August 2014 arXiv papers — page 31

S. Sundar

Let $G$ be a locally compact group and $P \subset G$ be a closed Ore semigroup containing the identity element. Let $V: P \to B(\clh)$ be a representation such that for every $a \in P$, $V_{a}$ is an isometry and the final projections of $\{V_{a}: a \in P\}$ commute. In this article, we study the $C^{*}$-algebra $\mathcal{W}_{V}(P,G)$, generated by $\{\int f

Hui Gao, Chau Yuen, Yuan Ren, Wei Long

In this paper, distributed user scheduling schemes are proposed for the multi-user MIMO-Y channel, where three $N_{T}$-antenna users ($N_{T}=2N,\,3N$) are selected from three clusters to exchange information via an $N_{R}$-antenna amplify-and-forward (AF) relay ($N_{R}=3N$), and $N\geq1$ represents the number of data stream(s) of each unicast transmission wi

Davide Michieletto, Davide Marenduzzo, Matthew S. Turner

We study theoretically the replication of Kinetoplast DNA consisting of several thousands separate mini-circles found in organisms of the class Kinetoplastida. When the cell is not actively dividing these are topologically connected in a marginally linked network of rings with only one connected component. During cell division each mini-circle is removed fro

Philip B. Zhang

Bóna conjectured that the descent polynomials on $(n-2)$-stack sortable permutations have only real zeros. Brändén proved this conjecture by establishing a more general result. In this paper, we give another proof of Brändén's result by using the theory of $s$-Eulerian polynomials recently developed by Savage and Visontai.

Hironobu Kihara

This paper reviews the well-known fact that nilpotent Hermitian operators on physical state spaces are zero, thereby indicating that the supersymmetries and "Grassmann numbers" are also zero on these spaces. Next, a positive definite inner product of a Grassmann algebra is demonstrated, constructed using a Hodge dual operator which is similar to that

Shiva Manne, Manjish Pal

In this paper, we present novel deterministic algorithms for multiplying two $n \times n$ matrices approximately. Given two matrices $A,B$ we return a matrix $C'$ which is an \emph{approximation} to $C = AB$. We consider the notion of approximate matrix multiplication in which the objective is to make the Frobenius norm of the error matrix $C-C'$ arb

Ajith Muralidharan, Ramtin Pedarsani, Pravin Varaiya

A network of signalized intersections is modeled as a queuing network. The intersections are regulated by fixed-time (FT) controls, all with the same cycle length or period, $T$. Vehicles arrive from outside the network at entry links in a deterministic periodic stream, also with period $T$, make turns at intersections in fixed proportions, and eventually le

Daniele Ramazzotti, Giulio Caravagna, Loes Olde Loohuis, Alex Graudenzi

We devise a novel inference algorithm to effectively solve the cancer progression model reconstruction problem. Our empirical analysis of the accuracy and convergence rate of our algorithm, CAncer PRogression Inference (CAPRI), shows that it outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms addressing similar problems. Motivation: Several cancer-related genomic da

Deok-Sun Lee

Diverse biological networks exhibit universal features distinguished from those of random networks, calling much attention to their origins and implications. Here we propose a minimal evolution model of Boolean regulatory networks, which evolve by selectively rewiring links towards enhancing adaptability to a changing environment and stability against dynami

Tao Xu, Min Li, Lu Li

In this letter, via the Darboux transformation method we construct new analytic soliton solutions for the Sasa-Satsuma equation which describes the femtosecond pulses propagation in a monomode fiber. We reveal that two different types of femtosecond solitons, i.e., the anti-dark (AD) and Mexican-hat (MH) solitons, can form on a continuous wave (CW) backgroun

Uri Bader, Tsachik Gelander

We study equicontinuous actions of semisimple groups and some generalizations. We prove that any such action is universally closed, and in particular proper. We derive various applications, both old and new, including closedness of continuous homomorphisms, nonexistence of weaker topologies, metric ergodicity of transitive actions and vanishing of matrix coe

Hiroshi Itoyama, Takeshi Oota, Reiji Yoshioka

We demonstrate that the parafermions appear in the $r$-th root of unity limit of $q$-Virasoro/$W_n$ algebra. The proper value of the central charge of the coset model $ \frac{\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(n)_r \oplus \widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(n)_{m-n}}{\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(n)_{m-n+r}}$ is given from the parafermion construction of the block in the limit.

Ali A. Nasir, Duy T. Ngo, Xiangyun Zhou, Rodney A. Kennedy

This paper first considers a multicell network deployment where the base station (BS) of each cell communicates with its cell-edge user with the assistance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay node. Equipped with a power splitter and a wireless energy harvester, the self-sustaining relay scavenges radio frequency (RF) energy from the received signals to proc

Muneto Nitta, Shin Sasaki

When global symmetries are spontaneously broken in supersymmetric vacua, there appear quasi-Nambu-Goldstone (NG) fermions as superpartners of NG bosons. In addition to these, there can appear quasi-NG bosons in general. The quasi-NG bosons and fermions together with the NG bosons are organized into chiral multiplets. Kähler potentials of low-energy effective

Kyoji Saito

This is a report on the recent work "Mirror symmetry for exceptional unimodular singularities" joint with Changzheng Li, Si Li and Yefeng Shen.

Colin Littlefield, Koji Mukai, Ryan Cain, Raymond Mumme

We report the results of a twenty-eight-month photometric campaign studying V1432 Aql, the only known eclipsing, asynchronous polar. Our data show that both the residual eclipse flux and eclipse O-C timings vary strongly as a function of the spin-orbit beat period. Relying upon a new model of the system, we show that cyclical changes in the location of the t

Yuchen Du, Han Liu, Yexin Deng, Peide D. Ye

Although monolayer black phosphorus (BP) or phosphorene has been successfully exfoliated and its optical properties have been explored, most of electrical performance of the devices is demonstrated on few-layer phosphorene and ultra-thin BP films. In this paper, we study the channel length scaling of ultra-thin BP field-effect transistors (FETs), and discuss

Ken Shirakawa, Hiroshi Watanabe, Noriaki Yamazaki

Two main existence theorems are proved for two nonstandard systems of parabolic initial-boundary value problems. The systems are based on the "$ ϕ$-$ η$-$ θ$ model" proposed by Kobayashi [RIMS Kokyuroku, 1210 (2001), 68-77] as a phase-field model of planar grain boundary motion under isothermal solidification. Although each of the systems has specifi

Dan Hathaway

For each $a \in \mathbb{R}$, we define a Borel function $f_a : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ which encodes $a$ in a certain sense. We show that for each Borel $g : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$, $f_a \cap g = \emptyset$ implies $a \in Δ^1_1(c)$ where $c$ is any code for $g$. We generalize this theorem for $g$ in larger pointclasses $Γ$. Specifically, if $Γ= \mathb

Liang-Gen Hu

In this paper, we are concerned with the weighted elliptic system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -Δu=|x|^β v^{\vartheta},\\ -Δv=|x|^α |u|^{p-1}u, \end{cases}\quad \mbox{in}\;\ Ω, \end{equation*}where $Ω$ is a subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N \ge 5$, $α>-4$, $0 \le β\le \dfrac{N-4}{2}$, $p>1$ and $\vartheta=1$. We first apply Pohozaev identity to construct a mon

Yuri F. Saporito

The functional Ito formula, firstly introduced by Bruno Dupire for continuous semimartingales, might be extended in two directions: different dynamics for the underlying process and/or weaker assumptions on the regularity of the functional. In this paper, we pursue the former type by proving the functional version of the Meyer-Tanaka Formula. Following the i

Ning Liu, Songlin Hu, Bingfang Yang, Jinzhong Han

Measuring the Higgs-self coupling is one of the most crucial goals of the future colliders, such as the LHC Run-II and the ILC-based photon collider. Since the new physics can affects the di-Higgs production not only from the Higgs self-coupling but also from the top-Higgs coupling, we investigate the di-Higgs production in the presence of the non-standard t

Jayson G. Cosme, Oleksandr Fialko

Thermalization in closed quantum systems can be explained either by means of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis or the concept of canonical typicality. Both concepts are based on quantum mechanical formalism such as spectral properties of the eigenstates or entanglement between subsystems respectively. Here we study the onset of thermalization of Bose

David Ridout, Simon Wood

Motivated by Wakimoto free field realisations, the bosonic ghost system of central charge $c=2$ is studied using a recently proposed formalism for logarithmic conformal field theories. This formalism addresses the modular properties of the theory with the aim being to determine the (Grothendieck) fusion coefficients from a variant of the Verlinde formula. Th

P. Domínguez-García, Frédéric Cardinaux, Elena Bertseva, László Forró

We study the Brownian motion of microbeads immersed in water and in a viscoelastic wormlike micelles solution by optical trapping interferometry and diffusing wave spectroscopy. Through the mean-square displacement obtained from both techniques, we deduce the mechanical properties of the fluids at high frequencies by explicitly accounting for inertia effects

Maziyar Hamdi, Grayden Solman, Alan Kingstone, Vikram Krishnamurthy

This paper presents an experimental study to investigate the learning and decision making behavior of individuals in a human society. Social learning is used as the mathematical basis for modelling interaction of individuals that aim to perform a perceptual task interactively. A psychology experiment was conducted on a group of undergraduate students at the

Luca Matteis

How do RDF datasets currently get published on the Web? They are either available as large RDF files, which need to be downloaded and processed locally, or they exist behind complex SPARQL endpoints. By providing a RESTful API that can access triple data, we allow users to query a dataset through a simple interface based on just a couple of HTTP parameters.

Chayan Ranjit, Prabir Rudra, Sujata Kundu

In this work we investigate the background dynamics when dark energy is coupled to dark matter with a suitable interaction in the universe described by Einstein-Aether gravity. Dark energy in the form of Modified Chaplygin gas is considered. A suitable interaction between dark energy and dark matter is considered in order to at least alleviate (if not solve)

Ruipu Bai, Shuangshuang Chen, Rong Cheng

The symplectic structures on $3$-Lie algebras and metric symplectic $3$-Lie algebras are studied. For arbitrary $3$-Lie algebra $L$, infinite many metric symplectic $3$-Lie algebras are constructed. It is proved that a metric $3$-Lie algebra $(A, B)$ is a metric symplectic $3$-Lie algebra if and only if there exists an invertible derivation $D$ such that $D\

H. Jeong, Y. D. Jho, C. J. Stanton

We experimentally demonstrate a transverse acoustic (TA) phonon transistor. Phonons are coherently initiated by femtosecond photocarrier screening on potential gradients. Although translational symmetry within the isotropic plane normally prohibits optical generation of TA phonons, we show that the combined application of an external bias in the vertical and

David Cruz-Uribe, Li-An Daniel Wang

We extend the theory of Rubio de Francia extrapolation, including off-diagonal, limited range, and $A_{\infty}$ extrapolation, to the weighted variable Lebesgue spaces. As a consequence we are able to show that a number of different operators from harmonic analysis are bounded on these spaces. The proofs of our extrapolation results are developed in a way th

Marcel Jackson, Tim Stokes

We study the algebraic theory of computable functions, which can be viewed as arising from possibly non-halting computer programs or algorithms, acting on some state space, equipped with operations of composition, {\em if-then-else} and {\em while-do} defined in terms of a Boolean algebra of conditions. It has previously been shown that there is no finite ax

Agnes Kim, Roy Ostensen, J. J. Hermes, Judith Provencal

We present a new, better-constrained asteroseismic analysis of the helium-atmosphere (DB) white dwarf discovered in the field of view of the original Kepler mission. Observations obtained over the course of two years yield at least seven independent modes, two more than were found in the discovery paper for the object. With several triplets and doublets, we

Li Ye, Georg Wolf, Daniele Pinna, Gabriel D. Chaves

We demonstrate current-induced bipolar switching in in-plane magnetized spin-valve devices that incorporate a perpendicularly magnetized spin polarizing layer. Further, hysteretic transitions into a state with intermediate resistance occur at high currents, again for both current polarities. These transitions are shown to be consistent with a macrospin model

Diego Lonardoni, Francesco Pederiva, Stefano Gandolfi

Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo (AFDMC) calculations have been employed to revise the interaction between $Λ$-hyperons and nucleons in hypernuclei. The scheme used to describe the interaction, inspired by the phenomenological Argonne-Urbana forces, is the $ΛN+ΛNN$ potential firstly introduced by Bodmer, Usmani et al.. Within this framework, we performe

José Rafael Bordin, Leandro B. Krott, Marcia C. B. Barbosa

The behavior of a confined spherical symmetric anomalous fluid under high external pressure was studied with Molecular Dynamics simulations. The fluid is modeled by a ore-softened potential with two characteristic length scales, which in bulk reproduces the dynamical, thermodynamical and structural anomalous behavior observed for water and other anomalous fl

Mahnush Movahedi, Mahdi Zamani

Colonies of ants can collectively choose the best of several nests, even when many of the active ants who organize the move visit only one site. Understanding such a behavior can help us design efficient distributed decision making algorithms. Marshall et al. propose a model for house-hunting in colonies of ant Temnothorax albipennis. Unfortunately, their mo

Hanshuang Chen, Feng Huang, Chuansheng Shen, Gang He

We study the fluctuation-activated transition process in a system of two coupled bistable oscillators, in which each oscillator is driven by one constant force and an independent Gaussian white noise. The transition pathway has been identified and the transition rate has been computed as the coupling strength $μ$ and the mismatch $σ$ in the force constants a

Tapash Chakraborty, Vadym M. Apalkov

We present an overview of the theoretical understanding of Hofstadter butterflies in monolayer and bilayer graphene. After a brief introduction on the past work in conventional semiconductor systems, we discuss the novel electronic properties of monolayer and bilayer graphene that helped to detect experimentally the fractal nature of the energy spectrum. We

Yannis Angelopoulos

We study spherically symmetric solutions of semilinear wave equations in the case where the nonlinearity satisfies the null condition on extremal Reissner--Nordstrom black hole spacetimes. We show that solutions which arise from sufficiently small compactly supported smooth data prescribed on a Cauchy hypersfurace \widetilde{Σ}_0 crossing the future event ho

A. Gurevich

A theory of dissipative nonlinear conductivity, $σ_1(ω,H)$, of s-wave superconductors under strong electromagnetic fields at low temperatures is proposed. Closed-form expressions for $σ_1(H)$ and the surface resistance $R_s(ω,H)$ are obtained in the nonequilibrium dirty limit for which $σ_1(H)$ has a significant minimum as a function of a low-frequency $(\hb

Stéphane Sabourau

We establish a min-max estimate on the volume width of a closed Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature. More precisely, we show that every closed Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature admits a PL Morse function whose level set volume is bounded in terms of the volume of the manifold. As a consequence of this sweep-out estimate, t

S. Thoudam, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, J. E. Enriquez

The measurement of the radio emission from extensive air showers, induced by high-energy cosmic rays is one of the key science projects of the LOFAR radio telescope. The LOfar Radboud air shower Array (LORA) has been installed in the core of LOFAR in the Netherlands. The main purpose of LORA is to measure the properties of air showers and to trigger the read

David Toman, Grant Weddell

We resolve an open problem concerning finite logical implication for path functional dependencies (PFDs).

Joel Pfeffer, Brendan F. Griffen, Holger Baumgardt, Michael Hilker

We use the Millennium II cosmological simulation combined with the semi-analytic galaxy formation model of Guo et al. (2011) to predict the contribution of galactic nuclei formed by the tidal stripping of nucleated dwarf galaxies to globular cluster (GC) and ultra-compact dwarf galaxy (UCD) populations of galaxies. We follow the merger trees of galaxies in c

Jeffrey Eldred, Robert Zwaska

We study the stability of particles in slip-stacking configuration, used to nearly double proton beam intensity at Fermilab. We introduce universal area factors to calculate the available phase space area for any set of beam parameters without individual simulation. We find perturbative solutions for stable particle trajectories. We establish Booster beam qu

Iskander A. Taimanov

We describe the action of the (Mobius) inversion on the data of the Weierstrass representation of surfaces in the three-space and show that the Moutard transformation of two-dimensional Dirac operators has a geometrical meaning: it maps the potential $U$ of a surface $S$ into the potential of its inversion.

U. Divakaran, K. Sengupta

We study the dynamics of tilted one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model for two distinct protocols using numerical diagonalization for finite sized system ($N\le 18$). The first protocol involves periodic variation of the effective electric field $E$ seen by the bosons which takes the system twice (per drive cycle) through the intermediate quantum critical point.

P. Chris Fragile, Ally Olejar, Peter Anninos

In this paper we report on recent upgrades to our general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics code, Cosmos++, including the development of a new primitive inversion scheme and a hybrid implicit-explicit solver with a more general closure relation for the radiation equations. The new hybrid solver helps stabilize the treatment of the radiation source

Pushpa Khare, Daniel Vanden Berk, Hadi Rahmani, Donald G. York

We studied dust reddening and [O II] emission in 1730 Mg II associated absorption systems (AAS; relative velocity with respect to QSOs, < 3000 km/s; in units of velocity of light, \b{eta}, < 0.01) with 0.4 < z_abs < 2 in the SDSS DR7, focusing on their dependence on the radio and other QSO properties. We used control samples, several with matching radio prop

Enrico Herrmann

We study a simple model where color sextet scalars violate baryon number at tree level but do not give rise to proton decay. In particular, we include one light and two heavy sextets with $ΔB=2$ baryon number violating interactions that induce neutron anti-neutron oscillations. This setup also suggests an intimate connection to the generation of the observed

P. Gandhi, S. Yamada, C. Ricci, D. Asmus

We present X-ray observations of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC 4785. The source is a local Seyfert 2 which has not been studied so far in much detail. It was recently detected with high significance in the 15-60 keV band in the 66 month Swift/BAT all sky survey, but there have been no prior pointed X-ray observations of this object. With Suzaku, w

Edward C. Moran, Karlen Shahinyan, Hannah R. Sugarman, Darik O. Velez

Using a distance-limited portion of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7, we have identified 28 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in nearby (d < 80 Mpc) low-mass, low-luminosity dwarf galaxies. The accreting objects at the galaxy centers are expected to be intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with M_BH < 1e6 M_sun. The AGNs were selected using sev

A. Ahmadi Fouladi, Javad Vahedi

Based on tight-binding model and a generalized Green&#39;s function method in Landauer-Büttiker formalism, the effects of quantum interference (QI) on the noise power and Fano factor of an armchair graphene nanoribbon (aGNR) sandwiched between infinite single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) as a CNT/aGNR/CNT system are numerically investigated. In this work, ch

K. V. Lotov, A. P. Sosedkin, A. V. Petrenko, L. D. Amorim

It is shown that co-linear injection of electrons or positrons into the wakefield of the self-modulating particle beam is possible and ensures high energy gain. The witness beam must co-propagate with the tail part of the driver, since the plasma wave phase velocity there can exceed the light velocity, which is necessary for efficient acceleration. If the wi

Daphney-Stavroula Zois, Urbashi Mitra

This paper considers the problem of state tracking with observation control for a particular class of dynamical systems. The system state evolution is described by a discrete-time, finite-state Markov chain, while the measurement process is characterized by a controlled multi-variate Gaussian observation model. The computational complexity of the optimal con

J. P. Zibin

Recently Finelli et al. [http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1555] found evidence for a relatively nearby (z = 0.16) void in a galaxy catalogue in the direction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) Cold Spot. Using a perturbative calculation, they also claimed that such a void would produce a CMB decrement comparable to that of the observed Cold Spot, mainly via t

David D. L. Minh, Do Le, Minh

The Hastings algorithm is a key tool in computational science. While mathematically justified by detailed balance, it can be conceptually difficult to grasp. Here, we present two complementary and intuitive ways to derive and understand the algorithm. In our framework, it is straightforward to see that the celebrated Metropolis-Hastings algorithm has the hig

Jouko Väänänen

We extend the treatment of functional dependence, the basic concept of dependence logic, to include the possibility of dependence with a limited number of exceptions. We call this approximate dependence. The main result of the paper is a Completeness Theorem for approximate dependence atoms. We point out some problematic features of this which suggests that

Ashkan Panahi, Marie Ström, Mats Viberg

Future radar systems are expected to use waveforms of a high bandwidth, where the main advantage is an improved range resolution. In this paper, a technique to design robust wideband waveforms for a Multiple-Input-Single-Output system is developed. The context is optimal detection of a single object with partially unknown parameters. The waveforms are robust

Tyll Krueger, Guido Montufar, Ruedi Seiler, Rainer Siegmund-Schultze

We define an algorithm that parses multidimensional arrays sequentially into mainly unrepeated but nested multidimensional sub-arrays of increasing size, and show that the resulting sub-block pointer encoder compresses almost every realization of any finite-alphabet ergodic process on $\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}^d$ to the entropy, in the limit.

Dan A. Lee, Philippe G. LeFloch

We formulate and prove a positive mass theorem for n-dimensional spin manifolds whose metrics have only the Sobolev regularity $C^0 \cap W^{1,n}$. At this level of regularity, the curvature of the metric is defined in the distributional sense only, and we propose here a (generalized) notion of ADM mass for such a metric. Our main theorem establishes that if

William Stacey, Razieh Annabestani, Xiongfeng Ma, Norbert Lütkenhaus

We propose a QKD protocol for trusted node relays. Our protocol shifts the communication and computational weight of classical post-processing to the end users by reassigning the roles of error correction and privacy amplification, while leaving the exchange of quantum signals untouched. We perform a security analysis for this protocol based on the BB84 prot

Shuchi Chawla, Hu Fu, Anna Karlin

We study revenue maximization in settings where agents&#39; values are interdependent: each agent receives a signal drawn from a correlated distribution and agents&#39; values are functions of all of the signals. We introduce a variant of the generalized VCG auction with reserve prices and random admission, and show that this auction gives a constant approxi

Adam W. Marcus, Daniel A. Spielman, Nikhil Srivastava

We survey the techniques used in our recent resolution of the Kadison-Singer problem and proof of existence of Ramanujan Graphs of every degree: mixed characteristic polynomials and the method of interlacing families of polynomials. To demonstrate the method of interlacing families of polynomials, we give a simple proof of Bourgain and Tzafriri&#39;s restric

Bethan L. James, Alessandra Aloisi, Timothy M. Heckman, Sangmo Tony Sohn

This is the first in a series of three papers describing a project with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope to measure abundances of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) in a sample of 9 nearby star-forming galaxies. The goal is to assess the (in)homogeneities of the multiphase ISM in galaxies where the bulk of metals can be hidden

Karol Palczynski, Joachim Dzubiella

We study the long-time self-diffusion of a single conjugated organic para-sexiphenyl (p-6P) molecule physisorbed on the inorganic ZnO $\left(10\overline{1}0\right)$ surface by means of all-atom molecular dynamics computer simulations. We find strongly anisotropic diffusion processes in which the diffusive motion along the polar [0001] direction of the surfac

Yevgen Kravets

Current classical theory of radiation reaction has several deficiencies such as &#34;runaway solutions&#34; and violation of causality. The Landau-Lifshitz approximation to the exact equation introduced by Lorentz, Abraham and Dirac is widely used, though questions remain regarding its domain of validity. This thesis explores an alternative treatment of the

Jameson Cahill, Dustin G. Mixon

Compressed sensing seeks to invert an underdetermined linear system by exploiting additional knowledge of the true solution. Over the last decade, several instances of compressed sensing have been studied for various applications, and for each instance, reconstruction guarantees are available provided the sensing operator satisfies certain sufficient conditi

Matthew O. Williams, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Clarence W. Rowley

The Koopman operator is a linear but infinite dimensional operator that governs the evolution of scalar observables defined on the state space of an autonomous dynamical system, and is a powerful tool for the analysis and decomposition of nonlinear dynamical systems. In this manuscript, we present a data driven method for approximating the leading eigenvalue

Jameel-Un Nabi

$β$-decay and positron decay are believed to play a consequential role during the late phases of stellar evolution of a massive star culminating in a supernova explosion. Recently the microscopic calculation of weak-interaction mediated rates on key isotopes of iron was introduced using the proton-neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation (pn-QRPA) th

Glen Herriot, David Andersen, Jenny Atwood, Corinne Boyer

NFIRAOS, the Thirty Meter Telescope&#39;s first adaptive optics system is an order 60x60 Multi-Conjugate AO system with two deformable mirrors. Although most observing will use 6 laser guide stars, it also has an NGS-only mode. Uniquely, NFIRAOS is cooled to -30 C to reduce thermal background. NFIRAOS delivers a 2-arcminute beam to three client instruments,

C. Adolph, R. Akhunzyanov, M. G. Alexeev, G. D. Alexeev

Measurements of the Collins and Sivers asymmetries for charged pions and charged and neutral kaons produced in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering of high energy muons off transversely polarised protons are presented. The results were obtained using all the available COMPASS proton data, which were taken in the years 2007 and 2010. The Collins asymmetri

Christian Hagendorf, Thessa B. Fokkema, Liza Huijse

A detailed study of a model for strongly-interacting fermions with exclusion rules and lattice $\mathcal N=2$ supersymmetry is presented. A submanifold in the space of parameters of the model where it is Bethe-ansatz solvable is identified. The relation between this manifold and the existence of additional, so-called dynamic, supersymmetries is discussed. Th

John S. Schreck, Thomas E. Ouldridge, Flavio Romano, Petr Sulc

The effect of secondary structure on DNA duplex formation is poorly understood. We use a coarse-grained model of DNA to show that specific 3- and 4-base pair hairpins reduce hybridization rates by factors of 2 and 10 respectively, in good agreement with experiment. By contrast, melting rates are accelerated by factors of ~100 and ~2000. This surprisingly lar

Alexei Yu. Karlovich

We prove that if the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is bounded on a separable Banach function space $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and on its associate space $X&#39;(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and a maximally modulated Calderón-Zygmund singular integral operator $T^Φ$ is of weak type $(r,r)$ for all $r\in(1,\infty)$, then $T^Φ$ extends to a bounded operator on $X(\mathbb{R}^n)$.

Ilia M. Mindlin

This paper addresses deep-water gravity waves of finite amplitude generated by an initial disturbance to the water. It is assumed that the horizontal dimensions of the initially disturbed body of the water are much larger than the magnitude of the free surface displacement in the origin of the waves. Initially the free surface has not yet been displaced from

Joshua Moloney, J. Michael Shull

Understanding the composition and structure of the broad-line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is important for answering many outstanding questions in supermassive black hole evolution, galaxy evolution, and ionization of the intergalactic medium. We used single-epoch UV spectra from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Tele

Aydin Cem Keser, Valentin Stanev, Victor Galitski

We use quasiclassical methods of superconductivity to study the superconducting proximity effect from a topological $p$-wave superconductor into a disordered one-dimensional metallic wire. We demonstrate that the corresponding Eilenberger equations with disorder reduce to a closed non-linear equation for the superconducting component of the matrix Green&#39;

V. M. Pudalov, M. E. Gershenson, H. Kojima

We have experimentally studied the renormalized effective mass m* and Dingle temperature T_D in two spin subbands with essentially different electron populations. Firstly, we found that the product (m*T_D) that determines damping of quantum oscillations, to the first approximation, is the same in the majority and minority subbands even at the spin polarizati

A. Boyarsky, J. Franse, D. Iakubovskyi, O. Ruchayskiy

We revisit the X-ray spectrum of the central 14&#39; of the Andromeda galaxy, discussed in our previous work [1402.4119]. Recently in [1408.1699] it was claimed that if one limits the analysis of the data to the interval 3-4 keV, the significance of the detection of the line at 3.53 keV drops below 2 sigma. In this note we show that such a restriction is not

Carlos A. Jiménez-Hoyos, R. Rodríguez-Guzmán, Gustavo E. Scuseria

Most {\em ab initio} calculations on fullerene molecules have been carried out based on the paradigm of the Hückel model. This is consistent with the restricted nature of the independent-particle model underlying such calculations, even in single-reference-based correlated approaches. On the other hand, previous works on some of these molecules using model H

P. N. Bibikov, A. G. Nuramatov

The Reshetikhin condition for the general Hamiltonian density matrix of the $S=1$ axially symmetric spin chain is completely solved. 16 new integrable models and corresponding $R$-matrices are presented.

Paolo Amore

We show that the properties of the lower part of the spectrum of the Helmholtz equation for an heterogeneous system in a finite region in $d$ dimensions, where the solutions to the homogeneous problems are known, can be systematically approximated by means of iterative methods. These methods only require the specification of an arbitrary ansatz and necessari

Phillip Schumm, Caterina Scoglio, H Morgan Scott

The characterization of cattle demographics and especially movements is an essential component in the modeling of dynamics in cattle systems, yet for cattle systems of the United States (US), this is missing. Through a large-scale maximum entropy optimization formulation, we estimate cattle movement parameters to characterize the movements of cattle across $

Liangying Jiang, Caiheng Ouyang, Ruhan Zhao

We first characterize those composition operators that are essentially normal on the weighted Bergman space $A^2_s(D)$ for any real $s>-1$, where induced symbols are automorphisms of the unit disk $D$. Using the same technique, we investigate the automorphic composition operators on the Hardy space $H^2(B_N)$ and the weighted Bergman spaces $A^2_s(B_N)$ ($s>

Mauro R. Oliveira, Francisco Louzada

This article proposes a method for measuring the latent risks involved in the recovery process of non performing loans in financial institutions and business firms that deal with collection and recovery processes. To that end, we apply the competing risks model referred to in the literature as the promotion time model. The result achieved is the probability

Mauro R. Oliveira, Francisco Louzada

In this paper, we propose a method that provides a useful technique to compare relationship between risks involved that takes customer become defaulter and debt collection process that might make this defaulter recovered. Through estimation of competitive risks that lead to realization of the event of interest, we showed that there is a significant relation

Nora Bretón, C. E. Ramírez-Codiz

The stationary axisymmetric spacetime coupled to nonlinear Born-Infeld electrodynamics is studied. The solution was derived by Plebanski et al (1984) and it is characterized by six free parameters: mass, NUT charge, electric and magnetic charge, Born-Infeld parameter and cosmological constant. The geodesic and Lorentz force equations are integrated, and a qu

G. Pica, G. Wolfowicz, M. Urdampilleta, M. L. W. Thewalt

We present a complete theoretical treatment of Stark effects in doped silicon, whose predictions are supported by experimental measurements. A multi-valley effective mass theory, dealing non-perturbatively with valley-orbit interactions induced by a donor-dependent central cell potential, allows us to obtain a very reliable picture of the donor wave function

P. R. Fraser, L. Canton, K. Amos, S. Karataglidis

One theoretical method for studying nuclear scattering and resonances is via the multi-channel algebraic scattering (MCAS) formalism. Studies to date with this method have used a simple collective-rotor prescription to model target states with which a nucleon couples. While generally these target states all belong to the same rotational band, for certain sys

Sergei Fedotov, Nickolay Korabel

We propose a model of sub-diffusion in which an external force is acting on a particle at all times not only at the moment of jump. The implication of this assumption is the dependence of the random trapping time on the force with the dramatic change of particles behavior compared to the standard continuous time random walk model. Constant force leads to the

Laura Baudis

Cosmological observations and the dynamics of the Milky Way provide ample evidence for an invisible and dominant mass component. This so-called dark matter could be made of new, colour and charge neutral particles, which were non-relativistic when they decoupled from ordinary matter in the early universe. Such weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are

M. D. Caballero-Garcia, M. Jelinek, A. Castro-Tirado, R. Hudec

The Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System (BOOTES) is a network of telescopes that allows the continuous monitoring of transient astrophysical sources. It was originally devoted to the study of the optical emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that occur in the Universe. In this paper we show the initial results obtained using the spectrograp

V. Suleimanov, M. Hertfelder, K. Werner, W. Kley

Here we compute detailed model spectra of recently published optically thick one-dimensional radial baundary layer (BL) models in cataclysmic variables and compare them with observed soft X-ray/extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectra of dwarf novae in outburst. Every considered BL model is divided into a number of rings, and for each ring, a structure model along

Marcus Büker, Luke Odell, Joshua Wurman, Karen Kosiba

New diagnostic methods are presented for localized, barotropic vorticity evolution in tornadic environments. These methods focus on superhelicity, a quantity shown to be strongly related to local maxima in vorticity tendency. Mobile Doppler radar retrievals from three well-known cases of tornadogenesis were studied with this new approach. The results show pr

Fern Y. Hunt

We consider the problem of identifying a subset of nodes in a network that will enable the fastest spread of information in a decentralized environment.In a model of communication based on a random walk on an undirected graph, the optimal set over all sets of the same or smaller cardinality minimizes the sum of the mean first arrival times to the set by walk

Eva Mohedano, Graham Healy, Kevin McGuinness, Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

This paper explores the potential of brain-computer interfaces in segmenting objects from images. Our approach is centered around designing an effective method for displaying the image parts to the users such that they generate measurable brain reactions. When an image region, specifically a block of pixels, is displayed we estimate the probability of the bl

Xinlin Zhang, Michail Matthaiou, Mikael Coldrey, Emil

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems can bring substantial improvement in spectral efficiency and/or energy efficiency, due to the excessive degrees-of-freedom and huge array gain. However, large-scale MIMO is expected to deploy lower-cost radio frequency (RF) components, which are particularly prone to hardware impairments

Ping Wong Ng, Leonel Robert

In a simple C*-algebra with suitable regularity properties, any unitary or invertible element with de la Harpe--Skandalis determinant zero is a finite product of commutators.