diffeomorphisms in a geometric fashion without invoking the presence of matter fields. This description in terms of vielbeins naturally provides the measure for the gravity sector in the Polyakov path integral for $W$-strings.

hep-th

Correlation Functions and Multicritical Flows in $c<1$ String Theory

We compute all string tree level correlation functions of vertex operators in $c<1$ string theory. This is done by using the ring structure of the theory. In order to study the multicritical behaviour, we calculate the correlation functions after perturbation by physical vertex operators. We show that the $(2k-1,2)$ models can be obtained from the $(1,2)$ model and the minimal models can be obtained from the $(1,p)$ model by perturbing the action by appropriate physical operators. Our results are consistent with known results from matrix models.

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Genus Zero Correlation Functions in c<1 String Theory

We compute N-point correlation functions of pure vertex operator states(DK states) for minimal models coupled to gravity. We obtain agreement with the matrix model results on analytically continuing in the numbers of cosmological constant operators and matter screening operators. We illustrate this for the cases of the $(2k-1,2)$ and $(p+1,p)$ models.

hep-th

Chiral Rings and Physical States in c<1 String Theory

We show how the double cohomology of the String and Felder BRST charges naturally leads to the ring structure of $c<1$ strings. The chiral ring is a ring of polynomials in two variables modulo an equivalence relation of the form $x^p \simeq y^{p+1}$ for the (p+1,p) model. We also study the states corresponding to the edges of the conformal grid whose inclusion is crucial for the closure of the ring. We introduce candidate operators that correspond to the observables of the matrix models. Their existence is motivated by the relation of one of the screening operators of the minimal model to the zero momentum dilaton.

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States of non-zero ghost number in $c<1$ matter coupled to 2d gravity

We study $c<1$ matter coupled to gravity in the Coulomb gas formalism using the double cohomology of the string BRST and Felder BRST charges. We find that states outside the primary conformal grid are related to the states of non-zero ghost number by means of descent equations given by the double cohomology. Some aspects of the Virasoro structure of the Liouville Fock space are studied. As a consequence, states of non-zero ghost number are easily constructed by ``solving'' these descent equations. This enables us to map ghost number conserving correlation functions involving non-zero ghost number states into those involving states outside the primary conformal grid.

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