April 2009 arXiv papers — page 19

J. Wurm, M. Wimmer, H. U. Baranger, K. Richter

We study the conductance of mesoscopic graphene rings in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field by means of numerical calculations based on a tight-binding model. First, we consider the magnetoconductance of such rings and observe the Aharonov-Bohm effect. We investigate different regimes of the magnetic flux up to the quantum Hall regime, where the

Dmitry V. Millionschikov

We present an explicit description of the affine variety of Lie algebras of the maximal class (filiform Lie algebras): the formulas of polynomial equations that determine this variety are written. It can considered as the base of the nilpotent versal deformation of N-graded Lie algebra m_0.

M. I. Shirokov

According to the classical special theory of relativity any nonstationary system moving with velocity $v$ must evolve (e.g., decay) $1/γ$ times slower than the system at rest, $γ=(1-v^2)^{-1/2}$ (the Einstein retardation ER). Quantum mechanics allows one to calculate the evolution of both systems separately and to compare them thus verifying ER. It is shown

Alexandre Godard

We compute the Lipschitz-free spaces of subsets of the real line and characterize subsets of metric trees by the fact that their Lipschitz-free space is isometric to a subspace of $L_1$.

Lincoln D. Carr, David DeMille, Roman V. Krems, Jun Ye

This article presents a review of the current state of the art in the research field of cold and ultracold molecules. It serves as an introduction to the Special Issue of the New Journal of Physics on Cold and Ultracold Molecules and describes new prospects for fundamental research and technological development. Cold and ultracold molecules may revolutionize

Yu. M. Shukrinov, M. Hamdipour, M. R. Kolahchi

Charge formations on superconducting layers and creation of the longitudinal plasma wave in the stack of intrinsic Josephson junctions change crucially the superconducting current through the stack. Investigation of the correlations of superconducting currents in neighboring Josephson junctions and the charge correlations in neighboring superconducting layer

Christoph Durr, Flavio Guinez, Martin Matamala

We consider the problem of coloring a grid using k colors with the restriction that in each row and each column has an specific number of cells of each color. In an already classical result, Ryser obtained a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of such a coloring when two colors are considered. This characterization yields a linear time algor

Ganquan Xie, Jianhua Li, Feng Xie, Lee Xie

In this paper, we propose a new electromagnetic (EM) GL double layered cloak. The GL double layered cloak is consist of two sphere annular layers, $R_1 \le r \le R_2$ and $R_2 \le r \le R_3$. Two type cloak materials are proposed and installed in the each layer, respectively. The outer layer cloak of the GL double layered cloak has the invisible function, th

César Clavero, Alfonso Cebollada, G. Armelles, Olivier Fruchart

The growth mode, magnetic and magneto-optical properties of epitaxial Au/Co/Au(111) ultrathin trilayers grown by pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) under ultra-high vacuum are presented. Sapphire wafers buffered with a single-crystalline Mo(110) bilayer were used as substrates. Owing to PLD-induced interfacial intermixing at the lower Co/Au(111) interface, a laye

David Tse, Roy Yates

Despite considerable progress on the information-theoretic broadcast channel, the capacity region of fading broadcast channels with channel state known at the receivers but unknown at the transmitter remains unresolved. We address this subject by introducing a layered erasure broadcast channel model in which each component channel has a state that specifies

Paul M. Geil, J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We assess the effect of a population of high-redshift quasars on the 21-cm power spectrum during the epoch of reionisation. Our approach is to implement a semi-numerical scheme to calculate the three-dimensional structure of ionised regions surrounding massive halos at high redshift. We include the ionising influence of luminous quasars by populating a simul

Mudit K. Srivastava, A. N. Ramaprakash, Mahesh P. Burse, Pravin A. Chordia

Although the astronomy community is witnessing an era of large telescopes, smaller and medium sized telescopes still maintain their utility being larger in numbers. In order to obtain better scientific outputs it is necessary to incorporate modern and advanced technologies to the back-end instruments and to their interfaces with the telescopes through variou

Yu-Nung Su, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Jeremy Lim

We report subarcsecond images of the high-mass star forming region Onsala 1 (ON 1) made with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 0.85 mm and the Very Large Array at 1.3 cm and 3.6 cm. ON~1 is one of the smallest ultracompact HII regions in the Galaxy and exhibits various star formation signposts. With our VLA and SMA observations, two new cm-wave sources and fi

M. J. Ablowitz, D. E. Baldwin, M. A. Hoefer

Interactions of dispersive shock (DSWs) and rarefaction waves (RWs) associated with the Korteweg-de Vries equation are shown to exhibit multiphase dynamics and isolated solitons. There are six canonical cases: one is the interaction of two DSWs which exhibit a transient two-phase solution, but evolve to a single phase DSW for large time; two tend to a DSW wi

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko, S. J. Brice

Using high statistics samples of charged current $ν_μ$ interactions, MiniBooNE reports a measurement of the single charged pion production to quasi-elastic cross section ratio on mineral oil (CH$_2$), both with and without corrections for hadron re-interactions in the target nucleus. The result is provided as a function of neutrino energy in the range 0.4 Ge

Stephane Grumbach, Fang Wang, Zhilin Wu

Logical formalisms such as first-order logic (FO) and fixpoint logic (FP) are well suited to express in a declarative manner fundamental graph functionalities required in distributed systems. We show that these logics constitute good abstractions for programming distributed systems as a whole, since they can be evaluated in a fully distributed manner with re

Jonathan M. Gelbord, James R. Mullaney, Martin J. Ward

We have defined a sample of 63 AGN with strong forbidden high-ionisation line (FHIL) emission. These lines, with ionisation potentials >~ 100eV, respond to a portion of the spectrum that is often difficult to observe directly, thereby providing constraints on the EUV-soft X-ray continuum. The sources are selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) on t

Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

We propose a new classical theory of gravity which is based on the principle of equivalence and assumption that gravity, similarly to electrodynamics, is described by a vector field in Minkowski space-time. We show that such assumptions yield a unique theory of gravity; it passes all available tests and free of singularities such as black holes. In the prese

Takeaki Uno, Masashi Sugiyama, Koji Tsuda

Neighborhood graphs are gaining popularity as a concise data representation in machine learning. However, naive graph construction by pairwise distance calculation takes $O(n^2)$ runtime for $n$ data points and this is prohibitively slow for millions of data points. For strings of equal length, the multiple sorting method (Uno, 2008) can construct an $ε$-nei

Hao Chen

BCH (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghen) error correcting codes ([1]-[2]) are now widely used in communication systems and digital technology. Direct LFSR(linear feedback shifted register)-based encoding of a long BCH code suffers from serial-in and serial-out limitation and large fanout effect of some XOR gates. This makes the LFSR-based encoders of long BCH codes

Claudio Falcón, Stéphan Fauve

We present an experimental study on the effect of a electromagneticaly generated vortex flow on parametrically amplified waves at the surface of a fluid. The underlying vortex flow, generated by a periodic Lorentz force, creates spatio-temporal fluctuations that interact nonlinearly with the standing surface waves. We characterize the bifurcation diagram and

Jeffrey C. Y. Teo, C. L. Kane

We study a quantum point contact in a quantum spin Hall insulator. It has recently been shown that the Luttinger liquid theory of such a structure maps to the theory of a weak link in a Luttinger liquid with spin with Luttinger liquid parameters g_ρ= 1/g_σ= g < 1. We show that for 1/2<g<1, the pinch-off of the point contact as a function of gate voltage is c

Ashley J. Ruiter, Krzysztof Belczynski, Chris L. Fryer

We analyze the evolution of binary stars to calculate synthetic rates and delay times of the most promising Type Ia Supernovae progenitors. We present and discuss evolutionary scenarios in which a white dwarf reaches the Chandrasekhar-mass and potentially explodes in a Type Ia supernova. We consider: Double Degenerate (DDS), Single Degenerate (SDS), and AM C

Paolo Lipparini

We discuss the existence of complete accumulation points of sequences in products of topological spaces. Then we collect and generalize many of the results proved in Parts I, II and IV. The present Part VI is complementary to Part V to the effect that here we deal, say, with uniformity, complete accumulation points and $ κ$-$(λ)$-compactness, rather than wit

Marcelo Samuel Berman

We &#34;explain&#34;, using a Classical approach, how the Universe was created out of &#34;nothing&#34;, i.e., with no input of initial energy. This is a Universe with no-initial infinite singularity of energy density.

Marcelo Samuel Berman

We &#34;explain&#34;, using a Classical approach, how the Universe was created out of &#34;nothing&#34;, i.e., with no input of initial energy nor mass. The inflationary phase, with exponential expansion, is accounted for, automatically, by our equation of state for the very early Universe. This is a Universe with no-initial infinite singularity of energy de

Yi-Min Huang, A. Bhattacharjee, Ellen G. Zweibel

The recent demonstration of current singularity formation by Low et al. assumes that potential fields will remain potential under simple expansion or compression (Low 2006, 2007; Janse & Low 2009). An explicit counterexample to their key assumption is constructed. Our findings suggest that their results may need to be reconsidered.

Hung Vinh Tran

We use the adjoint methods to study the static Hamilton-Jacobi equations and to prove the speed of convergence for those equations. The main new ideas are to introduce adjoint equations corresponding to the formal linearizations of regularized equations of vanishing viscosity type, and from the solutions $σ^ε$ of those we can get the properties of the soluti

Maria-Rosa L. Cioni

The stellar metallicity and its gradient pose constraints to the formation and evolution of galaxies. This is a study of the metallicity gradient of the LMC, SMC and M33 galaxies derived from their asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. The [Fe/H] abundance was derived from the ratio between C- and M-type AGB stars and its variation analysed as a function of g

Jun-Hui Zhao, Mark R. Morris, W. M. Goss, Tao An

We present new results based on high-resolution observations of Sgr A West at the Galactic center with the VLA at 1.3 cm. We measured proper motions for 71 compact HII components. We also investigated radial velocities in the LSR velocity using the H92a line data. Combining proper motion and radial velocity measurements, we have determined the 3D velocity di

P. Muruganandam, S. K. Adhikari

We develop simple numerical algorithms for both stationary and non-stationary solutions of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation describing the properties of Bose-Einstein condensates at ultra low temperatures. In particular, we consider algorithms involving real and imaginary-time propagation based on a split-step Crank-Nicolson method. In a one

Alexandre Belloni, Victor Chernozhukov

This work studies the large sample properties of the posterior-based inference in the curved exponential family under increasing dimension. The curved structure arises from the imposition of various restrictions on the model, such as moment restrictions, and plays a fundamental role in econometrics and others branches of data analysis. We establish condition

Benoit Fresse

The goal of this paper is to prove a Koszul duality result for E_n-operads in differential graded modules over a ring. The case of an E_1-operad, which is equivalent to the associative operad, is classical. For n>1, the homology of an E_n-operad is identified with the n-Gerstenhaber operad and forms another well known Koszul operad. Our main theorem asserts

O. I. Velichko, N. V. Kniazhava

A model of the interstitial diffusion of ion-implanted boron during rapid thermal annealing of silicon layers previously amorphized by implantation of germanium has been proposed. It is supposed that the boron interstitials are generated continuously during annealing due to dissolution or rearrangement of the clusters of impurity atoms which are formed in th

Munehisa Matsumoto, Myung Joon Han, Junya Otsuki, Sergey Y. Savrasov

We propose a new framework for first-principle calculations of heavy-fermion materials. These are described in terms of the Kondo lattice Hamiltonian with the parameters extracted from a realistic density functional based calculation which is then solved using continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method and dynamical mean field theory. As an example, we show

Kyung Hyuk Kim, Herbert M. Sauro

In this paper, we investigate how stochastic reaction processes are affected by external perturbations. We describe an extension of the deterministic metabolic control analysis (MCA) to the stochastic regime. We introduce stochastic sensitivities for mean and covariance values of reactant concentrations and reaction fluxes and show that there exist MCA-like

Detelin Dosev, William B. Johnson

The operators on $\ell_{\infty}$ which are commutators are those not of the form $λI + S$ with $λ\neq 0$ and $S$ strictly singular.

Daniil Musatov, Andrei Romashchenko, Alexander Shen

Muchnik&#39;s theorem about simple conditional descriptions states that for all strings $a$ and $b$ there exists a short program $p$ transforming $a$ to $b$ that has the least possible length and is simple conditional on $b$. In this paper we present two new proofs of this theorem. The first one is based on the on-line matching algorithm for bipartite graphs

Dan Wulin, Yan He, Chih-Chun Chien, Dirk K. Morr

In this paper we explore the behavior of the quasi-particle interference pattern (QPI) of scanning tunneling microscopy as a function of temperature, $T$. After insuring a minimal consistency with photoemission, we find that the QPI pattern is profoundly sensitive to quasi-particle coherence and that it manifests two energy gap scales. The nearly dispersionl

Andre Diatta, Brendan Foreman

This paper investigates the geometry of compact contact manifolds that are uniformized by contact Lie groups, i.e., compact manifolds that are the quotient of some Lie group G with a left invariant contact structure and a uniform lattice subgroup. We re-examine Alexander&#39;s criteria for existence of lattices on solvable Lie groups and apply them, along wi

J. Fidalgo, D. E. Lopez-Fogliani, C. Munoz, R. Ruiz de Austri

The $μν$SSM provides a solution to the $μ$ problem of the MSSM and explains the origin of neutrino masses by simply using right-handed neutrino superfields. We have completed the analysis of the vacua in this model, studying the possibility of spontaneous CP violation through complex Higgs and sneutrino vacuum expectation values. As a consequence of this pro

Frederick W. Cummings

A model of pattern formation in living systems is presented. The pattern is achieved by the sequential interaction of two signaling pathways. The coupling of the pattern to the (thick) epithelial sheet changes is given, when the Gauss curvature&#39;K&#39;enters. The model suggests a novel point-like placement for organs such as eyes, antennae, limbs, and win

Wolfgang Keller, Jacques Martinet, Achill Schürmann

Let $Λ$ be a lattice in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $E$ and let $Λ&#39;$ be a Minkowskian sublattice of $Λ$, that is, a sublattice having a basis made of representatives for the Minkowski successive minima of $Λ$. We extend the classification of possible $\Z/d\Z$-codes of the quotients $Λ/Λ&#39;$ to dimension~$9$, where $d\Z$ is the annihilator of $Λ/

Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Delia Schwartz-Perlov, Alexander Vilenkin

We identify instantons representing vacuum decay in a 6-dimensional toy model for string theory flux compactifications, with the two extra dimensions compactified on a sphere. We evaluate the instanton action for tunneling between different flux vacua, as well as for the decompactification decay channel. The bubbles resulting from flux tunneling have an unus

Yen-Ting Lin, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Christopher J. Miller

A novel statistic is proposed to examine the hypothesis that all cluster galaxies are drawn from the same luminosity distribution (LD). In such a &#34;statistical model&#34; of galaxy LD, the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) are simply the statistical extreme of the galaxy population. Using a large sample of nearby clusters, we show that BCGs in high lumino

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov, B. Beltran, J. Bonatt

The DEAP-1 low-background liquid argon detector was used to measure scintillation pulse shapes of electron and nuclear recoil events and to demonstrate the feasibility of pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) down to an electron-equivalent energy of 20 keV. In the surface dataset using a triple-coincidence tag we found the fraction of beta events that are misiden

Philippe Brax, Clare Burrage, Anne-Christine Davis, David Seery

We study models in which a light scalar dark energy particle couples to the gauge fields of the electroweak force, the photon, Z and W bosons. Our analysis applies to a large class of interacting dark energy models, including those in which the dark energy mass can be adjusted to evade fifth-force bounds by the so-called chameleon mechanism. We conclude that

V. V. Bobylev, A. T. Bajkova

We analyze the encounters of the neutron star (pulsar) Geminga with open star clusters in the OB association OriOB1a through the integration of epicyclic orbits into the past by taking into account the errors in the data. The open cluster ASCC21 is shown to be the most probable birthplace of either a single progenitor star for the Geminga pulsar or a binary

M. Guedel, Y. Naze

(abridged) Non-degenerate stars of essentially all spectral classes are soft X-ray sources. Low-mass stars on the cooler part of the main sequence and their pre-main sequence predecessors define the dominant stellar population in the galaxy by number. Their X-ray spectra are reminiscent, in the broadest sense, of X-ray spectra from the solar corona. X-ray em

Pavel Bleher, Karl Liechty

We obtain the large $n$ asymptotics of the partition function $Z_n$ of the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions in the antiferroelectric phase region, with the weights $a=\sinh(\ga-t), b=\sinh(\ga+t), c=\sinh(2\ga), |t|<\ga$. We prove the conjecture of Zinn-Justin, that as $n\to\infty$, $Z_n=Cþ_4(n\om) F^{n^2}[1+O(n^{-1})]$, where $\om$ and

John A. Johnson, Kevin Apps

Knowledge of the metallicities of M dwarfs rests predominantly on the photometric calibration of Bonfils and collaborators, which predicts that M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood, including those with known planets, are systematically metal-poor compared to their higher-mass counterparts. We test this prediction using a volume-limited sample of low-mass star

Leonid V. Kovalev, Jani Onninen

We extend monotone quasiconformal mappings from dimension n to n+1 while preserving both monotonicity and quasiconformality. The extension is given explicitly by an integral operator. In the case n=1 it yields a refinement of the Beurling-Ahlfors extension.

Arnaud Casteigts, Serge Chaumette, Frédéric Guinand, Yoann Pigné

We address the problem of building and maintaining distributed spanning trees in highly dynamic networks, in which topological events can occur at any time and any rate, and no stable periods can be assumed. In these harsh environments, we strive to preserve some properties such as cycle-freeness or the existence of a root in each tree, in order to make it p

Paul H. Frampton

Observational searches for Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBHs), defined to have masses between 30 and 300,000 solar masses, provide limits which allow up to ten percent of what is presently identified as halo dark matter to be in the form of IMBHs. These concentrate entropy so efficiently that the halo contribution can be bigger than the core supermassive

Paul H. Frampton, Thomas W. Kephart

In an SU(9) model of gauged family unification, we propose an explanation for why angles observed in the lepton flavor ({\it PMNS}) mixing matrix are significantly larger than those measured for any analagous quark flavor ({\it KM}) mixing angle. It is directly related to a see-saw mechanism that we assume to be responsible for the generation of neutrino mas

P. F. Harrison, S. Dallison, W. G. Scott

In the context of quark (as for lepton) mixing, we introduce the concept of the matrix of unitarity triangle angles $Φ$, emphasising that it carries equivalent information to the complex mixing matrix $V$ itself. The angle matrix $Φ$ has the added advantage, with respect to $V$, of being both basis-and phase-convention independent and consequently observable

J. Berges, J. Pruschke, A. Rothkopf

Nonequilibrium instabilities are known to lead to exponential amplification of boson occupation numbers for low momentum modes on time scales much shorter than the asymptotic thermal equilibration time. We show for Yukawa-type interactions that this growth induces very efficient fermion production, which proceeds with the maximum primary boson growth rate. T

D. V. Vassilevich

The use of a diffeomorphism covariant star product enables us to construct diffeomorphism invariant gravities on noncommutative symplectic manifolds without twisting the symmetries. As an example, we construct noncommutative deformations of all two-dimensional dilaton gravity models thus overcoming some difficulties of earlier approaches. One of such models

G. C. Branco, R. Gonzalez Felipe, M. N. Rebelo, H. Serodio

We investigate the viability of thermal leptogenesis in type-I seesaw models with leptonic flavour symmetries that lead to tribimaximal neutrino mixing. We consider an effective theory with an A4 x Z3 x Z4 symmetry, which is spontaneously broken at a scale much higher than the electroweak scale. At the high scale, leptonic Yukawa interactions lead to exact t

Guilhem Semerjian, Marco Tarzia, Francesco Zamponi

The exact solution of a quantum Bethe lattice model in the thermodynamic limit amounts to solve a functional self-consistent equation. In this paper we obtain this equation for the Bose-Hubbard model on the Bethe lattice, under two equivalent forms. The first one, based on a coherent state path integral, leads in the large connectivity limit to the mean fiel

L. Ya. Glozman, A. V. Nefediev

We perform a general chiral symmetry and unitarity based analysis of a local process of the fermion-antifermion creation from the vacuum by a high-energy photon as well as an explicit partial wave analysis of the vector current in QED and QCD. It turns out that such a local process proceeds necessarily via a certain superposition of the $S$- and $D$-wave con

D. Dagnino, N. Barberan, M. Lewenstein, J. Dalibard

Mean-field methods are a very powerful tool for investigating weakly interacting many-body systems in many branches of physics. In particular, they describe with excellent accuracy trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. A generic, but difficult question concerns the relation between the symmetry properties of the true many-body state and its mean-field approxima

Miklos Csuros

Memory becomes a limiting factor in contemporary applications, such as analyses of the Webgraph and molecular sequences, when many objects need to be counted simultaneously. Robert Morris [Communications of the ACM, 21:840--842, 1978] proposed a probabilistic technique for approximate counting that is extremely space-efficient. The basic idea is to increment

Tim Freegarde, James Bateman, André Xuereb, Peter Horak

Cooling forces result from the retarded dipole interaction between an illuminated particle and its reflection. For a one-dimensional example, we find cooling times of milliseconds and limiting temperatures in the millikelvin range. The force, which may be considered the prototype for cavity-mediated cooling, may be enhanced by plasmon and geometric resonance

M. Kerscher, A. Tikhonov

To study the global morphology of the galaxy distribution in our local neighbourhood we calculate the Minkowski functionals for a sequence of volume limited samples within a sphere of 8 Mpc centred on our galaxy. The well known strong clustering of the galaxies and the dominance of voids and coherent structures on larger scales is clearly visible in the Mink

Barnaby Rowe

A simple theoretical framework for the description and interpretation of spatially correlated modelling residuals is presented, and the resulting tools are found to provide a useful aid to model selection in the context of weak gravitational lensing. The description is focused upon the specific problem of modelling the spatial variation of a telescope point

Krzysztof Andrzejewski, Joanna Gonera, Pawel Maslanka

We consider the Euclidean path integral approach to higher-derivative theories proposed by Hawking and Hertog (Phys. Rev. D65 (2002), 103515). The Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator is studied in some detail. The operator algebra is reconstructed and the structure of the space of states revealed. It is shown that the quantum theory results from quantizing the classic

Charles Livingston

The stable 4-genus of a knot K in 3-space is the limiting value of g_4(nK)/n, where g_4 denotes the 4-genus and n goes to infinity. This induces a seminorm on CQ, the concordance group tensored with the rational numbers. Basic properties of the stable genus are developed, as are examples focused on understanding the unit ball under this seminorm for specifie

G. V. Dedkov, A. A. Kyasov

We calculate heating rate, attractive conservative and tangential dissipative fluctuation electromagnetic forces felt by a thick plate moving with nonrelativistic velocity parallel to a closely spaced another plate in rest using relativistic fluctuation electrodynamics. We argue that recently developed relativistic out of equilibrium theory of fluctuation el

Miguel Angel Escobedo, Massimo Mannarelli, Cristina Manuel

We compute the coefficients of bulk viscosity for a non-relativistic superfluid corresponding to a fermionic system close to the unitarity limit. We consider the low temperature regime assuming that the transport properties of the system are dominated by phonons. To compute the coefficients of bulk viscosity we use kinetic theory in the relaxation time appro

Guoqiang Zhao, Zhaoyong Huang

In this paper, we study the relation between $m$-strongly Gorenstein projective (resp. injective) modules and $n$-strongly Gorenstein projective (resp. injective) modules whenever $m \neq n$, and the homological behavior of $n$-strongly Gorenstein projective (resp. injective) modules. We introduce the notion of $n$-strongly Gorenstein flat modules. Then we s

C. Wetterich

Quantum particles and classical particles are described in a common setting of classical statistical physics. The property of a particle being &#34;classical&#34; or &#34;quantum&#34; ceases to be a basic conceptual difference. The dynamics differs, however, between quantum and classical particles. We describe position, motion and correlations of a quantum p

Cédric Golabek, Cédric Simenel

Collisions of actinide nuclei form, during very short times of few $10^{-21}$ s, the heaviest ensembles of interacting nucleons available on Earth. Such very heavy ions collisions have been proposed as an alternative way to produce heavy and superheavy elements. These collisions are also used to produce super-strong electric fields by the huge number of inte

Manuel Drees, Mitsuru Kakizaki, Suchita Kulkarni

Approximate analytical solutions of the Boltzmann equation for particles that are either extremely relativistic or non-relativistic when they decouple from the thermal bath are well established. However, no analytical formula for the relic density of particles that are semi-relativistic at decoupling is yet known. We propose a new ansatz for the thermal aver

Benjamin A. Burton

Normal and almost normal surfaces are essential tools for algorithmic 3-manifold topology, but to use them requires exponentially slow enumeration algorithms in a high-dimensional vector space. The quadrilateral coordinates of Tollefson alleviate this problem considerably for normal surfaces, by reducing the dimension of this vector space from 7n to 3n (wher

Uijin Jung, In-Je Lee

Given two graphs G and H, there is a bi-resolving (or bi-covering) graph homomorphism from G to H if and only if their adjacency matrices satisfy certain matrix relations. We investigate the bi-covering extensions of bi-resolving homomorphisms and give several sufficient conditions for a bi-resolving homomorphism to have a bi-covering extension with an irred

Carl Hewitt

Inconsistency robustness is &#34;information system performance in the face of continually pervasive inconsistencies.&#34; A fundamental principle of Inconsistency Robustness is to make contradictions explicit so that arguments for and against propositions can be formalized. This paper explores the role of Inconsistency Robustness in the history and theory o

Amine Asselah, Pablo A. Ferrari, Pablo Groisman

Consider a continuous time Markov chain with rates Q in the state space Λ\cup\{0\} with 0 as an absorbing state. In the associated Fleming-Viot process N particles evolve independently in Λwith rates Q until one of them attempts to jump to the absorbing state 0. At this moment the particle comes back to Λinstantaneously, by jumping to one of the positions of

Alan Stapledon

We introduce a powerful connection between Ehrhart theory and additive number theory, and use it to produce infinitely many new classes of inequalities between the coefficients of the $h^*$-polynomial of a lattice polytope. This greatly improves upon the three known classes of inequalities, which were proved using techniques from commutative algebra and comb

Vladimir L. Korenev

I argue that most of the key experiments that have born semiconductor spintronics were done and published earlier than the papers cited in the Nature Physics, 4 S20 (2008) milestone article (http://www.nature.com/milestones/spin, milestone 23).

Piotr M. Soltan

We prove that some well known compact quantum spaces like quantum tori and some quantum two-spheres do not admit a compact quantum group structure. This is achieved by considering existence of traces, characters and nuclearity of the corresponding $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebras.

Eoin Ó Colgáin, Hossein Yavartanoo

We study semi-classical rotating open strings ending on a probe Dp-brane close to a stack of extremal, non-extremal Dp-branes and Dp-branes with $B$-fields. These states may be interpreted as positronium-like bound states of spinning W-bosons in an $SU(N+1) \to SU(N) \times U(1)$ theory. In each case, we describe the behaviour of the strings and examine the

E. L. Afraimovich, S. V. Voyeikov, I. K. Edemskiy, Yu. V. Yasyukevich

We obtained the first experimental evidence for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nature of ionospheric medium-scale travelling wave packets (MSTWP). We used data on total electron content (TEC) measurements obtained at the dense Japanese network GPS/GEONET (1220 stations) in 2008-2009. We found that the diurnal, seasonal and spectral MSTWP characteristics are s

R. Pugatch, O. Firstenberg, M. Shuker, N. Davidson

The probability of a random walker to return to its starting point in dimensions one and two is unity, a theorem first proven by G. Polya. The recurrence probability -- the probability to be found at the origin at a time t, is a power law with a critical exponent d/2 in dimensions d=1,2. We report an experiment that directly measures the Laplace transform of

R. Soler, R. Oliver, J. L. Ballester

Oscillations and propagating waves are commonly seen in high-resolution observations of filament threads, i.e., the fine-structures of solar filaments/prominences. Since the temperature of prominences is typically of the order of 10^4 K, the prominence plasma is only partially ionized. In this paper, we study the effect of neutrals on the wave propagation in

S. Lopez-Rosa, D. Manzano, J. S. Dehesa

The internal disorder of a D-dimensional hydrogenic system, which is strongly associated to the non-uniformity of the quantum-mechanical density of its physical states, is investigated by means of the shape complexity in the two reciprocal spaces. This quantity, which is the product of the disequilibrium or averaging density and the Shannon entropic power, i

Hagen Triendl, Jan Louis

We study compactifications of type II theories on SU(2) x SU(2) structure manifolds to six, five and four spacetime dimensions. We use the framework of generalized geometry to describe the NS-NS sector of such compactifications and derive the structure of their moduli spaces. We show that in contrast to SU(3) x SU(3) structure compactifications, there is no

E. D. Skvortsov

The generalized connections of the (anti)-de Sitter space symmetry algebra, which are differential forms of arbitrary degree with values in any irreducible (spin)-tensor representation of the (anti)-de Sitter algebra, are studied. It is shown that arbitrary-spin gauge field in (anti)-de Sitter space, massless or partially-massless, can be described by a sing

A. Marian, D. Oprea, R. Pandharipande

A moduli space of stable quotients of the rank n trivial sheaf on stable curves is introduced. Over nonsingular curves, the moduli space is Grothendieck&#39;s Quot scheme. Over nodal curves, a relative construction is made to keep the torsion of the quotient away from the singularities. New compactifications of classical spaces arise naturally: a nonsingular

Frank Simon

The CALICE collaboration has constructed highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for the use in detector systems at the future International Linear Collider. These calorimeters have been tested extensively in particle beams at CERN and at Fermilab. We present preliminary results of an analysis of hadronic

Zhao-Qing Feng, Gen-Ming Jin

Within the framework of the improved isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics (ImIQMD) model, the emission of pion in heavy-ion collisions in the region 1 A GeV as a probe of nuclear symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities is investigated systematically, in which the pion is considered to be mainly produced by the decay of resonances $\triangle$(12

T. Ott, M. Bonitz, P. Hartmann

An analysis of superdiffusion in two-dimensional strongly correlated Yukawa liquids is presented. In particular, we report a regular, montonic behavior of the diffusion exponent on the screening parameter.

Stéphane Nonnenmacher, Maciej Zworski

We prove resolvent estimates for semiclassical operators such as $-h^2 Δ+V(x)$ in scattering situations. Provided the set of trapped classical trajectories supports a chaotic flow and is sufficiently filamentary, the analytic continuation of the resolvent is bounded by $h^{-M}$ in a strip whose width is determined by a certain topological pressure associated

Matthias Keller, Daniel Lenz

We study Laplacians on graphs and networks via regular Dirichlet forms. We give a sufficient geometric condition for essential selfadjointness and explicitly determine the generators of the associated semigroups on all $\ell^p$, $1\leq p < \infty$, in this case. We characterize stochastic completeness thereby generalizing all earlier corresponding results fo

Y. Ando, K. Hamaya, K. Kasahara, Y. Kishi

We demonstrate electrical injection and detection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon (Si) using epitaxially grown Fe_3Si/Si Schottky-tunnel-barrier contacts. By an insertion of a delta-doped n^+-Si layer (~ 10^19 cm^-3) near the interface between a ferromagnetic Fe_3Si/Si contact and a Si channel (~ 10^15 cm^-3), we achieve a marked enhancement in the tu

JongHae Keum, DongSeon Hwang

Montgomery-Yang problem predicts that every pseudofree differentiable circle action on the 5-dimensional sphere ${\mathbb S}^5$ has at most 3 non-free orbits. Using a certain one-to-one correspondence, Kollár formulated the algebraic version of the Montgomery-Yang problem: every projective surface $S$ with quotient singularities such that $b_2(S) = 1$ has at

Peng Gao

Using an approach of Bergh, we give an alternate proof of Bennett&#39;s result on lower bounds for non-negative matrices acting on non-increasing non-negative sequences in $l^p$ when $p \geq 1$ and its dual version, the upper bounds when $0<p \leq 1$. We also determine such bounds explicitly for some families of matrices.

Run-Qiang Jian, Marc Rosso

We give a systematic construction of Hopf algebra structures on braided cofree coalgebras. The relevant underlying structures are braided algebras and braided coalgebras. We provide some interesting examples of these algebras and coalgebras related to quantum groups. We introduce quantum multi-brace algebras which are generalizations of both braided algebras

V. P. Mineev, M. Sigrist

This Chapter gives a brief introduction to some basic aspects metals and superconductors in crystal without inversion symmetry. In a first part we analyze some normal state properties which arise through antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling existing in non-centrosymmetric materials and show its influence on the de Haas-van Alphen effect. For the superconducting

Dang-Zheng Liu, Zheng-Dong Wang

Consider real symmetric, complex Hermitian Toeplitz and real symmetric Hankel band matrix models, where the bandwidth $b_{N}\ra \iy$ but $b_{N}/N \to b$, $b\in [0,1]$ as $N\to \infty$. We prove that the distributions of eigenvalues converge weakly to universal, symmetric distributions $γ_{_{T}}(b)$ and $γ_{_{H}}(b)$. In the case $b>0$ or $b=0$ but with the a