December 2013 arXiv papers — page 64

Logan Maley, Rohit Bhattacharjee, S. She-Ming Lau-Chapdelaine, Matei Ioan Radulescu

The present work investigates the structure of fast supersonic turbulent flames typically observed as precursors to the onset of detonation. These high speed deflagrations are obtained after the interaction of a detonation wave with cylindrical obstacles. Two mixtures having the same propensity for local hot spot formation were considered, namely hydrogen-ox

O. Mollet, A. Drezet, S. Huant

A nanodiamond (ND) hosting nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers is attached on the apex of an optical tip for near-field microscopy. Its fluorescence is used to launch surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) in a thin polycrystalline gold film. It is shown that the quantum nature of the initial source of light is preserved after conversion to SPPs. This opens the w

Julio Lemos

Drawing from research on computational models of argumentation (particularly the Carneades Argumentation System), we explore the graphical representation of arguments in a dispute; then, comparing two different traditions on the limits of the justification of decisions, and devising an intermediate, semi-formal, model, we also show that it can shed light on

Valdemar Moratto, A. L. Garcia-Perciante

In this paper we revisit the concept of chaotic velocity within the context of relativistic kinetic theory. Its importance as the key ingredient which allows to clearly distinguish convective and dissipative effects is discussed to some detail. Also, by addressing the case of the two component mixture, the relevance of the barycentric comoving frame is estab

S. Huant, S. Baltazar, P. Liu, H. Sellier

By combining quantum simulations of electron transport and scanning-gate microscopy, we have shown that the current transmitted through a semiconductor two-path rectangular network in the ballistic and coherent regimes of transport can be paradoxically degraded by adding a third path to the network. This is analogous to the Braess paradox occurring in classi

S. Bartasiute, S. Raudeliunas, J. Sperauskas

We present a new calibration of the seven-color Vilnius system in terms of [Fe/H], applicable to F-M stars in the metallicity range -2.8<[Fe/H]<+0.5. We employ a purely empirical approach, based on ~1000 calibrating stars with high-resolution spectroscopic abundance determinations. It is shown that the color index P-Y is the best choice for a most accurate a

F. S. Borges, K. C. Iarosz, H. P. Ren, A. M. Batista

In this work we investigate a mathematical model describing tumour growth under a treatment by chemotherapy that incorporates time-delay related to the conversion from resting to hunting cells. We study the model using values for the parameters according to experimental results and vary some parameters relevant to the treatment of cancer. We find that our mo

Isaac Z. Pesenson

Our article is a summary of some results for Riemannian manifolds that were obtained in \cite{gpes}-\cite{Pesssubm}. To the best of our knowledge these are the pioneering papers which contain the most general results about frames, Shannon sampling, and cubature formulas on compact and non-compact Riemannian manifolds. In particular, the paper \cite{gpes} giv

Nelson Castañeda, Ivan S. Gotchev

We discuss the existence of vertex disjoint path coverings with prescribed ends for the $n$-dimensional hypercube with or without deleted vertices. Depending on the type of the set of deleted vertices and desired properties of the path coverings we establish the minimal integer $m$ such that for every $n \ge m$ such path coverings exist. Using some of these

Rohan E. Louis, Horst Balthasar, Christoph Kuckein, Peter Gomory

Spectropolarimetric observations of a sunspot were carried out with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter at Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Maps of the physical parameters were obtained from an inversion of the Stokes profiles observed in the infrared Fe i line at 15648 angstrom. The regular sunspot consisted of a light bridge which separated the two u

Valerij A. Shklovskij, Vladimir V. Sosedkin, Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy

The mixed-state resistive response of a superconductor thin film with an asymmetric washboard pinning potential subject to superimposed dc and ac currents of arbitrary amplitudes and frequency at finite temperature is theoretically investigated. The problem is considered in the single-vortex approximation, relying upon the exact solution of the Langevin equa

Balazs Szalkai, Vince K. Grolmusz, Vince I. Grolmusz, Coalition Against Major Diseases

Background: The concept of combinatorial biomarkers was conceived around 2010: it was noticed that simple biomarkers are often inadequate for recognizing and characterizing complex diseases. Methods: Here we present an algorithmic search method for complex biomarkers which may predict or indicate Alzheimer&#39;s disease (AD) and other kinds of dementia. We a

Paul Jansen, Hendrick L. Bethlem, Wim Ubachs

Transitions in atoms and molecules provide an ideal test ground for constraining or detecting a possible variation of the fundamental constants of nature. In this Perspective, we review molecular species that are of specific interest in the search for a drifting proton-to-electron mass ratio $μ$. In particular, we outline the procedures that are used to calc

Bradford S. Westgate, Dawn B. Woodard, David S. Matteson, Shane G. Henderson

We introduce a Bayesian model for estimating the distribution of ambulance travel times on each road segment in a city, using Global Positioning System (GPS) data. Due to sparseness and error in the GPS data, the exact ambulance paths and travel times on each road segment are unknown. We simultaneously estimate the paths, travel times, and parameters of each

Dmitri Panyushev, Oksana Yakimova

For any involution $σ$ of a semisimple Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, one constructs a non-reductive Lie algebra $\mathfrak k$, which is called a $\mathbb Z_2$-contraction of $\mathfrak g$. In this paper, we attack the problem of describing maximal commutative subalgebras of the Poisson algebra $S(\mathfrak k)$. This is closely related to the study of the coadjo

Constantin Cazorla, Yael Naze, Gregor Rauw

Aims: We wish to study the origin of the X-ray emission of three massive stars in the Cyg OB2 association: Cyg OB2 #5, #8A, #12. Methods: To this aim, dedicated X-ray observations from XMM and Swift are used, as well as archival ROSAT and Suzaku data. Results: Our results on Cyg OB2 #8A improve the phase coverage of the orbit and confirm previous studies: th

Anjishnu Banerjee, Joshua Vogelstein, David Dunson

An extremely common bottleneck encountered in statistical learning algorithms is inversion of huge covariance matrices, examples being in evaluating Gaussian likelihoods for a large number of data points. We propose general parallel algorithms for inverting positive definite matrices, which are nearly rank deficient. Such matrix inversions are needed in Gaus

Mateusz Kwaśnicki

Extending earlier work by Rogers, Wiener-Hopf factorisation is studied for a class of functions closely related to Nevanlinna-Pick functions and complete Bernstein functions. The name &#39;Rogers functions&#39; is proposed for this class. Under mild additional condition, for a Rogers function f, the Wiener--Hopf factors of f(z)+q, as well as their ratios, ar

Rainer Picard, Sascha Trostorff, Marcus Waurick

We review the concept of well-posedness in the context of evolutionary problems from mathematical physics for a particular subclass of problems from elasticity theory. The complexity of physical phenomena appears as encoded in so called material laws. The usefulness of the structural perspective developed is illustrated by showing that many initial boundary

Olfa Arfaoui, Minyar Sassi-Hidri

To date, most of the XML native databases (DB) flexible querying systems are based on exploiting the tree structure of their semi structured data (SSD). However, it becomes important to test the efficiency of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) formalism for this type of data since it has been proved a great performance in the field of information retrieval (IR).

Cyril Branciard

The quantification of the &#34;measurement uncertainty&#34; aspect of Heisenberg&#39;s Uncertainty Principle---that is, the study of trade-offs between accuracy and disturbance, or between accuracies in an approximate joint measurement on two incompatible observables---has regained a lot of interest recently. Several approaches have been proposed and debated

Terrance D. Savitsky, Susan M. Paddock

We develop a dependent Dirichlet process (DDP) model for repeated measures multiple membership (MM) data. This data structure arises in studies under which an intervention is delivered to each client through a sequence of elements which overlap with those of other clients on different occasions. Our interest concentrates on study designs for which the overla

Collin Bleak, Francesco Matucci, Max Neunhöffer

Lehnert and Schweitzer show in [20] that R. Thompson&#39;s group $V$ is a co-context-free ($co\mathcal{CF}$) group, thus implying that all of its finitely generated subgroups are also $co\mathcal{CF}$ groups. Also, Lehnert shows in his thesis that $V$ embeds inside the $co\mathcal{CF}$ group $\mathrm{QAut}(\mathcal{T}_{2,c})$, which is a group of particular

Bradley J. Kavanagh

In a recent paper, a new parametrization for the dark matter (DM) speed distribution f(v) was proposed for use in the analysis of data from direct detection experiments. This parametrization involves expressing the logarithm of the speed distribution as a polynomial in the speed v. We present here a more detailed analysis of the properties of this parametriz

Benoît Grébert, Tiphaine Jézéquel, Laurent Thomann

We consider a Klein-Gordon equation (KG) on a Riemannian compact surface, for which the flow lets invariant the two dimensional space the solutions independent of the space variable. It turns out that in this invariant space, there is a homoclinic orbit to the origin, and a family of periodic solutions inside the loops of the homoclinic orbit. In this paper

Jean-Baptiste Decombe, Serge Huant, Jochen Fick

An original optical tweezers using one or two chemically etched fiber nano-tips is developed. We demonstrate optical trapping of 1 micrometer polystyrene spheres at optical powers down to 2 mW. Harmonic trap potentials were found in the case of dual fiber tweezers by analyzing the trapped particle position fluctuations. The trap stiffness was deduced using t

S. Colafrancesco, M. S. Emritte, N. Mhlahlo, P. Marchegiani

The origin of radio halos in galaxy clusters is still unknown and is the subject of a vibrant debate both from the observational and theoretical point of view. In particular the amount and the nature of non-thermal plasma and of the magnetic field energy density in clusters hosting radio halos is still unclear. The aim of this paper is to derive an estimate

Zhiguo Wang, Daxiong Piao, Yiqian Wang

In this paper, we prove the boundedness of all the solutions for the equation $\ddot{x}+n^2x+g(x)+ψ&#39;(x)=p(t)$ with the Lazer-Leach condition on $g$ and $p$, where $n\in \mathbb{N^+}$, $p(t)$ and $ψ&#39;(x)$ are periodic and $g(x)$ is bounded. For the critical situation that $\big |\int_0^{2π}p(t)e^{int}dt \big|=2\big|g(+\infty)-g(-\infty)\big|$, we also

Nikolay Moshchevitin

We give a simple proof of a recent inequality by W.M. Schmidt and L. Summerer concerning Diophantine exponents for a linear form in three real variables.

Kanti V. Mardia, Christopher J. Fallaize, Stuart Barber, Richard M. Jackson

We develop a Bayesian model for the alignment of two point configurations under the full similarity transformations of rotation, translation and scaling. Other work in this area has concentrated on rigid body transformations, where scale information is preserved, motivated by problems involving molecular data; this is known as form analysis. We concentrate o

Luca Callegaro, Pier Paolo Capra, Vincenzo D&#39;Elia, Flavio Galliana

The capacitance-charging method is a well-established and handy technique for the generation of dc current in the 100 pA range or lower. The method involves a capacitance standard and a sampling voltmeter, highly stable devices easy to calibrate, and it is robust and insensitive to the voltage burden of the instrument being calibrated. We propose here a rang

Saeid Azam, Yoji Yoshii, Malihe Yousofzadeh

We classify Jordan $G$-tori, where $G$ is any torsion-free abelian group. Using the Zelmanov prime structure theorem, such a class divides into three types, namely, {the Hermitian type, the Clifford type and the Albert type.} We concretely describe Jordan $G$-tori of each type.

Michaela Kraus, Lydia S. Cidale, Maria Laura Arias, Mary E. Oksala

B[e] supergiants (B[e]SGs) are transitional objects in the post-main sequence evolution of massive stars. The small number of B[e]SGs known so far in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds indicates that this evolutionary phase is short. Nevertheless, the strong aspherical mass loss occurring during this phase, which leads to the formation of rings or disk-lik

Stefano Mostarda, Federico Levi, Diego Prada-Gracia, Florian Mintert

Coherent transport promises to be the basis for an emerging new technology. Notwithstanding, a mechanistic understanding of the fundamental principles behind optimal scattering media is still missing. Here, complex network analysis is applied for the characterization of geometries that result in optimal coherent transport. The approach is tailored towards th

Stefan Papadima, Alexander I. Suciu

We investigate the resonance varieties attached to a commutative differential graded algebra and to a representation of a Lie algebra, with emphasis on how these varieties behave under finite products and coproducts.

L. Delrez, V. Van Grootel, D. R. Anderson, A. Collier-Cameron

We report the discovery by the WASP transit survey of three new hot Jupiters, WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b and WASP-88 b. WASP-68 b has a mass of 0.95+-0.03 M_Jup, a radius of 1.24-0.06+0.10 R_Jup, and orbits a V=10.7 G0-type star (1.24+-0.03 M_sun, 1.69-0.06+0.11 R_sun, T_eff=5911+-60 K) with a period of 5.084298+-0.000015 days. Its size is typical of hot Jupiters

Manindra Agrawal, Rohit Gurjar, Arpita Korwar, Nitin Saxena

The depth-$3$ model has recently gained much importance, as it has become a stepping-stone to understanding general arithmetic circuits. Its restriction to multilinearity has known exponential lower bounds but no nontrivial blackbox identity tests. In this paper we take a step towards designing such hitting-sets. We define a notion of distance for multilinea

Salvatore Capozziello, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Orlando Luongo, Alan Cosimo Ruggeri

The problem of reproducing dark energy effects is reviewed here with particular interest devoted to cosmography. We summarize some of the most relevant cosmological models, based on the assumption that the corresponding barotropic equations of state evolve as the universe expands, giving rise to the accelerated expansion. We describe in detail the $Λ$CDM ($Λ

Sajid Musa, Rushan Ziatdinov, Carol Griffiths

Animation, which is basically a form of pictorial presentation, has become the most prominent feature of technology-based learning environments. It refers to simulated motion pictures showing movement of drawn objects. Recently, educational computer animation has turned out to be one of the most elegant tools for presenting multimedia materials for learners,

M. J. Church, A. Gibiec, M. Balucinska-Church

We propose an explanation of the Island and Banana states and the relation between Atoll and Z-track sources, constituting a unified model for Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXB). We find a dramatic transition at a luminosity of 1 - 2.10^{37} erg/s above which the high energy cut-off E_CO of the Comptonized emission in all sources is low at a few keV. There is th

Brijender Kahanwal, Tejinder Pal Singh

This is the era of High Performance Computing (HPC). There is a great demand of the best performance evaluation techniques for the file and storage systems. The task of evaluation is both necessary and hard. It gives in depth analysis of the target system and that becomes the decision points for the users. That is also helpful for the inventors or developers

S. Zschocke, S. A. Klioner, M. H. Soffel

Astrometric space missions like Gaia have stimulated a rapid advance in the field of relativistic astrometry. Present investigations in that field aim at accuracies significantly less than a microarcsecond. We review the present status of relativistic astrometry. As far as the problem of light propagation is concerned we face two problems: the form of the BC

Stavros G. Kolliopoulos, Yannis Moysoglou

The metric capacitated facility location is a well-studied problem for which, while constant factor approximations are known, no efficient relaxation with constant integrality gap is known. The question whether there is such a relaxation is among the most important open problems of approximation algorithms \cite{ShmoysWbook}. In this paper we show that, if o

Vinicius Diniz Mayrink, Joseph Edward Lucas

Sparse latent multi-factor models have been used in many exploratory and predictive problems with high-dimensional multivariate observations. Because of concerns with identifiability, the latent factors are almost always assumed to be linearly related to measured feature variables. Here we explore the analysis of multi-factor models with different structures

Brijender Kahanwal, Tejinder Pal Singh

A Java File Security System (JFSS) [1] has been developed by us. That is an ecrypted file system. It is developed by us because there are so many file data breaches in the past and current history and they are going to increase day by day as the reports by DataLossDB (Open Security Foundation) organization, a non-profit organization in US so it is. The JFSS

Brian Reich, Daniel Cooley, Kristen Foley, Sergey Napelenok

Tropospheric ozone is one of six criteria pollutants regulated by the US EPA, and has been linked to respiratory and cardiovascular endpoints and adverse effects on vegetation and ecosystems. Regional photochemical models have been developed to study the impacts of emission reductions on ozone levels. The standard approach is to run the deterministic model u

Dominique Fortin, Ider Tseveendorj

The counting function on binary values is extended to the signed case in order to count the number of transitions between contiguous locations. A generalized subdifferential for the sign change counting function is given where classical subdifferentials remain intractable. An attempt to prove global optimality at some point, for the 4-dimensional first non t

Sanmay Ganguly

Jet production cross-section measurements are presented. The measurements are done with the data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proton-proton collisions, collected with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector. The inclusive jet production measurements are carried out with data collected $\rm \sqrt{s} ~= ~7 ~TeV$ and $\rm 8~TeV$ with total integrated lumin

Brijender Kahanwal, Tejinder Pal Singh, Ruchira Bhargava, Girish Pal Singh

The file system provides the mechanism for online storage and access to file contents, including data and programs. This paper covers the high-level details of file systems, as well as related topics such as the disk cache, the file system interface to the kernel, and the user-level APIs that use the features of the file system. It will give you a thorough u

Jie Ding, Lorenzo Trippa, Xiaogang Zhong, Giovanni Parmigiani

Identifying genes underlying cancer development is critical to cancer biology and has important implications across prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Cancer sequencing studies aim at discovering genes with high frequencies of somatic mutations in specific types of cancer, as these genes are potential driving factors (drivers) for cancer development. We in

G. Wang, A. Balocchi, A. V. Poshakinskiy, C. R. Zhu

We study the electron spin relaxation in both symmetric and asymmetric GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (QWs) grown on (110) substrates in an external magnetic field B applied along the QW normal. The spin polarization is induced by circularly polarized light and detected by time-resolved Kerr rotation technique. In the asymmetric structure, where a δ-doped layer o

P. Wójcik, M. Zegrodnik

The thickness-dependent energy gap oscillations in the metallic nanofilms are investigated by the use of the self-consistent numerical solutions of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. It is shown, that the oscillations are induced by the quasi-particle energy quantization triggered by the confinement of electrons in the direction perpendicular to the sample.

Sunghoon Jung, James D. Wells

Discovery of the Higgs boson and lack of discovery of superpartners in the first run at LHC are both predictions of split supersymmetry with thermal dark matter. We discuss what it would take to find gluinos at hadron supercolliders, including the LHC at 14 TeV center of mass energy, and future pp colliders at 100 TeV and 200 TeV. We generalize the discussio

Travis L. Gaydos, Nancy E. Heckman, Mark Kirkpatrick, J. R. Stinchcombe

Principal Components Analysis (PCA) is a common way to study the sources of variation in a high-dimensional data set. Typically, the leading principal components are used to understand the variation in the data or to reduce the dimension of the data for subsequent analysis. The remaining principal components are ignored since they explain little of the varia

Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, Paul R. Estrada, Sanford S. Davis

As small solid grains grow into larger ones in protoplanetary nebulae, or in the cloudy atmospheres of exoplanets, they generally form porous aggregates rather than solid spheres. A number of previous studies have used highly sophisticated schemes to calculate opacity models for irregular, porous particles with size much smaller than a wavelength. However, m

Joseph B. Kadane, Ferdinand L. Næshagen

Three dual systems estimates are employed to study the number of killings in southern rural Norway in a period of slightly over 250 years. The first system is a set of five letters sent to each killer as part of the legal process. The second system is the mention of killings from all other contemporary sources. The posterior distributions derived suggest few

Yi-lun Du, Zhu-fang Cui, Yong-hui Xia, Hong-shi Zong

In this paper, chiral symmetry breaking and its restoration are investigated in the mean field approximation of Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. A first-order phase transition exists at low temperature, but is smeared out at high temperature. We discuss the rationality of using susceptibilities as the criteria to determine the crossover region as well as the criti

Gwenaël G. R. Leday, Aad W. van der Vaart, Wessel N. van Wieringen, Mark A. van de Wiel

DNA copy number and mRNA expression are widely used data types in cancer studies, which combined provide more insight than separately. Whereas in existing literature the form of the relationship between these two types of markers is fixed a priori, in this paper we model their association. We employ piecewise linear regression splines (PLRS), which combine g

Allan J. MacLeod

We consider simple rational functions $R_{mn}(x)=P_m(x)/Q_n(x)$, with $P_m$ and $Q_n$ polynomials of degree $m$ and $n$ respectively. We look for &#34;nice&#34; functions, which we define to be ones where as many as possible of the roots, poles, critical points and (possibly) points of inflexion are integer or, at worst, rational.

Kaspar von Braun, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Gerard T. van Belle, Stephen R. Kane

We use near-infrared interferometric data coupled with trigonometric parallax values and spectral energy distribution fitting to directly determine stellar radii, effective temperatures, and luminosities for the exoplanet host stars 61 Vir, $ρ$ CrB, GJ 176, GJ 614, GJ 649, GJ 876, HD 1461, HD 7924, HD 33564, HD 107383, and HD 210702. Three of these targets a

Chao-Jun Feng, Xin-Zhou Li, Xiang-Hua Zhai

When one studies the Casimir effect, the periodic (anti-periodic) boundary condition is usually taken to mimic a periodic (anti-periodic) structure for a scalar field living in a flat space with a non-Euclidean topology. However, there could be an arbitrary phase difference between the value of the scalar field on one endpoint of the unit structure and that

P. Berczik, R. Spurzem, L. Wang, S. Zhong

We present direct astrophysical N-body simulations with up to a few million bodies using our parallel MPI/CUDA code on large GPU clusters in China, Ukraine and Germany, with different kinds of GPU hardware. These clusters are directly linked under the Chinese Academy of Sciences special GPU cluster program in the cooperation of ICCS (International Center for

Takashi Sato

Presented is a successful two week lab involving real sky observations of the Moon in which students make telescopic observations and analyze their own images. Originally developed around the 35 mm film camera as a common household object adapted for astronomical work, the lab transitioned to use the webcam as film photography evolved into an obscure special

Zheng-Zhe Lin

By molecular dynamics simulations and free energy calculations based on Monte Carlo method, the detailed balance between Pt cluster isomers was investigated. For clusters of n<=50, stationary equilibrium is achieved in 100 ns in the canonical ensemble, while longer time is needed for n>50. Then, a statistical mechanical model was built to evaluate unimolecul

Shakib Daryanoosh, Howard M. Wiseman

It was recently argued [Phys. Rev. Lett 108, 220402 (2012)] that the stochastic dynamics of an open quantum system are not inherent to the system, but rather depend on the existence and nature of a distant detector. The proposed experimental tests involved homodyne detection, giving rise to quantum diffusion, and required total efficiencies of well over 50%.

Weihua Mu, Jianshu Cao, Zhong-can Ou-Yang

Single walled carbon nanotube&#39;s cross section can be flattened under hydrostatic pressure. One example is the cross section of a single walled carbon nanotube successively deforms from the original round shape to oval shape, then to peanut-like shape. At the transition point of reversible deformation between convex shape and concave shape, the side wall

F. Shi, X. Kong

With the goal of investigating the degree to which the total infrared luminosity ($L_{\rm TIR}$) traces the star formation rate (SFR), we analyze the $L_{\rm TIR}$ from the dust in a sample of $\sim$ 6000 star-forming galaxies, based on the 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 $μ$m data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and u, g, r, i, z band data from SDSS

F. Shi, Y-Y. Liu, X. Kong, Y. Chen

In order to find a fast and reliable method for selecting metal poor galaxies (MPGs), especially in large surveys and huge database, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method is applied to a sample of star-forming galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 9 (DR9) provided by the Max Planck Institute and the Johns Hopkins University (MPA/

Weihua Mu, Gang Zhang, Zhong-can Ou-Yang

Graphene on the substrate can form bubbles rising above the sheet. In some cases, the bubble is a perfect spherical surface crown, and its radius can be adjusted by external electric field. In this manuscript, we theoretically investigate the voltage dependence of the spherical bubble&#39;s radius. The calculated results are in good agreement with recent exp

Sergey Sazonov, Alexander Lutovinov, Roman Krivonos

Using data from the XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL observatories, we have detected a cutoff at energies above 10 keV in the X-ray spectra of the ultraluminous X-ray sources HoIX X-1 and M82 X-1. The spectra obtained can be described by a model of Comptonization of radiation in a gas cloud of moderate temperature (kT~2-3 keV) and high optical depth (tau~15-25). Such

Costanza Conti, Mariantonia Cotronei, Tomas Sauer

We consider the question when the so--called spectral condition} for Hermite subdivision schemes extends to spaces generated by polynomials and exponential functions. The main tool are convolution operators that annihilate the space in question which apparently is a general concept in the study of various types of subdivision operators. Based on these annihi

Shuai Dong, Wei Li, Xin Huang, Elbio Dagotto

Recent experiments reported giant magnetoresistance at room temperature in LaOMnAs. Here a density functional theory calculation is performed to investigate magnetic properties of LaOMnAs. The ground state is found to be the G-type antiferromagnetic order within the $ab$ plane but coupled ferromagnetically between planes, in agreement with recent neutron inv

Z. F. Gao, N. Wang, Q. H. Peng

Assuming that the timescale of the magnetic field decay is approximately equal to that of the stellar cooling via neutrino emission, we obtain a one-to-one relationship between the effective surface thermal temperature and the inner temperature. The ratio of the effective neutrino luminosity to the effective X-ray luminosity decreases with decaying magnetic

Xiao-Dong Zhang, Jie Chen, Yuho Min, Gyeong Bae Park

Bi, a high atom number element, has a high photoelectric absorption coefficient, and Se element has anticancer activity. Hence, their compound chalcogenide (Bi2Se3) deserves a thorough investigation for biomedical applications. This study reveals that Bi2Se3 nanoplates (54 nm wide) protected with poly(vinylpyrollidone) (PVP) are biocompatible and have low to

A. Beesham, S. V. Chervon, S. D. Maharaj, A. S. Kubasov

We consider the emergent universe scenario supported by a chiral cosmological model with two interacting dark sector fields: phantom and canonical. We investigate the general properties of the evolution of the kinetic and potential energies as well as the development of the equation of state with time. We present three models based on asymptotic solutions an

L. P. Teo

In this paper, we derive the formula for the Casimir interaction energy between a sphere and a plate in $(D+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. It is assumed that the scalar field satisfies the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on the sphere and the plate. As in the $D=3$ case, the formula is of TGTG type. One of our main contributions is deriving th

Sergey D. Traytak

The anisotropic 3D equation describing the pointlike particles diffusion in slender impermeable tubes of revolution with cross section smoothly depending on the longitudial coordinate is the object of our study. We use singular perturbations approach to find the rigorous asymptotic expression for the local particles concentration as an expansion in the ratio

Joel McManus, Gemma May, Pieter Spealman, Alan Shteyman

Understanding the patterns and causes of phenotypic divergence is a central goal in evolutionary biology. Much work has shown that mRNA abundance is highly variable between closely related species. However, the extent and mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulatory evolution are largely unknown. Here we used ribosome profiling to compare transcript ab

G. Cullen, H. van Deurzen, N. Greiner, G. Heinrich

We elaborate on GoSam, a code-writer for automated one-loop calculations. After recalling its main features, we present a selection of phenomenological results recently obtained, giving relevance at the evaluation of NLO QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson in association with jets and heavy quarks.

Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

The normalized edit distance is one of the distances derived from the edit distance. It is useful in some applications because it takes into account the lengths of the two strings compared. The normalized edit distance is not defined in terms of edit operations but rather in terms of the edit path. In this paper we propose a new derivative of the edit distan

A. W. Mitschang, G. De Silva, D. B. Zucker, B. Anguiano

The early science results from the new generation of high-resolution stellar spectroscopic surveys, such as GALAH and the Gaia-ESO survey, will represent major milestones in the quest to chemically tag the Galaxy. Yet this technique to reconstruct dispersed coeval stellar groups has remained largely untested until recently. We build on previous work that dev

L. -L. Jia, Z. -H. Liu, Y. -P. Cai, T. Qian

We report the observation by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements of a highly anisotropic Dirac-cone structure in high quality SrMnBi2 crystals. We reveal a well-defined sharp quasi-particle, linearly dispersive with $v_{F_1}/v_{F_2}\sim$ 5--6, forming a hole-like anisotropic Dirac-cone. The density of states for the cone remains linear up

David J. Rosenbaum, Fabian Wagner

We consider the group isomorphism problem: given two finite groups G and H specified by their multiplication tables, decide if G cong H. For several decades, the n^(log_p n + O(1)) generator-enumeration bound (where p is the smallest prime dividing the order of the group) has been the best worst-case result for general groups. In this work, we show the first

Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

Bio-inspired optimization algorithms have been gaining more popularity recently. One of the most important of these algorithms is particle swarm optimization (PSO). PSO is based on the collective intelligence of a swam of particles. Each particle explores a part of the search space looking for the optimal position and adjusts its position according to two fa

Deepak Bal, Anthony Bonato, William B. Kinnersley, Paweł Prałat

We consider a variant of the game of Cops and Robbers, called Lazy Cops and Robbers, where at most one cop can move in any round. We investigate the analogue of the cop number for this game, which we call the lazy cop number. Lazy Cops and Robbers was recently introduced by Offner and Ojakian, who provided asymptotic upper and lower bounds on the lazy cop nu

H. Kawamura, S. Kumano, T. Sekihara

We investigate the possibility of clarifying internal structure of exotic hadrons by high-energy exclusive reactions. In particular, the constituent-counting rule could be used for determining the internal configuration in large-angle exclusive scattering. As an example, we show the cross section pi^- + p -> K^0 + Lambda(1405) in comparison with the one for

Chunyi Li, Xiaolei Zhao

We study the birational geometry of deformations of Hilbert schemes of points on the projective plane P2. We complete the picture in the paper of Daniele Arcara, Aaron Bertram, Izzet Coskun and Jack Huizenga by giving an explicit correspondence between the stable base locus walls on the Neron-Severi space and the actual walls on the Bridgeland stability spac

Changxing Miao, Junyong Zhang, Jiqiang Zheng

In this paper, we study the Strichartz-type estimates of the solution for the linear wave equation with inverse square potential. Assuming the initial data possesses additional angular regularity, especially the radial initial data, the range of admissible pairs is improved. As an application, we show the global well-posedness of the semi-linear wave equatio

Howard Georgi, Greg Kestin, Aqil Sajjad

We derive the photon propagator in light-shell gauge, which was first introduced in the context of light-shell effective theory.

Turker Topcu, Andrei Derevianko

We develop a theoretical understanding of trapping divalent Rydberg atoms in optical lattices. Because the size of the Rydberg electron cloud can be comparable to the scale of spatial variations of laser intensity, we pay special attention to averaging optical fields over the atomic wavefunctions. Optical potential is proportional to the ac Stark polarizabil

Peter Berger, Karlheinz Gröchenig

We introduce a new method for the reconstruction of a function from linear measurements by means of oblique projections. The space spanned by the measurement vectors may be different from the subspace in which the function is reconstructed. This method is a variation of the generalized sampling of Adcock and Hansen. In many cases the use of suitable oblique

Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Tobias Sutter, John Lygeros

We consider the Scenario Convex Program (SCP) for two classes of optimization problems that are not tractable in general: Robust Convex Programs (RCPs) and Chance-Constrained Programs (CCPs). We establish a probabilistic bridge from the optimal value of SCP to the optimal values of RCP and CCP in which the uncertainty takes values in a general, possibly infi

Daniel N. Kaslovsky, Francois G. Meyer

Constructing an efficient parameterization of a large, noisy data set of points lying close to a smooth manifold in high dimension remains a fundamental problem. One approach consists in recovering a local parameterization using the local tangent plane. Principal component analysis (PCA) is often the tool of choice, as it returns an optimal basis in the case

Tanja Rindler-Daller, Paul R. Shapiro

The nature of the cosmological dark matter remains elusive. Recent studies have advocated the possibility that dark matter could be composed of ultra-light, self-interacting bosons, forming a Bose-Einstein condensate in the very early Universe. We consider models which are charged under a global U(1)-symmetry such that the dark matter number is conserved. It

Antony Joseph, Bin Yu

The performance of spectral clustering can be considerably improved via regularization, as demonstrated empirically in Amini et. al (2012). Here, we provide an attempt at quantifying this improvement through theoretical analysis. Under the stochastic block model (SBM), and its extensions, previous results on spectral clustering relied on the minimum degree o

Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

We consider multiple time scales systems of stochastic differential equations with small noise in random environments. We prove a quenched large deviations principle with explicit characterization of the action functional. The random medium is assumed to be stationary and ergodic. In the course of the proof we also prove related quenched ergodic theorems for

Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde, Francisco Prada

In the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) theory for understanding the formation of structure in the universe, there exists a tight connection between the properties of dark matter (DM) haloes, and their formation epochs. Such relation can be expressed in terms of a single key parameter, namely the halo concentration. In this work, we examine the median concent

Quan Geng, Hieu T. Do, Rui Wu, Mindi Yuan

We derive a new outer bound on the capacity region of broadcast traffic in multiple input broadcast packet erasure channels with feedback, and extend this outer bound to packet erasure relay networks with feedback. We show the tightness of the outer bound for various classes of networks. An important engineering implication of this work is that for network c

József Balogh, Béla Csaba, Ryan R. Martin, András Pluhár

A path separator of a graph $G$ is a set of paths $\mathcal{P}=\{P_1,\ldots,P_t\}$ such that for every pair of edges $e,f\in E(G)$, there exist paths $P_e,P_f\in\mathcal{P}$ such that $e\in E(P_e)$, $f\not\in E(P_e)$, $e\not\in E(P_f)$ and $f\in E(P_f)$. The path separation number of $G$, denoted ${\rm psn}(G)$, is the smallest number of paths in a path sepa

Marco Astorino

An exact and regular solution, describing a couple of charged and spinning black holes, is generated in an external electromagnetic field, via Ernst technique, in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. A wormhole instantonic solution interpolating between the two black holes is constructed to discuss, at the semi-classical level, the quantum process of creation rate, in