December 2007 arXiv papers — page 31

J. Cleymans, R. Sahoo, D. K. Srivastava, S. Wheaton

For beam energies from SPS to RHIC, the transverse energy per charged particle, $E_T/N_{\textrm{ch}}$, saturates at a value of approximately 0.8 GeV. A direct connection between this value and the freeze-out criterium $E/N \approx 1$ GeV for the primordial energy and particle number in the hadronic resonance gas model is established.

H. Komaie-Moghaddam, A. H. Fatollahi, M. Khorrami

The structure of transition amplitudes in field theory in a three-dimensional space whose spatial coordinates are noncommutative and satisfy the SU(2) Lie algebra commutation relations is examined. In particular, the basic notions for constructing the observables of the theory as well as subtleties related to the proper treatment of $δ$ distributions (corres

Jürgen Knödlseder, Georg Weidenspointner, Pierre Jean, Roland Diehl

The spectrometer SPI on INTEGRAL allows for the first time simultaneous imaging of diffuse and point-like emission in the hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray regime. To fully exploit the capabilities of the instrument, we implemented the MREM image deconvolution algorithm, initially developed for COMPTEL data analysis, to SPI data analysis. We present the performa

E. Sh. Gutshabash

Three integrable models - the deformed Heisenberg, Landau - Lifschits and Ishimori magnets are written in terms of the stereographic projection. The Hamiltonians of these models are obtained and certain questions related to the existence of exact solutions are studied. In particular, the stability of solitions is studied for the Heisenberg marnet, simplest s

A. Languasco, A. Zaccagnini

We give explicit numerical values with 100 decimal digits for the constant in the Mertens product over primes in the arithmetic progressions $a \bmod q$, for $q \in \{3$, ..., $100\}$ and $(a, q) = 1$.

BES Collaboration

With singly-tagged $\bar D$ samples selected from the data collected at and around 3.773 GeV with the BESII detector at the BEPC collider, we have measured the branching fractions for the inclusive $K^\pm$ decays of $D^+$ and $D^0$ mesons, which are $BF(D^+\to K^-X) = (24.7 \pm 1.3 \pm 1.2)%$, $BF(D^+\to K^+X) = (6.1 \pm 0.9 \pm 0.4) %$, $BF(D^0\to K^-X) = (

N. Praneeth Kumar, Ashutosh Deepak Gore, Abhay Karandikar

We consider point to point link scheduling in Spatial Time Division Multiple Access (STDMA) wireless networks under the physical interference model. We propose a novel link scheduling algorithm based on a line graph representation of the network, by embedding the interferences between pairs of nodes into the edge weights of the line graph. Our algorithm achi

Michael Botros Shenouda, Timothy N. Davidson

We consider the downlink of a cellular system in which the base station employs multiple transmit antennas, each receiver has a single antenna, and the users specify. We consider communication schemes in which the users have certain Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. We study the design of robust broadcasting schemes that minimize the transmission power

J. A. Bergstra, C. A. Middelburg

We study sequential programs that are instruction sequences with jump-shift instructions in the setting of PGA (ProGram Algebra). Jump-shift instructions preceding a jump instruction increase the position to jump to. The jump-shift instruction is not found in programming practice. Its merit is that the expressive power of PGA extended with the jump-shift ins

M. Bhattacharya, P. -L. Giscard, P. Meystre

We consider the dynamics of a vibrating and rotating end-mirror of an optical Fabry-P{érot} cavity that can sustain Laguerre-Gaussian modes. We demonstrate theoretically that since the intra-cavity field carries linear as well as angular momentum, radiation pressure can create bipartite entanglement between a vibrational and a rotational mode of the mirror.

S. A. Zlobin

We study values of generalized polylogarithms at various points and relationships among them. Polylogarithms of small weight at the points 1/2 and -1 are completely investigated. We formulate a conjecture about the structure of the linear space generated by values of generalized polylogarithms.

Piet Hut

Since we cannot put stars in a laboratory, astrophysicists had to wait till the invention of computers before becoming laboratory scientists. For half a century now, we have been conducting experiments in our virtual laboratories. However, we ourselves have remained behind the keyboard, with the screen of the monitor separating us from the world we are simul

Lukas Meier, Peter Bühlmann

When a series of (related) linear models has to be estimated it is often appropriate to combine the different data-sets to construct more efficient estimators. We use $\ell_1$-penalized estimators like the Lasso or the Adaptive Lasso which can simultaneously do parameter estimation and model selection. We show that for a time-course of high-dimensional linea

Jing Long Hoelscher

This paper gives some restrictions on finite groups that can occur as Galois groups of extensions over $\Q$ and over $\F_q(t)$ ramified only at one finite prime. Over $\Q$, we strengthen results of Jensen and Yui about dihedral extensions and rule out some non-solvable groups. Over $\F_q(t)$ restrictions are given for symmetric groups and dihedral groups to

A. P. Micolich, B. C. Scannell, M. S. Fairbanks, T. P. Martin

In a recent manuscript (arXiv:0710.4917v2), Jones-Smith et al. attempt to use the well-established box-counting technique for fractal analysis to "demonstrate conclusively that fractal criteria are not useful for authentication". Here, in response to what we view to be an extremely simplistic misrepresentation of our earlier work by Jones-Smith et al

B. Sathiapalan

The issue of space time gauge invariance for the bosonic string has been earlier addressed using the loop variable formalism. In this paper the question of obtaining a gauge invariant action for the open bosonic string is discussed. The derivative w.r.t $ln a$ (where $a$ is a world sheet cutoff) of the partition function - which is first normalized by dividi

Kshitij Khare

For a skip-free Markov process on non-negative integers with generator matrix Q, we evaluate the joint Laplace transform of the occupation times before hitting the state n (starting at 0). This Laplace transform has a very straightforward and familiar expression. We investigate the properties of this Laplace transform, especially the conditions under which t

Hee-Jong Seo, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Idit Zehavi

We present a numerical study of the evolution of galaxy clustering when galaxies flow passively from high redshift, respecting the continuity equation throughout. While passive flow is a special case of galaxy evolution, it allows a well-defined study of galaxy ancestry and serves as an interesting limit to be compared to non-passive cases. We use dissipatio

Xu Mingmei, Yu Meiling, Liu Lianshou

It is argued that, due to the existence of two vacua -- perturbative and physical -- in QCD, the mechanism for the crossover from hadronic to partonic phase is hard to construct. The challenge is: how to realize the transition between the two vacua during the gradual crossover of the two phases. A possible solution of this problem is proposed and a mechanism

Jifeng Yu, Kai Ji, Keiichiro Nasu

A new path-integral theory is developed to calculate the photoemission spectra (PES) of correlated many-electron systems. The application to the study on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 (Bi2212) and boron-doped diamond (BDD) is discussed in details. It is found that the isotopic shift in the angle-resolved photoemission spectra of Bi2212 is due to the off-diagonal quadratic e

Enrico Prati, Marco Fanciulli, Alessandro Calderoni, Giorgio Ferrari

Microwave irradiation causes voltage fluctuations in solid state nanodevices. Such an effect is relevant in atomic electronics and nanostructures for quantum information processing, where charge or spin states are controlled by microwave fields and electrically detected. Here the variation of the characteristic times of the multiphonon capture and emission o

Tung Ten Yong

This paper considers a generalization of the notion of quantum observables in ontological models of quantum mechanics. Within this framework it is possible to construct physical models where quantum noncommutativity can arise dynamically. Unlike quantum systems, the basic entities in this model have definite properties. Relations with no-go theorems and othe

V. G. Kogan, R. Prozorov, C. Petrovic

Temperature dependence of the London penetration depth $λ$ measured in single crystals of CeCoIn$_5$ is interpreted as caused by a strong pair-breaking scattering that makes the superconductivity in this compound gapless. For a gapless d-wave superconductor, we derive $λ=λ_0/\sqrt{1-(T/T_c)^2}$ caused by combined effect of magnetic and non-magnetic scatterin

Matt DeVos, Luis Goddyn, Bojan Mohar, Robert Samal

We determine the spectra of cubic plane graphs whose faces have sizes 3 and 6. Such graphs, "(3,6)-fullerenes", have been studied by chemists who are interested in their energy spectra. In particular we prove a conjecture of Fowler, which asserts that all their eigenvalues come in pairs of the form $\{λ,-λ\}$ except for the four eigenvalues $\{3,-1,-

J. Shen, D. E. Vanden Berk, D. P. Schneider, P. B. Hall

We have measured the stellar velocity dispersions (σ_*) and estimated the central black hole (BH) masses for over 900 broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sample includes objects which have redshifts up to z=0.452, high quality spectra, and host galaxy spectra dominated by an early-type (bulge) component. T

Xinwu Cao, J. M. Bai

In the unification scheme, radio quasars and FR II radio galaxies come from the same parent population, but viewed at different angles. Based on the Comptonization models for the gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we estimate the number of radio quasars and FR II radio galaxies to be detected by the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (G

Vinitha Balachandran, Jiangbin Gong

Many schemes to realize quantum state transfer in spin chains are not robust to random fluctuations in the spin-spin coupling strength. In efforts to achieve robust quantum state transfer, an adiabatic quantum population transfer scheme is proposed in this study. The proposed scheme makes use of a slowly moving external parabolic potential and is qualitative

Ryan C. Blair

Schubert proved that, given a composite link $K$ with summands $K_{1}$ and $K_{2}$, the bridge number of $K$ satisfies the following equation: $$β(K)=β(K_{1})+β(K_{2})-1.$$ In ``Conway Produts and Links with Multiple Bridge Surfaces", Scharlemann and Tomova proved that, given links $K_{1}$ and $K_{2}$, there is a Conway product $K_{1}\times_{c}K_{2}$ suc

Cheoljun Eom, Sunghoon Choi, Gabjin Oh, Woo-Sung Jung

We empirically investigated the relationships between the degree of efficiency and the predictability in financial time-series data. The Hurst exponent was used as the measurement of the degree of efficiency, and the hit rate calculated from the nearest-neighbor prediction method was used for the prediction of the directions of future price changes. We used

Igor Ostrovskii, Andriy Nadtochiy, Keith Hollis

Fabrication of the bimorph lithium niobate cantilevers involves a micro machining of a z-cut wafer to create a multidomain structure. After etching, the bimorph ferroelectric cantilevers are fabricated at the locations near interdomain walls. Cantilever vibrations are excited by rf voltage due to piezoelectric effect in a ferroelectric chip, and optical dete

Alice Devillers, Michael Giudici, Cai Heng Li, Cheryl E. Praeger

A transitive decomposition of a graph is a partition of the edge set together with a group of automorphisms which transitively permutes the parts. In this paper we determine all transitive decompositions of the Johnson graphs such that the group preserving the partition is arc-transitive and acts primitively on the parts.

Tanya Khovanova

The sequence counting the number of unique tournaments with n people is the same as the sequence counting non-tracking binary strings corresponding to n-2 radar observations with the tracking rule "3 out of 5 with loss 2." This fact allows us to build a bijection between unique tournaments and non-tracking binary strings.

Michal Sedlak, Mario Ziman, Vladimir Buzek, Mark Hillery

We present a solution of the problem of the optimal unambiguous comparison of two ensembles of unknown quantum states (psi_1)^k and (psi_2)^l. We consider two cases: 1) The two unknown states psi_1 and psi_2 are arbitrary states of qudits. 2) Alternatively, they are coherent states of a harmonic oscillator. For the case of coherent states we propose a simple

Andrei Linde, Alexander Westphal

We show that inflation in type IIB string theory driven by the volume modulus can be realized in the context of the racetrack-based Kallosh-Linde model (KL) of moduli stabilization. Inflation here arises through the volume modulus slow-rolling down from a flat hill-top or inflection point of the scalar potential. This situation can be quite generic in the la

E. J. Doedel, B. W. Kooi, Yu. A. Kuznetsov, G. A. K. van Voorn

We propose new methods for the numerical continuation of point-to-cycle connecting orbits in 3-dimensional autonomous ODE's using projection boundary conditions. In our approach, the projection boundary conditions near the cycle are formulated using an eigenfunction of the associated adjoint variational equation, avoiding costly and numerically unstable

Tetsuo Hyodo, Wolfram Weise

The effective Kbar N interaction based on chiral SU(3) coupled-channel dynamics is derived and its extrapolation below the Kbar N threshold is studied in detail. Starting from the coupled-channel scattering equations, we eliminate the channels other than Kbar N and obtain an effective interaction in the single Kbar N channel. An equivalent local potential in

Ernie Croot

Fix a prime p and a density 0 < d <= 1. Among all functions f : F_p -> [0,1], what can one say about those which assign minimal weight to three-term arithmetic progressions -- that is, the sum of f(a)f(a+x)f(a+2x) is minimal as we sum over all a and x -- subject to the density constraint that the expected value of f equals d? In the present paper we show thr

Soummya Kar, Jose M. F. Moura

The paper studies the problem of distributed average consensus in sensor networks with quantized data and random link failures. To achieve consensus, dither (small noise) is added to the sensor states before quantization. When the quantizer range is unbounded (countable number of quantizer levels), stochastic approximation shows that consensus is asymptotica

S. Zhao, S. Yuan, H. De Raedt, K. Michielsen

We present a computer simulation model of Wheeler&#39;s delayed choice experiment that is a one-to-one copy of an experiment reported recently (V. Jacques {\sl et al.}, Science 315, 966 (2007)). The model is solely based on experimental facts, satisfies Einstein&#39;s criterion of local causality and does not rely on any concept of quantum theory. Neverthele

F. Déglise

We study the construction and properties of the Gysin triangle in an axiomatic framework which covers triangulated mixed motives and MGl-modules over an arbitrary base S. This allows to define the Gysin morphism associated to a projective morphism between smooth S-schemes and prove duality for projective smooth S-schemes. As part of the construction, cobordi

Hyejin Youn, Michael T. Gastner, Hawoong Jeong

Uncoordinated individuals in human society pursuing their personally optimal strategies do not always achieve the social optimum, the most beneficial state to the society as a whole. Instead, strategies form Nash equilibria which are often socially suboptimal. Society, therefore, has to pay a price of anarchy for the lack of coordination among its members. H

Alistair Savage

We show that the category of representations of the Euclidean group of orientation-preserving isometries of two-dimensional Euclidean space is equivalent to the category of representations of the preprojective algebra of infinite type A. We also consider the moduli space of representations of the Euclidean group along with a set of generators. We show that t

E. Orestes, A. B. F. da Silva, K. Capelle

The generator-coordinate method is a flexible and powerful reformulation of the variational principle. Here we show that by introducing a generator coordinate in the Kohn-Sham equation of density-functional theory, excitation energies can be obtained from ground-state density functionals. As a viability test, the method is applied to ground-state energies an

Keun-Young Kim, Sang-Jin Sin, Ismail Zahed

We investigate cold dense matter in the context of Sakai and Sugimoto&#39;s holographic model of QCD in the Wigner-Seitz approximation. In bulk, baryons are treated as instantons on S^3\times R^1 in each Wigner-Seitz cell. In holographic QCD, Skyrmions are instanton holonomies along the conformal direction. The high density phase is identified with a crystal

Qayum Khan

Our main result is a generalization of Cappell&#39;s 5-dimensional splitting theorem. As an application, we analyze, up to internal s-cobordism, the smoothable splitting and fibering problems for certain 5-manifolds mapping to the circle. For example, these maps may have homotopy fibers which are in the class of finite connected sums of certain geometric 4-m

Bert Schroer

Revisiting the old problem of existence of interacting models of QFT with new conceptual ideas and mathematical tools, one arrives at a novel view about the nature of QFT. The recent success of algebraic methods in establishing the existence of factorizing models suggests new directions for a more intrinsic constructive approach beyond Lagrangian quantizatio

Leo Goldmakher

Recently, Granville and Soundararajan have made fundamental breakthroughs in the study of character sums. Building on their work and using estimates on short character sums developed by Graham-Ringrose and Iwaniec, we improve the Polya-Vinogradov inequality for characters with smooth conductor.

Radoslaw K. Wojciechowski

In this thesis, we analyze the stochastic completeness of a heat kernel on graphs which is a function of three variables: a pair of vertices and a continuous time, for infinite, locally finite, connected graphs. For general graphs, a sufficient condition for stochastic completeness is given in terms of the maximum valence on spheres about a fixed vertex. Tha

Adrian Vasiu

We prove a conjecture of Milne pertaining to the existence of integral canonical models of Shimura varieties of abelian type in arbitrary unramified mixed characteristic $(0,p)$. As an application we prove for $p=2$ a motivic conjecture of Milne pertaining to integral canonical models of Shimura varieties of Hodge type.

Ion V. Vancea

We construct the thermal boundary states from the type IIB Green-Schwarz superstring in {\em pp}-wave background in the light-cone gauge. The superstring is treated in the canonical ensemble and in the TFD formalism which is appropriate to discuss quantum systems in the canonical quantization. The thermal boundary states are obtained by thermalizing the tota

Daniele Bajoni, Elizaveta Semenova, Aristide Lemaître, Sophie Bouchoule

Cavity polaritons have been shown these last years to exhibit a rich variety of non-linear behaviors which could be used in new polariton based devices. Operation in the strong coupling regime under electrical injection remains a key step toward a practical polariton device. We report here on the realization of a polariton based light emitting diode using a

Zhaoming Ma, Gary Bernstein

Weak gravitational lensing surveys using photometric redshifts can have their cosmological constraints severely degraded by errors in the photo-z scale. We explore the cosmological degradation vs the size of the spectroscopic survey required to calibrate the photo-z probability distribution. Previous work has assumed a simple Gaussian distribution of photo-z

Rinaldo M. Colombo, Graziano Guerra

This paper considers systems of balance law with a dissipative non local source. A global in time well posedness result is obtained. Estimates on the dependence of solutions from the flow and from the source term are also provided. The technique relies on a recent result on quasidifferential equations in metric spaces.

Paul H. Frampton, Shinya Matsuzaki

A systematic study of the flavor group $T^{&#39;}$ is presented in terms of a specific model which extends the standard model symmetry to $[SU(3) \times SU(2) \times U(1)]_{(local)} \times [T^{&#39;} \times Z_2 \times Z_2^{&#39;} \times Z_2^{&#39;&#39;}]_{(global)}$. In the model, approximate tribimaximal mixing occurs in the neutrino sector. There is also o

Antonio Negretti, Carsten Henkel, Klaus Molmer

We show that the position of a dark matter-wave soliton can be determined with a precision that scales with the atomic density as $n^{-3/4}$. This surpasses the standard shot-noise detection limit for independent particles, without use of squeezing and entanglement, and it suggests that interactions among particles may present new advantages in high-precisio

K. Siemensmeyer, E. Wulf, H. -J. Mikeska, K. Flachbart

We investigate the phase diagram of TmB4, an Ising magnet on a frustrated Shastry-Sutherland lattice by neutron diffraction and magnetization experiments. At low temperature we find Neel order at low field, ferrimagnetic order at high field and an intermediate phase with magnetization plateaus at fractional values M/Msat = 1/7, 1/8, 1/9 ... and spatial strip

K. Kowalik, M. Hanasz

We conduct a series of magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) disturbed by exploding stars. Each star deposits a randomly oriented, dipolar magnetic field into ISM. The simulations are performed in a Cartesian box, in a reference frame that is corotating with the galactic disk. The medium is stratified by vertical gal

Stefano Francaviglia, Joan Porti

We prove that, for a hyperbolic two bridge knot, infinitely many Dehn fillings are rigid in $SO_0(4,1)$. Here rigidity means that any discrete and faithful representation in $SO_0(4,1)$ is conjugate to the holonomy representation in $SO_0(3,1)$. We also show local rigidity for almost all Dehn fillings.

Gustavo R. Gonzalez-Martin

It is shown that geometric connection field excitations acquire mass terms from a geometric background substratum related to the structure of space-time. Commutation relations in the electromagnetic su(2) sector of the connection limit the number of possible masses. Calculated results, within corrections of order alpha, are very close to the experimental mas

A. Panaitescu

We calculate the GeV afterglow emission expected from a few mechanisms related to GRBs and their afterglows. Given the brightness of the early X-ray afterglow emission measured by Swift/XRT, GLAST/LAT should detect the self-Compton emission from the forward-shock driven by the GRB ejecta into the circumburst medium. Novel features discovered by Swift in X-ra

Alex E. Bernardini, O. Bertolami

We suggest a perturbative approach for generic choices for the universe equation of state and introduce a novel framework for studying mass varying neutrinos (MaVaN&#39;s) coupled to the dark sector. For concreteness, we examine the coupling between neutrinos and the underlying scalar field associated with the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG), a unification m

Gustavo R. Gonzalez-Martin

We assume a triple geometric structure for the electromagnetic nuclear interaction. This nuclear electromagnetism is used to calculate the binding energies of the deuteron and the neutron. The corresponding Pauli quantum wave equation in a geometric theory, with the SU(2) electromagnetic coupling instead of the standard &#34;minimal&#34; coupling, contains a

Shlomo Dado, Arnon Dar, A. De Rujula

The X-ray afterglows (AGs) of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and X-Ray Flashes (XRFs) have, after the fast decline phase of their prompt emission, a temporal behaviour varying between two extremes. A large fraction of these AGs has a &#39;canonical&#39; light curve which, after an initial shallow-decay &#39;plateau&#39; phase, &#39;breaks smoothly&#39; into a fast

B. Vukotic, M. M. Cirkovic

We investigate the effects of correlated global regulation mechanisms, especially Galactic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), on the temporal distribution of hypothetical inhabited planets, using simple Monte Carlo numerical experiments. Starting with recently obtained models of planetary ages in the Galactic Habitable Zone (GHZ), we obtain that the times required for

Kazuharu Bamba, C. Q. Geng, S. H. Ho

We study a new scenario for baryogenesis due to the spontaneous breaking of the $CPT$ invariance through the interaction between a baryon current and a hypermagnetic helicity. The hypermagnetic helicity (Chern-Simons number) of $U(1)_Y$ provides a $CPT$ violation background for the generation of baryons via sphaleron processes, which protects these baryons f

M. Boninsegni, N. V. Prokof&#39;ev

We have studied by Quantum Monte Carlo simulations the low temperature phase diagram of a mixture of isotopic, hard core bosons, described by the t-Jz-Jperp model, with Jperp=a Jz. Coexistence of superfluid hole-rich and insulating, antiferromagnetically ordered hole-free phases is observed at sufficiently low hole density, for any a < 1. A two-component che

M. Rodriguez-Gallardo, A. Deltuva, E. Cravo, R. Crespo

Two-body scattering is studied by solving the Lippmann-Schwinger equation in momentum space without angular-momentum decomposition for a local spin dependent short range interaction plus Coulomb. The screening and renormalization approach is employed to treat the Coulomb interaction. Benchmark calculations are performed by comparing our procedure with partia

Steven Hergt, Gerhard Schäfer

The Kerr metric outside the ergosphere is transformed into ADM coordinates up to the orders $1/r^4$ and $a^2$, respectively in radial coordinate $r$ and reduced angular momentum variable $a$, starting from the Kerr solution in quasi-isotropic as well as harmonic coordinates. The distributional source terms for the approximate solution are calculated. To lead

George Efstathiou

This article is the written version of the closing talk presented at the conference `A Century of Cosmology&#39; held at San Servolo, Italy, in August 2007. I focus on the prospects of constraining fundamental physics from cosmological observations, using the search for gravitational waves from inflation and constraints on the equation of state of dark energ

I. Froehlich

The "High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer" (HADES) at GSI, Darmstadt, is investigating the production of e+e- pairs in A+A, p+A and N+N collisions. The latter program allows for the reconstruction of individual sources. This strategy will be roughly outlined in this contribution and preliminary pp/pn data is shown.

Olaf Post

The aim of the present paper is to analyse the spectrum of Laplace and Dirac type operators on metric graphs. In particular, we show for equilateral graphs how the spectrum (up to exceptional eigenvalues) can be described by a natural generalisation of the discrete Laplace operator on the underlying graph. These generalised Laplacians are necessary in order

Lukasz Bratek

The class of static, spherically symmetric, and finite energy hedgehog solutions in the SU(2) Skyrme model is examined on a metric three-cylinder. The exact analytic shape function of the 1-Skyrmion is found. It can be expressed via elliptic integrals. Its energy is calculated, and its stability with respect to radial and spherically symmetric deformations i

Olaf Post

The aim of the present article is to give an overview of spectral theory on metric graphs guided by spectral geometry on discrete graphs and manifolds. We present the basic concept of metric graphs and natural Laplacians acting on it and explicitly allow infinite graphs. Motivated by the general form of a Laplacian on a metric graph, we define a new type of

Ranga-Ram Chary

I provide estimates of the ultraviolet and visible light luminosity density at z~6 after accounting for the contribution from faint galaxies below the detection limit of deep Hubble and Spitzer surveys. I find the rest-frame V-band luminosity density is a factor of ~2-3 below the ultraviolet luminosity density at z~6. This implies that the maximal age of the

Oliver Kern, Joseph M. Renes

We study the advantages to be gained in quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols by combining the techniques of local randomization, or noisy preprocessing, and structured (nonrandom) block codes. Extending the results of [Smith, Renes, and Smolin, quant-ph/0607018] pertaining to BB84, we improve the best-known lower bound on the error rate for the 6-state p

CDF Collaboration

Data collected in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron are searched for indications of new electroweak scale physics. Rather than focusing on particular new physics scenarios, CDF data are analyzed for discrepancies with respect to the standard model prediction. A model-independent approach (Vista) considers the gross features of the data, and is sensitive to new

E. V. Deviatov, A. Lorke

A Fabry-Perot-type interferometer is experimentally realized for electrons in a semiconductor device. A special experimental geometry creates interference conditions for co-propagating electrons in quantum Hall edge states, which results in oscillations of the current through the device. The visibility of these oscillations is found to increase at the high-f

Vladimir Vovk

This note continues investigation of randomness-type properties emerging in idealized financial markets with continuous price processes. It is shown, without making any probabilistic assumptions, that the strong variation exponent of non-constant price processes has to be 2, as in the case of continuous martingales.

J. Billy, V. Josse, Z. Zuo, W. Guerin

We present a guided atom laser. A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is created in a crossed hybrid magnetic and an elongated optical trap, which acts as a matterwave guide. Atoms are extracted from the BEC by radio frequency (rf) outcoupling and then guided in the horizontal optical matterwave guide. This method allows to control the acceleration of the beam an

Julia Garayoa, Thomas Schwetz

Neutrino masses may be generated by the VEV of an $SU(2)_L$ Higgs triplet. We assume that the doubly charged component of such a triplet has a mass in the range of several 100 GeV, such that it is accessible at LHC. Its decay into like-sign leptons provides a clean experimental signature, which allows for a direct test of the neutrino mass matrix. By explori

V. V. Braguta

In this paper the processes $e^+ e^- \to J/ΨJ/Ψ, J/Ψψ&#39;, ψ&#39; ψ&#39;$ are considered in the framework of light cone formalism. An important distinction of this approach in comparison to the approaches used in other papers is that relativistic and leading logarithmic radiative corrections to the cross section can be easily resummed within light cone form

A. I. Aleksenko, J. P. Cruz, E. L. Lakshtanov

The scalar scattering of the plane wave by a strictly convex obstacle with impedance boundary conditions is considered. The uniform boundedness of the Total Cross Section for all values of frequencies is proved. The high frequency limit of the Transport Cross Section is founded and presented as a classical functional of the variational theory.

Tsonka Baicheva, Iliya Bouyukliev, Stefan Dodunekov, Veerle Fack

The aim of this work is a systematic investigation of the possible parameters of quasi-perfect (QP) binary and ternary linear codes of small dimensions and preparing a complete classification of all such codes. First we give a list of infinite families of QP codes which includes all binary, ternary and quaternary codes known to is. We continue further with a

Michael Atlan, Michel Gross, Pierre Desbiolles, Emilie Absil

We report experimental results on heterodyne holographic microscopy of subwavelength-sized gold particles. The apparatus uses continuous green laser illumination of the metal beads in a total internal reflection configuration for dark-field operation. Detection of the scattered light at the illumination wavelength on a charge-coupled device array detector en

J. C. Imperio, Mikhail P. Solon, A. Laganapan, J. P. H. Esguerra

Throughout the history of the study of turbulence in fluid dynamics, there has yet to arise a unique definition or theoretical criterion for this important phenomenon. There have been interesting conjectures made by Ruelle [2], Muriel [3], and Getreuer, Albano and Muriel [6], however, attempting to provide the sufficient criteria for the onset of turbulence.

Jean-Marc Bardet, Imen Kammoun

In this paper, an estimator of $m$ instants ($m$ is known) of abrupt changes of the parameter of long-range dependence or self-similarity is proved to satisfy a limit theorem with an explicit convergence rate for a sample of a Gaussian process. In each estimated zone where the parameter is supposed not to change, a central limit theorem is established for th

Wojciech Kryński

We consider a problem of equivalence of generic pairs $(X,V)$ on a manifold $M$, where $V$ is a distribution of rank $m$ and $X$ is a distribution of rank one. We construct a canonical bundle with a canonical frame. We prove that two pairs are equivalent if and only if the corresponding frames are diffeomorphic. As a particular case, with $V$ integrable, we

Yasuhisa Inada, Munekazu Horikoshi, Shuta Nakajima, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

We report on measurements of the critical temperature and the temperature dependence of the condensate fraction for a fermion pair condensate of 6Li atoms. The Bragg spectroscopy is employed to determine the critical temperature and the condensate fraction after a fast magnetic field ramp to the molecular side of the Feshbach resonance. Our measurements reve

Nobuyuki Sakai, Misao Sasaki

We propose a practical method for analyzing stability of Q-balls for the whole parameter space, which includes the intermediate region between the thin-wall limit and thick-wall limit as well as Q-bubbles (Q-balls in false vacuum), using the catastrophe theory. We apply our method to the two concrete models, $V_3=m^2ϕ^2/2-μϕ^3+λϕ^4$ and $V_4=m^2ϕ^2/2-λϕ^4+ϕ^

D. Klimm, S. Ganschow, D. Schulz, R. Fornari

The peculiar properties of zinc oxide (ZnO) make this material interesting for very different applications like light emitting diodes, lasers, and piezoelectric transducers. Most of these applications are based on epitaxial ZnO layers grown on suitable substrates, preferably bulk ZnO. Unfortunately the thermochemical properties of ZnO make the growth of sing

M. Csanad

The latest PHENIX results for particle production are presented in this paper. A suppression of the yield of high p_t (transverse momentum) hadrons in central Au+Au collisions is found. In contrast, direct photons are not suppressed in central Au+Au collisions and no suppression of high p_t particles can be seen in d+Au collisions. This leads to the conclusi

Pierluigi Contucci, Cristian Giardinà, Claudio Giberti, Giorgio Parisi

This reply shows that the argument presented in the comment by Jorg and Krzakala (cond mat 0709.0894) cannot be used to weaken the results presented in our paper on ultrametricity evidence in the 3d Edwards Anderson model (PRL 99, 057206, 2007; cond-mat/0607376). Our work in fact was mainly based on identifying the scaling law that governs the large volume a

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Piotr Sułkowski

We consider N=4 theories on ALE spaces of $A_{k-1}$ type. As is well known, their partition functions coincide with $A_{k-1}$ affine characters. We show that these partition functions are equal to the generating functions of some peculiar classes of partitions which we introduce under the name 'orbifold partitions'. These orbifold partitions turn out to be r

Ralf Meyer, Ryszard Nest

We carefully define and study C*-algebras over topological spaces, possibly non-Hausdorff, and review some relevant results from point-set topology along the way. We explain the triangulated category structure on the bivariant Kasparov theory over a topological space. We introduce and describe an analogue of the bootstrap class for C*-algebras over a finite

Daniel Gómez Vergel, Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

We consider the quantum dynamics of a massless scalar field in de Sitter space-time. The classical evolution is represented by a canonical transformation on the phase space for the field theory. By studying the corresponding Bogoliubov transformations, we show that the symplectic map that encodes the evolution between two instants of time cannot be unitarily

Zhi-zhong Xing, He Zhang, Shun Zhou

Reliable values of quark and lepton masses are important for model building at a fundamental energy scale, such as the Fermi scale M_Z \approx 91.2 GeV and the would-be GUT scale Λ_GUT \sim 2 \times 10^16 GeV. Using the latest data given by the Particle Data Group, we update the running quark and charged-lepton masses at a number of interesting energy scales

Jean Avan, Anastasia Doikou

We systematically derive the Lax pair formulation for both discrete and continuum integrable classical theories with consistent boundary conditions.

Jarek Duda

In this paper will be introduced large, probably complete family of complex base systems, which are &#39;proper&#39; - for each point of the space there is a representation which is unique for all but some zero measure set. The condition defining this family is the periodicity - we get periodic covering of the plane by fractals in hexagonal-type structure, w

Rakesh Tibrewala, Sashideep Gutti, T. P. Singh, Cenalo Vaz

We study the collapse of a spherically symmetric dust distribution in $d$-dimensional AdS spacetime. We investigate the role of dimensionality, and the presence of a negative cosmological constant, in determining the formation of trapped surfaces and the end state of gravitational collapse. We obtain the self-similar solution for the case of zero cosmologica

BES Collaboration

The decays of $J/ψ\to ωK\bar{K}π$ and $J/ψ\to ϕK\bar{K}π$ are studied using $5.8 \times 10^{7}$ $J/ψ$ events collected with the Beijing Spectrometer (BESII) at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC). The $K^{0}_{S}K^{\pm}π^{\mp}$ and $K^{+}K^{-}π^{0}$ systems, produced in $J/ψ\to ωK\bar{K}π$, have enhancements in the invariant mass distributions at ar