August 2010 arXiv papers — page 38

Roberto C. Alamino

Bayesian probability theory is used as a framework to develop a formalism for the scientific method based on principles of inductive reasoning. The formalism allows for precise definitions of the key concepts in theories of physics and also leads to a well-defined procedure to select one or more theories among a family of (well-defined) candidates by ranking

T. Gherghetta, N. Setzer

We investigate the stability and fluctuations of a soft wall model that has an asymptotically AdS metric and a scalar field that has an asymptotically power-law dependence in the conformal coordinate. By imposing UV boundary conditions, the soft wall mass scale can be fixed to be near the TeV scale and causes the radion to no longer be massless. A hierarchy

Yong Li, Lian-Ao Wu, Z. D. Wang

We propose a feasible scheme to cool down a mechanical resonator (MR) in a three-mirror cavity optomechanical system with controllable external optical drives. Under the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation, the whole dynamics of the mechanical resonator and cavities is reduced to that of a time-dependent harmonic oscillator, whose effective frequency can be

Pui King Wong, Dongjie Yin, Tony T. Lee

This paper proposes a Markovian model of 1-persistent CSMA/CA protocols with K-Exponential Backoff scheduling algorithms. The input buffer of each access node is modeled as a Geo/G/1 queue, and the service time distribution of each individual head-of-line packet is derived from the Markov chain of the underlying scheduling algorithm. From the queuing model,

Bo Feng, Song He, Rijun Huang, Yin Jia

In this short note, we present two results about KLT relations discussed in recent several papers. Our first result is the re-derivation of Mason-Skinner MHV amplitude by applying the S_{n-3} permutation symmetric KLT relations directly to MHV amplitude. Our second result is the equivalence proof of the newly discovered S_{n-2} permutation symmetric KLT rela

Manasse R. Mbonye

It is increasingly widely believed that at high levels of resolution spacetime geometry may be inherently non-commutative. In this work we introduce an effective mechanism that maps matter fields onto a non-commutative background manifold. The mechanism, which is relevant at high densities in strongly gravitating systems (black holes, early universe) deforms

Lee M. Goswick, Nandor Simanyi

Traditionally, rotation numbers for toroidal billiard flows are defined as the limiting vectors of average displacements per time on trajectory segments. The billard trajectories, being curves, oftentimes getting very close to closed loops, quite naturally define elements of the fundamental group of the billiard table. The simplest non-trivial fundamental gr

David Siegel, Matthew D. Johnston

It has long been known that complex balanced mass-action systems exhibit a restrictive form of behaviour known as locally stable dynamics. This means that within each compatibility class $\mathcal{C}_{\mathbf{x}_0}$---the forward invariant space where solutions lies---there is exactly one equilibrium concentration and that this concentration is locally asymp

Tomohiro Takahashi, Jiro Soda

We study the stability of static black holes in Lovelock theory which is a natural higher dimensional generalization of Einstein theory. We show that Lovelock black holes are stable under vector perturbations in all dimensions. However, we prove that small Lovelock black holes are unstable under tensor perturbations in even-dimensions and under scalar pertur

Carlo Altamirano, Alberto Robledo

We show that the laws of Zipf and Benford, obeyed by scores of numerical data generated by many and diverse kinds of natural phenomena and human activity are related to the focal expression of a generalized thermodynamic structure. This structure is obtained from a deformed type of statistical mechanics that arises when configurational phase space is incompl

Stephen J. Kleene, Niels Martin Moller

In this paper we present a new family of non-compact properly embedded, self-shrinking, asymptotically conical, positive mean curvature ends $\Sigma^n\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that are hypersurfaces of revolution with circular boundaries. These hypersurface families interpolate between the plane and half-cylinder in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, and any rotationally

Luis Enrique Correa Rocha, Petter Holme

Interaction between consumers and companies can create conflict. When a consensus is unreachable there are legal authorities to resolve the case. This letter is a study of data from the Brazilian Department of Justice from which we build a bipartite network of categories of complaints linked to the companies receiving those complaints. We find the complaint

Y. Y. Wang, Chunbai Wu, F. Couny, M. G. Raymer

We show experimentally and theoretically that the spectral components of a multi-octave frequency comb spontaneously created by stimulated Raman scattering in a hydrogen-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber exhibit strong self coherence and mutual coherence within each 12 ns driving laser pulse. This coherence arises in spite of the field's initiati

Eric Cator, Leandro P. R. Pimentel

In this paper we will show how the results found in Cator and Pimentel 2009, about the Busemann functions in last-passage percolation, can be used to calculate the asymptotic distribution of the speed of a single second class particle starting from an arbitrary deterministic configuration which has a rarefaction fan, in either the totally asymetric exclusion

Anatoli A. Vankov

The work is devoted to the critical analysis of theoretical prediction and astronomical observation of GR effects, first of all, the Mercury's perihelion advance. In the first part, the methodological issues of observations are discussed including a practice of observations, a method of recognizing the relativistic properties of the effect and recovering

Christian Drescher, Oana Tifrea, Toby Walsh

In the context of Answer Set Programming, this paper investigates symmetry-breaking to eliminate symmetric parts of the search space and, thereby, simplify the solution process. We propose a reduction of disjunctive logic programs to a coloured digraph such that permutational symmetries can be constructed from graph automorphisms. Symmetries are then broken

S. Stellmach, A. Traxler, P. Garaud, N. Brummell

Regions of the ocean's thermocline unstable to salt fingering are often observed to host thermohaline staircases, stacks of deep well-mixed convective layers separated by thin stably-stratified interfaces. Decades after their discovery, however, their origin remains controversial. In this paper we use 3D direct numerical simulations to shed light on the

A. Traxler, S. Stellmach, P. Garaud, T. Radko

Double-diffusive instabilities are often invoked to explain enhanced transport in stably-stratified fluids. The most-studied natural manifestation of this process, fingering convection, commonly occurs in the ocean's thermocline and typically increases diapycnal mixing by two orders of magnitude over molecular diffusion. Fingering convection is also ofte

Christopher Chudzicki, Frederick W. Strauch

We study the routing of quantum information in parallel on multi-dimensional networks of tunable qubits and oscillators. These theoretical models are inspired by recent experiments in superconducting circuits using Josephson junctions and resonators. We show that perfect parallel state transfer is possible for certain networks of harmonic oscillator modes. W

Robert Bluhm

In any theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking, it is important to account for the massless Nambu-Goldstone and massive Higgs modes. In this short review, the fate of these modes is examined for the case of a bumblebee model, in which Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken.

Diego Guarin, Alvaro Orozco, Edilson Delgado

Hypothesis testing based on surrogate data has emerged as a popular way to test the null hypothesis that a signal is a realization of a linear stochastic process. Typically, this is done by generating surrogates which are made to conform to autocorrelation (power spectra) and amplitude distribution of the data (this is not necessary if data are Gaussian). Re

Lee Lindblom, John G. Baker, Benjamin J. Owen

Model gravitational waveforms must be accurate enough to be useful for detection of signals and measurement of their parameters, so appropriate accuracy standards are needed. Yet these standards should not be unnecessarily restrictive, making them impractical for the numerical and analytical modelers to meet. The work of Lindblom, Owen, and Brown [Phys. Rev.

S. Jalali Asadabadi, F. Kheradmand

It is well known that the surface of nonmagnetic $α$-Ce is magnetically ordered, i.e., $γ$-like. One then might conjecture, in agreement with previous theoretical predictions, that the $γ$-Ce may also exhibit at its surfaces even more strongly enhanced $γ$-like magnetic ordering. Nonetheless, our result shows that the (111)-surfaces of magnetic $γ$-Ce are ne

Sara C. Beck, John H. Lacy, Jean L. Turner

The composite galaxy NGC 4102 hosts a LINER nucleus and a starburst. We mapped NGC 4102 in the 12.8 micron line of [NeII], using the echelon spectrometer TEXES on the NASA IRTF, to obtain a data cube with 1.5" spatial and 25 km/s spectral, resolution. Combining near-infrared, radio, and the [NeII] data shows that the extinction to the starburst is substa

E. R. Adams, M. Lopez-Morales, J. L. Elliot, S. Seager

We present six new transits of the hot Jupiter OGLE-TR-113b observed with MagIC on the Magellan Telescopes between January 2007 and May 2009. We update the system parameters and revise the planetary radius to R_p=1.084 pm 0.029 R_J, where the error is dominated by stellar radius uncertainties. The new transit midtimes reveal no transit timing variations from

Vernon Barger, Y. Gao, Mathew McCaskey, Gabe Shaughnessy

A light Higgs boson is preferred by $M_W$ and $m_t$ measurements. A complex scalar singlet addition to the Standard Model allows a better fit to these measurements through a new light singlet dominated state. It then predicts a light Dark Matter (DM) particle that can explain the signals of DM scattering from nuclei in the CoGeNT and DAMA/LIBRA experiments.

Nicholas Robbins

First we review the definition of a negative point mass singularity. Then we examine the gravitational lensing effects of these singularities in isolation and with shear and convergence from continuous matter. We review the Inverse Mean Curvature Flow and use this flow to prove some new results about the mass of a singularity, the ADM mass of the manifold, a

Margarida Mendes Lopes, Rita Pardini, Gian Pietro Pirola

In this paper a new intrinsic geometric characterization of the symmetric square of a curve and of the ordinary product of two curves is given. More precisely it is shown that the existence on a surface of general type S of irregularity q of an effective divisor D having self-intersection D^2>0 and arithmetic genus q implies that S is either birational to a

Eli Ben-Sasson, Jakob Nordström

For current state-of-the-art DPLL SAT-solvers the two main bottlenecks are the amounts of time and memory used. In proof complexity, these resources correspond to the length and space of resolution proofs. There has been a long line of research investigating these proof complexity measures, but while strong results have been established for length, our under

Andrew J. Benson

We describe a new, free and open source semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, Galacticus. The Galacticus model was designed to be highly modular to facilitate expansion and the exploration of alternative descriptions of key physical ingredients. We detail the Galacticus engine for evolving galaxies through a merging hierarchy of dark matter halos and give

Milan Raičević, Tom Theuns, Cedric Lacey

The Durham GALFORM semi-analytical galaxy formation model has been shown to reproduce the observed rest-frame 1500Å luminosity function of galaxies well over the whole redshift range z=5-10. We show that in this model, this galaxy population also emits enough ionizing photons to reionize the Universe by redshift z=10, assuming a modest escape fraction of 20

Nicholas P. Robbins

First we restate the definition of a Zero Area Singularity, recently introduced by H. Bray. We then consider several definitions of mass for these singularities. We use the Inverse Mean Curvature Flow to prove some new results about the mass of a singularity, the ADM mass of the manifold, and the capacity of the singularity.

Y. Aoki, A. Yamaguchi, K. Suzuki, H. Ishimoto

Systematic observations of the magnetically generated fountain pressure in the superfluid $^3$He A$_1$ have been carried out in a newly built apparatus designed to reduce the effect of thermal gradients. In the same apparatus, mechanical pumping and filtering of polarized nuclear spins were realized by the pneumatic pumping action of an electrostatically act

Ying Li, Jiangjun Zheng, Jie Gao, Jing Shu

We describe the strong optomechanical dynamical interactions in ultrahigh-Q/V slot-type photonic crystal cavities. The dispersive coupling is based on a mode-gap photonic crystal cavities with light localization in an air mode with 0.02(lambda/n)3 modal volumes while preserving optical cavity Q up to 5 x 106. The mechanical mode is modeled to have fundamenta

H. G. Zhang, T. Greber

In a recent letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 036804] the unoccupied electronic states of single layers of graphene on ruthenium are investigated. Here we comment on the interpretation, which deviates in four points from [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22 (2010) 302001] and outline the corresponding consequences.

Thomas-Paul Hack

First, the present work is concerned with generalising constructions and results in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes from the well-known case of the Klein-Gordon field to Dirac fields. To this end, the enlarged algebra of observables of the Dirac field is constructed in the algebraic framework. This algebra contains normal-ordered Wick polynomials i

C. Melis, C. Gielen, C. H. Chen, Joseph H. Rhee

Spitzer IRS spectroscopy supports the interpretation that BP Piscium, a gas and dust enshrouded star residing at high Galactic latitude, is a first-ascent giant rather than a classical T Tauri star. Our analysis suggests that BP Piscium's spectral energy distribution can be modeled as a disk with a gap that is opened by a giant planet. Modeling the rich

Arkady Berenstein, Michael Kapovich

The goal of the paper is to introduce a version of Schubert calculus for each dihedral reflection group W. That is, to each "sufficiently rich'' spherical building Y of type W we associate a certain cohomology theory and verify that, first, it depends only on W (i.e., all such buildings are "homotopy equivalent'') and second, the coho

V. P. Kalinushkin, V. A. Yuryev, O. V. Astafiev

A method of the mid-IR-laser microscopy has been proposed for the investigation of the large-scale electrically and recombination active defects in semiconductors and non-destructive inspection of semiconductor materials and structures in the industries of microelectronics and photovoltaics. The basis for this development was laid with a wide cycle of the in

T. J. Hayward, A. D. West, K. J. Weatherill, P. J. Curran

We present a design for a switchable nanomagnetic atom mirror formed by an array of 180° domain walls confined within Ni80Fe20 planar nanowires. A simple analytical model is developed which allows the magnetic field produced by the domain wall array to be calculated. This model is then used to optimize the geometry of the nanowires so as to maximize the refl

Debabrata Sarddar, Joydeep Banerjee, Souvik Kumar Saha, Tapas Jana

Handoff has become an essential criterion in mobile communication system, specially in urban areas, owing to the limited coverage area of Access Points (AP). Handover of calls between two Base Stations (BSs) is encountered frequently and it is essentially required to minimize the delay of the process. Many solutions attempting to improve this process have be

Matthew S. Tiscareno, Joseph A. Burns, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, Matthew M. Hedman

We have conducted an intensive search for any material that may orbit Rhea, using images obtained by the Cassini ISS narrow-angle camera. We find no evidence for any such material, contradicting an earlier and surprising inference that Rhea, the second-largest moon of Saturn, possesses a system of narrow rings embedded in a broad circum-satellite disk or clo

Wenjin Huang, Douglas R. Gies, M. Virginia McSwain

Two recent observing campaigns provide us with moderate dispersion spectra of more than 230 cluster and 370 field B stars. Combining them and the spectra of the B stars from our previous investigations ($\sim$430 cluster and $\sim$100 field B stars) yields a large, homogeneous sample for studying the rotational properties of B stars. We derive the projected

Constantin Vrejoiu, Roxana Zus

The $δ-$singularities of the electric and magnetic fields in the static case are established based on the regularized $δ_\eps(\rvec)$ function introduced by Jackson.

Lee Smolin

We develop the quantization of unimodular gravity in the Plebanski and Ashtekar formulations and show that the quantum effective action defined by a formal path integral is unimodular. This means that the effective quantum geometry does not couple to terms in the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor proportional to the metric tensor. The path inte

Craig Bridges, Satish Karra, K. R. Rajagopal

We study the flow of a shear-thinning, chemically-reacting fluid that could be used to model the flow of the synovial fluid. The actual geometry where the flow of the synovial fluid takes place is very complicated, and therefore the governing equations are not amenable to simple mathematical analysis. In order to understand the response of the model, we choo

Martin Larsson

In this thesis, the tail properties of multivariate Archimedean copulas are investigated using known representation theorems involving L1-norm symmetric distributions and the Williamson d-transform. Several new results on the asymptotic properties of the Williamson d-transform are established and subsequently used to study the tails of Archimedean copulas. T

Gui-Qiang G. Chen

Some of recent important developments are overviewed, several longstanding open problems are discussed, and a perspective is presented for the mathematical theory of multidimensional conservation laws. Some basic features and phenomena of multidimensional hyperbolic conservation laws are revealed, and some samples of multidimensional systems/models and relat

Satish Karra, Vít Průša, K. R. Rajagopal

We study a variant of the well known Maxwell model for viscoelastic fluids, namely we consider the Maxwell fluid with viscosity and relaxation time depending on the pressure. Such a model is relevant for example in modelling behaviour of some polymers and geomaterials. Although it is experimentally known that the material moduli of some viscoelastic fluids c

Christopher Bradley

A construction similar to Hagge's construction for circles through the orthocentre is shown to apply for any point.

Pawel Romanczuk, Udo Erdmann

We analyze a model of active Brownian particles with non-linear friction and velocity coupling in one spatial dimension. The model exhibits two modes of motion observed in biological swarms: A disordered phase with vanishing mean velocity and an ordered phase with finite mean velocity. Starting from the microscopic Langevin equations, we derive mean-field eq

Pedro V. Sada, Drake Deming, Brian Jackson, Donald E. Jennings

We report recent ground-based photometry of the transiting super-Earth exoplanet GJ1214b at several wavelengths, including the infrared near 1.25 microns (J-band). We observed a J-band transit with the FLAMINGOS infrared imager and the 2.1-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, and we observed several optical transits using a 0.5-meter telescope on Kitt Peak and the

Ralf Lehnert

A number of approaches to fundamental physics can lead to the violation of Lorentz and CPT symmetry. This talk discusses the low-energy phenomenology associated with such effects and reviews various sample experiments within this context.

E. R. Bezerra de Mello, V. B. Bezerra, A. A. Saharian, V. M. Bardeghyan

We investigate the vacuum expectation value of the fermionic current induced by a magnetic flux in a (2+1)-dimensional conical spacetime in the presence of a circular boundary. On the boundary the fermionic field obeys MIT bag boundary condition. For irregular modes, a special case of boundary conditions at the cone apex is considered, when the MIT bag bound

Ingrid Mann, Andrzej Czechowski, Nicole Meyer-Vernet, Arnaud Zaslavsky

The mass density of dust particles that form from asteroids and comets in the interplanetary medium of the solar system is, near 1 AU, comparable to the mass density of the solar wind. It is mainly contained in particles of micrometer size and larger. Dust and larger objects are destroyed by collisions and sublimation and hence feed heavy ions into the solar

Katharina Janzen, Andreas Engel

Within the replica approach to mean-field spin-glasses the transition from ergodic high-temperature behaviour to the glassy low-temperature phase is marked by the instability of the replica-symmetric saddle-point. For general spin-glass models with non-Gaussian field distributions the corresponding Hessian is a $2^n\times 2^n$ matrix with the number $n$ of r

Yuan-Kuen Ko, John C. Raymond, Bojan Vrsnak, Eugen Vujic

A post-CME current sheet (CS) is a common feature developed behind an erupting flux rope in CME models. Observationally, white light observations have recorded many occurrences of a thin ray appearing behind a CME eruption that closely resembles a post-CME CS in its spatial correspondence and morphology. UV and X-ray observations further strengthen this inte

H1 Collaboration

Measurements of cross sections for events with charm and beauty jets in deep inelastic scattering at HERA are presented. Events with jets of transverse energy E_T^jet > 6 GeV and pseudorapidity -1.0 < eta^jet < 1.5 in the laboratory frame are selected in the kinematic region of photon virtuality Q^2 > 6 GeV^2 and inelasticity variable 0.07 < y < 0.625. Measu

J. -U. Pott, J. Woillez, S. Ragland, P. L. Wizinowich

We report on the successful science verification phase of a new observing mode at the Keck interferometer, which provides a line-spread function width and sampling of 150km/s at K&#39;-band, at a current limiting magnitude of K&#39;~7mag with spatial resolution of lam/2B ~2.7mas and a measured differential phase stability of unprecedented precision (3mrad at

Christoph Schmal, Tiago P. Peixoto, Barbara Drossel

We construct and investigate Boolean networks that follow a given reliable trajectory in state space, which is insensitive to fluctuations in the updating schedule, and which is also robust against noise. Robustness is quantified as the probability that the dynamics return to the reliable trajectory after a perturbation of the state of a single node. In orde

Silvia Zane, Luciano Nobili, Roberto Turolla

There is a general consensus about the fact that the magnetar scenario provides a convincing explanation for several of the observed properties of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and the Soft Gamma Repeaters. However, the origin of the emission observed at low energies is still an open issue. We present a quantitative model for the emission in the optical/infrar

Lasse Rempe, Philip J. Rippon

Let X be a Riemann surface of genus at most 1, i.e. X is the Riemann sphere or a torus. We construct a variety of examples of analytic functions g:W->X, where W is an arbitrary subdomain of X, that satisfy Epstein&#39;s &#34;Ahlfors islands condition&#34;. In particular, we show that the accumulation set of any curve tending to the boundary of W can be reali

The MINOS Collaboration

The shadowing of cosmic ray primaries by the the moon and sun was observed by the MINOS far detector at a depth of \unit[2070]{mwe} using 83.54 million cosmic ray muons accumulated over 1857.91 live-days. The shadow of the moon was detected at the \unit[5.6]{$σ$} level and the shadow of the sun at the \unit[3.8]{$σ$} level using a log-likelihood search in ce

V. V. Lyahov, V. M. Neshchadim

Within the framework of quasilinear theory it has been found that when radio bursts of III type are generated by the inhomogeneous system of electron beam - solar wind plasma, only time of development of the primary stage of instability, i.e., agnetohydrodynamic, is more than the total time of relaxation of an electron beam derived within the homogeneous mod

Iain R. Aitchison

This reports on the fundamental objects revealed by Ross Street, which he called `orientals&#39;. Street&#39;s work was in part inspired by Robert&#39;s attempts to use N-category ideas to construct nets of C*-algebras in Minkowski space for applications to relativistic quantum field theory: Roberts&#39; additional challenge was that `no amount of staring at

Jie-Qiao Liao, Le-Man Kuang

We propose a theoretical scheme to realize tailorable couplings between a cantilever and a superconducting charge qubit. By tuning the controllable parameters of the qubit, both linear and nonlinear couplings between the cantilever and the qubit can be achieved. Based on these couplings, we show the preparation of the cantilever into some interesting quantum

Hans-Joachim Baues, David Blanc

We show that three different kinds of cohomology - Baues-Wirsching cohomology, the (S,O)-cohomology of Dwyer-Kan, and the Andre-Quillen cohomology of a Pi-algebra - are isomorphic, under certain assumptions. This is then used to identify the cohomological obstructions in three general approaches to realizability problems: the track category version of Baues-

Manuel Hermenegildo, Torsten Schaub

This is the preface to the 26th International Conference on Logic Programming Special Issue

F. M. Walter, T. Eisenbeiss, J. M. Lattimer, B. Kim

We have redetermined the parallax and proper motion of the nearby isolated neutron star RX~J185635-3754. We used eight observations with the high resolution camera of the HST/ACS taken from 2002 through 2004. We performed the astrometric fitting using five independent methods, all of which yielded consistent results. The mean estimate of the distance is 123

Martin Hairer

In this article, we show how the theory of rough paths can be used to provide a notion of solution to a class of nonlinear stochastic PDEs of Burgers type that exhibit too high spatial roughness for classical analytical methods to apply. In fact, the class of SPDEs that we consider is genuinely ill-posed in the sense that different approximations to the nonl

Swadhin K. Taneja, Simonetta Liuti

In this work we derive a sum rule for the angular momentum of a spin 1 hadronic system.

Tamas Szabados

The fractional Brownian motion is a generalization of ordinary Brownian motion, used particularly when long-range dependence is required. Its explicit introduction is due to B.B. Mandelbrot and J.W. van Ness (1968) as a self-similar Gaussian process $\WH (t)$ with stationary increments. Here self-similarity means that $(a^{-H}\WH(at): t \ge 0) \stackrel{d}{=

Tamas Szabados, Balazs Szekely

In this paper we define Brownian local time as the almost sure limit of the local times of a nested sequence of simple, symmetric random walks. The limit is jointly continuous in $(t,x)$. The rate of convergence is $n^{\frac14} (\log n)^{\frac34}$ that is close to the best possible. The tools we apply are almost exclusively from elementary probability theory

Guang-Ming Zhang, Yue-Hua Su, Lu Yu

The heavy-Fermion liquid with short-range antiferromagnetic correlations is carefully considered in the two-dimensional Kondo-Heisenberg lattice model. As the ratio of the local Heisenberg superexchange $J_{H}$ to the Kondo coupling $J_{K}$ increases, Lifshitz transitions are anticipated, where the topology of the Fermi surface (FS) of the heavy quasiparticl

Martin Olsen, Per Gradin, Ulf Lindefelt, Håkan Olin

Using a one-dimensional jellium model and standard beam theory we calculate the spring constant of a vibrating nanowire cantilever. By using the asymptotic energy eigenvalues of the standing electron waves over the nanometer-sized cross-section area, the change in the grand canonical potential is calculated and hence the force and the spring constant. As the

Fabricio Q. Potiguar

It is presented a numerical study on the unjamming packing fraction of bi- and polydisperse disk packings, which are generated through compression of a monodisperse crystal. In bidisperse systems, a fraction f_+ = 40% up to 80% of the total number of particles have their radii increased by ΔR, while the rest has their radii decreased by the same amount. Poly

S. V. Sheela, K. R. Radhika

The physiological and behavioral trait is employed to develop biometric authentication systems. The proposed work deals with the authentication of iris and signature based on minimum variance criteria. The iris patterns are preprocessed based on area of the connected components. The segmented image used for authentication consists of the region with large va

Pekka Pankka, Juan Souto

We prove that while there are maps $\bT^4\to\#^3(\bS^2\times\bS^2)$ of arbitrarily large degree, there is no branched cover from $4$-torus to $\#^3(\bS^2\times \bS^2)$. More generally, we obtain that, as long as $N$ satisfies a suitable cohomological condition, any $π_1$-surjective branched cover $\bT^n \to N$ is a homeomorphism.

S. Kundu, T. K. Nath

A detailed investigation of the electronic - and magneto - transport properties of Nd0.8Sr0.2MnO3 with the variation of grain size (down to 42 nm) is presented here. Interestingly, we observe that the ferromagnetic insulating state is suppressed and a metallic state is stabilized as the grain size of the sample is reduced. As a result, metal insulator transi

E. F. Sheka

A deep similarity of photo-stimulated effects occurring in physical and biological objects involving fullerene forces to raise the question: what is meant under nanophotonics of fullerene and if should we not imply under this conventional term, usually restricted to optical events, something more general? Discussed in the paper, makes it possible to suggest

Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda

Given n elements with nonnegative integer weights w1,..., wn and an integer capacity C, we consider the counting version of the classic knapsack problem: find the number of distinct subsets whose weights add up to at most the given capacity. We give a deterministic algorithm that estimates the number of solutions to within relative error 1+-eps in time polyn

M. Xu, Y. -F. Huang

Early rebrightenings at a post-burst time of 10^2 - 10^4 s have been observed in the afterglows of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Unlike X-ray flares, these rebrightenings usually last for a relatively long period. The continuous energy injection mechanism usually can only produce a plateau in the afterglow light curve, but not a rebrightening. Also, a sudden

Mingzhe Li, Yifu Cai, Hong Li, Robert Brandenberger

In this paper we study the evolution of cosmological perturbations in the presence of dynamical dark energy, and revisit the issue of dark energy perturbations. For a generally parameterized equation of state (EoS) such as w_D(z) = w_0+w_1\frac{z}{1+z}, (for a single fluid or a single scalar field ) the dark energy perturbation diverges when its EoS crosses

Rabin Banerjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We calculate the Komar energy $E$ for a noncommutative Schwarzschild black hole. A deformation from the conventional identity $E=2ST_H$ is found in the next to leading order computation in the noncommutative parameter $θ$ (i.e. $\mathcal{O}(\sqrtθe^{-M^2/θ})$) which is also consistent with the fact that the area law now breaks down. This deformation yields a

S. Finkelman, M. Sachs, J. Paglione, G. Droulers

We measured the magnetoresistance as a function of temperature down to 20mK and magnetic field for a set of underdoped PrCeCuO (x=0.12) thin films with controlled oxygen content. This allows us to access the edge of the superconducting dome on the underdoped side. The sheet resistance increases with increasing oxygen content whereas the superconducting trans

S. Hocuk, P. D. Barthel

Giant double-lobed radio source 4C34.47 displays a straight one-sided jet, measuring a record length of 380kpc, in its double-lobed radio structure. Assuming an intrinsically symmetric two-sided jet structure the radio source jet axis must be at least 33 degrees away from the sky plane, that is within 57 degrees from the line of sight. The radio polarization

J. Lindén, J. -P. Libäck, M. Karppinen, E. -L. Rautama

Polycrystalline samples of FeSe$_{0.5}$Te$_{0.5}$ were synthesized using a conventional solid-state reaction method. The onset of bulk superconductivity transition was confirmed by SQUID magnetometry at 12.5~K. $^{57}$Fe Mössbauer spectra in transmission geometry were recorded at temperatures between 6.0 and 320 K. Both the isomer shift and the total absorpt

Nader Masmoudi, Frederic Rousset

We prove that there exists an interval of time which is uniform in the vanishing viscosity limit and for which the Navier-Stokes equation with Navier boundary condition has a strong solution. This solution is uniformly bounded in a conormal Sobolev space and has only one normal derivative bounded in $L^\infty$. This allows to get the vanishing viscosity limi

Brian P. Tighe, Thijs J. H. Vlugt

The heterogeneous force networks in static granular media --- formed from contact forces between grains and spanning from boundary to boundary in the packing --- are distinguished from other network structures in that they must satisfy constraints of mechanical equilibrium on every vertex/grain. Here we study the statistics of ensembles of hyperstatic fricti

S. Karataglidis, K. R. Henninger, W. R. Richter, K. Amos

Proton and neutron densities from Skyrme-Hartree-Fock (SHF) calculations are used to generate non-local (g-folding) proton-nucleus optical potentials. They are formed by folding the densities with realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions. The potentials are then used to calculate differential cross sections and spin observables for proton scattering. Good agre

Liangying Jiang, Caiheng Ouyang

We find a lower bound for the essential norm of the difference of two composition operators acting on $H^2(B_N)$ or $A^2_s(B_N)$ ($s>-1$). This result plays an important role in proving a necessary and sufficient condition for the difference of linear fractional composition operators to be compact, which answers a question posed by MacCluer and Weir in 2005.

Térence Delsate

This thesis is essentially organized in two parts: braneworlds and higher dimensional black objects with a cosmological constant. We present solitonic braneworld models where the brane are inflating and with the presence of a cosmological constant, by analyzing four particular models. These models, although slightly different exhibit common features which ar

K. M. Azharul Hasan, Mohammad Sabbir Hasan

Because of the importance of object oriented methodologies, the research in developing new measure for object oriented system development is getting increased focus. The most of the metrics need to find the interactions between the objects and modules for developing necessary metric and an influential software measure that is attracting the software develope

Md. Headayetullah, G. K. Pradhan

Improved interoperability between public and private organizations is of key significance to make digital government newest triumphant. Digital Government interoperability, information sharing protocol and security are measured the key issue for achieving a refined stage of digital government. Flawless interoperability is essential to share the information b

Jan Hendrik Bruinier, Stephen S. Kudla, Tonghai Yang

We give a formula for the values of automorphic Green functions on the special rational 0-cycles (big CM points) attached to certain maximal tori in the Shimura varieties associated to rational quadratic spaces of signature (2d,2). Our approach depends on the fact that the Green functions in question are constructed as regularized theta lifts of harmonic wea

Emilie Charlier, Narad Rampersad, Michel Rigo, Laurent Waxweiler

Under some mild assumptions, we study the state complexity of the trim minimal automaton accepting the greedy representations of the multiples of m >= 2 for a wide class of linear numeration systems. As an example, the number of states of the trim minimal automaton accepting the greedy representations of the multiples of m in the Fibonacci system is exactly

Cristian Calude, Kai Salomaa, Tania Roblot

Finite-state complexity is a variant of algorithmic information theory obtained by replacing Turing machines with finite transducers. We consider the state-size of transducers needed for minimal descriptions of arbitrary strings and, as our main result, we show that the state-size hierarchy with respect to a standard encoding is infinite. We consider also hi

Janusz Brzozowski, Baiyu Li, Yuli Ye

Transient algebra is a multi-valued algebra for hazard detection in gate circuits. Sequences of alternating 0&#39;s and 1&#39;s, called transients, represent signal values, and gates are modeled by extensions of boolean functions to transients. Formulas for computing the output transient of a gate from the input transients are known for NOT, AND, OR} and XOR

Martin Kappes, Andreas Malcher, Detlef Wotschke

With this contribution we would like to remember Chandra M. R. Kintala who passed away in November 2009. We will give short overviews of his CV and his contributions to the field of theoretical and applied computer science and, given the opportunity, will attempt to present the current state of limited nondeterminism and limited resources for machines. Final

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Mitra Shirmohammadi, Faramarz Samavati

We show that parametric context-sensitive L-systems with affine geometry interpretation provide a succinct description of some of the most fundamental algorithms of geometric modeling of curves. Examples include the Lane-Riesenfeld algorithm for generating B-splines, the de Casteljau algorithm for generating Bezier curves, and their extensions to rational cu