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Certain Properties of Fractional Calculus Operators Associated with Generalized Mittag-Leffler Function
Mathematics Subject Classification: 26A33, 33E12, 33C20.It has been shown that the fractional integration and differentiation operators transform
such functions with power multipliers into the functions of the same form.
Some of the results given earlier by Kilbas and Saigo follow as special cases
A Linear Programming Approach for Molecular QSAR analysis
Small molecules in chemistry can be represented as graphs. In a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analysis, the central task is to find a regression function that predicts the activity of the molecule in high accuracy. Setting a QSAR as a primal target, we propose a new linear programming approach to the graph-based regression problem. Our method extends the graph classification algorithm by Kudo et al. (NIPS 2004), which is a combination of boosting and graph mining. Instead of sequential multiplicative updates, we employ the linear programming boosting (LP) for regression. The LP approach allows to include inequality constraints for the parameter vector, which turns out to be particularly useful in QSAR tasks where activity values are sometimes unavailable. Furthermore, the efficiency is improved significantly by employing multiple pricing
Rotationally-Driven Fragmentation for the Formation of the Binary Protostellar System L1551 IRS 5
Either bulk rotation or local turbulence is widely invoked to drive
fragmentation in collapsing cores so as to produce multiple star systems. Even
when the two mechanisms predict different manners in which the stellar spins
and orbits are aligned, subsequent internal or external interactions can drive
multiple systems towards or away from alignment thus masking their formation
process. Here, we demonstrate that the geometrical and dynamical relationship
between the binary system and its surrounding bulk envelope provide the crucial
distinction between fragmentation models. We find that the circumstellar disks
of the binary protostellar system L1551 IRS 5 are closely parallel not just
with each other but also with their surrounding flattened envelope.
Measurements of the relative proper motion of the binary components spanning
nearly 30 yr indicate an orbital motion in the same sense as the envelope
rotation. Eliminating orbital solutions whereby the circumstellar disks would
be tidally truncated to sizes smaller than are observed, the remaining
solutions favor a circular or low-eccentricity orbit tilted by up to
25 from the circumstellar disks. Turbulence-driven fragmentation
can generate local angular momentum to produce a coplanar binary system, but
which bears no particular relationship with its surrounding envelope. Instead,
the observed properties conform with predictions for rotationally-driven
fragmentation. If the fragments were produced at different heights or on
opposite sides of the midplane in the flattened central region of a rotating
core, the resulting protostars would then exhibit circumstellar disks parallel
with the surrounding envelope but tilted from the orbital plane as is observed.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap
VIRGO sensitivity to binary coalescences and the Population III black hole binaries
We analyze the properties of VIRGO detector with the aim of studying its
ability to search for coalescing black hole binaries. We focus on the remnants
of the Population III stars, which currently should be massive black holes
(), some of them bound in binary systems. The
coalescence of such binaries due to emission of gravitational waves may be
currently observable. We use a binary population synthesis to model the
evolution of Population III binaries. We calculate the signal to noise ratios
of gravitational waves emitted by the system in each of the coalescence phase:
inspiral, merger and ringdown, and provide simple formulae for the signal to
noise ratio as a function of masses of the binaries. We estimate the detection
rates for the VIRGO interferometer and also compare them with the estimates for
the current LIGO. We show that these expected rates are similar to, or larger
than the expected rates from coalescences of Population I and II compact object
binaries.Comment: sumbitted to A&
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