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April 2014 arXiv papers — page 9

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  1. A. V. Radyushkin

    We outline basics of a new approach to transverse momentum dependence in hard processes. As an illustration, we consider hard exclusive transition process $γ^* γ\to π^0$ at the handbag level. Our starting point is coordinate representation for matrix elements of operators (in the simplest case, bilocal ${\cal O}(0,z)$) describing a hadron with momentum $p$.

  2. Rostislav Grigorchuk, Pierre de la Harpe

    The purpose of this expository article is to revisit the notions of amenability and ergodicity, and to point out that they appear for topological groups that are not necessarily locally compact in articles by Bogolyubov (1939), Fomin (1950), Dixmier (1950), and Rickert (1967).

  3. Reda Chhaibi

    We explicitly compute the exit law of a certain hypoelliptic Brownian motion on a solvable Lie group. The underlying random variable can be seen as a multidimensional exponential functional of Brownian motion. As a consequence, we obtain hidden identities in law between gamma random variables as the probabilistic manifestation of braid relations. The classic

  4. Cagla Ramis, Beyhan Uzunoglu, Yusuf Yayli

    The Frenet frame is generally known an orthonormal vector frame for curves. But, it does not always meet the needs of curve characterizations. In this study, with the help of associated curves of any spatial curve we obtained a new orthonormal frame which has the property that the second vector makes a constant angle with a fixed direction for the spatial cu

  5. Floyd W. Stecker, Sean T. Scully

    The IceCube observation of cosmic neutrinos with $E_ν > 60$ TeV, most of which are likely of extragalactic origin, allows one to severely constrain Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) in the neutrino sector, allowing for the possible existence of superluminal neutrinos. The subsequent neutrino energy loss by vacuum $e^+e^-$ pair emission (VPE) is strongly dep

  6. Zhi-zhong Xing, Shun Zhou

    We find that the lepton flavor mixing matrix $U$ should possess a partial $μ$-$τ$ permutation symmetry $|U^{}_{μ1}| = |U^{}_{τ1}|$, and the latter predicts a novel correlation between the Dirac CP-violating phase $δ$ and three flavor mixing angles $θ^{}_{12}$, $θ^{}_{13}$ and $θ^{}_{23}$ in the standard parametrization. Inputting the best-fit values of these

  7. Kevin Buzzard, Alain Verberkmoes

    We develop some of the foundations of affinoid pre-adic spaces without Noetherian or finiteness hypotheses. We give some explicit examples of non-adic affinoid pre-adic spaces (including a locally perfectoid one). On the positive side, we also show that if every affinoid subspace of an affinoid pre-adic space is uniform, then the structure presheaf is a shea

  8. Shin-ichi Doi, Yasushi Ota

    One of the most interesting problems discerned when applying the Black--Scholes model to financial derivatives, is reconciling the deviation between expected and observed values. In our recent work, we derived a new model based on the Black--Scholes model and formulated a new mathematical approach to an inverse problem in financial markets. In this paper, we

  9. C. Boehm, J. A. Schewtschenko, R. J. Wilkinson, C. M. Baugh

    The cold dark matter (CDM) model faces persistent challenges on small scales. In particular, taken at face value, the model significantly overestimates the number of satellite galaxies around the Milky Way. Attempts to solve this problem remain open to debate and have even led some to abandon CDM altogether. However, current simulations are limited by the as

  10. G. Agakishiev, O. Arnold, D. Belver, A. Belyaev

    We present the analysis of the inclusive $K^{0}$ production in p+p and p+Nb collisions measured with the HADES detector at a beam kinetic energy of 3.5 GeV. Data are compared to the GiBUU transport model. The data suggest the presence of a repulsive momentum-dependent kaon potential as predicted by the Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT). For the kaon at rest

  11. Gabriel P. Paternain, Mikko Salo, Gunther Uhlmann

    In the recent articles \cite{PSU1,PSU3}, a number of tensor tomography results were proved on two-dimensional manifolds. The purpose of this paper is to extend some of these methods to manifolds of any dimension. A central concept is the surjectivity of the adjoint of the geodesic ray transform, or equivalently the existence of certain distributions that are

  12. Shiqi Sheng, Z. C. Tu

    We present a unified perspective on nonequilibrium heat engines by generalizing nonlinear irreversible thermodynamics. For tight-coupling heat engines, a generic constitutive relation of nonlinear response accurate up to the quadratic order is derived from the symmetry argument and the stall condition. By applying this generic nonlinear constitutive relation

  13. Arie Levit

    The Nevo-Zimmer theorem classifies the possible intermediate $G$-factors $Y$ in $X \times G/P \to Y \to X$, where $G$ is a higher rank semisimple Lie group, $P$ a minimal parabolic and $X$ an irreducible $G$-space with an invariant probability measure. An important corollary is the Stuck-Zimmer theorem, which states that a faithful irreducible action of a hi

  14. Karl Bringmann, Danny Hermelin, Matthias Mnich, Erik Jan van Leeuwen

    The Steiner Multicut problem asks, given an undirected graph G, terminals sets T1,...,Tt $\subseteq$ V(G) of size at most p, and an integer k, whether there is a set S of at most k edges or nodes s.t. of each set Ti at least one pair of terminals is in different connected components of G \ S. This problem generalizes several graph cut problems, in particular

  15. Sebastian Krug

    We investigate Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions in the Schroedinger representation. The Schroedinger picture is interesting because it is well suited to explore properties of the vacuum state in the non-perturbative regime. Yet, not much analytical work has been done on this subject, and even the topic of perturbation theory in the Schroedinger representa

  16. D. VanGennep, S. Maiti, D. Graf, S. W. Tozer

    We report measurements of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the giant Rashba semiconductor BiTeI under applied pressures up to $\sim 2\,\mathrm{GPa}$. We observe one high frequency oscillation at all pressures and one low frequency oscillation that emerges between $\sim 0.3-0.7\,\mathrm{GPa}$ indicating the appearance of a second small Fermi surface. BiTeI h

  17. M. T. Yamashita, F. F. Bellotti, T. Frederico, D. V. Fedorov

    The spectrum and properties of quantum bound states is strongly dependent on the dimensionality of space. How this comes about and how one may theoretically and experimentally study the interpolation between different dimensions is a topic of great interest in different fields of physics. In this paper we study weakly bound states of non-relativistic two and

  18. Zhi-zhong Xing, Ye-Ling Zhou

    The neutrinoless double-beta ($0νββ$) decay is a unique process to identify the Majorana nature of massive neutrinos, and its rate depends on the size of the effective Majorana neutrino mass $\langle m\rangle_{ee}$. We put forward a novel "coupling-rod" diagram to describe $\langle m\rangle_{ee}$ in the complex plane, by which the effects of the neut

  19. D. V. Khveshchenko

    Despite a recent flurry of applications of the broadly defined ('non-AdS/non-CFT') holographic correspondence to a variety of condensed matter problems, the status of this intriguing, yet speculative, approach remains largely undetermined. This note exposes a number of potential inconsistencies between the previously made holographic predictions and

  20. Jonas Frey

    We give simple characterizations of the category PAsm(A) of partitioned assemblies, and of the realizability topos RT(A) over a partial combinatory algebra A. This answers the question for an 'extensional characterization' of realizability toposes.

  21. Christine Breiner, Stephen J. Kleene

    We construct helicoid-like embedded minimal disks with axes along self-similar curves modeled on logarithmic spirals. The surfaces have a self-similarity inherited from the curves and the nature of the construction. Moreover, inside of a "logarithmic cone", the surfaces are embedded.

  22. L. B. Pierce

    This paper proves Burgess bounds for short mixed character sums in multi-dimensional settings. The mixed character sums we consider involve both an exponential evaluated at a real-valued multivariate polynomial, and a product of multiplicative Dirichlet characters. We combine a multi-dimensional Burgess method with recent results on multi-dimensional Vinogra

  23. Elizabeth Gross, Seth Sullivant

    The maximum likelihood threshold of a graph is the smallest number of data points that guarantees that maximum likelihood estimates exist almost surely in the Gaussian graphical model associated to the graph. We show that this graph parameter is connected to the theory of combinatorial rigidity. In particular, if the edge set of a graph $G$ is an independent

  24. S. -H. Henry Tye, Sam S. C. Wong

    Recent BICEP2 detection of low-multipole B-mode polarization anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background radiation supports the inflationary universe scenario and suggests a large inflaton field range. The latter feature can be achieved with axion fields in the framework of string theory. We present such a helical model which naturally becomes a model with

  25. Bernard Sonnenschein, Thomas K. DM. Peron, Francisco A. Rodrigues, Jürgen Kurths

    We study the collective dynamics of noise-driven excitable elements, so-called active rotators. Crucially here, the natural frequencies and the individual coupling strengths are drawn from some joint probability distribution. Combining a mean-field treatment with a Gaussian approximation allows us to find examples where the infinite-dimensional system is red

  26. Yuri N. Obukhov, Dirk Puetzfeld

    We discuss the dynamics of extended test bodies for a large class of scalar-tensor theories of gravitation. A covariant multipolar Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon type of approach is used to derive the equations of motion in a systematic way for both Jordan and Einstein formulations of these theories. The results obtained provide the framework to experimentally t

  27. Mubasher Jamil, Saqib Hussain, Bushra Majeed

    We investigate the dynamics of a neutral and a charged particle around a static and spherically symmetric black hole in the presence of quintessence matter and external magnetic field. We explore the conditions under which the particle moving around the black hole could escape to infinity after colliding with another particle. The innermost stable circular o

  28. Ulrich Furbach, Claudia Schon

    Deontic logic is shown to be applicable for modelling human reasoning. For this the Wason selection task and the suppression task are discussed in detail. Different versions of modelling norms with deontic logic are introduced and in the case of the Wason selection task it is demonstrated how differences in the performance of humans in the abstract and in th

  29. Lang Yu, Hao Liu, Mei Huang

    In the chiral symmetric phase, the polarized instanton--anti-instanton molecule pairing induces a nontrivial repulsive interaction in the iso-scalar axial-vector channel. As a consequence, one unusual property is observed that in the chiral restoration phase, there is a first order phase transition for the spontaneous generation of local CP violation and chi

  30. Iskander Aliev

    We show that computing the lattice programming gap of the group problems is NP-hard when the dimension is a part of input. We also obtain lower and upper bounds for the gap in terms of the cost vector and the determinant of the lattice.

  31. Axel Brandenburg

    Using direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional hydromagnetic turbulence, either with helical or non-helical forcing, we show that the ratio of kinetic-to-magnetic energy dissipation always increases with the magnetic Prandtl number, i.e., the ratio of kinematic viscosity to magnetic diffusivity. This dependence can always be approximated by a power

  32. Cyril Nicaud

    A synchronizing word for an automaton is a word that brings that automaton into one and the same state, regardless of the starting position. Cerny conjectured in 1964 that if a n-state deterministic automaton has a synchronizing word, then it has a synchronizing word of size at most (n-1)^2. Berlinkov recently made a breakthrough in the probabilistic analysi

  33. Douglas Suth Bridges

    Let A be a linear space of operators on a Hilbert space H, x a vector in H, and Ax the subspace of H comprising all vectors of the form Tx with T in A. We discuss, within a Bishop-style constructive framework, conditions under which the projection [Ax] of H on the closure of Ax exists. We derive a general result that leads directly to both the open mapping t

  34. Nuno K. Pratas, Petar Popovski

    Two of the emerging trends in wireless cellular systems are Device-to-Device (D2D) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. D2D enables efficient reuse of the licensed spectrum to support localized transmissions, while M2M connections are often characterized by fixed and low transmission rates. D2D connections can be instrumental in localized aggregation

  35. Stephan Richter, Felix Spanier

    Very fast variability on scales of minutes is regularly observed in Blazars. The assumption that these flares are emerging from the dominant emission zone of the very high energy (VHE) radiation within the jet challenges current acceleration and radiation models. In this work we use a spatially resolved and time dependent synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) model

  36. Junyan Cao

    Our main goal in this article is to prove a new extension theorem for sections of the canonical bundle of a weakly pseudoconvex Kähler manifold with values in a line bundle endowed with a possibly singular metric. We also give some applications of our result.

  37. Timo S. Hänninen

    We study the vector-valued positive dyadic operator \[T_λ(fσ):=\sum_{Q\in\mathcal{D}} λ_Q \int_Q f \mathrm{d}σ1_Q,\] where the coefficients $\{λ_Q:C\to D\}_{Q\in\mathcal{D}}$ are positive operators from a Banach lattice $C$ to a Banach lattice $D$. We assume that the Banach lattices $C$ and $D^*$ each have the Hardy--Littlewood property. An example of a Bana

  38. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

    There are certain black hole solutions in general relativity (GR) which are conformally related to the stationary solutions in GR. It is not obvious that the horizon entropy of these spacetimes is also one quarter of the area of horizon, like the stationary ones. Here I study this topic in the context of Virasoro algebra and Cardy formula. Using the fact tha

  39. David Abdurachmanov, Peter Elmer, Giulio Eulisse, Paola Grosso

    The aggregate power use of computing hardware is an important cost factor in scientific cluster and distributed computing systems. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) is a major example of such a distributed computing system, used primarily for high throughput computing (HTC) applications. It has a computing capacity and power consumption rivaling that o

  40. Tetsutaro Higaki, Fuminobu Takahashi

    We propose a landscape of many axions, where the axion potential receives various contributions from shift symmetry breaking effects. We show that the existence of the axion with a super-Planckian decay constant is very common in the axion landscape for a wide range of numbers of axions and shift symmetry breaking terms, because of the accidental alignment o

  41. P. Nieves, D. Serantes, U. Atxitia, O. Chubykalo-Fesenko

    The detailed derivation of the quantum Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch (qLLB) equation for simple spin-flip scattering mechanisms based on spin-phonon and spin-electron interactions is presented and the approximations are discussed. The qLLB equation is written in the form, suitable for comparison with its classical counterpart. The temperature dependence of the macro

  42. Matthew Hedden, Liam Watson

    This note explores two questions: (1) Which bigraded groups arise as the knot Floer homology of a knot in the three-sphere? (2) Given a knot, how many distinct knots share its Floer homology? Regarding the first, we show there exist bigraded groups satisfying all previously known constraints of knot Floer homology which do not arise as the invariant of a kno

  43. José J. Baldoví, Salvador Cardona-Serra, Juan M. Clemente-Juan, Luis Escalera-Moreno

    Quantum algorithms often assume independent spin qubits to produce trivial $|\uparrow\rangle=|0\rangle$, $|\downarrow\rangle=|1\rangle$ mappings. This can be unrealistic in many solid-state implementations with sizeable magnetic interactions. Here we show that the lower part of the spectrum of a molecule containing three exchange-coupled metal ions with $S=1

  44. Georgios Fotopoulos, Valery Serov

    This work studies the direct and inverse fixed energy scattering problem for two-dimensional Schroedinger equation with rather general nonlinear index of refraction. In particular, using the Born approximation we prove that all singularities of the unknown compactly supported potential from $L^2$-space can be obtained uniquely by the scattering data with fix

  45. Christophe Andrieu, Matti Vihola

    Exact approximations of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are a general emerging class of sampling algorithms. One of the main ideas behind exact approximations consists of replacing intractable quantities required to run standard MCMC algorithms, such as the target probability density in a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, with estimators. Perhaps sur

  46. Asier Eiguren, Idoia G. Gurtubay

    We present a new efficient numerical approach for representing anisotropic physical quantities and/or matrix elements defined on the Fermi surface of metallic materials. The method introduces a set of numerically calculated generalized orthonormal functions which are the solutions of the Helmholtz equation defined on the Fermi surface. Noteworthy, many prope

  47. Trisha Nath, R. Rajesh

    We study the $k$-NN hard core lattice gas model in which the first $k$ next nearest neighbor sites of a particle are excluded from occupation by other particles on a two dimensional square lattice. This model is the lattice version of the hard disc system with increasing $k$ corresponding to decreasing lattice spacing. While the hard disc system is known to

  48. Aleksey Fedorov, Alexander Ovseevich

    The present work is motivated by the asymptotic control theory for a system of linear oscillators: the problem is to design a common bounded scalar control for damping all oscillators in asymptotically minimal time. The motion of the system is described in terms of a canonical system similar to that of the Pontryagin maximum principle. We consider the evolut

  49. S. J. Brun, M. R. Thomsen, T. G. Pedersen

    The electronic properties of graphene may be changed from semimetallic to semiconducting by introducing perforations (antidots) in a periodic pattern. The properties of such graphene antidot lattices (GALs) have previously been studied using atomistic models, which are very time consuming for large structures. We present a continuum model that uses the Dirac

  50. Andris Ambainis, Ansis Rosmanis, Dominique Unruh

    Quantum zero-knowledge proofs and quantum proofs of knowledge are inherently difficult to analyze because their security analysis uses rewinding. Certain cases of quantum rewinding are handled by the results by Watrous (SIAM J Comput, 2009) and Unruh (Eurocrypt 2012), yet in general the problem remains elusive. We show that this is not only due to a lack of

  51. Michel Busquet

    We show in this paper that the "reply to comment" by Chantal Stehlé et al was not satisfactorily and is contradictory to their latest results. The analysis of the published results of their last campaign reveals an average shock velocity below 20 km/s which should not be compatible with the existence of a radiative precursor. Furthermore, XUV probing

  52. Masakazu Toyokawa, Kosho Minomo, Michio Kohno, Masanobu Yahiro

    We investigate the roles of chiral three-nucleon force (3NF) in nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering, using the standard framework based on the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock method for nuclear matter and the $g$-matrix folding model for the nucleon-nucleus scattering. In nuclear matter, chiral 3NF at NNLO level (mainly the 2$π$-exchange diagram) makes the single part

  53. F. Tavecchio, G. Ghisellini

    We discuss the $γ$-ray emission of the radiogalaxy NGC 1275 (the central galaxy of the Perseus Cluster), detected by Fermi-LAT and MAGIC, in the framework of the "spine-layer" scenario, in which the jet is assumed to be characterized by a velocity structure, with a fast spine surrounded by a slower layer. The existence of such a structure in the pars

  54. Nahomi Kan, Koichiro Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Shiraishi

    We examine a model of BPS black holes lying on a discrete extra space. The geometry is obtained from the discretization of the harmonic equation. We study the scattering amplitudes of two types of scalar fields, which correspond to fields in a bulk and on a brane. We conclude that the two types of scattering can be distinguished in the region of large transf

  55. Joydeep Banerjee, Arun Das, Arunabha Sen

    Efficient communication between nodes in ad-hoc networks can be established through repeated cluster formations with designated \textit{cluster-heads}. In this context minimum d-hop dominating set problem was introduced for cluster formation in ad-hoc networks and is proved to be NP-complete. Hence, an exact solution to this problem for certain subclass of g

  56. Joydeep Bagchi, Vivek M., Vinu Vikram, Ananda Hota

    Radio galaxy phenomenon is directly connected to mass accreting, spinning supermassive black holes found in the active galactic nuclei (AGN). It is still unclear how the collimated jets of relativistic plasma on hundreds to thousands of kpc scale form, and why nearly always they are launched from the nuclei of bulge dominated elliptical galaxies and not flat

  57. Marek Żukowski, Arijit Dutta

    For systems of an arbitrary dimension, a theory of geometric chained Bell inequalities is presented. The approach is based on chained inequalities derived by Pykacz and Santos. For maximally entangled states the inequalities lead to a complete $0=1$ contradiction with quantum predictions. Local realism suggests that the probability for the two observes to ha

  58. Nicolas Ricka

    The aim of this paper is to study sub-algebras of the $\mathbb{Z}/2$-equivariant Steenrod algebra (for cohomology with coefficients in the constant Mackey functor $\mathbb{F}_2$) which come from quotient Hopf algebroids of the $\mathbb{Z}/2$-equivariant dual Steenrod algebra. In particular, we study the equivariant counterpart of profile functions, exhibit t

  59. Teppei Katori

    Series of short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments provided unexpected results, and now they are called short baseline anomalies, and all indicates an existence of sterile neutrinos with a mass scale around 1~eV. The signals of short baseline anomalies are reported from 4 different classes of experiments. However, at this moment, there is no convincin

  60. STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev

    We report measurements of single- and double- spin asymmetries for $W^{\pm}$ and $Z/γ^*$ boson production in longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 510$ GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The asymmetries for $W^{\pm}$ were measured as a function of the decay lepton pseudorapidity, which provides a theoretically clean probe of the proton&#3

  61. Songlin Hu, Wantao Liu, Tilmann Rabl, Shuo Huang

    Hive is the most mature and prevalent data warehouse tool providing SQL-like interface in the Hadoop ecosystem. It is successfully used in many Internet companies and shows its value for big data processing in traditional industries. However, enterprise big data processing systems as in Smart Grid applications usually require complicated business logics and

  62. Sanchari De, Somenath Chakrabarty

    In this article we have studied the structure of hypothetical two-dimensional polytropic stars. Considering some academic interest, we have developed a formalism to investigate some of the gross properties of such stellar objects. However, we strongly believe that the formalism developed here may be prescribed as class problem for post-graduate level student

  63. Yuki Nagai

    We study the quasiparticle excitations around a single vortex in the superconducting topological insulator Cu$_{x}$Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$, focusing on a superconducting state with point nodes. Inspired by the recent Knight shift measurements, we propose two ways to detect the positions of point nodes, using an explicit formula of the density of states with Kramer-

  64. Peter Straka, Sergei Fedotov

    We show how the nonlinear interaction effects `volume filling' and `adhesion' can be incorporated into the fractional subdiffusive transport of cells and individual organisms. To this end, we use microscopic random walk models with anomalous trapping and systematically derive generic non-Markovian and nonlinear governing equations for the mean concen

  65. Qi-Fang Lü, Jue-Jun Xie, De-Min Li

    Nucleon pole contribution in the $pp\to ppK^+K^-$ reaction below the threshold of the production of the $ϕ$ meson is studied within the effective Lagrangian approach. It is assumed that the $K^- p$ final state originates from the decay of the hyperons $Λ(1115)$ and $Λ(1405)$. In addition to the $pp$ final state interaction (FSI) parametrized using the Jost f

  66. Jianya Liu, Jie Wu

    Let $π$ be an irreducible unitary cuspidal representation for $GL_m({\Bbb A}_{\Bbb Q})$, and let $L(s, π)$ be the automorphic $L$-function attached to $π$, which has a Dirichlet series expression in the half-plane $\mbox{Re} s>1$. When $π$ is self-contragredient, all the coefficients in the Dirichlet series expression are real. In this paper we give non-triv

  67. Wang Liang, Zhao KaiYong

    Unsupervised word segmentation methods were applied to analyze the protein sequence. Protein sequences, such as 'MTMDKSELVQKA...', were used as input to these methods. Segmented 'protein word' sequences, such as 'MTM DKSE LVQKA', were then obtained. We compare the 'protein words' produced by unsupervised segmentation and the p

  68. Saikat Sarkar, Debasish Roy

    A global optimization framework, acronymed COMBEO (Change OfMeasure Based Evolutionary Optimization), is proposed. An important aspect in the development is a set of derivative-free additive directional terms obtainable through a change of measures en route to the imposition of any stipulated conditions aimed at driving the realized design variables (particl

  69. Z. Q. Liu, W. Lu, S. W. Zeng, J. W. Deng

    We report very large bandgap enhancement in SrTiO3 (STO) films (fabricated by pulsed laser deposition below 800 °C), which can be up to 20% greater than the bulk value, depending on the deposition temperature. The origin is comprehensively investigated and finally attributed to Sr/Ti antisite point defects, supported by density functional theory calculations

  70. Yan-Qing Ma, Jian-Wei Qiu

    Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative quantities describing the relation between a hadron and quarks and gluons within it. We propose to extract PDFs from QCD global analysis of "data" generated by lattice QCD calculations of good "lattice cross sections", which are basically single-hadron matrix elements that are lattice Q

  71. Sohini Sarkar, Abhigyan Sengupta, Partha Hazra, Pankaj Mandal

    Recent literatures reported blue-green emission from amyloid fibril as exclusive signature of fibril formation. This unusual visible luminescence is regularly used to monitor fibril growth. Blue-green emission has also been observed in crystalline protein and in solution. However, the origin of this emission is not known exactly. Our spectroscopic study of s

  72. Babak Salimi, Leopoldo Bertossi

    In this work we establish and investigate the connections between causality for query answers in databases, database repairs wrt. denial constraints, and consistency-based diagnosis. The first two are relatively new problems in databases, and the third one is an established subject in knowledge representation. We show how to obtain database repairs from caus

  73. F. E. Brochero Martínez, C. R. Giraldo Vergara

    In this article, we show explicitly all possible weight enumerators for every irreducible cyclic code of length $n$ over a finite field $\mathbb F_q$, in the case which each prime divisor of $n$ is also a divisor of $q-1$.

  74. Thomas Schaefer

    We compute second order transport coefficients of the dilute Fermi gas at unitarity. The calculation is based on kinetic theory and the Boltzmann equation at second order in the Knudsen expansion. The second order transport coefficients describe the shear stress relaxation time, non-linear terms in the strain-stress relation, and non-linear couplings between

  75. Guglielmo D'Amico, Filippo Petroni, Flavio Prattico

    In this paper we use risk management techniques to evaluate the potential effects of those operational risks that affect the energy production of a wind farm. We concentrate our attention on three major risk factors: wind speed uncertainty, wind turbine reliability and interactions of wind turbines due mainly to their placement. As a first contribution, we s

  76. Atilim Gunes Baydin, Barak A. Pearlmutter

    Automatic differentiation---the mechanical transformation of numeric computer programs to calculate derivatives efficiently and accurately---dates to the origin of the computer age. Reverse mode automatic differentiation both antedates and generalizes the method of backwards propagation of errors used in machine learning. Despite this, practitioners in a var

  77. Stefano Olgiati, Gilberto Bronzini, Alessandro Danovi

    The European Credit Research Institute Research Report 2013 identifies Households debt "rapid increase and abrupt retrenchment" among the causes of macroeconomic instability in the European Union after 2008. In our research: i) we accessed the Bank of Italy Online Statistical Database on Customers and Risk for Producer Households and Non-Financial Co

  78. I. M. Suslov

    Existence of the upper critical dimension d_{c2}=4 for the Anderson transition is a rigorous consequence of the Bogoliubov theorem on renormalizability of ϕ^4 theory. For dimensions d\ge 4, one-parameter scaling does not hold, and all existent numerical data should be reinterpreted. These data are exhausted by results for d=4,5 from scaling in quasi-one-dime

  79. Kostaq Hila, Jani Dine

    The aim of this note is to point out some inaccuracies in our paper \cite{HD} and to fix them. Some new notions are introduced and properties of them are investigated.

  80. N. H. Nam

    Model of active and collaborative learning applied in training specific subject makes clear advantage due to the goals of knowledge, enhanced activeness, skills that students got to develop successful future job. Studying and applying the model to build a learning environment in the Introductory Physics course with the support of ICT, especially social netwo

  81. Shambhu Nath Jha, Christophe Craeye

    A fast spectral-domain method is proposed to evaluate the reaction terms between the Macro Basis Functions in regular and non-regular arrays made of identical printed antennas. The presented technique first exploits the filtering capabilities of the Macro Basis Functions in the spectral domain. The method is then strongly accelerated with the help of a newly

  82. E. Mukhin, V. Tarasov

    We give lower bounds for the numbers of real solutions in problems appearing in Schubert calculus in the Grassmannian Gr(n,d) related to osculating flags. It is known that such solutions are related to Bethe vectors in the Gaudin model associated to gl(n). The Gaudin Hamiltonians are selfadjoint with respect to a nondegenerate indefinite Hermitian form. Our

  83. Jared Weinstein

    Let $p$ be a prime number. In this article we present a theorem, suggested by Peter Scholze, which states that the absolute Galois group of $\mathbf{Q}_p$ is the étale fundamental group of a certain object $Z$ which is defined over an algebraically closed field. Thus, local Galois representations correspond to local systems on $Z$. In brief, $Z$ is a (non-re

  84. Alan P. Boss, Sandra A. Keiser

    A key test of the supernova triggering and injection hypothesis for the origin of the solar system's short-lived radioisotopes is to reproduce the inferred initial abundances of these isotopes. We present here the most detailed models to date of the shock wave triggering and injection process, where shock waves with varied properties strike fully three d

  85. Abbas Mehrabian, Nick Wormald

    We prove logarithmic upper bounds for the diameters of the random-surfer Webgraph model and the PageRank-based selection Webgraph model, confirming the small world phenomenon holds for them. In the special case when the generated graph is a tree, we provide close lower and upper bounds for the diameters of both models.

  86. Kurt Langfeld, Biagio Lucini

    We develop a first-principle generalised density of state method for studying numerically quantum field theories with a complex action. As a proof of concept, we show that with our approach we can solve numerically the strong sign problem of the $Z_3$ spin model at finite density. Our results are confirmed by standard simulations of the theory dual to the co

  87. Oswin Aichholzer, Sang Won Bae, Luis Barba, Prosenjit Bose

    In this paper, we show that the $θ$-graph with three cones is connected. We also provide an alternative proof of the connectivity of the Yao graph with three cones.

  88. E. Aliu, S. Archambault, T. Aune, B. Behera

    We report on deep observations of the extended TeV gamma-ray source MGRO J1908+06 made with the VERITAS very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory. Previously, the TeV emission has been attributed to the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of the Fermi-LAT pulsar PSR J1907+0602. We detect MGRO J1908+06 at a significance level of 14 standard deviations (14 sigma) and

  89. Qin Xu, Sayantan Majumdar, Eric Brown, Heinrich M. Jaeger

    We experimentally investigate shear thickening in dense granular suspensions under oscillatory shear. Directly imaging the suspension-air interface, we observe dilation beyond a critical strain $γ_c$ and the end of shear thickening as the maximum confining stress is reached and the contact line moves. Analyzing the shear profile, we extract the viscosity con

  90. A. Hosseinizadeh, P. Schwander, A. Dashti, R. Fung

    The advent of the X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) has made it possible to record diffraction snapshots of biological entities injected into the X-ray beam before the onset of radiation damage. Algorithmic means must then be used to determine the snapshot orientations and thence the three-dimensional structure of the object. Existing Bayesian approaches are

  91. William P. Blair, Rupali Chandar, Michael A. Dopita, Parviz Ghavamian

    We present an optical/NIR imaging survey of the face-on spiral galaxy M83, using data from the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Seven fields are used to cover a large fraction of the inner disk, with observations in nine broadband and narrowband filters. In conjunction with a deep Chandra survey and other new radio and optical ground-based

  92. José D. V. Arbañil, José P. S. Lemos, Vilson T. Zanchin

    We investigate the properties of relativistic star spheres made of an electrically charged incompressible fluid, generalizing, thus, the Schwarzschild interior solution. The investigation is carried by integrating numerically the hydrostatic equilibrium equation, i.e., the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation, with the hypothesis that the charge distrib

  93. P. Schwander, R. Fung, A. Ourmazd

    We describe a new generation of algorithms capable of mapping the structure and conformations of macromolecules and their complexes from large ensembles of heterogeneous snapshots, and demonstrate the feasibility of determining both discrete and continuous macromolecular conformational spectra. These algorithms naturally incorporate conformational heterogene

  94. Peng Ding, Tyler J. VanderWeele

    A central question in causal inference with observational studies is the sensitivity of conclusions to unmeasured confounding. The classical Cornfield condition allows us to assess whether an unmeasured binary confounder can explain away the observed relative risk of the exposure on the outcome. It states that for an unmeasured confounder to explain away an

  95. Daniel G. Schwartz

    A {\it dynamic reasoning system} (DRS) is an adaptation of a conventional formal logical system that explicitly portrays reasoning as a temporal activity, with each extralogical input to the system and each inference rule application being viewed as occurring at a distinct time step. Every DRS incorporates some well-defined logic together with a controller t

  96. Yue Zhang

    A light hidden gauge boson with kinetic mixing with the usual photon is a popular setup in theories of dark matter. The supernova cooling via radiating the hidden boson is known to put an important constraint on the mixing. I consider the possible role dark matter, which under reasonable assumptions naturally exists inside supernova, can play in the cooling

  97. Sicun Gao, Soonho Kong, Wei Chen, Edmund Clarke

    We present the framework of delta-complete analysis for bounded reachability problems of general hybrid systems. We perform bounded reachability checking through solving delta-decision problems over the reals. The techniques take into account of robustness properties of the systems under numerical perturbations. We prove that the verification problems become

  98. Pasquale Tricarico, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Mark V. Sykes, Jian-Yang Li

    Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will have a close encounter with Mars on October 19, 2014. We model the dynamical evolution of dust grains from the time of their ejection from the comet nucleus to the Mars close encounter, and determine the flux at Mars. Constraints on the ejection velocity from Hubble Space Telescope observations indicate that the bulk of t

  99. M. Prażmowska, K. Prażmowski

    We propose a generalization of the classical point-line Cremona-Richmond configuration to a configuration of points and more dimensional subspaces of a projective space, and present them as geometric realizations of some interesting abstract incidence structures.

  100. Adrian E. Rubio Lopez, Fernando C. Lombardo

    The closed time path formalism is applied, in the framework of open quantum systems, to study the time evolution of the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor of a scalar field in the presence of real materials. We analyze quantum fluctuations in a fully non-equilibrium scenario, when the scalar field is interacting with the polarization degrees of