Strategic Stability in the Post-Cold War World and the Future of Nuclear Disarmament - NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1 1995 edition

Marc Notes: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Workshop on Strategic Stability in the Post-Cold War World and Future of Nuclear Disarmament, Washington, D. C., U. S. A., April 6-10,1995, sponsored by the NATO Division of Scientific and Environmental Affairs.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Preface. 1. Consensus report. 2. Contributing papers. Deterrence, disarmament, and post-cold war stability: enhancing security for both haves' and have nots'; R. F. Lehmann II. 2.1: Qualitative - global. On deterrence, balance of power, and geopolitics; R. W. Chandler. Proliferation stability and instability: conditioning factors; F. Ermarth. Verifying the future: towards and international conventional arms control and conversion regime for the 21st century; R. Giles. Crisis stability in a multipolar world; R. Linhard. 2.2: Qualitative - European. Russia and the west: a partnership? R. Braithwaite. Possibilities for cooperation of Russia and the USA in designing, correction and realization of national security doctrines; D. S. Chereshkin. Deterrence and stability; V. I. Krivokhizha. 2.3: Qualitative - Asian. Geo- political stability and the balance of power in East Asia; A. Farrar-Hockley. Strategic stability in the early 2000s: an Indian view of a south Asian model; K. Sundarji. Non-nuclear proliferation and strategic stability in the Asia-Pacific region; Xia Liping. 2.4: Quantitative: geopolitical stability and balance of power. Balance of power versus collective security: a game-theoretic analysis; E. M. S. Niou. Russia's nuclear strategy: 90s and after; A. Piontkowsky, A. Skorokhodov. 2.5: Quantitative: deterrence, crisis stability and first strike stability. Multipolar nuclear stability: incentives to strike and incentives to preempt; J. Bracken. Controlling instabilities caused by rogue governments; G. A. Kent. From MAD to MAD; M. Rudnianski. FSSI as a universalmeasure of stability: from MAD-stability toward MAP-stability; A. Piontkowsky, A. Skorokhodov. 2.6: Quantitative: arms race. Analyzing three-way arms races; F. S. Nyland. New patterns in the arms race: some guidelines; C. Schmidt. Approaches to mathematical modeling of the process of world-wide strategic nuclear conflict used in the former USSR; A. V. Surikov. 2.7: Quantitative: proliferation. Stability, reassurance and non-proliferation; I. Amit. Index. Publisher Marketing: The contributors to this book argue that the collapse of the former Soviet Union has left a conceptual vacuum in the definition of a new world order.

Contributor Bio:  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgments. Clifford Geometric Algebras in Multilinear Algebra and Non-Euclidean Geometries.- Geometric algebra Projective Geometries; Affine and other geometries; Affine Geometry of pseudo-euclidean space; Conformal Geometry and the Horosphere; References. Content-Based Information Retrieval by Group Theoretical Methods.- Introduction; Motivating Examples; General Concept; Fault Tolerance.- Applications, Prototypes, and Test Results; Related Work and Future Research; References.- Four Problems in Radar.-Introduction; Radar Fundamentals; Radar Waveforms; Signal Processing; Space-Time Adaptive Processing; Four Problems in Radar; Conclusions. Introduction to Generalized Classical and Quantum Signal and System Theories on Groups and Hypergroups.-Generalized classical signal/system theory on hypergroups; Generalized quantum signal/system theory on hypergroups; Conclusion; References. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras in Robotics.- Introduction -- Rigid Body Motions; Lie Groups; Finite Screw Motions; Mechanical Joints; Invisible Motion and Gripping; Forward Kinematics; Lie Algebra; The Adjoint Representation; The Exponential Map Derivatives of Exponentials; Jacobians; Concluding Remarks; References. Quantum/Classical Interface: a Geometric Approach from the Classical Side.- Introduction Paravector Space as Spacetime; Eigenspinors; Spin; Dirac Equation; Bell's Theorem; Qubits and Entanglement; Conclusions; References. PONS, Reed-Muller Codes, and Group Algebras.- Introduction; Analytic Theory of One-Dimensional PONS (Welti); Shapiro Sequences, Reed-Muller Codes, and Functional Equations; Group Algebras; Reformulation of Classical PONS; Group Algebra of Classical PONS; GroupAlgebra Convolution; Splitting Sequences; Historical Appendix on PONS; References. Clifford Algebras as a Unified Language.- Introduction; Clifford algebras as models of physical spaces; Clifford Algebras as Models of Perceptual Multicolor Spaces; Hypercomplex-Valued invariants of nD multicolor images; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Recent Progress and Applications in Group FFTs.-Introduction; Finite group FFTs; FFTs for compact groups; Noncompact groups; References. Group Filters and Image Processing.- Introduction: Classical Digital Signal Processing; Abelian Group DSP; Nonabelian Groups; Examples; Group Transforms; Group Filters; Line-like Images; Acknowledgments; References. A Geometric Algebra Approach to Some Problems of Robot Vision.- Introduction; Local Analysis of Multi-dimensional Signals; Knowledge Based Neural Computing; Acknowledgments; References. Group Theory in Radar and Signal Processing.- Introduction; How a Radar Works; Representations; Representations and Radar; Ambiguity Functions; The Wide Band Case; References. Geometry of Paravector Space with Applications to Relativistic Physics.- Clifford Algebras in Physics; Paravector Space as Spacetime; Interpretation; Eigenspinors; Maxwell's Equation; Conclusions; References. A Unified Approach to Fourier-Clifford-Prometheus Transforms- Introduction; New construction of classical and multiparametric Prometheus transforms; PONS associated with Abelian groups; Fast Fourier-Prometheus Transforms; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Fast Color Wavelet Transforms.- Introduction; Color images; Color Wavelet-Haar-Prometheus transforms; Edge detection and compression of color images; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References. Selected Problems; Various Authors.- Transformations of Euclidean Space and Clifford Geometric; Algebra; References; On the Distribution of Kloosterman Sums on Polynomials over Quaternions; References; Harmonic Sliding Analysis Problems; References; Spectral Analysis under Conditions of Uncertainty; A Canonical Basis for Maximal Tori of the Reductive Centrizer of a Nilpotent Element; References; 6 The Quantum Chaos Conjecture References; Four Problems in Radar; Topic Index; Author IndexContributor Bio:  Hughes-Wilson, John by Colonel John Hughes-Wilson and Nigel Steel