arXiv papers from October 2010

R. A. Reid-Edwards, B. Stefanski

We provide explicit solutions of Type IIA supergravity which are believed to be dual to N = 2 superconformal four dimensional gauge theories. These explicit solutions are based on the general ansatz for such a type of backgrounds introduced by Gaiotto and Maldacena.

Christopher D. Sogge, Steve Zelditch

Let $(M,g)$ be a two-dimensional compact boundaryless Riemannian manifold with Laplacian, $\Delta_g$. If $e_\lambda$ are the associated eigenfunctions of $\sqrt{-\Delta_g}$ so that $-\Delta_g e_\lambda = \lambda^2 e_\lambda$, then it has been known for some time \cite{soggeest} that $\|e_\lambda\|_{L^4(M)}\lesssim \lambda^{1/8}$, assuming that $e_\lambda$ is

Paul S. Wesson

Einstein theory can be embedded in Kaluza-Klein theory, and in particular all 4D vacuum solutions can be embedded in 5D (pure) canonical space where spacetime is independent of the extra coordinate. The uniqueness of 5D canonical space is quickly reproven, and its history and implications briefly reviewed. For 4D anti-deSitter space, the 5D space involves a

Peter F. Michelson, William B. Atwood, Steven Ritz

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) was launched on June 11, 2008 and began its first year sky survey on August 11, 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), a wide field-of-view pair-conversion telescope covering the energy range from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV, is the primary instrument on Fermi. While this review focuses on results obtained with the

Krishna B. Athreya, Justin R. Peters

For a Radon measure $\mu$ on $\bbR,$ we show that $L^{\infty}(\mu)$ is invariant under the group of translation operators $T_t(f)(x) = {$f(x-t)$}\ (t \in \bbR)$ if and only if $\mu$ is equivalent to Lebesgue measure $m$. We also give necessary and sufficient conditions for $L^p(\mu),\1 \leq p < \infty,$ to be invariant under the group $\{T_t\}$ in terms of t

Ivan Losev

Bezrukavnikov and Etingof introduced some functors between the categories O for rational Cherednik algebras. Namely, they defined two induction functors Ind_b, ind_\lambda and two restriction functors Res_b,res_\lambda. They conjectured that one has functor isomorphisms $Ind_b\cong ind_\lambda, Res_b\cong res_\lambda$. The goal of this paper is to prove this

A. Neronov, D. V. Semikoz

We perform a search for sources of gamma-rays with energies E>100 GeV at low Galactic latitudes |b|<10 deg using the data of Fermi telescope. To separate compact gamma-ray sources from the diffuse emission from the Galaxy, we use the Minimal Spanning Tree method with threshold of 5 events in inner Galaxy (Galactic longitude |l|<60 deg) and of 3 events in out

Takaharu Tsukada

We introduce the notions of the caustic-equivalence and the weak caustic-equivalence relations of reticular Lagrangian maps in order to give a generic classification of caustics on a corner. We give the figures of all generic caustics on a corner in a smooth manifold of dimension 2 and 3.

Jeroen Bruggeman

Network diversity yields context-dependent benefits that are not yet fully-understood. I elaborate on a recently introduced distinction between tie strength diversity and information source diversity, and explain when, how, and why they matter. The issue whether there are benefits to specialization is the key.

Kefeng Liu, Xiaokui Yang

On Hermitian manifolds, the second Ricci curvature tensors of various metric connections are closely related to the geometry of Hermitian manifolds. By refining the Bochner formulas for any Hermitian complex vector bundle (Riemannain real vector bundle) with an arbitrary metric connection over a compact Hermitian manifold, we can derive various vanishing the

Roland M. Crocker, David I. Jones, Felix Aharonian, Casey J. Law

We treat of the high-energy astrophysics of the inner ~200 pc of the Galaxy. Our modelling of this region shows that the supernovae exploding here every few thousand years inject enough power to i) sustain the steady-state, in situ population of cosmic rays (CRs) required to generate the region's non-thermal radio and TeV {\gamma}-ray emis-sion; ii) drive a

L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, M. G. Payne

The Comment by Wolfgang Ketterle (Ref.[1]) purports to present a viable model of superradiance in condensates. However, Ref.[1] is not able to explain the red/blue pump detuning asymmetry that was first observed recently by us (Ref.[2]). It is clear from our original paper (Ref.[3]) that the rate-equation-based theories of Ref.[1] are incomplete since they o

Gerhart Seidl

We demonstrate, by giving a specific example, that supersymmetry can be left unbroken without running into conflict with observation. The key idea is to employ a discrete form of supersymmetry. Amongst other interesting features, this construction goes roughly half the way in removing the hierarchy between the observed cosmological constant and the vacuum en

Douglas C. Leonard

Theory holds that a star born with an initial mass between about 8 and 140 times the mass of the Sun will end its life through the catastrophic gravitational collapse of its iron core to a neutron star or black hole. This core collapse process is thought to usually be accompanied by the ejection of the star's envelope as a supernova. This established theory

Leonid M. Malyshkin, Stanislav Boldyrev

Amplification of magnetic field due to kinematic turbulent dynamo action is studied in the regime of small magnetic Prandtl numbers. Such a regime is relevant for planets and stars interiors, as well as for liquid metal laboratory experiments. A comprehensive analysis based on the Kazantsev-Kraichnan model is reported, which establishes the dynamo threshold

Hilke E. Schlichting, Reem Sari

Runway growth is an important stage in planet formation during which large protoplanets form, while most of the initial mass remains in small planetesimals. The amount of mass converted into large protoplanets and their resulting size distribution are not well understood. Here, we use analytic work, that we confirm by coagulation simulations, to describe run

Max A. Alekseyev, Pavel A. Pevzner

An important question in genome evolution is whether there exist fragile regions (rearrangement hotspots) where chromosomal rearrangements are happening over and over again. Although nearly all recent studies supported the existence of fragile regions in mammalian genomes, the most comprehensive phylogenomic study of mammals (Ma et al. (2006) Genome Research

Yoshifumi Nakamura, Hinnerk Stüben

We publish BQCD as free software under the GNU General Public License. BQCD is a Hybrid Monte-Carlo program that simulates lattice QCD with dynamical Wilson fermions. It is one of the main production programs of the QCDSF collaboration. The program can simulate 2 and 2 + 1 fermion flavours with pure, clover improved, and stout smeared fat link Wilson fermion

F. Haas, R. C. Oliveski

A systematic search for the Lie point symmetries admitted by the steady hydromagnetic two-dimensional incompressible viscous flow boundary layer equation and associated boundary conditions is performed. Unlike previous works, the specific forms of the external velocity and transverse magnetic fields are not postulated from the very beginning. In this way a w

Djurdje Cvijović

Lee, in a series of papers, described a unified formulation of the statistical thermodynamics of ideal quantum gases in terms of the polylogarithm functions, $\textup{Li}_{s} (z)$. It is aimed here to investigate the functions $\textup{Li}_{s} (z),$ for $s = 0, -1, -2, ...,$ which are, following Lee, referred to as the polypseudologarithms (or polypseudologs

Milan Krbalek, Pavel Hrabak

We consider the one-dimensional totally asymmetric simple exclusion model (TASEP model) with open boundary conditions and present the analytical computations leading to the exact formula for distance clearance distribution, i.e. probability density for a clear distance between subsequent particles of the model. The general relation is rapidly simplified for

Djurdje Cvijović

Borwein and Broadhurst, using experimental-mathematics techniques, in 1998 identified numerous hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose volumes are rationally related to values of various Dirichlet L series $\textup{L}_{d}(s)$. In particular, in the simplest case of an ideal tetrahedron in hyperbolic space, they conjectured that a dilogarithmic integral representing the

Andras Zsom

The thesis deals with the first stage of planet formation, namely dust coagulation from micron to millimeter sizes in circumstellar disks. For the first time, we collect and compile the recent laboratory experiments on dust aggregates into a collision model that can be implemented into dust coagulation models. We put this model into a Monte Carlo code that u

V. Rosero, L. Prato, L. H. Wasserman, B. Rodgers

We report the orbital parameters for ROXR1 14 and RX J1622.7-2325Nw, two young, low-mass, and double-lined spectroscopic binaries recently discovered in the Ophiuchus star forming region. Accurate orbital solutions were determined from over a dozen high-resolution spectra taken with the Keck II and Gemini South telescopes. These objects are T Tauri stars wit

Mark McLaughlin, Gerard Briscoe, Paul Malone

On the Internet large service providers tend to control the digital identities of users. These defacto identity authorities wield significant power over users, compelling them to comply with non-negotiable terms, before access to services is granted. In doing so, users expose themselves to privacy risks, manipulation and exploitation via direct marketing. Ag

A. Libgober

We discuss combinatorial invariance of the betti numbers of the Milnor fiber for arrangements of lines with points of multiplicity at most three and describe a link between this problem and enumeration of solutions of the Catalan equation over function field in the case when its coefficients are products of linear forms and the equation defines an elliptic c

Şahin Emrah Amrahov, Fatih Aybar, Serhat Doğan

In this paper it is considered rule reduct generation problem, based on Rough Set Theory. Rule Reduct Generation (RG) and Modified Rule Generation (MRG) algorithms are well-known. Alternative to these algorithms Pruning Algorithm of Generation A Minimal Set of Rule Reducts, or briefly Pruning Rule Generation (PRG) algorithm is developed. PRG algorithm uses t

Ivana Jovovic, Branko Malesevic

This paper deals with the enumeration of the higher order non-trivial compositions of the differential operations and the directional derivative in the space $R^n$ ($n \geq 3$). We present the recurrences for a counting the higher order non-trivial compositions.

Giovanni Russo, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

This paper discusses the interplay of symmetries and stability in the analysis and control of nonlinear dynamical systems and networks. Specifically, it combines standard results on symmetries and equivariance with recent convergence analysis tools based on nonlinear contraction theory and virtual dynamical systems. This synergy between structural properties

Şahin Emrah Amrahov, Orhan A. Nooraden

In the article a turn-based game played on four computers connected via network is investigated. There are three computers with natural intelligence and one with artificial intelligence. Game table is seen by each player's own view point in all players' monitors. Domino pieces are three dimensional. For distributed systems TCP/IP protocol is used. In order t

Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Rebekah I. Dawson

The radial velocity (RV) method for detecting extrasolar planets has been the most successful to date. The RV signal imprinted by a few Earth-mass planet around a cool star is at the limit of the typical single measurement uncertainty obtained using state-of-the-art spectrographs. This requires relying on statistics in order to unearth signals buried below n

Jose A. R. Cembranos

There is a non-trivial four-derivative extension of the gravitational spectrum that is free of ghosts and phenomenologically viable. It is the so called $R^2$-gravity since it is defined by the only addition of a term proportional to the square of the scalar curvature. Just the presence of this term does not improve the ultraviolet behaviour of Einstein grav

Claude Bernard, Maarten Golterman

We construct the transfer matrix for the ghost sector of partially quenched QCD. This transfer matrix is not hermitian, but we show that it is still bounded. We thus expect that all euclidean correlation functions will decay exponentially with distance (up to possible powers), and demonstrate that this is indeed the case for free ghost quarks.

Lasma Alberte, Ali H. Chamseddine, Viatcheslav Mukhanov

We consider Higgs massive gravity [1,2] and investigate whether a nonlinear ghost in this theory can be avoided. We show that although the theory considered in [10,11] is ghost free in the decoupling limit, the ghost nevertheless reappears in the fourth order away from the decoupling limit. We also demonstrate that there is no direct relation between the val

J. A. Hoyos, Nicolas Laflorencie, A. P. Vieira, Thomas Vojta

We show that a broad class of quantum critical points can be stable against locally correlated disorder even if they are unstable against uncorrelated disorder. Although this result seemingly contradicts the Harris criterion, it follows naturally from the absence of a random-mass term in the associated order-parameter field theory. We illustrate the general

A. Gal, D. J. Millener

Hiyama et al. [PRL 104 (2010) 212502] have recently reported on a pioneering five-body alpha-alpha-n-Lambda-Lambda cluster-model calculation of Lambda-Lambda-11Be in order to confront a possible interpretation of the KEK-E373 HIDA event. Unfortunately, a six-body alpha-alpha-n-n-Lambda-Lambda calculation of Lambda-Lambda-12Be to confront another possible int

Varsha Dani, Cristopher Moore

We prove new lower bounds on the likely size of a maximum independent set in a random graph with a given average degree. Our method is a weighted version of the second moment method, where we give each independent set a weight based on the total degree of its vertices.

Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, Manfred J. Mark, Elmar Haller, Mattias Gustavsson

We produce an ultracold and dense sample of rovibronic ground state Cs_2 molecules close to the regime of quantum degeneracy, in a single hyperfine level, in the presence of an optical lattice. The molecules are individually trapped, in the motional ground state of an optical lattice well, with a lifetime of 8 s. For preparation, we start with a zero-tempera

Adlene Ayadi, Habib Marzougui, Ezzeddine Salhi

We give a complete characterization of abelian subgroups of GL(n, R) with a locally dense (resp. dense) orbit in R^n. For finitely generated subgroups, this characterization is explicit and it is used to show that no abelian subgroup of GL(n, R) generated by [ (n+1)/2 ] matrices can have a dense orbit in R^n. ([ ] denotes the integer part).

Michael Dreyer, Jonghee Lee, Hui Wang, Barry Barker

We observed slow moving vortex lattices in NbSe_2 using a home built STM at a temperature of 4.2 K and magnetic fields in the range of 250-500 mT. The vortex lattices move coherently at speeds of 1-10 pm/s due to a slow decay of our magnetic field of 0.5 mT/day. We observe collective speed variations which indicate pinning/depinning events. Furthermore, we f

Abel Yang, William C. Saslaw, Aik Hui Chan, Bernard Leong

We examine the evolution of the spatial counts-in-cells distribution of galaxies and show that the form of the galaxy distribution function does not change significantly as galaxies merge and evolve. In particular, bound merging pairs follow a similar distribution to that of individual galaxies. From the adiabatic expansion of the universe we show how cluste

Madeleine B. Thompson

This paper describes four methods for estimating autocorrelation time and evaluates these methods with a test set of seven series. Fitting an autoregressive process appears to be the most accurate method of the four. An R package is provided for extending the comparison to more methods and test series.

Pavel V. Gapeev

The multiple disorder problem seeks to determine a sequence of stopping times which are as close as possible to the unknown times of disorders at which the observation process changes its probability characteristics. We derive closed form solutions in two formulations of the multiple disorder problem for an observable Brownian motion with switching constant

K. S. Enoch Lee

We show that the set of the numbers that are the sum of a prime and a Fibonacci number has positive lower asymptotic density.

Leo T. Butler, Alfonso Sorrentino

This paper studies the existence of invariant smooth Lagrangian graphs for Tonelli Hamiltonian systems with symmetries. In particular, we consider Tonelli Hamiltonians with n independent but not necessarily involutive constants of motion and obtain two theorems reminiscent of the Liouville-Arnold theorem. Moreover, we also obtain results on the structure of

Dongho Chae, Peter Constantin, Jiahong Wu

This paper is devoted to the global (in time) regularity problem for a family of active scalar equations with fractional dissipation. Each component of the velocity field $u$ is determined by the active scalar $\theta$ through $\mathcal{R} \Lambda^{-1} P(\Lambda) \theta$ where $\mathcal{R}$ denotes a Riesz transform, $\Lambda=(-\Delta)^{1/2}$ and $P(\Lambda)

Elmar P. Biernat, William H. Klink, Wolfgang Schweiger

We discuss a Poincar\'e invariant coupled-channel formalism which is based on the point-form of relativistic quantum mechanics. Electromagnetic scattering of an electron by a 2-body bound state is treated as a 2-channel problem for a Bakamjian-Thomas-type mass operator. In this way retardation effects in the photon-exchange interaction are fully taken into a

Charles D. Dermer

The impact of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on blazar research is reviewed. This includes a brief description of the Fermi Large Area Telescope, a summary of the various classes of extragalactic sources found in the First Large Area Telescope AGN Catalog, and more detailed discussion of the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C454.3 and the BL Lac object PKS 2

Zoltan Gingl, Laszlo B. Kish

We deterministically crack the secure, statistical key exchange protocol based on feedback proposed by Pao-Lo Liu [ J. Lightwave Techology 27 (2009) pp. 5230-34]. The crack is ultimate and absolute because it works under idealized conditions, and produces much higher data visibility for the eavesdropper than the protocol provides for Alice and Bob. Even with

Oleg B. Zaslavskii

We give simple and general explanation to the effect of unbound acceleration of particles by black holes. It is related to the fact that the scalar product of a timelike vector of the four-velocity of an ingoing particle and the lightlike horizon generator tends to zero in some special cases, so the condition of "motion forward in time" is marginally satisfi

Erik Tonni

We study the finite term of the holographic entanglement entropy for the charged black hole in AdS(d+2) and other examples of black holes when the spatial region in the boundary theory is given by one or two parallel strips. For one large strip it scales like the width of the strip. The divergent term of its expansion as the turning point of the minimal surf

Michal Dobrski

Using Fedosov theory of deformation quantization of endomorphism bundle we construct several models of pure geometric, deformed vacuum gravity, corresponding to arbitrary symplectic noncommutativity tensor. Deformations of Einstein-Hilbert and Palatini actions are investigated. Coordinate covariant field equations are derived up to the second order of the de

V. Martinez Outschoorn

The observation of W and Z bosons and a measurement of the production cross sections in proton proton collisions at E_CM = 7 TeV are presented using data from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Results are based on 118 W -> lnu and 125 Z/gamma* -> ll (l=e,mu) candidate events corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 17 nb^-1 and 225 nb^-1 respectivel

Jörg Dubbert, Sandra Horvat, Oliver Kortner, Hubert Kroha

The outer shell of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC consists of a system of toroidal air-core magnets in order to allow for the precise measurement of the transverse momentum p$_T$ of muons, which in many physics channels are a signature of interesting physics processes. For the precise determination of the muon momentum Monitored Drift Tube chambers (MDT) wi

Chih-Yueh Wang, Ying-Yi Lo, Chung-Ming Ko

Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field lines. The process of mixing of this instability in the ISM near the Galactic plane is investigated. The initial ISM is assum

Thomas Kuhr

Measurements of production cross sections and polarizations are essential inputs for a theoretical understanding of heavy vector meson production. In this article the CDF measurement of the Y(1S) polarization in the kinematic range |y|<0.6 and 2 < pT [GeV/c] < 40 using a data sample of 2.9/fb is described. Compared to the CDF Run I measurement, with which it

Karapet Mkrtchyan

This thesis includes several original results. All of them are already published or submitted for publication. I present here the short summary of main results: The ultraviolet singular structure of the bulk-to-bulk propagators for higher spin gauge fields in AdS4 space is analyzed in details. One loop mass renormalization is studied on a simple example. The

Y. Kozuka, M. Kim, H. Ohta, Y. Hikita

We fabricated high-mobility {\delta}-doped structures in SrTiO3 thin films in order to investigate the low temperature electronic transport properties of confined carriers in this system. An enhancement of the electron mobility above the bulk value was observed as the doped layer thickness decreased. High-field Hall measurements revealed that this mobility e

Srivas Prasad

Measurements of W and Z cross-sections in pp collisions at ECM = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider are reported from the ATLAS experiment. From an observation of 118 leptonic W candidates, the inclusive W cross-section times leptonic branching fraction is measured as [9.3 \pm 0.9(stat) \pm 0.6(syst) \pm 1.0(lumi)] nb. The result for the Z boson is [0.83 \pm

Yusuke Taniguchi

We present an evaluation of the quark mass renormalization factor for Nf=2+1 QCD. The Schroedinger functional scheme is employed as the intermediate scheme to carry out non-perturbative running from the low energy to deep in the high energy perturbative region. The regularization independent step scaling function of the quark mass is obtained in the continuu

W. Plessas

We present a review of the description of hadron properties along an invariant mass operator in the point form of Poincar\'e-invariant relativistic dynamics. The quark-quark interaction is furnished by a linear confinement, consistent with the QCD string tension, and a hyperfine interaction derived from Goldstone-boson exchange. The main advantage of the poi

Wei Li, Shi-Ju Ran, Shou-Shu Gong, Yang Zhao

A linearized tensor renormalization group (LTRG) algorithm is proposed to calculate the thermodynamic properties of one-dimensional quantum lattice models, that is incorporated with the infinite time-evolving block decimation technique, and allows for treating directly the two-dimensional transfer-matrix tensor network. To illustrate its feasibility, the the

Mitsutoshi Fujita

We study the $d=11$ gravity dual $AdS_4\times N(1,1)$ of the $d=3$ $\mathcal{N}=3$ flavored Chern-Simons-matter (CSM) theory. In the dual gravity side, we analyze the M5-brane making the edge on the boundary of $AdS_4$ and derive the quantized Hall conductivity of the dual gauge theory. In the gauge theory side, this M5-brane intersects the gauge theory at t

J. P. McKean

A search for 6 arcsec to 15 arcsec image separation lensing in the Jodrell Bank-Very Large Array Astrometric Survey (JVAS) and the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS) by Phillips et al. found thirteen group and cluster gravitational lens candidates. Through radio and optical imaging and spectroscopy, Phillips et al. ruled out the lensing hypothesis for twelve

Bo Xiao, You-kai Wang, Shou-hua Zhu

Both CDF and D0 at Tevatron reported the measurements of forward-backward asymmetry in top pair production, which showed possible deviation from the standard model QCD prediction. In this paper, we show that a new color-octet massive vector boson with mass just above twice that of top quark can simultaneously account for the asymmetry and differential distri

Ruben L. Mkrtchyan, Alexander P. Veselov

We give one more interpretation of the symbolic formulae $U(-N)=U(N)$ and $Sp(-2N)=SO(2N)$ by comparing the values of certain Casimir operators in the corresponding tensor representations. We show also that such relations can be extended to the classical symmetric spaces using Macdonald duality for Jack and Jacobi symmetric functions.

Yeong-Deok Han, Joonwoo Bae, Xiang-Bin Wang, Won-Young Hwang

A simple derivation of the optimal state estimation of a quantum bit was obtained by using the no-signaling principle. In particular, the no-signaling principle determines a unique form of the guessing probability independently of figures of merit, such as the fidelity or information gain. This proves that the optimal estimation for a quantum bit can be achi

Ferydon Babaei, Hadi Savaloni

The transmission and reflection spectra from a right-handed chiral sculptured zirconia thin film are calculated using the piecewise homogeneity approximation method and the Bruggeman homogenization formalism by considering that the propagation of both dispersive and non-dispersive dielectric function occurs for axial and non-axial states. The comparison of s

L. F. Johnson

Two very fast and simple O(lg n) algorithms for individual Fibonacci numbers are given and compared to competing algorithms. A simple O(lg n) recursion is derived that can also be applied to Lucas. A formula is given to estimate the largest n, where F_n does not overflow the implementation's data type. The danger of timing runs on input that is too large for

Marco G. Mazza, Manuel Greschek, Rustem Valiullin, Jörg Kärger

We present a molecular dynamics study of reentrant nematic phases using the Gay-Berne-Kihara model of a liquid crystal in nanoconfinement. At densities above those characteristic of smectic A phases, reentrant nematic phases form that are characterized by a large value of the nematic order parameter $S\simeq1$. Along the nematic director these "supernematic"

Ferydon Babaei, Hadi Savaloni

The transmission and reflection spectra from a right-handed chiral sculptured zirconia thin film are calculated using the piecewise homogeneity approximation method and the Bruggeman homogenization formalism and considering that the dispersion of dielectric function happens in non-axial propagation state. First and second Bragg peaks were observed in cross-p

Qiang Yuan, Siming Liu, Zhonghui Fan, Xiaojun Bi

Emission mechanisms of the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 are studied with multi-wavelength observational data from radio, X-ray, GeV $\gamma$-ray to TeV $\gamma$-ray band. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo method is employed to explore the high-dimensional model parameter space systematically. Three scenarios for the $\gamma$-ray emission are i

Volodymyr Mazorchuk

This is a write-up of the lectures given by the author during the Master Class "Categorification" at {\AA}rhus University, Denmark in October 2010.

Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, John Asher Johnson, Debra A. Fischer

The questions of how planets form and how common Earth-like planets are can be addressed by measuring the distribution of exoplanet masses and orbital periods. We report the occurrence rate of close-in planets (with orbital periods less than 50 days) based on precise Doppler measurements of 166 Sun-like stars. We measured increasing planet occurrence with de

Matteo Bachetti, Marina Romanova

3D MHD simulation of accretion onto neutron stars have shown in the last few years that the footprint (hotspot) of the accretion flow changes with time. Two different kinds of accretion, namely the funnel flow and the equatorial accretion produced by instabilities at the inner disk, produce different kinds of motion of the hotspot. The funnel flow produces h

R. Hernandez Heredero, D. Levi, C. Scimiterna

In this paper we consider the classification of dispersive linearizable partial difference equations defined on a quad-graph by the multiple scale reduction around their harmonic solution. We show that the A_1, A_2 and A_3 linearizability conditions restrain the number of the parameters which enter into the equation. A subclass of the equations which pass th

Michael Helbig

We give a necessary and sufficient PBW basis criterion for Hopf algebras generated by skew-primitive elements and abelian group of group-like elements with action given via characters. This class of pointed Hopf algebras has shown great importance in the classification theory and can be seen as generalized quantum groups. We apply the criterion to classical

A. J. Buchmann, E. M. Henley

We calculate the quark spin contribution to the total angular momentum of flavor octet and flavor decuplet ground state baryons using a spin-flavor symmetry based parametrization method of quantum chromodynamics. We find that third order SU(6) symmetry breaking three-quark operators are necessary to explain the experimental result Sigma_1=0.32(10). For spin

Jean Lasserre

Given all moments of the marginals of a measure on Rn, one provides (a) explicit bounds on its support and (b), a numerical scheme to compute the smallest box that contains the support. It consists of solving a hierarchy of generalized eigenvalue problems associated with some Hankel matrices.

S. M. Gerasyuta, V. I. Kochkin

The relativistic four-quark equations are found in the framework of coupled-channel formalism. The dynamical mixing of the meson-meson states with the four-quark states is considered. The four-quark amplitudes of the negative parity tetraquarks including the quarks of three flavors (u, d, s) and the charmed quark are constructed. The poles of these amplitude

M. A. Reniers, T. A. C. Willemse

Kripke Structures and Labelled Transition Systems are the two most prominent semantic models used in concurrency theory. Both models are commonly believed to be equi-expressive. One can find many ad-hoc embeddings of one of these models into the other. We build upon the seminal work of De Nicola and Vaandrager that firmly established the correspondence betwe

Mannque Rho

The history of how chiral symmetry has entered in nuclear physics, in which Gerry Brown and I have participated from 1970 up to today, is described from my personal viewpoint. The route of development we have traversed together goes from meson exchange currents, to "little chiral bag," to chiral effective field theory, to "Brown-Rho scaling" and then to dens

Ahmad Sheykhi, Mubasher Jamil

Among various scenarios to explain the acceleration of the universe expansion, the holographic dark energy (HDE) model has got a lot of enthusiasm recently. In the derivation of holographic energy density, the area relation of the black hole entropy plays a crucial role. Indeed, the power-law corrections to entropy appear in dealing with the entanglement of

Q. -z. Ye

We present the results of BVRI photometry and classification of 53 unusual asteroids, including 35 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), 6 high eccentricity/inclination asteroids, and 12 recently-identified asteroid-pair candidates. Most of these asteroids were not reportedly classified prior to this work. For the few asteroids that have been previously studied, the

Kenji Nakanishi, Wilhelm Schlag

We extend our previous result on the focusing cubic Klein-Gordon equation in three dimensions to the non-radial case, giving a complete classification of global dynamics of all solutions with energy at most slightly above that of the ground state.

Vikram S Vijayaraghavan, Udaysinh T. Bhosale, Arul Lakshminarayan

Entanglement within qubits are studied for the subspace of definite particle states or definite number of up spins. A transition from an algebraic decay of entanglement within two qubits with the total number $N$ of qubits, to an exponential one when the number of particles is increased from two to three is studied in detail. In particular the probability th

Yan Guo, Toan Nguyen

This note concerns a nonlinear ill-posedness of the Prandtl equation and an invalidity of asymptotic boundary-layer expansions of incompressible fluid flows near a solid boundary. Our analysis is built upon recent remarkable linear ill-posedness results established by G\'erard-Varet and Dormy [2], and an analysis in Guo and Tice [5]. We show that the asympto

Animashree Anandkumar, Vincent Tan, Alan Willsky

We consider the problem of learning the structure of ferromagnetic Ising models Markov on sparse Erdos-Renyi random graph. We propose simple local algorithms and analyze their performance in the regime of correlation decay. We prove that an algorithm based on a set of conditional mutual information tests is consistent for structure learning throughout the re

J. Y. Lee, X. W. Guan, M. T. Batchelor

Using Yang and Yang's particle-hole description, we present a thorough derivation of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations for a general $SU(\kappa)$ fermionic system in one-dimension for both the repulsive and attractive regimes under the presence of an external magnetic field. These equations are derived from Sutherland's Bethe ansatz equations by using

KTeV Collaboration, E. Abouzaid, M. Arenton, A. R. Barker

We present precise tests of CP and CPT symmetry based on the full dataset of K to pipi decays collected by the KTeV experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory during 1996, 1997, and 1999. This dataset contains 16 million K to 2pi0 and 69 million K to pi+pi- decays. We measure the direct CP violation parameter Re(epsilon'/epsilon) = (19.2 pm 2.1)x10-

Zhengping Fan, Guanrong Chen, Yunong Zhang

Graphical models are frequently used to represent topological structures of various complex networks. Current criteria to assess different models of a network mainly rely on how close a model matches the network in terms of topological characteristics. Typical topological metrics are clustering coefficient, distance distribution, the largest eigenvalue of th

Kohji Tomisaka

The observational expectation of polarization measurements of thermal dust radiation is investigated to find information on molecular outflows based on magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) and radiation transfer simulations. There are two major proposed models for the driving of molecular outflows: (1) molecular gas is accelerated by a magnetic pressure gradient or m

L. Monaco, I. Saviane, M. Correnti, P. Bonifacio

Context. Palomar\,1 is a peculiar globular cluster (GC). It is the youngest Galactic GC and it has been tentatively associated to several of the substructures recently discovered in the Milky Way (MW), including the Canis Major (CMa) overdensity and the Galactic Anticenter Stellar Structure (GASS). Aims. In order to provide further insights into its origin,

Hernando Quevedo, Alberto Sanchez, Safia Taj, Alejandro Vazquez

We present a systematic and consistent construction of geometrothermodynamics by using Riemannian contact geometry for the phase manifold and harmonic maps for the equilibrium manifold. We present several metrics for the phase manifold that are invariant with respect to Legendre transformations and induce thermodynamic metrics on the equilibrium manifold. We

Carl M. Bender, Daniel W. Hook

Classical mechanics is a singular theory in that real-energy classical particles can never enter classically forbidden regions. However, if one regulates classical mechanics by allowing the energy E of a particle to be complex, the particle exhibits quantum-like behavior: Complex-energy classical particles can travel between classically allowed regions separ

Silvia Barbina, Domenico Zambella

We compare two different notions of generic expansions of countable saturated structures. One kind of genericity is related to model-companions and to amalgamation constructions \'a la Hrushovski-Fra\"iss\'e. Another notion of generic expansion is defined via topological properties and Baire category theory. The second type of genericity was first formulated

Andrei Linde, Vitaly Vanchurin

Many probability measures in the multiverse depend exponentially on some observable parameters, giving rise to potential problems such as youngness bias, Q-catastrophe etc. In this paper we explore a possibility that the exponential runaway dependence should be viewed not as a problem, but as a feature that may help us to fix all parameters in the landscape,

Alexander Olshanskii

We consider space functions $s(n)$ of finitely presented groups $G =< A\mid R> .$ (These functions have a natural geometric analog.) To define $s(n)$ we start with a word $w$ over $A$ of length at most $n$ equal to 1 in $G$ and use relations from $R$ for elementary transformations to obtain the empty word; $s(n)$ bounds from above the tape space (or computer

Olga Kravchenko, Michael Polyak

We extend Milnor's mu-invariants of link homotopy to ordered (classical or virtual) tangles. Simple combinatorial formulas for mu-invariants are given in terms of counting trees in Gauss diagrams. Invariance under Reidemeister moves corresponds to axioms of Loday's diassociative algebra. The relation of tangles to diassociative algebras is formulated in term

Changtao Xue, Ximin Liu

Let $X$ be a closed, simply-connected, smooth, spin 4-manifold whose intersection form is isomorphic to $n(-E_8)\bigoplus mH$, where $H$ is the hyperbolic form. In this paper, we prove that for $n$ such that $n\equiv 2 ~{\rm mod} ~4$, there exists a locally linear pseudofree $\mathbb{Z}_2$-action on $X$ which is nonsmoothable with respect to any possible smo