December 2014 arXiv papers — page 17

Marat Freytsis, Tomer Volansky, Jonathan R. Walsh

We present a new tagger which aims at identifying partially reconstructed objects, in which only some of the constituents are collected in a single jet. As an example, we focus on top decays in which either part of the hadronically decaying W or the b jet is soft or falls outside of the top jet cone. We construct an observable to identify remnant substructur

Jérôme Fehrenbach, Jacek Narski, Jiale Hua, Samuel Lemercier

We use the results of a pedestrian tracking experiment to identify a follow-the-leader model for pedestrians walking-in-line. We demonstrate the existence of a time-delay between a subject's response and the predecessor's corresponding behavior. This time-delay induces an instability which can be damped out by a suitable relaxation. By comparisons wi

Casey J. Law, Geoffrey C. Bower, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Bryan Butler

We report on the first millisecond timescale radio interferometric search for the new class of transient known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). We used the Very Large Array (VLA) for a 166-hour, millisecond imaging campaign to detect and precisely localize an FRB. We observed at 1.4 GHz and produced visibilities with 5 ms time resolution over 256 MHz of bandwidt

Nitish Agrawal, Rachit Naidu, Sadhana Viswanathan, Vikram Wankhede

Of the factors that determines the quality of a software system is its design and architecture. Having a good and clear design and architecture allows the system to evolve (plan and add new features), be easier to comprehend, easier to develop, easier to maintain; and in conclusion increase the life time of the, and being more competitive in its market. In t

Afshin Somani, Ahmad Al-Sheikh Hassan, Anurag Reddy Pedditi, Challa Sai Sukesh Reddy

Software Quality is a major concern in software engineering development in order to be competitive. Such a quality can be achieved by a possible technique called Refactoring where the systems external behavior of the system is not changed. Initially we present our work by analyzing the case studies of ongoing researches of DMARF and GIPSY by understanding th

Pavan Kumar Polu, Amjad Al Najjar, Biswajit Banik, Ajay Sujit Kumar

This paper presents an analysis of the architectural design of two distributed open source systems (OSS) developed in Java: Distributed Modular Audio Recognition Framework (DMARF) and General Intensional Programming System (GIPSY). The research starts with a background study of these frameworks to determine their overall architectures. Afterwards, we identif

Zinia Das, Mohammad Iftekharul Hoque, Renuka Milkoori, Jithin Nair

This report focuses on improving the internal structure of the Distributed Modular Audio recognition Framework (DMARF) and the General Intensional Programming System (GIPSY) case studies without affecting their original behavior. At first, the general principles, and the working of DMARF and GIPSY are understood by mainly stressing on the architecture of the

Osama Yawar, Tahir Ayoub, Yashwanth Beeravelli, Muhammad Nadir

The intent of this report is to do a background study of the two given OSS case study systems namely GIPSY and DMARF. It is a wide research area in which different studies are being carried out to get the most out of it. It begins with a formal introduction of the two systems and advance with the complex architecture of both. GIPSY (General Intensional Progr

Dipesh Walia, Pankaj Kumar Pant, Mahendra Neela, Naveen Kumar

The main significance of this document is two source systems namely GIPSY and DMARF. Intensional languages are required like GIPSY for absoluteness and forward practical investigations on the subject.DMARF mainly focuses on software architectural design and implementation on Distributed Audio recognition and its applications such as speaker identification wh

Manpreet Kaur, Ravjeet Singh, Sukhveer Kaur, Baljot Singh

Software architecture consists of series of decisions taken to give a structural solution that meets all the technical and operational requirements. The paper involves code refactoring. Code refactoring is a process of changing the internal structure of the code without altering its external behavior. This paper focuses over open source systems experimental

Akhilesh Masna, Anil Ganesh, Prakash Tirunampalli, Sai Ganesh Gaddam

In the current scenario, many organizations invest on open-source systems which are becoming popular and result in rapid growth, where in many of them have not met the quality standards which resulted in need for assessing quality. Initially we represent our work by analyzing the two open source case studies which are (1) Distributed Modular Audio Recognitio

Vladimir Mityushev

Optimal packing of spheres in $\mathbb R^d$ is studied by optimization of the energy $E$ (effective conductivity) of composites with ideally conducting spherical inclusions. It is demonstrated that the minimum of $E$ over locations of spheres is attained at the optimal packing. The energy is estimated in the framework of structural approximations. This metho

Gennaro Infante, Petru Jebelean, Fadila Madjidi

We discuss the solvability of an infinite system of first order ordinary differential equations on the half line, subject to nonlocal initial conditions. The main result states that if the nonlinearities possess a suitable "sub-linear" growth then the system has at least one solution. The approach relies on the application, in a suitable Fréchet spac

Jan de Boer, Alejandra Castro, Eliot Hijano, Juan I. Jottar

Two-dimensional conformal field theories with extended $\cal{W}$-symmetry algebras have dual descriptions in terms of weakly coupled higher spin gravity in AdS$_3\,$ at large central charge. Observables that can be computed and compared in the two descriptions include Rényi and entanglement entropies, and correlation functions of local operators. We develop

Hélène Montanié, Pascaline Ory, Francis Orvain, Daniel Delmas

In shallow macrotidal ecosystems with large intertidal mudflats, the sediment-water coupling plays a crucial role in structuring the pelagic microbial food web functioning, since inorganic and organic matter and microbial components (viruses and microbes) of the microphytobenthic biofilm can be suspended toward the water column. Two experimental bioassays we

Viet Hung Nguyen, Huy-Viet Nguyen, Jerome Saint Martin, Philippe Dollfus

We investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the transport properties of vertical devices made of two twisted graphene layers, which partially overlap each other. We find that because of the different orientations of the two graphene lattices, their Dirac points can be displaced and separated in the $k-$space by the effects of strain. Hence, a finite con

Pierre Degond, Michael Herty, Jian-Guo Liu

Mean-Field Games are games with a continuum of players that incorporate the time-dimension through a control-theoretic approach. Recently, simpler approaches relying on the Best Reply Strategy have been proposed. They assume that the agents navigate their strategies towards their goal by taking the direction of steepest descent of their cost function (i.e. t

Florent Malrieu

In this note, we present few examples of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes and their long time behavior. They share two important features: they are related to concrete models (in biology, networks, chemistry,. . .) and they are mathematically rich. Their math-ematical study relies on coupling method, spectral decomposition, PDE technics, functional i

Heavy Flavor Averaging Group, Y. Amhis, Sw. Banerjee, E. Ben-Haim

This article reports world averages of measurements of $b$-hadron, $c$-hadron, and $τ$-lepton properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) using results available through summer 2014. For the averaging, common input parameters used in the various analyses are adjusted (rescaled) to common values, and known correlations are taken into accoun

Maria Irakleidou, Iva Lovrekovic, Florian Preis

We study canonical conformal gravity in four dimensions and construct the gauge generators and the associated charges. Using slightly generalized boundary conditions compared to those in \cite{Grumiller:2013mxa} we find that the charges associated with space-time diffeomorphisms are finite and conserved in time. They are also shown to agree with the Noether

Alfonso Ballon-Bayona, Gastao Krein, Carlisson Miller

We investigate the leptonic decay constants of the pion and its excitations with a 5-d holographic model for quantum chromodynamics. We prove numerically that the leptonic decay constants of the excited states of the pion vanish in the chiral limit when chiral symmetry is dynamically broken. This nontrivial result is in agreement with a solid prediction of q

Kaila C. S. Hall, Daniel K. L. Oi

The characterization of a quantum system can be complicated by non-ideal measurement processes. In many systems, the underlying physical measurement is only sensitive to a single fixed state, complementary outcomes are inferred by non-detection leaving them vulnerable to out-of-Hilbert space errors such as particle loss. It is still possible to directly veri

Md. Abdul Khan

In this paper, hyperspherical three-body model formalism has been applied for the calculation energies of the low-lying bound $^{1,3}$S (L=0)-states of neutral helium and helium like Coulombic three-body systems having nuclear charge (Z) in the range Z=2 to Z=92. The calculation of the coupling potential matrix elements of the two-body potentials has been si

Matheus Grasselli, Adrien Nguyen Huu

We study a monetary version of the Keen model by merging two alternative extensions, namely the addition of a dynamic price level and the introduction of speculation. We recall and study old and new equilibria, together with their local stability analysis. This includes a state of recession associated with a deflationary regime and characterized by falling e

Nicolas Burq, Laurent Thomann, Nikolay Tzvetkov

We show, by the means of several examples, how we can use Gibbs measures to construct global solutions to dispersive equations at low regularity. The construction relies on the Prokhorov compactness theorem combined with the Skorokhod convergence theorem. To begin with, we consider the non linear Schrödinger equation (NLS) on the tri-dimensional sphere. Then

G. Algara-Siller, O. Lehtinen, F. C. Wang, R. R. Nair

Adsorbed layers of water are ubiquitously present at surfaces and fill in microscopic pores, playing a central role in many phenomena in such diverse fields as materials science, geology, biology, tribology, nanotechnology. Despite such importance, the crystal structure of nanoconfined water remains largely unknown. Here we report high-resolution electron mi

Narkis M. Arslanov, Ali A. Kamli, Sergey A. Moiseev

We develop an analytical approach based on the Rytov-Leontovich boundary conditions to study light field modes in the nano planar waveguides. The analytical results thus obtained demonstrate new conditions for optical low loss surface plasmon-polariton modes in the planar waveguides with dielectric-metamaterial interfaces. The obtained results are confirmed

Raul Coto, Miguel Orszag, Vitalie Eremeev

In a coupled cavity QED network model, we study the transition from a localized super fluid like state to a delocalized Mott insulator like state, triggered by losses. Without cavity losses, the transition never takes place. Further, if one measures the quantum correlations between the polaritons via the negativity, we find a critical cavity damping constant

V. S. Neverov, P. A. Borisova, A. B. Kukushkin, V. V. Voloshinov

A method is suggested for estimation of structural properties of amorphous fullerene and its derivatives produced by vacuum annealing. The method is based on the fitting of the neutron or x-ray powder diffraction patterns for scattering wave vector's modulus in the range from few units to several tens of inverse nanometers. The respective inverse problem

Theja N. De Silva

We revisit the momentum independent many-body t-matrix approach for boson systems developed by Shi and Griffin~\cite{sg} and Bijlsma and Stoof~\cite{bs}. Despite its popularity, simplicity, and expected advantage of being its applicability to both normal and superfluid phases, we find that the theory breaks down in the normal phase of bosons. We conjecture t

Surya K. Ghosh, Andrey G. Cherstvy, Ralf Metzler

We study the diffusion of a tracer particle, which moves in continuum space between a lattice of excluded volume, immobile non-inert obstacles. In particular, we analyse how the strength of the tracer-obstacle interactions and the volume occupancy of the crowders alter the diffusive motion of the tracer. From the details of the partitioning of the tracer dif

Magdalena Marganska, Piotr Chudzinski, Milena Grifoni

Electrons in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess spin and orbital degrees of freedom. The latter is inherited from the bipartite graphene lattice with two inequivalent Dirac points. The electronic spectra obtained in several transport experiments on CNT quantum dots in parallel magnetic field often show an anticrossing of spectral lines assigned to the opposite

Hadiseh Alaeian, Jennifer A. Dionne

We investigate the effect of parity-time (PT)-symmetric optical potentials on the radiation of achiral and chiral emitters. Mode coalescence and the appearance of exceptional points lead to orders-of-magnitude enhancements in the emitted dipole power. Further, the emitter can be tuned to behave as a strong optical source or absorber based on the non-Hermitic

Jaeoh Shin, Andrey G. Cherstvy, Ralf Metzler

The looping of polymers such as DNA is a fundamental process in the molecular biology of living cells, whose interior is characterised by a high degree of molecular crowding. We here investigate in detail the looping dynamics of flexible polymer chains in the presence of different degrees of crowding. From the analysis of the looping-unlooping rates and the

Sidney J. de Carvalho, Ralf Metzler, Andrey G. Cherstvy

Based on extensive Monte Carlo simulations and analytical considerations we study the electrostatically driven adsorption of flexible polyelectrolyte chains onto charged Janus nanospheres. These net-neutral colloids are composed of two equally but oppositely charged hemispheres. The critical binding conditions for polyelectrolyte chains are analysed as funct

Zhi Guo, Amit Verma, Fangyuan Sun, Austin Hickman

The thermal conductivities of beta-Ga2O3 single crystals along four different crystal directions were measured in the temperature range of 80-495K using the time domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) method. A large anisotropy was found. At room temperature, the [010] direction has the highest thermal conductivity of 27.0+/-2.0 W/mK, while that along the [100] dir

S. A. Smolyansky, V. V. Dmitriev, A. D. Panferov, A. V. Prozorkevich

Within the theory of vacuum creation of an $e^{+}e^{-}$ - plasma in the strong electric fields acting in the focal spot of counter-propagating laser beams we compare predictions on the basis of different WKB-type approximations with results obtained in the framework of a strict kinetic approach. Such a comparison demonstrates a considerable divergence result

Pallavi Basu, Yang Feng, Jinchi Lv

Model selection is indispensable to high-dimensional sparse modeling in selecting the best set of covariates among a sequence of candidate models. Most existing work assumes implicitly that the model is correctly specified or of fixed dimensions. Yet model misspecification and high dimensionality are common in real applications. In this paper, we investigate

Jun Lai, Motoki Kobayashi, Alex Barnett

We present a solver for plane wave scattering from a periodic dielectric grating with a large number $M$ of inclusions lying in each period of its middle layer.Such composite material geometries have a growing role in modern photonic devices and solar cells. The high-order scheme is based on boundary integral equations, and achieves many digits of accuracy w

Christian Keller, Jianfeng Zhang

This paper introduces the path derivatives, in the spirit of Dupire's functional Itô calculus, for the controlled paths in the rough path theory with possibly non-geometric rough paths. The theory allows us to deal with rough integration and rough PDEs in the same manner as standard stochastic calculus. We next study rough PDEs with coefficients dependin

Matthias Schulte, Christoph Thaele

Consider a homogeneous Poisson point process in a compact convex set in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space which has interior points and contains the origin. The radial spanning tree is constructed by connecting each point of the Poisson point process with its nearest neighbour that is closer to the origin. For increasing intensity of the underlying Poisson poi

Michael Schreier, Takahiro Chiba, Arthur Niedermayr, Johannes Lotze

Pure spin currents transport angular momentum without an associated charge flow. This unique property makes them attractive for spintronics applications, such as torque induced magnetization control in nanodevices that can be used for sensing, data storage, interconnects and logics. Up to now, however, most spin transfer torque studies focused on metallic fe

J. F. Nossa, Ivan I. Naumov, R. E. Cohen

Mn is used as a dopant to improve the electromechanical properties of perovskite oxides. We elucidate the role of Mn defects and associated vacancies on the electronic, atomic and ferroelectric properties of BaTiO$_3$. Using density functional theory (DFT) and DFT+U we investigate the equilibrium geometry and electronic properties of Mn ion on A or B sites a

Euhanna Ghadimi, Hamid Reza Feyzmahdavian, Mikael Johansson

This paper establishes global convergence and provides global bounds of the convergence rate of the Heavy-ball method for convex optimization problems. When the objective function has Lipschitz-continuous gradient, we show that the Cesaro average of the iterates converges to the optimum at a rate of $O(1/k)$ where k is the number of iterations. When the obje

Jeferson J. Arenzon, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Marco Picco

We study the evolution of spin clusters on two dimensional slices of the $3d$ Ising model in contact with a heat bath after a sudden quench to a subcritical temperature. We analyze the evolution of some simple initial configurations, such as a sphere and a torus, of one phase embedded into the other, to confirm that their area disappears linearly in time and

Wahyu Setyawan, Aaron P. Selby, Niklas Juslin, Roger E. Stoller

Energetic atom collisions in solids induce shockwaves with complex morphologies. In this paper, we establish the existence of a morphological transition in such cascades. The order parameter of the morphology is defined as the exponent, $b$, in the defect production curve as a function of cascade energy ($N_F \sim E_{MD}^b$). Response of different bcc metals

David Oehri, Mikhail Pletyukhov, Vladimir Gritsev, Gianni Blatter

We investigate the two-photon scattering properties of a Jaynes-Cummings (JC) nonlinearity consisting of a two-level system (qubit) interacting with a single mode cavity, which is coupled to two waveguides, each containing a single incident photon wave packet initially. In this scattering setup, we study the interplay between the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect arisin

J. -Q. Yan, S. Nandi, B. Saparov, P. Cermak

La$_{0.4}$Na$_{0.6}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ single crystals have been grown out of an NaAs flux in an alumina crucible and characterized by measuring magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, specific heat, as well as single crystal x-ray and neutron diffraction. La$_{0.4}$Na$_{0.6}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ single crystals show a structural phase transition from a high temp

Guillermo Matera, Mariana Pérez, Melina Privitelli

Let $V\subset\mathbb{P}^n(\overline{F}_{\hskip-0.7mm q})$ be a complete intersection defined over a finite field $F_{\hskip-0.7mm q}$ of dimension $r$ and singular locus of dimension at most $0\le s\le r-2$. We obtain an explicit version of the Hooley--Katz estimate $||V(F_{\hskip-0.7mm q})|-p_r|=\mathcal{O}(q^{(r+s+1)/2})$, where $|V(F_{\hskip-0.7mm q})|$ d

Saurabh Maiti, Manfred Sigrist, Andrey Chubukov

We analyze $s + is$ state proposed as a candidate superconducting state for strongly hole-doped Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$. Such a state breaks time-reversal symmetry (TRS) but does not break any other discrete symmetry. We address the issue whether TRS breaking alone can generate spontaneous currents near impurity sites, which could be detected in, e.g., m

J. Terradas, R. Soler, M. Luna, R. Oliver

In this paper we present a numerical study of the time evolution of solar prominences embedded in sheared magnetic arcades. The prominence is represented by a density enhancement in a background stratified atmosphere and is connected to the photosphere through the magnetic field. By solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in three dimensions we

Cyril J. Stark, Aram W. Harrow

We investigate compressibility of the dimension of positive semidefinite matrices while approximately preserving their pairwise inner products. This can either be regarded as compression of positive semidefinite factorizations of nonnegative matrices or (if the matrices are subject to additional normalization constraints) as compression of quantum models. We

V. F. Ezhov, A. Z. Andreev, G. Ban, B. A. Bazarov

We report a new measurement of the neutron lifetime using ultra-cold neutrons stored in a magneto-gravitational trap made of permanent magnets. Neutrons surviving in the trap after fixed storage times have been counted and the trap losses have continuously been monitored during storage by detecting neutrons leaking from the trap. The value of the neutron lif

M. Ammar, M. Dupont-Nivet, L. Huet, J. -P. Pocholle

A trapped atom interferometer involving state-selective adiabatic potentials with two microwave frequencies on a chip is proposed. We show that this configuration provides a way to achieve a high degree of symmetry between the two arms of the interferometer, which is necessary for coherent splitting and recombination of thermal (i.e. non-condensed) atoms. Th

Mariano Garagiola, Omar Osenda

The spectral properties of one exciton trapped in a self-assembled multi-layered quantum dot is obtained using a high precision variational numerical method. The exciton Hamiltonian includes the effect of the polarization charges, induced by the presence of the exciton in the quantum dot, at the material interfaces. The method allows to implement rather easi

J. Leppäkangas, A. Puska, L. Äkäslompolo, E. Thuneberg

The Bloch-oscillating transistor (BOT) is an amplifier that utilizes semiclassical dynamics of states in energy bands under traveling quasimomentum. In a BOT, a single quasiparticle tunneling across a base tunnel junction switches the state of a superconducting tunnel junction to a lower Bloch band, triggering a series of resonant Cooper-pair tunnelings thro

Lizhu Sun, Baodong Zheng, Changjiang Bu, Yimin Wei

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an order $t$ dimension $m\times n\times \cdots \times n$ tensor over complex field. In this paper, we study some {generalized inverses} of $\mathcal{A}$, the {$k$-T-idempotent tensors} and the idempotent tensors based on the general tensor product. Using the tensor generalized inverse, some solutions of the equation $\mathcal{A}\cdot x^{

G. R. Gupta, Durgesh Tripathi, Helen E. Mason

Coronal loops are the basic structures of the solar transition region and corona. The understanding of physical mechanism behind the loop heating, plasma flows, and filling are still considered a major challenge in the solar physics. The mechanism(s) should be able to supply mass to the corona from the chromosphere and able to heat the plasma over 1 MK withi

Guillem Mosquera-Donate, Marian Boguna

Here we study the emergence of spontaneous leadership in large populations. In standard models of opinion dynamics, herding behavior is only obeyed at the local scale due to the interaction of single agents with their neighbors; while at the global scale, such models are governed by purely diffusive processes. Surprisingly, in this paper we show that the com

Giuseppe Da Prato, Arnaud Debussche

We consider the Burgers equation on $H=L^2(0,1)$ perturbed by white noise and the corresponding transition semigroup $P_t$. We prove a new formula for $P_tDφ$ (where $φ:H\to\R$ is bounded and Borel) which depends on $φ$ but not on its derivative. Then we deduce some new consequences for the invariant measure $ν$ of $P_t$ as its Fomin differentiability and an

A. V. Kavokin, A. S. Sheremet, I. A. Shelykh, P. G. Lagoudakis

Exciton-polaritons are mixed light-matter quasiparticles. We have developed a statistical model describing stochastic exciton-photon transitions within a condensate of exciton polaritons. We show that the exciton-photon correlator depends on the "hidden variable" which characterizes the rate of exciton-photon transformations in the condensate. We dis

Siddharth Prakash Rao

In this paper we discuss Bitcoin, the leader among the existing cryptocurrencies, to analyse its trends, success factors, current challenges and probable solutions to make it even better. In the introduction section, we discuss the history and working mechanism of Bitcoin. In the background section, we develop the ideas that evolved in the process of making

J. P. Martínez-Garcilazo, C. Ramírez

We give a generalization of Morita's works on ground states of Ising chains, for chains with a periodic structure with different spins, and distant neighbor interactions. The main assumption is translational invariance. The length of the irreducible blocks is a multiple of the period of the chain. In the case of parity invariance, it restricts the length

Alexander I. Bobenko, Emanuel Huhnen-Venedey, Thilo Rörig

Supercyclides are surfaces with a characteristic conjugate parametrization consisting of two families of conics. Patches of supercyclides can be adapted to a Q-net (a discrete quadrilateral net with planar faces) such that neighboring surface patches share tangent planes along common boundary curves. We call the resulting patchworks 'supercyclidic nets&#

Ruben Vigara

Pappus' Involution Theorem is a powerful tool for proving theorems about non-euclidean triangles and generalized triangles in Cayley-Klein models. Its power is illustrated by proving with it some theorems about euclidean and non-euclidean polygons of different types. A $n$-dimensional euclidean version of these theorems is stated too.

Changjiang Bu, Wenzhe Wang, Lizhu Sun, Jiang Zhou

In this paper, we define the minimum (maximum) rank, term rank and the sign nonsingular of tensors. The sufficiency and necessity for the minimum rank of a real tensor to be $1$ is given. And we show that the maximum rank of a tensor is not less than the term rank. We also prove that the minimum rank of a sign nonsingular tensor is not less than the dimensio

Adam J. McKay, Anita L. Cochran, Michael A. DiSanti, Geronimo Villanueva

We present analysis of high spectral resolution NIR spectra of CO and H$_2$O in comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) taken during its 2011-2012 apparition with the CSHELL instrument on NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). We also present analysis of observations of atomic oxygen in comet Garradd obtained with the ARCES echelle spectrometer mounted on the ARC

L. L. Bonilla, V. Capasso, M. Alvaro, M. Carretero

When modeling of tumor-driven angiogenesis, a major source of analytical and computational complexity is the strong coupling between the kinetic parameters of the relevant stochastic branching-and-growth of the capillary network, and the family of interacting underlying fields. To reduce this complexity, we take advantage of the system intrinsic multiscale s

Bernhard Ömer, Christoph Pacher

We give an implementation of an algorithm that uses fair coin flips to simulate fair rolls of an $n$-sided die. A register plays the role of an entropy pool and holds entropy that is generated as a by-product during each die roll and that is usually discarded. The entropy stored in this register is completely reused during the next rolls. Consequently, we ca

Marco Cardoso, George Rupp, Eef van Beveren

A multichannel Schrödinger equation with both quark-antiquark and meson-meson components, using a harmonic-oscillator potential for $q\bar{q}$ confinement and a delta-shell string-breaking potential for decay, is applied to the axial-vecor $X(3872)$ and lowest vector charmonia. The model parameters are fitted to the experimental values of the masses of the $

Luis Barreira, Davor Dragicevic, Claudia Valls

We obtain a characterization of two classes of dynamics with nonuniformly hyperbolic behavior in terms of an admissibility property. Namely, we consider exponential dichotomies with respect to a sequence of norms and nonuniformly hyperbolic sets. We note that the approach to establishing exponential bounds along the stable and the unstable directions differs

V. M. Khatsymovsky

In the Faddeev formulation of gravity, the metric is regarded as composite field, bilinear of $d = 10$ 4-vector fields. We derive the minisuperspace (discrete) Faddeev action by evaluating the Faddeev action on the spacetime composed of the (flat) 4-simplices with constant 4-vector fields. This is an analog of the Regge action obtained by evaluating the Hilb

Masaaki Uesaka, Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider a time-dependent structured population model equation and establish a Carleman estimate. We apply the Carleman estimate to prove the unique continuation which means that Cauchy data on any lateral boundary determine the solution uniquely.

Nicolás Andruskiewitsch, Giovanna Carnovale, Gastón Andrés García

We show that Nichols algebras of most simple Yetter-Drinfeld modules over the projective symplectic linear group over a finite field, corresponding to unipotent orbits, have infinite dimension. We give a criterium to deal with unipotent classes of general finite simple groups of Lie type and apply it to regular classes

Elena Beretta, M. Cristina Cerutti, Andrea Manzoni, Dario Pierotti

In this paper we provide a representation formula for boundary voltage perturbations caused by internal conductivity inhomogeneities of low volume fraction in a simplified {\em monodomain model} describing the electric activity of the heart. We derive such a result in the case of a nonlinear problem. Our long-term goal is the solution of the inverse problem

Yu Fu

We prove that proper biharmonic hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in Euclidean sphere $\mathbb S^5$ must have constant mean curvature. Moreover, we also show that there exist no proper biharmonic hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in Euclidean space $\mathbb E^5$ or hyperbolic space $\mathbb H^5$, which give affirmative partial answers t

Francesca Collet, Fabrizio Leisen, Fabio Spizzichino

In this paper a new transformation of occupancy models, called merging, is introduced. In particular, it will be studied the effect of merging on a class of occupancy models that was recently introduced in Collet et al (2013). These results have an interesting interpretation in the so-called entropy maximization inference. The last part of the paper is devot

Francesco Collamati, Alessandra Pepe, Fabio Bellini, Valerio Bocci

A novel radio guided surgery (RGS) technique for cerebral tumors using $β^{-}$ radiation is being developed. Checking the availability of a radio-tracer that can deliver a $β^{-}$ emitter to the tumor is a fundamental step in the deployment of such technique. This paper reports a study of the uptake of 90Y labeled (DOTATOC) in the meningioma and the high gra

Katy Hartling, Kunal Kumar, Heather E. Logan

The Georgi-Machacek model adds scalar triplets to the Standard Model Higgs sector in such a way as to preserve custodial SU(2) symmetry in the scalar potential. This allows the triplets to have a non-negligible vacuum expectation value while satisfying constraints from the rho parameter. Depending on the parameters, the 125~GeV neutral Higgs particle can hav

Roberto Aloisio

We will review the main channels of gamma ray emission due to the acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays, discussing the cases of both galactic and extra-galactic cosmic rays and their connection with gamma rays observations.

Roberto Aloisio

We use a kinetic-equation approach to describe the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic ray protons and nuclei comparing theoretical results with the observations of the Pierre Auger Observatory.

Kathrin Bringmann, Byungchan Kim

In a recent paper, J. Lovejoy and the second author conjectured that ranks for four types of unimodal like sequences satisfy certain inequalities. In this paper, we prove these conjectures asymptotically. For this, we extend Wright's Circle Method and analyze the asymptotic behavior of certain general partial theta functions.

Lyndsay Fletcher, Peter J. Cargill, Spiro K. Antiochos, Boris V. Gudiksen

The structure and dynamics of the outer solar atmosphere are reviewed with emphasis on the role played by the magnetic field. Contemporary observations that focus on high resolution imaging over a range of temperatures, as well as UV, EUV and hard X-ray spectroscopy, demonstrate the presence of a vast range of temporal and spatial scales, mass motions, and p

Daniel Lenz, Nicolae Strungaru

We consider diffraction of Delone sets in Euclidean space. We show that the set of Bragg peaks with high intensity is always Meyer (if it is relatively dense). We use this to provide a new characterization for Meyer sets in terms of positive and positive definite measures. Our results are based on a careful study of positive definite measures, which may be o

Chenglong Shen, Yuming Wang, Shui Wang, Ying Liu

Super-elastic collision is an abnormal collisional process, in which some particular mechanisms cause the kinetic energy of the system increasing. Most studies in this aspect focus on solid-like objects, but they rarely consider gases or liquids, as the collision of the latter is primarily a mixing process. With cross-field diffusion being effectively prohib

Fang Shen, Chenglong Shen, Yuming Wang, Xueshang Feng

Though coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are magnetized fully-ionized gases, a recent observational study of a CME collision event in 2008 November has suggested that their behavior in the heliosphere is like elastic balls, and their collision is probably super-elastic \citep{Shen_etal_2012}. If this is true, this finding has an obvious impact on the space weath

A. Baust, E. Hoffmann, M. Haeberlein, M. J. Schwarz

We report on ultrastrong coupling between a superconducting flux qubit and a resonant mode of a system comprised of two superconducting coplanar stripline resonators coupled galvanically to the qubit. With a coupling strength as high as 17% of the mode frequency, exceeding that of previous circuit quantum electrodynamics experiments, we observe a pronounced

Marcos Craizer

For non-degenerate surfaces in $R^4$, a distinguished transversal bundle called affine normal plane bundle was proposed in [Nomizu-Vrancken]. Lagrangian surfaces have remarkable properties with respect to this normal bundle, like for example, the normal bundle being Lagrangian. In this paper we characterize those surfaces which are Lagrangian with respect to

Jofre Espigulé-Pons, Christoph Goetz, Alipasha Vaziri, Markus Arndt

A new biophysical model for magnetoreception in migratory birds has recently been proposed by Stoneham et al. In this photo-induced radical pair (RP) model the signal transduction mechanism was physical rather than chemical in nature, as otherwise generally assumed in the literature. The proposal contains a magnetosensor and a signal transduction mechanism.

Judith Brecklinghaus, Stefan Hougardy

We prove that the approximation ratio of the greedy algorithm for the metric Traveling Salesman Problem is $Θ(\log n)$. Moreover, we prove that the same result also holds for graphic, Euclidean, and rectilinear instances of the Traveling Salesman Problem. Finally we show that the approximation ratio of the Clarke-Wright savings heuristic for the metric Trave

David F. Gleich, Ananth Grama, Yao Zhu

Dealing with hardware and software faults is an important problem as parallel and distributed systems scale to millions of processing cores and wide area networks. Traditional methods for dealing with faults include checkpoint-restart, active replicas, and deterministic replay. Each of these techniques has associated resource overheads and constraints. In th

G. Dagvadorj, J. M. Fellows, S. Matyjaskiewicz, F. M. Marchetti

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism, in which a phase transition is mediated by the proliferation of topological defects, governs the critical behaviour of a wide range of equilibrium two-dimensional systems with a continuous symmetry, ranging from superconducting thin films to two-dimensional Bose fluids, such as liquid helium and ultracold atoms.

Han-Qing Wu, Rong-Qiang He, Zi Yang Meng, Zhong-Yi Lu

Employing extensive cellular dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) calculations with exact diagonalization impurity solver, we investigate the ground state phase diagrams and non-magnetic metal-insulator transitions of the half-filled Hubbard model on two plaquette -- the 1/5 depleted and checkerboard -- square lattices. We identify three different insulators

Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay, Katri Huitu, Asli Sabanci Keceli

We study multi-lepton signatures of the triplet like charged Higgs at the LHC in the context of $Y=0$ triplet extended supersymmetric model (TESSM). In TESSM the $h_i^\pm W^\mp Z$ coupling appears at tree level when the triplet vacuum expectation value is nonzero, and because of the coupling the charged Higgs decay channels as well as the production channels

Olivier Pereira

This note provides an introduction to the PPATS Commitment Consistent Encryption (CCE) scheme proposed by Cuvelier, Pereira and Peters and its use in the design of end-to-end verifiable elections with a perfectly private audit trail. These elections can be verified using audit data that will never leak any information about the vote, even if all the private

Anastasia Vasil'eva

Under study are the eigenfunctions and perfect colorings of the graph of $n$-dimensional $q$-ary Hamming space. We obtain the interdependence of local distributions of an eigenfunction in two orthogonal faces. We prove also an analogous result for perfect colorings.

Kh. P. Gnatenko, Yu. S. Krynytskyi, V. M. Tkachuk

Noncommutative space which is rotationally invariant is considered. The hydrogen atom is studied in this space. We exactly find the leading term in the asymptotic expansion of the corrections to the $ns$ energy levels over the small parameter of noncommutativity.

Andrey Osipov

For operators generated by a certain class of infinite band matrices with matrix elements we establish a characterization of the resolvent set in terms of polynomial solutions of the underlying higher order finite difference equations. This enables us to describe some asymptotic behaviour of the corresponding systems of vector orthogonal polynomials on the r

Ahmet Yantir, Duygu Soyoglu

In this article, we prove an existence theorem regarding the weak solutions to the hyperbolic-type partial dynamic equation \begin{equation*}\begin{array}{l} z^{ΓΔ}(x,y)=f(x, y, z(x, y)), z(x, 0)=0, \ \ \ z(0, y)=0 \end{array}, \ \ x\in\mathbb{T}_1, \ \ y\in \mathbb{T}_2\end{equation*} in Banach spaces. For this purpose, by generalizing the definitions and r

Michael H. Goerz, Giulia Gualdi, Daniel M. Reich, Christiane P. Koch

The difficulty of an optimization task in quantum information science depends on the proper mathematical expression of the physical target. Here we demonstrate the power of optimization functionals targeting an arbitrary perfect two-qubit entangler, creating a maximally-entangled state out of some initial product state. For two quantum information platforms