April 2013 arXiv papers — page 18

Frank Nielsen

Nowadays, we are increasingly logging on many different Internet sites to access private data like emails or photos remotely stored in the clouds. This makes us all the more concerned with digital identity theft and passwords being stolen either by key loggers or shoulder-surfing attacks. Quite surprisingly, the current bottleneck of computer security when l

Huixing Fang, Huibiao Zhu, Jianqi Shi

We propose Apricot as an object-oriented language for modeling hybrid systems. The language combines the features in domain specific language and object-oriented language, that fills the gap between design and implementation, as a result, we put forward the modeling language with simple and distinct syntax, structure and semantics. In addition, we introduce

Zhang Yan-Xia, Zhou Xin-Lin, Zhao Yong-Heng, Wu Xue-Bing

Cross-correlating the XMM-Newton 2XMMi-DR3 catalog with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 8, we obtain one of the largest X-ray/optical catalogs and explore the distribution of various classes of X-ray emitters in the multidimensional photometric parameter space. Quasars and galaxies occupy different zones while stars scatter in them. However,

Z. Tibai, Gy. Tóth, M. I. Mechler, J. A. Fülöp

A robust method for producing half-cycle - few-cycle pulses in mid-infrared to extreme ultraviolet spectral ranges is proposed. It is based on coherent undulator radiation of relativistic ultrathin electron layers, which are produced by microbunching of ultrashort electron bunches by a TW power laser in a modulator undulator. According to our numerical calcu

Benjamin Weiß, Federico Centarti, Felix Schmitt, Stephen Straub

Runway incursions are among the most serious safety concerns in air traffic control. Traditional A-SMGCS level 2 safety systems detect runway incursions with the help of surveillance information only. In the context of SESAR, complementary safety systems are emerging that also use other information in addition to surveillance, and that aim at warning about p

Hao Li, Aimin Wu, Wei Li, Xulin Lin

We report the observation of a large-angle self-collimation phenomenon occurring in photonic crystals composed of nanorods. Electromagnetic waves incident onto such photonic crystals from directions covering a wide-range of incident angles become highly localized along a single array of rods, which results in narrow-beam propagation without divergence. A pro

Hongxing Li, Chuan Wu, Zongpeng Li, Francis C. M. Lau

By sharing resources among different cloud providers, the paradigm of federated clouds exploits temporal availability of resources and geographical diversity of operational costs for efficient job service. While interoperability issues across different cloud platforms in a cloud federation have been extensively studied, fundamental questions on cloud economi

Anthony Moraghan, Jongsoo Kim, Suk-Jin Yoon

Protostellar jets and outflows are signatures of star formation and promising mechanisms for driving supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds. We quantify outflow-driven turbulence through three-dimensional numerical simulations using an isothermal version of the robust total variation diminishing code. We drive turbulence in real-space using a simplified s

François Baccelli, Fabien Mathieu, Ilkka Norros, Rémi Varloot

We propose a new model for peer-to-peer networking which takes the network bottlenecks into account beyond the access. This model can cope with key features of P2P networking like degree or locality constraints together with the fact that distant peers often have a smaller rate than nearby peers. Using a network model based on rate functions, we give a close

Ashutosh Lanjewar, Neelesh Gupta

AODV is Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector.A mobile ad-hoc network is a self-configuring network of mobile devices connected by wireless. MANET does not have any fixed infrastructure. The device in a MANET is free to move in any direction and will form the connection as per the requirement of the network. Due to changing topology maintenance of factors like Pa

Lin Mu, Junping Wang, Xiu Ye

The novel idea of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods is on the use of weak functions and their weak derivatives defined as distributions. Weak functions and weak derivatives can be approximated by polynomials with various degrees. Different combination of polynomial spaces leads to different weak Galerkin finite element methods, which makes WG methods

Yining Wang, Liwei Wang, Yuanzhi Li, Di He

A central problem in ranking is to design a ranking measure for evaluation of ranking functions. In this paper we study, from a theoretical perspective, the widely used Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG)-type ranking measures. Although there are extensive empirical studies of NDCG, little is known about its theoretical properties. We first show tha

Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán, Weiran Wang

Many clustering algorithms exist that estimate a cluster centroid, such as K-means, K-medoids or mean-shift, but no algorithm seems to exist that clusters data by returning exactly K meaningful modes. We propose a natural definition of a K-modes objective function by combining the notions of density and cluster assignment. The algorithm becomes K-means and K

Noah M. Daniels

Given the amino acid sequence of a protein, researchers often infer its structure and function by finding homologous, or evolutionarily-related, proteins of known structure and function. Since structure is typically more conserved than sequence over long evolutionary distances, recognizing remote protein homologs from their sequence poses a challenge. We fir

Keke Zu, Rodrigo C. de Lamare, Martin Haardt

Low-complexity precoding {algorithms} are proposed in this work to reduce the computational complexity and improve the performance of regularized block diagonalization (RBD) {based} precoding {schemes} for large multi-user {MIMO} (MU-MIMO) systems. The proposed algorithms are based on a channel inversion technique, QR decompositions{,} and lattice reductions

Keke Zu, Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Lattice reduction (LR) aided multiple-input-multiple-out (MIMO) linear detection can achieve the maximum receive diversity of the maximum likelihood detection (MLD). By emloying the most commonly used Lenstra, Lenstra, and L. Lovasz (LLL) algorithm, an equivalent channel matrix which is shorter and nearly orthogonal is obtained. And thus the noise enhancemen

Nick Thomas

We augment LP with a strong conditional operator, to yield a logic we call "strong LP," or LP=>. The resulting logic can speak of consistency in more discriminating ways, but introduces new possibilities for trivializing paradoxes.

Chen Yaojun, Miao Zhengke, Zhou Guofei

For two given graphs $G$ and $H$ the planar Ramsey number $PR(G,H)$ is the smallest integer $n$ such that every planar graph $F$ on $n$ vertices either contains a copy of $G$, or its complement contains a copy of $H$. In this paper, we first characterize some structural properties of $C_4$-free planar graphs, and then we determine all planar Ramsey numbers $

Qingqiong Cai, Xueliang Li, Jiangli Song

For a simple digraph $G$ of order $n$ with vertex set $\{v_1,v_2,\ldots, v_n\}$, let $d_i^+$ and $d_i^-$ denote the out-degree and in-degree of a vertex $v_i$ in $G$, respectively. Let $D^+(G)=diag(d_1^+,d_2^+,\ldots,d_n^+)$ and $D^-(G)=diag(d_1^-,d_2^-,\ldots,d_n^-)$. In this paper we introduce $\widetilde{SL}(G)=\widetilde{D}(G)-S(G)$ to be a new kind of s

H. K. Mak, P. Burger, L. Cevey, T. Wolf

In cuprate high-temperature superconductors the small coherence lengths and high transition termperatures result in strong thermal fluctuations, which render the superconducting transition in applied magnetic fields into a wide continuous crossover. A state with zero resistance is found only below the vortex melting transition, which occurs well below the on

Ed Reznik, Alex Watson, Osman Chaudhary

Efforts to catalogue the structure of metabolic networks have generated highly detailed, genome-scale atlases of biochemical reactions in the cell. Unfortunately, these atlases fall short of capturing the kinetic details of metabolic reactions, instead offering only \textit{topological} information from which to make predictions. As a result, studies frequen

G. Bouza Allende, M. L. N. Goncalves

In this paper, the proximal Gauss-Newton method for solving penalized nonlinear least squares problems is studied. A local convergence analysis is obtained under the assumption that the derivative of the function associated with the penalized least square problem satisfies a majorant condition. Our analysis provides a clear relationship between the majorant

Vincent Lariviere, George A. Lozano, Yves Gingras

Previous work indicates that over the past 20 years, the highest quality work have been published in an increasingly diverse and larger group of journals. In this paper we examine whether this diversification has also affected the handful of elite journals that are traditionally considered to be the best. We examine citation patterns over the past 40 years o

Florian Beyer, Georgios Doulis, Jörg Frauendiener, Ben Whale

The linearised general conformal field equations in their first and second order form are used to study the behaviour of the spin-2 zero-rest-mass equation on Minkowski background in the vicinity of space-like infinity.

Jonathan Korman, Robert J. McCann

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were established in \cite{KM11}. In the present manuscript, we expose an unexpected symmetry leading to the first explicit examples

Chao-Xing Liu

The gapless surface Dirac cone of time reversal invariant topological insulators is protected by time reversal symmetry due to the Kramers' theorem. Spin degree of freedom is usually required since Kramers' theorem only guarantees double degeneracy for spinful fermions, but not for spinless fermions. In this paper, we present an antiferromagnetic spi

German Fonseca, Guillermo Rodriguez-Blanco, Wilson Sandoval

We consider the initial value problem associated to the regularized Benjamin-Ono equation, rBO. Our aim is to establish local and global well-posedness results in weighted Sobolev spaces via contraction principle. We also prove a unique continuation property that implies that arbitrary polinomial type decay is not preserved yielding sharp results regarding w

S. Hikino, S. Yunoki

We theoretically study spin current through ferromagnet (F) in a Josephson junction composed of s-wave superconductors and two layers of ferromagnets. Using quasiclassical theory, we show that the long-range spin current can be driven by the superconducting phase difference without voltage drop. The origin of this spin current is due to spin-triplet Cooper p

Wing-Kai Hon, Ton Kloks, Hsiang Hsuan Liu, Sheung-Hung Poon

Let G be a graph. The independence-domination number is the maximum over all independent sets I in G of the minimal number of vertices needed to dominate I. In this paper we investigate the computational complexity of independence domination for graphs in several graph classes related to cographs. We present an exact exponential algorithm. We also present a

Spyros Alexakis, Dezhong Chen, Grigorios Fournodavlos

We introduce certain spherically symmetric singular Ricci solitons and study their stability under the Ricci flow from a dynamical PDE point of view. The solitons in question exist for all dimensions $n+1\ge 3$, and all have a point singularity where the curvature blows up; their evolution under the Ricci flow is in sharp contrast to the evolution of their s

Jim Geelen, Rohan Kapadia

We prove that if M is a vertically 4-connected matroid with a modular flat X of rank at least three, then every representation of M | X over a finite field F extends to a unique F-representation of M. A corollary is that when F has order q, any vertically 4-connected matroid with a PG(2, F)-restriction is either F-representable or has a U_{2, q^2+1}-minor. W

Hyun Kyu Lee, Mannque Rho

We discuss the role of dilaton, which is supposed to be representing a special feature of scale symmetry of QCD, trace anomaly, in dense baryonic matter. The idea that the scale symmetry breaking of QCD is responsible for the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry is presented along the similar spirit of Freund-Nambu model. The incorporation of dilaton fiel

Benedict Leimkuhler, Charles Matthews

A wide variety of numerical methods are evaluated and compared for solving the stochastic differential equations encountered in molecular dynamics. The methods are based on the application of deterministic impulses, drifts, and Brownian motions in some combination. The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff expansion is used to study sampling accuracy following recent wor

Max Hügel, Holger Rauhut, Thomas Strohmer

We consider the problem of detecting the locations of targets in the far field by sending probing signals from an antenna array and recording the reflected echoes. Drawing on key concepts from the area of compressive sensing, we use an $\ell_1$-based regularization approach to solve this, in general ill-posed, inverse scattering problem. As common in compres

Łukasz Kaczmarczyk, Tomasz Koziara, Chris J. Pearce

This paper presents theory for the Lagrange co-rotational (CR) formulation of finite elements in the geometrically nonlinear analysis of 3D structures. In this paper strains are assumed to be small while the magnitude of rotations from the reference configuration is not restricted. A new best fit rotator and consistent spin filter are derived. Lagrange CR fo

Suresh Eswarathasan, Iosif Polterovich, John A. Toth

The celebrated Hardy-Landau lower bound for the error term in the Gauss's circle problem can be viewed as an estimate from below for the remainder in Weyl's law on a square, with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. We prove an analogous estimate for smooth star-shaped planar domains admitting an appropriate one-parameter family of period

Wilfried Imrich, Simon M. Smith, Thomas W. Tucker, Mark E. Watkins

A group A acting faithfully on a set X is 2-distinguishable if there is a 2-coloring of X that is not preserved by any nonidentity element of A, equivalently, if there is a proper subset of X with trivial setwise stabilizer. The motion of an element a in A is the number of points of X that are moved by a, and the motion of the group A is the minimal motion o

Daniel Gonçalves, Charles Starling

In this note we extend results of Olli concerning limits of point measures arising from substitutions. We consider a general primitive substitution on a finite polygon set in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and show that limits of certain atomic measures each converge to Lebesgue measure.

J. M. Dias, F. S. Navarra, M. Nielsen, C. M. Zanetti

We identify the recently observed charmonium-like structure $Z_c^\pm(3900)$ as the charged partner of the X(3872) state. Using standard techniques of QCD sum rules, we evaluate the three-point function and extract the coupling constants of the $Z_c \, J/ψ\, π^+$ and $Z_c \, η_c \, ρ^+$ vertices and the corresponding decay widths in these channels. The good a

Henrique S. Xavier, Ravi R. Gupta, Masao Sako, Chris B. D'Andrea

We used the GMBCG galaxy cluster catalogue and SDSS-II supernovae data with redshifts measured by the BOSS project to identify 48 SNe Ia residing in rich galaxy clusters and compare their properties with 1015 SNe Ia in the field. Their light curves were parametrised by the SALT2 model and the significance of the observed differences was assessed by a resampl

A. Patruno, C. D'Angelo

The dynamics of the plasma in the inner regions of an accretion disk around accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars is controlled by the magnetic field of the neutron star. The interaction between an accretion disk and a strong magnetic field is not well-understood, particularly at low accretion rates (the so-called ``propeller regime'). This is due in part

Nir Sapir, Boaz Katz, Eli Waxman

The spectrum of radiation emitted following shock breakout from a star's surface with a power-law density profile $ρ\propto x^n$ is investigated. Assuming planar geometry, local Compton equilibrium and bremsstrahlung emission as the dominant photon production mechanism, numerical solutions are obtained for the photon number density and temperature profil

Manik Banik

In Bell scenario, any nonlocal correlation, shared between two spatially separated parties, can be modeled deterministically either by allowing communications between the two parties or by restricting their free will in choosing the measurement settings. Recently, Bell scenario has been generalized into `semi-quantum' scenario where external quantum inpu

Linus Wulff

The Green-Schwarz superstring action in a general type IIA or IIB supergravity background is derived up to fourth order in the Grassmann-odd coordinates theta. This is done by solving the superspace Bianchi identities order by order in theta, to quadratic order for all superfields and to quartic order for the supervielbeins. For a large class of backgrounds

Lisa Orloff Clark, Claire Flynn, Astrid an Huef

The Kumjian-Pask algebra of a higher-rank graph generalises the Leavitt path algebra of a directed graph. We extend the definition of Kumjian-Pask algebra to row-finite higher-rank graphs $Λ$ with sources which satisfy a local-convexity condition. After proving versions of the graded-uniqueness theorem and the Cuntz-Krieger uniqueness theorem, we study the K

Kerstin Nordstrom, Emily Lim, Matthew Harrington, Wolfgang Losert

We study the impact of a projectile onto a bed of 3 mm grains immersed in an index-matched fluid. Specifically, we vary the amount of prestrain on the sample, strengthening the force chains within the system. We find this affects only the prefactor of linear depth-dependent term in the stopping force. We therefore attribute this term to pressure within the m

Johannes M. Henn, Tobias Huber

Correlation functions of Wilson lines are relevant for describing the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. We develop a new method for evaluating a wide class of such Wilson line integrals, and apply it to the calculation of the velocity-dependent cusp anomalous dimension in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We compute the four-loop non-pla

Andrea Erdas, Kevin P. Seltzer

The zeta function regularization technique is used to study the finite temperature Casimir effect for a charged and massless scalar field confined between parallel plates and satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions at the plates. A magnetic field perpendicular to the plates is included. Three equivalent expressions for the zeta function are obtained, which

Eva G. Goedhart, Helen G. Grundman

We prove that the Diophantine equation N X^2 + 2^L 3^M = Y^N has no solutions (N,X,Y,L,M) in positive integers with N > 1 and gcd(NX,Y) = 1, generalizing results of Luca, Wang and Wang, and Luca and Soydan. Our proofs use results of Bilu, Hanrot, and Voutier on defective Lehmer pairs.

Anson D'Aloisio, Jun Zhang, Paul R. Shapiro, Yi Mao

(ABRIDGED)The rise of cosmic structure depends upon the statistical distribution of initial density fluctuations generated by inflation. While the simplest models predict an almost perfectly Gaussian distribution, more-general models predict a level of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) that observations might yet be sensitive enough to detect. Recent Planck C

M. Bochicchio, S. P. Muscinelli

We point out that perturbation theory in conjunction with the renormalization group (RG) puts a severe constraint on the structure of the large-N non-perturbative glueball propagators in SU(N) pure YM, in QCD and in n=1 SUSY QCD with massless quarks, or in any confining asymptotically-free gauge theory massless in perturbation theory. For the scalar and pseu

Raphael Bousso, Lawrence Hall

The densities of dark and baryonic matter are comparable: ζ= ρ_D / ρ_B ~ O(1). This is surprising because they are controlled by different combinations of low-energy physics parameters. Here we consider the probability distribution over ζin the landscape. We argue that the Why Comparable problem can be solved without detailed anthropic assumptions, and indep

Crystal L. Martin, Alice E. Shapley, Alison L. Coil, Katherine A. Kornei

Mapping Mg II resonance emission scattered by galactic winds offers a means to determine the spatial extent and density of the warm outflow. Using Keck/LRIS spectroscopy, we have resolved scattered Mg II emission to the east of 32016857, a star-forming galaxy at z =0.9392 with an outflow. The Mg II emission from this galaxy exhibits a P-Cygni profile, extend

E. Zackrisson, A. K. Inoue, H. Jensen

The fraction of ionizing photons (fesc) that escape from z>6 galaxies is an important parameter when assessing the role of these objects in the reionization of the Universe, but the opacity of the intergalactic medium precludes a direct measurement of fesc for individual galaxies at these epochs. We argue, that since fesc regulates the impact of nebular emis

Yao-Yuan Mao, Louis E. Strigari, Risa H. Wechsler

Several direct detection experiments, including recently CDMS-II, have reported signals consistent with 5 to 10 GeV dark matter (DM) that appear to be in tension with null results from XENON and LUX experiments; these indicate a careful review of the theoretical basis, including the galactic DM velocity distribution function (VDF). We establish a VDF paramet

Lingfei Wang, Anupam Mazumdar

In this paper we provide a prescription for obtaining a small non-Gaussianity and the observed dipole asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background radiation. The observations inevitably lead to multi-field inflationary dynamics, where each field can create positive or negative large non-Gaussianity, resulting a fine cancellation but with an observable imprin

Nicolas B. Cowan, Pablo A. Fuentes, Hal M. Haggard

[Abridged] Distant stars and planets will remain spatially unresolved for the foreseeable future. It is nonetheless possible to infer aspects of their brightness markings and viewing geometries by analyzing disk-integrated rotational and orbital brightness variations. We compute the harmonic lightcurves, F_l^m(t), resulting from spherical harmonic maps of in

James Guillochon, Haik Manukian, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

When a star comes within a critical distance to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), immense tidal forces disrupt the star, resulting in a stream of debris that falls back onto the SMBH and powers a luminous flare. In this paper, we perform hydrodynamical simulations of the disruption of a main-sequence star by a SMBH to characterize the evolution of the debris

Lucas Lombriser, Baojiu Li, Kazuya Koyama, Gong-Bo Zhao

On cosmological scales, observations of the cluster abundance currently place the strongest constraints on f(R) gravity. These constraints lie in the large-field limit, where the modifications of general relativity can correctly be modeled by setting the Compton wavelength of the scalar field to its background value. These bounds are, however, at the verge o

ATLAS collaboration

Using a sample of dilepton top-quark pair (ttbar) candidate events, a study is performed of the production of top-quark pairs together with heavy-flavor (HF) quarks, ttbar+b+X or ttbar+c+X, collectively referred to as ttbar+HF. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1 of proton--proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 Te

I. C. Jardim, R. R. Landim

In this work a study of the gravity is made using Einstein's equation in the post-Newtonian approach. This is a method to linearise the General Relativity indicated to treat non-relativistic objects. It enables us to construct, from metric-independent elements, fields that are governed by equations similar to the Maxwell's ones in Lorentz gauge. We p

Vanuildo S. de Carvalho, Hermann Freire

Motivated by a recent experimental observation of a nodal liquid on both single crystals and thin films of Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ by Chatterjee \emph{et al.} [Nature Physics \textbf{6}, 99 (2010)], we perform a field-theoretical renormalization group (RG) analysis of a two-dimensional model consisting of eight points located near the "hot spots&#3

Constantinos Panagiotakopoulos, Petroula Tsampouka

We reconsider the stochastic (sub)gradient approach to the unconstrained primal L1-SVM optimization. We observe that if the learning rate is inversely proportional to the number of steps, i.e., the number of times any training pattern is presented to the algorithm, the update rule may be transformed into the one of the classical perceptron with margin in whi

Štefan Sakáloš, Pavol Ševera

We modify the quantization of Etingof and Kazhdan so that it can be used to quantize quasi-Lie bialgebras.

Thibault Damour, Philippe Spindel

We study the quantum dynamics of a supersymmetric squashed three-sphere by dimensionally reducing (to one timelike dimension) the action of D=4 simple supergravity for an SO(3)-homogeneous (Bianchi IX) cosmological model. The quantization of the homogeneous gravitino field leads to a 64-dimensional fermionic Hilbert space. The algebra of the supersymmetry co

Dong-Woo Kim, Giuseppina Fabbiano

We have revisited the X-ray scaling relations of early type galaxies (ETG) by investigating, for the first time, the LX,Gas - MTotal relation in a sample of 14 ETGs. In contrast to the large scatter (by a factor of 102-103) in the LX,Total - LB relation, we found a tight correlation between these physically motivated quantities with a rms deviation of a fact

A. W. Carr, M. Saffman

We propose and analyze an approach for preparation of high fidelity entanglement and antiferromagnetic states using Rydberg mediated interactions with dissipation. Using asymmetric Rydberg interactions the two-atom Bell singlet is a dark state of the Rydberg pumping process. Master equation simulations demonstrate Bell singlet preparation fidelity $\mcF=0.99

Christopher Braun, Andrey Lazarev

We define and study the degeneration property for BV-infinity algebras and show that it implies that the underlying L-infinity algebras are homotopy abelian. The proof is based on a generalisation of the well-known identity Δ(e^x)=e^x(Δ(x)+[x,x]/2) which holds in all BV algebras. As an application we show that the higher Koszul brackets on the cohomology of

Dirk Hennig

We investigate the existence of spatially localised solutions, in the form of discrete breathers, in general damped and driven nonlinear lattice systems of coupled oscillators. Conditions for the exponential decay of the difference between the maximal and minimal amplitudes of the oscillators are provided which proves that initial non-uniform spatial pattern

Aleksey Zinger

We provide a thorough construction of a system of compatible determinant line bundles over spaces of Fredholm operators, fully verify that this system satisfies a number of important properties, and include explicit formulas for all relevant isomorphisms between these line bundles. We also completely describe all possible systems of compatible determinant li

Andrew W. Smith, Ralph Bird, James Buckley, Karen Byrum

In this white paper, submitted as a part of Snowmass 2013 (subgroup CF2), we examine the current status and future prospects of the VERITAS indirect dark matter detection program. The VERITAS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), sensitive in the 0.1-50 TeV regime, is in the process of completing a multi-year program aimed at detecting s

Takuya Kakuda, Kenji Nishiwaki, Kin-ya Oda, Naoya Okuda

We show two types of bounds on five- and six-demensional universal extra dimension (UED) models from the latest results of the Higgs search at the LHC and of the electroweak precision data for the S and T parameters. The UED models on which we put lower bounds are the minimal UED model in five dimensions and the six dimensional ones. The highest possible ult

Maxim Fioshin

The paper illustrates an application of the Resampling approach [2] for the estimation of the aircraft circulation plan reliability. Resampling is an intensive computer statistical method, which can be used effectively in the case of small samples. Algorithm of the Resampling method for the given task is illustrated and variance of obtained estimators is cal

A. I. Lebedev, I. A. Sluchinskaya

Phonon spectrum of cubic barium zirconate is calculated from first principles using the density functional theory. Unstable phonon mode with the $R_{25}$ symmetry in the phonon spectrum indicates an instability of the cubic structure with respect to rotations of the oxygen octahedra. It is shown that the ground-state structure of the crystal is $I4/mcm$. In

Tobias Holck Colding, Tom Ilmanen, William P. Minicozzi

Shrinkers are special solutions of mean curvature flow (MCF) that evolve by rescaling and model the singularities. While there are infinitely many in each dimension, [CM1] showed that the only generic are round cylinders $\SS^k\times \RR^{n-k}$. We prove here that round cylinders are rigid in a very strong sense. Namely, any other shrinker that is sufficient

Zoltán Keresztes, László Á. Gergely, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Vittorio Gorini

We investigate particular cosmological models, based either on tachyon fields or on perfect fluids, for which soft future singularities arise in a natural way. Our main result is the description of a smooth crossing of the soft singularity in models with an anti-Chaplygin gas or with a particular tachyon field in the presence of dust. Such a crossing is made

W. Beenakker, T. Janssen, S. Lepoeter, M. Krämer

We present the hard matching coefficients for squark and gluino hadroproduction. The hard matching coefficients follow from the next-to-leading order cross section near threshold and are an important ingredient for performing threshold resummation at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We discuss the calculation, list the analytical results and stu

Vita Borovyk, Michael Goldberg

The discrete Klein-Gordon equation on a two-dimensional square lattice satisfies an $\ell^1 \mapsto \ell^\infty$ dispersive bound with polynomial decay rate $|t|^{-3/4}$. We determine the shape of the light cone for any choice of the mass parameter and relative propagation speeds along the two coordinate axes. Fundamental solutions experience the least dispe

Paolo Bravi, Jacopo Gandini, Andrea Maffei

We prove that the multiplication of sections of globally generated line bundles on a model wonderful variety M of simply connected type is always surjective. This follows by a general argument which works for every wonderful variety and reduces the study of the surjectivity for every couple of globally generated line bundles to a finite number of cases. As a

Shmuel Friedland, Vlad Gheorghiu, Gilad Gour

Uncertainty relations are a distinctive characteristic of quantum theory that impose intrinsic limitations on the precision with which physical properties can be simultaneously determined. The modern work on uncertainty relations employs \emph{entropic measures} to quantify the lack of knowledge associated with measuring non-commuting observables. However, t

Pallab Basu, Archisman Ghosh

We look at the response of a nonlinearly coupled scalar field in an asymptotically AdS black brane geometry and find a behavior very similar to that of known dissipative nonlinear systems like the chaotic pendulum. Transition to chaos proceeds through a series of period-doubling bifurcations. The presence of dissipation, crucial to this behavior, arises natu

Pallab Basu, Archisman Ghosh

Classical world-sheet string theory has recently been shown to be nonintegrable and chaotic in various confining string theory backgrounds -- the AdS soliton background in particular. In this paper we study a minisuperspace quantization of the theory and look at properties of the spectrum like the distribution of level spacing, which are indicative of quantu

Jerzy Matyjasek, Pawel Sadurski, Dariusz Tryniecki

The regularized stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive scalar, spinor and vector fields inside the degenerate horizon of the regular charged black hole in the (anti-)de Sitter universe is constructed and examined. It is shown that although the components of the stress-energy tensor are small in the vicinity of the black hole degenerate horizon and nea

Marcello Bernardara, Goncalo Tabuada

Let k be a perfect field and A a finite dimensional k-algebra of finite global dimension (e.g. the path algebra of a finite quiver without oriented cycles). Making use of the recent theory of noncommutative motives, we prove that the value of every additive invariant at A only depends on the number of simple modules. Examples of additive invariants include a

Alessandro Giuliani, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer

We consider Ising models in d=2 and d=3 dimensions with nearest neighbor ferromagnetic and long-range antiferromagnetic interactions, the latter decaying as (distance)^(-p), p>2d, at large distances. If the strength J of the ferromagnetic interaction is larger than a critical value J_c, then the ground state is homogeneous. It has been conjectured that when

Natalia Iyudu

We prove Koszulity of the homology of the of moduli spaces of stable n-pointed curves of genus zero $\overline{M}_{0,n}$ for $n=5$, using its presentation due to Keel and the Priddy criterion of Koszulity. For $n=6 $ we establish that $\overline{M}_{0,6}^!$ is potential, find the expression for the potential, and based on that prove that it is Koszul.

Michele Ruggeri, Saverio Moroni, Massimo Boninsegni

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations at zero temperature of an ensemble of He-3 atoms adsorbed on Mg and Alkali substrates yield strong evidence of a thermodynamically stable liquid He-3 monolayer on all Alkali substrates, with the possible exception of Li. The effective 2D density is close to 0.02$ inverse square Angstroms on Na, making it the lowest density liq

Andre Walker-Loud

Anchoring our understanding of low-energy nuclear and hadronic physics to the fundamental theory of strong interactions, QCD, remains and outstanding challenge for physicists. Lattice QCD and chiral perturbation theory are the most powerful theoretical tools we have at our disposal to make this connection. These tools share a symbiotic relationship as chiral

Fakher F. Assaad, Igor F. Herbut

In numerical simulations, spontaneously broken symmetry is often detected by computing two-point correlation functions of the appropriate local order parameter. This approach, however, computes the square of the local order parameter, and so when it is {\it small}, very large system sizes at high precisions are required to obtain reliable results. Alternativ

Jan Smit

In the time-space symmetric version of dynamical triangulation, a non-perturbative version of quantum Einstein gravity, numerical simulations without matter have shown two phases, with spacetimes that are either crumpled or elongated like branched polymers, with strong evidence of a first-order transition between them. These properties have generally been co

Y. Y. Chun, T. Dinçer, E. Kalemci, T. Güver

Galactic black hole transients show many interesting phenomena during outburst decays. We present simultaneous X-ray (RXTE, Swift, and INTEGRAL), and optical/near-infrared (O/NIR) observations (SMARTS) of the X-ray transient XTE J1752-223 during its outburst decay in 2010. The multiwavelength observations over 150 days in 2010 cover the transition from soft

MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, I. Anghel, C. Backhouse

We report measurements of oscillation parameters from $ν_{mu}$ and $\barν_μ$ disappearance using beam and atmospheric data from MINOS. The data comprise exposures of \unit[$10.71 \times 10^{20}$]{protons on target (POT)} in the $ν_μ$-dominated beam, $\unit[3.36\times10^{20}]{POT}}$ in the $\barν_μ$-enhanced beam, and 37.88 kton-years of atmospheric neutrinos

A. Andronic

We present selected results obtained by the ALICE Collaboration concerning charmed hadron and quarkonium production in Pb--Pb collisions at the LHC.

Rodolfo Ostilla Monico, Sander G. Huisman, Tim J. G. Jannink, Dennis P. M. van Gils

Taylor-Couette flow with independently rotating inner (i) and outer (o) cylinders is explored numerically and experimentally to determine the effects of the radius ratio η on the system response. Numerical simulations reach Reynolds numbers of up to Re_i=9.5 x 10^3 and Re_o=5x10^3, corresponding to Taylor numbers of up to Ta=10^8 for four different radius ra

Andrzej Okolow

We present a method of constructing a space of quantum states for a field theory: given phase space of a theory, we define a family of physical systems each possessing a finite number of degrees of freedom, next we define a space of quantum states for each finite system, finally using projective techniques we organize all these spaces into a space of quantum

Justin R. Smith

This paper considers a class of coalgebras over the Barratt-Eccles operad and shows that they classify Z-completions of pointed, reduced simplicial sets. As a consequence, they encapsulate the homotopy types of nilpotent simplicial sets. This result is a direct generalization of Quillen's result characterizing rational homotopy types via cocommutative co

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta, B. Adeva

The angular distribution and differential branching fraction of the decay $B^{0} \to K^{*0} μ^{+}μ^{-}$ are studied using a data sample, collected by the LHCb experiment in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\,{\rm TeV}$, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $1.0\,{\rm fb}^{-1}$. Several angular observables are measured in bins of the dimuon invariant mas

Alexander Steinicke

We develop an approach to Malliavin calculus for Lévy processes from the perspective of expressing a random variable $Y$ by a functional $F$ mapping from the Skorohod space of càdlàg functions to $\mathbb{R}$, such that $Y=F(X)$ where $X$ denotes the Lévy process. We also present a chain-rule-type application for random variables of the form $f(ω,Y(ω))$. An

D. Correas Serrano, J. S. Gomez Diaz, J. Perruisseau-Carrier, A. Alvarez Melcon

We propose the concept, synthesis, analysis, and design of graphene-based plasmonic tunable low-pass filters operating in the THz band. The proposed structure is composed of a graphene strip transferred onto a dielectric and a set of polysilicon DC gating pads located beneath it. This structure implements a stepped impedance low-pass filter for the propagati

Thomas P. Adams, Dmitry Aleynik, Michael Burrows

The dispersal stages of organisms with sessile adults must be able to select habitats with suitable conditions for establishment and survival, and must also be able to reach those locations. For marine planktonic larvae, movement due to currents is often orders of magnitude greater than movement due to swimming behaviour, so transport is largely passive. Cur