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Global-in-time solutions for the isothermal Matovich-Pearson equations
In this paper we study the Matovich-Pearson equations describing the process
of glass fiber drawing. These equations may be viewed as a 1D-reduction of the
incompressible Navier-Stokes equations including free boundary, valid for the
drawing of a long and thin glass fiber. We concentrate on the isothermal case
without surface tension. Then the Matovich-Pearson equations represent a
nonlinearly coupled system of an elliptic equation for the axial velocity and a
hyperbolic transport equation for the fluid cross-sectional area. We first
prove existence of a local solution, and, after constructing appropriate
barrier functions, we deduce that the fluid radius is always strictly positive
and that the local solution remains in the same regularity class. To the best
of our knowledge, this is the first global existence and uniqueness result for
this important system of equations
Complex coupled-cluster approach to an ab-initio description of open quantum systems
We develop ab-initio coupled-cluster theory to describe resonant and weakly
bound states along the neutron drip line. We compute the ground states of the
helium chain 3-10He within coupled-cluster theory in singles and doubles (CCSD)
approximation. We employ a spherical Gamow-Hartree-Fock basis generated from
the low-momentum N3LO nucleon-nucleon interaction. This basis treats bound,
resonant, and continuum states on equal footing, and is therefore optimal for
the description of properties of drip line nuclei where continuum features play
an essential role. Within this formalism, we present an ab-initio calculation
of energies and decay widths of unstable nuclei starting from realistic
interactions.Comment: 4 pages, revtex
Medium-mass nuclei from chiral nucleon-nucleon interactions
We compute the binding energies, radii, and densities for selected
medium-mass nuclei within coupled-cluster theory and employ the "bare" chiral
nucleon-nucleon interaction at order N3LO. We find rather well-converged
results in model spaces consisting of 15 oscillator shells, and the doubly
magic nuclei 40Ca, 48Ca, and the exotic 48Ni are underbound by about 1 MeV per
nucleon within the CCSD approximation. The binding-energy difference between
the mirror nuclei 48Ca and 48Ni is close to theoretical mass table evaluations.
Our computation of the one-body density matrices and the corresponding natural
orbitals and occupation numbers provides a first step to a microscopic
foundation of the nuclear shell model.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Cubulating hyperbolic free-by-cyclic groups: the general case
Let be an automorphism of the finite-rank free group
. Suppose that is word-hyperbolic. Then acts
freely and cocompactly on a CAT(0) cube complex.Comment: 36 pages, 11 figures. Version 2 contains minor corrections. Accepted
to GAF
Comment on "Ab Initio study of 40-Ca with an importance-truncated no-core shell model"
In a recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 092501 (2007)], Roth and Navratil
present an importance-truncation scheme for the no-core shell model. The
authors claim that their truncation scheme leads to converged results for the
ground state of 40-Ca. We believe that this conclusion cannot be drawn from the
results presented in the Letter. Furthermore, the claimed convergence is at
variance with expectations of many-body theory. In particular, coupled-cluster
calculations indicate that a significant fraction of the correlation energy is
missing.Comment: 1 page, comment on arXiv:0705.4069 (PRL 99, 092501 (2007)
Color Variability of the Blazar AO 0235+16
Multicolor (UBVRIJHK) observations of the blazar AO 0235+16 are analyzed. The
light curves were compiled at the Turin Observatory from literature data and
the results of observations obtained in the framework of the WEBT program
(http://www.to.astro/blazars/webt/). The color variability of the blazar was
studied in eight time intervals with a sufficient number of multicolor optical
observations; JHK data are available for only one of these. The spectral energy
distribution (SED) of the variable component remained constant within each
interval, but varied strongly from one interval to another. After correction
for dust absorption, the SED can be represented by a power law in all cases,
providing evidence for a synchrotron nature of the variable component. We show
that the variability at both optical and IR wavelengths is associated with the
same variable source.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy
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