August 2014 arXiv papers — page 8

Denes Sexty

Progress in the application of the complex Langevin method to full QCD at non-zero chemical potential is reported. The method evades the sign problem which makes naive simulations at nonzero density impossible. The procedure 'gauge cooling' is used to stabilize the simulations at small enough lattice spacings. The method allows simulations also at hi

Leandro Morgado, Paulo R. Ruffino

Let $M$ be a manifold equipped (locally) with a pair of complementary foliations. In Catuogno, da Silva and Ruffino (Stoch. Dyn. 2013), it is shown that, up to a stopping time $τ$, a stochastic flow of local diffeomorphisms $φ_t$ in $M$ can be decomposed in diffeomorphisms that preserves this foliations. In this article we present techniques which allows us

Nikolaos Polatidis

The communication of potential students with a university department is performed manually and it is a very time consuming procedure. The opportunity to communicate with on a one-to-one basis is highly valued. However with many hundreds of applications each year, one-to-one conversations are not feasible in most cases. The communication will require a member

Benjamin J. van Asten, Niels L. M. van Adrichem, Fernando A. Kuipers

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows to control the available network resources by an intelligent and centralized authority in order to optimize traffic flows in a flexible manner. However, centralized control may face scalability issues when the network size or the number of traffic flows increases. Also, a centralized controller may form a single point

P. M. Williams

Visual photometry of 16 WC8-9 dust-making Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars during 2001--2009 was extracted from the All Sky Automated Survey All Star Catalogue (ASAS-3) to search for eclipses attributable to extinction by dust formed in clumps in our line of sight. Data for a comparable number of dust-free WC6-9 stars were also examined to help characterise the dataset

Wu-Yi Hsiang, Eldar Straume

Newton's deduction of the inverse square law from Kepler's ellipse and area laws together with his "superb theorem" on the gravitation attraction of spherically symmetric bodies, are the major steps leading to the discovery of the law of universal gravitation (Principia, 1687). The goal of this article is to revisit some "well-known"

L. M. Rebull, A. M. Cody, K. R. Covey, H. M. Guenther

The YSOVAR (Young Stellar Object VARiability) Spitzer Space Telescope observing program obtained the first extensive mid-infrared (3.6 & 4.5 um) time-series photometry of the Orion Nebula Cluster plus smaller footprints in eleven other star-forming cores (AFGL490, NGC1333, MonR2, GGD 12-15, NGC2264, L1688, Serpens Main, Serpens South, IRAS 20050+2720, IC1396

Tobias Kley

Quantile-based approaches to the spectral analysis of time series have recently attracted a lot of attention. Despite a growing literature that contains various estimation proposals, no systematic methods for computing the new estimators are available to date. This paper contains two main contributions. First, an extensible framework for quantile-based spect

S. Afach, G. Bison, K. Bodek, F. Burri

The Surrounding Field Compensation (SFC) system described in this work is installed around the four-layer Mu-metal magnetic shield of the neutron electric dipole moment spectrometer located at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The SFC system reduces the DC component of the external magnetic field by a factor of about 20. Within a control volume of approximately 2

John Cuffe, Jeffery K. Eliason, Alexei A. Maznev, Kimberlee C. Collins

Knowledge of the mean free path distribution of heat-carrying phonons is key to understanding phonon-mediated thermal transport. We demonstrate that thermal conductivity measurements of thin membranes spanning a wide thickness range can be used to characterize how bulk thermal conductivity is distributed over phonon mean free paths. A non-contact transient t

Kenneth Intriligator

6d QFTs are constrained by the analog of 't Hooft anomaly matching: all anomalies for global symmetries and metric backgrounds are constants of RG flows, and for all vacua in moduli spaces. We discuss an anomaly matching mechanism for 6d N=(1,0) theories on their Coulomb branch. It is a global symmetry analog of Green-Schwarz-West-Sagnotti anomaly cancel

Guodong Xie, Long Li, Yongxiong Ren, Hao Huang

We study the design parameters for an orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexed free-space data link. Power loss, channel crosstalk and power penalty of the link are analyzed in the case of misalignment between the transmitter and receiver (lateral displacement, receiver angular error, or transmitter pointing error). The relationship among the system power

Jonathan Lux, Achim Rosch

Motivated by recent experiments, we investigate the dynamics of a line of spin-down spins embedded in the ferromagnetic spin-up ground state of a two-dimensional xxz model close to the Ising limit. In a situation where the couplings in x and y direction are different, the quench dynamics of this system is governed by the interplay of one-dimensional excitati

Y. V. Pershin, M. Di Ventra

We explore the relation between memcomputing, namely computing with and in memory, and swarm intelligence algorithms. In particular, we show that one can design memristive networks to solve short-path optimization problems that can also be solved by ant-colony algorithms. By employing appropriate memristive elements one can demonstrate an almost one-to-one c

Zhaobing Fan, Yiqiang Li

We establish algebraically and geometrically a duality between the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of type D and two new quantum algebras arising from the geometry of N-step isotropic flag varieties of type D. This duality is a type D counterpart of the Schur-Jimbo duality of type A and the Schur-like duality of type B/C discovered by Bao-Wang. The new algebras play a

G. Di Sciascio

The ARGO-YBJ detector, located at high altitude in the Cosmic Ray Observatory of Yangbajing in Tibet (4300 m asl, about 600 g/cm2 of atmospheric depth) provides the opportunity to study, with unprecedented resolution, the cosmic ray physics in the primary energy region between 10^{12} and 10^{16} eV. The preliminary results of the measurement of all-particle

Bernd Kirchheim, Emanuele Spadaro, Laszlo Szekelyhidi

In Gromov's treatise Partial Differential Relations (volume 9 of Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete (3), 1986), a continuous map between Riemannian manifolds is called isometric if it preserves the length of rectifiable curves. In this note we develop a method using the Baire category theorem for constructing such isometries. We show that a

Haya Shajaiah, Ahmed Abdelhadi, Charles Clancy

In this paper, we present our spectrum sharing algorithm between a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar and Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular system with multiple base stations (BS)s. We analyze the performance of MIMO radars in detecting the angle of arrival, propagation delay and Doppler angular frequency by projecting orthogonal waveforms onto the null-

Gábor Sárosi, Péter Lévay

We derive an inequality for three fermions with six single particle states which reduces to the sum of the famous Coffman-Kundu-Wootters inequalities when an embedded three qubit system is considered. We identify the quantities which are playing the role of the concurrence, the three-tangle and the invariant $\det ρ_A+\det ρ_B+\det ρ_C$ for this tripartite s

Sabine El Khoury, Andrew R. Kustin

This is the third paper in a series of three papers. The first two papers in the series are called "Artinian Gorenstein algebras with linear resolutions", (arXiv:1306.2523) and "The explicit minimal resolution constructed from a Macaulay inverse system". In the present paper, we give the explicit minimal resolution of an Artinian Gorenstein a

Frank Klinker

We present two different families of eleven-dimensional manifolds that admit non-restricted extensions of the isometry algebras to geometric superalgebras. Both families admit points for which the superalgebra extends to a super Lie algebra; on the one hand, a family of $N=1$, $ν={}^3\!/\!_4$ supergravity backgrounds and, on the other hand, a family of $N=1$

Uwe Saint-Mont

Given a sequence of random variables ${\bf X}=X_1,X_2,\ldots$ suppose the aim is to maximize one's return by picking a `favorable' $X_i$. Obviously, the expected payoff crucially depends on the information at hand. An optimally informed person knows all the values $X_i=x_i$ and thus receives $E (\sup X_i)$. We will compare this return to the expected

Alexandros V. Gerbessiotis, Constantinos J. Siniolakis

The Bulk-Synchronous Parallel model of computation has been used for the architecture independent design and analysis of parallel algorithms whose performance is expressed not only in terms of problem size n but also in terms of parallel machine properties. In this paper the performance of implementations of deterministic and randomized BSP sorting algorithm

Maciej Wiśniewolski, Jacek Jakubowski

We investigate a Verhulst process, which is the special functional of geometric Brownian motion and has many applications, among others in biology and in stochastic volatility models. We present an exact form of density of a one dimensional distribution of Verhulst process. Simple formula for the density of Verhulst process is obtained in the special case, w

A. H. Córsico, L. G. Althaus

The detection of pulsations in white dwarfs with low mass offers the possibility of probing their internal structure through asteroseismology and place constraints on the binary evolutionary processes involved in their formation. In this paper we assess the impact of stable H burning on the pulsational stability properties of low-mass He-core white dwarf mod

Marcello Farina, Luca Giulioni, Lalo Magni, Riccardo Scattolini

In this paper we propose an output-feedback Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm for linear discrete-time systems affected by a possibly unbounded additive noise and subject to probabilistic constraints. In case the noise distribution is unknown, the chance constraints on the input and state variables are reformulated by means of the Chebyshev - Cantelli

Gabriele Mancini

We study the blow-up behaviour of minimizing sequences for the singular Moser-Trudinger functional on compact surfaces. Assuming non-existence of minimum points, we give an estimate for the infimum value of the functional. This result can be applied to give sharp Onofri-type inequalities on the sphere in the presence of at most two singularities.

Friederike Stoll, Mathias Werth

We construct a cellular basis of the walled Brauer algebra which has similar properties as the Murphy basis of the group algebra of the symmetric group. In particular, the restriction of a cell module to a certain subalgebra can be easily described via this basis. Furthermore, the mixed tensor space possesses a filtration by cell modules -- although not by c

J. Zoller, S. Montangero

We apply signal processing analysis to the information spreading in scale-free network. To reproduce typical behaviors obtained from the analysis of information spreading in the world wide web we use a modified SIS model where synergy effects and influential nodes are taken into account. This model depends on a single free parameter that characterize the mem

Sabine El Khoury, Andrew R. Kustin

This is the second paper in a series of three papers. In the first paper of the series, "Artinian Gorenstein algebras with linear resolutions", (arXiv:1306.2523, J. of Algebra, to appear) we prove that it is possible to give the minimal resolution of the rings from the title in terms of the coefficients of the corresponding Macaulay inverse system. I

Andrea Davini, Albert Fathi, Renato Iturriaga, Maxime Zavidovique

We consider a continuous coercive Hamiltonian $H$ on the cotangent bundle of the compact connected manifold $M$ which is convex in the momentum. If $u_λ:M\to\mathbb R$ is the viscosity solution of the discounted equation $$ λu_λ(x)+H(x,d_x u_λ)=c(H), $$ where $c(H)$ is the critical value, we prove that $u_λ$ converges uniformly, as $λ\to 0$, to a specific so

Ilya Kossovskiy, Bernhard Lamel

In any positive CR-dimension and CR-codimension we provide a construction of real-analytic holomorphically nondegenerate CR-submanifolds, which are $C^\infty$ CR-equivalent, but are inequivalent holomorphically. As a corollary, we provide the negative answer to the conjecture of Ebenfelt and Huang \cite{eh} on the analyticity of CR-equivalences between real-

Misha Gavrilovich

We observe that some natural mathematical definitions are lifting properties relative to simplest counterexamples, namely the definitions of surjectivity and injectivity of maps, as well as of being connected, separation axioms $T_0$ and $T_1$ in topology, having dense image, induced (pullback) topology, and every real-valued function being bounded (on a con

Hayden Lee, S. -C. Su, Daniel Baumann

Inflation predicts B-mode polarization with correlations that span superhorizon scales at recombination. In contrast, the correlations set up by causal sources, such as phase transitions or defects, necessarily vanish on superhorizon scales. Motivated by BICEP2's B-mode detection, we consider the prospects for measuring the inflationary superhorizon sign

A. H. Córsico, L. G. Althaus

The discovery of pulsations in some low-mass white dwarfs, including the so-called extremely low-mass white dwarfs, has opened the unprecedented opportunity of probing the internal structure of these ancient stars. We present a detailed adiabatic pulsational study of these stars based on a new set of He-core white-dwarf models with masses ranging from $0.155

N. Kaiser

The set of particle-hole ring diagrams for a many-fermion system in two dimensions is studied. The complex-valued polarization function is derived in detail and shown to be expressible in terms of square-root functions. For a contact-interaction the perturbative contributions to the energy per particle $\bar E(k_f)$ are calculated in closed analytical form f

C. Landim, R. Misturini, K. Tsunoda

Let $Ξ$ be an open and bounded subset of $\bb R^d$, and let $F:Ξ\to\bb R$ be a twice continuously differentiable function. Denote by $Ξ_N$ th discretization of $Ξ$, $Ξ_N = Ξ\cap (N^{-1} \bb Z^d)$, and denote by $X_N(t)$ the continuous-time, nearest-neighbor, random walk on $Ξ_N$ which jumps from $\bs x$ to $\bs y$ at rate $ e^{-(1/2) N [F(\bs y) - F(\bs x)]}

Ville Salo, Ilkka Törmä

In this article, we study classes of multidimensional subshifts defined by multihead finite automata, in particular the hierarchy of classes of subshifts defined as the number of heads grows. The hierarchy collapses on the third level, where all co-recursively enumerable subshifts are obtained in every dimension. We also compare these classes to SFTs and sof

Marko J. Rančić, Guido Burkard

We theoretically study the interplay of spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions in dynamical nuclear polarization in two-electron semiconductor double quantum dots near the singlet $(S)$ - triplet $(T_+)$ anticrossing. The goal of the scheme under study is to extend the singlet $(S)$ - triplet $(T_0)$ qubit decoherence time $T_2^{*}$ by dynamically transferrin

Ville Salo, Ilkka Törmä

In this article, we study countable sofic shifts of Cantor-Bendixson rank at most 2. We prove that their conjugacy problem is complete for GI, the complexity class of graph isomorphism, and that the existence problems of block maps, factor maps and embeddings are NP-complete.

Erik M. Volz, Simon DW Frost

Many population genetic models have been developed for the purpose of inferring population size and growth rates from random samples of genetic data. We examine two popular approaches to this problem, the coalescent and the birth-death-sampling model, in the context of estimating population size and birth rates in a population growing exponentially according

Tianwen Wei

The FastICA algorithm is one of the most popular iterative algorithms in the domain of linear independent component analysis. Despite its success, it is observed that FastICA occasionally yields outcomes that do not correspond to any true solutions (known as demixing vectors) of the ICA problem. These outcomes are commonly referred to as spurious solutions.

Michael Björklund, Alexander Fish

We study in this paper the validity of the mean ergodic theorem along \emph{left} Følner sequences in a countable amenable group $G$. Although the \emph{weak} ergodic theorem always holds along \emph{any} left Følner sequence in $G$, we provide examples where the \emph{mean} ergodic theorem fails in quite dramatic ways. On the other hand, if $G$ does not adm

Luca Matteis

The Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud diagram is a picture that helps us grasp the contents and the links of globally available data sets. Such diagram has been a powerful dissemination method for the Linked Data movement, allowing people to glance at the size and structure of this distributed, interconnected database. However, generating such image for third-par

Rohan E. Louis, Christian Beck, Shibu K. Mathew, P. Venkatakrishnan

High-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of active region NOAA 11271 were obtained with the spectro-polarimeter on board Hinode to analyze the properties of an anomalous flow in the photosphere in a sunspot penumbra. We detect a blue-shifted feature that appeared on the limb-side penumbra of a sunspot and that was present intermittently during the ne

Yuquan Shan, Jayaram Raghuram, George Kesidis, Christopher Griffin

For a simple model of price-responsive demand, we consider a deregulated electricity marketplace wherein the grid (ISO, retailer-distributor) accepts bids per-unit supply from generators (simplified herein neither to consider start-up/ramp-up expenses nor day-ahead or shorter-term load following) which are then averaged (by supply allocations via an economic

Pallavi Kushwaha, Pallab Bag, R. Rawat

We report room temperature giant baro-resistance ($\approx$128\%) in $Fe_{49}(Rh_{0.93}Pd_{0.07})_{51}$. With the application of external pressure and magnetic field the temperature range of giant baro-resistance ($\approx$600\% at 5K and 19.9 kbar and 8 Tesla) and magnetoresistance ($\approx$-85\% at 5K and 8 tesla) can be tuned from 5 K to well above room

Š. Mikolaitis, V. Hill, A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny

Most high-resolution spectroscopic studies of the Galactic discs were mostly confined to objects in the solar vicinity. Here we aim at enlarging the volume in which individual chemical abundances are used to characterise both discs, using the first internal data release of the Gaia-ESO survey. We derive and discuss the abundances of eight elements (Mg, Al, S

Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo

In previous work [1] new bounded coherent states construction, based on a Keldysh conjecture, was introduced. As was shown in [1] the particular group structure arising from the model leads to new symmetry transformations for the coherent states system. As was shown, the emergent new symmetry transformation is reminiscent of the Bogoliubov ones and was succe

Thorsten Renk

Since the start of the LHC heavy ion program, a multitude of rather different high transverse momentum (P_T) observables has become available to study the physics of the interaction of hard partons with a QCD medium. Similarly, multiple theoretical models for this interaction exist and have been compared with available data, and regularly physics conclusions

Hironori Sakai

We study the relation between the lattice points of a stacky polytope and a prequantisation of the stack associated to the stacky polytope. We introduce a prequantisation of a Deligne--Mumford stack and discuss the uniqueness and the existence of a prequantisation. After that we describe explicitly the condition for the existence of a prequantisation in term

Jhan Rodríguez, András Bárdossy

We introduce a new measure of interdependence among the components of a random vector along the main diagonal of the vector copula, i.e. along the line $u_{1}=\ldots=u_{J}$, for $\left(u_{1},\ldots,u_{J}\right)\in\left[0,1\right]^{J}$. Our measure is related to the Shannon entropy of a discrete random variable, hence we call it an "entropy index". Th

Prashant Shahi, Harishchandra Singh, A. Kumar, K. K. Shukla

X-ray absorption near edge spectra (XANES) and magnetization of Zn doped MnV2O4 have been measured and from the magnetic measurement the critical exponents and magnetocaloric effect have been estimated. The XANES study indicates that Zn doping does not change the valence states in Mn and V. It has been shown that the obtained values of critical exponents \b{

Guangzhe Fan, Yucai Su, Henan Wu

Let $HV$ be the loop Heisenberg-Virasoro Lie algebra over $\C$ with basis $\{L_{\a,i},H_{\b,j}\,|\,\a,\,\b,i,j\in\Z\}$ and brackets $[L_{\a,i},L_{\b,j}]=(\a-\b)L_{\a+\b,i+j}, [L_{\a,i},H_{\b,j}]=-\b H_{\a+\b,i+j},[H_{\a,i},H_{\b,j}]=0$. In this paper, a formal distribution Lie algebra of $HV$ is constructed. Then the associated conformal algebra $CHV$ is stu

Agustinus Gunawan Admiranto, Rhorom Priyatikanto

In this study, we present geometrical and kinematical analysis of Moreton wave observed in 2012 June 3rd and July 6th, recorded in H-$α$ images of Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) archive. These large-scale waves exhibit different features compared to each other. The observed wave of June 3rd has angular span of about $70^{\circ}$ with a diffuse wave

Steven Chaplick, Jiří Fiala, Pim van 't Hof, Daniël Paulusma

A homomorphism from a graph G to a graph H is locally bijective, surjective, or injective if its restriction to the neighborhood of every vertex of G is bijective, surjective, or injective, respectively. We prove that the problems of testing whether a given graph G allows a homomorphism to a given graph H that is locally bijective, surjective, or injective,

Amarendra K. Sarma, Balla Prannay

We have studied a three-level Λ-type atomic system with all the energy levels exhibiting decay. The system is described by a pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian and subject to certain conditions, the Hamiltonian shows parity-time (PT) symmetry. The probability amplitudes of various atomic levels both below and above the PT-theshold is worked out.

Ilídio Lopes, Sylvaine Turck-Chièze

The detection of gravity modes produced in the solar radiative zone has been a challenge in modern astrophysics for more than 30 yr and their amplitude in the core is not yet determined. In this Letter, we develop a new strategy to look for standing gravity modes through solar neutrino fluxes. We note that due to a resonance effect, the gravity modes of low

Roberta Alessandroni, Ernst Kuwert

We consider a free boundary problem for the Willmore functional. Given a smooth domain $Ω$ in ${\mathbb R}^3$, we construct Willmore disks wich are critical in the class of surfaces meeting $\partial Ω$ orthogonally along their boundary and having small prescribed area. Using rescaling we first obtain constrained solutions with prescribed two-dimensional bar

Mark N. Berman, Benjamin Klopsch

The pro-isomorphic zeta function of a torsion-free finitely generated nilpotent group G enumerates finite index subgroups H such that H and G have isomorphic profinite completions. It admits an Euler product decomposition, indexed by the rational primes. We manufacture the first example of a torsion-free finitely generated nilpotent group G such that the loc

Shuji Kaieda, Mikael Lund, Tomás S. Plivelic, Bertil Halle

We investigate protein-protein interactions in solution by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and theoretical modeling. The structure factor for solutions of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI), myoglobin (Mb), and intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (IFABP) is determined from SAXS measurements at multiple concentrations, from Monte Carlo simulatio

Kushal K. Dey, Sourabh Bhattacharya

Random Walk Metropolis Hastings (RWMH) algorithm, is quite inefficient in high dimensions because of its abysmally slow acceptance rate. The slow acceptance rate results from the fact that RWMH separately updates each coordinate of the chain at every step. Dutta and Bhattacharya (2013) proposed a new technique called Transformation based Markov Chain Monte C

S. Zapf, C. Stingl, K. W. Post, J. Maiwald

Our comprehensive study on EuFe$_2$As$_2$ reveals a dramatic reduction of magnetic detwinning fields compared to other AFe$_2$As$_2$ (A = Ba, Sr, Ca) iron pnictides by indirect magneto-elastic coupling of the Eu$^{2+}$ ions. We find that only 0.1T are sufficient for persistent detwinning below the local Eu$^{2+}$ ordering; above $T_\text{Eu}$ = 19K, higher f

Sarmistha Kumar

Instantons, monopoles and vortices have become paradigms of topological structures in field theory and quantum mechanics, with important applications in particle physics, astrophysics, condensed matter physics and mathematics. We have discussed here the self-dual Chern-Simons theory specially in (2+1) dimensions. we start with a relevant topological quantum

Takeshi Mizushima

We here examine the relation between odd-frequency spin-triple even-parity (OTE) Cooper pairs and anomalous surface magnetic response in time-reversal invariant (TRI) spin-triplet superfluids and superconductors. The spin susceptibility generally consists of two contributions: Even-frequency odd-parity pair amplitudes and odd-frequency even-parity pair ampli

Ya-Zhou Shi, Yuan-Yan Wu, Feng-Hua Wang, Zhi-Jie Tan

Many recent exciting discoveries have revealed the versatility of RNAs and their importance in a variety of cellular functions which are strongly coupled to RNA structures. To understand the functions of RNAs, some structure prediction models have been developed in recent years. In this review, the progress in computational models for RNA structure predictio

Nikolaos Polatidis

For many sports, the allocation of officials to matches is performed manually and is a very time consuming procedure. For the Scottish Football Association (SFA), the allocation of referees and other officials to matches is governed by a number of rules specifying the expertise required from the different types of official at each level, e.g. Scottish Premie

Ilkka Helenius

This work focuses on applications of perturbative QCD (pQCD) and collinear factorization theorem to hard particle production in nuclear and hadronic collisions at the BNL-RHIC and CERN-LHC colliders. The emphasis is on nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) and their spatial dependence. Also parton-to-hadron fragmentation functions (FFs) are studied.

Blesson Mathew, Watson P. Varricatt, Annapurni Subramaniam, N. M. Ashok

We present optical and infrared photometric and spectroscopic studies of two Be stars in the 70--80-Myr-old open cluster NGC 6834. NGC 6834(1) has been reported as a binary from speckle interferometric studies whereas NGC 6834(2) may possibly be a gamma Cas-like variable. Infrared photometry and spectroscopy from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)

Manik Banik, Prasenjit Deb, Samyadeb Bhattacharya

The first step of quantum measurement procedure is known as \emph{premeasurement}, during when correlation between measuring system and measurement apparatus is established. One compelling non-classical correlation is entanglement, a useful resource for various quantum information theoretic protocols. Quantifying the amount of entanglement in the premeasurem

P. Žugec, N. Colonna, D. Bosnar, A. Mengoni

The integral cross section of the $^{12}$C($n,p$)$^{12}$B reaction has been determined for the first time in the neutron energy range from threshold to several GeV at the n_TOF facility at CERN. The measurement relies on the activation technique, with the $β$-decay of $^{12}$B measured over a period of four half-lives within the same neutron bunch in which t

A. A. Ardentov, Yu. L. Sachkov

The left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the Engel group is considered. The problem gives the nilpotent approximation to generic nonholonomic systems in four-dimensional space with two-dimensional control, for instance to a system which describes motion of mobile robot with a trailer. The global optimality of extremal trajectories is studied via geometri

Nate Bastian, Katie Hollyhead, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri

One of the leading models for the formation of multiple stellar populations within globular clusters is the "Fast Rotating Massive Star" (FRMS) scenario, where the ejecta of rapidly rotating massive stars is mixed with primordial material left over from the star-formation process, to form a second generation of stars within the decretion discs of the

V. M. Braun, A. N. Manashov

QCD evolution equations in $\text{MS}$-like schemes can be recovered from the same equations in a modified theory, QCD in non-integer $d=4-2ε$ dimensions, which enjoys exact scale and conformal invariance at the critical point. Restrictions imposed by the conformal symmetry of the modified theory allow one to obtain complete evolution kernels in integer (phy

Craig S. Hamilton, Regina Kruse, Linda Sansoni, Christine Silberhorn

In this letter we introduce the concept of a driven quantum walk. This work is motivated by recent theoretical and experimental progress that combines quantum walks and parametric down- conversion, leading to fundamentally different phenomena. We compare these striking differences by relating the driven quantum walks to the original quantum walk. Next, we il

Jonas Azzam, Guy David, Tatiana Toro

Let $μ$ be a doubling measure in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We investigate quantitative relations between the rectifiability of $μ$ and its distance to flat measures. More precisely, for $x$ in the support $Σ$ of $μ$ and $r > 0$, we introduce a number $α(x,r)\in (0,1]$ that measures, in terms of a variant of the $L^1$-Wasserstein distance, the minimal distance between

C. Travaglio, R. Gallino, T. Rauscher, N. Dauphas

The nucleosynthesis of proton-rich isotopes is calculated for multi-dimensional Chandrasekhar-mass models of Type Ia supernovae with different metallicities. The predicted abundances of the short-lived radioactive isotopes 92Nb, 97Tc, 98Tc and 146Sm are given in this framework. The abundance seeds are obtained by calculating s-process nucleosynthesis in the

Vladimir Kanovei, Vassily Lyubetsky

A generic extension $L[x]$ of $L$ by a real $x$ is defined, in which the $\mathsf E_0$-class of $x$ is a lightface $Π^1_2$ set containing no ordinal-definable reals.

Jaroslav Pavlicek, Ladislav Kristoufek

Online activity of the Internet users has been repeatedly shown to provide a rich information set for various research fields. We focus on the job-related searches on Google and their possible usefulness in the region of the Visegrad Group -- the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Even for rather small economies, the online searches of their inhab

Matúš Dubecký, František Dubecký

A plane-wave density functional theory is used to predict the work functions of Au/Mg decorated Au(100), Mg(001), and stochiometric AuMg alloy surfaces. We find, that irrespective of the details, all Au/Mg systems containing Mg on the surface reveal the Mg-dominated work functions, i.e. significantly shifted toward the work function of clean Mg(001) surface.

R. Farghadan, A. Saffarzadeh

The electric-field effect on the electronic and magnetic properties of triangular and hexagonal graphene quantum rings with zigzag edge termination is investigated by means of the single-band tight-binding Hamiltonian and the mean-field Hubbard model. It is shown how the electron and spin states in the nanoring structures can be manipulated by applying an el

Hiroaki Matsueda

In this short note, we examine geodesic distance in Fisher information space in which the metric is defined by the entanglement entropy in CFT_(1+1). It is obvious in this case that the geodesic distance at a constant time is a function of the entropy data embedded into the information space. In a special case, the geodesic equation can be solved analyticall

Valeria Ratushnaya, Ravi Samtaney

Collisionless plasmas, such as those encountered in tokamaks, exhibit a rich variety of instabilities. The physical origin, triggering mechanisms and fundamental understanding of many plasma instabilities, however, are still open problems. We investigate the stability properties of a collisionless Vlasov plasma in a stationary homogeneous magnetic field. We

Aslam Parvej, Manoranjan Kumar

The frustrated isotropic $J_1-J_2$ model with ferromagnetic $J_1$ and anti-ferromagnetic $J_2$ interactions in presence of an axial magnetic field shows many exotic phases, such as vector chiral and multipolar phases. The existing studies of the phase boundaries of these systems are based on the indirect evidences such as correlation functions {\it etc}. In

F. B. Erben, P. E. Shanahan, A. W. Thomas, R. D. Young

We explore the electromagnetic contribution to the charge symmetry breaking in the octet baryon masses using a subtracted dispersion relation based on the Cottingham formula. For the proton-neutron mass splitting we report a minor revision of the recent analysis of Walker-Loud, Carlson and Miller. For the electromagnetic structure of the hyperons we constrai

Chetan Balwe, Anand Sawant

We show that if G is an anisotropic, semisimple, absolutely almost simple, simply connected group over a field k, then two elements of G over any field extension of k are R-equivalent if and only if they are A^1-equivalent. As a consequence, we see that Sing_*(G) cannot be A^1-local for such groups. This implies that the A^1-connected components of a semisim

Yashvir Kalkal, Vinit Kumar

We present an analysis of a Čerenkov free-electron laser (FEL) driven by a flat electron beam. In this system, an electron beam travelling close to a dielectric slab placed at the top of an ideal conductor interacts with the co-propagating electromagnetic surface mode. The surface mode arises due to singularity in the reflectivity of the dielectric slab for

Amir Akbary, Jeff Bleaney, Soroosh Yazdani

Under certain conditions, we prove that the set of zeros of an elliptic net forms an Abelian group. We present two applications of this fact. Firstly we give a generalization of a theorem of Ayad on valuations of division polynomials in the context of net polynomials. Secondly we generalize a theorem of Ward on symmetry of elliptic divisibility sequences to

Walter S. Lasecki, Christopher M. Homan, Jeffrey P. Bigham

Crowdsourcing can solve problems that current fully automated systems cannot. Its effectiveness depends on the reliability, accuracy, and speed of the crowd workers that drive it. These objectives are frequently at odds with one another. For instance, how much time should workers be given to discover and propose new solutions versus deliberate over those cur

David Balduzzi

The paper demonstrates that falsifiability is fundamental to learning. We prove the following theorem for statistical learning and sequential prediction: If a theory is falsifiable then it is learnable -- i.e. admits a strategy that predicts optimally. An analogous result is shown for universal induction.

Chao Zhang, Dacheng Tao, Tao Hu, Xiang Li

In this paper, we study the generalization performance of regularized multi-task learning (RMTL) in a vector-valued framework, where MTL is considered as a learning process for vector-valued functions. We are mainly concerned with two theoretical questions: 1) under what conditions does RMTL perform better with a smaller task sample size than STL? 2) under w

Maggi Federico, Domenico Bosco, Cristina Marzachi'

Insect-borne plant diseases recur commonly in wild plants and in agricultural crops, and are responsible for severe losses in terms of produce yield and monetary return. Mathematical models of insect-borne plant diseases are therefore an essential tool to help predicting the progression of an epidemic disease and aid in decision making when control strategie

Zhihao Yu, Yiming Pan, Yuting Shen, Zilu Wang

Molybdenum disulfide is considered as one of the most promising two-dimensional semiconductors for electronic and optoelectronic device applications. So far, the charge transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide is dominated by extrinsic factors such as charged impurities, structural defects and traps, leading to much lower mobility than the intrinsic limit

Daowei He, Yuhan Zhang, Qisheng Wu, Rui Xu

Two-dimensional atomic crystals are extensively studied in recent years due to their exciting physics and device applications. However, a molecular counterpart, with scalable processability and competitive device performance, is still challenging. Here, we demonstrate that high-quality few-layer dioctylbenzothienobenzothiophene molecular crystals can be grow

Dong-Wook Lee, Sang-Joon Kim

Numerical studies on the imaging and caustic properties of the singular isothermal sphere (SIS) under a wide range of external shear (from 0.0 to 2.0) are presented. Using a direct inverse-mapping formula for this lens system (Lee 2003), we investigate various lensing properties under both a low (i.e., γ < 1.0), and a high (i.e., γ > 1.0) shear case: image s

Zhengjun Cao, Lihua Liu

The primitive of private broadcast encryption introduced by Barth, Boneh and Waters, is used to encrypt a message to several recipients while hiding the identities of the recipients. In their construction, a recipient has to first decrypt the received ciphertext to extract the verification key for one-time signature. He then uses the verification key to chec

Zhi-Ying Guo, Cai-Hao Hong, Hai-Ying Xing, Kun Tang

A feasible and convenient method has been proposed to suppress higher-harmonics for varied-line-spacing (VLS) plane grating monochromator in soft x-ray region. Related calculations and experiments demonstrate that decreasing the included angle slightly by changing the parameter of exit arm length can significantly improve light purity. This method is suitabl

Timothy D. Morton, Joshua N. Winn

The stellar obliquity of a transiting planetary system can be constrained by combining measurements of the star&#39;s rotation period, radius, and projected rotational velocity. Here we present a hierarchical Bayesian technique for recovering the obliquity distribution of a population of transiting planetary systems, and apply it to a sample of 70 Kepler Obj

Xu Li, Dongning Guo, John Grosspietsch, Huarui Yin

Deploying relays and/or mobile base stations is a major means of extending the coverage of a wireless network. This paper presents models, analytical results, and algorithms to answer two related questions: The first is where to deploy relays in order to extend the reach from a base station to the maximum; the second is where to deploy a mobile base station

Takashi Kubota

Scrutiny of the structure of electroweak gauge boson self-interactions through triple and quartic gauge boson couplings (TGCs and QGCs) constitutes an important part of the physics program of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Triboson production and vector boson scattering (VBS) are directly sensitive to QGCs while vector boson fusion (VBF) offers a new windo