October 2009 arXiv papers — page 17

J. J. Rodes-Roca, J. M. Torrejón, J. G. Bernabéu

We present pulse phase averaged spectra of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1538-52/QV Nor. Observations of this persistent accreting pulsar were made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). We study the variability of cyclotron resonant scattering feature (CRSF or simply cyclotron line) in the high energy spectra of this binary system. We show that

M. Konacki, M. Muterspaugh, S. Kulkarni, K. Helminiak

We present high precision radial velocities (RVs) of double-lined spectroscopic binary stars HD78418, HD123999, HD160922, HD200077 and HD210027. They were obtained based on the high resolution echelle spectra collected with the Keck I/Hires, Shane/CAT/Hamspec and TNG/Sarge telescopes/spectrographs over the years 2003-2008 as a part of TATOOINE search for cir

Simon Badger, John M. Campbell, R. Keith Ellis, Ciaran Williams

We compute the one-loop amplitude for a Higgs boson, a quark-antiquark pair and a pair of gluons of negative helicity, i.e. for the next-to-maximally helicity violating (NMHV) case, A(H, qbar-, q+, g-, g-). The calculation is performed using an effective Lagrangian which is valid in the limit of very large top quark mass. As a result of this paper all amplit

The IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi

A search for muon neutrinos from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the 22-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino detector using data collected in 104.3 days of live-time in 2007. No excess over the expected atmospheric background has been observed. Upper limits have been obtained on the annihilation rate of captu

Y. Kakehashi, T. Nakamura, P. Fulde

We propose a nonlocal theory of single-particle excitations. It is based on an off-diagonal effective medium and the projection operator method for treating the retarded Green function. The theory determines the nonlocal effective medium matrix elements by requiring that they are consistent with those of the self-energy of the Green function. This arrows for

Zhi-zhong Xing

I show that the CP-violating asymmetry in K^0 vs \bar{K}^0 \to π^+π^-π^0 decays differs from that in K_L \to π^+π^-, K_L \to π^0π^0 or the semileptonic K_L transitions, if there exists CPT violation in K^0-\bar{K}^0 mixing. A delicate measurement of this difference at a super flavor factory (e.g., the ϕfactory) will provide us with a robust test of CPT symme

Gloria Sala, Margarita Hernanz, Carlo Ferri, Jochen Greiner

Nova V5116 Sgr 2005 No. 2, discovered on 2005 July 4, was observed with XMM-Newton in March 2007, 20 months after the optical outburst. The X-ray spectrum showed that the nova had evolved to a pure supersoft X-ray source, indicative of residual H-burning on top of the white dwarf. The X-ray light-curve shows abrupt decreases and increases of the flux by a fa

Ramon Grima

Classical descriptions of enzyme kinetics ignore the physical nature of the intracellular environment. Main implicit assumptions behind such approaches are that reactions occur in compartment volumes which are large enough so that molecular discreteness can be ignored and that molecular transport occurs via diffusion. Starting from a master equation descript

O. G. Iena, A. P. Petravchuk, A. O. Regeta

Let k be an algebraically closed field of zero characteristic. The Lie algebra W_2 of all k-derivations of the polynomial ring k[x, y] naturally acts on the polynomial ring k[x, y] and also on the field of rational functions k(x, y). For a fixed non-constant rational function u from k(x,y) we consider the set A_{W_2}(u) of all derivations D from W_2 such tha

J. J. Rodes-Roca, J. M. Torrejón, I. Kreykenbohm, . Martínez Núñez

Cyclotron resonant scattering features are an essential tool for studying the magnetic field of neutron stars. The fundamental line provides a measure of the field strength, while the harmonic lines provide information about the structure and configuration of the magnetic field. Until now only a handful of sources are known to display more than one cyclotron

Y. F. Niu, H. Z. Liang, J. Meng

The single-particle spectrum obtained from the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory is used to extract the shell correction energy with the Strutinsky method. Considering the delicate balance between the plateau condition in the Strutinsky smoothing procedure and the convergence for the total binding energy, the proper space sizes used in solving the RMF equ

Hervé Kunz, Rico Rueedi

We determine the ground state energy of atoms and quantum dots whose number N of electrons is large. We show that the dominant terms of the energy are those given by a semiclassical Hartree-Fock theory. Correlation effects appear at the order N ln N for atoms and the order N for quantum dots. We compute them. The semiclassical Hartree-Fock theory creates osc

J. C. Morales, G. Torres, L. A. Marschall, W. Brehm

We report extensive spectroscopic and differential photometric BVRI observations of the active, detached, 1.309-day double-lined eclipsing binary IM Vir, composed of a G7-type primary and a K7 secondary. With these observations we derive accurate absolute masses and radii of M(1) = 0.981 +/- 0.012 M(Sun), M(2) = 0.6644 +/- 0.0048 M(Sun), R(1) = 1.061 +/- 0.0

Florian Hebenstreit, Reinhard Alkofer, Gerald V. Dunne, Holger Gies

We investigate non-perturbative pair production from vacuum (the Schwinger effect) in the focal region of two counter-propagating, ultra-short laser pulses with sub-cycle structure. We use the quantum kinetic formulation to calculate the momentum spectrum of created particles and show the extreme sensitivity to the laser frequency $ω$, the pulse length $τ$ a

Kazuya Kato, Chikara Nakayama, Sampei Usui

We announce the construction of toroidal partial compactifications of the moduli spaces of mixed Hodge structures with polarized graded quotients. They are moduli spaces of log mixed Hodge structures with polarized graded quotients. We include an application to the analyticity of zero loci of some functions.

Nina Tetzlaff, Ralph Neuhaeuser, Markus M. Hohle

Among a sample of 140 OB associations and clusters, we want to identify probable parent associations for the Guitar pulsar (PSR B2224+65) which would then also constrain its age. For this purpose, we are using an Euler-Cauchy technique treating the vertical component of the galactic potential to calculate the trajectories of the pulsar and each association i

Chun-Sheng An, Bing-Song Zou

The strong decays of the $N^{*}(1535)$ resonance are investigated in an extended chiral quark model by including the low-lying $qqqq\bar{q}$ components in addition to the $qqq$ component. The results show that these five-quark components in $N^{*}(1535)$ contribute significantly to the $N^{*}(1535)\to N\pi$ and $N^{*}(1535)\to N\eta$ decays. The contribution

Armen Sedrakian

Massive neutron stars may harbor deconfined quark matter in their cores. I review some recent work on the microphysics and the phenomenology of compact stars with cores made of quark matter. This includes the equilibrium and stability of non-rotating and rapidly rotating stars, gravitational radiation from deformations in their quark cores, neutrino radiatio

Jeong-Yup Lee, Robert V. Moody, Boris Solomyak

There is a growing body of results in the theory of discrete point sets and tiling systems giving conditions under which such systems are pure point diffractive. Here we look at the opposite direction: what can we infer about a discrete point set or tiling, defined through a primitive substitution system, given that it is pure point diffractive? Our basic ob

P. Gömöry, C. Beck, H. Balthasar, J. Rybák

We investigate the temporal evolution of magnetic flux emerging within a granule in the quiet-Sun internetwork at disk center. We combined IR spectropolarimetry performed in two Fe I lines at 1565 nm with speckle-reconstructed G-band imaging. We determined the magnetic field parameters by a LTE inversion of the full Stokes vector using the SIR code, and foll

Stéphane Fischler, Tanguy Rivoal

Let $ξ$ be a real irrational number. We are interested in sequences of linear forms in 1 and $ξ$, with integer coefficients, which tend to 0. Does such a sequence exist such that the linear forms are small (with given rate of decrease) and the coefficients have some given rate of growth? If these rates are essentially geometric, a necessary condition for suc

Jeong-Yup Lee, Robert V. Moody

A linear deformation of a Meyer set $M$ in $\RR^d$ is the image of $M$ under a group homomorphism of the group $[M]$ generated by $M$ into $\RR^d$. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for such a deformation to be a Meyer set. In the case that the deformation is a Meyer set and the deformation is injective, the deformation is pure point diffractiv

Tom Britton

This paper is a survey paper on stochastic epidemic models. A simple stochastic epidemic model is defined and exact and asymptotic model properties (relying on a large community) are presented. The purpose of modelling is illustrated by studying effects of vaccination and also in terms of inference procedures for important parameters, such as the basic repro

Adrian Butscher

A sequence of constant mean curvature surfaces $Σ_j$ with mean curvature $H_j \to \infty$ in a three-dimensional manifold $M$ condenses to a compact and connected graph $Γ$ consisting of a finite union of curves if $Σ_j$ is contained in a tubular neighbourhood of $Γ$ of size $\mathcal O(1/H_j)$ for every $j \in \N$. This paper gives sufficient conditions on

Glenn D. Appleby, Tamsen Whitehead

We extend the theory of Littlewood-Richardson fillings (defined over the non-negative integers) to include diagrams with rows and boxes of real-valued length. We realize such fillings as invariants of matrix pairs over rings with a real-valued valuation. We then prove a bijection between pairs of fillings determined by a matrix pair, and connect this to the

Jungang Hou, Rahul Vaish, Yuanfang Qu, Dalibor Krsmanovica

Crystalline Bi5NbO10 nanoparticles have been achieved through a modified sol-gel process using a mixture of ethylenediamine and ethanolamine as a solvent. The Bi5NbO10 nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry/thermogravimetry, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), transmission electron microsco

Jean-Yves Etesse

Syntomic cohomology here defined yields a link between rigid cohomology and etale cohomology, viewing the last one as the fixed points under Frobenius of the former one. Let V be a complete discrete valuation ring, with perfect residue field k = V/m of characteristic p > 0 and fraction field K of characteristic 0. Having defined syntomic cohomology with comp

Jean-Yves Etesse

This article is the third one of a series of three articles devoted to direct images of isocrystals: here we consider overconvergent isocrystals with Frobenius structure. For a liftable proper smooth morphism we establish the overconvergence of direct images, owing to the first article and the existence of lifts of Frobenius. This result partially answers a

K. Viswanathan Iyer, K. R. Uday Kumar Reddy

We obtain a closed-form expression for the Wiener index of binomial trees. We outline efficient algorithms for computing the Wiener indices of Fibonacci and binary Fibonacci trees.

Chris DeCleene, Carolyn Otto, Michael Penkava, Mitch Phillipson

In this paper, we study the moduli space of $2|1$-dimensional complex associative algebras, which is also the moduli space of codifferentials on the tensor coalgebra of a $1|2$-dimensional complex space. We construct the moduli space by considering extensions of lower dimensional algebras. We also construct miniversal deformations of these algebras. This giv

Dmitriy Beznosko

Nowadays, numerous fields such as High Energy Physics (HEP), medical imaging devices, portable radiation detectors etc., require a robust, miniature, reliable and readily available photon detector that is stable in a variety of environments, such as the presence of strong magnetic fields. The recently available $\sim$1mm$^{\textrm{2}}$ active area Multi-pixe

Yogesh Chandola, D. J. Saikia, Neeraj Gupta

We report the results of our observations of HI absorption towards the central region of the rejuvenated radio galaxy 4C29.30 (J0840+2949) with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The radio source has diffuse, extended emission with an angular size of $\sim$520 arcsec (639 kpc) within which a compact edge-brightened double-lobed source with a size of

Albert Chau, Luen-Fai Tam

We study a parabolic complex Monge-Ampère type equation of the form \eqref{MA} on a complete noncompact \K manifold. We prove a short time existence result and obtain basic estimates. Applying these results, we prove that under certain assumptions on a given real and closed (1,1) form $Ω$ and initial \K metric $g_0$ on $M$, the modified \KR flow $g'=-\Ri

M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, S. P. Goodwin

Obtaining accurate measurements of the initial mass function (IMF) is often considered to be the key to understanding star formation, and a universal IMF is often assumed to imply a universal star formation process. Here, we illustrate that different modes of star formation can result in the same IMF, and that, in order to truly understand star formation, a

Ramani K. Raman, Zhensheng Tao, Tzong-Ru Han, Chong-Yu Ruan

We present an electron projection imaging method to study the ultrafast evolution of photoelectron density distribution and transient fields near the surface. The dynamical profile of the photoelectrons from graphite reveals an origin of a thermionic emission, followed by an adiabatic process leading to electron acceleration and cooling before a freely expan

Bing-Song Zou, Ju-Jun Xie

The study of the strangeness production from pp collisions plays important roles in two aspects: exploring the properties of baryon resonances involved and understanding the strangeness production from heavy ion collisions to explore the properties of high energy and high density nuclear matter. Here we review our recent studies on several most important cha

Michele Boreale, Steve Kremer

This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Security Issues in Concurrency (SecCo'09). The workshop was held in Bologna, Italy on September 5th 2009, as a satellite workshop of CONCUR'09. The aim of the SecCo workshop series is to cover the gap between the security and the concurrency communities. More precisely, the workshop promotes

Indira Chatterji, Guido Mislin

We discuss properties of the complete Euler characteristic of a group G of type FP over the complex numbers and we relate it to the L2-Euler characteristic of the centralizers of the elements of G.

P. R. Wood, C. P. Nicholls

Approximately 30% of luminous red giants exhibit a Long Secondary Period (LSP) of variation in their light curves, in addition to a shorter primary period of oscillation. The cause of the LSP has so far defied explanation: leading possibilities are binarity and a nonradial mode of oscillation. Here, large samples of red giants in the Large Magellanic Cloud b

Gideon Amir, Omer Angel, Itai Benjamini, Gady Kozma

We examine diffusion-limited aggregation generated by a random walk on Z with long jumps. We derive upper and lower bounds on the growth rate of the aggregate as a function of the number moments a single step of the walk has. Under various regularity conditions on the tail of the step distribution, we prove that the diameter grows as n^{beta+o(1)}, with an e

T. Tzen Ong, A. M. Black-Schaffer, W. Shen, B. A. Jones

Experiments have shown that the tunneling current in a Co/Al$_2$O$_3$ magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) is positively spin polarized, opposite to what is intuitively expected from standard tunneling theory which gives the spin polarization as exclusively dependent on the density of states (DOS) at $E_F$ of the Co layers. Here we report theoretical results th

R. F. Lang, G. Angloher, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina

We measure and explain scintillator non-proportionality and gamma quenching of CaWO4 at low energies and low temperatures. Phonons that are created following an interaction in the scintillating crystal at temperatures of 15mK are used for a calorimetric measurement of the deposited energy, and the scintillation light is measured with a separate cryogenic lig

Steven Furlanetto, Samuel Johnson Stoever

We examine the fate of fast electrons (with energies E>10 eV) in a thermal gas of primordial composition. To follow their interactions with the background gas, we construct a Monte Carlo model that includes: (1) electron-electron scattering (which transforms the electron kinetic energy into heat), (2) collisional ionization of hydrogen and helium (which prod

Mark B. Lundeberg, Joshua A. Folk

We report measurements of the effects of a random vector potential generated by applying an in-plane magnetic field to a graphene flake. Magnetic flux through the ripples cause orbital effects: phase-coherent weak localization is suppressed, while quasi-random Lorentz forces lead to anisotropic magnetoresistance. Distinct signatures of these two effects enab

J. Biddle, S. Das Sarma

Localization properties of non-interacting quantum particles in one-dimensional incommensurate lattices are investigated with an exponential short-range hopping that is beyond the minimal nearest-neighbor tight-binding model. Energy dependent mobility edges are analytically predicted in this model and verified with numerical calculations. The results are the

Kevin Beanland, Frank Sanacory

The paper has been withdrawn due to an error in the main theorem.

Rodolfo Smiljanic, Luca Pasquini, Corinne Charbonnel, Nadege Lagarde

[abridged] Previous analyses of lithium abundances in main sequence and red giant stars have revealed the action of mixing mechanisms other than convection in stellar interiors. Beryllium abundances in stars with lithium abundance determinations can offer valuable complementary information on the nature of these mechanisms. Our aim is to derive beryllium abu

Robert D. Nowak

This paper investigates the problem of determining a binary-valued function through a sequence of strategically selected queries. The focus is an algorithm called Generalized Binary Search (GBS). GBS is a well-known greedy algorithm for determining a binary-valued function through a sequence of strategically selected queries. At each step, a query is selecte

Laurent Ibgui, Adam Burrows, David S. Spiegel

In order to explain the inflated radii of some transiting extrasolar giant planets, we investigate a tidal heating scenario for the inflated planets WASP-4b, WASP-6b, WASP-12b, WASP-15b, and TrES-4. To do so, we assume that they retain a nonzero eccentricity, possibly by dint of continuing interaction with a third body. We calculate the amount of extra heati

D. G. Bonfield, Y. Sun, N. Davey, M. J. Jarvis

We present a comparison between Gaussian processes (GPs) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) as methods for determining photometric redshifts for galaxies, given training set data. In particular, we compare their degradation in performance as the training set size is degraded in ways which might be caused by the observational limitations of spectroscopy. W

Jan Govaerts, Sean Murray

The appearance of noncommuting spatial coordinates is studied in quantum systems containing a magnetic monopole and under the influence of a radial potential. We derive expressions for the commutators of the coordinates that have been restricted to the lowest energy level. Quantum corrections are found to previous results by Frenkel and Pereira based on quan

Ryan Keisler

We revisit the statistical significance of the "dark flow" presented in Kashlinsky et al. (2009). We do not find a statistically significant detection of a bulk flow. Instead we find that CMB correlations between the 8 WMAP channels used in this analysis decrease the inferred significance of the detection to 0.7σ.

Dominic W. Berry, Andrew M. Childs

We present general methods for simulating black-box Hamiltonians using quantum walks. These techniques have two main applications: simulating sparse Hamiltonians and implementing black-box unitary operations. In particular, we give the best known simulation of sparse Hamiltonians with constant precision. Our method has complexity linear in both the sparsenes

S. Morisi, E. Peinado

We study an extension of the standard model based on the flavor symmetry A4 only. Neutrino Majorana mass terms arise from dimension five operator and charged lepton masses from renormalizable Yukawa couplings. We introduce three Higgs doublets that belong to one triplet irreducible representation of A4. We study the most general A4-invariant scalar potential

Susana E. Pedrosa, Patricia B. Tissera, Cecilia Scannapieco

We have studied the dark matter (DM) distribution in a approx 10^12 h^-1 M_sun mass halo extracted from a simulation consistent with the concordance cosmology, where the physics regulating the transformation of gas into stars was allowed to change producing galaxies with different morphologies. The presence of baryons produces the concentration of the DM hal

Helin Cao, Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui, Jifa Tian

We report on electronic properties of graphene synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on copper then transferred to SiO2/Si. Wafer-scale (up to 4 inches) graphene films have been synthesized, consisting dominantly of monolayer graphene as indicated by spectroscopic Raman mapping. Low temperature transport measurements are performed on micro devices f

András Juhász

It has been a central open problem in Heegaard Floer theory whether cobordisms of links induce homomorphisms on the associated link Floer homology groups. We provide an affirmative answer by introducing a natural notion of cobordism between sutured manifolds, and showing that such a cobordism induces a map on sutured Floer homology. This map is a common gene

Jonathan R. Gaunt, W. James Stirling

It is anticipated that hard double parton scatterings will occur frequently in the collisions of the LHC, producing interesting signals and significant backgrounds to certain single scattering processes. For double scattering processes in which the same hard scale t = ln(Q^2) is involved in both collisions, we require the double parton distributions (dPDFs)

Matthew Macauley, Henning S. Mortveit

We study the equivalence relation on the set of acyclic orientations of an undirected graph G generated by source-to-sink conversions. These conversions arise in the contexts of admissible sequences in Coxeter theory, quiver representations, and asynchronous graph dynamical systems. To each equivalence class we associate a poset, characterize combinatorial p

Hamid R. Afshar, Mohsen Alishahiha, Ali Naseh

In this paper we explore some features of f-g theory in three dimensions. We show that the theory has (A)dS and (A)dS wave solutions. In particular at a critical value of the coupling constant we see that the model admits Log gravity solution as well, reminiscing TMG and NMG. We have also studied a class of exact static spherically symmetric black hole solut

Hao Pan, Zhi-Wei Sun

In 1992 Strauss, Shallit and Zagier proved that for any positive integer $a$ we have $$\sum_{k=0}^{3^a-1}\binom{2k}{k}=0 (mod 3^{2a})$$ and furthermore $$3^{-2a}}\sum_{k=0}^{3^a-1}\binom{2k}k=1 (mod 3).$$ Recently a $q$-analogue of the former congruence was conjectured by Guo and Zeng. In this paper we prove the Guo-Zeng conjecture and also give a $q$-analog

Nabyendu Das

We discuss the interplay between anti-ferromagnetic order and polarization fluctuations in a magnetic quantum paraelectric. Using an action where anti-ferromagnetic order parameter couples to the polarization fluctuations and as well as magnetic field, we derive a set of self consistent equations to study both the temperature and the magnetic field dependenc

Christian S. Rodrigues, Alessandro P. S. de Moura, Celso Grebogi

A great number of physical processes are described within the context of Hamiltonian scattering. Previous studies have rather been focused on trajectories starting outside invariant structures, since the ones starting inside are expected to stay trapped there forever. This is true though only for the deterministic case. We show however that, under finitely s

A. Angelini, A. Amato, G. Bianconi, B. Bassetti

We present a combined mean-field and simulation approach to different models describing the dynamics of classes formed by elements that can appear, disappear or copy themselves. These models, related to a paradigm duplication-innovation model known as Chinese Restaurant Process, are devised to reproduce the scaling behavior observed in the genome-wide repert

Sebastiaan A. Terwijn, Leen Torenvliet, Paul M. B. Vitanyi

Normalized information distance (NID) uses the theoretical notion of Kolmogorov complexity, which for practical purposes is approximated by the length of the compressed version of the file involved, using a real-world compression program. This practical application is called `normalized compression distance' and it is trivially computable. It is a parame

Kilian Raschel

We consider a family of random walks killed at the boundary of the Weyl chamber of the dual of $\rm{Sp}(4)$, which in addition satisfies the following property: for any $n\geq 3$, there is in this family a walk associated with a reflection group of order $2n$. Moreover, the case $n=4$ corresponds to a process which appears naturally by studying quantum rando

Jun Gao, Chong Sheng Li, Jia Jun Zhang, Hua Xing Zhu

We present the calculations of the complete next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD effects on the single top productions induced by model-independent $tqg$ flavor-changing neutral-current couplings at hadron colliders. Our results show that, for the $tcg$ coupling the NLO QCD corrections can enhance the total cross sections by about 60% and 30%, and for the $tug$ c

Falk Bruckmann, Florian Gruber, Andreas Schäfer

We systematically compare filtering methods used to extract topological structures on SU(3) lattice configurations. We show that there is a strong correlation of the topological charge densities obtained by APE and Stout smearing. To get rid of artifacts of these methods, we analyse structures that are also seen by Laplace filtering and indeed identify artif

Norbert Schuch, J. Ignacio Cirac

We consider the problem of approximating ground states of one-dimensional quantum systems within the two most common variational ansatzes, namely the mean field ansatz and Matrix Product States. We show that both for mean field and for Matrix Product States of fixed bond dimension, the optimal solutions can be found in a way which is provably efficient (i.e.

Elena Litvinova, Peter Ring, Victor Tselyaev

A two-phonon version of the relativistic quasiparticle time blocking approximation (RQTBA-2) represents a new class of many-body models for nuclear structure calculations based on the covariant energy density functional. As a fully consistent extension of the relativistic quasiparticle random phase approximation (RQRPA), the two-phonon RQTBA implies a fragme

Hubert F. Goenner

In recent years, by theory and observation cosmology has advanced substantially. Parameters of the concordance or $Λ$CDM cosmological model are given with unprecedented precision ("precision cosmology"). On the other side, 95% of the matter content of the universe are of an unknown nature. This awkward situation motivates the present attempt to find

Julian Le Witt, Simon F. Ross

We investigate the construction of black holes and black strings in vacuum plane wave spacetimes using the method of matched asymptotic expansions. We find solutions of the linearised equations of motion in the asymptotic region for a general source on a plane wave background. We observe that these solutions do not satisfy our previously defined conditions f

Yoshiko K. Okamoto, Hirokazu Kataza, M. Honda, H. Fujiwara

We made mid-infrared observations of the 10Msun Herbig Be star HD200775 with the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) on the 8.2m Subaru Telescope. We discovered diffuse emission of an elliptical shape extended in the north-south direction inabout 1000AU radius around unresolved excess emission. The diffuse emission is perpendicular to the ca

A. Avrorin

We present an analysis of neutrinos detected with the Baikal neutrino telescope NT200 for correlations with gamma-ray bursts (GRB). No neutrino events correlated with GRB were observed. Assuming a Waxman-Bahcall spectrum, a neutrino flux upper limit of {\bf $E^2 \Phi < 1.1 \times 10^{-6}cm^{-2}s^{-1}sr^{-1}GeV$} was obtained. We also present the Green's Func

Simon R. Blackburn, Maura B. Paterson, Douglas R. Stinson

Given a right-angled triangle of squares in a grid whose horizontal and vertical sides are $n$ squares long, let N(n) denote the maximum number of dots that can be placed into the cells of the triangle such that each row, each column, and each diagonal parallel to the long side of the triangle contains at most one dot. It has been proven that $N(n) = \lfloor

Jian Zhou

We prove the Bouchard-Mariño Conjecture for the framed one-legged topological vertex by deriving the Eynard-Orantin type recursion relations from the cut-and-join equation satisfied by the relevant triple Hodge integrals. This establishes a version of local mirror symmetry for the local $C^3$ geometry with one $D$-brane.

Maxim Kontsevich, Yan Soibelman

This is a short summary of main results of our paper arXiv:0811.2435 where the concept of motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariant was introduced. It also contains a discussion of some open questions from the loc.cit., in particular, the geometry related to the split attractor flow.

Marco Boggi

For $2g-2+n>0$, the Teichmüller modular group $Γ_{g,n}$ of a compact Riemann surface of genus $g$ with $n$ points removed $S_{g,n}$ is the group of homotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of $S_{g,n}$ which preserve the orientation of $S_{g,n}$ and a given order of its punctures. Let $Π_{g,n}$ be the fundamental group of $S_{g,n}$, with a given base point, and $

Soumya Das

We compare the spaces of Hermitian Jacobi forms (HJF) of weight $k$ and indices $1,2$ with classical Jacobi forms (JF) of weight $k$ and indices $1,2,4$. Using the embedding into JF, upper bounds for the order of vanishing of HJF at the origin is obtained. We compute the rank of HJF as a module over elliptic modular forms and prove the algebraic independence

Soumya Das

We prove that under suitable conditions, the Jacobi Poincaré series of exponential type of integer weight and matrix index does not vanish identically. For classical Jacobi forms, we construct a basis consisting of the &#34;first&#34; few Poincaré series and also give conditions both dependent and independent of the weight, which ensures non-vanishing of cla

Andras Telcs

In this paper random walks on the Penrose lattice are investigated. Heat kernel estimates and the invariance principle are shown.

Nikolai Nikolov, Pascal J. Thomas

We find all matrices $A$ from the spectral unit ball $Ω_n$ such that the Lempert function $l_{Ω_n}(A,\cdot)$ is continuous.

Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Quasars (Quasi Stellar Objects, abbreviated as QSOs) are still nowadays, close to half a century after their discovery, objects which are not completel y understood. In this brief review a description of the pending problems, inconsistencies and caveats in the QSO&#39;s research is presented. The standard paradigm model based on the existence of very massive

A. S. Alexandrov, J. Beanland

We develop a theory of normal-metal - superconductor (NS) and superconductor - superconductor (SS) tunnelling in bosonic superconductors with strong attractive correlations taking into account coherence effects in single-particle excitation spectrum and disorder. The theory accounts for the existence of two energy scales, their temperature and doping depende

C. S. Kim, Seong Chan Park, Kai Wang, Guohuai Zhu

If the Higgs boson were the only particle within the LHC accessible range, precision measurement of the Higgs&#39;s properties would play a unique role in studying electroweak symmetry breaking as well as possible new physics. We try to use low energy experiments such as rare B decay to constrain a challenging decay mode of Higgs, in which a Higgs decays to

Fabrizio Buscemi, Paolo Bordone, Andrea Bertoni

We propose and numerically simulate a semiconductor device based on coupled quantum wires, suitable for deterministic quantum teleportation of electrons trapped in the minima of surface acoustic waves.We exploit a network of interacting semiconductor quantum wires able to provide the universal set of gates for quantum information processing, with the qubit d

Paweł Machnikowski, Tilmann Kuhn

We formulate a model of the time-resolved Kerr rotation experiment on a single hole in a semiconductor nanostructure (e.g., a quantum dot) or on an ensemble of trapped holes (e.g., in a quantum well) in a tilted magnetic field. We use a generic Markovian description of the hole and trion dephasing and focus on the interpretation of the time-resolved signal i

Iulia Pop, Julia Yermolova-Magnusson

For a finite dimensional simple complex Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, Lie bialgebra structures on $\mathfrak{g}[[u]]$ and $\mathfrak{g}[u]$ were classified by Montaner, Stolin and Zelmanov. In our paper, we provide an explicit algorithm to produce $r$-matrices which correspond to Lie bialgebra structures over polynomials.

G. Dissertori, A. Gehrmann-De Ridder, T. Gehrmann, E. W. N. Glover

We present the first determination of the strong coupling constant from the three-jet rate in e+e- annihilation at LEP, based on a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) perturbative QCD prediction. More precisely, we extract alpha_s by fitting perturbative QCD predictions at O(alpha_s^3) to data from the ALEPH experiment at LEP. Over a large range of the jet-

Smarajit Karmakar, Edan Lerner, Itamar Procaccia

Amorphous solids that underwent a strain in one direction such that they responded in a plastic manner `remember&#39; that direction also when relaxed back to a state with zero mean stress. We address the question `what is the order parameter that is responsible for this memory?&#39; and is therefore the reason for the different subsequent responses of the m

Hai-Bo Li, Xiao-Shuai Qin, Mao-Zhi Yang

Based on the data of BES and Belle, the production of $D\bar{D}$ in the $e^+e^-\to D\bar{D}$ scattering process is studied in this paper. We analyze the continuum and resonant contributions in the energy region from 3.7 to 4.4 GeV. In the $χ^2$ fit to data, we obtain the resonance parameters of $ψ(3770)$, the branching ratio of $ψ(3770)\to D\bar{D}$ decay by

X. Li, D. Li

For any even $n$ qubits we establish four SLOCC equations and construct four SLOCC polynomials (not complete) of degree $2^{n/2}$, which can be exploited for SLOCC classification (not complete) of any even $n$ qubits. In light of the SLOCC equations, we propose several different genuine entangled states of even $n$ qubits and show that they are inequivalent

Manish K. Sahai

Enchanting ripple pattern exist on interface, and manifest them self in it&#39;s fluctuation profile as well. These ripples apparently flow as the interface struck with inhomogeneous externally driven field interface, moves fluctuating about it on a rectangular 3D Ising system. Ripple structure and flow have temporal periodicity, eventually with some modulat

Markus Weber, Wim de Boer

The rotation curve, the total mass and the gravitational potential of the Galaxy are sensitive measurements of the dark matter halo profile. In this publication cuspy and cored DM halo profiles are analysed with respect to recent astronomical constraints in order to constrain the shape of the Galactic DM halo and the local DM density. All Galactic density co

Rahul Jain, Hartmut Klauck

We describe new lower bounds for randomized communication complexity and query complexity which we call the partition bounds. They are expressed as the optimum value of linear programs. For communication complexity we show that the partition bound is stronger than both the rectangle/corruption bound and the γ_2/generalized discrepancy bounds. In the model of

Ana Rita Martins, Teresa Monteiro Fernandes

We introduce the formal extension of the Whitney functor and the polynomial extension of the tempered cohomology functor, and prove a natural topological duality between them.

Serban T. Belinschi, Marek Bozejko, Franz Lehner, Roland Speicher

We prove that the classical normal distribution is infinitely divisible with respect to the free additive convolution. We study the Voiculescu transform first by giving a survey of its combinatorial implications and then analytically, including a proof of free infinite divisibility. In fact we prove that a subfamily Askey-Wimp-Kerov distributions are freely

Daniel Han-Kwan

The goal of this paper is to understand from a mathematical point of view the magnetic confinement of plasmas for fusion. Following Frénod and Sonnendrücker \cite{FS2}, we first use two-scale convergence tools to derive a gyrokinetic system for a plasma submitted to a large magnetic field with a slowly spatially varying intensity. We formally derive from thi

S. Bellucci, A. Marrani, R. Roychowdhury

We compute the effective black hole potential V of the most general N=2, d=4 (local) special Kaehler geometry with quantum perturbative corrections, consistent with axion-shift Peccei-Quinn symmetry and with cubic leading order behavior. We determine the charge configurations supporting axion-free attractors, and explain the differences among various configu

Carsten Güttler, Jürgen Blum, Andras Zsom, Chris W. Ormel

The growth processes from protoplanetary dust to planetesimals are not fully understood. Laboratory experiments and theoretical models have shown that collisions among the dust aggregates can lead to sticking, bouncing, and fragmentation. However, no systematic study on the collisional outcome of protoplanetary dust has been performed so far so that a physic