February 2010 arXiv papers — page 10

Dong-il Hwang, Dong-han Yeom

We study responses of the Brans-Dicke field due to gravitational collapses of scalar field pulses using numerical simulations. Double-null formalism is employed to implement the numerical simulations. If we supply a scalar field pulse, it will asymptotically form a black hole via dynamical interactions of the Brans-Dicke field. Hence, we can observe the resp

Evelina Daniyarova, Alexei Myasnikov, Vladimir Remeslennikov

In this paper we discuss some special generalizations of equationally Noetherian property which naturally arise in the universal algebraic geometry. We introduce weakly equationally Noetherian, qw-compact, uw-compact, and weakly uw-compact algebras and then examine properties of such algebras. Also we consider the connections between five classes: the class

Mami Iwata, Shin-ichi Sasa

A Langevin equation whose deterministic part undergoes a saddle-node bifurcation is investigated theoretically. It is found that statistical properties of relaxation trajectories in this system exhibit divergent behaviors near a saddle-node bifurcation point in the weak-noise limit, while the final value of the deterministic solution changes discontinuously

M. Davis, T. Januszkiewicz, J. -F. Lafont

We construct examples of smooth 4-dimensional manifolds M supporting a locally CAT(0)-metric, whose universal cover X satisfy Hruska's isolated flats condition, and contain 2-dimensional flats F with the property that the boundary at infinity of F defines a nontrivial knot in the boundary at infinity of X. As a consequence, we obtain that the fundamental gro

Hiroyuki Tanaka, Masakazu Teragaito

We introduce the triple crossing number, a variation of crossing number, of a graph, which is the minimal number of crossing points in all drawings with only triple crossings of the graph. It is defined to be zero for a planar graph, and to be infinite unless a graph admits a drawing with only triple crossings. In this paper, we determine the triple crossing

David Jao, Vladimir Soukharev

An isogeny between elliptic curves is an algebraic morphism which is a group homomorphism. Many applications in cryptography require evaluating large degree isogenies between elliptic curves efficiently. For ordinary curves of the same endomorphism ring, the previous best known algorithm has a worst case running time which is exponential in the length of the

W. Chen, D. S. Goldbaum, M. Bhattacharya, P. Meystre

We consider a cavity optomechanical system consisting of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) interacting with two counterpropagating traveling-wave modes in an optical ring cavity. In contrast to the more familiar case where the condensate is driven by the standing-wave field of a high-$Q$ Fabry-P{é}rot cavity we find that both symmetric and antisymmetric colle

Christian Tomás Schmiegelow, Miguel Antonio Larotonda, Juan Pablo Paz

We present the results of the first photonic implementation of a new method for quantum process tomography. The method (originally presented by A. Bendersky et al, Phys. Rev. Lett 100, 190403 (2008)) enables the estimation of any element of the chi-matrix that characterizes a quantum process using resources that scale polynomially with the number of qubits.

E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, G. Kowal, L. H. S. Kadowaki, P. Piovezan

One of the fundamental properties of astrophysical magnetic fields is their ability to change topology through reconnection and in doing so, to release magnetic energy, sometimes violently. In this work, we review recent results on the role of magnetic reconnection and associated heating and particle acceleration in jet/accretion disk systems, namely young s

Tameem Albash

We consider the dynamics of a probe fermion charged under a U(1) Maxwell field and a two form potential $B_{(2)}$ in a five dimensional gravity background. The gravity background is constructed from a new solution we find of type IIB supergravity. This new solution is expected to be dual to non-commutative Yang-Mills theory in the 't Hooft limit with glo

Kimball Martin

We give an exposition of central value formulas for twisted L-functions for GL(2) in terms of compact periods, with a focus on explaining an approach via the relative trace formula and joint work of the author with David Whitehouse.

P. Di Francesco

We present an explicit solution of the $A_r$ $T$-system for arbitrary boundary conditions. For each boundary, this is done by constructing a network, i.e. a graph with positively weighted edges, and the solution is expressed as the partition function for a family of non-intersecting paths on the network. This proves in particular the positive Laurent propert

Olga S. Rozanova, Jui-Ling Yu, Chin-Kun Hu

We propose a model based on the primitive system of the Navier-Stokes equations in a bidimensional framework as the $l$ - plane approximation, which allows us to explain the variety of tracks of tropical cyclones (typhoons). Our idea is to construct special analytical solutions with a linear velocity profile for the Navier-Stokes systems. The evidence of the

Roger Gehr, Jürgen Volz, Guilhem Dubois, Tilo Steinmetz

We prepare and detect the hyperfine state of a single 87Rb atom coupled to a fiber-based high finesse cavity on an atom chip. The atom is extracted from a Bose-Einstein condensate and trapped at the maximum of the cavity field, resulting in a reproducibly strong atom-cavity coupling. We use the cavity reflection and transmission signal to infer the atomic hy

Lih-King Lim, Achilleas Lazarides, Andreas Hemmerich, C. Morais Smith

We study superconductivity in an ultracold Bose-Fermi mixture loaded into a square optical lattice subjected to a staggered flux. While the bosons form a superfluid at very low temperature and weak interaction, the interacting fermions experience an additional long-ranged attractive interaction mediated by phonons in the bosonic superfluid. This leads us to

D. R. Mizuno, K. E. Kraemer, N. Flagey, N. Billot

We present a catalog of 416 extended, resolved, disk- and ring-like objects as detected in the MIPSGAL 24 micron survey of the Galactic plane. This catalog is the result of a search in the MIPSGAL image data for generally circularly symmetric, extended "bubbles" without prior knowledge or expectation of their physical nature. Most of the objects have

D. S. Golubev, M. Marthaler, Y. Utsumi, Gerd Schon

The intrinsic nonlinearity of Josephson junctions converts Gaussian current noise in the input into non-Gaussian voltage noise in the output. For a resistively shunted Josephson junction with white input noise we determine numerically exactly the properties of the few lowest cumulants of the voltage fluctuations, and we derive analytical expressions for thes

Masaru Kada

Iwasa investigated the preservation of various covering properties of opological spaces under Cohen forcing. By improving the argument in Iwasa's paper, we prove that the Rothberger property, the Menger property and selective screenability are also preserved under Cohen forcing and forcing with the measure algebra.

Ali A. Dariush, Somak Raychaudhury, Trevor J. Ponman, Habib G. Khosroshahi

We investigate the assembly of groups and clusters of galaxies using the Millennium dark matter simulation and the associated gas simulations and semi-analytic catalogues of galaxies. In particular, in order to find an observable quantity that could be used to identify early-formed groups, we study the development of the difference in magnitude between their

V. Antonuccio-Delogu, J. Silk

We study the internal circulation within the cocoon carved out by the relativistic jet emanating from an AGN within the ISM of its host galaxy. Firstly, we develop a model for the origin of the internal flow, noticing that a significant increase of large scale velocity circulation within the cocoon arises as significant gradients in the density and entropy a

Kefeng Tan, Jianrong Shi, Gang Zhao

The non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) line formation of neutral boron in the atmospheres of cool stars are investigated. Our results confirm that NLTE effects for the B I resonance lines, which are due to a combination of overionization and optical pumping effects, are most important for hot, metalpoor, and low-gravity stars; however, the amplitude

C. Sandin, T. Becker, M. M. Roth, J. Gerssen

The reduction of integral-field spectrograph (IFS) data is demanding work. Many repetitive operations are required in order to convert raw data into, typically a large number of, spectra. This effort can be markedly simplified through the use of a tool or pipeline, which is designed to complete many of the repetitive operations without human interaction. Her

Matthew P Young

We give a short proof of Levinson's result that more than 1/3 of the zeros of the zeta function are on the critical line.

T. Szalai, L. L. Kiss, G. E. Sarty

LS 5039 is a relatively close microquasar consisting of a late O-type star and a compact object (very possibly a black hole) on a highly eccentric orbit with a period of 3.9 days. The high X-ray, gamma-ray and radio luminosity indicate light-matter interaction, which arise from the stellar wind of the primary star accreting toward the black hole. Former exam

Th. Maschberger, C. J. Clarke, I. A. Bonnell, P. Kroupa

We undertake a systematic analysis of the early (< 0.5 Myr) evolution of clustering and the stellar initial mass function in turbulent fragmentation simulations. These large scale simulations for the first time offer the opportunity for a statistical analysis of IMF variations and correlations between stellar properties and cluster richness. The typical evol

B. C. Low

We demonstrate the Parker Magnetostatic Theorem in terms of a small neighborhood in solution space containing continuous force-free magnetic fields in small deviations from the uniform field. These fields are embedded in a perfectly conducting fluid bounded by a pair of rigid plates where each field is anchored, taking the plates perpendicular to the uniform

G. F. Reiter, R. Senesi, J. Mayers

The zero point kinetic energy of protons in water is large on the scale of chemical interaction energies(29 Kj/mol in bulk room temperature water). Its value depends upon the structure of the hydrogen bond network, and can change as the network is confined or as water interacts with surfaces. These changes have been observed to be large on a chemical scale f

M. Królikowska, P. A. Dybczyński

The apparent source region (or regions) of long-period comets as well as the definition of the dynamically new comet are still open questions.The aim of this investigation is to look for the apparent source of selected long period comets and to refine the definition of dynamically new comets. We show that incorporation of the non-gravitational forces into th

D. J. J. Farnell

Recent developments of high-order CCM have been to extend existing formalism and codes to $s \ge \frac 12$ for both the ground and excited states, and independently to &#34;generalised&#34; expectation values for a wide range of one- and two-body spin operators. An advantage of the CCM is that the Goldstone linked-cluster theorem is obeyed at all levels of a

Sanjoy Biswas

We have considered a supersymmetric scenario in which the minimal supersymmetric standard model is augmented with a right-chiral neutrino superfield for each generation. Such a scenario can have a lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) dominated by the right-chiral sneutrino state and the lighter stau as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP). T

Luigi Brugnano, Felice Iavernaro, Donato Trigiante

One main issue, when numerically integrating autonomous Hamiltonian systems, is the long-term conservation of some of its invariants, among which the Hamiltonian function itself. Recently, a new class of methods, named Hamiltonian Boundary Value Methods (HBVMs) has been introduced and analysed, which are able to exactly preserve polynomial Hamiltonians of ar

Xin Tong, Joey Paquet, Serguei A. Mokhov

This paper presents the integration into the GIPSY of Lucx&#39;s context calculus defined in Wan&#39;s PhD thesis. We start by defining different types of tag sets, then we explain the concept of context, the types of context and the context calculus operators. Finally, we present how context entities have been abstracted into Java classes and embedded into

R. Martinez-Arnaiz, J. Maldonado, D. Montes, C. Eiroa

Context: Chromospheric activity produces both photometric and spectroscopic variations that can be mistaken as planets. Large spots crossing the stellar disc can produce planet-like periodic variations in the light curve of a star. These spots clearly affect the spectral line profiles and their perturbations alter the line centroids creating a radial velocit

Tye Lidman

Ozsvath and Szabo construct a spectral sequence with E_2 term Λ^*(H^1(Y;Z))\otimes Z[U,U^{-1}] converging to HF^\infty(Y,s) for a torsion Spin^c structure s. They conjecture that the differentials are completely determined by the integral triple cup product form via a proposed formula. In this paper, we prove that HF^\infty(Y,s) is in fact determined by the

Levi Lopes de Lima, Newton Luis Santos

It is shown that the space of infinitesimal deformations of 2k-Einstein structures is finite dimensional at compact non-flat space forms. Moreover, spherical space forms are shown to be rigid in the sense that they are isolated in the corresponding moduli space.

Viswanath C Narayanan

Humans and chimpanzees are believed to have shared a common ancestor about 6 million years ago. Here using a new distance measure called the Jump distance, we calculate the number of base substitutions that might have occurred in the mitochondrial DNA during these 6 million years.

Heiko Gimperlein, Matthias Maischak, Elmar Schrohe, Ernst P. Stephan

We analyze a finite element/boundary element procedure to solve a non-convex contact problem for the double-well potential. After relaxing the associated functional, the degenerate minimization problem is reduced to a boundary/domain variational inequality, a discretized saddle point formulation of which may then be solved numerically. The convergence of the

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

We report on gamma-ray observations in the off-pulse window of the Vela pulsar PSR B0833-45, using 11 months of survey data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). This pulsar is located in the 8 degree diameter Vela supernova remnant, which contains several regions of non-thermal emission detected in the radio, X-ray and gamma-ray bands. The gamma-ray em

R. C. Bohlin

Absolute flux distributions for seven solar analog stars are measured from 0.3 to 2.5 μm by HST spectrophotometry.In order to predict the longer wavelength mid-IR fluxes that are required for JWST calibration, the HST SEDs are fit with Castelli & Kurucz model atmospheres; and the results are compared with fits from the MARCS model grid. The rms residuals in

Jeffrey Yepez

Presented is a prediction, based on the Frenet-Serret differential geometry of space curves, that the wave number dependence of the average kinetic energy per unit length of two mutually interacting highly curved quantum vortex scales as k^-3. The interacting quantum vortices are helical in shape, supporting circularly polarized counter-propagating waves, wi

László Lovász, Balázs Szegedy

We highlight a topological aspect of the graph limit theory. Graphons are limit objects for convergent sequences of dense graphs. We introduce the representation of a graphon on a unique metric space and we relate the dimension of this metric space to the size of regularity partitions. We prove that if a graphon has an excluded induced sub-bigraph then the u

Andreas Papaefstathiou, Jennifer M. Smillie, Bryan R. Webber

We compute the resummed hadronic transverse energy (E_T) distribution due to initial-state QCD radiation in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders. The resummed exponent, parton distributions and coefficient functions are treated consistently to next-to-leading order. The results are matched to fixed-order calculations at large E_T and c

Tom Bridgeland

We give an introduction to Joyce&#39;s construction of the motivic Hall algebra of coherent sheaves on a variety M. When M is a Calabi-Yau threefold we define a semi-classical integration map from a Poisson subalgebra of this Hall algebra to the ring of functions on a symplectic torus. This material will be used in arxiv:1002.4374 to prove some basic propert

E. Laurikainen, H. Salo, R. Buta, J. H. Knapen

Photometric scaling relations are studied for S0 galaxies and compared with those for spirals. New 2D K_s-band multi-component decompositions are presented for 122 early-type disk galaxies. Combining with our previous decompositions, the final sample consists of 175 galaxies. As a comparison sample we use the Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey

E. R. Bezerra de Mello

In this paper we investigate the vacuum polarization effects associated with a massive quantum scalar field in de Sitter spacetime in the presence of gravitational topological defects. Specifically we calculate the vacuum expectation value of the field square, $<Φ^2>$. Because this investigation has been developed in a pure de Sitter space, here we are mainl

Alexei A. Koulakov

Primate visual system samples different parts of the world unevenly. The part of the visual scene corresponding to the eye center is represented densely, while away from the center the sampling becomes progressively sparser. Such distribution allows a more effective use of the limited transfer rate of the optic nerve, since animals can aim area centralis (AC

S. Giraud, R. Combescot

Very recently Girardeau and Minguzzi [arXiv:0807.3366v2, Phys. Rev. A 79, 033610 (2009)] have studied an impurity in a one-dimensional gas of hard-core bosons. In particular they deal with the general case where the mass of the impurity is different from the mass of the bosons and the impurity-boson interaction is not necessarily infinitely repulsive. We sho

Dieter Mitsche, Maria Saumell, Rodrigo I. Silveira

Higher order Delaunay triangulations are a generalization of the Delaunay triangulation which provides a class of well-shaped triangulations, over which extra criteria can be optimized. A triangulation is order-$k$ Delaunay if the circumcircle of each triangle of the triangulation contains at most $k$ points. In this paper we study lower and upper bounds on

Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Mark Krumholz, Ken Freeman

The Galactic disk retains a vast amount of information about how it came to be, and how it evolved over cosmic time. However, we know very little about the secular processes associated with disk evolution. One major uncertainty is the extent to which stars migrate radially through the disk, thereby washing out signatures of their past (e.g. birth sites). Rec

Yidong Xu, Andrea Ferrara, Francisco S. Kitaura, Xuelei Chen

We use a model developed by Xu et al. (2010) to compute the 21 cm line absorption signatures imprinted by star-forming dwarf galaxies (DGs) and starless minihalos (MHs). The method, based on a statistical comparison of the equivalent width (W_ν) distribution and flux correlation function, allows us to derive a simple selection criteria for candidate DGs at v

Y. Guo, B. Schmieder, V. Bommier, S. Gosain

The main objective of this paper is to build and compare vector magnetic maps obtained by two spectral polarimeters, i.e. THEMIS/MTR and Hinode SOT/SP, using two inversion codes (UNNOFIT and MELANIE) based on the Milne-Eddington solar atmosphere model. To this end, we used observations of a facular region within active region NOAA 10996 on 23 May 2008, and f

John Cardy, Pasquale Calabrese

We present a general theory of the corrections to the asymptotic behaviour of the Renyi entropies which measure the entanglement of an interval A of length L with the rest of an infinite one-dimensional system, in the case when this is described by a conformal field theory of central charge c. These can be due to bulk irrelevant operators of scaling dimensio

Wilfrid S. Kendall

We exhibit some explicit co-adapted couplings for n-dimensional Brownian motion and all its Levy stochastic areas. In the two-dimensional case we show how to derive exact asymptotics for the coupling time under various mixed coupling strategies, using Dufresne&#39;s formula for the distribution of exponential functionals of Brownian motion. This yields quant

M. P. Singh, K. D. Truong, S. Jandl, P. Fournier

In the quest for novel magnetoelectric materials, we have grown, stabilized and explored the properties of La3BAlMnO9 (B = Co or Mn) thin films. In this paper, we report the influence of the growth parameters that promote B/Al/Mn ordering in the pseudo-cubic unit cell and their likely influence on the magnetic and multiferroic properties. The temperature dep

Mehmet Orhon

Let $E$ be a Banach lattice. Its ideal center $Z(E)$ is embedded naturally in the ideal center $Z(E&#39;)$ of its dual. The embedding may be extended to a contractive algebra and lattice homomorphism of $Z(E)&#34;$ into $Z(E&#39;)$. We show that the extension is onto $Z(E&#39;)$ if and only if $E$ has a topologically full center. (That is, for each $x\in E$,

Antonio Diaz, Adam Glesser, Sejong Park, Radu Stancu

We prove analogues of results of Tate and Yoshida on control of transfer for fusion systems. This requires the notions of $p$-group residuals and transfer maps in cohomology for fusion systems. As a corollary we obtain a $p$-nilpotency criterion due to Tate.

Z. Mikulasek, J. Krticka, G. W. Henry, S. N. de Villiers

Strong meridional mixing induced by rapid rotation is one reason why all hot main-sequence stars are not chemically peculiar. However, the finding that the He-strong CP star HR 7355 is a rapid rotator complicates this concept. Our goal is to explain the observed behaviour of HR 7355 based on period analysis of all available photometry. Over two years, we acq

C. S. Withers, S. Nadarajah

This paper extends Edgeworth-Cornish-Fisher expansions for the distribution and quantiles of nonparametric estimates in two ways. Firstly it allows observations to have different distributions. Secondly it allows the observations to be weighted in a predetermined way. The use of weighted estimates has a long history including applications to regression, rank

Felix Rueting, Hannes Uecker

We develop a numerical method for approximating the surface modes of sphere-like nanoparticles in the quasi-static limit, based on an expansion of (the angular part of) the potentials into spherical harmonics. Comparisons of the results obtained in this manner with exact solutions and with a perturbation ansatz prove that the scheme is accurate if the shape

P. Gerhold, K. Jansen

We establish the cutoff-dependent upper Higgs boson mass bound by means of direct lattice computations in the framework of a chirally invariant lattice Higgs-Yukawa model emulating the same chiral Yukawa coupling structure as in the Higgs-fermion sector of the Standard Model. As expected from the triviality picture of the Higgs sector, we observe the upper m

Nedyalko Dimov Nenov

In the paper we give a lower bound for the number of vertices of a given graph using its chromatic number. We find the graphs for which this bound is exact. The results are applied in the theory of Foklman numbers.

Dumitru Cristian, Gligor Adrian

Nowadays, the electric lighting is an important part of our lives and also represents a significant part of the electric power consumption. Alternative solutions such as renewable energy applied in this domain are thus welcomed. This paper presents a workstation conceived for the study of photovoltaic solar energy for lighting systems by students of power en

Jonathan Dees, Robert Geisberger, Peter Sanders, Roland Bader

Every human likes choices. But today&#39;s fast route planning algorithms usually compute just a single route between source and target. There are beginnings to compute alternative routes, but this topic has not been studied thoroughly. Often, the aspect of meaningful alternative routes is neglected from a human point of view. We fill in this gap by suggesti

Yanyuan Ma, Runze Li

Measurement error data or errors-in-variable data have been collected in many studies. Natural criterion functions are often unavailable for general functional measurement error models due to the lack of information on the distribution of the unobservable covariates. Typically, the parameter estimation is via solving estimating equations. In addition, the co

N. Lazarides, G. P. Tsironis

We have obtained exact analytical expressions in closed form, for the linear modes excited in finite and discrete systems that are driven by a spatially homogeneous alternating field. Those modes are extended for frequencies within the linear frequency band while they are either end-localized or end-avoided for frequencies outside the linear frequency band.

Xianlong Wang, Xiaohong Zheng, Zhi Zeng

The properties of organometallic wires [TM2(Ant)] constructed with transitional metals (TM = Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn and Fe) and anthracene (Ant) are investigated by first-principles calculations. As the gap between HOMO (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital) and LUMO (Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital) of Ant is much smaller than that of benzene (Bz), much larger

N. Qureshi, Y. Drees, J. Werner, S. Wurmehl

High-resolution and high-flux neutron as well as X-ray powder-diffraction experiments were performed on the oxypnictide series LaO(1-x)FxFeAs with 0<x<0.15 in order to study the crystal and magnetic structure. The magnetic symmetry of the undoped compound corresponds to those reported for ReOFeAs (with Re a rare earth) and for AFe2As2 (A=Ba, Sr) materials. W

Stefano De Leo, Pietro Rotelli

We present the results of the planar diffusion of a Dirac particle by step and barrier potentials, when the incoming wave impinges at an arbitrary angle with the potential. Except for right-angle incidence this process is characterized by the appearance of spin flip terms. For the step potential, spin flip occurs for both transmitted and reflected waves. How

X. L. Wang, M. Y. Ni, Z. Zeng

Electronic and magnetic properties of VnBzn+1 sandwich clusters are investigated using density functional theory. Growth model is applied to investigate the property change of Vanadium-Benzene sandwich clusters. Our results show that, for n<8, all V ions tend to put their spin in ferromagnetic state, and that the magnetic moments of VnBzn+1 increase linearly

Arnaud Beauville

A list of open problems on holomorphic symplectic, contact and Poisson manifolds.

Ashley Hobson, R. James Shank

For a prime p>2 and q=p^n, we compute a finite generating set for the SL_2(F_q)-invariants of the second symmetric power representation, showing the invariants are a hypersurface and the field of fractions is a purely transcendental extension of the coefficient field. As an intermediate result, we show the invariants of the Sylow p-subgroups are also hypersu

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato

Rendering techniques based on a random grid can be improved by adapting brushstrokes to the shape of different areas of the original picture. In this paper, the concept of Coherence Length Diagram is applied to determine the adaptive brushstrokes, in order to simulate an impressionist painting. Some examples are provided to instance the proposed algorithm.

J. Ruseckas, B. Kaulakys

We consider a class of nonlinear stochastic differential equations, giving the power-law behavior of the power spectral density in any desirably wide range of frequency. Such equations were obtained starting from the point process models of 1/f^b noise. In this article the power-law behavior of spectrum is derived directly from the stochastic differential eq

K. Zuber

In rather general terms the long term perspective of double beta decay is discussed. All important experimental parameters are investigated as well as the status of nuclear matrix element issues. The link with other neutrino physics results and options to disentangle the underlying physics process are presented.

Antonio Diaz Ramos

We describe the projectives in the category of functors from a graded poset to abelian groups. Based on this description we define a related condition, pseudo-projectivity, and we prove that this condition is enough for the vanishing of the derived direct limits. We apply this result to deduce a generalized version of a theorem of Whitehead for the pushout.

Reza Asvadi, Amir H. Banihashemi, Mahmoud Ahmadian-Attari

Cyclic liftings are proposed to lower the error floor of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The liftings are designed to eliminate dominant trapping sets of the base code by removing the short cycles which form the trapping sets. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for the cyclic permutations assigned to the edges of a cycle $c$ of length $\el

Samrat Dey, Yatendra S. Jain

Wave mechanics of a particle in an impenetrable spherical cavity with and without a hard core scattering potential of size $ε$ ($ε$ $\to$ 0) at its center is critically analyzed. It makes marginal but important modifications in our present understanding of the energy eigenvalues of such particles.

M. H. Zare, Mohsen Amini, Farhad Shahbazi, S. A. Jafari

Employing the Kernel Polynomial method (KPM), we study the electronic properties of the graphene bilayers in the presence of diagonal disorder, within the tight-binding approximation. The KPM method enables us to calculate local density of states (LDOS) without need to exactly diagonalize the Hamiltonian. We use the geometrical averaging of the LDOS&#39;s at

Lei Wang, Yanpeng Qi, Zhiyu Zhang, Dongliang Wang

Polycrystalline Sr0.6K0.4Fe2As2 samples with various Pb additions (0-20 wt%) were prepared using a one-step solid state reaction. X-ray diffraction analysis shows no evidence for chemical reaction between the Pb and the FeAs-based superconductor. However, the presence of the Pb can affect the microstructure and superconducting properties of the final product

Wojciech Mazurczyk, Krzysztof Cabaj, Krzysztof Szczypiorski

Voice over IP (VoIP) is unquestionably the most popular real-time service in IP networks today. Recent studies have shown that it is also a suitable carrier for information hiding. Hidden communication may pose security concerns as it can lead to confidential information leakage. In VoIP, RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) in particular, which provides the m

M. Monelli, S. L Hidalgo, P. B. Stetson, A. Aparicio

We use deep HST/ACS observations to calculate the star formation history (SFH) of the Cetus dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy. Our photometry reaches below the oldest main sequence turn-offs, which allows us to estimate the age and duration of the main episode of star formation in Cetus. This is well approximated by a single episode that peaked roughly 12+/-0.5

V. Mainieri, C. Vignali, A. Merloni, F. Civano

Using Chandra observations we have identified a sample of seven off-nuclear X-ray sources, in the redshift range z=0.072-0.283, located within optically bright galaxies in the COSMOS Survey. Using the multi-wavelength coverage available in the COSMOS field, we study the properties of the host galaxies of these ULXs. In detail, we derived their star formation

Haoyang Wu

The classical model of signaling games assumes that the receiver exactly know the type space (private information) of the sender and be able to discriminate each type of the sender distinctly. However, the justification of this assumption is questionable. It is more reasonable to let the receiver recognize the pattern of the sender. In this paper, we investi

D. Majumder, K. Mazumdar, T. Sjostrand

We compare a NLO W gamma matrix element generator with the leading order calculation in Pythia . A matching scheme between a next-to-leading order W gamma matrix element generator by Baur et. al. and the Pythia parton shower is presented. The NLO package produces W gamma+0 jet and W gamma+1jet final states in the hard scattering and the objective is to consi

Amarjit Budhiraja, Paul Dupuis, Vasileios Maroulas

A large deviation principle is established for a general class of stochastic flows in the small noise limit. This result is then applied to a Bayesian formulation of an image matching problem, and an approximate maximum likelihood property is shown for the solution of an optimization problem involving the large deviations rate function.

Martin Lustig, Yoav Moriah

In a previous paper we introduced a notion of &#34;genericity&#34; for countable sets of curves in the curve complex of a surface S, based on the Lebesgue measure on the space of projective measured laminations in S. With this definition we prove that for each fixed g > 1 the set of irreducible genus g Heegaard splittings of high distance is generic, in the

F. -Q. Xie, F. Hüser, F. Pauly, Ch. Obermair

Atomic-sized lead (Pb) contacts are deposited and dissolved in an electrochemical environment, and their transport properties are measured. Due to the electrochemical fabrication process, we obtain mechanically unstrained contacts and conductance histograms with sharply resolved, individual peaks. Charge transport calculations based on density functional the

Margenstern Maurice

In this paper, we significantly improve a previous result by the same author showing the existence of a weakly universal cellular automaton with five states living in the hyperbolic 3D-space. Here, we get such a cellular automaton with three states only.

Sayan Mukherjee, Qiang Wu, Ding-Xuan Zhou

A common belief in high-dimensional data analysis is that data are concentrated on a low-dimensional manifold. This motivates simultaneous dimension reduction and regression on manifolds. We provide an algorithm for learning gradients on manifolds for dimension reduction for high-dimensional data with few observations. We obtain generalization error bounds f

Yoshihiko Okamoto, Atsushi Nishio, Zenji Hiroi

Precise band-filling control is performed on a strongly correlated electron system NaxCoO2, by changing the Na content, and the influence of this on the magnetic and thermodynamic properties is studied. It has been discovered that a phase boundary between a Pauli paramagnetic metal appearing at small x and a Curie-Weiss metal at large x is located within an

Huan-Qiang Zhou, Zu-Jian Ying, Mario Cuoco, Canio Noce

We report a scaling relation between $ρ_s(0)$ and the product of the pseudogap temperature $T^{*}$, $σ_{\rm DC}$ and $T_c$, with $T^{*}$ rescaled by the maximum transition temperature $T_c^{\max}$, which holds universally in the entire doping range for the hole-doped cuprates.

Th. Strauch, F. D. Amaro, D. F. Anagnostopoulos, P. B&#34;\uhler

The strong interaction shift and broadening in pionic deuterium have been remeasured with high statistics by means of the (3p-1s) X-ray transition using the cyclotron trap and a high-resolution crystal spectrometer. Preliminary results are (-2325+/-31) meV (repulsive) for the shift and (1171+23/-49} meV for the width, which yields precise values for the pion

Lancelot F. James, Antonio Lijoi, Igor Prünster

The study of properties of mean functionals of random probability measures is an important area of research in the theory of Bayesian nonparametric statistics. Many results are now known for random Dirichlet means, but little is known, especially in terms of posterior distributions, for classes of priors beyond the Dirichlet process. In this paper, we consid

Y. Iida, T. Yokoyama, K. Ichimoto

A cancellation is thought to be a basic process of the photospheric magnetic field and plays an important role in magnetic flux budget and in various solar activities. There are two major theoretical scenarios for this phenomena, i.e. the &#34;U-loop emergence&#34; and the Omega-loop submergence models. It is important to clarify which is the dominant proces

Yu Wang, Xiaolong Su, Heng Shen, Aihong Tan

One-way quantum computation based on measurement and multipartite cluster entanglement offers the ability to perform a variety of unitary operations only through different choices of measurement bases. Here we present an experimental study toward demonstrating the controlled-X operation, a two-mode gate, in which continuous variable (CV) four-partite cluster

N. J. Suematsu, A. Awazu, S. Izumi, S. Nakata

Euglena, a swimming micro-organism, exhibited a characteristic bioconvection that was localized at the center of a sealed chamber under bright illumination to induce negative phototaxis. This localized pattern consisted of high-density spots, in which convection was found. These observations were reproduced by a mathematical model that was based on the photo

Paolo Da Pelo, Alberto Lanconelli

We obtain a new probabilistic representation for the solution of the heat equation in terms of a product for smooth random variables which is introduced and studied in this paper. This multiplication, expressed in terms of the Hida-Malliavin derivatives of the random variables involved, exhibits many useful properties which are to some extents opposite to so

H. Bruntt, T. R. Bedding, P. -O. Quirion, G. Lo Curto

We combine results from interferometry, asteroseismology and spectroscopy to determine accurate fundamental parameters of 23 bright solar-type stars, from spectral type F5 to K2 and luminosity classes III to V. For some stars we can use direct techniques to determine the mass, radius, luminosity and effective temperature, and we compare with indirect methods

Helmut Eschrig

A logical foundation of equilibrium state density functional theory in a Kohn-Sham type formulation is presented on the basis of Mermin&#39;s treatment of the grand canonical state. it is simpler and more satisfactory compared to the usual derivation of ground state theory, and free of remaining open points of the latter. It may in particular be relevant wit

Xu Liu, Lin Yuan, Jianfeng Zhan, Bibo Tu

Automatic performance debugging of parallel applications usually involves two steps: automatic detection of performance bottlenecks and uncovering their root causes for performance optimization. Previous work fails to resolve this challenging issue in several ways: first, several previous efforts automate analysis processes, but present the results in a conf