September 2009 arXiv papers — page 45

Ennio Salvioni, Giovanni Villadoro, Fabio Zwirner

We consider `minimal' Z' models, whose phenomenology is controlled by only three parameters beyond the Standard Model ones: the Z' mass and two effective coupling constants. They encompass many popular models motivated by grand unification, as well as many arising in other theoretical contexts. This parameterization takes also into account both m

Nadav Drukker, Jaume Gomis, Takuya Okuda, Joerg Teschner

We propose a correspondence between loop operators in a family of four dimensional N=2 gauge theories on S^4 -- including Wilson, 't Hooft and dyonic operators -- and Liouville theory loop operators on a Riemann surface. This extends the beautiful relation between the partition function of these N=2 gauge theories and Liouville correlators found by Alday, Ga

N. T. Zinner

We consider finite-range effects when the scattering length goes to zero near a magnetically controlled Feshbach resonance. The traditional effective-range expansion is badly behaved at this point and we therefore introduce an effective potential that reproduces the full T-matrix. To lowest order the effective potential goes as momentum squared times a facto

J. -F. Mercure, A. W. Rost, E. C. T. O'Farrell, S. K. Goh

We report detailed investigation of quantum oscillations in Sr3Ru2O7, observed inductively (the de Haas-van Alphen effect) and thermally (the magnetocaloric effect). Working at fields from 3 T to 18 T allowed us to straddle the metamagnetic transition region and probe the low- and high-field Fermi liquids. The observed frequencies are strongly field-dependen

E. S. Antonova, Yu. P. Virchenko

The upper estimate of the percolation threshold of the Bernoulli random field on the hexagonal lattice is found. It is done on the basis of the cluster decomposition. Each term of the decomposition is estimated using the number estimate of cycles on the hexagonal lattice which represent external borders of possible finite clusters containing the fixed lattic

A. D. Supanitsky, G. Medina-Tanco, K. Asano, D. Cline

Neutrinos are a very promising messenger at tens of EeV and above. They can be produced by several channels, namely as by products of hadronic interactions at the sources, as the main products of the decay of super massive particles and, in a guaranteed way, as the result of the propagation of UHECR through the bath of microwave relic photons. A new era of v

Nataliya Sokolovska, Thomas Lavergne, Olivier Cappé, François Yvon

Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) constitute a popular and efficient approach for supervised sequence labelling. CRFs can cope with large description spaces and can integrate some form of structural dependency between labels. In this contribution, we address the issue of efficient feature selection for CRFs based on imposing sparsity through an L1 penalty. We

David Nualart, Samy Tindel

This note is devoted to construct a rough path above a multidimensional fractional Brownian motion $B$ with any Hurst parameter $H\in(0,1)$, by means of its representation as a Volterra Gaussian process. This approach yields some algebraic and computational simplifications with respect to [Stochastic Process. Appl. 120 (2010) 1444--1472], where the construct

Rainer Wanke

New results on radiative K+- decays from the NA48/2 experiment are presented. In the channel K+- -> pi+- pi0 gamma more than 1 million decays were reconstructed, leading to the first measurement of the interference between direct photon emission and inner bremsstrahlung and stringent limits on CP violation in this decay. For K+- -> pi+- gamma gamma, a precis

A. D. Supanitsky, G. Medina-Tanco, K. Asano, D. Cline

The identification of very high energy photons is of great importance for the understanding of the origin of extreme energy cosmic rays (EECR). Several can be the sources of high energy photons at Earth. A guaranteed component is the flux of high energy photons expected as a consequence of the interaction of cosmic rays with the cosmic photon background. Ano

S. Kumano, M. Strikman

We demonstrate that hard branching 2\to 3 particle processes with nuclei provide an effective way to determine the momentum transfers needed for effects of point-like configurations to dominate large angle 2\to 2 processes. In contrast with previously proposed approaches, the discussed reaction allows the effects of the transverse size of configurations to b

Heng-Yu Chen, Koji Hashimoto, Shunji Matsuura

We demonstrate a holographic realization of color-flavor locking phase, using N=4 SU(Nc) SYM coupled to N=2 Nf fundamental hypermultiplets as an example. The gravity dual consists of Nc D3-branes and Nf D7-branes with world volume gauge field representing the baryon density. Treating a small number \tilde{N}c << Nc of D3-branes as Yang-Mills instantons on th

Xing M. Wang

Following the Dirac vector bracket notation (VBN), we proposed the probability bracket notation (PBN) in our previous paper. We mentioned that under the special Wick rotation (imaginary time), a stationary Schrodinger equation in the Hilbert space transforms into the master equation of a microscopic probabilistic process (MPP) in the probability space. In th

I. Ya. Aref&#39;eva, A. A. Bagrov, L. V. Joukovskaya

We study the formation of marginally trapped surfaces in the head-on collision of two ultrarelativistic charges in $(A)dS$ space-time. The metric of ultrarelativistic charged particles in $(A)dS$ is obtained by boosting Reissner-Nordström $(A)dS$ space-time to the speed of light. We show that formation of trapped surfaces on the past light cone is only possi

Yang-Shyang Li, Gabriella De Lucia, Amina Helmi

We combine a series of high-resolution simulations with semi-analytic galaxy formation models to follow the evolution of a system resembling the Milky Way and its satellites. The semi-analytic model is based on that developed for the Millennium Simulation, and successfully reproduces the properties of galaxies on large scales, as well as those of the Milky W

Paulo Rosa, Carlos Silvestre, Jeff S. Shamma, Michael Athans

This paper proposes a multiple-model adaptive control methodology, using set-valued observers (MMAC-SVO) for the identification subsystem, that is able to provide robust stability and performance guarantees for the closed-loop, when the plant, which can be open-loop stable or unstable, has significant parametric uncertainty. We illustrate, with an example, h

Daisuke Takahashi

We show that Bogoliubov equations in one-dimensional systems with piecewise constant potentials can be always solved. In particular, we analyze in detail the case where the condensate wavefunction is a real-valued function, and give the explicit expressions for wavefunctions of Bogoliubov excitations. By means of these solutions, we consider transmission and

Raphael Lachieze-Rey, Youri Davydov

The monotone rearrangement of a function is the non-decreasing function with the same distribution. The convex rearrangement of a smooth function is obtained by integrating the monotone rearrangement of its derivative. This operator can be applied to regularizations of a stochastic process to measure quantities of interest in econometrics. A multivariate gen

Mario Berta, Matthias Christandl, Roger Colbeck, Joseph M. Renes

The uncertainty principle, originally formulated by Heisenberg, dramatically illustrates the difference between classical and quantum mechanics. The principle bounds the uncertainties about the outcomes of two incompatible measurements, such as position and momentum, on a particle. It implies that one cannot predict the outcomes for both possible choices of

R. Sokhoyan, D. Melikdzanian, A. Ishkhanyan

We introduce new hypergeometric series expansions of the solutions to the general Heun equation. The form of the Gauss hypergeometric functions used as expansion function differs from that used before. We derive three such expansions and further generate, by termination of the series, closed-form solutions for several sets of involved parameters.

A. N. Ivanov, P. Kienle

According to experimental data at GSI, the rates of the number of daughter ions, produced by the nuclear K-shell electron capture (EC) decays of the H-like 140Pr58+, 142Pm60+ and 122I52+ ions, are modulated in time with periods T_{EC} of the order of a few seconds, obeying an A-scaling T_{EC} = A/20 s, where A is the mass number of the mother nuclei, and wit

Fabio Benatti, Alexandra M. Liguori, Giacomo Paluzzano

We study a recent conjecture about the behavior of the quantum relative entropy compared to the relative entropy of entanglement in open bipartite systems. The conjecture states that, under a dissipative time-evolution, the positive rate of change of the relative entropy will always be larger than that of the relative entropy of entanglement. After explicitl

Andreas Hoecker

Results from the global Standard Model fit to electroweak precision data, including newest Tevatron measurements, are reviewed and discussed. The complete fit using also the constraints from the direct Higgs boson searches yields an upper limit on the Higgs mass of 153 GeV at 95% CL. The top mass is indirectly determined to be (177.2 +10.5 -7.8) GeV and (179

Alex E. Bernardini, O. Bertolami

The thermodynamic equilibrium conditions for compact structures composed by mass varying particles are discussed assuming that the so-called dynamical mass behaves like an additional extensive thermodynamic degree of freedom. It then follows that, such weakly interacting massive particles can form clusters of non-baryonic matter or even astrophysical objects

P. Ring, E. Litvinova

A consistent combination of covariant density functional theory (CDFT) and Landau-Migdal Theory of Finite Fermi Systems (TFFS) is presented. Both methods are in principle exact, but Landau-Migdal theory cannot describe ground state properties and density functional theory does not take into account the energy dependence of the self-energy and therefore fails

Toby Gee, David Savitt

We study the possible weights of an irreducible two-dimensional mod p representation of the absolute Galois group of F which is modular in the sense of that it comes from an automorphic form on a definite quaternion algebra with centre F which is ramified at all places dividing p, where F is a totally real field. In most cases we determine the precise list o

A. Mironov, A. Morozov, S. Natanzon

Infinite-dimensional universal Cardy-Frobenius algebra is constructed, which unifies all particular algebras of closed and open Hurwitz numbers and is closely related to the algebra of differential operators, familiar from the theory of Generalized Kontsevich Model.

Chuan-Tsung Chan, Hirotaka Irie, Sheng-Yu Darren Shih, Chi-Hsien Yeh

Multi-cut critical points and their macroscopic loop amplitudes are studied in the multi-cut two-matrix models, based on an extension of the prescription developed by Daul, Kazakov and Kostov. After identifying possible critical points and potentials in the multi-cut matrix models, we calculate the macroscopic loop amplitudes in the Z_k symmetric background.

Elena Zhabitskaya

R.F.Tichy and J.Uitz introduced a one parameter family $g_λ$, $λ\in (0,1)$, of singular functions. When $λ=1/2$ the function $g_λ$ coincides with the famous Minkowski question mark function. In this paper we describe the arithmetical nature of the function $g_λ$ when $λ= \frac{3-\sqrt{5}}{2}$.

Jui-yu Chiu, Andreas Fuhrer, Randall Kelley, Aneesh V. Manohar

Radiative corrections to high energy scattering processes were given previously in terms of universal soft and collinear functions. This paper gives the collinear functions for all standard model particles, the general form of the soft function, and explicit expressions for the soft functions for fermion-fermion scattering, longitudinal and transverse gauge

S. Balik, A. L. Win, M. D. Havey, I. M. Sokolov

We report a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of near resonance light scattering from a high-density and ultracold atomic $^{87}$Rb gas. The atomic sample, having a peak density $\sim 5\cdot10^{13}$ atoms/cm$^{3}$, temperature $\sim$ 65 $μ$K and initially prepared in the F = 1 lower energy $^{87}$Rb hyperfine component, is optically pumped

F. Cornu, Ph. A. Martin

We present a study of atom-wall interactions in non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics by functional integral methods. The Feynman-Kac path integral representation is generalized to the case when the particle interacts with a radiation field, providing an additional effective potential that contains all the interactions induced by the field. We show how on

Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, Joachim M. Bestenlehner, Wolfgang Brandner, Thomas Henning

We perform a photometric analysis on deep, seeing-limited near-IR VLT images of the region NGC 346/N66 and a nearby control field of the SMC in order to locate the centres of active high- and intermediate-mass star formation through the identification of near-IR bright objects as candidate stellar sources under formation.We use archived imaging data obtained

J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez, P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, M. Steffen

Most Globular Clusters are believed to host a single stellar populations. They can thus be considered a good place to study the Spite plateau and probe for possible evolutionary modifications of the Li content. We want to determine the Li content of subgiant (SG) and Main Sequence (MS) stars of the old, metal-poor globular cluster NGC 6397. This work was aim

Alon Nishry

We study the hole probability of Gaussian random entire functions. More specifically, we work with entire functions in Taylor series form with i.i.d complex Gaussian coefficients. A hole is the event where the function has no zeros in a disc of radius r. We find exact asymptotics for the rate of decay of the hole probability for large values of r, outside a

Leander Geisinger, Timo Weidl

We derive upper bounds for the trace of the heat kernel $Z(t)$ of the Dirichlet Laplace operator in an open set $Ω\subset \R^d$, $d \geq 2$. In domains of finite volume the result improves an inequality of Kac. Using the same methods we give bounds on $Z(t)$ in domains of infinite volume. For domains of finite volume the bound on $Z(t)$ decays exponentially

Tiberiu Harko, Zoltán Kovács, Francisco S. N. Lobo

A promising extension of general relativity is Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity, in which the Einstein-Hilbert action is modified by adding a parity-violating CS term, which couples to gravity via a scalar field. In this work, we consider the interesting, yet relatively unexplored, dynamical formulation of CS modified gravity, where the CS coupling field i

Nikodem Szpak

We apply our recently developed scaling technique for obtaining late-time asymptotics to the cubic nonlinear wave equation and explain appearance and approach to the two-parameter attractor found recently by Bizon and Zenginoglu.

Antares Collaboration

This paper has been withdrawn due a problem with the estimation of background.

Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Rieks Joosten

Proper privacy protection in RFID systems is important. However, many of the schemes known are impractical, either because they use hash functions instead of the more hardware efficient symmetric encryption schemes as a efficient cryptographic primitive, or because they incur a rather costly key search time penalty at the reader. Moreover, they do not allow

Jae Kyun Shin, Jan Lorenz

Assume two different communities each of which maintain their respective opinions mainly because of the weak interaction between the two communities. In such a case, it is an interesting problem to find the necessary strength of inter-community interaction in order for the two communities to reach a consensus. In this paper, the Information Accumulation Syst

Cheol-Hyun Cho

Lagrangian Floer homology in a general case has been constructed by Fukaya, Oh, Ohta and Ono, where they construct an $\AI$-algebra or an $\AI$-bimodule from Lagrangian submanifolds, and studied the obstructions and deformation theories. But for obstructed Lagrangian submanifolds, standard Lagrangian Floer homology can not be defined. We explore several well

Olivier Brunat, Frank Himstedt

This paper is a contribution to the general program introduced by Isaacs, Malle and Navarro to prove the McKay conjecture in the representation theory of finite groups. We develop new methods for dealing with simple groups of Lie type in the defining characteristic case. Using a general argument based on the representation theory of connected reductive group

The CBELSA, TAPS Collaboration, :, Volker Crede

Total and differential cross sections for $η$ and $η^\prime$ photoproduction off the proton have been determined with the CBELSA/TAPS detector for photon energies between 0.85 and 2.55 GeV. The $η$ mesons are detected in their two neutral decay modes, $η\toγγ$ and $η\to 3π^0\to 6γ$, and for the first time, cover the full angular range in $\rm cos θ_{cm}$ of

Alessandra Bianchi, Anton Bovier, Dmitry Ioffe

We show how coupling techniques can be used in some metastable systems to prove that mean metastable exit times are almost constant as functions of the starting microscopic configuration within a &#34;meta-stable set.&#34; In the example of the Random Field Curie Weiss model, we show that these ideas can also be used to prove asymptotic exponentiallity of no

M. Spaans

It is shown that quantum aspects of the energy-momentum tensor reveal dark matter and dark energy behavior for general relativity. Special meaning is assigned to the operator X^2d^2/dX^2 +2Xd/dX, for any field X that is part of the energy-momentum tensor, and to the distinction between information on gravitational and non-gravitational effects. Changes in su

Wei-Ning Zhang, Zhi-Tao Yang, Yan-Yu Ren

We examine the characteristic quantities of pion-emitting sources extracted by model-independent imaging analysis in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The moments of the spatial separation of pion pair emission can provide the characteristic information about the source geometry and coherence. They are better for describing the non-Gaussian sources with gra

Gabriel C. G. de Abreu, Rodrigo Labouriau, David Edwards

This paper presents the R package gRapHD for efficient selection of high-dimensional undirected graphical models. The package provides tools for selecting trees, forests and decomposable models minimizing information criteria such as AIC or BIC, and for displaying the independence graphs of the models. It has also some useful tools for analysing graphical st

Ingrid Rotter

The dynamics of open quantum systems is determined by avoided and true crossings of eigenvalue trajectories of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. The phases of the eigenfunctions are not rigid so that environmentally induced spectroscopic redistribution processes may take place and a dynamical phase transition may occur. Due to the formal equivalence between the q

Edward Lui, Doron Puder

Let $G$ be a connected graph, and let $λ_1$ and $ρ$ denote the spectral radius of $G$ and the universal cover of $G$, respectively. In \cite{Fri03}, Friedman has shown that almost every $n$-lift of $G$ has all of its new eigenvalues bounded by $O(λ_1^{1/2}ρ^{1/2})$. In \cite{LP10}, Linial and Puder have improved this bound to $O(λ_1^{1/3}ρ^{2/3})$. Friedman

Eric Opdam, Patrick Delorme

We define analytic $R$-groups for affine Hecke algebras, and prove the analog of the Knapp-Stein Dimension Theorem. As a corollary we prove that the commutant algebra of a unitary principal series representation is isomorphic to the complex group algebra of the $R$-group, twisted by a certain 2-cocycle $γ$. For classical Hecke algebras we prove that $γ$ is a

Radjesvarane Alexandre, Y. Morimoto, Seiji Ukai, Chao-Jiang Xu

The Boltzmann equation without Grad&#39;s angular cutoff assumption is believed to have regularizing effect on the solution because of the non-integrable angular singularity of the cross-section. However, even though so far this has been justified satisfactorily for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation, it is still basically unsolved for the spatiall

Philippe Grandclement

Kadath is a library that implements spectral methods in a very modular manner. It is designed to solve a wide class of problems that arise in the context of theoretical physics. Several types of coordinates are implemented and additional geometries can be easily encoded. Partial differential equations of various types are discretized by means of spectral met

D. J. J. Farnell

The coupled cluster method (CCM) is a powerful and widely applied technique of modern-day quantum many-body theory. It has been used with great success in order to understand the properties of quantum magnets at zero temperature. This is due largely to the application of computational techniques that allow the method to be applied to high orders of approxima

Sandhya Choubey, Werner Rodejohann

We parameterize the initial flux composition of high energy astrophysical neutrinos as (Phi_e^0 : Phi_mu^0 : Phi_tau^0) = (1 : n : 0), where n characterizes the source. All usually assumed neutrino sources appear as limits of this simple parametrization. We investigate how precise neutrino telescopes can pin down the value of n. We furthermore show that ther

P. M. R. Brydon, C. Timm

Motivated by the iron pnictides, we examine the spin excitations in an itinerant antiferromagnet where a spin-density wave (SDW) originates from an excitonic instability of nested electron-like and hole-like Fermi pockets. Using the random phase approximation (RPA), we derive the Dyson equation for the transverse susceptibility in the excitonic SDW state. Th

J. Borcea, S. Friedland, B. Shapiro

We prove a parametric generalization of the classical Poincare-Perron theorem on stabilizing recurrence relations where we assume that the varying coefficients of a recurrence depend on auxiliary parameters and converge uniformly in these parameters to their limiting values. As an application we study convergence of the ratios of families of functions satisf

A. Zazunov, A. Levy Yeyati, R. Egger

We present the theory of the Josephson effect in nanotube dots where an SU(4) symmetry can be realized. We find a remarkably rich phase diagram that significantly differs from the SU(2) case. In particular, π-junction behavior is largely suppressed. We analytically obtain the Josephson current in various parameter regions: (i) in the Kondo regime, covering t

A. R. Hashemi, M. Hosseini-Farzad, Afshin Montakhab

In this paper we study the effect of positional randomness on transmissional properties of a two dimensional photonic crystal as a function of a randomness parameter $α$ ($α=0$ completely ordered, $α=1$ completely disordered). We use finite-difference time-domain~(FDTD) method to solve the Maxwell&#39;s equations in such a medium numerically. We consider two

Michel Enock

Mimicking a recent article of Stefaan Vaes, in which was proved that every locally compact quantum group can act outerly, we prove that we get the same result for measured quantum groupoids, with an appropriate definition of outer actions of measured quantum groupoids. This result is used to show that every measured quantum groupoid can be found from some de

Ali Hosseiny, Shahin Rouhani

We show that a class of nonrelativistic algebras including non centrally-extended Schrodinger algebra and Galilean Conformal Algebra (GCA) has an affine extension in 2+1 hitherto unknown. This extension arises out of the conformal symmetries of the two dimensional complex plain. We suggest that this affine form may be the symmetry that explains the relaxatio

S. Mignemi

It has been proposed that on (anti)-de Sitter background, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle should be modified by the introduction of a term proportional to the cosmological constant. We show that this modification of the uncertainty principle can be derived straightforwardly from the geometric properties of (anti)-de Sitter spacetime. We also discuss the

Dag Normann

We are considering typed hierarchies of total, continuous functionals using complete, separable metric spaces at the base types. We pay special attention to the so called Urysohn space constructed by P. Urysohn. One of the properties of the Urysohn space is that every other separable metric space can be isometrically embedded into it. We discuss why the Urys

Jing Wang, Roderik Overzier, Guinevere Kauffmann, Anja von der Linden

Many brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) at the centers of X-ray selected clusters exhibit clear evidence for recent star formation. However, studies of BCGs in optically-selected clusters show that star formation is not enhanced when compared to control samples of non-BCGs of similar stellar mass. Here we analyze a sample of 113 BCGs in low redshift (z<0.1),

Didier Smets, Jean Van Schaftingen

We study the existence of stationary classical solutions of the incompressible Euler equation in the plane that approximate singular stationnary solutions of this equation. The construction is performed by studying the asymptotics of equation $-\eps^2 Δu^\eps=(u^\eps-q-\fracκ{2π} \log \frac{1}{\eps})_+^p$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions and $q$ a given fu

Frank Deuretzbacher, Jonas C. Cremon, Stephanie M. Reimann

We study the ground state of few bosons with repulsive dipole-dipole interaction in a quasi-one-dimensional harmonic trap by means of the exact diagonalization method. Up to three interaction regimes are found depending on the strength of the dipolar interaction and the ratio of transverse to axial oscillator lengths: a regime where the dipolar Bose gas rese

Muhammed Yonac, Joseph H. Eberly

We exploit a novel approximation scheme to obtain a new and compact formula for the parameters underlying coherent-state control of the evolution of a pair of entangled two-level systems. It is appropriate for long times and for relatively strong external quantum control via coherent state irradiation. We take account of both discrete-state and continuous-va

Debtosh Chowdhury, Chanda J. Jog, Sudhir K Vempati

It is well known that the dark matter dominates the dynamics of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Its constituents remain a mystery despite an assiduous search for them over the past three decades. Recent results from the satellite-based PAMELA experiment detect an excess in the positron fraction at energies between 10-100 GeV in the secondary cosmic ray sp

Marius Beceanu

Consider the focusing cubic semilinear Schroedinger equation in R^3 i \partial_t ψ+ Δψ+ | ψ|^2 ψ= 0. It admits an eight-dimensional manifold of special solutions called ground state solitons. We exhibit a codimension-one critical real-analytic manifold N of asymptotically stable solutions in a neighborhood of the soliton manifold. We then show that N is cent

Hellmut Baumgärtel

For selected classes of quantum mechanical Hamiltonians a canonical association of a decay semigroup is presented. The spectrum of the generator of this semigroup is a pure eigenvalue spectrum and it coincides with the set of all resonances. The essential condition for the results is the meromorphic continuability of the scattering matrix onto $\Bbb{C}\setmi

B. Gendre, A. Klotz, E. Palazzi, T. Kruhler

We present the observations of the afterglow of gamma-ray burst GRB 090102. Optical data taken by the TAROT, REM, GROND, together with publicly available data from Palomar, IAC and NOT telescopes, and X-ray data taken by the XRT instrument on board the Swift spacecraft were used. This event features an unusual light curve. In X-rays, it presents a constant d

M. Banados, S. Theisen

We study three-dimensional massive gravity formulated as a theory with two dynamical metrics, like the f-g theories of Isham-Salam and Strathdee. The action is parity preserving and has no higher derivative terms. The spectrum contains a single massive graviton. This theory has several features discussed recently in TMG and NMG. We find warped black holes, a

Makoto Ozawa

First, we extend Otal&#39;s result for the trivial knot to trivial spatial graphs, namely, we show that for any bridge tangle decomposing sphere $S^2$ for a trivial spatial graph $Γ$, there exists a 2-sphere $F$ such that $F$ contains $Γ$ and $F$ intersects $S^2$ in a single loop. Next, we introduce two invariants for spatial graphs. As a generalization of t

A Coley, S Hervik

We develop the bivector formalism in higher dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes. We define the Weyl bivector operator in a manner consistent with its boost-weight decomposition. We then algebraically classify the Weyl tensor, which gives rise to a refinement in dimensions higher than four of the usual alignment (boost-weight) classification, in terms of the ir

Hishamuddin Zainuddin, Abubaker Ahmed M. Siddig

In this paper we study two quantum mechanical systems on punctured surfaces modeled by hyperbolic spaces, namely the cases of the singly punctured two-torus and triply punctured two-sphere. We study the systems using their Maass waveforms in connection with the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian. The energy eigenfunctions on such surfaces are precisely the eige

Won-Young Hwang, Joonwoo Bae

We provide a bound on the minimum error when discriminating among quantum states, using the no-signaling principle. The bound is general in that it depends on neither dimensions nor specific structures of given quantum states to be discriminated among. We show that the bound is tight for the minimum-error state discrimination between symmetric (both pure and

Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Wei-Xing Zhou, Didier Sornette, Ryan Woodard

By combining (i) the economic theory of rational expectation bubbles, (ii) behavioral finance on imitation and herding of investors and traders and (iii) the mathematical and statistical physics of bifurcations and phase transitions, the log-periodic power law model has been developed as a flexible tool to detect bubbles. The LPPL model considers the faster-

Richard V. Diamond

Ideas about how to increase the unconscious participation in interaction between &#39;a human&#39; and &#39;a computer&#39; are developed in this paper. Evidence of impact of the unconscious functioning is presented. The unconscious is characterised as being a responsive, contextual, and autonomous participant of human-computer interaction. The unconscious p

Fu-Guo Xie, Andrzej Niedzwiecki, Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Feng Yuan

Hot accretion flows such as advection-dominated accretion flows are generally optically thin in the radial direction. Thus photons generated at some radii can cool or heat electrons at other radii via Compton scattering. Such global Compton scattering has previously been shown to be important for the dynamics of accretion flows. Here, we extend previous trea

H. Kamano, B. Julia-Diaz, T. -S. H. Lee, A. Matsuyama

Within a dynamical coupled-channels model which has already been fixed from analyzing the data of the pi N -> pi N and gamma N -> pi N reactions, we present the predicted double pion photoproduction cross sections up to the second resonance region, W< 1.7 GeV. The roles played by the different mechanisms within our model in determining both the single and do

Masaaki Umehara, Kotaro Yamada

We give several applications of a lemma on completeness used by Osserman to show the meromorphicity of Weierstrass data for complete minimal surfaces with finite total curvature. Completeness and weak completeness are defined for several classes of surfaces which admit singular points. The completeness lemma is a useful machinery for the study of completenes

Jae-Hoon Kwon

We consider a category of $\gl_\infty$-crystals, whose objects are disjoint unions of extremal weight crystals of non-negative level with certain finite conditions on the multiplicity of connected components. We show that it is a monoidal category under tensor product of crystals and the associated Grothendieck ring is anti-isomorphic to an Ore extension of

Hiraku Nozawa

Let $(M,\mathcal{F})$ be a closed manifold with a Riemannian foliation. The Álvarez class is the cohomology class of degree 1 of $M$ whose triviality characterizes the minimizability of $(M,\mathcal{F})$. We show that the integral of the Álvarez class along every closed path in $M$ is the logarism of an algebraic integer if $π_{1}M$ is polycyclic or $\mathca

E. Kaneshita, T. Morinari, T. Tohyama

We examine electronic states of antiferromagnetic phase in iron pnictides by mean-field calculations of the optical conductivity. We find that a five-band model exhibiting a small magnetic moment, inconsistent with the first-principles calculations, reproduces well the excitation spectra characterized by a multi-peak structure emerging below the Néel tempera

W. Woelfli

The Exodus was causally connected to the eruption of Thera. The time of this geological event is determined by C14 dating as 1627-1600 BC. The chaos that followed this catastrophe led to upheavals which distorted the chronologies. Taking periods of foreign domination into account leads to an agreement between the chronologies of Egypt and Israel. ----- Der E

E. Nazaretski, J. P. Thibodaux, I. Vekhter, L. Civale

We report the local measurements of the magnetic penetration depth $\lambda$ in a superconducting Nb film using magnetic force microscopy (MFM). We developed a method for quantitative extraction of the penetration depth from single-parameter simultaneous fits to the lateral and height profiles of the MFM signal, and demonstrate that the obtained value is in

Chika Sugawara, Motokazu Takizawa, Kazuhiro Nakazawa

We present the results of Suzaku observation of the radio halo cluster Abell 2319. The metal abundance in the central cool region is found to be higher than the surrounding region, which was not resolved in the former studies. We confirm that the line-of-sight velocities of the intracluster medium in the observed region are consistent with those of the membe

Peter Hoflich, Bradley E. Schaefer

We investigate two potential mechanisms that will produce X-ray and gamma-ray flashes from Type Ia supernovae (SN-Ia). The mechanisms are the breakout of the thermonuclear burning front as it reaches the surface of the white dwarf and the interaction of the rapidly expanding envelope with an accretion disk. Based on the delayed-detonation scenario and detail

Yi-Fang Chang

We suggest some possible approaches of the unified equations of boson and fermion, which correspond to the unified statistics at high energy. A. The spin terms of equations can be neglected. B. The mass terms of equations can be neglected. C. The known equations of formal unification change to the same. They can be combined each other. We derive the chaos so

Meltem Gonulol, Ekrem Aydiner, Ozgur E. Mustecaplioglu

Quantum random walk in a two-dimensional lattice with randomly distributed traps is investigated. Distributions of quantum walkers are evaluated dynamically for the cases of Hadamard, Fourier, and Grover coins, and quantum to classical transition is examined as a function of the density of the traps. It is shown that traps act as a serious and additional sou

John R. Clem

In this paper I discuss analytic and numerical calculations of the magnetic-field and sheet-current distributions in superconducting strips of width 2a and arbitrary thickness 2b at the center when the cross section is an ellipse, a rectangle, and a shape intermediate between these limits. Using critical-state theory, I use several methods to determine the f

Duanjun Cai, Guang-Yu Guo

We study the linear and nonlinear optical properties of wurtzite GaN under c-axial stress field, using density functional theory calculations. The fully structural optimization at each c-axial strain was performed. The calculated dielectric functions show that tensile c-axial strain effectively improves the linear optical efficiency, especially for the band-

S. A. Pustilnik, A. L. Tepliakova, A. Y. Kniazev, J. -M. Martin

We present the results of observations of the very low surface brightness (VLSB) dwarf galaxy SDSS J092609.45+334304.1 with extreme parameters which indicate its unevolved status. Namely, its value of O/H, derived as an average of that in two adjacent HII regions at the NE edge of the disc, corresponds to the parameter 12+log(O/H)=7.12+-0.02, which is amongs

A. Nemethi, Walter D Neumann, A. Pichon

For the link $M$ of a normal complex surface singularity $(X,0)$ we ask when a knot $K\subset M$ exists for which the answer to whether $K$ is the link of the zero set of some analytic germ $(X,0)\to (\mathbb C,0)$ affects the analytic structure on $(X,0)$. We show that if $M$ is an integral homology sphere then such a knot exists if and only if $M$ is not o

A. Meredith Hughes, David J. Wilner, Jungyeon Cho, Daniel P. Marrone

We present arcsecond-resolution Submillimeter Array (SMA) polarimetric observations of the 880 um continuum emission from the protoplanetary disks around two nearby stars, HD 163296 and TW Hydrae. Although previous observations and theoretical work have suggested that a 2-3% polarization fraction should be common for the millimeter continuum emission from su

K. Bou-Rabee, D. B. McReynolds

In this article we investigate the L^1-norm of certain functions on groups called divisibility functions. Using these functions, their connection to residual finiteness, and integration theory on profinite groups, we define the residual average of a finitely generated group. One of the main results in this article is the finiteness of residual averages on fi

Yi-feng Yang, Ricardo Urbano, Nicholas J. Curro, David Pines

We report Knight shift experiments on the superconducting heavy electron material CeCoIn$_5$ that allow one to track with some precision the behavior of the heavy electron Kondo liquid in the superconducting state with results in agreement with BCS theory. An analysis of the $^{115}$In nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spin-lattice relaxation rate $T_1^{-1}

E. Steven, H. B. Cui, A. Kismarahardja, J. S. Brooks

Shubnikov-de Haas and angular dependent magnetoresistance oscillations have been used to explore the role of anion size, magnetic moment, and disorder in the organic conductors kappa-(BETS)_2GaBr_{4} and kappa-(BETS)_2FeCl_{2}_Br_{2} in the isomorphic class kappa-(BETS)_2Ga_{1-x}Fe_{x}Cl_{4-y}_Br_{y}. The results, combined with previous work, show correlatio

Keigo Hirakawa, Patrick J. Wolfe

This article describes a series of new results outlining equivalences between certain &#34;rewirings&#34; of filterbank system block diagrams, and the corresponding actions of convolution, modulation, and downsampling operators. This gives rise to a general framework of reverse-order and convolution subband structures in filterbank transforms, which we show

Udo Schwingenschloegl, Raymond Fresard, Volker Eyert

The electronic structure of V2O3 thin films is studied by means of the augmented spherical wave method as based on density functional theory and the local density approximation. We establish that effects of charge redistribution, induced by the vacuum interface, in such films are restricted to a very narrow surface layer of approx. 15 Angstroem thickness. As