April 2013 arXiv papers — page 21

Kaj Börjeson

Given an associative graded algebra equipped with a degree +1 differential we define an A-infinity structure that measures the failure of the differential to be a derivation. This can be seen as a non-commutative analog of generalized BV-algebras. In that spirit we introduce a notion of associative order for the differential and prove that it satisfies prope

Michel Destrade

Two semi-infinite bodies made of prestressed, homogeneous, Bell-constrained, hyperelastic materials are perfectly bonded along a plane interface. The half-spaces have been subjected to finite pure homogeneous predeformations, with distinct stretch ratios but common principal axes, and such that the interface is a common principal plane of strain. Constant lo

Purba Bhattacharya, Sudeb Bhattacharya, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay

The bulk Micromegas detector is considered to be a promising candidate for building TPCs for several future experiments including the projected linear collider. The standard bulk with a spacing of 128 micron has already established itself as a good choice for its performances in terms of gas gain uniformity, energy and space point resolution, and its capabil

Arno Kuijlaars

The tacnode Riemann-Hilbert problem is a 4 x 4 matrix valued RH problem that appears in the description of the local behavior of two touching groups of non-intersecting Brownian motions. The same RH problem was also found by Duits and Geudens to describe a new critical regime in the two-matrix model. Delvaux gave integral representations for some of the entr

Philippe H. Trinh, S. Jonathan Chapman

When traditional linearised theory is used to study gravity-capillary waves produced by flow past an obstruction, the geometry of the object is assumed to be small in one or several of its dimensions. In order to preserve the nonlinear nature of the obstruction, asymptotic expansions in the low-Froude or low-Bond number limits can be derived, but here, the s

P. K. Khandai, P. Sett, P. Shukla, V. Singh

We present the systematic analysis of transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra of identified hadrons in p+p collisions at RHIC ($\sqrt{s}$ = 62.4 and 200 GeV) and at LHC energies ($\sqrt{s}$ = 0.9, 2.76 and 7.0 TeV) using phenomenological fit functions. We review various forms of Hagedorn and Tsallis distributions and show their equivalence. We use Tsallis distri

S. Felicetti, G. Romero, D. Rossini, R. Fazio

We study the photon transfer along a linear array of three coupled cavities where the central one contains an interacting two-level system in the strong and ultrastrong coupling regimes. We find that an inhomogeneously coupled array forbids a complete single-photon transfer between the external cavities when the central one performs a Jaynes-Cummings dynamic

Chunlei Liu, Haode Yan

In this paper, we first define a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form on Fq^4. Then we get an incidence matrix G of Fq^4 by the bilinear form. By its corresponding quadratic form Q, the lines of Fq^4 are classified as isotropic and anisotropic lines. Under this classification, we can get two sub-matrices of G and prove their 2-rank. Key words and phrases:

Najla Said, Eleonora Di Valentino, Martina Gerbino

We present new constraints on the relativistic neutrino effective number N_eff and on the Cosmic Microwave Background power spectrum lensing amplitude A_L from the recent Planck 2013 data release. Including observations of the CMB large angular scale polarization from the WMAP satellite, we obtain the bounds N_eff = 3.71 +/- 0.40 and A_L = 1.25 +/- 0.13 at 6

C. Deninger

It is well known that all torsors under an affine algebraic group over an algebraically closed field are trivial. We note that under suitable conditions this also holds if the the group is not necessarily of finite type. This has an application to isomorphisms of fibre functors on neutral Tannakian categories.

K. Toyoda, K. Uchida, A. Noguchi, S. Haze

Universal single-qubit operations based on purely geometric phase factors in adiabatic processes are demonstrated by utilizing a four-level system in a trapped single $^{40}$Ca$^+$ ion connected by three oscillating fields. Robustness against parameter variations is studied. The scheme demonstrated here can be employed as a building block for large-scale hol

Roland Perko, Thomas Schnabel, Gerald Fritz, Alexander Almer

Crowd monitoring and analysis in mass events are highly important technologies to support the security of attending persons. Proposed methods based on terrestrial or airborne image/video data often fail in achieving sufficiently accurate results to guarantee a robust service. We present a novel framework for estimating human count, density and motion from vi

Raphaël Raynaud, Emmanuel Dormy

We investigate dynamo action in three-dimensional numerical simulations of turbulent spherical Couette flows. Close to the onset of dynamo action, the magnetic field exhibits an intermittent behavior, characterized by a series of short bursts of the magnetic energy separated by low-energy phases. We show that this behavior corresponds to the so-called on-off

G. Bono, N. Matsunaga, L. Inno, E. P. Lagioia

We discuss the stellar content of the Galactic Center, and in particular, recent estimates of the star formation rate (SFR). We discuss pros and cons of the different stellar tracers and focus our attention on the SFR based on the three classical Cepheids recently discovered in the Galactic Center. We also discuss stellar populations in field and cluster sta

Yonghui Ling, Xiubin Xu

We propose a inexact Newton method for solving inverse eigenvalue problems (IEP). This method is globalized by employing the classical backtracking techniques. A global convergence analysis of this method is provided and the R-order convergence property is proved under some mild assumptions. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed method is very eff

Minge Xie, Regina Y. Liu, C. V. Damaraju, William H. Olson

External information, such as prior information or expert opinions, can play an important role in the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trials. However, little attention has been devoted thus far to incorporating external information in clinical trials with binary outcomes, perhaps due to the perception that binary outcomes can be treated as no

M. Poli Lener, M. Bazzi, G. Corradi, C. Curceanu

In this paper we present the R&D activity on a new GEM-based TPC prototype for AMADEUS, a new experimental proposal at the DAΦNE Φ-factory at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (INFN), aiming to perform measurements of the low-energy negative kaons interactions in nuclei. Such innovative detector will equip the inner part of the experiment in order to perf

Pablo Lessa

We show that the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of a sequence of leaves in a compact foliation is a covering space of the limiting leaf which is no larger than this leaf's holonomy cover. We also show that convergence to such a limit is smooth instead of merely Gromov-Hausdorff. Corollaries include Reeb's local stability theorem, part of Epstein's local

Toshimasa Morita

Proton acceleration by using a 620-TW, 18-J laser pulse of peak intensity of $5\times 10^{21}$ W/cm$^{2}$ irradiating a disk target is examined using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that protons are accelerated efficiently to high energy for a "light" material in the first layer of a double-layer target, because a strongly

Jiangwei Xue, Chia-Fu Yu

We classify the endomorphism algebras of factors of the Jacobian of certain hypergeometric curves over a field of characteristic zero. Other than a few exceptional cases, the endomorphism algebras turn out to be either a cyclotomic field $E=\mathbb{Q}(ζ_q)$, or a quadratic extension of $E$, or $E\oplus E$. This result may be viewed as a generalization of the

Michiel Wouters

We study the vortex dynamics of a quantum degenerate Bose gas through the intensity fluctuations of the interference from particles extracted at two different positions. It is shown numerically with classical field simulations that an interacting Bose gas with proliferating vortices exhibits long correlation times for these intensity fluctuations. This behav

Xueping Huang, Yuichi Shiozawa

We obtain an upper escape rate function for a continuous time minimal symmetric Markov chain, defined on a locally finite weighted graph. This upper rate function is given in terms of volume growth with respect to an adapted path metric and has the same form as the manifold setting. Our approach also gives a slightly more restrictive form of Folz's theor

Michel Destrade

Some relationships, fundamental to the resolution of interface wave problems, are presented. These equations allow for the derivation of explicit secular equations for problems involving waves localized near the plane boundary of anisotropic elastic half-spaces, such as Rayleigh, Sholte, or Stoneley waves. They are obtained rapidly, without recourse to the S

Fateme K. Joibari, Ya. M. Blanter, Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We study the transport of electrons through a single-mode quantum ring with electric field induced Rashba spin-orbit interaction that is subjected to an in-plane magnetic field and weakly coupled to electron reservoirs. Modelling a ring array by ensemble averaging over a Gaussian distribution of energy level positions, we predict slow conductance oscillation

Michel Destrade, Ray W. Ogden

In this paper we analyze the effect of a combined pure homogeneous strain and simple shear in a principal plane of the latter on the propagation of surface waves for an incompressible isotropic elastic half-space whose boundary is normal to the glide planes of the shear. This generalizes previous work in which, separately, pure homogeneous strain and simple

Hafeez Anwar, Sebastian Zambanini, Martin Kampel

The field of Numismatics provides the names and descriptions of the symbols minted on the ancient coins. Classification of the ancient coins aims at assigning a given coin to its issuer. Various issuers used various symbols for their coins. We propose to use these symbols for a framework that will coarsely classify the ancient coins. Bag of visual words (BoV

Benjamin Bösch, Asmus Böhm, Christian Wolf, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca

We derive rotation curves from optical emission lines of 182 disk galaxies (96 in the cluster and 86 in the field) in the region of Abell 901/902 located at $z\sim 0.165$. We focus on the analysis of B-band and stellar-mass Tully-Fisher relations. We examine possible environmental dependencies and differences between normal spirals and "dusty red" ga

E. Bolhasani, Y. Azizi, A. Valizadeh

We address a question on the effect of common stochastic inputs on the correlation of the spikes trains of two neurons when they are possibly nonidentical and are coupled through direct connections. We show that the change in the correlation of low amplitude stochastic inputs can be better detected when the neurons are connected by direct excitatory coupling

Jérémy Leconte, Gilles Chabrier

As they keep cooling and contracting, Solar System giant planets radiate more energy than they receive from the Sun. Applying the first and second principles of thermodynamics, one can determine their cooling rate, luminosity, and temperature at a given age. Measurements of Saturn's infrared intrinsic luminosity, however, reveal that this planet is signi

Guang-Gang Geng, Xiao-Bo Jin, Xin-Chang Zhang, De-Xian Zhang

Web content quality measurement is crucial to various web content processing applications. This paper will explore multi-scale features which may affect the quality of a host, and develop automatic statistical methods to evaluate the Web content quality. The extracted properties include statistical content features, page and host level link features and TFID

David Hoffman, Martin Traizet, Brian White

We prove that for each positive integer g, there exists a complete minimal surface of genus g that is properly embedded in three-dimensional euclidean space and that is asymptotic to the helicoid.

Roland Quême

This article, complement to the article [Que], deals with some generalizations of Futwängler's theorems for the second case of Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT2). Let $p$ be an odd prime, $ζ$ a $p$th primitive root of unity, $K:=\Q(ζ)$ and $C\ell_K$ the class group of $K$. A prime $q$ is said $p$-principal if the class $c\ell_K (\mk q_K)\in C\ell_K$ of any

Yinghui Guan, Xiao-Rui Lu, Yangheng Zheng, Yi-Fang Wang

A method to estimate efficiency of event start time determination at BESIII is developed. This method estimates the efficiency at the event level by combining the efficiencies of various tracks ($e$, $μ$, $π$, K, $p$, $γ$) in a Bayesian way. Efficiencies results and difference between data and MC at the track level are presented in this paper. For a given ph

Yang Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Ping Wang

A mobile cloud computing system is composed of heterogeneous services and resources to be allocated by the cloud service provider to mobile cloud users. On one hand, some of these resources are substitutable (e.g., users can use storage from different places) that they have similar functions to the users. On the other hand, some resources are complementary t

M. Kolár, T. Opatrný, Kunal K. Das

We propose a mechanism to use nonlinearity arising from inter-particle interactions to significantly enhance rotation sensitivity of matter-wave interferometers. The method relies on modifying Sagnac interferometers by introducing a weak circular lattice potential that couples modes with opposite orbital angular momenta (OAM). The primary observable comprise

Raj Kumar, Michael Dorff, Sushma Gupta, Sukhjit Singh

Dorff, proved in [2] that the convolution of two harmonic right-half plane mappings is convex in the direction of real axis provided that the convolution is locally univalent and sense preserving. Later, it was shown in [3] that the condition of locally univalent and sense preserving can be dropped in some special cases. In this paper, we generalize the main

Nicolas Privault, Timothy Robin Teng

Hedging strategies in bond markets are computed by martingale representation and the Clark-Ocone formula under the choice of a suitable of numeraire, in a model driven by the dynamics of bond prices. Applications are given to the hedging of swaptions and other interest rate derivatives, and our approach is compared to delta hedging when the underlying swap r

Giovanni Geraci, Romain Couillet, Jinhong Yuan, Merouane Debbah

In this paper, we study the performance of regularized channel inversion precoding in MISO broadcast channels with confidential messages under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). We obtain an approximation for the achievable secrecy sum-rate which is almost surely exact as the number of transmit antennas and the number of users gro

Qixin Wang, Menghui Li, Li Charlie Xia, Ge Wen

In the human immune system, T-helper cells are able to differentiate into two lymphocyte subsets: Th1 and Th2. The intracellular signaling pathways of differentiation form a dynamic regulation network by secreting distinctive types of cytokines, while differentiation is regulated by two major gene loci: T-bet and GATA-3. We developed a system dynamics model

Giovanni Geraci, Azzam Y. Al-nahari, Jinhong Yuan, Iain B. Collings

In this paper, we analyze the performance of regularized channel inversion (RCI) precoding in multiple-input single-output (MISO) broadcast channels with confidential messages under transmit-side channel correlation. We derive a deterministic equivalent for the achievable per-user secrecy rate which is almost surely exact as the number of transmit antennas a

Peng Li, Jingjing Liu, Rodrigo C. de Lamare

An adaptive iterative decision multi-feedback detection algorithm with constellation constraints is proposed for multiuser multi-antenna systems. An enhanced detection and interference cancellation is performed by introducing multiple constellation points as decision candidates. A complexity reduction strategy is developed to avoid redundant processing with

Lily Chen, Xueliang Li, Mengmeng Liu, Yaping Mao

The generalized $k$-connectivity $κ_k(G)$ of a graph $G$ was introduced by Chartrand et al. in 1984, which is a nice generalization of the classical connectivity. Recently, as a natural counterpart, Li et al. proposed the concept of generalized edge-connectivity for a graph. In this paper, we determine the computational complexity of the generalized connecti

Jingjing Liu, Peng Li, Rodrigo C. de Lamare

In this paper, we consider the problem of iterative detection and decoding (IDD) for multi-antenna systems using low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The proposed IDD system consists of a soft-input soft-output parallel interference (PIC) cancellation scheme with linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) receive filters and two novel belief propagation (BP)

Matthias Althammer, Sibylle Meyer, Hiroyasu Nakayama, Michael Schreier

We experimentally investigate and quantitatively analyze the spin Hall magnetoresistance effect in ferromagnetic insulator/platinum and ferromagnetic insulator/nonferromagnetic metal/platinum hybrid structures. For the ferromagnetic insulator we use either yttrium iron garnet, nickel ferrite or magnetite and for the nonferromagnet copper or gold. The spin Ha

Zhen Wang, Yongjian Han, Guang-Can Guo, Lixin He

Recently developed tensor network methods demonstrate great potential for addressing the quantum many-body problem, by constructing variational spaces with polynomially, instead of exponentially, scaled parameters. Constructing such an efficient tensor network, and thus the variational space, is a subtle problem and the main obstacle of the method. We demons

Nicola Scafetta

Herein I propose a multi-scale dynamical analysis to facilitate the physical interpretation of tide gauge records. The technique uses graphical diagrams. It is applied to six secular-long tide gauge records representative of the world oceans: Sydney, Pacific coast of Australia; Fremantle, Indian Ocean coast of Australia; New York City, Atlantic coast of USA;

Mordechai Katzman, Karl Schwede, Anurag K. Singh, Wenliang Zhang

Let R be a local ring of prime characteristic. We study the ring of Frobenius operators F(E), where E is the injective hull of the residue field of R. In particular, we examine the finite generation of F(E) over its degree zero component, and show that F(E) need not be finitely generated when R is a determinantal ring; nonetheless, we obtain concrete descrip

Advait Jain, Marc D. Killpack, Aaron Edsinger, Charles C. Kemp

We begin this paper by presenting our approach to robot manipulation, which emphasizes the benefits of making contact with the world across the entire manipulator. We assume that low contact forces are benign, and focus on the development of robots that can control their contact forces during goal-directed motion. Inspired by biology, we assume that the robo

Guido Cossu, Sinya Aoki, Hidenori Fukaya, Shoji Hashimoto

We examine the axial U(1) symmetry near and above the finite temperature phase transition in two-flavor QCD using lattice QCD simulations. Although the axial U(1) symmetry is always violated by quantization, (i.e.) the chiral anomaly, the correlation functions may manifest effective restoration of the symmetry in the high temperature phase. We explicitly stu

Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi, Agnieszka B. Malinowska, Delfim F. M. Torres

We study the optimal control of a steady-state dead oil isotherm problem. The problem is described by a system of nonlinear partial differential equations resulting from the traditional modelling of oil engineering within the framework of mechanics of a continuous medium. Existence and regularity results of the optimal control are proved, as well as necessar

Gregory E. Fasshauer, Fred J. Hickernell, Qi Ye

In this paper we solve support vector machines in reproducing kernel Banach spaces with reproducing kernels defined on nonsymmetric domains instead of the traditional methods in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Using the orthogonality of semi-inner-products, we can obtain the explicit representations of the dual (normalized-duality-mapping) elements of sup

Yuan Xu

For a family of weight functions $h_κ$ that are invariant under a reflection group, the uncertainty principle on the unit sphere in the form of $$ \min_{1 \le i \le d} \int_{\mathbb{S}^{d-1}} (1- x_i) |f(x)|^2 h_κ^2(x) dσ\int_{\mathbb{S}^{d-1}}\left |\nabla_0 f(x)\right |^2 h_κ^2(x) dσ\ge c $$ is established for invariant functions $f$ that have unit norm an

Piyush Shroff

Quantum Drinfeld orbifold algebras are the generalizations of Drinfeld orbifold algebras, which are obtained by replacing polynomial rings by quantum polynomial rings. Shepler and Witherspoon in their paper, give necessary and sufficient conditions on a defining parameters to obtain Drinfeld orbifold algebras. In this article we generalize their result. It a

Hugo R. C. Ferreira

We demonstrate that the warped AdS3 black hole solutions of Topologically Massive Gravity are classically stable against massive scalar field perturbations by analysing the quasinormal and bound state modes of the scalar field. In particular, it is found that although classical superradiance is present it does not give rise to superradiant instabilities. The

Alice C. Quillen, Eva Bodman, Alexander Moore

We explore scenarios for the origin of two different density planets in the Kepler 36 system in adjacent orbits near the 7:6 mean motion resonance. We find that fine tuning is required in the stochastic forcing amplitude, the migration rate and planet eccentricities to allow two convergently migrating planets to bypass mean motion resonances such as the 4:3,

Jens Chluba

Deviations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) frequency spectrum from a pure blackbody tell an exciting story about the thermal history of our Universe. In this paper we illustrate how well future CMB measurements might decipher this tale, envisioning a PIXIE-like spectrometer, which could improve the distortion constraints obtained with COBE/FIRAS som

Jens Chluba

Energy release in the early Universe leads to spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) which in the future might allow probing different physical processes in the pre-recombination (z>~10^3) epoch. Depending on the energy injection history, the associated distortion partially thermalizes due to the combined action of Compton scattering,

Jonathan M. Arnold, Bartosz Fornal, Mark B. Wise

We study the simplest renormalizable scalar leptoquark models where the standard model is augmented only by one additional scalar representation of SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1). The requirement that there be no proton decay from renormalizable interactions singles out two such models, one of which exhibits an unusual top mass enhancement of the mu -> e gamma decay r

R. Francini, R. M. Montereali, E. Nichelatti, M. A. Vincenti

The use of efficient wavelength-shifters from the vacuum-ultraviolet to the photosensor's range of sensitivity is a key feature in detectors for Dark Matter search and neutrino physics based on liquid argon scintillation detection. Thin film of Tetraphenyl-butadiene (TPB) deposited onto the surface delimiting the active volume of the detector and/or onto

Sergiu Hart, Noam Nisan

We consider the well known, and notoriously difficult, problem of a single revenue-maximizing seller selling two or more heterogeneous goods to a single buyer whose private values for the goods are drawn from a (possibly correlated) known distribution, and whose valuation is additive over the goods. We show that when there are two (or more) goods, _simple me

Alessandro Calamai, Marco Spadini

We study forced oscillations on differentiable manifolds which are globally defined as the zero set of appropriate smooth maps in some Euclidean spaces. Given a T-periodic perturbative forcing field, we consider the two different scenarios of a nontrivial unperturbed force field and of perturbation of the zero field. We provide simple, degree-theoretic condi

Dai Shi

In this paper, we consider a data matrix $X_N\in\mathbb{R}^{N\times p}$ where all the rows are i.i.d. samples in $\mathbb{R}^p$ of mean zero and covariance matrix $Σ\in\mathbb{R}^{p\times p}$. Here the population matrix $Σ$ is of finite rank perturbation of the identity matrix. This is the "spiked population model" first proposed by Johnstone. As $N,

Robert N. C. Pfeifer, Jutho Haegeman, Frank Verstraete

The efficient evaluation of tensor expressions involving sums over multiple indices is of significant importance to many fields of research, including quantum many-body physics, loop quantum gravity, and quantum chemistry. The computational cost of evaluating an expression may depend strongly upon the order in which the index sums are evaluated, and determin

Louis Lello, Daniel Boyanovsky, Richard Holman

The decay of a parent particle into two or more daughter particles results in an entangled quantum state as a consequence of conservation laws in the decay process. Recent experiments at Belle and BaBar take advantage of quantum entanglement and the correlations in the time evolution of the product particles to study CP and T violations. If one (or more) of

Kate Juschenko, Piotr W. Nowak

We characterize groups with Guoliang Yu's property A (i.e., exact groups) by the existence of a family of uniformly bounded representations which approximate the trivial representation.

Kevin Heng

The ubiquity of worlds beyond our Solar System confounds us.

Patrick Draper, Howard E. Haber

Recently, it has been argued that in the supersymmetric extension of the seesaw-extended Standard Model, heavy right-handed neutrinos and sneutrinos may give corrections as large as a few GeV to the mass of the lightest neutral CP-even Higgs boson, even if the soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters are of order the electroweak scale. The presence of such lar

Alba Grassi, Johan Kallen, Marcos Marino

We show that, in local Calabi-Yau manifolds, the topological open string partition function transforms as a wavefunction under modular transformations. Our derivation is based on the topological recursion for matrix models, and it generalizes in a natural way the known result for the closed topological string sector. As an application, we derive results for

Shuang-Yong Zhou, Edmund J. Copeland, Richard Easther, Hal Finkel

Oscillons are long-lived, localized excitations of nonlinear scalar fields which may be copiously produced during preheating after inflation, leading to a possible oscillon-dominated phase in the early Universe. For example, this can happen after axion monodromy inflation, on which we run our simulations. We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave back

Ufuk Aydemir, Djordje Minic, Tatsu Takeuchi

We investigate the physical implications of formulating the electroweak (EW) part of the Standard Model (SM) in terms of a superconnection involving the supergroup SU(2/1). In particular, we relate the observed Higgs mass to new physics at around 4 TeV. The ultraviolet incompleteness of the superconnection approach points to its emergent nature. The new phys

Stuart L. Shapiro

We consider a geometrically thin, Keplerian disk in the orbital plane of a binary black hole (BHBH) consisting of a spinning primary and low-mass secondary (mass ratio q < 1). To account for the principle effects of general relativity (GR), we propose a modification of the standard Newtonian evolution equation for the (orbit-averaged) time-varying disk surfa

Elise Jennings, Yin Li, Wayne Hu

We present measurements of the number density of voids in the dark matter distribution from a series of N-body simulations of a ΛCDM cosmology. We define voids as spherical regions of ρ_v = 0.2ρ_m around density minima in order to relate our results to the predicted abundances using the excursion set formalism. Using a linear underdensity of δ_v = -2.7, from

Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti, Hagai B. Perets

Globular clusters (GCs) and many nuclear clusters (NCs) show evidence for hosting multiple generations of stellar populations. Younger stellar populations in NCs appear to reside in disk like structures, including the nuclear cluster in our own Galactic center as well as in M31. Kinematic studies of the anomalous globular cluster Omega Centauri, thought to p

Chen Fang, Matthew J. Gilbert, B. Andrei Bernevig

We study the topological features of non-interacting insulators subject to an antiferromangetic (AFM) Zeeman field, or AFM insulators, the period of which is commensurate with the lattice period. These insulators can be classified by the presence/absence of an emergent anti-unitary symmetry: the combined operation of time-reversal and a lattice translation b

Evan N. Kirby, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Judith G. Cohen, Marla Geha

Segue 2, discovered by Belokurov et al. (2009), is a galaxy with a luminosity of only 900 L_sun. We present Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy of 25 members of Segue 2--a threefold increase in spectroscopic sample size. The velocity dispersion is too small to be measured with our data. The upper limit with 90% (95%) confidence is sigma_v < 2.2 (2.6) km/s, the most str

Abdul H. Mroue, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Harald P. Pfeiffer

This paper presents a publicly available catalog of 174 numerical binary black-hole simulations following up to 35 orbits. The catalog includes 91 precessing binaries, mass ratios up to 8:1, orbital eccentricities from a few percent to $10^{-5}$, black-hole spins up to 98% of the theoretical maximum, and radiated energies up to 11.1% of the initial mass. We

Yipeng Yang

The properties of value functions of time inhomogeneous optimal stopping problem and zero-sum game (Dynkin game) are studied through time dependent Dirichlet form. Under the absolute continuity condition on the transition function of the underlying diffusion process and some other assumptions, the refined solutions without exceptional starting points are pro

Bruce L. Davis, Mahmoud I. Hussein

We present the concept of a locally resonant nanophononic metamaterial for thermoelectric energy conversion. Our configuration, which is based on a silicon thin-film with a periodic array of pillars erected on one or two of the free surfaces, qualitatively alters the base thin-film phonon spectrum due to a hybridization mechanism between the pillar local res

Tao Hong, L. Y. Zhu, X. Ke, V. O. Garlea

We report a comprehensive study of dc susceptibility, specific heat, neutron diffraction, and inelastic neutron scattering measurements on polycrystalline Ba3(Cr1-xVx)2O8 samples, where x=0, 0.06, 0.15, and 0.53. A Jahn-Teller structure transition occurs for x=0, 0.06, and 0.15 samples and the transition temperature is reduced upon vanadium substitution from

Mads T. Frandsen, Felix Kahlhoefer, Christopher McCabe, Subir Sarkar

The CDMS-II collaboration has reported 3 events in a Si detector, which are consistent with being nuclear recoils due to scattering of Galactic dark matter particles with a mass of about 8.6 GeV and a cross-section on neutrons of about 2 x 10^-41 cm^2. While a previous result from the XENON10 experiment has supposedly ruled out such particles as dark matter,

R. M. Oldenbeuving, H. Song, G. Schitter, M. Verhaegen

A novel and simple approach to optical wavelength measurement is presented in this paper. The working principle is demonstrated using a tunable waveguide micro ring resonator and single photodiode. The initial calibration is done with a set of known wavelengths and resonator tunings. The combined spectral sensitivity function of the resonator and photodiode

T. F. Lagana, N. Martinet, F. Durret, G. B. Lima Neto

(Abridged) Based on XMM-Newton, Chandra and SDSS data, we investigate the baryon distribution in groups and clusters and its use as a cosmological constraint. For this, we considered a sample of 123 systems, with total masses in the mass range M500 = ~ 10^13 - 4 x 10^15 h_70^-1 Msun. The gas masses and total masses are derived from X-ray data under the assum

Martin Esmann, Simon F. Becker, Bernard B. da Cunha, Jens H. Brauer

We investigate the radiation patterns of sharp conical gold tapers, designed as adiabatic nanofocusing probes for scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM). Field calculations show that only the lowest order eigenmode of such a taper can reach the very apex and thus induce the generation of strongly enhanced near-field signals. Higher order modes are cou

Mikhail V. Bondarko, Vladimir A. Sosnilo

In this paper we demonstrate that &#39;non-commutative localizations&#39; of arbitrary additive categories (generalizing those defined by Cohn for rings) are closely (and naturally) related with weight structures. Localizing an arbitrary triangulated $C$ by a set $S$ of morphisms in the heart of a weight structure $w$ for it one obtains a triangulated catego

Xiao-Gang He, Jusak Tandean

The CDMS II experiment has observed three events which may have arisen from weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) with mass of order 9 GeV colliding with nuclei. Although the implied WIMP parameter region seems to be excluded by limits from the XENON experiments, it is interesting that most of this tension can go away if the WIMP-nucleo

Thomas Alden Gassert

Let t be any integer and fix an odd prime ell. Let Phi(x) = T_ell^n(x)-t denote the n-fold composition of the Chebyshev polynomial of degree ell shifted by t. If this polynomial is irreducible, let K = bbq(theta), where theta is a root of Phi. A theorem of Dedekind&#39;s gives a condition on t for which K is monogenic. For other values of t, we apply the Mon

Eiji Ogasa

This is an introductory article on high dimensional knots for the beginners. High dimensional knot theory is an exciting field. It is a field of knot theory, which is one of topology and is connected with many ones. In this article we use few literal expressions, equations, functions, etc. We barely suppose that the readers have studied manifolds, homology t

H. B. Nielsen

In a previous article Don Bennett and I looked for,found and proposed a game in which the Standard Model group S(U(2)XU(3)) gets singled out as the &#34;winner&#34;. Here I propose to extend this &#34;game&#34; to construct a corresponding game between different potential dimensions for space time. The idea is to formulate how the same competition as the one

Mireille Bossy, Jean-Francois Jabir

In this paper, we prove the well-posedness of a conditional McKean Lagrangian stochastic model endowing the specular boundary condition and the mean no--permeability condition in smooth bounded confinement domain D. This result extend our previous work, where we dealt with the case where the confinement domain is the upper--half plane and where the specular

Gabriele Vezzosi

In this Note, for the future purposes of relative formal derived deformation theory and of derived coisotropic structures, we prove the existence of a model structure on the category of dg-Lie algebroids over a cochain differential non-positively graded commutative algebra over a commutative base ring k of characteristic 0.

Michael E. Glinsky, Andrea Cortis, Jinsong Chen, Doug Sassen

An extension of a previously developed rock physics model is made that quantifies the relationship between the ductile fraction of a brittle/ductile binary mixture and the isotropic seismic reflection response. By making a weak scattering (Born) approximation and plane wave (eikonal) approximation, with a subsequent ordering according to the angle of inciden

C. S. An, B. Ch. Metsch, B. S. Zou

Mixing of the low-1/2^{-}$ and $3/2^{-}$ is investigated, employing an instanton-induced quark-antiquark pair creation model, which precludes transitions between $s^{3}$ and $s^{4}\bar{s}$ configurations. Models with hyperfine interactions between quarks of three different kinds, namely, one-gluon-exchange, Goldstone-boson-exchange (GBE) and an instanton-ind

Haiqing Xie, Qiang Wang, Hai-Bin Xue, HuJun Jiao

We investigate theoretically the effects of intrinsic spin-relaxation on the spin-dependent transport through a single-molecule magnet (SMM), which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) is obtained by means of the rate-equation approach including not only the sequential but also the cotunneling processes. It is shown th

V. A. De Lorenci, L. G. Gomes, E. S. Moreira

This paper addresses the interplay between vacuum and thermal local averages for massless scalar radiation near a plane wall of a large cavity where the Dirichlet boundary condition is assumed to hold. The main result is that stable thermodynamic equilibrium is possible only if the curvature coupling parameter is restricted to a certain range. In more than t

Jean-Charles Faugère, Pierrick Gaudry, Louise Huot, Guénaël Renault

Polynomial system solving is a classical problem in mathematics with a wide range of applications. This makes its complexity a fundamental problem in computer science. Depending on the context, solving has different meanings. In order to stick to the most general case, we consider a representation of the solutions from which one can easily recover the exact

Wolfgang Löhr, Guillaume Voisin, Anita Winter

In [Aldous,Pitman,1998] a tree-valued Markov chain is derived by pruning off more and more subtrees along the edges of a Galton-Watson tree. More recently, in [Abraham,Delmas,2012], a continuous analogue of the tree-valued pruning dynamics is constructed along Lévy trees. In the present paper, we provide a new topology which allows to link the discrete and t

Paul Biran, Octav Cornea

Given a symplectic manifold M, we consider a category with objects finite ordered families of Lagrangian submanifolds of M (subject to certain additional constraints) and with morphisms Lagrangian cobordisms relating them. We construct a functor that maps this category to a variant of the derived Fukaya category of M in a way that takes into account the tria

Chun Lam Chan, Sheng Cai, Mayank Bakshi, Sidharth Jaggi

We formulate and analyze a stochastic threshold group testing problem motivated by biological applications. Here a set of $n$ items contains a subset of $d \ll n$ defective items. Subsets (pools) of the $n$ items are tested -- the test outcomes are negative, positive, or stochastic (negative or positive with certain probabilities that might depend on the num

Rafah El-Khatib, Nicolas Macris, Ruediger Urbanke

Spatial coupling has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm to construct graphical models that work well under low-complexity message-passing algorithms. Although much progress has been made on the analysis of spatially coupled models under message passing, there is still room for improvement, both in terms of simplifying existing proofs as well as in terms

Gonzalo Navarro

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