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  1. Chris Van Den Broeck

    The second-generation interferometric gravitational wave detectors currently under construction are expected to make their first detections within this decade. This will firmly establish gravitational wave physics as an empirical science and will open up a new era in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. Already with the first detections, we will

  2. Antonio Giorgilli, Ugo Locatelli, Marco Sansottera

    La teoria di Lagrange per i moti secolari delle eccentricità ed inclinazioni delle orbite planetarie si fondava su un'approssimazione, dettata in larga misura dalla complessità dei calcoli necessari, che consisteva nel considerare solo equazioni lineari. In questa memoria riprendiamo in considerazione i metodi di Lagrange alla luce della teoria della sta

  3. Subhojoy Gupta

    We show that any grafting ray in Teichmüller space is (strongly) asymptotic to some Teichmüller geodesic ray. As an intermediate step we introduce surfaces that arise as limits of these degenerating Riemann surfaces. Given a grafting ray, the proof involves a Teichmüller ray with a conformally equivalent limit, and building quasiconformal maps of low dilatat

  4. Tarek Sayed Ahmed

    We give a categorial definition separating cylindric-like algebras from polyadic-like ones. Viewing the neat reduct operator as a functor, we show that it does not have a right adjoint in the former case, but it is strongly invertible in the second case. Several new results on amalgamation, and non finite axiomatizability are presented for both paradigms. A

  5. D. A. Burton, A. Carr, J. Gratus, A. Noble

    We develop a new fluid model of a warm plasma that includes the radiative self-force on each plasma electron. Our approach is a natural generalization of established methods for generating fluid models without radiation reaction. The equilibrium of a magnetized plasma is analysed, and it is shown that the thermal motion is confined to the magnetic field line

  6. Michael V. Klibanov

    Uniqueness is proven for two 3-d inverse problems of the determination of the spatially distributed sound speed in the frequency dependent acoustic PDE. The main new point is the assumption that only the modulus of the scattered complex valued wave field is measured on a certain set.

  7. Micah W. Chrisman

    Many invariants of knots rely upon smoothing the knot at its crossings. To compute them, it is necessary to know how to count the number of connected components the knot diagram is broken into after the smoothing. In this paper, it is shown how to use a modification of a theorem of Zulli together with a modification of the spectral theory of graphs to approa

  8. Yodovina Piškur, Bumbarija Medolin

    Intelligent life can only appear in Universes, whose physical laws support sufficient complexity to make evolution of intelligent beings possible. Even inside those Universes, intelligent life does not appear randomly, but in parts with realized complexity, e.g. around stars in our Universe. As a consequence, the observational point of an intelligent observe

  9. Micah W. Chrisman

    We construct an infinite commutative lattice of groups whose dual spaces give Kauffman finite-type invariants of long virtual knots. The lattice is based "horizontally" upon the Polyak algebra and extended "vertically" using Manturov's functorial map $f$. For each $n$, the $n$-th vertical line in the lattice contains an infinite dimension

  10. Jiri Barnat, Petr Bauch

    A comprehensive verification of parallel software imposes three crucial requirements on the procedure that implements it. Apart from accepting real code as program input and temporal formulae as specification input, the verification should be exhaustive, with respect to both control and data flows. This paper is concerned with the third requirement, proposin

  11. Vibha Gaur, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Punam Bedi

    Agent mediated e-commerce involves buying and selling on Internet through software agents. The success of an agent mediated e-commerce system lies in the underlying reputation management system which is used to improve the quality of services in e-market environment. A reputation system encourages the honest behaviour of seller agents and discourages the mal

  12. J. Sweep, A. N. Rubtsov, M. I. Katsnelson

    The metal-insulator transition within the s-d exchange model is studied by the Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Dual Fermion approaches. The latter takes into account nonlocal correlation effects which are shown to be essential. In particular, the critical values of the s-d exchange coupling constant for these two methods turn out to be different by a factor

  13. Victor Atanasov

    The experimental demonstration of pseudo-magnetic fields exceeding 300 T in graphene [2] nanobubbles represents considerable challenge for the present theory connecting the emergence of gauge fields due to strain in the underlying lattice. Here we propose a theoretical framework within which the magnitude of the pseudo-magnetic fields can be computed more ac

  14. Vincent Rivasseau

    We prove that triangulations of homology spheres in any dimension grow much slower than general triangulations. Our bound states in particular that the number of triangulations of homology spheres in 3 dimensions grows at most like the power 1/3 of the number of general triangulations.

  15. Erhan Set, M. Emin Ozdemir, M. Zeki Sarikaya, Filiz Karakoc

    In this paper we establish Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for mappings whose derivatives are s-convex in the second sense and concave.

  16. Rubem Mondaini, Thereza Paiva

    We study transport properties of the half-filled two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard model with spatially varying interactions, where a pattern of interacting and non-interacting sites is formed. We use Determinantal Quantum Monte Carlo method to calculate the double occupation, effective hopping and Drude weight. These data point to two phase transitions, driven b

  17. J. Veljanoski, A. M. N. Ferguson, A. D. Mackey, A. P. Huxor

    We present the first kinematic analysis of the far outer halo globular cluster (GC) population in the Local Group galaxy M31. Our sample contains 53 objects with projected radii of ~20-130 kpc, of which 44 have no previous spectroscopic information. GCs with projected radii >30 kpc are found to exhibit net rotation around the minor axis of M31, in the same s

  18. Alan J. Barr, Christopher G. Lester

    The first search is reported for direct heffalon production, using 23.3/fb per experiment of delivered integrated luminosity of proton-proton collisions at rootS = 8TeV from the Large Hadron Collider. The data were recorded with the ATLAS and the CMS detectors. Each exotic composite is assumed to be stable on the detector lifetime (tau >> ns). A particularly

  19. Roland Hildebrand

    Let $U \subset \mathbb A^n$ be an open subset of real affine space. We consider functions $F: U \to \mathbb R$ with non-degenerate Hessian such that the first or the third derivative of $F$ is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection defined by the Hessian metric $F"$. In the former case the solutions are given precisely by the logarithmically

  20. Koenraad M. R. Audenaert

    We study upper bounds on the Schur multiplier norm of Loewner matrices for concave and convex functions. These bounds then immediately lead to upper bounds on the ratio of Schatten $q$-norms of commutators $||\;[A,f(B)]\;||_q/||\;[A,B]\;||_q$. We also consider operator monotone functions, for which sharper bounds are obtained.

  21. M. Bonesini

    The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling of a muon beam. The demonstration comprises one cell of the US Neutrino Factory Study II cooling channel. Results obtained on the construction of the beamline and its instrumentation (STEP I) will be reviewed, together with progress towar

  22. P. A. Andreev, L. S. Kuz'menkov

    The bright, dark and grey solitons are well-known soliton solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the attractive and repulsive BEC. We consider solitons in the dipolar BEC of the fully polarized particles, speaking of the dipolar BEC we mean both the magnetized BEC and the electrically polarized BEC. We show that these two types of the dipolar BEC rev

  23. Zhiguo Fu, Fengqin Yang

    An essential problem in the design of holographic algorithms is to decide whether the required signatures can be realized by matchgates under a suitable basis transformation (SRP). For holographic algorithms on domain size 2, [1, 2, 4, 5] have built a systematical theory. In this paper, we reduce SRP on domain size k>2 to SRP on domain size 2 for holographic

  24. BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, O. Albayrak

    Based on a sample of 225.3 million J/ψevents accumulated with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII, the decays of η' to pi+pi-l+l- are studied via J/ψto γη'. A clear η' signal is observed in the pi+pi-e+e- mass spectrum, and the branching fraction is measured to be \BR(η' to pi+pi-e+e-) = (2.11\pm0.12 (stat.)\pm0.15 (syst.))\times10^{-3}, which

  25. Tobias Grießer, Helmut Ritsch

    Collective off resonant scattering of coherent light by a cold gas induces long-range interactions via interference of light scattered by different particles. In a 1D configuration these interactions grow particularly strong for particles trapped along an optical nanofiber. We show that there exists a threshold pump laser intensity, above which the gas can b

  26. I. Fyodorov, A. Sarychev

    In this work, we present a fully quantum theory of the plasmonic nanolaser, based on the maser model. Theory can be applied both to the microlasers with high Q-factor cavities and plasmonic nanolasers. We show that the latter is essentially a thresholdless device. We obtain the statistics of quanta, spectrum of the plasmonic radiation and the second-order co

  27. Jean Louis Woukeng

    Let A be an introverted algebra with mean value. We prove that its spectrum Δ(A) is a compact topological semigroup, and that the kernel K(Δ(A)) of Δ(A) is a compact topological group over which the mean value on A can be identified as the Haar integral. Based on these facts and also on the fact that K(Δ(A)) is an ideal of Δ(A), we define the convolution ove

  28. Andrzej Rybicki, Antoni Szczurek

    We estimate the electromagnetic effect of the spectator charge on azimuthal anisotropies observed in heavy ion collisions. For peripheral Pb+Pb reactions at the top energy of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron, $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=17.3$ GeV, we predict this effect to bring very large distortions to the observed directed flow, $v_1$, of positive and negative pions

  29. Nisha Sharma, Kamlesh Sharma

    Digital watermarking is a technique of embedding pieces of information into digital data such as text, audio, video, and still images that can be detected or extracted later to show authentication about the data. Watermark is hidden information in the image(s) and is so designed that it does not degrade/distort the quality of the image and still keeps the in

  30. N. T. Zinner, A. S. Jensen

    The experimental revolution in ultracold atomic gas physics over the past decades have brought tremendous amounts of new insight to the world of degenerate quantum systems. Here we compare and constrast the developments of cold atomic gases with the physics of nuclei since many concepts, techniques, and nomenclatures are common to both fields. However, nucle

  31. Hiroshi Kihara

    Let A be a cogroup in the category of connected graded algebras over a commutative ring R. Let nu denote the inverse of A and chi the antipode of the underlying Hopf algebra of A. We clarify the differences and similarities of nu and chi, and show that nu coincides with chi if and only if A is commutative as a graded algebra. Let A^co_CG be the category of c

  32. Vanessa Weith, Alexei Krekhov, Walter Zimmermann

    The dynamics of microphase separation and the orientation of lamellae in diblock copolymers is investigated in terms of a mean-field model. The formation of lamellar structures and their stable states are explored and it is shown that lamellae are stable not only for the period of the structure corresponding to the minimum of the free energy. The range of wa

  33. Pedro J. Miana, Verónica Poblete

    In this paper we give sharp extensions of convoluted solutions of wave equations in abstract Banach spaces. The main technique is to use the algebraic structure, for convolution products $\ast$ and $\ast_c$, of these solutions which are defined by a version of the Duhamel's formula. We define algebra homomorphisms, for the convolution product $\ast_c$, f

  34. M. Rozyczka, J. Kaluzny, I. B. Thompson, S. M. Rucinski

    We analyze light and velocity curves of the eclipsing blue straggler V60 in the field of the globular cluster M55. We derive Mp=1.259+-0.025 Msun, Rp=1.102+-0.021 Rsun, Mbol,p=3.03+-0.09 mag for the primary and Ms=0.327+-0.017 Msun, Rs=1.480+-0.011 Rsun, Mbol,s=4.18+-0.12 mag for the secondary. We derive an apparent distance modulus (m-M)V=14.04_-0.09 mag. B

  35. Alice Bernamonti, Ben Craps, Joris Vanhoof

    In relation to the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, we discuss a time-dependent notion of spectral function and effective temperature. Extending recent results from arXiv:1212.6066, we work out these quantities in a two-dimensional thermalising CFT dual to AdS3-Vaidya spacetime which interpolates between a black brane geometry at early times and a higher tem

  36. L. A. Apresyan, D. V. Vlasov

    A definition of depolarization factors for anisotropic ellipsoid in an anisotropic medium is considered. The expressions for these factors are derived, which generalize some results known for special cases, and differences from the usual depolarization factors for ellipsoid in isotropic medium are described. The concept of "reduced" ellipsoid, allowi

  37. Meng Wang, Chenglin Zhang, Xingye Lu, Guotai Tan

    In conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors, superconductivity occurs when electrons form coherent Cooper pairs below the superconducting transition temperature Tc. Although the kinetic energy of paired electrons increases in the superconducting state relative to the normal state, the reduction in the ion lattice energy is sufficient to g

  38. Christophe Delaunay, Frédéric Jouhet

    This article deals with the coherence of the model given by the Cohen-Lenstra heuristic philosophy for class groups and also for their generalizations to Tate-Shafarevich groups. More precisely, our first goal is to extend a previous result due to E. Fouvry and J. Klüners which proves that a conjecture provided by the Cohen-Lenstra philosophy implies another

  39. Paulo A. S. Veloso, Sheila R. M. Veloso

    We introduce a refutation graph calculus for classical first-order predicate logic, which is an extension of previous ones for binary relations. One reduces logical consequence to establishing that a constructed graph has empty extension, i. e. it represents bottom. Our calculus establishes that a graph has empty extension by converting it to a normal form,

  40. Ana Cristina Rocha Oliveira, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón

    Orthogonality is a discipline of programming that in a syntactic manner guarantees determinism of functional specifications. Essentially, orthogonality avoids, on the one side, the inherent ambiguity of non determinism, prohibiting the existence of different rules that specify the same function and that may apply simultaneously (non-ambiguity), and, on the o

  41. Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Gilles Dowek

    We define an equivalence relation on propositions and a proof system where equivalent propositions have the same proofs. The system obtained this way resembles several known non-deterministic and algebraic lambda-calculi.

  42. Marcelo E. Coniglio, María I. Corbalán

    In this paper sequent calculi for the classical fragment (that is, the conjunction-disjunction-implication-negation fragment) of the nonsense logics B3, introduced by Bochvar, and H3, introduced by Halldén, are presented. These calculi are obtained by restricting in an appropriate way the application of the rules of a sequent calculus for classical propositi

  43. Alberto Ciaffaglione, Ivan Scagnetto

    Capitalizing on previous encodings and formal developments about nominal calculi and type systems, we propose a weak Higher-Order Abstract Syntax formalization of the type language of pure System F<: within Coq, a proof assistant based on the Calculus of Inductive Constructions. Our encoding allows us to accomplish the proof of the transitivity property of a

  44. Alberto Carraro, Thomas Ehrhard, Antonino Salibra

    We introduce a functional calculus with simple syntax and operational semantics in which the calculi introduced so far in the Curry-Howard correspondence for Classical Logic can be faithfully encoded. Our calculus enjoys confluence without any restriction. Its type system enforces strong normalization of expressions and it is a sound and complete system for

  45. Alberto Carraro

    The stack calculus is a functional language in which is in a Curry-Howard correspondence with classical logic. It enjoys confluence but, as well as Parigot&#39;s lambda-mu, does not admit the Bohm Theorem, typical of the lambda-calculus. We present a simple extension of stack calculus which is for the stack calculus what Saurin&#39;s Lambda-mu is for lambda-

  46. Antonio Bucciarelli, Alberto Carraro, Antonino Salibra

    A longstanding open problem in lambda calculus is whether there exist continuous models of the untyped lambda calculus whose theory is exactly the least lambda-theory lambda-beta or the least sensible lambda-theory H (generated by equating all the unsolvable terms). A related question is whether, given a class of lambda models, there is a minimal lambda-theo

  47. Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Maribel Fernández, Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho

    We present an algorithm to decide the intruder deduction problem (IDP) for a class of locally stable theories enriched with normal forms. Our result relies on a new and efficient algorithm to solve a restricted case of higher-order associative-commutative matching, obtained by combining the Distinct Occurrences of AC- matching algorithm and a standard algori

  48. Carlos Areces, Guillaume Hoffmann, Ezequiel Orbe

    We generalize the notion of symmetries of propositional formulas in conjunctive normal form to modal formulas. Our framework uses the coinductive models and, hence, the results apply to a wide class of modal logics including, for example, hybrid logics. Our main result shows that the symmetries of a modal formula preserve entailment.

  49. Beniamino Accattoli

    This paper gives a detailed account of the relationship between (a variant of) the call-by-value lambda calculus and linear logic proof nets. The presentation is carefully tuned in order to realize a strong bisimulation between the two systems: every single rewriting step on the calculus maps to a single step on the nets, and viceversa. In this way, we obtai

  50. Kentaro Ito

    We consider linear slices of the space of Kleinian once-punctured torus groups; a linear slice is obtained by fixing the value of the trace of one of the generators. The linear slice for trace 2 is called the Maskit slice. We will show that if traces converge `horocyclically&#39; to 2 then associated linear slices converge to the Maskit slice, whereas if the

  51. Antonio Giorgilli

    It is shown that a Hamiltonian system in the neighbourhood of an equilibrium may be given a special normal form in case the eigenvalues of the linearized system satisfy non--resonance conditions of Melnikov&#39;s type. The normal form possesses a two dimensional (local) invariant manifold on which the solutions are known. If the eigenvalue is pure imaginary

  52. P. Szabo, J. Girovsky, Z. Pribulova, J. Kacmarcik

    Lortz et al. [Phys. Rev. B 73, 024512 (2006)] have utilized specific heat and resistivity measurements as &#34;thermal spectroscopies&#34; to deconvolve the spectrum of the electron-phonon interaction in YB$_6$ assuming a major role of the low frequency phonon mode in mediating superconductivity. Here, we present direct point-contact spectroscopy studies of

  53. Yusuke Goto, Kunihiko Kaneko

    To explain the differentiation of stem cells in terms of dynamical systems theory, models of interacting cells with intracellular protein expression dynamics are analyzed and simulated. Simulations were carried out for all possible protein expression networks consisting of two genes under cell--cell interactions mediated by the diffusion of a protein. Networ

  54. Ajay Jasra, Nikolas Kantas, Elena Ehrlich

    In the following article we consider approximate Bayesian parameter inference for observation driven time series models. Such statistical models appear in a wide variety of applications, including econometrics and applied mathematics. This article considers the scenario where the likelihood function cannot be evaluated point-wise; in such cases, one cannot p

  55. Jian-Sheng Wang, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, Huanan Li, Juzar Thingna

    This review deals with the nonequilibrium Green&#39;s function (NEGF) method applied to the problems of energy transport due to atomic vibrations (phonons), primarily for small junction systems. We present a pedagogical introduction to the subject, deriving some of the well-known results such as the Laudauer-like formula for heat current in ballistic systems

  56. Xiangyan Li, Yichun Xu, C. S. Liu, B. C. Pan

    Design of nuclear materials with high radiation-tolerance has great significance1, especially for the next generation of nuclear energy systems2,3. Response of nano- and poly-crystals to irradiation depends on the radiation temperature, dose-rate and grain size4-13. However the dependencies had been studied and interpreted individually, and thus severely lac

  57. T. Sloan, A. W. Wolfendale

    The Galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity has been postulated by others to vary cyclically with a peak to valley ratio of ~3:1, as the Solar System moves from the Spiral Arm to the Inter-Arm regions of the Galaxy. These intensities have been correlated with global temperatures and used to support the hypothesis of GCR induced climate change. In this paper we s

  58. Jun-Muk Hwang, Hosung Kim

    Let $ϕ: X \to \mathbb P^n$ be a double cover branched along a smooth hypersurface of degree $2m, 2 \leq m \leq n-1$. We study the varieties of minimal rational tangents $\mathcal C_x \subset \mathbb P T_x(X)$ at a general point $x$ of $X$. We describe the homogeneous ideal of $\mathcal C_x$ and show that the projective isomorphism type of $\mathcal C_x$ vari

  59. Niraj Kumar, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Kannan Srinathan, Vasudeva Varma

    In this paper, we show that certain phrases although not present in a given question/query, play a very important role in answering the question. Exploring the role of such phrases in answering questions not only reduces the dependency on matching question phrases for extracting answers, but also improves the quality of the extracted answers. Here matching q

  60. Dae San Kim, Taekyun Kim

    In this paper, we study some properties of Sheffer sequences for the powers of Sheffer pairs under umbral composition. From our properties we derive new and interesting identities of Sheffer sequences of special polynomials for the powers of Sheffer pairs under umbral composition.

  61. Teiko Heinosaari

    Two quantum effects are considered coexistent if they can be measured together. It is known that commutativity and comparability are sufficient but not necessary for the coexistence of two effects. We unify those two conditions to a simple but more widely applicable sufficient condition.

  62. K. E. Filipchuk, Z. K. Silagadze

    The physics is created by human beings with all weaknesses of human nature. This story caught our attention since it demonstrates how fragile the human destiny is and even genius cannot find freedom and preserve human dignity in the face of the totalitarian state.

  63. H. N. Smitha, K. N. Nagendra, J. O. Stenflo, M. Sampoorna

    Quantum interference effects play a vital role in shaping the linear polarization profiles of solar spectral lines. The Ba II D2 line at 4554 A is a prominent example, where the F-state interference effects due to the odd isotopes produce polarization profiles, which are very different from those of the even isotopes that have no F-state interference. It is

  64. Giddaluru Madhavi, M. K. Kaushik

    A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a wireless network that uses multi-hop peer-to- peer routing instead of static network infrastructure to provide network connectivity. MANETs have applications in rapidly deployed and dynamic military and civilian systems. The network topology in a MANET usually changes with time. Therefore, there are new challenges for rou

  65. Tran Tuan Nam, Nguyen minh Tri

    We study basic properties of the generalized ideal transforms $D_I(M, N)$ and the set of associated primes of the modules $R^iD_I(M,N).$

  66. Kiran Venugopal, Vishnu Namboodiri, B. Sundar Rajan

    Modulation schemes for two-way bidirectional relay network employing two phases: Multiple access (MA) phase and Broadcast (BC) phase and using physical layer network coding are currently studied intensively. Recently, adaptive modulation schemes using Latin Squares to obtain network coding maps with the denoise and forward protocol have been reported with go

  67. Mihailo Stojnic

    In this paper we look at a class of random optimization problems. We discuss ways that can help determine typical behavior of their solutions. When the dimensions of the optimization problems are large such an information often can be obtained without actually solving the original problems. Moreover, we also discover that fairly often one can actually determ

  68. Tran Tuan Nam, Nguyen Minh Tri

    We introduce a notion of generalized local cohomology modules with respect to a pair of ideals $(I,J)$ which is a generalization of the concept of local cohomology modules with respect to $(I,J).$ We show that generalized local cohomology modules $H^i_{I,J}(M,N)$ can be computed by the Čech cohomology modules. We also study the artinianness of generalized lo

  69. Mihailo Stojnic

    In this paper we consider solving \emph{noisy} under-determined systems of linear equations with sparse solutions. A noiseless equivalent attracted enormous attention in recent years, above all, due to work of \cite{CRT,CanRomTao06,DonohoPol} where it was shown in a statistical and large dimensional context that a sparse unknown vector (of sparsity proportio

  70. Mihailo Stojnic

    In our recent work \cite{StojnicCSetam09} we considered solving under-determined systems of linear equations with sparse solutions. In a large dimensional and statistical context we proved that if the number of equations in the system is proportional to the length of the unknown vector then there is a sparsity (number of non-zero elements of the unknown vect

  71. Mihailo Stojnic

    In this paper we consider under-determined systems of linear equations that have sparse solutions. This subject attracted enormous amount of interest in recent years primarily due to influential works \cite{CRT,DonohoPol}. In a statistical context it was rigorously established for the first time in \cite{CRT,DonohoPol} that if the number of equations is smal

  72. Zachary Guralnik, William Farrell, John Bourdelais, Xavier Zabalgogeazcoa

    Deep ocean acoustics, in the absence of shipping and wildlife, is driven by surface processes. Best understood is the signal generated by non-linear surface wave interactions, the Longuet-Higgins mechanism, which dominates from 0.1 to 10 Hz, and may be significant for another octave. For this source, the spectral matrix of pressure and vector velocity is der

  73. Adam J. Burgasser, Scott S. Sheppard, K. L. Luhman

    We report resolved near-infrared spectroscopy and photometry of the recently identified brown dwarf binary WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB, located 2.02+/-0.15 pc from the Sun. Low-resolution spectral data from Magellan/FIRE and IRTF/SpeX reveal strong H2O and CO absorption features in the spectra of both components, with the secondary also exhibiting weak CH4 ab

  74. E. K. Liu, H. G. Zhang, G. Z. Xu, X. M. Zhang

    An effective scheme of isostructural alloying was applied to establish a Curie-temperature window in isostructural MnNiGe-CoNiGe system. With the simultaneous accomplishment of decreasing structural-transition temperature and converting antiferromagnetic martensite to ferromagnetic state, a 200 K Curie-temperature window was established between Curie tempera

  75. Justin Taylor, Seick Kim, Russell Brown

    We consider the elliptic system of linear elasticity with bounded measurable coefficients in a domain where the second Korn inequality holds. We construct heat kernel of the system subject to Dirichlet, Neumann, or mixed boundary condition under the assumption that weak solutions of the elliptic system are Hölder continuous in the interior. Moreover, we show

  76. Hua Luo, Kai Li, Dongfang Zhang, Tianyou Gao

    We have experimentally studied the multiple side-band generation for two-frequency components injected into a tapered amplifier and demonstrated its effects on atomic laser cooling. A heterodyne frequency-beat measurement and a Fabry Perot interferometer have been applied to analyze the side-band generation with different experimental parameters, such as fre

  77. Mikhail Skopenkov

    This paper is on further development of discrete complex analysis introduced by R. Isaacs, J. Ferrand, R. Duffin, and C. Mercat. We consider a graph lying in the complex plane and having quadrilateral faces. A function on the vertices is called discrete analytic, if for each face the difference quotients along the two diagonals are equal. We prove that the D

  78. Zhiyu Tian

    We prove weak approximation for smooth cubic hypersurfaces of dimension at least 2 defined over the function field of a complex curve.

  79. Tigran A. Sedrakyan, Leonid I. Glazman, Alex Kamenev

    We study hard-core bosons on a class of frustrated lattices with the lowest Bloch band having a degenerate minimum along a closed contour, the moat, in the reciprocal space. We show that at small density the ground state of the system is given by a noncondensed state, which may be viewed as a state of fermions subject to Chern-Simons gauge field. At fixed de

  80. Jan Kolodynski, Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

    Quantum metrology offers an enhanced performance in experiments such as gravitational wave-detection, magnetometry or atomic clocks frequency calibration. The enhancement, however, requires a delicate tuning of relevant quantum features such as entanglement or squeezing. For any practical application the inevitable impact of decoherence needs to be taken int

  81. Eduardo Guendelman, Pedro Labrana

    We consider a non-singular origin for the Universe starting from an Einstein static Universe, the so called &#34;emergent universe&#34; scenario, in the framework of a theory which uses two volume elements $\sqrt{-{g}}d^{4}x$ and $Φd^{4}x$, where $Φ$ is a metric independent density, used as an additional measure of integration. Also curvature, curvature squa

  82. A. I. Vasyunin, Eric Herbst

    The recent discovery of terrestrial-type organic species such as methyl formate and dimethyl ether in the cold interstellar gas has proved that the formation of organic matter in the Galaxy begins at a much earlier stage of star formation than was thought before. This discovery represents a challenge for astrochemical modelers. The abundances of these molecu

  83. Qing Li, Guixin Cao, Satoshi Okamoto, Jieyu Yi

    Layered 5d transition metal oxides (TMOs) have attracted significant interest in recent years because of the rich physical properties induced by the interplay between spin-orbit coupling, bandwidth and on-site Coulomb repulsion. In Sr2IrO4, this interplay opens a gap near the Fermi energy and stabilizes a Jeff=1/2 spin-orbital entangled insulating state at l

  84. Stephen P. Horvat

    The nuclear modification factors R_{AA} and R_{CP} have been used to measure medium-induced suppression in heavy-ion collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200GeV which was among the earliest evidence for the existence of a strongly interacting medium called a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Nuclear modification factors for asymmetric collisions (R_{dA}) have measured the C

  85. Paulo H. F. Reimberg, L. Raul Abramo

    The fluctuations in the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background are described by a hierarchy of Boltzmann equations. In its integral form, this Boltzmann hierarchy can be converted from the usual Fourier-space base into a position-space and causal description. We show that probability densities for random flights play a key role in th

  86. Armen E. Allahverdyan, Roger Balian, Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

    To elucidate ideal measurements, one must explain how individual events emerge from quantum theory which deals with statistical ensembles, and how different may end up with different final states. This so-called &#34;measurement problem&#34; is tackled with two guidelines. On the one hand, the dynamics of the macroscopic apparatus A coupled to the tested sys

  87. Dine Ousmane Samary

    This manuscript reports the first order $β$-functions of recently proved just renormalizable random tensor models endowed with a $U(1)^d$ gauge invariance [arXiv:1211. 2618]. The models that we consider are polynomial Abelian $\vp^4_6$ and $\vp^6_5$ models. We show in this work that both models are asymptotically free in the UV.

  88. Alexander V. Kolesnikov, Danila A. Zaev

    We consider probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^{\infty}$ and study optimal transportation mappings for the case of infinite Kantorovich distance. Our examples include 1) quasi-product measures, 2) measures with certain symmetric properties, in particular, exchangeable and stationary measures. We show in the latter case that existence problem for optimal tra

  89. J. Berashevich, A. Reznik

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  93. Marcel Neeleman, Arthur M. Wolfe, J. Xavier Prochaska, Marc Rafelski

    Using a sample of 100 H I - selected damped Lyman alpha (DLA) systems, observed with the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer on the Keck I telescope, we present evidence that the scatter in the well-studied correlation between the redshift and metallicity of a DLA is largely due to the existence of a mass-metallicity relationship at each redshift. To descri

  94. Yejin Huh, Matthias Punk, Subir Sachdev

    We consider Z2 spin liquids on the kagome lattice on the verge of a valence bond solid (VBS) transition, where vortex excitations carrying Z2 magnetic flux - so-called visons - condense. We show that these vison excitations can couple directly to the external electromagnetic field, even though they carry neither spin nor charge. This is possible via a magnet

  95. Jeffrey M. Silverman, Peter E. Nugent, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mark Sullivan

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  96. Herbert K. Dreiner, Jean-François Fortin, Jordi Isern, Lorenzo Ubaldi

    The white dwarf luminosity function, which provides information about their cooling, has been measured with high precision in the past few years. Simulations that include well known Standard Model physics give a good fit to the data. This leaves little room for new physics and makes these astrophysical objects a good laboratory for testing models beyond the

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  98. Victor Alexandrov, Maxim Dzero, Piers Coleman

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  99. Irfan Bagci, Samuel Chamberlin

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  100. Junghee Ryu, Changhyoup Lee, Zhi Yin, Ramij Rahaman

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