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0704.3001
Hans-Thomas Janka
L. Scheck (1), H.-Th. Janka (1), T. Foglizzo (2), and K. Kifonidis (1) ((1) MPI for Astrophysics, Garching; (2) Service d'Astrophysique, CEA-Saclay)
Multidimensional supernova simulations with approximative neutrino transport. II. Convection and the advective-acoustic cycle in the supernova core
23 pages, 20 figures; revised version with extended Sect.5, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics; high-resolution images can be obtained upon request
Astron.Astrophys.477:931,2008
10.1051/0004-6361:20077701
J-MPA2103e
astro-ph
null
By 2D hydrodynamic simulations including a detailed equation of state and neutrino transport, we investigate the interplay between different non-radial hydrodynamic instabilities that play a role during the postbounce accretion phase of collapsing stellar cores. The convective mode of instability, which is driven by negative entropy gradients caused by neutrino heating or by time variations of the shock strength, can be identified clearly by the development of typical Rayleigh-Taylor mushrooms. However, in cases where the gas in the postshock region is rapidly advected towards the gain radius, the growth of such a buoyancy instability can be suppressed. In such a situation the shocked flow nevertheless can develop non-radial asymmetry with an oscillatory growth of the amplitude. This phenomenon has been termed ``standing accretion shock instability'' (SASI). It is shown here that the SASI oscillations can trigger convective instability and like the latter they lead to an increase of the average shock radius and of the mass in the gain layer. Both hydrodynamic instabilities in combination stretch the advection time of matter through the neutrino-heating layer and thus enhance the neutrino energy deposition in support of the neutrino-driven explosion mechanism. A rapidly contracting and more compact nascent NS turns out to be favorable for explosions, because the accretion luminosity and neutrino heating are larger and the growth rate of the SASI is higher. Moreover, we show that the oscillation period of the SASI and a variety of other features in our simulations agree with estimates for the advective-acoustic cycle (AAC), in which perturbations are carried by the accretion flow from the shock to the neutron star and pressure waves close an amplifying global feedback loop. (abridged)
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:29:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:30:21 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Scheck", "L.", "", "MPI for Astrophysics, Garching;" ], [ "Janka", "H. -Th.", "", "MPI for Astrophysics, Garching;" ], [ "Foglizzo", "T.", "", "Service d'Astrophysique, CEA-Saclay" ], [ "Kifonidis", "K.", "", "MPI for Astrophysics, Garching;" ] ]
0704.3002
Vladimir Vershinin
Vladimir V. Vershinin
On the inverse braid monoid
18 pages, 5 figures
Topology Appl. 156 (2009) 1153--1166
null
null
math.GR math.GT
null
Inverse braid monoid describes a structure on braids where the number of strings is not fixed. So, some strings of initial $n$ may be deleted. In the paper we show that many properties and objects based on braid groups may be extended to the inverse braid monoids. Namely we prove an inclusion into a monoid of partial monomorphisms of a free group. This gives a solution of the word problem. Another solution is obtained by an approach similar to that of Garside. We give also the analogues of Artin presentation with two generators and Sergiescu graph-presentations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:30:12 GMT" } ]
2012-02-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Vershinin", "Vladimir V.", "" ] ]
0704.3003
Yuri A. Rylov
Yuri A. Rylov
Deformation principle and further geometrization of physics
18 page, 0 figures
null
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
The space-time geometry is considered to be a physical geometry, i.e. a geometry described completely by the world function. All geometrical concepts and geometric objects are taken from the proper Euclidean geometry. They are expressed via the Euclidean world function \sigma_E and declared to be concepts and objects of any physical geometry, provided the Euclidean world function \sigma_E is replaced by the world function \sigma of the physical geometry in question. The set of physical geometries is more powerful, than the set of Riemannian geometries, and one needs to choose a true space-time geometry. In general, the physical geometry is multivariant (there are many vectors which are equivalent to a given vector, but are not equivalent between themselves). The multivariance admits one to describe quantum effects as geometric effects and to consider existence of elementary particles as a geometrical problem, when the possibility of the physical existence of an elementary geometric object in the form of a physical body is determined by the space-time geometry. Multivariance admits one to describe discrete and continuous geometries, using the same technique. A use of physical geometry admits one to realize the geometrical approach to the quantum theory and to the theory of elementary particles.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:31:12 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Rylov", "Yuri A.", "" ] ]
0704.3004
Ronny Thomas
R. Thomas, T. Hilger, B. Kampfer
Four-Quark Condensates in Nucleon QCD Sum Rules
Version accepted for publication: corrected typos, minor changes based on referee comments included, reference added
Nucl.Phys.A795:19-46,2007
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2007.08.012
null
hep-ph nucl-th
null
The in-medium behavior of the nucleon spectral density including self-energies is revisited within the framework of QCD sum rules. Special emphasis is given to the density dependence of four-quark condensates. A complete catalog of four-quark condensates is presented and relations among them are derived. Generic differences of such four-quark condensates occurring in QCD sum rules for light baryons and light vector mesons are discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:33:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:40:06 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Thomas", "R.", "" ], [ "Hilger", "T.", "" ], [ "Kampfer", "B.", "" ] ]
0704.3005
Yasser Roudi
Yasser Roudi, Peter E. Latham
A balanced memory network
Accepted for publications in PLoS Comp. Biol
null
10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030141
null
q-bio.NC cond-mat.dis-nn
null
A fundamental problem in neuroscience is understanding how working memory -- the ability to store information at intermediate timescales, like 10s of seconds -- is implemented in realistic neuronal networks. The most likely candidate mechanism is the attractor network, and a great deal of effort has gone toward investigating it theoretically. Yet, despite almost a quarter century of intense work, attractor networks are not fully understood. In particular, there are still two unanswered questions. First, how is it that attractor networks exhibit irregular firing, as is observed experimentally during working memory tasks? And second, how many memories can be stored under biologically realistic conditions? Here we answer both questions by studying an attractor neural network in which inhibition and excitation balance each other. Using mean field analysis, we derive a three-variable description of attractor networks. From this description it follows that irregular firing can exist only if the number of neurons involved in a memory is large. The same mean field analysis also shows that the number of memories that can be stored in a network scales with the number of excitatory connections, a result that has been suggested for simple models but never shown for realistic ones. Both of these predictions are verified using simulations with large networks of spiking neurons.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:45:38 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Roudi", "Yasser", "" ], [ "Latham", "Peter E.", "" ] ]
0704.3006
Przemyslaw Repetowicz
Kieran Kelly, Przemys{\l}aw Repetowicz, and Seosamh macR\'eamoinn
On the Equilibrium Fluctuations of an Isolated System
30 pages, 7 figures, work has been presented at COST workshop ``Networks, Topology, dynamics and Risk'' and submitted to Physica A. Text has been edited, figures have been cleaned up and a new section, a new Appendix, new references and one additional figure have been added
null
null
0704.0023
math-ph math.MP
null
Traditionally, it is understood that fluctuations in the equilibrium distribution are not evident in thermodynamic systems of large $N$ (the number of particles in the system) \cite{Huang1}. In this paper we examine the validity of this perception by investigating whether such fluctuations can in reality depend on temperature. Firstly, we describe fluctuations in the occupation numbers of the energy levels for an isolated system, using previously unknown identities that we have derived for the purpose, which allow us to calculate the moments of the occupation numbers. Then we compute analytically the probability distribution of these fluctuations. We show that, for every system of fixed and finite $N$, fluctuations about the equilibrium distribution do, in fact, depend on the temperature. Indeed, at higher temperatures the fluctuations can be so large that the system does not fully converge on the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution but actually fluctuates around it. We term this state, where not one macrostate but a region of macrostates closely fit the underlying distribution, a ``{\it fluctuating equilibrium}''. Finally, we speculate on how this finding is applicable to networks, financial markets, and other thermodynamic-like systems.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:46:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 1 May 2007 19:34:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 15 May 2007 18:28:19 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:00:34 GMT" } ]
2007-10-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Kelly", "Kieran", "" ], [ "Repetowicz", "Przemysław", "" ], [ "macRéamoinn", "Seosamh", "" ] ]
0704.3007
Pierre Schapira
Pierre Schapira
Deformation quantization modules on complex symplectic manifolds
To appear in the Proceedings of the Poisson 2006 (Tokyo), AMS Contemporary Mathematics
null
null
null
math.QA math.AG
null
We study modules over the algebroid stack $\W[\stx]$ of deformation quantization on a complex symplectic manifold $\stx$ and recall some results: construction of an algebra for $\star$-products, existence of (twisted) simple modules along smooth Lagrangian submanifolds, perversity of the complex of solutions for regular holonomic $\W[\stx]$-modules, finiteness and duality for the composition of ``good'' kernels. As a corollary, we get that the derived category of good $\W[\stx]$-modules with compact support is a Calabi-Yau category. We also give a conjectural Riemann-Roch type formula in this framework.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:47:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:02:28 GMT" } ]
2007-06-20T00:00:00
[ [ "Schapira", "Pierre", "" ] ]
0704.3008
Izaskun Jimenez-Serra
I. Jimenez-Serra (1), J. Martin-Pintado (1), A. Rodriguez-Franco (1), C. Chandler (2), C. Comito (3) and P. Schilke (3) ((1) DAMIR-IEM-CSIC, Spain, (2) NRAO, USA, (3) MPIfR, Germany)
A Photoevaporating Rotating Disk in the Cepheus A HW2 Star Cluster
4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
null
10.1086/519005
null
astro-ph
null
We present VLA and PdBI subarcsecond images (0.15"-0.6") of the radiocontinuum emission at 7 mm and of the SO2 J=19_{2,18}-18_{3,15} and J=27_{8,20}-28_{7,21} lines toward the Cepheus A HW2 region. The SO2 images reveal the presence of a hot core internally heated by an intermediate mass protostar, and a circumstellar rotating disk around the HW2 radio jet with size 600AUx100AU and mass of 1M_sun. Keplerian rotation for the disk velocity gradient of 5 kms-1 requires a 9 M_sun central star, which cannot explain the total luminosity observed in the region. This may indicate that the disk does not rotate with a Keplerian law due to the extreme youth of this object. Our high sensitivity radiocontinuum image at 7 mm shows in addition to the ionized jet, an extended emission to the west (and marginally to the south) of the HW2 jet, filling the south-west cavity of the HW2 disk. From the morphology and location of this free-free continuum emission at centimeter and millimeter wavelengths (spectral index of 0.4-1.5), we propose that the disk is photoevaporating due to the UV radiation from the central star. All this indicates that the Cepheus A HW2 region harbors a cluster of massive stars. Disk accretion seems to be the most plausible way to form massive stars in moderate density/luminosity clusters.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:01:54 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Jimenez-Serra", "I.", "" ], [ "Martin-Pintado", "J.", "" ], [ "Rodriguez-Franco", "A.", "" ], [ "Chandler", "C.", "" ], [ "Comito", "C.", "" ], [ "Schilke", "P.", "" ] ]
0704.3009
Vicent Quilis
V. Quilis, A.C. Gonz\'alez-Garc\'ia, D. S\'aez and J. A. Font
Gravitational waves from galaxy encounters
9 pages with revtex style, 3 ps figures; to be published in Physical Review D
Phys.Rev.D75:104008,2007; Erratum-ibid.D75:109901,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.104008 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.109901
null
astro-ph
null
We discuss the emission of gravitational radiation produced in encounters of dark matter galactic halos. To this aim we perform a number of numerical simulations of typical galaxy mergers, computing the associated gravitational radiation waveforms as well as the energy released in the processes. Our simulations yield dimensionless gravitational wave amplitudes of the order of $10^{-13}$ and gravitational wave frequencies of the order of $10^{-16}$ Hz, when the galaxies are located at a distance of 10 Mpc. These values are of the same order as those arising in the gravitational radiation originated by strong variations of the gravitational field in the early Universe, and therefore, such gravitational waves cannot be directly observed by ground-based detectors. We discuss the feasibility of an indirect detection by means of the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) induced by such waves. Our results show that the gravitational waves from encounters of dark matter galactic halos leave much too small an imprint on the CMB polarization to be actually observed with ongoing and future missions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:03:21 GMT" } ]
2019-08-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Quilis", "V.", "" ], [ "González-García", "A. C.", "" ], [ "Sáez", "D.", "" ], [ "Font", "J. A.", "" ] ]
0704.3010
Aigars Atvars
C. Andreeva, A. Atvars, M. Auzinsh, K.Bluss, S. Cartaleva, L. Petrov, and D. Slavov
Ground-state magneto-optical resonances in Cesium vapour confined in an extremely thin cell
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.063804
null
physics.atom-ph
null
Experimental and theoretical studies are presented related to the ground-state magneto-optical resonance prepared in Cesium vapour confined in an Extremely Thin Cell (ETC, with thickness equal to the wavelength of the irradiating light). It is shown that the utilization of the ETC allows one to examine the formation of a magneto-optical resonance on the individual hyperfine transitions, thus distinguishing processes resulting in dark (reduced absorption) or bright (enhanced absorption) resonance formation. We report on an experimental evidence of the bright magneto-optical resonance sign reversal in Cs atoms confined in the ETC. A theoretical model is proposed based on the optical Bloch equations that involves the elastic interaction processes of atoms in the ETC with its walls resulting in depolarization of the Cs excited state which is polarized by the exciting radiation. This depolarization leads to the sign reversal of the bright resonance. Using the proposed model, the magneto-optical resonance amplitude and width as a function of laser power are calculated and compared with the experimental ones. The numerical results are in good agreement with the experiment.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:05:19 GMT" } ]
2009-11-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Andreeva", "C.", "" ], [ "Atvars", "A.", "" ], [ "Auzinsh", "M.", "" ], [ "Bluss", "K.", "" ], [ "Cartaleva", "S.", "" ], [ "Petrov", "L.", "" ], [ "Slavov", "D.", "" ] ]
0704.3011
Immanuel Bloch
Immanuel Bloch, Jean Dalibard, Wilhelm Zwerger
Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
revised version, accepted for publication in Rev. Mod. Phys
Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 885 (2008)
10.1103/RevModPhys.80.885
null
cond-mat.other
null
This article reviews recent experimental and theoretical progress on many-body phenomena in dilute, ultracold gases. Its focus are effects beyond standard weak-coupling descriptions, like the Mott-Hubbard-transition in optical lattices, strongly interacting gases in one and two dimensions or lowest Landau level physics in quasi two-dimensional gases in fast rotation. Strong correlations in fermionic gases are discussed in optical lattices or near Feshbach resonances in the BCS-BEC crossover.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:06:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:46:06 GMT" } ]
2008-07-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Bloch", "Immanuel", "" ], [ "Dalibard", "Jean", "" ], [ "Zwerger", "Wilhelm", "" ] ]
0704.3012
Jos\'e A. de Diego
T. Verdugo, J.A. de Diego, M. Limousin
MS 2053.7-0449: Confirmation of a bimodal mass distribution from strong gravitational lensing
To be published in ApJ (accepted)
Astrophys.J.664:702-712,2007
10.1086/519153
null
astro-ph
null
We present the first strong lensing study of the mass distribution in the cluster MS 2053-04 based on HST archive data. This massive, X-ray luminous cluster has a redshift z=0.583, and it is composed of two structures that are gravitationally bound to each other. The cluster has one multiply imaged system constituted by a double gravitational arc. We have performed a parametric strong lensing mass reconstruction using NFW density profiles to model the cluster potential. We also included perturbations from 23 galaxies, modeled like elliptical singular isothermal sphere, that are approximately within 1'x1' around the cluster center. These galaxies were constrained in both the geometric and dynamical parameters with observational data. Our analysis predicts a third image which is slightly demagnified. We found a candidate for this counter-image near the expected position and with the same F702W-F814W colors as the gravitational arcs in the cluster. The results from the strong lensing model shows the complex structure in this cluster, the asymmetry and the elongation in the mass distribution, and are consistent with previous spectrophotometric results that indicate that the cluster has a bimodal mass distribution. Finally, the derived mass profile was used to estimate the mass within the arcs and for comparison with X-ray estimates.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:57:15 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Verdugo", "T.", "" ], [ "de Diego", "J. A.", "" ], [ "Limousin", "M.", "" ] ]
0704.3013
Kamal Lochan Panigrahi
J. Kluson, Kamal L. Panigrahi
On the Universal Tachyon and Geometrical Tachyon
24 pages, minor changes
JHEP 0706:015,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/015
null
hep-th
null
We study properties of non-BPS D(p+1)-brane in the background of k NS5-branes, with one transverse direction compactified on a circle, from the point of view of Dirac-Born-Infeld action. We present the analysis of two different embedding of non-BPS D(p+1)-brane in given background and study the classical solutions of given world-volume theory. We argue for the configuration of a non-BPS D(p+1)-brane which allows us to find solutions of the equations of motion that give unified descriptions of G and U-type branes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:20:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 4 Jun 2007 06:55:49 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kluson", "J.", "" ], [ "Panigrahi", "Kamal L.", "" ] ]
0704.3014
Alessandro Silva
Avraham Schiller, Alessandro Silva
Adiabatic pumping through a quantum dot in the Kondo regime: Exact results at the Toulouse limit
14 pages, 3 figures, revised version
Phys. Rev. B 77, 045330 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.045330
null
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
null
Transport properties of ultrasmall quantum dots with a single unpaired electron are commonly modeled by the nonequilibrium Kondo model, describing the exchange interaction of a spin-1/2 local moment with two leads of noninteracting electrons. Remarkably, the model possesses an exact solution when tuned to a special manifold in its parameter space known as the Toulouse limit. We use the Toulouse limit to exactly calculate the adiabatically pumped spin current in the Kondo regime. In the absence of both potential scattering and a voltage bias, the instantaneous charge current is strictly zero for a generic Kondo model. However, a nonzero spin current can be pumped through the system in the presence of a finite magnetic field, provided the spin couples asymmetrically to the two leads. Tunneling through a Kondo impurity thus offers a natural mechanism for generating a pure spin current. We show, in particular, that one can devise pumping cycles along which the average spin pumped per cycle is closely equal to $\hbar$. By analogy with Brouwer's formula for noninteracting systems with two driven parameters, the pumped spin current is expressed as a geometrical property of a scattering matrix. However, the relevant %Alex: I replaced topological with geometrical in the sentence above scattering matrix that enters the formulation pertains to the Majorana fermions that appear at the Toulouse limit rather than the physical electrons that carry the current. These results are obtained by combining the nonequilibrium Keldysh Green function technique with a systematic gradient expansion, explicitly exposing the small parameter controlling the adiabatic limit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:21:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:22:14 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Schiller", "Avraham", "" ], [ "Silva", "Alessandro", "" ] ]
0704.3015
Lionel Bureau
Lionel Bureau (INSP)
A surface force apparatus for nanorheology under large shear strain
null
Review of Scientific Instruments 78 (2007) 065110
10.1063/1.2748362
null
cond-mat.soft
null
We describe a surface force apparatus designed to probe the rheology of a nanoconfined medium under large shear amplitudes (up to 500 $\mu$m). The instrument can be operated in closed-loop, controlling either the applied normal load or the thickness of the medium during shear experiments. Feedback control allows to greatly extend the range of confinement/shear strain attainable with the surface force apparatus. The performances of the instrument are illustrated using hexadecane as the confined medium.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:23:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:13:23 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Bureau", "Lionel", "", "INSP" ] ]
0704.3016
Kevin Kr\"oninger
I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kr\"oninger, J. Liu, X. Liu, B. Majorovits
Pulse shapes from electron and photon induced events in segmented high-purity germanium detectors
18 pages, 7 figures, to be submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A
Eur.Phys.J.C52:19-27,2007
10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0390-8
MPP-2007-47
nucl-ex
null
Experiments built to search for neutrinoless double beta-decay are limited in their sensitivity not only by the exposure but also by the amount of background encountered. Radioactive isotopes in the surrounding of the detectors which emit gamma-radiation are expected to be a significant source of background in the GERmanium Detector Array, GERDA. Methods to select electron induced events and discriminate against photon induced events inside a germanium detector are presented in this paper. The methods are based on the analysis of the time structure of the detector response. Data were taken with a segmented GERDA prototype detector. It is shown that the analysis of the time response of the detector can be used to distinguish multiply scattered photons from electrons.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:23:53 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Abt", "I.", "" ], [ "Caldwell", "A.", "" ], [ "Kröninger", "K.", "" ], [ "Liu", "J.", "" ], [ "Liu", "X.", "" ], [ "Majorovits", "B.", "" ] ]
0704.3017
Thomas Schaepers
I. E. Batov, Th. Schapers, N. M. Chtchelkatchev, H. Hardtdegen, and A. V. Ustinov
Andreev reflection and strongly enhanced magnetoresistance oscillations in GaInAs/InP heterostructures with superconducting contacts
5 pages, 5 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.115313
null
cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We study the magnetotransport in small hybrid junctions formed by high-mobility GaInAs/InP heterostructures coupled to superconducting (S) and normal metal (N) terminals. Highly transmissive superconducting contacts to a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) located in a GaInAs/InP heterostructure are realized by using a Au/NbN layer system. The magnetoresistance of the S/2DEG/N structures is studied as a function of dc bias current and temperature. At bias currents below a critical value, the resistance of the S/2DEG/N structures develops a strong oscillatory dependence on the magnetic field, with an amplitude of the oscillations considerably larger than that of the reference N/2DEG/N structures. The experimental results are qualitatively explained by taking Andreev reflection in high magnetic fields into account.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:25:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:39:53 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:25:41 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Batov", "I. E.", "" ], [ "Schapers", "Th.", "" ], [ "Chtchelkatchev", "N. M.", "" ], [ "Hardtdegen", "H.", "" ], [ "Ustinov", "A. V.", "" ] ]
0704.3018
Bing Wang
Bing Wang
On the Conditions to Extend Ricci Flow
null
null
null
null
math.DG
null
Along a Ricci flow solution on a closed manifold, we show that if Ricci curvature is uniformly bounded from below, then a scalar curvature integral bound is enough to extend flow. Moreover, this integral bound condition is optimal in some sense.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:52:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:28:14 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Wang", "Bing", "" ] ]
0704.3019
Oliver Henkel
Oliver Henkel
Arbitrary Rate Permutation Modulation for the Gaussian Channel
to appear in the Proceedings of the International Symposium of Information Theory (ISIT 2007)
null
null
null
cs.IT math.IT
null
In this paper non-group permutation modulated sequences for the Gaussian channel are considered. Without the restriction to group codes rather than subsets of group codes, arbitrary rates are achievable. The code construction utilizes the known optimal group constellations to ensure at least the same performance but exploit the Gray code ordering structure of multiset permutations as a selection criterion at the decoder. The decoder achieves near maximum likelihood performance at low computational cost and low additional memory requirements at the receiver.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:31:17 GMT" } ]
2007-07-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Henkel", "Oliver", "" ] ]
0704.3020
Alessandra Faggionato
A. Faggionato
Random walks and exclusion processes among random conductances on random infinite clusters: homogenization and hydrodynamic limit
24 pages. extensions and corrections. new title
null
null
null
math.PR math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a stationary and ergodic random field {\omega(b)} parameterized by the family of bonds b in Z^d, d>1. The random variable \omega(b) is thought of as the conductance of bond b and it ranges in a finite interval [0,c_0]. Assuming that the set of bonds with positive conductance has a unique infinite cluster C, we prove homogenization results for the random walk among random conductances on C. As a byproduct, applying the general criterion of \cite{F} leading to the hydrodynamic limit of exclusion processes with bond-dependent transition rates, for almost all realizations of the environment we prove the hydrodynamic limit of simple exclusion processes among random conductances on C. The hydrodynamic equation is given by a heat equation whose diffusion matrix does not depend on the environment. We do not require any ellipticity condition. As special case, C can be the infinite cluster of supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:51:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 07:38:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:04:51 GMT" } ]
2008-09-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Faggionato", "A.", "" ] ]
0704.3021
Gerrit Verschuur Ph.D.
Gerrit L. Verschuur
On the Critical Ionization Velocity Effect in Interstellar Space and Possible Detection of Related Continuum Emission
To be published in IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. Aug 2007
null
10.1109/TPS.2007.898037
null
astro-ph
null
Interstellar neutral hydrogen (HI) emission spectra manifest several families of linewidths whose numerical values (34, 13 & 6 km/s) appear to be related to the critical ionization velocities (CIVs) of the most abundant interstellar atomic species. Extended new analysis of HI emission profiles shows that the 34 km/s wide component, probably corresponding to the CIV for helium, is pervasive. The 34 km/s wide linewidth family is found in low-velocity (local) neutral hydrogen (HI) profiles as well as in the so-called high-velocity clouds. In addition, published studies of HI linewidths found in the Magellanic Stream, Very-High-Velocity Clouds, and Compact High-Velocity Clouds, all of which are believed to be intergalactic, have noted that typical values are of the same order. If the critical ionization velocity effect does play a role in interstellar space it may be expected to produce locally enhanced electron densities where rapidly moving neutral gas masses interact with surrounding plasma. Evidence is presented that suggests that this phenomenon is occurring in interstellar space. It manifests as a spatial association between peaks in HI structure offset with respect to peaks in high-frequency radio continuum data obtained with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:59:46 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Verschuur", "Gerrit L.", "" ] ]
0704.3022
Mark Pankov
Mark Pankov
Order preserving transformations of the Hilbert grassmannian: complex case
null
null
null
null
math.FA math.OA
null
Let $H$ be a separable complex Hilbert space. Denote by ${\mathcal G}_{\infty}(H)$ the Grassmannian consisting of closed linear subspaces with infinite dimension and codimension. This Grassmannian is partially ordered by the inclusion relation. We show that every continuous order preserving bijective transformation of ${\mathcal G}_{\infty}(H)$ is induced by an invertible bounded semi-linear operator.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:03:44 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Pankov", "Mark", "" ] ]
0704.3023
Marc Wagner
Marc Wagner
Fermions in the pseudoparticle approach
11 pages, 10 figures
Phys.Rev.D76:076002,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.076002
null
hep-lat hep-ph physics.comp-ph
null
The pseudoparticle approach is a numerical technique to compute path integrals without discretizing spacetime. The basic idea is to integrate over those field configurations, which can be represented by a sum of a fixed number of localized building blocks (pseudoparticles). In a couple of previous papers we have successfully applied the pseudoparticle approach to pure SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. In this work we discuss how to incorporate fermionic fields in the pseudoparticle approach. To test our method, we compute the phase diagram of the 1+1-dimensional Gross-Neveu model in the large-N limit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:03:48 GMT" } ]
2007-10-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Wagner", "Marc", "" ] ]
0704.3024
David Ehrenreich
David Ehrenreich (IAP), Arnaud Cassan (ARI)
Are extrasolar oceans common throughout the Galaxy?
Accepted in Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes)
null
10.1002/asna.200710798
null
astro-ph
null
Light and cold extrasolar planets such as OGLE 2005-BLG-390Lb, a 5.5 Earth-mass planet detected via microlensing, could be frequent in the Galaxy according to some preliminary results from microlensing experiments. These planets can be frozen rocky- or ocean-planets, situated beyond the snow line and, therefore, beyond the habitable zone of their system. They can nonetheless host a layer of liquid water, heated by radiogenic energy, underneath an ice shell surface for billions of years, before freezing completely. These results suggest that oceans under ice, like those suspected to be present on icy moons in the Solar system, could be a common feature of cold low-mass extrasolar planets.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:19:39 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ehrenreich", "David", "", "IAP" ], [ "Cassan", "Arnaud", "", "ARI" ] ]
0704.3025
Shintaro Ishiwata
S. Ishiwata, I. Terasaki, F. Ishii, N. Nagaosa, H. Mukuda, Y. Kitaoka, T. Saito, and M. Takano
Two-Staged Magnetoresistance Driven by Ising-like Spin Sublattice in SrCo6O11
14 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.217201
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
A two-staged, uniaxial magnetoresistive effect has been discovered in SrCo6O11 having a layered hexagonal structure. Conduction electrons and localized Ising spins are in different sublattices but their interpenetration makes the conduction electrons sensitively pick up the stepwise field-dependence of magnetization. The stepwise field-dependence suggests two competitive interlayer interactions between ferromagnetic Ising-spin layers, i.e., a ferromagnetic nearest-layer interaction and an antiferromagnetic next-nearest-layer interaction. This oxide offers a unique opportunity to study nontrivial interplay between conduction electrons and Ising spins, the coupling of which can be finely controlled by a magnetic field of a few Tesla.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:16:54 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:03:36 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ishiwata", "S.", "" ], [ "Terasaki", "I.", "" ], [ "Ishii", "F.", "" ], [ "Nagaosa", "N.", "" ], [ "Mukuda", "H.", "" ], [ "Kitaoka", "Y.", "" ], [ "Saito", "T.", "" ], [ "Takano", "M.", "" ] ]
0704.3026
Kristen McQuinn
K. B. W. McQuinn, Charles E. Woodward, S. P. Willner, E. F. Polomski, R. D. Gehrz, Roberta M. Humphreys, Jacco Th. van Loon, M. L. N. Ashby, K. Eicher, and G. G. Fazio
The M33 Variable Star Population Revealed by Spitzer
Accepted for publication in ApJ. See published article for full resolution figures and electronic tables
Astrophys.J.664:850-861,2007
10.1086/519068
null
astro-ph
null
We analyze five epochs of Spitzer Space Telescope/Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) observations of the nearby spiral galaxy M33. Each epoch covered nearly a square degree at 3.6, 4.5, and 8.0 microns. The point source catalog from the full dataset contains 37,650 stars. The stars have luminosities characteristic of the asymptotic giant branch and can be separated into oxygen-rich and carbon-rich populations by their [3.6] - [4.5] colors. The [3.6] - [8.0] colors indicate that over 80% of the stars detected at 8.0 microns have dust shells. Photometric comparison of epochs using conservative criteria yields a catalog of 2,923 variable stars. These variables are most likely long-period variables amidst an evolved stellar population. At least one-third of the identified carbon stars are variable.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:12:33 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "McQuinn", "K. B. W.", "" ], [ "Woodward", "Charles E.", "" ], [ "Willner", "S. P.", "" ], [ "Polomski", "E. F.", "" ], [ "Gehrz", "R. D.", "" ], [ "Humphreys", "Roberta M.", "" ], [ "van Loon", "Jacco Th.", "" ], [ "Ashby", "M. L. N.", "" ], [ "Eicher", "K.", "" ], [ "Fazio", "G. G.", "" ] ]
0704.3027
Daniel Burgarth
Daniel Burgarth and Vittorio Giovannetti
Full control by locally induced relaxation
4 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100501 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.100501
null
quant-ph
null
We demonstrate a scheme for controlling a large quantum system by acting on a small subsystem only. The local control is mediated to the larger system by some fixed coupling Hamiltonian. The scheme allows to transfer arbitrary and unknown quantum states from a memory on the large system (``upload access'') as well as the inverse (``download access''). We study sufficient conditions of the coupling Hamiltonian and give lower bounds on the fidelities for downloading and uploading.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:17:25 GMT" } ]
2007-09-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Burgarth", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Giovannetti", "Vittorio", "" ] ]
0704.3028
Mario Bessa
Mario Bessa and Joao Lopes Dias
Generic dynamics of 4-dimensional C2 Hamiltonian systems
null
Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol 281, n{\deg} 1, 597-619, 2008
10.1007/s00220-008-0500-y
null
math.DS
null
We study the dynamical behaviour of Hamiltonian flows defined on 4-dimensional compact symplectic manifolds. We find the existence of a C2-residual set of Hamiltonians for which every regular energy surface is either Anosov or it is in the closure of energy surfaces with zero Lyapunov exponents a.e. This is in the spirit of the Bochi-Mane dichotomy for area-preserving diffeomorphisms on compact surfaces and its continuous-time version for 3-dimensional volume-preserving flows.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:19:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:25:08 GMT" } ]
2010-10-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Bessa", "Mario", "" ], [ "Dias", "Joao Lopes", "" ] ]
0704.3029
Mikhail Voloshin
M.B. Voloshin
Isospin properties of the X state near the D {\bar D}^{*} threshold
10 pages, 1 figure
Phys.Rev.D76:014007,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.014007
FTPI-MINN-07/14, UMN-TH-2601/07
hep-ph
null
The $D {\bar D}^*$ scattering amplitude and the production of the final states $\pi^+ \pi^- J/\psi$ and $\pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0 J/\psi$ near the $D^0 {\bar D}^{*0}$ threshold are discussed following the recent suggestion that the observed peaks X(3872) and X(3875) in the decays $B \to X K$ are due to a virtual state $X$ in the $D^0 {\bar D}^{*0}$ channel. The strong interaction is treated using the small interaction radius approximation. It is shown that the mass difference between the charged and neutral $D^{(*)}$ mesons results in a distinctive behavior of the relevant isotopic amplitudes. In particular, the shape of the peak in the $\pi^+ \pi^- J/\psi$ channel should be significantly narrower than in the $\pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0 J/\psi$ channel, which property can be used for an experimental test of the virtual state hypothesis.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:51:41 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Voloshin", "M. B.", "" ] ]
0704.3030
James L. Clem
Arlo U. Landolt, Alan K. Uomoto
Optical Multicolor Photometry of Spectrophotometric Standard Stars
76 pages, 48 figures - published version available here: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/journal/issues/v133n3/205588/205588.html . Also see ERRATUM at: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/journal/issues/v133n5/205838/205838.html
Astron.J.133:768-790,2007
10.1086/510485 10.1086/518002
null
astro-ph
null
Photoelectric data on the Johnson-Kron-Cousins UBVRI broadband photometric system are provided for a set of stars which have been used as spectrophotometric standard stars at the Hubble Space Telescope.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:26:43 GMT" } ]
2010-11-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Landolt", "Arlo U.", "" ], [ "Uomoto", "Alan K.", "" ] ]
0704.3031
Simon Radford
Simon J. E. Radford, Riccardo Giovanelli, Thomas A. Sebring, Jonas Zmuidzinas
The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope
18th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
Cornell University, the California Institute for Technology, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are jointly studying the construction of a 25 m diameter telescope for submillimeter astronomy on a high mountain in northern Chile. This Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT) will combine high sensitivity, a wide field of view, and a broad wavelength range to provide an unprecedented capability for deep, large area, multi-color submillimeter surveys to complement narrow field, high resolution studies with ALMA. CCAT observations will address fundamental themes in contemporary astronomy, notably the formation and evolution of galaxies, the nature of the dark matter and dark energy that comprise most of the content of the universe, the formation of stars and planets, the conditions in circumstellar disks, and the conditions during the early history of the Solar system. The candidate CCAT site, at 5600 m in northern Chile, enjoys superb observing conditions. To accommodate large format bolometer cameras, CCAT is designed with a 20 arcmin field of view. CCAT will incorporate closed loop active control of its segmented primary mirror to maintain a half wavefront error of 10 mum rms or less. Instrumentation under consideration includes both short (650 mum-200 mum) and long (2 mm-750 mum) wavelength bolometer cameras, direct detection spectrometers, and heterodyne receiver arrays. The University of Colorado, a Canadian university consortium, and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre on behalf of the UK community are pursuing participation in the CCAT consortium. When complete early in the next decade, CCAT will be the largest and most sensitive facility of its class as well as the highest altitude astronomical facility on Earth.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:48:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:40:02 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Radford", "Simon J. E.", "" ], [ "Giovanelli", "Riccardo", "" ], [ "Sebring", "Thomas A.", "" ], [ "Zmuidzinas", "Jonas", "" ] ]
0704.3032
Zolt\'an Nagy
Nenad Manojlovic and Zoltan Nagy
Algebraic Bethe ansatz for the elliptic quantum group $E_{\tau,\eta}(A_2^{(2)})$
15 pages; v2: minor corrections. A reference is added, a more precise abstract is written, a section title is changed and typos are corrected
Journal of Mathematical Physics 48, 123515 (2007)
10.1063/1.2823974
null
math.QA math-ph math.MP nlin.SI
null
We implement the Bethe anstaz method for the elliptic quantum group $E_{\tau,\eta}(A_2^{(2)})$. The Bethe creation operators are constructed as polynomials of the Lax matrix elements expressed through a recurrence relation. We also give the eigenvalues of the family of commuting transfer matrices defined in the tensor product of fundamental representations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:51:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:28:01 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Manojlovic", "Nenad", "" ], [ "Nagy", "Zoltan", "" ] ]
0704.3033
Satoshi Miyashita
Satoshi Miyashita and Kenji Yonemitsu
Charge ordering in \theta-(BEDT-TTF)2RbZn(SCN)4: Cooperative effects of electron correlations and lattice distortions
7 peges, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.245112
null
cond-mat.str-el
null
Combined effects of electron correlations and lattice distortions are investigated on the charge ordering in \theta-(BEDT-TTF)2RbZn(SCN)4 theoretically in a two-dimensional 3/4-filled extended Hubbard model with electron-lattice couplings. It is known that this material undergoes a phase transition from a high-symmetry metallic state to a low-symmetry insulating state with a horizontal-stripe charge order (CO) by lowering temperature. By means of the exact-diagonalization method, we show that electron-phonon interactions are crucial to stabilize the horizontal-stripe CO and to realize the low-symmetry crystal structure.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:45:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:11:09 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Miyashita", "Satoshi", "" ], [ "Yonemitsu", "Kenji", "" ] ]
0704.3034
James L. Clem
Arlo U. Landolt
UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars Around the Sky at -50 Degrees Declination
80 pages, 57 figures - published version available here: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/journal/issues/v133n6/205795/205795.html
Astron.J.133:2502-2523,2007
10.1086/518000
null
astro-ph
null
UBVRI photoelectric observations have been made of 109 stars around the sky, centered more or less at -50 degrees declination. The majority of the stars fall in the magnitude range 10.4 < V < 15.5 and in the color index range -0.33 < (B - V) < +1.66. These new broadband photometric standard stars average 16.4 measurements each from data taken on 116 different nights over a period of 4 yr. Similar data are tabulated for 19 stars of interest that were not observed often enough to make them well-defined standard stars.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:50:15 GMT" } ]
2010-11-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Landolt", "Arlo U.", "" ] ]
0704.3035
Ender Tekin
Ender Tekin, Aylin Yener
Achievable Rates for Two-Way Wire-Tap Channels
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2007, June 24-29
null
null
null
cs.IT cs.CR math.IT
null
We consider two-way wire-tap channels, where two users are communicating with each other in the presence of an eavesdropper, who has access to the communications through a multiple-access channel. We find achievable rates for two different scenarios, the Gaussian two-way wire-tap channel, (GTW-WT), and the binary additive two-way wire-tap channel, (BATW-WT). It is shown that the two-way channels inherently provide a unique advantage for wire-tapped scenarios, as the users know their own transmitted signals and in effect help encrypt the other user's messages, similar to a one-time pad. We compare the achievable rates to that of the Gaussian multiple-access wire-tap channel (GMAC-WT) to illustrate this advantage.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:26:59 GMT" } ]
2007-07-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Tekin", "Ender", "" ], [ "Yener", "Aylin", "" ] ]
0704.3036
Stefaan Caenepeel
D. Bulacu, S. Caenepeel, B. Torrecillas
Involutory quasi-Hopf algebras
26 pages
null
null
null
math.QA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce and investigate the basic properties of an involutory (dual) quasi-Hopf algebra. We also study the representations of an involutory quasi-Hopf algebra and prove that an involutory dual quasi-Hopf algebra with non-zero integral is cosemisimple.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:51:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:52:26 GMT" } ]
2008-12-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Bulacu", "D.", "" ], [ "Caenepeel", "S.", "" ], [ "Torrecillas", "B.", "" ] ]
0704.3037
Cristobal Lopez
Stefano Berti, Cristobal Lopez, Davide Vergni and Angelo Vulpiani
Discreteness effects in a reacting system of particles with finite interaction radius
23 pages, 13 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031139
null
cond-mat.stat-mech
null
An autocatalytic reacting system with particles interacting at a finite distance is studied. We investigate the effects of the discrete-particle character of the model on properties like reaction rate, quenching phenomenon and front propagation, focusing on differences with respect to the continuous case. We introduce a renormalized reaction rate depending both on the interaction radius and the particle density, and we relate it to macroscopic observables (e.g., front speed and front thickness) of the system.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:52:15 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Berti", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Lopez", "Cristobal", "" ], [ "Vergni", "Davide", "" ], [ "Vulpiani", "Angelo", "" ] ]
0704.3038
Claudia Wigger
C. Wigger, W. Hajdas, A. Zehnder, K. Hurley, E. Bellm, S. Boggs, M. Bandstra, D.M. Smith
Spectral Analysis of GRBs Measured by RHESSI
4 pages, 4 figures, conference proceedings, 'Swift and GRBs: Unveiling the Relativistic Universe', San Servolo, Venice, 5-9 June 2006, to appear in Il Nouvo Cimento
Nuovo Cim.B121:1117-1121,2006
10.1393/ncb/i2007-10072-9
null
astro-ph
null
The Ge spectrometer of the RHESSI satellite is sensitive to Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) from about 40 keV up to 17 MeV, thus ideally complementing the Swift/BAT instrument whose sensitivity decreases above 150 keV. We present preliminary results of spectral fits of RHESSI GRB data. After describing our method, the RHESSI results are discussed and compared with Swift and Konus.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:53:53 GMT" } ]
2010-11-11T00:00:00
[ [ "Wigger", "C.", "" ], [ "Hajdas", "W.", "" ], [ "Zehnder", "A.", "" ], [ "Hurley", "K.", "" ], [ "Bellm", "E.", "" ], [ "Boggs", "S.", "" ], [ "Bandstra", "M.", "" ], [ "Smith", "D. M.", "" ] ]
0704.3039
Alain Corfdir
Alain Corfdir (ENPC-Cermes)
Yield design for porous media subjected to unconfined flow: construction of approximate pressure fields
null
Comptes Rendus M\'ecanique 334, 3 (2006) 183-189
10.116/j.crme.2006.011
null
physics.class-ph
null
We consider the stability of a porous medium submitted to a steady-state flow with free-boundary. Assuming some hypotheses, it is possible to implement the kinematic method by using an approximate pressure field bounding the true pressure field from below. We are interested in finding such approximate pressure fields and in proving that they bound the true pressure field from below without knowing the true pressure field. We use fields which are solutions of a problem with relaxed conditions with regard to the real problem. Under a uniqueness condition of the solution of a weak formulation of the problem, such fields are lower bounds for the true pressure field. Finally, we give the example of a vertical dam.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:01:28 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Corfdir", "Alain", "", "ENPC-Cermes" ] ]
0704.3040
Ari Pakman
Ari Pakman and Amit Sever
Exact N=4 correlators of AdS(3)/CFT(2)
3 pages. v2:minor changes
Phys.Lett.B652:60-62,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.041
YITP-SB-07-15, BRX-TH-587
hep-th
null
We extend to chiral N=4 operators the holographic agreement recently found between correlators of the symmetric orbifold of M^4 at large N and type IIB strings propagating in AdS(3) x S^3 x M^4, where M^4=T^4 or K3. We also present expressions for some bulk correlators not yet computed in the boundary.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:24:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:50:29 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Pakman", "Ari", "" ], [ "Sever", "Amit", "" ] ]
0704.3041
Natalia Tristan
E.A. Popova, D.V. Volkov, A.N. Vasiliev, A.A. Demidov, N.P. Kolmakova, I.A. Gudim, L.N. Bezmaternykh, N. Tristan, Yu. Skourski, B. B\"uchner, C. Hess, R. Klingeler
Magnetization and specific heat of TbFe3(BO3)4: Experiment and crystal field calculations
10 pages, 10 figures, 20 references, accepted by Phys. Rev. B
null
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.224413
null
cond-mat.other
null
We have studied the thermodynamic properties of single-crystalline TbFe3(BO3)4. Magnetization measurements have been carried out as a function of magnetic field (up to 50 T) and temperature up to 350K with the magnetic field both parallel and perpendicular to the trigonal c-axis of the crystal. The specific heat has been measured in the temperature range 2-300K with a magnetic field up to 9 T applied parallel to the c-axis. The data indicate a structural phase transition at 192 K and antiferromagnetic spin ordering at 40 K. A Schottky anomaly is present in the specific heat data around 20 K, arising due to two low-lying energy levels of the Tb3+ ions being split by f-d coupling. Below TN magnetic fields parallel to the c-axis drive a spin-flop phase transition, which is associated with a large magnetization jump. The highly anisotropic character of the magnetic susceptibility is ascribed mainly to the Ising-like behavior of the Tb3+ ions in the trigonal crystal field. We describe our results in the framework of an unified approach which is based on mean-field approximation and crystal-field calculations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:05:27 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Popova", "E. A.", "" ], [ "Volkov", "D. V.", "" ], [ "Vasiliev", "A. N.", "" ], [ "Demidov", "A. A.", "" ], [ "Kolmakova", "N. P.", "" ], [ "Gudim", "I. A.", "" ], [ "Bezmaternykh", "L. N.", "" ], [ "Tristan", "N.", "" ], [ "Skourski", "Yu.", "" ], [ "Büchner", "B.", "" ], [ "Hess", "C.", "" ], [ "Klingeler", "R.", "" ] ]
0704.3042
Yeongduk Kim
W.G. Kang, Y.D. Kim, J.I. Lee, I.S. Hahn, A.R. Kim, H.J. Kim
Measurement on the thermal neutron capture cross section of w-180
10 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev.C76:067602,2007
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.067602
null
nucl-ex
null
We have measured the thermal neutron capture cross section for w-180 nucleus. There is only one previous data on this cross section with a value of 30 $^{+300%}_{-100%}$ barn. To consider w-181 as a low energy neutrino source, the thermal neutron capture cross section should be measured more precisely to estimate the production rate of w-181 inside a nuclear reactor. We measured the cross section of w-180 with a natural tungsten foil and obtained a new value of 21.9 $\pm$ 2.5 barn
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:14:50 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:40:35 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Kang", "W. G.", "" ], [ "Kim", "Y. D.", "" ], [ "Lee", "J. I.", "" ], [ "Hahn", "I. S.", "" ], [ "Kim", "A. R.", "" ], [ "Kim", "H. J.", "" ] ]
0704.3043
Jailson Alcaniz
F.C. Carvalho (on), J.S. Alcaniz (on), J.A.S. Lima (USP), R. Silva (UERN)
CMB and LSS constraints on a single-field model of inflation
5 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX
Europhys.Lett.83:29001,2008
10.1209/0295-5075/83/29001
null
astro-ph gr-qc hep-th
null
A new inflationary scenario whose exponential potential $V(\Phi)$ has a quadratic dependence on the field $\Phi$ in addition to the standard linear term is confronted with the tree-year observations of the Wilkinson-Microwave Anisotropy Probe and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. The number of e-folds ($N$), the ratio of tensor-to-scalar perturbations ($r$), the spectral scalar index of the primordial power spectrum ($n_s$) and its running ($dn_s/d\ln k$) depend on the dimensionless parameter $\alpha$ multiplying the quadratic term in the potential. In the limit $\alpha \to 0$ all the results of the standard exponential potential are fully recovered. For values of $\alpha \neq 0$, we find that the model predictions are in good agreement with the current observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies and Large-Scale Structure (LSS) in the Universe.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:15:21 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Carvalho", "F. C.", "", "on" ], [ "Alcaniz", "J. S.", "", "on" ], [ "Lima", "J. A. S.", "", "USP" ], [ "Silva", "R.", "", "UERN" ] ]
0704.3044
Pasquale Dario Serpico
Alessandro Mirizzi, Georg G. Raffelt, and Pasquale D. Serpico
Signatures of axion-like particles in the spectra of TeV gamma-ray sources
8 pages, 1 eps figure; typos corrected, matches published version
Phys.Rev.D76:023001,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.023001
FERMILAB-PUB-07-082-A, MPP-2007-44
astro-ph hep-ph
null
One interpretation of the unexplained signature observed in the PVLAS experiment invokes a new axion-like particle (ALP) with a two-photon vertex, allowing for photon-ALP oscillations in the presence of magnetic fields. In the range of masses and couplings suggested by PVLAS, the same effect would lead to a peculiar dimming of high-energy photon sources. For typical parameters of the turbulent magnetic field in the galaxy, the effect sets in at E_gamma >~ 10 TeV, providing an ALP signature in the spectra of TeV gamma sources that can be probed with Cherenkov telescopes. A dedicated search will be strongly motivated if the ongoing photon regeneration experiments confirm the PVLAS particle interpretation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:16:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:32:04 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Mirizzi", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Raffelt", "Georg G.", "" ], [ "Serpico", "Pasquale D.", "" ] ]
0704.3045
Igor Strakovsky
Ya. Azimov (PNPI), K. Goeke (Ruhr-Universitaet), I. Strakovsky (GWU)
A possible explanation why the Theta+ is seen in some experiments and not in others
18 pages. Some changes in the text; experimental suggestions collected in a special subsection, references added and refreshed
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.074013
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex nucl-th
null
To understand the whole set of positive and null data on the Theta+(1530)-production, we suggest the hypothesis that multiquark hadrons are mainly generated from many-quark states, which emerge either as short-term hadron fluctuations, or as hadron remnants in hard processes. This approach allows us to describe both non-observation of the Theta+ in current null experiments and peculiar features of its production in positive experiments. Further, we are able to propose new experiments that might be decisive for the problem of the Theta+ existence. Distributions of the Theta+ in such experiments can give important information both on higher Fock components of conventional hadrons and about structure and hadronization properties of hadron remnants produced in hard processes. We also explain that description of multiquark hadrons may require a modified form of the constituent quark model, with quark masses and couplings being intermediate between their values for the familiar constituent quarks and the current ones.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:27:42 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:25:34 GMT" } ]
2013-05-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Azimov", "Ya.", "", "PNPI" ], [ "Goeke", "K.", "", "Ruhr-Universitaet" ], [ "Strakovsky", "I.", "", "GWU" ] ]
0704.3046
Artemio Gonzalez-Lopez
A. Enciso, F. Finkel, A. Gonzalez-Lopez, M.A. Rodriguez
A novel quasi-exactly solvable spin chain with nearest-neighbors interactions
38 pages, 8 figures
Nucl.Phys.B789:452-482,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.07.001
null
hep-th cond-mat.other math-ph math.MP
null
In this paper we study a novel spin chain with nearest-neighbors interactions depending on the sites coordinates, which in some sense is intermediate between the Heisenberg chain and the spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type. We show that when the number of spins is sufficiently large both the density of sites and the strength of the interaction between consecutive spins follow the Gaussian law. We develop an extension of the standard freezing trick argument that enables us to exactly compute a certain number of eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenfunctions. The eigenvalues thus computed are all integers, and in fact our numerical studies evidence that these are the only integer eigenvalues of the chain under consideration. This fact suggests that this chain can be regarded as a finite-dimensional analog of the class of quasi-exactly solvable Schroedinger operators, which has been extensively studied in the last two decades. We have applied the method of moments to study some statistical properties of the chain's spectrum, showing in particular that the density of eigenvalues follows a Wigner-like law. Finally, we emphasize that, unlike the original freezing trick, the extension thereof developed in this paper can be applied to spin chains whose associated dynamical spin model is only quasi-exactly solvable.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:37:14 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Enciso", "A.", "" ], [ "Finkel", "F.", "" ], [ "Gonzalez-Lopez", "A.", "" ], [ "Rodriguez", "M. A.", "" ] ]
0704.3047
Aurelien Perrin
A. Perrin (LCFIO), H. Chang (LCFIO), V. Krachmalnicoff (LCFIO), M. Schellekens (LCFIO), D. Boiron (LCFIO), A. Aspect (LCFIO), C. I. Westbrook (LCFIO)
Observation of atom pairs in spontaneous four wave mixing of two colliding Bose-Einstein Condensates
A few typos have been corrected
Physical Review Letters 99, 15 (2007) 150405
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.150405
null
quant-ph cond-mat.other
null
We study atom scattering from two colliding Bose-Einstein condensates using a position sensitive, time resolved, single atom detector. In analogy to quantum optics, the process can also be thought of as spontaneous, degenerate four wave mixing of de Broglie waves. We find a clear correlation between atoms with opposite momenta, demonstrating pair production in the scattering process. We also observe a Hanbury Brown and Twiss correlation for collinear momenta, which permits an independent measurement of the size of the pair production source and thus the size of the spatial mode. The back to back pairs occupy very nearly two oppositely directed spatial modes, a promising feature for future quantum optics experiments.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:31:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:56:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:28:37 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Mon, 12 May 2008 19:39:59 GMT" } ]
2008-05-12T00:00:00
[ [ "Perrin", "A.", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Chang", "H.", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Krachmalnicoff", "V.", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Schellekens", "M.", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Boiron", "D.", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Aspect", "A.", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Westbrook", "C. I.", "", "LCFIO" ] ]
0704.3048
V. Nefer \c{S}eno\u{g}uz
V. Nefer Senoguz
Non-thermal leptogenesis with strongly hierarchical right handed neutrinos
7 pages, 5 figures. v2: added some comments and references, v3: minor corrections and additions, v4: a typo corrected, published version
Phys.Rev.D76:013005,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.013005
null
hep-ph
null
Assuming the Dirac-type neutrino masses m_D are related to quark or charged lepton masses, neutrino oscillation data indicate that right handed neutrino masses are in general strongly hierarchical. In particular, if m_D is similar to the up-type quark masses, the mass of the lightest right handed neutrino M_1<~10^6 GeV. We show that non-thermal leptogenesis by inflaton decay can yield sufficient baryon asymmetry despite this constraint, and discuss how the asymmetry is correlated with the low energy neutrino masses and CP-violating phases.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:47:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:33:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:44:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:57:31 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Senoguz", "V. Nefer", "" ] ]
0704.3049
Ryan Gutenkunst
Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Fergal P. Casey, Joshua J. Waterfall, Christopher R. Myers, James P. Sethna
Extracting falsifiable predictions from sloppy models
4 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences for publication in "Reverse Engineering Biological Networks: Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Methods for Pathway Inference"
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1115:203-211 (2007)
10.1196/annals.1407.003
null
q-bio.QM
null
Successful predictions are among the most compelling validations of any model. Extracting falsifiable predictions from nonlinear multiparameter models is complicated by the fact that such models are commonly sloppy, possessing sensitivities to different parameter combinations that range over many decades. Here we discuss how sloppiness affects the sorts of data that best constrain model predictions, makes linear uncertainty approximations dangerous, and introduces computational difficulties in Monte-Carlo uncertainty analysis. We also present a useful test problem and suggest refinements to the standards by which models are communicated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:00:09 GMT" } ]
2007-11-24T00:00:00
[ [ "Gutenkunst", "Ryan N.", "" ], [ "Casey", "Fergal P.", "" ], [ "Waterfall", "Joshua J.", "" ], [ "Myers", "Christopher R.", "" ], [ "Sethna", "James P.", "" ] ]
0704.3050
M. B. N. Kouwenhoven
M.B.N. Kouwenhoven (1,2,3), M. Bureau (4), S. Kim (5), P.T. de Zeeuw (2) ((1) University of Sheffield (2) Leiden University (3) University of Amsterdam (4) University of Oxford (5) Sejong University)
Optical BVI Imaging and HI Synthesis Observations of the Dwarf Irregular Galaxy ESO 364-G 029
10 pages, 11 figures, accepted by A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20077531
null
astro-ph
null
As part of an effort to enlarge the number of well-studied Magellanic-type galaxies, we obtained broadband optical imaging and neutral hydrogen radio synthesis observations of the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 364-G 029. The optical morphology characteristically shows a bar-like main body with a one-sided spiral arm, an approximately exponential light distribution, and offset photometric and kinematic centers. The HI distribution is mildly asymmetric and, although slightly offset from the photometric center, roughly follows the optical brightness distribution, extending to over 1.2 Holmberg radii (where mu_B = 26.5 mag/arcsec^2). In particular, the highest HI column densities closely follow the bar, one-arm spiral, and a third optical extension. The rotation is solid-body in the inner parts but flattens outside of the optical extent. The total HI flux F_HI = 23.1 pm 1.2 Jy km/s, yielding a total HI mass M_HI= (6.4 pm 1.7) x 10^8 Msun (for a distance D = 10.8 pm 1.4 Mpc) and a total HI mass-to-blue-luminosity ratio M_HI/L_B = (0.96 pm 0.14) Msun / Lsun,B (distance independent). The HI data suggest a very complex small-scale HI structure, with evidence of large shells and/or holes, but deeper observations are required for a detailed study. Follow-up observations are also desirable for a proper comparison with the Large Magellanic Cloud, where despite an optical morphology very similar to ESO 364-G 029 the HI bears little resemblance to the optical.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:36:57 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kouwenhoven", "M. B. N.", "" ], [ "Bureau", "M.", "" ], [ "Kim", "S.", "" ], [ "de Zeeuw", "P. T.", "" ] ]
0704.3051
Stephane Toulin
Jalil Ouazzani (ICMCB), Yves Garrabos (ICMCB)
A new numerical algorithm for Low Mach number supercritical fluids
null
null
null
null
physics.class-ph
null
A new algorithm has been developed to compute low Mach Numbers supercritical fluid flows. The algorithm is applied using a finite volume method based on the SIMPLER algorithm. Its main advantages are to decrease significantly the CPU time, and the possibility for supercritical fluid flow modelisation to use other discretisation methods (such as spectral methods and/or finite differences) and other algorithms such as PISO or projection. It makes it possible to solve 3D problems within reasonable CPU time even when considering complex equations of state. The algorithm is given after first a brief description of the previously existing algorithm to solve for supercritical fluids. The side and bottom heated near critical carbon dioxide filled cavity problems are respectively solved and compared to the previously obtained results.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:14:40 GMT" } ]
2007-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Ouazzani", "Jalil", "", "ICMCB" ], [ "Garrabos", "Yves", "", "ICMCB" ] ]
0704.3052
Kerry Soileau
Kerry M. Soileau
Representation Of Level Paths Of An Analytic Function
null
null
null
null
math.GM
null
We find an arc-parameterization of the contour on which an given analytic function has constant modulus. This contour is seen to satisfy a differential equation which we explicitly give.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:15:07 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:52:34 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Soileau", "Kerry M.", "" ] ]
0704.3053
Braito Valentina
R. M. Sambruna (1), J. N. Reeves (1, 2), V. Braito (1,3) ((1) NASA GSFC, (2) Astrophysics Group, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, Keele University, (3) JHU)
The remarkable X-ray spectrum of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy 3C 445
32 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Astrophys.J.665:1030-1037,2007
10.1086/519306
null
astro-ph
null
We present the results of the analysis of an archival 15 ks XMM-Newton observation of the nearby (z=0.057) radio-loud source 3C445, optically classified as a Broad-Line Radio Galaxy. While the RGS data are of insufficient quality to allow a meaningful analysis, the EPIC data show a remarkable X-ray spectrum. The 2-10 keV continuum is described by a heavily absorbed (Nh~ 1e22 - 1e23 cm-2) power law with photon index Gamma ~1.4, and strong (R~2) cold reflection. A narrow, unresolved Fe Kalpha emission line is detected, confirming previous findings, with EW 120eV. A soft excess is present below 2 keV over the extrapolation of the hard X-ray power law, which we model with a power law with the same photon index as the hard power law, absorbed by a column density Nh=6e20 cm-2 in excess to Galactic. A host of emission lines are present below 2 keV, confirming previous indications from ASCA, due to H- and He-like O, Mg, and Si. We attribute the origin of the lines to a photoionized gas, with properties very similar to radio-quiet obscured AGN. Two different ionized media, or a single stratified medium, are required to fit the soft X-ray data satisfactorily. The similarity of the X-ray spectrum of 3C445 to Seyferts underscores that the central engines of radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN similarly host both cold and warm gas.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:17:56 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Sambruna", "R. M.", "" ], [ "Reeves", "J. N.", "" ], [ "Braito", "V.", "" ] ]
0704.3054
Peter Parker
Peter A. Parker, Patrick Mitran, Daniel W. Bliss, and Vahid Tarokh
On bounds and algorithms for frequency synchronization for collaborative communication systems
Submitted to IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing
null
10.1109/TSP.2008.924799
null
stat.AP math.ST stat.TH
null
Cooperative diversity systems are wireless communication systems designed to exploit cooperation among users to mitigate the effects of multipath fading. In fairly general conditions, it has been shown that these systems can achieve the diversity order of an equivalent MISO channel and, if the node geometry permits, virtually the same outage probability can be achieved as that of the equivalent MISO channel for a wide range of applicable SNR. However, much of the prior analysis has been performed under the assumption of perfect timing and frequency offset synchronization. In this paper, we derive the estimation bounds and associated maximum likelihood estimators for frequency offset estimation in a cooperative communication system. We show the benefit of adaptively tuning the frequency of the relay node in order to reduce estimation error at the destination. We also derive an efficient estimation algorithm, based on the correlation sequence of the data, which has mean squared error close to the Cramer-Rao Bound.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:08:46 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Parker", "Peter A.", "" ], [ "Mitran", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Bliss", "Daniel W.", "" ], [ "Tarokh", "Vahid", "" ] ]
0704.3055
Maurice Kleman
Maurice Kleman, Jacques Friedel
Disclinations, dislocations and continuous defects: a reappraisal
72 pages, 36 figures
Rev. Mod. Phys. January-March 2008, 80, 61-115
10.1103/RevModPhys.80.61
null
cond-mat.soft
null
Disclinations, first observed in mesomorphic phases, are relevant to a number of ill-ordered condensed matter media, with continuous symmetries or frustrated order. They also appear in polycrystals at the edges of grain boundaries. They are of limited interest in solid single crystals, where, owing to their large elastic stresses, they mostly appear in close pairs of opposite signs. The relaxation mechanisms associated with a disclination in its creation, motion, change of shape, involve an interplay with continuous or quantized dislocations and/or continuous disclinations. These are attached to the disclinations or are akin to Nye's dislocation densities, well suited here. The notion of 'extended Volterra process' takes these relaxation processes into account and covers different situations where this interplay takes place. These concepts are illustrated by applications in amorphous solids, mesomorphic phases and frustrated media in their curved habit space. The powerful topological theory of line defects only considers defects stable against relaxation processes compatible with the structure considered. It can be seen as a simplified case of the approach considered here, well suited for media of high plasticity or/and complex structures. Topological stability cannot guarantee energetic stability and sometimes cannot distinguish finer details of structure of defects.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:30:04 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kleman", "Maurice", "" ], [ "Friedel", "Jacques", "" ] ]
0704.3056
Michael Hartmann Mr
Michael J. Hartmann, Fernando G.S.L. Brandao and Martin B. Plenio
Effective spin systems in coupled micro-cavities
5 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 160501 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.160501
null
quant-ph cond-mat.other
null
We show that atoms trapped in micro-cavities that interact via exchange of virtual photons can model an anisotropic Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain in an external magnetic field. All parameters of the effective Hamiltonian can individually be tuned via external lasers. Since the occupation of excited atomic levels and photonic states are strongly suppressed, the effective model is robust against decoherence mechanisms, has a long lifetime and its implementation is feasible with current experimental technology. The model provides a feasible way to create cluster states in these devices.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:31:42 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hartmann", "Michael J.", "" ], [ "Brandao", "Fernando G. S. L.", "" ], [ "Plenio", "Martin B.", "" ] ]
0704.3057
Benjamin Safdi
Benjamin R. Safdi and Harvey Segur
Explosive instability due to 4-wave mixing
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.245004
null
nlin.SI
null
It is known that an explosive instability can occur when nonlinear waves propagate in certain media that admit 3-wave mixing. The purpose of this paper is to show that explosive instabilities can occur even in media that admit no 3-wave mixing. Instead, the instability is caused by 4-wave mixing: four resonantly interacting wavetrains gain energy from a background, and all blow up in a finite time. Unlike singularities associated with self-focussing, these singularities can occur with no spatial structure - the waves blow up everywhere in space, simultaneously.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:36:48 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Safdi", "Benjamin R.", "" ], [ "Segur", "Harvey", "" ] ]
0704.3058
Milan Janjic
Milan Janji\'c
Some integer sequences based on derangements
null
null
null
null
math.CO
null
Sequences whose terms are equal to the number of functions with specified properties are considered. Properties are based on the notion of derangements in a more general sense. Several sequences which generalize the standard notion of derangements are thus obtained. These sequences generate a number of integer sequences from the well-known Sloane's encyclopedia.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:58:43 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Janjić", "Milan", "" ] ]
0704.3059
Rob P. Olling
Rob P. Olling
Finding Solar System Analogs With SIM and HIPPARCOS: A White Paper for the ExoPlanet Task Force
A White Paper for the ExoPlanet Task Force: 7 pages
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
The astrometric signature imposed by a planet on its primary increases substantially towards longer periods (proportinal to P^2/3), so that long-period planets can be more easily detected, in principle. For example, a one Solar-mass (M_Sun) star would be pulled by roughly 1 mas by a one Jupiter-mass (M_J) planet with a period of one-hundred years at a distance of 20 pc. Such position accuracies can now be obtained with both ground-based and space-based telescopes. The difficulty was that it often takes many decades before a detectable position shift will occur. However, by the time the next generation of astrometric missions such as SIM will be taking data, several decades will have past since the first astrometric mission, HIPPARCOS. Here we propose to use a new astrometric method that employs a future, highly accurate SIM Quick-Look survey and HIPPARCOS data taken twenty years prior. Using position errors for SIM of 4 muas, this method enables the detection and characterization of Solar-system analogs (SOSAs) with periods up to 240 (500) years for 1 (10) M_J companions. Because many tens of thousands nearby stars can be surveyed this way for a modest expenditure of SIM time and SOSAs may be quite abundant, we expect to find many hundreds of extra-solar planets with long-period orbits. Such a data set would nicely complement the short-period systems found by the radial-velocity method. Brown dwarfs and low-mass stellar companions can be found and characterized if their periods are shorter than about 500 years. This data set will provide invaluable constraints on models of planet formation, as well as a database for systems where the location of the giant planets allow for the formation of low-mass planets in the habitable zone. [Abridged]
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:42:10 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Olling", "Rob P.", "" ] ]
0704.3060
Klaus Hornberger
Klaus Hornberger
Open quantum dynamics via environmental monitoring
11 pages, 3 figures. Talk at DICE 2006; to appear in J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. (2007)
null
10.1088/1742-6596/67/1/012002
null
quant-ph
null
A general method is discussed to obtain Markovian master equations which describe the interaction with the environment in a microscopic and non-perturbative fashion. It is based on combining time-dependent scattering theory with the concept of continuous quantum measurements. The applications to the case of a Brownian point particle and to the case of a complex molecule, both in the presence of a gaseous environment, are outlined.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:45:11 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hornberger", "Klaus", "" ] ]
0704.3061
Evgeny Smirnov
Evgeny Smirnov
Bruhat order for two subspaces and a flag
30 pages, with figures
null
null
null
math.RT math.AG math.CO
null
The classical Ehresmann-Bruhat order describes the possible degenerations of a pair of flags in a finite-dimensional vector space V; or, equivalently, the closure of an orbit of the group GL(V) acting on the direct product of two full flag varieties. We obtain a similar result for triples consisting of two subspaces and a partial flag in V; this is equivalent to describing the closure of a GL(V)-orbit in the product of two Grassmannians and one flag variety. We give a rank criterion to check whether such a triple can be degenerated to another one, and we classify the minimal degenerations. Our methods involve only elementary linear algebra and combinatorics of graphs (originating in Auslander-Reiten quivers).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:59:56 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Smirnov", "Evgeny", "" ] ]
0704.3062
Dmitry Klochkov
D. Klochkov, R. Staubert, S. Tsygankov, A. Lutovinov, K. P. Postnov, N. I. Shakura, S. A. Potanin, C. Ferrigno, I. Kreykenbohm, and J.Wilms
INTEGRAL observations of HER X-1
To be published in the proceedings of the 6th INTEGRAL Workshop "The Obscured Universe" (3-7 July 2006, Moscow)
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
First results of observations of the low mass X-ray binary Her X-1/HZ Her performed by the INTEGRAL satellite in July-August 2005 are presented. A significant part of one 35 day main-on state was covered. The cyclotron line in the X-ray spectrum is well observed and its position and shape, as well as its variability with time and phase of the 1.24 s pulsation are explored. X-ray pulse profiles for different energy bands are studied throughout the observation. The pulse period is found to vary on short time scales revealing a dynamical spin-up/spin-down behavior. Results of simultaneous optical observations of HZ Her are also discussed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:58:24 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Klochkov", "D.", "" ], [ "Staubert", "R.", "" ], [ "Tsygankov", "S.", "" ], [ "Lutovinov", "A.", "" ], [ "Postnov", "K. P.", "" ], [ "Shakura", "N. I.", "" ], [ "Potanin", "S. A.", "" ], [ "Ferrigno", "C.", "" ], [ "Kreykenbohm", "I.", "" ], [ "Wilms", "J.", "" ] ]
0704.3063
Pamela Morehouse
S. B. Athar, et al, CLEO Collaboration
Search for Radiative Decays of Upsilon(1S) into eta and eta'
14 pages postscript,also available through http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS/2007/, Submitted to PRD
Phys.Rev.D76:072003,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.072003
CLNS 07/1995, CLEO 07-5
hep-ex
null
We report on a search for the radiative decay of Upsilon(1S) to the pseudoscalar mesons eta and etaprime in 21.2 +/- 0.2 times 10^6 Upsilon(1S) decays collected with the CLEO III detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR). The eta meson was reconstructed in the three modes eta to gamma-gamma, eta to pi+pi-pi0 and eta to 3pi0. The etaprime meson was reconstructed in the mode etaprime to pi+ pi- eta with eta decaying through any of the above three modes, and also etaprime to gamma rho, where rho decays to pi^+ pi^-. Five out of the seven sub-modes are found to be virtually background-free. In four of them we find no signal candidates and in one Upsilon(1S) to gamma-etaprime, etaprime to pi+ pi- eta, eta to pi+pi-pi0 there are two good signal candidates, which is insufficient evidence to claim a signal. The other two sub-modes eta to gamma-gamma and etaprime to gamma rho are background limited, and show no excess of events in their signal regions. We combine the results from different channels and obtain upper limits at the 90% C.L. which are B(Upsilon(1S) to gamma eta) < 1.0 times 10^-6 and B(Upsilon(1S) to gamma etaprime) < 1.9 times 10^-6. Our limits are an order of magnitude tighter than the previous ones and below the predictions made by some theoretical models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:04:42 GMT" } ]
2010-04-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Athar", "S. B.", "" ], [ "Collaboration", "CLEO", "" ] ]
0704.3064
Kyle Lawson
Kyle Lawson and Ariel R.Zhitnitsky
Diffuse cosmic gamma-rays at 1-20 MeV: A trace of the dark matter?
13 pages, 1 figure
JCAP 0801:022,2008
10.1088/1475-7516/2008/01/022
null
astro-ph hep-ph
null
Several independent observations of the galactic core suggest hitherto unexplained sources of energy. The most well known case is the 511 keV line which has proven very difficult to explain with conventional astrophysical positron sources. A similar, but less well known mystery is the excess of gamma-ray photons detected by COMPTEL across a broad energy range 1-20 MeV. Such photons are found to be very difficult to produce via known astrophysical sources. We show in this work that dark matter in the form of dense antimatter droplets provides a natural explanations for the observed flux of gamma-rays in the 1-20 MeV range. We argue thatsuch photons must always accompany the 511 keV line as they produced by the same mechanism within our framework. We calculate the spectrum and intensity of the 1-20 MeV gamma-rays, and find it to be consistent with the COMPTEL data.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:37:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:19:48 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:35:05 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Lawson", "Kyle", "" ], [ "Zhitnitsky", "Ariel R.", "" ] ]
0704.3065
Elena Jimenez-Bailon
E. Jimenez-Bailon, N. Loiseau, M. Guainazzi, G. Matt, D. Rosa-Gonzalez, E. Piconcelli, and M. Santos-Lleo
XMM-Newton view of galaxy pairs: activation of quiescent black holes?
Accepted for publication in A&A
null
10.1051/0004-6361:20066761
null
astro-ph
null
We report on XMM-Newton observations of three nearby galaxy pairs, AM0707-273, AM1211-465, and AM2040-674. All six galaxies were previously classified as HII galaxies based on optical and IR spectroscopic analysis. All galaxies were detected with XMM-Newton and each member was isolated and analyzed independently. The X-ray spectra reveal strong evidence of AGN activity in the NE member of AM1211-465 pair. We measured a luminosity of 1.94(+0.11/-0.15)x10^42 erg/s in the 2-10 keV band and the presence of a neutral FeK_alpha line with a confidence level of 98.8%. The high nH value, 2.2+/-0.2x10^22 cm^-2, would explain the misclassification of the source. Marginal evidence of AGN nature was found in the X-ray spectra of AM1211-465SW and AM0707-273E. The X-ray emission of the three remaining galaxies can be explained by starburst activity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:06:19 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Jimenez-Bailon", "E.", "" ], [ "Loiseau", "N.", "" ], [ "Guainazzi", "M.", "" ], [ "Matt", "G.", "" ], [ "Rosa-Gonzalez", "D.", "" ], [ "Piconcelli", "E.", "" ], [ "Santos-Lleo", "M.", "" ] ]
0704.3066
Mark Lindeman
Mark. A. Lindeman, Kathleen A. Barger, Donald E. Brandl, S. Gwynne Crowder, Lindsay Rocks, and Dan McCammon
Complex impedance measurements of calorimeters and bolometers: correction for stray impedances
5 pages, 6 figures
Rev.Sci.Instrum.78:043105,2007
10.1063/1.2723066
null
astro-ph
null
Impedance measurements provide a useful probe of the physics of bolometers and calorimeters. We describe a method for measuring the complex impedance of these devices. In previous work, stray impedances and readout electronics of the measurement apparatus have resulted in artifacts in the impedance data. The new technique allows experimenters to find an independent Thevenin or Norton equivalent circuit for each frequency. This method allows experimenters to easily isolate the device impedance from the effects of parasitic impedances and frequency dependent gains in amplifiers.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:00:10 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Lindeman", "Mark. A.", "" ], [ "Barger", "Kathleen A.", "" ], [ "Brandl", "Donald E.", "" ], [ "Crowder", "S. Gwynne", "" ], [ "Rocks", "Lindsay", "" ], [ "McCammon", "Dan", "" ] ]
0704.3067
Brant Jones
Brant C. Jones
Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials for maximally-clustered hexagon-avoiding permutations
18 pages
null
null
null
math.CO math.RT
null
We provide a non-recursive description for the bounded admissible sets of masks used by Deodhar's algorithm to calculate the Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials $P_{x,w}(q)$ of type $A$, in the case when $w$ is hexagon avoiding and maximally clustered. This yields a combinatorial description of the Kazhdan--Lusztig basis elements of the Hecke algebra associated to such permutations $w$. The maximally-clustered hexagon-avoiding elements are characterized by avoiding the seven classical permutation patterns $\{3421, 4312, 4321, 46718235, 46781235, 56718234, 56781234\}$. We also briefly discuss the application of heaps to permutation pattern characterization.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:06:24 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Jones", "Brant C.", "" ] ]
0704.3068
Sydney A. Barnes
Sydney A. Barnes
Ages for illustrative field stars using gyrochronology: viability, limitations and errors
58 pages, 18 color figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; Age uncertainties slightly modified upon correcting an algebraic error in Section 4
Astrophys.J.669:1167-1189,2007
10.1086/519295
null
astro-ph
null
We here develop an improved way of using a rotating star as a clock, set it using the Sun, and demonstrate that it keeps time well. This technique, called gyrochronology, permits the derivation of ages for solar- and late-type main sequence stars using only their rotation periods and colors. The technique is clarified and developed here, and used to derive ages for illustrative groups of nearby, late-type field stars with measured rotation periods. We first demonstrate the reality of the interface sequence, the unifying feature of the rotational observations of cluster and field stars that makes the technique possible, and extends it beyond the proposal of Skumanich by specifying the mass dependence of rotation for these stars. We delineate which stars it cannot currently be used on. We then calibrate the age dependence using the Sun. The errors are propagated to understand their dependence on color and period. Representative age errors associated with the technique are estimated at ~15% (plus possible systematic errors) for late-F, G, K, & early-M stars. Ages derived via gyrochronology for the Mt. Wilson stars are shown to be in good agreement with chromospheric ages for all but the bluest stars, and probably superior. Gyro ages are then calculated for each of the active main sequence field stars studied by Strassmeier and collaborators where other ages are not available. These are shown to be mostly younger than 1Gyr, with a median age of 365Myr. The sample of single, late-type main sequence field stars assembled by Pizzolato and collaborators is then assessed, and shown to have gyro ages ranging from under 100Myr to several Gyr, and a median age of 1.2Gyr. Finally, we demonstrate that the individual components of the three wide binaries XiBooAB, 61CygAB, & AlphaCenAB yield substantially the same gyro ages.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:57:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 17 May 2007 22:17:18 GMT" } ]
2011-03-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Barnes", "Sydney A.", "" ] ]
0704.3069
Nestor Mirabal
N. Mirabal, J. P. Halpern, P. T. O'Brien
GRB 050826: A Subluminous Event at z = 0.296 Finds its Place in the Luminosity Distribution of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
Accepted for publication in ApJ
null
10.1086/519006
null
astro-ph
null
We present the optical identification and spectroscopy of the host galaxy of GRB 050826 at a redshift z = 0.296 +/- 0.001. Image subtraction among observations obtained on three consecutive nights, reveals a fading object 5 hours after the burst, confirming its identification as the optical afterglow of this event. Deep imaging shows that the optical afterglow is offset by 0.4 arcseconds (~1.76 kpc) from the center of its irregular host galaxy, which is typical for long-duration gamma-ray bursts. Combining these results with X-ray measurements acquired by the Swift XRT instrument, we find that GRB 050826 falls entirely within the subluminous, subenergetic group of long gamma-ray bursts at low redshift (z < 0.3). The results are discussed in the context of models that possibly account for this trend, including the nature of the central engine, the evolution of progenitor properties as a function of redshift, and incompleteness in current gamma-ray burst samples.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:15:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 11 May 2007 15:11:35 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Mirabal", "N.", "" ], [ "Halpern", "J. P.", "" ], [ "O'Brien", "P. T.", "" ] ]
0704.3070
Ward Struyve
S. Goldstein, W. Struyve
On the Uniqueness of Quantum Equilibrium in Bohmian Mechanics
15 pages, no figures, LaTex
J. Stat. Phys. 128, 1197-1209 (2007)
10.1007/s10955-007-9354-5
null
quant-ph cond-mat.other
null
In Bohmian mechanics the distribution $|\psi|^2$ is regarded as the equilibrium distribution. We consider its uniqueness, finding that it is the unique equivariant distribution that is also a local functional of the wave function $\psi$.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:17:14 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Goldstein", "S.", "" ], [ "Struyve", "W.", "" ] ]
0704.3071
Karina Mazzitello
K. I. Mazzitello, C. M. Arizmendi, and H. G. E. Hentschel
Converting genetic network oscillations into somite spatial pattern
7 pages, 7 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021906
null
q-bio.QM
null
In most vertebrate species, the body axis is generated by the formation of repeated transient structures called somites. This spatial periodicity in somitogenesis has been related to the temporally sustained oscillations in certain mRNAs and their associated gene products in the cells forming the presomatic mesoderm. The mechanism underlying these oscillations have been identified as due to the delays involved in the synthesis of mRNA and translation into protein molecules [J. Lewis, Current Biol. {\bf 13}, 1398 (2003)]. In addition, in the zebrafish embryo intercellular Notch signalling couples these oscillators and a longitudinal positional information signal in the form of an Fgf8 gradient exists that could be used to transform these coupled temporal oscillations into the observed spatial periodicity of somites. Here we consider a simple model based on this known biology and study its consequences for somitogenesis. Comparison is made with the known properties of somite formation in the zebrafish embryo . We also study the effects of localized Fgf8 perturbations on somite patterning.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:20:53 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Mazzitello", "K. I.", "" ], [ "Arizmendi", "C. M.", "" ], [ "Hentschel", "H. G. E.", "" ] ]
0704.3072
Rob P. Olling
Rob P. Olling
LEAVITT: A MIDEX-class Mission for Finding & Characterizing 10,000 Transiting Planets in the Solar Neighborhood
A White Paper for the ExoPlanet Task Force, 7 pages
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
We propose a MIDEX-class space mission with the goal to find and characterize roughly 10,000 transiting planets. When transits occur, a much more detailed characterization of the planet is possible and so a large data base of transiting planets will provide planets with a large range in periods and radii for follow-up studies. Our survey will be all-sky and focused on stars brighter than V=14.8. Down to V=12, LEAVITT will be able to detect Neptune-sized objects. Because of it's high cadence, LEAVITT is about 100 times more sensitive at detecting transits than GAIA, while it will find more than 20 times as many transits as KEPLER. LEAVITT has multi-band photometric capability implemented via a low-resolution dispersive element which can obtain 0.2% (2 mmag) photometry down to V=14.8. LEAVITT's high multi-band photometric accuracy reduces the number of false-positives significantly.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:10:48 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Olling", "Rob P.", "" ] ]
0704.3073
Roland Kothes
R. Kothes, S.M. Dougherty
The distance and neutral environment of the massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
8 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Astron.Astrophys.468:993-1000,2007
10.1051/0004-6361:20077309
null
astro-ph
null
The goal of this study is to determine a distance to Westerlund 1 independent of the characteristics of the stellar population and to study its neutral environment, using observations of atomic hydrogen. The HI observations are taken from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey to study HI absorption in the direction of the HII region created by the members of Westerlund 1 and to investigate its environment as observed in the HI line emission. A Galactic rotation curve was derived using the recently revised values for the Galactic centre distance of $R_\odot = 7.6$ kpc, and the velocity of the Sun around the Galactic centre of $\Theta_\odot = 214$ km s$^{-1}$. The newly determined rotation model leads us to derive a distance of $3.9\pm 0.7$ kpc to Westerlund 1, consistent with a location in the Scutum-Crux Arm. Included in this estimate is a very careful investigation of possible sources of error for the Galactic rotation curve. We also report on small expanding HI features around the cluster with a maximum dynamic age of 600,000 years and a larger bubble which has a minimum dynamic age of 2.5 million years. Additionally we re-calculated the kinematic distances to nearby HII regions and supernova remnants based on our new Galaxic rotation curve. We propose that in the early stages of the development of Wd 1 a large interstellar bubble of diameter about 50 pc was created by the cluster members. This bubble has a dynamic age similar to the age of the cluster. Small expanding bubbles, with dynamical ages $\sim 0.6$ Myr are found around Wd 1, which we suggest consist of recombined material lost by cluster members through their winds.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:33:33 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kothes", "R.", "" ], [ "Dougherty", "S. M.", "" ] ]
0704.3074
Florin Moldoveanu
Florin Moldoveanu
Quantum Mechanics and Closed Timelike Curves
8 pages, 1 figure (removed LaTex command)
Quant. Biosys. 1, 66 (2007)
null
null
physics.gen-ph
null
General relativity allows solutions exhibiting closed timelike curves. Time travel generates paradoxes and quantum mechanics generalizations were proposed to solve those paradoxes. The implications of self-consistent interactions on acausal region of space-time are investigated. If the correspondence principle is true, then all generalizations of quantum mechanics on acausal manifolds are not renormalizable. Therefore quantum mechanics can only be defined on global hyperbolic manifolds and all general relativity solutions exhibiting time travel are unphysical.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:50:55 GMT" } ]
2009-01-05T00:00:00
[ [ "Moldoveanu", "Florin", "" ] ]
0704.3075
James P. Crutchfield
Karoline Wiesner and James P. Crutchfield
Computation in Sofic Quantum Dynamical Systems
10 pages, 4 figures; http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/compmech/pubs.htm#StochasticComputation
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
We analyze how measured quantum dynamical systems store and process information, introducing sofic quantum dynamical systems. Using recently introduced information-theoretic measures for quantum processes, we quantify their information storage and processing in terms of entropy rate and excess entropy, giving closed-form expressions where possible. To illustrate the impact of measurement on information storage in quantum processes, we analyze two spin-1 sofic quantum systems that differ only in how they are measured.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:49:54 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Wiesner", "Karoline", "" ], [ "Crutchfield", "James P.", "" ] ]
0704.3076
Martin Kunz
M. Kunz, N. Aghanim, A. Riazuelo and O. Forni
On the detectability of non-trivial topologies
11 pages, 9 figures
Phys.Rev.D77:023525,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.023525
null
astro-ph
null
We explore the main physical processes which potentially affect the topological signal in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) for a range of toroidal universes. We consider specifically reionisation, the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect, the size of the causal horizon, topological defects and primordial gravitational waves. We use three estimators: the information content, the S/N statistic and the Bayesian evidence. While reionisation has nearly no effect on the estimators, we show that taking into account the ISW strongly decreases our ability to detect the topological signal. We also study the impact of varying the relevant cosmological parameters within the 2 sigma ranges allowed by present data. We find that only Omega_Lambda, which influences both ISW and the size of the causal horizon, significantly alters the detection for all three estimators considered here.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:00:12 GMT" } ]
2008-12-18T00:00:00
[ [ "Kunz", "M.", "" ], [ "Aghanim", "N.", "" ], [ "Riazuelo", "A.", "" ], [ "Forni", "O.", "" ] ]
0704.3077
Eric F. Bell
Eric F. Bell (1), Xian Zhong Zheng (1,2), Casey Papovich (3), Andrea Borch (4), Christian Wolf (5), and Klaus Meisenheimer (1) ((1) MPIA, Heidelberg, (2) Purple Mountain Observatory, (3) Steward Observatory, (4) ARI, Heidelberg, (5) Oxford)
Star Formation and the Growth of Stellar Mass
9 Pages; ApJ in press
Astrophys.J.663:834-843,2007
10.1086/518594
null
astro-ph
null
Recent observations have demonstrated a significant growth in the integrated stellar mass of the red sequence since z=1, dominated by a steadily increasing number of galaxies with stellar masses M* < 10^11 M_sun. In this paper, we use the COMBO-17 photometric redshift survey in conjunction with deep Spitzer 24 micron data to explore the relationship between star formation and the growth of stellar mass. We calculate `star formation rate functions' in four different redshift slices, splitting also into contributions from the red sequence and blue cloud for the first time. We find that the growth of stellar mass since z=1 is consistent with the integrated star formation rate. Yet, most of the stars formed are in blue cloud galaxies. If the stellar mass already in, and formed in, z<1 blue cloud galaxies were to stay in the blue cloud the total stellar mass in blue galaxies would be dramatically overproduced. We explore the expected evolution of stellar mass functions, finding that in this picture the number of massive M* > 3x10^10 M_sun blue galaxies would also be overproduced; i.e., most of the new stars formed in blue cloud galaxies are in the massive galaxies. We explore a simple truncation scenario in which these `extra' blue galaxies have their star formation suppressed by an unspecified mechanism or mechanisms; simple cessation of star formation in these extra blue galaxies is approximately sufficient to build up the red sequence at M*<10^11 M_sun.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:00:13 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Bell", "Eric F.", "" ], [ "Zheng", "Xian Zhong", "" ], [ "Papovich", "Casey", "" ], [ "Borch", "Andrea", "" ], [ "Wolf", "Christian", "" ], [ "Meisenheimer", "Klaus", "" ] ]
0704.3078
A. V. Maccio'
Andrea V. Maccio'(MPIA), Ioannis Sideris (Zurich), Marco Miranda (Zurich), Ben Moore (Zurich), Roland Jesseit (Munich Obs.)
Influence of Orbital Behaviour and Chaos on the Shape of Dark Matter Halos
14 pages, 8 figures, MNRAS submitted, a preprint with high-resolution figures is available at http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~andrea/Orbits/
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
It has been shown that the dissipative gas infall during galaxy formation has the capability to modify the shape of dark matter halos. In this paper we perform the first detailed analysis of particle orbits in a cosmological dark matter halos to understand {\it how} and {\it why} baryons alter its shape. We perform a series of numerical experiments where we grow a baryonic core inside a live dark matter halo extracted from a cosmological simulation. We follow the orbits of more than 300 particles with more that 50000 timesteps. Our results clearly show that the dissipational component is responsible for repeatedly deflecting orbits which visit often the center of the system. Moreover the gravitational potential time dependence associated with the growth of the baryonic mass, shifts the frequencies of the orbits, making them extremely chaotic. This randomization makes the orbits explore a large phase space. When this effect takes place for a significant number of orbits it will be manifested in the density distribution as an approach to a rounder configuration. As a consequence, the influence of the central mass on the shape of the phase space decreases with increasing distance from the center. We discuss the importance of future analysis of controlled experiments (i.e. using analytic potentials instead of live DM halos) to better decipher the dynamics of this phenomenon.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:32:22 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Maccio'", "Andrea V.", "", "MPIA" ], [ "Sideris", "Ioannis", "", "Zurich" ], [ "Miranda", "Marco", "", "Zurich" ], [ "Moore", "Ben", "", "Zurich" ], [ "Jesseit", "Roland", "", "Munich Obs." ] ]
0704.3079
Ilia Solov'yov
Alexander V. Yakubovich, Ilia A. Solov'yov, Andrey V. Solov'yov and Walter Greiner
Ab initio theory of helix-coil phase transition
24 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1140/epjd/e2007-00328-9
null
physics.bio-ph physics.chem-ph
null
In this paper we suggest a theoretical method based on the statistical mechanics for treating the alpha-helix-random coil transition in alanine polypeptides. We consider this process as a first-order phase transition and develop a theory which is free of model parameters and is based solely on fundamental physical principles. It describes essential thermodynamical properties of the system such as heat capacity, the phase transition temperature and others from the analysis of the polypeptide potential energy surface calculated as a function of two dihedral angles, responsible for the polypeptide twisting. The suggested theory is general and with some modification can be applied for the description of phase transitions in other complex molecular systems (e.g. proteins, DNA, nanotubes, atomic clusters, fullerenes).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:10:04 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Yakubovich", "Alexander V.", "" ], [ "Solov'yov", "Ilia A.", "" ], [ "Solov'yov", "Andrey V.", "" ], [ "Greiner", "Walter", "" ] ]
0704.3080
Takuya Okuda
Jaume Gomis and Takuya Okuda
D-branes as a Bubbling Calabi-Yau
32 pages; v.2 reference added
JHEP0707:005,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/005
CPHT-RR022.0407, NSF-KITP-07-106
hep-th math.DG
null
We prove that the open topological string partition function on a D-brane configuration in a Calabi-Yau manifold X takes the form of a closed topological string partition function on a different Calabi-Yau manifold X_b. This identification shows that the physics of D-branes in an arbitrary background X of topological string theory can be described either by open+closed string theory in X or by closed string theory in X_b. The physical interpretation of the ''bubbling'' Calabi-Yau X_b is as the space obtained by letting the D-branes in X undergo a geometric transition. This implies, in particular, that the partition function of closed topological string theory on certain bubbling Calabi-Yau manifolds are invariants of knots in the three-sphere.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:02:59 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:31:42 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Gomis", "Jaume", "" ], [ "Okuda", "Takuya", "" ] ]
0704.3081
Andrei Gruzinov
Andrei Gruzinov
Directed Relativistic Blast Wave
9 pages
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
A spherically symmetrical ultra-relativistic blast wave is not an attractor of a generic asymmetric explosion. Spherical symmetry is reached only by the time the blast wave slows down to non-relativistic velocities, when the Sedov-Taylor-von Neumann attractor solution sets in. We show however, that a directed relativistic explosion, with the explosion momentum close to the explosion energy, produces a blast wave with a universal intermediate asymptotic -- a selfsimilar directed ultra-relativistic blast wave. This universality might be of interest for the astrophysics of gamma-ray burst afterglows.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:11:08 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Gruzinov", "Andrei", "" ] ]
0704.3082
Plamen Bozhilov
P. Bozhilov
Neumann and Neumann-Rosochatius integrable systems from membranes on AdS_4xS^7
LaTeX, 17 pages, no figures;v2: comments and citations added;v3: 20 pages, new subsection, explanations, comments and references added; v4: some typos fixed, to appear in JHEP
JHEP0708:073,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/073
null
hep-th nlin.SI
null
It is known that large class of classical string solutions in the type IIB AdS_5xS^5 background is related to the Neumann and Neumann-Rosochatius integrable systems, including spiky strings and giant magnons. It is also interesting if these integrable systems can be associated with some membrane configurations in M-theory. We show here that this is indeed the case by presenting explicitly several types of membrane embedding in AdS_4xS^7 with the searched properties.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:14:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:25:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:54:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:09:17 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Bozhilov", "P.", "" ] ]
0704.3083
Alberto Buzzoni
Alberto Buzzoni (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy)
Late stages of stellar evolution and their impact on spectrophotometric properties of galaxies
8 pages and 6 figures (macro asp2006.sty included). An invited contribution to the intl. conference "From Stars to Galaxies: Building the pieces to build up the Universe" (Venezia, Italy, 16-20/Oct/2006). ASP Conf. Series, eds. A. Vallenari, R. Tantalo, L. Portinari and A. Moretti. Further info at author's web site (see http://www.bo.astro.it/~eps/home.html)
null
null
null
astro-ph
null
The connection between AGB evolution of stellar populations and infrared vs. ultraviolet properties of the parent galaxies is reviewed relying on the updated lookout provided by population-synthesis theory. In particular, planetary-nebula events and hot horizontal-branch evolution are assessed in a unitary view to outline a plain general picture of galaxy spectrophotometric evolution. This will include a brief discussion of relevant phenomena such as the "UV upturn" in ellipticals and the stellar mass loss properties along the galaxy morphological sequence.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:18:24 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Buzzoni", "Alberto", "", "INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy" ] ]
0704.3084
Joshua Erlich
Christopher D. Carone, Joshua Erlich, and Marc Sher
Holographic Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from D-branes
REVTeX, 25 pages, 8 eps figures, version published in PRD
Phys.Rev.D76:015015,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.015015
null
hep-th hep-ph
null
We observe several interesting phenomena in a technicolor-like model of electroweak symmetry breaking based on the D4-D8-D8bar system of Sakai and Sugimoto. The benefit of holographic models based on D-brane configurations is that both sides of the holographic duality are well understood. We find that the lightest technicolor resonances contribute negatively to the Peskin-Takeuchi S-parameter, but heavy resonances do not decouple and lead generically to large, positive values of S, consistent with standard estimates in QCD-like theories. We study how the S parameter and the masses and decay constants of the vector and axial-vector techni-resonances vary over a one-parameter family of D8-brane configurations. We discuss possibilities for the consistent truncation of the theory to the first few resonances and suggest some generic predictions of stringy holographic technicolor models.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:13:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:08:29 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Carone", "Christopher D.", "" ], [ "Erlich", "Joshua", "" ], [ "Sher", "Marc", "" ] ]
0704.3085
Ilia Solov'yov
Ilia A. Solov'yov, Alexander V. Yakubovich, Andrey V. Solov'yov and Walter Greiner
Alpha helix-coil phase transition: analysis of ab initio theory predictions
34 pages, 12 figures
null
10.1140/epjd/e2007-00327-x
null
physics.bio-ph physics.chem-ph
null
In the present paper we present results of calculations obtained with the use of the theoretical method described in our preceding paper [1] and perform detail analysis of alpha helix-random coil transition in alanine polypeptides of different length. We have calculated the potential energy surfaces of polypeptides with respect to their twisting degrees of freedom and construct a parameter-free partition function of the polypeptide using the suggested method [1]. From the build up partition function we derive various thermodynamical characteristics for alanine polypeptides of different length as a function of temperature. Thus, we analyze the temperature dependence of the heat capacity, latent heat and helicity for alanine polypeptides consisting of 21, 30, 40, 50 and 100 amino acids. Alternatively, we have obtained same thermodynamical characteristics from the use of molecular dynamics simulations and compared them with the results of the new statistical mechanics approach. The comparison proves the validity of the statistical mechanic approach and establishes its accuracy.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:28:38 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Solov'yov", "Ilia A.", "" ], [ "Yakubovich", "Alexander V.", "" ], [ "Solov'yov", "Andrey V.", "" ], [ "Greiner", "Walter", "" ] ]
0704.3086
Marek Biskup
Marek Biskup, Herbert Spohn
Scaling limit for a class of gradient fields with nonconvex potentials
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOP548 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Annals of Probability 2011, Vol. 39, No. 1, 224-251
10.1214/10-AOP548
IMS-AOP-AOP548
math.PR math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider gradient fields $(\phi_x:x\in \mathbb{Z}^d)$ whose law takes the Gibbs--Boltzmann form $Z^{-1}\exp\{-\sum_{< x,y>}V(\phi_y-\phi_x)\}$, where the sum runs over nearest neighbors. We assume that the potential $V$ admits the representation \[V(\eta):=-\log\int\varrho({d}\kappa)\exp\biggl[-{1/2}\kappa\et a^2\biggr],\] where $\varrho$ is a positive measure with compact support in $(0,\infty)$. Hence, the potential $V$ is symmetric, but nonconvex in general. While for strictly convex $V$'s, the translation-invariant, ergodic gradient Gibbs measures are completely characterized by their tilt, a nonconvex potential as above may lead to several ergodic gradient Gibbs measures with zero tilt. Still, every ergodic, zero-tilt gradient Gibbs measure for the potential $V$ above scales to a Gaussian free field.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:45:20 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:20:03 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:58:35 GMT" } ]
2010-12-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Biskup", "Marek", "" ], [ "Spohn", "Herbert", "" ] ]
0704.3087
Dierk Schleicher
Mihai Bailesteanu, Vlad Balan, Dierk Schleicher
Hausdorff Dimension of Exponential Parameter Rays and Their Endpoints
10 pages
Nonlinearity 21 (2008), 113-120
10.1088/0951-7715/21/1/006
null
math.DS
null
We investigate the set $I$ of parameters $\kappa$ for which the singular value of $z\mapsto e^z+\kappa$ converges to $\infty$. The set $I$ consists of uncountably many parameter rays, plus landing points of some of these rays. We show that the parameter rays have Hausdorff dimension 1, while the ray endpoints in $I$ alone have dimension 2. Analogous results were known for dynamical planes of exponential maps; our result shows that this also holds in parameter space.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:58:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:49:20 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Bailesteanu", "Mihai", "" ], [ "Balan", "Vlad", "" ], [ "Schleicher", "Dierk", "" ] ]
0704.3088
Henrique R. Schmitt
N. E. Kassim, T. J. W. Lazio, W. C. Erickson, R. A. Perley, W. D. Cotton, E. W. Greisen, A. S. Cohen, B. Hicks, H. R. Schmitt, D. Katz
The 74MHz System on the Very Large Array
73 pages, 46 jpeg figures, to appear in ApJS
null
10.1086/519022
null
astro-ph
null
The Naval Research Laboratory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory completed implementation of a low frequency capability on the VLA at 73.8 MHz in 1998. This frequency band offers unprecedented sensitivity (~25 mJy/beam) and resolution (~25 arcsec) for low-frequency observations. We review the hardware, the calibration and imaging strategies, comparing them to those at higher frequencies, including aspects of interference excision and wide-field imaging. Ionospheric phase fluctuations pose the major difficulty in calibrating the array. Over restricted fields of view or at times of extremely quiescent ionospheric ``weather'', an angle-invariant calibration strategy can be used. In this approach a single phase correction is devised for each antenna, typically via self-calibration. Over larger fields of view or at times of more normal ionospheric ``weather'' when the ionospheric isoplanatic patch size is smaller than the field of view, we adopt a field-based strategy in which the phase correction depends upon location within the field of view. This second calibration strategy was implemented by modeling the ionosphere above the array using Zernike polynomials. Images of 3C sources of moderate strength are provided as examples of routine, angle-invariant calibration and imaging. Flux density measurements indicate that the 74 MHz flux scale at the VLA is stable to a few percent, and tied to the Baars et al. value of Cygnus A at the 5 percent level. We also present an example of a wide-field image, devoid of bright objects and containing hundreds of weaker sources, constructed from the field-based calibration. We close with a summary of lessons the 74 MHz system offers as a model for new and developing low-frequency telescopes. (Abridged)
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:59:04 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kassim", "N. E.", "" ], [ "Lazio", "T. J. W.", "" ], [ "Erickson", "W. C.", "" ], [ "Perley", "R. A.", "" ], [ "Cotton", "W. D.", "" ], [ "Greisen", "E. W.", "" ], [ "Cohen", "A. S.", "" ], [ "Hicks", "B.", "" ], [ "Schmitt", "H. R.", "" ], [ "Katz", "D.", "" ] ]
0704.3089
H. A. Dye
H. A. Dye
Pure Virtual Braids Homotopic to the Identity Braid
18 pages, 17 figures Final version, accepted by Fundamenta Mathematicae
null
null
null
math.GT math.AT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Two virtual link diagrams are homotopic if one may be transformed into the other by a sequence of virtual Reidemeister moves, classical Reidemeister moves, and self crossing changes. We recall the pure virtual braid group. We then describe the set of pure virtual braids that are homotopic to the identity braid.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:10:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:33:35 GMT" } ]
2008-08-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Dye", "H. A.", "" ] ]
0704.3090
Benoit Fresse
Benoit Fresse
Modules over operads and functors
This book project has been withdrawn from arXiv. Final version to appear as a Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes with significant additions and corrections. The preprint on arXiv will not be updated
null
null
null
math.AT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the theory of operads we consider functors of generalized symmetric powers defined by sums of coinvariant modules under actions of symmetric groups. One observes classically that the construction of symmetric functors provides an isomorphism from the category of symmetric modules to a subcategory of the category of functors on the base category. The purpose of this book is to obtain a similar relationship for functors on a category of algebras over an operad. We observe that right modules over operads, symmetric modules equipped with a right operad action, give rise to functors on categories of algebras and we prove that this construction yields an embedding of categories. Then we check that right modules over operads form a model category. In addition we prove that weak-equivalences of right modules correspond to pointwise weak-equivalences at the functor level. As a conclusion, we obtain that right modules over operads supply good models for the homotopy of associated functors on algebras over operads.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:28:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 29 May 2007 15:31:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:38:10 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:45:08 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:29:30 GMT" } ]
2009-02-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Fresse", "Benoit", "" ] ]
0704.3091
David Richter
David A. Richter
Triacontagonal coordinates for the E(8) root system
4 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
math.GM
null
This note gives an explicit formula for the elements of the E(8) root system. The formula is triacontagonally symmetric in that one may clearly see an action by the cyclic group with 30 elements. The existence of such a formula is due to the fact that the Coxeter number of E(8) is 30.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:35:29 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Richter", "David A.", "" ] ]
0704.3092
David P. Blecher
David P. Blecher and Maureen K. Royce
Extensions of operator algebras I
null
null
10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.07.065
null
math.OA math.FA
null
We transcribe a portion of the theory of extensions of C*-algebras to general operator algebras. We also include several new general facts about approximately unital ideals in operator algebras and the C*-algebras which they generate.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:21:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 1 Aug 2007 20:08:22 GMT" } ]
2015-05-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Blecher", "David P.", "" ], [ "Royce", "Maureen K.", "" ] ]
0704.3093
Jean-Baptiste Meilhan
Jean-Baptiste Meilhan and Akira Yasuhara
Whitehead double and Milnor invariants
9 pages, 5 figures. Some minor modifications in this final version
Osaka J. Math. 48 No. 2 (2011), 371-381
null
null
math.GT
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the operation of Whitehead double on a component of a link and study the behavior of Milnor invariants under this operation. We show that this operation turns a link whose Milnor invariants of length < k are all zero into a link with vanishing Milnor invariants of length < 2k, and we provide formulas for the first non-vanishing ones. As a consequence, we obtain statements relating the notions of link-homotopy and self Delta-equivalence via the Whitehead double operation. By using our result, we show that a Brunnian link L is link-homotopic to the unlink if and only if a link L with a single component Whitehed doubled is self Delta-equivalent to the unlink.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:24:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:57:47 GMT" } ]
2012-03-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Meilhan", "Jean-Baptiste", "" ], [ "Yasuhara", "Akira", "" ] ]
0704.3094
Olympia Hadjiliadis
Olympia Hadjiliadis and H.Vincent Poor
Detection of two-sided alternatives in a Brownian motion model
4 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, August 22- 29, 2007
null
null
null
cs.IT math.IT
null
This work examines the problem of sequential detection of a change in the drift of a Brownian motion in the case of two-sided alternatives. Applications to real life situations in which two-sided changes can occur are discussed. Traditionally, 2-CUSUM stopping rules have been used for this problem due to their asymptotically optimal character as the mean time between false alarms tends to $\infty$. In particular, attention has focused on 2-CUSUM harmonic mean rules due to the simplicity in calculating their first moments. In this paper, we derive closed-form expressions for the first moment of a general 2-CUSUM stopping rule. We use these expressions to obtain explicit upper and lower bounds for it. Moreover, we derive an expression for the rate of change of this first moment as one of the threshold parameters changes. Based on these expressions we obtain explicit upper and lower bounds to this rate of change. Using these expressions we are able to find the best 2-CUSUM stopping rule with respect to the extended Lorden criterion. In fact, we demonstrate not only the existence but also the uniqueness of the best 2-CUSUM stopping both in the case of a symmetric change and in the case of a non-symmetric case. Furthermore, we discuss the existence of a modification of the 2-CUSUM stopping rule that has a strictly better performance than its classical 2-CUSUM counterpart for small values of the mean time between false alarms. We conclude with a discussion on the open problem of strict optimality in the case of two-sided alternatives.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:28:30 GMT" } ]
2007-07-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hadjiliadis", "Olympia", "" ], [ "Poor", "H. Vincent", "" ] ]
0704.3095
David P. Blecher
David P. Blecher, Kay Kirkpatrick, Matthew Neal, Wend Werner
Ordered involutive operator spaces
11 pages. To appear, Positivity
null
null
null
math.OA math.FA
null
This is a companion to recent papers of the authors; here we construct the `noncommutative Shilov boundary' of a (possibly nonunital) selfadjoint ordered space of Hilbert space operators. The morphisms in the universal property of the boundary preserve order. As an application, we consider `maximal' and `minimal' unitizations of such ordered operator spaces.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:29:18 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Blecher", "David P.", "" ], [ "Kirkpatrick", "Kay", "" ], [ "Neal", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Werner", "Wend", "" ] ]
0704.3096
Vincent Bouchard
Vincent Bouchard and Ron Donagi
On a class of non-simply connected Calabi-Yau threefolds
50 pages; v3: version published in CNTP
Comm. Numb. Theor. Phys. 2 (2008) 1-61
null
null
math.AG hep-th
null
We obtain a detailed classification for a class of non-simply connected Calabi-Yau threefolds which are of potential interest for a wide range of problems in string phenomenology. These threefolds arise as quotients of Schoen's Calabi-Yau threefolds, which are fiber products over P1 of two rational elliptic surfaces. The quotient is by a freely acting finite abelian group preserving the fibrations. Our work involves a classification of restricted finite automorphism groups of rational elliptic surfaces.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:05:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 3 May 2007 18:42:49 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:56:58 GMT" } ]
2008-04-14T00:00:00
[ [ "Bouchard", "Vincent", "" ], [ "Donagi", "Ron", "" ] ]
0704.3097
Sarah Brough
S. Brough (Swinburne University), R. Proctor (Swin), D. Forbes (Swin), W. Couch (Swin), C. Collins (Liverpool John Moores), D. Burke (CfA), R. Mann (ROE)
Spatially resolved kinematics and stellar populations of brightest cluster and group galaxies
21 pages plus appendices, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.378:1507-1530,2007
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11900.x
null
astro-ph
null
We present an examination of the kinematics and stellar populations of a sample of 3 Brightest Group Galaxies (BGGs) and 3 Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in X-ray groups and clusters. We have obtained high signal-to-noise Gemini/GMOS (Gemini South Multi-Object Spectrograph) long-slit spectra of these galaxies and use Lick indices to determine ages, metallicities and alpha-element abundance ratios out to at least their effective radii. We find that the BGGs and BCGs have very uniform masses, central ages and central metallicities. Examining the radial dependence of their stellar populations, we find no significant velocity dispersion, age, or alpha-enhancement gradients. However, we find a wide range of metallicity gradients, suggesting a variety of formation mechanisms. The range of metallicity gradients observed is surprising given the homogeneous environment these galaxies probe and their uniform central stellar populations. However, our results are inconsistent with any single model of galaxy formation and emphasize the need for more theoretical understanding of both the origins of metallicity gradients and galaxy formation itself. We postulate two possible physical causes for the different formation mechanisms.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:39:38 GMT" } ]
2009-06-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Brough", "S.", "", "Swinburne University" ], [ "Proctor", "R.", "", "Swin" ], [ "Forbes", "D.", "", "Swin" ], [ "Couch", "W.", "", "Swin" ], [ "Collins", "C.", "", "Liverpool John Moores" ], [ "Burke", "D.", "", "CfA" ], [ "Mann", "R.", "", "ROE" ] ]
0704.3098
Amaury Lambert
Amaury Lambert (PMA)
The contour of splitting trees is a L\'evy process
null
null
null
null
math.PR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Splitting trees are those random trees where individuals give birth at constant rate during a lifetime with general distribution, to i.i.d. copies of themselves. The width process of a splitting tree is then a binary, homogeneous Crump--Mode--Jagers (CMJ) process, and is not Markovian unless the lifetime distribution is exponential. Here, we allow the birth rate to be infinite, that is, pairs of birth times and lifespans of newborns form a Poisson point process along the lifetime of their mother, with possibly infinite intensity measure. A splitting tree is a random (so-called) chronological tree. Each element of a chronological tree is a (so-called) existence point $(v,\tau)$ of some individual $v$ (vertex) in a discrete tree, where $\tau$ is a nonnegative real number called chronological level (time). We introduce a total order on existence points, called linear order, and a mapping $\varphi$ from the tree into the real line which preserves this order. The inverse of $\varphi$ is called the exploration process, and the projection of this inverse on chronological levels the contour process. For splitting trees truncated up to level $\tau$, we prove that thus defined contour process is a L\'evy process reflected below $\tau$ and killed upon hitting 0. This allows to derive properties of (i) splitting trees: conceptual proof of Le Gall--Le Jan's theorem in the finite variation case, exceptional points, coalescent point process, age distribution; (ii) CMJ processes: one-dimensional marginals, conditionings, limit theorems, asymptotic numbers of individuals with infinite vs finite descendances.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:34:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:00:30 GMT" } ]
2009-02-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Lambert", "Amaury", "", "PMA" ] ]
0704.3099
Vyacheslav P. Spiridonov
V.P. Spiridonov
Elliptic hypergeometric functions
27 pp., a complement to the book by G.E. Andrews, R. Askey, and R. Roy, Special Functions, Encyclopedia of Math. Appl. 71, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1999, written for its Russian edition: Moscow, MCCME, 2013, pp. 577-606
null
null
null
math.CA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This is a brief overview of the status of the theory of elliptic hypergeometric functions to the end of 2012 written as a complementary chapter to the Russian edition of the book by G.E. Andrews, R. Askey, and R. Roy, Special Functions, Encycl. of Math. Appl. 71, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:25:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 28 Dec 2016 19:22:16 GMT" } ]
2016-12-30T00:00:00
[ [ "Spiridonov", "V. P.", "" ] ]
0704.3100
Kristian Finlator
K. Finlator, R. Dave
The Origin of the Galaxy Mass-Metallicity Relation and Implications for Galactic Outflows
28 pages, 15 figures, accepted by MNRAS with minor revisions. The definitive version is available at www.blackell-synergy.com
null
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12991.x
null
astro-ph
null
(Abridged) Using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations in combination with analytic modeling, we show that the galaxy stellar mass-metallicity relation (MZR) provides strong constraints on galactic outflows across cosmic time. We compare three outflow models: No outflows, a "constant wind" (cw) model that emulates the popular Dekel & Silk (1986) scenario, and a ``momentum-driven wind" (vzw) model. We find that only the vzw scaling reproduces the observed z~2 MZR's slope, amplitude, and scatter. Comparing our fully three-dimensional simulations with a simple one-zone chemical evolution model, we find that the MZR can be understood in terms of three parameters: (1) The equilibrium metallicity Z_eq=y*SFR/ACC (where y=true yield), reflecting the enrichment balance between star formation rate SFR and gas accretion rate ACC; (2) the dilution time t_d=M_g/ACC, representing the timescale for a galaxy to return to Z_eq after a metallicity-perturbing interaction; and (3) the blowout mass M_blowout, which is the galaxy stellar mass above which winds can escape its halo. When outflows with mass loading factor MLF are present, galaxies below M_blowout obey Z_eq = y/(1+MLF), while above M_blowout, Z_eq->y. Our cw model has M_blowout ~ 10^10 M_sun, which yields a sharp upturn in the MZR above this scale and a flat MZR with large scatter below it, in strong disagreement with observations. Our vzw model reproduces the observed Z_g \propto M_*^0.3 because Z_eq \propto MLF^-1 \propto M_*^1/3 when MLF >> 1 (i.e. at low masses). The flattening of the MZR at M_* > 10^10.5 M_sun observed by Tremonti et al. (2004) reflects the mass scale where MLF~1, rather than a characteristic wind speed. The tight observed MZR scatter is ensured when t_d<1 dynamical time, which is only satisified at all masses and epochs in our momentum-driven wind model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:11:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:08:53 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Finlator", "K.", "" ], [ "Dave", "R.", "" ] ]