November 2010 arXiv papers — page 6

Megan B. Gralla, Keren Sharon, Michael D. Gladders, Daniel P. Marrone

We have measured the Sunyaev Zel&#39;dovich (SZ) effect for a sample of ten strong lensing selected galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev Zel&#39;dovich Array (SZA). The SZA is sensitive to structures on spatial scales of a few arcminutes, while the strong lensing mass modeling constrains the mass at small scales (typically < 30&#34;). Combining the two provides

Paolo Costa

In 1984, H. Yoshihara conjectured that if two plane irreducible curves have isomorphic complements, they are projectively equivalent, and proved the conjecture for a special family of unicuspidal curves. Recently, J. Blanc gave counterexamples of degree 39 to this conjecture, but none of these is unicuspidal. In this text, we give a new family of counterexam

Javier Fernandez de Bobadilla

We address Nash problem for surface singularities using wedges. We give a refinement of the characterisation of A. Reguera of the image of the Nash map in terms of wedges. Our improvement consists in a characterisation of the bijectivity of the Nash mapping using wedges defined over the base field, which are convergent if the base field is the field of compl

Matthew Woitaszek, Travis Metcalfe, Ian Shorrock

The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal (AMP) provides a web-based interface for astronomers to run and view simulations that derive the properties of Sun-like stars from observations of their pulsation frequencies. In this paper, we describe the architecture and implementation of AMP, highlighting the lightweight design principles and tools used to produce a func

Louis Vervoort

In the following we revisit the frequency interpretation of probability of Richard von Mises, in order to bring the essential implicit notions in focus. Following von Mises, we argue that probability can only be defined for events that can be repeated in similar conditions, and that exhibit &#39;frequency stabilization&#39;. The central idea of the present a

Yudith Barzilay

We have programmed a full simulation of the open field lines above the polar cap of a magnetized pulsar, using time dependent Particle In Cell (PIC) numerical code (Birdsall and Langdon 1991). We consider the case of free ejection of electrons from the star surface, a Space Charge Limited Flow (SCLF) model. We report here the first results of the simulation.

Samet Oymak, Babak Hassibi

Nuclear norm minimization (NNM) has recently gained significant attention for its use in rank minimization problems. Similar to compressed sensing, using null space characterizations, recovery thresholds for NNM have been studied in \cite{arxiv,Recht_Xu_Hassibi}. However simulations show that the thresholds are far from optimal, especially in the low rank re

L. M. Heil, S. Vaughan, P. Uttley

We present an analysis of the short timescale variations in the properties of the strong (type &#34;C&#34;) quasi-periodic oscillation observed in XTE J1550-564 during its 1998 outburst. In particular, the QPO shows a correlation between absolute rms amplitude and mean source flux over timescales shorter than ~ 3 ksec. A linear rms-flux relation has been obs

Ronald F. Webbink

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the low-frequency (0.1-100 mHz) part of the gravitational wave spectrum to direct observation. Of order 3600 galactic close binary white dwarfs will be individually resolvable in its all-sky spectrum, of which a dozen systems are expected to be on the verge of merger, showing the effects of strong tidal

José Eduardo Padilha, Rodrigo Garcia Amorim, Alexandre Reily Rocha, Antônio José Roque da Silva

In this work we present ab initio calculations of the formation energies and stability of different types of multi-vacancies in carbon nanotubes. We demonstrate that, as in the case of graphene, the reconstruction of the defects has drastic effects on the energetics of the tubes. In particular, the formation of pentagons eliminates the dangling bonds thus lo

Malte Henkel, Stoimen Stoimenov

The ageing algebra is a local dynamical symmetry of many ageing systems, far from equilibrium, and with a dynamical exponent z=2. Here, new representations for an integer dynamical exponent z=n are constructed, which act non-locally on the physical scaling operators. The new mathematical mechanism which makes the infinitesimal generators of the ageing algebr

Koenraad M. R. Audenaert

We introduce the notions of in-betweenness and monotonicity with respect to a metric, for operator means. These notions can be seen as generalising their natural counterpart for scalar means, and as a relaxation of the notion of geodesity. We exhibit two classes of non-trivial means that are monotonic with respect to the Euclidean metric. We also show that a

N. C. Sterling, D. A. Esteves, R. C. Bilodeau, A. L. D. Kilcoyne

Absolute photoionization cross-section measurements are reported for Se+ in the photon energy range 18.0-31.0 eV, which spans the ionization thresholds of the 4S_{3/2} ground state and the low-lying 2P_{3/2,1/2} and 2D_{5/2,3/2} metastable states. The measurements were performed using the Advanced Light Source synchrotron radiation facility. Strong photoexci

N. C. Sterling, M. C. Witthoeft, D. A. Esteves, R. C. Bilodeau

[Abridged] Investigations of neutron(n)-capture element nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution have largely been based on stellar spectroscopy. However, the recent detection of these elements in several planetary nebulae (PNe) indicates that nebular spectroscopy is a promising new tool for such studies. In PNe, n-capture element abundance determinations reve

V. N. Strocov, T. Schmitt, U. Flechsig, L. Patthey

Operation of an X-ray spectrometer based on a spherical variable line spacing grating is analyzed using dedicated ray-tracing software allowing fast optimization of the grating parameters and spectrometer geometry. The analysis is illustrated with optical design of a model spectrometer to deliver a resolving power above 20400 at photon energy of 930 eV (Cu L

Andrei Alexandru, Frank Lee

We use the background field method to extract the polarizability for the neutral &#34;pion&#34;. In our previous study we found that the polarizability for this system is negative which is believed to be a finite volume artifact. To address this issue, we carry out simulations for different lattice sizes and we also look at the influence of the boundary cond

F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo, A. Santillan

We study the final equilibrium states of the Parker instability arising from an initially unstable cylindrical equilibrium configuration of gas in the presence of a radial gravitational field and a longitudinal magnetic field. The aim of this work is to compare the properties of the nonlinear final equilibria with those found in a system with Cartesian geome

Prabhat K. Jaiswal, Manish Vashishtha, Rajesh Khanna, Sanjay Puri

We study the early-stage kinetics of thermodynamically unstable systems with quenched disorder. We show analytically that the growth of initial fluctuations is amplified by the presence of disorder. This is confirmed by numerical simulations of morphological phase separation (MPS) in thin liquid films and spinodal decomposition (SD) in binary mixtures. We al

Thomas Mohaupt, Kirk Waite

Theories with axionic scalars admit three different Euclidean formulations, obtained by Wick rotation, Wick rotation combined with analytic continuation of the axionic scalars, and Wick rotation combined with Hodge dualization. We investigate the relation between these formulations for a class of theories which contains the sigma models of N=2 vector multipl

Harm Hollestelle

A group of line drawings in recent reports made by physics students during experimenting is investigated in order to describe the attitudes that can be related to the act of drawing. These attitudes represent time behavior and are related to how the experimenter basically perceives time. Also two concepts, one of desire, by Levinas, and the concept of consti

F. Bazzocchi

We present a minimal model in which the Inverse See Saw is realized dynamically. The two unity lepton number breaking term is induced at two-loop level and is naturally around the keV scale, while right-handed neutrinos are at the TeV scale. An interesting extension of the model is obtained by gauging B-L: in this case anomaly cancellation has as direct cons

Owen Carmichael, Jun Chen, Debashis Paul, Jie Peng

In this paper, we study a kernel smoothing approach for denoising a tensor field. Particularly, both simulation studies and theoretical analysis are conducted to understand the effects of the noise structure and the structure of the tensor field on the performance of different smoothers arising from using different metrics, viz., Euclidean, log-Euclidean and

Prabhat K. Jaiswal, Sanjay Puri, Subir K. Das

We present comprehensive molecular dynamics (MD) results for the kinetics of surface-directed spinodal decomposition (SDSD) and surface enrichment (SE) in binary mixtures at wetting surfaces. We study the surface morphology and the growth dynamics of the wetting and enrichment layers. The growth law for the thickness of these layers shows a crossover from a

Olga V. Borovkova, Boris A. Malomed, Yaroslav V. Kartashov

The subject of the work is the stabilization of two-dimensional (2D) two-component (vector) solitons, in media with the attractive cubic nonlinearity, against the collapse by a linear lattice (LL, which is induced by a periodic modulation of the refractive index in optics, or created as an optical lattice in BEC), or by a nonlinear lattice (NL, induced by a

Prabhat K. Jaiswal, Sanjay Puri, Subir K. Das

We use molecular dynamics (MD) to study the kinetics of surface enrichment (SE) in a stable homogeneous mixture (AB), placed in contact with a surface which preferentially attracts A. The SE profiles show a characteristic double-exponential behavior with two length scales: ξ_-, which rapidly saturates to its equilibrium value, and ξ_+, which diverges as a po

A. López Ariste, A. Asensio Ramos, C. González Fernández

Diagnostic techniques for stellar magnetic fields based upon spectropolarimetry. We propose and explore a new technique based upon the linear polarization emitted in Hanle-sensitive lines in disk-integrated stars where a dipolar magnetic field breaks the rotational symmetry of the resonance scattering polarization. A star with a simple dipolar field and a 1-

Mayeul Arminjon, Frank Reifler

The Dirac wave function in a curved spacetime is usually defined as a quadruplet of scalar fields. It can alternatively be defined as a four-vector field. We describe these two representations in a common geometrical framework and we prove theorems that relate together the different representations and the different choices of connections. In particular, the

Maik Stuke

The total lepton asymmetry $l=\sum_f l_f$ in our universe is only poorly constrained by theories and experiments. It might be orders of magnitudes larger than the observed baryon asymmetry $b\simeq {\cal O}(10^{-10})$, $|l|/b \leq {\cal O}(10^{9})$. We found that the dynamics of the cosmic QCD transition changes for large asymmetries. Predictions for asymmet

Peter R. Phillips

The conformal cosmological model presented by Mannheim predicts a negative value for the effective gravitational constant, G. It also involves a scalar field, S, which is treated classically. In this paper we point out that a classical treatment of S is inappropriate, because the Hamiltonian is non-Hermitean, and the theory must be developed in the way pione

Bob Palais

We construct the quaternion algebra [10] &#34;geometrically&#34; by a three dimensional analogue of the classic two dimensional geometric description of the complex field. The algebraic description of the multiplication operation in three dimensions involves the addition of one term. The construction leads to novel methods for implementing and interpolating

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

We search for resonant WW or WZ production using up to 5.4 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The data are consistent with the standard model background expectation, and we set limits on a resonance mass using the sequential standard model (SSM) W&#39; boson and the Randall-Sundrum model

Dmitry Makarov, Igor Karachentsev

We present an all-sky catalogue of 395 nearby galaxy groups revealed in the Local Supercluster and its surroundings. The groups and their associations are identified among 10914 galaxies at |b|>15deg with radial velocities VLG<3500 km/s. Our group finding algorithm requires the group members to be located inside their zero-velocity surface. Hereby, we assume

P. L. Krapivsky, Kirone Mallick

We investigate the evolution of a population of non-interacting particles which undergo diffusion and multiplication. Diffusion is assumed to be homogeneous, while multiplication proceeds with different rates reflecting the distribution of nutrients. We focus on the situation where the distribution of nutrients is a stationary quenched random variable, and s

S Händel, T P Wiles, A L Marchant, S A Hopkins

We report on the magnetic merging of ultracold atomic gases of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb by the controlled overlap of two initially spatially-separated magnetic traps. We present a detailed analysis of the combined magnetic field potential as the two traps are brought together which predicts a clear optimum trajectory for the merging. We verify this prediction

T. Tudorovskiy, U. Kuhl, H-J. Stoeckmann

We consider an application of a general theory for cavities with point-like perturbations for a rectangular shape. Hereby we concentrate on experimental wave patterns obtained for nearly degenerate states. The nodal lines in these patterns may be broken, which is an effect coming only from the experimental determination of the patterns. These findings are ex

Nick E. Mavromatos

Recent experimental research with marine algae points towards quantum entanglement at ambient temperature, with correlations between essential biological units separated by distances as long as 20 Angströms. The associated decoherence times, due to environmental influences, are found to be of order 400 fs. This prompted some authors to connect such findings

Marija Mitrović, Georgios Paltoglou, Bosiljka Tadić

Large-scale data resulting from users online interactions provide the ultimate source of information to study emergent social phenomena on the Web. From individual actions of users to observable collective behaviors, different mechanisms involving emotions expressed in the posted text play a role. Here we combine approaches of statistical physics with machin

Igor Razgon

Let $(G,T)$ be an instance of the (vertex) multiway cut problem where $G$ is a graph and $T$ is a set of terminals. For $t \in T$, a set of nonterminal vertices separating $t$ from $T \setminus \{T\}$ is called an \emph{isolating cut} of $t$. The largest among all the smallest isolating cuts is a natural lower bound for a multiway cut of $(G,T)$. Denote this

Cheuk-Yin Wong

The bosonized QCD2+QED2 system for quarks with two flavors contains QCD2 and QED2 bound states, with an isoscalar photon at about 25 MeV and an isovector (I=1,I_3=0) photon at about 44 MeV. Consequently, when a quark and an antiquark at the two ends of a string pulls apart from each other at high energies, hadrons and soft photons will be produced simultaneo

Dmitry Jakobson, Frédéric Naud

Let $Λ$ be a non-elementary convex co-compact fuchsian group which is a subgroup of an arithmetic fuchsian group. We prove that the Laplace operator of the hyperbolic surface $X=Λ\backslash\H$ has infinitely many resonances in an effective strip depending on the dimension of the limit set $δ$. Applications to lower bounds for the hyperbolic lattice point cou

Jerome Martin, Nicole Rakotomalala, Laurent Talon, Dominique Salin

In a viscous lock-exchange gravity current, which describes the reciprocal exchange of two fluids of different densities in a horizontal channel, the front between two Newtonian fluids spreads as the square root of time. The resulting diffusion coefficient reflects the competition between the buoyancy driving effect and the viscous damping, and depends on th

T. Strobel, C. Deibel, V. Dyakonov

By applying Monte Carlo simulations we found that the extraction of bound polaron pairs (PP) at the electrodes is an important loss factor limiting the efficiency of organic optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. Based upon this finding, we developed a unified analytic model consisting of exact Onsager theory, describing the dissociation of PP in organic d

S. Alekhin, J. Blümlein, P. Jimenez-Delgado, S. Moch

The inclusive production cross sections for $W^+, W^-$ and $Z^0$-bosons form important benchmarks for the physics at hadron colliders. We perform a detailed comparison of the predictions for these standard candles based on recent next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) parton parameterizations and new analyses including the combined HERA data, compare to all av

Thomas E. Skinner, Michael Braun, Klaus Woelk, Naum I. Gershenzon

We present robust radio frequency (rf) pulses that tolerate a factor of six inhomogeneity in the B1 field, significantly enhancing the potential of toroid cavity resonators for NMR spectroscopic applications. Both point-to-point (PP) and unitary rotation (UR) pulses were optimized for excitation, inversion, and refocusing using the gradient ascent pulse engi

Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, Luis F. Rodriguez, Guillem Anglada, Josep Marti

Synchrotron emission is commonly found in relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and microquasars, but so far its presence in jets from young stellar objects (YSOs) has not been proved. Here, we present evidence of polarized synchrotron emission arising from the jet of a YSO. The apparent magnetic field, with strength of ~0.2 milligauss, is par

D. I. Casetti-Dinescu, T. M. Girard, V. I. Korchagin, W. F van Altena

We analyze the 3D kinematics of a sample of $\sim 4400$ red clump stars ranging between 5 and 10 kpc from the Galactic center and up to 3 kpc from the Galactic plane. This sample is representative for the metal-rich ([Fe/H] = -0.6 to 0.5) thick disk. Absolute proper motions are from the fourth release of the Southern Proper Motion Program, and radial velocit

Austin Shapiro

It is generally hard to count, or even estimate, how many integer points lie in a polytope P. Barvinok and Hartigan have approached the problem by way of information theory, showing how to efficiently compute a random vector which samples the integer points of P with (computable) constant mass, but which may also land outside P. Thus, to count the integer po

John O&#39;Quigley, Mark Conaway

During the last twenty years there have been considerable methodological developments in the design and analysis of Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 1/2 dose-finding studies. Many of these developments are related to the continual reassessment method (CRM), first introduced by O&#39;Quigley, Pepe and Fisher (\citeyearQPF1990). CRM models have proven themselves to

R. A. Sen&#39;kov, V. G. Zelevinsky

We construct a BCS-like model that combines nucleonic pairing correlations and possible quartic correlations of alpha-type in a single variational wave function and derive corresponding gap equations. In the approximation of large logarithms typical for the BCS approach, we show that the system reveals two possible types of a condensate which cannot coexist.

Carole Weydert

Accurate predictions for both signal and background events at the LHC are of paramount importance in order to confirm even the smallest deviations from Standard Model predictions. Next-to-leading order Monte Carlo event generators are an essential tool to reach that goal. Concerning the charged Higgs boson, NLO calculations of the production cross section al

L. Esposito, V. Ferone, B. Kawohl, C. Nitsch

We prove a long standing conjecture concerning the fencing problem in the plane: among planar convex sets of given area, prove that the disc, and only the disc maximizes the length of the shortest area-bisecting curve. Although it may look intuitive, the result is by no means trivial since we also prove that among planar convex sets of given area the set whi

Bjorn Andreas, Mario Garcia-Fernandez

In arXiv:1008.1018 it is shown that a given stable vector bundle $V$ on a Calabi-Yau threefold $X$ which satisfies $c_2(X)=c_2(V)$ can be deformed to a solution of the Strominger system and the equations of motion of heterotic string theory. In this note we extend this result to the polystable case and construct explicit examples of polystable bundles on ell

Thomas Lawson, Noah Linden, Sandu Popescu

We address the question of when quantum entanglement is a useful resource for information processing tasks by presenting a new class of nonlocal games that are simple, direct, generalizations of the Clauser Horne Shimony Holt game. For some ranges of the parameters that specify the games, quantum mechanics offers an advantage, while, surprisingly, for others

J. Pomplun, S. Burger, F. Schmidt, A. Schliwa

In the present article we investigate optical near fields in semiconductor lasers. We perform finite element simulations for two different laser types, namely a super large optical waveguide (SLOW) laser, which is an edge emitter, and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL). We give the mathematical formulation of the different eigenvalue problems t

Ayca Cesmelioglu, Gary McGuire, Wilfried Meidl

In this article a technique for constructing $p$-ary bent functions from near-bent functions is presented. Two classes of quadratic $p$-ary functions are shown to be near-bent. Applying the construction of bent functions to these classes of near-bent functions yields classes of non-quadratic bent functions. We show that one construction in even dimension yie

Ying Kuen Cheung

In 1951 Robbins and Monro published the seminal article on stochastic approximation and made a specific reference to its application to the &#34;estimation of a quantal using response, nonresponse data.&#34; Since the 1990s, statistical methodology for dose-finding studies has grown into an active area of research. The dose-finding problem is at its core a p

Olivier Gabriel, Martin Grensing

We prove six-term exact sequences of Pimsner-Voiculescu type for certain subalgebras of the Cuntz-Pimsner algebras. This sequence may, in particular, be applied to smooth subalgebras of the Quantum Heisenberg Manifolds in order to compute the generators of their cyclic cohomology. Further, our results include the known results for smooth crossed products. Ou

D B Bugg

A measurement of transverse polarisation in pbar-p -> all-neutral final states would almost certainly determine a complete set of partial wave amplitudes over the mass range 1910 to 2410 MeV. This should identify all resonances in this mass range. The experiment is technically straightforward and cheap by present standards.

Xue-Bing Wu, F. K. Liu, M. Z. Kong, R. Wang

Estimating black hole masses of blazars is still a big challenge. Because of the contamination of jets, using the previously suggested size -- continuum luminosity relation can overestimate the broad line region (BLR) size and black hole mass for radio-loud AGNs, including blazars. We propose a new relation between the BLR size and $H_β$ emission line lumino

Emmanuel O. Yewande, Raphael O. Akande

Surfaces sputtered by ion beam bombardment have been known to exhibit patterns whose behavior is modeled with stochastic partial differential equations. A widely accepted model is the Cuerno-Barabasi model which is robust in its predictions of sputtered surface morphologies. An understanding of the factors responsible for such surface topographies can be ach

Chitta Ranjan Singha

Power line as an alternative for data transmission is being explored, and also being used to a certain extent. But from the data transfer point of view, power line, as a channel is highly dynamic and hence not quite suitable. To convert the office or home wiring system to a Local Area Network (LAN), adaptive changes are to be made to the existing protocols.

Pashupati Dhakal, Harukazu Yoshino, Jeong Il Oh, Koichi Kikuchi

We report the temperature dependence of the upper critical magnetic field in the quasi-onedimensional molecular organic superconductor (DMET)2I3, for magnetic field applied along the intrachain, interchain, and interplane directions. The upper critical field tends to saturation at low temperature for field in all directions and does not exceed the Pauli para

C. -L. Ho, A. I. Solomon, C. -H. Oh

Important developments in fault-tolerant quantum computation using the braiding of anyons have placed the theory of braid groups at the very foundation of topological quantum computing. Furthermore, the realization by Kauffman and Lomonaco that a specific braiding operator from the solution of the Yang-Baxter equation, namely the Bell matrix, is universal im

J. Nordin, L. Ostman, A. Goobar, R. Amanullah

Aims: Spectroscopic observations of Type Ia supernovae obtained at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), in conjunction with the SDSS-II Supernova Survey, are analysed. We use spectral indicators measured up to a month after the lightcurve peak luminosity to characterise the supernova properties, and examine these for pot

Markward Britsch, Nikolai Gagunashvili, Michael Schmelling

Imbalanced data sets containing much more background than signal instances are very common in particle physics, and will also be characteristic for the upcoming analyses of LHC data. Following up the work presented at ACAT 2008, we use the multivariate technique presented there (a rule growing algorithm with the meta-methods bagging and instance weighting) o

X. Dai, C. Le Bris, F. Legoll, Y. Maday

The parareal in time algorithm allows to efficiently use parallel computing for the simulation of time-dependent problems. It is based on a decomposition of the time interval into subintervals, and on a predictor-corrector strategy, where the propagations over each subinterval for the corrector stage are concurrently performed on the processors. In this arti

K. Sasidhar, Vijaya L Kakulapati, Kolikipogu Ramakrishna, K. KailasaRao

Biometrics is the science and technology of measuring and analyzing biological data of human body, extracting a feature set from the acquired data, and comparing this set against to the template set in the database. Experimental studies show that Unimodal biometric systems had many disadvantages regarding performance and accuracy. Multimodal biometric system

Tobias Schickling, Florian Gebhard, Jörg Bünemann

We investigate multi-band Hubbard models for the three iron 3$d$-$t_{2g}$ bands and the two iron 3$d$-$e_g$ bands in ${\rm La O Fe As}$ by means of the Gutzwiller variational theory. Our analysis of the paramagnetic ground state shows that neither Hartree--Fock mean-field theories nor effective spin models describe these systems adequately. In contrast to Ha

Chan Dai Truyen Thai, Petar Popovski, Megumi Kaneko, Elisabeth de Carvalho

The ideas of wireless network coding at the physical layer promise high throughput gains in wireless systems with relays and multi-way traffic flows. This gain can be ascribed to two principles: (1) joint transmission of multiple communication flows and (2) usage of \emph{a priori} information to cancel the interference. In this paper we use these principles

Chris Sherlock, Paul Fearnhead, Gareth O. Roberts

The random walk Metropolis (RWM) is one of the most common Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms in practical use today. Its theoretical properties have been extensively explored for certain classes of target, and a number of results with important practical implications have been derived. This article draws together a selection of new and existing key results

Hong-Li Zeng, Erik Aurell, Mikko Alava, Hamed Mahmoudi

Network structures are reconstructed from dynamical data by respectively naive mean field (nMF) and Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) approximations. For TAP approximation, we use two methods to reconstruct the network: a) iteration method; b) casting the inference formula to a set of cubic equations and solving it directly. We investigate inference of the asym

Leonid. V. Verozub

This paper aims to discuss two issues that can have a significant impact on the foundations of the theory of gravitation: (1). The existence of relativity of space-time geometry with respect to the properties of used reference frame, which is a manifestation of the long-known fact of relativity of geometry of space and time with respect to properties of meas

Changxing Miao, Liutang Xue

In this article we consider the following generalized quasi-geostrophic equation \partial_tθ+ u\cdot\nabla θ+ νΛ^βθ=0, \quad u= Λ^α\mathcal{R}^\botθ, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2, where $ν>0$, $Λ:=\sqrt{-Δ}$, $α\in ]0,1[$ and $β\in ]0,2[$. We first show a general criterion yielding the nonlocal maximum principles for the whole space active scalars, then mainly by

Radoslaw Ryblewski, Wojciech Florkowski

The model assumptions of the recently formulated framework of highly-anisotropic and strongly-dissipative hydrodynamics (ADHYDRO) are analyzed. In particular, we study dependence of numerical results on different forms of the entropy source and compare our approach with other frameworks describing locally anisotropic fluids. We also discuss the effects of di

Piotr Bozek, Iwona Wyskiel-Piekarska

A new method of measuring the pressure anisotropy in the early stage of heavy-ion collisions is discussed. It is shown that the transverse momentum spectra, elliptic flow and interferometry radii are not sensitive to the early anisotropy. We propose the directed flow as a measure of the early transverse and longitudinal pressures. Calculations indicate that

Robert Gray, Rognvaldur G. Moller

A digraph is connected-homogeneous if any isomorphism between finite connected induced subdigraphs extends to an automorphism of the digraph. We consider locally-finite connected-homogeneous digraphs with more than one end. In the case that the digraph embeds a triangle we give a complete classification, obtaining a family of tree-like graphs constructed by

Ch. Hubaux, A. -S. Libert, T. Carletti

To distinguish between regular and chaotic orbits in Hamiltonian systems, the Global Symplectic Integrator (GSI) has been introduced, based on the symplectic integration of both Hamiltonian equations of motion and variational equations. In the present contribution, we show how to compute efficiently the MEGNO indicator jointly with the GSI. Moreover, we disc

Jorge Penarrubia, Daniel B. Zucker, Mike J. Irwin, Elaina A. Hyde

We have conducted a spectroscopic survey of the inner regions of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. We determine radial velocities for over 1800 Sgr star members in 6 fields that cover an area 18.84 deg^2, with a typical accuracy of ~2 km/s. Motivated by recent numerical models of the Sgr tida

F. -J. Jiang, U. -J. Wiese

The 2-d spin 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet with exchange coupling $J$ is investigated on a periodic square lattice of spacing $a$ at very small temperatures using the loop-cluster algorithm. Monte Carlo data for the staggered and uniform susceptibilities are compared with analytic results obtained in the systematic low-energy effective field theory for the

I. V. Anikin, O. V. Teryaev

We explore the electromagnetic gauge invariance of the hadron tensor of the Drell-Yan process with one transversely polarized hadron. The special role is played by the contour gauge for gluon fields. The prescription for the gluonic pole in the twist 3 correlator is related to causality property and compared with the prescriptions for exclusive hard processe

Michael Polyak

We consider an algebra of (classical or virtual) tangles over an ordered circuit operad and introduce Conway-type invariants of tangles which respect this algebraic structure. The resulting invariants contain both the coefficients of the Conway polynomial and the Milnor&#39;s mu-invariants of string links as partial cases. The extension of the Conway polynom

M. C. Kumar, Prakash Mathews, V. Ravindran, Satyajit Seth

We present the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the associated production of the vector gauge boson ($Z/W^\pm$) and the graviton in the large extra dimension model at the LHC. We estimate the impact of the QCD corrections on the total cross sections as well as the differential distributions of the gauge bosons and find that they are significant. We a

Jan Moser

It is shown in this paper that the Jacob&#39;s ladder is the asymptotic solution to the new nonlinear integral equations which correspond to the functions $J_ν(x)$ and $|\zf|^4$.

Bruce W. Westbury

The main aim of this article is to give an exposition of the diagrammatic proof due to Boos and Rost of the theorem of Hurwitz that the dimension of a composition algebra is one of 0,1,2,4,8.

H. J. Zhao, M. L. Du

A method of images is applied to study the spontaneous emission of an atom inside a metallic wedge with an opening angle of $π/N$, where N is an arbitrary positive integer. We show the method of images gives a rate formula consistent with that from Quantum Electrodynamics. Using the method of images, we show the correspondence between the oscillations in the

Evgenii N. Sosov

The work consists of solutions of metric problems for convex and finite subsets of geodesic spaces.

Sebastian Wende, Ansgar Reiners, Andreas Seifahrt, Denis Shulyak

M-type stars exhibit strong magnetic fields towards decreasing effective temperatures. The measurement of these fields is complicated due to missing indicators. Molecular FeH lines provide an excellent means to determine magnetic field strengths from the Zeeman broadening of magnetically sensitive lines. Our aim is the investigation of possible dependencies

Martin M. Roth, Christer Sandin

Integral Field Spectroscopy is a powerful observing technique for Astronomy that is becoming available at most ground-based observatories as well as in space. The complex data obtained with this technique require new approaches for visualization. Typical requirements and the p3d tool, as an example, are discussed.

Jens M. Schmidt

It is well-known as an existence result that every 3-connected graph G=(V,E) on more than 4 vertices admits a sequence of contractions and a sequence of removal operations to K_4 such that every intermediate graph is 3-connected. We show that both sequences can be computed in optimal time, improving the previously best known running times of O(|V|^2) to O(|V

Wolfgang Alexander Moens

Jacobson proved that if a Lie algebra admits an invertible derivation, it must be nilpotent. He also suspected, though incorrectly, that the converse might be true: that every nilpotent Lie algebra has an invertible derivation. We prove that a Lie algebra is nilpotent if and only if it admits an invertible Leibniz-derivation. The proofs are elementary in nat

I. Rigas, L. L. Sanchez-Soto, A. B. Klimov, J. Rehacek

A comprehensive theory of the Weyl-Wigner formalism for the canonical pair angle-angular momentum is presented. Special attention is paid to the problems linked to rotational periodicity and angular-momentum discreteness.

Jan Uphoff, Oliver Fochler, Zhe Xu, Carsten Greiner

Production and space-time evolution of heavy quarks in central and non-central heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC are studied with the partonic transport model Boltzmann Approach of MultiParton Scatterings (BAMPS). In addition to the initially created heavy quarks in hard parton scatterings during nucleon-nucleon collisions, secondary heavy quark productio

Gaurav Bhatia, Vivek Kumar

In this research, we study the optimization challenges of MANET and cross-layer technique to improve its performance. We propose an adaptive retransmission limits algorithm for IEEE 802.11 MAC to reduce the false link failures and predict the node mobility. We implemented cross layer interaction between physical and MAC layers. The MAC layer utilizes the phy

F. Hammache, M. Heil, S. Typel, D. Galaviz

The recently claimed observations of non-negligible amounts of 6Li in old halo stars have renewed interest in the Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) of 6Li. One important ingredient in the predicted BBN abundance of 6Li is the low-energy 2H(alpha,gamma)6Li cross section. Up to now, the only available experimental result for this cross section showed an almost co

Falk Bruckmann, Ernst-Michael Ilgenfritz, Boris Martemyanov, Bo Zhang

We reveal the center vortex content of SU(2) calorons and ensembles of them. While one part of the vortex connects the constituent dyons of a single caloron, another part is predominantly spatial and can be related to the twist that exists in the caloron gauge field. The latter part depends strongly on the caloron holonomy and degenerates to a plane between

Miquel Royo, Juan Ignacio Climente, José Luis Movilla, Josep Planelles

We theoretically study the effect of the dielectric environment on the exciton ground state of CdSe and CdTe/CdSe/CdTe nanorods. We show that insulating environments enhance the exciton recombination rate and blueshift the emission peak by tens of meV. These effects are particularly pronounced for type-II nanorods. In these structures, the dielectric confine

Francisco S. N. Lobo

A central theme in cosmology is the perplexing fact that the Universe is undergoing an accelerating expansion. The latter, one of the most important and challenging current problems in cosmology, represents a new imbalance in the governing gravitational field equations. Several candidates, responsible for this expansion, have been proposed in the literature,

F. Patat

Europe and a number of countries in the world are investing significant amounts of public money to operate and maintain large, ground-based astronomical facilities. Even larger projects are under development to observe the faintest and most remote astrophysical sources in the universe. As of today, on the planet there are very few sites that satisfy all the

B. Stelzer, E. Flaccomio, I. Pillitteri, C. Argiroffi

We present a systematic search for Fe Kalpha emission from young stellar objects of the rho Ophiuchi star forming region observed in the Deep Rho Ophiuchi XMM-Newton Observation (DROXO).

K. Essafi, J. -P. Kownacki, D. Mouhanna

Anisotropic D-dimensional polymerized phantom membranes are investigated within a nonperturbative renormalization group (NPRG) framework. One focuses on the transition between a high-temperature, crumpled, phase and a low-temperature, tubular, phase where the membrane is flat along one direction and crumpled along the other ones. While the upper critical dim