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  1. Jan P. Radomski, Piotr P. Slonimski, Włodzimierz Zagórski-Ostoja, Piotr Borowicz

    Analyses and visualizations by the ISSCOR method of influenza virus hemagglutinin genes of different A-subtypes revealed some rather striking temporal relationships between groups of individual gene subsets. Based on these findings we consider application of the ISSCOR-PCA method for analyses of large sets of homologous genes to be a worthwhile addition to a

  2. Alexander Rakhlin, Karthik Sridharan

    We provide several applications of Optimistic Mirror Descent, an online learning algorithm based on the idea of predictable sequences. First, we recover the Mirror Prox algorithm for offline optimization, prove an extension to Holder-smooth functions, and apply the results to saddle-point type problems. Next, we prove that a version of Optimistic Mirror Desc

  3. Jie Du, Qiang Fu

    We use the Hecke algebras of affine symmetric groups and their associated Schur algebras to construct a new algebra through a basis, and a set of generators and explicit multiplication formulas of basis elements by generators. We prove that this algebra is isomorphic to the quantum enveloping algebra of the loop algebra of $\mathfrak {gl}_n$. Though this con

  4. Kyle Riggs

    We discuss the decomposability of torsion-free abelian groups. We show that among computable groups of finite rank this property is $Σ^0_3$-complete. However, when we consider groups of infinite rank, it becomes $Σ^1_1$-complete, so it cannot be characterized by a first-order formula in the language of arithmetic.

  5. D. Brun-Battistini, A. Sandoval-Villalbazo, A. L. Garcia-Perciante

    It is well known that, in the absence of external forces, simple non-relativistic fluids involve entropy production only through heat conduction and shear viscosity. In this work, it is shown that a number density gradient contributes to the local entropy production of a simple relativistic fluid using special relativistic kinetic theory. Also, the presence

  6. Tatsuro Shimizu

    We define an invariant of rational homology 3-spheres via vector fields. The construction of our invariant is a generalization of both that of the Kontsevich-Kuperberg-Thurston invariant and that of Watanabe's Morse homotopy invariant, which implies the equivalence of these two invariants.

  7. Liu Yang, Pengfei Kou, Jianqi Shen, El Hang Lee

    We propose a polarization-insensitive and high-efficiency plasmonic silicon Schottky diode for detection of sub-bandgap photons in the optical communication wavelength range through internal photoemission. Our photodiode is based on a hybrid plasmonic silicon waveguide. It has a gold film covering both the top and the sidewalls of a dielectric silicon wavegu

  8. Natalie Perlin, Eric D. Skyllinstad

    The current research focuses on mesoscale dynamics of the atmospheric circulation around an idealized coastal cape representing typical summertime circulation along the northwest coast of the U.S., studied using a mesoscale coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling system. The orographic wind maximum features a strong NW flow extending a few hundred kilometers downs

  9. Benson Joeris, Nathan Lindzey, Ross M. McConnell, Nissa Osheim

    A complementation operation on a vertex of a digraph changes all outgoing arcs into non-arcs, and outgoing non-arcs into arcs. A partially complemented digraph $\widetilde{G}$ is a digraph obtained from a sequence of vertex complement operations on $G$. Dahlhaus et al. showed that, given an adjacency-list representation of $\widetilde{G}$, depth-first search

  10. Caner Guclu, Salvatore Campione, Ozdal Boyraz, Filippo Capolino

    We provide for the first time the detailed study of the radiation performance of an optical leaky wave antenna (OLWA) integrated into a Fabry-Pérot resonator. We show that the radiation pattern can be expressed as the one generated by the interference of two leaky waves counter-propagating in the resonator leading to a design procedure for achieving optimize

  11. Woei Chet Lim, Alan Coley

    We investigate a general relativistic mechanism in which spikes generate matter overdensities in the early universe. When the cosmological fluid is tilted, the tilt provides another mechanism in generating matter inhomogeneities. We numerically investigate the effect of a sign change in the tilt, when there is a spike but the tilt does not change sign, and w

  12. Xiao-Wu Chen, Jue Le

    We prove that a Hom-finite additive category having determined morphisms on both sides is a dualizing variety. This complements a result by Krause. We prove that in a Hom-finite abelian category having Serre duality, a morphism is right determined by some object if and only if it is an epimorphism. We give a characterization to abelian categories having Serr

  13. James Cranch

    We introduce some classes of genuine higher categories in homotopy type theory, defined as well-behaved subcategories of the category of types. We give several examples, and some techniques for showing other things are not examples. While only a small part of what is needed, it is a natural construction, and may be instructive for people seeking to provide a

  14. Ron W Nielsen aka Jan Nurzynski

    Analysis of demographic catastrophes shows that, with the exception of perhaps only two critical events, they were too weak to influence the growth of human population. These results reinforce the conclusion that the concept of the Epoch of Malthusian Stagnation, the alleged first stage of growth claimed by the Demographic Transition Theory, is not supported

  15. Shaheen Nazir, Michele Torielli, Masahiko Yoshinaga

    A rank one local system on the complement of a hyperplane arrangement is said to be admissible if it satisfies certain non-positivity condition at every resonant edges. It is known that the cohomology of admissible local system can be computed combinatorially. In this paper, we study the structure of the set of all non-admissible local systems in the charact

  16. Huiyuan Li, Yuan Xu

    Spectral approximation by polynomials on the unit ball is studied in the frame of the Sobolev spaces $W^{s}_p(\ball)$, $1<p<\infty$. The main results give sharp estimates on the order of approximation by polynomials in the Sobolev spaces and explicit construction of approximating polynomials. One major effort lies in understanding the structure of orthogonal

  17. Shmuel Friedland, Giorgio Ottaviani

    In this paper we discuss the notion of singular vector tuples of a complex valued $d$-mode tensor of dimension m_1 x ... x m_d. We show that a generic tensor has a finite number of singular vector tuples, viewed as points in the corresponding Segre product. We give the formula for the number of singular vector tuples. We show similar results for tensors with

  18. O. Moreno, T. W. Donnelly

    High precision measurements of the parity-violating asymmetry in polarized electron scattering from nuclei can be used to extract information on nuclear and nucleon structure or to determine Standard Model couplings and higher-order radiative corrections. To this end, low uncertainties are also required in the effects that inevitably arise from modeling the

  19. Michael P. Desjarlais

    We demonstrate the accurate calculation of entropies and free energies for a variety of liquid metals using an extension of the two phase thermodynamic (2PT) model based on a decomposition of the velocity autocorrelation function into gas-like (hard sphere) and solid-like (harmonic) subsystems. The hard sphere model for the gas-like component is shown to giv

  20. Scott Kuindersma, Frank Permenter, Russ Tedrake

    We describe a whole-body dynamic walking controller implemented as a convex quadratic program. The controller solves an optimal control problem using an approximate value function derived from a simple walking model while respecting the dynamic, input, and contact constraints of the full robot dynamics. By exploiting sparsity and temporal structure in the op

  21. Claudia Nieuwenhuis, Eno Toeppe, Lena Gorelick, Olga Veksler

    Curvature has received increased attention as an important alternative to length based regularization in computer vision. In contrast to length, it preserves elongated structures and fine details. Existing approaches are either inefficient, or have low angular resolution and yield results with strong block artifacts. We derive a new model for computing squar

  22. Joel Jones-Perez

    In split-family SUSY, one can use a U(2)^3 symmetry to protect flavour observables in the quark sector from SUSY contributions. However, attempts to extend this procedure to the lepton sector by using an analogous U(2)^5 symmetry fail to reproduce the neutrino data without introducing some form of fine-tuning. In this work, we solve this problem by shifting

  23. Melania Nynka, Charles J. Hailey, Kaya Mori, Frederick K. Baganoff

    We report the unambiguous detection of non-thermal X-ray emission up to 30 keV from the Cannonball, a few-arcsecond long diffuse X-ray feature near the Galactic Center, using the NuSTAR X-ray observatory. The Cannonball is a high-velocity (vproj~500 km/s) pulsar candidate with a cometary pulsar wind nebula (PWN) located ~2&#39; north-east from Sgr A*, just o

  24. Tyrus Berry, John Harlim

    We study filtering of multiscale dynamical systems with model error arising from unresolved smaller scale processes. The analysis assumes continuous-time noisy observations of all components of the slow variables alone. For a linear model with Gaussian noise, we prove existence of a unique choice of parameters in a linear reduced model for the slow variables

  25. Fabio Maltoni, Kentarou Mawatari, Marco Zaro

    Vector-boson fusion and associated production at the LHC can provide key information on the strength and structure of the Higgs couplings to the Standard Model particles. Using an effective field theory approach, we study the effects of next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections matched to parton shower on selected observables for various spin-0 hypotheses.

  26. Chan Ieong Kuan

    For $f$ a primitive holomorphic cusp form of even weight $k \geq 4$, level $N$, and $χ$ a Dirichlet character mod $Q$ with $(Q,N)=1$, we establish a new hybrid subconvexity bound for $L(1/2 + it, f_χ)$, which improves upon all known hybrid bounds. This is done via amplification and taking advantage of a shifted convolution sum of two variables defined and an

  27. Adrian Kantian, Ulrich Schollwöck, Thierry Giamarchi

    We show that a distinguishable mobile impurity inside a one-dimensional many-body state at zero temperature generally does not behave like a quasiparticle (QP). Instead, both the impurities dynamics as well as the ground state of the bath are fundamentally transformed by a diverging number of zero-energy excitations being generated, leading to what we call i

  28. I. Brivio, T. Corbett, O. J. P. Éboli, M. B. Gavela

    The pattern of deviations from Standard Model predictions and couplings is different for theories of new physics based on a non-linear realization of the $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ gauge symmetry breaking and those assuming a linear realization. We clarify this issue in a model-independent way via its effective Lagrangian formulation in the presence of a light H

  29. Mattias Blennow, Pilar Coloma, Patrick Huber, Thomas Schwetz

    Determining the type of the neutrino mass ordering (normal versus inverted) is one of the most important open questions in neutrino physics. In this paper we clarify the statistical interpretation of sensitivity calculations for this measurement. We employ standard frequentist methods of hypothesis testing in order to precisely define terms like the median s

  30. Curtis J. Saxton, Kinwah Wu

    We investigate the effects of a cD galaxy&#39;s gravity and AGN heating of the host galaxy cluster. We consider a standard prescription for the hydrodynamics, with the structures determined by mass continuity, momentum and energy conservation equations in spherical symmetry. The cluster comprises a dark matter halo (DM) and ionised X-ray emitting intracluste

  31. Andrew R. Zentner, Andrew P. Hearin, Frank C. van den Bosch

    It is common practice for methods that use galaxy clustering to constrain the galaxy-halo relationship, such as the halo occupation distribution (HOD) and/or conditional luminosity function (CLF), to assume that halo mass alone suffices to determine a halo&#39;s resident galaxy population. Yet, the clustering strength of cold dark matter halos depends upon h

  32. Rhorry Gauld

    The forward LHCb acceptance opens interesting possibilities of studying precision Standard Model hard processes in a kinematical region beyond the reach of ATLAS and CMS. In this paper we perform a feasibility study for cross-section measurements of top quark pairs with the LHCb detector, with an analysis of signal and background rates for selected final sta

  33. Catherine Searle, Frederick Wilhelm

    We show how to lift positive Ricci and almost non-negative curvatures from an orbit space $M/G$ to the corresponding $G$-manifold, $M$. We apply the results to get new examples of Riemannian manifolds that satisfy both curvature conditions simultaneously.

  34. Yuan-Ming Lu, Dung-Hai Lee

    Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped quantum phases which host symmetry-protected gapless edge excitations. On the other hand, the edge states can be gapped by spontaneously breaking symmetry. We show that topological defects on the symmetry-broken edge cannot proliferate due to their fractional statistics. A gapped symmetric boundary, howe

  35. Claudio Coriano, Luigi Delle Rose, Carlo Marzo, Mirko Serino

    We extend a previous analysis on the derivation of the dilaton Wess-Zumino (WZ) action in $d=4$, based on the method of Weyl gauging, to $6$ dimensions. As in the previous case, we discuss the structure of the same action in dimensional regularization using 6-dimensional Weyl invariants, extracting the dilaton interactions in the most general scheme, with th

  36. Kevin Langlois

    This thesis is devoted to the study of geometric properties of affine algebraic varieties endowed with an action of an algebraic torus. It comes from three preprints which correspond to the indicated points (1), (2), (3). Let $X$ be an affine variety equipped with an action of the algebraic torus $\mathbb{T}$. The complexity of the $\mathbb{T}$-action on $X$

  37. CMS Collaboration

    A search for three-jet hadronic resonance production in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.4 inverse femtobarns. The search method is model independent, and events are selected that have high jet multiplicity and large valu

  38. Fabrice Gamboa, Alexandre Janon, Thierry Klein, Agnès Lagnoux

    Let $X:=(X_1, \ldots, X_p)$ be random objects (the inputs), defined on some probability space $(Ω,{\mathcal{F}}, \mathbb P)$ and valued in some measurable space $E=E_1\times\ldots \times E_p$. Further, let $Y:=Y = f(X_1, \ldots, X_p)$ be the output. Here, $f$ is a measurable function from $E$ to some Hilbert space $\mathbb{H}$ ($\mathbb{H}$ could be either o

  39. S. LeBohec, J. Talbot, E. G. Mishchenko

    The interaction of two resonant impurities in graphene has been predicted to have a long-range character with weaker repulsion when the two adatoms reside on the same sublattice and stronger attraction when they are on different sublattices. We reveal that this attraction results from a single energy level. This opens up a possibility of controlling the sign

  40. Alessandra Gnecchi, Kiril Hristov, Dietmar Klemm, Chiara Toldo

    We present new results towards the construction of the most general black hole solutions in four-dimensional Fayet-Iliopoulos gauged supergravities. In these theories black holes can be asymptotically AdS and have arbitrary mass, angular momentum, electric and magnetic charges and NUT charge. Furthermore, a wide range of horizon topologies is allowed (compac

  41. B. Hoare, A. Stepanchuk, A. A. Tseytlin

    We address the question about the exact form of the dispersion relation for light-cone string excitations in string theory in AdS3 x S3 x T4 with mixed R-R and NS-NS 3-form fluxes. The analogy with string theory in AdS5 x S5 suggests that in addition to the data provided by the perturbative near-BMN expansion and the symmetry algebra considerations there is

  42. Thomas Braibant, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, David Monniaux

    We report on four different approaches to implementing hash-consing in Coq programs. The use cases include execution inside Coq, or execution of the extracted OCaml code. We explore the different trade-offs between faithful use of pristine extracted code, and code that is fine-tuned to make use of OCaml programming constructs not available in Coq. We discuss

  43. Emmanuel Desmontils

    Currently, XML is a format widely used. In the context of computer science teaching, it is necessary to introduce students to this format and, especially, at its eco-system. We have developed a model to support the teaching of XML. We propose to represent an XML schema as a graph highlighting the structural characteristics of the valide documents. We present

  44. Laura DeMarco, Xiaoguang Wang, Hexi Ye

    We give a dynamical proof of a result of Masser and Zannier [MZ2, MZ3] about torsion points on the Legendre family of elliptic curves. Our methods also treat points of small height. A key ingredient is the arithmetic equidistribution theorem on $\mathbb{P}^1$ of Baker-Rumely, Chambert-Loir, and Favre-Rivera-Letelier. Torsion points on the elliptic curve coin

  45. M. Oliva-Leyva, Gerardo G. Naumis

    The density of states and the AC conductivity of graphene under uniform strain are calculated using a new Dirac Hamiltonian that takes into account the main three ingredients that change the electronic properties of strained graphene: the real displacement of the Fermi energy, the reciprocal lattice strain and the changes in the overlap of atomic orbitals. O

  46. Alberto Castaño Domínguez

    We provide two Mayer-Vietoris-like spectral sequences related to the localization over the complement of a closed subvariety of an algebraic variety by using techniques from $\mathcal{D}$-modules and homological algebra. We also give, as an application of the previous, a method to calculate the cohomology of the complement of any arrangement of hyperplanes o

  47. Robert Guralnick, Florian Herzig, Pham Huu Tiep

    The notion of adequate subgroups was introduced by Jack Thorne [42]. It is a weakening of the notion of big subgroups used in generalizations of the Taylor-Wiles method for proving the automorphy of certain Galois representations. Using this idea, Thorne was able to strengthen many automorphy lifting theorems. It was shown in [22] that if the dimension is sm

  48. Tian Lan, Xiao-Gang Wen

    String-net models allow us to systematically construct and classify 2+1D topologically ordered states which can have gapped boundaries. We can use a simple ideal string-net wavefunction, which is described by a set of F-matrices [or more precisely, a unitary fusion category (UFC)], to study all the universal properties of such a topological order. In this pa

  49. Emily Clader

    Using the equivariant virtual cycle of the moduli space of stable maps to [C/Z_r], or equivalently, the vanishing of high-degree Chern classes of a certain vector bundle over the moduli space of stable maps to BZ_r, we derive relations in the Chow ring of Mbar_{g,n}(BZ_r,0). These push forward to yield tautological relations on Mbar_{g,n}.

  50. Caglar Gulcehre, Kyunghyun Cho, Razvan Pascanu, Yoshua Bengio

    In this paper we propose and investigate a novel nonlinear unit, called $L_p$ unit, for deep neural networks. The proposed $L_p$ unit receives signals from several projections of a subset of units in the layer below and computes a normalized $L_p$ norm. We notice two interesting interpretations of the $L_p$ unit. First, the proposed unit can be understood as

  51. Rodolfo G. Cionco, Rubén Rodriguez, Nancy Quaranta, Eduardo Agosta

    Tropospheric ozone (O3T) is a secondary pollutant whose formation involved primarily solar radiation, NOx and volatile organic compounds. The North of the Buenos Aires Province has great agricultural-industrial activity; therefore, O3T study is an important issue in the area. In this paper, we present the first results tend to estimate and characterize O3T i

  52. Helvecio Fargnoli, Christoph Gnendiger, Sebastian Paßehr, Dominik Stöckinger

    Recently, first results were presented for two-loop corrections to the muon (g-2) from fermion/sfermion loops in the MSSM. These corrections were shown to be generally large and even logarithmically enhanced for heavy sfermions. Here, full details of the calculation and analytical results are presented. Also, a very compact formula is provided which can be e

  53. Shaun A. Mills, Neal E. Staley, Jacob J. Wisser, Chenyi Shen

    We present the preparation and measurements of nanowires of single-crystal NbSe$_2$. These nanowires were prepared on ultrathin ($\lesssim10\text{ nm}$) flakes of NbSe$_2$ mechanically exfoliated from a bulk single crystal using a process combining electron beam lithography and reactive plasma etching. The electrical contacts to the nanowires were prepared u

  54. P. Pralavorio

    Today, both particle physics and cosmology are described by few parameter Standard Models, i.e. it is possible to deduce consequence of particle physics in cosmology and vice verse. The former is examined in this lecture, in light of the recent systematic exploration of the electroweak scale by the LHC experiments. The two main results of the first phase of

  55. Andreu Font-Ribera, David Kirkby, Nicolas Busca, Jordi Miralda-Escudé

    We measure the large-scale cross-correlation of quasars with the Lyman alpha forest absorption, using over 164,000 quasars from Data Release 11 of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. We extend the previous study of roughly 60,000 quasars from Data Release 9 to larger separations, allowing a measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (

  56. R. Dutta, H. Holden, U. Koley, N. H. Risebro

    In this paper we analyze operator splitting for the Benjamin-Ono equation, u_t = uu_x + Hu_xx, where H denotes the Hilbert transform. If the initial data are sufficiently regular, we show the convergence of both Godunov and Strang splitting.

  57. Baraa Salem, Jamel Dammak

    Let $G=(V,A)$ be a digraph. With every subset $X$ of $V$, we associate the subdigraph $G[X]=(X,A\cap (X\times X))$ of $G$ induced by $X$. Given a positive integer $k$, a digraph $G$ is $(\leq k)$-half-reconstructible if it is determined up to duality by its subdigraphs of cardinality $\leq k$. In 2003, J. Dammak characterized the $(\leq k)$-half-reconstructi

  58. M. P. Ehrlichman, A. Chatterjee, W. Hartung, B. Heltsley

    In storage rings, horizontal dispersion in the rf cavities introduces horizontal-longitudinal (xz) coupling, contributing to beam tilt in the xz plane. This coupling can be characterized by a &#34;crabbing&#34; dispersion term ζa that appears in the normal mode decomposition of the 1-turn transfer matrix. ζa is proportional to the rf cavity voltage and the h

  59. Matthias Beck, Erika Meza, Bryan Nevarez, Alana Shine

    Zaslavsky proved in 2012 that, up to switching isomorphism, there are six different signed Petersen graphs and that they could be told apart by their chromatic polynomials, by showing that the latter give distinct results when evaluated at 3. He conjectured that the six different signed Petersen graphs also have distinct zero-free chromatic polynomials, and

  60. Rubén J. Sánchez-García, Emanuele Cozzo, Yamir Moreno

    Network representations are useful for describing the structure of a large variety of complex systems. Although most studies of real-world networks suppose that nodes are connected by only a single type of edge, most natural and engineered systems include multiple subsystems and layers of connectivity. This new paradigm has attracted a great deal of attentio

  61. Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Xin Lin, Andrea Asztalos, Sameet Sreenivasan

    Risks threatening modern societies form an intricately interconnected network that often underlies crisis situations. Yet, little is known about how risk materializations in distinct domains influence each other. Here we present an approach in which expert assessments of risks likelihoods and influence underlie a quantitative model of the global risk network

  62. Quoc Tran Dinh, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Volkan Cevher

    Many scientific and engineering applications feature nonsmooth convex minimization problems over convex sets. In this paper, we address an important instance of this broad class where we assume that the nonsmooth objective is equipped with a tractable proximity operator and that the convex constraint set affords a self-concordant barrier. We provide a new jo

  63. Bohdan Novosyadlyj, Maksym Tsizh, Yurij Kulinich

    We analyze the behavior of the scalar field as dark energy of the Universe in a static world of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. We find the analytical solutions of evolution equations of the density and velocity perturbations of dark matter and dark energy, which interact only gravitationally, along with the perturbations of metric in a static world with

  64. Arman Tursunov, Martin Kološ, Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov, Bobomurat Ahmedov

    The particle acceleration mechanism in $S^2 \times\mathbb{R}^1$ topology, namely in the spacetime of the five-dimensional compact black string has been studied. The expression of center-of-mass energy of the colliding neutral particles near static black string has been found. The collision of charged particle moving at the innermost stable circular orbit wit

  65. Eleonora Tulumello, Maria Carmela Lombardo, Marco Sammartino

    In this work we investigate the process of pattern formation induced by nonlinear diffusion in a reaction-diffusion system with Lotka-Volterra predator-prey kinetics. We show that the cross-diffusion term is responsible of the destabilizing mechanism that leads to the emergence of spatial patterns. Near marginal stability we perform a weakly nonlinear analys

  66. Remo Garattini, Barun Majumder

    We compute the Zero Point Energy (ZPE) induced by a naked singularity with the help of a reformulation of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. A variational approach is used for the calculation with Gaussian Trial Wave Functionals. The one loop contribution of the graviton to the ZPE is extracted keeping under control the UltraViolet divergences by means of a distor

  67. Simon Abay, Daniel Persson, Henrik Nilsson, Fan Wu

    We present an extensive experimental and theoretical study of the proximity effect in InAs nanowires connected to superconducting electrodes. We fabricate and investigate devices with suspended gate-controlled nanowires and nonsuspended nanowires, with a broad range of lengths and normal-state resistances. We analyze the main features of the current-voltage

  68. Roberto Ammendola, Andrea Biagioni, Ottorino Frezza, Francesca Lo Cicero

    Modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now considered accelerators for general purpose computation. A tight interaction between the GPU and the interconnection network is the strategy to express the full potential on capability computing of a multi-GPU system on large HPC clusters; that is the reason why an efficient and scalable interconnect is a key t

  69. J. Berthelot, S. S. Acimovic, M. L. Juan, M. P. Kreuzer

    Recent advances in Nanotechnologies have prompted the need for tools to accurately and non-invasively manipulate individual nano-objects. Among possible strategies, optical forces have been foreseen to provide researchers with nano-optical tweezers capable to trap a specimen and move it in 3D. In practice though, the combination of weak optical forces involv

  70. Qin Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang

    We present a general model on the simulation of the measurement-device independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD). It can be used to predict experimental observations of a MDI-QKD with linear channel loss, simulating corresponding values for the gains, the error rates in different basis, and also the final key rates. Our model can be applicable to the MD

  71. Mei Yin, Alessandro Rinaldo, Sukhada Fadnavis

    We describe the asymptotic properties of the edge-triangle exponential random graph model as the natural parameters diverge along straight lines. We show that as we continuously vary the slopes of these lines, a typical graph drawn from this model exhibits quantized behavior, jumping from one complete multipartite graph to another, and the jumps happen preci

  72. Amit Kuber

    Let $\operatorname{K}_0(\operatorname{Var}_k)$ denote the Grothendieck ring of $k$-varieties over an algebraically closed field $k$. Larsen and Lunts asked if two $k$-varieties having the same class in $\operatorname{K}_0 (\operatorname{Var}_k)$ are piecewise isomorphic. Gromov asked if a birational self-map of a $k$-variety can be extended to a piecewise au

  73. Anne C. Skeldon, Derk-Jan Dijk, Gianne Derks

    Sleep is essential for the maintenance of the brain and the body, yet many features of sleep are poorly understood and mathematical models are an important tool for probing proposed biological mechanisms. The most well-known mathematical model of sleep regulation, the two-process model, models the sleep-wake cycle by two oscillators: a circadian oscillator a

  74. Edoardo M Airoldi, Thiago B Costa, Stanley H Chan

    Non-parametric approaches for analyzing network data based on exchangeable graph models (ExGM) have recently gained interest. The key object that defines an ExGM is often referred to as a graphon. This non-parametric perspective on network modeling poses challenging questions on how to make inference on the graphon underlying observed network data. In this p

  75. Scott Andrews

    We construct supercharacter theories of finite unipotent groups in the orthogonal, symplectic and unitary types. Our method utilizes group actions in a manner analogous to that of Diaconis and Isaacs in their construction of supercharacters of algebra groups. The resulting supercharacter theories agree with those of André and Neto in the case of the unipoten

  76. Roy A. Lacey, D. Reynolds, A. Taranenko, N. N. Ajitanand

    It is shown that the acoustic scaling patterns of anisotropic flow for different event shapes at a fixed collision centrality (shape-engineered events), provide robust constraints for the event-by-event fluctuations in the initial-state density distribution from ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The empirical scaling parameters also provide a dual-path

  77. Shuji Kaieda, Bertil Halle

    Myoglobin (Mb) binds diatomic ligands, like O$_2$, CO, and NO, in a cavity that is only transiently accessible. Crystallography and molecular simulations show that the ligands can migrate through an extensive network of transiently connected cavities, but disagree on the locations and occupancy of internal hydration sites. Here, we use water $^2$H and $^{17}

  78. R. Alonso, M. B. Gavela, D. Hernandez, L. Merlo

    Flavour physics is a priceless window on physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, flavour violation in the lepton sector looks very promising, as high precision measurements are prospected in future experiments investigating on $μ\rightarrow e$ conversion in atomic nuclei: the predictions for this observable are analysed in the context of the type I

  79. Christopher Mattern

    Probability estimation is an elementary building block of every statistical data compression algorithm. In practice probability estimation is often based on relative letter frequencies which get scaled down, when their sum is too large. Such algorithms are attractive in terms of memory requirements, running time and practical performance. However, there stil

  80. Valter Moretti, Davide Pastorello

    This work concerns some issues about the interplay of standard and geometric (Hamiltonian) approaches to finite-dimensional quantum mechanics, formulated in the projective space. Our analysis relies upon the notion and the properties of so-called frame functions, introduced by A.M. Gleason to prove his celebrated theorem. In particular, the problem of associ

  81. Gunnar S. Bali, Sara Collins, Benjamin Gläßle, Meinulf Göckeler

    Using stochastic estimators for connected meson and baryon three-point functions has successfully been tried in the past years. Compared to the standard sequential source method we trade the freedom to compute the current-to-sink propagator independently of the hadron sink for additional stochastic noise in our observables. In the case of the nucleon we can

  82. Wm. G. Hoover, Carol G. Hoover, Karl P. Travis

    Structurally-stable atomistic one-dimensional shockwaves have long been simulated by injecting fresh cool particles and extracting old hot particles at opposite ends of a simulation box. The resulting shock profiles demonstrate tensor temperature, with the longitudinal temperature exceeding the transverse, and Maxwell&#39;s delayed response, with stress lagg

  83. Peter Sanders, Christian Schulz

    This paper severs as a user guide to the graph partitioning framework KaHIP (Karlsruhe High Quality Partitioning). We give a rough overview of the techniques used within the framework and describe the user interface as well as the file formats used. Moreover, we provide a short description of the current library functions provided within the framework. Since

  84. Gregor Hlawacek, Vasilisa Veligura, Raoul van Gastel, Bene Poelsema

    Helium Ion Microcopy (HIM) based on Gas Field Ion Sources (GFIS) represents a new ultra high resolution microscopy and nano-fabrication technique. It is an enabling technology that not only provides imagery of conducting as well as uncoated insulating nano-structures but also allows to create these features. The latter can be achieved using resists or materi

  85. Wai-Hin Wayne Ngan, Raymond G. Carlberg

    We use N-body simulations to model the tidal disruption of a star cluster in a Milky-Way-sized dark matter halo, which results in a narrow stream comparable to (but slightly wider than) Pal-5 or GD-1. The mean Galactic dark matter halo is modeled by a spherical Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) potential with subhalos predicted by the LCDM cosmological model. The di

  86. G. Dattoli, E. Di Palma, E. Sabia, S. Licciardi

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    In this paper, by arising condition in variation, from equal time to non-equal time, I reconsider how geometrodynamics equations allow to be derived from variational principle in general relativity and then find the variation of extrinsic curvature dependent only locally on its induced metric and unit normal. I thus try to attribute the quasi-local energy to

  91. T. E. Woods, M. Gilfanov

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  92. Rainer Brunnhuber, Barbara Kaltenbacher

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  93. M. J. Page, C. Simpson, D. J. Mortlock, S. J. Warren

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  94. Pavel Krtous, Andrei Zelnikov

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  95. Charles Curry, Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard, Simon J. A. Malham, Anke Wiese

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  96. Kenneth Kunen, Andrea Medini, Lyubomyr Zdomskyy

    We give several topological/combinatorial conditions that, for a filter on $ω$, are equivalent to being a non-meager $\mathsf{P}$-filter. In particular, we show that a filter is countable dense homogeneous if and only if it is a non-meager $\mathsf{P}$-filter. Here, we identify a filter with a subspace of $2^ω$ through characteristic functions. Along the way

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  98. Marco Falconi

    In this paper we discuss global existence of the solution of the Maxwell and Newton system of equations, describing the interaction of a rigid charge distribution with the electromagnetic field it generates. A unique solution is proved to exist (for regular charge distributions) on suitable homogeneous and non-homogeneous Sobolev spaces, for the electromagne

  99. Alexander Yu. Vlasov

    All quantum gates with one and two qubits may be described by elements of $Spin$ groups due to isomorphisms $Spin(3) \simeq SU(2)$ and $Spin(6) \simeq SU(4)$. However, the group of $n$-qubit gates $SU(2^n)$ for $n > 2$ has bigger dimension than $Spin(3n)$. A quantum circuit with one- and two-qubit gates may be used for construction of arbitrary unitary trans

  100. Koretaka Yuge

    Based on classical statistical thermodynamics, we develop a theoretical approach that provides new insight into how macroscopic and microscopic physical properties are bridged via crystal lattice for condensed mat- ters. We find that in order to determine macroscopic physical properties and their temperature dependence in equilibrium disordered state, inform