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math.NT2001

The computational complexity of the local postage stamp problem

Jeffrey Shallit

The well-studied local postage stamp problem (LPSP) is the following: given a positive integer k, a set of postive integers 1 = a1 < a2 < ... < ak and an integer h >= 1, what is th…

math.PR2001★ 55 cited

Monte Carlo Tests of SLE Predictions for the 2D Self-Avoiding Walk

Tom Kennedy

The conjecture that the scaling limit of the two-dimensional self-avoiding walk (SAW) in a half plane is given by the stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE) with leads to expli…

astro-ph2001

Quasar Absorption Lines

Jill Bechtold

The absorption lines observed in quasar spectra have given us a detailed picture of the intergalactic medium and the metal abundance and kinematics of high redshift galaxies. In th…

cond-mat.soft2001★ 10 cited

Quasiparticle spectrum and dynamical stability of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to a degenerate Fermi gas

C. P. Search, H. Pu, W. Zhang +1

The quasiparticle excitations and dynamical stability of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to a quantum degenerate Fermi gas of atoms at zero temperature is studied. The F…

astro-ph2001★ 94 cited

X-ray properties of Red Active Galactic Nuclei

Belinda J. Wilkes, Gary D. Schmidt, Roc M. Cutri +4

The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is finding previously unidentified, luminous red active galactic nuclei (AGN). This new sample has a space density similar to, or greater than…

astro-ph2001★ 21 cited

LOTIS, Super-LOTIS, SDSS and Tautenburg Observations of GRB 010921

H. S. Park, G. G. Williams, D. H. Hartmann +36

We present multi-instrument optical observations of the High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-2)/Interplanetary Network (IPN) error box of GRB 010921. This event was the first gamma…

astro-ph2001★ 1 cited

Lens Galaxies vs. CDM

Charles R. Keeton

By directly probing mass distributions, gravitational lensing offers several new tests of the CDM paradigm. Lens statistics place upper limits on the dark matter content of ellipti…

astro-ph2001★ 55 cited

The Optical Polarization of Near-Infrared Selected QSOs

P. S. Smith, G. D. Schmidt, D. C. Hines +2

Optical broad-band polarimetry is presented for near-infrared color-selected AGN classified QSOs based on their K-band luminosity. More than 10% of a sample of 70 QSOs discovered i…

hep-ph2001★ 5 cited

Strangeness, Equilibration, Hadronization

Johann Rafelski

In these remarks I explain the motivation which leads us to consider chemical nonequilibrium processes in flavor equilibration and in statistical hadroniziation of quark--gluon pla…

astro-ph2001★ 52 cited

ECHA J0843.3-7905: Discovery of an 'old' classical T Tauri star in the eta Chamaeleontis cluster

Warrick A. Lawson, Lisa A. Crause, Eric E. Mamajek +1

A limited-area survey of the eta Chamaeleontis cluster has identified 2 new late-type members. The more significant of these is ECHA J0843.3-7905 (= IRAS F08450-7854), a slowly-rot…

astro-ph2001★ 66 cited

A Uniform Analysis of the Ly-alpha Forest at z=0 - 5: V. The extragalactic ionizing background at low redshift

Jennifer Scott, Jill Bechtold, Miwa Morita +2

In Paper III of our series "A Uniform Analysis of the Ly-alpha forest at z=0 - 5", we presented a set of 270 quasar spectra from the archives of the Faint Object Spectrograph on th…

astro-ph2001★ 63 cited

High Resolution 4.7 um Keck/NIRSPEC Spectra of Protostars. I: Ices and Infalling Gas in the Disk of L1489 IRS

A. C. A. Boogert, M. R. Hogerheijde, G. A. Blake

We explore the infrared M band (4.7 um) spectrum of the class I protostar L1489 IRS in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. This is the highest resolution wide coverage spectrum at this wav…

nucl-th2001★ 159 cited

The Hypernuclei He and H: Challenges for Modern Hyperon-Nucleon Forces

A. Nogga, H. Kamada, W. Gloeckle

The hypernuclei He and H provide important information on the hyperon-nucleon interaction. We present accurate Faddeev-Yakubovsky calculations for the separation en…

nucl-th2001★ 132 cited

The alpha-particle based on modern nuclear forces

A. Nogga, H. Kamada, W. Gloeckle +1

The Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations for the alpha-particle are solved. Accurate results are obtained for several modern NN interaction models, which include charge-symmetry breaking e…

hep-ph2001★ 37 cited

Strange Hadron Resonances and QGP Freeze-out

G. Torrieri, J. Rafelski

We describe how the abundance and distribution of hyperon resonances can be used to probe freeze-out conditions. We demonstrate that resonance yields allow us to measure the time s…

hep-ph2001★ 25 cited

Importance of reaction volume in hadronic collisions: Canonical enhancement

Johann Rafelski, Jean Letessier

We study the canonical flavor enhancement arising from exact conservation of strangeness, and charm flavor. Both the theoretical motivation, and the practical consequences are expl…

astro-ph2001★ 123 cited

B1422+231: The influence of mass substructure on strong lensing

M. Bradac, P. Schneider, M. Steinmetz +3

In this work we investigate the gravitationally lensed system B1422+231. High--quality VLBI image positions, fluxes and shapes as well as an optical HST lens galaxy position are us…

math.GT2001

The Kauffman polynomials of generalized Hopf links

Jianyuan K. Zhong, Bin Lu

Following the recent work by Chan, and by Morton and Hadji on the Homflypt polynomials of some generalized Hopf links, we investigate the Kauffman polynomials of generalized Hopf l…

hep-ph2001

Probing Dense Matter with Strange Hadrons

Johann Rafelski, Jean Letessier

Analysis of hadron production experimental data allows to understand the properties of the dense matter fireball produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We interpret the ana…

math-ph2001★ 45 cited

Density of states for Random Band Matrix

M. Disertori, H. Pinson, T. Spencer

By applying the supersymmetric approach we rigorously prove smoothness of the averaged density of states for a three dimensional random band matrix ensemble, in the limit of infini…

cond-mat.supr-con2001★ 10 cited

Manipulating the critical temperature for the superfluid phase transition in trapped atomic Fermi gases

C. P. Search, H. Pu, W. Zhang +2

We examine the effect of the trapping potential on the critical temperature, , for the BCS transition to a superfluid state in trapped atomic gases of fermions. for an a…

astro-ph2001★ 6 cited

Time-dependent correlations of inflationary perturbations

Wo-Lung Lee, Li-Zhi Fang

We show that if the primordial classical perturbations were generated by the gravitational particle creation during inflation, and followed by an evolution of quantum-to-classical…

hep-th2001★ 33 cited

Shadows of the Planck Scale: The Changing Face of Compactification Geometry

Keith R. Dienes, Arash Mafi

By studying the effects of the shape moduli associated with toroidal compactifications, we demonstrate that Planck-sized extra dimensions can cast significant ``shadows'' over low-…

hep-lat2001

Spectrum Results with Kogut-Susskind Quarks

Doug Toussaint

I summarize recent developments in spectrum calculations using Kogut-Susskind quarks. Theoretical developments include one-loop computations with improved actions. I present some r…