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--- author: - 'A. T. Valcheva' - 'V. D. Ivanov' - 'E. P. Ovcharov' - 'P. L. Nedialkov' date: 'Received 18 November 2005 / accepted 18 January 2007' title: 'Carbon Stars and C/M Ratio in the WLM Dwarf Irregular Galaxy' --- Introduction ============ WLM (Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte; also DDO221; Wolf [@wol09], Melotte [@mel2...
--- abstract: | We used fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) to develop a generic shallow lake ecosystem model by augmenting the individual cognitive maps drawn by 8 scientists working in the area of shallow lake ecology. We calculated graph theoretical indices of the individual cognitive maps and the collective cognitive...
--- abstract: - 'Dans cet article nous comptons le nombre de certaines sextuples matrices persym'' etriques de rang i sur $ \mathbb {F} _ {2} . $' - 'In this paper we count the number of some particular sextuple persymmetric rank i matrices over $ \mathbb{F}_{2}.$' address: 'Département de Mathématiques, Université de ...
--- author: - | Matthew Russo and S. Roy Choudhury\ Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-1364 USA\ Corresponding author email: choudhur@cs.ucf.edu title: '[**The Extended Estabrook-Wahlquist Method**]{}' --- **Abstract** Variable Coefficient Korteweg de Vries (vcKdV)...
--- abstract: 'We establish the existence of congruences between a fixed endoscopic, globally generic, cuspidal automorphic representation $\Pi$ of ${\mathrm{GSp}(4)}$ of square-free conductor and stable cuspidal automorphic representations of the same weight modulo certain prime factors of the value at $1$ of the adjo...
--- abstract: 'We present results on phonon quasidiffusion and Transition Edge Sensor (TES) studies in a large, 3 inch diameter, 1 inch thick \[100\] high purity germanium crystal, cooled to 50 mK in the vacuum of a dilution refrigerator, and exposed with 59.5 keV gamma-rays from an Am-241 calibration source. We compar...
--- abstract: | = 24pt We develop an ansatze of the sigma enhancement of the I=0, L=0 $\pi$-$\pi$ scattering amplitude as arising from a low-energy glueball pole. Using this picture we estimate the $\pi^0\pi^0$ to $\pi^0$ branching ratio for the decays of the Roper resonance, which we previously found to be a hybri...
--- author: - | Robert de Mello Koch$^{1,3}$, Jeff Murugan$^{2,4}$, Jelena Smolic$^{1}$ and Milena Smolic$^{1}$\ ${}^{1}$Department of Physics and Centre for Theoretical Physics,\ University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, 2050, South Africa\ \ ${}^{2}$Department of Physics, Brown University\ Provid...
--- abstract: 'For fixed $h \geq 2$, we consider the task of adding to a graph $G$ a set of weighted shortcut edges on the same vertex set, such that the length of a shortest $h$-hop path between any pair of vertices in the augmented graph is exactly the same as the original distance between these vertices in $G$. A se...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, we study the strong Lefschetz property of artinian complete intersection ideals generated by products of linear forms. We prove the strong Lefschetz property for a class of such ideals with binomial generators.' address: - ' Universität Osnabrück, Fakultät für Mathematik, Albrechtstraße 28...
--- abstract: | In a companion to this paper, we introduced the class of $n$-tuples $f=(f_1,\ldots, f_n)$ of formal power series in noncommutative indeterminates $Z_1,\ldots, Z_n$ with the [*model property*]{} and developed an operator model theory for [*pure*]{} $n$-tuples of operators in noncommutative domains ${...
--- abstract: 'We introduce the task of multi-camera trajectory forecasting (MCTF), where the future trajectory of an object is predicted in a network of cameras. Prior works consider forecasting trajectories in a single camera view. Our work is the first to consider the challenging scenario of forecasting across multi...
--- abstract: 'We study closed [*dense*]{} collections of hard spheres that collide inelastically with constant coefficient of normal restitution. We find inhomogeneous states (IS) where the density profile is spatially non-uniform but constant in time. The states are exact solutions of non-linear partial differential ...
--- abstract: 'In this supplementary materials section, we provide (i) additional information on the numerical simulations of the main work, (ii) the derivation of all prefactors in the analytical theory, and (iii) unpublished experiments of the contact stiffness of a polymer pressed against a rough substrate.' author:...
--- abstract: 'We analyze the effect of local decoherence of two qubits on their entanglement and the Bell inequality violation. Decoherence is described by Kraus operators, which take into account dephasing and energy relaxation at an arbitrary temperature. We show that in the experiments with superconducting phase qu...
--- abstract: 'We have obtained the most extensive and most accurate photometric data of a Blazhko variable MW Lyr during the 2006-2007 observing seasons. The data within each 0.05 phase bin of the modulation period ($P_m=f_m^{-1}$) cover the entire light cycle of the primary pulsation period ($P_0=f_0^{-1}$), making p...
--- abstract: 'We derive quantum spectral curve equation for $(q,t)$-matrix model, which turns out to be a certain difference equation. We show that in Nekrasov–Shatashvili limit this equation reproduces the Baxter TQ equation for the quantum XXZ spin chain. This chain is spectral dual to the Seiberg–Witten integrable ...
--- abstract: 'According to earlier first-principles calculations, the spin-disorder contribution to the resistivity of rare-earth metals in the paramagnetic state is strongly underestimated if Matthiessen’s rule is assumed to hold. To understand this discrepancy, the resistivity of paramagnetic Fe and Gd is evaluated ...
--- abstract: | We examine the problem of searching sequentially for a desired real value (a key) within a sorted unbalanced three-dimensional finite real array. This classic problem can be viewed as determining the correct dimensional threshold function from a finite class of such functions within the array, based...
--- abstract: | In this paper, we deal with the signed bad number and the negative decision number of graphs. We show that two upper bounds concerning these two parameters for bipartite graphs in papers \[Discrete Math. Algorithms Appl. 1 (2011), 33–41\] and \[Australas. J. Combin. 41 (2008), 263–272\] are not true...
--- abstract: 'Let $T$ be a totally ordered set and let $D(T)$ denote the set of all cuts of $T$. We prove the existence of a discrete valuation domain $O_{v}$ such that $T$ is order isomorphic to two special subsets of Spec$(O_{v})$. We prove that if $A$ is a ring (not necessarily commutative) whose prime spectrum is ...
--- abstract: 'A generic model for alternating lags in QPO harmonics is presented where variations in the photon spectrum are caused by oscillations in two parameters that characterize the spectrum. It is further assumed that variations in one of the parameters is linearly driven by variations in the other after a time...
--- abstract: 'We study the $1$- or $2$-level density of families of $L$-functions for Hecke–Maass forms over an imaginary quadratic field $F$. For test functions whose Fourier transform is supported in $\left(-\frac 32, \frac 32\right)$, we prove that the $1$-level density for Hecke–Maass forms over $F$ of square-free...
--- abstract: 'We show that the class of finite rooted binary plane trees is a Ramsey class (with respect to topological embeddings that map leaves to leaves). That is, for all such trees $P,H$ and every natural number $k$ there exists a tree $T$ such that for every $k$-coloring of the (topological) copies of $P$ in $T...
--- address: - 'Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185, Rome, Italy' - 'ICRA — International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics' author: - Simone Mercuri title: 'Nieh-Yan Invariant and Fermions in Ashtekar-Barbero-Immirzi Formalism' --- The introduction by Ashtekar of...
--- abstract: 'We develop a semidefinite programming method for the optimization of quantum networks, including both causal networks and networks with indefinite causal structure. Our method applies to a broad class of performance measures, defined operationally in terms of interactive tests set up by a verifier. We sh...
--- author: - | [ Fengying Li and  Shiqing Zhang and  Xiaoxiao Zhao]{}\ [Yangtze Center of Mathematics and College of Mathematics, Sichuan University,]{}\ [Chengdu 610064, People’s Republic of China]{} title: '**Nonplanar Periodic Solutions for Spatial Restricted N+1-Body Problems [^1]**' --- > [**Abstract...
--- author: - 'C. Martayan' - 'A.M. Hubert' - 'M. Floquet' - 'J. Fabregat' - 'Y. Frémat' - 'C. Neiner' - 'P. Stee' - 'J. Zorec' date: 'Received /Accepted' title: 'A study of the B and Be star population in the field of the LMC open cluster NGC2004 with VLT-FLAMES' --- Introduction ============ The origin of the Be ph...
--- abstract: 'Inelastic neutron scattering profiles of spin waves in the dilute quasi-one-dimensional Ising-like antiferromagnet CsCo$_{0.83}$Mg$_{0.17}$Br$_3$ have been investigated. Calculations of S$^{xx}(Q,\omega)$, based on an effective spin Hamiltonian, accurately describe the experimental spin wave spectrum of ...
[**Efficient computation of first passage times in Kou’s jump-diffusion model**]{}\ \[8 pt\] [Abdel Belkaid]{}[^1] and [Frederic Utzet]{}[^2] [**Abstract.**]{} S. G. Kou and H. Wang \[First Passage times of a Jump Diffusion Process *Ann. Appl. Probab.* [**35**]{} (2003) 504–531\] give expressions of both the (real) L...
--- abstract: 'The Tabu Search (TS) metaheuristic has been proposed for K-Means clustering as an alternative to Lloyd’s algorithm, which for all its ease of implementation and fast runtime, has the major drawback of being trapped at local optima. While the TS approach can yield superior performance, it involves a high ...
--- abstract: 'Gravitational microlensing events provide a potentially powerful tool for the study of stellar populations. In particular, they can be used to discover and study a variety of binary systems. A large number of binary lenses have already been found by the microlensing surveys and a few of these systems sho...
\[PrimeraPagina\] [INTRODUCTION]{} ================ General Relativity is the theory used to describe gravitational phenomena, it provides impeccable agreement with observations. The Universe is modelled as a (3+1)-dimensional manifold (3 spacial dimensions and 1 time dimension). In this theory, the quanta associated...
--- abstract: | We use redshift determinations and spectral analysis of galaxies in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to study the properties of local radio sources with $S\ge 1$ mJy. 557 objects (hereafter called the spectroscopic sample) drawn from the FIRST survey, corresponding to $2.3$ per cent of the total radio...
--- author: - Alexander Schmidt and Kay Wingberg date: 'September 25, 2008' title: '**Extensions of profinite duality groups**' --- Let $G$ be a profinite group and let $p$ be a prime number. By $\Mod_p(G)$ we denote the category of discrete $p$-primary $G$-modules. For $A\in \Mod_p(G)$ and $i\geq 0$, let $$D_i(G,A)=\...
--- abstract: 'Solid-state quantum emitters are excellent sources of on-demand indistinguishable or entangled photons and can host long-lived spin memories, crucial resources for photonic quantum information applications. However, their scalability remains an outstanding challenge. Here we present a scalable technique ...
--- abstract: 'We consider a hypothetical substance, where interaction between (within) structural elements of condensed matter (molecules, nanoparticles, clusters, layers, wires etc.) depends on state of Cooper pairs: an additional work must be made against this interaction to break a pair. Such a system can be descri...
--- author: - 'Danupon Nanongkai[^1]' bibliography: - 'references-APSP.bib' title: Distributed Approximation Algorithms for Weighted Shortest Paths --- [^1]: ICERM, Brown University, USA. Work partially done while at University of Vienna, Austria and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and while supported in ...
--- abstract: 'A non-LTE analysis of K [i]{} resonance lines at 7664.91 and 7698.97 $\rm\AA$ was carried out for 15 red giants belonging to three globular clusters of different metallicity (M 4, M 13, and M 15) along with two reference early-K giants ($\rho$ Boo and $\alpha$ Boo), in order to check whether the K abunda...
--- abstract: 'We present a modal approach to compute the Purcell factor in Mie resonators exhibiting both electric and magnetic resonances. The analytic expressions of the normal modes are used to calculate the effective volumes. We show that important features of the effective volume can be predicted thanks to the tr...
--- author: - 'C. Nakamoto$^1$' - 'Y. Suzuki$^{2,\,3}$' bibliography: - 'apssamp.bib' nocite: '[@*]' title: | Quark-Pauli effects in the three-baryons\ Supplemental Material --- Antisymmetric three octet-baryon spin-flavor functions ====================================================== --------------------...
--- abstract: 'We reexamine the range of validity of finite-size scaling in the $\varphi^4$ lattice model and the $\varphi^4$ field theory below four dimensions. We show that general renormalization-group arguments based on the renormalizability of the $\varphi^4$ theory do not rule out the possibility of a violation o...
--- abstract: 'Two examples, not connected at present, from author’s papers (Nuovo Cim., 1992, v.105A, p.77 \[hep-th/0207210\] and GRG, 1999, v.31, p.1431 \[gr-qc/0207017\]) are considered here in which a physical model has discrete symmetries and additional non-observable coordinates or parameters. Then it is possible...
--- abstract: 'At OAB we were, during the year 1998, deeply involved in planning two important space missions for which very large ground based telescopes, VLT in particular, would play a very large and important role in the optical followup. The study of the first mission, Wide Angle X-ray Survey using a Wide Field X-...
--- abstract: 'I present a biased review of when the epoch of formation of galaxies (both disks and ellipticals) maybe took place. I base my arguments in simple (mostly) analytic models that have been recently developed to reproduce most of the observed photometric, chemical and dynamical properties of galaxies both at...
--- abstract: 'A methodology is proposed for finding structures that are, optically speaking, locally optimal : a physical analysis of much simpler structures is used to constrain the optimization process. The obtained designs are based on a flat amorphous silicon layer (to minimize recombination) with a patterned anti...
--- abstract: 'We have conducted a large-scale survey of 120 planetary nebulae (PNe) to search for the near-infrared emission lines \[\] 2.199 and \[\] 2.287 $\mu$m. The neutron(*n*)-capture elements Se and Kr may be enriched in a PN if its progenitor star experienced *s*-process nucleosynthesis and third dredge-up. In...
--- abstract: 'We report a systematic study on the crystal growth of the rare-earth titanates $R_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ ($R$ = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Y, Er, Yb and Lu) and Y-doped Tb$_{2-x}$Y$_x$Ti$_2$O$_7$ ($x$ = 0.2 and 1) using an optical floating-zone method. High-quality single crystals were successfully obtained and the growth c...
--- author: - | Minas Gjoka\ CalIT2\ UC Irvine\ [*mgjoka@uci.edu*]{}\ - | Carter T. Butts\ Sociology Dept\ UC Irvine\ [*buttsc@uci.edu*]{}\ - | Maciej Kurant\ CalIT2\ UC Irvine\ [*maciej.kurant@gmail.com*]{}\ - | Athina Markopoulou\ EECS Dept\ UC Irvine\ [...
--- abstract: 'Voting can abstractly model any decision-making scenario and as such it has been extensively studied over the decades. Recently, the related literature has focused on quantifying the impact of utilizing only limited information in the voting process on the societal welfare for the outcome, by bounding th...
--- abstract: 'Realistic methods to create vortices in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates are discussed. It is shown that, contrary to common intuition, rotation of the trap containing a spin-orbit condensate does not lead to an equilibrium state with static vortex structures, but gives rise instead to non-eq...
--- abstract: 'We consider scenarios of warped extra-dimensions with all matter fields in the bulk and in which both the hierarchy and the flavor puzzles of the Standard Model are addressed. The simplest extra dimensional extension of the Standard Model Higgs sector, i.e a 5D bulk Higgs doublet, can be a natural and si...
--- author: - 'A.Chantelauze for the EDELWEISS collaboration' title: 'Status of the EDELWEISS-2 Dark Matter Search' --- Introduction {#intro} ============ Understanding the nature of Dark Matter in the universe is a major challenge for modern cosmology and astrophysics. One of the well-motivated candidates is the gen...
--- abstract: 'A secret-key generation scheme based on a layered broadcasting strategy is introduced for slow-fading channels. In the model considered, Alice wants to share a key with Bob while keeping the key secret from Eve, who is a passive eavesdropper. Both Alice-Bob and Alice-Eve channels are assumed to undergo s...
--- abstract: | In this paper, we deal with the Cauchy problem of the quasilinear Schrödinger equation $$\left\{ \begin{array}{lll} iu_t=\Delta u+2uh'(|u|^2)\Delta h(|u|^2)+F(|u|^2)u \quad {\rm for} \ x\in \mathbb{R}^N, \ t>0\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x),\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^N. \end{array}\right.$$ Here $h(s)$ ...
--- abstract: 'A deep and detailed examination of 29 classical Cepheids with the [*Spitzer*]{} Space Telescope has revealed three stars with strong nearby extended emission detected in multiple bands which appears to be physically associated with the stars. RS Pup was already known to possess extended infrared emission...
--- abstract: 'Multiplex is a set of graphs on the same vertex set, i.e. $\{G(V,E_1),\ldots,G(V,E_m)\}$. It is a generalized graph to model multiple relationships with parallel edges between vertices. This paper is a literature review of existing communities detection algorithms for multiplex and a comparative analysis...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, a single user multiple input single output downlink wireless communication system is investigated, in which multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are deployed to improve the propagation condition. Our objective is to optimize the phase shift matrices of all the RISs by exploi...
--- abstract: 'We determine the path of the light around a dielectric vortex described by the relativistic vortex flow of a perfect fluid.' author: - | B. Linet [^1]\ Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Physique Théorique\ CNRS/UPRES-A 6083, Université François Rabelais\ Parc de Grandmont 37200 TOURS, Franc...
**Una costruzione del sistema dei numeri reali**\ **Maria Rosaria ENEA,  Donato SAELI** <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Abstract.</span> There are many ways to construct the field $\, \R \,$ of real numbers. The most important and famous of these employ Cauchy sequences (Cantor) or cuts (Dedekind) in the field ...
--- abstract: 'Convolution operation is indispensable in studying analog optical and digital signal processing. Equally important is the correlation operation. The time domain community often teaches convolution and correlation only with one dimensional time signals. That does not clearly demonstrate the effect of conv...
--- abstract: 'We employ the first two years of data from the near-infrared, high-resolution SDSS-III/APOGEE spectroscopic survey to investigate the distribution of metallicity and $\alpha$-element abundances of stars over a large part of the Milky Way disk. Using a sample of $\approx10,000$ kinematically-unbiased red-...
--- abstract: 'This paper reviews stability analysis techniques by using the Nyquist and Nichols charts. The relationship between the Nyquist and Nichols stability criteria is fully described by using the crossing concept. The results are demonstrated through several numerical examples. This tutorial provides useful in...
--- abstract: 'We generalize two bijections due to Garsia and Gessel to compute the generating functions of the two vector statistics $({\mathop{\rm des}}_G, \maj,\ell_G, \operatorname{col})$ and $({\mathop{\rm des}}_G, \ides_G, \maj, \imaj, \operatorname{col}, \icol)$ over the wreath product of a symmetric group by a ...
--- abstract: 'We present the study of the landscape structure of hard and soft spheres as a function of the packing fraction and of the energy. We find that, on approaching the jamming transition, the number of different configurations available to the system has a steep increase and that a hierarchical organization o...
--- author: - 'Parameswaran Kamalaruban$^{1}$[^1]' - 'Rati Devidze$^{2}$' - | Volkan Cevher$^{1}$ Adish Singla$^{2}$$^1$LIONS, EPFL\ $^2$Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)\ {kamalaruban.parameswaran,volkan.cevher}@epfl.ch, {rdevidze,adishs}@mpi-sws.org bibliography: - 'main.bib' title: Inte...
--- abstract: | This paper concerns proving almost tight (super-polynomial) running times, for achieving desired approximation ratios for various problems. To illustrate the question we study, let us consider the ${\textsc{Set-Cover}\xspace}$ problem with $n$ elements and $m$ sets. Now we specify our goal to approx...
--- abstract: 'The CMS Beam Conditions and Radiation Monitoring System, BRM, will support beam tuning, protect the CMS detector from adverse beam conditions, and measure the accumulated dose close to or inside all sub-detectors. It is composed of different sub-systems measuring either the particle flux near the beam pi...
--- abstract: 'The huge wealth of data in the health domain can be exploited to create models that predict development of health states over time. Temporal learning algorithms are well suited to learn relationships between health states and make predictions about their future developments. However, these algorithms: (1...
[****]{} [**Edward O. Barnes$^a$, Xiaojun Chen$^{a,b}$, Peilin Li$^a$ and Richard G. Compton$^a$\***]{} \*Corresponding author $^a$Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom. $^b$College of Sciences, Nanjing Tech Univer...
--- abstract: 'Deep X-ray surveys by [*Chandra*]{} and [*XMM-Newton*]{} have resolved about 80% of the 2–10 [keV]{} cosmic extragalactic X-ray background (CXRB) into point sources, the majority of which are obscured AGN. The obscuration might be connected to processes within the host galaxy, possibly the star-formation...
--- abstract: 'In time-domain measurements of a Poisson two-level system, the observed transition rates are always smaller than those of the actual system, a general consequence of finite measurement bandwidth in an experiment. This underestimation of the rates is significant even when the measurement and detection app...
--- author: - 'Fabien Gensbittel[^1] , Jérôme Renault$^*$' title: The value of Markov Chain Games with incomplete information on both sides --- We consider zero-sum repeated games with incomplete information on both sides, where the states privately observed by each player follow independent Markov chains. It generali...
--- abstract: | Observations reveal that the peaks of the X-ray map and the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect map of some galaxy clusters are offset from each other. In this paper, we perform a set of hydrodynamical simulations of mergers of two galaxy clusters to investigate the spatial offset between the maxima of t...
pz.sty epsf.sty =-0.75cm [**GSC 2576-01248: a short-period Algol-type binary with O’Connell effect**]{} ============================================================================== GSC 2576–01248 = T-CrB0-04444 = 2MASS 16113251+3306054 (16113251 +3306054, J2000; Skrutskie et al. 2006) was discovered as an eclipsin...
--- abstract: 'We exploit the quantum coherence between pair-produced $D^0$ and $\bar D^0$ in $\psi(3770)$ decays to study charm mixing, which is characterized by the parameters $x$ and $y$, and to make a first determination of the relative strong phase $\delta$ between $D^0\to K^+\pi^-$ and $\bar D^0\to K^+\pi^-$. Usi...
--- abstract: 'A population of neurons typically exhibits a broad diversity of responses to sensory inputs. The intuitive notion of functional classification is that cells can be clustered so that most of the diversity is captured in the identity of the clusters rather than by individuals within clusters. We show how t...
--- abstract: 'We study the relation between the coefficients of Taylor series and Kapteyn series representing the same function. We compute explicit formulas for expressing one in terms of the other and give examples to illustrate our method.' address: | Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 136,\ ...
--- abstract: 'We show that the capacity of a complex network that models a city street grid to support congested traffic can be optimized by using routes that collectively minimize the maximum ratio of betweenness to capacity in any link. Networks with a heterogeneous distribution of link capacities and with a heterog...
=1 Introduction ============ This paper reviews recent analytic results on the perfect transfer and fractional revival of states or excitations in photonic lattices using a general method that also applies to spin chains, tight-binding Hamiltonians, etc. Controlling the evolution of quantum states in devices is of hi...
--- abstract: 'In this article we study the scaling limit of the interface model on $\operatorname{\mathbb{Z}}^d$ where the Hamiltonian is given by a mixed gradient and Laplacian interaction. We show that in any dimension the scaling limit is given by the Gaussian free field. We discuss the appropriate spaces in which ...
--- abstract: 'We present a joint theory-experiment study on the transmission/absorption saturation after ultrafast pulse excitation in graphene. We reveal an unconventional double-bended saturation behavior: Both bendings separately follow the standard saturation model exhibiting two saturation fluences, however, the ...
--- abstract: 'We discuss a 175 deg$^2$ spectroscopic survey for blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars in the Galactic halo. We use the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to select BHB candidates, and find that the 2MASS and SDSS color-selection is 38% and 50% efficient, respectively...
--- abstract: 'The parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian naturally arises in American option models when the assets prices are driven by pure jump Lévy processes. In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary. Our main result establishes that, when $s>\frac12$, the free boundary is a $C^{...
--- author: - 'Sofiane Faci [^1]' bibliography: - 'Biblio.bib' title: 'Conformal invariance: from Weyl to $SO(2,d)$ ' --- Weyl rescalings and $SO(2,d)$ transformations have different natures, the first is a metric rescaling and the second is a coordinate system transformation. However, the two are subtilely related. T...
--- abstract: 'Quantum phase transitions are usually studied in terms of Hermitian Hamiltonians. However, cold-atom experiments are intrinsically non-Hermitian due to spontaneous decay. Here, we show that non-Hermitian systems exhibit quantum phase transitions that are beyond the paradigm of Hermitian physics. We consi...
--- abstract: 'We present a pedagogical and phenomenological introduction to the study of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization to build intuition about the prospects and challenges facing its detection. Thomson scattering of temperature anisotropies on the last scattering surface generates a linear polarizati...
--- abstract: 'For low-mass (frequency $\ll {{\, {\rm GHz}}}$) axions, dark matter detection experiments searching for an axion-photon-photon coupling generally have suppressed sensitivity, if they use a static background magnetic field. This geometric suppression can be alleviated by using a high-frequency oscillating...
--- abstract: 'Bianchi VIII vacuum solutions to Einstein’s equations are causally geodesically complete to the future, given an appropriate time orientation, and the objective of this article is to analyze the asymptotic behaviour of solutions in this time direction. For the Bianchi class A spacetimes, there is a formu...
--- abstract: | An ideal Maxwell-Boltzmann gas confined in various rectangular nano domains is considered under quantum size effects. Thermodynamic quantities are calculated from their relations with partition function which consists of triple infinite summations over momentum states in each direction. To get analy...
--- abstract: 'One of the main theoretical issues in developing a theory of anisotropic viscoelastic media at finite strains lies in the proper definition of the material symmetry group and its evolution with time. In this paper the matter is discussed thoroughly and addressed by introducing a novel anisotropic remodel...
--- abstract: 'We present a quenched lattice QCD calculation of spin-1/2 five-quark states with $uudd\bar{s}$ quark content for both positive and negative parities. We do not observe any bound pentaquark state in these channels for either $I = 0$ or $I =1$. The states we found are consistent with KN scattering states w...
--- abstract: 'This paper presents mathematical framework and study of proactive routing Protocols. The performance analysis of three major proactive routing protocols: Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV) , Fish-eye State Routing (FSR) and Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) are under consideration in this wor...
--- abstract: 'A pair of surgeries on a knot is chirally cosmetic if they result in homeomorphic manifolds with opposite orientations. Using recent methods of Ichihara, Ito, and Saito, we show that, except for the (2,5) and (2,7)-torus knots, the genus 2 and 3 alternating odd pretzel knots do not admit any chirally cos...
--- abstract: 'We have searched for the SiO $J=1$–0 $v=$ 1 and 2 maser lines at $\sim 43$ GHz in 277 2MASS/MSX/IRAS sources off the Galactic plane ($|b|\gtrsim 3^{\circ}$), which resulted in 119 (112 new) detections. Among the new detections, are two very faint objects with MSX $12 \mu$m flux densities below 2 Jy. Thes...
--- abstract: 'We prove a sharp remainder term for Hölder’s inequality for traces as a consequence of the uniform convexity properties of the Schatten trace norms. We then show how this implies a novel family of Pinsker type bounds for the quantum Renyi entropy. Finally, we show how the sharp form of the usual quantum ...
--- abstract: 'A synoptic view on the long-established theory of light propagation in crystalline dielectrics is presented, where charges, tightly bound to atoms (molecules, ions) interact with the microscopic local electromagnetic field. Applying the Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition to the current density in Maxwell’s eq...
--- abstract: 'We discuss $L_p$-estimates for finite difference schemes approximating parabolic, possibly degenerate, SPDEs, with initial conditions from $W^m_p$ and free terms taking values in $W^m_p.$ Consequences of these estimates include an asymptotic expansion of the error, allowing the acceleration of the approx...
--- abstract: 'This is a brief review of experimental strategies for physics beyond the Standard Model based on the talk given in the “Physics at LHC” in Vienna, July 2004 [@vienna]. The emphasis is on Tevatron thematology and experience.' title: Experimental Status of Beyond the Standard Model Collider Searches --- T...
--- abstract: | We consider “forward-backward” parabolic equations in the abstract form $Jd \psi / d x + L \psi = 0$, $ 0< x < \tau \leq \infty$, where $J$ and $L$ are operators in a Hilbert space $H$ such that $J=J^*=J^{-1}$, $L=L^* \geq 0$, and $\ker L = 0$. The following theorem is proved: if the operator $B=JL$...