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0707.3330
Klaus Werner
Klaus Werner (SUBATECH, University of Nantes, Nantes, France) and Tanguy Pierog (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Extended Air Shower Simulations Based on EPOS
Talk presented at EDS07
AIPConf.Proc.928:111-117,2007
10.1063/1.2775903
null
astro-ph hep-ph
null
We discuss air shower simulations based on the EPOS hadronic interaction model. A remarkable feature is the fact that the number of produced muons is considerably larger compared to other interaction models. We show that this is due to an improved treatment of baryon-antibaryon production.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:03:19 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Werner", "Klaus", "", "SUBATECH, University of Nantes, Nantes, France" ], [ "Pierog", "Tanguy", "", "Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Kernphysik,\n Karlsruhe, Germany" ] ]
0707.3331
Vladimir Khatsymovsky
V. M. Khatsymovsky
On positivity of quantum measure and of effective action in area tensor Regge calculus
18 pages, 4 figures
null
null
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
Because of unboundedness of the general relativity action, Euclidean version of the path integral in general relativity requires definition. Area tensor Regge calculus is considered in the representation with independent area tensor and finite rotation matrices. Being integrated over rotation matrices the path integral measure in area tensor Regge calculus is rewritten by moving integration contours to complex plain so that it looks as that one with effective action in the exponential with positive real part. We speculate that positivity of the measure can be expected in the most part of range of variation of area tensors.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:29:38 GMT" } ]
2007-07-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Khatsymovsky", "V. M.", "" ] ]
0707.3332
Yongseok Oh
Yongseok Oh, Che Ming Ko
Elliptic flow of deuterons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
18 pages, REVTeX, 8 figures, structure of the article was changed, to be published in Phys. Rev. C
Phys.Rev.C76:054910,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.054910
null
nucl-th hep-ph
null
Using a dynamical model based on the $NN \to d\pi$, $NNN \to dN$, and $NN\pi \to d\pi$ reactions and measured proton and pion transverse momentum spectra and elliptic flows, we study the production of deuterons and their elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. The results are compared with those from the coalescence model. The deviation of deuteron elliptic flow from the constituent nucleon number scaling expected from the coalescence model and the comparison with the experimental data are discussed in connection to the allowed nucleon phase space in these reactions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:13:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:36:38 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Oh", "Yongseok", "" ], [ "Ko", "Che Ming", "" ] ]
0707.3333
J. Fernando Barbero G.
J. Fernando Barbero G., Daniel G\'omez Vergel, Eduardo J. S. Villase\~nor
Hamiltonian Dynamics of Linearly Polarized Gowdy Models Coupled to Massless Scalar Fields
Final version to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Class.Quant.Grav.24:5945-5972,2007
10.1088/0264-9381/24/23/016
null
gr-qc
null
The purpose of this paper is to analyze in detail the Hamiltonian formulation for the compact Gowdy models coupled to massless scalar fields as a necessary first step towards their quantization. We will pay special attention to the coupling of matter and those features that arise for the three-handle and three-sphere topologies that are not present in the well studied three torus case -in particular the polar constraints that come from the regularity conditions on the metric. As a byproduct of our analysis we will get an alternative understanding, within the Hamiltonian framework, of the appearance of initial and final singularities for these models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:27:58 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:24:55 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "G.", "J. Fernando Barbero", "" ], [ "Vergel", "Daniel Gómez", "" ], [ "Villaseñor", "Eduardo J. S.", "" ] ]
0707.3334
Eugene Vasiliev
Eugene Vasiliev
Dark matter annihilation near a black hole: plateau vs. weak cusp
4 pages, 3 figures. Matches published version
Phys.Rev.D76:103532,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.103532
null
astro-ph
null
Dark matter annihilation in so-called ``spikes'' near black holes is believed to be an important method of indirect dark matter detection. In the case of circular particle orbits, the density profile of dark matter has a plateau at small radii, the maximal density being limited by the annihilation cross-section. However, in the general case of arbitrary velocity anisotropy the situation is different. Particulary, for isotropic velocity distribution the density profile cannot be shallower than r^{-1/2} in the very centre. Indeed, a detailed study reveals that in many cases the term ``annihilation plateau'' is misleading, as the density actually continues to rise towards small radii and forms a weak cusp, rho ~ r^{-(beta+1/2)}, where beta is the anisotropy coefficient. The annihilation flux, however, does not change much in the latter case, if averaged over an area larger than the annihilation radius.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:43:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 1 Dec 2007 14:22:37 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Vasiliev", "Eugene", "" ] ]
0707.3335
Roberto Maiolino
R. Maiolino, R. Neri, A. Beelen, F. Bertoldi, C.L. Carilli, P. Caselli, P. Cox, K.M. Menten, T. Nagao, A. Omont, C.M. Walmsley, F. Walter, A. Weiss
Molecular gas in QSO host galaxies at z>5
Accepted for publication in A&A Letters, 6 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20078136
null
astro-ph
null
We present observations with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer of three QSOs at z>5 aimed at detecting molecular gas in their host galaxies as traced by CO transitions. CO (5-4) is detected in SDSSJ033829.31+002156.3 at z=5.0267, placing it amongst the most distant sources detected in CO. The CO emission is unresolved with a beam size of ~1", implying that the molecular gas is contained within a compact region, less than ~3kpc in radius. We infer an upper limit on the dynamical mass of the CO emitting region of ~3x10^10 Msun/sin(i)^2. The comparison with the Black Hole mass inferred from near-IR data suggests that the BH-to-bulge mass ratio in this galaxy is significantly higher than in local galaxies. From the CO luminosity we infer a mass reservoir of molecular gas as high as M(H2)=2.4x10^10 Msun, implying that the molecular gas accounts for a significant fraction of the dynamical mass. When compared to the star formation rate derived from the far-IR luminosity, we infer a very short gas exhaustion timescale (~10^7 yrs), comparable to the dynamical timescale. CO is not detected in the other two QSOs (SDSSJ083643.85+005453.3 and SDSSJ163033.90+401209.6) and upper limits are given for their molecular gas content. When combined with CO observations of other type 1 AGNs, spanning a wide redshift range (0<z<6.4), we find that the host galaxy CO luminosity (hence molecular gas content) and the AGN optical luminosity (hence BH accretion rate) are correlated, but the relation is not linear: L(CO) ~ [lambda*L_lambda(4400A)]^0.72. Moreover, at high redshifts (and especially at z>5) the CO luminosity appears to saturate. We discuss the implications of these findings in terms of black hole-galaxy co-evolution.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:53:49 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Maiolino", "R.", "" ], [ "Neri", "R.", "" ], [ "Beelen", "A.", "" ], [ "Bertoldi", "F.", "" ], [ "Carilli", "C. L.", "" ], [ "Caselli", "P.", "" ], [ "Cox", "P.", "" ], [ "Menten", "K. M.", "" ], [ "Nagao", "T.", "" ], [ "Omont", "A.", "" ], [ "Walmsley", "C. M.", "" ], [ "Walter", "F.", "" ], [ "Weiss", "A.", "" ] ]
0707.3336
Koujin Takeda
Koujin Takeda, Atsushi Hatabu, Yoshiyuki Kabashima
Statistical mechanical analysis of the linear vector channel in digital communication
15 pages, 2 figures
J. Phys. A40 (2007) 14085-14098
10.1088/1751-8113/40/47/004
null
cs.IT cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mech math.IT
null
A statistical mechanical framework to analyze linear vector channel models in digital wireless communication is proposed for a large system. The framework is a generalization of that proposed for code-division multiple-access systems in Europhys. Lett. 76 (2006) 1193 and enables the analysis of the system in which the elements of the channel transfer matrix are statistically correlated with each other. The significance of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by assessing the performance of an existing model of multi-input multi-output communication systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:35:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:52:44 GMT" } ]
2007-11-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Takeda", "Koujin", "" ], [ "Hatabu", "Atsushi", "" ], [ "Kabashima", "Yoshiyuki", "" ] ]
0707.3337
Pengzi Miao
Hubert Bray and Pengzi Miao
On The Capacity of Surfaces in Manifolds with Nonnegative Scalar Curvature
18 pages
Invent. math. 172, 459-475 (2008)
10.1007/s00222-007-0102-x
null
math.DG gr-qc
null
Given a surface in an asymptotically flat 3-manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature, we derive an upper bound for the capacity of the surface in terms of the area of the surface and the Willmore functional of the surface. The capacity of a surface is defined to be the energy of the harmonic function which equals 0 on the surface and goes to 1 at infinity. Even in the special case of Euclidean space, this is a new estimate. More generally, equality holds precisely for a spherically symmetric sphere in a spatial Schwarzschild 3-manifold. As applications, we obtain inequalities relating the capacity of the surface to the Hawking mass of the surface and the total mass of the asymptotically flat manifold.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:37:02 GMT" } ]
2008-07-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Bray", "Hubert", "" ], [ "Miao", "Pengzi", "" ] ]
0707.3338
Alessandro Silva
Davide Fioretto, Alessandro Silva
Phase coherence, inelastic scattering, and interaction corrections in pumping through quantum dots
4.1 pages, 1 figure, revised version
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236803 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.236803
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
Adiabatic quantum pumping in noninteracting, phase coherent quantum dots is elegantly described by Brouwer's formula. Interactions within the dot, while suppressing phase coherence, make Brouwer's formalism inapplicable. In this paper, we discuss the nature of the physical processes forcing a description of pumping beyond Brouwer's formula, and develop, using a controlled adiabatic expansion, a useful formalism to study the effect of interactions within a generic perturbative scheme. The pumped current consists of a first contribution, analogous to Brouwer's formula and accounting for the remanent coherence, and of interaction corrections describing inelastic scattering. We apply the formalism to study the effect of interaction with a bosonic bath on a resonant level pump and discuss the robustness of the quantization of the pumped charge in turnstile cycles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:46:39 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:37:00 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Fioretto", "Davide", "" ], [ "Silva", "Alessandro", "" ] ]
0707.3339
James Langley
J K Langley
Non-real zeros of linear differential polynomials
null
null
null
null
math.CV
null
Lower bounds are given for the number of non-real zeros of a second order linear differential polynomial with constant coefficients in a real entire function with finitely many non-real zeros.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:47:43 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Langley", "J K", "" ] ]
0707.3340
Fabio Lucio Toninelli
Giambattista Giacomin, Fabio Lucio Toninelli
On the irrelevant disorder regime of pinning models
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOP454 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Probability 2009, Vol. 37, No. 5, 1841-1875
10.1214/09-AOP454
IMS-AOP-AOP454
math.PR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recent results have lead to substantial progress in understanding the role of disorder in the (de)localization transition of polymer pinning models. Notably, there is an understanding of the crucial issue of disorder relevance and irrelevance that is now rigorous. In this work, we exploit interpolation and replica coupling methods to obtain sharper results on the irrelevant disorder regime of pinning models. In particular, in this regime, we compute the first order term in the expansion of the free energy close to criticality and this term coincides with the first order of the formal expansion obtained by field theory methods. We also show that the quenched and quenched averaged correlation length exponents coincide, while, in general, they are expected to be different. Interpolation and replica coupling methods in this class of models naturally lead to studying the behavior of the intersection of certain renewal sequences and one of the main tools in this work is precisely renewal theory and the study of these intersection renewals.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:06:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:55:39 GMT" } ]
2009-09-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Giacomin", "Giambattista", "" ], [ "Toninelli", "Fabio Lucio", "" ] ]
0707.3341
Lukasz Andrzej Glinka
Lukasz-Andrzej Glinka
Quantum Information from Graviton-Matter Gas
This is a contribution to the Proc. of the Seventh International Conference ''Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics'' (June 24-30, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine), published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/
SIGMA 3:087,2007
10.3842/SIGMA.2007.087
null
gr-qc cond-mat.stat-mech hep-th math-ph math.MP quant-ph
null
We present basics of conceptually new-type way for explaining of the origin, evolution and current physical properties of our Universe from the graviton-matter gas viewpoint. Quantization method for the Friedmann-Lemaitre Universe based on the canonical Hamilton equations of motion is proposed and quantum information theory way to physics of the Universe is showed. The current contribution from the graviton-matter gas temperature in quintessence approximation is discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:06:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:18:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:25:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:11:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:54:16 GMT" } ]
2008-12-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Glinka", "Lukasz-Andrzej", "" ] ]
0707.3342
S. Weinzierl
Stefan Weinzierl
Automated calculations for multi-leg processes
43 pages, plenary talk given at the ACAT 07 conference, Amsterdam, 2007; v2: references added
PoS ACAT:005,2007
null
null
hep-ph
null
The search for signals of new physics at the forthcoming LHC experiments involves the analysis of final states characterised by a high number of hadronic jets or identified particles. Precise theoretical predictions for these processes require the computation of scattering amplitudes with a large number of external particles and beyond leading order in perturbation theory. The complexity of a calculation grows with the number of internal loops as well as with the number of external legs. Automatisation of at least next-to-leading order calculations for LHC processes is therefore a timely task. I will discuss various approaches.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:26:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:07:13 GMT" } ]
2009-04-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Weinzierl", "Stefan", "" ] ]
0707.3343
Lisheng Geng
L. S. Geng and E. Oset
The role of the $\Lambda(1405)$ in the $pp\to p K^+\Lambda(1405)$ reaction
version to appear in European Physical Journal A; theoretical uncertainties reanalyzed, data updated according to the experiment
Eur.Phys.J.A34:405-412,2007
10.1140/epja/i2008-10518-5
null
hep-ph
null
We report a theoretical study of the $pp\to p K^+\Lambda(1405)$ reaction, which was recently investigated at COSY-J\"{u}lich by using a 3.65 GeV/c circulating proton beam incident on an internal hydrogen target. The reaction is driven by single kaon exchange, single pion exchange, and single rho exchange terms which have very different shapes due to the two pole structure of the $\Lambda(1405)$ and the presence of background terms. The shape for the sum of the three contributions, as well as the total cross section, are consistent with present data within experimental and theoretical uncertainties, using reasonable form factors for the meson-baryon vertices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:27:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:23:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:33:12 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Geng", "L. S.", "" ], [ "Oset", "E.", "" ] ]
0707.3344
Markos Maniatis
M. Maniatis, A. von Manteuffel, O. Nachtmann
CP Violation in the General Two-Higgs-Doublet Model: a Geometric View
19 pages, minor additions, minor typos corrected, results unchanged
Eur.Phys.J.C57:719-738,2008
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0712-5
HD-THEP-07-16
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the CP properties of the potential in the general Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (THDM). This is done in a concise way using real gauge invariant functions built from the scalar products of the doublet fields. The space of these invariant functions, parametrising the gauge orbits of the Higgs fields, is isomorphic to the forward light cone and its interior. CP transformations are shown to correspond to reflections in the space of the gauge invariant functions. We consider CP transformations where no mixing of the Higgs doublets is taken into account as well as the general case where the Higgs basis is not fixed. We present basis independent conditions for explicit CP violation which may be checked easily for any THDM potential. Conditions for spontaneous CP violation, that is CP violation through the vacuum expectation values of the Higgs fields, are also derived in a basis independent way.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:32:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:48:53 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Maniatis", "M.", "" ], [ "von Manteuffel", "A.", "" ], [ "Nachtmann", "O.", "" ] ]
0707.3345
Wolfgang Ziller
Wolfgang Ziller
On the geometry of cohomogeneity one manifolds with positive curvature
25 pages
null
null
null
math.DG
null
This is a survey on cohomogeneity one manifolds with positive curvature. We discuss the known examples of this type and their geometry and the functions that describe the metric. We also describe the classification of cohomogeneity one manifolds that can admit a metric with positive curvature due to Grove-Wilking-Ziller. Two series of candidates arose in this classification for which it is not yet know if they admit positive curvature. The connection of these candidates to the Hitchin self dual Einstein orbifolds is discussed as well, including the curvature properties of the Hitchin metrics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:42:40 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Ziller", "Wolfgang", "" ] ]
0707.3346
Asish Kundu K
Asish K. Kundu, E. -L. Rautama, Ph. Boullay, V. Caignaert, V. Pralong, and B. Raveau
Spin-locking effect in the nanoscale ordered perovskite cobaltite LaBaCo2O6
16 pages including figures
Phys. Rev. B 76, 184432 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.184432
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.other
null
A new nanoscale ordered perovskite cobaltite, which consists of 90 degree ordered domains of the layered-112 LaBaCo2O6 has been evidenced by high resolution- transmission electron microscopy. This new form, like the disordered La0.5Ba0.5CoO3 and ordered LaBaCo2O6, exhibits a ferromagnetic transition at TC around 179 K. However, it differs from the two previous forms by its strong magnetic anisotropy, and correlatively by its high value of coercivity (0.42 Tesla) at low temperature. We suggest that this behaviour originates from the locking of magnetic spins in the 90 degree oriented nano-domain. Moreover, one observes a semi-metal/semi-metal transition at TC with a maximum magnetoresistance of 6.5 % at this temperature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:50:06 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Kundu", "Asish K.", "" ], [ "Rautama", "E. -L.", "" ], [ "Boullay", "Ph.", "" ], [ "Caignaert", "V.", "" ], [ "Pralong", "V.", "" ], [ "Raveau", "B.", "" ] ]
0707.3347
Hans-G. Ludwig
Hans-G. Ludwig
3D spectral synthesis and rotational line broadening
3 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication by A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20066909
null
astro-ph
null
Spectral synthesis calculations based on three-dimensional stellar atmosphere models are limited by the affordable angular resolution of the radiation field. This hampers an accurate treatment of rotational line broadening. We aim to find a treatment of rotational broadening of a spherical star when the radiation field is only available at a modest number of limb-angles. We apply a combination of analytical considerations of the line-broadening process and numerical tests. We obtain a method which is closely related to classical flux convolution and which performs noticeably better than a previously suggested procedure. It can be applied to rigid as well as differential rotation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:10:28 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Ludwig", "Hans-G.", "" ] ]
0707.3348
Balazs Dora
Bal\'azs D\'ora, Mikl\'os Gul\'acsi, Ferenc Simon, Hans Kuzmany
Spin gap and Luttinger liquid description of the NMR relaxation in carbon nanotubes
5 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 166402 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.166402
null
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall
null
Recent NMR experiments by Singer et al. [Singer et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236403 (2005).] showed a deviation from Fermi-liquid behavior in carbon nanotubes with an energy gap evident at low temperatures. Here, a comprehensive theory for the magnetic field and temperature dependent NMR 13C spin-lattice relaxation is given in the framework of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. The low temperature properties are governed by a gapped relaxation due to a spin gap (~ 30K), which crosses over smoothly to the Luttinger liquid behaviour with increasing temperature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:11:52 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dóra", "Balázs", "" ], [ "Gulácsi", "Miklós", "" ], [ "Simon", "Ferenc", "" ], [ "Kuzmany", "Hans", "" ] ]
0707.3349
Massimo Marezio
T.H. Geballe and M. Marezio
A comment on the superconductivity of Sr2CuO3+delta
7 pages
null
null
null
cond-mat.supr-con
null
We have revisited data in the literature and find compelling reasons for believing that enhanced superconductivity occurs in Sr2CuO3+delta when about one third of the oxygen sites in the CuO2 layers are vacant, contrary to the almost universally accepted assumption that superconducting interactions in the high Tc cuprates occur in stoichiometric CuO2 layers.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:17:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:51:06 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Geballe", "T. H.", "" ], [ "Marezio", "M.", "" ] ]
0707.3350
Anupam Mazumdar
A. Mazumdar
New developments on embedding inflation in gauge theory and particle physics
74 pages, Review based on Talks
null
null
null
hep-ph astro-ph gr-qc hep-th
null
In this brief review we will discuss how a well motivated particle theory beyond the eletroweak Standard Model provides ingredients and conditions for a successful inflation. We will mainly focus on a low energy supersymmetric Standard Model which provides plenty of scalars. In particular, these scalars span a multidimensional moduli space of {\it gauge invariant} operators which carry the Standard Model charges. The inflationary predictions which matches the current observations are robust due to the fact that inflation occurs within our own gauge sector where the couplings are well known. We further argue that based on our current understandings if there exists a {\it string landscape} of multiple vacua, then it is very natural that the last phase of inflation would be driven by one of the many supersymmetric Standard Model modulii. Only such a graceful exit from inflation would provide hot thermal Standard Model baryons, cold dark matter, conditions for baryogenesis and foremost the seed density perturbations for the cosmic microwave background radiation in just {\it one package}. Furthermore we will also discuss how some of the ingredients of inflation can be tested already by the LHC.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:23:28 GMT" } ]
2007-07-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Mazumdar", "A.", "" ] ]
0707.3351
Jeremy Dunning-Davies
M. Moore and J. Dunning-Davies
Reflections and Thoughts on Tired Light
6 pages
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
The position of the various tired light theories is reviewed briefly and it is noted that one of the biggest objections to them concerns the mechanism by which light might lose energy as it travels through space. Here some new work relating to the constancy of the speed of light is highlighted as providing a possible solution to this conundrum, thus making more feasible explanation of phenomena via theories involving the notion of tired light.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:26:55 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Moore", "M.", "" ], [ "Dunning-Davies", "J.", "" ] ]
0707.3352
Shaun Mosley
Shaun N. Mosley
Wavepacket Solutions of the Klein-Gordon Equation
plianTeX, 9 pages, velocity operator canonical transformation included
null
null
null
quant-ph hep-th math-ph math.MP
null
We find dispersion-free wavepacket solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation, with the only free parameter being the wavepacket velocity $ {\bf v} $. These wavefunctions are eigenvectors of a velocity operator with commuting components which is symmetric in a certain scalar product space. We show that this velocity operator corresponds to a classical generator which may be obtained by a canonical tranformation from $ {\bf x}, {\bf k} $.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:27:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:37:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:38:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:28:42 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Mosley", "Shaun N.", "" ] ]
0707.3353
Xingang Wang Dr
Xingang Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai, Cangtao Zhou, and Choy Heng Lai
The multiple effects of gradient coupling on network synchronization
4 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.77.056208
null
nlin.AO nlin.PS
null
Recent studies have shown that synchronizability of complex networks can be significantly improved by asymmetric couplings, and increase of coupling gradient is always in favor of network synchronization. Here we argue and demonstrate that, for typical complex networks, there usually exists an optimal coupling gradient under which the maximum network synchronizability is achieved. After this optimal value, increase of coupling gradient could deteriorate synchronization. We attribute the suppression of network synchronization at large gradient to the phenomenon of network breaking, and find that, in comparing with sparsely connected homogeneous networks, densely connected heterogeneous networks have the superiority of adopting large gradient. The findings are supported by indirect simulations of eigenvalue analysis and direct simulations of coupled nonidentical oscillator networks.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:33:48 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Wang", "Xingang", "" ], [ "Lai", "Ying-Cheng", "" ], [ "Zhou", "Cangtao", "" ], [ "Lai", "Choy Heng", "" ] ]
0707.3354
A. D. Polosa
L. Maiani, A.D. Polosa, V. Riquer
Indications of a Four-Quark Structure for the X(3872) and X(3876) Particles from Recent Belle and BABAR Data
5 pages, some revision of the text, results unchanged. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:182003,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.182003
null
hep-ph
null
Recent results by BELLE and BaBar point to the existence of a second X particle decaying in D^0 D^0bar pi^0, a few MeV above the X(3872). We identify the two X states with the neutral particles predicted by the 4-quark model and show that production and decays are consistent with this assignement. We consider the yet-to-be-observed charged partners and give new hints on how to look for them.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:34:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:42:09 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Maiani", "L.", "" ], [ "Polosa", "A. D.", "" ], [ "Riquer", "V.", "" ] ]
0707.3355
Kei-Jiro Takahashi
Kei-Jiro Takahashi
Three-Family Models from a Heterotic Orbifold on the E_6 Root Lattice
20 pages, 1 figures; v3: Classification for orbifolds on the E_6 lattice is added, typos corrected, published version
Prog.Theor.Phys.119:491-507,2008
10.1143/PTP.119.491
KUNS-2086
hep-th hep-ph
null
We classify N=1 orbifolds on the E_6 root lattice and investigate explicit model constructions on the Z_3xZ_3 orbifold in heterotic string theory. Interestingly some of the twisted sectors from the Z_3xZ_3 orbifold on the E_6 root lattice have just three fixed tori respectively, and generate three degenerate massless states. We also found three point functions with flavor mixing terms. We assume only non-standard gauge embeddings and find that they lead to three-family SU(5) and SO(10) GUT-like models. These models also include strongly coupled sectors in the low energy and messenger states charged with both hidden and visible sectors.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:03:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:20:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:19:50 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Takahashi", "Kei-Jiro", "" ] ]
0707.3356
Andrea Merloni
Andrea Merloni (MPE), Sebastian Heinz (UW-Madison)
Measuring the kinetic power of AGN in the radio mode
13 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
MNRAS, 381, 589 (2007)
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12253.x
null
astro-ph
null
(Abridged) We have studied the relationship among nuclear radio and X-ray power, Bondi rate and the kinetic luminosity of sub-Eddington active galactic nuclear (AGN) jets. Besides the recently discovered correlation between jet kinetic and Bondi power, we show that a clear correlation exists also between Eddington-scaled kinetic power and bolometric luminosity, given by: Log(L_kin/L_Edd)=0.49*Log(L_bol/L_Edd)-0.78. The measured slope suggests that these objects are in a radiatively inefficient accretion mode, and has been used to put stringent constraints on the properties of the accretion flow. We found no statistically significant correlations between Bondi power and bolometric AGN luminosity, apart from that induced by their common dependence on L_kin. Analyzing the relation between kinetic power and radio core luminosity, we are then able to determine, statistically, both the probability distribution of the mean jets Lorentz factor, peaking at \Gamma~7, and the intrinsic relation between kinetic and radio core luminosity, that we estimate as: Log(L_kin)=0.81*Log(L_R)+11.9, in good agreement with theoretical predictions of synchrotron jet models. With the aid of these findings, quantitative assessments of kinetic feedback from supermassive black holes in the radio mode will be possible based on accurate determinations of the central engine properties alone. As an example, Sgr A* may follow the correlations of radio mode AGN, based on its observed radiative output and on estimates of the accretion rate both at the Bondi radius and in the inner flow. If this is the case, the SMBH in the Galactic center is the source of ~ 5 times 10^38 ergs/s of mechanical power, equivalent to about 1.5 supernovae every 10^5 years.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:38:30 GMT" } ]
2008-07-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Merloni", "Andrea", "", "MPE" ], [ "Heinz", "Sebastian", "", "UW-Madison" ] ]
0707.3357
Giovanni Morchio
G.Morchio, F.Strocchi
Quantum mechanics on manifolds and topological effects
A few comments have been added to the Introduction, together with related references; a few words have been changed in the Abstract and a Note added to the Title
Lett.Math.Phys.82:219-236,2007
10.1007/s11005-007-0188-5
IFUP TH 07/19
math-ph hep-th math.MP
null
A unique classification of the topological effects associated to quantum mechanics on manifolds is obtained on the basis of the invariance under diffeomorphisms and the realization of the Lie-Rinehart relations between the generators of the diffeomorphism group and the algebra of infinitely differentiable functions on the manifold. This leads to a unique ("Lie-Rinehart") C* algebra as observable algebra; its regular representations are shown to be locally Schroedinger and in one to one correspondence with the unitary representations of the fundamental group of the manifold. Therefore, in the absence of spin degrees of freedom and external fields, the first homotopy group of the manifold appears as the only source of topological effects.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:45:37 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:59:04 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Morchio", "G.", "" ], [ "Strocchi", "F.", "" ] ]
0707.3358
Sheung Tsun Tsou
Jose Bordes (Valencia), H. M. Chan (Rutherford Laboratory), S. T. Tsou (Oxford)
New Angle on the Strong CP and Chiral Symmetry Problems from a Rotating Mass Matrix
14 pages
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A24:101-112,2009
10.1142/S0217751X09042633
null
hep-ph hep-th
null
It is shown that when the mass matrix changes in orientation (rotates) in generation space for changing energy scale, then the masses of the lower generations are not given just by its eigenvalues. In particular, these masses need not be zero even when the eigenvalues are zero. In that case, the strong CP problem can be avoided by removing the unwanted $\theta$ term by a chiral transformation in no contradiction with the nonvanishing quark masses experimentally observed. Similarly, a rotating mass matrix may shed new light on the problem of chiral symmetry breaking. That the fermion mass matrix may so rotate with scale has been suggested before as a possible explanation for up-down fermion mixing and fermion mass hierarchy, giving results in good agreement with experiment.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:54:19 GMT" } ]
2009-02-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Bordes", "Jose", "", "Valencia" ], [ "Chan", "H. M.", "", "Rutherford Laboratory" ], [ "Tsou", "S. T.", "", "Oxford" ] ]
0707.3359
Sergei V. Ketov
Masao Iihoshi and Sergei V. Ketov
On the superstrings-induced four-dimensional gravity, and its applications to cosmology
33 pages, LaTeX, no figures; extensive revision, Sec.6 and references added, stability analysis included
Adv.High Energy Phys.2008:521389,2008
10.1155/2008/521389
null
hep-th gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review the status of the fourth-order (quartic in the spacetime curvature) terms induced by superstrings/M-theory (compactified on a warped torus) in the leading order with respect to the Regge slope parameter, and study their (non-perturbative) impact on the evolution of the Hubble scale in the context of the four-dimensional FRW cosmology. After taking into account the quantum ambiguities in the definition of the off-shell superstring effective action, we propose the generalized Friedmann equations, find the existence of their (de Sitter) exact inflationary solutions without a spacetime singularity, and constrain the ambiguities by demanding stability and the scale factor duality invariance of our solutions. The most naive (Bel-Robinson tensor squared) quartic terms are ruled out, thus giving the evidence for the necessity of extra quartic (Ricci tensor-dependent) terms in the off-shell gravitational effective action for superstrings. Our methods are generalizable to the higher orders in the spacetime curvature.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:57:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:42:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:44:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:54:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:32:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v6", "created": "Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:26:50 GMT" } ]
2009-12-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Iihoshi", "Masao", "" ], [ "Ketov", "Sergei V.", "" ] ]
0707.3360
Gabriel Vilcu
Stere Ianus, Gabriel Eduard Vilcu
Some constructions of almost para-hyperhermitian structures on manifolds and tangent bundles
10 pages; This paper has been presented in the "4th German-Romanian Seminar on Geometry" Dortmund, Germany, 15-18 July 2007
Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 5, No. 6, 893-903 (2008)
10.1142/S0219887808003016
null
math.DG
null
In this paper we give some examples of almost para-hyperhermitian structures on the tangent bundle of an almost product manifold, on the product manifold $M\times\mathbb{R}$, where $M$ is a manifold endowed with a mixed 3-structure and on the circle bundle over a manifold with a mixed 3-structure.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:58:47 GMT" } ]
2010-07-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Ianus", "Stere", "" ], [ "Vilcu", "Gabriel Eduard", "" ] ]
0707.3361
Ernst Joachim Weniger
Ernst Joachim Weniger
Reply to `Extended Rejoinder to "Extended Comment on "One-Range Addition Theorems for Coulomb Interaction Potential and Its Derivatives" by I. I. Guseinov (Chem. Phys. Vol. 309 (2005), pp. 209 - 211)", arXiv:0706.0975v2"
38 pages, LaTeX2e, 0 figures
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
In the years from 2001 to 2006, Guseinov and his coworkers published 40 articles on the derivation and application of one-range addition theorems. In E. J. Weniger, Extended Comment on ``One-Range Addition Theorems for Coulomb Interaction Potential and Its Derivatives'' by I. I. Guseinov (Chem. Phys. Vol. 309 (2005), pp. 209 - 213), arXiv:0704.1088v2 [math-ph], it was argued that Guseinov's treatment of one-range addition theorems is at best questionable and in some cases fundamentally flawed. In I. I. Guseinov, Extended Rejoinder to "Extended Comment on "One-Range Addition Theorems for Coulomb Interaction Potential and Its Derivatives'' by I. I. Guseinov (Chem. Phys. and Vol. 309 (2005)'', pp. 209-213), arXiv:0706.0975v2 [physics.chem-ph], these claims were disputed. To clarify the situation, the most serious mathematical flaws in Guseinov's treatment of one-range addition theorems are discussed in more depth.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:06:50 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Weniger", "Ernst Joachim", "" ] ]
0707.3362
Volker Betz
Volker Betz, Fumio Hiroshima
Gibbs measures with double stochastic integrals on a path space
17 pages
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP
null
We investigate Gibbs measures relative to Brownian motion in the case when the interaction energy is given by a double stochastic integral. In the case when the double stochastic integral is originating from the Pauli-Fierz model in nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics, we prove the existence of its infinite volume limit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:24:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:41:36 GMT" } ]
2008-01-31T00:00:00
[ [ "Betz", "Volker", "" ], [ "Hiroshima", "Fumio", "" ] ]
0707.3363
Nanda Rea
N. Rea, E. Nichelli, G.L. Israel, R. Perna, T. Oosterbroek, A.N. Parmar, R. Turolla, S. Campana, L. Stella, S. Zane, L. Angelini
Very deep X-ray observations of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+614
9 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication on MNRAS (typos corrected and few references added)
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12257.x
null
astro-ph
null
We report on two new XMM-Newton observations of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP) 4U 0142+614 performed in March and July 2004, collecting the most accurate spectrum for this source to date. Furthermore, we analyse two short archival observations performed in February 2002 and January 2003 (the latter already reported by Gohler et al. 2005) in order to study the long term behaviour of this AXP. 4U 0142+614 appears to be relatively steady in flux between 2002 and 2004, and the phase-averaged spectrum does not show any significant variability between the four epochs. We derive the deepest upper limits to date on the presence of lines in the 4U 0142+614 spectrum as a function of energy: equivalent width in the 1-3 keV energy range < 4 eV and < 8 eV for narrow and broad lines, respectively. A remarkable energy dependence in both the pulse profile and the pulsed fraction is detected, and consequently pulse-phase spectroscopy shows spectral variability as a function of phase. By making use of XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL data, we successfully model the 1-250 keV spectrum of 4U 0142+614 with three models presented in Rea et al. (2007a), namely the canonical absorbed blackbody plus two power-laws, a resonant cyclotron scattering model plus one power-law and two log-parabolic functions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:31:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:09:53 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Rea", "N.", "" ], [ "Nichelli", "E.", "" ], [ "Israel", "G. L.", "" ], [ "Perna", "R.", "" ], [ "Oosterbroek", "T.", "" ], [ "Parmar", "A. N.", "" ], [ "Turolla", "R.", "" ], [ "Campana", "S.", "" ], [ "Stella", "L.", "" ], [ "Zane", "S.", "" ], [ "Angelini", "L.", "" ] ]
0707.3364
Christian Pauly
Christian Pauly (I3M)
On the base locus of the linear system of generalized theta functions
4 pages
null
null
null
math.AG
null
Let $\cM_r$ denote the moduli space of semi-stable rank-$r$ vector bundles with trivial determinant over a smooth projective curve $C$ of genus $g$. In this paper we study the base locus $\cB_r \subset \cM_r$ of the linear system of the determinant line bundle $\cL$ over $\cM_r$, i.e., the set of semi-stable rank-$r$ vector bundles without theta divisor. We construct base points in $\cB_{g+2}$ over any curve $C$, and base points in $\cB_4$ over any hyperelliptic curve.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:47:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:34:47 GMT" } ]
2008-04-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Pauly", "Christian", "", "I3M" ] ]
0707.3365
Sara Perez
S. Perez-Martin and L.M. Robledo
Generalized Wick's theorem for multiquasiparticle overlaps as a limit of Gaudin's theorem
28 pages
Phys.Rev.C76:064314,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.064314
null
nucl-th
null
We are able to rederive in a very simple way the standard generalized Wick's theorem for overlaps of mean field wave functions by using the extension of the statistical Wick's theorem (Gaudin's theorem) in the appropriate limits.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:06:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:45:01 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Perez-Martin", "S.", "" ], [ "Robledo", "L. M.", "" ] ]
0707.3366
Santiago Noguera
A. Courtoy, S. Noguera
The Pion-Photon Transition Distribution Amplitudes in the Nambu-Jona Lasinio Model
14 pag. and 6 fig, final version (to appear in Phys. Rev. D)
Phys.Rev.D76:094026,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.094026
null
hep-ph
null
We define the pion-photon Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDA) in a field theoretic formalism from a covariant Bethe-Salpeter approach for the determination of the bound state. We apply our formalism to the Nambu - Jona Lasinio model, as a realistic theory of the pion. The obtained vector and axial TDAs satisfy all features required by general considerations. In particular, sum rules and polynomiality condition are explicitly verified. We have numerically proved that the odd coefficients in the polynomiality expansion of the vector TDA vanish in the chiral limit. The role of PCAC and the presence of a pion pole are explicitly shown.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:49:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:03:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:53:36 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Courtoy", "A.", "" ], [ "Noguera", "S.", "" ] ]
0707.3367
Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla
Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Sandhya Choubey, Amitava Raychaudhuri
Magic Baseline Beta Beam
4 pages, 2 figures, Latex (style files included); Talk presented by S.K.A. at the International workshop on Theoretical High Energy Physics (IWTHEP 2007), Roorkee, India, 15-20 March, 2007, to appear in the proceedings
AIPConf.Proc.939:265-268,2007
10.1063/1.2803813
HRI-P-07-07-004
hep-ph hep-ex
null
We study the physics reach of an experiment where neutrinos produced in a beta-beam facility at CERN are observed in a large magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL) at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). The CERN-INO distance is close to the so-called "magic" baseline which helps evade some of the parameter degeneracies and allows for a better measurement of the neutrino mass hierarchy and $\theta_{13}$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:24:18 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Agarwalla", "Sanjib Kumar", "" ], [ "Choubey", "Sandhya", "" ], [ "Raychaudhuri", "Amitava", "" ] ]
0707.3368
Stuart Lowe
S. R. Lowe (1), M. P. Gawro\'nski (2), P. N. Wilkinson (1), A. J. Kus (2), I. W. A. Browne (1), E. Pazderski (2), R. Feiler (2) and D. Kettle (3) ((1) Jodrell Bank Observatory (2) Toru\'n Centre for Astronomy (3) School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester)
30 GHz flux density measurements of the Caltech-Jodrell flat-spectrum sources with OCRA-p
9 pages, 2 figures, 2 Tables, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20078034
null
astro-ph
null
To measure the 30-GHz flux densities of the 293 sources in the Caltech-Jodrell Bank flat-spectrum (CJF) sample. The measurements are part of an ongoing programme to measure the spectral energy distributions of flat spectrum radio sources and to correlate them with the milliarcsecond structures from VLBI and other measured astrophysical properties. The 30-GHz data were obtained with a twin-beam differencing radiometer system mounted on the Torun 32-m telescope. The system has an angular resolution of 1.2 arcmin. Together with radio spectral data obtained from the literature, the 30-GHz data have enabled us to identify 42 of the CJF sources as Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources. Seventeen percent of the sources have rising spectra (alpha > 0) between 5 and 30 GHz.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:29:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Lowe", "S. R.", "" ], [ "Gawroński", "M. P.", "" ], [ "Wilkinson", "P. N.", "" ], [ "Kus", "A. J.", "" ], [ "Browne", "I. W. A.", "" ], [ "Pazderski", "E.", "" ], [ "Feiler", "R.", "" ], [ "Kettle", "D.", "" ] ]
0707.3369
Martina Queck
Martina Queck (1), Alexander V. Krivov (1), Miodrag Sremcevic (2) and Philippe Thebault (3, 4) ((1) Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena, Germany, (2) LASP Boulder, Colorado, (3) Stockholm Observatory, Albanova Universitetcentrum, Sweden, (4) LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France)
Collisional Velocities and Rates in Resonant Planetesimal Belts
31 pages, 11 figures (some of them heavily compressed to fit into arxiv-maximum filesize), accepted for publication at "Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy"
null
10.1007/s10569-007-9095-4
null
astro-ph
null
We consider a belt of small bodies around a star, captured in one of the external or 1:1 mean-motion resonances with a massive perturber. The objects in the belt collide with each other. Combining methods of celestial mechanics and statistical physics, we calculate mean collisional velocities and collisional rates, averaged over the belt. The results are compared to collisional velocities and rates in a similar, but non-resonant belt, as predicted by the particle-in-a-box method. It is found that the effect of the resonant lock on the velocities is rather small, while on the rates more substantial. The collisional rates between objects in an external resonance are by about a factor of two higher than those in a similar belt of objects not locked in a resonance. For Trojans under the same conditions, the collisional rates may be enhanced by up to an order of magnitude. Our results imply, in particular, shorter collisional lifetimes of resonant Kuiper belt objects in the solar system and higher efficiency of dust production by resonant planetesimals in debris disks around other stars.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:49:27 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Queck", "Martina", "" ], [ "Krivov", "Alexander V.", "" ], [ "Sremcevic", "Miodrag", "" ], [ "Thebault", "Philippe", "" ] ]
0707.3370
Thomas Duyckaerts
Valeria Banica (DP), Thomas Duyckaerts (AGM)
Weighted Strichartz estimates for radial Schr\"odinger equation on noncompact manifolds
null
null
null
null
math.AP
null
We prove global weighted Strichartz estimates for radial solutions of linear Schr\"odinger equation on a class of rotationally symmetric noncompact manifolds, generalizing the known results on hyperbolic and Damek-Ricci spaces. This yields classical Strichartz estimates with a larger class of exponents than in the Euclidian case and improvements for the scattering theory. The manifolds, whose volume element grows polynomially or exponentially at infinity, are characterized essentially by negativity conditions on the curvature, which shows in particular that the rich algebraic structure of the Hyperbolic and Damek-Ricci spaces is not the cause of the improved dispersive properties of the equation. The proofs are based on known dispersive results for the equation with potential on the Euclidean space, and on a new one, valid for C^1 potentials decaying like 1/r^2 at infinity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:35:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:53:52 GMT" } ]
2007-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Banica", "Valeria", "", "DP" ], [ "Duyckaerts", "Thomas", "", "AGM" ] ]
0707.3371
Igor Shparlinski
Igor E. Shparlinski
Approximation by Several Rationals
null
null
null
null
math.NT
null
Following T. H. Chan, we consider the problem of approximation of a given rational fraction a/q by sums of several rational fractions a_1/q_1, ..., a_n/q_n with smaller denominators. We show that in the special cases of n=3 and n=4 and certain admissible ranges for the denominators q_1,..., q_n, one can improve a result of T. H. Chan by using a different approach.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:42:35 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Shparlinski", "Igor E.", "" ] ]
0707.3372
Alessandro Bacchetta
Alessandro Bacchetta (DESY), Leonard P. Gamberg (Penn State U.), Gary R. Goldstein (Tufts U.), Asmita Mukherjee (Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai)
Collins fragmentation function for pions and kaons in a spectator model
null
Phys.Lett.B659:234-243,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.076
DESY 07-105
hep-ph
null
We calculate the Collins fragmentation function in the framework of a spectator model with pseudoscalar pion-quark coupling and a Gaussian form factor at the vertex. We determine the model parameters by fitting the unpolarized fragmentation function for pions and kaons. We show that the Collins function for the pions in this model is in reasonable agreement with recent parametrizations obtained by fits of the available data. In addition, we compute for the first time the Collins function for the kaons.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:17:54 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bacchetta", "Alessandro", "", "DESY" ], [ "Gamberg", "Leonard P.", "", "Penn State U." ], [ "Goldstein", "Gary R.", "", "Tufts U." ], [ "Mukherjee", "Asmita", "", "Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai" ] ]
0707.3373
Oleg Verbitsky
Mihyun Kang, Mathias Schacht, Oleg Verbitsky
How Much Work Does It Take To Straighten a Plane Graph Out?
9 pages, the 2nd version includes literally the first version and is appended with new Appendices A and B
null
null
null
math.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We prove that if one wants to make a plane graph drawing straight-line then in the worst case one has to move almost all vertices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:46:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:23:39 GMT" } ]
2009-06-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Kang", "Mihyun", "" ], [ "Schacht", "Mathias", "" ], [ "Verbitsky", "Oleg", "" ] ]
0707.3374
Santiago Madruga
Uwe Thiele, Santiago Madruga, Lubor Frastia
Decomposition driven interface evolution for layers of binary mixtures: I. Model derivation and stratified base states
Submitted to Physics of Fluids
Phys. Fluids 19, 122106 (2007)
10.1063/1.2824404
null
physics.flu-dyn
null
A dynamical model is proposed to describe the coupled decomposition and profile evolution of a free surface film of a binary mixture. An example is a thin film of a polymer blend on a solid substrate undergoing simultaneous phase separation and dewetting. The model is based on model-H describing the coupled transport of the mass of one component (convective Cahn-Hilliard equation) and momentum (Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations) supplemented by appropriate boundary conditions at the solid substrate and the free surface. General transport equations are derived using phenomenological non-equilibrium thermodynamics for a general non-isothermal setting taking into account Soret and Dufour effects and interfacial viscosity for the internal diffuse interface between the two components. Focusing on an isothermal setting the resulting model is compared to literature results and its base states corresponding to homogeneous or vertically stratified flat layers are analysed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:50:24 GMT" } ]
2013-03-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Thiele", "Uwe", "" ], [ "Madruga", "Santiago", "" ], [ "Frastia", "Lubor", "" ] ]
0707.3375
Philip Boalch
Philip Boalch
Towards a nonlinear Schwarz's list
28 pages
null
null
null
math.CA math.AG nlin.SI
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This is basically the text of a survey talk (entitled 'Painleve, Klein and the icosahedron') given at Hitchin's 60th birthday conference. It discusses the search for and construction of algebraic solutions of the sixth Painleve differential equation, which may be viewed as a nonlinear analogue of the Gauss hypergeometric equation. Both algebraic and transcendental methods are used and the story involves affine Weyl groups, braid groups and cubic surfaces. Some emphasis is given to the interpretation of the sixth Painleve equation as the explicit form of the simplest nonabelian Gauss-Manin connection, i.e. as a nonlinear differential equation 'coming from geometry', much as Picard-Fuchs equations arise in the case of cohomology with abelian coefficients.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:51:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:07:08 GMT" } ]
2008-08-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Boalch", "Philip", "" ] ]
0707.3376
Yohan Dubois
Yohan Dubois and Romain Teyssier
On the onset of galactic winds in quiescent star forming galaxies
19 pages, 13 figures, 1 table, submited to A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20078326
null
astro-ph
null
We studied the effect of supernovae feedback on a disk galaxy, taking into account the impact of infalling gas on both the star formation history and the corresponding outflow structure, the apparition of a supernovae-driven wind being highly sensitive to the halo mass, the galaxy spin and the star formation efficiency. We model our galaxies as cooling and collapsing NFW spheres. The dark matter component is modelled as a static external potential, while the baryon component is described by the Euler equations using the AMR code RAMSES. Metal-dependent cooling and supernovae-heating are also implemented using state-of-the-art recipes coming from cosmological simulations. We allow for 3 parameters to vary: the halo circular velocity, the spin parameter and the star formation efficiency. We found that the ram pressure of infalling material is the key factor limiting the apparition of galactic winds. We obtain a very low feedback efficiency, with supernovae to wind energy conversion factor around one percent, so that only low cicrular velocity galaxies give rise to strong winds. For massive galaxies, we obtain a galatic fountain, for which we discuss the observational properties. We conclude that for quiescent isolated galaxies, galactic winds appear only in very low mass systems. Although that can quite efficiently enrich the IGM with metals, they don't carry away enough cold material to solve the overcooling problem.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:11:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:57:27 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dubois", "Yohan", "" ], [ "Teyssier", "Romain", "" ] ]
0707.3377
David Seery
David Seery
One-loop corrections to a scalar field during inflation
33 pages, uses feynmp.sty and ioplatex journal style. v2: matches version published in JCAP. v3: corrects sign error in Eq. (58). Corrects final coefficient of the logarithm in Eq. (105). Small corrections to discussion of divergences in 1-point function. Minor improvements to discussion of UV behaviour in Sec. 4.2
JCAP 0711:025,2007
10.1088/1475-7516/2007/11/025
null
astro-ph gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The leading quantum correction to the power spectrum of a gravitationally-coupled light scalar field is calculated, assuming that it is generated during a phase of single-field, slow-roll inflation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:40:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:47:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:43:12 GMT" } ]
2010-02-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Seery", "David", "" ] ]
0707.3378
David Seery
David Seery
One-loop corrections to the curvature perturbation from inflation
28 pages, uses feynmp.sty and ioplatex journal style. v2: supersedes version published in JCAP. Some corrections and refinements to the discussion and conclusions. v3: Corrects misidentification of quantum correction with an IR effect. Improvements to the discussion
JCAP 0802:006,2008
10.1088/1475-7516/2008/02/006
null
astro-ph gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
An estimate of the one-loop correction to the power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation is given, assuming it is generated during a phase of single-field, slow-roll inflation. The loop correction splits into two parts, which can be calculated separately: a purely quantum-mechanical contribution which is generated from the interference among quantized field modes around the time when they cross the horizon, and a classical contribution which comes from integrating the effect of field modes which have already passed far beyond the horizon. The loop correction contains logarithms which may invalidate the use of naive perturbation theory for cosmic microwave background (CMB) predictions when the scale associated with the CMB is exponentially different from the scale at which the fundamental theory which governs inflation is formulated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:35:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:25:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:03:02 GMT" } ]
2010-02-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Seery", "David", "" ] ]
0707.3379
Dieter Schildknecht
Dieter Schildknecht
The ratio of sigma_L/sigma_T in DIS at low x
4 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the proceedings of DIS2007
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Assuming helicity independence for q-qbar scattering in the color-dipole picture, or, equivalently proportionality of sea quark and gluon distributions, we find R(W^2,Q^2) = 0.5 (approximately) at large Q^2, where R(W^2,Q^2) denotes the ratio of the longitudinal and transverse photoabsorption cross sections. The forthcoming direct measurements of R(W^2,Q^2) allow one to test the underlying hypotheses.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:29:21 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Schildknecht", "Dieter", "" ] ]
0707.3380
David H. Weinberg
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy, et al. (for the SDSS Collaboration)
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
ApJ Supp, in press, October 2007. This paper describes DR5. The SDSS Sixth Data Release (DR6) is now public, available from http://www.sdss.org
Astrophys.J.Suppl.172:634-644,2007
10.1086/518864
null
astro-ph
null
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through June 2005 and represents the completion of the SDSS-I project (whose successor, SDSS-II will continue through mid-2008). It includes five-band photometric data for 217 million objects selected over 8000 square degrees, and 1,048,960 spectra of galaxies, quasars, and stars selected from 5713 square degrees of that imaging data. These numbers represent a roughly 20% increment over those of the Fourth Data Release; all the data from previous data releases are included in the present release. In addition to "standard" SDSS observations, DR5 includes repeat scans of the southern equatorial stripe, imaging scans across M31 and the core of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the first spectroscopic data from SEGUE, a survey to explore the kinematics and chemical evolution of the Galaxy. The catalog database incorporates several new features, including photometric redshifts of galaxies, tables of matched objects in overlap regions of the imaging survey, and tools that allow precise computations of survey geometry for statistical investigations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:31:01 GMT" } ]
2019-08-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Adelman-McCarthy", "Jennifer K.", "" ] ]
0707.3381
Fr\'ed\'eric Leroy
F. Leroy, R. Lazzari, G. Renaud
X-ray scattering from stepped and kinked surfaces: An approach with the paracrystal model
33 pages, 18 figures
Science Volume 601, Issue 9, 1 May 2007, Pages 1915-1929
10.1016/j.susc.2007.02.020
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
A general formalism of X-ray scattering from different kinds of surface morphologies is described. Based on a description of the surface morphology at the atomic scale through the use of the paracrystal model and discrete distributions of distances, the scattered intensity by non-periodic surfaces is calculated over the whole reciprocal space. In one dimension, the scattered intensity by a vicinal surface, the two-level model, the N-level model, the faceted surface and the rough surface are addressed. In two dimensions, the previous results are generalized to the kinked vicinal surface, the two-level vicinal surface and the step meandering on a vicinal surface. The concept of crystal truncation rod is generalized considering also the truncation of a terrace by a step (yielding a terrace truncation rod) and a step by a kink (yielding a step truncation rod).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:21:03 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Leroy", "F.", "" ], [ "Lazzari", "R.", "" ], [ "Renaud", "G.", "" ] ]
0707.3382
Yuko Okamoto
Yuji Sugita (RIKEN), Ayori Mitsutake (Keio University), and Yuko Okamoto (Nagoya University)
Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms for Protein Folding Simulations
37 pages, (LaTeX2e), 5 figures
null
null
null
cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.soft
null
Conventional simulations of complex systems in the canonical ensemble suffer from the quasi-ergodicity problem. A simulation in generalized ensemble overcomes this difficulty by performing a random walk in potential energy space and other parameter space. From only one simulation run, one can obtain canonical-ensemble averages of physical quantities as functions of temperature by the single-histogram and/or multiple-histogram reweighting techniques. In this article we review the generalized-ensemble algorithms. Three well-known methods, namely, multicanonical algorithm, simulated tempering, and replica-exchange method, are described first. Both Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics versions of the algorithms are given. We then present further extensions of the above three methods.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:42:24 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Sugita", "Yuji", "", "RIKEN" ], [ "Mitsutake", "Ayori", "", "Keio University" ], [ "Okamoto", "Yuko", "", "Nagoya University" ] ]
0707.3383
Raffaele Romano
Raffaele Romano
Relaxation to equilibrium driven via indirect control in Markovian dynamics
revtex4, 7 pages
Phys. Rev. A 76, 042315 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.052115
null
quant-ph
null
We characterize to what extent it is possible to modify the stationary states of a quantum dynamical semigroup, that describes the irreversible evolution of a two-level system, by means of an auxiliary two-level system. We consider systems that can be initially entangled or uncorrelated. We find that the indirect control of the stationary states is possible, even if there are not initial correlations, under suitable conditions on the dynamical parameters characterizing the evolution of the joint system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:47:38 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Romano", "Raffaele", "" ] ]
0707.3384
Leszek Hadasz
Leszek Hadasz
On the fusion matrix of the N=1 Neveu-Schwarz blocks
28 pages, no figures
JHEP0712:071,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/071
null
hep-th
null
We propose an exact form of the fusion matrix of the Neveu-Schwarz blocks that appear in a correlation function of four super-primary fields. Orthogonality relation satisfied by this matrix is equivalent to the bootstrap equation for the four-point super-primary correlator in the N=1 supersymmetric Liouville theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:24:20 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Hadasz", "Leszek", "" ] ]
0707.3385
Alain Leger
Alain Leger, Tom Herbst, et al
DARWIN mission proposal to ESA
This a compressed version of the DARWIN mission proposal to ESA for its "Cosmic Vision" 2015-2025 program A full resolution version can be obtained from the Web site indicated on the cover page
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
The discovery of extra-solar planets is one of the greatest achievements of modern astronomy. There are now more than 200 such objects known, and the recent detection of planets with masses approximately 5 times that of Earth demonstrates that extra-solar planets of low mass exist. In addition to providing a wealth of scientific information on the formation and structure of planetary systems, these discoveries capture the interest of both scientists and the wider public with the profound prospect of the search for life in the Universe. We propose an L-type mission, called Darwin, whose primary goal is the study of terrestrial extrasolar planets and the search for life on them. By its very nature, Darwin advances the first Grand Theme of ESA Cosmic Vision. Accomplishing the mission objectives will require collaborative science across disciplines ranging from planet formation and atmospheres to chemistry and biology, and these disciplines will reap profound rewards from their contributions to the Darwin mission.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:21:16 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Leger", "Alain", "" ], [ "Herbst", "Tom", "" ] ]
0707.3386
Anatoly Nikitin
J. Niederle and A.G. Nikitin
Galilei invariant theories. III. Wave equations for massless fields
17 pages
null
null
null
math-ph math.MP quant-ph
null
Galilei invariant equations for massless fields are obtained via contractions of relativistic wave equations. It is shown that the collection of non-equivalent Galilei-invariant wave equations for massless fields with spin equal 1 and 0 is very broad and describes many physically consistent systems. In particular, there exist a huge number of such equations for massless fields which correspond to various contractions of representations of the Lorentz group to those of the Galilei one.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:22:32 GMT" } ]
2007-07-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Niederle", "J.", "" ], [ "Nikitin", "A. G.", "" ] ]
0707.3387
Rodrigo Holanda
R. F. L. Holanda, S. H. Pereira
On the dynamics of the universe in $D$ spatial dimensions
10 pages, 2 figures, Revista Mexicana de Astronom\'ia y Astrof\'isica (in Press). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/0109215
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we present the equations of the evolution of the universe in $D$ spatial dimensions, as a generalization of the work of Lima \citep{lima}. We discuss the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological equations in $D$ spatial dimensions for a simple fluid with equation of state $p=\omega_{D}\rho$. It is possible to reduce the multidimensional equations to the equation of a point particle system subject to a linear force. This force can be expressed as an oscillator equation, anti-oscillator or a free particle equation, depending on the $k$ parameter of the spatial curvature. An interesting result is the independence on the dimension $D$ in a de Sitter evolution. We also stress the generality of this procedure with a cosmological $\Lambda$ term. A more interesting result is that the reduction of the dimensionality leads naturally to an accelerated expansion of the scale factor in the plane case.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:17:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:45:20 GMT" } ]
2012-07-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Holanda", "R. F. L.", "" ], [ "Pereira", "S. H.", "" ] ]
0707.3388
Dmitri Volchenkov
D. Volchenkov, Ph. Blanchard
Complex Networks in and beyond Physics
6 pages, PDF file: an outlook on complex networks in physics, society, and linguistics
null
null
null
physics.pop-ph physics.soc-ph
null
Physicists study a wide variety of phenomena creating new interdisciplinary research fields by applying theories and methods originally developed in physics in order to solve problems in economics, social science, biology, medicine, technology, etc. In their turn, these different branches of science inspire the invention of new concepts in physics. A basic tool of analysis, in such a context, is the mathematical theory of complexity concerned with the study of complex systems including human economies, climate, nervous systems, cells and living things, including human beings, as well as modern energy or communication infrastructures which are all networks of some kind. Recently, complexity has become a natural domain of interest of the real world socio-cognitive systems, linguistics, and emerging systemics research. The phenomena to be studied and understood arise from neither the physical laws nor the abstraction of mathematics. The challenge is to discern and formulate plausible mathematical structures to describe problems that represent vague human goals.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:29:09 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Volchenkov", "D.", "" ], [ "Blanchard", "Ph.", "" ] ]
0707.3389
Paolo Finelli Dr.
P. Finelli, N. Kaiser, D. Vretenar, W. Weise
In-medium chiral SU(3) dynamics and hypernuclear structure
10 pages, 2 figures, elsart class. Minor revisions
Phys.Lett.B658:90-94,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.070
null
nucl-th
null
A previously introduced relativistic energy density functional, successfully applied to ordinary nuclei, is extended to hypernuclei. The density-dependent mean field and the spin-orbit potential are consistently calculated for a $\Lambda$ hyperon in the nucleus using the SU(3) extension of in-medium chiral perturbation theory. The leading long range $\Lambda N$ interaction arises from kaon-exchange and $2\pi$-exchange with $\Sigma$ hyperon in the intermediate state. Scalar and vector mean fields reflecting in-medium changes of the quark condensates are constrained by QCD sum rules. The model, applied to oxygen as a test case, describes spectroscopic data in good agreement with experiment. In particular, the smallness of the $\Lambda$ spin-orbit interaction finds a natural explanation in terms of an almost complete cancellation between scalar-vector background contributions and long-range terms generated by two-pion exchange.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:31:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:16:46 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Finelli", "P.", "" ], [ "Kaiser", "N.", "" ], [ "Vretenar", "D.", "" ], [ "Weise", "W.", "" ] ]
0707.3390
Francis Bach
Francis Bach (WILLOW Project - Inria/Ens)
Consistency of the group Lasso and multiple kernel learning
null
null
null
null
cs.LG
null
We consider the least-square regression problem with regularization by a block 1-norm, i.e., a sum of Euclidean norms over spaces of dimensions larger than one. This problem, referred to as the group Lasso, extends the usual regularization by the 1-norm where all spaces have dimension one, where it is commonly referred to as the Lasso. In this paper, we study the asymptotic model consistency of the group Lasso. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the consistency of group Lasso under practical assumptions, such as model misspecification. When the linear predictors and Euclidean norms are replaced by functions and reproducing kernel Hilbert norms, the problem is usually referred to as multiple kernel learning and is commonly used for learning from heterogeneous data sources and for non linear variable selection. Using tools from functional analysis, and in particular covariance operators, we extend the consistency results to this infinite dimensional case and also propose an adaptive scheme to obtain a consistent model estimate, even when the necessary condition required for the non adaptive scheme is not satisfied.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:35:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:10:31 GMT" } ]
2008-01-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Bach", "Francis", "", "WILLOW Project - Inria/Ens" ] ]
0707.3391
Redamy Perez Ramos
Fran\c{c}ois Arleo (CERN), Redamy Perez Ramos (LPTHE), Bruno Machet (LPTHE)
Hadronic single inclusive kt distributions inside one jet beyond MLLA
4 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes and addenda. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys.Rev.Lett.100:052002,2008
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.052002
null
hep-ph hep-ex
null
The hadronic kt-spectrum inside one jet is determined including corrections of relative magnitude sqrt{alpha_s} with respect to the Modified Leading Logarithmic Approximation (MLLA), at and beyond the limiting spectrum (assuming an infrared cut-off Q_0 = Lambda_QCD and Q_0 not = Lambda_QCD). The agreement between our results and preliminary measurements by the CDF collaboration is impressive, much better than at MLLA, pointing out very small overall non-perturbative contributions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:37:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:20:49 GMT" } ]
2010-03-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Arleo", "François", "", "CERN" ], [ "Ramos", "Redamy Perez", "", "LPTHE" ], [ "Machet", "Bruno", "", "LPTHE" ] ]
0707.3392
Douglas Galvao
Karl M. Garcez, David L. Azevedo, Douglas S. Galv\~ao
Neon Atoms Oscillating Inside Carbon and Boron-Nitride Nanotubes: A Fully Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Investigation
null
null
null
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
In the present work we discuss based on extensive fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations the dynamics of Neon atoms oscillating inside (5,5)single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and boron-nitride (BNNT) ones. Our results show that sustained high frequency oscillatory regimes are possible for a large range of temperatures. Our results also show that the general features of the oscillations are quite similar to CNT and BNNT, in contrast with some speculations in previous work literature about the importance of broken symmetry and chirality exhibited by BNNTs.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:41:03 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Garcez", "Karl M.", "" ], [ "Azevedo", "David L.", "" ], [ "Galvão", "Douglas S.", "" ] ]
0707.3393
Joe Hooper
Joe Hooper, Valentino R. Cooper, T. Thonhauser, Nichols A. Romero, Frank Zerilli, and David C. Langreth
Predicting C-H/$\pi$ interactions with nonlocal density functional theory
5 pages, 4 figures
J. Hooper et al, Chem. Phys. Chem. 9, 891 (2008)
10.1063/1.2833065
null
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We examine the performance of a recently developed nonlocal density functional in predicting a model noncovalent interaction, the weak bond between an aromatic $\pi$ system and an aliphatic C-H group. The new functional is a significant improvement over traditional density functionals, providing results which compare favorably to high-level quantum-chemistry techniques but at considerably lower computational cost. Interaction energies in several model C-H/$\pi$ systems are in generally good agreement with coupled-cluster calculations, though equilibrium distances are consistently overpredicted when using the revPBE functional for exchange. The new functional correctly predicts changes in energy upon addition of halogen substituents.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:45:38 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hooper", "Joe", "" ], [ "Cooper", "Valentino R.", "" ], [ "Thonhauser", "T.", "" ], [ "Romero", "Nichols A.", "" ], [ "Zerilli", "Frank", "" ], [ "Langreth", "David C.", "" ] ]
0707.3394
Vladimir Nikiforov
Vladimir Nikiforov
Turan's theorem inverted
Some polishing. Updated references
null
null
null
math.CO
null
Turan's theorem implies that every graph of order n with more edges than the r-partite Turan graph contains a complete graph of order r+1. We show that the same premise implies the existence of much larger graphs. We also prove corresponding stability theorems. These results complete work started by Erdos in 1963.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:18:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:21:05 GMT" } ]
2007-11-22T00:00:00
[ [ "Nikiforov", "Vladimir", "" ] ]
0707.3395
Marko Vojinovic
Milovan Vasilic, Marko Vojinovic
Classical Spinning Branes in Curved Backgrounds
null
JHEP 0707:028,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/028
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
The dynamics of a classical branelike object in a curved background is derived from the covariant stress-energy conservation of the brane matter. The world sheet equations and boundary conditions are obtained in the pole-dipole approximation, where nontrivial brane thickness gives rise to its intrinsic angular momentum. It is shown that intrinsic angular momentum couples to both, the background curvature and the brane orbital degrees of freedom. The whole procedure is manifestly covariant with respect to spacetime diffeomorphisms and world sheet reparametrizations. In addition, two extra gauge symmetries are discovered and utilized. The examples of the point particle and the string in 4 spacetime dimensions are analyzed in more detail. A particular attention is paid to the Nambu-Goto string with massive spinning particles attached to its ends.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:51:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:13:20 GMT" } ]
2010-01-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Vasilic", "Milovan", "" ], [ "Vojinovic", "Marko", "" ] ]
0707.3396
Nail Khusnutdinov
Nail R. Khusnutdinov and Ilya V. Bakhmatov
Self-force of a point charge in the space-time of a symmetric wormhole
18 pages, 3 figures Comments: corrected pdf, enlarged paper
Phys.Rev.D76:124015,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.124015
null
gr-qc
null
We consider the self-energy and the self-force for an electrically charged particle at rest in the wormhole space-time. We develop general approach and apply it to two specific profiles of the wormhole throat with singular and with smooth curvature. The self-force for these two profiles is found in manifest form; it is an attractive force. We also find an expression for the self-force in the case of arbitrary symmetric throat profile. Far from the throat the self-force is always attractive.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:21:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:27:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:46:55 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Khusnutdinov", "Nail R.", "" ], [ "Bakhmatov", "Ilya V.", "" ] ]
0707.3397
Bo-Qiang Ma
Yan Chen, Bo-Qiang Ma
Mixing of 1/2^- Octets under SU(3) Symmetry
8 latex pages
Mod.Phys.Lett.A23:703-710,2008
10.1142/S0217732308024031
null
hep-ph
null
We investigate the J^p=1/2^- baryons in the octets based on flavor SU(3) symmetry. Since baryons with same quantum numbers can mix with each other, we consider the mixing between two octets before their mixing with the singlet. Most predicted decay widths are consistent with the experimental data, and meanwhile we predict two possible $\Xi$ mass ranges of the two octets.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:32:52 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Chen", "Yan", "" ], [ "Ma", "Bo-Qiang", "" ] ]
0707.3398
Ilja Gerhardt
Gert Wrigge, Ilja Gerhardt, Jaesuk Hwang, Gert Zumofen and Vahid Sandoghdar
Efficient coupling of photons to a single molecule and the observation of its resonance fluorescence
6 figures
Nature Physics 4, 60 - 66 (2008)
10.1038/nphys812
null
quant-ph
null
Single dye molecules at cryogenic temperatures display many spectroscopic phenomena known from free atoms and are thus promising candidates for fundamental quantum optical studies. However, the existing techniques for the detection of single molecules have either sacrificed the information on the coherence of the excited state or have been inefficient. Here we show that these problems can be addressed by focusing the excitation light near to the absorption cross section of a molecule. Our detection scheme allows us to explore resonance fluorescence over 9 orders of magnitude of excitation intensity and to separate its coherent and incoherent parts. In the strong excitation regime, we demonstrate the first observation of the Mollow triplet from a single solid-state emitter. Under weak excitation we report the detection of a single molecule with an incident power as faint as 150 attoWatt, paving the way for studying nonlinear effects with only a few photons.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:33:36 GMT" } ]
2008-02-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Wrigge", "Gert", "" ], [ "Gerhardt", "Ilja", "" ], [ "Hwang", "Jaesuk", "" ], [ "Zumofen", "Gert", "" ], [ "Sandoghdar", "Vahid", "" ] ]
0707.3399
Jos\'e Gaite
Jose Gaite, Angel Sanz-Andr\'es and Isabel P\'erez-Grande
Nonlinear analysis of a simple model of temperature evolution in a satellite
13 pages, 4 figures (5 EPS files)
Nonlinear Dynamics 58 (2009) 405 - 415
10.1007/s11071-009-9488-x
null
physics.space-ph math-ph math.MP nlin.CD
null
We analyse a simple model of the heat transfer to and from a small satellite orbiting round a solar system planet. Our approach considers the satellite isothermal, with external heat input from the environment and from internal energy dissipation, and output to the environment as black-body radiation. The resulting nonlinear ordinary differential equation for the satellite's temperature is analysed by qualitative, perturbation and numerical methods, which show that the temperature approaches a periodic pattern (attracting limit cycle). This approach can occur in two ways, according to the values of the parameters: (i) a slow decay towards the limit cycle over a time longer than the period, or (ii) a fast decay towards the limit cycle over a time shorter than the period. In the first case, an exactly soluble average equation is valid. We discuss the consequences of our model for the thermal stability of satellites.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:37:37 GMT" } ]
2009-09-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Gaite", "Jose", "" ], [ "Sanz-Andrés", "Angel", "" ], [ "Pérez-Grande", "Isabel", "" ] ]
0707.3400
Koji Maruyama
Koji Maruyama, Franco Nori, Vlatko Vedral
The Physics of Maxwell's demon and information
24 pages, 13 figures. v2: some refs added, figs improved
Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1 (2009).
10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1
null
physics.hist-ph quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Maxwell's demon was born in 1867 and still thrives in modern physics. He plays important roles in clarifying the connections between two theories: thermodynamics and information. Here, we present the history of the demon and a variety of interesting consequences of the second law of thermodynamics, mainly in quantum mechanics, but also in the theory of gravity. We also highlight some of the recent work that explores the role of information, illuminated by Maxwell's demon, in the arena of quantum information theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:37:46 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 5 Aug 2008 07:14:11 GMT" } ]
2009-01-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Maruyama", "Koji", "" ], [ "Nori", "Franco", "" ], [ "Vedral", "Vlatko", "" ] ]
0707.3401
Jiun-Chau Wang
Jiun-Chau Wang
Limit laws for boolean convolutions
Second version; corrected typos
null
null
null
math.OA math.PR
null
We study the distributional behavior for products, and for sums of boolean independent random variables in an infinitesimal triangular array. We show that the limit laws of boolean convolutions are determined by the limit laws of free convolutions, and vice versa. We further use these results to show several connections between the limiting distributional behavior of classical convolutions and that of boolean convolutions. The proof of our results is based on the analytical apparatus developed for free convolutions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:48:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:26:30 GMT" } ]
2007-07-30T00:00:00
[ [ "Wang", "Jiun-Chau", "" ] ]
0707.3402
Michael Chen Mr.
Hai-Tao Zhang, Michael ZhiQiang Chen, Tao Zhou
Synchronized Collective Behavior via Low-cost Communication
4 pages, 4 figures
null
null
null
physics.data-an physics.gen-ph
null
An important natural phenomenon surfaces that satisfactory synchronization of self-driven particles can be achieved via sharply reduced communication cost, especially for high density particle groups with low external noise. Statistical numerical evidence illustrates that a highly efficient manner is to distribute the communication messages as evenly as possible along the whole dynamic process, since it minimizes the communication redundancy. More surprisingly, it is discovered that there exist some abnormal regions where moderately decreasing the communication cost can even improve the synchronization performance. A phase diagram on the noise-density parameter space is given, where the dynamical behaviors can be divided into three qualitatively different phases: normal phase where better synchronization corresponds to higher communication cost, abnormal phase where moderately decreasing communication cost could even improve the synchronization, and the disordered phase where no coherence among individuals is observed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:51:34 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhang", "Hai-Tao", "" ], [ "Chen", "Michael ZhiQiang", "" ], [ "Zhou", "Tao", "" ] ]
0707.3403
Elmar Wagner
Elmar Wagner
On the noncommutative spin geometry of the standard Podles sphere and index computations
33 pages, title changed, Section 3.1 completely rewritten, Chern-Connes pairing in the "no-dimension drop" case included
null
null
null
math.QA math.KT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The purpose of the paper is twofold: First, known results of the noncommutative spin geometry of the standard Podles sphere are extended by discussing Poincare duality and orientability. In the discussion of orientability, Hochschild homology is replaced by a twisted version which avoids the dimension drop. The twisted Hochschild cycle representing an orientation is related to the volume form of the distinguished covariant differential calculus. Integration over the volume form defines a twisted cyclic 2-cocycle which computes the q-winding numbers of quantum line bundles. Second, a "twisted" Chern character from equivariant K0-theory to even twisted cyclic homology is introduced which gives rise to a Chern-Connes pairing between equivariant K0-theory and twisted cyclic cohomology. The Chern-Connes pairing between the equivariant K0-group of the standard Podles sphere and the generators of twisted cyclic cohomology relative to the modular automorphism and its inverse are computed. This includes the pairings with the twisted cyclic 2-cocycle associated to the volume form, and the one corresponding to the "no-dimension drop" case. From explicit index computations, it follows that the pairings with these cocycles give the q-indices of the known equivariant 0-summable Dirac operator on the standard Podles sphere.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:00:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:43:22 GMT" } ]
2008-09-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Wagner", "Elmar", "" ] ]
0707.3404
Janusz Gwozdziewicz
Janusz Gwozdziewicz
Kouchnirenko type formulas for local invariants of plane analytic curves
7 pages
Generalized Noether's formulas for plane curves singularities, Univ. Iagell. Acta Math. 48 (2010) 71-78
null
null
math.AG
null
Let f(x,y)=0 be an equation of plane analytic curve defined in the neighborhood of the origin and let $\pi:M\to(\Cn^2,0)$ be a local toric modification. We give a formula which connects a number of double points \delta_0(f)$ with a sum $\sum_p \delta_p(\tilde f)$ which runs over all intersection points of the proper preimage of f=0 with the exceptional divisor.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:01:42 GMT" } ]
2012-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Gwozdziewicz", "Janusz", "" ] ]
0707.3405
Andrew Knyazev
Fran\c{c}ois Bottin, St\'ephane Leroux, Andrew Knyazev, and Gilles Z\'erah
Large scale ab initio calculations based on three levels of parallelization
8 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to Computational Material Science
Computational Material Science, 42(2), 329-336, 2008
10.1016/j.commatsci.2007.07.019
UCDHSC-CCM-254
cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
We suggest and implement a parallelization scheme based on an efficient multiband eigenvalue solver, called the locally optimal block preconditioned conjugate gradient LOBPCG method, and using an optimized three-dimensional (3D) fast Fourier transform (FFT) in the ab initio}plane-wave code ABINIT. In addition to the standard data partitioning over processors corresponding to different k-points, we introduce data partitioning with respect to blocks of bands as well as spatial partitioning in the Fourier space of coefficients over the plane waves basis set used in ABINIT. This k-points-multiband-FFT parallelization avoids any collective communications on the whole set of processors relying instead on one-dimensional communications only. For a single k-point, super-linear scaling is achieved for up to 100 processors due to an extensive use of hardware optimized BLAS, LAPACK, and SCALAPACK routines, mainly in the LOBPCG routine. We observe good performance up to 200 processors. With 10 k-points our three-way data partitioning results in linear scaling up to 1000 processors for a practical system used for testing.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:14:55 GMT" } ]
2010-06-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Bottin", "François", "" ], [ "Leroux", "Stéphane", "" ], [ "Knyazev", "Andrew", "" ], [ "Zérah", "Gilles", "" ] ]
0707.3406
Oscar J. C. Dias
Vitor Cardoso, Oscar J.C. Dias, Robert C. Myers
On the gravitational stability of D1-D5-P black holes
18 pages, 3 figures. Minor comments added to match published version
Phys.Rev.D76:105015,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.105015
null
hep-th gr-qc
null
We examine the stability of the nonextremal D1-D5-P black hole solutions. In particular, we look for the appearance of a superradiant instability for the spinning black holes but we find no evidence of such an instability. We compare this situation with that for the smooth soliton geometries, which were recently observed to suffer from an ergoregion instability, and consider the implications for the fuzzball proposal.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:23:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:34:33 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Cardoso", "Vitor", "" ], [ "Dias", "Oscar J. C.", "" ], [ "Myers", "Robert C.", "" ] ]
0707.3407
Alexander Tiskin
Alexander Tiskin
Faster subsequence recognition in compressed strings
null
null
null
null
cs.DS cs.CC cs.DM
null
Computation on compressed strings is one of the key approaches to processing massive data sets. We consider local subsequence recognition problems on strings compressed by straight-line programs (SLP), which is closely related to Lempel--Ziv compression. For an SLP-compressed text of length $\bar m$, and an uncompressed pattern of length $n$, C{\'e}gielski et al. gave an algorithm for local subsequence recognition running in time $O(\bar mn^2 \log n)$. We improve the running time to $O(\bar mn^{1.5})$. Our algorithm can also be used to compute the longest common subsequence between a compressed text and an uncompressed pattern in time $O(\bar mn^{1.5})$; the same problem with a compressed pattern is known to be NP-hard.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:26:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:16:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:54:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:20:48 GMT" } ]
2011-11-10T00:00:00
[ [ "Tiskin", "Alexander", "" ] ]
0707.3408
Annalisa Cerquetti
Annalisa Cerquetti
On a Gibbs characterization of normalized generalized Gamma processes
13 pages
Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, (2008) 3123 - 3128
10.1016/j.spl.2008.05.027
null
math.PR
null
We show that a Gibbs characterization of normalized generalized Gamma processes, recently obtained in Lijoi, Pr\"unster and Walker (2007), can alternatively be derived by exploiting a characterization of exponentially tilted Poisson-Kingman models stated in Pitman (2003). We also provide a completion of this result investigating the existence of normalized random measures inducing exchangeable Gibbs partitions of type $\alpha \in (-\infty, 0]$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:33:06 GMT" } ]
2010-01-02T00:00:00
[ [ "Cerquetti", "Annalisa", "" ] ]
0707.3409
Alexander Tiskin
Alexander Tiskin
Faster exon assembly by sparse spliced alignment
null
null
null
null
cs.DS cs.CC cs.CE q-bio.QM
null
Assembling a gene from candidate exons is an important problem in computational biology. Among the most successful approaches to this problem is \emph{spliced alignment}, proposed by Gelfand et al., which scores different candidate exon chains within a DNA sequence of length $m$ by comparing them to a known related gene sequence of length n, $m = \Theta(n)$. Gelfand et al.\ gave an algorithm for spliced alignment running in time O(n^3). Kent et al.\ considered sparse spliced alignment, where the number of candidate exons is O(n), and proposed an algorithm for this problem running in time O(n^{2.5}). We improve on this result, by proposing an algorithm for sparse spliced alignment running in time O(n^{2.25}). Our approach is based on a new framework of \emph{quasi-local string comparison}.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:35:54 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Tiskin", "Alexander", "" ] ]
0707.3410
Colleen Robles
J.M. Landsberg and C. Robles
Fubini-Griffiths-Harris rigidity and Lie algebra cohomology
v.1: 25 pages. v.2: The exposition has been improved and the language of filtered EDS used
null
null
null
math.DG math.AG math.RT
null
We prove a general extrinsic rigidity theorem for homogeneous varieties in $\mathbb{CP}^N$. The theorem is used to show that the adjoint variety of a complex simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ (the unique minimal G orbit in $\mathbb{P}\mathfrak{g}$) is extrinsically rigid to third order. In contrast, we show that the adjoint variety of $SL_3\mathbb{C}$, and the Segre product $\mathit{Seg}(\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^n)$, both varieties with osculating sequences of length two, are flexible at order two. In the $SL_3\mathbb{C}$ example we discuss the relationship between the extrinsic projective geometry and the intrinsic path geometry. We extend machinery developed by Hwang and Yamaguchi, Se-ashi, Tanaka and others to reduce the proof of the general theorem to a Lie algebra cohomology calculation. The proofs of the flexibility statements use exterior differential systems techniques.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:40:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:28:22 GMT" } ]
2008-02-06T00:00:00
[ [ "Landsberg", "J. M.", "" ], [ "Robles", "C.", "" ] ]
0707.3411
Alexandros G. Vanakaras
Alexandros G. Vanakaras and Demetri J. Photinos
Thermotropic Biaxial Nematics: Spontaneous or Field-Stabilized?
2 eps Figures
J. Chem. Phys. 128, 154512 (2008)
10.1063/1.2897993
null
cond-mat.soft cond-mat.mtrl-sci
null
An intermediate nematic phase is proposed for the interpretation of recent experimental results on phase biaxiality in bent-core nematics. The phase is macroscopically uniaxial but consists of microscopic biaxial, and possibly polar, domains. On applying an electric field the phase exhibits substantial macroscopic biaxial ordering resulting from the collective alignment of the domains. A phenomenological theory is developed for the molecular order in this phase and for its transitions to purely uniaxial and to spontaneously biaxial nematic phases.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:41:26 GMT" } ]
2009-04-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Vanakaras", "Alexandros G.", "" ], [ "Photinos", "Demetri J.", "" ] ]
0707.3412
Nicola Caon
Luz M. Cairos, Nicola Caon, Begona Garcia Lorenzo, Ana Monreal-Ibero, Ricardo Amorin, Peter Weilbacher, Polychronis Papaderos
Spectrophotometric investigations of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: Markarian 35
21 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ, tentatively scheduled for the ApJ November 1, 2007 v669n1 issue
null
10.1086/521615
null
astro-ph
null
We present results from a detailed spectrophotometric analysis of the blue compact dwarf galaxy Mrk 35 (Haro 3), based on deep optical (B,V,R,I) and near-IR (J,H,K) imaging, Halpha narrow-band observations and long-slit spectroscopy. The optical emission of the galaxy is dominated by a central young starburst, with a bar-like shape, while an underlying component of stars, with elliptical isophotes and red colors, extends more than 4 kpc from the galaxy center. High resolution Halpha and color maps allow us to identify the star-forming regions, to spatially discriminate them from the older stars, and to recognize several dust patches. We derive colors and Halpha parameters for all the identified star-forming knots. Observables derived for each knot are corrected for the contribution of the underlying older stellar population, the contribution by emission lines, and from interstellar extinction, and compared with evolutionary synthesis models. We find that the contributions of these three factors are by no means negligible and that they significantly vary across the galaxy. Therefore, careful quantification and subtraction of emission lines, galaxy host contribution, and interstellar reddening at every galaxy position, are essential to derive the properties of the young stars in BCDs. We find that we can reproduce the colors of all the knots with an instantaneous burst of star formation and the Salpeter initial mass function with an upper mass limit of 100 M_solar. In all cases the knots are just a few Myr old. The underlying population of stars has colors consistent with being several Gyr old.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:43:01 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Cairos", "Luz M.", "" ], [ "Caon", "Nicola", "" ], [ "Lorenzo", "Begona Garcia", "" ], [ "Monreal-Ibero", "Ana", "" ], [ "Amorin", "Ricardo", "" ], [ "Weilbacher", "Peter", "" ], [ "Papaderos", "Polychronis", "" ] ]
0707.3413
Michael A. Strauss
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy, et al. (for the SDSS Collaboration)
The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
21 pages with 8 color figures. ApJS, in press. Minor modifications from previous version
Astrophys.J.Suppl.175:297-313,2008
10.1086/524984
null
astro-ph
null
With the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the imaging of the Northern Galactic Cap is now complete. The survey contains images and parameters of roughly 287 million objects over 9583 deg^2, and 1.27 million spectra of stars, galaxies, quasars and blank sky (for sky subtraction) selected over 7425 deg^2. This release includes much more extensive stellar spectroscopy than previously, and also includes detailed estimates of stellar temperatures, gravities, and metallicities. The results of improved photometric calibration are now available, with uncertainties of roughly 1% in g, r, i, and z, and 2% in u, substantially better than the uncertainties in previous data releases. The spectra in this data release have improved wavelength and flux calibration, especially in the extreme blue and extreme red, leading to the qualitatively better determination of stellar types and radial velocities. The spectrophotometric fluxes are now tied to point spread function magnitudes of stars rather than fiber magnitudes, giving a 0.35 mag change in the spectrophotometric flux scale. Systematic errors in the velocity dispersions of galaxies have been fixed, and the results of two independent codes for determining spectral classifications and redshifts are made available. (Abridged)
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:16:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:44:20 GMT" } ]
2019-08-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Adelman-McCarthy", "Jennifer K.", "" ] ]
0707.3414
D. P. Roy
D. P. Roy
Probing the Two Greatest Mysteries of the Universe
6 pages, 2 figures, Foreward to the Proc of the Workshop on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Ahmedabad, India, Narosa Publishing House (2007)
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The neutrinoless double beta decay and the direct dark matter detection experiments probe the origins of the two greatest mysteries of the universe, i.e. the baryon asymmetry and the invisible or dark matter. The underlying theoretical ideas are briefly discussed along with the experimental prospects.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:55:21 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Roy", "D. P.", "" ] ]
0707.3415
Jorge Iglesias
J. Iglesias-Paramo, V. Buat, J. Hernandez-Fernandez, C.K. Xu, D. Burgarella, T.T. Takeuchi, A. Boselli, D. Shupe, M. Rowan-Robinson, T. Babbedge, T. Conrow, F. Fang, D. Farrah, E. Gonzalez-Solares, C. Lonsdale, G. Smith, J. Surace, T.A. Barlow, K. Forster, P.G. Friedman, D.C. Martin, P. Morrissey, S.G. Neff, D. Schiminovich, M. Seibert, T. Small, T.K. Wyder, L. Bianchi, J. Donas, T.M. Heckman, Y.-W. Lee, B.F. Madore, B. Milliard, R.M. Rich, A.S. Szalay, B.Y. Welsh and S.K. Yi
UV to IR SEDs of UV selected galaxies in the ELAIS fields: evolution of dust attenuation and star formation activity from z=0.7 to z=0.2
21 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
null
10.1086/521867
null
astro-ph
null
We study the ultraviolet to far-infrared (hereafter UV-to-IR) SEDs of a sample of intermediate redshift (0.2 < z < 0.7) UV-selected galaxies from the ELAIS-N1 and ELAIS-N2 fields by fitting a multi-wavelength dataset to a library of GRASIL templates. Star formation related properties of the galaxies are derived from the library of models by using the Bayesian statistics. We find a decreasing presence of galaxies with low attenuation and low total luminosity as redshift decreases, which does not hold for high total luminosity galaxies. In addition the dust attenuation of low mass galaxies increases as redshift decreases, and this trend seems to disappear for galaxies with M* > 10^11 M_sun. This result is consistent with a mass dependent evolution of the dust to gas ratio, which could be driven by a mass dependent efficiency of star formation in star forming galaxies. The specific star formation rates (SSFR) decrease with increasing stellar mass at all redshifts, and for a given stellar mass the SSFR decreases with decreasing redshift. The differences in the slope of the M*--SSFR relation found between this work and others at similar redshift could be explained by the adopted selection criteria of the samples which, for a UV selected sample, favours blue, star forming galaxies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:55:23 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Iglesias-Paramo", "J.", "" ], [ "Buat", "V.", "" ], [ "Hernandez-Fernandez", "J.", "" ], [ "Xu", "C. K.", "" ], [ "Burgarella", "D.", "" ], [ "Takeuchi", "T. T.", "" ], [ "Boselli", "A.", "" ], [ "Shupe", "D.", "" ], [ "Rowan-Robinson", "M.", "" ], [ "Babbedge", "T.", "" ], [ "Conrow", "T.", "" ], [ "Fang", "F.", "" ], [ "Farrah", "D.", "" ], [ "Gonzalez-Solares", "E.", "" ], [ "Lonsdale", "C.", "" ], [ "Smith", "G.", "" ], [ "Surace", "J.", "" ], [ "Barlow", "T. A.", "" ], [ "Forster", "K.", "" ], [ "Friedman", "P. G.", "" ], [ "Martin", "D. C.", "" ], [ "Morrissey", "P.", "" ], [ "Neff", "S. G.", "" ], [ "Schiminovich", "D.", "" ], [ "Seibert", "M.", "" ], [ "Small", "T.", "" ], [ "Wyder", "T. K.", "" ], [ "Bianchi", "L.", "" ], [ "Donas", "J.", "" ], [ "Heckman", "T. M.", "" ], [ "Lee", "Y. -W.", "" ], [ "Madore", "B. F.", "" ], [ "Milliard", "B.", "" ], [ "Rich", "R. M.", "" ], [ "Szalay", "A. S.", "" ], [ "Welsh", "B. Y.", "" ], [ "Yi", "S. K.", "" ] ]
0707.3416
Alexandru Raduta Dr.
A. H. Raduta, M. Colonna, M. Di Toro
Searching for statistical equilibrium in a dynamical multifragmentation path
7 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review C
Phys.Rev.C76:024602,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.024602
null
nucl-th
null
A method for identifying statistical equilibrium stages in dynamical multifragmentation paths as provided by transport models, already successfully tested for for the reaction ^{129}Xe+^{119}Sn at 32 MeV/u is applied here to a higher energy reaction, ^{129}Xe+^{119}Sn at 50 MeV/u. The method evaluates equilibrium from the point of view of the microcanonical multifragmentation model (MMM) and reactions are simulated by means of the stochastic mean field model (SMF). A unique solution, corresponding to the maximum population of the system phase space, was identified suggesting that a huge part of the available phase space is occupied even in the case of the 50 MeV/u reaction, in presence of a considerable amount of radial collective flow. The specific equilibration time and volume are identified and differences between the two systems are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:25:20 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Raduta", "A. H.", "" ], [ "Colonna", "M.", "" ], [ "Di Toro", "M.", "" ] ]
0707.3417
Steven Miller
Peter Hegarty, Steven J. Miller
When almost all sets are difference dominated
Version 2.1. 24 pages. Fixed a few typos, updated references
Random Structures and Algorithms 35 (2009), no. 1, 118--136
null
null
math.NT math.PR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the relationship between the sizes of the sum and difference sets attached to a subset of {0,1,...,N}, chosen randomly according to a binomial model with parameter p(N), with N^{-1} = o(p(N)). We show that the random subset is almost surely difference dominated, as N --> oo, for any choice of p(N) tending to zero, thus confirming a conjecture of Martin and O'Bryant. The proofs use recent strong concentration results. Furthermore, we exhibit a threshold phenomenon regarding the ratio of the size of the difference- to the sumset. If p(N) = o(N^{-1/2}) then almost all sums and differences in the random subset are almost surely distinct, and in particular the difference set is almost surely about twice as large as the sumset. If N^{-1/2} = o(p(N)) then both the sum and difference sets almost surely have size (2N+1) - O(p(N)^{-2}), and so the ratio in question is almost surely very close to one. If p(N) = c N^{-1/2} then as c increases from zero to infinity (i.e., as the threshold is crossed), the same ratio almost surely decreases continuously from two to one according to an explicitly given function of c. We also extend our results to the comparison of the generalized difference sets attached to an arbitrary pair of binary linear forms. For certain pairs of forms f and g, we show that there in fact exists a sharp threshold at c_{f,g} N^{-1/2}, for some computable constant c_{f,g}, such that one form almost surely dominates below the threshold, and the other almost surely above it. The heart of our approach involves using different tools to obtain strong concentration of the sizes of the sum and difference sets about their mean values, for various ranges of the parameter p.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:27:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:25:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:09:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:02:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:56:39 GMT" } ]
2010-09-15T00:00:00
[ [ "Hegarty", "Peter", "" ], [ "Miller", "Steven J.", "" ] ]
0707.3418
Joe Helmboldt
J. F. Helmboldt, N. E. Kassim, A. S. Cohen, W. M. Lane, T. J. Lazio
Radio Frequency Spectra of 388 Bright 74 MHz Sources
Accepted to ApJS
null
10.1086/521829
null
astro-ph
null
As a service to the community, we have compiled radio frequency spectra from the literature for all sources within the VLA Low Frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) that are brighter than 15 Jy at 74 MHz. Over 160 references were used to maximize the amount of spectral data used in the compilation of the spectra, while also taking care to determine the corrections needed to put the flux densities from all reference on the same absolute flux density scale. With the new VLSS data, we are able to vastly improve upon previous efforts to compile spectra of bright radio sources to frequencies below 100 MHz because (1) the VLSS flux densities are more reliable than those from some previous low frequency surveys and (2) the VLSS covers a much larger area of the sky (declination >-30 deg.) than many other low frequency surveys (e.g., the 8C survey). In this paper, we discuss how the spectra were constructed and how parameters quantifying the shapes of the spectra were derived. Both the spectra and the shape parameters are made available here to assist in the calibration of observations made with current and future low frequency radio facilities.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:42:55 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Helmboldt", "J. F.", "" ], [ "Kassim", "N. E.", "" ], [ "Cohen", "A. S.", "" ], [ "Lane", "W. M.", "" ], [ "Lazio", "T. J.", "" ] ]
0707.3419
Oleg Lebedev
John Ellis and Oleg Lebedev
The Seesaw with Many Right-Handed Neutrinos
14 pages; refs. added, published version
Phys.Lett.B653:411-418,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.08.031
CERN-PH-TH/2007-125
hep-ph
null
There are no upper limits on the possible number of massive, singlet (right--handed) neutrinos that may participate in the seesaw mechanism, and some string constructions motivate seesaw models with up to O(100) right--handed neutrinos. In this case, the seesaw mass scale can be significantly higher than that in the traditional scheme with just 3 right--handed neutrinos. We consider the possible phenomenological implications of such models, in particular, for lepton-flavour violation and electric dipole moments. Since the neutrino masses depend on the Majorana mass scale linearly, while supersymmetric loop corrections depend on it logarithmically, the magnitude of lepton-flavour- and CP-violating transitions may increase with the multiplicity of the right--handed neutrinos and may be enhanced by orders of magnitude. We also point out that, in the context of leptogensis, the bounds on the reheating temperature and the lightest neutrino mass get relaxed compared to those in the case of 3 right--handed neutrinos.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:43:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:47:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:17:52 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Ellis", "John", "" ], [ "Lebedev", "Oleg", "" ] ]
0707.3420
Andrey Leznov
A. N. Leznov
Free motion in deformed (quantum) four-dimensional space
7 pages, no figures
null
null
null
hep-th
null
It is shown that trajectories of free motion of the particles in deformed ("quantum") four dimensional space-time are quadratic curves.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:44:19 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Leznov", "A. N.", "" ] ]
0707.3421
Jerrold Franklin
Jerrold Franklin
The nature of electromagnetic energy
The discussion and conclusions have been modified. Some references have been added
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The nature of electromagnetic energy for general charge and current distributions is analyzed. We compare several forms for the electromagnetic energy, and discuss under what conditions there will be electromagnetic energy within a specific volume. Our conclusion is that electromagnetic energy resides in charge and current densities, and there is no electromagnetic energy in any volume that does not contain electric charge or current.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:48:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:21:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:12:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Tue, 29 May 2012 21:07:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:15:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v6", "created": "Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:01:09 GMT" } ]
2023-08-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Franklin", "Jerrold", "" ] ]
0707.3422
Nikolaos Mavromatos
Nikolaos E. Mavromatos (King's College London)
CPT and Decoherence in Quantum Gravity
11 pages LATEX, six eps figures incorporated. Invited Plenary talk at the Kaon 2007 International Conference, LN Frascati (Italy), 21-25 May 2007. Submitted to Proc. of Science
PoSKAON:041,2008
null
null
hep-ph gr-qc hep-th
null
In this review, I first discuss briefly some theoretical motivations for potential Lorentz Violation and deviation from ordinary quantum mechanical behavior (decoherence) of field theoretic systems in the background of some quantum gravity (QG) models. Both types of effects lead to CPT violation, but they can be disentangled experimentally. I, then, proceed to a description of precision tests of CPT symmetry using neutral and charged Kaons, which are of direct relevance to the main theme of this conference. I emphasize the potentially unique r\^ole of neutral meson factories in providing ``smoking-gun'' evidence of some QG-decoherence models in which the CPT quantum mechanical operator is not well defined. This is achieved by means of potential observations of QG-induced modifications of the pertinent Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) particle correlations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:54:29 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Mavromatos", "Nikolaos E.", "", "King's College London" ] ]
0707.3423
Michael T. Jury
Michael T. Jury
An improved Julia-Caratheodory theorem for Schur-Agler mappings of the unit ball
10 pages
null
null
null
math.CV math.FA
null
We adapt Sarason's proof of the Julia-Caratheodory theorem to the class of Schur-Agler mappings of the unit ball, obtaining a strengthened form of this theorem. In particular those quantities which appear in the classical theorem and depend only on the component of the mapping in the complex normal direction have K-limits (not just restricted K-limits) at the boundary.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:40:24 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Jury", "Michael T.", "" ] ]
0707.3424
Bennie F. L. Ward
B.F.L. Ward (1)((1) Department of Physics, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA)
IR-Improved DGLAP Theory: Kernels, Parton Distributions, Reduced Cross Sections
27 pages, 2 figures
Annals Phys.323:2147-2171,2008
10.1016/j.aop.2007.11.010
BU-HEPP-07-08; improved text
hep-ph
null
It is shown that exact, amplitude-based resummation allows IR-improvement of the usual DGLAP theory. This results in a new set of kernels, parton distributions and attendant reduced cross sections, so that the QCD perturbative result for the respective hadron-hadron or lepton-hadron cross section is unchanged order-by-order in $\alpha_s$ at large squared-momentum transfers. We compare these new objects with their usual counter-parts and illustrate the effects of the IR-improvement in some phenomenological cases of interest with an eye toward precision applications in LHC physics scenarios.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:26:23 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:29:04 GMT" } ]
2010-03-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Ward", "B. F. L.", "" ] ]
0707.3425
Michael T. Jury
Michael T. Jury
Norms and spectral radii of linear fractional composition operators on the ball
15 pages
null
null
null
math.FA
null
We give a new proof that every linear fractional map of the unit ball induces a bounded composition operator on the standard scale of Hilbert function spaces on the ball, and obtain norm bounds analogous to the standard one-variable estimates. We also show that Cowen's one-variable spectral radius formula extends to these operators. The key observation underlying these results is that every linear fractional map of the ball belongs to the Schur-Agler class.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:38:47 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Jury", "Michael T.", "" ] ]
0707.3426
Michael T. Jury
Michael T. Jury
Reproducing kernels, de Branges-Rovnyak spaces, and norms of weighted composition operators
9 pages, to appear in Proc. Amer. Math Soc
null
null
null
math.FA
null
We prove that the norm of a weighted composition operator on the Hardy space H^2 of the disk is controlled by the norm of the weight function in the de Branges-Rovnyak space associated to the symbol of the composition operator. As a corollary we obtain a new proof of the boundedness of composition operators on H^2, and recover the standard upper bound for the norm. Similar arguments apply to weighted Bergman spaces. We also show that the positivity of a generalized de Branges-Rovnyak kernel is sufficient for the boundedness of a given composition operator on the standard functions spaces on the unit ball.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:42:17 GMT" } ]
2007-07-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Jury", "Michael T.", "" ] ]
0707.3427
Nathan Williams
Nathan S. Williams and Andrew N. Jordan
Weak values and the Leggett-Garg inequality in solid-state qubits
4 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026804 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.026804
null
cond-mat.mes-hall quant-ph
null
An implementation of weak values is investigated in solid-state qubits. We demonstrate that a weak value can be non-classical if and only if a Leggett-Garg inequality can also be violated. Generalized weak values are described, where post-selection on a range of weak measurement results. Imposing classical weak values permits the derivation of Leggett-Garg inequalities for bounded operators. Our analysis is presented in terms of kicked quantum nondemolition measurements on a quantum double-dot charge qubit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:29:47 GMT" } ]
2008-01-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Williams", "Nathan S.", "" ], [ "Jordan", "Andrew N.", "" ] ]
0707.3428
Tobias Galla
Luca De Sanctis, Tobias Galla
Effects of noise and confidence thresholds in nominal and metric Axelrod dynamics of social influence
15 pages, 12 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.79.046108
null
physics.soc-ph cond-mat.stat-mech
null
We study the effects of bounded confidence thresholds and of interaction and external noise on Axelrod's model of social influence. Our study is based on a combination of numerical simulations and an integration of the mean-field Master equation describing the system in the thermodynamic limit. We find that interaction thresholds affect the system only quantitatively, but that they do not alter the basic phase structure. The known crossover between an ordered and a disordered state in finite systems subject to external noise persists in models with general confidence threshold. Interaction noise here facilitates the dynamics and reduces relaxation times. We also study Axelrod systems with metric features, and point out similarities and differences compared to models with nominal features. Metric features are used to demonstrate that a small group of extremists can have a significant impact on the opinion dynamics of a population of Axelrod agents.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:41:48 GMT" } ]
2013-05-29T00:00:00
[ [ "De Sanctis", "Luca", "" ], [ "Galla", "Tobias", "" ] ]
0707.3429
Zhaohuan Zhu
Zhaohuan Zhu (1), Lee Hartmann (1), Nuria Calvet (1), Jesus Hernandez (1 and 3), James Muzerolle (2), Ajay-Kumar Tannirkulam (1) ((1) Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, (2) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, (3) Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia, Merida, Venezuela)
The Hot Inner Disk of FU Ori
32 pages, 10 figures, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal
null
10.1086/521345
null
astro-ph
null
We have constructed a detailed radiative transfer disk model which reproduces the main features of the spectrum of the outbursting young stellar object FU Orionis from ~ 4000 angstrom, to ~ 8 micron. Using an estimated visual extinction Av~1.5, a steady disk model with a central star mass ~0.3 Msun and a mass accretion rate ~ 2e-4 Msun/yr, we can reproduce the spectral energy distribution of FU Ori quite well. With the mid-infrared spectrum obtained by the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope, we estimate that the outer radius of the hot, rapidly accreting inner disk is ~ 1 AU using disk models truncated at this outer radius. Inclusion of radiation from a cooler irradiated outer disk might reduce the outer limit of the hot inner disk to ~ 0.5 AU. In either case, the radius is inconsistent with a pure thermal instability model for the outburst. Our radiative transfer model implies that the central disk temperature Tc > 1000 K out to ~ 0.5 - 1 AU, suggesting that the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can be supported out to that distance. Assuming that the ~ 100 yr decay timescale in brightness of FU Ori represents the viscous timescale of the hot inner disk, we estimate the viscosity parameter (alpha) to be ~ 0.2 - 0.02 in the outburst state, consistent with numerical simulations of MRI in disks. The radial extent of the high mass accretion region is inconsistent with the model of Bell & Lin, but may be consistent with theories incorporating both gravitational instability and MRI.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:21:18 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhu", "Zhaohuan", "", "1 and 3" ], [ "Hartmann", "Lee", "", "1 and 3" ], [ "Calvet", "Nuria", "", "1 and 3" ], [ "Hernandez", "Jesus", "", "1 and 3" ], [ "Muzerolle", "James", "" ], [ "Tannirkulam", "Ajay-Kumar", "" ] ]