September 2009 arXiv papers — page 48

Didier A. Girard

Consider one realization of a continuous-time Gaussian process $Z$ which belongs to the Mat\' ern family with known ``regularity'' index $ν>0$. For estimating the autocorrelation-range and the variance of $Z$ from $n$ observations on a fine grid, we studied in Girard (2016) the GE-EV method which simply retains the empirical variance (EV) and equ

Sandi Klavzar, Simone Severini

To define a minimal mathematical framework for isolating some of the characteristic properties of quantum entanglement, we introduce a generalization of the tensor product of graphs. Inspired by the notion of a density matrix, the generalization is a simple one: every graph can be obtained by addition modulo two, possibly with many summands, of tensor produc

G. E. Volovik

The walls of the box which contains matter represent a membrane that allows the relativistic quantum vacuum to pass but not matter. That is why the pressure of matter in the box may be considered as the analog of the osmotic pressure. However, we demonstrate that the osmotic pressure of matter is modified due to interaction of matter with vacuum. This intera

Samir D. Mathur

The black hole information paradox is a very poorly understood problem. It is often believed that Hawking's argument is not precisely formulated, and a more careful accounting of naturally occurring quantum corrections will allow the radiation process to become unitary. We show that such is not the case, by proving that small corrections to the leading o

Michael T. Goodrich

In this paper, we describe randomized Shellsort--a simple, randomized, data-oblivious version of the Shellsort algorithm that always runs in O(n log n) time and, as we show, succeeds in sorting any given input permutation with very high probability. Thus, randomized Shellsort is simultaneously simple, time-optimal, and data-oblivious. Taken together, these p

Jochen Rau

I show that quantum theory is the only probabilistic framework that permits arbitrary processes to be emulated by sequences of local measurements. This supports the view that, contrary to conventional wisdom, measurement should not be regarded as a complex phenomenon in need of a dynamical explanation but rather as a primitive -- and perhaps the only primiti

Yuriy D. Golovaty, Stepan S. Man'ko

We turn back to the well known problem of interpretation of the Schrodinger operator with the pseudopotential being the first derivative of the Dirac function. We show that the problem in its conventional formulation contains hidden parameters and the choice of the proper selfadjoint operator is ambiguously determined. We study the asymptotic behavior of spe

V. Araujo, A. Castro, M. J. Pacifico, V. Pinheiro

We present a multidimensional flow exhibiting a Rovella-like attractor: a transitive invariant set with a non-Lorenz-like singularity accumulated by regular orbits and a multidimensional non-uniformly expanding invariant direction. Moreover, this attractor has a physical measure with full support but persists along certain0909.1033 submanifolds of the space

S. I. Kruglov

The generalized Born--Infeld electrodynamics with two parameters is investigated. In this model the propagation of a linearly polarized laser beam in the external transverse magnetic field is considered. It was shown that there is the effect of vacuum birefringence, and we evaluate induced ellipticity. The upper bounds on the combination of parameters introd

Frauke M. Bleher

We determine the universal deformation ring R(G,V) of certain mod 2 representations V of a finite group G which belong to a 2-modular block of G whose defect groups are isomorphic to a generalized quaternion group D. We show that for these V, a question raised by the author and Chinburg concerning the relation of R(G,V) to D has an affirmative answer. We als

A. Fushishita, T. Kuwabara, C. Kato, S. Yasue

We analyze the precursor of a Forbush Decrease (FD) observed with the Global Muon Detector Network on December 14, 2006. An intense geomagnetic storm is also recorded during this FD with the peak Kp index of 8+. By using the "two-dimensional map" of the cosmic ray intensity produced after removing the contribution from the diurnal anisotropy, we succeed in e

Gael Meigniez

We exhibit a pseudogroup of smooth local transformations of the real line which is compactly generated, but not realizable as the holonomy pseudogroup of a foliation of codimension 1 on a compact manifold. The proof relies on a description of all foliations with the same dynamic as the Reeb component.

N. T. Behara, H. -G. Ludwig, P. Bonifacio, L. Sbordone

We present a detailed analysis of the carbon and nitrogen abundances of two dwarf carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars: SDSS J1349-0229 and SDSS J0912+0216. We also report the oxygen abundance of SDSS J1349-0229. These stars are metal-poor, with [Fe/H] < -2.5, and were selected from our ongoing survey of extremely metal-poor dwarf candidates from the Sloa

Guo-meng Zhao

We present data analyses of the thermal conductivity and specific heat of electron-doped Pr1.85Ce0.15CuO4-y. The zero-field thermal conductivity and specific heat of this optimally electrondoped system can be only explained by a nodeless gap symmetry. The magnetic-field dependence of the electronic specific heat in the vortex state is in quantitative agreeme

Christian P. Robert, Nicolas Chopin, Judith Rousseau

We are grateful to all discussants of our re-visitation for their strong support in our enterprise and for their overall agreement with our perspective. Further discussions with them and other leading statisticians showed that the legacy of Theory of Probability is alive and lasting. [arXiv:0804.3173]

Bachir Bekka, Alexander Lubotzky

The following two results are shown. 1) Let $G$ be the $k$-rational points of a simple algebraic group over a local field $k$ and let $H$ be a lattice in $G.$ Then the regular representation of $G$ on $L^2(G/H)$ has a spectral gap (that is, there are no almost invariant unit vectors in the subspace of functions in $L^2(G/H)$ with zero mean). 2) There exist l

Wensheng Cao, Krishnendu Gongopadhyay

It is of interest to characterize algebraically the dynamical types of isometries of the complex and quaternionic hyperbolic planes. In the complex case, such a characterization is known from the work of Giraud-Goldman. In this paper, we offer an algebraic characterization of the isometries of the two-dimensional quaternionic hyperbolic space. Our result res

H. Mohseni Sadjadi

The role of the interaction in reaching and crossing the phantom divide line in the Chaplygin gas model is discussed. We obtain some necessary properties of the interaction that allow the model to arrive at or cross the phantom divide line. We show that these properties put some conditions on the ratio of dark matter to dark energy density in the present epo

Rabin Banerjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, Subir Ghosh, Pradip Mukherjee

In this review article we discuss some of the applications of noncommutative geometry in physics that are of recent interest, such as noncommutative many-body systems, noncommutative extension of Special Theory of Relativity kinematics, twisted gauge theories and noncommutative gravity.

Romuald Elie, Idris Kharroubi

Our study is dedicated to the probabilistic representation and numerical approximation of solutions to coupled systems of variational inequalities. The dynamics of each component of the solution is driven by a different linear parabolic operator and suffers a non-linear dependence in all the components of the solution. This dynamics is combined with a global

Dennis Bonatsos, E. A. McCutchan, R. F. Casten, R. J. Casperson

The energies of subsets of excited 0+ states in geometric collective models are investigated and found to exhibit intriguing regularities. In models with an infinite square well potential, it is found that a single formula, dependent on only the number of dimensions, describes a subset of 0+ states. The same behavior of a subset of 0+ states is seen in the l

Ravi Teja Sukhavasi, Babak Hassibi

We study the problem of optimal estimation and control of linear systems using quantized measurements, with a focus on applications over sensor networks. We show that the state conditioned on a causal quantization of the measurements can be expressed as the sum of a Gaussian random vector and a certain truncated Gaussian vector. This structure bears close re

Yeong-Cherng Liang, Nicholas Harrigan, Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph

We show that correlations inconsistent with any locally causal description can be a generic feature of measurements on entangled quantum states. Specifically, spatially-separated parties who perform local measurements on a maximally-entangled state using randomly chosen measurement bases can, with significant probability, generate nonclassical correlations t

Luis O. Silva, Julio H. Toloza

For entire operators and entire operators in the generalized sense, we provide characterizations based on the spectra of their selfadjoint extensions. In order to obtain these spectral characterizations, we discuss the representation of a simple, regular, closed symmetric operator with deficiency indices (1,1) as a multiplication operator in a certain de Bra

Mohammad El Smaily, Stephane Kirsch

This paper is devoted to the study of the asymptotic behaviors of the minimal speed of propagation of pulsating traveling fronts solving the Fisher-KPP reaction-advection-diffusion equation within either a large drift, a mixture of large drift and small reaction, or a mixture of large drift and large diffusion. We consider a periodic heterogenous framework a

Mike Stannett

Andreka and her colleagues have described various geometrically inspired first-order theories of special and general relativity, while Szekely&#39;s PhD dissertation focuses on an intermediate logic of accelerated observers. In this paper we will attempt to incorporate a model of quantum theoretical trajectories that can reasonably claim to be physically mea

Gideon Maschler, Christina W. Tønnesen-Friedman

We prove that an admissible manifold (as defined by Apostolov, Calderbank, Gauduchon and Tønnesen-Friedman), arising from a base with a local Kähler product of constant scalar curvature metrics, admits Generalized Quasi-Einstein Kähler metrics (as defined by D. Guan) in all &#34;sufficiently small&#34; admissible Kähler classes. We give an example where the

F. Jenet, L. S. Finn, J. Lazio, A. Lommen

The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) is a consortium of astronomers whose goal is the creation of a galactic scale gravitational wave observatory sensitive to gravitational waves in the nHz-microHz band. It is just one component of an international collaboration involving similar organizations of European and Australian

Amnon Marinov, Dietmar Kolb, Jesse L. Weil

Based on two alpha-particle chains the Joint Working Party (JWP) Report assigns the priority for discovering element 112 to work done in 1996 and 2002 at GSI, Darmstadt. By doing this it ignores the data presented to the JWP about the discovery of this element already back in 1971 by Marinov et al. In those measurements about one hundred fission fragments we

S. A. Trigger

Equation for anomalous diffusion in momentum space, recently obtained in the recent paper (S.A. Trigger, ArXiv 0907.2793 v1, [cond-matt. stat.-mech.], 16 July 2009) is solved for the stationary and non-stationary cases on basis of the appropriate probability transition function (PTF). Consideration of diffusion for heavy particles in a gas of the light parti

Sergei Kopeikin

Millisecond and binary pulsars are the most stable astronomical standards of frequency. They can be applied to solving a number of problems in astronomy and time-keeping metrology including the search for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the early universe, testing general relativity, and establishing a new time-scale. The full exploration of pu

G. Kabatiansky, G. Oshanin

We compare an efficiency of a deterministic &#34;lawnmower&#34; and random search strategies for finding a prescribed sequence of letters (a password) of length M in which all letters are taken from the same Q-ary alphabet. We show that at best a random search takes two times longer than a &#34;lawnmower&#34; search.

Yury Ustinovsky

In this note we give the definition of the &#34;doubling operation&#34; for simple polytopes, find the formula for the h-polynomial of new polytope.As an application of this operation we establish the relationship between moment-angle manifolds and their real analogues and prove the toral rank conjecture for moment-angle manifolds Z_P.

M. N. Doja, Dharmender Saini

When a person joins in an organization, he becomes authorize to take some decisions on behalf of that organization; means he is given some authority to exercise. After some time, on the basis of his performance in the organization, he is given promotion and he becomes eligible to exercise to some higher authorities. And further, he may get some higher promot

Gleb Oshanin, Katja Lindenberg, Horacio S Wio, Sergei Burlatsky

We study the kinetics for the search of an immobile target by randomly moving searchers that detect it only upon encounter. The searchers perform intermittent random walks on a one-dimensional lattice. Each searcher can step on a nearest neighbor site with probability &#34;alpha&#34;, or go off lattice with probability &#34;1 - α&#34; to move in a random dir

Hiroshi Tamura, Valentin Zagrebnov

Limit theorems, including the large deviation principle, are established for random point processes (fields), which describe the position distributions of the perfect boson gas in the regime of the Bose-Einstein condensation. We compare these results with those for the case of the normal phase.

Alexei Barbosa de Aguiar, Placido Rogerio Pinheiro, Alvaro de Menezes S. Neto, Ruddy P. P. Cunha

GSM networks are very expensive. The network design process requires too many decisions in a combinatorial explosion. For this reason, the larger is the network, the harder is to achieve a totally human based optimized solution. The BSC (Base Station Control) nodes have to be geographically well allocated to reduce the transmission costs. There are decisions

Pi-Gang Luan

The power loss and electromagnetic energy density of a metamaterial consisting of arrays of wires and split-ring resonators (SRRs) are investigated. We show that a field energy density formula can be derived consistently from both the electrodynamic (ED) approach and the equivalent circuit (EC) approach. The derivations are based on the knowledge of the dyna

Biswanath Chakraborty, Anindya Das, A. K. Sood

We show simultaneous p and n type carrier injection in bilayer graphene channel by varying the longitudinal bias across the channel and the top gate voltage. The top gate is applied electrochemically using solid polymer electrolyte and the gate capacitance is measured to be 1.5 $μF/cm^2$, a value about 125 times higher than the conventional SiO$_2$ back gate

Steven G. Krantz

We study extremal discs for the Kobayashi metric. Inspired by work of Lempert on strongly convex domains, we present results on strongly pseudoconvex domains. We also consider a useful biholomorphic invariant, inspired by the Kobayashi (and Carathéodory) metric, and prove several new results about biholomorphic equivalence of domains. Some useful results abo

Amit Keren

A proper understanding of the mechanism for cuprate superconductivity can emerge only by comparing materials in which physical parameters vary one at a time. Here we present a variety of bulk, resonance, and scattering measurements on the (Ca_xLa_{1-x})(Ba_{1.75-x}La_{0.25+x})Cu_3O_y high temperature superconductors, in which this can be done. We determine t

Violeta Petkova

For a Hilbert space H included in L^1_{loc} (R) of functions on $R we obtain a representation theorem for the multipliers M commuting with the shift operator S. This generalizes the classical result for multipliers in L^2(R) as well as our previous result for multipliers in weighted space Lw^2(R). Moreover, we obtain a description of the spectrum of S.

Amir M. Ben-Amram

Suppose that a rooted tree T is given for preprocessing. The Level-Ancestor Problem is to answer quickly queries of the following form. Given a vertex v and an integer i > 0, find the i-th vertex on the path from the root to v. Algorithms that achieve a linear time bound for preprocessing and a constant time bound for a query have been published by Dietz (19

Y. Mizoguchi, K. Munakata, M. Takita, J. Kota

The sidereal anisotropy of galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity observed with the Tibet Air Shower (AS) experiment still awaits theoretical interpretation. The observed global feature of the anisotropy is well reproduced by a superposition of the bi-directional and uni-directional flows (BDF and UDF, respectively) of GCRs. If the orientation of the deduced BD

M. Amenomori, X. J. Bi, D. Chen, S. W. Cui

We develop a model anisotropy best-fitting to the two-dimensional sky-map of multi-TeV galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity observed with the Tibet III air shower (AS) array. By incorporating a pair of intensity excesses in the hydrogen deflection plane (HDP) suggested by Gurnett et al., together with the uni-directional and bi-directional flows for reproduci

Gerhard Mack

An exact correspondence is pointed out between conformal field theories in D dimensions and dual resonance models in D&#39; dimensions, where D&#39; may differ from D. Dual resonance models, pioneered by Veneziano, were forerunners of string theory. The analog of scattering amplitudes are called Mellin amplitudes; they depend on complex variables which subst

C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, B. B. Augstein

We investigate the contributions from the $3σ_{g}$ and $1π_{u}$ and molecular orbitals in high-order harmonic generation in $N_{2}$, with particular emphasis on quantum-interference effects. We consider both the physical processes in which the electron is freed and returns to the same orbital, and those in which it is ionized off one orbital and recombines w

Pierrick Tranouez, Patrice Langlois, Eric Daudé

We describe in this article a multiagent urban traffic simulation, as we believe individual-based modeling is necessary to encompass the complex influence the actions of an individual vehicle can have on the overall flow of vehicles. We first describe how we build a graph description of the network from purely geometric data, ESRI shapefiles. We then explain

S. Abenda, T. Grava, C. Klein

The small dispersion limit of solutions to the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations. An asymptotic description of these oscillations is given, for short times, by the one-phase solution to the CH equation, where the branch points of the corresponding elliptic curve depend on the physical coor

V. M. Kontorovich

The solution for the electromagnetic tornado in a vacuum gap of a pulsar that could serve as an explanation of the observed circular polarization of giant pulses from pulsars and might also explain the frequency strips observed in giant pulses spectrum is found.

L. Zampieri, T. P. Roberts

We review the available estimates of the masses of the compact object in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) and critically reconsider the stellar-mass versus intermediate-mass black hole interpretations. Black holes of several hundreds to thousands of $M_\odot$ are not required for the majority of ULXs, although they might be present in the handful of known

Takeshi Sugawara, Kunihiko Kaneko

Biological units such as macromolecules, organelles, and cells are directed to a proper location under gradients of relevant chemicals. By considering a macroscopic element that has binding sites for a chemical adsorption reaction to occur on its surface, we show the existence of a thermodynamic force that is generated by the gradient and exerted on the elem

Kong SiWei, Huang Yong-Feng

GRB 070610, which is also named Swift J195509.6+261406, is a peculiar Galactic transient with significant variability on short timescales in both X-ray and optical light curves. One possible explanation is that GRB 070610/Swift J195509.6 + 261406 is a soft gamma-ray repeater (SGR) in our Galaxy. Here we use the fireball model which is usually recognized as t

Almudena Arcones, Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo

We have performed hydrodynamical simulations of the long-time evolution of proto-neutron stars to study the nucleosynthesis using the resulting wind trajectories. Although the conditions found in the present wind models are not favourable for the production of heavy elements, a small enhancement of the entropy results in the production of r-process elements

Vaneet Aggarwal, Ashutosh Sabharwal

Most communication systems use some form of feedback, often related to channel state information. In this paper, we study diversity multiplexing tradeoff for both FDD and TDD systems, when both receiver and transmitter knowledge about the channel is noisy and potentially mismatched. For FDD systems, we first extend the achievable tradeoff region for 1.5 roun

Amir Mahmood, Saima Parveen

The asymptotic stability of a global solution satisfying Hamilton-Jacobi equations with jumps will be analyzed in dependence on the strong dissipativity of the jump control function and using orbits of the differentiable flows to describe the corresponding characteristic system.

Matthieu Lerasle

We propose an algorithm to estimate the common density $s$ of a stationary process $X_1,...,X_n$. We suppose that the process is either $β$ or $τ$-mixing. We provide a model selection procedure based on a generalization of Mallows&#39; $C_p$ and we prove oracle inequalities for the selected estimator under a few prior assumptions on the collection of models

Pingzhi Yuan

Let $a(n, k)$ be the $k$-th coefficient of the $n$-th cyclotomic polynomial. Recently, Ji, Li and Moree \cite{JLM09} proved that for any integer $m\ge1$, $\{a(mn, k)| n, k\in\mathbb{N}\}=\mathbb{Z}$. In this paper, we improve this result and prove that for any integers $s>t\ge0$, $$\{a(ns+t, k)| n, k\in\mathbb{N}\}=\mathbb{Z}.$$

Youjin Deng, Wenan Guo, Jouke R. Heringa, Henk W. J. Blöte

We study two types of generalized Baxter-Wu models, by means of transfer-matrix and Monte Carlo techniques. The first generalization allows for different couplings in the up- and down triangles, and the second generalization is to a $q$-state spin model with three-spin interactions. Both generalizations lead to self-dual models, so that the probable location

Sándor J Kovács, Karl Schwede

This is a survey of some recent developments in the study of singularities related to the classification theory of algebraic varieties. In particular, the definition and basic properties of Du Bois singularities and their connections to the more commonly known singularities of the minimal model program are reviewed and discussed.

A. Kolakowska, M. A. Novotny

The article [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 73}, 031111 (2006)] by Horowitz and Albano reports on simulations of competitive surface-growth models RD+X that combine random deposition (RD) with another deposition X that occurs with probability $p$. The claim is made that at saturation the surface width $w(p)$ obeys a power-law scaling $w(p) \propto 1/p^δ$, where $δ$ is on

J. Kiryluk

We report on the first search for extra-terrestrial neutrino-induced cascades in IceCube. The analyzed data were collected in the year 2007 when 22 detector strings were installed and operated. We will discuss the analysis methods used to reconstruct cascades and to suppress backgrounds. Simulated neutrino signal events with a E-2 energy spectrum, which pass

Spencer D. Stirling, Yong-Shi Wu

This is the first paper in a series where we generalize the Categorical Quantum Mechanics program (due to Abramsky, Coecke, et al) to braided systems. In our view a uniform description of quantum information for braided systems has not yet emerged. The picture is complicated by a diversity of examples that lacks a unifying framework for proving theorems and

Mohammad El Smaily

This paper is concerned with some nonlinear propagation phenomena for reaction-advection-diffusion equations in a periodic framework. It deals with travelling wave solutions of the equation $$u_t =\nabla\cdot(A(z)\nabla u) +q(z)\cdot\nabla u+ f(z,u), t \in \mathbb{R}, z \in Ω,$$ propagating with a speed $c.$ In the case of a &#34;combustion&#34; nonlinearity

S. Zhdanovich, E. A. Shapiro, J. W. Hepburn, M. Shapiro

We demonstrate a method of adiabatic population transfer from a single quantum state into a coherent superposition of states. The transfer is executed with femtosecond pulses, spectrally shaped in simple and intuitive manner, which does not require iterative feedback-controlled loops. In contrast to non-adiabatic methods of excitation, our approach is not se

J. Hong, J. E. Grindlay, B. Allen, S. D. Barthelmy

The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is a proposed next generation multi-wavelength survey mission. The primary instrument is a High Energy telescope (HET) that conducts the deepest survey for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs), obscured-accreting and dormant Supermassive Black Holes and Transients of all varieties for immediate followup studies by the

Georgi Dimov

Generalizing a theorem of Ph. Dwinger, we describe the partially ordered set of all (up to equivalence) zero-dimensional locally compact Hausdorff extensions of a zero-dimensional Hausdorff space. Using this description, we find the necessary and sufficient conditions which has to satisfy a map between two zero-dimensional Hausdorff spaces in order to have s

Conrad Shyu, Celeste J. Brown, F. Marty Ytreberg

Molecular dynamics simulations were used to determine the binding affinities between between the hormone 17 beta-estradiol (E2) and different estrogen receptor (ER) isoforms in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Previous phylogenetic analysis indicates that a whole genome duplication prior to the divergence of ray-finned fish led to two distinct ER beta

Khristo N. Boyadzhiev

This article is a survey of the exponential polynomials (also called single-variable Bell polynomials) from the point of view of Analysis. Some new properties are included and several Analysis-related applications are mentioned.

Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, Jef Wagner, K. V. Shajesh

In this paper, dedicated to the career of Tom Erber, we consider the Casimir interaction between weakly coupled bodies at nonzero temperature. For the case of semitransparent bodies, that is, ones described by delta-function potentials, we first examine the interaction between an infinite plane and an arbitrary curved surface. In weak coupling, such an inter

B. Wunsch, L. Fritz, N. T. Zinner, E. Manousakis

We analyze the repulsive fermionic Hubbard model on square and cubic lattices with spin imbalance and in the presence of a parabolic confinement. We analyze the magnetic structure as a function of the repulsive interaction strength and polarization. In the first part of the paper we perform unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculations for the 2D case and find that

J. R. Shepard, J. A. McNeil

We present an alternative organizational scheme for developing effective theories of 2- and 3-body systems that is systematic, accurate, and efficient with controlled errors. To illustrate our approach we consider the bound state and scattering properties of the 2- and 3-nucleon systems. Our approach combines the computational benefits of using separable pot

Firas Rassoul-Agha, Timo Seppalainen

We consider a bounded step size random walk in an ergodic random environment with some ellipticity, on an integer lattice of arbitrary dimension. We prove a level 3 large deviation principle, under almost every environment, with rate function related to a relative entropy.

Jeffrey L. Boersema, Efren Ruiz

We establish axiomatic characterizations of $K$-theory and $KK$-theory for real C*-algebras. In particular, let $F$ be an abelian group-valued functor on separable real C*-algebras. We prove that if $F$ is homotopy invariant, stable, and split exact, then $F$ factors through the category $KK$. Also, if $F$ is homotopy invariant, stable, half exact, continuou

The MIPP Collaboration, N. Graf, A. Lebedev, R. J. Abrams

The two most recent and precise measurements of the charged kaon mass use X-rays from kaonic atoms and report uncertainties of 14 ppm and 22 ppm yet differ from each other by 122 ppm. We describe the possibility of an independent mass measurement using the measurement of Cherenkov light from a narrow-band beam of kaons, pions, and protons. This technique was

Adrian Vasiu, Thomas Zink

Let $p$ be a prime. Let $(R,\ideal{m})$ be a regular local ring of mixed characteristic $(0,p)$ and absolute index of ramification $e$. We provide general criteria of when each abelian scheme over $\Spec R\setminus\{\ideal{m}\}$ extends to an abelian scheme over $\Spec R$. We show that such extensions always exist if $e\le p-1$, exist in most cases if $p\le

Daniel Farley

We prove that a hyperplane in a CAT(0) cubical complex X has no self-intersections and separates X into two convex complementary components. These facts were originally proved by Sageev. Our argument shows that his theorem is a corollary of Gromov&#39;s link condition. We also give new arguments establishing some combinatorial properties of hyperplanes. We s

Wei Peng, N. Lemée, J. -L. Dellis, V. V. Shvartsman

We present electric and magnetic properties of 0.8Pb(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3-0.2Pb(Mg1/2W1/2)O3 films epitaxially grown on (001) SrTiO3 substrates using pulsed laser deposition. A narrow deposition window around 710 oC and 0.2 mbar has been identified to achieve epitaxial single-phase thin films. A typical Vogel-Fulcher relaxor-like dielectric and magnetic susceptibil

Abhishek Agarwal

We construct a massive non-abelian N= 1 SYM theory on R^3. This is achieved by using a non-local gauge and Poincare invariant mass term for gluons due to Nair. The underlying supersymmetry algebra is shown to be a non-central extension of the Poincare algebra by the spacetime rotation group so(3). The incorporation of Chern-Simons couplings in the formalism

Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro

Most numerical models of binary stars - in particular neutron stars in compact binaries - assume the companions to be either corotational or irrotational. Either one of these assumptions leads to a significant simplification in the hydrodynamic equations of stationary equilibrium. In this paper we develop a new formalism for the construction of binary stars

Steven Johnston

The Feynman propagator for a free bosonic scalar field on the discrete spacetime of a causal set is presented. The formalism includes scalar field operators and a vacuum state which define a scalar quantum field theory on a causal set. This work can be viewed as a novel regularisation of quantum field theory based on a Lorentz invariant discretisation of spa

S. Torquato, Y. Jiao

We formulate the problem of generating dense packings of nonoverlapping, non-tiling polyhedra within an adaptive fundamental cell subject to periodic boundary conditions as an optimization problem, which we call the Adaptive Shrinking Cell (ASC) scheme. This novel optimization problem is solved here (using a variety of multi-particle initial configurations)

Benjamin Dodson

We prove global well-posedness for the cubic, defocusing, nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equation on $\mathbf{R}^{2}$ with data $u_{0} \in H^{s}(\mathbf{R}^{2})$, $s > 1/4$. We accomplish this by improving the almost Morawetz estimates in [9].

Harald Andres Helfgott

Let omega(n) be the number of prime divisors of an integer n. Let n be an integer taken at random between 1 and N. What can be said about the value then taken by omega(n)? What is its expected value? What is its distribution in the limit? What is the probability that omega(n) will deviate greatly from its expected value? We will study these questions as an i

Wojciech Kamiński, Marcin Kisielowski, Jerzy Lewandowski

The simplicial framework of Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine spin-foam models is generalized to match the diffeomorphism invariant framework of loop quantum gravity. The simplicial spin-foams are generalized to arbitrary linear 2-cell spin-foams. The resulting framework admits all the spin-network states of loop quantum gravity, not only those defined by triangu

G. Ghisellini, F. Tavecchio, L. Foschini, G. Ghirlanda

We studied all blazars of known redshift detected by the Fermi satellite during its first three months survey. For the majority of them, pointed Swift observations ensures a good multiwavelength coverage, enabling us to to reliably construct their spectral energy distributions (SED). We model the SEDs using a one-zone leptonic model and study the distributio

R. Prozorov, M. A. Tanatar, N. Ni, A. Kreyssig

Critical current density was studied in single crystals of Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$ for the values of $x$ spanning the entire doping phase diagram. A noticeable enhancement was found for slightly underdoped crystals with the peak at $x = 0.058$. Using a combination of polarized-light imaging, x-ray diffraction and magnetic measurements we associate thi

Hui Khoon Ng, Prabha Mandayam

We demonstrate that there exists a universal, near-optimal recovery map---the transpose channel---for approximate quantum error-correcting codes, where optimality is defined using the worst-case fidelity. Using the transpose channel, we provide an alternative interpretation of the standard quantum error correction (QEC) conditions, and generalize them to a s

H. Siejkowski, M. Soida, K. Otmianowska-Mazur, M. Hanasz

Irregular galaxies are usually smaller and less massive than their spiral, S0, and elliptical counterparts. Radio observations indicate that a magnetic field is present in irregular galaxies whose value is similar to that in spiral galaxies. However, the conditions in the interstellar medium of an irregular galaxy are unfavorable for amplification of the mag

E. I. Lashin, E. Malkawi, S. Nasri, N. Chamoun

We derive in a simple way the $(Z_2)^3$ symmetry which characterizes uniquely the phenomenologically successful tripartite form leading to the tribimaximal mixing in the neutrino mass matrix. We impose this symmetry in a setup including the charged leptons and find that it can accommodate all the possible patterns of lepton masses in the framework of type-I

Kenjiro K. Gomes, Wonhee Ko, Warren Mar, Yulin Chen

The motion of a relativistic particle is linked to its spin by the Dirac equation. Remarkably, electrons in two-dimensional materials can mimic such Dirac particles but must always appear in pairs of opposite spin chirality. Using topological ideas of chiral boundary electrons wrapping a three-dimensional crystal with tuned spin-orbit coupling, we show that

Karol Palka

We consider singular Q-acyclic surfaces with smooth locus of non-general type. We prove that if the singularities are topologically rational then the smooth locus is C^1- or C*-ruled or the surface is up to isomorphism one of two exceptional surfaces of Kodaira dimension zero. For both exceptional surfaces the Kodaira dimension of the smooth locus is zero an

Ivan Cheltsov, Constantin Shramov

We study exceptional quotient singularities. In particular, we prove an exceptionality criterion in terms of the $α$-invariant of Tian, and utilize it to classify four-dimensional and five-dimensional exceptional quotient singularities.

Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Tashiro, Naoshi Sugiyama

We numerically study the interaction of inflation-produced magnetic fields with gravitational waves, both of which originate from quantum fluctuations during inflation. The resonance between the magnetic field perturbations and the gravitational waves has been suggested as a possible mechanism for magnetic field amplification. However, some analytical studie

Carlo A. Furia, Bertrand Meyer

One of the obstacles in automatic program proving is to obtain suitable loop invariants. The invariant of a loop is a weakened form of its postcondition (the loop&#39;s goal, also known as its contract); the present work takes advantage of this observation by using the postcondition as the basis for invariant inference, using various heuristics such as &#34;

M. Le Tacon, T. R. Forrest, Ch. Rüegg, A. Bosak

We report inelastic x-ray scattering experiments on the lattice dynamics in SmFeAsO and superconducting SmFeAsO$_{0.6}$F$_{0.35}$ single crystals. Particular attention was paid to the dispersions along the [100] direction of three optical modes close to 23 meV, polarized out of the FeAs planes. Remarkably, two of these modes are strongly renormalized upon fl

A. S. M. Burgess, E. Moraux, J. Bouvier, C. Marmo

The determination of the lower-end of the initial mass function (IMF) provides strong constraints on star formation theories. We report here on a search for isolated planetary-mass objects in the 3 Myr-old star-forming region IC 348. Deep, narrowband CH4off and CH4on images were obtained with CFHT/WIRCam over 0.11 sq.deg. in the central part of IC 348 to ide

Philip G. Westergaard, Jerome Lodewyck, Pierre Lemonde

We discuss the minimization of the Dick effect in an optical lattice clock. We show that optimizing the time sequence of operation of the clock can lead to a significant reduction of the clock stability degradation by the frequency noise of the interrogation laser. By using a non-destructive detection of the atoms, we are able to recycle most of the atoms be

Attilio L. Stella, Fulvio Baldovin

We derive theorems which outline explicit mechanisms by which anomalous scaling for the probability density function of the sum of many correlated random variables asymptotically prevails. The results characterize general anomalous scaling forms, justify their universal character, and specify universality domains in the spaces of joint probability density fu

Oliver Schnetz

We consider the number \bar N(q) of points in the projective complement of graph hypersurfaces over \F_q and show that the smallest graphs with non-polynomial \bar N(q) have 14 edges. We give six examples which fall into two classes. One class has an exceptional prime 2 whereas in the other class \bar N(q) depends on the number of cube roots of unity in \F_q