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  1. Saba Bashir, Farhan Hassan Khan, M. Younus Javed, Aihab Khan

    Recent advancement in web services plays an important role in business to business and business to consumer interaction. Discovery mechanism is not only used to find a suitable service but also provides collaboration between service providers and consumers by using standard protocols. A static web service discovery mechanism is not only time consuming but re

  2. Pawel Nurowski

    We show that there are isometrically nonequivalent Robertson-Walker metrics which have the same set of geodesics. While one of these metrics satisfies the Einstein equations of pure dust without a cosmological constant, all the other describe pure dust with additional energy momentum tensor of cosmological constant type. Since each of these metrics have the

  3. Farhan Hassan Khan, Saba Bashir, M. Younus Javed, Aihab Khan

    The use of web services has dominated software industry. Existing technologies of web services are extended to give value added customized services to customers through composition. Automated web service composition is a very challenging task. This paper proposed the solution of existing problems and proposed a technique by combination of interface based and

  4. Karin U. Katz, Mikhail G. Katz

    The view of infinity as a metaphor, a basic premise of modern cognitive theory of embodied knowledge, suggests in particular that there may be alternative ways in which one could formalize mathematical ideas about infinity. We discuss the key ideas about infinitesimals via a proceptual analysis of the meaning of the ellipsis"..." in the real formula

  5. M . V. Vijaya Saradhi, B. R. Sastry, P. Satish

    Several multi-pass algorithms have been proposed for Association Rule Mining from static repositories. However, such algorithms are incapable of online processing of transaction streams. In this paper we introduce an efficient single-pass algorithm for mining association rules, given a hierarchical classification amongest items. Processing efficiency is achi

  6. Mofreh A. Hogo

    This paper introduces an evaluation methodologies for the e-learners' behaviour that will be a feedback to the decision makers in e-learning system. Learner's profile plays a crucial role in the evaluation process to improve the e-learning process performance. The work focuses on the clustering of the e-learners based on their behaviour into specific

  7. Iain McDonald, Jacco Th. van Loon, Andrea K. Dupree, Martha L. Boyer

    We present a search for long-period variable (LPV) stars among giant branch stars in M15 which, at [Fe/H] ~ -2.3, is one of the most metal-poor Galactic globular clusters. We use multi-colour optical photometry from the 0.6-m Keele Thornton and 2-m Liverpool Telescopes. Variability of delta-V ~ 0.15 mag is detected in K757 and K825 over unusually-long timesc

  8. Bala Dhandayuthapani Veerasamy

    HTTP Server is a computer programs that serves webpage content to clients. A webpage is a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a computer screen. This information is usually in HTML format, and may provide navigation to other webpage's via hypertext links. W

  9. Abderrahim El Qadi, Driss Aboutajedine, Yassine Ennouary

    In this paper we describe a mechanism to improve Information Retrieval (IR) on the web. The method is based on Formal Concepts Analysis (FCA) that it is makes semantical relations during the queries, and allows a reorganizing, in the shape of a lattice of concepts, the answers provided by a search engine. We proposed for the IR an incremental algorithm based

  10. Mariana Maceiras Cabrera, Ernesto Ocampo Edye

    This article presents the results of the research carried out on the development of a medical diagnostic system applied to the Acute Bacterial Meningitis, using the Case Based Reasoning methodology. The research was focused on the implementation of the adaptation stage, from the integration of Case Based Reasoning and Rule Based Expert Systems. In this adapt

  11. Harshvardhan Tiwari, Dr. Krishna Asawa

    Cryptographic hash functions play a central role in cryptography. Hash functions were introduced in cryptology to provide message integrity and authentication. MD5, SHA1 and RIPEMD are among the most commonly used message digest algorithm. Recently proposed attacks on well known and widely used hash functions motivate a design of new stronger hash function.

  12. Manish Kumar, M. C. Srivastava, Umesh Kumar

    The paper presents a current conveyor based multifunction filter. The proposed circuit can be realized as low pass, high pass, band pass and elliptical notch filter. The circuit employs two balanced output current conveyors, four resistors and two grounded capacitors, ideal for integration. It has only one output terminal and the number of input terminals ma

  13. Nina Gantert, Peter Moerters, Vitali Wachtel

    We discuss the long term behaviour of trap models on the integers with asymptotically vanishing drift, providing scaling limit theorems and ageing results. Depending on the tail behaviour of the traps and the strength of the drift, we identify three different regimes, one of which features a previously unobserved limit process.

  14. Mario Ziman, Michal Sedlák

    We formulate minimum-error and unambiguous discrimination problems for quantum processes in the language of process positive operator valued measures (PPOVM). In this framework we present the known solution for minimum-error discrimination of unitary channels. We derive a "fidelity-like" lower bound on the failure probability of the unambiguous discr

  15. Ondřej Turek

    A word $u$ defined over an alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ is $c$-balanced ($c\in\mathbb{N}$) if for all pairs of factors $v$, $w$ of $u$ of the same length and for all letters $a\in\mathcal{A}$, the difference between the number of letters $a$ in $v$ and $w$ is less or equal to $c$. In this paper we consider a ternary alphabet $\mathcal{A}=\{L,S,M\}$ and a class of

  16. Raf Cluckers, Yves Cornulier, Nicolas Louvet, Romain Tessera

    We consider in this paper a relative version of the Howe-Moore Property, about vanishing at infinity of coefficients of unitary representations. We characterize this property in terms of ergodic measure-preserving actions. We also characterize, for linear Lie groups or p-adic Lie groups, the pairs with the relative Howe-Moore Property with respect to a close

  17. Fiodor Sorrentino, Kai Bongs, Philippe Bouyer, Luigi Cacciapuoti

    Atom interferometry represents a quantum leap in the technology for the ultra-precise monitoring of accelerations and rotations and, therefore, for all the science that relies on the latter quantities. These sensors evolved from a new kind of optics based on matter-waves rather than light-waves and might result in an advancement of the fundamental detection

  18. Udo Seifert

    For driven Markovian dynamics on a network of (biomolecular) states, the generalized mobilities, i.e., the response of any current to changes in an external parameter, are expressed by an integral over an appropriate current-current correlation function and thus related to the generalized diffusion constants. As only input, a local detailed balance condition

  19. C. Ravichandiran, C. Pethuru Raj, V. Vaidhyanathan

    Mobile WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is being touted as the most promising and potential broadband wireless technology. And the popularity rate has been surging to newer heights as the knowledge-backed service era unfolds steadily. Especially Mobile WiMAX is being projected as a real and strategic boon for developing counties such a

  20. Nitul Dutta, Iti Saha Misra

    In a network, arrival process is converted into departure process through network elements. The departure process suffer propagation delay in the link, processing delay at the network elements like router and data loss due to buffer overflow or congestion. For providing guaranteed service resources need to be reserved before conversation takes place. To rese

  21. A. K. Ojha, K. K. Biswal

    Geometric programming is an important class of optimization problems that enable practitioners to model a large variety of real-world applications, mostly in the field of engineering design. In many real life optimization problem multi-objective programming plays a vital role in socio-economical and industrial optimizing problems. In this paper we have discu

  22. Bala Dhandayuthapani Veerasamy

    Parallel programming models exist as an abstraction of hardware and memory architectures. There are several parallel programming models in commonly use; they are shared memory model, thread model, message passing model, data parallel model, hybrid model, Flynn's models, embarrassingly parallel computations model, pipelined computations model. These model

  23. M. Tessarotto, C. Asci

    The recent development of a statistical model for incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) fluids based on inverse kinetic theory (IKT, 2004-2008) poses the problem of searching for particular realizations of the theory which may be relevant for \textit{the statistical description of turbulence} and in particular for the so-called \textit{homogeneous, isotropic}and

  24. M. Tessarotto, C. Asci

    An aspect of fluid dynamics lies in the search of possible statistical models for Navier-Stokes (NS) fluids described by classical solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE). This refers in particular to statistical models based on the so-called inverse kinetic theory (IKT) . This approach allows the description of fluid systems by means

  25. T. D. Roopamala, S. K. Katti

    In this note, we have shown special case on Routh stability criterion, which is not discussed, in previous literature. This idea can be useful in computer science applications.

  26. Shahram Babaie, Ahmad Khadem Zade, Ali Hosseinalipour

    Clustering in wireless sensor networks is one of the crucial methods for increasing of network lifetime. There are many algorithms for clustering. One of the important cluster based algorithm in wireless sensor networks is LEACH algorithm. In this paper we proposed a new clustering method for increasing of network lifetime. We distribute several sensors with

  27. Pavel Sladek, Daniel J. Finley

    The aim of this article is to analyze the asymptotic properties of the C-metric, using a general method specified in work of Tafel and coworkers, [1], [2], [3]. By finding an appropriate conformal factor $Ω$, it allows the investigation of the asymptotic properties of a given asymptotically flat spacetime. The news function and Bondi mass aspect are computed

  28. Khan Farhan Rafat, Muhammad Sher

    Digitization of analogue signals has opened up new avenues for information hiding and the recent advancements in the telecommunication field has taken up this desire even further. From copper wire to fiber optics, technology has evolved and so are ways of covert channel communication. By "Covert" we mean "anything not meant for the purpose for wh

  29. Pawel Nurowski

    We present a number of conditions which are necessary for an n-dimensional projective structure (M,[nabla]) to include the Levi-Civita connection nabla of some metric on M. We provide an algorithm, which effectively checks if a Levi-Civita connection is in the projective class and, in the positive, which finds this connection and the metric. The article also

  30. Xin-She Yang

    Nature-inspired algorithms are among the most powerful algorithms for optimization. This paper intends to provide a detailed description of a new Firefly Algorithm (FA) for multimodal optimization applications. We will compare the proposed firefly algorithm with other metaheuristic algorithms such as particle swarm optimization (PSO). Simulations and results

  31. R. L. Smart, G. Ioannidis, H. R. A. Jones, B. Bucciarelli

    We investigate and parameterise high proper motion red stars in the Torino Observatory Parallax Program. Observations of 27 objects were made over the period 1994 - 2001 on the 1.05m Torino telescope. The trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions were determined using standard techniques. We determine parallaxes and proper motions, and by comparison to mod

  32. Xin-She Yang

    Nature-inspired algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization and Firefly Algorithm are among the most powerful algorithms for optimization. In this paper, we intend to formulate a new metaheuristic algorithm by combining Levy flights with the search strategy via the Firefly Algorithm. Numerical studies and results suggest that the proposed Levy-flight fire

  33. Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula

    The procedure of extracting the ground-state parameters from vacuum-to-vacuum and vacuum-to-hadron correlators within the method of sum rules is considered. The emphasis is laid on the crucial ingredient of this method - the effective continuum threshold. A new algorithm to fix this quantity is proposed and tested. First, a quantum-mechanical potential model

  34. Dharmendra Choukse, Umesh Kumar Singh, Deepak Sukheja, Rekha Shahapurkar

    Security of any software can be enhanced manifolds if multiple factors for authorization and authentication are used .The main aim of this work was to design and implement an Academy Automation Software for IPS Academy which uses OpenID and Windows CardSpace as Authentication Techniques in addition to Role Based Authentication (RBA) System to ensure that onl

  35. Li-Jun Tian, Yan-Ling Jin

    The reduced properties and applications of Yangian Y(sl(2)) and Y(su(3)) algebras are discussed. By taking a special constraint, the representation of Y(su(3)) can be divided into three 3 * 3 blocks diagonal based on Gell-mann matrices. The reduced Yangian Y(sl(2)) and Y(su(3)) are applied to the bi-qubit system and the mixed light pseudoscalar meson state r

  36. M. Barathi, S. Valli

    The existing information retrieval techniques do not consider the context of the keywords present in the user's queries. Therefore, the search engines sometimes do not provide sufficient information to the users. New methods based on the semantics of user keywords must be developed to search in the vast web space without incurring loss of information. Th

  37. Oded Farago

    We use scaling arguments and coarse grained Monte Carlo simulations to study the fluctuation mediated interactions between a pair of adhesion sites of a bilayer membrane and a supporting surface. We find that the potential of mean force is an infinitely long range attractive potential that grows logarithmically with the pair distance $r$: $ϕ(\vec{r})/k_BT=c\

  38. A. Jagadeesan, K. Duraiswamy

    Human users have a tough time remembering long cryptographic keys. Hence, researchers, for so long, have been examining ways to utilize biometric features of the user instead of a memorable password or passphrase, in an effort to generate strong and repeatable cryptographic keys. Our objective is to incorporate the volatility of the user's biometric feat

  39. Devpriya Soni, Namita Shrivastava, M. Kumar

    The direct measurement of quality is difficult because there is no way we can measure quality factors. For measuring these factors, we have to express them in terms of metrics or models. Researchers have developed quality models that attempt to measure quality in terms of attributes, characteristics and metrics. In this work we have proposed the methodology

  40. Rama N., Meenakshi Lakshmanan

    Poetry-writing in Sanskrit is riddled with problems for even those who know the language well. This is so because the rules that govern Sanskrit prosody are numerous and stringent. We propose a computational algorithm that converts prose given as E-text into poetry in accordance with the metrical rules of Sanskrit prosody, simultaneously taking care to ensur

  41. Dragomir Z. Djokovic

    Let BS(m,n) denote the set of base sequences (A;B;C;D), with A and B of length m and C and D of length n. The base sequence conjecture (BSC) asserts that BS(n+1,n) exist (i.e., are non-empty) for all n. This is known to be true for n <= 36 and when n is a Golay number. We show that it is also true for n=37 and n=38. It is worth pointing out that BSC is stron

  42. Jonatan Lenells

    We solve a class of boundary value problems for the stationary axisymmetric Einstein equations corresponding to a disk of dust rotating uniformly around a central black hole. The solutions are given explicitly in terms of theta functions on a family of hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces of genus 4. In the absence of a disk, they reduce to the Kerr black hole. In

  43. M. Hjorth-Jensen, D. J. Dean, G. Hagen, S. Kvaal

    This article presents several challenges to nuclear many-body theory and our understanding of the stability of nuclear matte r. In order to achieve this, we present five different cases, starting with an idealized toy model. These cases expose problems that need to be understood in order to match recent advances in nuclear theory with current experimental pr

  44. Mihaela Pilca

    We give a representation theoretical proof of Branson&#39;s classification of minimal elliptic sums of generalized gradients. The original proof uses tools of harmonic analysis, which as powerful as they are, seem to be specific for the structure groups SO(n) and Spin(n). The different approach we propose is based on the relationship between ellipticity and

  45. Heidar Mamosian, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Mashalla Abbasi Dezfouli

    In recent years, predicting the user&#39;s next request in web navigation has received much attention. An information source to be used for dealing with such problem is the left information by the previous web users stored at the web access log on the web servers. Purposed systems for this problem work based on this idea that if a large number of web users r

  46. V. S. Meenakshi, G. Padmavathi

    Personal identification and authentication is very crucial in the current scenario. Biometrics plays an important role in this area. Biometric based authentication has proved superior compared to traditional password based authentication. Anyhow biometrics is permanent feature of a person and cannot be reissued when compromised as passwords. To over come thi

  47. Th. W. Kool

    In single crystals of SrTiO_3, a paramagnetic center, characterized by S = 3/2 and hyperfine interaction with an I = 5/2 nuclear spin has been observed in the temperature range 4.2K-77K by means of EPR. The impurity center is attributed to Mo3+. No additional line splitting in the EPR spectrum due to the 105K phase transition has been observed. At 4.2K the f

  48. E. Widmann

    Experiments with low-energy antiprotons are currently performed at the Antiproton Decelerator of CERN. The main experiments deal with the spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium, an exotic three-body system, and the formation and spectroscopy of antihydrogen. A next generation facility FLAIR (Facility for Low-energy Antiproton Rsearch) is planned at the FAIR fac

  49. Troy Lee, Shengyu Zhang

    A well-studied class of functions in communication complexity are composed functions of the form $(f \comp g^n)(x,y)=f(g(x^1, y^1),..., g(x^n,y^n))$. This is a rich family of functions which encompasses many of the important examples in the literature. It is thus of great interest to understand what properties of $f$ and $g$ affect the communication complexi

  50. Shouxin Chen, Long Pei

    In this paper, we established the existence and uniqueness of the spherically symmetric monopole solutions in SO(5) gauge theory with Higgs scalar fields in the vector representation in six-dimensional Minkowski space-time and obtain sharp asymptotic estimates for the solutions. Our method is based on a dynamical shooting approach that depends on two shootin

  51. Robert A. Cameron

    We present the prospects for a future joint gamma-ray and radio survey of southern hemisphere sources using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the upcoming Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. ASKAP is a next generation radio telescope designed to perform surveys at GHz frequencies at a much higher survey speed than pre

  52. Xucheng Wang, Huadong Cheng, Ling Xiao, Yanling Meng

    In this paper, we present an experiment to measure the spatial distribution of cold atoms in a ceramic integrating sphere. An quadrupole field is applied after the atoms are cooled by diffuse light produced in the ceramic integrating sphere, thus the shift of atomic magnetic sub-levels are position-dependent. We move the anti-Helmholtz coil horizontally whil

  53. Zhenbin Luo

    This paper gives a new definition of the Contou-Carrere symbol in terms of an exponential of a Chen iterated integral and proves the corresponding reciprocity law.

  54. Ryoji Kawabata, Shin Mineshige

    To understand the origin of hard X-ray emissions from black hole X-ray binaries during their low/hard states, we calculate the X-ray spectra of black-hole accretion flow for the following three configurations of hot and cool media: (a) an inner hot flow and a cool outer disk (inner hot flow model), (b) a cool disk sandwiched by disk coronae (disk corona mode

  55. Yi Jin, Zongguo Si, Qubing Xie, Tao Yao

    We briefly review the hadronization pictures adopted in the LUND String Fragmentation Model(LSFM), Webber Cluster Fragmentation Model(WCFM) and Quark Combination Model(QCM), respectively. Predictions of hadron multiplicity, baryon to meson ratios and baryon-antibaryon flavor correlations, especially related to heavy hadrons at $Z^0$ factory obtained by LSFM

  56. Glencora Borradaile, James R. Lee, Anastasios Sidiropoulos

    Indyk and Sidiropoulos (2007) proved that any orientable graph of genus $g$ can be probabilistically embedded into a graph of genus $g-1$ with constant distortion. Viewing a graph of genus $g$ as embedded on the surface of a sphere with $g$ handles attached, Indyk and Sidiropoulos&#39; method gives an embedding into a distribution over planar graphs with dis

  57. F. S. M. Guimarães, A. T. Costa, R. B. Muniz, M. S. Ferreira

    We demonstrate with a fully quantum-mechanical approach that graphene can function as gate-controllable transistors for pumped spin currents, i.e., a stream of angular momentum induced by the precession of adjacent magnetizations, which exists in the absence of net charge currents. Furthermore, we propose as a proof of concept how these spin currents can be

  58. V. Knopova, R. L. Schilling

    We prove several necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of (smooth) transition probability densities for Lévy processes and isotropic Lévy processes. Under some mild conditions on the characteristic exponent we calculate the asymptotic behaviour of the transition density as $t\to 0$ and $t\to\infty$ and show a ratio-limit theorem.

  59. Piotr S. Zuchowski, Jeremy M. Hutson

    We investigate the energetics of reactions involving pairs of alkali metal dimers. Atom exchange reactions to form homonuclear dimers are energetically allowed for some but not all of the heteronuclear dimers. We carry out high-level electronic structure calculations on the potential energy surfaces of all the heteronuclear alkali metal trimers and show that

  60. Beniamino Cappelletti Montano

    We study almost bi-paracontact structures on contact manifolds. We prove that if an almost bi-paracontact structure is defined on a contact manifold $(M,η)$, then under some natural assumptions of integrability, $M$ carries two transverse bi-Legendrian structures. Conversely, if two transverse bi-Legendrian structures are defined on a contact manifold, then

  61. Seungyeon Kim, Guy Lebanon

    Unlike static documents, version controlled documents are continuously edited by one or more authors. Such collaborative revision process makes traditional modeling and visualization techniques inappropriate. In this paper we propose a new representation based on local space-time smoothing that captures important revision patterns. We demonstrate the applica

  62. S. I. Denisov, H. Kantz, P. Hänggi

    We extend the Langevin approach to a class of driving noises whose generating processes have independent increments with super-heavy-tailed distributions. The time-dependent generalized Fokker-Planck equation that corresponds to the first-order Langevin equation driven by such a noise is derived and solved exactly. This noise generates two probabilistic stat

  63. Ankit Gupta

    Cell polarity refers to the spatial asymmetry of molecules on the cell membrane. Altschuler, Angenent, Wang and Wu have proposed a stochastic model for studying the emergence of polarity in the presence of feedback between molecules. We analyze their model further by representing it as a model of an evolving population with interacting individuals. Under a s

  64. Marcos Rigol, Lea F. Santos

    We investigate the onset of thermalization and quantum chaos in finite one-dimensional gapped systems of hard-core bosons. Integrability in these systems is broken by next-nearest-neighbor repulsive interactions, which also generate a superfluid to insulator transition. By employing full exact diagonalization, we study chaos indicators and few-body observabl

  65. Jacques Bros, Henri Epstein, Ugo Moschella

    We provide a construction of a class of local and de Sitter covariant tachyonic quantum fields which exist for discrete negative values of the squared mass parameter and which have no Minkowskian counterpart. These quantum fields satisfy an anomalous non-homogeneous Klein-Gordon equation. The anomaly is a covariant field which can be used to select the physi

  66. Peter Burcsi, Attila Kovács, Antal Tátrai

    This paper presents a realization for the reliable and fast startup of distributed systems written in Erlang. The traditional startup provided by the Erlang/OTP library is sequential, parallelization usually requires unsafe and ad-hoc solutions. The proposed method calls only for slight modifications in the Erlang/OTP stdlib by applying a system dependency g

  67. The CALICE collaboration

    We present an overview of the CALICE activities on calorimeter development for a future linear collider. We report on test beam analysis results, the status of prototype development and future plans.

  68. Stefan Adams, Andrea Collevecchio, Wolfgang König

    We consider $N$ bosons in a box in $\mathbb {R}^d$ with volume $N/ρ$ under the influence of a mutually repellent pair potential. The particle density $ρ\in (0,\infty)$ is kept fixed. Our main result is the identification of the limiting free energy, $f(β,ρ)$, at positive temperature $1/β$, in terms of an explicit variational formula, for any fixed $ρ$ if $β$

  69. Marco Squassina

    We provide a simple proof of the radial symmetry of any nonnegative minimizer for a general class of quasi-linear minimization problems.

  70. Shigetaka Fukuda

    If the log canonical divisor on a projective variety with only Kawamata log terminal singularities is numerically equivalent to some semi-ample $\mathbf{Q}$-divisor, then it is semi-ample.

  71. Jyoti Prasad Saha, Basudha Misra, Anirban Kundu

    Upper bounds at the weak scale are obtained for all $λ_{ij}λ_{im}$ type product couplings of the scalar leptoquark model which may affect K-K(bar), B_d-B_d(bar), and B_s-B_s(bar)$ mixing, as well as leptonic and semileptonic K and B decays. Constraints are obtained for both real and imaginary parts of the couplings. We also discuss the role of leptoquarks in

  72. E. S. Skordas, N. V. Sarlis, P. A. Varotsos

    Electric field variations that appear before rupture have been recently studied by employing the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) as a scaling method to quantify long-range temporal correlations. These studies revealed that seismic electric signals (SES) activities exhibit a scale invariant feature with an exponent $α_{DFA} \approx 1$ over all scales inv

  73. Pablo Gonzalez, Eleftherios Papantonopoulos, Joel Saavedra

    We study the Chern-Simons black holes in d-dimensions and we calculate analytically the quasi-normal modes of the scalar perturbations and we show that they depend on the highest power of curvature present in the Chern-Simons theory. We obtain the mass and area spectrum of these black holes and we show that they have a strong dependence on the topology of th

  74. Manuel Hohmann, Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

    We construct a multimetric gravity theory containing N >= 3 copies of standard model matter and a corresponding number of metrics. In the Newtonian limit, this theory generates attractive gravitational forces within each matter sector, and repulsive forces of the same strength between matter from different sectors. This result demonstrates that the recently

  75. A. N. Gorban, P. A. Gorban, G. Judge

    The focus of this article is on entropy and Markov processes. We study the properties of functionals which are invariant with respect to monotonic transformations and analyze two invariant &#34;additivity&#34; properties: (i) existence of a monotonic transformation which makes the functional additive with respect to the joining of independent systems and (ii

  76. M. Montuori, P. Di Matteo, M. D. Lehnert, F. Combes

    Strong inflows of gas from the outer disk to the inner kiloparsecs are induced during the interaction of disk galaxies. This inflow of relatively low-metallicity gas dilutes the metallicity of the circumnuclear gas. We have investigated several aspects of the process as the timing and duration of the dilution and its correlation with the induced star formati

  77. Tirthankar Dutta, S. Ramasesha

    We present a generalized adaptive time-dependent density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) scheme, called the {\it double time window targeting} (DTWT) technique, which gives accurate results with nominal computational resources, within reasonable computational time. This procedure originates from the amalgamation of the features of pace keeping DMRG algor

  78. D. Guerin, S. Lenfant, S. Godey, D. Vuillaume

    We report the synthesis and the electrical properties of fullerene-based molecular junctions on silicon substrate in which the highly π-conjugated molecule C60 (πquantum well) is isolated from the electrodes by alkyl chains (σtunnel barriers). Initially, the Si/SiO2/\sigmaC60 architecture was prepared either by sequential synthesis (3 different routes) or by

  79. Y. Ita, M. Matsuura, D. Ishihara, S. Oyabu

    Results: We found that the (B-V) v.s. (V-S9W) color-color diagram is useful to identify the stars with infrared excess emerged from circumstellar envelopes/disks. Be stars with infrared excess are well separated from other types of stars in this diagram. Whereas (J-L18W) v.s. (S9W-L18W) diagram is a powerful tool to classify several object-types. Carbon-rich

  80. Oliver J. Rosten

    Various aspects of the Exact Renormalization Group (ERG) are explored, starting with a review of the concepts underpinning the framework and the circumstances under which it is expected to be useful. A particular emphasis is placed on the intuitive picture provided for both renormalization in quantum field theory and universality associated with second order

  81. A. L. Kuzemsky

    The development and applications of the method of quasiaverages developed by N. N. Bogoliubov to quantum statistical physics and to quantum solid state theory and, in particular, to quantum theory of magnetism, were analyzed. The problem of finding the ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic and superconducting symmetry broken solutions of the correlated lattice fe

  82. Kilian Raschel

    The aim of this article is to introduce a unified method to obtain explicit integral representations of the trivariate generating function counting the walks with small steps which are confined to a quarter plane. For many models, this yields for the first time an explicit expression of the counting generating function. Moreover, the nature of the integrand

  83. Y. Maezawa, S. Aoki, S. Ejiri, T. Hatsuda

    Screenings of the quark-gluon plasma in electric and magnetic sectors are studied on the basis of generalized Polyakov-line correlation functions in lattice QCD simulations with two flavors of improved Wilson quarks. Using the Euclidean-time reflection ($\R$) and the charge conjugation ($\Ca$), electric and magnetic screening masses are extracted in a gauge

  84. Zoltan Ligeti, Michael Luke, Aneesh V. Manohar

    The recently measured semileptonic D_s decay rate can be used to constrain weak annihilation (WA) effects in semileptonic D and B decays. We revisit the theoretical predictions for inclusive semileptonic D_{(s)} decays using a variety of quark mass schemes. The most reliable results are obtained if the fits to B decay distributions are used to eliminate the

  85. Yanhui Bi, Yunhe Sheng

    In this paper, we study the algebraic properties of the higher analogues of Courant algebroid structures on the direct sum bundle $TM\oplus\wedge^nT^*M$ for an $m$-dimensional manifold. As an application, we revisit Nambu-Poisson structures and multisymplectic structures. We prove that the graph of an $(n+1)$-vector field $π$ is closed under the higher-order

  86. Yunhe Sheng, Chenchang Zhu

    The semidirect product of a Lie algebra and a 2-term representation up to homotopy is a Lie 2-algebra. Such Lie 2-algebras include many examples arising from the Courant algebroid appearing in generalized complex geometry. In this paper, we integrate such a Lie 2-algebra to a strict Lie 2-group in the finite dimensional case.

  87. Yasuhiro Sekino, Stephen Shenker, Leonard Susskind

    Eternal inflation is a term that describes a number of different phenomena which have been classified by Winitzki. According to Winitzki&#39;s classification these phases can be characterized by the topology of the percolating structures in the inflating, &#34;white,&#34; region. In this paper we discuss these phases, the transitions between them, and the wa

  88. N. Sparks, V. Crede, A. V. Anisovich, J. C. S. Bacelar

    Photoproduction of neutral pions has been studied with the CBELSA/TAPS detector for photon energies between 0.92 and 1.68~GeV at the electron accelerator ELSA. The beam asymmetry~$Σ$ has been extracted for $115^\circ < θ_{\rm c.m.} < 155^\circ$ of the $π^0$~meson and for $θ_{\rm c.m.} < 60^\circ$. The new beam asymmetry data improve the world database for ph

  89. Daniel T. Cassidy, Michael J. Hamp, Rachid Ouyed

    European options can be priced when returns follow a Student&#39;s t-distribution, provided that the asset is capped in value or the distribution is truncated. We call pricing of options using a log Student&#39;s t-distribution a Gosset approach, in honour of W.S. Gosset. In this paper, we compare the greeks for Gosset and Black-Scholes formulae and we discu

  90. Thomas Nikolaus

    We introduce the notion of algebraic fibrant objects in a general model category and establish a (combinatorial) model category structure on algebraic fibrant objects. Based on this construction we propose algebraic Kan complexes as an algebraic model for oo-groupoids and algebraic quasi-categories as an algebraic model for (oo,1)-categories. We furthermore

  91. S. C. O. Glover, M. -M. Mac Low

    The most usual tracer of molecular gas is line emission from CO. However, the reliability of that tracer has long been questioned in environments different from the Milky Way. We study the relationship between H2 and CO abundances using a fully dynamical model of magnetized turbulence coupled to a chemical network simplified to follow only the dominant pathw

  92. O. Ozan Koyluoglu, Hesham El Gamal

    Wyner&#39;s work on wiretap channels and the recent works on information theoretic security are based on random codes. Achieving information theoretical security with practical coding schemes is of definite interest. In this note, the attempt is to overcome this elusive task by employing the polar coding technique of Arıkan. It is shown that polar codes achi

  93. Raymond T. Hoobler

    Let $A$ be a ring equipped with a derivation $δ$. We study differential Azumaya $A$ algebras, that is, Azumaya $A$ algebras equipped with a derivation that extends $δ$. We calculate the differential automorphism group of the trivial differential algebra, $M_{n}(A)$ with coordinatewise differentiation. We introduce the $δ$-flat Grothendieck topology to show t

  94. Daniel D. Kelson, Bradford P. Holden

    Modern population synthesis models estimate that 50% of the restframe K-band light is produced by TP-AGB stars during the first Gyr of a stellar population, with a substantial fraction continuing to be produced by the TP-AGB over a Hubble time. Between 0.2 and 1.5 Gyr, intermediate mass stars evolve into TP-AGB C stars which, due to significant amounts of ci

  95. Beniamino Cappelletti Montano, Luigia di Terlizzi

    We prove that any contact metric $(κ,μ)$-space $(M,ξ,ϕ,η,g)$ admits a canonical paracontact metric structure which is compatible with the contact form $η$. We study such canonical paracontact structure, proving that it verifies a nullity condition and induces on the underlying contact manifold $(M,η)$ a sequence of compatible contact and paracontact metric s

  96. Philippos K. Tsourkas, Subhadip Raychaudhuri

    B cells signaling in response to antigen is proportional to antigen affinity, a process known as affinity discrimination. Recent research suggests that B cells can acquire antigen in membrane-bound form on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APCs), with signaling being initiated within a few seconds of B cell/APC contact. During the earliest stages of B

  97. Soumen Mandal

    I have successfully prepared (110) trilayers of \LSMO-\YBCO-\LSMO. Magnetization measurements on these samples reveal a stronger coupling between the ferromagnetic layers. The coupling is an order of magnitude higher than that seen in the case of (001) trilayers. Magnetoresistance measurements show a first order transition in the data coinciding with the ant

  98. S. Tsygankov, E. Churazov

    We present the results of a systematic search for outbursts in the narrow positron annihilation line on various time scales (5x10^4 - 10^6 s) based on the SPI/INTEGRAL data obtained from 2003 to 2008. We show that no outbursts were detected with a statistical significance higher than ~6 sigma for any of the time scales considered over the entire period of ob

  99. Valmir C. Barbosa

    We introduce the notion of a network&#39;s conduciveness, a probabilistically interpretable measure of how the network&#39;s structure allows it to be conducive to roaming agents, in certain conditions, from one portion of the network to another. We exemplify its use through an application to the two problems in combinatorial optimization that, given an undi

  100. Alexei B. Ryabov, Lars Rudolf, Bernd Blasius

    The vertical distribution of phytoplankton is of fundamental importance for the dynamics and structure of aquatic communities. Here, using an advection-reaction-diffusion model, we investigate the distribution and competition of phytoplankton species in a water column, in which inverse resource gradients of light and a nutrient can limit growth of the biomas