July 2013 arXiv papers — page 7

Niko Brümmer, George Doddington

Prior-weighted logistic regression has become a standard tool for calibration in speaker recognition. Logistic regression is the optimization of the expected value of the logarithmic scoring rule. We generalize this via a parametric family of proper scoring rules. Our theoretical analysis shows how different members of this family induce different relative w

Marius Crainic, Florian Schaetz, Ivan Struchiner

We give simple and unified proofs of the known stability and rigidity results for Lie algebras, Lie subalgebras and Lie algebra homomorphisms. Moreover, we investigate when a Lie algebra homomorphism is stable under all automorphisms of the codomain (including outer automorphisms).

C. Snodgrass, C. Tubiana, D. M. Bramich, K. Meech

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was selected in 2003 as the new target of the Rosetta mission. It has since been the subject of a detailed campaign of observations to characterise its nucleus and activity. Here we present previously unpublished data taken around the start of activity of the comet in 2007/8, before its last perihelion passage. We constrain th

Michael K. Pitt, Minh-Ngoc Tran, Marcel Scharth, Robert Kohn

Theoretical results for importance sampling rely on the existence of certain moments of the importance weights, which are the ratios between the proposal and target densities. In particular, a finite variance ensures square root convergence and asymptotic normality of the importance sampling estimate, and can be important for the reliability of the method in

Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Oksana Yakhnenko, Nicolas Usunier

This paper proposes a novel approach for relation extraction from free text which is trained to jointly use information from the text and from existing knowledge. Our model is based on two scoring functions that operate by learning low-dimensional embeddings of words and of entities and relationships from a knowledge base. We empirically show on New York Tim

Fengying Li, Shiqing Zhang

We use constrained variational minimizing methods to study the existence of periodic solutions with a prescribed energy for a class of second order Hamiltonian systems with a $C^2$ potential function which may have an unbounded potential well. Our result can be regarded as complementary to the well-known theorem of Benci-Gluck-Ziller and Hayashi.

Paul Terwilliger, Arjana Žitnik

Let $\C$ denote the field of complex numbers, and fix a nonzero $q \in \C$ such that $q^4 \ne 1$. Define a $\C$-algebra $Δ_q$ by generators and relations in the following way. The generators are $A,B,C$. The relations assert that each of $A+\frac{qBC-q^{-1}CB}{q^2-q^{-2}}$, $B+\frac{qCA-q^{-1}AC}{q^2-q^{-2}}$, $C+\frac{qAB-q^{-1}BA}{q^2-q^{-2}}$ is central i

D. Alesini, M. Alessandroni, M. P. Anania, S. Andreas

This report describes the scientific aims and potentials as well as the preliminary technical design of IRIDE, an innovative tool for multi-disciplinary investigations in a wide field of scientific, technological and industrial applications. IRIDE will be a high intensity 'particle factory', based on a combination of a high duty cycle radio-frequency

Avinash A. Deshpande, W. M. Goss, J. E. Mendoza-Torres

Our analysis of a VLBA 12-hour synthesis observation of the OH masers in a well-known star-forming region W49N has yielded valuable data that enables us to probe distributions of magnetic fields in both the maser columns and the intervening interstellar medium (ISM). The data consisting of detailed high angular-resolution images (with beam-width ~20 milli-ar

Victor Mukherjee, Alberto Carlini, Andrea Mari, Tommaso Caneva

We consider a two-level quantum system prepared in an arbitrary initial state and relaxing to a steady state due to the action of a Markovian dissipative channel. We study how optimal control can be used for speeding up or slowing down the relaxation towards the fixed point of the dynamics. We analytically derive the optimal relaxation times for different qu

J. H. Field

Two thought experiments are described in which ruler measurements of spatial intervals are performed in different reference frames. They demonstrate that such intervals are frame-independent as well as independent of the nature of the space-time transformation equations. As explained in detail elsewhere, the `length contraction' effect of conventional sp

B. Kirov, V. N. Obridko, K. Georgieva, E. V. Nepomnyashtaya

Geomagnetic activity in each phase of the solar cycle consists of 3 parts: (1) a floor below which the geomagnetic activity cannot fall even in the absence of sunspots, related to moderate graduate commencement storms; (2) sunspot-related activity due to sudden commencement storms caused by coronal mass ejections; (3) graduate commencement storms due to high

N. Maleeva, M. V. Fistul, A. Karpov, A. P. Zhuravel

We present analytical, numerical and experimental investigations of electromagnetic resonant modes of a compact monofilar Archimedean spiral resonator shaped in a ring, with no central part. Planar spiral resonators are interesting as components of metamaterials for their compact deep-subwavelength size. Such resonators couple primarily to the magnetic field

Charles John Read

The classical theorem of Bishop-Phelps asserts that, for a Banach space X, the norm-achieving functionals in X* are dense in X*. Bela Bollobas&#39;s extension of the theorem gives a quantitative description of just how dense the norm-achieving functionals have to be: if (x,f) is in X x X* with ||x||=||f||=1 and |1-f(x)|< h^2/4 then there are (x&#39;,f&#39;)

I. Nagy, J. Tóth

Classes of kinetic differential equations are delineated which do have a quadratic first integral, and classes which can not have one. Example reactions corresponding to the obtained kinetic differential equations are shown, and a few figures showing the trajectories of the corresponding systems are also included. Connections to other areas are mentioned and

Ritva Hurri-Syrjänen, Jani Joensuu

We prove capacitary strong type inequalities for functions belonging to Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. As an application we consider capacitary averages and their limits.

Luyang Wang, Oskar Vafek

We investigate the superconducting instability of a two-dimensional repulsive fermion gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling $\al_R$. Using renormalization group approach, we find the superconducting transition temperature as a function of the dimensionless ratio $Θ={1}{2}m\al_R^2/E_F$ where $E_F=0$ when the smaller Fermi surface shrinks to a (Dirac) point. The

Shigeru Ninagawa, Genaro J. Martínez

It is known that elementary cellular automaton rule 110 is capable of supporting universal computation by emulating cyclic tag system. Since the whole information necessary to perform computation is stored in the configuration, it is reasonable to investigate the complexity of configuration for the analysis of computing process. In this research we employed

Nicy Sebastian

The essentials of fractional calculus according to different approaches that can be useful for our applications in the theory of probability and stochastic processes are established. In addition to this, from this fractional integral one can list out almost all the extended densities for the pathway parameter $q < 1$ and $q \rightarrow 1$. Here we bring out

Kristi Kuljus, Jüri Lember

In a hidden Markov model, the underlying Markov chain is usually hidden. Often, the maximum likelihood alignment (Viterbi alignment) is used as its estimate. Although having the biggest likelihood, the Viterbi alignment can behave very untypically by passing states that are at most unexpected. To avoid such situations, the Viterbi alignment can be modified b

Matt Kerr, Gregory Pearlstein

We study certain real Lie-group orbits in the compact duals of Mumford-Tate domains, verifying a prediction made in [Green, Griffiths, Kerr; Mumford-Tate domains: their geometry and arithmetic] and determining which orbits contain a limit point of some period map. A variety of examples are worked out for the groups SU(2,1), Sp_4, and G_2.

T. Plecenik, M. Gregor, R. Sobota, M. Truchly

Surface properties of Co-doped BaFe2As2 epitaxial superconducting thin films were inspected by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning spreading resistance microscopy (SSRM), and point contact spectroscopy (PCS). It has been shown that surface of Fe-based superconductors degrades rapidly if being exposed to air, what results in suppression of gap-like str

Zhen Jia, Runlin Zhou, Chunge Zhu, Lei Wang

Now we live in an era of big data, and big data applications are becoming more and more pervasive. How to benchmark data center computer systems running big data applications (in short big data systems) is a hot topic. In this paper, we focus on measuring the performance impacts of diverse applications and scalable volumes of data sets on big data systems. F

Ayadi Samia, Haeberlé Olivier

We have applied harmonic expansion to derive an analytical solution for the Lorenz-Haken equations. This method is used to describe the regular and periodic self-pulsing regime of the single mode homogeneously broadened laser. These periodic solutions emerge when the ratio of the population decay rates is smaller than 0.11. We have also demonstrated the tend

Ilya Minkin, Anand Patel, Mikhail Kolmogorov, Nikolay Vyahhi

Comparing strains within the same microbial species has proven effective in the identification of genes and genomic regions responsible for virulence, as well as in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. In this paper, we present Sibelia, a tool for finding synteny blocks in multiple closely related microbial genomes using iterative de Bruijn gr

Harald Herrmann, Xu Yang, Abu Thomas, Andreas Poppe

We present an integrated source of polarization entangled photon pairs in the telecom regime, which is based on type II-phasematched parametric down-conversion (PDC) in a Ti-indiffused waveguide in periodically poled lithium niobate. The domain grating -- consisting of an interlaced bi-periodic structure -- is engineered to provide simultaneous phase-matchin

D M Edwards

The problem of a single down spin particle interacting with a Fermi sea of up spin particles is of current interest in the field of cold atoms. The Hubbard model, appropriate to atoms in an optical lattice potential, is considered in parallel with a gas model. As the strength of an attractive short-range interaction is increased there is a crossover from &#3

Carsten Lunde Petersen, Daniel Meyer

The different notions of matings of pairs of equal degree polynomials are introduced and are related to each other as well as known results on matings. The possible obstructions to matings are identified and related. Moreover the relations between the polynomials and their matings are discussed and proved. Finally holomorphic motion properties of slow-mating

Viraj Deshpande, Eric DK Fung, Son Pham, Vineet Bafna

Genome assembly using high throughput data with short reads, arguably, remains an unresolvable task in repetitive genomes, since when the length of a repeat exceeds the read length, it becomes difficult to unambiguously connect the flanking regions. The emergence of third generation sequencing (Pacific Biosciences) with long reads enables the opportunity to

Péter Kevei, David M. Mason

We extend a general Bernstein-type maximal inequality of Kevei and Mason (2011) for sums of random variables.

Nicy Sebastian, Dhannya P. Joseph, Seema S. Nair

Pathway idea is a switching mechanism by which one can go from one functional form to another, and to yet another. It is shown that through a parameter $α$, called the pathway parameter, one can connect generalized type-1 beta family of densities, generalized type-2 beta family of densities, and generalized gamma family of densities, in the scalar as well as

Laura Abatangelo, Veronica Felli, Susanna Terracini

Consider two domains connected by a thin tube: it can be shown that the resolvent of the Dirichlet Laplacian is continuous with respect to the channel section parameter. This in particular implies the continuity of isolated simple eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenfunctions with respect to domain perturbation. Under an explicit nondegeneracy condition,

Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza, Daniel T. Wise

We examine a condition on a simply connected 2-complex X ensuring that groups acting properly on X are coherent. This extends earlier work on 2-complexes with negative sectional curvature which covers the case that G acts freely. Our extension of these results involves a generalization of the notion of sectional curvature, an extension of the combinatorial G

Helen Ebbe, Stefan Wolf

Non-local correlations are among the most fascinating features of quantum theory from the point of view of information: Such correlations, although not allowing for signaling, are unexplainable by pre-shared information. The correlations have applications in cryptography, communication complexity, and sit at the very heart of many attempts of understanding q

Toshikaze Kariyado, Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The fermionic Shastry-Sutherland model has a rich phase diagram, including phases with massless Dirac fermions, a quadratic band crossing point, and a pseudospin-1 Weyl fermion. Berry phases defined by the one-dimensional momentum as a parameter are quantized into 0 or pi due to the inversion symmetry combined with the time reversal, or existence of the glid

Taku Onodera, Kunihiko Sadakane, Tetsuo Shibuya

We introduce a new concept of a subgraph class called a superbubble for analyzing assembly graphs, and propose an efficient algorithm for detecting it. Most assembly algorithms utilize assembly graphs like the de Bruijn graph or the overlap graph constructed from reads. From these graphs, many assembly algorithms first detect simple local graph structures (m

Ulf-G. Meißner

I review the present status of nuclear lattice simulations. This talk is dedicated to the memory of Gerald E. Brown.

Pit Vanhoefer

We present a summary of measurements sensitive to the CKM angle ϕ2 (α), performed by the BaBar and the Belle experiments which both collect B\bar{B} pairs produced at the Υ(4S) resonance in asymmetric e+e- collisions. We discuss the decays B -> ππ, ρρ, a_1πand (ρπ)^0. The CP asymmetries, branching fractions and polarizations obtained are used to constrain ϕ2

Sergey Khashin

At present one can not find a single counterexample to even a simplest version of Frobenius primality test. The assessment of probability of the mistake, presented in [I.B. Damgard and G.S.Frandsen, Journal of Cryptology, 2006] is strongly overestimated. In the present paper, the properties of simple divisors of FPP-numbers are proved. The lower bound for FP

Nishanth Ulhas Nair, Yu Lin, Philipp Bucher, Bernard M. E. Moret

In cell differentiation, a cell of a less specialized type becomes one of a more specialized type, even though all cells have the same genome. Transcription factors and epigenetic marks like histone modifications can play a significant role in the differentiation process. In this paper, we present a simple analysis of cell types and differentiation paths usi

László Györfi, Márton Ispány, Péter Kevei, Gyula Pap

Multi-type inhomogeneous Galton--Watson process with immigration is investigated, where the offspring mean matrix slowly converges to a critical mean matrix. Under general conditions we obtain limit distribution for the process, where the coordinates of the limit vector are not necessarily independent.

Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Tumorigenesis is an evolutionary process which involves a significant number of genomic rearrangements typically coupled with changes in the gene copy number profiles of numerous cells. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a cytogenetic technique which allows counting copy numbers of genes in single cells. The study of cancer progression using FISH d

J. P. Jaiswal

The object of the present work is to present the new classes of third-order and fourth-order iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations. Our third-order method includes methods of Weerakoon \cite{Weerakoon}, Homeier \cite{Homeier2}, Chun \cite{Chun} e.t.c. as particular cases. After that we make this third-order method to fourth-order (optimal) by usi

Sebastian Weitz, Nicolas Destainville

Up-down asymmetric inclusions impose a local, spontaneous curvature to an elastic membrane. When several of them are inserted in a same membrane, they feel effective forces mediated by the membrane, both of elastic and entropic nature. Following an approach initiated by Dommersnes and Fournier in the vanishing tension case [Eur. Phys. J. B 12, 9 (1999)], and

Dai Lian-Rong, Zhong Wei-Wei, Cong Mei-Ling

A new scheme was recently proposed in which the usual SU(3) quadrupole-quadrupole interaction was replaced by an O(6) cubic interaction in the Interacting Boson Model, and also successfully applied to the description of $^{152}$Sm for the N = 90 rare earth isotones with X(5) symmetry. By using this new scheme, in the present work, we further explore the prop

André Ritter, Florian Bayer, Jürgen Durst, Karl Gödel

Phase-wrapping artifacts, statistical image noise and the need for a minimum amount of phase steps per projection limit the practicability of x-ray grating based phase-contrast tomography, when using filtered back projection reconstruction. For conventional x-ray computed tomography, the use of statistical iterative reconstruction algorithms has successfully

Frédéric Bernicot, Vjekoslav Kovač

We consider bilinear multipliers that appeared as a distinguished particular case in the classification of two-dimensional bilinear Hilbert transforms by Demeter and Thiele [9]. In this note we investigate their boundedness on Sobolev spaces. Furthermore, we study structurally similar operators with symbols that also depend on the spatial variables. The new

M. Colangeli, F. Pezzotti, M. Pulvirenti

We introduce a stochastic $N$-particle system and show that, as $N\to \infty$, an effective description ruled by the homogeneous fermionic Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation is recovered. The particle model we consider is the same as the Kac model for the homogeneous Boltzmann equation with an additional exclusion constraint taking into account the Pauli Exclusion P

Andrei Afanasev

This is a short review of the physics of single-spin asymmetries caused by two-photon exchange in elastic scattering of electrons by nucleons and nuclei.

S. Klepser, S. Carrigan, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, C. Deil

The most numerous source class that emerged from the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey are Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe). The 2013 reanalysis of this survey, undertaken after almost 10 years of observations, provides us with the most sensitive and most complete census of gamma-ray PWNe to date. In addition to a uniform analysis of spectral and morphological parame

Sjoerd Dirksen, Jan Maas, Jan van Neerven

We prove new upper and lower bounds for Banach space-valued stochastic integrals with respect to a compensated Poisson random measure. Our estimates apply to Banach spaces with non-trivial martingale (co)type and extend various results in the literature. We also develop a Malliavin framework to interpret Poisson stochastic integrals as vector-valued Skorohod

Alexei M. Frolov

The Hamiltonian of the metric General Relativity derived in our earlier study (Gravitation, {\bf 17}, 314 - 323 (2011)) is analyzed by the methods of Matrix Quantum Mechanics. This Hamiltonian is a quadratic function of the momenta $π^{mn}$ conjugate to the spatial components $g_{mn}$ of the metric tensor $g_{αβ}$. The Hamiltonian is reduced to the new form

M. Asghari, P. Pedram, K. Nozari

We consider a Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) framework which predicts a maximal uncertainty in momentum and minimal uncertainties both in position and momentum. We apply supersymmetric quantum mechanics method and the shape invariance condition to obtain the exact harmonic oscillator eigenvalues in this GUP context. We find the supersymmetric partne

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, Lluis Torner

We expose a mechanism for the dynamical generation and control of light states with diverse topologies in spiraling guiding structures. Specifically, we show that spiraling shallow refractive index landscapes induce coupling and periodic energy exchange between states with different topological charges. Such a resonant effect enables excitation of optical vo

Ibrahim Omerhodzic, Samir Avdakovic, Amir Nuhanovic, Kemal Dizdarevic

In this paper, a wavelet-based neural network (WNN) classifier for recognizing EEG signals is implemented and tested under three sets EEG signals (healthy subjects, patients with epilepsy and patients with epileptic syndrome during the seizure). First, the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) with the Multi-Resolution Analysis (MRA) is applied to decompose EEG s

Jonathan Dunbar, Naihuan Jing, Kailash C. Misra

An explicit realization of the affine Lie algebra \hat{sl}_2(C) at the critical level is constructed using a mixture of bosons and parafermions. Subsequently a representation of the associated Lepowsky-Wilson Z-algebra is given on a space of the tensor product of bosonic fields and certain semi-infinite wedge products.

Samir Avdakovic, Amir Nuhanovic, Mirza Kusljugic, Elvisa Becirovic

In this paper, the simulation of the disturbance propagation through a large power system is performed on the WSCC 127 bus test system. The signal frequency analysis from several parts of the power system is performed by applying the Wavelet Transform (WT). The results show that this approach provides the system operators with some useful information regardi

Jonathan Horner, Robert A Wittenmyer, Tobias C Hinse, Jonathan P Marshall

In recent years, a number of planetary systems have been proposed to orbit evolved binary star systems. The presence of planets is invoked to explain observed variations in the timing of mutual eclipses between the primary and secondary components of the binary star system. The planets recently proposed orbiting the cataclysmic variable system QS Virginis ar

A. Biland, H. Anderhub, M. Backes, V. Boccone

The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) became operational at La Palma in October 2011. Since summer 2012, due to very smooth and stable operation, it is the first telescope of its kind that is routinely operated from remote, without the need for a data-taking crew on site. In addition, many standard tasks of operation are executed automatically without t

Ronan Flatley

Let $K$ be a field with characteristic different from 2 and let $S$ be a symbol algebra over $K$. We compute the symmetric powers of hyperbolic quadratic forms over $K$. Also, we compute the symmetric powers of the quadratic trace form of $S$. In both cases we apply a generalised form of the Vandermonde convolution in the course of the computations.

Donghyun Kim, Hideaki Sunagawa

We consider the Cauchy problem for systems of cubic nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations in one space dimension. Under a suitable structural condition on the nonlinearity, we will show that the small amplitude solution gains an additional logarithmic decay in comparison with the free evolution in the sense of $L^p$, $2\le p \le \infty$.

Miklós Tegze, Gábor Bortel

The short pulses of X-ray free electron lasers can produce diffraction patterns with structural information before radiation damage destroys the particle. The particles are injected into the beam in random orientations and they should be identical. However, in real experimental conditions it is not always possible to have identical particles. In this paper w

R. T. Brierley, P. B. Littlewood

Using a Ginzburg--Landau--Devonshire model that includes the coupling of polarization to strain, we calculate the fluctuation spectra of ferroelectric domain walls. The influence of the strain coupling differs between 180 degree and 90 degree walls due to the different strain profiles of the two configurations. The finite speed of acoustic phonons, $v_s$, re

Ari Aiolfi, Jaime Ripoll, Marc Soret

We prove the existence of minimal hypersurfaces for the Dirichlet that extends a similar result of Jenkins and Serrin in Euclidean Space to Riemannian ambient manifolds

Damian Ejlli

Here I discuss the conversion of relic gravitons into photons in large scale cosmological magnetic fields. It is shown that the conversion probability is quite large at the post recombination epoch with a rather large density of formed photons. The produced electromagnetic radiation could make a substantial contribution to the cosmic extragalactic background

T. Hayashi, M. Ishida

We model the post-shock accretion column (PSAC) for intermediate polars (IPs), with parameterizing specific accretion rate between 0.0001 and 100 g cm-2 s-1 and metal abundance between 0.1 and 2 times of solar abundance, and taking into account the gravitational potential and non-equipartition between ions, electrons and ionization degree. We assume the cyli

H. Zhu, W. W. Tian, D. F. Torres, G. Pedaletti

Two possible planetary nebulae (PN G035.5-00.4 and IRAS 18551+0159), one newly re-identified supernova remnant (SNR G35.6-0.4), and one HII region (G35.6-0.5) form a line-of-sight-overlapped complex known as G35.6-0.5. We analyze 21 cm HI absorption spectra towards the complex to constrain their kinematic distances. PN G035.5-00.4 has a distance from 3.8+/-0

Sladjana Nikolić, Glenn van de Ven, Kevin Heng, Daniel Kupko

We present integral-field spectroscopic observations with the VIMOS-IFU at the VLT of fast (2000-3000 km/s) Balmer-dominated shocks surrounding the northwestern rim of the remnant of supernova 1006. The high spatial and spectral resolution of the instrument enable us to show that the physical characteristics of the shocks exhibit a strong spatial variation o

A M Cooper-Sarkar

Charm production data from HERA can be used to determine the charm quark mass and jet production data from HERA can be used to detrmine $α_s(M_Z)$. recent results are summarised.

Claudius Gros

Time evolution equations for dynamical systems can often be derived from generating functionals. Examples are Newton&#39;s equations of motion in classical dynamics which can be generated within the Lagrange or the Hamiltonian formalism. We propose that generating functionals for self-organizing complex systems offer several advantages. Generating functional

A. Kovacs, B. Schaffer, M. S. Moreno, J. R. Jinschek

Nanometric inclusions filled with nitrogen, located adjacent to FenN (n = 3 or 4) nanocrystals within (Ga,Fe)N layers, are identified and characterized using scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). High-resolution STEM images reveal a truncation of the Fe-N nanocrystals at their boundaries with the nitro

A. Mortier, N. C. Santos, S. G. Sousa, V. Zh. Adibekyan

It is still being debated whether the well-known metallicity - giant planet correlation for dwarf stars is also valid for giant stars. For this reason, having precise metallicities is very important. Different methods can provide different results that lead to discrepancies in the analysis of planet hosts. To study the impact of different analyses on the met

Takuhiro Aota, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Yuri Aikawa

We performed one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with detailed cooling, heating and chemical processes to examine the thermal stability of shocked gas in cold neutral medium (CNM) and molecular clouds. We find that both CNM and molecular clouds can be thermally unstable in the cooling layer behind the shock wave. The characteristic wavelength of the the

R. Lipperheide, U. Wille

A comprehensive survey is given of the thermoballistic approach to charge carrier transport in semiconductors. This semiclassical approach bridges the gap between the drift-diffusion and ballistic (&#34;thermionic&#34;) models of carrier transport, whose validity is limited to the range of very small and very large values, respectively, of the carrier mean f

Takeshi Fukuyama, Hiroyuki Nishiura

The universality hypothesis for quark and lepton mixing matrices (CKM and MNS) is further developed. This hypothesis explains why the CKM is almost diagonal whereas the MNS is almost maximally mixed. If this hypothesis is true, the Dirac CP violating phase of the MNS mixing matrix is bounded around $π$ or 0. Quark-lepton mass matrices which realizes this hyp

Annette Wurl, Sebastian Goossen, David Canevet, Marc Salle

The supramolecular interaction between individual singlewall carbon nanotubes and a functional organic material based on tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) is investigated by means of electric transport measurements in field effect transistor configuration as well as by NIR absorption spectroscopy. The results clearly point to a charge transfer interaction in which th

Samuel L. Krushkal

The method of Grunsky inequalities has many applications and has been extended in many directions, even to bordered Riemann surfaces. However, unlike the case of functions univalent in the disk, a quasiconformal variant of this theory has not been developed so far. In this paper, we essentially improve the basic facts concerning the classical Grunsky inequal

Darya Filippova, Rob Patro, Geet Duggal, Carl Kingsford

Recent chromosome conformation capture experiments have led to the discovery of dense, contiguous, megabase-sized topological domains that are similar across cell types and conserved across species. These domains are strongly correlated with a number of chromatin markers and have since been included in a number of analyses. However, functionally-relevant dom

Michal Nánási, Tomáš Vinař, Broňa Brejová

We propose a simple tractable pair hidden Markov model for pairwise sequence alignment that accounts for the presence of short tandem repeats. Using the framework of gain functions, we design several optimization criteria for decoding this model and describe the resulting decoding algorithms, ranging from the traditional Viterbi and posterior decoding to blo

Gilles Celeux, Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette, Cathy Maugis-Rabusseau, Adrian E. Raftery

We compare two major approaches to variable selection in clustering: model selection and regularization. Based on previous results, we select the method of Maugis et al. (2009b), which modified the method of Raftery and Dean (2006), as a current state of the art model selection method. We select the method of Witten and Tibshirani (2010) as a current state o

Natalia Malinina

This material is dedicated to the estimation of the chromatic number and chromatic class of the conjugated triangulation (first conversion) and also of the second conversion of the planar triangulation. Also this paper introduces some new hypotheses, which are equivalent to Four Color Problem.

Fernando Pablos Romo

The aim of this work is to offer a family of invariants that allows us to classify finite potent endomorphisms on arbitrary vector spaces, generalizing the classification of endomorphisms on finite-dimensional vector spaces. As a particular case we classify nilpotent endomorphisms on infinite-dimensional vector spaces.

Gourab Chatterjee, Prashant Kumar Singh, A. P. L. Robinson, N. Booth

We report spatially and temporally resolved measurements of magnetic fields generated by petawatt laser-solid interactions with high spatial resolution, using optical polarimetry. The polarimetric measurements map the megagauss magnetic field profiles generated by the fast electron currents at the target rear. The magnetic fields at the rear of a 50 $μ$m thi

Jun Sun, Liuqing Yang

In this paper, we study the generalized Lagrangian mean curvature flow in almost Einstein manifold proposed by T. Behrndt. We show that the singularity of this flow is characterized by the second fundamental form. We also show that the rescaled flow at a singularity converges to a finite union of Special Lagrangian cones for generalized Lagrangian mean curva

C. Zendler, K. Lieutenant, D. Nekrassov, L. D. Cussen

Bi-spectral beam extraction combines neutrons from two different kind of moderators into one beamline, expanding the spectral range and thereby the utilization of an instrument. This idea can be realized by a mirror that reflects long wavelength neutrons from an off-axis colder moderator into a neutron guide aligned with another moderator emitting neutrons w

Jingdong Wang, Jing Wang, Gang Zeng, Zhuowen Tu

The $k$-NN graph has played a central role in increasingly popular data-driven techniques for various learning and vision tasks; yet, finding an efficient and effective way to construct $k$-NN graphs remains a challenge, especially for large-scale high-dimensional data. In this paper, we propose a new approach to construct approximate $k$-NN graphs with emph

Jingdong Wang, Hao Xu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li

In this paper, we address a problem of managing tagged images with hybrid summarization. We formulate this problem as finding a few image exemplars to represent the image set semantically and visually, and solve it in a hybrid way by exploiting both visual and textual information associated with images. We propose a novel approach, called homogeneous and het

E. E. Zubov

A possible origin of the high-temprature superconductivity in cuprates has been suggested. It is supposed that electron-phonon interaction determines the strong correlation narrowing of the electron band. It provides the conditions for the formation of a singlet electron pair coupled by exchange interaction. For the pure t-J model it has been proved that the

Stéphane Graham-Lengrand, Luca Paolini

This volume contains the proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS 2012). The workshop was held in Dubrovnik (Croatia) on June 29th, 2012, affiliated to Twenty-Seventh Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2012). The ITRS workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both the theory and

Lucas Paletta, Katrin Santner, Gerald Fritz

This work describes a computer vision system that enables pervasive mapping and monitoring of human attention. The key contribution is that our methodology enables full 3D recovery of the gaze pointer, human view frustum and associated human centered measurements directly into an automatically computed 3D model in real-time. We apply RGB-D SLAM and descripto

Limor Leibovich, Zohar Yakhini

Statistics in ranked lists is important in analyzing molecular biology measurement data, such as ChIP-seq, which yields ranked lists of genomic sequences. State of the art methods study fixed motifs in ranked lists. More flexible models such as position weight matrix (PWM) motifs are not addressed in this context. To assess the enrichment of a PWM motif in a

Michał Modzelewski, Norbert Dojer

Progressive methods offer efficient and reasonably good solutions to the multiple sequence alignment problem. However, resulting alignments are biased by guide-trees, especially for relatively distant sequences. We propose MSARC, a new graph-clustering based algorithm that aligns sequence sets without guide-trees. Experiments on the BAliBASE dataset show tha

D. S. Smirnov, M. M. Glazov, E. L. Ivchenko

In this paper a microscopic theory of spin fluctuations in an ensemble of electrons localized on donors in a bulk semiconductor has been developed. Both the hyperfine interaction of the electron spin with spins of lattice nuclei and the exchange interaction between the electrons have been taken into account. We propose a model of clusters to calculate spin n

Laurent Bulteau, Guillaume Fertin, Christian Komusiewicz, Irena Rusu

Motivated by the study of genome rearrangements, the NP-hard Minimum Common String Partition problems asks, given two strings, to split both strings into an identical set of blocks. We consider an extension of this problem to unbalanced strings, so that some elements may not be covered by any block. We present an efficient fixed-parameter algorithm for the p

Wenxue Huang, Yong Shi, Xiaogang Wang

We introduce an informative probabilistic association matrix to measure a proportional local-to-global association of categories of one variable with another categorical variable. Towards a probability based proportional prediction, the association matrix gives rise to the expected predictive distribution of the first and second types of errors for a multino

João Paulo Pereira Zanetti, Priscila Biller, João Meidanis

The Genome Median Problem is an important problem in phylogenetic reconstruction under rearrangement models. It can be stated as follows: given three genomes, find a fourth that minimizes the sum of the pairwise rearrangement distances between it and the three input genomes. Recently, Feijao and Meidanis extended the algebraic theory for genome rearrangement

Dragos Iftimie, Grzegorz Karch, Christophe Lacave

We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with the Dirichlet boundary condition in an exterior domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\geq2$. We compare the long-time behaviour of solutions to this initial-boundary value problem with the long-time behaviour of solutions of the analogous Cauchy problem in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$. We find that the

Animesh Kr Trivedi, Rishi Kapoor, Rajan Arora, Sudip Sanyal

This paper proposes a combination of an Intrusion Detection System with a routing protocol to strengthen the defense of a Mobile Ad hoc Network. Our system is Socially Inspired, since we use the new paradigm of Reputation inherited from human behavior. The proposed IDS also has a unique characteristic of being Semi-distributed, since it neither distributes i

Troy L. Hacker, Robert J. Brunner, Britt F. Lundgren, Donald G. York

We present the results from a time domain study of absorption lines detected in quasar spectra with repeat observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). Beginning with over 4500 unique time separation baselines of various absorption line species identified in the SDSS DR7 quasar spectra, we create a catalogue of 2522 quasar absorp

Nicolas Wieseke, Matthias Bernt, Martin Middendorf

Evolution is a process that is influenced by various environmental factors, e.g. the interactions between different species, genes, and biogeographical properties. Hence, it is interesting to study the combined evolutionary history of multiple species, their genes, and the environment they live in. A common approach to address this research problem is to des