Mathematics

Authors and titles for December 2009

[1401] arXiv:0912.2912 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Particle Ordering in Zero Range Process : Exact spatial correlations of the corresponding exclusion models

Urna Basu, P. K. Mohanty

Comments: 9 pages, 1 eps figure

Journal-ref: J. Stat. Mech. L03006 (2010)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1402] arXiv:0912.2989 (cross-list from nlin.CD) [pdf, other]

Title: Geometric dynamics of optimization

F. Gay-Balmaz, D. D. Holm, T. S. Ratiu

Comments: 2nd revision: Enhanced Introduction and Conclusion sections, Comments welcome!

Subjects: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1403] arXiv:0912.3016 (cross-list from cs.CG) [pdf, other]

Title: Zone Diagrams in Euclidean Spaces and in Other Normed Spaces

Akitoshi Kawamura, Jiří Matoušek, Takeshi Tokuyama

Comments: Title page + 16 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: Mathematische Annalen 354(4):1201-1221, 2012

Subjects: Computational Geometry (cs.CG); Metric Geometry (math.MG)

[1404] arXiv:0912.3132 (cross-list from q-fin.PM) [pdf, other]

Title: Multiple defaults and contagion risks

Ying Jiao (PMA)

Subjects: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM); Probability (math.PR)

[1405] arXiv:0912.3198 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: The Step-Harmonic Potential

Luca Rizzi, Oliver F. Piattella, Sergio L. Cacciatori, Vittorio Gorini

Comments: 19 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys. 78 (8), August 2010

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[1406] arXiv:0912.3245 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Structured Error Recovery for Codeword-Stabilized Quantum Codes

Yunfan Li, Ilya Dumer, Markus Grassl, Leonid P. Pryadko

Comments: 13 pages, 9 eps figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 81, 052337 (2010)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[1407] arXiv:0912.3279 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Supersymmetric Extension of Hopf Maps: N=4 sigma-models and the S^3 -> S^2 Fibration

L. Faria Carvalho, Z. Kuznetsova, F. Toppan

Comments: 24 pages

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.B834:237-257,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1408] arXiv:0912.3299 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the quantum gravity scale from kappa - Minkowski spacetime

A. Borowiec, Kumar S. Gupta, S. Meljanac, A. Pachol

Comments: 9 pages, final published version, revised abstract, introduction and conclusion, to make it clear to general reader

Journal-ref: Europhys.Lett.92:20006,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1409] arXiv:0912.3331 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Abelian Sandpile Model on the Honeycomb Lattice

N. Azimi-Tafreshi, H. Dashti-Naserabadi, S. Moghimi-Araghi, P. Ruelle

Comments: 24 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: J.Stat Mech.1002:P02004,2010

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1410] arXiv:0912.3360 (cross-list from hep-lat) [pdf, other]

Title: The Complex Langevin method: When can it be trusted?

Gert Aarts (Swansea University), Erhard Seiler (MPI Munich), Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu (Heidelberg University and FEST, Heidelberg)

Comments: 14 pages, including several eps figures and tables; clarification and minor corrections added, to appear in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D81:054508,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1411] arXiv:0912.3362 (cross-list from q-fin.PM) [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic Power Utility-Based Pricing and Hedging

Jan Kallsen, Johannes Muhle-Karbe, Richard Vierthauer

Comments: 32 pages, 4 figures, to appear in "Mathematics and Financial Economics"

Subjects: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Probability (math.PR)

[1412] arXiv:0912.3404 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Self-dual Hopfions

L. A. Ferreira, A.C. Riserio do Bonfim

Comments: plain latex, no figures, 23 pages

Journal-ref: JHEP 1003:119,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)

[1413] arXiv:0912.3406 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Self-dual Einstein Spaces, Heavenly Metrics and Twistors

Sergei Alexandrov, Boris Pioline, Stefan Vandoren

Comments: 44 pages, 1 figure; misprints corrected

Journal-ref: J.Math.Phys. 51 (2010) 073510

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Differential Geometry (math.DG)

[1414] arXiv:0912.3408 (cross-list from stat.ML) [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal construction of k-nearest neighbor graphs for identifying noisy clusters

Markus Maier, Matthias Hein, Ulrike von Luxburg

Comments: 31 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Theoretical Computer Science, 410(19), 1749-1764, April 2009

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[1415] arXiv:0912.3422 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Spectrum of the Product of Independent Random Gaussian Matrices

Z. Burda, R. A. Janik, B. Waclaw

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, minor changes, some references added

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 81, 041132 (2010)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1416] arXiv:0912.3441 (cross-list from cs.NI) [pdf, other]

Title: On Space-Time Capacity Limits in Mobile and Delay Tolerant Networks

Philippe Jacquet, Bernard Mans, Georgios Rodolakis

Comments: Part of this work will be presented in "On Space-Time Capacity Limits in Mobile and Delay Tolerant Networks", P. Jacquet, B. Mans and G. Rodolakis, IEEE Infocom, 2010

Subjects: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[1417] arXiv:0912.3468 (cross-list from nlin.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Poisson Structures of Calogero-Moser and Ruijsenaars-Schneider Models

Inês Aniceto, Jean Avan, Antal Jevicki

Comments: 15 pages, no figures; v2 references added, typos corrected

Journal-ref: J.Phys.A43:185201,2010

Subjects: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1418] arXiv:0912.3503 (cross-list from physics.gen-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Absolutely Secure Communications by Johnson-like Noise and Kirchhoff's Laws

Laszlo B. Kish

Comments: Invited paper for the Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan, for the special issue on "Fluctuations and Noise"

Journal-ref: Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan) Vol. 49 (2010) 212-216

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Information Theory (cs.IT); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[1419] arXiv:0912.3633 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: One-Dimensional Impenetrable Anyons in Thermal Equilibrium. IV. Large Time and Distance Asymptotic Behavior of the Correlation Functions

Ovidiu I. Patu, Vladimir E. Korepin, Dmitri V. Averin

Comments: 26 pages, RevTeX 4

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010) 115204

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[1420] arXiv:0912.3697 (cross-list from nlin.SI) [pdf, other]

Title: Natural connections for semi-Hamiltonian systems: The case of the $\epsilon$-system

Paolo Lorenzoni, Marco Pedroni

Comments: 24 pages

Journal-ref: Letters in Mathematical Physics: Volume 97, Issue 1 (2011), 85-108

Subjects: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI); Differential Geometry (math.DG)

[1421] arXiv:0912.4074 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Quasi-local variables and scalar averaging in LTB dust models

Roberto A. Sussman

Comments: Submitted contribution for the proceedings of the "Invisible Universe Internationale Confernce", Palais de L'UNESCO, Paris, France, June 29-July 3, 2009. Jean-Michel ALIMI, editor. 10 pages, 2 figures. AIP macros: layoutstyle 8x11single

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.1241:1146-1155,2010

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1422] arXiv:0912.4164 (cross-list from cs.CG) [pdf, other]

Title: Distance k-Sectors Exist

Keiko Imai, Akitoshi Kawamura, Jiří Matoušek, Daniel Reem, Takeshi Tokuyama

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Computational Geometry 43(9):713-720, November 2010

Subjects: Computational Geometry (cs.CG); Metric Geometry (math.MG)

[1423] arXiv:0912.4210 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Analytical Constructions of a Family of Dense Tetrahedron Packings and the Role of Symmetry

S. Torquato, Y. Jiao

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Metric Geometry (math.MG)

[1424] arXiv:0912.4226 (cross-list from cs.DS) [pdf, other]

Title: Computing Least Fixed Points of Probabilistic Systems of Polynomials

Javier Esparza, Andreas Gaiser, Stefan Kiefer

Comments: Published in the Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS). Technical Report is also available via arxiv.org

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS) 2010

Subjects: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

[1425] arXiv:0912.4249 (cross-list from physics.optics) [pdf, other]

Title: Acoustic cloaking and mirages with flying carpets

Andre Diatta, Guillaume Dupont, Sebastien Guenneau, Stefan Enoch

Comments: 26 pages, 9 figures. Key words: Mathematical methods in physics; Mathematical Physics, electromagnetic theory; Metamaterials;Anisotropic optical materials; invisibility; cloak

Journal-ref: Opt. Express 18 (2010), no. 11, 11537-11551

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1426] arXiv:0912.4261 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Integration Over The u-Plane In Donaldson Theory With Surface Operators

Meng-Chwan Tan

Comments: 114 pages. Published version; typos corrected. See also sequel arXiv:1006.3313

Journal-ref: JHEP 1105:007,2011

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Differential Geometry (math.DG); Geometric Topology (math.GT)

[1427] arXiv:0912.4307 (cross-list from physics.soc-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: A Vibrational Approach to Node Centrality and Vulnerability in Complex Networks

Ernesto Estrada, Naomichi Hatano

Comments: 27 pages

Journal-ref: Physica A 389 (2010) 3648-3660

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1428] arXiv:0912.4438 (cross-list from cs.SC) [pdf, other]

Title: The weighted difference substitutions and Nonnegativity Decision of Forms

Xiaorong Hou, Song Xu, Junwei Shao

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figures

Subjects: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

[1429] arXiv:0912.4466 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Form-factors of the finite quantum XY-chain

Nikolai Iorgov

Comments: 20 pages; details of the derivation are added, comments on different regimes are given

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 335005

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)

[1430] arXiv:0912.4481 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Minisuperspace limit of the AdS3 WZNW model

Sylvain Ribault (LPTA)

Comments: 19 pages, v2: added section 2.4 about the completeness of bases of functions

Journal-ref: JHEP 1004:096,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1431] arXiv:0912.4544 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Lieb-Robinson bounds for commutator-bounded operators

Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz, Alioscia Hamma, Israel Klich, Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara

Comments: 5 pages, minor editorial changes

Journal-ref: Physical Review A Vol.81, No.4 (2010)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1432] arXiv:0912.4546 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Enhanced Feedback Iterative Decoding of Sparse Quantum Codes

Yun-Jiang Wang, Barry C. Sanders, Bao-Ming Bai, Xin-Mei Wang

Comments: 10 pages, 11 figures, Second version, To be appeared in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Journal-ref: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 58 (2): 1231-1241 (6 February 2012)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[1433] arXiv:0912.4640 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Landau-Zener tunneling for dephasing Lindblad evolutions

J.E. Avron, M. Fraas, G.M. Graf, P. Grech

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure, references and proof of eq.(22) added

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1434] arXiv:0912.4659 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Probability Density in the Complex Plane

Carl M. Bender, Daniel W. Hook, Peter N. Meisinger, Qing-hai Wang

Comments: 38 pages, 17figures

Journal-ref: Annals Phys.325:2332-2362,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[1435] arXiv:0912.4678 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum walks and elliptic integrals

Norio Konno

Comments: 8 pages, Journal-ref added

Journal-ref: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, Vol.20, pp.1091-1098 (2010)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Probability (math.PR)

[1436] arXiv:0912.4699 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Remarks on quiver gauge theories from open topological string theory

Nils Carqueville, Alexander Quintero Velez

Comments: 26 pages; v2: references added, exposition improved, example expanded; v3: minor changes; v4: small changes, corrected a mistake in example, all results are unaffected

Journal-ref: JHEP 1003:129,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)

[1437] arXiv:0912.4861 (cross-list from cond-mat.dis-nn) [pdf, other]

Title: Conjecture on the maximum cut and bisection width in random regular graphs

Lenka Zdeborová, Stefan Boettcher

Comments: 12 pages

Journal-ref: J. Stat. Mech. (2010) P02020

Subjects: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM); Combinatorics (math.CO)

[1438] arXiv:0912.4883 (cross-list from cs.LG) [pdf, other]

Title: On Finding Predictors for Arbitrary Families of Processes

Daniil Ryabko (INRIA Futurs, Lifl)

Journal-ref: Journal of Machine Learning Research 11 (2010) 581-602

Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Theory (cs.IT); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[1439] arXiv:0912.4884 (cross-list from cs.CC) [pdf, other]

Title: An Invariance Principle for Polytopes

Prahladh Harsha, Adam Klivans, Raghu Meka

Comments: Added a lowerbound and minor corrections

Journal-ref: JACM, 59(6):29, 2012

Subjects: Computational Complexity (cs.CC); Computational Geometry (cs.CG); Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Probability (math.PR)

[1440] arXiv:0912.4896 (cross-list from stat.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Nonparametric Bayesian Density Modeling with Gaussian Processes

Ryan Prescott Adams, Iain Murray, David J.C. MacKay

Comments: 26 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the Annals of Statistics

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[1441] arXiv:0912.5013 (cross-list from stat.ME) [pdf, other]

Title: Inference for Extremal Conditional Quantile Models, with an Application to Market and Birthweight Risks

Victor Chernozhukov, Ivan Fernandez-Val

Comments: 41 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Review of Economic Studies (2011) 78 (2): 559-589

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Econometrics (econ.EM); Statistics Theory (math.ST); Risk Management (q-fin.RM)

[1442] arXiv:0912.5075 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Noncommutative Extension of Minkowski Spacetime and Its Primary Application

Yan-Gang Miao

Comments: 24 pages, 3 figures; v2: a rewritten and enlarged version of arXiv:0903.4257[hep-th], to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. 123 (2010) No.5

Journal-ref: Prog. Theor. Phys.123:791-810, 2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1443] arXiv:0912.5083 (cross-list from nlin.CD) [pdf, other]

Title: Ulam method and fractal Weyl law for Perron--Frobenius operators

Leonardo Ermann, Dima L. Shepelyansky

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures. Research done at Quantware this http URL

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. B 75, 299-304 (2010)

Subjects: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)

[1444] arXiv:0912.5097 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: On the formation of trapped surfaces

S. Klainerman, I. Rodnianski

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

[1445] arXiv:0912.5125 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Superembedding approach to M0-brane and multiple M0-brane system

Igor A. Bandos

Comments: 14 pages, LaTeX, no figures. V2. Misprints corrected, to appear in Phys. Lett. B.

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B687:258-263,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1446] arXiv:0912.5187 (cross-list from nlin.PS) [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical Complexity in Traveling Densities

Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz, Jaime Sanudo

Comments: 4 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS); Information Theory (cs.IT); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[1447] arXiv:0912.5200 (cross-list from stat.ME) [pdf, other]

Title: Penalized Composite Quasi-Likelihood for Ultrahigh-Dimensional Variable Selection

Jelena Bradic, Jianqing Fan, Weiwei Wang

Journal-ref: Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series B (2011), 73(3), p. 325-349

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[1448] arXiv:0912.5225 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Form factors of descendant operators: $A^{(1)}_{L-1}$ affine Toda theory

Oleg Alekseev, Michael Lashkevich (Landau Inst.)

Comments: 26 pages; v2: a misprint corrected; an acknowledgment added; v3: minor correction; a reference added; v4: minor corrections

Journal-ref: JHEP 1007:095,2010

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)

[1449] arXiv:0912.5303 (cross-list from stat.ME) [pdf, other]

Title: Selection models under generalized symmetry settings

Adelchi Azzalini

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Probability (math.PR); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[1450] arXiv:0912.5449 (cross-list from cs.DS) [pdf, other]

Title: Time and Memory Efficient Lempel-Ziv Compression Using Suffix Arrays

Artur Ferreira, Arlindo Oliveira, Mario Figueiredo

Comments: 10 pages, submitted to DCC2010

Subjects: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS); Information Theory (cs.IT)