May 2010 arXiv papers — page 8

Shilun Pei, Chris E. Adolphsen, John Carwardine, Nicholas John Walker

The FLASH L-band (1.3 GHz) superconducting accelerator facility at DESY has a Low Level RF (LLRF) system that is similar to that envisioned for ILC. This system has extensive monitoring capability and was used to gather performance data relevant to ILC. Recently, waveform data were recorded with both beam on and off for three, 8-cavity cryomodules to evaluat

Maurizio M. D'Eliseo

We study the general relativistic orbital equation and using a straightforward perturbation method and a mathematical device first introduced by d'Alembert, we work out approximate expressions of a bound planetary orbit in the form of trigonometrical polynomials and the first three terms of the power series development of the perihelion advance. The resu

M. Kortelainen, T. Lesinski, J. Moré, W. Nazarewicz

We carry out state-of-the-art optimization of a nuclear energy density of Skyrme type in the framework of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory. The particle-hole and particle-particle channels are optimized simultaneously, and the experimental data set includes both spherical and deformed nuclei. The new model-based, derivative-free optimization algorith

David Kerr, Hanfeng Li

We show that, for countable sofic groups, a Bernoulli action with infinite entropy base has infinite entropy with respect to every sofic approximation sequence. This builds on the work of Lewis Bowen in the case of finite entropy base and completes the computation of measure entropy for Bernoulli actions over countable sofic groups. One consequence is that s

Frederic Bernicot

In this work, we are interested to develop new directions of the famous T(1)-theorem. More precisely, we develop a general framework where we look for replacing the John-Nirenberg space BMO (in the classical result) by a new BMO_{L}, associated to a semigroup of operators (e^{-tL})_{t>0}. These new spaces BMO_L (including BMO) have recently appeared in numer

W. Wahab Hugeng, D. Gunawan

An important problem to be solved in modeling head-related impulse responses (HRIRs) is how to individualize HRIRs so that they are suitable for a listener. We modeled the entire magnitude head-related transfer functions (HRTFs), in frequency domain, for sound sources on horizontal plane of 37 subjects using principal components analysis (PCA). The individua

Ahmed Elmorshidy

This paper defines the components of radio frequency identifiers (RFID). It also explores the different areas and sectors where RFID can be beneficial. The paper discusses the uses and advantages of RFID in deference, consumer packaged goods (CPG), healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, and retail.

A. Suleyman Ustunel

Let $(W,H,μ)$ be the classical Wiener space, assume that $U=I_W+u$ is an adapted perturbation of identity where the perturbation $u$ is an equivalence class w.r.to the Wiener measure. We study several necessary and sufficient conditions for the almost sure invertibility of such maps. In particular the subclass of these maps who preserve the Wiener measure ar

Denis Feyel, A. Suleyman Ustunel

We study the log-concave measures, their characterization via the Prékopa-Leindler property and also define a subset of it whose elements are called super log-concave measures which have the property of satisfying a logarithmic Sobolev inequality. We give some results about their stability. Certain relations with measure transportation of Monge-Kantorovitch

Iwan Adhicandra

The IEEE 802.16 technology (WiMAX) is a promising technology for providing last-mile connectivity by radio link due to its high speed data rates, low cost of deployment, and large coverage area. However, the maximum number of channels defined in the current system may cause a potential bottleneck and limit the overall system capacity. The aim of this paper i

Manfred Kerber

In logic there is a clear concept of what constitutes a proof and what not. A proof is essentially defined as a finite sequence of formulae which are either axioms or derived by proof rules from formulae earlier in the sequence. Sociologically, however, it is more difficult to say what should constitute a proof and what not. In this paper we will look at dif

M. J. Griffin, A. Abergel, A. Abreu, P. A. R. Ade

The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE), is the Herschel Space Observatory`s submillimetre camera and spectrometer. It contains a three-band imaging photometer operating at 250, 350 and 500 microns, and an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) which covers simultaneously its whole operating range of 194-671 microns (447-1550 GHz). The SP

S V Suryanarayana

Gluon radiation is an important mechanism for parton energy loss as the parton traverses the quark gluon plasma (QGP) medium. We studied the gluon emission in QGP using AMY formalism. In the present work, we obtained gluon emission amplitude {\bf F}({\bf h},p,k) function, which is a solution of the integral equations describing gluon radiation including Land

Gerard Chalhoub, François Delobel, Michel Misson

Wireless sensor networks are conceived to monitor a certain application or physical phenomena and are supposed to function for several years without any human intervention for maintenance. Thus, the main issue in sensor networks is often to extend the lifetime of the network by reducing energy consumption. On the other hand, some applications have high prior

Zhu Cao

In this paper, we prove that there is a natural correspondence between product identities for theta functions and integer matrix exact covering systems. We show that since $\mathbb{Z}^n$ can be taken as the disjoint union of a lattice generated by $n$ linearly independent vectors in $\mathbb{Z}^n$ and a finite number of its translates, certain products of th

M. Nguyen-H, C. Zhou

The Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) technology have attracted a considerable importance recently because of its large number of solutions serving both military as well as civilian applications. This paper aims to develop a more efficient and especially a faster method for processing the GPS signal in case of INS signal l

Anon Plangprasopchok, Kristina Lerman, Lise Getoor

Many social Web sites allow users to annotate the content with descriptive metadata, such as tags, and more recently to organize content hierarchically. These types of structured metadata provide valuable evidence for learning how a community organizes knowledge. For instance, we can aggregate many personal hierarchies into a common taxonomy, also known as a

Y Nishikawa, D J G Crow, A C Hewson

We extend the renormalized perturbation theory for the single impurity Anderson model to the n-channel model with a Hund's rule coupling, and show that the exact results for the spin, orbital and charge susceptibilities, as well as the leading low temperature dependence for the resistivity, are obtained by working to second order in the renormalized coup

Anton Evseev

Let J be a finite-dimensional nilpotent algebra over a finite field F_q. We formulate a procedure for analysing characters of the group 1+J. In particular, we study characters of the group $U_n (q)$ of unipotent triangular $n\times n$ matrices over F_q. Using our procedure, we compute the number of irreducible characters of $U_n (q)$ of each degree for n<14.

Sumiyoshi Abe

It is shown by simple and straightforward considerations that discreteness of basic physical variables is, at least, essential for generalized statistical mechanics with non-logarithmic entropy to be thermodynamically applicable to classical systems. As a result, continuous Hamiltonian systems with long-range interactions and the so-called q-Gaussian momentu

U. Raut, M. J. Loeffler, M. Famá, R. A. Baragiola

We studied quantitatively the photochemistry of solid O3 and O2 films at 193 nm and 22 K with infrared spectroscopy and microgravimetry. Photolysis of pure ozone destroyed O3, but a small amount of ozone remained in the film at high fluence. Photolysis of pure O2 produced O3 in an amount that increased with photon fluence to a stationary level. For both O2 a

Manfred Schweda, Michael Wohlgenannt

In these notes, we aim at a precise definition of the tree level action for the noncommutative scalar and gauge field theories on four-dimensional canonically deformed Euclidean space. As tools to achieve this goal we employ power counting and normalization conditions.

Steven A. Balbus, Henrik N. Latter

In this paper, we present a model for the effects of the tachocline on the differential rotation in the solar convection zone. The mathematical technique relies on the assumption that entropy is nearly constant (&#34;well-mixed&#34;) in isorotation surfaces both outside and within the tachocline. The resulting solutions exhibit nontrivial features that strik

Mark P. Taylor, Wolfgang Paul, Kurt Binder

Many small proteins fold via a first-order &#34;all-or-none&#34; transition directly from an expanded coil to a compact native state. Here we study an analogous direct freezing transition from an expanded coil to a compact crystallite for a simple flexible homopolymer. Wang-Landau sampling is used to construct the 1D density of states for square-well chains

M. Eckstein, A. Hackl, S. Kehrein, M. Kollar

We review recent developments in the theory of interacting quantum many-particle systems that are not in equilibrium. We focus mainly on the nonequilibrium generalizations of the flow equation approach and of dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). In the nonequilibrium flow equation approach one first diagonalizes the Hamiltonian iteratively, performs the time

Shaista Ahmad, Subir K. Das, Sanjay Puri

We present results from extensive 3-d molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of phase separation kinetics in fluids. A coarse-graining procedure is used to obtain state-of-the-art MD results. We observe an extended period of temporally linear growth in the viscous hydrodynamic regime. The morphological similarity of coarsening in fluids and solids is also quant

András Pál

The study of multiple extrasolar planetary systems has the opportunity to obtain constraints for the planetary masses and orbital inclinations via the detection of mutual perturbations. The analysis of precise radial velocity measurements might reveal these planet-planet interactions and yields a more accurate view of such planetary systems. Like in the gene

F. Hassler, A. R. Akhmerov, C. W. J. Beenakker

We propose the implementation of an electronic Veselago lens on the conducting surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (such as Bi2Te3). The negative refraction needed for such a flat lens results from the sign change of the curvature of the Fermi surface, changing from a circular to a snowflake-like shape across a sufficiently large electrostat

Eva Meyer

More than 450 exoplanets are known and this number increases nearly every day. Only a few constraints on their orbital parameters and physical characteristics can be determined, as most exoplanets are detected indirectly. Measuring the astrometric signal of a planet by measuring the wobble of the host star yields the full set of orbital parameters. With this

Joaquín E. Drut, Timo A. Lähde, Eero Tölö

The electrical conductivity of suspended graphene has recently been measured for the first time, and found to behave as σ~ \sqrt{|n|} as expected for Dirac quasiparticles at large carrier density. The charge inhomogeneity is strongly reduced in suspended samples, which revealed an unexpected insulating trend in σ(T). Above a transitional density n*, the temp

Markus B. Huber, Mahesh Nagarajan, Gerda Leinsinger, Lawrence A. Ray

Topological texture features were compared in their ability to classify morphological patterns known as &#39;honeycombing&#39; that are considered indicative for the presence of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases in high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) images. For 14 patients with known occurrence of honey-combing, a stack of 70 axial, lung kernel rec

Heng Lian

We consider the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) as a solver for the fused lasso signal approximator (FLSA) problem. The ALM is a dual method in which squares of the constraint functions are added as penalties to the Lagrangian. In order to apply this method to FLSA, two types of auxiliary variables are introduced to transform the original unconstrained min

Pavel Sekatski, Bruno Sanguinetti, Enrico Pomarico, Nicolas Gisin

By amplifying photonic qubits it is possible to produce states that contain enough photons to be seen with a human eye, potentially bringing quantum effects to macroscopic scales [1]. In this paper we theoretically study quantum states obtained by amplifying one side of an entangled photon pair with different types of optical cloning machines for photonic qu

Juhana Siljander

By borrowing ideas from the parabolic theory, we use a combination of De Giorgi&#39;s and Moser&#39;s methods to give some remarks on the proof of Hölder continuity of weak solutions of elliptic equations.

Akihiro Kondo, Junfeng Wang, Koichi Kindo, Tomoaki Takesaka

The magnetization measurements of CexLa1-xRu2Al10 (x = 1, 0.75) under the high magnetic field were performed in order to obtain the information for the long-range order (LRO) in CeRu2Al10. We successfully obtained the magnetic phase diagram of these two compounds for the applied magnetic field along the a-axis which is the magnetization easy axis, and found

Xiao-Jie Hao, Guo-Ping Guo, Hai-Ou Li, Cheng Zhou

We experimentally study the electrical transport properties of Ge/Si core/shell nanowire device with two superconducting leads in the Coulomb blockade regime. Anomalous zero field magnetoconductance peaks are observed for the first time at the gate voltages where Coulomb blockade oscillation peaks present. Many evidences indicate this feature is due to Andre

Michele Cicoli, Anupam Mazumdar

We point out some of the outstanding challenges for embedding inflationary cosmology within string theory studying the process of reheating for models where the inflaton is a closed string mode parameterising the size of an internal cycle of the compactification manifold. A realistic model of inflation must explain the tiny perturbations in the cosmic microw

Vladimir Chernov, Paul Kinlaw, Rustam Sadykov

A complete Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ is a $Y^x_l$-manifold if every unit speed geodesic $γ(t)$ originating at $γ(0)=x\in M$ satisfies $γ(l)=x$ for $0\neq l\in \R$. Bérard-Bergery proved that if $(M^m,g), m>1$ is a $Y^x_l$-manifold, then $M$ is a closed manifold with finite fundamental group, and the cohomology ring $H^*(M, \Q)$ is generated by one element

Primoz Peterlin

Two methods of data analysis are compared: spreadsheet software and a statistics software suite. Their use is compared analyzing data collected in three selected experiments taken from an introductory physics laboratory, which include a linear dependence, a non-linear dependence, and a histogram. The merits of each method are compared.

B. M. Swinyard, P. Ade, J-P. Baluteau, H. Aussel

SPIRE, the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, is the Herschel Space Observatory&#39;s submillimetre camera and spectrometer. It contains a three-band imaging photometer operating at 250, 350 and 500 μm, and an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) covering 194-671 μm (447-1550 GHz). In this paper we describe the initial approach taken to the a

Ivo Rolf Seitenzahl, Friedrich Röpke, Michael Fink, Rüdiger Pakmor

Nucleosynthetic yield predictions for multi-dimensional simulations of thermonuclear supernovae generally rely on the tracer particle method to obtain isotopic information of the ejected material for a given supernova simulation. We investigate how many tracer particles are required to determine converged integrated total nucleosynthetic yields. For this pur

Oleg I. Morozov, Maxim V. Pavlov

We find auto-Backlund transformation for the r-th double modified dispersionless Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equation.

R. Aurich, S. Lustig

The CMB maps obtained by observations always possess domains which have to be masked due to severe uncertainties with respect to the genuine CMB signal. Cosmological analyses ideally use full CMB maps in order to get e.g. the angular power spectrum. There are attempts to reconstruct the masked regions at least at low resolutions, i.e. at large angular scales

R. P. Eatough, N. Molkenthin, M. Kramer, A. Noutsos

Radio pulsar surveys are producing many more pulsar candidates than can be inspected by human experts in a practical length of time. Here we present a technique to automatically identify credible pulsar candidates from pulsar surveys using an artificial neural network. The technique has been applied to candidates from a recent re-analysis of the Parkes multi

Shuiguo Wen, Jueping Liu

The masses of the $D_s(0^\pm)$ mesons are investigated from a view-point of ordinary light-heavy system in the framework of the Gaussian sum rules, which are worked out by means of the Laplacian transformation to the usual Borel sum rules. Using the standard input of QCD non-perturbative parameters, the corresponding mass spectra and couplings of the current

Manar Mohaisen, KyungHi Chang

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology applied with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is considered as the ultimate solution to increase channel capacity without any additional spectral resources. At the receiver side, the challenge resides in designing low complexity detection algorithms capable of separating independent streams se

Z. Usubov

We examine the ability of LHC experiments to observe jets from squark pair production at the center-of-mass energy E$_{CM}$=10 TeV and 1 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. We point out the crucial influence of initial- and final-state radiation on the signal/background discriminating ability of different kinematic variables. The reliable measurements of mis

Darryl McCullough, Teruhiko Soma

Let M be a closed orientable Seifert fibered 3-manifold with a hyperbolic base 2-orbifold, or equivalently, admitting a geometry modeled on H^2 \times R or the universal cover of SL(2,R). Our main result is that the connected component of the identity map in the diffeomorphism group Diff(M) is either contractible or homotopy equivalent to the circle, accordi

Shvetha Soundararajan, James D. Arthur, Amine Chigani

The use of agile principles and practices in software development is becoming a powerful force in today&#39;s workplace. In our quest to develop better products, therefore, it is imperative that we strive to learn and understand the application of Agile methods, principles and techniques to the software development enterprise. Unfortunately, in many educatio

Sirin A. Buyukasik, Oktay K. Pashaev

We construct a Madelung fluid model with specific time variable parameters as dissipative quantum fluid and linearize it in terms of Schrodinger equation with time dependent parameters. It allows us to find exact solutions of the nonlinear Madelung system in terms of solutions of the Schrodinger equation and the corresponding classical linear ODE with variab

HongSun An, Manar Mohaisen, DongKeol Han, KyungHi Chang

In this paper, we propose an adaptive coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme for inter-user interference cancellation, when a base station (BS) communicates with multiple users that each has multiple receive antennas. The conventional coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme transmits a fixed number of data streams for each user regardless of the instantaneous cha

N. A. Slavnov

The asymptotic properties of integral operators with the generalized sine kernel acting on the real axis are studied. The formulas for the resolvent and the Fredholm determinant are obtained in the large x limit. Some applications of the results obtained to the theory of integrable models are considered.

Mario Bravetti

Web Operating Systems can be seen as an extension of traditional Operating Systems where the addresses used to manage files and execute programs (via the basic load/execution mechanism) are extended from local filesystem path-names to URLs. A first consequence is that, similarly as in traditional web technologies, executing a program at a given URL, can be d

Vladimir Bloshchitsyn

Current state of the experimental physics of the surface discharge has been examined in the literature review. The existing works were classified by the mediums, where the surface discharge is explored, by the types of experimental setups and by the type of measured data. The conditional scheme of the surface discharge, which demonstrates the generality of t

F. Snik, A. G. de Wijn, K. Ichimoto, C. E. Fischer

The weak, turbulent magnetic fields that supposedly permeate most of the solar photosphere are difficult to observe, because the Zeeman effect is virtually blind to them. The Hanle effect, acting on the scattering polarization in suitable lines, can in principle be used as a diagnostic for these fields. However, the prediction that the majority of the weak,

G. Molchan, L. Romashkova

The number of successes &#39;n&#39; and the normalized measure of space-time alarm &#39;tau&#39; are commonly used to characterize the strength of an earthquake prediction method and the significance of prediction results. To evaluate better the forecaster&#39;s skill, it has been recently suggested to use a new characteristic, the gambling score R, which in

Miomir S. Stanković, Sladjana D. Marinković, Predrag M. Rajković

In the recent development in a various disciplines of physics, it is noted the need for including the deformed versions of the exponential functions. In this paper, we consider the deformations which have two purposes: to have them like special cases, and, even more, to acquit their inauguration from mathematical point of view. Really, we will show interesti

P. Jovanović, L. Č. Popović, M. Stalevski, A. I. Shapovalova

Here we show that in the case when double peaked emission lines originate from outer parts of accretion disk, their variability could be caused by perturbations in the disk emissivity. In order to test this hypothesis, we introduced a model of disk perturbing region in the form of a single bright spot (or flare) by a modification of the power law disk emissi

Christopher C. Gerry, Jihane Mimih

After reviewing parity measurement based interferometry with twin-Fock states, which allows for super-sensitivity (Heisenberg-limited) and super-resolution, we consider interferometry with two different superpositions of twin-Fock states, namely two-mode squeezed vacuum states and pair coherent states. This study is motivated by the experimental challenge of

Mark Edgington, Yohannes Kassahun, Frank Kirchner

An accurate motion model is an important component in modern-day robotic systems, but building such a model for a complex system often requires an appreciable amount of manual effort. In this paper we present a motion model representation, the Dynamic Gaussian Mixture Model (DGMM), that alleviates the need to manually design the form of a motion model, and p

F. Wauters, I. S. Kraev, D. Zákoucký, M. Beck

The $β$-asymmetry parameter $\widetilde{A}$ for the Gamow-Teller decay of $^{60}$Co was measured by polarizing the radioactive nuclei with the brute force low-temperature nuclear-orientation method. The $^{60}$Co activity was cooled down to milliKelvin temperatures in a $^3$He-$^4$He dilution refrigerator in an external 13 T magnetic field. The $β$ particles

S. Sridhar, Sitabhra Sinha

Sub-threshold stimuli cannot initiate excitations in active media, but surprisingly as we show in this paper, they can alter the time-evolution of spatially heterogeneous activity by modifying the recovery dynamics. This results in significant reduction of waveback velocity which may lead to spatial coherence, terminating all activity in the medium including

Thomas Curtright, Andrzej Veitia

We develop and illustrate methods to compute all single particle potentials that underlie the logistic map, x --> sx(1-x) for 0<s<=4. We show that the switchback potentials can be obtained from the primary potential through functional transformations. We are thereby able to produce the various branches of the corresponding analytic potential functions, which

A. V. Kotikov

We present results for the universal anomalous dimension γ_{uni}(j) of Wilson twist-2 operators in the N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the first four orders of perturbation theory.

Rajesh P Singh, Anupam Saikia, B. K. Sarma

In 1998 [8], Patarin proposed an efficient cryptosystem called Little Dragon which was a variant a variant of Matsumoto Imai cryptosystem C*. However Patarin latter found that Little Dragon cryptosystem is not secure [8], [3]. In this paper we propose a cryptosystem Little Dragon Two which is as efficient as Little Dragon cryptosystem but secure against all

Norbert Przybilla, Alfred Tillich, Ulrich Heber, Ralf-Dieter Scholz

The mass of the Galactic dark matter halo is under vivid discussion. A recent study by Xue et al. (2008, ApJ, 684, 1143) revised the Galactic halo mass downward by a factor of ~2 relative to previous work, based on the line-of-sight velocity distribution of ~2400 blue horizontal-branch (BHB) halo stars. The observations were interpreted in a statistical appr

Thomas Conlon, Heather J. Ruskin, Martin Crane

The proprietary nature of Hedge Fund investing means that it is common practise for managers to release minimal information about their returns. The construction of a Fund of Hedge Funds portfolio requires a correlation matrix which often has to be estimated using a relatively small sample of monthly returns data which induces noise. In this paper random mat

Shailesh Vaya

In secure multi-party computation $n$ parties jointly evaluate an $n$-variate function $f$ in the presence of an adversary which can corrupt up till $t$ parties. Almost all the works that have appeared in the literature so far assume the presence of authenticated channels between the parties. This assumption is far from realistic. Two directions of research

Arvind Kumar, Amruta Mishra

We investigate the in-medium masses of $D$ and $\bar{D}$ mesons in the isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter at finite temperatures arising due to the interactions with the nucleons, the scalar isoscalar meson $σ$, and the scalar iso-vector meson $δ$ within a SU(4) model. The in-medium masses of $J/ψ$ and the excited charmonium states ($ψ(3686)$ and $ψ(3770)$) a

Katsurou Hanzawa

We propose a relevant lattice distortion to stabilize the spin-Peierls state in CeRu2Al10, compatible with the 27Al-NQR spectra and the neutron diffraction patterns on the assumption that Al atoms at Al(1) to Al(4) sites displace toward their respective neighboring Ce ions below T0 = 27 K, leaving Ce, Ru, and Al at Al(5) immobile. Due to a resulting regular

C. Leipski, K. Meisenheimer, U. Klaas, F. Walter

We present Herschel far-infrared (FIR) observations of two sub-mm bright quasars at high redshift: SDSS J1148+5251 (z=6.42) and BR 1202-0725 (z=4.69) obtained with the PACS instrument. Both objects are detected in the PACS photometric bands. The Herschel measurements provide additional data points that constrain the FIR spectral energy distributions (SEDs) o

Pengli Zhang, Wenlin Gong, Xia Shen, Shensheng Han

Correlated imaging through atmospheric turbulence is studied, and the analytical expressions describing turbulence effects on image resolution are derived. Compared with direct imaging, correlated imaging can reduce the influence of turbulence to a certain extent and reconstruct high-resolution images. The result is backed up by numerical simulations, in whi

Richard Davies, Hauke Engel, Erin Hicks, Natascha Foerster Schreiber

We describe several projects addressing the growth of galaxies and massive black holes, for which adaptive optics is mandatory to reach high spatial resolution but is also a challenge due to the lack of guide stars and long integrations. In each case kinematics of the stars and gas, derived from integral field spectroscopy, plays a key role. We explain why d

R. Davies, MICADO Team

MICADO is the adaptive optics imaging camera for the E-ELT. It has been designed and optimised to be mounted to the LGS-MCAO system MAORY, and will provide diffraction limited imaging over a wide (about 1 arcmin) field of view. For initial operations, it can also be used with its own simpler AO module that provides on-axis diffraction limited performance usi

Giuseppe Toscani

We briefly review results on nonlinear kinetic equation of Boltzmann type which describe the evolution of wealth in a simple agents market. The mathematical structure of the underlying kinetic equations allows to use well-known techniques of wide use in kinetic theory of rarefied gases to obtain information on the process of relaxation to a stationary profil

Samuel Boissier, Veronique Buat, Olivier Ilbert

We attempt in this paper to check the consistency of the observed Stellar Mass Function (SMF), SFR functions and the cosmic star formation rate density with simple backward evolutionary models. Starting from observed SMF for star-forming galaxies, we use backwards models to predict the evolution of a number of quantities, such as the SFR function, the cosmic

Nicolas Champagne, Romain Vasseur, Adrien Montourcy, Denis Bartolo

We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the traffic of particles flowing in microfluidic obstacle networks. We show that the traffic dynamics is a non-linear process: the particle current does not scale with the particle density even in the dilute limit where no particle collision occurs. We demonstrate that this non-linear behavior stems from l

James M. Cline

Excitation of multicomponent dark matter in the galactic center has been proposed as the source of low-energy positrons that produce the excess 511 keV gamma rays that have been observed by INTEGRAL. Such models have also been promoted to explain excess high-energy electrons/positrons observed by the PAMELA, Fermi/LAT and H.E.S.S. experiments. We investigate

Stefano Minardi, Thomas Pertsch

We propose an innovative scheme exploiting discrete diffraction in a two dimensional array of coupled waveguides to determine the phase and amplitude of the mutual correlation function between any pair of three telescopes of an astrointerferometer.

Matthias Weidinger, Felix Spanier

A time-dependent Synchrotron Self Compton model (SSC) which is able to motivate the used electron spectra of many SSC models as a balance of acceleration and radiative losses is introduced. Using stochastic acceleration as well as Fermi-I processes even electron spectra with a rising part can be explained, which are mandatory to fit the lowstate spectral ene

Sitabhra Sinha, Md Izhar Ashraf, Raj Kumar Pan, Bryan Kenneth Wells

Archaeological excavations in the sites of the Indus Valley civilization (2500-1900 BCE) in Pakistan and northwestern India have unearthed a large number of artifacts with inscriptions made up of hundreds of distinct signs. To date there is no generally accepted decipherment of these sign sequences and there have been suggestions that the signs could be non-

Walid Miladi, Mihaela Racila

Numerical simulations of the behavior of the osteonal structure are more and more acute and an important parameter is the pressure of the bony fluid. Haversian and Volkmann canals contain blood vessels that transport oxygen and nutrients necessary for the cellular activity. The pressure in these vessels must be taken into account. While it is possible to est

G. C. Hegerfeldt, J. G. Muga, J. Muñoz

We provide the most general forms of covariant and normalized time operators and their probability densities, with applications to quantum clocks, the time of arrival, and Lyapunov quantum operators. Examples are discussed of the profusion of possible operators and their physical meaning. Criteria to define unique, optimal operators for specific cases are gi

Evgeny Chutchev

The paper offers a mathematical formalization of the Turing test. This formalization makes it possible to establish the conditions under which some Turing machine will pass the Turing test and the conditions under which every Turing machine (or every Turing machine of the special class) will fail the Turing test.

H. Murakawa, Y. Onose, S. Miyahara, N. Furukawa

We have investigated the variation of induced ferroelectric polarization under magnetic field with various directions and magnitudes in a staggered antiferromagnet Ba$_2$CoGe$_2$O$_7$. While the ferroelectric polarization cannot be explained by the well-accepted spin current model nor exchange striction mechanism, we have shown that it is induced by the spin

Eleftheria Athanasopoulou, Loc Bui, Tianxiong Ji, R. Srikant

Backpressure-based adaptive routing algorithms where each packet is routed along a possibly different path have been extensively studied in the literature. However, such algorithms typically result in poor delay performance and involve high implementation complexity. In this paper, we develop a new adaptive routing algorithm built upon the widely-studied bac

Xue-Ning Bai, James M Stone

The streaming instability (SI) provides a promising mechanism for planetesimal formation because of its ability to concentrate solids into dense clumps. The degree of clumping strongly depends on the height-integrated solid to gas mass ratio Z in protoplanetary disks (PPDs). In this letter, we show that the magnitude of the radial pressure gradient (RPG) whi

Yan-Hua Hou, Ning-Hua Tong

The spin-boson model has nontrivial quantum phase transitions at zero temperature induced by the spin-boson coupling. The bosonic numerical renormalization group (BNRG) study of the critical exponents $β$ and $δ$ of this model is hampered by the effects of boson Hilbert space truncation. Here we analyze the mean-field spin boson model to figure out the scali

Yonathan Schwarzkopf, J. Doyne Farmer

The mutual fund industry manages about a quarter of the assets in the U.S. stock market and thus plays an important role in the U.S. economy. The question of how much control is concentrated in the hands of the largest players is best quantitatively discussed in terms of the tail behavior of the mutual fund size distribution. We study the distribution empiri

Rogerio Atem de Carvalho, Rodrigo Soares Manhães, Fernando Luis de Carvalho e Silva

Behavior Driven Development (NORTH, 2006) is a specification technique that is growing in acceptance in the Agile methods communities. BDD allows to securely verify that all functional requirements were treated properly by source code, by connecting the textual description of these requirements to tests. On the other side, the Enterprise Information Systems

Terry G. McRae, Kwan H. Lee, Glen I. Harris, Joachim Knittel

A cavity opto-electromechanical system is reported which combines the ultrasensitive transduction of cavity optomechanical systems with the electrical actuation of nanoelectromechanical systems. Ultrasensitive mechanical transduction is achieved via opto-mechanical coupling. Electrical gradient forces as large as 0.40 $μ$N are realized, facilitating strong a

A. C. Clark, K. K. Schwarzwälder, T. Bandi, D. Maradan

We propose a new scheme aimed at cooling nanostructures to microkelvin temperatures, based on the well established technique of adiabatic nuclear demagnetization: we attach each device measurement lead to an individual nuclear refrigerator, allowing efficient thermal contact to a microkelvin bath. On a prototype consisting of a parallel network of nuclear re

Qian Kong, Q. Wang, O. Bang, W. Krolikowski

We investigate theoretically the interaction of dark solitons in materials with a spatially nonlocal nonlinearity. In particular we do this analytically and for arbitrary degree of nonlocality. We employ the variational technique to show that nonlocality induces an attractive force in the otherwise repulsive soliton interaction.

Ognyan Kounchev

In the present paper we introduce the notion of harmonicity modulus and harmonicity K-functional and apply these notions to prove a Jackson type theorem for approximation of continuous functions by polyharmonic functions. For corresponding results on approximation by polynomials see [3, 7].

Miranda K. Dunham, Erik Rosolowsky, Neal J. Evans, Claudia J. Cyganowski

We present the 1.1 millimeter Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) observations of the Gemini OB1 molecular cloud complex, and targeted ammonia observations of the BGPS sources. When paired with molecular spectroscopy of a dense gas tracer, millimeter observations yield physical properties such as masses, radii, mean densities, kinetic temperatures and line

N. Cappelluti, M. Ajello, D. Burlon, M. Krumpe

We present the clustering measurement of hard X-ray selected AGN in the local Universe. We used a sample of 199 sources spectroscopically confirmed detected by Swift-BAT in its 15-55 keV all-sky survey. We measured the real space projected auto-correlation function and detected a signal significant on projected scales lower than 200 Mpc/h. We measured a corr

Folkmar Bornemann

High-order derivatives of analytic functions are expressible as Cauchy integrals over circular contours, which can very effectively be approximated, e.g., by trapezoidal sums. Whereas analytically each radius r up to the radius of convergence is equal, numerical stability strongly depends on r. We give a comprehensive study of this effect; in particular we s

Jeffrey C. Lagarias, W. -C. Winnie Li

This is the second of four papers that study algebraic and analytic structures associated with the Lerch zeta function. In this paper we analytically continue it as a function of three complex variables. We that it is well defined as a multivalued function on the manifold M equal to C^3 with the hyperplanes corresponding to integer values of the two variable

Tomohiro Isobe, Shogo Tanimura

The Bell-Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (BCHSH) inequality, which is proven in the context of the local hidden variable theory, has been used as a test to reveal failure of the hidden variable theory and to prove validity of the quantum theory. We note that violation of the BCHSH inequality is caused by noncommutativity of quantum observables and find a systemat

A. J. Bracken, P. Watson

Representations of quantum state vectors by complex phase space amplitudes, complementing the description of the density operator by the Wigner function, have been defined by applying the Weyl-Wigner transform to dyadic operators, linear in the state vector and anti-linear in a fixed `window state vector&#39;. Here aspects of this construction are explored,