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-adic exponential sums of polynomials in one variable
The -adic exponential sum of a polynomial in one variable is studied. An
explicit arithmetic polygon in terms of the highest two exponents of the
polynomial is proved to be a lower bound of the Newton polygon of the
-function of the T-adic exponential sum. This bound gives lower bounds for
the Newton polygon of the -function of exponential sums of -power order
Lattice study on kaon nucleon scattering length in the I=1 channel
Using the tadpole improved clover Wilson quark action on small, coarse and
anisotropic lattices, scattering length in the I=1 channel is calculated
within quenched approximation. The results are extrapolated towards the chiral
and physical kaon mass region. Finite volume and finite lattice spacing errors
are also analyzed and a result in the infinite volume and continuum limit is
obtained which is compatible with the experiment and the results from Chiral
Perturbation Theory.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, typeset by latex using elsart.cls,minor change
Geometry dependence of the clogging transition in tilted hoppers
We report the effect of system geometry on the clogging of granular material
flowing out of flat-bottomed hoppers with variable aperture size D. For such
systems, there exists a critical aperture size Dc at which there is a
divergence in the time for a flow to clog. To better understand the origins of
Dc, we perturb the system by tilting the hopper an angle Q and mapping out a
clogging phase diagram as a function of Q and D. The clogging transition
demarcates the boundary between the freely-flowing (large D, small Q) and
clogging (small D, large Q) regimes. We investigate how the system geometry
affects Dc by mapping out this phase diagram for hoppers with either a circular
hole or a rectangular narrow slit. Additionally, we vary the grain shape,
investigating smooth spheres (glass beads), compact angular grains (beach
sand), disk-like grains (lentils), and rod-like grains (rice). We find that the
value of Dc grows with increasing Q, diverging at pi-Qr where Qr is the angle
of repose. For circular apertures, the shape of the clogging transition is the
same for all grain types. However, this is not the case for the narrow slit
apertures, where the rate of growth of the critical hole size with tilt angle
depends on the material
The classification of traveling wave solutions and superposition of multi-solutions to Camassa-Holm equation with dispersion
Under the traveling wave transformation, Camassa-Holm equation with
dispersion is reduced to an integrable ODE whose general solution can be
obtained using the trick of one-parameter group. Furthermore combining complete
discrimination system for polynomial, the classifications of all single
traveling wave solutions to the Camassa-Holm equation with dispersion is
obtained. In particular, an affine subspace structure in the set of the
solutions of the reduced ODE is obtained. More general, an implicit linear
structure in Camassa-Holm equation with dispersion is found. According to the
linear structure, we obtain the superposition of multi-solutions to
Camassa-Holm equation with dispersion
On the QCD corrections to the charged Higgs decay of a heavy quark
Using dimensional regularization for both infrared and ultraviolet
divergences, we confirm that the QCD corrections to the decay width
are equal to those to in the limit of a
large quark mass.Comment: 6 pages, report Alberta Thy-25-9
Driven activation versus thermal activation
Activated dynamics in a glassy system undergoing steady shear deformation is
studied by numerical simulations. Our results show that the external driving
force has a strong influence on the barrier crossing rate, even though the
reaction coordinate is only weakly coupled to the nonequilibrium system. This
"driven activation" can be quantified by introducing in the Arrhenius
expression an effective temperature, which is close to the one determined from
the fluctuation-dissipation relation. This conclusion is supported by
analytical results for a simplified model system.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
On landmark selection and sampling in high-dimensional data analysis
In recent years, the spectral analysis of appropriately defined kernel
matrices has emerged as a principled way to extract the low-dimensional
structure often prevalent in high-dimensional data. Here we provide an
introduction to spectral methods for linear and nonlinear dimension reduction,
emphasizing ways to overcome the computational limitations currently faced by
practitioners with massive datasets. In particular, a data subsampling or
landmark selection process is often employed to construct a kernel based on
partial information, followed by an approximate spectral analysis termed the
Nystrom extension. We provide a quantitative framework to analyse this
procedure, and use it to demonstrate algorithmic performance bounds on a range
of practical approaches designed to optimize the landmark selection process. We
compare the practical implications of these bounds by way of real-world
examples drawn from the field of computer vision, whereby low-dimensional
manifold structure is shown to emerge from high-dimensional video data streams.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, submitted for publicatio
Ellipsometric and optical study of some uncommon insulator films on 3-5 semiconductors
Optical properties of three types of insulating films that show promise in potential applications in the 3-4 semiconductor technology were evaluated, namely a-C:H, BN and CaF2. The plasma deposited a-C:H shows an amorphous behavior with optical energy gaps of approximately 2 to 2.4 eV. These a-C:H films have higher density and/or hardness, higher refractive index and lower optical energy gaps with increasing energy of the particles in the plasma, while the density of states remains unchanged. These results are in agreement, and give a fine-tuned positive confirmation to an existing conjecture on the nature of a-C:H films (1). Ion beam deposited BN films show amorphous behavior with energy gap of 5 eV. These films are nonstoichiometric (B/N approximately 2) and have refractive index, density and/or hardness which are dependent on the deposition conditions. The epitaxially grown CaF2 on GaAs films have optical parameters equal to bulk, but evidence of damage was found in the GaAs at the interface
Representations and classification of traveling wave solutions to Sinh-G{\"o}rdon equation
Two concepts named atom solution and combinatory solution are defined. The
classification of all single traveling wave atom solutions to Sinh-G{\"o}rdon
equation is obtained, and qualitative properties of solutions are discussed. In
particular, we point out that some qualitative properties derived intuitively
from dynamic system method aren't true. In final, we prove that our solutions
to Sinh-G{\"o}rdon equation include all solutions obtained in the paper[Fu Z T
et al, Commu. in Theor. Phys.(Beijing) 2006 45 55]. Through an example, we show
how to give some new identities on Jacobian elliptic functions.Comment: 12 pages. accepted by Communications in theoretical physics (Beijing
Corrections to Scaling in the Phase-Ordering Dynamics of a Vector Order Parameter
Corrections to scaling, associated with deviations of the order parameter
from the scaling morphology in the initial state, are studied for systems with
O(n) symmetry at zero temperature in phase-ordering kinetics. Including
corrections to scaling, the equal-time pair correlation function has the form
C(r,t) = f_0(r/L) + L^{-omega} f_1(r/L) + ..., where L is the coarsening length
scale. The correction-to-scaling exponent, omega, and the correction-to-scaling
function, f_1(x), are calculated for both nonconserved and conserved order
parameter systems using the approximate Gaussian closure theory of Mazenko. In
general, omega is a non-trivial exponent which depends on both the
dimensionality, d, of the system and the number of components, n, of the order
parameter. Corrections to scaling are also calculated for the nonconserved 1-d
XY model, where an exact solution is possible.Comment: REVTeX, 20 pages, 2 figure
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