January 2011 arXiv papers — page 27

Hong-Wei Ke, Xu-Hao Yuan, Xue-Qian Li

It is interesting to determine the fraction of the gluonium component in $η$ and $η'$ which has been under serious discussion for many years. Measurements on different decay and/or production modes were employed in literatures, thus larger uncertainties were unavoidable. In this paper we suggest to determine the mixing angles of $η-η'-G$ using the da

Johannes Rueß

We investigate Lyapunov exponents of Brownian motion in a nonnegative Poissonian potential $V$. The Lyapunov exponent depends on the potential $V$ and our interest lies in the decay rate of the Lyapunov exponent if the potential $V$ tends to zero. In our model the random potential $V$ is generated by locating at each point of a Poisson point process with int

M. R. Gupta, Rahul Banerjee, L. K. Mandal, R. Bhar

The effect of viscous drag and surface tension on the nonlinear two fluid inter facial structures induced by Rayleigh -Taylor instability and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability are investigated.Viscosity and surface tension play important roles on the fluid instabilities. It is seen that the magnitude of the suppression of the terminal growth rate of the tip of t

Yao Sun, Dingkang Wang

A generalized criterion for signature related algorithms to compute Gröbner basis is proposed in this paper. Signature related algorithms are a popular kind of algorithms for computing Gröbner basis, including the famous F5 algorithm, the extended F5 algorithm and the GVW algorithm. The main purpose of current paper is to study in theory what kind of criteri

Huiying Song, Xinyu Zhang, Bo-Qiang Ma

The light flavor antiquark distributions of the nucleon sea are calculated in the effective chiral quark model and compared with experimental results. The contributions of the flavor-symmetric sea-quark distributions and the nuclear EMC effect are taken into account to obtain the ratio of Drell-Yan cross sections $σ^{\mathrm{pD}}/2σ^{\mathrm{pp}}$, which can

M. S. Rudner, L. M. K. Vandersypen, V. Vuletic, L. S. Levitov

Entanglement generation and detection are two of the most sought-after goals in the field of quantum control. Besides offering a means to probe some of the most peculiar and fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, entanglement in many-body systems can be used as a tool to reduce fluctuations below the standard quantum limit. For spins, or spin-like systems

Marcy Barge, Lorenzo Sadun

We define a relative version of tiling cohomology for the purpose of comparing the topology of tiling spaces when one is a factor of the other. We illustrate this with examples, and outline a method for computing the cohomology of tiling spaces of finite type.

Vera N. Smolyaninova, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev

We report on the experimental demonstration of the broadband "trapped rainbow" in the visible range using arrays of adiabatically tapered optical nano waveguides. Being a distinct case of the slow light phenomenon, the trapped rainbow effect could be applied to optical signal processing, and sensing in such applications as spectroscopy on a chip, and

B. R. Ko, E. Won

We have searched for CP violation in the decays $D^0\rightarrow K^0_S P^0$ where $P^0$ denotes a neutral pseudo-scalar meson which is either a $π^0$, $η$, or $η'$ using KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 791 fb$^{-1}$ collected with the Belle detector. No evidence of significant CP violation is obs

Jing Jin, Hua Feng, Philip Kaaret, Shuang-Nan Zhang

We report on a new XMM-Newton observation of NGC 247 from December 2009. The galaxy contains a supersoft, ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) whose spectrum consists of a thermal component with a temperature about 0.1 keV and a power-law tail with a photon index around 2.5. The thermal emission is absolutely the dominant component, contributing 96% of the total

Nicole F. Bell, James B. Dent, Thomas D. Jacques, Thomas J. Weiler

We examine observational signatures of dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way arising from electroweak bremsstrahlung contributions to the annihilation cross section. It has been known for some time that photon bremsstrahlung may significantly boost DM annihilation yields. Recently, we have shown that electroweak bremsstrahlung of W and Z gauge bosons can

Sujit Kumar Sardar, Manasi Mandal, Samit Kumar Majumder

The notion of intuitionistic fuzzy sets was introduced by Atanassov as a generalization of the notion of fuzzy sets. S.K Sardar and S.K. Majumder unified the idea of fuzzy translation and fuzzy multiplication of Vasantha Kandasamy to introduce the concept of fuzzy magnified translation in groups and semigroups. The purpose of this paper is to intuitionistica

Ashkan Vakil, Nader Engheta

Here we theoretically show, by designing and manipulating spatially inhomogeneous, non-uniform conductivity patterns across a single flake of graphene, that this single-atom-layered material can serve as a "one-atom-thick" platform for infrared metamaterials and transformation optical devices. It is known that by varying the chemical potential using

Rachele Dominguez, Kristy Tiampo, C. A. Serino, W. Klein

Natural earthquake fault systems are highly non-homogeneous. The inhomogeneities occur be- cause the earth is made of a variety of materials which hold and dissipate stress differently. In this work, we study scaling in earthquake fault models which are variations of the Olami-Feder- Christensen (OFC) and Rundle-Jackson-Brown (RJB) models. We use the scaling

Xiao Zhang, Jing Wang, Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological insulators in the Bi2Se3 family have an energy gap in the bulk and a gapless surface state consisting of a single Dirac cone. Low frequency optical absorption due to the surface state is universally determined by the fine structure constant. When the thickness of these three dimensional topological insulators is reduced, they become quasi-two dim

Jaime Angulo, Gustavo Ponce

We study the existence and stability of the standing waves for the periodic cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a point defect determined by a periodic Dirac distribution at the origin. This equation admits a smooth curve of positive periodic solutions in the form of standing waves with a profile given by the Jacobi elliptic function of dnoidal type. V

E. Chatzopoulos, J. Craig Wheeler, J. Vinko, R. Quimby

We present observations and interpretation of the Type IIn supernova SN 2008am discovered by the ROTSE Supernova Verification Project (RSVP). SN 2008am peaked at approximately -22.3 mag at a redshift of z=0.2338, giving it a peak luminosity of 3 x 10^{44}erg/s and making it one of the most luminous supernovae ever observed. The total radiated energy is ~ 2 x

Brett H. Andrews, Todd A. Thompson

We evaluate radiation pressure from starlight on dust as a feedback mechanism in star-forming galaxies by comparing the luminosity and flux of star-forming systems to the dust Eddington limit. The linear LFIR--L'HCN correlation provides evidence that galaxies may be regulated by radiation pressure feedback. We show that star-forming galaxies approach but

Tong Li, Qaisar Shafi

We discuss an extended standard model electroweak sector which contains a stable scalar dark matter particle, the D boson. To search for the D boson at the LHC we exploit the flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) top quark decay, t->c D D, mediated by the lightest standard model-like Higgs h^0 in a two Higgs doublet model framework. The branching ratio for

Duncan Forbes, Lee Spitler, Jay Strader, Aaron Romanowsky

Here we present the colours of individual globular clusters (GCs) around the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 1407 out to a projected galactocentric radius of 140 kpc or 17 galaxy effective radii (R$_e$). Such data are a proxy for the halo metallicity. We find steep, and similar, metallicity gradients of ~ -0.4 dex per dex for both the blue (metal-poor) and red

Xi Liu, Elza Erkip

This work considers coordination and bargaining between two selfish users over a Gaussian interference channel. The usual information theoretic approach assumes full cooperation among users for codebook and rate selection. In the scenario investigated here, each user is willing to coordinate its actions only when an incentive exists and benefits of cooperati

Kris Beckwith, James M. Stone

We describe a new Godunov algorithm for relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) that combines a simple, unsplit second order accurate integrator with the constrained transport (CT) method for enforcing the solenoidal constraint on the magnetic field. A variety of approximate Riemann solvers are implemented to compute the fluxes of the conserved variables. T

Zachary H. Draper, John P. Wisniewski, Karen S. Bjorkman, Xavier Haubois

We analyze the intrinsic polarization of two classical Be stars in the process of losing their circumstellar disks via a Be to normal B star transition originally reported by Wisniewski et al. During each of five polarimetric outbursts which interrupt these disk-loss events, we find that the ratio of the polarization across the Balmer jump (BJ+/BJ-) versus t

Marcin Makowski, Edward W. Piotrowski

We describe a quantum model of simple choice game (constructed upon entangled state of two qubits), which involves the fundamental problem of transitive - intransitive preferences. We compare attainability of optimal intransitive strategies in both classical and quantum models with the use of geometrical interpretation.

Santo Fortunato, Filippo Radicchi

Percolation is perhaps the simplest example of a process exhibiting a phase transition and one of the most studied phenomena in statistical physics. The percolation transition is continuous if sites/bonds are occupied independently with the same probability. However, alternative rules for the occupation of sites/bonds might affect the order of the transition

Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Preethi Nair, Luc Simard

Galaxy-galaxy interactions and large scale galaxy bars are usually considered as the two main mechanisms for driving gas to the centres of galaxies. By using large samples of galaxy pairs and visually classified bars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we compare the relative efficiency of gas inflows from these two processes. We use two indicators of

Bennett Chow, Peng Lu, Bo Yang

In this short note we observe that a recent result of C.-W. Chen meshes well with earlier work of H.-D. Cao and D.-T. Zhou, O. Munteanu, J. Carrillo and L. Ni, and S.-J. Zhang to give a necessary and sufficient condition for complete noncompact shrinking gradient Ricci solitons to have positive asymptotic volume ratio.

Sanjib Sharma, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Kathryn V. Johnston, James Binney

We present here a fast code for creating a synthetic survey of the Milky Way. Given one or more color-magnitude bounds, a survey size and geometry, the code returns a catalog of stars in accordance with a given model of the Milky Way. The model can be specified by a set of density distributions or as an N-body realization. We provide fast and efficient algor

J. Roden, A. Eisfeld

We investigate theoretically the phenomenon of exchange narrowing in the absorption spectrum of a chain of monomers, which are coupled via resonant dipole-dipole interaction. The individual (uncoupled) monomers exhibit a broad absorption line shape due to the coupling to an environment consisting of a continuum of vibrational modes. Upon increasing the inter

Martin Kolb, Achim Wübker

In this paper we consider the Brownian motion with jump boundary and present a new proof of a recent result of Li, Leung and Rakesh concerning the exact convergence rate in the one-dimensional case. Our methods are different and mainly probabilistic relying on coupling methods adapted to the special situation under investigation. Moreover, we answer a questi

Andrew B. Newman, Tommaso Treu, Richard S. Ellis, David J. Sand

We extend our analyses of the dark matter (DM) distribution in relaxed clusters to the case of Abell 383, a luminous X-ray cluster at z=0.189 with a dominant central galaxy and numerous strongly-lensed features. Following our earlier papers, we combine strong and weak lensing constraints secured with Hubble Space Telescope and Subaru imaging with the radial

J. de la Cruz Rodríguez, H. Socas-Navarro

Fibrils are thin elongated features visible in the solar chromosphere in and around magnetized regions. Because of their visual appearance, they have been traditionally considered a tracer of the magnetic field lines. For the first time, we challenge that notion, by comparing their orientation to that of the magnetic field, obtained via high-resolution spect

John J. Bochanski, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West

We present a statistical parallax analysis of low-mass dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We calculate absolute r-band magnitudes (M_r) as a function of color and spectral type, and investigate changes in M_r with location in the Milky Way. We find that magnetically active M dwarfs are intrinsically brighter in M_r than their inactive counterpa

Justin Khoury, Paul J. Steinhardt

Recently, we introduced an ekpyrotic model based on a single, canonical scalar field that generates nearly scale invariant curvature fluctuations through a purely "adiabatic mechanism" in which the background evolution is a dynamical attractor. Despite the starkly different physical mechanism for generating fluctuations, the two-point function is ide

Jesse M. Kinder, Jiwoong Park, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Recent measurements in single-walled carbon nanotubes show that, on resonance, all nanotubes display the same peak optical conductivity of approximately 8 $e^2/h$, independent of radius or chirality [Joh \emph{et al.}, \emph{Nature Nanotechnology} \textbf{6}, 51 (2011)]. We show that this uniform peak conductivity is a consequence of the relativistic band st

P. Benitez-Llambay, F. Masset, C. Beauge

The lower limit to the distribution of orbital periods P for the current population of close-in exoplanets shows a distinctive discontinuity located at approximately one Jovian mass. Most smaller planets have orbital periods longer than P~2.5 days, while higher masses are found down to P~1 day. We analyze whether this observed mass-period distribution could

Arjeh M. Cohen, David B. Wales

The Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebras (BMW algebras) of type En for n=6,7,8 are shown to be semisimple and free over a quotient of a polynomial algebra of ranks 1,440,585; 139,613,625; and 53,328,069,225. We also show they are cellular over suitable rings. The Brauer algebra of type En is a homomorphic ring image and is also semisimple and free of the same rank

Marcin Makowski, Edward W. Piotrowski

Our preferences depend on the circumstances in which we reveal them. We will introduce a dependency which allows us to illustrate the relation between the possibility of winning of particular candidates in a quantum election and the type of preference. It occurs that if voters start to clearly prefer one of the candidates, the significance of intransitive pr

Taylor L. Hughes, Robert G. Leigh, Eduardo Fradkin

We consider the visco-elastic response of the electronic degrees of freedom in 2D and 3D topological insulators (TI). Our primary focus is on the 2D Chern insulator which exhibits a bulk dissipationless viscosity analogous to the quantum Hall viscosity predicted in integer and fractional quantum Hall states. We show that the dissipationless viscosity is the

Eran Bouchbinder, J. S. Langer

Despite qualitative differences in their underlying physics, both hard and soft glassy materials exhibit almost identical linear rheological behaviors. We show that these nearly universal properties emerge naturally in a shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theory of amorphous plasticity, extended to include a broad distribution of internal thermal-activation bar

Sieu D. Ha, Gulgun H. Aydogdu, Shriram Ramanathan

The correlated oxide SmNiO3 (SNO) exhibits an insulator to metal transition (MIT) at 130 °C in bulk form. We report on synthesis and electron transport in SNO films deposited on LaAlO3 (LAO) and Si single crystals. X-ray diffraction studies show that compressively strained single-phase SNO grows epitaxially on LAO while on Si, mixed oxide phases are observed

Dongho Chae, Peter Constantin, Diego Córdoba, Francisco Gancedo

This paper establishes several existence and uniqueness results for two families of active scalar equations with velocity fields determined by the scalars through very singular integrals. The first family is a generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation with the velocity field $u$ related to the scalar $θ$ by $u=\nabla^\perpΛ^{β-2}θ$, where $1<β\le

Aden R. Draper, David R. Ballantyne

Telescopes like Herschel and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are creating new opportunities to study sources in the far infrared (FIR), a wavelength region dominated by cold dust emission. Probing cold dust in active galaxies allows for study of the star formation history of active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosts. The FIR is also an impor

Eric Rowland, Jeffrey Shallit

In this paper we answer the following question: what is the lexicographically least sequence over the natural numbers that avoids 3/2-powers?

M. D. Voisei, C. Zalinescu

In this note we prove that a recent result stated by D.Y. Gao and R.W. Ogden on global minimizers and local extrema in a phase transition problem is false. Our goal is achieved by providing a thorough analysis of the context and result in question and counter-examples.

W. R. Webber, D. S. Intriligator

We have extended our earlier calculations of the distance to the Heliospheric Termination Shock (HTS) - which covered the period from the launch of V1 and V2 in 1977 to 2005 - to the period from 2006 to 2011. During this latter period the solar wind speed, ram pressure and magnetic field decreased to the lowest levels in recent history, related to the sunspo

A. Papana, D. Kugiumtzis, P. G. Larsson

Measures of the direction and strength of the interdependence between two time series are evaluated and modified in order to reduce the bias in the estimation of the measures, so that they give zero values when there is no causal effect. For this, point shuffling is employed as used in the frame of surrogate data. This correction is not specific to a particu

L. S. Maglione, E. M. Schneiter, A. Costa, S. Elaskar

Using two simulations of 1.5D, for the first time, in Costa et al. (2009) and Shulz et al. (2010) we numerically reproduce the observational dark inflows described in Verwichte et al. (2005). We show that the dark tracks can be explained as hot plasma vacuums generated upstream of a slow magnetoacoustic shock wave produced by a localized deposition of energy

Timo H. Virtanen, Erkki Thuneberg

We use Fermi liquid theory to study the mechanical impedance of 3He-4He mixtures at low temperatures. The theory is applied to the case of vibrating wires, immersed in the liquid. We present numerical results based on a direct solution of Landau-Boltzmann equation for the 3He quasiparticle distribution for the full scale of the quasiparticle mean-free-path.

Adam J. Christopherson, Karim A. Malik, David R. Matravers, Kouji Nakamura

We compare and contrast two different metric based formulations of non- linear cosmological perturbation theory: the MW2009 approach in [K. A. Malik and D. Wands, Phys. Rept. 475 (2009), 1.] following Bardeen and the recent approach of the paper KN2010 [K. Nakamura, Advances in Astronomy 2010 (2010), 576273]. We present each formulation separately. In the MW

Guanfeng Liang, Nitin Vaidya

In this paper, we present an efficient deterministic algorithm for consensus in presence of Byzantine failures. Our algorithm achieves consensus on an $L$-bit value with communication complexity $O(nL + n^4 L^{0.5} + n^6)$ bits, in a network consisting of $n$ processors with up to $t$ Byzantine failures, such that $t<n/3$. For large enough $L$, communication

S. Esposito

General physical conditions for the occurrence of photonic Klein tunneling are studied, where (controlled) spontaneous emission from the devices considered plays a key role. The specific example of a simple dielectric slab bounded by two dielectric half spaces with arbitrary refractive indices is worked out quite in detail, the measured reflection and transm

CMS Collaboration

Bose-Einstein correlations between identical particles are measured in samples of proton-proton collisions at 0.9 and 7 TeV centre-of-mass energies, recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The signal is observed in the form of an enhancement of number of pairs of same-sign charged particles with small relative momentum. The dependence of this enhancement

Ph. Leininger, D. Chernyshov, A. Bosak, H. Berger

Multiple charge density wave (CDW) phases in 2H-TaSe2 are investigated by high-resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction. In a narrow temperature range immediately above the commensurate CDW transition, we observe a multi-q superstructure with coexisting commensurate and incommensurate order parameters, clearly distinct from the fully incommensurate state at

D. A. Garcia-Hernandez

The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) offer a unique opportunity to study the stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis of massive Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in low metallicity environments where distances are known. Rubidium is a key element to distinguish between high mass AGB stars and low mass AGBs or other type of astronomical objects such as massive red sup

J. Belmonte-Beitia, J. Cuevas

In this paper, we give a proof of the existence of stationary dark soliton solutions or heteroclinic orbits of nonlinear equations of Schrödinger type with periodic inhomogeneous nonlinearity. The result is illustrated with examples of dark solitons for cubic and photorefractive nonlinearities.

Alex Kim

I present an analysis for fitting cosmological parameters from a Hubble Diagram of a standard candle with unknown intrinsic magnitude dispersion. The dispersion is determined from the data themselves, simultaneously with the cosmological parameters. This contrasts with the strategies used to date. The advantages of the presented analysis are that it is done

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of the b-hadron production cross section in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV is presented. The dataset, corresponding to 85 inverse nanobarns, was recorded with the CMS experiment at the LHC using a low-threshold single-muon trigger. Events are selected by the presence of a muon with transverse momentum greater than 6 GeV with respect

F. L. Santos, Ronald Dickman, U. L. Fulco

The pair contact process (PCP) is a nonequilibrium stochastic model which, like the basic contact process (CP), exhibits a phase transition to an absorbing state. The two models belong to the directed percolation (DP) universality class, despite the fact that the PCP possesses infinitely many absorbing configurations whereas the CP has but one. The critical

Makoto Yamaguchi, Takashi Asano, Yoshiya Sato, Susumu Noda

We propose a new scheme for solid-state photonic quantum computation in which trapped photons in optical cavities are taken as a quantum bit. Quantum gates can be realized by coupling the cavities with quantum dots through waveguides. The proposed scheme allows programmable and deterministic gate operations and the system can be scaled up to many quantum bit

Michael K. -H. Kiessling

The stationary Maxwell-Born-Infeld field equations of electromagnetism with integrable regular sources in a Hoelder space are solved using a perturbation series expansion in powers of Born&#39;s electromagnetic constant. The convergence of the power series for the fields is proved with the help of Banach algebra arguments and complex analysis. The finite rad

José M. Arrieta, Marcone C. Pereira

In this paper we analyze the behavior of the Laplace operator with Neumann boundary conditions in a thin domain of the type $R^ε= \{(x,y) \in \R^2; x \in (0,1), 0 < y < εG(x, x/ε)\} $ where the function G(x,y) is periodic in y of period L. Observe that the upper boundary of the thin domain presents a highly oscillatory behavior and, moreover, the height of t

Alfredo Sota, Jesús Maíz Apellániz

The Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSSS) is an ambitious project that is observing all known Galactic O stars with B < 13 in the blue-violet part of the spectrum with R-2500. It is based on version 2 of the most complete catalog to date of Galactic O stars with accurate spectral types (v1, Maíz Apellániz et al. 2004 ;v2, Sota et al. 2008). Given the

Yajuan Sun, Hai Lin, Fuchun Liu

Bisimulation relation has been successfully applied to computer science and control theory. In our previous work, simulation-based controllability and simulation-based observability are proposed, under which the existence of bisimilarity supervisor is guaranteed. However, a given specification automaton may not satisfy these conditions, and a natural questio

Andrea Rossi

The ALICE detector was designed to track and identify particles in a wide transverse momentum range, from more than 100 GeV/c down to ~100 MeV/c. The innermost barrel-like detector, the Inner Tracking System (ITS), is dedicated to precise tracking and to primary and secondary vertices reconstruction. In this proceeding we present the ITS performance for trac

Alessandro Languasco, Alessandro Zaccagnini

Assuming that the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis (GRH) holds, we prove an explicit formula for the number of representations of an integer as a sum of $k\geq 5$ primes. Our error terms in such a formula improve by some logarithmic factors an analogous result by Friedlander-Goldston.

C. C. Thöne, S. Campana, D. Lazzati, A. de Ugarte Postigo

Long duration gamma-ray bursts are commonly associated with the deaths of massive stars. Spectroscopic studies using the afterglow as a light source provide a unique opportunity to unveil the medium surrounding it, probing the densest region of their galaxies. This material is usually in a low ionisation state and at large distances from the burst site, henc

Matteo Colangeli, Christian Maes, Bram Wynants

We consider Markovian dynamics modeling open mesoscopic systems which are driven away from detailed balance by a nonconservative force. A systematic expansion is obtained of the stationary distribution around an equilibrium reference, in orders of the nonequilibrium forcing. The first order around equilibrium has been known since the work of McLennan (1959),

Paul T. Goodall, Fathallah Alouani-Bibi, Katherine M. Blundell

We present investigations of the interaction between the relativistic, precessing jets of the microquasar SS433 with the surrounding, expanding Supernova Remnant (SNR) shell W50, and the consequent evolution in the inhomogeneous Interstellar Medium (ISM). We model their evolution using the hydrodynamic FLASH code, which uses adaptive mesh refinement. We show

Olaf Hohm

We review the recently constructed `double field theory&#39; which introduces in addition to the conventional coordinates associated to momentum modes coordinates associated to winding modes. Thereby, T-duality becomes a global symmetry of the theory, which can be viewed as an `O(D,D) covariantization&#39; of the low-energy effective space-time action of clo

N. Rea, P. G. Jonker, G. Nelemans, J. A. Pons

We report on a 63ks Chandra observation of the X-ray transient Swift J195509.6+261406 discovered as the afterglow of what was first believed to be a long duration Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB 070610). The outburst of this source was characterized by unique optical flares on timescales of second or less, morphologically similar to the short X-ray bursts usually obser

Walter Bergweiler

We show that for large classes of entire functions the Julia set and the escaping set have packing dimension two. For example, this is the case for entire functions which are bounded on a curve tending to infinity. More generally, we show that the result holds under suitable growth conditions involving the minimum and maximum modulus.

C. Feruglio, E. Daddi, F. Fiore, D. M. Alexander

We report the detection of the 6.4 keV Iron Kα emission line in two infrared-luminous, massive, star-forming BzK galaxies at z = 2.578 and z = 2.90 in the CDF-S. The Chandra 4 Ms spectra of BzK4892 and BzK8608 show a reflection dominated continuum with strong Iron lines, with rest-frame equivalent widths EW-2.3 keV and 1.2 keV, respectively, demonstrating Co

W. G. Brenna, M. H. Dehghani, R. B. Mann

We investigate the effects of including a quasi-topological cubic curvature term to the Gauss-Bonnet action to five dimensional Lifshitz gravity. We find that a new set of Lifshitz black hole solutions exist that are analogous to those obtained in third-order Lovelock gravity in higher dimensions. No additional matter fields are required to obtain solutions

Murat Adivar, Youssef N. Raffoul

In this paper, we use what we call the shift operator so that general delay dynamic equations of the form \[ x^Δ(t)=a(t)x(t)+b(t)x(δ_{-}(h,t))δ_{-}^Δ% (h,t),\ \ \ t\in\lbrack t_{0},\infty)_{\mathbb{T}}% \] can be analyzed with respect to stability and existence of solutions. By means of the shift operators we define a general delay function opening an avenue

Gang Fang, Michael Steinbach, Chad L. Myers, Vipin Kumar

Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) and its variations aim to discover collections of genes that show moderate but coordinated differences in expression. However, such techniques may be ineffective if many individual genes in a phenotype-related gene set have weak discriminative power. A potential solution is to search for combinations of genes that are high

Michel Bauer, Denis Bernard

We present a detailed study of a simple quantum stochastic process, the quantum phase space Brownian motion, which we obtain as the Markovian limit of a simple model of open quantum system. We show that this physical description of the process allows us to specify and to construct the dilation of the quantum dynamical maps, including conditional quantum expe

Xi Chen, Yao Zhou, Xi-Ming Zhu, Yi-Kang Pu

In this letter we propose a Turing model of the formation of patterns of visible light emission intensity in atmospheric pressure gas discharges. The electron density and the electron temperature take the roles of activator and inhibitor respectively in a two-reactant Turing model, with the activator diffusion coeffcient being much smaller than that of the i

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

Known as the Michanikos, Hero of Alexandria is considered the inventor of the world&#39;s first steam engine and of many other sophisticated devices. Here we discuss three of them as described in his book &#34;Pneumatica&#34;. These machines, working with water, air and fire, are clear examples of the deep knowledge of fluid dynamics reached by the Hellenist

Veit Elser

In the packing-constrained point covering problem, PC^2, one seeks configurations of points in the plane that cannot all be covered by a packing arrangement of unit disks. We consider in particular the problem of finding the minimum number of points N for which such a configuration exists and obtain the bounds 11 <= N <= 55. The disparity of these bounds is

Mahdi Asgari, Freydoon Shahidi

We establish the functorial transfer of generic, automorphic representations from the quasi-split general spin groups to general linear groups over arbitrary number fields, completing an earlier project. Our results are definitive and, in particular, we determine the image of this transfer completely and give a number of applications.

Cyrille Marquet

I discuss novel QCD phenomena recently observed in p+p, p+A and A+A collisions, that result from the non-linear dynamics of small-x gluons. I focus on di-hadron correlation measurements, as opposed to single-hadron observables often too inclusive to distinguish possible new effects from established mechanisms. Specifically, I discuss angular correlations of

Gestur Olafsson, Keng Wiboonton

We study the Segal-Bargmann transform, or the heat transform, $H_t$ for a compact symmetric space $M=U/K$. We prove that $H_t$ is a unitary isomorphism $H_t : L^2(M) \to \cH_t (M_\C)$ using representation theory and the restriction principle. We then show that the Segal-Bargmann transform behaves nicely under propagation of symmetric spaces. If $\{M_n=U_n/K_

Olivier Besson, Nicolas Dobigeon, Jean-Yves Tourneret

We consider the problem of subspace estimation in a Bayesian setting. Since we are operating in the Grassmann manifold, the usual approach which consists of minimizing the mean square error (MSE) between the true subspace $U$ and its estimate $\hat{U}$ may not be adequate as the MSE is not the natural metric in the Grassmann manifold. As an alternative, we p

Hideo Mabuchi

An optical resonator with intracavity Kerr nonlinearity can exhibit dispersive bistability suitable for all-optical switching. With nanophotonic elements it may be possible to achieve attojoule switching energies, which would be very attractive for ultra-low power operation but potentially problematic because of quantum fluctuation-induced spontaneous switch

M. Kunitomo, M. Ikoma, B. Sato, Y. Katsuta

Around low- and intermediate-mass (1.5-3 M_sun) red giants, no planets have been found inside 0.6 AU. Such a paucity is not seen in the case of 1 M_sun main sequence stars. In this study, we examine the possibility that short-period planets were engulfed by their host star evolving off the main sequence. To do so, we have simulated the orbital evolution of p

Félix Balado

A number of methods have been proposed over the last decade for encoding information using deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), giving rise to the emerging area of DNA data embedding. Since a DNA sequence is conceptually equivalent to a sequence of quaternary symbols (bases), DNA data embedding (diversely called DNA watermarking or DNA steganography) can be seen as

Jose M. Arrieta, Maria Lopez-Fernandez, Enrique Zuazua

We consider an evolution equation of parabolic type in R having a travelling wave solution. We perform an appropriate change of variables which transforms the equation into a non local evolution one having a travelling wave solution with zero speed of propagation with exactly the same profile as the original one. We analyze the relation of the new equation w

Pasquale Malacaria

Several mathematical ideas have been investigated for Quantitative Information Flow. Information theory, probability, guessability are the main ideas in most proposals. They aim to quantify how much information is leaked, how likely is to guess the secret and how long does it take to guess the secret respectively. In this paper, we show how the Lattice of In

Tomasz Korzec, Ingmar Vierhaus, Ulli Wolff

Worm algorithms have been very successful with the simulation of sigma models with fixed length spins which result from scalar field theories in the limit of infinite quartic coupling lambda. Here we investigate closer their algorithmic efficiency at finite and even vanishing lambda for the one component model in dimensions D = 2, 3, 4.

N. L. J. Cox, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, P. Garcia-Lario, A. Manchado

By tracing the distribution of cool dust in the extended envelopes of post-AGB stars and (proto)-planetary nebulae ((P)PNe) we aim to recover, or constrain, the mass loss history experienced by these stars in their recent past. The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) instrument on board the AKARI satellite was used to obtain far-infrared maps for a selected sample o

Johannes Fischer

We show how to modify the linear-time construction algorithm for suffix arrays based on induced sorting (Nong et al., DCC&#39;09) such that it computes the array of longest common prefixes (LCP-array) as well. Practical tests show that this outperforms recent LCP-array construction algorithms (Gog and Ohlebusch, ALENEX&#39;11).

S. V. Kutnii, P. I. Golod

A model with the four-fermion interaction is derived using the self-consistent field method in the low-energy limit of quantum chromodynamics. The resulting Lagrangian contains not only the trivial and chiral terms but also the interaction of the vector and pseudovector currents.

Olivier Finkel

We give in this paper additional answers to questions of Lescow and Thomas [Logical Specifications of Infinite Computations, In:&#34;A Decade of Concurrency&#34;, Springer LNCS 803 (1994), 583-621], proving new topological properties of omega context free languages : there exist some omega-CFL which are non Borel sets. And one cannot decide whether an omega-

John Iliopoulos

We trace the origin of the concept which was named by the High Energy Physics Community &#34;The Cabibbo angle&#34;

Samy Tindel, Maria Jolis, Yaozhong Hu

In this article, we derive a Stratonovich and Skorohod type change of variables formula for a multidimensional Gaussian process with low Hölder regularity (typically lower than 1/4). To this aim, we combine tools from rough paths theory and stochastic analysis.

Stéphane Baseilhac

We review the representation theory of the quantum group $U_εsl_2\mathbb{C}$ at a root of unity $ε$ of odd order, focusing on geometric aspects related to the 3-dimensional quantum hyperbolic field theories (QHFT). Our analysis relies on the quantum coadjoint action of De Concini-Kac-Procesi, and the theory of Heisenberg doubles of Poisson-Lie groups and Hop

I. Zborovský, M. V. Tokarev

Experimental data on inclusive cross sections of the hadrons produced in high energy proton-(anti)proton collisions are analyzed in the z-scaling approach. Saturation of the scaling function PSI(z) for z<0.1 (low transverse momenta) was found. The first results on charged hadron spectra in pp collisions obtained by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC have confi

O F Blanco, M Sánchez, J M M Senovilla

We give a summary of recent results on the explicit local form of the second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds in arbitrary dimension, and its global version. These spacetimes turn out to be essentially a specific subclass of plane waves.

Maryam Arabsalmani, Varun Sahni

We show how higher derivatives of the expansion factor can be developed into a null diagnostic for concordance cosmology (LCDM). It is well known that the Statefinder -- the third derivative of the expansion factor written in dimensionless form, a^{(3)}/aH^3, equals unity for LCDM. We generalize this result to higher derivatives of the expansion factor and d