October 2009 arXiv papers — page 11

Ratna Koley, Joydip Mitra, Supratik Pal, Soumitra SenGupta

Thermodynamic properties of Schwarzschild-Anti de-Sitter (Sch-AdS) and Reissner-Nordström-Anti de-Sitter (RN-AdS) blackholes in 3+1 dimensional spacetime are studied critically with special reference to the warped braneworld black holes with non-vanishing cosmological constant on the brane. Explicit dependence of the thermodynamic variables on the parameters

C. Hays

The electroweak theory has been tested to high precision, with measurements probing its predictions at the loop level. The current generation of particle accelerators will produce enough W and Z bosons through hadron collisions to significantly improve the accuracy of these measurements. I review the issues related to such production, with particular emphasi

M. W. Wise

Whether caused by AGN jets, shocks, or mergers, the most definitive evidence for heating in cluster cores comes from X-ray spectroscopy. Unfortunately such spectra are essentially limited to studying the emission spectrum from the cluster as a whole. However since the same underlying emission measure distribution produces both the observed CCD and RGS spectr

A. Imparato, A. Pelizzola, M. Zamparo

The mechanical unfolding of a simple RNA hairpin and of a 236--bases portion of the Tetrahymena thermophila ribozyme is studied by means of an Ising--like model. Phase diagrams and free energy landscapes are computed exactly and suggest a simple two--state behaviour for the hairpin and the presence of intermediate states for the ribozyme. Nonequilibrium simu

Cornou Jean-Louis, Bonazzola Silvano

A new spectral method is built resorting to $(0,2)$ Jacobi polynomials. We describe the origin and the properties of these polynomials. This choice of polynomials is motivated by their orthogonality properties with the respect to the weight $r^2$ used in spherical geometry. New results about Jacobi-Gauss-Lobatto quadratures are proven, leading to a discrete

Dmitry Chelkak

We consider Sturm-Liouville operators $-y&#39;&#39;+v(x)y$ on $[0,1]$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions $y(0)=y(1)=0$. For any $1\le p<\infty$, we give a short proof of the characterization theorem for the spectral data corresponding to $v\in L^p(0,1)$.

Daniel Gómez Vergel

We explore the features of gravity in its quantum regime in a mathematically rigorous way by carrying out the classical and quantum formulations of some two-Killing symmetry reductions of general relativity which admit an exact Fock/Schrödinger quantization. Concretely, we analyze in depth the linearly polarized 3-handle (S1xS2) and 3-sphere (S3) Gowdy cosmo

Hanno Rein, John C. B. Papaloizou, Wilhelm Kley

The recently discovered planetary system HD45364 which consists of a Jupiter and Saturn mass planet is very likely in a 3:2 mean motion resonance. The standard scenario to form planetary commensurabilities is convergent migration of two planets embedded in a protoplanetary disc. When the planets are initially separated by a period ratio larger than two, conv

Alessandro Cobbe

The Steinitz class of a number field extension K/k is an ideal class in the ring of integers O_k of k, which, together with the degree [K:k] of the extension determines the O_k-module structure of O_K. We call rt(k,G) the classes which are Steinitz classes of a tamely ramified G-extension of k. We will say that those classes are realizable for the group G; i

E. Ideguchi, S. Ota, T. Morikawa, M. Oshima

A rotational band with five $\gamma$-ray transitions ranging from 2$^{+}$ to 12$^{+}$ states was identified in $^{40}$Ar. This band is linked through $\gamma$ transitions from the excited 2$^{+}$, 4$^{+}$ and 6$^{+}$ levels to the low-lying states; this determines the excitation energy and the spin-parity of the band. The deduced transition quadrupole moment

Anna Lázár, Dániel Ábel, Tamás Vicsek

In this paper we introduce a non-fuzzy measure which has been designed to rank the partitions of a network&#39;s nodes into overlapping communities. Such a measure can be useful for both quantifying clusters detected by various methods and during finding the overlapping community-structure by optimization methods. The theoretical problem referring to the sep

R. Leabovich, M. Schaps

We prove the existence of Morita equivalences between the spin blocks at the extremal points of strings in the block-reduced crystal graph. When the parities of the core partitions are not preserved, these equivalences require crossovers, with a block of the symmtric group Morita equivalent to a block of the alternating group and vice versa. The result permi

Saurabh D. Rindani

In the standard model with electroweak symmetry breaking through the Higgs mechanism, electroweak gauge-boson scattering amplitudes are large if the Higgs boson is heavy, and electroweak gauge interactions become strong. In theories with electroweak symmetry breaking through alternative mechanisms, there could be a strongly interacting gauge sector, possibly

N. Manini, M. Cesaratto, M. G. Del Popolo, P. Ballone

Computer simulations of (i) a [C12mim][Tf2N] film of nanometric thickness squeezed at kbar pressure by a piecewise parabolic confining potential reveal a mesoscopic in-plane density and composition modulation reminiscent of mesophases seen in 3D samples of the same room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL). Near 2D confinement, enforced by a high normal load, rel

Peijie Sun, Tusyoshi Ikeno, Toshio Mizushima, Yosikazu Isikawa

Substitution of Cu for Ni in the Kondo lattice system CeNi$_2$Al$_3$ results in a simultaneous optimization of the three interdependent thermoelectric parameters: thermoelectric power, electrical and thermal conductivities, where the electronic change in conduction band induced by the extra electron of Cu is shown to be crucial. The obtained thermoelectric f

K. Wette, M. Vigelius, A. Melatos

We perform ideal-magnetohydrodynamic axisymmetric simulations of magnetically confined mountains on an accreting neutron star, with masses less than ~0.12 solar masses. We consider two scenarios, in which the mountain sits atop a hard surface or sinks into a soft, fluid base. We find that the ellipticity of the star, due to a mountain grown on a hard surface

S. Pfalzner, A. Eckart

Aims.Recently a new analysis of cluster observations in the Milky Way found evidence that clustered star formation may work under tight constraints with respect to cluster size and density, implying the presence of just two sequences of young massive cluster. These two types of clusters each expand at different rates with cluster age. Methods. Here we invest

Stefano Baratella, Siu-Ah Ng

We study properties of C*-algebras obtained from the nonstandard hull construction (a generalization of the ultraproduct of C*-algebras). Among others, we prove that the properties of being an infinite and a properly infinite C*-algebra are both preserved and reflected by the nonstandard hull construction. We also show that the property of being generated by

A. Jan Hendriks, Christian Mulder

Context. So far, theoretical explanations for body-size patterns in periodic population dynamics have received little attention. In particular, tuning and testing of allometric models on empirical data and regressions has not been carried out yet. Here, oscillations expected from a one-species (delayed logistic) and a two-species (Rosenzweig-MacArthur) model

G. Yin, Y. Y. Liang, F. Jiang, H. Chen

With nonequilibrium Green&#39;s function approach combined with density functional theory, we perform an ab initio calculation to investigate transport properties of graphene nanoribbon junctions self-consistently. Tight-binding approximation is applied to model the zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) electrodes, and its validity is confirmed by comparison wit

M. Wendt, D. Reimers, P. Molaro

Cosmology contributes a good deal to the investigation of variation of fundamental physical constants. High resolution data is available and allows for detailed analysis over cosmological distances and a multitude of methods were developed. The raised demand for precision requires a deep understanding of the limiting errors involved. The achievable accuracy

Erich N. Wolf

Pressure broadening and pressure shift coefficients for 127I2 (diatomic iodine) in the presence of various buffer gases were determined respectively from the line-widths and line-center shifts observed in Doppler-limited, steady-state, linear absorption spectra near 675 nm as a function of buffer gas pressure through a nonlinear regression analysis of observ

Jennifer Kile

We explore the potential for the direct detection of light fermionic dark matter in neutrino detectors. We consider the possible observation of the process $\bar{f} p \to e^+ n$, where $f$ is a dark matter fermion, in a model-independent manner. All operators of dimension six or lower which can contribute to this process are listed, and we place constraints

Anna Beliakova, Emmanuel Wagner

This paper is devoted to the study of algebraic structures leading to link homology theories. The originally used structures of Frobenius algebra and/or TQFT are modified in two directions. First, we refine 2-dimensional cobordisms by taking into account their embedding into the three space. Secondly, we extend the underlying cobordism category to a 2-catego

J. S. Dodge, A. B. Schumacher, L. L. Miller, D. S. Chemla

Energy- and time-resolved spectroscopy reveals a photoinduced softening of the charge-transfer gap in the insulating copper oxide Sr2CuO2Cl2 that indicates rapid and efficient photoproduction of optical phonons. By relating the pump-probe signal amplitude to the thermal difference spectrum, we estimate that eleven to twenty optical phonons are created for ev

Ana Maria Visan, Artem Polyakov, Praveen S. Solanki, Kapil Arya

A new style of temporal debugging is proposed. The new URDB debugger can employ such techniques as temporal search for finding an underlying fault that is causing a bug. This improves on the standard iterative debugging style, which iteratively re-executes a program under debugger control in the search for the underlying fault. URDB acts as a meta-debugger,

David Gabai, Robert Meyerhoff, Peter Milley

This is an expository paper on Mom-technology, describing the recent work of the authors in this area (found in arXiv:math/0606072, arXiv:0705.4325, and arXiv:0809.0346) concerning the use of Mom-technology to find the minimum-volume compact hyperbolic 3-manifold and the 10 smallest cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In addition we provide a survey of a selectio

Marcus A. Khuri

We establish a Positive Mass Theorem for initial data sets of the Einstein equations having generalized trapped surface boundary. In particular we answer a question posed by R. Wald concerning the existence of generalized apparent horizons in Minkowski space.

Li Chen, Yong Liu, Feng Luo

Any constructive continuous function must have a gradually varied approximation in compact space. However, the refinement of domain for $σ-$-net might be very small. Keeping the original discretization (square or triangulation), can we get some interesting properties related to gradual variation? In this note, we try to prove that many harmonic functions are

Zhenqi Wang

We consider partially hyperbolic abelian algebraic high-rank actions on compact homogeneous spaces obtained from simple indefinite orthogonal and unitary groups. In the first part of the paper, we show local differentiable rigidity for such actions. The conclusions are based on progress towards computations of the Schur multipliers of these non-split groups,

JLQCD collaboration, K. Takeda, S. Aoki, S. Hashimoto

We calculate the nucleon strange quark content directly from disconnected three-point functions. Numerical simulations are carried out in two-flavor QCD using the overlap quark action with up and down quark masses down to a fifth of the physical strange quark mass. To improve the statistical accuracy, we calculate the nucleon two-point functions with the low

E. D. Araya, C. Rodriguez, Y. Pihlstrom, G. B. Taylor

B2352+495 is a prototypical example of a Compact Symmetric Object (CSO). It has a double radio lobe symmetrically located with respect to a central flat spectrum radio core (the location of the AGN) and has a physical extent of less than 200 pc. In this work we report VLBA observation of 21 cm HI absorption toward B2352+495 to investigate the properties of t

Jiro Akahori, Yuji Hishida, Josef Teichmann, Takahiro Tsuchiya

We construct default-free interest rate models in the spirit of the well-known Markov funcional models: our focus is analytic tractability of the models and generality of the approach. We work in the setting of state price densities and construct models by means of the so called propagation property. The propagation property can be found implicitly in all of

A. Abdelrahman, P. Hannaford M. Vasiliev, K. Alameh

A new method to implement an asymmetrical two-dimensional magnetic lattice is proposed. The asymmetrical two-dimensional magnetic lattice can be created by periodically distributing magnetic minima across the surface of magnetic thin film where the periodicity can be achieved by milling $n\times n$ square holes on the surface of the film. The quantum device

Damir Becirevic, Nejc Kosnik

Determination of V_cb in exclusive semileptonic decays is crucial consistency check against the V_cb determined inclusively. Anticipated precision of V_cb at the Super Flavor factory is ~1%, with most of the theoretical error due to hadronic form factor uncertainties. However, at this level of precision treating electromagnetic effects becomes inevitable. In

S. F. Timashev, Yu. S. Polyakov, R. M. Yulmetyev, S. A. Demin

In our earlier study dealing with the analysis of neuromagnetic responses (magnetoencephalograms - MEG) to flickering-color stimuli for a group of control human subjects (9 volunteers) and a patient with photosensitive epilepsy (a 12-year old girl), it was shown that Flicker-Noise Spectroscopy (FNS) was able to identify specific differences in the responses

Atanas Atanasov, Christopher Lopez, Alexander Perry, Nicholas Proudfoot

It is a long-standing question whether an arbitrary variety is desingularized by finitely many normalized Nash blow-ups. We consider this question in the case of a toric variety. We interpret the normalized Nash blow-up in polyhedral terms, show how continued fractions can be used to give an affirmative answer for a toric surface, and report on a computer in

Chunxuan Ye, Suhas Mathur, Alex Reznik, Yogendra Shah

The multipath-rich wireless environment associated with typical wireless usage scenarios is characterized by a fading channel response that is time-varying, location-sensitive, and uniquely shared by a given transmitter-receiver pair. The complexity associated with a richly scattering environment implies that the short-term fading process is inherently hard

Xuhua He

In this paper, we discuss some partitions of affine flag varieties. These partitions include as special cases the partition of affine flag variety into affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties and the affine analogue of the partition of flag varieties into $\cb_w(b)$ introduced by Lusztig in \cite{L1} as part of the definition of character sheaves. Among other thing

Gregory G. Howes, Eliot Quataert

Measurements of small-scale turbulent fluctuations in the solar wind find a non-zero right-handed magnetic helicity. This has been interpreted as evidence for ion cyclotron damping. However, theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that the majority of the energy in solar wind turbulence resides in low frequency anisotropic kinetic Alfven wave fluctuation

Xiangdong Ji

The authors claim to have found a &#34;proper&#34;, &#34;gauge-invariant&#34; definition of a charged-particle&#39;s momentum in gauge theory, which is more &#34;superior&#34; than the textbook version. I show that their result arises from a misunderstanding of gauge symmetry by generalizing the Coulomb gauge result indiscriminately and is not physical.

John A. Baldwin, John B. Etnyre

In this note we observe that the no two of the three invariants defined for contact structures by Etnyre and Ozbagci -- that is, the support genus, binding number and support norm -- determine the third.

Q. Vanhaelen, M. Hennenberg, S. Slavtchev, B. Weyssow

We consider the case of a deformable material interface between two immiscible moving media, both of them being magnetiable. The time dependence of the metric at the interface introduces a non linear term, proportional to the mean curvature, in the surface dynamical equations of mass momentum and angular momentum. We take into account the effects of that ter

Susan J. Sierra

Let R be a noetherian connected graded domain of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension 3 over an uncountable algebraically closed field. Suppose that the graded quotient ring of R is a skew-Laurent ring over a field; we say that R is a birationally commutative projective surface. We classify birationally commutative projective surfaces and show that they fall into four

Scott Chapman

A new proof is given for why the non-Hermitian, PT-Invariant cubic oscillator with imaginary coupling has real eigenvalues. The proof consists of two steps. In the first step, it is shown that for many PT-Invariant Hamiltonians, one can define corresponding Hermitian Hamiltonians that have the same eigenvalues when quantized using indefinite metric. The seco

Francisco R. Villatoro

Fractal sets, by definition, are non-differentiable, however their dimension can be continuous, differentiable, and arithmetically manipulable as function of their construction parameters. A new arithmetic for fractal dimension of polyadic Cantor sets is introduced by means of properly defining operators for the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and div

Yang Song, Hanan Dery

We present a comprehensive theory of spin transport in a non-degenerate semiconductor that is in contact with multiple ferromagnetic terminals. The spin dynamics in the semiconductor is studied during a perturbation of a general, non-collinear magnetization configuration and a method is shown to identify the various configurations from current signals. The c

Andrey Smirnov

We analyze the perturbative series expansion of vacuum expectation values (vevs) for Wilson loop operators in Chern-Simons (CS) gauge theory in the temporal gauge $A_{0}=0$. Following J. Labastida and E. Pérez we introduce the notion of the kernels of knot polynomial invariants - the (non-invariant) vevs of the Wilson loops, arising from CS theory in the tem

Hee-Jong Seo, Scott Dodelson, John Marriner, Dave Mcginnis

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler with which to measure the acceleration of the Universe. The BAO feature has so far been detected in optical galaxy surveys. Intensity mapping of neutral hydrogen emission with a ground-based radio telescope provides another promising window for measuring BAO at redshifts of order unity for re

Brian Conrad, Max Lieblich, Martin Olsson

We prove the Nagata compactification theorem for any separated map of finite type between quasi-compact and quasi-separated algebraic spaces, generalizing earlier results of Raoult. Along the way we also prove (and use) absolute noetherian approximation for such algebraic spaces, generalizing earlier results in the case of schemes.

Hee-Jong Seo, Jonathan Eckel, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kushal Mehta

We measure shifts of the acoustic scale due to nonlinear growth and redshift distortions to a high precision using a very large volume of high-force-resolution simulations. We compare results from various sets of simulations that differ in their force, volume, and mass resolution. We find a consistency within 1.5-sigma for shift values from different simulat

F. M. S. Lima

In a recent work, Dancs and He found an Euler-type formula for $\,ζ{(2\,n+1)}$, $\,n\,$ being a positive integer, which contains a series they could not reduce to a finite closed-form. This open problem reveals a greater complexity in comparison to $ζ(2n)$, which is a rational multiple of $π^{2n}$. For the Dirichlet beta function, the things are `inverse&#39

Nico Wintergerst, Valeria Pettorino, David F. Mota, Christof Wetterich

A quintessence scalar field or cosmon interacting with neutrinos can have important effects on cosmological structure formation. Within growing neutrino models the coupling becomes effective only in recent times, when neutrinos become non-relativistic, stopping the evolution of the cosmon. This can explain why dark energy dominates the universe only in a rat

Hamid Ohadi, Matthew Himsworth, André Xuereb, Tim Freegarde

We demonstrate a combined magneto-optical trap and imaging system that is suitable for the investigation of cold atoms near surfaces. In particular, we are able to trap atoms close to optically scattering surfaces and to image them with an excellent signal-to-noise ratio. We also demonstrate a simple magneto-optical atom cloud launching method. We anticipate

Philip J. Harding, Huib J. Bakker, Alex Hartsuiker, Julien Claudon

We study the time-resolved reflectivity spectrum of a switched planar GaAs-AlAs microcavity. Between 5 and 40 ps after the switching (pump) pulse we observe a strong excess probe reflectivity and a change of the frequency of light trapped in the cavity up to 5 linewidths away from the cavity resonance. This frequency change does not adiabatically follow the

Y. Ren, W. Yu, S. M. Frolov, J. A. Folk

Nuclear spin polarization is typically generated in GaAs quantum point contacts (QPCs) when an out-of-plane magnetic field gives rise to spin-polarized quantum Hall edge states, and a voltage bias drives transitions between the edge states via electron-nuclear flip-flop scattering. Here, we report a similar effect for QPCs in an in-plane magnetic field, wher

Xiangcun Meng, Wuming Yang

Incorporating the effect of mass-stripping and accretion-disk instability on the evolution of WD binary, we carried out binary stellar evolution calculations for more than 1600 close WD binaries. As a result, the initial parameter spaces for SNe Ia are presented in an orbital period-secondary mass ($\log P_{\rm i}, M_{\rm 2}^{\rm i}$) plane. We confirmed tha

Taoufik Hmidi

In this paper we study a transport-diffusion model with some logarithmic dissipations. We look for two kinds of estimates. The first one is a maximum principle whose proof is based on Askey theorem concerning characteristic functions and some tools from the theory of $C_0$-semigroups. The second one is a smoothing effect based on some results from harmonic a

Pavle V. M. Blagojević, Benjamin Matschke, Günter M. Ziegler

We prove a "Tverberg type" multiple intersection theorem. It strengthens the prime case of the original Tverberg theorem from 1966, as well as the topological Tverberg theorem of Barany et al. (1980), by adding color constraints. It also provides an improved bound for the (topological) colored Tverberg problem of Barany & Larman (1992) that is tight in the p

Rafael Hipolito, Anatoli Polkovnikov

Two coupled BECs with a large population imbalance exhibit macroscopic quantum self-trapping (MQST) if the ratio of interaction energy to tunneling energy is above a critical value. Here we investigate effect of quantum fluctuations on MQST. In particular, we analyze the dynamics of a system of two elongated Bose gases prepared with a large population imbala

Tommaso Biancalani, Duccio Fanelli, Francesca Di Patti

A stochastic version of the Brusselator model is proposed and studied via the system size expansion. The mean-field equations are derived and shown to yield to organized Turing patterns within a specific parameters region. When determining the Turing condition for instability, we pay particular attention to the role of cross diffusive terms, often neglected

Yee Kao, Tatsu Takeuchi

We update the single-coupling bounds on R-parity violating supersymmetry using the most up to date data as of October 2009. In addition to the data listed in the 2009 Review of Particle Properties, we utilize a new determination of the weak charge of cesium-133, and preliminary tau-decay branching fractions from Babar. Analysis of semileptonic D-decay is imp

Tijana Prodanovic, Gary Steigman, Brian D. Fields

As the Galaxy evolves, the abundance of deuterium in the interstellar medium (ISM) decreases from its primordial value: deuterium is &#34;astrated&#34;. The deuterium astration factor, f_D, the ratio of the primordial D abundance (the D to H ratio by number) to the ISM D abundance, is determined by the competition between stellar destruction and infall, prov

Gregory Dobler, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Ilias Cholis, Tracy R. Slatyer

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveals a diffuse inverse Compton signal in the inner Galaxy with a similar spatial morphology to the microwave haze observed by WMAP, supporting the synchrotron interpretation of the microwave signal. Using spatial templates, we regress out pi0 gammas, as well as IC and bremsstrahlung components associated with known soft

Federico Piazza

Common wisdom associates all the unraveled and theoretically challenging aspects of gravity with its UV-completion. However, there appear to be few difficulties afflicting the effective framework for gravity already at low energy, that are likely to be detached from the high-energy structure. Those include the black hole information paradox, the cosmological

Joseph Najnudel, Ashkan Nikeghbali

Let $(Ω,\mathcal{F},(\mathcal{F}_t)_{t \geq 0},\mathbb{P})$ be a filtered probability space satisfying the usual assumptions: it is usually not possible to extend to $\mathcal{F}_{\infty}$ (the $σ$-algebra generated by $(\mathcal{F}_t)_{t \geq 0}$) a coherent family of probability measures $(\mathbb{Q}_t)$, each of them being defined on $\mathcal{F}_t$. It i

Igor F. Herbut

The Dirac equation with a U(1) vortex in the mass-term is solved in the presence of magnetic-like fields at zero energy. By drawing an analogy to classical mechanics, it is shown that the four-component Dirac equation in arbitrary magnetic field always yields one zero-energy state. In the time-reversal preserving, pseudo-magnetic field, however, the number o

W. J. Riehl, P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner, D. Segre

Metabolic networks perform some of the most fundamental functions in living cells, including energy transduction and building block biosynthesis. While these are the best characterized networks in living systems, understanding their evolutionary history and complex wiring constitutes one of the most fascinating open questions in biology, intimately related t

Congjun Wu, J. E. Hirsch

The symmetry properties of the Cooper pairing problem for multi-component ultra-cold dipolar molecular systems are investigated. The dipolar anisotropy provides a natural and robust mechanism for both triplet and singlet Cooper pairing to first order in the interaction strength. With a purely dipolar interaction, the triplet $p_z$-like polar pairing is the m

A. Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, H. Ebeling, A. Edge

We present new measurements of the large-scale bulk flows of galaxy clusters based on 5-year WMAP data and a significantly expanded X-ray cluster catalogue. Our method probes the flow via measurements of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect produced by the hot gas in moving clusters. It computes the dipole in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data

Jan-Eric Daum, Ulrich Harst, Martin Reuter

We investigate the non-perturbative renormalization group behavior of the gauge coupling constant using a truncated form of the functional flow equation for the effective average action of the Yang-Mills-gravity system. We find a non-zero quantum gravity correction to the standard Yang-Mills beta function which has the same sign as the gauge boson contributi

J. Patrick Harding, Kevork N. Abazajian

The WMAP haze is an excess in microwave emission coming from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In the case of synchrotron emission models of the haze, we present tests for the source of radiating high-energy electrons/positrons. We explore several models in the case of a pulsar population or dark matter annihilation as the source. These morphological signa

Mihalis Dafermos, Igor Rodnianski

We present a new general method for proving global decay of energy through a suitable spacetime foliation, as well as pointwise decay, starting from an integrated local energy decay estimate. The method is quite robust, requiring only physical space techniques, and circumvents use of multipliers or commutators with weights growing in t. In particular, the me

Maor Ganz

Leader election between n parties is known to be impossible classically. This work gives a simple algorithm that does it, based on the weak coin flipping protocol with arbitrarily small bias derived by Mochon in 2007, and recently published and simplified in Aharonov et al in 2016. A protocol with linear number of coin flipping rounds is quite simple to achi

Fan Ding, Yi Liu, Shicheng Wang, Jiangang Yao

Let $\imath: M\to \RR^{p+2}$ be a smooth embedding from a connected, oriented, closed $p$-dimesional smooth manifold to $\RR^{p+2}$, then there is a spin structure $\imath^\sharp(ς^{p+2})$ on $M$ canonically induced from the embedding. If an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism $τ$ of $M$ extends over $\imath$ as an orientation-preserving topological homeom

Shu Lin, Edward Shuryak

We discuss the baryonic contribution to QCD thermodynamics near the QCD phase transition, which we split into &#34;stringy excitations&#34; and the &#34;chiral&#34; lowest states. Our finite-$T$ string model for the former component is inspired by the lattice data on static potentials and ideas of string survival even $above$ $T_c$: it is used to explain two

H. -M. Guo, M. Franz

Electrons on the surface of a strong topological insulator, such as Bi2Te3 or Bi1-xSnx, form a topologically protected helical liquid whose excitation spectrum contains an odd number of massless Dirac fermions. A theoretical survey and classification is given of the universal features, observable by the ordinary and spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectros

C. E. Young, A. A. Clerk

We study theoretically transitions of a double quantum-dot qubit caused by nonequilibrium charge fluctuations in a nearby quantum point contact (QPC) used as a detector. We show that these transitions are related to the fundamental Heisenberg backaction associated with the measurement, and use the uncertainty principle to derive a lower bound on the transiti

Antonis Papapantoleon

In this article, we review the construction and properties of some popular approaches to modeling LIBOR rates. We discuss the following frameworks: classical LIBOR market models, forward price models and Markov-functional models. We close with the recently developed affine LIBOR models.

J. P. Pérez-Beaupuits, M. Spaans, M. R. Hogerheijde, R. Güsten

Since the main cooling lines of the gas phase are important tracers of the interstellar medium in Galactic and extragalactic sources, proper and detailed understanding of their emission, and the ambient conditions of the emitting gas, is necessary for a robust interpretation of the observations. With high resolution (7&#34;-9&#34;) maps (~3x3 pc^2) of mid-J

M. Agnello, A. Andronenkov, G. Beer, L. Benussi

New spectra from the FINUDA experiment of the Non Mesonic Weak Decay (NMWD) proton kinetic energy for 9(Lambda)Be, 11(Lambda)B, 12(Lambda)C, 13(Lambda)C, 15 (Lambda)N and 16(Lambda)O are presented and discussed along with the published data on 5(Lambda)He and 7(Lambda)Li. Exploiting the large mass number range and the low energy threshold (15 MeV) for the pr

Todor Milev

This paper gives an exposition of well known results on vector partition functions. The exposition is based on works of M. Brion, A. Szenes and M. Vergne and is geared toward explicit computer realizations. In particular, the paper presents two algorithms for computing the vector partition function with respect to a finite set of vectors $I$ as a quasipolyno

Manuel Gutiérrez, Benjamín Olea

We classify static manifolds which admit more than one static decomposition whenever a condition on the curvature is fullfilled. For this, we take a standard static vector field and analyze its associated one parameter family of projections onto the base. We show that the base itself is a static manifold and the warping function satisfies severe restrictions

Jan-Peter Wüstenberg, Takayuki Ishikawa, Masafumi Yamamoto, Christian Herbort

The performance of Heusler based magnetoresistive multilayer devices depends crucially on the spin polarization and thus on the structural details of the involved surfaces. Using low energy electron diffraction (LEED), one can non-destructively distinguish between important surface terminations of Co2XY full-Heusler alloys. We present an analysis of the LEED

Arun Kumar Pati, Mamata Sahoo, Biswajit Pradhan

The universal quantum work relation connects a functional of an arbitrary observable averaged over the forward process to the free energy difference and another functional averaged over the time-reversed process. Here, we ask the question if the system is driven out of equilibrium by a different Hamiltonian rather than the original one during the forward pro

Giancarlo Urzua

We introduce arrangements of rational sections over curves. They generalize line arrangements on P^2. Each arrangement of d sections defines a single curve in P^{d-2} through the Kapranov&#39;s construction of \bar{M}_{0,d+1}. We show a one-to-one correspondence between arrangements of d sections and irreducible curves in M_{0,d+1}, giving also correspondenc

Nina Gantert, Jonathon Peterson

It is well known that the distribution of simple random walks on $\bf{Z}$ conditioned on returning to the origin after $2n$ steps does not depend on $p= P(S_1 = 1)$, the probability of moving to the right. Moreover, conditioned on $\{S_{2n}=0\}$ the maximal displacement $\max_{k\leq 2n} |S_k|$ converges in distribution when scaled by $\sqrt{n}$ (diffusive sc

L. A. Fernandez, V. Martin-Mayor, B. Seoane, P. Verrocchio

Microcanonical Monte Carlo simulations of a polydisperse soft-spheres model for liquids and colloids have been performed for very large polydispersity, in the region where a phase-separation is known to occur when the system (or part of it) solidifies. By studying samples of different sizes, from N=256 to N=864, we focus on the nature of the two distinct coe

M. Bonomi, M. Parrinello

We introduce the well-tempered ensemble (WTE) which is the biased ensemble sampled by well-tempered metadynamics when the energy is used as collective variable. WTE can be designed so as to have approximately the same average energy as the canonical ensemble but much larger fluctuations. These two properties lead to an extremely fast exploration of phase spa

S. P. Malace, Y. Kahn, W. Melnitchouk, C. E. Keppel

We apply a recently developed technique to extract for the first time the neutron F_2^n structure function from inclusive proton and deuteron data in the nucleon resonance region, and test the validity of quark-hadron duality in the neutron. We establish the accuracy of duality in the low-lying neutron resonance regions over a range of Q^2, and compare with

Cynthia L. Curtis, Samuel Taylor

We show for an alternating knot the minimal boundary slope of an essential spanning surface is given by the signature plus twice the minimum degree of the Jones polynomial and the maximal boundary slope of an essential spanning surface is given by the signature plus twice the maximum degree of the Jones polynomial. For alternating Montesinos knots, these are

Federico I. Pelupessy, Padelis P. Papadopoulos

We use time-varying models of the coupled evolution of the HI, H_2 gas phases and stars in galaxy-sized numerical simulations to: a) test for the emergence of the Kennicutt-Schmidt (K-S) and the H_2-pressure relation, b) explore a realistic H_2-regulated star formation recipe which brings forth a neglected and potentially significant SF-regulating factor, an

Bernard de Wit, Stefanos Katmadas

A comprehensive analysis is presented based exclusively on near-horizon data to determine the attractor equations and the entropy of BPS black holes and rings in five space-time dimensions, for a Lagrangian invariant under eight supersymmetries with higher-derivative couplings. For spinning black holes the results only partially agree with the results of pre

Andreas Brandhuber, Paul Heslop, Valentin V. Khoze, Gabriele Travaglini

Wilson loops with lightlike polygonal contours have been conjectured to be equivalent to MHV scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. We compute such Wilson loops for special polygonal contours at two loops in perturbation theory. Specifically, we concentrate on the remainder function R, obtained by subtracting the known ABDK/BDS ansatz from the Wilson

Wung-Hong Huang

A general black-branes system under the T-duality transformation will become another smeared system with different dimensional black branes. We first use some simple examples to see that both systems have a same value of entropy and then present a rigorous method to prove this general property. Using the property we could easily know the entropy of some comp

Rémi Carles

We prove a global well-posedness result for defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equations with time dependent potential. We then focus on time dependent harmonic potentials. This aspect is motivated by Physics (Bose--Einstein condensation), and appears also as a preparation for the analysis of the propagation of wave packets in a nonlinear context. The main asp

Raphael Lamon, Andreas Woehr

The concordance model of cosmology contains several unknown components such as dark matter and dark energy. Many proposals have been made to describe them by choosing an appropriate potential for a scalar field. We study four models in the realm of loop quantum cosmology (LQC): the Chaplygin gas, an inflationary and radiation-like potential, quintessence and

Ying-Qing Wu

We will use immersed surfaces to study Seifert fibered surgery on Montesinos knots, and show that if $\frac 1{q_1-1} + \frac 1{q_2-1} + \frac 1{q_3-1} \leq 1$ then a Montesinos knot $K(\frac{p_1}{q_1}, \frac{p_2}{q_2}, \frac{p_3}{q_3})$ admits no atoroidal Seifert fibered surgery.

Juerg Gasser, Christoph Haefeli, Mikhail A. Ivanov, Martin Schmid

Chiral perturbation theory in the two--flavour sector allows one to analyse Green functions in QCD in the limit where the strange quark mass is considered to be large in comparison to the external momenta and to the light quark masses m_u and m_d. In this framework, the low--energy constants of SU{2}_R \times SU{2}_L depend on the value of the heavy quark ma

M. Sajjad Athar, I. Ruiz Simo, M. J. Vicente Vacas

We study the nuclear effects in the electromagnetic structure function F2(x,Q^2) in nuclei in the deep inelastic lepton nucleus scattering process by taking into account Fermi motion, binding, pion and rho meson cloud contributions. Calculations have been done in a local density approximation using relativistic nuclear spectral functions which include nucleo