October 2010 arXiv papers — page 49

Shu Hu, Paul C. McIntyre

Al-induced layer exchange crystallization of amorphous Ge thin films has been demonstrated recently, and provides a suitable system to characterize, model and control Ge crystal growth on non-crystalline substrates. Direct observation of Ge transfer to the surface of Al through an interposed GeOx interfacial layer allows independent measurement of the densit

D. Kuziak, J. A. Rodriguez-Velazquez, I. G. Yero

We show that the principal results of the article "The metric dimension of graph with pendant edges" [Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 65 (2008) 139--145] do not hold. In this paper we correct the results and we solve two open problems described in the above mentioned paper.

Don Colladay, Patrick McDonald

We extend Lorentz-violating Supersymmetry models to include vector superfields. The CPT-preserving model generalizes easily, while the obvious attempt at generalizing the CPT-violating model meets serious obstructions. Generalizations of the CPT-preserving but Lorentz-Violating model to higher dimensions are also straightforward. Compactification is used to

Pablo Capuzzi, Mario Gattobigio, Patrizia Vignolo

We study the formation of Faraday waves in an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate in presence of a one-dimensional optical lattice, where phonons are parametrically excited by modulating the radial confinement of the condensate. For very shallow optical lattices, phonons with a well-defined wave vector propagate along the condensate, as in the absence of the

Chen Wang, Yong-Tao Cui, Jordan A. Katine, Robert A. Buhrman

Several experimental techniques have been introduced in recent years in attempts to measure spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). The dependence of spin torque on bias is important for understanding fundamental spin physics in magnetic devices and for applications. However, previous techniques have provided only indirect measures of the t

Federico Galli, Alexey S. Koshelev

We consider the appearance of multiple scalar fields in SFT inspired non-local models with a single scalar field at late times. In this regime all the scalar fields are free. This system minimally coupled to gravity can be analyzed approximately or numerically. The main result of this note is the introduction of an exactly solvable model which obeys an exact

S. Pilling, D. P. P. Andrade, E. M. do Nascimento, R. R. T. Marinho

An experimental photochemistry study involving gas- and solid-phase amino acids (glycine, DL-valine, DL-proline) and nucleobases (adenine and uracil) under soft X-rays was performed. The aim was to test the molecular stabilities of essential biomolecules against ionizing photon fields inside dense molecular clouds and protostellar disks analogs. In these env

V. K. Magas, J. Yamagata-Sekihara, S. Hirenzaki, E. Oset

We review recent claims of the existence of deeply bound kaonic states in nuclei. Also we study in details the (K-,p) reaction on C12 with 1 GeV/c momentum kaon beam, based on which a deep kaon nucleus optical potential was claimed in [1]. In our Monte Carlo simulation of this reaction we include not only the quasi-elastic K- p scattering, as in [1], but als

Matthieu Hillairet, Pierre Raphaël

We exhibit $\mathcal C^{\infty}$ type II blow up solutions to the focusing energy critical wave equation in dimension $N=4$. These solutions admit near blow up time a decomposiiton $u(t,x)=1/l(t)(Q+e(t))(x/l(t)}}$ with $|e(t),\pa_t e(t)|_{\dot{H}^1\times L^2}<<1$ where $Q$ is the extremizing profile of the Sobolev embedding $\dot{H}^1\subset L^{2^*}$, and a

Jon Alm Eriksen, Soumyajyoti Biswas, Bikas K. Chakrabarti

We propose a modified version of the Tomlinson model for static friction between two chains of beads. We introduce disorder in terms of vacancies in the chain, and distribute the remaining beads in a scale invariant way. For this we utilize a generalized random Cantor set. We relate the static friction force, to the overlap distribution of the chains, and di

Igor Leite Freire

In this work a class of self-adjoint quasilinear third-order evolution equations is determined. Some conservation laws of them are established and a generalization on a self-adjoint class of fourth-order evolution equations is presented.

Revaz Kurdiani

Three kinds of universal central extension are considered for a perfect Lie algebra. More precisely, one can consider such a Lie algebra as a Lie triple system, or a Leibniz algebra and construct appropriate central extensions. We show that Lie triple system universal central extension is isomorphic either to Lie or Leibniz algebra universal central extensio

Matteo Cacciari, Juan Rojo, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez

We examine the problem of jet reconstruction at heavy-ion colliders using jet-area-based background subtraction tools as provided by FastJet. We use Monte Carlo simulations with and without quenching to study the performance of several jet algorithms, including the option of filtering, under conditions corresponding to RHIC and LHC collisions. We find that m

D. A. Zyuzin, A. A. Danilenko, S. V. Zharikov, Yu. A. Shibanov

G292.0+1.8 is a Cas A-like supernova remnant that contains the young pulsar PSR J1124-5916 powering a compact torus-like pulsar wind nebula visible in X-rays. A likely counterpart to the nebula has been detected in the optical VRI bands. To confirm the counterpart candidate nature, we examined archival mid-infrared data obtained with the Spitzer Space Telesc

Jaewook Joo, Steve Plimpton, Shawn Martin, Laura Swiler

The NF-κB signaling network plays an important role in many different compartments of the immune system during immune activation. Using a computational model of the NF-κB signaling network involving two negative regulators, IκBα and A20, we performed sensitivity analyses with three different sampling methods and present a ranking of the kinetic rate variable

Oliver Lorscheid

For a scheme $X$ whose $\mathbb F_q$-rational points are counted by a polynomial $N(q)=\sum a_iq^i$, the $\mathbb{F}_1$-zeta function is defined as $ζ(s)=\prod(s-i)^{-a_i}$. Define $χ=N(1)$. In this paper we show that if $X$ is a smooth projective scheme, then its $\mathbb{F}_1$-zeta function satisfies the functional equation $ζ(n-s) = (-1)^χζ(s)$. We furthe

Neale P. Gibson, Frederic Pont, Suzanne Aigrain

We present a re-analysis of archival HST/NICMOS transmission spectroscopy of three exoplanet systems; HD 189733, GJ-436 and XO-1. Detections of several molecules, including H20, CH4 and CO2, have been claimed for HD 189733 and XO-1, but similarly sized features are attributed to systematic noise for GJ-436. The data consist of time-series grism spectra cover

Jian Zhu, Ilya N. Krivorotov, Klaus Halterman, Oriol T. Valls

The superconducting transition temperature, $T_c$, of a ferromagnet (F) - superconductor (S) - ferromagnet trilayer depends on the mutual orientation of the magnetic moments of the F layers. This effect has been previously observed in F/S/F systems as a $T_c$ difference between parallel and antiparallel configurations of the F layers. Here we report measurem

Maury Bramson

Semimartingale reflecting Brownian motions (SRBMs) are diffusion processes with state space the d-dimensional nonnegative orthant, in the interior of which the processes evolve according to a Brownian motion, and that reflect against the boundary in a specified manner. The data for such a process are a drift vector θ, a nonsingular d \times d covariance matr

Maury Bramson

Join the shortest queue (JSQ) refers to networks whose incoming jobs are assigned to the shortest queue from among a randomly chosen subset of the queues in the system. After completion of service at the queue, a job leaves the network. We show that, for all non- idling service disciplines and for general interarrival and service time distributions, such net

Behrang Noohi

In this note we define fibrations of topological stacks and establish their main properties. We prove various standard results about fibrations (fiber homotopy exact sequence, Leray-Serre and Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequences, etc.). We prove various criteria for a morphism of topological stacks to be a fibration, and use these to produce examples of fibrat

Mustafa Atay, Yezhou Sun, Dapeng Liu, Shiyong Lu

XML has emerged as the standard for representing and exchanging data on the World Wide Web. It is critical to have efficient mechanisms to store and query XML data to exploit the full power of this new technology. Several researchers have proposed to use relational databases to store and query XML data. While several algorithms of schema mapping and query ma

Pankaj K. Jha, Hichem Eleuch, Yuri V. Rostovtsev

Using a recently developed technique to solve Schrödinger equation for constant mass, we studied the regime in which mass varies with position i.e position dependent mass Schrödinger equation(PDMSE). We obtained an analytical solution for the PDMSE and applied our approach to study a position dependent mass $m(x)$ particle scattered by a potential $\mathcal{

Jaewook Joo

NF-κB, one of key regulators of inflammation, apoptosis, and differentiation, was found to have noisy oscillatory shuttling between the nucleus and the cytoplasm in single cells when cells are stimulated by cytokine TNFα. We present the analytical analysis which uncovers the underlying physical mechanisms of this spectacular noise-induced transition in biolo

P. F. L Maxted, D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, M. Gillon

We report the discovery of a transiting planet orbiting the star TYC 2-1155-1. The star, WASP-32, is a moderately bright (V=11.3) solar-type star (Teff=6100 +- 100K, [Fe/H] = -0.13 +- 0.10). The lightcurve of the star obtained with the WASP-South and WASP-North instruments shows periodic transit-like features with a depth of about 1% and a duration of 0.10d

Giorgio Volpe, Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Romain Quidant

We propose a novel deterministic protocol, based on continuous light flows, that enables us to control the concentration of light in generic plasmonic nanostructures. Based on an exact inversion of the response tensor of the nanosystem, the so-called Deterministic Optical Inversion (DOPTI) protocol provides a physical solution for the incident field leading

Frank Hinterberger, Hartmut Machner, Regina Siudak

The paper gives an overview of strangeness-production experiments at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY. Results on kaon-pair and phi meson production in pp, pd and dd collisions, hyperon-production experiments and Lambda p final-state interaction studies are presented.

Manuel Lara, F. Dayou, J. -M. Launay

Reactive cross-sections for the collision of open shell S(^1D) atoms with ortho- and para-hydrogen, in the kinetic energy range 1-120 K, have been calculated using the hyperspherical quantum reactive scattering method developed by Launay et al. [Chem. Phys. Lett. 169, 473 (1990)]. Short-range interactions, described using the {\em ab initio} potential energy

L. Cerrito

We present recent preliminary measurements at the Tevatron of t-tbar and single top production cross section, top quark mass and width, top pair spin correlations and forward-backward asymmetry. In the electroweak sector, we present the Tevatron average of the W boson width, and preliminary measurements of the W and Z forward-backward asymmetries and WZ, ZZ

A. Mironov, A. Morozov, Sh. Shakirov

We demonstrate that the recent ansatz of arXiv:1009.5553, inspired by the original remark due to R.Dijkgraaf and C.Vafa, reproduces the toric conformal blocks in the same sense that the spherical blocks are given by the integral representation of arXiv:1001.0563 with a peculiar choice of open integration contours for screening insertions. In other words, we

S. M. Ord, D. A. Mitchell, R. B. Wayth, L. J. Greenhill

The Murchison Wide-field Array (MWA) is a low frequency radio telescope, currently under construction, intended to search for the spectral signature of the epoch of re-ionisation (EOR) and to probe the structure of the solar corona. Sited in Western Australia, the full MWA will comprise 8192 dipoles grouped into 512 tiles, and be capable of imaging the sky s

Robert Carroll

Some connections of the quantum potential to gravitation are discussed.

V. Balaji, A. J. Parameswaran

We give an algebraic approach to the study of Hitchin pairs and prove the tensor product theorem for Higgs semistable Hitchin pairs over smooth projective curves defined over algebraically closed fields $k$ of characteristic $0$ and characteristic $p$, with $p$ satisfying some natural bounds. We also prove the corresponding theorem for polystable bundles.

Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Inés de Vega, Diego Porras, J. Ignacio Cirac

We propose a scheme involving cold atoms trapped in optical lattices to observe different phenomena traditionally linked to quantum-optical systems. The basic idea consists of connecting the trapped atomic state to a non-trapped state through a Raman scheme. The coupling between these two types of atoms (trapped and free) turns out to be similar to that desc

N. Takahashi, Y. Okumura, A. Misaki

We calculate high and (ultra-)high energy upward-going muon neutrino propagation through the Earth and the induced muon energy distribution near the one cubic kilometer detector using the Monte Carlo simulation, due to both charged current interaction and neutral one. The initiated neutrino energies on the surface of the Earth are 1PeV, 1EeV and 1ZeV. The me

A. Calle Cordon, M. Pavon Valderrama, E. Ruiz Arriola

We study the interplay between charge symmetry breaking and renormalization in the NN system for s-waves. We find a set of universality relations which disentangle explicitly the known long distance dynamics from low energy parameters and extend them to the Coulomb case. We analyze within such an approach the One-Boson-Exchange potential and the theoretical

Jnanadeva Maharana

We study duality and local symmetries of closed bosonic string from the perspectives of worldsheet approach in the phase space path integral formalism. It is shown that the Ward identities reflecting the local symmetries associated with massless excitations such as graviton and antisymmetric tensor can be cast in a duality covariant form. It is shown how the

Taeyoung Lee

This paper provides new results for a tracking control of the attitude dynamics of a rigid body. Both of the attitude dynamics and the proposed control system are globally expressed on the special orthogonal group, to avoid complexities and ambiguities associated with other attitude representations such as Euler angles or quaternions. By selecting an attitud

Taeyoung Lee, Melvin Leok, N. Harris McClamroch

This paper presents an analytical model and a geometric numerical integrator for a tethered spacecraft model that is composed of two rigid bodies connected by an elastic tether. This model includes important dynamic characteristics of tethered spacecraft in orbit, namely the nonlinear coupling between deformations of tether, rotational dynamics of rigid bodi

Mark Gieles, Simon Portegies Zwart

In Galactic studies a distinction is made between (open) star clusters and associations. For barely resolved objects at a distance of several Mpc this distinction is not trivial to make. Here we provide an objective definition by comparing the age of the stars to the crossing time of nearby stellar agglomerates. We find that a satisfactory separation can be

Ralf Rapp

Medium modifications of the electromagnetic spectral function in hadronic and quark-gluon matter are reviewed. A strong broadening of the $ρ$ meson, which dominates the spectral function in the low-mass regime, is quantitatively consistent with dilepton excess spectra measured in photoproduction off cold nuclei (CLAS/JLab) and in fixed-target ultrarelativist

Luis A. Zapata, Ya-Wen Tang, Silvia Leurini

We present sensitive high angular resolution (0.57$&#39;&#39;$-0.78$&#39;&#39;$) SO, SO$_2$, CO, C$_2$H$_5$OH, HC$_3$N, and HCOCH$_2$OH line observations at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths of the young O-type protostar W51 North made with the Submillimeter Array (SMA). We report the presence of a large (of about 8000 AU) and hot molecular circumstel

G. Mandaglio, F. Mammoliti, M. Manganaro, V. Bellini

The $Σ$ beam asymmetry in the photoproduction of negative pions from quasi-free neutrons in a deuterium target was measured at Graal in the energy interval 700 - 1500 MeV and a wide angular range, using polarized and tagged photons. The results are compared with recent partial wave analyses.

Randall D. Beer, Bryan Daniels

From genetic regulatory networks to nervous systems, the interactions between elements in biological networks often take a sigmoidal or S-shaped form. This paper develops a probabilistic characterization of the parameter space of continuous-time sigmoidal networks (CTSNs), a simple but dynamically-universal model of such interactions. We describe an efficien

P. K. Pathak, S. Hughes

We present a scheme to realize a deterministic solid state source of time-bin entangled photon pairs using cavity-assisted stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) in a single quantum dot. The quantum dot is embedded inside a semiconductor cavity, and the interaction of a coherent superposition of two temporally separated input pulses and the cavity mode

Magda Arnaboldi

The kinematics of the diffuse light in the densest regions of the nearby clusters can be unmasked using the planetary nebulae (PNs) as probes of the stellar motions. The position-velocity diagrams around the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) identify the relative contributions from the outer halos and the intracluster light (ICL), defined as the light radiat

Hua Wang

In this paper, by using the atomic decomposition theory of weighted Hardy spaces, we will give some weighted weak type estimates for intrinsic square functions including the Lusin area function, Littlewood-Paley $g$-function and $g^*_λ$-function on these spaces.

Xiao-Ke Xu, Jie Zhang, Michael Small

Rich-club, assortativity and clustering coefficients are frequently-used measures to estimate topological properties of complex networks. Here we find that the connectivity among a very small portion of the richest nodes can dominate the assortativity and clustering coefficients of a large network, which reveals that the rich-club connectivity is leveraged t

Edward Laag, Steve Croft, Gabriela Canalizo, Mark Lacy

This paper introduces the Multi-wavelength Extreme Starburst Sample (MESS), a new catalog of 138 star-forming galaxies (0.1 < z < 0.3) optically selected from the SDSS using emission line strength diagnostics to have high absolute SFR (minimum 11 solar masses per year, with median SFR approx 61 solar masses per year based on a Kroupa IMF). The MESS was desig

Wolfgang Arendt, Reiner Schätzle

Given a bounded domain in the Euclidean space satisfying the uniform outer cone condition, we show that a uniformly elliptic operator of second order with continuous second order coefficients generates a holomorphic semigroup on the space of all continuous functions vanishing at the boundary. In particular, Lipschitz domains are allowed. This result was so f

Jarah Evslin, Simone Giacomelli

Faddeev and Niemi have proposed a reformulation of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in terms of a U(1) gauge theory with 8 off-shell degrees of freedom. We present a solution to Faddeev and Niemi&#39;s formulation which does not solve the SU(2) Yang-Mills Gauss constraints. This demonstrates that the proposed reformulation is inequivalent to Yang-Mills, but instead d

Jerome Dubail, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Hubert Saleur

The geometrical critical behaviour of the two-dimensional Q-state Potts model is usually studied in terms of the Fortuin-Kasteleyn (FK) clusters, or their surrounding loops. In this paper we study a quite different geometrical object: the spin clusters, defined as connected domains where the spin takes a constant value. Unlike the usual loops, the domain wal

Lars Scheele

In this paper I present an elementary construction to prove that any proper metric space can arise as the asymptotic cone of another proper metric space. Furthermore I answer a question of Drutu and Sapir concerning slow ultrafilters.

Alexey Garber

For every d-dimensional polytope P with centrally symmetric facets we can associate a &#34;subway map&#34; such that every line of this &#34;subway&#34; corresponds to set of facets parallel to one of ridges P. The belt diameter of P is the maximal number of line changes that you need to do in order to get from one station to another. In this paper we prove

Roberto M. Amadio, Nicolas Ayache, Yann Régis-Gianas, Ronan Saillard

We discuss the problem of building a compiler which can lift in a provably correct way pieces of information on the execution cost of the object code to cost annotations on the source code. To this end, we need a clear and flexible picture of: (i) the meaning of cost annotations, (ii) the method to prove them sound and precise, and (iii) the way such proofs

Federico L. Bottesi, Guillermo R. Zemba

We study the Mott transition in a two-dimensional lattice spinless fermion model with nearest neighbors density-density interactions. By means of a two-dimensional Jordan-Wigner transformation, the model is mapped onto the lattice XXZ spin model, which is shown to possess a Quantum Group symmetry as a consequence of a recently found solution of the Zamolodch

Peter Hanggi, Fabio Marchesoni, Sergey Savel&#39;ev, Gerhard Schmid

We propose a simple classical concept of nanodevices working in an absolute negative mobility (ANM) regime: The minimal spatial asymmetry required for ANM to occur is embedded in the geometry of the transported particle, rather than in the channel design. This allows for a tremendous simplification of device engineering, thus paving the way towards practical

Stefanos Dris, Luis Amaral, Karl Gill, Robert Grabit

Plans to upgrade the LHC after approximately 10 years of operation are currently being considered at CERN. A tenfold increase in luminosity delivered to the experiments is envisaged in the so-called Super LHC (SLHC). This will undoubtedly give rise to significantly larger data volumes from the detectors, requiring faster data readout. The possibility of upgr

Dongsheng Lu, Frank Juan

The importance of counterparty credit risk to the derivative contracts was demonstrated consistently throughout the financial crisis of 2008. Accurate valuation of Credit value adjustment (CVA) is essential to reflect the economic values of these risks. In the present article, we reviewed several different approaches for calculating CVA, and compared the adv

Gareth O. Roberts, Laura M. Sangalli

We consider Bayesian hierarchical models for survival analysis, where the survival times are modeled through an underlying diffusion process which determines the hazard rate. We show how these models can be efficiently treated by means of Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques.

Xian-Wei Kang, Jerome Charles, Sebastien Descotes-Genon, Hai-Bo Li

We exploit the angular and quantum correlations in the $D\bar{D}$ pairs produced through the decay of the $ψ(3770)$ resonance in a charm factory to investigate CP-violation in two different ways. We consider the case of $ψ(3770)\rightarrow D\bar{D}\rightarrow (V_1V_2)(Kπ)$ decays, which provide a new way to measure the strong phase difference $δ$ between Cab

Cédric Lorcé

We present an extensive study of the static properties of light exotic and non-exotic baryons, based on the formulation of chiral quark-soliton model in terms of light-cone wave functions. We discuss in particular vector, axial and tensor charges as well as an estimation of the electromagnetic moments for the baryon octet, decuplet and hypothetical antidecup

Gianluca Argentini

A formula to construct classic exact solutions to Tricomi partial differential equation. The steps to obtain this formula require only elementary resolution of a simple system of first order PDEs.

Aleksey M. Tikhonov

The molecular structure of a multilayer of 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC) adsorbed on the surface of the hydrosol of silica nanoparticles has been studied by the synchrotron radiation scattering method. According to the reflectometry data, the multilayer is formed by planar phospholipid bilayers with a thickness of 69 +/- 1 Angstrom and it

G. Dattoli, E. Sabia

We study the properties of different type of transforms by means of operational methods and discuss the relevant interplay with many families of special functions. We consider in particular the binomial transform and its generalizations. A general method, based on the use of the Fourier transform technique, is proposed for the study of the properties of func

G. Dattoli, K. Zhukovsky

The solution of the Schrodinger equation with a linear potential is considered. We use algebraic methods to obtain the explicit form of the solution for the explicitly time dependent Hamiltonian and discuss the general conditions which allow us to get solutions in terms of the Airy functions, yelding non spreading wave packets. We analyze the relevant physic

L. Ricci, R. K. Mann, L. Testi, J. P. Williams

We present the sub-mm/mm SED for a sample of eight young circumstellar disks in the outer regions of the Orion Nebula Cluster. New observations were carried out at 2.9 mm with the CARMA array and for one disk, 216-0939, at 3.3 and 6.8 mm with ATCA. By combining these new millimeter data with literature measurements at sub-millimeter wavelengths we investigat

G. Dattoli, M. Migliorati, P. E. Ricci

We review the teory of the pseudo-iperbolic functions on the basis of an algebraic point of view which employs the Eisenstein group. We frame the teory within the general context of the number decomposition and discuss the importance of these functions in the theory of the generalized Fourier transforms

G. Dattoli, M. Del Franco, A. Petralia, C. Ronsivalle

The existence of a characteristic coherence length in FEL SASE Physics determines the independent lasing of different portions, namely the slices, of the electron bunch. Each slice may be characterized by different phase space properties (not necessarily equal emittances and Twiss coefficients). This fact opens new questions on the concept of beam matching a

Peter Hall, Qiying Wang

Particularly in genomics, but also in other fields, it has become commonplace to undertake highly multiple Student&#39;s $t$-tests based on relatively small sample sizes. The literature on this topic is continually expanding, but the main approaches used to control the family-wise error rate and false discovery rate are still based on the assumption that the

Ghazal Tayebirad, Riccardo Mannella, Sandro Wimberger

Several ways are discussed how to control the Landau-Zener tunneling in the Wannier-Stark system. We focus on a realization of this system with interacting and noninteracting ultracold bosons. The tunneling from the ground band to the continuum is shown to depend crucially on the initial condition and system parameters and, more interestingly, on added timed

Mahsana Ahsan

ATLAS is one of the two general purpose detectors at the world&#39;s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC will be colliding proton beams at a center of mass energy {\surd}s= 14 TeV and is currently operating at {\surd}s = 7 TeV. During the commissioning phase since September 2008, the ATLAS recorded cosmic-rays data and prot

Chikako Yasui, Naoto Kobayashi, Alan T. Tokunaga, Masao Saito

We studied near-infrared disk fractions of six young clusters in the low-metallicity environments with [O/H$] \sim -0.7$ using deep $JHK$ images with Subaru 8.2\,m telescope. We found that disk fraction of the low-metallicity clusters declines rapidly in $<$1\,Myr, which is much faster than the $\sim$5--7\,Myr observed for the solar-metallicity clusters, sug

Janusz Gluza, Krzysztof Kajda, Tord Riemann, Valery Yundin

For the investigation of higher order Feynman integrals, potentially with tensor structure, it is highly desirable to have numerical methods and automated tools for dedicated, but sufficiently &#39;simple&#39; numerical approaches. We elaborate two algorithms for this purpose which may be applied in the Euclidean kinematical region and in d=4-2*epsilon dimen

Christian Bender, Peter Parczewski

We approximate the solution of some linear systems of SDEs driven by a fractional Brownian motion $B^H$ with Hurst parameter $H\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$ in the Wick--Itô sense, including a geometric fractional Brownian motion. To this end, we apply a Donsker-type approximation of the fractional Brownian motion by disturbed binary random walks due to Sottinen. More

S. N. Penfold, R. W. Schulte, Y. Censor, A. B. Rosenfeld

Purpose: Iterative projection reconstruction algorithms are currently the preferred reconstruction method in proton computed tomography (pCT). However, due to inconsistencies in the measured data arising from proton energy straggling and multiple Coulomb scattering, noise in the reconstructed image increases with successive iterations. In the current work, w

T. Furumoto, Y. Sakuragi, Y. Yamamoto

The recent works by the present authors predicted that the real part of heavy-ion optical potentials changes its character from attraction to repulsion around the incident energy per nucleon E/A = 200 - 300 MeV on the basis of the complex G-matrix interaction and the double-folding model (DFM) and revealed that the three-body force plays an important role th

Shichao Tang, David M. Smith

Gamma-ray spectroscopy provides diagnostics of particle acceleration in solar flares, but care must be taken when interpreting the spectra due to effects of the angular distribution of the accelerated particles (such as relativistic beaming) and Compton reprocessing of the radiation in the solar atmosphere. In this paper, we use the GEANT4 Monte Carlo packag

K. Kemel, A. Brandenburg, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii

While the rising flux tube paradigm is an elegant theory, its basic assumptions, thin flux tubes at the bottom of the convection zone with field strengths two orders of magnitude above equipartition, remain numerically unverified at best. As such, in recent years the idea of a formation of sunspots near the top of the convection zone has generated some inter

Katia Biazzo, Sofia Randich, Francesco Palla

Context. Abundances of iron-peak and alpha-elements are poorly known in Orion, and the available measurements yield contradictory results. Aims. We measure accurate and homogeneous elemental abundances of the Orion subgroups ONC and OB1b, and search for abundance differences across the Orion complex. Methods. We present FLAMES/UVES spectroscopic observations

Tomasz Brzeziński, Zhengming Jiao

The theory of R-smash products for Hopf quasigroups is developed.

A. V. Kovacevic, Q. A. Parker, G. H. Jacoby, B. Miszalski

The Planetary Nebulae Luminosity Function (PNLF) describes the collective luminosity evolution for a given population of Planetary Nebulae (PN). A major paradox in current PNLF studies is in the universality of the absolute magnitude of the brightest PNe with galaxy type and age. The progenitor central-star mass required to produce such bright PNe should hav

Stefano Pigola, Alberto G. Setti

The asymptotic behavior of the heat kernel of a Riemannian manifold gives rise to the classical concepts of parabolicity, stochastic completeness (or conservative property) and Feller property (or $C^{0}$-diffusion property). Both parabolicity and stochastic completeness have been the subject of a systematic study which led to discovering not only sharp geom

Francesco Demontis

A formula for certain exact solutions to the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation is obtained via the inverse scattering transform method. The kernel of the relevant Marchenko integral equation is written with the help of matrix exponentials as $$Ω(x+y;t)=Ce^{-(x+y)A}e^{8A^3 t}B,$$ where the real matrix triplet $(A,B,C)$ consists of a constant $p\times

Sara Buttiglione, Alessandro Capetti, Annalisa Celotti, David J. Axon

We present optical nuclear spectra for nine 3CR radio sources obtained with the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, that complete our spectroscopic observations of the sample up to redshifts $<$ 0.3. We measure emission line luminosities and ratios, and derive a spectroscopic classification for these sources.

Adrià Tauste Campo, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, Ezio Biglieri

We analyze multiuser detection under the assumption that the number of users accessing the channel is unknown by the receiver. In this environment, users&#39; activity must be estimated along with any other parameters such as data, power, and location. Our main goal is to determine the performance loss caused by the need for estimating the identities of acti

G. Dattoli, M. Del Franco, M. Labat, P. L. Ottaviani

This report is a primer introduction on the sources of coherent syncrotron radiation from FELs compared to conventional lasers. Even though the underlying mechanisms are different, FELs can be considered a laser source to all effects. In fact FEL is based on the stimulated emission of virtual photons by a relativistic electron beam, passing through an undula

Ognian Kassabov

The following results are proved: Theorem 1. A totally real semiparallel submanifold of constant curvature with parallel f-structure in the normal bundle of a Kähler manifold N is flat or a totally geodesic submanifold of N. Theorem 2. A totally real minimal semiparallel submanifold M with parallel f-structure in the normal bundle and of constant length of t

Michal Matuszewski

We consider a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a harmonic potential under the influence of a homogeneous magnetic field. We investigate spatial and spin structure of the mean-field ground states under constraints on the number of atoms and the total magnetization. We show that the trapping potential can make the antiferromagnetic condensate separat

Jérôme Carré, Edward K. Porter

In the last few years there has been an enormous effort in parameter estimation studies for different sources with the space based gravitational wave detector, LISA. While these studies have investigated sources of differing complexity, the one thing they all have in common is they assume continuous data streams. In reality, the LISA data stream will contain

Lancelot F. James

An interesting line of research is the investigation of the laws of random variables known as Dirichlet means. However, there is not much information on interrelationships between different Dirichlet means. Here, we introduce two distributional operations, one of which consists of multiplying a mean functional by an independent beta random variable, the othe

Pierre Derbez, Hongbin Sun, Shicheng Wang

By constructing certain maps, this note completes the answer of the Question: For which closed orientable 3-manifold $N$, the set of mapping degrees $cD(M,N)$ is finite for any closed orientable 3-manifold $M$?

J. Fernando Barbero G., Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

We give a comprehensive review of the quantization of midisuperspace models. Though the main focus of the paper is on quantum aspects, we also provide an introduction to several classical points related to the definition of these models. We cover some important issues, in particular, the use of the principle of symmetric criticality as a very useful tool to

Wolfgang Jank, Inbal Yahav

Creating a loyal customer base is one of the most important, and at the same time, most difficult tasks a company faces. Creating loyalty online (e-loyalty) is especially difficult since customers can ``switch&#39;&#39; to a competitor with the click of a mouse. In this paper we investigate e-loyalty in online auctions. Using a unique data set of over 30,000

Thorsten Renk, Hannu Holopainen, Ulrich Heinz, Chun Shen

Comparing four different (ideal and viscous) hydrodynamic models for the evolution of the medium created in 200 AGeV Au-Au collisions, combined with two different models for the path length dependence of parton energy loss, we study the effects of jet quenching on the emission-angle dependence of the nuclear suppression factor R_AA(phi) and the away-side per

H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen

One of the main obstacles for extracting the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal from observations in the mm/sub-mm range is the foreground contamination by emission from Galactic component: mainly synchrotron, free-free, and thermal dust emission. The statistical nature of the intrinsic CMB signal makes it essential to minimize the systematic errors in

J. S. Milne, S. Arscott, C. Renner, A. C. H. Rowe

The giant piezoresistance (PZR) previously reported in silicon nanowires is experimentally investigated in a large number of surface depleted silicon nano- and micro-structures. The resistance is shown to vary strongly with time due to electron and hole trapping at the sample surfaces. Importantly, this time varying resistance manifests itself as an apparent

Valter Moretti

This is a quick review on some technology concerning the local zeta function applied to Quantum Field Theory in curved static (thermal) spacetime to regularize the stress-energy tensor and the field fluctuations.

Taekyung Kim, Gunn Kim, Woon Ih Choi, Young-Kyun Kwon

We report a combined electronic transport and structural characterization study of small carbon nanotube bundles in field-effect transistors (FET). The atomic structures of the bundles are determined by electron diffraction using an observation window built in the FET. The single-walled nanotube bundles exhibit electrical transport characteristics sensitivel

Damien P. George

We show that it is possible to create an RS soft-wall model, a model with a compact extra dimension, without using fundamental branes. All that is required are bulk scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity. Of crucial importance is the stability of the size of the extra dimension. Without branes, one cannot easily implement the Goldberger-Wise mechanism, a