arXiv papers from May 2012

Erik Talvila

The classic Edgar Allan Poe story The Gold-Bug involves digging for pirate treasure. Locating the digging sites requires some simple trigonometry.

Chengjie Qin, Florin Rusu

Online aggregation provides estimates to the final result of a computation during the actual processing. The user can stop the computation as soon as the estimate is accurate enough, typically early in the execution. This allows for the interactive data exploration of the largest datasets. In this paper we introduce the first framework for parallel online ag

Ido Tal, Alexander Vardy

We describe a successive-cancellation \emph{list} decoder for polar codes, which is a generalization of the classic successive-cancellation decoder of Ar{\i}kan. In the proposed list decoder, up to $L$ decoding paths are considered concurrently at each decoding stage. Then, a single codeword is selected from the list as output. If the most likely codeword is

Antonio González-Arroyo, Masanori Okawa

We present the results of a high statistics analysis of smeared Wilson loops in 4 dimensional SU(N) Yang-Mills theory for various values of N. The data is used to analyze the behaviour of smeared Creutz ratios, extracting from them the value of the string tension and other asymptotic parameters. A scaling analysis allows us to extrapolate to the continuum li

Grey Ercole

Let $\lambda_{q}:=\inf{\Vert\nabla u\Vert_{L^{p}(\Omega)}^{p}/\Vertu\Vert_{L^{q}(\Omega)}^{p}:u\in W_{0}^{1,p}(\Omega)\setminus{0}} $, where $\Omega$ is a bounded and smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N},$ $1<p<N$ and $1\leq q\leq p^{\star}% :=\frac{Np}{N-p}.$ We prove that the function $q\mapsto\lambda_{q}$ is absolutely continuous in the closed interval $[1,p^

Kenneth M. Nollett

I describe the computation of energy widths of nuclear states using an integral over the interaction region of ab initio variational Monte Carlo wave functions, and I present calculated widths for many states. I begin by presenting relations that connect certain short-range integrals to widths. I then present predicted widths for 5 <= A <= 9 nuclei, and I co

I. P. Costa e Silva

In a recent paper, Eichmair, Galloway and Pollack have proved a Gannon-Lee-type singularity theorem based on the existence of marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTS) on noncompact initial data sets for globally hyperbolic spacetimes. However, one might wonder whether the corresponding incomplete geodesics could still be complete in a possible non-globally h

Anand Thirumalai, Jeremy S. Heyl

We investigate the possibility that a magnetic field may be present in the star $o-$Ceti (hereafter, Mira) and that the field plays a role in the star's mass loss. The model presented here is an application of an earlier derived theory that has been successfully employed for intermediate and high-mass evolved stars, and is now extended to the low-mass end. T

Philip J. D. Crowley, Animesh Datta, Marco Barbieri, Ian A. Walmsley

Interferometry with quantum light is known to provide enhanced precision for estimating a single phase. However, depending on the parameters involved, the quantum limit for the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters may not attainable, leading to trade-offs in the attainable precisions. Here we study the simultaneous estimation of two parameters rela

Megan Belzner, Sean Colin-Ellerin, Jorge H. Roman

This project explores the nature of language acquisition in computers, guided by techniques similar to those used in children. While existing natural language processing methods are limited in scope and understanding, our system aims to gain an understanding of language from first principles and hence minimal initial input. The first portion of our system wa

Stefan Gieseke, Christian Röhr, Andrzej Siódmok

We describe the implementation details of the colour reconnection model in the event generator Herwig++. We study the impact on final-state observables in detail and confirm the model idea from colour preconfinement on the basis of studies within the cluster hadronization model. Moreover, we show that the description of minimum bias and underlying event data

G. S. Tucker, R. M. Fernandes, H. -F. Li, V. Thampy

The magnetic excitations in the paramagnetic-tetragonal phase of underdoped Ba(Fe0.953Co0.047)2As2, as measured by inelastic neutron scattering, can be well described by a phenomenological model with purely diffusive spin dynamics. At low energies, the spectrum around the magnetic ordering vector Q_AFM consists of a single peak with elliptical shape in momen

Robert S. Kimberk, Todd R. Hunter, Patrick S. Leiker, Raymond Blundell

We have constructed a five station 12 GHz atmospheric phase interferometer (API) for the Submillimeter Array (SMA) located near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Operating at the base of unoccupied SMA antenna pads, each station employs a commercial low noise mixing block coupled to a 0.7 m off-axis satellite dish which receives a broadband, white noise-like

Cecilia Chirenti, Alberto Saa, Jozef Skakala

What should be the quasinormal modes associated with a spacetime that contains a naked singularity instead of a black hole? In the present work we address this problem by studying the scattering of scalar fields on a curved background described by a Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime with $|q| > m$. We show that there is a qualitative difference between cases wi

J. E. Lynn, K. E. Schmidt

Nuclear structure quantum Monte Carlo methods such as Green's function or auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo have used phenomenological local real-space potentials containing as few derivatives as possible, such as the Argonne-Urbana family of interactions, to make sampling simple and efficient. Basis set methods such as no-core shell model and coupled-cl

Armando Paduan-Filho

A Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) has been observed in magnetic insulators in the last decade. The bosons that condensed are magnons, associated with an ordered magnetic phase induced by a magnetic field. We review the experiments in the spin-gap compound NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2, in which the formation of BEC occurs by applying a magnetic field at low temperatures.

L. E. Arroyo-Meza, A. de Souza Dutra, M. B. Hott

In this work we apply point canonical transformations to solve some classes of nonautonomous nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation namely, those which possess specific cubic and quintic - time and space dependent - nonlinearities. In this way we generalize some procedures recently published which resort to an ansatz to the wavefunction and recover a time and sp

Martin Lorenz

We study rational actions of an algebraic torus G by automorphisms on an associative algebra R. The G-action on R induces a stratification of the prime spectrum of R which was introduced by Goodearl and Letzter. For a noetherian algebra R, Goodearl and Letzter showed that the strata of the spectrum of R are isomorphic to the spectra of certain commutative La

Teresa A. Ashcraft, Robert I. Hynes, Edward L. Robinson

We present results of optical and infrared photometric monitoring of the eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary V395 Car (2S 0921-630). Our observations reveal a clear, repeating orbital modulation with an amplitude of about one magnitude in B, and V and a little less in J. Combining our data with archival observations spanning about 20 years, we derive an updated

Sjoert van Velzen, Heino Falcke, Pim Schellart, Nils Nierstenhoefer

To understand the feedback of black holes on their environment or the acceleration of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the present cosmic epoch, a systematic, all-sky inventory of radio galaxies in the local universe is needed. Here we present the first catalog of radio-emitting galaxies that meets this requirement. Our catalog allows the selection of volume

S. Shelyag, M. Mathioudakis, F. P. Keenan

We investigate the generation mechanisms of MHD Poynting flux in the magnetised solar photosphere. Using radiative MHD modelling of the solar photosphere with initial magnetic configurations that differ in their field strength and geometry, we show the presence of two different mechanisms for MHD Poynting flux generation in simulations of solar photospheric

Gabriela Planas, Franck Sueur

In this paper we consider the motion of a rigid body in a viscous incompressible fluid when some Navier slip conditions are prescribed on the body's boundary. The whole system "viscous incompressible fluid + rigid body" is assumed to occupy the full space $\R^{3}$. We start by proving the existence of global weak solutions to the Cauchy problem. Then, we exh

Robert D. Reasenberg, Biju R. Patla, James D. Phillips, Rajesh Thapa

We describe SR-POEM, a Galilean test of the weak equivalence principle that is to be conducted during the free fall portion of the flight of a sounding rocket payload. This test of a single pair of substances will have a measurement uncertainty of {\sigma}({\eta}) < 2 10^17 after averaging the results of eight separate drops, each of 120 s duration. The enti

Vedran Sohinger, Robert M. Strain

We prove that $k$-th order derivatives of perturbative classical solutions to the hard and soft potential Boltzmann equation (without the angular cut-off assumption) in the whole space, ${\mathbb R}^{n}_x$ with $n \ge 3$, converge in large-time to the global Maxwellian with the optimal decay rate of $O(t^{-1/2(k+\varrho+\frac{n}{2}-\frac{n}{r})})$ in the $L^

Danilo Delpini, Giacomo Bormetti

Agents' heterogeneity is recognized as a driver mechanism for the persistence of financial volatility. We focus on the multiplicity of investment strategies' horizons, we embed this concept in a continuous time stochastic volatility framework and prove that a parsimonious, two-scale version effectively captures the long memory as measured from the real data.

I. Tews, T. Krueger, K. Hebeler, A. Schwenk

Neutron matter presents a unique system for chiral effective field theory (EFT), because all many-body forces among neutrons are predicted to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO). We present the first complete N3LO calculation of the neutron matter energy. This includes the subleading three-nucleon (3N) forces for the first time and all leading four-

Fernando Iemini, Thiago O. Maciel, Tiago Debarba, Reinaldo O. Vianna

We present a method to quantify quantum correlations in arbitrary systems of indistinguishable fermions using witness operators. The method associates the problem of finding the optimal entan- glement witness of a state with a class of problems known as semidefinite programs (SDPs), which can be solved efficiently with arbitrary accuracy. Based on these opti

Nan Lin, Emanuel Gull, Andrew J. Millis

A method is presented for the unbiased numerical computation of two-particle response functions of correlated electron materials via a solution of the dynamical mean-field equations in the presence of a perturbing field. The power of the method is demonstrated via a computation of the Raman $B_{1g}$ and $B_{2g}$ scattering intensities of the two dimensional

Marco Cariglia

The Eisenhart-Duval lift allows embedding non-relativistic theories into a Lorentzian geometrical setting. In this paper we study the lift from the point of view of the Dirac equation and its hidden symmetries. We show that dimensional reduction of the Dirac equation for the Eisenhart-Duval metric in general gives rise to the non-relativistic Levy-Leblond eq

Casey C. Bennett

Purpose: This goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of a data-driven clinical productivity system that leverages Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to provide productivity decision support functionality in a real-world clinical setting. The system was implemented for a large behavioral health care provider seeing over 75,000 distinct clients a year

Else Starkenburg, Amina Helmi, Gabriella De Lucia, Yang-Shyang Li

We combine the six high-resolution Aquarius dark matter simulations with a semi-analytic galaxy formation model to investigate the properties of the satellites of Milky Way-like galaxies. We find good correspondence with the observed luminosity function, luminosity-metallicity relation and radial distribution of the Milky Way satellites. The star formation h

Valia Allori, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka, Nino Zanghi

A major disagreement between different views about the foundations of quantum mechanics concerns whether for a theory to be intelligible as a fundamental physical theory it must involve a "primitive ontology" (PO), i.e., variables describing the distribution of matter in 4-dimensional space-time. In this paper, we illustrate the value of having a PO. We do s

Brandon M. Anderson, Charles W. Clark

We investigate the properties of an atom under the influence of a synthetic three-dimensional spin-orbit coupling (Weyl coupling) in the presence of a harmonic trap. The conservation of total angular momentum provides a numerically efficient scheme for finding the spectrum and eigenfunctions of the system. We show that at large spin-orbit coupling the system

Eduardo Brandani da Silva, Dicesar Lass Fernandez

The behavior of bilinear operators acting on interpolation of Banach spaces for the $\rho$ method in relation to the compactness is analyzed. Similar results of Lions-Peetre, Hayakawa and Person's compactness theorems are obtained for the bilinear case and the $\rho$ method.

Maciej Dunajski

We propose a construction of Skyrme fields from holonomy of the spin connection of gravitational instantons. The procedure is implemented for Atiyah-Hitchin and Taub-NUT instantons. The skyrmion resulting from the Taub-NUT is given explicitly on the space of orbits of a left translation inside the whole isometry group. The domain of the Taub-NUT skyrmion is

Kasper W. Olsen, Jakob Bohr

The question of the value of the pitch angle of DNA is visited from the perspective of a geometrical analysis of transcription. It is suggested that for transcription to be possible, the pitch angle of B-DNA must be smaller than the angle of zero-twist. At the zero-twist angle the double helix is maximally rotated and its strain-twist coupling vanishes. A nu

Silvia Garbari, Chao Liu, Justin I. Read, George Lake

We apply a new method to determine the local disc matter and dark halo matter density to kinematic and position data for \sim2000 K dwarf stars taken from the literature. Our method assumes only that the disc is locally in dynamical equilibrium, and that the 'tilt' term in the Jeans equations is small up to \sim1 kpc above the plane. We present a new calcula

Norman Y. Yao, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Chris R. Laumann, Steven D. Bennett

We analyze two approaches to quantum state transfer in solid-state spin systems. First, we consider unpolarized spin-chains and extend previous analysis to various experimentally relevant imperfections, including quenched disorder, dynamical decoherence, and uncompensated long range coupling. In finite-length chains, the interplay between disorder-induced lo

Tudor D. Stanescu, Sumanta Tewari, Jay D. Sau, S. Das Sarma

We investigate theoretically the low energy physics of semiconductor Majorana wires in the vicinity of a magnetic field-driven topological quantum phase transition (TQPT). The local density of states (LDOS) at the end of the wire, which is directly related to the differential conductance in the limit of point-contact tunneling, is calculated numerically. We

Amanda Dotson, Markos Georganopoulos, Demosthenes Kazanas, Eric Perlman

An issue currently under debate in the literature is how far from the black hole is the Fermi-observed GeV emission of powerful blazars emitted. Here we present a diagnostic tool for testing whether the GeV emission site is located within the sub-pc broad emission line (BLR) region or further out in the pc scale molecular torus (MT) environment. Within the B

Philip F. Hopkins, Thomas J. Cox, Lars Hernquist, Desika Narayanan

We use simulations with realistic models for stellar feedback to study galaxy mergers. These high resolution (1 pc) simulations follow formation and destruction of individual GMCs and star clusters. The final starburst is dominated by in situ star formation, fueled by gas which flows inwards due to global torques. The resulting high gas density results in ra

Ben Hoare, Timothy J. Hollowood, J. Luis Miramontes

The investigation of the q deformation of the S-matrix for excitations on the string world sheet in AdS5 x S5 is continued. We argue that due to the lack of Lorentz invariance the situation is more subtle than in a relativistic theory in that the nature of bound states depends on their momentum. At low enough momentum |p|<E the bound states transform in the

Chiara Arina, Jinn-Ouk Gong, Narendra Sahu

We present a scalar triplet extension of the standard model to unify the origin of inflation with neutrino mass, asymmetric dark matter and leptogenesis. In presence of non-minimal couplings to gravity the scalar triplet, mixed with the standard model Higgs, plays the role of inflaton in the early Universe, while its decay to SM Higgs, lepton and dark matter

M. Puech, F. Hammer, P. F. Hopkins, E. Athanassoula

About two-thirds of present-day, large galaxies are spirals such as the Milky Way or Andromeda, but the way their thin rotating disks formed remains uncertain. Observations have revealed that half of their progenitors, six billion years ago, had peculiar morphologies and/or kinematics, which exclude them from the Hubble sequence. Major mergers, i.e., fusions

Claes-Erik Rydberg, Erik Zackrisson, Peter Lundqvist, Pat Scott

The first population III stars are predicted to form in minihalos at a redshift of approximately 10-30. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), tentatively scheduled for launch in 2018, will probably be able to detect some of the first galaxies, but whether it will also be able to detect the first stars remains more doubtful. Here, we explore the prospects of

Baoming Tang, Thereza Paiva, Ehsan Khatami, Marcos Rigol

We use determinantal quantum Monte Carlo simulations and numerical linked-cluster expansions to study thermodynamic properties and short-range spin correlations of fermions in the honeycomb lattice. We find that, at half filling and finite temperatures, nearest-neighbor spin correlations can be stronger in this lattice than in the square lattice, even in reg

Darach Watson, Páll Jakobsson

The afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have more soft X-ray absorption than expected from the foreground gas column in the Galaxy. While the redshift of the absorption can in general not be constrained from current X-ray observations, it has been assumed that the absorption is due to metals in the host galaxy of the GRB. The large sample of X-ray afterglo

Daniel P. Gettings, Anthony H. Gonzalez, S. Adam Stanford, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt

We present spectroscopic confirmation of a z=0.99 galaxy cluster discovered using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This is the first z~1 cluster candidate from the Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS) to be confirmed. It was selected as an overdensity of probable z>~1 sources using a combination of WISE and SDSS-DR8 phot

Joerg Jaeckel, Valentin V. Khoze

Direct searches and the hints for the Higgs at ~125 GeV put increasing pressure on simple models of SUSY breaking, in particular (but not exclusively) on those that automatically solve the flavour problem, such as gauge mediation. SUSY-breaking parameters are pushed to higher and higher values, increasing the fine-tuning required to achieve electroweak symme

M. I. Belishev, M. N. Demchenko

We consider the dynamical inverse problem for the Maxwell system on a Riemannian 3-manifold with boundary in a time-optimal set-up. Using BC-method we show that the data of the inverse problem (electromagnetic measurements on the boundary) determine a $C$*-algebra, which has a spectrum homeomorphic to a part of the manifold. This part depends on the duration

Pokman Cheung

Chiral differential operators (CDOs) are closely related to string geometry and the quantum theory of two-dimensional sigma models. This paper investigates two topics about CDOs on smooth manifolds. In the first half, we study how a Lie group action on a smooth manifold can be lifted to a `formal loop group action' on an algebra of CDOs; this turns out to be

Tomohiro Harada, Hiroya Nemoto, Umpei Miyamoto

The center-of-mass energy of two particles colliding near the horizon of a maximally rotating black hole can be arbitrarily high if the angular momentum of either of the incident particles is fine-tuned, which we call a critical particle. We study particle emission from such high-energy collision and reaction in the equatorial plane fully analytically. We sh

Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Edoardo Mirabella, Giovanni Ossola, Tiziano Peraro

We show that the evaluation of scattering amplitudes can be formulated as a problem of multivariate polynomial division, with the components of the integration-momenta as indeterminates. We present a recurrence relation which, independently of the number of loops, leads to the multi-particle pole decomposition of the integrands of the scattering amplitudes.

Soma Purkait

Let $k$ be an odd integer $\ge 3$ and $N$ a positive integer such that $4 \mid N$. Let $\chi$ be an even Dirichlet character modulo $N$. Shimura decomposes the space of half-integral weight cusp forms $S_{k/2}(N,\chi)$ as a direct sum of $S_0(N,\chi)$ (the subspace spanned by 1-variable theta- series) and $S_{k/2}(N,\chi,\phi)$ where $\phi$ runs through a ce

Yi Wei, Alexei A. Koulakov

Cortical networks can maintain memories for decades despite the short lifetime of synaptic strength. Can a neural network store long-lasting memories in unstable synapses? Here, we study the effects of random noise on the stability of memory stored in synapses of an attractor neural network. The model includes ongoing spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP)

Martin Klazar

This is an exposition of the combinatorial proof of the density Hales--Jewett theorem, due to D.\,H.\,J. Polymath in 2012. The theorem says that for given $\de>0$ and $k$, for every $n>n_0$ every set $A\sus\{1,2,\ds,k\}^n$ with $|A|\ge\de k^n$ contains a combinatorial line. It implies Szemer\'edi's theorem, which claims that for given $\de>0$ and $k$, for ev

Stephen D. Webb, David L. Bruhwiler, Dan T. Abell, Andrei Sishlo

High intensity proton linacs and storage rings are central for the development of advanced neutron sources, extending the intensity frontier in high energy physics, as drivers for the production of pions in neutrino factories or muon colliders, and for the transmutation of radioactive waste. Such high intensity beams are not attainable using conventional lin

Alin Pogan, Arnd Scheel, Kevin Zumbrun

Extending the approach of Grillakis-Shatah-Strauss, Bronski-Johnson-Kapitula, and others for Hamiltonian systems, we explore relations between the constrained variational problem $\min_{X:C(X)=c_0} \mathcal{E}(X)$, $c_0\in \RM^r$, and stability of solutions of a class of degenerate "quasi-gradient" systems $dX/dt=-M(X)\nabla \mathcal{E}(X)$ admitting constra

V. V. Ryzhikov

The note contains a collection of facts and observations around locally rank one actions as well as constructions connected with some results by T.Downarowicz, A.Katok, J.King, F.Parreau, A.A.Prikhodko, E.Roy, J.Serafin, J-P.Thouvenot et al.

R. Dascaliuc, Z. Grujić

A mathematical evidence -- in a statistically significant sense -- of a geometric scenario leading to criticality of the Navier-Stokes problem is presented.

Yaroslav Shitov

The tropical arithmetic operations on $\mathbb{R}$ are defined by $a\oplus b=\min\{a,b\}$ and $a\otimes b=a+b$. Let $A$ be a tropical matrix and $k$ a positive integer, the problem of Tropical Matrix Factorization (TMF) asks whether there exist tropical matrices $B\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times k}$ and $C\in\mathbb{R}^{k\times n}$ satisfying $B\otimes C=A$. We show

B. Mueller, H. -Th. Janka, A. Heger

The neutrino-driven explosion mechanism for core-collapse supernovae in its modern flavor relies on the additional support of hydrodynamical instabilities in achieving shock revival. Two possible candidates, convection and the so-called standing accretion shock instability (SASI), have been proposed for this role. In this paper, we discuss new successful sim

Grzegorz Zborowski

We construct a new example of an A-manifold, i.e. a Riemannian manifold with a cyclic-parallel Ricci tensor, which can be viewed as a generalization of the Einstein condition. The underlying manifold for our construction is a principal torus bundle over K\"ahler-Einstein manifold a with fibre a torus of arbitrary dimension.

Tony Low, Vasili Perebeinos, Raseong Kim, Marcus Freitag

We investigate the energy relaxation of hot carriers produced by photoexcitation of graphene through coupling to both intrinsic and remote (substrate) surface polar phonons using the Boltzmann equation approach. We find that the energy relaxation of hot photocarriers in graphene on commonly used polar substrates, under most conditions, is dominated by remote

R. Margutti, E. Berger, W. Fong, B. A. Zauderer

We present multi-wavelength observations of the afterglow of the short GRB111117A, and follow-up observations of its host galaxy. From rapid optical and radio observations we place limits of r \gtrsim 25.5 mag at \deltat \approx 0.55 d and F_nu(5.8 GHz) < 18 \muJy at \deltat \approx 0.50 d, respectively. However, using a Chandra observation at t~3.0 d we loc

Arvind Ayyer, Steven Klee, Anne Schilling

We consider generalizations of Schuetzenberger's promotion operator on the set L of linear extensions of a finite poset of size n. This gives rise to a strongly connected graph on L. By assigning weights to the edges of the graph in two different ways, we study two Markov chains, both of which are irreducible. The stationary state of one gives rise to the un

Anindya Das, Yuval Ronen, Yonatan Most, Yuval Oreg

Majorana fermions are the only fermionic particles that are expected to be their own antiparticles. While elementary particles of the Majorana type were not identified yet, quasi-particles with Majorana like properties, born from interacting electrons in the solid, were predicted to exist. Here, we present thorough experimental studies, backed by numerical s

F. R. Klinkhamer

A simplified (but consistent) description of particle-production backreaction effects in de Sitter spacetime is given.

E. Kh. Akhmedov, Soebur Razzaque, A. Yu. Smirnov

We explore the physics potential of multi-megaton scale ice or water Cherenkov detectors with low ($\sim 1$ GeV) threshold. Using some proposed characteristics of the PINGU detector setup we compute the distributions of events versus neutrino energy $E_\nu$ and zenith angle $\theta_z$, and study their dependence on yet unknown neutrino parameters. The $(E_\n

G. M. Gusev, E. B. Olshanetsky, Z. D. Kvon, A. D. Levin

Nonlocal resistance is studied in a two-dimensional system with a simultaneous presence of electrons and holes in a 20 nm HgTe quantum well. A large nonlocal electric response is found near the charge neutrality point (CNP) in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We attribute the observed nonlocality to the edge state transport via counter propaga

S. Mehraban, M. R. Ejtehadi

We introduce a self-organized model of graph evolution associated with preferential network random walkers. The idea is developed by using two different types of walkers, the interactions of which lead to a dynamic graph. The walkers of the first type cause an enhancement in link attachments, while the second types have a destructive behavior. The statistica

Eugene Y. Chen, Brad M. S. Hansen

The spectral distribution of field white dwarfs shows a feature called the "non-DA gap". As defined by Bergeron et al., this is a temperature range (5100K--6100K) where relatively few non-DA stars are found, even though such stars are abundant on either side of the gap. It is usually viewed as an indication that a significant fraction of white dwarfs switch

The AMI Consortium, :, Carmen Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Timothy W. Shimwell

We present 16-GHz AMI SZ observations of 19 clusters with L_X >7x10^37 W (h50=1) selected from the LoCuS survey (0.142<z<0.295) and of A1758b, in the FoV of A1758a. We detect 17 clusters with 5-23sigma peak surface brightnesses. Cluster parameters are obtained using a Bayesian cluster analysis. We fit isothermal beta-models to our data and assume the cluster

Igor Chueshov, Irena Lasiecka, Justin T. Webster

We consider the well-posedness of a model for a flow-structure interaction. This model describes the dynamics of an elastic flexible plate with clamped boundary conditions immersed in a supersonic flow. A perturbed wave equation describes the flow potential. The plate's out-of-plane displacement can be modeled by various nonlinear plate equations (including

B. Gladman, S. M. Lawler, J-M. Petit, J. Kavelaars

The transneptunian objects (TNOs) trapped in mean-motion resonances with Neptune were likely emplaced there during planet migration late in the giant-planet formation process. We perform detailed modelling of the resonant objects detected in the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS) in order to provide population estimates and, for some resonances, con

E. M. C. Abreu, J. Ananias Neto, A. C. R. Mendes, C. Neves

The concept of gauge invariance is one of the most subtle and useful concepts in modern theoretical physics. It is one of the Standard Model cornerstones. The main benefit due to the gauge invariance is that it can permit the comprehension of difficult systems in physics with an arbitrary choice of a reference frame at every instant of time. It is the object

Henric Krawczynski

Although General Relativity (GR) has been tested extensively in the weak gravity regime, similar tests in the strong gravity regime are still missing. In this paper we explore the possibility to use X-ray spectropolarimetric observations of black holes in X-ray binaries to distinguish between the Kerr metric and the phenomenological metrics introduced by Joh

Mariya Shcherbina

We study the asymptotic expansion in $n$ for the partition function of $\beta$ matrix models with real analytic potentials in the multi-cut regime up to the $O(n^{-1})$ terms. As a result, we find the limit of the generating functional of linear eigenvalue statistics and the expressions for the expectation and the variance of linear eigenvalue statistics, wh

Y. O. Dudin, L. Li, F. Bariani, A. Kuzmich

A two-level quantum system coherently driven by a resonant electromagnetic field oscillates sinusoidally between the two levels at frequency $\Omega$ which is proportional to the field amplitude [1]. This phenomenon, known as the Rabi oscillation, has been at the heart of atomic, molecular and optical physics since the seminal work of its namesake and coauth

Karim Lounici

In this paper, we study the problem of sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in the high-dimensional setting with missing observations. Our goal is to estimate the first principal component when we only have access to partial observations. Existing estimation techniques are usually derived for fully observed data sets and require a prior knowledge of the

R. Farinelli, P. Romano, V. Mangano, C. Ceccobello

We report on the results from observations of the most recent outbursts of XTE J1739-302 and IGR J17544-2619, which are considered to be the prototypes of the supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT) class. They triggered the Swift/BAT on 2011 February 22 and March 24, respectively, and each time a prompt Swift slew allowed us to obtain the rich broad-band dat

Benoit F. Sehba, Edgar Tchoundja

We characterize the symbols of Hankel operators that ex- tend into bounded operators from the Hardy-Orlicz $H^{\Phi_1} (\mathbb B^n)$ into $H^{\Phi_2} (\mathbb B^n)$ in the unit ball of Cn, in the case where the growth functions $?\Phi_1$ and $\Phi_2$ are either concave or convex. The case where the growth functions are both concave has been studied by Bonam

David Chataur, Martintxo Saralegi-Aranguren, Daniel Tanré

Let X be a pseudomanifold. In this text, we use a simplicial blow-up to define a cochain complex whose cohomology with coefficients in a field, is isomorphic to the intersection cohomology of X, introduced by M. Goresky and R. MacPherson. We do it simplicially in the setting of a filtered version of face sets, also called simplicial sets without degeneracies

Gregory Ginot, Thomas Tradler, Mahmoud Zeinalian

We use factorization homology and higher Hochschild (co)chains to study various problems in algebraic topology and homotopical algebra, notably brane topology, centralizers of $E_n$-algebras maps and iterated bar constructions. In particular, we obtain an $E_{n+1}$-algebra model on the shifted integral chains of the mapping space of the n-sphere into an orie

Peter G. McDonald, Edward J. Tyrrell, John Shumway, Jason M. Smith

We use a path integral quantum Monte Carlo method to simulate excitons and biexcitons in core shell nanocrystals with Type-I, II and quasi-Type II band alignments. Quantum Monte Carlo techniques allow for all quantum correlations to be included when determining the thermal ground state, thus producing accurate predictions of biexciton binding. These subtle q

Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss

We consider Majorana fermions (MFs) in quasi-one-dimensional nanowire systems containing normal and superconducting sections where the topological phase based on Rashba spin orbit interaction can be tuned by magnetic fields. We derive explicit analytic solutions of the MF wavefunction in the weak and strong spin orbit interaction regimes. We find that the wa

Yi Ni, Zhongtao Wu

Given an element in the first homology of a rational homology 3-sphere $Y$, one can consider the minimal rational genus of all knots in this homology class. This defines a function $\Theta$ on $H_1(Y;\mathbb Z)$, which was introduced by Turaev as an analogue of Thurston norm. We will give a lower bound for this function using the correction terms in Heegaard

Ali Masoumi, Xiao Xiao, I-Sheng Yang

We study domain-walls and bubble nucleation in a non-relativistic vector field theory with different longitudinal and transverse speeds of sound. We describe analytical and numerical methods to calculate the orientation dependent domain-wall tension, $\sigma(\theta)$. We then use this tension to calculate the critical bubble shape. The longitudinally oriente

Michael E. Hoffman

For k <= n, let E(2n,k) be the sum of all multiple zeta values with even arguments whose weight is 2n and whose depth is k. Of course E(2n,1) is the value of the Riemann zeta function at 2n, and it is well known that E(2n,2) = (3/4)E(2n,1). Recently Z. Shen and T. Cai gave formulas for E(2n,3) and E(2n,4). We give two formulas form E(2n,k), both valid for ar

Sharon Anne Garthwaite, Paul Jenkins

Let $M_k^\sharp(N)$ be the space of weakly holomorphic modular forms for $\Gamma_0(N)$ that are holomorphic at all cusps except possibly at $\infty$. We study a canonical basis for $M_k^\sharp(2)$ and $M_k^\sharp(3)$ and prove that almost all modular forms in this basis have the property that the majority of their zeros in a fundamental domain lie on a lower

V. E. Kravtsov, O. M. Yevtushenko, P. Snajberk, E. Cuevas

We employed the method of virial expansion in order to compute the retarded density correlation function (generalized diffusion propagator) in the critical random matrix ensemble in the limit of strong multifractality. We found that the long-range nature of the Hamiltonian is a common root of both multifractality and Levy flights which show up in the power-l

S. Stoica, B. Pastrav, A. C. Scafes

The rates of axion emission by nucleon-nucleon (NN) bremsstrahlung are reconsidered by taking into account the NN short range correlations. The analytical formulas for the neutron-neutron (nn), proton-proton (pp) and neutron-proton (np) processes with the inclusion of the full momentum dependence of an one- and two- pion exchange nuclear potentials, in the n

Gianluca Delfino, Kirill Krasnov, Carlos Scarinci

We give a description of gravitons in terms of an SL(2,C) connection field. The gauge-theoretic Lagrangian for gravitons is simpler than the metric one. Moreover, all components of the connection field have the same sign in front of their kinetic term, unlike what happens in the metric formalism. The gauge-theoretic description is also more economic than the

Negin Golrezaei, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Andreas F. Molisch

We introduce a novel wireless device-to-device (D2D) collaboration architecture that exploits distributed storage of popular content to enable frequency reuse. We identify a fundamental conflict between collaboration distance and interference and show how to optimize the transmission power to maximize frequency reuse. Our analysis depends on the user content

Fabrizio Catanese

The article is a slightly extended version of the talk, with the same title, which I gave at the Kinosaki Symposium on Algebraic Geometry in October 2011, and dealing with the classification of complex projective surfaces of general type with vanishing geometric genus, and especially with the moduli spaces of Burniat surfaces.

Ingrid Bauer, Fabrizio Catanese

We show that a family of minimal surfaces of general type with p_g = 0, K^2=7, constructed by Inoue in 1994, is indeed a connected component of the moduli space: indeed that any surface which is homotopically equivalent to an Inoue surface belongs to the Inoue family. The ideas used in order to show this result motivate us to give a new definition of varieti

Stefan Kiefer

Given a basic process algebra (BPA) and two stack symbols, the BPA bisimilarity problem asks whether the two stack symbols are bisimilar. We show that this problem is EXPTIME-hard.

K. Maguire, M. Sullivan, R. S. Ellis, P. E. Nugent

We present an analysis of the maximum light, near ultraviolet (NUV; 2900-5500 A) spectra of 32 low redshift (0.001<z<0.08) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We combine this spectroscopic sample with high-quality gri light curves obtained with robotic telescopes to measure photometric parameters, such as stretch, opt

Steven W. Morgan, Vadim Oganesyan, Gregory S. Boutis

Quantum unitary evolution typically leads to thermalization of generic interacting many-body systems. There are very few known general methods for reversing this process, and we focus on the magic echo, a radio-frequency pulse sequence known to approximately "rewind" the time evolution of dipolar coupled homonuclear spin systems in a large magnetic field. By

Tomohisa Takimi

We provide a simple non-perturbative formulation for non-commutative four-dimensional N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. The formulation is constructed by a combination of deconstruction (orbifold projection), momentum cut-off and matrix model techniques. We also propose a moduli fixing term that preserves lattice supersymmetry on the deconstruction f