June 2002 arXiv papers — page 14

Jennifer Schultens

We describe a class of genus 2 closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds of arbitrarily large volume.

Gregory S. Warrington

Let w_0 denote the permutation [n,n-1,...,2,1]. We give two new explicit formulae for the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials P_{w_0w,w_0x} in S_n when x is a maximal element in the singular locus of the Schubert variety X_w. To do this, we utilize a standard identity that relates P_{x,w} and P_{w_0w,w_0x}.

William J. Martin, Bruce E. Sagan

Let $Ω=\{1,2,...,n\}$ where $n \ge 2$. The {\em shape} of an ordered set partition $P=(P_1,..., P_k)$ of $Ω$ is the integer partition $λ=(λ_1,...,λ_k)$ defined by $λ_i = |P_i|$. Let G be a group of permutations acting on $Ω$. For a fixed partition $λ$ of n, we say that G is {\em $λ$-transitive} if G has only one orbit when acting on partitions P of shape $\l

Bernard Shiffman, Steve Zelditch

We consider ensembles of random polynomials of the form $p(z)=\sum_{j = 1}^N a_j P_j$ where $\{a_j\}$ are independent complex normal random variables and where $\{P_j\}$ are the orthonormal polynomials on the boundary of a bounded simply connected analytic plane domain $Ω\subset C$ relative to an analytic weight $ρ(z) |dz|$. In the simplest case where $Ω$ is

Martino Prizzi

We prove the existence of a compact L^2-H^1 attractor for a reaction-diffusion equation in R^n. This improves a previous result of B. Wang concerning the existence of a compact L^2-L^2 attractor for the same equation.

F. Antoci, M. Prizzi

We consider a family of non-autonomous reaction-diffusion equations with almost periodic, rapidly oscillating principal part and nonlinear interactions. As the frequency of the oscillations tends to infinity, we prove that the solutions of the non-autonomous equations converge to the solutions of the autonomous averaged equation. If the nonlinearity is dissi

Hitoshi Murakami, Jun Murakami, Miyuki Okamoto, Toshie Takata

R.M. Kashaev conjectured that the asymptotic behavior of his link invariant, which equals the colored Jones polynomial evaluated at a root of unity, determines the hyperbolic volume of any hyperbolic link complement. We observe numerically that for knots $6_3$, $8_9$ and $8_{20}$ and for the Whitehead link, the colored Jones polynomials are related to the hy

J. Besprosvany

Unification ideas motivate the formulation of field equations on an extended spin space. Demanding that the Poincare symmetry be maintained, one derives scalar symmetries that are associated with flavor and gauge groups. Boson and fermion solutions are obtained with a fixed representation. A field theory can be equivalently written and interpreted in terms o

M. Cvetic, G. W. Gibbons, H. Lu, C. N. Pope

We review the construction of regular p-brane solutions of M-theory and string theory with less than maximal supersymmetry whose transverse spaces have metrics with special holonomy, and where additional fluxes allow for brane resolutions via transgression terms. We summarize properties of resolved M2-branes and fractional D2-branes, whose transverse spaces

Bo Feng, Amihay Hanany, Yang Hui He, Amer Iqbal

Quiver theories arising on D3-branes at orbifold and del Pezzo singularities are studied using mirror symmetry. We show that the quivers for the orbifold theories are given by the soliton spectrum of massive 2d N=2 theory with weighted projective spaces as target. For the theories obtained from the del Pezzo singularities we show that the geometry of the mir

M. Cvetic, G. W. Gibbons, H. Lu, C. N. Pope

We construct explicit cohomogeneity two metrics of G_2 holonomy, which are foliated by twistor spaces. The twistor spaces are S^2 bundles over four-dimensional Bianchi IX Einstein metrics with self-dual (or anti-self-dual) Weyl tensor. Generically the 4-metric is of triaxial Bianchi IX type, with SU(2) isometry. We derive the first-order differential equatio

W. Siegel

We give some supersymmetric wave solutions, both chiral (selfdual) and nonchiral, to interacting supersymmetric theories in four dimensions.

J. M. Drummond, P. S. Howe, U. Lindstrom

A superembedding construction of general non-abelian Born-Infeld actions in three dimensions is described. These actions have rigid target space and local worldvolume supersymmetry(i.e. kappa symmetry). The standard abelian Born-Infeld gauge multiplet is augmented with an additional worldvolume SU(N) gauge supermultiplet. It is shown how to construct single-

David Langlois, Lorenzo Sorbo, Maria Rodriguez-Martinez

We study in a self-consistent way the impact of the emission of bulk gravitons on the (homogeneous) cosmology of a three-brane embedded in a five-dimensional spacetime. In the low energy regime, we recover the well known result that the bulk affects the Friedmann equation only via a radiation-like term $\C/a^4$, called dark or Weyl radiation. By contrast, in

M. Reuter, F. Saueressig

Motivated by the conjecture that the cosmological constant problem could be solved by strong quantum effects in the infrared we use the exact flow equation of Quantum Einstein Gravity to determine the renormalization group behavior of a class of nonlocal effective actions. They consist of the Einstein-Hilbert term and a general nonlinear function F(k, V) of

A. Holfter, M. Paschke

Spectral triples describe and generalize Riemannian spin geometries by converting the geometrical information into algebraic data, which consist of an algebra $A$, a Hilbert space $H$ carrying a representation of $A$ and the Dirac operator $D$ (a selfadjoint operator acting on $H$). The gravitational action is described by the trace of a suitable function of

Neda Sadooghi, Mojtaba Mohammadi

In the first part of this work, a perturbative analysis up to one-loop order is carried out to determine the one-loop $β$-function of noncommutative U(1) gauge theory with matter fields in the adjoint representation. In the second part, the conformal anomaly of the same theory is calculated using the Fujikawa's path integral method. The value of the one-

Gary W. Gibbons, Daisuke Ida, Tetsuya Shiromizu

We prove the uniqueness of higher dimensional (dilatonic) charged black holes in static and asymptotically flat spacetimes for arbitrary vector-dilaton coupling constant. An application to the uniqueness of a wide class of black p-branes is also given.

Peter Woit

A sketch is given of a circle of ideas relating quantum field theories with representation theory. The main mathematical ingredients are spinor geometry and the gauge group equivariant K-theory of the space of connections.

John C. Baez

Electromagnetism can be generalized to Yang-Mills theory by replacing the group U(1)$ by a nonabelian Lie group. This raises the question of whether one can similarly generalize 2-form electromagnetism to a kind of "higher-dimensional Yang-Mills theory". It turns out that to do this, one should replace the Lie group by a "Lie 2-group", which

J. Striet, F. A. Bais

This paper has been withdrawn by the author(s), see hep-th/0205152.

Masato Ito

We study the value of cosmological constant in de Sitter brane embedded in five dimensions with positive, vanishing and negative bulk cosmological constant. In the case of negative bulk cosmological constant, we show that not zero but tiny four-dimensional cosmological constant can be realized by tiny deviation from bulk curvature of the Randall-Sundrum mode

H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, A. Dietz, G. Heusser, I. V. Krivosheina

The Heidelberg Dark Matter Search (HDMS) is an experiment designed for the search for WIMP dark matter. It is using a special configuration of Ge detectors, to efficiently reduce the background in the low-energy region below 100 keV. After one year of running the HDMS detector prototype in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory, the inner crystal of the detec

Ernest Ma, D. P. Roy

A heavy triplet of leptons $(Σ^+, Σ^0, Σ^-)_R$ per family is proposed as the possible anchor of a small seesaw neutrino mass. A new U(1) gauge symmetry is then also possible, and the associated gauge boson $X$ may be discovered at or below the TeV scale. We discuss the phenomenology of this proposal, with and without possible constraints from the NuTeV and a

I. V. Krivosheina

The new project GENIUS will cover a wide range of the parameter space of predictions of SUSY for neutralinos as cold dark matter. Further it has the potential to be a real-time detector for low-energy (pp and 7Be) solar neutrinos. A GENIUS Test Facility has just been funded and will come into operation by end of 2002.

D. F. Carvalho, J. Ellis, M. E. Gomez, S. Lola

We consider sparticle decays that violate tau lepton number, motivated by neutrino oscillation data. We work in the context of the constrained minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (CMSSM), in which the different sleptons have identical masses at the GUT scale, and neutrino Dirac Yukawa couplings mix them. We find that the branching ratio fo

N. Timneanu, R. Enberg, G. Ingelman

We briefly present the soft colour interaction models which are successful in reproducing a multitude of diffractive hard scattering data, and give predictions for diffractive Higgs production at the Tevatron and LHC. Only a few diffractive Higgs events may be produced at the Tevatron, but we predict a substantial rate at the LHC.

Thomas Barford, Michael C. Birse

We apply renormalisation-group methods to two-body scattering by a combination of known long-range and unknown short-range potentials. We impose a cut-off in the basis of distorted waves of the long-range potential and identify possible fixed points of the short-range potential as this cut-off is lowered to zero. The expansions around these fixed points defi

V. L. Chernyak

The method used and results obtained are described for calculation of the cross section for the pion diffractive dissociation into two jets. The main new qualitative result is that the distribution of longitudinal momenta for jets is not simply proportional to the profile of the pion wave function $ϕ_π(x)$, but depends on it in a complicated way. In particul

Junegone Chay, Chul Kim

We consider effects of symmetries on renormalization properties of the collinear effective theory. We investigate which types of operators are possible in the effective theory satisfying gauge invariance, reparameterization invariance and residual energy invariance. Each symmetry puts a constraint on the possible structure of the theory, and there can appear

M. Uehara

We study how the scalar f_0(980) and a_0(980) states are produced in the two-photon collisions and radiative decays of the phi meson through unitarized Born amplitudes with the charged pion and kaon loops followed by S-wave meson-meson scattering amplitudes. We found in a previous paper that f_0(980) is generated as the bound state resonance, but a_0(980) as

J. Q. Zhang, X. C. Song, W. J. Huo, T. F. Feng

In an effective lagrangian approach [EM97] to new physics, the authors in ref. [HL99] pushed tau anomalous magnetic and electric dipole moments (AMDM and EDM) down to $10^{-11}$ and $10^{-25} e cm$ by using a Fritzsch-Xing lepton mass matrix ansatz. In this note, we find that, in this approach, there exists the connection between $τ$ AMDM and EDM and the lep

Ernest Ma

Consider the addition of a right-handed SU(2) fermion multiplet (with neither color nor hypercharge) to each family of quarks and leptons. The resultant theory admits a new U(1) gauge symmetry only if the additional multiplet is a singlet $N_R$, which corresponds to the well-known case of $U(1)_{B-L}$, or a triplet $(Σ^+, Σ^0, Σ^-)$, which corresponds to the

I. G. Irastorza, A. Morales, S. Scopel, S. Cebrian

The CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) experiment projects to construct and operate an array of 1000 cryogenic thermal detectors of a mass of 760 g each to investigate rare events physics, in particular, double beta decay and non baryonic particle dark matter. A first step towards CUORE is CUORICINO, an array of 56 of such bolometers,

UKQCD Collaboration, A. M. Green, J. Koponen, P. Pennanen

A knowledge of the radial distributions of quarks inside hadrons could lead to a better understanding of the QCD description of these hadrons and possibly suggest forms for phenomenological models. As a step in this direction, in an earlier work, the charge (vector) and matter (scalar) radial distributions of heavy-light mesons were measured in the quenched

Sinya Aoki, Taku Izubuchi, Yoshinobu Kuramashi, Yusuke Taniguchi

We evaluate renormalization factors of the domain-wall fermion system with various improved gauge actions at one loop level. The renormalization factors are calculated for quark wave function, quark mass, bilinear quark operators, three- and four-quark operators in modified minimal subtraction (MS-bar) scheme with the dimensional reduction(DRED) as well as t

Vitaliano Ciulli

The status of results on forward-backward asymmetry in Z -> bbbar decays is reviewed. A comparison of LEP measurements, with emphasis on the final ALEPH measurement with leptons, and a critical discussion of average from heavy flavour electroweak combination is presented.

A. K. Ichikawa

The KEK to Kamioka long-baseline neutrino experiment (K2K) is the first accelerator-based experiment with hundreds of km neutrino path length. K2K focuses on the study of the existence of neutrino oscillations in $ν_μ$ disappearance that is observed in atmospheric neutrinos. With nearly pure muon neutrino beam produced with $5.6\times 10^{19}$ protons from 1

Jian-Miin Liu

We propose a new test of Einstein's theory of gravitation. It concerns the velocity distribution of low-energy particles in a spherically symmetric gravitational field.

D. Baleanu, S. Baskal

A possible generalization of plane fronted waves with parallel rays (gpp-wave) fall into a more general class of metrics admitting parallel null 1-planes. For gpp-wave metric, the zero-curvature condition is given, the Killing-Yano tensors of order two and three are found and the corresponding Killing tensors are constructed. Henceforth, the compatibility be

Ath. Kehagias

Given a reference lattice, we define fuzzy intervals to be the fuzzy sets such that their p-cuts are crisp closed intervals. We show that: given a complete reference lattice, the collection of its fuzzy intervals is a complete lattice. Furthermore we show that: if the reference lattice is completely distributive then the lattice of its fuzzy intervals is dis

Pui-Man Lam

We investigate the effects excluded volume on the stretching of a single DNA in solution. We find that for small force F, the extension h is not linear in F but proportion to F^χ, with χ=(1-ν)/ν, where νis the well-known universal correlation length exponent. A freely joint chain model with the segment length chosen to reproduce the small extension behavior

Kay-Yut Chen, Leslie R. Fine, Bernardo A. Huberman

We present a novel methodology for identifying public knowledge and eliminating the biases it creates when aggregating information in small group settings. A two stage mechanism consisting of an information market and a coordination game is used to reveal and adjust for individuals' public information. A nonlinear aggregation of their decisions then allo

Denis Dalidovich, Philip Phillips

We analyze here the behavior of the Hall conductivity $σ_{xy}$ near a $z=2$ insulator-superconductor quantum critical point in a perpendicular magnetic field. We show that the form of the conductivity is sensitive to the presence of dissipation $η$, and depends non-monotonically on $H$ once $η$ is weak enough. $σ_{xy}$ passes through a maximum at $H \sim ηT$

Andrea Marini, Rodolfo Del Sole, Giovanni Onida

We show that the position and width of the plasmon resonance in Silver are correctly predicted by ab--initio calculations including self--energy effects within the GW approximation. Unlike in simple metals and semiconductors, quasiparticle corrections play a key role and are essential to obtain Electron Energy Loss in quantitative agreement with the experime

Z. G. Yu, M. E. Flatte

In semiconductor spintronic devices, the semiconductor is usually lightly doped and nondegenerate, and moderate electric fields can dominate the carrier motion. We recently derived a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in the semiconductors by consistently taking into account electric-field effects and nondegenerate electron statistics and identif

Richard P. Sear

A simple analytic theory for mixtures of hard spheres and larger polymers with excluded volume interactions is developed. The mixture is shown to exhibit extensive immiscibility. For large polymers with strong excluded volume interactions, the density of monomers at the critical point for demixing decreases as one over the square root of the length of the po

J. -H. Park, J. T. Culp, D. W. Hall, D. R. Talham

Using a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) synthesis method, novel two-dimensional (2D) mixed-spin magnetic systems, in which each magnetic layer is both structurally and magnetically isolated, have been generated. Specifically, a 2D Fe-Ni cyanide-bridged network with a face-centered square grid structure has been magnetically and structurally characterized. The results

J. Soriano, J. J. Ramasco, M. A. Rodriguez, A. Hernandez-Machado

The kinetic roughening of a stable oil--air interface, moving in a Hele--Shaw cell which contains a quenched columnar disorder (tracks) has been studied. A capillary effect is responsible for the dynamic evolution of the resulting rough interface, which exhibits anomalous scaling. The three independent exponents needed to characterize the anomalous scaling a

J. Heinrichs

We study localization in two- and three channel quasi-1D systems using multichain tight-binding Anderson models with nearest-neighbour interchain hopping. In the three chain case we discuss both the case of free- and that of periodic boundary conditions between the chains. The finite disordered wires are connected to ideal leads and the localization length i

G. Le Bras, Z. Konstantinovic, J-P. Carton, A. Forget

We report magnetic susceptibility performed on overdoped Bi2Sr2CuO6+d powders as a function of oxygen doping d and temperature T. The decrease of the spin susceptibility with increasing T is confirmed. At sufficient high temperature, the spin susceptibility Chi_s presents an unusual linear temperature dependence Chi_s ~ Chi_s0 -Chi_1 T. Moreover, a linear co

Oded Farago, Philip Pincus

We discuss the effects of the solvent composition on the helix-coil transition of a polypeptide chain. We use a simple model to demonstrate that improving the hydrogen-bonding ability of the solvent can make the transition less cooperative, without affecting the transition temperature. This effect is very different from other solvent effects which primarily

David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine

We investigate the validity of the Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics approach to dynamic fracture. We first test the predictions in a lattice simulation, using a formula of Eshelby for the time-dependent Stress Intensity Factor. Excellent agreement with the theory is found. We then use the same method to analyze the experiment of Sharon and Fineberg. The dat

J. M. Kailasvuori, T. H. Hansson, G. M. Kavoulakis

Magnetically-trapped atoms in Bose-Einstein condensates are spin polarized. Since the magnetic field is inhomogeneous, the atoms aquire Berry phases of the Aharonov-Bohm type during adiabatic motion. In the presence of an eletric field there is an additional Aharonov-Casher effect. Taking into account the limitations on the strength of the electric fields du

Alberto Castro, M. A. L. Marques, Julio A. Alonso, George F. Bertsch

We present a theoretical description of femtosecond laser induced dynamics of the hydrogen molecule and of singly ionised sodium dimers, based on a real-space, real-time, implementation of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). High harmonic generation, Coulomb explosion and laser induced photo-dissociation are observed. The scheme also describes

A. Tajic, M. Kindermann, C. W. J. Beenakker

Ballistic electrons flowing through a constriction can transfer momentum to the lattice and excite a vibration of a free-standing conductor. We show (both numerically and analytically) that the electromechanical noise power P does not vanish on the plateaus of quantized conductance -- in contrast to the current noise. The dependence of $P$ on the constrictio

Ke-Pi Chen, Xiao-Wen Zhang, Hao-Su Luo

<001> oriented 0.7Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.3PbTiO3 single crystals were poled under different electric fields, i.e. Epoling=4 kV/cm and Epoling=13 kV/cm. In addition to the temperature-dependent dielectric constant measurement, X-ray diffraction was also used to identify the poling-induced phase transitions. Results showed that the phase transition significantly d

M. Braden, Y. Sidis, P. Bourges, P. Pfeuty

Magnetic excitations in \srruo ~ have been studied by inelastic neutron scattering. The magnetic fluctuations are dominated by incommensurate peaks related to the Fermi surface nesting of the quasi-one-dimensional $d_{xz}$- and $d_{yz}$-bands. The shape of the incommensurate signal agrees well with RPA calculations. At the incommensurate {\bf Q}-positions th

A. E. Leanhardt, A. Görlitz, A. P. Chikkatur, D. Kielpinski

Vortices were imprinted in a Bose-Einstein condensate using topological phases. Sodium condensates held in a Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap were transformed from a non-rotating state to one with quantized circulation by adiabatically inverting the magnetic bias field along the trap axis. Using surface wave spectroscopy, the axial angular momentum per particle

A. Kamenev, A. I. Larkin

What quantity controls the Coulomb blockade oscillations if the dot--lead conductance is essentially frequency--dependent ? We argue that it is the ac dissipative conductance at the frequency given by the effective charging energy. The latter may be very different from the bare charging energy due to the interface--induced capacitance (or inductance). These

Petter Holme, Mikael Huss, Hawoong Jeong

We present a method to decompose biochemical networks into subnetworks based on the global geometry of the network. This method enables us to analyse the full hierarchical organisation of biochemical networks and is applied to 43 organisms from the WIT database. Two types of biochemical networks are considered: metabolic networks and whole-cellular networks

A. V. Balatsky, I. Martin

We propose a mechanism for detection of a single spin center on a non-magnetic substrate. In the detection scheme, the STM tunnel current is correlated with the spin orientation. In the presence of magnetic field, the spin precesses and the tunnel current is modulated at the Larmor frequency. The mechanism relies on the effective spin-orbit interaction betwe

Jason X. Prochaska, Richard B. C. Henry, John M. O&#39;Meara, David Tytler

We present 14 N^0 measurements from our HIRES/Keck database of damped Lya abundances. These data are combined with measurements from the recent and past literature to build an homogeneous, uniform set of observations. We examine photoionization diagnostics like Fe^++ and Ar^0 in the majority of the complete sample and assess the impact of ionization correcti

Soeren S. Larsen

Star clusters in 6 nearby spiral galaxies are examined using archive images from HST/WFPC2. The galaxies have previously been studied from the ground and some of them are known to possess rich populations of &#34;young massive clusters&#34; (YMCs). Comparison with the HST images indicates a success-rate of about 75% for the ground-based cluster detections, w

S. McBreen, F. Quilligan, B. McBreen, L. Hanlon

A temporal analysis was performed on a sample of 100 bright short GRBs with T90 < 2s from the BATSE Current Catalog along with a similar analysis on 319 long bright GRBs with T90 > 2s from the same catalog. The short GRBs were denoised using a median filter and the long GRBs were denoised using a wavelet method. Both samples were subjected to an automated pu

J. L. Donley, W. N. Brandt, M. C. Eracleous, Th. Boller

In recent years, luminous X-ray outbursts with variability amplitudes as high as ~ 400 have been serendipitously detected from a small number of active and inactive galaxies. These outbursts may result from the tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes as well as accretion-disk instabilities. In order to place the first reliable constraints on t

Christopher W. Mauche

(abridged) The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) satellite was employed in 1999 February to acquire phase-resolved EUV photometric and spectroscopic observations of the AM Her-type cataclysmic variable V834 Centauri. Although we do not understand the EUV light curves in detail, they are explained qualitatively by a simple model of accretion from a ballisti

Dana I. Dinescu, Steven R. Majewski, Terrence M. Girard, Rene A. Mendez

We have detected a population of predominantly blue (B-V <= 1.1) stars in the direction l = 167 deg., b = -35 deg. (Kapteyn Selected Area 71) that cannot be accounted for by standard starcount models. Down to V ~ 20, the colors and magnitudes of these stars are similar to those of the southern overdensity detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and identif

S. McBreen, B. McBreen, F. Quilligan, L. Hanlon

The temporal properties of a sample of 498 bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with durations between 0.05 s and 674 s were analysed. The large range in duration (T90) is accompanied by a similarly large range in the median values of the pulse timing properties including rise time, fall time, FWHM and separation between the pulses. Four timing diagrams relating t

Simon Berman, Laurent Loinard

A detailed hydrodynamical model of the gas flow in the triaxial gravitational potential of the bulge of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has recently been proposed by Berman (2001) astro-ph/0103209, and shown to provide excellent agreement with the CO emission line velocities observed along its major axis. In the present paper, we confirm the validity of that mode

B. Stelzer, R. Neuhaeuser

According to the paradigm of solar-type dynamo action brown dwarfs should not exhibit magnetic activity as they are fully convective. Indeed, Halpha observations of ultracool field dwarfs indicate a decline of activity setting in near the substellar limit. X-ray emission traditionally serves as another means to examine magnetic activity on stars. The substel

F. Thevenin, J. Provost, P. Morel, G. Berthomieu

Using the oscillation frequencies of alpha Cen A recently discovered by Bouchy & Carrier, the available astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic data, we tried to improve the calibration of the visual binary system alpha Cen. With the revisited masses of Pourbaix et al. (2002) we do not succeed to obtain a solution satisfying all the seismic observational

E. Audit, P. Charrier, J. -P. Chièze, B. Dubroca

We present in this paper the numerical treatment of the coupling between hydrodynamics and radiative transfer. The fluid is modeled by classical conservation laws (mass, momentum and energy) and the radiation by the grey moment $M_1$ system. The scheme introduced is able to compute accurate numerical solution over a broad class of regimes from the transport

H. Kuntschner, R. Bacon, M. Bureau, M. Cappellari

We present results from a new and unique integral-field spectrograph, SAURON. It has a large field of view and high throughput and is primarily built for the study of stellar & gaseous kinematics and stellar populations in galaxies. Its aim is to carry out a systematic survey of the velocity fields, velocity dispersions, and line-strength distributions of ne

D. Anish Roshi, N. G. Kantharia, K. R. Anantharamaiah

In earlier papers (Roshi & Anantharamaiah 2000, 2001a), we presented extensive surveys (angular resolution -- 2°$\times$ 2°& 2°$\times$ 6\arcmin) of radio recombination lines (RRLs) near 327 MHz in the longitude range $l = $ 332°$\to$ 89°using the Ooty Radio Telescope. These surveys have detected carbon lines mostly between $l = $ 358°$\to$ 20°and in a few p

Cynthia H. James, Gavin Ramsay, Mark Cropper, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont

Using RXTE and ASCA data, we investigate the roles played by occultation and absorption in the X-ray spin pulse profile of the Intermediate Polar PQ Gem. From the X-ray light curves and phase-resolved spectroscopy, we find that the intensity variations are due to a combination of varying degrees of absorption and the accretion regions rotating behind the vis

Michael Odenkirchen, Eva K. Grebel, Walter Dehnen, Hans-Walter Rix

Wide-field photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have recently revealed that the Galactic globular cluster Palomar 5 is in the process of being tidally disrupted (Odenkirchen et al. 2001). Here we investigate the kinematics of this sparse remote star cluster using high resolution spectra from the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Twenty candidate clus

Fabio D. Barazza, Bruno Binggeli, Helmut Jerjen

Following the discovery of spiral structure in IC3328 (Jerjen et al.~2000), we present further evidence that a sizable fraction of bright early-type dwarfs in the Virgo cluster are genuine disk galaxies, or are hosting a disk component. Among a sample of 23 nucleated dwarf ellipticals and dS0s observed with the Very Large Telescope in $B$ and $R$, we found a

T. Foglizzo

The linear stability of isothermal Bondi accretion with a shock is studied analytically in the asymptotic limit of high incident Mach number M_1. The flow is unstable with respect to radial perturbations as expected by Nakayama (1993), due to post-shock acceleration. Its growth time scales like the advection time from the shock r_sh to the sonic point r_son.

F. Bournaud, F. Combes

The effects of gas accretion on spiral disk dynamics and stability are studied through N-body simulations, including star formation and gas/stars mass exchange. The detailed processes of bar formation, bar destruction and bar re-formation are followed, while in the same time the disk to bulge ratio is varying. The accreted gas might be first prevented to flo

Sabine Schindler

We present two projects related to interaction in the Virgo cluster. In the first section we draw a quantitative comparison of the distribution of the galaxies and the intra-cluster gas taking into account that the Virgo cluster has an irregular structure consisting of several subclusters. In the second section we show hydrodynamic simulations of the interac

A. Benoit, L. Berge, A. Broniatowski, L. Chabert

The EDELWEISS experiment has improved its sensitivity for the direct search for WIMP dark matter. In the recoil energy range relevant for WIMP masses below 10 TeV/c2, no nuclear recoils were observed in the fiducial volume of a heat-and-ionization cryogenic Ge detector operated in the low-background environment of the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in the

M. A. Garrett

I present the various capabilities of upgraded and next generation radio telescopes, in particular their ability to detect and image distant star forming galaxies. I demonstrate that e-MERLIN, EVLA and LOFAR can detect systems similar to Arp 220 out to cosmological distances. The SKA can detect such systems out to any reasonable redshift that they might be e

Hiroshi Ohno, Motokazu Takizawa, Shinpei Shibata

We developed a magneto-turbulent model for the cosmic ray (CR) electrons seen in the radio halo clusters of galaxies. Steady state momentum distribution functions of the CR electrons are calculated for given spectra of the turbulent Alfven waves. The radio spectrum produced by the obtained CR electron distribution is compared to the observed radio spectrum o

F. Halzen

We introduce neutrino astronomy from the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 10^{20} and 10^{13} eV, respectively. Although the discovery of cosmic rays dates back close to a century, we do not know how and where they are accelerated. We review the facts as well as the speculations about the sources. Among

Hideki Asada

It is shown that the lens equation for a binary gravitational lens being a set of two coupled real fifth-order algebraic equations (equivalent to a single complex equation of the same order) can be reduced to a single real fifth-order algebraic equation, which provides a much simpler way to study lensing by binary objects.

Hideki Asada

We investigate the light-cone effect on the Shapiro time delay. The extra time delay caused by Jupiter on the 8th of September 2002 can be measured by advanced VLBI (very long baseline interferometry). Our expression for the delay is in complete agreement with that of Kopeikin (2001), in which he argued that the excess time delay was due to the propagation o

Peter Anninos, P. Chris Fragile

High resolution, non-oscillatory, central difference (NOCD) numerical schemes are introduced as alternatives to more traditional artificial viscosity (AV) and Godunov methods for solving the fully general relativistic hydrodynamics equations. These new approaches provide the advantages of Godunov methods in capturing ultra-relativistic flows without the cost

Anastasia Doikou

The thermodynamic Bethe ansatz method is employed for the study of the integrable critical $RSOS(q_{1}, q_{2};q)$ model. The high and low temperature behavior are investigated, and the central charge of the effective conformal field theory is derived. The obtained central charge is expressed as the sum of the central charges of two generalized coset models.

Paul L. Schechter, A. Udalski, M. Szymanski, M. Kubiak

We present 3 years of photometry of the ``Double Hamburger&#39;&#39; lensed quasar, HE1104-1805, obtained on 102 separate nights using the OGLE 1.3-m telescope. Both the A and B images show variations, but with substantial differences in the lighcurves at all time delays. At the 310 day delay reported by Wisotzki and collaborators the difference lightcurve h

David Blais, Torsten Bringmann, Claus Kiefer, David Polarski

We perform an accurate computation of the production rate for primordial black holes (PBHs). The reason is that the underlying mass variance had been overestimated systematically, as was shown recently. For scale-free powerlaw primordial spectra, and for a Universe with critical density, the mass variance is less than 34% of its value thought earlier for the

V. V. Kiselev, A. K. Likhoded, O. N. Pakhomova, V. A. Saleev

We evaluate the masses of baryons composed of two heavy quarks and a strange quark with account for spin-dependent splittings in the framework of potential model with the KKO potential motivated by QCD with a three-loop beta-function for the effective charge consistent with both the perturbative limit at short distances and linear confinement term at long di

Yoji Michishita

We investigate boundary conditions for open strings in NSNS and RR pp-wave backgrounds constructed by Russo and Tseytlin, which are S-dual to each other. We show that if we do not turn on any boundary term (i.e. gauge field), D-branes in the RR background cannot move away from the origin in most cases, while those in the NSNS background can move anywhere. We

Xijia Miao

The quantum search problem is an important problem due to the fact that a general NP problem can be solved efficiently by an unsorted quantum search algorithm. Here it has been shown that the quantum search problem could be solved in polynomial time on an NMR quantum computer. The NMR ensemble quantum computation is based on the quantum mechanical unitary dy

J. F. Schneiderman, M. E. Stanley, P. K. Aravind

This paper presents a computer program, written in Maple, that allows a user to simulate certain aspects of Shor&#39;s quantum factoring algorithm on a desktop or laptop computer. The program does not simulate the unitary operations carried out by a quantum computer but does faithfully mimic its output at the crucial &#34;readout&#34; step of the order-findi

Jin-Yuan Hsieh, Che-Ming Li, Der-San Chuu

We present in this work, if a set of well organized suboracles is available, an algorithm for multiobject search with certainty in an unsorted database of $N$ items. Depending on the number of the objects, the technique of phase tunning is included in the algorithm. If one single object is to be searched, this algorithm performs a factor of two improvement o

Veit Elser

The most efficient known method for solving certain computational problems is to construct an iterated map whose fixed points are by design the problem&#39;s solution. Although the origins of this idea go back at least to Newton, the clearest expression of its logical basis is an example due to Mermin. A contemporary application in image recovery demonstrate

Roberto Frigerio, Bruno Martelli, Carlo Petronio

Using the theory of hyperbolic manifolds with totally geodesic boundary, we provide for every integer n greater than 1 a class of such manifolds all having Matveev complexity equal to n and Heegaard genus equal to n+1. All the elements of this class have a single boundary component of genus n, and the numbers of distinct members of the class grows at least e

Asim Gangopadhyaya, Jeffry V. Mallow

Following a recent study by Das and Pernice [Nucl. Phys. B561, (1999) 357], we have carefully analyzed the half-harmonic oscillator. In contrast to their observations, our analysis reveals that the spectrum does not allow for a zero energy ground state and hence the supersymmetry is broken when the domain is restricted to the positive half of the real axis.

Stephen P. Martin

I compute the complete two-loop effective potential for the minimal supersymmetric standard model in the Landau gauge. This enables an accurate determination of the minimization conditions for the vacuum expectation values of the Higgs fields. Checks on the result follow from supersymmetric limits and from renormalization-scale invariance. The renormalizatio