December 2006 arXiv papers — page 4

Lili Li, Yanxia Zhang, Yongheng Zhao, Dawei Yang

We calculate photometric redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 2 Galaxy Sample using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Different input patterns based on various parameters (e.g. magnitude, color index, flux information) are explored and their performances for redshift prediction are compared. For ANN technique, any parameter may be easily

Taekyung Kim, Yoonbai Kim, Bumseok Kyae, Jungjai Lee

We study D- and DF-strings in a D3${\bar {\rm D}}3$ system by using Dirac-Born-Infeld type action. In the presence of an electric flux from the transverse direction, we discuss gravitating thick D-string solutions of a spatial manifold, ${\rm S}^{2}\times {\rm R}^{1}$, in which straight D-strings stretched along the R${}^{1}$ direction are attached to the so

F. Lahuis, H. W. W. Spoon, A. G. G. M. Tielens, S. D. Doty

High resolution spectra of the Spitzer Space Telescope show vibration-rotation absorption bands of gaseous C2H2, HCN, and CO2 molecules toward a sample of deeply obscured (U)LIRG nuclei. The observed bands reveal the presence of dense (n>~ 10^7 cm^-3), warm (T_ex = 200-700 K) molecular gas with high column densities of these molecules ranging from a few 10^1

Hao Wei, Ningning Tang, Shuang Nan Zhang

Recently, many efforts have been made to build dark energy models whose equation-of-state parameter can cross the so-called phantom divide $w_{de}=-1$. One of them is the so-called hessence dark energy model in which the role of dark energy is played by a non-canonical complex scalar field. In this work, we develop a simple method based on Hubble parameter $

Yan-Gang Miao

The parent action method is utilized to the Born-Infeld and $Dp$-brane theories. Various new forms of Born-Infeld and $Dp$-brane actions are derived by using this systematic approach, in which both the already known 2-metric and newly proposed 3-metric prescriptions are considered. An auxiliary worldvolume tensor field, denoted by $ω_{μν}$, is introduced and

Chang-Qun Ma, Chun-Yuan Gao

The K$^-$ condensation and quark deconfinement phase transitions are investigated in the modified quark-meson coupling model. It is shown that K$^-$ condensation is suppressed because of the quark deconfinement when $B^{1/4}<$202.2MeV, where $B$ is the bag constant for unpaired quark matter. With the equation of state (EOS) solved self-consistently, we discu

Ying-Qiu Gu

In this paper we establish a generally and globally valid coordinate system in curved space-time with the simultaneous hypersurface orthogonal to the time coordinate. The time coordinate can be preseted according to practical evolving process and keep synchronous with the evolution of the realistic world. In this coordinate system, it is convenient to expres

S. Orlik, M. Strauch

Let G be a p-adic connected reductive group with Lie algebra g. For a parabolic subgroup P in G and a finite-dimensional locally analytic representation V of P, we study the induced locally analytic G-representation W = Ind^G_P(V). Our result is the following criterion concerning the topological irreducibility of W: if the Verma module U(g) \otimes_{U(p)} V&

R. S. D. Thomas

Isonemal weaving designs, introduced into mathematical literature by Grünbaum and Shephard, were classified into thirty-nine infinite sets and a small number of exceptions by Richard Roth. This paper refines Roth&#39;s taxonomy for the first ten of these families in order to solve three problems, which designs exist in various sizes, which prefabrics can be

Ian Woo Lee, Taekoon Lee

We show that the absence of spin-orbit inversions in heavy-light mesons can be explained by the chiral radiative corrections in potential model. A new potential model estimate is given of the masses for P-wave bottom mesons.

Jia-Chen Hua, Yong-Chang Huang

Quantum radiation properties of Dirac particles in general nonstationary black holes in the general case is investigated by both using the method of generalized tortoise coordinate transformation and considering the asymptotic behaviors of both the first and second order forms of Dirac equations near the event horizon. It is generally shown that the temperat

Jia-Chen Hua, Yong-Chang Huang

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors. Quantum radiative characteristics of 4D semi-classical nonstationary black holes in the general case are investigated by using the method of generalized tortoise coordinate transformation. It is generally shown that the temperature and the shape of the event horizon of this kind of black holes depend on both the

D. Fargion, D. D&#39;Armiento, M. Iacobelli, O. Lanciano

Neutrino masses might be as light as a few time the atmospheric neutrino mass splitting. High Energy ZeV cosmic neutrinos (in Z-Showering model) might hit relic ones at each mass in different resonance energies in our nearby Universe. This non-degenerated density and energy must split UHE Z-boson secondaries (in Z-Burst model) leading to multi injection of U

Raja Paul, Andrea Gambassi, Gregory Schehr

We investigate the global persistence properties of critical systems relaxing from an initial state with non-vanishing value of the order parameter (e.g., the magnetization in the Ising model). The persistence probability of the global order parameter displays two consecutive regimes in which it decays algebraically in time with two distinct universal expone

Léonard Gérard, Jean-Jacques Slotine

The extraordinary computational power of the brain may be related in part to the fact that each of the smaller neural networks that compose it can behave transiently in many different ways, depending on its inputs. Mathematically, input continuity helps to show how a large network, constructed recursively from smaller blocks, can exhibit robust specific prop

Alejandro M. F. Rivas

We develop a semi-classical approximation for the scar function in the Weyl-Wigner representation in the neighborhood of a classically unstable periodic orbit of chaotic two dimensional systems. The prediction of hyperbolic fringes, asymptotic to the stable and unstable manifolds, is verified computationally for a (linear) cat map, after the theory is adapte

E. Karpov, D. Daems, N. J. Cerf

We consider explicitly two examples of d-dimensional quantum channels with correlated noise and show that, in agreement with previous results on Pauli qubit channels, there are situations where maximally entangled input states achieve higher values of the output mutual information than product states. We obtain a strong dependence of this effect on the natur

Mario Ziman, Vladimir Buzek

We analyze and compare the optimality of approximate and probabilistic universal programmable quantum processors. We define several characteristics how to quantify the optimality and we study in detail performance of three types of programmable quantum processors based on (1) the C-NOT gate, (2) the SWAP operation, and (3) the model of the quantum informatio

Peter Leifer

The ordinary linear quantum theory predicts the quantum correlations at any distance (the universal superposition principle). It creates the decoherence problem since quantum interactions entangle states into non-separable combination. On the other hand the linear quantum theory prevents the existence of the localizable solutions, and after all, leads to the

F. Spineanu, M. Vlad

The energy of the stochastic magnetic field is bounded from below by a topological quantity expressing the degree of linkage of the field lines. When the bound is saturated one can assume that the storage of a certain magnetic energy requires a minimal degree of topological complexity. It is then possible to infer a connection between the helicity content an

Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Wenshan Cai

This work is concerned with the experimental demonstration of a dual-band negative index metamaterial. The sample is double-negative (showing both a negative effective permeability and a negative effective permittivity) for wavelengths between 799 and 818 nm of linearly polarized light with a real part of refractive index of about -1.0 at 813 nm; the ratio -

O. G. Danylchenko, Yu. S. Doronin, S. I. Kovalenko, M. Yu. Libin

Luminescence of surface and free bulk excitons is detected in xenon for the first time for substrate-free rare-gas clusters. Xenon clusters were produced by the method of gas condensation in a supersonic jet emitted into vacuum. Optical study was accompanied by electron diffraction measurements to determine the structure of clusters.

Gerard Weisbuch, Dietrich Stauffer

We here present a fixed agents version of an original model of the emergence of hierarchies among social agents first introduced by Bonabeau \textit{et al}. Having interactions occurring on a social network rather than among &#39;walkers&#39; doesn&#39;t drastically alter the dynamics. But it makes social structures more stable and give a clearer picture of

Michael I. Eides, Valery A. Shelyuto

We consider three-loop radiative corrections to the Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting. Corrections of order $α^3(Zα)^5m$ are the largest still unknown contributions to the Lamb shift in hydrogen. We calculated radiative corrections to the Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting generated by the diagrams with insertions of one radiative photon and electron polari

M. A. Shikhalev

A calculation of vector and tensor polarization observables of a deuteron in an optical potential framework for elastic proton-deuteron scattering at the incident deuteron energy $E_d=880$ MeV is presented. The main aim is to point out the role of various effects in explaining the wide-range angle distribution of these observables. Under the investigation ar

C. Qi, F. R. Xu

The properties of $T=1/2$ mirror nuclei in the $fp$ shell have been studied with a microscopic residual interaction. The isospin-nonconserving interaction is derived from a high-precision charge-dependent Bonn \textit{NN} potential using the folded-diagram renormalization method. The level structures of the nuclei are calculated, obtaining excellent agreemen

M. Kmiecik, A. Maj, M. Brekiesz, K. Mazurek

Exotic-deformation effects in 46Ti nucleus were investigated by analysing the high-energy gamma-ray and the alpha-particle energy spectra. One of the experiments was performed using the charged-particle multi-detector array ICARE together with a large volume (4&#34;x4&#34;) BGO detector. The study focused on simultaneous measurement of light charged particle

P. V. Elyutin, A. N. Rubtsov

The energy evolution of a quantum chaotic system under the perturbation that harmonically depends on time is studied for the case of large perturbation, in which the rate of transition calculated from the Fermi golden rule (FGR) is about or exceeds the frequency of perturbation. For this case the models of Hamiltonian with random non-correlated matrix elemen

Mark W. Coffey

From eigensolutions of the harmonic oscillator or Kepler-Coulomb Hamiltonian we extend the functional equation for the Riemann zeta function and develop integral representations for the Riemann xi function that is the completed classical zeta function. A key result provides a basis for generalizing the important Riemann-Siegel integral formula.

Mark W. Coffey

We present explicit expressions for the Mellin transforms of Laguerre and Hermite functions in terms of a variety of special functions. We show that many of the properties of the resulting functions, including functional equations and reciprocity laws, are direct consequences of transformation formulae of hypergeometric functions. Interest in these results i

Satoru Saito, Noriko Saitoh

A recurrence equation is a discrete integrable equation whose solutions are all periodic and the period is fixed. We show that infinitely many recurrence equations can be derived from the information about invariant varieties of periodic points of higher dimensional integrable maps.

Shu-Chiuan Chang, Lung-Chi Chen

We present the numbers of spanning forests on the Sierpinski gasket $SG_d(n)$ at stage $n$ with dimension $d$ equal to two, three and four, and determine the asymptotic behaviors. The corresponding results on the generalized Sierpinski gasket $SG_{d,b}(n)$ with $d=2$ and $b=3,4$ are obtained. We also derive the upper bounds of the asymptotic growth constants

Thomas Lam, Pavlo Pylyavskyy

We study pfaffian analogues of immanants, which we call pfaffinants. Our main object is the TL-pfaffinants which are analogues of Rhoades and Skandera&#39;s TL-immanants. We show that TL-pfaffinants are positive when applied to planar networks and explain how to decompose products of complementary pfaffians in terms of TL-pfaffinants. We conjecture in additi

V. A. Bovdi, J. B. Srivastava

Let K be a field of positive characteristic p and KG the group algebra of a group G. It is known that if KG is Lie nilpotent then its upper (or lower) Lie nilpotency index is at most |G&#39;|+1, where |G&#39;| is the order of the commutator subgroup. The class of groups G for which these indices are maximal or almost maximal have already been determined. Her

Yuriy Dybskiy, Konstantin Slutsky

We reexamine the Riemann Rearrangement Theorem for different types of convergence. We consider series convergence with respect to a filter. We describe the Sum Range (SR) of a series along the 2n-filter and for statistically convergent series.

N. K. Jana, B. V. Rao

A unified treatment for the existence of free energy in several random energy models is presented. If the sequence of distributions associated with the particle systems obeys a large deviation principle, then the free energy exists almost surely. This includes all the known cases as well as some heavy-tailed distributions.

Dario Bauso, Laura Giarré, Raffaele Pesenti

We consider stationary consensus protocols for networks of dynamic agents with switching topologies. The measure of the neighbors&#39; state is affected by Unknown But Bounded disturbances. Here the main contribution is the formulation and solution of what we call the $ε$-consensus problem, where the states are required to converge in a tube of ray $ε$ asymp

Daniel Bulacu, Blas Torrecillas

We compute the representation-theoretic rank of a finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra $H$ and of its quantum double $D(H)$, within the rigid braided category of finite dimensional left $D(H)$-modules.

Rasul Shafikov

If $R$ is a real analytic set in $\C^n$ (viewed as $\R^{2n}$), then for any point $p\in R$ there is a uniquely defined germ $X_p$ of the smallest complex analytic variety which contains $R_p$, the germ of $R$ at $p$. It is shown that if $R$ is irreducible of constant dimension, then the function $p\to\dim X_p$ is constant on a dense open subset of $R$. As an

Amy M. Fu, Alain Lascoux

We give non-symmetric versions of the Cauchy kernel and Littlewood&#39;s kernels, corresponding to the types $A_n$, $B_n$, $C_n$ and $D_n$, of the classical groups. We show that these new kernels are diagonal in the basis of two families of key polynomials (one of them being Demazure characters) obtained as images of dominant monomials under isobaric divided

Leshun Xu, Yong Li, Menglong Su

This paper introduces a new difference scheme to the difference equations for N-body type problems. To find the non-collision periodic solutions and generalized periodic solutions in multi-radial symmetric constraint for the N-body type difference equations, the variational approach and the method of minimizing the Lagrangian action are adopted and the stron

Javier M. Moguerza, Alberto Muñoz

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Trevor Hastie, Ji Zhu

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Grace Wahba

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Peter L. Bartlett, Michael I. Jordan, Jon D. McAuliffe

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Olivier Bousquet, Bernhard Schölkopf

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L. El Kaoutit

A basic theory of cowreath or extended distributive laws in the bicategory of unital bimodules, is deciphered. Precisely, we give in terms of tensor product over a scalar base ring, a simplest and equivalent definition for cowreath over coring and for comodule over cowreath. An adjunction connecting the category of comodules over the factor coring and the ca

Javier M. Moguerza, Alberto Muñoz

Support vector machines (SVMs) appeared in the early nineties as optimal margin classifiers in the context of Vapnik&#39;s statistical learning theory. Since then SVMs have been successfully applied to real-world data analysis problems, often providing improved results compared with other techniques. The SVMs operate within the framework of regularization th

Jean-Paul Allouche

We compare two sets of (infinite) binary sequences whose suffixes satisfy extremal conditions: one occurs when studying iterations of a unimodal continuous map from the unit interval into itself, but it also characterizes univoque real numbers; the other is an equivalent definition of characteristic Sturmian sequences. As a corollary to our study we obtain t

A. P. Veselov

A review of some recent results on the dynamical theory of the Yang-Baxter maps (also known as set-theoretical solutions to the quantum Yang-Baxter equation) is given. The central question is the integrability of the transfer dynamics. The relations with matrix factorisations, matrix KdV solitons, Poisson Lie groups, geometric crystals and tropical combinato

Gian Pietro Pirola, Cecilia Rizzi

We study the Saito-Ikeda infinitesimal invariant of the ccle defined by curves in their jacobians using rank (k+1) vector bundles and we give a criterion for which the higher cycle class map is not trivial. When k=2, this turns out to be strictly linked to the Petri map for vector bundles: an explicit construction on a curve of genus g>9 shows the existence

Olle Häggström, Johan Jonasson

This paper is an up-to-date introduction to the problem of uniqueness versus non-uniqueness of infinite clusters for percolation on ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ and, more generally, on transitive graphs. For iid percolation on ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$, uniqueness of the infinite cluster is a classical result, while on certain other transitive graphs uniqueness may fail. Key pro

Li-Xin Zhang

Various adaptive randomization procedures (adaptive designs) have been proposed to clinical trials. This paper discusses several broad families of procedures, such as the play-the-winner rule and Markov chain model, randomized play-the-winner rule and urn models, drop-the-loser rule, doubly biased coin adaptive design. Asymptotic theories are presented with

Shuhei Yoshitomi

On tropical geometry in $\rr^2$, the divisor and the Jacobian variety are defined in analogy to algebraic geometry. For study of these objects, it is important to think of the `bunch&#39; of a tropical curve. In this paper, we will show that if the bunch is a bouquet, then the Jacobian is a higher-dimensional torus.

Joshua S. Friedman

For cofinite Kleinian groups, with finite-dimensional unitary representations, we derive the Selberg trace formula. As an application we define the corresponding Selberg zeta-function and compute its divisor, thus generalizing results of Elstrodt, Grunewald and Mennicke to non-trivial unitary representations. We show that the presence of cuspidal elliptic el

Ivelina Bobtcheva, Riccardo Piergallini

This paper is the second part of our work on 4-dimensional 2-handlebodies. In the first part (arXiv:math.GT/0407032) it is shown that up to certain set of local moves, connected simple coverings of B^4 branched over ribbon surfaces, bijectively represent connected orientable 4-dimensional 2-handlebodies up to 2-deformations (handle slides and creations/cance

U. D. Bekbaev, I. S. Rakhimov

The paper is devoted to classification problem of finite dimensional complex none Lie filiform Leibniz algebras. The motivation to write this paper is an unpublished yet result of J.R.Gomez, B.A.Omirov on necessary and sufficient conditions for two finite dimensional complex filiform Leibniz algebras to be isomorphic. We suggest another approach to this prob

Alan Durfee, Donal O&#39;Shea

A polynomial knot is a smooth embedding $κ: \real \to \real^n$ whose components are polynomials. The case $n = 3$ is of particular interest. It is both an object of real algebraic geometry as well as being an open ended topological knot. This paper contains basic results for these knots as well as many examples.

N. D. Hari Dass, Peter Matlock

It is shown, by explicit calculation, that the third-order terms in inverse string length in the spectrum of the effective string theories of Polchinski and Strominger are also the same as in Nambu-Goto theory, in addition to the universal Luescher terms. While the Nambu-Goto theory is inconsistent outside the critical dimension, the Polchinski-Strominger th

Rene Meyer

I review recent work on nonperturbative path integral quantization of two-dimensional dilaton gravity coupled to Dirac fermions, employing the &#34;Vienna school&#34; approach.

L. C. Q. Vilar, O. S. Ventura, R. L. P. G. Amaral, V. E. R. Lemes

The SW map problem is formulated and solved in the BRST cohomological approach. The well known ambiguities of the SW map are shown to be associated to distinct cohomological classes. This analysis is applied to the noncommutative Chern-Simons action resulting in the emergence of $θ$-dependent terms in the commutative action which come from the nontrivial amb

Elena Kokoulina, Andrey Kutov, Vladimir Nikitin

Gluon dominance model (GDM) studies multiparticle production in lepton and hadron processes. It is based on the QCD and phenomenological scheme of hadronization. The model describes well multiplicity distributions and their moments. It has revealed an active role of gluons in multiparticle production, it also has confirmed the fragmentation mechanism of hadr

D. Gomez Dumm, D. B. Blaschke, A. G. Grunfeld, T. Klahn

We analyze the phase diagram of two-flavor quark matter under neutron star constraints for a nonlocal covariant quark model within the mean field approximation. Applications to cold compact stars are discussed.

A. B. Kaidalov

An interplay of perturbative and nonperturbative effects in pomeron, odderon and reggeons dynamics is discussed. It is pointed out that experimental data on pion charge exchange reaction at high energies indicate to a dominance of the nonperturbative string-like dynamics up to rather large momentum transfer. Role of shadowing effects related to triple-pomero

Sergio Scopetta

A study of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off transversely polarized $^3$He is presented. The formal expressions of the Collins and Sivers contributions to the azimuthal single spin asymmetry for the production of leading pions are derived, in impulse approximation, and estimated in the kinematics of forth-coming experiments at JLab. The AV18 inter

M. Beneke

I briefly summarize the factorization approach to hadronic B decays emphasizing theoretical results that have become available recently. The discussion of its application to data is abridged, and only the determination of gamma=(71\pm 5) degrees from time-dependent CP asymmetries is included in some detail.

Sergio Scopetta

The relevance of measuring Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) for few nucleon systems is illustrated. An approach which permits to calculate the GPDs of hadrons made of composite constituents by proper convolutions is described. The application of the method to the nucleon target, assumed to be made of composite constituents is reviewed. Calculations of

Sergio Scopetta

A method is described for calculating the Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) of spin 1/2 hadrons made of composite constituents, in an Impulse Approximation framework. GPDs are obtained from the convolution between the light cone non-diagonal momentum distribution of the hadron and the GPD of the constituent. DIS structure functions and electromagnetic

Vincenzo Barone, Zhun Lu, Bo-Qiang Ma

We investigate the cos 2 phi azimuthal asymmetry in Drell--Yan and J/psi production from unpolarized ppbar scattering at GSI-HESR energies. The contribution to this asymmetry arising from the leading-twist Boer-Mulders function h_1^perp(x, k_T^2), which describes a correlation between the transverse momentum and the transverse spin of quarks in an unpolarize

H. Perez Rojas, E. Rodriguez Querts

We consider self-magnetization of charged and neutral vector bosons bearing a magnetic moment in a gas and in vacuum. For charged vector bosons (W bosons) a divergence of the magnetization in both the medium and the electroweak vacuum occurs for the critical field B=B_{wc}=m_{w}^{2}/e. For B>B_{wc} the system is unstable. This behavior suggests the occurrenc

Hiroyuki Matsuura, Hiroaki Nakano, Koichi Yoshioka

We discuss the structure of threshold corrections to soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters at the mass threshold of heavy chiral superfields. Nontrivial dependence on soft parameters of heavy matter fields originates from the `physical&#39; definition of the threshold scale, at which the general form of soft supersymmetry breaking is derived in the superfie

S. Sapeta

The most recent H1 and ZEUS data for diffractive structure functions are analyzed under three different theoretical approaches. This includes the Pomeron Structure Function (PSF) framework, Bartels-Ellis-Kowalski-Wusthoff (BEKW) color dipole approach and the Golec-Biernat-Wusthoff (GBW) saturation model. The models are shown to successfully fit the set of co

J. Dias de Deus, Yu. M. Shabelski

In the framework of Quark-Gluon String Model we calculate the inclusive spectra of secondaries produced in heavy ion collisions at intermediate (CERN SPS) and at much higher (RHIC) energies. We demonstrate that the mechanism of secondary production changed drastically in the energy interval $\sqrt{s} = 20 - 60$ GeV and that is in agreement with qualitative e

Bo Hu, Feng Wu, Yue-Liang Wu

Neutrino mixing matrix satisfying the current experimental data can be well described by the HPS tri-bimaximal mixing matrix. We propose that its origin can be understood within the seesaw framework by a hidden condition on the mass matrix of heavy right-handed neutrinos under the transformation of the Abelian finite group Z_3 on the flavor basis. Ignoring C

M. Cheng, N. H. Christ, C. Jung, F. Karsch

We present a study of the flavor symmetry breaking in the pion spectrum for various improved staggered fermion actions. To study the effects of link fattening and tadpole improvement, we use three different variants of the p4 action - p4fat3, p4fat7, and p4fat7tad. These are compared to Asqtad and also to naive staggered. To study the pattern of symmetry bre

M. Sarsour

The STAR experiment uses polarized p+p collisions at RHIC to determine the contributions to the spin of the proton from gluon spin and from orbital angular momentum of the quarks and gluons. Selective STAR measurements of the longitudinal double spin asymmetry for inclusive jet and inclusive hadron production are presented here. In addition, we report measur

V. A. Andreev, V. S. Demidov, E. V. Demidova, V. N. Duginov

The experimental test of possible expansion for the Higgs sector is proposed. The lepton family violation will be studied. To reach this goal we are going to carry out the search for the scalar Goldstone boson in the neutrinoless muon decay mu+ to e+ and alpha. The asymmetry of the muon decay near the high energy edge of Michel spectrum is to be measured. To

Pedro Marronetti

Full relativistic simulations in three dimensions are known to develop runaway modes that grow exponentially and are accompanied by violations of the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints. We present here a method that controls the violation of these constraints and is tested with simulations of binary neutron stars in circular orbits. We show that this techn

Alikram N. Aliev, Cihan Saclioglu

We discuss a new exact solution for self-dual Abelian gauge fields living on the space of the Kerr-Taub-bolt instanton, which is a generalized example of asymptotically flat instantons with non-self-dual curvature.

P. Marecki

We present a method based on the so-called Quantum Energy Inequalities, which allows to compare, and bound, the expectation values of energy-densities of ground states of quantum fields in spacetimes possessing isometric regions. The method supports the conclusion, that the Boulware energy density is universal both: at modest (and far) distances from compact

S. S. Gershtein, A. A. Logunov, M. A. Mestvirishvili

It is shown that the gravitational field, as a physical field developing in the Minkowsky space, does not lead to unlimited gravitational collapse of massive bodies and, hence, excludes a possibility of the formation of the ``black holes&#39;&#39;.

Christian Tanguy

The exact calculation of network reliability in a probabilistic context has been a long-standing issue of practical importance, but a difficult one, even for planar graphs, with perfect nodes and with edges of identical reliability p. Many approaches (determination of bounds, sums of disjoint products algorithms, Monte Carlo evaluations, studies of the relia

Annie Druault-Vicard, Christian Tanguy

This paper shows how the steady-state availability and failure frequency can be calculated in a single pass for very large systems, when the availability is expressed as a product of matrices. We apply the general procedure to $k$-out-of-$n$:G and linear consecutive $k$-out-of-$n$:F systems, and to a simple ladder network in which each edge and node may fail

Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender

We introduce a novel and inexpensive approach for the temporal alignment of speech to highly imperfect transcripts from automatic speech recognition (ASR). Transcripts are generated for extended lecture and presentation videos, which in some cases feature more than 30 speakers with different accents, resulting in highly varying transcription qualities. In ou

Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender

We investigate the symmetric Kullback-Leibler (KL2) distance in speaker clustering and its unreported effects for differently-sized feature matrices. Speaker data is represented as Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) vectors, and features are compared using the KL2 metric to form clusters of speech segments for each speaker. We make two observations wi

Gregg Lois, Jean M. Carlson

Diverging correlation lengths on either side of the jamming transition are used to formulate a rheological model of granular shear flow, based on the propagation of stress through force chain networks. The model predicts three distinct flow regimes, characterized by the shear rate dependence of the stress tensor, that have been observed in both simulations a

Gregg Lois, Anael Lemaitre, Jean M. Carlson

Numerical simulations are used to test the kinetic theory constitutive relations of inertial granular shear flow. These predictions are shown to be accurate in the dilute regime, where only binary collisions are relevant, but underestimate the measured value in the dense regime, where force networks of size $ξ$ are present. The discrepancy in the dense regim

Gregg Lois, Anael Lemaitre, Jean M. Carlson

We investigate the emergence of long-range correlations in granular shear flow. By increasing the density of a simulated granular flow we observe a spontaneous transition from a dilute regime, where interactions are dominated by binary collisions, to a dense regime characterized by large force networks and collective motions. With increasing density, interac

M. Taguchi, M. Matsunami, A. Chainani, K. Horiba

We have performed a detailed study of Cu $2p$ core-level spectra in single layer La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$, La doped Bi$_2$Sr$_{1.6}$La$_{0.4}$CuO$_{6+δ}$ (Bi2201) and bilayer Bi$_2$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+δ}$ (Bi2212) high-temperature superconductors by using hard x-ray photoemission (HX-PES). We identify the Cu$^{2+}$ derived (i) the Zhang-Rice singlet (

Pablo I. Hurtado, J. Marro, P. L. Garrido

We study both analytically and numerically metastability and nucleation in a two-dimensional nonequilibrium Ising ferromagnet. Canonical equilibrium is dynamically impeded by a weak random perturbation which models homogeneous disorder of undetermined source. We present a simple theoretical description, in perfect agreement with Monte Carlo simulations, assu

Artur B. Adib

A simple theory for the leading-order correction g_1(r) to the structure of a hard-sphere liquid with discrete (e.g. square-well) potential perturbations is proposed. The theory makes use of a general approximation that effectively eliminates four-particle correlations from g_1(r) with good accuracy at high densities. For the particular case of discrete pert

T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, Jinho Lee, J. C. Davis

We present studies of the electronic structure of La2-xBaxCuO4, a system where the superconductivity is strongly suppressed as static spin and charge orders or &#34;stripes&#34; develop near the doping level of x=1/8. Using angle-resolved photoemission and scanning tunneling microscopy, we detect an energy gap at the Fermi surface with magnitude consistent w

Jeppe C. Dyre

We speculate that glass-forming liquids may contain fairly large and well-defined crystallites. This is based on arguing that the slowly relaxing &#34;frozen-in&#34; stresses characterizing ultraviscous liquids increase the barrier for nucleation, thus allowing for larger unstable crystallites than otherwise possible. The frozen-in stresses also deform the c

Krzysztof Wohlfeld, Andrzej M. Oles, George A. Sawatzky

We consider a multiband charge transfer model for a single spin ladder describing the holes in Sr$_{14-x}$Ca$_x$Cu$_{24}$O$_{41}$. Using Hartree-Fock approximation we show how the charge density wave, with its periodicity dependent on doping as recently observed in the experiment, can be stabilized by purely electronic many-body interactions.

S. Burov, E. Barkai

We investigate the distribution of occupation times for a particle undergoing a random walk among random energy traps and in the presence of a deterministic potential field $U^{\rm det}(x)$. When the distribution of energy traps is exponential with a width $T_g$ we find that the occupation time statistics behaves according to (i) the canonical Boltzmann theo

K. V. Samokhin, B. Mitrovic

We calculate the relaxation rate of a nuclear spin in s-wave superconductor with nonmagnetic impurities, including the strong-coupling effects. We show that in a weakly disordered three-dimensional system the corrections due to disorder are negligibly small.

S. Moskal, S. Bednarek, J. Adamowski

A two-electron system confined in two coupled semiconductor quantum dots is investigated as a candidate for performing quantum logic operations on spin qubits. We study different processes of swapping the electron spins by controlled switching on/off the exchange interaction. The resulting spin swap corresponds to an elementary operation in quantum informati

M. Ikeda, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, M. Kubota

We have performed an angle-resolved photoemission study of the electron-doped high-Tc superconductors (HTSCs) Sm_{1.85}Ce_{0.15}CuO_{4} (SCCO) and Eu_{1.85}Ce_{0.15}CuO_{4} (ECCO). Around the nodal point (pi/2, pi/2), we observed an energy gap at the Fermi level (EF) for both samples, resulting from the strong effects of antiferromagnetism. The magnitude of

M. Ogren, Y. Yu, S. Aberg, S. M. Reimann

It was recently shown in self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations that a harmonically trapped dilute gas of fermionic atoms with a repulsive two-body interaction exhibits a pronounced {\it super-shell} structure: the shell fillings due to the spherical harmonic trapping potential are modulated by a beat mode. This changes the ``magic numbers&#39;&#39; occur

Ashish V. Orpe, Arshad Kudrolli

We show that the velocity correlations in uniform dense granular flows inside a silo are similar to the hydrodynamic response of an elastic hard-sphere liquid. The measurements are made using a fluorescent refractive index matched interstitial fluid in a regime where the flow is dominated by grains in enduring contact and fluctuations scale with the distance