arXiv papers from November 2015

Silas R. Beane, Timothy J. Hobbs

Consequences of QCD current algebra formulated on a light-like hyperplane are derived for the forward scattering of vector and axial-vector currents on an arbitrary hadronic target. It is shown that current algebra gives rise to a special class of sum rules that are direct consequences of the independent chiral symmetry that exists at every point on the two-

Ying Zong

We characterize quotient of a non-degenerate abelian fibration by a finite \'etale equivalence relation. We show that non-uniruled degenerations of each such quotient tend to be almost non-degenerate.

Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori, Behrouz Mirza, Mahdi Davoudi Darareh, Sharooz Janbaz

In this paper, we investigate the entanglement entropy for the generalized charged BTZ black hole through the $AdS_{3}/CFT_{2}$ correspondence. Using the holographic description of the entanglement entropy for the strip-subsystem in boundary $CFT_{2}$, we will find the first law-like relation between the variation of holographic entanglement entropy and the

Ian Melbourne, Dalia Terhesiu

We prove results on mixing and mixing rates for toral extensions of nonuniformly expanding maps with subexponential decay of correlations. Both the finite and infinite measure settings are considered. Under a Dolgopyat-type condition on nonexistence of approximate eigenfunctions, we prove that existing results for (possibly nonMarkovian) nonuniformly expandi

Maciek Wielgus, Aleksander Sadowski, Wlodek Kluzniak, Marek Abramowicz

We construct models of static, spherically symmetric shells supported by the radiation flux of a luminous neutron star in the Schwarzschild metric. The atmospheres are disconnected from the star and levitate above its surface. Gas pressure and density inversion appear in the inner region of these atmospheres, which is a purely relativistic phenomenon. We acc

Daniel Drimbe

We prove a cocycle superrigidity theorem for a large class of coinduced actions. In particular, if $\Lambda$ is a subgroup of a countable group $\Gamma$, we consider a probability measure preserving action $\Lambda\curvearrowright X_0$ and let $\Gamma\curvearrowright X$ be the coinduced action. Assume either that $\Gamma$ has property (T) or that $\Lambda$ i

Rui He, Jia-An Yan, Zongyon Yin, Zhipeng Ye

We investigate the ultralow-frequency Raman response of atomically thin ReS2, a special type of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with unique distorted 1T structure. Bilayer and few-layer ReS2 exhibit rich Raman spectra at frequencies below 50 cm-1, where a panoply of interlayer shear and breathing modes are observed. The emergence of these interlayer phon

James D. Nixon

In a previous paper we produced a complex iteration of a holomorphic function $\phi$ in the immediate basin of a fixed point whose multiplier is a real number and in between zero and one. We further explore this problem, allowing the multiplier to be a complex number and its modulus to be in between zero and one. We find expansions of results derived before.

P. L. Robinson

We discuss tableaux for the Implicational Propositional Calculus and show how they may be used to establish its completeness.

Michiko Fujii, Simon Portegies Zwart

Recent observations have revealed a variety of young star clusters, including embedded systems, young massive clusters, and associations. We study the formation and dynamical evolution of these clusters using a combination of simulations and theoretical models. Our simulations start with a turbulent molecular cloud that collapses under its own gravity. The s

Gabriele Sicuro, Piergiulio Tempesta

We propose a unifying picture where the notion of generalized entropy is related to information theory by means of a group-theoretical approach. The group structure comes from the requirement that an entropy be well defined with respect to the composition of independent systems, in the context of a recently proposed generalization of the Shannon-Khinchin axi

David Gosset, Evgeny Mozgunov

We improve Knabe's spectral gap bound for frustration-free translation-invariant local Hamiltonians in 1D. The bound is based on a relationship between global and local gaps. The global gap is the spectral gap of a size-$m$ chain with periodic boundary conditions, while the local gap is that of a subchain of size $n<m$ with open boundary conditions. Knabe pr

M. S. Torikachvili, S. K. Kim, E. Colombier, S. L. Budko

We carried out a study of the pressure dependence of the solidification temperature in nine pressure transmitting media that are liquid at ambient temperature, under pressures up to 2.3 GPa. These fluids are: 1:1 isopentane/n-pentane, 4:6 light mineral oil/n-pentane, 1:1 isoamyl alcohol/n-pentane, 4:1 methanol/ethanol, 1:1 FC72/FC84 (Fluorinert), Daphne 7373

Matthew McQuinn

The bulk of cosmic matter resides in a dilute reservoir that fills the space between galaxies, the intergalactic medium (IGM). The history of this reservoir is intimately tied to the cosmic histories of structure formation, star formation, and supermassive black hole accretion. Our models for the IGM at intermediate redshifts (2<z<5) are a tremendous success

Margie Todd, Shawon Rahman

The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive budget conscious security plan for smaller enterprises that lack security guidelines.The authors believe this paper will assist users to write an individualized security plan. In addition to providing the top ten free or affordable tools get some sort of semblance of security implemented, the paper also

Khaled Mehrez

In this paper, by using Jensen's inequality and Chebyshev integral inequality, some generalizations and new refined Hardy type integral inequalities are obtained. In addition, the corresponding reverse relation are also proved.

Jonad Pulaj, Annie Raymond, Dirk Theis

The Frankl conjecture, also known as the union-closed sets conjecture, states that in any finite non-empty union-closed family, there exists an element in at least half of the sets. From an optimization point of view, one could instead prove that $2a$ is an upper bound to the number of sets in a union-closed family on a ground set of $n$ elements where each

Marc Rader, Shawon Rahman

Organizations invest heavily in technical controls for their Information Assurance (IA) infrastructure. These technical controls mitigate and reduce the risk of damage caused by outsider attacks. Most organizations rely on training to mitigate and reduce risk of non-technical attacks such as social engineering. Organizations lump IA training into small modul

Ajay Katiyar, Purbarun Dhar, Sarit K. Das, Tandra Nandi

Magnetic nanocolloids with synthesized super paramagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles (SPION) (5 to 15 nm) dispersed in insitu developed Polyethylene Glycol (PEG 400) and nano silica complex have been synthesized. The PEG nano Silica complex physically encapsulates the SPIONs, ensuring no phase separation under high magnetic fields (1.2 T). Exhaustive magnetorheolog

Ruth Davidson, Augustine O'Keefe, Daniel Parry

We give a new proof of an old identity of Dixon (1865-1936) that uses tools from topological combinatorics. Dixon's identity is re-established by constructing an infinite family of non-pure simplicial complexes $\Delta(n)$, indexed by the positive integers, such that the alternating sum of the numbers of faces of $\Delta(n)$ of each dimension is the left-han

Jong Bum Lee, Sang Rae Lee

A Houghton's group $\mathcal{H}_n$ consists of translations at infinity of a $n$ rays of discrete points on the plane. In this paper we study the growth rate of endomorphisms of Houghton's groups. We show that if the kernel of an endomorphism $\phi$ is not trivial then the growth rate $\mathrm{GR}(\phi)$ equals either $1$ or the spectral radius of the induce

F. Lecocq, J. B. Clark, R. W. Simmonds, J. Aumentado

We report the observation of efficient and low-noise frequency conversion between two microwave modes, mediated by the motion of a mechanical resonator subjected to radiation pressure. We achieve coherent conversion of more than $10^{12}~\mathrm{photons/s}$ with a $95\mathrm{\%}$ efficiency and a $14~\mathrm{kHz}$ bandwidth. With less than $10^{-1}~\mathrm{p

Massimo Cairo, Gabriele Farina, Romeo Rizzi

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for the maximum a posteriori decoding (MAPD) of time-homogeneous Hidden Markov Models (HMM), improving the worst-case running time of the classical Viterbi algorithm by a logarithmic factor. In our approach, we interpret the Viterbi algorithm as a repeated computation of matrix-vector $(\max, +)$-multiplications. O

Takuya Kanazawa, Arata Yamamoto

We present a lattice formulation of non-Abelian Lifshitz-type gauge theories. Due to anisotropic scaling of space and time, the theory is asymptotically free even in five dimensions. We show results of Monte Carlo simulations that suggest a smooth approach to the continuum limit.

Roland Gunesch, Philipp Kunde

We show that on any smooth compact connected manifold of dimension $m\geq 2$ admitting a smooth non-trivial circle action $\mathcal{S} = \left\{S_t\right\}_{t \in \mathbb{R}}$, $S_{t+1}=S_t$, the set of weakly mixing $C^{\infty}$-diffeomorphisms which preserve both a smooth volume $\nu$ and a measurable Riemannian metric is dense in $\mathcal{A}_{\alpha} \le

Benjamin J. Wieder, Youngkuk Kim, A. M. Rappe, C. L. Kane

We study a class of Dirac semimetals that feature an eightfold-degenerate double Dirac point. We show that 7 of the 230 space groups can host such Dirac points and argue that they all generically display linear dispersion. We introduce an explicit tight-binding model for space groups 130 and 135, showing that 135 can host an intrinsic double Dirac semimetal

Máximo Bañados, Alejandra Castro, Alberto Faraggi, Juan I. Jottar

The gauge sector of three-dimensional higher spin gravities can be formulated as a Chern-Simons theory. In this context, a higher spin black hole corresponds to a flat connection with suitable holonomy (smoothness) conditions which are consistent with the properties of a generalized thermal ensemble. Building on these ideas, we discuss a definition of black

Alan Zablocki, Scott Dodelson

We apply the Karhunen-Lo\'eve methods to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data sets, and show that we can recover the input cosmology and obtain the marginalized likelihoods in $\Lambda$ cold dark matter cosmologies in under a minute, much faster than Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. This is achieved by forming a linear combination of the power spectra at

P. W. G. Brussee, J. A. Pouwelse

We present an overview of robust and resilient social media tools to overcome natural disasters, censorship and Internet kill switches. These social media tools use Android devices to communicate during disasters and aim to overcome attacks on freedom of expression. There is an abundance of projects that aim to provide resilient communication, enhance privac

DJ Neal, Shawon Rahman

A high-resolution video surveillance management system incurs huge amounts of storage and network bandwidth. The current infrastructure required to support a high resolution video surveillance management system (VMS) is expensive and time consuming to plan, implement and maintain. With the recent advances in cloud technologies, opportunity for the utilizatio

Piotr Korcyl, Christoph Lehner, Tomomi Ishikawa

We report on progress to renormalize non-pertubatively the static heavy quark theory on the lattice. In particular, we present first results for position-space renormalization scheme for heavy-light bilinears. We test our approach on RBC's 16^3 x 32 lattice ensemble with m_pi = 420 MeV, Iwasaki gauge action and domain wall light fermions.

Karen Benson, Shawon Rahman

Inherent in any organization are security risks and barriers that must be understood, analyzed, and minimized in order to prepare for and perpetuate future growth and return on investment within the business. Likewise, company leaders must determine the security health of the organization and routinely review the potential threats that are ever changing in t

Peisi Huang, Aniket Joglekar, Bing Li, Carlos E. M. Wagner

We study the correlation between the value of the triple Higgs coupling and the nature of the electroweak phase transition. We use an effective potential approach, including higher order, non-renormalizable terms coming from integrating out new physics. We show that if only the dimension six operators are considered, large positive deviations of the triple H

Lee Rice, Shawon Rahman

The need for information security within small to mid-size companies is increasing. The risks of information security breach, data loss, and disaster are growing. The impact of IT outages and issues on the company are unacceptable to any size business and their clients. There are many ways to address the security for IT departments. The need to address risks

Edgar Solomonik, Torsten Hoefler

Dense and sparse tensors allow the representation of most bulk data structures in computational science applications. We show that sparse tensor algebra can also be used to express many of the transformations on these datasets, especially those which are parallelizable. Tensor computations are a natural generalization of matrix and graph computations. We ext

Kimmarie Donahue, Shawon Rahman

Healthcare Information Technology (IT) has made great advances over the past few years and while these advances have enable healthcare professionals to provide higher quality healthcare to a larger number of individuals it also provides the criminal element more opportunities to access sensitive information, such as patient protected health information (PHI)

Kateryna D. Andrych, Ivan L Andronov, Lidia L. Chinarova, Vladyslava I. Marsakova

A computer program is introduced, which allows to determine statistically optimal approxi-mation using the "Asymptotic Parabola" fit, or, in other words, the spline consisting of polynomials of order 1,2,1, or two lines ("asymptotes") connected with a parabola. The function itself and its derivative is continuous. There are 5 parameters: two points, where a

Kyle Dees, Shawon Rahman

As a result of the increased dependency on obtaining information and connecting each computer together for ease of access or communication, organizations risk being attacked and losing private information through breaches or insecure business activities. To help protect organizations and their assets, companies need to develop a strong understanding of the r

Ioan B Magdau, Floris Balm, Graeme J Ackland

Phase I of hydrogen has several peculiarities. Despite having a close-packed crystal structure, it is less dense than either the low temperature Phase II or the liquid phase. At high pressure, it transforms into either phase III or IV, depending on the temperature. Moreover, spectroscopy suggests that the quantum rotor behaviour disappears with pressurisatio

O. G. Udalov, N. M. Chtchelkatchev, S. A. Fedorov, I. S. Beloborodov

We study conductance of a single electron transistor (SET) with a ferroelectric (or dielectric) layer placed in the gate capacitor. We assume that ferroelectric (FE) has a retarded response with arbitrary relaxation time. We show that in the case of "fast" but still retarded response of the FE (dielectric) layer an additional contribution to the Coulomb bloc

Kathleen Jungck, Shawon Rahman

Businesses have become dependent on ever increasing amounts of electronic information and rapid transaction speeds. Experts such as Diffie speculate that the end of isolated computing is at hand, and that within the next decade most businesses will have made the shift to utility computing. In order to cut costs while still implementing increasingly complex I

Will Boney, Sebastien Vasey

Tame abstract elementary classes are a broad nonelementary framework for model theory that encompasses several examples of interest. In recent years, progress toward developing a classification theory for them have been made. Abstract independence relations such as Shelah's good frames have been found to be key objects. Several new categoricity transfers hav

Soichiro Isoyama, Raissa F. P. Mendes, Eric Poisson

The gravitational self-force acting on a particle orbiting a massive central body has thus far been computed for vacuum spacetimes involving a black hole. In this work we continue an ongoing effort to study the self-force in nonvacuum situations. We replace the black hole by a material body consisting of a perfect fluid, and determine the impact of the fluid

Sundeep Teki

Time is an important dimension of brain function, but little is still known about the underlying cognitive principles and neurobiological mechanisms. The field of timing and time perception has witnessed rapid growth and multidisciplinary interest in the recent years with the advent of modern neuroimaging, neurophysiological and optogenetic tools. In this ar

Nikolaos Karaliolios

We continue our study of the local theory for quasiperiodic cocycles in $\mathbb{T} ^{d} \times G$, where $G=SU(2)$, over a rotation satisfying a Diophantine condition and satisfying a closeness-to-constants condition, by proving a dichotomy between measurable reducibility (and therefore pure point spectrum), and purely continuous spectrum in the space ortho

Yuri N. Fedorov, Andrew N. W. Hone

We construct the explicit solution of the initial value problem for sequences generated by the general Somos-6 recurrence relation, in terms of the Kleinian sigma-function of genus two. For each sequence there is an associated genus two curve $X$, such that iteration of the recurrence corresponds to translation by a fixed vector in the Jacobian of $X$. The c

Charles DeVoe, Shawon Rahman

Most small to medium health care organizations do not have the capability to address cyber incidents within the organization. Those that do are poorly trained and ill equipped. These health care organizations are subject to various laws that address privacy concerns, proper handling of financial information, and Personally Identifiable Information. Currently

Glennys R. Farrar

It has long been recognized that magnetic fields play an important role in many astrophysical environments, yet the strength and structure of magnetic fields beyond our solar system have been at best only qualitatively constrained. The Galactic magnetic field in particular is crucial for modeling the transport of Galactic CRs, for calculating the background

Alice Olmstead, Chandra Turpen

Professional development workshops are commonly used to promote the adoption of research-based instructional strategies among physics and astronomy faculty. After learning about such strategies, faculty are often motivated to modify and adapt them within their own classrooms, but prior research shows they may be underprepared to do so in ways likely to maint

Wenliang Zhang

Let $R=k[x_1,\dots,x_n]/I$ be a standard graded $k$-algebra where $k$ is a field of prime characteristic and let $J$ be a homogeneous ideal in $R$. Denote $(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ by $\mathfrak{m}$. We prove that there is a constant $C$ (independent of $e$) such that the regularity of $H^s_{\mathfrak{m}}(R/J^{[p^e]})$ is bounded above by $Cp^e$ for all $e\geq 1$ an

Tamsin A. Spelman, Eric Lauga

A well-developed method to induce mixing on microscopic scales is to exploit flows generated by steady streaming. Steady streaming is a classical fluid dynamics phenomenon whereby a time-periodic forcing in the bulk or along a boundary is enhanced by inertia to induce a non-zero net flow. Building on classical work for simple geometrical forcing and motivate

Adam Rubin, Avishay Gal-Yam, Annalisa De Cia, Assaf Horesh

During the first few days after explosion, Type II supernovae (SNe) are dominated by relatively simple physics. Theoretical predictions regarding early-time SN light curves in the ultraviolet (UV) and optical bands are thus quite robust. We present, for the first time, a sample of $57$ $R$-band Type II SN light curves that are well monitored during their ris

John A. Tomsick, Roman Krivonos, Qinan Wang, Arash Bodaghee

We report on 0.3-10 keV observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of eight hard X-ray sources discovered within 8 degrees of the Galactic plane by the INTEGRAL satellite. The short (5 ks) Chandra observations of the IGR source fields have yielded very likely identifications of X-ray counterparts for three of the IGR sources: IGR J14091-6108, IGR J18088

Wenhao Liu, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Eugenio Ursino

Shadow observations are the only way to observe emission from the galactic halo (GH) and/or the circumgalactic medium (CGM) free of any foreground contamination from local hot bubble (LHB) and solar wind charge exchange (SWCX). We analyzed data from a shadow observation in the direction of the high latitude, neutral hydrogen cloud MBM 16 with \Suzaku. We fou

Alex Deibel

The neutron star ocean is a plasma of ions and electrons that extends from the base of the neutron star's envelope to a depth where the plasma crystallizes into a solid crust. During an accretion outburst in an X-ray transient, material accumulates in the envelope of the neutron star primary. This accumulation compresses the neutron star's outer layers and i

Gustavo Burdman, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo

Folded supersymmetry is a natural theory of the electroweak scale in which the scalar top partner responsible for canceling the ultraviolet sensitivity of the Higgs mass at one loop carries no color. As a result, bounds on naturalness on these theories are more relaxed than in typical supersymmetric models, since collider bounds on top partners are less stri

Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell

The following interesting quantity was introduced by K. Cieliebak and K. Mohnke for a Lagrangian submanifold $L$ of a symplectic manifold: the minimal positive symplectic area of a disc with boundary on $L$. They also showed that this quantity is bounded from above by $\pi/n$ for a Lagrangian torus inside the $2n$-dimensional unit disc equipped with the stan

V. Tayari, N. Hemsworth, O. Cyr-Choinière, W. Dickerson

The layered semiconductor black phosphorus has attracted attention as a 2D atomic crystal that can be prepared in ultra-thin layers for operation as field effect transistors. Despite the susceptibility of black phosphorus to photo-oxidation, improvements to the electronic quality of black phosphorus devices has culminated in the observation of the quantum Ha

Kirill S. Korolev

Population expansions trigger many biomedical and ecological transitions, from tumor growth to invasions of non-native species. Although population spreading often selects for more invasive phenotypes, we show that this outcome is far from inevitable. In cooperative populations, mutations reducing dispersal have a competitive advantage. Such mutations then s

Yu Chen

It is well known that, for even n, the n-soliton solution on the Minkowski seed, constructed using the inverse-scattering method (ISM) of Belinski and Zakharov (BZ), is the multi-Kerr-NUT solution. We show that, for odd n, the natural seed to use is the Euclidean space with two manifest translational symmetries, and the n-soliton solution is the accelerating

Alex Vañó-Viñuales

The hyperboloidal initial value problem is addressed in the context of Numerical Relativity, motivated by its use of hyperboloidal slices - smooth spacelike slices that reach future null infinity, the "place" in spacetime where radiation is to be extracted. This is beneficial for studying the global properties of isolated systems and unambiguously extracting

Ellen Powell

We study branching diffusions in a bounded domain $D$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$ in which particles are killed upon hitting the boundary $\partial D$. It is known that any such process undergoes a phase transition when the branching rate $\beta$ exceeds a critical value: a multiple of the first eigenvalue of the generator of the diffusion. We investigate the system a

Morten Amundsen, Jacob Linder

An extension of quasiclassical Keldysh-Usadel theory to higher spatial dimensions than one is crucial in order to describe physical phenomena like charge/spin Hall effects and topological excitations like vortices and skyrmions, none of which are captured in one-dimensional models. We here present a numerical finite element method which solves the non-linear

Ignatios Antoniadis, Karim Benakli, Mariano Quiros

We present a novel mechanism of supersymmetry breaking embeddable in string theory and simultaneously sharing the main advantages of (sequestered) gravity and gauge mediation. It is driven by a Scherk-Schwarz deformation along a compact extra dimension, transverse to a D-brane stack supporting the supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. This fixes th

H. -Q. He

In some solar energetic particle (SEP) events, a counter-streaming particle beam with a deep depression of flux near 90 degrees pitch angle during the beginning phase is observed. Two different interpretations exist in the community to explain this interesting phenomenon. One explanation invokes the hypothesis of an outer reflecting boundary or a magnetic mi

Ashoke Sen

Superstring theory is known to be free from ultraviolet divergences but suffers from the usual infrared divergences that occur in quantum field theories. After briefly reviewing the origin of ultraviolet finiteness of superstring theory we describe recent progress towards the understanding of infrared divergences in superstring theory.

Luis E. Ibanez, Miguel Montero, Angel Uranga, Irene Valenzuela

The recently proposed relaxion models require extremely large trans-Planckian axion excursions as well as a potential explicitly violating the axion shift symmetry. The latter property is however inconsistent with the axion periodicity, which corresponds to a gauged discrete shift symmetry. A way to make things consistent is to use monodromy, i.e. both the a

E. Ursino, M. Galeazzi, W. Liu

We analyzed data from a shadow observation of the high density molecular cloud MBM36 (l~4{\deg}, b~35{\deg}) with Suzaku. MBM36 is located in a region that emits relatively weakly in the 3/4~keV band, compared to the surrounding NPS/Loop 1 structure and the Galactic Bulge. The contrast between a high and low density targets in the MBM36 area allows one to se

Jordan S. Cotler, Mark T. Mueller

We compute a variational approximation to the entanglement entropy for states of the Gross-Neveu model. Further, we examine the functional dependence of the entanglement entropy on the coupling and number of colors in the theory. Our results display non-peturbative behavior. It is shown that the entanglement entropy is monotonically decreasing and convex wit

Thomas Becher, Xavier Garcia i Tormo, Jan Piclum

We obtain a prediction for the hadron-collider event-shape variable transverse thrust in which the terms enhanced in the dijet limit are resummed to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Our method exploits universality properties made manifest in the factorized expression for the cross section and only requires one-loop calculations. The necessary t

Angnis Schmidt-May, Mikael von Strauss

This review is dedicated to recent progress in the field of classical, interacting, massive spin-2 theories, with a focus on ghost-free bimetric theory. We will outline its history and its development as a nontrivial extension and generalisation of nonlinear massive gravity. We present a detailed discussion of the consistency proofs of both theories, before

Wenbin Lu, Pawan Kumar, Neal J. Evans

Recent UV-optical surveys have been successful in finding tidal disruption events (TDEs), in which a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH). These TDEs release a huge amount of radiation energy ~ 10^51-52 erg into the circum-nuclear medium. If the medium is dusty, most of the radiation energy will be absorbed by dust grains within ~ 1 pc

Guy Gur-Ari, Masanori Hanada, Stephen H. Shenker

We study chaos in the classical limit of the matrix quantum mechanical system describing D0-brane dynamics. We determine a precise value of the largest Lyapunov exponent, and, with less precision, calculate the entire spectrum of Lyapunov exponents. We verify that these approach a smooth limit as $N \rightarrow \infty$. We show that a classical analog of scr

A. L. Faisst, P. L. Capak, I. Davidzon, M. Salvato

We measure a relation between the depth of four prominent rest-UV absorption complexes and metallicity for local galaxies and verify it up to z~3. We then apply this relation to a sample of 224 galaxies at 3.5 < z < 6.0 (<z> = 4.8) in COSMOS, for which unique UV spectra from DEIMOS and accurate stellar masses from SPLASH are available. The average galaxy pop

Lennox L. Cowie, Amy J. Barger, Antoinette Songaila

We examine the redshift evolution of standard strong emission-line diagnostics for Hbeta-selected star-forming galaxies using the local SDSS sample and a new z = 0.2 - 2.3 sample obtained from HST WFC3 grism and Keck DEIMOS and MOSFIRE data. We use the SDSS galaxies to show that there is a systematic dependence of the strong emission-line properties on Balme

B. Riaz, E. T. Whelan

We have identified a new externally irradiated Herbig-Haro (HH) jet, HH 1158, within ~2 pc of the massive OB type stars in the sigma Orionis cluster. At an Lbol ~ 0.1 Lsun, HH 1158 is the lowest luminosity irradiated HH jet identified to date in any cluster. Results from the analysis of high-resolution optical spectra indicate asymmetries in the brightness,

Quan Guo, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Qi Guo, Matthieu Schaller

We compare global predictions from the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation, and two semi-analytic (SA) models of galaxy formation, L-GALAXIES and GALFORM. All three models include the key physical processes for the formation and evolution of galaxies and their parameters are calibrated against a small number of observables at $z\approx 0$. The two SA models have

A. J. Stewart, R. P. Fender, J. W. Broderick, T. E. Hassall

We present the results of a four-month campaign searching for low-frequency radio transients near the North Celestial Pole with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), as part of the Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS). The data were recorded between 2011 December and 2012 April and comprised 2149 11-minute snapshots, each covering 175 deg^2. We have found on

Matthijs Hogervorst, Slava Rychkov, Balt C. van Rees

We consider the continuation of free and interacting scalar field theory to non-integer spacetime dimension d. We find that the correlation functions in these theories are necessarily incompatible with unitarity (or with reflection positivity in Euclidean signature). In particular, the theories contain negative norm states unless d is a positive integer. The

Samuel D. McDermott, Patrick J. Fox, Ilias Cholis, Samuel K. Lee

We demonstrate how the image analysis technique of wavelet decomposition can be applied to the gamma-ray sky to separate emission on different angular scales. New structures on scales that differ from the scales of the conventional astrophysical foreground and background uncertainties can be robustly extracted, allowing a model-independent characterization w

Iosif Bena, Mariana Graña, Stanislav Kuperstein, Praxitelis Ntokos

We examine the AdS-CFT dual of arbitrary (non)supersymmetric fermionic mass deformations of N=4 SYM, and investigate how the backreaction of the RR and NS-NS two-form potentials dual to the fermion masses contribute to Coulomb-branch potential of D3 branes, which we interpret as the bulk boson mass matrix. Using representation-theory and supergravity argumen

Nathan Benjamin, Shamit Kachru, Christoph A. Keller, Natalie M. Paquette

It is of interest to find criteria on a 2d CFT which indicate that it gives rise to emergent gravity in a macroscopic 3d AdS space via holography. Symmetric orbifolds in the large $N$ limit have partition functions which are consistent with an emergent space-time string theory with $L_{\rm string} \sim L_{\rm AdS}$. For supersymmetric CFTs, the elliptic genu

Jacob B. Simon, Philip J. Armitage, Rixin Li, Andrew N. Youdin

We study the formation of planetesimals in protoplanetary disks from the gravitational collapse of solid over-densities generated via the streaming instability. To carry out these studies, we implement and test a particle-mesh self-gravity module for the Athena code that enables the simulation of aerodynamically coupled systems of gas and collisionless self-

Marcel P. van Daalen, Bruno M. B. Henriques, Raul E. Angulo, Simon D. M. White

We introduce methods which allow observed galaxy clustering to be used together with observed luminosity or stellar mass functions to constrain the physics of galaxy formation. We show how the projected two-point correlation function of galaxies in a large semi-analytic simulation can be estimated to better than ~10% using only a very small subsample of the

Martin Lopez-Corredoira, Pavel Kroupa

We show that a significant correlation (up to 5sigma) emerges between the bulge index, defined to be larger for larger bulge/disk ratio, in spiral galaxies with similar luminosities in the Galaxy Zoo 2 of SDSS and the number of tidal-dwarf galaxies in the catalogue by Kaviraj et al. (2012). In the standard cold or warm dark-matter cosmological models the num

Grigory Ovanesyan, Felix Ringer, Ivan Vitev

We derive medium-induced splitting kernels for energetic partons that undergo interactions in dense QCD matter before a hard-scattering event at large momentum transfer $Q^2$. Working in the framework of the effective theory ${\rm SCET}_{\rm G}\,$, we compute the splitting kernels beyond the soft gluon approximation. We present numerical studies that compare

Yue Shen

We study the rest-frame optical properties of 74 luminous (L_bol=10^46.2-48.2 erg/s), 1.5<z<3.5 broad-line quasars with near-IR (JHK) slit spectroscopy. Systemic redshifts based on the peak of the [OIII]5007 line reveal that redshift estimates from the rest-frame UV broad emission lines (mostly MgII) are intrinsically uncertain by ~ 200 km/s (measurement err

Edward Bormashenko, Gene Whyman, Yelena Bormashenko, Roman Grynyov

An account of the transversality conditions of variational problems gives rise to essential results in the analysis of different physical phenomena. This powerful and elegant approach has proven to be fruitful in a diversity of variational problems with free endpoints, when the endpoints are free to slip along preset curves. We illustrate the transversality

Christopher Spalding, Konstantin Batygin, Fred C. Adams

Jupiter and Saturn play host to an impressive array of satellites, making it reasonable to suspect that similar systems of moons might exist around giant extrasolar planets. Furthermore, a significant population of such planets is known to reside at distances of several Astronomical Units (AU), leading to speculation that some moons thereof might support liq

Baptiste Chantraine, Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell, Paolo Ghiggini, Roman Golovko

In this article we define intersection Floer homology for exact Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds in the contactisation of a Liouville manifold, provided that the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebras of the negative ends of the cobordisms admit augmentations. From this theory we derive several exact sequences relating the Morse homology of an exa

Jakob Lemvig

We prove some infinite series identities for the Hermite functions. From these identities we disprove the Gabor frame set conjecture for Hermite functions of order $4m+2$ and $4m+3$ for $m \in \{0\} \cup \mathbb{N}$. The results hold not only for Hermite functions, but for two large classes of eigenfunctions of the Fourier transform associated with the eigen

Chaim Even-Zohar

We introduce and study the writhe of a permutation, a circular variant of the well-known inversion number. This simple permutation statistics has several interpretations, which lead to some interesting properties. For a permutation sampled uniformly at random, we study the asymptotics of the writhe, and obtain a non-Gaussian limit distribution. This work is

Cengiz Pehlevan, Dmitri B. Chklovskii

In analyzing information streamed by sensory organs, our brains face challenges similar to those solved in statistical signal processing. This suggests that biologically plausible implementations of online signal processing algorithms may model neural computation. Here, we focus on such workhorses of signal processing as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) an

Ademir Hujdurović, Klavdija Kutnar, Pawel Petecki, Anastasiya Tanana

In this paper, generalized Cayley graphs are studied. It is proved that every generalized Cayley graph of order 2p is a Cayley graph, where p is a prime. Special attention is given to generalized Cayley graphs on Abelian groups. It is proved that every generalized Cayley graph on an Abelian group with respect to an automorphism which acts as inversion is a C

Marina Artuso, Guennadi Borissov, Alexander Lenz

We review experimental and theoretical aspects of CP violation in the $B_s^0$-system. In that respect we present updates for the mixing parameters of the $B_s^0$ mesons expected in the Standard Model (SM): the mass difference $\Delta M_s^{\rm SM} = (18.3 \pm 2.7)$ ps$^{-1}$, the decay rate difference $\Delta \Gamma_s^{\rm SM} = (0.085 \pm 0.015)$ ps$^{-1}$,

Kathryn H. Matlack, Anton Bauhofer, Sebastian Krödel, Antonio Palermo

Architected materials that control elastic wave propagation are essential in vibration mitigation and sound attenuation. Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials use band gap engineering to forbid certain frequencies from propagating through a material. However, existing solutions are limited in the low frequency regimes and in their bandwidth of operati

Nino Bašić, Drago Bokal, Tomas Boothby, Jernej Rus

Recently designed biomolecular approaches to build single chain polypeptide polyhedra as molecular origami nanostructures have risen high interest in various double traces of the underlying graphs of these polyhedra. Double traces are walks that traverse every edge of the graph twice, usually with some additional conditions on traversal direction and vertex

Rasmus Bentmann

We show that a C*-algebra "looking like" a Cuntz-Krieger algebra is a Cuntz-Krieger algebra. This implies that, in an appropriate sense, the class of Cuntz-Krieger algebras is closed under extensions of real rank zero.

Francesco Benini, Nikolay Bobev, P. Marcos Crichigno

We find a large class of two-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ SCFTs obtained by compactifying four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ quiver gauge theories on a Riemann surface. We study these theories using anomalies and $c$-extremization. The gravitational duals to these fixed points are new AdS$_3$ solutions of IIB supergravity which we exhibit explicitly. Along

Giuseppe Ruoso, Augusto Lombardi, Antonello Ortolan, Ruggero Pengo

Aim of the QUAX (QUaerere AXion) proposal is to exploit the interaction of cosmological axions with the spin of electrons in a magnetized sample. Their effect is equivalent to the application of an oscillating rf field with frequency and amplitude which are fixed by axion mass and coupling constant, respectively. The rf receiver module of the QUAX detector c