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  1. Christophe Buet, Bruno Després, Emmanuel Franck

    In this paper we propose an asymptotic preserving scheme for a family of Friedrichs systems on unstructured meshes based on a decomposition between the hyperbolic heat equation and a linear hyperbolic which not involved in the di usive regime. For the hyperbolic heat equation we use asymptotic preserving schemes recently designed previously. To discretize th

  2. Kieran Smallbone

    We have created a genome-scale network reconstruction of Escherichia coli metabolism. Existing reconstructions were improved in terms of annotation standards, to facilitate their subsequent use in dynamic modelling. The resultant network is available from EcoliNet (http://ecoli.sf.net/).

  3. Lei Wang, Yijuan Xu, Zengru Di, Bertrand M. Roehner

    The phenomenon of apoptosis observed in cell cultures consists in the fact that unless cells permanently receive a "Stay alive" signal from their neighbors, they are bound to die. A natural question is whether manifestations of this apoptosis paradigm can also be observed in other organizations of living organisms. In this paper we report results fro

  4. Tarek Sayed Ahmed

    While every polyadic algebra ($\PA$) of dimension 2 is representable, we show that not every atomic polyadic algebra of dimension two is completely representable; though the class is elementary. Using higly involved constructions of Hirsch and Hodkinson we show that it is not elementary for higher dimensions a result that, to the best of our knowledge, thoug

  5. Tarek Sayed Ahmed

    Let L be a quantifier predicate logic. Let K be a class of algebras. We say that K is sensitive to L, if there is an algebra in K, that is L interpretable into an another algebra, and this latter algebra is elementary equivalent to an algebra not in K. (In particular, if L is L_{ω,ω}, this means that K is not elementary). We show that the class of neat reduc

  6. Tarek Sayed Ahmed

    We show that for 1<n<m, the class Nr_nCA_m known to be non-elementary is pseudo elementary. When n and m are finite we use a two sorted theory, when n is finite and m infinite we use a three sorted one, and finally when both are infinite we use a four sorted defining theory. Our non finite axiomatizability result, follows from the fact that for 2<n<m, and an

  7. Caleb Holloway, Tavan Trent

    We extend Wolff&#39;s theorem concerning ideals on H-infinity(D) to the matrix case, giving conditions under which an H-infinity solution G to the equation FG = H exists for all z in D, where F is an m-by-infinity matrix of functions in H-infinity (D), and H is an m-by-1 vector of such functions. We then examine several useful results.

  8. Flavia Maria Darcie Marquitti, Paulo Roberto Guimaraes, Mathias Mistretta Pires, Luiz Fernando Bittencourt

    Ecological systems can be seen as networks of interactions between individual, species, or habitat patches. A key feature of many ecological networks is their organization into modules, which are subsets of elements that are more connected to each other than to the other elements in the network. We introduce MODULAR to perform rapid and autonomous calculatio

  9. Nathan De Lee, Jian Ge, Justin R. Crepp, Jason Eastman

    We describe the discovery of a likely brown dwarf (BD) companion with a minimum mass of 31.7 +/- 2.0 M_Jup to GSC 03546-01452 from the MARVELS radial velocity survey, which we designate as MARVELS-6b. For reasonable priors, our analysis gives a probability of 72% that MARVELS-6b has a mass below the hydrogen-burning limit of 0.072 M_Sun, and thus it is a hig

  10. Thomas Brihaye, Morgane Estiévenart, Gilles Geeraerts

    One clock alternating timed automata OCATA have been recently introduced as natural extension of (one clock) timed automata to express the semantics of MTL (Ouaknine, Worrell 2005). We consider the application of OCATA to problem of model-checking MITL formulas (a syntactic fragment of MTL) against timed automata. We introduce a new semantics for OCATA where

  11. O. Hen, D. W. Higinbotham, G. A. Miller, E. Piasetzky

    Recent developments in understanding the influence of the nucleus on deep-inelastic structure functions, the EMC effect, are reviewed. A new data base which expresses ratios of structure functions in terms of the Bjorken variable $x_A=AQ^2/(2M_A q_0)$ is presented. Information about two-nucleon short-range correlations from experiments is also discussed and

  12. Afonso S. Bandeira, Katya Scheinberg, Luis Nunes Vicente

    We consider the problem of recovering a partially sparse solution of an underdetermined system of linear equations by minimizing the $\ell_1$-norm of the part of the solution vector which is known to be sparse. Such a problem is closely related to a classical problem in Compressed Sensing where the $\ell_1$-norm of the whole solution vector is minimized. We

  13. Afonso S. Bandeira, Katya Scheinberg, Luis Nunes Vicente

    In this paper we consider the use of probabilistic or random models within a classical trust-region framework for optimization of deterministic smooth general nonlinear functions. Our method and setting differs from many stochastic optimization approaches in two principal ways. Firstly, we assume that the value of the function itself can be computed without

  14. Adam Paetznick, Austin G. Fowler

    The fragile nature of quantum information limits our ability to construct large quantities of quantum bits suitable for quantum computing. An important goal, therefore, is to minimize the amount of resources required to implement quantum algorithms, many of which are serial in nature and leave large numbers of qubits idle much of the time unless compression

  15. Helge Krueger

    We show that a large class of limit-periodic Schrödinger operators has purely absolutely continuous spectrum in arbitrary dimensions. This result was previously known only in dimension one. The proof proceeds through the non-perturbative construction of limit-periodic extended states. An essential step is a new estimate of the probability (in quasi-momentum)

  16. Andrey M. Mishchenko

    This article is a gentle introduction to the mathematical area known as circle packing, the study of the kinds of patterns that can be formed by configurations of non-overlapping circles. The first half of the article is an exposition of the two most important facts about circle packings, (1) that essentially whatever pattern (i.e. combinatorics) we ask for,

  17. X. Zubizarreta, E. V. Chulkov, V. M. Silkin

    A theoretical study of the surface energy-loss function of freestanding Pb(111) thin films is presented, starting from the single monolayer case. The calculations are carried applying the linear response theory, with inclusion of the electron band structure by means of a first-principles pseudopotential approach using a supercell scheme. Quantum-size effects

  18. Andrzej Derdzinski, Swiatoslaw R. Gal

    The Killing form β of a real (or complex) semisimple Lie group G is a left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian (or, respectively, holomorphic) Einstein metric. Let Ω denote the multiple of its curvature operator, acting on symmetric 2-tensors, with the factor chosen so that Ωβ=2β. The result of Meyberg [8], describing the spectrum of Ω in complex simple Lie groups G

  19. Abolfazl Motahari, Kannan Ramchandran, David Tse, Nan Ma

    We establish the fundamental limits of DNA shotgun sequencing under noisy reads. We show a surprising result: for the i.i.d. DNA model, noisy reads are as good as noiseless reads, provided that the noise level is below a certain threshold which can be surprisingly high. As an example, for a uniformly distributed DNA sequence and a symmetric substitution nois

  20. Peter Eichelsbacher, Bastian Martschink

    We derive rates of convergence for limit theorems that reveal the intricate structure of the phase transitions in a mean-field version of the Blume-Emery-Griffith model. The theorems consist of scaling limits for the total spin. The model depends on the inverse temperature $β$ and the interaction strength $K$. The rates of convergence results are obtained as

  21. Adam R. Day, Joseph S. Miller

    We present a notion of forcing that can be used, in conjunction with other results, to show that there is a Martin-Löf random set X such that X does not compute 0&#39; and X computes every K-trivial set.

  22. Giulia Battilotti

    In a predicative framework from basic logic, defined for a model of quantum parallelism by sequents, we characterize a class of first order domains, termed {\em virtual singletons}, which allows a generalization of the notion of duality, termed {\em symmetry}. Although consistent with the classical notion of duality, symmetry creates an environment where neg

  23. I. Soszynski, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak

    The fifteenth part of the OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars (OIII-CVS) contains 232,406 long-period variables (LPVs) detected in the OGLE-II and OGLE-III fields toward the Galactic bulge. The sample consists of 6528 Mira stars, 33,235 semiregular variables and 192,643 OGLE small amplitude red giants. The catalog data and data resources that are being publis

  24. A. Thilagam

    We study the quantum dynamics of conversion of composite bosons into fermionic fragment species with increasing densities of bound fermion pairs using the open quantum system approach. The Hilbert space of $N$-state-function is decomposed into a composite boson subspace and an orthogonal fragment subspace of quasi-free fermions that enlarges as the composite

  25. Christopher S. Deans

    We report on recent progress in the NNPDF framework of global PDF analysis. The NNPDF2.3 set is the first and only available PDF set with includes LHC data. A recent benchmark comparison of NNPDF2.3 and all other modern NNLO PDF sets with LHC data was performed. We have also studied theoretical uncertainties due to heavy quark renormalization schemes, higher

  26. A. K. Dupree, R. P. Stefanik

    Direct images of Betelgeuse were obtained over a span of 4 years with the Faint Object Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. These images reveal the extended ultraviolet continuum emission (about 2 times the optical diameter), the varying overall ultraviolet flux levels and a pattern of bright surface continuum features that change in position and appearance

  27. Avishai Benyamini, Assaf Hamo, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Felix von Oppen

    The coupling between electrons and phonons is at the heart of many fundamental phenomena in physics. In nature, this coupling is generally predetermined for both, molecules and solids. Tremendous advances have been made in controlling electrons and phonons in engineered nanosystems, yet, control over the coupling between these degrees of freedom is still wid

  28. A. Summa, A. Ulyanov, M. Kromer, S. Boyer

    Besides the fact that the gamma-ray emission due to radioactive decays is responsible for powering the light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), gamma rays themselves are of particular interest as a diagnostic tool because they provide a direct way to obtain deeper insights into the nucleosynthesis and the kinematics of these explosion events. Focusing on

  29. M. Vitale, M. Mignoli, A. Cimatti, S. J. Lilly

    We investigate the link between AGN activity, star-formation and stellar mass of the host galaxy at 0<z<1, looking for spectroscopic traces of AGN and aging of the host. This work provides an extension of the existing studies at z<0.1 and contributes to shed light on galaxy evolution at intermediate redshifts. We used the zCOSMOS 20k data to create a sample

  30. Nathan W. C. Leigh, Aaron M. Geller

    Over the last few decades, observational surveys have revealed that high-order multiple-star systems (e.g. triples, quadruples, etc.), and triples in particular, are common in our Galaxy. In this paper, we consider the dynamical significance of this transformation in our understanding of stellar multiplicity. Using empirically constrained binary and triple f

  31. V. Silva Aguirre, S. Basu, I. M. Brandão, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

    Using asteroseismic data and stellar evolution models we make the first detection of a convective core in a Kepler field main-sequence star, putting a stringent constraint on the total size of the mixed zone and showing that extra mixing beyond the formal convective boundary exists. In a slightly less massive target the presence of a convective core cannot b

  32. Michele Cicoli, Sven Krippendorf, Christoph Mayrhofer, Fernando Quevedo

    We present novel continuous supersymmetric transitions which take place among different chiral configurations of D3/D7 branes at singularities in the context of type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications. We find that distinct local models which admit a consistent global embedding can actually be connected to each other along flat directions by means of transitio

  33. Stefan Kraus, Michael J. Ireland, Michael L. Sitko, John D. Monnier

    Pre-transitional disks are protoplanetary disks with a gapped disk structure, potentially indicating the presence of young planets in these systems. In order to explore the structure of these objects and their gap-opening mechanism, we observed the pre-transitional disk V1247 Orionis using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, the Keck Interferometer, Kec

  34. Robert Schaffer, Subhro Bhattacharjee, Yong Baek Kim

    Localized magnetic moments with crystal-field doublet or pseudo-spin 1/2 may arise in correlated insulators with even number of electrons and strong spin-orbit coupling. Such a non-Kramers pseudo-spin 1/2 is the consequence of crystalline symmetries as opposed to the Kramers doublet arising from time-reversal invariance, and is necessarily a composite of spi

  35. Francesco Fermani, Ralph Schönrich

    We measure the rotation of the Milky Way stellar halo on two samples of Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) field halo stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with four different methods. The two samples comprise 1582 and 2563 stars respectively and reach out to ~50 kpc in galactocentric distance. Two of the methods to measure rotation rely exclusively on li

  36. Andreas Koch, Sofia Feltzing, Daniel Aden, Francesca Matteucci

    We present an assessment of the barium abundance ratios for red giant member stars in the faint Hercules dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy. Our results are drawn from intermediate-resolution FLAMES/GIRAFFE spectra around the Ba II 6141.71 AA absorption line at low signal-to-noise ratios. For three brighter stars we were able to gain estimates from direct equiva

  37. Matthias Gottwald, Jimmy J. Kan, Kangho Lee, Seung H. Kang

    Exchange coupling between two magnetic layers through an interlayer is of broad interest for numerous recent applications of nano-magnetic systems. In this Letter we study ferromagnetic exchange coupling through amorphous paramagnetic Fe-Ta alloys. We show that the exchange coupling depends exponentially on spacer thickness and scales with the Fe-Ta suscepti

  38. Muhammad Muddassar, Muhammad Iqbal Bhatti

    In this paper, we establish various inequalities for some differentiable mappings that are linked with the illustrious Hermite- Hadamard integral inequality for mappings whose derivatives are (h -($α$?;m))-convex.The generalized integral inequalities contribute some better estimates than some already presented. The inequalities are then applied to numerical

  39. D. Gangopadhyay, D. Home, A. Sinha Roy

    The Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) as a temporal analogue of Bell&#39;s inequality, derived using the notion of realism, is applied in a hitherto unexplored context involving the weak interaction induced two-state oscillations of decaying neutral kaons and neutrinos. The maximum violation of LGI obtained from the quantum mechanical results is significantly hi

  40. D. Ciuonzo, P. K. Willett, Y. Bar-Shalom

    Target motion analysis with wideband passive sonar has received much attention. Maximum likelihood probabilistic data-association (ML-PDA) represents an asymptotically efficient estimator for deterministic target motion, and is especially well-suited for low-observable targets; the results presented here apply to situations with higher signal to noise ratio

  41. Stavros Garoufalidis, Rinat Kashaev

    It is well-known to the experts that multi-dimensional state integrals of products of Faddeev&#39;s quantum dilogarithm which arise in Quantum Topology can be written as finite sums of products of basic hypergeometric series in q=e^{2πiτ} and \tilde{q}=e^{-2πi/τ}. We illustrate this fact by giving a detailed proof for a family of one-dimensional integrals wh

  42. Lara B. Anderson, James Gray, Andre Lukas, Burt Ovrut

    We discuss the use of gauge fields to stabilize complex structure moduli in Calabi-Yau three-fold compactifications of heterotic string and M-theory. The requirement that the gauge fields in such models preserve supersymmetry leads to a complicated landscape of vacua in complex structure moduli space. We develop methods to systematically map out this multi-b

  43. Patrick S Lii, Marina M. Romanova, Galina V. Ustyugova, Alexander V. Koldoba

    We present the results of axisymmetric simulations of MRI-driven accretion onto a rapidly rotating, magnetized star accreting in the propeller regime. The stellar magnetosphere corotates with the star, forming a centrifugal barrier at the disc-magnetosphere boundary which inhibits matter accretion onto the star. Instead, the disc matter accumulates at the di

  44. L. Alvarez-Ruso, J. Nieves, E. Wang

    We report on our study of photon emission induced by Enu ~ 1 GeV (anti)neutrino neutral current interactions with nucleons and nuclei. This process is an important background for nu_e appearance oscillation experiments. At the relevant energies, the reaction is dominated by the excitation of the Delta (1232) resonance but there are also non-resonant contribu

  45. Melissa A. Morris, Steven J. Desch

    Phyllosilicates are hydrous minerals formed by interaction between rock and liquid water and are commonly found in meteorites originating in the asteroid belt. Collisions between asteroids contribute to zodiacal dust, which therefore reasonably could include phyllosilicates. Collisions between planetesimals in protoplanetary disks may also produce dust conta

  46. Ammar Nejati, Seyyed Mehdi Hosseini Jenab

    The quantity and quality of scientific output of the topmost 50 countries in the four basic sciences (agricultural and biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics, and physics and astronomy) are studied in the period of the recent 12 years (1996-2007). In order to rank the countries, a novel two-dimensional method is proposed, which is inspired by the H-inde

  47. Lucie Montuelle, Erwan Le Pennec, Serge Cohen

    We wish to estimate conditional density using Gaussian Mixture Regression model with logistic weights and means depending on the covariate. We aim at selecting the number of components of this model as well as the other parameters by a penalized maximum likelihood approach. We provide a lower bound on penalty, proportional up to a logarithmic term to the dim

  48. Jan L. Cieśliński

    We present a new class of exponential integrators for ordinary differential equations: locally exact modifications of known numerical schemes. Local exactness means that they preserve the linearization of the original system at every point. In particular, locally exact integrators preserve all fixed points and are A-stable. We apply this approach to popular

  49. Mathias Niepert

    The Rao-Blackwell theorem is utilized to analyze and improve the scalability of inference in large probabilistic models that exhibit symmetries. A novel marginal density estimator is introduced and shown both analytically and empirically to outperform standard estimators by several orders of magnitude. The developed theory and algorithms apply to a broad cla

  50. Chrysostomos Psaroudakis, Jorge Vitoria

    We establish a correspondence between recollements of abelian categories up to equivalence and certain TTF-triples. For a module category we show, moreover, a correspondence with idempotent ideals, recovering a theorem of Jans. Furthermore, we show that a recollement whose terms are module categories is equivalent to one induced by an idempotent element, thu

  51. Ming-chang Kang, Boris Kunyavskii

    The Bogomolov multiplier of a finite group $G$ is defined as the subgroup of the Schur multiplier consisting of the cohomology classes vanishing after restriction to all abelian subgroups of $G$. This invariant of $G$ plays an important role in birational geometry of quotient spaces $V/G$. We show that in many cases the vanishing of the Bogomolov multiplier

  52. Yong Liu, M. A. Tanatar, V. G. Kogan, Hyunsoo Kim

    Measurements of temperature-dependent in-plane resistivity, $ρ(T)$, were used to determine the upper critical field and its anisotropy in high quality single crystals of stoichiometric iron arsenide superconductor KFe$_2$As$_2$. The crystals were characterized by residual resistivity ratio, $ρ(300K)/ρ(0)$ up to 3000 and resistive transition midpoint temperat

  53. Majid Ghaderi, Dennis Goeckel, Ariel Orda, Mostafa Dehghan

    There is a rich recent literature on how to assist secure communication between a single transmitter and receiver at the physical layer of wireless networks through techniques such as cooperative jamming. In this paper, we consider how these single-hop physical layer security techniques can be extended to multi-hop wireless networks and show how to augment p

  54. Vladislav V. Serov, Vladimir L. Derbov, Tatyana A. Sergeeva

    We consider the time delay of electron detachment from a Coulomb center and two-center systems in the process of ionization. It is shown that the attosecond streaking, most usual method of time delay measure, can be formally described by placing a virtual detector of the arrival time delay at a certain distance from the center of the system. This approach al

  55. Yao Nan, Qian Feng, Sun Zuolei

    Dimensionality reduction (DR) of image features plays an important role in image retrieval and classification tasks. Recently, two types of methods have been proposed to improve the both the accuracy and efficiency for the dimensionality reduction problem. One uses Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to describe the image distribution on the space of bas

  56. Daniel Fried, Stephen G. Kobourov

    We describe a practical approach for visual exploration of research papers. Specifically, we use the titles of papers from the DBLP database to create what we call maps of computer science (MoCS). Words and phrases from the paper titles are the cities in the map, and countries are created based on word and phrase similarity, calculated using co-occurrence. W

  57. José María Grau, Antonio M. Oller-Marcén

    In this paper we characterize, in terms of the prime divisors of $n$, the pairs $(k,n)$ for which $n$ divides $\sum_{j=1}^n j^{k}$. As an application, we study the sets $\mathcal{M}_f :=\{n: n \textrm{divides} \sum_{j=1}^n j^{f(n)} \}$ for some choices of $f$.

  58. D. R. Yafaev

    For self-adjoint Hankel operators of finite rank, we find an explicit formula for the total multiplicity of their negative and positive spectra. We also show that very strong perturbations, for example, a perturbation by the Carleman operator, do not change the total number of negative eigenvalues of finite rank Hankel operators.

  59. Jean Souviron

    Convex hulls are a fundamental geometric tool used in a number of algorithms. A famous paper by Akl and Toussaint in 1978 described a way to reduce the number of points involved in the computation, which is since known as the Akl-Toussaint heuristics. This paper first studies what this heurstics really represents in terms of reduction of points and demonstra

  60. P. Szumniak, S. Bednarek, J. Pawłowski, B. Partoens

    In this paper, several nanodevices which realize basic single heavy hole qubit operations are proposed and supported by time dependent self consistent Poisson-Schrödinger calculations using a four band heavy hole-light hole model. In particular we propose a set of nanodevices which can act as Pauli X, Y, Z quantum gates and as a gate that acts similar as a H

  61. R. K. Saito, D. Minniti, R. Angeloni, M. Catelan

    Near-IR data of Classical Novae contain useful information about the ejected gas mass and the thermal emission by dust formed during eruption, and provide independent methods to classify the objects according to the colour of their progenitors, and the fading rate and features seen after eruption. The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey (VVV) is a near-

  62. J. E. Steiner, R. B. Menezes, Daniel Amorim

    The central parsec of the Milky Way is a very special region of our Galaxy; it contains the supermassive black hole associated with Sgr A* as well as a significant number of early-type stars and a complex structure of streamers of neutral and ionized gas, within two parsecs from the centre, representing a unique laboratory. We report the identification of a

  63. Jorge Gomes, Fernando Silva, Teresa Chambel

    The matching of the soundtrack in a movie or a video can have an enormous influence in the message being conveyed and its impact, in the sense of involvement and engagement, and ultimately in their aesthetic and entertainment qualities. Art is often associated with creativity, implying the presence of inspiration, originality and appropriateness. Evolutionar

  64. Kathryn Mann

    In this paper we discuss the relationship between groups of diffeomorphisms of spheres and balls. We survey results of a topological nature and then address the relationship as abstract (discrete) groups. We prove that the identity component Diff_0(S^{2n-1}) of the group of smooth diffeomorphisms of S^{2n+1} admits no nontrivial homomorphisms to the group of

  65. Razvan Gurau

    We analyze in full mathematical rigor the most general quartically perturbed invariant probability measure for a random tensor. Using a version of the Loop Vertex Expansion (which we call the mixed expansion) we show that the cumulants write as explicit series in 1/N plus bounded rest terms. The mixed expansion recasts the problem of determining the subleadi

  66. Augusto Nobile

    An algorithm for resolution of singularities in characteristic zero is described. It is expressed in terms of multi-ideals, that essentially are defined as a finite sequence of pairs, each one consiting of a sheaf of ideals and a positive integer. This approach is particularly simple and, as indicated by some results shown here, it seems suitable for applica

  67. Qiyu Sun

    Let $1\le p\le \infty$. In this paper, we consider solving a nonlinear functional equation $$f(x)=y,$$ where $x, y$ belong to $\ell^p$ and $f$ has continuous bounded gradient in an inverse-closed subalgebra of ${\mathcal B}(\ell^2)$, the Banach algebra of all bounded linear operators on the Hilbert space $\ell^2$. We introduce strict monotonicity property fo

  68. J. Navarro, A. Polls

    We study the effects of the tensor force, present in modern effective nucleon-nucleon interactions, in the spin instability of nuclear and neutron matter. Stability conditions of the system against certain very low energy excitation modes are expressed in terms of Landau parameters. It is shown that in the spin case, the stability conditions are equivalent t

  69. M. F. Bashir, S. Zaheer, Z. Iqbal, G. Murtaza

    Employing linearized Vlasov-Maxwell system, the Weibel instability embedded in an ambient magnetic field is discussed for a semi-relativistic bi-Maxwellian distribution hoping such a scenario occurs in some relativistic environments e.g., gamma-ray burst sources and relativistic jet sources, supernovae, and galactic cosmic rays where the perpendicular temper

  70. Brian Moths, T. A. Witten

    We present a method of organizing incoherent motion of a colloidal suspension to produce synchronized, coherent motion. This method exploits general features of rotational response to time-dependent forcing, and it does not require interaction between the particles. We report two methods of achieving orientational alignment of an ensemble of identical colloi

  71. Laura Bethke, Daniel G. Figueroa, Arttu Rajantie

    We investigate the anisotropies in the gravitational wave (GW) background produced at preheating after inflation. Using lattice field theory simulations of a massless preheating model, we show that the GW amplitude depends sensitively on the value of the decay product field chi coupled to the inflaton phi, with the only requisite that chi is light during inf

  72. K. Ziegler

    We study the evolution of a photonic state in a coupled pair of anharmonic cavities and compare it with the corresponding system of two coupled harmonic cavities. The photons in the anharmonic cavities interact with a two-level atom and are described within the Jaynes-Cummings model. Starting from an eigenstate of the Jaynes-Cummings model with N photons, th

  73. Daniel Boer, Wilco J. den Dunnen, Cristian Pisano, Marc Schlegel

    We calculate the diphoton distribution in the decay of arbitrary spin-0 and spin-2 bosons produced from gluon fusion, taking into account the fact that gluons inside an unpolarized proton are generally linearly polarized. The gluon polarization brings about a difference in the transverse momentum distribution of positive and negative parity states. At the sa

  74. Marc Rabaud, Frédéric Moisy

    From the analysis of a set of airborne images of ship wakes, we show that the wake angles decrease as $U^{-1}$ at large velocities, in a way similar to the Mach cone for supersonic airplanes. This previously unnoticed Mach-like regime is in contradiction with the celebrated Kelvin prediction of a constant angle of $19.47\degree$ independent of the ship&#39;s

  75. Maria Ramirez-Solano

    In the article &#34;Construction of the continuous hull for the combinatorics of a regular pentagonal tiling of the plane&#34; we constructed a compact topological space for the combinatorics of &#34;A regular pentagonal tiling of the plane&#34;, which we call the continuous hull. We also constructed a substitution map on the space which turns out to be a ho

  76. Gang Tian, Zhenlei Zhang

    In this short note we announce a regularity theorem for Kähler-Ricci flow on a compact Fano manifold (Kähler manifold with positive first Chern class) and its application to the limiting behavior of Kähler-Ricci flow on Fano 3-manifolds. Moreover, we also present a partial $C^0$ estimate to the Kähler-Ricci flow under the regularity assumption, which extends

  77. Vladimir Manuilov

    We show that the K-theory of C*-algebras can be defined by pairs of matrices satisfying less strict relations than idempotency.

  78. M. Lantz, D. Gorelov, A. Jokinen, V. S. Kolhinen

    The upgraded IGISOL facility with JYFLTRAP, at the accelerator laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä, has been supplied with a new cyclotron which will provide protons of the order of 100 μA with up to 30 MeV energy, or deuterons with half the energy and intensity. This makes it an ideal place for measurements of neutron-induced fission products from var

  79. M. Caamaño, O. Delaune, F. Farget, X. Derkx

    A novel method to access the complete identification in atomic number Z and mass A of fragments produced in low-energy fission of actinides is presented. This method, based on the use of multi- nucleon transfer and fusion reactions in inverse kinematics, is applied in this work to reactions between a 238U beam and a 12C target to produce and induce fission o

  80. Li-Hua Luu, Gustavo Castillo, Nicolás Mujica, Rodrigo Soto

    In this supplementary paper we present some details on the solid-liquid interface detection, the deduction of the non-equilibrium free energy, the analysis of the granular temperature and energy per mode, a validation of the small slope approximation, a description of the Langevin dynamics, and the error analysis.

  81. F. Hofmann, W. Pietsch, M. Henze, F. Haberl

    [Abridged] The central field of the Andromeda galaxy (M 31) has been monitored, using the Chandra HRC-I detector (about 0.1-10 keV energy range) from 2006 to 2012 with the main aim to detect X-rays from optical novae. We present a systematic analysis of all X-ray sources found in the 41 nova monitoring observations, along with 23 M 31 central field HRC-I obs

  82. Yan Jin, Jin-Kao Hao, Jean-Philippe Hamiez

    Given an undirected graph $G$, the Minimum Sum Coloring problem (MSCP) is to find a legal assignment of colors (represented by natural numbers) to each vertex of $G$ such that the total sum of the colors assigned to the vertices is minimized. This paper presents a memetic algorithm for MSCP based on a tabu search procedure with two neighborhoods and a multi-

  83. Yan-Hong Bao, Yu Ye

    We introduce the enveloping algebra for a Leibniz pair, and show that the category of modules over a Leibniz pair is isomorphic to the category of left modules over its enveloping algebra. Consequently, we show that the cohomology theory for a Leibniz pair introduced by Flato, Gerstenhaber and Voronov can be interpreted by Ext-groups of modules over the enve

  84. A. Hartin, G. Moortgat-Pick, S. Porto

    Future lepton colliders will be precision machines whose physics program includes close study of the Higgs sector and searches for new physics via polarised beams. The luminosity requirements of such machines entail very intense lepton bunches at the interaction point with associated strong electromagnetic fields. These strong fields not only lead to obvious

  85. Eric Cancès, Virginie Ehrlacher, Tony Lelièvre

    In this article, we present two new greedy algorithms for the computation of the lowest eigenvalue (and an associated eigenvector) of a high-dimensional eigenvalue problem, and prove some convergence results for these algorithms and their orthogonalized versions. The performance of our algorithms is illustrated on numerical test cases (including the computat

  86. Wen-Jun Hu, Federico Becca, Alberto Parola, Sandro Sorella

    By direct calculations of the spin gap in the frustrated Heisenberg model on the square lattice, with nearest- ($J_1$) and next-nearest-neighbor ($J_2$) super-exchange couplings, we provide a solid evidence that the spin-liquid phase in the frustrated regime $0.45 \lesssim J_2/J_1 \lesssim 0.6$ is gapless. Our numerical method is based on a variational wave

  87. Lorenzo Paulatto, Francesco Mauri, Michele Lazzeri

    We have implemented a generic method, based on the 2n+1 theorem within density functional perturbation theory, to calculate the anharmonic scattering coefficients among three phonons with arbitrary wavevectors. The method is used to study the phonon broadening in graphite and graphene mono- and bi-layer. The broadening of the high-energy optical branches is

  88. Mike D. Schneider, Ken D. Olum

    Anthropic reasoning is a critical tool to understand probabilities, especially in a large universe or multiverse. According to anthropic reasoning, we should consider ourselves typical among members of a reference class that must include all subjectively indistinguishable observers. We discuss here whether such a reference class, which we assume must include

  89. Adriano Barra, Gino Del Ferraro, Daniele Tantari

    Following an original idea of F. Guerra, in this notes we analyze the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model from different perspectives, all sharing the underlying approach which consists in linking the resolution of the statistical mechanics of the model (e.g. solving for the free energy) to well-known partial differential equation (PDE) problems (in suitable space

  90. Lionel Bérard Bergery

    That announcement gives the structure of totally reducible linear Lie algebras which are the Lie algebra of the holonomy group of (at least) one torsion-free connection. The result uses the (already known) classi cation of the irreducible ones and some previous (unpublished) works by the author giving the classi cation for the pseudo-riemannian totally reduc

  91. Frédéric Bayart

    Given a bounded operator $T$ on a Banach space $X$, we study the existence of a probability measure $μ$ on $X$ such that, for many functions $f:X\to\mathbb K$, the sequence $(f+\dots+f\circ T^{n-1})/\sqrt n$ converges in distribution to a Gaussian random variable.

  92. Demba Barry

    We study the decomposition of central simple algebras of exponent 2 into tensor products of quaternion algebras. We consider in particular decompositions in which one of the quaternion algebras contains a given quadratic extension. Let $B$ be a biquaternion algebra over $F(\sqrt{a})$ with trivial corestriction. A degree 3 cohomological invariant is defined a

  93. Patrick Gérard, Sandrine Grellier

    We derive an explicit formula for the general solution of the cubic Szegö equation and of the evolution equation of the corresponding hierarchy. As an application, we prove that all the solutions corresponding to finite rank Hankel operators are quasiperiodic.

  94. Maximilien Gadouleau

    An identifying code in a graph is a set of vertices which intersects all the symmetric differences between pairs of neighbourhoods of vertices. Not all graphs have identifying codes; those that do are referred to as twin-free. In this paper, we design an algorithm that finds an identifying code in a twin-free graph on n vertices in O(n^3) binary operations,

  95. Stefano Ferretti

    This paper presents a self-organizing protocol for dynamic (unstructured P2P) overlay networks, which allows to react to the variability of node arrivals and departures. Through local interactions, the protocol avoids that the departure of nodes causes a partitioning of the overlay. We show that it is sufficient to have knowledge about 1st and 2nd neighbours

  96. Jonathan Tennant

    The character diagnosis of Tenontosaurus tilletti has been revised and redefined into a more robust and quantifiable state. Significant emphasis is placed on constructing phylogenetic definition in such a method, as it prevents occlusion of true character states by alleviating potential individual interpretational bias. Previous placement within the Iguanodo

  97. Jens Christian Johannsen, Søren Ulstrup, Federico Cilento, Alberto Crepaldi

    The ultrafast dynamics of excited carriers in graphene is closely linked to the Dirac spectrum and plays a central role for many electronic and optoelectronic applications. Harvesting energy from excited electron-hole pairs, for instance, is only possible if these pairs can be separated before they lose energy to vibrations, merely heating the lattice. While

  98. E. Hernández, J. Nieves, M. J. Vicente-Vacas

    We use our model for neutrino pion production on the nucleon to study pion production on a nucleus. The model is conveniently modified to include in-medium corrections and its validity is extended up to 2 GeV neutrino energies by the inclusion of new resonant contributions in the production process. Our results are compared with recent MiniBooNE data measure

  99. Guang-Yin Chen, Neill Lambert, Che-Ming Li, Yueh-Nan Chen

    We investigate, using the Hierarchy method, the entanglement and the excitation transfer efficiency of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex under two different local modifications: the suppression of transitions between particular sites and localized changes to the protein environment. We find that inhibiting the connection between the site-5 and site-6, or disc

  100. T. H. C Luong, C. Daveau

    In this paper we consider the resolvent Stokes problem in the case there is a small perturbation of the domain caused by a perturbed boundary. Firstly, we prove that the solution of Stokes problem is continuous due to this small perturbation. Secondly, we derive the first-order term in the displacement field perturbation that due to the deformation of the do