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c56797569ef15e25b02ef169da449267c342619a | invariant theory studies actions on algebraic varieties from | invariant theory studies actions on algebraic varieties from the point of view of their effect on functions, which form representations of the group. classically, the theory dealt with the question of explicit description of polynomial functions that do not change, or are invariant, under the transformations from a giv... | wikipedia |
8b8b0fe61c53475b65e19f2b41d37e74f91131c3 | linear algebraic groups (or more generally, affine group | linear algebraic groups (or more generally, affine group schemes) are analogues in algebraic geometry of lie groups, but over more general fields than just r or c. in particular, over finite fields, they give rise to finite groups of lie type. although linear algebraic groups have a classification that is very similar ... | wikipedia |
28b8d3503ff337c6ade8ff7484167d534dabf219 | lie superalgebras are generalizations of lie algebras in | lie superalgebras are generalizations of lie algebras in which the underlying vector space has a z -grading, and skew-symmetry and jacobi identity properties of the lie bracket are modified by signs. their representation theory is similar to the representation theory of lie algebras. | wikipedia |
e76ea32fcbcf780f5311c27ba6a461cba5e961a4 | affine lie algebras are a special case of | affine lie algebras are a special case of kac–moody algebras, which have particular importance in mathematics and theoretical physics, especially conformal field theory and the theory of exactly solvable models. kac discovered an elegant proof of certain combinatorial identities, macdonald identities, which is based on... | wikipedia |
a622396b153efc680f326e5358ef6fd90a60f446 | there are many classes of infinite-dimensional lie algebras | there are many classes of infinite-dimensional lie algebras whose representations have been studied. among these, an important class are the kac–moody algebras. they are named after victor kac and robert moody, who independently discovered them. these algebras form a generalization of finite-dimensional semisimple lie ... | wikipedia |
284da71dde795f4fbba3c3667870ee3e31e35875 | lie algebras, like lie groups, have a levi | lie algebras, like lie groups, have a levi decomposition into semisimple and solvable parts, with the representation theory of solvable lie algebras being intractable in general. in contrast, the finite-dimensional representations of semisimple lie algebras are completely understood, after work of Élie cartan. a repres... | wikipedia |
78432771cb03d44e6ef13ae01e2a8d3fd862e950 | a lie algebra over a field f is | a lie algebra over a field f is a vector space over f equipped with a skew-symmetric bilinear operation called the lie bracket, which satisfies the jacobi identity. lie algebras arise in particular as tangent spaces to lie groups at the identity element, leading to their interpretation as "infinitesimal symmetries". an... | wikipedia |
71cbee5b9efc173d333c12f6ea36031afdaae046 | a general lie group is a semidirect product | a general lie group is a semidirect product of a solvable lie group and a semisimple lie group (the levi decomposition). the classification of representations of solvable lie groups is intractable in general, but often easy in practical cases. representations of semidirect products can then be analysed by means of gene... | wikipedia |
3cddcf55611f39d24b2336619bfb70b9dd852d8e | the representation theory of lie groups can be | the representation theory of lie groups can be developed first by considering the compact groups, to which results of compact representation theory apply. this theory can be extended to finite-dimensional representations of semisimple lie groups using weyl's unitary trick: each semisimple real lie group g has a complex... | wikipedia |
de4af669603a228534839cb4f3e860d6012858dd | a lie group is a group that is | a lie group is a group that is also a smooth manifold. many classical groups of matrices over the real or complex numbers are lie groups. many of the groups important in physics and chemistry are lie groups, and their representation theory is crucial to the application of group theory in those fields. | wikipedia |
234151943200f200635349393f83fc8f49f3e504 | if the group is neither abelian nor compact, | if the group is neither abelian nor compact, no general theory is known with an analogue of the plancherel theorem or fourier inversion, although alexander grothendieck extended tannaka–krein duality to a relationship between linear algebraic groups and tannakian categories. | wikipedia |
ed3c4e937ccc07f82e93e0116e3fb61d6405860f | a major goal is to provide a general | a major goal is to provide a general form of the fourier transform and the plancherel theorem. this is done by constructing a measure on the unitary dual and an isomorphism between the regular representation of g on the space l (g) of square integrable functions on g and its representation on the space of l functions o... | wikipedia |
4ab8c08f4204bca17619a127b324a8a50187cd1a | the duality between the circle group s and | the duality between the circle group s and the integers z, or more generally, between a torus t and z is well known in analysis as the theory of fourier series, and the fourier transform similarly expresses the fact that the space of characters on a real vector space is the dual vector space. thus unitary representatio... | wikipedia |
052f107e211e82d2c8fae7672b97b3e9b3961a56 | for non-compact g, the question of which representations | for non-compact g, the question of which representations are unitary is a subtle one. although irreducible unitary representations must be "admissible" (as harish-chandra modules) and it is easy to detect which admissible representations have a nondegenerate invariant sesquilinear form, it is hard to determine when thi... | wikipedia |
929118298450ae680f6c01b704bc492881f74dcf | a major goal is to describe the " | a major goal is to describe the " unitary dual ", the space of irreducible unitary representations of g. the theory is most well-developed in the case that g is a locally compact (hausdorff) topological group and the representations are strongly continuous. for g abelian, the unitary dual is just the space of character... | wikipedia |
ad8f933efd75b334ee34f93eba4259406e7c8512 | a unitary representation of a group g is | a unitary representation of a group g is a linear representation φ of g on a real or (usually) complex hilbert space v such that φ (g) is a unitary operator for every g ∈ g. such representations have been widely applied in quantum mechanics since the 1920s, thanks in particular to the influence of hermann weyl, and thi... | wikipedia |
ae67781939172217bcef232362bf9c36848f821b | modular representations of a finite group g are | modular representations of a finite group g are representations over a field whose characteristic is not coprime to | g |, so that maschke's theorem no longer holds (because | g | is not invertible in f and so one cannot divide by it). nevertheless, richard brauer extended much of character theory to modular representa... | wikipedia |
b7368a8dc2109d203089686328e6932c9657c669 | representations of a finite group g are also | representations of a finite group g are also linked directly to algebra representations via the group algebra f, which is a vector space over f with the elements of g as a basis, equipped with the multiplication operation defined by the group operation, linearity, and the requirement that the group operation and scalar... | wikipedia |
36334c7414746c8cfc71d5a63b3cdef09f118f85 | over arbitrary fields, another class of finite groups | over arbitrary fields, another class of finite groups that have a good representation theory are the finite groups of lie type. important examples are linear algebraic groups over finite fields. the representation theory of linear algebraic groups and lie groups extends these examples to infinite-dimensional groups, th... | wikipedia |
c959bc0d7e5659ba62989ea8154a8affb3477b8d | results such as maschke's theorem and the unitary | results such as maschke's theorem and the unitary property that rely on averaging can be generalized to more general groups by replacing the average with an integral, provided that a suitable notion of integral can be defined. this can be done for compact topological groups (including compact lie groups), using haar me... | wikipedia |
b265d64483a28ea3e010a94b786dd850d4522dbd | unitary representations are automatically semisimple, since maschke's result | unitary representations are automatically semisimple, since maschke's result can be proven by taking the orthogonal complement of a subrepresentation. when studying representations of groups that are not finite, the unitary representations provide a good generalization of the real and complex representations of a finit... | wikipedia |
a43d19b621fd4efe69aa479aca96d0100ed2cd64 | averaging techniques also show that if f is | averaging techniques also show that if f is the real or complex numbers, then any g -representation preserves an inner product ⟨ ⋅, ⋅ ⟩ {\displaystyle \langle \cdot,\cdot \rangle } on v in the sense that | wikipedia |
455c0918103dae1d7559da6464f61748598a3962 | maschke's theorem holds more generally for fields of | maschke's theorem holds more generally for fields of positive characteristic p, such as the finite fields, as long as the prime p is coprime to the order of g. when p and | g | have a common factor, there are g -representations that are not semisimple, which are studied in a subbranch called modular representation theo... | wikipedia |
0eec23ba2bf86acdec8093a4d1e54a297a958420 | over a field of characteristic zero, the representation | over a field of characteristic zero, the representation of a finite group g has a number of convenient properties. first, the representations of g are semisimple (completely reducible). this is a consequence of maschke's theorem, which states that any subrepresentation v of a g -representation w has a g -invariant comp... | wikipedia |
cfb85af63969742466b2e9f3a08f7790eba30e3e | group representations are a very important tool in | group representations are a very important tool in the study of finite groups. they also arise in the applications of finite group theory to geometry and crystallography. representations of finite groups exhibit many of the features of the general theory and point the way to other branches and topics in representation ... | wikipedia |
083aa3c8d819bd825bb5903ff6f0b4f8c37fe450 | representation theory is notable for the number of | representation theory is notable for the number of branches it has, and the diversity of the approaches to studying representations of groups and algebras. although, all the theories have in common the basic concepts discussed already, they differ considerably in detail. the differences are at least 3-fold: | wikipedia |
1eda98f6cac3bbae346d2e8f36ebb3e16f3d7d62 | in the case of the representation theory of | in the case of the representation theory of the group su(2) (or equivalently, of its complexified lie algebra s l (2; c) {\displaystyle \mathrm {sl} (2;\mathbb {c})}), the decomposition is easy to work out. the irreducible representations are labeled by a parameter l {\displaystyle l} that is a non-negative integer or ... | wikipedia |
c4c592a34f1e03a71ff4e536a8718a565778757a | this product can be recognized as the coproduct | this product can be recognized as the coproduct on a coalgebra. in general, the tensor product of irreducible representations is not irreducible; the process of decomposing a tensor product as a direct sum of irreducible representations is known as clebsch–gordan theory. | wikipedia |
879e0369a3e656a7cfc54d91f64b7804405ef5af | suppose ϕ 1: g → g l (v | suppose ϕ 1: g → g l (v 1) {\displaystyle \phi _{1}:g\rightarrow \mathrm {gl} (v_{1})} and ϕ 2: g → g l (v 2) {\displaystyle \phi _{2}:g\rightarrow \mathrm {gl} (v_{2})} are representations of a group g {\displaystyle g}. then we can form a representation ϕ 1 ⊗ ϕ 2 {\displaystyle \phi _{1}\otimes \phi _{2}} of g acting... | wikipedia |
af7fd3656aa85657cc6eb11f499297136a247627 | in favorable circumstances, every finite-dimensional representation is a | in favorable circumstances, every finite-dimensional representation is a direct sum of irreducible representations: such representations are said to be semisimple. in this case, it suffices to understand only the irreducible representations. examples where this " complete reducibility " phenomenon occur include finite ... | wikipedia |
363d06ec95fbba2a62782dbf99a59130086f43ab | the direct sum of two representations carries no | the direct sum of two representations carries no more information about the group g than the two representations do individually. if a representation is the direct sum of two proper nontrivial subrepresentations, it is said to be decomposable. otherwise, it is said to be indecomposable. | wikipedia |
0a7ce3b04a152cc46283aeed263352d02c3ab9f8 | irreducible representations are the building blocks of representation | irreducible representations are the building blocks of representation theory for many groups: if a representation v {\displaystyle v} is not irreducible then it is built from a subrepresentation and a quotient that are both "simpler" in some sense; for instance, if v {\displaystyle v} is finite-dimensional, then both t... | wikipedia |
b367400920c00ebeea8910eaace2725d051e39b2 | the definition of an irreducible representation implies schur's | the definition of an irreducible representation implies schur's lemma: an equivariant map α: (v, ψ) → (v ′, ψ ′) {\displaystyle \alpha :(v,\psi)\to (v',\psi ')} between irreducible representations is either the zero map or an isomorphism, since its kernel and image are subrepresentations. in particular, when v = v ′ {\... | wikipedia |
e704faedd17b64924ecee436c731f1829809b284 | if (v, ψ) {\displaystyle (v,\psi)} is a representation | if (v, ψ) {\displaystyle (v,\psi)} is a representation of (say) a group g {\displaystyle g}, and w {\displaystyle w} is a linear subspace of v {\displaystyle v} that is preserved by the action of g {\displaystyle g} in the sense that for all w ∈ w {\displaystyle w\in w} and g ∈ g {\displaystyle g\in g}, g ⋅ w ∈ w {\dis... | wikipedia |
a4ba951447d279a50864e20324f518ce167e2c54 | equivariant maps for representations of an associative or | equivariant maps for representations of an associative or lie algebra are defined similarly. if α is invertible, then it is said to be an isomorphism, in which case v and w (or, more precisely, φ and ψ) are isomorphic representations, also phrased as equivalent representations. an equivariant map is often called an int... | wikipedia |
2a2d99aeb605dbeda507d1c2347e880088d43633 | the vector space v is called the representation | the vector space v is called the representation space of φ and its dimension (if finite) is called the dimension of the representation (sometimes degree, as in). it is also common practice to refer to v itself as the representation when the homomorphism φ is clear from the context; otherwise the notation (v, φ) can be ... | wikipedia |
2ad2931ddd8401bfd4b78efe5aa38a89e1802c34 | the definition for associative algebras is analogous, except | the definition for associative algebras is analogous, except that associative algebras do not always have an identity element, in which case equation (2.1) is omitted. equation (2.2) is an abstract expression of the associativity of matrix multiplication. this doesn't hold for the matrix commutator and also there is no... | wikipedia |
5feec4764ec30f22cbea7748bc3ce35c2ca9f371 | a representation of a group g {\displaystyle g} | a representation of a group g {\displaystyle g} or (associative or lie) algebra a {\displaystyle a} on a vector space v {\displaystyle v} is a map Φ: g × v → v or Φ: a × v → v {\displaystyle \phi \colon g\times v\to v\quad {\text{or}}\quad \phi \colon a\times v\to v} with two properties. | wikipedia |
50f28bbaa2eb091e660e5836eecdea42518edad9 | this generalizes to any field f {\displaystyle \mathbb | this generalizes to any field f {\displaystyle \mathbb {f} } and any vector space v {\displaystyle v} over f {\displaystyle \mathbb {f} }, with linear maps replacing matrices and composition replacing matrix multiplication: there is a group gl (v, f) {\displaystyle {\text{gl}}(v,\mathbb {f})} of automorphisms of v {\di... | wikipedia |
f7fbef54ba19827593378d4342305858236d5b09 | let v {\displaystyle v} be a vector space | let v {\displaystyle v} be a vector space over a field f {\displaystyle \mathbb {f} }. for instance, suppose v {\displaystyle v} is r n {\displaystyle \mathbb {r} ^{n}} or c n {\displaystyle \mathbb {c} ^{n}}, the standard n -dimensional space of column vectors over the real or complex numbers, respectively. in this ca... | wikipedia |
34baad1c7d86d40b7c5840c24d9d585fd5cd33f7 | the success of representation theory has led to | the success of representation theory has led to numerous generalizations. one of the most general is in category theory. the algebraic objects to which representation theory applies can be viewed as particular kinds of categories, and the representations as functors from the object category to the category of vector sp... | wikipedia |
ab2b6ef4e4e001b318f333084e053c30bb85b3cc | representation theory is a useful method because it | representation theory is a useful method because it reduces problems in abstract algebra to problems in linear algebra, a subject that is well understood. for instance, representing a group by an infinite-dimensional hilbert space allows methods of analysis to be applied to the theory of groups. furthermore, representa... | wikipedia |
26e358a6e90acd6b9a6d5e6106a6e5a1ba5d1da0 | the algebraic objects amenable to such a description | the algebraic objects amenable to such a description include groups, associative algebras and lie algebras. the most prominent of these (and historically the first) is the representation theory of groups, in which elements of a group are represented by invertible matrices such that the group operation is matrix multipl... | wikipedia |
88d1f68e64b64dd7d311597c0bea74d4b9d37fa4 | representation theory is a branch of mathematics that | representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. in essence, a representation makes an abstract algebraic object more concrete by describing... | wikipedia |
3b3adcbe16cce7067f6a55ee4a2e1c019b97ab31 | yulii borisovich khariton was a russian physicist who | yulii borisovich khariton was a russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former soviet program of nuclear weapons. since the initiation of the soviet program of developing the atomic bomb by joseph stalin in 1943, khariton was the "chief nuclear weapon designer" and remained associated with the soviet progr... | wikipedia |
6ba31c78f6275c51d8ae97ee9b13a91893febab8 | in october 1997 in sarov, togliati street was | in october 1997 in sarov, togliati street was renamed akademik khariton street in his honour. a bronze bust of him was installed in february 2004 next to the house of scientists of vniief. in 2004, a russian stamp was issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birthday. | wikipedia |
055a7fe72366b78a108616a98afac0eb2e5a0cd9 | his diplomacy meant absorbing criticism and put-downs from | his diplomacy meant absorbing criticism and put-downs from political leaders who came and went. kb-11 was sometimes sneered at for having a significant number of staff with jewish backgrounds, khariton included. the second installation under yevgeny zababakhin had fewer, and there had been awkward professional relation... | wikipedia |
184a5c53693fde6632b966215c89541c6eff41be | in 1949, he and kirill shchelkin reported to | in 1949, he and kirill shchelkin reported to the special committee on the progress of the first soviet nuclear weapon, the rds-1, which was tested on 29 august that year. he was deferential to political superiors but supported the scientists under him in a politic and diplomatic way. physicist and departmental head and... | wikipedia |
7656fc780871760763093625abed0407c5fce79d | physicist igor kurchatov asked khariton to become part | physicist igor kurchatov asked khariton to become part of the soviet atomic project in 1943, in laboratory no. 2 of the russian academy of sciences. in may 1945, as part of a team of physicists sent to berlin to investigate nazi atomic bomb research, khariton found 100 tonnes of uranium oxide, which was transported bac... | wikipedia |
5169937e45a9b7ba9662d52d5476b804538ae45a | in 1935, he received his doctorate in physical | in 1935, he received his doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences. during this period, khariton and zeldovich conducted experiments on the chain reactions of uranium. in august 1939, zeldovich, khariton and aleksandr leipunskii delivered papers on the theoretical process behind nuclear fission chain reactions at... | wikipedia |
82831b5d670332469de8d9313e6671efa9dd7d75 | in 1928, khariton decided to take up the | in 1928, khariton decided to take up the residence in (germany) to be near his mother, but was appalled and frightened by the political propaganda of the nazi party in germany; therefore returning to soviet union while his mother left for palestine. | wikipedia |
f95c221579c99f6400e360257f1e914a3c30153b | before departing, he was introduced to pyotr kapitsa | before departing, he was introduced to pyotr kapitsa by semyonov who asked the latter to help yulii secure a fellowship at the cavendish laboratory in england. in england, khariton attended the university of cambridge to do his doctoral in physics under ernest rutherford in 1926. at cambridge, he worked with james chad... | wikipedia |
81d47861b9ebb9d416537ee8383ad87aeb82b370 | in 1920, he enrolled in the leningrad polytechnical | in 1920, he enrolled in the leningrad polytechnical institute to study mechanical engineering but later chose to study physics, which he found to be more stimulating. he studied physics under russian physicists, abram ioffe, nikolay semyonov, and alexander friedmann. khariton was particularly fascinated with the work o... | wikipedia |
d65fe1390a1185e5dd340c6bf59a4b5961a6464e | yulii was home schooled by his estonian housekeeper, | yulii was home schooled by his estonian housekeeper, hired by his father, who taught him the german language. at the age of eleven, he began attending regular school. in saint petersburg, he went to attend a trade school which he completed at the age of fifteen and found work at a local mechanical workshop where he lea... | wikipedia |
71689997df9fd9b2d11cac7d8a6dd723279bb824 | yulii's mother, mirra yakovlevna burovskaya, was a theatre | yulii's mother, mirra yakovlevna burovskaya, was a theatre actress who performed at the moscow art theatre. she left russia in 1910 due to an illness that had to be treated at the european resort. yulii was six years old when his mother left him and was taken care by an estonian woman, hired by his father while in exil... | wikipedia |
48cee7f7a30a5e2cf685921dc074f31d264c6a9b | his father, boris khariton, remained there until latvia | his father, boris khariton, remained there until latvia 's annexation by the soviet union in 1940 and, at the age of sixty-four, was then arrested by the nkvd and sentenced to seven years of forced labour in a gulag, where he died. | wikipedia |
1e0ed853c7602ed5d17e10748c9a65ba104a4be3 | yulii borisovich khariton was born in saint petersburg, | yulii borisovich khariton was born in saint petersburg, russian empire, to an ethnic middle class russian jewish family, on 27 february 1904. his father, boris osipovich khariton, was a political journalist, editor, and publisher who had attained a law degree from kiev university in ukraine. his father worked for the n... | wikipedia |
a3b46a2e98877ab322eab3a3d901955c8d392128 | since the initiation of the soviet program of | since the initiation of the soviet program of developing the atomic bomb by joseph stalin in 1943, khariton was the "chief nuclear weapon designer " and remained associated with the soviet program for nearly four decades. in honour of the centennial of his birthday in 2004, his image appeared on a russian postal stamp ... | wikipedia |
d34d350e0e4cdb1c0581d9634be14617f8d212a2 | yulii borisovich khariton (russian: Юлий Борисович Харитон; 27 | yulii borisovich khariton (russian: Юлий Борисович Харитон; 27 february 1904 – 18 december 1996) was a russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former soviet program of nuclear weapons. | wikipedia |
ec2b7eaa975d97a935bb3e9be906747715368b30 | in february 2016, yadav was selected as a | in february 2016, yadav was selected as a member of the 20-woman india squad that would participate in the 2016 south asian games. she made her debut and scored her first goal internationally on 13 february 2016 against bangladesh. her goal in the 74th minute was the fourth as india won 5–1 and moved into the gold meda... | wikipedia |
54da710c820d96d03fa52ed974d06f5a0d280b7e | in october 2016, sanju was part of the | in october 2016, sanju was part of the alakhpura side that took part in the preliminary round of the indian women's league. on 17 october 2016, she scored a hattrick for the club against bodyline. this helped her side win 4–0. she emerged the top scorer at the league's preliminary round, netting 11 goals and thus helpi... | wikipedia |
e9490db5e4225874d0f2aa3516d806a7551f14c9 | a mercury-arc valve or mercury-vapor rectifier or (uk) | a mercury-arc valve or mercury-vapor rectifier or (uk) mercury-arc rectifier is a type of electrical rectifier used for converting high-voltage or high-current alternating current (ac) into direct current (dc). it is a type of cold cathode gas-filled tube, but is unusual in that the cathode, instead of being solid, is ... | wikipedia |
e3e8d17d11d8e6b9ebcdbf0fb8b4c73a19a9dc9f | mercury compounds are toxic, highly persistent in the | mercury compounds are toxic, highly persistent in the environment, and present a danger to humans and the environment. the use of large quantities of mercury in fragile glass envelopes presents a hazard of potential release of mercury to the environment should the glass bulb be broken. some hvdc converter stations have... | wikipedia |
5d5d768ad0b656a06756238164bbb7845331797f | in 1919, the book "cyclopedia of telephony & | in 1919, the book "cyclopedia of telephony & telegraphy vol. 1" described an amplifier for telephone signals that used a magnetic field to modulate an arc in a mercury rectifier tube. this was never commercially important. | wikipedia |
c03c841ce1779f7fbd3b79ec69b1fafe72d2c47f | special types of single-phase mercury-arc rectifiers are the | special types of single-phase mercury-arc rectifiers are the ignitron and the excitron. the excitron is similar to other types of valve described above but depends critically on the existence of an excitation anode to maintain an arc discharge during the half-cycle when the valve is not conducting current. the ignitron... | wikipedia |
3c48a5a55ab240a948fdbca68d6f6cdfcc23edd9 | mercury arc valves were used extensively in dc | mercury arc valves were used extensively in dc power systems on london underground, and two were still observed to be in operation in 2000 at the disused deep-level air-raid shelter at belsize park. after they were no longer needed as shelters, belsize park and several other deep shelters were used as secure storage, p... | wikipedia |
58925de4dd873ec916b7a8cc483ad47482fec827 | one of the last major uses of mercury | one of the last major uses of mercury arc valves was in hvdc power transmission, where they were used in many projects until the early 1970s, including the hvdc inter-island link between the north and south islands of new zealand and the hvdc kingsnorth link from kingsnorth power station to london. however, starting ab... | wikipedia |
e91edd7d85fd26ab3c9ebac111d807e54efd1aee | mercury-arc valves were widely used until the 1960s | mercury-arc valves were widely used until the 1960s for the conversion of alternating current into direct current for large industrial uses. applications included power supply for streetcars, electric railways, and variable-voltage power supplies for large radio transmitters. mercury-arc stations were used to provide d... | wikipedia |
f9b75165a6c5bfb339dc200666b31dee745d95b4 | with three-phase alternating current and full-wave rectification, six | with three-phase alternating current and full-wave rectification, six anodes were used to provide a smoother direct current. three phase operation can improve the efficiency of the transformer as well as providing smoother dc current by enabling two anodes to conduct simultaneously. during operation, the arc transfers ... | wikipedia |
92066cf02e345e2df2ac11436ea828ba4616be19 | in full-wave rectification both halves of the ac | in full-wave rectification both halves of the ac waveform are utilised. the cathode is connected to the + side of the dc load, the other side being connected to the center tap of the transformer secondary winding, which always remains at zero potential with respect to ground or earth. for each ac phase, a wire from eac... | wikipedia |
941ff0a749128b90dcc43c1ed134a3f24dc5a29b | single-phase mercury-arc rectifiers were rarely used because the | single-phase mercury-arc rectifiers were rarely used because the current dropped and the arc could be extinguished when the ac voltage changed polarity. the direct current produced by a single-phase rectifier thus contained a varying component (ripple) at twice the power supply frequency, which was undesirable in many ... | wikipedia |
1df430dee796149912bb762d83a467c716e51b53 | mercury arc valves with grading electrodes of this | mercury arc valves with grading electrodes of this type were developed up to voltage ratings of 150 kv. however, the tall porcelain column required to house the grading electrodes was more difficult to cool than the steel tank at cathode potential, so the usable current rating was limited to about 200 – 300 a per anode... | wikipedia |
36c034d68a91c4b45f7836439d80bd5e6bacf863 | the solution was found to be to include | the solution was found to be to include grading electrodes between the anode and control grid, connected to an external resistor - capacitor divider circuit. dr. uno lamm conducted pioneering work at asea in sweden on this problem throughout the 1930s and 1940s, leading to the first truly practical mercury-arc valve fo... | wikipedia |
bd5ce5830b34238088dc2be2fb6efd6397ce9a7e | mercury-arc valves are prone to an effect called | mercury-arc valves are prone to an effect called arc-back (or backfire), whereby the valve conducts in the reverse direction when the voltage across it is negative. arc-backs can be damaging or destructive to the valve, as well as creating high short-circuit currents in the external circuit, and are more prevalent at h... | wikipedia |
79e5d99c28a659a759829811e172a07a286856ca | to maintain the valve in the non-conducting state, | to maintain the valve in the non-conducting state, a negative bias of a few volts or tens of volts is applied to the grid. as a result, electrons emitted from the cathode are repelled away from the grid, back towards the cathode, and so are prevented from reaching the anode. with a small positive bias applied to the gr... | wikipedia |
6449708b3f324eb1476840f037d2d059a1eeb5b1 | installation of a control grid between the anode | installation of a control grid between the anode and the pool cathode allows control of the conduction of the valve, thereby giving control of the mean output voltage produced by the rectifier. start of the current flow can be delayed past the point at which the arc would form in an uncontrolled valve. this allows the ... | wikipedia |
0abb77240390140c5e1fa1cb42c13c25d3ab6e8b | this excitation or keep-alive circuit was necessary for | this excitation or keep-alive circuit was necessary for single-phase rectifiers such as the excitron and for mercury-arc rectifiers used in the high-voltage supply of radiotelegraphy transmitters, as current flow was regularly interrupted every time the morse key was released. | wikipedia |
cc070e2a6c2d3b0ef5ed03cfadd1c6e99a122511 | since momentary interruptions or reductions of output current | since momentary interruptions or reductions of output current may cause the cathode spot to extinguish, many rectifiers incorporate an additional electrode to maintain an arc whenever the plant is in use. typically, a two or three phase supply of a few amperes passes through small excitation anodes. a magnetically shun... | wikipedia |
32c10dfbbff7eeef36443b46915e3797c4f48a21 | a conventional mercury-arc rectifier is started by a | a conventional mercury-arc rectifier is started by a brief high-voltage arc within the rectifier, between the cathode pool and a starting electrode. the starting electrode is brought into contact with the pool and allowed to pass current through an inductive circuit. the contact with the pool is then broken, resulting ... | wikipedia |
22ac61dd45445fdb884dd10bc9d13f868ef5cc9c | like glass-bulb valves, steel-tank mercury arc valves were | like glass-bulb valves, steel-tank mercury arc valves were built with only a single anode per tank (a type also known as the excitron) or with multiple anodes per tank. multiple-anode valves were usually used for multi-phase rectifier circuits (with 2, 3, 6 or 12 anodes per tank) but in hvdc applications, multiple anod... | wikipedia |
776e874d9c7b64f889a464a7f0a7f47f5975557b | for larger valves, a steel tank with ceramic | for larger valves, a steel tank with ceramic insulators for the electrodes is used, with a vacuum pump system to counteract slight leakage of air into the tank around imperfect seals. steel-tank valves, with water cooling for the tank, were developed with current ratings of several thousand amps. | wikipedia |
fb33024017339697166d3bfbfae68794b487fc5c | the current-carrying capacity of a glass-bulb rectifier is | the current-carrying capacity of a glass-bulb rectifier is limited partly by the fragility of the glass envelope (the size of which increases with rated power) and partly by the size of the wires fused into the glass envelope for connection of the anodes and cathode. development of high-current rectifiers required lead... | wikipedia |
be345fb2004decc71c89d284ece4c61bd0246414 | glass envelope rectifiers can handle hundreds of kilowatts | glass envelope rectifiers can handle hundreds of kilowatts of direct-current power in a single unit. a six-phase rectifier rated 150 amperes has a glass envelope approximately 600 mm (24 inches) high by 300 mm (12 inches) outside diameter. these rectifiers will contain several kilograms of liquid mercury. the large siz... | wikipedia |
e39244133f61e666e32f205f449698d5264cacb7 | the earliest type of mercury vapor electric rectifier | the earliest type of mercury vapor electric rectifier consists of an evacuated glass bulb with a pool of liquid mercury sitting in the bottom as the cathode. over it curves the glass bulb, which condenses the mercury that is evaporated as the device operates. the glass envelope has one or more arms with graphite rods a... | wikipedia |
4abd50ff5e9f3cdd3aa0059f8d4c665ebb36ed04 | the temperature of the envelope must be carefully | the temperature of the envelope must be carefully controlled, since the behaviour of the arc is determined largely by the vapor pressure of the mercury, which in turn is set by the coolest spot on the enclosure wall. a typical design maintains temperature at 40 °c (104 °f) and a mercury vapor pressure of 7 millipascals... | wikipedia |
73f56157915d4ee206bef0b81523cf980358f6b0 | while the current is carried by electrons, the | while the current is carried by electrons, the positive ions returning to the cathode allow the conduction path to be largely unaffected by the space charge effects which limit the performance of vacuum tubes. consequently, the valve can carry high currents at low arc voltages (typically 20–30 v) and so is an efficient... | wikipedia |
f7ccbf02c9de9164d3c82db30a5fba53afea1366 | when an arc is formed, electrons are emitted | when an arc is formed, electrons are emitted from the surface of the pool, causing ionization of mercury vapor along the path towards the anodes. the mercury ions are attracted towards the cathode, and the resulting ionic bombardment of the pool maintains the temperature of the emission spot, so long as a current of a ... | wikipedia |
43314a1ac458fbaa9d64b21c8708672be8cdb12f | operation of the rectifier relies on an electrical | operation of the rectifier relies on an electrical arc discharge between electrodes in a sealed envelope containing mercury vapor at very low pressure. a pool of liquid mercury acts as a self-renewing cathode that does not deteriorate with time. the mercury emits electrons freely, whereas the carbon anodes emit very fe... | wikipedia |
05700934135e73b2aa3577c00ba9c029c20ddc92 | in 1882 jules jamin and g. maneuvrier observed | in 1882 jules jamin and g. maneuvrier observed the rectifying properties of a mercury arc. the mercury arc rectifier was invented by peter cooper hewitt in 1902 and further developed throughout the 1920s and 1930s by researchers in both europe and north america. before its invention, the only way to convert ac current ... | wikipedia |
d90754a65e52b7614e7cff61099248bc2bf5af9b | invented in 1902 by peter cooper hewitt, mercury-arc | invented in 1902 by peter cooper hewitt, mercury-arc rectifiers were used to provide power for industrial motors, electric railways, streetcars, and electric locomotives, as well as for radio transmitters and for high-voltage direct current (hvdc) power transmission. they were the primary method of high power rectifica... | wikipedia |
b1042ad2989a9958c278e155be06b669d038401d | a mercury-arc valve or mercury-vapor rectifier or (uk) | a mercury-arc valve or mercury-vapor rectifier or (uk) mercury-arc rectifier is a type of electrical rectifier used for converting high- voltage or high- current alternating current (ac) into direct current (dc). it is a type of cold cathode gas-filled tube, but is unusual in that the cathode, instead of being solid, i... | wikipedia |
69d4207f4a969b07ee78b2b0dce7cf96d35e9911 | after retirement, matsumoto became a manager for toyo | after retirement, matsumoto became a manager for toyo industries as kenzo ohashi 's successor in 1976. he was also named a manager for japan u-20 national team. he managed at the 1979 world youth championship in japan. in april 1999, he signed with j2 league club kawasaki frontale. he led the club to win the championsh... | wikipedia |
92279d3d3fc848086b3036dad98075661906a450 | in december 1966, matsumoto was selected for japan's | in december 1966, matsumoto was selected for japan's national team for the 1966 asian games. at this competition, on december 10, he debuted against india. in 1968, he was selected japan for the 1968 summer olympics in mexico city. he played 4 matches, and japan won the bronze medal. in 2018, this team was selected for... | wikipedia |
3e7a6e08bb95ff506582149b91eeb6979fb73e21 | matsumoto was born in utsunomiya on november 3, | matsumoto was born in utsunomiya on november 3, 1941. after graduating from high school, he joined toyo industries in 1964. in 1965, toyo industries joined the new league japan soccer league. the club won league championships in 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1970. the club also won the 1965, 1967, and 1969 emperor's cup. ... | wikipedia |
a8235748c305eba7616e18df2b2dcc2cd6db8abf | the 1979 national soccer league was the third | the 1979 national soccer league was the third season of the national soccer league, the former top australian semi-professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 1977. marconi fairfield secured a first national soccer league title. | wikipedia |
a8235748c305eba7616e18df2b2dcc2cd6db8abf | the 1979 national soccer league was the third | the 1979 national soccer league was the third season of the national soccer league, the former top australian semi-professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 1977. marconi fairfield secured a first national soccer league title. | wikipedia |
8b7a9f61103213a6483758d0d5336b2b80c2cd7a | rodney alan greenblat is an american artist, graphic | rodney alan greenblat is an american artist, graphic designer and children's book author. he was previously director of the center for advanced whimsy, is responsible for the character design of several video games, including the parappa the rapper series, and was an active figure in the east village art scene of the 1... | wikipedia |
5127d3a6a60bfae9e6ff3a753ab4b74d56178a1d | greenblat's work was shown in east village museums | greenblat's work was shown in east village museums in the 1980s, including the gracie mansion gallery, and was at the time considered part of a neo- surrealist movement. within the same decade, he did the artwork for new york-based alternative rock band they might be giants ' first album. | wikipedia |
8b7a9f61103213a6483758d0d5336b2b80c2cd7a | rodney alan greenblat is an american artist, graphic | rodney alan greenblat is an american artist, graphic designer and children's book author. he was previously director of the center for advanced whimsy, is responsible for the character design of several video games, including the parappa the rapper series, and was an active figure in the east village art scene of the 1... | wikipedia |
2610b9a40cb48d0f3f9fe095c518a9ba2776e53d | waldstein competed at the 1896 summer olympics in | waldstein competed at the 1896 summer olympics in athens in the military rifle event. his final score and place in the competition are unknown, but his first two strings of 10 shots apiece resulted in scores of 354 and 154. this put him at 508 points halfway through competition, though the rest of the results have been... | wikipedia |
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