December 2010 arXiv papers — page 32

N. Chkheidze, G. Machabeli, Z. Osmanov

In the present paper we construct a self-consistent theory, interpreting the observations of the MAGIC Cherenkov Telescope of the very high energy (VHE) pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar. In particular, on the basis of the Vlasov's kinetic equation we study the process of the quasi-linear diffusion(QLD) developed by means of the cyclotron instability.

Dongxiang Liu, Meng Zhen Kang, Véronique Letort, Meijun Xing

Poplar is one of the best fast-growing trees in the world, widely used for windbreak and wood product. Although architecture of poplar has direct impact on its applications, it has not been descried in previous poplar models, probably because of the difficulties raised by measurement, data processing and parameterization. In this paper, the functional-struct

Christian Blum

The simple assembly line balancing problem (SALBP) concerns the assignment of tasks with pre-defined processing times to work stations that are arranged in a line. Hereby, precedence constraints between the tasks must be respected. The optimization goal of the SALBP-2 version of the problem concerns the minimization of the so-called cycle time, that is, the

Bernard Hanzon, Martine Olivi, Ralf L. M. Peeters

In this paper, the connections are investigated between two different approaches towards the parametrization of multivariable stable all-pass systems in discrete-time. The first approach involves the tangential Schur algorithm, which employs linear fractional transformations. It stems from the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and enables the direc

Jean Lasserre

Given a nonnegative polynomial f, we provide an explicit expression for its best $\ell_1$-norm approximation by a sum of squares of given degree.

Sandra Cerrai, Mark Freidlin

We consider a class of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations also having a stochastic perturbation on the boundary and we show that when the diffusion rate is much larger than the rate of reaction, it is possible to replace the SPDE by a suitable one-dimensional stochastic differential equation. This replacement is possible under the assumption of spectral

Shuo Kong, Yuefang Wu

A mapping study of IRAS 05553+1631 was performed with 12CO J=3-2 and 13CO J=2-1 lines observed by the KOSMA 3 m-telescope. A core with a size of 0.65 pc and with a LTE mass of 120 M\odot was defined by the mapping with 13CO J=2-1 line. We have identified a bipolar outflow with 12CO J=3-2. For accuracy in the calculation of outflow parameters, overcoming the

E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone, M. Balata

We report the final result of the CUORICINO experiment. Operated between 2003 and 2008, with a total exposure of 19.75 kg y of 130Te, CUORICINO was able to set a lower bound on the 130Te 0nDBD half-life of 2.8 10^{24} years at 90% C.L. The limit here reported includes the effects of systematic uncertainties that are examined in detail in the paper. The corre

P. Stipanović, L. Vranješ Markić, J. Boronat, B. Kežić

We report results for the ground-state energy and structural properties of small $^4$He-T$\downarrow$ clusters consisting of up to 4 T$\downarrow$ and 8 $^4$He atoms. These results have been obtained using very well-known $^4$He-$^4$He and T$\downarrow$-T$\downarrow$ interaction potentials and several models for the $^4$He-T$\downarrow$ interatomic potential

Markus Meinert, Jan-Michael Schmalhorst, Günter Reiss

The generalized Heusler compounds Mn2CoZ (Z = Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, Sb) with the Hg2CuTi structure are of large interest due to their half-metallic ferrimagnetism. The complex magnetic interactions between the constituents are studied by first principles calculations of the Heisenberg exchange coupling parameters, and Curie temperatures are calculated from

Georges Francois, Johannes Rau

We define an intersection product of tropical cycles on matroid varieties (via cutting out the diagonal) and show that it is well-behaved. In particular, this enables us to intersect cycles on moduli spaces of tropical rational marked curves $M_{0,n}$ and $M_{0,n}(\R^r, d)$. This intersection product can be extended to smooth varieties (whose local models ar

Herbert Weidner

The earthquake in December 2004 caused free oscillations of the Earth. Vibrates the earth in the football mode 0S2, splits the natural frequency due to rotation into five closely adjacent individual components. The sum of these spectral components in the frequency band near 309 μHz produces a beat that gives the overall amplitude envelope a characteristic, r

Michael E. Bennett, Raphael Hirschi, Marco Pignatari, Steven Diehl

The contribution by massive stars (M > 9 solar masses) to the weak s-process component of the solar system abundances is primarily due to the 22Ne neutron source, which is activated near the end of helium-core burning. The residual 22Ne left over from helium-core burning is then reignited during carbon burning, initiating further s-processing that modifies t

A. Leviatan

We discuss a hierarchy of broken symmetries with special emphasis on partial dynamical symmetries (PDS). The latter correspond to a situation in which a non-invariant Hamiltonian accommodates a subset of solvable eigenstates with good symmetry, while other eigenstates are mixed. We present an algorithm for constructing Hamiltonians with this property and dem

B. Nigro, G. Ambrosetti, C. Grimaldi, T. Maeder

In conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are dispersed in an insulating continuous matrix the electrical connectedness is established by interparticle quantum tunneling. A recent formulation of the transport problem in this kind of composites treats each conducting particle as electrically connected to all others via tunneling cond

Regino Criado, Julio Flores, Alejandro García del Amo, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

The new concept of multilevel network is introduced in order to embody some topological properties of complex systems with structures in the mesoscale which are not completely captured by the classical models. This new model, which generalizes the hyper-network and hyper-structure models, fits perfectly with several real-life complex systems, including socia

F. Kemper, A. J. Markwick, Paul M. Woods

We present a model using the evolution of the stellar population in a starburst galaxy to predict the crystallinity of the silicates in the interstellar medium of this galaxy. We take into account dust production in stellar ejecta, and amorphisation and destruction in the interstellar medium and find that a detectable amount of crystalline silicates may be f

Behrooz Mashayekhy, Fahimeh Mohammadzadeh, Azam Hokmabadi

In this paper we present some inequalities for the order, the exponent and the number of generators of the $c$-nilpotent multiplier (the Baer invariant with respect to the variety of nilpotent groups of class at most $c \geq 1$) of a finite group and specially of a finite $p$-group. Our results generalize some previous related results of M.R. Jones and M.R.R

Behrooz Mashayekhy, Fahimeh Mohammadzadeh, Azam Hokmabadi

Let $G$ be a finite $p$-group of order $p^{n}$ with $|M(G)|=p^{\frac{n(n-1)}{2}-t},$ where $M(G)$ is the Schur multiplier of $G$. Ya.G. Berkovich, X. Zhou, and G. Ellis have determined the structure of $G$ when $t=0,1,2,3$. In this paper, we are going to find some structures for an abelian $p$-group $G$ with conditions on the exponents of $G, M(G),$ and $S_2

I. N. Agafonov, M. V. Chekhova, T. Sh. Iskhakov, A. N. Penin

We report testing of the new absolute method of photodetectors calibration based on the difference-signal measurement for two-mode squeezed vacuum by comparison with the traditional absolute method based on the coincidence counting. Using low-gain parametric down conversion we have measured the quantum efficiency of a counting detector by both methods. The d

Behrooz Mashayekhy, Hanieh Mirebrahimi

In this paper, using a relationship between the Schur multiplier of a group $G$, the fundamental group, and the second homology group of the Eilenberg-MacLane space of $G$, we present new proofs for some famous properties of the Schur multiplier and its structure for the free product and the direct product with an algebraic topological approach. Also, we try

Mohsen Parvizi, Behrooz Mashayekhy

We present an explicit structure for the Baer invariant of a finitely generated abelian group with respect to the variety $[\mathfrak{N}_{c_1},\mathfrak{N}_{c_2}]$, for all $c_2\leq c_1\leq 2c_2$. As a consequence we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for such groups to be $[\mathfrak{N}_{c_1},\mathfrak{N}_{c_2}]$-capable. We also show that if $c_

Behrooz Mashayekhy, Fahimeh Mohammadzadeh

In this paper we present some inequalities for the order, the exponent, and the number of generators of the c-nilpotent multiplier (the Baer invariant with respect to the variety of nilpotent groups of class at most $c \geq 1$) of a powerful p-group. Our results extend some of Lubotzky and Mann$^{,}$s (Journal of Algebra, 105 (1987), 484-505.) to nilpotent m

Jehan Boreux, Timoteo Carletti, Charles Hubaux

We propose a family of reliable symplectic integrators adapted to the Discrete Non-Linear Schrödinger equation; based on an idea of Yoshida (H. Yoshida, Construction of higher order symplectic integrators, Physics Letters A, 150, 5,6,7, (1990), pp. 262.) we can construct high order numerical schemes, that result to be explicit methods and thus very fast. The

V. B. Bobrov, S. A. Trigger

Using the virial theorem it is shown that the hypothesis of the existence of the universal density functional is invalid.

Matt Rathbun

Let K be a tunnel number one, fibered link in S^3, with fiber F, and unknotting tunnel $τ$. We show that $τ$ can be isotoped to lie in F.

Mikael Rechtsman, Alexander Szameit, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich

We present, theoretically and experimentally, amorphous photonic lattices exhibiting a band-gap yet completely lacking Bragg diffraction: 2D waveguides distributed randomly according to a liquid-like model responsible for the absence of Bragg peaks as opposed to ordered lattices containing disorder, which always exhibit Bragg peaks. In amorphous lattices the

Attila Popping, Robert Braun

Observations of neutral hydrogen can provide a wealth of information about the kinematics of galaxies. To learn more about the large scale structures and accretion processes, the extended environment of galaxies have to be observed. Numerical simulations predict a cosmic web of extended structures and gaseous filaments. To observe the direct vicinity of gala

Bhaskar Bagchi, Basudeb Datta

The symmetric group $S_3$ acts on $S^2 \times S^2 \times S^2$ by coordinate permutation, and the quotient space $(S^2 \times S^2 \times S^2)/S_3$ is homeomorphic to the complex projective space $\CC P^3$. In this paper, we construct an 124-vertex simplicial subdivision $(S^2 \times S^2 \times S^2)_{124}$ of the 64-vertex standard cellulation $S^2_4 \times S^

S. M. Fielding, D. Marenduzzo, M. E. Cates

We report simulations of a continuum model for (apolar, flow aligning) active fluids in two dimensions. Both free and anchored boundary conditions are considered, at parallel confining walls that are either static or moving at fixed relative velocity. We focus on extensile materials and find that steady shear bands, previously shown to arise ubiquitously in

N. D. Ramesh Bhat, B-G Andersson

The Southern Coalsack is located in the interior of the Upper Centaurus-Lupus (UCL) super bubble and shows many traits that point to a much more energetic environment than might be expected from a dark, starless molecular cloud. A hot, X-ray emitting, envelope surrounds the cloud, it has a very strong internal magnetic field and its darkest core seems to be

Yun Bao Huang

Let $γ_{a,b}(n)$ be the number of smooth words of length $n$ over the alphabet $\{a,b\}$ with $a<b$. Say that a smooth word $w$ is \emph{left fully extendable} (LFE) if both $aw$ and $bw$ are smooth. In this paper, we prove that for any positive number $ξ$ and positive integer $n_{0}$ such that the proportion of $b$&#39;s is larger than $ξ$ for each LFE word

Jen-Tsung Hsiang, Chun-Hsien Wu, L. H. Ford

We consider the spatial power spectra associated with fluctuations of quadratic operators in field theory, such as quantum stress tensor components. We show that the power spectrum can be negative, in contrast to most fluctuation phenomena where the Wiener-Khinchine theorem requires a positive power spectrum. We show why the usual argument for positivity fai

H. Witala, R. Skibinski, J. Golak, W. Gloeckle

We extend our approach to incorporate the proton-proton (pp) Coulomb force into the three-nucleon (3N) momentum-space Faddeev calculations of elastic proton-deuteron (pd) scattering and breakup to the case when also a three-nucleon force (3NF) is acting. In addition we formulate that approach in the application to electron- and gamma-induced reactions on 3He

William E. Harris

A new revision of the McMaster catalog of Milky Way globular clusters is available. This is the first update since 2003 and the biggest single revision since the original version of the catalog published in 1996. The list now contains a total of 157 objects classified as globular clusters. Major upgrades have been made especially to the cluster coordinates,

Oliver Lorscheid

The space of toroidal automorphic forms was introduced by Zagier in 1979. Let $F$ be a global field. An automorphic form on $\GL(2)$ is toroidal if it has vanishing constant Fourier coefficients along all embedded non-split tori. The interest in this space stems from the fact (amongst others) that an Eisenstein series of weight $s$ is toroidal if $s$ is a no

Vladimir S. Mashkevich

The Principle of Sufficient Reason implies determinism. An explicit indeterministic quantum jump dynamics is constructed, which may be naturally transformed into a deterministic one. A consistent application of the Principle of Sufficient Reason results in a canonical deterministic dynamics.

Toka Diagana

The main objective of this paper is twofold. We first show that if the doubly-weighted Bohr spectrum of an almost periodic function exists, then it is either empty or coincides with the Bohr spectrum of that function. Next, we investigate the problem which consists of the existence of doubly-weighted pseudo-almost periodic solutions to some nonautonomous abs

Kyo Nishiyama

Let G be a reductive algebraic group over the complex field and O_h be a closed adjoint orbit through a semisimple element h. By a result of Borho and Kraft (1979), it is known that the asymptotic cone of the orbit O_h is the closure of a Richardson nilpotent orbit corresponding to a parabolic subgroup whose Levi component is the centralizer Z_G(h) in G. In

Kin Ming Hui, Sunghoon Kim

For any $-1<m<0$, $μ>0$, $0\le u_0\in L^{\infty}(R)$ such that $u_0(x)\le (μ_0 |m||x|)^{\frac{1}{m}}$ for any $|x|\ge R_0$ and some constants $R_0>1$ and $0<μ_0\leq μ$, and $f,\,g \in C([0,\infty))$ such that $f(t),\, g(t) \geq μ_0$ on $[0,\infty)$ we prove that as $R\to\infty$ the solution $u^R$ of the Dirichlet problem $u_t=(u^m/m)_{xx}$ in $(-R,R)\times (

Zhengdong Zhang, Arvind Ganesh, Xiao Liang, Yi Ma

In this paper, we show how to efficiently and effectively extract a class of &#34;low-rank textures&#34; in a 3D scene from 2D images despite significant corruptions and warping. The low-rank textures capture geometrically meaningful structures in an image, which encompass conventional local features such as edges and corners as well as all kinds of regular,

J. Kellendonk, K. Pankrashkin, S. Richard

We study Levinson type theorems for the family of Aharonov-Bohm models from different perspectives. The first one is purely analytical involving the explicit calculation of the wave-operators and allowing to determine precisely the various contributions to the left hand side of Levinson&#39;s theorem, namely those due to the scattering operator, the terms at

Shane W. Davis, Ari Laor

The radiative efficiency of AGN is commonly estimated based on the total mass accreted and the total AGN light emitted per unit volume in the universe integrated over time (the Soltan argument). In individual AGN, thin accretion disk model spectral fits can be used to deduce the absolute accretion rate Mdot, if the black hole mass M is known. The radiative e

Jérôme Le Rousseau, Nicolas Lerner

We consider a second-order selfadjoint elliptic operator with an anisotropic diffusion matrix having a jump across a smooth hypersurface. We prove the existence of a weight-function such that a Carleman estimate holds true. We moreover prove that the conditions imposed on the weight function are necessary.

Wei Wang

(abridged) We present the results of the long-term hard X-ray monitoring of the high mass X-ray binary 2S 0114+65 with INTEGRAL/IBIS from 2003 to 2008. 2S 0114+65 is a variable hard X-ray source, when 2S 0114+65 was bright, we found a pulse period evolution of $\sim 2.67$ hour to 2.63 hour from 2003 -- 2008, with a spin-up rate of the neutron star $\sim 1.09

James M. Lattimer, M. Prakash

The determination of neutron star masses is reviewed in light of a new measurement of 1.97 M$_\odot$ for PSR J1614-2230 and an estimate of 2.4 M$_\odot$ for the black widow pulsar. Using a simple analytic model related to the so-called maximally compact equation of state, model-independent upper limits to thermodynamic properties in neutron stars, such as en

Elizabeth A. Schoene, Jeremy J. Thorn, Daniel A. Steck

We implement and demonstrate the effectiveness of a cooling scheme using a moving, all-optical, one-way barrier to cool a sample of $^{87}$Rb atoms, achieving nearly a factor of 2 reduction in temperature. The one-way barrier, composed of two focused, Gaussian laser beams, allows atoms incident on one side to transmit, while reflecting atoms incident on the

Jun-Gang Li, Jian Zou, Bin Shao

The entanglement evolution of two qubits under local, single- and two- sided noisy channels is investigated. It is found that for all pure initial states, the entanglement under a one-sided noisy channel is completely determined by the maximal trace distance which is the main element to construct the measure of non-Markovianity. For the two-sided noisy chann

Y. Okada, T. Kawaguchi, M. Ohkawa, K. Ishizaka

We have studied the momentum dependence of the energy gap of Bi2(Sr,R)2CuOy by angleresolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), particularly focusing on the difference between R=La and Eu. By comparing the gap function and characteristic temperatures between the two sets of samples, we show that there exist three distinct energy scales, Δpg, Δsc0, and Δeff

Qin Huang, Qiuju Diao, Shu Lin, Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

This paper is concerned with construction and structural analysis of both cyclic and quasi-cyclic codes, particularly LDPC codes. It consists of three parts. The first part shows that a cyclic code given by a parity-check matrix in circulant form can be decomposed into descendant cyclic and quasi-cyclic codes of various lengths and rates. Some fundamental st

Maria E. Pezzoli, Matthias J. Graf, Kristjan Haule, Gabriel Kotliar

We consider the effects of impurities on the enigmatic hidden order (HO) state of the heavy-fermion material URu2Si2. In particular, we focus on local effects of Rh impurities as a tool to probe the suppression of the HO state. To study local properties we introduce a lattice free energy, where the time invariant HO order parameter &#34;psi&#34; and local an

Jordi Casanova, Jordi Jose, Enrique Garcia-Berro, Alan Calder

Classical novae are explosive phenomena that take place in stellar binary systems. They are powered by mass transfer from a low-mass, main sequence star onto a white dwarf. The material piles up under degenerate conditions and a thermonuclear runaway ensues. The energy released by the suite of nuclear processes operating at the envelope heats the material up

K. B. Nakshatrala, A. J. Valocchi

In this research note we provide a variational basis for the optimal artificial diffusion method, which has been a cornerstone in developing many stabilized methods. The optimal artificial diffusion method produces exact nodal solutions when applied to one-dimensional problems with constant coefficients and forcing function. We first present a variational pr

R. Trotta, M. Kunz, A. R. Liddle

We present a general Bayesian formalism for the definition of Figures of Merit (FoMs) quantifying the scientific return of a future experiment. We introduce two new FoMs for future experiments based on their model selection capabilities, called the decisiveness of the experiment and the expected strength of evidence. We illustrate these by considering dark e

L. Naso, J. C. Miller

Millisecond pulsars are believed to be old pulsars spun up by a surrounding accretion disc. Magnetic fields are thought to play a leading role in this, both by determining the location of the inner edge of the disc and by exerting an additional torque on the star (as a result of the interaction between the stellar magnetic field and the disc plasma motion, w

R. Alkofer, D. Diakonov, J. Pawlowski, H. Reinhardt

The participants in this discussion session of the QCHS 9 meeting were each asked the following question: &#34;What would be the most useful piece of information that you could obtain, by whatever means, that would advance your own program, and/or our general understanding of confinement?&#34; This proceedings contains a brief summary of each panel member&#3

QUIET Collaboration, C. Bischoff, A. Brizius, I. Buder

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) employs coherent receivers at 43GHz and 95GHz, operating on the Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert in Chile, to measure the anisotropy in the polarization of the CMB. QUIET primarily targets the B modes from primordial gravitational waves. The combination of these frequencies gives sensitivity to foreground contributi

Jian Li, Amol Deshpande

We study the stochastic versions of a broad class of combinatorial problems where the weights of the elements in the input dataset are uncertain. The class of problems that we study includes shortest paths, minimum weight spanning trees, and minimum weight matchings, and other combinatorial problems like knapsack. We observe that the expected value is inadeq

G. Morpurgo

In a recent paper Yang and Kim discuss the lowest baryon mass formulas using a chiral soliton model. However, contrary to their assertion, their result is not equivalent to a generalized Gell Mann-Okubo mass formula derived (G.Morpurgo 1992) using only general properties of QCD (The General parameterization method). The reason for the non equivalence is that

Diego Tonelli

During the last decade, the CDF and D\O\ experiments at the Tevatron have been pursuing an extensive heavy flavor spectroscopy program that provides significant advancements in the understanding of masses of ground state and orbitally excited b-hadrons, and phenomenology of exotic XYZ states. It also yields a breakthrough in our knowledge of bottom baryons w

Hart F. Smith, Christopher D. Sogge, Chengbo Wang

We establish the Strauss conjecture for nontrapping obstacles when the spatial dimension $n$ is two. As pointed out in \cite{HMSSZ} this case is more subtle than $n=3$ or 4 due to the fact that the arguments of the first two authors \cite{SmSo00}, Burq \cite{B} and Metcalfe \cite{M} showing that local Strichartz estimates for obstactles imply global ones req

Iskander Aliev, Martin Henk

Given an integer mxn matrix A satisfying certain regularity assumptions, a well-known integer programming problem asks to find an integer point in the associated knapsack polytope P(A, b)={x: A x= b, x>=0} or determine that no such point exists. We obtain a LLL-based polynomial time algorithm that solves the problem subject to a constraint on the location of

Federico M. Pont, Pablo Serra, Omar Osenda

The resonance states of one- and two-particle Hamiltonians are studied using variational expansions with real basis-set functions. The resonance energies, $E_r$, and widths, $Γ$, are calculated using the density of states and an ${\mathcal L}^2$ golden rule-like formula. We present a recipe to select adequately some solutions of the variational problem. The

Peter Laursen

The significance of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line as a probe of the high-redshift Universe has long been established. Originating mainly in the vicinity of young, massive stars and in association with accretion of large bulks of matter, it is ideal for detecting young galaxies, the fundamental building blocks of our Universe. Since many different processes sh

Andris Ambainis, Andrew M. Childs, Yi-Kai Liu

We study quantum algorithms for testing bipartiteness and expansion of bounded-degree graphs. We give quantum algorithms that solve these problems in time O(N^(1/3)), beating the Omega(sqrt(N)) classical lower bound. For testing expansion, we also prove an Omega(N^(1/4)) quantum query lower bound, thus ruling out the possibility of an exponential quantum spe

Ulrich Sperhake, Bernd Bruegmann, Doreen Mueller, Carlos F. Sopuerta

We analyse an eleven-orbit inspiral of a non-spinning black-hole binary with mass ratio q=M1/M2=4. The numerically obtained gravitational waveforms are compared with post-Newtonian (PN) predictions including several sub-dominant multipoles up to multipolar indices (l=5,m=5). We find that (i) numerical and post-Newtonian predictions of the phase of the (2,2)

Ginestra Bianconi, Christoph Rahmede

The quasi-species equation describes the evolution of the probability that a random individual in a population carries a given genome. Here we map the quasi-species equation for individuals of a self-reproducing population to an ensemble of scalar field elementary units undergoing a creation and annihilation process. In this mapping, the individuals of the p

Ippocratis D. Saltas, Martin Kunz

The existence of anisotropic stress of a purely geometrical origin seems to be a characteristic of higher order gravity models, and has been suggested as a probe to test these models observationally, for example in weak lensing experiments. In this paper, we seek to find a class of higher order gravity models of f(R,G) type that would give us a zero anisotro

Jay D. Sau, Rajdeep Sensarma, Stephen Powell, I. B. Spielman

Spin-orbit coupling is an important ingredient in many recently discovered phenomena such as the spin-Hall effect and topological insulators. Of particular interest is topological superconductivity, with its potential application in topological quantum computation. The absence of disorder in ultra-cold atomic systems makes them ideal for quantum computation

F. S. Kitaura

In this work we investigate the multivariate statistical description of the matter distribution in the nonlinear regime. We introduce the multivariate Edgeworth expansion of the lognormal distribution to model the cosmological matter field. Such a technique could be useful to generate and reconstruct three-dimensional nonlinear cosmological density fields wi

Michael Benzke, Seung J. Lee, Matthias Neubert, Gil Paz

We show that in the Standard Model the parametrically leading (by a factor 1/alpha_s) contribution to the inclusive CP asymmetry in B->X_{s,d}+gamma decays arises from a long-distance effect in the interference of the electromagnetic dipole amplitude with the amplitude for an up-quark penguin transition accompanied by soft gluon emission. This contribution i

J. M. Gabor, R. Dave&#39;, B. D. Oppenheimer, K. Finlator

Massive galaxies today typically are not forming stars despite being surrounded by hot gaseous halos with short central cooling times. This likely owes to some form of &#34;quenching feedback&#34; such as merger-driven quasar activity or radio jets emerging from central black holes. Here we implement heuristic prescriptions for these phenomena on-the-fly wit

Alexandre Yale

Hawking radiation is studied for arbitrary scalars, fermions, and spin-1 bosons, using a tunneling approach, to every order in $\hbar$ but ignoring back-reaction effects. It is shown that the additional quantum terms yield no new contribution to the Hawking temperature. Indeed, it is found that the limit of small $\hbar$ in the standard quantum WKB approxima

A. H. W. Kuepper, S. Mieske, P. Kroupa

We investigate the dynamical status of the low-mass globular cluster Palomar 13 by means of N-body computations to test whether its unusually high mass-to-light ratio of about 40 and its peculiarly shallow surface density profile can be caused by tidal shocking. Alternatively, we test - by varying the assumed proper motion - if the orbital phase of Palomar 1

Lijun Zhu, Jian-Xin Zhu

We study the non-local superconducting pairing of two interacting Anderson impurities, which has an instability near the quantum critical point from the competition between the Kondo effect and an antiferromagnetic inter-impurity spin exchange interaction. As revealed by the dynamics over the whole energy range, the superconducting pairing fluctuations acqui

Antonio Feoli, Luigi Mancini

We developed a theoretical model able to give a common origin to the correlations between the mass of supermassive black holes and the mass, velocity dispersion, kinetic energy and momentum parameter of the corresponding host galaxies. Our model is essentially based on the transformation of the angular momentum of the interstellar material, which falls into

Song He, Jen-Chi Lee, Yi Yang

We calculate massive string scattering amplitudes of compactified open string in the Regge regime. We extract the complete infinite ratios among high-energy amplitudes of different string states in the fixed angle regime from these Regge string scattering amplitudes. The complete ratios calculated by this indirect method include and extend the subset of rati

Ioannis Dalianis, Zygmunt Lalak

We discuss the thermal evolution of the spurion and messenger fields of ordinary gauge mediation models taking into account the Standard Model degrees of freedom. It is shown that for thermalized messengers the metastable susy breaking vacuum becomes thermally selected provided that the susy breaking sector is sufficiently weakly coupled to messengers or to

A. Amariti

We study supersymmetry breaking metastable vacua arising from beta deformed quiver gauge theories. The relation between the bounds on metastability and the deformation are discussed. Metastable supersymmetry breaking vacua are found in the IR of beta deformed cascading quivers with vector-like field content. Furthermore the limiting case of massive Nf=Nc SQC

David Kalaj, Marijan Markovic

Concrete sharp constants in a pointwise estimate of the gradient of a harmonic function in the unit disk are obtained under the assumption that function belong to Hardy space $h^p$, $p\ge 1$. This generalizes some recent result of Maz&#39;ya & Kresin and a result of Colonna related to the Bloch constant of harmonic mappings of the unit disk into itself.

Nero Budur

This brief survey of some singularity invariants related to Milnor fibers should serve as a quick guide to references. We attempt to place things into a wide geometric context while leaving technicalities aside. We focus on relations among different invariants and on the practical aspect of computing them.

Miloš Arsenović, Vesna Manojlović, Matti Vuorinen

We prove that for harmonic quasiconformal mappings $α$-Hölder continuity on the boundary implies $α$-Hölder continuity of the map itself. Our result holds for the class of uniformly perfect bounded domains, in fact we can allow that a portion of the boundary is thin in the sense of capacity. The problem for general bounded domains remains open.

Leo C. Stein, Nicolas Yunes

The inspiral of binary systems in vacuum is controlled by the stress-energy of gravitational radiation and any other propagating degrees of freedom. For gravitational waves, the dominant contribution is characterized by an effective stress-energy tensor at future null infinity. We employ perturbation theory and the short-wavelength approximation to compute t

O. A. Gelfond, M. A. Vasiliev

Interactions of massless fields of all spins in four dimensions with currents of any spin is shown to result from a solution of the linear problem that describes a gluing between rank-one (massless) system and rank-two (current) system in the unfolded dynamics approach. Since the rank-two system is dual to a free rank-one higher-dimensional system, that effe

Zhi-Wei Sun

In this paper we mainly employ the Zeilberger algorithm to study congruences for sums of terms involving products of three binomial coefficients. Let $p>3$ be a prime. We prove that $$\sum_{k=0}^{p-1}\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{2k}{k+d}}{64^k}\equiv 0\pmod{p^2}$$ for all $d\in\{0,\ldots,p-1\}$ with $d\equiv (p+1)/2\pmod2$. If $p\equiv 1\pmod4$ and $p=x^2+y^2$

T. Aaltonen et al.

We report on a measurement of $b$-hadron lifetimes in the fully reconstructed decay modes B^+ -->J/Psi K+, B^0 --> J/Psi K*, B^0 --> J/Psi Ks, and Lambda_b --> J/Psi Lambda using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$, collected by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The measured lifetimes are $τ$B^+ = $1.639 \pm 0.00

N. V. De Carvalho, S. T. Pinho, P. Robinson

A theoretical framework is developped leading to a sound derivation of Periodic Boundary Conditions (PBCs) for the analysis of domains smaller then the Unit Cells (UCs), named reduced Unit Cells (rUCs), by exploiting non-orthogonal translations and symmetries. A particular type of UCs, Offset-reduced Unit Cells (OrUCs) are highlighted. These enable the reduc

I. Assani, K. Presser

This paper is an update and extension of a result the authors first proved in 2003. The goal of this paper is to study factors which are known to be L^2-characteristic for certain nonconventional averages and prove that these factors are pointwise characteristic for the multidimensional return times averages.

Vladimir Braverman, Ran Gelles, Rafail Ostrovsky

Finding heavy-elements (heavy-hitters) in streaming data is one of the central, and well-understood tasks. Despite the importance of this problem, when considering the sliding windows model of streaming (where elements eventually expire) the problem of finding L_2-heavy elements has remained completely open despite multiple papers and considerable success in

T. Champel, S. Florens, M. E. Raikh

Motivated by recent high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments in the quantum Hall regime both on massive two-dimensional electron gas and on graphene, we consider theoretically the disorder averaged nonlocal correlations of the local density of states (LDoS) for electrons moving in a smooth disordered potential in the presence of a high

Jacob Fox, Choongbum Lee, Benny Sudakov

An old problem of Moser asks: how large of a union-free subfamily does every family of m sets have? A family of sets is called union-free if there are no three distinct sets in the family such that the union of two of the sets is equal to the third set. We show that every family of m sets contains a union-free subfamily of size at least \lfloor \sqrt{4m+1}\r

Ernest Barreto, John R. Cressman

We describe a simple conductance-based model neuron that includes intra- and extra-cellular ion concentration dynamics and show that this model exhibits periodic bursting. The bursting arises as the fast spiking behavior of the neuron is modulated by the slow oscillatory behavior in the ion concentration variables, and vice versa. By separating these time sc

K. Laiho, A. Christ, K. N. Cassemiro, C. Silberhorn

We experimentally investigate the mode characteristics of multimode radiation fields propagating through frequency dependent Gaussian channels. After manipulating the twin beams emitted from a conventional parametric down-conversion source via spectral filtering, we study the changes in their mode characteristics, utilizing the joint normalized correlation f

Dag Østvang

The gravitational field of an isolated, axisymmetric flat disk of spinning dust is calculated approximately in the weak-field limit of quasi-metric gravity. Boundary conditions single out the exponential disk as a "preferred" physical surface density profile. Besides, collective properties of the disk, in the form of an extra "associated induced" surface den

H. Li, R. T. Clay, S. Mazumdar

A natural explanation for the carrier concentration-dependent electronic behavior in the layered cobaltates emerges within correlated-electron Hamiltonians with finite on-site and significant nearest neighbor hole-hole Coulomb repulsions. The nearest neighbor repulsion decreases hole double-occupancy below hole density 1/3, but increases the same at higher h

Cy Maor

In the repeated Prisoner&#39;s Dilemma, when every player has a different discount factor, the grim-trigger strategy is an equilibrium if and only if the discount factor of each player is higher than some threshold. What happens if the players have incomplete information regarding the discount factors? In this work we look at repeated games in which each pla

G. A. Mamon, S. Mahajan, S. Raychaudhury

Using H_delta and D_n4000 as tracers of recent or ongoing efficient star formation, we analyze the fraction of SDSS galaxies with recent or ongoing efficient star formation (GORES) in the vicinity of 268 clusters. We confirm the well-known segregation of star formation, and using Abel deprojection, we find that the fraction of GORES increases linearly with p

Anton Alekseev, Andrei Bytsko, Konstantin Izyurov

We consider the boundary WZW model on a half-plane with a cut growing according to the Schramm-Loewner stochastic evolution and the boundary fields inserted at the tip of the cut and at infinity. We study necessary and sufficient conditions for boundary correlation functions to be SLE martingales. Necessary conditions come from the requirement for the bounda

Kenji Morita, Su Houng Lee

We investigate mass shifts of charmonia driven by change of the gluon condensate below but near transition temperatures at finite baryonic chemical potential. Extending previous prescription on the relation between gluon condensates and thermodynamic quantities, we model the gluon condensates of hadronic matter at finite temperature and baryonic chemical pot

R. Nandakumar

What is the shape of the 2D convex region P from which, when 2 mutually congruent convex pieces with maximum possible area are cut out, the highest fraction of the area of P is left over? When P is restricted to the set of all possible triangular shapes, our computational search yields an approximate upper bound of 5.6% on the area wasted when any triangle i