arXiv papers from April 2012

J. B. Elliott

An analysis of marathon pacing and elevation change is presented. It is based on an empirical observation of how the pace of elite and non-elite marathon runners change over the course of the marathon and a simple approximation of the energy cost of ascent and decent. It was observed that the pace of the runners slowed in a regular manner that could be broke

Simone Calamai, Kai Zheng

In this paper, we study the Dirichlet problem of the geodesic equation in the space of K\"ahler cone metrics $\mathcal H_\b$; that is equivalent to a homogeneous complex Monge-Amp\`ere equation whose boundary values consist of K\"ahler metrics with cone singularities. Our approach concerns the generalization of the space defined in Donaldson \cite{MR2975584}

G. A. MacLachlan, A. Shenoy, E. Sonbas, K. S. Dhuga

We present a direct link between the minimum variability time scales extracted through a wavelet decomposition and the rise times of the shortest pulses extracted via fits of 34 Fermi GBM GRB light curves comprised of 379 pulses. Pulses used in this study were fitted with log-normal functions whereas the wavelet technique used employs a multiresolution analy

Benjamin Basso

In this paper, we examine scaling dimensions at small spin in the so-called sl(2) sector of the planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We find that the Bethe ansatz equations, which control the spectrum of scaling dimensions, greatly simplify in this limit and can be solved exactly.

Mohammed Abouzaid, Denis Auroux, Ludmil Katzarkov

We consider mirror symmetry for (essentially arbitrary) hypersurfaces in (possibly noncompact) toric varieties from the perspective of the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow (SYZ) conjecture. Given a hypersurface $H$ in a toric variety $V$ we construct a Landau-Ginzburg model which is SYZ mirror to the blowup of $V\times\mathbb{C}$ along $H\times 0$, under a positivity a

Tony Mroczkowski, Simon Dicker, Jack Sayers, Erik D. Reese

We present 90, 140, and 268GHz sub-arcminute resolution imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) in MACSJ0717.5+3745. Our 90GHz SZE data result in a sensitive, 34uJy/bm map at 13" resolution using MUSTANG. Our 140 and 268GHz SZE imaging, with resolutions of 58" and 31" and sensitivities of 1.8 and 3.3mJy/beam respectively, was obtained using Bolocam. W

W. S. Lee, A. P. Sorini, M. Yi, Y. D. Chuang

We performed resonant soft X-ray diffraction on known charge density wave (CDW) compounds, rare earth tri-tellurides. Near the $M_5$ (3d - 4f) absorption edge of rare earth ions, an intense diffraction peak is detected at a wavevector identical to that of CDW state hosted on Te$_2$ planes, indicating a CDW-induced modulation on the rare earth ions. Surprisin

N. V. Krylov

We prove the dynamic programming principe for uniformly nondegenerate stochastic differential games in the framework of time-homogeneous diffusion processes considered up to the first exit time from a domain. In contrast with previous results established for constant stopping times we allow arbitrary stopping times and randomized ones as well. There is no as

Kenneth L Baker, Cameron Gordon, John Luecke

Let K' be a hyperbolic knot in S^3 and suppose that some Dehn surgery on K' with distance at least 3 from the meridian yields a 3-manifold M of Heegaard genus 2. We show that if M does not contain an embedded Dyck's surface (the closed non-orientable surface of Euler characteristic -1), then the knot dual to the surgery is either 0-bridge or 1-bridge with re

N. V. Krylov

We prove the dynamic programming principe for uniformly nondegenerate stochastic differential games in the framework of time-homogeneous diffusion processes considered up to the first exit time from a domain. The zeroth-order "coefficient" and the "free" term are only assumed to be measurable. In contrast with previous results established for constant stoppi

Soummya Kar, Jose' M. F. Moura, H. Vincent Poor

The paper considers a class of multi-agent Markov decision processes (MDPs), in which the network agents respond differently (as manifested by the instantaneous one-stage random costs) to a global controlled state and the control actions of a remote controller. The paper investigates a distributed reinforcement learning setup with no prior information on the

Kazutoshi Ohta, Yutaka Yoshida

We derive non-Abelian localization formulae for supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory with matters on a Seifert manifold M, which is the three-dimensional space of a circle bundle over a two-dimensional Riemann surface \Sigma, by using the cohomological approach introduced by Kallen. We find that the partition function and the vev of the supersymmetr

John Voight, John Willis

We exhibit a method to numerically compute power series expansions of modular forms on a cocompact Fuchsian group, using the explicit computation a fundamental domain and linear algebra.

Ankur Moitra

Here, we give an algorithm for deciding if the nonnegative rank of a matrix $M$ of dimension $m \times n$ is at most $r$ which runs in time $(nm)^{O(r^2)}$. This is the first exact algorithm that runs in time singly-exponential in $r$. This algorithm (and earlier algorithms) are built on methods for finding a solution to a system of polynomial inequalities (

M. A. Shapiro, S. Trendafilov, Y. Urzhumov, A. Alu

A novel active negative index metamaterial that derives its gain from an electron beam is intro- duced. The metamaterial consists of a stack of equidistant parallel metal plates perforated by a periodic array of holes shaped as complementary split-ring resonators. It is shown that this structure supports a negative-index transverse magnetic electromagnetic m

Mateusz Ujma, Nastaran Shafiei

One of the main challenges when verifying multi-threaded Java applications is the state space explosion problem. Due to thread interleavings, the number of states that the model checker has to verify can grow rapidly and impede the feasibility of verification. In the Java language, the source of thread interleavings can be the system under test as well as th

P. D. Grigoriev, M. V. Kartsovnik, W. Biberacher

The field dependence of interlayer magnetoresistance of the pressurized (to the normal state) layered organic metal $\alpha $-(BEDT-TTF)$_{2}$KHg(SCN)$_{4}$ is investigated. The high quasi-two-dimensional anisotropy, when the interlayer hopping time is longer than the electron mean-free time and than the cyclotron period, leads to a dimensional crossover and

Eyal Cohen, Shlomi Dolev, Sergey Frenkel, Boris Kryzhanovsky

We report the first steps in creating an optical computing system. This system may solve NP-Hard problems by utilizing a setup of exponential sized masks. This is exponential space complexity but the production of those masks is done with a polynomial time preprocessing. These masks are later used to solve the problem in polynomial time. We propose to reduce

Peter Sturrock, Markus J. Aschwanden

The recent discovery of PeV electrons from the Crab nebula, produced on rapid time scales of one day or less with a sharply peaked gamma-ray spectrum without hard X-rays, challenges traditional models of diffusive shock acceleration followed by synchrotron radiation. Here we outline an accleration model involving a DC electric field parallel to the magnetic

Fergal Reid, Aaron McDaid, Neil Hurley

K-clique percolation is an overlapping community finding algorithm which extracts particular structures, comprised of overlapping cliques, from complex networks. While it is conceptually straightforward, and can be elegantly expressed using clique graphs, certain aspects of k-clique percolation are computationally challenging in practice. In this paper we in

David M. Bradley, Xia Zhou

We prove that any Mordell-Tornheim sum with positive integer arguments can be expressed as a rational linear combination of multiple zeta values of the same weight and depth. By a result of Tsumura, it follows that any Mordell-Tornheim sum with weight and depth of opposite parity can be expressed as a rational linear combination of products of multiple zeta

David Rosenbaum

We show that the depth of quantum circuits in the realistic architecture where a classical controller determines which local interactions to apply on the kD grid Z^k where k >= 2 is the same (up to a constant factor) as in the standard model where arbitrary interactions are allowed. This allows minimum-depth circuits (up to a constant factor) for the nearest

Jianjun Jia, Andrew Ptak, Timothy Heckman, Valentina Braito

We present a {\it Chandra} observation of IRAS 19254--7245, a nearby ULIRG also known as {\it the Superantennae}. The high spatial resolution of {\it Chandra} allows us to disentangle for the first time the diffuse starburst emission from the embedded Compton-thick AGN. The 2-10 keV spectrum of the AGN emission is fitted by a flat power-law $\Gamma=1.3$) and

Yu Qiu

Let $Q$ be an acyclic quiver and $\mathbf{s}$ be a sequence with elements in the vertex set $Q_0$. We describe an induced sequence of simple (backward) tilting in the bounded derived category $\mathcal{D}(Q)$, starting from the standard heart $\mathcal{H}_Q=\operatorname{mod}\mathbf{k}Q$ and ending at another heart $\mathcal{H}_\mathbf{s}$ in $\mathcal{D}(Q)

Jianjun Jia, Andrew Ptak, Timothy Heckman, Nadia Zakamska

(Abridged) We analyzed the {\it Chandra} and {\it XMM-Newton} archival observations for 72 type 2 quasars at $z<1$. These objects were was selected based on the [O III]$\lambda$5007 optical emission line which we assume to be an approximate indicator of the intrinsic AGN luminosity. We find that the means of the column density and photon index of our sample

Rui Jiang, Lin-Lin Wang, Mianliang Huang, R. S. Dhaka

We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to study non-trivial surface state in psuedobinary Bi2Se0.6Te2.3 topological insulator. We show that unlike previously studied binaries, this is an intrinsic topological insulator with conduction bulk band residing well above the chemical potential. Our data indicates that under good vacuum condition there are

A. M. Zagoskin, S. Savel'ev, Franco Nori, F. V. Kusmartsev

The availability of controllable macroscopic devices, which maintain quantum coherence over relatively long time intervals, for the first time allows an experimental realization of many effects previously considered only as Gedankenexperiments, such as the operation of quantum heat engines. The theoretical efficiency \eta of quantum heat engines is restricte

Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman

Since there is, in principle, no reason why third parties should not pay individuals for the use of their data, we introduce a realistic market that would allow these payments to be made while taking into account the privacy attitude of the participants. And since it is usually important to use unbiased samples to obtain credible statistical results, we exam

R. E. Mason, E. Lopez-Rodriguez, C. Packham, A. Alonso-Herrero

We present high-resolution mid-infrared (MIR) imaging, nuclear spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and archival Spitzer spectra for 22 low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN; Lbol \lesssim 10^42 erg/sec). Infrared (IR) observations may advance our understanding of the accretion flows in LLAGN, the fate of the obscuring torus at low accretion rates, an

C. Gałan, M. Mikołajewski, T. Tomov, D. Graczyk

Two observational campaigns were carried out during the eclipses of EE Cep in 2003 and 2008/9 to verify whether the eclipsing body in the system is indeed a dark disk and to understand the observed changes in the depth and durations of the eclipses. Multicolour photometric data and spectroscopic observations at both low and high resolution were collected. We

Ignatios Antoniadis, George Savvidy

In the model of extended non-Abelian tensor gauge fields we have found new metric-independent densities: the exact (2n+3)-forms and their secondary characteristics, the (2n+2)-forms as well as the exact 6n-forms and the corresponding secondary (6n-1)-forms. These forms are the analogs of the Pontryagin densities: the exact 2n-forms and Chern-Simons secondary

Ronen Vosk, Ehud Altman

We formulate a dynamical real space renormalization group approach to describe the time evolution of a random spin-1/2 chain, or interacting fermions, initialized in a state with fixed particle positions. Within this approach we identify a many-body localized state of the chain as a dynamical infinite randomness fixed point. Near this fixed point our method

R. Paul Horja

We generalize the combinatorial description of the orbifold (Chen--Ruan) cohomology and of the Grothendieck ring of a Deligne--Mumford toric stack and its associated stacky fan in a lattice $N$ in the presence of a deformation parameter $\beta \in N \otimes {\mathbb C}.$ As an application, we construct a topological mirror symmetry map that produces a comple

Gemma J. Anderson, David J. Mulryne, David Seery

We use transport techniques to calculate the trispectrum produced in multiple-field inflationary models with canonical kinetic terms. Our method allows the time evolution of the local trispectrum parameters, tauNL and gNL, to be tracked throughout the inflationary phase. We illustrate our approach using examples. We give a simplified method to calculate the

Xiao Wang, Jinglai Shen

This paper addresses the problem of estimating a convex regression function under both the sup-norm risk and the pointwise risk using B-splines. The presence of the convex constraint complicates various issues in asymptotic analysis, particularly uniform convergence analysis. To overcome this difficulty, we establish the uniform Lipschitz property of optimal

Marc P. Bellon, Fidel A. Schaposnik

We consider the effects of higherloop corrections to a Schwinger--Dyson equations for propagators. This is made possible by the efficiency of the methods we developed in preceding works, still using the supersymmetric Wess--Zumino model as a laboratory. We obtain the dominant contributions of the three and four loop primitive divergences at high order in per

E. P. Farina, R. Decarli, R. Falomo, A. Treves

We investigate the optical spectral properties of the blazar PKS 1222+216 during a period of 3 years. While the continuum is highly variable the broad line emission is practically constant. This supports a scenario in which the broad line region is not affected by jet continuum variations. We thus infer the thermal component of the continuum from the line lu

Magnus Goffeng, Olaf Lechtenfeld

The moduli-space metric in the static non-Abelian charge-two sector of the Moyal-deformed CP^1 sigma model in 1+2 dimensions is analyzed. After recalling the commutative results of Ward and Ruback and the zeta-regularized construction of the noncommutative K"ahler potential due to the second author, explicit expressions and asymptotics for it are presented a

M. Hanussek, J. S. Kim

Within the R-parity violating minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), we use a hierarchical ansatz for the lepton-number violating trilinear Yukawa couplings by relating them to the corresponding Higgs-Yukawa couplings. This ansatz reduces the number of free parameters in the lepton-number violating sector from 36 to 6. Baryon-number violating terms ar

Nikolay Gromov

In this note we give a simple derivation of the exact slope function conjectured by Basso for the anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators in the sl2 sector of planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory. We also discuss generalizations of this result for higher charges and other sectors.

Janice C. Lee, C. Ly, L. Spitler, I. Labbe

We present first results from a narrowband imaging program for intermediate redshift emission-line galaxies using the newly commissioned FourStar infrared camera at the 6.5m Magellan telescope. To enable prompt identification of H\alpha\ emitters, a pair of custom 1% filters, which sample low-airglow atmospheric windows at 1.19 \mu m and 2.10 \mu m, is used

Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, Luigi C. Gallo, Wolfgang P. Gieren

New X-ray (XMM-Newton) and JHKs (OMM) observations for members of the star cluster Alessi 95, which Turner et al.(2012) discovered hosts the classical Cepheid SU Cas, were used in tandem with UCAC3 (proper motion) and 2MASS observations to determine precise cluster parameters: E(J-H)=0.08+-0.02 and d=405+-15 pc. The ensuing consensus among cluster, pulsation

M. L. Graham, D. J. Sand, C. J. Bildfell, C. J. Pritchet

We present 7 spectroscopically confirmed Type II cluster supernovae (SNeII) discovered in the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey, a supernova survey targeting 57 low redshift 0.05 < z < 0.15 galaxy clusters with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. We find the rate of Type II supernovae within the virial radius of these galaxy clusters to be 0.026 (+0.085 -0.0

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Pouyan Ghaemi, Shinsei Ryu

Spatially varying strain patterns can qualitatively alter the electronic properties of graphene, acting as effective valley-dependent magnetic fields and giving rise to pseudo-Landau-level (PLL) quantization. Here, we show that the strain-induced magnetic field is one component of an SU(2) non-Abelian gauge field within the low-energy theory of graphene, and

Joshua Berger, Jay Hubisz, Maxim Perelstein

Naturalness demands that the quadratic divergence of the one-loop top contribution to the Higgs mass be cancelled at a scale below 1 TeV. This can be achieved by introducing a fermionic (spin-1/2) top partner, as in, for example, Little Higgs models. In this paper, we study the phenomenology of a simple model realizing this mechanism. We present the current

David B. Henley, Kyujin Kwak, Robin L. Shelton

In order to determine if the material ablated from high-velocity clouds (HVCs) is a significant source of low-velocity high ions (C IV, N V, and O VI) such as those found in the Galactic halo, we simulate the hydrodynamics of the gas and the time-dependent ionization evolution of its carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen ions. Our suite of simulations examines the ab

Marco Farina, Christophe Grojean, Ennio Salvioni

Electroweak precision measurements established that custodial symmetry is preserved to a good accuracy in the gauge sector after electroweak symmetry breaking. However, recent LHC results might be interpreted as pointing towards Higgs couplings that do not respect such symmetry. Motivated by this possibility, we reconsider the presence of an explicitly custo

Eric D. Lopez, Jonathan J. Fortney, Neil K. Miller

We use models of thermal evolution and XUV-driven mass loss to explore the composition and history of low-mass low-density transiting planets. We investigate the Kepler-11 system in detail and provide estimates of both the current and past planetary compositions. We find that a H/He atmosphere on Kepler-11b is highly vulnerable to mass loss. By comparing to

Conor Mancone, Anthony Gonzalez

We present EzGal, a flexible python program designed to easily generate observable parameters (magnitudes, colors, mass-to-light ratios) for any stellar population synthesis (SPS) model. As has been demonstrated by various authors, the choice of input SPS models can be a significant source of systematic uncertainty. A key strength of EzGal is that it enables

Romain Bouchand, Alexander Merle

We study the renormalization group equations of Ma's scotogenic model, which generates an active neutrino mass at 1-loop level. In addition to other benefits, the main advantage of the mechanism exploited in this model is to lead to a natural loop-suppression of the neutrino mass, and therefore to an explanation for its smallness. However, since the structur

Alejandro Ibarra, Sergio López Gehler, Miguel Pato

The observation of a sharp spectral feature in the gamma-ray sky would be one of the cleanest ways to identify dark matter and pinpoint its properties. Over the years a lot of attention has been paid to two specific features, namely gamma-ray lines and internal bremsstrahlung. Here, we explore a third class of spectral signatures, box-shaped gamma-ray spectr

J. Kamenetzky, J. Glenn, N. Rangwala, P. Maloney

We present new Herschel-SPIRE imaging spectroscopy (194-671 microns) of the bright starburst galaxy M82. Covering the CO ladder from J=4-3 to J=13-12, spectra were obtained at multiple positions for a fully sampled ~ 3 x 3 arcminute map, including a longer exposure at the central position. We present measurements of 12CO, 13CO, [CI], [NII], HCN, and HCO+ in

Sho Yaida

For noninteracting particles moving in a Gaussian random potential, there exists a disagreement in the literature on the asymptotic expression for the density of states in the tail of the band. We resolve this discrepancy. Further we illuminate the physical facet of instantons appearing in replica and supersymmetric derivations with another derivation employ

J. Farihi, B. T. Gänsicke, M. C. Wyatt, J. Girven

A re-evaluation of time-averaged accretion rates at DBZ-type white dwarfs points to historical, time-averaged rates significantly higher than the currently observed episodes at their DAZ counterparts. The difference between the ongoing, instantaneous accretion rates witnessed at DAZ white dwarfs, which often exceed 1e8 g/s, and those inferred over the past 1

Stephen R. Taylor, Jonathan R. Gair

We explore the prospects for constraining cosmology using gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron-star binaries by the proposed Einstein Telescope (ET), exploiting the narrowness of the neutron-star mass function. Double neutron-star (DNS) binaries are expected to be one of the first sources detected after "first-light" of Advanced LIGO and are expec

Simon Friederich

The paper discusses objections against non-hidden variable versions of the epistemic conception of quantum states - the view that quantum states do not describe the properties of quantum systems but reflect, in some way to be specified, the epistemic conditions of agents assigning them. In the first half of the paper, the main motivation for the epistemic co

Xian O. Camanho, Jose D. Edelstein, Gaston Giribet, Andres Gomberoff

We set forth a new type of phase transition that might take place in gravitational theories whenever higher-curvature corrections are considered. It can be regarded as a sophisticated version of the Hawking-Page transition, mediated by the nucleation of a bubble in anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. The bubble hosts a black hole in its interior, and separates two s

ATLAS Collaboration

The results of a search for pair production of the lighter scalar partners of top quarks in 2.05 fb-1 of pp collisions at sqrt(s) =7 TeV using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are reported. Scalar top quarks are searched for in events with two same flavour opposite-sign leptons (electrons or muons) with invariant mass consistent with the Z boson mass, large m

Robert Brame, Michael G. Turner, Raymond Paternoster

We consider the problem of estimating the incidence of residential burglaries that occur over a well-defined period of time within the 10 most populous cities in North Carolina. Our analysis typifies some of the general issues that arise in estimating and comparing local crime rates over time and for different cities. Typically, the only information we have

G. Kaehler, A. J. Wagner

In this paper we show that standard implementations of fluctuating Lattice Boltzmann methods do not obey Galilean invariance at a fundamental level. In trying to remedy this we are led to a novel kind of multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann methods where the collision matrix depends on the local velocity. This new method is conceptually elegant but numeri

Christian Hilaire

We show that, given an immortal solution to the Ricci flow on a closed manifold with uniformly bounded curvature and diameter, the Ricci tensor goes to zero as t goes to infinity. We also show that if there exists an immortal solution on a closed 3-dimensional manifold such that the product of the square of the diameter with the norm of the curvature tensor

P. H. Lundow, I. A. Campbell

The Fortuin-Kasteleyn and heat-bath damage spreading temperatures T_{FK}(p) and T_{ds}(p) are studied on random bond Ising models of dimension two to five and as functions of the ferromagnetic interaction probability p; the conjecture that T_{ds}(p) ~ T_{FK}(p) is tested. It follows from a statement by Nishimori that in any such system exact coordinates can

Isaac M. Sonin

We count the number and patterns of pairs and tuples of independent events in a simple random experiment: first a fair coin is flipped and then a fair die is tossed. The first number, equal to 888,888, suggest that there are some open questions about the structure of independence even in a finite sample space. We discuss briefly these questions and possible

Sarah Tumasz, Jean-Luc Thiffeault

A convenient measure of a map or flow's chaotic action is the topological entropy. In many cases, the entropy has a homological origin: it is forced by the topology of the space. For example, in simple toral maps, the topological entropy is exactly equal to the growth induced by the map on the fundamental group of the torus. However, in many situations the n

Krit Salahddine, Laassiri Jalal, El Hajji Said

This paper present a survey and discussion of the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) viewpoints; oriented approaches to requirements engineering viewpoint and a presentation of new work in the application wireless mobile phone, this area which has been designed with practical application using the Unified Modelling Language (UML)/VHDL_A

Oleg Bogopolski, Olga Maslakova

We prove that for any automorphism $\alpha$ of a free group F of finite rank, one can efficiently compute a basis of the fixed point subgroup Fix(\alpha).

Wen-Long Jin

The kinematic wave model of traffic flow on a road network is a system of hyperbolic conservation laws, for which the Riemann solver is of physical, analytical, and numerical importance. In this paper, we present a Riemann solver at a general network junction. In the Riemann solver, we replace the entropy condition in [25] by a local, discrete flux function

Steve Geer, Mike Zisman

The Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) is described, along with its first year of accomplishments.

Serguei A. Mokhov, Yankui Sun

We overview the existing OCT work, especially the practical aspects of it. We create a novel algorithm for 3D OCT segmentation with the goals of speed and/or accuracy while remaining flexible in the design and implementation for future extensions and improvements. The document at this point is a running draft being iteratively "developed" as a progress repor

D. Mihalcea, P. Piot, P. Stoltz

An electron bunch passing through dielectric-lined waveguide generates $\check{C}$erenkov radiation that can result in high-peak axial electric field suitable for acceleration of a subsequent bunch. Axial field beyond Gigavolt-per-meter are attainable in structures with sub-mm sizes depending on the achievement of suitable electron bunch parameters. A promis

Richard Steiner

We give a simple algebraic description of opetopes in terms of chain complexes, and we show how this description is related to combinatorial descriptions in terms of treelike structures. More generally, we show that the chain complexes associated to higher categories generate graphlike structures. The algebraic description gives a relationship between the op

Akira Ishida, Shunsuke Teraguchi

We investigate a classical open-closed string field theory whose open string sector is given by boundary string field theory. The open-closed interaction is introduced by the overlap of a boundary state with a closed string field. With the help of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, the closed string sector is determined to be the HIKKO closed string field the

N. V. Mokhov, S. I. Striganov

Physics goals of a Muon Collider (MC) can only be reached with appropriate design of the ring, interaction region (IR), high-field superconducting magnets, machine -detector interface (MDI) and detector. Results of the most recent realistic simulation studies are presented for a 1.5-TeV MC. It is shown that appropriately designed IR and MDI with sophisticate

ATLAS Collaboration

In this paper, a measurement of tau polarization in W->taunu decays is presented. It is measured from the energies of the decay products in hadronic tau decays with a single final state charged particle. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 24 pb^-1, were collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2010. The measured v

Radu Grigore

This dissertation discusses several problems loosely related, because they all involve a verification condition generator. The Boogie language is introduced; the architecture of a verification-generator is described. Then come more interesting parts. (1) Moving to a passive form representation can be seen as an automatic transformation into a pure functional

K. Grove-Rasmussen, S. Grap, J. Paaske, K. Flensberg

By means of sequential and cotunneling spectroscopy, we study the tunnel couplings between metallic leads and individual levels in a carbon nanotube quantum dot. The levels are ordered in shells consisting of two doublets with strong- and weak-tunnel couplings, leading to gate-dependent level renormalization. By comparison to a one- and two-shell model, this

Hu Ding, Jinhui Xu

Projective clustering is a problem with both theoretical and practical importance and has received a great deal of attentions in recent years. Given a set of points $P$ in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ space, projective clustering is to find a set $\mathbb{F}$ of $k$ lower dimensional $j$-flats so that the average distance (or squared distance) from points in $P$ to thei

Chris Biemesderfer

Over the past two decades, every scholarly publisher has migrated at least the mechanical aspects of their journal publishing so that they utilize digital means. The academy was comfortable with that for a while, but publishers are under increasing pressure to adapt further. At the American Astronomical Society (AAS), we think that means bringing our publish

Kevin Ford, Sergei Konyagin, Youness Lamzouri

We show, for any $q\ge 3$ and distinct reduced residues $a,b \pmod q$, the existence of certain hypothetical sets of zeros of Dirichlet $L$-functions lying off the critical line implies that $\pi(x;q,a)<\pi(x;q,b)$ for a set of real $x$ of asymptotic density 1.

Yu-chung Chen

In order to discuss and obtain the remaining inflaton potential, we introduced an idea called "effective static friction" in our last paper to balance the "force", $\frac{dV}{d\phi}|_{\phi=\phi(t_{rest})}$, of inflaton. According to this idea, we now discover that, after the course of particle creation, there will be a relationship between the final relativi

Abraham Isgur, Vitaly Kuznetsov, Stephen M. Tanny

Consider a nested, non-homogeneous recursion R(n) defined by R(n) = \sum_{i=1}^k R(n-s_i-\sum_{j=1}^{p_i} R(n-a_ij)) + nu, with c initial conditions R(1) = xi_1 > 0,R(2)=xi_2 > 0, ..., R(c)=xi_c > 0, where the parameters are integers satisfying k > 0, p_i > 0 and a_ij > 0. We develop an algorithm to answer the following question: for an arbitrary rational nu

Euaggelos E. Zotos

We use a composite gravitational galactic model consisting of a disk, a halo, a massive nucleus and a strong nuclear bar, in order to study the connections between global and local parameters in a realistic dynamical system. The local model is constructed from a two-dimensional perturbed harmonic oscillator and can be derived by expanding the global model in

J. Arvesú, A. Soria-Lorente

New (infinitely many) rational approximants to \zeta(3) proving its irrationality are given. The recurrence relations for the numerator and denominator of these approximants as well as their continued fraction expansions are obtained. A comparison of our approximants with Ap\'ery's approximants to \zeta(3) is shown.

Eugene A. Eliseev, Anna N. Morozovska, Albina Y. Borisevich, Yijia Gu

Electronic and structural phenomena at the twin domain wall-surface junctions in the ferroelastic materials are analyzed. Carriers accumulation caused by the strain-induced band structure changes originated via the deformation potential mechanism, structural order parameter gradient, rotostriction and flexoelectric coupling is explored. Approximate analytica

Sz. Borsanyi, G. Endrodi, Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz

We determine the equation of state of QCD for nonzero chemical potentials via a Taylor expansion of the pressure. The results are obtained for N_f=2+1 flavors of quarks with physical masses, on various lattice spacings. We present results for the pressure, interaction measure, energy density, entropy density, and the speed of sound for small chemical potenti

Hao-Chung Hu, Hsiang-nan Li

We calculate the time-like pion-photon transition form factor and the pion electromagnetic form factor up to next-to-leading order (NLO) of the strong coupling constant in the leading-twist $k_T$ factorization formalism. It is found that the NLO corrections to the magnitude (phase) are lower than 30% ($30^\circ$) for the former, and lower than 25% ($10^\circ

A. P. Marscher, S. G. Jorstad, I. Agudo, N. R. MacDonald

Analysis of comprehensive monitoring of 34 gamma-ray bright quasars, BL Lac objects, and radio galaxies reveals a close connection between events in the millimeter-wave emission imaged with the VLBA at 43 GHz and flares at gamma-ray and lower frequencies. Roughly 2/3 of the flares are coincident with the appearance of a new superluminal knot and/or a flare i

Carl Pomerance, Douglas Ulmer

A subgroup H of G=(Z/dZ)^* is called balanced if every coset of H is evenly distributed between the lower and upper halves of G, i.e., has equal numbers of elements with representatives in (0,d/2) and (d/2,d). This notion has applications to ranks of elliptic curves. We give a simple criterion in terms of characters for a subgroup H to be balanced, and for a

Qing Han, Marcus Khuri

We prove the existence of C^{\infty} local solutions to a class of mixed type Monge-Ampere equations in the plane. More precisely, the equation changes type to finite order across two smooth curves intersecting transversely at a point. Existence of C^{\infty} global solutions to a corresponding class of linear mixed type equations is also established. These

Animashree Anandkumar, Dean P. Foster, Daniel Hsu, Sham M. Kakade

The problem of topic modeling can be seen as a generalization of the clustering problem, in that it posits that observations are generated due to multiple latent factors (e.g., the words in each document are generated as a mixture of several active topics, as opposed to just one). This increased representational power comes at the cost of a more challenging

Hyung Joon Kim, Useong Kim, Hoon Min Kim, Tai Hoon Kim

We discovered that La-doped BaSnO3 with the perovskite structure has an unprecedentedly high mobility at room temperature while retaining its optical transparency. In single crystals, the mobility reached 320 cm^2(Vs)^-1 at a doping level of 8x10^19 cm^-3, constituting the highest value among wide-band-gap semiconductors. In epitaxial films, the maximum mobi

Juan P. Torres, Graciana Puentes, Nathaniel Hermosa, Luis Jose Salazar-Serrano

Weak amplification is a signal enhancement technique which is used to measure tiny changes that otherwise cannot be determined because of technical limitations. It is based on the existence of a special type of interaction which couples a property of a system, i.e., polarization or which-path information, with a separate degree of freedom, i.e., transverse p

D. Cline, X. Ding, J. Lederman

With the recent hints of the Higgs boson from the LHC and a mass near 125 GeV/c we re-propose to study and build a muon collider Higgs factory to study the Higgs in the S channel [1]. This was first proposed in 1992 by the first author. It is essential to study the Higgs boson for clues to new physics. The formation of the DOE MAP program, recent advances in

Hu Ding, Jinhui Xu

In this paper, we study a new type of clustering problem, called {\em Chromatic Clustering}, in high dimensional space. Chromatic clustering seeks to partition a set of colored points into groups (or clusters) so that no group contains points with the same color and a certain objective function is optimized. In this paper, we consider two variants of the pro

Markus Schmuck, Peter Berg

We formally derive an effective catalyst layer model comprising the reduction of oxygen for periodically distributed pore geometries. By assumption, the pores are completely filled with water and the surrounding walls consist of catalyst particles which are attached to an electron conducting microstructure. The macroscopic transport equations are established

Mehmet Haluk Sengun

We discuss several arithmetic aspects of Bianchi groups, especially from a computational point of view. In particular, we consider computing the homology of Bianchi groups together with the Hecke action, connections with automorphic forms, abelian varieties, Galois representations and the torsion in the homology of Bianchi groups. Along the way, we list seve

Marius Zimand

We establish tight bounds on the amount on nonuniformity that is necessary for extracting a string with randomness rate 1 from a single source of randomness with lower randomness rate. More precisely, as instantiations of more general results, we show that while O(1) amount of advice regarding the source is not enough for extracting a string with randomness

Aleks Kissinger, Alex Merry, Matvey Soloviev

String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about physical processes, logic circuits, tensor networks, and many other compositional structures. Dixon, Duncan and Kissinger introduced string graphs, which are a combinatoric representations of string diagrams, amenable to automated reasoning about diagrammatic theories via graph rewrite systems. In this

D. M. Crenshaw, S. B. Kraemer

We present an investigation into the impact of feedback from outflowing UV and X-ray absorbers in nearby z < 0.04 AGN. From studies of the kinematics, physical conditions, and variability of the absorbers in the literature, we calculate the possible ranges in total mass outflow rate and kinetic luminosity for each AGN, summed over all of its absorbers. These

Mohammed El Bouziani, Rachid Houca, Ahmed Jellal

We study a two dimensional system of electrons with Rashba coupling in the constant magnetic field $B$ and confining potential. We algebraically diagonalize the corresponding Hamiltonian to end up with the solutions of the energy spectrum. In terms of two kinds of operator we construct two symmetries and discuss the filling of the shells with electrons for s