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On sets of irreducible polynomials closed by composition
Let be a set of monic degree polynomials over a finite field
and let be the compositional semigroup generated by . In this
paper we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for to be
consisting entirely of irreducible polynomials. The condition we deduce depends
on the finite data encoded in a certain graph uniquely determined by the
generating set . Using this machinery we are able both to show
examples of semigroups of irreducible polynomials generated by two degree
polynomials and to give some non-existence results for some of these sets in
infinitely many prime fields satisfying certain arithmetic conditions
A Determination of the Hubble Constant from Cepheid Distances and a Model of the Local Peculiar Velocity Field
We present a measurement of the Hubble Constant based on Cepheid distances to
27 galaxies within 20 Mpc. We take the Cepheid data from published measurements
by the Hubble Telescope Key Project on the Distance Scale (H0KP). We calibrate
the Cepheid Period-Luminosity (PL) relation with data from over 700 Cepheids in
the LMC obtained by the OGLE collaboration; we assume an LMC distance modulus
of 18.50 mag (d=50.1 kpc). Using this PL calibration we obtain new distances to
the H0KP galaxies. We correct the redshifts of these galaxies for peculiar
velocities using two distinct velocity field models: the phenomenological model
of Tonry et al. and a model based on the IRAS density field and linear
gravitational instability theory. We combine the Cepheid distances with the
corrected redshifts for the 27 galaxies to derive H_0, the Hubble constant. The
results are H_0 = 85 +/- 5 km/s/Mpc (random error) at 95% confidence when the
IRAS model is used, and 92 +/- 5 km/s/Mpc when the phenomenological model is
used. The IRAS model is a better fit to the data and the Hubble constant it
returns is more reliable. Systematic error stems mainly from LMC distance
uncertainty which is not directly addressed by this paper. Our value of H_0 is
significantly larger than that quoted by the H0KP, H_0 = 71 +/- 6 km/s/Mpc.
Cepheid recalibration explains ~30% of this difference, velocity field analysis
accounts for ~70%. We discuss in detail possible reasons for this discrepancy
and future study needed to resolve it.Comment: 33 pages, 8 embedded figures. New table, 5 new references, text
revision
The New Fat Higgs: Slimmer and More Attractive
In this paper we increase the MSSM tree level higgs mass bound to a value
that is naturally larger than the LEP-II search constraint by adding to the
superpotential a term, as in the NMSSM, and UV
completing with new strong dynamics {\it before} becomes
non-perturbative. Unlike other models of this type the higgs fields remain
elementary, alleviating the supersymmetric fine-tuning problem while
maintaining unification in a natural way.Comment: 14 pages and 2 figures. Added references and updated argument about
constraints from reheating temperatur
D-Terms, Unification, and the Higgs Mass
We study gauge extensions of the MSSM that contain non-decoupling D-terms,
which contribute to the Higgs boson mass. These models naturally maintain gauge
coupling unification and raise the Higgs mass without fine-tuning. Unification
constrains the structure of the gauge extensions, limiting the Higgs mass in
these models to roughly less than 150 GeV. The D-terms contribute to the Higgs
mass only if the extended gauge symmetry is broken at energies of a few TeV,
leading to new heavy gauge bosons in this mass range.Comment: 30+1 pages, 7 figure
Importance of Non-Perturbative QCD Parameters for Bottom Mesons
The importance of non-perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics [QCD] parameters is
discussed in context to the predicting power for bottom meson masses and
isospin splitting. In the framework of heavy quark effective theory, the work
presented here focuses on the different allowed values of the two non
perturbative QCD parameters used in heavy quark effective theory formula and
using the best fitted parameter, masses of the excited bottom meson states in
JP=(1/2)+ doublet in strange as well as non-strange sector are calculated here.
The calculated masses are found to be matching well with experiments and other
phenomenological models. The mass and hyperfine splitting has also been
analyzed for both strange and non-strange heavy mesons with respect to spin and
flavor symmetries.Comment: Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 619783, 4 pages, Advances in High
Energy Physics, 2014. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1312.540
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