October 2010 arXiv papers — page 63

Byeong U. Park, Seok-Oh Jeong, Léopold Simar

Nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimators have been widely applied in analysis of productive efficiency. Typically they are defined in terms of convex-hulls of the observed combinations of $\mathrm{inputs}\times\mathrm{outputs}$ in a sample of enterprises. The shape of the convex-hull relies on a hypothesis on the shape of the technology, defi

Pradeep Ravikumar, Martin J. Wainwright, John D. Lafferty

We consider the problem of estimating the graph associated with a binary Ising Markov random field. We describe a method based on $\ell_1$-regularized logistic regression, in which the neighborhood of any given node is estimated by performing logistic regression subject to an $\ell_1$-constraint. The method is analyzed under high-dimensional scaling in which

Mark P. Becker

Leo A. Goodman was born on August 7, 1928 in New York City. He received his A.B. degree, summa cum laude, in 1948 from Syracuse University, majoring in mathematics and sociology. He went on to pursue graduate studies in mathematics, with an emphasis on mathematical statistics, in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University, and in 1950 he was awarded

T. Inagaki, D. Kimura, H. Kohyama, A. Kvinikhidze

Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model with Kobayashi-Maskawa-'t Hooft (KMT) term is one of low energy effective theory of QCD which includes the $U_A(1)$ anomaly. We investigate nonet meson properties in this model with three flavors of quarks. We employ two type of regularizations the dimensional and sharp cutoff ones. The model parameters are fixed phenomeno

Joseph L. Gastwirth, Yulia R. Gel, Weiwen Miao

In many applications, the underlying scientific question concerns whether the variances of $k$ samples are equal. There are a substantial number of tests for this problem. Many of them rely on the assumption of normality and are not robust to its violation. In 1960 Professor Howard Levene proposed a new approach to this problem by applying the $F$-test to th

C. Aruta, S. Amoruso, R. Bruzzese, X. Wang

Pulsed laser deposition of SrTiO3/LaGaO3 and SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interfaces has been analyzed with a focus on the kinetic energy of the ablated species. LaGaO3 and LaAlO3 plasma plumes were studied by fast photography and space-resolved optical emission spectroscopy. Reflection high energy electron diffraction was performed proving a layer-by-layer growth up to 10

Paul Gustafson, Sander Greenland

We review some aspects of Bayesian and frequentist interval estimation, focusing first on their relative strengths and weaknesses when used in "clean" or "textbook" contexts. We then turn attention to observational-data situations which are "messy," where modeling that acknowledges the limitations of study design and data collection l

Guenther Walther

Log-concave distributions are an attractive choice for modeling and inference, for several reasons: The class of log-concave distributions contains most of the commonly used parametric distributions and thus is a rich and flexible nonparametric class of distributions. Further, the MLE exists and can be computed with readily available algorithms. Thus, no tun

Bruce Lindsay, Jiawei Liu

A standard goal of model evaluation and selection is to find a model that approximates the truth well while at the same time is as parsimonious as possible. In this paper we emphasize the point of view that the models under consideration are almost always false, if viewed realistically, and so we should analyze model adequacy from that point of view. We inve

Anjan Kumar Kundu, Bijoy Bandopadhyay, Sugata Sanyal

An inverse iterative algorithm for microwave imaging based on moment method solution is presented here. The iterative scheme has been developed on constrained optimization technique and is certain to converge. Different mesh size for the model has been used here to overcome the Inverse Crime. The synthetic data at the receivers is contaminated with different

Helena Mihaljević-Brandt, Jörn Peter

For a polynomial p with a repelling fixed point w, we consider Poincaré functions of p at w, i.e. entire functions L which satisfy L(0)=w and p(L(z))=L(p'(w)*z) for all z in the complex plane. We show that if the component of the Julia set of p that contains w equals {w}, then the (fast) escaping set of L is a spider's web; in particular it is connec

Siby Abraham, Imre Kiss, Sugata Sanyal, Mukund Sanglikar

The paper proposes artificial intelligence technique called hill climbing to find numerical solutions of Diophantine Equations. Such equations are important as they have many applications in fields like public key cryptography, integer factorization, algebraic curves, projective curves and data dependency in super computers. Importantly, it has been proved t

Hiroyuki Yamase, Roland Zeyher

Motivated by recent transport and neutron scattering experiments suggesting an orientational symmetry breaking in underdoped cuprates we present a theoretical study of Raman scattering near a d-wave Pomeranchuk instability (PI). The d-wave component of Raman scattering from electrons and phonons allows to study directly order parameter fluctuations associate

Jon Gonzalez-Sanchez, Irene Polo-Blanco

Smooth real cubic surfaces are birationally trivial (over $\R$) if and only if their real locus is connected or, equivalently, if and only if they have two skew real lines or two skew complex conjugate lines. In such a case a parametrization over the reals can be given by cubic polynomials. In this short note we provide a simple geometric method to obtain su

Peng Zhang, Pascal Naidon, Masahito Ueda

Most of the current theories on the p-wave superfluid in cold atomic gases are based on the effective-range theory for the two-body scattering, where the low energy p-wave scattering amplitude $f_1(k)$ is given by $% f_1(k)=-1/[ik+1/(\mathcal{V}k^2)+1/\mathcal{R}]$, where $k$ is the incident momentum, and $\mathcal{V}$ and $\mathcal{R}$ are the $k$-independe

W. M. Peters, T. Joseph W. Lazio, T. E. Clarke, W. C. Erickson

This paper considers the suitability of a number of emerging and future instruments for the study of radio recombination lines (RRLs) at frequencies below 200 MHz. These lines arise only in low-density regions of the ionized interstellar medium, and they may represent a frequency-dependent foreground for next-generation experiments trying to detect H I signa

Rui Wang, Vincent K. N. Lau, Ying Cui

In this paper, we consider a queue-aware distributive resource control algorithm for two-hop MIMO cooperative systems. We shall illustrate that relay buffering is an effective way to reduce the intrinsic half-duplex penalty in cooperative systems. The complex interactions of the queues at the source node and the relays are modeled as an average-cost infinite

G. A. Chirilli, L. Szymanowski, S. Wallon

We compute the triple pomeron vertex from the Wilson line formalism, including both planar and non-planar contributions, and get perfect agreement with the result obtained in the Extended Generalized Logarithmic Approximation based on reggeon calculus.

Carrie J. Tirel

A Z-structure on a group G, defined by M. Bestvina, is a pair (\hat{X}, Z) of spaces such that \hat{X} is a compact ER, Z is a Z-set in \hat{X}, G acts properly and cocompactly on X=\hat{X}\Z, and the collection of translates of any compact set in X forms a null sequence in \hat{X}. It is natural to ask whether a given group admits a Z-structure. In this pap

Pedro Bicudo, Marco Cardoso

We develop a unitarized formalism to study tetraquarks using the triple flip-flop potential, which includes two meson-meson potentials and the tetraquark four-body potential. This can be related to the Jaffe-Wilczek and to the Karliner-Lipkin tetraquark models, where we also consider the possible open channels, since the four quarks and antiquarks may at any

Yeow Meng Chee, Xiande Zhang, Hui Zhang

We consider the problem of constructing optimal authentication codes with splitting. New infinite families of such codes are obtained. In particular, we establish the first known infinite family of optimal authentication codes with splitting that are secure against spoofing attacks of order two.

Douglas N. Arnold, Kristine K. Fowler

We investigate the journal impact factor, focusing on the applied mathematics category. We discuss impact factor manipulation and demonstrate that the impact factor gives an inaccurate view of journal quality, which is poorly correlated with expert opinion.

N. Nettelmann, J. J. Fortney, U. Kramm, R. Redmer

The planet GJ 1214b is the second known super-Earth with a measured mass and radius. Orbiting a quiet M-star, it receives considerably less mass-loss driving X-ray and UV radiation than CoRoT-7b, so that the interior may be quite dissimilar in composition, including the possibility of a large fraction of water. We model the interior of GJ 1214b assuming a tw

Samir Lounis, Peter H. Dederichs

Mapping the magnetic exchange interactions from model Hamiltonian to density functional theory is a crucial step in multi-scale modeling calculations. Considering the usual magnetic force theorem but with arbitrary rotational angles of the spin moments, a spurious anisotropy in the standard mapping procedure is shown to occur provided by bilinear-like contri

Robert Bieri, Yves de Cornulier, Luc Guyot, Ralph Strebel

We describe various classes of infinitely presented groups that are condensation points in the space of marked groups. A well-known class of such groups consists of finitely generated groups admitting an infinite minimal presentation. We introduce here a larger class of condensation groups, called infinitely independently presentable groups, and establish cr

Jean-Marc L. Beaujour, Andrew D. Kent, Dafine Ravelosona, Ioan Tudosa

We present a ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) study of the effect of Helium ion irradiation on the magnetic anisotropy, the linewidth and the Gilbert damping of a Co/Ni multilayer coupled to Co/Pd bilayers. The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy decreases linearly with He ion fluence, leading to a transition to in-plane magnetization at a critical fluence of 5x1

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

Using 7.3 pb-1 of ppbar collisions collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron, we measure the distribution of the variable \phistar, which probes the same physical effects as the Z/gamma* boson transverse momentum, but is less susceptible to the effects of experimental resolution and efficiency. A QCD prediction is found to describe the general fe

Dragos-Victor Anghel

Thermodynamics, the branch of physics concerned with the description of macroscopic bodies, heat exchange and the conversion of different forms of energy is based on four laws: the zeroth law, which states that bodies in thermal contact reach a state of thermal equilibrium, the first law, which postulates the energy conservation and establishes the way in wh

Steven Ehlert, Steve Allen, Anja von der Linden, Aurora Simionescu

We report on a deep, multiwavelength study of the galaxy cluster MACS J1931.8-2634 using Chandra X-ray, Subaru optical, and VLA 1.4 GHz radio data. This cluster (z=0.352) harbors one of the most X-ray luminous cool cores yet discovered, with an equivalent mass cooling rate within the central 50 kpc is approximately 700 solar masses/yr. Unique features observ

H. -Y. Karen Yang, Suman Bhattacharya, Paul M. Ricker

Cosmological constraints from cluster surveys rely on accurate mass estimates from the mass-observable relations. In order to avoid systematic biases and reduce uncertainties, we study the form and physical origin of the intrinsic scatter about the mean Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) flux-mass relation using a hydrodynamical simulation of galaxy cluster formati

Dimitrios Metaxas

I consider a simple model where the graviton mass and the cosmological constant depend on a scalar field with appropriate couplings and I calculate the graviton propagator and the resulting effective potential for the scalar field in order to examine issues of stability and symmetry breaking.

Christian W. Bauer, Nicholas Daniel Dunn, Andrew Hornig

We parameterize the enhancement of threshold effects away from hadronic endpoint that arise due to the steeply falling nature of parton distribution functions, within the context of soft-collinear effective theory. This is accomplished in a process-independent way by directly linking the charac- teristic scale of soft and collinear radiation, λ, to the shape

Filip Rindler

We give a new proof of sequential weak* lower semicontinuity in $\BV(Ω;\R^m)$ for integral functionals with a quasiconvex Carathéodory integrand with linear growth at infinity and such that the recession function $f^\infty$ exists in a strong sense and is (jointly) continuous. In contrast to the classical proofs by Ambrosio & Dal Maso [J. Funct. Anal. 109 (1

J. Ricardo G. Mendonça

We investigate the sensitivity of the composite cellular automaton of H. Fukś [Phys. Rev. E 55, R2081 (1997)] to noise and assess the density classification performance of the resulting probabilistic cellular automaton (PCA) numerically. We conclude that the composite PCA performs the density classification task reliably only up to very small levels of noise

Ante Bilandzic, Raimond Snellings, Sergei Voloshin

Anisotropic flow measurements in heavy-ion collisions provide important information on the properties of hot and dense matter. These measurements are based on analysis of azimuthal correlations and might be biased by contributions from correlations that are not related to the initial geometry, so called non-flow. To improve anisotropic flow measurements adva

Graham Denham

We find explicit eigenvectors for the transition matrix of a random walk due to Bidegare, Hanlon and Rockmore. This is accomplished by using Brown and Diaconis' analysis of its stationary distribution, together with some combinatorics of functions on the face lattice of a hyperplane arrangement, due to Gelfand and Varchenko.

Pankaj A. Apte, Arvind K. Gautam, Amol M. Patil

The paper is withdrawn.

James R. Neilson, Brent C. Melot, Daniel P. Shoemaker, Joshua A. Kurzman

In many ostensibly crystalline materials, unit-cell-based descriptions do not always capture the complete physics of the system due to disruption in long-range order. In the series of cobalt hydroxides studied here, Co(OH)$_{2-x}$(Cl)$_x$(H$_2$O)$_{n}$, magnetic Bragg diffraction reveals a fully compensated Néel state, yet the materials show significant and

Andreas Witzel

We review the notion of perfect recall in the literature on interpreted systems, game theory, and epistemic logic. In the context of Epistemic Temporal Logic (ETL), we give a (to our knowledge) novel frame condition for perfect recall, which is local and can straightforwardly be translated to a defining formula in a language that only has next-step temporal

Simona Rolli

The status of the Tevatron Collider is reviewed and highlights of the rich physics program carried out by the CDF and D0 experiments are presented.

Xavier Calbet, Jose-Luis Lopez, Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

A step by step procedure to derive analytically the exact dynamical evolution equations of the probability density functions (PDF) of well known kinetic wealth exchange economic models is shown. This technique gives a dynamical insight into the evolution of the PDF, e.g., allowing the calculation of its relaxation times. Their equilibrium PDFs can also be ca

CMS Collaboration

A search for narrow resonances in the dijet mass spectrum is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.9 inverse pb collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level (CL) are presented on the product of the resonance cross section, branching fraction into dijets, and acceptance, separately for deca

Andrei A. Bulatov, Daniel Marx

In a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) the goal is to find an assignment of a given set of variables subject to specified constraints. A global cardinality constraint is an additional requirement that prescribes how many variables must be assigned a certain value. We study the complexity of the problem CCSP(G), the constraint satisfaction problem with gl

Yue Wang, Justin P. Coon

In this paper, we propose an antenna selection method in a wireless cognitive radio (CR) system, namely difference selection, whereby a single transmit antenna is selected at the secondary transmitter out of $M$ possible antennas such that the weighted difference between the channel gains of the data link and the interference link is maximized. We analyze mu

D. McKay, B. DeMarco

Optical lattices have emerged as ideal simulators for Hubbard models of strongly correlated materials, such as the high-temperature superconducting cuprates. In optical lattice experiments, microscopic parameters such as the interaction strength between particles are well known and easily tunable. Unfortunately, this benefit of using optical lattices to stud

Yong-Geun Oh

This paper is withdrawn from submission due to a critical error in the proof of main theorem.

Yong-Geun Oh

The content of this paper has no mathematical flaw except that the proof of the main theorem relies on the homotopy invariance of spectral invariants of topological Hamiltonian paths. Since the latter is still up in the air, the main result of the paper is the reduction of the extension problem of the Calabi homomorphism to the group of hameomorphism is stil

S. Caprara, C. Di Castro, B. Muschler, R. Hackl

We present Raman scattering experiments in ${\rm La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4}$ single crystals at various doping levels x and compare the results with theoretical predictions obtained assuming an interaction mediated by spin and charge fluctuations. The light-scattering selection rules allow us to disentangle their respective contributions. We find that the glue spect

Alexandre J. Pierrot, Matthieu R. Bloch

We consider the problem of secure communications over the two-way wiretap channel under a strong secrecy criterion. We improve existing results by developing an achievable region based on strategies that exploit both the interference at the eavesdropper's terminal and cooperation between legitimate users. We leverage the notion of channel resolvability f

Giuseppe Di Bernardo, Carmelo Evoli, Daniele Gaggero, Dario Grasso

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) collaboration recently released the updated results of the measurement of the cosmic ray electron (CRE) spectrum and published its first constraints on the CRE anisotropy. With respect to the previous Fermi-LAT results, the CRE spectrum measurement was extended down from 20 to 7 GeV, thus providing a better lever arm to d

Pierre Courrieu, Muriele Brand-D'Abrescia, Ronald Peereman, Daniel Spieler

A new method, with an application program in Matlab code, is proposed for testing item performance models on empirical databases. This method uses data intraclass correlation statistics as expected correlations to which one compares simple functions of correlations between model predictions and observed item performance. The method rests on a data population

Antonio F. Costa, Cam Van Quach Hongler

Let S be a bordered orientable Klein surface and p a prime. Assume that f is an order p automorphism of S. In this work we obtain the conditions on the topological type of (S,f) to be conformally equivalent to (S',f') where S' is a bordered orientable Klein surface embedded in the Euclidean space and f' is the restriction to S' of a prime

Ana M. Contreras-Reyes, Romain Guérout, Paulo A. Maia Neto, Diego A. R. Dalvit

We develop the scattering approach to calculate the exact dispersive Casimir-Polder potential between a ground-state atom and a rectangular grating. Our formalism allows, in principle, for arbitrary values of the grating amplitude and period, and of the atom-grating distance. We compute numerically the potential for a Rb atom on top of a Si grating and compa

A. Wongwathanarat, H. -Th. Janka, E. Mueller

Using three-dimensional (3D) simulations of neutrino-powered supernova explosions we show that the hydrodynamical kick scenario proposed by Scheck et al. on the basis of two-dimensional (2D) models can yield large neutron star (NS) recoil velocities also in 3D. Although the shock stays relatively spherical, standing accretion-shock and convective instabiliti

Krzysztof Gawryluk, Kai Bongs, Miroslaw Brewczyk

We study a spinor condensate of alkali atoms in F = 1 hyperfine state under the presence of an oscillating magnetic field. We find resonances which, due to the dipolar interactions, magnify the transfer of atoms from mF = 1 to mF = 0 Zeeman sublevel. These resonances occur at magnetic fields of the order of milligaus and are broad enough to enable observatio

T. Meunier, V. E. Calado, L. M. K. Vandersypen

Two-qubit interactions are at the heart of quantum information processing. For single-spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, the exchange gate has always been considered the natural two-qubit gate. The recent integration of magnetic field or g-factor gradients in coupled quantum dot systems allows for a one-step, robust realization of the controlled phas

Jean-Luc Marichal, Pierre Mathonet, Tamás Waldhauser

The concept of signature was introduced by Samaniego for systems whose components have i.i.d. lifetimes. This concept proved to be useful in the analysis of theoretical behaviors of systems. In particular, it provides an interesting signature-based representation of the system reliability in terms of reliabilities of k-out-of-n systems. In the non-i.i.d. cas

J. Kellendonk, J. Savinien

We construct spectral triples for compact metric spaces (X, d). This provides us with a new metric d_s on X. We study its relation with the original metric d. When X is a subshift space, or a discrete tiling space, and d satisfies certain bounds we advocate that the property of d_s and d to be Lipschitz equivalent is a characterization of high order. For epi

Isabelle Gallagher, Yannick Sire

We prove an algebra property under pointwise multiplication for Besov spaces defined on Lie groups of polynomial growth. When the setting is restricted to the case of H-type groups, this algebra property is generalized to paraproduct estimates.

Remke Kloosterman

Let $V/\mathbb{F}_q$ be a variety of dimension at least two. We show that the density of elliptic curves $E/\mathbb{F}_q(V)$ with positive rank is zero if $V$ has dimension at least 3 and is at most $1-\zeta_V(3)^{-1}$ if $V$ is a surface.

Babak Abi

A search is performed for top quark pairs with early data of ATLAS pp collision taken at {\surd}s = 7 TeV. Several candidate events are observed, in both lepton plus jets and dilepton channels. The properties of these events are described, and compared to the expectations from Monte Carlo simulation. A first study of the backgrounds in the lepton plus jets c

S. Ostapchenko

The present status of extensive air shower (EAS) simulation procedures is reviewed. The advantages of combining numerical and Monte Carlo methods for the description of EAS development are discussed. Physics content of cosmic ray interaction models is briefly described and their predictions are compared to the first LHC data. Finally, some outstanding puzzle

Zbigniew J. Jurek

It is known that the class $\mathcal{U}_β$, of generalized s-selfdecom-posable probability distributions, can be viewed as an image via random integral mapping $\mathcal{J}^β$ of the class $ID$ of all infinitely divisible measures. We prove that a composition of the mappings $\mathcal{J}^{β_1}, \mathcal{J}^{β_2}, ..., \mathcal{J}^{β_n}$ is again random integ

Yuki Yanagi, Youichi Yamakawa, Naoko Adachi, Yoshiaki Ōno

We investigate the 16-band d-p model for iron pnictide superconductors in the presence of the electron-phonon coupling g with the orthorhombic mode which is crucial for reproducing the recently observed ultrasonic softening. Within the RPA, we obtain the ferro-orbital order below TQ which induces the tetragonal-orthorhombic structural transition at Ts = TQ,

Javier Rodriguez-Laguna, Silvia N. Santalla

Computational complexity theory contains a corpus of theorems and conjectures regarding the time a Turing machine will need to solve certain types of problems as a function of the input size. Nature {\em need not} be a Turing machine and, thus, these theorems do not apply directly to it. But {\em classical simulations} of physical processes are programs runn

Ricardo Riaza

Several devices exhibiting memory effects have shown up in nonlinear circuit theory in recent years. Among others, these circuit elements include Chua's memristors, as well as memcapacitors and meminductors. These and other related devices seem to be beyond the, say, classical scope of circuit theory, which is formulated in terms of resistors, capacitors

K. Abe, Y. Hayato, T. Iida, M. Ikeda

The results of the third phase of the Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino measurement are presented and compared to the first and second phase results. With improved detector calibrations, a full detector simulation, and improved analysis methods, the systematic uncertainty on the total neutrino flux is estimated to be ?2.1%, which is about two thirds of the sys

Giorgio Krstulovic, Marc Brachet

The statistical equilibria of the dynamics of the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation (GPE) with a finite range of spatial Fourier modes are characterized using a new algorithm, based on a stochastically forced Ginzburg-Landau equation (SGLE), that directly generates grand canonical distributions.. The SGLE-generated distributions are validated against finite-temperat

A. Privitera, I. Titvinidze, S. -Y. Chang, S. Diehl

We study the physics of a three-component Fermi gas in an optical lattice, in the presence of a strong three-body constraint arising due to three-body loss. Using analytical and numerical techniques, we show that an atomic color superfluid phase is formed in this system and undergoes phase separation between unpaired fermions and superfluid pairs. This phase

Pieter Vancraeyveld, Lesley De Cruz, Jan Ryckebusch

We present a Regge-inspired effective-Lagrangian framework for neutral-kaon photoproduction from the deuteron. Quasi-free kaon production is investigated using the Regge-plus-resonance elementary operator within the relativistic plane-wave impulse approximation. The Regge-plus-resonance model was developed to describe photoinduced and electroinduced charged-

S. Piano, X. Marti, A. W. Rushforth, K. W. Edmonds

Atomic Force Microscopy and Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction measurements have revealed the presence of ripples aligned along the $[1\bar{1}0]$ direction on the surface of (Ga,Mn)As layers grown on GaAs(001) substrates and buffer layers, with periodicity of about 50 nm in all samples that have been studied. These samples show the strong symmetry breaking

Stephanie Simmons, Richard M. Brown, Helge Riemann, Nikolai V. Abrosimov

Entanglement is the quintessential quantum phenomenon and a necessary ingredient in most emerging quantum technologies, including quantum repeaters, quantum information processing (QIP) and the strongest forms of quantum cryptography. Spin ensembles, such as those in liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance, have been powerful in the development of quantum co

Earl T. Campbell

In many architectures for fault tolerant quantum computing universality is achieved by a combination of Clifford group unitary operators and preparation of suitable nonstabilizer states, the so-called magic states. Universality is possible even for some fairly noisy nonstabilizer states, as distillation can convert many noisy copies into fewer purer magic st

Ayse Cagil

In this work pair productions of charged and doubly charged scalars in the framework of littlest Higgs model at $e^+e^-$ colliders are studied. In the allowed parameter space of the littlest Higgs model, the production rates of the scalar pairs are calculated. It is obtained that pair productions of charged and doubly charged scalars are reachable at $e^+ e^

Pavel V. Shevchenko

Financial contracts with options that allow the holder to extend the contract maturity by paying an additional fixed amount found many applications in finance. Closed-form solutions for the price of these options have appeared in the literature for the case when the contract underlying asset follows a geometric Brownian motion with the constant interest rate

Michal Beneš, Radek Štefan, Jan Zeman

In this paper, we study a non-linear numerical scheme arising from the implicit time discretization of the Bažant-Thonguthai model for hygro-thermal behavior of concrete at high temperatures. Existence and uniqueness of the time-discrete solution in two dimensions is established using the theory of pseudomonotone operators in Banach spaces. Next, the spatial

Yoshihisa Saito

In the current paper, we give a quiver theoretical interpretation of Mirković-Vilonen polytopes in type $A_n$. As a by-product, we give a new proof of the Anderson-Mirković conjecture which describes the explicit forms of the actions of lowering Kashiwara operators on the set of Mirković-Vilonen polytopes.

Patrick Cheridito, Ying Hu

We study an optimal consumption and investment problem in a possibly incomplete market with general, not necessarily convex, stochastic constraints. We give explicit solutions for investors with exponential, logarithmic and power utility. Our approach is based on martingale methods which rely on recent results on the existence and uniqueness of solutions to

Kamal El Omari, Tarik Kousksou, Yves Le Guer

The present paper numerically analyzes a passive cooling system using enclosures with different geometries filled with thermal conductivity-enhanced phase change material (PCM). A numerical code is developed using an unstructured finite-volume method and an enthalpy-porosity technique to solve for natural convection coupled to a solid-liquid phase change. Fi

Sébastien Palcoux

This paper is the first of a series giving a self-contained way from the Neveu-Schwarz algebra to a new series of irreducible subfactors. Here we present an elementary, progressive and self-contained approch to vertex operator superalgebra. We then build such a structure from the loop algebra $Lg$ of any simple finite dimensional Lie algebra $g$. The Neveu-S

Sébastien Palcoux

This paper is the second of a series giving a self-contained way from the Neveu-Schwarz algebra to a new series of irreducible subfactors. Here we give a unitary complete proof of the classification of the unitary series of the Neveu-Schwarz algebra, by the way of GKO construction, Kac determinant and FQS criterion. We then obtain the characters directly, wi

Sébastien Palcoux

This paper is the third of a series giving a self-contained way from the Neveu-Schwarz algebra to a new series of irreducible subfactors. Here we introduce the local von Neumann algebra of the Neveu-Schwarz algebra, to obtain Jones-Wassermann subfactors for each representation of the discrete series. Then using primary fields we prove the irreducibility of t

Jean-Yves Audibert, Olivier Catoni

We consider the problem of robustly predicting as well as the best linear combination of $d$ given functions in least squares regression, and variants of this problem including constraints on the parameters of the linear combination. For the ridge estimator and the ordinary least squares estimator, and their variants, we provide new risk bounds of order $d/n

Jean-Yves Audibert, Olivier Catoni

We consider the problem of predicting as well as the best linear combination of d given functions in least squares regression under L^\infty constraints on the linear combination. When the input distribution is known, there already exists an algorithm having an expected excess risk of order d/n, where n is the size of the training data. Without this strong a

Jun Goryo

We consider a two-dimensional bipartite lattice system. In such a system, the Bloch band spectrum can have some valley points, around which Dirac fermions appear as the low-energy excitations. Each valley point has a valley spin +1 or -1. In such a system, there are two topological numbers counting vortices and merons in the Brillouin zone, respectively. The

Ken'ichi Ohshika

In this paper, we study the topology of the boundaries of quasi-Fuchsian spaces. We first show for a given convergent sequence of quasi-Fuchsian groups, how we can know the end invariant of the limit group from the information on the behaviour of conformal structures at infinity of the groups. This result gives rise to a sufficient condition for divergence o

Kiryong Chung, Jaehyun Hong, Young-Hoon Kiem

The space of smooth rational curves of degree $d$ in a projective variety $X$ has compactifications by taking closures in the Hilbert scheme, the moduli space of stable sheaves or the moduli space of stable maps respectively. In this paper we compare these compactifications by explicit blow-ups and -downs when $X$ is a projective homogeneous variety and $d\l

Pekka Koskinen, Oleg O. Kit

Spherical symmetry is ubiquitous in nature. It's therefore unfortunate that spherical system simulations are so hard, and require complete spheres with millions of interacting particles. Here we introduce an approach to model spherical systems, using revised periodic boundary conditions adapted to spherical symmetry. Method reduces computational costs by

Mikhail Vasin

An analytical approach, which develops the gauge model of the glass transition phenomenon, is suggested. It is based on the quantum field theory and critical dynamics methods. The suggested mechanism of glass transition is based on the interaction of the local magnetization field with the massive gauge field, which describes frustration-induced plastic defor

Hironori Uchikawa, Kenta Kasai, Kohichi Sakaniwa

In this paper, we present a construction method of non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes. Our construction method is an extension of Felstroem and Zigangirov construction for non-binary LDPC convolutional codes. The rate-compatibility of the non-binary convolutional code is also discussed. The proposed rate-compatible code is designe

Suresh Kumar

The present study deals with a spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi-II cosmological model representing massive strings. The energy-momentum tensor, as formulated by Letelier (1983), has been used to construct a massive string cosmological model for which the expansion scalar is proportional to one of the components of shear tensor. The Einstein'

Anil Kumar, Kin-Hung Fung, James C. Mabon, Edmond Chow

Cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging spectroscopy is an important technique to understand resonant behavior of optical nanoantennas. We report high-resolution CL spectroscopy of triangular gold nanoantennas designed with near-vacuum effective index and very small metal-substrate interface. This design helped in addressing issues related to background luminescenc

Kendrick M. Smith, Marilena LoVerde

Large-scale clustering of highly biased tracers of large-scale structure has emerged as one of the best observational probes of primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type (i.e. f_{NL}^{local}). This type of non-Gaussianity can be generated in multifield models of inflation such as the curvaton model. Recently, Tseliakhovich, Hirata, and Slosar showed that

Wei Ma, Chong-Xing Yue, Jiao Zhang, Yan-Bin Sun

Taking into account the constraints on the free parameters of the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (called $LHT$ model) from some rare decay processes, such as $μ\rightarrow eγ$ and $μ\rightarrow 3e$, we consider the contributions of the $LHT$ model to the lepton flavor violating ($LFV$) processes $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow l_{i}\bar{l}_{j}$ and $γγ\rightarrow

F. Y. Wu, Wen-Jer Tzeng, N. Sh. Izmailian

We solve the monomer-dimer problem on a non-bipartite lattice, the simple quartic lattice with cylindrical boundary conditions, with a single monomer residing on the boundary. Due to the non-bipartite nature of the lattice, the well-known method of a Temperley bijection of solving single-monomer problems cannot be used. In this paper we derive the solution b

I. Sinha, R. K. Mandal

The Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami model for isothermal transformation kinetics is universal under specific assumptions. However, the experimental Avrami exponent deviates from the universal value. In this context, we study the effect of transient heterogeneous nucleation on the Avrami exponent for bulk materials and also for transformations leading to nanos

Kendrick M. Smith, Duncan Hanson, Marilena LoVerde, Christopher M. Hirata

One of the primary scientific targets of current and future CMB polarization experiments is the search for a stochastic background of gravity waves in the early universe. As instrumental sensitivity improves, the limiting factor will eventually be B-mode power generated by gravitational lensing, which can be removed through use of so-called delensing algorit

Haoyang Wu

The Prisoner's Dilemma is a simple model that captures the essential contradiction between individual rationality and global rationality. Although the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma is usually viewed simple, in this paper we will categorize it into five different types. For the type-4 Prisoner's Dilemma game, we will propose a self-enforcing algorit

Xiaoling Cui

We propose a systematic T-matrix approach to solve few-body problems with s-wave contact interactions in ultracold atomic gases. The problem is generally reduced to a matrix equation expanded by a set of orthogonal molecular states, describing external center-of-mass motions of pairs of interacting particles; while each matrix element is guaranteed to be fin

Ivan Cheltsov, Dimitra Kosta

We prove new local inequality for divisors on surfaces and utilize it to compute $α$-invariants of singular del Pezzo surfaces, which implies that del Pezzo surfaces of degree one whose singular points are of type $\mathbb{A}_{1}$, $\mathbb{A}_{2}$, $\mathbb{A}_{3}$, $\mathbb{A}_{4}$, $\mathbb{A}_{5}$ or $\mathbb{A}_{6}$ are Kähler-Einstein.