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  1. H. C. Harris, E. Gates, G. Gyuk, M. Subbarao

    We identify seven new ultracool white dwarfs discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The SDSS photometry, spectra, and proper motions are presented, and additional BVRI data are given for these and other previously discovered ultracool white dwarfs. The observed colors span a remarkably wide range, qualitatively similar to colors predicted by mode

  2. J. C. Raymond, Philip A. Isenberg, J. M. Laming

    The Balmer line profiles of nonradiative supernova remnant shocks provide the means to measure the post-shock proton velocity distribution. While most analyses assume a Maxwellian velocity distribution, this is unlikely to be correct. In particular, neutral atoms that pass through the shock and become ionized downstream form a nonthermal distribution similar

  3. Jacob Linder, Iver B. Sperstad, Andriy Nevidomskyy, Mario Cuoco

    We construct a mean-field theory for itinerant ferromagnetism coexisting with a non-unitary superconducting state, where only the majority-spin band is gapped and contains line nodes, while the minority-spin band is gapless at the Fermi level. Our study is motivated by recent experimental results indicating that this may be the physical situation realized in

  4. Kenneth R. Davidson, Dilian Yang

    Let $\Fth$ be a $\Bk$-graph on a single vertex. We show that every irreducible atomic $*$-representation is the minimal $*$-dilation of a group construction representation. It follows that every atomic representation decomposes as a direct sum or integral of such representations. We characterize periodicity of $\Fth$ and identify a symmetry subgroup $H_θ$ of

  5. Pavel Trojek, Harald Weinfurter

    We report on a simple but highly efficient source of polarization-entangled photon pairs at non-degenerate wavelengths. The fully collinear configuration of the source enables very high coupling efficiency into a single optical mode and allows the use of long nonlinear crystals. With optimized dispersion compensation it is possible to use a free-running lase

  6. Gregory R. Sivakoff, Paul Martini, Ann I. Zabludoff, Daniel D. Kelson

    To better understand the mechanism or mechanisms that lead to AGN activity today, we measure the X-ray AGN fraction in a new sample of nearby clusters and examine how it varies with galaxy properties, projected cluster-centric radius, and cluster velocity dispersion. We present new wide-field Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of Abell 85, Abell 754 and

  7. Arun Kumar S P

    This paper discusses that there is significant benefit in providing stronger security at lower layers of the network stack for hosts connected to a network. It claims to reduce the attack vulnerability of a networked host by providing security mechanisms in a programmable Network Interface Card (NIC). Dynamic access control mechanisms are implemented in hard

  8. Zachary Guralnik

    We present an inverse method to construct large classes of chaotic invariant sets together with their exact statistics. The associated dynamical systems are characterized by a probability distribution and a two-form. While our emphasis is on classical systems, we briefly speculate about possible applications to quantum field theory, in the context of general

  9. Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Marko A. Rodriguez

    Scholarly usage data holds the potential to be used as a tool to study the dynamics of scholarship in real time, and to form the basis for the definition of novel metrics of scholarly impact. However, the formal groundwork to reliably and validly exploit usage data is lacking, and the exact nature, meaning and applicability of usage-based metrics is poorly u

  10. Boris Dubrovin

    Our main goal is the comparative study of singularities of solutions to the systems of first order quasilinear PDEs and their perturbations containing higher derivatives. The study is focused on the subclass of Hamiltonian PDEs with one spatial dimension. For the systems of order one or two we describe the local structure of singularities of a generic soluti

  11. S. I. Vainshtein, Z. Mikic, R. Rosner, R. Z. Sagdeev

    Many stormy events in astrophysics occur due to the sudden magnetic energy release. This is possible if a magnetic configuration abruptly changes its topology, an event usually referred to as magnetic reconnection. It is known that pure Ohmic decay is inefficient, occurring during cosmological times (due to the huge characteristic scales $L$). It is recogniz

  12. T. Haines, M. Rapoport

    We prove some basic facts on parahoric subgroups and on Iwahori-Weyl groups.

  13. Andrea Banfi, Mrinal Dasgupta, Yazid Delenda

    A quantity that promises to reveal important information on perturbative and non-perturbative QCD dynamics is the azimuthal decorrelation between jets in different hard processes. In order to access this information fixed-order NLO predictions need to be supplemented by resummation of logarithmic terms which are large in the region where the jets are nearly

  14. Dirk Hundertmark, Young-Ran Lee

    This is the second part of a series of papers where we develop rigorous decay estimates for breather solutions of an averaged version of the non-linear Schrödinger equation. In this part we study the diffraction managed discrete non-linear Schrödinger equation, an equation which describes coupled waveguide arrays with periodic diffraction management geometri

  15. Francesca Sammarruca

    We calculate self-consistent single-nucleon and single-Lambda potentials in hyperonic matter for different Lambda concentrations. The predictions include relativistic Dirac effects as reported previously in a calculation of the Lambda binding energy in symmetric nuclear matter. We discuss the dependence on momentum, density, and Lambda fraction.

  16. Dirk Hundertmark, Young-Ran Lee

    We study the decay and smoothness of solutions of the dispersion managed non-linear Schrödinger equation in the case of zero residual dispersion. Using new x-space versions of bilinear Strichartz estimates, we show that the solutions are not only smooth, but also fast decaying.

  17. Norman Cruz, Samuel Lepe, Francisco Pena

    A cosmological model of dark energy interacting with dark matter and another general component of the universe is investigated. We found general constraints on these models imposing an accelerated expansion. The same is also studied in the case for holographic dark energy.

  18. Jie Sun, Takashi Nishikawa, Daniel ben-Avraham

    We study a new class of networks, generated by sequences of letters taken from a finite alphabet consisting of $m$ letters (corresponding to $m$ types of nodes) and a fixed set of connectivity rules. Recently, it was shown how a binary alphabet might generate threshold nets in a similar fashion [Hagberg et al., Phys. Rev. E 74, 056116 (2006)]. Just like thre

  19. Laszlo Erdos, Benjamin Schlein

    We propose a new approach for the study of the time evolution of a factorized $N$-particle bosonic wave function with respect to a mean-field dynamics with a bounded interaction potential. The new technique, which is based on the control of the growth of the correlations among the particles, leads to quantitative bounds on the difference between the many-par

  20. D. Pillay, M. D. Johannes, I. I. Mazin, O. K. Andersen

    It has often been suggested that correlation effects suppress the small e_g' Fermi surface pockets of NaxCoO_2 that are predicted by LDA, but absent in ARPES measurements. It appears that within the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) the ARPES can be reproduced only if the on-site energy of the eg' complex is lower than that of the a1g complex at the

  21. Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Jun-Tao Chang, Marlan O. Scully

    We study the correlated spontaneous emission from a dense spherical cloud of N atoms uniformly excited by absorption of a single photon. We find that the decay of such a state depends on the relation between an effective Rabi frequency Omega, which is proportional to sqrt{N}, and the time of photon flight through the cloud R/c. If Omega*R/c < 1 the state exp

  22. Francisco J. Martínez-Serrano, Arturo Serna, Rosa Domínguez-Tenreiro, Mercedes Mollá

    We describe an SPH model for chemical enrichment and radiative cooling in cosmological simulations of structure formation. This model includes: i) the delayed gas restitution from stars by means of a probabilistic approach designed to reduce the statistical noise and, hence, to allow for the study of the inner chemical structure of objects with moderately hi

  23. Matthew Daws, Hung Le Pham, Stuart White

    We investigate possible preduals of the measure algebra $M(G)$ of a locally compact group and the Fourier algebra $A(G)$ of a separable compact group. Both of these algebras are canonically dual spaces and the canonical preduals make the multiplication separately weak$^*$-continuous so that these algebras are dual Banach algebras. In this paper we find addit

  24. Rudolph C. Hwa

    A review is given on the subject of hadron production at intermediate $p_T$ in heavy-ion collisions. The underlying dynamical processes are inferred from interpreting the data in the framework of recombination. Ridge formation with or without triggers is found to play an important role in nearly all observables in that $p_T$ region. Correlation data would be

  25. Frédéric Blanqui, Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, Pierre-Yves Strub

    We investigate here a new version of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions (CIC) on which the proof assistant Coq is based: the Calculus of Congruent Inductive Constructions, which truly extends CIC by building in arbitrary first-order decision procedures: deduction is still in charge of the CIC kernel, while computation is outsourced to dedicated first-or

  26. A. R. King

    A recent paper (arXiv:0804.3463) claims that the presence of a soft X-ray component in an X-ray source in NGC 6946 provides strong evidence that its black hole mass is definitely $>100\msun$, and more probably $\sim 400\msun$, even if the source is beamed. I show that the data are instead very compatible with a black hole mass of only $5\msun$, radiating iso

  27. Gavin P. Salam, Juan Rojo

    This document describes a Fortran 95 package for carrying out DGLAP evolution and other common manipulations of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The PDFs are represented on a grid in x-space so as to avoid limitations on the functional form of input distributions. Good speed and accuracy are obtained through the representation of splitting functions in

  28. Vassilis Kostakos

    A substantial amount of research, as well as media hype, has surrounded RFID technology and its privacy implications. Currently, researchers and the media focus on the privacy threats posed by RFID, while consumer groups choose to boycott products bearing RFID tags. At the same, however, a very similar technology has quietly become part of our everyday lives

  29. V. A. Prokhorov, E. B. Saff, M. Yattselev

    Let G be a bounded simply connected domain and E be a regular compact subset of G with connected complement. We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the Kolmogorov k-width, k=k(n), of the set of polynomials of degree at most n having the supremum norm at most 1 on G restricted to E in the space of continuous functions on E.

  30. Hermann Schulz-Baldes

    A Jacobi matrix with matrix entries is a self-adjoint block tridiagonal matrix with invertible blocks on the off-diagonals. The Weyl surface describing the dependence of Green&#39;s matrix on the boundary conditions is interpreted as the set of maximally isotropic subspace of a quadratic from given by the Wronskian. Analysis of the possibly degenerate limit

  31. Masahiro Kawasaki, Kazunori Kohri, Takeo Moroi, Akira Yotsuyanagi

    We derive big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints on both unstable and stable gravitino taking account of recent progresses in theoretical study of the BBN processes as well as observations of primordial light-element abundances. In the case of unstable gravitino, we set the upper limit on the reheating temperature assuming that the primordial gravitinos

  32. Diego Meschini

    An enquiry into the physical nature of time and space and into the ontology of quantum mechanics from a metageometric perspective, resulting from the belief that geometric thought and language are powerless to farther understanding of these issues, restricting instead physical progress. The nature and assumptions of quantum gravity are analysed critically, i

  33. Rodica D. Costin

    A hierarchy of matrix-valued polynomials which generalize the Jacobi polynomials is found. Defined by a Rodrigues formula, they are also products of a sequence of differential operators. Each class of polynomials is complete, satisfies a two-step recurrence relation, integral inter-relations, and quasi-orthogonality relations.

  34. Paolo Lipparini

    We generalize the results from &#34;P. Lipparini, Productive $[λ,μ]$-compactness and regular ultrafilters, Topology Proceedings, 21 (1996), 161--171&#34;; in particular the present results apply to singular cardinals, too.

  35. Sergei Gninenko, Javier Redondo

    If light hidden sector photons exist, they could be produced through kinetic mixing with solar photons in the eV energy range. We propose to search for this hypothetical hidden photon flux with the Super-Kamiokande and/or upgraded CAST detectors. The proposed experiments are sensitive to mixing strengths as small as 10^-9 for hidden photon masses in the sub

  36. Liyan Liu, Jiulin Du

    We investigate the general property of the energy fluctuation for the canonical ensemble in Tsallis statistics and the ensemble equivalence. By taking the ideal gas and the non-interacting harmonic oscillators as examples, we show that, when the particle number N is large enough, the relative fluctuation of the energy is proportional to 1/N in the new statis

  37. Guy Katriel

    We study synchronization of oscillators that are indirectly coupled through their interaction with an environment. We give criteria for the stability or instability of a synchronized oscillation. Using these criteria we investigate synchronization of systems of oscillators which are weakly coupled, in the sense that the influence of the oscillators on the en

  38. Liyan Liu, Jiulin Du

    We investigate the dispersion relation and Landau damping of ion acoustic waves in the collisionless magnetic-field-free plasma if it is described by the nonextensive q-distributions of Tsallis statistics. We show that the increased numbers of superthermal particles and low velocity particles can explain the strengthened and weakened modes of Landau damping,

  39. A. Kusina

    A general formalism was introduced for reorganization of QCD evolution equations and derivation of hierarchical solution to DGLAP equation. The hierarchical solution separates two types of parton emissions: the flavour changing emissions and the diagonal ones (bremsstrahlung). It has been shown that both of the achieved processes are of the Markovian type, w

  40. Marta Gomez-Reino, Claudio A. Scrucca

    We study the conditions under which a generic supergravity model involving chiral and vector multiplets can admit vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry and realistic cosmological constant. We find that the existence of such viable vacua implies some constraints involving the curvature tensor of the scalar geometry and the charge and mass matrices of

  41. Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

    The purpose of this contribution is to give a very brief introduction to Quantum Mechanics for an audience of mathematicians. I will follow Segal&#39;s approach to Quantum Mechanics paying special attention to algebraic issues. The usual representation of Quantum Mechanics on Hilbert spaces is also discussed.

  42. J. Fernando Barbero G.

    The purpose of this contribution is to give an introduction to quantum geometry and loop quantum gravity for a wide audience of both physicists and mathematicians. From a physical point of view the emphasis will be on conceptual issues concerning the relationship of the formalism with other more traditional approaches inspired in the treatment of the fundame

  43. Wei Lu, Xiao-Li Shen, Jie Yang, Zheng-Cai Li

    Here we report the superconductivity in the LaFeAsO1-xFx system prepared by high pressure synthesis. The highest onset superconducting transition temperature (Tc) in this La-based system is 41.0 K with the nominal composition of LaFeAsO1-xFx (x = 0.6), which is higher than that reported previously by ambient pressure synthesis. The increase of Tc can be attr

  44. Michael Hartung, Thomas Wellens, Cord A. Mueller, Klaus Richter

    We study quantum transport of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a two-dimensional disorder potential. In the limit of vanishing atom-atom interaction, a sharp cone in the angle-resolved density of the scattered matter wave is observed, arising from constructive interference between amplitudes propagating along reversed scattering paths. Weak interac

  45. W. U. Boeglin, H. Arenhövel, K. I. Blomqvist, R. Böhm

    The interference response function f_LT (R_LT) of the D(e,e&#39;p)n reaction has been determined at squared four-momentum transfer Q^2 = 0.33 (GeV/c)^2 and for missing momenta up to p_miss= 0.29 (GeV/c). The results have been compared to calculations that reproduce f_LT quite well but overestimate the cross sections by 10 - 20% for missing momenta between 0.

  46. Y. I. Salamin, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel

    Theoretical investigations show that linearly and radially polarized multiterawatt and petawatt laser beams, focused to subwavelength waist radii, can directly accelerate protons and carbon nuclei, over micron-size distances, to the energies required for hadron cancer therapy. Ions accelerated by radially polarized lasers have generally a more favorable ener

  47. Volker Betz, Alain Joye, Stefan Teufel

    We study the time-dependent scattering of a quantum mechanical wave packet at a barrier for energies larger than the barrier height, in the semi-classical regime. More precisely, we are interested in the leading order of the exponentially small scattered part of the wave packet in the semiclassical parameter when the energy density of the incident wave is sh

  48. Roupam Ghosh

    Taking a new approach towards analyzing the Collatz Problem, or, 3x+1 conjecture. Introducing some new functions, the Collatz-2 and Collatz-3 sequences, as well as deducing results related to Collatz-2 and Collatz-3 sequences.

  49. Jean-Michel Billiot, Jean-François Coeurjolly, Rémy Drouilhet

    This paper is devoted to the estimation of a vector $\bm θ$ parametrizing an energy function of a Gibbs point process, via the maximum pseudolikelihood method. Strong consistency and asymptotic normality results of this estimator depending on a single realization are presented. In the framework of exponential family models, sufficient conditions are expresse

  50. Dance Spirkoska, Gerhard Abstreiter, Anna Fontcuberta I Morral

    Gallium arsenide nanowires were synthesized by gallium-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. By varying the growth time, nanowires with diameters ranging from 30 to 160 nm were obtained. Raman spectra of the nanowires ensembles were measured. The small line width of the optical phonon modes agree with an excellent crystalline quality. A surface phonon mode was al

  51. Matteo Beccaria, Francesca Catino

    The spectrum of anomalous dimensions of twist sl(2) operators in N=4 SYM has an intriguing feature in low twist 2 or 3. The anomalous dimension of the lowest state, dual a folded string on AdS_5 X S^5, can be computed by Bethe Ansatz at 3, 4 loops respectively as a simple closed function of the Lorentz spin. This feature is apparently lost at higher twist. W

  52. Byoung S. Ham

    A novel method of multi-bit quantum optical data storage is presented, where the storage time can be lengthened far beyond the spin phase-decay time in a reversible spin inhomogeneous system excited by consecutive resonant Raman optical data pulses. The ultralong storage time is obtained by an optical population locking mechanism of modified rephasing proces

  53. Liès Dekar

    We consider a class of Hermitian Hamiltonians with position-dependent mass $H=((m^alpha)p(m^beta)p(m^alpha))/2+\V$ with $2(alpha)+β=-1$. We apply these Hamiltonians to different piecewise flat potentials and masses (step, barrier, well and multibarrier). To raise the ordering ambiguity we impose that the transmission coefficient tends to the unity as the ene

  54. Akira Shibata

    This thesis presents a study of the prospects of measuring electroweak production of the top quark at the LHC. The study of the top quark is a highly topical subject as we expect significant numbers of top quarks at the LHC which will enable us to conduct precision measurements of the properties of the top. The t-channel &#34;single top&#34; is a relatively

  55. P. Ziń, J. Chwedeńczuk, B. Oleś, K. Sacha

    We consider a Bose gas with an attractive interaction in a symmetric double well potential. In the Hartree approximation, the ground state solution spontaneously breaks the symmetry of the trapping potential above certain value of the interaction strength. We demonstrate how the Landau-Ginzburg scheme of the second order phase transition emerges from the qua

  56. Patrick Charbonneau, Chinmay Das, Daan Frenkel

    We conduct a numerical study of the dynamical behavior of a system of three-dimensional crosses, particles that consist of three mutually perpendicular line segments rigidly joined at their midpoints. In an earlier study [W. van Ketel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 135703 (2005)] we showed that this model has the structural properties of an ideal gas, yet the

  57. Andres Santos, Riccardo Fantoni, Achille Giacometti

    We introduce a model of attractive penetrable spheres by adding a short range attractive square well outside a penetrable core, and we provide a detailed analysis of structural and thermodynamical properties in one dimension using the exact impenetrable counterpart as a starting point. The model is expected to describe star polymers in regimes of good and mo

  58. Johannes Sjoestrand

    This text is a survey of recent results obtained by the author and collaborators on different problems for non-self-adjoint operators. The topics are: Kramers-Fokker-Planck type operators, spectral asymptotics in two dimensions and Weyl asymptotics for the eigenvalues of non-self-adjoint operators with small random perturbations. In the introduction we also

  59. H. A. Hirsch, U. Heber, S. J. O&#39;Toole

    We present the results of quantitative spectral analysis of sdOs from the SDSS database. Fitting the Balmer, HeI and HeII lines to non-LTE model spectra, we derived their effective temperatures, surface gravities and helium abundances. We find the helium-enriched sdO stars to rally in a small intervall of Teff = 40,000K to 50,000K and log(g) = 5.5 to 6.0. We

  60. Bjoern Trauzettel, Pascal Simon, Daniel Loss

    We investigate the ac transport of magnetization in non-itinerant quantum systems such as spin chains described by the XXZ Hamiltonian. Using linear response theory, we calculate the ac magnetization current and the power absorption of such magnetic systems. Remarkably, the difference in the exchange interaction of the spin chain itself and the bulk magnets

  61. Fabio Nicola

    We deal with the restriction phenomenon for the Fourier transform. We prove that each of the restriction conjectures for the sphere, the paraboloid, the elliptic hyperboloid in $\mathbb{R}^n$ implies that for the cone in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. We also prove a new restriction estimate for any surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ locally isometric to the plane and of finite

  62. A. Dzyuba, M. Buescher, C. Hanhart, V. Kleber

    A combined analysis of the published data on the pp -> dK+K0bar reaction at excess energies of 47.4 MeV and 104.7 MeV is presented. Evidence is found for both the production of the a0+(980)scalar resonance and for a strong K0bar:d final state interaction.

  63. Takayuki Hirayama

    We study non conformal negative modes of Schwarzschild black holes in the five dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory with a zero or negative cosmological constant, in the context of the semiclassical quantum gravity formulated by the path integral. We find an unique negative mode when the black hole has a negative heat capacity which is the same i

  64. Nikolaus Berndt, Alan D. Rendall

    Cardassian models are an alternative to general relativity which have been proposed as an approach to explaining accelerated cosmic expansion while avoiding directly introducing dark energy. They are generally formulated only in the homogeneous and isotropic case. In this paper an extension of the usual formulation to general spatially homogeneous geometries

  65. L. A. Openov, A. I. Podlivaev

    An expression is derived for calculating microcanonical-ensemble averages of the kinetic energies of atoms of different types in clusters isolated from the environment. This expression is a natural generalization of the solution to the problem of hard spheres with different masses to a system with a many-particle interatomic interaction potential. The dynami

  66. Pierluigi Contucci, Francesco Unguendoli, Cecilia Vernia

    We study the response of a spin glass system with respect to the rescaling of its interaction random variables and investigate numerically the behaviour of the correlation functions with respect to the volume. While for a ferromagnet the local energy correlation functions increase monotonically with the scale and, by consequence, with respect to the volume o

  67. Paz Carmi, Vida Dujmović, Pat Morin, David R. Wood

    The \emph{distance-number} of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct edge-lengths over all straight-line drawings of $G$ in the plane. This definition generalises many well-known concepts in combinatorial geometry. We consider the distance-number of trees, graphs with no $K^-_4$-minor, complete bipartite graphs, complete graphs, and cartesian products

  68. L. V. Tambovtseva, V. P. Grinin

    Recent interferometric observations of the young stellar object(YSO) HH 30 have revealed a low velocity outflow in the $^{12}$CO J=1-2 molecule line (Pety et al. 2006). We present here two models of the low velocity disc winds with the aim of investigating an origin of this molecular outflow. Following Andlada et al. (2006) we treated HH 30 as a binary syste

  69. Alessandro Ciattoni, Eugenio Del Re, Carlo Rizza, Andrea Marini

    We propose and demonstrate theoretically a method to achieve and design optical nonlinear responses through a light-mediated spatial hybridization of different standard nonlinearities. The mechanism is based on the fact that optical propagation through a spatial composite of different nonlinear media is governed by an effective nonlinear response if the spat

  70. J. C. Barba, F. Finkel, A. Gonzalez-Lopez, M. A. Rodriguez

    According to a long-standing conjecture of Berry and Tabor, the distribution of the spacings between consecutive levels of a &#34;generic&#39;&#39; integrable model should follow Poisson&#39;s law. In contrast, the spacings distribution of chaotic systems typically follows Wigner&#39;s law. An important exception to the Berry-Tabor conjecture is the integrab

  71. C. Dunning, K. E. Hibberd, J. Links

    Spectral equivalences of the quasi-exactly solvable sectors of two classes of Schrodinger operators are established, using Gaudin-type Bethe ansatz equations. In some instances the results can be extended leading to full isospectrality. In this manner we obtain equivalences between PT-symmetric problems and Hermitian problems. We also find equivalences betwe

  72. P. S. Burada, G. Schmid, P. Talkner, P. Hänggi

    The dynamics of Brownian motion has widespread applications extending from transport in designed micro-channels up to its prominent role for inducing transport in molecular motors and Brownian motors. Here, Brownian transport is studied in micro-sized, two dimensional periodic channels, exhibiting periodically varying cross sections. The particles in additio

  73. Jan Platos, Jiri Dvorsky

    Today there are many universal compression algorithms, but in most cases is for specific data better using specific algorithm - JPEG for images, MPEG for movies, etc. For textual documents there are special methods based on PPM algorithm or methods with non-character access, e.g. word-based compression. In the past, several papers describing variants of word

  74. Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Schoelkopf

    Inferring the causal structure that links n observables is usually based upon detecting statistical dependences and choosing simple graphs that make the joint measure Markovian. Here we argue why causal inference is also possible when only single observations are present. We develop a theory how to generate causal graphs explaining similarities between singl

  75. Pavel V. Kuptsov, Sergey P. Kuznetsov, Igor R. Sataev

    Recently, a system with uniformly hyperbolic attractor of Smale-Williams type has been suggested [Kuznetsov, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 144101, 2005]. This system consists of two coupled non-autonomous van der Pol oscillators and admits simple physical realization. In present paper we introduce amplitude equations for this system and prove that the attractor of t

  76. Cesare Tronci

    The Vlasov equation of kinetic theory is introduced and the Hamiltonian structure of its moments is presented. Then we focus on the geodesic evolution of the Vlasov moments. As a first step, these moment equations generalize the Camassa-Holm equation to its multi-component version. Subsequently, adding electrostatic forces to the geodesic moment equations re

  77. V. I. Yukalov, E. P. Yukalova

    A method of entanglement production is suggested, based on the resonant generation of topological modes in systems with Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical or magnetic lattices. The method makes it possible to regulate the strength of entanglement production as well as to govern its time variation. This method can serve as a practical tool for quant

  78. Frederique Bassino, Julien Clement, Julien Fayolle, Pierre Nicodeme

    We consider a component of the word statistics known as clump; starting from a finite set of words, clumps are maximal overlapping sets of these occurrences. This parameter has first been studied by Schbath with the aim of counting the number of occurrences of words in random texts. Later work with similar probabilistic approach used the Chen-Stein approxima

  79. Zhangjin Chen, Anh-Thu Le, Toru Morishita, C. D. Lin

    We analyzed the energy and momentum distributions of laser-induced high-energy photoelectrons of alkali and rare gas atoms. For the plateau electrons with energies above $4U_p$, ($U_p$ is the ponderomotive energy), in the tunneling ionization regime, we showed that they originate from the backscattering of laser-induced returning electrons. Using the differe

  80. Christian Haase, Benjamin Nill, Sam Payne

    We give an effective upper bound on the h^*-polynomial of a lattice polytope in terms of its degree and leading coefficient, confirming a conjecture of Batyrev. We deduce this bound as a consequence of a strong Cayley decomposition theorem which says, roughly speaking, that any lattice polytope with a large multiple that has no interior lattice points has a

  81. Gareth Hughes

    Information theory is a branch of probability and statistics involving the analysis of communications. Information theory enables us to analyze and quantify the information content of predictions made in the context of plant disease management and related disciplines. In this article, some applications of information theory in plant disease management are ou

  82. Christian Fleischhack

    Consider the polynomial $tr (A + tB)^m$ in $t$ for positive hermitian matrices $A$ and $B$ with $m \in \N$. The Bessis-Moussa-Villani conjecture (in the equivalent form of Lieb and Seiringer) states that this polynomial has nonnegative coefficients only. We prove that they are at least asymptotically positive, for the nontrivial case of $AB \neq 0$. More pre

  83. D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

    We present a search for a narrow-width heavy resonance decaying into top quark pairs X->ttbar in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96TeV using approximately 0.9fb^-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. This analysis considers ttbar candidate events in the lepton plus jets channel with at least one identified b jet and uses t

  84. K. R. Priolkar, P. A. Bhobe, P. R. Sarode

    Martensitic and magnetic properties of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys are known to depend up on structural modulations and associated changes in the Fermi surface. These modulations although periodic and spanning over multiple unit cells, involve movement of atoms typically of the order of 0.01A. Therefore X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS) is an idea

  85. A. P. Majtey, A. Borras, M. Casas, P. W. Lamberti

    The notion of distance in Hilbert space is relevant in many scenarios. In particular, distances between quantum states play a central role in quantum information theory. An appropriate measure of distance is the quantum Jensen Shannon divergence (QJSD) between quantum states. Here we study this distance as a geometrical measure of entanglement and apply it t

  86. R. Kariyappa, B. A. Varghese, W. Curdt

    We have analyzed a time series of spectra in the hydrogen Lyman lines and the Lyman continuum obtained by the Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation (SUMER) spectrometer on the SOlar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The time series of about 2 hours and 22 minutes was obtained on 1999 March 9 in a quiet region near the center of the solar disk. F

  87. Anupam Singh

    Let $G$ be an algebraic group of type $G_2$ over a field $k$ of characteristic $\neq 2,3$. In this paper we calculate centralizers of semisimple elements in anisotropic $G_2$. Using these, we show explicitly that there are six conjugacy classes of centralizers in the compact real form of $G_2$.

  88. J. Spray, J. Hill, A. Trew

    The implementation of a proof-of-concept Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics kernel on the Cell processor is described in detail, illustrating issues encountered in the porting process. The resulting code performs up to 45GFlop/s per socket, indicating that the Cell processor is likely to be a good platform for future Lattice QCD calculations.

  89. Steffen Brasch, Katharina Habermann, Lutz Habermann

    We describe the shape of the symplectic Dirac operators on Hermitian symmetric spaces. For this, we consider these operators as families of operators that can be handled more easily than the original ones.

  90. Sossio Vergara

    The famous Fourier theorem states that, under some restrictions, any periodic function (or real world signal) can be obtained as a sum of sinusoids, and hence, a technique exists for decomposing a signal into its sinusoidal components. From this theory an entire branch of research has flourished: from the Short-Time or Windowed Fourier Transform to the Wavel

  91. Hiroyuki Kimura, Keisuke Nishihata, Yukio Noda, Naofumi Aso

    The pressure ($p$) -- temperature ($T$) phase diagram for microscopic magnetism in the multiferroic compound HoMn$_{2}$O$_{5}$ was established using neutron diffraction measurements under a hydrostatic pressure up to 1.25 GPa. At ambient pressure, incommensurate--commensurate--incommensurate magnetic phase transitions occur successively with decreasing tempe

  92. Dan Butnariu, Yair Censor, Pini Gurfil, Ethan Hadar

    We study some methods of subgradient projections for solving a convex feasibility problem with general (not necessarily hyperplanes or half-spaces) convex sets in the inconsistent case and propose a strategy that controls the relaxation parameters in a specific self-adapting manner. This strategy leaves enough user-flexibility but gives a mathematical guaran

  93. L. A. Errico, M. Weissmann, M. Renteria

    Using the first-principles density-functional approach, magnetic properties of Mn-, Fe-, Co-, and Ni-doped rutile TiO2 were investigated for two different impurity concentrations (25% and 6.25%). Calculations were performed with the Full-Potential Linearized-Augmented Plane Waves (FLAPW) method, assuming that the magnetic impurities substitutionally replace

  94. L. A. Errico, G. Fabricius, M. Renteria

    We report an ab-initio comparative study of the electric-field-gradient tensor (EFG) and structural relaxations introduced by acceptor (Cd) and donor (Ta) impurities when they replace cations in a series of binary oxides: TiO2, SnO2, and In2O3. Calculations were performed with the Full-Potential Linearized-Augmented Plane Waves method that allows us to treat

  95. Van Hoa Nguyen, Dominique Lavenier

    This report presents the implementation of a protein sequence comparison algorithm specifically designed for speeding up time consuming part on parallel hardware such as SSE instructions, multicore architectures or graphic boards. Three programs have been developed: PLAST-P, TPLAST-N and PLAST-X. They provide equivalent results compared to the NCBI BLAST fam

  96. Tapati Sarkar, A. K. Raychaudhuri

    In this report we show that in the perovskite manganite La_{1-x}Ca_{x}MnO_3 for a fixed x \approx 0.33, the magnetic transition changes over from first order to second order on reducing the particle size to nearly few tens of a nanometer. The change-over is brought about only by reducing the size and with no change in the stoichiometry. The size reduction to

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    A graph $G(V,E)$ of order $|V|=p$ and size $|E|=q$ is called super edge-graceful if there is a bijection $f$ from $E$ to $\{0,\pm 1,\pm 2,...,\pm \frac{q-1}{2}\}$ when $q$ is odd and from $E$ to $\{\pm 1,\pm 2,...,\pm \frac{q}{2}\}$ when $q$ is even such that the induced vertex labeling $f^*$ defined by $f^*(x) = \sum_{xy\in E(G)}f(xy)$ over all edges $xy$ i

  98. Guo-Niu Han

    We find two new hook length formulas for binary trees. The particularity of our formulas is that the hook length $h_v$ appears as an exponent.

  99. Nan Du, Bin Wu, Bai Wang, Yi Wang

    Recent researches have discovered that rich interactions among entities in nature and society bring about complex networks with community structures. Although the investigation of the community structures has promoted the development of many successful algorithms, most of them only find separated communities, while for the vast majority of real-world network

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