May 2010 arXiv papers — page 31

A. G. Beda, V. B. Brudanin, V. G. Egorov, D. V. Medvedev

The result of the 3-year neutrino magnetic moment measurement at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant with the GEMMA spectrometer is presented. Antineutrino-electron scattering is investigated. A HPGe detector of 1.5 kg placed at a distance of 13.9 m from the centre of the 3 GW_th reactor core is used in the spectrometer. The antineutrino flux is 2.7x10^13 1/cm^2

Hyun Min Lee

We consider the inflationary scenario with non-minimal coupling in 4D Jordan frame supergravity. We find that there occurs a tachyonic instability along the direction of the accompanying non-inflaton field in generic Jordan frame supergravity models. We propose a higher order correction to the Jordan frame function for solving the tachyonic mass problem and

U. Klein

A previous one-dimensional derivation of Schrödinger's equation from statistical assumptions is generalized to three spatial dimensions, gauge fields, and spin. It is found that the same statistical assumptions that imply Schrödinger's equation determine also the form of the gauge coupling terms, and the form of the corresponding local (Lorentz) forc

M. V. Chizhov, V. A. Bednyakov, J. A. Budagov

We study phenomenological consequences of the Standard Model extension by the new spin-1 chiral fields with the internal quantum numbers of the electroweak Higgs doublets. There are at least three different classes of theories, all motivated by the hierarchy problem, which predict new vector weak-doublets with masses not far from the electro-weak scale. We d

Tsuguo Mogami

Recently, a new quantization method for gauge theories was proposed, in which no gauge fixing is required but the constraints are kept. Here we successfully applied this formalism to Nambu-Goto action in any dimensions. The result of our theoretical calculation have shown striking agreement with the spectrum of the light-quark mesons.

Avner Magen, Anastasios Zouzias

In this paper we develop algorithms for approximating matrix multiplication with respect to the spectral norm. Let A\in{\RR^{n\times m}} and B\in\RR^{n \times p} be two matrices and \eps>0. We approximate the product A^\top B using two down-sampled sketches, \tilde{A}\in\RR^{t\times m} and \tilde{B}\in\RR^{t\times p}, where t\ll n such that \norm{\tilde{A}^\

X. Z. Zhang, L. Jin, Z. Song

We study the underlying symmetry in a spin-orbit coupled tight-binding model with Hubbard interaction. It is shown that, in the absence of the on-site interaction, the system possesses the SU(2) symmetry arising from the timereversal symmetry. The influence of the on-site interaction on the symmetry depends on the topology of the networks: The SU(2) symmetry

Dmitry Panchenko

In many spin glass models, due to the symmetry among sites, any limiting joint distribution of spins under the annealed Gibbs measure admits the Aldous-Hoover representation encoded by a function $σ:[0,1]^4\to\{-1,+1\}$, and one can think of this function as a generic functional order parameter of the model. In a class of diluted models, and in the Sherringt

Lixing Zhu, Zhenghui Feng

In this paper, we propose a parameter space augmentation approach that is based on "intentionally" introducing a pseudo-nuisance parameter into generalized linear models for the purpose of variance reduction. We first consider the parameter whose norm is equal to one. By introducing a pseudo-nuisance parameter into models to be estimated, an extra es

L. N. Granda, W. Cardona

We study a new model of scalar field with a general non-minimal kinetic coupling to itself and to the curvature, as a source of dark energy, and analyze the cosmological dynamics of this model and the issue of accelerated expansion. A wide variety of scalar fields and potentials giving rise to power-law expansion have been found. The dynamical equation of st

Román Castañeda, Gustavo Cañas-Cardona, Herbert Vinck-Posada

In the framework of the spatial coherence wavelets, different features of the first-order spatial coherence (Young's interference) are analysed by calculating the corresponding marginal power spectrum, a close related quantity to the classical Wigner Distribution Function (WDF) of the optical field. The consideration of radiant and virtual point sources

S. Brendle, F. C. Marques

In this paper, we prove a scalar curvature rigidity result for geodesic balls in S^n. This result contrasts sharply with the recent counterexamples to Min-Oo's conjecture for the hemisphere (cf. [5]).

Reza Hosseini

We show that the left (right) sample quantile tends to the left (right) distribution quantile at p in [0,1], if the left and right quantiles are identical at p. We show that the sample quantiles diverge almost surely otherwise. The latter can be considered as a generalization of the well-known result that the sum of a random sample of a fair coin with 1 deno

D. V. Skryabin, A. V. Gorbach

A traditional view on solitons in optical fibers as robust particle-like structures suited for informa- tion transmission has been significantly altered and broadened over the past decade, when solitons have been found to play the major role in generation of octave broad supercontinuum spectra in photonic-crystal and other types of optical fibers. This remar

Jiri Patera, Robert V. Moody

The paper contains a generalization of known properties of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind in one variable to polynomials of $n$ variables based on the root lattices of compact simple Lie groups $G$ of any type and of rank $n$. The results, inspired by work of H. Li and Y. Xu where they derived cubature formulae from $A$-type lattices, yield Gaussia

Jochen Heinloth, Ngo Bao Chau, Zhiwei Yun

Deligne constructed a remarkable local system on $\bP^1-\{0,\infty\}$ attached to a family of Kloosterman sums. Katz calculated its monodromy and asked whether there are Kloosterman sheaves for general reductive groups and which automorphic forms should be attached to these local systems under the Langlands correspondence. Motivated by work of Gross and Fren

T. V. Gevorgyan, A. R. Shahinyan, G. Yu. Kryuchkyan

We show that quantum-interference phenomena can be realized for the dissipative nonlinear systems exhibiting hysteresis-cycle behavior and quantum chaos. Such results are obtained for a driven dissipative nonlinear oscillator with time-dependent parameters and take place for the regimes of long time intervals exceeding dissipation time and for macroscopic le

Gianpiero Mangano

We consider the role of the zero-point energy of a quantum field in cosmology and show that the flow of trans-planckian momenta due to redshift acts as a source for this energy, regularized with a cut-off Lambda in physical momenta. In order to fulfill Bianchi identity, we generalize Einstein equations, and discuss the corresponding Friedmann homogeneous and

The D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We measure the charge asymmetry $A$ of like-sign dimuon events in 6.1 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions recorded with the D0 detector at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. From $A$, we extract the like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry in semileptonic $b$-hadron decays: $\aslb = -0.00957 \pm 0.00251 ({\rm stat}) \pm

Hans Christianson, Colin Guillarmou, Laurent Michel

We consider the operator associated to a random walk on finite volume surfaces with hyperbolic cusps. We study the spectral gap (upper and lower bound) associated to this operator and deduce some rate of convergence of the iterated kernel towards its stationary distribution.

Katarzyna Grabowska

The static of smooth maps from the two-dimensional disc to a smooth manifold can be regarded as a simplified version of the Classical Field Theory. In this paper we construct the Tulczyjew triple for the problem and describe the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism. We outline also natural generalizations of this approach to arbitrary dimensions.

J. D. Phillips, V. A. Shcherbacov

Left Cheban loops are loops that satisfy the identity x(xy.z) = yx.xz. Right Cheban loops satisfy the mirror identity {(z.yx)x = zx.xy}. Loops that are both left and right Cheban are called Cheban loops. Cheban loops can also be characterized as those loops that satisfy the identity x(xy.z) = (y.zx)x. These loops were introduced in Cheban, A. M. Loops with i

E. Z. Gusakov, A. Yu. Popov

The experimental conditions leading to substantial reduction of backscattering decay instability threshold in ECRH experiments in toroidal devices are analyzed. It is shown that drastic decrease of threshold is provided by non monotonic behavior of plasma density in the vicinity of magnetic island and poloidal magnetic field inhomogeneity making possible loc

Victor J. W. Guo

Motivated by the recent work of Chu [Electron. J. Combin. 17 (2010), #N24], we give simple proofs of Jensen's identity $$ \sum_{k=0}^{n}{x+kz\choose k}{y-kz\choose n-k} =\sum_{k=0}^{n}{x+y-k\choose n-k}z^k, $$ and Chu's and Mohanty-Handa's generalizations of Jensen's identity. We also give a quite simple proof of an equivalent form of Graham-

Wayne Rossman, Magdalena Toda

We make observations about constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean 3-space and their dual surfaces, and the resulting pairs of surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space under the Lawson correspondence.

Alexei Iantchenko

We consider the "weighted" operator $P_k=-\partial_x a(x)\partial_x$ on the line with a step-like coefficient which appears when propagation of waves thorough a finite slab of a periodic medium is studied. The medium is transparent at certain resonant frequencies which are related to the complex resonance spectrum of $P_k.$ If the coefficient is peri

Dana Levanony, Amos Ori

We study the internal structure of a two-dimensional dilatonic evaporating black hole, based on the CGHS model. At the semiclassical level, a (weak) spacelike singularity was previously found to develop inside the black hole. We employ here a simplified quantum formulation of spacetime dynamics in the neighborhood of this singularity, using a minisuperspace-

Jarno Talponen

We study spaces with directionally asymptotically controlled ellipsoids approximating the unit ball in finite-dimensions. These ellipsoids are the unique minimum volume ellipsoids, which contain the unit ball of the corresponding finite-dimensional subspace. The directional control here means that we evaluate the ellipsoids with a given functional of the dua

Donal F. Connon

We generalise the Bernoulli numbers to include the case where the index may be a continuous variable.

YuanYao Lin, Chandroth P. Jisha, Ching-Jen Jeng, Ray-Kuang Lee

We analyze the existence, stability, and mobility of gap solitons (GSs) in a periodic photonic structure built into a nonlocal self-defocusing medium. Counter-intuitively, the GSs are supported even by a highly nonlocal nonlinearity, which makes the system quasi-linear. Unlike local models, the variational approximation (VA) predicts the GSs in a good agreem

Wei Hou, Lin Zhang, Lei Yang, Heather Zheng

In the past few years we have witnessed the paradigm shift from static spectrum allocation to dynamic spectrum access/sharing. Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is a promising mechanism to implement the agile spectrum access. However, in wireless distributed networks where tight synchronization is infeasible, OFDMA faces the problem of cr

Donal F. Connon

This paper considers some infinite series involving the Riemann zeta function.

J. Cernicharo, J. R. Goicoechea, F. Daniel, M. Agundez

We report on the detection with the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel satellite of the two hydrogen chloride isotopologues, H35Cl and H37Cl, towards the massive star-forming region W3A. The J=1-0 line of both species was observed with receiver 1b of the HIFI instrument at 625.9 and 624.9 GHz. The different hyperfine components were resolved. The observat

Ivan Agullo, Jose Navarro-Salas, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Leonard Parker

We point out that if quantum field renormalization is taken into account the predictions of slow-roll inflation for both the scalar and tensorial power spectra change significantly for wavelengths that today are at observable scales

L. G. Sukhikh, G. A. Naumenko, Yu. A. Popov, A. P. Potylitsyn

Coherent Smith-Purcell radiation generated by bunched electron beam in the lamellar metal and dielectric gratings in the millimeter wavelength range was compared theoretically and experimentally. For theoretical estimation a simple model suitable for both dielectric and metal gratings was developed. Experimental comparison was carried out using extracted bun

George H. Fisher

Solar flares are currently understood as the explosive release of energy stored in the form of stressed magnetic fields. In many cases, the released energy seems to take the form of large numbers of electrons accelerated to high energies or alternatively plasma heated to very high temperatures. The transport of this energy into the remaining portion of the a

Sanjay M Wagh

The equality of the inertia and the gravitational mass of a body is explained in a very general manner. We also motivate this explanation by providing analogous examples

Gideon Juve, Ewa Deelman, Karan Vahi, Gaurang Mehta

The proliferation of commercial cloud computing providers has generated significant interest in the scientific computing community. Much recent research has attempted to determine the benefits and drawbacks of cloud computing for scientific applications. Although clouds have many attractive features, such as virtualization, on-demand provisioning, and "p

Yuqun Chen, Qiuhui Mo

In this paper, by using Gröbner-Shirshov bases for Rota-Baxter algebras, we prove that every dendriform dialgebra over a field of characteristic 0 can be embedded into its universal enveloping Rota-Baxter algebra of weight 0.

Georgios Tzimiropoulos, Stefanos Zafeiriou

We introduce the notion of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of image gradient orientations. As image data is typically noisy, but noise is substantially different from Gaussian, traditional PCA of pixel intensities very often fails to estimate reliably the low-dimensional subspace of a given data population. We show that replacing intensities with gradient

James P. Crutchfield, Sean Whalen

We introduce a theory of sequential causal inference in which learners in a chain estimate a structural model from their upstream teacher and then pass samples from the model to their downstream student. It extends the population dynamics of genetic drift, recasting Kimura's selectively neutral theory as a special case of a generalized drift process usin

Vincent E. Dorgan, Myung-Ho Bae, Eric Pop

We examine mobility and saturation velocity in graphene on SiO2 above room temperature (300-500 K) and at high fields (~1 V/um). Data are analyzed with practical models including gated carriers, thermal generation, "puddle" charge, and Joule heating. Both mobility and saturation velocity decrease with rising temperature above 300 K, and with rising c

Si-Hyeon Lee, Sae-Young Chung

In this paper, we characterize the capacity of a new class of single-source multicast discrete memoryless relay networks having a tree topology in which the root node is the source and each parent node in the graph has at most one noisy child node and any number of noiseless child nodes. This class of multicast tree networks includes the class of diamond net

Lan Zhou, Yiping Wang, Hua Zhou, Minghao Li

We report on the transition between two regimes from several-atom clusters to much larger nanoparticles in Ar magnetron sputter deposition of WSi2, and the effect of nanoparticles on the properties of amorphous thin films and multilayers. Sputter deposition of thin films is monitored by in situ x-ray scattering, including x-ray reflectivity and grazing incid

Thomas Vojta

In this paper, we review theoretical and experimental research on rare region effects at quantum phase transitions in disordered itinerant electron systems. After summarizing a few basic concepts about phase transitions in the presence of quenched randomness, we introduce the idea of rare regions and discuss their importance. We then analyze in detail the di

Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato, Alessandro Flammini

Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits. We provide a quantitative, large scale, temporal analysis of the dynamics of online content popularity in two massive model systems, the Wikipedia and an entire country's Web space. We find that the dynamics of popularity are characterized by bursts, displaying characteristi

Alexander D. Dolgov, Angela Lepidi, Gabriella Piccinelli

Bose-Einstein condensation of W bosons in the early universe is studied. It is shown that, in the broken phase of the standard electroweak theory, condensed W bosons form a ferromagnetic state with aligned spins. In this case the primeval plasma may be spontaneously magnetized inside macroscopically large domains and form magnetic fields which may be seeds f

Alexander Bobenko, Ulrich Pinkall, Boris Springborn

We establish a connection between two previously unrelated topics: a particular discrete version of conformal geometry for triangulated surfaces, and the geometry of ideal polyhedra in hyperbolic three-space. Two triangulated surfaces are considered discretely conformally equivalent if the edge lengths are related by scale factors associated with the vertice

Sylvie Corteel, Matthieu Josuat-Vergès, Lauren K. Williams

In this paper we outline a Matrix Ansatz approach to some problems of combinatorial enumeration. The idea is that many interesting quantities can be expressed in terms of products of matrices, where the matrices obey certain relations. We illustrate this approach with applications to moments of orthogonal polynomials, permutations, signed permutations, and t

G. Felder, A. D. Hemery, A. P. Veselov

For a certain class of partitions, a simple qualitative relation is observed between the shape of the Young diagram and the pattern of zeroes of the Wronskian of the corresponding Hermite polynomials. In the case of two-term Wronskian $W(H_n, H_{n+k})$ we give an explicit formula for the asymptotic shape of the zero set as $n \rightarrow \infty$. Some empiri

Matthias Beck, Curtis Kifer

We study a generalization of the \emph{Frobenius problem}: given $k$ positive relatively prime integers, what is the largest integer $g_0$ that cannot be represented as a nonnegative integral linear combination of these parameters? More generally, what is the largest integer $g_s$ that has exactly $s$ such representations? We illustrate a family of parameter

Grigori Rozenblum, Michael Solomyak

The behavior of the discrete spectrum of the Schrödinger operator $-\D - V$, in quite a general setting, up to a large extent is determined by the behavior of the corresponding heat kernel $P(t;x,y)$ as $t\to 0$ and $t\to\infty$. If this behavior is powerlike, i.e., \[\|P(t;\cdot,\cdot)\|_{L^\infty}=O(t^{-δ/2}),\ t\to 0;\qquad \|P(t;\cdot,\cdot)\|_{L^\infty}

T. P. Singh

There are various reasons to believe that quantum theory could be an emergent phenomenon. Trace Dynamics is an underlying classical dynamics of non-commuting matrices, from which quantum theory and classical mechanics have been shown to emerge, in the thermodynamic approximation. However, the time that is used to describe evolution in quantum theory is an ex

Basudeb Dasgupta

Neutrinos emitted from a supernova encode useful information about neutrino physics and astrophysics. Interpreting the neutrino signal depends crucially on understanding neutrino production, flavor mixing during propagation, and detection. In this talk, we review the physics potential of a SN neutrino observation.

Jue Wang, G. Roman-Perez, Jose M. Soler, Emilio Artacho

It is known that ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of liquid water, based on the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to density functional theory (DFT), yield structural and diffusive properties in reasonable agreement with experiment only if artificially high temperatures are used in the simulations. The equilibrium density, at normal con

Andrei Bulatov, Martin Dyer, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Markus Jalsenius

We give some reductions among problems in (nonnegative) weighted #CSP which restrict the class of functions that needs to be considered in computational complexity studies. Our reductions can be applied to both exact and approximate computation. In particular, we show that a recent dichotomy for unweighted #CSP can be extended to rational-weighted #CSP.

Michael J Baker, S. T. Tsou

We investigate a recent solution to the strong CP problem, obtaining a theta-angle of order unity, and show that a smooth trajectory of the massive eigenvector of a rank-one rotating mass matrix is consistent with the experimental data for both fermion masses and mixing angles (except for the masses of the lightest quarks). Using this trajectory we study Hig

B. A. Magradze

We propose a modified procedure for extracting the numerical value for the strong coupling constant $α_s$ from the $τ$ lepton hadronic decay rate into non-strange particles in the vector channel. We employ the concept of the quark-hadron duality specifically, introducing a boundary energy squared $s_{\rm p}>0$, the onset of the perturbative QCD continuum in

Nabanita Bhattacharyya, Amitava Datta, Sujoy Poddar

We have analysed the early LHC signatures of the minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) model. Our emphasis is on the 7 - $TeV$ run corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $\sim 1.0 ~fb^{-1}$ although we have also discussed briefly the prospects at LHC-10 $TeV$. We focus on the parameter space yielding relatively light squark and gluinos consistent with the dark

Markus Spitzweck

We construct derived fundamental group schemes for Tate motives over connected smooth schemes over fields. We show that there exists a pro affine derived group scheme over the rationals such that its category of perfect representations models the triangulated category of rational mixed Tate motives. Under a hypothesis which is weaker than an integral version

Tomasz L. Partyka

We have shown, that the possibility of the existence of the mixed phase of the non-uniform chiral (NCh) and the color superconducting (2SC) ground state depends significantly on the choice of the parameters and type of the regularization scheme. Our calculations indicates, that in the 3d cut-off regularization scheme, the mixed region of the NCh and the 2SC

Clément de Seguins Pazzis

It is shown that the thin geometric realization of a simplicial Hausdorff space is Hausdorff. This proves a famous claim by Graeme Segal that the thin geometric realisation of a simplicial k-space is a k-space.

Anatoliy K. Prykarpatsky, Orest D. Artemovych, Ziemowit Popowicz, Maxim V. Pavlov

A differential-algebraic approach to studying the Lax type integrability of the generalized Riemann type hydrodynamic equations at N = 3; 4 is devised. The approach is also applied to studying the Lax type integrability of the well known Korteweg-de Vries dynamical system.

Yuqing Zhang

We consider skew product extension of irrational rotations on the circle by $\Z^2$ determined by an integer valued function as well as a fixed point on the circle. We study ergodic components of such extension.

Shigeru Furuichi

We shall give a new Schrödinger type uncertainty relation for a quantity representing a quantum uncertainty, introduced by S.Luo in \cite{Luo1}. Our result improves the Heisenberg uncertainty relation shown in \cite{Luo1} for a mixed state.

Saeed Salehi

G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem is proved for Herbrand consistency of some arithmetical theories with bounded induction, by using a technique of logarithmic shrinking the witnesses of bounded formulas, due to Z. Adamowicz [Herbrand consistency and bounded arithmetic, \textit{Fundamenta Mathematicae} 171 (2002) 279--292]. In that paper, it was shown t

Xue-Qi Cheng, Fu-Xin Ren, Hua-Wei Shen, Zi-Ke Zhang

Edges in a network can be divided into two kinds according to their different roles: some enhance the locality like the ones inside a cluster while others contribute to the global connectivity like the ones connecting two clusters. A recent study by Onnela et al uncovered the weak ties effects in mobile communication. In this article, we provide complementar

Michael Uhlmann, Ralf Schützhold, Uwe R. Fischer

We investigate the system size scaling of the net defect number created by a rapid quench in a second-order quantum phase transition from an O(N) symmetric state to a phase of broken symmetry. Using a controlled mean-field expansion for large N, we find that the net defect number variance in convex volumina scales like the surface area of the sample for shor

Marcelo Muniz S. Alves, Eliezer Batista

Partial actions of Hopf algebras can be considered as a generalization of partial actions of groups on algebras. Among important properties of partial Hopf actions, it is possible to prove the existence of enveloping actions, i.e., every partial Hopf action on a algebra A is induced by a Hopf action on a algebra B that contains A as a right ideal. This globa

Michael Uhlmann

I study the evolution of mean field and linear quantum fluctuations in a toroidal Bose-Einstein condensate, whose interaction strength is quenched from a finite (repulsive) value to zero. The azimuthal equal-time density-density correlation function is calculated and shows temporal oscillations with twice the (final) excitation frequencies after the transiti

Steven Kenneth Kauffmann

Solitary-particle quantum mechanics' inherent compatibility with special relativity is implicit in Schroedinger's postulated wave-function rule for the operator quantization of the particle's canonical three-momentum, taken together with his famed time-dependent wave-function equation that analogously treats the operator quantization of its Hamil

A. G. Parkhomov

Results obtained with multichannel installation created for long-term studies of various processes, are collated with the data published by J.H. Jenkins and E.Fischbach, who found a decrease of 54Mn radioactivity near the time of series of solar flares between 5 and 17 December 2006. Analysis of the data from our installation in December 2006 has not reveale

Gui-Qiang G. Chen

Some of recent developments, including recent results, ideas, techniques, and approaches, in the study of degenerate partial differential equations are surveyed and analyzed. Several examples of nonlinear degenerate, even mixed, partial differential equations, are presented, which arise naturally in some longstanding, fundamental problems in fluid mechanics

Jonathan Sondow, Huang Yi

We generalize Wallis's 1655 infinite product for $π/2$ to one for $(π/K)\csc(π/K)$, as well as give new Wallis-type products for $π/4, 2, \sqrt{2+\sqrt2}, 2π/3\sqrt3,$ and other constants. The proofs use a classical infinite product formula involving the gamma function. We also extend Catalan's 1873 infinite product of radicals for $e$ to Catalan-typ

Henry H. Hsieh, Alan Fitzsimmons, Yogesh Joshi, Damian Christian

We present wide-field imaging of the 2007 outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes obtained serendipitously by SuperWASP-North on 17 nights over a 42-night period beginning on the night (2007 October 22-23) immediately prior to the outburst. Photometry of 17P's unresolved coma in SuperWASP data taken on the first night of the outburst is consistent with exponential

Ruhollah Tavakoli

The indirect prediction of shrinkage induced solidification defects is considered in this study. The previously suggested criterion function methods, in particular the Pellini and Niyama criteria are analyzed in details, and their shortcomings are shown as a result of our analysis (e.g. the scale/shape-dependency of critical values and the inability to disti

T. D. Kang, E. Standard, K. H. Ahn, A. A. Sirenko

The spectra of far-infrared transmission in Tb3Fe5O12 magnetoelectric single crystals have been studied in the range between 15 and 100 cm-1, in magnetic fields up to 10 T, and for temperatures between 5 and 150 K. We attribute some of the observed infrared-active excitations to electric-dipole transitions between ligand-field split states of Tb3+ ions. Anti

Lance J. Dixon

In these lectures I describe the remarkable ultraviolet behavior of N=8 supergravity, which through four loops is no worse than that of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory (a finite theory). I also explain the computational tools that allow multi-loop amplitudes to be evaluated in this theory - the KLT relations and the unitarity method - and sketch how ultraviolet

François Gay-Balmaz, Darryl D. Holm, Vakhtang Putkaradze, Tudor S. Ratiu

Dendronized polymers consist of an elastic backbone with a set of iterated branch structures (dendrimers)attached at every base point of the backbone. The conformations of such molecules depend on the elastic deformation of the backbone and the branches, as well as on nonlocal (e.g., electrostatic, or Lennard-Jones) interactions between the elementary molecu

Tanya Khovanova

This article covers my second talk at the Gathering for Gardner in March, 2010. It is about an Odd One Out puzzle I invented, after having been inspired by Martin Gardner. I do not like Odd One Out questions; that is why I invented one.

D. A. Filimonov

The system considered in this paper consists of two equations $(k=1,2)$ $\dot x(t)=(-1)^{k-1} (0\le t<\infty),\,k(0)=1,\,x(0)=0,\,x(t)\not\in\{0,1\}(-1\le t<0),$ that change mutually in every instant $t$ for which $x(t-τ)\in\{0,1\}$, where $τ={\rm const}>0$ is given. In this paper the behavior of the solutions is characterized for every $τ\in(4/3, 3/2)$, i.

Xinli Wang, German Drazer

We investigate the average velocity of Brownian particles driven by a constant external force when constrained to move in two-dimensional, weakly-corrugated channels. We consider both the geometric confinement of the particles between solid walls as well as the soft confinement induced by a periodic potential. Using perturbation methods we show that the lead

Alexey Starykh

Nonlinear control algorithm for a self-energizing electro-hydraulic brake is analytically designed. The desired closed-loop system behavior is reached via a synthesized nonlinear controller.

Alexander Makhlin

The connection between the Dirac field as the field of matter and the spacetime metric is discussed within the framework of classical field theory. Polarization structure of the Dirac field is shown to be rich enough to determine the spacetime metric locally and to explain the emergence of observed matter as localized waveforms. The localization of the wavef

Fei Zhou, Gerbrand Ceder

The interactions between charge and orbitally ordered $d$-electrons are important in many transition metal oxides. We propose an effective energy model for such interactions, parameterized with DFT+U calculations, so that energy contributions of both electronic and lattice origin can be simultaneously accounted for. The model is applied to the low-temperatur

F. Kerschbaum, D. Ladjal, R. Ottensamer, M. A. T. Groenewegen

Detached circumstellar dust shells are detected around three carbon variables using Herschel-PACS. Two of them are already known on the basis of their thermal CO emission and two are visible as extensions in IRAS imaging data. By model fits to the new data sets, physical sizes, expansion timescales, dust temperatures, and more are deduced. A comparison with

M. J. Barlow, O. Krause, B. M. Swinyard, B. Sibthorpe

Using the 3.5-m Herschel Space Observatory, imaging photometry of Cas A has been obtained in six bands between 70 um and 500 um with the PACS and SPIRE instruments, with angular resolutions ranging from 6 to 37&#34;. In the outer regions of the remnant the 70-um PACS image resembles the 24-um image Spitzer image, with the emission attributed to the same warm

Stefan Gottloeber, Yehuda Hoffman, Gustavo Yepes

The local universe is the best known part of our universe. Within the CLUES project (http://clues-project.org - Constrained Local UniversE Simulations) we perform numerical simulations of the evolution of the local universe. For these simulations we construct initial conditions based on observational data of the galaxy distribution in the local universe. Her

Harvey B. Meyer

An exact expression is derived for the $(ω,p)=0$ thermal correlator of shear stress in SU($N_c$) lattice gauge theory. I remove a logarithmic divergence by taking a suitable linear combination of the shear correlator and the correlator of the energy density. The operator product expansion shows that the same linear combination has a finite limit when $ω\to\i

J. W. Moffat, V. T. Toth

We apply our scalar-tensor-vector (STVG) modified gravity theory (MOG) to calculate the infall velocities of the two clusters constituting the Bullet Cluster 1E0657-06. In the absence of an applicable two-body solution to the MOG field equations, we adopt an approximate acceleration formula based on the spherically symmetric, static, vacuum solution of the t

Gilles Tarjus, Francois Sausset, Pascal Viot

In this article, we review the progress made on the statistical mechanics of liquids and fluids embedded in curved space. Our main focus will be on two-dimensional manifolds of constant nonzero curvature and on the influence of the latter on the phase behavior, thermodynamics and structure of simple liquids. Reference will also be made to existing work on th

Daniel Carando, Daniel Galicer

We introduce the symmetric-Radon-Nikodým property (sRN property) for finitely generated s-tensor norms $β$ of order $n$ and prove a Lewis type theorem for s-tensor norms with this property. As a consequence, if $β$ is a projective s-tensor norm with the sRN property, then for every Asplund space $E$, the canonical map $\widetilde{\otimes}_β^{n,s} E&#39; \to

Tien-Cuong Dinh, Viet-Anh Nguyen

We give an abstract version of the hard Lefschetz theorem, the Lefschetz decomposition and the Hodge-Riemann theorem for compact Kaehler manifolds.

A. V. Kitaev, A. Vartanian

The degenerate third Painleve&#39; equation, $u&#34;(t)=(u&#39;(t))^2/u(t)-u&#39;(t)/t+1/t(-8c u^2(t)+2ab)+b^2/u(t)$, where $c=+/-1$, $b>0$, and $a$ is a complex parameter, is studied via the Isomonodromy Deformation Method. Asymptotics of general regular and singular solutions $u(t)$ as $t -> +/-\infty$ and $t -> +/-i\infty$ are derived and parametrized in

K. L. Luhman, E. E. Mamajek

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