January 2010 arXiv papers — page 52

Sven Heinemeyer, Myriam Mondragon, George Zoupanos

All-loop Finite Unified Theories (FUTs) are very interesting N=1 supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) which not only realise an old field theoretic dream but also have a remarkable predictive power due to the required reduction of couplings. The reduction of the dimensionless couplings in N=1 GUTs is achieved by searching for renormalization group in

J. -N. Zhang, S. Yi

Based on the semi-classical theory, we investigate the thermodynamic properties of a dipolar Fermi gas. Through a self-consistent procedure, we numerically obtain the phase space distribution function at finite temperature. We show that the deformations in both momentum and real space becomes smaller and smaller as one increases the temperature. For homogene

Vitaliy N. Pustovit, Tigran V. Shahbazyan

We develop a theory of cooperative emission of light by an ensemble of emitters, such as fluorescing molecules or semiconductor quantum dots, located near a metal nanostructure supporting surface plasmon. The primary mechanism of cooperative emission in such systems is resonant energy transfer between emitters and plasmons rather than the Dicke radiative cou

William J. Borucki, Davig G. Koch, Timothy M. Brown, Gibor Basri

Early time-series photometry from NASA's Kepler spacecraft has revealed a planet transiting the star we term Kepler-4, at RA = 19h02m27.68s, Dec = +50:08:08.7. The planet has an orbital period of 3.213 days and shows transits with a relative depth of 0.87 x 10^{-3} and a duration of about 3.95 hours. Radial velocity measurements from the Keck HIRES spect

Rajiv R. P. Singh

We argue that neutron spectra in a short-range ordered Valence Bond state is dominated by two-spinon states localized in small spatial regions such as a pinwheel. These excitations lead to angle averaged dynamic structure factor that is spread over a wide frequency range up to about $2.5 J$, whereas its wavevector dependence at all frequencies remains very c

Taras Banakh, Igor Protasov

The $n$-th Zariski topology on a group $G$ is generated by the sub-base consiting of the cozero sets of monomials of degree $\le n$ on $G$. We prove that for each group $G$ the 2-nd Zariski topology is not discrete and present an example of a group $G$ of cardinality continuum whose 2-nd Zariski topology has countable pseudocharacter. On the other hand, the

Dragan Mašulović, Rajko Nenadov, Nemanja Škorić

A structure is called homogeneous if every isomorphism between finite substructures of the structure extends to an automorphism of the structure. Recently, P. J. Cameron and J. Nešetřil introduced a relaxed version of homogeneity: we say that a structure is homomorphism-homogeneous if every homomorphism between finite substructures of the structure extends t

David Milovich

The Noetherian type of a space is the least k for which the space has a k^op-like base, i.e., a base in which no element has k-many supersets. We prove some results about Noetherian types of (generalized) ordered spaces and products thereof. For example: the density of a product of not-too-many compact linear orders never exceeds its Noetherian type, with eq

M. J. Stringer, A. M. Brooks, A. J. Benson, F. Governato

Recent focus on the importance of cold, unshocked gas accretion in galaxy formation -- not explicitly included in semi-analytic studies -- motivates the following detailed comparison between two inherently different modelling techniques: direct hydrodynamical simulation and semi-analytic modelling. By analysing the physical assumptions built into the Gasolin

Javier Gorosabel, Petr Kubanek, Martin Jelinek, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

We report on optical observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) followed up by our collaboration with the 1.23m telescope located at the Calar Alto observatory. The 1.23m telescope is an old facility, currently undergoing upgrades to enable fully autonomous response to GRB alerts. We discuss the current status of the control system upgrade of the 1.23m telescop

M. Khodas, A. M. Tsvelik

The two-dimensional model of itinerant electrons coupled to an anti-ferromagnetic order parameter is considered. In the mean field solution the Fermi surface undergoes reconstruction, and breaks into disconnected ``pockets''. We have studied the effect of the thermal fluctuations of the order parameter on the spectral density in such system. These fl

M. Swisdak, M. Opher, J. F. Drake, F. Alouani Bibi

We propose that magnetic reconnection at the heliopause only occurs where the interstellar magnetic field points nearly anti-parallel to the heliospheric field. By using large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the heliosphere to provide the initial conditions for kinetic simulations of heliopause (HP) reconnection we show that the energetic pick

D. A. Evans, J. N. Reeves, M. J. Hardcastle, R. P. Kraft

We present results from Suzaku and Swift observations of the nearby radio galaxy 3C 33, and investigate the nature of absorption, reflection, and jet production in this source. We model the 0.5-100 keV nuclear continuum with a power law that is transmitted either through one or more layers of pc-scale neutral material, or through a modestly ionized pc-scale

K. Tsigutkin, D. Dounas-Frazer, A. Family, J. E. Stalnaker

We present a detailed description of the observation of parity violation in the 1S0-3D1 408-nm forbidden transition of ytterbium, a brief report of which appeared earlier. Linearly polarized 408-nm light interacts with Yb atoms in crossed E- and B-fields. The probability of the 408-nm transition contains a parity violating term, proportional to (Elight . B)[

Saryu Fensin, David Olmsted, Dorel Buta, Mark Asta

We describe a molecular dynamics framework for the direct calculation of the short-ranged structural forces underlying grain-boundary premelting and grain-coalescence in solidification. The method is applied in a comparative study of (i) a Sigma 9 <115> 120 degress twist and (ii) a Sigma 9 <110> {411} symmetric tilt boundary in a classical embedded-atom mode

Masatoshi Imanishi, Kouichiro Nakanishi, Masako Yamada, Yoichi Tamura

We report the results of HCN(J=4-3) and HCO+(J=4-3) observations of two luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs), NGC 4418 and Arp 220, made using the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE). The ASTE wide-band correlator provided simultaneous observations of HCN(4-3) and HCO+(4-3) lines, and a precise determination of their flux ratios. Both galaxies sh

Heidi Jo Newberg, Benjamin A. Willett, Brian Yanny, Yan Xu

We use recent SEGUE spectroscopy and SDSS and SEGUE imaging data to measure the sky position, distance, and radial velocities of stars in the tidal debris stream that is commonly referred to as the &#34;Orphan Stream.&#34; We fit orbital parameters to the data, and find a prograde orbit with an apogalacticon, perigalacticon, and eccentricity of 90 kpc, 16.4

Jianmin Tao, Jian-Xin Zhu

We develop a three-temperature model to simulate the time dependence of electron and phonon temperatures in high-temperature superconductors displaying strong anistropic electron-phonon coupling. This model not only takes the tight-binding band structure into account, but also is valid in superconducting state. Based on this model, we calculate the time-reso

N. Masetti, R. Landi, V. Sguera, F. Capitanio

Using data collected with the BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL and Swift satellites, we report and discuss the results of a study on the X-ray emission properties of the X-ray source 1ES 1210-646, recently classified as a high-mass X-ray binary through optical spectroscopy. This is the first in-depth analysis of the X-ray spectral characteristics of this source. We found

Sean Farrell, Natalie Webb, Didier Barret, Olivier Godet

Ultra-luminous X-ray sources are extragalactic objects located outside the nucleus of the host galaxy with bolometric luminosities >10^39 erg s^-1. These extreme luminosities - if the emission is isotropic and below the theoretical (i.e. Eddington) limit, where the radiation pressure is balanced by the gravitational pressure - imply the presence of an accret

R. De Propris, S. P. Driver, M. M. Colless, M. J. Drinkwater

We measure the fraction of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) in dynamically close pairs (with projected separation less than 20 $h^{-1}$ kpc and velocity difference less than 500 km s$^{-1}$) to estimate the dry merger rate for galaxies with $-23 < M(r)_{k+e,z=0.2} +5 \log h < -21.5$ and $0.45 < z < 0.65$ in the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) redshift survey. For g

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

We suggest a new efficient way to constrain a certain class of large scale modifications of gravity. We show that the scale-free relation between density and size of Dark Matter halos, predicted within the LambdaCDM model with Newtonian gravity, gets modified in a wide class of theories of modified gravity.

E. Masciadri, F. Lascaux, J. Stoesz, S. Hagelin

Due to the recent interest shown by astronomers towards the Antarctic Plateau as a potential site for large astronomical facilities, we assisted in the last years to a strengthening of site testing activities in this region, particularly at Dome C. Most of the results collected so far concern meteorologic parameters and optical turbulence measurements based

A. Mironov, A. Morozov, Sh. Shakirov

As anticipated in [1], elaborated in [2-4], and explicitly formulated in [5], the Dotsenko-Fateev integral discriminant coincides with conformal blocks, thus providing an elegant approach to the AGT conjecture, without any reference to an auxiliary subject of Nekrasov functions. Internal dimensions of conformal blocks in this identification are associated wi

P. G. Judge, A. Tritschler, H. Uitenbroek, G. Cauzzi

We discuss spectropolarimetric measurements of photospheric (Fe I 630.25 nm) and chromospheric (Ca II 854.21 nm) spectral lines. Our long-term goal is to diagnose properties of the magnetic field near the base of the corona. We compare ground-based two-dimensional spectropolarimetric measurements with (almost) simultaneous space-based slit spectropolarimetry

Luca Brandolini, Giacomo Gigante, Sundaram Thangavelu, Giancarlo Travaglini

This paper contains an $L^{p}$ improving result for convolution operators defined by singular measures associated to hypersurfaces on the motion group. This needs only mild geometric properties of the surfaces, and it extends earlier results on Radon type transforms on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. The proof relies on the harmonic analysis on the motion group.

Harold P. Boas

This article discusses classical versions of the Schwarz lemma at the boundary of the unit disk in the complex plane. The exposition includes commentary on the history, the mathematics, and the applications.

Kh. M. Shadimetov

In this paper the discrete analogue $D_m[β]$ of the differential operator $d^{2m}/dx^{2m}$ is constructed and its some new properties are proved.

Patrizio Angelini, Markus Geyer, Michael Kaufmann, Daniel Neuwirth

Two graphs $G_1=(V,E_1)$ and $G_2=(V,E_2)$ admit a geometric simultaneous embedding if there exists a set of points P and a bijection M: P -> V that induce planar straight-line embeddings both for $G_1$ and for $G_2$. While it is known that two caterpillars always admit a geometric simultaneous embedding and that two trees not always admit one, the question

U. Fidalgo Prieto, G. Lopez Lagomasino

K. Mahler introduced the concept of perfect systems in the general theory he developed for the simultaneous Hermite-Pade approximation of analytic functions. We prove that Nikishin systems are perfect providing, by far, the largest class of systems of functions for which this important property holds. As consequences, in the context of Nikishin systems, we o

Vladislav V. Kravchenko, Marco P. Ramirez

Considering one of the fundamental notions of Bers&#39; theory of pseudoanalytic functions the generating pair via an intertwining relation we introduce its generalization for biquaternionic equations corresponding to different first-order systems of mathematical physics with variable coefficients. We show that the knowledge of a generating set of solutions

Robert Ralowski

We show that under some conditions on a family $\mathcal{A}\subset\bbi$ there exists a subfamily $\mathcal{A}_0\subset\mathcal{A}$ such that $\bigcup \mathcal{A}_0$ is nonmeasurable with respect to a fixed ideal $\bbi$ with Borel base of a fixed uncountable Polish space. Our result applies to the classical ideal of null subsets of the real line and to the id

Peter Christian Heinig

It is shown that by eliminating duality theory of vector spaces from a recent proof of Kouba (O. Kouba, A duality based proof of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz. Electron. J. Combin. 16 (2009), #N9) one obtains a direct proof of the nonvanishing-version of Alon&#39;s Combinatorial Nullstellensatz for polynomials over an arbitrary integral domain. The proof

Yih-Fan Chen, J. N. Milstein, J. -C. Meiners

We show that minuscule entropic forces, on the order of 100 fN, can prevent the formation of DNA loops--a ubiquitous means of regulating the expression of genes. We observe a tenfold decrease in the rate of LacI-mediated DNA loop formation when a tension of 200 fN is applied to the substrate DNA, biasing the thermal fluctuations that drive loop formation and

Thomas Eisenbeiss, Christian Ginski, Markus M. Hohle, Valeri V. Hambaryan

Since the first optical detection of RXJ0720.4-3125 various observations have been performed to determine astrometric and photometric data. We present the first detection of the isolated neutron star in the V Bessel filter to study the spectral energy distribution and derive a new astrometric position. At ESO Paranal we obtained very deep images with FORS 1

Renato Higa

After a brief discussion of effective field theory applied to nuclear clusters, I concentrate on the inclusion of two particular aspects, namely, narrow resonances and electromagnetic interactions. As examples of applications, I present the details of our studies on alpha-alpha and proton-alpha scattering.

Davide Lazzati, Rosalba Perna

This contribution summarizes, as of early 2008, the observational and theoretical understanding of the origin, physics, and emission properties of short gamma-ray bursts in both electromagnetic and gravitational waves.

T. Shahbaz, V. S. Dhillon, T. R. Marsh, J. Casares

We present high time-resolution multicolour optical observations of the quiescent X-ray transients GRS1124-684 (=GU Mus) and Cen X-4 (=V822 Cen) obtained with ULTRACAM. Superimposed on the secondary stars&#39; ellipsoidal modulation in both objects are large flares on time-scales of 30-60 min, as well as several distinct rapid flares on time-scales of a few

H1 Collaboration

The production of leading neutrons, where the neutron carries a large fraction x_L of the incoming proton&#39;s longitudinal momentum, is studied in deep-inelastic positron-proton scattering at HERA. The data were taken with the H1 detector in the years 2006 and 2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 122 pb^{-1}. The semi-inclusive cross section

Marco Brunella

We show that every Kato surface (or surface with a global spherical shell) admits a locally conformally Kaehler metric.

C. P. Amann, T. Schmiedl, U. Seifert

For a three-state Markov system in a stationary state, we discuss whether, on the basis of data obtained from effective two-state (or on-off) trajectories, it is possible to discriminate between an equilibrium state and a non-equilibrium steady state. By calculating the full phase diagram we identify a large region where such data will be consistent only wit

E. Trizac, Y. Levy, P. G. Wolynes

Biomolecular folding and function are often coupled. During molecular recognition events, one of the binding partners may transiently or partially unfold, allowing more rapid access to a binding site. We describe a simple model for this flycasting mechanism based on the capillarity approximation and polymer chain statistics. The model shows that flycasting i

T. A. Searles, Y. Imanaka, T. Takamasu, H. Ajiki

Through magnetic linear dichroism spectroscopy, the magnetic susceptibility anisotropy of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes has been extracted and found to be 2-4 times greater than values for semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. This large anisotropy is consistent with our calculations and can be understood in terms of large orbital paramagn

Filippo Costa, Simone Genovesi, Agostino Monorchio

In this letter, the bandwidth of high-impedance surfaces (HISs) is discussed by an equivalent circuit approach. Even if these surfaces have been employed for almost 10 years, it is sometimes unclear how to choose the shape of the frequency selective surface (FSS) on the top of the grounded slab in order to achieve the largest possible bandwidth. Here, we wil

Piotr M. Sołtan

We give a survey of techniques from quantum group theory which can be used to show that some quantum spaces (objects of the category dual to the category of $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebras) do not admit any quantum group structure. We also provide a number of examples which include some very well known quantum spaces. Our tools include several purely quantum group t

Piotr M. Sołtan

We present two examples of actions of non-regular locally compact quantum groups on their homogeneous spaces. The homogeneous spaces are defined in a way specific to these examples, but the definitions we use have the advantage of being expressed in purely $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebraic language. We also discuss continuity of the obtained actions. Finally we descr

G. Pupillo, A. Micheli, M. Boninsegni, I. Lesanovsky

We discuss techniques to generate long-range interactions in a gas of groundstate alkali atoms, by weakly admixing excited Rydberg states with laser light. This provides a tool to engineer strongly correlated phases with reduced decoherence from inelastic collisions and spontaneous emission. As an illustration, we discuss the quantum phases of dressed atoms

M. Min, M. Kama, C. Dominik, L. B. F. M. Waters

Optical images of the nearby star Fomalhaut show a ring of dust orbiting the central star. This dust is in many respects expected to be similar to the zodiacal dust in the solar system. The ring displays a clear brightness asymmetry, attributed to asymmetric scattering of the central starlight by the circumstellar dust grains. Recent measurements show that t

Anand Pillay

We give sufficient conditions for a predicate P in a complete theory T to be stably embedded: P with its induced 0-definable structure has &#34;finite rank&#34;, P has NIP in T and P is 1-stably embedded. This generalizes recent work by Hasson and Onshuus in the case where P is o-minimal in T.

Benjamin Lorenz

After giving a short introduction on smooth lattice polytopes, I will present a proof for the finiteness of smooth lattice polytopes with few lattice points. The argument is then turned into an algorithm for the classification of smooth lattice polytopes in fixed dimension with an upper bound on the number of lattice points. Additionally I have implemented t

Maria Joao Oliveira, Jose Luis da Silva, Ludwig Streit

In this work we present expansions of intersection local times of fractional Brownian motions in $\R^d$, for any dimension $d\geq 1$, with arbitrary Hurst coefficients in $(0,1)^d$. The expansions are in terms of Wick powers of white noises (corresponding to multiple Wiener integrals), being well-defined in the sense of generalized white noise functionals. A

J. F. González, S. Hubrig, F. Castelli

We present high-resolution, high signal-to-noise UVES spectra of AO Vel, a quadruple system containing an eclipsing BpSi star. From these observations we reconstruct the spectra of the individual components and perform an abundance analysis of all four stellar members. We found that all components are chemically peculiar with different abundances patters. In

Sahin Buyukdagli, Marc Joyeux

In this Letter, we investigate the link between thermal denaturation and mechanical unzipping for two models of DNA, namely the Dauxois-Peyrard-Bishop model and a variant thereof we proposed recently. We show that the critical line that separates zipped from unzipped DNA sequences in mechanical unzipping experiments is a power-law in the temperature-force pl

Fabio Cinti, Angelo Rettori, Alessandro Cuccoli

The properties of helical thin films have been thoroughly investigated by classical Monte Carlo simulations. The employed model assumes classical planar spins in a body-centered tetragonal lattice, where the helical arrangement along the film growth direction has been modeled by nearest neighbor and next-nearest neighbor competing interactions, the minimal r

A. Nishiyama, T. Tokihiro

We propose a new method to construct an isotropic cellular automaton corresponding to a reaction-diffusion equation. The method consists of replacing the diffusion term and the reaction term of the reaction-diffusion equation with a random walk of microscopic particles and a discrete vector field which defines the time evolution of the particles. The cellula

Laurent Evain

The rational Chow ring A?(S[n],Q) of the Hilbert scheme S[n] parametrising the length n zero-dimensional subschemes of a toric surface S can be described with the help of equivariant techniques. In this paper, we explain the general method and we illustrate it through many examples. In the last section, we present results on the intersection theory of graded

M. Hrudková, I. Skillen, C. R. Benn, N. P. Gibson

We report a transit timing study of the transiting exoplanetary system HD 189733. In total we observed ten transits in 2006 and 2008 with the 2.6-m Nordic Optical Telescope, and two transits in 2007 with the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope. We used Markov-Chain Monte Carlo simulations to derive the system parameters and their uncertainties, and our results

Kostya Khanin, Andrei Sobolevski

Characteristics of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be seen as action minimizing trajectories of fluid particles. For nonsmooth &#34;viscosity&#34; solutions, which give rise to discontinuous velocity fields, this description is usually pursued only up to the moment when trajectories hit a shock and cease to minimize the Lagrangian action. In this paper we sho

Thomas Conlon, Heather J. Ruskin, Martin Crane

The cross correlation matrix between equities comprises multiple interactions between traders with varying strategies and time horizons. In this paper, we use the Maximum Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform to calculate correlation matrices over different timescales and then explore the eigenvalue spectrum over sliding time windows. The dynamics of the eigenv

Yves Grandati, Alain Berard

For translationally shape invariant potentials, the exact quantization rule proposed by Ma and Xu is a direct consequence of exactness of the modified WKB quantization condition proved by Barclay. We propose here a very direct alternative way to calculate the appropriate correction for the whole class of translationally shape invariant potentials.

Noureddine El Karoui

We place ourselves in the setting of high-dimensional statistical inference where the number of variables $p$ in a dataset of interest is of the same order of magnitude as the number of observations $n$. We consider the spectrum of certain kernel random matrices, in particular $n\times n$ matrices whose $(i,j)$th entry is $f(X_i&#39;X_j/p)$ or $f(\Vert X_i-X

Franz Peherstorfer

Asymptotic representation of minimal polynomials on several intervals is given. The last modifications and corrections of this manuscript were done by the author in the two months preceding his passing away in November 2009. The manuscript remained unsubmitted and is not published elsewhere.

Amir Esmaeil Mosaffa

We propose an action for a free particle in Horava-Lifshitz gravity based on Foliation Preserving Diffeomorphisms. The action reduces to the usual relativistic action in the low energy limit and allows for subluminal and superluminal motions with upper and lower bounds on velocity respectively. We find that deviation from general relativity is governed by a

Rabeya Basu

When R is a commutative ring with identity, and if k is a natural number with kR = R, then C. Weibel proved that SK_1(R[X]) has no k-torsion. We reprove his result for any associative ring R with identity in which kR = R.

A. Zsom, C. W. Ormel, C. Guettler, J. Blum

The sticking of micron sized dust particles due to surface forces in circumstellar disks is the first stage in the production of asteroids and planets. The key ingredients that drive this process are the relative velocity between the dust particles in this environment and the complex physics of dust aggregate collisions. Here we present the results of a coll

Masaki Asano, Ryuichiro Kitano

We update the constraints on the minimal model of dark matter, where a stable real scalar field is added to the standard model Lagrangian with a renormalizable coupling to the Higgs field. Once we fix the dark matter abundance, there are only two relevant model parameters, the mass of the scalar field and that of the Higgs boson. The recent data from the CDM

Franz Peherstorfer

Let the unions of real intervals $I = \cup_{j = 1}^l [a_{2 j -1},a_{2j}],$ $a_1 < ... < a_{2 l},$ and $I_n = \cup_{k = 1}^m [B_{k,n}, C_{k,n}]$ be such that $\cap_{k = 1}^{\infty} [B_{k,n},C_{k,n}] = \{c_k \}$ for $k = 1,...,m$ and ${\rm dist}(E,I_n) \geq const > 0.$ We show how to express asymptotically the Green&#39;s function $ϕ(z,\infty,E \cup I_n)$ of $

Franck Lascaux, Elena Masciadri, Susanna Hagelin, Jeffrey A. Stoesz

Mesoscale model such as Meso-Nh have proven to be highly reliable in reproducing 3D maps of optical turbulence (see Refs. 1, 2, 3, 4) above mid-latitude astronomical sites. These last years ground-based astronomy has been looking towards Antarctica. Especially its summits and the Internal Continental Plateau where the optical turbulence appears to be confine

P. Balseiro, J. C. Marrero, D. Martin de Diego, E. Padron

In this paper, we construct Hamilton-Jacobi equations for a great variety of mechanical systems (nonholonomic systems subjected to linear or affine constraints, dissipative systems subjected to external forces, time-dependent mechanical systems...). We recover all these, in principle, different cases using a unified framework based on skew-symmetric algebroi

E. Burzo, I. Balazs, L. Chioncel, E. Arrigoni

We analyse the effects of doping Holmium impurities into the full-Heusler ferromagnetic alloy Co$_2$MnSi. Experimental results, as well as theoretical calculations within Density Functional Theory in the &#34;Local Density Approximation plus Hubbard U&#34; framework show that the holmium moment is aligned antiparallely to that of the transition metal atoms.

Franz Peherstorfer

Let $E = \cup_{j = 1}^l [a_{2j-1},a_{2j}],$ $a_1 < a_2 < ... < a_{2l},$ $l \geq 2$ and set ${\boldmath$ω$}(\infty) =(ω_1(\infty),...,ω_{l-1}(\infty))$, where $ω_j(\infty)$ is the harmonic measure of $[a_{2 j - 1}, a_{2 j}]$ at infinity. Let $μ$ be a measure which is on $E$ absolutely continuous and satisfies Szegő&#39;s-condition and has at most a finite num

F. Rodolakis, P. Hansmann, J. -P. Rueff, A. Toschi

The changes in the electronic structure of V2O3 across the metal-insulator transition induced by temperature, doping and pressure are identified using high resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the V pre K-edge. Contrary to what has been taken for granted so far, the metallic phase reached under pressure is shown to differ from the one obtained by chan

Jacopo Belfi, Nicolò Beverini, Filippo Bosi, Giorgio Carelli

G-Pisa is an experiment investigating the possibility to operate a high sensitivity laser gyroscope with area less than $1 \rm m^2$ for improving the performances of the mirrors suspensions of the gravitational wave antenna Virgo. The experimental set-up consists in a He-Ne ring laser with a 4 mirrors square cavity. The laser is pumped by an RF discharge whe

Utpal Mukhopadhyay, Partha Pratim Ghosh, Saibal Ray

Time variable $Λ$ and $G$ are studied here under a phenomenological model of $Λ$ through an ($n+2$) dimensional analysis. The relation of Zeldovich (1968) $|Λ| = 8πG^2m_p^6/h^4$ between $Λ$ and $G$ is employed here, where $m_p$ is the proton mass and $h$ is Planck&#39;s constant. In the present investigation some key issues of modern cosmology, viz. the age

J. G. Storey, J. W. Loram, J. R. Cooper, Z. Bukowski

Using a differential technique, we have measured the specific heats of polycrystalline Ba1-xKxFe2As2 samples with x=0, 0.1 and 0.3, between 2K and 380K and in magnetic fields 0 to 13 Tesla. From this data we have determined the electronic specific heat coefficient, gamma, over the entire range for the three samples. The most heavily doped sample (x=0.3) exhi

David Lopez-Val, Joan Sola

We present a one-loop analysis of the pairwise production of neutral Higgs bosons (h0A0, H0A0) at linear colliders, such as the ILC and CLIC, within the general Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM). We single out sizable radiative corrections, which can well reach the level of 50 % and may be either positive (typically for \sqrt{s} \sim 0.5 TeV) and negative (for

Marco D&#39;Anna, Carmelo Finocchiaro, Marco Fontana

Let $f:A \to B$ be a ring homomorphism and let $J$ be an ideal of $B$. In this paper, we study the amalgamation of $A$ with $B$ along $J$ with respect to $f$ (denoted by ${A\Join^fJ}$), a construction that provides a general frame for studying the amalgamated duplication of a ring along an ideal, introduced and studied by D&#39;Anna and Fontana in 2007, and

R. Anglani

We have studied the phenomenology of pion condensation in 2-flavor neutral quark matter at finite density with Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model of QCD. We have discussed the role of the bare quark mass $m$ and the electric chemical potential $μ_{e}$ in controlling the condensation. The central result of this work is that the onset for $π$-condensed phase occu

M. Bonnefoy, G. Chauvin, P. Rojo, F. Allard

Chauvin et al. 2005 imaged a co-moving companion at ~260 AU from the young star AB Pic A. Evolutionary models predictions based on J H K photometry of AB Pic b suggested a mass of ~13 - 14 MJup, placing the object at the deuterium-burning boundary. We used the adaptive-optics-fed integral field spectrograph SINFONI to obtain high quality medium-resolution sp

Franz Peherstorfer

First we consider the following problem which dates back to Chebyshev, Zolotarev and Achieser: among all trigonometric polynomials with given leading coefficients $a_0,...,a_l,$ $b_0,...,b_l \in \mathbb R$ find that one with least maximum norm on $[0,2 π].$ We show that the minimal polynomial is on $[0,2 π]$ asymptotically equal to a Blaschke product times a

Thomas Juffmann, Stefan Truppe, Philipp Geyer, Andras G. Major

The wave-particle duality of massive objects is a cornerstone of quantum physics and a key property of many modern tools such as electron microscopy, neutron diffraction or atom interferometry. Here we report on the first experimental demonstration of quantum interference lithography with complex molecules. Molecular matter-wave interference patterns are dep

L. S. Geng, J. Martin-Camalich, L. Alvarez-Ruso, M. J. Vicente-Vacas

We review some recent progress in our understanding of the lowest-lying spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 baryon magnetic moments (MMs) in terms of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT). In particular, we show that at next-to-leading-order ChPT can describe the MMs of the octet baryons quite well. We also make predictions for the decuplet MMs at the same chiral order. Among

Y. Letawe, G. Letawe, P. Magain

We analyse a sample of 69 QSOs which have been randomly selected in a complete sample of 104 QSOs (R<18, 0.142 < z < 0.198). 60 have been observed with the NTT/SUSI2 at La Silla, through two filters in the optical band (WB#655 and V#812), and the remaining 9 are taken from archive databases. The filter V#812 contains the redshifted Hbeta and forbidden [OIII]

Choongbum Lee, Joonkyung Lee, Sang-il Oum

Rank-width of a graph G, denoted by rw(G), is a width parameter of graphs introduced by Oum and Seymour (2006). We investigate the asymptotic behavior of rank-width of a random graph G(n,p). We show that, asymptotically almost surely, (i) if 0<p<1 is a constant, then rw(G(n,p)) = \lceil n/3 \rceil-O(1), (ii) if 1/n<< p <1/2, then rw(G(n,p))= \lceil n/3\rceil

Mayeul Arminjon, Frank Reifler

We summarize a recent work on the subject title. The Dirac equation in a curved spacetime depends on a field of coefficients (essentially the Dirac matrices), for which a continuum of different choices are possible. We study the conditions under which a change of the coefficient fields leads to an equivalent Hamiltonian operator H, or to an equivalent energy

E. Garrido, D. V. Fedorov, A. S. Jensen

We solve the persistent problem of the structure of the lowest $1/2^+$ resonance in $^9$Be which is important to bridge the A=8 gap in nucleosynthesis in stars. We show that the state is a genuine three-body resonance even though it decays entirely into neutron-$^8$Be relative s-waves. The necessary barrier is created by &#34;dynamical&#34; evolution of the

Ahmad T. Ali, Rafael Lopez, Melih Turgut

We introduce the notion of $k$-type slant helix in Minkowski space $\e_1^4$. For partially null and pseudo null curves in $\e_1^4$, we express some characterizations in terms of their curvature and torsion functions.

Janine Riedrich-Möller, Elke Neu, Christoph Becher

We present the design of two-dimensional photonic crystal microcavities in thin diamond membranes well suited for coupling of color centers in diamond. By comparing simulated and ideal field distributions in Fourier and real space and by according modification of air hole positions and size, we optimize the cavity structure yielding high quality factors up t

Naoyuki Tateiwa, Yoshinori Haga

The fourteen kinds of pressure-transmitting media were evaluated by the ruby fluorescence method at room temperature, 77 K using the diamond anvil cell (DAC) up to 10 GPa in order to find appropriate media for use in low temperature physics. The investigated media are a 1:1 mixture by volume of Fluorinert FC-70 and FC-77, Daphne 7373 and 7474, NaCl, silicon

André Thomas

Auto ID technologies such RFID are more and more commonly used in industry and in distribution. Human are identify thanks to this technology, too. A lot of people have highlighted ethic problems relative to their utilization. This paper present first RFID technology, then it presents their opportunities in business and industry. In a second part, the paper h

Takuya Hasegawa

In Japan, as the first experiment utilizes J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) neutrino facility, T2K (Tokai to Kamioka Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment) starts operation. T2K is supposed to give critical information, which guides the future direction of the neutrino physics. Possible new generation discovery experiment based on T2K outcome i

Vyacheslav V. Chistyakov, Yuliya V. Tretyachenko

Given a map from a rectangle in the n-dimensional real Euclidean space into a metric semigroup, we introduce a concept of the total variation, which generalizes a similar concept due to T. H. Hildebrandt (1963) for real functions of two variables and A. S. Leonov (1998) for real functions of n variables, and study its properties. We show that the total varia

Mahender Singh

Let $X$ be a finitistic space having the mod 2 cohomology algebra of the product of two projective spaces. We study free involutions on $X$ and determine the possible mod 2 cohomology algebra of orbit space of any free involution, using the Leray spectral sequence associated to the Borel fibration $X \hookrightarrow X_{\mathbb{Z}_2} \longrightarrow B_{\mathb

Paul Norbury, Nick Scott

The Eynard-Orantin invariants of a plane curve are multilinear differentials on the curve. For a particular class of genus zero plane curves these invariants can be equivalently expressed in terms of simpler expressions given by polynomials obtained from an expansion of the Eynard-Orantin invariants around a point on the curve. This class of curves contains

Jian Zhou

For the resolved conifold with one outer D-brane in arbitrary framing, we present some results for the open string partition functions obtained by some operator manipulations. We prove some conjectures by Aganagic-Vafa and Aganagic-Klemm-Vafa that relates such invariants to the mirror curve of the resolved conifold. This establishes local mirror symmetry for

Benjamin Torben-Nielsen, Marylka Uusisaari, Klaus M. Stiefel

Regular firing neurons can be seen as oscillators. The phase-response curve (PRC) describes how such neurons will respond to small excitatory perturbations. Knowledge of the PRC is important as it is associated to the excitability type of neurons and their capability to synchronize in networks. In this work we present a novel method to estimate the PRC from

Kourosh Nozari, M. Shoukrani

We study an inflation model that inflaton field is non-minimally coupled to the induced scalar curvature on the Randall-Sundrum (RS) II brane. We investigate the effects of the non-minimal coupling on the inflationary dynamics of this braneworld model. Our study shows that the number of e-folds decreases by increasing the value of the non-minimal coupling. W

Rajkumar Kannan, Christian Guetl

Educational media mining is the process of converting raw media data from educational systems to useful information that can be used to design learning systems, answer research questions and allow personalized learning experiences. Knowledge discovery encompasses a wide range of techniques ranging from database queries to more recent developments in machine

Rajkumar Kannan, Balakrishnan Ramadoss

Dance videos are interesting and semantics-intensive. At the same time, they are the complex type of videos compared to all other types such as sports, news and movie videos. In fact, dance video is the one which is less explored by the researchers across the globe. Dance videos exhibit rich semantics such as macro features and micro features and can be clas

Rajkumar Kannan, Balakrishnan Ramadoss

Dance video is one of the important types of narrative videos with semantic rich content. This paper proposes a new meta model, Dance Video Content Model (DVCM) to represent the expressive semantics of the dance videos at multiple granularity levels. The DVCM is designed based on the concepts such as video, shot, segment, event and object, which are the comp