February 2009 arXiv papers — page 6

Iosif Bena, Gianguido Dall'Agata, Stefano Giusto, Clement Ruef

We solve the recently-proposed equations describing non-BPS extremal multi-center configurations, and construct explicit solutions describing non-supersymmetric extremal black rings in Taub-NUT, as well as the seed solution for the most general extremal non-BPS under-rotating black hole in four dimensions. We also find solutions that contain both a black hol

Mehmet Tekkoyun

In this study, we introduce Euler-Lagrange and Hamiltonian equations on (R2; g; J) being a model of para-Kaehlerian Space Forms. Finally, some geometrical and physical results on the related mechanic systems have been discussed.

Dijun Luo, Heng Huang, Chris Ding

For tensor decompositions such as HOSVD and ParaFac, the objective functions are nonconvex. This implies, theoretically, there exists a large number of local optimas: starting from different starting point, the iteratively improved solution will converge to different local solutions. This non-uniqueness present a stability and reliability problem for image c

Catherine Laredo, Olivier David, Aurélie Garnier

Multitype branching processes with immigration in one type are used to model the dynamics of stage-structured plant populations. Parametric inference is first carried out when count data of all types are observed. Statistical identifiability is proved together with derivation of consistent and asymptotically Gaussian estimators for all the parameters ruling

Vinod panchal, Smita Gohil, Shankar Ghosh

We present low temperature Raman measurements on Ca3Co2O6. Shell model lattice dynamics calculations were done to determine the vibrational pattern of the expected Raman modes. In the temperature window 300K to 52K the mode frequencies and the full width at half maxima (FWHM) of the modes vary in an expected fashion, i.e., the mode frequencies shift to highe

Robert Waelder

A differential operator $D$ commuting with an $S^1$-action is said to be rigid if the non-constant Fourier coefficients of $\ker D$ and $\coker D$ are the same. Somewhat surprisingly, the study of rigid differential operators turns out to be closely related to the problem of defining Chern numbers on singular varieties. This relationship comes into play when

Edan Lerner, Itamar Procaccia, Emily S. C. Ching, H. G. E Hentschel

The shear-modulus and yield-stress of amorphous solids are important material parameters, with the former determining the rate of increase of stress under external strain and the latter being the stress value at which the material flows in a plastic manner. It is therefore important to understand how these parameters can be related to the inter-particle pote

Pavel Chebotarev

In the simplest version of the model of group decision making in the stochastic environment, the participants are segregated into egoists and a group of collectivists. A "proposal of the environment" is a stochastically generated vector of algebraic increments of participants' capitals. The social dynamics is determined by the sequence of proposa

Jinquan Luo, San Ling, Chaoping Xing

Let $q=2^n$, $0\leq k\leq n-1$ and $k\neq n/2$. In this paper we determine the value distribution of following exponential sums \[\sum\limits_{x\in \bF_q}(-1)^{\Tra_1^n(αx^{2^{3k}+1}+βx^{2^k+1})}\quad(α,β\in \bF_{q})\] and \[\sum\limits_{x\in \bF_q}(-1)^{\Tra_1^n(αx^{2^{3k}+1}+βx^{2^k+1}+\ga x)}\quad(α,β,\ga\in \bF_{q})\] where $\Tra_1^n: \bF_{2^n}\ra \bF_2$

Jinquan Luo, Hongyu Wang, Yuansheng Tang

Let $q=2^n$ with $n=2m$ . Let $1\leq k\leq n-1$ and $k\neq m$. In this paper we determine the value distribution of following exponential sums \[\sum\limits_{x\in \bF_q}(-1)^{\Tra_1^m (αx^{2^{m}+1})+\Tra_1^n(βx^{2^k+1})}\quad(α\in \bF_{2^m},β\in \bF_{q})\] and \[\sum\limits_{x\in \bF_q}(-1)^{\Tra_1^m (αx^{2^{m}+1})+\Tra_1^n(βx^{2^k+1}+\ga x)}\quad(α\in \bF_{

Jinquan Luo, San Ling, Chaoping Xing

Let $q=p^n$ with $p$ be an odd prime. Let $0\leq k\leq n-1$ and $k\neq n/2$. In this paper we determine the value distribution of following exponential(character) sums \[\sum\limits_{x\in \bF_q}ζ_p^{\Tra_1^n(αx^{p^{3k}+1}+βx^{p^k+1})}\quad(α\in \bF_{p^m},β\in \bF_{q})\] and \[\sum\limits_{x\in \bF_q}ζ_p^{\Tra_1^n(αx^{p^{3k}+1}+βx^{p^k+1}+\ga x)}\quad(α\in \b

Jinquan Luo, Yuansheng Tang, Hongyu Wang

Let $q=p^n$ with $n=2m$ and $p$ be an odd prime. Let $0\leq k\leq n-1$ and $k\neq m$. In this paper we determine the value distribution of following exponential(character) sums \[\sum\limits_{x\in \bF_q}ζ_p^{\Tra_1^m (αx^{p^{m}+1})+\Tra_1^n(βx^{p^k+1})}\quad(α\in \bF_{p^m},β\in \bF_{q})\] and \[\sum\limits_{x\in \bF_q}ζ_p^{\Tra_1^m (αx^{p^{m}+1})+\Tra_1^n(βx

Y. Takeda, H. Kaneko, N. Matsumoto, S. Oshino

A non-LTE analysis of K I resonance lines at 7664.91 and 7698.97 A was carried out for 15 red giants belonging to three globular clusters of different metallicity (M 4, M 13, and M 15) along with two reference early-K giants (rho Boo and alpha Boo), in order to check whether the K abundances are uniform within a cluster and to investigate the behavior of [K/

Vladimir Kadets, Varvara Shepelska, Dirk Werner

We study those Banach spaces $X$ for which $S_X$ does not admit a finite $\eps$-net consisting of elements of $S_X$ for any $\eps < 2$. We give characterisations of this class of spaces in terms of $\ell_1$-type sequences and in terms of the almost Daugavet property. The main result of the paper is: a separable Banach space $X$ is isomorphic to a space from

Farrukh Mukhamedov, Mansoor Saburov

In this paper we study Volterra type operators on infinite dimensional simplex. It is provided a sufficient condition for Volterra type operators to be bijective. Furthermore it is shoved that the condition is not necessary.

Zhen-Qiang Yin, Yi-Bo Zhao, Yong Yang, Zheng-Fu Han

Original quantum repeater protocols based on single-photon interference suffer from phase noise of the channel, which makes the long-distance quantum communication infeasible. Fortunately, two-photon interference type quantum repeaters can be immune to phase noise of the channel. However, this type quantum repeaters may still suffer from polarization disturb

N. J. Curro, A. P. Dioguardi, N. ApRoberts-Warren, A. C. Shockley

We present 75As nuclear magnetic resonance data in the paramagnetic and magnetic states of single crystal CaFe2As2. The electric field gradient and the internal magnetic field at the As sites change discontinuously below the first order structural transition at T0 = 169 K. In the magnetic state, we find a single value of the internal hyperfine field consiste

Robert E. Rudd

Here we use large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the high-rate deformation of nanocrystalline tantalum to investigate the processes associated with plastic deformation for strains up to 100%. We use initial atomic configurations that were produced through simulations of solidification in the work of Streitz et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, (2006) 22

J. A. Hester, A. Tasitsiomi

This paper presents a study of the specific merger rate as a function of group membership, local environment, and redshift in a very large, $500h^{-1} Mpc$, cosmological N-body simulation, the \textit{Millennium Simulation}. The goal is to provide environmental diagnostics of major merger populations in order to test simulations against observations and prov

Amit P. S. Yadav, Rahul Biswas, Meng Su, Matias Zaldarriaga

Following Kamionkowski (2008), a quadratic estimator of the rotation of the plane of polarization of the CMB is constructed. This statistic can estimate a spatially varying rotation angle. We use this estimator to quantify the prospects of detecting such a rotation field with forthcoming experiments. For PLANCK and CMBPol we find that the estimator containin

Sadegh Jokar, Volker Mehrmann, Marc Pfetsch, Harry Yserentant

A new concept is introduced for the adaptive finite element discretization of partial differential equations that have a sparsely representable solution. Motivated by recent work on compressed sensing, a recursive mesh refinement procedure is presented that uses linear programming to find a good approximation to the sparse solution on a given refinement leve

Hernando Quevedo, Alberto Sanchez

We study the properties of two-dimensional dilatonic black holes from the viewpoint of geometrothermodynamics. We show that the thermodynamic curvature of the equilibrium space vanishes only in the case of a flat spacetime, and it reproduces correctly the behavior of the thermodynamic interaction and phase transition structure of the corresponding black hole

Luis J. Alias, S. Carolina Garcia-Martinez

In this paper we study the behavior of the scalar curvature $S$ of a complete hypersurface immersed with constant mean curvature into a Riemannian space form of constant curvature, deriving a sharp estimate for the infimum of $S$. Our results will be an application of a weak Omori-Yau maximum principle due to Pigola, Rigoli and Setti \cite{PRS}.

Michael P. Salem

Arguably a major success of the landscape picture is the prediction of a small, non-zero vacuum energy density. The details of this prediction depends in part on how the diverging spacetime volume of the multiverse is regulated, a question that remains unresolved. One proposal, the causal diamond measure, has demonstrated many phenomenological successes, inc

W. T. Lu, S. Sridhar

The optical properties of slab waveguides made of indefinite permittivity ($\vep$) materials (IEM) are considered. In this medium the transverse permittivity is negative while the longitudinal permittivity is positive. At any given frequency the waveguide supports an infinite number of transverse magnetic (TM) eigenmodes. For a slab waveguide with a fixed th

Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Jian Tan

ALOHA is one of the most basic Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols and represents a foundation for other more sophisticated distributed and asynchronous MAC protocols, e.g., CSMA. In this paper, unlike in the traditional work that focused on mean value analysis, we study the distributional properties of packet transmission delays over an ALOHA channel. We

Ahmadreza Azimifard

Let $K$ denote a locally compact commutative hypergroup, $L^1(K)$ the hypergroup algebra, and $α$ a real-valued hermitian character of $K$. We show that $K$ is $α$-amenable if and only if $L^1(K)$ is $α$-left amenable. We also consider the $α$-amenability of hypergroup joins and polynomial hypergroups in several variables as well as a single variable.

Steven R. White

We introduce a class of states, called minimally entangled typical thermal states (METTS), designed to resemble a typical state of a quantum system at finite temperature with a bias towards classical (minimally entangled) properties. These states reveal in an intuitive way properties such as short-range order which may be hidden in correlation functions. An

Suranjana Ghosh, Utpal Roy, Claudiu Genes, David Vitali

We study the effect of decoherence on the sub-Planck scale structures of the vibrational wave packet of a molecule. The time evolution of these wave packets is investigated under the influence of a photonic or phononic environment. We determine the master equation describing the reduced dynamics of the wave-packet and analyze the sensitivity of the sub-Planc

Andrea Droghetti, Stefano Sanvito

The formation of the magnetic moment in C- and N-doped MgO is the result of a delicate interplay between Hund&#39;s coupling, hybridization and Jahn-Teller distortion. The balance depends on a number of environmental variables including electron doping. We investigate such a dependence by self-interaction corrected density functional theory and we find that

C. P. Burgess, Hyun Min Lee, Michael Trott

We use the power-counting formalism of effective field theory to study the size of loop corrections in theories of slow-roll inflation, with the aim of more precisely identifying the limits of validity of the usual classical inflationary treatments. We keep our analysis as general as possible in order to systematically identify the most important corrections

Evghenii Gaburov, Stefan Harfst, Simon Portegies Zwart

We present Sapporo, a library for performing high-precision gravitational N-body simulations on NVIDIA Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Our library mimics the GRAPE-6 library, and N-body codes currently running on GRAPE-6 can switch to Sapporo by a simple relinking of the library. The precision of our library is comparable to that of GRAPE-6, even though i

Robert I. Shekhter, Fabio Santandrea, Gustav Sonne, Leonid Y. Gorelik

Strong coupling between electronic and mechanical degrees of freedom is a basic requirement for the operation of any nanoelectromechanical device. In this Review we consider such devices and in particular investigate the properties of small tunnel-junction nanostructures that contain a movable element in the form of a suspended nanowire. In these systems, el

Antoine Touzé

We prove that extension groups in strict polynomial functor categories compute the rational cohomology of classical algebraic groups. This result was previously known only for general linear groups. We give several applications to the study of classical algebraic groups, such as a cohomological stabilization property, the injectivity of external cup products

Nikolay Gromov, Vladimir Kazakov, Andrii Kozak, Pedro Vieira

Using the thermodynamical Bethe ansatz method we derive an infinite set of integral non-linear equations for the spectrum of states/operators in AdS/CFT. The Y-system conjectured in arXiv:0901.3753 for the spectrum of all operators in planar N=4 SYM theory follows from these equations. In particular, we present the integral equations for the spectrum of all

J. Leon, E. Martin-Martinez

We investigate the Unruh effect on entanglement taking into account the spin degree of freedom of the Dirac field. We analyze spin Bell states in this setting, obtaining their entanglement dependance on the acceleration of one of the partners. Then, we consider simple analogs to the occupation number entangled state |00>+|11>, but with spin quantum numbers f

C. Moutou, G. Hebrard, F. Bouchy, A. Eggenberger

We report the detection of the primary transit of the extra-solar planet HD 80606 b, thanks to photometric and spectroscopic observations performed at Observatoire de Haute-Provence, simultaneously with the CCD camera at the 120-cm telescope and the SOPHIE spectrograph at the 193-cm telescope. We observed the whole egress of the transit and partially its cen

Ilya Kapovich, Martin Lustig

Motivated by the work of McCarthy and Papadopoulos for subgroups of mapping class groups, we construct domains of proper discontinuity in the compactified Outer space and in the projectivized space of geodesic currents for any &#34;sufficiently large&#34; subgroup of $Out(F_N)$ (that is, a subgroup containing a hyperbolic iwip). As a corollary we prove that

Fadoua Balabdaoui, Hanna K. Jankowski, Marios Pavlides, Arseni Seregin

We establish limit theory for the Grenander estimator of a monotone density near zero. In particular we consider the situation when the true density $f_0$ is unbounded at zero, with different rates of growth to infinity. In the course of our study we develop new switching relations by use of tools from convex analysis. The theory is applied to a problem invo

Pierre Gillibert, Friedrich Wehrung

We introduce an extension, indexed by a partially ordered set P and cardinal numbers k,l, denoted by (k,l)-->P, of the classical relation (k,n,l)--> r in infinite combinatorics. By definition, (k,n,l)--> r holds, if every map from the n-element subsets of k to the subsets of k with less than l elements has a r-element free set. For example, Kuratowski&#39;s

Zhenning Kong, Edmund M. Yeh

We study the problem of wireless network resilience to node failures from a percolation-based perspective. In practical wireless networks, it is often the case that the failure probability of a node depends on its degree (number of neighbors). We model this phenomenon as a degree-dependent site percolation process on random geometric graphs. In particular, w

Sofia S. Chabysheva, John R. Hiller

The dressed-electron eigenstate of Feynman-gauge QED is computed in light-front quantization with a Fock-space truncation to include at most the one-photon/one-electron sector. The theory is regulated by the inclusion of three massive Pauli-Villars (PV) particles, one PV electron and two PV photons. In particular, the chiral limit is investigated, and the co

Kevin Dusling, Daniel Fernandez-Fraile, Raju Venugopalan

We compute three particle correlations in the Glasma flux tube model of high energy heavy ion collisions. We obtain a simple geometrical picture of these correlations; when convoluted with final state radial flow, it results in distinct predictions for the near side three particle correlation in central heavy ion collisions.

Guillaume Bossard, Hermann Nicolai, K. S. Stelle

We study asymptotically flat stationary solutions of four-dimensional supergravity theories via the associated G/H* pseudo-Riemannian non-linear sigma models in three spatial dimensions. The Noether charge C associated to G is shown to satisfy a characteristic equation that determines it as a function of the four-dimensional conserved charges. The matrix C i

Eric Brussel

We study the fixed points of the q-bracket on the complex unit disk, and prove the following. The set of (nontrivial) pairs (x,q) such that [x]_q=x form a manifold whose standard projections both have degree p-2. There is an analytic function Q(X) taking x to q for which [x]_q=x, which is a (bijective) contraction unless the multiplicity of the residue of x

Jens Mund

We prove the Bisognano-Wichmann and CPT theorems for massive particles obeying braid group statistics in three-dimensional Minkowski space. We start from first principles of local relativistic quantum theory, assuming Poincare covariance and asymptotic completeness. The particle masses must be isolated points in the mass spectra of the corresponding charged

Sarvarish Chakravarty, Yuji Kodama

The main purpose of this paper is to give a survey of recent development on a classification of soliton solutions of the KP equation. The paper is self-contained, and we give a complete proof for the theorems needed for the classification. The classification is based on the Schubert decomposition of the real Grassmann manifold, Gr$(N,M)$, the set of $N$-dime

Marcin Kaźmierczak

The gauge approach to the theory of gravity has been widely discussed as an alternative to standard general relativity. The Poincar{é} group, as a symmetry group of all relativistic theories in the absence of gravitation, constitutes the most natural candidate for a gauge group. Although the Poincar{é} gauge theory of gravity has been elaborated over the yea

B. Z. Kopeliovich, E. Levin, A. H. Rezaeian, Ivan Schmidt

We investigate direct photon production in pp collisions at the energies of RHIC, CDF and LHC, at different rapidities employing various color-dipole models. The cross section peaks at forward rapidities due to the abelian dynamics of photon radiation. This opens new opportunities for measurement of direct photons at forward rapidities, where the background

Matteo Villani

A theoretical scheme, based on a probabilistic generalization of the Hamilton&#39;s principle, is elaborated to obtain an unified description of more general dynamical behaviors determined both from a lagrangian function and by mechanisms not contemplated by this function. Within this scheme, quantum mechanics, classical field theory and a quantum theory for

Cora Dvorkin, Wayne Hu, Kendrick M. Smith

B-modes in CMB polarization from patchy reionization arise from two effects: generation of polarization from scattering of quadrupole moments by reionization bubbles, and fluctuations in the screening of E-modes from recombination. The scattering contribution has been studied previously, but the screening contribution has not yet been calculated. We show tha

Tobias Lamm, Frederic Robert, Michael Struwe

We analyze the possible concentration behavior of heat flows related to the Moser-Trudinger energy and derive quantization results completely analogous to the quantization results for solutions of the corresponding elliptic equation. As an application of our results we obtain the existence of critical points of the Moser-Trudinger energy in a supercritical r

Yuji Kajiyama, Shaaban Khalil, Martti Raidal

We analyze the connection between electric dipole moment of the electron and the soft leptogenesis in supersymmetric $B-L$ extension of the standard model. In this model, the $B-L$ symmetry is radiatively broken at TeV scale. Therefore, it is a natural framework for low scale seesaw mechanism and also for implementing the soft leptogenesis. We show that the

Andy Buckley, Hendrik Hoeth, Holger Schulz, Jan Eike von Seggern

We summarise the motivation for, and the status of, the tools developed by CEDAR/MCnet for validating and tuning Monte Carlo event generators for the LHC against data from previous colliders. We then present selected preliminary results from studies of event shapes and hadronisation observables from e+e- colliders, and of minimum bias and underlying event ob

Andreas Schulz, Alessandro De Martino, Philip Ingenhoven, Reinhold Egger

We present the effective low-energy theory for interacting 1D quantum wires subject to Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Under a one-loop renormalization group scheme including all allowed interaction processes for not too weak Rashba coupling, we show that electron-electron backscattering is an irrelevant perturbation. Therefore no gap arises and electronic trans

Bozidar Jovanovic

The paper studies a natural $n$-dimensional generalization of the classical nonholonomic Chaplygin sphere problem. We prove that for a specific choice of the inertia operator, the restriction of the generalized problem onto zero value of the SO(n-1)-momentum mapping becomes an integrable Hamiltonian system after an appropriate time reparametrization.

Mohammad R. Garousi, Ahmad Ghodsi

Recently it has been shown in 0901.0931 [hep-th] that the approach to extremality for the non-extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole is not continuous. The non-extremal RN black hole splits into two spacetimes at the extremality: an extremal black hole and a disconnected $AdS_2\times S^2$ space which has been called the &#34;compactification solution&#34;. A

L. T. Evans, K. Andre, R. De, R. Henning

High purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are ubiquitous in nuclear physics experiments and are also used in numerous low radioactive background detectors. The effect of the position of $^{60}$Co and $^{137}$Cs point sources on the shape of spectra were studied with Monte Carlo and HPGe detector measurements. We briefly confirm previous work on the position dep

Luca Natile, Giuseppe Savaré

We present a simple approach to study the one-dimensional pressureless Euler system via adhesion dynamics in the Wasserstein space of probability measures with finite quadratic moments. Starting from a discrete system of a finite number of &#34;sticky&#34; particles, we obtain new explicit estimates of the solution in terms of the initial mass and momentum a

A. Gendiar, R. Krcmar, M. Weyrauch

We consider a one-dimensional mesoscopic quantum ring filled with spinless electrons and threaded by a magnetic flux, which carries a persistent current at zero temperature. The interplay of Coulomb interactions and a single on-site impurity yields a non-trivial dependence of the persistent current on the size of the ring. We determine numerically the asympt

A. Gargiulo, C. P. Haines, P. Merluzzi, R. J. Smith

We present a fundamental plane (FP) analysis of 141 early-type galaxies in the Shapley supercluster at z=0.049 based on spectroscopy from the AAOmega spectrograph at the AAT and photometry from the WFI on the ESO/MPI 2.2m telescope. The key feature of the survey is its coverage of low-mass galaxies down to sigma_0~50km/s. We obtain a best-fitting FP relation

The HADES Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, C. Agodi, A. Balanda

We present the results of a study of charged pion production in 12C + 12C collisions at incident beam energies of 1A GeV and 2A GeV using the HADES spectrometer at GSI. The main emphasis of the HADES program is on the dielectron signal from the early phase of the collision. Here, however, we discuss the data with respect to the emission of charged hadrons, s

Gilles Blanchard, Nicole Kraemer

We prove the statistical consistency of kernel Partial Least Squares Regression applied to a bounded regression learning problem on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Partial Least Squares stands out of well-known classical approaches as e.g. Ridge Regression or Principal Components Regression, as it is not defined as the solution of a global cost minimizat

Amnon Yekutieli

Let A be a noetherian commutative ring, and let I be an ideal in A. We study questions of flatness and I-adic completeness for infinitely generated A-modules. This is done using the notions of decaying function and I-adically free A-module.

Yukinobu Toda

The Donaldson-Thomas invariant is a curve counting invariant on Calabi-Yau 3-folds via ideal sheaves. Another counting invariant via stable pairs is introduced by Pandharipande and Thomas, which counts pairs of curves and divisors on them. These two theories are conjecturally equivalent via generating functions, called DT/PT correspondence. In this paper, we

Joonwoo Bae, Markus Tiersch, Simeon Sauer, Fernando de Melo

We derive an explicit analytic estimate for the entanglement of a large class of bipartite quantum states which extends into bound entanglement regions. This is done by using an efficiently computable concurrence lower bound, which is further employed to numerically construct a volume of $3 \times 3$ bound entangled states.

Andrew A. Cooper

In this note we establish that finite-time singularities of the mean curvature flow of compact Riemannian submanifolds are characterised by the blow up of the mean curvature.

N. Ghareghani, E. Ghorbani, M. Mohammad-Noori

Several intersection matrices of $s$-subsets vs. $k$-subsets of a $v$-set are introduced in the literature. We study these matrices systematically through counting arguments and generating function techniques. A number of new or known identities appear as natural consequences of this viewpoint; especially, appearance of the derivative operator $d/dz$ and som

Jonathan Chappelon

Let $n$ be a positive integer and $α_n$ be the arithmetic function which assigns the multiplicative order of $a^n$ modulo $n$ to every integer $a$ coprime to $n$ and vanishes elsewhere. Similarly, let $β_n$ assign the projective multiplicative order of $a^n$ modulo $n$ to every integer $a$ coprime to $n$ and vanishes elsewhere. In this paper, we present a st

W. B. Vasantha, R. Rajkumar

Rosenbloom and Tsfasman introduced a new metric (RT metric) which is a generalization of the Hamming metric. In this paper we study the distance graphs of spaces $Z_q^n$ and $S_n$ with Rosenbloom -Tsfasman metric. We also describe the degrees of vertices, components and the chromatic number of these graphs.

Germano D&#39;Abramo

This paper collects some reflections about an apparent incongruity between the usual (third-person) understanding of the probability of an event calculated for an extended period of time in the future (e.g., the expected probability of a driver to meet with a car accident in the next $M$ years) and the subjective perception of the same probability/risk that

H. E. Wheelwright, R. D. Oudmaijer, R. S. Schnerr

The prototype of the Beta Cep class of pulsating stars, Beta Cep, rotates relatively slowly, and yet displays episodic Halpha emission. Such behaviour is typical of a classical Be star. For some time this posed a contradiction to our understanding of the Be phenomena as rapid rotation is thought to be a prerequisite for the emission phases of Be stars. Recen

G. D. Marshall, A. Politi, J. C. F. Matthews, P. Dekker

We report photonic quantum circuits created using an ultrafast laser processing technique that is rapid, requires no lithographic mask and can be used to create three-dimensional networks of waveguide devices. We have characterized directional couplers--the key functional elements of photonic quantum circuits--and found that they perform as well as lithograp

Sanjoy Biswas, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

We consider a supergravity (SUGRA) scenario, with universal scalar and gaugino masses at high scale, with a right-chiral neutrino superfield included in the spectrum. Such a scenario can have a lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) dominated by the right sneutrino and a stau as the next-to lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP). Since decays of all particl

Sandor Vagvolgyi

We give semi-decision procedures for the ground word problem of variable preserving term equation systems and term equation systems. They are natural improvements of two well known trivial semi-decision procedures. We show the correctness of our procedures.

D. M. Basko

The paper reports a theoretical study of scattering of electrons by edges in graphene and its effect on Raman scattering. First, effective models are discussed for translationally invariant and rough edges. Second, they are used in a calculation of the edge-activated Raman D peak intensity and its dependence on the polarization of the incident/scattered ligh

Michal Hajdusek, Vlatko Vedral

We present a closest separable state to cluster states. We start by considering linear cluster chains and extend our method to cluster states that can be used as a universal resource in quantum computation. We reproduce known results for pure cluster states and show how our method can be used in quantifying entanglement in noisy cluster states. Operational m

Peter Bouwknegt, Varghese Mathai

Representing the data of a string compactified on a circle in the background of H-flux in terms of the geometric data of a principal loop group bundle, we show that T-duality in type II string theory can be understood as the interchange of the momentum and winding homomorphisms of the principal loop group bundle, thus giving rise to a new interpretation of T

Jorge G. Russo, Paul K. Townsend

The relativistic jerk, snap and all higher-order kinematical D-vectors are defined for the motion of a massive particle in a D-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We illustrate the formalism with stationary motions, for which we provide a new, Lorentz covariant, classification. We generalize some cases to branes, explaining the relevance to uniform motion in a

Lluis Bel

A simple and {\it innocent} modification of Poisson&#39;s equation leads to a modified Newtonnian theory of gravitation where a localized and {\it positive} energy density of the gravitational field contributes to its own source. The result is that the total {\it active gravitational mass} of a compact object is the sum of its {\it proper mass} and an {\it e

Wouter Castryck, Hendrik Hubrechts

Let F be a finite field and let b and N be integers. We prove explicit estimates for the probability that the number of rational points on a randomly chosen elliptic curve E over F equals b modulo N. The underlying tool is an equidistribution result on the action of Frobenius on the N-torsion subgroup of E. Our results subsume and extend previous work by Ach

Tomohiro Otsuka, Eisuke Abe, Yasuhiro Iye, Shingo Katsumoto

We propose realistic methods to detect local spin polarization, which utilize a quantum dot side coupled to the target system. By choosing appropriate states in the dot, we can put spin selectivity to the dot and detect spins in the target with small disturbance. We also present an experiment which realizes one of the proposed spin detection schemes in magne

Michael Röckner, Yi Wang

This note deals with existence and uniqueness of (variational) solutions to the following type of stochastic partial differential equations on a Hilbert space H dX(t) = A(t,X(t))dt + B(t,X(t))dW(t) + h(t) dG(t) where A and B are random nonlinear operators satisfying monotonicity conditions and G is an infinite dimensional Gaussian process adapted to the same

B. Andrei Bernevig, N. Regnault

We deduce a new set of symmetries and relations between the coefficients of the expansion of Abelian and Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) states in free (bosonic or fermionic) many-body states. Our rules allow to build an approximation of a FQH model state with an overlap increasing with growing system size (that may sometimes reach unity!) while us

S. Paltani, T. Dwelly, R. Walter, A. P. Marscher

We present some results of the deepest extragalactic survey performed by the INTEGRAL satellite. The fraction of very absorbed AGN is quite large. The sharp decrease in the absorption fraction with X-ray luminosity observed at lower-energy X-rays is not observed. The current lack of truly Compton-thick objects, with an upper limit of 14% to the size of this

Eduard Masso

We examine the gravitational properties of Lamb shift energies. Using available experimental data we show that these energies have a standard gravitational behavior at the level of $\sim 10^{-5}$. We are motivated by the point of view that Lamb shift energies may be interpreted as a consequence of vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. If this is

F. Persson, C. M. Wilson, M. Sandberg, G. Johansson

We present measurements of the ac response of a single-electron box (SEB). We apply an rf signal with a frequency larger than the tunneling rate and drive the system out of equilibrium. We observe much more dissipation in the SEB then one would expect from a simple circuit model. We can explain this in terms of a mechanism that we call the Sisyphus resistanc

V. Beffara, S. Friedli, Y. Velenik

We describe the scaling limit of the nearest neighbour prudent walk on the square lattice, which performs steps uniformly in directions in which it does not see sites already visited. We show that the scaling limit is given by the process Z(u) = s_1 theta^+(3u/7) e_1 + s_2 theta^-(3u/7) e_2, where e_1, e_2 is the canonical basis, theta^+(t), resp. theta^-(t)

Dongsu Kim, Jang Soo Kim

We provide a combinatorial approach to the largest power of $p$ in the number of permutations $π$ with $π^p=1$, for a fixed prime number $p$. With this approach, we find the largest power of $2$ in the number of involutions, in the signed sum of involutions and in the numbers of even or odd involutions.

Jacek Bierón, Charlotte Froese Fischer, Paul Indelicato, Per Jönsson

The multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock (MCDHF) model has been employed to calculate the expectation values for the hyperfine splittings of the 5d96s2 2D3/2 and 5d96s2 2D5/2 levels of atomic gold. One-, two-, and three-body electron correlation effects involving all 79 electrons have been included in a systematic manner. The approximation employed in this

Guillaume Aubrun

We present lower estimates for the best constant appearing in the weak $(1,1)$ maximal inequality in the space $(\R^n,\|\cdot\|_{\iy})$. We show that this constant grows to infinity faster than $(\log n)^{1-o(1)}$ when $n$ tends to infinity. To this end, we follow and simplify the approach used by J.M. Aldaz. The new part of the argument relies on Donsker&#3

Charles Bordenave, Giovanni Luca Torrisi

We analyze the asymptotic properties of a Euclidean optimization problem on the plane. Specifically, we consider a network with three bins and $n$ objects spatially uniformly distributed, each object being allocated to a bin at a cost depending on its position. Two allocations are considered: the allocation minimizing the bin loads and the allocation allocat

Hai-Yang Cheng, Chun-Khiang Chua, Yu-Kuo Hsiao

We study the doubly charmful two-body and three-body baryonic B decays $\bar B\to Λ_c^+\bar Λ_c^-$ and $\bar B\to Λ_c^+\bar Λ_c^- \bar K$. As pointed out before, a naive estimate of the branching ratio ${\cal O}(10^{-8})$ for the latter decay is too small by three to four orders of magnitude compared to experiment. Previously, it has been shown that a large

Qiang Yuan, Xiaojun Bi, Feng Huang, Xuelei Chen

In this work we calculate the Sunyaev-Zel&#39;dovich (SZ) effect due to the $e^+e^-$ from dark matter (DM) annihilation in galaxy clusters. Two candidates of DM particle, (1) the weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) and (2) the light dark matter (LDM) are investigated. For each case, we also consider several DM profiles with and without central cusp. W

Moshe Mishali, Yonina C. Eldar

Conventional sub-Nyquist sampling methods for analog signals exploit prior information about the spectral support. In this paper, we consider the challenging problem of blind sub-Nyquist sampling of multiband signals, whose unknown frequency support occupies only a small portion of a wide spectrum. Our primary design goals are efficient hardware implementati

Jared A. Rinehimer, Gerald A. Miller

We investigate the connection between the Breit and infinite momentum frames and show that when the nucleon matrix element of the time component of the electromagnetic current, which yields G_E in the Breit frame, is boosted to the infinite momentum (or light-front) frame, the quantity F_1 is obtained.

Hyerim Noh, Donghui Jeong, Jai-chan Hwang

We probe the pure Einstein&#39;s gravity contributions to the second-order density power spectrum. In the small-scale, we discover that the Einstein&#39;s gravity contribution is negligibly small. This guarantees that Newton&#39;s gravity is sufficient to handle the baryon acoustic oscillation scale. In the large scale, however, we discover that the Einstein

Tomohiro Matsuda

A mechanism for generating metric perturbations in inflationary models is considered. Long-wavelength inhomogeneities of light scalar fields in a decoupled sector may give rise to superhorizon fluctuations of couplings and masses in the low-energy effective action. Cosmological phase transitions may then occur that are not simultaneous in space, but occur wi

Jun Wu, Chiu-Man Ho, Daniel Boyanovsky

We study the production of sterile neutrinos in the region $T\sim M_W$ in an extension beyond the standard model with the see-saw mass matrix originating in Yukawa couplings to Higgs-like scalars with masses and vev&#39;s of the order of the electroweak scale. Sterile neutrinos are produced by the decay of scalars and standard model vector bosons. We obtain

Mark Agranovsky, David Finch, Peter Kuchment

The paper is devoted to the range description of the Radon type transform that averages a function over all spheres centered on a given sphere. Such transforms arise naturally in thermoacoustic tomography, a novel method of medical imaging. Range descriptions have recently been obtained for such transforms, and consisted of smoothness and support conditions,