July 2009 arXiv papers — page 49

Pengtao Li, Zhichun Zhai

In this paper, we prove the boundedness of Riesz transforms $\partial_{j}(-Δ)^{-1/2}$ ($j=1,2,...,n$) on the Q-type spaces $Q_α^β(\mathbb{R}^{n})$. As an application, we get the well-posedness and regularity of the quasi-geostrophic equation with initial data in $Q_α^{β,-1}(\mathbb{R}^{2}).$

Eckart Lorenz, Razmick Mirzoyan, Hiroko Miyamoto, Nepomuk Otte

Geigermode avalanche photodiodes (G-APD) are novel photodetectors, which can detect single photons. This type of diodes might become an alternative to photomultipliers (PMT) in next-generation Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes. Prospects, limitations and development directions are be discussed. Results from first tests are reported.

Eckart Lorenz, Daniel Ferenc, M. Victoria Fonseca, Robert Wagner

A conceptual design of an advanced Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope with a 23 m diameter mirror and of 50 tons weight will be presented. A system photon detection efficiency of 15-17%, averaged over 300-600 nm, is aimed at to lower the threshold to 10-20 GeV. Prospects for a second generation camera with Geiger-mode Avalanche Photo Diodes will be discussed.

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, Lluis Torner

We present a progress overview focused on the recent theoretical and experimental advances in the area of soliton manipulation in optical lattices. Optical lattices offer the possibility to engineer and to control the diffraction of light beams in media with periodically-modulated optical properties, to manage the corresponding reflection and transmission ba

Felix Breuer, Raman Sanyal

Given an oriented graph G, the modular flow polynomial counts the number of nowhere-zero Z_k-flows of G. We give a description of the modular flow polynomial in terms of (open) Ehrhart polynomials of lattice polytopes. Using Ehrhart-Macdonald reciprocity we give a combinatorial interpretation for the values of the modular flow polynomial at negative argument

Oren Shafir, Amit Keren, Satoru Maegawa, Miki Ueda

We investigate the effect of dynamic nuclear spin fluctuation on quantum tunneling of the magnetization (QTM) in the molecular magnet Fe8 by increasing the nuclei temperature using radio frequency (RF) pulses before the hysteresis loop measurements. The RF pulses do not change the electrons spin temperature. Independently we show that the nuclear spin-spin r

V. D. Efros

A procedure to solve few-body problems is developed which is based on an expansion over a small parameter. The parameter is the ratio of potential energy to kinetic energy for states having not small hyperspherical quantum numbers, K>K_0. Dynamic equations are reduced perturbatively to equations in the finite-dimension subspace with K\le K_0. Contributions f

Thierry Huillet, Servet Martinez

We work out some relations between duality and intertwining in the context of discrete Markov chains, fixing up the background of previous relations first established for birth and death chains and their Siegmund duals. In view of the results, the monotone properties resulting from the Siegmund dual of birth and death chains are revisited in some detail, wit

A. A. Bogush, G. G. Krylov, E. M. Ovsiyuk, V. M. Red'kov

Complex formalism of Riemann - Silberstein - Majorana - Oppenheimer in Maxwell electrodynamics is extended to the case of arbitrary pseudo-Riemannian space - time in accordance with the tetrad recipe of Tetrode - Weyl - Fock - Ivanenko. In this approach, the Maxwell equations are solved exactly on the background of static cosmological Einstein model, paramet

Giuseppe Liberti, Franco Piperno, Francesco Plastina

We discuss the finite size behavior of the adiabatic Dicke model, describing the collective coupling of a set of N-two level atoms (qubits) to a faster (electromagnetic) oscillator mode. The energy eigen-states of this system are shown to be directly related to those of another widely studied collective spin model, the uniaxial one. By employing an approxima

M. K. Tavassoly

Using the {\it nonlinear coherent states method}, a formalism for the construction of the coherent states associated to {\it "inverse bosonic operators"} and their dual family has been proposed. Generalizing the approach, the "inverse of $f$-deformed ladder operators" corresponding to the nonlinear coherent states in the context of quantum op

Kazunori Nakayama, Fuminobu Takahashi

We study cosmological implications of an R-axion, a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with spontaneous breaking of an U(1)_R symmetry, focusing on its quantum fluctuations generated during inflation. We show that, in the anomaly mediation, the R-axion decays into a pair of gravitinos, which eventually decay into the visible particles producing the neut

Adi Zitrin, Noah Brosch, Benny Bilenko

We report H$α$ observations of a sample of very isolated blue compact galaxies (BCGs) located in the direction of large cosmic voids obtained to understand their stellar population compositions, the present star formation (SF) properties, and their star formation histories (SFHs). Our observations were combined with photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sk

E. I. Vorobyov, Yu. Shchekinov, D. Bizyaev, D. Bomans

(Abridged). Low metallicities, large gas-to-star mass ratios, and blue colors of most low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies imply that these systems may be younger than their high surface brightness counterparts. We seek to find observational signatures that can help to constrain the age of blue LSB galaxies. We use numerical hydrodynamic modelling to study

Emilio N. M. Cirillo, Francesca R. Nardi, Cristian Spitoni

Metastability is observed when a physical system is close to a first order phase transition. In this paper the metastable behavior of a two state reversible probabilistic cellular automaton with self-interaction is discussed. Depending on the self-interaction, competing metastable states arise and a behavior very similar to that of the three state Blume-Cape

A. DeBenedictis

This paper presents a brief overview on the issue of singularity resolution in loop quantum gravity presented at the Theory Canada IV conference at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques at the Université de Montréal (June 4-7, 2008). The intended audience is theoretical physicists who are non-specialist in the field and therefore much of the technical detai

S. Khakshournia

In this work the matching of a LTB interior solution representing dust matter to the Vaidya exterior solution describing null fluid through a null hypersurface is studied. Different cases in which one is able to smoothly match these two solutions to Einstein equations along a null hypesurface are discussed.

Chengqing Li, Shujun Li, Kwok-Tung Lo

Recently, an image encryption scheme based on chaotic standard and logistic maps was proposed. This paper studies the security of the scheme and shows that it can be broken with only one chosen-plaintext. Some other security defects of the scheme are also reported.

H. Q. Song, Y. Chen, K. Liu, S. W. Feng

We search for persistent and quasi-periodic release events of streamer blobs during 2007 with the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph on the \textit{Solar and Heliospheric Observatory} and assess the velocity of the slow solar wind along the plasma sheet above the corresponding streamer by measuring the dynamic parameters of blobs. We find 10 quasi-periodi

J. Molenda-Zakowicz, A. Frasca, D. W. Latham, M. Jerzykiewicz

Reported are spectroscopic observations of 15 candidates for Kepler primary asteroseismic targets and 14 other stars in the Kepler field, carried out at three observatories (see the footnote). For all these stars, the radial velocities, effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, and the projected rotational velocity are derived from two separate se

J. Molenda-Zakowicz, A. Frasca, D. W. Latham

We report spectroscopic observations of 23 candidates for Kepler asteroseismic targets and 10 other stars in the Kepler field, carried out at two observatories (see the footnote). For all these stars, we derive the radial velocities, effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, the projected rotational velocity, and estimate the MK type. HIP 97513 an

J. Molenda-Zakowicz, M. Jerzykiewicz, A. Frasca

Reported are UBV and uvbybeta observations of 15 candidates for Kepler primary astero- seismic targets and 14 other stars in the Kepler field, carried out at the M.G. Fracastoro station of the Catania Astrophysical Observatory. These data serve to plot the 29 stars in two-parameter diagrams with the photometric indices (such as B-V or delta m1 and the atmosp

J. Molenda-Zakowicz, G. Kopacki, M. Steslicki, A. Narwid

We report the discovery of 19 variable stars and two blue-stragglers in the field of the open cluster NGC6866. Three of the variable stars we classify as delta Sct, two, as gamma Dor, four, as WUMa, two, as ellipsoidal variables, and one, as an eclipsing binary. Seven stars show irregular variability. Two of the pulsators, a delta Sct star NGC 6866-29 and a

J. Molenda-Zakowicz, T. Arentoft, S. Frandsen, F. Grundahl

We report results of spectroscopic and photometric observations of ten delta Scuti stars and one eclipsing binary in the open cluster NGC1817, and of ten delta Scuti stars and two other variables in the open cluster NGC7062. For all targets in NGC1817 and for three targets in NGC7062, the radial velocity and projected rotational velocity are determined. For

Philipp Kühl

Based on results by S.K. Roushon (math.KT/0408243 and math.KT/0405211) this thesis summarizes in an axiomatic way when a Meta-Isomorphism-Conjecture in the sense of Lueck and Reich (math.KT/0402405) is true for fundamental groups of 3-dimensional manifolds. In particular we prove that the fibered Farrell-Jones isomorphism conjectures for L-theory and algebra

Denys Dutykh

Water wave propagation can be attenuated by various physical mechanisms. One of the main sources of wave energy dissipation lies in boundary layers. The present work is entirely devoted to thorough analysis of the dispersion relation of the novel visco-potential formulation. Namely, in this study we relax all assumptions of the weak dependence of the wave fr

Jin-Ho Cho, Sunyoung Shin

We propose an oblique DLCQ as a limit to realize a theory of multiple M2-branes in M(atrix)-theory context. The limit is a combination of an infinite boosting of a space-like circle and a tuned tilting of the circle direction. We obtain a series of supergravity solutions describing various dual configurations including multiple M2-branes. For an infinite boo

Paolo Antonini

We define the Analytical signature, the Hodge signature and the de Rham signature for a foliated manifold with boundary with foliation transverse to the boundary. We show that all these signatures coincide and a Hirzebruch formula is valid.

W. W. Jacobs

Production of W bosons in longitudinally polarized pp collisions provides an excellent tool to probe the flavor-dependence of sea quark polarizations in the polarized proton. Current status and future plans for the W physics program with the STAR detector at RHIC are presented along with remarks concerning our knowledge of the nature and origin of the parton

L. Trepl, C. Y. Hui

This paper has been withdrawn.

Eduardo Cattani, Alicia Dickenstein, Fernando Rodriguez Villegas

We describe the structure of all codimension-two lattice configurations $A$ which admit a stable rational $A$-hypergeometric function, that is a rational function $F$ all whose partial derivatives are non zero, and which is a solution of the $A$-hypergeometric system of partial differential equations defined by Gel'fand, Kapranov and Zelevinsky. We show,

Oliver Fabert

It was pointed out by Y. Eliashberg in his ICM 2006 plenary talk that the rich algebraic formalism of symplectic field theory leads to a natural appearance of quantum and classical integrable systems, at least in the case when the contact manifold is the prequantization space of a symplectic manifold. In this paper we generalize the definition of gravitation

Stephen E. Healey, Lars Fuhrmann, Gregory B. Taylor, Roger W. Romani

We describe a 4.85 GHz survey of bright, flat-spectrum radio sources conducted with the Effelsberg 100 m telescope in an attempt to improve the completeness of existing surveys, such as CRATES. We report the results of these observations and of follow-up 8.4 GHz observations with the VLA of a subset of the sample. We comment on the connection to the WMAP poi

K. Harkonen, F. Plastina, S. Maniscalco

We investigate realistic experimental conditions under which the collective Dicke model can be implemented in ion-cavity QED context. We show how ideal subradiance and superradiance can be observed and we propose an experiment to generate entanglement exploiting the existence of the subradiant state. We explore the conditions to achieve optimal entanglement

F. H. L. Essler, R. M. Konik

We consider the finite-temperature frequency and momentum dependent two-point functions of local operators in integrable quantum field theories. We focus on the case where the zero temperature correlation function is dominated by a delta-function line arising from the coherent propagation of single particle modes. Our specific examples are the two-point func

Gábor Ivanyos, Marek Karpinski, Nitin Saxena

We present new deterministic algorithms for several cases of the maximum rank matrix completion problem (for short matrix completion), i.e. the problem of assigning values to the variables in a given symbolic matrix as to maximize the resulting matrix rank. Matrix completion belongs to the fundamental problems in computational complexity with numerous import

Shu-Chiuan Chang, Robert Shrock

We consider the Potts model in a magnetic field on an arbitrary graph $G$. Using a formula of F. Y. Wu for the partition function $Z$ of this model as a sum over spanning subgraphs of $G$, we prove some properties of $Z$ concerning factorization, monotonicity, and zeros. A generalization of the Tutte polynomial is presented that corresponds to this partition

Bin Wang, Xinyun Zhu

In this paper, we study Whittaker modules for a Lie algebras of Block type. We define Whittaker modules and under some conditions, obtain a one to one correspondence between the set of isomorphic classes of Whittaker modules over this algebra and the set of ideals of a polynomial ring, parallel to a result from the classical setting and the case of the Viras

R. C. G. Chaves

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), located in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia, is an array of four imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes designed to detect gamma-rays in the very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) domain. It is an ideal instrument for surveying the Galactic plane in search of new sources of VHE gamma-rays, due to its location in

K. Hess, K. Michielsen, H. De Raedt

Mainstream interpretations of quantum theory maintain that violations of the Bell inequalities deny at least either realism or Einstein locality. Here we investigate the premises of the Bell-type inequalities by returning to earlier inequalities presented by Boole and the findings of Vorob'ev as related to these inequalities. These findings together with

Peter K. F. Kuhfittig, Farook Rahaman, Ashis Ghosh

The combination of quintessence and phantom energy in a joint model is referred to as quintom dark energy. This paper discusses traversable wormholes supported by such quintom matter. Two particular solutions are explored, a constant redshift function and a specific shape function. Both isotropic and anisotropic pressures are considered.

Genko S. Vasilev, Daniel Ljunggren, Axel Kuhn

We investigate the efficiency of atom-cavity based photon-generation schemes to deliver single photons of arbitrary temporal shape. Our model applies to Raman transitions in three-level atoms with one branch of the transition driven by a laser pulse, and the other coupled to a cavity mode. For any possible shape of the single-photon wavepacket, we derive an

A. Dedes, I. Giomataris, K. Suxho, J. D. Vergados

Motivated by recent cosmic ray experimental results there has been a proposition for a scenario where a secluded dark matter particle annihilates, primarily, into Standard Model leptons through a low mass mediator particle. We consider several varieties of this scenario depending on the type of mixing among gauge bosons and we study the implications in novel

Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato

We study scale-free networks constructed via a cooperative Achlioptas growth process. Links between nodes are introduced in the network in order to produce a scale-free graph with given exponent lambda for the degree distribution, but the choice of each new link depends on the mass of the clusters that this link will merge. Networks constructed via this bias

Fu-Lin Zhang, Bo Fu, Jing-Ling Chen

The dynamical symmetry algebra of the two-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian with equal scalar and vector Smorodinsky-Winternitz potentials is constructed. It is the Higgs algebra, a cubic polynomial generalization of SU(2). With the help of the Casimir operators, the energy levels are derived algebraically.

Kenta Nishiyama, Nobuki Takayama

The incomplete beta function is an important special function in statistics. In modern theory of hypergeometric functions, we regard hypergeometric functions as pairings of twisted cycles and twisted cocycles. However, the incomplete beta function cannot be understood in this scheme; in other words, the domain of the integration is not cycle (incomplete). We

Laurent Baratchart, Juliette Leblond, Stéphane Rigat, Emmanuel Russ

We study Hardy spaces of solutions to the conjugate Beltrami equation with Lipschitz coefficient on Dini-smooth simply connected planar domains, in the range of exponents $1<\infty$. We analyse their boundary behaviour and certain density properties of their traces. We derive on the way an analog of the Fatou theorem for the Dirichlet and Neumann problems as

Nijil Mankuzhiyil, Daniela Dorner, Elisa Prandini, Massimo Persic

We report simultaneous multi-frequency observations of the blazar PG 1553+113, that were carried out in March-April 2008. Optical, X-ray, high-energy (HE; greater than 100 MeV) gamma-ray, and very-high- energy (VHE; greater than 100 GeV) gamma-ray data were obtained with the KVA, REM, RossiXTE/ASM, AGILE and MAGIC telescopes. This is the first simultaneous b

S. Lombardi, J. Aleksic, J. A. Barrio, A. Biland

In many Dark Matter (DM) scenarios, the annihilation of DM particles can produce gamma rays with a continuum spectrum that extends up to very high energies of the order of the electroweak symmetry breaking scale (hundreds of GeV). Astrophysical structures supposed to be dynamically dominated by DM, such as dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters (the larg

Sergiy Maksymenko

Let $D$ be a closed unit $2$-disk on the plane centered at the origin $O$, and $F$ be a smooth vector field such that $O$ is a unique singular point of $F$ and all other orbits of $F$ are simple closed curves wrapping once around $O$. Thus topologically $O$ is a &#34;center&#34; singularity. Let also $\mathrm{Diff}(F)$ be the group of all diffeomorphisms of

Renyue Cen, Patrick McDonald, Hy Trac, Abraham Loeb

The inhomogeneous cosmological reionization process leaves tangible imprints in the intergalactic medium down to z=4-5. The Lyman-alpha forest flux power spectrum provides a potentially powerful probe of the epoch of reionization. With the existing SDSS I/II quasar sample we show that two cosmological reionization scenarios, one completing reionization at z=

Mark Wildon

This paper studies the vertices, in the sense defined by J. A. Green, of Specht modules for symmetric groups. The main theorem gives, for each indecomposable non-projective Specht module, a large subgroup contained in one of its vertices. A corollary of this theorem is a new way to determine the defect groups of symmetric groups. We also use it to find the G

Hal Daumé, Daniel Marcu

Mappings to structured output spaces (strings, trees, partitions, etc.) are typically learned using extensions of classification algorithms to simple graphical structures (eg., linear chains) in which search and parameter estimation can be performed exactly. Unfortunately, in many complex problems, it is rare that exact search or parameter estimation is trac

Hal Daumé, Daniel Marcu

We develop a Bayesian framework for tackling the supervised clustering problem, the generic problem encountered in tasks such as reference matching, coreference resolution, identity uncertainty and record linkage. Our clustering model is based on the Dirichlet process prior, which enables us to define distributions over the countably infinite sets that natur

Hal Daumé, Daniel Marcu

Entity detection and tracking (EDT) is the task of identifying textual mentions of real-world entities in documents, extending the named entity detection and coreference resolution task by considering mentions other than names (pronouns, definite descriptions, etc.). Like NE tagging and coreference resolution, most solutions to the EDT task separate out the

Hal Daumé, Daniel Marcu

We present a document compression system that uses a hierarchical noisy-channel model of text production. Our compression system first automatically derives the syntactic structure of each sentence and the overall discourse structure of the text given as input. The system then uses a statistical hierarchical model of text production in order to drop non-impo

Hal Daumé, Daniel Marcu

Current research in automatic single document summarization is dominated by two effective, yet naive approaches: summarization by sentence extraction, and headline generation via bag-of-words models. While successful in some tasks, neither of these models is able to adequately capture the large set of linguistic devices utilized by humans when they produce s

Ekaterina B. Fokina, Sy-David Friedman, Asger Tornquist

The study of Borel equivalence relations under Borel reducibility has developed into an important area of descriptive set theory. The dichotomies of Silver and Harrington-Kechris-Louveau show that with respect to Borel reducibility, any Borel equivalence relation strictly above equality on $ω$ is above equality on ${\cal P}(ω)$, the power set of $ω$, and any

Paolo Antonini

Let $X_0$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary endowed with a oriented, measured even dimensional foliation with purely transverse boundary. Let $X$ be the manifold with cylinder attached and extended foliation. We prove that the $L^2$--measured index of a Dirac type operator is well defined and the following Atiyah Patodi Singer index formula is t

Truong Le, Peter A. Becker

The distribution function describing the acceleration of relativistic particles in an advection-dominated accretion disk is analyzed using a transport formalism that includes first-order Fermi acceleration, advection, spatial diffusion, and the escape of particles through the upper and lower surfaces of the disk. When a centrifugally-supported shock is prese

Sergio Almaraz

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. This paper addresses the Yamabe-type problem of finding a conformal scalar-flat metric on M, which has the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface. When the boundary is umbilic, we prove an existence theorem that finishes some remaining cases of this problem.

Lenore M. Mullin, James E. Raynolds

The Kronecker product is a key algorithm and is ubiquitous across the physical, biological, and computation social sciences. Thus considerations of optimal implementation are important. The need to have high performance and computational reproducibility is paramount. Moreover, due to the need to compose multiple Kronecker products, issues related to data str

Lei Dai

We propose an analytic approach to the problem of collisionless magnetic reconnection formulated as a process of Alfven eigenmodes&#39; generation and dissipation. Alfven eigenmodes are confined by the current sheet in the same way that quantum mechanical waves are confined by the tanh^2 potential. The dynamical time scale of reconnection is the system scale

Kamil Kaleta, Mateusz Kwaśnicki

We prove an uniform boundary Harnack inequality for nonnegative functions harmonic with respect to $α$-stable process on the Sierpi{ń}ski triangle, where $α\in (0, 1)$. Our result requires no regularity assumptions on the domain of harmonicity.

James E. Raynolds, Lenore M. Mullin

An algorithm has been devised to compute the inner and outer product between two arbitrary multi-dimensional arrays A and B in a single piece of code. It was derived using A Mathematics of Arrays (MoA) and the $ψ$-calculus. Extensive tests of the new algorithm are presented for running in sequential as well as OpenMP multiple processor modes.

Markus Lohrey, Benjamin Steinberg

In this paper we show that the membership problems for finitely generated submonoids and for rational subsets are recursively equivalent for groups with two or more ends.

Hal Daumé, John Langford, Daniel Marcu

We present Searn, an algorithm for integrating search and learning to solve complex structured prediction problems such as those that occur in natural language, speech, computational biology, and vision. Searn is a meta-algorithm that transforms these complex problems into simple classification problems to which any binary classifier may be applied. Unlike c

Hal Daumé, Lyle Campbell

A standard form of analysis for linguistic typology is the universal implication. These implications state facts about the range of extant languages, such as ``if objects come after verbs, then adjectives come after nouns.&#39;&#39; Such implications are typically discovered by painstaking hand analysis over a small sample of languages. We propose a computat

Hal Daumé

We present an algorithmic framework for learning multiple related tasks. Our framework exploits a form of prior knowledge that relates the output spaces of these tasks. We present PAC learning results that analyze the conditions under which such learning is possible. We present results on learning a shallow parser and named-entity recognition system that exp

Hal Daumé

We learn multiple hypotheses for related tasks under a latent hierarchical relationship between tasks. We exploit the intuition that for domain adaptation, we wish to share classifier structure, but for multitask learning, we wish to share covariance structure. Our hierarchical model is seen to subsume several previously proposed multitask learning models an

Yee Whye Teh, Hal Daumé, Daniel Roy

We introduce a new Bayesian model for hierarchical clustering based on a prior over trees called Kingman&#39;s coalescent. We develop novel greedy and sequential Monte Carlo inferences which operate in a bottom-up agglomerative fashion. We show experimentally the superiority of our algorithms over others, and demonstrate our approach in document clustering a

Mathieu Dutour Sikiric, Konstantin Rybnikov

Given a lattice L of R^n, a polytope D is called a Delaunay polytope in L if the set of its vertices is S\cap L where S is a sphere having no lattice points in its interior. D is called perfect if the only ellipsoid in R^n that contains S\cap L is exactly S. For a vector v of the Leech lattice Λ_{24} we define Λ_{24}(v) to be the lattice of vectors of Λ_{24}

I. Neri, N. S. Skantzos

We present an analytic method of assessing the typical performance of low-density parity-check codes on finite-state Markov channels. We show that this problem is similar to a spin-glass model on a `small-world&#39; lattice. We apply our methodology to binary-symmetric and binary-asymmetric channels and we provide the critical noise levels for different degr

Marina Ghisi, Massimo Gobbino

We consider the Cauchy problem for the Perona-Malik equation in an open subset of R^{n}, with Neumann boundary conditions. It is well known that in the one-dimensional case this problem does not admit any global C^{1} solution if the initial condition is transcritical, namely when the norm of the gradient of the initial condition is smaller than 1 in some re

G. Bélanger

Cosmological and astrophysical measurements indicate that the universe contains a large amount of dark matter. A number of weak scale dark matter candidates have been proposed in extensions of the standard model. The potential to discover the dark matter particle and determine its properties at the upcoming LHC is summarized.

Peter Foldi, Mihaly G. Benedict, Orsolya Kalman, F. M. Peeters

The strength of the (Rashba-type) spin-orbit coupling in mesoscopic semiconductor rings can be tuned with external gate voltages. Here we consider the case of a periodically changing spin-orbit interaction strength as induced by sinusoidal voltages. In a closed one dimensional quantum ring with weak spin-orbit coupling, Rabi oscillations are shown to appear.

J. A. Kennea, K. Mukai, J. L. Sokoloski, G. J. M. Luna

The X-ray emission from most accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in symbiotic binary stars is quite soft. Several symbiotic WDs, however, produce strong X-ray emission at energies greater than ~20 keV. The Swift BAT instrument has detected hard X-ray emission from 4 such accreting WDs in symbiotic stars: RT Cru, T CrB, CD -57 3057, and CH Cyg. In one case (RT Cru),

K. Nakayama, T. Sato, P. Richard, T. Kawahara

We have performed high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of iron-chalcogenide superconductor Fe1.03Te0.7Se0.3 (Tc = 13 K) to investigate the electronic structure relevant to superconductivity. We observed a hole- and an electron-like Fermi surfaces at the Brillouin zone center and corner, respectively, which are nearly nested by the Q~(pi,

D. Loukianova, O. Loukianov, Sh. Song

Let $X$ be a regular linear continuous positively recurrent Markov process with state space $\R$, scale function $S$ and speed measure $m$. For $a\in \R$ denote B^+_a&=\sup_{x\geq a} \m(]x,+\infty[)(S(x)-S(a)) B^-_a&=\sup_{x\leq a} \m(]-\infty;x[)(S(a)-S(x)) We study some characteristic relations between $B^+_a$, $B^-_a$, the exponential moments of the hitti

Michal Komorowski, Barbel Finkenstadt, Claire V. Harper, David A. Rand

Fluorescent and luminescent gene reporters allow us to dynamically quantify changes in molecular species concentration over time on the single cell level. The mathematical modeling of their interaction through multivariate dynamical models requires the development of effective statistical methods to calibrate such models against available data. Given the pre

Volker D. Burkert

A brief discussion of the DVCS program at the Jefferson Lab 12 GeV energy upgrade is given. Emphasis is on what can be learned from using both polarized electron and polarized positron beams in conjunction with polarized nucleon targets.

Yousef Ghazi-Tabatabai, Petros Wallden

Anhomomorphic logic is a new interpretation of Quantum Theory (due to R. Sorkin). It is a histories formulation (c.f. consistent histories, quantum measure theory). In this approach, reality is a co-event, which is essentially an assignment of a truth value {True, False} to each question. The way this assignment is done mimics classical physics in as much as

T. Micklitz, M. R. Norman

Group theory arguments have been invoked to argue that odd parity order parameters cannot have line nodes in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. In this paper we show that these arguments do not hold for certain non-symmorphic superconductors. Specifically, we demonstrate that when the underlying crystal has a twofold screw axis, half of the odd parity repr

Marcel Griesemer, Jacob Schach Møller

For systems of $N$ charged fermions (e.g. electrons) interacting with longitudinal optical quantized lattice vibrations of a polar crystal we derive upper and lower bounds on the minimal energy within the model of H. Fröhlich. The only parameters of this model, after removing the ultraviolet cutoff, are the constants $U>0$ and $α>0$ measuring the electron-el

A. Gómez-Tato, E. Macías-Virgós, M. J. Pereira-Sáez

The aim of this paper is to use the so-called Cayley transform to compute the LS category of Lie groups and homogeneous spaces by giving explicit categorical open coverings. When applied to U(n), $U(2n)/Sp(n)$ and $U(n)/O(n)$ this method is simpler than those formerly known. We also show that the Cayley transform is related to height functions in Lie groups,

Ahmad T Ali

In classical differential geometry, the problem of the determination of the position vector of an arbitrary space curve according to the intrinsic equations $κ=κ(s)$ and $τ=τ(s)$ (where $κ$ and $τ$ are the curvature and torsion of the space curve $ψ$, respectively) is still open \cite{eisenh, lips}. However, in the case of a plane curve, helix and general he

Dan R. Ghica

The problem of synthesis of gate-level descriptions of digital circuits from behavioural specifications written in higher-level programming languages (hardware compilation) has been studied for a long time yet a definitive solution has not been forthcoming. The argument of this essay is mainly methodological, bringing a perspective that is informed by recent

A. Yu. Pirkovskii

We survey some results on homological dimensions of the algebraic, complex analytic, and smooth quantum tori. Our main theorem states, in particular, that the smooth and the complex analytic quantum n-tori have global dimension n. This contrasts with the result of McConnell and Pettit (1988) who proved that, in the generic case, the algebraic quantum n-torus

Marcus Hutter

Specialized intelligent systems can be found everywhere: finger print, handwriting, speech, and face recognition, spam filtering, chess and other game programs, robots, et al. This decade the first presumably complete mathematical theory of artificial intelligence based on universal induction-prediction-decision-action has been proposed. This information-the

Hosub Jin, Heungsik Kim, Hogyun Jeong, Choong H. Kim

We present an anti-ferromagnetically ordered ground state of Na$_{2}$IrO$_{3}$ based on density-functional-theory calculations including both spin-orbit coupling and on-site Coulomb interaction $U$. We show that the splitting of $e_{g}&#39;$ doublet states by the strong spin-orbit coupling is mainly responsible for the intriguing nature of its insulating gap

C. Stock, L. C. Chapon, O. Adamopoulos, A. Lappas

The S=2 anisotropic triangular lattice alpha-NaMnO2 is studied by neutron inelastic scattering. Antiferromagnetic order occurs at T ~ 45 K with opening of a spin gap. The spectral weight of the magnetic dynamics above the gap (Delta ~ 7.5 meV) has been analysed by the single-mode approximation. Excellent agreement with the experiment is achieved when a domin

Travis Gagie, Yakov Nekrich

Although many authors have considered how many ternary comparisons it takes to sort a multiset $S$ of size $n$, the best known upper and lower bounds still differ by a term linear in $n$. In this paper we restrict our attention to online stable sorting and prove upper and lower bounds that are within (o (n)) not only of each other but also of the best known

Samuel L. Braunstein, Hans-Jürgen Sommers, Karol Życzkowski

The black-hole information paradox has fueled a fascinating effort to reconcile the predictions of general relativity and those of quantum mechanics. Gravitational considerations teach us that black holes must trap everything that falls into them. Quantum mechanically the mass of a black hole leaks away as featureless (Hawking) radiation. However, if Hawking

Michael Scharrer, Heeso Noh, Xiaohua Wu, Mark A Anderson

We report room temperature lasing in ZnO inverse opal photonic crystals in the near-ultraviolet (UV) frequency. We observe random lasing due to disorder in the structures when the photonic pseudogaps are located away from the ZnO gain spectrum. Tuning the first $ΓL$-pseudogap to the gain peak leads to a five-fold reduction in lasing threshold and frequency s

P. Wang, Y. S. Zhu, X. H. Mo

Expounded are the parameter measurement for narrow resonance and determination of corresponding luminosity at e+e- collider. The detailed theoretical formulas are compiled and the crucial experimental effects on observed cross section are taken into account. For luminosity determination, the iteration method is put forth which is mainly used to separate the

Adrienne L. Erickcek, Christopher M. Hirata, Marc Kamionkowski

If the hemispherical power asymmetry observed in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on large angular scales is attributable to a superhorizon curvaton fluctuation, then the simplest model predicts that the primordial density fluctuations should be similarly asymmetric on all smaller scales. The distribution of high-redshift quasars was recently used to co

Juna A. Kollmeier, Zheng Zheng, Romeel Davé, Andrew Gould

We present predictions for the fluorescent Lyman-alpha emission signature arising from photoionized, optically thick structures in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) cosmological simulations of a Lambda-CDM universe using a Monte Carlo Lyman-alpha radiative transfer code. We calculate the expected Lyman-alpha image and 2-dimensional spectra for gas exposed

Silvia Jimenez, Robert P. Lipton

We provide a corrector theory for the strong approximation of fields inside composites made from two materials with different power law behavior. The correctors are used to develop bounds on the local singularity strength for gradient fields inside micro-structured media. The bounds are multi-scale in nature and can be used to measure the amplification of ap

Sergey Gorchinskiy, Vladimir Guletskii

We study symmetric powers in the homotopy categories of abstract closed symmetric monoidal model categories, in both unstable and stable settings. As an outcome, we prove that symmetric powers preserve the Nisnevich and etale homotopy type in the unstable and stable motivic homotopy theories of schemes over a base. More precisely, if f is a weak equivalence

The HESS Collaboration, F. A. Aharonian

The H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) telescopes observed Coma for ~8hr in a search for gamma-ray emission at energies >1TeV. The large 3.5deg FWHM field of view of H.E.S.S. is ideal for viewing a range of targets at various sizes including the Coma cluster core, the radio-relic (1253+275) and merger/infall (NGC 4839) regions to the southwest, and f