March 2009 arXiv papers — page 8

Peter Würtz, Tim Langen, Tatjana Gericke, Andreas Koglbauer

We demonstrate single site addressability in a two-dimensional optical lattice with 600 nm lattice spacing. After loading a Bose-Einstein condensate in the lattice potential we use a focused electron beam to remove atoms from selected sites. The patterned structure is subsequently imaged by means of scanning electron microscopy. This technique allows us to c

Sebastian Heller

We consider compact minimal surfaces $f\colon M\to S^3$ of genus 2 which are homotopic to an embedding. We assume that the associated holomorphic bundle is stable. We prove that these surfaces can be constructed from a globally defined family of meromorphic connections by the DPW method. The poles of the meromorphic connections are at the Weierstrass points

Daniel N. Blaschke, Arnold Rofner, Manfred Schweda, Rene I. P. Sedmik

Motivated by the recent work of Vilar et al. arXiv:0902.2956 we enhance our non-commutative translation invariant gauge model arXiv:0901.1681 by introducing auxiliary fields and ghosts forming a BRST doublet structure. In this way localization of the problematic 1/D^2 term can be achieved without the necessity for any additional degrees of freedom. The resul

Erik Ekström, David Hobson

It is well known how to determine the price of perpetual American options if the underlying stock price is a time-homogeneous diffusion. In the present paper we consider the inverse problem, that is, given prices of perpetual American options for different strikes, we show how to construct a time-homogeneous stock price model which reproduces the given optio

T. Baumberger, O. Ronsin

Experiments on quasistatic crack propagation in gelatin hydrogels reveal a new branching instability triggered by wetting the tip opening with a drop of aqueous solvent less viscous than the bulk one. We show that the emergence of unstable branches results from a balance between the rate of secondary crack growth and the rate of advection away from a non-lin

Igor Burban, Olivier Schiffmann

We compare the reduced Drinfeld doubles of the composition subalgebras of the category of representations of the Kronecker quiver $\overr{Q}$ and of the category of coherent sheaves on ${\mathbb P}^1$. Using this approach, we show that the Drinfeld--Beck isomorphism for the quantized enveloping algebra $U_v(\hat{\mathfrak{sl}}_2)$ is a corollary of an equiva

Eric R. Bittner, Jeremy B. Maddox, Donald J. Kouri

We present here a supersymmetric (SUSY) approach for determining excitation energies within the context of a quantum Monte Carlo scheme. By using the fact that SUSY quantum mechanics gives rises to a series of isospectral Hamiltonians, we show that Monte Carlo ground-state calculations in the SUSY partners can be used to reconstruct accurately both the spect

Fernando Hernando, Diego Ruano

A new construction of codes from old ones is considered, it is an extension of the matrix-product construction. Several linear codes that improve the parameters of the known ones are presented.

S. Albino, B. A. Kniehl, R. Perez-Ramos

The unified description of fragmentation function evolution from large to small x which was developed for the vacuum in previous publications is now generalized to the medium, and is studied for the case in which the complete contribution from the largest class of soft gluon logarithms, the double logarithms, are accounted for and with the fixed order part c

Zainul Abidin, Carl E. Carlson

The electromagnetic form factors of nucleons are calculated using an AdS/QCD model by considering a Dirac field coupled to a vector field in the 5-dimensional AdS space. We also calculate a gravitational or energy-momentum form factor by perturbing the metric from the static AdS solution. We consider both the hard-wall model where the AdS geometry is cutoff

Johannes-Geert Hagmann, Karol K. Kozlowski, Nikos Theodorakopoulos, Michel Peyrard

We derive an exact formula for the covariance of cartesian distances in two simple polymer models, the freely-jointed chain and a discrete flexible model with nearest-neighbor interaction. We show that even in the interaction-free case correlations exist as long as the two distances at least partially share the same segments. For the interacting case, we dem

Q. Liu, R. de Grijs, L. C. Deng, Y. Hu

We use deep Hubble Space Telescope photometry of the rich, young (~20-45 Myr-old) star cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud to derive its stellar mass function (MF) down to ~0.15 Msun. This represents the deepest robust MF thus far obtained for a stellar system in an extragalactic, low-metallicity ([Fe/H]~-0.4 dex) environment. Combining our result

A. C. Lobo, C. A. Ribeiro

We address the issue of how to properly treat, and in a more general setting, the concept of a weak value of a weak measurement in quantum mechanics. We show that for this purpose, one must take in account the effects of the measuring process on the entire phase space of the measuring system. By using coherent states, we go a step further than Jozsa in a rec

Marco Streng

We bound the running time of an algorithm that computes the genus-two class polynomials of a primitive quartic CM-field K. This is in fact the first running time bound and even the first proof of correctness of any algorithm that computes these polynomials. Essential to bounding the running time is our bound on the height of the polynomials, which is a combi

G. M. Minkov, A. V. Germanenko, O. E. Rut, A. A. Sherstobitov

We study the electron-electron interaction contribution to the conductivity of two-dimensional In$_{0.2}$Ga$_{0.8}$As electron systems in the diffusion regime over the wide conductivity range, $\sigma\simeq(1-150) G_0$, where $G_0=e^2/(2\pi^2\hbar)$. We show that the data are well described within the framework of the one-loop approximation of the renormaliz

Miguel Escobedo, Manuel A. Valle

We study the four-wave kinetic equation of weak turbulence linearized around the Rayleigh-Jeans spectrum when the collision integral is associated with short-range interactions between non-relativistic bosonic quasiparticles. The technique used for the analysis of the stability is based on the properties of the Mellin transform of the kernel in the integral

Fabrice Bethuel, Philippe Gravejat, Jean-Claude Saut, Didier Smets

In this paper, we proceed along our analysis of the Korteweg-de Vries approximation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation initiated in a previous paper. At the long-wave limit, we establish that solutions of small amplitude to the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation split into two waves with opposite constant speeds $\pm \sqrt{2}$, each of which are solutio

Juergen Hausen, Hendrik Süß

We investigate the Cox ring of a normal complete variety X with algebraic torus action. Our first results relate the Cox ring of X to that of a maximal geometric quotient of X. As a consequence, we obtain a complete description of the Cox ring in terms of generators and relations for varieties with torus action of complexity one. Moreover, we provide a combi

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

We present a search for the standard model Higgs boson using hadronically decaying tau leptons, in 1 inverse femtobarn of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar collider. We select two final states: tau plus missing transverse energy and b jets, and tau+ tau- plus jets. These final states are sensitive to a combination of associat

I. V. Anikin, D. Yu. Ivanov, B. Pire, L. Szymanowski

We describe hard exclusive processes beyond the leading twist approximation in a framework based on the Taylor expansion of the amplitude around the dominant light-cone directions. This naturally introduces an appropriate set of non-perturbative correlators whose number is minimalized after taking into account QCD equations of motion and the invariance under

B. -M. Bui-Xuan, J. A. Telle, M. Vatshelle

We introduce the graph parameter boolean-width, related to the number of different unions of neighborhoods across a cut of a graph. Boolean-width is similar to rank-width, which is related to the number of $GF[2]$-sums (1+1=0) of neighborhoods instead of the boolean-sums (1+1=1) used for boolean-width. We give algorithms for a large class of NP-hard vertex s

Jesus Martinez-Manso, Jesus Martinez-Linares

We show the existence of dynamical purity swapping phenomena in the Jaynes-Cummings model. Moreover we show that purity swapping between a qubit and a generic quantum system is possible, provided they are coupled via non-unitary matrix elements interaction. We particularize to the case of a quantum optical Ramsey interferometer. We show that using purity swa

Matthias Keller, Norbert Peyerimhoff

In this article, we study relations between the local geometry of planar graphs (combinatorial curvature) and em global geometric invariants, namely the Cheeger constants and the exponential growth. We also discuss spectral applications.

E. Tölö, A. Harju

We study a two-dimensional cylindrically-symmetric electron droplet separated from a surrounding electron ring by a tunable barrier using the exact diagonalization method. The magnetic field is assumed strong so that the electrons become spin-polarized and reside on the lowest Fock-Darwin band. We calculate the ground state phase diagram for 6 electrons. At

V. P. Maslov

In this paper, we present theorems specifying the critical values for series associated with debts arranged in the order of their duration.

Shunichiro Kinoshita, Shinji Mukohyama

We investigate stability of two branches of Freund-Rubin compactification from thermodynamic and dynamical perspectives. Freund-Rubin compactification allows not only trivial solutions but also warped solutions describing warped product of external de Sitter space and internal deformed sphere. We study dynamical stability by analyzing linear perturbations ar

T. Banakh, M. Vovk, M. R. Wójcik

A topological space is nonseparably connected if it is connected but all of its connected separable subspaces are singletons. We show that each connected first countable space is the image of a nonseparably connected complete metric space under a continuous monotone hereditarily quotient map.

Edward Malec, Niall O'Murchadha

We consider a family of spherical three dimensional spacelike slices embedded in the Schwarzschild solution. The mean curvature is constant on each slice but can change from slice to slice. We give a simple expression for an everywhere positive lapse and thus we show how to construct foliations. There is a barrier preventing the mean curvature from becoming

Lorenzo Basso, Alexander Belyaev, Stefano Moretti, Giovanni Marco Pruna

We study the capabilities of future electron-positron Linear Colliders, with centre-of-mass energy at the TeV scale, in accessing the parameter space of a $Z'$ boson within the minimal $B-L$ model. In such a model, wherein the Standard Model gauge group is augmented by a broken $U(1)_{B-L}$ symmetry -- with $B(L)$ being the baryon(lepton) number -- the e

L. Fernández-Jambrina, R. Lazkoz

We consider perturbative modifications of the Friedmann equations in terms of energy density corresponding to modified theories of gravity proposed as an alternative route to comply with the observed accelerated expansion of the universe. Assuming that the present matter content of the universe is a pressureless fluid, the possible singularities that may ari

L. Herrera, G. Le Denmat, N. O. Santos

In a recent paper a systematic study on shearing expansion-free spherically symmetric distributions was presented. As a particular case of such systems, the Skripkin model was mentioned, which corresponds to a nondissipative perfect fluid with a constant energy density. Here we show that such a model is inconsistent with junction conditions. It is shown that

Jan Steinhoff, Gerhard Schäfer

It is argued that the tetrad in a recent paper by Porto and Rothstein on gravitational spin-spin coupling should not have the given form. The fixation of that tetrad was suggested by Steinhoff, Hergt, and Schaefer as a possible source for the disagreement found in the spin-squared dynamics. However, this inconsistency will only show up in the next-to-leading

Francesco Intravaia, Carsten Henkel

We study the quantum and thermal fluctuations of eddy (Foucault) currents in thick metallic plates. A Casimir interaction between two plates arises from the coupling via quasi-static magnetic fields. As a function of distance, the relevant eddy current modes cross over from a quantum to a thermal regime. These modes alone reproduce previously discussed therm

Yuri A. Neretin

Consider the space of double cosets of the product of $n$ copies of $\SU(2)$ with respect to the diagonal subgroup. We get a parametrization of this space, the radial part of the Haar measure, and explicit formulas for the actions of the group of outer automorphisms of the free group $F_{n-1}$ and of the braid group of $n-1$ strings.

S. Bekavac, A. G. Grozin, D. Seidel, V. A. Smirnov

All three-loop on-shell QCD Feynman integrals with two masses can be reduced to 27 master integrals. Here we calculate these master integrals, expanded in epsilon, both exactly in the mass ratio and as series in limiting cases.

Friedrich Wehrung

A Banaschewski function on a bounded lattice L is an antitone self-map of L that picks a complement for each element of L. We prove a set of results that include the following: (1) Every countable complemented modular lattice has a Banaschewski function with Boolean range, the latter being unique up to isomorphism. (2) Every (not necessarily unital) von Neum

S. Vegetti, L. V. E. Koopmans

A Bayesian statistical formalism is developed to quantify the level at which the mass function slope (alpha) and the projected cumulative mass fraction (f) of (CDM) substructure in strong gravitational-lens galaxies, with arcs or Einstein rings, can be recovered as function of the lens-survey parameters and the detection threshold of the substructure mass. T

Geoffrey Grimmett

A number of tricky problems in probability are discussed, having in common one or more infinite sequences of coin tosses, and a representation as a problem in dependent percolation. Three of these problems are of `Winkler' type, that is, they ask about what can be achieved by a clairvoyant demon.

Chi-Ho Cheng

The issue of the thermodynamics of a system of distinguishable particles is discussed in this paper. In constructing the statistical mechanics of distinguishable particles from the definition of Boltzmann entropy, it is found that the entropy is not extensive. The inextensivity leads to the so-called Gibbs paradox in which the mixing entropy of two identical

Francesco Bigazzi, Aldo L. Cotrone, Angel Paredes, Alfonso V. Ramallo

We study the spectra of scalar and vector mesons in four dimensional strongly coupled SQCD-like theories in the Veneziano limit. The gauge theories describe the low energy dynamics of intersecting D3 and D7-branes on the singular and deformed conifold and their strong coupling regime can be explored by means of dual fully backreacted supergravity backgrounds

Grégoire Montcouquiol

The Stoker problem, first formulated in 1968, consists in understanding to what extent a convex polyhedron is determined by its dihedral angles. By means of the double construction, this problem is intimately related to rigidity issues for 3-dimensional cone-manifolds. In a former paper, two such rigidity results were proven, implying that the infinitesimal

Mireille Capitaine, Catherine Donati-Martin, Delphine Féral

In this paper, we explain the dependance of the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalues of a Deformed Wigner model with respect to the eigenvectors of the perturbation matrix. We exhibit quite general situations that will give rise to universality or non universality of the fluctuations.

Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya, Subhaneil Lahiri

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence in a regime in which the field theory reduces to fluid dynamics to construct an infinite class of new black objects in Scherk-Schwarz compactified AdS(d+2) space. Our configurations are dual to black objects that generalize black rings and have horizon topology S^(d-n) x T^n, for n less than or equal to (d-1)/2. Locally our

Louigi Addario-Berry, Nicolas Broutin, Christina Goldschmidt

We consider the Erdos-Renyi random graph G(n,p) inside the critical window, that is when p=1/n+ lambda*n^{-4/3}, for some fixed lambda in R. Then, as a metric space with the graph distance rescaled by n^{-1/3}, the sequence of connected components G(n,p) converges towards a sequence of continuous compact metric spaces. The result relies on a bijection betwee

Jin-Yi Cai, Xi Chen, Pinyan Lu

Graph homomorphism has been studied intensively. Given an m x m symmetric matrix A, the graph homomorphism function is defined as \[Z_A (G) = \sum_{f:V->[m]} \prod_{(u,v)\in E} A_{f(u),f(v)}, \] where G = (V,E) is any undirected graph. The function Z_A can encode many interesting graph properties, including counting vertex covers and k-colorings. We study th

Alexander Dynin

A non-perturbative anti-normal quantization of relativistic Yang-Mills fields with a compact semisimple gauge group entails an infinite discrete bosonic energy-mass spectrum of gauge bosons in the framework of Gelfand nuclear triples. The quantum spectrum is bounded from below and has a positive mass gap. The spectrum is both Poincare and gauge invariant.

Travis Gagie, Simon J. Puglisi, Andrew Turpin

We show how to use a balanced wavelet tree as a data structure that stores a list of numbers and supports efficient {\em range quantile queries}. A range quantile query takes a rank and the endpoints of a sublist and returns the number with that rank in that sublist. For example, if the rank is half the sublist's length, then the query returns the sublis

Der-Chen Chang, Dachun Yang, Yuan Zhou

Let $p\in(0, 1]$. In this paper, the authors prove that a sublinear operator $T$ (which is originally defined on smooth functions with compact support) can be extended as a bounded sublinear operator from product Hardy spaces $H^p({{\mathbb R}^n\times{\mathbb R}^m})$ to some quasi-Banach space ${\mathcal B}$ if and only if $T$ maps all $(p, 2, s_1, s_2)$-ato

Burra G. Sidharth

The LHC is expected to resume later this year. Though results at the Tevatron make it more difficult for the LHC to pick out Higgs bosons, there are other results which are expected. Some of these are surveyed here.

S. Chadov, F. Casper, S. Naghavi, C. Felser

This paper has been withdrawn, due a wrong analysis of the obtained results.

Baode Li, Marcin Bownik, Dachun Yang, Yuan Zhou

Let $A_i$ for $i=1, 2$ be an expansive dilation, respectively, on ${\mathbb R}^n$ and ${\mathbb R}^m$ and $\vec A\equiv(A_1, A_2)$. Denote by ${\mathcal A}_\infty(\rnm; \vec A)$ the class of Muckenhoupt weights associated with $\vec A$. The authors introduce a class of anisotropic singular integrals on $\mathbb R^n\times\mathbb R^m$, whose kernels are adapte

V. Russier

We investigate the interaction between spherical magnetic nanoparticles which present either a single domain or a vortex structure. First the magnetic structure of a uniaxial soft sphere is revisited, and then the interaction energy is calculated from a micromagnetic simulation. In the vortex regime the orientation of the vortex relative to the easy axis dep

Giovanni Bellettini, Federica Caselli, Mauro Mariani

We investigate the quasi-potential problem for the entropy cost functionals of non-entropic solutions to scalar conservation laws with smooth fluxes. We prove that the quasi-potentials coincide with the integral of a suitable Einstein entropy.

A. Pigulski, G. Pojmanski, B. Pilecki, D. M. Szczygiel

We present the catalog of 947 variable stars located in the field of view of the Kepler satellite. The catalog is a result of the analysis of VI photometry obtained during the first 17-month observations in the ASAS3-North station. The variable stars we present are divided into eleven groups according to the presented variability; the groups are briefly disc

Susan Tolman

Motivated by the Petrie conjecture, we consider the following questions: Let a circle act in a Hamiltonian fashion on a compact symplectic manifold $(M,ω)$ which satisfies $H^{2i}(M;\R) = H^{2i}(\CP^n,\R)$ for all $i$. Is $H^j(M;\Z) = H^j(\CP^n;\Z)$ for all $j$? Is the total Chern class of $M$ determined by the cohomology ring $H^*(M;\Z)$? We answer these qu

S. Capozziello, S. Funkhouser

A stochastic model relating the parameters of astrophysical structures to the parameters of their granular components is applied to the formation of hierarchical, large-scale structures from galaxies assumed as point-like objects. If the density profile of galaxies on a given scale is described by a power law then the stochastic model leads naturally to a ma

Wilhelm Winter, Joachim Zacharias

We introduce the nuclear dimension of a C*-algebra; this is a noncommutative version of topological covering dimension based on a modification of the earlier concept of decomposition rank. Our notion behaves well with respect to inductive limits, tensor products, hereditary subalgebras (hence ideals), quotients, and even extensions. It can be computed for ma

Masaki Kameko, Mamoru Mimura

We describe Mui invariants in terms of Milnor operations and give a simple proof for Mui's theorem on rings of invariants of polynomial tensor exterior algebras with respect to the action of finite general linear groups. Moreover, we compute some rings of invariants of Weyl groups of maximal non-toral elementary abelian p-subgroups of exceptional Lie gro

C. P. Haines, G. P. Smith, E. Egami, N. Okabe

We present the first galaxy evolution results from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS), a multi-wavelength survey of 100 X-ray selected galaxy clusters at 0.15<z<0.30. LoCuSS combines far-UV through far-IR observations of cluster galaxies with gravitational lensing analysis and X-ray data to investigate the interplay between the hierarchical assem

Minh Ha Le

The Singer transfer provides an interesting connection between modular representation theory and the cohomology of the Steenrod algebra. We discuss a version of `Quillen stratification&#39; theorem for the Singer transfer and its consequences.

Gerald Gaudens

N Kuhn has given several conjectures on the special features satisfied by the singular cohomology of topological spaces with coefficients in a finite prime field, as modules over the Steenrod algebra. The so-called realization conjecture was solved in special cases in [Ann. of Math. 141 (1995) 321-347] and in complete generality by L Schwartz [Invent. Math.

E. G. Ferreiro, F. Fleuret, J. P. Lansberg, A. Rakotozafindrabe

We present a wide study on the comparison of different shadowing models and their influence on \jpsi production. We have taken into account the possibility of different partonic processes for the $c \bar c$-pair production. We notice that the effect of shadowing corrections on \jpsi production clearly depends on the partonic process considered. Our results a

B. Borca, S. Barja, M. Garnica, J. J. Hinarejos

We report here on a method to fabricate and characterize highly perfect, periodically rippled graphene monolayers and islands, epitaxially grown on single crystal metallic substrates under controlled UHV conditions. The periodicity of the ripples is dictated by the difference in lattice parameters of graphene and substrate, and, thus, it is adjustable. We ch

Yanwei Jiang, Siming Liu, Vahé Petrosian

It is well-recognized that the presence of magnetic fields will lead to anisotropic energy cascade and dissipation of astrophysical turbulence. With the diffusion approximation and linear dissipation rates, we study the cascade and damping of Alfvén-cyclotron fluctuations in solar plasmas numerically. For an isotropic case the steady-state turbulence spectra

Jürgen Knobloch, Thorsten Rieß

We present an extension of the theory known as Lin&#39;s method to heteroclinic chains that connect hyperbolic equilibria and hyperbolic periodic orbits. Based on the construction of a so-called Lin orbit, that is, a sequence of continuous partial orbits that only have jumps in a certain prescribed linear subspace, estimates for these jumps are derived. We u

Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Ana Radovanovic

It is well known that the static caching algorithm that keeps the most frequently requested documents in the cache is optimal in case when documents are of the same size and requests are independent and equally distributed. However, it is hard to develop explicit and provably optimal caching algorithms when requests are statistically correlated. In this pape

Kayhan Gultekin, Douglas O. Richstone, Karl Gebhardt, Tod R. Lauer

We derive improved versions of the relations between supermassive black hole mass (M_BH) and host-galaxy bulge velocity dispersion (sigma) and luminosity (L) (the M-sigma and M-L relations), based on 49 M_BH measurements and 19 upper limits. Particular attention is paid to recovery of the intrinsic scatter (epsilon_0) in both relations. We find log(M_BH / M_

Andrey Kutepov, Sergey Yu. Savrasov, Gabriel Kotliar

A novel self-consistent implementation of Hedin&#39;s GW perturbation theory is introduced. This finite-temperature method uses Hartree-Fock wave functions to represent Green&#39;s function. GW equations are solved with full potential linear augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method at each iteration of a self-consistent cycle. With our approach we are able to cal

PHENIX Collaboration, S. Afanasiev

Measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy of high-\pT neutral pion neutral pion production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV by the PHENIX experiment are presented. The data included in this paper were collected during the 2004 RHIC running period and represent approximately an order of magnitude increase in the number of analyzed events relative to

Thomas Speck, Udo Seifert

For soft matter systems strongly driven by stationary flow, we discuss an extended fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT). Beyond the linear response regime, the FDT for the stress acquires an additional contribution involving the observable that is conjugate to the strain rate with respect to the dissipation function. This extended FDT is evaluated both anal

Jonathan Arons

I discuss the scientific rationale and opportunities in the study of high energy particle accelerators away from the Earth; mostly, those outside the Solar System. I also briefly outline the features to be desired in telescopes used to probe accelerators studied by remote sensing.

Nikos Bagis

In this work we consider sums of primes that converging very slow. We set as a base, a reformulation of analytic prime number theorem and we use the values of Riemann Zeta function for the approximation. We also give the truncation error of these approximations

Arvind Baskaran, Jason Devita, Peter Smereka

An efficient method for the simulation of strained heteroepitaxial growth with intermixing using kinetic Monte Carlo is presented. The model used is based on a solid-on-solid bond counting formulation in which elastic effects are incorporated using a ball and spring model. While idealized, this model nevertheless captures many aspects of heteroepitaxial grow

Stephen L. Adler

I review constraints on solar system-bound dark matter, and discuss the possibility that dark matter could be gravitationally bound to the earth and other planets. I briefly survey various empirical constraints on such planet-bound dark matter, and discuss effects it could produce if present, including anomalous planetary heating and flyby velocity changes.

José Luis Iguain, Sebastian Bustingorry, Alejandro B. Kolton, Leticia F. Cugliandolo

We study the thermally assisted relaxation of a directed elastic line in a two dimensional quenched random potential by solving numerically the Edwards-Wilkinson equation and the Monte Carlo dynamics of a solid-on-solid lattice model. We show that the aging dynamics is governed by a growing correlation length displaying two regimes: an initial thermally domi

Florian Girelli, Stefano Liberati, Lorenzo Sindoni

From the Physics point of view, time is now best described through General Relativity, as part of space-time which is a dynamical object encoding gravity. Time possesses also some intrinsic irreversibility due to thermodynamics, quantum mechanical effects... This irreversibility can look puzzling since time-like loops (and hence time machines) can appear in

Yong Wang, Manish K. Niranjan, J. D. Burton, Joonhee M. An

First-principles calculations predict the existence of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the LaO/EuO interface in a LaAlO3/EuO (001) heterostructure. This polar interface favors electron doping into the Eu-5d conduction bands resulting in a 2DEG formed at the interface. Due to the exchange splitting of the Eu-5d states the 2DEG is spin-

L. Ghezzi, K. Cunha, V. V. Smith, S. Margheim

High-resolution (R = 143,000), high signal-to-noise (S/N = 700-1100) Gemini-S bHROS spectra have been analyzed in a search for 6Li in 5 stars which host extrasolar planets. The presence of detectable amounts of 6Li in these mature, solar-type stars is a good monitor of accretion of planetary disk material, or solid bodies themselves, into the outer layers of

Marcello Felisatti, Frank Neumann

We define secondary theories and characteristic classes for simplicial smooth manifolds generalizing Karoubi&#39;s multiplicative K-theory and multiplicative cohomology groups for smooth manifolds. As a special case we get versions of the groups of differential characters of Cheeger and Simons for simplicial smooth manifolds. Special examples include classif

L. S. Geng, J. Martin Camalich, M. J. Vicente Vacas

We calculate the SU(3)-breaking corrections to the hyperon vector coupling $f_1(0)$ up to $\mathcal{O}(p^4)$ in covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory with dynamical octet and decuplet contributions. We find that the decuplet contributions are of similar or even larger size than the octet ones. Combining both, we predict positive SU(3)-breaking correcti

F R Cohen, Yasuhiko Kamiyama

The purpose of this article is to 1. define M(t,k) the t-fold center of mass arrangement for k points in the plane, 2. give elementary properties of M(t,k) and 3. give consequences concerning the space M(2,k) of k distinct points in the plane, no four of which are the vertices of a parallelogram. The main result proven in this article is that the classical u

Robert B. Ellis, Kathryn L. Nyman

We consider an extension of the 2-person Rényi-Ulam liar game in which lies are governed by a channel $C$, a set of allowable lie strings of maximum length $k$. Carole selects $x\in[n]$, and Paul makes $t$-ary queries to uniquely determine $x$. In each of $q$ rounds, Paul weakly partitions $[n]=A_0\cup >... \cup A_{t-1}$ and asks for $a$ such that $x\in A_a$

Carles Broto

Attributed to J F Adams is the conjecture that, at odd primes, the mod-p cohomology ring of the classifying space of a connected compact Lie group is detected by its elementary abelian p-subgroups. In this note we rely on Toda&#39;s calculation of H^*(BF_4;F_3) in order to show that the conjecture holds in case of the exceptional Lie group F_4. To this aim w

PHENIX Collaboration, S. Afanasiev

Bose-Einstein correlations of charged kaons are measured for Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV and are compared to charged pion probes, which have a larger hadronic scattering cross section. Three dimensional Gaussian source radii are extracted, along with a one-dimensional kaon emission source function. The centrality dependences of the three Gaussia

Ruth A. Daly

Beam powers and black hole masses of 48 extended radio sources are combined to obtain lower bounds on the spins and magnetic field strengths of supermassive black holes. This is done in the context of the models of Blandford & Znajek (1977) (the &#39;BZ&#39; model) and Meier (1999); a parameterization for bounds in the context of other models is suggested. T

Cyril Furtlehner, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Anne Auger

In the context of inference with expectation constraints, we propose an approach based on the &#34;loopy belief propagation&#34; algorithm LBP, as a surrogate to an exact Markov Random Field MRF modelling. A prior information composed of correlations among a large set of N variables, is encoded into a graphical model; this encoding is optimized with respect

Bernd Gärtner, Joachim Giesen, Martin Jaggi, Torsten Welsch

For a wide variety of regularization methods, algorithms computing the entire solution path have been developed recently. Solution path algorithms do not only compute the solution for one particular value of the regularization parameter but the entire path of solutions, making the selection of an optimal parameter much easier. Most of the currently used algo

M. Barrett

Decays of B mesons to states involving tau leptons can be used as a tool to search for the effects of new physics, such as those involving a charged Higgs boson. The experimental status of the decays B -> tau nu and B -> D^(*) tau nu is discussed, together with limits on new physics effects from current results.

D. R. Reese, K. B. MacGregor, S. Jackson, A. Skumanich

Context: New observational means such as the space missions CoRoT and Kepler and ground-based networks are and will be collecting stellar pulsation data with unprecedented accuracy. A significant fraction of the stars in which pulsations are observed are rotating rapidly. Aims: Our aim is to characterise pulsation modes in rapidly rotating stellar models so

PHENIX Collaboration, A. Adare

The momentum distribution of electrons from semi-leptonic decays of charm and bottom for mid-rapidity |y|<0.35 in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV is measured by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) over the transverse momentum range 2 < p_T < 7 GeV/c. The ratio of the yield of electrons from bottom to that from charm is prese

Sebastian van Strien Colin Sparrow

In the 60&#39;s Shapley provided an example of a two player fictitious game with periodic behaviour. In this game, player $A$ aims to copy $B$&#39;s behaviour and player $B$ aims to play one ahead of player $A$. In this paper we continue to study a family of games which generalize Shapley&#39;s example by introducing an external parameter, and prove that the

Karoly Bezdek

A very fundamental geometric problem on finite systems of spheres was independently phrased by Kneser (1955) and Poulsen (1954). According to their well-known conjecture if a finite set of balls in Euclidean space is repositioned so that the distance between the centers of every pair of balls is decreased, then the volume of the union (resp., intersection) o

PHENIX Collaboration, A. Adare

All of the experimental data points presented in the original paper are correct and unchanged (including statistical and systematic uncertainties). However, herein we correct a comparison between the experimental data and a theoretical picture, because we discovered a mistake in the code used. All of the most probable sigma_breakup values differ by less than

Karoly Bezdek, Alexander Litvak

In connection with an unsolved problem of Bang (1951) we give a lower bound for the sum of the base volumes of cylinders covering a d-dimensional convex body in terms of the relevant basic measures of the given convex body. As an application we establish lower bounds on the number of k-dimensional flats (i.e. translates of k-dimensional linear subspaces) nee

Hayato Chiba, Diego Pazó

When the natural frequencies are allocated symmetrically in the Kuramoto model there exists an invariant torus of dimension [N/2]+1 (N is the population size). A global phase shift invariance allows to reduce the model to $N-1$ dimensions using the phase differences, and doing so the invariant torus becomes [N/2]-dimensional. By means of perturbative calcula

A. Belov-Kanel, R. Lipyanski

We describe the automorphism group of the endomorphism semigroup $\End(K[x_1,...,x_n])$ of ring $K[x_1,...,x_n]$ of polynomials over an {\it arbitrary} field $K$. A similar result is obtained for automorphism group of the category of finitely generated free commutative-associative algebras of the variety $\mathcal{CA}$ commutative algebras. This solves two p

A. Javier Cenarro, Nicolas Cardiel, Alexandre Vazdekis, Javier Gorgas

Using the near-infrared spectral stellar library of Cenarro et al. (2001a,b), the behaviours of the Mg I line at 8807 angstrom and nearby TiO bands are analyzed in terms of the effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity of the library stars. New spectroscopic indices for both spectral features -namely MgI and sTiO- are defined, and their sensiti

Z. Belghobsi, M. Fontannaz, J. -Ph. Guillet, G. Heinrich

We study the production of a large-pT photon in association with a jet in proton-proton collisions. We examine the sensitivity of the jet rapidity distribution to the gluon distribution function in the proton. We then assess the sensitivity of various photon + jet correlation observables to the photon fragmentation functions. We argue that RHIC data on photo

Michael Dumbser, Olindo Zanotti

In this paper we propose the first better than second order accurate method in space and time for the numerical solution of the resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RRMHD) equations on unstructured meshes in multiple space dimensions. The nonlinear system under consideration is purely hyperbolic and contains a source term, the one for the evolution o

N. Enriquez, C. Lucas, F. Simenhaus

We identify the limit of the internal DLA cluster generated by Sinai&#39;s walk as the law of a functional of a Brownian motion which turns out to be a new interpretation of the Arcsine law.