April 2010 arXiv papers — page 53

Barry F. Madore

We demonstrate that it is possible to calculate not only the mean of an underlying population but also its dispersion, given only a single observation and physically reasonable constraints (i.e., that the quantities under consideration are non-negative and bounded). We suggest that this counter-intuitive conclusion is in fact at the heart of most modeling of

Joseph A. Ball, Alexander Kheifets

It is known that the set of all solutions of a commutant lifting and other interpolation problems admits a Redheffer linear-fractional parametrization. The method of unitary coupling identifies solutions of the lifting problem with minimal unitary extensions of a partially defined isometry constructed explicitly from the problem data. A special role is playe

O. Volkova, I. Morozov, V. Shutov, E. Lapsheva

The topology of the magnetic interactions of the copper spins in the nitrosonium nitratocuprate (NO)[Cu(NO3)3] suggests that it could be a realization of the Nersesyan-Tsvelik model, whose ground state was argued to be either a resonating valence bond (RVB) state or a valence bond crystal (VBC). The measurement of thermodynamic and resonant properties reveal

A. P. Ivashin, Yu. M. Poluektov

It is shown, that a non-local form of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation allows to describe not only the long-wave excitations, but also the short-wave ones in the systems with Bose-condensate. At given parameter values, the excitation spectrum mimics the Landau spectrum of quasi-particle excitations in superfluid Helium with roton minimum. The excitation wavelen

Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

We show an analytic method to construct a bivariate distribution function (DF) with given marginal distributions and correlation coefficient. We introduce a convenient mathematical tool, called a copula, to connect two DFs with any prescribed dependence structure. If the correlation of two variables is weak (Pearson&#39;s correlation coefficient $|ρ| <1/3 $)

Sergey Andreyev

User-driven applications are the programs, in which the full control is given to the users. Designers of such programs are responsible only for developing an instrument for solving some task, but they do not enforce users to work with this instrument according with the predefined scenario. Users&#39; control of the applications means that only users decide a

Zhiqiang Zhang, Yaoyun Shi

The parity decision tree model extends the decision tree model by allowing the computation of a parity function in one step. We prove that the deterministic parity decision tree complexity of any Boolean function is polynomially related to the non-deterministic complexity of the function or its complement. We also show that they are polynomially related to a

J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez, J. Casares

Doppler tomography of emission line profiles in low mass X-ray binaries allows us to disentangle the different emission sites and study the structure and variability of accretion disks. We present UVES high-resolution spectroscopic observations of the black hole binary A0620-00 at quiescence.These spectroscopic data constrain the orbital parameters Porb=0.32

Bogna Bylicka, Dariusz Chruscinski

Bipartite states with vanishing quantum discord are necessarily separable and hence positive partial transpose (PPT). We show that 2 x N states satisfy additional property: the positivity of their partial transposition is recognized with respect to the canonical factorization of the original density operator. We call such states SPPT (for strong PPT). Theref

David Saxton

Let $S \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ have size $|S| > \ell^{2^n-1}$. We show that there are distinct points $\{x^1,..., x^{\ell+1}\} \subset S$ such that for each $i \in [n]$, the coordinate sequence $(x^j_i)_{j=1}^{\ell+1}$ is strictly increasing, strictly decreasing, or constant, and that this bound on $|S|$ is best possible. This is analogous to the \erdos-Szeker

François Bavaud

Minimizing the relative inertia of a statistical group with respect to the inertia of the overall sample defines an unique point, the in-focus, which constitutes a context-dependent measure of typical group tendency, biased in comparison to the group centroid. Maximizing the relative inertia yields an unique out-focal point, polarized in the reverse directio

Dmitry Anchishkin, Anton Muskeyev, Stanislav Yezhov

A zone of reactions is determined and then exploited as a tool in studying the space-time structure of an interacting system formed in a collision of relativistic nuclei. The time dependence of the reaction rates integrated over spatial coordinates is also considered. Evaluations are made with the help of the microscopic transport model UrQMD. The relation o

Arthur R. Townsend

This paper answers a question asked by Ed Pegg Jr. in 2001: &#34;What is the maximal value of min(A,B,C)/ gcd(A,B,C) for A^x + B^y = C^z with A,B,C >= 1; x,y,z >= 3?&#34; Equations of this form are analyzed, showing how they map to exponential Diophantine equations with coprime bases. A search algorithm is provided to find the largest min/gcd value within a

Gianluca Fiori, S. Lebègue, A. Betti, P. Michetti

In this work, we present a performance analysis of Field Effect Transistors based on recently fabricated 100% hydrogenated graphene (the so-called graphane) and theoretically predicted semi-hydrogenated graphene (i.e. graphone). The approach is based on accurate calculations of the energy bands by means of GW approximation, subsequently fitted with a three-n

L. S. Borkowski

We present a self-consistent solution for a model of a d-wave superconductor with finite concen- tration of Anderson impurities at zero temperature using the slave boson method. We show how the phase diagram depends on the strength of interaction between impurity and extended states. For fixed impurity level energy $E_0$ in the Kondo limit there is one super

Anwar Hossain, Mohammed Tarique, Rumana Islam

Two-ray ground reflection model has been widely used as the propagation model to investigate the performance of an ad hoc network. But two-ray model is too simple to represent a real world network. A more realistic model namely shadowing propagation model has been used in this investigation. Under shadowing propagation model, a mobile node may receive a pack

Jasmine Norman, J. Paulraj Joseph, P. Prapoorna Roja

A wireless sensor network consists of light-weight, low power, small size sensor nodes. Routing in wireless sensor networks is a demanding task. This demand has led to a number of routing protocols which efficiently utilize the limited resources available at the sensor nodes. Most of these protocols are either based on single hop routing or multi hop routing

E. Ragan, M. Mikolajewski, T. Tomov, E. Swierczynski

Nova V2491 Cyg was discovered on April 10.72 UT 2008 (Nakano, 2008). Here we present spectrophotometric premises that V2491 Cyg can be a good candidate for recurrent nova (RNe). Its properties are compared to five well known RNe with red dwarf secondaries (U Sco, V394 Cra, T Pyx, CI Aql, IM Nor) and recently confirmed as recurrent nova V2487 Oph (Pagnotta et

Sabine Hossenfelder

We show that models with deformations of special relativity that have an energy-dependent speed of light have non-local effects. The requirement that the arising non-locality is not in conflict with known particle physics allows us to derive strong bounds on deformations of special relativity and rule out a modification to first order in energy over the Plan

H. F. Coronel-Brizio, A. R. Hernandez-Montoya

Maximum likelihood estimation and a test of fit based on the Anderson-Darling statistic is presented for the case of the power law distribution when the parameters are estimated from a left-censored sample. Expressions for the maximum likelihood estimators and tables of asymptotic percentage points for the A^2 statistic are given. The technique is illustrate

Milton Zysman, Frank Wallace

Drain away the earth&#39;s oceans and a global pattern of great ridges appears. Adjacent to these continental and undersea mountain ranges are layers of silt and clay, so thick that they fill the gaps between ridges, creating extensive plateaus. Ranging across this planet&#39;s higher latitudes are thousands of tiny replicas of these ridge systems. These esk

Hiroshi Hirai, Shungo Koichi

An extension $(V,d)$ of a metric space $(S,μ)$ is a metric space with $S \subseteq V$ and $d|_S = μ$, and is said to be tight if there is no other extension $(V,d&#39;)$ of $(S,μ)$ with $d&#39; \leq d$. Isbell and Dress independently found that every tight extension is isometrically embedded into a certain metrized polyhedral complex associated with $(S,μ)$,

Supti Sadhukhan, Tapati Dutta, Soma Nag, Sujata Tarafdar

Composite materials are often stronger than their constituents. We demonstrate this through a spring network model on a square lattice. Two different types of sites (A and B) are distributed randomly on the lattice, representing two different constituents. There are springs of three types connecting them (A-A, B-B and A-B). We assign two spring parameters fo

Igor R. Klebanov, Silviu S. Pufu, Tiberiu Tesileanu

If the second Betti number b_2 of a Sasaki-Einstein manifold Y^7 does not vanish, then M-theory on AdS_4 x Y^7 possesses &#34;topological&#34; U(1)^{b_2} gauge symmetry. The corresponding Abelian gauge fields come from three-form fluctuations with one index in AdS_4 and the other two in Y^7. We find black membrane solutions carrying one of these U(1) charges

Kevin K. Lin, Lai-Sang Young

We report the results of a numerical study of nonequilibrium steady states for a class of Hamiltonian models. In these models of coupled matter-energy transport, particles exchange energy through collisions with pinned-down rotating disks. In [Commun. Math. Phys. 262 (2006)], Eckmann and Young studied 1D chains and showed that certain simple formulas give ex

J. -G. Caputo, L. Loukitch

We analyze a new long wave model describing the electrodynamics of an array of point Josephson junctions in a superconducting cavity. It consists in a wave equation with Dirac delta function sine nonlinearities. We introduce an adapted spectral problem whose spectrum gives the resonances in the current-voltage characteristic curve of any array. Using the ass

Chiu-Yen Kao, Yuji Kodama

The Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation describes weakly dispersive and small amplitude waves propagating in a quasi-two dimensional situation. Recently a large variety of exact soliton solutions of the KP equation has been found and classified. Those soliton solutions are localized along certain lines in a two-dimensional plane and decay exponentially ever

Noriyoshi Ishii, for PACS-CS, HAL-QCD Collaboration

Recent progress of lattice QCD study of nuclear forces (potentials) is reviewed. Scattering phase shift is an important observable for two particle system. In lattice QCD, phase shifts are calculated from long distance behavior of Bethe-Salpeter (BS) wave functions by Luescher&#39;s finite volume method. For applications to nuclear physics of multi-nucleon s

Alessandro Colantonio, Roberto Di Pietro

Bit arrays, or bitmaps, are used to significantly speed up set operations in several areas, such as data warehousing, information retrieval, and data mining, to cite a few. However, bitmaps usually use a large storage space, thus requiring compression. Nevertheless, there is a space-time tradeoff among compression schemes. The Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) bitma

Ari Stern

We prove two-sided inequalities for the $L^p$-norm of a pushforward or pullback (with respect to an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism) on oriented volume and Riemannian manifolds. For a function or density on a volume manifold, these bounds depend only on the Jacobian determinant, which arises through the change of variables theorem. For an arbitrary dif

Marco Dalai

Let $C(d)$ be the capacity of the binary deletion channel with deletion probability $d$. It was proved by Drinea and Mitzenmacher that, for all $d$, $C(d)/(1-d)\geq 0.1185 $. Fertonani and Duman recently showed that $\limsup_{d\to 1}C(d)/(1-d)\leq 0.49$. In this paper, it is proved that $\lim_{d\to 1}C(d)/(1-d)$ exists and is equal to $\inf_{d}C(d)/(1-d)$. T

Jingwen Wu, Neal Evans, Yancy Shirley, Claudia Knez

We have mapped over 50 massive, dense clumps with four dense gas tracers: HCN J=1-0 and 3-2; and CS J=2-1 and 7-6 transitions. Spectral lines of optically thin H^{13}CN 3-2 and C^{34}S 5-4 were also obtained towards the map centers. These maps usually demonstrate single well-peaked distributions at our resolution, even with higher J transitions. The size, vi

Jean Ruppenthal

Let $X$ be a singular Hermitian complex space of pure dimension $n$. We use a resolution of singularities to give a smooth representation of the $L^2$-$\overline\partial$-cohomology of $(n,q)$-forms on $X$. The central tool is an $L^2$-resolution for the Grauert-Riemenschneider canonical sheaf $\mathcal{K}_X$. As an application, we obtain a Grauert-Riemensch

Daniel S. Menasche, Antonio A. A. Rocha, Edmundo A. de Souza e Silva, Rosa M. Leao

Peer-to-peer swarming is one of the \emph{de facto} solutions for distributed content dissemination in today&#39;s Internet. By leveraging resources provided by clients, swarming systems reduce the load on and costs to publishers. However, there is a limit to how much cost savings can be gained from swarming; for example, for unpopular content peers will alw

Joseph M. Burdis, Irina A. Kogan

We provide criteria for deciding whether a given planar curve is an image of a given spatial curve, obtained by a central or a parallel projection with unknown parameters. These criteria reduce the projection problem to a certain modification of the equivalence problem of planar curves under affine and projective transformations. The latter problem can be ad

Mohammed Mia, Keshav Dasgupta, Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon

We continue our study on the gravity duals for strongly coupled large N QCD with fundamental flavors both at zero and non-zero temperatures. The gravity dual at zero temperature captures the logarithmic runnings of the coupling constants at far IR and the almost conformal, albeit strongly coupled, behavior at the UV. The full UV completion of gauge theory is

K. Belczynski, M. Dominik, T. Bulik, R. O&#39;Shaughnessy

Data from the SDSS (300,000 galaxies) indicates that recent star formation (within the last 1 billion years) is bimodal: half the stars form from gas with high amounts of metals (solar metallicity), and the other half form with small contribution of elements heavier than Helium (10-30% solar). Theoretical studies of mass loss from the brightest stars derive

Ali Tajer, Xiaodong Wang

Dynamic allocation of resources to the \emph{best} link in large multiuser networks offers considerable improvement in spectral efficiency. This gain, often referred to as \emph{multiuser diversity gain}, can be cast as double-logarithmic growth of the network throughput with the number of users. In this paper we consider large cognitive networks granted con

Amitai Y. Bin-Nun

We show that a possible astrophysical experiment, detection of lensed images of stars orbiting close to Sgr A*, can provide insight into the form of the metric around a black hole. We model Sgr A* as a black hole and add in a $\frac{1}{r^2}$ term to the Schwarzschild metric near the black hole. We then attempt to determine the effect of this extra term on th

Mahmoud Khademi, Mohammad H. Kiapour, Mehran Safayani, Mohammad T. Manzuri

In this paper, a novel method for representation and recognition of the facial expressions in two-dimensional image sequences is presented. We apply a variation of two-dimensional heteroscedastic linear discriminant analysis (2DHLDA) algorithm, as an efficient dimensionality reduction technique, to Gabor representation of the input sequence. 2DHLDA is an ext

Scott Aaronson, Andrew Drucker

We prove the following surprising result: given any quantum state rho on n qubits, there exists a local Hamiltonian H on poly(n) qubits (e.g., a sum of two-qubit interactions), such that any ground state of H can be used to simulate rho on all quantum circuits of fixed polynomial size. In terms of complexity classes, this implies that BQP/qpoly is contained

D. Gastler, E. Kearns, A. Hime, L. C. Stonehill

The scintillation light yield of liquid argon from nuclear recoils relative to electronic recoils has been measured as a function of recoil energy from 10 keVr up to 250 keVr. The scintillation efficiency, defined as the ratio of the nuclear recoil scintillation response to the electronic recoil response, is 0.25 \pm 0.01 + 0.01(correlated) above 20 keVr.

Martina Balagovic

We generalize Chevalley&#39;s theorem about restriction of \mathfrak{g}-invariant polynomial functions \mathfrak{g}->C to W-invariant functions on the Cartan \mathfrak{h}->C. We consider the case when \mathfrak{g} is replaced by a quantum group and the target space of the polynomial maps is replaced by a finite dimensional representation V of this quantum gr

Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Adrian S. Lewis

We prove that the subdifferential of any semi-algebraic extended-real-valued function on $\R^n$ has $n$-dimensional graph. We discuss consequences for generic semi-algebraic optimization problems.

Nicolas Lanchier

This article is concerned with the Axelrod model, a stochastic process which similarly to the voter model includes social influence, but unlike the voter model also accounts for homophily. Each vertex of the network of interactions is characterized by a set of $F$ cultural features, each of which can assume $q$ states. Pairs of adjacent vertices interact at

Francois Petit

Given a smooth proper dg-algebra $A$, a perfect dg $A$-module $M$, and an endomorphism $f$ of $M$, we define the Hochschild class of the pair $(M,f)$ with values in the Hochschild homology of $A$. Our main result is a Riemann-Roch type formula involving the convolution of two such Hochschild classes.

Ludovic Delabarre

This work is an answer to a problem posed by N. Kurokawa and H. Ochiai concerning the natural boundary of meromorphy of a multivariate Euler product of Igusa type. More generally, we introduce and determine the maximal domain of meromorphy of a class of multivariate pseudo-uniform Euler products.

Sandra H. Dandach, Ruggero Carli, Francesco Bullo

This paper studies prototypical strategies to sequentially aggregate independent decisions. We consider a collection of agents, each performing binary hypothesis testing and each obtaining a decision over time. We assume the agents are identical and receive independent information. Individual decisions are sequentially aggregated via a threshold-based rule.

Giovanni Catino, Carlo Mantegazza, Lorenzo Mazzieri

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to an error

L. De Cruz, D. G. Ireland, P. Vancraeyveld, J. Ryckebusch

We present the results of a Bayesian analysis of a Regge model to describe the background contribution for K+ Lambda and K+ Sigma0 photoproduction. The model is based on the exchange of K+(494) and K*+(892) trajectories in the t-channel. We utilise the Bayesian evidence Z to determine the best model variant for each channel. The Bayesian evidence integrals w

Roghayeh Joda, Farshad Lahouti

This paper addresses network code design for robust transmission of sources over an orthogonal two-hop wireless network with a broadcasting relay. The network consists of multiple sources and destinations in which each destination, benefiting the relay signal, intends to decode a subset of the sources. Two special instances of this network are orthogonal bro

MILC collaboration, A. Bazavov, C. Bernard, C. DeTar

We study the lattice spacing dependence, or scaling, of physical quantities using the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action introduced by the HPQCD/UKQCD collaboration, comparing our results to similar simulations with the asqtad fermion action. Results are based on calculations with lattice spacings approximately 0.15, 0.12 and 0.09 fm, using four f

Richard E. George, Wayne Witzel, H. Riemann, N. V. Abrosimov

Donors in silicon hold considerable promise for emerging quantum technologies, due to the their uniquely long electron spin coherence times. Bi donors in silicon differ from P and other Group V donors in several significant respects: they have the strongest binding energy (70.98 meV), a large nuclear spin (I = 9/2) and strong hyperfine coupling constant (A =

Lina Gu, Jiulin Du

The generalized Gibbs free energy and enthalpy is derived in the framework of nonextensive thermodynamics by using the so-called physical temperature and the physical pressure. Some thermodynamical relations are studied by considering the difference between the physical temperature and the inverse of Lagrange multiplier. The thermodynamical relation between

Matteo Osella, Carla Bosia, Davide Cora&#39;, Michele Caselle

MicroRNAs are endogenous non-coding RNAs which negatively regulate the expression of protein-coding genes in plants and animals. They are known to play an important role in several biological processes and, together with transcription factors, form a complex and highly interconnected regulatory network. Looking at the structure of this network it is possible

Sudhaker Upadhyay, Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We generalize the BRST transformations in Abelian rank-2 tensor field theory by allowing the parameter to be finite and field dependent and show that such transformations play crucial role in studying the Abelian 2-form gauge theory in noncovariant gauges. The generating functionals in different effective theories are connected through these generalized BRST

L. Cywinski, V. V. Dobrovitski, S. Das Sarma

We investigate theoretically the spin echo signal of an electron localized in a quantum dot and interacting with a bath of nuclear spins. We consider the regime of very low magnetic fields (corresponding to fields as low as a militesla in realistic GaAs and InGaAs dots). We use both the exact numerical simulations and the analytical theory employing the effe

Anthony Laing, Alberto Peruzzo, Alberto Politi, Maria Rodas Verde

We demonstrate photonic quantum circuits that operate at the stringent levels that will be required for future quantum information science and technology. These circuits are fabricated from silica-on-silicon waveguides forming directional couplers and interferometers. While our focus is on the operation of quantum circuits, to test this operation required co

Piotr Jaranowski, Andrzej Królak

In searches for gravitational waves emitted by known isolated pulsars in data collected by a detector one can assume that the frequency of the wave, its spindown parameters, and the position of the source in the sky are known, so the almost monochromatic gravitational-wave signal we are looking for depends on at most four parameters: overall amplitude, initi

A. Kadosh, E. Pallante

We propose a spontaneous A4 flavor symmetry breaking scheme implemented in a warped extra dimensional setup to explain the observed pattern of quark and lepton masses and mixings. The main advantages of this choice are the explanation of fermion mass hierarchies by wave function overlaps, the emergence of tribimaximal neutrino mixing and zero quark mixing at

Arjen van der Wel, Eric F. Bell, Bradford P. Holden, Ramin A. Skibba

We provide a physical interpretation and explanation of the morphology-density relation for galaxies, drawing on stellar masses, star formation rates, axis ratios and group halo masses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We first re-cast the classical morphology-density relation in more quantitative terms, using low star formation rate (quiescence) as a proxy

Abdon Choque, Valeri Marenitch

We consider the general bilinear control systems in three-dimensional Euclidean space which satisfy the LARC and have an open control set U; and give sufficient controllability conditions for corresponding projected systems on two-dimensional sphere.

Philip W. Lucas, C. G. Tinney, Ben Burningham, S. K. Leggett

We report the discovery of a very cool, isolated brown dwarf, UGPS 0722-05, with the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey. The near-infrared spectrum displays deeper H2O and CH4 troughs than the coolest known T dwarfs and an unidentified absorption feature at 1.275 um. We provisionally classify the object as a T10 dwarf but note that it may in future come to be rega

Vincent Bansaye, Viet Chi Tran

We describe the evolution of the quantity of parasites in a population of cells which divide in continuous-time. The quantity of parasites in a cell follows a Feller diffusion, which is splitted randomly between the two daughter cells when a division occurs. The cell division rate may depend on the quantity of parasites inside the cell and we are interested

Simone Fiori

The present contribution suggests the use of a multidimensional scaling (MDS) algorithm as a visualization tool for manifold-valued elements. A visualization tool of this kind is useful in signal processing and machine learning whenever learning/adaptation algorithms insist on high-dimensional parameter manifolds.

Wen-Biao Han, Remo Ruffini, She-Sheng Xue

It is known that strong electric fields produce electron and positron pairs from the vacuum, and due to the back-reaction these pairs oscillate back and forth coherently with the alternating electric fields in time. We study this phenomenon in spatially inhomogeneous and bound electric fields by integrating the equations of energymomentum and particle-number

Yohei Ikebe, Takahiro Morimoto, Ryuichi Masutomi, Tohru Okamoto

Optical Hall conductivity $σ_{xy}(ω)$ is measured from the Faraday rotation for a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction quantum Hall system in the terahertz frequency regime. The Faraday rotation angle ($\sim$ fine structure constant $\sim$ mrad) is found to significantly deviate from the Drude-like behavior to exhibit a plateau-like structure around the Landau-level f

K. Younsi, V. Russier, L. Bessais

The structure and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline PrCo$_3$ prepared by high-energy milling technique have been investigated by means of X-ray diffraction using the Rietveld method coupled to Curie temperature and magnetic measurements. The as-milled samples were subsequently annealed in temperature range from 750 to 1050 °C for 30 min to optimize the

Babak Vakili

We study the classical and quantum models of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology, coupled to a perfect fluid, in the context of the scalar-metric gravity. Using the Schutz&#39; representation for the perfect fluid, we show that, under a particular gauge choice, it may lead to the identification of a time parameter for the corresponding dynamical sys

T. Banakh, K. Mine, D. Repovs, K. Sakai

We present a simple-to-apply criterion for recognizing topological groups that are (locally) homeomorphic to LF-spaces.

T S Mysakovych

The phase transitions at finite temperatures in the systems described by the Bose-Fermi-Hubbard model are investigated in this work in the framework of the selfconsistent random phase approximation. The case of the hard-core bosons is considered and pseudospin formalism is used. The density-density correlator is calculated in the random phase approximation a

Hirofumi Osada

We solve infinite-dimensional stochastic differential equations (ISDEs) describing an infinite number of Brownian particles interacting via two-dimensional Coulomb potentials. The equilibrium states of the associated unlabeled stochastic dynamics are the Ginibre random point field and Dyson&#39;s measures, which appear in random matrix theory. To solve the I

Clément de Seguins Pazzis

Given an arbitrary (commutative) field K, let V be a linear subspace of M_n(K) consisting of matrices of rank lesser than or equal to some r<n. A theorem of Atkinson and Lloyd states that, if dim V>nr-r+1 and #K>r, then either all the matrices of V vanish on some common (n-r)-dimensional subspace of K^n, or it is true of the matrices of its transpose V^t. Fo

Tong Li, Wei Chao

We establish a hybrid seesaw mechanism to explain small neutrino masses and predict cold dark matter candidate in the context of the B-L gauge symmetry extension of the Standard Model. In this model a new scalar doublet and two new fermion singlets are introduced at loop-level beyond the minimal Type I seesaw. The lightest particle inside the loop can be dar

H. Ohno, Y. Kuramashi, T. Sakurai, H. Tadano

We consider a quadrature-based eigensolver to find eigenpairs of Hermitian matrices arising in lattice quantum chromodynamics. To reduce the computational cost for finding eigenpairs of such Hermitian matrices, we propose a new technique for solving shifted linear systems with complex shifts by means of the shifted CG method. Furthermore using integration pa

Leonor Garcia-Gutierrez, Satoru Odake, Ryu Sasaki

Crum&#39;s theorem in one-dimensional quantum mechanics asserts the existence of an associated Hamiltonian system for any given Hamiltonian with the complete set of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. The associated system is iso-spectral to the original one except for the lowest energy state, which is deleted. A modification due to Krein-Adler provides algebrai

Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul M. Ricker, Ronald E. Taam

The impact of Type Ia supernova ejecta on a helium-star companion is investigated via high-resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. For a range of helium-star models and initial binary separations it is found that the mass unbound in the interaction, $δM_{\rm ub}$, is related to the initial binary separation, $a$, by a power law of the form $δM_

Myung-Ho Bae, Zhun-Yong Ong, David Estrada, Eric Pop

We directly image hot spot formation in functioning mono- and bilayer graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) using infrared thermal microscopy. Correlating with an electrical-thermal transport model provides insight into carrier distributions, fields, and GFET power dissipation. The hot spot corresponds to the location of minimum charge density along the

Drew Keppel, P. Ajith

We study how well the mass of the graviton can be constrained from gravitational-wave (GW) observations of coalescing binary black holes. Whereas the previous investigations employed post-Newtonian (PN) templates describing only the inspiral part of the signal, the recent progress in analytical and numerical relativity has provided analytical waveform templa

Jian Zhang, Chao-Ming Jian, Fei Ye, Hui Zhai

We prove a theorem that shows the degeneracy of many-body states depends on total particle number and flux filling ratio, for particles in a periodic lattice and under a uniform magnetic field. Non-interacting fermions and weakly interacting bosons are given as two examples. For the later case, this phenomena can also be understood in terms of destructive qu

Matthias Beck, Thomas Zaslavsky

We find the numbers of $3 \times 3$ magic, semimagic, and magilatin squares, as functions either of the magic sum or of an upper bound on the entries in the square. Our results on magic and semimagic squares differ from previous ones in that we require the entries in the square to be distinct from each other and we derive our results not by \emph{ad hoc} rea

Ryusuke Numata, Gregory G. Howes, Tomoya Tatsuno, Michael Barnes

The gyrokinetic simulation code AstroGK is developed to study fundamental aspects of kinetic plasmas and for applications mainly to astrophysical problems. AstroGK is an Eulerian slab code that solves the electromagnetic Gyrokinetic-Maxwell equations in five-dimensional phase space, and is derived from the existing gyrokinetics code GS2 by removing magnetic

Gavril Farkas, Alessandro Verra

We describe the birational geometry of the moduli space S_g^{-} of odd spin curves (theta-characteristics) for all genera g. The odd spin moduli space is a uniruled variety for g<12, and of general type for g at least 12. Furthermore, for g<9 we use the existence of Mukai models of the moduli space of curves, to prove that S_g^{-} is unirational. Our results

C. L. MacLeod, Ž. Ivezić, C. S. Kochanek, S. Kozłowski

We model the time variability of ~9,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars in SDSS Stripe 82 as a damped random walk. Using 2.7 million photometric measurements collected over 10 years, we confirm the results of Kelly et al. (2009) and Kozłowski et al. (2010) that this model can explain quasar light curves at an impressive fidelity level (0.01-0.02 mag). Th

Donatello Materassi, Murti V. Salapaka

The interest for networks of dynamical systems has been increasing in the past years, especially because of their capability of modeling and describing a large variety of phenomena and behaviors. We propose a technique, based on Wiener filtering, which provides general theoretical guarantees for the detection of links in a network of dynamical systems. For a

M. Wakamatsu

We investigate the relation between the known decompositions of the nucleon spin into its constituents, thereby clarifying in what respect they are common and in what respect they are different essentially. The decomposition recently proposed by Chen et al. can be thought of as a nontrivial generalization of the gauge-variant Jaffe-Manohar decomposition so a

Chalence Safranek-Shrader, Volker Bromm, Milos Milosavljevic

We study the gravitational fragmentation of cold accretion streams flowing into a typical first galaxy. We use a one-zone hydrodynamical model to examine the thermal evolution of the gas entering a 10^8 M_sun DM halo at z=10. The goal is to find the expected fragmentation mass scale and thus a characteristic mass of the first population of stars to form by s

Xiaodi Wu

We provide an alternative proof of \class{QIP}=\class{PSPACE} to the recent breakthrough result. Unlike solving some semidefinite programs that captures the computational power of quantum interactive proofs, our method starts with one \class{QIP}-Complete problem which computes the diamond norm between two admissible quantum channels. The key observation is

Farzali Izadi

The aim of this expository article is twofold. The first is to introduce several polynomials of one variable as well as two variables defined on the positive integers with values as congruent numbers. The second is to present connections between Pythagorean triples and the Pell equation $x^2-dy^2=1$ plus its analogous counterpart $x^2-dy^2=-1$ which give ris

Fredrick Michael

Quantum Portfolios of quantum algorithms encoded on qbits have recently been reported. In this paper a discussion of the continuous variables version of quantum portfolios is presented. A risk neutral valuation model for options dependent on the measured values of the observables, analogous to the traditional Black-Scholes valuation model, is obtained from t

M. Amin Khajehnejad, Weiyu Xu, Salman Avestimehr, Babak Hassibi

It is well known that $\ell_1$ minimization can be used to recover sufficiently sparse unknown signals from compressed linear measurements. In fact, exact thresholds on the sparsity, as a function of the ratio between the system dimensions, so that with high probability almost all sparse signals can be recovered from iid Gaussian measurements, have been comp

S. Wachter, J. C. Mauerhan, S. D. Van Dyk, D. W. Hoard

We have discovered a large number of circular and elliptical shells at 24 microns around luminous central sources with the MIPS instrument on-board the Spitzer Space Telescope. Our archival follow-up effort has revealed 90% of these circumstellar shells to be previously unknown. The majority of the shells is only visible at 24 microns, but many of the centra

Mathieu Leconte, Jian Ni, R. Srikant

Glauber dynamics is a powerful tool to generate randomized, approximate solutions to combinatorially difficult problems. Applications include Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation and distributed scheduling for wireless networks. In this paper, we derive bounds on the mixing time of a generalization of Glauber dynamics where multiple vertices are allowe

Kent E. Morrison

We determine the probability that a random k-dimensional subspace of Euclidean n-space contains a positive vector.

Durdu O. Guney, Thomas Koschny, Costas M. Soukoulis

Losses in metamaterials render the applications of such exotic materials less practical unless an efficient way of reducing them is found. We present two different techniques to reduce ohmic losses at both lower and higher frequencies, based on geometric tailoring of the individual magnetic constituents. We show that an increased radius of curvature, in gene

Thomas Krainer

We show the completeness of the system of generalized eigenfunctions of closed extensions of elliptic cone operators under suitable conditions on the symbols.

Duane A. Liedahl, Stephen B. Libby, Alexander Rubenchik

Proposals for ground-based laser remediation of space debris rely on the creation of appropriately directed ablation-driven impulses to either divert the fragment or drive it into an orbit with a perigee allowing atmospheric capture. For a spherical fragment, the ablation impulse is a function of the orbital parameters and the laser engagement angle. If, how

Durdu O. Guney, Thomas Koschny, Costas M. Soukoulis

Isotropic negative index metamaterials (NIMs) are highly desired, particularly for the realization of ultra-high resolution lenses. However, existing isotropic NIMs function only two-dimensionally and cannot be miniaturized beyond microwaves. Direct laser writing processes can be a paradigm shift toward the fabrication of three-dimensionally (3D) isotropic b

Grant R. Tremblay, Christopher P. O&#39;Dea, Stefi A. Baum, Anton M. Koekemoer

We present Hubble Space Telescope UV and optical imaging of the radio galaxy 3C 236, whose relic 4 Mpc radio jet lobes and inner 2 kpc CSS radio source are evidence of multiple epochs of AGN activity. Our data confirm the presence of four bright knots of FUV emission in an arc along the edge of the inner circumnuclear dust disk in the galaxy&#39;s nucleus, a

R. V. E. Lovelace, M. M. Romanova, G. V. Ustyugova, A. V. Koldoba

We investigate the generation of intrinsically asymmetric or {\it one-sided} outflows or jets from disk accretion onto rotating stars with complex magnetic fields using axisymmetric (2.5D) magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The intrinsic magnetic field of the star is assumed to consist of a superposition of an aligned dipole and an aligned quadrupole in differ