Niall MacKay

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• 2024

  Robustness of steady state and stochastic cyclicity in generalized coalescence-fragmentation models

  Fagan, B., MacKay, N. & Wood, A. J., 21 Feb 2024, In: European physical journal b. 97, 29 p., 21.

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• Skew-Adjusted Extremized-Mean: A Simple Method for Identifying and Learning From Contrarian Minorities in Groups of Forecasters

  Powell, B., Satopaa, V., MacKay, N. & Tetlock, P., 2024, In: Decision. 11, 1, p. 173–193

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• The Strength of the Wolf is the Pack: U-boat tactics in the Battle of the Atlantic

  Lloyd, P., MacKay, N. & Price, C., 28 Aug 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: The Northern Mariner.

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• 2021

  Stochastic gel-shatter cycles in coalescence-fragmentation models

  Fagan, B., MacKay, N., Pushkin, M. & Wood, A. J., 10 May 2021, In: EPL. 133, 6 p., 53001.

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• Targeting, deployment and loss-tolerance in Lanchester engagements

  Atkinson, M. P., Kress, M. & MacKay, N. J., 1 Jan 2021, In: Operations Research. 69, 1, p. 71-81 11 p.

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• 2020

  Bootstrapping the Battle of Britain

  Fagan, B. T., Horwood, I., MacKay, N. J., Price, C., Richards, E. & Wood, A. J., Jan 2020, In: The Journal of Military History. 84, 1, p. 151-186

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• Change point analysis of historical battle deaths

  Fagan, B., Knight, M. I., MacKay, N. & Wood, A. J., 10 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society).

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• 2019

  Nested Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for Open Spin Chains with Even Twisted Yangian Symmetry

  Gerrard, A. J., MacKay, N. J. & Regelskis, V., 5 Feb 2019, In: Annales Henri Poincare. 20, 2, p. 339-392 54 p.

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• 2018

  The Attrition Dynamics of Multilateral War

  Kress, M., Lin, K. & MacKay, N. J., 15 Aug 2018, In: Operations Research. 66, 4, p. 950-956 7 p.

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• 2017

  Dogger Bank: Weighing the Fog of War

  MacKay, N. J., Price, C. & Wood, A. J., 9 Jun 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Significance. 14, 3, p. 14-19 6 p.

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• How to fold a spin chain: Integrable boundaries of the Heisenberg XXX and Inozemtsev hyperbolic models

  Gomez, A. D. L. R., MacKay, N. & Regelskis, V., 25 Apr 2017, In: Physics Letters A. 381, 16, p. 1340-1348 9 p.

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• 2016

  Weighing the Fog of War: Illustrating the power of Bayesian methods for historical analysis through the battle of the Dogger Bank

  MacKay, N., Price, C. & Wood, A. J., 2 Apr 2016, In: Historical Methods: A journal of quantitative and interdisciplinary history. 49, 2, p. 80-91 12 p.

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• Weight of Shell Must Tell: A Lanchestrian reappraisal of the Battle of Jutland

  MacKay, N. J., Price, C. & Wood, A. J., 25 Sept 2016, In: History. 101, 347, p. 536-563 28 p.

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• 2015

  Fight the Power: Lanchester's laws of combat in human evolution

  Johnson, D. D. P. & MacKay, N. J., Mar 2015, In: Evolution & human behavior. 36, 2, p. 152-163 12 p.

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• Kepler unbound: some elegant curiosities of classical mechanics

  MacKay, N. J. & Salour, S., Jan 2015, In: American Journal of Physics. 83, 1, p. 47-52 6 p.

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• When Lanchester met Richardson, the outcome was stalemate: a parable for mathematical models of insurgency

  MacKay, N. J., Feb 2015, In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 66, 2, p. 191-201 11 p.

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• 2014

  Bits or shots in combat? the generalized Deitchman model of guerrilla warfare

  Kress, M. & MacKay, N. J., Jan 2014, In: Operations Research Letters. 42, 1, p. 102-108 7 p.

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• Concentration and Asymmetry in Air Combat: Lessons for the Defensive Employment of Air Power

  Horwood, I., MacKay, N. & Price, C., 2014, In: Air Power Review. 17, 2, p. 68-91 14 p.

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• The optimal policy for the one-against-many heterogeneous Lanchester model

  Lin, K. & MacKay, N., Sept 2014, In: Operations Research Letters. 42, 6-7, p. 473-477 5 p.

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• Twisted Yangian symmetry of the open Hubbard model

  De La Rosa Gomez, A. & MacKay, N., 2014, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 47, 305203.

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• 2013

  Of bombs and boats and mice and men: a random tour through some scaling laws

  MacKay, N., Oct 2013, In: Mathematics Today. 49, 5, p. 218-222 5 p.

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• 2012

  Reflection algebra, Yangian symmetry and bound states in AdS/CFT

  MacKay, N. & Regelskis, V., Jan 2012, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012, 1, p. 1-31 32 p., 134.

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• 2011

  Achiral boundaries and the twisted Yangian of the D5-brane

  MacKay, N. & Regelskis, V., 3 Aug 2011, In: Journal of High Energy Physics . 2011, 8, p. 1-22 22 p., 019.

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• Is air combat Lanchestrian?

  MacKay, N., Dec 2011, In: Phalanx: the Bulletin of Military Operations Research. 44, 4, p. 12-14 3 p.

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• Lanchester models and the Battle of Britain

  Johnson, I. & MacKay, N., 1 Nov 2011, In: Naval Research Logistics. 58, 3, p. 210-222 13 p.

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• Mass scale and curvature in metabolic scaling

  MacKay, N., Feb 2011, In: Journal of Theoretical Biology. 280, 1, p. 194-196 3 p.

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• Safety in Numbers: Ideas of concentration in Royal Air Force fighter defence from Lanchester to the Battle of Britain

  MacKay, N. & Price, C., Jul 2011, In: History. 96, 323, p. 304-325 22 p.

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• 2010

  On the reflection of magnon bound states

  MacKay, N. & Regelskis, V., 11 Aug 2010, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2010, 8, p. 1-33 33 p., 055.

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• Scaling of human body mass with height: The body mass index revisited

  MacKay, N. J., 3 Mar 2010, In: Journal of biomechanics. 43, 4, p. 764-766 3 p.

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• Yangian symmetry of the Y=0 maximal giant graviton

  MacKay, N. & Regelskis, V., 1 Dec 2010, In: Journal of High Energy Physics . 2010, 76, p. 1-17 17 p.

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• 2009

  Lanchester models for mixed forces with semi-dynamical target allocation

  MacKay, N. J., Oct 2009, In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 60, 10, p. 1421-1427 7 p.

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• 2007

  Rational R-matrices, centralizer algebras and tensor identities for e6 and e7 exceptional families of Lie algebras

  MacKay, N. J. & Taylor, A., Oct 2007, In: Journal of Mathematical Physics. 48, 10, p. Art. No. 103507 14 p., 103507.

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• 2006

  Affine Quantum Groups

  Delius, G. W., MacKay, N., Missing, F. (Editor), Missing, N. (Editor) & Missing, T. (Editor), 2006, In: Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. p. 183-190 8 p.

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• Lanchester combat models

  MacKay, N., 2006, In: Mathematics Today. 42

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• Rational R-matrices and exceptional Lie algebras

  MacKay, N. & Taylor, A., 2006, In: Czechoslovak journal of physics. 56, 10-11, p. 1231-1236 6 p.

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• 2005

  Boundary integrability of nonlinear sigma models

  MacKay, N., 25 Feb 2005, In: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 142, 2, p. 270-274

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• Introduction to Yangian symmetry in integrable field theory

  MacKay, N., 10 Dec 2005, In: International Journal of Modern Physics A. 20, 30, p. 7189-7217 29 p.

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• Quantum, higher-spin, local charges in symmetric space sigma models

  Evans, J. M., Kagan, D., Young, C. A. S. & MacKay, N. J., Jan 2005, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2005, 1, 17 p., 020.

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• 2004

  Boundary scattering, symmetric spaces and the principal chiral model on the half-line (vol 233, pg 313, 2003)

  MacKay, N. J. & Short, B. J., Mar 2004, In: Communications in Mathematical Physics. 245, 2, p. 425-428 4 p.

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• Bulk and boundary g2 factorized S-matrices

  MacKay, N. J. & Short, B. J., 9 Jan 2004, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 37, 1, p. L13-L18 6 p.

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• Classically integrable boundary conditions for symmetric-space sigma models

  MacKay, N. J. & Young, C. A. S., 27 May 2004, In: Physics Letters B. 588, 3-4, p. 221-227 7 p.

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• 2003

  Boundary scattering, symmetric spaces and the principal chiral model on the half-line

  MacKay, N. J. & Short, B., Feb 2003, In: Communications in Mathematical Physics. 233, 2, p. 313-354 41 p.

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• Quantum group symmetry in sine-Gordon and affine Toda field theories on the half-line

  Delius, G. W. & MacKay, N. J., Feb 2003, In: Communications in Mathematical Physics. 233, 1, p. 173-190 17 p.

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• 2002

  Erratum to: “Boundary remnant of Yangian symmetry and the structure of rational reflection matrices”

  Delius, G. W., MacKay, N. J. & Short, B. J., 10 Jan 2002, In: Physics Letters B. 524, 3-4, p. 401-401 1 p.

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• Rational K-matrices and representations of twisted Yangians

  MacKay, N. J., Sept 2002, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 35, 37, p. 7865-7876 11 p.

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• 2001

  Boundary remnant of Yangian symmetry and the structure of rational reflection matrices

  Delius, G. W., MacKay, N. J. & Short, B., 13 Dec 2001, In: Physics Letters B. 522, 3-4, p. 335-344 9 p.

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• Boundary scattering in the principal chiral model

  MacKay, N. & Short, B., Dec 2001, In: Czechoslovak journal of physics. 51, 12, p. 1380-1384 5 p.

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• On the algebra A(h,eta)(osp(2 vertical bar 2)((2))) and free boson representations

  MacKay, N. & Zhao, L., 17 Aug 2001, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 34, 32, p. 6313-6323 11 p.

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• On the algebra Ah,n (osp(2|2)(2)) and free boson representations

  MacKay, N. & Zhao, L., 2001, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 34, 32, p. 6313-6324 12 p.

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• 2000

  Conserved charges and supersymmetry in principal chiral and WZW models

  Evans, J. M., Hassan, M., MacKay, N. & Mountain, A. J., 7 Aug 2000, In: Nuclear Physics B. 580, 3, p. 605-646 42 p.

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