March 2013 arXiv papers — page 50

Vaneet Aggarwal, N. K. Shankaranarayanan

In this paper, we consider the performance of a random-access time-slotted wireless network with a single access point and a mix of half- and full- duplex stations. Full-duplex transmissions involve data transmitted simultaneously in both directions, and this influences the dynamics of the queue at the access point. Given the probabilities of channel access

David Garner, Sanjaye Ramgoolam

The Gaussian Hermitian matrix model was recently proposed to have a dual string description with worldsheets mapping to a sphere target space. The correlators were written as sums over holomorphic (Belyi) maps from worldsheets to the two-dimensional sphere, branched over three points. We express the matrix model correlators by using the fuzzy sphere construc

Luis Enrique Correa Rocha, Vincent D Blondel

Networks are commonly used to define underlying interaction structures where infections, information, or other quantities may spread. Although the standard approach has been to aggregate all links into a static structure, some studies suggest that the time order in which the links are established may alter the dynamics of spreading. In this paper, we study t

Alexey G. Yamilov, Raktim Sarma, Brandon Redding, Ben Payne

Diffusion has been widely used to describe a random walk of particles or waves, and it requires only one parameter -- the diffusion constant. For waves, however, diffusion is an approximation that disregards the possibility of interference. Anderson localization, which manifests itself through a vanishing diffusion coefficient in an infinite system, originat

D. G. C. McKeon

Superspace techniques are used to formulate a supersymmetric model on an AdS3 surface embedded in four dimensions. In this model, the supersymmetry transformation is the "square root" of the transformation generated by the isometry generators of AdS3. Since momentum is not an isometry generator, supersymmetry does not result in equal masses for a Bos

Mario Kieburg, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We introduce Random Matrix Models for the Hermitian Wilson-Dirac operator of QCD-like theories. We show that they are equivalent to the $ε$-limit of the chiral Lagrangian for Wilson chiral perturbation theory. Results are obtained for two-color QCD with quarks in the fundamental representation of the color group as well as any-color QCD with quarks in the ad

Matthew Hewitt, Elizabeth Winstanley

We present the vacuum polarisation of a massless, conformally coupled scalar field on the brane for a Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole in a bulk of zero to seven additional dimensions.

Péter Forgács, Árpád Lukács, Tomasz Romańczukiewicz

It is shown that in a large class of systems plane waves can act as tractor beams: i.e., an incident plane wave can exert a pulling force on the scatterer. The underlying physical mechanism for the pulling force is due to the sufficiently strong scattering of the incoming wave into another mode having a larger wave number, in which case excess momentum is cr

Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro, Francesco Parisi

We address the issue of incorporating a particular yet expressive form of integrity constraints (namely, denial constraints) into probabilistic databases. To this aim, we move away from the common way of giving semantics to probabilistic databases, which relies on considering a unique interpretation of the data, and address two fundamental problems: consiste

Qiaoling Wei

The viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation was constructed by an "iterated minimax" procedure. Using Dafermos' front tracking method, we give another proof of this construction in the case of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in one space dimension. This allows us to get a better understanding in this case of the singularities of the viscosit

Radu Dragusin, Paula Petcu, Christina Lioma, Birger Larsen

Background: The web has become a primary information resource about illnesses and treatments for both medical and non-medical users. Standard web search is by far the most common interface for such information. It is therefore of interest to find out how well web search engines work for diagnostic queries and what factors contribute to successes and failures

K. Huang, J. J. Hamlin, R. E. Baumbach, M. Janoschek

We have carried out a comprehensive study of the UCo1-xFexGe series across the entire range of compositions 0 <= x <= 1, and report the results of x-ray diffraction, magnetization, specific heat, and electrical resistivity to uncover the T-x phase diagram. Substitution of Fe into UCoGe initially results in an increase in the Curie temperature and a rapid des

Piotr Jaranowski, Gerhard Schäfer

The article delivers the only still unknown coefficient in the 4th post-Newtonian energy expression for binary point masses on circular orbits as function of orbital angular frequency. Apart from a single coefficient, which is known solely numerically, all the coefficients are given as exact numbers. The shown Hamiltonian is presented in the center-of-mass f

Francisco G. Pedro, Alexander Westphal

We determine the frequency of regions of small-field inflation in the Wigner landscape as an approximation to random supergravities/type IIB flux compactifications. We show that small-field inflation occurs exponentially more often than large-field inflation The power of primordial gravitational waves from inflation is generically tied to the scale of inflat

Mohammad Reza Oboudi

Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$. An independent set in a graph is a set of pairwise non-adjacent vertices. The independence polynomial of $G$ is the polynomial $I(G,x)=\sum_{k=0}^{n} s(G,k) x^{k}$, where $s(G,k)$ is the number of independent sets of $G$ of size $k$ and $s(G,0)=1$. Clearly all real roots of $I(G,x)$ are negative. Let $ξ(G)$ be the larg

Kanti M Aggarwal, Francis P Keenan

We report calculations of energy levels, radiative rates and electron impact excitation cross sections and rates for transitions in He-like Ga XXX, Ge XXXI, As XXXII, Se XXXIII and Br XXXIV. The {\sc grasp} (general-purpose relativistic atomic structure package) is adopted for calculating energy levels and radiative rates. For determining the collision stren

Alain Hauser, Peter Bühlmann

In many applications we have both observational and (randomized) interventional data. We propose a Gaussian likelihood framework for joint modeling of such different data-types, based on global parameters consisting of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) and correponding edge weights and error variances. Thanks to the global nature of the parameters, maximum like

F. Maucher, E. Siminos, W. Krolikowski, S. Skupin

Quasiperiodic oscillations and shape-transformations of higher-order bright solitons in nonlinear nonlocal media have been frequently observed in recent years, however, the origin of these phenomena was never completely elucidated. In this paper, we perform a linear stability analysis of these higher-order solitons by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equatio

Matthew D. Shetrone, Graeme H. Smith, Laura M. Stanford, Michael H. Siegel

Measurements of [C/Fe], [Ca/H], and [Fe/H] have been derived from Keck I LRISb spectra of 35 giants in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The iron abundances are derived by a spectrum synthesis modeling of the wavelength region from 4850 to 5375 A, while calcium and carbon abundances are obtained by fitting the Ca II H and K lines and the CH G band respectiv

D. Sabo, D. Jiao, S. Varma, L. R. Pratt

Quasi-chemical theory applied to ion hydration combines statistical mechanical theory, electronic structure calculations, and molecular simulation, disciplines which are individually subjects for specialized professional attention. Because it combines activities which are themselves non-trivial, quasi-chemical theory is typically viewed with surprise. Nevert

Stefano Bo, Erik Aurell, Ralf Eichhorn, Antonio Celani

We consider optimization of the average entropy production in inhomogeneous temperature environments within the framework of stochastic thermodynamics. For systems modeled by Langevin equations (e.g. a colloidal particle in a heat bath) it has been recently shown that a space dependent temperature breaks the time reversal symmetry of the fast velocity degree

M. Salih, P. Dean, A. Valavanis, S. P. Khanna

We report three-well, resonant-phonon depopulation terahertz quantum cascade lasers with semi-insulating surface-plasmon waveguides and reduced active region (AR) thicknesses. Devices with thicknesses of 10, 7.5, 6, and 5 μm are compared in terms of threshold current density, maximum operating temperature, output power and AR temperature. Thinner ARs are tec

Scott D. Baalrud, Jerome Daligault

A plasma transport theory that spans weak to strong coupling is developed from a binary collision picture, but where the interaction potential is taken to be an effective potential that includes correlation effects and screening self-consistently. This physically motivated approach provides a practical model for evaluating transport coefficients across coupl

Mine Alsan

In this paper we investigate, starting with a symmetric B-DMC, the evolution of various probabilities of the likelihood ratios of the synthetic channels created by the recursive application of the basic polarization transformations. The analysis provides a new perspective into the theory of channel polarization initiated by Arıkan and helps us to address a p

Q. Zhang, G. Li, D. Rhodes, A. Kiswandhi

Here, we report the discovery of superconductivity in a new transition metal-chalcogenide compound, i.e. Nb2Pd0.81S5, with a transition temperature Tc > 6.6 K. Despite its relatively low Tc, it displays remarkably high and anisotropic superconducting upper critical fields, e.g. mu_0 H_{c2} (T approaching 0 K). 37 T for fields applied along the crystallograph

Patrice Genevet, Jean Dellinger, Romain Blanchard, Alan She

By analogy to the three dimensional optical bottle beam, we introduce the plasmonic bottle beam: a two dimensional surface wave which features a lattice of plasmonic bottles, i.e. alternating regions of bright focii surrounded by low intensities. The two-dimensional bottle beam is created by the interference of a non-diffracting beam, a cosine-Gaussian beam,

Salvador Gigena

Two are the main objectives of this article: first, we introduce a method for determining and analyzing constrained local extrema that provides a different alternative to all previous works on the topic, by eliminating Lagrange multipliers and reducing constrained problems to unconstrained ones; Second, we also develop another method for analyzing and determ

Henricus Bouwmeester

The current computer architecture has moved towards the multi/many-core structure. However, the algorithms in the current sequential dense numerical linear algebra libraries (e.g. LAPACK) do not parallelize well on multi/many-core architectures. A new family of algorithms, the tile algorithms, has recently been introduced to circumvent this problem. Previous

Per Hägg, Bo Wahlberg

This paper considers optimal input design when the intended use of the identified model is to construct a feed-forward controller based on measurable disturbances. The objective is to find a minimum power excitation signal to be used in system identification experiment, such that the corresponding model-based feed-forward controller guarantees, with a given

Ed Blakey

In three spatial dimensions, communication channels are free to pass over or under each other so as to cross without intersecting; in two dimensions, assuming channels of strictly positive thickness, this is not the case. It is natural, then, to ask whether one can, in a suitable, two-dimensional model, cross two channels in such a way that each successfully

Dmitry Kazantsev

The apertureless SNOM mapping of the slightly-doped 4H-SiC epitaxial layer grown on a heavily-doped 4H-SiC substrate was performed with a cleaved edge geometry. ASNOM images taken at the light frequencies of a $C^{13}O_{2}^{16}$ laser show a clear contrast between the substrate and the epitaxial layer. The contrast vanishes at the laser frequency of $884cm^{

Orhan Gurgun, Sait Halicioglu, Abdullah Harmanci

An element $a$ of a ring $R$ is called \emph{quasipolar} provided that there exists an idempotent $p\in R$ such that $p\in comm^2(a)$, $a+p\in U(R)$ and $ap\in R^{qnil}$. A ring $R$ is \emph{quasipolar} in case every element in $R$ is quasipolar. In this paper, we investigate quasipolarity of generalized matrix rings $K_s (R)$ for a commutative local ring $R

D. Benzeggouta, I. Vickridge

This handook is intended as a resource for scientists who use Ion Beam Analysis (IBA), to help them understand and minimise beam damage induced during the analysis. The basic physics of ion-matter interactions, from the perspectve of damage induced by the beam during Ion Beam Analysis, is presented at a level suitable for post-graduate students. The specific

Peter Hines

The role of types in categorical models of meaning is investigated. A general scheme for how typed models of meaning may be used to compare sentences, regardless of their grammatical structure is described, and a toy example is used as an illustration. Taking as a starting point the question of whether the evaluation of such a type system &#39;loses informat

Takahiro Misawa, Junki Yoshitake, Yukitoshi Motome

The possibility of charge order is theoretically examined for the Kondo lattice model in two dimensions, which does not include bare repulsive interactions. Using two complementary numerical methods, we find that charge order appears at quarter filling in an intermediate Kondo coupling region. The charge ordered ground state is an insulator exhibiting an ant

Massimo Lauria, Pavel Pudlák, Vojtěch Rödl, Neil Thapen

We say that a graph with $n$ vertices is $c$-Ramsey if it does not contain either a clique or an independent set of size $c \log n$. We define a CNF formula which expresses this property for a graph $G$. We show a superpolynomial lower bound on the length of resolution proofs that $G$ is $c$-Ramsey, for every graph $G$. Our proof makes use of the fact that e

Uma Sawant, Soumen Chakrabarti

We focus on two research issues in entity search: scoring a document or snippet that potentially supports a candidate entity, and aggregating scores from different snippets into an entity score. Proximity scoring has been studied in IR outside the scope of entity search. However, aggregation has been hardwired except in a few cases where probabilistic langua

Micha Nixon, Ori Katz, Eran Small, Yaron Bromberg

Focusing light through dynamically varying heterogeneous media is a sought-after goal with important applications ranging from free-space communication to nano-surgery. The underlying challenge is to control the optical wavefront with a large number of degrees-of-freedom (DOF) at timescales shorter than the medium dynamics. Recently, many advancements have b

Jorge J. Betancor, Alejandro J. Castro, Lourdes Rodriguez-Mesa

In this paper we consider square functions (also called Littlewood-Paley g-functions) associated to Hankel convolutions acting on functions in the Bochner-Lebesgue space $L^p((0,\infty),B)$, where $B$ is a UMD Banach space. As special cases we study square functions defined by fractional derivatives of the Poisson semigroup for the Bessel operator $Δ_λ=-x^{-

James B. Wilson

New nilpotent series are produced that refine the usual nilpotent series of a group. These refinements can be arbitrarily longer than the series they refine and therefore clarify in greater detail the structure of automorphisms of nilpotent groups. Examples, properties, and an application to group-isomorphism testing are provided.

Bruno Brandoli Machado, Wesley Nunes Gonçalves, Odemir Martinez Bruno

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for texture analysis based on artificial crawler model. Our method assumes that each agent can interact with the environment and each other. The evolution process converges to an equilibrium state according to the set of rules. For each textured image, the feature vector is composed by signatures of the live agents

Younes Ezzahri, Karl Joulain

The paper discusses the fundamental behavior of the dynamical lattice thermal conductivity k(W) of bulk cubic semiconductor crystals. The calculation approach is based on solving Boltzmann-Peierls Phonon Transport Equation in the frequency domain after excitation by a dynamical temperature gradient, within the framework of the single relaxation time approxim

E. V. Bugaev, P. A. Klimai

We consider the early Universe scenario which allows for production of non-Gaussian curvature perturbations at small scales. We study the peculiarities of a formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) connected with the non-Gaussianity. In particular, we show that PBH constraints on the values of curvature perturbation power spectrum amplitude are strongly de

A. P. L. Robinson, H. Schmitz

The elliptical magnetic mirror scheme for guiding fast electrons for Fast Ignition proposed by Schmitz (H.Schmitz et al., {\it Plasma Phys.Control.Fusion},{\bf 54} 085016 (2012)) is studied for conditions on the multi-kJ scale which are much closer to full-scale Fast Ignition. When scaled up, the elliptical mirror scheme is still highly beneficial to Fast Ig

Dorottya Szécsi, Zsolt Bagoly, József Kóbori, Lajos G. Balázs

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detects gamma-rays in the energy range 8 keV - 40 MeV. We developed a new background fitting process of these data, based on the motion of the satellite. Here we summarize this method, called Direction Dependent Background Fitting (DDBF), regarding the GBM triggered catalog. We also give some preliminary results and co

Diana A. Gradinar, Marcin Mucha-Kruczyński, Henning Schomerus, Vladimir I. Fal&#39;ko

In inhomogeneously strained graphene, low-energy electrons experience a valley-antisymmetric pseudo-magnetic field which leads to the formation of localized states at the edge between the valence and conduction bands, understood in terms of peculiar n=0 pseudo-magnetic Landau levels. Here we show that such states can manifest themselves as an isolated quadru

Ahmed Roman, Debanjan Dasgupta, Michel Pleimling

In order to better understand the interplay of partnership and competition in population dynamics we study a family of generalized May-Leonard models with $N$ species. These models have a very rich structure, characterized by different types of space-time patterns. Interesting partnership formations emerge following the maxim that &#34;the enemy of my enemy

Michel Gaudin, Ugo Moschella

We present a new class of elliptic-like strings on two-dimensional manifolds of constant curvature. Our solutions are related to a class of identities between Jacobi theta functions and to the geometry of the lightcone in one (spacelike) dimension more.

S. Frey, Z. Paragi, K. E. Gabanyi, T. An

Context. Blazars are powerful active galactic nuclei (AGNs) radiating prominently in the whole electromagnetic spectrum, from the radio to the X-ray and gamma-ray bands. Their emission is dominated by synchrotron and inverse-Compton radiation from a relativistic jet originating from an accreting central supermassive black hole. The object IGR J12319-0749 has

Hugo Boujut, Vincent Buso, Guillaume Bourmaud, Jenny Benois-Pineau

Egocentric vision technology consists in capturing the actions of persons from their own visual point of view using wearable camera sensors. We apply this new paradigm to instrumental activities monitoring with the objective of providing new tools for the clinical evaluation of the impact of the disease on persons with dementia. In this paper, we introduce t

Shilei Wang

This work&#39;s purpose is to understand the dynamics of limit order books in order-driven markets. We try to illustrate a dynamical trading mechanism attached to the microstructure of limit order markets. We capture the iterative nature of trading processes, which is critical in the dynamics of bid-ask pairs and the switching laws between different traders&

Florian Rodler, Martin Kürster, John R. Barnes

With time-series spectroscopic observations taken with the Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC) at Keck II, we investigated the atmosphere of the close orbiting transiting extrasolar giant planet, HD 189733b. In particular, we intended to measure the dense absorption line forest around 2.3 micron, which is produced by carbon monoxide (CO). CO is expected to

Andrea Marini, Fabio Biancalana

We study the interband self-induced transmission of surface plasmon polaritons in a gold film surrounded by an external Kerr medium. We model the optical propagation by using a version of the generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation for the field envelope coupled to Bloch equations for valence electrons of gold, predicting self-induced transparency of ultr

I. T. Drummond

By means of simple models in a flat spacetime manifold we examine some of the issues that arise when quantizing interacting quantum fields in multi-metric backgrounds. In particular we investigate the maintenance of a causal structure in the models. In this context we introduce and explain the relevance of an interpolating metric that is a superposition of t

Feng Qi, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Wen-Hui Li

In the paper, the authors show that the weighted geometric mean and the logarithmic mean are Bernstein functions and establish integral representations of these means by Cauchy&#39;s integral theorem in the theory of complex functions.

Shuxi Dai, Dianbo Zhang, Qing Shi, Xiao Han

Three-dimensional hierarchical ZnO films with lotus-leaf-like micro/nano structures were successfully fabricated via a biomimetic route combining sol-gel technique, soft lithography and hydrothermal treatments. PDMS mold replicated from a fresh lotus leaf was used to imprint microscale pillar structures directly into a ZnO sol film. Hierarchical ZnO micro/na

Hakim Boumaza, Laurent Marin

A scattering zipper is a system obtained by concatenation of scattering events with equal even number of incoming and out going channels. The associated scattering zipper operator is the unitary equivalent of Jacobi matrices with matrix entries. For infinite identical events and random phases, Lyapunov exponents positivity is proved and yields to the absence

Daniele Coslovich, Atsushi Ikeda

We study through integral equation theory and numerical simulations the structure and dynamics of fluids composed of ultrasoft, nearly Gaussian particles. Namely, we explore the fluid phase diagram of a model in which particles interact via the generalized exponential potential u(r)=εexp[-(r/σ)^n], with a softness exponent n slightly larger than 2. In additi

A. Trokiner, S. Verkhovskii, A. Gerashenko, Z. Volkova

The Mn spin correlations were studied near the O&#39;-O phase transition at T{JT} = 750 K, up to 950 K with 17O and 139La NMR in a stoichiometric LaMnO3 crystalline sample. The measured local hyperfine fields originate from the electron density transfered from the eg- and t2g-orbitals to the 2s(O) and 6s(La) orbits, respectively. By probing the oxygen nuclei

Jesus Arnau, Alberto Rico-Alvariño, Carlos Mosquera

Adapting the transmission rate in an LMS channel is a challenging task because of the relatively fast time variations, of the long delays involved, and of the difficulty in mapping the parameters of a time-varying channel into communication performance. In this paper, we propose two strategies for dealing with these impairments, namely, multi-layer coding (M

Michał Włodarczyk, Tomasz Lipniacki, Michał Komorowski

The ability to represent intracellular biochemical dynamics via deterministic and stochastic modelling is one of the crucial components to move biological sciences in the observe-predict-control-design knowledge ladder. Compared to the engineering or physics problems, dynamical models in quantitative biology typically dependent on a relatively large number o

Ahmad Y. Al-Dweik, M. T. Mustafa, Raed A. Mara&#39;beh, F. M. Mahomed

An alternative proof of Lie&#39;s approach for linearization of scalar second order ODEs is derived using the relationship between $λ$-symmetries and first integrals. This relation further leads to a new $λ$-symmetry linearization criteria for second order ODEs which provides a new approach for constructing the linearization transformations with lower comple

W. Domainko, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, F. Feng

Nearby gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are likely to have represented a significant threat to life on the Earth. Recent observations suggest that a significant source of such bursts is compact binary mergers in globular clusters. This link between globular clusters and GRBs offers the possibility to find time intervals in the past with higher probabilities of a near

Todor Milanov

K. Saito&#39;s theory of primitive forms gives a natural semi-simple Frobenius manifold structure on the space of miniversal deformations of an isolated singularity. On the other hand, Givental introduced the notion of a total ancestor potential for every semi-simple point of a Frobenius manifold and conjectured that in the settings of singularity theory his

Eduard Nigsch

We develop the diffeomorphism invariant Colombeau-type algebra of nonlinear generalized functions in a modern and compact way. Using a unifying formalism for the local setting and on manifolds, the construction becomes simpler and more accessible than previously in the literature.

Myung Gil Kang, Wan Choi

We propose new ergodic interference alignment techniques for $K$-user interference channels with delayed feedback. Two delayed feedback scenarios are considered -- delayed channel information at transmitter (CIT) and delayed output feedback. It is proved that the proposed techniques achieve total $2K/(K+2)$ DoF which is higher than that by the retrospective

Eugeniusz Dymek

For each irrational $α\in[0,1)$ we construct a continuous function $f\: [0,1)\to \R$ such that the corresponding cylindrical transformation $[0,1)\times\R \ni (x,t) \mapsto (x+α, t+ f(x)) \in [0,1)\times\R$ is transitive and the Hausdorff dimension of the set of points whose orbits are discrete is 2. Such cylindrical transformations are shown to display a ce

R. Brasser, A. Morbidelli

One of the outstanding problems of the dynamical evolution of the outer solar system concerns the observed population ratio between the Oort Cloud (OC) and the Scattered Disc (SD): observations suggest that this ratio lies between 100 and 1000 but simulations that produce these two reservoirs simultaneously consistently yield a value of the order of 10. Here

Sanjib Jana, Chethan Krishnan

We generalize the results of arXiv:1212.1875 and arXiv:1212.6919 on attraction basins and their boundaries to the case of a specific class of rotating black holes, namely the ergo-free branch of extremal black holes in Kaluza-Klein theory. We find that exact solutions that span the attraction basin can be found even in the rotating case by appealing to certa

Davoud Mirzaei, Robert Schaback

The Meshless Local Petrov{Galerkin (MLPG) method is one of the popular meshless methods that has been used very successfully to solve several types of boundary value problems since the late nineties. In this paper, using a generalized moving least squares (GMLS) approximation, a new direct MLPG technique, called DMLPG, is presented. Following the principle o

The Tibet AsγCollaboration

A hybrid experiment has been started by ASγ collaboration at Tibet, China, since May 2009, that consists of a burst-detector-grid (YAC, Yangbajing Air shower Core array) and the Tibet air-shower array (Tibet-III). The first step of YAC, called YAC-I, contains 16 detector units and observes high energy electromagnetic particles in air-shower cores within seve

The Tibet AsγCollaboration

We are now operating the 500 m2 Yangbajing air-shower core (YAC-II) array near the center of the Tibet air-shower array (Tibet-III) to observe cosmic-ray chemical composition at the knee energy region since February 2011. The first step of YAC, called YAC-I, containing 16 detector units, was operated from May, 2009 to February, 2010. In this paper, we used t

Mallikarjun Hangarge, K. C. Santosh, Srikanth Doddamani, Rajmohan Pardeshi

In this paper, we use statistical texture features for handwritten and printed text classification. We primarily aim for word level classification in south Indian scripts. Words are first extracted from the scanned document. For each extracted word, statistical texture features are computed such as mean, standard deviation, smoothness, moment, uniformity, en

E. Sampathkumar, M. A. Sriraj, Thomas Zaslavsky

An edge uv in a graph Γ is directionally 2-signed (or, (2,d)-signed) by an ordered pair (a,b), a,b in {+,-}, if the label l(uv) = (a,b) from u to v, and l(vu) = (b,a) from v to u. Directionally 2-signed graphs are equivalent to bidirected graphs, where each end of an edge has a sign. A bidirected graph implies a signed graph, where each edge has a sign. We e

Thomas Zaslavsky

I discuss the work of many authors on various matrices used to study signed graphs, concentrating on adjacency and incidence matrices and the closely related topics of Kirchhoff (`Laplacian&#39;) matrices, line graphs, and very strong regularity.

A. M. Mathai, Thomas Zaslavsky

This paper deals with adjacency matrices of signed cycle graphs and chemical descriptors based on them. The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrices are calculated and their efficacy in classifying different signed cycles is determined. The efficacy of some numerical indices is also examined.

Angel Ballesteros, Francisco J. Herranz, Catherine Meusburger

All possible Drinfel&#39;d double structures for the anti-de Sitter Lie algebra so(2,2) and de Sitter Lie algebra so(3,1) in (2+1)-dimensions are explicitly constructed and analysed in terms of a kinematical basis adapted to (2+1)-gravity. Each of these structures provides in a canonical way a pairing among the (anti-)de Sitter generators, as well as a speci

Xiaoling Lei, Wenpeng Qi, Haiping Fang

The local mechanical properties of DNA are believed to play an important role in their biological functions and DNA-based nanomechanical devices. Using a simple sphere-tip compression system, the local radial mechanical properties of DNA are systematically studied by changing the tip size. The compression simulation results for the 16 nm diameter sphere tip

Renaud Gauthier

We consider the origins of Higher Tannaka duality, as well as it consequences. In a first time we review the work of J. Wallbridge on that subject, which shows in particular that Hopf algebras are essential to generating Tannakian infinity-categories. While doing so we provide an analysis of what it means for Higher Tannaka to be a reconstruction program for

Zhaodan Kong, Kayhan Özcimder, Nathan Fuller, Alison Greco

The movements of birds, bats, and other flying species are governed by complex sensorimotor systems that allow the animals to react to stationary environmental features as well as to wind disturbances, other animals in nearby airspace, and a wide variety of unexpected challenges. The paper and talk will describe research that analyzes the three-dimensional t

S. Kumar, R. Sehgal, P. Singh, Ankit Chaudhary

The numbers of the botnet attacks are increasing day by day and the detection of botnet spreading in the network has become very challenging. Bots are having specific characteristics in comparison of normal malware as they are controlled by the remote master server and usually dont show their behavior like normal malware until they dont receive any command f

Simeon Hanks, Trinanjan Datta, Jaan Oitmaa

The critical behavior of the 1/5-depleted square-lattice Ising model with nearest neighbor ferromagnetic interaction has been investigated by means of both an exact solution and a high-temperature series expansion study of the zero-field susceptibility. For the exact solution we employ a decoration transformation followed by a mapping to a staggered 8-vertex

Chuan Kai Kenneth. Lim, T. Prodromakis

Computing the relative motion of objects is an important navigation task that we routinely perform by relying on inherently unreliable biological cells in the retina. The non-linear and adaptive response of memristive devices make them excellent building blocks for realizing complex synaptic-like architectures that are common in the human retina. Here, we in

Cody Jones

Fourier states are multi-qubit registers that facilitate phase rotations in fault-tolerant quantum computing. We propose distillation protocols for constructing the fundamental, $n$-qubit Fourier state with error $O(2^{-n})$ at a cost of $O(n \log n)$ Toffoli gates and Clifford gates, or any arbitrary Fourier state using $O(n^2)$ gates. We analyze these prot

Dai Shaoyu, Pan Yifei

In this paper we prove a Schwarz-Pick lemma for bounded complex-valued harmonic functions in the unit ball of R^n.

Nikolaos Halidias

In this paper we propose a new numerical method for solving stochastic differential equations (SDEs). As an application of this method we propose an explicit numerical scheme for a super linear SDE for which the usual Euler scheme diverges.

Bohdan Maslowski, Petr Veverka

In this article, the sufficient Pontryagin&#39;s maximum principle for infinite horizon discounted stochastic control problem is established. The sufficiency is ensured by an additional assumption of concavity of the Hamiltonian function. Throughout the paper, it is assumed that the control domain U is a convex set and the control may enter the diffusion ter

Guangwei Si, Min Tang, Xu Yang

A pathway-based mean-field theory (PBMFT) was recently proposed for E. coli chemotaxis in [G. Si, T. Wu, Q. Quyang and Y. Tu, Phys. Rev. Lett., 109 (2012), 048101]. In this paper, we derived a new moment system of PBMFT by using the moment closure technique in kinetic theory under the assumption that the methylation level is locally concentrated. The new sys

Yenting Lin, Antonio Ortega

We consider travel time tomography problems involving detection of high contrast, discrete high velocity structures. This results in a discrete nonlinear inverse problem, for which traditional grid-based models and iterative linearized least-squares reconstruction algorithms are not suitable. This is because travel paths change significantly near the high co

Joyce Byun, Rachel Bean

A detection of primordial non-Gaussianity could transform our understanding of the fundamental theory of inflation. The precision promised by upcoming CMB and large-scale structure surveys raises a natural question: if a detection given a particular template is made, what does this truly tell us about the underlying theory? In this paper we present a systema

Miguel A. Barja

We give a sharp lower bound for the selfintersection of a nef line bundle $L$ on an irregular variety $X$ in terms of its continuous global sections and the Albanese dimension of $X$, which we call the Generalized Clifford-Severi inequality. We also extend the result to nef vector bundles and give a slope inequality for fibred irregular varieties. As a bypro

J. Maciejko, B. Hsu, S. A. Kivelson, YeJe Park

The topological physics of quantum Hall states is efficiently encoded in purely topological quantum field theories of the Chern-Simons type. The reliable inclusion of low-energy dynamical properties in a continuum description however typically requires proximity to a quantum critical point. We construct a field theory that describes the quantum transition fr

Tao Han, Zhen Liu, Aravind Natarajan

We investigate dark matter (DM) in the context of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (MSSM). We scan through the MSSM parameter space and search for solutions that (a) are consistent with the Higgs discovery and other collider searches; (b) satisfy the flavor constraints from $B$ physics; (c) give a DM candidate with the correct therm

Ilya Karzhemanov

The main object of study of the present paper is the group $\au_n$ of \emph{unimodular automorphisms} of $\com^n$. Taking $\au_n$ as a working example, our intention was to develop an approach (or rather an edifice) which allows one to prove, for instance, the non-simplicity of $\au_n$ for all $n \geq 3$. More systematic and, perhaps, general exposition will

Paolo Antonelli, Rémi Carles, Christof Sparber

We consider equations of nonlinear Schrodinger type augmented by nonlinear damping terms. We show that nonlinear damping prevents finite time blow-up in several situations, which we describe. We also prove that the presence of a quadratic confinement in all spatial directions drives the solution of our model to zero for large time. In the case without extern

Fabien Priziac

We show the existence of an equivariant weight filtration on the equivariant homology of real algebraic varieties equipped with a finite group action, by applying group homology onto the weight complex of McCrory and Parusiński. The group action enriches the information contained in the induced equivariant weight spectral sequence from which we can not extra

M. Dubois, E. Bossy, S. Enoch, S. Guenneau

Flat lens concept based on negative refraction proposed by Veselago in 1968 has been mostly investigated in monochromatic regime. It was recently recognized that time development of the super-lensing effect discovered in 2000 by Pendry is yet to be assessed and may spring surprises: Time-dependent illumination could improve the spatial resolution of the focu

Zhenliang Zhang, Edwin K. P. Chong, Ali Pezeshki, William Moran

The problem of objectively choosing a string of actions to optimize an objective function that is string submodular has been considered in [1]. There it is shown that the greedy strategy, consisting of a string of actions that only locally maximizes the step-wise gain in the objective function achieves at least a (1-e^{-1})-approximation to the optimal strat

Marcin Lis

We show that the critical Kac-Ward operator on isoradial graphs acts in a certain sense as the operator of s-holomorphicity, and we identify the fermionic observable for the spin Ising model as the inverse of this operator. This result is partially a consequence of a more general observation that the inverse Kac-Ward operator for any planar graph is given by

Samuel A. Isaacson, Jay Newby

The problem of the time required for a diffusing molecule, within a large bounded domain, to first locate a small target is prevalent in biological modeling. Here we study this problem for a small spherical target. We develop uniform in time asymptotic expansions in the target radius of the solution to the corresponding diffusion equation. Our approach is ba