September 2009 arXiv papers — page 19

David Syphers, Scott F. Anderson, Wei Zheng, Daryl Haggard

Absorption along quasar sightlines remains among the most sensitive direct measures of HeII reionization in much of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Until recently, fewer than a half-dozen unobscured quasar sightlines suitable for the HeII Gunn-Peterson test were known; although these handful demonstrated great promise, the small sample size limited confidenc

Riccardo Biagioli, Jiang Zeng

We give a new description of the flag major index, introduced by Adin and Roichman, by using a major index defined by Reiner. This allows us to establish a connection between an identity of Reiner and some more recent results due to Chow and Gessel. Furthermore we generalize the main identity of Chow and Gessel by computing the four-variate generating series

Christoph Bartels, Anthony Hartin, Christian Helebrant, Daniela Kaefer

The precision physics program of the ILC requires precise knowledge of the state of beam polarisation. In fact the Compton polarimeters intended for the ILC will have to measure the polarisation with error a factor of 2 smaller than the previous best measurement at the SLAC SLD experiment. In order to further reduce measurement error, spin tracking simulatio

Y. Ben-Aryeh

Various phenomena related to geometric phases in quantum mechanics are reviewed and explained by analyzing some examples.The concepts of 'parallelism' ,'connections' and 'curvatures' are applied to Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, to U(1)phase rotation, to SU(2) phase rotation and to holonomic quantum computation (HQC). The connections in S

Jusak Tandean

It is possible that the low-energy effects of physics beyond the standard model can be parametrized mainly by anomalous couplings of quarks to the W boson. Such couplings can generate potentially significant contributions to various transitions that can be probed by current and future experiments. This work explores constraints on anomalous charm-W couplings

Agnieszka Luszczak

We analyse the newest diffractive deep inelastic scattering data from HERA using the dipole model approach. We find a reasonable good agreement between the predictions and the data although the region of small values of a kinematic variable $β$ needs refinement. A way to do this is to consider an approach with diffractive parton distributions evolved with th

Franck Plunian, Graeme Sarson, Rodion Stepanov

It is generally believed that sunspots are the emergent part of magnetic flux tubes in the solar interior. These tubes are created at the base of the convection zone and rise to the surface due to their magnetic buoyancy. The motion of plasma in the convection zone being highly turbulent, the surface manifestation of sunspots may retain the signature of this

Paolo Giordano

We introduce the ring of Fermat reals, an extension of the real field containing nilpotent infinitesimals. The construction takes inspiration from Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis (SIA), but provides a powerful theory of actual infinitesimals without any need of a background in mathematical logic. In particular, on the contrary with respect to SIA, which admits

Tsunehide Kuroki, Fumihiko Sugino

We construct a class of matrix models, where supersymmetry (SUSY) is spontaneously broken at the matrix size $N$ infinite. The models are obtained by dimensional reduction of matrix-valued SUSY quantum mechanics. The potential of the models is slowly varying, and the large-$N$ limit is taken with the slowly varying limit. First, we explain our formalism, int

Alan L. T. Paterson

The stabilization theorem for $A$-Hilbert modules was established by G. G. Kasparov. The equivariant version, in which a locally compact group $H$ acts properly on a locally compact space $Y$, was proved by N. C. Phillips. This equivariant theorem involves the Hilbert $(H,C_{0}(Y))$-module $C_{0}(Y,L^{2}(H)^{\infty})$. It can naturally be interpreted in term

G. E. Magdis, D. Rigopoulou, J-S Huang, G. Fazzio

We present results of a large survey of the mid--IR properties of 248 Lyman Break Galaxies with confirmed spectroscopic redshift using deep Spitzer/IRAC observations in six cosmological fields. We model the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) employing a revised version of the Bruzual and Charlot synthesis population code that incorporates a new treatment o

Hans Peter Nilles, Saul Ramos-Sanchez, Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange

The low energy effective action of string theory depends strongly on the process of compactification and the localization of fields in extra dimensions. Explicit string constructions towards the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) reveal interesting results leading to the concept of local grand unification. Properties of the MSSM indicate that we mi

Manya V. Afonso, Jose M. Bioucas-Dias, Mario A. T. Figueiredo

Ill-posed linear inverse problems (ILIP), such as restoration and reconstruction, are a core topic of signal/image processing. A standard approach to deal with ILIP uses a constrained optimization problem, where a regularization function is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations sufficiently well. The regularizer and const

Matt J. Jarvis

In these proceedings I discuss various extragalactic surveys which will be undertaken over the next few years and which will be complementary to any HI and/or continuum surveys with the SKA-precursor telescopes. I concentrate on the near-infrared public surveys which will be undertaken with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telscope for Astronomy (VISTA), and

M. Mekhfi

We re express the fermion's probability amplitude as a trace over spinor indices, which formulation surprisingly does not exist in literature. This formulation puts the probabilty amplitude and the the probabilty(squared amplitude) of a given process on equal footing at the compuational level and this is our principal motivation to write the present pape

Ansgar Denner, Stefan Dittmaier, Tobias Kasprzik, Alexander Mück

This talk summarizes the first calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to W-boson + jet hadroproduction including leptonic W-boson decays [1]. The W-boson resonance is treated consistently using the complex-mass scheme, and all off-shell effects are taken into account. The corresponding next-to-leading-order QCD corrections have also

Arnaud Beauville

We classify, up to conjugacy, the finite subgroups of PGL(2,K) of order prime to char(K).

L. Udvardi

MCSCF calculations are performed in order to determine the exchange coupling between the 2p electrons of the N atom and the LUMOs of the fullerene cage in the case of mono- and tri-anions of N@C60. The exchange coupling resulted by our calculations is large compared to the hyperfine interaction. The strong coupling can explain the missing EPR signal of the n

C. Jasiukiewicz, T. Paszkiewicz, S. Wolski

We consider 2- and 3-dimensional cubic monocrystalline and polycrystalline materials. Expressions for Young's and shear moduli and Poisson's ratio are expressed in terms of eigenvalues of the stiffness tensor. Such a form is well suited for studying properties of these mechanical characteristics on sides of the stability triangles. For crystalline hi

H. Plana, P. Amram, C. Mendes de Oliveira, C. Balkowski

This study presents the mass distribution for a sample of 18 late-type galaxies in nine Hickson Compact Groups. We used rotation curves from high resolution 2D velocity fields of Fabry-Perot observations and J-band photometry from the 2MASS survey, in order to determine the dark halo and the visible matter distributions. The study compares two halo density p

K. R. Goodearl, S. Launois, T. H. Lenagan

The algebra of quantum matrices of a given size supports a rational torus action by automorphisms. It follows from work of Letzter and the first named author that to understand the prime and primitive spectra of this algebra, the first step is to understand the prime ideals that are invariant under the torus action. In this paper, we prove that a family of q

J. S. Clark, B. Davies, F. Najarro, J. MacKenty

We investigated the nature of the massive star [OMN2000] LS1 and used these results to constrain the history of star formation within the host complex W51. A combination of near-IR spectroscopy and non-LTE model atmosphere analysis was used to derive the physical properties of [OMN2000] LS1 and a combination of theoretical evolutionary calculations and Monte

Kavita Jain, Abhishek Dasgupta, Gayatri Das

We study the distribution of the maximum of a set of random fitnesses with fixed number of mutations in a model of biological evolution. The fitness variables are not independent and the correlations can be varied via a parameter $\ell=1,...,L$. We present analytical calculations for the following three solvable cases: (i) one-step mutants with arbitrary $\e

Jean-Paul Karam, Yu-Jun Cui, Anh-Minh Tang, Jean-Marc Terpereau

In order to analyze the instability phenomenon observed along the Northern High Speed Line of Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), soil blocks were taken at a site near the railway, at four different depths (1.2, 2.2, 3.5 and 4.9 m). Cyclic triaxial tests were carried out on saturated and unsaturated soil specimens. The results from tests on initially saturated spe

Sunil Pandey, Praveen Kaushik, Dr. S. C. Shrivastava

In many of the cryptography applications like password or IP address encryption schemes, symmetric cryptography is useful. In these relatively simpler applications of cryptography, asymmetric cryptography is difficult to justify on account of the computational and implementation complexities associated with asymmetric cryptography. Symmetric schemes make use

Bill Rosgen

The computational problem of distinguishing two quantum channels is central to quantum computing. It is a generalization of the well-known satisfiability problem from classical to quantum computation. This problem is shown to be surprisingly hard: it is complete for the class QIP of problems that have quantum interactive proof systems, which implies that it

Barbara Schapira

On geometrically finite negatively curved surfaces, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a one-sided horocycle $(h^s u)_{s\ge 0}$ to be dense in the nonwandering set of the geodesic flow. We prove that all dense one-sided orbits $(h^su)_{s\ge 0}$ are equidistributed, extending results of [Bu] and [Scha2] where symmetric horocycles $(h^su)_{s\in\R}

Jan Moser

We use Jacob's ladders to solve the fine problem how to divide of the Hardy-Littlewood integral to equal parts, for example of magnitude $h=6.6\times 10^{-27}$ (the numerical value of elementary Planck quantum). The result of the paper cannot be obtained in known theories of Balasubramanian, Heath-Brown and Ivic.

H. K. Poswal, Surinder M Sharma, S. K. Sikka

High pressure behaviour of superhydrous phase B(HT) of Mg10Si3O14(OH)4 (Shy B) is investigated with the help of density functional theory based first principles calculations. In addition to the lattice parameters and equation of state, we use these calculations to determine the positional parameters of atoms as a function of pressure. Our results show that t

Sergey Troshin, Nikolay Tyurin

We discuss effects of reflective scattering for hadron and heavy nuclei collisions at the LHC and asymptotical energies. It is shown that the reflective scattering might lead to decreasing matter density with energy beyond the LHC energies. Limiting form of energy dependence of hadron density is obtained. Unitarity upper bound for the absolute value of the r

Stefan Kirchner, Qimiao Si

Quantum criticality has attracted considerable attention both theoretically and experimentally as a way to describe part of the phase diagram of strongly correlated systems. A scale-invariant fluctuation spectrum at a quantum critical point implies the absence of any intrinsic scale. Any experimental probe may therefore create an out-of-equilibrium setting;

M. Rieutord, L. Valdettaro

We investigate the properties of forced inertial modes of a rotating fluid inside a spherical shell. Our forcing is tidal like, but its main property is that it is on the large scales. Our solutions first confirm some analytical results obtained on a two-dimensional model by Ogilvie (2005). We also note that as the frequency of the forcing varies, the dissip

Irina Ignatiouk-Robert

The Martin compactification is investigated for a d-dimensional random walk which is killed when at least one of it's coordinates becomes zero or negative. The limits of the Martin kernel are represented in terms of the harmonic functions of the associated induced Markov chains. It is shown that any sequence of points x_n with lim_n |x_n| = \infty and li

J. van Baardewijk

Random interaction models have been successful in describing the amorphous properties of solids such as spin-glasses and structural glasses. This modelling approach is applied to a system of zero-spin cold bosons moving in an amorphous environment. The bosons are given to interact according to a non-random hard-core interaction. Additionally the bosons are s

Spyros Basilakos, Manolis Plionis

We place tight constraints on the main cosmological parameters of spatially flat cosmological models by using the recent angular clustering results of XMM-{\it Newton} soft (0.5-2 keV) X-ray sources (Ebrero et al. 2009a), which have a redshift distribution with a median of $z\sim 1$. Performing a standard likelihood procedure, assuming a constant in comoving

Anatoly Pashkevich, Alexandr Klimchik, Damien Chablat, Philippe Wenger

The paper presents a new stiffness modelling method for multi-chain parallel robotic manipulators with flexible links and compliant actuating joints. In contrast to other works, the method involves a FEA-based link stiffness evaluation and employs a new solution strategy of the kinetostatic equations, which allows computing the stiffness matrix for singular

Christophe Martayan, Dietrich Baade, Yves Fremat, Jean Zorec

Star clusters are privileged laboratories for studying the evolution of massive stars (OB stars). One particularly interesting question concerns the phases, during which the classical Be stars occur, which unlike HAe/Be stars, are not pre-main sequence objects, nor supergiants. Rather, they are extremely rapidly rotating B-type stars with a circumstellar dec

Kwanghyun Jo, Bum-Hoon Lee, Chanyong Park, Sang-Jin Sin

A holographic dual of hadrons at finite density is considered. We use the zero black-hole mass limit of Reisner-Nordstrom (RN) AdS background with hard wall to describe a confining background with finite quark density. We calculate density-dependence of meson masses and decay constants. In our model, pion decay constant and its velocity go down but all the m

M. T. Tapia, W. J. Schuster, R. Michel, C. Chavarría-K.

The three open clusters Be 15, Be 80, and NGC 2192 have been observed using CCD UBV(RI)_C photometry at the San Pedro Mártir Observatory, México within the framework of our open-cluster survey. The fundamental parameters of interstellar reddening, distance, and age have been derived, and also the metallicity for NGC 2192 (solar metallicity has been assumed f

A. Nicolaidis, Kosmas Kosmidis, Panos Argyrakis

Since language is tied to cognition, we expect the linguistic structures to reflect patterns we encounter in nature and analyzed by physics. Within this realm we investigate the process of protolanguage acquisition, using analytical and tractable methods developed within physics. A protolanguage is a mapping between sounds and objects (or concepts) of the pe

Yon Ping Chen, Tien Der Yeh

A method to extract and recognize isolated characters in license plates is proposed. In extraction stage, the proposed method detects isolated characters by using Difference-of-Gaussian (DOG) function, The DOG function, similar to Laplacian of Gaussian function, was proven to produce the most stable image features compared to a range of other possible image

Xueliang Li, Yiyang Li, Yongtang Shi

For a simple graph $G$, the energy $\mathcal{E}(G)$ is defined as the sum of the absolute values of all the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix $A(G)$. Let $n, m$, respectively, be the number of vertices and edges of $G$. One well-known inequality is that $\mathcal{E}(G)\leq λ_1+\sqrt{(n-1)(2m-λ_1)}$, where $λ_1$ is the spectral radius. If $G$ is $k$-regular

Jihn E. Kim

We review the recent developments on axion physics. Some new comments on the strong CP problem, the axion mass, and the simple energy loss mechanism of white dwarfs and related issues are included.

S. Joshi, T. Ryabchikova, O. Kochukhov, M. Sachkov

We present the results on the photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of a luminous Ap star HD103498. The time-series photometric observations were carried out on 17 nights using three-channel fast photometer attached to the 1.04-m optical telescope at ARIES, Nainital. The photometric data of five nights of year 2007 show clear signature of 15-min periodici

B. C. Chang, Y. B. You, T. J. Shiu, M. F. Tai

Anisotropic Fe K-edge and As K-edge X-ray absorption near edge spectrum (XANES) measurements on superconducting (T_c = 52 K) (Sm_{0.95}La_{0.05})FeAs(O_{0.85}F_{0.15}) field-aligned microcrystalline powder are presented. The angular dependence of Fe pre-edge peak (dipole transition of Fe-1s electrons to Fe-3d/As-4p hybrid bands) relative to the tetragonal ab

M. I. Ostrovskii

The main purpose of the paper is to develop an approach to evaluation or estimation of the spanning tree congestion of planar graphs. This approach is used to evaluate the spanning tree congestion of triangular grids.

Zoltan Imre Szabo

In this paper such Riemann metrics are established whose Laplace-Beltrami operators are identical to familiar Hamilton operators of elementary particle systems. Such metrics are the natural positive definite invariant metrics defined on two-step nilpotent Lie groups. The corresponding wave and Schroedinger operators emerge in the Laplacians of the static res

Ellen ShiTing Bao, YanYan Li, Biao Yin

In this paper, we study the perfect and the insulated conductivity problems with multiple inclusions imbedded in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n, n\ge 2$. For these two extreme cases of the conductivity problems, the gradients of their solutions may blow up as two inclusions approach each other. We establish the gradient estimates for the perfect conductiv

Stanley J. Brodsky, Guy F. de Teramond

AdS/QCD, the correspondence between theories in a modified five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space and confining field theories in physical space-time, provides a remarkable semiclassical model for hadron physics. Light-front holography allows hadronic amplitudes in the AdS fifth dimension to be mapped to frame-independent light-front wavefunctions of hadrons

Kate E. Randall, Andrew M. Hopkins, Ray P. Norris, Minnie Y. Mao

The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) is the widest deep radio survey ever attempted, covering 7 square degrees of sky in two separate fields, with extensive multi-wavelength data. The primary aim of this research is to investigate all possible discriminants between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star-formation (SF) in ATLAS, with the goal of c

G. Seregin

In the present note, we address the question about behavior of $L_3$-norm of the velocity field as time $t$ approaches blow-up time $T$. It is known that the upper limit of the above norm must be equal to infinity. We show that, for blow-ups of type I, the lower limit of $L_3$-norm equals to infinity as well.

Benjamin Smeltzer, Jean McIntyre, Lilian Childress

Isolated nuclear spins offer a promising building block for quantum information processing systems, but their weak interactions often impede preparation, control, and detection. Hyperfine coupling to a proximal electronic spin can enhance each of these processes. Using the electronic spin of the nitrogen-vacancy center as an intermediary, we demonstrate robu

Kirk D. Borne, Suzanne Jacoby, K. Carney, A. Connolly

As our capacity to study ever-expanding domains of our science has increased (including the time domain, non-electromagnetic phenomena, magnetized plasmas, and numerous sky surveys in multiple wavebands with broad spatial coverage and unprecedented depths), so have the horizons of our understanding of the Universe been similarly expanding. This expansion is

Jen-Chi Lee, Yi Yang, Sheng-Lan Ko

We use Stirling number identities developed recently in number theory to show that ratios among high energy string scattering amplitudes in the fixed angle regime can be extracted from the Kummer function of the second kind. This result not only brings an interesting bridge between string theory and combinatoric number theory but also sheds light on the unde

Cesar A. Hidalgo, Nicholas Blumm, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Nicholas Christakis

The use of networks to integrate different genetic, proteomic, and metabolic datasets has been proposed as a viable path toward elucidating the origins of specific diseases. Here we introduce a new phenotypic database summarizing correlations obtained from the disease history of more than 30 million patients in a Phenotypic Disease Network (PDN). We present

Kirk D. Borne

Data volumes from multiple sky surveys have grown from gigabytes into terabytes during the past decade, and will grow from terabytes into tens (or hundreds) of petabytes in the next decade. This exponential growth of new data both enables and challenges effective astronomical research, requiring new approaches. Thus far, astronomy has tended to address these

Michael J. Neely

We consider the problem of dynamic buying and selling of shares from a collection of $N$ stocks with random price fluctuations. To limit investment risk, we place an upper bound on the total number of shares kept at any time. Assuming that prices evolve according to an ergodic process with a mild decaying memory property, and assuming constraints on the tota

Cesar A. Hidalgo, Ricardo Hausmann

For Adam Smith, wealth was related to the division of labor. As people and firms specialize in different activities, economic efficiency increases, suggesting that development is associated with an increase in the number of individual activities and with the complexity that emerges from the interactions between them. Here we develop a view of economic growth

Hiroki Taniguchi, Masanori Oishi, Desheng Fu, Mitsuru Itoh

Ferroelectric soft mode in Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PMN) has been clearly resolved by precision Raman scattering measurements for the first time. A polarization direction of the incident laser was chosen along [110] in cubic configuration in order to eliminate strong scattering components around 45 cm-1, which always smeared the low-frequency spectra of PMN. The so

Emmanuelle Gouillart, Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Olivier Dauchot

We report on the decay of a passive scalar in chaotic mixing protocols where the wall of the vessel is rotated, or a net drift of fluid elements near the wall is induced at each period. As a result the fluid domain is divided into a central isolated chaotic region and a peripheral regular region. Scalar patterns obtained in experiments and simulations conver

Adam J. Burgasser, Saurav Dhital, Andrew West

We report the identification of 2MASS J15500845+1455180 as a 0"9 L dwarf visual binary. This source is resolved in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images and in near-infrared imaging with the IRTF SpeX imager/spectrometer. The two components, oriented along a north-south axis, have similar brightnesses in the near-infrared (Delta{K} ~ 0.2 mag), although

Jorge Alfaro, Pablo González

Recently many studies have considered the possibility of a Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV), and explored its consequences in a wide range of experiments. If this is true, a LIV could explains some mysteries in Cosmology. In this paper specifically, we will analyze the effects on The Primordial Baryogenesis because it is one of the more important and myste

Nikolaos Gianniotis, Peter Tino, Steve Spreckley, Somak Raychaudhury

We present a probabilistic generative approach for constructing topographic maps of light curves from eclipsing binary stars. The model defines a low-dimensional manifold of local noise models induced by a smooth non-linear mapping from a low-dimensional latent space into the space of probabilistic models of the observed light curves. The local noise models

Norman Derby, Stanislaw Olbert

Both wire-wound solenoids and cylindrical magnets can be approximately modeled as ideal, azimuthally symmetric solenoids. We present here an exact solution for the magnetic field of an ideal solenoid in an especially easy to use form. The field is expressed in terms of a single function that can be rapidly computed by means of a compact, highly efficient alg

R. Cooke, D. Lynden-Bell

We employ the Union compilation of Type Ia supernovae with a maximum likelihood analysis to search for a dark energy dipole. To approach this problem, we present a simple, computationally efficient, and largely model independent method. We opted to weight each SN by its observed error estimate, so poorly measured SNe that deviate substantially from the Hubbl

Felipe Cucker, Teresa Krick, Gregorio Malajovich, Mario Wschebor

This paper was witdrawn by the authors.

Qing Lin, Bing He, János A. Bergou, Yuhang Ren

Multi-photon states are widely applied in quantum information technology. By the methods presented in this paper, the structure of a multi-photon state in the form of multiple single photon qubit product can be mapped to a single photon qudit, which could also be in separable product with other photons. This makes the possible manipulation of such multi-phot

E. Minguzzi

A cosmological model is proposed which uses a causality argument to solve the homogeneity and entropy problems of cosmology. In this model a chronology violating region of spacetime causally precedes the remainder of the Universe, and a theorem establishes the existence of time functions precisely outside the chronology violating region. This model is shown

David A. Minton, Renu Malhotra

The cumulative effects of weak resonant and secular perturbations by the major planets produce chaotic behavior of asteroids on long timescales. Dynamical chaos is the dominant loss mechanism for asteroids with diameters D > 10 km in the current asteroid belt. In a numerical analysis of the long term evolution of test particles in the main asteroid belt regi

J. -H. Park, D. Graf, T. P. Murphy, G. M. Schmiedeshoff

Thermal expansion, or dilation, is closely related to the specific heat, and provides useful information regarding material properties. The accurate measurement of dilation in confined spaces coupled with other limiting experimental environments such as low temperatures and rapidly changing high magnetic fields requires a new sensitive millimeter size dilato

G. Marchiori

We present the most recent searches for lepton-flavor-violating tau decays in BaBar. We find no evidence of tau decaying to three charged leptons or to a charged lepton and a neutral meson (KS, rho, phi, K*0, anti-K*0), and set upper limits on the corresponding branching fractions between 1.8 and 19 times 10-8 at 90% confidence level.

Asger Tornquist

We show that the continuum hypothesis implies that every measure preserving near-action of a group on a standard Borel probability space $(X,μ)$ has a pointwise implementation by Borel measure preserving automorphisms.

Luigi Salemi

Presentation of a Method for determining whether a problem 3Sat has solution, and if yes to find one, in time max O(n^15). Is thus proved that the problem 3Sat is fully resolved in polynomial time and therefore that it is in P, by the work of Cook and Levin, and can transform a SAT problem in a 3Sat in polynomial time (ref. Karp), it follows that P = NP. Ope

Ruobing Dong, James M. Stone

Recent observations by Chandra and XMM-Newton indicate there are complex structures at the cores of galaxy clusters, such as cavities and filaments. One plausible model for the formation of such structures is the interaction of radio jets with the intracluster medium (ICM). To investigate this idea, we use three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations in

Balint Toth, Balint Veto

We consider the continuous time version of the `true' or `myopic' self-avoiding random walk with site repulsion in 1d. The Ray-Knight-type method which was applied to the discrete time and edge repulsion case, is applicable to this model with some modifications. We present a limit theorem for the local time of the walk and a local limit theorem for the displ

Thomas Chambrion, Alexandre Munnier

In this paper we study the locomotion of a shape-changing body swimming in a two-dimensional perfect fluid of infinite extent. The shape-changes are prescribed as functions of time satisfying constraints ensuring that they result from the work of internal forces only: conditions necessary for the locomotion to be termed self-propelled. The net rigid motion o

Stefan Meinel, William Detmold, C. -J. David Lin, Matthew Wingate

Dynamical 2+1 flavor lattice QCD is used to calculate the masses of bottom hadrons, including B mesons, singly and doubly bottom baryons, and for the first time also the triply-bottom baryon Omega_bbb. The domain wall action is used for the up-, down-, and strange quarks (both valence and sea), while the bottom quark is implemented with non-relativistic QCD.

Alessandro Ballestrero, Giuseppe Bevilacqua, Diogo Buarque Franzosi, Ezio Maina

A complete parton level analysis of ll + four jets l = e,mu and 3lv + two jets production at the LHC is presented, including all processes at order $\ordEW$, $\ordQCD$ and $\ordQCDsq$ when appropriate. The infinite Higgs mass scenario, which is considered as a benchmark for strong scattering theories and is the limiting case for composite Higgs models, and o

Laura V. Sales, Amina Helmi, Mario G. Abadi, Chris B. Brook

We study the orbital properties of stars in four (published) simulations of thick disks formed by: i) accretion from disrupted satellites, ii) heating of a pre-existing thin disk by a minor merger, iii) radial migration and iv) gas rich mergers. We find that the distribution of orbital eccentricities are predicted to be different for each model: a prominent

Amber Bauermeister, Leo Blitz, Chung-Pei Ma

Using the observations of the star formation rate and HI densities to z ~ 4, with measurements of the Molecular Gas Depletion Rate (MGDR) and local density of H_2 at z = 0, we derive the history of the gas consumption by star formation to z ~ 4. We find that closed-box models in which H_2 is not replenished by HI require improbably large increases in rho(H_2

Saumyadip Samui, Kandaswamy Subramanian, Raghunathan Srianand

We study winds in high redshift galaxies driven by a relativistic cosmic ray (proton) component in addition to the hot thermal gas component. Cosmic rays (CRs) are likely to be efficiently generated in supernova shocks inside galaxies. We obtain solutions of such CR driven free winds in a gravitational potential of the NFW form, relevant to galaxies. Cosmic

Dumitru Astefanesei, Robert B. Mann, Maria J. Rodriguez, Cristian Stelea

We study the properties of 5-dimensional black objects by using the renormalized boundary stress-tensor for locally asymptotically flat spacetimes. This provides a more refined form of the quasilocal formalism which is useful for a holographic interpretation of asymptotically flat gravity. We apply this technique to examine the thermodynamic properties of bl

R. J. Assef, C. S. Kochanek, M. Brodwin, R. Cool

We present a set of low resolution empirical SED templates for AGNs and galaxies in the wavelength range from 0.03 to 30 microns based on the multi-wavelength photometric observations of the NOAO Deep-Wide Field Survey Bootes field and the spectroscopic observations of the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey. Our training sample is comprised of 14448 galaxies in

Kevin Heng, Scott Tremaine

We investigate the survival of planetesimal discs over Gyr timescales, using a unified approach that is applicable to all Keplerian discs of solid bodies -- dust grains, asteroids, planets, etc. Planetesimal discs can be characterized locally by four parameters: surface density, semi-major axis, planetesimal size and planetesimal radial velocity dispersion.

Martin Ammon, Johanna Erdmenger, Rene Meyer, Andy O'Bannon

Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis, and Maldacena have proposed that the low-energy description of multiple M2-branes at a C4/Zk singularity is a (2+1)-dimensional N=6 supersymmetric U(Nc) x U(Nc) Chern-Simons matter theory, the ABJM theory. In the large-Nc limit, its holographic dual is supergravity in AdS4 x S7/Zk. We study various ways to add fields that transfor

Jacco Vink, Aya Bamba

We report the detection of extended emission around the anomalous X-ray pulsar AXP 1E1547.0-5408 using archival data of the Chandra X-ray satellite. The extended emission consists of an inner part, with an extent of 45arsec and an outer part with an outer radius of 2.9arcmin, which coincides with a supernova remnant shell previously detected in the radio. We

Andrzej Marecki, Marek Szablewski

The so-called double-double structure in radio sources is the most conspicuous signature of their restarted activity. Observations indicate that in the majority of double-double radio sources (DDRS), the span of the radio lobes is larger than 0.7 Mpc. This lower limit is also suggested by theory. However, it seemed likely that the apparent core of B0818+214,

G. B. Mainland

The possibility that leptons, quarks or both might be highly relativistic bound states of a spin-0 and spin-1/2 constituent bound by minimal electrodynamics is discussed. Typically, strongly bound solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation exist only when the coupling constant is on the order of or greater than unity. For the bound-state system discussed here,

Charlotte Bond, Daniel Brown, Andreas Freise, Kenneth Strain

Several km-scale gravitational-wave detectors have been constructed world wide. These instruments combine a number of advanced technologies to push the limits of precision length measurement. The core devices are laser interferometers of a new kind; developed from the classical Michelson topology these interferometers integrate additional optical elements, w

Jianmin Ma

An association scheme is amorphous if it has as many fusion schemes as possible. Symmetric amorphous schemes were classified by A. V. Ivanov [A. V. Ivanov, Amorphous cellular rings II, in Investigations in algebraic theory of combinatorial objects, pages 39--49. VNIISI, Moscow, Institute for System Studies, 1985] and commutative amorphous schemes were classi

Marion Scheepers

If it is consistent that there is a measurable cardinal, then it is consistent that all points g-delta Rothberger spaces have "small" cardinality.

Cristian Stelea, Kristin Schleich, Donald Witt

Using a solution generating technique based on the symmetries of the dimensionally reduced Lagrangian we derive an exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton field equations in five dimensions describing a system of two general non-extremally charged static Kaluza-Klein black holes with spherical horizons. We investigate some of its thermodynamic propert

Valentino Gonzalez, Ivo Labbe, Rychard J. Bouwens, Garth Illingworth

We use a robust sample of 11 z~7 galaxies (z-dropouts) to estimate the stellar mass density of the universe when it was only ~750 Myr old. We combine the very deep optical to near-Infrared photometry from the HST ACS and NICMOS cameras with mid-Infrared Spitzer IRAC imaging available through the GOODS program. After carefully removing the flux from contamina

Arlin P. S. Crotts, Cameron Hummels

We follow Paper I with predictions of how gas leaking through the lunar surface could influence the regolith, as might be observed via optical Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLPs) and related effects. We touch on several processes, but concentrate on low and high flow rate extremes, perhaps the most likely. We model explosive outgassing for the smallest gas over

Sumiyoshi Abe, Norikazu Suzuki

Distant regional cross correlations are analyzed for seismicity in Japan by making use of the theory of random matrices as the null hypothesis. The empirical correlation matrix is shown to strongly deviate from the random matrix of the Wishart type. Accordingly, nonuniversal (i.e., nonrandom) correlations are identified and are represented by the networks on

Zhi-Wei Sun

Let $p$ be a prime and let $a$ be a positive integer. In this paper we investigate $\sum_{k=0}^{p^a-1}\binom[(h+1)k,k+d]/m^k$ modulo a prime $p$, where $d$ and $m$ are integers with $-h<d<=p^a$ and $m\not=0 (mod p)$. We also study congruences involving higher-order Catalan numbers $C_k^{(h)}=\binom[(h+1)k,k]/(hk+1)$ and $\bar C_k^{(h)}=\binomal[(h+1)k,k]*h/(

B. W. Ritchie, J. S. Clark, I. Negueruela, P. A. Crowther

Multiwavelength observations of the young massive cluster Westerlund 1 have revealed evidence for a large number of OB supergiant and Wolf-Rayet binaries. However, in most cases these findings are based on secondary binary characteristics such as hard X-ray emission and/or non-thermal radio spectra and hence provide little information on binary properties su

A. Agrachev, P. Lee

We prove continuity of certain cost functions arising from optimal control of affine control systems. We give sharp sufficient conditions for this continuity. As an application, we prove a version of weak KAM theorem and consider the Aubry-Mather problems corresponding to these systems.

Jonathan Landy

The consequences of source charge and surface modulation are studied within the framework of the Poisson-Boltzmann theory of electrolyte solutions. Through a consideration of various examples, it is found that inherent modulation can lead to both like-charge attraction and overcharging effects.

Florent Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborová

We introduce a generalization of the cavity, or Bethe-Peierls, method that allows to follow Gibbs states when an external parameter, e.g. the temperature, is adiabatically changed. This allows to obtain new quantitative results on the static and dynamic behavior of mean field disordered systems such as models of glassy and amorphous materials or random const