December 2013 arXiv papers — page 67

Andy Dahl, Victoria Hore, Valentina Iotchkova, Jonathan Marchini

Inferring a graphical model or network from observational data from a large number of variables is a well studied problem in machine learning and computational statistics. In this paper we consider a version of this problem that is relevant to the analysis of multiple phenotypes collected in genetic studies. In such datasets we expect correlations between ph

Wenmei Ming, Zhigang Zak Fang, Feng Liu

The effects of Li doping in MgH$_2$ on H-diffusion process are investigated, using first-principles calculations. We have identified two key effects: (1) The concentration of H vacancy in the $+1$ charge state (V$_H^{+1}$) can increase by several orders of magnitude upon Li doping, which significantly increases the vacancy mediated H diffusion rate. It is ca

E. M. Beniaminov

We give an example of a mathematical model describing quantum mechanical processes interacting with medium. As a model, we consider the process of heat scattering of a wave function defined on the phase space. We consider the case when the heat diffusion takes place only with respect to momenta. We state and study the corresponding modified Kramers equation

Fei Yang, Jinsong Zeng

We study the family of renormalization transformations of the generalized $d$--dimensional diamond hierarchical Potts model in statistical mechanic and prove that their Julia sets and non-escaping loci are always connected, where $d\geq 2$. In particular, we prove that their Julia sets can never be a Sierpiński carpet if the parameter is real. We show that t

Pascal R. Ewen, Jan Sanning, Nikos L. Doltsinis, Matteo Mauro

We have investigated the structural and electronic properties of phosphorescent planar platinum(II) complexes at the interface of Au(111) with submolecular resolution using combined scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy as well as density functional theory. Our analysis shows that molecule-substrate coupling and lateral intermolecular interactions a

Hans-Thomas Elze

We introduce an action principle for a class of integer valued cellular automata and obtain Hamiltonian equations of motion. Employing sampling theory, these discrete deterministic equations are invertibly mapped on continuum equations for a set of bandwidth limited harmonic oscillators, which encode the Schrödinger equation. Thus, the linearity of quantum m

Jim Jing-Yan Wang

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has been a popular representation method for pattern classification problem. It tries to decompose a nonnegative matrix of data samples as the product of a nonnegative basic matrix and a nonnegative coefficient matrix, and the coefficient matrix is used as the new representation. However, traditional NMF methods ignore

Stefano Gandolfi

In recent years Quantum Monte Carlo techniques provided to be a valuable tool to study strongly interacting Fermi gases at zero temperature. We have used QMC methods to investigate several properties of the two-components Fermi gas at unitarity and in the BCS-BEC crossover, both with equal and unequal masses corresponding to the $Li-K$ Fermi mixture. In this

Eugene Kharitonov, Craig Macdonald, Pavel Serdyukov, Iadh Ounis

The query suggestion or auto-completion mechanisms help users to type less while interacting with a search engine. A basic approach that ranks suggestions according to their frequency in the query logs is suboptimal. Firstly, many candidate queries with the same prefix can be removed as redundant. Secondly, the suggestions can also be personalised based on t

Anders Kock

We give an elementary exposition of some fundamental facts about fibered (or rather opfibered) categories, in terms of monads and 2-categories. The account avoids any mention of category-valued functors and pseudofunctors.

Xifeng Su, Jun Yan

In this paper, we generalize weak KAM theorem from positive Lagrangian systems to "proper" Hamilton-Jacobi equations. We introduce an implicitly defined solution semigroup of evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equations. By exploring the properties of the solution semigroup, we prove the convergence of solution semigroup and existence of weak KAM solutions

Neven Elezović

The asymptotic expansion of digamma function is a starting point for the derivation of approximants for harmonic sums or Euler-Mascheroni constant. It is usual to derive such approximations as values of logarithmic function, which leads to the expansion of the exponentials of digamma function. In this paper the asymptotic expansion of the function $\exp(pψ(x

Peter A. Schuller, Peter R. Lawson, Olivier P. Lay, Alain Léger

Studies of mid-infrared space interferometer concepts in the USA and in Europe have converged on a single architecture. We address the question of how the US and European communities could collaborate to advance technology efforts leading to a future space mission. We present the current state of the art in nulling interferometry, as demonstrated at ambient

R. Zinn, B. Horowitz, A. K. Vivas, C. Baltay

A search for RR Lyrae stars (RRLS) in 840 sq.deg. of the sky in right ascension 150 - 210 deg and declination -10 - +10 deg yielded 1013 type ab and 359 type c RRLS. This sample is used to study the density profile of the Galactic halo, halo substructures, and the Oosterhoff type of the halo over distances from 5 to 80 kpc. The halo is flattened towards the

S. Ogilvy

We report a search for the doubly charmed baryon $Ξ_{cc}^{+}$ through the decay $Ξ_{cc}^{+} \to Λ_{c}^{+} K^{-} π^{+}$, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $0.65~\mathrm{pb^{-1}}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\mathrm{\sqrt{s}} = 7~\mathrm{TeV}$. In the mass range 3300-3800$~\mathrm{MeV}/c^{2}$ no significant signal is observed. Upper l

Michel Bauer, Denis Bernard, Antoine Tilloy

Using quantum parallelism on random walks as original seed, we introduce new quantum stochastic processes, the open quantum Brownian motions. They describe the behaviors of quantum walkers -- with internal degrees of freedom which serve as random gyroscopes -- interacting with series of probes. These processes may also be viewed as the scaling limit of open

M. Trezza, C. Cirillo, P. Sabatino, G. Carapella

We report on the transport properties of an array of N about 30 interconnected Nb nanowires, grown by sputtering on robust porous Si substrates. The analyzed system exhibits a broad resistive transition in zero magnetic field, H, and highly nonlinear V(I) characteristics as a function of H which can be both consistently described by quantum tunneling of phas

Lilianna Szyk Warszynska, Katarzyna Kilan, Robert P. Socha

Thin films containing casein appear to be a promising material for coatings used in the medical area to promote biomineralization. alfa- and beta-casein and poly-L-arginine multilayer films were formed by the layer-by layer technique and their thickness and mass were analyzed by ellipsometry and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D)

Armengol Gasull, Anna Geyer

We study traveling wave solutions of an equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude arising as a shallow water approximation of the Euler equations for inviscid, incompressible and homogenous fluids. We obtain solitary waves of elevation and depression, including a family of solitary waves with compact support, where the amplitude may increase or decrea

Amanda A. Kepley, Adam K. Leroy, David Frayer, Antonio Usero

Observations of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies show that dense molecular gas correlates with recent star formation, suggesting that the formation of this gas phase may help regulate star formation. A key test of this idea requires wide-area, high-resolution maps of dense molecular gas in galaxies to explore how local physical conditions drive dense gas fo

Gao-Liang Zhou

Proof of transverse-momentum-dependent(TMD) factorization for hadron-hadron collision is given in this paper. We focus on processes without detected soft final hadrons or detected final hadrons that are collinear to initial hadrons. This contradicts the widely accepted viewpoint that TMD- factorization does not hold in such processes even in the generalized

Tugcan Aktas, A. Ozgur Yilmaz, Emre Aktas

In the area of basic and network coded cooperative communication, the expected end-to-end bit error rate (BER) values are frequently required to compare the proposed coding, relaying, and decoding techniques. Instead of obtaining these values via time consuming Monte Carlo simulations, deriving closed form expressions using approximations is crucial. In this

Florian Rodler, Mercedes Lopez-Morales

We present the results of simulations on the detectability of $O_2$ in the atmosphere of Earth twins around nearby low mass stars using high resolution transmission spectroscopy. We explore such detectability with each of the three upcoming Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), i.e. GMT, TMT and E-ELT, and high resolution spectrographs, assuming such instrument

Harald Niederreiter, Chaoping Xing

We improve lower bounds on the $k$th-order nonlinear complexity of pseudorandom sequences over finite fields and we establish a probabilistic result on the behavior of the $k$th-order nonlinear complexity of random sequences over finite fields.

Nadezhda Aleksandrova

Under analysis is travel of P-waves in an elastic pipe partly embedded in soil with dry friction. The mathematical formulation of the problem on impact pipe driving in soil is based on the model of axial vibration of an elastic bar, considering lateral resistance described using the law of solid dry friction. The author solves problems on axial load on pipe

Sergei Ivanov

We show that the Dirac delta function in the boundary condition of the Gurtin-Pipkin equation generates a moving delta-function with an exponentially decreasing factor.

Arthur M. Berd, Elena Ranguelova, Antonio Baldaque da Silva

We give a detailed account of correlations between credit sector/quality and treasury curve factors, using the robust framework of the Barclays POINT Global Risk Model. Consistent with earlier studies, we find a strong negative correlation between sector spreads and rate shifts. However, we also observe that the correlations between spreads and Treasury twis

Antonis G. Gotsis, Angeliki Alexiou

Network densification along with universal resources reuse is expected to play a key role in the realization of 5G radio access as an enabler for delivering most of the anticipated network capacity improvements. On the one hand, neither the expected additional spectrum allocation nor the forthcoming novel air-interface processing techniques will be sufficien

J. -C. Griveau, E. Colineau, D. Bouëxiere, K. Gofryk

The structural, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of a new plutonium based compound, Pu2Pt3Si5, are reported. Single crystals produced by a Sn-flux technique have been analyzed showing a ferromagnetic behavior at 58 K. Pu2Pt3Si5 crystallizes in the U2Co3Si5-type orthorhombic Iabm structure (72) with atomic parameters a = 9.9226(2) Å, b = 11.4436(2) Åand

Nadezhda Aleksandrova

The study focuses on propagation of longitudinal waves in an elastic pipe partly embedded in a medium with dry friction. Mathematical formulation of the problem on the impact pipe driving into the soil is based on the model of longitudinal vibration of an elastic rod with taking into account lateral resistance. The lateral resistance of soil is described by

E. V. Ferapontov, V. S. Novikov, I. Roustemoglou

In the series of recent publications we have proposed a novel approach to the classification of integrable differential/difference equations in 3D based on the requirement that hydrodynamic reductions of the corresponding dispersionless limits are `inherited' by the dispersive equations. In this paper we extend this to the fully discrete case. Our only c

A. M. Gavrilik, Yu. A. Mishchenko

We consider the deformed Bose gas model with the deformation structure function that is the combination of a q-deformation and a quadratically polynomial deformation. Such a choice of the unifying deformation structure function enables us to describe the interacting gas of composite (two-fermionic or two-bosonic) bosons. Using the relevant generalization of

Mazhar Ali

Mixed state quantum computation can perform certain tasks which are believed to be efficiently intractable on a classical computer. For a specific model of mixed state quantum computation, namely, {\it deterministic quantum computation with a single qubit} (DQC1), recent investigations suggest that quantum correlations other than entanglement might be respon

L. Witthauer, D. Werthmueller, I. Keshelashvili, P. Aguar-Bartolome

Quasi-free photoproduction of $η$-mesons has been measured off nucleons bound in $^3$He nuclei for incident photon energies from the threshold region up to 1.4 GeV. The experiment was performed at the tagged photon facility of the Mainz MAMI accelerator with an almost $4π$ covering electromagnetic calorimeter, combining the TAPS and Crystal Ball detectors. T

Charles Osarinmwian

Particle aggregates are formed with viable yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and bacterial cells (Escherichia coli and Micrococcus luteus), and are assembled in an interdigitated-castelled microelectrode using positive dielectrophoresis with an alternating current sinusoidal voltage of 2-20 V peak-peak at 1 MHz. The height of S. cerevisiae aggregates ar

Cinthia Padilla, Fabian Magaña-Sandoval, Erik Muniz, Joshua R. Smith

We investigate the reflectivity and optical scattering characteristics at 1064\,nm of an antireflection coated fused silica window of the type being used in the Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. Reflectivity is measured in the ultra-low range of 5-10\,ppm (by vendor) and 14-30\,ppm (by us). Using an angle-resolved scatterometer we measure the sampl

Jan-Frederik Mennemann, Ansgar Jüngel

Discrete transparent boundary conditions (DTBC) and the Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) method for the realization of open boundary conditions in quantum device simulations are compared, based on the stationary and time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The comparison includes scattering state, wave packet, and transient scattering state simulations in one and

Eva Wuyts, Jane R. Rigby, Michael D. Gladders, Keren Sharon

We present a detailed analysis of multi-wavelength HST/WFC3 imaging and Keck/OSIRIS near-IR AO-assisted integral field spectroscopy for a highly magnified lensed galaxy at z=1.70. This young starburst is representative of UV-selected star-forming galaxies (SFG) at z~2 and contains multiple individual star-forming regions. Due to the lensing magnification, we

Svante Janson

It is well-known that the central limit theorem holds for partial sums of a stationary sequence $(X_i)$ of $m$-dependent random variables with finite variance; however, the limit may be degenerate with variance 0 even if $\mathrm{Var}(X_i)\neq0$. We show that this happens only in the case when $X_i-\mathbb E X_i=Y_i-Y_{i-1}$ for an $(m-1)$-dependent stationa

E. Antonello

The Sapient Paradox is the apparently unexplainable time delay of several ten thousand years following the arrival of Homo sapiens in Asia and Europe and before the introduction of impressive innovations with the agricultural revolution. Renfrew (2007) has suggested that the solution of the paradox has to do with changes in modes of thought that occurred wit

Bledar A. Konomi, Soma S. Dhavala, Jianhua Z. Huang, Subrata Kundu

The properties of materials synthesized with nanoparticles (NPs) are highly correlated to the sizes and shapes of the nanoparticles. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging technique can be used to measure the morphological characteristics of NPs, which can be simple circles or more complex irregular polygons with varying degrees of scales and siz

E. Breschi, Z. D. Gruijc, P. Knowles, A. Weis

We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of magnetic resonance transitions induced by polarization-modulated light in cesium vapor exposed to a transverse magnetic field. Signals are obtained by phase-sensitive analysis of the light power traversing the vapor cell at six harmonics of the polarization modulation frequency. Resonances appear wh

Christine Davies

The determination of the charm quark mass is now possible to 1% from QCD, with lattice QCD pushing the error down below 1%. I will describe the ingredients of this approach and how it can achieve this accuracy. Results for quark mass ratios, m_c/m_s and m_b/m_c, can also be determined to 1% from lattice QCD, allowing accuracy for the heavy quark masses to be

F. Tramper, G. Gräfener, O. E. Hartoog, H. Sana

We present the results of a quantitative spectroscopic analysis of the oxygen-sequence Wolf- Rayet star DR1 in the low-metallicity galaxy IC 1613. Our models suggest that the strong oxygen emission lines are the result of the high temperature of this WO3 star and do not necessarily reflect a more advanced evolutionary stage than WC stars.

Helmut Prodinger, Roberto Tauraso

We consider a special class of binomial sums involving harmonic numbers and we prove three identities by using the elementary method of the partial fraction decomposition. Some applications to infinite series and congruences are given.

Luca Bergamaschi, Angeles Martinez

In this paper we propose an efficiently preconditioned Newton method for the computation of the leftmost eigenpairs of large and sparse symmetric positive definite matrices. A sequence of preconditioners based on the BFGS update formula is proposed, for the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient solution of the linearized Newton system to solve $A \mathbf{u} = q(

Eddye Bustamante, José Jiménez, Jorge Mejía

In this work we study the initial value problem (IVP) for the fifth order KdV equations, \begin{align*} \partial_{t}u+\partial_{x}^{5}u+u^k\partial_{x}u=0,\text{} & \quad x,t\in \mathbb R, \quad k=1,2, \end{align*} in weighted Sobolev spaces $H^s(\mathbb R)\cap L^2(\langle x \rangle^{2r}dx)$. We prove local and global results. In the case $k=2$ we point out

Taishi Katsuragawa

We consider the properties of solutions in the bigravity theory for general models, which are parametrized by two parameters $α_{3}$ and $α_{4}$. Assuming that two metric tensors $g_{μν}$ and $f_{μν}$ satisfy the condition $f_{μν}=C^{2}g_{μν}$ where $C$ is a constant, we investigate the conditions for the parameters so that the solutions with $C\neq1$ could

Fabiano Corsetti

The implementation of the orbital minimization method (OMM) for solving the self-consistent Kohn-Sham (KS) problem for electronic structure calculations in a basis of non-orthogonal numerical atomic orbitals of finite-range is reported. We explore the possibilities for using the OMM as an exact cubic-scaling solver for the KS problem, and compare its perform

Thomas Rusch, Paul Hofmarcher, Reinhold Hatzinger, Kurt Hornik

The WikiLeaks Afghanistan war logs contain nearly $77,000$ reports of incidents in the US-led Afghanistan war, covering the period from January 2004 to December 2009. The recent growth of data on complex social systems and the potential to derive stories from them has shifted the focus of journalistic and scientific attention increasingly toward data-driven

M. Govender, K. P. Reddy, S. D. Maharaj

In this paper we investigate the physics of a radiating star undergoing dissipative collapse in the form of a radial heat flux. Our treatment clearly demonstrates how the presence of shear affects the collapse process; we are in a position to contrast the physical features of the collapsing sphere in the presence of shear with the shear-free case. By employi

B. V. Novikov, L. Yu. Polyakova, G. N. Zholtkevich

We consider vertex decompositions of (di)graphs which appear in Automata Theory, and establish some their properties. Then we apply them to the problem of forbidden subgraphs.

Oscar Akerlund, Philippe de Forcrand

Because of asymptotic freedom, QCD becomes weakly interacting at high temperature: this is the reason for the transition to a deconfined phase in Yang-Mills theory at temperature $T_c$. At high temperature $T \gg T_c$, the smallness of the running coupling $g$ induces a hierachy betwen the "hard", "soft" and "ultrasoft" energy scales

A. K. Bakhtin, G. P. Bakhtina, V. E. Vjun

Paper is devoted to extremal problems in geometric function theory of complex variables associated with estimates of functionals defined on the systems of non-overlapping domains. In particular, we strengthen some known result in this subject.

Laurent Freidel

We study the properties of gravitational system in finite regions bounded by gravitational screens. We present the detail construction of the total energy of such regions and of the energy and momentum balance equations due to the flow of matter and gravitational radiation through the screen. We establish that the gravitational screen possesses analogs of su

Margarita Petkova, R. Benton Metcalf, Carlo Giocoli

We present an extension to multiple planes of the gravitational lensing code {\small GLAMER}. The method entails projecting the mass in the observed light-cone onto a discrete number of lens planes and inverse ray-shooting from the image to the source plane. The mass on each plane can be represented as halos, simulation particles, a projected mass map extrac

Anatolii V. Mokshin, Bulat N. Galimzyanov

We present the statistical method as a direct extension of the mean first-passage time concept to the analysis of molecular dynamics simulation data of a phase transformation. According to the method, the mean first-passage time trajectories for the first $(i=1)$ as well as for the subsequent ($i=2$, $3$, $4$, $\ldots$) nucleation events should be extracted,

Eugen M. Anitas, Alexander Yu. Cherny, Vladimir A. Osipov, Alexander I. Kuklin

In this paper, we construct a three-phase model (that is, a system consisting of three homogeneous regions with various scattering length densities), which illustrate the behavior of small-angle scattering (SAS) scattering curves. Here two phases are a deterministic fractal embedded in another deterministic mass fractal, and they altogether are further embed

M. J. Wolf, F. Hübler, S. Kolenda, D. Beckmann

Nonequilibrium charge transport in superconductors has been investigated intensely in the 1970s and 80s, mostly in the vicinity of the critical temperature. Much less attention has been focussed on low temperatures, and the role of the quasiparticle spin. We report here on nonlocal transport in superconductor hybrid structures at very low temperatures. By co

M. Dokuchaev, B. Novikov, G. Zholtkevych

We use the notion of a partial action of a monoid to introduce a generalization of automata, which we call "a preautomaton". We study properties of preautomata and of languages recognized by preautomata.

Kai Wang, Liucheng Wang, Tao Xu, Liangliang Zhang

On-shell effective theory approach has been widely used in search of various supersymmetric signals, in particular, gluino/squark pairs with long cascade decay chains in which complete matrix element calculations may encounter over-20 dimensional integrations. On the other hand, leptons from polarized chargino decays may show significant boost or anti-boost

Saeed Amiri, Ali Golshani, Stephan Kreutzer, Sebastian Siebertz

The $k$-vertex disjoint paths problem is one of the most studied problems in algorithmic graph theory. In 1994, Schrijver proved that the problem can be solved in polynomial time for every fixed $k$ when restricted to the class of planar digraphs and it was a long standing open question whether it is fixed-parameter tractable (with respect to parameter $k$)

Thomas Bird

An overview is presented of a method to search for $D^0\to{}e^{\pm}μ^{\mp}$ with LHCb data. In order to reduce combinatorial backgrounds, tagged $D^0$ candidates from the decay $D^{\ast+}\to{}D^0π^+$ are used. This measurement is performed with respect to $\mathcal{B}\left(D^0\to{}π^+π^-\right)$, which cancels uncertainties in the luminosity and $D^{\ast+}$

Richard S. Falk, Ragnar Winther

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the construction of a linear operator, referred to as the bubble transform, which maps scalar functions defined on a bounded domain $Ω$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ into a collection of functions with local support. In fact, for a given simplicial triangulation of $Ω$, the associated bubble transform produces a decomposition of f

A. Averbuch, R. Hollander Shabtai, Y. Roditty

A broadcast graph is a connected graph, $G=(V,E)$, $ |V |=n$, in which each vertex can complete broadcasting of one message within at most $t=\lceil \log n\rceil$ time units. A minimum broadcast graph on $n$ vertices is a broadcast graph with the minimum number of edges over all broadcast graphs on $n$ vertices. The cardinality of the edge set of such a grap

Dmitry Malioutov, Aleksandr Aravkin

Sparse reconstruction approaches using the re-weighted l1-penalty have been shown, both empirically and theoretically, to provide a significant improvement in recovering sparse signals in comparison to the l1-relaxation. However, numerical optimization of such penalties involves solving problems with l1-norms in the objective many times. Using the direct lin

Arindam Kar, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Dipak Kumar Basu, Mita Nasipuri

This paper exploits the feature extraction capabilities of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) together with an illumination normalization approach in the logarithm domain that increase its robustness to variations in facial geometry and illumination. Secondly in the same domain the entropy measures are applied on the DCT coefficients so that maximum entropy

V. N. Ryzhov, E. E. Tareyeva

The system with the square shoulder (SS) potential is considered in the frame of Mode Coupling Theory (MCT) approach. An approximation for the structure factor is used that emphasizes the quasibinary character of the system. The qualitative phase diagram is constructed that includes continuous and discontinuous glass-glass transitions. The phase diagram is g

Arindam Kar, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Dipak Kumar Basu, Mita Nasipuri

In this paper a nonlinear Gabor Wavelet Transform (GWT) discriminant feature extraction approach for enhanced face recognition is proposed. Firstly, the low-energized blocks from Gabor wavelet transformed images are extracted. Secondly, the nonlinear discriminating features are analyzed and extracted from the selected low-energized blocks by the generalized

Jussi Laitila, Mikael Lindström

We provide an estimate for the essential norm of a weighted composition operator $W_{ψ,φ}\colon f\mapsto ψ(f\circφ)$ acting on the space $BMOA$ in terms of the weight function $ψ$ and the $n$-th power $φ^n$ of the analytic self-map $φ$ of the open unit disc $\mathbb{D}$. We also provide a new estimate for the norm of the weighted composition operator on $BMO

M. E. Carrington

The 4PI effective action provides a a hierarchy of integral equations which have the form of Bethe-Salpeter equations. The vertex functions obtained from these equations can be used to truncate the exact renormalization group flow equations. This truncation has the property that the flow is a total derivative with respect to the flow parameter and is equival

A. A. R. Valcarce, M. Catelan, J. Alonso-García, C. Cortés

Recent pieces of evidence have revealed that most, and possibly all, globular star clusters are composed of groups of stars that formed in multiple episodes with different chemical compositions. In this sense, it has also been argued that variations in the initial helium abundance ($Y$) from one population to the next are also the rule, rather than the excep

Arindam Kar, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Dipak Kumar Basu, Mita Nasipuri

This paper proposes a technique for automatic face recognition using integrated multiple feature sets extracted from the significant blocks of a gradient image. We discuss about the use of novel morphological, local directional pattern (LDP) and gray-level co-occurrence matrix GLCM based feature extraction technique to recognize human faces. Firstly, the new

A. Kostin, B. Novikov

The structure of categorical at zero semigroups is studied from the point of view their likeness to categories.

Ruprecht Puchstein, Philip Preuß

In this paper we propose a nonparametric procedure for validating the assumption of stationarity in multivariate locally stationary time series models. We develop a bootstrap assisted test based on a Kolmogorov-Smirnov type statistic, which tracks the deviation of the time varying spectral density from its best stationary approximation. In contrast to all ot

Alexander V. Uskov, Igor E. Protsenko, Renat Sh. Ikhsanov, Viktoriia E. Babicheva

We study emission of photoelectrons from plasmonic nanoparticles into surrounding matrix. We consider two mechanisms of the photoelectric effect from nanoparticles - surface and volume ones, and use models of these two effects which allow us to obtain analytical results for the photoelectron emission rates from nanoparticle. Calculations have been done for t

George A. Willis

The scale of an endomorphism, $α$, of a totally disconnected, locally compact group $G$ is the minimum index $[α(U) : α(U)\cap U]$, for $U$ a compact, open subgroup of $G$. A structural characterization of subgroups at which the minimum is attained is established. This characterization extends the notion of subgroup tidy for $α$ from previously understood ca

F. J. Buijnsters, A. Fasolino, M. I. Katsnelson

The presence of topological defects in magnetic media often leads to normal modes with zero frequency (zero modes). Such modes are crucial for long-time behavior, describing, for example, the motion of a domain wall as a whole. Conventional numerical methods to calculate the spin-wave spectrum in magnetic media are either inefficient or they fail for systems

Jakob Ditchen

We investigate the average distribution of primes represented by positive definite integral binary quadratic forms, the average being taken over negative fundamental discriminants in long ranges. In particular, we prove corresponding results of Bombieri-Vinogradov type and of Barban-Davenport-Halberstam type, although with shorter ranges than in the original

Neven Elezović, Lenka Vukšić

Integral means are important class of bivariate means. In this paper we prove the very general algorithm for calculation of coefficients in asymptotic expansion of integral mean. It is based on explicit solving the equation of the form $B(A(x))=C(x)$, where $B$ and $C$ have known asymptotic expansions. The results are illustrated by calculation of some impor

Sven Raum, Moritz Weber

Easy quantum groups are compact matrix quantum groups, whose intertwiner spaces are given by the combinatorics of categories of partitions. This class contains the symmetric group and the orthogonal group as well as Wang's quantum permutation group and his free orthogonal quantum group. In this article, we study a particular class of categories of partit

Zamaan Raza, Chris J. Pickard, Carlos Pinilla, A. Marco Saitta

Carbon monoxide and nitrogen are among the potentially interesting high-energy density materials. However, in spite of the physical similarities of the molecules, they behave very differently at high pressures. Using density functional theory and structural prediction methods, we examine the ability of these systems to combine their respective properties and

Deepa Thomas

The measurement of heavy-flavour (charm and beauty) production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides an important contribution to the study of the properties of the hot and dense medium created in such collisions. One approach to measure heavy-flavour production is via electrons from semi-leptonic decays of heavy-flavour hadrons. In this contri

Min Zhang, Juan Wu, DanDan Lu, Jianjun Yang

A series of W, N codoped TiO2 nanotube arrays with different dopant contents were fabricated by anodizing in association with hydrothermal treatment. The samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible light diffuse reflection spectroscopy. Moreover, the photocatalytic a

Ferenc Balogh, Dario Merzi

In this note the logarithmic energy problem with external potential $|z|^{2n}+tz^d+\bar{t}\bar{z}^d$ is considered in the complex plane, where $n$ and $d$ are positive integers satisfying $d\leq 2n$. Exploiting the discrete rotational invariance of the potential, a simple symmetry reduction procedure is used to calculate the equilibrium measure for all admis

Fabian Schuh, Johannes B. Huber

Classical trellis-coded modulation (TCM) as introduced by Ungerboeck in 1976/1983 uses a signal constellation of twice the cardinality compared to an uncoded transmission with one bit of redundancy per PAM symbol, i.e., application of codes with rates $\frac{n-1}{n}$ when $2^{n}$ denotes the cardinality of the signal constellation. The original approach ther

Fioralba Cakoni, Nicolas Chaulet, Houssem Haddar

We consider the transmission eigenvalue problem for an impenetrable obstacle with Dirichlet boundary condition surrounded by a thin layer of non-absorbing inhomogeneous material. We derive a rigorous asymptotic expansion for the first transmission eigenvalue with respect to the thickness of the thin layer. Our convergence analysis is based on a Max-Min princ

R. A. L. Almeida, S. O. Ferreira, T. J. Oliveira, F. D. A. Aarao Reis

Scaling of surface fluctuations of polycrystalline CdTe/Si(100) films grown by hot wall epitaxy are studied. The growth exponent of surface roughness and the dynamic exponent of the auto-correlation function in the mound growth regime agree with the values of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class. The scaled distributions of heights, local roughness, and extre

Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Suprabh Prakash, Wei Wang

A precise measurement of the atmospheric mass-squared splitting |Δm^2_{μμ}| is crucial to establish the three-flavor paradigm and to constrain the neutrino mass models. In addition, a precise value of |Δm^2_{μμ}| will significantly enhance the hierarchy reach of future medium-baseline reactor experiments like JUNO and RENO-50. In this work, we explore the pr

Daniel P. Simpson, Ian W. Turner, Christopher M. Strickland, Anthony N. Pettitt

Sampling from Gaussian Markov random fields (GMRFs), that is multivariate Gaussian ran- dom vectors that are parameterised by the inverse of their covariance matrix, is a fundamental problem in computational statistics. In this paper, we show how we can exploit arbitrarily accu- rate approximations to a GMRF to speed up Krylov subspace sampling methods. We a

Shouyan Xu, Sheng Wang, Yuwen An, Zhiping Li

The Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) is a key component of the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). For this type of high intensity proton synchrotron, the chromaticity, space charge effects and magnetic field tracking errors between the quadrupoles and the dipoles can induce beta function distortion and tune shift, and induce resonances. In this paper the

Francesco Audrino, Lorenzo Camponovo

We derive new theoretical results on the properties of the adaptive least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (adaptive lasso) for time series regression models. In particular, we investigate the question of how to conduct finite sample inference on the parameters given an adaptive lasso model for some fixed value of the shrinkage parameter. Central in

M. Zarenia, B. Partoens, T. Chakraborty, F. M. Peeters

A parabolic quantum dot (QD) as realized by biasing nanostructured gates on bilayer graphene is investigated in the presence of electron-electron interaction. The energy spectrum and the phase diagram reveal unexpected transitions as function of a magnetic field. For example, in contrast to semiconductor QDs, we find a novel valley transition rather than onl

Sean Hallgren, Daniel Nagaj, Sandeep Narayanaswami

The Local Hamiltonian problem is the problem of estimating the least eigenvalue of a local Hamiltonian, and is complete for the class QMA. The 1D problem on a chain of qubits has heuristics which work well, while the 13-state qudit case has been shown to be QMA-complete. We show that this problem remains QMA-complete when the dimensionality of the qudits is

Yassen S. Stanev

We report some recent progress in the computation of the n-point correlation functions of conserved currents in a class of four dimensional conformal field theories with higher spin symmetry. Global conformal invariance leads to very strong constraints on both the general form and the singularity structure of the correlation functions of conserved currents.

M. Jamil Amir, Sarfraz Ali

The energy density of the universe is proportional to the Ricci scalar curvature in the dynamical Chern-Simon (CS) modified gravity. In this paper, we consider the Amended Friedman-Robertson-Walker (AFRW) universe and explore its scale factor and the Ricci Dark Energy. THese turned out to be well-defined and definite. We compare the scale factors of FRW \cit

Georgi Ganchev, Velichka Milousheva

General rotational surfaces as a source of examples of surfaces in the four-dimensional Euclidean space have been introduced by C. Moore. In this paper we consider the analogue of these surfaces in the Minkowski 4-space. On the base of our invariant theory of spacelike surfaces we study general rotational surfaces with special invariants. We describe analyti

W. Dür, S. Heusler

We present an approach for teaching quantum physics at high school level based on the simplest quantum system - the single quantum bit (qubit). We show that many central concepts of quantum mechanics, including the superposition principle, the stochastic behavior and state change under measurements as well as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle can be under

Sourav Pramanik, Debotosh Bhattacharjee

This paper presents a novel facial sketch image or face-sketch recognition approach based on facial feature extraction. To recognize a face-sketch, we have concentrated on a set of geometric face features like eyes, nose, eyebrows, lips, etc and their length and width ratio because it is difficult to match photos and sketches because they belong to two diffe

Sourav Pramanik, Debotosh Bhattacharjee

An image fusion method based on salient features is proposed in this paper. In this work, we have concentrated on salient features of the image for fusion in order to preserve all relevant information contained in the input images and tried to enhance the contrast in fused image and also suppressed noise to a maximum extent. In our system, first we have appl