August 2014 arXiv papers — page 69

G. Boussinot, R. Schulz, C. Hüter, E. A. Brener

We investigate theoretically the effects of elastic and plastic deformations on heterogeneous nucleation and nanowire formation. In the first case, the influence of the confinement of the critical nucleus between two parallel misfitting substrates is investigated using scaling arguments. We present phase diagrams giving the nature of the nucleation regime as

Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

We considered the experimental realization of a Tamm medium that is optically equivalent to the collision of two linearly polarized gravitational plane waves as a piecewise homogeneous metamaterial. Our formulation was based on the homogenization of remarkably simple arrangements of oriented ellipsoidal nanoparticles of isotropic dielectric-magnetic mediums.

Matthew G. Borselli, Kevin Eng, Richard S. Ross, Thomas M. Hazard

We report on a quantum dot device design that combines the low disorder properties of undoped SiGe heterostructure materials with an overlapping gate stack in which each electrostatic gate has a dominant and unique function -- control of individual quantum dot occupancies and of lateral tunneling into and between dots. Control of the tunneling rate between a

V. G. Klochkova

We consider the peculiarities of the optical spectra of far evolved stars with circumstellar gaseous-dusty envelopes: the time variability of the absorption-emission profiles of the H$α$ line, the presence of stationary emission and absorption molecular bands, multicomponent complex profiles of the NaI D-doublet lines. We show that the peculiarities of the l

Pattrawut Chansangiam

An operator connection is a binary operation assigned to each pair of positive operators satisfying monotonicity, continuity from above and the transformer inequality. In this paper, we introduce and characterize the concepts of cancellability and regularity of operator connections with respect to operator monotone functions, Borel measures and certain opera

T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair, Meenakshi Malhotra

There has been a considerable advance in computing, to mimic the way in which the brain tries to comprehend and structure the information to retrieve meaningful knowledge. It is identified that neuronal entities hold whole of the knowledge that the species makes use of. We intended to develop a modified knowledge based system, termed as Informledge System (I

Wenyi Wang, Ahmed Elbanna

Sacrificial bonds and hidden length (SBHL) in structural molecules provide a mechanism for energy dissipation at the nanoscale. It is hypothesized that their presence leads to greater fracture toughness than what is observed in materials without such features. Here, we investigate this hypothesis using a simplified model of a mineralized collagen fibril slid

Stuart D. Ryder, Seppo Mattila, Erkki Kankare, Petri Vaisanen

Using the latest generation of adaptive optics imaging systems together with laser guide stars on 8m-class telescopes, we are finally revealing the previously-hidden population of supernovae in starburst galaxies. Finding these supernovae and measuring the amount of absorption due to dust is crucial to being able to accurately trace the star formation histor

Alexandru Kristály, Chong Li, Genaro Lopez, Adriana Nicolae

Various results based on some convexity assumptions (involving the exponential map along with affine maps, geodesics and convex hulls) have been recently established on Hadamard manifolds. In this paper we prove that these conditions are mutually equivalent and they hold if and only if the Hadamard manifold is isometric to the Euclidean space. In this way, w

S. K. Liu, Q. Yue, S. T. Lin, Y. J. Li

The inorganic CsI(Tl) crystal scintillator is a candidate served as an anti-compton detector for China Dark matter EXperiment (CDEX). Studying the intrinsic radiopurity of CsI(Tl) crystal is an issue of major importance. The timing, energy and spatial correlations, as well as the capability of pulse shape discrimination provide powerful methods for the measu

I. V. Solovyev, S. A. Nikolaev

The double exchange (DE) model is systematically applied for studying the coupling between ferroelectric (FE) and magnetic orders in several prototypical types of multiferroic manganites. The model was constructed for the magnetically active Mn $3d$ bands in the basis of Wannier functions and include the effect of screened on-site Coulomb interactions. The e

Prakash Ishwar

For a number of lossy source coding problems it is shown that even if the usual single-letter sum-rate-distortion expressions may become invalid for non-infinite distortion functions, they can be approached, to any desired accuracy, via the usual valid expressions for appropriately truncated finite versions of the distortion functions.

F. Ambrosino, A. Antonelli, G. Anzivino, R. Arcidiacono

The NA48/2 Collaboration at CERN has accumulated and analysed unprecedented statistics of rare kaon decays in the $K_{e4}$ modes: $K_{e4}(+-)$ ($K^\pm \to π^+ π^- e^\pm ν$) and $K_{e4}(00)$ ($K^\pm \to π^0 π^0 e^\pm ν$) with nearly one percent background contamination. It leads to the improved measurement of branching fractions and detailed form factor studi

K. T. Lai, A. Takemori, S. Miyasaka, F. Engetsu

P/As-substitution effects on the transport properties of polycrystalline LaFeP$_{1-x}$As$_{x}$O$_{1-y}$F$_{y}$ with $x$ = 0 -- 1.0 and $y$ = 0 -- 0.1 have been studied. In the F-free samples ($y$ = 0), a new superconducting (SC) dome with a maximum $T_{c}$ of 12 K is observed around $x$ = 0 -- 0.3. This is separated from another SC dome with $T_{c}$ $\sim$10

Michael V. Klibanov, Nguyen Trung Thành

The inverse problem of estimating dielectric constants of explosives using boundary measurements of one component of the scattered electric field is addressed. It is formulated as a coefficient inverse problem for a hyperbolic differential equation. After applying the Laplace transform, a new cost functional is constructed and a variational problem is formul

Ramoni Adeogun, Paul Teal, Pawel Dmochowski

Information on the future state of time varying frequency selective channels can significantly enhance the effectiveness of feedback in adaptive and limited feedback MIMO-OFDM systems. This paper investigates the parametric extrapolation of wideband MIMO channels using variations of the double directional MIMO model. We propose three predictors which estimat

Fei Kong, Haisheng Li, Shaobin Tan, Qing Wang

In this paper, we continue the study on toroidal vertex algebras initiated in \cite{LTW}, to study concrete toroidal vertex algebras associated to toroidal Lie algebra $L_{r}(\hat{\frak{g}})=\hat{\frak{g}}\otimes L_r$, where $\hat{\frak{g}}$ is an untwisted affine Lie algebra and $L_r=$\mathbb{C}[t_{1}^{\pm 1},\ldots,t_{r}^{\pm 1}]$. We first construct an $(

Jinshan Zeng, Zhimin Peng, Shaobo Lin, Zongben Xu

In recent studies on sparse modeling, $l_q$ ($0<q<1$) regularization has received considerable attention due to its superiorities on sparsity-inducing and bias reduction over the $l_1$ regularization.In this paper, we propose a cyclic coordinate descent (CCD) algorithm for $l_q$ regularization. Our main result states that the CCD algorithm converges globally

Liheng Bian, Jinli Suo, Guohai Situ, Guoan Zheng

Fourier Ptychography (FP) is a recently proposed technique for large field of view and high resolution imaging. Specifically, FP captures a set of low resolution images under angularly varying illuminations and stitches them together in Fourier domain. One of FP&#39;s main disadvantages is its long capturing process due to the requisite large number of incid

Adam Sealfon, Aikaterini Sotiraki

In the dynamic network model, the communication graph is assumed to be connected in every round but is otherwise arbitrary. We consider the related setting of $p$-partitioned dynamic networks, in which the communication graph in each round consists of at most $p$ connected components. We explore the problem of $k$-agreement in this model for $k\geq p$. We sh

Chien-Hao Huang

We consider a statistical mechanics model for biopolymers. Sophisticated polymer chains, such as DNA, have stiffness when they stretch chains. The Laplacian interaction is used to describe the stiffness. Also, the surface between two media has an attraction force, and the force will pull the chain back to the surface. In this paper, we deal with the random p

Ying Hu, Anis Matoussi, Tusheng Zhang

In this paper we obtain a Wong-Zakai approximation to solutions of backward doubly stochastic differential equations.

Xiaofeng Xue

In this paper we are concerned with contact processes on open clusters of oriented percolation in $Z^d$, where the disease spreads along the direction of open edges. We show that the two critical infection rates in the quenched and annealed cases are equal with probability one and are asymptotically equal to $(dp)^{-1}$ as the dimension $d$ grows to infinity

Degang Zhang

Based on a two-orbit four-band tight binding model, we investigate the low-lying electronic states around the interstitial excess Fe ions in the iron-based superconductors by using T-matrix approach. It is shown that the local density of states at the interstitial Fe impurity (IFI) possesses a strong resonance inside the gap, which seems to be insensitive to

Kazuki Hasebe

We clarify relations between the higher dimensional quantum Hall effect and A-class topological insulator. In particular, we elucidate physical implications of the higher dimensional non-commutative geometry in the context of A-class topological insulator. This presentation is based on arXiv:1403.5066.

Hiroyuki Shibata, Toshimori Honjo, Kaoru Shimizu

We report the first Quantum key distribution (QKD) experiment over a 72 dB channel loss using superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SSPD, SNSPD) with the dark count rate (DCR) of 0.01 cps. The DCR of the SSPD, which is dominated by the blackbody radiation at room temperature, is blocked by introducing cold optical bandpass filter. We employ the d

Huangjun Zhu

Generalized symmetric informationally complete (SIC) measurements are SIC measurements that are not necessarily rank one. They are interesting originally because of their connection with rank-one SICs. Here we reveal several merits of generalized SICs in connection with quantum state tomography and Lie algebra that are interesting in their own right. These p

Tonći Antunović

We give precise estimates on the number of active/inactive half-edges in the configuration model used to generate random regular graphs. This is obtained by analyzing a more general urn model with negative eigenvalues.

Maryam Abedi, Mir Abbas Jalali

We use the Fokker-Planck equation and its moment equations to study the collective behavior of interacting particles in unsteady one-dimensional flows. Particles interact according to a long-range attractive and a short-range repulsive potential field known as Morse potential. We assume Stokesian drag force between particles and their carrier fluid, and find

Danupon Nanongkai, Hsin-Hao Su

We study the problem of computing the minimum cut in a weighted distributed message-passing networks (the CONGEST model). Let $λ$ be the minimum cut, $n$ be the number of nodes in the network, and $D$ be the network diameter. Our algorithm can compute $λ$ exactly in $O((\sqrt{n} \log^{*} n+D)λ^4 \log^2 n)$ time. To the best of our knowledge, this is the firs

Gloria Koenigsberger, Nidia Morrell, D. John Hillier, Roberto Gamen

New spectroscopic observations of the LBV/WR multiple system HD5980 in the Small Magellanic Cloud are used to address the question of the masses and evolutionary status of the two very luminous stars in the 19.3d eclipsing binary system. Two distinct components of the N V 4944 A line are detected in emission and their radial velocity variations are used to d

Daria Smirnova, Yuri S. Kivshar

We suggest a novel approach for generating second-harmonic radiation in subwavelength graphene waveguides. We demonstrate that quadratic phase matching between the plasmonic guided modes of different symmetries can be achieved in a planar double-layer geometry when conductivity of one of the layers becomes spatially modulated. We predict theoretically that,

Nam Lyong Kang

The relaxation process of electron spin in systems of electrons interacting with piezoelectric deformation phonons that are mediated through spin-orbit interactions was interpreted from a microscopic point of view using the formula for the electron spin relaxation times derived by a projection-reduction method. The electron spin relaxation times in two polym

Jakob S. Jørgensen, Emil Y. Sidky, Per Christian Hansen, Xiaochuan Pan

In x-ray computed tomography (CT) it is generally acknowledged that reconstruction methods exploiting image sparsity allow reconstruction from a significantly reduced number of projections. The use of such reconstruction methods is motivated by recent progress in compressed sensing (CS). However, the CS framework provides neither guarantees of accurate CT re

Demetris T. Christopoulos

We are introducing two methods for revealing the true inflection point of data that contains or not error. The starting point is a set of geometrical properties that follow the existence of an inflection point p for a smooth function. These properties connect the concept of convexity/concavity before and after p respectively with three chords defined properl

Animashree Anandkumar, Rong Ge, Majid Janzamin

We provide guarantees for learning latent variable models emphasizing on the overcomplete regime, where the dimensionality of the latent space can exceed the observed dimensionality. In particular, we consider multiview mixtures, spherical Gaussian mixtures, ICA, and sparse coding models. We provide tight concentration bounds for empirical moments through no

Pau Brustenga

We generalize the concept of $r$-point clusters of a scheme $S$ to $r$-relative clusters of a $B$-scheme $\mathcal{S}$. Define schemes $Cl_r$ that naturally parametrize the $r$-relative clusters which generalize the Kleiman&#39;s construction of the iterated blowups by $r$-point clusters. We show that the iterated construction of $Cl_{r+1}$ from $Cl_{r}$ is

Amol Aggarwal

In 2007, Olsson and Stanton gave an explicit form for the largest $(a, b)$-core partition, for any relatively prime positive integers $a$ and $b$, and asked whether there exists an $(a, b)$-core that contains all other $(a, b)$-cores as subpartitions; this question was answered in the affirmative first by Vandehey and later by Fayers independently. In this p

Xinchen Zhang, Jeffrey G. Andrews

Existing cellular network analyses, and even simulations, typically use the standard path loss model where received power decays like $\|x\|^{-α}$ over a distance $\|x\|$. This standard path loss model is quite idealized, and in most scenarios the path loss exponent $α$ is itself a function of $\|x\|$, typically an increasing one. Enforcing a single path los

Fabrice Baudoin, Bumsik Kim, Jing Wang

We prove a family of new Weitzenböck formulas on a Riemannian foliation with totally geodesic leaves. These Weitzenböck formulas are naturally parametrized by the canonical variation of the metric. As a consequence, under natural geometric conditions, the horizontal Laplacian satisfies a generalized curvature dimension inequality. Among other things, this cu

Kenji Fukushima

We summarize recent developments in identifying the ground state of dense baryonic matter and beyond. The topics include deconfinement from baryonic matter to quark matter, a diquark mixture, topological effect coupled with chirality and density, and inhomogeneous chiral condensates.

Camille Horbez

Let $G=G_1\ast\dots\ast G_k\ast F$ be a countable group which splits as a free product, where all groups $G_i$ are freely indecomposable and not isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}$, and $F$ is a finitely generated free group. If for all $i\in\{1,\dots,k\}$, both $G_i$ and its outer automorphism group $\text{Out}(G_i)$ satisfy the Tits alternative, then $\text{Out}(G)

Camille Horbez

We define analogues of the graphs of free splittings, of cyclic splittings, and of maximally-cyclic splittings of $F_N$ for free products of groups, and show their hyperbolicity. Given a countable group $G$ which splits as $G=G_1\ast\dots\ast G_k\ast F$, where $F$ denotes a finitely generated free group, we identify the Gromov boundary of the graph of relati

Camille Horbez

Let $G$ be a countable group that splits as a free product of groups of the form $G=G_1\ast\dots\ast G_k\ast F_N$, where $F_N$ is a finitely generated free group. We identify the closure of the outer space $P\mathcal{O}(G,\{G_1,\dots,G_k\})$ for the axes topology with the space of projective minimal, \emph{very small} $(G,\{G_1,\dots,G_k\})$-trees, i.e. tree

Oliver Roche-Newton, Misha Rudnev, Ilya D. Shkredov

Let $F$ be a field with positive odd characteristic $p$. We prove a variety of new sum-product type estimates over $F$. They are derived from the theorem that the number of incidences between $m$ points and $n$ planes in the projective three-space $PG(3,F)$, with $m\geq n=O(p^2)$, is $$O( m\sqrt{n} + km ),$$ where $k$ denotes the maximum number of collinear

Awais Khawar, Ahmed Abdelhadi, T. Charles Clancy

Future wireless communication systems are envisioned to share radio frequency (RF) spectrum, with other services such as radars, in order to meet the growing spectrum demands. In this paper, we consider co-channel spectrum sharing between cellular systems and radars. We address the problem of target detection by radars that are subject to shape its waveform

W. D. McComb, S. R. Yoffe, M. F. Linkmann, A. Berera

The pseudospectral method, in conjunction with a new technique for obtaining scaling exponents $ζ_n$ from the structure functions $S_n(r)$, is presented as an alternative to the extended self-similarity (ESS) method and the use of generalized structure functions. We propose plotting the ratio $|S_n(r)/S_3(r)|$ against the separation $r$ in accordance with a

Hans C. Fogedby, Alberto Imparato

We consider heat fluctuations and fluctuation theorems for systems driven by multiple reservoirs. We establish a fundamental symmetry obeyed by the joint probability distribution for the heat transfers and system coordinates. The symmetry leads to a generalisation of the asymptotic fluctuation theorem for large deviations at large times. As a result the pres

Manuel Reyes, Daniel Rogalski, James J. Zhang

We investigate the conditions that are sufficient to make the Ext-algebra of an object in a (triangulated) category into a Frobenius algebra and compute the corresponding Nakayama automorphism. As an application, we prove the conjecture that hdet($μ_A$) = 1 for any noetherian Artin-Schelter regular (hence skew Calabi-Yau) algebra A.

Hyungwon Kim, Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda, David A. Huse

We ask whether the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) is valid in a strong sense: in the limit of an infinite system, {\it every} eigenstate is thermal. We examine expectation values of few-body operators in highly-excited many-body eigenstates and search for `outliers&#39;, the eigenstates that deviate the most from ETH. We use exact diagonalization

Emma McCallum, Björn Bornkamp

In this paper we consider two-stage adaptive dose-response study designs, where the study design is changed at an interim analysis based on the information collected so far. In a simulation study, two approaches will be compared for these type of designs; (i) updating the study design by calculating the maximum likelihood estimate for the dose-response model

Diomba Sambou

We consider the perturbed operator $H(b,V) := H(b,0) + V$, where $H(b,0)$ is the $3$d Hamiltonian of Pauli with non-constant magnetic field, and $V$ is \textit{a non-definite sign electric potential} decaying exponentially with respect to the variable along the magnetic field. We prove that the only resonances of $H(b,V)$ near the low ground energy zero of $

Frantisek Marko, Semyon Litvinov

It is shown in our earlier paper that, using only tools of elementary geometry, the classical Routh&#39;s theorem for triangles can be fully extended to tetrahedra. In this article we first give another proof of Routh&#39;s theorem for tetrahedra where methods of elementary geometry are combined with the inclusion-exclusion principle. Then we generalize this

Xiaocheng Huang, Zhuowei Bao, Susan B. Davidson, Tova Milo

This paper proposes a novel approach for efficiently evaluating regular path queries over provenance graphs of workflows that may include recursion. The approach assumes that an execution g of a workflow G is labeled with query-agnostic reachability labels using an existing technique. At query time, given g, G and a regular path query R, the approach decompo

Domenico Fiorenza, Domenico Monaco, Gianluca Panati

We consider a real periodic Schrödinger operator and a physically relevant family of $m \geq 1$ Bloch bands, separated by a gap from the rest of the spectrum, and we investigate the localization properties of the corresponding composite Wannier functions. To this aim, we show that in dimension $d \leq 3$ there exists a global frame consisting of smooth quasi

Hamed Saberi, Tomáš Opatrný, Klaus Mølmer, Adolfo del Campo

The nonadiabatic dynamics of a many-body system driven through a quantum critical point can be controlled using counterdiabatic driving, where the formation of excitations is suppressed by assisting the dynamics with auxiliary multiple-body nonlocal interactions. We propose an alternative scheme which circumvents practical challenges to realize shortcuts to

Uriya A. First

We prove that every isometry of between (not-necessarily orthogonal) summands of a unimodular quadratic space over a semiperfect ring can be extended an isometry of the whole quadratic space. The same result was proved by Reiter for the broader class of semilocal rings, but with certain restrictions on the base modules, which cannot be removed in general. Ou

S. Das Sarma, E. H. Hwang, Hongki Min

A theory is developed for the density and temperature dependent carrier conductivity in doped three-dimensional (3D) Dirac materials focusing on resistive scattering from screened Coulomb disorder due to random charged impurities (e.g., dopant ions and unintentional background impurities). The theory applies both in the undoped intrinsic (&#34;high-temperatu

Fatemeh Bagheri, Reza Mansouri

Applying the method of conformal metric to a given static axially symmetric vacuum solution of the Einstein equations, we have shown that there is no solution representing a cosmic ideal fluid which is asymtotically FLRW. Letting the cosmic fluid to be imperfect there are axially symmetric solutions tending to FLRW at space infinity. The solution we have fou

Ilyas Haouam

By the large and small wave-function components approach we achieved the nonrela-tivistic limit of the Dirac equation in interaction with an electromagnetic potential in noncommutative phase-space, and we tested the effect of the phase-space noncommutativity on it, knowing that the nonrelativistic limit of the Dirac equation gives the Schrödinger-Pauli equat

Xiao Fang

We prove a multivariate central limit theorem with explicit error bound on a non-smooth function distance for sums of bounded decomposable $d$-dimensional random vectors. The decomposition structure is similar to that of Barbour, Karoński and Ruciński (1989) and is more general than the local dependence structure considered in Chen and Shao (2004). The error

Yaghoob Naimi, Javad Vahedi

We present a theoretical study of the heat dissipation in single-molecule junctions. In order to investigate the heat dissipation in the electrodes and the relationship between the transmission spectra and the electronic structures, we consider a toy model that in which electrodes linked by a two-level molecular bridge. By using of the Landauer approach, we

Belle Collaboration, X. H. He, C. P. Shen, C. Z. Yuan

The $e^+e^- \to π^+ π^- π^0 χ_{bJ}$ ($J=0,~1,~2$) processes are studied using a 118~fb$^{-1}$ data sample collected at a center-of-mass energy of 10.867 GeV, in the $Υ(10860)$ energy range, with the Belle detector. The $π^+ π^- π^0 χ_{b1}$, $π^+π^-π^0χ_{b2}$, $ωχ_{b1}$ signals and the evidence of $ωχ_{b2}$ are observed for the first time and the cross sectio

Julian Lee

A self-regulatory genetic circuit, where a protein acts as a positive regulator of its own production, is known to be a simplest form of biological network with a positive feedback loop. Although at least three components, DNA, RNA, and the protein, are required to form such a circuit, the stability analysis of fixed points of the self-regulatory circuit has

Da Zheng, Disa Mhembere, Randal Burns, Joshua Vogelstein

Graph analysis performs many random reads and writes, thus, these workloads are typically performed in memory. Traditionally, analyzing large graphs requires a cluster of machines so the aggregate memory exceeds the graph size. We demonstrate that a multicore server can process graphs with billions of vertices and hundreds of billions of edges, utilizing com

Bumned Soodchomshom

To construct Lagrangian based on plate theory and tight-binding model, deflection-field coupling to Dirac fermions in graphene can be investigated. As have been known, deflection-induced strain may cause an effect on the motion of the electron, like a pseudo gauge field. In the present work, we will investigate the effect of the Dirac field on the motion of

Xiaofeng Luo, Bedangadas Mohanty, Nu Xu

We present a systematic comparison between the recently measured cumulants of the net-proton distributions by STAR for 0-5% central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=7.7-200 GeV and two kinds of possible baseline measures, the Poisson and Binomial baselines. These baseline measures are assuming that the proton and anti-proton distributions independently fo

Reza Goldouzian

The presence of the anomalous top quark flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions leads to the production of same-sign top quarks in proton-proton collisions. The results of a search for events with same-sign dileptons and b-jets conducted by CMS collaboration with 10.5 $fb^{-1}$ of data collected in pp colisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV are used to ob

Nitin Jain, Birgit Stiller, Imran Khan, Vadim Makarov

An eavesdropper Eve may probe a quantum key distribution (QKD) system by sending a bright pulse from the quantum channel into the system and analyzing the back-reflected pulses. Such Trojan-horse attacks can breach the security of the QKD system if appropriate safeguards are not installed or if they can be fooled by Eve. We present a risk analysis of such at

Sandeep Sen

We describe a novel algorithm for rounding packing integer programs based on multidimensional Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Starting from an optimal fractional feasible solution $\bar{x}$, the procedure converges in polynomial time to a distribution over (possibly infeasible) point set $P \subset {\{0,1 \}}^n$ such that the expected value of any linear

Yasuho Yamashita, Antonio De Felice, Takahiro Tanaka

We discuss the ghost freeness in the case when we add matter coupled to two metrics to the ghost-free bigravity. In this paper we show that the Boulware-Deser ghost generally revives in the presence of doubly coupled matter and that ghost freeness strongly restricts the model of kinetically doubly coupled matter. This result may anticipate difficulties in th

Peter Samuelson

We give a topological realization of the (spherical) double affine Hecke algebra $\mathrm{SH}_{q,t}$ of type $A_1$, and we use this to construct a module over $\mathrm{SH}_{q,t}$ for any knot $K \subset S^3$. As an application, we give a purely topological interpretation of Cherednik&#39;s 2-variable polynomials $P_n(r,s; q,t)$ of type $A_1$ from [Che13] (wh

Jing-Fei Zhang, Jia-Jia Geng, Xin Zhang

The detection of the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the BICEP2 experiment implies that the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ should be involved in the base standard cosmology. In this paper, we extend the $Λ$CDM+$r$+neutrino/dark radiation models by replacing the cosmological constant with the dynamical dark energy with constant $w$

Gang-Qin Liu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Yan-Chun Chang, Jie-Dong Yue

Precise parameter estimation plays a central role in science and technology. The statistical error in estimation can be decreased by repeating measurement, leading to that the resultant uncertainty of the estimated parameter is proportional to the square root of the number of repetitions in accordance with the central limit theorem. Quantum parameter estimat

Salvatore Aiola

Hard-scattered partons provide an ideal probe for the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma because they are produced prior to the formation of the QCD medium in heavy-ion collisions. Jet production is therefore susceptible to modifications induced by the presence of the medium (&#34;jet quenching&#34;). Both RHIC and LHC experiments have provided compelling evide

Wolfgang Gawronski, Lance L. Littlejohn, Thorsten Neuschel

For the Legendre-Stirling numbers of the second kind asymptotic formulae are derived in terms of a local central limit theorem. Thereby, supplements of the recently published asymptotic analysis of the Chebyshev-Stirling numbers are established. Moreover, we provide results on the asymptotic normality and unimodality for modified Legendre-Stirling numbers.

Luis A. Correa, José P. Palao, Gerardo Adesso, Daniel Alonso

The derivation of general performance benchmarks is important in the design of highly optimized heat engines and refrigerators. To obtain them, one may model phenomenologically the leading sources of irreversibility ending up with results which are model-independent, but limited in scope. Alternatively, one can take a simple physical system realizing a therm

Sorin G. Gal

The aim of this short note is to show how can be derived from the properties of fundamental interpolation polynomials some nice identities.

Eric Bonnet, Laurence Calzone, Tom Michoel

Module network inference is an established statistical method to reconstruct co-expression modules and their upstream regulatory programs from integrated multi-omics datasets measuring the activity levels of various cellular components across different individuals, experimental conditions or time points of a dynamic process. We have developed Lemon-Tree, an

Qin-Tao Song, Dian-Yong Chen, Xiang Liu, Takayuki Matsuki

Newly observed two charmed-strange resonances, $D_{s1}^*(2860)$ and $D_{s3}^*(2860)$, are investigated by calculating their Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka allowed strong decays, which shows that they are suitable candidates for the $1^3D_1$ and $1^3D_3$ states in the charmed-strange meson family. Our study also predicts other main decay modes of $D_{s1}^*(2860)$ and $D_

Ion I. Cotaescu

We revisit the principal arguments for interpreting the free quantum fields on anti-de Sitter or de Sitter spacetimes of any dimensions as oscillators or respectively anti-oscillators. In addition, we point out that there exists a chart on the de Sitter background where the free Dirac field becomes a genuine anti-oscillator in the non-relativistic limit in t

Yoshimasa Takabatake, Yasuo Tabei, Hiroshi Sakamoto

Edit distance with moves (EDM) is a string-to-string distance measure that includes substring moves in addition to ordinal editing operations to turn one string to the other. Although optimizing EDM is intractable, it has many applications especially in error detections. Edit sensitive parsing (ESP) is an efficient parsing algorithm that guarantees an upper

Andrew S. Friedman, W. M. Wood-Vasey, G. H. Marion, Peter Challis

CfAIR2 is a large homogeneously reduced set of near-infrared (NIR) light curves for Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) obtained with the 1.3m Peters Automated InfraRed Imaging TELescope (PAIRITEL). This data set includes 4607 measurements of 94 SN Ia and 4 additional SN Iax observed from 2005-2011 at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona. C

Sophie Morel, Junecue Suh

We show how to deduce the standard sign conjecture (a weakening of the Künneth standard conjecture) for Shimura varieties from some statements about discrete automorphic representations (Arthur&#39;s conjectures plus a bit more). We also indicate what is known (to us) about these statements.

F. Huang, Z. Y. Zhang, P. N. Shen, W. L. Wang

We confirm our previous prediction of a $d^*$ state with $I(J^P)=0(3^+)$ [Phys. Rev. C 60, 045203 (1999)] and report for the first time based on a microscopic calculation that $d^*$ is a hexaquark dominated exotic state as it has about 2/3 hidden color (CC) configurations. By performing a more elaborate dynamical coupled-channels investigation of the $ΔΔ$-CC

F. A. Dessotti, L. S. Ricco, M. de Souza, F. M. Souza

As the Fano effect is an interference phenomenon where tunneling paths compete for the electronic transport, it becomes a probe to catch fingerprints of Majorana fermions lying on condensed matter systems. In this work we benefit of this mechanism by proposing as a route for that an Aharonov-Bohm-like interferometer composed by two quantum dots, being one of

Amy Glen, Florence Levé

The factor complexity function $C_w(n)$ of a finite or infinite word $w$ counts the number of distinct factors of $w$ of length $n$ for each $n \ge 0$. A finite word $w$ of length $|w|$ is said to be trapezoidal if the graph of its factor complexity $C_w(n)$ as a function of $n$ (for $0 \leq n \leq |w|$) is that of a regular trapezoid (or possibly an isoscel

Richard Buscall, Daniel R. Lester

Several methods for measuring the compressive strength of strong particulate gels are available, including the centrifuge method, whereby the strength as a function of volume-fraction is obtained parametrically from the dependence of equilibrium sediment height upon acceleration. The analysis used conventionally due to Buscall & White (1987) ignores the poss

Frederick Gent

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending horizontally 1 x 1 kpc squared and vertically 2 kpc, symmetric about the galactic mid-plane. They routinely span gas numb

Akishi Kato, Yuji Terashima

In our previous work [arXiv:1403.6569], we introduced the partition q-series for mutation loop --- a loop in exchange quiver. In this paper, we show that for certain class of mutation sequences, called reverse-ending mutation loops, a graded version of partition q-series essentially coincides with the ordered product of quantum dilogarithm associated with ea

Mauro R. Oliveira, Armando Chinelatto Neto

The purpose of this paper is to identify a relevant statistical correlation between rate of default, RD, and loss given default, LGD, in a major Brazilian financial institution Retail Home Equity exposure rated using the IRB approach, so that we may find a causal relationship between the two risk parameters. Therefore, according to Central Bank of Brazil req

Jonas O Birk, Márton Markó, Paul G Freeman, Johan Jacobsen

A development in modern neutron spectroscopy is to avoid the need of large samples. We demonstrate how small samples together with the right choice of analyser and detector components makes distance collimation an important concept in crystal analyser spectrometers. We further show that this opens new possibilities where neutrons with different energies are

Alexey Miroshnikov, Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We consider the equations describing the dynamics of radial motions for isotropic elastic materials; these form a system of non-homogeneous conservation laws. We construct a variational approximation scheme that decreases the total mechanical energy and at the same time leads to physically realizable motions that avoid interpenetration of matter.

Ilia Binder, Michael Goldstein, Mircea Voda

We provide an explicit lower bound for the the sum of the non-negative Lyapunov exponents for some cocycles related to the Anderson model. In particular, for the Anderson model on a strip of width $ W $ the lower bound is proportional to $ W^{-ε} $, for any $ ε>0 $. This bound is consistent with the fact that the lowest non-negative Lyapunov exponent is conj

Vito Cerone, Jean-Bernard Lasserre, Dario Piga, Diego Regruto

In this paper we present a unified framework for solving a general class of problems arising in the context of set-membership estimation/identification theory. More precisely, the paper aims at providing an original approach for the computation of optimal conditional and robust projection estimates in a nonlinear estimation setting where the operator relatin

Gregory Gutin, Viresh Patel

In the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), we are given a complete graph $K_n$ together with an integer weighting $w$ on the edges of $K_n$, and we are asked to find a Hamilton cycle of $K_n$ of minimum weight. Let $h(w)$ denote the average weight of a Hamilton cycle of $K_n$ for the weighting $w$. Vizing (1973) asked whether there is a polynomial-time algori

Roberto Fiore, Laszlo Jenkovszky, Vladyslav Libov, Magno Machado

By using a Regge-pole model for vector meson production (VMP), successfully describing the HERA data, we analyse the correlation between VMP cross sections in photon-induced reactions at HERA and those in ultra-peripheral collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Predictions for future experiments on production of $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)$ are presented.

Jon Fickenscher

Multiple conventions have been adopted for denoting Interval Exchange Transformations (IETs). The &#34;non-labeled&#34; convention was the original, while the &#34;labeled&#34; convention has proven convenient when investigating Flat Surfaces as described by IETs. We establish the relationship between Extended Rauzy Classes, an equivalence class of combinato

Guruprasad Kar, Manik Banik

In 1935, Albert Einstein and two colleagues, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (EPR) developed a thought experiment to demonstrate what they felt was a lack of completeness in quantum mechanics. EPR also postulated the existence of more fundamental theory where physical reality of any system would be completely describe by the variables/states of that fundamen

S. ter Horst

A pre-order and equivalence relation on the class of positive real Hilbert space operators are introduced, in correspondence with similar relations for contraction operators defined by Yu.L. Shmul&#39;yan in [7]. It is shown that the pre-order, and hence the equivalence relation, are preserved by certain linear fractional transformations. As an application,