May 2010 arXiv papers — page 24

M. Rengel, H. Sagawa, P. Hartogh

The origin of the atmosphere of the largest moon of Saturn, Titan, is poorly understood and its chemistry is rather complicated. Ground-based millimeter/sub-millimeter heterodyne spectroscopy resolves line shapes sufficiently to determine information in Titan's atmospheric composition (on vertical profiles and isotopic ratios). We test the capabilities o

Jesper Rasmussen, John S. Mulchaey, Lei Bai, Trevor J. Ponman

The central dominant galaxies in galaxy clusters constitute the most massive and luminous galaxies in the Universe. Despite this, the formation of these brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and the impact of this on the surrounding cluster environment remain poorly understood. Here we present multi-wavelength observations of the nearby poor X-ray cluster MZ 104

Antonio Cordoba, Diego Cordoba, Francisco Gancedo

The Muskat problem involves filtration of two incompressible fluids throughout a porous medium. In this paper we shall discuss in 3-D the relevance of the Rayleigh-Taylor condition, and the topology of the initial interface, in order to prove its local existence in Sobolev spaces.

Steven L. Heston, Robert A. Korajczyk, Ronnie Sadka

Motivated by the literature on investment flows and optimal trading, we examine intraday predictability in the cross-section of stock returns. We find a striking pattern of return continuation at half-hour intervals that are exact multiples of a trading day, and this effect lasts for at least 40 trading days. Volume, order imbalance, volatility, and bid-ask

P. R. Goncharov

Dynamic friction force, diffusion tensor, flux density in velocity space, and Coulomb collision term are expressed in curvilinear coordinates via Trubnikov potential functions corresponding to each species of background plasma. For comparison, explicit formulas are given for dynamic friction force, diffusion tensor and collisional flux density in velocity sp

B. Cuadros-Melgar, E. Papantonopoulos, M. Tsoukalas, V. Zamarias

We consider five-dimensional gravity with a Gauss-Bonnet term in the bulk and an induced gravity term on a 2-brane of codimension-2. We show that this system admits BTZ-like black holes on the 2-brane which are extended into the bulk with regular horizons.

Christina Brech, Piotr Koszmider

We show that for each natural $n>1$ it is consistent that there is a compact Hausdorff space $K_{2n}$ such that in $C(K_{2n})$ there is no uncountable (semi)biorthogonal sequence $(f_ξ,μ_ξ)_{ξ\in ω_1}$ where $μ_ξ$'s are atomic measures with supports consisting of at most $2n-1$ points of $K_{2n}$, but there are biorthogonal systems $(f_ξ,μ_ξ)_{ξ\in ω_1}$

Pilar Staig, Edward Shuryak

We calculate the contribution of the two photon production process into $e^+e^-$ spectra, and compare the results with experimental data from the PHENIX detector at RHIC. We study the contribution given by ``semi-coherent" kinematics, in which one photon is relatively hard and is incoherently emitted by participating protons, while another can be soft en

Christina Brech, Piotr Koszmider

We consider the question whether there exists a Banach space $X$ of density continuum such that every Banach space of density not bigger than continuum isomorphically embeds into $X$ (called a universal Banach space of density $\cc$). It is well known that $\ell_\infty/c_0$ is such a space if we assume the continuum hypothesis. However, some additional set-t

Christina Brech, Piotr Koszmider

We strengthen the property $Δ$ of a function $f:[ω_2]^2\rightarrow [ω_2]^{\leq ω}$ considered by Baumgartner and Shelah. This allows us to consider new types of amalgamations in the forcing used by Rabus, Juhász and Soukup to construct thin-very tall compact scattered spaces. We consistently obtain spaces $K$ as above where $K^n$ is hereditarily separable fo

David Nesvorny, William F. Bottke, David Vokrouhlicky, Clark R. Chapman

Processes such as the solar wind sputtering and micrometeorite impacts can modify optical properties of surfaces of airless bodies. This explains why spectra of the main belt asteroids, exposed to these `space weathering' processes over eons, do not match the laboratory spectra of ordinary chondrite (OC) meteorites. In contrast, an important fraction of

S. J. Brice, L. Bugel, J. M. Conrad, B. Fleming

The detector for the MiniBooNE experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory employs 1520 8 inch Hamamatsu models R1408 and R5912 photomultiplier tubes with custom-designed bases. Tests were performed to determine the dark rate, charge and timing resolutions, double-pulsing rate, and desired operating voltage for each tube, so that the tubes could

Christina Brech

Using the method of forcing we prove that consistently there is a Banach space of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space with the Grothendieck property and with density less than the continuum. It follows that the classical result stating that ``no nontrivial complemented subspace of a Grothendieck $C(K)$ space is separable'' cannot be str

Eric Gaidos, Clinton P. Conrad, Michael Manga, John Hernlund

To ascertain whether magnetic dynamos operate in rocky exoplanets more massive or hotter than the Earth, we developed a parametric model of a differentiated rocky planet and its thermal evolution. Our model reproduces the established properties of Earth's interior and magnetic field at the present time. When applied to Venus, assuming that planet lacks p

Mario I. Molina, Yuri S. Kivshar

We analyze localization of light in honeycomb photonic lattices restricted in one dimension which can be regarded as an optical analog of (``armchair'' and ``zigzag'') graphene nanoribbons. We find the conditions for the existence of spatially localized states and discuss the effect of lattice topology on the properties of discrete solitons e

Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Bikas K. Chakrabarti

In the last decade, a large body of literature has been developed to explain the universal features of inequality in terms of income and wealth. By now, it is established that the distributions of income and wealth in various economies show a number of statistical regularities. There are several models to explain such static features of inequality in an unif

Asaf Hadari

We prove that every finite subgroup of $GL_{2}(\mathbb{R})$ can be realized as the Veech group of some translation surface.

Geir Agnarsson, Jill Bigley Dunham

A {\em flower} is a coin graph representation of the wheel graph. A {\em petal} of the wheel graph is an edge to the center vertex. In this paper we investigate flowers whose coins have integer radii. For an $n$-petaled flower we show there is a unique irreducible polynomial $P_n$ in $n$ variables over the integers $\ints$, the affine variety of which contai

Michael Rios

It is known that black hole charge vectors of N=8 and magic N=2 supergravity in four and five dimensions can be represented as elements of Jordan algebras of degree three over the octonions and split-octonions and their Freudenthal triple systems. We show both such Jordan algebras are contained in the exceptional Jordan C*-algebra and construct its correspon

Shaun Deaton, Seth Frey

When is it safe to approximate a complicated random Boolean network (RBN) as a simplified, easier to model RBN? When can static measures of network structure be reliably used to infer the network's dynamics? This simple experiment tests the ability of disjoint modular RBNs to approximate the dynamics of progressively more interconnected RBNs, while chara

Herbert Neuberger

This is a write-up of a lecture at the level of a physics colloquium. There exists an idealized mathematical formulation of strong interactions which has no free parameters but is known to describe the real world quite accurately. Over the last three decades the problem has been managed with increasing success. An overview of some facts and a little fiction

Szabolcs Borsanyi, Zoltan Fodor, Christian Hoelbling, Sandor D Katz

The present paper concludes our investigations on the QCD cross-over transition temperatures with 2+1 staggered flavours and one-link stout improvement. We extend our previous two studies [Phys. Lett. B643 (2006) 46, JHEP 0906:088 (2009)] by choosing even finer lattices ($N_t$=16) and we work again with physical quark masses. The new results on this broad cr

Mehdi Moussaid, Simon Garnier, Guy Theraulaz, Dirk Helbing

The spontaneous organization of collective activities in animal groups and societies has attracted a considerable amount of attention over the last decade. This kind of coordination often permits group-living species to achieve collective tasks that are far beyond single individuals capabilities. In particular, a key benefit lies in the integration of partia

Matthew C Johnson, I-Sheng Yang

During eternal inflation, a landscape of vacua can be populated by the nucleation of bubbles. These bubbles inevitably collide, and collisions sometimes displace the field into a new minimum in a process known as a classical transition. In this paper, we examine some new features of classical transitions that arise when gravitational effects are included. Us

Cristina Ballantine, Dan Ciubotaru

We use the representation theory of the quasisplit form G of SU(3) over a p-adic field to investigate whether certain quotients of the Bruhat--Tits tree associated to this form are Ramanujan bigraphs. We show that a quotient of the tree associated with G (which is a biregular bigraph) is Ramanujan if and only if G satisfies a Ramanujan type conjecture. This

M. Klasen

While SUSY particles, if they exist at the TeV-scale, will be discovered at the Tevatron or the LHC, the determination of the SUSY-breaking scenario and its free parameters will require additional information, e.g. from a future International Linear Collider. We point out that such information, in particular on SUSY-particle mixing and the associated soft SU

Lars Kotthoff, Ian Gent, Ian Miguel

Programs to solve so-called constraint problems are complex pieces of software which require many design decisions to be made more or less arbitrarily by the implementer. These decisions affect the performance of the finished solver significantly. Once a design decision has been made, it cannot easily be reversed, although a different decision may be more ap

V. V. Kisel, E. M. Ovsiyuk, V. M. Red'kov

With the use of the general covariant matrix 10-dimensional Petiau -- Duffin -- Kemmer formalism in cylindrical coordinates and tetrad there are constructed exact solutions of the quantum-mechanical equation for a particle with spin 1 in presence of an external homogeneous magnetic field. There are separated three linearly independent types of solutions; in

Darren D. Price

A brief overview of the latest status of jet physics studies at the Tevatron in proton-antiproton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$~TeV is presented. In particular, measurements of the inclusive jet production cross-section, dijet production and searches for new physics, the ratio of the 3-jet to 2-jet production cross-sections, and the three-jet mass are discus

S. Balman

We present the frequency resolved energy spectra (FRS) of the low-mass X-ray binary dipper XB 1323-619 during persistent emission in four different frequency bands using an archival XMM-Newton observation. FRS method helps to probe the inner zones of an accretion disk. We find that the FRS is well described by a single blackbody component with kT in a range

Gia Dvali, Cesar Gomez

We argue, that in Einsteinian gravity the Planck length is the shortest length of nature, and any attempt of resolving trans-Planckian physics bounces back to macroscopic distances due to black hole formation. In Einstein gravity trans-Planckian propagating quantum degrees of freedom cannot exist, instead they are equivalent to the classical black holes that

Sonja Schuh

The disciplines of asteroseismology and extrasolar planet science overlap methodically in the branch of high-precision photometric time series observations. Light curves are, amongst others, useful to measure intrinsic stellar variability due to oscillations, as well as to discover and characterize those extrasolar planets that transit in front of their host

Piotr Wrobel, Andrzej M. Oles

We establish a novel mechanism of stripe formation in doped systems with alternating $t_{2g}$ orbital order --- the stripe takes the form of a ferro-orbitally ordered domain wall separating domains with staggered order and allowing for deconfined motion of holes along the stripe. At a finite level of hole concentration this gives rise to the stability of thi

K. Soundararajan

We prove a conjecture of Broadurst (arXiv:1004.0519v1) on asymptotic expansions of certain polylogarithm type functions related to the Dickman function.

Eef van Beveren, George Rupp

We present evidence for the psi(5S) and psi(4D) c-cbar vector resonances in experimental data published by the Belle and BaBar Collaborations. Central masses and resonance widths are estimated.

Iain McDonald, Gregory C. Sloan, Albert A. Zijlstra, Noriyuki Matsunaga

Iron, the Universe's most abundant refractory element, is highly depleted in both circumstellar and interstellar environments, meaning it exists in solid form. The nature of this solid is unknown. In this Letter, we provide evidence that metallic iron grains are present around oxygen-rich AGB stars, where it is observationally manifest as a featureless m

E. M. Ovsiyuk, V. V. Kisel, V. M. Red'kov

There are constructed exact solutions of the quantum-mechanical Dirac equation for a spin S=1/2 particle in Riemannian space of constant negative curvature, hyperbolic Lobachevsky space, in presence of an external magnetic field, analogue of the homogeneous magnetic field in the Minkowski space. A generalized formula for energy levels, describing quantizatio

Jens Zumbragel, Mark F. Flanagan, Vitaly Skachek

The AWGNC, BSC, and max-fractional pseudocodeword redundancy of a code is defined as the smallest number of rows in a parity-check matrix such that the corresponding minimum pseudoweight is equal to the minimum Hamming distance of the code. This paper provides new results on the AWGNC, BSC, and max-fractional pseudocodeword redundancies of codes. The pseudoc

Bruno Sanguinetti, Enrico Pomarico, Pavel Sekatski, Hugo Zbinden

In the quantum regime information can be copied with only a finite fidelity. This fidelity gradually increases to 1 as the system becomes classical. In this article we show how this fact can be used to directly measure the amount of radiated power. We demonstrate how these principles could be used to build a practical primary standard.

Lucian M Ionescu

Is "Gravity" a deformation of "Electromagnetism"? Deformation theory suggests quantizing Special Relativity: formulate Quantum Information Dynamics $SL(2,C)_h$-gauge theory of dynamical lattices, with unifying gauge ``group'' the quantum bundle obtained from the Hopf monopole bundle underlying the quaternionic algebra and Dirac-Weyl s

Fabrice Baudoin, Cheng Ouyang

In this paper we show that under some assumptions, for a $d$-dimensional fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H>1/2$, the density of solution of stochastic differential equation driven by it has a short-time expansion similar to that in the Brownian motion case.

M. V. S. Fonseca, A. A. Vargas-Paredes

The construction of an alternative electromagnetic theory that preserves Lorentz and gauge symmetries, is considered. We start off by building up Maxwell electrodynamics in (3+1)D from the assumption that the associated Lagrangian is a gauge-invariant functional that depends on the electron and photon fields and their first derivatives only. In this scenario

Padelis P. Papadopoulos, Federico I. Pelupessy

We utilize detailed time-varying models of the coupled evolution of stars and the HI, H_2, and CO-bright H_2 gas phases in galaxy-sized numerical simulations to explore the evolution of gas-rich and/or metal-poor systems, expected to be numerous in the Early Universe. The inclusion of the CO-bright H_2 gas phase, and the realistic rendering of star formation

Prasad Chebolu, Mary Cryan, Russell Martin

We give a simple polynomial-time algorithm to exactly count the number of Euler Tours (ETs) of any Eulerian generalized series-parallel graph, and show how to adapt this algorithm to exactly sample a random ET of the given generalized series-parallel graph. Note that the class of generalized seriesparallel graphs includes all outerplanar graphs. We can perfo

Kyungwha Park, J. J. Heremans, V. W. Scarola, Djordje Minic

Bulk Bi2Te3 is known to be a topological insulator. We investigate surface states of Bi2Te3(111) thin films using density-functional theory including spin-orbit coupling. We construct a method to unambiguously identify surface states of thin film topological insulators. Applying this method for one to six quintuple layers of Bi2Te3, we find that the topologi

Benoit Estienne, B. Andrei Bernevig, Raoul Santachiara

We consider the quasihole wavefunctions of the non-abelian Read-Rezayi quantum Hall states which are given by the conformal blocks of the minimal model WA_{k-1}(k+1,k+2) of the WA_{k-1} algebra. By studying the degenerate representations of this conformal field theories, we derive a second order differential equation satisfied by a general many-quasihole wav

Alka

For many algorithmic problems, traditional algorithms that optimise on the number of instructions executed prove expensive on I/Os. Novel and very different design techniques, when applied to these problems, can produce algorithms that are I/O efficient. This thesis adds to the growing chorus of such results. The computational models we use are the external

B. Sturm, J. Bouwman, Th. Henning, N. J. Evans

We present far-infrared spectroscopic observations, taken with the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) on the Herschel Space Observatory, of the protoplanetary disk around the pre-main-sequence star HD 100546. These observations are the first within the DIGIT Herschel key program, which aims to follow the evolution of dust, ice, and gas from y

Z. Pavlovic, H. R. Sadeghpour, R. Cote, B. O. Roos

We report calculations of Born-Oppenheimer potential energy curves of the chromium-rubidium heteronuclear molecule 52Cr-87Rb, and the long-range dispersion coefficient for the interaction between ground state Cr and Rb atoms. Our calculated van der Waals coefficient (C6=1770 a.u.) has an expected error of 3%. The ground state 6Sigma+ molecule at its equilibr

Donal F. Connon

This paper considers various integrals where the integrand includes the log gamma function (or its derivative, the digamma function) multiplied by a trigonometric or hyperbolic function. Some apparently new integrals and series are evaluated.

Bum Suk Zhao, Gerard Meijer, Wieland Schöllkopf

We report on the observation of emerging beam resonances, well known as Rayleigh-Wood anomalies and threshold resonances in photon and electron diffraction, respectively, in an atom-optical diffraction experiment. Diffraction of He atom beams reflected from a blazed ruled grating at grazing incidence has been investigated. The total reflectivity of the grati

Alexander Plakhov

Retroreflectors are optical devices that reverse the direction of incident beams of light. Here we present a collection of billiard type retroreflectors consisting of four objects; three of them are asymptotically perfect retroreflectors, and the fourth one is a retroreflector which is very close to perfect. Three objects of the collection have recently been

Cristiano Nisoli, Jie Li, Xianglin Ke, D. Garand

Frustrated arrays of interacting single-domain nanomagnets provide important model systems for statistical mechanics, because they map closely onto well-studied vertex models and are amenable to direct imaging and custom engineering. Although these systems are manifestly athermal, we demonstrate that the statistical properties of both hexagonal and square la

Sonja Schuh, Roberto Silvotti, Ronny Lutz, Bjoern Loeptien

In 2007, a companion with planetary mass was found around the pulsating subdwarf B star V391 Pegasi with the timing method, indicating that a previously undiscovered population of substellar companions to apparently single subdwarf B stars might exist. Following this serendipitous discovery, the EXOTIME (http://www.na.astro.it/~silvotti/exotime/) monitoring

A. A. Egorov

We prove a theorem on self-improving regularity for derivatives of solutions of the inequality $F(v'(x))\le KG(v'(x))$ constructed by means of a quasiconvex function $F$ and a null Lagrangian $G$. We apply this theorem to improve the stability and Hölder regularity results of \cite{Egor2008} and to establish a theorem on removability of singularities

B. I. Goryachev

Tritium chain of the hydrogen cycle in the Sun including reactions ^3He(e^-,ν_(e))^(3)H(p,γ)^(4)He is considered. At the distance of 1 a.u. the flux of tritium neutrinos is equal to 8.1\cdot 10^(4) cm^(-2)s^(-1). It is an order of magnitude higher than the flux of the (hep)-neutrinos. Radial distribution of ^(3)H-neutrinos yield inside the Sun and their ener

R. Srikanth, Subhashish Banerjee

We develop a unified, information theoretic interpretation of the number-phase complementarity that is applicable both to finite-dimensional (atomic) and infinite-dimensional (oscillator) systems. The relevant uncertainty principle is obtained as a lower bound on {\it entropy excess}, the difference between number entropy and phase knowledge, the latter defi

Konstantin G. Savvidy

Electromagnetic interactions of the spin 3/2 particle are investigated while allowing the propagation of the transverse spin 1/2 component present in the reducible Rarita-Schwinger vector-spinor. This is done by allowing a more general form for the mass term, while leaving the kinetic terms untouched. We find that the interaction is consistent and does not l

G. R. Gupta, D. Banerjee, L. Teriaca, S. Imada

We present EIS/Hinode & SUMER/SoHO joint observations allowing the first spectroscopic detection of accelerating disturbances as recorded with coronal lines in inter-plume and plume regions of a polar coronal hole. From time-distance radiance maps, we detect the presence of propagating disturbances in a polar inter-plume region with a period of 15 to 20 min

Amittai Aviram, Shu-Chun Weng, Sen Hu, Bryan Ford

Deterministic execution offers many benefits for debugging, fault tolerance, and security. Running parallel programs deterministically is usually difficult and costly, however - especially if we desire system-enforced determinism, ensuring precise repeatability of arbitrarily buggy or malicious software. Determinator is a novel operating system that enforces

R. Srikanth

We consider the problem of deriving the no-signaling condition from the assumption that, as seen from a complexity theoretic perspective, the universe is not an exponential place. A fact that disallows such a derivation is the existence of {\em polynomial superluminal} gates, hypothetical primitive operations that enable superluminal signaling but not the ef

Laurent Charles

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the quantum representations of the modular group in the large level limit. We prove that each element of the modular group acts as a Fourier integral operator. This provides a link between the classical and quantum Chern-Simons theories for the torus. From this result we deduce the known asymptotic expansion of the Witten

Jani Tuorila, Matti Silveri, Mika Sillanpaa, Erkki Thuneberg

A superconducting qubit was driven in an ultrastrong fashion by an oscillatory microwave field, which was created by coupling via the nonlinear Josephson energy. The observed Stark shifts of the `atomic' levels are so pronounced that corrections even beyond the lowest-order Bloch-Siegert shift are needed to properly explain the measurements. The quasiene

Laurent Charles

Consider a compact Kähler manifold endowed with a prequantum bundle. Following the geometric quantization scheme, the associated quantum spaces are the spaces of holomorphic sections of the tensor powers of the prequantum bundle. In this paper we construct an asymptotic representation of the prequantum bundle automorphism group in these quantum spaces. We es

T. Tajima, M. Kando, M. Teshima

Identified is a set of ballpark parameters for laser, plasma, and accelerator technologies that are defined for accelerated electron energies reaching as high as PeV. These parameters are carved out from the scaling laws that govern the physics of laser acceleration, theoretically suggested and experimentally explored over a wide range in the recent years. W

Rosevaldo de Oliveira

In this paper we found the renormalized free energy of a interacting scalar field on a compact hyperbolic manifold explicitly. We have shown a complete expression of the free energy and entropy as a function of the curvature and the temperature. Carefully analyzing the free energy we have shown that there exist a minimum with respect to the curvature that de

François Mallet, Florian R. Ong, Agustin Palacios-Laloy, François Nguyen

The future development of quantum information using superconducting circuits requires Josephson qubits [1] with long coherence times combined to a high-fidelity readout. Major progress in the control of coherence has recently been achieved using circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) architectures [2, 3], where the qubit is embedded in a coplanar waveguide r

Agustin Palacios-Laloy, François Mallet, François Nguyen, Patrice Bertet

The violation of J. Bell's inequality with two entangled and spatially separated quantum two- level systems (TLS) is often considered as the most prominent demonstration that nature does not obey ?local realism?. Under different but related assumptions of "macrorealism", plausible for macroscopic systems, Leggett and Garg derived a similar inequa

M. J. Krawczyk, K. Malarz, R. Korff, K. Kulakowski

The communication process in a situation of emergency is discussed within the Scheff theory of shame and pride. The communication involves messages from media and from other persons. Three strategies are considered: selfish (to contact friends), collective (to join other people) and passive (to do nothing). We show that the pure selfish strategy cannot be ev

S. C. İnan

We study the potential of the exclusive $pp\to p\ell^-\ell^+p$ process to probe excited leptons at the LHC which is known to be one of the most clean channel at the hadron colliders. The sensitivity of the model parameters is obtained 95% confidence level by considering three forward detector acceptances; $0.0015< ξ< 0.5$, $0.0015< ξ<0.15$ and $0.1< ξ< 0.5$.

C. Sivaram, Kenath Arun

Thermal gravitational waves can be generated in various sources such as, in the cores of stars, white dwarfs and neutron stars due to the fermion collisions in the dense degenerate Fermi gas. Such high frequency thermal gravitational waves can also be produced during the collisions in a gamma ray burst or during the final stages of the evaporation of primord

Mikhail S. Kalenkov, Andrei D. Zaikin

We formulate a quantitative theory of non-local electron transport in three-terminal disordered ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet structures. We demonstrate that magnetic effects have different implications: While strong exchange field suppresses disorder-induced electron interference in ferromagnetic electrodes, spin-sensitive electron scattering at su

Chao Li, Xiankun Meng, Xiao Liu, Fang Li

We experimentally demonstrate the first metamaterial &#34;illusion optics&#34; device - an &#34;invisible gateway&#34; by using a transmission-line medium. The device contains an open channel that can block electromagnetic waves at a particular frequency range. We also demonstrate that such a device can work in a broad frequency range.

A. Eden, V. K. Kalantarov, S. V. Zelik

We give a detailed study of the infinite-energy solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation in the 3D cylindrical domains in uniformly local phase space. In particular, we establish the well-posedness and dissipativity for the case of regular potentials of arbitrary polynomial growth as well as for the case of sufficiently strong singular potentials. For these c

J. Braine, P. Gratier, C. Kramer, E. M. Xilouris

We present an analysis of the first space-based far-IR-submm observations of M 33, which measure the emission from the cool dust and resolve the giant molecular cloud complexes. With roughly half-solar abundances, M33 is a first step towards young low-metallicity galaxies where the submm may be able to provide an alternative to CO mapping to measure their H$

S. N. Burmistrov

The wavelike processes of crystallization and melting or crystallization waves are well known to exist at the 4He crystal surface in the rough state. Much less is known about crystallization waves for the 4He crystal surface in the smooth well-faceted state below the roughening transition temperature. To meet the lack, we analyze here the spectrum of facet c

Y. S. Yerin, A. N. Omelyanchouk

We developed microscopic theory of Josephson effect in point contacts between dirty two-band superconductors. The general expression for the Josephson current, which is valid for arbitrary temperatures, is obtained. This expression was used for calculation of current-phase relations and temperature dependences of critical current with application to MgB2 sup

J. Klacka, L. Komar, P. Pastor, M. Jurci

The paper deals with several properties of the Oort cloud of comets. Sun, Galaxy (and Jupiter) gravitationally act on the comets. New physical model of galactic tide is considered. The main results can be summarized as follows: 1. Mass of the Oort cloud of comets is less than 1 mass of the Earth ($M_{E}$), probably not greater than 1/2 $M_{E}$. 2. Theoretica

Masataka Miyamoto, Yasunori Ito, Kin&#39;ya Takahashi, Toshiya Takami

Acoustic mechanics of air-reed instruments is investigated numerically with compressible Large-eddy simulation (LES). Taking a two dimensional air-reed instrument model, we have succeeded in reproducing sound oscillations excited in the resonator and have studied the characteristic feature of air-reed instruments, i.e., the relation of the sound frequency wi

Stefano Marcugini, Alfredo Milani, Fernanda Pambianco

In this paper it has been verified, by a computer-based proof, that the smallest size of a complete arc is 14 in PG(2,31) and in PG(2,32). Some examples of such arcs are also described.

Levan N. Tsintsadze

The system of electron beam - degenerate Fermi gas in a magnetic field is investigated. Instabilities of the quantized longitudinal electric waves are studied by a newly derived dispersion equation. Novel branches of longitudinal waves are found, which have no analogies without the Landau quantization. Growth rates of these new modes are obtained. The excita

V. Balédent, B. Fauqué, Y. Sidis, N. B. Christensen

In high temperature copper oxides superconductors, a novel magnetic order associated with the pseudogap phase has been identified in two different cuprate families over a wide region of temperature and doping. We here report the observation below 120 K of a similar magnetic ordering in the archetypal cuprate ${\rm La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4}$ (LSCO) system for x=0.08

A. Pietarila, R. Cameron, S. K. Solanki

Context: The expansion of network magnetic fields with height is a fundamental property of flux tube models. A rapid expansion is required to form a magnetic canopy. Aims: We characterize the observed expansion properties of magnetic network elements and compare them with the thin flux tube and sheet approximations, as well as with magnetoconvection simulati

Nairwita Mazumder, Subenoy Chakraborty

In this letter, we investigate the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics of the universe bounded by the event horizon in the holographic dark energy model. The universe is chosen to be homogeneous and isotropic and the validity of the first law has been assumed here. The matter in the universe is taken in the form of non-interacting two fl

Andrey E. Mironov

In this paper we suggest a method for constructing minimal Lagrangian immersions of $R^2$ in $CP^2$ with induced diagonal metric in terms of Baker-Akhiezer functions of algebraic curves.

Jan T. Sobczyk

Recent experimental and theoretical research in the area of neutrino interactions in the ~ 1 GeV region are reviewed including topics like: the problem of value of quasielastic axial mass, neutral current Pi0 production, coherent pion production. Many comments are devoted to status and current development of Monte Carlo events generators.

Mouhamed Moustapha Fall, Roberta Musina

Let $Ø$ be a bounded domain in $\R^N$ with $0\in\deØ$ and $N\ge 2$. In this paper we study the Hardy-Poincaré inequality for maps in $H^1_0(Ω)$. In particular we give sufficient and some necessary conditions so that the best constant is achieved.

Gavin Ramsay, Iwona Kotko, Tom Barclay, Chris Copperwheat

We present multi-wavelength observations of the helium-dominated accreting binary KL Dra which has an orbital period of 25 mins. Our ground-based optical monitoring programme using the Liverpool Telescope has revealed KL Dra to show frequent outbursts. Although our coverage is not uniform, our observations are consistent with the outbursts recurring on a tim

ZEUS collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt, L. Adamczyk

Beauty production in deep inelastic scattering with events in which a muon and a jet are observed in the final state has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 114 pb^-1. The fraction of events with beauty quarks in the data was determined using the distribution of the transverse momentum of the muon relative to the je

Giorgio Mantica

Measures generated by Iterated Function Systems composed of uncountably many one--dimensional affine maps are studied. We present numerical techniques as well as rigorous results that establish whether these measures are absolutely or singular continuous.

I. Yu. Vlasenko

The topological classification of the inner mappings on the fully invariant regular components of the wandering set with a special attracting boundary up to the topological conjugacy is defined in terms of distinguishing graph. Two inner mappings of the same degree are topologically equivalent on their fully invariant regular components of a certain class if

P. Caballero-Gil, C. Caballero-Gil, J. Molina-Gil, C. Hernández-Goya

This work proposes a new architecture, called Global Authentication Scheme for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (GASMAN), for fully distributed and self-organized authentication. In this paper apart from describing all the GASMAN components, special emphasis is placed on proving that it fulfils every requirement of a secure distributed authentication scheme, including

Raphaël Cerf

Based on speculations coming from statistical mechanics and the conjectured existence of critical states, I propose a simple heuristic in order to control the mutation probability and the population size of a genetic algorithm.

D. Cubero, V. Lebedev, F. Renzoni

Directed transport in ratchets is determined by symmetry-breaking in a system out of equilibrium. A hallmark of rocking ratchets is current reversals: an increase in the rocking force changes the direction of the current. In this work for a bi-harmonically driven spatially symmetric rocking ratchet we show that a class of current reversal is precisely determ

Toni Lassila, Gianluigi Rozza

We propose a two-fold approach to model reduction of fluid-structure interaction. The state equations for the fluid are solved with reduced basis methods. These are model reduction methods for parametric partial differential equations using well-chosen snapshot solutions in order to build a set of global basis functions. The other reduction is in terms of th

Daniel C. Cohen, Michael Farber, Thomas Kappeler

In this paper we study the Linial-Meshulam model of random two-dimensional complexes. We prove that a random 2-complex is homotopically one dimensional, with probability tending to one as n tends to infitnity, assuming that the probability parameter p satisfies pn --> 0.

C. -L. Lin, G. Nakamura, G. Uhlmann, J. -N. Wang

In this paper we prove a quantitative form of the strong unique continuation property for the Lamé system when the Lamé coefficients $μ$ is Lipschitz and $λ$ is essentially bounded in dimension $n\ge 2$. This result is an improvement of our earlier result \cite{lin5} in which both $μ$ and $λ$ were assumed to be Lipschitz.

Teodor M. Atanackovic, Stevan Pilipovic, Dusan Zorica

We study waves in a rod of finite length with a viscoelastic constitutive equation of fractional distributed-order type for the special choice of weight functions. Prescribing boundary conditions on displacement, we obtain case corresponding to stress relaxation. In solving system of differential and integro-differential equations we use the Laplace transfor

Chenglong Shen, Jia Yao, Yuming Wang, Pinzhong Ye

The issue of the influence of coronal holes (CHs) on coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in causing solar energetic particle (SEP) events is revisited. It is a continuation and extension of our previous work (Shen et al., 2006), in which no evident effect of CHs on CMEs in generating SEPs were found by statistically investigating 56 CME events. This result is cons

Liling Sun, Jing Guo, Genfu Chen, Xianhui Chen

Superconductivity can be realized in Eu-containing pnictides by application of chemical (internal) and physical (external) pressure, the intrinsic physical mechanism of which attracts much attention in physics community. Here we present the experimental evidence for the valence change of europium in compounds of EuFe2As1.4P0.6 exposed to ambient pressure and