March 2010 arXiv papers — page 30

Jan Zeman, Ron H. J. Peerlings, Marc G. D. Geers

In this paper, we study the mechanics of statistically non-uniform two-phase elastic discrete structures. In particular, following the methodology proposed in (Luciano and Willis, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 53, 1505-1522, 2005), energetic bounds and estimates of the Hashin-Shtrikman-Willis type are developed for discrete systems with a he

Claude Castelluccia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Daniele Perito

As the amount of personal information stored at remote service providers increases, so does the danger of data theft. When connections to remote services are made in the clear and authenticated sessions are kept using HTTP cookies, data theft becomes extremely easy to achieve. In this paper, we study the architecture of the world's largest service provid

ChongGyu Lee

Silverman proved a height inequality for jointly regular family of rational maps and the author improved it for jointly regular pairs. In this paper, we provide the same improvement for jointly regular family; if S is a jointly regular set of rational maps, then \sum_{f\in S} \dfrac{1}{°f} h\bigl(f(P) \bigr) > (1+ \dfrac{1}{r}) f(P) - C where r = \max_{f\in

H. Gil-Marín, C. Wagner, L. Verde, R. Jimenez

Comparing clustering of differently biased tracers of the dark matter distribution offers the opportunity to reduce the cosmic variance error in the measurement of certain cosmological parameters. We develop a formalism that includes bias non-linearities and stochasticity. Our formalism is general enough that can be used to optimise survey design and tracers

Nicholas A. Bond, Michael A. Strauss, Renyue Cen

We present the Smoothed Hessian Major Axis Filament Finder (SHMAFF), an algorithm that uses the eigenvectors of the Hessian matrix of the smoothed galaxy distribution to identify individual filamentary structures. Filaments are traced along the Hessian eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue, and are stopped when the axis orientation changes more

N. J. Brassington, G. Fabbiano, S. Blake, A. Zezas

From a deep multi-epoch Chandra observation of the elliptical galaxy NGC 3379 we report the spectral properties of eight luminous LMXBs (LX>1.2E38 erg/s). We also present a set of spectral simulations, produced to aid the interpretation of low-count single-component spectral modeling. These simulations demonstrate that it is possible to infer the spectral st

Stefan Antusch, Mar Bastero-Gil, Jochen P. Baumann, Koushik Dutta

We explore the novel possibility that the inflaton responsible for cosmological inflation is a gauge non-singlet in supersymmetric (SUSY) Grand Unified Theories (GUTs). For definiteness we consider SUSY hybrid inflation where we show that the scalar components of gauge non-singlet superfields, together with fields in conjugate representations, may form a D-f

A. Moyotl, G. Tavares-Velasco

The static electromagnetic properties of the $W$ boson, $Δκ$ and $ΔQ$, are calculated in the T-parity and non T-parity littlest Higgs model (LHM) including terms up to the order of $(v/f)^4$, with $v$ the standard model (SM) vacuum expectation value and $f$ the scale of the global symmetry breaking. There are contributions from the virtual effects of the new

D. C. Cabra, C. A. Lamas, H. D. Rosales

In the present paper we study the phase diagram of the Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice with antiferromagnetic interactions up to third neighbors along the line $J_2=J_3$ that include the point $J_2=J_3=J_1/2$, corresponding to the highly frustrated point where the classical ground state has macroscopic degeneracy. Using the Linear Spin-Wave, Schwin

M. N. Chernodub

We discuss thermodynamic properties of open confining strings introduced via static sources in the vacuum of Yang-Mills theory. We derive new sum rules for the chromoelectric and chromomagnetic condensates and use them to show that the presence of the confining string lowers the gluonic pressure in the bulk of the system. The pressure deficit of the gluon pl

A. V. Goryunov

The concept of walking wave is introduced from classical relativistic positions. One- and three-dimensional walking waves considered with their wave equations and dispersion equations. It is shown that wave characteristics (de Broglie's and Compton's wavelengths) and corpuscular characteristics (energy-momentum vector and the rest mass) of particle m

P. Gratier, J. Braine, N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez, K. F. Schuster

We present high resolution large scale observations of the molecular and atomic gas in the Local Group Galaxy M33. The observations were carried out using the HERA at the 30m IRAM telescope in the CO(2-1) line achieving a resolution of 12"x2.6 km/s, enabling individual GMCs to be resolved. The observed region mainly along the major axis out to a radius o

Robert W. Johnson

A heatbath algorithm is proposed for pure SU(N) lattice gauge theory based on the Manton action of the plaquette element for general gauge group N. Comparison is made to the Metropolis thermalization algorithm using both the Wilson and Manton actions. The heatbath algorithm is found to outperform the Metropolis algorithm in both execution speed and decorrela

Nicos Georgiou, Rohini Kumar, Timo Seppalainen

We prove a hydrodynamic limit for the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with spatially inhomogeneous jump rates given by a speed function that may admit discontinuities. The limiting density profiles are described with a variational formula. This formula enables us to compute explicit density profiles even though we have no information about the in

L. Pascal, H. Courtois, F. W. J. Hekking

We discuss the heat transfer by photons between two metals coupled by a linear element with a reactive impedance. Using a simple circuit approach, we calculate the spectral power transmitted from one resistor to the other and find that it is determined by the photon transmission coefficient, which depends on the impedances of the metals and the coupling elem

G. Ivashchenko, V. I. Zhdanov, A. V. Tugay

We analyze the quasar two-point correlation function (2pCF) within the redshift interval $0.8<z<2.2$ using a sample of 52303 quasars selected from the recent 7th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our approach to 2pCF uses a concept of locally Lorentz (Fermi) frame for determination of the distance between objects and permutation method of the ran

Jens Erler, Paul Langacker

There has been renewed interest in the possibility of additional fermion generations. At the same time there have been significant changes in the relevant electroweak precision constraints, in particular, in the interpretation of several of the low energy experiments. We summarize the various motivations for extra families and analyze them in view of the lat

Saurya Das, Elias C. Vagenas

We address the three points raised by the authors of the above Comment.

Paolo Giorda, Matteo G. A. Paris

We extend the quantum discord to continuous variable systems and evaluate Gaussian quantum discord C(ρ) for bipartite Gaussian states. In particular, for squeezed thermal states (STS), we explicitly maximize the extractable information over Gaussian measurements: C(ρ) is minimized by a generalized measurement rather than a projective one. Almost all STS have

Tirthabir Biswas, Anupam Mazumdar, Arman Shafieloo

In this paper we consider a unique model of inflation where the universe undergoes rapid asymmetric oscillations, each cycle lasting millions of Planck time. Over many-many cycles the space-time expands to mimic the standard inflationary scenario. Moreover, these rapid oscillations leave a distinctive periodic signature in ln(k) in the primordial power spect

Julian Adamek, David Campo, Jens C. Niemeyer

In a landscape of compactifications with different numbers of macroscopic dimensions, it is possible that our universe has nucleated from a vacuum where some of our four large dimensions were compact while other, now compact, directions were macroscopic. From our perspective, this shapeshifting can be perceived as an anisotropic background spacetime. As an e

Maurizio Monge

Consider the set of vectors over a field having non-zero coefficients only in a fixed sparse set and multiplication defined by convolution, or the set of integers having non-zero digits (in some base $b$) in a fixed sparse set. We show the existence of an optimal (resp. almost-optimal in the latter case) `magic&#39; multiplier constant that provides a perfec

Toby S. Cubitt, Debbie Leung, William Matthews, Andreas Winter

Shannon&#39;s theory of zero-error communication is re-examined in the broader setting of using one classical channel to simulate another exactly, and in the presence of various resources that are all classes of non-signalling correlations: Shared randomness, shared entanglement and arbitrary non-signalling correlations. Specifically, when the channel being

Alexander Schenkel, Christoph F. Uhlemann

We study classical scalar field theories on noncommutative curved spacetimes. Following the approach of Wess et al. [Classical Quantum Gravity 22 (2005), 3511 and Classical Quantum Gravity 23 (2006), 1883], we describe noncommutative spacetimes by using (Abelian) Drinfel&#39;d twists and the associated *-products and *-differential geometry. In particular, w

Aldo Isidori, David Roosen, Lorenz Bartosch, Walter Hofstetter

Using the functional renormalization group (FRG) and the numerical renormalization group (NRG), we calculate the spectral function of the Anderson impurity model at zero and finite temperatures. In our FRG scheme spin fluctuations are treated non-perturbatively via a suitable Hubbard-Stratonovich field, but vertex corrections are neglected. A comparison with

Olivier Debarre, Lawrence Ein, Robert Lazarsfeld, Claire Voisin

The cones of divisors and curves defined by various positivity conditions on a smooth projective variety have been the subject of a great deal of work in algebraic geometry, and by now they are quite well understood. However the analogous cones for cycles of higher codimension and dimension have started to come into focus only recently. The purpose of this p

Guido Altarelli

I present a concise review of the Higgs problem which plays a central role in particle physics today. The Higgs of the minimal Standard Model is so far just a conjecture that needs to be verified or discarded at the LHC. Probably the reality is more complicated. I will summarize the motivation for New Physics that should accompany or even replace the Higgs d

A. Savas Arapoglu, Cemsinan Deliduman, K. Yavuz Eksi

We study the structure of neutron stars in perturbative f(R) gravity models with realistic equations of state. We obtain mass-radius relations in a gravity model of the form f(R)=R+αR^2. We find that deviations from the results of general relativity, comparable to the variations due to using different equations of state (EoS&#39;), are induced for |alpha| ~

Philip Boalch

A local Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for tame meromorphic connections on a curve compatible with a parahoric level structure will be established. Special cases include logarithmic connections on G-bundles and on parabolic G-bundles, where G is a complex reductive group. The corresponding Betti data involves pairs (M,P) consisting of the local monodromy M i

Robert Gray, Nik Ruskuc

In this paper we discuss connections between the following properties: (RFM) residual finiteness of a monoid M; (RFSG) residual finiteness of Schutzenberger groups of M; and (RFRL) residual finiteness of the natural actions of M on its Green&#39;s R- and L-classes. The general question is whether (RFM) implies (RFSG) and/or (RFRL), and vice versa. We conside

Misha Verbitsky

A knot space in a manifold M is a space of oriented immersions from a circle S^1 to M up to Diff(S^1). Brylinski has shown that a knot space of a Riemannian threefold is formally Kahler. We prove that a space of knots in a holonomy G2 manifold is formally Kahler.

J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

We consider gq -> Zt, gq -> gamma t and gq -> t production (q=u,c) mediated by strong flavour-changing neutral interactions within an effective operator framework. We provide total cross sections for Tevatron and LHC, showing explicitly that the six processes can be described in full generality in terms of only two parameters (anomalous couplings) for q=u pl

Misha Verbitsky

Let M be a G2-manifold. We consider an almost CR-structure on the sphere bundle of unit tangent vectors on M, called the CR twistor space. This CR-structure is integrable if and only if M is a holonomy G2 manifold. We interpret G2-instanton bundles as CR-holomorphic bundles on its twistor space.

E. I. Jafarov, J. Van der Jeugt

We investigate the superposition of four different quantum states based on the $q$-oscillator. These quantum states are expressed by means of Rogers-Szegö polynomials. We show that such a superposition has the properties of the quantum harmonic oscillator when $q\to 1$, and those of a compass state with the appearance of chessboard-type interference patterns

I. V. Arzhantsev, K. Kuyumzhiyan, M. Zaidenberg

We say that a group G acts infinitely transitively on a set X if for every integer m the induced diagonal action of G is transitive on the cartesian mth power of X with the diagonals removed. We describe three classes of affine algebraic varieties such that their automorphism groups act infinitely transitively on their smooth loci. The first class consists o

J. C. Vasquez, B. Cessac, T. Viéville

We consider the evolution of a network of neurons, focusing on the asymptotic behavior of spikes dynamics instead of membrane potential dynamics. The spike response is not sought as a deterministic response in this context, but as a conditional probability : &#34;Reading out the code&#34; consists of inferring such a probability. This probability is computed

O. Cakir, I. T. Cakir, A. Senol, A. T. Tasci

The top quark is the heaviest particle to date discovered, with a mass close to the electroweak symmetry breaking scale. It is expected that the top quark would be sensitive to the new physics at the TeV scale. One of the most important aspects of the top quark physics can be the investigation of the possible anomalous couplings. Here, we study the top quark

Satoshi Shirai, Masahito Yamazaki, Kazuya Yonekura

A large class of non-minimal gauge mediation models, such as (semi-)direct gauge mediation, predict a hierarchy between the masses of the supersymmetric standard model gauginos and those of scalar particles. We perform a comprehensive study of these non-minimal gauge mediation models, including mass calculations in semi-direct gauge mediation, to illustrate

R. Augusiak, F. M. Cucchietti, M. Lewenstein

The quantum information approach to many body physics has been very successful in giving new insight and novel numerical methods. In these lecture notes we take a vertical view of the subject, starting from general concepts and at each step delving into applications or consequences of a particular topic. We first review some general quantum information conce

Haji Ahmedov, Alikram N. Aliev

We show that for four-dimensional spacetimes with a non-null hypersurface orthogonal Killing vector and for a Chern-Simons (CS) background (non-dynamical) scalar field, which is constant along the Killing vector, the source-free equations of CS modified gravity decouple into their Einstein and Cotton constituents. Thus, the model supports only general relati

Zouhair Mouayn

We construct a one parameter family of integral transforms connecting the classical Hardy space with a class of weighted Bergman spaces called Barut-Girardello spaces.

F. Costagliola, S. Aalto

We investigate the molecular gas properties of the deeply obscured luminous infrared galaxy NGC 4418. We address the excitation of the complex molecule HC3N to determine whether its unusually luminous emission is related to the nature of the buried nuclear source. We use IRAM 30m and JCMT observations of rotational and vibrational lines of HC3N to model the

Sergey Smirnov

We investigate the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida oscillations of the itinerant carrier spin density in a system where those oscillations appear only due to a finite distribution of a localized spin. The system represents a half-infinite one-dimensional quantum wire with a magnetic impurity located at its edge. In contrast to the conventional model of a point

Andrea Cali, Davide Martinenghi

Since Chen&#39;s Entity-Relationship (ER) model, conceptual modeling has been playing a fundamental role in relational data design. In this paper we consider an extended ER (EER) model enriched with cardinality constraints, disjointness assertions, and is-a relations among both entities and relationships. In this setting, we consider the case of incomplete d

Hadar Steinberg, Dillon R. Gardner, Young S. Lee, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Topological insulators (TIs) constitute a new class of materials with unique properties resulting from the relativistic-like character and topological protection of their surface states. Theory predicts these to exhibit a rich variety of physical phenomena such as anomalous magneto-electric coupling and Majorana excitations. Although TI surface states have b

Z. K. Silagadze

We examine the remarkable connection, first discovered by Beukers, Kolk and Calabi, between $ζ(2n)$, the value of the Riemann zeta-function at an even positive integer, and the volume of some $2n$-dimensional polytope. It can be shown that this volume is equal to the trace of a compact self-adjoint operator. We provide an explicit expression for the kernel o

Toan Nguyen

We study nonlinear time-asymptotic stability of small--amplitude planar Lax shocks in a model consisting of a system of multi--dimensional conservation laws coupled with an elliptic system. Such a model can be found in context of dynamics of a gas in presence of radiation. Our main result asserts that the standard uniform Evans stability condition implies no

Yutaka Hosotani

In the gauge-Higgs unification the 4D Higgs field becomes a part of the extra-dimensional component of the gauge potentials. In the $SO(5) \times U(1)$ gauge-Higgs unification in the Randall-Sundrum warped spacetime the electroweak symmetry is dynamically broken through the Hosotani mechanism. The Higgs bosons become absolutely stable, and become the dark ma

Jan Johannes, Maik Schwarz

We consider the problem of estimating the structural function in nonparametric instrumental regression, where in the presence of an instrument W a response Y is modeled in dependence of an endogenous explanatory variable Z. The proposed estimator is based on dimension reduction and additional thresholding. The minimax optimal rate of convergence of the estim

Laura Lopez Honorez, Carlos E. Yaguna

The inert doublet model, a minimal extension of the Standard Model by a second higgs doublet with no direct couplings to quarks or leptons, is one of the simplest scenarios that can explain the dark matter. In this paper, we study in detail the impact of dark matter annihilation into three-body final state on the phenomenology of the inert doublet model. We

The ATLAS Collaboration

The first measurements from proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Data were collected in December 2009 using a minimum-bias trigger during collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 900 GeV. The charged-particle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity, and the relationship between mea

Alberto Enciso, Daniel Peralta-Salas

Given any possibly unbounded, locally finite link, we show that there exists a smooth diffeomorphism transforming this link into a set of stream (or vortex) lines of a vector field that solves the steady incompressible Euler equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Furthermore, the diffeomorphism can be chosen arbitrarily close to the identity in any $C^r$ norm.

Francis Comets, Mikhail V. Menshikov, Stanislav Volkov, Andrew R. Wade

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a $d$-dimensional self-interacting random walk $X_n$ ($n = 1,2,...$) which is repelled or attracted by the centre of mass $G_n = n^{-1} \sum_{i=1}^n X_i$ of its previous trajectory. The walk&#39;s trajectory $(X_1,...,X_n)$ models a random polymer chain in either poor or good solvent. In addition to some natural regularit

Daniel A. Uken, Alessandro Sergi, Francesco Petruccione

Using a generalized energy-conserving transition probability, it is shown how nonadiabatic calculations, within the Wigner-Heisenberg representation of quantum mechanics, can be reliably extended to far longer times than those allowed by a primitive sampling scheme. Tackling the spin-boson model as a paradigmatic example, substantial numerical evidence is pr

Devashish Sanyal

We study the structural transition from `B&#39; form of DNA to &#39;A&#39; form of DNA using group theoretic methods. The transition is not of the order-disorder type and hence to construct a Landau kind of theory for the transition we define a higher symmetry and relevant order parameters. We also discuss the issue of all the conformations, observed experim

Stanislao Gualdi, Matus Medo, Yi-Cheng Zhang

We study simultaneous price drops of real stocks and show that for high drop thresholds they follow a power-law distribution. To reproduce these collective downturns, we propose a minimal self-organized model of cascade spreading based on a probabilistic response of the system elements to stress conditions. This model is solvable using the theory of branchin

A. Z. Azak, M. Akyigit, S. Ersoy

Abstract In this paper, definition of involute-evolute curve couple in Galilean space is given and some well-known theorems for the involute-evolute curves are obtained in 3-dimensional Galilean space.

Fabrizio Polo

We prove that for a minimal rotation T on a 2-step nilmanifold and any measure mu, the push-forward T^n(mu) of mu under T^n tends toward Haar measure if and only if mu projects to Haar measure on the maximal torus factor. For an arbitrary nilmanifold we get the same result along a sequence of uniform density 1. These results strengthen Parry&#39;s result tha

Sofiane Aoudia, Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

We establish the jump conditions for the wavefunction and its derivatives through the formal solutions of the wave equation. These conditions respond to the requirement of continuity of the perturbations at the position of the particle and they are given for any mode at first order. Using these jump conditions, we then propose a new method for computing the

Bogeun Gwak, Bum-Hoon Lee, Wonwoo Lee, Hyeong-Chan Kim

The geodesic properties of the extraordinary vacuum string solution in (4+1) dimensions are analyzed by using Hamilton-Jacobi method. The geodesic motions show distinct properties from those of the static one. Especially, any freely falling particle can not arrive at the horizon or singularity. There exist stable null circular orbits and bouncing timelike an

P. Salucci, F. Nesti, G. Gentile, C. Frigerio Martins

We derive the value of the dark matter density at the Sun&#39;s location (rho_0) without globally mass-modeling the Galaxy. The proposed method relies on the local equation of centrifugal equilibrium and is independent of i) the shape of the dark matter density profile, ii) knowledge of the rotation curve from the galaxy center out to the virial radius, and

Gh. Nenciu, I. Nenciu

We study the question of magnetic confinement of quantum particles on the unit disk $\ID$ in $\IR^2$, i.e. we wish to achieve confinement solely by means of the growth of the magnetic field $B(\vec x)$ near the boundary of the disk. In the spinless case we show that $B(\vec x)\ge \frac{\sqrt 3}{2}\cdot\frac{1}{(1-r)^2}-\frac{1}{\sqrt 3}\frac{1}{(1-r)^2\ln \f

Jun Liang Song, Mohammad S. Mashayekhi, Fei Zhou

In this Letter we have studied dressed bound states in Fermi-Bose mixtures near broad interspecies resonance, and implications on many-body correlations. We present the evidence for a first order phase transition between a mixture of Fermi gas and condensate, and a fully paired mixture where extended fermionic molecules occupy a single pairing channel instea

A. E. Sitnitsky

A relationship between the preexponent of the rate constant and the distribution over activation barrier energies for enzymatic/protein reactions is revealed. We consider an enzyme solution as an ensemble of individual molecules with different values of the activation barrier energy described by the distribution. From the solvent viscosity effect on the pree

Akihiko Monnai, Tetsufumi Hirano

We derive the second order hydrodynamic equations for the relativistic system of multi-components with multiple conserved currents by generalizing the Israel-Stewart theory and Grad&#39;s moment method. We find that, in addition to the conventional moment equations, extra moment equations associated with conserved currents should be introduced to consistentl

Arseny Akopyan

In this paper we give purely geometrical proofs of the well-known properties of the lemniscate of Bernoulli.

Jae-Sok Oh, Hongsu Kim, Hyung Mok Lee

We explored the motion of test particles near slowly rotating relativistic star having a uniform luminosity. In order to derive the test particle&#39;s equations of motion, we made use of the radiation stress-energy tensor first constructed by Miller and Lamb \cite{ML96}. From the particle&#39;s trajectory obtained through the numerical integration of the eq

Benoit Collins, Ion Nechita, Karol Zyczkowski

For any graph consisting of $k$ vertices and $m$ edges we construct an ensemble of random pure quantum states which describe a system composed of $2m$ subsystems. Each edge of the graph represents a bi-partite, maximally entangled state. Each vertex represents a random unitary matrix generated according to the Haar measure, which describes the coupling betwe

Jian Liu, M. Kareev, B. Gray, J. W. Kim

We have synthesized epitaxial NdNiO$_{3}$ ultra-thin films in a layer-by-layer growth mode under tensile and compressive strain on SrTiO$_{3}$ (001) and LaAlO$_3$ (001), respectively. A combination of X-ray diffraction, temperature dependent resistivity, and soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy has been applied to elucidate electronic and structural properties

Wen Yang, L. J. Sham

This paper has been updated by the author to: arXiv:1012.0060v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall], titled &#34;Collective Nuclear Stabilization by Optically Excited Hole in Quantum Dot&#34;

Dang Vu Giang

Several interesting formulas concerning finite Hilbert transform and logarithmic integrals are proved with application in determining equilibrium measures, planar limits of analytic random matrix models with $1-$cut potential and solving singular integral equations.

Dang Vu Giang

We prove among other things that the omega-limit set of a bounded solution of a Hamilton system \[\left\{\begin{aligned} & \mathbf{\dot{p}}=\frac{\partial H}{\partial \mathbf{q}} & \mathbf{\dot{q}}=-\frac{\partial H}{\partial \mathbf{p}} \\ \end{aligned} \right.\] is containing a full-time solution so there are the limits of $\frac 1t\int_0^t {\mathbf p}(s)d

Jian-Hua Gao, Zong-Gang Mou

We investigate deep inelastic scattering off the polarized &#34;neutron&#34; using gauge/string duality. The &#34;neutron&#34; corresponds to a supergravity mode of the neutral dilatino. Through introducing the Pauli interaction term into the action in $\textrm{AdS}_{5}$ space, we calculate the polarized deep inelastic structure functions of the &#34;neutron

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lee

The branching fraction for the decay $D^+_s\toτ^{+}ν_τ$, with $τ^{+}\to e^{+} ν_{e}\barν_τ$, is measured using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 427 fb^{-1} collected at center of mass energies near 10.58 GeV with the \slshape B\kern-0.1em{\smaller A}\kern-0.1em B\kern-0.1em{\smaller A\kern-0.2em R} detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-

Victor V. Dodonov

A &#34;microscopic&#34; justification of the &#34;symmetric damping&#34; model of a quantum oscillator with time-dependent frequency and time-dependent damping is given. This model is used to predict results of experiments on simulating the dynamical Casimir effect in a cavity with a photo-excited semiconductor mirror. It is shown that the most general bilin

You-gang Feng

We discussed hierarchies and rescaling rule of the self similar transformations in Ising models, and define a fractal dimension of an ordered cluster, which minimum corresponds to a fixed point of the transformations. By the fractal structures we divide the clusters into two types: irreducible and reducible. A relationship of cluster spin with its coordinati

Lin Chen, Eric Chitambar, Runyao Duan, Zhengfeng Ji

The tensor rank (also known as generalized Schmidt rank) of multipartite pure states plays an important role in the study of entanglement classifications and transformations. We employ powerful tools from the theory of homogeneous polynomials to investigate the tensor rank of symmetric states such as the tripartite state $\ket{W_3}=\tfrac{1}{\sqrt{3}}(\ket{1

Edwin J. Son, Wontae Kim

We show that the cosmological phase transition from the first accelerated expansion in the early universe to the second accelerated expansion over the intermediate decelerated expansion is possible in the HL gravity without the ``detailed balance&#39;&#39; condition if the dark scalar energy density is assumed to be negative. Moreover, we obtain various evol

Henry Cohn

How can we understand the origins of highly symmetrical objects? One way is to characterize them as the solutions of natural optimization problems from discrete geometry or physics. In this paper, we explore how to prove that exceptional objects, such as regular polytopes or the E_8 root system, are optimal solutions to packing and potential energy minimizat

Curtis D. Bennett, Petra N. Schwer, Koen Struyve

In this paper we prove equivalence of sets of axioms for non-discrete affine buildings, by providing different types of metric, exchange and atlas conditions. We apply our result to show that the definition of a Euclidean building depends only on the topological equivalence class of the metric on the model space. The sharpness of the axioms dealing with metr

Scott Michael, R. H. Durisen

We test the effect of assumptions about stellar motion on the behavior of gravitational instabilities in protoplanetary disks around solar-type stars by performing two simulations that are identical in all respects except the treatment of the star. In one simulation, the star is assumed to remain fixed at the center of the inertial reference frame. In the ot

A. O. Bolivar

Non-Markovian effects upon the Brownian movement of a free particle in the presence as well as in the absence of inertial force are investigated within the framework of Fokker-Planck equations (Rayleigh and Smoluchowski equations). More specifically, it is predicted that non-Markovian features can enhance the values of the mean square displacement and moment

Jining Gao

In this paper we set up the theory of acid zeta function and ajoint acid zeta function, based on the theory, we point out a reason to doubt the truth of the Riemann hypothesis and also as a consequence, we give out some new RH equivalences.

Pablo San-Jose, Jose González, Francisco Guinea

We study the effect exerted by the electrons on the flexural phonons in graphene, accounting for the attractive interaction created by the exchange of electron-hole excitations. Combining the self-consistent computation of the phonon self-energy with renormalization group methods, we show that graphene has two different phases corresponding to soft and stron

Viktor V. Poltavets, Konstantin A. Lokshin, Takeshi Egami, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Bulk magnetic order in two dimensional La4Ni3O8 nickelate with Ni1+/Ni2+ (d9/d8), isoelectronic with superconducting cuprates is demonstrated experimentally and theoretically. Magnetization, specific heat and 139La NMR evidence a transition at 105 K to an antiferromagnetic state. Theoretical calculations by DFT relate the transition to a nesting instability

Michael E. Anderson, Joel N. Bregman

Galaxies are missing most of their baryons, and many models predict these baryons lie in a hot halo around galaxies. We establish observationally motivated constraints on the mass and radii of these haloes using a variety of independent arguments. First, the observed dispersion measure of pulsars in the Large Magellanic Cloud allows us to constrain the hot h

Hua Zhou, Kenneth Lange, Marc A. Suchard

This paper discusses the potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-dimensional optimization problems. A single GPU card with hundreds of arithmetic cores can be inserted in a personal computer and dramatically accelerates many statistical algorithms. To exploit these devices fully, optimization algorithms should reduce to multiple parallel tasks,

David Langlois, Filippo Vernizzi

We give a pedagogical review of a covariant and fully non-perturbative approach to study nonlinear perturbations in cosmology. In the first part, devoted to cosmological fluids, we define a nonlinear extension of the uniform-density curvature perturbation and derive its evolution equation. In the second part, we focus our attention on multiple scalar fields

Miguel Martín, Javier Merí, Mikhail Popov, Beata Randrianantoanina

We study the numerical index of absolute sums of Banach spaces, giving general conditions which imply that the numerical index of the sum is less or equal than the infimum of the numerical indices of the summands and we provide some examples where the equality holds covering the already known case of $c_0$-, $\ell_1$- and $\ell_\infty$-sums and giving as a n

Olga Sofina, Yuriy Bunyak, Roman Kvetnyy

An approach to textures pattern recognition based on inverse resonance filtration (IRF) is considered. A set of principal resonance harmonics of textured image signal fluctuations eigen harmonic decomposition (EHD) is used for the IRF design. It was shown that EHD is invariant to textured image linear shift. The recognition of texture is made by transfer of

Frederic Herau, Karel Pravda-Starov

We establish global hypoelliptic estimates for linear Landau-type operators. Linear Landau-type equations are a class of inhomogeneous kinetic equations with anisotropic diffusion whose study is motivated by the linearization of the Landau equation near the Maxwellian distribution. By introducing a microlocal method by multiplier which can be adapted to vari

S. Allen Broughton, Aaron Wootton

A cyclic $n$-gonal surface is a compact Riemann surface $X$ of genus $g\geq 2$ admitting a cyclic group of conformal automorphisms $C$ of order $n$ such that the quotient space $X/C$ has genus 0. In this paper, we provide an overview of ongoing research into automorphism groups of cyclic $n$-gonal surfaces. Much of the paper is expository or will appear in f

Barbara Majcher-Iwanow

We study continuous actions of Polish groups on Polish spaces. We develop Scott analysis introduced by Hjorth for studying orbit equivalence relations. We define eventually open actions and prove that this property characterizes the actions endowed with a complete system of hereditarily countable invariant structures.

Martin T. Barlow, Yuval Peres, Perla Sousi

A recurrent graph $G$ has the infinite collision property if two independent random walks on $G$, started at the same point, collide infinitely often a.s. We give a simple criterion in terms of Green functions for a graph to have this property, and use it to prove that a critical Galton-Watson tree with finite variance conditioned to survive, the incipient i

E Iltan

We consider the dark matter scalar in the Randall Sundrum background and study the annihilation cross section if the curvature-scalar mixing is switched on. In this case, in addition to the radion, the standard model Higgs scalar drives the annihilation and it leads to a considerable enhancement in the annihilation cross section. Furthermore we take unpartic

E. Ricciardelli, I. Trujillo, F. Buitrago, C. J. Conselice

The population of compact massive galaxies observed at z > 1 are hypothesised, both observationally and in simulations, to be merger remnants of gas-rich disc galaxies. To probe such a scenario we analyse a sample of 12 gas-rich and active star forming sub-mm galaxies (SMGs) at 1.8 < z < 3. We present a structural and size measurement analysis for all of the

Jose Ramon Espinosa, Christophe Grojean, Margarete Mühlleitner

The Higgs boson production cross-sections and decay rates depend, within the Standard Model (SM), on a single unknown parameter, the Higgs mass. In composite Higgs models where the Higgs boson emerges as a pseudo-Goldstone boson from a strongly-interacting sector, additional parameters control the Higgs properties which then deviate from the SM ones. These d

C. Struve, T. A. Oosterloo, R. Morganti, L. Saripalli

We present new ATCA 21-cm line observations of the neutral hydrogen in the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A. We image in detail (with a resolution down to 7&#34;, ~100pc) the distribution of HI along the dust lane. Our data have better velocity resolution and better sensitivity than previous observations. The HI extends for a total of ~15kpc. The data, combin

Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang

In this paper, we develop a novel phase retrieval approach to reconstruct x-ray differential phase shift induced by an object. A primary advantage of our approach is a higher-order accuracy over that with the conventional linear approximation models, relaxing the current restriction of weak absorption and slow phase variation scenario. The optimal utilizatio

Albert Chau, Jingyi Chen, Yu Yuan

We show that (a) any entire graphic self-shrinking solution to the Lagrangian mean curvature flow in ${\mathbb C}^{m}$ with the Euclidean metric is flat; (b) any space-like entire graphic self-shrinking solution to the Lagrangian mean curvature flow in ${\mathbb C}^{m}$ with the pseudo-Euclidean metric is flat if the Hessian of the potential is bounded below