February 2009 arXiv papers — page 33

Denis A. Semenov

The wobble hypothesis does not discriminate between uracil and thymine. Methylation could favor further stabilization of uracil in the keto form. Thymine is present in keto form only and can pair up but with adenine. Uracil can easily construct the enol form; that is why it forms the U-G pair.

Luca Mugnai, Matthias Röger

We study perturbations of the Allen-Cahn equation and prove the convergence to forced mean curvature flow in the sharp interface limit. We allow for perturbations that are square-integrable with respect to the diffuse surface area measure. We give a suitable generalized formulation for forced mean curvature flow and apply previous results for the Allen-Cahn

C. Frigeri, M. Serenyi, A. Csik, Z. Erdelyi

A study is presented of the structural changes occurring as a function of the annealing conditions in hydrogenated amorphous Si/Ge multilayers prepared by sputtering. Annealing changes the structure of the as-deposited multilayer except for the less severe conditions here applied (150 oC, time<22 h). For higher temperatures and/or times, the modifications co

Ben Burningham, D. J. Pinfield, S. K. Leggett, C. G. Tinney

We report the discovery of a T8.5 dwarf, which is a companion to the M4 dwarf Wolf 940. At a distance of 12.50 (+0.75,-0.67) pc, the angular separation of 32arcsec corresponds to a projected separation of 400 AU. The M4 primary displays no Halpha emission, and we apply the age-activity relations of West et al. to place a lower limit on the age of the system

Raffaele Punzi, Frederic P. Schuller, Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We argue that the time measured by a light clock operating with photons rather than classical light requires a refinement of the standard clock postulate in general relativity. In the presence of a gravitational field, already the one-loop quantum corrections to classical Maxwell theory affect light propagation and the construction of observers&#39; frames o

Thomas Bliem

We introduce the notion of a chopped and sliced cone in combinatorial geometry and prove two structure theorems for the number of integral points in the individual slices of such a cone. We observe that this notion applies to weight multiplicities of Kac-Moody algebras and Littlewood-Richardson coefficients of semisimple Lie algebras, where we obtain the cor

Sudipta Dutta, Arun K. Manna, Swapan K. Pati

We perform first-principles calculations based on density functional theory to study quasi one-dimensional edge-passivated (with hydrogen) zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) of various widths with chemical dopants, boron and nitrogen, keeping the whole system isoelectronic. Gradual increase in doping concentration takes the system finally to zigzag boron ni

C. Gwenlan

Previously published data on inclusive neutral and charged current e+p and e-p deep inelastic scattering from HERA have been combined. The new, model-independent method of combining the measured cross sections takes full account of correlated systematics in a coherent way, leading to significantly reduced uncertainties in the combined measurement across the

C. Martin, R. T. Gordon, M. A. Tanatar, H. Kim

We have studied the in- and out-of-plane magnetic penetration depths in the hole- doped iron based superconductor Ba$_{1-x}$K$_{x}$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ ($T_{c}\approx$ 30K). The study was performed on single crystals grown from different fluxes and we find that the results are nearly the same. The in-plane London penetration depth $λ_{ab}$ does not show exponent

D. B. Melrose

Glossary I. Background and context of the subject II. Stochastic acceleration III. Resonant scattering IV. Diffusive shock acceleration V. DSA at multiple shocks VI. Applications of DSA VII. Acceleration by parallel electric fields VIII. Other acceleration mechanisms IX. Future directions X. Appendix: Quasilinear equations XI. Bibliography

Kenneth W. Cavagnolo, Megan Donahue, G. Mark Voit, Ming Sun

We present radial entropy profiles of the intracluster medium (ICM) for a collection of 239 clusters taken from the Chandra X-ray Observatory&#39;s Data Archive. Entropy is of great interest because it controls ICM global properties and records the thermal history of a cluster. Entropy is therefore a useful quantity for studying the effects of feedback on th

Hong-yi Fan, Li-yun Hu

We find a new integration transformation which can convert a chirplet function to fractional Fourier transformation kernel, this new transformation is invertible and obeys Parseval theorem. Under this transformation a new relationship between a phase space function and its Weyl-Wigner quantum correspondence operator is revealed.

P. Rodriguez-Gil, I. G. Martinez-Pais, J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

We present time-resolved spectroscopy and circular spectropolarimetry of the SW Sex star RX J1643.7+3402. We find significant polarisation levels exhibiting a variability at a period of 19.38 +- 0.39 min. In addition, emission-line flaring is found predominantly at twice the polarimetric period. These two findings are strong evidences in favour of the presen

Ronald G. Douglas, Yun-Su Kim

We study reducing subspaces for an analytic multiplication operator M_{z^{n}} on the Bergman space L_{a}^{2}(A_{r}) of the annulus A_{r}, and we prove that M_{z^{n}} has exactly 2^n reducing subspaces. Furthermore, in contrast to what happens for the disk, the same is true for the Hardy space on the annulus. Finally, we extend the results to certain bilatera

Andrew J. Ferris, Murray K. Olsen, Matthew J. Davis

The unequivocal detection of entanglement between two distinct matter-wave pulses is a significant challenge that has yet to be experimentally demonstrated. We describe a realistic scheme to generate and detect continuous variable entanglement between two atomic matter-wave pulses produced via degenerate four-wave-mixing from an initially trapped Bose-Einste

Alfredo Raya

Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and confinement are two crucial features of Quantum Chromodynamics responsible for the nature of the hadron spectrum. These phenomena, presumably coincidental, can account for 98% of the mass of our visible universe. In this set of lectures, I shall present an introductory review of them in the light of the Schwinger-Dyson

David Ellerman

Categorical logic has shown that modern logic is essentially the logic of subsets (or &#34;subobjects&#34;). Partitions are dual to subsets so there is a dual logic of partitions where a &#34;distinction&#34; [an ordered pair of distinct elements (u,u&#39;) from the universe U ] is dual to an &#34;element&#34;. An element being in a subset is analogous to a

V. Bianchin, L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, G. Tagliaferri

Aims: We study the blazar nature of the high-redshift Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasar PKS 2149-306 (z = 2.345) by investigating its long-term behavior. Methods: We analyzed all publicly available optical-to-X-ray observations performed by XMM-Newton, Swift, and INTEGRAL. Conclusions: PKS 2149-306 is one of four blazars at z>2 that have been observed in the hard-X

Christian Schlegel, Shuai Zhang

It is shown that dominant trapping sets of regular LDPC codes, so called absorption sets, undergo a two-phased dynamic behavior in the iterative message-passing decoding algorithm. Using a linear dynamic model for the iteration behavior of these sets, it is shown that they undergo an initial geometric growth phase which stabilizes in a final bit-flipping beh

Dawei Chen, Izzet Coskun

In this paper, we determine the stable base locus decomposition of the Kontsevich moduli spaces of degree two and three stable maps to Grassmannians. This gives new examples of the decomposition for varieties with Picard rank three. We also discuss the birational models that correspond to the chambers in the decomposition.

M. Donaire

This is the third of a series of papers devoted to develop a microscopical approach to the dipole emission process and its relation to coherent transport in random media. In this paper, we compute the power emitted by an induced dipole and the spontaneous decay rate of a Lorentzian-type dipole. In both cases, the emitter is placed at the center of a real cav

Satoru Katsuda, Robert Petre, Una Hwang, Hiroya Yamaguchi

We present results from X-ray analysis of a Galactic middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) G156.2+5.7 which is bright and largely extended in X-ray wavelengths, showing a clear circular shape (radius about 50&#39;). Using the Suzaku satellite, we observed this SNR in three pointings; partially covering the northwestern rim, the eastern rim, and the central por

Johannes Giannoulis

We investigate the macroscopic dynamics of sets of an arbitrary finite number of weakly amplitude-modulated pulses in a multidimensional lattice of particles. The latter are assumed to exhibit scalar displacement under pairwise, arbitrary-range, nonlinear interaction potentials and are embedded in a nonlinear background field. By an appropriate multiscale an

Katrien Kolenberg, Stefano Bagnulo

A high percentage of the astrophysically important RR Lyrae stars show a periodic amplitude and/or phase modulation of their pulsation cycles. More than a century after its discovery, this &#34;Blazhko effect&#34; still lacks acceptable theoretical understanding. In one of the plausible models for explaining the phenomenon, the modulation is caused by the ef

T. Vasyunina, H. Linz, Th. Henning, B. Stecklum

It is commonly assumed that cold and dense Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs) likely represent the birth sites massive stars. Therefore, this class of objects gets increasing attention. To enlarge the sample of well-characterised IRDCs in the southern hemisphere, we have set up a program to study the gas and dust of southern IRDCs. The present paper aims at charac

Peter Lindqvist, Teemu Lukkari

We prove the uniqueness for viscosity solutions of a differential equation involving the infinity-Laplacian with a variable exponent. A version of the Harnack&#39;s inequality is derived for this minimax problem.

Anais Rassat

We show that linear redshift distortions in the galaxy distribution can affect the ISW galaxy-temperature signal, when the galaxy selection function is derived from a redshift survey. We find this effect adds power to the ISW signal at all redshifts and is larger at higher redshifts. Omission of this effect leads to an overestimation of the dark energy densi

Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert, Norman Murray

Using observations from the literature, we show that the non-thermal radio luminosity (L) of supernova remnants (SNRs) is a strong function of the average gas surface density (Sigma) of the galaxy in which the remnants reside, from normal spirals to luminous starbursts. We combine a simple theory for electron cooling in SNRs with the observed radio luminosit

Jeremy L. Tinker, Risa H. Wechsler, Zheng Zheng

We analyze the angular clustering of z~2.3 distant red galaxies (DRGs) measured by Quadri et al 2008. We find that, with robust estimates of the measurement errors and realistic halo occupation distribution modeling, the measured clustering can be well fit within standard halo occupation models, in contrast to previous results. However, in order to fit the s

Rasoul Behboudi, You-Lan Zhu

This work is focused on the solvability of initial-boundary value problems for degenerate parabolic partial differential equations that arise in the pricing of Asian options, and on the investigation of differential and certain qualitative properties of solutions of such equations. The generalized solvability for such models with degeneracy at the boundaries

Wolf B. Dapp, Shantanu Basu

We present a new analytical three-parameter formula to fit observed column density profiles of prestellar cores. It represents a line-of-sight integral through a spherically symmetric or disc-like isothermal cloud. The underlying model resembles the Bonnor-Ebert model in that it features a flat central region leading into a power-law decline \propto r^{-2} i

Dominik Nickel

We explore the phase diagram of NJL-type models near the chiral critical point allowing for phases with spatially inhomogeneous chiral condensates. In the chiral limit it turns out that the region in the mean-field phase diagram where those phases are energetically preferred very generically reaches out to the chiral critical point. The preferred inhomogeneo

A. I. Aptekarev

We present linear forms with integer coefficients containing the Euler-Mascheroni and Euler-Gompertz constants. The forms are defined by four-terms recurrence relations. Asymptotics of the forms and their coefficients are obtained.

Chenyang Xu

Let $K = K(C)$ be the function field of a smooth curve $C$. Applying the result of [Xu08], we prove that if $S/K$ is a degree one or two del Pezzo surface which can be completed to a generic family in the parametrizing space over $C$, then weak approximation holds at every place $c \in C$.

A. Peltola, G. Kunstatter

We consider two different effective polymerization schemes applied to D-dimensional, spherically symmetric black hole interiors. It is shown that polymerization of the generalized area variable alone leads to a complete, regular, single-horizon spacetime in which the classical singularity is replaced by a bounce. The bounce radius is independent of rescaling

E. Glebbeek, E. Gaburov, S. E. de Mink, O. R. Pols

In the cores of young dense star clusters repeated stellar collisions involving the same object can occur, which has been suggested to lead to the formation of an intermediate-mass black hole. In order to verify this scenario we compute the detailed evolution of the merger remnant of three sequences. We follow the evolution until the onset of carbon burning

Mickael Matusinski

We study differential equations $F(y,...,y^{(n)})=0$ where $F(Y_0,...,Y_n)$ is a formal series in $Y_0,...,Y_n$ with coefficients in some field of \emph{generalized power series} $\mathds{K}_r$ with finite rank $r\in\mathbb{N}^*$. Our purpose is to understand the connection between the set of exponents of the coefficients of the equation $\textrm{Supp} F$ an

Luca Maccione, Andrew M. Taylor, David M. Mattingly, Stefano Liberati

We investigate the consequences of higher dimension Lorentz violating, CPT even kinetic operators that couple standard model fields to a non-zero vector field in an Effective Field Theory framework. Comparing the ultra-high energy cosmic ray spectrum reconstructed in the presence of such terms with data from the Pierre Auger observatory allows us to establis

Till Sawala, Cecilia Scannapieco, Umberto Maio, Simon D. M. White

We present results of high resolution hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies. Our simulations start from cosmological initial conditions at high redshift. They include metal-dependent cooling, star formation, feedback from type II and type Ia supernovae and UV background radiation, with physical recipes identical to those

Bohm-Jung Yang, Yong Baek Kim

Motivated by a recent experiment on Rb2Cu3SnF12, where spin-1/2 Cu2+ moments reside on the layers of Kagome-like lattices, we investigate quantum ground states of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a series of deformed Kagome lattices. The deformation is characterized by a weaker exchange coupling (alpha*J) on certain lattice links appropriate for Rb2

Igor Bakovic, Branislav Jurco

For any topological bicategory B, the Duskin nerve NB of B is a simplicial space. We introduce the classifying topos BB of B as the Deligne topos of sheaves Sh(NB) on the simplicial space NB. It is shown that the category of geometric morphisms Hom(Sh(X),BB) from the topos of sheaves Sh(X) on a topological space X to the Deligne classifying topos is naturall

Carlos R. Mafra, Christian Stahn

We compute the massless five-point amplitude of open superstrings using the non-minimal pure spinor formalism and obtain a simple kinematic factor in pure spinor superspace, which can be viewed as the natural extension of the kinematic factor of the massless four-point amplitude. It encodes bosonic and fermionic external states in supersymmetric form and red

Ishwaree P. Neupane, Holly Trowland

Dark Energy is some of the weirdest and most mysterious stuff in the universe that tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe. Two commonly known forms of dark energy are the cosmological constant, a constant energy density filling space homogeneously, and scalar fields such as quintessence or moduli whose energy density can vary with time. We e

Oren Bergman, Shinji Hirano

We study higher order corrections to the radius/M2-brane charge of AdS_4 x S^7/Z_k. There are two sources of corrections: one from the orbifold singularity of C^4/Z_k, and the other from the discrete torsion associated with the homology 3-cycle H_3(S^7/Z_k,Z) = Z_k. We give a precise formula for the charge shift. These corrections are relevant, for example,

Geraldina Golup, Diego Harari, Silvia Mollerach, Esteban Roulet

We study the possibility to reconstruct the position of ultra-high energy cosmic ray sources and some properties of the magnetic field along the line of sight towards them in the case that several events from the same source are detected. By considering an illustrative model for the galactic magnetic field, including both a regular and a turbulent component,

R. H. Lemmer

It is shown that the momentum-dependent kaon-antikaon interactions generated via vector meson exchange from the standard SU_V(3) x SU_A(3) interaction Lagrangian lead to a non-local potential in coordinate space that can be incorporated without approximation into a non-relativistic version of the Bethe-Salpeter wave equation containing a radial-dependent eff

Yousra Chabchoub, Christine Fricker, Fabrice Guillemin, Philippe Robert

A new method of estimating some statistical characteristics of TCP flows in the Internet is developed in this paper. For this purpose, a new set of random variables (referred to as observables) is defined. When dealing with sampled traffic, these observables can easily be computed from sampled data. By adopting a convenient mouse/elephant dichotomy also depe

Jean-Yves Audibert, Olivier Catoni

We consider the problem of predicting as well as the best linear combination of d given functions in least squares regression, and variants of this problem including constraints on the parameters of the linear combination. When the input distribution is known, there already exists an algorithm having an expected excess risk of order d/n, where n is the size

Hirotaka Irie

We point out that the non-critical version of the k-fractional superstring theory can be described by k-cut critical points of the matrix models. In particular, in comparison with the spectrum structure of fractional super-Liouville theory, we show that (p,q) minimal fractional superstring theories appear in the Z_k-symmetry breaking critical points of the k

Tim Cochran, Paul Melvin

The Milnor degree of a 3-manifold is an invariant that records the maximum simplicity, in terms of higher order linking, of any link in the 3-sphere that can be surgered to give the manifold. This invariant is investigated in the context of torsion linking forms, nilpotent quotients of the fundamental group, Massey products and quantum invariants, and the ex

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present updated measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries in fully reconstructed neutral B decays containing a charmonium meson. The measurements reported here use a data sample of (465+/-5) million Upsilon(4S)->BBbar decays collected with the Babar detector at the PEPII asymmetric energy e+e- storage rings operating at the SLAC National Accelerator L

Mohammed Mia, Keshav Dasgupta, Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon

We revisit the analysis of the drag a massive quark experiences and the wake it creates at a temperature T while moving through a plasma using a gravity dual that captures the renormalisation group runnings in the dual gauge theory. Our gravity dual has a black hole and seven branes embedded via Ouyang embedding, but the geometry is a deformation of the usua

Paolo Minero, Young-Han Kim

The problem of reliable transmission of correlated sources over the broadcast channel, originally studied by Han and Costa, is revisited. An alternative characterization of their sufficient condition for reliable transmission is given, which includes results of Marton for channel coding over broadcast channels and of Gray and Wyner for distributed source cod

Phong Le, Sunil Chetty

We shall derive conditions in which a general formula for the dimension of q-ary trace codes induced by algebraic-geometric codes. Significant to this result are several dimension reducing methods for the underlying functions spaces associated to q-ary trace codes.

Robert P. C. Wiersma, Joop Schaye, Tom Theuns, Claudio Dalla Vecchia

(Abridged) We present an implementation of stellar evolution and chemical feedback for smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. We consider the timed release of individual elements by both massive (Type II supernovae and stellar winds) and intermediate mass stars (Type Ia supernovae and asymptotic giant branch stars). We illustrate the results of o

Marius Beceanu

Consider the H^{1/2}-critical Schroedinger equation with a cubic nonlinearity in R^3, i \partial_t ψ+ Δψ+ |ψ|^2 ψ= 0. It admits an eight-dimensional manifold of periodic solutions called solitons e^{i(Γ+ vx - t|v|^2 + α^2 t)} ϕ(x-2tv-D, α), where ϕ(x, α) is a positive ground state solution of the semilinear elliptic equation -Δϕ+ α^2ϕ= ϕ^3. We prove that in

Carlos R. Mafra

This thesis discusses how the pure spinor formalism can be used to efficiently compute superstring scattering amplitudes. We emphasize the pure spinor superspace form of the kinematic factors, where the simplifying features of this language have allowed an explicit relation among the massless four-point amplitudes at tree-level, one- and two-loops to be foun

Paul Fabel

A planar compactum with connected complement can be an embedded in a cellular continuum by attaching a null sequence of arcs. Two based maps f and g from a planar Peano continuum X to a planar set Y are homotopic iff f and g induce the same homomorphism between fundamental groups.

D. Emmanuel-Costa, Edison T. Franco, R. Gonzalez Felipe

The implementation of seesaw mechanisms to give mass to neutrinos in the presence of an anomaly-free U(1)_X gauge symmetry is discussed in the context of minimal extensions of the standard model. It is shown that type-I and type-III seesaw mechanisms cannot be simultaneously implemented with an anomaly-free local U(1)_X, unless the symmetry is a replica of t

Marco Aurelio Diaz, Benjamin Koch, Boris Panes

The mass differences and mixing angles of neutrinos can neither be explained by R-Parity violating split supersymmetry nor by flavor blind quantum gravity alone. It is shown that combining both effects leads, within the allowed parameter range, to good agreement with the experimental results. The atmospheric mass is generated by supersymmetry through mixing

Ram Brustein, Dan Gorbonos

We express the Noether charge entropy density of a black brane in anti-deSitter space in terms of local operators in the anti-deSitter space bulk. We find that Wald&#39;s expression for the Noether charge entropy needs to be modified away from the horizon by an additional term that vanishes on the horizon. We then determine the field theory dual of the Noeth

M. V. Milovanović, Th. Jolicœur, I. Vidanović

Some fractional quantum Hall states observed in experiments may be described by first-quantized wavefunctions with special clustering properties like the Moore-Read Pfaffian for filling factor nu = 5/2. This wavefunction has been constructed by constructing correlation functions of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) involving a free boson and a M

J. X. Lu, Bo Ning, Ran Wei, Shan-Shan Xu

A general non-threshold BPS (F, D$_p$) (or (D$_{p - 2}$, D$_p$)) bound state can be described by a boundary state with a quantized world-volume electric (or magnetic) flux and is characterized by a pair of integers $(m, n)$. With this, we calculate explicitly the interaction amplitude between two such non-threshold bound states with a separation $Y$ when eac

R. A. Treumann, O. D. Constantinescu

The linear threshold condition of the mirror mode including weak drift and finite Larmor radius effects is analysed and shown that it can be given to arbitrary precision in closed analytical form. Combined with observations of mirror modes in the magnetosheath it is shown that only magnetic `dips&#39; are produced by the mirror instability. A semi-experiment

J. L. Jacquot

In enlarging the field content of pure Yang-Mills theory to a cutoff dependent matrix valued complex scalar field, we construct a vectorial operator, which is by definition invariant with respect to the gauge transformation of the Yang-Mills field and with respect to a Stueckelberg type gauge transformation of the scalar field. This invariant operator conver

E. Soliveres, V. Espinosa, I. Perez-Arjona, V. Sanchez-Morcillo

We present the experimental demonstration of self-collimation (subdiffractive propagation) of an ultrasonic beam inside a three-dimensional sonic crystal. The crystal is formed by two crossed steel cylinders structures in a woodpile-like geometry disposed in water. Measurements of the 3D field distribution show that a narrow beam which diffractively spreads

Pierre Charbit, Fabien de Montgolfier, Mathieu Raffinot

Given a family F of subsets of a ground set V, its orthogonal is defined to be the family of subsets that do not overlap any element of F. Using this tool we revisit the problem of designing a simple linear time algorithm for undirected graph split (also known as 1-join) decomposition.

Phillip E. C. Ashby, Catherine Kallin

The superconducting state of SRO is widely believed to have chiral p-wave order that breaks time reversal symmetry. Such a state is expected to have a spontaneous magnetization, both at sample edges and at domain walls between regions of different chirality. Indeed, muon spin resonance experiments are interpreted as evidence of spontaneous magnetization due

Paolo Salucci, Christiane Frigerio Martins

In the past years a wealth of observations has unraveled the structural properties of the Dark and Luminous mass distribution in spirals. These have pointed out to an intriguing scenario not easily explained by present theories of galaxy formation. The investigation of individual and coadded objects has shown that the spiral rotation curves follow, from thei

Marius van der Put, Masa-Hiko Saito

In this paper, we give a systematic construction of ten isomonodromic families of connections of rank two on $\mathbb{P}^1$ inducing Painlevé equations. The classification of ten families is given by considering the Riemann-Hilbert morphism from a moduli space of connections with certain type of regular and irregular singularities to a corresponding catetori

M. Kłusek, W. Schäfer, A. Szczurek

We discuss exclusive electromagnetic production of two neutral $ρ$ mesons in coherent photon-photon processes in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The cross section is calculated in the equivalent photon approximation (EPA). Both uncertainties of the flux factors and photon-photon cross sections are discussed in details. We show that inclusion of preci

S. Bacca, A. Schwenk, G. Hagen, T. Papenbrock

We present ground-state energies of helium halo nuclei based on chiral low-momentum interactions, using the hyperspherical-harmonics method for 6He and coupled-cluster theory for 8He, with correct asymptotics for the extended halo structure.

R. Otto, P. Hlavenka, S. Trippel, J. Mikosch

The column density distribution of trapped OH$^-$ ions in a 22-pole ion trap is measured for different trap parameters. The density is obtained from position-dependent photodetachment rate measurements. Overall, agreement is found with the effective potential of an ideal 22-pole. However, in addition we observe 10 distinct minima in the trapping potential, w

C. Angelantonj, C. Condeescu, E. Dudas, M. Lennek

We compute instantonic effects in globally consistent T^6/Z2xZ2 orientifold models with discrete torsion and magnetised D-branes. We consider fractional branes and instantons wrapping the same rigid cycles. We clarify and analyse in detail the low-energy effective action on D-branes in these models. We provide explicit examples where instantons induce linear

Markus Bläser, Christian Hoffmann

We consider the multivariate interlace polynomial introduced by Courcelle (2008), which generalizes several interlace polynomials defined by Arratia, Bollobas, and Sorkin (2004) and by Aigner and van der Holst (2004). We present an algorithm to evaluate the multivariate interlace polynomial of a graph with n vertices given a tree decomposition of the graph o

Roman Schmied, Janus H. Wesenberg, Dietrich Leibfried

Trapped ions offer long internal state (spin) coherence times and strong inter-particle interactions mediated by the Coulomb force. This makes them interesting candidates for quantum simulation of coupled lattices. To this end it is desirable to be able to trap ions in arbitrary conformations with precisely controlled local potentials. We provide a general m

Boris Kruglikov

We prove involutivity of Einstein, Einstein-Maxwell and other field equations by calculating the Spencer cohomology of these systems. Relation with Cartan method is traced in details. Basic implications through Cartan-Kahler theory are derived.

Malte Christopher Tichy, Fernando de Melo, Marek Kuś, Florian Mintert

We introduce detector-level entanglement, a unified entanglement concept for identical particles that takes into account the possible deletion of many-particle which-way information through the detection process. The concept implies a measure for the effective indistinguishability of the particles, which is controlled by the measurement setup and which quant

Andrew W. Steiner, Anna L. Watts

We show that the fundamental seismic shear mode, observed as a quasi-periodic oscillation in giant flares emitted by highly-magnetized neutron stars, is particularly sensitive to the nuclear physics of the crust. The identification of an oscillation at ~ 30 Hz as the fundamental crustal shear mode requires a nuclear symmetry energy that depends very weakly o

Yu. N. Pokotilovski

A new limit is presented on the axionlike P,T-noninvariant monopole-dipole coupling in a range (10^{-4} - 1) cm from existing data on the relaxation of spin-polarized He-3.

W. Galleas

We derive the Bethe Ansatz Equations on the half line for particles interacting through factorized $S$-matrices invariant relative to the centrally extended $su(2|2)$ Lie superalgebra and $su(1|2)$ open boundaries. These equations may be of relevance for the study of the spectrum of open strings on $AdS_{5} \times S^5$ background attached to Y=0 giant gravit

Yahya Ould Hamidoune

Let $Γ=(V,E)$ be a reflexive relation having a transitive group of automorphisms and let $v\in V.$ Let $F$ be a subset of $V$ with $F\cap Γ^-(v)=\{v\}$. (i) If $F$ is finite, then $| Γ(F)\setminus F|\ge |Γ(v)|-1.$ (ii) If $F$ is cofinite, then $| Γ(F)\setminus F|\ge |Γ^- (v)|-1.$ In particular, let $G$ be group, $B$ be a finite subset of $G$ and let $F$ be a

Stephan Paul

Precision experiments at low energies probing weak interaction are a very promising and complementary tool for investigating the structure of the electro-weak sector of the standard model, and for searching for new phenomena revealing signs for an underlaying new symmetry. With the advent of new technologies in particle trapping and production of beams for e

Marco Angel Bertani-Økland, Steffen Oppermann, Anette Wrålsen

Any cluster-tilted algebra is the relation extension of a tilted algebra. We present a method to, given the distribution of a cluster-tilting object in the Auslander-Reiten quiver of the cluster category, construct all tilted algebras whose relation extension is the endomorphism ring of this cluster-tilting object.

Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Tamás Szamuely

This partly expository paper investigates versions of the Tate conjecture on the cycle map for varieties defined over finite fields with values in &#39;etale cohomology with Z_\ell-coefficients. The bulk of the paper is an exposition of a 1998 result of C. Schoen which shows that an integral version of the conjecture holds for 1-cycles provided the usual con

Dominic Wright

We prove that any asymptotically locally Euclidean scalar-flat Kähler 4-orbifold whose isometry group contains a 2-torus is isometric, up to an orbifold covering, to a quaternionic-complex quotient of a $k$-dimensional quaternionic vector space by a $(k-1)$-torus. In order to do so, we first prove that any compact anti-self-dual 4-orbifold with positive Eule

R. M. Gomes, A. Salles, F. Toscano, P. H. Souto Ribeiro

We report the observation of an optical vortex in the correlations of photons produced from spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The singularity appears in a non-local coordinate plane consisting of one degree of freedom of each photon.

Jimmy A. Hutasoit, S. Prem Kumar, James Rafferty

We study real time correlators in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on dS_3 x S^1, with antiperiodic boundary conditions for fermions on the circle. When the circle radius is larger than a critical value, the dual geometry is the so-called &#34;topological AdS_5 black hole&#34;. Applying the Son- Starinets recipe in this background we com

I. Minchev, A. C. Quillen, M. Williams, K. C. Freeman

We perform numerical simulations of a stellar galactic disk with initial conditions chosen to represent an unrelaxed population which might have been left following a merger. Stars are unevenly distributed in radial action angle, though the disk is axisymmetric. The velocity distribution in the simulated Solar neighborhood exhibits waves traveling in the dir

P. Bokes

Stroboscopic wavepacket basis sets [P. Bokes, F. Corsetti, R. W. Godby, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046402 (2008)] are specifically tailored for a description of time-dependent processes in extended systems like non-periodic geometries of various contacts consisting of solids and molecules. The explanation of the construction of such a basis for two simple finite

Nicola Schneider, Joachim Urban, Philippe Baron

Existing and planned radiotelescopes working in the millimetre (mm) and sub-millimetre wavelengths range provide the possibility to be used for atmospheric line observations. To scrutinize this potential, we outline the differences and similarities in technical equipment and observing techniques between ground-based aeronomy mm-wave radiometers and radiotele

A. S. Mel&#39;nikov, D. A. Ryzhov, M. A. Silaev

The profiles of local density of states (LDOS) around different vortex configurations in mesoscopic superconductors are studied taking account of the interference of quasiparticle waves experiencing Andreev reflection within the vortex cores and normal reflection at the boundaries or defects. For subgap energy levels these interference effects reveal themsel

C. Gadermaier, A. S. Alexandrov, V. V. Kabanov, P. Kusar

We determined electronic relaxation times via pump-probe optical spectroscopy using sub-15 fs pulses for the normal state of two different cuprate superconductors.We show that the primary relaxation process is the electron-phonon interaction and extract a measure of its strength, the second moment of the Eliashberg functionλ<ω^{2}>=800\pm200 meV^{2} for La_{

Eleonora Guerrini, Massimiliano Sala

We present a bound on the size of linear codes. This bound is independent of other known bounds, e.g. the Griesmer bound.

R. A. Battye, I. W. A. Browne

We investigate the correlations between optical and radio isophotal position angles for 14302 SDSS galaxies with $r$ magnitudes brighter than 18 and which have been associated with extended FIRST radio sources. We identify two separate populations of galaxies using the colour, concentration and their principal components. Surprisingly strong statistical alig

Pierre Bérard, Ricardo Sa Earp

In this paper we describe all rotation $H$-hypersurfaces in $H^n \times R$ and use them as barriers to prove existence and characterization of certain vertical $H$-graphs and to give symmetry and uniqueness results for compact $H$-hypersurfaces whose boundary is one or two parallel submanifolds in slices. We also describe examples of translation $H$-hypersur

P. Osland, A. A. Pankov, A. V. Tsytrinov, N. Paver

Using as basic observable an angular-integrated asymmetry to be measured in Drell-Yan lepton-pair production at the LHC, we discuss the identification reach on the spin-2 of the lowest-lying Randall-Sundrum resonance predicted by gravity in one warped extra dimension, against the spin-1 and spin-0 hypotheses. Numerical results indicate that, depending on the

Ashish Goel, Michael Kapralov, Sanjeev Khanna

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in $d$-regular bipartite graphs with $2n$ vertices and $m = nd$ edges. While the best-known algorithm for general bipartite graphs (due to Hopcroft and Karp) takes $O(m \sqrt{n})$ time, in regular bipartite graphs, a perfect matching is known to be computable in $O(m)$ time. Very recently, th

S. J. Childs

The hypothetical impact of aerial spraying on tsetse fly populations is investigated. Spray cycles are scheduled at intervals two days short of the first interlarval period and halted once the last of the female flies that originated from pre-spray-deposited pupae have been sprayed twice. The effect of temperature on the aerial spraying of tsetse, through it

Agnes Sambale, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Ho Trung Dung

On the basis of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, a theory of Casimir forces in the presence of on linearly amplifying bodies is presented which provides a consistent framework for studying the effect of, e.g., amplifying left-handed metamaterials on dispersion forces. A general formula for the Casimir force acting on an amplifying body is derived. It is