March 2013 arXiv papers — page 36

Erika Garutti

The EndoTOFPET-US project aims to jointly exploit Time-Of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOFPET) and ultrasound endoscopy with a multi-modal instrument for the development of new biomarkers for pancreas and prostate oncology. The paper outlines the functionality of the proposed instrument and the challenges for its realization. The high level of miniat

Gabriel Verret

One version of the polycirculant conjecture states that every vertex-transitive graph has a semiregular automorphism. We give a proof of the conjecture in the arc-transitive case for graphs of valency 8, which was the smallest open case.

Pranay Goswami, Teodor Bulboacă, Sanjay Bansal

In the present paper we introduce and studied two subclasses of multivalent functions denoted by $\mathcal{M}^λ_{p,n}(γ;β)$ and $\mathcal{N}^λ_{p,n}(μ,η;δ)$. Further, by giving specific values of the parameters of our main results, we will find some connection between these two classes, and moreover, several consequences of main results are also discussed.

Joshua I. James, Pavel Gladyshev

The use of automation in digital forensic investigations is not only a technological issue, but also has political and social implications. This work discusses some challenges with the implementation and acceptance of automation in digital forensic investigation, and possible implications for current digital forensic investigators. Current attitudes towards

G. F. Torres del Castillo, I. Rubalcava-Garcia

It is shown that the two complex Cartesian components of the electric field of a monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave, with a temporal and spatial dependence of the form ${\rm e}^{{\rm i} (kz - ωt)}$, form a SU(2) spinor that corresponds to a tangent vector to the Poincaré sphere representing the state of polarization and phase of the wave. The geometric

J. W. Shin, C. H. Hyun, S. -I. Ando, S. W. Hong

New observables with which we can study the two-nucleon weak interactions at low energies are considered. In the breakup of the deuteron by photons, polarization of outgoing neutrons can depend on the parity-violating component of two-nucleon interactions. We express the parity-violating polarization in general forms, and perform numerical calculations with

Takahiro Chiba, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Saburo Takahashi

This paper reports on the improvement of the differential current gain in the spin-torque transistor based on two independent innovations, viz.the use of magnetic insulators and the spin Hall effect. Since, except for a few examples, spin transistors lack the current gain that is essential for many applications, spintronics and magnetic information technolog

Xiaodong Cao, Hung Tran

This paper concerns conditions related to the first finite singularity time of a Ricci flow solution on a closed manifold. In particular, we provide a systematic approach to the mean value inequality method, suggested by N. Le and F. He. We also display a close connection between this method and time slice analysis of B. Wang. As an application, we prove sev

Masahito Mochizuki, Shinichiro Seki

We theoretically discover that unique eigenmodes of skyrmion crystal (SkX) are not only magnetically active to ac magnetic field (H^w) but also electrically active to ac electric field (E^w) in a multiferroic chiral-lattice magnet Cu2OSeO3, which amplifies the dynamical magnetoelectric coupling between E^w and the spin texture. The resulting intense interfer

Kazutaka Kudo, Keita Iba, Masaya Takasuga, Yutaka Kitahama

Co-doping of lanthanum and phosphorus in CaFe2As2 induces superconductivity at 45 K. This superconducting transition temperature is higher than the 38 K transition in Ba1-xKxFe2As2, which is the maximum found thus far among the 122 phases. Superconductivity with a substantial shielding volume fraction was observed at 0.12 $\leq$ x $\leq$ 0.18 and y = 0.06 in

Guo Wangmei, Shi Xiaomeng, Cai Ning, Muriel Médard

We consider an \textit{Adaptive Random Convolutional Network Coding} (ARCNC) algorithm to address the issue of field size in random network coding for multicast, and study its memory and decoding delay performances through both analysis and numerical simulations. ARCNC operates as a convolutional code, with the coefficients of local encoding kernels chosen r

M. S. Safronova, P. K. Majumder

Two different theoretical methods have been used to complete a new calculation of polarizability in the thallium 6p_{1/2}, 7s, and 7p_{1/2} states. The predictions of the two methods agree to within 1% for the 6p_{1/2} and 7s states and 2% for 7p_{1/2} state. We find that the theoretical expression for the 6p_{1/2} - 7s transition polarizability difference i

Hua Wang, Wentan Yi

In this paper, we will study the boundedness properties of multilinear Calderon--Zygmund operators and multilinear fractional integrals on products of weighted Morrey spaces with multiple weights.

Michael J. Hopkins, Michael A. Hill

This paper describes an issue that arises when inverting elements of the homotopy groups of an equivariant commutative ring. Equivariant commutative rings possess an enhanced multiplicative structure arising from the presence of "indexed products" (products indexed by a set with a non-trivial action of the group). The formation of the "multiplica

Farzad Yousefian, Angelia Nedich, Uday V. Shanbhag

We consider a distributed stochastic approximation (SA) scheme for computing an equilibrium of a stochastic Nash game. Standard SA schemes employ diminishing steplength sequences that are square summable but not summable. Such requirements provide a little or no guidance for how to leverage Lipschitzian and monotonicity properties of the problem and naive ch

Gabriel Bousquet, Jean-Jacques Slotine

Convergence of Extremum Seeking (ES) algorithms has been established in the limit of small gains. Using averaging theory and contraction analysis, we propose a framework for computing explicit bounds on the departure of the ES scheme from its ideal dominant-order average dynamics. The bounds remain valid for possibly large gains. They allow us to establish s

R. H. Yuan, W. D. Kong, L. Yan, H. Ding

We perform in-plane optical spectroscopy measurement on (00l) FeSe thin-film grown on SrTiO$_3$ substrate by pulsed laser deposition method. The study indicates that the low frequency conductivity consists of two Drude components, a broad one which takes up most of the spectral weight and a very narrow one roughly below 100-150 \cm. The narrow Drude componen

Mitsuhiro Kato, Makoto Sakamoto, Hiroto So

It is old folklore that the violation of Leibniz rule on a lattice is an obstruction for constructing a lattice supersymmetric model. While it is still true for full supersymmetry, we show that a slightly modified form of the Leibniz rule, which we call cyclic Leibniz rule (CLR), is actually a criterion for the existence of partial lattice supersymmetry. In

Oliver Kennedy, Lukasz Ziarek

Applications such as Google Docs, Office 365, and Dropbox show a growing trend towards incorporating multi-user live collaboration functionality into web applications. These collaborative applications share a need to efficiently express shared state, and a common strategy for doing so is a shared log abstraction. Extensive research efforts on log abstraction

David Polarski

We consider a class of toy models where a spatially flat universe is filled with a perfect fluid. The dynamics is found exactly for all these models. In one family, the perfect fluid is of the phantom type and we find that the universe is first contracting and then expanding while the dynamics is always accelerated. In a second family, the universe is first

Kenichi Kasamatsu, Hiromitsu Takeuchi, Muneto Nitta

In certain field theoretical models, composite solitons consisting of a domain wall and vortex lines attached to the wall have been referred to as D-brane solitons. We show that similar composite solitons can be realized in phase-separated two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. We discuss the similarities and differences between topological solitons in the

Stephen J. Bradshaw, John C. Raymond

Most of our knowledge of the physical processes in distant plasmas is obtained through measurement of the radiation they produce. Here we provide an overview of the main collisional and radiative processes and examples of diagnostics relevant to the microphysical processes in the plasma. Many analyses assume a time-steady plasma with ion populations in equil

Jeffrey W. Reep, Stephen J. Bradshaw, James A. Klimchuk

The time-dependence of heating in solar active regions can be studied by analyzing the slope of the emission measure distribution cool-ward of the peak. In a previous study we showed that low-frequency heating can account for 0% to 77% of active region core emission measures. We now turn our attention to heating by a finite succession of impulsive events for

T. A. Schad, M. J. Penn, Haosheng Lin

Atomic-level polarization and Zeeman effect diagnostics in the neutral helium triplet at 10830 angstroms in principle allow full vector magnetometry of fine-scaled chromospheric fibrils. We present high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of superpenumbral fibrils in the He I triplet with sufficient polarimetric sensitivity to infer their full magnet

Hiromi Saida

Comparing black hole thermodynamics with the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics for laboratory systems, it is found that some basic assumptions (required by experimental facts) in laboratory thermodynamics do not hold for black hole thermodynamics. Hence, at present, it is not obvious whether black hole thermodynamics retains some crucial theorems of la

Dmitry Solomakhin

In this position paper we argue that just as traditional business process modeling has been adopted to deal with clinical pathways, also the artifact-centric process modeling technique may be successfully used to model various kinds of medical processes: physiological processes, disease behavior and treatment processes. We also discuss how a proposed approac

Luis F. Alday, Mathew Bullimore, Martin Fluder, Lotte Hollands

Recently a prescription to compute the four-dimensional N = 2 superconformal index in the presence of certain BPS surface defects has been given. These surface defects are labelled by symmetric representations of SU(N). In the present paper we give a prescription to compute the superconformal index in the presence of surface defects labelled by arbitrary rep

P. Edward Herman

In this paper, we obtain a subconvexity result for the Rankin-Selberg L-function in both levels. The new feature in this result is applying an amplification method of Duke-Friedlander-Iwaniec to a double Petersson-Kuznetsov trace formula. As the trace formula ranges over all the $GL_2$ spectrum, this subconvexity result is unconditional of which Hecke eigenf

Sergey Zelik

These notes are devoted to the problem of finite-dimensional reduction for parabolic PDEs. We give a detailed exposition of the classical theory of inertial manifolds as well as various attempts to generalize it based on the so-called Mané projection theorems. The recent counterexamples which show that the underlying dynamics may be in a sense infinite-dimen

Hongjie Dong, Doyoon Kim

We prove the $W^{1,2}_p$-estimate and solvability for the Dirichlet problem of second-order parabolic equations in simple convex polytopes with time irregular coefficients, when $p\in (1,2]$. We also consider the corresponding Neumann problem in a half space when $p\in [2,\infty)$. Similar results are obtained for equations in a half space with coefficients

David Chappell, Gregor Tanner, Niels Sondergaard, Dominik Loechel

Energy distributions of high frequency linear wave fields are often modelled in terms of flow or transport equations with ray dynamics given by a Hamiltonian vector field in phase space. Applications arise in underwater and room acoustics, vibro-acoustics, seismology, electromagnetics, and quantum mechanics. Related flow problems based on general conservatio

Daeshik Choi

We consider the linear system Ax=b arising from one-dimensional Poisson's equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where A is the square matrix with the stencil form [-1 2 -1]. Here we show that a pairwise aggregation-based algebraic 2-grid method reduces the A-norm of the error at each step by at least the factor $1/\sqrt{2}$.

Yu-Chun Chen, Ming-Yen Cheng, Hau-tieng Wu

Seasonality (or periodicity) and trend are features describing an observed sequence, and extracting these features is an important issue in many scientific fields. However, it is not an easy task for existing methods to analyze simultaneously the trend and {\it dynamics} of the seasonality such as time-varying frequency and amplitude, and the {\it adaptivity

Natalia Kopteva, Martin Stynes

A semilinear reaction-diffusion two-point boundary value problem, whose second-order derivative is multiplied by a small positive parameter $\eps^2$, is considered. It can have multiple solutions. An asymptotic expansion is constructed for a solution that has an interior layer. Further properties are then established for a perturbation of this expansion. The

Benjamin J. Brown, Stephen D. Bartlett, Andrew C. Doherty, Sean D. Barrett

Defects in topologically ordered models have interesting properties that are reminiscent of the anyonic excitations of the models themselves. For example, dislocations in the toric code model are known as twists and possess properties that are analogous to Ising anyons. We strengthen this analogy by using the topological entanglement entropy as a diagnostic

Laurentiu Maxim, Joerg Schuermann

In this paper we compute the motivic Chern classes and homology Hirzebruch characteristic classes of (possibly singular) toric varieties, which in the complete case fit nicely with a generalized Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem. As special cases, we obtain new (or recover well-known) formulae for the Baum-Fulton-MacPherson Todd (or MacPherson-Chern) classes o

Dmytro Iatsenko, Peter V. E. McClintock, Aneta Stefanovska

Large networks of coupled oscillators appear in many branches of science, so that the kinds of phenomena they exhibit are not only of intrinsic interest but also of very wide importance. In 1975, Kuramoto proposed an analytically tractable model to describe such systems, which has since been successfully applied in many contexts and remains a subject of inte

Viviana del Barco, Gabriela P. Ovando

This work deals with the structure of the isometry group of pseudo-Riemannian 2-step nilmanifolds. We study the action by isometries of several groups and we construct examples showing substantial differences with the Riemannain situation; for instance the action of the nilradical of the isometry group does not need to be transitive. For a nilpotent Lie grou

Daoling Peng, Nils Middendorf, Florian Weigend, Markus Reiher

We present an efficient algorithm for one- and two-component relativistic exact-decoupling calculations. Spin-orbit coupling is thus taken into account for the evaluation of relativistically transformed (one-electron) Hamiltonian. As the relativistic decoupling transformation has to be evaluated with primitive functions, the construction of the relativistic

Boudewijn F. Roukema, Jan J. Ostrowski, Thomas Buchert

The geometry of the dark energy and cold dark matter dominated cosmological model (LambdaCDM) is commonly assumed to be given by a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric, i.e. it assumes homogeneity in the comoving spatial section. The homogeneity assumption fails most strongly at (i) small distance scales and (ii) recent epochs, implying that the

Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

We introduce the notion of z-topological orderings for digraphs. We prove that given a digraph G on n vertices admitting a z-topological order- ing, together with such an ordering, one may count the number of subgraphs of G that at the same time satisfy a monadic second order formula ϕ and are the union of k directed paths, in time f (ϕ, k, z) * n^O(k*z) . O

Netta Engelhardt, Gary T. Horowitz

We investigate the behavior of the entanglement entropy of a confining gauge theory near cosmological singularities using gauge/gravity duality. As expected, the coefficients of the UV divergent terms are given by simple geometric properties of the entangling surface in the time-dependent background. The finite (universal) part of the entanglement entropy ei

Neil Burch, Michael Johanson, Michael Bowling

Decomposition, i.e. independently analyzing possible subgames, has proven to be an essential principle for effective decision-making in perfect information games. However, in imperfect information games, decomposition has proven to be problematic. To date, all proposed techniques for decomposition in imperfect information games have abandoned theoretical gua

Ghislain Fourier, Nathan Manning, Alistair Savage

Equivariant map algebras are Lie algebras of algebraic maps from a scheme (or algebraic variety) to a target finite-dimensional Lie algebra (in the case of the current paper, we assume the latter is a simple Lie algebra) that are equivariant with respect to the action of a finite group. In the first part of this paper, we define global Weyl modules for equiv

B. Magnelli, P. Popesso, S. Berta, F. Pozzi

We present results from the deepest Herschel-PACS (Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer) far-infrared blank field extragalactic survey, obtained by combining observations of the GOODS (Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey) fields from the PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) and GOODS-Herschel key programmes. We describe data reduction and the constructio

Erkao Bao

In this paper, we provide a bound for the generalized Hofer energy of punctured $J$-holomorphic curves in almost complex manifolds with asymptotically cylindrical ends. As an application, we prove a version of Gromov's Monotonicity Theorem with multiplicity. Namely, for a closed symplectic manifold $(M,ω)$ with a compatible almost complex structure $J$ a

Brian Greene, David Kagan, Ali Masoumi, Dhagash Mehta

We argue that a generic instability afflicts vacua that arise in theories whose moduli space has large dimension. Specifically, by studying theories with multiple scalar fields we provide numerical evidence that for a generic local minimum of the potential the usual semiclassical bubble nucleation rate, Gamma = A e^{-B}, increases rapidly as function of the

A. Solon, J. Tailleur

We consider an active Ising model in which spins both diffuse and align on lattice in one and two dimensions. The diffusion is biased so that plus or minus spins hop preferably to the left or to the right, which generates a flocking transition at low temperature/high density. We construct a coarse-grained description of the model that predicts this transitio

Jean-Philippe Rolin, Adam Parusinski

Consider quasianalytic local rings of germs of smooth functions closed under composition, implicit equation, and monomial division. We show that if the Weierstrass Preparation Theorem holds in such a ring then all elements of it are germs of analytic functions. .

Michael Gustafsson, Thomas Hambye, Tiziana Scarna

We show that there exists only a quite limited number of higher dimensional operators which can naturally lead to a slow decay of dark matter particles into monochromatic photons. As each of these operators inevitably induces decays into particles other than photons, we show that the gamma-lines it induces are always accompanied by a continuum flux of cosmic

Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Alessio Cardillo, Alessandro Fiasconaro, Luigi Fortuna

A novel regime of synchronization, called remote synchronization, where the peripheral nodes form a phase synchronized cluster not including the hub, was recently observed in star motifs. We show the existence of a more general dynamical state of remote synchronization in arbitrary networks of coupled oscillators. This state is characterized by the synchroni

Pieter Naaijkens

We consider charge superselection sectors of two-dimensional quantum spin models corresponding to cone localisable charges, and prove that the number of equivalence classes of such charges is bounded by the Kosaki-Longo index of an inclusion of certain observable algebras. To demonstrate the power of this result we apply the theory to the toric code on a 2D

Tim D. Cochran, Christopher William Davis

In 1982 Louis Kauffman conjectured that if a knot in the 3-sphere is a slice knot then on any Seifert surface for that knot there exists a homologically essential simple closed curve of self-linking zero which is itself a slice knot, or at least has Arf invariant zero. Since that time, considerable evidence has been amassed in support of this conjecture. In

M. Zieliński

I present a systematic study of self-assembled InAs/InP and InAs/GaAs quantum dots single particle and many body properties as a function of quantum dot-surrounding matrix valence band offset. I use an atomistic, empirical tight-binding approach and perform numerically demanding calculations for half-million atom nanosystems. I demonstrate that the overall c

Gabriele Honecker, Wieland Staessens

Discrete gauge symmetries in global intersecting D-brane models constrain the exact form of the perturbative as well as non-perturbative superpotential. We derive the complete set of conditions on the existence of discrete Zn gauge symmetries on toroidal orbifolds, T6/Z(N) and T6/Z(2)xZ(2M}, with fractional or rigid D6-branes on tilted tori, for which global

Adam Muzzin, Danilo Marchesini, Mauro Stefanon, Marijn Franx

We present a catalog covering 1.62 deg^2 of the COSMOS/UltraVISTA field with PSF-matched photometry in 30 photometric bands. The catalog covers the wavelength range 0.15um - 24um including the available GALEX, Subaru, CFHT, VISTA and Spitzer data. Catalog sources have been selected from the DR1 UltraVISTA Ks band imaging that reaches a depth of K_{s,tot} = 2

Adam Muzzin, Danilo Marchesini, Mauro Stefanon, Marijn Franx

We present measurements of the stellar mass functions (SMFs) of star-forming and quiescent galaxies to z = 4 using a sample of 95 675 galaxies in the COSMOS/UltraVISTA field. Sources have been selected from the DR1 UltraVISTA K_{s}-band imaging which covers a unique combination of a wide area (1.62 deg^2), to a significant depth (K_{s,tot} = 23.4). The SMFs

Antony Van der Mude

We define a class of functions termed "Computable in the Limit", based on the Machine Learning paradigm of "Identification in the Limit". A function is Computable in the Limit if it defines a property P_p of a recursively enumerable class A of recursively enumerable data sequences S in A, such that each data sequence S is generated by a total

Xiaohui Liu, Frank Petriello

We resum a class of large Sudakov logarithms affecting Higgs boson production in the exclusive one-jet bin at the LHC. We extend previous results by calculating the full one-loop soft function for this process, which extends the accuracy of the resummation to include the leading three logarithmic corrections at each order in the QCD coupling constant. We mat

Jia Liu, Brian Shuve, Neal Weiner, Itay Yavin

Magnetic and Rayleigh dark matter are models describing weak interactions of dark matter with electromagnetism through non-renormalizable operators of dimensions 5 and 7, respectively. Such operators motivate the existence of heavier states that couple to dark matter and are also charged under the electroweak interactions. The recent hints of a gamma-ray lin

Erin K. S. Hicks, Richard I. Davies, Witold Maciejewski, Eric Emsellem

In a matched sample of Seyfert and quiescent galaxies we simultaneously probe the stellar and molecular gas kinematics from 1 kpc down to 50 pc with the aim of identifying the dynamical processes dictating black hole accretion rates. This first paper compares the global characteristics of a sample of ten galaxies. We find several differences within a radius

Aristomenis Donos, Jerome P. Gauntlett

We show that strongly coupled holographic matter at finite charge density can exhibit charge density wave phases which spontaneously break translation invariance while preserving time-reversal and parity invariance. We show that such phases are possible within Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory in general spacetime dimensions. We also discuss related spatially

S. Morisi, M. Nebot, Ketan M. Patel, E. Peinado

An interesting mass relation between down type quarks and charged leptons has been recently predicted within a supersymmetric SU(3)_c \times SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y model based on the A4 flavor symmetry. Here we propose a simple extension which provides an adequate full description of the quark sector. By adding a pair of vector-like up-quarks we show how the

Mark T. Sargent, E. Daddi, M. Béthermin, H. Aussel

Star-forming galaxies (SFGs) display a continuous distribution of specific star formation rates (sSFR) which can be approximated by the superposition of two log-normal distributions. The 1st of these encompasses the main sequence (MS) of SFGs, the 2nd one a rarer population of starbursts (SB). We show that the sSFR-distribution of SBs can be regarded as the

Ning Bao, Sarah Harrison, Shamit Kachru, Subir Sachdev

We consider $AdS_2 \times R^2$ solutions supported by a magnetic field, such as those which arise in the near-horizon limit of magnetically charged $AdS_4$ Reissner-Nordstrom black branes. In the presence of an electrically charged scalar field, such magnetic solutions can be unstable to spontaneous formation of a vortex lattice. We solve the coupled partial

Aaron A. Dutton, Tommaso Treu

Recent studies have shown that massive elliptical galaxies have total mass density profiles within an effective radius that can be approximated as ρ_{tot}\propto r^{-γ&#39;}, with mean slope <γ&#39;>=2.08 \pm 0.03 and scatter σ_γ&#39;=0.16 \pm 0.02. The small scatter of the slope (known as the bulge-halo conspiracy) is not generic in LCDM based models and th

Anthony Hegg, Frank Krüger, Philip W. Phillips

We study the square-lattice Bose-Hubbard model with bounded random on-site energies at zero temperature. Starting from a dual representation obtained from a strong-coupling expansion around the atomic limit, we employ a real-space block decimation scheme. This approach is non-perturbative in the disorder and enables us to study the renormalization-group flow

Matthias Erbar, Kazumasa Kuwada, Karl-Theodor Sturm

We prove the equivalence of the curvature-dimension bounds of Lott-Sturm-Villani (via entropy and optimal transport) and of Bakry--Émery (via energy and Γ_2$-calculus) in complete generality for infinitesimally Hilbertian metric measure spaces. In particular, we establish the full Bochner inequality on such metric measure spaces. Moreover, we deduce new cont

Wenjuan Fang, Adam Becker, Dragan Huterer, Eugene A. Lim

Two of the most commonly used tools to constrain the primordial non-Gaussianity are the bispectrum and the Minkowski functionals of CMB temperature anisotropies. These two measures of non-Gaussianity in principle provide distinct (though correlated) information, but in the past constraints from them have only been loosely compared, and not statistically comb

T. Hyart, B. van Heck, I. C. Fulga, M. Burrello

Majorana fermions hold promise for quantum computation, because their non-Abelian braiding statistics allows for topologically protected operations on quantum information. Topological qubits can be constructed from pairs of well-separated Majoranas in networks of nanowires. The coupling to a superconducting charge qubit in a transmission line resonator (tran

Lars Andersson, Thomas Bäckdahl, Jérémie Joudioux

In this paper we analyze Hertz potentials for free massless spin-s fields on the Minkowski spacetime, with data in weighted Sobolev spaces. We prove existence and pointwise estimates for the Hertz potentials using a weighted estimate for the wave equation. This is then applied to give weighted estimates for the solutions of the spin-s field equations, for ar

Ariadna Fossas

In this paper we construct a cellular complex which is an infinite analogue to Stasheff&#39;s associahedra. We prove that it is contractible and state that its (combinatorial) automorphism group is isomorphic to a semi-direct product of R.J. Thompson&#39;s group $T$ with $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$.

Gaelle Chastaing, Clémentine Prieur, Fabrice Gamboa

The hierarchically orthogonal functional decomposition of any measurable function f of a random vector X=(X_1,...,X_p) consists in decomposing f(X) into a sum of increasing dimension functions depending only on a subvector of X. Even when X_1,..., X_p are assumed to be dependent, this decomposition is unique if components are hierarchically orthogonal. That

Hiroki Matui, Yasuhiko Sato

Let A be a unital separable simple C*-algebra with a unique tracial state. We prove that if A is nuclear and quasidiagonal, then A tensored with the universal UHF-algebra has decomposition rank at most one. Then it is proved that A is nuclear, quasidiagonal and has strict comparison if and only if A has finite decomposition rank. For such A, we also give a d

Alvaro Gomez-Leon, Gloria Platero

We propose a general framework to solve tight binding models in D dimensional lattices driven by ac electric fields. Our method is valid for arbitrary driving regimes and allows to obtain effective Hamiltonians for different external fields configurations. We establish an equivalence with time independent lattices in D+1 dimensions, and analyze their topolog

Shant Baghram, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo, Hassan Firouzjahi

In this work we study the large scale structure bias in models of anisotropic inflation. We use the Peak Background Splitting method in Excursion Set Theory to find the scale-dependent bias. We show that the amplitude of the bias is modified by a direction- dependent factor. In the specific anisotropic inflation model which we study, the scale- dependent bia

Pablo L. Saldanha, Vlatko Vedral

It is shown that a general model for particle detection in combination with a linear application of the Wigner rotations, which correspond to momentum-dependent changes of the particle spin under Lorentz transformations, to the state of a massive relativistic particle in a superposition of two counter-propagating momentum states leads to a paradox. The parad

Susanne Baumgartner, Loet Leydesdorff

Group-based Trajectory Modeling (GBTM) is applied to the citation curves of articles in six journals and to all citable items in a single field of science (Virology, 24 journals), in order to distinguish among the developmental trajectories in subpopulations. Can highly-cited citation patterns be distinguished in an early phase as &#34;fast-breaking&#34; pap

A. V. Bednyakov, A. F. Pikelner, V. N. Velizhanin

We present the results for three-loop beta-function for the Higgs self-coupling calculated within the unbroken phase of the Standard Model. We also provide the expression for three-loop beta-function of the Higgs mass parameter, which is obtained as a by-product of our main calculation. Our results coincide with that of recent paper arXiv:1303.2890. In addit

Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang, Pedram Hassanzadeh

A previously unknown instability creates space-filling lattices of 3D vortices in linearly-stable, rotating, stratified shear flows. The instability starts from an easily-excited critical layer. The layer intensifies by drawing energy from the background shear and rolls-up into vortices that excite new critical layers and vortices. The vortices self-similarl

Bin Yan

It is a fundamental problem in physics of what principle limits the correlations as predicted by our current description of nature, based on quantum mechanics. One possible explanation is the &#34;global exclusivity&#34; principle recently discussed in Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 060402 (2013). In this work we show that this principle actually has a much stronger

Marcos D. Caballero, Steven J. Pollock

Much of the research done by modern physicists would be impossible without the use of computation. And yet, while computation is a crucial tool of practicing physicists, physics curricula do not generally reflect its importance and utility. To more tightly connect undergraduate preparation with professional practice, we integrated computational instruction i

Trevor W. Marshall, Max K. Wallis

Repulsive gravity has its origin in the 1939 article of Oppenheimer and Snyder which describes a collapsar, that is an idealized star of non-interacting material (dust) collapsing under its own gravity. The stellar material has a final state resembling a football, that is a significant part of it is concentrated in a thin surface shell. An interior pressure

A. E. Biondo, A. Pluchino, A. Rapisarda, D. Helbing

In this paper we explore the specific role of randomness in financial markets, inspired by the beneficial role of noise in many physical systems and in previous applications to complex socio- economic systems. After a short introduction, we study the performance of some of the most used trading strategies in predicting the dynamics of financial markets for d

Roland Glantz, Henning Meyerhenke

Convexity is a notion that has been defined for subsets of $\RR^n$ and for subsets of general graphs. A convex cut of a graph $G=(V, E)$ is a $2$-partition $V_1 \dot{\cup} V_2=V$ such that both $V_1$ and $V_2$ are convex, \ie shortest paths between vertices in $V_i$ never leave $V_i$, $i \in \{1, 2\}$. Finding convex cuts is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard for general g

Gongguo Tang, Badri Narayan Bhaskar, Benjamin Recht

This paper establishes a nearly optimal algorithm for estimating the frequencies and amplitudes of a mixture of sinusoids from noisy equispaced samples. We derive our algorithm by viewing line spectral estimation as a sparse recovery problem with a continuous, infinite dictionary. We show how to compute the estimator via semidefinite programming and provide

Abhishek K. Singh, K. Priyabrat Pandey, Sunita Singh, Supriya Kar

The U(1) gauge dynamics on a D4-brane is revisited, with a two form, to construct an effective curvature theory in a second order formalism. We exploit the local degrees in a two form, and modify its dynamics in a gauge invariant way, to incorporate a non-perturbative metric fluctuation in an effective D4-brane. Interestingly, the near horizon D4-brane is sh

Jonathan C. Tan, Shuo Kong, Michael J. Butler, Paola Caselli

How do stars that are more massive than the Sun form, and thus how is the stellar initial mass function (IMF) established? Such intermediate- and high-mass stars may be born from relatively massive pre-stellar gas cores, which are more massive than the thermal Jeans mass. The Turbulent Core Accretion model invokes such cores as being in approximate virial eq

Redha Bournas

The Strong Goldbach conjecture dates back to 1742. It states that every even integer greater than four can be written as the sum of two prime numbers. Since then, no one has been able to prove the conjecture. The only best known result so far is that every sufficiently large even integer N can be written as the sum of a prime number and the product of at mos

Luca Chirolli, Fabio Taddei, Rosario Fazio, Vittorio Giovannetti

We study Coulomb interactions in the finite bias response of Mach-Zehnder interferometers, which exploit copropagating edge states in the integer quantum Hall effect. Here, interactions are particularly important since the coherent coupling of edge channels is due to a resonant mechanism that is spoiled by inelastic processes. We find that interactions yield

Mayron César de O. Moreira, Cristóbal Miralles, Alysson M. Costa

We propose the Assembly Line Worker Integration and Balancing Problem (ALWIBP), a new assembly line balancing problem arising in lines with conventional and disabled workers. The goal of this problem is to maintain high productivity levels by minimizing the number of workstations needed to reach a given output, while integrating in the assembly line a number

V. S. Manko

It is shown that various pathological properties of spacetimes can be explained by the presence of negative mass, including the cases when the total mass of the solution is a positive quantity. As an illustration, we consider several well-known stationary axisymmetric vacuum and electrovac solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations. Our investigation natura

V. Gnezdilov, P. Lemmens, D. Wulferding, A. Möller

In the giant Rashba semiconductor BiTeI electronic surface scattering with Lorentzian linewidth is observed that shows a strong dependence on surface termination and surface potential shifts. A comparison with the topological insulator Bi2Se3 evidences that surface confined quantum well states are the origin of these processes. We notice an enhanced quasipar

Ahmed Rashed, Preet Sharma, Alakabha Datta

We study the $Δ$-resonance and deep inelastic scattering contributions in the tau-neutrino nucleon scattering $ν_τ+ N \to τ^- + X$ and $\barν_τ+ N \to τ^+ + X$ in the presence of a charged Higgs and a $W&#39;$ gauge boson. The new physics effects to the quasielastic process have been discussed in a previous work. The extractions of the atmospheric mixing ang

A. Avilez, C. Skordis

We report strong cosmological constraints on the Brans-Dicke (BD) theory of gravity using Cosmic Microwave Background data from Planck.We consider two types of models. First, the initial condition of the scalar field is fixed to give the same effective gravitational strength $G_{eff}$ today as the one measured on the Earth, $G_N$. In this case the BD paramet

Nikos Frantzikinakis, Bernard Host

Since the theorems of Schur and van der Waerden, numerous partition regularity results have been proved for linear equations, but progress has been scarce for non-linear ones, the hardest case being equations in three variables. We prove partition regularity for certain equations involving forms in three variables, showing for example that the equations $16x

Dan Burghelea, Stefan Haller

In this paper one presents a collection of results about the &#34;bar codes&#34; and &#34;Jordan blocks&#34; introduced by Burghelea-Day as &#34;computer friendly&#34; invariants of a tame angle-valued map and one relates these invariants to the Betti numbers, Novikov Betti numbers and the monodromy of the underlying space and map. Among others, one organize

Jinbi Jin

Starting from the classical division polynomials we construct homogeneous polynomials $α_n$, $β_n$, $γ_n$ such that for $P = (x:y:z)$ on an elliptic curve in Weierstrass form over an arbitrary ring we have $nP = \bigl(α_n(P):β_n(P):γ_n(P)\bigr)$. To show that $α_n,β_n,γ_n$ indeed have this property we use the a priori existence of such polynomials, which we

Emilie Coupechoux, Marc Lelarge

We consider a threshold epidemic model on a clustered random graph with overlapping communities. In other words, our epidemic model is such that an individual becomes infected as soon as the proportion of her infected neighbors exceeds the threshold q of the epidemic. In our random graph model, each individual can belong to several communities. The distribut

Xavier Labouze

The Inverse 3-SAT problem is known to be coNP Complete. This article shows a new interesting way to solve directly the problem by using closure under resolution and partial assignment properties. An algorithm is proposed which lets solve the (co)Inverse 3-SAT problem.