March 2012 arXiv papers — page 16

Amalendu Krishna, Jinhyun Park

Based on the algebraic cobordism theory of Levine and Morel, we develop a theory of algebraic cobordism modulo algebraic equivalence. We prove that this theory can reproduce Chow groups modulo algebraic equivalence and the semi-topological $K_0$-groups. We also show that with finite coefficients, this theory agrees with the algebraic cobordism theory. We com

Rafael Roa, Félix Carrique, Emilio Ruiz-Reina

We analyze the influence of finite ion size effects in the response of a salt-free concentrated suspension of spherical particles to an oscillating electric field. Salt-free suspensions are just composed of charged colloidal particles and the added counterions released by the particles to the solution, that counterbalance their surface charge. In the frequen

Machiko Hatsuda, Tetsuji Kimura

We present an extension of the Courant bracket to the ones for Dp-branes by analyzing Hamiltonians and local superalgebras. Contrast to the basis of the bracket for a fundamental string which consists of the momentum and the winding modes, the ones for Dp-branes contain higher rank R-R coupling tensors. We show that the R-R gauge transformation rules are obt

Stephan Fackler

An interesting result by T. Kato and A. Pazy says that a contractive semigroup (T(t)) on a uniformly convex space X is holomorphic iff limsup_{t \downarrow 0} ||T(t)-Id|| < 2. We study extensions of this result which are valid on arbitrary Banach spaces for semigroups which are not necessarily contractive. This allows us to prove a general extrapolation resu

Mehmet Zeki Sarikaya

In this paper, we introduce the notion of strongly φ-convex functions with respect to c>0 and present some properties and representation of such functions. We obtain a characterization of inner product spaces involving the notion of strongly φ-convex functions. Finaly, a version of Hermite Hadamard-type inequalities for strongly φ-convex functions are establ

Hiroki Sako

We study property A defined by G. Yu and the operator norm localization property defined by X. Chen, R. Tessera, X. Wang, and G. Yu. These are coarse geometric properties for metric spaces which have applications to operator K-theory. It is proved that the two properties are equivalent for discrete metric spaces with bounded geometry.

Sarah Kendrew, Robert J. Simpson, Eli Bressert, Matthew S. Povich

The Milky Way Project citizen science initiative recently increased the number of known infrared bubbles in the inner Galactic plane by an order of magnitude compared to previous studies. We present a detailed statistical analysis of this dataset with the Red MSX Source catalog of massive young stellar sources to investigate the association of these bubbles

Sameer Agarwal, Aurojit Panda, Barzan Mozafari, Samuel Madden

In this paper, we present BlinkDB, a massively parallel, sampling-based approximate query engine for running ad-hoc, interactive SQL queries on large volumes of data. The key insight that BlinkDB builds on is that one can often make reasonable decisions in the absence of perfect answers. For example, reliably detecting a malfunctioning server using a distrib

Gabriela-Raluca Mocanu, Bulcsu Sandor

The possibility that BL Lac S5 0716+714 exhibits a linear root mean square (rms)-flux relation in its IntraDay Variability (IDV) is analysed. The results may be used as an argument in the existing debate regarding the source of optical IDV in Active Galactic Nuclei. 63 time series in different optical bands were used. A linear rms-flux relation at a confiden

S. Sivaprasad Kumar, Virendra Kumar, V. Ravichandran

A bi-univalent function is a univalent function defined on the unit disk with its inverse also univalent on the unit disk. Estimates for the initial coefficients are obtained for bi-univalent functions belonging to certain classes defined by subordination and relevant connections with earlier results are pointed out.

S. Bondarenko, K. Komoshvili

An application of the ideas of the inertial confinement fusion process in the case of particles interacting at high energy is investigated. A possibility of the gas-liquid transition in the gas is considered using different approaches. In particular, a shock wave description of interactions between particles is studied and a self-similar solution of Euler&#3

Pouria Pedram

We present exact energy spectrum and eigenfunctions of the one-dimensional hydrogen atom in the presence of the minimal length uncertainty. By requiring the self-adjointness property of the Hamiltonian, we completely determine the quantization condition. We indicate that the single-valuedness criteria of the eigenfunctions in non-deformed case is an emergent

Joseph P. Conlon

We study quantum gravity constraints on inflationary model building. Our approach is based on requiring the entropy associated to a given inflationary model to be less than that of the de Sitter entropy. We give two prescriptions for determining the inflationary entropy, based on either `bits per unit area&#39; or entanglement entropy. The existence of trans

Alexander Jung, Georg Tauböck, Franz Hlawatsch

Estimating the spectral characteristics of a nonstationary random process is an important but challenging task, which can be facilitated by exploiting structural properties of the process. In certain applications, the observed processes are underspread, i.e., their time and frequency correlations exhibit a reasonably fast decay, and approximately time-freque

Y. Ritov, P. J. Bickel, A. C. Gamst, B. J. K. Kleijn

We consider the Bayesian analysis of a few complex, high-dimensional models and show that intuitive priors, which are not tailored to the fine details of the model and the estimated parameters, produce estimators which perform poorly in situations in which good, simple frequentist estimators exist. The models we consider are: stratified sampling, the partial

Hong-Bo Chen, Yi Zhou, You-Quan Li

We study in this paper bond distortion effect on electric polarization in spiral multiferroic magnets based on cluster and chain models. The bond distortion break inversion symmetry and modify the $d$-$p$ hybridization. Consequently, it will affect electric polarization which can be divided into spin-current part and lattice-mediated part. The spin-current p

Jing Mao

Under several geometric conditions imposed below, the existence of the discrete spectrum below the essential spectrum is shown for the Dirichlet Laplacian on the quantum layer built over a spherically symmetric hypersurface with a pole embedded in the Euclidean space R4. At the end of this paper, we also show the advantage and independence of our main result

Aseel Farhat, R. Lee Panetta, Edriss S. Titi, Mohammed Ziane

We study a viscous two-layer quasi-geostrophic beta-plane model that is forced by imposition of a spatially uniform vertical shear in the eastward (zonal) component of the layer flows, or equivalently a spatially uniform north-south temperature gradient. We prove that the model is linearly unstable, but that non-linear solutions are bounded in time by a boun

Aldo V. Figallo, Gustavo Pelaitay

In 1982, L. Iturrioz introduced symmetrical Heyting algebras of order n (or SHn-algebras). In this paper, we define and study tense SHn-algebras namely, SHn-algebras endowed with two tense operators. These algebras constitute a generalization of tense Lukasiewicz-Moisil algebras. Our main interest is the duality theory for tense SHn- algebras. In order to do

Kai-Wai Wong, Gisela A. M. Dreschhoff, Högne Jungner

The 5D homogeneous space-time projection theory produces the Gell-Mann standard model, and the gluon fields together with quantum gauge constraint which is responsible for the major portion of the hadron mass as discussed previously. It was found that the SU(3) representations for the mesons and baryons together with the mass levels within each representatio

O. Paul Isikaku-Ironkwe

Predicting the transition temperature, Tc, of a superconductor from Periodic Table normal state properties is regarded as one of the grand challenges of superconductivity. By studying the correlations of Periodic Table properties with known superconductors, it is possible to estimate their transition temperatures. Starting from the isotope effect and correla

Frank W. K. Firk

The R-function theory of Thomas is used to model neutron inelastic scattering and the fine, intermediate, and gross structure observed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on a typical trading day.

Krit Salah-ddine, Zared Kamal, Qjidaa Hassan, Zouak Mohcine

A novel design for a low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator is presented and dedicated to power many sections of a typical cellular handset. However, these baseband, RF, and audio sections have different requirements that influence which LDO is most appropriate. After discussion of the specific requirements, different LDOs are recommended. Also, some LDO design

John P. Ralston

Planck&#39;s constant was introduced as a fundamental scale in the early history of quantum mechanics. We find a modern approach where Planck&#39;s constant is absent: it is unobservable except as a constant of human convention. Despite long reference to experiment, review shows that Planck&#39;s constant cannot be obtained from the data of Ryberg, Davisson

G. P. Pavlos, M. N. Xenakis, L. P. Karakatsanis, A. C. Iliopoulos

Tsallis q-extension of statistics and fractal generalization of dynamics are two faces of the same physical reality, as well as the Kernel modern complexity theory. The fractal generalization dynamics is based at the multiscale - multifractal characters of complex dynamics in the physical space-time and the complex system&#39;s dynamical phase space. Tsallis

Robin Ciardullo

The [O III] 5007 Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function (PNLF) is an excellent extragalactic standard candle. In theory, the PNLF method should not work at all, since the luminosities of the brightest planetary nebulae (PNe) should be highly sensitive to the age of their host stellar population. Yet the method appears robust, as it consistently produces < 10%

V. P. Gurarii, D. W. H. Gillam

The Euler-Gauss linear transformation formula for the hypergeometric function was extended by Goursat for the case of logarithmic singularities. By replacing the perturbed Bessel differential equation by a monodromic functional equation, and studying this equation separately from the differential equation by an appropriate Laplace-Borel technique, we associa

A. V. Isaev, N. G. Kruzhilin

By the Mather-Yau theorem, a complex hypersurface germ $V$ with isolated singularity is completely determined by its moduli algebra $A(V)$. The proof of the theorem does not provide an explicit procedure for recovering $V$ from $A(V)$, and finding such a procedure is a long-standing open problem. In this paper, we present an explicit way for reconstructing $

Alvaro Arias, Frederic Latremoliere

Noncommutative domain algebras are noncommutative analogues of the algebras of holomorphic functions on domains of $\C^n$ defined by holomorphic polynomials, and they generalize the noncommutative Hardy algebras. We present here a complete classification of these algebras based upon techniques inspired by multivariate complex analysis, and more specifically

K. S. Babu, R. N. Mohapatra

We show that grand unified theories based on SO(10) generate naturally the next-to-leading baryon number violating operators of dimension seven. These operators, which violate B-L, lead to unconventional decays of the nucleon such as n -> e^-K^+, e^- π^+ and p -> νπ^+. In two-step breaking schemes of non-supersymmetric SO(10), nucleon lifetime for decays int

Jacqueline K. Faherty, Adam J. Burgasser, Frederick M. Walter, Nicole Van der Bliek

We report parallax measurements for 70 ultracool dwarfs (UCDs). Using both literature values and our sample, we report new polynomial relations between spectral type and M$_{JHK}$. Including resolved L/T transition binaries in the relations, we find no reason to differentiate between a &#34;bright&#34; (unresolved binary) and &#34;faint&#34; (single source)

V. Smolcic, F. Navarrete, M. Aravena, O. Ilbert

We report on interferometric observations at 1.3 mm at 2&#34;-3&#34; resolution using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). We identify multi-wavelength counterparts of three submillimeter galaxies (SMGs; F(1mm)>5.5 mJy) in the COSMOS field, initially detected with MAMBO and AzTEC bolometers at low, ~10&#34;-30&#34;, resolutio

Guohong Li, Adina Luican, Dmitry Abanin, Leonid Levitov

The quantum-Hall-effect (QHE) occurs in topologically-ordered states of two-dimensional (2d) electron-systems in which an insulating bulk-state coexists with protected 1d conducting edge-states. Owing to a unique topologically imposed edge-bulk correspondence these edge-states are endowed with universal properties such as fractionally-charged quasiparticles

Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Peisi Huang, Xerxes Tata

Particle physics models with Natural Supersymmetry are characterized by a superpotential parameter μ\sim m_h \sim125$ GeV, while third generation squarks have mass <0.5-1.5 TeV. Gluinos should be lighter than several TeV so as not to destabilize the lighter squarks. First and second generation sfermions can be at the tens-of-TeV level which yields a decoupli

Silvia Galli, James G. Bartlett, Alessandro Melchiorri

The Planck cluster catalog is expected to contain of order a thousand galaxy clusters, both newly discovered and previously known, detected through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect over the redshift range 0 < z < 1. Follow-up X-ray observations of a dynamically relaxed sub-sample of newly discovered Planck clusters will improve constraints on the dark energy equ

Andrei Galiautdinov

We describe a simple, practical scheme for generating multi-qubit W states in resonator-based architectures, in which N Josephson phase qubits are capacitively coupled to a common resonator bus. The entire control sequence consists of three pulses: a local Rabi pulse that excites a single qubit in the circuit; a coupling pulse that transfers the qubit excita

Alice Stahl

Consider the following forest-fire process on a connected graph. Each site of the graph can be either occupied or vacant. A vacant site becomes occupied with rate 1. A site is ignited with rate lambda, and its whole occupied cluster burns instantaneously. The purpose of this paper is to show the existence of a stationary distribution for forest-fire processe

G. F. Bertsch

I review the phenomena associated with pairing in nuclear physics, most prominently the ubiquitous presence of odd-even mass differences and the properties of the excitation spectra, very different for even-even and odd-A nuclei. There are also significant dynamical effects of pairing, visible in the inertias associated with nuclear rotation and large-amplit

Han Zhang, Stephane Virally, Qiaoliang Bao, Kian Ping Loh

Under strong laser illumination, few-layer graphene exhibits both a transmittance increase due to saturable absorption and a nonlinear phase shift. Here, we unambiguously distinguish these two nonlinear optical effects and identify both real and imaginary parts of the complex nonlinear refractive index of graphene. We show that graphene possesses a giant non

Dragan Damjanovic, Alberto Biancoli, Leili Batooli, Amirhossein Vahabzadeh

The solid solution 0.5Ba(Ti0.8Zr0.2)O3-0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BCZT) is a promising lead-free piezoelectric material with exceptionally high piezoelectric coefficients. The strong response is related to structural instabilities close to ambient temperature. We report here on temperature-induced anomalies in the dielectric, piezoelectric, and elastic coefficient

K. V. Stepanyantz

Most calculations of quantum corrections in supersymmetric theories are made with the dimensional reduction, which is a modification of the dimensional regularization. However, it is well known that the dimensional reduction is not self-consistent. A consistent regularization, which does not break the supersymmetry, is the higher covariant derivative regular

Antonios Argyriou

In this paper, we propose a system for wireless video transmission with a wireless physical layer (PHY) that supports cooperative forwarding of interfered/superimposed packets. Our system model considers multiple and independent unicast transmissions between network nodes while a number of them serve as relays of the interfered/superimposed signals. For this

Yu. S. Eliseeva, A. Yu. Zaitsev

Let $X,X_1,...,X_n$ be independent identically distributed random variables. The paper deals with the question about the behavior of the concentration function of the random variable $\sum_{k=1}^{n}a_k X_k$ according to the arithmetic structure of coefficients $a_k$. Recently the interest to this question has increased significantly due to the study of distr

Nerses Ananikian, Hrachya Lazaryan, Mikayel Nalbandyan

We present the results of magnetic properties and entanglement of the distorted diamond chain model for azurite using pure quantum exchange interactions. The magnetic properties and concurrence as a measure of pairwise thermal entanglement have been studied by means of variational mean-field like treatment based on Gibbs-Bogoliubov inequality. Such a system

T. J. G. Apollaro, L. Banchi, A. Cuccoli, R. Vaia

Quantum-state transfer with fidelity higher than 0.99 can be achieved in the ballistic regime of an arbitrarily long one-dimensional chain with uniform nearest-neighbor interaction, except for the two pairs of mirror symmetric extremal bonds, say x (first and last) and y (second and last-but-one). These have to be roughly tuned to suitable values x ~ 2 N^{-1

Y. -C. Ghim, N. Hershkowitz

Weakly collisional Ar-O2 electronegative plasmas are investigated in a dc multidipole chamber. An electronegative core and an electropositive halo are observed. The density ratio of negative ions to electrons (α) in the nondrifting bulk is found to be 0.43. The profile of α is found using both the phase velocity of ion acoustic waves and the drift velocity o

Vincent Bérard

On a Riemannian surface, the energy of a map into a Riemannian manifold is a conformal invariant functional, and its critical points are the harmonic maps. Our main result is a generalization of this theorem when the starting manifold is even dimensional. We then build a conformal invariant functional for the maps between two Riemannian manifolds. Its critic

Hrachya B. Nersisyan, Claude Deutsch

The effects of a radiation field (RF) on the unstable modes developed in relativistic electron beam--plasma interaction are investigated assuming that $ω_{0} >ω_{p}$, where $ω_{0}$ is the frequency of the RF and $ω_{p}$ is the plasma frequency. These unstable modes are parametrically coupled to each other due to the RF and are a mix between two--stream and p

Anke D. Pohl

We characterize the Maass cusp forms for Hecke congruence subgroups of prime level as 1-eigenfunctions of a finite-term transfer operator.

Pierre Gaspard

An overview is given of recent advances in the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of quantum systems and, especially, of time-reversal symmetry relations that have been discovered in this context. The systems considered are driven out of equilibrium by time-dependent forces or by coupling to large reservoirs of particles and energy. The symmetry relations

Renaud Papoular

The IR emission spectra of molecules are deduced from the time variations of their overall electric dipole moment.

Dirk Kussin, Helmut Lenzing, Hagen Meltzer

We investigate the triangle singularity $f=x^a+y^b+z^c$, or $S=k[x,y,z]/(f)$, attached to a weighted projective line $X$ given by the weight triple $(a,b,c)$. We investigate the stable category of vector bundles on $X$ obtained from the vector bundles by factoring out all line bundles. This category is triangulated and has Serre duality. It is, moreover, nat

Netanel Ossi, Liora Bitton, Dmitri B. Gutman, A. Frydman

We compare tunneling density of states (TDOS) into two ultrathin Ag films, one uniform and one granular, for different degrees of disorder. The uniform film shows a crossover from Altshuler-Aronov (AA) zero bias anomaly to Efros Shklovskii (ES) like Coulomb gap as the disorder is increased. The granular film, on the other hand, exhibits AA behavior even deep

Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava, Gozde Ozbal

This paper aims to shed some light on the concept of virality - especially in social networks - and to provide new insights on its structure. We argue that: (a) virality is a phenomenon strictly connected to the nature of the content being spread, rather than to the influencers who spread it, (b) virality is a phenomenon with many facets, i.e. under this gen

Andrea Mondino, Tristan Rivière

The paper is devoted to the variational analysis of the Willmore, and other L^2 curvature functionals, among immersions of 2-dimensional surfaces into a compact riemannian m-manifold (M^m,h) with m>2. The goal of the paper is twofold, on one hand, we give the right setting for doing the calculus of variations (including min max methods) of such functionals f

D. H. Nickeler, J. P. Goedbloed, H. -J. Fahr

A stellar wind passing through the reverse shock is deflected into the astrospheric tail and leaves the stellar system either as a sub-Alfvenic or as a super-Alfvenic tail flow. An example is our own heliosphere and its heliotail. We present an analytical method of calculating stationary, incompressible, and field-aligned plasma flows in the astrotail of a s

Mehmet Zeki Sarikaya

In this paper, we introduce the notion of log-φ-convex functions and present some properties and representation of such functions. We obtain some results of the Hermite Hadamard inequalities for product log-φ-convex functions.

Luca Amendola, Valeria Pettorino

Stable massive neutral particles emitted by astrophysical sources undergo deflection under the gravitational potential of our own galaxy. The deflection angle depends on the particle velocity and therefore non-relativistic particles will be deflected more than relativistic ones. If these particles can be detected through neutrino telescopes, cosmic ray detec

Dieter Nickeler, Thomas Wiegelmann

Magnetohydrodynamic configurations with strong localized current concentrations and vortices play an important role for the dissipation of energy in space and astrophysical plasma. Within this work we investigate the relation between current sheets and vortex sheets in incompressible, stationary equilibria. For this approach it is helpful that the similar ma

M. A. Voronkov, J. L. Caswell, S. P. Ellingsen, S. L. Breen

We review properties of all known collisionally pumped (class I) methanol maser series based on observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Mopra radio telescope. Masers at 36, 84, 44 and 95 GHz are most widespread, while 9.9, 25, 23.4 and 104 GHz masers are much rarer, tracing the most energetic shocks. A survey of many southern m

Sebastian Burciu

It shown that any coideal subalgebra of a finite dimensional Hopf algebra is a cyclic module over the dual Hopf algebra. Using this we describe all coideal subalgebras of a cocentral abelian extension of Hopf algebras extending some results from [4].

M. A. Aukhadiev, V. H. Tepoyan

Let S be a subsemigroup of an abelian torsion-free group G. If S is a positive cone of G, then all C*-algebras generated by faithful isometrical non-unitary representations of S are canonically isomorphic. Proved by Murphy, this statement generalized the well-known theorems of Coburn and Douglas. In this note we prove the reverse. If all C*-algebras generate

B. I. Luchkov, P. D. Markin

Correlation analysis of gamma-ray burst coordinates and nearby stars, registered on 2008-2011, revealed 5 coincidences with angular accuracy better than 0.1 degree. The random probability is $7\times 10^{-7}$, so evidencing that coincident stars are indeed gamma-ray burst sources. The proposed method should be continued in order to provide their share in com

Xinwen Shu, Junxian Wang, Teng Liu, Wei Zheng

We present the result of the Chandra high-resolution observation of the Seyfert~2 galaxy NGC 7590. This object was reported to show no X-ray absorption in the low-spatial resolution ASCA data. The XMM observations show that the X-ray emission of NGC 7590 is dominated by an off-nuclear ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX) and an extended emission from the host g

Jungsoo Kim

Let $M$ be a compact orientable irreducible 3-manifold and $H$ be an unstabilized genus three Heegaard splitting of $M$. In this article, we will define a simplicial complex of weak reducing pairs for $H$ and find several properties of this complex. Using this method, we will prove that an unstabilized Heegaard splitting of genus three is critical in a certa

T. Majima, G. Santambrogio, C. Bartels, A. Terasaki

We have explored the spatial distribution of an ion cloud trapped in a linear octopole radio-frequency (rf) ion trap. The two-dimensional distribution of the column density of stored silver dimer cations was measured via photofragment-ion yields as a function of the position of the incident laser beam over the transverse cross section of the trap. The profil

Guangyue Huang, Haizhong Li

We consider gradient estimates to positive solutions of porous medium equations and fast diffusion equations: $$u_t=Δ_ϕ(u^p)$$ associated with the Witten Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds. Under the assumption that the $m$-dimensional Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature is bounded from below, we obtain gradient estimates which generalize the results in [20] and [13]

Saeedeh Jahanmirinejad, Giulia Frucci, Francesco Mattioli, Dondu Sahin

We present the experimental demonstration of a superconducting photon number resolving detector. It is based on the series connection of N superconducting nanowires, each connected in parallel to an integrated resistor. The device provides a single voltage readout, proportional to the number of photons absorbed in distinct nanowires. Clearly separated output

Yanhua Li, Zhi-Li Zhang, Jie Bao

Many social networks, e.g., Slashdot and Twitter, can be represented as directed graphs (digraphs) with two types of links between entities: mutual (bi-directional) and one-way (uni-directional) connections. Social science theories reveal that mutual connections are more stable than one-way connections, and one-way connections exhibit various tendencies to b

Xianbo Xiao, Yuguang Chen

A scheme for a spin-polarized current separator is proposed by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of a fork-shaped nanostructure with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), connected to three leads with the same width. It is found that two spin-polarized currents are of the same magnitude but opposite polarizations can be generated simultaneously in t

Zhonghui Xu, Xianbo Xiao, Yuguang Chen

A scheme for a spin polarization direction switch is investigated by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of an asymmetrical quantum wire (QW) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). It is found that the magnitude of the spin-polarized current in the backward biased case is equal to it in the forward biased case but their signs are contrary. This re

Zhi Li, Robert Laskowski, Toshiaki Iitaka, Takami Tohyama

Motivated by recent discovery of ferromagnetism in cubic perovskite BaFeO3 under small magnetic field, we investigate spin order in BaFeO3 and isostructual SrFeO3 by the first principles calculation. The on-site Coulomb and exchange interactions are necessary for the helical spin order consistent with experiments. SrFeO3 exhibits stable G-type helical order,

Mark Freidlin, Wenqing Hu

Nearly-elastic model systems with one or two degrees of freedom are considered: the system is undergoing a small loss of energy in each collision with the &#34;wall&#34;. We show that instabilities in this purely deterministic system lead to stochasticity of its long-time behavior. Various ways to give a rigorous meaning to the last statement are considered.

Chengqing Li, Yu Zhang, Rong Ou, Kwok-Wo Wong

Recently, a colour image encryption algorithm based on chaos was proposed by cascading two position permutation operations and one substitution operation, which are all determined by some pseudo-random number sequences generated by iterating the Logistic map. This paper evaluates the security level of the encryption algorithm and finds that the position perm

Xianbo Xiao, Huili Li, Guanghui Zhou, Nianhua Liu

We investigate theoretically the spin-dependent electron transport in a Rashba quantum wire with rough edges. The charge and spin conductances are calculated as function of the electron energy or the wire length by adopting the spinresolved lattice Green function method. For a single disordered Rashba wire, it is found that the charge conductance quantizatio

Ton Kloks

Koivisto studied the partitioning of sets of bounded cardinality. We improve his time analysis somewhat, for the special case of triangle partitions, and obtain a slight improvement.

X. B. Xiao, F. Li, Y. G. Chen, N. H. Liu

The local spin polarisation (LSP) of electrons in two typical semiconductor nanowires under the modulation of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is investigated theoretically. The influence of both the SOI- and structure-induced bound states on the LSP is taken into account via the spin-resolved lattice Green function method. It is discovered that high spin

Joachim Hilgert, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Jan Möllers, Bent Ørsted

For any Hermitian Lie group G of tube type we construct a Fock model of its minimal representation. The Fock space is defined on the minimal nilpotent K_C-orbit X in p_C and the L^2-inner product involves a K-Bessel function as density. Here K is a maximal compact subgroup of G, and g_C=k_C+p_C is a complexified Cartan decomposition. In this realization the

L. Motyka, M. Sadzikowski, W. Slominski

We study a twist decomposition of diffractive structure functions in the diffractive deep inelastic scattering (DDIS) at HERA. At low Q2 and at large energy the data exhibit a strong excess, up to about 100%, above the twist 2 NLO DGLAP description. The excess in consistent with higher twist effects. It is found, that complementing the DGLAP fit by twist 4 a

William W. Tipton, Neil D. Drummond, Richard G. Hennig

Quantum Monte Carlo methods provide in principle an accurate treatment of the many-body problem of the ground and excited states of condensed systems. In practice, however, uncontrolled errors such as those arising from the fixed-node and pseudopotential approximations often limit the quality of results. We show that the accuracy of quantum Monte Carlo calcu

Stephen Bigelow

We give a new construction of the one-variable Alexander polynomial of an oriented knot or link, and show that it generalizes to a vector valued invariant of oriented tangles.

Charles L. Epstein

We prove the relative index conjecture, which in turn implies that the set of embeddable deformations of a strictly pseudoconvex CR-structure on a compact 3-manifold is closed in the C\infty-topology.

K. J. H. Law, A. M. Stuart

Data assimilation leads naturally to a Bayesian formulation in which the posterior probability distribution of the system state, given the observations, plays a central conceptual role. The aim of this paper is to use this Bayesian posterior probability distribution as a gold standard against which to evaluate various commonly used data assimilation algorith

David I. Ketcheson

Strong stability preserving (SSP) integrators for initial value ODEs preserve temporal monotonicity solution properties in arbitrary norms. All existing SSP methods, including implicit methods, either require small step sizes or achieve only first order accuracy. It is possible to achieve more relaxed step size restrictions in the discretization of hyperboli

Elena A. Kudryavtseva

For integrable Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom whose Hamiltonian vector fields have incomplete flows, an analogue of the Liouville theorem is established. A canonical Liouville fibration is defined by means of an &#34;exact&#34; 2-parameter family of flat polygons equipped with certain pairing of sides. For the integrable Hamiltonian systems

Orsolya Gereben, Laszlo Pusztai

An approach has been devised and tested for preserving the molecular geometry and taking into account energetic considerations during Reverse Monte Carlo modeling. Instead of the commonly used fixed neighbour constraints, where molecules are held together by constraining distance ranges available for the specified atom pairs, here molecules are kept together

Qiao Li, Rohit Negi, Marija D. Ilic

Large-scale integration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) in power systems can cause severe issues to the existing distribution system, such as branch congestions and significant voltage drops. As a consequence, smart charging strategies are crucial for the secure and reliable operation of the power system. This paper tries to achieve high penetration level

Julien Barral, Rémi Rhodes, Vincent Vargas

In this note, we make explicit the law of the renormalized supercritical branching random walk, giving credit to a conjecture formulated in a previous works of the authors for a continuous analog of the branching random walk. Also, in the case of a branching random walk on a homogeneous tree, we express the law of the corresponding limiting renormalized Gibb

Martin Pelikan, Mark W. Hauschild, Pier Luca Lanzi

An automated technique has recently been proposed to transfer learning in the hierarchical Bayesian optimization algorithm (hBOA) based on distance-based statistics. The technique enables practitioners to improve hBOA efficiency by collecting statistics from probabilistic models obtained in previous hBOA runs and using the obtained statistics to bias future

Reynald Lercier, Christophe Ritzenthaler, Jeroen Sijsling

We show how to speed up the computation of isomorphisms of hyperelliptic curves by using covariants. We also obtain new theoretical and practical results concerning models of these curves over their field of moduli.

Ozlem Cavus, Andrzej Ruszczynski

We use Markov risk measures to formulate a risk-averse version of the undiscounted total cost problem for a transient controlled Markov process. We derive risk-averse dynamic programming equations and we show that a randomized policy may be strictly better than deterministic policies, when risk measures are employed. We illustrate the results on an optimal s

M. Hull, D. Osin

Let G be a group, H a hyperbolically embedded subgroup of G, V a normed G-module, U an H-invariant submodule of V. We propose a general construction which allows to extend 1-quasi-cocycles on H with values in U to 1-quasi-cocycles on G with values in V. As an application, we show that every group G with a non-degenerate hyperbolically embedded subgroup has d

Shayak Bhattacharjee

In this work we use classical electromagnetism to analyse a three-phase induction motor. We first cast the motor as a boundary value problem involving two phenomenological time-constants. These are derived from the widely used equivalent circuit model of the induction motor. We then use an iterative procedure to evaluate these constants and obtain the motor

Pierre Bérard, Philippe Castillon

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We give a direct combinatorial proof of a famous identity, $$ \sum_{i+j=n} m{2i}{i} \binom{2j}{j} = 4^n $$ by actually counting pairs of $k$-subsets of $2k$-sets. Then we discuss two different generalizations of the identity, and end the paper by presenting in explicit form the ordinary generating function of the sequence $(\strut\binom{2n+k}{n})_{n\in\mathd

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