December 2013 arXiv papers — page 34

M. A. Reynya

In this paper we consider Diophantine equation x4 + y4 = z4 + w4 (1)We construct some family of cubic curves.We prove that every rational point on Quar- tica x4 + y4 = z4 + w4 can be mapped to a point on some curve of this family. We also prove the opposite: each rational point belonging to our family of curves can be mapped to a rational point on the Quarti

Robert V Mayer

In computer simulation of the learning process is usually assumed that all elements of the training material are assimilated equally durable. But in practice, the knowledge, which a student uses in its operations, are remembered much better. For a more precise study of didactic systems the multi component model of learning are proposed. It takes into account

D. M. Worrall, M. Birkinshaw

We present new X-ray (Chandra) and radio (JVLA) observations of the nearby cluster Abell 3744. It hosts two prominent radio galaxies with powers in the range critical for radio-mode feedback. The radio emission from these galaxies terminates in buoyant tendrils reaching the cluster's outer edge, and the radio-emitting plasma clearly influences the cluste

K. Bakowska, A. Olech, A. Rutkowski, R. Koff

We present results of a world-wide observing campaign of the eclipsing dwarf nova - HT Cas during its superoutburst in November 2010. Using collected data we were able to conduct analysis of the light curves and we calculated $O-C$ diagrams. The CCD photometric observations enabled us to derive the superhump period and with the timings of eclipses the orbita

Micah Blake McCurdy, Jeffrey Egger, Jordan Kyriakidis

Farhi and others have introduced the notion of solving NP problems using adiabatic quantum com- puters. We discuss an application of this idea to the problem of integer factorization, together with a technique we call gluing which can be used to build adiabatic models of interesting problems. Although adiabatic quantum computers already exist, they are likel

Ardina Ariani, Leon Andretti Abdillah, Firamon Syakti

BP3TKI Palembang is the government agencies that coordinate, execute and selection of prospective migrants registration and placement. To simplify the existing procedures and improve decision-making is necessary to build a decision support system (DSS) to determine eligibility for employment abroad by applying Fuzzy Multiple Attribute Decision Making (FMADM)

Felipe A. M. G. Nogueira

This work provides a general discussion of the spatially inhomogeneous Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) cosmology, as well as its basic properties and many useful relevant quantities, such as the cosmological distances. We apply the concept of the single null geodesic to produce some simple analytical solutions for observational quantities such as the redshift. A

Aleksey S. Polunchenko, Grigory Sokolov, Wenyu Du

We propose a numerical method to evaluate the performance of the emerging Generalized Shiryaev--Roberts (GSR) change-point detection procedure in a "minimax-ish" multi-cyclic setup where the procedure of choice is applied repetitively (cyclically) and the change is assumed to take place at an unknown time moment in a distant-future stationary regime.

Mathew Bullimore

We consider topological defect networks with junctions in $A_{N-1}$ Toda CFT and the connection to supersymmetric loop operators in $\mathcal{N} = 2$ theories of class S on a four-sphere. Correlation functions in the presence of topological defect networks are computed by exploiting the monodromy of conformal blocks, generalising the notion of a Verlinde ope

Michael Larsen, Pham Huu Tiep

Let v and w be nontrivial words in two free groups. We prove that, for all sufficiently large finite non-abelian simple groups G, there exist subsets C of v(G) and D of w(G) of size such that every element of G can be realized in at least one way as the product of an element of C and an element of D and the average number of such representations is O(log |G|

E. Camporeale, G. L. Delzanno, B. K. Bergen, J. D. Moulton

We describe a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis, and the configuration space is discretized via a Fourier decomposition. The novelty of our approach is an implicit time discretization that allows exact conservation of charge, momentum and energy. The com

R. D. Young, P. E. Shanahan, A. W. Thomas

Recent work unambiguously resolves the level of charge symmetry violation in moments of parton distributions using 2+1-flavor lattice QCD. We introduce the methods used for that analysis by applying them to determine the strong contribution to the proton-neutron mass difference. We also summarize related work which reveals that the fraction of baryon spin wh

Amanda A. Kepley, Amy E. Reines, Kelsey E. Johnson, Lisa May Walker

The extent to which star formation varies in galaxies with low masses, low metallicities, and high star formation rate surface densities is not well-constrained. To gain insight into star formation under these physical conditions, this paper estimates the ionizing photon fluxes, masses, and ages for young massive clusters in the central region of II Zw 40 --

Natalie Priebe Frank

This is a chapter surveying the current state of our understanding of tilings with infinite local complexity. It is intended to appear in the volume {\em Directions in Aperiodic Order}, D. Lenz, J. Kellendonk, and J. Savienen, eds.

Michael R. Smith, Tony Martinez

Not all instances in a data set are equally beneficial for inferring a model of the data. Some instances (such as outliers) are detrimental to inferring a model of the data. Several machine learning techniques treat instances in a data set differently during training such as curriculum learning, filtering, and boosting. However, an automated method for deter

I. Stepanov, S. Kuhlen, M. Ersfeld, M. Lepsa

We demonstrate all-electrical spin generation and subsequent manipulation by two successive electric field pulses in an n-InGaAs heterostructure in a time-resolved experiment at zero external magnetic field. The first electric field pulse along the $[1\bar10]$ crystal axis creates a current induced spin polarization (CISP) which is oriented in the plane of t

Rosalba Perna, Paul Duffell, Matteo Cantiello, Andrew MacFadyen

The presence of fallback disks around young neutron stars has been invoked over the years to explain a large variety of phenomena. Here we perform a numerical investigation of the formation of such disks during a supernova explosion, considering both neutron star (NS) and black hole (BH) remnants. Using the public code MESA, we compute the angular momentum d

Fabrice Bethuel, Didier Smets

We derive a precise motion law for fronts of solutions to scalar one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with equal depth multiple-wells, in the case the second derivative of the potential vanishes at its minimizers. We show that, renormalizing time in an algebraic way, the motion of fronts is governed by a simple system of ordinary differential equatio

Huy N. Chau, Peter Tankov

We construct and study market models admitting optimal arbitrage. We say that a model admits optimal arbitrage if it is possible, in a zero-interest rate setting, starting with an initial wealth of 1 and using only positive portfolios, to superreplicate a constant c>1. The optimal arbitrage strategy is the strategy for which this constant has the highest pos

Christian Schmidt

We discuss recent results on fluctuations of conserved charges, and their approach to the hadron resonance gas at temperatures below the chiral crossover (Tc) as well as to a gas of free quarks at very high temperatures. We will focus on the strange degrees of freedom and verify that they are consistent with those of an uncorrelated gas of hadrons for temper

Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Daniel J. Scheeres

Given the spin state by Magnusson (1990), the shape model by Ostro et al. (2000), and the mass by Descamps et al. (2011), this paper evaluates a dynamically and structurally stable size of Asteroid (216) Kleopatra. In particular, we investigate two different failure modes: material shedding from the surface and structural failure of the internal body. We con

Robert F. Bailey

A {\em resolving set} for a graph $Γ$ is a collection of vertices $S$, chosen so that for each vertex $v$, the list of distances from $v$ to the members of $S$ uniquely specifies $v$. The {\em metric dimension} of $Γ$ is the smallest size of a resolving set for $Γ$. A graph is {\em distance-regular} if, for any two vertices $u,v$ at each distance $i$, the nu

Jai D. More, Anuradha Misra

We discuss fermion self energy correction in light front QED using a coherent state basis. We show that if one uses coherent state basis instead of fock basis to calculate the transition matrix elements the true infrared divergences in $δm^2$ get canceled up to $O(e^4)$ . We show this in Light-front as well as in Feynman gauge.

Shahar Hod

The physical properties of an axisymmetric black-hole-ring system are studied analytically within the framework of general relativity to second order in the dimensionless mass ratio $μ\equiv m/M$. In particular, we analyze the asymptotic behaviors of the binding-energy and the total angular-momentum of the two-body system in the vicinity of the light ring at

Daniele S. M. Alves, Jia Liu, Neal Weiner

Searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) often rely on a combination of hard physics objects (jets, leptons) along with large missing transverse energy to separate New Physics from Standard Model hard processes. We consider a class of ``double-invisible'' SUSY scenarios: where squarks, stops and sbottoms have a three-body decay into two (rather than one) in

Yidong Xu, Bin Yue, Meng Su, Zuhui Fan

In this paper we investigate the nature and distribution of large neutral regions during the late epoch of reionization. In the "bubble model" of reionization, the mass distribution of large ionized regions ("bubbles") during the early stage of reionization is obtained by using the excursion set model, where the ionization of a region corresp

Rodger I. Thompson

The values of the fundamental constants such as $μ= m_P/m_e$, the proton to electron mass ratio and $α$, the fine structure constant, are sensitive to the product $\sqrt{ζ_x^2(w+1)}$ where $ζ_x$ is a coupling constant between a rolling scalar field responsible for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe and the electromagnetic field with x standing

Yumi Choi, Robert R. Gibson, Andrew C. Becker, Željko Ivezić

With upcoming all sky surveys such as LSST poised to generate a deep digital movie of the optical sky, variability-based AGN selection will enable the construction of highly-complete catalogs with minimum contamination. In this study, we generate $g$-band difference images and construct light curves for QSO/AGN candidates listed in SDSS Stripe 82 public cata

Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, P. Daniel Meerburg, Sihan Yuan

Fluctuations of the 21 cm brightness temperature before the formation of the first stars hold the promise of becoming a high-precision cosmological probe in the future. The growth of over densities is very well described by perturbation theory at that epoch and the signal can in principle be predicted to arbitrary accuracy for given cosmological parameters.

Jerome Gaillard, Niall T. Macpherson, Carlos Nunez, Daniel C. Thompson

In this paper we construct and examine new supersymmetric solutions of massive IIA supergravity that are obtained using non-Abelian T-duality applied to the Baryonic Branch of the Klebanov-Strassler background. The geometries display SU(2) structure which we show flows from static in the UV to dynamical in the IR. Confinement and symmetry breaking are given

Kengo Tomida

Among many physical processes involved in star formation, radiation transfer is one of the key processes since it dominantly controls the thermodynamics. Because metallicities control opacities, they are one of the important environmental parameters which affect star formation processes. In this work, I investigate protostellar collapse in solar-metallicity

Boualem Djehiche, Astrid Hilbert, Hiba Nassar

We study a version of the functional Hodrick-Prescott filter where the associated operator is not necessarily compact, but merely closed and densely defined with closed range. We show that the associated optimal smoothing operator preserves the structure obtained in the compact case, when the underlying distribution of the data is Gaussian.

Lorenzo Del Castello, Herman J. H. Clercx

We report results on the geometrical statistics of the vorticity vector obtained from experiments in electromagnetically forced rotating turbulence. A range of rotation rates $Ω$ is considered, from non-rotating to rapidly rotating turbulence with a maximum background rotation rate of $Ω=5$ rad/s (with Rossby number much smaller than unity). Typically, in ou

Chengyuan Li, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng

Using a combination of high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope/WFPC2 observations, we explore the physical properties of the stellar populations in two intermediate-age star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, NGC 1831 and NGC 1868, based on their color-magnitude diagrams. We show that both clusters exhibit extended main-sequence turn-offs. To explain the

Vincent Van Eylen, Mikkel N. Lund, Victor Silva Aguirre, Torben Arentoft

We confirm the Kepler planet candidate Kepler-410b (KOI-42b) as a Neptune sized exoplanet on a 17.8 day, eccentric orbit around the bright (Kp = 9.4) star Kepler-410A. This is the third brightest confirmed planet host star in the Kepler field and one of the brightest hosts of all currently known transiting exoplanets. Kepler-410 consists of a blend between t

T. Hahn, S. Heinemeyer, W. Hollik, H. Rzehak

For the interpretation of the signal discovered in the Higgs searches at the LHC it will be crucial in particular to discriminate between the minimal Higgs sector realised in the Standard Model (SM) and its most commonly studied extension, the Minimal Supersymmetric SM (MSSM). The measured mass value, having already reached the level of a precision observabl

Boualem Djehiche, Hiba Nassar

We propose a functional version of the Hodrick-Prescott filter for functional data which take values in an infinite dimensional separable Hilbert space. We further characterize the associated optimal smoothing parameter when the associated linear operator is compact and the underlying distribution of the data is Gaussian.

Adeyinka K. Akanbi, Santosh Kumar, Uwaya Fidelis

Role of urban planning and management in Hyderabad is becoming more and more crucial due to the dramatic increase in urban population and allied urban problems. Hyderabad is experiencing a rapid urbanization rate. Urbanization contributes many advantages in terms of economics, but if uncontrolled, would produce negative consequences to the physical, social a

Ardalan Amiri Sani, Kevin Boos, Min Hong Yun, Lin Zhong

Mobile systems are equipped with a diverse collection of I/O devices, including cameras, microphones, sensors, and modems. There exist many novel use cases for allowing an application on one mobile system to utilize I/O devices from another. This paper presents Rio, an I/O sharing solution that supports unmodified applications and exposes all the functionali

Y. Xian, M. Merdan

Based on our recently proposed magnon-density-waves using the microscopic many-body approach, we investigate the longitudinal excitations in quantum antiferromagnets by including the second order corrections in the large-$s$ expansion. The longitudinal excitation spectra for a general spin quantum number using the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Hamiltonian are

José Alejandro Lara Rodríguez, Dinesh S. Thakur

We prove and conjecture several relations between multizeta values for $\mathbb{F}_q[t]$, focusing on zeta-like values, namely those whose ratio with the zeta value of the same weight is rational (or equivalently algebraic). In particular, we describe them conjecturally fully for $q=2$, or more generally for any $q$ for `even' weight (`eulerian' tupl

Amaury H. M. J. Triaud

Broadband flux measurements centred around [3.6 $μ$m] and [4.5 $μ$m] obtained with Spitzer during the occultation of seven extrasolar planets by their host stars have been combined with parallax measurements to compute the absolute magnitudes of these planets. Those measurements are arranged in two colour-magnitude diagrams. Because most of the targets have

Moshe Elitzur, Luis C. Ho, Jonathan R. Trump

Apart from viewing-dependent obscuration, intrinsic broad-line emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) follows an evolutionary sequence: Type $1 \to 1.2/1.5 \to 1.8/1.9 \to 2$ as the accretion rate onto the central black hole is decreasing. This spectral evolution is controlled, at least in part, by the parameter $L_{\rm bol}/M^{2/3}$, where $L_{\rm bol}

André Lannes, Jean-Louis Prieur

Recent theoretical developments in astronomical aperture synthesis have revealed the existence of integer-ambiguity problems. Those problems, which appear in the self-calibration procedures of radio imaging, have been shown to be similar to the nearest-lattice point (NLP) problems encountered in high-precision geodetic positioning, and in global navigation s

Thomas Auphan

This paper proposes a volumetric penalty method to simulate the boundary conditions for a non-linear hyperbolic problem. The boundary conditions are assumed to be maximally strictly dissipative on a non-characteristic boundary. This penalization appears to be quite natural since, after a natural change of variable, the penalty matrix is an orthogonal project

Zahid Ishaque, Van Dai Nguyen, Olivier Fruchart, Stefania Pizzini

Using magnetic force microscopy and micromagnetic simulations, we studied the effect of Oersted magnetic fields on the chirality of transverse magnetic domain walls in Fe$_{20}$Ni$_{80}$/Ir bilayer nanostrips. Applying nanosecond current pulses with a current density of around $2\times10^{12}$ A/m$^2$, the chirality of a transverse domain wall could be switc

M. Schreck

In the context of the nonminimal Standard-Model Extension a special subset of the CPT-even higher-dimensional operators in the photon sector is discussed from a quantum-field theoretical point of view. The modified dispersion laws, photon polarization vectors plus the gauge field propagator are obtained and their properties are analyzed. It is demonstrated t

Mark D. Baker

The azimuthal asymmetry and the transverse momentum of forward produced charged hadrons in deep inelastic muon scattering have been studied as a function of the event kinematics and of the hadron variables. Primordial $k_T$ of the struck parton and O($α_s$) corrections to the cross-section are expected to contribute to the transverse momentum and the azimuth

Kyudong Choi, Alexander Kiselev, Yao Yao

The 2D conservative Boussinesq system describes inviscid, incompressible, buoyant fluid flow in gravity field. The possibility of finite time blow up for solutions of this system is a classical problem of mathematical hydrodynamics. We consider a 1D model of 2D Boussinesq system motivated by a particular finite time blow up scenario. We prove that finite tim

V. I. Nazaruk

We summarize our study of the neutron-antineutron transition in medium and nuclei in the framework of the field-theoretical approach. The models based on the diagram technique for direct reactions, potential description of antineutron-medium interaction are considered as well. The lower limit on the free-space neutron-antineutron oscillation time $τ$ is in t

T. L. Einstein, Alberto Pimpinelli

Spurred by theoretical predictions from Spohn and coworkers [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 69}, 035102(R) (2004)], we rederived and extended their result heuristically as well as investigated the scaling properties of the associated Langevin equation in curved geometry with an asymmetric potential. With experimental colleagues we used STM line scans to corroborate their

A. Mazumdar, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, J. Ballot, H. M. Antia

For the very best and brightest asteroseismic solar-type targets observed by Kepler, the frequency precision is sufficient to determine the acoustic depths of the surface convective layer and the helium ionization zone. Such sharp features inside the acoustic cavity of the star, which we call acoustic glitches, create small oscillatory deviations from the un

J. Sadeghi, B. Pourhassan, F. Pourasadollah

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of a heavy quark under the plasmas correspond to three dimensional hairy black holes. We utilize the AdS/CFT correspondence to study the holographic Brownian motion of this particle in different kinds of hairy black holes. For uncharged black hole at low frequency limit we derive analytic expressions for correlation

Nikita Tretyakov, Marcus Müller

Using Molecular Dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained polymer liquid we investigate the transport of droplets on asymmetrically structured (saw-tooth shaped), vibrating substrates. Due to a continuous supply of power by substrate vibrations and the asymmetry of its topography, the droplets are driven in a preferred direction. We study this directed motion

Barry D. Jacobson

A general theoretical framework is put forth to organize and understand various observed phenomena and mathematical relationships in the field of molecular biology. By modeling each cell in eukaryotic organisms as a processor having a unique set of allowed states, represented by a specific DNA sequence, we demonstrate a method by which gene expression can be

Chuang Zheng

In this paper we establish a global Carleman estimate for the fourth order Schrödinger equation posed on a $1-d$ finite domain. The Carleman estimate is used to prove the Lipschitz stability for an inverse problem consisting in retrieving a stationary potential in the Schrödinger equation from boundary measurements.

Michael C. Abbott, Jeff Murugan, Andrea Prinsloo, Nitin Rughoonauth

Using Mikhailov's map from holomorphic functions to supersymmetric D3-brane solutions, we show how to construct giant gravitons in AdS5 x S5 with toroidal topologies. In the 1/4-BPS sector we show that these are always of the form #^K (S2 x S1), and in the limit in which this becomes a set of m+n perpendicular spherical giants re-connected near to their

Kurt Vinhage

We effectively conclude the local rigidity program for generic restrictions of partially hyperbolic Weyl chamber flows. Our methods replace and extend previous ones by circumventing computations made in Schur multipliers. Instead, we construct a natural topology on $H_2(G,\mathbb{Z})$, and rely on classical Lie structure theory for central extensions.

Sydney Schreppler, Nicolas Spethmann, Nathan Brahms, Thierry Botter

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle sets a lower bound on the sensitivity of continuous optical measurements of force. This bound, the standard quantum limit, can only be reached when a mechanical oscillator subjected to the force is unperturbed by its environment, and when measurement imprecision from photon shot-noise is balanced against disturbance from

Nikolaos M. Freris, Orhan Öçal, Martin Vetterli

We introduce a recursive algorithm for performing compressed sensing on streaming data. The approach consists of a) recursive encoding, where we sample the input stream via overlapping windowing and make use of the previous measurement in obtaining the next one, and b) recursive decoding, where the signal estimate from the previous window is utilized in orde

Matt Wytock, J. Zico Kolter

We consider the task of designing sparse control laws for large-scale systems by directly minimizing an infinite horizon quadratic cost with an $\ell_1$ penalty on the feedback controller gains. Our focus is on an improved algorithm that allows us to scale to large systems (i.e. those where sparsity is most useful) with convergence times that are several ord

M. Arana-Catania

We study the phenomenological implications of sfermion flavour mixing in supersymmetry in the context of Non-Minimal Flavour Violation (NMFV). We study the general flavour mixing hypothesis, parametrizing the squark and slepton mass matrices by a complete set of delta^XY_ij (X,Y=L,R; i,j= t,c,u or b,s,d for squarks/1,2,3 for sleptons). With respect to the sq

M. H. Mahzoon, R. J. Charity, W. H. Dickhoff, H. Dussan

A comprehensive description of all single-particle properties associated with the nucleus ${}^{40}$Ca has been generated by employing a nonlocal dispersive optical potential capable of simultaneously reproducing all relevant data above and below the Fermi energy. We gather all relevant functional forms and the numerical values of the parameters in this contr

Amina Mortada, Petri Kokkonen, Yacine Chitour

If $(M,g)$ and $(\hM,\hg)$ are two smooth connected complete oriented Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $n$ and $\hn$ respectively, we model the rolling of $(M,g)$ onto $(\hM,\hg)$ as a driftless control affine systems describing two possible constraints of motion: the first rolling motion $Σ_{NS}$ captures the no-spinning condition only and the second roll

Jacob Anderson, Raymond Brock, Yuri Gershtein, Nicholas Hadley

We illustrate benefits to the U.S. economy and technological infrastructure of U.S. participation in accelerators overseas. We discuss contributions to experimental hardware and analysis and to accelerator technology and components, and benefits stemming from the involvement of U.S. students and postdoctoral fellows in global scientific collaborations. Contr

Shlomi Kotler, Nitzan Akerman, Nir Navon, Yinnon Glickman

Electrons have an intrinsic, indivisible, magnetic dipole aligned with their internal angular momentum (spin). The magnetic interaction between two electrons can therefore impose a change in their spin orientation. This process, however, was never observed in experiment. The challenge is two-fold. At the atomic scale, where the coupling is relatively large,

B. R. Ragot

The turbulent magnetic fields of a large set of fast solar wind streams measured onboard ACE and STEREO A and B are analyzed in an effort to identify the effects of the turbulence-level broad variations on the orientations of the local, time-averaged magnetic fields. The power level of turbulence, roughly defined as the power in the transverse field fluctuat

Cyrille Bazin

Eclipses are very favourable for the photosphere- chromosphere and corona interface observation as the occultation takes place in space, free of parasitic light coming from the occulting disk (the Moon). Independently, EUV filtergrams of the limb region obtained in space were analyzed using one dimensional hydrostatic VAL models but this method ignores the u

William Gray Roncal, Zachary H. Koterba, Disa Mhembere, Dean M. Kleissas

Currently, connectomes (e.g., functional or structural brain graphs) can be estimated in humans at $\approx 1~mm^3$ scale using a combination of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging and structural magnetic resonance imaging scans. This manuscript summarizes a novel, scalable implementation of open-source algori

M. Lukšič, B. Hribar-Lee

We compared the results of the Madden-Glandt (MG) integral equation approximation for partly-quenched systems with the commonly accepted formalism of Given and Stell (GS). The system studied was a +1:-1 restricted primitive model (RPM) electrolyte confined in a quenched +1:-1 RPM matrix. A renormalization scheme was proposed for a set of MG replica Ornstein-

V. Dorvilien, C. N. Patra, L. B. Bhuiyan, C. W. Outhwaite

The structure of cylindrical double layers is studied using a modified Poisson Boltzmann theory and the density functional approach. In the model double layer, the electrode is a cylindrical polyion that is infinitely long, impenetrable, and uniformly charged. The polyion is immersed in a sea of equi-sized rigid ions embedded in a dielectric continuum. An in

A. Pontin, M. Bonaldi, A. Borrielli, F. S. Cataliotti

Measuring a weak force is an important task for micro-mechanical systems, both when using devices as sensitive detectors and, particularly, in experiments of quantum mechanics. The optimal strategy for resolving a weak stochastic signal force on a huge background (typically given by thermal noise) is a crucial and debated topic, and the stability of the mech

Ruth A. Daly, Trevor B. Sprinkle

Supermassive black holes may be described by their mass and spin. When supermassive black holes are active, the activity provides a probe of the state of the black hole system. The spin of a hole can be estimated when the black hole mass and beam power of the source are known for sources with powerful outflows. Seventy-five sources for which both the black h

A. Astier, M. -G. Porquet, Ts. Venkova, Ch. Theisen

The 124-131Te nuclei have been produced as fission fragments in two fusion reactions induced by heavy-ions (12C + 238U at 90 MeV bombarding energy and 18O + 208Pb at 85 MeV) and studied with the Euroball array. Their high-spin level schemes have been extended to higher excitation energy from the triple gamma-ray coincidence data. The gamma-gamma angular corr

Christiane Frougny, Pavel Heller, Edita Pelantová, Milena Svobodová

Parallel addition in integer base is used for speeding up multiplication and division algorithms. $k$-block parallel addition has been introduced by Kornerup in 1999: instead of manipulating single digits, one works with blocks of fixed length $k$. The aim of this paper is to investigate how such notion influences the relationship between the base and the ca

E. A. Sarapata, L. G. de Pillis

Determining the mathematical dynamics and associated parameter values that should be used to accurately reflect tumor growth continues to be of interest to mathematical modelers, experimentalists and practitioners. However, while there are several competing canonical tumor growth models that are often implemented, how to determine which of the models should

Wu-Sheng Dai, Mi Xie

In this paper, we give a general discussion on the calculation of the statistical distribution from a given operator relation of creation, annihilation, and number operators. Our result shows that as long as the relation between the number operator and the creation and annihilation operators can be expressed as $a^{\dagger}b=Λ\left(N\right) $ or $N=Λ^{-1} \l

Ariel G. Sanchez, Francesco Montesano, Eyal A. Kazin, Eric Aubourg

We explore the cosmological implications of the angle-averaged correlation function, xi(s), and the clustering wedges, xi_perp(s) and xi_para(s), of the LOWZ and CMASS galaxy samples from Data Release 10 and 11 of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Our results show no significant evidence for a deviation from the standard LCDM model. The c

Philip Healy, Stefan Meyer, John Morrison, Theo Lynn

Bid-centric service descriptions have the potential to offer a new cloud service provisioning model that promotes portability, diversity of choice and differentiation between providers. A bid matching model based on requirements and capabilities is presented that provides the basis for such an approach. In order to facilitate the bidding process, tenders sho

Roger Frigola, Fredrik Lindsten, Thomas B. Schön, Carl E. Rasmussen

Gaussian process state-space models (GP-SSMs) are a very flexible family of models of nonlinear dynamical systems. They comprise a Bayesian nonparametric representation of the dynamics of the system and additional (hyper-)parameters governing the properties of this nonparametric representation. The Bayesian formalism enables systematic reasoning about the un

Adam R. Kobelski, Steven H. Saar, Mark A. Weber, David E. McKenzie

The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Hinode satellite, launched 23 September 2006 by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is a joint mission between Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom to study the solar corona. In particular XRT was designed to study solar plasmas with temperatures between 1 and 10 MK with $\approx1''$ pixe

Shigefumi Hata, Hiroya Nakao, Alexander S. Mikhailov

The problem of stochastic advection of passive particles by circulating conserved flows on networks is formulated and investigated. The particles undergo transitions between the nodes with the transition rates determined by the flows passing through the links. Such stochastic advection processes lead to mixing of particles in the network and, in the final eq

Costantino Sigismondi

A bright Nova in Centaurus was discovered on Dec 2, 2013 at magnitude V=5.5. Its luminosity reached mv=3.8 from Dec 5 to 7, becoming the brightest Nova of 2013 and of the last decades. On Dec 14 it brightened at mv=3.2. The observations of the author contributed to the compilation of the IAU Circular 9265 which announced the Nova as V1369 Cen and are here de

M. J. Barlow, B. M. Swinyard, P. J. Owen, J. Cernicharo

Noble gas molecules have not hitherto been detected in space. From spectra obtained with the Herschel Space Observatory, we report the detection of emission in the 617.5 GHz and 1234.6 GHz J = 1-0 and 2-1 rotational lines of {36}ArH^+ at several positions in the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant known to contain both H2 molecules and regions of enhanced ioniz

Spiros Patsourakos, James Klimchuk, Peter Young

Recent solar spectroscopic observations have shown that coronal spectral lines can exhibit asymmetric profiles, with enhanced emissions at their blue wings. These asymmetries correspond to rapidly upflowing plasmas at speeds exceeding ~ 50 km/s. Here, we perform a study of the density of the rapidly upflowing material and compare it to that of the line core

Will J. Percival, Ashley J. Ross, Ariel G. Sanchez, Lado Samushia

We present improved methodology for including covariance matrices in the error budget of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) galaxy clustering measurements, revisiting Data Release 9 (DR9) analyses, and describing a method that is used in DR10/11 analyses presented in companion papers. The precise analysis method adopted is becoming increasingly i

James Cheney

Nominal logic is a variant of first-order logic that provides support for reasoning about bound names in abstract syntax. A key feature of nominal logic is the new-quantifier, which quantifies over fresh names (names not appearing in any values considered so far). Previous attempts have been made to develop convenient rules for reasoning with the new-quantif

Sumesh P. Thampi, Ramin Golestanian, Julia M. Yeomans

We study a continuum model of an extensile active nematic to show that mesoscale turbulence develops in two stages: (i) ordered regions undergo an intrinsic hydrodynamic instability generating walls, lines of stong bend deformations, (ii) the walls relax by forming oppositely charged pairs of defects. Both creation and annihilation of defect pairs reinstate

Massimo Giovannini

Anisotropic inflationary background geometries are analyzed in the context of an extended gauge action where the electric and magnetic susceptibilities are not bound to coincide and depend on the inflaton field. After deriving various classes of solutions with electric and magnetic hairs, we discuss the problem of the initial boundary conditions of the shear

Diogo Boito

In the extraction of $α_s$ from hadronic tau decay data several moments of the spectral functions have been employed. Furthermore, different renormalization group improvement (RGI) frameworks have been advocated, leading to conflicting values of $α_s$. Recently, we performed a systematic study of the perturbative behavior of these moments in the context of t

Tianjun Li, James A. Maxin, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, Joel W. Walker

We review the No-Scale F-SU(5) model with extra TeV-scale vector-like flippon multiplets and associated collider phenomenology relating to the search for supersymmetry at the LHC. The model framework possesses the rather unique capacity to provide a light CP-even Higgs boson mass in the favored 124-126 GeV window while simultaneously retaining a testably lig

Martin A. Guest, Alexander R. Its, Chang-Shou Lin

In Part I (arXiv:1209.2045) we computed the Stokes data, though not the "connection matrix", for the smooth solutions of the tt*-Toda equations whose existence we established by p.d.e. methods. Here we give an alternative proof of the existence of some of these solutions by solving a Riemann-Hilbert problem. In the process, we compute the connection

V. B. Bezerra, H. S. Vieira, André A. Costa

This work deals with the influence of the gravitational field produced by a charged and rotating black hole (Kerr-Newman spacetime) on massive scalar fields. We obtain an exact solution of the Klein-Gordon equation in this spacetime, which is given in terms of the confluent Heun functions. In the particular case corresponding to an extreme Kerr-Newman black

Qing Liu, Jilong Tong

Let S be a Dedekind scheme with field of functions K. We show that if X_K is a smooth connected proper curve of positive genus over K, then it admits a Néron model over S, i.e., a smooth separated model of finite type satisfying the usual Néron mapping property. It is given by the smooth locus of the minimal proper regular model of X_K over S, as in the case

Abderrahmin Ben Jazia, Bruno Lombard, Cédric Bellis

This study focuses on the numerical modeling of wave propagation in fractionally-dissipative media. These viscoelastic models are such that the attenuation is frequency dependent and follows a power law with non-integer exponent. As a prototypical example, the Andrade model is chosen for its simplicity and its satisfactory fits of experimental flow laws in r

Hugo Daniel Macedo, José N. Oliveira

Interested in formalizing the generation of fast running code for linear algebra applications, the authors show how an index-free, calculational approach to matrix algebra can be developed by regarding matrices as morphisms of a category with biproducts. This shifts the traditional view of matrices as indexed structures to a type-level perspective analogous

Moustapha Ba, Pierre Mathieu

We consider a diffusion process in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with a generator of the form $ L:=\frac 12 e^{V(x)}div(e^{-V(x)}\nabla ) $ where $V$ is measurable and periodic. We only assume that $e^V$ and $e^{-V}$ are locally integrable. We then show that, after proper rescaling, the law of the diffusion converges to a Brownian motion for Lebesgue almost all starting po

Silvia Borghi

The current status of the search for indirect CP violation in the neutral D meson system at the B-factories and at LHCb is reported. The indirect CP asymmetry search is performed by the measurement of the proper-time asymmetry ($A_Γ$) in decays of $D^0-\bar{D^0}$ mesons to CP eigenstates, $K^-K^+$ and $π^- π^+$, and by $y_{CP}$, the ratio between the effecti

Hugo Daniel Macedo, Tayssir Touili

The number of malicious software (malware) is growing out of control. Syntactic signature based detection cannot cope with such growth and manual construction of malware signature databases needs to be replaced by computer learning based approaches. Currently, a single modern signature capturing the semantics of a malicious behavior can be used to replace an

Laurent Forthomme

We present the recent measurements of exclusive processes performed in the CMS experiment at the LHC using data collected at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV. These measurements include the double-pomeron production of photon pairs, the two-photon production of leptons pairs, and the previously undetected two-photon production of W boson pairs. While in case