March 2013 arXiv papers — page 28

Stavros Garoufalidis, Craig D. Hodgson, J. Hyam Rubinstein, Henry Segerman

In this paper we will promote the 3D index of an ideal triangulation T of an oriented cusped 3-manifold M (a collection of q-series with integer coefficients, introduced by Dimofte-Gaiotto-Gukov) to a topological invariant of oriented cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds. To achieve our goal we show that (a) T admits an index structure if and only if T is 1-efficie

Michael Lange, Gerard Gorman, Michele Weiland, Lawrence Mitchell

The increasing number of processing elements and decreas- ing memory to core ratio in modern high-performance platforms makes efficient strong scaling a key requirement for numerical algorithms. In order to achieve efficient scalability on massively parallel systems scientific software must evolve across the entire stack to exploit the multiple levels of par

N. Javaid, T. N. Qureshi, A. H. Khan, A. Iqbal

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of large number of randomly deployed energy constrained sensor nodes. Sensor nodes have ability to sense and send sensed data to Base Station (BS). Sensing as well as transmitting data towards BS require high energy. In WSNs, saving energy and extending network lifetime are great challenges. Clustering is a key techniq

C. Echeverria-Arrondo, E. Ya. Sherman

We consider the relaxation of a spin qubit in a quantum dot propagating as a whole in a one-dimensional semiconductor with hyperfine coupling. We show that this motion leads to qualitatively new features in this process compared to static quantum dots. For a fast straightforward motion, the initial spin density decreases to zero with the relaxation rate inde

Truell W. Hyde, Jie Kong, Lorin S. Matthews

Self-assembly of structures from vertically aligned, charged dust particle bundles within a glass box placed on the lower, powered electrode of a RF GEC cell were produced and examined experimentally. Self-organized formation of one-dimensional vertical chains, two-dimensional zigzag structures and three-dimensional helical structures of triangular, quadrang

K. Latif, A. Ahmad, N. Javaid, Z. A. Khan

From energy conservation perspective inWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering of sensor nodes is a challenging task. Clustering technique in routing protocols play a key role to prolong the stability period and lifetime of the network. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a new routing protocol for WSNs. Our protocol; Divide-and-Rule (DR) is based upo

Te-Sheng Lin, Lou Kondic, Uwe Thiele, Linda J. Cummings

We study spreading dynamics of nematic liquid crystal droplets within the framework of the long-wave approximation. A fourth order nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation governing the free surface evolution is derived. The influence of elastic distortion energy and of imposed anchoring variations at the substrate are explored through linear stabil

Song Cheng, Dongsheng Wang

Positivity or the stronger notion of complete positivity, and contextuality are central properties of quantum dynamics. In this work, we demonstrate that a physical unitary-universe dilation model could be employed to characterize the completely positive map, regardless of the initial correlation condition. Particularly, the problem of initial correlation ca

Michel Boileau, Steven Boyer

We show that a graph manifold which is a Z-homology 3-sphere not homeomorphic to either the 3-sphere or the Poincaré homology 3-sphere admits a horizontal foliation. This combines with known results to show that the conditions of not being an L-space, of having a left-orderable fundamental group, and of admitting a co-oriented taut foliation, are equivalent

Lorin S. Matthews, Babak Shotorban, Truell W. Hyde

The coagulation of cosmic dust grains is a fundamental process which takes place in astrophysical environments, such as presolar nebulae and circumstellar and protoplanetary disks. Cosmic dust grains can become charged through interaction with their plasma environment or other processes, and the resultant electrostatic force between dust grains can strongly

Ondrej Sipr, Sven Bornemann, Hubert Ebert, Sergey Mankovsky

We investigate to what extent the magnetic properties of deposited nanostructures can be influenced by selecting as a support different surfaces of the same substrate material. Fully relativistic ab initio calculations were performed for Co monolayers and adatoms on Pd(100), Pd(111), and Pd(110) surfaces. Changing the crystallographic orientation of the surf

N. Javaid, Z. Abbas, M. S. Fareed, Z. A. Khan

In this paper, we propose a new routing protocol for heterogeneous Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs); Mobility-supporting Adaptive Threshold-based Thermal-aware Energy-efficientMulti-hop ProTocol (M-ATTEMPT). A prototype is defined for employing heterogeneous sensors on human body. Direct communication is used for real-time traffic (critical data)

Markus Thom, Günther Palm

We propose a linear time and constant space algorithm for computing Euclidean projections onto sets on which a normalized sparseness measure attains a constant value. These non-convex target sets can be characterized as intersections of a simplex and a hypersphere. Some previous methods required the vector to be projected to be sorted, resulting in at least

A. P. Igoshev, S. B. Popov

We analyze different possibilities to explain the wide initial spin period distribution of radio pulsars presented by Noutsos et al. (2013). With a population synthesis modeling we demonstrate that magnetic field decay can be used to interpret the difference between the recent results by Noutsos et al. (2013) and those by Popov & Turolla (2012), where a much

Omri Gat, Max Lein, Stefan Teufel

We demonstrate that a highly excited quantum electromagnetic mode strongly interacting with a single qubit exhibits several distinct resonances in addition to the Bloch-Siegert resonance condition that arises in the interaction with classical radiation. The resonance phenomena are associated with non-classical effects: Collapse of Rabi oscillations, splittin

Miguel C. N. Fiolhais

In this paper we study the effect of new physics contributions to the top quark pair production ($t\bar{t}$) in a possible future linear collider, such as the International Linear Collider (ILC). The use of a dimension-six gauge invariant effective operator approach allows to compare the prospected results at the ILC with the current ones obtained at the Lar

Peter Eichelsbacher, Bastian Martschink

We consider the Hopfield model with $n$ neurons and an increasing number $p=p(n)$ of randomly chosen patterns and use Stein's method to obtain rates of convergence for the central limit theorem of overlap parameters, which holds for every fixed choice of the overlap parameter for almost all realisations of the random patterns.

Johannes G. Reiter, Ivana Bozic, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Martin A. Nowak

In this work we present a flexible tool for tumor progression, which simulates the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Tumor progression implements a multi-type branching process where the key parameters are the fitness landscape, the mutation rate, and the average time of cell division. The fitness of a cancer cell depends on the mutations it has accumulated.

Marc Sloan, Jun Wang

Many Information Retrieval (IR) models make use of offline statistical techniques to score documents for ranking over a single period, rather than use an online, dynamic system that is responsive to users over time. In this paper, we explicitly formulate a general Multi Period Information Retrieval problem, where we consider retrieval as a stochastic yet con

Marcus Jenderka, José Barzola-Quiquia, Zhipeng Zhang, Heiko Frenzel

Iridate thin films are a prerequisite for any application utilizing their cooperative effects resulting from the interplay of stron spin-orbit coupling and electronic correlations. Here, heteroepitaxial Na2IrO3 thin films with excellent (001) out-of-plane crystalline orientation and well defined in-plane epitaxial relationship are presented on various oxide

Simon Hawe, Matthias Seibert, Martin Kleinsteuber

Many techniques in computer vision, machine learning, and statistics rely on the fact that a signal of interest admits a sparse representation over some dictionary. Dictionaries are either available analytically, or can be learned from a suitable training set. While analytic dictionaries permit to capture the global structure of a signal and allow a fast imp

Antonios Argyriou

In this letter we investigate link scheduling algorithms for throughput maximization in multicast wireless networks. According to our system model, each source node transmits to a multicast group that resides one hop away. We adopt the physical interference model to reflect the aggregate signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) at each node of the multi

B. Manzoor, N. Javaid, O. Rehman, M. Akbar

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with their dynamic applications gained a tremendous attention of researchers. Constant monitoring of critical situations attracted researchers to utilize WSNs at vast platforms. The main focus in WSNs is to enhance network life-time as much as one could, for efficient and optimal utilization of resources. Different approaches

Mark Kambites

The idempotent problem of a finitely generated inverse semigroup is the formal language of all words over the generators representing idempotent elements. This note proves that a finitely generated inverse semigroup with regular idempotent problem is necessarily finite. This answers a question of Gilbert and Noonan Heale, and establishes a generalisation to

V. N. Chernega

The position-momentum uncertainty relations containing the dependence of their quantum bounds on state purity parameter $μ$ are discussed in context of possibilities to influence on the potential barrier transparency by means of decoherence processes. The behavior of barrier transparency $D$ is shown to satisfy the condition $μ^{-1}\ln D=const$. The particul

Matteo Farnesi Camellone, Dominik Marx

Water, the ubiquitous solvent, is also prominent in forming liquid solid interfaces with catalytically active surfaces, in particular with promoted oxides. We study the complex interface of a gold nanocatalyst, pinned by an F center on titania support, and water. The ab initio simulations uncover the microscopic details of solvent-induced charge rearrangemen

Philipp Simon, Peter Moroshkin, Lars Weller, Anne Sass

Laser cooling by collisional redistribution of radiation has been successfully applied in the past for cooling dense atomic gases. Here we report on progress of work aiming at the demonstration of redistribution laser cooling in a molecular gas. The candidate molecule strontium monohydride is produced by laser ablation of strontium dihydride in a pressurized

Xinzhong Er, Junqiang Ge, Shude Mao

We study the lensing magnification effect on background galaxies. Differential magnification due to different magnifications of different source regions of a galaxy will change the lensed composite spectra. The derived properties of the background galaxies are therefore biased. For simplicity, we model galaxies as a superposition of an axis-symmetric bulge a

Boris Tatischeff

The hadron spectroscopy is studied through the use of fractals and discrete scale invariance (DSI) implying log-periodic corrections to continuous scaling. The masses of mesons and baryons, reported by the Particle Data Group (PDG), agree with (DSI), as well as the masses of exotic narrow mesons, baryons, and dibaryons. Two distributions are systematically s

S. Simonucci, P. Pieri, G. C. Strinati

The temperature dependence of an isolated quantum vortex, embedded in an otherwise homogeneous fermionic superfluid of infinite extent, is determined via the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations across the BCS-BEC crossover. Emphasis is given to the BCS side of this crossover, where it is physically relevant to extend this study up to the critical temperatur

Robin Lovelace, Dimitris Ballas

Iterative proportional fitting (IPF) is a widely used method for spatial microsimulation. The technique results in non-integer weights for individual rows of data. This is problematic for certain applications and has led many researchers to favour combinatorial optimisation approaches such as simulated annealing. An alternative to this is `integerisation&#39

Aaron Armour, Yinhuo Zhang

We give a geometric classification of 4-dimensional superalgebras over an algebraic closed field.

Omar Khadir

In this paper we present a new efficient algorithm for factoring the RSA and the Rabin moduli in the particular case when the difference between their two prime factors is bounded. As an extension, we also give some theoretical results on factoring integers.

M. Ya. Sushko

We present arguments for the hypothesis that under some conditions, triple correlations of density fluctuations in fluids can be detected experimentally by the method of molecular spectroscopy. These correlations manifest themselves in the form of the so-called 1.5- (i.e., sesquialteral) scattering. The latter is of most significance in the pre-asymptotic vi

Ramesh Kumar, Dilawar Hussain, Ruchita

Non-linear controller is preferred to linear controller due to non-linear operation of DSTATCOM. System dynamic can be improved by regulating and fixing the capacitor DC voltage in DSTATCOM. The nonlinear control is based on exact linearization via feedback. There is a PI controller in this system to regulate DC voltage. In conventional scheme, the trial and

Santi Cassisi, Alessio Mucciarelli, Adriano Pietrinferni, Maurizio Salaris

We have computed low-mass stellar models and synthetic spectra for an initial chemical composition that includes the full C-N, O-Na, and Mg-Al abundance anticorrelations observed in second generation stars belonging to a number of massive Galactic globular clusters. This investigation extends a previous study that has addressed the effect of only the C-N and

A. -K. Herbig

Let $Ω\Subset\mathbb{C}^{n}$ be a domain with smooth boundary, $k\in\mathbb{N}$. It is shown that the integral of a holomorphic function in $L^1(Ω)$ may be represented as the integral of this function against a smooth function vanishing to order $k-1$ on $bΩ$. An application for a smoothing property of the Bergman projection for conjugate holomorphic functio

Filippo Bracci, Manuel D. Contreras, Santiago Diaz-Madrigal, Pavel Gumenyuk

We characterize regular fixed points of evolution families in terms of analytical properties of the associated Herglotz vector fields and geometrical properties of the associated Loewner chains. We present several examples showing the rôle of the given conditions. Moreover, we study the relations between evolution families and Herglotz vector fields at regul

L. A Falkovsky

The optical conductivity of graphene and bilayer graphene in quantizing magnetic fields is studied. Both dynamical conductivities, longitudinal and Hall's, are analytically evaluated. The conductivity peaks are explained in terms of electron transitions. Correspondences between the transition frequencies and the magneto-optical features are established u

Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, Linda Farczadi, Pu Gao, Abbas Mehrabian

We consider the following iterative construction of a random planar triangulation. Start with a triangle embedded in the plane. In each step, choose a bounded face uniformly at random, add a vertex inside that face and join it to the vertices of the face. After n-3 steps, we obtain a random triangulated plane graph with n vertices, which is called a Random A

M. Brics, J. Kaupuzs, R. Mahnke

An analogy of the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) with the Schrödinger equation allows us to use quantum mechanics technique to find the analytical solution of the FPE in a number of cases. However, previous studies have been limited to the Schrödinger potential with a discrete eigenvalue spectrum. Here, we will show how this approach can be also applied to a m

Kobra Hasanirokh, Hakimeh Mohammadpour, Arash Phirouznia

We have studied spin-depend electron tunnelling through the Rashba barrier in a monolayer graphene lattice. The transfer matrix method, have been employed to obtain the spin dependent transport properties of the chiral particles. It is shown that graphene sheets in presence of Rashba spin-orbit barrier will act as an electron spin- inverter.

Dustin A. Gilbert, Liang-Wei Wang, Timothy J. Klemmer, Jan-Ulrich Thiele

We have achieved (001) oriented L10 (Fe1-xCux)55Pt45 thin films, with magnetic anisotropy up to 3.6x10^7 erg/cm^3, using atomic-scale multilayer sputtering and post annealing at 400 °C for 10 seconds. By fixing the Pt concentration, structure and magnetic properties are systematically tuned by the Cu addition. Increasing Cu content results in an increase in

I. M. Dubrovskyi

The density of states of a particle in a 2D area is independent both of the energy and form of the area only at the region of large values of energy. If energy is small, the density of states in the rectangular potential well essentially depends on the form of the area. If the bottom of the potential well has a potential relief, it can define the small eigen

Michael Schröder

This paper studies Brownian motion subject to the occurrence of a minimal length excursion below a given excursion level. The law of this process is determined. The characterization is explicit and shows by a layer construction how the law is built up over time in terms of the laws of sums of a given set of independent random variables.

Matteo Novaga, Andrei Sobolevski, Eugene Stepanov

We consider a variational problem in a planar convex domain, motivated by statistical mechanics of crystal growth in a saturated solution. The minimizers are constructed explicitly and are completely characterized.

Veronica Roccatagliata, Thomas Preibisch, Thorsten Ratzka, Benjamin Gaczkowski

The Carina Nebula complex (CNC) represents one of the most massive star-forming regions in our Galaxy and shows strong feedback from the high massive stars. We use our Herschel FIR observations to study the properties of the clouds over the entire area of the CNC. The good angular resolution of the Herschel maps corresponds to physical scales of 0.1 - 0.4 pc

N. S. Kardashev, Y. Y. Kovalev, K. I. Kellermann

RadioAstron is a Russian space based radio telescope with a ten meter dish in a highly elliptical orbit with an eight to nine day period. RadioAstron works together with Earth based radio telescopes to give interferometer baselines extending up to 350,000 km, more than an order of magnitude improvement over what is possible from earth based very long baselin

Afrooz Ebadat, Mariette Annergren, Christian A. Larsson, Cristian R. Rojas

This contribution considers one central aspect of experiment design in system identification. When a control design is based on an estimated model, the achievable performance is related to the quality of the estimate. The degradation in control performance due to errors in the estimated model is measured by an application cost function. In order to use an op

M. I. Bagatskii, M. S. Barabashko, V. V. Sumarokov

The heat capacity of bundles of closed-cap single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) with one-dimensional chains of nitrogen molecules adsorbed in the grooves has been first experimentally studied at temperatures from 2K to 40K using an adiabatic calorimeter. The contribution of nitrogen C(T) to the total heat capacity has been separated. In the region 2-8K the

Gan Zheng, Ioannis Krikidis, Bjorn Ottersten

This paper studies the cooperation between a primary system and a cognitive system in a cellular network where the cognitive base station (CBS) relays the primary signal using amplify-and-forward or decode-and-forward protocols, and in return it can transmit its own cognitive signal. While the commonly used half-duplex (HD) assumption may render the cooperat

Xiang-Dong Li

In 1870s, L. Boltzmann proved the famous $H$-theorem for the Boltzmann equation in the kinetic theory of gas and gave the statistical interpretation of the thermodynamic entropy. In 2002, G. Perelman introduced the notion of $W$-entropy and proved the $W$-entropy formula for the Ricci flow. This plays a crucial role in the proof of the no local collapsing th

O. Rehman, N. Javaid, B. Manzoor, A. Hafeez

In recent few yearsWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have seen an increased interest in various applications like border field security, disaster management and medical applications. So large number of sensor nodes are deployed for such applications, which can work autonomously. Due to small power batteries in WSNs, efficient utilization of battery power is an

Alexandr Medvedev

We answer to the question whether a system of the 3rd order ODEs describes geodesics of a conformal structure. We construct a functor from a category of conformal geometries to a category of Cartan geometries associated to the 3rd order ODEs systems. Explicit formulas which define the family of all equations on conformal geodesics are given in the last secti

Taiki Maeda

We determine explicitly the Gauss sums on the general linear group $GL_2(\mathbb{Z}/p^l\mathbb{Z})$ for all irreducible characters, where $p$ is an odd prime and $l$ is an integer > 1. While there are several studies of the Gauss sums on finite algebraic groups defined over a finite field, this paper seems to be the first one which determines the Gauss sums

M. Monelli, A. P. Milone, P. B. Stetson, A. F. Marino

We present a general overview and the first results of the SUMO project (a SUrvey of Multiple pOpulations in Globular Clusters). The objective of this survey is the study of multiple stellar populations in the largest sample of globular clusters homogeneously analysed to date. To this aim we obtained high signal-to-noise (S/N>50) photometry for main sequence

Fazal Ghafoor

In contrast to the traditional Spontaneous Generated Coherence (SGC), Field Generated Coherence (FGC)-based atomic scheme is presented for spontaneous emission cancellation. It is easy to achieve externally controllable experimental trapping condition in this 4-field-driven 5-level atomic system. Consequently, due to the FGC the decay from the central dresse

Tingxi Hu, Pengcheng Niu

A Stein-Weiss type inequality on Carnot groups is established by proving the boundedness of an integral operator and the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev type inequality on Carnot groups is also derived.

Bachir Bekka, Baptiste Olivier

Let p be a real number with 1<p and different from 2. We study Property (T_lp) for a second countable locally compact group G. Property (T_lp) is a weak version of Kazhdan&#39;s Property (T), defined in terms of the orthogonal representations of G on the sequence space lp. We show that Property (T_lp) for a totally disconnected group G is characterized by an

Fazal Ghafoor

We extend the concepts of the Autler-Townes doublet and triplet spectroscopy to quartuplet, quintuplet and suggest linkages in sodium atom in which to display these spectra. We explore the involved fundamental processes of quantum interference of the corresponding spectroscopy by examining the Laplace transform of the corresponding state-vector subjected to

P. F. Wang, J. L. Han, C. Wang

Beam radii for cone-dominant pulsars follow a power-law relation with frequency, $\vartheta = (ν/ν_0)^k+\vartheta_0$, which has not yet well explained in previous works. We study this frequency dependence of beam radius (FDB) for cone-dominant pulsars by using the curvature radiation mechanism. Considering various density and energy distributions of particle

Guillaume Lecué, Shahar Mendelson

Given a finite class of functions F, the problem of aggregation is to construct a procedure with a risk as close as possible to the risk of the best element in the class. A classical procedure (PAC-Bayesian statistical learning theory (2004) Paris 6, Statistical Learning Theory and Stochastic Optimization (2001) Springer, Ann. Statist. 28 (2000) 75-87) is th

Guillaume Bal, Shari Moskow

Ultrasound modulated optical tomography, also called acousto-optics tomography, is a hybrid imaging modality that aims to combine the high contrast of optical waves with the high resolution of ultrasound. We follow the model of the influence of ultrasound modulation on the light intensity measurements developed in [Bal Schotland PRL 2010]. We present suffici

Nabila Shikoun, Mohamed El Nahas, Samar Kassim

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a widely spread disease all over the world. HCV has very high mutation rate that makes it resistant to antibodies. Modeling HCV to identify the virus mutation process is essential to its detection and predicting its evolution. This paper presents a model based framework for estimating mutation rate of HCV in two steps. Firstly prof

L. P. Teo

We derive analytically the asymptotic behavior of the Casimir interaction between a sphere and a plate when the distance between them, $d$, is much smaller than the radius of the sphere, $R$. The leading order and next-to-leading order terms are derived from the exact formula for the Casimir interaction energy. They are found to depend nontrivially on the di

Dmitry Namiot

This paper describes an algorithm for discovery of convoys in database with proximity log. Traditionally, discovery of convoys covers trajectories databases. This paper presents a model for context-aware browsing application based on the network proximity. Our model uses mobile phone as proximity sensor and proximity data replaces location information. As pe

Masashige Matsumoto, Mikito Koga, Hiroaki Kusunose

It was previously suggested that an odd-frequency pair amplitude exists in the vicinity of boundaries in unconventional superconductors. We develop this idea and quest for a novel superconducting order parameter with an odd-frequency dependence. For this purpose, we focus on p-wave superconductors and extend the quasi-classical theory to include the odd-freq

Mausumi Bose

In some socio-economic surveys, data are collected on sensitive or stigmatizing issues such as tax evasion, criminal conviction, drug use, etc. In such surveys, direct questioning of respondents is not of much use and the randomized response technique is used instead. A few researchers have studied the issue of privacy protection or respondent jeopardy for s

Ran Gu, Xueliang Li, Yongtang Shi

The generalized connectivity of a graph $G$ was introduced by Chartrand et al. Let $S$ be a nonempty set of vertices of $G$, and $κ(S)$ be defined as the largest number of internally disjoint trees $T_1, T_2, \cdots, T_k$ connecting $S$ in $G$. Then for an integer $r$ with $2 \leq r \leq n$, the {\it generalized $r$-connectivity} $κ_r(G)$ of $G$ is the minim

C. He, C. -Y. Ng, V. M. Kaspi

Pulsars are remarkable objects that emit across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, providing a powerful probe of the interstellar medium. In this study, we investigate the relation between dispersion measure (DM) and X-ray absorption column density NH using 68 radio pulsars detected at X-ray energies with the Chandra X-ray Observatory or XMM-Newton. We fin

Takahiro Sasaki, Hiroaki Kouno, Masanobu Yahiro

We investigate a way of circumventing the sign problem in lattice QCD simulations with a theta-vacuum term, using the PNJL model. We consider the reweighting method for the QCD Lagrangian after the U_A(1) transformation. In the Lagrangian, the P-odd mass term as a cause of the sign problem is minimized. In order to find out a good reference system in the rew

Jorge Plazas

We show that the Connes-Marcolli $GL_{2}$-system can be represented on the Big Picture, a combinatorial gadget introduced by Conway in order to understand various results about congruence subgroups pictorially. In this representation the time evolution of the system is implemented by Conway&#39;s distance between projective classes of commensurable lattices.

Ulf R. Pedersen

Computing phase diagrams of model systems is an essential part of computational condensed matter physics. In this paper we discuss in detail the interface pinning (IP) method for calculation of the Gibbs free energy difference between a solid and a liquid. This is done in a single equilibrium simulation by applying a harmonic field that biases the system tow

Jianlong Zhong, Bingsheng He

Graphics processors, or GPUs, have recently been widely used as accelerators in the shared environments such as clusters and clouds. In such shared environments, many kernels are submitted to GPUs from different users, and throughput is an important metric for performance and total ownership cost. Despite the recently improved runtime support for concurrent

Kiyonori Gomi

Mickelsson&#39;s invariant is an invariant of certain odd twisted K-classes of compact oriented three dimensional manifolds. We reformulate the invariant as a natural homomorphism taking values in a quotient of the third cohomology, and provide a generalization taking values in a quotient of the fifth cohomology. These homomorphisms are related to the Atiyah

Martín G. Richarte

We construct traversable thin-shell wormholes in the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati theory with cylindrical symmetry applying the cut and paste procedure to a flat black string solution of the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein field equations. In contrast to general relativity case, where thin-shell wormholes violate both weak and null energy conditions, we show tha

Shihao Yan, Nan Yang, Robert Malaney, Jinhong Yuan

This paper proposes a new transmit antenna selection (TAS) scheme which provides enhanced physical layer security in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channels. The practical passive eavesdropping scenario we consider is where channel state information (CSI) from the eavesdropper is not available at the transmitter. Our new scheme is carried out

Grace Wahba

The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2013. As part of its celebration, COPSS intends to publish a book with contributions from the past recipients of its four awards, namely the Fisher Lecture Award, the President&#39;s Award, the Elizabeth Scott Award, and the FN David Award. The theme of the bo

Masaaki Murakami

This is the part II of the series under the same title. In part I, using the approach developed by Catanese--Pignatelli arXiv:math/0503294, we gave a structure theorem for hyperelliptic genus 3 fibrations all of whose fibers are 2-connected (arXiv:1209.6278 [math.AG]). In this part II, we shall give a structure theorem for smooth deformation families of thes

A. G. Gorinov

In this note we extend some of the results of a previous paper \url{arXiv:math/0511593} to algebraically closed fields of finite characteristic. In particular, we show that there is an explicit expression in $n$ and $d$ which is divisible by the prime to $p$ part of the order of the the automorphism group of a smooth degree $d$ hypersurface $\subset \mathbb{

Damianos Karakos, Mark Dredze, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Human language is a combination of elemental languages/domains/styles that change across and sometimes within discourses. Language models, which play a crucial role in speech recognizers and machine translation systems, are particularly sensitive to such changes, unless some form of adaptation takes place. One approach to speech language model adaptation is

Jacobus Koolen, Greg Markowsky

Simplifications of a result from a prior paper concerning the electric resistance between points in a distance-regular graph are given. In particular, we prove that the maximal resistance between points is bounded by twice the resistance between neighbors. We also show that if the constant is weakened, then a very simple proof can be given.

Zhigang Li, Xuelei Chen

The proton charge radius extracted from the recent muonic hydrogen spectroscopy [Antognini et al. 2013; Pohl et al. 2010] differs from the CODATA 2010 recommended value [Mohr et al. 2012] by more than 4% or $4.4 σ$. This discrepancy, dubbed as the &#34;Proton Radius Puzzle&#34;, is a big challenge to the Standard Model of particle physics, and has triggered

Loukas Grafakos, Seungly Oh

In this article we develop a simplistic approach to revisit the classical Kato-Ponce inequality, which is also known as &#39;fractional Leibniz rule.&#39; As a consequence, we derive the validity of this inequality even in quasi-Banach spaces $L^p$ for $p<1$ with a certain restrictions on the indices. Also, we display the sharpness of this restriction by mea

Amir Aghamousa, Mihir Arjunwadkar, Tarun Souradeep

The Planck mission, designed for making measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with unprecedented accuracy and angular resolution, is expected to release its first data set in the near future. For the first time in the CMB history, extensive measurements of the CMB polarization will be made available for the entire sky. Such precise

Guy Henniart, Chun-Hui Wang

Let Sp_V(F) be the group of isometries of a symplectic vector space V over a finite field F of odd cardinality. The group Sp_V(F) possesses distinguished representations--- the Weil representations. We know that they are compatible with base change in the sense of Shintani for a finite extension F&#39;/F. The result is also true for the group of similitudes

Andrew Douglas, Peter Markos, K. A. Muttalib

The Generalized Dorokov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar (DMPK) equation has recently been used to obtain a family of very broad and highly asymmetric conductance distributions for three dimensional disordered conductors. However, there are two major criticisms of the derivation of the Generalized DMPK equation: (1) certain eigenvector correlations were neglected based o

Ryosuke Akashi, Ryotaro Arita

We apply the density functional theory for superconductors (SCDFT) based on the local-density approximation (LDA) to alkali-doped fullerides A3C60 with the face-centered cubic structure. We evaluate the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) from first principles considering energy dependence of electron-phonon coupling, the mass renormalization, and th

Haomin Wen

We prove that the multiplication maps $\mathbb{s}^n \times \mathbb{s}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{s}^n$ ($n = 1, 3, 7$) for unit complex, quaternion and octonion numbers are, up to isometries of domain and range, the unique Lipschitz constant minimizers in their homotopy classes. Other geometrically natural maps, such as projections of Hopf fibrations, have alread

Angeline Rao, Ying Liu, Yezhou Feng, Jian Shen

Huffman coding is a widely used method for lossless data compression because it optimally stores data based on how often the characters occur in Huffman trees. An $n$-ary Huffman tree is a connected, cycle-lacking graph where each vertex can have either $n$ &#34;children&#34; vertices connecting to it, or 0 children. Vertices with 0 children are called \text

Xin Ou, Adrian Keller, Manfred Helm, Jürgen Fassbender

Normal incidence ion irradiation at elevated temperatures, when amorphization is prevented, induces novel nanoscale patterns of crystalline structures on elemental semiconductors by a reverse epitaxial growth mechanism: on Ge surfaces irradiation at temperatures above the recrystallization temperature of 250°C leads to self-organized patterns of inverse pyra

Vitor Cunha Fontes, Vania Bogorny

Several algorithms have been proposed for discovering patterns from trajectories of moving objects, but only a few have concentrated on outlier detection. Existing approaches, in general, discover spatial outliers, and do not provide any further analysis of the patterns. In this paper we introduce semantic spatial and spatio-temporal outliers and propose a n

Erica Flapan, Will Fletcher

We classify which complete multipartite graphs are intrinsically chiral.

Lin Lin, Sihong Shao, Weinan E

We present for the first time an efficient iterative method to directly solve the four-component Dirac-Kohn-Sham (DKS) density functional theory. Due to the existence of the negative energy continuum in the DKS operator, the existing iterative techniques for solving the Kohn-Sham systems cannot be efficiently applied to solve the DKS systems. The key compone

P. L. Krapivsky, Jason Olejarz

We consider an Ising model on a square grid with ferromagnetic spin-spin interactions spanning beyond nearest neighbors. Starting from initial states with a single unbounded interface separating ordered phases, we investigate the evolution of the interface subject to zero-temperature spin-flip dynamics. We consider an interface which is initially (i) the bou

Jean-Pierre Magnot

We propose here a geometric and topological setting for the study of branching effects arising in various fields of research, e.g. in statistical mechanics and turbulence theory. We describe various aspects that appear key points to us, and finish with a limit of such a construction which stand in the dynamics on probability spaces where it seems that branch

Archana Anandakrishnan, Stuart Raby

In this letter we analyze the consequences, for the LHC, of gauge and third family Yukawa coupling unification with a particular set of boundary conditions defined at the GUT scale, which we characterize as effective &#34;mirage&#34; mediation. We perform a global chi-squared analysis including the observables M_W, M_Z, G_F, alpha_em, alpha_s(M_Z), M_top, m_

Miguel Navascues

In 2003, Leggett introduced his model of crypto-nonlocality based on considerations on the reality of the photon polarization. In this note, we prove that, contrary to hints in subsequent literature, crypto-nonlocality does not follow naturally from the postulate that polarization is a realistic variable. More explicitly, consider physical theories where: a)

Carlos A. Vaquera-Araujo

In this work, the renormalization of the second-order QCD is analyzed at one-loop level, including an arbitrary chromomagnetic factor and quark self-interactions, which are mass dimension four operators in this framework. The model is shown to be renormalizable for any value of the chromomagnetic factor $κ$ in the validity region of the perturbative expansio

Mohamed Harmouche, Salah Laghrouche, Yacine Chitour

In this paper, we present Lyapunov-based robust and adaptive controllers for the finite time stabilization of a perturbed chain of integrators with bounded uncertainties. The proposed controllers can be designed for integrator chains of any arbitrary length. The uncertainty bounds are known in the robust control problem whereas they are unknown in the adapti