January 2011 arXiv papers — page 12

Etera R. Livine

This is my Thèse d'Habilitation (HDR) on the topic of spinfoam models for quantum gravity, which I presented in l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon on december 16 2010. The spinfoam framework is a proposal for a regularized path integral for quantum gravity, inspired from Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) and state-sum models. It can also be see

Christopher G. Jesudason

The primary emphasis of this work on kinetics is to illustrate the a posteriori approach to applications, where focus on data leads to novel outcomes, rather than the a priori tendencies of applied analysis which imposes constructs on the nature of the observable. The secondary intention is the development of appropriate methods consonant with experimental d

Luo-Luo Jiang, Matjaz Perc, Wen-Xu Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai

Working together in groups may be beneficial if compared to isolated efforts. Yet this is true only if all group members contribute to the success. If not, group efforts may act detrimentally on the fitness of their members. Here we study the evolution of cooperation in public goods games on scale-free networks that are subject to deletion of links that are

M. Modestov, V. Bychkov, D. Valiev, M. Marklund

The dynamics and internal structure of doping fronts in organic semiconductors are investigated theoretically using an extended drift-diffusion model for ions, electrons and holes. The model also involves the injection barriers for electrons and holes in the partially doped regions in the form of the Nernst equation, together with a strong dependence of the

Remi Louvot

The large data sample recorded with the Belle detector at the Υ(5S) energy provides a unique opportunity to study the poorly-known Bs meson. Several analyses, made with a data sample representing an integrated luminosity of 23.6 /fb, are presented. We report the study of the large-signal Bs {\to} Ds- h+ (h+ = π+, ρ+) decays. In addition, several results on B

P. Olbrich, J. Karch, E. L. Ivchenko, J. Kamann

We study terahertz radiation induced ratchet currents in low dimensional semiconductor structures with a superimposed one-dimensional lateral periodic potential. The periodic potential is produced by etching a grating into the sample surface or depositing metal stripes periodically on the sample top. Microscopically, the photocurrent generation is based on t

V. Bosch-Ramon, M. Perucho, P. Bordas

The environment of high-mass X-ray binaries can be characterized either by the SNR that forms these systems, or by the wind from the companion massive star. These regions should be tenuous but very hot, and surrounded by a dense and cold shocked ISM shell. The interaction between the jet and such a complex medium, also affected by the system proper motion, c

Atieh Mirshahvalad, Martin Rosvall

In social systems, people communicate with each other and form groups based on their interests. The pattern of interactions, the network, and the ideas that flow on the network naturally evolve together. Researchers use simple models to capture the feedback between changing network patterns and ideas on the network, but little is understood about the role of

Géraud Sénizergues

We construct an example of proof within the main formal system from arXiv:1010.4760v3, which is intended to capture the bisimulation equivalence for non-deterministic first-order grammars, and show that its conclusion is semantically false. We then locate and analyze the flawed argument in the soundness (meta)-proof of the above reference.

Danilo Bruno, Gianvittorio Luria, Enrico Pagani

A gauge-invariant formulation of constrained variational calculus, based on the introduction of the bundle of affine scalars over the configuration manifold, is presented. In the resulting setup, the Lagrangian is replaced by a section of a suitable principal fibre bundle over the velocity space. A geometric rephrasement of Pontryagin's maximum principle

O. Bénichou, D. S. Grebenkov, P. E. Levitz, C. Loverdo

We present an exact calculation of the mean first-passage time to a target on the surface of a 2D or 3D spherical domain, for a molecule alternating phases of surface diffusion on the domain boundary and phases of bulk diffusion. The presented approach is based on an integral equation which can be solved analytically. Numerically validated approximation sche

Vik. S. Kulikov

For any reduced curve $C\subset \mathbb P^2$, we define the notions of the number of its virtual cusps $c_v$ and the number of its virtual nodes $n_v$ which are non-negative, coincide respectively with the numbers of ordinary cusps and nodes in the case of cuspidal curves, and if $\hat C$ is the dual curve of an irreducible curve $C$ and $\hat n_v$ and $\hat

K. R. Parthasarathy

This is a continuation of the expository article \cite{krp} with some new remarks. Let $S_n$ denote the set of all Gaussian states in the complex Hilbert space $L^2 (\mathbb{R}^n),$ $K_n$ the convex set of all momentum and position covariance matrices of order $2n$ in Gaussian states and let $\mathcal{G}_n$ be the group of all unitary operators in $L^2 (\mat

Attila Meszaros, Jakub Ripa, Felix Ryde

Several claims have been put forward that an essential fraction of long-duration BATSE gamma-ray bursts should lie at redshifts larger than 5. This point-of-view follows from the natural assumption that fainter objects should, on average, lie at larger redshifts. However, redshifts larger than 5 are rare for bursts observed by Swift, seemingly contradicting

Mohammadreza Abolghasemi-Dahaghani, Farzad Didehvar, Alireza Nowroozi

This article presents a model which is capable of learning and abstracting new concepts based on comparing observations and finding the resemblance between the observations. In the model, the new observations are compared with the templates which have been derived from the previous experiences. In the first stage, the objects are first represented through a

J. Blomme, L. M. Sarro, F. T. O'Donovan, J. Debosscher

We present a novel automated methodology to detect and classify periodic variable stars in a large database of photometric time series. The methods are based on multivariate Bayesian statistics and use a multi-stage approach. We applied our method to the ground-based data of the TrES Lyr1 field, which is also observed by the Kepler satellite, covering ~26000

Pablo Reig

The purpose of this work is to review the observational properties of Be/X-ray binaries. The open questions in Be/X-ray binaries include those related to the Be star companion, that is, the so-called "Be phenomenon", such as, timescales associated to the formation and dissipation of the equatorial disc, mass-ejection mechanisms, V/R variability, and

Andreas E. Kyprianou, Juan Carlos Pardo

In this article we consider a toy example of an optimal stopping problem driven by fragmentation processes. We show that one can work with the concept of stopping lines to formulate the notion of an optimal stopping problem and moreover, to reduce it to a classical optimal stopping problem for a generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process associated with Bertoin&

Mauricio Cataldo, Paola Meza, Paul Minning

We present a family of static and evolving spherically symmetric Lorentzian wormhole solutions in N+1 dimensional Einstein gravity. In general, for static wormholes, we require that at least the radial pressure has a barotropic equation of state of the form $p_r=ω_r ρ$, where the state parameter $ω_r$ is constant. On the other hand, it is shown that in any d

M. Veltri

We report here a measurement of form factors of $K^{\pm}_{μ3}$ decay by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN. Using a sample of 3.4$\times10^6$ events we provide preliminary form factor values according to various parametrizations. The slope of the scalar form factor is in agreement with other measurements and theory predictions.

David Applebaum

We extend the Ruzhansky-Turunen theory of pseudo differential operators on compact Lie groups into a tool that can be used to investigate group-valued Markov processes in the spirit of the work in Euclidean spaces of N.Jacob and collaborators. Feller semigroups, their generators and resolvents are exhibited as pseudo-differential operators and the symbols of

Sandro Bosio, Di Yuan

In this paper, we present optimization approaches for Access Point (AP) location and frequency assignment, two major planning tasks in deploying Wi-Fi networks. Since APs are relatively cheap, the major concern is network performance. We consider a performance metric, referred to as access efficiency, that captures key aspects of how user devices share acces

Michael Ruzhansky, Mitsuru Sugimoto

A refinement of uniform resolvent estimate is given and several smoothing estimates for Schrodinger equations in the critical case are induced from it. The relation between this resolvent estimate and radiation condition is discussed. As an application of critical smoothing estimates, we show a global existence results for derivative nonlinear Schrodinger eq

Saif E. A. Alnawayseh, Pavel Loskot

The order statistics based list decoding techniques for linear binary block codes of small to medium block length are investigated. The construction of the list of the test error patterns is considered. The original order statistics decoding is generalized by assuming segmentation of the most reliable independent positions of the received bits. The segmentat

B. Sciascia

The recent significant progress on both the experimental and theoretical sides on the study of leptonic and semileptonic kaon decays allows to precisely test the Standard Model. Here we present results for the determination of Vus from experimental data, the comparison between the values of Vus obtained from data on semileptonic and leptonic kaon decays, and

Marija Dimitrijevic, Biljana Nikolic, Voja Radovanovic

We discuss a deformation of superspace based on a hermitian twist. The twist implies a $\star$-product that is noncommutative, hermitian and finite when expanded in power series of the deformation parameter. The Leibniz rule for the twisted SUSY transformations is deformed. A minimal deformation of the Wess-Zumino action is proposed and its renormalizability

Fabrizio Caselli, Roberta Fulci

In [F. Caselli, Involutory reflection groups and their models, J. Algebra 24 (2010), 370--393] there is constructed a uniform Gelfand model for all non-exceptional irreducible complex reflection groups which are involutory. Such model can be naturally decomposed into the direct sum of submodules indexed by $S_n$-conjugacy classes, and we present here a gener

Jincy Devasia, Marykutty James, Biswajit Paul, Kavila Indulekha

We report detailed timing and spectral analysis of RXTE-PCA data obtained from observations during the outburst of a transient X-ray pulsar 1A 1118--61 in January 2009. The pulse profile showed significant evolution during the outburst and also significant energy dependence - a double peaked profile upto 10 keV and a single peak at higher energy. We have als

David Vercauteren, Henri Verschelde

We study the interplay between the <A^2> condensate and instantons in non-Abelian gauge theory. Therefore we use the formalism of Local Composite Operators, with which the vacuum expectation value of this condensate can be analytically computed. We first use the dilute gas approximation and partially solve the infrared problem of instanton physics. In order

Erika De Lucia

Precise measurements of semileptonic kaon decay rates at KLOE provide the measurement of the CKM mixing matrix element \vus\ and information about lepton universality. Leptonic kaon decays provide an independent measurement of $\abs{\vus}^2/\abs{\vud}^2$, through the ratio $Γ(K\toμν)/Γ(π\toμν)$. These measurements, together with the result of $|\vud|$ from n

Vincent Mellor

The Ising model is famous model for magnetic substances in Statistical Physics, and has been greatly studied in many forms. It was solved in one-dimension by Ernst Ising in 1925 and in two-dimensions without an external magnetic field by Lars Onsager in 1944. In this thesis we look at the anisotropic Ising model on the Union Jack lattice. This lattice is one

Z. Li, S. Kawasaki, T. Oka, T. Tabuchi

We present extensive 75As NMR and NQR data on the superconducting arsenides PrFeAs0.89F0.11 (Tc=45 K), LaFeAsO0.92F0.08 (Tc=27 K), LiFeAs (Tc = 17 K) and Ba0.72K0.28Fe2As2 (Tc = 31.5 K) single crystal, and compare with the nickel analog LaNiAsO0.9F0.1 (Tc=4.0 K) . In contrast to LaNiAsO0.9F0.1 where the superconducting gap is shown to be isotropic, the spin

Eduardo Esteves, Marina Marchisio

We study the invariant theory of singular foliations of the projective plane. Our first main result is that a foliation of degree m>1 is not stable only if it has singularities in dimension 1 or contains an isolated singular point with multiplicity at least (m^2-1)/(2m+1). Our second main result is the construction of an invariant map from the space of folia

J. Lanoux, E. Pointecouteau, M. Giard

Radio emission in the direction of galaxy clusters is due to the individual emission of AGNs, and to the diffuse non-thermal emission of the intracluster medium (ICM). The population of AGNs in clusters is correlated to the overall halo properties, and likely impacts their evolutions. In order to better understand this connection (which will also leads to co

G. Hebrard, D. Ehrenreich, F. Bouchy, X. Delfosse

We observed with the SOPHIE spectrograph (OHP, France) the transit of the HAT-P-6b exoplanet across its host star. The resulting stellar radial velocities display the Rossiter-McLaughlin anomaly and reveal a retrograde orbit: the planetary orbital spin and the stellar rotational spin point towards approximately opposite directions. A fit to the anomaly measu

S. S. Passmoor, C. M. Cress, A. Faltenbacher

We investigate the clustering of HI-selected galaxies in the ALFALFA survey and compare results with those obtained for HIPASS. Measurements of the angular correlation function and the inferred 3D-clustering are compared with results from direct spatial-correlation measurements. We are able to measure clustering on smaller angular scales and for galaxies wit

V. Klochkova, T. Mishenina, S. Korotin, V. Marsakov

Based on high quality spectral data (spectral resolution R>60000) within the wavelength range of 3550-5000 AA we determined main parameters (effective temperature, surface gravity, microturbulent velocity, and chemical element abundances including heavy metals from Sr to Dy) for 14 metal-deficient G-K stars with large proper motions. The stars we studied hav

H. M. Schmid, F. Joos, E. Buenzli, D. Gisler

We present ground-based limb polarization measurements of Jupiter and Saturn consisting of full disk imaging polarimetry for the wavelength 7300 A and spatially resolved (long slit) spectropolarimetry covering the wavelength range 5200 to 9350 A. For the polar region of Jupiter we find for wl=6000 A a very strong radial polarization with a seeing corrected m

Olav Geil, Casper Thomsen

Consider a polynomial $F$ in $m$ variables and a finite point ensemble $S=S_1 \times ... \times S_m$. When given the leading monomial of $F$ with respect to a lexicographic ordering we derive improved information on the possible number of zeros of $F$ of multiplicity at least $r$ from $S$. We then use this information to design a list decoding algorithm for

I. Sahin, A. A. Billur

We examine the potential of pp-> p gamma p -> p W q X reaction to probe anomalous WWgamma couplings at the LHC. We find 95% confidence level bounds on the anomalous coupling parameters with various values of the integrated luminosity. We show that the reaction pp -> p gamma p -> p W q X at the LHC highly improve the current limits.

G. F. Reiter, A. I. Kolesnikov, S. J. Paddison, P. M. Platzman

Deep Inelastic Neutron Scattering provides a means of directly and accurately measuring the momentum distribution of protons in water, which is determined primarily by the protons ground state wavefunction. We find that in water confined on scales of 20A, this wave function responds to the details of the confinement, corresponds to a strongly anharmonic loca

Ze Xu

Friedlander and Mazur proposed a conjecture of hard Lefschetz type on Lawson homology. We shall relate this conjecture to Suslin conjecture on Lawson homology. For abelian varieties, this conjecture is shown to be equivalent to a vanishing conjecture of Beauville type on Lawson homology. For symmetric products of curves, we show that this conjecture amounts

Rui Wang, Vincent K. N. Lau, Huang Huang

In this paper, we propose an opportunistic buffered decode-wait-and-forward (OBDWF) protocol to exploit both relay buffering and relay mobility to enhance the system throughput and the end-to-end packet delay under bursty arrivals. We consider a point-to-point communication link assisted by K mobile relays. We illustrate that the OBDWF protocol could achieve

T. A. Maier, S. Graser, P. J. Hirschfeld, D. J. Scalapino

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements on the recently discovered superconduc- tors in the KFe2Se2 family with critical temperatures up to - 33K suggest that no Fermi pockets of hole character centered on the Γ point of the Brillouin zone are present, in contrast to all other known ferropnictide and ferrochalcogenide superconductors. Using a

Michael Usher

We exhibit many examples of closed symplectic manifolds on which there is an autonomous Hamiltonian whose associated flow has no nonconstant periodic orbits (the only previous explicit example in the literature was the torus T^2n (n\geq 2) with an irrational symplectic structure). The underlying smooth manifolds of our examples include, for instance: the K3

Harold Y. Hwang, Nathaniel C. Brandt, Hootan Farhat, Allen L. Hsu

We report strong THz-induced transparency in CVD-grown graphene where 92%-96% of the peak-field is transmitted compared to 74% at lower field strength. Time-resolved THz-pump/THz-probe studies reveal that the absorption recovers in 2-3 ps. The induced transparency is believed to arise from nonlinear pumping of carriers in graphene which suppresses the mobili

James F. Glazebrook, Rodrick Wallace

We outline a model for a cognitive epigenetic system based on elements of the Shannon theory of information and the statistical physics of the generalized Onsager relations. Particular attention is paid to the concept of the rate distortion function and from another direction as motivated by the thermodynamics of computing, the fundamental homology with the

Gao-xiang Li, Zhen Yi, Zbigniew Ficek

The conditions are established for nullity of quantum discord for mixed states of a general two-qubit system whose dynamical behaviour is given by an X-state form density matrix. It is found that quantum discord can vanish at a finite time even in the presence of correlations between qubits. The degeneracy of the populations of the combined states of the qub

Minho Choi, Miju Kang, Ken&#39;ichi Tatematsu

The bipolar jet of the NGC 1333 IRAS 4A2 protostar shows a velocity gradient in the direction perpendicular to the jet axis. This lateral velocity gradient can be seen throughout the jet imaged in a silicon monoxide line, 2500-8700 AU from the driving source, and is consistent with the rotation of the accretion disk. If this gradient is caused by the rotatio

I. Kadenko, N. Dzysiuk

Experimental investigation of (n, x) and (g, x) reactions on Tb-159 with activation technique was carried out. Tb specimens of natural composition were irradiated with (d-d) and (d-t) neutrons using NG-300 neutron generator. Additionally the series of experiments were performed with application of M-30 microtrone as a source of electrons for bremsstrahlung s

Zhiqiang Xu

One can recover sparse multivariate trigonometric polynomials from few randomly taken samples with high probability (as shown by Kunis and Rauhut). We give a deterministic sampling of multivariate trigonometric polynomials inspired by Weil&#39;s exponential sum. Our sampling can produce a deterministic matrix satisfying the statistical restricted isometry pr

Janusz Adamus, Lech Adamus

We prove a sharp Ore-type criterion for hamiltonicity of balanced bipartite digraphs: A bipartite digraph D, with colour classes of cardinality N, is hamiltonian if, for every pair of vertices u and v from opposite colour classes of D such that the arc uv is not in D, the sum of the outdegree of u and the indegree of v is greater than or equal to N+2.

Jason DeBlois

A hyperbolic polygon is defined to be cyclic, horocyclic, or equidistant if its vertices lie on a metric circle, horocycle, or a component of the equidistant locus to a hyperbolic geodesic, respectively. Convex such $n$-gons are parametrized by the subspaces of $(0,\infty)^n$ that contain their side length collections, and area and circumcircle or &#34;colla

Leonid Mytnik, Eyal Neuman

We consider the regularity of sample paths of Volterra processes. These processes are defined as stochastic integrals $$ M(t)=\int_{0}^{t}F(t,r)dX(r), \ \ t \in \mathds{R}_{+}, $$ where $X$ is a semimartingale and $F$ is a deterministic real-valued function. We derive the information on the modulus of continuity for these processes under regularity assumptio

Dimitra Atri, Julia DeMarines, Jacob Haqq-Misra

Messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) is a branch of study concerned with constructing and broadcasting a message toward habitable planets. Since the Arecibo message of 1974, the handful of METI broadcasts have increased in content and complexity, but the lack of an established protocol has produced unorganized or cryptic messages that could be d

D. A. Torchetti, M. Fu, D. C. Christensen, K. J. Nelson

We report a comprehensive 77Se NMR study of the structural, magnetic, and superconducting properties of a single crystalline sample of the newly discovered FeSe-based high temperature superconductor K(x)Fe(2-y)Se(2) (Tc=33K) in a broad temperature range up to 290 K. We will compare our results with those reported for FeSe (Tc=9K) and FeAs-based high Tc syste

Qian He, Mauro Mobilia, Uwe C. Tauber

We employ Monte Carlo simulations to numerically study the temporal evolution and transient oscillations of the population densities, the associated frequency power spectra, and the spatial correlation functions in the (quasi-)steady state in two-dimensional stochastic May--Leonard models of mobile individuals, allowing for particle exchanges with nearest-ne

Simon Hands, Philip Kenny, Seyong Kim, Jon-Ivar Skullerud

We present results from a simulation of SU(2) lattice gauge theory with N_f=4 flavors of Wilson fermion and non-zero quark chemical potential mu, using the same 12^3x24 lattice, bare gauge coupling, and pion mass in cut-off units as a previous study with N_f=2. The string tension for N_f=4 is found to be considerably smaller implying smoother gauge field con

Mikhail Malkov, Roald Sagdeev, Patrick Diamond

A mechanism for proton acceleration to ~10^21eV is suggested. It may operate in accretion flows onto thin dark matter filaments of cosmic structure formation. The flow compresses the ambient magnetic field to strongly increase and align it with the filament. Particles begin the acceleration by the ExB drift with the accretion flow. The energy gain in the dri

Monika Bartkowiak, Adam Miranowicz, Xiaoguang Wang, Yu-xi Liu

Analyses of phenomena exhibiting finite-time decay of quantum entanglement have recently attracted considerable attention. Such decay is often referred to as sudden vanishing (or sudden death) of entanglement, which can be followed by its sudden reappearance (or sudden rebirth). We analyze various finite-time decays (for dissipative systems) and analogous pe

E. V. Gorbar, V. A. Miransky, I. A. Shovkovy

The properties of the ground state of relativistic matter in a magnetic field are examined within the framework of a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The main emphasis of this study is the normal ground state, which is realized at sufficiently high temperatures and/or sufficiently large chemical potentials. In contrast to the vacuum state, which is characterized by

Ambar Jain, Massimiliano Procura, Wouter J. Waalewijn

The fragmentation of a light parton i to a jet containing a light energetic hadron h, where the momentum fraction of this hadron as well as the invariant mass of the jet is measured, is described by &#34;fragmenting jet functions&#34;. We calculate the one-loop matching coefficients J_{ij} that relate the fragmenting jet functions G_i^h to the standard, unpo

Anna Pancoast, Brendon J. Brewer, Tommaso Treu

We present a general method to analyze reverberation mapping data that provides both estimates for the black hole mass and for the geometry and dynamics of the broad line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Our method directly infers the spatial and velocity distribution of the BLR from the data, allowing us to easily derive a velocity-resolved tra

Clemens Bruschek, Hussein Mourtada, Jan Schepers

Arc spaces have been introduced in algebraic geometry as a tool to study singularities but they show strong connections with combinatorics as well. Exploiting these relations we obtain a new approach to the classical Rogers-Ramanujan Identities. The linking object is the Hilbert-Poincaré series of the arc space over a point of the base variety. In the case o

Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Cesar Gomez, Raul Jimenez

We elaborate on a minimal inflation scenario based entirely on the general properties of supersymmetry breaking in supergravity models. We identify the inflaton as the scalar component of the Goldstino superfield. We write plausible candidates for the effective action describing this chiral superfield. In particular the theory depends (apart from parameters

Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa, Gian Luigi Granato

Observations performed in the last few years indicate that most massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) observed at redshift z>1 exhibit sizes smaller by a factor of a few than local ETGs of analogous stellar mass. We present numerical simulations of the effect of baryonic mass loss on the structure of a spheroidal stellar system, embedded in a dark matter halo.

Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert, Norman Murray

Feedback from massive stars is believed to play a critical role in shaping the galaxy mass function, the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM), and the low efficiency of star formation, but the exact form of the feedback is uncertain. In this paper, the first in a series, we present and test a novel numerical implementation of stellar feedback resulting

Christoph A. Keller

Since many thermodynamic properties of black holes are universal, the thermodynamics of their holographic duals should be universal too. We show how this universality is exhibited in the example of symmetric orbifolds of general two dimensional CFTs. We discuss the free energies and phase diagrams of such theories and show that they are indeed universal in t

Adam Falkowski, Joshua T. Ruderman, Tomer Volansky

We present a new realization of asymmetric dark matter in which the dark matter and lepton asymmetries are generated simultaneously through two-sector leptogenesis. The right-handed neutrinos couple both to the Standard Model and to a hidden sector where the dark matter resides. This framework explains the lepton asymmetry, dark matter abundance and neutrino

V. Smolcic, D. A. Riechers

One of the main achievements in modern cosmology is the so-called `unified model&#39;, which successfully describes most classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) within a single physical scheme. However, there is a particular class of radio-luminous AGN that presently cannot be explained within this framework -- the `low-excitation&#39; radio AGN (LERAGN). Re

Beth Biller, Katelyn Allers, Michael Liu, Laird Close

We searched for binary companions to 20 young brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius association (145 pc, 5 Myr, nearest OB association) with the the Laser Guide Star adaptive optics system and the facility infrared camera NIRC2 on the 10 m Keck II telescope. We discovered a 0.14&#34; companion (20.9+-0.4 AU) to the <0.1 MSun object SCH J16091837-20073523. From

Sang-Kil Son, Linda Young, Robin Santra

X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) are promising tools for structural determination of macromolecules via coherent x-ray scattering. During ultrashort and ultraintense x-ray pulses with an atomic scale wavelength, samples are subject to radiation damage and possibly become highly ionized, which may influence the quality of x-ray scattering patterns. We develo

Natalie Priebe Frank, Lorenzo Sadun

We introduce a formalism for handling general spaces of hierarchical tilings, a category that includes substitution tilings, Bratteli-Vershik systems, S-adic transformations, and multi-dimensional cut-and-stack transformations. We explore ergodic, spectral and topological properties of these spaces. We show that familiar properties of substitution tilings ca

Jiri Adamek, Stefan Milius, Jiri Velebil

Higher-order recursion schemes are recursive equations defining new operations from given ones called &#34;terminals&#34;. Every such recursion scheme is proved to have a least interpreted semantics in every Scott&#39;s model of λ-calculus in which the terminals are interpreted as continuous operations. For the uninterpreted semantics based on infinite λ-ter

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

This letter reports a measurement of the top quark mass, M_{top}, in data from p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV corresponding to 2.7 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity at the Fermilab Tevatron using the CDF II detector. Events with the lepton+jets topology are selected. An unbinned likelihood is constructed based on the dependence of the lepton transver

Yurii Averboukh

In this paper we introduce the discontinuous universal feedback for the problem of Nash equilibrium in two person non-zero sum differential game. We assume that there exist functions satisfying some conditions analogous to the infinitesimal conditions on value function in zero sum differential games. Under this assumption we prove the existence of universal

Stephen M. Buckley, Anthony G. O&#39;Farrell

Given n buttons and n bulbs so that the ith button toggles the ith bulb and at most two other bulbs, we compute the sharp lower bound on the number of bulbs that can be lit regardless of the action of the buttons.

Tomas Everaert

Let $A$ be a regular category with pushouts of regular epimorphisms by regular epimorphism and $Reg(A)$ the category of regular epimorphisms in $A$. We prove that every regular epimorphism in $Reg(A)$ is an effective descent morphism if, and only if, $Reg(A)$ is a regular category. Then, moreover, every regular epimorphism in $A$ is an effective descent morp

Roberto Franceschini, Gian Francesco Giudice, Pier Paolo Giardino, Paolo Lodone

We derive new dominant bounds on the coefficient of the effective operator generated by tree-level graviton exchange in large extra dimensions from pp \rightarrow jj data at LHC: M_T > 2.1TeV (ATLAS after 3.1/pb of integrated luminosity), M_T > 3.4 TeV (CMS after 36/pb), MT > 3.2 TeV (ATLAS after 36/pb). We clarify the role of on-shell graviton exchange and

Henry H. Kim, Kyu-Hwan Lee

In this paper, we obtain affine analogues of Gindikin-Karpelevich formula and Casselman-Shalika formula as sums over Kashiwara-Lusztig&#39;s canonical bases. Suggested by these formulas, we define natural $q$-deformation of arithmetical functions such as (multi-)partition function and Ramanujan $τ$-function, and prove various identities among them. In some e

C. Brenner Mariotto, D. B. Espindola, M. C. Rodriguez

In this article we investigate the influence of nuclear effects in the production of gluinos in nuclear collisions at the LHC, and estimate the transverse momentum dependence of the nuclear ratios $R_{pA} = {\frac{dσ(pA)}{dy d^2 p_T}} / A {\frac{dσ(pp)}{dy d^2 p_T}}$ and $R_{AA} = {\frac{dσ(AA)}{dy d^2 p_T}} / A^2 {\frac{dσ(pp)}{dy d^2 p_T}}$. We demonstrate

Alexei Belov, Mikhail Kharitonov

In 1993 E. I. Zelmanov asked the following question in Dniester Notebook: &#34;Suppose that F_{2, m} is a 2-generated associative ring with the identity x^m=0. Is it true, that the nilpotency degree of F_{2, m} has exponential growth?&#34; We show that the nilpotency degree of l-generated associative algebra with the identity x^d=0 is smaller than Psi(d,d,l)

Johanna Knapp, Maximilian Kreuzer, Christoph Mayrhofer, Nils-Ole Walliser

We systematically construct a large number of compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds which are suitable for F-theory model building. These elliptically fibered Calabi-Yaus are complete intersections of two hypersurfaces in a six dimensional ambient space. We first construct three-dimensional base manifolds that are hypersurfaces in a toric ambient space. We search for

Florian Enescu

In this paper we present a condition on a local Cohen-Macaulay F-injective ring of positive characteristic $p > 2$ which implies that its top local cohomology module with support in the maximal ideal has finitely many Frobenius compatible submodules.

A. M. Polubotko

It is pointed out, that the charge transfer in the compound in paramagnetic region has a ferron type of transport with ferrons of a small radius, predicted by N. Mott. For some another specimen the charge transfer may be carried out by ferrons of a large radius at very low temperatures. The results are well confirmed by the temperature dependence of resistiv

Samir D. Mathur, Christopher J. Plumberg

It is sometimes believed that small quantum gravity effects can encode information as `delicate correlations&#39; in Hawking radiation, thus saving unitarity while maintaining a semiclassical horizon. A recently derived inequality showed that this belief is incorrect: one must have order unity corrections to low energy evolution at the horizon (i.e. fuzzball

R. Augusiak, J. Stasińska, C. Hadley, J. K. Korbicz

The strength of classical correlations is subject to certain constraints, commonly known as Bell inequalities. Violation of these inequalities is the manifestation of nonlocality---displayed, in particular, by quantum mechanics, meaning that quantum mechanics can outperform classical physics at tasks associated with such Bell inequalities. Interestingly, how

V. K. Ignatovich

A model for violation and even superviolation of the Bell&#39;s inequalities in coincidence experiments with photons in local \qm\ is presented. The model is based on assumption that time retardation or losses in an analyzer depend on angle between linear polarization of an incident photon and the analyzer&#39;s axis.

Victor Chulaevsky

We consider a class of ensembles of lattice Schrödinger operators with deterministic random potentials, including quasi-periodic potentials with Diophantine frequencies, depending upon an infinite number of parameters in an auxiliary measurable space. Using a variant of the Multi-Scale Analysis, we prove Anderson localization for generic ensembles in the str

Gustavo Dopcke, Simon C. O. Glover, Paul C. Clark, Ralf S. Klessen

The theory for the formation of the first population of stars (Pop III) predicts a IMF composed predominantly of high-mass stars, in contrast to the present-day IMF, which tends to yield stars with masses less than 1 M_Solar. The leading theory for the transition in the characteristic stellar mass predicts that the cause is the extra cooling provided by incr

Hongwei Xiong

From the general assumption that gravity originates from the coupling and thermal equilibrium between matter and vacuum, after a derivation of Newton&#39;s law of gravitation and an interpretation of the attractive gravity force between two classical objects, we consider the macroscopic quantum gravity effect for particles whose wave packets are delocalized

Giacomo Mauro D&#39;Ariano, Paolo Perinotti, Michal Sedlak

Generalized quantum instruments correspond to measurements where the input and output are either states or more generally quantum circuits. These measurements describe any quantum protocol including games, communications, and algorithms. The set of generalized quantum instruments with a given input and output structure is a convex set. Here we investigate th

Daniel Fresen

We show that the convex hull of a large i.i.d. sample from an absolutely continuous log-concave distribution approximates a predetermined convex body in the logarithmic Hausdorff distance and in the Banach-Mazur distance. For log-concave distributions that decay super-exponentially, we also have approximation in the Hausdorff distance. These results are mult

R. Jackiw, S. -Y. Pi

We review the relation between scale and conformal symmetries in various models and dimensions. We present a dimensional reduction from relativistic to non-relativistic conformal dynamics.

Marco Andreatta, Jaroslaw A. Wisniewski

Local symplectic contractions are resolutions of singularities which admit symplectic forms. Four dimensional symplectic contractions are (relative) Mori Dream Spaces. In particular, any two such resolutions of a given singularity are connected by a sequence of Mukai flops. We discuss the cone of movable divisors on such a resolution; its faces are determine

P. Zavalij, Wei Bao, X. F. Wang, J. J. Ying

With single crystal X-ray diffraction studies, we compare the structures of three sample showing optimal superconductivity, K0.774(4)Fe1.613(2)Se2, K0.738(6)Fe1.631(3)Se2 and Cs0.748(2)Fe1.626(1)Se2. All have an almost identical ordered vacancy structure with a ({\sqrt}5 x {\sqrt}5 x 1) super cell. The tetragonal unit cell, space group I4/m, possesses lattic

Konstantin A. Kouzakov, Alexander I. Studenikin, Mikhail B. Voloshin

The ionization of atomic electrons by scattering of neutrinos is revisited. This process is the one studied in the experimental searches for a neutrino magnetic moment using germanium detectors. Current experiments are sensitive to the ionization energy comparable with the atomic energies, and the effects of the electron binding should be taken into account.

Jianming Wen

A recent thermal ghost imaging experiment by Wu&#39;s group constructed positive and negative images using a novel algorithm. This algorithm allows to form the images with use of partial measurements from the reference arm, even which never passes through the object, conditioned on the object arm. In this paper, we present a simple theory which explains the

M. I. Gorenstein, M. Gazdzicki

Analysis of fluctuations of hadron production properties in collisions of relativistic particles profits from use of measurable intensive quantities which are independent of system size variations. They are referred to as strongly intensive quantities. The first family of such quantities was proposed already in 1992. The second is introduced in this paper. W

Chen Wang, Jie Ren, Baowen Li, Qing-Hu Chen

In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport of a double quantum dot coupled with a nanomechanical resonator at arbitrary strong electron-phonon coupling regimes. We employ the generalized quantum master equation to study full counting statistics of currents. We demonstrate the coherent phonon states method can be applied to decouple the electron-phon