December 2013 arXiv papers — page 40

Jian Yang

In this paper, we study a competitive model involving two species. When the competition is strong enough, the two species are separated by a free boundary. If the initial data has a positive bound at infinity. We prove that the solution will converge, as $t\rightarrow \infty$, to the traveling wave solution and the free boundary will move to infinity with a

Guo-Hui Ding, Bing Dong

By using nonequilibrium Green's functions and the equation of motion method, we formulate a self-consistent field theory for the electron transport through a single molecular junction (SMJ) coupled with a vibrational mode. We show that the nonequilibrium dynamics of the phonons in strong electron-phonon coupling regime can be taken into account appropria

L. A. Trevisan, C. Mirez, F. M. Andrade

An analytical solution of the Dirac equation with a Cornell potential, with identical scalar and vectorial parts, is presented. The solution is obtained by using the linear potential solution, related to Airy functions, multiplied by another function to be determined. The energy levels are obtained and we notice that they obey a band structure.

Patrick Louodop, Hilaire Fotsin, Michaux Kountchou, Elie B. Megam Ngouonkadi

This paper addresses the problem of finite-time synchronization of tunnel diode based chaotic oscillators. After a brief investigation of its chaotic dynamics, we propose an active adaptive feedback coupling which accomplishes the synchronization of tunnel diode based chaotic systems with and without the presence of delay(s), basing ourselves on Lyapunov and

Chiara Ravazzi, Paolo Frasca, Roberto Tempo, Hideaki Ishii

Algorithms and dynamics over networks often involve randomization, and randomization may result in oscillating dynamics which fail to converge in a deterministic sense. In this paper, we observe this undesired feature in three applications, in which the dynamics is the randomized asynchronous counterpart of a well-behaved synchronous one. These three applica

Sheng-Yuan Tu, Ali H. Sayed

In distributed processing, agents generally collect data generated by the same underlying unknown model (represented by a vector of parameters) and then solve an estimation or inference task cooperatively. In this paper, we consider the situation in which the data observed by the agents may have risen from two different models. Agents do not know beforehand

Sascha M. Schnepp

An hp-adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Method for electromagnetic wave propagation phenomena in the time-domain is proposed. The method is highly efficient and allows for the first time the adaptive full-wave simulation of transient problems in three-dimensional space. Refinement is performed anisotropically in the approximation order, p, and the mesh step si

Wei Chen, Nikos Deligiannis, Yiannis Andreopoulos, Ian J. Wassell

This paper advocates the use of the distributed compressed sensing (DCS) paradigm to deploy energy harvesting (EH) Internet of Thing (IoT) devices for energy self-sustainability. We consider networks with signal/energy models that capture the fact that both the collected signals and the harvested energy of different devices can exhibit correlation. We provid

Kay Rülling, Takao Yamazaki

We prove that the $K$-group of reciprocity functors, defined by F. Ivorra and the first author, vanishes over a perfect field as soon as one of the reciprocity functors is $\mathbb{G}_a$ and one is an abelian variety.

Dimitrios Fotakis, Ioannis Milis, Emmanouil Zampetakis, Georgios Zois

We propose constant approximation algorithms for generalizations of the Flexible Flow Shop (FFS) problem which form a realistic model for non-preemptive scheduling in MapReduce systems. Our results concern the minimization of the total weighted completion time of a set of MapReduce jobs on unrelated processors and improve substantially on the model proposed

Stratos Staboulis, Jérémi Dardé

The most realistic model for current-to-voltage measurements of electrical impedance tomography is the complete electrode model which takes into account electrode shapes and contact impedances at the electrode/object interfaces. When contact impedances are small, numerical instability can be avoided by replacing the complete model with the shunt model in whi

M. Allgaier, S. Gehler, S. Barkhofen, H. -J. Stöckmann

The influence of absorption on the spectra of microwave graphs has been studied experimentally. The microwave networks were made up of coaxial cables and T junctions. First, absorption was introduced by attaching a 50 Ohm load to an additional vertex for graphs with and without time-reversal symmetry. The resulting level-spacing distributions were compared w

Mani Bhaumik

The intrinsic fluctuations of the underlying, immutable quantum fields that fill all space and time can support the element of reality of a wave function in quantum mechanics. The mysterious non-locality of quantum entanglement may also be understood in terms of these inherent quantum fluctuations, ever-present at the most fundamental level of the universe.

CMS Collaboration

The production of jets associated to bottom quarks is measured for the first time in PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair. Jet spectra are reported in the transverse momentum (pt) range of 80-250 GeV, and within pseudorapidity abs(eta < 2). The nuclear modification factor (R[AA]) calculated from these spectra shows a strong

Badal Joshi

Certain chemical reaction networks (CRNs) when modeled as a deterministic dynamical system taken with mass-action kinetics have the property of reaction network detailed balance (RNDB) which is achieved by imposing network-related constraints on the reaction rate constants. Markov chains (whether arising as models of CRNs or otherwise) have their own notion

CMS Collaboration

A search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq is performed in events produced from the decay chain t t-bar to Zq + Wb, where both vector bosons decay leptonically, producing a final state with three leptons (electrons or muons). A data set collected with the CMS detector at the LHC is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosit

Lay Nam Chang, Zachary Lewis, Djordje Minic, Tatsu Takeuchi

We argue that the q=1 limit of Galois Field Quantum Mechanics, which was constructed on a vector space over the Galois Field F_q=GF(q), corresponds to its `classical limit,&#39; where superposition of states is disallowed. The limit preserves the projective geometry nature of the state space, and can be understood as being constructed on an appropriately def

Jakub Konečný, Michal Hagara

The purpose of this paper is to describe one-shot-learning gesture recognition systems developed on the \textit{ChaLearn Gesture Dataset}. We use RGB and depth images and combine appearance (Histograms of Oriented Gradients) and motion descriptors (Histogram of Optical Flow) for parallel temporal segmentation and recognition. The Quadratic-Chi distance famil

Arnaud Browet, Paul Van Dooren

Computing meaningful clusters of nodes is crucial to analyze large networks. In this paper, we present a pairwise node similarity measure that allows to extract roles, i.e. group of nodes sharing similar flow patterns within a network. We propose a low rank iterative scheme to approximate the similarity measure for very large networks. Finally, we show that

Pavel Kornilovitch

A three-particle spin-1/2 fermion problem with on-site repulsion and nearest-neighbor attraction is solved on the two-dimensional square lattice by discretizing a Schroedinger equation in momentum space. Energies of bound complexes (trions) and their binding conditions are obtained. For total spin S = 1/2, a wide region of trion instability toward decaying i

Konstantin Khanin, Michael Yampolsky

We study the renormalization operator of circle homeomorphisms with a break point and show that it possesses a hyperbolic horseshoe attractor.

Shweta Agrawal, Ran Gelles, Amit Sahai

How much adversarial noise can protocols for interactive communication tolerate? This question was examined by Braverman and Rao (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2014) for the case of &#34;robust&#34; protocols, where each party sends messages only in fixed and predetermined rounds. We consider a new class of non-robust protocols for Interactive Communication, whic

Trésor Ekanga

We establish the complete spectral exponential, and the strong Hilbert-Schmidt dynamical localization for the one-dimensional multi-particle Anderson tight-binding model and for weakly interacting particles system. In other words, we show stability of the one-dimensional localization from the single-particle to multi-particle systems with an arbitrary large

Satyajit Rath, B. P. S. Sahoo, S. K. Pandey, D. P. Sandha

The planet Earth has hundreds of impact events, with some occurrences causing both in terms of human casualty as well as economic losses. Such attitudes of earth pushed the frontiers to develop innovative monitoring strategies for the earth system. To make that real, although, will require coherent and real-time data by observing the earth behavior contiguou

Gabriele Oliva, Roberto Setola, Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

In this paper we provide a fully distributed implementation of the k-means clustering algorithm, intended for wireless sensor networks where each agent is endowed with a possibly high-dimensional observation (e.g., position, humidity, temperature, etc.) The proposed algorithm, by means of one-hop communication, partitions the agents into measure-dependent gr

Sabine Kraml, Suchita Kulkarni, Ursula Laa, Andre Lessa

We present a general procedure to decompose Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) collider signatures presenting a Z2 symmetry into Simplified Model Spectrum (SMS) topologies. Our method provides a way to cast BSM predictions for the LHC in a model independent framework, which can be directly confronted with the relevant experimental constraints. Our concrete impl

H. Ness, L. K. Dash

We study the non-equilibrium (NE) fluctuation-dissipation (FD) relations in the context of quantum thermoelectric transport through a two-terminal nanodevice in the steady-state. The FD relations for the one- and two-particle correlation functions are derived for a model of the central region consisting of a single electron level. Explicit expressions for th

Alexander Stottmeister, Thomas Thiemann

We analyze the implications of the microlocal spectrum/Hadamard condition for states in a (linear) quantum field theory on a globally hyperbolic spacetime $M$ in the context of a (distributional) initial value formulation. More specifically, we work in a $3+1$-split $M\cong\mathbb{R}\timesΣ$ and give a bound, independent of the spacetime metric, on the wave

Stefano Francaviglia, Armando Martino

In this paper we develop the metric theory for the outer space of a free product of groups. This generalizes the theory of the outer space of a free group, and includes its relative versions. The outer space of a free product is made of $G$-trees with possibly non-trivial vertex stabilisers. The strategies are the same as in the classical case, with some tec

Giuseppe Ancona, Stephen Enright-Ward, Annette Huber

We prove a canonical Kunneth decomposition for the motive of a commutative group scheme over a field. Moreover, we show that this decomposition behaves under the group law just as in cohomology. We also deduce applications of the decomposition to the existence of a weight filtration, computation of any Weil cohomology theory and study of 1-motives.

P. Medvedev, M. Gilfanov, S. Sazonov, P. Shtykovskiy

Depending on the topology of the magnetic field and characteristics of turbulent motions, diffusion can significantly affect the distribution of elements, in particular helium, in the intracluster medium (ICM). As has been noted previously, an incorrect assumption about the helium abundance will lead to an error in the iron abundance determined from X-ray sp

Yaakov Karasik, Yuval Shpigelman

In the 80&#39;s, Regev, using results of Formanek, Procesi and Razmyslov in invariant theory and Hilbert series&#39;, determined asymptotically the codimension sequence of mXm matrices over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Inspired by Regev&#39;s ideas, we found that the asymptotics of $c_{n}^{G}(A)$, the G graded codimension sequence of

F. Andraschko, J. Sirker

A boundary transfer matrix formulation allows to calculate the Loschmidt echo for one-dimensional quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit. We show that non-analyticities in the Loschmidt echo and zeros for the Loschmidt amplitude in the complex plane (Fisher zeros) are caused by a crossing of eigenvalues in the spectrum of the transfer matrix. Using a den

Elaad Applebaum, Aielet Efrati, Yuval Grossman, Yosef Nir

A first measurement of time-reversal (T) asymmetries that are not also CP asymmetries has been recently achieved by the BaBar collaboration. We analyze the measured asymmetries in the presence of direct CP violation, CPT violation, wrong strangeness decays and wrong sign semileptonic decays. We note that the commonly used S_{ψK} and C_{ψK} parameters are CP-

H. Itoyama, Nobuhito Maru

Continuing with our previous work on D-term triggered dynamical supersymmetry breaking, we consider a system in which our generic N=1 action is minimally extended to include the pair of Higgs doublet superfields charged under the overall U(1) as well as mu and B mu terms. The gauge group is taken to be SU(3)_C times SU(2)_L times U(1)_Y times U(1). We point

Elena Goncharova, Alexander Ovseevich

We address a linear control system under geometric constraints on control and study its reachable sets starting at zero time from the origin. The main result is the existence of a limit shape of the reachable sets as the terminal time tends to zero. Here, a shape of a set stands for the set regarded up to an invertible linear transformation. Both autonomous

Andrey Semena, Mikhail Revnivtsev

We consider the behavior of matter in the accretion column that emerges under accretion in binary systems near the surface of a white dwarf. The plasma heated in a standing shock wave near the white dwarf surface efficiently radiates in the X-ray energy band. We suggest a method for estimating post-shock plasma parameters, such as the density, temperature, a

S. E. Brunner, L. Gruber, J. Marton, H. Orth

The barrel time-of-flight (TOF) detector for the PANDA experiment at FAIR in Darmstadt is planned as a scintillator tile hodoscope (SciTil) using 8000 small scintillator tiles. It will provide fast event timing for a software trigger in the otherwise trigger-less data acquisition scheme of PANDA, relative timing in a multiple track event topology as well as

Tomás A. Revilla

In mutualisms where there is exchange of resources for resources, or resources for services, the resources are typically short lived compared with the lives of the organisms that produce and make use of them. This fact allows a separation of time scales, by which the numerical response of one species with respect to the abundance of another can be derived me

Doyoun Kim, Peter Athron, Csaba Balázs, Benjamin Farmer

The recent discovery of the 125.5 GeV Higgs boson at the LHC has fueled interest in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM) as it may require less fine-tuning than the minimal model to accommodate such a heavy Higgs. To this end we present Bayesian naturalness priors to quantify fine-tuning in the (N)MSSM. These priors arise automatically a

Elisabeth M. Werner, Umut Caglar

The Blaschke Santaló inequality and the $L_p$ affine isoperimetric inequalities are major inequalities in convex geometry and they have a wide range of applications. Functional versions of the Blaschke Santaló inequality have been established over the years through many contributions. More recently and ongoing, such functional versions have been established

Susan M. Cooper, Stephen G. Hartke

Motivated by the work of Chudnovsky and the Eisenbud-Mazur Conjecture on evolutions, Harbourne and Huneke give a series of conjectures that relate symbolic and regular powers of ideals of fat points in $\mathbb P^n$. The conjectures involve both containment statements and bounds for the initial degree in which there is a non-zero form in an ideal. Working wi

Yu-Xiao Liu, Zeng-Guang Xu, Feng-Wei Chen, Shao-Wen Wei

It is known that by introducing the Yukawa coupling between the fermion and the background scalar field, a bulk spin-half fermion can be localized on general Randall-Sundrum braneworlds generated by a kinklike background scalar. However, this localization mechanism does not work anymore for Randall-Sundrum braneworlds generated by a scalar whose configuratio

P. V. Pyshkin, A. I. Kopeliovich, A. V. Yanovsky

Lagrangian of electronic liquid in magneto-inhomogeneous micro-conductor has been constructed. A corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation has been solved. It was shown that the described system has eigenmodes of spin polarization and total electric current oscillations. The suggested approach permits to study the spin dynamics in an open-circuit which contains

Bertrand Deroin, Victor Kleptsyn, Andrés Navas

We consider finitely generated groups of real-analytic circle diffeomorphisms. We show that if such a group admits an exceptional minimal set (i.e., a minimal invariant Cantor set), then its Lebesgue measure is zero; moreover, there are only finitely many orbits of connected components of its complement. For the case of minimal actions, we show that if the u

Martin Kolb, Mladen Savov

In this note we investigate the behaviour of Brownian motion conditioned on a growth constraint of its local time which has been previously investigated by Berestycki and Benjamini. For a class of non-decreasing positive functions $f(t); t>0$, we consider the Wiener measure under the condition that the Brownian local time is dominated by the function f up to

A. T. Brown, W. C. K Poon

Colloidal particles partially coated with platinum and dispersed in H2O2 solution are often used as model self-propelled colloids. Most current data suggest that neutral self-diffusiophoresis propels these particles. However, several studies have shown strong ionic effects in this and related systems, such as a reduction of propulsion speed by salt. We inves

LiYong Ji, Songbai Chen, Jiliang Jing

We have investigated the strong gravitational lensing in a rotating squashed Kaluza-Klein (KK) black hole spacetime. Our result show that the strong gravitational lensings in the rotating squashed KK black hole spacetime have some distinct behaviors from those in the backgrounds of the four-dimensional Kerr black hole and of the squashed KK Gödel black hole.

Bruno Durand, Guilhem Gamard, Anael Grandjean

In this paper we present a construction of Kari-Culik aperiodic tile set - the smallest known until now. With the help of this construction, we prove that this tileset has positive entropy. We also explain why this result was not expected.

Tosiaki Kori

Let X be a four-manifold with boundary three manifold M. We shall describe (i) a pre-symplectic structure on the space of connections of the trivial SU(n)-bundle over X that comes from the canonical symplectic structure on the cotangent bundle of the connection space, and (ii) a pre-symplectic structure on the space of flat connections of the trivial SU(n)-b

N. Ota, K. Nagayoshi, G. W. Pratt, T. Kitayama

We present the results from Suzaku observations of the hottest Abell galaxy cluster A2163 at $z=0.2$. To study the physics of gas heating in cluster mergers, we investigated hard X-ray emission from the merging cluster A2163, which hosts the brightest synchrotron radio halo. We analyzed hard X-ray spectra accumulated from two-pointed Suzaku observations. Non

Xiaojun Cui, Jian cheng

We show that Busemann functions on a smooth, non-compact, complete, boundaryless, connected Riemannian manifold are viscosity solutions with respect to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation determined by the Riemannian metric and consequently they are locally semi-concave with linear modulus. We also analysis the structure of singularity sets of Busemann functions. M

Yan-Gang Miao, Ying-Jie Zhao

We propose an improved exponential Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) by introducing a positive integer $n$ called the suppressing index. Due to the UV/IR mixing brought by the GUP, the states with momenta smaller than the critical momentum ($P < P_{\rm Crit}$) are canceled by the states with momenta larger than the critical momentum ($P > P_{\rm Crit}$

F. Gao, H. Liu, P. Xu, X. Tian

We measure the transverse velocity distribution in a thermal Sr atomic beam precisely by velocity-selective saturated fluorescence spectroscopy. The use of an ultrastable laser system and the narrow intercombination transition line of Sr atoms mean that the resolution of the measured velocity can reach 0.13 m/s, corresponding to 90$μK$ in energy units. The e

Nicholas Mattei, Thomas Dodson, Joshua T. Guerin, Judy Goldsmith

We detail some lessons learned while designing and testing a decision-theoretic advising support tool for undergraduates at a large state university. Between 2009 and 2011 we conducted two surveys of over 500 students in multiple majors and colleges. These surveys asked students detailed questions about their preferences concerning course selection, advising

Michel van Garrel, Tony W. H. Wong, Gjergji Zaimi

Relative BPS state counts for log Calabi-Yau surface pairs were introduced by Gross-Pandharipande-Siebert and conjectured by the authors to be integers. For toric Del Pezzo surfaces, we provide an arithmetic proof of this conjecture, by relating these invariants to the local BPS state counts of the surfaces. The latter were shown to be integers by Peng; and

G. R. Chelnokov, V. L. Dol'nikov

The main results of this paper are generalizations some classical theorems about transversals for families of finite sets to some cases of families of infinite sets.

Sibo Zheng

This paper is devoted to reconcile the tension between theoretic expectation from naturalness and the present LHC limits on superpartner mass bounds. We argue that in SUSY models of direct gauge mediation the focusing phenomenon appears, which dramatically reduces the fine tuning associated to 126 GeV Higgs boson. This type of model is highly predictive in m

Stefano Pirandola, Carlo Ottaviani, Gaetana Spedalieri, Christian Weedbrook

We extend the field of continuous-variable quantum cryptography to a network formulation where two honest parties connect to an untrusted relay by insecure quantum links. To generate secret correlations, they transmit coherent states to the relay where a continuous-variable Bell detection is performed and the outcome broadcast. Even though the detection coul

Bob J. Scurlock, James R. Ipser, Paul A. Borsa

In the construction of simulations of rear-end vehicle impacts, the Articulated Total Body (ATB) software package can be a useful tool. In this article we discuss the effect of using artificially inflated values for seat-backrest stiffness in ATB simulations. We will also present methods for quickly assessing the quality of simulation results. In this connec

Francisco Guevara, Carlos Uzcategui

We study Borel ideals $I$ on $\mathbb{N}$ with the Fréchet property such its orthogonal $I^\perp$ is also Borel (where $A\in I^\perp$ iff $A\cap B$ is finite for all $B\in I$ and $I$ is Fréchet if $I=I^{\perp\perp}$). Let $\mathcal{B}$ be the smallest collection of ideals on ${\mathbb{N}}$ containing the ideal of finite sets and closed under countable direct

Victor Chernozhukov, Ivan Fernandez-Val, Stefan Hoderlein, Hajo Holzmann

This paper considers identification and estimation of ceteris paribus effects of continuous regressors in nonseparable panel models with time homogeneity. The effects of interest are derivatives of the average and quantile structural functions of the model. We find that these derivatives are identified with two time periods for &#34;stayers&#34;, i.e. for in

Hirotaka Sugawara

The proof of 4-dimensional cosmological constant is given for the 10-dimensional supergravity-super-Yang-Mills theory. Supersymmetry is broken at will. The proof is very simple and it is based on the scale invariance of the theory but it assumes a nouvelle interpretation of quantum theory or rather that of Planck constant. Proof utilizes the supergravity-sup

Ji Wang, Yangyang Chen, Rongxing Wu, Lihong Wang

A nonlinear analysis of high-frequency thickness-shear vibrations of AT-cut quartz crystal plates is presented with the two-dimensional finite element method. We expanded both kinematic and constitutive nonlinear Mindlin plate equations and then truncated them to the first-order equations as an approximation, which is used later for the formulation of nonlin

P. Kiran Sree, I. Ramesh Babu

Pattern recognition problem rely upon the features inherent in the pattern of images. Face detection and recognition is one of the challenging research areas in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we present a method to identify skin pixels from still and video images using skin color. Face regions are identified from this skin pixel region. Facial

Richard Davis, Sanjay Chawla, Philip Leong

In this article we propose feature graph architectures (FGA), which are deep learning systems employing a structured initialisation and training method based on a feature graph which facilitates improved generalisation performance compared with a standard shallow architecture. The goal is to explore alternative perspectives on the problem of deep network tra

Rei Inoue, Pol Vanhaecke, Takao Yamazaki

We apply a reduction to the Beauville systems to obtain a family of new algebraic completely integrable systems, related to curves with a cyclic automorphism.

Andrzej Z. Grzybowski, Zbigniew Domanski

In the paper a novel stochastic algorithm designed to study of chain-like bodies dynamics is introduced. This algorithm models chain movements induced by the tension propagation and its main idea relies on the sequentialization of each movement into a sequence of virtual steps made by chain&#39;s segments. In this spirit, any accepted chain&#39;s new positio

Vladimir I. Kruglov

We present a model where the lepton masses are the eigenvalues of relativistic nonlinear field equations. The eigenfunctions correspond in the model to lepton states with inner structure. In this picture the self-interaction leads to the bound state of electron described by the ground state solution. The variational approach based on minimization of the mass

Marek Grochowski

We construct normal forms for Lorentzian metrics on Engel distributions under the assumption that abnormal curves are timelike future directed Hamiltonian geodesics. Then we indicate some cases in which the abnormal timelike future directed curve initiating at the origin is geometrically optimal. We also give certain estimates for reachable sets from a point

David Vanderbilt, Ivo Souza, F. D. M. Haldane

We point out that, contrary to an assertion by Chen, Bergman and Burkov [Phys. Rev. B 88, 125110 (2013)], the non-quantized part of the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity can indeed be expressed as a Fermi-surface property even when Weyl points are present in the bandstructure.

Andreas Eckstein, Guillaume Boucher, Aristide Lemaître, Pascal Filloux

Quantum optics plays a central role in the study of fundamental concepts in quantum mechanics, and in the development of new technological applications. Typical experiments employ non-classical light, such as entangled photons, generated by parametric processes. The standard characterization of the sources by quantum tomography, which relies on detecting the

K. R. W. Jones

We introduce a simple deformed quantization prescription that interpolates the classical and quantum sectors of Weinberg&#39;s nonlinear quantum theory. The result is a novel classical limit where $\hbar$ is kept fixed while a dimensionless mesoscopic parameter, $λ\in[0,1]$, goes to zero. Unlike the standard classical limit, which holds good up to a certain

Roberto Cominetti, Alfredo Torrico

This paper investigates the use of risk measures and theories of choice for modeling risk-averse route choice and traffic network equilibrium with random travel times. We interpret the postulates of these theories in the context of routing, and we identify additive consistency as a plausible and relevant condition that allows to reduce risk-averse route choi

Andrew Wilfong

A general problem in complex cobordism theory is to find useful representatives for cobordism classes. One particularly convenient class of complex manifolds consists of smooth projective toric varieties. The bijective correspondence between these varieties and smooth polytopes allows us to examine which complex cobordism classes contain a smooth projective

James G. H. Whiting, Ben P. J. de Lacy Costello, Andrew Adamatzky

We experimentally derived a unique one-to-one mapping between a range of selected bioactive chemicals and patterns of oscillations of the slime mould&#39;s extacellular electrical potential.

Kamal Chandra Reddy, Ankit Tharwani, Ch. Vamshi Krishna, Lakshminarayanan. V

Firewalls use a rule database to decide which packets will be allowed from one network onto another thereby implementing a security policy. In high-speed networks as the inter-arrival rate of packets decreases, the latency incurred by a firewall increases. In such a scenario, a single firewall become a bottleneck and reduces the overall throughput of the net

Lior Seeman

Motivated by cost of computation in game theory, we explore how changing the utilities of players (changing their complexity costs) affects the outcome of a game. We show that even if we improve a player&#39;s utility in every action profile, his payoff in equilibrium might be lower than in the equilibrium before the change. We provide some conditions on gam

H. J. Kappen

In this comment I argue that the causal entropy proposed in [1] is state-independent and the entropic force is zero for state-independent noise in a discrete time formulation and that the causal entropy description is incomplete in the continuous time case.

Emanuele Papini, Laurent Gizon, Aaron C. Birch

Linear time-domain simulations of acoustic oscillations are unstable in the stellar convection zone. To overcome this problem it is customary to compute the oscillations of a stabilized background stellar model. The stabilization, however, affects the result. Here we propose to use a perturbative approach (running the simulation twice) to approximately recov

Marek Grochowski

In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient condition for local controllability around closed orbits for general smooth control systems. We also prove that any such system on a compact manifold has a closed orbit.

V. D. Orlovsky, Yu. A. Simonov

Vacuum energy of quarks participates in the pressure balance at the temperature transition T_c and defines the dependence of T_c on m_q. We first check this dependence in absence of magnetic fields eB vs known lattice data, and then take into account the known strong dependence of the quark condensate on eB. The resulting function T_c(eB, m_q) is valid for a

Congduc Pham, Mamour Diop, Ousmane Thiare

We consider Robot-assisted Search $\&$ Rescue operations enhanced with some fixed image sensor nodes capable of capturing and sending visual information to a robot sink. In order to increase the performance of image transfer from image sensor nodes to the robot sinks we propose a 2-hop neighborhood information-based cover set selection to determine the most

A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino, A. Dotter, J. E. Norris

The horizontal branch (HB) morphology of globular clusters (GCs) is mainly determined by metallicity. However, the fact that GCs with almost the same metallicity exhibit different HB morphologies demonstrates that at least one more parameter is needed to explain the HB morphology. It has been suggested that one of these should be a global parameter that vari

G. M. Cárdenas

We study the fourth order Schrödinger type differential inequality $-Δ^2 u + λV(x)u \geq a(x)u^q$ with $a,V\in L^1_{loc}(\mathbf{R}^N)$, both nonnegative, and $λ>0$. We consider nonnegative solutions without making any assumptions about their asymptotic behavior, and choosing appropriate test functions, we find a priori estimates for some type of subharmonic

Ji Long, Zhang Shu, Chen YuPeng, Zhang Shuang-Nan

We report on a study of GS 1826--238 using all available {\it RXTE} observations, concentrating on the behavior of the hard X-rays during type-I bursts. We find a hard X-ray shortage at 30--50 keV promoted by the shower of soft X-rays coming from type-I bursts. This shortage happens with a time delay after the peak of the soft flux of 3.6 $\pm$ 1.2 seconds.T

Yun-Bin Zhao

Many practical problems can be formulated as l0-minimization problems with nonnegativity constraints, which seek the sparsest nonnegative solutions to underdetermined linear systems. Recent study indicates that l1-minimization is efficient for solving some classes of l0-minimization problems. From a mathematical point of view, however, the understanding of t

David Espès, Ana Maria Pistea, Charles Canaff, Ioana Iordache

Two challenges for rescue robots are to detect human beings and to have an accurate positioning system. In indoor positioning, GPS receivers cannot be used due to the reflections or attenuation caused by obstacles. To detect human beings, sensors such as thermal camera, ultrasonic and microphone can be embedded on the rescue robot. The drawback of these sens

Satadeep Bhattacharjee, Dovran Rahmedov, Dawei Wang, Laurent Bellaiche

Using an effective Hamiltonian of mutiferroic BiFeO$_3$ (BFO) as a toy model, we explore the effect of the coefficient, C, characterizing the strength of the spin-current interaction, on physical properties. We observe that for larger C values and below a critical temperature, the magnetic moments organize themselves in a novel cycloid which propagates along

Iu. Karpenko, P. Huovinen, M. Bleicher

We describe the details of 3+1 dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic code for the simulations of quark-gluon/hadron matter expansion in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The code solves the equations of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics in the Israel-Stewart framework. With the help of ideal-viscous splitting, we keep the ability to solve the equatio

Bryden Cais, Christopher Davis

Fix $K/\mathbf{Q}_p$ a finite extension and let $L/K$ be an infinite, strictly APF extension in the sense of Fontaine--Wintenberger. Let $X_K(L)$ denote its associated norm field. The goal of this paper is to associate to $L/K$, in a canonical and functorial way, a $p$-adically complete subring $\mathbf{A}_{L/K}^+ \subset \widetilde{\mathbf{A}}^+$ whose redu

Yunguo Jiang

The mass deformed effective world-sheet theory of semi local vortices was constructed via the field theoretical method. By Euler-Lagrangian equations, the Ansatze for both the gauge field and the adjoint scalar were solved, this ensures that zero modes of vortices are minimal excitations of the system. Up to the $1/g^2$ order, all profiles are solved. The ma

H. A. Fürst, M. H. Goerz, U. G. Poschinger, M. Murphy

We investigate the performance of different control techniques for ion transport in state-of-the-art segmented miniaturized ion traps. We employ numerical optimization of classical trajectories and quantum wavepacket propagation as well as analytical solutions derived from invariant based inverse engineering and geometric optimal control. We find that accura

Stefan Pabst, Robin Santra

Spin-orbit interactions lead to small energy gaps between the outer-most $p_{1/2}$ and $p_{3/2}$ shells of noble gas atoms. Strong-field pulses tunnel-ionize an electron out of either shell resulting in spin-orbit-driven hole motion. These hole dynamics affect the HHG yield. However, the spectral shape as well as the angular distribution of the HHG emission

Alaa Sagheer, Mohammed Zidan

Recently, with the rapid development of technology, there are a lot of applications require to achieve low-cost learning. However the computational power of classical artificial neural networks, they are not capable to provide low-cost learning. In contrast, quantum neural networks may be representing a good computational alternate to classical neural networ

Sandra Nostheide, Viktor Holubec, Petr Chvosta, Philipp Maass

DNA hairpin molecules with periodic base sequences can be expected to exhibit a regular coarse-grained free energy landscape (FEL) as function of the number of open base pairs and applied mechanical force. Using a commonly employed model, we first analyse for which types of sequences a particularly simple landscape structure is predicted, where forward and b

Conny Aerts, Geert Molenberghs, Michael G. Kenward, Coralie Neiner

We have composed a sample of 68 massive stars in our galaxy whose projected rotational velocity, effective temperature and gravity are available from high-precision spectroscopic measurements. The additional seven observed variables considered here are their surface nitrogen abundance, rotational frequency, magnetic field strength, and the amplitude and freq

J. Alexandre

We show how a mass mixing matrix can be generated dynamically, for two massless fermion flavours coupled to a Lorentz invariance violating (LIV) gauge field. The LIV features play the role of a regulator for the gap equations, and the non-analytic dependence of the dynamical masses, as functions of the gauge coupling, allows to consider the limit where the L

Benaoumeur Bakhti, Gerhard Müller, Philipp Maass

We derive exact density functionals for systems of hard rods with first-neighbor interactions of arbitrary shape but limited range on a one-dimensional lattice. The size of all rods is the same integer unit of the lattice constant. The derivation, constructed from conditional probabilities in a Markov chain approach, yields the exact joint probability distri

Sergey Antonyan, Natalia Jonard-Pérez, Saúl Juárez-Ordóñez

Let n be a natural number equal or greater than 2. In this paper we study the topological structure of certain hyperspaces of convex subsets of constant width, equipped with the Hausdorff metric topology. We focus our attention on the hyperspace cw_D(R^n) of all compact convex subsets with constant width d\in D, where D is a convex subset of [0,\infty). Our