March 2000 arXiv papers — page 13

J. Borg, M. H. Jensen, K. Sneppen, G. Tiana

The thermodynamics of a homopolymeric chain with both Van der Waals and highly-directional hydrogen bond interaction is studied. The effect of hydrogen bonds is to reduce dramatically the entropy of low-lying states and to give raise to long-range order and to conformations displaying secondary structures. For compact polymers a transition is found between h

Bulbul Chakraborty, Lei Gu, Hui Yin

In an effort to understand the glass transition, the kinetics of a spin model with frustration but no quenched randomness has been analyzed. The phenomenology of the spin model is remarkably similiar to that of structural glasses. Analysis of the model suggests that defects play a major role in dictating the dynamics as the glass transition is approached.

R. Knorren, G. Bouzerar, K. H. Bennemann

Using a theory which treats on equal footing transport of excited electrons and electron-phonon scattering, we are able to explain the temperature dependence of the relaxation time in Cu as recently observed by Petek, Nagano, and Ogawa. We show that the unexpected increase of the relaxation time with temperature results from the drastic change of the electro

Sumiyoshi Abe, A. K. Rajagopal

It is shown that the distribution derived from the principle of maximum Tsallis entropy is a superposable Levy-type distribution. Concomitantly, the leading order correction to the limit distribution is also deduced. This demonstration fills an important gap in the derivation of the Levy-stable distribution from the nonextensive statistical framework.

S. Pilla, J. A. Hamida, K. A. Muttalib, N. S. Sullivan

We report combined high sensitivity dielectric constant and heat capacity measurements of pure solid N_2 in the presence of a small external ac electric field in the audio frequency range. We have observed strong field induced aging and memory effects which show that field cooled samples may be prepared in a variety of metastable states leading to a free ene

Christophe Texier, Markus Buttiker

We investigate the effect of incoherent scattering in a Hanbury Brown and Twiss situation with electrons in edge states of a three-terminal conductor submitted to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. The modelization of incoherent scattering is performed by introducing an additional voltage probe through which the current is kept equal to zero which causes

Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira

The Broad Histogram is a method allowing the direct calculation of the energy degeneracy $g(E)$. This quantity is independent of thermodynamic concepts such as thermal equilibrium. It only depends on the distribution of allowed (micro) states along the energy axis, but not on the energy changes between the system and its environment. Once one has obtained $g

C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, A. V. Samoilov, N. Chikumoto

The low-field Bose-glass transition temperature in heavy-ion irradiated Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+d increases progressively with increasing density of irradiation-induced columnar defects, but saturates for densities in excess of 1.5 x10^9 cm^-2. The maximum Bose-glass temperature corresponds to that above which diffusion of two-dimensional pancake vortices between

F. Daerden, V. B. Priezzhev, C. Vanderzande

The scaling properties of waves of topplings in the sandpile model on the Sierpinski gasket are investigated. The exponent describing the asymptotics of the distribution of last waves in an avalanche is found. Predictions for scaling exponents in the forward and backward conditional probabilites for two consecutive waves are given. All predictions were exami

Takeshi Kuwabara, Masao Ogata

A mechanism leading to the spin-triplet superconductivity is proposed based on the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation. The effects of anisotropy in spin fluctuation on the Cooper pairing and on the direction of d vector are examined in the one-band Hubbard model with RPA approximation. The gap equations for the anisotropic case are derived and applied to Sr_

A. R. Hamilton, M. Y. Simmons, M. Pepper, D. A. Ritchie

We have studied the metallic behaviour in low density GaAs hole systems, and Si electron systems, close to the apparent two-dimensional metal-insulator transition. Two observations suggest a semi-classical origin for the metallic-like behaviour. Firstly the strength of the metallic behaviour is almost independent of the symmetry of the confining potential, a

Yue Yu, Qian Niu

We formulate the dynamics of local order parameters by extending the recently developed adiabatic spinwave theory involving the Berry curvature, and derive a formula showing explicitly the role of the Berry phase in determining the spectral form of the low-lying collective modes. For antiferromagnetic spin chains, the Berry phase becomes a topological invari

Jordi Miralda-Escude, Andrew Gould

If the stellar population of the bulge contains black holes formed in the final core collapse of ordinary stars with M \ga 30 M_{\odot}, then about 25,000 stellar mass black holes should have migrated by dynamical friction into the central parsec of the Milky Way, forming a black hole cluster around the central supermassive black hole. These black holes can

John Kormendy, Luis C. Ho

This article discusses stellar dynamical evidence for supermassive black holes in inactive and weakly active galaxies.

Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy

This article gives a brief overview of the direct and indirect evidence in support of the standard paradigm that active galactic nuclei are powered by supermassive black holes.

Chang-Hwan Lee, Insu Yi, Hyun Kyu Lee

We suggest that a neutron star with a strong magnetic field, spiraling into the envelope of a companion star, can generate a ``companion induced SN-like off-center explosion". The strongly magnetized neutron star ("magnetar") is born in a supernova explosion before entering into an expanding envelope of a supergiant companion. If the neutron star

S. LeBohec, I. H. Bond, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley

In 1998 and 1999 the Whipple Observatory 10 m telescope was used to search for diffuse gamma ray emission from the Galactic Plane. No signifiant evidence of emission was found. Assuming the TeV emission profile matches EGRET observations above 1 GeV with a differential spectral index of 2.4, we derive an upper limit of {$\rm {3.0\cdot10^{-8}cm^{-2}s^{-1}sr^{

Pawan Kumar, Alin Panaitescu

We calculate light-curves for Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows when material ejected in the explosion is confined to a jet which propagates in a medium with a power-law density profile. The observed light-curve decay steepens by a factor of $Γ^2$ when an observer sees the edge of the jet. In a uniform density medium the increase in the power-law index ($β$) of the

Michael R. Garcia, Stephen S. Murray, Francis A. Primini, William R. Forman

We report on the first observation of the nuclear region of M31 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The nuclear source seen with the Einstein and ROSAT HRIs is resolved into five point sources. One of these sources is within 1'' of the M31 central super-massive black hole. As compared to the other point sources in M31, this nuclear source has an unus

M. Sean O'Brien, Steven D. Kawaler

Pre-white dwarf (PWD) star evolution can be driven by energy losses from neutrino interactions in the core. Unlike solar neutrinos, these are not the by-product of nuclear fusion, but instead result from electron scattering processes in the hot, dense regions of the PWD core. We show that the observed rate of period change in cool PWD pulsators will constrai

M. Haverkorn, P. Katgert, A. G. de Bruyn

We discuss observations of the linearly polarized component of the diffuse galactic radio background. These observations, with an angular resolution of 4', were made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in 5 frequency bands in the range 341-375 MHz. The linearly polarized intensity P (with polarized brightness temperature going up to 10K)

Li-Zhi Fang, Long-Long Feng

We present a method of measuring galaxy power spectrum based on the multiresolution analysis of the discrete wavelet transformation (DWT). Since the DWT representation has strong capability of suppressing the off-diagonal components of the covariance for selfsimilar clustering, the DWT covariance for popular models of the cold dark matter cosmogony generally

E. Kuulkers, L. A. Antonelli, L. Kuiper, J. S. Kaastra

We discuss the prompt emission of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 990510 and its subsequent X-ray afterglow from 8.0 to 44.3 hrs after the prompt emission, using observations with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor and Narrow Field Instruments on BeppoSAX. In the 40-700 keV band, GRB990510 had a fluence of \~1.9x10^{-5}erg cm^{-2}, whereas it reached a peak flux of ~2.4x

R. Sagar, V. Mohan, A. K. Pandey, S. B. Pandey

The CCD magnitudes in Cousins R and I photometric passbands are determined for GRB 991216 and GRB 991208 afterglows respectively about 1 and about 3 day after trigger of the corresponding gamma-ray bursts. Light curves of the afterglow emissions are obtained by combining the published data with the present measurements in R and I passbands for GRB 991208 and

N. Aghanim, O. Forni

We apply statistical tests, based on the study of thecoefficients in a wavelet decomposition, to a cosmological signal: the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. The latter represent the superposition of primary anisotropy imprints of the initial density perturbations and secondary anisotropies due to photon interactions after recombination. In an

R. H. D. Townsend

A qualitative study of the surface trapping of low-frequency non-radial g-modes in rotating early-type stars is undertaken within the Cowling, adiabatic and traditional approximations. It is demonstrated that, at frequencies below a cut-off, waves cannot be fully trapped within the star, and will leak through the surface. Expressions for the cut-off frequenc

N. Aghanim, C. Balland, J. Silk

Recent studies of galactic nuclei suggest that most galaxies are seeded by super-massive black holes which power the central nucleus. In this picture, the proto-galactic object is likely to have undergone a very active phase during which the surrounding medium was shocked and heated up to very high temperatures. We predict the cosmological effects of this sc

V. N. Lukash, E. V. Mikheeva, V. Müller, A. M. Malinovsky

We propose a $Λ$-inflation model which explains a large fraction of the COBE signal by cosmic gravitational waves. The primordial density perturbations fulfil both the contraints of large-scale microwave background and galaxy cluster normalization. The model is tested against the galaxy cluster power spectrum and the high-multipole angular CMB anisotropy.

Maryvonne Gerin, Thomas G. Phillips

We present new measurements of the ground state fine-structure line of atomic carbon at 492 GHz in a variety of nearby external galaxies, ranging from spiral to irregular, interacting and merging types. In comparison with CO(1-0), the CI(1-0) intensity stays fairly comparable in the different environments, with an average value of the ratio of the line integ

Jun Yokogawa, Biswajit Paul, Masanobu Ozaki, Fumiaki Nagase

The new transient X-ray pulsar XTE J0111.2-7317 was observed with Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA) on 1998 November 18, a few days after its discovery with the Proportional Counter Array onboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The source was detected at a flux level of 3.6x10^-10 erg cm^-2 s^-1 in the 0.7--10.0 keV band, which corres

Timothy R. Bedding

K and M giants show variability on timescales from years down to days and possibly even hours. I discuss the contribution that can be made with high-precision photometry that will be obtained by the MONS Star Trackers. These include observations of flare-like events on Mira variables, and oscillation spectra for K giants and short-period M giants.

Timothy R. Bedding, Hans Kjeldsen

The MONS satellite will have two Star Trackers to sense the spacecraft attitude, and we plan to use them as scientific instruments to perform high-precision photometry of thousands of stars. We briefly describe the current plans for the Star Trackers and their expected capabilities.

George J. Bendo, Joshua E. Barnes

We use Gauss-Hermite functions to study the line of sight velocity distributions in simulated merger remnants. Our sample contains sixteen remnants; eight produced by mergers between disk galaxies of equal mass and eight produced by mergers between disk galaxies with mass ratios of 3:1. The equal-mass mergers display a wide range of kinematic features, inclu

S. I. Blinnikov, E. I. Sorokina

Ultraviolet light curves are calculated for several thermonuclear supernova models using a multifrequency radiation hydrodynamic code. It is found that Chandrasekhar-mass models produce very similar light curves both for detonation and deflagration. Sub-Chandrasekhar-mass models essentially differ from ``normal'' Chandrasekhar ones regarding behaviou

M. R. Villamariz, A. Herrero

We study the effect of microturbulence in the line formation calculations of H and He lines, in the parameter range typical for O and early B stars. We are specially interested in its effect on the determination of stellar parameters: effective temperature, surface gravity and specially on the He abundance. We find that only HeI lines and HeII 4686 are sensi

M. N. Chernodub, F. V. Gubarev, M. I. Polikarpov, V. I. Zakharov

Magnetic monopoles are known to emerge as leading non-perturbative fluctuations in the lattice version of non-Abelian gauge theories in some gauges. In terms of the Dirac quantization condition, these monopoles have magnetic charge |Q_M|=2. Also, magnetic monopoles with |Q_M|=1 can be introduced on the lattice via the 't Hooft loop operator. We consider

Masayuki Asakawa, Ulrich Heinz, Berndt Muller

The size of the average fluctuations of net baryon number and electric charge in a finite volume of hadronic matter differs widely between the confined and deconfined phases. These differences may be exploited as indicators of the formation of a quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, because fluctuations created in the initial state survive

S. Jeon, V. Koch

In this letter we argue that the event-by-event fluctuations of the ratio of the positively charged and the negatively charged pions provides a signal of quark-gluon plasma. The fact that quarks carry fractional charges is ultimately responsible for this distinct signal.

Vijay Balasubramanian, Eric Gimon, Djordje Minic

We show that if the beta functions of a field theory are given by the gradient of a certain potential on the space of couplings, a gravitational background in one more dimension can express the renormalization group (RG) flow of the theory. The field theory beta functions and the gradient flow constraint together reconstruct the second order spacetime equati

Wei Cui

For all sources in which the phenomenon of kilo-Hertz quasi-periodic oscillation (kHz QPO) is observed, the QPOs disappear abruptly when the inferred mass accretion rate exceeds a certain threshold. Although the threshold cannot at present be accurately determined (or even quantified) observationally, it is clearly higher for bright Z sources than for faint

Youngjai Kiem, Sangmin Lee

We explicitly evaluate one-loop (annulus) planar and nonplanar open string amplitudes in the presence of the background NS-NS two-form field. In the decoupling limit of Seiberg and Witten, we find that the nonplanar string amplitudes reproduce the UV/IR mixing of noncommutative field theories. In particular, the investigation of the UV regime of the open str

Vasili Perebeinos, Philip B. Allen, M. Weinert

The atomic and electronic structure of the lowest triplet state of the off-center (C2v symmetry) self-trapped exciton (STE) in crystalline NaCl is calculated using the local-spin-density (LSDA) approximation. In addition, the Franck-Condon broadening of the luminescence peak and the a1g -> b3u absorption peak are calculated and compared to experiment. LSDA a

E. Farhi, N. Graham, R. L. Jaffe, H. Weigel

We find static solitons stabilized by quantum corrections in a (1+1)-dimensional model with a scalar field chirally coupled to fermions. This model does not support classical solitons. We compute the renormalized energy functional including one-loop quantum corrections. We carry out a variational search for a configuration that minimizes the energy functiona

Paul Benioff

This paper represents one approach to making explicit some of the assumptions and conditions implied in the widespread representation of numbers by composite quantum systems. Any nonempty set and associated operations is a set of natural numbers or a model of arithmetic if the set and operations satisfy the axioms of number theory or arithmetic. This work is

D. C. Johnston, R. K. Kremer, M. Troyer, X. Wang

The magnetic susceptibility chi and specific heat C versus temperature T of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic alternating-exchange (J1 and J2) Heisenberg chain are studied for the entire range 0 \leq alpha \leq 1 of the alternation parameter alpha = J2/J1. For the uniform chain (alpha = 1), detailed comparisons of the high-accuracy chi(T) and C(T) Bethe ansatz

F. E. Burstall

We give an account of the classical and integrable geometry of isothermic surfaces in arbitrary co-dimension. We show that the classical transformation theory of Darboux, Bianchi and Calapso goes through unchanged in arbitrary co-dimension as does the connection with the "curved flats" of Ferus and Pedit. Moreover, we identify Darboux transformations

M. Scandurra

We present a calculation of the ground state energy of massive spinor fields and massive scalar fields in the background of an inhomogeneous magnetic string with potential given by a delta function. The zeta functional regularization is used and the lowest heat kernel coefficients are calculated. The rest of the analytical calculation adopts the Jost functio

Anthony Chefles, Claire R. Gilson, Stephen M. Barnett

We show how shared entanglement, together with classical communication and local quantum operations, can be used to perform an arbitrary collective quantum operation upon N spatially-separated qubits. A simple teleportation-based protocol for achieving this, which requires 2(N-1) ebits of shared, bipartite entanglement and 4(N-1) classical bits, is proposed.

Frank Ferrari

I point out that standard two dimensional, asymptotically free, non-linear sigma models, supplemented with terms giving a mass to the would-be Goldstone bosons, share many properties with four dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories, and are tractable even in the non-supersymmetric cases. The space of mass parameters gets quantum corrections analogous to w

Pablo A. Ferrari, Marco D. Gubitoso, E. Jordao Neves

Reconstruction of images corrupted by noise is an important problem in Image Analysis. In the standard Bayesian approach the unknown original image is assumed to be a realization of a Markov random field on a finite two dimensional finite region. This image is degraded by some noise, which acts independently in each site of and has the same distribution on a

Alfons J. Buchmann, Richard F. Lebed

We show how one may define baryon constituent quarks in a rigorous manner, given physical assumptions that hold in the large-N_c limit of QCD. This constituent picture gives rise to an operator expansion that has been used to study large-N_c baryon observables; here we apply it to the case of charge radii of the N and Delta states, using minimal dynamical as

E. V. Orlov, A. I. Sokolov

The RG functions of the 2D $n$-vector $ϕ^4$ model are calculated in the five-loop approximation. Perturbative series for the $β$ function and critical exponents are resummed by the Pade-Borel and Pade-Borel-Leroy techniques, resummation procedures are optimized and an accuracy of the numerical results is estimated. In the Ising case $n = 1$ as well as in the

Gunnar S. Bali, Bram Bolder, Norbert Eicker, Thomas Lippert

We calculate glueball and torelon masses as well as the lowest lying hybrid potential in addition to the static ground state potential in lattice simulations of QCD with two flavours of dynamical Wilson fermions. The results are obtained on lattices with $16^3\times 32$ and $24^3\times 40$ sites at $β=5.6$, corresponding to a lattice spacing, $a^{-1}=2.65^{+

J. G. Koerner, F. Krajewski, A. A. Pivovarov

We present an analysis of the m_s^2-corrections to Cabibbo-suppressed tau lepton decays employing contour improved resummation within an effective scheme which is an essential new feature as compared to previous analyses. The whole perturbative QCD dynamics of the tau-system is described by the beta-function of the effective coupling constant and by two gamm

Taro Kotani, Ken Ebisawa, Tadayasu Dotani, Hajime Inoue

We have discovered errors in the calculation of some of the Einstein coefficients in Table 5 and some plots in Figure 3. Due to the errors, the square-root section of the curves of growth of Fe xxvi Ka and Kb, and Ni xxviii Ka in Figure 3 were a few times underestimated. We correct Table 5 and re-plot Figure 3 together with the unaffected curves. The program

Srubabati Goswami, Debasish Majumdar, Amitava Raychaudhuri

We re-examine MSW solutions of the solar neutrino problem in a two flavor scenario taking (a) the results on total rates and the electron energy spectrum from the 1117-day SuperKamiokande (SK) data and (b) those on total rates from the Chlorine and Gallium experiments. We find that the SMA solution gives the best fit to the total rates data from the differen

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

Using the exceptional long-term monitoring capabilities of the MACHO project, we present here the optical history of LMC X-2 for a continuous 6-yr period. These data were used to investigate the previously claimed periodicities for this source of 8.15 h and 12.54 d : we find upper amplitude limits of 0.10 mag and 0.09 mag, respectively.

Li Gang Jin, Chong Sheng Li, Robert J. Oakes, Shou Hua Zhu

We calculate the $O(α_{ew}m_{t(b)}^{2}/m_{W}^{2})$ and $O(α_{ew} m_{t(b)}^4/m_W^4)$ supersymmetric electroweak corrections to the cross section for the charged Higgs boson production in association with a top quark at the Tevatron and the LHC. These corrections arise from the quantum effects which are induced by potentially large Yukawa couplings from the Hi

P. P. Avelino, C. J. A. P. Martins

We consider the evolution of domain walls produced during an anisotropic phase in the very early universe, showing that the resulting network can be very anisotropic. If the domain walls are produced during an inflationary era, the network will soon freeze out in comoving coordinates retaining the imprints of the anisotropic regime, even though inflation mak

Michael P. Muno, Derek W. Fox, Edward H. Morgan, Lars Bildsten

We present an analysis of the nine type I X-ray bursts that were observed from KS 1731-260 with RXTE. We find that the bursts divide naturally into two populations: ``fast bursts'' occur on the Banana Branch when the accretion rate is high and exhibit short decay times, high peak fluxes, and radius expansion episodes. ``Slow bursts'' occur in

W. A. Hofer

We propose a new structure of ensembles in quantum theory, based on the recently introduced intrinsic properties of electrons and photons. On this statistical basis the spreading of a wave-packet, collapse of the wave function, the quantum eraser, and interaction-free measurements are re-analyzed and the usual conceptual problems removed.

Jinhyoung Lee, M. S. Kim, Y. J. Park, S. Lee

Partial teleportation of entanglement is to teleport one particle of an entangled pair through a quantum channel. This is conceptually equivalent to quantum swapping. We consider the partial teleportation of entanglement in the noisy environment, employing the Werner-state representation of the noisy channel for the simplicity of calculation. To have the ins

Tohya Hiroshima, Satoshi Ishizaka

We consider a special kind of mixed states -- a {\it Werner derivative}, which is the state transformed by nonlocal unitary -- local or nonlocal -- operations from a Werner state. We show the followings. (i) The amount of entanglement of Werner derivatives cannot exceed that of the original Werner state. (ii) Although it is generally possible to increase the

Victor V. Kulagin

The sensitivity of the displacement transducer pumped with a train of high-intensity laser pulses is estimated. Due to the multicomponent character of the pump a consideration of transformations of the signal and the noises between optical modes plays an important role in estimation of the potential sensitivity. An expression for the minimal detectable exter

Jan M. L. Martin

A benchmark study has been carried out on the ground-state potential curve of the hydroxyl anion, OH^{-}, including detailed calibration of both the 1-particle and n-particle basis sets. The CCSD(T) basis set limit overestimates $ω_e$ by about 10 cm^{-1}, which is only remedied by inclusion of connected quadruple excitations in the coupled cluster expansion

A. E. Carlsson

The process of force generation by the growth of biopolymers is simulated via a Langevin-dynamics approach. The interaction forces are taken to have simple forms that favor the growth of straight fibers from solution. The force-velocity relation is obtained from the simulations for two versions of the monomer-monomer force field. It is found that the growth

L. Frappat, A. Sciarrino, P. Sorba

New developments are presented in the framework of the model introduced by the authors in refs. [1,2] and in which nucleotides as well as codons are classified in crystal bases of the quantum group U_q(sl(2)+sl(2)) in the limit q -> 0. An operator which gives the correspondence between the amino-acids and the codons is now obtained for any known genetic code

L. Ya. Kobelev

Why in our Universe the laws of thermodynamics are valid? In the paper is demonstrated the reason of it: if the time and the space are multifractal and the Universe is in an equilibrium state the laws of the thermodynamics are consequences of it's multifractal structure.

L. Ya. Kobelev, L. L. Nugaeva

A phenomenological theory of growth of the population of humankind is proposed. The theory based on the assumption about a multifractal nature of the set of number of people in temporal axis and contains control parameters. In particular cases the theory coincide with known Kapitza, Foerster, Hoerner phenomenological theories.

Yukio Shibata, Satoshi Sasaki, Kimihiro Ishi, Mikihiko Ikezawa

In this paper the main consequences of the vector theory of excitation of resonators by particle beams are presented. Some features of excitation of broadband radiation in longitudinal modes of the enclosed and open resonators are discussed.

B. L. Birbrair, V. I. Ryazanov

The correlation effects in nuclei owing to which the nuclear wave functions are different from the Slater determinants are studied on the basis of the original theory. The calculated numbers of nucleons out of the nuclear Fermi-surface are in reasonable agreement with the finding from the high-momentum components of the nucleon momentum distributions in nucl

Kurt Broderix, Dirk Hundertmark, Hajo Leschke

The objects of the present study are one-parameter semigroups generated by Schrödinger operators with fairly general electromagnetic potentials. More precisely, we allow scalar potentials from the Kato class and impose on the vector potentials only local Kato-like conditions. The configuration space is supposed to be an arbitrary open subset of multi-dimensi

Kai Kratzert

We give an introduction to the techniques from microlocal analysis that have successfully been applied in the investigation of Hadamard states of free quantum field theories on curved spacetimes. The calculation of the wave front set of the two point function of the free Klein-Gordon field in a Hadamard state is reviewed, and the polarization set of a Hadama

O. M. Kiselev

An asymptotic behaviour of solution of Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-2 equation is obtained as $t\to\infty$ uniformly with respect to spatial variables.

Sergei Ivashkovich, Bernard Shiffman

We prove that a meromorphic map defined on the complement of a compact subset of a three-dimensional Stein manifold M and with values in a compact complex three-fold X extends to the complement of a finite set of points. If X is simply connected, then the map extends to all of M.

Yuval Z. Flicker

The torsor P_s=Hom(H_{\DR},H_s) under the motivic Galois group G_s=Aut H_s of the Tannakian category M_k generated by one-motives related by absolute Hodge cycles over a field k with an embedding s into the complex numbers is shown to be determined by its global projection [P_s\to (P_s)/(G_s)^0] to a Gal(\ov k/k)-torsor, and by its localizations (P_s) x_k (k

Jan Snellman

We associate to each $r$-multigraded, locally finitely generated ideal in the "large polynomial ring" on countably many indeterminates a power series in $r$ variables; this power series is the limit in the adic topology of the numerators of the rational functions which give the Hilbert series of the truncations of the ideal. We characterise the set o

O. E. Tikhonov, L. V. Veselova

We prove that an interpolation pair of Banach lattices is uniquely determined by the collection of intermediate spaces with the property that these are interpolation spaces for positive operators. A correspondent result for exact interpolation is also presented.

Ziv Ran

For a semistable reflexive sheaf $E$ of rank $r$ and $c_1=a$ on $¶^n$ and an integer $d$ such that $r|ad$, we give sufficient conditions so that the restriction of $E$ on a generic rational curve of degree $d$ is balanced, i.e. a twist of the trivial bundle (for instance, if $E$ has balanced restriction on a generic line, or $r=2$ or $E$ is an exterior power

V. I. Shevchenko

The modification of classical dynamics of abelian confining theory by virtue of quantum Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen strings is discussed taking D=4 abelian Higgs model as an example. The form of string corrections to the Wilson loop correlators, gauge boson propagator, effective potential is presented and possible relations to abelian projected QCD are outlined

José M. Gracia-Bondía

Vacuum polarization in external fields is treated by way of calculating - exactly and then perturbatively - the phase of the quantum scattering matrix in the Shale-Stinespring approach to field theory. The link between the Shale-Stinespring method and the Epstein-Glaser renormalization procedure is highlighted.

Thibault Damour, Marc Henneaux

It is shown that the general solution near a spacelike singularity of the Einstein-dilaton-p-form field equations relevant to superstring theories and M-theory exhibits an oscillatory behaviour of the Belinskii-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz type. String dualities play a significant role in the analysis.

Joseph Polchinski, Matthew J. Strassler

We study N=1 gauge theories obtained by adding finite mass terms to N=4 Yang-Mills theory. The Maldacena dual is nonsingular: in each of the many vacua, there is an extended brane source, arising from Myers' dielectric effect. The source consists of one or more (p,q) 5-branes. In particular, the confining vacuum contains an NS5-brane; the confining flux

Leonard S. Kisslinger

We introduce a model for nucleons with correlators that include the propagation of pseudo Goldstone bosons as well as the standard correlators for nucleons used in QCD sum rules. From the comparison with experimental nucleon magnetic dipole moments we estimate the probability of a pion cloud in a nucleon. The masses obtained from the sum rules are almost ind

Christopher Kolda, Hitoshi Murayama

We study the theoretical correlation between the Higgs mass of the minimal standard model and the scale at which new physics is expected to occur. In addition to the classic constraints of unitarity, triviality and vacuum stability, we reexamine the constraints imposed by the precision electroweak data. We then pay particular attention to the constraint impo

Ram Brustein, David H. Oaknin

A cosmological pseudoscalar field coupled to hypercharge topological number density can exponentially amplify hyperelectric and hypermagnetic fields in the symmetric phase of the electroweak plasma while coherently rolling or oscillating, leading to the formation of a condensate of topological number density. The topological number can be converted, under ce

Sidney A. Bludman

For a flat universe presently dominated by static or dynamic vacuum energy, cosmological constant (LCDM) or quintessence (QCDM), we calculate the asymptotic collapsed mass fraction as function of the present ratio of smooth energy to matter energy $\rat=(1-\omm)/\omm$. Identifying these collapsed fractions as anthropic probabilities, we find the observed pre

B. Ananthanarayan

Model independent constraints on supersymmetric models emerge when certain couplings are drawn towards their infra-red (quasi) fixed points in the course of their renormalization group evolution. The general principles are first reviewed and the conclusions for some recent studies of theories with R-parity and baryon and lepton number violations are summariz

M. Czakon, M. Zralek, J. Gluza

The possibility of determining the neutrino nature is considered in view of the most recent experimental observations. The analysis combines schemes with three and four neutrinos.The data on oscillations is put together with that from the search of neutrinoless double beta decay and results on tritium beta decay. All solar neutrino oscillation solutions are

K. Zuber

The rare kaon decay $K^+ \ra π^- μ^+ μ^+$ is violating lepton number by two units and is investigated within the context of Majorana neutrino masses. Using a new upper bound for this decay from E865 an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass term $\m_{μμ} < 500$ GeV could be obtained. This is improving existing bounds by about one order of magnitude. Impl

T. Gehrmann

We demonstrate that the angular distribution of hadrons produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic final states is related to the inclusive longitudinal structure function. This relation could provide a new method of accessing $F_L(x,Q^2)$ in deep inelastic scattering measurements.

Y. -Y. Keum

We discuss new physics search within the minimal supergravity model by using a possible large direct CP asymmetry in $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm}ϕ, K^{0}π^{\pm}$ decays and B meson rare decays.

V. Barger, C. E. M. Wagner

We present an analysis of the discovery reach for supersymmetric particles at the upgraded Tevatron collider, assuming that SUSY breaking results in universal soft breaking parameters at the grand unification scale, and that the lightest supersymmetric particle is stable and neutral. We first present a review of the literature, including the issues of unific

L3 Collaboration

The tau lepton lifetime is measured with the L3 detector at LEP using the complete data taken at centre-of-mass energies around the Z pole resulting in tau_tau = 293.2 +/- 2.0 (stat) +/- 1.5 (syst) fs. The comparison of this result with the muon lifetime supports lepton universality of the weak charged current at the level of six per mille. Assuming lepton u

F. Boehm, J. Busenitz, B. Cook, G. Gratta

The $\nuebar$ flux and spectrum have been measured at a distance of about 800 m from the reactors of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station using a segmented Gd-loaded liquid scintillator detector. Correlated positron-neutron events from the reaction $\nuebar$p$\to$e^+n were recorded for a period of 200 d including 55 d with one of the three reactors off

Th. Ziegler

Recent investigations of final state interactions of W+W- events in e+e- collisions up to center of mass energies sqrt{S}=189GeV at LEP2 are reviewed. The data were used to look for color reconnection and Bose-Einstein correlations between the two color singlets of fully hadronic W events.

H1 Collaboration, C. Adloff

Cross sections for elastic photoproduction of J/Psi and Upsilon mesons are presented. For J/Psi mesons the dependence on the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy W_gammap is analysed in an extended range with respect to previous measurements of 26<=W_gammap<= 285 GeV. The measured energy dependence is parameterized as sigma_gammap proportional W_gammap^delta

E787 Collaboration

We report the first measurement of a structure dependent component in the decay K^+ -> mu^+ nu gamma. Using the kinematic region where the muon kinetic energy is greater than 137 MeV and the photon energy is greater than 90 MeV, we find that the absolute value of the sum of the vector and axial-vector form factors is |F_V+F_A| =0.165 \pm 0.007 \pm 0.011. Thi

Bernard F Schutz

Gravity is one of the fundamental forces of Nature, and it is the dominant force in most astronomical systems. In common with all other phenomena, gravity must obey the principles of special relativity. In particular, gravitational forces must not be transmitted or communicated faster than light. This means that when the gravitational field of an object chan

W. Rudnicki, P. Zieba

It has been suggested by Israel that the Kerr singularity cannot be strong in the sense of Tipler, for it tends to cause repulsive effects. We show here that, contrary to that suggestion, nearly all null geodesics reaching this singularity do in fact terminate in Tipler&#39;s strong curvature singularity. Implications of this result are discussed in the cont