June 2009 arXiv papers — page 20

Markus Aichhorn, Leonid Pourovskii, Veronica Vildosola, Michel Ferrero

We present an approach that combines the local density approximation (LDA) and the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) in the framework of the full-potential linear augmented plane waves (FLAPW) method. Wannier-like functions for the correlated shell are constructed by projecting local orbitals onto a set of Bloch eigenstates located within a certain energy w

Ansgar Schneider

Equivariant T-duality triples of locally compact abelian groups are considered. The motivating example dealing with the group $\R^n$ containing a lattice $\Z^n$ comes with an isomorphism in twisted equivariant K-theory.

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Lee Smolin

We discuss the prospects for bounding and perhaps even measuring quantum gravity effects on the dispersion of light using the highest energy photons produced in gamma ray bursts measured by the Fermi telescope. These prospects are brigher than might have been expected as in the first 10 months of operation Fermi has reported so far eight events with photons

Cenke Xu

In this work we study one family of liquid states of k-orbital SU(N) spin systems, focusing on the case of k = 2 which can be realized by ultracold alkaline earth atoms trapped in optical lattices, with N as large as 10. Five different algebraic liquid states with selectively coupled charge, spin and orbital quantum fluctuations are considered. The algebraic

L. Jonathan Cook, R. K. P. Zia, B. Schmittmann

Using Monte Carlo simulations and a domain wall theory, we discuss the effect of coupling several totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes (TASEPs) to a finite reservoir of particles. This simple model mimics directed biological transport processes in the presence of finite resources, such as protein synthesis limited by a finite pool of ribosomes. If a

A. A. Isayev

Some aspects of heavy flavor probes of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) including quarkonia and open heavy flavor D- and B-mesons, aimed to study the properties of QGP, are discussed in this lecture note.

Eran Sela, Justin Malecki

The scaling properties of the conductance of a Kondo impurity connected to two leads that are in or out of equilibrium has been extensively studied, both experimentally and theoretically. From these studies, a consensus has emerged regarding the analytic expression of the scaling function. The question addressed in this brief report concerns the properties o

Nigel Goldenfeld, Nicholas Guttenberg, Gustavo Gioia

We argue that the transition to turbulence is controlled by large amplitude events that follow extreme distribution theory. The theory suggests an explanation for recent observations of the turbulent state lifetime which exhibit super-exponential scaling behaviour with Reynolds number.

L. Ferroni, V. Koch

We formulate a simple model for a gas of extended hadrons at zero chemical potential by taking inspiration from the compressible bag model. We show that a crossover transition qualitatively similar to lattice QCD can be reproduced by such a system by including some appropriate additional dynamics. Under certain conditions, at high temperature, the system con

Matthew Lake, Steven Thomas, John Ward

We consider a model of static cosmic string loops in type IIB string theory, where the strings wrap cycles within the internal space. The strings are not topologically stabilised, however the presence of a lifting potential traps the windings giving rise to kinky cycloops. We find that PBH formation occurs at early times in a small window, whilst at late tim

Béla Bollobás, Graham Brightwell, Robert Morris

Isoperimetric inequalities have been studied since antiquity, and in recent decades they have been studied extensively on discrete objects, such as the hypercube. An important special case of this problem involves bounding the size of the shadow of a set system, and the basic question was solved by Kruskal (in 1963) and Katona (in 1968). In this paper we int

Dimitri Polyakov

We show that new BRST charges in RNS superstring theory with nonstandard ghost numbers, constructed in our recent work, can be mapped to deformed pure spinor (PS) superstring theories, with the nilpotent pure spinor BRST charge $Q_{PS}=\oint{\lambda^\alpha}d_\alpha$ still retaining its form but with singular operator products between commuting spinor variabl

S. Kurth, F. G. Eich

The spin density wave (SDW) state of the uniform electron gas is investigated in the exact exchange approximation of noncollinear spin density functional theory (DFT). Unlike in Hartree-Fock theory, where the uniform paramagnetic state of the electron gas is unstable against formation of the spin density wave for all densities, in exact-exchange spin-DFT thi

Robert Brignall

We prove necessary and sufficient conditions on a family of (generalised) gridding matrices to determine when the corresponding permutation classes are partially well-ordered. One direction requires an application of Higman's Theorem and relies on there being only finitely many simple permutations in the only non-monotone cell of each component of the ma

Michael Hermele, Victor Gurarie, Ana Maria Rey

We study Mott insulators of fermionic alkaline earth atoms, described by Heisenberg spin models with enhanced SU(N) symmetry. In dramatic contrast to SU(2) magnetism, more than two spins are required to form a singlet. On the square lattice, the classical ground state is highly degenerate and magnetic order is thus unlikely. In a large-N limit, we find a chi

S. V. Akkelin, P. Braun-Munzinger, Yu. M. Sinyukov

We analyze the transverse momentum distribution of $J/ψ$ mesons produced in Au + Au collisions at the top RHIC energy within a blast-wave model that accounts for a possible inhomogeneity of the charmonium distribution and/or flow fluctuations. The results imply that the transverse momentum spectra of$J/ψ$, $ϕ$ and $Ω$ hadrons measured at the RHIC can be desc

R. A. Arndt, W. J. Briscoe, M. W. Paris, I. I. Strakovsky

We discuss the analysis of data from piN elastic scattering and single pion photo- and electroproduction. The main focus is a study of low-lying non-strange baryon resonances. Here we concentrate on some difficulties associated with resonance identification, in particular the Roper and higher P11 states.

T. Sahin, David L. Lambert

An abundance analysis based on a high-resolution spectrum is presented for a newly discovered post-AGB star in the globular cluster M79. The surprising result is that the iron abundance of the star is apparently about 0.6 dex less than that of the cluster's red giants as reported by published studies including a recent high-resolution spectroscopic analy

Nguyen Duy Tan

In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the finiteness of Galois cohomology of unipotent groups over local fields of positive characteristic

M. N. Faraggi, I. Aldazabal, M. S. Gravielle, A. Arnau

The influence of the induced potential on photoelectron emission from metal surfaces is studied for grazing incidence of ultrashort laser pulses. To describe this process we introduce a distorted wave method, the Surface Jellium Volkov approach, which includes the perturbation on the emitted electron produced by both the laser and the induced fields. The met

Matteo Cherchi, Saverio Bivona, Alfonso C. Cino, Alessandro C. Busacca

We present a universal and rigorous approach to study difference frequency generation in the terahertz domain, keeping the number of degrees of freedom to a minimum, through the definition of a suitable figure of merit. The proposed method relies on suitably normalized charts, that enable to predict the optical-to-terahertz conversion efficiency of any syste

Gizachew Tiruneh

This paper uses an inductive method to investigate the factors responsible for variations in planetary-rotation periods. I began by showing the presence of a correlation between the masses of planets and their rotation periods. Then I tested the impact of planetary radius, acceleration, velocity, and torque on rotation periods. I found that velocity, acceler

Aran Nayebi

Erdős conjectured in 1956 that there are $x^{1-o(1)}$ Carmichael numbers up to $x$. Pomerance made this conjecture more precise and proposed that there are $x^{1-{\frac{\{1+o(1)\}\log\log\log x}{\log\log x}}}$ Carmichael numbers up to $x$. At the time, his data tables up to $25 \cdot 10^{9}$ appeared to support his conjecture. However, Pinch extended this da

Francesco Buscemi, Nilanjana Datta

We quantify the one-shot entanglement cost of an arbitrary bipartite state, that is the minimum number of singlets needed by two distant parties to create a single copy of the state up to a finite accuracy, using local operations and classical communication only. This analysis, in contrast to the traditional one, pertains to scenarios of practical relevance,

Břetislav Šopík, Pavel Lipavský, Michael Männel, Klaus Morawetz

We remove a self-interaction from the Galitskii-Feynman T-matrix approximation. This correction has no effect in the normal state but makes the theory applicable to the superconducting state. It is shown that identical theory is obtained by removing nonphysical repeated collisions in the spirit of the Fadeev-Watson-Lovelace multiple scattering expansion. Our

Lusine A. Sargsyan, Daniel W. Weedman

Star formation rates (SFR) are compared as determined from mid-infrared 7.7 um PAH luminosity [SFR(PAH)], from 1.4 GHz radio luminosity [SFR(radio)], and from far ultraviolet luminosity [SFR(UV)] for a sample of 287 starburst galaxies with z < 0.5 having Spitzer IRS observations. The previously adopted relation log [SFR(PAH)] = log [vLv(7.7 um)] - 42.57+-0.2

Sebastian Wagner, Romain Couillet, Merouane Debbah, Dirk. T. M. Slock

In this paper, we study the sum rate performance of zero-forcing (ZF) and regularized ZF (RZF) precoding in large MISO broadcast systems under the assumptions of imperfect channel state information at the transmitter and per-user channel transmit correlation. Our analysis assumes that the number of transmit antennas $M$ and the number of single-antenna users

J. Santos, R. A. Molina, J. Ortigoso, M. Rodriguez

We show that tunneling and localization properties of interacting ultracold atoms in an optical lattice can be controlled by adiabatically turning on a fast oscillatory force even in the presence of disorder. Our calculations are based on the exact solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, using the Floquet formalism. Implications of our findings

Yulij Ilyashenko, Denis Volk

We consider statistical attractors of locally typical dynamical systems and their &#34;e-invisible&#34; subsets: parts of the attractors whose neighborhoods are visited by orbits with an average frequency of less than e << 1. For extraordinarily small values of e (say, smaller than 2^(-10^6)), an observer virtually never sees these parts when following a gen

Ki-Young Choi, Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani, Carlos Munoz, Roberto 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. Given that R-parity is broken in this model, the gravitino is a natural candidate for dark matter since its lifetime becomes much longer than the age of the Universe. We consider the implications of grav

Arijit Kundu, Sumathi Rao, Arijit Saha

We study resonant transport through a superconducting double barrier structure. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a hole (Andreev reflection). Similarly, transport across the barrier can occur via direct tunneling as electrons as well as via the crossed Andreev channel, where a hole is tra

Hamid Reza Noori

Recent experimental studies strongly suggest the influence of glial purinergic transmission in the modulation of synaptic dynamics. By releasing adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which accumulates as adenosine, astrocytes tonically suppressed synaptic transmission. The delayed multi-step feedback of the glial adenosine with the neuron suggest the existence of hy

Philipp M. Altrock, Arne Traulsen

Evolutionary game dynamics describes the spreading of successful strategies in a population of reproducing individuals. Typically, the microscopic definition of strategy spreading is stochastic, such that the dynamics becomes deterministic only in infinitely large populations. Here, we introduce a new microscopic birth--death process that has a fully determi

R. Bonciani, A. Ferroglia, T. Gehrmann, C. Studerus

We evaluate the planar two-loop QCD diagrams contributing to the leading color coefficient of the heavy-quark pair production cross section, in the quark-antiquark annihilation channel. We obtain the leading color coefficient in an analytic form, in terms of one- and two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms of maximal weight 4. The result is valid for arbitra

M. Niederste-Ostholt, V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans, G. Gilmore

We apply the optimal filter technique to Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry around Segue 1 and find that the outer parts of the cluster are distorted. There is strong evidence for ~ 1 degree elongations of extra-tidal stars, extending both eastwards and southwestwards of the cluster. The extensions have similar differential Hess diagrams to Segue 1. A Kolmo

Romain Couillet, Merouane Debbah, Jack W. Silverstein

In this article, novel deterministic equivalents for the Stieltjes transform and the Shannon transform of a class of large dimensional random matrices are provided. These results are used to characterise the ergodic rate region of multiple antenna multiple access channels, when each point-to-point propagation channel is modelled according to the Kronecker mo

Makoto Katori, Hideki Tanemura

One-dimensional system of Brownian motions called Dyson&#39;s model is the particle system with long-range repulsive forces acting between any pair of particles, where the strength of force is $β/2$ times the inverse of particle distance. When $β=2$, it is realized as the Brownian motions in one dimension conditioned never to collide with each other. For any

Itai Benjamini, Stéphane Boucheron, Gábor Lugosi, Raphaël Rossignol

We study the appearance of the giant component in random subgraphs of a given large finite graph G=(V,E) in which each edge is present independently with probability p. We show that if G is an expander with vertices of bounded degree, then for any c in ]0,1[, the property that the random subgraph contains a giant component of size c|V| has a sharp threshold.

Maciej Borodzik

We compute rho-invariant for iterated torus knots $K$ for the standard representation of the knot group given by abelianisation. For algebraic knots, this invariant turns out to be very closely related to an invariant of a plane curve singularity, coming from algebraic geometry.

T. Koike, T. Harada

The formation of a deeply-bound $K^- pp$ state with $I=1/2$, $J^\pi=0^-$ by the $^3$He(in-flight $K^-$, $n$) reaction is theoretically investigated in a distorted-wave impulse approximation using the Green's function method. The expected inclusive and semi-exclusive spectra at $p_{K^-} = 1.0$ GeV/c and $\theta_{\rm lab} = 0^{\circ}$ are calculated for the fo

Péter Vrana, Péter Lévay

We introduce a point-line incidence geometry in which the commutation relations of the real Pauli group of multiple qubits are fully encoded. Its points are pairs of Pauli operators differing in sign and each line contains three pairwise commuting operators any of which is the product of the other two (up to sign). We study the properties of its Veldkamp spa

CDP group, A. Bolshakova

We report on double-differential inclusive cross-sections of the production of secondary protons, charged pions, and deuterons, in the interactions with a 5% nuclear interaction length thick stationary copper target, of proton and pion beams with momentum from +/-3 GeV/c to +/-15 GeV/c. Results are given for secondary particles with production angles between

Michele Cappellari, S. di Serego Alighieri, A. Cimatti, E. Daddi

We measured stellar velocity dispersions sigma and dynamical masses of 9 massive (M~10^11 Msun) early-type galaxies (ETG) from the GMASS sample at redshift 1.4<z<2.0. The sigma are based on individual spectra for two galaxies at z~1.4 and on a stacked spectrum for 7 galaxies with 1.6<z<2.0, with 202-h of exposure at the ESO Very Large Telescope. We construct

Jean-Luc Thiffeault

In many applications, the two-dimensional trajectories of fluid particles are available, but little is known about the underlying flow. Oceanic floats are a clear example. To extract quantitative information from such data, one can measure single-particle dispersion coefficients, but this only uses one trajectory at a time, so much of the information on rela

M. F. Gelin, D. S. Kosov

We present a method for the calculation of asymptotic operators for nonequilibrium steady-state quantum systems. The asymptotic steady-state operator is obtained by averaging the corresponding operator in Heisenberg representation over infinitely long time. Several examples are considered to demonstrate the utility of our method. The results obtained within

Ming-Lei Tong, Yang Zhang

As an extension of $Λ$CDM, the decaying vacuum model (DV) describes the dark energy as a varying vacuum whose energy density decays linearly with the Hubble parameter in the late-times, $ρ_Λ(t) \propto H(t)$, and produces the matter component. We examine the high-$z$ cosmic age problem in the DV model, and compare it with $Λ$CDM and the Yang-Mills condensate

S. Tsuchiya, T. Toshima, H. Nobukane, K. Inagaki

We report measurements of Little-Parks oscillation on the hierarchical honeycomb-superconducting network for investigating possible effects of hierarchical structure in terms of spatial symmetry, parity and duality. We observed an asymmetric Little-Parks oscillation about $\Phi/\Phi_0 = 1/2$, although spatial symmetry was kept in the network. In comparison w

S. Chibbaro, E. Costa, D. Dimitrov, F. Diotallevi

We study the impact of wall corrugations in microchannels on the process of capillary filling by means of three broadly used methods - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Lattice-Boltzmann Equations (LBE) and Molecular Dynamics (MD). The numerical results of these approaches are compared and tested against the Concus-Finn (CF) criterion, which predicts pinni

Marco Iovenitti

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to some problems. Please contact me.

Karlen Mosesyan, Mher Nikoghosyan, Zhora Nikoghosyan

Simple and shorter proofs of two Dirac-type theorems involving connectivity are presented.

Mitsuyasu Hashimoto, Masahiro Ohtani

Generalizing the known results on graded rings and modules, we formulate and prove the equivariant version of the local duality on schemes with a group action. We also prove an equivariant analogue of Matlis duality.

Michel Crucifix, Jonathan Rougier

Over the last few decades, climate scientists have devoted much effort to the development of large numerical models of the atmosphere and the ocean. While there is no question that such models provide important and useful information on complicated aspects of atmosphere and ocean dynamics, skillful prediction also requires a phenomenological approach, partic

R. Benzi, M. Sbragaglia, S. Succi, M. Bernaschi

A multi-component lattice Boltzmann model recently introduced (R. Benzi et al. Phys. Rev. Lett 102, 026002 (2009)) to describe some dynamical behaviors of soft-flowing materials is theoretically analyzed. Equilibrium and transport properties are derived within the framework of a continuum free-energy formulation, and checked against numerical simulations. Du

Mark P. M. Dean, Christopher A. Howard, Siddharth S. Saxena, Mark Ellerby

We report the first Raman scattering measurements of BaC$_6$, SrC$_6$, and YbC$_6$, which along with new data on CaC$_6$, permits a systematic study of the phonons and the electron-phonon interaction within the doped graphene layers of these compounds. The out-of-plane carbon phonon softens as the spacing of the graphene layers is reduced in the series BaC$_

Sheng Li, Yang Liu, Yun-Song Piao

In a given path with multiple branches, in principle, it can be expected that there are some fork points, where one branch is bifurcated into different branches, or various branches converge into one or several branches. In this paper, it is showed that if there is a web formed by such branches in a given field space, in which each branch can be responsible

Götz S. Uhrig, Stefano Pasini

Reliable long-time storage of arbitrary quantum states is a key element for quantum information processing. In order to dynamically decouple a spin or quantum bit from a dephasing environment, we introduce an optimized sequence of $N$ control pulses of finite durations $τ\pp$ and finite amplitudes. The properties of this sequence of length $T$ stem from a ma

Adamantios Stavridis, Clifford M. Will

Observations of gravitational waves from massive binary black hole systems at cosmological distances can be used to search for a dependence of the speed of propagation of the waves on wavelength, and thereby to bound the mass of a hypothetical graviton. We study the effects of precessions of the spins of the black holes and of the orbital angular momentum on

P. G. Freeman, N. B. Christensen, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd

The temperature dependence of the magnetic order of stripe-ordered La(1.725)Sr(0.275)NiO(4) is investigated by neutron diffraction. Upon cooling, the widths if the magnetic Bragg peaks are observed to broaden. The degree of broadening is found to be very different for l = odd-integer and l = even-integer magnetic peaks. We argue that the observed behaviour i

P. -M. Zhang, P. A. Horvathy

The symmetries of a free incompressible fluid span the Galilei group, augmented with independent dilations of space and time. When the fluid is compressible, the symmetry is enlarged to the expanded Schroedinger group, which also involves, in addition, Schroedinger expansions. While incompressible fluid dynamics can be derived as an appropriate non-relativis

Manuel Mazo, Adolfo Anta, Paulo Tabuada

Nowadays control systems are mostly implemented on digital platforms and, increasingly, over shared communication networks. Reducing resources (processor utilization, network bandwidth, etc.) in such implementations increases the potential to run more applications on the same hardware. We present a self-triggered implementation of linear controllers that red

Andrei Okounkov, Rahul Pandharipande

We discuss here basic properties of the quantum differential equation of the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane. Our emphasis is on intertwining operators (which shift equivariant parameters) and their applications. In particular, we obtain an exact solution to the connection problem from the Donaldson-Thomas point q=0 to the Gromov-Witten point q=-1. The

D. F. Jackson Kimball, L. R. Jacome, Srikanth Guttikonda, Eric J. Bahr

Atomic spin polarization of alkali atoms in the ground state can survive thousands of collisions with paraffin-coated cell walls. The resulting long spin-relaxation times achieved in evacuated, paraffin-coated cells enable precise measurement of atomic spin precession and energy shifts of ground-state Zeeman sublevels. In the present work, nonlinear magneto-

Sungsam Kang, Youngwoon Choi, Sooin Lim, Wookrae Kim

Analytical solution for the stationary density matrix is derived, by using the Morris-Shore transformation, for an open Jaynes-Cummings system of a two-level atom with Zeeman sublevel degeneracy coupled to an arbitrary-polarized cavity mode. In the limit of weak excitation with the number of quantum in the system not exceeding one, we have obtained the stati

D. -W. Jung, O. C. W. Kong, J. S. Lee

Based on our idea of an alternative supersymmetrization of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model for dynamical symmetry breaking, we analyze the resulted new model with a holomorphic dimension-five operator in the superpotential. The approach provides a new direction for modeling dynamical symmetry breaking in a supersymmetric setting. In particular, we adopt the id

Takuya Kanazawa, Tilo Wettig, Naoki Yamamoto

We analytically study two-color QCD with an even number of flavors at high baryon density. This theory is free from the fermion sign problem. Chiral symmetry is broken spontaneously by the diquark condensate. Based on the symmetry breaking pattern we construct the low-energy effective Lagrangian for the Nambu-Goldstone bosons. We identify a new epsilon-regim

Fangxing Xu, Wei Chen, Shuang Wang, Zhenqiang Yin

A hierarchical metropolitan quantum cryptography network upon the inner-city commercial telecom fiber cables is reported in this paper. The seven-user network contains a four-node backbone net with one node acting as the subnet gateway, a two-user subnet and a single-fiber access link, which is realized by the Faraday-Michelson Interferometer set-ups. The te

Michael Lieberman

We present a way of topologizing sets of Galois types over structures in abstract elementary classes with amalgamation. In the elementary case, the topologies thus produced refine the syntactic topologies familiar from first order logic. We exhibit a number of natural correspondences between the model-theoretic properties of classes and their constituent mod

David Jennings, Andrzej Dragan, Sean D. Barrett, Stephen D. Bartlett

We consider measurement-based quantum computation using the state of a spin-lattice system in equilibrium with a thermal bath and free to evolve under its own Hamiltonian. Any single qubit measurements disturb the system from equilibrium and, with adaptive measurements performed at a finite rate, the resulting dynamics reduces the fidelity of the computation

Vincent Beffara, Pierre Nolin

We investigate the so-called monochromatic arm exponents for critical percolation in two dimensions. These exponents, describing the probability of observing j disjoint macroscopic paths, are shown to exist and to form a different family from the (now well understood) polychromatic exponents. More specifically, our main result is that the monochromatic j-arm

Andreas Gustavsson, Soo-Jong Rey

The ABJM theory refers to superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theory with product gauge group U(L)xU(R) and level +k, -k, respectively. The theory is a candidate for worldvolume dynamics of M2-branes sitting at C(4)/Z(k)k. By utilizing monopole operators, we prove that ABJM theory gets enhanced N=8 supersymmetry and SO(8) R-symmetry at Chern-Simons levels k=1

Fu-Ming Liu, Tetsufumi Hirano, Klaus Werner, Yan Zhu

The elliptic flow $v_{2}$ of thermal photons at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV is predicted, based on three-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics. Because of the interplay between the asymmetry and the strength of the transverse flow, the thermal photon $v_{2}$ reaches a maximum at $\pt \sim $ 2GeV/$c$ and the $\pt$-integrated $v_{2}$ r

Y. Tsutsumi, K. Machida

In order to help detecting superfluidity, we theoretically investigate p-wave pairing superfluids in neutral Fermion atom gases confined by a three dimensimentional (3D) harmonic potential. The Ginzburg-Landau framework, which is generic for p-wave superfluids, is used to describe the order parameter spatial structure, or texture characterized by the l-vecto

Wensheng Cao, John R. Parker

In this paper, we obtain analogues of Jorgensen&#39;s inequality for non-elementary groups of isometries of quaternionic hyperbolic $n$-space generated by two elements, one of which is loxodromic. Our result gives some improvement over earlier results of Kim [10] and Markham [15]}. These results also apply to complex hyperbolic space and give improvements on

David D. K. Chow, C. N. Pope, Ergin Sezgin

We study exact solutions of three-dimensional gravity with a cosmological constant and a gravitational Chern-Simons term: the theory known as topologically massive gravity. After reviewing the algebraic classification, we show that if a solution has curvature of algebraic type D, then it is biaxially squashed AdS_3. Applying the classification, we provide a

M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury

We report a method for estimating people&#39;s achievement based on their fame. Earlier we discovered (cond-mat/0310049) that fame of fighter pilot aces (measured as number of Google hits) grows exponentially with their achievement (number of victories). We hypothesize that the same functional relation between achievement and fame holds for other professions

M. A. Braun, M. Yu. Salykin, M. I. Vyazovsky

The one-loop diffractive amplitude for emission of two real gluons with widely different rapidities is studied in the Lipatov effective action formalism. It is shown that after integration over longitudinal momenta in the loop the resulting expression coincides with the one obtained by the Lipatov-Bartels formalism in transversal space provided the same pres

Hector Zenil, Jean-Paul Delahaye

We propose a test based on the theory of algorithmic complexity and an experimental evaluation of Levin&#39;s universal distribution to identify evidence in support of or in contravention of the claim that the world is algorithmic in nature. To this end we have undertaken a statistical comparison of the frequency distributions of data from physical sources o

Ryoji Kawabata, Shin Mineshige

Radiatively inefficient accretion flows (RIAFs) are common feature of low-luminosity accretion flows, including quiescent states of X-ray binaries and low-lunimosity active galactic nuclei. Thermally driven winds are expected from such hot accretion flows. By assuming that the flow has self-similarity structure in the radial direction, we solve the vertical

L. Tolos, C. Garcia-Recio, V. K. Magas, T. Mizutani

We study charmed baryon resonances that are generated dynamically from a coupled-channel unitary approach that implements heavy-quark symmetry. Some states can already be identified with experimental observations, such as $Λ_c(2595)$, $Λ_c(2660)$, $Σ_c(2902)$ or $Λ_c(2941)$, while others need a compilation of more experimental data as well as an extension of

Benoit Collins, Ken Dykema

We prove by a counterexample that asymptotic quantum Horn bodies are not convex in general.

Zao-Chun Gao, Mihai Horoi, Y. S. Chen

In a previous paper we proposed a Projected Configuration Interaction method that uses sets of axially deformed single particle states to build up the many body basis. We show that the choice of the basis set is essential for the efficiency of the method, and we propose a newly improved algorithm of selecting the projected basis states. We also extend our me

Mark Booth, Mark C. Wyatt, Alessandro Morbidelli, Amaya Moro-Martín

The Nice model of Gomes et al. (2005) suggests that the migration of the giant planets caused a planetesimal clearing event which led to the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) at 880 Myr. Here we investigate the IR emission from the Kuiper belt during the history of the Solar System as described by the Nice model. We describe a method for easily converting the res

Curt Cutler, Daniel E. Holz

We show that the Big Bang Observer (BBO), a proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector, would provide ultra-precise measurements of cosmological parameters. By detecting ~300,000 compact-star binaries, and utilizing them as standard sirens, BBO would determine the Hubble constant to 0.1%, and the dark energy parameters w_0 and w_a to ~0.01 and 0.1

T. E. Huber, P. Trottman, J. B. Halpern

Copper nanolines fabricated by the damascene process are commonly used as interconnects in advanced electronic devices. The copper resistivity increases above the bulk value because of confinement, in detriment of performance. Recent electronic transport measurements clearly exhibit this effect for nanolines whose widths range between 80 and 500 nm at low an

Vernon Barger, Lisa L. Everett, Jing Jiang, Paul Langacker

We analyze flavor-changing-neutral-current (FCNC) effects in the $b\to s$ transitions that are induced by family non-universal $U(1)'$ gauge symmetries. After systematically developing the necessary formalism, we present a correlated analysis for the $\Delta B =1, 2$ processes. We adopt a model-independent approach in which we only require family-universal c

Christine H. Chen, Patrick Sheehan, Dan M. Watson, P. Manoj Puravankara

We have rereduced Spitzer IRS spectra and reanalyzed the SED&#39;s of three nearby debris disks: lambda Boo, HD 139664, and HR 8799. We find that that the thermal emission from these objects is well modeled using two single temperature black body components. For HR 8799 -- with no silicate emission features despite a relatively hot inner dust component (Tgr

Sergei Alexandrov, Frank Saueressig

Using the twistor approach to hypermultiplet moduli spaces, we derive the worldsheet, D(-1), and D1-instanton contributions to the generalized mirror map, relating Type IIA and Type IIB string theory compactified on generic mirror Calabi-Yau threefolds. For this purpose, we provide a novel description of the twistor space underlying the Type IIB hypermultipl

Charles B. Thorn

We extend the lightcone worldsheet lattice approach to string theory, proposed in 1977 by Giles and me, to allow for coincident D-branes. We find a convenient lattice representation of Dirichlet boundary conditions, which the open string coordinates transverse to the D-branes satisfy. We then represent the sum over all planar open string multi-loop diagrams

Nuno Luzia

In this work we are interested in the self--affine fractals studied by Gatzouras and Lalley and by the author which generalize the famous general Sierpinski carpets studied by Bedford and McMullen. We give a formula for the Hausdorff dimension of sets which are randomly generated using a finite number of self-affine transformations each one generating a frac

Jacob Linder, Malek Zareyan, Asle Sudbø

We consider the non-local quantum transport properties of a graphene superconducting spin-valve. It is shown that one may create a spin-switch effect between perfect elastic co-tunneling (CT) and perfect crossed Andreev-reflection (CAR) for all bias voltages in the low-energy regime by reversing the magnetization direction in one of the ferromagnetic layers.

V. V. Bavula

Explicit generators are found for the group of automorphisms of the algebra of one-sided inverses of a polynomial algebra in $n$ variables. An analogue of the polynomial Jacobian homomorphism is found.

E. Kirr, O. Mizrak

We consider a class of nonlinear Schrodinger equation in four and five space dimensions with an attractive potential. The nonlinearity is local but rather general encompassing for the first time both subcritical and supercritical (in L2) nonlinearities. We show that the center manifold formed by localized in space periodic in time solutions (bound states) is

Michael Daub, Jaclyn Lang, Mona Merling, Allison M. Pacelli

It is known that infinitely many number fields and function fields of any degree $m$ have class number divisible by a given integer $n$. However, significantly less is known about the indivisibility of class numbers of such fields. While it&#39;s known that there exist infinitely many quadratic number fields with class number indivisible by a given prime, th

P. A. Schreiner, J. Reichenbacher, M. C. Goodman

The MINOS experiment has observed a rise in the underground muon charge ratio $r_μ$ = ${μ^+/μ^-}$. This ratio can be related to the atmospheric production ratios of ${π^+/π^-}$ and ${K^+/K^-}$. Our analysis indicates that the relevant variable for studying the charge ratio+ $\ecos$, rather than $\emu$. We compare a simple energy dependent parameterization of

Nidhal Bouaynaya, Jerzy Zielinski, Dan Schonfeld

We propose a new model-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for tumor detection and classification (cancerous v.s. benign) in breast images. Specifically, we show that (x-ray, ultrasound and MRI) images can be accurately modeled by two-dimensional autoregressive-moving average (ARMA) random fields. We derive a two-stage Yule-Walker Least-Squares estim

Julia C. Lee, Jingen Xiang, Bruce Ravel, Jeffrey Kortright

We present a new technique for determining the *quantity and composition* of dust in astrophysical environments using <6keV X-rays. We argue that high resolution X-ray spectra as enabled by the Chandra and XMM-Newton gratings should be considered a powerful and viable new resource for delving into a relatively unexplored regime for directly determining dust

R. Iaria, A. D&#39;Aí, T. Di Salvo, N. R. Robba

The broad emission features in the Fe-Kalpha region of X-ray binary spectra represent an invaluable probe to constrain the geometry and the physics of these systems. Several Low Mass X-ray binary systems (LMXBs) containing a neutron star (NS) show broad emission features between 6 and 7 keV and most of them are nowi nterpreted as reflection features from the

Norbert Przybilla, Markus Firnstein, Maria-Fernanda Nieva

Massive stars can develop into tepid supergiants at several stages of their post main-sequence evolution, prior to core He-burning, on a blue loop, or close to the final supernova explosion. We discuss observational constraints on models of massive star evolution obtained from the analysis of a sample of Galactic supergiants and put them in the context of th

Tom Banks, Jean-François Fortin

We argue that effective field theories compatible with the idea of Cosmological SUSY Breaking, can have no supersymmetric vacuum states in the M_P -> infinity limit. We introduce a revised version of the Pyramid Scheme, which satisfies this criterion. Combining the criteria for CSB with results of Nelson and Seiberg, any such Lagrangian is non-generic, but w

Yoelsy Leyva Nodal, Rolando Cardenas, V. F. Cardone

We explore the predictions of a class of dark energy models, quinstant dark energy, concerning the structure formation in the Universe, both in the linear and non-linear regimes. Quinstant dark energy is considered to be formed by quintessence and a negative cosmological constant. We conclude that these models give good predictions for structure formation in