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April 2006 arXiv papers — page 5

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  1. Tong Liu

    Let R be a complete discrete valuation ring of mixed characteristic (0, p) with perfect residue field, K the fraction field of R. Suppose G is a Barsotti-Tate group (p-divisible group) defined over K which acquires good reduction over a finite extension K' of K. We prove that there exists a constant c which depends on the absolute ramification index e(K&

  2. Pierre Jammes

    Let $M^n$ be a n-dimensional compact manifold, with $n\geq3$. For any conformal class C of riemannian metrics on M, we set $μ_k^c(M,C)=\inf_{g\in C}μ_{[\frac n2],k}(M,g)\Vol(M,g)^{\frac2n}$, where $μ_{p,k}(M,g)$ is the k-th eigenvalue of the Hodge laplacian acting on coexact p-forms. We prove that $0<μ_k^c(M,C)\leqμ_k^c(S^n,[g_{can}])\leq k^{\frac2n}μ_1^c(S^

  3. Wolfgang Soergel

    We consider the principal block of category O and its graded version. On the space of homomorphisms from a Verma module to an indecomposable tilting module we may define natural filtrations following Andersen. The arguments given in this article prove that these filtrations are compatible with the graded structure, although explicitely we only show that the

  4. Giovanni Felder, Andre Henriques, Carlo A. Rossi, Chenchang Zhu

    This is a condensed exposition of the results of math.QA/0601337, based on a talk of the first author at the Oberwolfach workshop &#34;Deformations and Contractions in Mathematics and Physics&#34;, 15-21 January 2006.

  5. Juergen Herzog, Ahad Rahimi

    In this paper we study local cohomology of finitely generated bigraded modules over a standard bigraded ring with respect to the irrelevant bigraded ideals and establish a duality theorem. Several applications are considered.

  6. Bhupender Gupta, Srikanth K. Iyer

    Let $n$ points be placed independently in $d-$dimensional space according to the standard $d-$dimensional normal distribution. Let $d_n$ be the longest edge length for the nearest neighbor graph on these points. We show that \[\lim_{n \rar \infty} \frac{\sqrt{\log n} d_n}{\log \log n} = \frac{d}{\sqrt{2}}, \qquad d \geq 2, {a.s.} \]

  7. Benjamin A. Burton

    Drawing together techniques from combinatorics and computer science, we improve the census algorithm for enumerating closed minimal P^2-irreducible 3-manifold triangulations. In particular, new constraints are proven for face pairing graphs, and pruning techniques are improved using a modification of the union-find algorithm. Using these results we catalogue

  8. Katsunori Iwasaki, Takato Uehara

    An ergodic study of Painleve VI is developed. The chaotic nature of its Poincare return map is established for almost all loops. The exponential growth of the numbers of periodic solutions is also shown. Principal ingredients of the arguments are a moduli-theoretical formulation of Painleve VI, a Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, the dynamical system of a bira

  9. Luis Fuentes Garcia

    We study the Seshadri constants of cyclic coverings of smooth surfaces. The existence of an automorphism on these surfaces can be used to produce Seshadri exceptional curves. We give a bound for multiple Seshadri constants on cyclic coverings of surfaces with Picard number 1. Morevoer, we apply this method to $n$-cyclic coverings of the projective plane. Whe

  10. Eduardo Cattani, Alicia Dickenstein

    We study the problem of counting the total number of affine solutions of a system of n binomials in n variables over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. We show that we may decide in polynomial time if that number is finite. We give a combinatorial formula for computing the total number of affine solutions (with or without multiplicity) fro

  11. Xavier Yvonne

    The Jantzen sum formula for cyclotomic v-Schur algebras yields an identity for some q-analogues of the decomposition matrices of these algebras. We prove a similar identity for matrices of canonical bases of higher-level Fock spaces. We conjecture then that those matrices are actually identical for a suitable choice of parameters. In particular, we conjectur

  12. V. V. Fock, A. B. Goncharov

    We define convex projective structures on 2D surfaces with holes and investigate their moduli space. We prove that this moduli space is canonically identified with the higher Teichmuller space for the group PSL_3 defined in our paper math/0311149. We define the quantum version of the moduli space of convex projective structures on surfaces with holes. The pr

  13. Adrian R. Lugo, Mauricio B. Sturla

    We obtain the (super) gravity solution in arbitrary space-time dimension less than ten, that gives a low energy description of a fundamental string embedded in a non critical vacuum, product of $d$-dimensional Minkowski space-time and a cigar-like geometry with scale $r_0$. This solution, one of the few known examples of objects doubly localized, both at the

  14. R. M. Cavalcanti, C. Farina, F. A. Barone

    We calculate radiative corrections to the Casimir effect for the massive complex scalar field with the $λϕ^{4}$ self-interaction in $d+1$ dimensions. We consider the field submitted to four types of boundary conditions on two parallel planes, namely: (i) quasi-periodic boundary conditions, which interpolates continuously periodic and anti-periodic ones, (ii)

  15. E. Cuautle, I. Dominguez, G. Paic

    We report the analysis of experimental azimuthal correlations measured by STAR in p-p collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. We conclude that for a fit of data using Pythia event generator we need to include two values of $k_{T}$.

  16. Ken Hsieh, Markus A. Luty

    In the context of anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking, it is natural for vectorlike fields and singlets to have supersymmetry breaking masses of order 10 TeV, and therefore act as messengers of supersymmetry breaking. We show that this can give rise to phenomenologically viable spectra compatible with perturbative gauge coupling unification. The minimal

  17. P. P. Avelino, C. J. A. P. Martins, J. Menezes, R. Menezes

    We study a number of domain wall forming models where various types of defect junctions can exist. These illustrate some of the mechanisms that will determine the evolution of defect networks with junctions. Understanding these mechanisms is vital for a proper assessment of a number of cosmological scenarios: we will focus on the issue of whether or not cosm

  18. Patricia Ball, Robert Fleischer

    As is well known, $B^0_{d,s}$--$\bar B^0_{d,s}$ mixing offers a profound probe into the effects of physics beyond the Standard Model. The data obtained at the $e^+e^-$ $B$ factories have already provided valuable insights into the $B_d$-meson system, and very recently also the $B^0_s$--$\bar B^0_s$ oscillation frequency $ΔM_s$ has been measured at the Tevatr

  19. A. V. Vinnikov

    This paper describes the design and work of a set of computer routines capable for numerical computation of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) evolution at the leading order. The main intention of this work is to present a fast-working computer code making possible fitting of GPDs parameters to the data on hard electron-nucleon scattering.

  20. Oleg A. Teplov

    The harmonic quarks and their complete oscillators are successfully used for the exact quantitative results and an explanation of the $D$ meson mass differences. For the first time it is shown that the mass differences of the charmed mesons with the same flavors are strictly quantized by the rest masses of harmonic quarks in both &#34;free&#34; state and com

  21. Kh. M. Beshtoev

    In the standard theory of neutrino oscillations it is supposed that physical observed neutrino states $ν_{e}, ν_μ, ν_τ$ have no definite masses, that they are initially produced as a mixture of the $ν_{1}, ν_{2}, ν_{3}$ neutrino states (are produced as a wave packet), and that neutrino oscillations are the real ones. Then this wave packet must decompose at a

  22. A. M. Badalian, B. L. G. Bakker

    The hyperfine splittings in heavy quarkonia are studied in a model-independent way using the experimental data on di-electron widths. Relativistic correlations are taken into account together with the smearing of the spin-spin interaction. The radius of smearing is fixed by the known $J/ψ-η_c(1S)$ and $ψ(2S)-η&#39;_c(2S)$ splittings and appears to be small,

  23. Ingrid Kraus, Helmut Oeschler, Krzysztof Redlich

    The Statistical Model has to be formulated in the canonical ensemble with respect to strangeness conservation if the number of strange particles becomes small. However, the canonical suppression under the assumption of strangeness chemical equilibrium in the whole fireball volume was found to be not sufficient to reproduce observed yields. Two approaches hav

  24. Mustapha Mekhfi

    I give a brief historical account on the way I have been conducted to revive the concept of the transverse spin from previous studies on multiparton scatterings.

  25. J. Cleymans, I. Kraus, H. Oeschler, K. Redlich

    Particle production in central Pb-Pb collisions at LHC is discussed in the context of the Statistical Model. Predictions of various particle ratios are presented with the corresponding choice of model parameters made according to the systematics extracted from heavy-ion collisions at lower energies. The sensitivity of several ratios on the temperature and th

  26. S. Boinepalli, D. B. Leinweber, A. G. Williams, J. M. Zanotti

    The electromagnetic properties of the baryon octet are calculated in quenched QCD on a 20^3 x 40 lattice with a lattice spacing of 0.128 fm using the fat-link irrelevant clover (FLIC) fermion action. FLIC fermions enable simulations to be performed efficiently at quark masses as low as 300 MeV. By combining FLIC fermions with an improved-conserved vector cur

  27. M. N. Achasov, K. I. Beloborodov, A. V. Berdyugin, A. G. Bogdanchikov

    The update of the e^+e^-\toπ^+π^- process cross section, measured in the energy region \sqrt{s}<1 GeV with SND detector at VEPP-2M collider is presented.

  28. M. N. Achasov

    The review of experimental results of the light vector mesons parameters studies with CMD-2 and SND detectors at VEPP-2M e+e- collider in the energy region 360 < sqrt{s} < 1380 MeV is given.

  29. NOMAD Collaboration

    First measurements of K*(892) mesons production properties and their spin alignment in nu_mu charged current (CC) and neutral current (NC) interactions are presented. The analysis of the full data sample of the NOMAD experiment is performed in different kinematic regions. For K*+ and K*- mesons produced in nu_mu CC interactions and decaying into K0 pi+/- we

  30. Lode Wylleman, Norbert Van den Bergh

    We recently showed (Class. Quantum Grav.\ 23, 3353; gr-qc/0602091) that aligned Petrov type D purely magnetic perfect fluids are necessarily locally rotationally symmetric (LRS) and hence are all explicitly known. We provide here a more transparent proof.

  31. Luca Lusanna

    A modern re-visitation of the consequences of the lack of an intrinsic notion of instantaneous 3-space in relativistic theories leads to a reformulation of their kinematical basis emphasizing the role of non-inertial frames centered on an arbitrary accelerated observer. In special relativity the exigence of predictability implies the adoption of the 3+1 poin

  32. M R Setare

    In this letter we compute the corrections to the Cardy-Verlinde formula of Schwarzschild black holes. These corrections stem from the space noncommutativity. Because the Schwarzschild black holes are non rotating, to the first order of perturbative calculations, there is no any effect on the properties of black hole due to the noncommutativity of space.

  33. Puxun Wu, Hongwei Yu

    The effects of the gravitational back reaction of cosmological perturbations are investigated in a phantom inflation model. The effective energy-momentum tensor of the gravitational back reaction of cosmological perturbations whose wavelengths are larger than the Hubble radius is calculated. Our results show that the effects of gravitational back reaction wi

  34. Zhiying Zhu, Hongwei Yu, Shizhuan Lu

    We consider a multilevel hydrogen atom in interaction with the quantum electromagnetic field and separately calculate the contributions of the vacuum fluctuation and radiation reaction to the rate of change of the mean atomic energy of the atom for uniform acceleration. It is found that the acceleration disturbs the vacuum fluctuations in such a way that the

  35. Kristina Lerman, Chris Jones, Aram Galstyan, Maja J Mataric

    Dynamic task allocation is an essential requirement for multi-robot systems operating in unknown dynamic environments. It allows robots to change their behavior in response to environmental changes or actions of other robots in order to improve overall system performance. Emergent coordination algorithms for task allocation that use only local sensing and no

  36. Aram Galstyan, Tad Hogg, Kristina Lerman

    The biologically-inspired swarm paradigm is being used to design self-organizing systems of locally interacting artificial agents. A major difficulty in designing swarms with desired characteristics is understanding the causal relation between individual agent and collective behaviors. Mathematical analysis of swarm dynamics can address this difficulty to ga

  37. Francesc Rossello, Gabriel Valiente

    The relationship between two important problems in tree pattern matching, the largest common subtree and the smallest common supertree problems, is established by means of simple constructions, which allow one to obtain a largest common subtree of two trees from a smallest common supertree of them, and vice versa. These constructions are the same for isomorp

  38. Eugen Simanek

    Contrary to recent theoretical prediction, we show that the magnetic flux of a vortex in SU(2) model of two-gap superconductor is quantized in units of 2π/g, not 4 π/g. For the U(1) version of this model, the flux is quantized in units of 2 πα/g where 0 < α< 1. The parameter αdepends on the masses and concentrations of the Cooper pairs in the two condensates

  39. D. G. Hinks, D. Rosenmann, H. Claus, M. S. Bailey

    We have measured the Ca isotope effect in the newly discovered superconductor CaC6. The isotope effect coefficient is 0.50(7). If one assumes that this material is a conventional electron-phonon coupled superconductor, this result shows that the superconductivity is dominated by coupling of the electrons by Ca phonon modes and that C phonons contribute very

  40. Thomas Bartsch, T. Uzer, Jeremy M. Moix, Rigoberto Hernandez

    A time-dependent no-recrossing dividing surface is shown to lead to a new criterion for identifying reactive trajectories well before they are evolved to infinite time. Numerical dynamics simulations of a dissipative anharmonic two-dimensional system confirm the efficiency of this approach. The results are compared to the standard fixed transition state divi

  41. S. M. Soskin

    The most probable transition path in a one-dimensional overdamped system is rigorously proved to possess less than two turning points. The proof is valid for any potentials, transition times, initial and final transition points.

  42. Matthias Mayr

    We describe the high-temperature superconductor La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ in the underdoped regime in terms of a mixed-phase model, which consists of superconducting clusters embedded in the antiferromagnetic matrix. Our work is motivated by a series of recent angle-resolved photoemission experiments, which have significantly enhanced our understanding of the

  43. D. A. Arena, E. Vescovo, C. -C. Kao, Y. Guan

    We demonstrate a layer- and time-resolved measurement of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in a Ni81Fe19 / Cu / Co93Zr7 trilayer structure. Time-resolved x-ray magnetic circular dichroism has been developed in transmission, with resonant field excitation at a FMR frequency of 2.3 GHz. Small-angle (to 0.2 degree), time-domain magnetization precession could be obs

  44. Peter Stano, Jaroslav Fabian

    Phonon-induced orbital and spin relaxation rates of single electron states in lateral single and double quantum dots are obtained numerically for realistic materials parameters. The rates are calculated as a function of magnetic field and interdot coupling, at various field and quantum dot orientations. It is found that orbital relaxation is due to deformati

  45. A. R. Abate, D. J. Durian

    Quasi-2D bidisperse amorphous systems of steel beads are fluidized by a uniform upflow of air, so that the beads roll on a horizontal plane. The short-time ballistic motion of the beads is stochastic, with non-Gaussian speed distributions and with different average kinetic energies for the two species. The approach to jamming is studied as a function of incr

  46. Y. Alhassid, H. A. Weidenmueller, A. Wobst

    We study scrambling of the Hartree-Fock single-particle levels and wave functions as electrons are added to an almost isolated diffusive or chaotic quantum dot with electron-electron interactions. We use the generic framework of the induced two-body ensembles where the randomness of the two-body interaction matrix elements is induced by the randomness of the

  47. N. M. Silvestre, P. Patricio, M. M. Telo da Gama

    We investigate theoretically the elliptical shapes of soft colloids in freely standing smectic C films, that have been reported recently. The colloids favour parallel alignment of the liquid crystal molecules at their surfaces and, for sufficiently strong anchoring, will generate a pair of defects at the poles of the colloidal particles. The elastic free ene

  48. A. Apetrei, I. Mirebeau, I. Goncharenko, D. Andreica

    We have studied (Tb$_{1-x}$La$_x$)$_2$Mo$_2$O$_7$ pyrochlores by neutron diffraction and $μ$SR at ambient and under applied pressure. Substitution of Tb for La expands the lattice and induces a change from a spin-glass like state ({\itshape x}=0) to a non collinear ferromagnet ({\itshape x}=0.2). In the ferromagnetic structure, the Tb moments orient close to

  49. Florian Marquardt

    The destruction of quantum-mechanical phase coherence by a fluctuating quantum bath has been investigated mostly for a single particle. However, for electronic transport through disordered samples and mesoscopic interference setups, we have to treat a many-fermion system subject to a quantum bath. Here, we review a novel technique for treating this situation

  50. N. Horiuchi, T. Ochiai, J. Inoue, Y. Segawa

    We report the observation of an exotic radiation (unconventional Smith-Purcell radiation) from a one-dimensional photonic crystal. The physical origin of the exotic radiation is direct excitation of the photonic bands by an ultra-relativistic electron beam. The spectrum of the exotic radiation follows photonic bands of a certain parity, in striking contrast

  51. Timothy C. Jarrett, Chiu Fan Lee, Neil F. Johnson

    Recent advances in nanostructure fabrication and optical control, suggest that it will soon be possible to prepare collections of interacting two-level systems (i.e. qubits) within an optical cavity. Here we show theoretically that such systems could exhibit novel phase transition phenomena involving spin-glass phases. By contrast with traditional realizatio

  52. A. M. Shvaika

    A general approach for derivation of the spectral relations for the multitime correlation functions is presented. A special attention is paid to the consideration of the non-ergodic (conserving) contributions and it is shown that such contributions can be treated in a rigorous way using multitime temperature Green functions. Representation of the multitime G

  53. Stefanie Russ, Armin Bunde

    For studying the interplay of dipolar interaction and anisotropy energy in systems of ultrafine magnetic particles we consider simple cubic systems of magnetic dipoles with anisotropy axes pointing into the $z$-direction. Using Monte Carlo simulations we study the magnetic relaxation from several initial states. We show explicitely that, due to the combined

  54. M. Vogel, T. Thorbrugge

    We investigate ion and polymer dynamics in polymer electrolytes PPO-LiClO4 performing 2H and 7Li NMR line-shape analysis. Comparison of temperature dependent 7Li and 2H NMR spectra gives evidence for a coupling of ion and polymer dynamics. 2H NMR spectra for various salt concentrations reveal a strong slow down of the polymer segmental motion when the salt c

  55. Kostya Trachenko

    We study the lowest energy state in the CuO$_2$ plane of cuprate superconductors, related to the vibration that does not involve distortions of constituent units of the plane, the Rigid Unit Mode (RUM). We discuss the correlated motion in the plane due to RUM on temperature decrease, and possible relevance of this phonon for superconductivity.

  56. V. N. Bogomolov

    Superconductivity of some compounds may be explained as resulting from Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of atomic electron pairs of divalent atoms or electron pairs of diatomic molecules made up of univalent atoms. &#34;Artificial&#34; superconductors of such types can be tailored using nonstoichiometric ompounds. Synthesis of &#34;natural&#34; stoichiometri

  57. Daniele Fausti, Agung Nugroho, Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht, Sergei A. Klimin

    Inelastic light scattering spectra of several members of the RFe3(BO3)4 family reveal a cascade of phase transitions as a function of temperature, starting with a structural, weakly first order, phase transition followed by two magnetic phase transitions. Those consist of the ordering of the Fe-spin sublattice revealed by all the compound, and a subsequent s

  58. A. Sarkar, P. Mukherjee, P. Barat

    Different techniques of the X-ray Diffraction Line Profile Analysis (XRDLPA) have been used to assess the microstructure of the irradiated Zr-1.0%Nb-1.0%Sn-0.1%Fe alloy. The domain size, microstrain, density of dislocation and the stacking fault probabilities of the irradiated alloy have been estimated as a function of dose by the Williamson-Hall Technique,

  59. Patrik Recher, Na Young Kim, Yoshihisa Yamamoto

    We present a detailed theoretical investigation of transport through a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) in good contact to metal leads where weak backscattering at the interfaces between SWNT and source and drain reservoirs gives rise to electronic Fabry-Perot (FP) oscillations in conductance and shot noise. We include the electron-electron interaction a

  60. J. J. Xiao, K. Yakubo, K. W. Yu

    A new mechanism of longitudinal confinement of optical energy via coupled plasmon modes is proposed in chains of noble metal nanoparticles embedded in a graded dielectric medium, which is analogous to the confinement of electrons in semiconductor quantum wells. In these systems, one can control the transmission of optical energy by varying the graded refract

  61. Hyeonjin Doh, Matthew Song, Hae-Young Kee

    The previously studied Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state is stabilized by a magnetic field via the Zeeman coupling in spin-singlet superconductors. Here we suggest a novel route to achieve non-zero center-of-mass momentum pairing states in superconductors with Fermi surface nesting. We investigate two-dimensional superconductors under a uniform e

  62. M. E. Palistrant, V. A. Ursu

    Theory of superconductivity in two-band non-adiabatic systems with strong electron correlations in the linear approximation over non-adiabaticity is built in the article. Having assumed weak electron-phonon interaction analytical expressions for the vertex functions and &#34;intersecting &#34; functions for each energy band are obtained. Mass operators of Gr

  63. Kang Kim, Yasuya Nakayama, Ryoichi Yamamoto

    We propose a numerical method to simulate electrohydrodynamic phenomena in charged colloidal dispersions. This method enables us to compute the time evolutions of colloidal particles, ions, and host fluids simultaneously by solving Newton, advection-diffusion, and Navier--Stokes equations so that the electrohydrodynamic couplings can be fully taken into acco

  64. A. Nunnenkamp, D. Meiser, P. Meystre

    We study the effects of quantum statistics on the counting statistics of ultracold heteronuclear molecules formed by Feshbach-assisted photoassociation [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 93}, 140405 (2004)]. Exploiting the formal similarities with sum frequency generation and using quantum optics methods we consider the cases where the molecules are formed from atoms ou

  65. A-M. Stobbart, T. P. Roberts, R. S. Warwick

    We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of the Magellanic-type galaxy NGC 55 based on two contiguous XMM-Newton observations. We detect a total of 137 X-ray sources in the field of view, 42 of which are located within the optical confines of the galaxy. On the basis of X-ray colour classification and after correcting for background objects, we conclud

  66. George H. Heald, Richard J. Rand, Robert A. Benjamin, Matthew A. Bershady

    We present high and moderate spectral resolution spectroscopy of diffuse ionized gas (DIG) emission in the halo of NGC 891. The data were obtained with the SparsePak integral field unit at the WIYN Observatory. The wavelength coverage includes the [NII]6548,6583, Halpha, and [SII]6716,6731 emission lines. Position-velocity (PV) diagrams, constructed using sp

  67. Michelle Doherty, Andrew Bunker, Robert Sharp, Gavin Dalton

    We have conducted an H-alpha survey of 38 0.77<z<1 galaxies over ~100 arcmin^2 of the Hubble Deep Field North and Flanking Fields, to determine star formation rates (SFRs), with the near-infrared multi-object spectrograph CIRPASS on the WHT. This represents the first successful application of this technique to observing high redshift galaxies. Stacking the s

  68. Maciej Bzowski, Slawomir Tarnopolski

    Dynamics of H, D, and heavy Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENA) between the termination shock and 1 AU is discussed in the context of the forthcoming NASA SMEX mission IBEX. In particular, effects of the velocity-dependent radiation pressure on atomic trajectories are considered and ionization losses between TS and 1 AU are studied. It is shown, among others, that

  69. Ravi K. Sheth, Raul Jimenez, Ben Panter, Alan Heavens

    We present a mark correlation analysis of the galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using weights provided by MOPED. The large size of the sample permits statistically significant statements about how galaxies with different metallicities and star formation histories are spatially correlated. Massive objects formed a larger fraction of their stars at high

  70. D. A. Frail, P. B. Cameron, M. Kasliwal, E. Nakar

    We present the discovery of radio afterglow emission from the high redshift (z=6.295) burst GRB 050904. The peak flux density for this burst is similar to typical low-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRB). We further show that beyond a redshift of order unity, the flux density of radio afterglows are largely insensitive to redshift, consistent with predictions. By

  71. M. Gieles, S. S. Larsen, M. R. Haas, R. A. Scheepmaker

    When an universal untruncated star cluster initial mass function (CIMF) described by a power-law distribution is assumed, the mass of the most massive star cluster in a galaxy (M_max) is the result of the size-of-sample (SoS) effect. This implies a dependence of M_max on the total number of star clusters (N). The SoS effect also implies that M_max within a c

  72. Stephen Eikenberry, Richard Elston, S. Nicholas Raines, Jeff Julian

    We report on the design and status of the FLAMINGOS-2 instrument - a fully-cryogenic facility near-infrared imager and multi-object spectrograph for the Gemini 8-meter telescopes. FLAMINGOS-2 has a refractive all-spherical optical system providing 0.18-arcsecond pixels and a 6.2-arcminute circular field-of-view on a 2048x2048-pixel HAWAII-2 0.9-2.4 mm detect

  73. Rachel Kuzio de Naray, Stacy S. McGaugh, W. J. G. de Blok, A. Bosma

    We present high resolution two-dimensional velocity fields from integral field spectroscopy along with derived rotation curves for eleven low surface brightness galaxies. We fit NFW and pseudo-isothermal halo models to the new data combined with previous long-slit and HI data. In most cases we find the pseudo-isothermal halo to better represent the data than

  74. J. S. Sanders, A. C. Fabian

    A possible explanation for the central abundance dips found from spatially-resolved X-ray spectroscopy of several groups and clusters of galaxies is resonance scattering. A number of the prominent iron emission lines are resonance lines. We construct a unique spectral model which takes account of resonance scattering for several thousand resonance lines, pro

  75. F. H. Shu, D. Galli, S. Lizano, M. Cai

    We formulate the problem of magnetic field dissipation during the accretion phase of low-mass star formation, and we carry out the first step of an iterative solution procedure by assuming that the gas is in free-fall along radial field lines. This so-called ``kinematic approximation&#39;&#39; ignores the back reaction of the Lorentz force on the accretion f

  76. D. Galli, S. Lizano, F. H. Shu, A. Allen

    We study the self-similar collapse of an isothermal magnetized rotating cloud in the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) regime. In the limit of small distance from the accreting protostar we find an analytic solution that corresponds to free-fall onto a central mass point. The density distribution is not spherically symmetric but depends on the mass loading of

  77. P. Sanchez-Blazquez, J. Gorgas, N. Cardiel

    We present line-strength gradients for 22 spectral indices measured in a sample of 82 early-type galaxies in different environments,including the high-density core of the Coma cluster, the Virgo cluster,poor groups,and field galaxies. We derive age and metallicity gradients, and compare the mean values with the predictions of different galaxy formation model

  78. Colin J. Lonsdale, Philip J. Diamond, Hannah Thrall, Harding E. Smith

    We have used a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) array at 18cm wavelength to image the nucleus of the luminous IR galaxy Arp 220 at ~1 pc linear resolution, and with very high sensitivity. The resulting map has an rms of 5.5 microJy/beam, and careful image analysis results in 49 confirmed point sources ranging in flux density from 1.2 mJy down to ~60

  79. P. Sanchez-Blazquez, J. Gorgas, N. Cardiel, J. J. Gonzalez

    This is the second paper of a series devoted to study the stellar content of early-type galaxies. The goal of the series is to set constraints on the evolutionary status of these objects. We use a new set of models which include an improved stellar library (MILES) to derive simple stellar population (SSP)-equivalent parameters in a sample of 98 early-type ga

  80. Stephen Eikenberry, S. Nicholas Raines, Nicolas Gruel, Richard Elston

    We report on the design, fabrication, and on-sky performance of the Florida Image Slicer for Infrared Cosmology and Astrophysics (FISICA)- a fully-cryogenic all-reflective image-slicing integral field unit for the FLAMINGOS near-infrared spectrograph. Designed to accept input beams near f/15, FISICA with FLAMINGOS provides R \sim 1300 spectra over a 16x33-ar

  81. G. V. Vereshchagin, G. Yegorian

    In the previous papers we derived cosmological equations for models with Gurzadyan-Xue dark energy, have performed their qualitative analysis and, particularly, have revealed a remarkable hidden invariance in the models with respect to the separatrix $Ω_{sep}$ in their phase portraits. Now, new analytic solutions for these models are obtained, showing additi

  82. P. Sanchez-Blazquez, J. Gorgas, N. Cardiel, J. Gonzalez

    Aims: This paper commences a series devoted to the study of the stellar content of early-type galaxies. The goal of the series is to set constraints on the evolutionary status of these objects. Methods: In this paper we describe the details of the galaxy sample, the observations, and the data reduction. Line-strength indices and velocity dispersions sigma ar

  83. P. Buyle, D. Michielsen, S. De Rijcke, D. J. Pisano

    We present deep single-dish HI observations of a sample of six nearby E+A galaxies (0.05<z<0.1). A non-negligible fraction of a local sample of E+As are detected in HI. In four galaxies, we have detected up to a few times 10^9 Msun of neutral gas. These E+A galaxies are almost as gas-rich as spiral galaxies with comparable luminosities. There appears to exis

  84. Roland Oechslin, Thomas Janka

    We present the results from new relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of binary neutron star mergers using realistic non-zero temperature equations of state. We vary several unknown parameters in the system such as the neutron star (NS) masses, their spins and the nuclear equation of state. The results are then investigated with special focus on the post-mer

  85. Volker Springel, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White

    Research over the past 25 years has led to the view that the rich tapestry of present-day cosmic structure arose during the first instants of creation, where weak ripples were imposed on the otherwise uniform and rapidly expanding primordial soup. Over 14 billion years of evolution, these ripples have been amplified to enormous proportions by gravitational f

  86. R. T. Gangadhara, R. M. C. Thomas

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  87. Steve Croft, Wil van Breugel, Wim de Vries, Mike Dopita

    We present neutral hydrogen, ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared imaging, and optical spectroscopy, of Minkowski&#39;s Object (MO), a star forming peculiar galaxy near NGC 541. The observations strengthen evidence that star formation in MO was triggered by the radio jet from NGC 541. Key new results are the discovery of a 4.9E8 solar mass double HI cloud

  88. I. Rogachevskii, N. Kleeorin

    An effect of the differential rotation on the nonlinear electromotive force in MHD turbulence is found. It includes a nonhelical $α$ effect which is caused by a differential rotation, and it is independent of a hydrodynamic helicity. There is no quenching of this effect contrary to the quenching of the usual $α$ effect caused by a hydrodynamic helicity. The

  89. K. G. Chetyrkin, J. H. Kühn, C. Sturm

    New results at four-loop order in perturbative QCD for the first two Taylor coefficients of the heavy quark vacuum polarization function are presented. They can be used to perform a precise determination of the charm- and bottom-quark mass. Implications for the value of the quark masses are briefly discussed.

  90. K. Aryanpour, W. E. Pickett, R. T. Scalettar

    We employ dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) with a Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) atomic solver to investigate the finite temperature Mott transition in the Hubbard model with the nearest neighbor hopping on a triangular lattice at half-filling. We estimate the value of the critical interaction to be $U_c=12.0 \pm 0.5$ in units of the hopping amplitude $t$ throu

  91. Larissa M. Ejzak, Adrian L. Melott, Mikhail V. Medvedev, Brian C. Thomas

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  92. John A. Baldwin

    We study contact structures compatible with genus one open book decompositions with one boundary component. Any monodromy for such an open book can be written as a product of Dehn twists around dual non-separating curves in the once-punctured torus. Given such a product, we supply an algorithm to determine whether the corresponding contact structure is tight

  93. Zheng-Chuan Wang

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  94. R. Roiban, A. Tirziu, A. A. Tseytlin

    Motivated by the desire to relate Bethe ansatz equations for anomalous dimensions found on the gauge theory side of the AdS/CFT correspondence to superstring theory on AdS_5 x S5 we explore a connection between the asymptotic S-matrix that enters the Bethe ansatz and an effective two-dimensional quantum field theory. The latter generalizes the standard ``non

  95. D. Schebarchov, S. C. Hendy

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  96. M. Bhattacharya, C. Raman

    In many physical systems it is important to be aware of the crossings and avoided crossings which occur when eigenvalues of a physical observable are varied using an external parameter. We have discovered a powerful algebraic method of finding such crossings via a mapping to the problem of locating the roots of a polynomial in that parameter. We demonstrate

  97. Julianna S. Tymoczko

    This paper defines and studies permutation representations on the equivariant cohomology of Schubert varieties, as representations both over C and over C[t_1, t_2,...,t_n]. We show these group actions are the same as an action of simple transpositions studied geometrically by M. Brion, and give topological meaning to the divided difference operators studied

  98. Haojing Yan, Mark Dickinson, Mauro Giavalisco, Daniel Stern

    Using the deep Spitzer IRAC observations of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), we study the stellar masses and star formation histories of galaxies at z ~ 6. Our study is based on the i-band dropout sample selected from the GOODS southern and northern fields (~ 330 arcmin^2 in total), several of which already have spectroscopic confirmation

  99. Jun Hu

    Let $m, n\in{\mathbb N}$. In this paper we study the right permutation action of the symmetric group ${\mathfrak S}_{2n}$ on the set of all the Brauer $n$-diagrams. A new basis for the free ${\mathbb Z}$-module ${\mathfrak B}_n$ spanned by these Brauer $n$-diagrams is constructed, which yields Specht filtrations for ${\mathfrak B}_n$. For any $2m$-dimensiona

  100. Lars Fritz, Serge Florens, Matthias Vojta

    The pseudogap Kondo problem, describing a magnetic impurity embedded in an electronic environment with a power-law density of states, displays continuous quantum phase transitions between free and screened moment phases. In this paper we employ renormalization group techniques to analytically calculate universal crossover functions, associated to these trans