September 2006 arXiv papers — page 27

Mark Hammergren, Geza Gyuk, Andrew Puckett

We report visible to near-infrared spectroscopy and spectrophotometry of asteroid (21238) 1995 WV7 that reveal the presence of deep absorption bands indicating a V taxonomic type with an apparently basaltic surface composition. Since this asteroid is on the other side of the 3:1 mean motion resonance from Vesta, and because the required ejection velocity fro

A. Collier Cameron, D. Pollacco, R. A. Street, T. A. Lister

We present a fast and efficient hybrid algorithm for selecting exoplanetary candidates from wide-field transit surveys. Our method is based on the widely-used SysRem and Box Least-Squares (BLS) algorithms. Patterns of systematic error that are common to all stars on the frame are mapped and eliminated using the SysRem algorithm. The remaining systematic erro

M. Kramer, I. H. Stairs, R. N. Manchester, M. A. McLaughlin

The double pulsar system, PSR J0737-3039A/B, is unique in that both neutron stars are detectable as radio pulsars. This, combined with significantly higher mean orbital velocities and accelerations when compared to other binary pulsars, suggested that the system would become the best available testbed for general relativity and alternative theories of gravit

Anna Lia Longinotti, Stuart Sim, Kirpal Nandra, Massimo Cappi

We present an analysis of hard X-ray features in the spectrum of the bright Sy 1 galaxy Mrk 335 observed by the XMM-Newton satellite. Our analysis confi rms the presence of a broad, ionised iron Kalpha emission line in the spectrum, first found by Gondoin et al. The broad line can be modeled successfully by relativistic accretion disc reflection models. This

D. J. Patnaude, R. A. Fesen

A comparison of X-ray observations of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant taken in 2000, 2002, and 2004 with the Chandra ACIS-S3 reveals the presence of several small scale features (<= 10 arcsec) which exhibit significant intensity changes over a 4 year time frame. Here we report on the variability of six features, four of which show count rate increases fro

Yan-Chuan Cai, Jun Pan, Yong-Heng Zhao, Long-Long Feng

The power spectrum of the two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) sample is estimated with the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) method. The DWT power spectra within $0.04 <k< 2.3 h$Mpc$^{-1}$ are measured for three volume-limited samples defined in connective absolute magnitude bins $-19 \sim -18$, $-20 \sim -19$ and $-21 \sim -20$. We show that the

P. Leisy, M. Dennefeld

We present the second part of an optical spectroscopic study of planetary nebulae in the LMC and SMC. The first paper, Leisy & Dennefeld (1996), discussed the CNO cycle for those objects where C abundances were available. In this paper we concentrate more on other elemental abundances (such as O, Ne, S, Ar) and their implications for the evolution of the pro

Matthew G. Baring, Errol J. Summerlin

Recent advances in the understanding of the properties of supernova remnant shocks have been precipitated by the Chandra and XMM X-ray Observatories, and the HESS Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescope in the TeV band. A critical problem for this field is the understanding of the relative degree of dissipative heating/energization of electrons and ions in the shock

R. Buta, E. Laurikainen, H. Salo, D. L. Block

This paper reports on a near-infrared survey of early-type galaxies designed to provide information on bar strengths, bulges, disks, and bar parameters in a statistically well-defined sample of S0-Sa galaxies. Early-type galaxies have the advantage that their bars are relatively free of the effects of dust, star formation, and spiral structure that complicat

D. Gotz, S. Mereghetti, K. Hurley

Thanks to INTEGRAL&#39;s long exposures of the Galactic Plane, the two brightest Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters, SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14, have been monitored and studied in detail for the first time at hard-X/soft gamma rays. This has produced a wealth of new scientific results, which we will review here. Since SGR 1806-20 was particularly active during the la

Dany Vanbeveren, Erwin De Donder

Understanding the galaxy in which we live is one of the great intellectual challenges facing modern science. With the advent of high quality observational data, the chemical evolution modeling of our galaxy has been the subject of numerous studies in the last years. However, all these studies have one missing element which is the evolution of close binaries.

Pieter Buyle, Dolf Michielsen, Sven De Rijcke, Juergen Ott

We present a search for CO(1->0) emission in three Local Group dwarf irregular galaxies: IC5152, the Phoenix dwarf, and UGCA438, using the ATNF Mopra radio telescope. Our scans largely cover the optical extent of the galaxies and the stripped HI cloud West of the Phoenix dwarf. Apart from a tentative but non-significant emission peak at one position in the P

Joni Tammi, Rami Vainio

We apply a semi-classical approach of handling waves as quasiparticle gas in a slowly varying flow -- analogous to ray tracing -- to calculate the Alfven wave transmission parameters, the resulting cross-helicity of the waves and the scattering-centre compression ratio, for cases where the shock thickness is large enough for the turbulent waves in the plasma

Daniel Babich, Abraham Loeb

Thomson scattering of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on moving electrons in the outflows of Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) at redshifts 2-8 contributes to the small-scale CMB anisotropies. The net effect produced by each outflow depends on its level of deviation from spherical symmetry, caused either by an anisotropic energy injection from the nuclear st

F. Malbet

Interferometry has brought many new constraints in optical astronomy in the recent years. A major leap in this field is the opening of large interferometric facilities like the Very Large Telescope Interferometer and the Keck Interferometer to the astronomical community. Planning for the future is both easy --most specialists know in which directions to deve

T. R. Kendall, H. R. A. Jones, D. J. Pinfield, R. S. Pokorny

We report the discovery of twenty-one hitherto unknown bright southern ultracool dwarfs with spectral types in the range M7 to L5.5, together with new observations of a further three late M dwarfs previously confirmed. Three more objects are already identified in the literature as high proper motion stars;we derive their spectral types for the first time. Al

Z. Eker, O. Demircan, S. Bilir, Y. Karatas

Orbital angular momentum (Jo), systemic mass (M) and orbital period (P) distributions of chromospherically active binaries (CAB) and W Ursae Majoris (W UMa) systems were investigated. The diagrams of log Jo - log P, log M - log P and log Jo-log M were formed from 119 CAB and 102 W UMa stars. The log Jo-log M diagram is found to be most meaningful in demonstr

A. Evans, T. Kerr, Bin Yang, Y. Matsuoka

We present infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi, obtained 11.81, 20.75 and 55.71 days following its 2006 eruption. The spectra are dominated by hydrogen recombination lines, together with HeI, OI and OII lines; the electron temperature of ~10^4 K implied by the recombination spectrum suggests that we are seeing primarily the wind of the re

Masanori Iye, Kazuaki Ota, Nobunari Kashikawa, Hisanori Furusawa

When galaxy formation started in the history of the Universe remains unclear. Studies of the cosmic microwave background indicate that the Universe, after initial cooling (following the Big Bang), was reheated and reionized by hot stars in newborn galaxies at a redshift in the range 6 < z < 14 (ref. 1). Though several candidate galaxies at redshift z > 7 hav

Peter Woitke

New dynamical models for dust-driven winds of oxygen-rich AGB stars are presented which include frequency-dependent Monte Carlo radiative transfer by means of a sparse opacity distribution technique and a time-dependent treatment of the nucleation, growth and evaporation of inhomogeneous dust grains composed of a mixture of Mg2SiO4, SiO2, Al2O3, TiO2, and so

E. Florido, E. Battaner, A. Guijarro, F. Garzon

The results obtained in paper I are used to study possible relationships between the truncation radius of stellar discs in the NIR and structural parameters of the galaxies. The NIR truncation radius is larger for brighter galaxies, being proportional to $V_m^c$ with $c \approx 3/2$, and with $V_m$ being the asymptotic rotation velocity at large radii (when

M. Guedel

Stellar coronae, defined by the ensemble of magnetic field structures above stellar photospheres and chromospheres together with their thermal or non-thermal plasma content, play an important role in our understanding of stellar magnetic fields, the stellar magnetic dynamo, and interactions between a star and its environment. The most important wavelength re

Faustin Munyaneza, Peter L. Biermann

We study the distribution of fermionic dark matter at the center of galaxies using NFW, Moore and isothermal density profiles and show that dark matter becomes degenerate for particle masses of a few {\rm keV} and for distances less than a few parsec from the center of our galaxy. A compact degenerate core forms after galaxy merging and boosts the growth of

R. S. Schnerr, K. L. J. Rygl, A. J. van der Horst, T. A. Oosterloo

A number of O stars are suspected to have (weak) magnetic fields because of the observed cyclical variability in their UV wind-lines. However, direct detections of these magnetic fields with optical spectropolarimetry have proven to be very difficult. We have searched for non-thermal radio emission, which would be a strong indication for the presence of a ma

D. Horns, F. Aharonian, A. I. D. Hoffmann, A. Santangelo

Observations of the inner radian of the Galactic disk at very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays have revealed at least 16 new sources. Besides shell type super-nova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) appear to be a dominant source population in the catalogue of VHE gamma-ray sources. Except for the Crab nebula, the newly discovered PWN are resolved at VHE gamma-

E. Costantini, J. S. Kaastra, N. Arav, G. A. Kriss

We present a Chandra-LETGS observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 279. This observation was carried out simultaneously with HST-STIS and FUSE, in the context of a multiwavelength study of this source. The Chandra pointings were spread over ten days for a total exposure time of ~360 ks. The spectrum of Mrk279 shows evidence of broad emission features, especi

E. Florido, E. Battaner, A. Guijarro, F. Garzon

We present NIR surface photometry of 11 edge-on galaxies obtained in the course of a long term project aimed at analysing the occurrence and type of the truncation of the outer disks. Observations were carried out at the 1.5 m CST (Carlos Sánchez Telescope) in Tenerife (Spain) using the CAIN infrared camera. 7 galaxies exhibit clear truncation on their disk

G. Z. Machabeli, Zaza Osmanov, Swadesh M. Mahajan

An investigation of the kinematics of a plasma stream rotating in the pulsar magnetosphere is presented. On the basis of an exact set of equations describing the behavior of the plasma stream, the increment of the instability is obtained, and the possible relevance of this approach for the understanding of the pulsar rotation energy pumping mechanism is disc

F. Wöger, S. Wedemeyer-Böhm, W. Schmidt, O. von der Lühe

In this work we investigate the dynamic behavior of inter-network regions of the solar chromosphere. We observed the chromosphere of the quiet Sun using a narrow-band Lyot filter centered at the Ca II K 2v emission peak with a bandpass of 0.3A. We achieved a spatial resolution of on average 0.7&#34; at a cadence of 10s. In the inter-network we find a mesh-li

A. Palacios, S. Talon, S. Turck-Chieze, C. Charbonnel

Recent seismic observations coming from acoustic and gravity modes clearly show that the solar standard model has reached its limits and can no longer be used to interpret satisfactorily seismic observations. In this paper, we present a review of the non-standard processes that may be added to the solar models in order to improve our understanding of the hel

J. Kaluzny, W. Pych, S. M. Rucinski, I. B. Thompson

We present echelle spectroscopic data for five eclipsing binary stars and two giant stars in the field of the open cluster NGC 2243. The average cluster velocity is determined to be +60.4 +- 0.6 km/s. Four of the eclipsing binaries are very likely members of the cluster based on their observed radial velocities. The absolute parameters of cluster member NV C

J. Kaluzny, W. Krzeminski, I. B. Thompson, G. Stachowski

We obtained BV time series photometry for 12 variable stars from the field of the old open cluster NGC 2243. The sample includes 3 newly identified detached/semi-detached binaries. There are now four detached eclipsing binaries which are likely members of the cluster. Determination of the absolute parameters of the components would provide a valuable check o

Shinya Komugi, Yoshiaki Sofue, Fumi Egusa

Based on simple physical and geometric assumptions, we have calculated the mean surface molecular density of spiral galaxies at the threshold between star formation induced by cloud-cloud collision and spontaneous gravitational collapse. The calculated threshold is approximately $\log Σ_\mathrm{crit} \sim 2.5$, where $ Σ\quad \mathrm{M_{\solar}}\cdot \mathrm

Hiroko Matsumoto, Tsubasa Fukue, Hideyuki Kamaya

We reproduce the expansion velocity--radius ($V_{\rm{exp}}$--$R_{\rm{n}}$) relation in planetary nebulae by considering a simple dynamical model, in order to investigate the dynamical evolution and formation of planetary nebulae. In our model, the planetary nebula is formed and evolving by interaction of a fast wind from the central star with a slow wind fro

M. H. S. Amin, Peter J. Love, C. J. S. Truncik

We study the effect of a thermal environment on adiabatic quantum computation using the Bloch-Redfield formalism. We show that in certain cases the environment can enhance the performance in two different ways: (i) by introducing a time scale for thermal mixing near the anticrossing that is smaller than the adiabatic time scale, and (ii) by relaxation after

Michael Boyle, Lee Lindblom, Harald Pfeiffer, Mark Scheel

The accuracy and stability of the Caltech-Cornell pseudospectral code is evaluated using the KST representation of the Einstein evolution equations. The basic &#34;Mexico City Tests&#34; widely adopted by the numerical relativity community are adapted here for codes based on spectral methods. Exponential convergence of the spectral code is established, appar

Mahiko Suzuki

The conspicuous threshold enhancement has been observed in the baryon-antibaryon subchannels of many three-body B decay modes. By examining the partial waves of baryon-antibaryon, we first show for B- -->pp-bar K- that the pK- angular correlation rules out dominance of a single pp-bar partial wave for the enhancement, for instance, the resonance hypothesis o

D. C. Johnston

Stretched exponential relaxation of a quantity n versus time t according to n = n_0 exp[-(lambda* t)^beta] is ubiquitous in many research fields, where lambda* is a characteristic relaxation rate and the stretching exponent beta is in the range 0 < beta < 1. Here we consider systems in which the stretched exponential relaxation arises from the global relaxat

Dan Shiber

In this paper we develop the theory of information geometry for single random matrix models, with two goals: proving a Cramer-Rao theorem for estimators on random matrices, and calculating the Legendre transform of pressure and entropy with respect to a metric duality. Consequently, in the large n limit we recover several quantities from free probability: Vo

G. W. Gibbons, Neil Turok

The Hamiltonian structure of general relativity provides a natural canonical measure on the space of all classical universes, i.e., the multiverse. We review this construction and show how one can visualize the measure in terms of a &#34;magnetic flux&#34; of solutions through phase space. Previous studies identified a divergence in the measure, which we obs

G. A. Bakos, R. W. Noyes, G. Kovacs, D. W. Latham

Using small automated telescopes in Arizona and Hawaii, the HATNet project has detected an object transiting one member of the double star system ADS 16402 AB. This system is a pair of G0 main-sequence stars with age about 3 Gyr at a distance of ~139 pc and projected separation of ~1550 AU. The transit signal has a period of 4.46529 days and depth of 0.015 m

William Chin

We develop the theory of special biserial and string coalgebras and other concepts from the representation theory of quivers. These tools are then used to describe the finite dimensional comodules and Auslander-Reiten quiver for the coordinate Hopf algebra of quantum SL(2) at a root of unity. We also describe the stable Green ring and compute quantum dimensi

Henrique Boschi-Filho, Nelson R. F. Braga

We discuss some recent phenomenological models for strong interactions based on the idea of gauge/string duality. A very good estimate for hadronic masses can be found by placing an infrared cut off in AdS space. Considering static strings in this geometry one can also reproduce the phenomenological Cornell potential for a quark anti-quark potential at zero

G. Christopher Hruska, Daniel T. Wise

We introduce the bounded packing property for a subgroup of a countable discrete group G. This property gives a finite upper bound on the number of left cosets of the subgroup that are pairwise close in G. We establish basic properties of bounded packing, and give many examples; for instance, every subgroup of a countable, virtually nilpotent group has bound

Vitor Cardoso, Marco Cavaglia, Mario Pimenta

We show that if the visible universe is a membrane embedded in a higher-dimensional space, particles in uniform motion radiate gravitational waves because of spacetime lumpiness. This phenomenon is analogous to the electromagnetic diffraction radiation of a charge moving near to a metallic grating. In the gravitational case, the role of the metallic grating

F. Rodriguez Hertz, MA. Rodriguez Hertz

We prove that a cohomology free flow on a manifold M fibers over a diophantine translation on the torus T b, where b is the first Betti number of M.

Umpei Miyamoto, Hideaki Kudoh

Non-uniform black strings coupled to a gauge field are constructed by a perturbative method in a wide range of spacetime dimensions. At the linear order of perturbations, we see that the Gregory-Laflamme instability vanishes at the point where the background solution becomes thermodynamically stable. The emergence/vanishing of the static mode resembles phase

Bhuvnesh Jain, Andrew Connolly, Masahiro Takada

Lensing tomography with multi-color imaging surveys can probe dark energy and the cosmological power spectrum. However accurate photometric redshifts for tomography out to high redshift require imaging in five or more bands, which is expensive to carry out over thousands of square degrees. Since lensing makes coarse, statistical use of redshift information,

S. D. Bennett, A. A. Clerk

We discuss negative damping regimes in quantum nano-electromechanical systems formed by coupling a mechanical oscillator to a single-electron transistor (normal or superconducting). Using an analogy to a laser with a tunable atom-field coupling, we demonstrate how these effects scale with system parameters. We also discuss the fluctuation physics of both the

Yosuke Mizuno, Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, Shinji Koide, Philip Hardee

We have performed several simulations of black hole systems (non-rotating, black hole spin parameter a=0.0 and rapidly rotating, a=0.95) with a geometrically thin Keplerian disk using the newly developed RAISHIN code. The simulation results show the formation of jets driven by the Lorentz force and the gas pressure gradient. The jets have mildly relativistic

Ishwaree P. Neupane

We find a cosmological solution corresponding to compactification of 10d supergravity on a warped conifold that easily circumvents `no-go&#39; theorem given for a warped/flux compactification, providing new perspectives for the study of supergravity or superstring theory in cosmological backgrounds. With fixed volume moduli of the internal space, the model c

Bruce P. Ayati, Isaac Klapper

We derive a physiologically structured multiscale model for biofilm development. The model has components on two spatial scales, which induce different time scales into the problem. The macroscopic behavior of the system is modeled using growth-induced flow in a domain with a moving boundary. Cell-level processes are incorporated into the model using a so-ca

Greg Anderson, Ofer Zeitouni

We consider random hermitian matrices in which distant above-diagonal entries are independent but nearby entries may be correlated. We find the limit of the empirical distribution of eigenvalues by combinatorial methods. We also prove that the limit has algebraic Stieltjes transform by an argument based on dimension theory of noetherian local rings.

K. Choi, Y. G. Kim, K. Y. Lee, K. Okumura

We study the phenomenology of neutralino dark matter (DM) in mirage mediation scenario of supersymmetry breaking which results from the moduli stabilization in some string/brane models. Depending upon the model parameters, especially the anomaly to modulus mediation ratio determined by the moduli stabilization mechanism, the nature of the lightest supersymme

F. Rodriguez Hertz, M. A. Rodriguez Hertz, R. Ures

Some of the guiding problems in partially hyperbolic systems are the following: (1) Examples, (2) Properties of invariant foliations, (3) Accessibility, (4) Ergodicity, (5) Lyapunov exponents, (6) Integrability of central foliations, (7) Transitivity and (8) Classification. Here we will survey the state of the art on these subjects, and propose related probl

G. Báez, H. Hernández-Saldaña, R. A. Méndez-Sánchez

Analysis of vote distributions using current tools from statistical physics is of increasing interest. While data considered for physics studies are subject to a careful understanding of error sources, such analysis are almost absent in studies of voting process. As a way to test reliability in electoral processes we choose to investigate the July 2006 presi

Eberhard H. -A. Gerbracht

The Harborth graph is the smallest known example of a 4-regular planar unit-distance graph. In this paper we give an analytical description of the coordinates of its vertices for a particular embedding in the Euclidean plane. More precisely, we show, how to calculate the minimal polynomials of the coordinates of its vertices (with the help of a computer alge

Damian Markham, Akimasa Miyake, Shashank Virmani

We exactly evaluate a number of multipartite entanglement measures for a class of graph states, including d-dimensional cluster states (d = 1,2,3), the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states, and some related mixed states. The entanglement measures that we consider are continuous, `distance from separable states&#39; measures, including the relative entropy, the

Aftab Pande

We use a method of Buzzard to study p-adic families of different types of modular forms - classical, over imaginary quadratic fields and totally real fields. In the case of totally real fields of even degree, we get local constancy of dimensions of spaces of fixed slope and varying weight. For imaginary quadratic fields we obtain bounds independent of the we

E. Filippova, M. Revnivtsev, S. Fabrika, K. Postnov

We present our analysis of the extensive monitoring of SS433 by the RXTE observatory collected over the period 1996-2005. The difference between energy spectra taken at different precessional and orbital phases shows the presence of strong photoabsorption (N_H>10^{23}cm^{-2}) near the optical star, probably due to its powerful, dense wind. Therefore the size

Charles M. Beck

We derive discrete and continuous class of mathematical models that describe a progressive collapse in a fictional one-dimensional structure, where we consider plastic and elastic types of collisions. We examine static (collapse initiation lines, derived from the ultimate yield strength of the structural steel) and dynamic (duration of collapse, computed usi

Alessandro D&#39;Andrea

I give a short proof of the following algebraic statement: if a vertex algebra is simple, then its underlying Lie conformal algebra is either abelian, or it is an irreducible central extension of a simple Lie conformal algebra.

Michael Kunzinger, Roland Steinbauer, James A. Vickers

This paper is part of an ongoing program to develop a theory of generalized differential geometry. We consider the space $\mathcal{G}[X,Y]$ of Colombeau generalized functions defined on a manifold $X$ and taking values in a manifold $Y$. This space is essential in order to study concepts such as flows of generalized vector fields or geodesics of generalized

J. Fransson, A. V. Balatsky

We propose a mechanism to use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) for direct measurements of the two-electron singlet-triplet exchange splitting $J$ in diatomic molecular systems, unsing the coupling between the molecule and the substrate electrons. The different pathways for electrons lead to interference effects and generate kinks in the differential condu

Sergey Mozgovoy

We prove that the weight multiplicities of the integrable irreducible highest weight module over the Kac-Moody algebra associated to a quiver are equal to the root multiplicities of the Kac-Moody algebra associated to some enlarged quiver. To do this, we use the Kac conjecture for indivisible roots and a relation between the Poincare polynomials of quiver va

Anna L. Watts, Sanjay Reddy

Compact relativistic stars allow us to study the nature of matter under extreme conditions, probing regions of parameter space that are otherwise inaccessible. Nuclear theory in this regime is not well constrained: one key issue is whether neutron stars are in fact composed primarily of strange quark matter. Distinguishing the two possibilities, however, has

G. Perrin, S. Lacour, J. Woillez, E. Thiebaut

Because of atmospheric turbulence, obtaining high angular resolution images with a high dynamic range is difficult even in the near infrared domain of wavelengths. We propose a novel technique to overcome this issue. The fundamental idea is to apply techniques developed for long baseline interferometry to the case of a single-aperture telescope. The pupil of

Jesus Inarrea, Gloria Platero, A. H. MacDonald

We analyzed the electronic transport through a double quantum dot in the spin blockade regime. Experiments of current rectification by Pauli exclusion principle in double quantum dots were discussed. The electron and nuclei spin dynamics and their interplay due to the Hyperfine interaction were self-consistently analyzed within the framework of rate equation

Sebastian Daemgen, Nick Siegler, I. Neill Reid, Laird M. Close

We present results of a high-resolution, near-infrared survey of 41 nearby, young (<~300 Myr) M0-M5.0 dwarfs using the Altair natural guide star adaptive optics system at the Gemini North telescope. Twelve of the objects appear to be binaries, 7 of which are reported here for the first time. One triple system was discovered. Statistical properties are studie

A. Zheludev, V. O. Garlea, S. Nishihara, Y. Hosokoshi

Polarized neutron diffraction experiments on an organic magnetic material reveal a highly skewed distribution of spin density within the magnetic molecular unit. The very large magnitude of the observed effect is due to quantum spin fluctuations. The data are in quantitative agreement with direct diagonalization results for a model spin Hamiltonian, and prov

Chuanwei Zhang, V. W. Scarola, Sumanta Tewari, S. Das Sarma

Topological quantum states of matter, both Abelian and non-Abelian, are characterized by excitations whose wavefunctions undergo non-trivial statistical transformations as one excitation is moved (braided) around another. Topological quantum computation proposes to use the topological protection and the braiding statistics of a non-Abelian topological state

Ben Dundee, Gerald B. Cleaver

In this letter, we construct a model based on a flipped SU(5) partial grand unified theory, within the framework of the Randall-Sundrum (RS1) proposal. Breaking of $\widetilde{SU}(5)$ is achieved using a bulk scalar field in the \textbf{10} of SU(5), $Φ$, which gains a vacuum expectation value $\left< Φ\right> \sim 3 \times 10^{15}$ GeV. We are able to retai

Cheng-Wei Chiang, Yu-Feng Zhou

Global fits to charmless B --> PP decays in the framework of flavor SU(3) symmetry are updated and improved without reference to the \sin2βmeasured from the charmonium decay modes. Fit results directly constrain the (\barρ,\barη) vertex of the unitarity triangle, and are used to predict the branching ratios and CP asymmetries of all decay modes, including th

A. W. Strong

Population synthesis is used to study the contribution from undetected sources to the Galactic ridge emission measured by EGRET. Synthesized source counts are compared with the 3rd EGRET catalogue at low and high latitudes. For pulsar-like populations, 5-10% of the emission >100 MeV comes from sources below the EGRET threshold. A steeper luminosity function

M. Baldo, E. E. Saperstein, S. V. Tolokonnikov

A semi-microscopic self-consistent quantum approach developed recently to describe the inner crust structure of neutron stars within the Wigner-Seitz (WS) method with the explicit inclusion of neutron and proton pairing correlations is further developed. In this approach, the generalized energy functional is used which contains the anomalous term describing

Chien-Hwa Hwang

Asymptotic spectral distribution (ASD) of the crosscorrelation matrix is investigated for a random spreading short/long-code asynchronous direct sequence-code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) system. The discrete-time decision statistics are obtained as the output samples of a bank of symbol matched filters of all users. The crosscorrelation matrix is stud

O. P. Santillan

We construct propose an anzatz for Spin(7) metrics as an R-bundle over closed G2 structures. These G2 structures are R3 bundles over 4-dimensional compact quaternion Kahler spaces. The inspiration for the anzatz metric comes from the Bryant-Salamon construction of G2 holonomy metrics and from the fact that the twistor space of any compact quaternion Kahler s

S. Pascoli, S. T. Petcov, A. Riotto

It was commonly thought that the observation of low energy leptonic CP-violating phases would not automatically imply the existence of a baryon asymmetry in the leptogenesis scenario. This conclusion does not generically hold when the issue of flavour is relevant and properly taken into account in leptogenesis. We illustrate this point with various examples

John McDonald

The similarity of the observed densities of baryons and cold dark matter suggests that they have a common or related origin. This can be understood in the context of the MSSM with right-handed (RH) sneutrinos if cold dark matter is due to a d = 4 flat direction condensate of very weakly coupled RH sneutrino LSPs and the baryon asymmetry is generated by Affle

Yoav Tsori

We consider orientational transitions of lamellar phases under the influence of a spatially nonuniform electric field. The transition between parallel and perpendicular lamellar stackings with respect to the substrate is investigated as a function of the system parameters. The dielectrophoretic energy and the energy penalty for having dielectric interfaces p

S. P. Tsarev

We describe a method of obtaining closed-form complete solutions of certain second-order linear partial differential equations with more than two independent variables. This method generalizes the classical method of Laplace transformations of second-order hyperbolic equations in the plane and is based on an idea given by Ulisse Dini in 1902.

P. Ara, E. Pardo

We characterize the values of the stable rank for Leavitt path algebras, by giving concrete criteria in terms of properties of the underlying graph.

Mark Haskins, Tommaso Pacini

We exhibit infinitely many, explicit special Lagrangian isolated singularities that admit no asymptotically conical special Lagrangian smoothings. The existence/ nonexistence of such smoothings is an important component of the current efforts to understand which singular special Lagrangians arise as limits of smooth special Lagrangians. We also use soft meth

Ludovica Cotta-Ramusino, David Wands

We derive the low-energy effective theory of gravity for a generalized Randall-Sundrum scenario, allowing for a third self-gravitating brane to live in the 5D bulk spacetime. At zero order the 5D spacetime is composed of two slices of anti-de Sitter spacetime, each with a different curvature scale, and the 5D Weyl tensor vanishes. Two boundary branes are at

S. Ulzega, A. Hofer, P. Moroshkin, A. Weis

We present a new theoretical analysis of the strongly suppressed F- and M-dependent Stark shifts of the Cs ground state hyperfine structure. Our treatment uses third order perturbation theory including off-diagonal hyperfine interactions not considered in earlier treatments. A numerical evaluation of the perturbation sum using bound states up to n=200 yields

Philippe Grandclement

This paper is devoted to the computation of compact binaries composed of one black hole and one neutron star. The objects are assumed to be on exact circular orbits. Standard 3+1 decomposition of Einstein equations is performed and the conformal flatness approximation is used. The obtained system of elliptic equations is solved by means of multi-domain spect

J. Linder, M. S. Gronsleth, A. Sudbo

SHORTENED ABSTRACT: A system exhibiting multiple simultaneously broken symmetries offers the opportunity to influence physical phenomena such as tunneling currents by means of external control parameters. In this paper, we consider the broken SU(2) (internal spin) symmetry of ferromagnetic systems coexisting with \textit{i)} the broken U(1) symmetry of super

Arturo Alvarez

We study certain correspondences over Drinfeld modular varieties given by sums of Hecke correspondences. We propose generalizations of Stickelberger&#39;s theorem for higher dimensions. Using this result, we study anihilators for some cusp forms.

John R. Klauder

Nonrenormalizable quantum field theories require counterterms; and based on the hard-core interpretation of such interactions, it is initially argued, contrary to the standard view, that counterterms suggested by renormalized perturbation theory are in fact inappropriate for this purpose. Guided by the potential underlying causes of triviality of such models

Leif Boysen, Volkmar Liebscher, Axel Munk, Olaf Wittich

We study the asymptotic behavior of piecewise constant least squares regression estimates, when the number of partitions of the estimate is penalized. We show that the estimator is consistent in the relevant metric if the signal is in $L^2([0,1])$, the space of càdlàg functions equipped with the Skorokhod metric or $C([0,1])$ equipped with the supremum metri

Victor M. Buchstaber, Taras E. Panov, Nigel Ray

Our aim is to bring the theory of analogous polytopes to bear on the study of quasitoric manifolds, in the context of stably complex manifolds with compatible torus action. By way of application, we give an explicit construction of a quasitoric representative for every complex cobordism class as the quotient of a free torus action on a real quadratic complet

Carlo Morosi, Livio Pizzocchero

This paper is related to our previous works [1][2] on the error estimate of the averaging technique, for systems with one fast angular variable. In the cited references, a general method (of mixed analytical and numerical type) has been introduced to obtain precise, fully quantitative estimates on the averaging error. Here, this procedure is applied to the m

C. F. Huang, Y. H. Chang, H. H. Cheng, Z. P. Yang

Magnetic-field-induced phase transitions were studied with a two-dimensional electron AlGaAs/GaAs system. The temperature-driven flow diagram shows the features of the $Γ$(2) modular symmetry, which includes distorted flowlines and shiftted critical point. The deviation of the critical conductivities is attributed to a small but resolved spin splitting, whic

Eduard Masso, Subhendra Mohanty, Akhilesh Nautiyal, Gabriel Zsembinszki

If the universe had a large curvature before inflation there is a deviation from the scale invariant perturbations of the inflaton at the beginning of inflation. This may have some effect on the CMB anisotropy at large angular scales. We calculate the density perturbations for both open and closed universe cases using the Bunch-Davies vacuum condition on the

Ying-Qiu Gu, Bijan Saha

To understand the coupling behavior of the spinor with spacetime, the explicit form of the energy-momentum tensor of the spinor in curved spacetime is important. This problem seems to be overlooked for a long time. In this paper we derive the explicit form of energy momentum tensors and display some equivalent but simple forms of the covariant derivatives fo

Carlo Morosi, Livio Pizzocchero

We extend some previous results of our work [1] on the error of the averaging method, in the one-frequency case. The new error estimates apply to any separating family of seminorms on the space of the actions; they generalize our previous estimates in terms of the Euclidean norm. For example, one can use the new approach to get separate error estimates for e

Mylene Pischella, Jean-Claude Belfiore

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Parikshit Gopalan, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Elitza Maneva, Christos H. Papadimitriou

Boolean satisfiability problems are an important benchmark for questions about complexity, algorithms, heuristics and threshold phenomena. Recent work on heuristics, and the satisfiability threshold has centered around the structure and connectivity of the solution space. Motivated by this work, we study structural and connectivity-related properties of the

Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, Erez Berg, Ehud Altman

We investigate the phase diagram of spinless bosons with long range (~ 1/r^3) repulsive interactions, relevant to ultracold polarized atoms or molecules, using DMRG. Between the two conventional insulating phases, the Mott and density wave phases, we find a new phase possessing hidden order revealed by non local string correlations analogous to those charact

Jun Hayakawa, Shoji Ikeda, Young Min Lee, Ryutaro Sasaki

We report the intrinsic critical current density (Jc0) in current-induced magnetization switching and the thermal stability factor (E/kBT, where E, kB, and T are the energy potential, the Boltzmann constant, and temperature, respectively) in MgO based magnetic tunnel junctions with a Co40Fe40B20(2nm)/Ru(0.7-2.4nm)/Co40Fe40B20(2nm) synthetic ferrimagnetic (Sy