It was in the Agora of Athens that the great philosopher Socrates questioned the market-goers on their understanding of the meaning of life, attracting a crowd of Athenian youth who enjoyed seeing the more pretentious of their elders made fools of.
Branching definition, a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant. See more.
The vertices of the branching process are defined in sect. 3 in terms of a transition rate functional. Again, explicit examples are given for 0 3 in six dimensions and for QCD. In sect. 4 we derive evolution equations for the functional.