March 2013 arXiv papers — page 20

P. F. Wyper, D. I. Pontin

We report here, for the first time, an observed instability of a Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) nature occurring in a fully three-dimensional (3D) current-vortex sheet at the fan plane of a 3D magnetic null point. The current-vortex layer forms self-consistently in response to foot point driving around the spine lines of the null. The layer first becomes unstable at

Jürgen Herzog, Hema Srinivasan

We present some partial results regarding subadditivity of maximal shifts in finite graded free resolutions.

Jose D. Edelstein

Lovelock theory is the natural extension of general relativity to higher dimensions. It can be also thought of as a toy model for ghost-free higher curvature gravity. It admits a family of AdS vacua, most (but not all) of them supporting black holes that display interesting features. This provides an appealing arena to explore different holographic aspects i

Semyeong Oh, Jong-Hak Woo, Vardha N. Bennert, Bruno Jungwiert

We investigate the narrow-line region (NLR) of two radio-quiet QSOs, PG1012+008 and PG1307+085, using high signal-to-noise spatially resolved long-slit spectra obtained with FORS1 at the Very Large Telescope. Although the emission is dominated by the point-spread function of the nuclear source, we are able to detect extended NLR emission out to several kpc s

Abdelhamid Ainouz

In this paper, periodic homogenization of a steady fluid flow in fissured porous solids with imperfect interfacial contact is performed via two-scale asymptotic method.

G Bevilacqua

Some elaborations regarding the Hilbert and Fourier transforms of Fermi function are presented. The main result shows that the Hilbert transform of the difference of two Fermi functions has an analytical expression in terms of the $Ψ$ (digamma) function, while its Fourier transform is expressed by mean of elementary functions. Moreover an integral involving

Martin F. Volk, Benjamin Reinhard, Jens Neu, René Beigang

We designed and implemented a gradient index metasurface for the in-plane focusing of confined terahertz surface waves. We measured the spatial propagation of the surface waves by two-dimensional mapping of the complex electric field using a terahertz near-field spectroscope. The surface waves were focused to a diameter of 500 \micro m after a focal length o

Bozidar Jovanovic

The Lax representations of the geodesic flow, the Jacobi-Rosochatius problem and its perturbations by means of separable polynomial potentials, on a ellipsoid are constructed. We prove complete integrability in the case of a generic symmetric ellipsoid and describe analogous systems on complex projective spaces. Also, we consider billiards within an ellipsoi

Christof Bernhard, Bänz Bessire, Thomas Feurer, André Stefanov

Quantum entanglement between qudits - the d-dimensional version of qubits - is relevant for advanced quantum information processing and provides deeper insights in the nature of quantum correlations. Encoding qudits in the frequency modes of photon pairs produced by continuous parametric down-conversion enables access to high-dimensional states. By shaping t

Riku Tuovinen, Robert van Leeuwen, Enrico Perfetto, Gianluca Stefanucci

We solve analytically the Kadanoff-Baym equations for a noninteracting junction connected to an arbitrary number of noninteracting wide-band terminals. The initial equilibrium state is properly described by the addition of an imaginary track to the time contour. From the solution we obtain the time-dependent electron densities and currents within the junctio

Zhigang Cao, Xujin Chen, Changjun Wang

In marketing products with negative externalities, a schedule which specifies an order of consumer purchase decisions is crucial, since in the social network of consumers, the decision of each consumer is negatively affected by the choices of her neighbors. In this paper, we study the problems of finding a marketing schedule for two asymmetric products with

Sónia Dias, Paula Brito

Histogram-valued variables are a particular kind of variables studied in Symbolic Data Analysis where to each entity under analysis corresponds a distribution that may be represented by a histogram or by a quantile function. Linear regression models for this type of data are necessarily more complex than a simple generalization of the classical model: the pa

Sergiy Kolyada, Oleksandr Rybak

We introduce and study the Lyapunov numbers -- quantitative measures of the sensitivity of a dynamical system $(X,f)$ given by a compact metric space $X$ and a continuous map $f:X \to X$. In particular, we prove that for a minimal topologically weakly mixing system all Lyapunov numbers are the same.

I. Sagiv, A. Gal-Yam, E. O. Ofek, E. Waxman

The time-variable electromagnetic sky has been well-explored at a wide range of wavelengths. Numerous high-energy space missions take advantage of the dark Gamma-ray and X-ray sky and utilize very wide field detectors to provide almost continuous monitoring of the entire celestial sphere. In visible light, new wide-field ground-based surveys cover wide patch

Muhammad Khan, Mazen Kebewar, Nikolay Nenovsky

In the late 90's, after severe financial and economic crisis, accompanied by inflation and exchange rate instability, Eastern Europe emerged into two groups of countries with radically contrasting monetary regimes (Currency Boards and Inflation targeting). The task of our study is to compare econometrically the performance of these two regimes in terms o

William M. Nelson

Back-reaction of fields plays an important role in the generation of particle masses and the mass-energy equivalence of special relativity, but the most natural demonstrations using classical models result in apparent errors such as the notorious "4/3" problem. Here we discuss the resolution of these discrepancies within the underlying atomic descrip

Simon Catterall, Aarti Veernala

We continue our earlier study of the phase structure of a SU(2) gauge theory whose action contains additional chirally invariant four fermion interactions. Our lattice theory uses a reduced staggered fermion formalism to generate two Dirac flavors in the continuum limit. In the current study we have tried to reduce lattice spacing and taste breaking effects

Lev N. Bulaevskii, Shi-Zeng Lin

In magnetic superconductors vortices polarize spins nonuniformly and repolarize them when moving. At a low spin relaxation rate and at low bias currents vortices carrying magnetic polarization clouds become polaron-like and their velocities are determined by the effective drag coefficient which is significantly bigger than the Bardeen-Stephen (BS) one. As cu

Hisakazu Minakata, Stephen J. Parke

Precision measurement of the leptonic CP violating phase $δ$ will suffer from the, then surviving, large uncertainty of sin^2 θ_{23} of 10-20% in the experimentally interesting region near maximal mixing of θ_{23}. We advocate a new method for determination of both θ_{23} and $δ$ at the same time using only the ν_e and \barν_e appearance channels, and show t

Ruud Visser, Jes K. Jorgensen, Lars E. Kristensen, Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Evaporation of water ice above 100 K in the inner few 100 AU of low-mass embedded protostars (the so-called hot core) should produce quiescent water vapor abundances of ~10^-4 relative to H2. Observational evidence so far points at abundances of only a few 10^-6. However, these values are based on spherical models, which are known from interferometric studie

C. D. Fosco, F. C. Lombardo, F. D. Mazzitelli

We present a study of the static and dynamical Casimir effects for a quantum field theory satisfying generalized Robin boundary condition, of a kind that arises naturally within the context of quantum circuits. Since those conditions may also be relevant to measurements of the dynamical Casimir effect, we evaluate their role in the concrete example of a real

R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, A. Hernández-Fernández, D. Lusseau, G. Agoramoorthy

A key aim in biology and psychology is to identify fundamental principles underpinning the behavior of animals, including humans. Analyses of human language and the behavior of a range of non-human animal species have provided evidence for a common pattern underlying diverse behavioral phenomena: words follow Zipf's law of brevity (the tendency of more f

Nicolas Vernier, Jean-Paul Adam, Andre Thiaville, Vincent Jeudy

We report on current induced domain wall propagation in a patterned GaMnAs microwire with perpendicular magnetization. An unexpected slowing down of the propagation velocity has been found when the moving domain wall extends over only half of the width of the wire. This slowing down is related to the elongation of a longitudinal wall along the axis of the wi

S. K. Kang, Y. D. Kim, Y. Ko, K. Siyeon

Sterile neutrinos are one candidate to explain anomalies in neutrino oscillations. The mass-difference-driving oscillation between flavors can be probed only within specific combinations of baseline and flight energy. For a neutrino whose mass is completely unknown, it is necessary to scan all available ranges in spectrum and all accessible baselines. Here,

Hans Christianson

We consider the resolvent on asymptotically Euclidean warped product manifolds in an appropriate 0-Gevrey class, with trapped sets consisting of only finitely many components. We prove that the high-frequency resolvent is either bounded by $C_ε|λ|^ε$ for any $ε>0$, or blows up faster than any polynomial (at least along a subsequence). A stronger result holds

Dan Shen, Haipeng Shen, Hongtu Zhu, J. S. Marron

The aim of this paper is to establish several deep theoretical properties of principal component analysis for multiple-component spike covariance models. Our new results reveal a surprising asymptotic conical structure in critical sample eigendirections under the spike models with distinguishable (or indistinguishable) eigenvalues, when the sample size and/o

Brandon Jones, Mark Campbell, Lang Tong

The fusion of independently obtained stochastic maps by collaborating mobile agents is considered. The proposed approach includes two parts: matching of stochastic maps and maximum likelihood alignment. In particular, an affine invariant hypergraph is constructed for each stochastic map, and a bipartite matching via a linear program is used to establish land

Ali Maalaoui, Vittorio Martino

We consider a family of tight contact structures on the three-dimensional torus and we compute the relative Contact Homology by using the variational theory of critical points at infinity. We will also show some algebraic equivariant homology reductions.

Tao Liu, Joseph W. Hogan

For settings with a binary treatment and a binary outcome, instrumental variables can be used to construct bounds on a causal treatment effect. With continuous outcomes, meaningful bounds are more difficult to obtain because the domain of the outcome is typically unrestricted. In this paper, we combine an instrumental variable and subjective assumptions in t

Mariusz Zaba, Piotr Garbaczewski

We analyze two-dimensional (2D) random systems driven by a symmetric Lévy stable noise which, under the sole influence of external (force) potentials $Φ(x) $, asymptotically set down at Boltzmann-type thermal equilibria. Such behavior is excluded within standard ramifications of the Langevin approach to Lévy flights. In the present paper we address the respo

M. R. Scholz, J. Sánchez-Barriga, J. Braun, D. Marchenko

The helical Dirac fermions at the surface of topological insulators show a strong circular dichroism which has been explained as being due to either the initial-state spin angular momentum, the initial-state orbital angular momentum, or the handedness of the experimental setup. All of these interpretations conflict with our data from Bi2Te3 which depend on t

Debbijoy Bhattacharya, Ranjeev Misra, A. R. Rao, P. Sreekumar

We examine the long term (~10 years) gamma-ray variability of blazars observed by EGRET and Fermi and find that for six sources the average flux varied by more than an order of magnitude. For two of these sources (PKS 0208-512 and PKS 0528+134), there were extensive observations (at various observing periods) by EGRET. Hence these dramatic variations are not

M. Meneghetti, E. Rasia

The concentration-mass relations proposed by Prada et al. (2012) and by Duffy et al. (2008) on the scales of galaxy clusters show some of the largest discrepancies among all the works present in literature. This is surprising because they are both derived from the analysis of dark-matter halos forming in LCDM simulations with similar set-ups. With the help o

Wen-Cong Chen, Wei-Min Liu

It is difficult for intermediate-mass X-ray binaries to form compact intermediate-mass binary pulsars (IMBPs) with a short orbital-period ($\la 3 \rm d$), which have a heavy ($\ga 0.4 M_{\odot}$) CO or ONeMg white dwarf companions. Since neutron star + He star binaries may experience common-envelope evolution, they have some advantage to account for the form

Luciano Maiani

The GIM Mechanism was introduced by Sheldon L. Glashow, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani in 1970, to explain the suppression of Delta S=1, 2 neutral current processes and is an important element of the unified theories of the weak and electromagnetic interactions. Origin, predictions and uses of the GIM Mechanism are illustrated. Flavor changing neutral cu

Sergio Albeverio, Mark Malamud, Vadim Mogilevskii

We study general (not necessarily Hamiltonian) first-order symmetric systems $J y'(t)-B(t)y(t)=\D(t) f(t)$ on an interval $\cI=[a,b> $ with the regular endpoint $a$. It is assumed that the deficiency indices $n_\pm(\Tmi)$ of the minimal relation $\Tmi$ in $\LI$ satisfy $n_-(\Tmi)\leq n_+(\Tmi)$. By using a Nevanlinna boundary parameter $τ=τ(ł)$ at the si

Charles-Alban Deledalle, Loïc Denis, Florence Tupin

Matching patches from a noisy image to atoms in a dictionary of patches is a key ingredient to many techniques in image processing and computer vision. By representing with a single atom all patches that are identical up to a radiometric transformation, dictionary size can be kept small, thereby retaining good computational efficiency. Identification of the

Frederic Bernicot, Taoufik Hmidi

In this paper, we are interested in the global persistence regularity for the 2D incompressible Euler equations in some function spaces allowing unbounded vorticities. More precisely, we prove the global propagation of the vorticity in some weighted Morrey-Campanato spaces and in this framework the velocity field is not necessarily Lipschitz but belongs to t

Patrick Antolin, Tom Van Doorsselaere

Diagnostics of MHD waves in the solar atmosphere is a topic which often encounters problems of interpretation, due partly to the high complexity of the solar atmospheric medium. Forward modeling can significantly guide interpretation, bridging the gap between numerical simulations and observations, and increasing the reliability of mode identification for ap

CDF Collaboration

We present a measurement of the ratio of the top-quark branching fractions $R=\mathcal{B}(t\rightarrow Wb)/\mathcal{B}(t\rightarrow Wq)$, where $q$ represents quarks of type $b$, $s$, or $d$, in the final state with a lepton and hadronic jets. The measurement uses $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV proton--antiproton collision data from 8.7 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated lumino

Martin Costabel, Monique Dauge

The equivalence between the inequalities of Babuška-Aziz and Friedrichs for sufficiently smooth bounded domains in the plane has been shown by Horgan and Payne 30 years ago. We prove that this equivalence, and the equality between the associated constants, is true without any regularity condition on the domain. For the Horgan-Payne inequality, which is an up

Cyril Rigault

?In this work, we study the orbital stability of stationary solutions to the relativistic Vlasov-Manev system. This system is a kinetic model describing the evolution of a stellar system subject to its own gravity with some relativistic corrections. For this system, the orbital stability was proved for isotropic models constructed as minimizers of the Hamilt

Yuri Monakhov, Natalia Kostina, Maria Medvednikova, Oleg Makarov

This paper presents the research results that have identified a set of characteristic parameters of propagandistic messages. Later these parameters can be used in the algorithm creating special user-oriented propagandistic messages to improve distribution and assimilation of information by users.

Pawel Jerzy Pankiewicz, Thomas Arildsen, Torben Larsen

The random demodulator is a recent compressive sensing architecture providing efficient sub-Nyquist sampling of sparse band-limited signals. The compressive sensing paradigm requires an accurate model of the analog front-end to enable correct signal reconstruction in the digital domain. In practice, hardware devices such as filters deviate from their desired

Paul Terwilliger

We consider the quantum algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ with $q$ not a root of unity. We describe the finite-dimensional irreducible $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$-modules from the point of view of the equitable presentation.

Obafemi O. Otelaja, Jared B. Hertzberg, Mahmut Aksit, Richard D. Robinson

In order to fully understand nanoscale heat transport it is necessary to spectrally characterize phonon transmission in nanostructures. Towards this goal we have developed a microfabricated phonon spectrometer. We utilize microfabricated superconducting tunnel junction-based (STJ) phonon transducers for the emission and detection of tunable, non-thermal, and

William V. Dixon, William P. Blair, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Mary L. Romelfanger

The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) was a 0.9 m telescope and moderate-resolution (~3 A) far-ultraviolet (820-1850 A) spectrograph that flew twice on the space shuttle, in 1990 December (Astro-1, STS-35) and 1995 March (Astro-2, STS-67). The resulting spectra were originally archived in a non-standard format that lacked important descriptive metadata. To

Özlem Salehi, Abuzer Yakaryılmaz, A. C. Cem Say

We study the computational power of real-time finite automata that have been augmented with a vector of dimension k, and programmed to multiply this vector at each step by an appropriately selected $k \times k$ matrix. Only one entry of the vector can be tested for equality to 1 at any time. Classes of languages recognized by deterministic, nondeterministic,

Felix Schüller

Over $\C$, Henry Laufer classified all taut surface singularities. We adapt and extent his transcendental methods to positive characteristic. With this we show that if a normal surface singularity is taut over $\C$, then the normal surface singularities with isomorphic dual graph over algebraically closed fields of characteristic exponent $p>1$ are taut for

Kevin Buchin, Maike Buchin, Marc van Kreveld, Bettina Speckmann

The collective motion of a set of moving entities like people, birds, or other animals, is characterized by groups arising, merging, splitting, and ending. Given the trajectories of these entities, we define and model a structure that captures all of such changes using the Reeb graph, a concept from topology. The trajectory grouping structure has three natur

Jianlan Wu, Jianshu Cao

We apply a new formalism to derive the higher-order quantum kinetic expansion (QKE) for studying dissipative dynamics in a general quantum network coupled with an arbitrary thermal bath. The dynamics of system population is described by a time-convoluted kinetic equation, where the time-nonlocal rate kernel is systematically expanded on the order of off-diag

Yaghoob Naimi, Mohammad Naimi

We introduce the generalized rumor spreading model and investigate some properties of this model on different complex social networks. Despite pervious rumor models that both the spreader-spreader ($SS$) and the spreader-stifler ($SR$) interactions have the same rate $α$, we define $α^{(1)}$ and $α^{(2)}$ for $SS$ and $SR$ interactions, respectively. The eff

Winston Heap

We give a conjecture for the moments of the Dedekind zeta function of a Galois extension via the hybrid product method. The moments of the product of primes are evaluated using the Montgomery-Vaughan mean value theorem whilst for the moments of the product over zeros we give a heuristic argument involving random matrix theory. The asymptotic for the first mo

A. D. Panov

This review concentrates on the results obtained, over the last ten years, on the astrophysics of high-energy cosmic ray electrons and positrons. The anomalies, observed in the data of recent experiments (possible bump in the electron spectrum and the PAMELA anomaly in the positron fraction) are discussed through the systematic use of simple analytical solut

L. A. A. Nikolopoulos, Gabriela Buica-Zloh, P. Lambropoulos

In this paper we report the theoretical results obtained for partial ionization yields and the above-threshold ionization (ATI) spectra of Magnesium in a Ti:sapphire laser field (804 nm) in the range of short pulse duration (20-120 fs). Ionization yield, with linearly polarized light for a 120 fs laser pulse, is obtained as a function of the peak intensity m

Sweta Shah, Gijs Nelemans, Marc van der Sluys

In this follow-up paper, we continue our study of the effect of using knowledge from electromagnetic observations in the gravitational wave (GW) data analysis of Galactic binaries that are predicted to be observed by the new \textit{Laser Interferometer Space Antenna} in the low-frequency range, $10^{-4} \:\mathrm{Hz}<f<1 \:\mathrm{Hz}$. In the first paper,

Junfeng Duan, Stephan Pomp, Henrik Sjöstrand, Erwin Alhassan

In this work, we study the uncertainty of nuclear model parameters for neutron induced ^{56}Fe reactions in fast neutron region by using the Total Monte Carlo method. We perform a large number of TALYS runs and compare the calculated results with the experimental data of the cross sections to obtain the uncertainties of the model parameters. Based on the der

Gabriel P. Paternain, Mikko Salo, Gunther Uhlmann

We survey recent progress in the problem of recovering a tensor field from its integrals along geodesics. We also propose several open problems.

Jean Vallès

We recall the definition of Poncelet varieties that generalize the celebrated Poncelet curves introduced by Darboux. We show that any quadric and any smooth cubic in the projective space of dimension three is a Poncelet surface but that a general surface of degree greater than four is not.

S. I. Bondarenko, A. A. Shablo, V. P. Koverya

The properties of a locally frozen (in a region of diameter 0.5 mm) magnetic field in a YBa2Cu3O7-x slab 0.5 mm thick are investigated as a function of the value of the excitation field, the regime of freezing, and the transport current through the sample. The first regime is cooling of the ceramic to 77 K in the excitation field with a subsequent turning of

Ian G. Moss

An analogy between asymmetric rotor molecules and anisotropic cosmology can be used to calculate new centrifugal distortion terms in the effective potential of asymmetric rotor molecules which have no internal 3-fold symmetry. The torsional potential picks up extra $\cosα$ and $\cos2α$ contributions, which are comparable to corrections to the momentum terms

A. D. Panov, N. V. Sokolskaya, V. I. Zatsepin, J. H. Adams

The ratios of fluxes of heavy nuclei from sulfur (Z=16) to chromium (Z=24) to the flux of iron were measured by the ATIC-2 experiment. The ratios are decreasing functions of energy from 5 GeV/n to approximately 80 GeV/n, as expected. However, an unexpected sharp upturn in the ratios are observed for energies above 100 GeV/n for all elements from Z=16 to Z=24

Nina Narodytska, Peter Skocovsky, Toby Walsh

We propose a new global SPACING constraint that is useful in modeling events that are distributed over time, like learning units scheduled over a study program or repeated patterns in music compositions. First, we investigate theoretical properties of the constraint and identify tractable special cases. We propose efficient DC filtering algorithms for these

Anna Zygmunt, Jarosław Koźlak, Leszek Siwik

Representing knowledge with the use of ontology description languages offers several advantages arising from knowledge reusability, possibilities of carrying out reasoning processes and the use of existing concepts of knowledge integration. In this work we are going to present an environment for the integration of knowledge expressed in such a way. Guarantee

O. N. Golubjeva, A. D. Sukhanov

This approach to the incorporation of stochastic thermodynamics into quantum theory is based on the conception of consistent inclusion of the holistic stochastic environmental influence described by wave functions of the arbitrary vacuum, which was proposed in our paper previously. In this study, we implement the possibility of explicitly incorporating the z

A. D. Panov, N. V. Sokolskaya, V. I. Zatsepin

It is argued that the upturn observed in heavy nuclei to iron ratios as measured in the ATIC experiment could be understood within the model of closed galaxy with embedded local regions containing the sources of CR (Peters, Westergaard, 1977). The universal upturn near the energies of 200-300 GeV/n in the spectra of abundant primary nuclei is also predicted

Attia Najmeddine

We establish the almost sure validity of the multifractal formalism for R^d-valued branching random walks on the whole relative interior of the natural convex domain of study.

Nora Brambilla, Miguel Angel Escobedo, Jacopo Ghiglieri, Antonio Vairo

In a weak-coupling effective field theory framework we study quarkonium dissociation induced by inelastic scattering with partons in the medium. This is the dominant dissociation process for temperatures such that the Debye mass is larger than the binding energy. We evaluate the dissociation cross section and the corresponding thermal decay width. At leading

Vladimir Lotoreichik

In this note we sharpen the lower bound from [LLP10] on the spectrum of the 2D Schroedinger operator with a delta-interaction supported on a planar angle. Using the same method we obtain the lower bound on the spectrum of the 2D Schroedinger operator with a delta-interaction supported on crossing straight lines. The latter operators arise in the three-body q

Jarosław Koźlak, Anna Zygmunt, Edward Nawarecki

In this work, the concept of a system for analysing social relations between entities using the social network analysis and multi-agent system approaches is presented. The following problems especially appear within the domain of our interests: identification of the most influential individuals in a given society, identification of roles played by the given

Nikloay Moshchevitin

We prove a result on approximations to a real number $θ$ by algebraic numbers of degree $\le 2$ in the case when we have information about the uniform Diophantine exponent $\hatω$ for the linear form $x_0 +θx_1+θ^2x_2$.

Mathias Bürger, Giuseppe Notarstefano, Frank Allgöwer

In this paper we consider a general problem set-up for a wide class of convex and robust distributed optimization problems in peer-to-peer networks. In this set-up convex constraint sets are distributed to the network processors who have to compute the optimizer of a linear cost function subject to the constraints. We propose a novel fully distributed algori

Jarosław Koźlak, Anna Zygmunt

In the paper, the model of the society represented by a social network and the model of a multi-agent system built on the basis of this, is presented. The particular aim of the system is to predict the evolution of a society and an analysis of the communities that appear, their characteristic features and reasons for coming into being. As an example of appli

Simon Bossoney

The SABR model is shortly presented and the volatility swap explained. The fair value for a volatility swap is then computed using the usual theory in financial mathematics. An analytical solution using confluent hypergeometric functions is found. The solution is then verified using Rama Cont&#39;s functional calculus.

Imdat Iscan

The author introduce the concept of harmonically convex functions and establish some Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities of these classes of functions

O. Yu. Shevchenko

The formulas directly connecting parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs) at the next to leading order (NLO) QCD with the same quantities at the leading order (LO) are derived. These formulas are universal, i.e. have the same form for all kinds of PDFs and FFs, differing only in the respective splitting functions entering there.

Andreas Argyriou, Luca Baldassarre, Charles A. Micchelli, Massimiliano Pontil

During the past years there has been an explosion of interest in learning methods based on sparsity regularization. In this paper, we discuss a general class of such methods, in which the regularizer can be expressed as the composition of a convex function $ω$ with a linear function. This setting includes several methods such the group Lasso, the Fused Lasso

Zachary Gates, Anupam Singh, C. Ryan Vinroot

We classify all strongly real conjugacy classes of the finite unitary group $\U(n, F_q)$ when $q$ is odd. In particular, we show that $g \in \U(n, F_q)$ is strongly real if and only if $g$ is an element of some embedded orthogonal group $O^{\pm}(n, F_q)$. Equivalently, $g$ is strongly real in $\U(n, F_q)$ if and only if $g$ is real and every elementary divis

A. Fix, H. Arenhoevel

A truncated partial wave analysis for the photoproduction of two pseudoscalar mesons on a nucleon is discussed with respect to the determination of a complete set of observables. For the selection of such a set we have applied a criterion previously developed for photo- and electrodisintegration of a deuteron, which allows one to find a &#39;minimal&#39; set

E. Goldobin, R. Kleiner, D. Koelle

We consider an infinitely long 0-$π$ Josephson junction consisting of 0 and $π$ regions having different critical current densities $j_{c,0}$ and $j_{c,π}$. The ground state of such a junction corresponds to a spontaneosly formed asymmetric semifluxon with tails decaying on different length scales. We calculate the depinning current of such a fractional vort

Susanna Terracini, Gianmaria Verzini, Alessandro Zilio

For a class of competition-diffusion nonlinear systems involving fractional powers of the Laplacian, including as a special case the fractional Gross-Pitaevskii system, we prove that uniform boundedness implies Hölder boundedness for sufficiently small positive exponents, uniformly as the interspecific competition parameter diverges. This implies strong conv

Yun Sung Choi, Sun Kwang Kim, Han Ju Lee, Miguel Martín

In this paper we show that the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás theorem holds for $\mathcal{L}(L_1(μ), L_1(ν))$ for all measures $μ$ and $ν$ and also holds for $\mathcal{L}(L_1(μ),L_\infty(ν))$ for every arbitrary measure $μ$ and every localizable measure $ν$. Finally, we show that the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás theorem holds for two classes of bounded linear operators fr

Yu Wu, Chuan Wu, Bo Li, Francis C. M. Lau

As an important application in the busy world today, mobile video conferencing facilitates virtual face-to-face communication with friends, families and colleagues, via their mobile devices on the move. However, how to provision high-quality, multi-party video conferencing experiences over mobile devices is still an open challenge. The fundamental reason beh

Anagnostis Tsiatmas, Evangelos Atmatzakis, Nikitas Papasimakis, Vassili Fedotov

Generating, controlling, and sensing strong magnetic fields at ever shorter time and length scales is important for both fundamental solid-state physics and technological applications such as magnetic data recording. Here, we propose a scheme for producing strong ultrashort magnetic pulses localized at the nanoscale. We show that a bimetallic nanoring illumi

Q. Jia, W. Ji, S. A. Burke, H. J. Gao

The adsorption of functional molecules on insulator surfaces is of great importance to molecular electronics. We present a systematical investigation of geometric and electronic properties of PTCDA and C60 on KBr(001) using DFT and non-contact atomic force microscopy. It was found that electrostatics is the primary interaction mechanism for PTCDA and C60 ads

Daniela Müller, Dmitry Klochkov, Isabel Caballero, Andrea Santangelo

A number of accreting X-ray pulsars experience spectral changes, both on the long time scales and on the time scales of the neutron star spin period. The sources seem to form two distinct groups which differ by the type of the spectral variations with flux. Such a bimodality probably reflects two different regimes of accretion that may result in a particular

Guido Altarelli

In this lecture, after recalling the basic definitions and facts about the running coupling in QCD, I present a critical discussion of the methods for measuring $α_s$ and select those that appear to me as the most reliably precise

Bojan Prangoski

Specific global symbol classes and corresponding pseudodifferential operators of infinite order that act continuously on the space of tempered ultradistributions of Beurling and Roumieu type are constructed. For these classes, symbolic calculus is developed.

Ankik Kumar Giri, Erika Hausenblas

In this paper, we introduce the convergence analysis of the fixed pivot technique given by S.Kumar and Ramkrishna \cite{Kumar:1996-1} for the nonlinear aggregation population balance equations which are of substantial interest in many areas of science: colloid chemistry, aerosol physics, astrophysics, polymer science, oil recovery dynamics, and mathematical

Elena Lega, Alessandro Morbidelli, David Nesvorný

The observed wide eccentricity distribution of extrasolar giant planets is thought to be the result of dynamical instabilities and gravitational scattering among planets. Previously, it has been assumed that the orbits in giant planet systems become gravitationally unstable after the gas nebula dispersal. It was not well understood, however, how these unstab

Ja. M. Ilnytskyi, S. Sokolowski, T. Patsahan

We study self-assembly of a binary mixture of components A and B confined in a slit-like pore with the walls modified by the stripes of tethered brushes made of beads of a sort A. The emphasis is on solvent mediated transitions between morphologies when the composition of the mixture varies. For certain limiting cases of the pore geometry we found that an ef

Juan Davila, Louis Dupaigne, Kelei Wang, Juncheng Wei

We consider Liouville-type and partial regularity results for the nonlinear fourth-order problem $$ Δ^2 u=|u|^{p-1}u\ \{in} \ \R^n,$$ where $ p>1$ and $n\ge1$. We give a complete classification of stable and finite Morse index solutions (whether positive or sign changing), in the full exponent range. We also compute an upper bound of the Hausdorff dimension

B. J. Hiley

The reality of Bohm&#39;s intellectual journey is very different from what is often claimed by the proponents of &#34;Bohmian Mechanics&#34; and others as we will explain in this paper. He did not believe a mechanical explanation of quantum phenomena was possible. Central to his thinking, and incidentally to Bohr&#39;s also, was the notion of &#39;unbroken w

Tetsuya Shiromizu, Kentaro Tanabe

We show that the static and asymptotically flat black hole spacetime is unique to be Schwarzschild spacetime in the dynamical Chern-Simons gravity. In addition, we show that the strictly static spacetimes should be the Minkowski spacetime.

S. M. Mesli, M. Habchi, M. Kotbi, H. Xu

The choice of appropriate interaction models is among the major disadvantages of conventional methods such as molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. On the other hand, the so-called reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) method, based on experimental data, can be applied without any interatomic and/or intermolecular interactions. The RMC results are accompanied

D. Anchishkin, V. Naboka, J. Cleymans

The collision smearing of the nucleon momenta about their initial values during relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is investigated. To a certain degree, our model belongs to the transport type, and we investigate the evolution of the nucleon system created at a nucleus-nucleus collision. However, we parameterize this development by the number of collisi

Majid Gerami, Ming Xiao, Mikael Skoglund, Kenneth W. Shum

In distributed storage systems reliability is achieved through redundancy stored at different nodes in the network. Then a data collector can reconstruct source information even though some nodes fail. To maintain reliability, an autonomous and efficient protocol should be used to repair the failed node. The repair process causes traffic and consequently tra

Hitoshi Katsuda, Hidetoshi Nishimori

We propose a nonadiabatic approach to quantum annealing, in which we repeat quantum annealing in nonadiabatic time scales, and collect the final states of many realizations to find the ground state among them. In this way, we replace the diffculty of long annealing time in adiabatic quantum annealing by another problem of the number of nonsidabatic (short-ti

Denis Konstantinov, Kimitoshi Kono

We present the first measurements of inter-subband absorption of microwaves in surface electrons on liquid helium subjected to perpendicular magnetic field B. In quantizing B, the power absorption shows intermittent regions of enhanced and suppressed absorption. This behavior is caused by strong variation of the excited-electron decay rate with B. Particular

Alexandre Janon

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