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April 1996 arXiv papers

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  1. Savas Dimopoulos, Scott Thomas, James D. Wells

    The signatures for low energy supersymmetry breaking at the Tevatron are investigated. It is natural that the lightest standard model superpartner is an electroweak neutralino, which decays to an essentially massless Goldstino and photon, possibly within the detector. In the simplest models of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking, the production of right-ha

  2. N. Dupuis

    We show how Fermi liquid theory results can be systematically recovered using a renormalization group (RG) approach. Considering a two-dimensional system with a circular Fermi surface, we derive RG equations at one-loop order for the two-particle vertex function $\Gamma $ in the limit of small momentum (${\bf Q}$) and energy ($\Omega $) transfer and obtain t

  3. Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Andrija Rasin

    We analyze the minimal supersymmetric left-right model with non-re\-nor\-malizable interactions induced by higher scale physics and study its {\it CP} violating properties. We show that it: (i) solves the strong {\it CP} problem; (ii) predicts the neutron electric dipole moment well within experimental limits (thus solving the usual SUSY {\it CP} problem). I

  4. J. P. Rodriguez

    The issue of the decoupling of extreme type-II superconducting thin films ($λ_L\rightarrow\infty$) with weakly Josephson-coupled layers in magnetic field parallel to the layers is considered via the corresponding frustrated $XY$ model used to describe the mixed phase in the critical regime. For the general case of arbitrary field orientations such that the p

  5. J. A. de Azcárraga, F. Rodenas

    The differential calculus on `non-standard' $h$-Minkowski spaces is given. In particular it is shown that, for them, it is possible to introduce coordinates and derivatives which are simultaneously hermitian.

  6. Alexei Yu. Smirnov, Francesco Vissani

    Stellar objects (including our Sun, other stars of main sequence, white dwarfs, neutron stars etc.) contain strongly degenerate low energy sea of neutrinos (in neutron stars) or antineutrinos. The presence of this sea leads due to Pauli principle and thermal effects to effective blocking of the long-range neutrino forces. This blocking can resolve the proble

  7. Itzhak Bars

    Using a global superalgebra with 32 fermionic and 528 bosonic charges, many features of p-brane dualities and hidden dimensions are discussed.

  8. Fernando Quevedo, Carlo Trugenberger

    We study the different phases of field theories of compact antisymmetric tensors of rank $h-1$ in arbitrary space-time dimensions $D=d+1$. Starting in a `Coulomb' phase, topological defects of dimension $d-h-1$ ($(d-h-1)$-branes) may condense leading to a generalized `confinement' phase. If the dual theory is also compact the model may also have a th

  9. Hyun-Chul Kim, Maxim V. Polyakov, Klaus Goeke

    The tensor charges of the nucleon are calculated in the framework of the SU(3) chiral quark soliton model. The rotational $1/N_c$ and strange quark mass corrections are taken into account up to linear order. We obtain the following numerical values of the tensor charges: $δu=1.12$, $δd=-0.42$, and $δs=-0.008$. In contrast to the axial charges, the tensor cha

  10. Giampiero Esposito, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik

    This paper studies the role of the axial gauge in the semiclassical analysis of simple supergravity about the Euclidean four-ball, when non-local boundary conditions of the spectral type are imposed on gravitino perturbations at the bounding three-sphere. Metric perturbations are instead subject to boundary conditions completely invariant under infinitesimal

  11. S. Hesselbach, H. Fraas

    We study the production of charginos and sneutrinos in electron-photon collisions within the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). The high energy photons can be generated by Compton backscattering of intense laser pulses off one of the beams of the Next Linear Collider (NLC). This process could offer a significant opportunity to identify sneutrinos,

  12. M. Ciuchini, E. Gabrielli, G. F. Giudice

    We consider the possibility of having a large branching ratio for the decay $b\to s g$ coming from an enhanced Wilson coefficient of the chromomagnetic dipole operator. We show that values of $BR(b\to s g)$ up to $\sim 10\%$ or more are compatible with the constraints coming from the CLEO experimental results on $BR(B\to X_sγ)$ and $BR(B\to X_sϕ)$. Such larg

  13. J. Erdmenger, H. Osborn

    The implications of conformal invariance, as relevant in quantum field theories at a renormalisation group fixed point, are analysed with particular reference to results for correlation functions involving conserved currents and the energy momentum tensor. Ward identities resulting from conformal invariance are discussed. Explicit expressions for two and thr

  14. Roland A. Puntigam, Harald H. Soleng

    Cosmic strings, as topological spacetime defects, show striking resemblance to defects in solid continua: distortions, which can be classified into disclinations and dislocations, are line-like defects characterized by a delta function-valued curvature and torsion distribution giving rise to rotational and translational holonomy. We exploit this analogy and

  15. P. Lemmens, B. Eisener, M. Brinkmann, L. V. Gasparov

    Raman experiments on the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO$_3$ and the substituted (Cu$_{1- x}$,Zn$_x$)GeO$_3$ and Cu(Ge$_{1-x}$,Ga$_x$)O$_3$ compounds were performed in order to investigate the response of specific magnetic excitations of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 chain to spin anisotropies and substitution-induced disorder. In pure CuGeO$_3$, in addition to n

  16. I. Bakas, K. Sfetsos

    String propagation on D-dimensional curved backgrounds with Lorentzian signature is formulated as a geometrical problem of embedding surfaces. When the spatial part of the background corresponds to a general WZW model for a compact group, the classical dynamics of the physical degrees of freedom is governed by the coset conformal field theory SO(D-1)/SO(D-2)

  17. M. V. Simkin

    It is predicted that the fully frustrated Josephson-junction array on a square lattice with alternating columns of junctions having a reduced critical current $I_{weak}=μI_{0}$(with $μ<1$ and $I_{0}$ the critical current of all other junctions) in certain range of $μ$ will under increasing of the external current first change from the state with zero chirali

  18. Anton Deitmar

    We consider the action of a noncompact torus H on the compact quotient G/L, where G is a Lie group containing H and L is a uniform lattice in G. Using harmonic analysis on G we prove a formula relating the compact orbits of H to the action of H on the (infinite dimensional) tangential cohomology. The formula may be viewed as a Lefschetz formula or an equivar

  19. Vijay Balasubramanian, Finn Larsen

    We find extremal four dimensional black holes with finite area constructed entirely from intersecting D-branes. We argue that the microscopic degeneracy of these configurations agrees with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula. The absence of solitonic objects in these configurations may make them useful for dynamical studies of black holes.

  20. Xiaohui Fan, David Burstein, Jian-sheng Chen, Jin Zhu

    We present nine color CCD intermediate-band spectrophotometry of a two square degree field centered on the old open cluster M67, from 3890$\rm \AA$ to nearly 1$\mu$. These observations are taken as a part of the BATC (Beijing-Arizona-Taipei-Connecticut) Color Survey of the Sky, for both scientific and calibration reasons. With these data we show that the BAT

  21. C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, T. S. Axelrod

    We report the discovery of two new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the MACHO project photometry database. The identification of both stars has been confirmed spectroscopically. One is a cool RCB star (T_eff about 5000 K) characterized by very strong Swan bands of C_2 and violet bands of CN, and weak or absent Balmer l

  22. C. H. Bennett, T. Mor, J. A. Smolin

    An $n$-bit string is encoded as a sequence of non-orthogonal quantum states. The parity bit of that $n$-bit string is described by one of two density matrices, $ρ_0^{(n)}$ and $ρ_1^{(n)}$, both in a Hilbert space of dimension $2^n$. In order to derive the parity bit the receiver must distinguish between the two density matrices, e.g., in terms of optimal mut

  23. D. Deutsch, A. Ekert, R. Jozsa, C. Macchiavello

    Existing quantum cryptographic schemes are not, as they stand, operable in the presence of noise on the quantum communication channel. Although they become operable if they are supplemented by classical privacy-amplification techniques, the resulting schemes are difficult to analyse and have not been proved secure. We introduce the concept of quantum privacy

  24. H. Awata, H. Kubo, Y. Morita, S. Odake

    Primary fields of the $q$-deformed Virasoro algebra are constructed. Commutation relations among the primary fields are studied. Adjoint actions of the deformed Virasoro current on the primary fields are represented by the shift operator $Θ_ξ f(x)=f(ξx)$. Four point functions of the primary fields enjoy the connection formula associated with the Boltzmann we

  25. A. Bianconi, M. Radici

    The advent of new electron accelerators with few-GeV beam energies makes the (e,e&#39;p) reaction a promising tool for investigating new aspects of the electromagnetic interaction. To this purpose it is crucial to set the scale of Final-State Interactions (FSI) at high ejectile energies. We have analyzed the constraints which allow for a meaningful generaliz

  26. Karl Petersen, Klaus Schmidt

    We prove that certain Gibbs measures on subshifts of finite type are nonsingular and ergodic for certain countable equivalence relations, including the orbit relation of the adic transformation (the same as equality after a permutation of finitely many coordinates). The relations we consider are defined by cocycles taking values in groups, including some non

  27. I. M. Krichever, D. H. Phong

    We provide a unified construction of the symplectic forms which arise in the solution of both N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories and soliton equations. Their phase spaces are Jacobian-type bundles over the leaves of a foliation in a universal configuration space. On one hand, imbedded into finite-gap solutions of soliton equations, these symplectic forms

  28. Michael R. Douglas

    We prove that self-dual gauge fields in type I superstring theory are equivalent to configurations of Dirichlet 5-branes, by showing that the world-sheet theory of a Dirichlet 1-brane moving in a background of 5-branes includes an ``ADHM sigma model.&#39;&#39; This provides an explicit construction of the equivalent self-dual gauge field. We also discuss typ

  29. A. Nersessian, V. Ter-Antonyan, M. Tsulaia

    It is shown, that the reduction of the circular quantum oscillator by the $Z_2$-group action results to the two systems: a two-dimensional hydrogen atom, and a ``charge - charged magnetic vortex&#34; one, with the spin $\frac 12$. Analogously, the $Z_N$-reduction of the two-dimensional system with the central potential $r^{2(N-1)}$ results into $N$ bound ``c

  30. Renata Kallosh, Arvind Rajaraman

    We suggest a duality invariant formula for the entropy and temperature of non-extreme black holes in supersymmetric string theory. The entropy is given in terms of the duality invariant parameter of the deviation from extremality and 56 SU(8) covariant central charges. It interpolates between the entropies of Schwarzschild solution and extremal solutions wit

  31. Michael Strickland, Sen-Ben Liao

    Effective critical exponents for the λϕ^4 scalar field theory are calculated as a function of the renormalization group block size k_o^{-1} and inverse critical temperature β_c. Exact renormalization group equations are presented up to first order in the derivative expansion and numerical solutions are obtained with and without polynomial expansion of the bl

  32. Ioannis Tsohantjis, Alex C Kalloniatis, Peter D Jarvis

    The combinatorics of the BPHZ subtraction scheme for a class of ladder graphs for the three point vertex in $ϕ^3$ theory is transcribed into certain connectivity relations for marked chord diagrams (knots with transversal intersections). The resolution of the singular crossings using the equivalence relations in these examples provides confirmation of a prop

  33. A. V. Sinitskaya, E. V. Pavlova

    The bound states of two particles are studied in frames of non-relativistic quantum field model with current $\times$ current type interaction by analyzing the Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes. The Bethe-Salpeter equations are obtained in closed form. The existence of Goldstone mode corresponding to the spontaneous breaking of additional SU(2) symmetry of the model

  34. E. Harikumar, M. Sivakumar

    Two different massive gauge invariant spin-one theories in $3+1$ dimensions, one Stuckelberg formulation and the other `$B^{\wedge}F$&#39; theory, with Kalb-Ramond field are shown to be related by duality. This is demonstrated by gauging the global symmetry in the model and constraining the corresponding dual field strength to be zero by a Lagrange multiplie

  35. Neville R. Jones, Dongsheng Liu

    The radiative meson decays $V\to Pγ$ and $P\to γγ$ are analyzed using the quark triangle diagram. Experimental data yield well determined estimates of the universal quark-antiquark-meson couplings $g_{Vq\bar{q}&#39;}$ and $g_{Pq\bar{q}&#39;}$ for the light meson sector. Also predictions for the ratios of neutral to charged heavy meson decay coupling constant

  36. J. T. Londergan, G. Q. Liu, A. W. Thomas

    We investigate the information which could be obtained from Drell-Yan processes with sufficiently intense beams of charged kaons on isoscalar targets. It is found that combinations of $K^+$ and $K^-$ Drell-Yan measurements on isoscalar nuclear targets would allow one to extract the kaon sea quark distributions. These cross sections are also sensitive to the

  37. B. Bailey, E. L. Berger, L. E. Gordon

    The two particle inclusive cross section for the reaction $p +\bar{p}\rightarrow γ+ c + X$ is studied in perturbative quantum chromodynamics at order $O(α^2_s)$, for large values of the transverse momentum of the prompt photon and charm quark. Two different techniques are used in performing the phase-space integrals; the first is purely analytical, and the s

  38. J. T. Londergan, Alex Pang, A. W. Thomas

    Recent experiments by the HERMES group at HERA are measuring semi-inclusive electroproduction of pions from deuterium. We point out that by comparing the production of $\pi^+$ and $\pi^-$ from an isoscalar target, it is possible, in principle, to measure charge symmetry violation in the valence quark distributions of the nucleons. It is also possible in the

  39. A. Riotto, I. I. Tkachev

    We calculate the strength of symmetry restoration effects in highly non-equilibrium states which can arise, for example, during preheating after inflation. We show that in certain parameter range the one-loop results are unstable, requiring summation of multiloop diagrams. We solve this problem for the $O(N)$ model in the large $N$-limit and show that the sy

  40. Chr. V. Christov, A. Blotz, H. -C. Kim, P. Pobylitsa

    The present review gives a survey of recent developments and applications of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with $N_f=2$ and $N_f=3$ quark flavors for the structure of baryons. The model is an effective chiral quark theory which incorporates the SU(N$_f$)$_L\otimes$SU(N$_f$)$_R\otimes$U(1)$_V$ approximate symmetry of Quantum chromodynamics. The approach descr

  41. D. Delepine, J. -M. Gerard, R. Gonzalez Felipe, J. Weyers

    The possibility of creating baryon asymmetry at the electroweak phase transition in the minimal supersymmetric standard model is considered for the case when right-handed squarks are much lighter than left-handed ones. It is shown that the usual requirement v(T_c)/T_c > 1 for baryogenesis can be satisfied in a range of the parameters of the model, consistent

  42. I. F. Ginzburg, D. Yu. Ivanov

    We consider two coupled problems. We study the dependence on photon virtuality $Q^2$ for the semihard quasi--elastic photoproduction of neutral vector mesons on a quark, gluon or real photon (at $s\gg p_{\bot}^2,\;Q^2; \; p_{\bot}^2\gg μ^2 \approx (0.3$ GeV)$^2$). To this end we calculate the corresponding amplitudes (in an analytical form) in the lowest non

  43. P. J. Rijken, W. L. van Neerven

    We present the order $α_s^2$ contributions to the coefficient functions corresponding to the longitudinal fragmentation function $F_L(x,Q^2)$. A comparison with the leading order $α_s$ result for $F_L(x,Q^2)$ shows that the corrections are large and vary from 44\% to 67\% in the region $0.01 < x < 0.9$ at $Q^2=M_Z^2$. Our calculations also reveal that the ra

  44. G. Eilam, A. Ioannissyan, P. Singer

    We consider the asymmetry in the decay $Ω^-\rightarrowΞ^-γ$ assuming that a Vector Meson Dominance approach for the $s\rightarrow dγ$ transition gives the dominant contribution. Since in this long-distance approximation the decay is due to a single quark transition $s\rightarrow dγ$, the angular distribution asymmetry is given by the single positive asymmetr

  45. D. Espriu, R. Tarrach

    We point out that, contrary to what is believed to hold for QCD, renormalons are genuine in QED; i.e. the ambiguities which come with them do not require cancellation by hypothetical non-perturbative contributions. They are just the ambiguities characteristic of any trivial ---and thus effective--- theory. If QED remained an isolated theory up to an energy c

  46. Yubing Luo

    We present a complete and detailed derivation of the finite lattice spacing corrections to staggered fermion matrix elements. Expanding upon arguments of Sharpe, we explicitly implement the Symanzik improvement program demonstrating the absence of order $a$ terms in the Symanzik improved action. We propose a general program to improve fermion operators to re

  47. Isamu Nakamura, Kiyotomo Kawagoe

    Once a light Higgs boson is discovered at a future e+e- collider, the next target at the collider will be precise measurements of the Higgs boson properties. In this paper we report a simulation study on the measurement of the ratio Br(H->cc,gg)/Br(H->bb) at center of mass energy of 300 GeV, and show the possibility to constrain MSSM parameters from the meas

  48. Alexandru Nica, Roland Speicher

    In the free probability theory of Voiculescu two of the most frequently used *-distributions are those of a Haar unitary and of a circular element. We define an $R$-diagonal pair as a generalization of these distributions by the requirement that their two-dimensional $R$-transform (or free cumulants) have a special diagonal form. We show that the class of su

  49. Alexandru Nica, Roland Speicher

    Let $a_{1},...,a_{n}, b_{1},...,b_{n}$ be random variables in some (non-commutative) probability space, such that $\{a_{1}, ..., a_{n} \}$ is free from $\{b_{1}, ..., b_{n} \}$. We show how the joint distribution of the $n$-tuple $(a_{1} b_{1}, ..., a_{n} b_{n})$ can be described in terms of the joint distributions of $(a_{1}, ..., a_{n})$ and $(b_{1}, >...,

  50. Marek Bozejko, Burkhard Kummerer, Roland Speicher

    We examine, for $-1<q<1$, $q$-Gaussian processes, i.e. families of operators (non-commutative random variables) $X_t=a_t+a_t^*$ -- where the $a_t$ fulfill the $q$-commutation relations $a_sa_t^*-qa_t^*a_s=c(s,t)\cdot \id$ for some covariance function $c(\cdot,\cdot)$ -- equipped with the vacuum expectation state. We show that there is a $q$-analogue of the G

  51. M. Franz, C. Kallin, A. J. Berlinsky

    Strong evidence is presented for the localization of low energy quasiparticle states in disordered $d$-wave superconductors. Within the framework of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) theory applied to the extended Hubbard model with a finite concentration of non-magnetic impurities, we carry out a fully self-consistent numerical diagonalization of the BdG equat

  52. Mirim Lee, James W. Dufty, José M. Montanero, Andrés Santos

    Uniform Shear Flow is a prototype nonequilibrium state admitting detailed study at both the macroscopic and microscopic levels via theory and computer simulation. It is shown that the hydrodynamic equations for this state have a long wavelength instability. This result is obtained first from the Navier-Stokes equations and shown to apply at both low and high

  53. Rachel Wortis, David A. Huse

    We have simulated the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation with thermal fluctuations, to study the nonlocal dc conductivity of a superconducting film. Having examined points in the phase diagram at a wide range of temperatures and fields below the mean-field upper critical field, we find a portion of the vortex-liquid regime in which the nonlocal ohmic co

  54. F. Zhou, B. Spivak

    It is shown that the conductance of a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction can exhibit a significant dependence on the phase of the superconducting order parameter in the situation when the size of the normal region of the junction is much larger than the normal metal coherence length and the critical current of the junction is already exponen

  55. Valerii M. Vinokur, M. Cristina Marchetti, Lee-Wen Chen

    We discuss the low-temperature dynamics of an elastic manifold driven through a random medium. For driving forces well below the $T=0$ depinning force, the medium advances via thermally activated hops over the energy barriers separating favorable metastable states. We show that the distribution of waiting times for these hopping processes scales as a power-l

  56. Detlef Lehmann

    The propagator for a noninteracting many electron system in a constant magnetic field in three space time dimensions is computed. This formula and the results of [FT1,2] are used to give a microscopic derivation of a BCS-equation with magnetic field. It is shown that this equation has no solution if the magnetic field is sufficiently large. Perturbation theo

  57. Patric Uebele, Helmut Hermann

    The influence of non-uniform distribution of nuclei on crystallization kinetics of amorphous materials is investigated. This case cannot be described by the well-known Johnson-Mehl-Avrami (JMA) equation, which is only valid under the assumption of a spatially homogeneous nucleation probability. The results of computer simulations of crystallization kinetics

  58. M. V. Simkin

    Li (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 69},1819 (1992)) has computed the current-voltage characteristics (CVC) of a disordered two-dimensional (2D) Josephson-junction array and claimed that his data(nonlinear CVC for small temperatures), gives evidence for a finite-temperature phase transition in the 2D gauge-glass model in contradiction to the result of equilibrium simu

  59. Andrei Mikheev, Steven Finch

    In this paper we describe an architecture and functionality of main components of a workbench for an acquisition of domain knowledge from large text corpora. The workbench supports an incremental process of corpus analysis starting from a rough automatic extraction and organization of lexico-semantic regularities and ending with a computer supported analysis

  60. Andrei Mikheev

    One of the problems in part-of-speech tagging of real-word texts is that of unknown to the lexicon words. In Mikheev (ACL-96 cmp-lg/9604022), a technique for fully unsupervised statistical acquisition of rules which guess possible parts-of-speech for unknown words was proposed. One of the over-simplification assumed by this learning technique was the acquisi

  61. Arturo Trujillo, Simon Berry

    This paper presents a pruning technique which can be used to reduce the number of paths searched in rule-based bag generators of the type proposed by \cite{poznanskietal95} and \cite{popowich95}. Pruning the search space in these generators is important given the computational cost of bag generation. The technique relies on a connectivity constraint between

  62. James Rogers

    A natural next step in the evolution of constraint-based grammar formalisms from rewriting formalisms is to abstract fully away from the details of the grammar mechanism---to express syntactic theories purely in terms of the properties of the class of structures they license. By focusing on the structural properties of languages rather than on mechanisms for

  63. Andrei Mikheev

    Words unknown to the lexicon present a substantial problem to part-of-speech tagging. In this paper we present a technique for fully unsupervised statistical acquisition of rules which guess possible parts-of-speech for unknown words. Three complementary sets of word-guessing rules are induced from the lexicon and a raw corpus: prefix morphological rules, su

  64. Zhong Tang

    We develop a new transformation theory in quantum physics, where the transformation operators, defined in the infinite dimensional Hilbert space, have right-unitary inverses only. Through several theorems, we discuss the properties of state space of such operators. As one application of the right-unitary transformation (RUT), we show that using the RUT metho

  65. R. Cowsik, Charu Ratnam, P. Bhattacharjee

    The self-consistent spatial distribution of particles of Galactic dark matter is derived including their own gravitational potential, as also that of the visible matter of the Galaxy. In order to reproduce the observed rotation curve of the Galaxy the value of the dispersion velocity of the dark matter particles, $\rmsveldm$, should be $\sim 600\kmps$ or lar

  66. R. V. E. Lovelace, Tom Chou

    We consider accretion disks consisting of counter-rotating gaseous components with an intervening shear layer. Configurations of this type may arise from the accretion of newly supplied counter-rotating gas onto an existing co-rotating gas disk. For simplicity we consider the case where the gas well above the disk midplane is rotating with angular rate $+Ω$

  67. A. Kashlinsky, J. C. Mather, S. Odenwald, M. Hauser

    This paper is devoted to studying the CIB through its correlation properties. We studied the limits on CIB anisotropy in the near IR (1.25, 2.2, and 3.5 \um, or $J,\;K,\;L$) bands at a scale of 0.7° using the COBE\footnote{ The National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) is responsible for the design, development, an

  68. A. Kashlinsky, J. C. Mather, S. Odenwald, M. Hauser

    The cosmic infrared background from galaxies should have a minimum fluctuation of the order of 10\% on angular scales probed by the DIRBE (Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment) on board COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer). We present the theoretical basis for the analysis and discuss the all-sky all-wavelengths survey that we conducted. We further show that

  69. A. Kashlinsky, J. C. Mather, S. Odenwald, M. G. Hauser

    We outline a new method for estimating the cosmic infrared background using the spatial and spectral correlation properties of infrared maps. The cosmic infrared background from galaxies should have a minimum fluctuation of the order of 10\% on angular scales of the order of 1°. We show that a linear combination of maps at different wavelengths can greatly r

  70. Alvio Renzini, Angela Bragaglia, Francesco R. Ferraro, Roberto Gilmozzi

    Deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations with WFPC2 of the nearby globular cluster NGC 6752 have allowed us to obtain accurate photometry for the cluster white dwarfs (WD). A sample of local WDs of known trigonometric parallax and mass close to that of the cluster WDs have also been observed with WFPC2. Matching the cluster and the local WD sequences p

  71. Bo-Qiang Ma

    We derive simple relations between the polarized and unpolarized valence quark distributions in a light-cone SU(6) quark-spectator model for nucleons. The explicit x-dependent Wigner rotation effect for the light-flavor quarks is calculated. It is shown that the mass difference between the scalar and vector spectators could reproduce the up and down valence

  72. Neil Turok

    Could cosmic structure have formed by the action of causal physics within the standard hot big bang, or was a prior period of inflation required? Recently there has been some discussion of whether causal sources could reproduce the pattern of Doppler peaks of the standard scale-invariant adiabatic theory. This paper gives a rigorous definition of causality,

  73. Gerald B. Cleaver

    I review how traditional grand unified theories, which require adjoint (or higher representation) Higgs fields for breaking to the standard model, can be contained within string theory. The status (as of January 1996) of the search for stringy free fermionic three generation SO(10) SUSY--GUT models is discussed. Progress in free fermionic classification of b

  74. Giampiero Esposito, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik

    This paper studies the semiclassical approximation of simple supergravity in Riemannian four-manifolds with boundary, within the framework of $ζ$-function regularization. The massless nature of gravitinos, jointly with the presence of a boundary and a local description in terms of potentials for spin ${3\over 2}$, force the background to be totally flat. Fir

  75. Daniel Gottesman

    I develop methods for analyzing quantum error-correcting codes, and use these methods to construct an infinite class of codes saturating the quantum Hamming bound. These codes encode $k=n-j-2$ qubits in $n=2^j$ qubits and correct $t=1$ error.

  76. John Ellis, Douglas Ross

    We discuss the one-loop virtual-sparticle corrections to QCD jet cross sections at large $E_T$ and large dijet invariant masses, with reference to present Tevatron and future LHC collider experiments. We find characteristic peaks and dips in the sparticle threshold region, due to interferences with tree-level QCD diagrams. Their magnitudes may be several per

  77. Carlos J. Camacho, Tone Schanke

    We consider a two-letter self-avoiding (square) lattice heteropolymer model of N_H (out ofN) attracting sites. At zero temperature, permanent links are formed leading to collapse structures for any fraction rho_H=N_H/N. The average chain size scales as R = N^{1/d}F(rho_H) (d is space dimension). As rho_H --> 0, F(rho_H) ~ rho_H^z with z={1/d-nu}=-1/4 for d=2

  78. Marc Dymetman, Max Copperman

    We describe two ``semantically-oriented&#39;&#39; dependency-structure formalisms, U-forms and S-forms. U-forms have been previously used in machine translation as interlingual representations, but without being provided with a formal interpretation. S-forms, which we introduce in this paper, are a scoped version of U-forms, and we define a compositional sem

  79. Andreas Hauck, Lorenz von Smekal, Reinhard Alkofer

    Truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations represent finite subsets of the equations of motion for Green&#39;s functions. Solutions to these non-linear integral equations can account for non-perturbative correlations. We describe the solution to the Dyson-Schwinger equation for the gluon propagator of Landau gauge QCD in the Mandelstam approximation. This involves

  80. A. V. Kisselev, V. A. Petrov

    We argue that the difference between the structure functions corresponding to deep inelastic scattering with and without heavy quarks in the current fragmentation region scales at high Q^2 and fixed (low) x.

  81. Daniel Duffy, Adriana Moreo

    We present mean-field and quantum Monte Carlo results that suggest the existence of an itinerant antiferromagnetic ground state in the half-filled $U-t-t&#39;$ model in two dimensions. In particular, working at $t&#39;/t=-0.2$ we found that antiferromagnetic long range order develops at $U_{c_1}/t\approx 2.5$, while a study of the density of states $N(ω)$ an

  82. J. M. Landsberg

    Let $A=(a^i_j)$ be an orthogonal matrix with no entries zero. Let $B=(b^i_j)$ be the matrix defined by $b^i_j=\frac 1{a^i_j}$. M. Kontsevich conjectured that the rank of $B$ is never equal to three. We interpret this conjecture geometrically and prove it. The geometric statment can be understood as a generalization of the Castelnouvo lemma and Brianchon&#39;

  83. Savely Rabinovich, H. Eduardo Roman, Shlomo Havlin, Armin Bunde

    The probability distribution of random walks on linear structures generated by random walks in $d$-dimensional space, $P_d(r,t)$, is analytically studied for the case $\xi\equiv r/t^{1/4}\ll1$. It is shown to obey the scaling form $P_d(r,t)=\rho(r) t^{-1/2} \xi^{-2} f_d(\xi)$, where $\rho(r)\sim r^{2-d}$ is the density of the chain. Expanding $f_d(\xi)$ in p

  84. Samuel L. Braunstein, John A. Smolin

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