August 2010 arXiv papers — page 21

A C Barato, R Chetrite, H Hinrichsen, D Mukamel

We study entropy production and fluctuation relations in the restricted solid-on-solid growth model, which is a microscopic realization of the KPZ equation. Solving the one dimensional model exactly on a particular line of the phase diagram we demonstrate that entropy production quantifies the distance from equilibrium. Moreover, as an example of a physicall

Ruth F. Curtain, Amol J. Sasane

Let $R$ be a commutative complex Banach algebra with the involution $\cdot ^\star$ and suppose that $A\in R^{n\times n}$, $B\in R^{n\times m}$, $C\in R^{p\times n}$. The question of when the Riccati equation $$ PBB^\star P-PA-A^\star P-C^\star C=0 $$ has a solution $P\in R^{n\times n}$ is investigated. A counterexample to a previous result in the literature

D. T. Adroja, A. D. Hillier, P. P. Deen, A. M. Strydom

We have carried out neutron diffraction, muon spin relaxation (muSR) and inelastic neutron scattering investigations on a polycrystalline sample of CeOs2Al10 to investigate the nature of the phase transition observed near 29 K in the resistivity and heat capacity. Our muSR data clearly reveal coherent frequency oscillations below 28 K, indicating the presenc

S. K. Solanki, P. Barthol, S. Danilovic, A. Feller

The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory consists of a 1m aperture Gregory telescope, a UV filter imager, an imaging vector polarimeter, an image stabilization system and further infrastructure. The first science flight of Sunrise yielded high-quality data that reveal the structure, dynamics and evolution of solar convection, oscillations and magnetic fie

Xavier Dahan, Abdulilah Kadri, Éric Schost

We give bit-size estimates for the coefficients appearing in triangular sets describing positive-dimensional algebraic sets defined over Q. These estimates are worst case upper bounds; they depend only on the degree and height of the underlying algebraic sets. We illustrate the use of these results in the context of a modular algorithm. This extends results

Hiroshi Ueda, Andrej Gendiar, Valentin Zauner, Takatsugu Iharagi

Ground state of the one-dimensional transverse field Ising model is investigated under the hyperbolic deformation, where the energy scale of j-th bond is proportional to the function \cosh ( j λ) that contains a parameter λ. Although the Hamiltonian is position dependent, the ground state is nearly uniform and finitely correlated. We observe the energy cross

Chris Chipot, Tony Lelièvre

We propose an adaptive biasing algorithm aimed at enhancing the sampling of multimodal measures by Langevin dynamics. The underlying idea consists in generalizing the standard adaptive biasing force method commonly used in conjunction with molecular dynamics to handle in a more effective fashion multidimensional reaction coordinates. The proposed approach is

M. V. Milovanović

We discuss the Berry curvature calculations of the Hall viscosity for the unprojected to the lowest Landau level wave function of the Fermi-liquid-like state. We conclude, within assumptions made, that in the linear response, with small deformation of the system and in the thermodynamic limit, the Hall viscosity takes the value characteristic for the Laughli

Chandrima Paul, Pravina Borhade, P. Ramadevi

Sinha and Vafa \cite {sinha} had conjectured that the $SO$ Chern-Simons gauge theory on $S^3$ must be dual to the closed $A$-model topological string on the orientifold of a resolved conifold. Though the Chern-Simons free energy could be rewritten in terms of the topological string amplitudes providing evidence for the conjecture, we needed a novel idea in t

Anton Yu. Menshutin, Lev. N. Shchur

Two-dimensional structures grown with Witten and Sander algorithm are investigated. We analyze clusters grown off-lattice and clusters grown with antenna method with $N_{fp}=3,4,5,6,7$ and 8 allowed growth directions. With the help of variable probe particles technique we measure fractal dimension of such clusters $D(N)$ as a function of their size $N$. We p

Taeseung Choi, Jin Hur, Jaewan Kim

We have studied the relativistic effects on the mean spin entanglement of two massive Dirac particles using the simultaneous eigen-spinors of the Foldy-Woutheysen mean spin operator and the Dirac Hamiltonian. We have obtained the transformation matrix from the spinor with specific momentum to the spinor with a transformed momentum under an arbitrary Lorentz

José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin, Beiró Mariano Gastón, Jorge Rodolfo Busch

Modularity was introduced as a measure of goodness for the community structure induced by a partition of the set of vertices in a graph. Then, it also became an objective function used to find good partitions, with high success. Nevertheless, some works have shown a scaling limit and certain instabilities when finding communities with this criterion. Modular

Shigeru Furuichi

Quantum entropy and skew information play important roles in quantum information science. They are defined by the trace of the positive operators so that the trace inequalities often have important roles to develop the mathematical theory in quantum information science. In this paper, we study some properties for information quantities in quantum system thro

Tsuguhiko Asakawa, Satoshi Watamura

We describe the twist quantization of string worldsheet theory, which unifies the description of quantization and the target space symmetry, based on the twisting of Hopf and module algebras. We formulate a method of decomposing a twist into successive twists to analyze the twisted Hopf and module algebra structure, and apply it to several examples, includin

Tadashi Takayanagi, Tomonori Ugajin

We argue that the entanglement entropy offers us a useful coarse-grained entropy in time-dependent AdS/CFT. We show that the total von-Neumann entropy remains vanishing even when a black hole is created in a gravity dual, being consistent with the fact that its corresponding CFT is described by a time-dependent pure state. We analytically calculate the time

Sarah Brough et al.

The August 2010 edition of the AAO newsletter has been newly updated and renamed the AAO Observer as we become the Australian Astronomical Observatory. This edition contains articles on the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey, a bipolar Type I planetary nebula an open cluster as well as PCA sky subtraction for AAOmega; an OH spectrograph named GNOSIS and an over

Mohamad Charafeddine, Aydin Sezgin, Arogyaswami Paulraj

This paper presents the achievable rate region frontiers for the n-user interference channel when there is no cooperation at the transmit nor at the receive side. The receiver is assumed to treat the interference as additive thermal noise and does not employ multiuser detection. In this case, the rate region frontier for the n-user interference channel is fo

Seungsu Hwang, Kim Siyeon

We propose the lepton mixing matrix at high energy scale to be connected to quark mixing matrix by the similar transformation. The similarity between CKM and PMNS significantly narrows down the ranges in physical parameters. The condition requires $\sinθ_{13}$ not to be larger than 0.15, masses to be of quasi-degenerate normal ordering, and $\tanβ$ to be lar

Seoktae Koh, Sunyoung Shin

We investigate the Hamiltonian structure of linearized extended Hořava- Lifshitz gravity in a flat cosmological background following the Faddeev-Jackiw's Hamiltonian reduction formalism. The Hamiltonian structure of extended Hořava-Lifshitz gravity is similar to that of the projectable version of original Hořava-Lifshitz gravity, in which there is one pr

Sultan S. Al-Qahtani, Pawel Pietrzynski, Luis F. Guzman, Rafik Arif

Comparison of programming languages is a common topic of discussion among software engineers. Few languages ever become sufficiently popular that they are used by more than a few people or find their niche in research or education; but professional programmers can easily use dozens of different languages during their career. Multiple programming languages ar

S. Richard, R. Tiedra de Aldecoa

We prove that the existence of time delay defined in terms of sojourn times, as well as its identity with Eisenbud-Wigner time delay, is a common feature of two Hilbert space quantum scattering theory. All statements are model-independent.

John J. Tobin, Lee Hartmann, Edwin Bergin, Leslie W. Looney

Extinction maps at 8 micron from the Spitzer Space Telescope show that many Class 0 protostars exhibit complex, irregular, and on-axisymmetric structure within the densest regions of their dusty envelopes. Many of the systems have highly irregular and on-axisymmetric morphologies on scales $\sim$1000 AU, with a quarter of the sample exhibiting filamentary or

Venkatreddy Dwarampudi, Shahbaz Singh Dhillon, Jivitesh Shah, Nikhil Joseph Sebastian

With the advent of numerous languages it is difficult to realize the edge of one language in a particular scope over another one. We are making an effort, realizing these few issues and comparing some main stream languages like Java, Scala, C++, Haskell, VB .NET, AspectJ, Perl, Ruby, PHP and Scheme keeping in mind some core issues in program development.

John J. Tobin, Lee Hartmann, Laurent Loinard

We present high-resolution L'-band imaging of the inner scattered light structure of Class 0 protostar L1527 IRS (IRAS 04368+2557) taken with the Gemini North telescope. The central point-source like feature seen in Spitzer Space Telescope IRAC images is resolved in the Gemini image into a compact bipolar structure with a narrow dark lane in the center.

Lawrence Christopher Evans, Daniel W. Stroock

In this paper we consider the Stratonovich reflected stochastic differential equation $dX_t=σ(X_t)\circ dW_t+b(X_t)dt+dL_t$ in a bounded domain $Ø$ which satisfies conditions, introduced by Lions and Sznitman, which are specified below. Letting $W^N_t$ be the $N$-dyadic piecewise linear interpolation of $W_t$ what we show is that one can solve the reflected

Hristo S. Sendov, Ying Wang, Ricardas Zitikis

The paper is motivated by a problem concerning the monotonicity of insurance premiums with respect to their loading parameter: the larger the parameter, the larger the insurance premium is expected to be. This property, usually called loading monotonicity, is satisfied by premiums that appear in the literature. The increased interest in constructing new insu

Kevin A. Pimbblet, Heinz Andernach, Cherie K. Fishlock, Isaac G. Roseboom

We present new radial velocities from AAOmega on the Anglo-Australian Telescope for 307 galaxies (b_J < 19.5) in the region of the rich cluster Abell 1386. Consistent with other studies of galaxy clusters that constitute sub-units of superstructures, we find that the velocity distribution of A1386 is very broad (21,000--42,000 kms^-1, or z=0.08--0.14) and co

V. V. Flambaum, G. McManus, S. G. Porsev

We consider a possibility of capture of a heavy charged massive particle $χ^-$ by the nucleus leading to appearance of a bound state. A simple analytic formula allowing to calculate binding energies of the $Nχ^-$ bound state for different nuclei is derived. If the binding energy is sufficiently large the particle $χ^-$ is stable inside the nucleus. The proba

Chenglong Zhao, Jiasen Zhang

Two-dimensional plasmonic demultiplexers for surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), which consist of concentric grooves on a gold film, are proposed and experimentally demonstrated to realize light-SPP coupling, effective dispersion and multiple-channel SPP guiding. A resolution as high as 10 nm is obtained. The leakage radiation microscopy imaging shows that th

M. Montero Díez, K. Twelker, W. Fairbank, G. Gratta

We describe a source capable of producing single barium ions through nuclear recoils in radioactive decay. The source is fabricated by electroplating 148Gd onto a silicon α-particle detector and vapor depositing a layer of BaF2 over it. 144Sm recoils from the alpha decay of 148Gd are used to dislodge Ba+ ions from the BaF2 layer and emit them in the surround

Chih-ping Li, Michael J. Neely

We consider a utility maximization problem over partially observable Markov ON/OFF channels. In this network instantaneous channel states are never known, and at most one user is selected for service in every slot according to the partial channel information provided by past observations. Solving the utility maximization problem directly is difficult because

Ramiro A. Lafuente

We show how to associate with each graph with a certain property (positivity) a family of simply connected solvable Lie groups endowed with left-invariant Riemannian metrics that are Ricci solitons (called solsolitons). We classify them up to isometry, obtaining families depending on many parameters of explicit examples of Ricci solitons. A classification of

Joseph H. Catanzarite

If an orbit is fitted from combined RV and astrometric data, the orbit should be physically consistent with both data sets. The Keplerian orbit of a planet is a highly nonlinear function of seven parameters. The astrometric orbit problem can be partially linearized via transformation to four linear parameters (related four Thiele-Innes constants) plus three

X. Zubizarreta, V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov

First principles calculations of the damping rates (inverse inelastic lifetimes) of low energy quasiparticles in bulk Pb are presented. Damping rates are obtained both for excited electrons and holes with energies up to 8 eV on a set of k vectors throughout the Brillouin zone (BZ). Strong localization effects in the calculated lifetimes are found. Averaged o

Jonathan Touboul

Bidimensional spiking models currently gather a lot of attention for their simplicity and their ability to reproduce various spiking patterns of cortical neurons, and are particularly used for large network simulations. These models describe the dynamics of the membrane potential by a nonlinear differential equation that blows up in finite time, coupled to a

Maria Chlouveraki, Hyohe Miyachi

We calculate all decomposition matrices of the cyclotomic Hecke algebras of the rank 2 exceptional complex reflection groups in characteristic 0. We prove the existence of canonical basic sets in the sense of Geck-Rouquier and show that all modular irreducible representations can be lifted to the ordinary ones.

Tomasz Cetner, Katarzyna Grebieszkow

Event-by-event fluctuations and correlations in azimuthal angle are currently widely investigated in various experiments. In this paper the $\Phi$ measure (earlier used in experiments to evaluate fluctuations in transverse momentum) is now applied to azimuthal angle $\phi$. Properties of this $\Phi_{\phi}$ function are investigated through fast generators an

Fang Peng, Christian D. Ott

We investigate the effect of a new triple-alpha reaction rate from Ogata et al. (2009) on helium ignition conditions on accreting neutron stars and on the properties of the subsequent type I X-ray burst. We find that the new rate leads to significantly lower ignition column density for accreting neutron stars at low accretion rates. We compare the results of

Ewa Czuchry

The occurrence of a bounce in the FRW cosmology requires modifications of General Relativity. An example of such a modification is the recently proposed Horava-Lifshitz theory of gravity, which includes a &#34;dark radiation&#34; term with a negative coefficient in the analog of the Friedmann equation. A modification of the HL gravity, relaxing the &#34;deta

Shengtian Yang, Thomas Honold

The random matrix uniformly distributed over the set of all m-by-n matrices over a finite field plays an important role in many branches of information theory. In this paper a generalization of this random matrix, called k-good random matrices, is studied. It is shown that a k-good random m-by-n matrix with a distribution of minimum support size is uniformly

Ivar Ekeland, Oumar Mbodji, Traian A. Pirvu

This paper considers the portfolio management problem of optimal investment, consumption and life insurance. We are concerned with time inconsistency of optimal strategies. Natural assumptions, like different discount rates for consumption and life insurance, or a time varying aggregation rate lead to time inconsistency. As a consequence, the optimal strateg

Stefan M. A. Rombouts, Jorge Dukelsky, Gerardo Ortiz

We determine the zero temperature quantum phase diagram of a p_x+ip_y pairing model based on the exactly solvable hyperbolic Richardson-Gaudin model. We present analytical and large-scale numerical results for this model. In the continuum limit, the exact solution exhibits a third-order quantum phase transition, separating a strong-pairing from a weak-pairin

Benjamin Waber, Ellen Pollock, Manuel Cebrian, Riley Crane

Corporate responses to illness is currently an ad-hoc, subjective process that has little basis in data on how disease actually spreads at the workplace. Additionally, many studies have shown that productivity is not an individual factor but a social one: in any study on epidemic responses this social factor has to be taken into account. The barrier to addre

Ana M. Mosquera, José A. Muñoz, Evencio Mediavilla, Christopher S. Kochanek

We present observations of wavelength-dependent flux ratios for four gravitational lens systems (SDSS~J1650+4251, HE~0435$-$1223, FBQ 0951+2635, and Q~0142$-$100) obtained with the Nordic Optical Telescope. The use of narrowband photometry, as well as the excellent seeing conditions during the observations, allows us to study their chromatic behavior. For SD

Filippo Caruso, Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli, Fabio Sciarrino

Recently, the presence of noise has been found to play a key role in assisting the transport of energy and information in complex quantum networks and even in biomolecular systems. Here we propose an experimentally realizable optical network scheme for the demonstration of the basic mechanisms underlying noise-assisted transport. The proposed system consists

Luis P. Chimento, Mónica Forte

In a recent paper by C. Gao, M. Kunz, A. Liddle and D. Parkinson [arXiv:0912.0949], the unification of dark matter and dark energy was explored within a theory containing a scalar field of non-Lagrangian type. This scalar field, different from the classic quintessence, can be obtained from the scalar field representation of an interacting two-fluid mixture d

Viviana Acquaviva, Eric Gawiser

A wide range of models describing modifications to General Relativity have been proposed, but no fundamental parameter set exists to describe them. Similarly, no fundamental theory exists for dark energy to parameterize its potential deviation from a cosmological constant. This motivates a model-independent search for deviations from the concordance GR+Lambd

D. M. Kipping, G. A. Bakos, J. Hartman, G. Torres

We report the discovery of HAT-P-24b, a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting the moderately bright V=11.818 F8 dwarf star GSC 0774-01441, with a period P = 3.3552464 +/- 0.0000071 d, transit epoch Tc = 2455216.97669 +/- 0.00024 (BJD_UTC), and transit duration 3.653 +/- 0.025 hours. The host star has a mass of 1.191 +/- 0.042 Msun, radius of 1.317 +/- 0.068

A. Tziamtzis, P. Lundqvist, P. Groningsson, S. Nasoudi-Shoar

We used low resolution spectroscopy from VLT/FORS1, and high resolution spectra from VLT/UVES, to estimate the physical conditions in the ORs, using nebular analysis for emission lines such as [O II], [O III], [N II], and [S II]. We also measured the velocity at two positions of the ORs to test a geometrical model for the rings. Additionally, we used data fr

R. Feldmann, C. M. Carollo, L. Mayer

The physical mechanisms and timescales that determine the morphological signatures and the quenching of star formation of typical (~L*) elliptical galaxies are not well understood. To address this issue, we have simulated the formation of a group of galaxies with sufficient resolution to track the evolution of gas and stars inside about a dozen galaxy group

Carolin Villforth, Anton M. Koekemoer, Norman A. Grogin

Variability is a property shared by practically all AGN. This makes variability selection a possible technique for identifying AGN. Given that variability selection makes no prior assumption about spectral properties, it is a powerful technique for detecting both low-luminosity AGN in which the host galaxy emission is dominating and AGN with unusual spectral

Elizabeth R. Stanway, Malcolm N. Bremer, Nial R. Tanvir, Andrew J. Levan

GRB 090423 is the most distant spectroscopically-confirmed source observed in the universe. Using observations at 37.5 GHz, we place constraints on molecular gas emission in the CO(3-2) line from its host galaxy and immediate environs. The source was not detected either in line emission or in the rest-frame 850 micron continuum, yielding an upper limit of S_

Roberto Soria, Luca Zampieri, Silvia Zane, Kinwah Wu

We re-assess the XMM-Newton and Swift observations of HLX1, to examine the evidence for its identification as an intermediate-mass black hole. We show that the X-ray spectral and timing properties are equally consistent with an intermediate-mass black hole in a high state, or with a foreground neutron star with a luminosity of about a few times 10^{32} erg/s

Agnes Mocsy, Paul Sorensen

Measurements of particles emitted from collisions of heavy ions at relativistic energies show evidence for temperature-fluctuations on the freeze-out surface of the expanding fireball. These can be understood as remnants of the density inhomogeneities in the initial collision overlap region. In this paper we present an analysis of heavy-ion collisions analog

Bhaskar Dutta, Teruki Kamon, Abram Krislock, Nikolay Kolev

We examine a well motivated non-universal supergravity model where the Higgs boson masses are not unified with the other scalars at the grand unified scale at the LHC. The dark matter content can easily be satisfied in this model by having a larger Higgsino component in the lightest neutralino. Typical final states in such a scenario at the LHC involve W bos

Daniel R. Bolton, Gerald A. Miller

The impulse approximation of pion production reactions is studied by developing a relativistic formalism, consistent with that used to define the nucleon-nucleon potential. For plane wave initial states we find that the usual one-body (1B) expression O_1B is replaced by O_2B=-iK(m_pi/2)O_1B/m_pi, where K(m_pi/2) is the sum of all irreducible contributions to

R. K. Nesbet

The postulate that all massless elementary fields have conformal Weyl local scaling symmetry has remarkable consequences for both cosmology and elementary particle physics. Conformal symmetry couples scalar and gravitational fields. Implications for the scalar field of a conformal Higgs model are considered here. The energy-momentum tensor of a conformal Hig

Gonçalo A. S. Dias, José P. S. Lemos

We construct thin-shell electrically charged wormholes in d-dimensional general relativity with a cosmological constant. The wormholes constructed can have different throat geometries, namely, spherical, planar and hyperbolic. Unlike the spherical geometry, the planar and hyperbolic geometries allow for different topologies and in addition can be interpreted

Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde

We introduce a new class of models of chaotic inflation inspired by the superconformal approach to supergravity. This class of models allows a functional freedom of choice of the inflaton potential V = |f(ϕ)|^2. The simplest model of this type has a quadratic potential m^2ϕ^2/2. Another model describes an inflaton field with the standard symmetry breaking po

Marvin Knopp, Mark Sheingorn

This paper endeavors to track the trajectories of individual horocycles on \modsurf. It is far more common to study \emph{sets} of such trajectories, seeking some asymptotic behavior using an averaging process (see section \ref{previous}). Our work is only marginally related to these efforts. We begin by examining horocycles defined using the pencil of circl

T. Helm, M. V. Kartsovnik, I. Sheikin, M. Bartkowiak

We report on semiclassical angle-dependent magnetoresistance oscillations (AMRO) and the Shubnikov-de Haas effect in the electron-overdoped cuprate superconductor Nd$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$. Our data provide convincing evidence for magnetic breakdown in the system. This shows that a reconstructed multiply-connected Fermi surface persists, at least at strong mag

C. Gainaru, R. Meier, S. Schildmann, C. Lederle

Monohydroxy alcohols show a structural relaxation and at longer time scales a Debye-type dielectric peak. From spin-lattice relaxation experiments using different nuclear probes an intermediate, slower-than-structural dynamics is identified for n-butanol. Based on these findings and on diffusion measurements, a model of self-restructuring, transient chains i

Vasile Brinzanescu, Andrei D. Halanay, Günther Trautmann

We study relatively semi-stable vector bundles and their moduli on non-Kähler principal elliptic bundles over compact complex manifolds of arbitrary dimension. The main technical tools used are the twisted Fourier-Mukai transform and a spectral cover construction. For the important example of such principal bundles, the numerical invariants of a 3-dimensiona

Sophie Morier-Genoud, Valentin Ovsienko, Serge Tabachnikov

We study the space of 2-frieze patterns generalizing that of the classical Coxeter-Conway frieze patterns. The geometric realization of this space is the space of n-gons (in the projective plane and in 3-dimensional vector space) which is a close relative of the moduli space of genus 0 curves with n marked points. We show that the space of 2-frieze patterns

Aleksandrs Aleksejevs, Svetlana Barkanova, Alexander Ilyichev, Vladimir Zykunov

We perform updated and detailed calculations of the complete NLO set of electroweak radiative corrections to parity violating e- e- --> e- e- (gamma) scattering asymmetries at energies relevant for the ultra-precise Moller experiment coming soon at JLab. Our numerical results are presented for a range of experimental cuts and relative importance of various c

V. Jovanov, T. Eissfeller, S. Kapfinger, E. C. Clark

Strong electrically tunable exciton g-factors are observed in individual (Ga)InAs self-assembled quantum dots and the microscopic origin of the effect is explained. Realistic eight band k.p simulations quantitatively account for our observations, simultaneously reproducing the exciton transition energy, DC Stark shift, diamagnetic shift and g-factor tunabili

D. M. Ludwin, L. P. Horwitz

We wish to study an application of Stueckelberg&#39;s relativistic quantum theory in the framework of general relativity. We study the form of the wave equation of a massive body in the presence of a Schwarzschild gravitational field. We treat the mathematical behavior of the wavefunction also around and beyond the horizon (r=2M). Classically, within the hor

Christoph Sieg

We derive the three-loop dilatation operator of the flavor SU(2) subsector of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the planar limit by a direct Feynman diagram calculation in N=1 superspace. The transcendentality three contributions which appear in intermediate steps cancel among each other, leaving a rational result which confirms the predictions from in

Adam Simon Levine

We use bordered Heegaard Floer homology to compute the tau invariant of a family of satellite knots obtained via twisted infection along two components of the Borromean rings, a generalization of Whitehead doubling. We show that tau of the resulting knot depends only on the two twisting parameters and the values of tau for the two companion knots. We also in

Olga Goulko, Matthew Wingate

In this paper we present a Monte Carlo calculation of the critical temperature and other thermodynamic quantities for the unitary Fermi gas with a population imbalance (unequal number of fermions in the two spin components). We describe an improved worm type algorithm that is less prone to autocorrelations than the previously available methods and show how t

Xavier Calmet, Sabine Hossenfelder, Roberto Percacci

By studying the notion of a fundamentally minimal length scale in asymptotically safe gravity we find that a specific version of deformed special relativity (DSR) naturally arises in this approach. We then consider two thought experiments to examine the interpretation of the scenario and discuss similarities and differences to other approaches to DSR.

S. Lukic, B. Bornschein, G. Drexlin, F. Glück

An electron-impact ion source based on photoelectron emission was developed for ionization of gases at pressures below 1e-4 mbar in an axial magnetic field in the order of 5 T. The ion source applies only DC fields, which makes it suitable for use in the presence of equipment sensitive to radio-frequency (RF) fields. The ion source was succesfully tested und

Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay

A benchmark CP-violating supersymmetric scenario (known as &#39;CPX-scenario&#39; in the literature) is studied in the context of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is shown that the LHC, with low to moderate accumulated luminosity, will be able to probe the existing `hole&#39; in the $m_{h_1}$-$\tanβ$ plane, which cannot be ruled out by the LEP data. We ex

Colm Connaughton, Sergey Nazarenko, Brenda Quinn

We demonstrate theoretically and numerically the zonal-flow/drift-wave feedback mechanism for the LH transition in an idealised model of plasma turbulence driven by a small scale instability. Zonal flows are generated by a secondary modulational instability of the modes which are directly driven by the primary instability. The zonal flows then suppress the s

T. G. Philbin

The standard derivations of electromagnetic energy and momentum in media take Maxwell&#39;s equations as the starting point. It is well known that for dispersive media this approach does not directly yield exact expressions for the energy and momentum densities. Although Maxwell&#39;s equations fully describe electromagnetic fields, the general approach to c

Sean Murray, Jan Govaerts

We examine some noncommutative spherically symmetric spaces in three space dimensions. A generalization of Snyder&#39;s noncommutative (Euclidean) space allows the inclusion of the generator of dilations into the defining algebra of the coordinate and rotation operators. We then construct a spherically symmetric noncommutative Laplacian on this space having

Hugo Touchette, Erik Van der Straeten, Wolfram Just

We solve a Langevin equation, first studied by de Gennes, in which there is a solid-solid or dry friction force acting on a Brownian particle in addition to the viscous friction usually considered in the study of Brownian motion. We obtain both the time-dependent propagator of this equation and the velocity correlation function by solving the associated time

Josef Lindman Hörnlund, Amitabh Virmani

We study extremal cohomogeneity one five-dimensional asymptotically flat black holes of minimal supergravity in terms of the geodesics generated by nilpotent elements of the Lie algebra g2(2) on the coset manifold G2(2)/SO(2,2). There are two branches of regular extremal black holes with these properties: (i) the supersymmetric BMPV branch, and (ii) the non-

Tanja Eisner, Tamas Matrai

We study the typical behavior of bounded linear operators on infinite dimensional complex separable Hilbert spaces in the norm, strong-star, strong, weak polynomial and weak topologies. In particular, we investigate typical spectral properties, the problem of unitary equivalence of typical operators, and their embeddability into C_0-semigroups. Our results p

Savio Fabretti, Patrick Thomas, Markus Meinert, Andy Thomas

We fabricated superconducting MgB2 thin films on (001) MgO substrates. The samples were prepared by magnetron rf and dc co-sputtering on heated substrates. They were annealed ex-situ for one hour at temperatures between 450°C and 750°C. We will show that the substrate temperature during the sputtering process and the post annealing temperatures play a crucia

Wen-Biao Han

The gravitational waves and energy radiations from a spinning compact object with stellar mass in a circular orbit in the equatorial plane of a supermassive Kerr black hole are investigated in this paper. The effect how the spin acts on energy and angular moment fluxes is discussed in detail. The calculation results indicate that the spin of small body shoul

Jean-Yves Ollitrault

I review recent selected developments in the theory and modeling of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. I explain why relativistic viscous hydrodynamics is now used to model the expansion of the matter formed in these collisions. I give examples of first quantitative predictions, and I discuss remaining open questions associated with the description of t

Evgeny Sorkin

An axisymmetric collapse of non-rotating gravitational waves is numerically investigated in the subcritical regime where no black holes form but where curvature attains a maximum and decreases, following the dispersion of the initial wave packet. We focus on a curvature invariant with dimensions of length, and find that near the threshold for black hole form

Nina Lebedeva, Anton Petrunin

We give a new characterization of spaces with nonnegative curvature in the sense of Alexandrov.

A. Ghanmi, A. Hafoud, Z. Mouayn

A family of generalized binomial probability distributions attached to Landau levels on the Riemann sphere is introduced by constructing a kind of generalized coherent states. Their main statistical parameters are obtained explicitly. As application, photon number statistics related to coherent states under consideration are discussed.

Victor J. W. Guo, Jiang Zeng

We study divisibility properties of certain sums and alternating sums involving binomial coefficients and powers of integers. For example, we prove that for all positive integers $n_1,..., n_m$, $n_{m+1}=n_1$, and any nonnegative integer $r$, there holds {align*} \sum_{k=0}^{n_1}ε^k (2k+1)^{2r+1}\prod_{i=1}^{m} {n_i+n_{i+1}+1\choose n_i-k} \equiv 0 \mod (n_1

Tara Holm, Tomoo Matsumura

In this paper, we study Hamiltonian R-actions on symplectic orbifolds [M/S], where R and S are tori. We prove an injectivity theorem and generalize Tolman-Weitsman&#39;s proof of the GKM theorem in this setting. The main example is the symplectic reduction X//S of a Hamiltonian T-manifold X by a subtorus S of T. This includes the class of symplectic toric or

Debora Sijacki, Volker Springel, Martin Haehnelt

We study the evolution of gravitationally recoiled supermassive black holes (BHs) in massive gas-rich galaxies by means of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations. We find that the presence of a massive gaseous disc allows recoiled BHs to return to the centre on a much shorter timescale than for purely stellar discs. Also, BH accretion and feedback can st

Antonio Padilla, Paul M. Saffin, Shuang-Yong Zhou

We continue to introduce bi-galileon theory, the generalisation of the single galileon model introduced by Nicolis et al. The theory contains two coupled scalar fields and is described by a Lagrangian that is invariant under Galilean shifts in those fields. This paper is the second of two, and focuses on the phenomenology of the theory. We are particularly i

Ragnar Freij, Johan Wästlund

The elements of a finite nonempty partially ordered set are exposed at independent uniform times in $[0,1]$ to a selector who, at any given time, can see the structure of the induced partial order on the exposed elements. The selector&#39;s task is to choose online a maximal element. This generalizes the classical linear order secretary problem, for which it

Gideon Wormeester, Sergey Pancheshnyi, Alejandro Luque, Sander Nijdam

Photo-ionization is the accepted mechanism for the propagation of positive streamers in air though the parameters are not very well known; the efficiency of this mechanism largely depends on the presence of both nitrogen and oxygen. But experiments show that streamer propagation is amazingly robust against changes of the gas composition; even for pure nitrog

Artur Ruuge

The paper deals with &#34;quantization&#34; and &#34;second quantization&#34; of phenomenological thermodynamics with respect to the Boltzmann&#39;s constant. It is suggested to perceive the quasithermodynamic parameter (corresponding to the Boltzmann&#39;s constant) as a mathematical analogue of the semiclassical parameter (corresponding to the Planck&#39;s

A. N. Gorban, M. Shahzad

We study chemical reactions with complex mechanisms under two assumptions: (i) intermediates are present in small amounts (this is the quasi-steady-state hypothesis or QSS) and (ii) they are in equilibrium relations with substrates (this is the quasiequilibrium hypothesis or QE). Under these assumptions, we prove the generalized mass action law together with

Mohit Thakur, Nadia Fawaz, Muriel Médard

We consider the broadcast relay channel (BRC), where a single source transmits to multiple destinations with the help of a relay, in the limit of a large bandwidth. We address the problem of optimal relay positioning and power allocations at source and relay, to maximize the multicast rate from source to all destinations. To solve such a network planning pro

Matthew C. Clarke

Let $G$ be a connected reductive algebraic group defined over the finite field $\F_q$, where $q$ is a power of a good prime for $G$, and let $F$ denote the corresponding Frobenius endomorphism, so that $G^F$ is a finite reductive group. Let $u \in G^F$ be a unipotent element and let $Γ_u$ be the associated generalised Gelfand-Graev representation of $G^F$. U

Haoyang Wu

The revelation principle has been known in the economics society for decades. In this paper, I will investigate it from an energy perspective, i.e., considering the energy consumed by agents and the designer in participating a mechanism. The main result is that when the strategies of agents are actions rather than messages, an additional energy condition sho

Bom Soo Kim, Daiske Yamada

Properties of Schroedinger black holes are derived from AdS black holes expressed in light-cone coordinates with a particular normalization. The advantages of this method over the direct analysis of the Schroedinger geometry are the simplicity and the well-defined Brown-York procedure with the standard counterterms. The method is demonstrated for several phy

Romina A. Ramírez, Gerardo L. Rossini, Marcela Sanmartino

We discuss Toeplitz operators on the Segal-Bargmann space as functional realizations of anti-Wick operators on the Fock space. In the special case of radial symbols we exploit the isometric mapping between the Segal-Bargmann space and $l^2$ complex sequences in order to establish conditions such that an equivalence between Toeplitz operators and diagonal ope

Helmut Abels, Gerd Grubb, Ian Geoffrey Wood

For a strongly elliptic second-order operator $A$ on a bounded domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ it has been known for many years how to interpret the general closed $L_2(Ω)$-realizations of $A$ as representing boundary conditions (generally nonlocal), when the domain and coefficients are smooth. The purpose of the present paper is to extend this representation

Lucie Baudouin, Eduardo Cerpa, Emmanuelle Crépeau, Alberto Mercado

This paper presents an inverse problem for the nonlinear 1-d Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (K-S) equation. More precisely, we study the nonlinear inverse problem of retrieving the anti-diffusion coefficient from the measurements of the solution on a part of the boundary and at some positive time everywhere. Uniqueness and Lipschitz stability for this inverse problem