April 2013 arXiv papers — page 66

Andrea Blunck, Hans Havlicek, Corrado Zanella

The generalized chain geometry over the local ring $K(\epsilon;\sigma)$ of twisted dual numbers, where $K$ is a finite field, is interpreted as a divisible design obtained from an imprimitive group action. Its combinatorial properties as well as a geometric model in 4-space are investigated.

Andrea Blunck, Hans Havlicek, Corrado Zanella

The aim of this paper is to present a construction of $t$-divisible designs for $t>3$, because such divisible designs seem to be missing in the literature. To this end, tools such as finite projective spaces and their algebraic varieties are employed. More precisely, in a first step an abstract construction, called $t$-lifting, is developed. It starts from a

Andrea De Simone, Antonio Riotto, Wei Xue

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently released data on the positron fraction $e^+/(e^-+e^+)$ up to energies of about 350 GeV. If one insists on interpreting the observed excess as a dark matter signal, then we find it is best described by a TeV-scale dark matter annihilating into $τ^+τ^-$, although this situation is already severely constrained by gamma-ray

Pierre Brun

The high-energy Universe is potentially a great laboratory for searching new light bosons such as axion-like particles (ALPs). Cosmic sources are indeed the scene of violent phenomena that involve strong magnetic field and/or very long baselines, where the effects of the mixing of photons with ALPs could lead to observable effects. Two examples are archetypa

Orestis Georgiou, Carl P. Dettmann, Justin Coon

k-connectivity is an important measure of network robustness and resilience to random faults and disruptions. We undertake both local and global approaches to k-connectivity and calculate closed form analytic formulas for the probability that a confined random network remains fully connected after the removal of k-1 nodes. Our analysis reveals that k-connect

Mátyás Koniorczyk, Lívia Dani, Vladimír Bužek

We apply semidefinite programming for designing 1 to 2 symmetric qubit quantum cloners. These are optimized for the average fidelity of their joint output state with respect to a product of multiple originals. We design 1 to 2 quantum bit cloners using the numerical method for finding completely positive maps approximating a nonphysical one optimally. We dis

Matej Pavšič

It is shown that the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator with damping, considered by Nesterenko, is a special case of a more general oscillator that has not only a first order, but also a third order friction term. If the corresponding damping constants, α and β, are both positive and below certain critical values, then the system is stable. In particular, if α= - β,

Antonio Córdoba, Keith M. Rogers

We prove a weighted inequality which controls conic Fourier multiplier operators in terms of lacunary directional maximal operators. By bounding the maximal operators, this enables us to conclude that the multiplier operators are bounded on $L^p(\mathbb{R}^3)$ with $1<p<\infty$.

Zhao Liu, D. L. Kovrizhin, Emil J. Bergholtz

It has been recently realized that strong interactions in topological Bloch bands give rise to the appearance of novel states of matter. Here we study connections between these systems -- fractional Chern insulators and the fractional quantum Hall states -- via generalization of a gauge-fixed Wannier-Qi construction in the cylinder geometry. Our setup offers

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

We study one pion production in both charged and neutral current neutrino nucleus scattering for neutrino energies below 2 GeV. We use a theoretical model for one pion production at the nucleon level that we correct for medium effects. The results are incorporated into a cascade program that apart from production also includes the pion final state interactio

Wei Xie, Chen Zhang, Quan Zhang, Chaojing Tang

This paper address a new problem in RFID authentication research for the first time. That is, existing RFID authentication schemes generally assume that the backend server is absolutely secure, however, this assumption is rarely tenable in practical conditions. It disables existing RFID authentication protocols from being safely applied to a reallife scenari

Kari Astala, Daniel Faraco, Keith M. Rogers

We reconstruct compactly supported potentials with only half a derivative in $L^2$ from the scattering amplitude at a fixed energy. For this we draw a connection between the recently introduced method of Bukhgeim, which uniquely determined the potential from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, and a question of Carleson regarding the convergence to initial data of

K. Kristinsson, O. Kyriienko, T. C. H. Liew, I. A. Shelykh

We propose a scheme of continuous tunable THz emission based on dipolaritons --- mixtures of strongly interacting cavity photons and direct excitons, where the latter are coupled to indirect excitons via tunnelling. We investigate the property of multistability under continuous wave (CW) pumping, and the stability of the solutions. We establish the condition

Shenglong Hu, Liqun Qi, Jinshan Xie

In this paper, we show that the largest Laplacian H-eigenvalue of a $k$-uniform nontrivial hypergraph is strictly larger than the maximum degree when $k$ is even. A tight lower bound for this eigenvalue is given. For a connected even-uniform hypergraph, this lower bound is achieved if and only if it is a hyperstar. However, when $k$ is odd, it happens that t

Anton Salikhmetov

Draft translation to Russian of Chapter 7, Interaction-Based Models of Computation, from Models of Computation: An Introduction to Computability Theory by Maribel Fernandez. &#34;In this chapter, we study interaction nets, a model of computation that can be seen as a representative of a class of models based on the notion of &#39;computation as interaction&#

Serhiy Senyukov

ALICE is a general purpose experiment dedicated to the study of nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC. After more than 3 years of successful operation, an upgrade of the apparatus during the second long shutdown of LHC (LS2) in 2017/18 is in preparation. One of the major goals of the proposed upgrade is to extend the physics reach for rare probes at low transver

Qi-Li Liao, Xing-Gang Wu, Jun Jiang, Gu Chen

Properties of the production channel have been recalculated and discussed in detail in arXiv:1808.01231.

Namit Mahajan

A new charged state, called $Z_c(3900)$ has been recently observed by BESIII collaboration in $J/ψπ^{\pm}$ channel. The same has been confirmed by Belle (called Z(3894.5 in the Belle paper). In this short note we discuss probable interpretations of this charmonium like state which we call Z(3900).

O. M. Jones, C. A. Michael, K. G. McClements, N. J. Conway

Using the recently-installed Fast-Ion Deuterium Alpha (FIDA) spectrometer, the effects of low-frequency (20-50 kHz) chirping energetic particle modes with toroidal mode number n \geq 1 on the fast-ion population in MAST plasmas are considered. Results from the FIDA diagnostic are presented and discussed in the light of the present theoretical understanding o

Morgan R. Frank, Lewis Mitchell, Peter S. Dodds, Christopher M. Danforth

The patterns of life exhibited by large populations have been described and modeled both as a basic science exercise and for a range of applied goals such as reducing automotive congestion, improving disaster response, and even predicting the location of individuals. However, these studies previously had limited access to conversation content, rendering chan

Upasana Das, Prateek Sharma

We study the effects of optically thin radiative cooling on the structure of radiatively inefficient accretion flows (RIAFs). The flow structure is geometrically thick, and independent of the gas density and cooling, if the cooling time is longer than the viscous timescale (i.e., $t_{\rm cool} \gtrsim t_{\rm visc}$). For higher densities, the gas can cool be

Takayuki Koike

We give a concrete expression of a minimal singular metric of a big line bundle on a compact Kähler manifold which is the total space of a toric bundle over a complex torus. In this class of manifolds, Nakayama constructed examples which have line bundles admitting no Zariski-decomposition even after any proper modifications. As an application, we discuss th

V. V. Prosentsov

The light amplification by finite active media is used extensively in modern optics applications. In this paper the light amplification and scattering by cluster of small particles is studied analytically and numerically with the help of the local perturbation method and phenomenological laser theory. It is shown that light amplification is possible even for

Takashi Kameyama, Kentaroh Yoshida

We study integrable deformations of AdS/CFT by focusing upon three kinds of warped AdS_3 geometries, 1) space-like warped AdS_3, 2) time-like warped AdS_3 and 3) null warped AdS_3. These geometries are embedded into type IIB supergravity solutions and are regarded as consistent string backgrounds. By restricting the classical motion of strings on the warped

Ran Cheng, Qian Niu

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnetic (FM) metal, angular momentum is transferred to the background magnetization via spin-transfer torques. In antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, however, the corresponding problem is unsolved. We derive microscopically the dynamics of an AFM system driven by spin current generated by an attached FM pola

Ilki Kim

We consider a linear chain of quantum harmonic oscillators, in which the number of the individual oscillators is given by an arbitrary number N, and each oscillator is coupled at an arbitrary strength kappa to its nearest neighbors (&#34;intra-coupling&#34;), as well as the two end oscillators of the chain are coupled at an arbitrary strength c_nu to two sep

Stephan Schönecker, Manuel Richter, Klaus Koepernik, Helmut Eschrig

Coherent epitaxial growth allows to produce crystalline films with strained structures which are unstable in the bulk. Thereby, the relationship between the lattice parameters of the overlayer in the interface plane, $(a,b)$, and its minimum-energy out-of-plane lattice parameter, $c_{\text{min}}(a,b)$, need not be continuous. This general statement is proven

Stephan Schönecker, Se Kyun Kwon, Börje Johansson, Levente Vitos

Using first-principles density functional theory in the implementation of the exact muffin-tin orbitals method and the coherent potential approximation, we studied the surface energy and the surface stress of the thermodynamically most stable surface facet (100) of the homogeneous disordered body-centred cubic iron-chromium system in the concentration interv

Zoran Sunic

Given an action of a group G on a topological space X, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a free subgroup F of rank 2 of G acting properly discontinuously on at least one nonempty, open, F-invariant subspace of X. In the case of a discrete topology (group action on a set X), the condition simply detects free subgroups of r

David H. Lyth

Erickcek, Kamionkowski and Carroll proposed in 2008 that the dipole modulation of the CMB could be due to a very large scale perturbation of the field $ϕ$ causing the primordial curvature perturbation. We repeat their calculation using weaker assumptions and the current data. If $ϕ$ is the inflaton of {\em any} single-field inflation with the attractor behav

V. Ryzhii, M. Ryzhii, V. Mitin, M. S. Shur

We propose the concept of terahertz (THz) photomixing enabled by the interband electron transitions due to the absorption of modulated optical radiation in double-graphene layer (double-GL) structures and the resonant excitation of plasma oscillations. Using the developed double-GL photomixer (DG-PM) model, we describe its operation and calculate the device

Fu Liu

Based on results by Brugallé and Mikhalkin, Fomin and Mikhalkin give formulas for computing classical Severi degrees $N^{d, δ}$ using long-edge graphs. In 2012, Block, Colley and Kennedy considered the logarithmic version of a special function associated to long-edge graphs appeared in Fomin-Mikhalkin&#39;s formula, and conjectured it to be linear. They have

Ivan Nourdin, Giovanni Peccati, Yvik Swan

We develop a new method for bounding the relative entropy of a random vector in terms of its Stein factors. Our approach is based on a novel representation for the score function of smoothly perturbed random variables, as well as on the de Bruijn&#39;s identity of information theory. When applied to sequences of functionals of a general Gaussian field, our r

R. Suresh, K. Srinivasan, D. V. Senthilkumar, K. Murali

We experimentally demonstrate the occurrence of various synchronized states in coupled piece-wise linear time-delayed electronic circuits using dynamic environment coupling where the environment has its own intrinsic dynamics via feedback from the circuits. We carry out these experiments in two different coupling configurations, namely mutual and subsystem c

Z. Bern, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero, S. Hoeche

We present next-to-leading order QCD predictions for the total cross section and for a comprehensive set of transverse-momentum distributions in W + 5-jet production at the Large Hadron Collider. We neglect the small contributions from subleading-color virtual terms, top quarks and some terms containing four quark pairs. We also present ratios of total cross

Youhei Masada, Kohei Yamada, Akira Kageyama

Spherical solar dynamo simulations are performed. Self-consistent, fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic system with a stably stratified layer below the convective envelope is numerically solved with a newly developed simulation code based on the Yin-Yang grid. The effects of penetrative convection are studied by comparing two models with and without the st

Xiaohui Bei, Ning Chen, Shengyu Zhang

What is the value of input information in solving linear programming? The celebrated ellipsoid algorithm tells us that the full information of input constraints is not necessary; the algorithm works as long as there exists an oracle that, on a proposed candidate solution, returns a violation in the format of a separating hyperplane. Can linear programming st

D. Osin

We say that a group $G$ is acylindrically hyperbolic if it admits a non-elementary acylindrical action on a hyperbolic space. We prove that the class of acylindrically hyperbolic groups coincides with many other classes studied in the literature, e.g., the class $C_{geom}$ introduced by Hamenstadt, the class of groups admitting a non-elementary weakly proper

Hing Yin Tsang, Chung Hoi Wong, Ning Xie, Shengyu Zhang

We study Boolean functions with sparse Fourier coefficients or small spectral norm, and show their applications to the Log-rank Conjecture for XOR functions f(x\oplus y) --- a fairly large class of functions including well studied ones such as Equality and Hamming Distance. The rank of the communication matrix M_f for such functions is exactly the Fourier sp

Bo Zhou, Y. Funaki, H. Horiuchi, Zhongzhou Ren

We investigate the $α$+\oo\ cluster structure in the inversion-doublet band ($K^π=0_{1}^\pm$) states of \nene\ with an angular-momentum-projected version of the Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-Röpke (THSR) wave function, which was successful &#34;in its original form&#34; for the description of, e.g., the famous Hoyle state. In contrast with the traditional view on

Henry O. Sillin, Eric J. Sandouk, Audrius V. Avizienis, Masakazu Aono

Recent advances in nanoscale science and technology provide possibilities to directly self-assemble and integrate functional circuit elements within the wiring scheme of devices with potentially unique architectures. Electroionic resistive switching circuits comprising highly interconnected fractal electrodes and metal-insulator-metal interfaces, known as at

Bob Hough

We prove omega results for the central value of $L$-functions with the further condition that the angle is also constrained.

Victor Selivanov

Almost all representations considered in computable analysis are partial. We provide arguments in favor of total representations (by elements of the Baire space). Total representations make the well known analogy between numberings and representations closer, unify some terminology, simplify some technical details, suggest interesting open questions and new

Takashi Yamaguchi, Mitsunori Ogawa, Akimichi Takemura

We prove the conjecture by Diaconis and Eriksson (2006) that the Markov degree of the Birkhoff model is three. In fact, we prove the conjecture in a generalization of the Birkhoff model, where each voter is asked to rank a fixed number, say r, of candidates among all candidates. We also give an exhaustive characterization of Markov bases for small r.

Yuji Hibino, Hun Hee Lee, Nobuaki Obata

Let $G$ be a finite connected graph on two or more vertices and $G^{[N,k]}$ the distance $k$-graph of the $N$-fold Cartesian power of $G$. For a fixed $k\ge1$, we obtain explicitly the large $N$ limit of the spectral distribution (the eigenvalue distribution of the adjacency matrix) of $G^{[N,k]}$. The limit distribution is described in terms of the Hermite

Martín Argerami

We discuss Kadison&#39;s Carpenter&#39;s Theorems in the context of majorisation, and we offer a new proof of his &#34;Theorem 15&#34;, that characterizes the set of diagonals of orthogonal projections.

Kunihiko Yamauchi, Tamio Oguchi, Silvia Picozzi

Density functional based simulations are employed to explore magnetoelectric effects in iron-based oxides, showing a unique layered structure. We theoretically predict CaFeO2 to be a promising magnetoelectric, showing magnetically-controlled large electric polarization, possibly even above room temperature. The cross coupling between magnetic and dipolar deg

Vladimir Blinovsky

We prove that maximal cardinality of the Sidon set from $[n]$ exceeds $\sqrt{n}

Nikos Bagis

We use some general properties, presented in previous work, to evaluate special cases of integrals relating Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction, eta function and elliptic integrals.

Elinor Medezinski, Keiichi Umetsu, Mario Nonino, Julian Merten

The galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 (z=0.55) is the largest known cosmic lens, with complex internal structures seen in deep X-ray, Sunyaev-Zel&#39;dovich effect and dynamical observations. We perform a combined weak and strong lensing analysis with wide-field BVRi&#39;z&#39; Subaru/Suprime-Cam observations and 16-band Hubble Space Telescope observations ta

Eli Gafni, Petr Kuznetsov, Ciprian Manolescu

We consider the models of distributed computation defined as subsets of the runs of the iterated immediate snapshot model. Given a task $T$ and a model $M$, we provide topological conditions for $T$ to be solvable in $M$. When applied to the wait-free model, our conditions result in the celebrated Asynchronous Computability Theorem (ACT) of Herlihy and Shavi

Sarah Shandera, Adam Mantz, David Rapetti, Steven W. Allen

We report constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from the abundance of X-ray detected clusters. Our analytic prescription for adding non-Gaussianity to the cluster mass function takes into account moments beyond the skewness, and we demonstrate that those moments should not be ignored in most analyses of cluster data. We constrain the amplitude of the ske

Andrey Vasilyev

In Part one of this Paper a hypothesis is forwarded of the electron charge in an atom existing in a distributed form. To check it by methods of electrodynamics and mechanics (without invoking the formalism of quantum mechanics and the concepts of the wave function and of the operators), the potential, kinetic, and total energies were calculated for three sta

Jerome Le Ny

Rigorous privacy mechanisms that can cope with dynamic data are required to encourage a wider adoption of large-scale monitoring and decision systems relying on end-user information. A promising approach to develop these mechanisms is to specify quantitative privacy requirements at design time rather than as an afterthought, and to rely on signal processing

Harry Crane

We show that the permanent of a matrix is a linear combination of determinants of block diagonal matrices which are simple functions of the original matrix. To prove this, we first show a more general identity involving α-permanents: for arbitrary complex numbers αand β, we show that the α-permanent of any matrix can be expressed as a linear combination of β

Supratik Chakraborty, Kuldeep S. Meel, Moshe Y. Vardi

Functional verification constitutes one of the most challenging tasks in the development of modern hardware systems, and simulation-based verification techniques dominate the functional verification landscape. A dominant paradigm in simulation-based verification is directed random testing, where a model of the system is simulated with a set of random test st

S. I. Dejak, D. Egli, P. M. Lushnikov, I. M. Sigal

We investigate the (reduced) Keller-Segel equations modeling chemotaxis of bio-organisms. We present a formal derivation and partial rigorous results of the blowup dynamics of solution of these equations describing the chemotactic aggregation of the organisms. Our results are confirmed by numerical simulations and the formula we derive coincides with the for

Breann N. Sitarski, Mark R. Morris, Jessica R. Lu, Gaspard Duchêne

We have made the first detection of a near-infrared counterpart associated with the disk around Radio Source &#34;I,&#34; a massive protostar in the Kleinmann-Low Nebula in Orion using imaging with laser guide star adaptive optics on the Keck II telescope. The infrared emission is evident in images acquired using L&#39; (3.8 microns) and Ms (4.7 microns) fil

K. Abdaoui, F. Ammar, A. Makhlouf

Hom-alternative, Hom-Malcev and Hom-Jordan superalgebras are $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-graded generalizations of Hom-alternative, Hom-Malcev and Hom-Jordan algebras, which are Hom-type generalizations of alternative, Malcev and Jordan algebras. In this paper we prove that Hom-alternative superalgebras are Hom-Malcev-admissible and are also Hom-Jordan-admissible. Home

M. G. Lopez, Pieremanuele Canepa, T. Thonhauser

We calculate the carbon nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) shielding for CO_2 and the hydrogen shieldings for both H_2 and H_2O inside the metal organic framework MOF-74-Mg. Our ab initio calculations are at the density functional theory level using the van der Waals including density functional vdW-DF. The shieldings are obtained while placing the small molec

Chandra Chekuri, Julia Chuzhoy

Treewidth is a graph parameter that plays a fundamental role in several structural and algorithmic results. We study the problem of decomposing a given graph $G$ into node-disjoint subgraphs, where each subgraph has sufficiently large treewidth. We prove two theorems on the tradeoff between the number of the desired subgraphs $h$, and the desired lower bound

Ioannis Avramopoulos

Economists were content with the concept of the Nash equilibrium as game theory&#39;s solution concept until Daskalakis, Goldberg, and Papadimitriou showed that finding a Nash equilibrium is most likely a computationally hard problem, a result that set off a deep scientific crisis. Motivated, in part, by their result, in this paper, we propose a general theo

Chao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jieping Ye

In this paper, we provide a new framework to obtain the generalization bounds of the learning process for domain adaptation, and then apply the derived bounds to analyze the asymptotical convergence of the learning process. Without loss of generality, we consider two kinds of representative domain adaptation: one is with multiple sources and the other is com

L. Dell&#39;Anna, G. Mazzarella, V. Penna, L. Salasnich

We study interacting dipolar atomic bosons in a triple-well potential within a ring geometry. This system is shown to be equivalent to a three-site Bose-Hubbard model. We analyze the ground state of dipolar bosons by varying the effective on-site interaction. This analysis is performed both numerically and analytically by using suitable coherent-state repres

Firas A. Jassim

This paper is to create a practical steganographic implementation to hide color image (stego) inside another color image (cover). The proposed technique uses Five Modulus Method to convert the whole pixels within both the cover and the stego images into multiples of five. Since each pixels inside the stego image is divisible by five then the whole stego imag

V. P. Arkhipova, O. V. Egorov, V. F. Esipov, N. P. Ikonnikova

The interstellar medium in the region of a family of cometary globules including the reflection nebula GM 2-39 has been analyzed basing on our observations with the slit spectrograph, the results of our previous observations with a Fabry-Perot interferometer in the H-alpha line, Spitzer archival data together with CO microwave data. The structure of globules

João Batista Florindo, Odemir Martinez Bruno

This work proposes the combination of multiscale transform with fractal descriptors employed in the classification of gray-level texture images. We apply the space-scale transform (derivative + Gaussian filter) over the Bouligand-Minkowski fractal descriptors, followed by a threshold over the filter response, aiming at attenuating noise effects caused by the

Jonathan Belletête, M. B. Paranjape

The Schwarzschild solution to the matter free, spherically symmetric Einstein equations has one free parameter, the mass. But the mass can be of any sign. What is the meaning of the negative mass solutions? The answer to this question for the case of a pure Schwarzschild negative mass black solution is still elusive, however, in this essay, we will consider

Asim M. Mubeen, Kevin H. Knuth

Template-based signal detection most often relies on computing a correlation, or a dot product, between an incoming data stream and a signal template. While such a correlation results in an ongoing estimate of the magnitude of the signal in the data stream, it does not directly indicate the presence or absence of a signal. Instead, the problem of signal dete

S. Rothwangl, S. Eggl, R. Dvorak

Investigations were carried out on the stability of the two gas giant system HD 60532 itself including additional, smaller bodies. The methods used were numerical simulations with the Lie Series integration method, and secular perturbation theory. The aims were to find stable regions for potential Earth-like planets within the system, and confirming the stab

Yongki Lee, Hailiang Liu

We investigate a class of nonlocal conservation laws with the nonlinear advection coupling both local and nonlocal mechanism, which arises in several applications such as the collective motion of cells and traffic flows. It is proved that the $C^1$ solution regularity of this class of conservation laws will persist at least for a short time. This persistency

Stefano De Leo

Based on the Dirac equation, the behavior of relativistic electrons which tunnel a potential barrier of height V0 for incoming energies between V0 and V0+m is studied by using the wave packet formalism. The choice of this incoming energy zone guarantees that only electrons participate to the tunneling process. In the opaque limit, as shown in a previous anal

N. D. Richardson, G. H. Schaefer, D. R. Gies, O. Chesneau

We present the first high angular resolution observations in the nearinfrared H-band (1.6 microns) of the Luminous Blue Variable star P Cygni. We obtained six-telescope interferometric observations with the CHARA Array and the MIRC beam combiner. These show that the spatial flux distribution is larger than expected for the stellar photosphere. A two componen

E. V. Garcia, Keivan G. Stassun, Guillermo Torres

V578 Mon is an eclipsing binary system in which both stars have masses above 10 Msun determined with an accuracy better than 3%. It is one of only five such massive eclipsing binaries known that also possess eccentric orbits and measured apsidal motions, thus making it an important benchmark for theoretical stellar evolution models. However, recently reporte

S. K. Kim, M. S. Torikachvili, S. L. Bud&#39;ko, P. C. Canfield

Electrical transport measurements of the heavy fermion compound YbFe2Zn20 were carried out under pressures up to 8.23 GPa and down to temperatures of nearly 0.3 K. The pressure dependence of the low temperature Fermi-liquid state was assessed by fitting rho(T) = rho_0 + AT^n with n = 2 for T < T_FL. Power law analysis of the low temperature resistivities ind

Eric Chitambar, Min-Hsiu Hsieh

In 1991, Asher Peres and William Wootters wrote a seminal paper on the nonlocal processing of quantum information [\textit{Phys. Rev. Lett.} \textbf{66} 1119 (1991)]. We return to their classic problem and solve it in various contexts. Specifically, for discriminating the &#34;double trine&#34; ensemble with minimum error, we prove that global operations are

Patrick I. McCauley, Steven H. Saar, John C. Raymond, Yuan-Kuen Ko

We present an analysis of EUV and soft X-ray emission detected toward Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) during its post-perihelion traverse of the solar corona on December 16, 2011. Observations were recorded by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard Hinode. A single set of contemporaneous im

Yiming Li, Alison F. Crocker, Daniela Calzetti, Christine D. Wilson

We use the near--infrared Brγhydrogen recombination line as a reference star formation rate (SFR) indicator to test the validity and establish the calibration of the {\it Herschel} PACS 70 μm emission as a SFR tracer for sub--galactic regions in external galaxies. Brγoffers the double advantage of directly tracing ionizing photons and of being relatively ins

Anthony L. Piro

It has long been expected that some massive stars produce stellar mass black holes (BHs) upon death. Unfortunately, the observational signature of such events has been unclear. It has even been suggested that the result may be an &#34;unnova,&#34; in which the formation of a BH is marked by the disappearance of a star rather than an electromagnetic outburst.

Tarek Sayed Ahmed

We study different representation theorems for various reducts of Heyting polyadic algebras. Superamalgamation is proved for several (natural reducts) and our results are compared to the finitizability problem in classical algebraic logic dealing with cylindric and polyadic (Boolean algebras). We also prove several new neat embedding theorems, and obtain tha

Tarek Sayed Ahmed

We study various forms of amalgamation for Boolean algebras with operations. We will also have the occasion to weaken the Boolean structure dealing with MV and BL algebras with operators.

Ryan Croke, Jennifer Mueller, Andreas Stahel

The Novikov-Veselov (NV) equation is a dispersive (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear evolution equation that generalizes the (1+1)-dimensional Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation. This paper considers the stability of plane wave soliton solutions of the NV equation to transverse perturbations. To investigate the behavior of the perturbations, a hybrid semi-implicit/spe

Larsen Louder, Andrey M. Mishchenko, Juan Souto

The main purpose of this article is to demonstrate three techniques for proving algebraicity statements about circle packings. We give proofs of three related theorems: (1) that every finite simple planar graph is the contact graph of a circle packing on the Riemann sphere, equivalently in the complex plane, all of whose tangency points, centers, and radii a

A. Anokhina, A. Mironov, A. Morozov, An. Morozov

If a knot is represented by an m-strand braid, then HOMFLY polynomial in representation R is a sum over characters in all representations Q\in R^{\otimes m}. Coefficients in this sum are traces of products of quantum R-matrices along the braid, but these matrices act in the space of intertwiners, and their size is equal to the multiplicity M_{RQ} of Q in R^{

Natalie Wiegand, Pippa Thomas

Data is presented that confirms that hydrophobic coatings reduce friction between objects and water. The results show that the average time it took for the ball with the hydrophobic coating traveled at an average of about 6 inches per second. The ball with the hydrophilic coating traveled at a slower pace, moving at an average of about 5 inches per second an

Megan Johnson

This work presents an extended, neutral Hydrogen emission map around Magellanic-type dwarf irregular galaxy (dIm) NGC 1569. In the Spring of 2010, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) was used to map a 9 degree x 2 degree region in HI line emission that includes NGC 1569 and IC 342 as well as two other dwarf galaxies. The primary objective for these

Masahiro Ibe, Sho Iwamoto, Shigeki Matsumoto, Takeo Moroi

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently reported an excess of cosmic-ray positron fractions, which is consistent with previous results at PAMELA and Fermi-LAT experiments. The result indicates the existence of new physics phenomena to provide the origin of the energetic cosmic-ray positron. We pursue the possibility that the enhancement of the positron fractio

B. Pasquini, C. Lorce&#39;

We discuss the general formalism for the calculation in light-front quark models of the fully unintegrated, off-diagonal quark-quark correlator of the nucleon, parametrized in terms of generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs). By taking specific limits or projections, these GTMDs yield various transverse-momentum dependent and g

Jean Bourgain, Aynur Bulut

We establish new global well-posedness results along Gibbs measure evolution for the nonlinear wave equation posed on the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$ via two distinct approaches. The first approach invokes the method established in the works \cite{B1,B2,B3} based on a contraction-mapping principle and applies to a certain range of nonlinearities. The second

David A. Krogsrud, Eric L. Sandquist, Tadafumi Kato

NGC 6441 is one of the most massive and most metal-rich globular clusters in the galaxy, and is noted for an unusual extended horizontal branch which reaches past the instability strip. We find evidence that there are two different populations of stars within the heavily-populated red clump. Once a differential reddening correction is applied, a large but co

A. Frano, E. Schierle, M. W. Haverkort, Y. Lu

We have used resonant x-ray diffraction to develop a detailed description of antiferromagnetic ordering in epitaxial superlattices based on two-unit-cell thick layers of the strongly correlated metal LaNiO3. We also report reference experiments on thin films of PrNiO3 and NdNiO3. The resulting data indicate a spiral state whose polarization plane can be cont

Joachim Moortgat, Abbas Firoozabadi

Numerical simulation of multiphase compositional flow in fractured porous media, when all the species can transfer between the phases, is a real challenge. Despite the broad applications in hydrocarbon reservoir engineering and hydrology, a compositional numerical simulator for three-phase flow in fractured media has not appeared in the literature, to the be

William C. Danchi, Bruno Lopez

During the course of stellar evolution, the location and width of the habitable zone changes as the luminosity and radius of the star evolves. The duration of habitability for a planet located at a given distance from a star is greatly affected by the characteristics of the host star. A quantification of these effects can be used observationally in the searc

Bob Rink, Jan Sanders

Dynamical systems with a coupled cell network structure can display synchronous solutions, spectral degeneracies and anomalous bifurcation behavior. We explain these phenomena here for homogeneous networks, by showing that every homogeneous network dynamical system admits a semigroup of hidden symmetries. The synchronous solutions lie in the symmetry spaces

Tariq Shah, Sayed Azmat Hussain, Antonio Aparecido de Andrade

Due to mushroom development of wireless devices cognitive radio is used to resolve the bandwidth utilization and sacristy problem. The crafty usage of bandwidth in cognitive radio based on error correcting codes is ensured to accomodate un authorized user. This study proposes a transmission model by which a finite sequence of binary cyclic codes constructed

Vladimir Braverman, Rafail Ostrovsky, Dan Vilenchik

The problem of (approximately) counting the number of triangles in a graph is one of the basic problems in graph theory. In this paper we study the problem in the streaming model. We study the amount of memory required by a randomized algorithm to solve this problem. In case the algorithm is allowed one pass over the stream, we present a best possible lower

Rémi Monasson, Sophie Rosay

We study the stable phases of an attractor neural network model, with binary units, for hippocampal place cells encoding 1D or 2D spatial maps or environments. Using statistical mechanics tools we show that, below critical values for the noise in the neural response and for the number of environments, the network activity is spatially localized in one enviro

Nicola Gatti, Fabio Panozzo, Marcello Restelli

Evolutionary game theory combines game theory and dynamical systems and is customarily adopted to describe evolutionary dynamics in multi-agent systems. In particular, it has been proven to be a successful tool to describe multi-agent learning dynamics. To the best of our knowledge, we provide in this paper the first replicator dynamics applicable to the seq

Jakob Ruess, Andreas Milias-Argeitis, John Lygeros

Exploiting the information provided by the molecular noise of a biological process has proven to be valuable in extracting knowledge about the underlying kinetic parameters and sources of variability from single cell measurements. However, quantifying this additional information a priori, to decide whether a single cell experiment might be beneficial, is cur

Gines Martinez

In the last 20 years, heavy-ion collisions have been a unique way to study the hadronic matter in the laboratory. Its phase diagram remains unknown, although many experimental and theoretical studies have been undertaken in the last decades. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL was the first ever built heavy-ion collider. RHIC delivered its firs