Please note: Editorial Studies works are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for this item. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link, and fill out the appropriate web form. / This dissertation considers the life and art of Osip Mandelstam in the 1930s, under the aspect of a disjunction between Mandelstam's posthumous image and the biographical evidence that emerged between 1993 and 2010. It traces this disjunction not solely to prior lack of information but also to the moral ambiguities that complicate the reception of this biographical material. Among the chief difficulties of Mandelstam's biography is his testimony to the OGPU, in which Mandelstam gave the names of those among his friends to whom he had recited his "Stalin Epigram." Close analysis of the exact words of the interrogation protocols, along with memoir evidence, is used to establish that the protocols constitute digests of information elicited previously by coercion. This conjecture is supported by reading the relevant parts of Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoirs under the aspect of the double bind--a pathogenic social situation studied by Gregory Bateson and described in structure and in its potential for inducing psychosis. Mandelstam's composition of the "Ode" to Stalin is considered in the light of new evidence about his exile and its effects on the poet's state of mind. The dissertation proceeds largely by scrutinizing the language of witnesses and their interpreters, of poets, understood as witnesses of truths available to the creative imagination, and of critics, the interpreters of poets and witnesses of the workings of poems and language. The idea of witness literature is considered in relation to the concept of textual witnesses, in the editorial sense, and to a specific instance of the latter in the marginalia of Nadezhda Mandelstam. Because this study must find a footing in the English language while attending closely to the Russian, it makes recourse to poets and critics who wrote in English, whose judgments and sensibilities help establish a broader frame of reference for a discussion focused on Stalin's Russia. Geoffrey Hill's particular artistic engagement with Mandelstam is contemplated as an instance of a special kind of bearing witness--the witness of imagination. / 2031-01-01

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Diploma thesis Inner Emigration of Jan Zábrana and Osip Mandelstam examines the relationship between a poet (Osip Mandelstam) and his translator who is also a poet (Jan Zábrana). It shows connections between their life experiences, and the way these moments affected their own poetics. Simultaneously, it finds out if and to which degree Mandelstam- poet influenced the poetry of Jan Zábrana. The analytical part of the thesis compares Czech translations (by Jan Zábrana and Jiří Kovtun) of Mandelstam's poems Петербургские строфы, Концерт на вокзале, Еще не умер ты...

Orientador: Alfredo Takashi Suzuki / Banca: Antônio Edson Gonçalves / Banca: Vladimir Fainberg / Banca: José Abdalla Heläyel Neto / Banca: Jeferson de Lima Tomazelli / Resumo: Uma forma alternativa no tratamento dos pólos do gauge do cone de luz do tipo (q.n)-£ é estudada, e esta é comparada com as prescrições usuais de Mandelstam e Leibbrandt. Aparentemente no caso de se trabalhar nesta classe de gauges não covariantes, as principais prescrições causais não são prescrições, mas sim identidades das coordenadas do cone de luz. / Abstract: An alternative form of treatment for thelight-cone gauge poles of type (q.n)-£ is studied, and it is compared with the usual prescriptions of Mandelstam and Leibbrandt. It seems that in the case of working in this class of noncovariant gauges, the causal prescriptions are not prescriptions, but identities of the light-cone coordinates. / Doutor

Quantum speed limits are lower bounds on the evolution time for quantum systems. In this thesis, we consider closed quantum systems. We investigate how different principal bundles offers a geometrical method for obtaining generalizations of the Mandelstam-Tamm quantum speed limit for mixed states. We look at three different principal bundles from which we derive two already known quantum speed limits, the Uhlmann and Andersson QSLs, and one which is new, the Grassmann QSL. We also investigate the tightness of these quantum speed limits and how they compare with each other.

This thesis seeks to shed light on a remarkable figure in Russian history, Father Alexander Men’. How and why did Men’ identify Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and other pre-revolutionary cultural figures as representatives of authentic Russian religious culture? Why would a popular Russian Orthodox priest present the writings of mystics, anarchists, and the Silver Age counterculture as the antidote for seventy years of Soviet materialism? What role did Judaism and the Russo-Jewish intellectual tradition have on Men’s identifications as an Orthodox priest? I use a semiotic theory of culture following Yuri Lotman and the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School as a framework to analyze the historical development of Orthodox personalism. Through this we find a coherent justification for Men’s cultural project. This thesis traces this line of thought from theories of cultural unity by Pyotr Chaadayev, through Christian universalism in Vladimir Solovyov, the existential personalism of Nikolai Berdyaev, and finally through Men’s personal relationship with Nadezhda Mandelstam.

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When calculating scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravitational theories one encounters infrared (IR) divergences associated with massless fields. These are known to be artifacts of constructing a quantum field theory starting with free fields, and the assumption that in the asymptotic limit (i.e. well before and after a scattering event) the incoming and outgoing states are non-interacting. In 1937, Bloch and Nordsieck provided a technical procedure eliminating the IR divergences in the cross-sections. However, this did not address the source of the problem: A detailed analysis reveals that, in quantum electrodynamics (QED) and in perturbative quantum gravity (PQG), the interactions cannot be ignored even in the asymptotic limit. This is due to the infinite range of the massless force-carrying bosons. By taking these asymptotic interactions into account, one can find a picture changing operator that transforms the free Fock states into asymptotically interacting Faddeev- Kulish (FK) states. These FK states are charged (massive) particles surrounded by a “cloud” of soft photons (gravitons) and will render all scattering processes infrared finite already at an S-matrix level. Recently it has been found that the FK states are closely related to asymptotic symmetries. In the case of QED the FK states are eigenstates of the large gauge transformations – U(1) transformations with a non-vanishing transformation parameter at infinity. For PQG the FK states are eigenstates of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) transformations – the asymptotic symmetry group of an asymptotically flat spacetime. It also appears that the FK states are related the Wilson lines in the Mandelstam quantization scheme. This would allow one to obtain the physical FK states through geometrical or symmetry arguments. We attempt to clarify this relation and present a derivation of the FK states in PQG from the gravitational Wilson line in the eikonal approximation, a result that is novel to this thesis.