arXiv papers from March 2014

A. James O'Malley, Jukka-Pekka Onnela

This chapter introduces statistical methods used in the analysis of social networks and in the rapidly evolving parallel-field of network science. Although several instances of social network analysis in health services research have appeared recently, the majority involve only the most basic methods and thus scratch the surface of what might be accomplished

Nick Salter

Let $\Sigma_g \to E \to \Sigma_h$ be a surface bundle over a surface with monodromy representation $\rho: \pi_1 \Sigma_h \to \operatorname{Mod}(\Sigma_g)$ contained in the Torelli group $\mathcal{I}_g$. In this paper we express the cup product structure in $H^*(E, \mathbb{Z})$ in terms of the Johnson homomorphism $\tau: \mathcal{I}_g \to \wedge^3 (H_1 (\Sigm

Velleda Baldoni, Nicole Berline, Jesús A. De Loera, Matthias Köppe

We continue our study of intermediate sums over polyhedra, interpolating between integrals and discrete sums, which were introduced by A. Barvinok [Computing the Ehrhart quasi-polynomial of a rational simplex, Math. Comp. 75 (2006), 1449-1466]. By well-known decompositions, it is sufficient to consider the case of affine cones s+c, where s is an arbitrary re

Beata Randrianantoanina, Huaqiang Xu

We show that the classes of $\alpha$-absolutely continuous functions in the sense of Bongiorno coincide for all $0<\alpha<1$.

Maryam Hosseini, Narayana Santhanam

The minimum average number of bits need to describe a random variable is its entropy, assuming knowledge of the underlying statistics On the other hand, universal compression supposes that the distribution of the random variable, while unknown, belongs to a known set $\cal P$ of distributions. Such universal descriptions for the random variable are agnostic

Ivana Maric, Dennis Hui

Short message noisy network coding with rate splitting (SNNC-RS) encoding strategy is presented. It has been shown by Hou and Kramer that mixed cooperative strategies in which relays in favorable positions perform decode-and-forward (DF) and the rest of the relays perform short message noisy network coding (SNNC) can outperform noisy network coding (NNC). Ou

Alex Dugas

We construct nontrivial auto-equivalences of stable module categories for elementary, local symmetric algebras over a field k. These auto-equivalences are modeled after the spherical twists of Seidel and Thomas and the $\mathbb{P}^n$-twists of Huybrechts and Thomas, which yield auto-equivalences of the derived category of coherent sheaves on a variety. For g

M Makita, G Nersisyan, K McKeever, T Dzelzainis

We have studied the propagation of fast electrons through laser irradiated Ti foils by monitoring the emission of hard X-rays and K-{\alpha} radiation from bare foils and foils backed by a thick epoxy layer. Key observations include strong refluxing of electrons and divergence of the electron beam in the foil with evidence of magnetic field collimation. Our

Raffi Sevlian, Ram Rajagopal

We propose a simple empirical scaling law that describes load forecasting accuracy at different levels of aggregation. The model is justified based on a simple decomposition of individual consumption patterns. We show that for different forecasting methods and horizons, aggregating more customers improves the relative forecasting performance up to specific p

Stefano Carignano, Michael Buballa, Bernd-Jochen Schaefer

Inhomogeneous chiral-symmetry breaking phases at non-vanishing chemical potential and temperature are studied within a two-flavor quark-meson model in the chiral limit. The analysis is performed beyond the standard mean-field approximation by taking into account the Dirac-sea contributions of the quarks. Compared with the case where the Dirac sea is neglecte

G. Wang, X. Marie, I. Gerber, T. Amand

Monolayers (MLs) of MoS2 and WSe2 are 2D semiconductors with strong, direct optical transitions that are governed by tightly Coulomb bound eletron-hole pairs (excitons). The optoelectronic properties of these transition metal dichalcogenides are directly related to the inherent crystal inversion symmetry breaking. It allows for efficient second harmonic gene

Robert R. Tucci

We give some quantum circuits for calculating the probability $P(G|D)$ of a graph $G$ given data $D$. $G$ together with a transition probability matrix for each node of the graph, constitutes a Classical Bayesian Network, or CB net for short. Bayesian methods for calculating $P(G|D)$ have been given before (the so called structural modular and ordered modula

Cristina Terrevoli

ALICE is the general purpose heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC. Its goal is to investigate the properties of the strongly interacting matter under the extreme conditions of density and temperature reached in Pb{Pb collisions, with the aim to characterize the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). In this scenario, the upgrade of the ALICE inner tracker targets physics t

Danilo V. Ruy

Recently, it has been great interest in the development of methods for solving nonlinear differential equations directly. Here, it is shown an algorithm based on Pad\'e approximants for solving nonlinear partial differential equations without requiring a one-dimensional reduction. This method is applied to the $\lambda\phi^4$ model in 4 dimensions and new so

Karolina Z. Milowska, Jacek A. Majewski

Graphene, a 2-dimensional monolayer form of sp2 hybridizated carbon atoms, is attracting increasing attention due to its unique and superior physicochemical properties. Covalently functionalized graphene layers, with their modifiable chemical functionality and usefull electrical properties, are excellent candidates for broad range of sensors, suitable for bi

Robert R. Tucci

In this paper, we give a quantum circuit for calculating the mean value of a function $A(x^n)\in \mathbb{C}$, where $x^n\in \{0,1\}^n$. Known classical algorithms for calculating the mean value of a structureless function $A(x^n)$ take ${\cal O}(2^n)$ steps. Our quantum algorithm is based on a Grover-like algorithm and it takes ${\cal O}(\sqrt{2^n})$ steps.

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is presented for production of dark matter particles recoiling against a leptonically decaying Z boson in 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with large missing transverse momentum and two oppositely-charged electrons or muons consistent with the decay of a Z boson are anal

Junyan Zhu

In this paper, we study hole probabilities $P_{0,m}(r,N)$ of SU(m+1) Gaussian random polynomials of degree $N$ over a polydisc $(D(0,r))^m$. When $r\geq1$, we find asymptotic formulas and decay rate of $\log{P_{0,m}(r,N)}$. In dimension one, we also consider hole probabilities over some general open sets and compute asymptotic formulas for the generalized ho

Sumantra Sarkar, Bulbul Chakraborty

Recent studies of athermal systems such as dry grains and dense, non-Brownian suspensions have shown that shear can lead to solidification through the process of shear jamming in grains and discontinuous shear thickening in suspensions. The similarities observed between these two distinct phenomena suggest that the physical processes leading to shear-induced

Giordano Pola, Pierdomenico Pepe, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

Symbolic models have recently spurred the interest of the research community because they offer a correct-by-design approach to the control of embedded and cyber-physical systems. In this paper we address construction of symbolic models for networks of discrete-time nonlinear control systems. The main result of the paper shows that under some small gain theo

Ian Affleck, Domenico Giuliano

Ken Wilson developed the Numerical Renormalization Group technique which greatly enhanced our understanding of the Kondo effect and other quantum impurity problems. Wilson's NRG also inspired Philippe Nozieres to propose the idea of a large "Kondo screening cloud". While much theoretical evidence has accumulated for this idea it has remained somewhat controv

Immanuel Trummer, Christoph Koch

The goal of multi-objective query optimization (MOQO) is to find query plans that realize a good compromise between conflicting objectives such as minimizing execution time and minimizing monetary fees in a Cloud scenario. A previously proposed exhaustive MOQO algorithm needs hours to optimize even simple TPC-H queries. This is why we propose several approxi

Véronique Bazier-Matte, David Racicot-Desloges, Tanna Sanchez

Frieze patterns (in the sense of Conway and Coxeter) are related to cluster algebras of type A and to signed continuant polynomials. In view of studying certain classes of cluster algebras with coefficients, we extend the concept of signed continuant polynomial to define a new family of friezes, called c-friezes, which generalises frieze patterns. Having in

Haifeng Li, Binyang Hou, Andrew Wildes, Anatoliy Senyshyn

Our single-crystal polarized neutron scattering at 65 mK and powder unpolarized neutron diffraction at 0.5 K show no evidence for a long-range magnetic order and even detect no sign of diffuse magnetic neutron scattering in single-crystal SrTm2O4. The data refinements reveal that the two TmO6 octahedral distortion modes are the same as those of the TbO6 octa

A. Obreja, C. B. Brook, G. Stinson, R. Domínguez-Tenreiro

Using cosmological galaxy simulations from the MaGICC project, we study the evolution of the stellar masses, star formation rates and gas phase abundances of star forming galaxies. We derive the stellar masses and star formation rates using observational relations based on spectral energy distributions by applying the new radiative transfer code GRASIL-3D to

Diego Salmerón, Juan Antonio Cano

In cohort studies binary outcomes are very often analyzed by logistic regression. However, it is well-known that when the goal is to estimate a risk ratio, the logistic regression is inappropriate if the outcome is common. In these cases, a log-binomial regression model is preferable. On the other hand, the estimation of the regression coefficients of the lo

Burak Bilki

The large CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype (DHCAL) was built in 2009 - 2010. The DHCAL uses Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as active media and is read out with 1 x 1 cm2 pads and digital (1 - bit) resolution. With a world record of about 0.5M readout channels, the DHCAL offers the possibility to study hadronic interactions with unprecedented spat

Cheuk-Yin Wong

Productions of soft photon with low transverse momenta in high-energy hadron-hadron collisions and $e^+$-$e^-$ annihilations indicate that they are consistently produced in excess of what are predicted by electromagnetic bremsstrahlung when hadrons (mostly mesons) are produced, but they agree with electromagnetic bremsstrahlung predictions in the absence of

Jihua Lu, Xiangming Li, Dan Liu

Optimal antenna selection algorithm of multicast transmission can significantly reduce the number of antennas and can acquire lower complexity and high performance which is close to that of exhaustive search. An asynchronous multicast transmission mechanism based on genetic antenna selection is proposed. The computational complexity of genetic antenna select

Denali Molitor

This paper extends results from Mike Steel and Amelia Taylor's paper The Structure of Symmetric N-Player Games when Influence and Independence Collide. These games include n causes, which are dichotomous random variables whose values determine the probabilities of the values of n dichotomous effects. We denote the probability spaces that exhibit independence

Sergei Dubovsky, Raphael Flauger, Victor Gorbenko

We provide a detailed introduction to a method we recently proposed for calculating the spectrum of excitations of effective strings such as QCD flux tubes. The method relies on the approximate integrability of the low energy effective theory describing the flux tube excitations and is is based on the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz (TBA). The approximate integra

Zydrunas Gimbutas, Leslie Greengard

In this paper, we present a fast multipole method (FMM) for the half-space Green's function in a homogeneous elastic half-space subject to zero normal stress, for which an explicit solution was given by Mindlin (1936). The image structure of this Green's function is unbounded, so that standard outgoing representations are not easily available. We introduce t

Steven M. Flores, Peter Kleban

This article is the second of four that completely characterize a solution space $\mathcal{S}_N$ for a homogeneous system of $2N+3$ linear partial differential equations (PDEs) in 2N variables that arises in conformal field theory (CFT) and multiple Schramm-Lowner evolution (SLE). The system comprises $2N$ null-state equations and three conformal Ward identi

Bennett Palmer

Motivated by the study of wave fronts in anisotropic media, we propose an incidence geometry of anisotropic spheres in a Finsler-Minkowski space. An anisotropic version of the Laguerre functional is considered. In some circumstances, this functional can be used to determine that two wavefronts observed at distinct times in a homogeneous, anisotropic medium,

Atish Dabholkar, Joao Gomes, Sameer Murthy

Non-perturbative quantum corrections to supersymmetric black hole entropy often involve nontrivial number-theoretic phases called Kloosterman sums. We show how these sums can be obtained naturally from the functional integral of supergravity in asymptotically AdS_2 space for a class of black holes. They are essentially topological in origin and correspond to

Marco Lombardi, Herve Bouy, Joao Alves, Charles J. Lada

We present high-resolution, high dynamic range column-density and color-temperature maps of the Orion complex using a combination of Planck dust-emission maps, Herschel dust-emission maps, and 2MASS NIR dust-extinction maps. The column-density maps combine the robustness of the 2MASS NIR extinction maps with the resolution and coverage of the Herschel and Pl

Xin-Nian Wang, Yan Zhu

Medium modification of $\gamma$-tagged jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is investigated within a linearized Boltzmann transport model which includes both elastic parton scattering and induced gluon emission. In Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s}=2.76$ TeV, a $\gamma$-tagged jet is seen to lose 15\% of its energy at 0-10\% central collisions. Simulations a

Niels Ubbelohde, Frank Hohls, Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs, Timo Wagner

We demonstrate the high fidelity splitting of electron pairs emitted on demand from a dynamic quantum dot by an electronic beam splitter. The fidelity of pair splitting is inferred from the coincidence of arrival in two detector paths probed by a measurement of the partitioning noise. The emission characteristic of the on-demand electron source is tunable fr

G. D. Cole, P. -L. Yu, C. Gärtner, K. Siquans

We investigate the optomechanical properties of tensile-strained ternary InGaP nanomembranes grown on GaAs. This material system combines the benefits of highly strained membranes based on stoichiometric silicon nitride, with the unique properties of thin-film semiconductor single crystals, as previously demonstrated with suspended GaAs. Here we employ latti

Taushif Ahmed, Maguni Mahakhud, Prakash Mathews, Narayan Rana

We present the ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^3)$ virtual QCD corrections to the process $h \rightarrow g+g+g$ due to interference of born and two-loop amplitudes, where $h$ is a massive spin-2 particle and $g$ is the gluon. We assume that the SM fields couple to $h$ through the SM energy momentum tensor. Our result constitutes one of the ingredients to full NNLO QCD co

Maksim Karev

This note is dedicated to the study of a Hopf module structures on the space of framed chord diagrams and framed graphs. We also introduce a framed version of the chromatic polynomial and propose two methods to construct framed weight systems.

Jeremiah Blocki, Manuel Blum, Anupam Datta, Santosh Vempala

An interesting challenge for the cryptography community is to design authentication protocols that are so simple that a human can execute them without relying on a fully trusted computer. We propose several candidate authentication protocols for a setting in which the human user can only receive assistance from a semi-trusted computer --- a computer that sto

A. Rettura, J. Martinez-Manso, D. Stern, S. Mei

We present 279 galaxy cluster candidates at $z > 1.3$ selected from the 94 deg$^{2}$ Spitzer South Pole Telescope Deep Field (SSDF) survey. We use a simple algorithm to select candidate high-redshift clusters of galaxies based on Spitzer/IRAC mid-infrared data combined with shallow all-sky optical data. We identify distant cluster candidates in SSDF adopting

Asher Berlin, Dan Hooper, Samuel D. McDermott

Motivated by the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, we explore particle dark matter models that could potentially account for the spectrum and normalization of this signal. Taking a model-independent approach, we consider an exhaustive list of tree-level diagrams for dark matter annihilation, and determine which could

Benjamin Reiniger, Elyse Yeager

Dorais asked for the maximum guaranteed size of a dimension $d$ subposet of an $n$-element poset. A lower bound of order $\sqrt{n}$ was found by Goodwillie. We provide a sublinear upper bound for each $d$. For $d=2$, our bound is $n^{0.8295}$.

Enrique A. Carrion, Andrey Y. Serov, Sharnali Islam, Ashkan Behnam

We measure top-gated graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) with nanosecond-range pulsed gate and drain voltages. Due to high-k dielectric or graphene imperfections, the drain current decreases ~10% over time scales of ~10 us, consistent with charge trapping mechanisms. Pulsed operation leads to hysteresis-free I-V characteristics, which are studied with

N. K. Bernardes, A. R. R. Carvalho, C. H. Monken, M. F. Santos

We investigate the smallest set of requirements for inducing non-Markovian dynamics in a collisional model of open quantum systems. This is done by introducing correlations in the state of the environment and analyzing the divisibility of the quantum maps from consecutive time steps. Our model and results serve as a platform for the microscopic study of non-

Pau Figueras, Saran Tunyasuvunakool

In this paper we numerically construct localised black hole solutions at the IR bottom of the confining geometry of the AdS soliton. These black holes should be thought as the finite size analogues of the domain wall solutions that have appeared previously in the literature. From the dual CFT point of view, these black holes correspond to finite size balls o

Olga Mena, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Aaron C. Vincent

The IceCube experiment has recently reported the observation of 28 high-energy (> 30 TeV) neutrino events, separated into 21 showers and 7 muon tracks, consistent with an extraterrestrial origin. In this letter we compute the compatibility of such an observation with possible combinations of neutrino flavors with relative proportion (alpha_e:alpha_mu:alpha_t

Constantinos Papageorgakis, Andrew B. Royston

It is often said that soliton contributions to perturbative processes in QFT are exponentially suppressed by a form factor. We provide a new derivation of this form factor for a class of scalar theories with generic soliton moduli. The derivation treats the soliton momenta relativistically and is valid at leading order in momentum transfer. The computation r

Ariel Amir, Sven van Teeffelen

Rod-like bacteria maintain their cylindrical shapes with remarkable precision during growth. However, they are also capable to adapt their shapes to external forces and constraints, for example by growing into narrow or curved confinements. Despite being one of the simplest morphologies, we are still far from a full understanding of how shape is robustly reg

T. Hovatta, M. F. Aller, H. D. Aller, E. Clausen-Brown

We have obtained milliarcsecond-scale spectral index distributions for a sample of 190 extragalactic radio jets through the MOJAVE project. The sources were observed in 2006 at 8.1, 8.4, 12.1, and 15.4 GHz, and we study the four-frequency spectrum in individual jet features. We performed detailed simulations to study the effects of image alignment and (u,v)-

William J. Potter, Steven A. Balbus

In the standard thin disc formalism the dimensionless $\alpha$ parameter is usually assumed to be constant. However, there are good theoretical reasons for believing, as well as evidence from simulations, that $\alpha$ is dependent on intrinsic disc properties. In this paper we analyse the conditions for the stability of a thin accretion disc in which $\alph

Stephanie M. LaMassa, Tahir Yaqoob, Andrew F. Ptak, Jianjun Jia

Using self-consistent, physically motivated models, we investigate the X-ray obscuration in 19 Type 2 [OIII] 5007 \AA\ selected AGN, 9 of which are local Seyfert 2 galaxies and 10 of which are Type 2 quasar candidates. We derive reliable line-of-sight and global column densities for these objects, which is the first time this has been reported for an AGN sam

Dennis D. Dietrich

We develop a model for hadrons in the framework of the worldline formalism. While being based wholly in four-dimensional quantum field theory, it shares many features with holographic approaches: Already by the use of the worldline formalism the approach appears intrinsically quantum mechanical. As auxiliary fifth dimension Schwinger's proper time is grouped

Hamid Afshar, Thomas Creutzig, Daniel Grumiller, Yasuaki Hikida

We investigate whether there are unitary families of W-algebras with spin one fields in the natural example of the Feigin-Semikhatov W^(2)_n-algebra. This algebra is conjecturally a quantum Hamiltonian reduction corresponding to a non-principal nilpotent element. We conjecture that this algebra admits a unitary real form for even n. Our main result is that t

Pasquale Di Bari, Stephen F. King, Christoph Luhn, Alexander Merle

Following the ground-breaking measurement of the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r = 0.20^{+0.07}_{- 0.05}$ by the BICEP2 collaboration, we perform a statistical analysis of a model that combines Radiative Inflation with Dark Energy (RIDE) based on the $M^2 |\Phi|^2 \ln \left(|\Phi|^2/\Lambda^2 \right)$ potential and compare its predictions to those based on the tra

Antonio De Felice, A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu, Shinji Mukohyama, Norihiro Tanahashi

We study cosmological perturbations in bimetric theory with two fluids each of which is coupled to one of the two metrics. Focusing on a healthy branch of background solutions, we clarify the stability of the cosmological perturbations. For this purpose, we extend the condition for the absence of the so-called Higuchi ghost, and show that the condition is gu

Ming Li, Raul E. Angulo, Simon D. M. White, Jens Jasche

We develop and test a new statistical method to measure the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. A sample of independently detected clusters is combined with the cosmic flow field predicted from a galaxy redshift survey in order to derive a matched filter that optimally weights the kSZ signal for the sample as a whole given the noise involved in the pr

Yashar Akrami, Tomi S. Koivisto, Adam R. Solomon

The possibility of matter coupling to two metrics at once is considered. This appears natural in the most general ghost-free, bimetric theory of gravity, where it unlocks an additional symmetry with respect to the exchange of the metrics. This double coupling, however, raises the problem of identifying the observables of the theory. It is shown that if the t

Caroline V. Morley, Mark S. Marley, Jonathan J. Fortney, Roxana Lupu

The formation of clouds affects brown dwarf and planetary atmospheres of nearly all effective temperatures. Iron and silicate condense in L dwarf atmospheres and dissipate at the L/T transition. Minor species such as sulfides and salts condense in mid-late T dwarfs. For brown dwarfs below Teff=450 K, water condenses in the upper atmosphere to form ice clouds

Christian Schwab, Julian Stuermer, Yulia V. Gurevich, Thorsten Fuehrer

We present a method of frequency stabilizing a broadband etalon that can serve as a high-precision wavelength calibrator for an Echelle spectrograph. Using a laser to probe the Doppler-free saturated absorption of the rubidium D2 line, we stabilize one etalon transmission peak directly to the rubidium frequency. The rubidium transition is an established freq

Andrzej K. Drukier, Charles Cantor, Mark Chonofsky, George M. Church

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) may constitute a large fraction of the matter in the Universe. There are excess events in the data of DAMA/LIBRA, CoGeNT, CRESST-II, and recently CDMS-Si, which could be consistent with WIMP masses of approximately 10 GeV/c2. However, for MDM > 10 GeV/c2 null results of the CDMS-Ge, XENON, and LUX detectors may be

Maksym Serbyn, Liang Fu

In the recently discovered topological crystalline insulators SnTe and Pb_{1-x}Sn_{x}(Te,Se), crystal symmetry and electronic topology intertwine to create topological surface states with many interesting features including Lifshitz transition, Van-Hove singularity and fermion mass generation. These surface states are protected by mirror symmetry with respec

Qiong Ma, Nathaniel M. Gabor, Trond I. Andersen, Nityan L. Nair

We report on temperature dependent photocurrent measurements of high-quality dual-gated monolayer graphene (MLG) p-n junction devices. A photothermoelectric (PTE) effect governs the photocurrent response in our devices, allowing us to track the hot electron temperature and probe hot electron cooling channels over a wide temperature range (4 K to 300 K). At h

Saumen Datta

The behavior of quarkonia in relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed. After a detailed discussion of the current theoretical understanding of quarkonia in a static equilibriated plasma, we discuss quarkonia yield from the fireball created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision experiments. We end with a brief discussion of the experimental results an

Kevin Atighehchi

The purpose of incremental cryptography is to allow the updating of cryptographic forms of documents undergoing modifications, more efficiently than if we had to recompute them from scratch. This paper defines a framework for using securely a variant of the incremental hash function designed by Bok-Min Goi et al. The condition of use of their hash function i

Wayne O'Keeffe, Turlough P. Downes

Turbulent motion driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to provide an anomalous viscosity strong enough to account for observed accretion rates in protostellar accretion disks. In the first of two papers, we perform large-scale, three fluid simulations of a weakly ionised accretion disk and examine the linear and non-linear development

Zvi Rosen

An affine variety induces the structure of an algebraic matroid on the set of coordinates of the ambient space. The matroid has two natural decorations: a circuit polynomial attached to each circuit, and the degree of the projection map to each base, called the base degree. Decorated algebraic matroids can be computed via symbolic computation using Groebner

Roman Karasev, Jan Kynčl, Pavel Paták, Zuzana Patáková

We estimate the selection constant in the following geometric selection theorem by Pach: For every positive integer $d$ there is a constant $c_d > 0$ such that whenever $X_1,..., X_{d+1}$ are $n$-element subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$, then we can find a point $\mathbf{p} \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and subsets $Y_i \subseteq X_i$ for every $i \in [d+1]$, each of size at l

Stephen R. Kane, Franck Selsis

As we learn more about the frequency and size distribution of exoplanets, we are discovering that terrestrial planets are exceedingly common. The distribution of orbital periods in turn results in many of these planets being the occupants of the Habitable Zone of their host stars. Here we show that a conclusion of prevalent life in the universe presents a se

Douglas Scott, Ali Frolop

Recent microwave polarization measurements from the BICEP2 experiment may reveal a long-sought signature of inflation. However, these new results appear inconsistent with the best-fit model from the Planck satellite. We suggest a particularly simple idea for reconciling these data-sets, and for explaining a wide range of phenomena on the cosmic microwave sky

Ping Li, Michael Mitzenmacher, Anshumali Shrivastava

This technical note compares two coding (quantization) schemes for random projections in the context of sub-linear time approximate near neighbor search. The first scheme is based on uniform quantization while the second scheme utilizes a uniform quantization plus a uniformly random offset (which has been popular in practice). The prior work compared the two

Francesco Ticozzi, Lorenza Viola

Preparing a quantum system in a pure state is ultimately limited by the nature of the system's evolution in the presence of its environment and by the initial state of the environment itself. We show that, when the system and environment are initially uncorrelated and arbitrary joint unitary dynamics is allowed, the system may be purified up to a certain (po

Oliver Braunling

Tate gave a famous construction of the residue symbol on curves by using some non-commutative operator algebra in the context of algebraic geometry. We explain Beilinson's multidimensional generalization, which is not so well-documented in the literature. We provide a new approach using Hochschild homology.

Shengda Hu, Francois Lalonde

We show that $(S^2\times S^2, \omega_0 \oplus \lambda\omega_0)$, with $\lambda > 1$, is an example of symplectic manifold $(X, \omega)$ such that the $\pi_1 Ham(X \times X, \omega\oplus -\omega)$ contains extra elements than those from $\pi_1 Ham(X, \omega) \times \pi_1 Ham(X, -\omega)$.

Shengda Hu, Francois Lalonde

We describe the natural identification of $FH_*(X \times X, \triangle; \omega \oplus -\omega)$ with $FH_*(X, \omega)$. Under this identification, we show that the extra elements in $Ham(X \times X, \omega \oplus -\omega)$ found in (Part I), for $X = (S^2 \times S^2, \omega_0 \oplus \lambda \omega_0)$ for $\lambda > 1$, do not define new invertible elements i

Vineet Gupta, Uma Roy, Roger Van Peski

A theorem due to Tokuyama expresses Schur polynomials in terms of Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns, providing a deformation of the Weyl character formula and two other classical results, Stanley's formula for the Schur $q$-polynomials and Gelfand's parametrization for the Schur polynomial. We generalize Tokuyama's formula to the Hall-Littlewood polynomials by extend

Lawrence J. Hall, Yasunori Nomura, Satoshi Shirai

A class of supersymmetric grand unified theories is introduced that has a single scale below the cutoff, that of the supersymmetry breaking masses $\tilde{m}$. For a wide range of the dimensionless parameters, agreement with the observed mass of the Higgs boson determines $\tilde{m} \sim 10^9-10^{13} {\rm GeV}$, yielding Intermediate Scale Supersymmetry. We

Rajesh Krishnan, Ravi Sundaram

Confidential Content-Based Publish/Subscribe (C-CBPS) is an interaction (pub/sub) model that allows parties to exchange data while still protecting their security and privacy interests. In this paper we advance the state of the art in C-CBPS by showing how all predicate circuits in NC1 (logarithmic-depth, bounded fan-in) can be securely computed by a broker

C. A. Bertulani

A revolution in nuclear physics is underway. If you know hadron physics you also know that it will last long, as most past developments in nuclear physics have shown. It will take many decades of dedicated efforts of theorists and experimentalists to give astronomers, cosmologists and stellar modelers what they need for the accuracy required in the descripti

Francis Heylighen

Aging is analyzed as the spontaneous loss of adaptivity and increase in fragility that characterizes dynamic systems. Cybernetics defines the general regulatory mechanisms that a system can use to prevent or repair the damage produced by disturbances. According to the law of requisite variety, disturbances can be held in check by maximizing buffering capacit

László Tapolcai Greiner

We give an extension of the Fekete's Subadditive Lemma for a set of submultiplicative functionals on countable product of compact spaces. Our method can be considered as an unfolding of the ideas [1]Theorem 3.1 and our main result is an extension of the symbolic dynamics results of [4].

Francisco Santos, Christian Stump, Volkmar Welker

We study a natural generalization of the noncrossing relation between pairs of elements in [n] to k-tuples in [n] that was first considered by Petersen, Pylyavskyy, Speyer (2010). We give an alternative approach to their result that the flag simplicial complex on $\binom{[n]}{k}$ induced by this relation is a regular, unimodular and flag triangulation of the

S. Mittal, J. Fan, S. Faez, A. Migdall

Electronic transport in low dimensions through a disordered medium leads to localization. The addition of gauge fields to disordered media leads to fundamental changes in the transport properties. For example, chiral edge states can emerge in two-dimensional systems with a perpendicular magnetic field. Here, we implement a "synthetic'' gauge field for photon

Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We inspect the normal subgroup structure of the braided Thompson groups Vbr and Fbr. We prove that every proper normal subgroup of Vbr lies in the kernel of the natural quotient Vbr \onto V, and we exhibit some families of interesting such normal subgroups. For Fbr, we prove that for any normal subgroup N of Fbr, either N is contained in the kernel of Fbr \o

Máté Ádámkovics, Alfred E. Glassgold, Joan R. Najita

We present an integrated thermal-chemical model for the atmosphere of the inner region of a protoplanetary disk that includes irradiation by both far ultraviolet (FUV) and X-ray radiation. We focus on how the photodissociation of water and OH affects the abundances of these and related species and how it contributes to the heating of the atmosphere. The dust

M. R. Avendi, Ha H. Nguyen

This paper proposes and analyses selection combining (SC) at the destination for differential amplify-andforward (D-AF) relaying over slow Rayleigh-fading channels. The selection combiner chooses the link with the maximum magnitude of the decision variable to be used for non-coherent detection of the transmitted symbols. Therefore, in contrast to the maximum

Sergei V. Konyagin, Ilya D. Shkredov

We give a lower bound for Wiener norm of characteristic function of subsets A from Z_p, p is a prime number, in the situation when exp((log p/log log p)^{1/3}) \le |A| \le p/3.

M. R. Avendi, Ha H. Nguyen

This paper is concerned with the performance of differential amplify-and-forward (D-AF) relaying for multi-node wireless communications over time-varying Rayleigh fading channels. A first-order auto-regressive model is utilized to characterize the time-varying nature of the channels. Based on the secondorder statistical properties of the wireless channels, a

Zhibin Chen, Jie Ma, Wenan Zang

Let $k$ and $r$ be two integers with $k \ge 2$ and $k\ge r \ge 1$. In this paper we show that (1) if a strongly connected digraph $D$ contains no directed cycle of length $1$ modulo $k$, then $D$ is $k$-colorable; and (2) if a digraph $D$ contains no directed cycle of length $r$ modulo $k$, then $D$ can be vertex-colored with $k$ colors so that each color cl

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio, D. Amidei

We report on mass and lifetime measurements of several ground state charmed and bottom baryons, using a data sample corresponding to 9.6 $\textrm{fb}^{-1}$ from $p\bar p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV, and recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Baryon candidates are reconstructed from data collected with an online event selection designed for t

Jaehyung Choi

We empirically test predictability on asset price by using stock selection rules based on maximum drawdown and its consecutive recovery. In various equity markets, monthly momentum- and weekly contrarian-style portfolios constructed from these alternative selection criteria are superior not only in forecasting directions of asset prices but also in capturing

Theodore A. Brzinski, Jorin Schug, Kelly Mao, Douglas J. Durian

We present experimental measurements of penetration depths for the impact of spheres into wetted granular media. We observe that the penetration depth in the liquid saturated case scales with projectile density, size, and drop height in a fashion consistent with the scaling observed in the dry case, but that penetration depths into saturated packings tend to

Jihua Lu, Jianping An, Xiangming Li, Jie Yang

We propose a percolation based M2M networking architecture and its data transmission method. The proposed network architecture can be server-free and router-free, which allows us to operate routing efficiently with percolations based on six degrees of separation theory in small world network modeling. The data transmission can be divided into two phases: rou

M. R. Avendi, Ha H. Nguyen

Selection combining (SC) at the destination for differential amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying is attractive as it does not require channel state information as compared to the semi maximum-ratio-combining (semi-MRC) while delivering close performance. Performance analysis of the SC scheme was recently reported but only for the case of slow-fading channels.

Rober Jankowski, Marcin Makowski, Edward W. Piotrowski

We present a new method of estimating the dispersion of a distribution which is based on the surprising property of a function that measures information processing intensity. It turns out that this function has a maximum at its fixed point. We use a fixed-point equation to estimate the parameter of the distribution that is of interest to us. We illustrate th

Andrew W. Baggaley

We consider the reconnection of two untwisted, linked quantised vortex rings in a Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the reconnection is capable of transferring helicity, from the links present in the initial configuration, to a twisting of the resulting vortex ring, and hence a rotation of the phase plane along the vortex ring. As velocities in a quantu

Holger Dette, Dominik Wied

Most of the literature on change-point analysis by means of hypothesis testing considers hypotheses of the form H0 : \theta_1 = \theta_2 vs. H1 : \theta_1 != \theta_2, where \theta_1 and \theta_2 denote parameters of the process before and after a change point. This paper takes a different perspective and investigates the null hypotheses of no relevant chang

Alexei Kotov, Thomas Strobl

The gauge principle is at the heart of a good part of fundamental physics: Starting with a group G of so-called rigid symmetries of a functional defined over space-time Sigma, the original functional is extended appropriately by additional Lie(G)-valued 1-form gauge fields so as to lift the symmetry to Maps(Sigma,G). Physically relevant quantities are then t