June 2013 arXiv papers — page 7

Daniel Blazevski, George Haller

We develop a general theory of transport barriers for three-dimensional unsteady flows with arbitrary time-dependence. The barriers are obtained as two-dimensional Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCSs) that create locally maximal deformation. Along hyperbolic LCSs, this deformation is induced by locally maximal normal repulsion or attraction. Along shear LCS

Ilja Dorsner, Svjetlana Fajfer, Nejc Kosnik, Ivan Nisandzic

The presence of a colored scalar that is a weak doublet with fractional electric charges of $|Q|=2/3$ and $|Q|=5/3$ with mass below 1,TeV can provide an explanation of the observed branching ratios in $B \to D^{(*)} τ\bar ν$ decays. The required combination of scalar and tensor operators in the effective Hamiltonian for $b \to c τ\bar ν$ is generated through

Monica Patriche

In this paper, we firstly prove the existence of the equilibrium for the generalized abstract economy. We apply these results to show the existence of solutions for systems of vector quasi-equilibrium problems with multivalued trifunctions. Secondly, we consider the generalized strong vector quasi-equilibrium problems and study the existence of their solutio

Salil Bedkihal, Malay Bandyopadhyay, Dvira Segal

We study nonlinear electronic transport symmetries in Aharonov-Bohm interferometers subjected to inelastic scattering effects and show that odd (even) conductance terms are even (odd) in the magnetic field when the junction is (left-right) spatially symmetric. This observation does not hold when an asymmetry is introduced, as we show numerically, but odd con

S. Mineo, G. Fabbiano, R. D'Abrusco, T. Fragos

We investigate the radial distribution of the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) population in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, using Chandra and Hubble data to separate the field and globular cluster (GC) populations. GCs with LMXBs have the same radial distribution as the parent red and blue GCs. The radial profile of field LMXBs follows the V-band profile within

N. Qureshi, E. Ressouche, A. A. Mukhin, V. Yu. Ivanov

We present macroscopic and neutron diffraction data on multiferroic lightly Co-doped Ni$_3$V$_2$O$_8$. Doping Co into the parent compound suppresses the sequence of four magnetic phase transitions and only two magnetically ordered phases, the paraelectric high temperature incommensurate (HTI) and ferroelectric low temperature incommensurate (LTI), can be obs

Wouter Hulsbergen

Neutral mesons exhibit a phenomenon called flavour mixing. As a consequence of a second order weak process the flavour eigenstates corresponding to the meson and its anti-meson are superpositions of two mass eigenstates. A meson produced in a flavour state changes into an anti-meson and back again as a function of time. Such flavour oscillations are consider

A. Chabchoub, N. Hoffmann, H. Branger, C. Kharif

Being considered as a prototype for description of oceanic rogue waves (RWs), the Peregrine breather solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) has been recently observed and intensely investigated experimentally in particular within the context of water waves. Here, we report the experimental results showing the evolution of the Peregrine solution

A. Caranti

There are several examples in the literature of finite non-abelian $p$-groups whose automorphism group is abelian. For some time only examples that were special $p$-groups were known, until Jain and Yadav [JY12] and Jain, Rai and Yadav [JRY13] constructed several non-special examples. In this paper we show how a simple module-theoretic approach allows the co

Maria Deijfen, Remco van der Hofstad

We study competing first passage percolation on graphs generated by the configuration model. At time 0, vertex 1 and vertex 2 are infected with the type 1 and the type 2 infection, respectively, and an uninfected vertex then becomes type 1 (2) infected at rate $λ_1$ ($λ_2$) times the number of edges connecting it to a type 1 (2) infected neighbor. Our main r

Yitzhak Frishman, Jacob Sonnenschein

We analyze the theory of massive fermions in the fundamental representation coupled to a U(N) Chern-Simons gauge theory at level K. It is done in the large N, large K limits where λ=N/K is kept fixed. Following arXiv:1110.4386 we obtain the solution of a Schwinger-Dyson equation for the two point function, the exact expression for the fermion propagator and

P. Artoisenet, P. de Aquino, F. Demartin, R. Frederix

We introduce a framework, based on an effective field theory approach, that allows one to perform characterisation studies of the boson recently discovered at the LHC, for all the relevant channels and in a consistent, systematic and accurate way. The production and decay of such a boson with various spin and parity assignments can be simulated by means of m

Shaul Zemel

We prove that Heegner cycles of codimension m+1 inside Kuga-Sato type varieties of dimension 2m+1 are coefficients of modular forms of weight 3/2+m in the appropriate quotient group. The main technical tool for generating the necessary relations is a Borcherds style theta lift with polynomials. We also show how this lift defines a new singular Shimura-type c

Alexandros Beskos, Ajay Jasra, Nikolas Kantas, Alexandre Thiery

In several implementations of Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods it is natural, and important in terms of algorithmic efficiency, to exploit the information of the history of the samples to optimally tune their subsequent propagations. In this article we provide a carefully formulated asymptotic theory for a class of such \emph{adaptive} SMC methods. The t

Berin Belma Sirvanli

The exclusive $B_s -> γl^+ l^- $ decay is analyzed in the framework of a family nonuniversal Z' model by calculating the differential branching ratio, double lepton polarizations and forward-backward asymmetries. Our results are compared against those of the Standard Model. The predictions of this work are hoped to can be tested in the near future at LHC

Frieder Stolzenburg

The perception of consonance/dissonance of musical harmonies is strongly correlated with their periodicity. This is shown in this article by consistently applying recent results from psychophysics and neuroacoustics, namely that the just noticeable difference between pitches for humans is about 1% for the musically important low frequency range and that peri

S. Villalba-Chávez, C. Müller

Absorption and dispersion of probe photons in the field of a high-intensity circularly polarized laser wave are investigated. The optical theorem is applied for determining the absorption coefficients in terms of the imaginary part of the vacuum polarization tensor. Compact expressions for the vacuum refraction indices and the photon absorption coefficients

G. Morlino, P. Blasi, R. Bandiera, E. Amato

Balmer emission may be a powerful diagnostic tool to test the paradigm of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in young supernova remnant (SNR) shocks. The width of the broad Balmer line is a direct indicator of the downstream plasma temperature. In case of efficient particle acceleration an appreciable fraction of the total kinetic energy of the plasma is channeled

V. Kontis, M. Ottobre, B. Zegarlinski

We start by considering infinite dimensional Markovian dynamics in R^m generated by operators of hypocoercive type and for such models we obtain short and long time pointwise estimates for all the derivatives, of any order and in any direction, along the semigroup. We then look at infinite dimensional models (in (Rm)^{Z ^d}) produced by the interaction of in

Dario Izzo, Francesco Biscani

While the constant radial acceleration problem is known to be integrable and has received some recent attention in an orbital mechanics context, a closed form explicit solution, relating the state variables to a time parameter, has eluded all researchers so far. It is here shown how such a solution exists and is elegantly expressed in terms of the Weierstras

Christopher Lazda

In this paper we define a rigid rational homotopy type, associated to any variety $X$ over a perfect field $k$ of positive characteristic. We prove comparison theorems with previous definitions in the smooth and proper, and log-smooth and proper case. Using these, we can show that if $k$ is a finite field, then the Frobenius structure on the higher rational

Q. Li, K. H. Luo

In this paper, we aim to address an important issue about the pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann (LB) model, which has attracted much attention as a mesoscopic model for simulating interfacial dynamics of complex fluids, but suffers from the problem that the surface tension cannot be tuned independently of the density ratio. In the literature, a multi-range p

Francesco Biscani, Dario Izzo

We present a new general, complete closed-form solution of the Stark problem in terms of Weierstrass elliptic and related functions. With respect to previous treatments of the problem, our analysis is exact and valid for all values of the external force field, and it is expressed via unique formulæ valid for all initial conditions and parameters of the syste

Rong Li, Lan Yin

We show that in a two-component Bose gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) two atoms can form bound states (Rashbons) with any intra-species scattering length. At zero center-of-mass momentum there are two degenerate Rashbons due to time-reversal symmetry, but the degeneracy is lifted at finite in-plane momentum with two different effective masses. A sta

Matthew Aldridge, Leonardo Baldassini, Oliver Johnson

We consider the problem of non-adaptive noiseless group testing of $N$ items of which $K$ are defective. We describe four detection algorithms: the COMP algorithm of Chan et al.; two new algorithms, DD and SCOMP, which require stronger evidence to declare an item defective; and an essentially optimal but computationally difficult algorithm called SSS. By con

Hongyi Xu, Xihang Shi, Fei Gao, Handong Sun

We report the first experimental realization of a three-dimensional thermal cloak shielding an air bubble in a bulk metal without disturbing external thermal flux. The cloak is made of a thin layer of homogeneous and isotropic material with specially designed three-dimensional manufacturing. The thickness of cloak is 100 um while the cloaked air bubble has a

Tomohiro Fujita, Keisuke Harigaya, Masahiro Kawasaki

We present a novel mechanism to generate the cosmic perturbation from evaporation of primordial black holes. A mass of a field is fluctuated if it is given by a vacuum expectation value of a light scalar field because of the quantum fluctuation during inflation. The fluctuated mass causes variations of the evaporation time of the primordial black holes. Ther

Pete L. Clark

We introduce the notion of a graph derangement, which naturally interpolates between perfect matchings and Hamiltonian cycles. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of graph derangements on a locally finite graph. This result was first proved by W.T. Tutte in 1953 by applying some deeper results on digraphs. We give a new, simple pro

Indranil Biswas, Ajneet Dhillon, Norbert Hoffmann

We characterize all fields of definition for a given coherent sheaf over a projective scheme in terms of projective modules over a finite-dimensional endomorphism algebra. This yields general results on the essential dimension of such sheaves. Applying them to vector bundles over a smooth projective curve C, we obtain an upper bound for the essential dimensi

Merlin Cooper, Michal Karpinski, Brian J. Smith

Improved measurement techniques are central to technological development and foundational scientific exploration. Quantum optics relies upon detectors sensitive to non-classical features of light, enabling precise tests of physical laws and quantum-enhanced technologies such as precision measurement and secure communications. Accurate detector response calib

Pier Giovanni Bissiri, Chris Holmes, Stephen Walker

We propose a framework for general Bayesian inference. We argue that a valid update of a prior belief distribution to a posterior can be made for parameters which are connected to observations through a loss function rather than the traditional likelihood function, which is recovered under the special case of using self information loss. Modern application a

Yuxiang Yang, Giulio Chiribella

We pose the question whether the asymptotic equivalence between quantum cloning and quantum state estimation, valid at single-copy level, still holds when all the copies are examined jointly. For an N-to-M cloner, we consider the overall fidelity between the state of the M output systems and the state of M ideal copies, and we ask whether the optimal fidelit

Andrzej Nowicki

We present an arithmetic progression of second numbers of length 28.

Shuang Wang, Yun Wang

We explore the systematic uncertainties of using Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological probes, using the Supernova Legacy Survey Three Year data (SNLS3). We focus on studying the possible evolution of the stretch-luminosity parameter $α$ and the color-luminosity parameter $β$, by allowing $α$ and $β$ to be function of redshift, $z$. We find no evidence

Edmundo J. Huertas, F. Marcellán, María F. Pérez-Valero, Yamilet Quintana

In this paper we consider sequences of polynomials orthogonal with respect to certain discrete Laguerre-Sobolev inner product, with two perturbations (involving derivatives) located inside the oscillatory region for the classical Laguerre polynomials. We focus our attention on the representation of these polynomials in terms of the classical Laguerre polynom

Amelie Chi Zhou, Bingsheng He, Cheng Liu

Recently, we have witnessed workflows from science and other data-intensive applications emerging on Infrastructure-asa-Service (IaaS) clouds, and many workflow service providers offering workflow as a service (WaaS). The major concern of WaaS providers is to minimize the monetary cost of executing workflows in the IaaS cloud. While there have been previous

Joseph W. Norman

A new computational method is presented to implement the system of deductive logic described by Aristotle in Prior Analytics. Each Aristotelian problem is interpreted as a parametric probability network in which the premises give constraints on probabilities relating the problem's categorical terms (major, minor, and middle). Each probability expression

Manfred Bucher

Emergence, development and cessation of superconductivity in three representative compounds of copper oxide families---cation doped Ca_2-xNa_xCuO2Cl2 and La_2-xAe_xCuO4 (Ae = Ba, Sr), as well as oxygen enriched YBa2Cu3O_6+x ---are explained with the Coulomb-oscillator model of superconductivity. By the model, non-resistive current is carried by axial Coulomb

Ryotaro Kase, Shinji Tsujikawa

We study how the Vainshtein mechanism operates in the most general scalar-tensor theories with second-order equations of motion. The field equations of motion, which can be also applicable to most of other screening scenarios proposed in literature, are generally derived in a spherically symmetric space-time with a matter source. In the presence of a field c

Xuemei Chen, Haichao Wang, Rongrong Wang

An interesting topic in compressed sensing aims to recover signals with sparse representations in a dictionary. Recently the performance of the L1-analysis method has been a focus, while some fundamental problems for the L1-synthesis method are still unsolved. For example, what are the conditions for it to stably recover compressible signals under noise? Whe

Thomas Faulkner, Nabil Iqbal, Hong Liu, John McGreevy

We compute the contribution to the conductivity from holographic Fermi surfaces obtained from probe fermions in an AdS charged black hole. This requires calculating a certain part of the one-loop correction to a vector propagator on the charged black hole geometry. We find that the current dissipation is as efficient as possible and the transport lifetime co

Hai Wang

Stimulated by the discovery of the giant birefringence (GBF) in LaOBiS2 (H. Wang, arxiv: 1304.5032), we check SrFBiS2 and find a superior birefringence up to 1.28. Naturally, AF layer (i.e., SrF) is considered to be of important and is demonstrated by the further study on AFBiS2 (A=Mg, Ca, Ba). Interestingly, MgFBiS2 shows the largest birefringence of 1.65.

Joseph A. Wolf

In a recent paper we found conditions for a nilpotent Lie group to be foliated into subgroups that have square integrable unitary representations that fit together to form a filtration by normal subgroups. That resulted in explicit character formulae, Plancherel formulae and multiplicity formulae. We also showed that nilradicals $N$ of minimal parabolic subg

Ja Kyung Koo, Dong Sung Yoon

Let $K$ be an imaginary biquadratic field and $K_1$, $K_2$ be its imaginary quadratic subfields. For integers $N>0$, $μ\geq 0$ and an odd prime $p$ with $\gcd(N,p)=1$, let $K_{(Np^μ)}$ and $(K_i)_{(Np^μ)}$ for $i=1,2$ be the ray class fields of $K$ and $K_i$, respectively, modulo $Np^μ$. We first present certain class fields $\widetilde{K_{N,p,μ}^{1,2}}$ of

M. Assis, J. L. Jacobsen, I. Jensen, J-M. Maillard

We study the analyticity of the partition function of the hard hexagon model in the complex fugacity plane by computing zeros and transfer matrix eigenvalues for large finite size systems. We find that the partition function per site computed by Baxter in the thermodynamic limit for positive real values of the fugacity is not sufficient to describe the analy

Ilya G. Ryabinkin, Artur F. Izmaylov

We show that finite systems with conical intersections can exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking which manifests itself in spatial localization of eigenstates. This localization has a geometric phase origin and is robust against variation of model parameters. The transition between localized and delocalized eigenstate regimes resembles a continuous phase tra

Yu Gu, Guillaume Bal

We prove an invariance principle for Brownian motion in Gaussian or Poissonian random scenery by the method of characteristic functions. Annealed asymptotic limits are derived in all dimensions, with a focus on the case of dimension $d=2$, which is the main new contribution of the paper.

L. Mancini, S. Ciceri, G. Chen, J. Tregloan-Reed

We present new ground-based, multi-colour, broad-band photometric measurements of the physical parameters, transmission and emission spectra of the transiting extrasolar planet WASP-19b. The measurements are based on observations of 8 transits and four occultations using the 1.5m Danish Telescope, 14 transits at the PEST observatory, and 1 transit observed s

J. W. Moffat, S. Rahvar

As an alternative to dark matter models, MOdified Gravity (MOG) theory can compensate for dark matter by a covariant modification of Einstein gravity. The theory introduces two additional scalar fields and one vector field. The aim is to explain the dynamics of astronomical systems based only on their baryonic matter. The effect of the vector field in the th

Jonathan L. Rosner

This White Paper for the Snowmass proceedings recalls the motivation, based on the grand unified group E6, for expecting sterile neutrinos (if they exist) to come in threes.

Eugene B. Postnikov, Artem A. Loktionov

The double slits experiment is a basic phenomenon, which allows to explain principal behaviour of quantum systems. However, textbooks present static pictures of corresponding interference patterns. At the same time, modern computer software for PDE solution provides an opportunity for dynamical modeling of a wave function behaviour using a numerical solution

S. F. Huelga, M. B. Plenio

Quantum biology is an emerging field of research that concerns itself with the experimental and theoretical exploration of non-trivial quantum phenomena in biological systems. In this tutorial overview we aim to bring out fundamental assumptions and questions in the field, identify basic design principles and develop a key underlying theme -- the dynamics of

Gerald I. Kerley

This report presents new EOS and strength models for use in numerical hydrocode simulations of dust impacts on the NASA solar probe space vehicle. This spacecraft will be subjected to impact at velocities up to 300 km/s, producing pressures as high as 100 TPa and temperatures as high as 200 eV. Hence the material models must treat a variety of physical and c

Timothy D. Andersen

Most quantum field theories are not exactly solvable. In this paper show the statistical equivalence of the standard exponential path integral to products of Heaviside functions, i.e. a product of specially tuned uniform distributions. This allows exact integrations of certain quantum field theories. I apply the equivalence to calculate the exact, non-pertur

Julian Buck

We introduce the tracial quasi-Rokhlin property for an automorphism alpha of a unital C*-algebra A, which is not assumed to be simple. We show that under suitable hypotheses, the associated crossed product C*-algebra C*(Z,A,alpha) is simple, and there is a bijection between the space of tracial states on C*(Z,A,alpha)$ and the alpha-invariant tracial states

Julian Buck

We introduce the dynamic comparison property for minimal dynamical systems which has applications to the study of crossed product C*-algebras. We demonstrate that this property holds for a large class of systems which includes all examples where the underlying space is finite-dimensional, as well as for an explicit infinite-dimensional example, showing that

B. González-Fernández, A. Camacho

In the present work the case of a chromium Bose-Einstein condensate is considered. The model includes not only the presence of the so-called contact interaction but also a long range and anisotropic dipole-dipole interaction has been included. Some thermodynamical properties are analyzed. For instance, the size of the condensate, chemical potential, speed of

Daewon Chung, Hyeonbae Kang, Kyoungsun Kim, Hyundae Lee

If a core of dielectric material is coated by a plasmonic structure of negative dielectric material with non-zero loss parameter, then anomalous localized resonance may occur as the loss parameter tends to zero and the source outside the structure can be cloaked. It has been proved that the cloaking due to anomalous localized resonance (CALR) takes place for

Sergey M. Zagorodnyuk

In this paper we study invertible extensions of a symmetric operator in a Hilbert space $H$. All such extensions are characterized by a parameter in the generalized Neumann's formulas. Generalized resolvents, which are generated by the invertible extensions, are extracted by a boundary condition among all generalized resolvents in the Shtraus formula.

S. F. Newman, P. Buschkamp, R. Genzel, N. M. Forster Schreiber

Based on high-resolution, spatially resolved data of 10 z~2 star-forming galaxies from the SINS/zC-SINF survey and LUCI data for 12 additional galaxies, we probe the excitation properties of high-z galaxies and the impact of active galactic nuclei (AGN), shocks and photoionization. We explore how these spatially-resolved line ratios can inform our interpreta

S. V. Chekanov

We propose a data format for Monte Carlo (MC) events, or any structural data, including experimental data, in a compact binary form using variable-size integer encoding as implemented in the Google's Protocol Buffers package. This approach is implemented in the so-called ProMC library which produces smaller file sizes for MC records compared to the exist

Paolo Musolino

Let $Ω$ be a sufficiently regular bounded open connected subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $0 \in Ω$ and that $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \mathrm{cl}Ω$ is connected. Then we take $q_{11},..., q_{nn}\in ]0,+\infty[$ and $p \in Q\equiv \prod_{j=1}^{n}]0,q_{jj}[$. If $ε$ is a small positive number, then we define the periodically perforated domain $\mathbb{S}[Ω_ε]

Luis Silvestre, Boyan Sirakov

We prove that the existence of a solution to a fully nonlinear elliptic equation in a bounded domain $Ω$ with an overdetermined boundary condition prescribing both Dirichlet and Neumann constant data forces the domain $Ω$ to be a ball. This is a generalization of Serrin's classical result from 1971.

Luis Silvestre, Boyan Sirakov

We provide regularity results at the boundary for continuous viscosity solutions to nonconvex fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations and inequalities in Euclidian domains. We show that (i) any solution of two sided inequalities with Pucci extremal operators is $C^{1,α}$ on the boundary; (ii) the solution of the Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear uni

Mojtaba Vaezi, Fabrice Labeau

A subspace-based approach for rate-adaptive distributed source coding (DSC) based on discrete Fourier transform (DFT) codes is developed. Punctured DFT codes can be used to implement rate-adaptive source coding, however they perform poorly after even moderate puncturing since the performance of the subspace error localization degrades severely. The proposed

Olivier Curé, David Faye, Guillaume Blin

The vision of the Semantic Web is becoming a reality with billions of RDF triples being distributed over multiple queryable end-points (e.g. Linked Data). Although there has been a body of work on RDF triples persistent storage, it seems that, considering reasoning dependent queries, the problem of providing an efficient, in terms of performance, scalability

Edinah Gnang, Doron Zeilberger

When Mike Hirschhorn showed us his lovely gem, that gives the simplest-to-date proof of Ramanujan's famous result that p(11n+6) is divisible by 11, we realized that his amazing method can be extended, and taught to a computer, and can prove even deeper identities. We would have done much more if not for the existence of Silviu Radu's powerful algorit

Gatien Verley, Christian Van Den Broeck, Massimiliano Esposito

We consider an open two-level system driven by a piecewise constant periodic field and described by a rate equation with Fermi, Bose and Arrhenious rates respectively. We derive an analytical expression for the generating function and large deviation function of the work performed by the field and show that a work fluctuation theorem holds.

Jian Huang, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West

High quality strongly correlated two-dimensional (2D) electron systems at low temperatures $T\rightarrow 0$ exhibits an apparent metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) at a large $r_s$ value around 40. We have measured the magnetoresistance of 2D holes in weak perpendicular magnetic field in the vicinity of the transition for a series of carrier densities rangi

J. E. Barrios-Vargas, Gerardo G. Naumis

An analysis of the electron localization properties in doped graphene is performed by doing a numerical multifractal analysis. By obtaining the singularity spectrum of a tight-binding model, it is found that the electron wave functions present a multifractal behavior. Such multifractality is preserved even for second neighbor interaction, which needs to be t

Yi Zhang, Yungui Gong

In this letter, the effects of dark radiation (DR) are tested. Theoretically, the phase-space analysis method is applied to check whether the model is consist with the history of our universe which shows positive results. Observationally, by using the observational data ($SNLS$ (SuperNovae Legacy Survey), $WMAP9$(Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 9 Years

Manuel Steinbrecher, Hasmik Harutyunyan, Christian R. Ast, Daniel Wegner

We have studied the BiCu$_2$/Cu(111) surface alloy using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. We observed standing waves caused by scattering off defects and step edges. Different from previous studies on similar Rashba-type surfaces, we identified multiple scattering vectors that originate from various intraband as well as interba

Sooyoung Hur, Taejoon Kim, David J. Love, James V. Krogmeier

Recently, there has been considerable interest in new tiered network cellular architectures, which would likely use many more cell sites than found today. Two major challenges will be i) providing backhaul to all of these cells and ii) finding efficient techniques to leverage higher frequency bands for mobile access and backhaul. This paper proposes the use

Bernd Finkbeiner, Markus N. Rabe, César Sánchez

Hyperproperties, as introduced by Clarkson and Schneider, characterize the correctness of a computer program as a condition on its set of computation paths. Standard temporal logics can only refer to a single path at a time, and therefore cannot express many hyperproperties of interest, including noninterference and other important properties in security and

Murray Patterson, Gergely J Szöllősi, Vincent Daubin, Eric Tannier

Background. Models of ancestral gene order reconstruction have progressively integrated different evolutionary patterns and processes such as unequal gene content, gene duplications, and implicitly sequence evolution via reconciled gene trees. In unicellular organisms, these models have so far ignored lateral gene transfer, even though it can have an importa

Anatolii Grinshpan, Dmitry S. Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi, Victor Vinnikov, Hugo J. Woerdeman

For every bivariate polynomial $p(z_1, z_2)$ of bidegree $(n_1, n_2)$, with $p(0,0)=1$, which has no zeros in the open unit bidisk, we construct a determinantal representation of the form $$p(z_1,z_2)=\det (I - K Z),$$ where $Z$ is an $(n_1+n_2)\times(n_1+n_2)$ diagonal matrix with coordinate variables $z_1$, $z_2$ on the diagonal and $K$ is a contraction. W

Michel Halmes

Independent from the still ongoing research in measuring individual intelligence, we anticipate and provide a framework for measuring collective intelligence. Collective intelligence refers to the idea that several individuals can collaborate in order to achieve high levels of intelligence. We present thus some ideas on how the intelligence of a group can be

Andrej Ficnar, Steven S. Gubser

We argue that classical strings, both bosonic and supersymmetric, can have finite energy and momentum at their endpoints. We show that in a general curved background, string endpoints must propagate along null geodesics as long as their energy remains finite. Finite endpoint momentum allows strings with a fixed energy to travel a greater distance in an AdS5-

E. H. Semkov, S. P. Peneva, U. Munari, M. Dennefeld

We carried out BVRI CCD photometric observations in the field of V582 Aur from 2009 August to 2013 February. We acquired high-, medium-, and low-resolution spectroscopy of V582 Aur during this period. To study the pre-outburst variability of the target and construct its historical light curve, we searched for archival observations in photographic plate colle

R. S. Goncalves, J. S. Alcaniz, J. C. Carvalho, R. F. L. Holanda

One of the fundamental hypotheses in observational cosmology is the validity of the so-called cosmic distance-duality relation (CDDR). In this paper, we perform Monte Carlo simulations based on the method developed in Holanda, Goncalves & Alcaniz (2012) [JCAP 1206 (2012) 022] to answer the following question: what is the number of galaxy clusters observation

Hilding R. Neilson, John B. Lester

Limb darkening is a fundamental ingredient for interpreting observations of planetary transits, eclipsing binaries, optical/infrared interferometry and microlensing events. However, this modeling traditionally represents limb darkening by a simple law having one or two coefficients that have been derived from plane-parallel model stellar atmospheres, which h

J. G. Silva, A. F. Santos

In this work, we have considered the Ricci dark energy model, where the energy density of the universe is proportional to the Ricci scalar curvature, in the dynamic Chern-Simons modified gravity. We show that in this context the evolution of the scale factor is similar to that displayed by the modified Chaplygin gas.

Sanjib Sharma, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

An empirical formula for a Shu distribution function that reproduces a thin disc with exponential surface density to good accuracy is presented. The formula has two free parameters that specify the functional form of the velocity dispersion. Conventionally, this requires the use of an iterative algorithm to produce the correct solution, which is computationa

A. Ferrara, F. Haardt, R. Salvaterra

It has been recently suggested that supermassive black holes at z = 5-6 might form from super-fast (\dot M > 10^4 Msun/yr) accretion occurring in unstable, massive nuclear gas disks produced by mergers of Milky-Way size galaxies. Interestingly, such mechanism is claimed to work also for gas enriched to solar metallicity. These results are based on an idealiz

A. F. Rappazzo, E. N. Parker

We investigate the dynamical evolution of magnetic fields in closed regions of solar and stellar coronae. To understand under which conditions current sheets form, we examine dissipative and ideal reduced magnetohydrodynamic models in cartesian geometry, where two magnetic field components are present: the strong guide field $B_0$, extended along the axial d

Marco Bonvini

An approximate expression for the inclusive Higgs production cross section in gluon fusion at NNNLO in QCD with finite top mass is presented. We argue that an accurate approximation can be constructed combining (and improving) the large- and small-z behaviours of the partonic cross section, which are both known to all orders from soft-gluon (Sudakov) and hig

Shamik Banerjee, Alexandre Belin, Simeon Hellerman, Arnaud Lepage-Jutier

The dS/CFT proposal of Anninos, Hartman, and Strominger relates quantum Vasiliev gravity in dS_4 to a large N vector theory in three dimensions. We use this proposal to compute the Wheeler-de Witt wave function of a universe having a particular topology at future infinity. This amplitude is found to grow rapidly with the topological complexity of the spatial

Wesley C. Fraser, Stephen Gwyn, Chad Trujillo, Andrew W. Stephens

Here we present observations of 7 large Kuiper Belt Objects. From these observations, we extract a point source catalog with $\sim0.01"$ precision, and astrometry of our target Kuiper Belt Objects with $0.04-0.08"$ precision within that catalog. We have developed a new technique to predict the future occurrence of stellar occultations by Kuiper Belt

Casey Deen

In an attempt to widen access to the study of magnetic fields in stellar astronomy, I present MOOGStokes, a version of the MOOG one-dimensional LTE radiative transfer code, overhauled to incorporate a Stokes vector treatment of polarized radiation through a magnetic medium. MOOGStokes is a suite of three complementary programs, which together can synthesize

Kei E. I. Tanaka, Taishi Nakamoto, Kazuyuki Omukai

Photoevaporation by stellar ionizing radiation is believed to play an important role in the dispersal of disks around young stars. The mass loss model for dust-free disks developed by Hollenbach et al. is currently regarded as a conventional one and has been used in a wide variety of studies. However, the rate in this model was derived by the crude so-called

F. J. Burnell, Alexander Shnirman, Yuval Oreg

Zero energy Majorana fermion states (Majoranas) can arise at the ends of a semiconducting wire in proximity with a superconductor. A first generation of experiments has detected a zero bias conductance peak in these systems that strongly suggests these Majoranas do exist; however, a definitive demonstration of the long-ranged entanglement that is crucial for

Curt A. Moyer

We have developed a formalism that includes both quasibound states with real energies and quantum resonances within the same theoretical framework, and that admits a clean and unambiguous distinction between these states and the states of the embedding continuum. States described broadly as 'quasibound' are defined as having a connectedness (in the m

Bo Yang

We show the model wavefunctions for the neutral collective modes in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states have simple analytic forms obtained from judicially reducing the powers of selected pairs in the ground state Jastrow factor. This scheme of "pair excitations" works for the magneto-roton modes of single-component Abelian and non-Abeliean FQH stat

Thomas P. Lambert, John G. Ratcliffe, Steven T. Tschantz

In this paper we describe the classification of all the geometric fibrations of a closed flat Riemannian 4-manifold over a 1-orbifold.

Víctor H. Cárdenas, J. R. Villanueva, Juan Magaña

In a recent work Zhang, Li and Noh [Phys. Lett. B {\bf 694}, 177 (2010)]proposed a model for dark energy assuming this component strictly obeys the holographic principle. They performed a dynamical system analysis, finding a scaling solution which is helpful to solve the coincidence problem. However they need explicitly a cosmological constant. In this paper

Johan Messchendorp

Despite the successes of the standard model, the non-perturbative dynamics of the strong interaction are not fully understood yet. Charmonium spectroscopy serves as an ideal tool to shed light on the dynamics of the strong interaction such as quark confinement and the generation of hadron masses. The BESIII collaboration studies extensively the strong intera

Andrew E. Thaler, Graeme W. Milton

We derive bounds on the volume of an inclusion in a body in two or three dimensions when the conductivities of the inclusion and the surrounding body are complex and assumed to be known. The bounds are derived in terms of average values of the electric field, current, and certain products of the electric field and current. All of these average values are com

Sanmay Ganguly, Monoranjan Guchait

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has successfully completed data taking at center of mass (COM) energy 7 TeV in 2011 and very recently for 8 TeV. Measurement of cross sections predicted by the standard model were the main tasks in the beginning. The inclusive jet cross section and dijet mass measurement is already done at 7 TeV energy by Compact Mu

Peter Grassberger

The parity conserving branching-annihilating random walk (pc-BARW) model is a reaction-diffusion system on a lattice where particles can branch into $m$ offsprings with even $m$ and hop to neighboring sites. If two or more particles land on the same site, they immediately annihilate pairwise. In this way the number of particles is preserved modulo two. It is

Mourad Choulli, Yavar Kian, Eric Soccorsi

We prove logarithmic stability in the determination of the time-dependent scalar potential in a 1-periodic quantum cylindrical waveguide, from the boundary measurements of the solution to the dynamic Schrödinger equation.