April 2013 arXiv papers — page 35

Nadia Loukil, Ouidad Yousfi

This paper analyzes the relationship between public disclosure, private information and stock liquidity in Tunisian context using a sample of 41 listed firms in the Tunis Stock Exchange in 2007. First, we find no evidence that there is a relation between public and private information. Second, Tunisian investors do not trust the information disclosed in both

Jin Liu, Jian Huang, Yawei Zhang, Qing Lan

In cancer research, profiling studies have been extensively conducted, searching for genes/SNPs associated with prognosis. Cancer is a heterogeneous disease. Examining similarity and difference in the genetic basis of multiple subtypes of the same cancer can lead to better understanding of their connections and distinctions. Classic meta-analysis approaches

Ouerdia Arkoun, Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

We construct efficient robust truncated sequential estimators for the pointwise estimation problem in nonparametric autoregression models with smooth coefficients. For Gaussian models we propose an adaptive procedure based on the constructed sequential estimators. The minimax nonadaptive and adaptive convergence rates are established. It turns out that in th

Pablo Groisman, Matthieu Jonckheere

We analyze the connection between selection principles in front propagation and quasi-stationary distributions. We describe the missing link through the microscopic models known as Branching Brownian Motion with selection and Fleming-Viot.

R. Härtle, U. Peskin, M. Thoss

Vibrationally coupled electron transport through single-molecule junctions is considered. Reviewing our recent theoretical work, we show that electron-hole pair creation processes represent the key to understand the vibrational excitation characteristic of a single-molecule contact. Moreover, these processes can lead to a number of interesting transport phen

Nikolay Moshchevitin

We prove a quantitative version of the following statement: the unipotent flow orbit of a typical lattice in $\rm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})/\rm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ is dense. Our quantitative result uses A. Weil's bounds for Kloostermann sums.

V. See, R. F. Cameron, S. J. Schwartz

Under sufficiently high electric field gradients, electron behaviour within exactly perpendicular shocks is unstable to the so-called trajectory instability. We extend previous work paying special attention to shortiscale, high amplitude structures as observed within the electric field profile. Via test particle simulations, we show that such structures can

Alireza Abdollahi, Hamid Shahverdi

Let $G$ be a non-abelian group and $Z(G)$ be the center of $G$. The non-commuting graph $Γ_G$ associated to $G$ is the graph whose vertex set is $G\setminus Z(G)$ and two distinct elements $x,y$ are adjacent if and only if $xy\neq yx$. We prove that if $G$ and $H$ are non-abelian nilpotent groups with irregular isomorphic non-commuting graphs, then $|G|=|H|$

Fabrice Baudoin, Cheng Ouyang, Xuejing Zhang

In this work we study the smoothing effect of rough differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion with parameter $H>1/4$. The regularization estimates we obtain generalize to the fractional Brownian motion previous results by Kusuoka and Stroock and can be seen as a quantitative version of the existence of smooth densities under Hörmander&#39

Amit Sharma, Mevlana Gemici, Dan Cosley

Two main approaches to using social network information in recommendation have emerged: augmenting collaborative filtering with social data and algorithms that use only ego-centric data. We compare the two approaches using movie and music data from Facebook, and hashtag data from Twitter. We find that recommendation algorithms based only on friends perform n

A. K. Nekrasov, F. Z. Feygin

We derive the expression for the ponderomotive force in the real multicomponent magnetospheric plasma containing heavy ions. The ponderomotive force considered includes the induced magnetic moment of all the species and arises due to inhomogeneity of the traveling low-frequency electromagnetic wave amplitude in the nonuniform medium. The nonlinear stationary

K. Bakke, H. Belich

We study geometric quantum phases corresponding to analogues of the Anandan quantum phase [J. Anandan, Phys. Lett. A {\bf138}, 347 (1989)] based on a possible scenario of the Lorentz symmetry violation background in a tensor background. We also show that quantum holonomies associated with the analogue of the Anandan quantum phase can be determined, and discu

Massimo Giovannini

We explore what can be said on the effective temperature and sound speed of a statistical ensemble of fluid phonons present at the onset of a conventional inflationary phase. The phonons are the actual normal modes of the gravitating and irrotational fluid that dominates the protoinflationary dynamics. The bounds on the tensor to scalar ratio result in a cla

E. Cappelluti, R. Roldán, J. A. Silva-Guillén, P. Ordejón

In this paper we present a paradigmatic tight-binding model for single-layer as well as for multi-layered semiconducting MoS$_2$ and similar transition metal dichalcogenides. We show that the electronic properties of multilayer systems can be reproduced in terms of a tight-binding modelling of the single-layer hopping terms by simply adding the proper interl

K. Bakke, H. Belich

In this work, we discuss the relativistic Landau-He-McKellar-Wilkens quantization and relativistic bound states solutions for a Dirac neutral particle under the influence of a Coulomb-like potential induced by the Lorentz symmetry breaking effects. We present new possible scenarios of studying Lorentz symmetry breaking effects by fixing the space-like vector

Karsten Grove, Burkhard Wilking

We classify nonnegatively curved simply connected 4-manifolds with circle symmetry up to equivariant diffeomorphisms. The main problem is rule out knotted curves in the singular set of the orbit space. As an extension of this work we classify all knots in S^3 which can be realized as an extremal set with respect to an inner metric on S^3 which has nonnegativ

Sandro Mereghetti

The high-energy sources known as anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are well explained as magnetars: isolated neutron stars powered by their own magnetic energy. After explaining why it is generally believed that the traditional energy sources at work in other neutron stars (accretion, rotation, residual heat) cannot power the

J. A. Weber, A. W. A. Pauldrach, J. S. Knogl, T. L. Hoffmann

The first generation of stars that formed directly from the primordial gas played a crucial role in the early phase of the reionization of the universe. Because of the short lifetimes of these stars the metals produced in their cores were quickly returned to the environment, from which early PopII stars with a different initial mass function and different SE

Christian Ortiz Pauyac, Xuhui Wang, Mairbek Chshiev, Aurelien Manchon

In a ferromagnetic heterostructure, the interplay between a Rashba spin-orbit coupling and an exchange field gives rise to a current-driven spin torque. In a realistic device setup, we investigate the Rashba spin torque in the diffusive regime and report two major findings: (i) a nonvanishing torque exists at the edges of the device even when the magnetizati

Aaron Hurley, Nadjib Baadji, Stefano Sanvito

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can be used to detect inelastic spin transitions in magnetic nano-structures comprising only a handful of atoms. Here we demonstrate that STM can uniquely identify the electrostatic spin crossover effect, whereby the exchange interaction between two magnetic centers in a magnetic molecule changes sign as a function of an e

Yongjune Kim, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

In this paper, we propose an encoding scheme for partitioned linear block codes (PLBC) which mask the stuck-at defects in memories. In addition, we derive an upper bound and the estimate of the probability that masking fails. Numerical results show that PLBC can efficiently mask the defects with the proposed encoding scheme. Also, we show that our upper boun

H. Belich, F. J. L. Leal, H. L. C. Louzada, M. T. D. Orlando

For the CPT-even case of the minimal Standard Model Extension, the spin-projector method is adopted to account for the breaking (tensor) $% K_{μνκλ}$ term. We adopt a particular decomposition of this term in fourvectors, and carry out a detailed analysis of causality and unitarity. From this study, we are able to impose conditions on the decomposition of the

Anna Maria Candela, Alfonso Romero, Miguel Sánchez

Recently, classical results on completeness of trajectories of Hamiltonian systems obtained at the beginning of the seventies, have been revisited, improved and applied to Lorentzian Geometry. Our aim here is threefold: to give explicit proofs of some technicalities in the background of the specialists, to show that the introduced tools allow to obtain more

Przemyslaw Chojecki, Claus Sorensen

Inspired by Emerton's work for GL(2), we study the completed cohomology of the tower of finite sets associated with a definite unitary group in two variables. When p splits (and other technical assumptions are fulfilled), we show that the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL(2) (over Q_p) occurs in the cohomology. We give an application to the Fo

Michael Dumbser, Walter Boscheri

In this article we present the first better than second order accurate unstructured Lagrangian-type one-step WENO finite volume scheme for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations with non-conservative products. The method achieves high order of accuracy in space together with essentially non-oscillatory behavior using a nonlinear WENO recon

B. J. Albright, L. Yin, B. Afeyan

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in its strongly nonlinear, kinetic regime is controlled by a technique of deterministic, strong temporal modulation and spatial scrambling of laser speckle patterns, called Spike Trains of Uneven Duration and Delay (STUD pulses) [B. Afeyan and S. Hüller, Phys. Rev. Lett. (submitted)]. Kinetic simulations show that use of STU

Anisse Kasraoui

We find exact and asymptotic formulas for the average values of several statistics on set partitions: of Carlitz's $q$-Stirling distributions, of the numbers of crossings in linear and circular representations of set partitions, of the numbers of overlappings and embracings, and of the numbers of occurrences of a 2-pattern.

A. Anghel

A new stability criterion for cable-in-conduit superconductors with power-law current-voltage characteristic and current dependent power-law index, $n=n(I_c)$ is given. After a short discussion of the power-law volt-ampere characteristic, different models of stability are discussed with special stress on the differences to the older stability models. A typic

Yongjune Kim, Kyoung Lae Cho, Hongrak Son, Jaehong Kim

The aggressive scaling down of flash memories has threatened data reliability since the scaling down of cell sizes gives rise to more serious degradation mechanisms such as cell-to-cell interference and lateral charge spreading. The effect of these mechanisms has pattern dependency and some data patterns are more vulnerable than other ones. In this paper, we

Jeremy Daniel, Xiaonan Ma

We study a Laplacian operator related to the characteristic cohomology of a smooth manifold endowed with a distribution. We prove that this Laplacian does not behave very well: it is not hypoelliptic in general and does not respect the bigrading on forms in a complex setting. We also discuss the consequences of these negative results for a conjecture of P. G

Dimitri O. Ledenyov, Viktor O. Ledenyov

The accurate characterization of the business cycles in the nonlinear dynamic financial and economic systems in the time of globalization represents a formidable research problem. The central banks and other financial institutions make their decisions on the minimum capital requirements, countercyclical capital buffer allocation and capital investments, goin

Francesco Bigazzi, Aldo L. Cotrone, Javier Tarrio

We study finite temperature N=4 Super Yang-Mills (and more general gauge theories realized on intersecting D3-D7 branes) in the presence of dynamical massless fundamental matter fields at finite baryon charge density. We construct the holographic dual charged black hole solutions at first order in the flavor backreaction but exact in the charge density. The

Antoine Suarez

It is argued that any nonlocal model producing "local parts" (i.e.: disappearance of the correlations under certain testable conditions) can be reproduced by "multisimultaneity" and therefore (because of arxiv:1304.0532) conflicts not only with quantum mechanics but also with relativity. This result means in particular that the very structure

Jingyuan Yang, Shili Lin

Genomic imprinting and maternal effects are two epigenetic factors that have been increasingly explored for their roles in the etiology of complex diseases. This is part of a concerted effort to find the "missing heritability." Accordingly, statistical methods have been proposed to detect imprinting and maternal effects simultaneously based on either

Niklas Liebing, Santiago Serrano-Guisan, Patryk Krzysteczko, Karsten Rott

We study the tunneling magneto thermopower and tunneling magneto thermocurrent of CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ). The devices show a clear change of the thermoelectric properties upon reversal of the magnetisation of the CoFeB layers from parallel to the antiparallel orientation. When switching from parallel to antiparallel the thermopower i

Shixi Chen, Shuigeng Zhou

Existing studies on differential privacy mainly consider aggregation on data sets where each entry corresponds to a particular participant to be protected. In many situations, a user may pose a relational algebra query on a sensitive database, and desires differentially private aggregation on the result of the query. However, no known work is capable to rele

T. -C. Peng, D. Despois, N. Brouillet, A. Baudry

As one of the prime targets of interstellar chemistry study, Orion BN/KL clearly shows different molecular distributions between large nitrogen- (e.g., C2H5CN) and oxygen-bearing (e.g., HCOOCH3) molecules. However, acetone (CH3)2CO, a special complex O-bearing molecule, has been shown to have a very different distribution from other typical O-bearing molecul

Niraj Khare

This article provides bounds on the size of a 3-uniform linear hypergraph with restricted matching number and maximum degree. In particular, we show that if a 3-uniform, linear family $\mathcal{F}$ has maximum matching size $ν$ and maximum degree $Δ$ such that $Δ\geq \frac{23}{6}ν(1+\frac{1}{ν-1})$, then $|\mathcal{F}|\leq Δν$.

M. G. Brik, C. G Ma

Influence of composition and external hydrostatic pressure on the structural, electronic, and optical properties of the CuGa1-xAlxS2 (x=0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0) chalcopyrite semiconductor was analyzed by means of the first-principles calculations. Dielectric functions and optical absorption spectra were calculated for all considered aluminum concentrations.

Adam Harris

We show that a natural, two sorted $\cL_{ω_1,ω}$ theory involving the modular $j$-function is categorical in all uncountable cardinaities. It is also shown that a slight weakening of the adelic Mumford-Tate conjecture for products of elliptic curves is necessary and (along with a couple of other results from arithmetic geometry) sufficient for categoricity.

Esdras Joseph, Pedro Galeano, Rosa E. Lillo

This paper presents a general notion of Mahalanobis distance for functional data that extends the classical multivariate concept to situations where the observed data are points belonging to curves generated by a stochastic process. More precisely, a new semi-distance for functional observations that generalize the usual Mahalanobis distance for multivariate

Adam Harris

We give a short proof of the main algebraic result of \cite{zilber2006covers}, also known as the `thumbtack lemma'.

A. Khukhro

We generalize the construction of Arzhantseva, Guentner and Spakula of a box space of the free group which admits a coarse embedding into Hilbert space. We show that for a finitely generated free group, the box space corresponding to the derived $m$-series (for any integer $m\geq 2$) coarsely embeds into Hilbert space. This gives new examples of metric space

Yi Zhao, Lihua Cao, Dan Dai

We study asymptotics of the partition function $Z_N$ of a Laguerre-type random matrix model when the matrix order $N$ tends to infinity. By using the Deift-Zhou steepest descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems, we obtain an asymptotic expansion of $\log Z_N$ in powers of $N^{-2}$.

C. Sabater, M. J. Caturla, J. J. Palacios, C. Untiedt

We have studied experimentally the phenomena of jump-to-contact (JC) and jump-out-of-contact (JOC) in gold electrodes. JC can be observed at the first contact when the two metals approach each other while JOC occurs in the last contact before breaking. When the indentation depth between the electrodes is limited to a certain value of conductance, a highly re

Benjamin A. Stickler, Stefan Possanner

We systematically derive a linear quantum collision operator for the spinorial Wigner transport equation from the dynamics of a composite quantum system. For suitable two particle interaction potentials, the particular matrix form of the collision operator describes spin decoherence or even spin depolarization as well as relaxation towards a certain momentum

Maurice de Gosson, Basil Hiley

We begin by giving correct expressions for the short-time action; following the work of one of us and Makri--Miller. We use these estimates to derive a correct expression modulo modulo delta(t)sqr for the quantum propagator and we show that the quantum potential is negligible modulo delta(t)sqr for a point source. We finally prove that this implies that the

Wei Xiong, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Zhiliang Zhang, Quanshui Zheng

Reversible control of surface wettability has wide applications in lab-on-chip systems, tunable optical lenses, and microfluidic tools. Using a graphene sheet as a sample material and molecular dynamic (MD) simulations, we demonstrate that strain engineering can serve as an effective way to control the surface wettability. The contact angles $θ$ of water dro

Guixin Cao, Alaska Subedi, S. Calder, J. -Q Yan

We study experimentally and theoretically the electronic and magnetic properties of two insulating double perovskites that show similar atomic and electronic structure, but different magnetic properties. In magnetization measurements, La2ZnIrO6 displays weak ferromagnetic behavior below 7.5 K whereas La2MgIrO6 shows antiferromagnetic behavior (AFM) below TN

Claudianor O. Alves, Giovany M. Figueiredo

In this paper, we are concerned with the multiplicity of nontrivial solutions for the following class of complex problems $$ (-i\nabla - A(μx))^{2}u= μ|u|^{q-2}u + |u|^{2^{*}-2}u \ \mbox{in} \ Ω, \ \ \ \ u \in H^{1}_{0}(Ω,\mathbb{C}), $$ where $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^{N} (N \geq 4)$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary. Using the Lusternik-Schnirelman theor

Yongchao Liu, Bernt Popp, Bertil Schmidt

Summary: We present an extension of CUSHAW2 for fast and accurate alignments of SOLiD color-space short-reads. Our extension introduces a double-seeding approach to improve mapping sensitivity, by combining maximal exact match seeds and variable-length seeds derived from local alignments. We have compared the performance of CUSHAW2 to SHRiMP2 and BFAST by al

Soumaya Hichri, Faouzi Benzarti, Hamid Amiri

Image sequences filtering have recently become a very important technical problem especially with the advent of new technology in multimedia and video systems applications. Often image sequences are corrupted by some amount of noise introduced by the image sensor and therefore inherently present in the imaging process. The main problem in the image sequences

Matthew Graham, Thomas House

Epidemic models currently play a central role in our attempts to understand and control infectious diseases. Here, we derive a model for the diffusion limit of stochastic susceptible-infectious-removed (SIR) epidemic dynamics on a heterogeneous network. Using this, we consider analytically the early asymptotic exponential growth phase of such epidemics, show

C. A. Weber, T. Hanke, J. Deseigne, S. Léonard

Vibrated polar disks have been used experimentally to investigate collective motion of driven particles, where fully-ordered asymptotic regimes could not be reached. Here we present a model reproducing quantitatively the single, binary and collective properties of this granular system. Using system sizes not accessible in the laboratory, we show in silico th

Léonard Monniello, Catherine Tonin, Richard Hostein, Aristide Lemaitre

We report on coherent emission of the neutral exciton state in a single semiconductor self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dot embedded in a one-dimensional waveguide, under resonant picosecond pulsed excita- tion. Direct measurements of the radiative lifetime and coherence time are performed as a function of excitation power and temperature. The characteristic

C. F. Hermanns, K. Tarafder, M. Bernien, A. Krüger

Graphene is expected to complement todays Si-based information technology. In particular, magnetic molecules in contact with graphene constitute a tantalizing approach towards organic spin electronics because of the reduced conductivity mismatch at the interface. In such a system a bit is represented by a single molecular magnetic moment, which must be stabi

Marion Erpelding, Santanu Sinha, Ken Tore Tallakstad, Alex Hansen

It is well known that the transient behavior during drainage or imbibition in multiphase flow in porous media strongly depends on the history and initial condition of the system. However, when the steady-state regime is reached and both drainage and imbibition take place at the pore level, the influence of the evolution history and initial preparation is an

Yan Gao, Ya Fei Ou

We prove here the smoothness and the irreducibility of the periodic dynatomic curves $ (c,z)\in \C^2$ such that $z$ is $n$-periodic for $z^d+c$, where $d\geq2$. We use the method provided by Xavier Buff and Tan Lei in \cite{BT} where they prove the conclusion for $d=2$. The proof for smoothness is based on elementary calculations on the pushforwards of speci

David Coudert, Luc Hogie, Aurélien Lancin, Dimitri Papadimitriou

The Autonomous System (AS)-level topology of the Internet that currently comprises 40k ASs, is growing at a rate of about 10% per year. In these conditions, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the inter-domain routing protocol of the Internet starts to show its limits, among others in terms of the number of routing table entries it can dynamically process and con

Vincent Guiot, Laurent Cario, Etienne Janod, Benoit Corraze

Mott transitions induced by strong electric fields are receiving a growing interest. Recent theoretical proposals have focused on the Zener dielectric breakdown in Mott insulators, however experimental studies are still too scarce to conclude about the mechanism. Here we report a study of the dielectric breakdown in the narrow gap Mott insulators GaTa$_4$Se$

Tao Yu, Chunming Zhang, Andrew L. Alexander, Richard J. Davidson

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) plays a key role in analyzing the physical structures of biological tissues, particularly in reconstructing fiber tracts of the human brain in vivo. On the one hand, eigenvalues of diffusion tensors (DTs) estimated from diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) data usually contain systematic bias, which subsequently biases the diffusiv

O. Romanets, C. Garcia-Recio, L. L. Salcedo, J. Nieves

We study baryon resonances with heavy flavor in a molecular approach, thus as dynamically generated by baryon-meson scattering. This is accomplished by using a unitary coupled-channel model taking, as bare interaction, the extension of the Weinberg-Tomozawa SU(3) Lagrangian. A special attention is payed to the inclusion of heavy-quark spin symmetry and to th

Olaf Bossen, Andreas Schilling, Naoki Toyota

We performed a systematic study of the ac magnetic-susceptibility on a Nb3Sn single crystal which displays a strong peak effect near the upper critical field Hc2. In external magnetic fields above 3 T, the peak effect manifests itself in a single, distinct peak in the real part of the ac susceptibility as a function of temperature T, the size of which contin

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

A key ingredient to searches for physics beyond the Standard Model in $B^{0}_{s}$ mixing phenomena is the measurement of the $B^{0}_{s}$-$\bar{B}^{0}_{s}$ oscillation frequency, which is equivalent to the mass difference $Δm_{s}$ of the $B^{0}_{s}$ mass eigenstates. Using the world's largest $B^{0}_{s}$ meson sample accumulated in a dataset, correspondin

C. Bordeanu, Gy. Gyürky, Z. Halász, T. Szücs

The astrophysically important 3He(a,g)7Be reaction was studied at high energies where the available experimental data are in contradiction. A thin window 3He gas cell was used and the cross section was measured with the activation method. The obtained cross sections at energies between Ec.m. = 1.5 and 2.5 MeV are compared with the available data and theoreti

Jaroslav Horáček, Milan Hladík

This work considers special types of interval linear systems - overdetermined systems. Simply said these systems have more equations than variables. The solution set of an interval linear system is a collection of all solutions of all instances of an interval system. By the instance we mean a point real system that emerges when we independently choose a real

Michikazu Kobayashi, Muneto Nitta

We construct stable domain walls in a shape of a torus in the Faddeev-Skyrme model with a quadratic potential term admitting two discrete vacua. The phase modulus of the domain wall is twisted P and Q times along the toroidal and poloidal cycles of the torus, respectively, where Q represents the constituent lump charge. We find that these solutions carry the

B. J Hiley

This paper traces the early history of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. It appears to have been `discovered' at least three times to my knowledge before the defining paper of Aharonov and Bohm appeared in 1959. The first hint of the effect appears in Germany in 1939, immediately disappearing from sight in those troubled times. It reappeared in a paper in 1949,

J. Kaczorowski, A. Perelli

We obtain the basic analytic properties, i.e. meromorphic continuation, polar structure and bounds for the order of growth, of all the nonlinear twists with exponents $\leq 1/d$ of the L-functions of any degree $d \geq 1$ in the extended Selberg class. In particular, this solves the resonance problem in all such cases.

U. U. Abdurakhmanov, V. V. Lugovoi

By the methods of mathematical statistics we test a qualitative prediction of the old theory of relativistic hydrodynamics non-viscous liquid which can be used as a part of the process of hadronization within the modern hydrodynamical approach for the description of the quark-gluon plasma. Experimental data on the interaction of protons with the energies of

X. Y. Gao, X. H. Sun, J. L. Han, W. Reich

The Sino-German 6cm polarization survey has mapped in total intensity and polarization intensity over an area of approximately 2200 square degrees in the Galactic disk. This survey provides an opportunity to search for Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) that were previously unknown. We discovered the new SNRs G178.2-4.2 and G25.1-2.3 which have non-thermal s

J. Martin-Hernandez, H. Wang, P. Van Mieghem, G. D'Agostino

It is well-known that the synchronization of diffusively-coupled systems on networks strongly depends on the network topology. In particular, the so-called algebraic connectivity $μ_{N-1}$, or the smallest non-zero eigenvalue of the discrete Laplacian operator plays a crucial role on synchronization, graph partitioning, and network robustness. In our study,

Robert A. Crain, Ian G. McCarthy, Joop Schaye, Carlos S. Frenk

Models of galaxy formation in a CDM universe predict that massive galaxies are surrounded by a hot, quasi-hydrostatic circumgalactic corona of slowly cooling gas, predominantly accreted from the IGM. This prediction is borne out by the cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Crain et al., which reproduce scaling relations between the X-ray and optical pro

Yang yun, Liu guofu, Yang jun, Luo xiaoliang

A novel algorithm for the discrimination of neutron and γ-ray with wavelet transform modulus maximum (WTMM) in an organic scintillation has been investigated. Voltage pulses arising from a BC501A organic liquid scintillation detector in a mixed radiation field have been recorded with a fast digital sampling oscilloscope. The performances of most pulse shape

Indranil Biswas, John Loftin, Matthias Stemmler

Let M be a compact connected special affine manifold equipped with an affine Gauduchon metric. We show that a pair (E, ϕ), consisting of a flat vector bundle E over M and a flat nonzero section ϕ of E, admits a solution to the vortex equation if and only if it is polystable. To prove this, we adapt the dimensional reduction techniques for holomorphic pairs o

R. J. Papoular, S. Yuan, R. Roldan, M. I. Katsnelson

The recent spectacular progress in the experimental and theoretical understanding of graphene, the basic constituent of graphite, is applied here to compute, from first principles, the UV extinction of nano-particles made of stacks of graphene layers. The theory also covers cases where graphene is affected by structural, chemical or orientation disorder, eac

M. De la Sen

This paper studies the properties of convergence of distances between points and the existence and uniqueness of best proximity and fixed points of the so-called semi-cyclic impulsive self-mappings on the union of a number of nonempty subsets in metric spaces. The concept of semi-cyclic self- mappings generalizes the well-known of cyclic ones in the sense th

E. Khan, J. Margueron

The measurements of the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (GMR), also called the breathing mode, are analyzed with respect to their constraints on the quantity $M_c$, e.g. the density dependence of the nuclear incompressibility around the so-called crossing density $ρ_c$=0.1 fm$^{-3}$. The correlation between the centroid of the GMR, $E_\mathrm{GMR}$, and $

M. J. Childress, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon

We examine the relationship between Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) Hubble residuals and the properties of their host galaxies using a sample of 115 SNe Ia from the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory). We use host galaxy stellar masses and specific star-formation rates fitted from photometry for all hosts, as well as gas-phase metallicities for a subset of 69 sta

M. J. Childress, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of galaxies hosting Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed by the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory). Combining GALEX UV data with optical and near infrared photometry, we employ stellar population synthesis techniques to measure SN Ia host galaxy stellar masses, star-formation rates (SFRs), and reddening

A. Yamada, K. Seki, R. Eder, Y. Ohta

The magnetic properties and Mott transition of the Hubbard model on the square lattice with frustration are studied at half-filling and zero temperature by the variational cluster approximation. When the on-site repulsion $U$ is large, magnetically disordered state is realized in highly frustrated region between the Néel and collinear phases, and no imcommen

Kurt Girstmair

In [3] it was shown that the Dedekond sums $s(m_1,n)$ and $s(m_2,n)$ are equal only if $(m_1m_2-1)(m_1-m_2)\equiv 0$ mod $n$. Here we show that the latter condition is equivalent to $12s(m_1,n)-12s(m_2,n)\in \Z$. In addition, we determine, for a given number $m_1$, the number of integers $m_2$ in the range $0\le m_2<n$, $(m_1,m_2)=1$, such that $12s(m_1,n)-1

Ken-ichi Sasaki, Yoshiaki Sekine, Kouta Tateno, Hideki Gotoh

Raman spectroscopy has been used in chemistry and physics to investigate the fundamental process involving light and phonons (quantum of lattice vibration). The carbon nanohorn introduces a new subject to Raman spectroscopy, namely topology. We show theoretically that a photo-excited carrier with a non-zero winding number activates a topological $D$ Raman ba

Artur M. Ankowski

Good understanding of the cross sections for (anti)neutrino scattering off nuclear targets in the few-GeV energy region is a prerequisite for the correct interpretation of results of ongoing and planned oscillation experiments. To clarify a possible source of disagreement between recent measurements of the cross sections on carbon, we analyze the available d

Y. J. Choi, N. Lee, P. A. Sharma, S. B. Kim

Although abundant research has focused recently on the quantum criticality of itinerant magnets, critical phenomena of insulating magnets in the vicinity of critical endpoints (CEP&#39;s) have rarely been revealed. Here we observe an emergent CEP at 2.05 T and 2.2 K with a suppressed thermal conductivity and concomitant strong critical fluctuations evident v

Ankit Chaudhary, Ankur Gupta

In Computer Vision, colour-based spatial techniquesoften assume a static skin colour model. However, skin colour perceived by a camera can change when lighting changes. In common real environment multiple light sources impinge on the skin. Moreover, detection techniques may vary when the image under study is taken under different lighting condition than the

Nikos Daniilidis, Dylan J Gorman, Lin Tian, Hartmut Häffner

We describe a parametric frequency conversion scheme for trapped charged particles which enables a coherent interface between atomic and solid-state quantum systems. The scheme uses geometric non-linearities of the potential of a coupling electrode near a trapped particle. Our scheme does not rely on actively driven solid-state devices, and is hence largely

A. Dalafi, M. H. Naderi, M. Soltanolkotabi

We investigate the effects of atomic collisions as well as optomechanical mirror-field coupling on the optical bistability in a hybrid system consisting of a Bose-Einstein condensate inside a driven optical cavity with a moving end mirror. It is shown that the bistability of the system can be controlled by the s-wave scattering frequency which can provide th

N. Nettelmann, R. Puestow, R. Redmer

The core mass of Saturn is commonly assumed to be 10-25 ME as predicted by interior models with various equations of state (EOSs) and the Voyager gravity data, and hence larger than that of Jupiter (0-10 ME). We here re-analyze Saturn&#39;s internal structure and evolution by using more recent gravity data from the Cassini mission and different physical equa

Yang Yong-Liang, Ma Tian-Ji, Sun Bao-Gen, Wang Ji-Gang

For the HLS-II bunch current measurement system, in order to obtain the absolute value of bunch current, the calibration factor should be determined by using DCCT. At the HLS storage ring, the stretch effect of bunch length is observed and the change rate is about 19% when the bunch current decays over time and this will affect the performance of bunch curre

J. P. Jaiswal

In the present paper, by approximating the derivatives in the Kou et al. \cite{Kou} fourth-order method by central difference quotient, we obtain new modification of this method free from derivatives. We prove the important fact that the method obtained preserve their order of convergence, without calculating any derivative. Finally, numerical tests confirm

J. P. Jaiswal, Neha Choubey

We established a new eighth-order iterative method, consisting of three steps, for solving nonlinear equations. Per iteration the method requires four evaluations (three function evaluations and one evaluation of the first derivative). Convergence analysis shows that this method is eighth-order convergent which is also substantiated through the numerical wor

Senoussaoui Abderrahmane

The purpose of this paper is to show that the operator \begin{equation*} H\left(h\right) =-h^{2}Δ_{x}-Δ_{y}+V\left(x,y\right), \end{equation*}% $V$ is continuous (or $V\in L^{2}\left(\mathbb{R}_{x}^{n}\times \mathbb{R}%_{y}^{p}\right) $), and $V\left(x,y\right) \rightarrow \infty $ as $% \left\Vert x\right\Vert +\left\Vert y\right\Vert \rightarrow \infty,$ h

Yuta Orikasa

Bardeen has argued that once the classically conformal invariance and its minimal violation by quantum anomalies are imposed on the SM, it can be free from the quadratic divergences and hence the gauge hierarchy problem. Under the hypothesis, We investigated the minimal B-L extended SM with a flat Higgs potential at the Planck scale. In this model, the B-L s

Steffen Weimann, Yi Xu, Robert Keil, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

We describe theoretically and observe experimentally the formation of a surface state in a semi-infnite waveguide array with side-coupled waveguide, designed to simultaneously achieve Fano and Fabry-Perot resonances. We demonstrate that the surface mode is compact, with all energy concentrated in few waveguides at the edge and no field penetration beyond the

Y. Tanimura, K. Hagino, P. Ring

We solve the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equations for a spherical mean field and a pairing potential with the inverse Hamiltonian method, which we have developed for the solution of the Dirac equation. This method is based on the variational principle for the inverse Hamiltonian, and is applicable to Hamiltonians that are bound neither from above nor belo

Eric Ould Dadah Andriantiana, Stephan Wagner

Let $λ_1,\dots,λ_n$ be the eigenvalues of a graph $G$. For any $k\geq 0$, the $k$-th spectral moment of $G$ is defined by $\M_k(G)=λ_1^k+\dots+λ_n^k$. We use the fact that $\M_k(G)$ is also the number of closed walks of length $k$ in $G$ to show that among trees $T$ whose degree sequence is $D$ or majorized by $D$, $\M_k(T)$ is maximized by the greedy tree w

João Paulo dos Santos, Keti Tenenblat

We consider conformally flat hypersurfaces in four dimensional space forms with their associated Guichard nets and Lamé&#39;s system of equations. We show that the symmetry group of the Lamé&#39;s system, satisfying Guichard condition, is given by translations and dilations in the independent variables and dilations in the dependents variables. We obtain the

Tanya Khovanova, Ziv Scully

Efficient matrix determinant calculations have been studied since the 19th century. Computers expand the range of determinants that are practically calculable to include matrices with symbolic entries. However, the fastest determinant algorithms for numerical matrices are often not the fastest for symbolic matrices with many variables. We compare the perform

Youssef El-Khatib, Abdulnasser Hatemi-J

One of the shortcomings of the Black and Scholes model on option pricing is the assumption that trading of the underlying asset does not affect the price of that asset. This assumption can be fulfilled only in perfectly liquid markets. Since most markets are illquid, this assumption might be too restrictive. Thus, taking into account the price impact in opti