October 2009 arXiv papers — page 7

C. Marcenat, J. Kacmarcik, R. Piquerel, P. Achatz

We report on a detailed analysis of the superconducting properties of boron-doped silicon films grown along the 001 direction by Gas Immersion Laser Doping. The doping concentration cB has been varied up to approx. 10 at.% by increasing the number of laser shots to 500. No superconductivity could be observed down to 40mK for doping level below 2.5 at.%. The

Jose M. Manzano, Joaquin Perez, M. Magdalena Rodriguez

We prove that if u is a bounded smooth function in the kernel of a nonnegative Schrodinger operator $-L=-(Δ+q)$ on a parabolic Riemannian manifold M, then u is either identically zero or it has no zeros on M, and the linear space of such functions is 1-dimensional. We obtain consequences for orientable, complete stable surfaces with constant mean curvature $

Manda Banerji, Ignacio Ferreras, Filipe B. Abdalla, Paul Hewett

We present an analysis of the evolution of 8625 Luminous Red Galaxies between z = 0.4 and z = 0.8 in the 2dF and SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. The LRGs are split into redshift bins and the evolution of both the luminosity and stellar mass function with redshift is considered and compared to the assumptions of a passive evolution scenario. We draw attentio

Paolo Antonelli, Christof Sparber

We study a nonlinear Schroedinger equation arising in the mean-field description of dipolar quantum gases. Under the assumption of sufficiently strong dipolar interactions, the existence of standing waves, and hence solitons, is proved together with some of their properties. This gives a rigorous argument for the possible existence of solitary waves in Bose-

Jeffrey Giansiracusa, Ulrike Tillmann

Using certain Thom spectra appearing in the study of cobordism categories, we show that the odd half of the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes on the mappping class group of a surface with negative Euler characteristic vanish in integral cohomology when restricted to the handlebody subgroup. This is a special case of a more general theorem valid in all dimensions

Pascal Lefèvre, Daniel Li, Hervé Queffélec, Luis Rodriguez-Piazza

We construct an analytic self-map $ϕ$ of the unit disk and an Orlicz function $Ψ$ for which the composition operator of symbol $ϕ$ is compact on the Hardy-Orlicz space $H^Ψ$, but not compact on the Bergman-Orlicz space ${\mathfrak B}^Ψ$. For that, we first prove a Carleson embedding theorem, and then characterize the compactness of composition operators on B

Daniel Grumiller, Ivo Sachs

For cosmological topologically massive gravity at the chiral point we calculate momentum space 2- and 3-point correlators of operators in the postulated dual CFT on the cylinder. These operators are sourced by the bulk and boundary gravitons. Our correlators are fully consistent with the proposal that cosmological topologically massive gravity at the chiral

Hélène Feldner, Zi Yang Meng, Andreas Honecker, Daniel Cabra

The magnetic properties of graphene on finite geometries are studied using a self-consistent mean-field theory of the Hubbard model. This approach is known to predict ferromagnetic edge states close to the zig-zag edges in single-layer graphene quantum dots and nanoribbons. In order to assess the accuracy of this method, we perform complementary exact diagon

M. van Soestbergen, P. M. Biesheuvel, M. Z. Bazant

We present theoretical models for the time-dependent voltage of an electrochemical cell in response to a current step, including effects of diffuse charge (or "space charge") near the electrodes on Faradaic reaction kinetics. The full model is based on the classical Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations with generalized Frumkin-Butler-Volmer boundary condi

G. Iooss, A. M. Rucklidge

Quasipatterns (two-dimensional patterns that are quasiperiodic in any spatial direction) remain one of the outstanding problems of pattern formation. As with problems involving quasiperiodicity, there is a small divisor problem. In this paper, we consider 8-fold, 10-fold, 12-fold, and higher order quasipattern solutions of the Swift-Hohenberg equation. We pr

Gabor Somogyi, Robert E. Smith

We generalize the `renormalized' perturbation theory (RPT) formalism of Crocce & Scoccimarro (2006a) to deal with multiple fluids in the Universe and here we present calculations up to the one-loop level. We apply the approach to the non-linear evolution of baryon and cold dark matter (CDM) perturbations, evolving from distinct sets of initial conditions

Giovanni Catino, Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper we produce families of Riemannian metrics with positive constant $σ_k$-curvature equal to $2^{-k} {n \choose k}$ by performing the connected sum of two given compact {\em non degenerate} $n$--dimensional solutions $(M_1,g_1)$ and $(M_2,g_2)$ of the (positive) $σ_k$-Yamabe problem, provided $2 \leq 2k < n$. The problem is equivalent to solve a s

Wieland Brendel, Michael Thies

Baryons in the large N limit of two-dimensional Gross-Neveu models are reconsidered. The time-dependent Dirac-Hartree-Fock approach is used to boost a baryon to any inertial frame and shown to yield the covariant energy-momentum relation. Momentum distributions are computed exactly in arbitrary frames and used to interpolate between the rest frame and the in

Philip G. Ratcliffe, Oleg Teryaev

We examine the large-x QCD evolution of the twist-three gluonic-pole strength defining an effective T-odd Sivers function, where evolution of the T-even transverse-spin DIS structure function g2 is multiplicative. The result corresponds to a colour-factor modified spin-averaged twist-two evolution.

M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli, G. Piano, S. Sabatini

The study of relativistic particle acceleration is a major topic of high-energy astrophysics. It is well known that massive black holes in active galaxies can release a substantial fraction of their accretion power into energetic particles, producing gamma-rays and relativistic jets. Galactic microquasars (hosting a compact star of 1-10 solar masses which ac

Dimitri Polyakov

We construct vertex operators for massless higher spin fields in RNS superstring theory and compute some of their three-point correlators, describing gauge-invariant cubic interactions of the massless higher spins. The Fierz-Pauli on-shell conditions for the higher spins (including tracelessness and vanishing divergence) follow from the BRST-invariance condi

H. -P. Stimming, N. J. Mauser, J. Schmiedmayer, I. E. Mazets

We study the fluctuation properties of a one-dimensional many-body quantum system composed of interacting bosons, and investigate the regimes where quantum noise or, respectively, thermal excitations are dominant. For the latter we develop a semiclassical description of the fluctuation properties based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic process. As an illu

H. Gholizade, D. Momeni

In current work, we investigate the density and temperature dependence of polarization parameter; using the relativistic formalism for the electron-electron interaction within the Fermi liquid model. we calculate the spin dependent scattering matrix elements in relativistic region, and then obtain the non-relativistic behavior to study the magnetic propertie

S. Vercellone

The AGILE gamma-ray satellite accumulated data over two years on several blazars. Moreover, for all of the sources detected by AGILE, we exploited multiwavelength observations involving both space and ground based telescopes and consortia, obtaining in several cases broad-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) which span from the radio wavelengths up to t

G. Dillon, G. Morpurgo

After summarizing the basic points of the general QCD parametrization (GP) we discuss systematically its applications to the properties of the lowest families of baryons and mesons. We show how the hierarchy of the parameters in the GP emerges clearly in the properties of hadrons. Among other things, it explains why simple models can work reasonably well and

S. Vercellone

During the period July 2007 - January 2009, the AGILE satellite, together with several other space- and ground-based observatories monitored the activity of the flat-spectrum radio quasar 3C 454.3, yielding the longest multiwavelength coverage of this gamma-ray quasar so far. The source underwent an unprecedented period of very high activity above 100 MeV, a

Mathieu Dutour Sikiric, Michel Deza

An i-hedrite is a 4-regular plane graph with faces of size 2, 3 and 4. We do a short survey of their known properties and explain some new algorithms that allow their efficient enumeration. Using this we give the symmetry groups of all i-hedrites and the minimal representative for each. We also review the link of 4-hedrites with knot theory and the classific

Jesus Zavala, Mark Vogelsberger, Simon D. M. White

We calculate how the relic density of dark matter particles is altered when their annihilation is enhanced by the Sommerfeld mechanism due to a Yukawa interaction between the annihilating particles. Maintaining a dark matter abundance consistent with current observational bounds requires the normalization of the s-wave annihilation cross section to be decrea

Dheeraj Kumar Singh, Bhaskar Kamble, Avinash Singh

The correlated motion of electrons in the presence of strong orbital fluctuations and correlations is investigated with respect to magnetic couplings and excitations in an orbitally degenerate ferromagnet. Introduction of the orbital degree of freedom results in a class of diagrams representing spin-orbital coupling which become particularly important near t

Yasuyuki Hatsuda, Hiroaki Tanaka

We study classical scattering phase of CP^2 dyonic giant magnons in R_t x CP^3. We construct two-soliton solutions explicitly by the dressing method. Using these solutions, we compute the classical time delays for the scattering of giant magnons, and compare them to boundstate S-matrix elements derived from the conjectured AdS_4/CFT_3 S-matrix by Ahn and Nep

Stefano Bellucci, Bhupendra Nath Tiwari

This work explores the role of thermodynamic fluctuations in the two parameter giant and superstar configurations characterized by an ensemble of arbitrary liquid droplets or irregular shaped fuzzballs. Our analysis illustrates that the chemical and state-space geometric descriptions exhibit an intriguing set of exact pair correction functions and the global

G. Mauceri, S. Meda

Let M be a space of homogeneous type and denote by F^\infty_{cont}(M) the space of finite linear combinations of continuous (1,\infty)-atoms. In this note we give a simple function theoretic proof of the equivalence on F^\infty_{cont}(M) of the H^1-norm and the norm defined in terms of finite linear combinations of atoms. The result holds also for the class

Katarzyna Rybarczyk

We solve the conjecture posed by Fill, Scheinerman and Singer-Cohen and show the equivalence of the sharp threshold functions of the random intersection graph G(n,m,p) with $m >= n^3$ and a graph in which each edge appears independently. Moreover we prove sharper equivalence results under some additional assumptions.

A. A. Rangelov, N. Karchev

Coulomb law is one of the fundamental laws in Physics. It describes the magnitude of the electrostatic force between two electric charges. Counterintuitively the repulsion force between two equal electric charges in a vacuum, stated by the Coulomb law, turn into the attraction force between the same electric charges when they are placed next to a material wi

Ioana Dumitriu, Soumik Pal

We examine the empirical distribution of the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of adjacency matrices of sparse regular random graphs. We find that when the degree sequence of the graph slowly increases to infinity with the number of vertices, the empirical spectral distribution converges to the semicircle law. Moreover, we prove concentration estimates on the

J. M. Garcia-Lastra, C. Rostgaard, A. Rubio, K. S. Thygesen

On the basis of first-principles G0W0 calculations we study systematically how the electronic levels of a benzene molecule are renormalized by substrate polarization when physisorbed on different metallic and semiconducting surfaces. The polarization-induced reduction of the energy gap between occupied and unoccupied molecular levels is found to scale with t

Abhinav Kumar, Satyanarayana V. Lokam, Vijay M. Patankar, Jayalal Sarma M. N

The rigidity of a matrix A for target rank r is the minimum number of entries of A that must be changed to ensure that the rank of the altered matrix is at most r. Since its introduction by Valiant (1977), rigidity and similar rank-robustness functions of matrices have found numerous applications in circuit complexity, communication complexity, and learning

Yutaka Baba, Ta-Sheng Tai

We propose two kinds of gauged linear sigma models whose moduli spaces are real eight-dimensional hyperKahler and Calabi-Yau manifolds, respectively. Here, hyperKahler manifolds have sp(2) holonomy in general and are dual to Type IIB (p,q)5-brane configurations. On the other hand, Calabi-Yau fourfolds are toric varieties expressed as quotient spaces. Our mod

Stefan Umbreit, John M. Fregeau, Sourav Chatterjee, Frederic A. Rasio

We present results of a series of Monte Carlo simulations investigating the imprint of a central intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) on the structure of a globular cluster. We investigate the three-dimensional and projected density profiles, and stellar disruption rates for idealized as well as realistic cluster models, taking into account a stellar mass spe

Hum Chand, Paul J. Wiita, Alok C. Gupta

We obtained SDSS spectra for a set of 37 radio-quiet quasars (RQQSOs) that had been previously examined for rapid small scale optical variations, or microvariability. Their H-beta and Mg II emission lines were carefully fit to determine line widths (FWHM) as well as equivalent widths (EW) due to the broad emission line components. The line widths were used t

Gabriel Altay, Rupert A. C. Croft, Tiziana Di Matteo

We calculate the distribution of HI within 750 proper kpc/h of a quasar, Lbol = 1.62e13 Lsun, powered by an SMBH, Mbh = 4.47e8 Msun, at z = 3. Our numerical model includes a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation that tracks the self consistent growth and thermal feedback of black holes calculated using GADGET-3 as well as a detailed post-processing ray tracin

Daniel Tataru

In this article we study the pointwise decay properties of solutions to the wave equation on a class of stationary asymptotically flat backgrounds in three space dimensions. Under the assumption that uniform energy bounds and a weak form of local energy decay hold forward in time we establish a $t^{-3}$ local uniform decay rate for linear waves. This work wa

Peter J. McNamara

For a particular set of Boltzmann weights and a particular boundary condition for the six vertex model in statistical mechanics, we compute explicitly the partition function and show it to be equal to a factorial Schur function, giving a new proof of a theorem of Lascoux.

Kiril Datchev

This paper has been withdrawn because of a mistake in Lemma 7.4. For a corrected version of the main theorem, as well as various further developments and applications, see arXiv:1210.7736. For nonpositively curved perturbations of parabolic cylinders we establish the existence of a logarithmically large resonance free region. We use an escape function constr

Andrew Gibson

Homotopy on nanophrases is an equivalence relation defined using some data called a homotopy data triple. We define a product on homotopy data triples. We show that any homotopy data triple can be factorized into a product of prime homotopy data triples and this factorization is unique up to isomorphism and order. If a homotopy data triple is composite, we s

Christopher J. Davis, Ryan Gell, Tigran Khanzadyan, Michael D. Smith

We present a catalogue of Molecular Hydrogen emission-line Objects (MHOs) in outflows from young stars, most of which are embedded. All objects are identified in the near-infrared lines of molecular hydrogen, all reside in the Milky Way, and all are associated with jets or molecular outflows from young stars. Objects in both low and high-mass star forming re

Alhaji Cherif, Hirotoshi Yoshioka, Wei Ni, Prasanta Bose

The spread of radical ideologies is a key to fanaticism, recruitment and terrorist activities. Hence, preventing such activities requires predictive models capable of identifying areas and agents before occurrence of catastrophic terrorist act. In this paper, we develop a model that captures a radicalization mechanism through several intermediate stages of i

A. F. Isakovic, A. Stein, J. B. Warren, A. R. Sandy

We have implemented a virtual Young&#39;s double slit experiment for hard X-ray photons with micro-fabricated bi-prisms. We observe fringe patterns with a scintillator, and quantify interferograms by detecting X-ray fluorescence from a scanned 30nm Cr metal film. The observed intensities are best modeled with a near-field, Fresnel analysis. The maximum fring

The Fermi LAT collaboration

The first results from observations of the high mass X-ray binary LS 5039 using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data between 2008 August and 2009 June are presented. Our results indicate variability that is consistent with the binary period, with the emission being modulated with a period of 3.903 +/- 0.005 days; the first detection of this modulation at

Ido Ben-Dayan

I construct a class of single small field models of inflation that can predict an observable gravitational wave signal in the cosmic microwave background anisotropoies, contrary to popular wisdom. The spectral index, its running, the tensor to scalar ratio and the number of e-folds can cover all the parameter space currently allowed by cosmological observati

T. M. Aliev, Mariana Frank, Ismail Turan

A new model of physics, with a hidden conformal sector which manifests itself as an unparticle coupling to Standard Model particles effectively through higher dimensional operators, predicts strong collider signals due to unparticle self-interactions. We perform a complete analysis of the most spectacular of these signals at the hadron collider, pp -> 4photo

C. Kallin

Recent discoveries, as well as open questions, in experimentally realized correlated electron materials are reviewed. In particular, high temperature superconductivity in the cuprates and in the recently discovered iron pnictides, possible chiral p-wave superconductivity in strontium ruthenate, the search for quantum spin liquid behavior in real materials, a

Yan Guo, Juhi Jang

We study the Hilbert expansion for small Knudsen number $\varepsilon$ for the Vlasov-Boltzmann-Poisson system for an electron gas. The zeroth order term takes the form of local Maxwellian: $ F_{0}(t,x,v)=\frac{ρ_{0}(t,x)}{(2πθ_{0}(t,x))^{3/2}} e^{-|v-u_{0}(t,x)|^{2}/2θ_{0}(t,x)},\text{\ }θ_{0}(t,x)=Kρ_{0}^{2/3}(t,x).$ Our main result states that if the Hilbe

X. Q. Huang

In this work, we study the relationship between the superconducting phase and pseudogap phase in a real-space picture. We suggest that the superconducting ground states are guaranteed by the energy minimum charge structure of the quasi-one-dimensional Peierls chains (static vortex lines). It is shown that there is a charge ordering phase transition from the

A. Punnoose, A. M. Finkel&#39;stein, A. Mokashi, S. V. Kravchenko

We show that once the effects of valley splitting and intervalley scattering are incorporated, renormalization group theory consistently describes the metallic phase in silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors down to the lowest accessible temperatures.

P. Rembiesa

Recent analyses suggest that in TeV scales that will be made accessible at the LHC copious amounts of color scalar parton bound states may be produced. Would this be the case, the scalars would leave long enough to interact and this could lead to new physics. These interaction could be direct, but also take place with a mediation of the dense parton medium t

Garrett Johnson

We give an intepretation of the Cremmer-Gervais r-matrices for sl(n) in terms of actions of elements in the rational and trigonometric Cherednik algebras of type GL2 on certain subspaces of their polynomial representations. This is used to compute the nilpotency index of the Jordanian r-matrices, thus answering a question of Gerstenhaber and Giaquinto. We al

Leonid S. Metlov

On the example of a particular problem, the theory of vacancies, a new form of kinetic equations symmetrically incorporation the internal and free energies has been derived. The dynamical nature of irreversible phenomena at formation and motion of defects (dislocations) has been analyzed by a computer experiment. The obtained particular results are extended

Simon Willerton

The notion of the magnitude of a compact metric space was considered in arXiv:0908.1582 with Tom Leinster, where the magnitude was calculated for line segments, circles and Cantor sets. In this paper more evidence is presented for a conjectured relationship with a geometric measure theoretic valuation. Firstly, a heuristic is given for deriving this valuatio

Andrei Kirilyuk, Mihaela Ulieru

Globalised-civilisation interaction intensity grows exponentially, involving all dimensions and regions of planetary environment. The resulting dynamics of critically high, exploding complexity urgently needs consistent understanding and efficient management. The new, provably universal concept of unreduced dynamic complexity of real interaction processes de

Patrick Cheridito, Ashkan Nikeghbali, Eckhard Platen

We propose a general framework to study last passage times, suprema and drawdowns of a large class of stochastic processes. A central role in our approach is played by processes of class Sigma. After investigating convergence properties and a family of transformations that leave processes of class Sigma invariant, we provide three general representation resu

Mariusz Lemanczyk, François Parreau, Emmanuel Roy

We show that ergodic dynamical systems generated by infinitely divisible stationary processes are disjoint in the sense of Furstenberg with distally simple systems and systems whose maximal spectral type is singular with respect to the convolution of any two continuous measures.

M. B. Hastings, T. A. Loring

For models of non-interacting fermions moving within sites arranged on a surface in three dimensional space, there can be obstructions to finding localized Wannier functions. We show that such obstructions are $K$-theoretic obstructions to approximating almost commuting, complex-valued matrices by commuting matrices, and we demonstrate numerically the presen

M. Fortin, F. Grill, J. Margueron, N. Sandulescu

We discuss the thermalisation process of the neutron stars crust described by solving the heat transport equation with a microscopic input for the specific heat of baryonic matter. The heat equation is solved with initial conditions specific to a rapid cooling of the core. To calculate the specific heat of inner crust baryonic matter, i.e., nuclear clusters

Elias Kiritsis, Georgios Kofinas

The most general spherically symmetric solution with zero shift is found in the non-projectable Horava-Lifshitz class of theories with general coupling constants. It contains as special cases, spherically symmetric solutions found by other authors earlier. It is found that the generic solution has conventional (AdS, dS or flat) asymptotics with a universal 1

J. Rodriguez, A. A. Aczel, J. P. Carlo, S. R. Dunsiger

$LiHo_xY_{1-x}F_4$ is an insulating system where the magnetic Ho$^{3+}$ ions have an Ising character, and interact mainly through magnetic dipolar fields. We used the muon spin relaxation technique to study the nature of the ground state for samples with x=0.25, 0.12, 0.08, 0.045 and 0.018. In contrast with some previous works, we have not found any signatur

G. J. M. Luna, R. Montez, J. L. Sokoloski, K. Mukai

Radio, infrared, and optical observations of the 2006 eruption of the symbiotic recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph) showed that the explosion produced non-spherical ejecta. Some of this ejected material was in the form of bipolar jets to the east and west of the central source. Here we describe Xray observations taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory one a

M. P. Lombardo, K. Splittorff, J. J. M. Verbaarschot

The distributions of the quark number and chiral condensate over the gauge fields are computed for QCD in Euclidean space at nonzero quark chemical potential. As both operators are non-hermitian the distributions are in the complex plane. Moreover, because of the sign problem, the distributions are not real and positive. The computations are carried out with

Kentaro Nagao, Masahito Yamazaki

We propose a generalization of the topological vertex, which we call the &#34;non-commutative topological vertex&#34;. This gives open BPS invariants for a toric Calabi-Yau manifold without compact 4-cycles, where we have D0/D2/D6-branes wrapping holomorphic 0/2/6-cycles, as well as D2-branes wrapping disks whose boundaries are on D4-branes wrapping non-comp

Mark B. Peacock, Thomas J. Maccarone, Christian Knigge, Arunav Kundu

We present an updated catalogue of M31 globular clusters (GCs) based on images from the Wide Field CAMera (WFCAM) on the UK Infrared Telescope and from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our catalogue includes new, self-consistent ugriz and K-band photometry of these clusters. We discuss the difficulty of obtaining accurate photometry of clusters projected

C. Federrath, J. Duval, R. S. Klessen, W. Schmidt

We analyze the statistics and star formation rate obtained in high-resolution numerical experiments of forced supersonic turbulence, and compare with observations. We concentrate on a systematic comparison of solenoidal (divergence-free) and compressive (curl-free) forcing, which are two limiting cases of turbulence driving. Our results show that for the sam

Mu-Chun Chen, K. T. Mahanthappa

We review recent developments in models of fermion masses and mixing for both quark and lepton sectors. Emphases are given to models based on finite group family symmetries. In particular, we describe one recent model based on SU(5) combined with a family symmetry based on the double tetrahedral group, T&#39;. In this model, a near tri-bimaximal MNS matrix a

Ivan Panin, Anastasia Stavrova, Nikolai Vavilov

We prove here some supplementary statements that appeared without proof in I. Panin, A. Stavrova, N. Vavilov, On Grothendieck--Serre&#39;s conjecture concerning principal $G$-bundles over reductive group schemes:I, arXiv:0905.1418

Volker Braun, Philip Candelas, Rhys Davies

We present a complete intersection Calabi-Yau manifold Y that has Euler number -72 and which admits free actions by two groups of automorphisms of order 12. These are the cyclic group Z_12 and the non-Abelian dicyclic group Dic_3. The quotient manifolds have chi=-6 and Hodge numbers (h^11,h^21)=(1,4). With the standard embedding of the spin connection in the

A. N. Sergeev, A. P. Veselov

Various infinite-dimensional versions of Calogero-Moser operator are discussed in relation with the theory of symmetric functions and representation theory of basic classical Lie superlagebras. This is a version of invited talk given by the second author at XVI International Congress on Mathematical Physics in Prague, August 2009.

Chien-Wen Chen, Je-An Gu, Pisin Chen

We comment on the calculation mistake in the paper &#34;w and w&#39; of scalar field models of dark energy&#34; by Takeshi Chiba [arXiv:astro-ph/0510598], where w is the dark energy equation of state and w&#39; is the time derivative of w in units of the Hubble time. The author made a mistake while rewriting the phantom equation of motion, which led to an in

Manqi Zhao, Venkatesh Saligrama

We propose a novel non-parametric adaptive anomaly detection algorithm for high dimensional data based on score functions derived from nearest neighbor graphs on $n$-point nominal data. Anomalies are declared whenever the score of a test sample falls below $α$, which is supposed to be the desired false alarm level. The resulting anomaly detector is shown to

Amir Dembo, Andrea Montanari

Many problems of interest in computer science and information theory can be phrased in terms of a probability distribution over discrete variables associated to the vertices of a large (but finite) sparse graph. In recent years, considerable progress has been achieved by viewing these distributions as Gibbs measures and applying to their study heuristic tool

K. Balzer, S. Bauch, M. Bonitz

We propose and apply the finite-element discrete variable representation to express the nonequilibrium Green&#39;s function for strongly inhomogeneous quantum systems. This method is highly favorable against a general basis approach with regard to numerical complexity, memory resources, and computation time. Its flexibility also allows for an accurate repres

J. Silva Lobo, R. S. Ward

Skyrmion walls are topologically-nontrivial solutions of the Skyrme system which are periodic in two spatial directions. We report numerical investigations which show that solutions representing parallel multi-walls exist. The most stable configuration is that of the square $N$-wall, which in the $N\to\infty$ limit becomes the cubically-symmetric Skyrme crys

Mihai N. Pascu, Nicolae R. Pascu

The main result shows a small perturbation of a univalent function is again a univalent function, hence a univalent function has a neighborhood consisting entirely of univalent functions. For the particular choice of a linear function in the hypothesis of the main theorem, we obtain a corollary which is equivalent to the classical Noshiro-Warschawski-Wolff u

L. V. Rammea, G. K. Sankaran

Ellingsrud and Peskine (1989) proved that there exists a bound on the degree of smooth non general type surfaces in P^4. The latest proven bound is 52 by Decker and Schreyer in 2000. In this paper we consider bounds on the degree of a quasismooth non-general type surface in weighted projective 4-space. We show that such a bound in terms of the weights exists

P. C. McGuire, C. Gross, L. Wendt, A. Bonnici

(ABRIDGED) In previous work, two platforms have been developed for testing computer-vision algorithms for robotic planetary exploration (McGuire et al. 2004b,2005; Bartolo et al. 2007). The wearable-computer platform has been tested at geological and astrobiological field sites in Spain (Rivas Vaciamadrid and Riba de Santiuste), and the phone-camera has been

Devis Abriani

Flat coordinates for Frobenius manifolds defined on the orbit space of a Coxeter group W are specified through a certain system of generators of W-invariant polynomials. In this note, starting from basic invariants proposed by M.Mehta, we calculate flat coordinates for the exceptional groups of type E_7 and E_8, leading to a derivation of the potentials for

Mustafa Erkovan

Different thicknesses of cobalt thin films were growth by magnetron sputtering deposition techniques. The films thicknesses were determinated with X ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Quartz Crystal Monitoring (QCM). XPS is also used to determinate the films quality. The films magnetic properties were determinated by Ferromagnetic Resonance (FMR) techn

D. Sepe

We define topological invariants of regular Lagrangian fibrations using the integral affine structure on the base space and we show that these coincide with the classes known in the literature. We also classify all symplectic types of Lagrangian fibrations with base $\rpr$ and fixed monodromy representation, generalising a construction due to Bates.

David A. Friedenberg, Christopher R. Genovese

The next generation of telescopes will acquire terabytes of image data on a nightly basis. Collectively, these large images will contain billions of interesting objects, which astronomers call sources. The astronomers&#39; task is to construct a catalog detailing the coordinates and other properties of the sources. The source catalog is the primary data prod

Mathias Drton, Han Xiao

Conditional independence in a multivariate normal (or Gaussian) distribution is characterized by the vanishing of subdeterminants of the distribution&#39;s covariance matrix. Gaussian conditional independence models thus correspond to algebraic subsets of the cone of positive definite matrices. For statistical inference in such models it is important to know

Lawrence W. Baggett, Veronika Furst, Kathy D. Merrill, Judith A. Packer

We discuss how generalized multiresolution analyses (GMRAs), both classical and those defined on abstract Hilbert spaces, can be classified by their multiplicity functions $m$ and matrix-valued filter functions $H$. Given a natural number valued function $m$ and a system of functions encoded in a matrix $H$ satisfying certain conditions, a construction proce

A. Carmele, F. Milde, M. -R. Dachner, M. Bagheri Harouni

We theoretically study the polarization entanglement of photons generated by the biexciton cascade in a GaAs/InAs semiconductor quantum dot (QD), located in a nano cavity. A detailed analysis of the complex interplay between photon- and carrier coherences and phonons which occurs during the cascade allows us to clearly identify where the entanglement is gene

Edi Halyo

We describe domain walls that live on $A_2$ and $A_3$ singularities. The walls are BPS if the singularity is resolved and non--BPS if it is deformed and fibered. We show that these domain walls may interpolate between vacua that support monopoles and/or vortices.

Matthias Petschow, Edoardo Di Napoli, Paolo Bientinesi

One of the most used approaches in simulating materials is the tight-binding approximation. When using this method in a material simulation, it is necessary to compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian describing the system. In general, the system possesses few explicit symmetries. Due to them, the problem has many degenerate eigenvalues. T

Leonid Bedratyuk

By using classical invariant theory approach a formulas for computation of the Poincare series of the kernel of linear locally nilpotent derivations is found.

Ken R. Duffy, Sean P. Meyn

Loynes&#39; distribution, which characterizes the one dimensional marginal of the stationary solution to Lindley&#39;s recursion, possesses an ultimately exponential tail for a large class of increment processes. If one can observe increments but does not know their probabilistic properties, what are the statistical limits of estimating the tail exponent of

Francis Brown, Karen Yeats

We give combinatorial criteria for predicting the transcendental weight of Feynman integrals of certain graphs in $ϕ^4$ theory. By studying spanning forest polynomials, we obtain operations on graphs which are weight-preserving, and a list of subgraphs which induce a drop in the transcendental weight.

Jan O. Eeg, Kresimir Kumericki

We consider the Isgur-Wise function xi(omega) within a new modified version of a heavy-light chiral quark model. While early versions of such models gave too small absolute value of the slope, namely xi&#39;(1) of about -0.4 to -0.3, we show how extended version(s) may lead to values around -1, in better agreement with recent measurements. This is obtained b

M. A. Bautista, P. Quinet, P. Palmeri, N. R. Badnell

Aims. This work reports radiative transition rates and electron impact excitation collision strengths for levels of the 3s23p, 3s3p2, 3s24s, and 3s23d configurations of Siii. Methods. The radiative data were computed using the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-Amaldi central potential, but with the modifications introduced by Bautista (2008) that account for the effects of

Johan Bijnens, Jie Lu

We calculate the vacuum-expectation-value, the meson mass and the meson decay constant to next-to-next-to-leading-order in the chiral expansion for QCD-like theories with general $N_F$ degenerate flavours for the cases with a complex representation, a real and a pseudoreal representation, i.e. with global symmetry and breaking patters $SU(N_F)_L\times SU(N_F

Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Via exploitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), columnar thin films (CTFs) are attractive potential platforms for optical sensing as their relative permittivity dyadic and porosity can be tailored to order. Nanoscale model parameters of a CTF were determined from its measured relative permittivity dyadic, after inverting the Bruggeman homogenization f

N. Amiri, W. H. T. Vlemmings, H. J. van Langevelde

The majority of the observed planetary nebulae exhibit elliptical or bipolar structures. Theoretical modeling has indicated that magnetically collimated jets may be responsible for the formation of the non-spherical planetary nebulae. The aim of this project is to measure the Zeeman splitting caused by the magnetic field in the OH and H2O maser regions occur

Dennis Sivers

The fractured Boer-Mulders functions describe an inriguing class of polarization effects for the production of baryons in the target fragmentation region of deep-inelastic processes. These functions characterize transverse momentum asymmetries related to the spin orientation for different flavors of axial vector diquarks in an unpolarized ensemble of protons

David Fernandez-Amoros

This paper describes a hybrid system for WSD, presented to the English all-words and lexical-sample tasks, that relies on two different unsupervised approaches. The first one selects the senses according to mutual information proximity between a context word a variant of the sense. The second heuristic analyzes the examples of use in the glosses of the sense

R. Pello, G. Rudnick, G. De Lucia, L. Simard

This paper reports the results obtained on the photometric redshifts measurement and accuracy, and cluster tomography in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) fields. Photometric redshifts were computed using two independent codes (Hyperz and G. Rudnick&#39;s code). The accuracy of photometric redshifts was assessed by comparing our estimates with the spec

B. Lee Roberts

The &#34;precision&#34; frontier, which is closely related to the &#34;intensity&#34; frontier, provides a complementary path to the discovery of physics beyond the Standard Model. Several examples of discoveries that would change our view of the physical world are: Charged lepton flavor violation, e.g. muon electron conversion; the discovery of a permanent

Sneh Lata, Meghna Mittal, Dinesh Singh

This paper proves two theorems. The first of these simplifies and lends clarity to the previous characterizations of the invariant subspaces of $S$, the operator of multiplication by the coordinate function $z$, on $L^2(\mathbb{T};\mathbb{C}^n)$, where $\mathbb{T}$ is the unit circle, by characterizing the invariant subspaces of $S^n$ on scalar valued $L^p$