June 2013 arXiv papers — page 34

Edoardo Sernesi

We study the 0-th local cohomology module of the jacobian ring of a singular reduced complex projective hypersurface X, by relating it to the sheaf of logarithmic vector field along X. We investigate the analogies between the local cohomology and the well known properties of the jacobian ring of a nonsingular hypersurface. In particular we study self-duality

Zhe Chang, Yunguo Jiang, Hai-Nan Lin

Based on the quantum electrodynamics, we present a generic formalism of the polarization for beamed monochromatic photons scattered by electrons in any spectral distribution. The formulae reduce to the components of the Fano matrix when electrons are at rest. We mainly investigate the polarization in three scenarios, i.e., electrons at rest, isotropic electr

Hiroto Kuninaka, Mitsugu Matsushita

We develop a numerical growth model which can predict the statistical properties of the height distribution of Japanese children. Our previous studies have clarified that the height distribution of schoolchildren shows a transition from the lognormal to the normal distribution during puberty period. In this paper, we demonstrate by our simulations that the t

Seung Hwan Hong, Jin Mo Bok, Wentao Zhang, Junfeng He

There is an enormous interest in renormalization of quasi-particle (qp) dispersion relation of cuprate superconductors both below and above the critical temperature $T_c$ because it enables determination of the fluctuation spectrum to which the qps are coupled. A remarkable discovery by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is a sharp low energy

John Case, Sanjay Jain, Samuel Seah, Frank Stephan

The present work determines the exact nature of {\em linear time computable} notions which characterise automatic functions (those whose graphs are recognised by a finite automaton). The paper also determines which type of linear time notions permit full learnability for learning in the limit of automatic classes (families of languages which are uniformly re

Yun Soo Myung

We revisit the classical stability of Schwarzschild black hole in fourth-order theories of gravity. On the contrary of the stability of this black hole, it turns out that the linearized perturbations exhibit unstable modes featuring the Gregory-Laflamme instability of five-dimensional black string. This shows clearly an instability of black hole in fourth-or

Idione Meneghel, Rabee Tourky

We prove a fixed point theorem for closed-graphed, decomposable-valued correspondences whose domain and range is a decomposable set of functions from an atomless measure space to a topological space. One consequence is an improvement of the fixed point theorem in Cellina, Colombo, and Fonda (1986).

Huahua Wang, Arindam Banerjee

Online optimization has emerged as powerful tool in large scale optimization. In this pa- per, we introduce efficient online optimization algorithms based on the alternating direction method (ADM), which can solve online convex optimization under linear constraints where the objective could be non-smooth. We introduce new proof techniques for ADM in the batc

Julio Cesar Salas--Torres, Martha Rzedowski--Calderón, Gabriel Villa--Salvador

In this paper we prove that any Artin--Schreier extension of a congruence rational function field is contained in the composite of a cyclotomic function field and a constant field extension that are explicitly prescribed.

M. Sharif, M. Azam

In this paper, we construct thin-shell wormholes by applying the cut and paste procedure to a regular charged black hole in nonlinear electrodynamics field. We discuss different physical aspects of wormholes such as, the possible equation of state to matter shell, attractive or repulsive nature of wormhole and total amount of exotic matter required. The thin

J. Marvin Herndon

I present here a new, indivisible planetary science paradigm, a wholly self-consistent vision of the nature of matter in the Solar System, and dynamics and energy sources of planets. Massive-core planets formed by condensing and raining-out from within giant gaseous protoplanets at high pressures and high temperatures. Earth's complete condensation inclu

Ndoune Ndoune

We construct a special embedding of the translation quiver $\mathbb{Z}Q$ in the three-dimensional affine space $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ where $Q$ is a finite connected acyclic quiver and $\mathbb{Z}Q$ contains a local slice whose quiver is isomorphic to the opposite quiver $Q^{op}$ of $Q.$ Via this embedding, we show that there exists an involutive anti-automorphism

Maher Ahmed

In this work the tight binding model calculations are carried out for AA-Bilayer Graphene nanoribbons as an example of bilayer systems. The effects of edges, NNN hopping, and impurities of a single layer are introduced numerically as a change in the elements of the relevant block diagonal matrix appearing in the direct diagonalization method. The direct inte

Mihailo Stojnic

Perceptrons have been known for a long time as a promising tool within the neural networks theory. The analytical treatment for a special class of perceptrons started in seminal work of Gardner \cite{Gar88}. Techniques initially employed to characterize perceptrons relied on a statistical mechanics approach. Many of such predictions obtained in \cite{Gar88}

Noson S. Yanofsky, Mark Zelcer

We state the defining characteristic of mathematics as a type of symmetry where one can change the connotation of a mathematical statement in a certain way when the statement's truth value remains the same. This view of mathematics as satisfying such symmetry places mathematics as comparable with modern views of physics and science where, over the past c

Michael Ehrig, Catharina Stroppel

We describe diagrammatically a positively graded Koszul algebra \mathbb{D}_k such that the category of finite dimensional \mathbb{D}_k-modules is equivalent to the category of perverse sheaves on the isotropic Grassmannian of type D_k constructible with respect to the Schubert stratification. The connection is given by an explicit isomorphism to the endomorp

Wen-Yue Tang, Guo-Hui Hu

We consider voltage-driving DNA translocation through a nanopore in the present study. By assuming the DNA is coaxial with the cylindrical nanopore, a hydrodynamic model for determining effective force on a single DNA molecule in a nanopore was presented, in which density functional theory (DFT) combined with the continuum Navier-Stokes (NS) equations is uti

Lizhen Lin, David B. Dunson

Shape constrained regression analysis has applications in dose-response modeling, environmental risk assessment, disease screening and many other areas. Incorporating the shape constraints can improve estimation efficiency and avoid implausible results. We propose two novel methods focusing on Bayesian monotone curve and surface estimation using Gaussian pro

Carlos Sarraute, Gerardo Richarte, Jorge Lucangeli Obes

As penetration testing frameworks have evolved and have become more complex, the problem of controlling automatically the pentesting tool has become an important question. This can be naturally addressed as an attack planning problem. Previous approaches to this problem were based on modeling the actions and assets in the PDDL language, and using off-the-she

V. I. Manko, Anatoli Yurkevich

The difference of quantum mutual information for bipartite system of qubits and minimum taken with respect to local unitary transformation group is introduced as a characteristic of quantum correlations.The two qubits example (and specifically the two qubits X state) is studied in some details.

H. Ferrada, T. Gagie, T. Hirvola, S. J. Puglisi

Advances in DNA sequencing mean databases of thousands of human genomes will soon be commonplace. In this paper we introduce a simple technique for reducing the size of conventional indexes on such highly repetitive texts. Given upper bounds on pattern lengths and edit distances, we preprocess the text with LZ77 to obtain a filtered text, for which we store

Gianluca Delfino

We show how the recently introduced "Pure Connection Formulation" of gravity provides a natural framework for approaching the problem of computing graviton scattering amplitudes. In particular, we show that the interaction vertices are greatly simplified in this formalism as compared to the Einstein-Hilbert perturbation theory. This, in turns, leads

Jingchen Hu, Yiqian Shi, Bin Xu

Let $e_ł(x)$ be a Neumann eigenfunction with respect to the positive Laplacian $Δ$ on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary such that $Δ\, e_ł=ł^2 e_ł$ in the interior of $M$ and the normal derivative of $e_ł$ vanishes on the boundary of $M$. Let $χ_λ$ be the unit band spectral projection operator associated with the Neumann Laplacian and $f$ a squ

Russell J. Jurek, Michael J. Drinkwater, Kevin Pimbblet, Karl Glazebrook

We present the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of galaxies from the GALEX Medium Imaging Survey with measured spectroscopic redshifts from the first data release of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. This sample selects galaxies with high star formation rates: at 0.6 < z < 0.9 the median star formation rate is at the upper 95th percentile of optically-sele

Robin de Jong, J. Steffen Müller

We discuss a new method to compute the canonical height of an algebraic point on a hyperelliptic jacobian over a number field. The method does not require any geometrical models, neither $p$-adic nor complex analytic ones. In the case of genus 2 we also present a version that requires no factorisation at all. The method is based on a recurrence relation for

Stefan Schneider

In recent years, finding new satisfiability algorithms for various circuit classes has been a very active line of research. Despite considerable progress, we are still far away from a definite answer on which circuit classes allow fast satisfiability algorithms. This survey takes a (far from exhaustive) look at some recent satisfiability algorithms for a ran

M. E. Ortega, S. Paron, E. Giacani, M. Rubio

To characterize a bright-rimmed cloud embedded in the HII region Sh2-48 searching for evidence of triggered star formation. We carried out observations towards a region of 2&#39;x2&#39; centered at RA=18h 22m 11.39s, dec.=-14deg 35m 24.81s (J2000) using the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE; Chile) in the 12CO J=3-2,13CO J=3-2, HCO+ J=4-3, and

Nuno Crokidakis

In this work we study the opinion formation in a voter-like model defined on a square lattice of linear size $L$. The agents may be in three different states, representing any public debate with three choices (yes, no, undecided). We consider heterogeneous agents that have different convictions about their opinions. These convictions limit the capacity of pe

J. J. Hermes, S. O. Kepler, Barbara G. Castanheira, A. Gianninas

We announce the discovery of the most massive pulsating hydrogen-atmosphere (DA) white dwarf (WD) ever discovered, GD 518. Model atmosphere fits to the optical spectrum of this star show it is a 12,030 +/- 210 K WD with a log(g) = 9.08 +/- 0.06, which corresponds to a mass of 1.20 +/- 0.03 Msun. Stellar evolution models indicate that the progenitor of such a

Vieri Mastropietro

Disordered 2D chiral fermions provide an effective description of several materials including graphene and topological insulators. While previous analysis considered delta correlated disorder and no ultraviolet cut-offs, we consider here the effect of short range correlated disorder and the presence of a momentum cut-off, providing a more realistic descripti

Emilio Elizalde, Klaus Kirsten, Nicolas Robles, Floyd Williams

A new, seemingly useful presentation of zeta functions on complex tori is derived by using contour integration. It is shown to agree with the one obtained by using the Chowla-Selberg series formula, for which an alternative proof is thereby given. In addition, a new proof of the functional determinant on the torus results, which does not use the Kronecker fi

Eric L. Hazlett, Li-Chung Ha, Cheng Chin

In condensed matter physics, transport measurements are essential not only for the characterization of materials, but also to discern between quantum phases and identify new ones. The extension of these measurements into atomic quantum gases is emerging and will expand the scope of quantum simulation and atomtronics. To push this frontier, we demonstrate an

Omar Tibolla, Sarah Kaufmann, Luigi Foschini, Karl Mannheim

Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies have been established as a new class of gamma-ray emitting AGN with relatively low black hole masses, but near-Eddington accretion rates. Other extragalactic gamma-ray sources observed so far such as Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars, Radio Galaxies, and BL Lacertae Objects generally exhibit much higher black hole masses and, in the

Alexander V. Uskov, Igor E. Protsenko, N. Asger Mortensen, Eoin P. O&#39;Reilly

We present a quantum mechanical approach to calculate broadening of plasmonic resonances in metallic nanostructures due to collisions of electrons with the surface of the structure. The approach is applicable if the characteristic size of the structure is much larger than the de Broglie electron wavelength in the metal. The approach can be used in studies of

Nora G. Kling, K. J. Betsch, M. Zohrabi, S. Zeng

The dissociation of an H$_2^+$ molecular-ion beam by linearly polarized, carrier-envelope-phase-tagged 5 fs pulses at 4$\times10^{14} $W/cm$^2$ with a central wavelength of 730 nm was studied using a coincidence 3D momentum imaging technique. Carrier-envelope-phase-dependent asymmetries in the emission direction of H$^+$ fragments relative to the laser polar

Mikhail Ivanov, Alex Alvarado, Fredrik Brannstrom, Erik Agrell

Two decoder structures for coded modulation over the Gaussian and flat fading channels are studied: the maximum likelihood symbol-wise decoder, and the (suboptimal) bit-wise decoder based on the bit-interleaved coded modulation paradigm. We consider a 16-ary quadrature amplitude constellation labeled by a Gray labeling. It is shown that the asymptotic loss i

Gerald V. Dunne, Michael Thies

We find the general solution to the time-dependent Hartree-Fock problem for the Gross-Neveu models, with both discrete (GN2) and continuous (NJL2) chiral symmetry. We find new multi-baryon, multi-breather and twisted breather solutions, and show that all GN2 baryons and breathers are composed of constituent twisted kinks of the NJL2 model.

Martin Chaktoura, Fernando Szechtman

Orthogonal Lie algebras in dimension 4 are identified as current Lie algebras, thus producing a natural decomposition for them over any field.

Alcides Garat

Euler observers are a fundamental tool for the study of spacetime evolution. Cauchy surfaces are evolved through the use of hypersurface orthogonal fields and their relationship to coordinate observers, that enable the use of already developed algorithms. In geometrodynamics new tetrad vectors have been introduced with outstanding simplifying properties. We

J. I. Cirac, S. Michalakis, D. Perez-Garcia, N. Schuch

We analyze a criterion which guarantees that the ground states of certain many body systems are stable under perturbations. Specifically, we consider PEPS, which are believed to provide an efficient description, based on local tensors, for the low energy physics arising from local interactions. In order to assess stability in the framework of PEPS, one thus

D. Ristè, M. Dukalski, C. A. Watson, G. de Lange

The stochastic evolution of quantum systems during measurement is arguably the most enigmatic feature of quantum mechanics. Measuring a quantum system typically steers it towards a classical state, destroying any initial quantum superposition and any entanglement with other quantum systems. Remarkably, the measurement of a shared property between non-interac

Hyeonjin Doh, Gun Sang Jeon

We examine the properties of edge states in a two-dimensional topological insulator. Based on the Kane-Mele model, we derive two coupled equations for the energy and the effective width of edge states at a given momentum in a semi-infinite honeycomb lattice with a zigzag boundary. It is revealed that, in a one-dimensional Brillouin zone, the edge states merg

Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, T. J. Torres, Carroll L. Wainwright

We continue the study of inflationary fluctuations in Holographic Space Time models of inflation. We argue that the holographic theory of inflation provides a physical context for what is often called dS/CFT. The holographic theory is a quantum theory which, in the limit of a large number of e-foldings, gives rise to a field theory on $S^3$, which is the rep

Allen Herman, Fernando Szechtman

We find all irreducible constituents of the Weil representation of a unitary group $U_m(A)$ of rank $m$ associated to a ramified quadratic extension $A$ of a finite, commutative, local and principal ring $R$ of odd characteristic. We show that this Weil representation is multiplicity free with monomial irreducible constituents. We also find the number of the

Alexander Merle, Viviana Niro, Daniel Schmidt

We propose a new production mechanism for keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter. In our setting, we assume the existence of a scalar singlet particle which never entered thermal equilibrium in the early Universe, since it only couples to the Standard Model fields by a really small Higgs portal interaction. For suitable values of this coupling, the scalar can unde

E. A. Helder, J. Vink, A. Bamba, J. A. M. Bleeker

We present a proper motion study of the eastern shock-region of the supernova remnant RCW 86 (MSH 14-63, G315.4-2.3), based on optical observations carried out with VLT/FORS2 in 2007 and 2010. For both the northeastern and southeastern regions, we measure an average proper motion of H-alpha filaments of 0.10 +/- 0.02 arcsec/yr, corresponding to 1200 +/- 200

S. M. Kravec, John McGreevy

It is possible to characterize certain states of matter by properties of their edge states. This implies a notion of `surface-only models&#39;: models which can only be regularized at the edge of a higher-dimensional system. After incorporating the fermion-doubling results of Nielsen and Ninomiya into this framework, we employ this idea to identify new obstr

Jonathan Welch, Daniel Greenbaum, Sarah Mostame, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The accurate evaluation of diagonal unitary operators is often the most resource-intensive element of quantum algorithms such as real-space quantum simulation and Grover search. Efficient circuits have been demonstrated in some cases but generally require ancilla registers, which can dominate the qubit resources. In this paper, we point out a correspondence

Jamie Tayar, Marc H. Pinsonneault

Core rotation rates have been measured for red giant stars using asteroseismology. This data, along with helioseismic measurements and open cluster spin down studies, provide powerful clues about the nature and timescale for internal angular momentum transport in stars. We focus on two cases: the metal poor red giant KIC 7341231 (&#34;Otto&#34;) and intermed

Umut A. Yıldız, Lars E. Kristensen, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Irene San Jose-Garcia

The evolution of deeply embedded young stellar objects (YSOs) has traditionally been traced through dust continuum spectral energy distributions (SEDs), but the use of CO excitation as an evolutionary probe has not yet been explored due to lack of high-J CO observations. The aim is to constrain the physical characteristics (excitation, kinematics, column den

Mihailo Stojnic

In this paper we consider the classical spherical perceptron problem. This problem and its variants have been studied in a great detail in a broad literature ranging from statistical physics and neural networks to computer science and pure geometry. Among the most well known results are those created using the machinery of statistical physics in \cite{Gar88}

Mihailo Stojnic

In this paper we revisit one of the classical perceptron problems from the neural networks and statistical physics. In \cite{Gar88} Gardner presented a neat statistical physics type of approach for analyzing what is now typically referred to as the Gardner problem. The problem amounts to discovering a statistical behavior of a spherical perceptron. Among var

Mihailo Stojnic

In this paper we look at a class of random optimization problems that arise in the forms typically known in statistical physics as Little models. In \cite{BruParRit92} the Little models were studied by means of the well known tool from the statistical physics called the replica theory. A careful consideration produced a physically sound conclusion that the b

Mihailo Stojnic

In this paper we look at a connection between the $\ell_q,0\leq q\leq 1$, optimization and under-determined linear systems of equations with sparse solutions. The case $q=1$, or in other words $\ell_1$ optimization and its a connection with linear systems has been thoroughly studied in last several decades; in fact, especially so during the last decade after

Mihailo Stojnic

In our recent work \cite{StojnicHopBnds10} we looked at a class of random optimization problems that arise in the forms typically known as Hopfield models. We viewed two scenarios which we termed as the positive Hopfield form and the negative Hopfield form. For both of these scenarios we defined the binary optimization problems whose optimal values essential

Daniel Tamayo, Joseph A. Burns, Douglas P. Hamilton

Dust grains generated by the Uranian irregular satellites will undergo chaotic large-amplitude eccentricity oscillations under the simultaneous action of radiation forces and the highly misaligned quadrupole potentials of the oblate planet and distant Sun. From a suite of orbital histories, we estimate collision proba- bilities of dust particles with the reg

Wen-Chen Chang, Dipangkar Dutta

The Drell-Yan process is an invaluable tool for probing the structure of hadrons, and the pion-induced Drell-Yan process is unique in its sensitivity to several subtleties of the partonic structure. This is a brief review of the pionic Drell-Yan process with particular emphasis on the dilepton angular distributions and nuclear modification of the parton dist

Marco P. Moreno, Sandra S. Vianna

We investigate the problem of two-level atoms driven by an ultrashort pulse train in the frequency domain. At low intensity regime, we obtain a perturbative analytical solution that allows us to discuss the role of the mode number of the frequency comb near or at resonance on the temporal evolution of the atomic coherence. At high intensities, the effect of

Leandro Cagliero, Fernando Szechtman

We describe of all finite dimensional uniserial representations of a commutative associative (resp. abelian Lie) algebra over a perfect (resp. sufficiently large perfect) field. In the Lie case the size of the field depends on the answer to following question, considered and solved in this paper. Let $K/F$ be a finite separable field extension and let $x,y\i

Dalia Artenstein, Ana González, Marcelo Lanzilotta

In the first part we study nearly Frobenius algebras. The concept of nearly Frobenius algebras is a generalization of the concept of Frobenius algebras. Nearly Frobenius algebras do not have traces, nor they are self-dual. We prove that the known constructions: direct sums, tensor, quotient of nearly Frobenius algebras admit natural nearly Frobenius structur

Ryan C. Fortenberry, Xinchuan Huang, T. Daniel Crawford, Timothy J. Lee

It has been shown that rotational lines observed in the Horsehead nebula PDR are probably not caused by l-C3H+, as was originally suggested. In the search for viable alternative candidate carriers, quartic force fields are employed here to provide highly accurate rotational constants, as well as fundamental vibrational frequencies, for another candidate carr

A. Rebello, M. G. Smith, J. J. Neumeier, B. D. White

Measurements of magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity and thermal expansion are reported for single crystalline CuSb$_{2}$O$_{6}$ in the temperature range $5<T<350$ K. The magnetic susceptibility exhibits a broad peak centered near 60 K that is typical of one-dimensional antiferromagnetic compounds. Long-range antiferromagnetic order at $T_N$ = 8.7 K is acc

Alti Adel, Roose Phillipe

This paper provides an extension of MDA called Context-aware Quality Model Driven Architecture (CQ-MDA) which can be used for quality control in pervasive computing environments. The proposed CQ-MDA approach based on ContextualArchRQMM (Contextual ARCHitecture Quality Requirement MetaModel), being an extension to the MDA, allows for considering quality and r

Paula Aguirre, Andrew J. Baker, Felipe Menanteau, Dieter Lutz

We present F110W (~J) and F160W (~H) observations of ten submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope&#39;s (HST&#39;s) NICMOS camera. Our targets have optical redshifts in the range 2.20<z<2.81 confirmed by millimeter CO or mid-IR spectroscopy, guaranteeing that the two bands sample the rest-frame optical with the Balmer break fall

José Luís Da Silva, Mohamed Erraoui

In this paper we investigate the class of grey Brownian motions $B_{α,β}$ ($0<α<2$, $0<β\leq1$). We show that grey Brownian motion admits different representations in terms of certain known processes, such as fractional Brownian motion, multivariate elliptical distribution or as a subordination. The weak convergence of the increments of $B_{α,β}$ in $t$, $w$

Abderrahim Mohammed El Amine, Benameur Said, Abderrahim Mohammed Alaeddine

In Information Retrieval System (IRS), the Automatic Relevance Feedback (ARF) is a query reformulation technique that modifies the initial one without the user intervention. It is applied mainly through the addition of terms coming from the external resources such as the ontologies and or the results of the current research. In this context we are mainly int

Maria V. Ferrer, Salvador Hernandez, Dmitri Shakhmatov

Let $I$ be an infinite set, $\{G_i:i\in I\}$ be a family of (topological) groups and $G=\prod_{i\in I} G_i$ be its direct product. For $J\subseteq I$, $p_{J}: G\to \prod_{j\in J} G_j$ denotes the projection. We say that a subgroup $H$ of $G$ is: (i) \emph{uniformly controllable} in $G$ provided that for every finite set $J\subseteq I$ there exists a finite s

Mir Sajjad Hussain Talpur

In fact, information systems are the foundation of new productivity sources, medical organizational forms, and erection of a global economy. IoT based healthcare systems play a significant role in ICT and have contribution in growth of medical information systems, which are underpinning of recent medical and economic development strategies. However, to take

R. Yanez, W. Loveland, J. S. Barrett, L. Yao

Background: The cross section for forming a heavy evaporation residue in fusion reactions depends on the capture cross section, the fusion probability, PCN, i.e., the probability that the projectile-target system will evolve inside the fission saddle point to form a completely fused system rather than re-separating (quasifission), and the survival of the com

Alejandro M. F Rivas

A semiclassical approximation for the matrix elements of a quantum chaotic propagator in the scar function basis has been derived. The obtained expression is solely expressed in terms of canonical invariant objects. For our purpose, we have used, the recently developed, semiclassical matrix elements of the propagator in coherent states, together with the lin

Jelena Dimitrijević, Dusan Arsenović, Branislav M Jelenković

In this work we study propagation dynamics of the two counter-propagating lasers, the continuous-wave (CW) laser and the pulse of another laser, when both lasers are tuned to the $F_{g}=2 \rightarrow F_{e}=1$ transition in $^{87}$Rb, and therefore can develop Hanle electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in Rb vapor. We calculate transmission of both

Ivan Contreras

We introduce the notion of relational symplectic groupoid as a way to integrate Poisson manifolds in general, following the construction through the Poisson sigma model (PSM) given by Cattaneo and Felder. We extend such construction to the infinite dimensional setting, where we are able to describe the relational symplectic groupoid in terms of immersed Lagr

D. Kitzmann, A. B. C. Patzer, H. Rauer

Owing to their wavelengths dependent absorption and scattering properties, clouds have a strong impact on the climate of planetary atmospheres. Especially, the potential greenhouse effect of CO2 ice clouds in the atmospheres of terrestrial extrasolar planets is of particular interest because it might influence the position and thus the extension of the outer

M. I. Jones, J. S. Jenkins, P. Rojo, C. H. F. Melo

Context: More than 40 planets have been found around giant stars, revealing a lack of systems orbiting interior to $\sim$ 0.6 AU. This observational fact contrasts with the planetary population around solar-type stars and has been interpreted as the result of the orbital evolution of planets due to the interaction with the host star and/or because of a diffe

N. V. Krylov

We establish the singularity with respect to Lebesgue measure as a function of time of the conditional probability that the sum of two one-dimensional Brownian motions will exit from the unit interval before time $t$, given the trajectory of the second Brownian motion up to the same time. On the way of doing so we show that if one solves the one-dimensional

Dávid Papp, Jan Unkelbach

We propose a novel optimization model for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) planning that directly optimizes deliverable leaf trajectories in the treatment plan optimization problem, and eliminates the need for a separate arc-sequencing step. In this model, a 360-degree arc is divided into a given number of arc segments in which the leaves move unidire

Joseph I. Kapusta, Juan M. Torres-Rincon

Hydrodynamic fluctuations have been studied in a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena in the past decade. In high energy heavy ion collisions, there will be intrinsic fluctuations even if the initial conditions are fixed. Fluctuations will be greatly enhanced if the trajectory in the plane of temperature versus chemical potential pass

Viswanath Balakrishnan, Shriram Ramanathan

Direct imaging and quantification of actuation in nanostructures that undergo structural phase transitions could advance our understanding of collective phenomena in the solid state. Here, we demonstrate visualization of structural phase transition induced actuation in a model correlated insulator vanadium dioxide by in-situ Fresnel contrast imaging of elect

Ciprian G. Gal, Sorin G. Gal

In this paper we introduce and study semigroups of operators on spaces of fuzzy-number-valued functions, and various applications to fuzzy differential equations are presented. Starting from the space of fuzzy numbers, many new spaces sharing the same properties are introduced. We derive basic operator theory results on these spaces and new results in the th

Dao Thi Nhung, Margarete Muhlleitner, Juraj Streicher, Kathrin Walz

After the discovery of a Higgs-like boson by the LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS, it is of crucial importance to determine its properties in order to not only identify it as the boson responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking but also to clarify the question if it is a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson or the Higgs particle of some extension beyond the SM as

David Wallace

I discuss classical and quantum recurrence theorems in a unified manner, treating both as generalisations of the fact that a system with a finite state space only has so many places to go. Along the way I prove versions of the recurrence theorem applicable to dynamics on linear and metric spaces, and make some comments about applications of the classical rec

Krzysztof Szczepaniec, Bartlomiej Dybiec

The archetypal system demonstrating stochastic resonance is nothing more than a threshold triggered device. It consists of a periodic modulated input and noise. Every time an output crosses the threshold the signal is recorded. Such a digitally filtered signal is sensitive to the noise intensity. There exist the optimal value of the noise intensity resulting

Andrey Kupavskii

In this article we consider a problem related to two famous combinatorial topics. One of them concerns the chromatic number of the space. The other deals with graphs having big girth (the length of the shortest cycle) and large chromatic number. Namely, we prove that for any $l\in \mathbb{N}$ there exists a sequence of distance graphs in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with

Thiago C. Silva, Diego R. Amancio

Patterns of topological arrangement are widely used for both animal and human brains in the learning process. Nevertheless, automatic learning techniques frequently overlook these patterns. In this paper, we apply a learning technique based on the structural organization of the data in the attribute space to the problem of discriminating the senses of 10 pol

Kevin Jamieson, Matthew Malloy, Robert Nowak, Sebastien Bubeck

Sampling from distributions to find the one with the largest mean arises in a broad range of applications, and it can be mathematically modeled as a multi-armed bandit problem in which each distribution is associated with an arm. This paper studies the sample complexity of identifying the best arm (largest mean) in a multi-armed bandit problem. Motivated by

Christelle Vergé, Cyrille Dubarry, Pierre Del Moral, Eric Moulines

The approximation of the Feynman-Kac semigroups by systems of interacting particles is a very active research field, with applications in many different areas. In this paper, we study the parallelization of such approximations. The total population of particles is divided into sub-populations, referred to as \emph{islands}. The particles within each island f

Xujin Chen, Donglei Du, Luis F. Zuluaga

We design a Copula-based generic randomized truthful mechanism for scheduling on two unrelated machines with approximation ratio within $[1.5852, 1.58606]$, offering an improved upper bound for the two-machine case. Moreover, we provide an upper bound 1.5067711 for the two-machine two-task case, which is almost tight in view of the lower bound of 1.506 for t

K. Held, R. Peters, A. Toschi

By means of dynamical mean field theory calculations, it was recently discovered that kinks generically arise in strongly correlated systems, even in the absence of external bosonic degrees of freedoms such as phonons. However, the physical mechanism behind these kinks remained unclear. On the basis of the perturbative and numerical renormalization group the

Robert S Thorne

I consider the effect on partons distribution functions (PDFs) of changes in the theoretical procedure used in a PDF fit. I consider using the 3-flavour fixed flavour number scheme instead of the standard general mass variable flavour number scheme used in the MSTW analysis. This results in the light quarks increasing at most $x$ values, the gluon distributi

Masoud Saeida Ardekani, Pierre Sutra, Nuno Preguiça, Marc Shapiro

Many distributed applications require transactions. However, transactional protocols that require strong synchronization are costly in large scale environments. Two properties help with scalability of a transactional system: genuine partial replication (GPR), which leverages the intrinsic parallelism of a workload, and snapshot isolation (SI), which decrease

Julien Audiffren, Hachem Kadri

We study the stability properties of nonlinear multi-task regression in reproducing Hilbert spaces with operator-valued kernels. Such kernels, a.k.a. multi-task kernels, are appropriate for learning prob- lems with nonscalar outputs like multi-task learning and structured out- put prediction. We show that multi-task kernel regression algorithms are uniformly

Markus Sondermann, Gerd Leuchs

We discuss the scattering of a light pulse by a single atom in free space using a purely semi-classical framework. The atom is treated as a linear elastic scatterer allowing to treat each spectral component of the incident pulse separately. For an increasing exponential pulse with a dipole radiation pattern incident from full solid angle the spectrum resulti

Aaron Hanken, Ben Kain, Collin Manning

We investigate minimally completed models of extraordinary gauge mediation, which are examples of direct gauge mediation, at finite temperature both analytically and numerically. These models may have both supersymmetry breaking and supersymmetric vacua. Our interest is in determining the preferred vacuum. We do so by computing the finite temperature Coleman

Christopher Lin

In this short paper, we re-derive the Bochner formula for the Laplacian by considering local variations of volume. The derivation is rooted in the fact that the Laplacian of a function measures the volume variation along the flow of the gradient vector of the function. Possible extensions of this approach/technique are also discussed. While the value of this

D. G. Franco, R. E. Carbonio, E. E. Kaul, G. Nieva

We report on the magnetic and structural properties of La2Ni(Ni1/3Sb2/3)O6 in polycrystal, single crystal and thin film samples. We found that this material is a ferrimagnet (Tc ~ 100 K) which possesses a very distinctive and uncommon feature in its virgin curve of the hysteresis loops. We observe that bellow 20 K it lies outside the hysteresis cycle, and th

Tod E. Strohmayer, Tim R. Kallman

In many polarimetry applications, including observations in the X-ray band, the measurement of a polarization signal can be reduced to the detection and quantification of a deviation from uniformity of a distribution of measured angles. We explore the statistics of such polarization measurements using Monte Carlo simulations and chi-squared fitting methods.

Martin Slota, João Leite

Logic programs under the stable model semantics, or answer-set programs, provide an expressive rule-based knowledge representation framework, featuring a formal, declarative and well-understood semantics. However, handling the evolution of rule bases is still a largely open problem. The AGM framework for belief change was shown to give inappropriate results

R. Carrera, E. Pancino, C. Gallart, A. del Pino

We extend our previous calibration of the infrared Ca II triplet as metallicity indicator to the metal-poor regime by including observations of 55 field stars with [Fe/H] down to -4.0 dex. While we previously solved the saturation at high-metallicity using a combination of a Lorentzian plus a Gaussian to reproduce the line profiles, in this paper we address

Warren Dicks

Let $F$ be a finite-rank free group and $H$ be a finite-rank subgroup of $F$. We discuss proofs of two algorithms that sandwich $H$ between an upper-layer free-product factor of $F$ that contains $H$ and a lower-layer free-product factor of $F$ that is contained in $H$. Richard Stong showed that the unique smallest-possible upper layer, denoted $\operatornam

T. E. Clarke, S. W. Randall, C. L. Sarazin, E. L. Blanton

We present a new Chandra X-ray observation of the intracluster medium in the galaxy cluster Abell 2443, hosting an ultra-steep spectrum radio source. The data reveal that the intracluster medium is highly disturbed. The thermal gas in the core is elongated along a northwest to southeast axis and there is a cool tail to the north. We also detect two X-ray sur