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math.CT2002★ 1 cited

Objects of Categories as Complex Numbers

Marcelo Fiore, Tom Leinster

In many everyday categories (sets, spaces, modules, ...) objects can be both added and multiplied. The arithmetic of such objects is a challenge because there is usually no subtrac…

hep-th2002★ 31 cited

Instanton-induced Yang-Mills correlation functions at large N and their AdS_5xS^5 duals

Michael B. Green, Stefano Kovacs

Correlation functions of chiral primary operators and their superconformal descendants in the N=4 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory are studied in detail in a one-instanton ba…

astro-ph2002★ 188 cited

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the luminosity function of cluster galaxies

Roberto De Propris, M. Colless, S. Driver +27

We have determined the composite luminosity function (LF) for galaxies in 60 clusters from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The LF spans the range , and is…

astro-ph2002★ 56 cited

On the relation between viscoelastic and magnetohydrodynamic flows and their instabilities

Gordon I. Ogilvie, Michael R. E. Proctor

We demonstrate a close analogy between a viscoelastic medium and an electrically conducting fluid containing a magnetic field. Specifically, the dynamics of the Oldroyd-B fluid in…

astro-ph2002★ 85 cited

On the dynamics of magnetorotational turbulent stresses

G. I. Ogilvie

[Abridged] The turbulent stresses that lead to angular momentum transport in accretion discs have often been treated as resulting from an isotropic effective viscosity, related to…

cond-mat.supr-con2002★ 51 cited

Absence of gross inhomogeneity in HTS cuprates

J. W. Loram, J. L. Tallon, W. Y. Liang

Recent scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) studies on BiSrCaCuO (Bi-2212) revealed the presence of severe inhomogeneity with length scale , th…

astro-ph2002★ 308 cited

The Formation of Close Binary Systems by Dynamical Interactions and Orbital Decay

Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell, Volker Bromm

We present results from the first hydrodynamical star formation calculation to demonstrate that close binary stellar systems (separations $\lsim 10$ AU) need not be formed directly…

physics.chem-ph2002★ 22 cited

Theoretical study of finite temperature spectroscopy in van der Waals clusters. II Time-dependent absorption spectra

F. Calvo, F. Spiegelman, D. J. Wales

Using approximate partition functions and a master equation approach, we investigate the statistical relaxation toward equilibrium in selected CaAr clusters. The Gaussian theor…

astro-ph2002★ 10 cited

Size estimates for intervening C IV absorbers from high resolution spectroscopy of APM 0827+5255

Panayiotis Tzanavaris, Robert F. Carswell

A new analysis of Keck/HIRES observations of the broad absorption line QSO APM 0827+5255 indicates that a number of intervening C IV absorbers give rise to absorption lines for whi…

astro-ph2002★ 784 cited

The Formation of a Star Cluster: Predicting the Properties of Stars and Brown Dwarfs

Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell, Volker Bromm

We present results from the largest numerical simulation of star formation to resolve the fragmentation process down to the opacity limit. The simulation follows the collapse and f…

math-ph2002★ 3 cited

Development of a unified tensor calculus for the exceptional Lie algebras

A. J. Macfarlane, Hendryk Pfeiffer

The uniformity of the decomposition law, for a family F of Lie algebras which includes the exceptional Lie algebras, of the tensor powers ad^n of their adjoint representations ad i…

astro-ph2002★ 216 cited

s-Process Nucleosynthesis in AGB Stars: A Test for Stellar Evolution

Maria Lugaro, Falk Herwig, John C. Lattanzio +2

[abridged] We study the s-process in AGB stars using three different stellar evolutionary models computed for a 3Msun and solar metallicity star. First we investigate the formation…

astro-ph2002★ 41 cited

The Missing Link in Star Cluster Evolution

Richard de Grijs, Nate Bastian, Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers

The currently most popular models for the dynamical evolution of star clusters predict that the power-law Cluster Luminosity Functions (CLFs) of young star cluster systems will be…

astro-ph2002★ 5 cited

Dust properties of the dark cloud IC5146 - Submillimeter and NIR imaging

C. Kramer, J. Richer, B. Mookerjea +2

We present the results of a submillimeter dust continuum study of a molecular ridge in IC5146 carried out at 850micron and 450micron with SCUBA on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope…

hep-th2002★ 7 cited

Polyhedral Scattering of Fundamental Monopoles

Richard Battye, Gary Gibbons, Paulina Rychenkova +1

The dynamics of n slowly moving fundamental monopoles in the SU(n+1) BPS Yang-Mills-Higgs theory can be approximated by geodesic motion on the 4n-dimensional hyperkahler Lee-Weinbe…

hep-th2002★ 7 cited

D-branes in a plane-wave background

Matthias R Gaberdiel, Michael B Green

The D-branes of the maximally supersymmetric plane-wave background are described.

astro-ph2002★ 4 cited

Maximum-likelihood astrometric geometry calibration of interferometric telescopes: application to the Very Small Array

Klaus Maisinger, M. P. Hobson, Richard D. E. Saunders +1

Interferometers require accurate determination of the array configuration in order to produce reliable observations. A method is presented for finding the maximum-likelihood estima…

quant-ph2002★ 3 cited

Large N Quantum Cryptography

Adrian Kent

In quantum cryptography, the level of security attainable by a protocol which implements a particular task times bears no simple relation to the level of security attainable by…

hep-th2002

S-Branes, Negative Tension Branes and Cosmology

F. Quevedo, G. Tasinato, I. Zavala

A general class of solutions of string background equations is studied and its physical interpretations are presented. These solutions correspond to generalizations of the standard…

quant-ph2002★ 92 cited

Time correlated quantum amplitude damping channel

Ye Yeo, Andrew Skeen

We analyze the problem of sending classical information through qubit channels where successive uses of the channel are correlated. This work extends the analysis of C. Macchiavell…

hep-th2002★ 17 cited

The interaction energy of well-separated Skyrme solitons

N. S. Manton, B. J. Schroers, M. A. Singer

We prove that the asymptotic field of a Skyrme soliton of any degree has a non-trivial multipole expansion. It follows that every Skyrme soliton has a well-defined leading multipol…

hep-th2002

Plane Waves and Vacuum Interpolation

Guillermo A. Silva

A 1/2-BPS family of time dependent plane wave spacetimes which give rise to exactly solvable string backgrounds is presented. In particular a solution which interpolates between Mi…

astro-ph2002★ 87 cited

The Las Campanas Infrared Survey. IV. The Photometric Redshift Survey and the Rest-frame R-band Galaxy Luminosity Function at 0.5 <= z <= 1.5

Hsiao-Wen Chen, Ronald. O. Marzke, Patrick. J. McCarthy +6

(Abridged) We present rest-frame R-band galaxy luminosity function measurements for three different redshift ranges: 0.5<=z<=0.75, 0.75<=z<=1.0, and 1.0<=z<=1.5. Our measurements a…

astro-ph2002★ 10 cited

A Local One-Zone Model of MHD Turbulence in Dwarf Nova Disks

Takayoshi Sano, James M. Stone

The evolution of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) during the transition from outburst to quiescence in a dwarf nova disk is investigated using three-dimensional MHD simulati…