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Predictions for the First Parker Solar Probe Encounter
We examine Alfv\'en Wave Solar atmosphere Model (AWSoM) predictions of the
first Parker Solar Probe (PSP) encounter. We focus on the 12-day closest
approach centered on the 1st perihelion. AWSoM (van der Holst et al., 2014)
allows us to interpret the PSP data in the context of coronal heating via
Alfv\'en wave turbulence. The coronal heating and acceleration is addressed via
outward-propagating low-frequency Alfv\'en waves that are partially reflected
by Alfv\'en speed gradients. The nonlinear interaction of these
counter-propagating waves results in a turbulent energy cascade. To apportion
the wave dissipation to the electron and anisotropic proton temperatures, we
employ the results of the theories of linear wave damping and nonlinear
stochastic heating as described by Chandran et al. (2011). We find that during
the first encounter, PSP was in close proximity to the heliospheric current
sheet (HCS) and in the slow wind. PSP crossed the HCS two times, namely at
2018/11/03 UT 01:02 and 2018/11/08 UT 19:09 with perihelion occuring on the
south of side of the HCS. We predict the plasma state along the PSP trajectory,
which shows a dominant proton parallel temperature causing the plasma to be
firehose unstable.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journal Letter
A Bose-Einstein Approach to the Random Partitioning of an Integer
Consider N equally-spaced points on a circle of circumference N. Choose at
random n points out of on this circle and append clockwise an arc of
integral length k to each such point. The resulting random set is made of a
random number of connected components. Questions such as the evaluation of the
probability of random covering and parking configurations, number and length of
the gaps are addressed. They are the discrete versions of similar problems
raised in the continuum. For each value of k, asymptotic results are presented
when n,N both go to infinity according to two different regimes. This model may
equivalently be viewed as a random partitioning problem of N items into n
recipients. A grand-canonical balls in boxes approach is also supplied, giving
some insight into the multiplicities of the box filling amounts or spacings.
The latter model is a k-nearest neighbor random graph with N vertices and kn
edges. We shall also briefly consider the covering problem in the context of a
random graph model with N vertices and n (out-degree 1) edges whose endpoints
are no more bound to be neighbors
Semilinear mixed problems on Hilbert complexes and their numerical approximation
Arnold, Falk, and Winther recently showed [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010),
281-354] that linear, mixed variational problems, and their numerical
approximation by mixed finite element methods, can be studied using the
powerful, abstract language of Hilbert complexes. In another recent article
[arXiv:1005.4455], we extended the Arnold-Falk-Winther framework by analyzing
variational crimes (a la Strang) on Hilbert complexes. In particular, this gave
a treatment of finite element exterior calculus on manifolds, generalizing
techniques from surface finite element methods and recovering earlier a priori
estimates for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on 2- and 3-surfaces, due to Dziuk
[Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1357 (1988), 142-155] and later Demlow [SIAM J.
Numer. Anal., 47 (2009), 805-827], as special cases. In the present article, we
extend the Hilbert complex framework in a second distinct direction: to the
study of semilinear mixed problems. We do this, first, by introducing an
operator-theoretic reformulation of the linear mixed problem, so that the
semilinear problem can be expressed as an abstract Hammerstein equation. This
allows us to obtain, for semilinear problems, a priori solution estimates and
error estimates that reduce to the Arnold-Falk-Winther results in the linear
case. We also consider the impact of variational crimes, extending the results
of our previous article to these semilinear problems. As an immediate
application, this new framework allows for mixed finite element methods to be
applied to semilinear problems on surfaces.Comment: 22 pages; v2: major revision, particularly sharpening of error
estimates in Section
Far-from-constant mean curvature solutions of Einstein's constraint equations with positive Yamabe metrics
In this article we develop some new existence results for the Einstein
constraint equations using the Lichnerowicz-York conformal rescaling method.
The mean extrinsic curvature is taken to be an arbitrary smooth function
without restrictions on the size of its spatial derivatives, so that it can be
arbitrarily far from constant. The rescaled background metric belongs to the
positive Yamabe class, and the freely specifiable part of the data given by the
traceless-transverse part of the rescaled extrinsic curvature and the matter
fields are taken to be sufficiently small, with the matter energy density not
identically zero. Using topological fixed-point arguments and global barrier
constructions, we then establish existence of solutions to the constraints. Two
recent advances in the analysis of the Einstein constraint equations make this
result possible: A new type of topological fixed-point argument without
smallness conditions on spatial derivatives of the mean extrinsic curvature,
and a new construction of global super-solutions for the Hamiltonian constraint
that is similarly free of such conditions on the mean extrinsic curvature. For
clarity, we present our results only for strong solutions on closed manifolds.
However, our results also hold for weak solutions and for other cases such as
compact manifolds with boundary; these generalizations will appear elsewhere.
The existence results presented here for the Einstein constraints are
apparently the first such results that do not require smallness conditions on
spatial derivatives of the mean extrinsic curvature.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
Letters. (Abstract shortenned and other minor changes reflecting v4 version
of arXiv:0712.0798
3D mesh processing using GAMer 2 to enable reaction-diffusion simulations in realistic cellular geometries
Recent advances in electron microscopy have enabled the imaging of single
cells in 3D at nanometer length scale resolutions. An uncharted frontier for in
silico biology is the ability to simulate cellular processes using these
observed geometries. Enabling such simulations requires watertight meshing of
electron micrograph images into 3D volume meshes, which can then form the basis
of computer simulations of such processes using numerical techniques such as
the Finite Element Method. In this paper, we describe the use of our recently
rewritten mesh processing software, GAMer 2, to bridge the gap between poorly
conditioned meshes generated from segmented micrographs and boundary marked
tetrahedral meshes which are compatible with simulation. We demonstrate the
application of a workflow using GAMer 2 to a series of electron micrographs of
neuronal dendrite morphology explored at three different length scales and show
that the resulting meshes are suitable for finite element simulations. This
work is an important step towards making physical simulations of biological
processes in realistic geometries routine. Innovations in algorithms to
reconstruct and simulate cellular length scale phenomena based on emerging
structural data will enable realistic physical models and advance discovery at
the interface of geometry and cellular processes. We posit that a new frontier
at the intersection of computational technologies and single cell biology is
now open.Comment: 39 pages, 14 figures. High resolution figures and supplemental movies
available upon reques
Impaired nutrient signaling and body weight control in a Na⁺ neutral amino acid cotransporter (Slc6a19)-deficient mouse
Amino acid uptake in the intestine and kidney is mediated by a variety of amino acid transporters. To understand the role of
epithelial neutral amino acid uptake in whole body homeostasis, we analyzed mice lacking the apical broad-spectrum neutral (0)
amino acid transporter BᴼAT1 (Slc6a19). A general neutral aminoaciduria was observed similar to human Hartnup disorder which is caused by mutations in SLC6A19. Na⁺ -dependent uptake of neutral amino acids into the intestine and renal brush-border
membrane vesicles was abolished. No compensatory increase of peptide transport or other neutral amino acid transporters
was detected. Mice lacking BᴼAT1 showed a reduced body weight. When adapted to a standard 20% protein diet, BᴼAT1-deficient mice lost body weight rapidly on diets containing 6 or 40% protein. Secretion of insulin in response to food ingestion after fasting was blunted. In the intestine, amino acid signaling to the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway was reduced, whereas the GCN2/ATF4 stress response
pathway was activated, indicating amino acid deprivation in epithelial cells. The results demonstrate that epithelial amino acid
uptake is essential for optimal growth and body weight regulation.This work was supported by National Health and Medical Research Council Grant 525415, Australian Research Council Grant DP0877897, University of Sydney Bridging Grant RIMS2009-02579), and by an anonymous
foundatio
A Spinning Anti-de Sitter Wormhole
We construct a 2+1 dimensional spacetime of constant curvature whose spatial
topology is that of a torus with one asymptotic region attached. It is also a
black hole whose event horizon spins with respect to infinity. An observer
entering the hole necessarily ends up at a "singularity"; there are no inner
horizons.
In the construction we take the quotient of 2+1 dimensional anti-de Sitter
space by a discrete group Gamma. A key part of the analysis proceeds by
studying the action of Gamma on the boundary of the spacetime.Comment: Latex, 28 pages, 7 postscript figures included in text, a Latex file
without figures can be found at http://vanosf.physto.se/~stefan/spinning.html
Replaced with journal version, minor change
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