September 2015 arXiv papers — page 7

M. Abbasiyan-Motlaq, P. Pedram

We present an exact treatment of the thermodynamics of physical systems in the framework of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). Our purpose is to study and compare the consequences of two GUPs that one implies a minimal length while the other predicts a minimal length and a maximal momentum. Using a semiclassical method, we exactly calculate the mod

Arnold W. Miller

Asaf Karagila pointed out that Remark 3.4 [1], directly contradicts Theorem 3.3 (c) [2] which was incorrectly stated. This note contains a proof of this remark. [1] Miller, Arnold W.; A Dedekind Finite Borel Set, Arch. Math. Logic 50 (2011), no. 1-2, 1--17. [2] Kanamori, A.; Pincus, D.; Does GCH imply AC locally?, Paul Erdos and his mathematics, II (Budapest

P. Richter, K. S. de Boer, K. Werner, T. Rauch

To explore the origin of high-velocity gas in the direction of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) we analyze absorption lines in the ultraviolet spectrum of a Galactic halo star that is located in front of the LMC at d=9.2 kpc distance. We study the velocity-component structure of low and intermediate metal ions in the spectrum of RXJ0439.8-6809, as obtained w

A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, G. C. Brown, B. D. Metzger

We present late-time multi-wavelength observations of Swift J1644+57, suggested to be a relativistic tidal disruption flare (TDF). Our observations extend to >4 years from discovery, and show that 1.4 years after outburst the relativistic jet switched-off on a timescale less than tens of days, corresponding to a power-law decay faster than $t^{-70}$. Beyond

Ilka Agricola, Margarita Kraus

The present note deals with the properties of metric connections $\nabla$ with vectorial torsion $V$ on semi-Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$. We show that the $\nabla$-curvature is symmetric if and only if $V^{\flat}$ is closed, and that $V^\perp$ then defines an $(n-1)$-dimensional integrable distribution on $M^n$. If the vector field $V$ is exact, we show t

L. A. Almeida, H. Sana, S. E. de Mink, F. Tramper

The contact phase expected to precede the coalescence of two massive stars is poorly characterized due to the paucity of observational constraints. Here we report on the discovery of VFTS 352, an O-type binary in the 30 Doradus region, as the most massive and earliest spectral type overcontact system known to date. We derived the 3D geometry of the system, i

Nikos Bikakis, Karim Benouaret, Dimitris Sacharidis

Considering a group of users, each specifying individual preferences over categorical attributes, the problem of determining a set of objects that are objectively preferable by all users is challenging on two levels. First, we need to determine the preferable objects based on the categorical preferences for each user, and second we need to reconcile possible

Cecilia Garraffo, Jeremy J. Drake, Ofer Cohen

Rotation evolution of late-type stars is dominated by magnetic braking and the underlying factors that control this angular momentum loss are important for the study of stellar spin-down. In this work, we study angular momentum loss as a function of two different aspects of magnetic activity using a calibrated Alfvén wave-driven magnetohydrodynamic wind mode

Phil Cigan, Lisa Young, Diane Cormier, Vianney Lebouteiller

We present far-infrared spectral line observations of five galaxies from the LITTLE THINGS sample: DDO 69, DDO 70, DDO 75, DDO 155, and WLM. While most studies of dwarfs focus on bright systems or starbursts due to observational constraints, our data extend the observed parameter space into the regime of low surface brightness dwarf galaxies with low metalli

Yutaka Hirai, Yuhri Ishimaru, Takayuki R. Saitoh, Michiko S. Fujii

The rapid neutron-capture process (r-process) is a major process to synthesize elements heavier than iron, but the astrophysical site(s) of r-process is not identified yet. Neutron star mergers (NSMs) are suggested to be a major r-process site from nucleosynthesis studies. Previous chemical evolution studies however require unlikely short merger time of NSMs

Micheal S. Berger, Alan Kostelecky, Zhi Liu

The prospects are explored for testing Lorentz and CPT symmetry in the top-quark sector. We present the relevant Lagrange density, discuss physical observables, and describe the signals to be sought in experiments. For top-antitop pair production via quark or gluon fusion with subsequent semileptonic or hadronic decays, we obtain the matrix element in the pr

K. Werner, T. Rauch, J. W. Kruk

We present a comprehensive study of Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spectra (912-1190 A) of two members of the PG1159 spectral class, which consists of hydrogen-deficient (pre-) white dwarfs with effective temperatures in the range Teff = 75,000-200,000 K. As two representatives of the cooler objects, we have selected PG1707+427 (Teff = 85,000

John S. Van Dyke, J. C. Seamus Davis, Dirk K. Morr

We demonstrate that the electronic bandstructure extracted from quasi-particle interference spectroscopy [Nat. Phys. 9, 468 (2013)] and the theoretically computed form of the superconducting gaps [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 111, 11663 (2014)] can be used to understand the $dI/dV$ lineshape measured in the normal and superconducting state of CeCoIn$_5$ [Nat. Phys.

S. Marassi, R. Schneider, M. Limongi, A. Chieffi

We quantify the role of Population (Pop) III core-collapse supernovae (SNe) as the first cosmic dust polluters. Starting from a homogeneous set of stellar progenitors with masses in the range [13 - 80] Msun, we find that the mass and composition of newly formed dust depend on the mixing efficiency of the ejecta and the degree of fallback experienced during t

Rory Barnes, Victoria S. Meadows, Nicole Evans

Exoplanet habitability is traditionally assessed by comparing a planet's semi-major axis to the location of its host star's "habitable zone," the shell around a star for which Earth-like planets can possess liquid surface water. The Kepler space telescope has discovered numerous planet candidates near the habitable zone, and many more are exp

Ann-Marie Madigan, Michael McCourt

Disks of bodies orbiting a much more massive central object are extremely common in astrophysics. When the orbits comprising such disks are eccentric, we show they are susceptible to a new dynamical instability. Gravitational forces between bodies in the disk drive exponential growth of their orbital inclinations and clustering in their angles of pericenter,

Jakub Imriška, Emanuel Gull, Matthias Troyer

We present a numerical study of the Hubbard model on simply stacked honeycomb and square lattices, motivated by a recent experimental realization of such models with ultracold atoms in optical lattices. We perform simulations with different interlayer coupling and interaction strengths and obtain Néel transition temperatures and entropies. We provide data fo

E. Lapenna, A. Mucciarelli, F. R. Ferraro, L. Origlia

We have collected UVES-FLAMES high-resolution spectra for a sample of 6 asymptotic giant branch (AGB) and 13 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic globular cluster M62 (NGC6266). Here we present the detailed abundance analysis of iron, titanium, and light-elements (O, Na, Al and Mg). For the majority (5 out 6) of the AGB targets we find that the abund

James Guillochon, Michael McCourt, Xian Chen, Michael D. Johnson

The kinetic energy of a star in orbit about a supermassive black hole is a significant fraction of its rest mass energy when its periapse is comparable to its tidal radius. Upon its destruction, a fraction of this energy is extracted and injected into the stellar debris, half of which becomes unbound from the black hole, with the fastest material moving at $

J. Copperman, M. G. Guenza

The biological function of proteins is encoded in their structure and expressed through the mediation of their dynamics. Local fluctuations are known to initiate biologically relevant pathways as they cooperatively enhance the dynamics in specific regions in the protein. Those biologically active regions provide energetically-comparable conformational states

Jinkui Zhao

A central debate in biology has been the allometric scaling of metabolic rate. Kleiber's observation that animals' basal metabolic rate scales to the 3/4-power of body mass (Kleiber's rule) has been the prevailing hypothesis in the last eight decades. Increasingly, more evidences are supporting the alternative 2/3-power scaling rule, especially f

D. K. Thomas

For $f$ analytic and close to convex in $D=\{z: |z|< 1\}$, we give sharp estimates for the logarithmic coefficients $γ_{n}$ of $f$ defined by $\log \dfrac{f(z)}{z}=2\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} γ_{n}z^{n}$ when $n=1, 2,3$.

Sergey G. Chefranov, Alexander G. Chefranov

We show possibility of the Plane Couette (PC) flow instability for Reynolds number Re>Reth=140. This new result of the linear hydrodynamic stability theory is obtained on the base of refusal from the traditionally used assumption on longitudinal periodicity of the disturbances along the direction of the fluid flow. We found that earlier existing understandin

Krzysztof Wołk, Krzysztof Marasek

This new research explores the effects of various training methods on a Polish to English Statistical Machine Translation system for medical texts. Various elements of the EMEA parallel text corpora from the OPUS project were used as the basis for training of phrase tables and language models and for development, tuning and testing of the translation system.

J. J. Wagman, J. P. Carlo, J. Gaudet, G. Van Gastel

We present time-of-fight neutron-scattering measurements on single crystals of $La_{2-x}Ba_{x}CuO_{4}$ (LBCO) with 0 $\leq$ x $\leq$ 0.095 and $La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4}$ (LSCO) with x = 0.08 and 0.11. This range of dopings spans much of the phase diagram relevant to high temperature cuprate superconductivity, ranging from insulating, three dimensional (3D) comm

Jie Wu, Liqun Zhang

In 1974, Landis and Oleinik conjectured that if a bounded solution of a parabolic equation decays fast at a time, then the solution must vanish identically before that time, provided the coefficients of the equation satisfy appropriate conditions at infinity. We prove this conjecture under some reasonable assumptions on the coefficients which improved the ea

Gaurav Sharma, Bernt Schiele

We propose a novel algorithm for the task of supervised discriminative distance learning by nonlinearly embedding vectors into a low dimensional Euclidean space. We work in the challenging setting where supervision is with constraints on similar and dissimilar pairs while training. The proposed method is derived by an approximate kernelization of a linear Ma

B. J. Falaye, F. A. Serrano, Shi-Hai Dong

This study presents the Fisher information for the position-dependent mass Schrödinger equation with hyperbolical potential {$V(x)=-V_0{\rm csch}^2(ax)$}. The analysis of the quantum-mechanical probability for the ground and exited states $(n=0, 1, 2)$ has been obtained via the Fisher&#39;s information. This controls both chemical and physical properties of

Igor Pikovski, Abraham Loeb

Cosmic inflation is commonly assumed to be driven by quantum fields. Quantum mechanics predicts phenomena such as quantum fluctuations and tunneling of the field. Here we show an example of a quantum interference effect which goes beyond the semi-classical treatment and which may be of relevance in the early universe. We study the quantum coherent dynamics f

Joshua Combes, Christopher Ferrie, Matthew S. Leifer, Matthew F. Pusey

&#34;Protective measurement&#34; refers to two related schemes for finding the expectation value of an observable without disturbing the state of a quantum system, given a single copy of the system that is subject to a &#34;protecting&#34; operation. There have been several claims that these schemes support interpreting the quantum state as an objective prop

Blair Jamieson

This talk presented the first muon anti-neutrino disappearance analysis using data from the T2K anti-neutrino data taken in 2014 and up to March 12, 2015. The preliminary measured oscillation parameters, using $2.3\times 10^{20}$ protons on target, are $Δ\bar{\rm{m}}_{32}^{2} = 2.33_{-0.23}^{+0.27} \times 10^{-3}~$eV$^{2}$, and sin$^{2} \barθ_{23} = 0.515_{-

Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh, John H. Phan, May D. Wang

Prediction of survival for cancer patients is an open area of research. However, many of these studies focus on datasets with a large number of patients. We present a novel method that is specifically designed to address the challenge of data scarcity, which is often the case for cancer datasets. Our method is able to use unlabeled data to improve classifica

Juha-Pekka Pellonpää, Mikko Tukiainen

In this work, we study the minimal normal measurement models of quantum instruments. We show that usually the apparatus&#39; Hilbert space in such a model is unitarily isomorphic to the minimal Stinespring dilation space of the instrument.However, if the Hilbert space of the system is infinite dimensional and the multiplicities of the outcomes of the associa

Paul K. Radtke, Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Resistive Switching (RS) is the change in resistance of a dielectric under the influence of an external current or electric field. This change is non-volatile, and the basis of both the memristor and resistive random access memory. In the latter, high integration densities favor the anti-serial combination of two RS-elements to a single cell, termed the comp

Stephen J. McMahon, Harald Paganetti, Kevin M. Prise

There is considerable interest in the use of heavy atom nanoparticles as theranostic contrast agents due to their high radiation cross-section compared to soft tissue. However, published studies have primarily focused on applications of gold nanoparticles. This study applies Monte Carlo radiation transport modelling using Geant4 to evaluate the macro- and mi

Krzysztof Wołk, Krzysztof Marasek

Parallel sentences are a relatively scarce but extremely useful resource for many applications including cross-lingual retrieval and statistical machine translation. This research explores our methodology for mining such data from previously obtained comparable corpora. The task is highly practical since non-parallel multilingual data exist in far greater qu

Liza Huijse, Christian Hagendorf

We study the $M_\ell$ models for lattice fermions with supersymmetry introduced by Fendley, Nienhuis and Schoutens on one-dimensional chains. We determine the number of ground states as a function of the chain length as well as various boundary conditions by solving the corresponding cohomology problem. As an intermediate result we obtain the Cut (and Paste)

Krzysztof Wołk, Krzysztof Marasek

This research explores effects of various training settings between Polish and English Statistical Machine Translation systems for spoken language. Various elements of the TED parallel text corpora for the IWSLT 2014 evaluation campaign were used as the basis for training of language models, and for development, tuning and testing of the translation system a

J. Fensch, P. -A. Duc, P. M. Weilbacher, M. Boquien

We present IFU observations with MUSE@VLT and deep imaging with FORS@VLT of a dwarf galaxy recently formed within the giant collisional HI ring surrounding NGC 5291. This TDG-like object has the characteristics of typical z=1-2 gas-rich spiral galaxies: a high gas fraction, a rather turbulent clumpy ISM, the absence of an old stellar population, a moderate m

Rohith Chandrasekar, Naresh K. Emani, Alexei Lagutchev, Vladimir M. Shalaev

Plasmonic resonances in metallic nanostructures have been shown to drastically enhance local electromagnetic fields, and thereby increase the efficiency of nonlinear optical phenomena, such as second harmonic generation (SHG). While it has been experimentally observed that enhanced fields can significantly boost SHG, to date it proved difficult to probe elec

Tiago M. Fragoso, Francisco Louzada Neto

Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) is an application of Bayesian inference to the problems of model selection, combined estimation and prediction that produces a straightforward model choice criteria and less risky predictions. However, the application of BMA is not always straightforward, leading to diverse assumptions and situational choices on its different a

Nicolas Tremblay, Gilles Puy, Pierre Borgnat, Remi Gribonval

We build upon recent advances in graph signal processing to propose a faster spectral clustering algorithm. Indeed, classical spectral clustering is based on the computation of the first k eigenvectors of the similarity matrix&#39; Laplacian, whose computation cost, even for sparse matrices, becomes prohibitive for large datasets. We show that we can estimat

Toshiyuki Kobayashi

We wish to understand how irreducible representations of a group G behave when restricted to a subgroup G&#39; (the branching problem). Our primary concern is with representations of reductive Lie groups, which involve both algebraic and analytic approaches. We divide branching problems into three stages: (A) abstract features of the restriction; (B) branchi

Faustino Bonutti, Matteo Avolio, Giuseppe Magro, Andrea Cecotti

The quality of SPECT Bremsstrahlung images of patients treated with Y-90 is poor, mainly because of scattered radiation and collimator septa penetration. To minimize the latter effect, High Energy (HE) or Medium Energy (ME) collimators can be used. Scatter correction is not possible through the methods commonly used for the diagnostic radionuclides (Tc-99m,

Gustavo Villares, Sabine Riedi, Johanna Wolf, Dmitry Kazakov

Quantum cascade lasers are compact sources capable of generating frequency combs. Yet key characteristics - such as optical bandwidth and power-per-mode distribution - have to be improved for better addressing spectroscopy applications. Group delay dispersion plays an important role in the comb formation. In this work, we demonstrate that a dispersion compen

Foto Afrati, Shantanu Sharma, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jonathan R. Ullman

We consider the problem of computing the data-cube marginals of a fixed order $k$ (i.e., all marginals that aggregate over $k$ dimensions), using a single round of MapReduce. The focus is on the relationship between the reducer size (number of inputs allowed at a single reducer) and the replication rate (number of reducers to which an input is sent). We show

M. Tokarev, I. Zborovsky

The concept of z-scaling previously developed for analysis of inclusive reactions in proton-proton collisions is applied for description of processes with polarized particles. Hypothesis of self-similarity of the proton spin structure is discussed. The possibility of extracting information on spin-dependent fractal dimensions of hadrons and fragmentation pro

Kevin Speyer, Claudio Pastorino

We performed molecular dynamics simulations to study equilibrium and flow properties of a liquid in a nano-channel with confining surfaces coated with a layer of grafted semiflexible polymers. The coverage spans a wide range of grafting densities from essentially isolated chains to dense brushes. The end-grafted polymers were described by a bead spring model

E. Siminos, S. Skupin, A. Sävert, J. M. Cole

Ultrafast shadowgraphy is a new experimental technique that uses few cycle laser pulses to image density gradients in a rapidly evolving plasma. It enables structures that move at speeds close to the speed of light, such as laser driven wakes, to be visualized. Here we study the process of shadowgraphic image formation during the propagation of a few cycle p

Ryan Shaw

Dividing oral histories into topically coherent segments can make them more accessible online. People regularly make judgments about where coherent segments can be extracted from oral histories. But making these judgments can be taxing, so automated assistance is potentially attractive to speed the task of extracting segments from open-ended interviews. When

D. Shlyakhtenko

We show that finite rank perturbations of certain random matrices fit in the framework of infinitesimal (type B) asymptotic freeness. This can be used to explain the appearance of free harmonic analysis (such as subordination functions appearing in additive free convolution) in computations of outlier eigenvalues in spectra of such matrices.

L. K. Hardy, T. Butterley, V. S. Dhillon, S. P. Littlefair

pt5m is a 0.5m robotic telescope located on the roof of the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) building, at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma. Using a 5-position filter wheel and CCD detector, and bespoke control software, pt5m provides a high quality robotic observing facility. The telescope first began robotic observing in 2012, and is no

John Ellis, Jason L. Evans, Feng Luo, Natsumi Nagata

We consider two potential non-accelerator signatures of generalizations of the well-studied constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model (CMSSM). In one generalization, the universality constraints on soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters are applied at some input scale $M_{in}$ below the grand unification (GUT) scale $M_{GUT}$, a scenario referred to

Davina Innes, LiJia Guo, YiMin Huang, Amitava Bhattacharjee

Our understanding of the process of fast reconnection has undergone a dramatic change in the last 10 years driven, in part, by the availability of high-resolution numerical simulations that have consistently demonstrated the break-up of current sheets into magnetic islands, with reconnection rates that become independent of Lundquist number, challenging the

Fred Buchali, Georg Böcherer, Wilfried Idler, Laurent Schmalen

We implemented a flexible transmission system operating at adjustable data rate and fixed bandwidth, baudrate, constellation and overhead using probabilistic shaping. We demonstrated in a transmission experiment up to 15% capacity and 43% reach increase versus 200 Gbit/s 16-QAM.

Máté Ádámkovics, Jonathan L. Mitchell, Alexander G. Hayes, Patricio M. Rojo

The spatial distribution of the tropospheric methane on Titan was measured using near-infrared spectroscopy. Ground-based observations at 1.5$μ{\rm m}$ (H-band) were performed during the same night using instruments with adaptive optics at both the W. M. Keck Observatory and at the Paranal Observatory on 17 July 2014 UT. The integral field observations with

Ly Phan, Sandra Rugonyi, Cindy Grimm

We present a geometric surface parameterization algorithm and several visualization techniques adapted to the problem of understanding the 4D peristaltic-like motion of the outflow tract (OFT) in an embryonic chick heart. We illustrated the techniques using data from hearts under normal conditions (four embryos), and hearts in which blood flow conditions are

Kolja Kauder

The STAR collaboration reports the first measurements of the transverse momentum asymmetry $A_J$ of di-jet pairs in central gold-gold collisions and minimum bias proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV at RHIC. We focus on anti-$k_T$ di-jets with a leading jet $p_T>20$ GeV/$c$ and a subleading jet $p_T>10$ GeV/$c$, with a constituent cut of 2 GeV

Marius Junge, Bogdan Udrea

We prove some unique prime factorization results for tensor products of type $II_1$ factors of the form $Γ_q(\mathbb{C}, S \otimes H)$ arising from symmetric independent copies with sub-exponential dimensions of the spaces $D_k(S)$ and dim$(H)$ finite and greater than a constant depending on $q$.

Ozlem Yeşiltaş

The Dirac Hamiltonian in the (2+1) dimensional curved space-time has been studied with a metric for an expanding de Sitter space-time which is a two sphere. The spectrum and the exact solutions of the time dependent non-Hermitian and angle dependent Hamiltonians are obtained in terms of the Jacobi and Romanovski polynomials. Hermitian equivalent of the Hamil

Michail Schlesinger, Evgeniy Vodolazskiy

We formulate problems of statistical recognition and learning in a common framework of complex hypothesis testing. Based on arguments from multi-criteria optimization, we identify strategies that are improper for solving these problems and derive a common form of the remaining strategies. We show that some widely used approaches to recognition and learning a

Hans Martin Reimann

The reassignment method for the wavelet transform is investigated. Particularly good results are obtained if the wavelet is an extremal for the uncertainty relation of the affine group.

Isabelle A. Grenier, Alice K. Harding

The most energetic neutron stars, powered by their rotation, are capable of producing pulsed radiation from the radio up to gamma rays with nearly TeV energies. These pulsars are part of the universe of energetic and powerful particle accelerators, using their uniquely fast rotation and formidable magnetic fields to accelerate particles to ultra-relativistic

K. Winkler, O. A. Egorov, I. G. Savenko, X. Ma

We study the loading of a nonequilibrium, dissipative system of composite bosons -- exciton polaritons -- into a one dimensional periodic lattice potential. Utilizing momentum resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy, we observe a transition between an incoherent Bose gas and a polariton condensate, which undergoes further transitions between different energy

Jason Bell, James J. Zhang

Let $A$ and $B$ be two connected graded algebras finitely generated in degree one. If $A$ is isomorphic to $B$ as ungraded algebras, then they are also isomorphic to each other as graded algebras.

Kai Hao, Galan Moody, Fengcheng Wu, Chandriker Kavir Dass

In crystals, energy band extrema in momentum space can be identified by their valley index. The internal quantum degree of freedom associated with valley pseudospin indices can act as a useful information carrier analogous to electronic charge or spin. Interest in valleytronics has been revived in recent years following the discovery of atomically thin mater

Arturo J. Gomez, Sebastian Gonzalez, Silvio P. Sorella

In this work we study the behaviour of Yang--Mills--Chern--Simons theory coupled to a Higgs field in the fundamental representation by taking into account the effects of the presence of the Gribov horizon. By analyzing the infrared structure of the gauge field propagator, both confined and de-confined regions can be detected. The confined region corresponds

N. R. Aravind, R. B. Sandeep, Naveen Sivadasan

For a graph $H$, the $H$-free Edge Deletion problem asks whether there exist at most $k$ edges whose deletion from the input graph $G$ results in a graph without any induced copy of $H$. $H$-free Edge Completion and $H$-free Edge Editing are defined similarly where only completion (addition) of edges are allowed in the former and both completion and deletion

J. G. Martinez, K. Stovall, P. C. C. Freire, J. S. Deneva

To understand the nature of supernovae and neutron star (NS) formation, as well as binary stellar evolution and their interactions, it is important to probe the distribution of NS masses. Until now, all double NS (DNS) systems have been measured to have a mass ratio close to unity (q $\geq$ 0.91). Here we report the measurement of the individual masses of th

Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Manuel del Pino, John King, Natasa Sesum

We construct new ancient compact solutions to the Yamabe flow. Our solutions are rotationally symmetric and converge, as $t \to -\infty$, to two self-similar complete non-compact solutions to the Yamabe flow moving in opposite directions. They are type I ancient solutions.

J. E. Coppock, J. R. Anderson, W. B. Johnson

This paper describes a simple microwave apparatus to measure the Hall effect in semiconductor wafers. The advantage of this technique is that it does not require contacts on the sample or the use of a resonant cavity. Our method consists of placing the semiconductor wafer into a slot cut in an X-band (8 - 12 GHz) waveguide series tee, injecting microwave pow

Ester Piedipalumbo, Enrica Della Moglie, Roberto Cianci

In the last dozen years a wide and variegated mass of observational data revealed that the universe is now expanding at an accelerated rate. In the absence of a well-based theory to interpret the observations, cosmography provides information about the evolution of the Universe from measured distances, only assuming that the geometry of the can be described

Loredana Lanzani, Andrew S. Raich

We present new examples of complexes of differential operators of order $k$ (any given positive integer) that satisfy div-curl and/or $L^1$-duality estimates.

Loredana Lanzani

We give a survey of recent joint work with E. M. Stein (Princeton University) concerning the application of suitable versions of the T(1)-theorem technique to the study of orthogonal projections onto the Hardy and Bergman spaces of holomorphic functions for domains with minimal boundary regularity.

Muna Khushaim, Ryota Gemma, Talaat Al-Kassab

The influence of tuning the laser energy during the analyses on the resulting microstructure in a specimen utilizing an ultra-fast laser assisted atom probe was demonstrated by a case study of a binary Al-Li alloy. The decomposition parameters, such as the size, number density, volume fraction and composition of $δ^{&#39;}$ precipitates, were carefully monit

D. Kaledin

Following an old suggestion of M. Kontsevich, and inspired by recent work of A. Beilinson and B. Bhatt, we introduce a new version of periodic cyclic homology for DG agebras and DG categories. We call it co-periodic cyclic homology. It is always torsion, so that it vanishes in char 0. However, we show that co-periodic cyclic homology is derived-Morita invari

Ian D. Morris

We investigate a formula of K. Falconer which describes the typical value of the generalised Rényi dimension, or generalised $q$-dimension, of a self-affine measure in terms of the linear components of the affinities. We show that in contrast to a related formula for the Hausdorff dimension of a typical self-affine set, the value of the generalised $q$-dimen

Mikhail Gorchtein, Hubert Spiesberger, Xilin Zhang

We consider pion production in parity-violating electron scattering (PVES) in the presence of nucleon strangeness in the framework of partial wave analysis with unitarity. Using the experimental bounds on the strange form factors obtained in elastic PVES, we study the sensitivity of the parity-violating asymmetry to strange nucleon form factors. For forward

Reuben D. Budiardja, Christian Y. Cardall, Eirik Endeve

Core-collapse supernovae are among the most powerful explosions in the Universe, releasing about $10^{53}~\mbox{erg}$ of energy on timescales of a few tens of seconds. These explosion events are also responsible for the production and dissemination of most of the heavy elements, making life as we know it possible. Yet exactly how they work is still unresolve

Nacira Agram, Elin Engen Røse

We establish sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of different types of delayed BSDEs in finite time horizon. We consider then infinite horizon, replacing the terminal value condition in the finite horizon case with a condition of strong decay at infinity.

Paul Blomstedt, Jarno Vanhatalo, Mats Ulmestrand, Anna Gårdmark

We introduce a fully length-based Bayesian model for the population dynamics of northern shrimp (Pandalus Borealis). This has the advantage of structuring the population in terms of a directly observable quantity, requiring no indirect estimation of age distributions from measurements of size. The introduced model is intended as a simplistic prototype around

Jean-Marc Schlenker

A survey on the recent work of Danciger, Guéritaud and Kassel on Margulis space-times and complete anti-de Sitter space-times. Margulis space-times are quotients of the 3-dimensional Minkowski space by (non-abelian) free groups acting propertly discontinuously. Goldman, Labourie and Margulis have shown that they are determined by a convex co-compact hyperbol

Marco Matassa

We prove a result for the commutator of quantum root vectors corresponding to cominuscole parabolics. Specifically we show that, given two quantum root vectors, belonging respectively to the quantized nilradical and the quantized opposite nilradical, their commutator belongs to the quantized Levi factor. This generalizes the classical result for Lie algebras

Stefan Borgwardt, Rafael Peñaloza

Fuzzy Description Logics (FDLs) are logic-based formalisms used to represent and reason with vague or imprecise knowledge. It has been recently shown that reasoning in most FDLs using truth values from the interval [0,1] becomes undecidable in the presence of a negation constructor and general concept inclusion axioms. One exception to this negative result a

Nils Matthes

We study an elliptic analogue of multiple zeta values, the elliptic multiple zeta values of Enriquez, which are the coefficients of the elliptic KZB associator. Originally defined by iterated integrals on a once-punctured complex elliptic curve, it turns out that they can also be expressed as certain linear combinations of indefinite iterated integrals of Ei

Benjamin Schumacher, Michael D. Westmoreland

Invertible cellular automata are useful as models of physical systems with microscopically revesible dyanmics. There are several well-understood ways to construct them: partitioning rules, second-order rules, and alternating-grid rules. We present another way (a generalization of the alternating-grid approach), based on the idea that a cell may either transm

O. A. Katushkina, V. V. Izmodenov, D. B. Alexashov, N. A. Schwadron

In this paper, we perform numerical modeling of the interstellar hydrogen fluxes measured by IBEX-Lo during orbit 23 (spring 2009) using a state-of-the-art kinetic model of the interstellar neutral hydrogen distribution in the heliosphere. This model takes into account the temporal and heliolatitudinal variations of the solar parameters as well as non-Maxwel

F. Li, C. J. Zhang, Y. Wan, Y. P. Wu

An enhanced ionization injection scheme using a tightly focused laser pulse with intensity near the ionization potential to trigger the injection process in a mismatched pre-plasma channel has been proposed and examined via multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. The core idea of the proposed scheme is to lower the energy spread of trapped beams by s

A. A. Vidotto, J. -F. Donati, M. Jardine, V. See

Wood et al suggested that mass-loss rate is a function of X-ray flux ($\dot{M} \propto F_x^{1.34}$) for dwarf stars with $F_x \lesssim F_{x,6} \equiv 10^6$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. However, more active stars do not obey this relation. These authors suggested that the break at $F_{x,6}$ could be caused by significant changes in magnetic field topology that wou

A. C. Casimiro, C. Rodrigo

The present paper develops a variational theory of discrete fields defined on abstract cellular complexes. The discrete formulation is derived solely from a variational principle associated to a discrete Lagrangian density on a discrete bundle, and developed up to the notion of symmetries and conservation laws for solutions of the discrete field equations. T

Reynald Lercier, Marc Olive

We give a minimal system of 476 generators (resp. 510 generators) for the algebra of SL(2,C)-covariant polynomials on binary forms of degree 9 (resp. degree 10). These results were only known as conjectures so far. The computations rely on Gordan&#39;s algorithm, and some new improvements.

Jose M. de Sousa, Gustavo Brunetto, Vitor R. Coluci, Douglas S. Galvao

Graphyne is a planar two-dimensional carbon allotrope formed by atoms in sp, sp2, and sp3 hybridized states. Topologically graphyne nanotubes (GNTs) can be considered as cylindrically rolled up graphyne sheets, similarly as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be considered rolled up graphene sheets. Due to the presence of single, double, and triple bonds, GNTs exhib

M. Holmstrom, X. -D. Wang

A hybrid plasma solver treats ions as particles and electrons as a fluid. We have implemented a parallel hybrid solver in the FLASH open source software framework. The solver has been applied to studies of the interaction between the solar wind and planets. Here we discuss the implementation of different model features, such as permanent magnetic fields, ion

Debajit Sensarma, Samar Sen Sarma

Data hiding has received much attention due to rapid development of internet and multimedia technologies where security of information is a very important concern. This is achieved by Steganography, which is the art or science of hiding data into another data, so that human eyes cannot catch the hidden information easily. There are many ways to hide informat

Jerzy Kocinski

In groups with involution a nonassociative product of elements is defined, which leads to the definition of a certain type of quasigroups. These quasigroups are represented by square tables of complex numbers, with inverses, which differ from the matrix representations of groups in the rule of performing the product of two tables. The row-by-column product o

Yong Zhou, Zhiyu Sun, Yuhong Yu, Yongjie Zhang

A versatile test bench system, dedicated for massive PMT characterization, is developed at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It can perform many test contents with large capacity and high level of automation, and the migration from one testing configuration to another is lightweight and time-saving. This system has been used in th

Kristof Moors, Bart Sorée, Wim Magnus

Ando&#39;s surface roughness model is applied to metallic nanowires and extended beyond small roughness size and infinite barrier limit approximations for the wavefunction overlaps, such as the Prange-Nee approximation. Accurate and fast simulations can still be performed without invoking these overlap approximations by averaging over roughness profiles usin

Sourav Palit, Suman Ray, Sandip K. Chakrabarti

X-rays and gamma-rays from astronomical sources such as solar flares are mostly absorbed by the Earth&#39;s atmosphere. Resulting electron-ion production rate as a function of height depends on the intensity and wavelength of the injected spectrum and therefore the effects vary from one source to another. In other words, the ion density vs. altitude profile

Shakir Mohamed, Danilo Jimenez Rezende

The mutual information is a core statistical quantity that has applications in all areas of machine learning, whether this is in training of density models over multiple data modalities, in maximising the efficiency of noisy transmission channels, or when learning behaviour policies for exploration by artificial agents. Most learning algorithms that involve

Manfred G. Madritsch, Izabela Petrykiewicz

In this paper, we consider non-normal numbers occurring in dynamical systems fulfilling the specification property. It has been shown that in this case the set of non-normal numbers has measure zero. In the present papers we show that a smaller set, namely the set of particularly non-normal numbers, has full Hausdorff dimension. A particularly non-normal num