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    Neutrino Interactions in Octet Baryon Matter

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    Neutrino processes caused by the neutral current are studied in octet baryon matter. Previous confusion about the baryonic matrix elements of the neutral current interaction is excluded, and a correct table for them improved by consideration of the proton spin problem is presented instead.Comment: 6 page

    Residual stress development and evolution in two-phase crystalline material: a discrete dislocation study

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    Crystalline materials undergo heterogeneous deformation upon the application of external load, which results in the development of incompatible elastic strains in the material as soon as the load is removed. The presence of heterogeneous distribution of elastic strains in the absence of any form of external load results in the building up of stresses referred to as residual stresses. The heterogeneity of strain is attributed either to the presence of multiple phases or to the orientation gradients across the sample volume. This paper is an endeavour to model the presence of second phase in a two-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics framework, which already contains constitutive rules to include three-dimensional mechanisms, such as line tension and dynamic junction formation. The model is used to investigate residual stress development in single crystals subjected to plane strain loading and then subsequently unloaded to study residual stresses. The dislocation accumulation around the second phase and its effect on the mechanical properties is studied. The orientation dependence of residual stresses as a function of the underlying defect substructure has also been explored. A variety of results are obtained. In particular, the development of stresses as a function of underlying defect substructure is also presented and found to depend upon the orientation of the crystal

    Subgraph Counting: Color Coding Beyond Trees

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    The problem of counting occurrences of query graphs in a large data graph, known as subgraph counting, is fundamental to several domains such as genomics and social network analysis. Many important special cases (e.g. triangle counting) have received significant attention. Color coding is a very general and powerful algorithmic technique for subgraph counting. Color coding has been shown to be effective in several applications, but scalable implementations are only known for the special case of {\em tree queries} (i.e. queries of treewidth one). In this paper we present the first efficient distributed implementation for color coding that goes beyond tree queries: our algorithm applies to any query graph of treewidth 22. Since tree queries can be solved in time linear in the size of the data graph, our contribution is the first step into the realm of colour coding for queries that require superlinear running time in the worst case. This superlinear complexity leads to significant load balancing problems on graphs with heavy tailed degree distributions. Our algorithm structures the computation to work around high degree nodes in the data graph, and achieves very good runtime and scalability on a diverse collection of data and query graph pairs as a result. We also provide theoretical analysis of our algorithmic techniques, showing asymptotic improvements in runtime on random graphs with power law degree distributions, a popular model for real world graphs

    Neutrino Opacities in Neutron Stars with Kaon Condensates

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    The neutrino mean free paths in hot neutron-star matter are obtained in the presence of kaon condensates. The kaon-induced neutrino absorption process, which is allowed only in the presence of kaon condensates, is considered for both nondegenerate and degenerate neutrinos. The neutrino mean free path due to this process is compared with that for the neutrino-nucleon scattering. While the mean free path for the kaon-induced neutrino absorption process is shown to be shorter than the ordinary two-nucleon absorption process by several orders of magnitude when temperature is not very high, the neutrino-nucleon scattering process has still a dominant contribution to the neutrino opacity. Thus, the kaon-induced neutrino absorption process has a minor effect on the thermal and dynamical evolution of protoneutron stars.Comment: 35 pages, 4 figure

    Wigner's DD-matrix elements for SU(3)SU(3) - A Generating Function Approach

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    A generating function for the Wigner's DD-matrix elements of SU(3)SU(3) is derived. From this an explicit expression for the individual matrix elements is obtained in a closed form.Comment: RevTex 3.0, 22 pages, no figure

    On Optimizing Distributed Tucker Decomposition for Dense Tensors

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    The Tucker decomposition expresses a given tensor as the product of a small core tensor and a set of factor matrices. Apart from providing data compression, the construction is useful in performing analysis such as principal component analysis (PCA)and finds applications in diverse domains such as signal processing, computer vision and text analytics. Our objective is to develop an efficient distributed implementation for the case of dense tensors. The implementation is based on the HOOI (Higher Order Orthogonal Iterator) procedure, wherein the tensor-times-matrix product forms the core routine. Prior work have proposed heuristics for reducing the computational load and communication volume incurred by the routine. We study the two metrics in a formal and systematic manner, and design strategies that are optimal under the two fundamental metrics. Our experimental evaluation on a large benchmark of tensors shows that the optimal strategies provide significant reduction in load and volume compared to prior heuristics, and provide up to 7x speed-up in the overall running time.Comment: Preliminary version of the paper appears in the proceedings of IPDPS'1

    Prospects of Detecting Baryon and Quark Superfluidity from Cooling Neutron Stars

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    Baryon and quark superfluidity in the cooling of neutron stars are investigated. Observations could constrain combinations of the neutron or Lambda-hyperon pairing gaps and the star's mass. However, in a hybrid star with a mixed phase of hadrons and quarks, quark gaps larger than a few tenths of an MeV render quark matter virtually invisible for cooling. If the quark gap is smaller, quark superfluidity could be important, but its effects will be nearly impossible to distinguish from those of other baryonic constituents.Comment: 4 pages, 3 ps figures, uses RevTex(aps,prl). Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
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