February 2015 arXiv papers — page 16

N. A. Slavnov

We apply the nested algebraic Bethe ansatz to a model of one-dimensional two-component Bose gas with delta-function repulsive interaction. Using a lattice approximation of the L-operator we find Bethe vectors of the model in the continuous limit. We also obtain a series representation for the monodromy matrix of the model in terms of Bose fields. This repres

Paul Goodey, Wolfram Hinderer, Daniel Hug, Jan Rataj

The $k$th projection function $v_k(K,\cdot)$ of a convex body $K\subset {\mathbb R}^d, d\ge 3,$ is a function on the Grassmannian $G(d,k)$ which measures the $k$-dimensional volume of the projection of $K$ onto members of $G(d,k)$. For $k=1$ and $k=d-1$, simple formulas for the projection functions exist. In particular, $v_{d-1}(K,\cdot)$ can be written as a

Rafe Mazzeo, Frank Pacard, Tatiana Zolotareva

We consider a variational problem for submanifolds Q $\subset$ M with nonempty boundary $\partial$Q = K. We propose the definition that the boundary K of any critical point Q have constant mean curvature, which seems to be a new perspective when dim Q \textless{} dim M . We then construct small nearly-spherical solutions of this higher codimension CMC prob-l

P. Wassmer, C. Gomez, D. E. Hart, T. Hiraishi

Sedimentary records of tsunamis are a precious tool to assess the occurrence of past events, as attested by an abundant literature, which has seen a particular 'boom' in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. Despite an extensive literature, there is very little to no understanding of the role that the changing co

Nicolas Chauffert, Pierre Weiss, Marianne Boucher, Sébastien Mériaux

Performing k-space variable density sampling is a popular way of reducing scanning time in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Unfortunately, given a sampling trajectory, it is not clear how to traverse it using gradient waveforms. In this paper, we actually show that existing methods [1, 2] can yield large traversal time if the trajectory contains high curvat

Axel Kuhn

This chapter introduces cavity-based light-matter quantum interfaces, with a single atom or ion in strong coupling to a high-finesse optical cavity. We discuss the deterministic generation of indistinguishable single photons from these systems; the atom-photon entanglement intractably linked to this process; and the information encoding using spatio-temporal

Mourad Choulli, Laurent Kayser, El Maati Ouhabaz

Given a domain $Ω$ of a complete Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{M}$ and define $\mathcal{A}$ to be the Laplacian with Neumann boundary condition on $Ω$. We prove that, under appropriate conditions, the corresponding heat kernel satisfies the Gaussian upper bound $$ h(t,x,y)\leq \frac{C}{\left[V\_Ω(x,\sqrt{t})V\_Ω(y,\sqrt{t})\right]^{1/2}}\left( 1+\frac{d^2(x,

Ola Embréus, Sarah Newton, Adam Stahl, Eero Hirvijoki

Ions accelerated by electric fields (so-called runaway ions) in plasmas may explain observations in solar flares and fusion experiments, however limitations of previous analytic work have prevented definite conclusions. In this work we describe a numerical solver of the 2D non-relativistic linearized Fokker-Planck equation for ions. It solves the initial val

Silvia Bonettini, Marco Prato, Simone Rebegoldi

The aim of this paper is to present the convergence analysis of a very general class of gradient projection methods for smooth, constrained, possibly nonconvex, optimization. The key features of these methods are the Armijo linesearch along a suitable descent direction and the non Euclidean metric employed to compute the gradient projection. We develop a ver

Isabelle Mirbel, Pierre Crescenzo, Nadia Cerezo

In this paper, we propose first to start by presenting a state of the art of existing approaches about scientific workflows (including neuroscience workflows) in order to highlight business users' needs in terms of Web Services combination. Then we discuss about intentional process modeling for scientific workflows especially to search for Web Services.

Zhiwen Zeng, Xiangke Wang, Zhiqiang Zheng

This study develops an original and innovative matrix representation with respect to the information flow for networked multi-agent system. To begin with, the general concepts of the edge Laplacian of digraph are proposed with its algebraic properties. Benefit from this novel graph-theoretic tool, we can build a bridge between the consensus problem and the e

Yogesh M. Joshi

A model is proposed that considers aging and rejuvenation in a soft glassy material as respectively a decrease and an increase in free energy. The aging term is weighted by inverse of characteristic relaxation time suggesting greater mobility of the constituents induce faster aging in a material. A dependence of relaxation time on free energy is proposed, wh

L. Cavallina, A. Colesanti

We consider the space of convex functions defined in the Euclidean $n$-dimensional space, which are lower semi-continuous and tend to infinity at infinity. We study real-valued valuations defined on this space of functions, which are invariant under the composition with rigid motions, monotone and verify a certain type of continuity. Among these valuations w

Christian Barth, Makoto Takayasu, Nadezda Bagrets, Christoph Michael Bayer

The Twisted Stacked-Tape Cable (TSTC) is one of the major high temperature superconductor cable concepts combining scalability, ease of fabrication and high current density making it a possible candidate as conductor for large scale magnets. To simulate the boundary conditions of such a magnets as well as the temperature dependence of Twisted Stacked-Tape Ca

Houssem Haddar, Mohamed Kamel Riahi, Zixian Jiang

This work is motivated by the monitoring of conductive clogging deposits in steam generator at the level of support plates. One would like to use monoaxial coils measurements to obtain estimates on the clogging volume. We propose a 3D shape optimization technique based on simplified parametrization of the geometry adapted to the measurement nature and resolu

Yves Brihaye, Ruben Manvelyan, Eugen Radu, D. H. Tchrakian

We construct black holes with a Ricci flat horizon in Einstein--Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant, which approach asymptotically an AdS$_d$ spacetime background (with $d\geq 4$). These solutions are isotropic, $i.e.$ all space directions in a hypersurface of constant radial and time coordinates are equivalent, and possess both electric

Alexey Kuznetsov, Tom Van Doorsselaere, Veronika Reznikova

Radio observations of solar flares often reveal various periodic or quasi-periodic oscillations. Most likely, these oscillations are caused by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) oscillations of flaring loops which modulate the emission. Interpretation of the observations requires comparing them with simulations. We simulate the gyrosynchrotron radio emission from a s

Zhuang Zhao, Oussama Mhibik, Malik Nafa, Sébastien Chénais

High-power, diffraction-limited organic solid-state laser operation has been achieved in a vertical external cavity surface-emitting organic laser (VECSOL), pumped by a low-cost compact blue laser diode. The diode-pumped VECSOLs were demonstrated with various dyes in a polymer matrix, leading to laser emissions from 540 nm to 660 nm. Optimization of both the

Seok-Jin Kang, Masaki Kashiwara, Myungho Kim, Se-jin Oh

We prove that the quantum unipotent coordinate algebra $A_q(\mathfrak{n}(w))\ $ associated with a symmetric Kac-Moody algebra and its Weyl group element $w$ has a monoidal categorification as a quantum cluster algebra. As an application of our earlier work, we achieve it by showing the existence of a quantum monoidal seed of $A_q(\mathfrak{n}(w))$ which admi

Christian Barth, Giorgio Mondonico, Carmine Senatore

Rare-earth-barium-copper-oxide (REBCO) tapes are now available from several industrial manufacturers and are very promising conductors in high field applications. Due to diverging materials and deposition processes, these manufacturers' tapes can be expected to differ in their electro-mechanical and mechanical properties. For magnets designers, these are

M. Pellicer, J. Solà-Morales

We study the third order in time linear dissipative wave equation known as the Standard Linear Viscoelastic Model, that appears also as the linearization of the so-called Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation in Nonlinear Acoustics. We complete the description in a paper by R. Marchand et al. (2012) of the spectrum of the generator of the corresponding group of ope

A. Iomin, V. Zaburdaev, T. Pfohl

Anomalous transport and reaction dynamics are considered by providing the theoretical grounds for the possible experimental realization of actin polymerization in comb-like geometry. Two limiting regimes are recovered, depending on the concentration of reagents (magnesium and actin). These are both the failure of the reaction front propagation and a finite s

Boqiang Huang, Angela Kunoth

The empirical mode decomposition (EMD) has achieved its reputation by providing a multi-scale time-frequency representation of nonlinear and/or nonstationary signals. To extend this method to vector-valued signals (VvS) in multidimensional (multi-D) space, a multivariate EMD (MEMD) has been designed recently, which employs an ensemble projection to extract l

Apoorva Khare

We introduce a general axiomatic framework for algebras with triangular decomposition, which allows for a systematic study of the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand Category $\mathcal{O}$. The framework is stated via three relatively simple axioms; algebras satisfying them are termed "regular triangular algebras (RTAs)". These encompass a large class of algeb

V. G. Klochkova

A new type of peculiarity -- a splitting or asymmetry of strong absorption lines, is found in the optical spectra of selected post-AGB stars with C-rich circumstellar envelopes. The effect is maximal in BaII lines whose profile is split into two-three components. The particular components of the split absorption lines are shown to be formed in a structured c

B. H. Shekar, Smitha M. L., P. Shivakumara

The text detection and localization is important for video analysis and understanding. The scene text in video contains semantic information and thus can contribute significantly to video retrieval and understanding. However, most of the approaches detect scene text in still images or single video frame. Videos differ from images in temporal redundancy. This

R. Bjørk, A. Smith, C. R. H. Bahl

The maximum magnetic efficiency of a general multipole Halbach cylinder of order $p$ is found as function of $p$. The efficiency is shown to decrease for increasing absolute value of $p$. The optimal ratio between the inner and outer radius, i.e. the ratio resulting in the most efficient design, is also found as function of $p$ and is shown to tend towards s

Masataka Ono, Shuji Yamamoto

In this paper, we define a finite sum analogue of multiple polylogarithms inspired by the work of Kaneko and Zaiger and prove that they satisfy a certain analogue of the shuffle relation. Our result is obtained by using a certain partial fraction decomposition due to Komori-Matsumoto-Tsumura. As a corollary, we give an algebraic interpretation of our shuffle

Kyriakos Papadodimas, Suvrat Raju

We show that, in the AdS/CFT correspondence, states obtained by Hamiltonian evolution of the thermofield doubled state are also dual to an eternal black hole geometry, which is glued to the boundary with a time shift generated by a large diffeomorphism. We describe gauge invariant relational observables that probe the black hole interior in these states and

Kwangsu Lee, Dong Hoon Lee, Moti Yung

The notion of aggregate signature has been motivated by applications and it enables any user to compress different signatures signed by different signers on different messages into a short signature. Sequential aggregate signature, in turn, is a special kind of aggregate signature that only allows a signer to add his signature into an aggregate signature in

Carlo Danieli, Joshua D. Bodyfelt, Sergej Flach

Properly modulated flatband lattices have a divergent density of states at the flatband energy. Quasiperiodic modulations are known to host a metal insulator transition already in one space dimension. Their embedding into flatband geometries consequently allows for a precise engineering and fine tuning of mobility edges. We obtain analytic expressions for si

Sonia Bhaskar, Adel Javanmard

We consider the problem of noisy 1-bit matrix completion under an exact rank constraint on the true underlying matrix $M^*$. Instead of observing a subset of the noisy continuous-valued entries of a matrix $M^*$, we observe a subset of noisy 1-bit (or binary) measurements generated according to a probabilistic model. We consider constrained maximum likelihoo

Richard Taylor

The Kuramoto model when considered over the full space of phase angles [$0,2π$) can have multiple stable fixed points which form basins of attraction in the solution space. In this paper we illustrate the fundamentally complex relationship between the network topology and the solution space by showing that determining the possibility of multiple stable fixed

Kai Xu, Vladimir G. Kim, Qixing Huang, Evangelos Kalogerakis

Data-driven methods play an increasingly important role in discovering geometric, structural, and semantic relationships between 3D shapes in collections, and applying this analysis to support intelligent modeling, editing, and visualization of geometric data. In contrast to traditional approaches, a key feature of data-driven approaches is that they aggrega

Manukumara Manjappa, Sher-Yi Chiam, Longqing Cong, Andrew A. Bettiol

We experimentally study the effect of near field coupling on the transmission of light in terahertz metasurfaces, possessing slightly distinctive SRR resonances. Our results show that the interplay between the strengths of electric and magnetic dipoles, modulates the amplitude of resulting electromagnetically induced transmission, probed under different type

Gerald V. Dunne, M. Shifman, Mithat Unsal

We use the "conspiracy" between infrared (IR) renormalons and condensates in the operator product expansion for correlation functions to make predictions concerning the structure of singularities in the Borel plane for the perturbative series in quantum field theories with different levels of supersymmetry. The same conspiracy can be used for establi

Leonid Petrov

Computation of propagation effects in the neutral atmosphere, namely path delay, extinction, and bending angle is a trivial task provided the 4D state of the atmosphere is known. Unfortunately, the mixing ratio of water vapor is highly variable and it cannot be deduced from surface measurements. That fact led to a paradigm that considers path delay and extin

Atsushi Nakamula, Kiyoshi Shiraishi

A cosmological scenario according to which our universe experienced space-time compactifications twice in its early development is investigated through toy models. In this scenario gauge configurations on an extra space play essential roles to bring about a change of the dimensionality of the compactified space. Simple models are offered and their behaviour

Tomoyoshi Shimobaba, Tomoyoshi Ito

Addition of random phase to the object light is required in computer-generated holograms (CGHs) to widely diffuse the object light and to avoid its concentration on the CGH; however, this addition causes considerable speckle noise in the reconstructed image. For improving the speckle noise problem, techniques such as iterative phase retrieval algorithms and

C. J. Billington, C. J. Watkins, R. P. Anderson, L. D. Turner

We present a Monte Carlo wavefunction method for semiclassically modeling spin-$\frac12$ systems in a magnetic field gradient in one dimension. Our model resolves the conflict of determining what classical force an atom should be subjected to when it is in an arbitrary superposition of internal states. Spatial degrees of freedom are considered to be an envir

Pinghui Wang, John C. S. Lui, Don Towsley

Characterizing motif (i.e., locally connected subgraph patterns) statistics is important for understanding complex networks such as online social networks and communication networks. Previous work made the strong assumption that the graph topology of interest is known, and that the dataset either fits into main memory or stored on disks such that it is not e

Jacob Steinhardt, Percy Liang

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are often used for approximate inference inside learning, but their slow mixing can be difficult to diagnose and the approximations can seriously degrade learning. To alleviate these issues, we define a new model family using strong Doeblin Markov chains, whose mixing times can be precisely controlled by a parameter

Yuhua Xu, Yuli Zhang, Qihui Wu, Liang Shen

This letter investigates the problem of distributed spectrum access for cognitive small cell networks. Compared with existing work, two inherent features are considered: i) the transmission of a cognitive small cell base station only interferes with its neighbors due to the low power, i.e., the interference is local, and ii) the channel state is time-varying

Francisco Frutos-Alfaro, Rodrigo Carboni-Mendez

A program to generate codes in Fortran and C of the full Magnetohydrodynamic equations is shown. The program used the free computer algebra system software REDUCE. This software has a package called EXCALC, which is an exterior calculus program. The advantage of this program is that it can be modified to include another complex metric or spacetime. The outpu

Jacob Steinhardt, Percy Liang

A classic tension exists between exact inference in a simple model and approximate inference in a complex model. The latter offers expressivity and thus accuracy, but the former provides coverage of the space, an important property for confidence estimation and learning with indirect supervision. In this work, we introduce a new approach, reified context mod

Spencer R. Klein

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of ions allow us to study photonuclear and two-photon interactions at energies above those available at fixed target accelerators. For heavy ions, the couplings are large enough so that multi-photon interactions are possible, and higher order corrections are expected to be significant. In this writeup, I present some recent

Manas Kulkarni, David A. Huse, Herbert Spohn

We show that several aspects of the low-temperature hydrodynamics of a discrete Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) can be understood by mapping it to a nonlinear version of fluctuating hydrodynamics. This is achieved by first writing the GPE in a hydrodynamic form of a continuity and an Euler equation. Respecting conservation laws, dissipation and noise due to

Somwrita Sarkar, Sanjay Chawla, Donna Xu

The anatomical structure of the brain can be observed via non-invasive techniques such as diffusion imaging. However, these are imperfect because they miss connections that are actually known to exist, especially long range inter-hemispheric ones. In this paper we formulate the inverse problem of inferring the structural connectivity of brain networks from e

Sahin Cem Geyik, Abhishek Saxena, Ali Dasdan

Budget allocation in online advertising deals with distributing the campaign (insertion order) level budgets to different sub-campaigns which employ different targeting criteria and may perform differently in terms of return-on-investment (ROI). In this paper, we present the efforts at Turn on how to best allocate campaign budget so that the advertiser or ca

Cédric Lorcé

We provide for the first time a complete parametrization for the matrix elements of the generic asymmetric, non-local and gauge-invariant canonical energy-momentum tensor, generalizing therefore former works on the symmetric, local and gauge-invariant kinetic energy-momentum tensor also known as the Belinfante-Rosenfeld energy-momentum tensor. We discuss in

Nora Lüthen, Mika Juntunen, Rolf Stenberg

In a previous paper [6] we have extended Nitsche's method [8] for the Poisson equation with general Robin boundary conditions. The analysis required that the solution is in H^s, with s > 3/2. Here we give an improved error analysis using a technique proposed by Gudi [5].

Antti Koskela, Elias Jarlebring

Exponential integrators that use Krylov approximations of matrix functions have turned out to be efficient for the time-integration of certain ordinary differential equations (ODEs). This holds in particular for linear homogeneous ODEs, where the exponential integrator is equivalent to approximating the product of the matrix exponential and a vector. In this

Max Duarte, Zdenek Bonaventura, Marc Massot, Anne Bourdon

We develop a numerical strategy to solve multi-dimensional Poisson equations on dynamically adapted grids for evolutionary problems disclosing propagating fronts. The method is an extension of the multiresolution finite volume scheme used to solve hyperbolic and parabolic time-dependent PDEs. Such an approach guarantees a numerical solution of the Poisson eq

M. Shifman, K. V. Stepanyantz

We discuss various details of our derivation of the exact expression for the Adler D function in N=1 supersymmetric QCD (SQCD). This exact formula relates the D function to anomalous dimensions of the matter superfields. Our perturbative derivation refers to the D function defined in terms of the bare coupling constant in the case of using the higher covaria

Fei Dai, Stefano Facchini, Cathie J. Clarke, Thomas J. Haworth

RW Aurigae (RW Aur) is a binary star system with a long molecular arm trailing the primary star. Cabrit et al. (2006) noted the resemblance between this extended structure and the tidal arm stripped from the primary star in the simulations of star-disc encounters by Clarke & Pringle (1993). In this paper we use new hydrodynamical models and synthetic observa

Marcus Rohrbach, Anna Rohrbach, Michaela Regneri, Sikandar Amin

Activity recognition has shown impressive progress in recent years. However, the challenges of detecting fine-grained activities and understanding how they are combined into composite activities have been largely overlooked. In this work we approach both tasks and present a dataset which provides detailed annotations to address them. The first challenge is t

Philip B. Allen

The Quasi-harmonic (QH) approximation uses harmonic vibrational frequencies omega(H,Q,V), computed at volumes V near the volume where the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) energy is minimum. When this is used in the harmonic free energy, QH approximation gives a good zeroth order theory of thermal expansion, and first order theory of bulk modulus. Here, n-th order means

Babak Haghighat

We show how recent progress in computing elliptic genera of strings in six dimensions can be used to obtain expressions for elliptic genera of strings in five-dimensional field theories which have a six-dimensional parent. We further connect our results to recent mathematical results about sheaf counting on ruled surfaces.

Robert A. Vandermeulen, Clayton D. Scott

Finite mixture models are statistical models which appear in many problems in statistics and machine learning. In such models it is assumed that data are drawn from random probability measures, called mixture components, which are themselves drawn from a probability measure P over probability measures. When estimating mixture models, it is common to make ass

Fabio Deelan Cunden, Paolo Facchi, Pierpaolo Vivo

We study the joint statistics of conductance $G$ and shot noise $P$ in chaotic cavities supporting a large number $N$ of open electronic channels in the two attached leads. We determine the full phase diagram in the $(G,P)$ plane, employing a Coulomb gas technique on the joint density of transmission eigenvalues, as dictated by Random Matrix Theory. We find

Jiri Lebl, Asif Shakeel, Nolan Wallach

An orthonormal basis consisting of unentangled (pure tensor) elements in a tensor product of Hilbert spaces is an Unentangled Orthogonal Basis (UOB). In general, for $n$ qubits, we prove that in its natural structure as a real variety, the space of UOB is a bouquet of products of Riemann spheres parametrized by a class of edge colorings of hypercubes. Its ir

Aldo Ledesma Duran, I. Santamaria-Holek

We discuss the implementation of a multiscale biophysico-chemical model able to cope with the main mechanisms underlying cumulative exocytosis in cells. The model is based on a diffusion equation in the presence of external forces that links calcium signaling and the biochemistry associated to the activity of cytoskeletal-based protein motors. This multiscal

Jenny List, Annika Vauth, Benedikt Vormwald

Precision polarimetry is essential for future e+ e- colliders and requires Compton polarimeters designed for negligible statistical uncertainties. In this paper, we discuss the design and construction of a quartz Cherenkov detector for such Compton polarimeters. The detector concept has been developed with regard to the main systematic uncertainties of the p

R. Maiolino, S. Carniani, A. Fontana, L. Vallini

We report new deep ALMA observations aimed at investigating the [CII]158um line and continuum emission in three spectroscopically confirmed Lyman Break Galaxies at 6.8<z<7.1, i.e. well within the re-ionization epoch. With Star Formation Rates of SFR ~ 5-15 Msun/yr these systems are much more representative of the high-z galaxy population than other systems t

Lewis C. Roberts,, Brian D. Mason, Christopher R. Neyman, Yanqin Wu

HD 8673 hosts a massive exoplanet in a highly eccentric orbit (e=0.723). Based on two epochs of speckle interferometry a previous publication identified a candidate stellar companion. We observed HD 8673 multiple times with the 10 m Keck II telescope, the 5 m Hale telescope, the 3.63 m AEOS telescope and the 1.5m Palomar telescope in a variety of filters wit

Andreas Brandhuber, Brenda Penante, Gabriele Travaglini, Donovan Young

We show how generalised unitarity can be used to determine the one-loop dilatation operator in N=4 super Yang-Mills. Our analysis focuses on two sectors, namely the bosonic SO(6) sector and the SU(2|3) sector. The calculation is performed on shell, with no off-shell information introduced at any stage. In this way, we establish a direct connection between sc

Philipp Lange, Casper Drukier, Anand Sharma, Peter Kopietz

We present a simple method for summing so-called parquet diagrams of fermionic many-body systems with competing instabilities using the functional renormalization group. Our method is based on partial bosonization of the interaction utilizing multi-channel Hubbard-Stratonovich transformations. A simple truncation of the resulting flow equations, retaining on

Yehuda Dinaii, Yuval Gefen, Bernd Rosenow

A charge fluctuator which is electrostatically coupled to a conducting channel may fully dephase quantum transport through the latter. Here, we address the case where a quantum dot (QD), playing the role of a charge fluctuator, is tunnel-coupled to an additional channel. In the case where the latter may support fractional charge, distinct differences from th

Fabio Apruzzi, Marco Fazzi, Achilleas Passias, Alessandro Tomasiello

Motivated by a recently found class of AdS_7 solutions, we classify AdS_5 solutions in massive IIA, finding infinitely many new analytical examples. We reduce the general problem to a set of PDEs, determining the local internal metric, which is a fibration over a surface. Under a certain simplifying assumption, we are then able to analytically solve the PDEs

Nicolas Behr, Stanislav Kuperstein, Ayan Mukhopadhyay

We investigate how the holographic correspondence can be reformulated as a generalisation of Wilsonian RG flow in a strongly interacting large $N$ quantum field theory. We firstly define a \textit{highly efficient RG flow} as one in which the Ward identities related to local conservation of energy, momentum and charges preserve the same form at each scale --

Anne M. Medling, Vivian U., Claire E. Max, David B. Sanders

We present black hole mass measurements from kinematic modeling of high-spatial resolution integral field spectroscopy of the inner regions of 9 nearby (ultra-)luminous infrared galaxies in a variety of merger stages. These observations were taken with OSIRIS and laser guide star adaptive optics on the Keck I and Keck II telescopes, and reveal gas and stella

Fabio Apruzzi, Marco Fazzi, Achilleas Passias, Andrea Rota

We describe three analytic classes of infinitely many AdS_d supersymmetric solutions of massive IIA supergravity, for d = 7, 5, 4. The three classes are related by simple universal maps. For example, the AdS_7 x M_3 solutions (where M_3 is topologically S^3) are mapped to AdS_5 x Sigma_2 x M&#39;_3, where Sigma_2 is a Riemann surface of genus g >= 2 and the

S. Contreras, C. M. Baugh, P. Norberg, N. Padilla

We demonstrate how the properties of a galaxy depend on the mass of its host dark matter subhalo, using two independent models of galaxy formation. For the cases of stellar mass and black hole mass, the median property value displays a monotonic dependence on subhalo mass. The slope of the relation changes for subhalo masses for which heating by active galac

Dario Bettoni, Stefano Liberati

We present a general formulation of the theory for a non-minimally coupled perfect fluid in which both conformal and disformal couplings are present. We discuss how such non-minimal coupling is compatible with the assumptions of a perfect fluid and derive both the Einstein and the fluid equations for such model. We found that, while the Euler equation is sig

O. S. Salafia, G. Ghisellini, A. Pescalli, G. Ghirlanda

With this paper we introduce the concept of apparent structure of a GRB jet, as opposed to its intrinsic structure. The latter is customarily defined specifying the functions epsilon(theta) (the energy emitted per jet unit solid angle) and Gamma(theta) (the Lorentz factor of the emitting material); the apparent structure is instead defined by us as the isotr

Daniele Vernieri

We consider the version of Hořava gravity where &#34;detailed balance&#34; is consistently implemented, so as to limit the huge proliferation of couplings in the full theory and obtain healthy dynamics at low energy. Since a superpotential which is third-order in spatial derivatives is not sufficient to guarantee the power-counting renormalizability of the s

I. Minchev, M. Martig, D. Streich, C. Scannapieco

Recent spectroscopic observations in the Milky Way suggest that the chemically defined thick disk (stars with high [alpha/Fe] ratios and thus old) has a significantly smaller scale-length than the thin disk. This is in apparent contradiction with observations of external edge-on galaxies, where the thin and thick components have comparable scale-lengths. Mor

David Sobral, Jorryt Matthee, Philip N. Best, Ian Smail

We present results from the largest contiguous narrow-band survey in the near-infrared. We have used WIRCam/CFHT and the lowOH2 filter (1.187$\pm$0.005 $μ$m) to survey ~10 deg$^2$ of contiguous extragalactic sky in the SA22 field. A total of ~6000 candidate emission-line galaxies are found. We use deep ugrizJK data to obtain robust photometric redshifts. We

Sven Bjarke Gudnason, Muneto Nitta

We study a Skyrme-type model with a quadratic potential for a field with $S^2$ vacua. We consider two flavors of the model, the first is the Skyrme model and the second has a sixth-order derivative term instead of the Skyrme term; both with the added quadratic potential. The model contains molecules of half Skyrmions, each of them is a global (anti-)monopole

S. Borowka, G. Heinrich, S. P. Jones, M. Kerner

SecDec is a program which can be used for the factorization of dimensionally regulated poles from parametric integrals, in particular multi-loop integrals, and the subsequent numerical evaluation of the finite coefficients. Here we present version 3.0 of the program, which has major improvements compared to version 2: it is faster, contains new decomposition

Lakshya Bhardwaj

We delineate a procedure to classify 6d N=(1,0) gauge theories composed, in part, of a semi-simple gauge group and hypermultiplets. We classify these theories by requiring that they satisfy some consistency conditions. The primary consistency condition is that the gauge anomaly can be cancelled by adding tensor multiplets which couple to the gauge fields by

Andreas Galanis, Daniel Stefankovic, Eric Vigoda

We study the $q$-state ferromagnetic Potts model on the $n$-vertex complete graph known as the mean-field (Curie-Weiss) model. We analyze the Swendsen-Wang algorithm which is a Markov chain that utilizes the random cluster representation for the ferromagnetic Potts model to recolor large sets of vertices in one step and potentially overcomes obstacles that i

Raam Uzdin, Amikam Levy, Ronnie Kosloff

Quantum heat engines (QHE) are thermal machines where the working substance is quantum. In the extreme case the working medium can be a single particle or a few level quantum system. The study of QHE has shown a remarkable similarity with the standard thermodynamical models, thus raising the issue what is quantum in quantum thermodynamics. Our main result is

Marco Matone

A simple algorithm, which exploits the associativity of the BCH formula, and that can be generalized by iteration, extends the remarkable simplification of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff (BCH) formula, recently derived by Van-Brunt and Visser. We show that if $[X,Y]=uX+vY+cI$, $[Y,Z]=wY+zZ+dI$, and, consistently with the Jacobi identity, $[X,Z]=mX+nY+pZ+eI$, t

Art Hobson

The heart of the measurement puzzle, namely the problem of definite outcomes, remains unresolved. This paper shows that Josef Jauch&#39;s 1968 reduced density operator approach is the solution, even though many question it: The entangled &#34;Measurement State&#34; implies local mixtures of definite but indeterminate eigenvalues even though the MS continues

Bernard S. Kay, Umberto Lupo

We conjecture that (when the notion of Hadamard state is suitably adapted) there is no isometry-invariant Hadamard state for the massive or massless covariant Klein-Gordon equation defined on the region of the Kruskal spacetime to the left of a surface of constant Schwarzschild radius in the right Schwarzschild wedge when Dirichlet boundary conditions are pu

Francois Laudenbach, Gael Meigniez

For some geometries including symplectic and contact structures on an n-dimensional manifold, we introduce a two-step approach to Gromov&#39;s h-principle. From formal geometric data, the first step builds a transversely geometric Haefliger structure of codimension n. This step works on all manifolds, even closed. The second step, which works only on open ma

Emanuel Rodríguez Cirone

Let k be a commutative noetherian ring. We construct a strictly-functorial presheaf of small dg-categories over k on the category of k-schemes of finite type, which gives dg-enhancements of the derived categories of perfect complexes.

Chenjie Wang, D. E. Feldman

The fluctuation theorem establishes general relations between transport coefficients and fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems. Recently there was much interest in quantum fluctuation relations for electric currents. Since charge carriers also carry spin, it is important to extend the fluctuation theorem to spin currents. We use the principle of microscopic

Alexander Lytchak, Stefan Wenger

We solve the classical problem of Plateau in the setting of proper metric spaces. Precisely, we prove that among all disc-type surfaces with prescribed Jordan boundary in a proper metric space there exists an area minimizing disc which moreover has a quasi-conformal parametrization. If the space supports a local quadratic isoperimetric inequality for curves

Kathryn Volk, Brett Gladman

The Kepler mission results indicate that systems of tightly-packed inner planets (STIPs) are present around of order 5% of FGK field stars (whose median age is ~5 Gyr). We propose that STIPs initially surrounded nearly all such stars and those observed are the final survivors of a process in which long-term metastability eventually ceases and the systems pro

Florian Ziel

Shrinkage algorithms are of great importance in almost every area of statistics due to the increasing impact of big data. Especially time series analysis benefits from efficient and rapid estimation techniques such as the lasso. However, currently lasso type estimators for autoregressive time series models still focus on models with homoscedastic residuals.

Alex Blumenthal

A volume growth-based proof of the Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem for Banach spaces is presented, following the approach of Ruelle for cocycles acting on a Hilbert space. As a consequence, we obtain a volume growth interpretation for the Lyapunov exponents of a Banach space cocycle.

Claus Michael Ringel

This is a survey on the categorification of the poset of generalized non-crossing partitions, using the representation theory of a hereditary artin algebra H, looking at the set P of exceptional subcategories in mod H. This categorification is due to Ingalls and Thomas, and a subsequent paper by Igusa and Schiffler. Starting point is a refinement of the clas

A. M. Pérez, P. R. Sharapova, S. S. Straupe, F. M. Miatto

Lossless filtering of a single coherent (Schmidt) mode from spatially multimode radiation is a problem crucial for optics in general and for quantum optics in particular. It becomes especially important in the case of nonclassical light that is fragile to optical losses. An example is bright squeezed vacuum generated via high-gain parametric down conversion

V. F. Perepelitsa

The Lienard-Wiechert potentials for charged tachyons are deduced in this note. They turn out to be twice as large as compared to the corresponding potentials for ordinary particles. Several remarks are made on tachyon Cherenkov radiation and its intensity. In particular, it follows in a straightforward way from the derivation of the Lienard-Wiechert potentia

Ana Monreal-Ibero, Peter M. Weilbacher, Martin Wendt, Fernando Selman

Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are non-stellar weak absorption features of unknown origin found in the spectra of stars viewed through one or several clouds of Interstellar Medium (ISM). Research of DIBs outside the Milky Way is currently very limited. Specifically spatially resolved investigations of DIBs outside of the Local Group is, to our knowledge,

Sergey Natanzon, Anna Pratoussevitch

We find all m-spin structures on Klein surfaces of genus larger than one. An m-spin structure on a Riemann surface P is a complex line bundle on P whose m-th tensor power is the cotangent bundle of P. A Klein surface can be described by a pair (P,tau), where P is a Riemann surface and tau is an anti-holomorphic involution on P. An m-spin structure on a Klein

V. G. Kupriyanov, P. Vitale

We consider linear star products on $R^d$ of Lie algebra type. First we derive the closed formula for the polydifferential representation of the corresponding Lie algebra generators. Using this representation we define the Weyl star product on the dual of the Lie algebra. Then we construct a gauge operator relating the Weyl star product with the one which is

Shamindra Kumar Ghosh, Corey Jones

We define annular algebras for rigid $C^{*}$-tensor categories, providing a unified framework for both Ocneanu&#39;s tube algebra and Jones&#39; affine annular category of a planar algebra. We study the representation theory of annular algebras, and show that all sufficiently large (full) annular algebras for a category are isomorphic after tensoring with th