June 2009 arXiv papers — page 37

Ricardo Duran, Maria-Amelia Muschietti, Emmanuel Russ, Philippe Tchamitchian

Let $Ω$ be an arbitrary bounded domain of $\R^n$. We study the right invertibility of the divergence on $Ω$ in weighted Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces on $Ω$, and rely this invertibility to a geometric characterization of $Ω$ and to weighted Poincaré inequalities on $Ω$. We recover, in particular, well-known results on the right invertibility of the divergence

Chandra Chekuri, Sungjin Im, Benjamin Moseley

We consider online algorithms for pull-based broadcast scheduling. In this setting there are n pages of information at a server and requests for pages arrive online. When the server serves (broadcasts) a page p, all outstanding requests for that page are satisfied. We study two related metrics, namely maximum response time (waiting time) and maximum delay-fa

Jorge Pena, Henri Volken, Enea Pestelacci, Marco Tomassini

We study the effects of conformity, the tendency of humans to imitate locally common behaviors, in the evolution of cooperation when individuals occupy the vertices of a graph and engage in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma or the Snowdrift game with their neighbors. Two different graphs are studied: rings (one-dimensional lattices with cyclic boundary con

Kenji Ishida, Yusuke Nakai, Hideo Hosono

In this review, the authors present a summary of experimental reports on newly discovered iron-based superconductors as they were known at the end of 2008. At the same time, this paper is intended to be useful for experimenters to know the current status of these superconductors. The authors introduce experimental results that reveal basic physical propertie

Genqian Liu

In this paper, we establish sharp inequalities for four kinds of classical eigenvalues on a bounded domain of a Riemannian manifold. We also establish asymptotic formulas for the eigenvalues of the buckling and clamped plate problems. In addition, we give a negative answer to the Payne conjecture for the one-dimensional case.

L. J. Hou, P. K. Shukla, A. Piel, Z. L. Miskovic

Thermally excited phonon spectra of 2D Yukawa solids and liquids in the presence of an external magnetic field are studied using computer simulations. Special attention is paid to the variation of wave spectra in terms of several key parameters, such as the strength of coupling, the screening parameter, and the intensity of the magnetic field. In addition, c

Wenxue Du, Xueliang Li, Yiyang Li

The properties of eigenvalues of large dimensional random matrices have received considerable attention. One important achievement is the existence and identification of the limiting spectral distribution of the empirical spectral distribution of eigenvalues of Wigner matrix. In the present paper, we explore the limiting spectral distribution for more genera

Moosup Kim, Sangyeol Lee

The tail index, indicating the degree of fatness of the tail distribution, is an important component of extreme value theory since it dominates the asymptotic distribution of extreme values such as the sample maximum. In this paper, we consider the problem of testing for a change in the tail index of time series data. As a test, we employ the cusum test and

Yang Xiang, Yueping Niu, Yihong Qi, Shangqing Gong

We present a method of producing single attosecond pulses by high-order harmonic generation with multi-cycle nonlinear chirped driver laser pulses. The symmetry of the laser feld in several optical cycles near the pulse center is dramatically broken, and then the photons which cover a much broad spectrum burst almost only in one optical cycle. So an ultra-br

I. V. Solovyev

Starting from the multiorbital Hubbard model for the t2g-bands of RTiO3 (R= Y, Gd, Sm, and La), where all parameters have been derived from the first-principles calculations, we construct an effective superexchange (SE) spin model, by treating transfer integrals as a perturbation. We consider four approximations for the SE interactions: (i) the canonical cry

Rahul Mazumder, Trevor Hastie, Rob Tibshirani

We use convex relaxation techniques to provide a sequence of solutions to the matrix completion problem. Using the nuclear norm as a regularizer, we provide simple and very efficient algorithms for minimizing the reconstruction error subject to a bound on the nuclear norm. Our algorithm iteratively replaces the missing elements with those obtained from a thr

Liming Wang, Dan Schonfeld

Processing of symbolic sequences represented by mapping of symbolic data into numerical signals is commonly used in various applications. It is a particularly popular approach in genomic and proteomic sequence analysis. Numerous mappings of symbolic sequences have been proposed for various applications. It is unclear however whether the processing of symboli

A. F. Kowalski, S. L. Hawley, E. J. Hilton, A. C. Becker

We present a flare rate analysis of 50,130 M dwarf light curves in SDSS Stripe 82. We identified 271 flares using a customized variability index to search ~2.5 million photometric observations for flux increases in the u- and g-bands. Every image of a flaring observation was examined by eye and with a PSF-matching and image subtraction tool to guard against

Ibrahim Assem, Christophe Reutenauer, David Smith

Each acyclic graph, and more generally, each acyclic orientation of the graph associated to a Cartan matrix, allows to define a so-called frise; this is a collection of sequences over the positive natural numbers, one for each vertex of the graph. We prove that if these sequences satisfy a linear recurrence, then the Cartan matrix is of Dynkin type (if the s

Vyjayanthi Chari, Ghislain Fourier, Tanusree Khandai

Global and local Weyl Modules were introduced via generators and relations in the context of affine Lie algebras in a work by the first author and Pressley and were motivated by representations of quantum affine algebras. A more general case was considered by Feigin and Loktev by replacing the polynomial ring with the coordinate ring of an algebraic variety.

Enrico Borriello, Giuseppe Longo, Gennaro Miele, Maurizio Paolillo

Among various approaches for indirect detection of dark matter, synchrotron emission due to secondary electrons/positrons produced in galactic WIMPs annihilation is raising an increasing interest. In this paper we propose a new method to derive bounds in the mchi - <sigmaA*v> plane by using radio continuum observations of Messier 33, paying particular attent

B. Capogrosso-Sansone, C. Trefzger, M. Lewenstein, P. Zoller

We discuss the quantum phases of hard-core bosons on a two-dimensional square lattice interacting via repulsive dipole-dipole interactions, as realizable with polar molecules trapped in optical lattices. In the limit of small tunneling, we find evidence for a devil&#39;s staircase, where solid phases appear at all rational fillings of the underlying lattice.

H. B. Perets, A. Gal-Yam, P. Mazzali, D. Arnett

Supernovae (SNe) are thought to arise from two different physical processes. The cores of massive, short-lived stars undergo gravitational core collapse and typically eject a few solar masses during their explosion. These are thought to appear as as type Ib/c and II SNe, and are associated with young stellar populations. A type Ia SN is thought to arise from

Richard L. Hall, Wolfgang Lucha

For the class of attractive potentials V(r) <= 0 which vanish at infinity, we prove that the ground-state energy E of the semirelativistic Hamiltonian H = \sqrt{m^2 + p^2} + V(r) is bounded below by the ground-state energy e of the corresponding Klein--Gordon problem (p^2 + m^2)ϕ= (V(r) -e)^2ϕ. Detailed results are presented for the exponential and Woods--Sa

Jeffrey Matayoshi

Mark Kac gave one of the first results analyzing random polynomial zeros. He considered the case of independent standard normal coefficients and was able to show that the expected number of real zeros for a degree n polynomial is on the order of (2/pi)log(n), as n goes to infinity. Several years later, Sambandham considered two cases with some dependence ass

Shinji Yamashita

We investigate $C^*$-algebras associated with row-finite topological higher-rank graphs with no source, which are based on product system $C^*$-algebras. We prove the Cuntz-Krieger uniqueness theorem, and provide the condition of simplicity and purely infiniteness of our algebras. We give examples of non-discrete topological higher-rank graphs whose $C^*$-al

Nero Budur, Mircea Mustata, Zach Teitler

The Monodromy Conjecture asserts that if c is a pole of the local topological zeta function of a hypersurface, then exp(2πi c) is an eigenvalue of the monodromy on the cohomology of the Milnor fiber. A stronger version of the conjecture asserts that every pole is a root of the Bernstein-Sato polynomial of the hypersurface. In this note we prove the weak vers

Dionysios Anninos

Three-dimensional warped anti-de Sitter space in topologically massive gravity with a negative cosmological constant has been proposed to be holographically dual to a two-dimensional conformal field theory. We extend this proposal to both positive and vanishing values of the cosmological constant where stretched warped anti-de Sitter space is found to be a s

Guillaume Bossard

We consider the stationary solutions of N=4 supergravity coupled to n vector multiplets that define linear superpositions of non-interacting extremal black holes. The most general solutions of this type are derived from the graded decompositions of so(8,2+n) associated to its nilpotent orbits. We illustrate the formalism by giving explicitly asymptotically M

Zhongxiang Wang, Deepto Chakrabarty

The X-ray source 4U1820-30 in the globular cluster NGC 6624 is known as the most compact binary among the identified X-ray binaries. Having an orbital period of 685.0 s, the source consists of a neutron star primary and likely 0.06--0.08 Msun white dwarf secondary. Here we report on far-ultraviolet (FUV) observations of this X-ray binary, made with the Space

Guillaume Bossard, Hermann Nicolai

For N \ge 2 supergravities, BPS black hole solutions preserving four supersymmetries can be superposed linearly, leading to well defined solutions containing an arbitrary number of such BPS black holes at arbitrary positions. Being stationary, these solutions can be understood via associated non-linear sigma models over pseudo-Riemaniann spaces coupled to Eu

Gerold Kiesslich, Gernot Schaller, Clive Emary, Tobias Brandes

We present a theory of a single-electron transistor exchange-coupled to a localized spin. We show how to gain detailed quantitative knowledge about the attached spin such as spin size, exchange coupling strength, Landé g-factor, and spin decay time $T_1$ by utilizing a robust blockade phenomenon of DC magnetotransport with accompanying noise enhancement. Our

G. Risaliti, M. Young, M. Elvis

We present a correlation between the 2-10 keV spectral slope Gamma and the Eddington ratio L/L_{EDD} in a sample of ~400 Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars with available hard X-ray spectra from XMM-Newton serendipitous observations. We find that the Gamma-L/L_{EDD} correlation is strongest in objects with black hole (BH) masses determined from the Hbeta line,

E. M. Lipmanov

Near magnitudes of Dirac particle mass-ratios, mixing hierarchy-quantities and electroweak charges against the background of highly successful flavor-universal one-generation EW theory is a puzzle in need of diverse inclusive research. In this paper I study the problem in proper terms of lepton and quark Deviation-from-Mass-Degeneracy (DMD) hierarchies at tr

G. Karagiorgi, Z. Djurcic, J. M. Conrad, M. H. Shaevitz

This paper examines sterile neutrino oscillation models in light of recently published results from the MiniBooNE Experiment. The new MiniBooNE data include the updated neutrino results, including the low energy region, and the first antineutrino results, as well as first results from the off-axis NuMI beam observed in the MiniBooNE detector. These new globa

Peng Sun

In this paper we study a skew product map $F$ with a measure $μ$ of positive entropy. We show that if on the fibers the map are $C^{1+α}$ diffeomorphisms with nonzero Lyapunov exponents, then $F$ has ergodic measures of intermediate entropies. To construct these measures we find a set on which the return map is a skew product with horseshoes along fibers. We

Michel Bonnefont

In this paper, we study a subelliptic heat kernel on the Lie group SL(2,R) and on its universal covering. The subelliptic structure on SL(2,R) comes from the fibration $SO(2) -> SL(2,R) -> H^2$ and it can be lifted to its universal covering. First, we derive an integral representation for these heat kernels. These expressions allow us to obtain some asymptot

J. Sirker, R. G. Pereira, I. Affleck

It has been conjectured that transport in integrable one-dimensional (1D) systems is necessarily ballistic. The large diffusive response seen experimentally in nearly ideal realizations of the S=1/2 1D Heisenberg model is therefore puzzling and has not been explained so far. Here, we show that, contrary to common belief, diffusion is universally present in i

Thomas DeGrand, Anna Hasenfratz

Theories of interacting gauge fields and fermions can possess a running gauge coupling with an infrared attractive fixed point (IRFP). We present a minimal description of the physics of these systems and comment on some simple expectations for results from lattice simulations done within the basin of attraction of the IRFP in these theories.

Wei-Cheng Lee, Congjun Wu

Unlike charge and spin, the orbital degree of freedom of electrons in transition metal oxides is difficult to detect. We present the theoretical study of a new detection method in metallic orbitally active systems by analyzing the quasiparticle scattering interference (QPI) pattern of the spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling spectroscopy, which is sensit

Jerrold Franklin

The meaning of Lorentz contraction in special relativity and its connection with Bell&#39;s spaceships parable is discussed. The motion of Bell&#39;s spaceships is then compared with the accelerated motion of a rigid body. We have tried to write this in a simple form that could be used to correct students&#39; misconceptions due to conflicting earlier treatm

C. Deffayet, S. Deser, G. Esposito-Farese

We extend to curved backgrounds all flat-space scalar field models that obey purely second-order equations, while maintaining their second-order dependence on both field and metric. This extension simultaneously restores to second order the, originally higher derivative, stress tensors as well. The process is transparent and uniform for all dimensions.

Benoit Estienne, Raoul Santachiara

The (k,r)-admissible Jack polynomials, recently proposed as many-body wavefunctions for non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall systems, have been conjectured to be related to some correlation functions of the minimal model WA_{k-1}(k+1,k+r) of the WA_{k-1} algebra. By studying the degenerate representations of the WA_{k-1}(k+1,k+r) theory, we provide a proof fo

J. E. Gough, S. Wildfeuer

The theory of quantum feedback networks has recently been developed with the aim of showing how quantum input-output components may be connected together so as to control, stabilize or enhance the performance of one of the subcomponents. In this paper we show how the degree to which an idealized component (a degenerate parametric amplifier in the strong-coup

Jack Kuipers

The addition of tunnel barriers to open chaotic systems, as well as representing more general physical systems, leads to much richer semiclassical dynamics. In particular, we present here a complete semiclassical treatment for these systems, in the regime where Ehrenfest time effects are negligible and for times shorter than the Heisenberg time. To start we

Alex Hartsuiker, Allard P. Mosk, Julien Claudon, Jean-Michel Gérard

We have measured time-resolved the photon storage time and the quality factor of an ultrafast photonic cavity using an autocorrelator. The cavity consists of a $λ$-thick GaAs layer sandwiched between GaAs/AlAs distributed Bragg reflectors and resonates at 985 nm wavelength. The inverse relative linewidth measured with white light reflectivity is 830, while t

Philippe Flajolet, Stefan Gerhold, Bruno Salvy

Various sequences that possess explicit analytic expressions can be analysed asymptotically through integral representations due to Lindelöf, which belong to an attractive but somewhat neglected chapter of complex analysis. One of the outcomes of such analyses concerns the non-existence of linear recurrences with polynomial coefficients annihilating these se

Kostyantyn Ropotenko

In transforming from Schwarzschild to Euclidean Rindler coordinates the Schwarzschild time transforms to a periodic angle. As is well-known, this allows one to introduce the Hawking temperature and is an origin of black hole thermodynamics. On the other hand, according to quantum mechanics this angle is conjugate to the $z$ component of the angular momentum.

Sebastian Müller, Stefan Heusler, Alexander Altland, Petr Braun

Using Gutzwiller&#39;s semiclassical periodic-orbit theory we demonstrate universal behaviour of the two-point correlator of the density of levels for quantum systems whose classical limit is fully chaotic. We go beyond previous work in establishing the full correlator such that its Fourier transform, the spectral form factor, is determined for all times, be

The NNPDF Collaboration, Richard D. Ball, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte

We use recent neutrino dimuon production data combined with a global deep-inelastic parton fit to construct a new parton set, NNPDF1.2, which includes a determination of the strange and antistrange distributions of the nucleon. The result is characterized by a faithful estimation of uncertainties thanks to the use of the NNPDF methodology, and is free of mod

Eric Amar

Let $\Omega $ be a bounded ${\mathcal{C}}^{\infty}$-smoothly bounded domain in ${\mathbb{C}}^{n}.$ For such a domain we define a new notion between strict pseudo-convexity and pseudo-convexity: the size of the set $W$ of weakly pseudo-convex points on $\partial \Omega $ is small with respect to Minkowski dimension: near each point in the boundary $\partial \

Martin Fürer, Serge Gaspers, Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

The bandwidth of a graph G on n vertices is the minimum b such that the vertices of G can be labeled from 1 to n such that the labels of every pair of adjacent vertices differ by at most b. In this paper, we present a 2-approximation algorithm for the bandwidth problem that takes worst-case O(1.9797^n) time and uses polynomial space. This improves both the p

A. Freitas, P. Schwaller, D. Wyler

Based on a recent idea by Krohn and Yavin, we construct a little Higgs model with an internal parity that is not broken by anomalous Wess-Zumino-Witten terms. The model is a modification of the &#34;minimal moose&#34; models by Arkani-Hamed et al. and Cheng and Low. The new parity prevents large corrections to oblique electroweak parameters and leads to a vi

Andreas Aste, Cyrill von Arx, Gunter Scharf

The causal approach to perturbative quantum field theory is presented in detail, which goes back to a seminal work by Henri Epstein and Vladimir Jurko Glaser in 1973. Causal perturbation theory is a mathematically rigorous approach to renormalization theory, which makes it possible to put the theoretical setup of perturbative quantum field theory on a sound

A. Nemethi, M. Tosun

In the present article we determine and characterize completely the support genus, the binding number and the norm of a page of an open book under the following restrictions: M is a rational homology sphere which can be realized as the link of a surface singularity. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to the collection of those open book decompositions which can

Gavin P. Salam

As the LHC prepares to start taking data, this review is intended to provide a QCD theorist&#39;s understanding and views on jet finding at hadron colliders, including recent developments. My hope is that it will serve both as a primer for the newcomer to jets and as a quick reference for those with some experience of the subject. It is devoted to the questi

Charles A. Akemann, David Sherman

We determine when there is a unique conditional expectation from a semifinite von Neumann algebra onto a singly-generated maximal abelian *-subalgebra. Our work extends the results of Kadison and Singer via new methods, notably the observation that a unique conditional expectation onto a singly-generated maximal abelian *-subalgebra must be normal.

S. Fugmann, I. M. Sokolov

We consider equilibrium relaxation properties of the end-to-end distance and of principal components in a one-dimensional polymer chain model with nonlinear interaction between the beads. While for the single-well potentials these properties are similar to the ones of a Rouse chain, for the double-well interaction potentials, modeling internal friction, they

Michael T. Lacey, Stefanie Petermichl, Maria Carmen Reguera

As a corollary to our main theorem we give a new proof of the result that the norm of the Hilbert transform on L^2(w) has norm bounded by a the A_2 characteristic of a weight to the first power, a theorem of one of us. This new proof begins as the prior proofs do, by passing to Haar shifts. Then, we apply a deep two-weight T1 theorem of Nazarov-Treil-Volberg

Ricardo Gallego Torromé

In this paper we argue that when gauge invariance is taken into consideration, there is no consistent geometric framework of Finsler class that can accommodate Randers type spaces. In this context, an alternative non-Finslerian framework for Randers spacetimes compatible with gauge invariance is introduced.

V. Coenda, H. Muriel

We investigate the dependence of several galaxy properties on the environment and cluster identification techniques. We select clusters of galaxies from two catalogues based on the SDSS: the ROSAT-SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey, and the MaxBCG Catalogue. Based on a volume limited sample of galaxies drawn from the spectroscopic DR5 SDSS, we constructed sub-sample

Qin Li, W. H. Chan, Dong-Yang Long

Secret sharing is a procedure for sharing a secret among a number of participants such that only the qualified subsets of participants have the ability to reconstruct the secret. Even in the presence of eavesdropping, secret sharing can be achieved when all the members are quantum. So what happens if not all the members are quantum? In this paper we propose

Xiaoling Cui, Yupeng Wang

The zero-temperature phase diagrams of imbalanced two-species Fermi gases are investigated in asymmetric optical lattices with arbitrary potential depths, based on the exact spectrum instead of the Fermi-Hubbard model. We study the effect of lattice potentials and atomic densities to the fully paired Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) state and particularly the

M R Setare, Alberto Rozas-Fernández

Motivated by our recent work \cite{set1}, we generalize this work to the interacting non-flat case. Therefore in this paper we deal with canonical, phantom and quintom models, with the various fields being non-minimally coupled to gravity, within the framework of interacting holographic dark energy. We employ the holographic model of interacting dark energy

Nils Bruin, Michael Stoll

We discuss the Mordell-Weil sieve as a general technique for proving results concerning rational points on a given curve. In the special case of curves of genus 2, we describe quite explicitly how the relevant local information can be obtained if one does not want to restrict to mod p information at primes of good reduction. We describe our implementation of

Umut Gürsoy, Elias Kiritsis, Georgios Michalogiorgakis, Francesco Nitti

We calculate the bulk viscosity, drag force and jet quenching parameter in Improved Holographic QCD. We find that the bulk viscosity rises near the phase transition but does not exceed the shear viscosity. The drag force shows the effects of asymptotic freedom both as a function of velocity and temperature. It indicates diffusion times of heavy quarks in rou

Friedmar Schütze

We study $D$-dimensional elastic manifolds driven by ac-forces in a disordered environment using a perturbation expansion in the disorder strength and the mean-field approximation. We find, that for $D\le 4$ perturbation theory produces non-regular terms that grow unboundedly in time. The origin of these non-regular terms is explained. By using a graphical r

Karin Erdmann, Sibylle Schroll

We explicitly calculate a projective bimodule resolution for a special biserial algebra giving rise to the Hecke algebra H_q(S_4) when q=-1. We then determine the dimensions of the Hochschild cohomology groups.

G. Cvetic, A. Yu. Illarionov, B. A. Kniehl, A. V. Kotikov

Using the leading-twist approximation of the Wilson operator product expansion with &#34;frozen&#34; and analytic versions of the strong-coupling constant, we show that the Bessel-inspired behavior of the structure function F_2 and its slope\break partial ln(F_2)/partial ln(1/x) at small values of x, obtained for a flat initial condition in the DGLAP evoluti

F. Febres Cordero, L. Reina, D. Wackeroth

We present total and differential cross sections for W b anti-b and Z b anti-b production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider with a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV, including Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) QCD corrections and full bottom-quark mass effects. We also provide numerical results obtained with a center-of-mass energy of 10 TeV. We study the scale unce

J. Fernandez Bonder, A. Silva

In this paper we extend the well-known concentration -- compactness principle of P.L. Lions to the variable exponent case. We also give some applications to the existence problem for the $p(x)-$Laplacian with critical growth.

Y. Rephaeli, Y. Arieli, M. Persic

Measurement sensitivity in the energetic gamma-ray region has improved considerably, and is about to increase further in the near future, motivating a detailed calculation of high-energy (>100 MeV) and very-high-energy (VHE: >100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC253. Adopting the convection-diffusion model for energetic electron an

S. I. Shevchenko, A. S. Rukin

The Keldysh&#39;s theory of superfluidity of rarefied electron-hole gas is generalized to a case of possible pair polarizability. It was shown that inhomogeneity of the system leads to dipole moment which is proportional to the density gradient. The dipole moment appears also near boundaries of the system. It was determined that quantized vortices in a magne

Alastair J. R. Sanderson, Alastair C. Edge, Graham P. Smith

We study the distribution of projected offsets between the cluster X-ray centroid and the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) for 65 X-ray selected clusters from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS), with a median redshift of z=0.23. We find a clear correlation between X-ray/BCG projected offset and the logarithmic slope of the cluster gas density profi

J. -W. He, F. Van Oystaeyen, Y. Zhang

The Calabi-Yau property of cocommutative Hopf algebras is discussed by using the homological integral, a recently introduced tool for studying infinite dimensional AS-Gorenstein Hopf algebras. It is shown that the skew-group algebra of a universal enveloping algebra of a finite dimensional Lie algebra $\g$ with a finite subgroup $G$ of automorphisms of $\g$

Maxim Konyushikhin

We derive the four-point vector correlators in QCD from AdS/QCD correspondence. It is shown that meson poles are correctly reproduced. The final expression also suggests a nonzero amplitude in the limit of zero virtuality of two longitudinal gluons. This fact does not mean that one can produce, absorb or scatter real longitudinal gluons.

Takeshi Araki, C. Q. Geng

We study the matter-antimatter asymmetry through the leptogenesis mechanism in a specific model with the Friedberg-Lee (FL) symmetry.We relate the leptogenesis with the CP violating Dirac and Majorana phases in the Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata leptonic mixing matrix and illustrate the net baryon asymmetry of the universe in terms of these phases.

Valerio Faraoni

The notions of mass and range of a Brans-Dicke-like scalar field in scalar-tensor and f(R) gravity are subject to an ambiguity that hides a potential trap. We spell out this ambiguity and identify a physically meaningful and practical definition for these quantities. This is relevant when giving a mass to this scalar in order to circumvent experimental limit

M. Seredyńska, A. Hanyga

Viscoelastic materials have non-negative relaxation spectra. This property implies that viscoelastic response functions satisfy certain necessary and sufficient conditions. It is shown that these conditions can be expressed in terms of each viscoelastic response function ranging over a cone. The elements of each cone are completely characterized by an integr

Renjin Jiang, Dachun Yang

Let $L$ be the divergence form elliptic operator with complex bounded measurable coefficients, $ω$ the positive concave function on $(0,\infty)$ of strictly critical lower type $p_\oz\in (0, 1]$ and $ρ(t)={t^{-1}}/ω^{-1}(t^{-1})$ for $t\in (0,\infty).$ In this paper, the authors study the Orlicz-Hardy space $H_{ω,L}({\mathbb R}^n)$ and its dual space $\mathr

D. Kaczorowski, A. P. Pikul, D. Gnida, V. H. Tran

Single crystals of Ce2PdIn8 were studied by means of magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity and specific heat measurements. The compound was found to be a heavy fermion clean-limit superconductor with Tc = 0.68 K. Most remarkably, the superconductivity in this system emerges out of the antiferromagnetic state that sets in at TN = 10 K, and both coop

Daniele Faenzi, Maria Lucia Fania

We prove that, for m greater than 3 and k greater than m-2, the Grassmannian of m-dimensional subspaces of the space of skew-symmetric forms over a vector space of dimension 2k is birational to the Hilbert scheme of Palatini scrolls in P^(2k-1). For m=3 and k greater than 3, this Grassmannian is proved to be birational to the set of pairs (E,Y), where Y is a

Renjin Jiang, Dachun Yang

Let $L$ be a linear operator in $L^2({{\mathbb R}^n})$ and generate an analytic semigroup $\{e^{-tL}\}_{t\ge 0}$ with kernels satisfying an upper bound of Poisson type, whose decay is measured by $θ(L)\in (0,\infty].$ Let $ω$ on $(0,\infty)$ be of upper type 1 and of critical lower type $\widetilde p_0(ω)\in (n/(n+θ(L)), 1]$ and $ρ(t)={t^{-1}}/ω^{-1}(t^{-1})

Oram Gedalia, Yuval Grossman, Yosef Nir, Gilad Perez

An impressive progress in measurements of the D-\bar D mixing parameters has been made in recent years. We explore the implications of these measurements to models of new physics, especially in view of recent upper bounds on the amount of CP violation. We update the constraints on non-renormalizable four-quark operators. We show that the experiments are clos

Benoît Collins, Ion Nechita

In this paper we obtain new bounds for the minimum output entropies of random quantum channels. These bounds rely on random matrix techniques arising from free probability theory. We then revisit the counterexamples developed by Hayden and Winter to get violations of the additivity equalities for minimum output Rényi entropies. We show that random channels o

Jin-Wu Jiang, Jie Chen, Jian-Sheng Wang, Baowen Li

We point out that the origin of the commonly occurred boundary temperature jump in the application of Nośe-Hoover heat bath in molecular dynamics is related to the edge modes, which are exponentially localized at the edge of the system. If heat baths are applied to these edge regions, the injected thermal energy will be localized thus leading to a boundary t

Hua-Li Li, Yuan-Gui Yang, Wei Su, Hui-Juan Wang

1RXS J201607.0251645 is identified to be an eclipsing binary for the first time. We present the preliminary observations in V band with the 0.6-m telescope for three years and the extensive observations in V and R band with the 0.8-m telescope for six nights respectively. The light curve of the system is EB type. Five light minimum times were obtained and th

Saikat Chatterjee, Amitabha Lahiri, Ambar N. Sengupta

We develop a differential geometric framework for parallel transport over path spaces and a corresponding discrete theory, an integrated version of the continuum theory, using a category-theoretic framework.

Danil Chapovalov, Maxim Chapovalov, Alexei Lebedev, Dimitry Leites

We say that an indecomposable Cartan matrix A with entries in the ground field of characteristic 0 is almost affine if the Lie sub(super)algebra determined by it is not finite dimensional or affine but the Lie (super)algebra determined by any submatrix of A, obtained by striking out any row and any column intersecting on the main diagonal, is the sum of fini

Dirk Kreimer

We give an account of the current state of the approch to quantum field theory via Hopf algebras and Hochschild cohomology. We emphasize the versatility and mathematical foundation of this algebraic structure, and collect algebraic structures here in one place which are either scattered over the literature, or only implicit in previous writings. In particula

Raimundas Vidunas

It is tempting to evaluate F2(x,1) and similar univariate specializations of Appell&#39;s functions by evaluating the apparent power series at x=0 straight away using the Gauss formula for 2F1(1). But this kind of naive evaluation can lead to errors as the 2F1(1) coefficients might eventually diverge; then the actual power series at x=0 might involve branchi

Kyung Hoon Han

Based on the Archimedeanization developed by Paulsen and Tomforde, we give an explicit description for the positive cones of maximal tensor products of function systems. From this description, we obtain an approximation theorem for nuclear maps between function systems. As an application, we give elementary proofs on several characterizations of nuclear func

Christian Brouder, Gianluca Panati, Gabriel Stoltz

The Gell-Mann and Low switching allows to transform eigenstates of an unperturbed Hamiltonian $H_0$ into eigenstates of the modified Hamiltonian $H_0 + V$. This switching can be performed when the initial eigenstate is not degenerate, under some gap conditions with the remainder of the spectrum. We show here how to extend this approach to the case when the g

A. Flores-Tlalpa, J. Montano, F. Ramirez-Zavaleta, J. J. Toscano

We perform a complete calculation at the one-loop level for the Zggg and Z&#39;ggg couplings in the context of the minimal 331 model, which predicts the existence of a new Z&#39; gauge boson and new exotic quarks. Bose symmetry is exploited to write a compact and manifest SU_C(3)-invariant vertex function for the Vggg (V=Z,Z&#39;) coupling. Previous results

Subhas Kumar Ghosh, Janardan Misra

In this work we propose and analyze a simple randomized algorithm to find a satisfiable assignment for a Boolean formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF) having at most 3 literals in every clause. Given a k-CNF formula phi on n variables, and alpha in{0,1}^n that satisfies phi, a clause of phi is critical if exactly one literal of that clause is satisfied un

Matthew Lightman

K to pi pi matrix elements of the electroweak operator Q_(27,1)^Delta I=3/2 are calculated on the RBC/UKQCD 32^3 x 64, L_s=16 lattices, using 2+1 dynamical flavors and domain wall fermions, with an inverse lattice spacing of a^(-1)=2.42(4) GeV. Data is interpolated or extrapolated to energy conserving kinematics and a preliminary calculation of the experimen

Jian Ding, Jeong Han Kim, Eyal Lubetzky, Yuval Peres

We provide a complete description of the giant component of the Erdős-Rényi random graph $G(n,p)$ as soon as it emerges from the scaling window, i.e., for $p = (1+ε)/n$ where $ε^3 n \to \infty$ and $ε=o(1)$. Our description is particularly simple for $ε= o(n^{-1/4})$, where the giant component $C_1$ is contiguous with the following model (i.e., every graph p

Jian Ding, Jeong Han Kim, Eyal Lubetzky, Yuval Peres

We study the diameter of $C_1$, the largest component of the Erdős-Rényi random graph $G(n,p)$ in the emerging supercritical phase, i.e., for $p = \frac{1+ε}n$ where $ε^3 n \to \infty$ and $ε=o(1)$. This parameter was extensively studied for fixed $ε> 0$, yet results for $ε=o(1)$ outside the critical window were only obtained very recently. Prior to this wor

Hideki Abe, Akihisa Miyazoe, Keiji Kurashima, Kiyomi Nakajima

Superconducting nanowires can be synthesised in high-throughput chemical routes and hold great promise as a low-dissipative material for superconducting devices. The applicability of superconducting nanowires, however, has been limited due to the lack of an adequate method to fit the nanowires into given electronic circuits. One of the biggest obstacles is t

Wayne Hu

I examine how two specific examples of modified gravity explanations of cosmic acceleration help us understand some general problems confronting cosmological tests of gravity: how do we distinguish modified gravity from dark energy if they can be made formally equivalent? how do we parameterize deviations according to physical principles with sufficient gene

C. Reichhardt, C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We show that a remarkable variety of dynamical phenomena, including switching, polarization, symmetry locking, and dynamically induced pinning, can occur for vortices in type-II superconductors in the presence of a honeycomb pinning array and an ac or combined ac and dc drive. These effects occur at the second matching field where there are two vortices per

Nathaniel J. Craig, Daniel Green

The appearance of a natural dark matter candidate, the neutralino, is among the principal successes of minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) and its descendents. In lieu of a suitable ultraviolet completion, however, theories of gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking such as mSUGRA suffer from arbitrary degrees of flavor violation. Though theories of gauge-mediated

B. F. Rauch, J. T. Link, K. Lodders, M. H. Israel

We report abundances of elements from 26Fe to 34Se in the cosmic radiation measured during fifty days of exposure of the Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (TIGER) balloon-borne instrument. These observations add support to the concept that the bulk of cosmic-ray acceleration takes place in OB associations, and they further support cosmic-ray acceleration

Anupam Gupta, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Amit Kumar, Danny Segev

In classical scheduling problems, we are given jobs and machines, and have to schedule all the jobs to minimize some objective function. What if each job has a specified profit, and we are no longer required to process all jobs -- we can schedule any subset of jobs whose total profit is at least a (hard) target profit requirement, while still approximately m

Marco Cristoforetti, Edward Shuryak

Starting from classic work of Feynman on the $λ$-point of liquid Helium, we show that his idea of universal action per particle at the BEC transition point is much more robust that it was known before. Using a simple &#34;moving string model&#34; for supercurrent and calculating the action, both semiclassically and numerically, we show that the critical acti