April 2010 arXiv papers — page 29

Stefan Wenger

We prove super-quadratic lower bounds for the growth of the filling area function of a certain class of Carnot groups. This class contains groups for which it is known that their Dehn function grows no faster than $n^2\log n$. We therefore obtain the existence of (finitely generated) nilpotent groups whose Dehn functions do not have exactly polynomial growth

Niayesh Afshordi

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes gravity as the interaction of particles with space-time geometry, as opposed to interacting with a physical fluid, as in the old gravitational aether theories. Moreover, any theoretical physicist would tell you that, despite its counter-intuitive structure, general relativity is one of the simplest, most

Katja Schäfer, M. A. Novotny

We consider any dynamical system that starts from a given ensemble of configurations and evolves in time until the system reaches a certain fixed stopping criterion, with the mean first-passage time the quantity of interest. We present a general method, Projective Dynamics, which maps the multi-dimensional dynamics of the system onto an arbitrary discrete se

Alessandro Patti, Djamel El Masri, René van Roij, Marjolein Dijkstra

We study the layer-to-layer diffusion in smectic-A liquid crystals of colloidal hard rods with different length-to-diameter ratios using computer simulations. The layered arrangement of the smectic phase yields a hopping-type diffusion due to the presence of permanent barriers and transient cages. Remarkably, we detect stringlike clusters composed of inter-l

Boris Botvinnik, Ib Madsen

We study the moduli and determine a homotopy type of the space of all generalized Morse functions on d-manifolds for given d. This moduli space is closely connected to the moduli space of all Morse functions studied in the paper math.AT/0212321, and the classifying space of the corresponding cobordism category.

F. Myhrer

Heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory is applied to one- and two nucleon processes.

Adam Kasperski, Pawel Zielinski

In this paper the minimum spanning tree problem with uncertain edge costs is discussed. In order to model the uncertainty a discrete scenario set is specified and a robust framework is adopted to choose a solution. The min-max, min-max regret and 2-stage min-max versions of the problem are discussed. The complexity and approximability of all these problems a

Cyrus Faroughy, Edward Shuryak

Electric flux tubes are a well known attribute of the QCD vacuum in which they manifest confinement of electric color charges. Recently, experimental results have appeared suggesting that not only those objects persist at temperatures $T\approx T_c$ near the QCD phase transitions, but their decay is suppressed and the resulting clusters in AuAu collisions ar

Neil A. Ernst, Steve Easterbrook, John Mylopoulos

To fork a project is to copy the existing code base and move in a direction different than that of the erstwhile project leadership. Forking provides a rapid way to address new requirements by adapting an existing solution. However, it can also create a plethora of similar tools, and fragment the developer community. Hence, it is not always clear whether for

S. E. Pollack, D. Dries, R. G. Hulet, K. M. F. Magalhaes

We excite the lowest-lying quadrupole mode of a Bose-Einstein condensate by modulating the atomic scattering length via a Feshbach resonance. Excitation occurs at various modulation frequencies, and resonances located at the natural quadrupole frequency of the condensate and at the first harmonic are observed. We also investigate the amplitude of the excited

Daniela Villegas, Andres Jordan, Eric W. Peng, John P. Blakeslee

We use a highly homogeneous set of data from 132 early-type galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax clusters in order to study the properties of the globular cluster luminosity function (GCLF). The globular cluster system of each galaxy was studied using a maximum likelihood approach to model the intrinsic GCLF after accounting for contamination and completeness ef

C. Palazuelos, D. Perez-Garcia, I. Villanueva

The discrepancy method is widely used to find lower bounds for communication complexity of XOR games. It is well known that these bounds can be far from optimal. In this context Disjointness is usually mentioned as a case where the method fails to give good bounds, because the increment of the value of the game is linear (rather than exponential) in the numb

W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, N. Suresh Babu, R. S. Selvaraj

This book has four chapters. In chapter one we just recall the notion of RD codes, MRD codes, circulant rank codes and constant rank codes and describe their properties. In chapter two we introduce few new classes of codes and study some of their properties. In this chapter we introduce the notion of fuzzy RD codes and fuzzy RD bicodes. Rank distance m-codes

Nicola Di Mauro, Teresa M. A. Basile, Stefano Ferilli, Floriana Esposito

The coalition structure formation problem represents an active research area in multi-agent systems. A coalition structure is defined as a partition of the agents involved in a system into disjoint coalitions. The problem of finding the optimal coalition structure is NP-complete. In order to find the optimal solution in a combinatorial optimization problem i

Yanpeng Yao, Huaxiang Fu

First-principles density functional calculations are performed to investigate the interplay between inplane strains and interface effects in 1by1 PbTiO3/SrTiO3 and BaTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices of tetragonal symmetry. One particular emphasis of this study is to conduct side-by-side comparisons on various ferroelectric properties in short-period superlattices a

Tomás R. Rodríguez, J. Luis Egido

We present the first implementation in the $(β,γ)$ plane of the generator coordinate method with full triaxial angular momentum and particle number projected wave functions using the Gogny force. Technical details about the performance of the method and the convergence of the results both in the symmetry restoration and the configuration mixing parts are dis

Marcello M. Bersani, Luca Cavallaro, Achille Frigeri, Matteo Pradella

An important problem that arises during the execution of service-based applications concerns the ability to determine whether a running service can be substituted with one with a different interface, for example if the former is no longer available. Standard Bounded Model Checking techniques can be used to perform this check, but they must be able to provide

Konrad P. Schöbel

We use an isomorphism between the space of valence two Killing tensors on an n-dimensional constant sectional curvature manifold and the irreducible GL(n+1)-representation space of algebraic curvature tensors in order to translate the Nijenhuis integrability conditions for a Killing tensor into purely algebraic integrability conditions for the corresponding

Heidar Th. Thrastarson, James Y-K. Cho

We use a general circulation model to study the three-dimensional (3-D) flow and temperature distributions of atmospheres on tidally synchronized extrasolar planets. In this work, we focus on the sensitivity of the evolution to the initial flow state, which has not received much attention in 3-D modeling studies. We find that different initial states lead to

D. Salabert, R. A. Garcia, P. L. Palle, S. J. Jimenez-Reyes

We present an analysis of the variability of the solar oscillation spectrum during solar cycle 23 and its extended minimum. We use simultaneous observations of the low-degree solar p modes collected by the space-based, Sun-as-a-star GOLF (radial velocity) and VIRGO (intensity) instruments, and by the ground-based, multi-site network GONG. We investigate in p

V. G. Gurzadyan, V. Bellini, M. Beretta, J. -P. Bocquet

When the electrons stored in the ring of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble) scatter on a laser beam (Compton scattering in flight) the lower energy of the scattered electron spectra, the Compton Edge (CE), is given by the two body photon-electron relativistic kinematics and depends on the velocity of light. A precision measurement o

Xavier Cabre, Eleonora Cinti

We establish sharp energy estimates for some solutions, such as global minimizers, monotone solutions and saddle-shaped solutions, of the fractional nonlinear equation $(-Δ)^{1/2} u=f(u)$ in $\re^n$. Our energy estimates hold for every nonlinearity $f$ and are sharp since they are optimal for one-dimensional solutions, that is, for solutions depending only o

Yadong Li, Ziyu Zheng

We propose a top-down model for cash CLO. This model can consistently price cash CLO tranches both within the same deal and across different deals. Meaningful risk measures for cash CLO tranches can also be defined and computed. This method is self-consistent, easy to implement and computationally efficient. It has the potential to bring the much needed pric

C. Martin-Zaidi, J-. C. Augereau, F. Menard, J. Olofsson

Mid-IR emission lines of H2 are useful probes to determine the mass of warm gas present in the surface layers of disks. Numerous observations of Herbig Ae/Be stars (HAeBes) have been performed, but only 2 detections of mid-IR H2 toward HD97048 and AB Aur have been reported. We aim at tracing the warm gas in the disks of 5 HAeBes with gas-rich environments an

Yousof Al-Hammadi, Uwe Aickelin

In the past few years, IRC bots, malicious programs which are remotely controlled by the attacker through IRC servers, have become a major threat to the Internet and users. These bots can be used in different malicious ways such as issuing distributed denial of services attacks to shutdown other networks and services, keystrokes logging, spamming, traffic sn

Paolo Gambino, Thomas Mannel, Nikolai Uraltsev

We examine the B -> D* form factor at zero recoil using a continuum QCD approach rooted in the heavy quark sum rules framework. A refined evaluation of the radiative corrections as well as the most recent estimates of higher order power terms together with more careful continuum calculation are included. An upper bound on the form factor of F(1)< 0.93 is der

L. M. Cairos, N. Caon, C. Zurita, C. Kehrig

(Abridged) We perform integral field spectroscopy of a sample of Blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies with the aim of analyzing their morphology, the spatial distribution of some of their physical properties (excitation, extinction, and electron density) and their relationship with the distribution and evolutionary state of the stellar populations. Integral fie

LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, F. Tavecchio, M. Sikora

We present the results from the Suzaku X-ray observations of five flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), namely PKS0208-512, Q0827+243, PKS1127-145, PKS1510-089 and 3C 454.3. All these sources were additionally monitored simultaneously or quasi-simultaneously by the Fermi satellite in gamma-rays and the Swift UVOT in the UV and optical bands, respectively. We

Sung-Hong Park, Jeongwoo Lee, Gwang-Son Choe, Jongchul Chae

We have investigated the variation of magnetic helicity over a span of several days around the times of 11 X-class flares which occurred in seven active regions (NOAA 9672, 10030, 10314, 10486, 10564, 10696, and 10720) using the magnetograms taken by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). As a major result

Jamie Twycross, Uwe Aickelin

In a previous paper the authors argued the case for incorporating ideas from innate immunity into artificial immune systems (AISs) and presented an outline for a conceptual framework for such systems. A number of key general properties observed in the biological innate and adaptive immune systems were highlighted, and how such properties might be instantiate

S. Saesen, A. Pigulski, F. Carrier, G. Michalska

As a result of the variability survey in Chi Persei and NGC6910, the number of Beta Cep stars that are members of these two open clusters is increased to twenty stars, nine in NGC6910 and eleven in Chi Persei. We compare pulsational properties, in particular the frequency spectra, of Beta Cep stars in both clusters and explain the differences in terms of the

A. Liebsch, H. Ishida

The effect of local Coulomb interactions on the electronic properties of FeSe is explored within dynamical mean field theory combined with finite-temperature exact diagonalization. The low-energy scattering rate is shown to exhibit non-Fermi-liquid behavior caused by the formation of local moments. Fermi-liquid properties are restored at large electron dopin

Alexandre T. Baraviera, Renaud Leplaideur, Artur O. Lopes

For the subshift of finite type $§=\{0,1,2\}^{\N}$ we study the convergence at temperature zero of the Gibbs measure associated to a non-locally constant Hölder potential which admits only two maximizing measures. These measures are Dirac measures at two different fixed points. The potential is flattest at one of these two fixed points. The question we are i

Duncan Forgan, Ken Rice

An algorithm for creating synthetic telescope images of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) density fields is presented, which utilises the adaptive nature of the SPH formalism in full. The imaging process uses Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer (MCRT) methods to model the scattering and absorption of photon packets in the density field, which then exit the sy

E. Kandelaki, A. F. Volkov, K. B. Efetov, V. T. Petrashov

We study the variation of the differential conductance $G=dj/dV$ of a normal metal wire in a Superconductor/Normal metal heterostructure with a cross geometry under external microwave radiation applied to the superconducting parts. Our theoretical treatment is based on the quasiclassical Green&#39;s functions technique in the diffusive limit. Two limiting ca

Bradley E. Schaefer, Ashley Pagnotta, Limin Xiao, Matthew J. Darnley

We report the discovery by B. G. Harris and S. Dvorak on JD 2455224.9385 (2010 Jan 28.4385 UT) of the predicted eruption of the recurrent nova U Scorpii (U Sco). We also report on 815 magnitudes (and 16 useful limits) on the pre-eruption light curve in the UBVRI and Sloan r&#39; and i&#39; bands from 2000.4 up to 9 hours before the peak of the January 2010 e

Firas Hamze, Neil Dickson, Kamran Karimi

This paper describes an algorithm for selecting parameter values (e.g. temperature values) at which to measure equilibrium properties with Parallel Tempering Monte Carlo simulation. Simple approaches to choosing parameter values can lead to poor equilibration of the simulation, especially for Ising spin systems that undergo $1^st$-order phase transitions. Ho

C. Poeschl, E. Resmerita, O. Scherzer

Consider a nonlinear ill-posed operator equation $F(u)=y$ where $F$ is defined on a Banach space $X$. In general, for solving this equation numerically, a finite dimensional approximation of $X$ and an approximation of $F$ are required. Moreover, in general the given data $\yd$ of $y$ are noisy. In this paper we analyze finite dimensional variational regular

Yuji Hasegawa, Katharina Durstberger-Rennhofer, Stephan Sponar, Helmut Rauch

The Kochen-Specker theorem theoretically shows evidence of the incompatibility of noncontextual hidden variable theories with quantum mechanics. Quantum contextuality is a more general concept than quantum non-locality which is quite well tested in experiments by using Bell inequalities. Within neutron interferometry we performed an experimental test of the

Ai-Ping Luo, Zhi-Chao Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu

A tunable and switchable multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber ring laser based on a new type tunable comb filter is proposed and demonstrated. By adjusting the polarization controllers, dual-function operation of the channel spacing tunability and the wavelength switching (interleaving) can be readily achieved. Up to 29 stable lasing lines with 0.4 nm spacing

Ana-Maria Florescu, Marc Joyeux

It has long been asserted that proteins like transcription factors may locate their target in DNA sequences at rates that surpass by several orders of magnitude the three-dimensional diffusion limit thank to facilitated diffusion, that is the combination of one-dimensional (sliding along the DNA) and three-dimensional diffusion. This claim has been supported

L. Martina, G. Ruggeri, G. Soliani

Our goal is to clarify the relation between entanglement and correlation energy in a bipartite system with infinite dimensional Hilbert space. To this aim we consider the completely solvable Moshinsky&#39;s model of two linearly coupled harmonic oscillators. Also for small values of the couplings the entanglement of the ground state is nonlinearly related to

Yue-Ling Yang, Jun-Feng Sun, Na Wang

In the framework of the perturbative QCD approach, we study the charmless pure weak annihilation Bc->KK decay and find that the branching ratio BR(Bc->KK) O(10^-7). This prediction is so tiny that the Bc->KK decay might be unmeasurable at the Large Hadron Collider.

Shigeru Koikegami, Takashi Yanagisawa

We study the superconductivity in the three-dimensional multiband d-p model, in which a Cu$_2$O$_3$-ladder layer and a CuO$_2$-chain layer are alternately stacked, as a model of the superconducting spin-chain ladder cuprate. $p_z$-Wave-like triplet superconductivity is found to be the most stable, and its dependence on interlayer coupling can explain the sup

David Zwicker, David K. Lubensky, Pieter Rein ten Wolde

The cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus uses both a protein phosphorylation cycle and a transcription-translation cycle to generate circadian rhythms that are highly robust against biochemical noise. We use stochastic simulations to analyze how these cycles interact to generate stable rhythms in growing, dividing cells. We find that a protein phosphorylat

Selene Sanchez-Flores

We show that the Hochschild cohomology of a monomial algebra over a field of characteristic zero vanishes from degree two if the first Hochschild cohomology is semisimple as a Lie algebra. We also prove that first Hochschild cohomology of a radical square zero algebra is reductive as a Lie algebra. In the case of the multiple loops quiver, we obtain the Lie

Nicolas Bouleau

We give a extensive account of a recent new way of applying the Dirichlet form theory to random Poisson measures. The main application is to obtain existence of density for thelaws of random functionals of Lévy processes or solutions of stochastic differential equations with jumps. As in the Wiener case the Dirichlet form approach weakens significantly there

G. De Filippis, V. Cataudella, R. Citro, C. A. Perroni

We investigate the interplay between strong electron correlations and charge-lattice interaction in cuprates. The coupling between half breathing bond stretching phonons and doped holes in the t-t&#39;-J model is studied by limited phonon basis exact diagonalization method. Nonadiabatic electron-phonon interaction leads to the splitting of the phonon spectra

Francesco Sala, Pietro Tortella

We give a `geometrical&#39; construction of an action of a Heisenberg algebra on the homology of the moduli spaces of torsion free sheaves on a complex smooth connected projective surface, framed along a smooth connected genus zero curve. This result generalizes Nakajima&#39;s construction for the Hilbert schemes of points.

A. I. Signal

I review progress in calculating strange quark and antiquark distributions of the nucleon using the meson cloud model. This progress parallels that of the meson cloud model, which is now a useful theoretical basis for understanding symmetry breaking in nucleon parton distribution functions. I examine the breaking of symmetries involving strange quarks and an

Kurt Stokbro, Dan Erik Petersen, Søren Smidstrup, Anders Blom

We present a new semi-empirical model for calculating electron transport in atomic-scale devices. The model is an extension of the Extended Hückel method with a self-consistent Hartree potential. This potential models the effect of an external bias and corresponding charge re-arrangements in the device. It is also possible to include the effect of external g

Valentin Vankov Iliev

In arXiv:0910.1727 we find certain finite homomorphic images of Artin braid group into appropriate symmetric groups, which a posteriori are extensions of the symmetric group on n letters by an abelian group. The main theorem of this paper characterizes completely the extensions of this type that are split.

Franck Cassez, Stavros Tripakis

In this paper, we review some recent results about the use of dynamic observers for fault diagnosis of discrete event systems. Fault diagnosis consists in synthesizing a diagnoser that observes a given plant and identifies faults in the plant as soon as possible after their occurrence. Existing literature on this problem has considered the case of fixed stat

Thomas Franosch, Felix Höfling, Teresa Bauer, Erwin Frey

We show that for particles performing Brownian motion in a frozen array of scatterers long-time correlations emerge in the mean-square displacement. Defining the velocity autocorrelation function (VACF) via the second time-derivative of the mean-square displacement, power-law tails govern the long-time dynamics similar to the case of ballistic motion. The ph

Isamiddin S. Rakhimov, Munther A. Hassan

The paper concerns the classification problem of a subclass of complex filiform Leibniz algebras in dimensions 7 and 8. This subclass arises from naturally graded filiform Lie algebras. We give a complete list of isomorphism classes of algebras including Lie case. In parametric families cases, the corresponding orbit functions (invariants) are given. In disc

Roberto Valentino Montaquila

One of the longstanding problems of modern gravitational physics is the detection of gravitational waves, for which the standard theoretical analysis relies upon the split of the space-time metric into a background metric plus perturbation. However, as is well known, the background need not be Minkowskian in several cases of physical interest. Thus, we here

R. Karuppusamy, B. W. Stappers, W. van Straten

The Crab pulsar is well-known for its anomalous giant radio pulse emission. Past studies have concentrated only on the very bright pulses or were insensitive to the faint end of the giant pulse luminosity distribution. With our new instrumentation offering a large bandwidth and high time resolution combined with the narrow radio beam of the Westerbork Synthe

Carl H. Albright, Alexander Dueck, Werner Rodejohann

Possible alternatives to tri-bimaximal mixing are presented based on other symmetry principles, and their predictions for |U_{e3}|, sin^2 theta_{12} and sin^2 theta_{23} are compared to the present neutrino mixing data. In some cases perturbations are required to give better agreement with the data, and the use of a minimal approach is illustrated. Precise e

V. Bozza

Microlensing light curves are typically computed either by ray-shooting maps or by contour integration via Green&#39;s theorem. We present an improved version of the second method that includes a parabolic correction in Green&#39;s line integral. In addition, we present an accurate analytical estimate of the residual errors, which allows the implementation o

Thomas Scherngell, Michael Barber

The focus of this study is on cross-region R&D collaboration networks in the EU Framework Programmes (FP&#39;s). In contrast to most other empirical studies in this field, we shift attention to regions as units of analysis, i.e. we use aggregated data on research collaborations at the regional level. The objective is to identify determinants of cross-region

Jordi Casanova, Jordi Jose, Enrique Garcia-Berro, Alan Calder

Classical novae are powered by thermonuclear runaways that occur on the white dwarf component of close binary systems. During these violent stellar events, whose energy release is only exceeded by gamma-ray bursts and supernova explosions, about 10-4 10-5 Msun of material is ejected into the interstellar medium. Because of the high peak temperatures attained

L. Valdivielso, P. Esparza, E. Martín

High-resolution spectroscopy in the near-infrared could become the leading method for discovering extra-solar planets around very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. To help to achieve an accuracy of ~m/s, we are developing a gas cell which consists of a mixture of gases whose absorption spectral lines span all over the near-infrared region. We present the most

Simone Dall&#39;Osso, Giulia Stratta, Dafne Guetta, Stefano Covino

We investigate a model for the shallow decay phases of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) afterglows discovered by Swift/XRT in the first hours following a GRB event. In the context of the fireball scenario, we consider the possibility that long-lived energy injection from a millisecond spinning, ultramagnetic neutron star (magnetar) powers afterglow emission during this

Cyrille Zbinden

Several experimental studies show the existence of leader neurons in population bursts of 2D living neural networks. A leader neuron is, basically, a neuron which fires at the beginning of a burst (respectively network spike) more often that we expect by looking at its whole mean neural activity. This means that leader neurons have some burst triggering powe

Volodymyr Derzhko, Janusz Jedrzejewski

We make an attempt at unveiling the thermodynamic &#34;signature&#34; of a specific class of electronic systems, the so called nearly-flat-band paramagnets and ferromagnets that can theoretically be described by appropriate versions of the Hubbard model.

S. Andreon

[Abridged] The analysis of a sample of 52 clusters with precise and hypothesis-parsimonious measurements of mass shows that low mass clusters and groups are not simple scaled-down versions of their massive cousins in terms of stellar content: lighter clusters have more stars per unit cluster mass. The same analysis also shows that the stellar content of clus

Ekaterina Poutrina, Da Huang, David R. Smith

We analyze the properties of a nonlinear metamaterial formed by integrating nonlinear components or materials into the capacitive regions of metamaterial elements. A straightforward homogenization procedure leads to general expressions for the nonlinear susceptibilities of the composite metamaterial medium. The expressions are convenient, as they enable inho

Falko Ziebert, David Lacoste

The behavior of a non-conductive quasi-planar lipid membrane in an electrolyte and in a static (DC) electric field is investigated theoretically in the nonlinear (Poisson-Boltzmann) regime. Electrostatic effects due to charges in the membrane lipids and in the double layers lead to corrections to the membrane elastic moduli which are analyzed here. We show t

Thibaut Balabonski, Emmanuel Haucourt

This paper proposes a geometric solution to the problem of prime decomposability of concurrent processes first explored by R. Milner and F. Moller in [MM93]. Concurrent programs are given a geometric semantics using cubical areas, for which a unique factorization theorem is proved. An effective factorization method which is correct and complete with respect

Nobuyoshi Ohta, Takashi Torii

We study global structures of black hole solutions in Einstein gravity with Gauss-Bonnet term coupled to dilaton in various dimensions. In particular we focus on the problem whether the singularity is weakened due to the Gauss-Bonnet term and dilaton. We find that there appears the non-central singularity between horizon and the center in many cases, where t

S. B. Pu, R. P. Saglia, M. H. Fabricius, J. Thomas

We present high quality long slit spectra along the major and minor axes out to 1.5-2 Re (14-22 kpc) of three bright elliptical galaxies (NGC1600, NGC4125, NGC7619) obtained at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). We derive stellar kinematic profiles and Lick/IDS indices (Hbeta, Mgb, Fe5015, Fe5270, Fe5335, Fe5406). Moreover, for NGC4125 we derive gas kinematic

Paschalis Karageorgis, P. J. McKenna

Focusing on the fourth-order wave equation $u_{tt} + Δ^2 u + f(u)= 0$, we prove the existence of ground state solutions $u=u(x+ct)$ for an optimal range of speeds $c\in\mathbb{R}^n$ and a variety of nonlinearities $f$.

Hong Li, Jun-Qing Xia

In this paper, we combine the the latest observational data, including the WMAP five-year data (WMAP5), the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and type Ia supernovae (SN) &#34;union&#34; compilation, and use the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to determine the dark energy parameters. We pay particular attention to the Integrated Sache-Wolfe (ISW) data from t

Long Shi, Wei Zhang, Xiang-Gen Xia

In this paper, we propose a systematic design of space-time block codes (STBC) which can achieve high rate and full diversity when the partial interference cancellation (PIC) group decoding is used at receivers. The proposed codes can be applied to any number of transmit antennas and admit a low decoding complexity while achieving full diversity. For M trans

Nobue Shimada, Masahiro Hoshino, Takanobu Amano

A new rapid energization process within a supernova shock transition region (STR) is reported by utilizing numerical simulation. Although the scale of a STR as a main dissipation region is only several hundreds of thousands km, several interesting structures are found relating to generation of a root of the energetic particles. The nonlinear evolution of pla

J. Cleymans, G. I. Lykasov, A. N. Sissakian, A. S. Sorin

We suggest a duality between the statistical and standard (dynamical) distributions of partons in the nucleons. The temperature parameter entering into the statistical form for the quark distributions is estimated. It is found that this effective temperature is practically the same for the dependence on logitudinal and transverse momenta and, it is close to

Kenji Fukushima, Marco Ruggieri

We derive an electric current density $j_{em}$ in the presence of a magnetic field $B$ and a chiral chemical potential $μ_5$. We show that $j_{em}$ has not only the anomaly-induced term $\propto μ_5 B$ (i.e. Chiral Magnetic Effect) but also a non-anomalous correction which comes from interaction effects and expressed in terms of the susceptibility. We find t

Camille Laurent

In this article, we study the internal stabilization and control of the critical nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation on 3-D compact manifolds. Under a geometric assumption slightly stronger than the classical geometric control condition, we prove exponential decay for some solutions bounded in the energy space but small in a lower norm. The proof combines profil

E. M. Henley, W-Y. P. Hwang, L. S. Kisslinger

We present an extension of the QCD sum rule method in the external fields so as to determine the induced pseudoscalar coupling constant g_P, which tests the validity of the partially conserved axial current (PCAC) hypothesis. This is essentially that we pick out the &#34;higher-order&#34; effects of both the hadron and quark (QCD) sides. A specific QCD sum r

K. M. Schure, A. Achterberg, R. Keppens, Jacco Vink

We simulate time-dependent particle acceleration in the blast wave of a young supernova remnant (SNR), using a Monte Carlo approach for the diffusion and acceleration of the particles, coupled to an MHD code. We calculate the distribution function of the cosmic rays concurrently with the hydrodynamic evolution of the SNR, and compare the results with those o

M. Shcherbina

We study orthogonal and symplectic matrix models with polynomial potentials and multi interval supports of the equilibrium measure. For these models we find the bounds (similar to the case of hermitian matrix models) for the rate of convergence of linear eigenvalue statistics and for the variance of linear eigenvalue statistics and find the logarithms of par

Franck Cassez

In this paper we review algorithms for checking diagnosability of discrete-event systems and timed automata. We point out that the diagnosability problems in both cases reduce to the emptiness problem for (timed) Büchi automata. Moreover, it is known that, checking whether a discrete-event system is diagnosable, can also be reduced to checking bounded diagno

Koichi Saito

We extend the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model to incorporate chiral symmetry. The relationship between the QMC model and chiral perturbation theory is also discussed. The nuclear central potential is modified by the effect of internal structure of nucleon.

Manan Vyas

We analyze several ground state related properties of mesoscopic systems using the random interaction matrix model EGOE(1+2)-$\cs$ (or RIMM) for many fermion systems with spin degree of freedom and the Hamiltonian containing pairing and exchange interactions in addition to the mean-field one-body and random two-body parts. RIMM reproduces the essential featu

Chun-Lei He, Shou-Jun Huang

In this note, we first show that the solutions to Cauchy problems for two versions of relativistic string and membrane equations are diffeomorphic. Then we investigate the coordinates transformation presented in Ref. [9] (see (2.20) in Ref. [9]) which plays an important role in the study on the dynamics of the motion of string in Minkowski space. This kind o

Murali K. Srinivasan

We present yet another algebraic proof of the unimodality of the binomial coefficients.

Nobuhiko Yokoshi, Hiroshi Imamura, Hideo Kosaka

We propose a scheme for full Bell state measurement of spin qubits in a double quantum dot. Our scheme consists of Pauli spin-blockade measurements and biaxial electron-spin resonance. In order to eliminate the average of the Zeeman fields, the double quantum dot is designed so that the Landé g-factors of first and second dots satisfy g1=g2 with the use of g

De-Xing Kong, Kefeng Liu, Yu-Zhu Wang

In this paper we investigate the life-span of classical solutions to the hyperbolic geometric flow in two space variables with slow decay initial data. By establishing some new estimates on the solutions of linear wave equations in two space variables, we give a lower bound of the life-span of classical solutions to the hyperbolic geometric flow with asympto

Saurav Dhital, Andrew A. West, Keivan G. Stassun, John J. Bochanski

We present the Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Stars (SLoWPoKES), a catalog of 1342 very-wide (projected separation >500 AU), low-mass (at least one mid-K--mid-M dwarf component) common proper motion pairs identified from astrometry, photometry, and proper motions in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A Monte Carlo based Galactic model is co

Chun-Lei He, De-Xing Kong, Kefeng Liu

In this paper we introduce the hyperbolic mean curvature flow and prove that the corresponding system of partial differential equations are strictly hyperbolic, and based on this, we show that this flow admits a unique short-time smooth solution and possesses the nonlinear stability defined on the Euclidean space with dimension larger than 4. We derive nonli

Rainer Buckdahn, Ying Hu, Juan Li

In this paper we study zero-sum two-player stochastic differential games with jumps with the help of theory of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs). We generalize the results of Fleming and Souganidis [10] and those by Biswas [3] by considering a controlled stochastic system driven by a d-dimensional Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure

A. V. Lukoyanov, S. L. Skornyakov, J. A. McLeod, M. Abu-Samak

The electronic structure of the new superconducting material LaNiPO experimentally probed by soft X-ray spectroscopy and theoretically calculated by the combination of local density approximation with Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (LDA+DMFT) are compared herein. We have measured the Ni L2,3 X-ray emission (XES) and absorption (XAS) spectra which probe the occu

Santhosh G, Deepak Kumar

We study thermal transport in a chain of coupled atoms, which can vibrate in longitudinal as well as transverse directions. The particles interact through anharmonic potentials upto cubic order. The problem is treated quantum mechanically. We first calculate the phonon frequencies self-consistently taking into account the anharmonic interactions. We show tha

S. Fauvaud, J. -P. Sareyan, I. Ribas, E. Rodríguez

Short-period high-amplitude pulsating stars of Population I ($δ$ Sct stars) and II (SX Phe variables) exist in the lower part of the classical (Cepheid) instability strip. Most of them have very simple pulsational behaviours, only one or two radial modes being excited. Nevertheless, BL Cam is a unique object among them, being an extreme metal-deficient field

Takeo Ohsawa, Katsuya Iwaya, Ryota Shimizu, Tomihiro Hashizume

We have investigated the atomically-resolved substrate and homoepitaxial thin film surfaces of SrTiO3(001) using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) combined with pulsed laser deposition (PLD). It was found that annealing at 1000 oC in an oxygen partial pressure of 1*10-6 Torr, which is a typical annealing treatment for the p

Daniel Conus, Davar Khoshnevisan

We study the nonlinear stochastic heat equation driven by space-time white noise in the case that the initial datum $u_0$ is a (possibly signed) measure. In this case, one cannot obtain a mild random-field solution in the usual sense. We prove instead that it is possible to establish the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution with values in a suitable f

Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Bhaskar Dutta, Yudi Santoso

Inflation can occur near a point of inflection in the potential of flat directions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In this paper we elaborate on the complementarity between the bounds from Cosmic Microwave Background measurements, dark matter and particle physics phenomenology in determining the underlying parameters of MSSM inflation by specia

Anwesh Mazumdar, Eric Michel

It has been established earlier that sharp features like the base of the convective zone or the second helium ionisation zone inside a star give rise to sinusoidal oscillations in the frequencies of pulsation. The acoustic depth of such features can be estimated from this oscillatory signal in the frequencies. We apply this technique for the CoRoT frequencie

M. S. Allman, F. Altomare, J. D. Whittaker, K. Cicak

We report on a method for detecting weakly coupled spurious two-level system fluctuators (TLSs) in superconducting qubits. This method is more sensitive that standard spectroscopic techniques for locating TLSs with a reduced data acquisition time.

François Alouges, Antonio DeSimone, Luca Heltai

We propose a computational method to solve optimal swimming problems, based on the boundary integral formulation of the hydrodynamic interaction between swimmer and surrounding fluid and direct constrained minimization of the energy consumed by the swimmer. We apply our method to axisymmetric model examples. We consider a classical model swimmer (the three-s