January 2010 arXiv papers — page 39

Martin Horsch, Martina Heitzig, Thorsten Merker, Thorsten Schnabel

A major challenge for molecular modeling consists in optimizing the unlike interaction potentials. In many cases, combination rules are generally suboptimal when accurate predictions of properties like the mixture vapor pressure are needed. However, the well known Lorentz-Berthelot rule performs quite well and can be used as a starting point. If more accurat

N. A. Webb, J. Knödlseder

Globular clusters are known to harbour a significant population of neutron star X-ray binaries that could be responsible for delaying the inevitable core collapse of these dense clusters. As a result, their progeny, namely millisecond pulsars, are also present in large numbers. Following the confirmation using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope that millise

M. Balucinska-Church, A. Gibiec, N. K. Jackson, M. J. Church

Based on the results of applying the extended ADC emission model for low mass X-ray binaries to three Z-track sources: GX340+0, GX5-1 and CygX-2, we propose an explanation of the CygnusX-2 like Z-track sources. The Normal Branch is dominated by the increasing radiation pressure of the neutron star caused by a mass accretion rate that increases between the so

Neelesh Sharma

Two-body hadronic weak decays of Bc meson involving tensor meson in the final state are studied by using Isgur- Scora-Grinstein-Wise (ISGW II) model. Decay amplitudes are obtained using the factorization scheme in the Spectator Quark Model. Branching ratios for the charm changing and bottom changing decay modes are predicted.

M. J. Everitt

We explore the quantum-classical crossover of two coupled, identical, superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) rings. The motivation for this work is based on a series of recent papers. In ~[1] we showed that the entanglement characteristics of chaotic and periodic (entrained) solutions of the Duffing oscillator differed significantly and that in

F. W. S. Lima

Through Monte Carlo simulations we study two-dimensional Potts models with $q=4, 6$ and 8 states on Voronoi-Delaunay random lattice. In this study, we assume that the coupling factor $J$ varies with the distance $r$ between the first neighbors as $J(r)\propto e^{-a r}$, with $a \geq 0$ . The disordered system is simulated applying the singler-cluster Monte C

Dongho Joseph

In this paper, we study quatization condition of logsymplectic struc- ture using integrality of such structue on the complement of associated divisor D.

Ansgar Steland

The question whether a time series behaves as a random walk or as a station- ary process is an important and delicate problem, particularly arising in financial statistics, econometrics, and engineering. This paper studies the problem to detect sequentially that the error terms in a polynomial regression model no longer behave as a random walk but as a stati

Antti Alexander Kestila

Here is described a preliminary method that enables secure 'anti-search-engine' encryption, where the middleman can participate in the encrypted information exchange, without being able to understand the exchanged information, encrypted using a one-way function, as well as being unaware of one of two main exchange participants.

D. Marrocchelli, M. Salanne, P. A. Madden, C. Simon

The construction of a reliable potential for GeO2, from first-principles, is described. The obtained potential, which includes dipole polarization effects, is able to reproduce all the studied properties (structural, dynamical and vibrational) to a high degree of precision with a single set of parameters. In particular, the infrared spectrum was obtained wit

Ansgar Steland, Ewaryst Rafalowicz

The classic N p chart gives a signal if the number of successes in a sequence of inde- pendent binary variables exceeds a control limit. Motivated by engineering applications in industrial image processing and, to some extent, financial statistics, we study a simple modification of this chart, which uses only the most recent observations. Our aim is to const

Andrew Powell

Strategies that utilise the interference effects within B -> DK decays hold great potential for improving our sensitivity to the CKM angle gamma. However, in order to exploit fully this potential, knowledge of parameters associated with the D decay, such as strong-phase differences, are required. This essential information can be obtained from the unique qua

Kokoro Inoue, Wolfgang Krieger

We introduce a class of coded systems that we construct from sofic systems and Dyck shifts and we study a class of subshifts that we obtain by excluding words of length two from Dyck shifts. We derive expressions for zeta functions and topological entropy. We derive an expression for the zeta function of certain subshifts that we obtain by excluding words fr

C. Meusburger

We consider an observer in a (2+1)-spacetime without matter and cosmological constant who measures spacetime geometry by emitting lightrays which return to him at a later time. We investigate several quantities associated with such lightrays: the return time, the directions into which light needs to be emitted to return and the frequency shift between the li

K. J. Kennewell, M. Kostylev, R. Magaraggia, R. L. Stamps

Broadband FMR responses for metallic single-layer and bi-layer magnetic films with total thicknesses smaller than the microwave magnetic skin depth have been studied. Two different types of microwave transducers were used to excite and detect magnetization precession: a narrow coplanar waveguide and a wide microstrip line. Both transducers show efficient exc

Mofreh Hogo, Khaled Fouad, Fouad Mousa

Internet and expert systems have offered new ways of sharing and distributing knowledge, but there is a lack of researches in the area of web based expert systems. This paper introduces a development of a web-based expert system for the regulations of civil service in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia named as RCSES. It is the first time to develop such system (ap

F. Marinacci, J. Binney, F. Fraternali, C. Nipoti

Star-forming disc galaxies such as the Milky Way need to accrete $\gsim$ 1 $M_{\odot}$ of gas each year to sustain their star formation. This gas accretion is likely to come from the cooling of the hot corona, however it is still not clear how this process can take place. We present simulations supporting the idea that this cooling and the subsequent accreti

R. Smiljanic, L. Pasquini, P. Bonifacio, D. Galli

The single stable isotope of beryllium is a pure product of cosmic-ray spallation in the ISM. Assuming that the cosmic-rays are globally transported across the Galaxy, the beryllium production should be a widespread process and its abundance should be roughly homogeneous in the early-Galaxy at a given time. Thus, it could be useful as a tracer of time. In an

Ansgar Steland

Aiming at monitoring a time series to detect stationarity as soon as possible, we introduce monitoring procedures based on kernel-weighted sequential Dickey-Fuller (DF) processes, and related stopping times, which may be called weighted Dickey-Fuller control charts. Under rather weak assumptions, (functional) central limit theorems are established under the

Rodolfo Smiljanic, L. Pasquini, C. Charbonnel, N. Lagarde

The simultaneous investigation of Li and Be in stars is a powerful tool in the study of the evolutionary mixing processes. Here, we present beryllium abundances in stars along the whole evolutionary sequence of the open cluster IC 4651. This cluster has a metallicity of [Fe/H] = +0.11 and an age of 1.2 or 1.7 Gyr. Abundances have been determined from high-re

Ansgar Steland

When analysing time series an important issue is to decide whether the time series is stationary or a random walk. Relaxing these notions, we consider the problem to decide in favor of the I(0)- or I(1)-property. Fixed-sample statistical tests for that problem are well studied in the literature. In this paper we provide first results for the problem to monit

Ansgar Steland

In many applications one is interested to detect certain (known) patterns in the mean of a process with smallest delay. Using an asymptotic framework which allows to capture that feature, we study a class of appropriate sequential nonparametric kernel procedures under local nonparametric alternatives. We prove a new theorem on the con- vergence of the normed

Piet Groeneboom, Geurt Jongbloed, Birgit I. Witte

We consider the problem of estimating the distribution function, the density and the hazard rate of the (unobservable) event time in the current status model. A well studied and natural nonparametric estimator for the distribution function in this model is the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (MLE). We study two alternative methods for the estimati

Ansgar Steland

In this paper sequential monitoring schemes to detect nonparametric drifts are studied for the random walk case. The procedure is based on a kernel smoother. As a by-product we obtain the asymptotics of the Nadaraya-Watson estimator and its as- sociated sequential partial sum process under non-standard sampling. The asymptotic behavior differs substantially

Jan Beran, Martin Schützner

Linear ARCH (LARCH) processes were introduced by Robinson [J. Econometrics 47 (1991) 67--84] to model long-range dependence in volatility and leverage. Basic theoretical properties of LARCH processes have been investigated in the recent literature. However, there is a lack of estimation methods and corresponding asymptotic theory. In this paper, we consider

Richard A. Davis, Thomas Mikosch

We consider a strictly stationary sequence of random vectors whose finite-dimensional distributions are jointly regularly varying with some positive index. This class of processes includes, among others, ARMA processes with regularly varying noise, GARCH processes with normally or Student-distributed noise and stochastic volatility models with regularly vary

Denis Belomestny

We consider the problem of estimating the fractional order of a Lévy process from low frequency historical and options data. An estimation methodology is developed which allows us to treat both estimation and calibration problems in a unified way. The corresponding procedure consists of two steps: the estimation of a conditional characteristic function and t

J. Yamagata-Sekihara, E. Oset

We evaluate the radiative decay into a vector a pseudoscalar and a photon of several resonances dynamically generated from the vector vector interaction. The process proceeds via the decay of one of the vector components into a pseudoscalar and a photon, which have an invariant mass distribution very different from phase space as a consequence of the two vec

Wen Xu, Xiang-Ping Wu

We study the formation and evolution of the spectral imprint of resonantly scattered Lyman $α$ photons in the context of GRB's continuum optical afterglow. Based on an analytic model and a complete treatment of all the scatterings using Monte Carlo simulations, we found that the flux of the Ly$α$ emission is mainly contributed by photons which are scatte

Dong-Hun Chae, Benjamin Krauss, Klaus von Klitzing, Jurgen H. Smet

Phonon carrier interactions can have significant impact on device performance. They can be probed by measuring the phonon lifetime, which reflects the interaction strength of a phonon with other quasi-particles in particular charge carriers as well as its companion phonons. The carrier phonon and phonon-phonon contributions to the phonon lifetime can be dise

Tatsuro Ito, Kazumasa Nomura, Paul Terwilliger

Let $F$ denote a field and let $V$ denote a vector space over $F$ with finite positive dimension. We consider a pair of linear transformations $A:V \to V$ and $A^*:V \to V$ that satisfy the following conditions: (i) each of $A,A^*$ is diagonalizable; (ii) there exists an ordering $\lbrace V_i\rbrace_{i=0}^d$ of the eigenspaces of $A$ such that $A^* V_i \subs

Yuan Liao, Wenxin Jiang

This paper presents a study of the large-sample behavior of the posterior distribution of a structural parameter which is partially identified by moment inequalities. The posterior density is derived based on the limited information likelihood. The posterior distribution converges to zero exponentially fast on any $δ$-contraction outside the identified regio

Matthias Kouakou, Alexis Tchoudjem

In this article, we describe the right ideals of $A_1:=k[t,\partial]$, the first Weyl agebra, over any field $k$ of characteristic zero. For this, we define the notion of primary decomposable subspaces of $k[t]$. This description generalizes a result of Cannings and Holland obtained for an algebraically closed field $k$. Dans cet article, on décrit les idéau

Xudong Ma

In this paper, we present an information theoretic analysis of the blind signal classification algorithm. We show that the algorithm is equivalent to a Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimator based on estimated parametric probability models. We prove a lower bound on the error exponents of the parametric model estimation. It is shown that the estimated model pa

Steven G. Krantz

We study the corona problem on the unit ball in $\CC^n$, and more generally on strongly pseudoconvex domains in $\CC^n$. When the corona problem has just two pieces of data, and an extra geometric hypothesis is satisfied, then we are able to solve it.

Mitsuru Hamada

An elementary proof of the attainability of random coding exponent with linear codes for additive channels is presented. The result and proof are from Hamada (Proc. ITW, Chendu, China, 2006), and the present material explains the proof in detail for those unfamiliar with elementary calculations on probabilities related to linear codes.

Steven G. Krantz

The most classical version of the Schwarz lemma involves the behavior at the origin of a bounded, holomorphic function on the disc. Pick's version of the Schwarz lemma allows one to move the origin to other points of the disc. In the present paper we explore versions of the Schwarz lemma at a boundary point of a domain (not just the disc). Estimates on d

Zheng Xie, Yujie Ma

To predict the heat diffusion in a given region over time, it is often necessary to find the numerical solution for heat equation. With the techniques of discrete differential calculus, we propose two unconditional stable numerical schemes for simulation heat equation on space manifold and time. The analysis of their stability and error is accomplished by th

P. Yan, X. R. Wang

Finding a new control parameter for magnetic domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic nanostructures is important in general and in particular for the spintronics applications. Here, we show that a circularly polarized magnetic field (CPMF) at GHz frequency (microwave) can efficiently drive a DW to propagate along a magnetic nanowire. Two motion modes are identif

X. R. Wang, S. J. Xie

A universal mechanism for strong magnetic-field effects of nonmagnetic organic semiconductors is presented. A weak magnetic field (less than hundreds mT) can substantially change the charge carrier hopping coefficient between two neighboring organic molecules when the magnetic length is not too much longer than the molecule-molecule separation and localizati

Alexei Botchkarev, Lian Zhao, Hamed Rasouli

Web conferencing tools have entered the mainstream of business applications. Using web conferencing for IEEE conferences has a good potential of adding value to both organizers and participants. Authors propose a concept of Truly Integrated Conference (TIC) according to which a multi-point worldwide-distributed network of conference online authors/participan

Hsiang-Chen Wang, Chun-Ming Yeh, Tsung-Yi Tang, C. C. Yang

Coalescence overgrowth of pattern-grown GaN nanocolumns (NC) on c-plane sapphire substrate with metal organic chemical vapour deposition is demonstrated. The subsequent coalescence overgrowth opens a possibility for dislocation reduction due to the lateral strain relaxation in columnar geometry. We present further growth optimization and innovative character

Y. Ita, T. Onaka, T. Tanabe, N. Matsunaga

We carried out a near- to mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of the patchy areas in the Small Magellanic Cloud using the Infrared Camera on board AKARI. Two 100 arcmin2 areas were imaged in 3.2, 4.1, 7, 11, 15, and 24 um and also spectroscopically observed in the wavelength range continuously from 2.5 to 13.4 um. The spectral resolving power

Takashi Moriya, Toshikazu Shigeyama

A new mechanism for enhancing the helium abundance in the blue main sequence stars of omega Centauri and NGC 2808 is investigated. We suggest that helium enhancement was caused by the inhomogeneous big bang nucleosynthesis. Regions with extremely high baryon-to-photon ratios are assumed to be caused by the baryogenesis. Its mass scale is also assumed to be 1

Hiroyuki Abe, Kang-Sin Choi, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Ohki

We study the flavor structure of 4D effective theories, which are derived from extra dimensional theories with magnetic fluxes and non-Abelian Wilson lines. We study zero-mode wavefunctions and compute Yukawa couplings as well as four-point couplings. In our models, we also discuss non-Abelian discrete flavor symmetries such as $D_4$, $Δ(27)$ and $Δ(54)$.

Baishun Lai, Zhihao Ge

In this paper, we will prove the existence of infinitely many positive solutions to the following supercritical problem by using the Liapunov-Schmidt reduction method and asymptotic analysis: {ll}Δu + u^{p}+f(x)=0, u>0 {in} R^{n}, \lim_{|x|\to\infty}u(x)\to 0.

N. Arshed, A. H. Toor, D. A. Lidar

We calculate the entanglement-assisted and unassisted channel capacities of an exactly solvable spin star system, which models the quantum dephasing channel. The capacities for this non-Markovian model exhibit a strong dependence on the coupling strengths of the bath spins with the system, the bath temperature, and the number of bath spins. For equal couplin

Arseni Seregin

We prove uniqueness of the maximum likelihood estimator for the class of k-monotone densities.

Atri Rudra, Steve Uurtamo

We prove the following results concerning the list decoding of error-correcting codes: (i) We show that for \textit{any} code with a relative distance of $δ$ (over a large enough alphabet), the following result holds for \textit{random errors}: With high probability, for a $ρ\le δ-\eps$ fraction of random errors (for any $\eps>0$), the received word will hav

Andreas Seifahrt, Ansgar Reiners, Khiria A. M. Almaghrbi, Gibor Basri

We present radial velocity measurements of a sample of L0-L8 dwarfs observed with VLT/UVES and Keck/HIRES. We combine these measurements with distance and proper motion from the literature to determine space motions for 43 of our targets. We identify nine candidate members of young moving groups, which have ages of 50-600 Myr according to their space motion.

Katsunori Kawamura

Let $M_{*}({\bf C})$ denote the C$^{*}$-algebra defined as the direct sum of all matrix algebras $\{M_{n}({\bf C}):n\geq 1\}$. It is known that $M_{*}({\bf C})$ has a non-cocommutative comultiplication $Δ_φ$. We show that the C$^{*}$-bialgebra $(M_{*}({\bf C}),Δ_φ)$ has a universal $R$-matrix $R$ such that the quasi-cocommutative C$^{*}$-bialgebra $(M_{*}({\

S. E. Konstein, I. V. Tyutin

We consider Poisson superalgebras with constant nondegenerate bracket realized on the smooth Grassmann-valued functions with compact supports in R^{2n}. The deformations with even and odd deformation parameters of these superalgebras are presented for n>1.

Keisuke Hara, Masanori Hino

We prove the neo-classical inequality with the optimal constant, which was conjectured by T. J. Lyons [Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana 14 (1998) 215-310]. For the proof, we introduce the fractional order Taylor's series with residual terms. Their application to a particular function provides an identity that deduces the optimal neo-classical inequality.

Yunhai Xiao, Junfeng Yang

Total variation (TV) regularization is popular in image restoration and reconstruction due to its ability to preserve image edges. To date, most research activities on TV models concentrate on image restoration from blurry and noisy observations, while discussions on image reconstruction from random projections are relatively fewer. In this paper, we propose

Jin-Mei Zhang, Guo-Li Wang

The strong OZI allowed decays of the first radial excited states $B(2S)$ and $D(2S)$ are studied in the instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter method, and by using these OZI allowed channels we estimate the full decay widths: $Γ_{B^0(2S)}=24.4$ MeV, $Γ_{B^+(2S)}=23.7$ MeV, $Γ_{D^0(2S)}=11.3$ MeV and $Γ_{D^+(2S)}=11.9$ MeV. We also predict the masses of them: $M_{B^0(2

D. Djukanovic, J. Gegelia, A. Keller, S. Scherer

We consider an effective field theory of unstable particles (resonances) using the complex-mass renormalization. As an application we calculate the masses and the widths of the $ρ$ meson and the Roper resonance.

A. F. Rappazzo

This work consists of two parts: the first devoted to the study of the heating of the magnetically confined Solar Corona, and the second to the acceleration of the Slow Solar Wind. Direct 3D reduced MHD simulations are presented. They model the heating of coronal loops in the solar atmosphere via the tangling of coronal field lines by photospheric footpoints

Guilin Liu, Daniela Calzetti, Min S. Yun, Grant W. Wilson

We combine new ASTE/AzTEC 1.1 mm maps of the galaxy pair NGC 1512/1510 with archival Spitzer IRAC and MIPS images covering the wavelength range 3.6--160 um from the SINGS project to derive accurate dust masses in each galaxy, and in sub--galactic regions in NGC 1512. The two galaxies form a pair consisting of a large, high--metallicity spiral (NGC 1512) and

Silvio Franz, Giorgio Parisi, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Tommaso Rizzo

In this letter we show how to perform a systematic perturbative approach for the mode-coupling theory. The results coincide with those obtained via the replica approach. The upper critical dimension turns out to be always 8 and the correlations have a double pole in momentum space in perturbations theory. Non-perturbative effects are found to be very importa

David S. N. Rupke, Lisa J. Kewley, Joshua E. Barnes

Recent results comparing interacting galaxies to the mass-metallicity relation show that their nuclear oxygen abundances are unexpectedly low. We present analysis of N-body/SPH numerical simulations of equal-mass mergers that confirm the hypothesis that these underabundances are accounted for by radial inflow of low-metallicity gas from the outskirts of the

Ghadamali Bagherikaram, Abolfazl S. Motahari, Amir K. Khandani

A new achievability rate region for the secure discrete memoryless Multiple-Access-Channel (MAC) is presented. Thereafter, a novel secure coding scheme is proposed to achieve a positive Secure Degrees-of-Freedom (S-DoF) in the single-antenna MAC. This scheme converts the single-antenna system into a multiple-dimension system with fractional dimensions. The a

Nan Ma, Prakash Ishwar

An interactive function computation problem in a collocated network is studied in a distributed block source coding framework. With the goal of computing a desired function at the sink, the source nodes exchange messages through a sequence of error-free broadcasts. The infinite-message minimum sum-rate is viewed as a functional of the joint source pmf and is

Hendrik Hansen-Goos, J. S. Wettlaufer

Premelting describes the confluence of phenomena that are responsible for the stable existence of the liquid phase of matter in the solid region of its bulk phase diagram. Here we develop a theoretical description of the premelting of water ice contained in a porous matrix, made of a material with a melting temperature substantially larger than ice itself, t

Dragan Huterer

Weak gravitational lensing is rapidly becoming one of the principal probes of dark matter and dark energy in the universe. In this brief review we outline how weak lensing helps determine the structure of dark matter halos, measure the expansion rate of the universe, and distinguish between modified gravity and dark energy explanations for the acceleration o

P. Bolokhov, M. Shifman, A Yung

We address a number of unanswered questions in the N=(0,2)-deformed CP(N-1) model with twisted masses. In particular, we complete the program of solving CP(N-1) model with twisted masses in the large-N limit. In hep-th/0512153 nonsupersymmetric version of the model with the Z_N symmetric twisted masses was analyzed in the framework of Witten's method. In

Samantha J. Penny, Christopher J. Conselice, Sven De Rijcke, Enrico V. Held

We present the results of a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) study of dwarf galaxies in the outer regions of the nearby rich Perseus Cluster, down to M_V = -12, and compare these with the dwarf population in the cluster core from our previous HST imaging. In this paper we examine how properties such as the colour magnitude relation, structure and morphology are

Dorje C. Brody, Eva-Maria Graefe

The state spaces of generalised coherent states associated with special unitary groups are shown to form rational curves and surfaces in the space of pure states. These curves and surfaces are generated by the various Veronese embeddings of the underlying state space into higher-dimensional state spaces. This construction is applied to the parameterisation o

M. S. Rudner, F. H. L. Koppens, J. A. Folk, L. M. K. Vandersypen

Transport through spin-blockaded quantum dots provides a means for electrical control and detection of nuclear spin dynamics in the host material. Although such experiments have become increasingly popular in recent years, interpretation of their results in terms of the underlying nuclear spin dynamics remains challenging. Here we point out a fundamental pro

Hechang Lei, Rongwei Hu, E. S. Choi, J. B. Warren

In this work we investigated the temperature dependence of the upper critical field u0Hc2(T) of Fe1.02(3)Te0.61(4)Se0.39(4) and Fe1.05(3)Te0.89(2)Se0.11(2) single crystals by measuring the magnetotransport properties in stable dc magnetic fields up to 35 T. Both crystals show that u0Hc2(T) in the ab-plane and along the c-axis exhibit saturation at low temper

Yanbao Zhang, Emanuel Knill, Scott Glancy

Because of the fundamental importance of Bell's theorem, a loophole-free demonstration of a violation of local realism (LR) is highly desirable. Here, we study violations of LR involving photon pairs. We quantify the experimental evidence against LR by using measures of statistical strength related to the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, as suggested by

Ian U. Roederer, Christopher Sneden, Ian B. Thompson, George W. Preston

We present the results of a detailed abundance analysis of one of the confirmed building blocks of the Milky Way stellar halo, a kinematically-coherent metal-poor stellar stream. We have obtained high resolution and high S/N spectra of 12 probable stream members using the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan-Clay Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory and the 2d

Zheng Gan

We classify the hulls of different limit-periodic potentials and show that the hull of a limit-periodic potential is a procyclic group. We describe how limit-periodic potentials can be generated from a procyclic group and answer arising questions. As an expository paper, we discuss the connection between limit-periodic potentials and profinite groups as comp

E. Cameron, C. M. Carollo, P. Oesch, M. C. Aller

We investigate the (large-scale) bar fraction in a mass-complete sample of M > 10^10.5 Msun disk galaxies at 0.2 < z < 0.6 in the COSMOS field. The fraction of barred disks strongly depends on mass, disk morphology, and specific star formation rate (SSFR). At intermediate stellar mass (10^10.5 < M < 10^11 Msun) the bar fraction in early-type disks is much hi

Mikhail Menshikov, Serguei Popov, Alejandro F. Ramírez, Marina Vachkovskaia

In this paper we study a substantial generalization of the model of excited random walk introduced in [Electron. Commun. Probab. 8 (2003) 86-92] by Benjamini and Wilson. We consider a discrete-time stochastic process $(X_n,n=0,1,2,...)$ taking values on ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$, $d\geq2$, described as follows: when the particle visits a site for the first time, it h

Marta Volonteri, Kayhan Gultekin, Massimo Dotti

We assess the influence of massive black hole (MBH) ejections from galaxy centres, due to the gravitational radiation recoil, along the cosmic merger history of the MBH population. We discuss the &#39;danger&#39; of the recoil for MBHs as a function of different MBH spin/orbit configurations and of the host halo cosmic bias, and on how that reflects on the &

Caroline R. D&#39;Angelo, Hendrik C. Spruit

Some accreting neutron stars and young stars show unexplained episodic flares in the form of quasi-periodic oscillations or recurrent outbursts. In a series of two papers we present new work on an instability that can lead to episodic outbursts when the accretion disc is truncated by the star&#39;s strong magnetic field close to the corotation radius (where

Paul J. Green, Adam D. Myers, Wayne A. Barkhouse, John S. Mulchaey

We present the first luminous, spatially resolved binary quasar that clearly inhabits an ongoing galaxy merger. SDSS J125455.09+084653.9 and SDSS J125454.87+084652.1 (SDSS J1254+0846 hereafter) are two luminous z=0.44 radio quiet quasars, with a radial velocity difference of just 215 km/s, separated on the sky by 21 kpc in a disturbed host galaxy merger show

J. M. Gabor, R. Davé, K. Finlator, B. D. Oppenheimer

The bimodality in observed present-day galaxy colours has long been a challenge for hierarchical galaxy formation models, as it requires some physical process to quench (and keep quenched) star formation in massive galaxies. Here we examine phenomenological models of quenching by post-processing the star formation histories of galaxies from cosmological hydr

Eyal Lubetzky, Allan Sly

The Ising model is widely regarded as the most studied model of spin-systems in statistical physics. The focus of this paper is its dynamic (stochastic) version, the Glauber dynamics, introduced in 1963 and by now the most popular means of sampling the Ising measure. Intensive study throughout the last three decades has yielded a rigorous understanding of th

John W. Moffat, Viktor T. Toth

The Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation, which promotes the gravitational constant to a dynamical scalar field, predicts a value for the Eddington-Robertson post-Newtonian parameter gamma that is significantly different from the general relativistic value of unity. This contradicts precision solar system measurements that tightly constrain gamma around

Philip Bille, Gad M. Landau, Rajeev Raman, Kunihiko Sadakane

Grammar based compression, where one replaces a long string by a small context-free grammar that generates the string, is a simple and powerful paradigm that captures many popular compression schemes. In this paper, we present a novel grammar representation that allows efficient random access to any character or substring without decompressing the string. Le

Goulven Quéméner, Naduvalath Balakrishnan, Alexander Dalgarno

This paper summarizes the recent theoretical works on inelastic collisions and chemical reactions at cold and ultracold temperatures involving neutral or ionic systems of atoms and molecules. Tables of zero-temperature rate constants of various molecules are provided.

Matthew Daws

In the first part of the paper, we present a short survey of the theory of multipliers, or double centralisers, of Banach algebras and completely contractive Banach algebras. Our approach is very algebraic: this is a deliberate attempt to separate essentially algebraic arguments from topological arguments. We concentrate upon the problem of how to extend mod

Moumita Aich, Tarun Souradeep

Certain anomalies at large angular scales in the cosmic microwave background measured by WMAP have been suggested as possible evidence of breakdown of statistical isotropy(SI). Most CMB photons free-stream to the present from the surface of last scattering. It is thus reasonable to expect statistical isotropy violation in the CMB photon distribution observed

Anne E. B. Nielsen, Klaus Mølmer

We propose the implementation of a light source, which can deterministically generate a rich variety of multi-mode quantum states. The desired states are encoded in the collective population of different ground hyperfine states of an atomic ensemble and converted to multi-mode photonic states by excitation to optically excited levels followed by cooperative

Alexander J. Silenko

A new experiment to measure the muon g-2 factor is proposed. We suppose the sensitivity of this experiment to be about 0.03 ppm. The developed experiment can be performed on an ordinary storage ring with a noncontinuous field created by usual magnets. When the total length of straight sections of the ring is appropriate, the spin rotation frequency becomes a

Paula A. A. B. Carvalho, Ian M. Musson

We study finiteness conditions on essential extensions of simple modules over the quantum plane, the quantized Weyl algebra and Noetherian down-up algebras. The results achieved improve the ones obtained in [arXiv:0906.2930] for down-up algebras.

A. L. Wilmot-Smith, D. I. Pontin, G. Hornig

The response of the solar coronal magnetic field to small-scale photospheric boundary motions including the possible formation of current sheets via the Parker scenario is one of open questions of solar physics. Here we address the problem via a numerical simulation. The three-dimensional evolution of a braided magnetic field which is initially close to a fo

Johannes M. Henn, Stephen G. Naculich, Howard J. Schnitzer, Marcus Spradlin

We compute the three-loop contribution to the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills planar four-gluon amplitude using the recently-proposed Higgs IR regulator of Alday, Henn, Plefka, and Schuster. In particular, we test the proposed exponential ansatz for the four-gluon amplitude that is the analog of the BDS ansatz in dimensional regularization. By evaluating our r

Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, Edward Los, Silas Laycock

Here we present the discovery of three unusual long-term variables found in the Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard (DASCH) project, with ~1 magnitude variations in their lightcurves on ~10-100 yr timescales. They are all spectroscopically identified as K2III giant stars, probably in the thick disk. Their lightcurves do not match any previously measur

Ruggero Pagnan

A diagrammatic logical calculus for the syllogistic reasoning is introduced and discussed. We prove that a syllogism is valid if and only if it is provable in the calculus.

Claude Semay, Bernard Silvestre-Brac

The auxiliary field method is a powerful technique to obtain approximate closed-form energy formulas for eigenequations in quantum mechanics. Very good results can be obtained for Schrödinger and semirelativistic Hamiltonians with various potentials, even in the case of many-body problems. This method can also provide approximate eigenstates in terms of well

Gaurang Mahajan, Anita Mehta

A competitive learning model was introduced in Ref. 1 (A. Mehta and J. M. Luck, Phys. Rev. E 60, 5, 1999), in which the learning is outcome-related. Every individual chooses between a pair of existing strategies or types, guided by a combination of two factors: tendency to conform to the local majority, \em{and} a preference for the type with higher perceive

Kaushik Mitra, C. A. R. Sá de Melo

We study decoherence effects in qubits coupled to environments that exhibit resonant frequencies in their spectral function. We model the coupling of the qubit to its environment via the Caldeira-Leggett formulation of quantum dissipation/coherence, and study the simplest example of decoherence effects in circuits with resonances such as a dc SQUID phase qub

Michael Mitrovski

We present a summary of measurements of strange particles performed by the experiment NA49 in inelastic p+p interactions, as well as semi-central C+C and Si+Si, central Pb+Pb, and minimum bias Pb+Pb collisions in the energy range $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 6.3 - 17.3 GeV. New results on $\pi^{-}$, $K^{+}$ and $K^{-}$ production in minimum bias Pb+Pb collisions at $\s

Lorenzo Iorio

We apply our recent results on orbital dynamics around a mass-varying central body to the phenomenon of accretion of Dark Matter-assumed not self-annihilating-on the Sun and the major bodies of the solar system due to its motion throughout the Milky Way halo. We inspect its consequences on the orbits of the planets and their satellites over timescales of the

Jon Aaronson

Relative complexity measures the complexity of a probability preserving transformation relative to a factor being a sequence of random variables whose exponential growth rate is the relative entropy of the extension. We prove distributional limit theorems for the relative complexity of certain zero entropy extensions: RWRSs whose associated random walks sati

Cheuk-Yin Wong

Anomalous soft photons in excess of what is expected from electromagnetic bremsstrahlung have been observed in association with the production of hadrons, mostly mesons, in high-energy (K+)p, (pi+)p, (pi-)p, pp, and (e+)(e-) collisions. We propose a model for the simultaneous production of anomalous soft photons and mesons in quantum field theory, in which t

Z. G. Chen, T. Dong, R. H. Ruan, B. F. Hu

We present the c-axis optical reflectance measurement on single crystals of BaFe$_2$As$_2$ and SrFe$_2$As$_2$, the parent compounds of FeAs based superconductors. Different from the ab-plane optical response where two distinct energy gaps were observed in the SDW state, only the smaller energy gap could be seen clearly for \textbf{E}$\parallel$c-axis. The ve

Amos Fiat, Stefano Leonardi, Jared Saia, Piotr Sankowski

We consider budget constrained combinatorial auctions where bidder $i$ has a private value $v_i$, a budget $b_i$, and is interested in all the items in $S_i$. The value to agent $i$ of a set of items $R$ is $|R \cap S_i| \cdot v_i$. Such auctions capture adword auctions, where advertisers offer a bid for ads in response to an advertiser-dependent set of adwo