February 2010 arXiv papers — page 15

M. S. Abdel Latif

In this paper, a variable-coefficient Gardner equation is considered. By using the classical symmetry analysis method symmetries for this equation are obtained. Then, the generalized Jacobi elliptic function expansion method is used to solve the reduced ODE. Some new exact solutions for the considered PDE are obtained.

Rui Liu, Bentuo Zheng

A basic problem of interest in connection with the study of Schauder frames in Banach spaces is that of characterizing those Schauder frames which can essentially be regarded as Schauder bases. In this paper, we give a solution to this problem using the notion of the minimal-associated sequence spaces and the minimal-associated reconstruction operators for S

V. Gunawan, R. L. Stamps

We present a theory for surface polaritons on ferroelectric-antiferromagnetic materials with canted spin structure. Canting is assumed to be due to a Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction with the electric polarisation and weak ferromagnetism directed in the plane parallel to the surface. Surface and bulk modes for a semi-infinite film are calculated for the case

Matthew G. Baring

It is widely accepted that the prompt transient signal in the 10 keV - 10 GeV band from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) arises from multiple shocks internal to the ultra-relativistic expansion. The detailed understanding of the dissipation and accompanying acceleration at these shocks is a currently topical subject. This paper explores the relationship between GRB p

Richard J. Mathar

Regular integer lattices are characterized by k unit vectors that build up their generator matrices. These have rank k for D-lattices, and are rank-deficient for A-lattices, for E_6 and E_7. We count lattice points inside hypercubes centered at the origin for all three types, as if classified by maximum infinity norm in the host lattice. The results assume p

Sam Nelson

A birack is an algebraic structure with axioms encoding the blackboard-framed Reidemeister moves, incorporating quandles, racks, strong biquandles and semiquandles as special cases. In this paper we extend the counting invariant for finite racks to the case of finite biracks. We introduce a family of biracks generalizing Alexander quandles, $(t,s)$-racks, Al

Eva A. Gallardo-Gutiérrez, Pamela Gorkin, Daniel Suárez

Motivated by the Invariant Subspace Problem, we describe explicitly the closed subspace $H^2$ generated by the limit points in the $H^2$ norm of the orbit of a thin Blaschke product $B$ under composition operators $C_ϕ$ induced by non-elliptic automorphisms. This description exhibits a surprising connection to model spaces. Finally, we give a constructive ch

Ian D. McGreer, Patrick B. Hall, Xiaohui Fan, Fuyan Bian

We report the discovery of a gravitationally lensed quasar identified serendipitously in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The object, SDSS J094604.90+183541.8, was initially targeted for spectroscopy as a luminous red galaxy, but the SDSS spectrum has the features of both a z=0.388 galaxy and a z=4.8 quasar. We have obtained additional imaging that resol

Marta Volonteri

Black hole spins affect the efficiency of the "classical" accretion processes, hence the radiative output from quasars. Spins also determine how much energy is extractable from the hole itself. Recently it became clear that massive black hole spins also affect the retention of black holes in galaxies, be cause of the impulsive "gravitational reco

Tolga Guver, Patricia Wroblewski, Larry Camarota, Feryal Ozel

We report on the measurement of the mass and radius of the neutron star in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1820-30. The analysis of the spectroscopic data on multiple thermonuclear bursts yields well-constrained values for the apparent emitting area and the Eddington flux, both of which depend in a distinct way on the mass and radius of the neutron star. The di

Tigran A. Sedrakyan, Andrey V. Chubukov

We analyze fermionic spectral function in the spin-density-wave (SDW) phase of quasi-2D cuprates at small but finite T. We use a non-perturbative approach and sum up infinite series of thermal self-energy terms, keeping at each order nearly-divergent (T/J) |log epsilon| terms, where epsilon is a deviation from a pure two-dimensionality, and neglecting regula

S. Schippers, M. Lestinsky, A. Müller, D. W. Savin

This review summarizes the present status of an ongoing experimental effort to provide reliable rate coefficients for dielectronic recombination of highly charged iron ions for the modeling of astrophysical and other plasmas. The experimental work has been carried out over more than a decade at the heavy-ion storage-ring TSR of the Max-Planck-Institute for N

Kevork N. Abazajian, Prateek Agrawal, Zackaria Chacko, Can Kilic

We examine the constraints on final state radiation from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates annihilating into various standard model final states, as imposed by the measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. The expected isotropic diffuse sig

Minh Q. Truong

The Lorentz transfomation is derived in 5D flat pseudo-complex affine space or TT Space. The TT space or pseudo-Complex space accomodates one uncompactified time-like extra dimension. It is shown that the maximum allowable speed for particles living in TT space exceeds the speed of light, c, the absolute speed of the Minkowski space.

Maren Daraktchiev, Gustau Catalan, James F. Scott

We calculate the exact analytical solution to the domain wall properties in a multiferroic system with two order parameters that are coupled bi-quadratically. This is then adapted to the case of a magnetoelectric multiferroic material such as BiFeO3, with a view to examine critically whether the domain walls can account for the enhancement of magnetization r

D. S. Inosov, J. S. White, D. V. Evtushinsky, I. V. Morozov

We report superconducting (SC) properties of stoichiometric LiFeAs (Tc = 17 K) studied by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES). Although the vortex lattice exhibits no long-range order, well-defined SANS rocking curves indicate better ordering than in chemically doped 122-compounds. The London penetration depth of 21

Sanjay Roy, T. K. Samanta

The main aim of this paper is to generalize the concept of vector space by the hyperstructure. We generalize some definitions such as hypersubspaces, linear combination, Hamel basis, linearly dependence and linearly independence. A few important results like deletion theorem, extension theorem, dimension theorem have been established in this hypervector spac

Bivas Dinda, T. K. Samanta, Iqbal H. Jebril

Fuzzy anti-norm and corresponding $α$-norms are defined. A few properties of finite dimensional fuzzy anti-normed linear space are studied. Fuzzy $α$-anti-convergence and fuzzy $α$-anti-complete linear space are defined and a few of their properties are studied.

J. Warnecke, A. Brandenburg

Twisted magnetic fields are frequently seen to emerge above the visible surface of the Sun. This emergence is usually associated with the rise of buoyant magnetic flux structures. Here we ask how magnetic fields from a turbulent large-scale dynamo appear above the surface if there is no magnetic buoyancy. The computational domain is split into two parts. In

Thomas Simon

Let $Z_α$ be a positive $α-$stable random variable and $r\in{\bf R}.$ We show the existence of an unbounded open domain $D$ in $[1/2,1]\times{\bf R}$ with a cusp at $(1/2,-1/2)$, characterized by the complete monotonicity of the function $F_{α, r} (λ) = (αλ^α-r)e^{-λ^α}/!/! ,$ such that $Z_α^r$ is unimodal if and only if $(α, r)\notin D.$

Yih-Fan Chen, J. N. Milstein, Jens-Christian Meiners

Living cells provide a fluctuating, out-of-equilibrium environment in which genes must coordinate cellular function. DNA looping, which is a common means of regulating transcription, is very much a stochastic process; the loops arise from the thermal motion of the DNA and other fluctuations of the cellular environment. We present single-molecule measurements

C. Maes, K. Netocny, S. R. Thomas

The control of chemical dynamics requires understanding the effect of time-dependent transition rates between states of chemo-mechanical molecular configurations. Pumping refers to generating a net current, e.g. per period in the time-dependence, through a cycle of consecutive states. The working of artificial machines or synthesized molecular motors depends

Moritz Deger, Moritz Helias, Stefano Cardanobile, Fatihcan M. Atay

Stochastic point processes with refractoriness appear frequently in the quantitative analysis of physical and biological systems, such as the generation of action potentials by nerve cells, the release and reuptake of vesicles at a synapse, and the counting of particles by detector devices. Here we present an extension of renewal theory to describe ensembles

John Davey, Amihay Hanany, Rak-Kyeong Seong

We present several methods of counting the orbifolds C^D/Gamma. A correspondence between counting orbifold actions on C^D, brane tilings, and toric diagrams in D-1 dimensions is drawn. Barycentric coordinates and scaling mechanisms are introduced to characterize lattice simplices as toric diagrams. We count orbifolds of C^3, C^4, C^5, C^6 and C^7. Some remar

Michael B. Green, Jorge G. Russo, Pierre Vanhove

We demonstrate how duality invariance of the low energy expansion of the four-graviton amplitude in type II string theory determines the precise coefficients of multiloop logarithmic ultraviolet divergences of maximal supergravity in various dimensions. This is illustrated by the explicit moduli-dependence of terms of the form D^{2k}R^4, with k<= 3, in the e

D. B. Franzosi

We estimate the power of the LHC in probing effects of strongly-interacting symmetry breaking sector through vector boson scattering in a complete partonic analysis.

Borut Bajc, Tsedenbaljir Enkhbat, Dilip Kumar Ghosh, Goran Senjanovic

We take the MSSM as a complete theory of low energy phenomena, including neutrino masses and mixings. This immediately implies that the gravitino is the only possible dark matter candidate. We study the implications of the astrophysical experiments such as PAMELA and Fermi-LAT, on this scenario. The theory can account for both the realistic neutrino masses a

M. A. Tanatar, E. C. Blomberg, A. Kreyssig, M. G. Kim

TThe parent compounds of iron-arsenide superconductors, $A$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ ($A$=Ca, Sr, Ba), undergo a tetragonal to orthorhombic structural transition at a temperature $T_{\mathrm{TO}}$ in the range 135 to 205K depending on the alkaline earth element. Below $T_{\mathrm{TO}}$ the free standing crystals split into equally populated structural domains, which

Federico Cacciafesta, Piero D&#39;Ancona

We prove $L^{p}$ and weighted $L^{p}$ estimates for bounded functions of a selfadjoint operator satisfying both a pointwise gaussian estimate for its heat kernel and a finite speed of propagation property. As an application, we obtain weighted estimates for fractiional powers of an electromagnetic Schrödinger operator with singular coefficienta. The proofs a

Dirk Kussin, Helmut Lenzing, Hagen Meltzer

We show a surprising link between singularity theory and the invariant subspace problem of nilpotent operators as recently studied by C. M. Ringel and M. Schmidmeier, a problem with a longstanding history going back to G. Birkhoff. The link is established via weighted projective lines and (stable) categories of vector bundles on those. The setup yields a new

Elmar Haller, Manfred J. Mark, Russell Hart, Johann G. Danzl

We report on the observation of confinement-induced resonances in strongly interacting quantum-gas systems with tunable interactions for one- and two-dimensional geometry. Atom-atom scattering is substantially modified when the s-wave scattering length approaches the length scale associated with the tight transversal confinement, leading to characteristic lo

L. Gauvin, J. -P. Nadal, J. Vannimenus

In the 70&#39;s Schelling introduced a multi-agent model to describe the segregation dynamics that may occur with individuals having only weak preferences for &#39;similar&#39; neighbors. Recently variants of this model have been discussed, in particular, with emphasis on the links with statistical physics models. Whereas these models consider a fixed number

Henrik N. Latter, Julius F. Bonart, Steven A. Balbus

We outline a novel linear instability that may arise in the dead-zones of protostellar disks, and possibly the fluid interiors of planets and protoplanets. In essence it is an axisymmetric buoyancy instability, but one that would not be present in a purely hydrodynamical gas. The necessary ingredients for growth include a negative radial entropy gradient (of

Sara Nasso, Francesco Silvestri, Francesco Tisiot, Barbara Di Camillo

As an emerging field, MS-based proteomics still requires software tools for efficiently storing and accessing experimental data. In this work, we focus on the management of LC-MS data, which are typically made available in standard XML-based portable formats. The structures that are currently employed to manage these data can be highly inefficient, especiall

Jürg Schelldorfer, Peter Bühlmann, Sara van de Geer

We propose an $\ell_1$-penalized estimation procedure for high-dimensional linear mixed-effects models. The models are useful whenever there is a grouping structure among high-dimensional observations, i.e. for clustered data. We prove a consistency and an oracle optimality result and we develop an algorithm with provable numerical convergence. Furthermore,

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present a measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using a data sample corresponding to 1.7/fb of integrated luminosity collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We reconstruct ttbar events in the lepton+jets channel. The dominant background is the production of W bosons in association with

M. Cramer, M. B. Plenio

Quantum state tomography, the ability to deduce the density matrix of a quantum system from measured data, is of fundamental importance for the verification of present and future quantum devices. It has been realized in systems with few components but for larger systems it becomes rapidly infeasible because the number of quantum measurements and computationa

Ibrahim Gullu, Tahsin Cagri Sisman, Bayram Tekin

We give an explicitly gauge invariant canonical analysis of linearized quadratic gravity theories in three dimensions for both flat and de-Sitter backgrounds. In flat backgrounds, we also study the effects of gravitational Chern-Simons term, and include the sources, compute the weak field limit as well as scattering between spinning massive particles.

Ethan T. Neil, Adam Avakian, Ron Babich, Richard C. Brower

We describe initial results by the Lattice Strong Dynamics (LSD) collaboration of a study into the variation of chiral properties of chiral properties of SU(3) Yang-Mills gauge theory as the number of massless flavors changes from $N_f = 2$ to $N_f = 6$, with a focus on the use of chiral perturbation theory.

M. Osipenko, CLAS Collaboration

We report on the measurement of inclusive electron scattering off a carbon target performed with CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory. A combination of three different beam energies 1.161, 2.261 and 4.461 GeV allowed us to reach an invariant mass of the final-state hadronic system W~2.4 GeV with four-momentum transfers Q2 ranging from 0.2 to 5 GeV2. These data, toge

F. G. Schröder, T. Asch, L. Bähren, J. Blümer

Digital radio antenna arrays, like LOPES (LOFAR PrototypE Station), detect high-energy cosmic rays via the radio emission from atmospheric extensive air showers. LOPES is an array of dipole antennas placed within and triggered by the KASCADE-Grande experiment on site of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. The antennas are digitally combined to bu

Lila Kari, Benoît Masson

This paper provides a bridge between the classical tiling theory and the complex neighborhood self-assembling situations that exist in practice. The neighborhood of a position in the plane is the set of coordinates which are considered adjacent to it. This includes classical neighborhoods of size four, as well as arbitrarily complex neighborhoods. A generali

Anna Melbinger, Tobias Reichenbach, Thomas Franosch, Erwin Frey

We investigate a driven two-channel system where particles on different lanes mutually obstruct each others motion extending an earlier model by Popkov and Peschel [1]. This obstruction may occur in biological contexts due to steric hinderance where motor proteins carry cargos by `walking&#39; on microtubules. Similarly, the model serves as a description for

Amir Erez, Yigal Meir

Weakly disordered two-dimensional superconductors undergo a Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition, where at a critical temperature vortices proliferate through the system and destroy the superconducting (SC) order. On the other hand, it was suggested that for large disorder the systems separates into regions of high SC order, and it is the percolation of coher

Stavros Garoufalidis, Alexander Its, Andrei Kapaev, Marcos Marino

The 0-instanton solution of Painlevé I is a sequence $(u_{n,0})$ of complex numbers which appears universally in many enumerative problems in algebraic geometry, graph theory, matrix models and 2-dimensional quantum gravity. The asymptotics of the 0-instanton $(u_{n,0})$ for large $n$ were obtained by the third author using the Riemann-Hilbert approach. For

Joseph Lauer

Huisken and Sinestrari have recently defined a surgery process for mean curvature flow when the initial data is a two-convex hypersurface. The process depends on a parameter H. Its role is to initiate a surgery when the maximum of the mean curvature of the evolving hypersurface becomes H, and to control the scale at which each surgery is performed. We prove

Jesús Salas, Alan D. Sokal

We study, using transfer-matrix methods, the partition-function zeros of the square-lattice q-state Potts antiferromagnet at zero temperature (= square-lattice chromatic polynomial) for the special boundary conditions that are obtained from an m x n grid with free boundary conditions by adjoining one new vertex adjacent to all the sites in the leftmost colum

Jian Li, Julián Mestre

This results in this paper have been merged with the result in arXiv:1003.0167. The authors would like to withdraw this version. Please see arXiv:1008.5356 for the merged version.

Edi Gava, Parinya Karndumri, K. S. Narain

We study $AdS_3$ supersymmetric vacua in N=4 and N=8, three dimensional gauged supergravities, with scalar manifolds $(\frac{SO(4,4)}{SO(4)\times SO(4)})^2$ and $\frac{SO(8,8)}{SO(8)\times SO(8)}$, non-semisimple Chern-Simons gaugings $SO(4)\ltimes {\bf R}^6$ and $(SO(4)\ltimes {\bf R}^6)^2$, respectively. These are in turn equivalent to SO(4) and $SO(4)\tim

O. Panella, S. Biondini, A. Arda

We study the one-dimensional Dirac equation in the framework of a position dependent mass under the action of a Woods-Saxon external potential. We find that constraining appropriately the mass function it is possible to obtain a solution of the problem in terms of the hypergeometric function. The mass function for which this turns out to be possible is conti

Mathieu Gibert, Haitao Xu, Eberhard Bodenschatz

We report experimental results on the dynamics of heavy particles of the size of the Kolmogorov-scale in a fully developed turbulent flow. The mixed Eulerian structure function of two-particle velocity and acceleration difference vectors <δv\cdotδa_p> was observed to increase significantly with particle inertia for identical flow conditions. We show that thi

A. Auffèves, D. Gerace, J. M. Gérard, M. Franca Santos

The influence of pure dephasing on the dynamics of the coupling between a two-level atom and a cavity mode is systematically addressed. We have derived an effective atom-cavity coupling rate that is shown to be a key parameter in the physics of the problem, allowing to generalize the known expression for the Purcell factor to the case of broad emitters, and

Piotr Beben, Jie Wu

Fix an odd prime $p$ and let $X$ be the $p$-localization of a finite suspended $CW$-complex. Given certain conditions on the reduced mod-$p$ homology $\bar H_*(X;\zmodp)$ of $X$, we use a decomposition of $ΩΣX$ due to the second author and computations in modular representation theory to show there are arbitrarily large integers $i$ such that $ΩΣ^i X$ is a h

A. Bermudez, M. A. Martin-Delgado, D. Porras

We show that the vibrations of a chain of trapped ions offer an interesting route to explore the physics of disordered quantum systems. By preparing the internal state of the ions in a quantum superposition, we show how the local vibrational energy becomes a stochastic variable, being its statistical properties inherited from the underlying quantum paralleli

Marina Chugunova, Roman M. Taranets

The fluid thin film equation $h_t = - (h^n h_{xxx})_x - a_1\,(h^m h_x)_x$ is known to conserve mass $\int\,h \, dx$, and in the case of $a_1 \leq 0$, to dissipate entropy $\int\,h^{3/2 - n}\,dx$ (see [8]) and the $L^2$-norm of the gradient $\int\,h_x^2\,dx$ (see [3]). For the special case of $a_1 = 0$ a new dissipated quantity $\int\, h^α\,h_x^2\,dx $ was re

X. F. Jiang, B. Zheng, J. Shen

We investigate the large-volatility dynamics in financial markets, based on the minute-to-minute and daily data of the Chinese Indices and German DAX. The dynamic relaxation both before and after large volatilities is characterized by a power law, and the exponents $p_\pm$ usually vary with the strength of the large volatilities. The large-volatility dynamic

N. Pavlenko, A. Pietraszko, A. Pawlowski, M. Polomska

We performed density functional studies of electronic properties and mechanisms of hydrogen transport in Rb3H(SeO4)2 crystal which represents technologically promising class M3H(XO4)2 of proton conductors (M=Rb,Cs, NH4; X=S,Se). The electronic structure calculations show a decisive role of lattice dynamics in the process of proton migration. In the obtained

K. Byczuk, W. Hofstetter, D. Vollhardt

We review recent progress in our theoretical understanding of strongly correlated fermion systems in the presence of disorder. Results were obtained by the application of a powerful nonperturbative approach, the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT), to interacting disordered lattice fermions. In particular, we demonstrate that DMFT combined with geometric aver

D. Shatilov, E. Levichev, E. Simonov

We applied Frequency Map Analysis (FMA) - a method that is widely used to explore dynamics of Hamiltonian systems - to beam-beam effects study. The method turned out to be rather informative and illustrative in the case of a novel Crab Waist collision approach, when &#34;crab&#34; focusing of colliding beams results in significant suppression of betatron cou

Johan Biscaras, Nicolas Bergeal, Akhilesh Kushwaha, Thomas Wolf

Transition metal oxides display a great variety of quantum electronic behaviours where correlations often play an important role. The achievement of high quality epitaxial interfaces involving such materials gives a unique opportunity to engineer artificial structures where new electronic orders take place. One of the most striking result in this area is the

F. Deon, V. Pellegrini, F. Carillo, F. Giazotto

The magnetic-field evolution of Coulomb blockade peaks in lateral InGaAs/InAlAs quantum dots in the few-electron regime is reported. Quantum dots are defined by gates evaporated onto a 60 nm-thick hydrogen silsesquioxane insulating film. A gyromagnetic factor of 4.4 is measured via zero-bias spin spectroscopy and a transition from singlet to triplet spin con

K. Ziegler, A. Sinner

We study the DC transport of finite graphene samples with random gap. Using Dirac fermions to describe the low-energy physics near the Dirac point, we employ a generalized Drude form for the conductivity. The latter is constant for a vanishing average gap but always decreases with increasing sample size for a nonzero average gap. The asymptotic conductivity

Tomasz Stachowiak

One dimensional Dirac equation is analysed with regard to the existence of exact (or closed-form) solutions for polynomial potentials. The notion of Liouvillian functions is used to define solvability, and it is shown that except for the linear potentials the equation in question is not solvable.

James F. Davis, Frank Quinn, Holger Reich

We use controlled topology applied to the action of the infinite dihedral group on a partially compactified plane and deduce two consequences for algebraic K-theory. The first is that the family in the K-theoretic Farrell-Jones conjecture can be reduced to only those virtually cyclic groups which admit a surjection with finite kernel onto a cyclic group. The

Daniel Reem

This paper examines various aspects related to the Cauchy functional equation $f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y)$, a fundamental equation in the theory of functional equations. In particular, it considers its solvability and its stability relative to subsets of multi-dimensional Euclidean spaces and tori. Several new types of regularity conditions are introduced, such as a o

Martin Hairer

We consider a class of singular perturbations to the stochastic heat equation or semilinear variations thereof. The interesting feature of these perturbations is that, as the small parameter epsilon tends to zero, their solutions converge to the &#39;wrong&#39; limit, i.e. they do not converge to the solution obtained by simply setting epsilon = 0. A similar

L. Haritha, G. Gangadhar Reddy, A. Ramakanth, S. K. Ghatak

The Hubbard model has been employed successfully to understand many aspects of correlation driven physical properties, in particular, the magnetic order in itenerant electron systems. In some systems such as Heusler alloys, manganites etc., it is known that, in addition to magnetic order, distortion induced by Jahn-Teller(J-T) effect also exists. In this pap

Robert J. Berman

Let X be a complex manifold fibered over the base S and let L be a relatively ample line bundle over X. We define relative Kahler-Ricci flows on the space of all Hermitian metrics on L with relatively positive curvature. Mainly three different settings are investigated: the case when the fibers are Calabi-Yau manifolds and the case when L is the relative (an

Cedric Lecouvey, Masato Okado, Mark Shimozono

This paper is concerned with one-dimensional sums in classical affine types. We prove a conjecture of the third author and Zabrocki by showing they all decompose in terms of one-dimensional sums related to affine type A provided the rank of the root system considered is sufficiently large. As a consequence, any one-dimensional sum associated to a classical a

Raphael Benichou, Jan Troost

We compute the algebra of left and right currents for a principal chiral model with arbitrary Wess-Zumino term on supergroups with zero Killing form. We define primary fields for the current algebra that match the affine primaries at the Wess-Zumino-Witten points. The Maurer-Cartan equation together with current conservation tightly constrain the current-cur

S. Matsuura, M. Shirahata, M. Kawada, T. T. Takeuchi

We report the detection and measurement of the absolute brightness and spatial fluctuations of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) with the AKARI satellite. We have carried out observations at 65, 90, 140 and 160 um as a cosmological survey in AKARI Deep Field South (ADF-S), which is one of the lowest cirrus regions with contiguous area on the sky. After re

Jérémie Bettinelli

We discuss scaling limits of large bipartite quadrangulations of positive genus. For a given $g$, we consider, for every $n \ge 1$, a random quadrangulation $\q_n$ uniformly distributed over the set of all rooted bipartite quadrangulations of genus $g$ with $n$ faces. We view it as a metric space by endowing its set of vertices with the graph distance. We sh

Bénamar Chouaf, Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

We consider the optimal investment problem for Black-Scholes type financial market with bounded VaR measure on the whole investment interval $[0,T]$. The explicit form for the optimal strategies is found.

Xavier Bardina, Khalifa Es-Sebaiy

In this paper we introduce and study a self-similar Gaussian process that is the bifractional Brownian motion $B^{H,K}$ with parameters $H\in (0,1)$ and $K\in(1,2)$ such that $HK\in(0,1)$. A remarkable difference between the case $K\in(0,1)$ and our situation is that this process is a semimartingale when $2HK=1$.

Naoki Sasakura

The controlled-NOT gate of qubit quantum circuits is shown to be described in terms of a Hopf algebra. Accordingly, any qubit quantum circuit can be expressed as the Hopf algebraic computations and unitary transformations on one qubit.

Ciprian Foias, Jaydeb Sarkar

In this note we study the completely non unitary contractions on separable complex Hilbert spaces which have polynomial characteristic functions. These operators are precisely those which admit a matrix representation of the form T = S & * & * 0 & N & * 0& 0& C, where $S$ and C^* are unilateral shifts of arbitrary multiplicities and $N$ is nilpotent. We prov

E. Rasanen, S. Pittalis, C. R. Proetto

Accurate treatment of the electronic correlation in inhomogeneous electronic systems, combined with the ability to capture the correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas, allows to reach high predictive power in the application of density-functional theory. For two-dimensional systems we can achieve this goal by generalizing our previous approximatio

Xun Jia, Yifei Lou, Ruijiang Li, William Y. Song

Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who are essentially excluded from receiving IGRT for this reason. The goal of this work is to develop a fast GPU-based algo

Benoit Huard

This paper is devoted to the extension of the recently proposed conditional symmetry method to first order nonhomogeneous quasilinear systems which are equivalent to homogeneous systems through a locally invertible point transformation. We perform a systematic analysis of the rank-1 and rank-2 solutions admitted by the shallow water wave equations in (2 + 1)

P. S. Lykawka, J. Horner, B. W. Jones, T. Mukai

In this work, we investigate the dynamical stability of pre-formed Neptune Trojans under the gravitational influence of the four giant planets in compact planetary architectures, over 10 Myr. In our modelling, the initial orbital locations of Uranus and Neptune (aN) were varied to produce systems in which those planets moved on non-resonant orbits, or in whi

Yoshimichi Ueda

The unique predual $M_\star/A_\perp$ of a non-commutative $H^\infty$-algebra $A = H^\infty(M,\tau)$ is investigated. In particular, we will prove the liftability property of weakly relatively compact subsets in $M_\star/A_\perp$ to $M_\star$.

Manas A. Pathak, Bhiksha Raj

In this paper, we present a protocol for computing the principal eigenvector of a collection of data matrices belonging to multiple semi-honest parties with privacy constraints. Our proposed protocol is based on secure multi-party computation with a semi-honest arbitrator who deals with data encrypted by the other parties using an additive homomorphic crypto

Ramandeep Gill, Jeremy S. Heyl

We examine two trigger mechanisms, one internal and the other external to the neutron star, that give rise to the intense soft gamma-ray repeater (SGR) giant flares. So far, three giant flares have been observed from the three out of the seven confirmed SGRs on March 5, 1979, August 27, 1998, and December 27, 2004. The last two events were found to be much m

A. Klypin, S. Trujillo-Gomez, J. Primack

We present the first results from the new Bolshoi N-body cosmological LCDM simulation that uses cosmological parameters favored by current observations. The Bolshoi simulation was done in a volume 250Mpc on a side using 8billion particles with mass and force resolution adequate to follow subhalos down to a completeness limit of Vcirc=50km/ s circular velocit

S. Kaneda, S. V. Ketov, N. Watanabe

We reconsider the toy-model of topological inflation, based on the R*4-modified gravity. By using its equivalence to the certain scalar-tensor gravity model in four space-time dimensions, we compute the inflaton scalar potential and investigate a possibility of inflation. We confirm the existence of the slow-roll inflation with an exit. However, the model su

Sheng Chen, Nan Li, Steven V Sam

Let $P$ be a polytope with rational vertices. A classical theorem of Ehrhart states that the number of lattice points in the dilations $P(n) = nP$ is a quasi-polynomial in $n$. We generalize this theorem by allowing the vertices of P(n) to be arbitrary rational functions in $n$. In this case we prove that the number of lattice points in P(n) is a quasi-polyn

D. P. Arovas, L. Brey, H. A. Fertig, Eun-Ah Kim

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac points which are present throughout the band structure, and verify for the special case of a particle-hole symmetric potent

Cheol-Hyun Cho, Sangwook Lee

Kontsevich and Soibelman has proved a relation between a non-degenerate cyclic homology element of an A-infinity algebra A and its cyclic inner products on the minimal model of A. We find an explicit formula of this correspondence, in terms of the strong homotopy inner products and negative cyclic cohomology of A. We prove that an equivalence class of the in

Luchezar L. Avramov, Srikanth B. Iyengar

Given an essentially finite type morphism of schemes f: X --> Y and a positive integer d, let f^{d}: X^{d} --> Y denote the natural map from the d-fold fiber product, X^{d}, of X over Y and π_i: X^{d} --> X the i&#39;th canonical projection. When Y smooth over a field and F is a coherent sheaf on X, it is proved that F is flat over Y if (and only if) f^{d} m

Yu-Ming Lin, Christos Dimitrakopoulos, Keith A. Jenkins, Damon B. Farmer

High-performance graphene field-effect transistors have been fabricated on epitaxial graphene synthesized on a two-inch SiC wafer, achieving a cutoff frequency of 100 GHz for a gate length of 240 nm. The high-frequency performance of these epitaxial graphene transistors not only shows the highest speed for any graphene devices up to date, but it also exceeds

Marcelo Davanco Kartik Srinivasan

We show, via simulations, that an optical fiber taper waveguide can be an efficient tool for photoluminescence and resonant, extinction spectroscopy of single emitters, such as molecules or colloidal quantum dots, deposited on the surface of a thin dielectric membrane. Placed over a high refractive index membrane, a tapered fiber waveguide induces the format

Daryl Geller, Isaac Z. Pesenson

In the last decade, methods based on various kinds of spherical wavelet bases have found applications in virtually all areas where analysis of spherical data is required, including cosmology, weather prediction, and geodesy. In particular, the so-called needlets (=band-limited Parseval frames) have become an important tool for the analysis of Cosmic Microwav

Luis H. Gallardo

We prove that there are no Wieferich&#39;s primes $q=2p+1$ where $p \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$ is a prime number

Jeong-Man Park, Enrique Munoz, Michael W. Deem

We present stochastic, finite-population formulations of the Crow-Kimura and Eigen models of quasispecies theory, for fitness functions that depend in an arbitrary way on the number of mutations from the wild type. We include back mutations in our description. We show that the fluctuation of the population numbers about the average values are exceedingly lar

Merced Montesinos, Mercedes Velazquez

The action principle of the BF type introduced by Capovilla, Montesinos, Prieto, and Rojas (CMPR) which describes general relativity with Immirzi parameter is modified in order to allow the inclusion of the cosmological constant. The resulting action principle is on the same footing as the original Plebanski action in the sense that the equations of motion c

Qi Chen, Chih-Chien Yu, Yu Zhang

We show that the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev SU(2) invariant and the Hennings invariant associated to the restricted quantum $sl_2$ are essentially the same for rational homology 3-spheres.

Yinlin Xu, Qianli D. Y. Ma, Daniel T. Schmitt, Pedro Bernaola-Galván

We investigate how various coarse-graining methods affect the scaling properties of long-range power-law correlated and anti-correlated signals, quantified by the detrended fluctuation analysis. Specifically, for coarse-graining in the magnitude of a signal, we consider (i) the Floor, (ii) the Symmetry and (iii) the Centro-Symmetry coarse-graining methods. W

Aparna Baskaran, M. Cristina Marchetti

Using tools of nonequilibirum mechanics, we study a model of self-propelled hard rods on a substrate in two dimensions to quantify the interplay of self-propulsion and excluded-volume effects. We derive of a Smoluchowski equation for the configurational probability density of self-propelled rods that contains several modifications as compared to the familiar

Analia V. Smith Castelli, Favio R. Faifer, Lilia P. Bassino, Gisela A. Romero

We confirm the existence of two compact elliptical (cE) galaxies in the central region of the Antlia cluster through MAGELLAN-MIKE and GEMINI-GMOS spectra. Only about a dozen galaxies of this rare type are known today up to a distance of 100 Mpc. With this finding, Antlia becomes the nearest galaxy cluster harbouring more than one cE galaxy among its galaxy

M. G. Campo

I have investigated the structural and dynamic properties of water by performing a series of molecular dynamic simulations in the range of temperatures from 213 K to 360 K, using the Simple Point Charge-Extended (SPC/E) model. I performed isobaric-isothermal simulations (1 bar) of 1185 water molecules using the GROMACS package. I quantified the structural pr