December 2010 arXiv papers — page 51

David A. Wake, Katherine E. Whitaker, Ivo Labbé, Pieter G. van Dokkum

We present an analysis of the clustering of galaxies as a function of their stellar mass at 1 < z < 2 using data from the NEWFIRM Medium Band Survey (NMBS). The precise photometric redshifts and stellar masses that the NMBS produces allows us to define a series of mass limited samples of galaxies more massive than 0.7, 1 and 3x10^10 Msun in redshift interval

Brando Bellazzini, Csaba Csáki, Jay Hubisz, Jing Shao

The Higgs boson may dominantly decay to 4 light jets through a light pseudo-scalar intermediary: h -> 2 eta -> 4j, making reconstruction at the LHC particularly challenging. We explore the phenomenology of such &#34;Buried Higgs&#34; scenarios in which the primary discovery channel of the Higgs is in cascade decays of superpartners. QCD backgrounds that woul

V. A. Alba, V. A. Fateev, A. V. Litvinov, G. M. Tarnopolsky

In their recent paper \cite{Alday:2009aq} Alday, Gaiotto and Tachikawa proposed a relation between $\mathcal{N}=2$ four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories and two-dimensional conformal field theories. As part of their conjecture they gave an explicit combinatorial formula for the expansion of the conformal blocks inspired from the exact form of instan

Vyacheslav Krushkal, David Renardy

The Tutte polynomial is a classical invariant, important in combinatorics and statistical mechanics. An essential feature of the Tutte polynomial is the duality for planar graphs G, $T_G(X,Y)\; =\; {T}_{G^*}(Y,X)$ where $G^*$ denotes the dual graph. We examine this property from the perspective of manifold topology, formulating polynomial invariants for high

Sandro Mattarei, Roberto Tauraso

We prove congruences, modulo a power of a prime p, for certain finite sums involving central binomial coefficients $\binom{2k}{k}$.

Adam Moss, Douglas Scott, James P. Zibin

In a recent paper, Gurzadyan & Penrose claim to have found directions on the sky centred on which are circles of anomalously low variance in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These features are presented as evidence for a particular picture of the very early Universe. We attempted to repeat the analysis of these authors, and we can indeed confirm that s

Dan Edidin, Yogesh More

We define Reichstein transforms to be certain birational transformations of Artin stacks with good moduli spaces. Our main technical result is that the Reichstein transform of an Artin toric stack is again an Artin toric stack. This leads to our main theorem which states that for Artin toric stacks there is a canonical sequence of Reichstein transforms which

Jian-Hua Jiang, Si Wu

We study spin susceptibility and magnetic order at the edges/surfaces of two-dimensional and three-dimensional topological insulators when the Fermi surface is nested. We find that due to spin-momentum locking as well as time-reversal symmetry, spin susceptibility at the nesting wavevector has a strong {\em helical} feature. It follows then, a {\em helical}

Joseph D. Paulsen, Justin C. Burton, Sidney R. Nagel

Using an electrical method and high-speed imaging we probe drop coalescence down to 10 ns after the drops touch. By varying the liquid viscosity over two decades, we conclude that at sufficiently low approach velocity where deformation is not present, the drops coalesce with an unexpectedly late crossover time between a regime dominated by viscous and one do

Alexandre Belloni, Victor Chernozhukov, Christian Hansen

In this note, we propose to use sparse methods (e.g. LASSO, Post-LASSO, sqrt-LASSO, and Post-sqrt-LASSO) to form first-stage predictions and estimate optimal instruments in linear instrumental variables (IV) models with many instruments in the canonical Gaussian case. The methods apply even when the number of instruments is much larger than the sample size.

A. Gayler Harford, Andrew J. S. Hamilton

Using a cosmological simulation at redshift 5, we find that the baryon-rich cores of intergalactic filaments extending outward from galaxies commonly form isothermal gas cylinders in regions favorable to their formation. The central gas density is typically about 500 times the cosmic mean total density, and the temperature is typically 1-2 times 10^4 K, just

Raoul Gatto, Marco Ruggieri

We perform a model study of deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration in a strong magnetic background. We use a Nambu-Jona Lasinio model with the Polyakov loop, taking into account a possible dependence of the coupling on the Polyakov loop expectation value, as suggested by the recent literature. Our main result is that, within this model, the deconfinem

Frauke M. Bleher, Ted Chinburg, Bart de Smit

Let $\mathcal{W}$ be a complete local commutative Noetherian ring with residue field $k$ of positive characteristic $p$. We study the inverse problem for the versal deformation rings $R_{\mathcal{W}}(Γ,V)$ relative to $\mathcal{W}$ of finite dimensional representations $V$ of a profinite group $Γ$ over $k$. We show that for all $p$ and $n \ge 1$, the ring $\

Dohan Kim

This paper presents a novel approach to representing task assignments for partitioned agents (respectively, tasks) in distributed systems. A partition of agents (respectively, tasks) is represented by a Young tableau, which is one of the main tools in studying symmetric groups and combinatorics. In this paper we propose a task, agent, and assignment tableau

Tom P. Purdy, Nathan Brahms, Daniel W. C. Brooks, Thierry Botter

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful technique for investigating the microscopic properties and dynamics of physical systems. In this work we demonstrate state-sensitive MRI of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Single-shot spatial resolution is 120 nm, well below the lattice spacing, and number sensitivity is +/-2.4 for 150 atoms on a single s

Moti Fridman, Rami Pugatch, Micha Nixon, Asher A. Friesem

We determined the probability distribution of the combined output power from twenty five coupled fiber lasers and show that it agrees well with the Tracy-Widom, Majumdar-Vergassola and Vivo-Majumdar-Bohigas distributions of the largest eigenvalue of Wishart random matrices with no fitting parameters. This was achieved with $500,000$ measurements of the combi

Daniel K. Brattan, Simon A. Gentle

We compute numerically the full retarded Green&#39;s functions for conserved currents in the shear channel of a (2+1)-dimensional field theory at non-zero temperature and density. This theory is assumed to be holographically dual to a non-extremal, electric Reissner-Nordstr\om AdS4 black hole with planar horizon. Using the holographic description we obtain r

Will Grilliette

In this work, I develop a new view of presentation theory for C*-algebras, both unital and non-unital, heavily grounded in classical notions from algebra. In particular, I introduce Tietze transformations for these presentations, which lead to a transformation theorem analogous to Tietze&#39;s 1908 result in group theory.

James G. Keehn, Cecilia Lunardini

We discuss the diffuse flux of electron neutrinos and antineutrinos from cosmological failed supernovae, stars that collapse directly into a black hole, with no explosion. This flux has a hotter energy spectrum compared to regular, neutron-star forming collapses, and therefore it dominates the total diffuse flux from core collapses above 20-45 MeV of neutrin

Luca Fabbri, Stefano Vignolo

We study f(R)-gravity with torsion in presence of Dirac massive fields. Using the Bianchi identities, we formulate the conservation laws of the theory and we check the consistency with the matter field equations. Further, we decompose the field equations in torsionless and torsional terms: we show that the non-linearity of the gravitational Lagrangian reduce

Jan Kurzidim, Daniele Coslovich, Gerhard Kahl

Using numerical simulations we study the slow dynamics of a colloidal hard-sphere fluid adsorbed in a matrix of disordered hard-sphere obstacles. We calculate separately the contributions to the single-particle dynamic correlation functions due to free and trapped particles. The separation is based on a Delaunay tessellation to partition the space accessible

Markus Spitzweck

We give an interpretation of J-spaces in terms of symmetric spectra in symmetric sequences. As application we show how one can define graded endomorphism objects in a general situation. As example we discuss the motivic bigraded endomorphisms of a motivic E-infinity ring spectrum. Finally we give an infinity categorical interpretation of our result.

Thomas Lam

These are notes for my talk at ICCM 2010, Beijing. We survey some results, obtained jointly with Pavlo Pylyavskyy, concerning the ring of loop symmetric functions. Motivations from networks on surfaces, total positivity, crystal graphs, and discrete integrable systems are discussed.

Predrag Janicic

There are a huge number of problems, from various areas, being solved by reducing them to SAT. However, for many applications, translation into SAT is performed by specialized, problem-specific tools. In this paper we describe a new system for uniform solving of a wide class of problems by reducing them to SAT. The system uses a new specification language UR

M. Caselle, M. Zago

We propose a new approach to the study of the interquark potential in Lattice Gauge Theories. Instead of looking at the expectation value of Polyakov loop correlators we study the modifications induced in the chromoelectric flux by the presence of the Polyakov loops. In abelian LGTs, thanks to duality, this study can be performed in a very efficient way, all

Yuri Khodorkovsky, Kenta Kitano, Hirokazu Hasegawa, Yasuhiro Ohshima

Recently, it was predicted theoretically and verified experimentally that a pair of delayed and cross-polarized short laser pulses can create molecular ensembles with a well defined sense of rotation (clockwise or counterclockwise). Here we provide a comparative study of the classical and quantum aspects of the underlying mechanism for linear molecules and f

Mikhail V. Dolgopolov, Alexander P. Zubarev

In this paper we consider a generalization of analysis on $p$-adic numbers field to the $m$ case of $m$-adic numbers ring. The basic statements, theorems and formulas of $p$-adic analysis can be used for the case of $m$-adic analysis without changing. We discuss basic properties of $m$-adic numbers and consider some properties of $m$-adic integration and $m$

Kevork N. Abazajian, Steve Blanchet, J. Patrick Harding

We examine the constraints on the luminosity-dependent density evolution model for the evolution of blazars given the observed spectrum of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB), blazar source-count distribution, and the blazar spectral energy distribution sequence model, which relates the observed the blazar spectrum to its luminosity. We show that the DGR

P. Pastor

The orbital evolution of a dust particle under the action of a fast interstellar gas flow is investigated. The secular time derivatives of Keplerian orbital elements and the radial, transversal, and normal components of the gas flow velocity vector at the pericentre of the particle&#39;s orbit are derived. The secular time derivatives of the semi-major axis,

Gianluca Calcagni

Despite their diversity, many of the most prominent candidate theories of quantum gravity share the property to be effectively lower-dimensional at small scales. In particular, dimension two plays a fundamental role in the finiteness of these models of Nature. Thus motivated, we entertain the idea that spacetime is a multifractal with integer dimension 4 at

Prasad Chebolu, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Russell Martin

We investigate the complexity of approximately counting stable roommate assignments in two models: (i) the $k$-attribute model, in which the preference lists are determined by dot products of &#34;preference vectors&#34; with &#34;attribute vectors&#34; and (ii) the $k$-Euclidean model, in which the preference lists are determined by the closeness of the &#3

Martin Hairer, Hendrik Weber

We construct solutions to Burgers type equations perturbed by a multiplicative space-time white noise in one space dimension. Due to the roughness of the driving noise, solutions are not regular enough to be amenable to classical methods. We use the theory of controlled rough paths to give a meaning to the spatial integrals involved in the definition of a we

Christian Recher, Mario Kieburg, Thomas Guhr, Martin R. Zirnbauer

We calculate the `one-point function&#39;, meaning the marginal probability density function for any single eigenvalue, of real and complex Wishart correlation matrices. No explicit expression had been obtained for the real case so far. We succeed in doing so by using supersymmetry techniques to express the one-point function of real Wishart correlation matr

C. F. C. Brandt, R. Chan, M. F. A. da Silva, P. Rocha

We consider a gravastar model made of anisotropic dark energy with an infinitely thin spherical shell of a perfect fluid with the equation of state $p = (1-γ)σ$ with an external de Sitter-Schwarzschild region. It is found that in some cases the models represent the &#34;bounded excursion&#34; stable gravastars, where the thin shell is oscillating between two

Ajit A. Diwan, Josh B. Frye, Michael J. Plantholt, Shailesh K. Tipnis

Let D be a directed graph with vertex set V and order n. An anti-directed hamiltonian cycle H in D is a hamiltonian cycle in the graph underlying D such that no pair of consecutive arcs in H form a directed path in D. An anti-directed 2-factor in D is a vertex-disjoint collection of anti-directed cycles in D that span V. It was proved in [3] that if the inde

Niko Jokela, Gilad Lifschytz, Matthew Lippert

We compute the neutral bosonic excitation spectra of the holographic quantum Hall fluid described by the D3-D7&#39; system. We find that the system is stable, gapped, and, in a range of parameters, exhibits a spectrum of low-lying excitations very similar to that of a quantum Hall fluid, including a magneto-roton excitation.

A. Zabrodin

Intertwining operators for infinite-dimensional representations of the Sklyanin algebra with spins l and -l-1 are constructed using the technique of intertwining vectors for elliptic L-operator. They are expressed in terms of elliptic hypergeometric series with operator argument. The intertwining operators obtained (W-operators) serve as building blocks for

L. Ya. Glozman

The possibility for existence of cold, dense chirally symmetric matter with confinement is reviewed. The answer to this question crucially depends on the mechanism of mass generation in QCD and interconnection of confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. This question can be clarified from spectroscopy of hadrons and their axial properties. Almost systematic

R. S. Schnerr, J. de la Cruz Rodriguez, M. van Noort

context: The combination of image restoration and a Fabry-Pérot interferometer (FPI) based instrument in solar observations results in specific calibration issues. FPIs generally show variations over the field-of-view, while in the image restoration process, the 1-to-1 relation between pixel space and image space is lost, thus complicating any correcting for

Mauro Orlandini, Filippo Frontera, Nicola Masetti, Vito Sguera

The transient 500 s X-ray pulsar MAXI J1409-619 was discovered by the slit cameras aboard MAXI on October 17, 2010, and soon after accurately localized by Swift. We found that the source position was serendipitously observed in 2000 during BeppoSAX observations of the Galactic plane. Two sources are clearly detected in the MECS: one is consistent with the po

Chih-Wei Chen

A lower-bound estimate of injectivity radius for complete Riemannian manifolds is discussed in a pure geometric viewpoint and is applied to study tangent cones at infinity of certain gradient Ricci solitons. We also study the asymptotic volume ratio of gradient Ricci solitons.

Peter Janotta, Christian Gogolin, Jonathan Barrett, Nicolas Brunner

The outcomes of measurements on entangled quantum systems can be nonlocally correlated. However, while it is easy to write down toy theories allowing arbitrary nonlocal correlations, those allowed in quantum mechanics are limited. Quantum correlations cannot, for example, violate a principle known as macroscopic locality, which implies that they cannot viola

J. Berges, S. Roth

We propose a quantum approach to nonequilibrium dynamics which combines the successful aspects of classical-statistical simulations on a lattice with the ability to take into account quantum corrections. It is based on the 2PI effective action for inhomogeneous fields and a volume average. This procedure does not involve any double counting which could appea

Moti Fridman, Haim Suchowski, Micha Nixon, Asher A. Friesem

The dynamics of modes and their states of polarizations in multimode fibers as a function of time, space, and wavelength are experimentally and theoretically investigated. The results reveal that the states of polarizations are displaced in Poincare sphere representation when varying the angular orientations of the polarization at the incident light. Such di

Humberto Belich, Dimo I. Uzunov

The scaling properties of the free energy, the diamagnetic moment, and the diamagnetic susceptibility above the phase transition from the ferromagnetic phase to the phase of coexistence of ferromagnetic order and superconductivity in unconventional ferromagnetic superconductors with spin-triplet (p-wave) electron paring are considered. The crossover from wea

M. I. Krivoruchenko, Fedor Simkovic, Dieter Frekers, Amand Faessler

The process of neutrinoless double electron capture ($0ν$ECEC) is revisited for those cases where the two participating atoms are nearly degenerate in mass. The theoretical framework is the formalism of an oscillation of two atoms with different total lepton number (and parity), one of which can be in an excited state so that mass degeneracy is realized. In

Yogesh N. Joglekar, William A. Karr

We investigate the level-density $σ(x)$ and level-spacing distribution $p(s)$ of random matrices $M=AF\neq M^{\dagger}$ where $F$ is a (diagonal) inner-product and $A$ is a random, real symmetric or complex Hermitian matrix with independent entries drawn from a probability distribution $q(x)$ with zero mean and finite higher moments. Although not Hermitian,

Ulrich Ellwanger

In the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, CP-even Higgs bosons can have masses in the range of 80-110 GeV in agreement with constraints from LEP due to their sizeable singlet component. Nevertheless their branching ratio into two photons can be 10 times larger than the one of a Standard Model Higgs boson of similar mass due to a reduced coupling

Olivier Izacard, Natalia Tronko, Cristel Chandre, Guido Ciraolo

We consider the radial transport of test particles due to the ExB drift motion in the guiding center approximation. Using an explicit expression to modify the electrostatic potential, we show that it is possible to construct a transport barrier which suppresses radial transport. We propose an algorithm for the implementation of this local modification comput

Yongbin Li

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Peter Wolf, Luc Blanchet, Christian J. Bordé, Serge Reynaud

Atom interferometers allow the measurement of the acceleration of freely falling atoms with respect to an experimental platform at rest on Earth&#39;s surface. Such experiments have been used to test the universality of free fall by comparing the acceleration of the atoms to that of a classical freely falling object. In a recent paper, Müller, Peters and Chu

P. B. Kronheimer, T. S. Mrowka, Daniel Ruberman

We show that instanton knot homology is mutation-invariant, as a consequence of earlier work of the third author.

Yu Zhi-Ming, Wang Qing-Wei, Liu Yu-Liang

In this paper, we present the rigorous expression of the ground state energy and study the phase transition of the three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas by the eigenfunctional theory. The ground state energy is decided completely by the pair distribution function $ g(r)$, which is, by definition, strictly a positive function. But when the density decrea

Mikhail Borovoi

Let X be a homogeneous space of a quasi-trivial k-group G, with geometric stabilizer H, over a number field k. We prove that under certain conditions on the character group of H, certain algebraic Brauer-Manin obstructions to the Hasse principle and weak approximation vanish, because the abelian groups where they take values vanish. When H is connected or ab

C. Ataca, S. Ciraci

Based on first-principles calculations we predict a peculiar growth process, where carbon adatoms adsorbed to graphene readily diffuse above room temperature and nucleate segments of linear carbon chains attached to graphene. These chains grow longer on graphene through insertion of carbon atoms one at a time from the bottom end and display a self-assembling

T. Stavreva, I. Schienbein, F. Arleo, K. Kovarik

We present a detailed phenomenological study of direct photon production in association with a heavy-quark jet in pA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at next-to-leading order in QCD. The dominant contribution to the cross-section comes from the gluon--heavy-quark (gQ) initiated subprocess, making

Joschka Beyer, Sami Nurmi, Christof Wetterich

Cosmological runaway solutions may exhibit an exact dilatation symmetry in the asymptotic limit of infinite time. In this limit, the massless dilaton or cosmon could be accompanied by another massless scalar field - the geon. At finite time, small time-dependent masses for both the cosmon and geon are still present due to imperfect dilatation symmetry. For a

Gilda Ferreira, Paulo Oliva

We present three different functional interpretations of intuitionistic linear logic ILL and show how these correspond to well-known functional interpretations of intuitionistic logic IL via embeddings of IL into ILL. The main difference from previous work of the second author is that in intuitionistic linear logic (as opposed to classical linear logic) the

Alessandro Speranza, Luigi Barletti, Luca Meacci, Stefano Fanfani

In this paper we analyze the problem of glow discharge in low pressure plasma in industrial plant, for chambers of different shapes and various working parameters, like pressure and electric potential. The model described is based upon a static approximation of the AC configuration with two electrodes and a drift diffusion approximation for the current densi

Thierry Forveille, Xavier Bonfils, Gaspare Lo Curto, Xavier Delfosse

Fewer giants planets are found around M dwarfs than around more massive stars, and this dependence of planetary characteristics on the mass of the central star is an important observational diagnostic of planetary formation theories. In part to improve on those statistics, we are monitoring the radial velocities of nearby M dwarfs with the HARPS spectrograph

Qiang Zhao

We show that the newly measured branching ratios of vector charmonia ($J/ψ$, $ψ^\prime$ and $ψ(3770))$ into $γP$, where $P$ stands for light pseudoscalar mesons $π^0$, $η$, and $η^\prime$, can be well understood in the framework of vector meson dominance (VMD) in association with the $η_c$-$η(η^\prime)$ mixings due to the axial gluonic anomaly. These two mec

Bradley Efron

Familiar statistical tests and estimates are obtained by the direct observation of cases of interest: a clinical trial of a new drug, for instance, will compare the drug&#39;s effects on a relevant set of patients and controls. Sometimes, though, indirect evidence may be temptingly available, perhaps the results of previous trials on closely related drugs. V

Yan Guo, Robert M. Strain

In the study of solutions to the relativistic Boltzmann equation, their regularity with respect to the momentum variables has been an outstanding question, even local in time, due to the initially unexpected growth in the post-collisional momentum variables which was discovered in 1991 by Glassey & Strauss \cite{MR1105532}. We establish momentum regularity w

M. Correggi, F. Pinsker, N. Rougerie, J. Yngvason

We study the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii theory of a rotating Bose gas in a disc-shaped trap with Dirichlet boundary conditions, generalizing and extending previous results that were obtained under Neumann boundary conditions. The focus is on the energy asymptotics, vorticity and qualitative properties of the minimizers in the parameter range $|\log\eps

T. -Y. Yang, J. Balakrishnan, F. Volmer, A. Avsar

We report on the first systematic study of spin transport in bilayer graphene (BLG) as a function of mobility, minimum conductivity, charge density and temperature. The spin relaxation time $τ_s$ scales inversely with the mobility $μ$ of BLG samples both at room temperature and at low temperature. This indicates the importance of D&#39;yakonov - Perel&#39; s

L. Wyrzykowski, S. Kozlowski, J. Skowron, A. Udalski

In the third part of the series presenting the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) microlensing studies of the dark matter halo compact objects (MACHOs) we describe results of the OGLE-III monitoring of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This unprecedented data set contains almost continuous photometric coverage over 8 years of about 35 million ob

Toshiyuki Tanisaki

By taking the quasi-classical limit of the ring of differential operators on a quantized algebraic group at roots of 1 we obtain a certain Poisson manifold. We show that this Poisson structure coincides with the one introduced by Semenov-Tyan-Shansky geometrically in the framework of Manin triples.

Takashi Nakamura

In this paper, we give a simple proof of the functional relation for the Lerch type Tornheim double zeta function. By using it, we obtain simple proofs of some explicit evaluation formulas for double $L$-values.

T. Grassi, P. Krstic, E. Merlin, U. Buonomo

We present ROBO, a model and its companion code for the study of the interstellar medium (ISM). The aim is to provide an accurate description of the physical evolution of the ISM and to set the ground for an ancillary tool to be inserted in NBody-Tree-SPH (NB-TSPH) simulations of large scale structures in cosmological context or of the formation and evolutio

Francesco Knechtli, Björn Leder

We report on the measurement of the static potential and the scale r_0 from HYP-smeared Wilson loops in two flavour QCD. We analyse the quark mass dependence of the potential and r_0 at three lattice spacings. We also compare the QCD static potential around distance r_0 with the static potential obtained from potential models.

A. P. Misra, P. K. Shukla

We consider the nonlinear propagation of electrostatic wave packets in an ultra-relativistic (UR) degenerate dense electron-ion plasma, whose dynamics is governed by the nonlocal two-dimensional nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger-like equations. The coupled set of equations are then used to study the modulational instability (MI) of a uniform wave train to an infinites

L. Marseglia, J. P. Hadden, A. C. Stanley-Clarke, J. P. Harrison

We describe a technique for fabricating micro- and nano-structures incorporating fluorescent defects in diamond with a positional accuracy in the hundreds of nanometers. Using confocal fluorescence microscopy and focused ion beam (FIB) etching we first locate a suitable defect with respect to registration marks on the diamond surface and then etch a structur

Jin Young Kim, Taekoon Lee

The nonlinear Euler-Heisenberg interaction bends light toward an electric charge. The bending angle and trajectory of light in a Coulombic field are computed in geometric optics.

Nikos Frantzikinakis, Emmanuel Lesigne, Mate Wierdl

We prove pointwise convergence, as $N\to \infty$, for the multiple ergodic averages $\frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=1}^N f(T^nx)\cdot g(S^{a_n}x)$, where $T$ and $S$ are commuting measure preserving transformations, and $a_n$ is a random version of the sequence $[n^c]$ for some appropriate $c>1$. We also prove similar mean convergence results for averages of the form $\

Dariusz Chruściński, Justyna Pytel

We provide a generalization of the reduction and Robertson positive maps in matrix algebras. They give rise to a new class of optimal entanglement witnesses. Their structural physical approximation is analyzed. As a byproduct we provide a new examples of PPT (Positive Partial Transpose) entangled states.

Marco G. Genoni, Stefano Olivares, Matteo G. A. Paris

The measurement problem for the optical phase has been traditionally attacked for noiseless schemes or in the presence of amplitude or detection noise. Here we address estimation of phase in the presence of phase diffusion and evaluate the ultimate quantum limits to precision for phase-shifted Gaussian states. We look for the optimal detection scheme and der

Filippo D'Ammando

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibit variability across the entire electromagnetic spectrum with distinct flaring episodes at different frequencies. The high sensitivity and nearly uniform sky coverage of the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite make it a powerful tool for monitoring a large number of AGNs over long timescales. This allowed us

Erik Gerwick

Asymptotic safety offers a field theory based UV completion to gravity. For low Planck scales, gravitational effects on low-energy precision observables cannot be neglected. We compute the contribution to the rho parameter from asymptotically safe gravitons and find that in contrast to effective theory, constraints on models with more than three extra dimens

The BESIII Collaboration

The Dalitz plot of $η^{\prime} \to ηπ^+ π^-$ decay is studied using $(225.2\pm2.8)\times 10^6$ $\jpsi$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII $e^+e^-$ collider. With the largest sample of $η^{\prime}$ decays to date, the parameters of the Dalitz plot are determined in a generalized and a linear representation. Also the branching fraction of

Søren Toxvaerd, Jeppe C. Dyre

Simulations involving the Lennard-Jones potential usually employ a cut-off at $r=2.5σ$. This paper investigates the possibility of reducing the cut-off. Two different cut-off implementations are compared, the standard shifted potential cut-off and the less commonly used shifted forces cut-off. The first has correct forces below the cut-off, whereas the shift

G. J. Gounaris, J. Layssac, F. M. Renard

According to the helicity conservation (HCns) theorem, the sum of the helicities should be conserved, in any 2-to-2 processes in MSSM with R-parity conservation, at high energies; i.e. all amplitudes violating this rule, must vanish asymptotically. The realization of HCns in gluon-fusion to charginos or neutralinos is studied, at the one loop electroweak ord

Shin Hattori

Let p>2 be a rational prime and K/Q_p be an extension of complete discrete valuation fields. Let G be a truncated Barsotti-Tate group of level n, height h and dimension d over O_K with 0<d<h. In this paper, we show that an upper ramification subgroup G^j+ is free of rank d over Z/p^nZ if the Hasse invariant of G is less than 1/(2p^(n-1)). We also prove the u

A. Conte, M. De Petris, B. Comis, L. Lamagna

The Sunyaev Zel&#39;dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters is one of the most powerful cosmological tools for investigating the large-scale Universe. The big advantage of the SZ effect is its redshift independence, which is not the case for visible and X-ray observations. It allows us to directly estimate the cluster&#39;s total mass from the integrated com

H. J. Herrera-Suarez, A. Rubio-Ponce, D. Olguin

As a second part of a previous paper, here the calculated electronic band structure of ideal Pt(100) and Pt(110) surfaces, studied using density functional theory and the empirical tight-binding method, is presented. A detailed discussion of the surface- and resonance--states is given. It is shown that the calculated surface- and resonance--states of ideal P

Stevan Pilipović, Dimitris Scarpalezos, Jasson Vindas

We introduce and analyze spaces and algebras of generalized functions which correspond to H\&#34; older, Zygmund, and Sobolev spaces of functions. The main scope of the paper is the characterization of the regularity of distributions that are embedded into the corresponding space or algebra of generalized functions with finite type regularities.

Harald Jeschke, Ingo Opahle, Hem Kandpal, Roser Valentí

The natural mineral azurite Cu$_3$(CO$_3$)$_2$(OH)$_2$ is a frustrated magnet displaying unusual and controversially discussed magnetic behavior. Motivated by the lack of a unified description for this system, we perform a theoretical study based on density functional theory as well as state-of-the-art numerical many-body calculations. We propose an effectiv

Michael McCoy, Joel Tropp

The performance of principal component analysis (PCA) suffers badly in the presence of outliers. This paper proposes two novel approaches for robust PCA based on semidefinite programming. The first method, maximum mean absolute deviation rounding (MDR), seeks directions of large spread in the data while damping the effect of outliers. The second method produ

W-Y. Pauchy Hwang

Even though neutrinos and antineutrinos are everywhere in the Universe, their critical importance might be overlooked, especially because that at least one species of neutrinos has the mass 0.058 eV, far larger than the cosmic thermalization temperature 1.9^\circ K. The non-zero mass makes neutrinos participate the galaxy formation from the very beginning, i

Jin-Wu Jiang, Jian-Sheng Wang, Baowen Li

The phonon and electron transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are investigated using the nonequilibrium Green&#39;s function approach. In zigzag SWCNT ($n$, 0) with $mod(n,3)\not=0$, the thermal conductance is mainly attributed to the phonon transport, while the electron only has few percentage contribution. The maximum value of the figure of m

Maresuke Shiraishi, Daisuke Nitta, Shuichiro Yokoyama, Kiyotomo Ichiki

We present an all-sky formalism for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) bispectrum induced by the primordial non-Gaussianities not only in scalar but also in vector and tensor fluctuations. We find that the bispectrum can be formed in an explicitly rationally invariant way by taking into account the angular and polarization dependences of the vector and te

Y. P. Song, B. Golding

Dielectric constant and absorption measurements on boron doped silicon samples show that transitions between the acceptor energy levels can be induced by an applied resonant ac electric field and the Stark tuning of level spacing with an external DC electric field. The relatively longer decoherence times were observed by the electric echo measurement in a lo

Takeshi Fukuyama, Kozo Koizumi

We discuss the Nakamura&#39;s conjecture stating that the Tomimatsu-Sato black hole solution with integer deformation parameter $n$ is composed of the special solutions of the Toda molecule equation at the $n$-th lattice site. From the previous work, in which the conjecture was partly analytically proved, we go further towards final full proof by rearranging

Andrei V. Zotov

We study 1+1 field-generalizations of the rational and elliptic Gaudin models. For ${\rm sl}(N)$ case we introduce equations of motion and L-A pair with spectral parameter on the Riemann sphere and elliptic curve. In ${\rm sl}(2)$ case we study the equations in detail and find the corresponding Hamiltonian densities. The $n$-site model describes $n$ interact

Claire Christensen, Golnoosh Bizhani, Seung-Woo Son, Maya Paczuski

We study a process termed &#34;agglomerative percolation&#34; (AP) in two dimensions. Instead of adding sites or bonds at random, in AP randomly chosen clusters are linked to all their neighbors. As a result the growth process involves a diverging length scale near a critical point. Picking target clusters with probability proportional to their mass leads to

Thang H. Le, Nguyen D. Do

In an interlaboratory key comparison, a data analysis procedure for this comparison was proposed and recommended by CIPM [1, 2, 3], therein the degrees of equivalence of measurement standards of the laboratories participated in the comparison and the ones between each two laboratories were introduced but a corresponding clear and plausible measurement model

Robert B. Howlett, Van M. Nguyen

We introduce a concept of a W-graph ideal in a Coxeter group. The main goal of this paper is to describe how to construct a W-graph from a given W-graph ideal. The principal application of this idea is in type A, where it provides an algorithm for the construction of W-graphs for Specht modules.

Yung-Ning Peng

Associated to a composition of M and a composition of N, a new presentation of the super Yangian of the general linear Lie superalgebra $Y(gl_{M|N})$ is obtained.

Anna Benini, Achille Frigeri, Fiorenza Morini

Let $(N,Φ)$ be a circular Ferrero pair. We define the disk with center $b$ and radius $a$, $\mathcal{D}(a;b)$, as \[\mathcal{D}(a;b)=\{x\in Φ(r)+c\mid r\neq 0,\ b\in Φ(r)+c,\ |(Φ(r)+c)\cap (Φ(a)+b)|=1\}.\] We prove that in the field-generated case there are many analogies with the Euclidean geometry. Moreover, if $\mathcal{B}^{\mathcal{D}}$ is the set of all

Irene Vignon Clementel, Alison L. Marsden, Jeffrey A. Feinstein

Interest in the application of engineering methods to problems in congenital heart disease has gained increased popularity over the past decade. The use of computational simulation to examine common clinical problems including single ventricle physiology and the associated surgical approaches, the effects of pacemaker implantation on vascular occlusion, or d

Mark J. Ablowitz, Theodoros P. Horikis, Sean D. Nixon, Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis

Dark soliton formation in mode-locked lasers is investigated by means of a power-energy saturation model which incorporates gain and filtering saturated with energy, and loss saturated with power. It is found that general initial conditions evolve into dark solitons under appropriate requirements also met in the experimental observations. The resulting pulse