June 2009 arXiv papers — page 8

Csaba Balazs, Daniel Carter

In anticipation of data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the potential discovery of supersymmetry, in this work we seek an answer to the following: What are the chances that supersymmetry will be found at the LHC? Will the LHC data be enough to discover a given supersymmetric model? And what other measurements can assist the LHC establish the presenc

Eric E. Mamajek

The statistical properties of circumstellar disks around young stars are important for constraining theoretical models for the formation and early evolution of planetary systems. In this brief review, I survey the literature related to ground-based and Spitzer-based infrared (IR) studies of young stellar clusters, with particular emphasis on tracing the evol

C. Seshadhri

We deal with the problem of designing one-sided error property testers for cycle-freeness in bounded degree graphs. Such a property tester always accepts forests. Furthermore, when it rejects an input, it provides a short cycle as a certificate. The problem of testing cycle-freeness in this model was first considered by Goldreich and Ron \cite{GR97}. They gi

Kim Maltman

A sum rule for determining |V_us| from a combination of hadronic tau decay and electroproduction data is discussed. Indications of problems with analogous, purely tau-decay-based analyses, most likely associated with slow convergence of the relevant D=2 OPE series, are outlined, and advantages of the mixed sum rule approach identified. With current data, one

Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, Ali ParandehGheibi

We provide a model to investigate the tension between information aggregation and spread of misinformation in large societies (conceptualized as networks of agents communicating with each other). Each individual holds a belief represented by a scalar. Individuals meet pairwise and exchange information, which is modeled as both individuals adopting the averag

Kim Maltman

Until recently, determinations of alpha_s(M_Z) from hadronic tau decays and the analysis of short-distance-sensitive lattice observables yielded results which, though precise, were not in good agreement. I review new analyses that bring these into good agreement and provide some details on the source of the main changes in the tau decay analysis.

C. J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt

We examine vortex flow states in periodic square pinning arrays with one row and one column of pinning sites removed to create an easy flow crossed channel geometry. When a drive is simultaneously applied along both major symmetry axes of the pinning array such that vortices move in both channels, a series of coherent flow states develop in the channel inter

H. Sana, J. -B. Le Bouquin

While it is well known that most massive stars are found to be part of binary or multiple systems, an accurate characterization of the statistical properties of these multiple objects is still lacking. In the present talk, we will review the current status of the field, emphasizing the need of using complementarity techniques to cover the large parameter spa

S. Hekker, T. Kallinger, F. Baudin, J. De Ridder

Observations during the first long run (~150 days) in the exo-planet field of CoRoT increase the number of G-K giant stars for which solar-like oscillations are observed by a factor of 100. This opens the possibility to study the characteristics of their oscillations in a statistical sense. We aim to understand the statistical distribution of the frequencies

Erin E. Zekis, J. Michael Shull

We present recent results on highly ionized gas in Galactic High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs), originally surveyed in OVI (Sembach et al. 2003). In a new FUSE/HST survey of SiII/III/IV (Shull et al. 2009) toward 37 AGN, we detected SiIII (lambda 1206.500 A) absorption with a sky coverage fraction 81 +/- 5% (61 HVCs along 30 of 37 high-latitude sight lines). The Si

C. J. Walcher, P. Coelho, A. Gallazzi, S. Charlot

We present differential stellar population models, which allow improved determinations of the ages, iron and alpha-element abundances of old stellar populations from spectral fitting. These new models are calibrated at solar abundances using the predictions from classical, semi-empirical stellar population models. We then use the predictive power of fully sy

Barbara Lo Faro, Pierluigi Monaco, Eros Vanzella, Fabio Fontanot

It has recently been shown that galaxy formation models within the LambdaCDM cosmology predict that, compared to the observed population, small galaxies (with stellar masses < 10^{11} M_sun) form too early, are too passive since z ~ 3 and host too old stellar populations at z=0. We then expect an overproduction of small galaxies at z > 4 that should be visib

Christine Michel

This article presents results of the observation of a project management teaching-by-project course. It describe return of experience not only of student but also of tutors one years after the course. Many problems are identified like individual student evaluation, tutor distance, lake of coordination, lake of communication. We ask tutor about the pertinence

Joel N. Bregman

The Milky Way and all other galaxies are missing most of their baryons in that the ratio of the known baryonic mass to the gravitating mass (within the virial radius), is several times less than the cosmic ratio determined from WMAP. This implies that either the baryons never fell into galaxies or that powerful galactic winds removed most of the baryons. It

Warren Leffler

This paper explores the consequences of denying the &#34;emptiness of paths not taken,&#34; EPNT, premise of Bernstein, Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger (BGHZ) in their paper titled, Bell theorem without inequalities.[ ] Carrying out the negation of EPNT leads to the concept of a &#34;shadow stream.&#34; Streams are essentially particle implementations of t

Yuki Yayama

We show the existence of a bounded Borel measurable saturated compensation function for a factor map between subshifts. As an application, we find the Hausdorff dimension and measures of full Hausdorff dimension for a compact invariant set of an expanding nonconformal map on the torus given by an integer-valued diagonal matrix. These problems were studied in

Christopher P. Calderon

The temporal autocorrelation (AC) function associated with monitoring order parameters characterizing conformational fluctuations of an enzyme is analyzed using a collection of surrogate models. The surrogates considered are phenomenological stochastic differential equation (SDE) models. It is demonstrated how an ensemble of such surrogate models, each surro

Sarah Scherotzke

We deduce a necessary condition for Auslander-Reiten components of the bounded derived category of a finite dimensional algebra to have Euclidean tree class by classifying certain types of irreducible maps in the category of complexes. This result shows that there are only finitely many Auslander-Reiten components with Euclidean tree class up to shift. Also

Kiwan Park, E. G. Blackman

Faraday rotation (FR) is widely used to infer the orientation and strength of magnetic fields in astrophysical plasmas. Although the absence of electron-positron pairs is a plausible assumption in many astrophysical environments, the magnetospheres of pulsars and black holes and their associated jets may involve a significant pair plasma fraction. This motiv

Joel N. Bregman

Only about 10% of the baryons in the universe lie in galaxies as stars or cold gas, with the remainder predicted to exist as a dilute gaseous filamentary network known as the Cosmic Web. Some of this gas is detected through UV absorption line studies, but half of the gas remains undetected. Growth of structure simulations suggest that these &#34;missing&#34;

Nathalie Deruelle, Yuuiti Sendouda, Ahmed Youssef

Various Hamiltonian formulations of f(R) gravity can be found in the literature. Some authors follow the Ostrogradsky treatment of higher derivative theories and introduce as extra variables first order time derivatives of the metric (typically the extrinsic curvature). Some others take advantage of the conformal equivalence of f(R) theory with Einstein&#39;

Dmitry I. Ignatov, Sergei O. Kuznetsov

The problem of detecting terms that can be interesting to the advertiser is considered. If a company has already bought some advertising terms which describe certain services, it is reasonable to find out the terms bought by competing companies. A part of them can be recommended as future advertising terms to the company. The goal of this work is to propose

Benjamin P. Olding, Patrick J. Wolfe

Graphs and networks provide a canonical representation of relational data, with massive network data sets becoming increasingly prevalent across a variety of scientific fields. Although tools from mathematics and computer science have been eagerly adopted by practitioners in the service of network inference, they do not yet comprise a unified and coherent fr

C. Vittoria, S. D. Yoon, A. Widom

We have formulated a relaxation mechanism for ferrites and ferromagnetic metals whereby the coupling between the magnetic motion and lattice is based purely on continuum arguments concerning magnetostriction. This theoretical approach contrasts with previous mechanisms based on microscopic formulations of spin-phonon interactions employing a discrete lattice

Ashley J Ross, Robert J. Brunner

We measure the angular 2-point correlation functions of galaxies in a volume limited, photometrically selected galaxy sample from the fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We split the sample both by luminosity and galaxy type and use a halo-model analysis to find halo-occupation distributions that can simultaneously model the clustering of all

Chiara Caprini, Ruth Durrer, Elisa Fenu

Gravitational wave production induces a strong constraint on the amplitude of a primordial magnetic field. It has been shown that the nucleosynthesis bound for a stochastic gravitational wave background implies that causally generated fields cannot have enough power on large scales to provide the seeds necessary for the observed magnetic fields in galaxies a

S. Mathur, E. C. Golowacz, R. Williams, R. Pogge

We present XMM observations of the AGN SDSS 1430-0011. The low S/N spectrum of this source obtained in a snap shot Chandra observation showed an unusually flat continuum. With the follow up XMM observations we find that the source spectrum is complex; it either has an ionized absorber or a partially covering absorber. The underlying power-law is in the norma

Rizwan A. Khan, M. Aasim Qureshi, Saqib Saeed

The basic idea behind evolutionary robotics is to evolve a set of neural controllers for a particular task at hand. It involves use of various input parameters such as infrared sensors, light sensors and vision based methods. This paper aims to explore the evolution of vision based navigation in a mobile robot. It discusses in detail the effect of different

V. I. Bakhtin, A. V. Lebedev

The article presents a new definition of t-entropy that makes it more explicit and simplifies the process of its calculation.

Ivana Bochicchio, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Ettore Laserra

In this paper we investigate the gravitational waves emission by stellar dynamical structures as complex systems in the quadrupole approximation considering bounded and unbounded orbits. Precisely, after deriving analytical expressions for the gravitational wave luminosity, the total energy output and gravitational radiation amplitude, we present a computati

Lei WeiHua, Wang DingXiong, Zhang Lei, Gan ZhaoMing

In this paper, we present a simplified model for magnetized neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) in which effect of black hole (BH) spin is taken into account by adopting a set of relativistic correction factor, and the magnetic field is parameterized as β, the ratio of the magnetic pressure to the total pressure. It is found that the disc properties are

Adriana M. Pires, Christian Motch, Eduardo Janot-Pacheco

The relatively large number of nearby radio-quiet and thermally emitting isolated neutron stars (INSs) discovered in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, dubbed the ``Magnificent Seven&#39;&#39; (M7), suggests that they belong to a formerly neglected major component of the overall INS population. So far, attempts to discover similar INSs beyond the solar vicinity faile

Patrick De Visschere

It is known that with restrictions on the type of the constitutive equations, Maxwell&#39;s equations in non-uniform media can sometimes be reduced to two 2nd order differential equations for 2 scalar quantities only. These results have previously been obtained in two quite different ways. Either by a ``scalarization of the sources&#39;&#39;, where the relev

Y. Janssen, M. S. Kim, K. S. Park, L. S. Wu

We have used neutron diffraction measurements to study the zero-field magnetic structure of the intermetallic compound Yb3Pt4, which was earlier found to order antiferromagnetically at the Neel temperature TN=2.4 K, and displays a field-driven quantum critical point at 1.6 T. In Yb3Pt4, the Yb moments sit on a single low-symmetry site in the rhombohedral lat

Alberto Calabri, Ciro Ciliberto

In this paper we consider the birational classification of pairs (S,L), with S a rational surfaces and L a linear system on S. We give a classification theorem for such pairs and we determine, for each irreducible plane curve B, its &#34;Cremona minimal&#34; models, i.e. those plane curves which are equivalent to B via a Cremona transformation, and have mini

Nikolay K. Vitanov, Zlatinka I. Dimitrova, Marcel Ausloos

A general model for opinion formation and competition, like in ideological struggles is formulated. The underlying set is a closed one, like a country but in which the population size is variable in time. Several ideologies compete to increase their number of adepts. Such followers can be either converted from one ideology to another or become followers of a

G. B. Lesovik, M. V. Suslov, G. Blatter

We present a quantum algorithm to transform the cardinality of a set of charged particles flowing along a quantum wire into a binary number. The setup performing this task (for at most N particles) involves log_2 N quantum bits serving as counters and a sequential read out. Applications include a divisibility check to experimentally test the size of a finite

Andrea Banfi

We report on the status of the QCD analysis of dijet azimuthal decorrelations. We emphasise the relevance of resummation of soft and collinear enhancements in describing these observables in the region where the two jets are nearly back-to-back in the transverse plane. We also discuss the sources of theoretical uncertainties and possible research directions

V. Van Elewyck, S. Ando, Y. Aso, B. Baret

Many of the astrophysical sources and violent phenomena observed in our Universe are potential emitters of gravitational waves (GWs) and high-energy neutrinos (HENs). A network of GW detectors such as LIGO and Virgo can determine the direction/time of GW bursts while the IceCube and ANTARES neutrino telescopes can also provide accurate directional informatio

Khadija EL Bouchefry

This paper presents the Hubble diagram (K-z relation) for FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at 20 cm) radio sources identified in the Bootes and Cetus fields. The correlation between the K magnitude of the FIRST-NDWFS sample and the photometric redshifts found to be linear. The dispersion about the best fit line is given by 1.53 for the whole sample and 0

Elio Conte, Andrei Yuri Khrennikov, Orlando Todarello, Antonio Federici

Processes undergoing quantum mechanics, exhibit quantum interference effects. In this case quantum probabilities result to be different from classical probabilities because they contain an additional main point that in fact is called the quantum interference term. We use ambiguous figures to analyse if during perception cognition of human subjects we have vi

I. Mirebeau, I. Goncharenko, H. Cao, A. Forget

We have studied the Tb$_2$Sn$_2$O$_7$ frustrated magnet by neutron diffraction under isotropic pressure of 4.6 GPa, combined with uniaxial pressure of 0.3 GPa, in the temperature range 0.06 K$<$T$<$100 K. Magnetic order persists under pressure but the ordered spin ice structure stabilized at ambient pressure below 1.3 K partly transforms into an antiferromag

Martin Lundgren, Antti J. Niemi

Proteins can sometimes be knotted, and for many reasons the study of knotted proteins is rapidly becoming very important. For example, it has been proposed that a knot increases the stability of a protein. Knots may also alter enzymatic activities and enhance binding. Moreover, knotted proteins may even have some substantial biomedical significance in relati

G. Rastelli, M. Houzet, F. Pistolesi

We address the electronic resonant transport in presence of a transverse magnetic field through the single level of a suspended carbon nanotube acting as a quantum oscillator. We predict a negative magneto-conductance with a magnetic-field induced narrowing of the resonance line and a reduction of the conductance peak when the nanotube is asymmetrically cont

Måns Elenius, Mikhail Dzugutov

It is commonly believed that the transition line separating a liquid and a solid cannot be interrupted by a critical point. This opinion is based on the traditional symmetry argument that an isotropic liquid cannot be continuously transformed into a crystal with a discrete rotational and translational symmetry. We present here a molecular-dynamics simulation

Frank Duzaar, Giuseppe Mingione

We present pointwise gradient bounds for solutions to $p$-Laplacean type non-homogeneous equations employing non-linear Wolff type potentials, and then prove similar bounds, via suitable caloric potentials, for solutions to parabolic equations. A method of proof entails a family of non-local Caccioppoli inequalities, together with a DeGiorgi&#39;s type fract

Jianquan Ge, Yuquan Xie

In this note, we study properties of the gradient map of the isoparametric polynomial. For a given isoparametric hypersurface in sphere, we calculate explicitly the gradient map of its isoparametric polynomial which turns out many interesting phenomenons and applications. We find that it should map not only the focal submanifolds to focal submanifolds, isopa

A. V. Babich, V. V. Pogosov

We study the influence of energy levels broadening and electron subsystem overheating in island electrode (cluster) on current-voltage characteristics of three-electrode structure. A calculation scheme for broadening effect in one-dimensional case is suggested. Estimation of broadening is performed for electron levels in disc-like and spherical gold clusters

Jean-Michel Mignot, Julien Robert, Gilles André, Masafumi Sera

Neutron powder diffraction measurements have been performed on Ce_xNd_{1-x}B_6 (x = 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, and 0.8) solid solutions to determine the type of magnetic order occurring in these compounds as a result of the interplay between magnetic dipole exchange and antiferroquadrupolar interactions. In the Ce-rich range, the sequence of two magnetic phases, with an

M. Trichas, A. Georgakakis, M. Rowan-Robinson, K. Nandra

We explore the nature of X-ray sources with 70 micron counterparts selected in the SWIRE fields ELAIS-N1, Lockman Hole and Chandra Deep Field South, for which Chandra X-ray data are available. A total of 28 X-ray/70 micron sources in the redshift interval 0.5<z<1.3 are selected. The X-ray luminosities and the shape of the X-ray spectra show that these source

David B. Henley, Robin L. Shelton

We present the analysis of three Suzaku observations of a bright arc in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey 1/4 keV maps at $l \approx 247\degr$, $b \approx -64\degr$. In particular, we have tested the hypothesis that the arc is the edge of a bubble blown by an extraplanar supernova. One pointing direction is near the brightest part of the arc, one is toward the interi

Bechir Alaya, Claude Duvallet, Bruno Sadeg

Dealing with network congestion is a criterion used to enhance quality of service (QoS) in distributed multimedia systems. The existing solutions for the problem of network congestion ignore scalability considerations because they maintain a separate classification for each video stream. In this paper, we propose a new method allowing to control QoS provided

Magnus Aspenberg

We show that Misiurewicz maps for which the Julia set is not the whole sphere are Lebesgue density points of hyperbolic maps.

E. Niemczura, T. Morel, C. Aerts

The CoRoT satellite is collecting precise time-resolved photometry for tens of asteroseismology targets. To ensure a correct interpretation of the CoRoT data, the atmospheric parameters, chemical compositions, and rotational velocities of the stars must be determined. The main goal of the ground-based seismology support program for the CoRoT mission was to o

Murli Manohar Verma

We show that the singularity in the General Theory of Relativity (GTR) is the expression of a non-Machian feature. It can be avoided with a scale-invariant dynamical theory, a property lacking in GTR. It is further argued that the global non-conservation of energy in GTR also results from the lack of scale-invariance and the field formulation presented by se

Alexander Altland, Petr Braun, Fritz Haake, Stefan Heusler

Long periodic orbits of hyperbolic dynamics do not exist as independent individuals but rather come in closely packed bunches. Under weak resolution a bunch looks like a single orbit in configuration space, but close inspection reveals topological orbit-to-orbit differences. The construction principle of bunches involves close self-&#34;encounters&#34; of an

Christian Theis, Joachim Koeppen

Starbursts and substantial variations in the star formation histories are a common phenomenon in galaxies. We study the stability properties of isolated star-forming dwarf galaxies with the aim of identifying starburst modes. The impact of the stellar birth function, the initial mass function (IMF), the stellar feedback and the interstellar medium (ISM) mode

H. Meheut, M. Tagger

The origin and stability of a thin sheet of plasma in the magnetosphere of an accreting neutron star is investigated. First the radial extension of such a magnetospheric disc is explored. Then a mechanism for magnetospheric accretion is proposed, reconsidering the bending wave explored by Agapitou, Papaloizou & Terquem (1997), that was found to be stable in

Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin

The probabilistic top-k queries based on the interplay of score and probability, under the possible worlds semantic, become an important research issue that considers both score and uncertainty on the same basis. In the literature, many different probabilistic top-k queries are proposed. Almost all of them need to compute the probability of a tuple t_i to be

Petra Schwer

Affine buildings are in a certain sense analogs of symmetric spaces. It is therefore natural to try to find analogs of results for symmetric spaces in the theory of buildings. In this paper we prove a version of Kostant&#39;s convexity theorem for thick non-discrete affine buildings. Kostant proves that the image of a certain orbit of a point $x$ in a symmet

M. De Laurentis, S. Capozziello

The emission of gravitational waves from a system of massive objects interacting on elliptical, hyperbolic and parabolic orbits is studied in the quadrupole approximation. Analytical expressions are then derived for the gravitational wave luminosity, the total energy output and gravitational radiation amplitude. A crude estimate of the expected number of eve

Sheelan Sengupta Chowdhury, P. Singha Deo, A. M. Jayannavar, M. Manninen

The Landauer-Butikker formalism is an important formalism to study mesoscopic systems. Its validity for linear transport is well established theoretically as well as experimentally. Akkermans et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 66}, 76 (1991)] had shown that the formalism can be extended to study thermodynamic properties like persistent currents. It was earlier ver

Brett Kotschwar

In this paper, we prove a unique continuation or ``backwards-uniqueness&#39;&#39; theorem for solutions to the Ricci flow. A particular consequence is that the isometry group of a solution cannot expand within the lifetime of the solution.

Thomas Schucker

Ashtekar&#39;s variables are shown to arise naturally from a 3+1 split of general relativity in the Einstein-Cartan formulation. Thereby spinors are exorcised.

Matthias Peter

The goal of this diploma thesis is to give a detailed description of Kirillov&#39;s Orbit Method for the case of compact connected Lie groups. The theory of Kirillov aims at finding all irreducible unitary representations of a given Lie group $G$. The first chapter is intended to recall some facts about Lie groups. The most important result is that for a fun

Holger Waalkens, Stephen Wiggins

Hamiltonian dynamical systems possessing equilibria of ${saddle} \times {centre} \times...\times {centre}$ stability type display \emph{reaction-type dynamics} for energies close to the energy of such equilibria; entrance and exit from certain regions of the phase space is only possible via narrow \emph{bottlenecks} created by the influence of the equilibriu

J. Schaefer, S. Meyer, C. Blumenstein, K. Roensch

Atomic structures of quasi-one-dimensional (1D) character can be grown on semiconductor substrates by metal adsorption. Significant progress concerning study of their 1D character has been achieved recently by condensing noble metal atoms on the Ge(001) surface. In particular, Pt and Au yield high quality reconstructions with low defect densities. We reporte

Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani, Leszek Roszkowski, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Tom A. Varley

We perform a first global exploration of the Constrained Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model using Bayesian statistics. We derive several global features of the model and find that, in some contrast to initial expectations, they closely resemble the Constrained MSSM. This remains true even away from the decoupling limit which is nevertheless strong

S. Bellucci, S. Ferrara, A. Shcherbakov, A. Yeranyan

Higher order derivative corrections to the Einstein--Maxwell action are considered and an explicit form is found for the corrections to the entropy of extremal black holes. We speculate on the properties of these corrections from the point of view of small black holes and in the case when the classical black hole potential exhibits flat directions. A particu

S. K. Samaddar, J. N. De, X. Vinas, M. Centelles

The symmetry energy coefficients, incompressibility, and single-particle and isovector potentials of clusterized dilute nuclear matter are calculated at different temperatures employing the $S$-matrix approach to the evaluation of the equation of state. Calculations have been extended to understand the aforesaid properties of homogeneous and clusterized supe

K. Yakut, W. Zima, B. Kalomeni, H. Van Winckel

We present multi-colour time-series CCD photometry of the solar-age galactic open cluster M67 (NGC 2682). About 3600 frames spread over 28 nights were obtained with the 1.5 m Russian-Turkish and 1.2 m Mercator telescopes. High-precision observations of the close binary stars AH Cnc, EV Cnc, ES Cnc, the $δ$ Scuti type systems EX Cnc and EW Cnc, and some long-

Birgit van Dalen

We consider the problem of reconstructing binary images from their horizontal and vertical projections. It is known that the projections do not necessarily determine the image uniquely. In a previous paper it was shown that the symmetric difference between two solutions (binary images that satisfy the projections) is at most 4A times the square root of 2N. H

Dimitrije Markovic, Claudius Gros

A class of models describing the flow of information within networks via routing processes is proposed and investigated, concentrating on the effects of memory traces on the global properties. The long-term flow of information is governed by cyclic attractors, allowing to define a measure for the information centrality of a vertex given by the number of attr

M. Gillon

A global Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of published eclipse photometry and radial velocities is presented for the transiting planet HD 80606b. Despite the lack of a complete transit light curve, the size of the planet is measured with a good level of precision (R_p = 1.04 +0.05-0.09 R_Jup), while the orbital parameters are refined. This global analysis r

Joachim Cuntz, Xin Li

We compute the K-theory for C*-algebras naturally associated with rings of integers in number fields. The main ingredient is a duality theorem for arbitrary global fields. It allows us to identify the crossed product arising from affine transformations on the finite adeles with the analogous crossed product algebra over the infinite adele space.

Helge Holden, Kenneth H. Karlsen, Nils Henrik Risebro, Terence Tao

We provide a new analytical approach to operator splitting for equations of the type $u_t=Au+B(u)$ where $A$ is a linear operator and $B$ is quadratic. A particular example is the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation $u_t-u u_x+u_{xxx}=0$. We show that the Godunov and Strang splitting methods converge with the expected rates if the initial data are sufficiently

Maurice H. ter Beek

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is an emerging new paradigm for distributed and object-oriented computing by allowing autonomous, platform-independent computational entities (called services) to be built (described, discovered, composed, orchestrated) within and across organizational boundaries. Like no other computing paradigm before, SOC is destined to ex

M. Hajek

The increasing utilization of charged particle beams for therapeutic purposes requires designing novel detector systems which shall be capable of assessing radiation quality for a diversity of ion species. It is shown that the pattern of energy deposition in thermoluminescent phosphors and biological tissue contains conceptual parallels. The correlation of p

Tomasz T. Wałek

The moving light clock system was analyzed with respect to the orientation of the wavefront of the light pulse observed in the moving and stationary frames of reference. The plane wavefront of the light pulse was oriented horizontally in both the frames. The wavefront observed in the stationary frame was not perpendicular to the direction of the light pulse

Takehito Yokoyama, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We study proximity effect in diffusive ferromagnet/normal-metal/superconductor junction with precessing magnetization of the ferromagnet. We find that the odd-frequency pairing induced in the normal metal is modified by spin pumping from the ferromagnet and hence can be tuned by changing the precessional frequency. At the frequency corresponding to twice the

R. Ibata, M. Bellazzini, S. C. Chapman, E. Dalessandro

We report the detection of a stellar density cusp and a velocity dispersion increase in the center of the globular cluster M54, located at the center of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr). The central line of sight velocity dispersion is 20.2 +/- 0.7 km/s, decreasing to 16.4 +/- 0.4 km/s at 2.5&#34; (0.3 pc). Modeling the kinematics and surface density profi

Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein, Michel Coornaert

We prove that a group $G$ is locally finite if and only if every surjective real (or complex) linear cellular automaton with finite-dimensional alphabet over $G$ is injective.

S. Narayana Jammalamadaka, Niharika Mohapatra, Karthik K Iyer, E. V. Sampathkumaran

The compound, Sr3NiPtO6, belonging to a K4CdCl6-type rhombohedral structure, has been reported not to exhibit magnetic ordering at least down to 1.8 K, despite a relatively large value of paramagnetic Curie temperature. This is attributable to geometrical frustration. Here we report the results of our efforts to gradually replace Sr by Ba and to probe the in

Sitikantha D Das, Niharika Mohapatra, Kartik K Iyer, R. D. Bapat

We have investigated the magnetic behavior of the nanocrystalline form of a well-known Laves phase compound, ErCo2 - the bulk form of which has been known to undergo an interesting first-order ferrimagnetic ordering near 32 K - synthesized by high-energy ball-milling. It is found that, in these nanocrystallites, Co exhibits ferromagnetic order at room temper

L. Izzo, S. Capozziello, G. Covone, M. Capaccioli

A new method to constrain the cosmological equation of state is proposed by using combined samples of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae (SNeIa). The Chevallier-Polarski-Linder parameterization is adopted for the equation of state in order to find out a realistic approach to achieve the deceleration/acceleration transition phase of dark energy models. As

Sitikantha D. Das, S. Narayana Jammalamadaka, Kartik K Iyer, E. V. Sampathkumaran

Fine particles of some of the extensively studied &#39;enhanced&#39; Pauli paramagnets - LuCo2, ScCo2, ZrCo2 and CeRu2Si2, have been prepared by high-energy ball-milling and investigated for their magnetic behavior. In the case of Co systems, these particles show ferromagnetic features even at room temperature. In the case of CeRu2Si2, a well-known Kondo lat

Niharika Mohapatra, Kartik K Iyer, B. A. Chalke, E. V. Sampathkumaran

We have investigated the magnetic behavior of the nano crystals, synthesized by high-energy ball-milling, for a well-known geometrically frustrated spin-chain system, Ca3CoRhO6, and compared its magnetic characteristics with those of the bulk form by measuring ac and dc magnetization. The features attributable to the onset of &#39;partially disordered antife

R. Bachev, D. Grupe, S. Boeva, E. Ovcharov

We present the results from a monitoring campaign of the Narrow-Line Seyfert~1 galaxy PG 1211+143. The object was monitored with ground-based facilities (UBVRI photometry; from February to July, 2007) and with Swift (X-ray photometry/spectroscopy and UV/Optical photometry; between March and May, 2007). We found PG 1211+143 in a historical low X-ray flux stat

H . Alla, M. S. Gueblaoui, M. H. Bensaid

Numerous are the questionings raised by medicine interventionnelle, concerning the hold in charge of the pathologies of the arterial partition (aneurysm, dissection, coarctation, atherosclerosis).for it we made the modeling and the numeric simulation of the blood flow in the renal artery taken by the Medical imagery. Geometry has been rebuilt from the medica

S. G. Gregory, E. Flaccomio, C. Argiroffi, J. Bouvier

V2129 Oph is a 1.35 solar mass classical T Tauri star, known to possess a strong and complex magnetic field. By extrapolating from an observationally derived magnetic surface map, obtained through Zeeman-Doppler imaging, models of V2129 Oph&#39;s corona have been constructed, and used to make predictions regarding the global X-ray emission measure, the amoun

H. Alla, S. Freifer, C. Medjellel

The experimental survey of the water drops to different concentrations from non ionic surfactant (C11E5) and set down anionic (SDS) on glass horizontal surfaces has been made. The 1st step consisted in measuring the tension of surface, the 2nd allowed us to determine the influence of these surfactants on the physical parameters of wetting (contact angle ...)

N. G. Parker, N. P. Proukakis, C. S. Adams

A number of recent experiments with nearly pure atomic Bose-Einstein condensates have confirmed the predicted dark soliton oscillations when under harmonic trapping. However, a dark soliton propagating in an inhomogeneous condensate has also been predicted to be unstable to the emission of sound waves. Although harmonic trapping supports an equilibrium betwe

V. A. Khoze, A. D. Martin, M. G. Ryskin

In general, minimum-bias triggers planned for experiments at the LHC miss a considerable fraction of the total number of events. We exemplify the rejection rate using the Durham model of soft high-energy interactions to obtain quantitative estimates of the signals arising from the ATLAS scintillation counters positioned in the rapidity intervals 2<|eta|<4, a

Mike Steel, Michael J. Sanderson

Increasingly, biologists are constructing evolutionary trees on large numbers of overlapping sets of taxa, and then combining them into a `supertree&#39; that classifies all the taxa. In this paper, we ask how much coverage of the total set of taxa is required by these subsets in order to ensure we have enough information to reconstruct the supertree uniquel

H. Alla, M. Abdelouahab, B. Alli Talha, F. Z . Beloufa

The problem of the movement of the drops in a continuous environment represents a fundamental step for the study of two phases flows. Their domains of application are enormous as: the combustion of the rooms of the machines thermal, extraction of a liquid of another liquid, catalyst used to trigger the chemical reactions occurring in access points, sparkling

A. R. P. Rau

Students of quantum mechanics encounter discrete quantum numbers in a somewhat incoherent and bewildering number of ways. For each physical system studied, quantum numbers seem to be introduced in its own specific way, some enumerating from 1 and others from 0, without a common uniting thread. This essay presents a point of view that builds on dimensions, bo

Antonio M. Oller-Marcen

Let us denote by $Z_b(n)$ the number of trailing zeroes in the base $b$ expansion of $n!$. In this paper we study with some detail the behavior of the function $Z_b$. In particular, since $Z_b$ is non-decreasing, we will characterize the points where it increases and we will compute the amplitude of the jump in each of such points. In passing, we will study

Valentina Kiritchenko

I construct a correspondence between the Schubert cycles on the variety of complete flags in C^n and some faces of the Gelfand-Zetlin polytope associated with the irreducible representation of SL_n(C) with a strictly dominant highest weight. The construction is based on a geometric presentation of Schubert cells by Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand using Demazure mo

Frederic Legoll, Tony Lelievre

The question of coarse-graining is ubiquitous in molecular dynamics. In this article, we are interested in deriving effective properties for the dynamics of a coarse-grained variable $ξ(x)$, where $x$ describes the configuration of the system in a high-dimensional space $\R^n$, and $ξ$ is a smooth function with value in $\R$ (typically a reaction coordinate)

William Jaco, J. Hyam Rubinstein, Stephan Tillmann

A new lower bound on the complexity of a 3-manifold is given using the Z2-Thurston norm. This bound is shown to be sharp, and the minimal triangulations realising it are characterised using normal surfaces consisting entirely of quadrilateral discs.