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Real-time Correlators and Hidden Conformal Symmetry in Kerr/CFT Correspondence
In this paper, we study the real-time correlators in Kerr/CFT, in the low
frequency limit of generic non-extremal Kerr(-Newman) black holes. From the low
frequency scattering of Kerr-Newman black holes, we show that for the uncharged
scalar scattering, there exists hidden conformal symmetry on the solution
space. Similar to Kerr case, this suggests that the Kerr-Newman black hole is
dual to a two-dimensional CFT with central charges and
temperatures .
Using the Minkowski prescription, we compute the real-time correlators of
charged scalar and find perfect match with CFT prediction. We further discuss
the low-frequency scattering of photons and gravitons by Kerr black hole and
find that their retarded Green's functions are in good agreement with CFT
prediction. Our study supports the idea that the hidden conformal symmetry in
the solution space is essential to Kerr/CFT correspondence.Comment: 15 pages, Latex; typos corrected, references updated; minor
correction, published versio
A Contact Energy Function Considering Residue Hydrophobic Environment and Its Application in Protein Fold Recognition
The three-dimensional (3D) structure prediction of proteins is an important task in bioinformatics. Finding energy functions that can better represent residue-residue and residue-solvent interactions is a crucial way to improve the prediction accuracy. The widely used contact energy functions mostly only consider the contact frequency between different types of residues; however, we find that the contact frequency also relates to the residue hydrophobic environment. Accordingly, we present an improved contact energy function to integrate the two factors, which can reflect the influence of hydrophobic interaction on the stabilization of protein 3D structure more effectively. Furthermore, a fold recognition (threading) approach based on this energy function is developed. The testing results obtained with 20 randomly selected proteins demonstrate that, compared with common contact energy functions, the proposed energy function can improve the accuracy of the fold template prediction from 20% to 50%, and can also improve the accuracy of the sequence-template alignment from 35% to 65%
Coding overcomplete representations of audio using the MCLT
We propose a system for audio coding using the modulated complex
lapped transform (MCLT). In general, it is difficult to encode signals using
overcomplete representations without avoiding a penalty in rate-distortion
performance. We show that the penalty can be significantly reduced for
MCLT-based representations, without the need for iterative methods of
sparsity reduction. We achieve that via a magnitude-phase polar quantization
and the use of magnitude and phase prediction. Compared to systems based
on quantization of orthogonal representations such as the modulated lapped
transform (MLT), the new system allows for reduced warbling artifacts and
more precise computation of frequency-domain auditory masking functions
Lagrangian single particle turbulent statistics through the Hilbert-Huang Transform
The Hilbert-Huang transform is applied to analyze single particle Lagrangian
velocity data from numerical simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence. The
velocity trajectory is described in terms of a set of intrinsic mode functions,
C_{i}(t), and of their instantaneous frequency, \omega_{i}(t). On the basis of
this decomposition we define the \omega-conditioned statistical moments of the
C_{i} modes, named q-order Hilbert Spectra (HS). We show that such new
quantities have enhanced scaling properties as compared to traditional Fourier
transform- or correlation-based (Structure Functions) statistical indicators,
thus providing better insights into the turbulent energy transfer process. We
present a clear empirical evidence that the energy-like quantity, i.e. the
second-order HS, displays a linear scaling in time in the inertial range, as
expected from dimensional analysis and never observed before. We also measure
high order moment scaling exponents in a direct way, without resorting the
Extended Self Similarity (ESS) procedure. This leads to a new estimate of the
Lagrangian structure functions exponents which are consistent with the
multifractal prediction in the Lagrangian frame as proposed in [Biferale et
al., Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 93, 064502 (2004)].Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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