December 2013 arXiv papers — page 24

Masahiro Shimano, Umpei Miyamoto

In the context of the large extra dimensions or TeV-scale gravity, it has been argued that an effective naked singularity, called the visible border of spacetime, would be generated by high-energy particle collisions. Motivated by this interesting possibility, we investigate a particle creation by a naked singularity in general dimensions, adopting a spheric

Jérémie Bettinelli, Emmanuel Jacob, Grégory Miermont

We prove that a uniform rooted plane map with n edges converges in distribution after a suitable normalization to the Brownian map for the Gromov-Hausdorff topology. A recent bijection due to Ambjørn and Budd allows to derive this result by a direct coupling with a uniform random quadrangulation with n faces.

Ivan Nourdin, David Nualart

Using a representation of the score function by means of the divergence operator we exhibit a sufficient condition, in terms of the negative moments of the norm of the Malliavin derivative, under which convergence in Fisher information to the standard Gaussian of sequences belonging to a given Wiener chaos is actually equivalent to convergence of only the fo

Shailesh K. Singh, S. K. Biswal, M. Bhuyan, T. K. Jha

Using the nuclear equation of states for a large variety of relativistic and non-relativistic force parameters, we calculate the static and rotating masses and radii of neutron stars. From these equation of states, we also evaluate the properties of rotating neutron stars, such as rotational and gravitational frequencies, moment of inertia, quadrupole deform

Laurent Cavalier, Markus Reiß

We consider a Gaussian sequence space model $X_λ=f_λ + ξ_λ,$ where $ξ$ has a diagonal covariance matrix $Σ=\diag(σ_λ^2)$. We consider the situation where the parameter vector $(f_λ)$ is sparse. Our goal is to estimate the unknown parameter by a model selection approach. The heterogenous case is much more involved than the direct model. Indeed, there is no mo

Primož Rebernik Ribič, David Gauthier, Giovanni De Ninno

We propose an effective scheme for the generation of intense coherent extreme ultraviolet light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). The light is produced by a high-gain harmonic-generation free-electron laser (FEL), seeded using a laser pulse with a transverse staircase-like phase pattern. During amplification, diffraction and mode selection drive

Jinchun He, Jinqiao Duan, Hongjun Gao

This work is devoted to the study of a nonlocal Ginzberg-Landau equation by the semigroup method and a nonlocal Fokker-Plank equation by the viscosity vanishing method. For the nonlocal Ginzberg-Landau equation, there exists a unique global solution in the set $C^0(\mathbb{R}^+,\,H_0^{\fracα{2}}(D))\cap L_{loc}(\mathbb{R}^+,\,H_0^α(D))$, for $α\in (0,\,2)$.

Nasser Metwally

Entanglement behavior for different classes of two qubit systems passing through a generalized amplitude damping channel is discussed. The phenomena of sudden single, double changes and the sudden death of entanglement are reported for correlated and non- correlated noise. It is shown that, for less entangled states, these phenomena appear for small values o

Tony J. Puthenpurakal

Let $(A,\mathfrak{m})$ be a local Gorenstein local ring and let $M$ be an $A$ module of finite length and finite projective dimension. We prove that the Lowey length of $M$ is greater than or equal to order of $A$. This generalizes a result of Avramov, Buchweitz, Iyengar and Miller

V. Depauw, X. Meng, O. El Daif, G. Gomard

A 2-D photonic crystal was integrated experimentally into a thin-film crystalline-silicon solar cell of 1-μm thickness, after numerical optimization maximizing light absorption in the active material. The photonic crystal boosted the short-circuit current of the cell, but it also damaged its open-circuit voltage and fill factor, which led to an overall decre

Taehyoung Shim, Dong Min Kim, Seong-Lyun Kim

Due to the development of information and communication technologies, it is difficult to handle the billions of connected machines. In this paper, to cope with the problem, we introduce machine social networks, where they freely follow each other and share common interests with their neighbors. We classify characteristics and describe required functionalitie

P. I. Plotnikov, W. Weigant

The Navier-Stokes equations for compressible barotropic flow in the stationary three dimensional case are considered. It is assumed that a fluid occupies a bounded domain and satisfies the no-slip boundary condition. The existence of a weak solution under the assumption that the adiabatic exponent satisfies $γ>1$ is proved. These results cover the cases of m

Min Li, Jiechao Cui, Jun Wang, Qing Hou

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to study the cumulative bombardments of low-energy (60-200 eV) helium (He) atoms on tungsten (W) surfaces. The behaviour of He and the response of the W surface were investigated. The He incident energy and tungsten temperature play important roles on the formation and growth of He clusters. The temperature

Ming Zeng, Min Chen, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Warren B. Mori

The ionization-induced injection in laser wakefield acceleration has been recently demonstrated to be a promising injection scheme. However, the energy spread controlling in this mechanism remains a challenge because continuous injection in a mixed gas target is usually inevitable. Here we propose that by use of certain initially unmatched laser pulses, the

Daniel V. Cotton, Jeremy Bailey, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer

The effects of telluric absorption on infrared spectra present a problem for the observer. Strong molecular absorptions from species whose concentrations vary with time can be particularly challenging to remove precisely. Yet removing these effects is key to accurately determining the composition of many astronomical objects, planetary atmospheres in particu

Yoshikazu Giga, Xingfei Xiang

In this note, we establish the estimate on the Lorentz space $L(3/2,1)$ for vector fields in bounded domains under the assumption that the normal or the tangential component of the vector fields on the boundary vanishing. We prove that the $L(3/2,1)$ norm of the vector field can be controlled by the norms of its divergence and curl in the atomic Hardy spaces

C. l. Jin, J. X. Wang

By using the unique database of SOHO/MDI full disk magnetograms from 1996 September to 2011 January, covering the entire solar cycle 23, we analyze the time-variability of the solar magnetic flux spectrum and study the properties of extended minimum of cycle 23. We totally identify 11.5 million magnetic structures. It has been revealed that magnetic features

suneetha chittineni, Raveendra Babu Bhogapathi

K-means Fast Learning Artificial Neural Network (K-FLANN) is an unsupervised neural network requires two parameters: tolerance and vigilance. Best Clustering results are feasible only by finest parameters specified to the neural network. Selecting optimal values for these parameters is a major problem. To solve this issue, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to d

E. G. Delgado-Acosta, M. Kirchbach

We show that higher order differential equations and matrix spinor calculus are completely avoidable in the description of pure high spin-$j$ Weinberg-Joos states, $(j,0)\oplus (0,j)$. The case is made on the example of $(3/2,0)\oplus(0,3/2)$, for the sake of concreteness and without loss of generality. Namely, we use as a vehicle for the aforementioned cova

Yujin Guo, Xiaoyu Zeng, Huan-Song Zhou

We study the following nonlinear Schrödinger equation $$ iu_t=-Δu+V(x)u-a|u|^qu \quad (t,x)\in \mathbb{R}^1\times \mathbb{R}^2, $$ where $a>0, \ q\in(0,2)$ and $V(x)$ is some type of trapping potentials. For any fixed $a>a^*:= \|Q\|_2^2$, where $Q$ is the unique (up to translations) positive radial solution of $Δu-u+u^3=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$, by directly usin

Weng-Hang Leong, Shun-Li Yu, Jian-Xin Li

The local magnetism induced by vacancies in the presence of the spin-orbital interaction is investigated based on the half-filled Kane-Mele-Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice. Using the self-consistent mean-field theory, we find that the spin-orbital coupling will enhance the localization of the spin moments near a single vacancy. We further study the ma

Ting Zhang, Hwai-Chung Ho, Martin Wendler, Wei Biao Wu

The paper considers the block sampling method for long-range dependent processes. Our theory generalizes earlier ones by Hall, Jing and Lahiri (1998) on functionals of Gaussian processes and Nordman and Lahiri (2005) on linear processes. In particular, we allow nonlinear transforms of linear processes. Under suitable conditions on physical dependence measure

Jianbin Liu

By analyzing the first-order interference of two independent thermal light beams with both classical and quantum theories, we conclude that it is impossible to observe the transient first-order interference pattern by superposing two independent thermal light beams even if the degeneracy parameter of thermal light is much greater than one. The result suggest

Natalie K. Walford, Franz J. Klein

The search for undiscovered excited states of the nucleon continues to be a focus of experiments at Jefferson Lab.Recent LQCD calculations have confirmed long-standing quark-model predictions of many more states than have so far been identified.A large effort for the N-star program has been launched using the CLAS detector to provide the database that will a

Qi-Fang Lü, Xiao-Hao Liu, Ju-Jun Xie, De-Min Li

The near threshold $π^- p \to ηn$ reaction is studied within an effective Lagrangian approach and the isobar model. By considering the contributions from $s$- and $u$-channel nucleon pole and $N^{*}(1535)$ resonance, the total and differential cross sections of the $π^- p \to ηn$ reaction near threshold are calculated. Our theoretical results can fairly repr

Motoi Tachibana, Marco Ruggieri

In this short paper, we argue the issue on dark matter capture in neutron stars. After summarizing the whole scenario and the introduction of previous studies along this line, we propose some potentially important effects due to the appearance of exotic phases such as neutron superfluidity, meson condensation and quark superconductivity. Those effects might

J. R. Dawson, A. J. Walsh, P. A. Jones, S. L. Breen

SPLASH (the Southern Parkes Large-Area Survey in Hydroxyl) is a sensitive, unbiased and fully-sampled survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Galactic Centre in all four ground-state transitions of the hydroxyl (OH) radical. The survey provides a deep census of 1612-, 1665-, 1667- and 1720-MHz OH absorption and emission from the Galactic ISM, and is also a

Dong Min Kim, Seong-Lyun Kim

We investigate the optimal carrier sensing threshold in random CSMA/CA networks considering the effect of binary exponential backoff. We propose an iterative algorithm for optimizing the carrier sensing threshold and hence maximizing the area spectral efficiency. We verify that simulations are consistent with our analytical results.

Fulvio Melia

Two recent discoveries have made it possible for us to begin using high-z quasars as standard candles to construct a Hubble Diagram (HD) at z > 6. These are (1) the recognition from reverberation mapping that a relationship exists between the optical/UV luminosity and the distance of line-emitting gas from the central ionizing source. Thus, together with a m

Dong Min Kim, Seong-Lyun Kim

We investigate a scheduling scheme incorporating network coding and channel varying information for the two-way relay networks. Our scheduler aims at minimizing the time span needed to send all the data of each source of the network. We consider three channel models, time invariant channels, time varying channels with finite states and time varying Rayleigh

G. S. Da Costa, E. V. Held, I. Saviane

We present a detailed study of the strengths of the calcium triplet absorption lines in the spectra of a large sample of red giant members of the luminous outer Galactic halo globular cluster NGC 5824. The spectra were obtained with the FORS2 and GMOS-S multi-object spectrographs at the VLT and the Gemini-S telescope, respectively. By comparing the line stre

Anant Atyam

We construct an affine stratification for $\mathcal A_4(\mathbb C)$ of length 6, in the sense of Roth and Vakil, which gives us an upper bound of 6 for the cohomological dimension of $\mathcal A_4(\mathbb C)$. We conjecture that in general for arbitrary $g$ the cohomological dimension of $\mathcal A_g$ is equal to $g(g-1)/2$.

Dong Min Kim, Young Ju Hwang, Seong-Lyun Kim, Gwang-Ja Jin

Random basketball routing (BR) \cite {Hwang} is a simple protocol that integrates MAC and multihop routing in a cross-layer optimized manner. Due to its lightness and performance, BR would be quite suitable for sensor networks, where communication nodes are usually simple devices. In this paper, we describe how we implemented BR in a ZigBee-based (IEEE 802.1

J. C. Jimenez, F. Carbonell

There exists a diversity of weak Local Linearization (LL) schemes for the integration of stochastic differential equations with additive noise, which differ with respect to the algorithm that is employed in the numerical implementation of the weak Local Linear discretizations. On the contrary to the Local Linear discretization, the rate of convergence of the

Kunihiko Terasaki

Decay properties of hidden-strangeness partners of X(3872) are studied in tetra-quark pictures. As the results, it is seen that their decay properties are strongly model dependent, and therefore, experimental studies of them will select a realistic model.

Zhi-Gang Xiao, Gao-Chan Yong, Lie-Wen Chen, Bao-An Li

The high-density behavior of nuclear symmetry energy is among the most uncertain properties of dense neutron-rich matter. Its accurate determination has significant ramifications in understanding not only the reaction dynamics of heavy-ion reactions especially those induced by radioactive beams but also many interesting phenomena in astrophysics, such as the

Annalisa Cerquetti

We give yet another example of the usefulness of working with marginals of multivariate Gibbs distributions (Cerquetti, 2013) in deriving Bayesian nonparametric estimators under Gibbs priors in species sampling problems. Here in particular we substantially reduce length and complexity of the proofs in Bacallado et al. (2013, Th. 1, and Th. 2) for looking bac

Michael Ramm, Thaned Pruttivarasin, Hartmut Häffner

We experimentally study energy transport in chains of trapped ions. We use a pulsed excitation scheme to rapidly add energy to the local motional mode of one of the ions in the chain. Subsequent energy readout allows us to determine how the excitation has propagated throughout the chain. We observe energy revivals that persist for many cycles. We study the b

Kris O. Roberts, Thomas McKellar, Julia Fekete, Ana Rakonjac

We report on the implementation of an optical tweezer system for controlled transport of ultracold atoms along a narrow, static confinement channel. The tweezer system is based on high-efficiency acousto-optical deflectors and offers two-dimensional control over beam position. This opens up the possibility for tracking the transport channel when shuttling at

Yunlong He, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Yun Wang, Arthur Szlam

In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised feature learning framework, namely Deep Sparse Coding (DeepSC), that extends sparse coding to a multi-layer architecture for visual object recognition tasks. The main innovation of the framework is that it connects the sparse-encoders from different layers by a sparse-to-dense module. The sparse-to-dense module is

Christian Fendt, Oliver Porth, Somayeh Sheikhnezami

We present results of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of jet formation and propagation, discussing a variety of astrophysical setups. In the first approach we consider simulations of relativistic MHD jet formation, considering jets launched from the surface of a Keplerian disk, demonstrating numerically - for the first time - the self-collimating abili

Alicja Smoktunowicz, Agata Smoktunowicz, Ewa Pawelec

This paper provides error analyses of the algorithms most commonly used for the evaluation of the Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind $T_N(x)$. Some of these algorithms are shown to be backward stable. This means that the computed value of $T_N(x)$ in floating point arithmetic by these algorithms can be interpreted as a slightly perturbed value of polynom

Dirk Nuyens

A comprehensive overview of lattice rules and polynomial lattice rules is given for function spaces based on $\ell_p$ semi-norms. Good lattice rules and polynomial lattice rules are defined as those obtaining worst-case errors bounded by the optimal rate of convergence for the function space. The focus is on algebraic rates of convergence $O(N^{-α+ε})$ for $

Stefano Riverso, Marcello Farina, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

In this paper we consider a linear system represented by a coupling graph between subsystems and propose a distributed control scheme capable to guarantee asymptotic stability and satisfaction of constraints on system inputs and states. Most importantly, as in Riverso et al., 2012 our design procedure enables plug-and-play (PnP) operations, meaning that (i)

J. M. M. Hall, D. B. Leinweber, R. D. Young

There has been much progress in the experimental measurement of the electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the nucleon. Similarly, lattice QCD simulations have recently produced dynamical QCD results for the magnetic polarizability of the neutron approaching the chiral regime. In order to compare the lattice simulations with experiment, calculation of par

Igor Sokolov

A series of papers in the ISJAEE Journal on 'dam-free hydroelectric power station' concluded by paper: Zotyev, D. B., Alternative energy vs pseudo-science, ISJAEE. 2013. 8(130). P.131-136, is reviewed and commented. A comparison with the generally accepted energy conservation law in hydrodynamics reveals a disappointingly low scientific level of the

V. I. Tretyak

New results of calculation of quenching factors for ions in scintillators in semi-empirical approach described in [V.I. Tretyak, Astropart. Phys. 33 (2010) 40] are presented. In particular, they give additional arguments in favour of hypothesis that quenching factors for different particles can be described with the same Birks factor kB, if all the data were

Ivani de O. N. Lopes, Alexander Schliep, André P. L. F. de Carvalho

Computational discovery of microRNAs (miRNA) is based on pre-determined sets of features from miRNA precursors (pre-miRNA). These feature sets used by current tools for pre-miRNA recognition differ in construction and dimension. Some feature sets are composed of sequence-structure patterns commonly found in pre-miRNAs, while others are a combination of more

Vladimir V. Bytev, Mikhail Yu. Kalmykov, Sven-Olaf Moch

HYPERDIRE is a project devoted to the creation of a set of Mathematica based programs for the differential reduction of hypergeometric functions. The current version includes two parts: the first one, FdFunction, for manipulations with Appell hypergeometric functions $F_D$ of $r$ variables; and the second one, FsFunction, for manipulations with Lauricella-Sa

Nicholas C. Henderson, Michael A. Newton

Identifying leading measurement units from a large collection is a common inference task in various domains of large-scale inference. Testing approaches, which measure evidence against a null hypothesis rather than effect magnitude, tend to overpopulate lists of leading units with those associated with low measurement error. By contrast, local maximum likeli

Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower

We perform a set of 38 numerical simulations of equal-mass BH binaries in a configuration where the BH spins in the binary are equal in both magnitude and direction, to study precession effects. We vary the initial direction of the total spin S with respect to the orbital angular momentum L, covering the 2 dimensional space of orientation angles with 38 conf

V. I. Tretyak, P. Belli, R. Bernabei, V. B. Brudanin

An experiment to search for double beta processes in 106Cd by using cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator enriched in 106Cd (106CdWO4) in coincidence with the four crystals HPGe detector GeMulti is in progress at the STELLA facility of the Gran Sasso underground laboratory of INFN (Italy). The 106CdWO4 scintillator is viewed by a low-background photomultipl

Samory Kpotufe, Eleni Sgouritsa, Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Schölkopf

We analyze a family of methods for statistical causal inference from sample under the so-called Additive Noise Model. While most work on the subject has concentrated on establishing the soundness of the Additive Noise Model, the statistical consistency of the resulting inference methods has received little attention. We derive general conditions under which

Seunghak Lee, Jin Kyu Kim, Qirong Ho, Garth A. Gibson

Training large machine learning (ML) models with many variables or parameters can take a long time if one employs sequential procedures even with stochastic updates. A natural solution is to turn to distributed computing on a cluster; however, naive, unstructured parallelization of ML algorithms does not usually lead to a proportional speedup and can even re

Marco Rossi, Alexander M. Haimovich, Yonina C. Eldar

We present an algorithm, dubbed Multi-Branch Matching Pursuit (MBMP), to solve the sparse recovery problem over redundant dictionaries. MBMP combines three different paradigms: being a greedy method, it performs iterative signal support estimation; as a rank-aware method, it is able to exploit signal subspace information when multiple snapshots are available

Rafael de Araújo Monteiro

In this article we derive rigorously a nonlinear, steady, bifurcation through spectral bifurcation (i.e., eigenvalues of the linearized equation crossing the imaginary axis) for a class of hyperbolic-parabolic model in a strip. This is related to "cellular instabilities" occuring in detonation and MHD. Our results extend to multiple dimensions the results of

Sanjoy Datta, Viveka Nand Singh, Pinaki Majumdar

Attractive interaction between fermions can lead to pairing and superfluidity in an optical lattice. In contrast to the `continuum', on a lattice the trap induced density variation can generate a non monotonic profile of the pairing amplitude, and completely modify the spectral signatures of any possible pseudogap phase. Using a tool that fully captures

Kamran Kowsari

Comparison of three kind of the clustering and find cost function and loss function and calculate them. Error rate of the clustering methods and how to calculate the error percentage always be one on the important factor for evaluating the clustering methods, so this paper introduce one way to calculate the error rate of clustering methods. Clustering algori

Fu Liu, Richard P. Stanley

Let $\mathcal{T}$ be a collection of 3-element subsets $S$ of $\{1, \ldots,n\}$ with the property that if $i<j<k$ and $a<b<c$ are two 3-element subsets in $S$, then there exists an integer sequence $x_1 < x_2 < \cdots < x_n$ such that $x_i, x_j, x_k$ and $x_a, x_b, x_c$ are arithmetic progressions. We determine the number of such collections $\mathcal{T}$ an

Dennis P. Clougherty

A continuum model for low-energy physisorption on a membrane under tension is proposed and studied with variational mean-field theory. A discontinuous change in the energy-dependent sticking coefficient is predicted under certain conditions. This singularity is a result of the bosonic orthogonality catastrophe of the vibrational states of the membrane. The e

Alexander Pikovski

A cold gas of particles with anisotropic interactions of general form, due to a polarizing field, is studied. Special cases are atoms or molecules with dipole-dipole or quadrupole-quadrupole interactions. It is shown that the angular dependence of an observable on the direction of the polarizing field is largely determined by symmetry. For a gas in a confine

Francisco Correa, Olaf Lechtenfeld, Mikhail Plyushchay

It is long known that the rational Calogero model describing n identical particles on a line with inverse-square mutual interaction potential is quantum superintegrable. We review the (nonlinear) algebra of the conserved quantum charges and the intertwiners which relate the Liouville charges at couplings g and g+1. For integer values of g, these intertwiners

Arjun Bagchi, Rudranil Basu

We compute the leading corrections to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the Flat Space Cosmological (FSC) solutions in 3D flat spacetimes, which are the flat analogues of the BTZ black holes in AdS3. The analysis is done by a computation of density of states in the dual 2D Galilean Conformal Field Theory and the answer obtained by this matches with the limit

Xiaopeng Li, S. Das Sarma

We study theoretically quantum dynamics of interacting bosons in artificial magnetic fields as engineered in recent ultracold atomic experiments, where quantum cyclotron orbital motion has been observed. With exact numerical simulations and perturbative analyses, we find that interactions induce damping in the cyclotron motion. The damping time is found to b

Jonathan J. Heckman, David R. Morrison, Cumrun Vafa

We study (1,0) and (2,0) 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that can be constructed in F-theory. Quite surprisingly, all of them involve an orbifold singularity C^2 / G with G a discrete subgroup of U(2). When G is a subgroup of SU(2), all discrete subgroups are allowed, and this leads to the familiar ADE classification of (2,0) SCFTs. For more general

Patrick Draper, Gabriel Lee, Carlos E. M. Wagner

In supersymmetric models, very heavy stop squarks introduce large logarithms into the computation of the Higgs boson mass. Although it has long been known that in simple cases these logs can be resummed using effective field theory techniques, it is technically easier to use fixed-order formulas, and many public codes implement the latter. We calculate three

Bin Hu, Marco Raveri, Noemi Frusciante, Alessandra Silvestri

We implement the effective field theory (EFT) approach to dark energy and modified gravity in the public Einstein-Boltzmann solver CAMB. The resulting code, which we dub EFTCAMB, is a powerful and versatile tool that can be used for several objectives. It can be employed to evolve the full dynamics of linear scalar perturbations in any given single field dar

Sophia E. Economou, Edwin Barnes

An electron confined in a quantum dot interacts with its local nuclear spin environment through the hyperfine contact interaction. This interaction combined with external control and relaxation or measurement of the electron spin allows for the generation of dynamic nuclear polarization. The quantum nature of the nuclear bath, along with the interplay of coh

Eric Perlmutter

We extend and refine recent results on Renyi entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theories at large central charge. To do so, we examine the effects of higher spin symmetry and of allowing unequal left and right central charges, at leading and subleading order in large total central charge. The result is a straightforward generalization of previously d

Syksy Rasanen

The Gaia satellite will soon probe parallax on cosmological distances. Using the covariant formalism and considering the angle between a pair of sources, we find parallax for both spacelike and timelike separation between observation points. Our analysis includes both intrinsic parallax and parallax due to observer motion. We propose a consistency condition

John Ellis, Dae Sung Hwang, Kazuki Sakurai, Michihisa Takeuchi

In the presence of CP violation, the Higgs-top coupling may have both scalar and pseudoscalar components, $κ_t$ and ${\tilde κ_t}$, which are bounded indirectly but only weakly by the present experimental constraints on the Higgs-gluon-gluon and Higgs-$γ$-$γ$ couplings, whereas upper limits on electric dipole moments provide strong additional indirect constr

S. Mironov, An. Morozov, Y. Zenkevich

We find generalized Jack polynomials for the group $SU(3)$ and verify that their Selberg averages for several first levels are given by Nekrasov functions. To compute the averages we derive recurrence relations for the $sl_3$ Selberg integrals.

Juliane Hahn, Clara Hörner, Raoul Malm, Matthias Neubert

A detailed five-dimensional calculation of the Higgs-boson decay into two photons is performed in both the minimal and the custodially protected Randall-Sundrum (RS) model, where the Standard Model (SM) fields propagate in the bulk and the scalar sector lives on or near the IR brane. It is explicitly shown that the $R_ξ$ gauge invariance of the sum of diagra

CMS Collaboration

Double parton scattering is investigated in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV where the final state includes a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, and two jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5 inverse femtobarns, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Observables sensitive to double parton scattering

Shabeh ul Hasson, Valerio Lucarini, Salvatore Pascale, Jürgen Böhner

In this study, we investigate how PCMDI/CMIP3 general circulation models (GCMs) represent the seasonal properties of the hydrological cycle in four major South and Southeast Asian river basins (Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra and Mekong). First, we examine the skill of the GCMs by analysing their performance in simulating the 20th century climate (1961-2000 perio

Kenneth M. Nollett, Gary Steigman

(Abridged) In the presence of a light WIMP (< 30 MeV), there are degeneracies among the nature of the WIMP, its couplings to standard model particles, its mass m_chi, and the number of equivalent neutrinos beyond the standard model, Delta N_nu. These degeneracies cannot be broken by the CMB constraint on the effective number of neutrinos, N_eff. However, big

Falko Pientka, Leonid I. Glazman, Felix von Oppen

Chains of magnetic impurities placed on a superconducting substrate and forming helical spin order provide a promising venue for realizing a topological superconducting phase. An effective tight-binding description of such helical Shiba chains involves long-range (power-law) hopping and pairing amplitudes which induce an unconventional topological critical p

M. Elder, A. Rechnitzer, E. J. Janse van Rensburg

We describe a novel algorithm for random sampling of freely reduced words equal to the identity in a finitely presented group. The algorithm is based on Metropolis Monte Carlo sampling. The algorithm samples from a stretched Boltzmann distribution \begin{align*}π(w) &= (|w|+1)^α β^{|w|} \cdot Z^{-1} \end{align*} where $|w|$ is the length of a word $w$, $α$ a

Lucian A. Harland-Lang, Chun-Hay Kom, Kazuki Sakurai, Marco Tonini

We revisit mass determination techniques for the minimum symmetric event topology, namely $X$ pair production followed by $X \to \ell N$, where $X$ and $N$ are unknown particles with the masses to be measured, and $N$ is an invisible particle, concentrating on the case where $X$ is pair produced from a resonance. We consider separate scenarios, with differen

A. V. Kuznetsov, D. A. Rumyantsev, D. M. Shlenev

The tree-level two-point amplitudes for the transitions $jf \to j^{\, \prime} f^{\, \prime}$, where $f$ is a fermion and $j$ is a generalized current, in a constant uniform magnetic field of an arbitrary strength and in charged fermion plasma, for the $jf$ interaction vertices of the scalar, pseudoscalar, vector and axial-vector types have been investigated.

Dennis D. Dietrich

Holographic principles have impacted the way we look at strong coupling phenomena in quantum chromodynamics, strongly interacting extensions of the standard model, and {condensed-matter} physics. In real world settings, however, we still lack understanding of why and when such an approach is justified. Therefore, here, without invoking any such principle a p

M. A. Gubko, W. Husinsky, A. A. Ionin, S. I. Kudryashov

We have demonstrated for the first time that an array of nanoantennas (central nanotips inside sub-micron pits) on an aluminum surface, fabricated using a specific double-pulse femtosecond laser irradiation scheme, results in a 28-fold enhancement of the non-linear (three-photon) electron photoemission yield, driven by a third intense IR femtosecond laser pu

Patrick C. Connor, Thomas P. Trappenberg

In reinforcement learning, the goal is to seek rewards and avoid punishments. A simple scalar captures the value of a state or of taking an action, where expected future rewards increase and punishments decrease this quantity. Naturally an agent should learn to predict this quantity to take beneficial actions, and many value function approximators exist for

Dimiter Dobrev

Artificial Intelligence - what is this? That is the question! In earlier papers we already gave a formal definition for AI, but if one desires to build an actual AI implementation, the following issues require attention and are treated here: the data format to be used, the idea of Undef and Nothing symbols, various ways for defining the &#34;meaning of life&

Christiane Rousseau

The present paper presents some reflections of the author on divergent series and their role and place in mathematics over the centuries. The point of view presented here is limited to differential equations and dynamical systems.

Yohann Le Floch, Álvaro Pelayo

Recently there has been a renewed interest in asymptotic Euler-MacLaurin formulas, partly due to applications to spectral theory of differential operators. Using elementary means, we recover such formulas for compactly supported smooth functions f on intervals, polygons, and 3-dimensional polytopes, where the coefficients in the asymptotic expansion are sums

Sara Madariaga

In this paper we define pre-Malcev algebras and alternative quadri-algebras and prove that they generalize pre-Lie algebras and quadri-algebras respectively to the alternative setting. Constructions in terms bimodules, splitting of operations, and Rota-Baxter operators are discussed.

N. A. Elmahdy, A. Y. Ellithi, A. SH. Ghazal, Z. Metawei

The microscopic eikonal phase shifts with its first and second corrections for pi nucleus collision are calculated by using the expression previously derived for the local Kisslinger potential. A physical description to different forms of targets density distributions, are implemented. The roles of the Ericson Ericson Lorentz Lorentz EELL parameter and the a

Henrique S. Xavier, L. Raul Abramo, Masao Sako, Narciso Benítez

We study the characteristics of a narrow band type Ia supernova survey through simulations based on the upcoming Javalambre Physics of the accelerating universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS). This unique survey has the capabilities of obtaining distances, redshifts, and the SN type from a single experiment thereby circumventing the challenges faced by the res

Nicolas Boulanger, Per Sundell, Mauricio Valenzuela

Using Wigner-deformed Heisenberg oscillators, we construct 3D Chern--Simons models consisting of fractional-spin fields coupled to higher-spin gravity and internal non-abelian gauge fields. The gauge algebras consist of Lorentz-tensorial Blencowe-Vasiliev higher-spin algebras and compact internal algebras intertwined by infinite-dimensional generators in low

Torleif Veen

Given a commutative ring spectrum $R$ let $Λ_XR$ be the Loday functor constructed by Brun, Carlson and Dundas. Given a prime $p\geq 5$ we calculate $π_*(Λ_{S^n}H\mathbb{F}_p)$ and $π_*(Λ_{T^n}H\mathbb{F}_p)$ for $n\leq p$, and use these results to deduce that $v_{n-1}$ in the $n-1$-th connective Morava $K$-theory of $(Λ_{T^{n}}H\mathbb{F}_p)^{hT^{n}}$ is non

Negin Karisani, E. S. Mahmoodian, Narges K. Sobhani

A Hypercube $Q_n$ is a graph in which the vertices are all binary vectors of length n, and two vertices are adjacent if and only if their components differ in exactly one place. A galaxy or a star forest is a union of vertex disjoint stars. The star arboricity of a graph $G$, ${\rm sa}(G)$, is the minimum number of galaxies which partition the edge set of $G

Samy Bengio, Jeff Dean, Dumitru Erhan, Eugene Ie

Object recognition and localization are important tasks in computer vision. The focus of this work is the incorporation of contextual information in order to improve object recognition and localization. For instance, it is natural to expect not to see an elephant to appear in the middle of an ocean. We consider a simple approach to encapsulate such common se

Luca Vecchi

The WIMP &#34;miracle&#34; suggests a new physics threshold ranging from the weak scale up to several tens of TeVs. Obtaining the correct dark matter density in many theories aiming to solve the hierarchy problem may thus require some amount of tuning of the weak scale, hinting at a possible connection between WIMP dark matter and unnaturalness. We point out

Andrzej Sitarz, Jan Jitse Venselaar

We study almost real spectral triples on quantum lens spaces, as orbit spaces of free actions of cyclic groups on the spectral geometry on the quantum group $SU_q(2)$. These spectral triples are given by weakening some of the conditions of a real spectral triple. We classify the irreducible almost real spectral triples on quantum lens spaces and we study uni

Soham Pal, Karthik Rajeev, S. Shankaranarayanan

In this work we derive the asymptotic quasi-normal modes of a BTZ black hole using a quantum field theoretic Lagrangian. The BTZ black hole is a very popular system in the context of $2+1$-dimensional quantum gravity. However to our knowledge the quasi-normal modes of the BTZ black hole have been studied only in the classical domain. Here we show a way to qu

E. A. Ivanov, B. M. Zupnik

There is an evidence that the N=2 Born-Infeld theory with spontaneously broken N=4 supersymmetry exhibits self-duality. We perform a further check of this hypothesis by constructing a new representation for the N=2 Born-Infeld action through the auxiliary chiral superfield U. In such a formulation, self-duality is equivalent to U(1) invariance of the U inter

Sylvain Schmitz

We introduce a hierarchy of fast-growing complexity classes and show its suitability for completeness statements of many non elementary problems. This hierarchy allows the classification of many decision problems with a non-elementary complexity, which occur naturally in logic, combinatorics, formal languages, verification, etc., with complexities ranging fr

R. de Diego, J. M. Arias, J. A. Lay, A. M. Moro

The effect of core excitation in the elastic scattering and breakup of a two-body halo nucleus on a stable target nucleus is studied. The structure of the weakly-bound projectile is described in the weak-coupling limit, assuming a particle-rotor model. The eigenfunctions and the associated eigenvalues are obtained by diagonalizing this Hamiltonian in a squar

Aitor Lewkowycz, Juan Maldacena

We consider a spherical region with a heavy quark in the middle. We compute the extra entanglement entropy due to the presence of a heavy quark both in ${\cal N}=4 $ Super Yang Mills and in the ${\cal N}=6$ Chern-Simons matter theory (ABJM). This is done by relating the computation to the expectation value of a circular Wilson loop and a stress tensor insert