Open Access Repositories: Recent submissions
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Strong cosmic censorship in de Sitter space
Recent work indicates that the strong cosmic censorship hypothesis is violated by nearly extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black holes. It was argued that perturbations of such a black hole decay sufficiently rapidly ...
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Relativistic magnetised perturbations: Magnetic pressure versus magnetic tension
(IoPClassical and Quantum Gravity, 2018-05-16)We study the linear evolution of magnetised cosmological perturbations in the post-recombination epoch. Using full general relativity and adopting the ideal magnetohydrodynamic approximation, we refine and extend the ...
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Algorithms for efficiently and effectively matching agents in microsimulations of sexually transmitted infections
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2018)Mathematical models of the HIV epidemic have been used to estimate incidence, prevalence and life-expectancy, as well the benefits and costs of public health interventions, such as the provision of antiretroviral treatment. ...
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Enhancing colour-coded poll sheets using computer vision as a viable Audience Response System (ARS) in Africa
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2018)Audience Response Systems (ARS) give a facilitator accurate feedback on a question posed to the listeners. The most common form of ARS are clickers; Clickers are handheld response gadgets that act as a medium of communication ...
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Inhomogeneous initial data and small-field inflation
(IoPJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018-05-08)We consider the robustness of small-field inflation in the presence of scalar field inhomo- geneities. Previous numerical work has shown that if the scalar potential is flat only over a narrow in- terval, such as in commonly ...
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The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018-08-10)Finite-amplitude manifestations of stratified shear flow instabilities and their spatio-temporal coherent structures are believed to play an important role in turbulent geophysical flows. Such shear flows commonly have ...
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ADHM and the 4d quantum Hall effect
(Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018-04-01)© 2018, The Author(s). Yang-Mills instantons are solitonic particles in d = 4 + 1 dimensional gauge theories. We construct and analyse the quantum Hall states that arise when these particles are restricted to the lowest ...
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Scalar Hairy Black Holes in Four Dimensions are Unstable
We present a numerical analysis of the stability properties of the black holes with scalar hair constructed by Herdeiro and Radu. We prove the existence of a novel gauge where the scalar field perturbations decouple from ...
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Capillary retraction of the edge of a stretched viscous sheet
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018-04-03)Surface tension causes the edge of a fluid sheet to retract. If the sheet is also stretched along its edge then the flow and the rate of retraction are modified. A universal similarity solution for the Stokes flow in a ...
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Relations of the spaces Ap (Ω) and C p (∂Ω)
Let Ω be a Jordan domain in C, J an open arc of ∂Ω and φ : D → Ω a Riemann map from the open unit disk D onto Ω. Under certain assumptions on φ we prove that if a holomorphic function f ∈ H(Ω) extends continuously on Ω ∪ ...
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Gravity and the spin-2 planar Schroedinger equation
A Schroedinger equation proposed for the GMP gapped spin-2 mode of fractional Quantum Hall states is found from a novel non-relativistic limit, applicable only in 2+1 dimensions, of the massive spin-2 Fierz-Pauli ...
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Autophoretic motion in three dimensions.
(RSCSoft matter, 2018-05)Janus particles with the ability to move phoretically in self-generated chemical concentration gra- dients are model systems for active matter. Their motion typically consists of straight paths with rotational diffusion ...
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The mean value theorem and Taylor’s theorem for fractional derivatives with Mittag–Leffler kernel
(SpringerAdvances in Difference Equations, 2018-12-01)We establish analogues of the mean value theorem and Taylor’s theorem for fractional differential operators defined using a Mittag-Leffler kernel. We formulate a new model for the fractional Boussinesq equation by using ...
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A Natural Language Interface for Mobile Devices
(2018-03-01)Creating a robust, automated capability to respond to natural language requests has been a longstanding goal in the development of intelligent systems. This article describes the StartMobile system, originally developed ...
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Experimental exploration of fluid-driven cracks in brittle hydrogels
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018-06-10)Hydraulic fracturing is a procedure by which a fracture is initiated and propagates due to pressure (hydraulic loading) applied by a fluid introduced inside the fracture. In this study we focus on a crack driven by an ...
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Leading-order Stokes flows near a corner
(OUPIMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications), 2018-07-25)Singular solutions of the Stokes equations play important roles in a variety of fluid dynamics problems. They allow the calculation of exact flows, are the basis of the boundary integral methods used in numerical computations, ...
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Quantized Skyrmions from SU(4) weight diagrams
(Physical Review C, 2018-03-06)© 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Starting from solutions of the lightly bound Skyrme model, we construct many new Skyrmion solutions of the standard Skyrme model with tetrahedral or octahedral ...
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Spiral density waves and vertical circulation in protoplanetary discs
(Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018-06-01)Spiral density waves dominate several facets of accretion disc dynamics – planet-disc interactions and gravitational instability (GI) most prominently. Though they have been examined thoroughly in two-dimensional simulations, ...
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Lattice QCD calculation of the B-(s) -> D-(s)* lv form factors at zero recoil and implications for vertical bar V-cb vertical bar
(PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2018-03-09)© 2018 authors. We present results of a lattice QCD calculation of B→D∗ and Bs→Ds∗ axial vector matrix elements with both states at rest. These zero recoil matrix elements provide the normalization necessary to infer a ...
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Quasi-periodic oscillations and the global modes of relativistic, MHD accretion discs
The high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) that punctuate the light curves of X-ray binary systems present a window onto the intrinsic properties of stellar-mass black holes and hence a testbed for general ...
