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NHDS: The New Hampshire Dispersion Relation Solver
NHDS is the New Hampshire Dispersion Relation Solver. This article describes
the numerics of the solver and its capabilities. The code is available for
download on https://github.com/danielver02/NHDS.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figur
Boxicity and separation dimension
A family of permutations of the vertices of a hypergraph is
called 'pairwise suitable' for if, for every pair of disjoint edges in ,
there exists a permutation in in which all the vertices in one
edge precede those in the other. The cardinality of a smallest such family of
permutations for is called the 'separation dimension' of and is denoted
by . Equivalently, is the smallest natural number so that
the vertices of can be embedded in such that any two
disjoint edges of can be separated by a hyperplane normal to one of the
axes. We show that the separation dimension of a hypergraph is equal to the
'boxicity' of the line graph of . This connection helps us in borrowing
results and techniques from the extensive literature on boxicity to study the
concept of separation dimension.Comment: This is the full version of a paper by the same name submitted to
WG-2014. Some results proved in this paper are also present in
arXiv:1212.6756. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1212.675
Instabilities Driven by the Drift and Temperature Anisotropy of Alpha Particles in the Solar Wind
We investigate the conditions under which parallel-propagating
Alfv\'en/ion-cyclotron (A/IC) waves and fast-magnetosonic/whistler (FM/W) waves
are driven unstable by the differential flow and temperature anisotropy of
alpha particles in the solar wind. We focus on the limit in which , where is the
parallel alpha-particle thermal speed and is the Alfv\'en
speed. We derive analytic expressions for the instability thresholds of these
waves, which show, e.g., how the minimum unstable alpha-particle beam speed
depends upon , the degree of alpha-particle
temperature anisotropy, and the alpha-to-proton temperature ratio. We validate
our analytical results using numerical solutions to the full hot-plasma
dispersion relation. Consistent with previous work, we find that temperature
anisotropy allows A/IC waves and FM/W waves to become unstable at significantly
lower values of the alpha-particle beam speed than in the
isotropic-temperature case. Likewise, differential flow lowers the minimum
temperature anisotropy needed to excite A/IC or FM/W waves relative to the case
in which . We discuss the relevance of our results to alpha
particles in the solar wind near 1 AU.Comment: 13 pages, 13 figure
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