We report the experimental observation of the recently predicted peaks on the I-V curve of the superconducting single-electron transistor at relatively high temperatures. The peaks are due to the matching of singularities in the quasiparticle density of states in two electrodes of a tunnel junction. The energy shift due to Coulomb blockade provides the matching at finite voltage. 73.40.Gk, 73.4...

In quark modelsà la Bakamjian and Thomas, that yield covariance and Isgur-Wise scaling of form factors in the heavy quark limit, we compute the decay constants f (n) and f (n) 1/2 of S-wave and P-wave mesons composed of heavy and light quarks. Heavy quark limit scaling √ M f = Cst. is obtained, and it is shown that this class of models satisfies the sum rules involving decay constants and Isgur...

Hallin and Ley (2012) investigate and fully characterize the Fisher singularity phenomenon in univariate and multivariate families of skew-symmetric distributions. This paper proposes a refined analysis of the (univariate) Fisher degeneracy problem, showing that it can be more or less severe, inducing n (“simple singularity”), n (“double singularity”), or n (“triple singularity”) consistency ra...

We study the behavior of geodesies passing through a point singularity of a Riemannian manifold. In particular, we show that if the curvature does not blow up too rapidly near the singularity, then the singularity is at worst an orbifold singularity. The idea is to construct the exponential map centered at a singularity. Since there is no tangent space at the singularity, a surrogate is needed....

We construct a new class of plane-symmetric solutions possessing a curvature singularity which is null and weak, like the spacetime singularity at the Cauchy horizon of spinning (or charged) black holes. We then analyse the stability of this singularity using a rigorous non-perturbative method. We find that within the framework of (linearly-polarized) plane-symmetric spacetimes this type of nul...

Fixed a point O on a non-singular surface S and a complete mO-primary ideal I in OS,O , the curves on the surface X = BlI (S) obtained by blowing-up I are studied in terms of the base points of I. Criteria for the principality of these curves are obtained. New formulas for their multiplicity, intersection numbers and order of singularity at the singularities of X are given. The semigroup of bra...

We study the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for some elliptic equations with a first order term b(u,Du) which is quadratic in the gradient variable and singular in the u variable at a positive point. Moreover, the gradient term we consider, changes its sign at the singularity. Dealing with an appropriate concept of solution that gives sense to the equation at the singularity, we prove existence ...

We consider solutions to the Euler equations in the whole space from a certain class, which can be characterized, in particular, by finiteness of mass, total energy and momentum. We prove that for a large class of right-hand sides, including the viscous term, such solutions, no matter how smooth initially, develop a singularity within a finite time. We find a sufficient condition for the singul...

A new dynamic friction model for modeling of elliptical vibration assisted turning (EVAT) was developed in this research. The periodic change of the friction force direction is known to be one of the most important causes of this phenomenon. In modeling of machining processes (including the EVAT process), static Coulomb friction model was employed by most of the researchers. Because of the peri...