August 2014 arXiv papers — page 11

Toen Castle, Yigil Cho, Xingting Gong, Euiyeon Jung

In this paper we explore and develop a simple set of rules that apply to cutting, pasting, and folding honeycomb lattices. We consider origami-like structures that are extinsically flat away from zero-dimensional sources of Gaussian curvature and one-dimensional sources of mean curvature, and our cutting and pasting rules maintain the intrinsic bond lengths

Jishnu Bhattacharyya, David Mattingly

Universal horizons in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity and Einstein-æther theory are the equivalent of causal horizons in general relativity and appear to have many of the same properties, including a first law of horizon thermodynamics and thermal radiation. Since universal horizons are infrared solutions of a putative power counting renormalizable quantum gravitati

Uffe Haagerup, Magdalena Musat

We establish a reformulation of the Connes embedding problem in terms of an asymptotic property of factorizable completely positive maps. We also prove that the Holevo-Werner channels W_n^- are factorizable, for all odd integers n different from 3. Furthermore, we investigate factorizability of convex combinations of W_3^+ and W_3^-, a family of channels stu

Mohammad Janfada, Bahram Dastourian

K-frames were introduced by L. Gavruta to study atomic systems on Hilbert spaces. Recently some generalizations of this concept are introduced and some of its difference with ordinary frames are studied. In this paper *-K-frames are introduced and some properties of this generalization of K-frames are studied. After proving some characterizations of *-K-fram

Donghyun Kim

We consider the initial value problem for a system of cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equations with different masses in one space dimension. Under a suitable structural condition on the nonlinearity, we will show that the small amplitude solution exists globally and decays of the rate $O(t^{-1/2}(\log t)^{-1/2})$ in $L^\infty$ as $t$ tends to infinity, if the s

D. Ricci, P. -G. Sprimont, C. Ayala, F. G. Ramón-Fox

We suggest a new web-based approach for browsing and visualizing data produced by a network of telescopes, such as those of the ongoing TAOS and the forthcoming TAOS II projects. We propose a modern client-side technology and we present two examples based on two software packages developed for different kinds of server- side database approaches. In spite our

Tobias Gulden, Michael Janas, Alex Kamenev

Instanton calculations in semiclassical quantum mechanics rely on integration along trajectories which solve classical equations of motion. However in systems with higher dimensionality or complexified phase space these are rarely attainable. A prime example are spin-coherent states which are used e.g. to describe single molecule magnets (SMM). We use this e

A. Camjayi, R. Weht, M. J. Rozenberg

We study the electronic properties of GaV4S8 (GVS) and GaTaSe8 (GTS), two distant members within the large family of chalcogenides AM4X8, with A={Ga, Ge}, M={V, Nb, Ta, Mo} and X={S, Se}. While all these compounds are Mott insulators, their ground state show many types of magnetic order, with GVS being ferromagnetic and GTS non-magnetic. Based on their bands

Claude Daviau, Jacques Bertrand

A wave equation with mass term is studied for all particles and antiparticles of the first generation: electron and its neutrino, positron and antineutrino, quarks $u$ and $d$ with three states of color and antiquarks $\overline{u}$ and $\overline{d}$. This wave equation is form invariant under the $Cl_3^*$ group generalizing the relativistic invariance. It

Huyen Pham

This survey reviews portfolio selection problem for long-term horizon. We consider two objectives: (i) maximize the probability for outperforming a target growth rate of wealth process (ii) minimize the probability of falling below a target growth rate. We study the asymptotic behavior of these criteria formulated as large deviations control pro\-blems, that

Christoph Waldhauser

The political requires a forum for its deliberation and Habermas has located it in the public spheres. Originally, mass media's role was one of a facilitator of these debates. However, under the immense pressures of free market competition and mobile audiences, mass media prefers episodic over thematic news. On the opposite end of the spectrum, social me

A. H. Lumpkin, J. Ruan, J. M. Byrd, R. B. Wilcox

Investigations of the laser-induced microbunching as it is related to time-sliced electron-beam diagnostics and high-gain-harmonic generation (HGHG) free-electron lasers using bright electron beams are proposed for the ASTA facility. Initial tests at 40-50 MeV with an amplified 800-nm seed laser beam co-propagating with the electron beam through a short undu

P. Abolmasov

If accretion disc contains weak frozen-in entangled magnetic fields, their dynamical effect may be important inside the last stable orbit because of the decompression near the sonic point. Here, I consider the radial and vertical structure of a nearly free-falling flow inside the last stable orbit of a thin disc around a Kerr black hole. The thickness of suc

Yuri Shtemler, Michael Mond, Edward Liverts

The equations that govern the weakly nonlinear near-resonant interaction of a parent magnetorotational instability with two linearly stable daughter modes in thin nonuniform magnetized Keplerian discs are derived. While the equations for the daughter modes resemble their first order classical uniform counterparts, the parent mode is governed by a second orde

Didier Chételat, Martin T. Wells

The problem of estimating a spiked covariance matrix in high dimensions under Frobenius loss, and the parallel problem of estimating the noise in spiked PCA is investigated. We propose an estimator of the noise parameter by minimizing an unbiased estimator of the invariant Frobenius risk using calculus of variations. The resulting estimator is shown, using r

Rajat Karnatak, Gerrit Ansmann, Ulrike Feudel, Klaus Lehnertz

Systems of FitzHugh-Nagumo units with different coupling topologies are capable of self-generating and -terminating strong deviations from their regular dynamics that can be regarded as extreme events due to their rareness and recurrent occurrence. Here we demonstrate the crucial role of an interior crisis in the emergence of extreme events. In parameter spa

Rakshit Allamaraju, Ben Reish, Allan Axelrod

An inaccessible control architecture caused an undesirable influence on a UAV. The encountered noise in the performance was modeled using stochastic methods and a corrective term was implemented on an external controller. Our findings suggest that the sonar noise problem is unconventional may warrant the development of a new methodology.

C. Rubbia

The ICARUS Collaboration has operated successfully the Liquid Argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC), a novel and continuously sensitive bubble chamber like neutrino detector in the GranSasso Laboratory and an underground neutrino beam coming from the CERN-SPS. ICARUS may now be moved at the 8 GeV FNAL-Booster for a search of LSND-like neutrino-electron ano

A. P. Serebrov, E. A. Kolomenskiy, A. N. Pirozhkov, I. A. Krasnoshekova

The article presents results on neutron electric dipole moment measurements (EDM), made by ILL reactor using PNPI experimental installation. Double chamber magnetic resonance spectrometer with prolonged holding of ultra cold neutrons has been employed. The obtained results at 90% confidence level determine the upper limit for EDM neutron quantity equal to $|

N. Simos, J. O. Conor, P. Hurh, N. Mokhov

One of the future multi-MW accelerators is the LBNE Experiment where Fermilab aims to produce a beam of neutrinos with a 2.3 MW proton beam as part of a suite of experiments associated with Project X. Specifically, the LBNE Neutrino Beam Facility aims for a 2+ MW, 60 -120 GeV pulsed, high intensity proton beam produced in the Project X accelerator intercepte

Iurii Sushch, Markus Böttcher

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a very high energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) γ-ray emitting binary consisting of a 48 ms pulsar orbiting around a Be star with a period of $\sim3.4$ years. The Be star features a circumstellar disk which is inclined with respect to the orbit in such a way that the pulsar crosses it twice every orbit. The circumstellar disk provides an addi

James D. E. Grant, Nathalie Tassotti

We show that the positive mass theorem holds for continuous Riemannian metrics that lie in the Sobolev space $W^{2, n/2}_{loc}$ for manifolds of dimension less than or equal to $7$ or spin-manifolds of any dimension. More generally, we give a (negative) lower bound on the ADM mass of metrics for which the scalar curvature fails to be non-negative, where the

S. J. Dilworth, Denka Kutzarova, N. Lovasoa Randrianarivony

We provide a Laakso construction to prove that the property of having an equivalent norm with the property $(β)$ of Rolewicz is qualitatively preserved via surjective uniform quotient mappings between separable Banach spaces. On the other hand, we show that the $(β)$-modulus is not quantitatively preserved via such a map by exhibiting two uniformly homeomorp

Árpad Baricz, Erhan Deniz, Nihat Yagmur

In this paper necessary and sufficient conditions are deduced for the close-to-convexity of some special combinations of Bessel functions of the first kind and their derivatives by using a result of Shah and Trimble about transcendental entire functions with univalent derivatives and some newly discovered Mittag-Leffler expansions for Bessel functions of the

Hoi Chun Po, Qi Zhou

Bosons have a natural instinct to condense at zero temperature. It is a long-standing challenge to create a high-dimensional quantum liquid that does not exhibit long-range order at the ground state, as either extreme experimental parameters or sophisticated designs of microscopic Hamiltonian are required for suppressing the condensation. Here, we show that

Ge Wang, Hengyong Yu, Scott S. Verbridge, Lizhi Sun

Chen et al. (1) applied three-dimensional (3D) Fourier filtering together with equal-slope tomographic reconstruction for an observation of nearly all the atoms in a multiply twinned platinum nanoparticle. However, their methodology suffers from fundamental methodological flaws, as initially brought up by a recent Communications Arising (2) and now analyzed

Wei Zheng, Hui Zhai

In this letter, to reveal the effect of quasi-particle interactions in a Bose-Fermi superfluid mixture, we consider the lifetime of quasi-particle of Bose superfluid due to its interaction with quasi-particles in Fermi superfluid. We find that this damping rate, i.e. inverse of the lifetime, has quite different threshold behavior at the BCS and the BEC side

S. Shahab Naghavi, Erio Tosatti

Alkali doped aromatic compounds have shown evidence of metallic and superconducting phases whose precise nature is still mysterious. In potassium and rubidium doped phenanthrene, superconducting temperatures around 5 K have been detected, but such basic elements as the stoichiometry, crystal structure, and electronic bands are still speculative. We seek to p

L. S. Pilyugin, E. K. Grebel, I. A. Zinchenko, A. Y. Kniazev

The relations between oxygen abundance and disk surface brightness (OH-SB relation) in the infrared W1 band are examined for a nearby late-type galaxies. The oxygen abundances were presented in Paper I. The photometric characteristics of the disks are inferred here using photometric maps from the literature through bulge-disk decomposition. We find evidence

Lukas Pottmeyer

In this note we investigate the behaviour of the absolute logarithmic Weil-height h on extensions of the field $\mathbb{Q}^{tr}$ of totally real numbers. It is known that there is a gap between zero and the next smallest value of h on $\mathbb{Q}^{tr}$, whereas in $\mathbb{Q}^{tr}(i)$ there are elements of arbitrarily small positive height. We prove that all

Timur Sh. Iskhakov, Vladyslav C. Usenko, Radim Filip, Maria V. Chekhova

Applying a multiphoton-subtraction technique to two-color macroscopic squeezed vacuum state of light generated via high-gain parametric down conversion we conditionally prepare a new state of light: bright multi-mode low-noise twin beams. The obtained results demonstrate up to 8-fold suppression of noise in each beam while preserving and even moderately impr

Maria Fuwa, Shunsuke Toba, Shuntaro Takeda, Petr Marek

We experimentally demonstrate the noiseless teleportation of a single photon by conditioning on quadrature Bell measurement results near the origin in phase space and thereby circumventing the photon loss that otherwise occurs even in optimal gain-tuned continuous-variable quantum teleportation. In general, thanks to this loss suppression, the noiseless cond

Richard Ehrenborg, N. Bradley Fox

We evaluate the hyperpfaffian of a skew-symmetric $k$-ary polynomial $f$ of degree $k/2 \cdot (n-1)$. The result is a product of the Vandermonde product and a certain expression involving the coefficients of the polynomial $f$. The proof utilizes a sign reversing involution on a set of weighted, oriented partitions. When restricting to the classical case whe

E. R. Bezerra de Mello, A. A. Saharian

In this paper we investigate the vacuum densities for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling in background of a (2+1)-dimensional spacetime corresponding to a cylindrical tube with a hemispherical cap. A complete set of mode functions is constructed and the positive-frequency Wightman function is evaluated for both the cylindrical and hemisph

Yunkun Han, Zhanwen Han

We present a newly developed version of BayeSED, a general Bayesian approach to the spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting of galaxies. The new BayeSED code has been systematically tested on a mock sample of galaxies. The comparison between estimated and inputted value of the parameters show that BayeSED can recover the physical parameters of galaxies re

P. Mishra, H. Lohani, R. A. Zargar, V. P. S. Awana

Our valence band photoelectron spectroscopic studies show a temperature dependent spectral weight transfer near the Fermi level in the Fe-based superconductor FeSe1-xTex. Using theoretical band structure calculations we have shown that the weight transfer is due to the temperature induced changes in the Fe(Se,Te)4 tetrahedra. These structural changes lead to

Thomas Kalmes

We give a simple characterization of chaos for weighted composition $C_0$-semigroups on $L^p_ρ(Ω)$ for an open interval $Ω\subseteq\mathbb{R}$. Moreover, we characterize chaos for these classes of $C_0$-semigroups on the closed subspace $W^{1,p}_*(Ω)$ of the Sobolev space $W^{1,p}(Ω)$ for a bounded interval $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}$. These characterizations simpl

Hiroyuki Shima

This work focuses on a theoretical analysis of a well-known inertia demonstration, which uses a weight suspended by a string with an extra string that hangs below the weight. The point in question is which string, the upper or lower, will break when pulling down on the bottom edge of the lower string at a constant pulling speed. An analytic solution for the

Ujjal Chowdhury, Sudipta Goswami, Dipten Bhattacharya, Jiten Ghosh

From the measurement of dielectric, ferroelectric, and magnetic properties we observe simultaneous ferroelectric and magnetic transitions around $\sim$600 K in orthorhombic LuFeO$_3$. We also observe suppression of the remanent polarization by $\sim$95\% under a magnetic field of $\sim$15 kOe at room temperature. The extent of suppression of the polarization

Shibaji Banerjee

The present work is connected with the investigation of the origin and properties of compact astrophysical objects endowed with strangeness, with the objective of finding out their relevance in the formation and evolution of the universe. In the first part of the thesis, Chap.~1-3, we discuss a model, proposed by us, to describe the propagation of small lump

Ergin Bayram, Emin Kasap

In the present paper, we handle the problem of finding a hypersurface family from a given asymptotic curve in R^4. Using the Frenet frame of the given asymptotic curve, we express the hypersurface as a linear combination of this frame and analyze the necessary and sufficient conditions for that curve to be asymptotic. We illustrate this method by presenting

Stefan Floerchinger, Urs Achim Wiedemann, Andrea Beraudo, Luca Del Zanna

Initial fluctuations in hydrodynamic fields such as energy density or flow velocity give access to understanding initial state and equilibration physics as well as thermodynamic and transport properties. We provide evidence that the fluid dynamic propagation of fluctuations of realistic size can be based on a background-fluctuation splitting and a systematic

Changlin Xiang

A relatively complete picture on the steady states of the following Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger-Poisson-Slater (SPS) system \[ \begin{cases} -ΔQ+Q=VQ-C_{S}Q^{2}, & Q>0\text{ in }\mathbb{R}^{3}\\ Q(x)\to0, & \mbox{as }x\to\infty,\\ -ΔV=Q^{2}, & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{3}\\ V(x)\to0 & \mbox{as }x\to\infty. \end{cases} \] is given in this paper: existence, uniqueness, r

Peter A. Morris, Reuben S. Aspden, Jessica Bell, Robert W. Boyd

Low-light-level imaging techniques have application in many diverse fields, ranging from biological sciences to security. We demonstrate a single-photon imaging system based on a time-gated inten- sified CCD (ICCD) camera in which the image of an object can be inferred from very few detected photons. We show that a ghost-imaging configuration, where the imag

Meier Florian, Peter Ueli

We consider the classical push broadcast process on a large class of sparse random multigraphs that includes random power law graphs and multigraphs. Our analysis shows that for every $\varepsilon>0$, whp $O(\log n)$ rounds are sufficient to inform all but an $\varepsilon$-fraction of the vertices. It is not hard to see that, e.g. for random power law graphs

Tim Langen, Remi Geiger, Jörg Schmiedmayer

The relaxation of isolated quantum many-body systems is a major unsolved problem connecting statistical and quantum physics. Studying such relaxation processes remains a challenge despite considerable efforts. Experimentally, it requires the creation and manipulation of well-controlled and truly isolated quantum systems. In this context, ultracold neutral at

V. M. Khatsymovsky

We consider Faddeev formulation of general relativity in which the metric is composed of ten vector fields or a $4 \times 10$ tetrad. This formulation reduces to the usual general relativity upon partial use of the field equations. A distinctive feature of the Faddeev action is its finiteness on the discontinuous fields. This allows to introduce its minisupe

Takashi Kaneko, Barbara Sciascia

The actual limit of the unitarity condition of the first row of the CKM matrix |V_ud|^2+|V_us|^2+|V_ub|^2=1+Δ_CKM is Δ_CKM=-0.0001(6). In 2010 the same was Δ_CKM=+0.0001(6). Despite the only difference of a sign, and with an absolute change of the value of one third of the accuracy, a substantial amount of work has been done in the last two years to improve

T. Hahn

The parallel version of the multidimensional numerical integration package Cuba is presented and achievable speed-ups discussed.

Dmitrii A. Serkov

The paper deals with the problem of optimization of a guaranteed (worst case) result for a control system described by an ordinary differential equation. The disturbances as functions of time are subject to functional constraints belonging to a given family of constraints. The latter family is known to the side that forms the control actions. The controlling

Duncan J. Mowbray

A thorough understanding of the electronic structure is a necessary first step for the design of nanoelectronics, chemical/bio-sensors, electrocatalysts, and nanoplasmonics using graphene. As such, theoretical spectroscopic techniques to describe collective excitations of graphene are of fundamental importance. Starting from density functional theory (DFT),

Luca Sanguinetti, Emil Bjornson, Merouane Debbah, Aris Moustakas

We consider the downlink of a single-cell multi-user MIMO system in which the base station makes use of $N$ antennas to communicate with $K$ single-antenna user equipments (UEs) randomly positioned in the coverage area. In particular, we focus on the problem of designing the optimal linear precoding for minimizing the total power consumption while satisfying

Willem Conradie, Andrew Craig

We investigate the canonicity of inequalities of the intuitionistic mu-calculus. The notion of canonicity in the presence of fixed point operators is not entirely straightforward. In the algebraic setting of canonical extensions we examine both the usual notion of canonicity and what we will call tame canonicity. This latter concept has previously been inves

Ryoichi Nishio, Taizan Watari

Traditional idea of Pomeron/Reggeon description for hadron scattering is now being given theoretical foundation in gravity dual descriptions, where Pomeron corresponds to exchange of spin-$j \in 2\mathbb{Z}$ states in the graviton trajectory. Deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) is essentially a 2 to 2 scattering process of a hadron and a photon, and hen

Yanyan Yu, Weihua Deng, Yujiang Wu

The continuous time random walk (CTRW) underlies many fundamental processes in non-equilibrium statistical physics. When the jump length of CTRW obeys a power-law distribution, its corresponding Fokker-Planck equation has space fractional derivative, which characterizes Lévy flights. Sometimes the infinite variance of Lévy flight discourages it as a physical

Mattia Bongini, Massimo Fornasier, Oliver Junge, Benjamin Scharf

For high dimensional particle systems, governed by smooth nonlinearities depending on mutual distances between particles, one can construct low-dimensional representations of the dynamical system, which allow the learning of nearly optimal control strategies in high dimension with overwhelming confidence. In this paper we present an instance of this general

Shimpei Yamamoto

Several scenarios beyond the Standard Model predict heavy long-lived particles as a result of a kinematic constraint, a conserved quantum number or a weak coupling. Such particles are possibly identified based on the detection through abnormal energy losses, appearing or disappearing tracks, displaced vertices, lepton-jet signatures, long time-of-flight or l

Tomasz Adamowicz, Przemysław Górka

We study solutions and supersolutions of homogeneous and nonhomogeneous $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic equations with nonstandard growth in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Various Liouville-type theorems and nonexistence results are proved. The discussion is illustrated by a number of examples.

Barbara Drossel

In textbooks on statistical mechanics, one finds often arguments based on classical mechanics, phase space and ergodicity in order to justify the second law of thermodynamics. However, the basic equations of motion of classical mechanics are deterministic and reversible, while the second law of thermodynamics is irreversible and not deterministic, because it

Peter Massopust

Within the new concept of a local iterated function system (local IFS), we consider a class of attractors of such IFSs, namely those that are graphs of functions. These new functions are called local fractal functions and they extend and generalize those that are currently found in the fractal literature. For a class of local fractal functions, we derive exp

Youichi Yanase, Shuhei Takamatsu, Masafumi Udagawa

We study the spin-orbit coupling in spin-triplet Cooper pairs and clarify multiple superconducting (SC) phases in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. Based on the analysis of the three-orbital Hubbard model with atomic LS coupling, we show some selection rules of the spin-orbit coupling in Cooper pairs. The spin-orbit coupling is small when the two-dimensional $γ$-band is the ma

Tali Kaufman, David Kazhdan, Alexander Lubotzky

Expander graphs have been a focus of attention in computer science in the last four decades. In recent years a high dimensional theory of expanders is emerging. There are several possible generalizations of the theory of expansion to simplicial complexes, among them stand out coboundary expansion and topological expanders. It is known that for every d there

Javier Insa-Cabrera, José Hernández-Orallo

Social intelligence in natural and artificial systems is usually measured by the evaluation of associated traits or tasks that are deemed to represent some facets of social behaviour. The amalgamation of these traits is then used to configure the intuitive notion of social intelligence. Instead, in this paper we start from a parametrised definition of social

Béla Bollobás, Alex Scott

Given two weighted k-uniform hypergraphs G, H of order n, how much (or little) can we make them overlap by placing them on the same vertex set? If we place them at random, how concentrated is the distribution of the intersection? The aim of this paper is to investigate these questions.

Aleem Akhtar, Aamir Shafi, Mohsan Jameel

MPJ Express is a messaging system that allows computational scientists to write and execute parallel Java applications on High Performance Computing (HPC) hardware. Despite its successful adoption in the Java HPC community, the MPJ Express software currently does not provide any support for debugging and profiling parallel applications and hence forces its u

Joanna Baranska, Yuri Kozitsky

The evolution is described of an infinite system of hopping point particles in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The states of the system are probability measures on the space of configurations of particles. Under the condition that the initial state $μ_0$ has correlation functions of all orders which are: (a) $k_{μ_0}^{(n)} \in L^\infty ((\mathbb{R}^d)^n)$ (essentially bound

Anna Pastuszczak, Marcin Stolarek, Rafal Kotynski

Layered metal-dielectric metamaterials have filtering properties both in the frequency domain and in the spatial frequency domain. Engineering their spatial filtering response is a way of designing structures with specific diffraction properties for such applications as sub-diffraction imaging, supercollimation, or optical signal processing at the nanoscale.

Belle Collaboration, S. Sato, Y. Yusa, G. B. Mohanty

We report a search for charmless hadronic decays of neutral $B$ mesons to $η' K^{*}(892)^{0}$. The results are based on a 711fb$^{-1}$ data sample that contains $772\times 10^6 B\overline{B}$ pairs, collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy $e^+e^-$ collider. We observe the decay for the first time with a si

Iskander A. Taimanov

A construction of blowing up solutions to the modified Novikov-Veselov equation is proposed. It is based on the Moutard transformation of two-dimensional Dirac operators and its geometrical interpretation via surface geometry. An explicit example of such a solution constructed by using the Enneper minimal surface is discussed in detail. This example was brie

Ayan Mahalanobis, Anupam Singh

In this paper we study the MOR cryptosystem using finite classical Chevalley groups over a finite field of odd characteristic. In the process we develop an algorithm for these Chevalley groups in the same spirit as the row-column operation for special linear group. We focus our study on orthogonal and symplectic groups. We find the hardness of the proposed M

Svante Janson

We study maximal clades in random phylogenetic trees with the Yule-Harding model or, equivalently, in binary search trees. We use probabilistic methods to reprove and extend earlier results on moment asymptotics and asymptotic normality. In particular, we give an explanation of the curious phenomenon observed by Drmota, Fuchs and Lee (2014) that asymptotic n

Tridib Sadhu, Satya N. Majumdar, David Mukamel

In equilibrium, the effect of a spatially localised perturbation is typically confined around the perturbed region. Quite contrary to this, in a non-equilibrium stationary state often the entire system is affected. This appears to be a generic feature of non-equilibrium. We study such non-local response in the stationary state of a lattice gas with a shear d

Leonid Yaroslavsky

Transform image processing methods are methods that work in domains of image transforms, such as Discrete Fourier, Discrete Cosine, Wavelet and alike. They are the basic tool in image compression, in image restoration, in image re-sampling and geometrical transformations and can be traced back to early 1970-ths. The paper presents a review of these methods w

Evgeny Spodarev, Peter Straka, Steffen Winter

Most of the known methods for estimating the fractal dimension of fractal sets are based on the evaluation of a single geometric characteristic, e.g. the volume of its parallel sets. We propose a method involving the evaluation of several geometric characteristics, namely all the intrinsic volumes (i.e.\ volume, surface area, Euler characteristic etc.) of th

Andrey Pototsky, Uwe Thiele, Holger Stark

We consider a carpet of self-propelled particles at the liquid-gas interface of a liquid film on a solid substrate. The particles excert an excess pressure on the interface and also move along the interface while the swimming direction performs rotational diffusion. We study the intricate influence of these self-propelled insoluble surfactants on the stabili

Guru Prakash Kadam, Hiranmaya Mishra

We estimate bulk and shear viscosity at finite temperature and baryon densities of hadronic matter within hadron resonance gas model. For bulk viscosity we use low energy theorems of QCD for the energy momentum tensor correlators. For shear viscosity coefficient, we estimate the same using molecular kinetic theory to relate the shear viscosity coefficient to

Francois Rossigneux, Jean-Patrick Gelas, Laurent Lefevre, Marcos Dias de Assuncao

Although cloud computing has been transformational to the IT industry, it is built on large data centres that often consume massive amounts of electrical power. Efforts have been made to reduce the energy clouds consume, with certain data centres now approaching a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) factor of 1.08. While this is an incredible mark, it also means

Jinyuan Chang, Peter Hall

We show that, when the double bootstrap is used to improve performance of bootstrap methods for bias correction, techniques based on using a single double-bootstrap sample for each single-bootstrap sample can be particularly effective. In particular, they produce third-order accuracy for much less computational expense than is required by conventional double

Inkyung Ahn, Zhigui Lin

A reaction-diffusion model is investigated to understand infective environments in a man-environment-man epidemic model. The free boundary is introduced to describe the expanding front of an infective environment induced by fecally-orally transmitted disease. The basic reproduction number $R^F_0(t)$ for the free boundary problem is introduced, and the behavi

N. Clerc, C. Adami, M. Lieu, B. Maughan

This paper presents 52 X-ray bright galaxy clusters selected within the 11 deg$^2$ XMM-LSS survey. 51 of them have spectroscopic redshifts ($0.05<z<1.06$), one is identified at $z_{\rm phot}=1.9$, and all together make the high-purity &#34;Class 1&#34; (C1) cluster sample of the XMM-LSS, the highest density sample of X-ray selected clusters with a monitored

Bo&#39;az Klartag

The localization technique from convex geometry is generalized to the setting of Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below. In a nutshell, our method is based on the following observation: When the Ricci curvature is non-negative, log-concave measures are obtained when conditioning the Riemannian volume measure with respect to an integ

Michael J. Bannister, David Eppstein

We investigate crossing minimization for 1-page and 2-page book drawings. We show that computing the 1-page crossing number is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to the number of crossings, that testing 2-page planarity is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to treewidth, and that computing the 2-page crossing number is fixed-parameter tractable with

Adam Persing, Ajay Jasra, Alexandros Beskos, David Balding

We observe $n$ sequences at each of $m$ sites, and assume that they have evolved from an ancestral sequence that forms the root of a binary tree of known topology and branch lengths, but the sequence states at internal nodes are unknown. The topology of the tree and branch lengths are the same for all sites, but the parameters of the evolutionary model can v

Andrei V. Frolov, Valeri P. Frolov

A stationary observer in the Kerr spacetime has zero angular momentum if his/her angular velocity $ω$ has a particular value, which depends on the position of the observer. Worldlines of such zero angular momentum observers (ZAMOs) with the same value of the angular velocity $ω$ form a three dimensional surface, which has the property that the Killing vector

Rahul Mehta

We prove that a variant of 2048, a popular online puzzle game, is PSPACE-Complete. Our hardness result holds for a version of the problem where the player has oracle access to the computer player&#39;s moves. Specifically, we show that for an $n \times n$ game board $\mathcal{G}$, computing a sequence of moves to reach a particular configuration $\mathbb{C}$

M. Uchida, Y. F. Nie, P. D. C. King, C. H. Kim

We employ molecular beam epitaxy to stabilize Ba2IrO4 thin films and utilize in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to investigate the evolution of its electronic structure through the Neel temperature TN. Our measurements indicate that dispersions of the relativistic Jeff=1/2 and 3/2 bands exhibit an unusual dichotomy in their behavior through th

Hong-tao Feng, Jian-Feng Li, Yuan-mei Shi, Hong-shi Zong

Based on the feature of chiral susceptibility and thermal susceptibility at finite temperature, the nature of chiral phase transition around the critical number of fermion flavors ($N_c$) and the critical temperature ($T_c$) at a fixed fermion flavors number in massless QED$_3$ are investigated. It is showed that, at finite temperature the system exhibits a

Xiaobin Zhang, Junfeng Xu

In this paper, we prove two normality criteria for families of some functions concerning shared values, the results generalize those given by Hu and Meng. Some examples are given to show the sharpness of our results.

Pei-lin Yin, Yuan-mei Shi, Zhu-fang Cui, Hong-tao Feng

In this paper, the relations of four different susceptibilities (i.e., the chiral susceptibility, the fermion number susceptibility, the thermal susceptibility and the staggered spin susceptibility) are investigated both in and beyond the chiral limit. To this end, we numerically solve the finite temperature version of the truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations

Pei-lin Yin, Zhu-fang Cui, Hong-tao Feng, Hong-shi Zong

At zero temperature and density, the nature of the chiral phase transition in QED$_3$ with $\textit{N}_{f}$ massless fermion flavors is investigated. To this end, in Landau gauge, we numerically solve the coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for the fermion and boson propagator within the bare and simplified Ball-Chiu vertices separately. It is found that, in t

Marcelino Agúndez, José Cernicharo, Michel Guélin

The C-star envelope IRC+10216 harbors a rich variety of molecules, with more than 80 detected to date. During the course of a $λ$ 3 mm survey of IRC+10216 carried out with the IRAM 30-m telescope we have detected various weak lines, with antenna temperatures of a few mK, that we assign to rotational transitions of four new molecules. The observation of three

Prasad Hegde

We present first results from a first-principles calculation of the QCD equation of state to $\mathcal{O}(μ_B^4)$, where $μ_B$ is the baryon chemical potential. We find that second-order corrections are sufficient for a large part of the freeze-out temperature and baryon chemical potential range achieved by the RHIC beam energy scan. Nevertheless, higher-ord

E. Briones, J. Briones, A. Cuadrado, J. C. Martinez-Anton

We propose a mid-infrared device based on thermocouple optical antennas for light sensing and energy harvesting applications. We numerically demonstrate that antennas are able to generate low-power dc signals by beneficing of the thermoelectric properties of the metals that constitute them. We theoretically evaluate the optical-to-electrical conversion effic

Anatol E. Wegner

The observation that some subgraphs, called motifs, appear more often in real networks than in their randomized counterparts has attracted much attention in the scientific community. In the prevalent approach the detection of motifs is based on comparing subgraph counts in a network with their counterparts in the configuration model with the same degree dist

A. V. Glushkov, M. I. Pravdin, A. Sabourov

Responses of surface and underground scintillation detectors of Yakutsk array are calculated for showers initiated by primary particles with energy E0>=1.0E17 eV within the frameworks of QGSJet01 QGSIIJet-II-04, SIBYLL-2.1 and EPOS-LHC hadron interaction models. A new estimation of E0 is obtained with the use of various methods. The resulting energy is lower

Amitpal Tagore, Charles Keeton

Gravitational lens modeling of spatially resolved sources is a challenging inverse problem with many observational constraints and model parameters. We examine established pixel-based source reconstruction algorithms for de-lensing the source and constraining lens model parameters. Using test data for four canonical lens configurations, we explore statistica

Joshua Marvil, Frazer Owen, Jean Eilek

We investigate the spectral shape of the total continuum radiation, between 74 MHz and 5 GHz (400 to 6 cm in wavelength), for a large sample of bright galaxies. We take advantage of the overlapping survey coverage of the VLA Low-Frequency Sky Survey, the Westerbork Northern Sky Survey, the NRAO VLA Sky Survey, and the Green Bank 6 cm survey to achieve signif

Q. Zhang, D. Zheng, Y. Lei, B. Morgan

Objectives: A new dosimetric variable, dose dropping speed (DDS), was proposed and used to evaluate normal tissue sparing among stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) plans with different prescription isodose lines. Methods: Forty plans were generated for 8 intracranial SRS cases, prescribing to isodose levels (IDLs) ranging from 50% to 90% in 10% increments. Whils

Jun Young Han, Chung Wung Bark

The photoelectric properties of complex oxides have prompted interest in materials with a tunable band gap, because the absorption The substitution of iron atoms in La-modified bismuth titanate (BLT) can lead to dramatic improvements in the band gap, however, the substitution of iron atoms in BLT without forming a BiFeO3 secondary phase is quite challenging.

Koji Hashimoto, Shunichiro Kinoshita, Keiju Murata, Takashi Oka

In a QCD-like strongly coupled gauge theory at large N_c, using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we find that heavy quark deconfinement is accompanied by a coherent condensation of higher meson resonances. This is revealed in non-equilibrium deconfinement transitions triggered by static, as well as, quenched electric fields even below the Schwinger limit. There,