February 2013 arXiv papers

Stephen T. Bryson, Jon M. Jenkins, Ronald L. Gilliland, Joseph D. Twicken

The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for Earth-size planets with the transit technique. The reliability of the resulting planetary candidate list relies on the ability to identify and remove false positives. Major sources of astrophysical false positives are planetary tran

Gary Steigman

According to conventional wisdom, in the standard model (SM) of particle physics and cosmology the effective number of neutrinos is Neff=3 (more precisely, 3.046). In extensions of the standard model allowing for the presence of DeltaNnu equivalent neutrinos (or dark radiation), Neff is generally >3. The canonical results are reconsidered here, revealing tha

Bogdan State, Patrick Park, Ingmar Weber, Yelena Mejova

In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington argued that the primary axis of global conflict was no longer ideological or economic but cultural and religious, and that this division would characterize the "battle lines of the future." In contrast to the "top down" approach in previous research focused on the relations among nation states,

Zoltan Esik

We show that three fixed point structures equipped with (sequential) composition, a sum operation, and a fixed point operation share the same valid equations. These are the theories of (context-free) languages, (regular) tree languages, and simulation equivalence classes of (regular) synchronization trees (or processes). The results reveal a close relationsh

Vijay Kamble, Jean Walrand

Distributions with a heavy tail are difficult to estimate. If the design of a scheduling policy is sensitive to the details of heavy tail distributions of the service times, an approximately optimal solution is difficult to obtain. This paper shows that the optimal scheduling of an M/G/1 queue with heavy tailed service times does not present this difficulty

Min Chih Lin, Michel J. Mizrahi, Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

Say that an edge of a graph $G$ dominates itself and every other edge adjacent to it. An edge dominating set of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset of edges $E' \subseteq E$ which dominates all edges of $G$. In particular, if every edge of $G$ is dominated by exactly one edge of $E'$ then $E'$ is a dominating induced matching. It is known that not ever

Lang Feng, Lea-Laetitia Pontani, Remi Dreyfus, Paul Chaikin

The specificity and thermal reversibility of DNA interactions have enabled the self-assembly of crystal structures, self-replicating materials and colloidal molecules. Grafting DNA onto liquid interfaces of emulsions leads to exciting new architectural possibilities due to the mobility of the DNA ligands and the patches they form between bound droplets. Here

B. Allen, B. Knispel, J. M. Cordes, J. S. Deneva

Einstein@Home aggregates the computer power of hundreds of thousands of volunteers from 193 countries, to search for new neutron stars using data from electromagnetic and gravitational-wave detectors. This paper presents a detailed description of the search for new radio pulsars using Pulsar ALFA survey data from the Arecibo Observatory. The enormous computi

Linhua Jiang, Eiichi Egami, Xiaohui Fan, Rogier A. Windhorst

We present a detailed structural and morphological study of a large sample of spectroscopically-confirmed galaxies at z >= 6, using deep HST near-IR broad-band images and Subaru optical narrow-band images. The galaxy sample consists of 51 Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) at z ~ 5.7, 6.5, and 7.0, and 16 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at 5.9 < z < 6.5. These galaxies

Peter C. Heinig

If eps > 0 and p >= n^{-1/2 + eps}, in a binomial random graph G(n,p) a.a.s. the set of cycles which can be constructed as a symmetric difference of Hamilton circuits is as large as parity by itself permits (all cycles if n is odd, all even cycles if n is even). Moreover, every p which ensures the above property a.a.s. must necessarily be such that for any c

Linhua Jiang, Eiichi Egami, Matthew Mechtley, Xiaohui Fan

We present deep HST near-IR and Spitzer mid-IR observations of a large sample of spectroscopically-confirmed galaxies at z >= 6. The sample consists of 51 Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) at z ~ 5.7, 6.5, and 7.0, and 16 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at 5.9 < z < 6.5. The near-IR images were mostly obtained with WFC3 in the F125W and F160W bands, and the mid-IR ima

Meifeng Lin

We report the status of our nucleon structure calculations with 2+1 flavors of domain wall fermions on the RBC-UKQCD $32^3\times64$ gauge ensembles with the Iwasaki+DSDR action. These ensembles have a fixed lattice scale of 1/a = 1.37 GeV, and two pion masses of about 170 and 250 MeV. Preliminary results for the isovector electromagnectic form factors and th

Dmitry Solenov, Sophia E. Economou, Thomas L. Reinecke

We propose a fast, scalable all-optical design for arbitrary two-qubit operations for defect qubits in diamond (NV centers) and in silicon carbide, which are promising candidates for room temperature quantum computing. The interaction between qubits is carried out by microcavity photons. The approach uses constructive interference from higher energy excited

Tomasz Kania, Piotr Koszmider, Niels Jakob Laustsen

Denote by $[0,ω_1)$ the locally compact Hausdorff space consisting of all countable ordinals, equipped with the order topology, and let $C_0[0,ω_1)$ be the Banach space of scalar-valued, continuous functions which are defined on $[0,ω_1)$ and vanish eventually. We show that a weakly$^*$ compact subset of the dual space of $C_0[0,ω_1)$ is either uniformly Ebe

Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Joop Schaye

We model the time-dependent evolution of metal-enriched intergalactic and circumgalactic gas exposed to the fluctuating radiation field from an active galactic nucleus (AGN). We consider diffuse gas densities (n_H=10^-5-10^-3 cm^-3) exposed to the extra-galactic background (EGB) and initially in thermal equilibrium (T \sim 10^4-10^4.5 K). Once the proximate

Chaman Kumar, Sotirios Sabanis

The strong convergence of Euler approximations of stochastic delay differential equations is proved under general conditions. The assumptions on drift and diffusion coefficients have been relaxed to include polynomial growth and only continuity in the arguments corresponding to delays. Furthermore, the rate of convergence is obtained under one-sided and poly

Sylwester Zając

We describe all complex geodesics in convex tube domains. In the case when the base of a convex tube domain does not contain any real line, the obtained description involves the notion of boundary measure of a holomorphic map and it is expressed in the language of real Borel measures on the unit circle. Applying our result, we calculate all complex geodesics

Pascal Grange, Michael Hawrylycz, Partha P. Mitra

The Allen Atlas of the adult mouse brain is used to estimate the region-specificity of 64 cell types whose transcriptional profile in the mouse brain has been measured in microarray experiments. We systematically analyze the preliminary results presented in [arXiv:1111.6217], using the techniques implemented in the Brain Gene Expression Analysis toolbox. In

Yoshitomo Kamiya, Cristian D. Batista

Quantum fluctuations become particularly relevant in highly frustrated quantum magnets and can lead to new states of matter. We provide a simple and robust scenario for inducing magnetic vortex crystals in frustrated Mott insulators. By considering a quantum paramagnet that has a gapped spectrum with six-fold degenerate low energy modes, we study the magneti

Baojiu Li, Gong-Bo Zhao, Kazuya Koyama

There has been a lot of research interest in modified gravity theories which utilise the Vainshtein mechanism to recover standard general relativity in regions with high matter density, such as the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati and Galileon models. The strong nonlinearity in the field equations of these theories implies that accurate theoretical predictions could

Philippe Brax, Anne-C. Davis, Baojiu Li, Hans A. Winther

In this work we systematically study the linear and nonlinear structure formation in chameleon theories of modified gravity, using a generic parameterisation which describes a large class of models using only 4 parameters. For this we have modified the N-body simulation code ECOSMOG to perform a total of 65 simulations for different models and parameter valu

Denis Krotov, Vladimir Potapov

A function $f:\{0,...,q-1\}^n\to\{0,...,q-1\}$ invertible in each argument is called a latin hypercube. A collection $(π_0,π_1,...,π_n)$ of permutations of $\{0,...,q-1\}$ is called an autotopism of a latin hypercube $f$ if $π_0f(x_1,...,x_n)=f(π_1x_1,...,π_n x_n)$ for all $x_1$, ..., $x_n$. We call a latin hypercube isotopically transitive (topolinear) if i

Denis Krotov

We derive recursive and direct formulas for the interweight distribution of an equitable partition of a hypercube. The formulas involve a three-variable generalization of the Krawtchouk polynomials. Keywords: equitable partition; regular partition; partition design; strong distance invariance; interweight distribution; distance distribution; Krawtchouk polyn

Yucel Yildirim, Wei Ku

We demonstrate that the zero-temperature superconducting phase diagram of underdoped cuprates can be quantitatively understood in the strong binding limit, using only the experimental spectral function of the &#34;normal&#34; pseudo-gap phase without any free parameter. In the prototypical (La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$)$_2$CuO$_4$, a kinetics-driven $d$-wave superconduc

Greg Knese, John E. McCarthy, Kabe Moen

We study two questions. When does a function belong to the union of Lebesgue spaces and when does a function have an $A_1$ majorant? We show these questions are fundamentally related. For functions restricted to a fixed cube we prove that the following are equivalent: a function belongs to $L^p$ for some $p>1$; the function has an $A_1$ majorant; for any $p>

Chi Xiong

We apply the Callan-Harvey anomaly inflow mechanism to the study of QCD (chromoelectric) flux tubes, quark (pair)-creation and chiral magnetic effect, using new variables from the Cho-Faddeev-Niemi decomposition of the gauge potential. A phenomenological description of chromoelectric flux tubes is obtained by studying a gauged Nambu-Jona-Lasinio effective La

Daniel Z. Freedman, Silviu S. Pufu

We find new supersymmetric backgrounds of ${\cal N} = 8$ gauged supergravity in four Euclidean dimensions that are dual to deformations of ABJM theory on $S^3$. The deformations encode the most general choice of $U(1)_R$ symmetry used to define the theory on $S^3$. We work within an ${\cal N} = 2$ truncation of the ${\cal N} = 8$ supergravity theory obtained

Yoon Seok Choun

In earlier papers [3,4,5,6] Gursey et al. showed development of a bilocal baryon-meson field from two quark-antiquark fields. The Hamiltonian in the case of vanishing quark masses was shown to have a very good agreement with experiments [5]. The theory for vanishing mass was solved using Confluent Hypergeometric functions [6]. In this paper I construct the n

L. Rondin, J. P. Tetienne, S. Rohart, A. Thiaville

Despite decades of advances in magnetic imaging, obtaining direct, quantitative information with nanometer scale spatial resolution remains an outstanding challenge. Recently, a new technique has emerged that employs a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond as an atomic-size magnetometer. Although NV magnetometry promises significant advances in magn

Paul C. Duffell, Andrew I. MacFadyen

We numerically calculate the growth and saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability caused by the deceleration of relativistic outflows with Lorentz factor Γ = 10, 30, and 100. The instability generates turbulence whose scale exhibits strong dependence on Lorentz factor, as only modes with angular size smaller than 1/Γ can grow. We develop a simple diagnos

Junjie Liu, Enrique del Barco, Stephen Hill

This chapter takes a microscopic view of quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM) in single-molecule magnets (SMMs), focusing on the interplay between exchange and anisotropy. Careful consideration is given to the relationship between molecular symmetry and the symmetry of the spin Hamiltonian that dictates QTM selection rules. Higher order interactions that

David H. Lyth, Mindaugas Karčiauskas

The inflaton might be coupled to a gauge field through a term f^2(ϕ) F_μνF^μν. If f \propto a^{-2} where a(t) is the scale factor, the perturbation δW of the gauge field generates a potentially observable statistically anisotropic contribution to the primordial curvature perturbation during slow-roll inflation. The spectrum and bispectrum of this contributio

Krzysztof Argasinski, Mark Broom

This paper further develops work from a previous article which introduced a new way of modelling evolutionary game models with an emphasis on ecological realism, concerned with how ecological factors determine payoffs in evolutionary games. The current paper is focused on the impact of selectively neutral factors (i.e. those that are the same for all strateg

Andrew V. Lelechenko

N. Minculete has introduced a concept of divisors of order $r$: integer $d=p_1^{b_1}\cdots p_k^{b_k} $ is called a divisor of order $r$ of $n=p_1^{a_1}\cdots p_k^{a_k}$ if $d \mid n$ and $b_j\in\{r, a_j\}$ for $j=1,\ldots,k$. One can consider respective divisor function $τ^{(r)}$ and sum-of-divisors function $σ^{(r)}$. In the present paper we investigate the

Volker Crede, Winston Roberts

The composite nature of baryons manifests itself in the existence of a rich spectrum of excited states, in particular in the important mass region 1-2 GeV for the light-flavoured baryons. The properties of these resonances can be identified by systematic investigations using electromagnetic and strong probes, primarily with beams of electrons, photons, and p

A. Pourret, G. Knebel, G. Lapertot, T. D. Matsuda

We report thermoelectric and resitivity measurements of antiferromagnetic heavy fermion compound YRh2Si2 at low temperatures down and under high magnetic field. At low temperature, the thermoelectric power and the resistivity present several distinct anomalies as a function of field around H_0 ~ 9.5 T when the magnetic polarization reaches a critical value.

Michele Cirafici

Donaldson-Thomas theory on a Calabi-Yau can be described in terms of a certain six-dimensional cohomological gauge theory. We introduce a certain class of defects in this gauge theory which generalize surface defects in four dimensions. These defects are associated with divisors and are defined by prescribing certain boundary conditions for the gauge fields.

D. J. Weir, R. Monaco, V. P. Koshelets, J. Mygind

In this paper we use spontaneous flux production in annular superconductors to shed light on the Kibble-Zurek scenario. In particular, we examine the effects of finite size and external fields, neither of which is directly amenable to the KZ analysis. Supported by 1D and 3D simulations, the properties of a superconducting ring are seen to be well represented

H. Hergert, S. Binder, A. Calci, J. Langhammer

We formulate the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group (IM-SRG) for open-shell nuclei using a multi-reference formalism based on a generalized Wick theorem introduced in quantum chemistry. The resulting multi-reference IM-SRG (MR-IM-SRG) is used to perform the first ab initio study of even oxygen isotopes with chiral NN and 3N Hamiltonians, from the pro

George F R Ellis

This paper extends the work of a previous paper [arXiv:1208.2611] on the flow of time, to consider the origin of the arrow of time. It proposes that a `past condition&#39; cascades down from cosmological to micro scales, being realized in many microstructures and setting the arrow of time at the quantum level by top-down causation. This physics arrow of time

Feng Yan, Philippe Martins, Laurent Decreusefond

Homology theory has attracted great attention because it can provide novel and powerful solutions to address coverage problems in wireless sensor networks. They usually use an easily computable algebraic object, Rips complex, to detect coverage holes. But Rips complex may miss some coverage holes in some cases. In this paper, we investigate homology-based co

Se Young Park, Andrew J. Millis

We present calculations of the charge density profile, subband occupancy and ellipsometry spectra of the electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. The calculations employ self-consistent Hartree and random phase approximations, a tight binding parametrization of the band structure and a model for the optical phonon of SrTiO3. The dependence of the spatial

Feng Yan, Anais Vergne, Philippe Martins, Laurent Decreusefond

Homology theory provides new and powerful solutions to address the coverage problems in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). They are based on algebraic objects, such as Cech complex and Rips complex. Cech complex gives accurate information about coverage quality but requires a precise knowledge of the relative locations of nodes. This assumption is rather stron

S. M. Natanzon, A. V. Zabrodin

We explicitly construct the series expansion for a certain class of solutions to the 2D Toda hierarchy in the zero dispersion limit, which we call symmetric solutions. We express the Taylor coefficients through some universal combinatorial constants and find recurrence relations for them. These results are used to obtain new formulas for the genus 0 double H

Sourav Chatterjee, Frederic A. Rasio, Alison Sills, Evert Glebbeek

Blue straggler stars (BSS) are abundantly observed in all Galactic globular clusters (GGC) where data exist. However, observations alone cannot reveal the relative importance of various formation channels or the typical formation times for this well studied population of anomalous stars. Using a state-of-the-art Hénon-type Monte Carlo code that includes all

Pedro A. S. Salomão, Joa Weber

Assume M is a closed connected smooth manifold and H:T^*M->R a smooth proper function bounded from below. Suppose the sublevel set {H<d} contains the zero section and αis a non-trivial homotopy class of free loops in M. Then for almost every s>=d the level set {H=s} carries a periodic orbit z of the Hamiltonian system (T^*M,ω_0,H) representing α. Examples sh

Kamil Salikhov, Gustavo Sacomoto, Gregory Kucherov

De Brujin graphs are widely used in bioinformatics for processing next-generation sequencing data. Due to a very large size of NGS datasets, it is essential to represent de Bruijn graphs compactly, and several approaches to this problem have been proposed recently. In this work, we show how to reduce the memory required by the algorithm of [3] that represent

Mohammad R. Garousi

Recently, it has been shown that the NS-NS corrections to the type II supergravity given by Gross and Sloan are invariant under the linear T-duality. In this paper, we study the invariance of this action under sequence of S-duality and linear T-duality to find the R-R corrections to the supergravity at order $α&#39;^3$, up to field redefinition.

Alejandro M. Aragón

The last few years have seen the proliferation of measures that quantify the scientific output of researches. Yet, these measures focus on productivity, thus fostering the &#34;publish or perish&#34; paradigm. This article proposes a measure that aims at quantifying the impact of research de-emphasizing productivity, thus providing scientists an alternative,

Francoise Combes, Alexei Moiseev, Vladimir Reshetnikov

We have searched for CO lines in a sample of 21 new morphologically determined polar-ring galaxies (of which nine are kinematically confirmed), obtained from a wide search in the Galaxy Zoo project by Moiseev and collaborators. Polar-ring galaxies (PRG) are a unique class of objects, tracing special episodes in the galaxy mass assembly: they can be formed th

Glencora Borradaile, Philip Klein, Claire Mathieu

We give a randomized O(n polylog n)-time approximation scheme for the Steiner forest problem in the Euclidean plane. For every fixed eps > 0 and given n terminals in the plane with connection requests between some pairs of terminals, our scheme finds a (1 + eps)-approximation to the minimum-length forest that connects every requested pair of terminals.

Paul de Medeiros, Stefan Hollands

We show how the rigid conformal supersymmetries associated with a certain class of pseudo-Riemannian spin manifolds define a Lie superalgebra. The even part of this superalgebra contains conformal isometries and constant R-symmetries. The odd part is generated by twistor spinors valued in a particular R-symmetry representation. We prove that any manifold whi

Katrin Wolff, Aljoscha M. Hahn, Holger Stark

Self-propelled particles in an external gravitational field have been shown to display both an increased sedimentation length and polar order even without particle interactions. Here, we investigate self-propelled particles which additionally are bottom-heavy, that is they feel a torque aligning them to swim against the gravitational field. For bottom-heavy

N. Sandor, G. Demeter, D. Dzsotjan, G. P. Djotyan

We consider the simultaneous propagation of a pair of Raman-resonant, frequency-modulated (chirped) laser pulses in an optically thick medium, modeled by an ensemble of $Λ$-atoms. A self-organization (&#39;matching`) effect is shown for the chirped pulse pair, which leads to a quasi-lossless propagation. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a well-defined cohere

Claudio Gentile, Mark Herbster, Stephen Pasteris

We consider online similarity prediction problems over networked data. We begin by relating this task to the more standard class prediction problem, showing that, given an arbitrary algorithm for class prediction, we can construct an algorithm for similarity prediction with &#34;nearly&#34; the same mistake bound, and vice versa. After noticing that this gen

Lucila M. S. Bento, Davidson Boccardo, Raphael C. S. Machado, Vinícius G. Pereira de Sá

Digital watermarks have been considered a promising way to fight software piracy. Graph-based watermarking schemes encode authorship/ownership data as control-flow graph of dummy code. In 2012, Chroni and Nikolopoulos developed an ingenious such scheme which was claimed to withstand attacks in the form of a single edge removal. We extend the work of those au

Nicholas D. Alikakos

This paper is partly based on a lecture delivered by the author at the ERC workshop &#34;Geometric Partial Differential Equations&#34; held in Pisa in September 2012. What is presented here is an expanded version of that lecture.

Cedric Weiland

In minimal supersymmetric seesaw models, the contribution to lepton flavour violation from Z-penguins is usually negligible. In this study, we consider the supersymmetric inverse seesaw and show that, in this case, the Z-penguin contribution dominates in several lepton flavour violating observables due to the low scale of the inverse seesaw mechanism. Among

Akihiko Fukui, Norio Narita, Kenji Kurosaki, Masahiro Ikoma

We present optical (g&#39;, R_c, and I_c) to near-infrared (J) simultaneous photometric observations for a primary transit of GJ3470b, a Uranus-mass transiting planet around a nearby M dwarf, by using the 50-cm MITSuME telescope and the 188-cm telescope, both at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory. From these data, we derive the planetary mass, radius, and den

F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo, A. Santillan

We quantify the effects of magnetic fields, cosmic rays and gas pressure on the rotational velocity of HI gas in the Milky Way, at galactic distances between Rsun and 2Rsun. The magnetic field is modelled by two components; a mainly azimuthal magnetic component and a small-scale tangled field. We construct a range of plausible axisymmetric models consistent

Francesco Della Pietra, Nunzia Gavitone

In this paper, we give some stability estimates for the Faber-Krahn inequality relative to the eigenvalues of Hessian operators

Sofie De Clercq, Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Ann Nowé

The Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) is a well-known matching problem first introduced and solved by Gale and Shapley (1962). Several variants and extensions to this problem have since been investigated to cover a wider set of applications. Each time a new variant is considered, however, a new algorithm needs to be developed and implemented. As an alternative,

Vasilii I. Artyukhov, Mingjie Liu, Boris I. Yakobson

First-principles calculations for carbyne under strain predict that the Peierls transition from symmetric cumulene to broken-symmetry polyyne structure is enhanced as the material is stretched. Interpretation within a simple and instructive analytical model suggests that this behavior is valid for arbitrary 1D metals. Further, numerical calculations of the a

Dinesh Kumar, Sanjay Kumar

We consider the dynamics associated with an arbitrary semigroup of transcendental entire functions. Fatou-Julia theory is used to investigate the dynamics of these semigroups. Several results of the dynamics associated with iteration of a transcendental entire function have been extended to transcendental semigroup case. We also investigate the dynamics of c

Alessandro Gnoatto, Martino Grasselli

We introduce a tractable multi-currency model with stochastic volatility and correlated stochastic interest rates that takes into account the smile in the FX market and the evolution of yield curves. The pricing of vanilla options on FX rates can be performed effciently through the FFT methodology thanks to the affinity of the model Our framework is also abl

Yutaka Sakamura

We calculate one-loop contributions to the Kaehler potential in 4D effective theory of 5D gauged supergravity (SUGRA) on S^1/Z_2 with a generic form of the prepotential and arbitrary boundary terms. Our result is applicable to a wide class of 5D SUGRA models. The derivation is systematically performed by means of an N=1 superfield formalism based on the supe

Paolo Marconcini, Massimo Totaro, Giovanni Basso, Massimo Macucci

We perform a numerical investigation of the effect of the disorder associated with randomly located impurities on shot noise in mesoscopic cavities. We show that such a disorder becomes dominant in determining the noise behavior when the amplitude of the potential fluctuations is comparable to the value of the Fermi energy and for a large enough density of i

Monika Blanke, Gian F. Giudice, Paride Paradisi, Gilad Perez

We show that a large mixing between the right-handed charm and top squarks (i) is allowed by low-energy flavour constraints; (ii) reduces the experimental bound on the stop mass; (iii) has a mild, but beneficial, effect on fine-tuning; (iv) leads to interesting signatures at the LHC not presently investigated by experiments. We estimate the current bound on

Davide Delmonte, Francesco Mezzadri, Chiara Pernechele, Gianluca Calestani

We report on the synthesis and characterization of BiFe0.5Mn0.5O3, a potential type-I multiferroic compound displaying temperature induced magnetization reversal. Bulk samples were obtained by means of solid state reaction carried out under the application of hydrostatic pressure at 6 GPa and 1100°C. The crystal structure is an highly distorted perovskite wi

Daniel Huerga, Jorge Dukelsky, Gustavo E. Scuseria

We present a canonical mapping transforming physical boson operators into quadratic products of cluster composite bosons that preserves matrix elements of operators when a physical constraint is enforced. We map the 2D lattice Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian into $2\times 2$ composite bosons and solve it at mean field. The resulting Mott insulator-superfluid phase

Ellen Eischen

We construct a p-adic Eisenstein measure with values in the space of vector-weight p-adic automorphic forms on certain unitary groups. This measure allows us to p-adically interpolate special values of certain vector-weight C-infinity automorphic forms, including Eisenstein series, as their weights vary. We also explain how to extend our methods to the case

Gérard Ben Arous, Manuel Cabezas, Jiří Černý, Roman Royfman

We introduce a general model of trapping for random walks on graphs. We give the possible scaling limits of these Randomly Trapped Random Walks on $\mathbb {Z}$. These scaling limits include the well-known fractional kinetics process, the Fontes-Isopi-Newman singular diffusion as well as a new broad class we call spatially subordinated Brownian motions. We g

M. Osipenko, M. Ripani, R. Alba, G. Ricco

The design of a low-power prototype of neutron amplifier recently proposed within the INFN-E project indicated the need for more accurate called for detailed data on the neutron yield produced by a proton beam with energy of about 70 MeV impinging on a thick Beryllium target. Such measurement was performed at the LNS superconducting cyclotron, covering a wid

Andrea Cadarso, Jordi Mur-Petit, Juan José García-Ripoll

From the interaction between a frequency comb and an atomic qubit, we derive quantum protocols for the determination of the carrier-envelope offset phase, using the qubit coherence as a reference, and without the need of frequency doubling or an octave spanning comb. Compared with a trivial interference protocol, the multipulse protocol results in a polynomi

Mohamed Camar-Eddine, Laurent Pater

In this paper we determine, in dimension three, the effective conductivities of non periodic high-contrast two-phase cylindrical composites, placed in a constant magnetic field, without any assumption on the geometry of their cross sections. Our method, in the spirit of the H-convergence of Murat-Tartar, is based on a compactness result and the cylindrical n

Amir F. Atiya, Hatem A. Fayed, Ahmed H. Abdel-Gawad

Gaussian process is a very promising novel technology that has been applied to both the regression problem and the classification problem. While for the regression problem it yields simple exact solutions, this is not the case for the classification problem, because we encounter intractable integrals. In this paper we develop a new derivation that transforms

J. Marton, S. Bartalucci, S. Bertolucci, C. Berucci

One of the fundamental rules of nature and a pillar in the foundation of quantum theory and thus of modern physics is represented by the Pauli Exclusion Principle. We know that this principle is extremely well fulfilled due to many observations. Numerous experiments were performed to search for tiny violation of this rule in various systems. The experiment V

Min Zheng, Mingshen Sun, John C. S. Lui

Smartphones and mobile devices are rapidly becoming indispensable devices for many users. Unfortunately, they also become fertile grounds for hackers to deploy malware and to spread virus. There is an urgent need to have a &#34;security analytic & forensic system&#34; which can facilitate analysts to examine, dissect, associate and correlate large number of

Q. J. Ye, M. Hartmann, D. Chiladze, S. Dymov

The pp -> ppK+K- reaction was measured below the phi threshold at a beam energy of 2.568 GeV using the COSY-ANKE magnetic spectrometer. By assuming that the four-body phase space is distorted only by the product of two-body final state interactions, fits to a variety of one-dimensional distributions permit the evaluation of differential and total cross secti

Sascha Trostorff

We give an approach to exponential stability within the framework of evolutionary equations due to [R. Picard. A structural observation for linear material laws in classical mathematical physics. Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 32(14):1768-1803,2009]. We derive sufficient conditions for exponential stability in terms of the material law operator, which is defined

Daniele Musso

We introduce and study a simple unbalanced holographic superconductor model with two scalar order parameters. The attention is focused on the possibility of coexisting orderings corresponding to the concomitant condensation of two scalar operators. Through a probe analysis we show that an attractive or repulsive direct interaction between the two bulk scalar

Torsten Pfoh

We examine the impact of threshold resummation for the inclusive hadronic production cross section of gluino pairs at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy, compared to the exact next-to-leading-order cross section and the next-to-next-to-leading-order approximation. Here, we apply formulas derived recently in the classical Mellin-space formalism. Mor

Shung-Ichi Ando

Perturbative expansions, the Born series, of the scattering length and the amplitude of $S$-wave neutron-deuteron scattering for spin quartet channel below deuteron breakup threshold are studied in pionless effective field theory at small cutoff values. A three-body contact interaction is introduced when the integral equation is solved using the small cutoff

Lucia Di Vizio, Charlotte Hardouin, Michael Wibmer

We develop a Galois theory for linear differential equations equipped with the action of an endomorphism. This theory is aimed at studying the difference algebraic relations among the solutions of a linear differential equation. The Galois groups here are linear difference algebraic groups, i.e., matrix groups defined by algebraic difference equations.

Claudio Fontana

We propose a unified analysis of a whole spectrum of no-arbitrage conditions for financial market models based on continuous semimartingales. In particular, we focus on no-arbitrage conditions weaker than the classical notions of No Arbitrage and No Free Lunch with Vanishing Risk. We provide a complete characterisation of the considered no-arbitrage conditio

Joe Henson

This paper addresses arguments that &#34;separability&#34; is an assumption of Bell&#39;s theorem, and that abandoning this assumption in our interpretation of quantum mechanics (a position sometimes referred to as &#34;holism&#34;) will allow us to restore a satisfying locality principle. Separability here means that all events associated to the union of so

Tarek A. Elsayed

The analogy between dynamics and optics had a great influence on the development of the foundations of classical and quantum mechanics. We take this analogy one step further and investigate the validity of Fermat&#39;s principle in many-dimensional spaces describing dynamical systems (i.e., the quantum Hilbert space and the classical phase and configuration

Suprit Singh, Chandrima Ganguly, T. Padmanabhan

It is possible to associate temperatures with the non-extremal horizons of a large class of spherically symmetric spacetimes using periodicity in the Euclidean sector and this procedure works for the de Sitter spacetime as well. But, unlike e.g., the black hole spacetimes, the de Sitter spacetime also allows a description in Friedmann coordinates. This raise

A. J. Allen, N. G. Parker, N. P. Proukakis, C. F. Barenghi

Weakly interacting, dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have proved to be an attractive context for the study of nonlinear dynamics and quantum effects at the macroscopic scale. Recently, atomic BECs have been used to investigate quantum turbulence both experimentally and theoretically, stimulated largely by the high degree of control which is ava

Hado van Hasselt

We investigate the accuracy of the two most common estimators for the maximum expected value of a general set of random variables: a generalization of the maximum sample average, and cross validation. No unbiased estimator exists and we show that it is non-trivial to select a good estimator without knowledge about the distributions of the random variables. W

Benjamin Batistić, Marko Robnik

We study the quantum mechanics of a billiard (Robnik 1983) in the regime of mixed-type classical phase space (the shape parameter λ=0.15) at very high-lying eigenstates, starting at about 1.000.000th eigenstate and including the consecutive 587654 eigenstates. By calculating the normalized Poincaré Husimi functions of the eigenstates and comparing them with

Chul-Moon Yoo, Tomohiro Harada, Naoki Tsukamoto

We propose the use of modulated spectra of astronomical sources due to gravitational lensing to probe Ellis wormholes. The modulation factor due to gravitational lensing by the Ellis wormhole is calculated. Within the geometrical optics approximation, the normal point mass lens and the Ellis wormhole are indistinguishable unless we know the source&#39;s unle

Tobias Brett, Tobias Galla

We develop a systematic approach to the linear-noise approximation for stochastic reaction systems with distributed delays. Unlike most existing work our formalism does not rely on a master equation, instead it is based upon a dynamical generating functional describing the probability measure over all possible paths of the dynamics. We derive general express

Cristian E. Susa, John H. Reina, Luis L. Sánchez-Soto

We report on quantum, classical, and total correlations in a set of distant quantum emitters coupled via their interaction with the plasmon modes of a one-dimensional waveguide driven by an external laser field. The coupling of the emitters with the plasmonic modes and its influence on the collective decay rate suggest that entanglement does not play a signi

Travis Willse

Nurowski showed that any generic 2-plane field $D$ on a 5-manifold $M$ determines a natural conformal structure $c_D$ on $M$; these conformal structures are exactly those (on oriented $M$) whose normal conformal holonomy is contained in the (split, real) simple Lie group $G_2$. Graham and Willse showed that for real-analytic $D$ the same holds for the holono

Yen Chin Ong, Pisin Chen

We review the Seiberg-Witten instability of topological black holes in Anti-de Sitter space due to nucleation of brane-anti-brane pairs. We start with black holes in general relativity, and then proceed to discuss the peculiar property of topological black holes in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity -- they have instabilities that occur at only finite range of distance

Ben Rathaus, Assaf Ben-David, Nissan Itzhaki

We extend our study of a universe with a non-classical stringy topology, and consider an orbifold line topology, $\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^2/\mathbb{Z}_p$. This topology has a fixed line and identifies each point in space with $p-1$ other points. An observable imprint of an orbifold line on the CMB is the appearance of up to $(p-1)/2$ pairs of matching cir

O. L. Creevey, F. Thévenin, S. Basu, W. J. Chaplin

Asteroseismic data can be used to determine surface gravities with precisions of < 0.05 dex by using the global seismic quantities Deltanu and nu_max along with Teff and [Fe/H]. Surface gravity is also one of the four stellar properties to be derived by automatic analyses for 1 billion stars from Gaia data (workpackage GSP_Phot). We explore seismic data from

Roman Schefzik, Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir, Tilmann Gneiting

Critical decisions frequently rely on high-dimensional output from complex computer simulation models that show intricate cross-variable, spatial and temporal dependence structures, with weather and climate predictions being key examples. There is a strongly increasing recognition of the need for uncertainty quantification in such settings, for which we prop

Daniela Tordella, Luca Sitzia, Silvio Di Savino

Using a Navier-Stokes isotropic turbulent field numerically simulated (Biferale et al., Phys. Fluids (2005)), we show that the probability of having a stretching-tilting larger than twice the local enstrophy is negligible. By using an anisotropic filter in the Fourier space we analyze these survival statistics when the large, the small inertial or the small