May 2010 arXiv papers — page 33

Fionn Murtagh, Pedro Contreras

Data analysis and data mining are concerned with unsupervised pattern finding and structure determination in data sets. "Structure" can be understood as symmetry and a range of symmetries are expressed by hierarchy. Such symmetries directly point to invariants, that pinpoint intrinsic properties of the data and of the background empirical domain of i

Aubrey da Cunha

We present a generalization of standard Turing machines based on allowing unusual tapes. We present a set of reasonable constraints on tape geometry and classify all tapes conforming to these constraints. Surprisingly, this generalization does not lead to yet another equivalent formulation of the notion of computable function. Rather, it gives an alternative

S. Bontemps, Ph. Andre, V. Konyves, A. Men'shchikov

As part of the science demonstration phase of the Herschel mission of the Gould Belt Key Program, the Aquila Rift molecular complex has been observed. The complete ~ 3.3deg x 3.3deg imaging with SPIRE 250/350/500 micron and PACS 70/160 micron allows a deep investigation of embedded protostellar phases, probing of the dust emission from warm inner regions at

Jin-Yi Cai, Xi Chen, Richard Lipton, Pinyan Lu

We consider the problem of evaluating certain exponential sums. These sums take the form $\sum_{x_1,...,x_n \in Z_N} e^{f(x_1,...,x_n) {2 πi / N}} $, where each x_i is summed over a ring Z_N, and f(x_1,...,x_n) is a multivariate polynomial with integer coefficients. We show that the sum can be evaluated in polynomial time in n and log N when f is a quadratic

X. Li, E. A. Barry, J. M. Zavada, M. Buongiorno Nardelli

The influence of electron-electron scattering on the distribution function and transport characteristics of intrinsic monolayer graphene is investigated via an ensemble Monte Carlo simulation. Due to the linear dispersion relation in the vicinity of the Dirac points, it is found that pair-wise collisions in graphene do not conserve the ensemble average veloc

Maria Axenovich, JiHyeok Choi

For two graphs, $G$, and $H$, an edge-coloring of a complete graph is $(G,H)$-good if there is no monochromatic subgraph isomorphic to $G$ and no rainbow subgraph isomorphic to $H$ in this coloring. The set of number of colors used by some $(G,H)$-colorings of $K_n$ is called a mixed-Ramsey spectrum. This note addresses a fundamental question of whether the

G. Hagen, T. Papenbrock, D. J. Dean, M. Hjorth-Jensen

We perform coupled-cluster calculations for the doubly magic nuclei 4He, 16O, 40Ca and 48Ca, for neutron-rich isotopes of oxygen and fluorine, and employ "bare" and secondary renormalized nucleon-nucleon interactions. For the nucleon-nucleon interaction from chiral effective field theory at order next-to-next-to-next-to leading order, we find that th

Andrzej Czarnecki, Jurgen G. Korner, Jan H. Piclum

Decay rates of unpolarized top quarks into longitudinally and transversally polarized W bosons are calculated to second order in the strong coupling constant alpha_s. Including the finite bottom quark mass and electroweak effects, the Standard Model predictions for the W boson helicity fractions are F_L=0.687(5), F_+=0.0017(1), and F_-=0.311(5).

Jerome Carman, Kelsey Collier, Sean Crosby, Vitaliy Fadeyev

We report recent results on the use of charge division to obtain a longitudinal coordinate from silicon strip detectors, and on sources of electronic readout noise for long, thin strips. These results hold promise for the design of Linear Collider charged particle tracking system composed of silicon microstrip sensors.

Chad R. Galley, Adam K. Leibovich, Ira Z. Rothstein

We introduce an effective field theory approach that describes the motion of finite size objects under the influence of electromagnetic fields. We prove that leading order effects due to the finite radius $R$ of a spherically symmetric charge is order $R^2$ rather than order $R$ in any physical model, as widely claimed in the literature. This scaling arises

Tugkan Batu, Petra Berenbrink, Colin Cooper

The study of {\em balls-into-bins processes} or {\em occupancy problems} has a long history. These processes can be used to translate realistic problems into mathematical ones in a natural way. In general, the goal of a balls-into-bins process is to allocate a set of independent objects (tasks, jobs, balls) to a set of resources (servers, bins, urns) and, th

The XENON100 Collaboration

The recently submitted preprint on the first results from the XENON100 dark matter experiment (arxiv:1005.0380) was followed by a criticism by J.I. Collar and D.N. McKinsey (arxiv:1005.0838), focused on our extrapolation of the scintillation efficiency L_eff to the lowest nuclear recoil energies, where no data and no theoretical model exist. Here we add clar

Mark S. Veillette, Murad S. Taqqu

We present a method for computing the PDF and CDF of a non-negative infinitely divisible random variable $X$. Our method uses the Lévy-Khintchine representation of the Laplace transform $\mathbb{E} e^{-λX} = e^{-ϕ(λ)}$, where $ϕ$ is the Laplace exponent. We apply the Post-Widder method for Laplace transform inversion combined with a sequence convergence acce

L. G. Althaus, A. H. Córsico, A. Bischoff-Kim, A. D. Romero

We compute new chemical profiles for the core and envelope of white dwarfs appropriate for pulsational studies of ZZ Ceti stars. These profiles are extracted from the complete evolution of progenitor stars, evolved through the main sequence and the thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stages, and from time-dependent element diffusion during white

Vladimir Manuilov, Chao You

We consider representations of the free group $F_2$ on two generators such that the norm of the sum of the generators and their inverses is bounded by $μ\in[0,4]$. These $μ$-constrained representations determine a C*-algebra $A_μ$ for each $μ\in[0,4]$. We prove that these C*-algebras form a continuous bundle of C*-algebras over $[0,4]$ and calculate their K-

Tamas Budavari, Alex Szalay, Gyorgy Fekete

Sky coverage is one of the most important pieces of information about astronomical observations. We discuss possible representations, and present algorithms to create and manipulate shapes consisting of generalized spherical polygons with arbitrary complexity and size on the celestial sphere. This shape specification integrates well with our Hierarchical Tri

Anders Skovsted Buch, Vijay Ravikumar

We prove Pieri formulas for the multiplication with special Schubert classes in the K-theory of all cominuscule Grassmannians. For Grassmannians of type A this gives a new proof of a formula of Lenart. Our formula is new for Lagrangian Grassmannians, and for orthogonal Grassmannians it proves a special case of a conjectural Littlewood-Richardson rule of Thom

Nicola Garofalo, Nguyen Cong Phuc

We study the boundary behavior of nonnegative p-harmonic functions which vanish on a portion of the boundary of a domain in the Heisenberg group H^n. Our main results are: 1) An estimate from above which shows that, under suitable geometric assumptions on the relevant domain, such a p-harmonic function vanishes at most linearly with respect to the sub-Rieman

Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenco, Joao Seixas

The rotational properties of angular momentum eigenstates imply the existence of a frame-independent relation among the parameters of the decay distribution of vector mesons into fermions. This relation is a generalization of the Lam-Tung identity, a result specific to Drell-Yan production in perturbative QCD, here shown to be equivalent to the dynamical con

R. Ali, P. A. Neill, P. Beiersdorfer, C. L. Harris

Experimental and theoretical state-selective X-ray spectra resulting from single-electron capture in charge exchange (CX) collisions of Ne^10+ with He, Ne, and Ar are presented for a collision velocity of 933 km s^-1 (4.54 keV nucleon^-1), comparable to the highest velocity components of the fast solar wind. The experimental spectra were obtained by detectin

Arno Berger, Theodore P. Hill

Feller's classic text 'An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications' contains a derivation of the well known significant-digit law called Benford's law. More specifically, Feller gives a sufficient condition ("large spread") for a random variable $X$ to be approximately Benford distributed, that is, for $\log_{10}X$ to b

Yue Zou, Gil Refael, Jongsoo Yoon

The magnetical field tuned superconductor-insulator transition in amorphous thin films, e.g., Ta and InO, exhibits a range of yet unexplained curious phenomena, such as a putative low-resistance metallic phase intervening the superconducting and the insulating phase, and a huge peak in the magnetoresistance at large magnetic field. Qualitatively, the phenome

G. A. Baramidze, G. A. Kharadze

NMR spectra in superfluid A-like phases confined in axially deformed aerogel in presence of a magnetic field inclined with respect to deformation axis is considered. The characteristic features of dipole frequency shift in axially compressed and axially stretched cases are compared. In particular, it is shown that in axially stretched aerogel environment the

Klaus Kirsten

In this contribution we first summarize how contour integration methods can be used to derive closed formulae for functional determinants of ordinary differential operators. We then generalize our considerations to partial differential operators. Examples are used to show that also in higher dimensions closed answers can be obtained as long as the eigenvalue

Gonzalo A. Alvarez, Mor Mishkovsky, Ernesto P. Danieli, Patricia R. Levstein

We present a method that implement directional, perfect state transfers within a branched spin network by exploiting quantum interferences in the time-domain. That provides a tool to isolate subsystems from a large and complex one. Directionality is achieved by interrupting the spin-spin coupled evolution with periods of free Zeeman evolutions, whose timing

M. Sewilo, R. Indebetouw, L. R. Carlson, B. Whitney

We demonstrate the unique capabilities of Herschel to study very young luminous extragalactic young stellar objects (YSOs) by analyzing a central strip of the Large Magellanic Cloud obtained through the HERITAGE Science Demonstration Program. We combine PACS 100 and 160, and SPIRE 250, 350, and 500 microns photometry with 2MASS (1.25-2.17 microns) and Spitze

Paul Kinlaw

We investigate refocusing and strong refocusing of light rays in a space-time. A strongly refocusing space-time is refocusing. The converse is unknown. We construct examples of space-times which are refocusing, but not strongly so, at a particular point. These space-times are strongly refocusing at other points. The geometrization conjecture proved by Perelm

Paolo Lipparini

We discuss the connection between various orders on the class of all the ultrafilters and certain compactness properties of abstract logics and of topological spaces. We present a model theoretical characterization of Comfort order. We introduce a new order motivated by considerations in abstract model theory. For each of the above orders, we show that if $E

Deepak Chandran, Herbert M. Sauro

Simulated evolution of biological networks can be used to generate functional networks as well as investigate hypotheses regarding natural evolution. A handful of studies have shown how simulated evolution can be used for studying the functional space spanned by biochemical networks, studying natural evolution, or designing new synthetic networks. If there w

X. Cid Vidal

A short summary of the LHCb muon identification procedure is given in this article. First, the muon system of LHCb is presented, together with some examples of physics measurements of the experiment where the muon identification is crucial. Then, the muon identification algorithm is introduced in three single steps. With this, the efficiency vs. misidentific

Timothy H. Boyer

The Planck spectrum of thermal scalar radiation is derived suggestively within classical physics by the use of an accelerating coordinate frame. The derivation has an analogue in Boltzmann's derivation of the Maxwell velocity distribution for thermal particle velocities by considering the thermal equilibrium of noninteracting particles in a uniform gravi

V. P. Nair, Alexandr Yelnikov

We point out that there is a nonabelian instability for a nonabelian plasma which does not allow both for a net nonzero color charge and the existence of field configurations which are coherent over a volume $v$ whose size is determined by the chemical potential. The basic process which leads to this result is the Schwinger decay of chromoelectric fields, fo

Sebastian J. Schreiber, Michel Benaïm, Kolawolé A. S. Atchadé

Understanding under what conditions interacting populations, whether they be plants, animals, or viral particles, coexist is a question of theoretical and practical importance in population biology. Both biotic interactions and environmental fluctuations are key factors that can facilitate or disrupt coexistence. To better understand this interplay between t

Seth Lloyd, Masoud Mohseni

Coherent hopping of excitation rely on quantum coherence over physically extended states. In this work, we consider simple models to examine the effect of symmetries of delocalized multi-excitation states on the dynamical timescales, including hopping rates, radiative decay, and environmental interactions. While the decoherence (pure dephasing) rate of an ex

Dhruv Singh, Jayathi Y. Murthy, Timothy S. Fisher

We report finite-volume simulations of the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for heat conduction across the heterogeneous interfaces in SiGe superlattices. The diffuse mismatch model incorporating phonon dispersion and polarization is implemented over a wide range of Knudsen numbers. The results indicate that the thermal conductivity of a Si/Ge super

F. Bringas, M. T. Yamashita, T. Frederico, L. Tomio

We investigate the occurrence of Borromean three-body continuum s-wave resonances, in an $ααβ$ system for large negative two-body scattering lengths. The energy and width are determined by a scaling function with arguments given by energy ratios of the two-body virtual state subsystem energies with the shallowest three-body bound state. The Borromean continu

J. Kunc, K. Kowalik, F. J. Teran, P. Plochocka

Polarization-resolved magneto-luminescence, together with simultaneous magneto-transport measurements, have been performed on a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) confined in CdTe quantum well in order to determine the spin-splitting of fully occupied electronic Landau levels, as a function of the magnetic field (arbitrary Landau level filling factors) and

Natalia G. Mensah

Acoustic wave propagation in bulk GaN Semiconductor in the presence of a slowly changing a.c electric field and a constant electric field has been studied. Analytical expression for the attenuation (amplification) coefficient has been obtained. It is shown that the a.c electric field is acting as a modulator and that the acoustoelectric gain increases to a m

Pablo S. Moya, Felipe A. Asenjo

The effect of spin of particles in the propagation of plasma waves is studied using a semi-classical kinetic theory for a magnetized plasma. We focus in the simple damping effects for the electrostatic wave modes besides Landau damping. Without taking into account more quantum effects than spin contribution to Vlasov's equation, we show that spin produce

Clive Dickinson

Polarized foregrounds are going to be a serious challenge for detecting CMB cosmological B-modes. Both diffuse Galactic emission and extragalactic sources contribute significantly to the power spectrum on large angular scales. At low frequencies, Galactic synchrotron emission will dominate with fractional polarization $\sim 20-40%$ at high latitudes while ra

Brendon Rhoades

We prove a collection of conjectures of D. White \cite{WComm}, as well as some related conjectures of Abuzzahab-Korson-Li-Meyer \cite{AKLM} and of Reiner and White \cite{ReinerComm}, \cite{WComm}, regarding the cyclic sieving phenomenon of Reiner, Stanton, and White \cite{RSWCSP} as it applies to jeu-de-taquin promotion on rectangular tableaux. To do this, w

Alejandro Cornejo, Fabian Kuhn

We present the \emph{discrete beeping} communication model, which assumes nodes have minimal knowledge about their environment and severely limited communication capabilities. Specifically, nodes have no information regarding the local or global structure of the network, don't have access to synchronized clocks and are woken up by an adversary. Moreover,

Brendon Rhoades

We resolve affirmatively some conjectures of Reiner, Stanton, and White \cite{ReinerComm} regarding enumeration of transportation matrices which are invariant under certain cyclic row and column rotations. Our results are phrased in terms of the bicyclic sieving phenomenon introduced by Barcelo, Reiner, and Stanton \cite{BRSBiD}. The proofs of our results us

Renyu Zhao

A ring $R$ is called a left APP-ring if the left annihilator $l_{R}(Ra)$ is right $s$-unital as an ideal of $R$ for any $a\in R$. Let $R$ be a ring, $(S,\leq)$ a strictly ordered monoid and $ω:S\longrightarrow {\rm End}(R)$ a monoid homomorphism. The skew generalized power series ring $[[R^{S,\leq},ω]]$ is a common generalization of (skew) polynomial rings,

C. Kramer, C. Buchbender, E. M. Xilouris, M. Boquien

Within the framework of the HERM33ES key project, we are studying the star forming interstellar medium in the nearby, metal-poor spiral galaxy M33, exploiting the high resolution and sensitivity of Herschel. We use PACS and SPIRE maps at 100, 160, 250, 350, and 500 micron wavelength, to study the variation of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with gal

L. Shao, D. Lutz, R. Nordon, R. Maiolino

Sensitive Herschel far-infrared observations can break degeneracies that were inherent to previous studies of star formation in high-z AGN hosts. Combining PACS 100 and 160um observations of the GOODS-N field with 2Msec Chandra data, we detect ~20% of X-ray AGN individually at >3sig. The host far-infrared luminosity of AGN with L2-10~10^43erg/s increases wit

Brendon Rhoades

Reiner, Stanton, and White \cite{RSWCSP} proved results regarding the enumeration of polygon dissections up to rotational symmetry. Eu and Fu \cite{EuFu} generalized these results to Cartan-Killing types other than A by means of actions of deformed Coxeter elements on cluster complexes of Fomin and Zelevinsky \cite{FZY}. The Reiner-Stanton-White and Eu-Fu re

Martin M. Block, Loyal Durand, Phuoc Ha, Douglas W. McKay

Using repeated Laplace transform techniques, along with newly-developed accurate numerical inverse Laplace transform algorithms, we transform the coupled, integral-differential NLO singlet DGLAP equations first into coupled differential equations, then into coupled algebraic equations, which we can solve iteratively. After Laplace inverting the algebraic sol

P. N. Romanets, F. T. Vasko

We study coherent nonlinear dynamics of carriers under ultrafast interband excitation of an intrinsic graphene. The Rabi oscillations of response appear with increasing of pumping intensity. The photoexcited distribution is calculated versus time and energy taking into account the effects of energy relaxation and dephasing. Spectral and temporal dependencies

Y. Liu, S. K. Bose, J. Kudrnovský

Using full-potential linear augmented plane wave method (FP-LAPW) and the density functional theory, we have carried out a systematic investigation of the electronic, magnetic, and cohesive properties of the chalcogenide CrTe in three competing structures: rock-salt (RS), zinc blende (ZB) and the NiAs-type (NA) hexagonal. Although the ground state is of NA s

Brendon Rhoades

Noncrossing set partitions, nonnesting set partitions, Dyck paths, and rooted plane trees are four classes of Catalan objects which carry a notion of type. There exists a product formula which enumerates these objects according to type. We define a notion of `connectivity' for these objects and prove an analogous product formula which counts connected ob

Michael Carr, Satyan L. Devadoss, Stefan Forcey

Given a simple graph G, the graph associahedron KG is a simple polytope whose face poset is based on the connected subgraphs of G. This paper defines and constructs graph associahedra in a general context, for pseudographs with loops and multiple edges, which are also allowed to be disconnected. We then consider deformations of pseudograph associahedra as th

Marcos Dajczer, Jaime Ripoll

A classical problem in constant mean curvature hypersurface theory is, for given $H\geq 0$, to determine whether a compact submanifold $Γ^{n-1}$ of codimension two in Euclidean space $\R_+^{n+1}$, having a single valued orthogonal projection on $\R^n$, is the boundary of a graph with constant mean curvature $H$ over a domain in $\R^n$. A well known result of

T. A. van Kempen, J. D. Green, N. J. Evans, E. F. van Dishoeck

DK Cha is an intermediate-mass star in transition from an embedded configuration to a star plus disk stage. We aim to study the composition and energetics of the circumstellar material during this pivotal stage. Using the Range Scan mode of PACS on the Herschel Space Observatory, we obtained a spectrum of DK Cha from 55 to 210 micron as part of the DIGIT Key

K. Ammari, S. Nicaise, C. Pignotti

In this paper we consider a boundary stabilization problem for the wave equation with interior delay. We prove an exponential stability result under some Lions geometric condition. The proof of the main result is based on an identity with multipliers that allows to obtain a uniform decay estimate for a suitable Lyapunov functional.

Alexander Zimmermann

For a perfect field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$ and for a finite dimensional symmetric $k$-algebra $A$ Külshammer studied a sequence of ideals of the centre of $A$ using the $p$-power map on degree 0 Hochschild homology. In joint work with Bessenrodt and Holm we removed the condition to be symmetric by passing through the trivial extension algebra. If $A$ is

K. Ammari, S. Nicaise

We consider a stabilization problem for a piezoelectric system. We prove an exponential stability result under some Lions geometric condition. Our method is based on an identity with multipliers that allows to show an appropriate observability estimate.

Quanquan Liang, Mingyan Liu

The knowledge of channel statistics can be very helpful in making sound opportunistic spectrum access decisions. It is therefore desirable to be able to efficiently and accurately estimate channel statistics. In this paper we study the problem of optimally placing sensing times over a time window so as to get the best estimate on the parameters of an on-off

Sengul Nalci, Oktay K. Pashaev

By using Jackson's q-exponential function we introduce the generating function, the recursive formulas and the second order q-differential equation for the q-Hermite polynomials. This allows us to solve the q-heat equation in terms of q-Kampe de Feriet polynomials with arbitrary N moving zeroes, and to find operator solution for the Initial Value Problem

Alexey Pokrovskiy

For a graph G, its rth power is constructed by placing an edge between two vertices if they are within distance r of each other. In this note we study the amount of edges added to a graph by taking its rth power. In particular we obtain that either the rth power is complete or "many" new edges are added. This is an extension of a result obtained by P

F. Villa, L. Terenzi, M. Sandri, P. Meinhold

The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) on-board the ESA Planck satellite carries eleven radiometer subsystems, called Radiometer Chain Assemblies (RCAs), each composed of a pair of pseudo-correlation receivers. We describe the on-ground calibration campaign performed to qualify the flight model RCAs and to measure their pre-launch performances. Each RCA was cali

C. Alard

In gravitational lensing the average colors of the images are not identical to the average color of the source. The highly non-linear mapping of gravitational lensing does not preserve the color balance of the source, and this mapping is different for each image. The color distortion of the images is illustrated using HST images of the lens SL2SJ02140. It is

Yacine Aït Amrane

Let $K$ be a global field of positive characteristic. Let $\infty$ be a fixed place of $K$. This paper gives an explicit isomorphism between the space of automorphic forms (resp. cusp forms) for $GL_{n+1}(K)$ that transform like the special representations and certain spaces of harmonic cochains (resp. those with finite support) defined on the Bruhat-Tits bu

Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham

We determine an expression for the cosmic variance of any "normal" galaxy survey based on examination of M* +/- 1 mag galaxies in the SDSS DR7 data cube. We find that cosmic variance will depend on a number of factors principally: total survey volume, survey aspect ratio, and whether the area surveyed is contiguous or comprised of independent sight-l

Julia Roman-Duval, Frank P. Israel, Alberto Bolatto, Annie Hughes

Spitzer and IRAS observations of the LMC suggest an excess of FIR emission with respect to the gas surface density traced by 12CO and HI 21 cm emission lines. This "FIR excess" is noticeable near molecular clouds in the LMC, and has usually been interpreted as the presence of a self-shielded H2 component not traced by CO molecular clouds' envelop

Assaf Naor, Scott Sheffield

We prove that every Lipschitz function from a subset of a locally compact length space to a metric tree has a unique absolutely minimal Lipschitz extension (AMLE). We relate these extensions to a stochastic game called {\bf Politics} - a generalization of a game called {\bf Tug of War} that has been used in \cite{PSSW09} to study real-valued AMLEs.

Jesús Martínez-Mateo, Susana Munoz-Hernandez, David Pérez-Rey

Computer literacy is not negotiable for any professional in an increasingly computerised environment. Educational institutions should be equipped to provide this new basic training for modern life. Accordingly, computer labs are an essential medium for education in almost any field. Computer labs are one of the most popular IT infrastructures for technical t

A. Sengupta

Building on the engine-pump paradigm of ChaNoXity, this paper argues that complex holism - as the competitive homeostasis of dispersion and concentration - is the operating mode of Nature. Specifically, we show that the negative world \mathfrak{W} is a gravitationally collapsed black hole that was formed at big-bang time t=0 as the pair (W,\mathfrak{W}), wit

Hannah Schunker

The goal of local helioseismology is to elicit three-dimensional information about the sub-surface (or far-side) structure and dynamics of the Sun from observations of the helioseismic wave field at the surface. The physical quantities of interest include flows, sound-speed deviations and magnetic fields. However, strong surface magnetic fields induce large

Maria Eugenia Cabrera

We perform a forecast of the CMSSM for the LHC based in an improved Bayesian analysis taking into account the present theoretical and experimental wisdom about the model. In this way we obtain a map of the preferred regions of the CMSSM parameter space and show that fine-tuning penalization arises from the Bayesian analysis itself when the experimental value

H. R. Ledo, M. Sarzi, M. Dotti, S. Khochfar

Nuclear Stellar Disks (NSDs), of a few tens to hundreds of parsec across, are a common and yet poorly studied feature of early-type galaxies. Still, such small disks represent a powerful tool to constrain the assembling history of galaxies, since they can be used to trace to the epoch when galaxies experienced their last major merger event. By studying the f

D. Charrier, F. Alet

We present an extensive numerical study of the critical behavior of dimer models in three dimensions, focusing on the phase transition between Coulomb and crystalline columnar phases. The case of attractive interactions between parallel dimers on a plaquette was shown to undergo a continuous phase transition with critical exponents close to those of the O(N)

V. Ossenkopf, H. S. P. Müller, D. C. Lis, P. Schilke

We identify a prominent absorption feature at 1115 GHz, detected in first HIFI spectra towards high-mass star-forming regions, and interpret its astrophysical origin. The characteristic hyperfine pattern of the H2O+ ground-state rotational transition, and the lack of other known low-energy transitions in this frequency range, identifies the feature as H2O+ a

Susanne Viefers, Mathieu Taillefumier

We revisit the composite fermion (CF) construction of the lowest angular momentum yrast states of rotating Bose gases with weak short range interaction. For angular momenta at and below the single vortex, $L \leq N$, the overlaps between these trial wave functions and the corresponding exact solutions {\it increase} with increasing system size and appear to

D. Ward-Thompson, J. M. Kirk, P. André, P. Saraceno

The Polaris Flare cloud region contains a great deal of extended emission. It is at high declination and high Galactic latitude. It was previously seen strongly in IRAS Cirrus emission at 100 microns. We have detected it with both PACS and SPIRE on Herschel. We see filamentary and low-level structure. We identify the five densest cores within this structure.

Tomo Tanaka, Fumitoshi Amemiya, Masahiro Shimano, Tomohiro Harada

In loop quantum cosmology, the Hamiltonian reduces to a finite difference operator. We study the initial singularity and the large volume limit against the ambiguities in the discretisation and the operator ordering within a homogeneous, isotropic and spatially flat model with the cosmological constant. We find that the absence of the singularity strongly de

V. Ossenkopf, M. Röllig, R. Simon, N. Schneider

The molecular gas in the DR21 massive star formation region is known to be affected by the strong UV field from the central star cluster and by a fast outflow creating a bright shock. The relative contribution of both heating mechanisms is the matter of a long debate. By better sampling the excitation ladder of various tracers we provide a quantitative disti

H. Oukris, N. E. Israeloff

Response functions and fluctuations measured locally in complex materials should equally well characterize mesoscopic-scale dynamics. The fluctuation-dissipation-relation (FDR), relates the two in equilibrium, a fact used regularly, for example, to infer mechanical properties of soft matter from the fluctuations in light scattering. In slowly-evolving non-eq

Julien Cassaigne, Gwénaël Richomme, Kalle Saari, Luca Q. Zamboni

The notion of Abelian complexity of infinite words was recently used by the three last authors to investigate various Abelian properties of words. In particular, using van der Waerden's theorem, they proved that if a word avoids Abelian $k$-powers for some integer $k$, then its Abelian complexity is unbounded. This suggests the following question: How fr

Joachim Escher, Anca-Voichita Matioc, Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

In this paper we consider the evolution of two fluid phases in a porous medium. The fluids are separated from each other and also the wetting phase from air by interfaces which evolve in time. We reduce the problem to an abstract evolution equation. A generalised Rayleigh-Taylor condition characterizes the parabolicity regime of the problem and allows us to

O. A. Petrenko, N. R. Wilson, G. Balakrishnan, D. McK Paul

The magnetic properties of Co3V2O8 have been studied by single-crystal neutron-diffraction. In zero magnetic field, the observed broadening of the magnetic Bragg peaks suggests the presence of disorder both in the low-temperature ferromagnetic and in the higher-temperature antiferromagnetic state. The field dependence of the intensity and position of the mag

Changgu Lee, Hugen Yan, Louis E. Brus, Tony F. Heinz

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) of single and few-layer thickness was exfoliated on SiO2/Si substrate and characterized by Raman spectroscopy. The number of S-Mo-S layers of the samples was independently determined by contact-mode atomic-force microscopy. Two Raman modes, E12g and A1g, exhibited sensitive thickness dependence, with the frequency of the former de

Changrim Ahn, Plamen Bozhilov

We investigate dyonic giant magnons propagating on $γ$-deformed $AdS_5\times S^5$ by Neumann-Rosochatius reduction method with a twisted boundary condition. We compute finite-size effect of the dispersion relations of dyonic giant magnons which generalizes the previously known case of the giant magnons with one angular momentum found by Bykov and Frolov.

Joachim Escher, Anca-Voichita Matioc, Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

In this paper we study a model describing the growth of necrotic tumors in different regimes of vascularisation. The tumor consists of a necrotic core of death cells and a surrounding nonnecrotic shell. The corresponding mathematical formulation is a moving boundary problem where both boundaries delimiting the nonnecrotic shell are allowed to evolve in time.

Mark Freidlin, Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

Second initial boundary problem in narrow domains of width $ε\ll 1$ for linear second order differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions is considered in this paper. Using probabilistic methods we show that the solution of such a problem converges as $ε\downarrow 0$ to the solution of a standard reaction-diffusion equation in a domain of reduced

Ilian T. Iliev, Kyungjin Ahn, Jun Koda, Paul R. Shapiro

We present some preliminary results from a series of extremely large, high-resolution N-body simulations of the formation of early nonlinear structures. We find that the high-z halo mass function is inconsistent with the Sheth-Tormen mass function, which tends to over-estimate the abundance of rare halos. This discrepancy is in rough agreement with previous

Qingfeng Zhu, Yufeng Shi

In this work the existence of solutions of one-dimensional backward dou- bly stochastic differential equations (BDSDEs in short) where the coefficient is left-Lipschitz in y (may be discontinuous) and Lipschitz in z is studied. Also, the associated comparison theorem is obtained.

S. Sanyal, S. Iyengar, A. A. Roy, N. N. Karnik

Today manufacturers are using fuzzy logic in everything from cameras to industrial process control. Fuzzy logic controllers are easier to design and so are cheaper to produce. Fuzzy logic captures the impreciseness inherent in most input data. Electromechanical controllers respond better to imprecise input if their behavior was modeled on spontaneous human r

K. D. Gordon, F. Galliano, S. Hony, J. -P. Bernard

The properties of the dust grains (e.g., temperature and mass) can be derived from fitting far-IR SEDs (>100 micron). Only with SPIRE on Herschel has it been possible to get high spatial resolution at 200 to 500 micron that is beyond the peak (~160 micron) of dust emission in most galaxies. We investigate the differences in the fitted dust temperatures and m

Tomasz Brzeziński, Zhengming Jiao

Definitions of actions of Hopf quasigroups are discussed in the context of Long dimodules and smash products. In particular, Long dimodules are defined for Hopf quasigroups and coquasigroups, and solutions to Militaru's D-equation are constructed. A necessary compatibility condition between action and multiplication of a Hopf quasigroup acting on its qua

F. Mila, K. P. Schmidt

When looking for analytical approaches to treat frustrated quantum magnets, it is often very useful to start from a limit where the ground state is highly degenerate. This chapter discusses several ways of deriving {effective Hamiltonians} around such limits, starting from standard {degenerate perturbation theory} and proceeding to modern approaches more app

Qingfeng Zhu, Yufeng Shi

In this paper, we study forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions and Poisson process (FBDSDEP in short). Both the probabilistic interpretation for the solutions to a class of quasilinear stochastic partial differential-integral equations (SPDIEs in short) and stochastic Hamiltonian systems arising in stochastic opt

G. Bismut, B. Pasquiou, E. Maréchal, P. Pedri

We have measured the effect of dipole-dipole interactions on the frequency of a collective mode of a Bose-Einstein condensate. At relatively large numbers of atoms, the experimental measurements are in good agreement with zero temperature theoretical predictions based on the Thomas Fermi approach. Experimental results obtained for the dipolar shift of a coll

I. Fachruddin, Ch. Elster, J. Golak, R. Skibinski

We extend a new treatment proposed for two-nucleon (2N) and three-nucleon (3N) bound states to 2N scattering. This technique takes momentum vectors as variables, thus, avoiding partial wave decomposition, and handles spin operators analytically. We apply the general operator structure of a nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential to the NN T-matrix, which becomes a su

George Rupp, Susana Coito, Eef van Beveren

Most excited hadrons have multiparticle strong decay modes, which can often be described as resulting from intermediate states containing one or two resonances. In a theoretical approach, such a description in terms of quasi-two-particle initial and final states leads to unitarity violations, because of the complex masses of the involved resonances. In the p

S. Bruenken, A. Belloche, S. Martin, L. Verheyen

Aims. Our aim is to confirm the interstellar detection of cyanic acid, HOCN, in the Galactic center clouds. It has previously been tentatively detected only in Sgr B2(OH). Methods. We used a complete line survey of the hot cores Sgr B2(N) and (M) in the 3 mm range, complemented by additional observations carried out with the IRAM 30 m telescope at selected f

Radu Ioan Bot, Alina-Ramona Fratean

A fruitful idea, when providing subdifferential formulae and dual representations for convex risk measures, is to make use of the conjugate duality theory in convex optimization. In this paper we underline the outstanding role played by the qualification conditions in the context of different problem formulations in this area. We show that not only the meanw

S. Coito, G. Rupp, E. van Beveren

The X(3872) is studied as an axial-vector charmonium state in the multichannel framework of the Resonance-Spectrum-Expansion quark-meson model, previously applied to a variety of other puzzling mesonic resonances. Included are the open-charm pseudoscalar-vector and vector-vector channels, the most important of which is the S-wave $\bar{D}^{*0}D^{0}$ + $D^{*0

Victor Pardo, Warren E. Pickett

The (SrTiO$_3$)$_m$/(SrVO$_3$)$_n$ $d^0-d^1$ multilayer system is studied with first principles methods through the observed insulator-to-metal transition with increasing thickness of the SrVO$_3$ layer. When correlation effects with reasonable magnitude are included, crystal field splittings from the structural relaxations together with spin-orbit coupling

Tamal K. Mukherjee, Huan Chen, Mei Huang

We investigate the chiral condensate and the dressed Polyakov loop or dual chiral condensate at finite temperature and density in two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The dressed Polyakov loop is regarded as an equivalent order parameter of deconfinement phase transition in a confining theory. We find the behavior of dressed Polyakov loop in absence of any