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  1. Alex Abreu, Juliana Coelho, Marco Pacini

    In this paper we give local conditions to the existence of Abel maps for nodal curves that are limits of Abel maps for smooth curves. We use this result to construct Abel maps for any degree for nodal curves with two components.

  2. Alexander S. Gusev, Firouz Sakhibov, Sergey N. Dodonov

    We present the results of spectroscopy of 39 H II regions in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946. The spectral observations were carried out at the 6-m BTA telescope of the SAO RAS with the SCORPIO focal reducer in the multi-slit mode with the dispersion of 2.1A/px and spectral resolution of 10A. The absorption estimates for 39 H II regions were obtained. Using the &

  3. A. I. Titov, B. Kampfer, H. Takabe, A. Hosaka

    The generalized Breit-Wheeler process, i.e. the emission of $e^+e^-$ pairs off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic (e.g.\ laser) wave field, is analyzed. We show that the production probability is determined by the interplay of two dynamical effects. The first one is related to the shape and duration of the pulse and t

  4. Piotr Budzynski, Zenon Jan Jablonski, Il Bong Jung, Jan Stochel

    A criterion for subnormality of unbounded composition operators in L2-spaces, written in terms of measurable families of probability measures satisfying the so-called consistency condition, is established. It becomes a new characterization of subnormality in the case of bounded composition operators. Pseudo-moments of a measurable family of probability measu

  5. Ritupan Sarmah, G. Ananthakrishna, B. A. Sun, W. H. Wang

    We report results of statistical and dynamic analysis of the serrated stress-time curves obtained from compressive constant strain-rate tests on two metallic glass samples with different ductility levels in an effort to extract hidden information in the seemingly irregular serrations. Two distinct types of dynamics are detected in these two alloy samples. Th

  6. C. D. Dermer, J. D. Finke, R. J. Murphy, A. W. Strong

    Secondary nuclear production physics is receiving increased attention given the high-quality measurements of the gamma-ray emissivity of local interstellar gas between ~50 MeV and ~40 GeV, obtained with the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi space observatory. More than 90% of the gas-related emissivity above 1 GeV is attributed to gamma-rays from the d

  7. Simon Gog, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper, Andrew Turpin

    The suffix array is an efficient data structure for in-memory pattern search. Suffix arrays can also be used for external-memory pattern search, via two-level structures that use an internal index to identify the correct block of suffix pointers. In this paper we describe a new two-level suffix array-based index structure that requires significantly less dis

  8. Arne Buchholz, Hannah Markwig

    We define the tropical moduli space of covers of a tropical line in the plane as weighted abstract polyhedral complex, and the tropical branch map recording the images of the simple ramifications. Our main result is the invariance of the degree of the branch map, which enables us to give a tropical intersection-theoretic definition of tropical triple Hurwitz

  9. J. Gariel, G. Marcilhacy, N. O. Santos

    Assuming that the spin $a$ of the black hole, presumably located at the core of the active galactic nuclei Messier 87 (M87), takes the value which maximises the ergospheric volume of the Kerr spacetime, we find results compatible with the recent observations obtained by high resolution interferometry on the origin of the jet, which would be located inside th

  10. Henning Lohne

    In this paper, we study the two natural polarizations, namely the standard polarization and the box polarization, of the d-th power of the maximal ideal in a polynomial ring. We show that these polarizations correspond to smooth points in the Hilbert scheme, and we calculate the dimension of their component which shows that they lie on different components.

  11. Milan Korda, Didier Henrion, Colin N. Jones

    We characterize the maximum controlled invariant (MCI) set for discrete- as well as continuous-time nonlinear dynamical systems as the solution of an infinite-dimensional linear programming problem. For systems with polynomial dynamics and compact semialgebraic state and control constraints, we describe a hierarchy of finite-dimensional linear matrix inequal

  12. Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage, Pascal Noble, Luis Miguel Rodrigues

    Since its elaboration by Whitham, almost fifty years ago, modulation theory has been known to be closely related to the stability of periodic traveling waves. However, it is only recently that this relationship has been elucidated, and that fully nonlinear results have been obtained. These only concern dissipative systems though: reaction-diffusion systems w

  13. Luciano Rezzolla

    Numerical relativity has made big strides over the last decade. A number of problems that have plagued the field for years have now been mostly solved. This progress has transformed numerical relativity into a powerful tool to explore fundamental problems in physics and astrophysics, and I present here three representative examples. These "three little p

  14. Gilberto M. Kremer

    A mixture of relativistic gases of non-disparate rest masses in a Schwarzschild metric is studied on the basis of a relativistic Boltzmann equation in the presence of gravitational fields. A BGK-type model equation of the collision operator of the Boltzmann equation is used in order to compute the non-equilibrium distribution functions by the Chapman-Enskog

  15. J. A. N. Bruin, R. A. Borzi, S. A. Grigera, A. W. Rost

    We report a study of the magnetoresistivity of high purity Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$, in the vicinity of its electronic nematic phase. By employing a triple-axis (9/1/1T) vector magnet, we were able to precisely tune both the magnitude and direction of the in-plane component of the magnetic field (H$_\parallel$). We report the dependence of the resistively determine

  16. Jisu Ryu, Kyung-Jin Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee

    We theoretically study the current-driven domain wall motion in the presence of both the spin Hall effect and an extrinsic pinning potential. The spin Hall effect mainly affects the damping ratio of the domain wall precession in the pinning potential. When the pinning potential is not too strong, this results in a significant reduction of a threshold current

  17. Jérôme Dubois, Christian Wegner

    This paper deals with the study of a new family of knot invariants: the $L^2$-Alexander invariant. A main result is to give a method of computation of the $L^2$-Alexander invariant of a knot complement using any presentation of default 1 of the knot group.

  18. Shaode Yu, Qingsong Zhu, Shibin Wu, Yaoqin Xie

    Many interpolation methods have been developed for high visual quality, but fail for inability to preserve image structures. Edges carry heavy structural information for detection, determination and classification. Edge-adaptive interpolation approaches become a center of focus. In this paper, performance of four edge-directed interpolation methods comparing

  19. Dimitris Kugiumtzis

    For the evaluation of information flow in bivariate time series, information measures have been employed, such as the transfer entropy (TE), the symbolic transfer entropy (STE), defined similarly to TE but on the ranks of the components of the reconstructed vectors, and the transfer entropy on rank vectors (TERV), similar to STE but forming the ranks for the

  20. Ariel Fernández, Michael Soltys

    We show that the well-known Konig's Min-Max Theorem (KMM), a fundamental result in combinatorial matrix theory, can be proven in the first order theory $\LA$ with induction restricted to $Σ_1^B$ formulas. This is an improvement over the standard textbook proof of KMM which requires $Π_2^B$ induction, and hence does not yield feasible proofs --- while our

  21. Jean Bertoin, Marc Yor

    Given an increasing process $(A_t)_{t\geq 0}$, we characterize the right-continuous non-decreasing functions $f: \R_+\to \R_+$ that map $A$ to a pure-jump process. As an example of application, we show for instance that functions with bounded variations belong to the domain of the extended generator of any subordinators with no drift and infinite Lévy measur

  22. Alexandre Janon, Thierry Klein, Agnes Lagnoux-Renaudie, Maëlle Nodet

    Many mathematical models involve input parameters, which are not precisely known. Global sensitivity analysis aims to identify the parameters whose uncertainty has the largest impact on the variability of a quantity of interest (output of the model). One of the statistical tools used to quantify the influence of each input variable on the output is the Sobol

  23. Bart Vlaar

    We study certain non-symmetric wavefunctions associated to the quantum nonlinear Schrödinger (QNLS) model, introduced by Komori and Hikami using representations of the degenerate affine Hecke algebra. In particular, they can be generated using a vertex operator formalism analogous to the recursion that defines the symmetric QNLS wavefunction in the quantum i

  24. Zhen-Qing Chen, Panki Kim, Renming Song

    In this paper, we consider a large class of purely discontinuous rotationally symmetric Levy processes. We establish sharp two-sided estimates for the transition densities of such processes killed upon leaving an open set D. When D is a κ-fat open set, the sharp two-sided estimates are given in terms of surviving probabilities and the global transition densi

  25. Fabrice Gamboa, Alexandre Janon, Thierry Klein, Agnes Lagnoux-Renaudie

    Many mathematical models involve input parameters, which are not precisely known. Global sensitivity analysis aims to identify the parameters whose uncertainty has the largest impact on the variability of a quantity of interest (output of the model). One of the statistical tools used to quantify the influence of each input variable on the output is the Sobol

  26. Bo Ma, Jian Ge

    The mass domain where massive extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs overlap is still poorly understood due to the paucity of brown dwarfs orbiting close to solar-type stars, the so-called brown dwarf desert. In this paper we collect all of available data about close brown dwarfs around solar type stars and their host stars from literature and study the demogra

  27. Luis E. Young-S, Luca Salasnich, Boris A. Malomed

    We show that self-localized ground states can be created in the spin-balanced gas of fermions with repulsion between the spin components, whose strength grows from the center to periphery, in combination with the harmonic-oscillator (HO) trapping potential acting in one or two transverse directions. We also consider the ground state in the non-interacting Fe

  28. Kirill Gokhberg, Premysl Kolorenc, Alexander I. Kuleff, Lorenz S. Cederbaum

    Low-energy electrons (LEEs) are known to be effective in causing strand breaks in DNA. Recent experiments show that an important direct source of LEEs is the intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) process. Here we propose a new cascade mechanism initiated by core excitation and terminated by ICD and demonstrate its properties. Explicit calculations show that t

  29. Albert Prodan, Herman J. P. van Midden, Erik Zupanič, Rok Žitko

    Charge density wave (CDW) ordering in NbSe3 and the structurally related quasi one-dimensional compounds is reconsidered. Since the modulated ground state is characterized by unstable nano-domains, the structural information obtained from diffraction experiments is to be supplemented by some additional information from a method, able to reveal details on a u

  30. Rudolf Haag

    The concept of event provides the essential bridge from the realm of virtuality of the quantum state to real phenomena in space and time. We ask how much we can gather from existing theory about their localization and point out that decoherence and coarse graining -- though important -- do not suffice for a consistent interpretation without the additional pr

  31. Julian-Steffen Müller, Heribert Vollmer

    In this paper we investigate an extended version of modal dependence logic by allowing arbitrary Boolean connectives. Modal dependence logic was recently introduced by Jouko Väänänen by extending modal logic by a the dependence atom dep(.). In this paper we study the computational complexity of the model checking problem. For a complete classification of arb

  32. Mariola Klusek-Gawenda, Ewa Kozik, Andrzej Rybicki, Iwona Sputowska

    The interplay between the strong and electromagnetic force in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions was studied experimentally and theoretically in our earlier works. This effect appeared to result in very large distortions in spectra of charged pions produced in the collision. It was also found to bring new, independent information on the space-time evolut

  33. Abhijit G. Kallapur, Ian R. Petersen

    This paper derives recursion equations for a robust smoothing problem for a class of nonlinear systems with uncertainties in modeling and exogenous noise sources. The systems considered operate in discrete-time and the uncertainties are modeled in terms of a sum quadratic constraint. The robust smoothing problem is solved in terms of a forward-time and a rev

  34. R. Hedrosa, C. Abia, M. Busso, S. Cristallo

    Isotopic ratios of C, N, Si, and trace heavy elements in presolar SiC grains from meteorites provide crucial constraints to nucleosynthesis. A long-debated issue is the origin of the so-called A+B grains, as for them no stellar progenitor has so far been clearly identified on observational grounds. We report the first spectroscopic measurements of 14N/15N ra

  35. F. Tárkányi, S. Takács, F. Ditrói, A. Hermanne

    Experimental cross-sections are presented for the first time for the 159Tb(d,xn)155,157,159Dy, 155,156,160Tb and 153Gd nuclear reactions up to 50 MeV. The experimental data are compared with theoretical predictions of the ALICE, EMPIRE and TALYS nuclear reaction codes. Integral thick-target yields are also derived for the reaction products that have practica

  36. Steven D. Noble, Gordon F. Royle

    The Merino-Welsh conjecture asserts that the number of spanning trees of a graph is no greater than the maximum of the numbers of totally cyclic orientations and acyclic orientations of that graph. We prove this conjecture for the class of series-parallel graphs.

  37. Simone Alioli, Patricia Fernandez, Juan Fuster, Adrian Irles

    A new method to measure the top-quark mass in high energetic hadron collisions is presented. We use theoretical predictions calculated at next-to-leading order accuracy in quantum chromodynamics to study the (normalized) differential distribution of the \ttbaronejet cross section with respect to its invariant mass $\sqrt{\sttj}$. The sensitivity of the metho

  38. Steve Arscott

    Wetting of sessile bubbles on solid and liquid surfaces has been studied. A model is presented for the contact angle of a sessile bubble based on a modified Young equation - the experimental results agree with the model. A hydrophilic surface results in a bubble contact angle of 90 deg whereas on a superhydrophobic surface one observes 134 deg. For hydrophil

  39. P. Harmanec, H. Božić

    The history of the program of systematic UBV photometric monitoring of Be stars, binaries, CP stars and some other targets is briefly summarized. It is shown that a careful data homogenization, reduction and transformation to the standard Johnson system can be carried out successfully even at a station nearly the sea level when some strict measures are taken

  40. F. Tárkányi, A. Hermanne, S. Takács, F. Ditrói

    The radionuclide 161Tb (T1/2=6.89 d) is potentially important for internal radiotherapy. It is generally produced through the 160Gd(n,γ)161Gd - 161Tb route at research reactors. In this work the possibility of its production at a cyclotron was investigated. Determination of the excitation function of the 160Gd(d,x)161Tb production route and that of the distu

  41. Sven Peter Nasholm, Rune Hansen, Bjørn A. J. Angelsen

    A post-processing adjustment technique which aims for enhancement of dual-frequency SURF (Second order UltRasound Field) reverberation-noise suppression imaging in medical ultrasound is analyzed. Two variant methods are investigated through numerical simulations. They both solely involve post-processing of the propagated high-frequency (HF) imaging wave fiel

  42. Buyang Li, Weiwei Sun

    The paper focuses on unconditionally optimal error analysis of the fully discrete Galerkin finite element methods for a general nonlinear parabolic system in $\R^d$ with $d=2,3$. In terms of a corresponding time-discrete system of PDEs as proposed in \cite{LS1}, we split the error function into two parts, one from the temporal discretization and one the spat

  43. Fabrizio De Marchi, Giuseppe Pucacco, Massimo Bassan, Rosario De Rosa

    We present a dynamical model for the double torsion pendulum nicknamed PETER, where one torsion pendulum hangs in cascade, but off-axis, from the other. The dynamics of interest in these devices lies around the torsional resonance, that is at very low frequencies (mHz). However, we find that, in order to properly describe the forced motion of the pendulums,

  44. Sixia Yu, C. H. Oh

    We report a refinement of Robertson-Schroedinger uncertainty relation via Wigner-Yanase skew information. Besides the well known quantum uncertainty arising from the noncommutativity of observables, there is classical uncertainty arising from the mixedness of the states that is quantified by the difference between the variance and the skew information. Our r

  45. Hyeong-Chan Kim

    We present a new way describing the solution of the Einstein-scalar field theory with exponential potential $V\propto e^{\sqrt{6}βϕ/M_{Pl}}$ in spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-time. We introduced a new time variable, $L$, which may vary in $[-1,1]$. The new time represents the state of the universe clearly because the equation of state at a g

  46. P. Harmanec, H. Božić, D. Korčáková, L. Kotková

    Investigating long series of spectral and photometric observations, we found that the orbital elements of epsilon Aur are subject to much larger uncertainties than usually believed. The H alpha emission is found to move basically with the F primary but its exact location should still be investigated. We also find strong additional absorption and large redden

  47. Michio Hashimoto

    Based on Ref.1, we introduce a model with an isospin symmetric Higgs boson and study the properties of this particle, including the enhancement of its diphoton decay rate. The predictions of the model relevant for future experiments are also discussed.

  48. V. Ugrinovskii

    The paper discusses fundamental detectability properties associated with the problem of distributed state estimation using networked observers. The main result of the paper establishes connections between detectability of the plant through measurements, observability of the node filters through interconnections, and algebraic properties of the underlying com

  49. M. Kimura, H. Fukuzawa, K. Sakai, S. Mondal

    We identified interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) channels in argon dimers after spectator-type resonant Auger decay $2p^{-1}~3d \to 3p^{-2}3d, 4d$ in one of the atoms, using momentum resolved electron-ion-ion coincidence. The results illustrate that the resonant core excitation is a very efficient way of producing slow electrons at a specific site, which may

  50. Swee-Ping Chia

    The flavour-changing quark-Higgs coupling does not arise at the tree level in the Standard Model. It is, however, induced by one-loop effects. In this paper, we present an exact calculation of the Higgs-penguin vertex in the tHooft-Feynman gauge. Renormalization of the vertex is effected by a prescription by Chia and Chong which gives an expression for the c

  51. Sébastien Cartier

    We give explicit formulæ for Noether invariants associated to Killing vector fields for the variational problem of minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces in 3-manifolds. In the case of homogeneous spaces, such invariants are the flux (associated to translations) and the torque (associated to rotations). Then we focus on homogeneous spaces with isometry

  52. Caroline Champenois, Jofre Pedregosa-Gutierrez, Mathieu Marciante, Didier Guyomarc'H

    While the linear radiofrequency trap finds various applications in high-precision spectroscopy and quantum information, its higher-order cousin, the linear multipole trap, is almost exclusively employed in physical chemistry. Recently, first experiments have shown interesting features by laser-cooling multipole-trapped ion clouds. Multipole traps show a flat

  53. Chao-Kai Wen, Jung-Chieh Chen, Kai-Kit Wong, Pangan Ting

    Base station (BS) cooperation can turn unwanted interference to useful signal energy for enhancing system performance. In the cooperative downlink, zero-forcing beamforming (ZFBF) with a simple scheduler is well known to obtain nearly the performance of the capacity-achieving dirty-paper coding. However, the centralized ZFBF approach is prohibitively complex

  54. Sandy S. C. Law, Kristian L. McDonald

    The complexity of radiative neutrino-mass models can be judged by: (i) whether they require the imposition of ad hoc symmetries, (ii) the number of new multiplets they introduce, and (iii) the number of arbitrary parameters that appear. Adopting the view that the imposition of arbitrary new symmetries is the least appealing approach, the simplest models have

  55. Nobuyuki Higashimori, Hiroshi Fujiwara

    An explicit numerical scheme is proposed for solving the initial-boundary value problem for the radiative transport equation in a rectangular domain with completely absorbing boundary condition. An upwind finite difference approximation is applied to the differential terms of the equation, and the composite trapezoidal rule to the scattering integral. The ma

  56. Jin Yang, John W. Clark, Robert M. Bryan, Claudia S. Robertson

    Previous models of the cerebrovascular smooth muscle cell have not addressed the interaction between the electrical, chemical and mechanical components of cell function during the development of active tension. These models are primarily electrical, biochemical or mechanical in their orientation, and do not permit a full exploration of how the smooth muscle

  57. Alex E Pozhitkov, Peter A Noble, Jaroslaw Bryk, Diethard Tautz

    Although microarrays are routine analysis tools in biomedical research, they still yield noisy output that often requires experimental confirmation. Many studies have aimed at optimizing probe design and statistical analysis to tackle this problem. However, less emphasis has been placed on controlling the noise inherent to the experimental approach. To addre

  58. Zachary Gelbaum, Mathew Titus

    Using the spectral decomposition of the Laplace-Beltrami operator we simulate fractal surfaces as random series of eigenfunctions. This approach allows us to generate random fields over smooth manifolds of arbitrary dimension, generalizing previous work with fractional Brownian motion with multi-dimensional parameter. We give examples of surfaces with and wi

  59. Domenico Napoletani, Michele Signore, Daniele C. Struppa

    We analyze and reinterpret experimental evidence from the literature to argue for an ability of tumor cells to self-regulate their aneuploidy rate. We conjecture that this ability is mediated by a diversification factor that exploits molecular mechanisms common to embryo stem cells and, to a lesser extent, adult stem cells, that is eventually reactivated in

  60. Julio C. Rebelo

    Quasi-invariant measures for non-discrete groups of diffeomorphisms containing a Morse-Smale dynamics are studied. The assumption concerning the presence of a Morse-Smale dynamics allows us to extend to higher dimensions a number of recently established results for non-discrete groups acting on the circle. These results are also applied to show that, for man

  61. Sears Merritt, Abigail Z. Jacobs, Winter Mason, Aaron Clauset

    In many complex social systems, the timing and frequency of interactions between individuals are observable but friendship ties are hidden. Recovering these hidden ties, particularly for casual users who are relatively less active, would enable a wide variety of friendship-aware applications in domains where labeled data are often unavailable, including onli

  62. Ryota Tomioka, Taiji Suzuki

    We discuss structured Schatten norms for tensor decomposition that includes two recently proposed norms ("overlapped" and "latent") for convex-optimization-based tensor decomposition, and connect tensor decomposition with wider literature on structured sparsity. Based on the properties of the structured Schatten norms, we mathematically analy

  63. Qian-Ming Zhang, An Zeng, Ming-Sheng Shang

    Information overload is a serious problem in modern society and many solutions such as recommender system have been proposed to filter out irrelevant information. In the literature, researchers mainly dedicated to improve the recommendation performance (accuracy and diversity) of the algorithms while overlooked the influence of topology of the online user-ob

  64. Hassan Raza, Tehseen Z. Raza

    To enhance the undergraduate and graduate engineering education for nanoscale materials, devices and systems, we report a multi-disciplinary course based on the integration of theory, hands-on laboratory and hands-on computation into a single curriculum. The hands-on laboratory modules span various dimensionalities of nanomaterials as well as applications in

  65. Qi Hao, Cheng Fang, P. F. Chen

    We developed a method to automatically detect and trace solar filaments in Hα full-disk images. The program is able not only to recognize filaments and determine their properties, such as the position, the area, the spine, and other relevant parameters, but also to trace the daily evolution of the filaments. The program consists of three steps: First, prepro

  66. Dong-Ling Deng, Lu-Ming Duan

    Braiding of Majorana fermions gives accurate topological quantum operations that are intrinsically robust to noise and imperfection, providing a natural method to realize fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Unfortunately, it is known that braiding of Majorana fermions is not sufficient for implementation of universal quantum computation. Here we s

  67. Martin A. Mosquera, Daniel Jensen, Adam Wasserman

    Using the Runge-Gross theorem that establishes the foundation of Time-dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) we prove that for a given electronic Hamiltonian, choice of initial state, and choice of fragmentation, there is a unique single-particle potential (dubbed time-dependent partition potential) which, when added to each of the pre-selected fragment

  68. Sandra Mau, Shaokang Chen, Conrad Sanderson, Brian C. Lovell

    Balancing computational efficiency with recognition accuracy is one of the major challenges in real-world video-based face recognition. A significant design decision for any such system is whether to process and use all possible faces detected over the video frames, or whether to select only a few "best" faces. This paper presents a video face recogn

  69. BESIII Collaboration

    Based on 106 million $ψ(3686)$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII, the decay $ψ(3686) \rightarrow ωK \bar{K} π$ is studied. Enhancements around 1.44 GeV/$c^{2}$ and the $f_{1}(1285)$ are observed in the mass spectrum of $K \bar{K}π$, and the corresponding branching fractions are measured, as well as the branching fractions of $ψ(3686) \r

  70. Svetlana Gaidomak

    Boundary problem for linear partial differential algebraic equations system with multiple characteristic curves is considered. It is supposed that matrix-functions pencil of the system under consideration is smoothly equivalent to special canonical form. For this problem, with the help of the spline collocation method, a difference scheme of arbitrary degree

  71. Sidney A Coon

    I abstract from a recent publication [1] the motivations for, analysis in and conclusions of a study of the ultraviolet and infrared momentum regulators induced by the necessary truncation of the model spaces formed by a variational trial wave function. This trial function is built systematically from a complete set of many-body basis states based upon three

  72. Seckin Sefi, Vishal Vaibhav, Peter van Loock

    We present a method for implementing a weak optical Kerr interaction (single-mode Kerr Hamiltonian) in a measurement-based fashion using the common set of universal elementary interactions for continuous-variable quantum computation. Our scheme is a conceptually distinct alternative to the use of naturally occurring, weak Kerr nonlinearities or specially des

  73. Noah Graham

    The scattering theory approach makes it possible to carry out exact calculations of Casimir energies in any geometry for which the scattering T-matrix and a partial wave expansion of the free Green's function are available. We implement this program for the case of a perfectly conducting elliptic cylinder, thereby completing the set of geometries where e

  74. David S. McCormick, James C. Robinson, Jose L. Rodrigo

    We prove existence, uniqueness and regularity of weak solutions of a coupled parabolic-elliptic model in two dimensions; we consider the standard equations of magnetohydrodynamics with the advective terms removed from the velocity equation. Despite the apparent simplicity of the model, the proof requires results that are at the limit of what is available, in

  75. David S. McCormick, James C. Robinson, Jose L. Rodrigo

    Using elementary arguments based on the Fourier transform we prove that for $1 \leq q < p < \infty$ and $s \geq 0$ with $s > n(1/2-1/p)$, if $f \in L^{q,\infty}(\R^n) \cap \dot{H}^s(\R^n)$ then $f \in L^p(\R^n)$ and there exists a constant $c_{p,q,s}$ such that \[ \|f\|_{L^p} \leq c_{p,q,s} \|f\|_{L^{q,\infty}}^θ\|f\|_{\dot H^s}^{1-θ}, \] where $1/p = θ/q +

  76. Manoj Gopalkrishnan, Ezra Miller, Anne Shiu

    Motivated by questions in mass-action kinetics, we introduce the notion of vertexical family of differential inclusions. Defined on open hypercubes, these families are characterized by particular good behavior under projection maps. The motivating examples are certain families of reaction networks -- including reversible, weakly reversible, endotactic, and s

  77. Thomas Watson, Alberto Boretti

    The paper describing sea level rise oscillations at Cape Hatteras, USA by Parker [1] has opened the discussion regarding if the velocity in a tide gauge record characterized by a quasi-60-year multi-decadal oscillation can be computed by linear fitting of 30 years of data in two ad-hoc selected times and if acceleration can then be inferred by comparing thes

  78. CDF, D0 Collaborations

    We combine searches by the CDF and D0 Collaborations for the standard model Higgs boson with mass in the range 90--200 GeV$/c^2$ produced in the gluon-gluon fusion, $WH$, $ZH$, $t{\bar{t}}H$, and vector boson fusion processes, and decaying in the $H\rightarrow b{\bar{b}}$, $H\rightarrow W^+W^-$, $H\rightarrow ZZ$, $H\rightarrowτ^+τ^-$, and $H\rightarrow γγ$

  79. Alessandro Carlotto, Andrea Mondino

    It was recently shown by R. Souam and E. Toubiana that the (non constantly curved) Berger spheres do not contain totally umbilic surfaces. Nevertheless in this article we show, by perturbative arguments, that all analytic metrics sufficiently close to the round metric $g_{0}$ on $\mathbb{S}^{3}$ possess \textsl{generalized} totally umbilic 2-spheres, namely

  80. Hsueh-Yung Lin

    We show that the nefness of the canonical bundle of compact Kähler threefolds is invariant under deformed symplectic diffeomorphisms.

  81. Orchidea Maria Lecian

    The most general solution to the Einstein equations in $4=3+1$ dimensions in the asymptotical limit close to the cosmological singularity under the BKL (Belinski-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz) hypothesis, for which space gradients are neglected and time derivatives only are considered, can be visualized by the behavior of a billiard ball in a triangular domain on the

  82. Dan Romik

    Loop percolation, also known as the dense O(1) loop model, is a variant of critical bond percolation in the square lattice Z^2 whose graph structure consists of a disjoint union of cycles. We study its connectivity pattern, which is a random noncrossing matching associated with a loop percolation configuration. These connectivity patterns exhibit a striking

  83. José Fajardo

    In this paper we present a very simple way to price a class of barrier options when the underlying process is driven by a huge class of Lévy processes. To achieve our goal we assume that our market satisfies a symmetry property. In case of not satisfying that property some approximations can be obtained.

  84. Sungwook Lee, Lawrence R. Mead

    Update: A time-independent $n\times n$ PT-symmetric (and symmetric) Hamiltonian is diagonalizable since it has all distinct real eigenvalues and the resulting diagonal matrix is a real symmetric matrix. The diagonalization results an isometry so there shouldn&#39;t be any issue with unitarity and unfortunately this very elementary mathematical fact somehow d

  85. Richard A. Davison, Andrei Parnachev

    We show that at any temperature, the low-energy (with respect to the chemical potential) collective excitations of the transverse components of the energy-momentum tensor and the global U(1) current in the field theory dual to the planar RN-AdS4 black hole are simply those of hydrodynamics. That is, hydrodynamics is applicable even at energy scales much grea

  86. Jouni Järvinen, Sándor Radeleczki

    We show that for any tolerance $R$ on $U$, the ordered sets of lower and upper rough approximations determined by $R$ form ortholattices. These ortholattices are completely distributive, thus forming atomistic Boolean lattices, if and only if $R$ is induced by an irredundant covering of $U$, and in such a case, the atoms of these Boolean lattices are describ

  87. David A. Naylor, Brad G. Gom, Matthijs H. D. van der Wiel, Gibion Makiwa

    The principles and practice of astronomical imaging Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTS) at far-infrared wavelengths are described. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer design has been widely adopted for current and future imaging FTS instruments; we compare this design with two other common interferometer formats. Examples of three instruments based on the Mach-

  88. Antonio Ortiz, Peter Christiansen, Eleazar Cuautle, Ivonne Maldonado

    Increasingly, with the data collected at the LHC we are confronted with the possible existence of flow in pp collisions. In this work we show that PYTHIA 8 produces flow-like effects in events with multiple hard subcollisions due to color string formations between final partons from independent hard scatterings, the so called color reconnection. We present s

  89. T. Tzen Ong, Piers Coleman

    Motivated by the fully gapped superconductivity in iron-based superconductors with uncompensated electron pockets, we propose a spin singlet, but orbital triplet analogue of the superfluid phase of He-3B. We show that orbital triplets with a nominal d-wave symmetry at the iron sites can transform as s-wave pairs under rotations about the selenium sites. Line

  90. James Barry, Werner Rodejohann

    The various diagrams leading to neutrinoless double beta decay in the left-right symmetric model have different relative magnitudes, depending on the scale of new physics. Neutrinos acquire mass from both type I and/or type II seesaw terms, making an unambiguous analysis difficult. We study the half-life for double beta decay in the case of type II and type

  91. C. García-Azpeitia, J. Ize

    Given $n$ point masses turning in a plane at a constant speed, this paper deals with the global bifurcation of periodic solutions for the masses, in that plane and in space. As a special case, one has a complete study of n identical masses on a regular polygon and a central mass. The symmetries of the problem are used in order to find the irreducible represe

  92. Alena Zemanová, Jan Zeman, Michal Šejnoha

    Laminated glass structures are formed by stiff layers of glass connected with a compliant plastic interlayer. Due to their slenderness and heterogeneity, they exhibit a complex mechanical response that is difficult to capture by single-layer models even in the elastic range. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an efficient and reliable finite element a

  93. Iztok Fister, Dušan Fister, Xin-She Yang

    Swarm intelligence is a very powerful technique to be used for optimization purposes. In this paper we present a new swarm intelligence algorithm, based on the bat algorithm. The Bat algorithm is hybridized with differential evolution strategies. Besides showing very promising results of the standard benchmark functions, this hybridization also significantly

  94. A. W. Shaw, P. A. Charles, A. J. Bird, R. Cornelisse

    We have discovered a \sim420d modulation, with associated X-ray dips, in RXTE-ASM/MAXI/Swift-BAT archival light-curves of the short-period (3.2h) black-hole X-ray transient, Swift J1753.5-0127. This modulation only appeared at the end of a gradual rebrightening, approximately 3 years after the initial X-ray outburst in mid-2005. The same periodicity is prese

  95. Rasmus A. X. Persson

    We introduce a simple improvement on the method to calculate equilibrium entropy differences between classical energy levels proposed by Davis (S. Davis, Phys. Rev. E, 050101, 2011). We demonstrate that the modification is superior to the original whenever the energy levels are sufficiently closely spaced or whenever the microcanonical averaging needed in th

  96. Alex Bondar, Alexander Dolgov, Anton Poluektov, Vitaly Vorobiev

    A possible effect of direct CP violation in D->K0Spipi decay on the gamma measurement from B->DK, D->K0Spi+pi- Dalitz plot analysis is considered. Systematic uncertainty of gamma coming from the current limits on direct CP violation in D->K0Spi+pi- is estimated, and a modified model-independent procedure of B->DK, D->K0Spi+pi- Dalitz plot analysis is propose

  97. Michael J. Kastoryano, Jens Eisert

    We provide an analysis of the correlation properties of spin and fermionic systems on a lattice evolving according to open system dynamics generated by a local primitive Liouvillian. We show that if the Liouvillian has a spectral gap which is independent of the system size, then the correlations between local observables decay exponentially as a function of

  98. Alex Buchel, Xian O. Camanho, Jose D. Edelstein

    Cavitation is a process where the viscous terms in a relativistic fluid result in reducing the effective pressure, thus facilitating the nucleation of bubbles of a stable phase. The effect is particularly pronounced in the vicinity of a (weak) first-order phase transition. We use the holographic correspondence to study cavitation in a strongly coupled planar

  99. Bo Yang

    We show model wavefunctions for neutral collective modes in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states have simple analytic forms obtained from judicially reducing the powers of selected pairs in the ground state Jastrow factor. This scheme of &#34;pair excitations&#34; works for the magneto-roton modes of single-component Abelian and non-Abeliean FQH states, as w

  100. Miklos Lajko, Karlo Penc

    The SU(4) Heisenberg model can serve as a low energy model of the Mott insulating state in materials where the spins and orbitals are highly symmetric, or in systems of alkaline-earth atoms on optical lattice. Recently, it has been argued that on the honeycomb lattice the model exhibits a unique spin-orbital liquid phase with an algebraic decay of correlatio