March 2013 arXiv papers — page 31

Wray L. Buntine

Theory refinement is the task of updating a domain theory in the light of new cases, to be done automatically or with some expert assistance. The problem of theory refinement under uncertainty is reviewed here in the context of Bayesian statistics, a theory of belief revision. The problem is reduced to an incremental learning task as follows: the learning sy

Wray L. Buntine

This paper presents a plausible reasoning system to illustrate some broad issues in knowledge representation: dualities between different reasoning forms, the difficulty of unifying complementary reasoning styles, and the approximate nature of plausible reasoning. These issues have a common underlying theme: there should be an underlying belief calculus of w

Carlo Berzuini, David J. Spiegelhalter, Riccardo Bellazzi

We propose a general Bayesian network model for application in a wide class of problems of therapy monitoring. We discuss the use of stochastic simulation as a computational approach to inference on the proposed class of models. As an illustration we present an application to the monitoring of cytotoxic chemotherapy in breast cancer.

Stephane Amarger, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade

An approach to reasoning with default rules where the proportion of exceptions, or more generally the probability of encountering an exception, can be at least roughly assessed is presented. It is based on local uncertainty propagation rules which provide the best bracketing of a conditional probability of interest from the knowledge of the bracketing of som

Jaume Agustí-Cullell, Francesc Esteva, Pere Garcia, Lluis Godo

The way experts manage uncertainty usually changes depending on the task they are performing. This fact has lead us to consider the problem of communicating modules (task implementations) in a large and structured knowledge based system when modules have different uncertainty calculi. In this paper, the analysis of the communication problem is made assuming

John Mark Agosta

This paper examines the interdependence generated between two parent nodes with a common instantiated child node, such as two hypotheses sharing common evidence. The relation so generated has been termed "intercausal." It is shown by construction that inter-causal independence is possible for binary distributions at one state of evidence. For such &#

Bruce Abramson

Belief networks are a new, potentially important, class of knowledge-based models. ARCO1, currently under development at the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and the University of Southern California (USC), is the most advanced reported implementation of these models in a financial forecasting setting. ARCO1's underlying belief network models the variab

M. P. Warusawithana, C. Richter, J. A. Mundy, P. Roy

Emergent phenomena, including superconductivity and magnetism, found in the two-dimensional electron liquid (2-DEL) at the interface between the insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 distinguish this rich system from conventional two-dimensional electron gases at compound semiconductor interfaces. The origin of this 2-DEL, however, is highly debated with focus on the

Amir Erez, Yigal Meir

The Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is a unique two dimensional phase transition, separating two phases with exponentially and power-law decaying correlations, respectively. In disordered systems, these correlations propagate along favorable paths, with the transition marking the point where global coherence is lost. Here we propose an experimental

Owen W. Roberts, Xing Li, Bo Li

The k-filtering technique and wave polarization analysis are applied to Cluster magnetic field data to study plasma turbulence at the scale of the ion gyroradius in the fast solar wind. Waves are found propagating in directions nearly perpendicular to the background magnetic field at such scales. The frequencies of these waves in the solar wind frame are muc

Salah Laghrouche, Mohamed Harmouche, Yacine Chitour

In this paper, we have studied the control problem of target-point based path following for car-type vehicles. This special path following task arises from the needs of vision based guidance systems, where a given target-point located ahead of the vehicle, in the visual range of the camera, must follow a specified path. A solution to this problem is develope

Sebastian Meinhardt, Richard L. C. Vink, Friederike Schmid

According to the lipid raft hypothesis, biological lipid membranes are laterally heterogeneous and filled with nanoscale ordered "raft" domains, which are believed to play an important role for the organization of proteins in membranes. However, the mechanisms stabilizing such small rafts are not clear, and even their existence is sometimes questione

N. A. Sinitsyn

We derive an exact solution of an explicitly time-dependent multichannel model of quantum mechanical nonadiabatic transitions. In the limit N >>1, where N is the number of states, we find that the survival probability of the initially populated state remains finite despite an almost arbitrary choice of a large number of parameters. This observation proves th

R. Fa, R. C. de Lamare

In this paper, we develop a novel reduced-rank space-time adaptive processing (STAP) algorithm based on adaptive basis function approximation (ABFA) for airborne radar applications. The proposed algorithm employs the well-known framework of the side-lobe canceller (SLC) structure and consists of selected sets of basis functions that perform dimensionality re

Salah Laghrouche, Mohamed Harmouche, Yacine Chitour

In this paper, we present a global state feedback tracking controller for underactuated surface marine vessels. This controller is based on saturated control inputs and, under an assumption on the reference trajectory, the closed-loop system is globally asymptotically stable (GAS). It has been designed using a 3 Degree of Freedom benchmark vessel model used

S. Laghrouche, Y. Chitour, M. Harmouche, F. S. Ahmed

In this article, we address the control problem of unicycle path following, using a rigidly attached target point. The initial path following problem has been transformed into a reference trajectory following problem, using saturated control laws and a geometric characterization hypothesis, which links the curvature of the path to be followed with the target

Benjamin L. Johnson, Mark R. Holland, James G. Miller, Jonathan I. Katz

The goal of this study is to contribute to the physics underlying the material properties of suspensions that exhibit shear thickening through the ultrasonic characterization of suspensions of cornstarch in a density-matched solution. Ultrasonic measurements at frequencies in the range of 4 to 8 MHz of the speed of sound and the frequency-dependent attenuati

R. L. Porter, G. J. Ferland, P. J. Storey, M. J. Detisch

Errors were discovered in our recent calculations of HeI emissivities (Porter et al. 2012; arXiv:1206.4115). This corrigendum discusses the errors and reports corrected emissivities.

A. N. Norris, A. L. Shuvalov, A. A. Kutsenko

The matrix sign function is shown to provide a simple and direct method to derive some fundamental results in the theory of surface waves in anisotropic materials. It is used to establish a shortcut to the basic formulas of the Barnett-Lothe integral formalism and to obtain an explicit solution of the algebraic matrix Riccati equation for the surface impedan

A. Ioannidou, S. S. Makridis, M. Gjoka, E. I. Gkanas

The hydrogen sorption performance of V55Ti21Cr17Fe7 and V55Ti21Mn17Fe7 alloys and their ribbons were evaluated by pressure composition temperature tests. Their hydrogen absorption kinetic properties were studied through hydrogen absorption curves. The crystallographic structures and microstructure of these alloys and ribbons before hydrogen absorption and af

Inés Samengo, Germán Mato, Daniel H. Elijah, Susanne Schreiber

Several studies have shown that bursting neurons can encode information in the number of spikes per burst: As the stimulus varies, so does the length of individual bursts. The represented stimuli, however, vary substantially among different sensory modalities and different neurons. The goal of this paper is to determine which kind of stimulus features can be

J. Cruickshank, A. Herman, R. Quinlan, F. Szechtman

Structural properties of unitary groups over local, not necessarily commutative, rings are developed, with applications to the computation of the orders of these groups (when finite) and to the degrees of the irreducible constituents of the Weil representation of a unitary group associated to a ramified extension of finite local rings.

E. Provornikova, M. Opher, V. Izmodenov, G. Toth

After the termination shock (TS) crossing, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has been observing strong variations of the magnetic field and solar wind parameters in the heliosheath. Anomalous cosmic rays, electrons, and galactic cosmic rays present strong intensity fluctuations. Several works suggested that the fluctuations might be attributed to spatial variations w

Kristian Debrabant, Andreas Rößler

Recently, a new class of second order Runge-Kutta methods for Itô stochastic differential equations with a multidimensional Wiener process was introduced by Rößler. In contrast to second order methods earlier proposed by other authors, this class has the advantage that the number of function evaluations depends only linearly on the number of Wiener processes

Richard J. Mathar

We tabulate the abscissae and associated weights for numerical integration of integrals with either the singular weight function (-log x)^m for exponents m=1, 2 or 3, or the symmetric weight function cos(pi*x/2). Standard brute force arithmetics generates explicit pairs of these values for up to 128 nodes.

Lucia Steinke, Keisuke Mitsumoto, Corneliu F. Miclea, Franziska Weickert

We study the ternary clathrate Pr3Pd20Si6 in specific heat and AC-susceptibility measurements on a high-quality single crystal, distinguishing antiferromagnetic (AFM) and antiferroquadrupolar (AFQ) ordering on two sublattices of inequivalent Pr sites. The specific heat shows the direct involvement of nuclear spin degrees of freedom in the AFM ordering, which

A. Barroso, P. M. Ferreira, I. P. Ivanov, Rui Santos

In the two Higgs doublet model, there is the possibility that the vacuum where the universe resides in is metastable. We present the tree-level bounds on the scalar potential parameters which have to be obeyed to prevent that situation. Analytical expressions for those bounds are shown for the most used potential, that with a softly broken $Z_2$ symmetry. Th

Laurent Jacques

This short note proves the $\ell_2-\ell_1$ instance optimality of a $\ell_1/\ell_1$ solver, i.e a variant of \emph{basis pursuit denoising} with a $\ell_1$ fidelity constraint, when applied to the estimation of sparse (or compressible) signals observed by sparsely corrupted compressive measurements. The approach simply combines two known results due to Y. Pl

Justin Finke

Blazars are the most plentiful gamma-ray source at GeV energies, and despite detailed study, there is much that is not known about these sources. In this review I explore some recent results on blazars, including the controversy of the "blazar sequence", the curvature in the LAT spectra, and the location along the jet of the gamma-ray emitting region

Diana Windemuth, William Herbst, Evan Tingle, Rachel Fuechsl

The eclipsing binary Theta1 Orionis B1, variable star designation BM Ori, is the faintest of the four well-known Trapezium stars at the heart of the Orion Nebula. The primary is a B3 star (~6Msun) but the nature of the secondary (~2Msun) has long been mysterious, since the duration and shape of primary eclipse are inappropriate for ordinary stars. Here we re

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan

Planck data have been used to provide stringent new constraints on cosmic strings and other defects. We describe forecasts of the CMB power spectrum induced by cosmic strings, calculating these from network models and simulations using line-of-sight Boltzmann solvers. We have studied Nambu-Goto cosmic strings, as well as field theory strings for which radiat

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan

The multi-frequency capability of the Planck satellite provides information both on the integrated history of star formation (via the cosmic infrared background, or CIB) and on the distribution of dark matter (via the lensing effect on the cosmic microwave background, or CMB). The conjunction of these two unique probes allows us to measure directly the conne

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan

Planck has produced detailed all-sky observations over nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz. These observations allow robust reconstruction of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations over nearly the full sky, as well as new constraints on Galactic foregrounds. This paper describes the component separation framework ad

Simon J. Lilly, C. Marcella Carollo, Antonio Pipino, Alvio Renzini

A very simple physical model of galaxies, in which the formation of stars is instantaneously regulated by the mass of gas in a reservoir, links together three different aspects of the evolving galaxy population:(a) the cosmic time evolution of the specific star-formation rate sSFR relative to the growth of haloes, (b) the gas-phase metallicities across the g

Chi-kwan Chan, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel

We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This GPU-based integrator employs the stream processing paradigm, is implemented in CUDA C/C++, and runs on nVidia graphics cards. The peak performance of GRay using single precision floating-point arithmetic on a single GPU exc

Amarjit Soni

The LHC seems to have made a monumental discovery, Higgs-like particle of mass around 125 GeV with properties akin to a Standard Model Higgs. In the context of a warped theory of flavor, which is theoretically very attractive, this suggests Kaluza-Klein particle masses are likely to be above 10 TeV except possibly for a radion. The interpretation of the SM-l

Elizabeth Lovegrove, Stan Woosley

The continuing difficulty of achieving a reliable explosion in simulations of core-collapse supernovae, especially for more massive stars, has led to speculation concerning the observable transients that might be produced if such a supernova fails. Even if a prompt outgoing shock fails to form in a collapsing presupernova star, one must still consider the hy

Jan Borchmann, Christoph Mayrhofer, Eran Palti, Timo Weigand

Elliptic Calabi-Yau fibrations with Mordell-Weil group of rank two are constructed. Such geometries are the basis for F-theory compactifications with two abelian gauge groups in addition to non-abelian gauge symmetry. We present the elliptic fibre both as a Bl^2P^2[3]-fibration and in the birationally equivalent Weierstrass form. The spectrum of charged sing

Sonika Johri, Rahul Nandkishore, R. N. Bhatt, E. J. Mele

We show that the probability of electric field induced interband tunneling in solid state systems is generically a non-monotonic (oscillatory) function of the applied field. This unexpected behavior can be understood as arising due to a common path interference between two distinct tunneling solutions. The phenomenon is insensitive to magnetic field, and ari

I. Pomerantz, Y. Ilieva, R. Gilman, D. W. Higinbotham

We have measured cross sections for the gamma+3He->p+d reaction at photon energies of 0.4 - 1.4 GeV and a center-of-mass angle of 90 deg. We observe dimensional scaling above 0.7 GeV at this center-of-mass angle. This is the first observation of dimensional scaling in the photodisintegration of a nucleus heavier than the deuteron.

G. P. Holder, M. P. Viero, O. Zahn, K. A. Aird

We use a temperature map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) obtained using the South Pole Telescope at 150 GHz to construct a map of the gravitational convergence to z ~ 1100, revealing the fluctuations in the projected mass density. This map shows individual features that are significant at the ~ 4 sigma level, providing the first image of CMB lensing

Pascal Auscher, Sebastian Stahlhut

We make some remarks on earlier works on $R-$bisectoriality in $L^p$ of perturbed first order differential operators by Hytönen, McIntosh and Portal. They have shown that this is equivalent to bounded holomorphic functional calculus in $L^p$ for $p$ in any open interval when suitable hypotheses are made. Hytönen and McIntosh then showed that $R$-bisectoriali

Abed Bounemoura

The aim of this note is to prove a result of effective stability for a non-autonomous perturbation of an integrable Hamiltonian system, provided that the perturbation depends slowly on time. Then we use this result to clarify and extend a stability result of Giorgilli and Zehnder for a mechanical system with an arbitrary time-dependent potential.

Zhan Zheng, Pablo L. Saldanha, Jose R. Rios Leite, Claude Fabre

We study in this paper the efficiency of different two-photon states of light to induce the simultaneous excitation of two atoms of different kinds when the sum of the energies of the two photons matches the sum of the energies of the two atomic transitions, while no photons are resonant with each individual transition. We find that entangled two-photon stat

Paul McKenney

If $A_n$ is a sequence of C*-algebras, then the C*-algebra $\prod A_n / \bigoplus A_n$ is called a reduced product. We prove, assuming Todorcevic's Axiom and Martin's Axiom, that every isomorphism between two reduced products of separable, unital UHF algebras must be definable in a strong sense. As a corollary we deduce that two such reduced products

William R. French, Christopher R. Iacovella, Ivan Rungger, Amaury Melo Souza

We report state-of-the-art atomistic simulations combined with high-fidelity conductance calculations to probe structure-conductance relationships in Au-benzenedithiolate(BDT)-Au junctions under elongation. Our results demonstrate that large increases in conductance are associated with the formation of monatomic chains (MACs) of Au atoms directly connected t

Andriy Kostyuk

If an ultrarelativistic charged particle channels inside a single crystal with periodically bent crystallographic planes, it emits hard electromagnetic radiation of the undulator type. Due to similarity of its physical principles to the ordinary (magnetic) undulator, such a device is termed as the crystalline undulator. Recent development of a new Monte Carl

Mehedi Kalam, Farook Rahaman, Sk. Monowar Hossein, Jayanta Naskar

We obtain the space time of the galactic core in the framework of general relativity by taking the flat rotational curve as input and considering the matter content in the galactic core region as strange quark matter. We also obtain the energy density, radial and tangential pressures of the core strange quark matter. Significantly we have shown that Bag Cons

Michael Högele, Ilya Pavlyukevich

We consider a finite dimensional deterministic dynamical system with a global attractor A with a unique ergodic measure P concentrated on it, which is uniformly parametrized by the mean of the trajectories in a bounded set D containing A. We perturbe this dynamical system by a multiplicative heavy tailed Lévy noise of small intensity ε>0 and solve the asympt

Akbar Zada, Sadia Arshad, Gul Rahmat, Aftab Khan

In this paper we study the dichotomy of Poincarce map. We give a relation between the dichotomy of the Poincarce map and boundedness of solutions of certain periodic Cauchy problems

Stefania Bandini, Andrea Gorrini, Giuseppe Vizzari

Studies related to crowds of pedestrians, both those of theoretical nature and application oriented ones, have generally focused on either the analysis or the synthesis of the phenomena related to the interplay between individual pedestrians, each characterised by goals, preferences and potentially relevant relationships with others, and the environment in w

Sean Nixon, Jianke Yang

Nonlinear dynamics of wave packets in two-dimensional parity-time-symmetric optical lattices near the phase-transition point are analytically studied. A novel fourth-order equation is derived for the envelope of these wave packets. A pyramid diffraction pattern is demonstrated in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. Blow-up is also possible in the nonlinea

V. V. Belokurov, E. T. Shavgulidze

Exactly solvable quantum theory of a singular at the origin scalar field with the self-interaction of Liouville type is proposed. The mean value of the scale factor in the FLRW metric as a function of conformal time is evaluated explicitly.

G. Scherrer, M. Hofman, W. Śmigaj, M. Kadic

Ground-plane cloaks, which transform a curved mirror into a flat one, and recently reported at wavelengths ranging from the optical to the visible spectrum, bring the realm of optical illusion a step closer to reality. However, all carpet-cloaking experiments have thus far been carried out in the far-field. Here, we demonstrate numerically and experimentally

Aba Mbirika, Thomas Pietraho, William Silver

We present a formula for the values of the sign representations of the complex reflection groups $G(r,p,n)$ in terms of its image under a generalized Robinson-Schensted map.

Luís Camacho, F. Miguel Dionísio, Roger Picken

In this paper we look for closed expressions to calculate the number of colourings of prime knots for given linear Alexander quandles. For this purpose the colouring matrices are simplified to a triangular form, when possible. The operations used to perform this triangularization preserve the property that the entries in each row add up to zero, thereby simp

Joao Sampaio

Magnetic systems based on the manipulation of domain walls (DWs) in nano-tracks have been shown to store data at high density, perform complex logic operations, and mechanically manipulate magnetic beads. The magnetic track has been a model system to study magnetic and magneto-electronic phenomena, such as field induced DW propagation and spin-transfer torqu

Ali Maalaoui, Vittorio Martino

In this paper we study a subspace of the space of Legendrian loops and we show that the injection of this space into the full loop space is an S1-equivariant homotopy equivalence. This space can be also seen as the space of zero Maslov index Legendrian loops and it shows up as a suitable space of variations in contact form geometry.

Angelo Gilio, Giuseppe Sanfilippo

We make a probabilistic analysis related to some inference rules which play an important role in nonmonotonic reasoning. In a coherence-based setting, we study the extensions of a probability assessment defined on $n$ conditional events to their quasi conjunction, and by exploiting duality, to their quasi disjunction. The lower and upper bounds coincide with

Richard Beanland

A mathematical framework is developed to describe tilted perovskites using a tensor description of octahedral deformations. The continuity of octahedral tilts through the crystal is described using an operator which relates the deformations of adjacent octahedra; examination of the properties of this operator upon application of symmetry elements allows the

N. S. Kardashev, V. V. Khartov, RadioAstron collaboration

The Russian Academy of Sciences and Federal Space Agency, together with the participation of many international organizations, worked toward the launch of the RadioAstron orbiting space observatory with its onboard 10-m reflector radio telescope from the Baikonur cosmodrome on July 18, 2011. Together with some of the largest ground-based radio telescopes and

Marc Scheffler, Katrin Schlegel, Conrad Clauss, Daniel Hafner

Investigating solids with light gives direct access to charge dynamics, electronic and magnetic excitations. For heavy fermions, one has to adjust the frequency of the probing light to the small characteristic energy scales, leading to spectroscopy with microwaves. We review general concepts of the frequency-dependent conductivity of heavy fermions, includin

Radosław Michalski, Piotr Bródka, Przemysław Kazienko, Krzysztof Juszczyszyn

The dynamic character of most social networks requires to model evolution of networks in order to enable complex analysis of theirs dynamics. The following paper focuses on the definition of differences between network snapshots by means of Graph Differential Tuple. These differences enable to calculate the diverse distance measures as well as to investigate

Ali Maalaoui

In this paper we investigate the properties of a semi-linear problem on a spin manifold involving the Dirac operator, through the construction of Rabinowitz-Floer homology groups. We give several existence results for sub-critical and critical non-linearities as application of the computation of the different homologies.

Scott M. Cohen

In a recent paper \cite{mySEPvsLOCC}, we showed how to construct a quantum protocol for implementing a bipartite, separable quantum measurement using only local operations on subsystems and classical communication between parties (LOCC) within any fixed number of rounds of communication, whenever such a protocol exists. Here, we generalize that construction

A. Rozanska, M. Nikolajuk, B. Czerny, A. Dobrzycki

We present photoionisation modelling of the intrinsic absorber in the bright quasar HS 1603+3820. We construct spectral energy distribution using optical/UV/X-ray observations as an input to photoionisation calculations. Spectra from Keck telescope show extremely high ratio of CIV to HI, for the first absorber in system A, named A1. This value, together with

Giuliano G. La Guardia

In this paper we show how to construct new convolutional codes from old ones by applying the well-known techniques: puncturing, extending, expanding, direct sum, the (u|u + v) construction and the product code construction. By applying these methods, several new families of convolutional codes can be constructed. As an example of code expansion, families of

Christophe Debry

Let E: y^2 = x^3 + Ax + B be an elliptic curve defined over a finite field of characteristic p\geq 3. In this paper we prove that the coefficient at x^{p(p-1)/2} in the p-th division polynomial ψ_p(x) of E equals the coefficient at x^{p-1} in (x^3 + Ax + B)^{(p-1)/2}. The first coefficient is zero if and only if the division polynomial has no roots, which is

Jan Denef

This note contains some results related to the definitions of toroidal embeddings and toroidal morphisms over non-closed fields of characteristic zero.

A. G. Noble, T. M. A. Webb, A. Muzzin, G. Wilson

We present an infrared study of a z=0.872 cluster, SpARCS J161314+564930, with the primary aim of distinguishing the dynamical histories of spectroscopically confirmed star-forming members to assess the role of cluster environment. We utilize deep MIPS imaging and a mass-limited sample of 85 spectroscopic members to identify 16 24um-bright sources within the

C. L. Dobbs, J. E. Pringle

We present a detailed study of the evolution of GMCs in a galactic disc simulation. We follow individual GMCs (defined in our simulations by a total column density criterion), including their level of star formation, from their formation to dispersal. We find the evolution of GMCs is highly complex. GMCs often form from a combination of smaller clouds and am

Albert Wegener

In the multicore era, the time to computational results is increasingly determined by how quickly operands are accessed by cores, rather than by the speed of computation per operand. From high-performance computing (HPC) to mobile application processors, low multicore utilization rates result from the slowness of accessing off-chip operands, i.e. the memory

Matthias Stegmaier, Wolfram H. P. Pernice

Aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-insulator has emerged as a promising platform for the realization of linear and non-linear integrated photonic circuits. In order to efficiently route optical signals on-chip, precise control over the interaction and polarization of evanescently coupled waveguide modes is required. Here we employ nanophotonic AlN waveguides to reali

Abhay Ashtekar

The very early universe provides the best arena we currently have to test quantum gravity theories. The success of the inflationary paradigm in accounting for the observed inhomogeneities in the cosmic microwave background already illustrates this point to a certain extent because the paradigm is based on quantum field theory on the curved cosmological space

Matteo Magnani, Barbora Micenkova, Luca Rossi

The study of complex networks has been historically based on simple graph data models representing relationships between individuals. However, often reality cannot be accurately captured by a flat graph model. This has led to the development of multi-layer networks. These models have the potential of becoming the reference tools in network data analysis, but

H. Cabrera, D. A. Zanin, L. G. De Pietro, Th. Michaels

We measure the current vs voltage (I-V) characteristics of a diodelike tunnel junction consisting of a sharp metallic tip placed at a variable distance d from a planar collector and emitting electrons via electric-field assisted emission. All curves collapse onto one single graph when I is plotted as a function of the single scaling variable Vd^{-λ}, d being

P. Pilleri, S. Treviño-Morales, A. Fuente, C. Joblin

We study the chemistry of small hydrocarbons in the photon-dominated regions (PDRs) associated with the ultra-compact HII region Mon R2. Our goal is to determine the variations of the abundance of small hydrocarbons in a high-UV irradiated PDR and investigate their chemistry. We present an observational study of CH, CCH and c-C$_3$H$_2$ in Mon R2 combining d

G. Vereshkov, N. Volchanskiy

We construct interactions of nucleons N with higher-spin resonances R invariant under point and gauge transformations of the Rarita-Schwinger field. It is found for arbitrarily high spin of a resonance that the requirement of point- and gauge-invariance uniquely determines a Lagrangian of NR interactions with pions, photons, and vector mesons, which might re

Sonja Lehtinen, Francesc Xavier Marsellach, Sandra Codlin, Alexander Schmidt

Network analysis provides a powerful framework for the interpretation of genome-wide data. While static network approaches have proved fruitful, there is increasing interest in the insights gained from the analysis of cellular networks under different conditions. In this work, we study the effect of stress on cellular networks in fission yeast. Stress elicit

Eckhard Schlemm

We analyse the asymptotic behaviour of the probability of observing the expected number of successes at each stage of a sequence of nested Bernoulli trials. Our motivation is the attempt to give a genuinely frequentist interpretation to the notion of probability based on finite sample sizes. The main result is that the probabilities under consideration decay

Mark G. Jackson, Gary Shiu

We derive a theoretical upper bound on the oscillation frequency in the scalar perturbation power spectrum of single-field inflation. Oscillations are most naturally produced by modified vacua with varying phase. When this phase changes rapidly, it induces strong interactions between the scalar fluctuations. If the interactions are sufficiently strong the th

P. Wojtaszczyk

We continue the study undertaken in \cite{GHN} of left democracy function $h_l(N)=\inf_{#Λ=N}\left\|\sum_{n\in Λ_N} x_n\right\| $ of an unconditional basis in a Banach space $X$. We provide an example of a basis with $h_l$ non-doubling. Then we show that for bases with non-doubling $h_l$ the greedy projection is not optimal. Together with results from \cite{

Paul August Winter

The smallest set Q of vertices of a graph G, such that every path on 3 vertices, has at least one vertex in Q, is a minimum 3-covering of G. By attaching loops of weight 1 to the vertices of G we can find the eigenvalues associated with G, and hence the minimum 3-covering energy of G. In this paper we characterize graphs with 3-coverings in terms of non-Q-co

Romain Hermenier, Francesco Rossetto, Matteo Berioli

The existing studies of RObust Header Compression (ROHC) have provided some understanding for memoryless channel, but the behavior of ROHC for correlated wireless channels is not well investigated in spite of its practical importance. In this paper, the dependence of ROHC against its design parameters for the Gilbert Elliot channel is studied by means of thr

Michael Ruzhansky, Jens Wirth

In this note we announce Lp multiplier theorems for invariant and non-invariant operators on compact Lie groups in the spirit of the well-known Hormander-Mikhlin theorem on Rn and its variants on tori Tn. Applications are given to the mapping properties of pseudo-differential operators on Lp-spaces and to a-priori estimates for non-hypoelliptic operators.

Jia-Jun Wu, T. -S. H. Lee

A coupled-channel model with $πN$, $ρN$ and $J/ΨN$ channels is developed to predict the $π+ N \rightarrow J/Ψ+ N $ cross sections. The $J/Ψ$-$N$ interaction is parameterized in a form related to what has been predicted by the effective field theory approach and Lattice QCD. The other interactions within the model are constrained by the decay width of $J/Ψ\ri

Deepak Gumber, Hemant Kalra, Sandeep Singh

An automorphism of a group G is called an IA-automorphism if it induces the identity automorphism on the abelianized group G/G'. Let IA(G) denote the group of all IA-automorphisms of G. We classify all finitely generated nilpotent groups G of class 2 for which IA(G) is isomorphic to Inn(G). In particular, we classify all finite nilpotent groups of class

Paul Eigenthaler, Werner W. Zeilinger

Fossil galaxy groups are speculated to be old and highly evolved systems of galaxies that formed early in the universe and had enough time to deplete their $L^{*}$ galaxies through successive mergers of member galaxies, building up one massive central elliptical, but retaining the group X-ray halo. Considering that fossils are the remnants of mergers in ordi

Kazutoshi Ohta, Norisuke Sakai, Yutaka Yoshida

Volume of moduli space of non-Abelian BPS domain-walls is exactly obtained in U(N_c) gauge theory with N_f matters. The volume of the moduli space is formulated, without an explicit metric, by a path integral under constraints on BPS equations. The path integral over fields reduces to a finite dimensional contour integral by a localization mechanism. Our vol

L. X. Chau Ngo, K. A. Nguyen, M. van der Put, J. Top

The notions of equivalence and strict equivalence for order one differential equations are introduced. The more explicit notion of strict equivalence is applied to examples and questions concerning autonomous equations and equations having the Painleve property. The order one equation determines an algebraic curve. If this curve has genus zero or one, then i

Victoria Otero-Espinar, Luís F. Seoane, Juan J. Nieto, Jorge Mira

An in-depth analytic study of a model of language dynamics is presented: a model which tackles the problem of the coexistence of two languages within a closed community of speakers taking into account bilingualism and incorporating a parameter to measure the distance between languages. After previous numerical simulations, the model yielded that coexistence

Lasma Alberte, Andrei Khmelnitsky

We consider the non-linear massive gravity as a theory of a number of Stückelberg scalar fields minimally coupled to the Einstein-Hilbert gravity and argue that the counting of degrees of freedom can be done for scalar theory and gravity separately. In this paper we investigate the system with only two Stückelberg scalar fields. In this case we find the anal

H. G. Zhang, W. H. Wang, E. K. Liu, X. D. Tang

Abundant phenomena in CoCr2-xMnxO4 (x = 0 ~ 2) samples such as magnetic compensation, magnetostriction and exchange bias effect have been observed and investigated in this work. A structure transition from cubic to tetragonal symmetry has been found in the samples with x around 1.4. It has shown that the doped Mn3+ ions initially occupy the A (Co) sites when

H. G. Zhang, C. Z. Zhang, W. Zhu, E. K. Liu

A new disordered atom configuration in Fe2CrGa alloy has been created by ball-milling method. This leads to a significant enhancement of the magnetic moment up to 3.2~3.9 μB and an increase of Curie temperature by about 200 K, compared with the arc-melt samples. Combination of first-principles calculations and experimental results reveals that Fe2CrGa alloy

R. Bucik, A. Korth, U. Mall, G. M. Mason

A Monte Carlo code based on Geant 3.21 has been used for simulations of energy losses and angular scattering in a time-of-flight Suprathermal Ion Telescope (SIT) on the Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO). A hemispherical isotropic particle distribution, a monoenergetic or power law in energy is used in these simulations. The impact of scatterin

C. R. Richey, R. E. Kinzer, G. Cataldo, E. J. Wollack

The Optical Properties of Astronomical Silicates with Infrared Techniques (OPASI-T) program utilizes multiple instruments to provide spectral data over a wide range of temperature and wavelengths. Experimental methods include Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) and Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) transmission, and reflection/scattering measurements. From this

Fabio Varesano

Orientation and Motion Sensing are widely implemented on various consumer products, such as mobile phones, tablets and cameras as they enable immediate interaction with virtual information. The prototyping phase of any orientation and motion sensing capable device is however a quite difficult process as it may involve complex hardware designing, math algorit

G. A. Zvyagina, T. N. Gaydamak, K. R. Zhekov, I. V. Bilich

The results of the comprehensive ultrasonic research of high quality single crystals of FeSe are presented. Absolute values of sound velocities and their temperature dependences were measured; elastic constants and Debye temperature were calculated. The elastic C11-C12 and C11 constants undergo significant softening under the structural tetra-ortho transform

Carlo Rizza, Alessandro Ciattoni

We theoretically investigate the homogenization of the dielectric response to transverse electric waves of a transverse grating characterized by the Kapitza condition, i.e. the permittivity is rapidly modulated with a modulation depth scaling as the large wavelength to modulation period ratio. We show that the resulting effective dielectric permittivity, in

K. Eswaran

The problem of optimizing a linear objective function,given a number of linear constraints has been a long standing problem ever since the times of Kantorovich, Dantzig and von Neuman. These developments have been followed by a different approach pioneered by Khachiyan and Karmarkar. In this paper we present an entirely new method for solving an old optimiza