August 2014 arXiv papers — page 37

Jason Bell, T. H. Lenagan, Kulumani M. Rangaswamy

Leavitt path algebras L of an arbitrary graph E over a field K satisfying a polynomial identity are completely characterized both in graph-theoretic and algebraic terms. When E is a finite graph, L satisfying a polynomial identity is shown to be equivalent to the Gelfand-Kirillov dimension of L being at most one, though this is no longer true for infinite gr

David Barber

We describe a set of Gaussian Process based approaches that can be used to solve non-linear Ordinary Differential Equations. We suggest an explicit probabilistic solver and two implicit methods, one analogous to Picard iteration and the other to gradient matching. All methods have greater accuracy than previously suggested Gaussian Process approaches. We als

S. Mazevet, T. Tsuchiya, T. Taniuchi, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix

The physical state and properties of silicates at conditions encountered in the cores of gas giants, ice giants and of Earth like exoplanets now discovered with masses up to several times the mass of the Earth remains mostly unknown. Here, we report on theoretical predictions of the properties of silica, SiO$_2$, up to 4 TPa and about 20,000K using first pri

Jens Harlander, Stephan Rosebrock

A {\em word labeled oriented graph} (WLOG) is an oriented graph $\cal G$ on vertices $X=\{ x_1,\ldots ,x_k\}$, where each oriented edge is labeled by a word in $X^{\pm1}$. WLOGs give rise to presentations which generalize Wirtinger presentations of knots. WLOG presentations, where the underlying graph is a tree are of central importance in view of Whitehead&

Alok Kumar Maity, Pinaki Chaudhury, Suman K. Banik

Intracellular fluctuations, mainly triggered by gene expression, are an inevitable phenomenon observed in living cells. It influences generation of phenotypic diversity in genetically identical cells. Such variation of cellular components is beneficial in some contexts but detrimental in others. To quantify the fluctuations in a gene product, we undertake an

Dominique Lecomte, John D. Clemens, Benjamin D. Miller

We establish a dichotomy theorem characterizing the circumstances under which a treeable Borel equivalence relation E is essentially countable. Under additional topological assumptions on the treeing, we in fact show that E is essentially countable if and only if there is no continuous embedding of E1 into E. Our techniques also yield the first classical pro

Sajjad Bahrami, Ghosheh Abed Hodtani

The fact that the results for 2-receiver broadcast channels (BCs) are not generalized to the 3-receiver ones is of information theoretical importance. In this paper we study two classes of discrete memoryless BCs with non-causal side information (SI), i.e. multilevel BC (MBC) and 3-receiver less noisy BC. First, we obtain an achievable rate region and a capa

Kfir Blum, Anson Hook, Kohta Murase

We show that measurements of the spectral shape and flavor ratios of high energy astrophysical neutrinos at neutrino telescopes can be sensitive to the details of the neutrino mass mechanism. We propose a simple model for Majorana neutrino mass generation that realizes the relevant parameter space, in which small explicit lepton number violation is mediated

Gajendra Pandey, N. Kameswara Rao, C. Simon Jeffery, David L. Lambert

DY Cen has shown a steady fading of its visual light by about 1 magnitude in the last 40 years suggesting a secular increase in its effective temperature. We have conducted non-LTE and LTE abundance analyses to determine the star's effective temperature, surface gravity, and chemical composition using high-resolution spectra obtained over two decades. Th

S. Hossenfelder

It is demonstrated that Maxwell's demon can be used to allow a machine to extract energy from a heat bath by use of information that is processed by the demon at a remote location. The model proposed here effectively replaces transmission of energy by transmission of information. For that we use a feedback protocol that enables a net gain by stimulating

Bhupesh Bishnoi, Bahniman Ghosh

In the present work, we have investigated the performances of p plus minus Al0.3Ga0.7Sb Pocket Implanted L shaped GaSb InAs staggered bandgap SG heterojunction vertical n channel tunnel field effect transistors TFETs of 4 nm thin channel structures with the gate lengths of 20 nm. In this L shaped nonlinear geometry the gate electric field and tunnel junction

Xifeng Su, Lin Wang, Jun Yan

We consider the following evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0,\\ u(x,0)=ϕ(x). \end{cases} \end{equation*} Under some assumptions on $H(x,u,p)$ with respect to $p$ and $u$, we provide a variational principle on the evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation. B

Lin Wang, Jun Yan

We consider the following evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0,\\ u(x,0)=ϕ(x), \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $ϕ(x)\in C(M,\mathbb{R})$. Under some assumptions on the convexity of $H(x,u,p)$ with respect to $p$ and the uniform Lipschitz of $H(x,u,p)$ w

Lin Wang, Jun Yan

We consider the following evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0,\\ u(x,0)=ϕ(x), \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $ϕ(x)\in C(M,\mathbb{R})$. Under some assumptions on the convexity of $H(x,u,p)$ with respect to $p$ and the Osgood growth of $H(x,u,p)$ with

Marco Pérez

We study the subgroup $\mathcal{E}xt^i_{\mathcal{C}}(\mathcal{F}; C, D)$ of $\mathcal{E}xt^i_{\mathcal{C}}(C,D)$ formed by those $i$-extensions of $C$ by $D$ in an Abelian category $\mathcal{C}$ which are ${\rm Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(\mathcal{F},-)$-exact, and present a Baer-like description of this subgroup in terms of certain right derived functors of ${\rm Ho

Xinhua Peng, Zhihuang Luo, Supeng Kou, Dieter Suter

Topological orders are exotic phases of matter existing in strongly correlated quantum systems, which are beyond the usual symmetry description and cannot be distinguished by local order parameters. Here we report an experimental quantum simulation of the Wen-plaquette spin model with different topological orders in a nuclear magnetic resonance system, and o

Michael Manhart, Alexandre V. Morozov

Binding interactions between proteins and other molecules mediate numerous cellular processes, including metabolism, signaling, and regulation of gene expression. These interactions evolve in response to changes in the protein's chemical or physical environment (such as the addition of an antibiotic), or when genes duplicate and diverge. Several recent s

Cheng Jiang, Yuanshun Cui, Xiaowei Li

We theoretically investigate the tunable slowing and advancing of microwave signals based on bichromatic electromechanically induced transparency in a three-mode circuit electromechanical system, where two mechanical oscillators with closely spaced frequencies are independently coupled to a common microwave cavity. In the presence of a strong microwave pump

Feng Wang, Bin Zhou, Xiaohua Zhu

In this paper, we give a new version of the modified Futaki invariant for a test configuration associated to the soliton action on a Fano manifold. Our version will naturally come from toric test configurations defined by Donaldson for toric manifolds. As an application, we show that the modified $K$-energy is proper for toric invariant Kähler potentials on

Qian Wang

The commuting vector fields approach, devised for strichartz estimates in [13], was developed for proving the local well-posedness in the Sobolev spaces $H^s$ with $s>2+\frac{2-\sqrt{3}}{2}$ for general quasi-linear wave equation in ${\mathbb R}^{1+3}$ by Klainerman and Rodnianski. Via this approach they obtained the local well-posedness in $H^s$ with $s>2$

Anton Dzhamay, Tomoyuki Takenawa

We present two examples of reductions from the evolution equations describing discrete Schlesinger transformations of Fuchsian systems to difference Painlevé equations: difference Painlevé equation d-$P\left({A}_{2}^{(1)*}\right)$ with the symmetry group ${E}^{(1)}_{6}$ and difference Painlevé equation d-$P\left({A}_{1}^{(1)*}\right)$ with the symmetry group

Nilima Nigam, Mary-Catherine Kropinski, Bryan Quaife

An integral equation method for solving the Yukawa-Beltrami equation on a multiply-connected sub-manifold of the unit sphere is presented. A fundamental solution for the Yukawa-Beltrami operator is constructed. This fundamental solution can be represented by conical functions. Using a suitable representation formula, a Fredholm equation of the second kind wi

Christoph Aymanns, J. Doyne Farmer

We present a simple agent-based model of a financial system composed of leveraged investors such as banks that invest in stocks and manage their risk using a Value-at-Risk constraint, based on historical observations of asset prices. The Value-at-Risk constraint implies that when perceived risk is low, leverage is high and vice versa, a phenomenon that has b

Buyang Li

In this paper, we study the semi-discrete Galerkin finite element method for parabolic equations with Lipschitz continuous coefficients. We prove the maximum-norm stability of the semigroup generated by the corresponding elliptic finite element operator, and prove the space-time stability of the parabolic projection onto the finite element space in $L^\infty

Yan Dolinsky, Yuri Kifer

We study partial hedging for game options in markets with transaction costs bounded from below. More precisely, we assume that the investor's transaction costs for each trade are the maximum between proportional transaction costs and a fixed transaction costs. We prove that in the continuous time Black--Scholes (BS) model, there exists a trading strategy

Shervin Minaee, AmirAli Abdolrashidi

Palmprint is one of the most useful physiological biometrics that can be used as a powerful means in personal recognition systems. The major features of the palmprints are palm lines, wrinkles and ridges, and many approaches use them in different ways towards solving the palmprint recognition problem. Here we have proposed to use a set of statistical and wav

Gert Aarts, Erhard Seiler, Denes Sexty, Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

Progress in simulating QCD at nonzero baryon density requires, amongst others, substantial numerical effort. Here we propose two different expansions to all orders in the hopping parameter, preserving the full Yang-Mills action, which are much cheaper to simulate. We carry out simulations using complex Langevin dynamics, both in the hopping expansions and in

Aristide Tsemo

In this paper, we continue our study of closed models defined in categories of graphs. We construct a closed model defined in the cat-egory of directed graphs which characterizes the strongly connected components. This last notion has many applications, and it plays an important role in the web search algorithm of Brin and Page, the foun-dation of the search

Markus Bibinger, Moritz Jirak, Markus Reiß

For a semi-martingale $X_t$, which forms a stochastic boundary, a rate-optimal estimator for its quadratic variation $\langle X, X \rangle_t$ is constructed based on observations in the vicinity of $X_t$. The problem is embedded in a Poisson point process framework, which reveals an interesting connection to the theory of Brownian excursion areas. We derive

E. V. L. de Mello, J. E. Sonier

We present a theoretical framework for understanding recent transverse field muon spin rotation (TF-$μ$SR) experiments on cuprate superconductors in terms of localized regions of phase-coherent pairing correlations above the bulk superconducting transition temperature $T_c$. The local regions of phase coherence are associated with a tendency toward charge or

Edmond Jonckheere, Frank Langbein, Sophie Schirmer

Spin networks are endowed with an Information Transfer Fidelity (ITF), which defines an absolute upper bound on the probability of transmission of an excitation from one spin to another. The ITF is easily computable but the bound can be reached asymptotically in time only under certain conditions. General conditions for attainability of the bound are establi

Pisin Chen, Yen Chin Ong, Dong-han Yeom

At the heart of the black hole information loss paradox and the firewall controversy lies the conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Much has been said about quantum corrections to general relativity, but much less in the opposite direction. It is therefore crucial to examine possible corrections to quantum mechanics due to gravity. Indee

Thomas F. Jordan

Simple examples are used to introduce and examine symmetries of open quantum dynamics that can be described by unitary operators. For the Hamiltonian dynamics of an entire closed system, the symmetry takes the expected form which, when the Hamiltonian has a lower bound, says that the unitary symmetry operator commutes with the Hamiltonian operator. There are

Jianfeng Mao

The commonly adopted assumption of stationary demands cannot actually reflect fluctuating demands and will weaken solution effectiveness in real practice. We consider an On-line Non-stationary Inventory Control Problem (ONICP), in which no specific assumption is imposed on demands and their probability distributions are allowed to vary over periods and corre

Matilde Marcolli, Xiang Ni

We consider Rota-Baxter algebras of meromorphic forms with poles along a (singular) hypersurface in a smooth projective variety and the associated Birkhoff factorization for algebra homomorphisms from a commutative Hopf algebra. In the case of a normal crossings divisor, the Rota-Baxter structure simplifies considerably and the factorization becomes a simple

Eusebio Gardella, Martino Lupini

For $p\in (1,\infty)$, we study representations of étale groupoids on $L^{p}$-spaces. Our main result is a generalization of Renault's disintegration theorem for representations of étale groupoids on Hilbert spaces. We establish a correspondence between $L^{p}$-representations of an étale groupoid $G$, contractive $L^{p}$-representations of $C_{c}(G)$, a

Stephen C. Anco, Wei Feng, Thomas Wolf

Explicit solutions are obtained for a class of semilinear radial Schrodinger equations with power nonlinearities in multi-dimensions. These solutions include new similarity solutions and other new group-invariant solutions, as well as new solutions that are not invariant under any symmetries of this class of equations. Many of the solutions have interesting

Liliana Borcea, Knut Solna

We study cumulative scattering effects on wave front propagation in time dependent randomly layered media. It is well known that the wave front has a deterministic characterization in time independent media, aside from a small random shift in the travel time. That is, the pulse shape is predictable, but faded and smeared as described mathematically by a conv

A. Nyman

Let k be a field. In this paper, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for a noncommutative curve of genus zero over k to be a noncommutative P^1-bundle. This result can be considered a noncommutative, one-dimensional version of Tsen's theorem. By specializing this theorem, we show that every arithmetic noncommutative projective line is a noncommut

Timothy H. Boyer

A new classical electromagnetic analysis is presented suggesting that the Aharonov-Bohm phase shift is overwhelmingly likely to arise from a classical lag effect based upon classical electromagnetic forces. The analysis makes use of several aspects of classical electromagnetic theory which are unfamiliar to most physicists, including the Darwin Lagrangian, a

M. Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi, M. A. Rajabpour

We study the time evolution of the entanglement entropy in the short and long-range coupled harmonic oscillators that have well-defined continuum limit field theories. We first introduce a method to calculate the entanglement evolution in generic coupled harmonic oscillators after quantum quench. Then we study the entanglement evolution after quantum quench

Oleg Finko, Dmitriy Samoylenko, Sergey Dichenko, Nikolay Eliseev

A new method for parallel generation of $q$-valued pseudorandom sequence based on the presentation of systems generating logical formulae by means of arithmetic polynomials is proposed. Fragment consisting of $k$-elements of $q$-valued pseudorandom sequence may be obtained by means of single calculation of a single recursion numerical formula. It is mentione

G. A. Prataviera, S. S. Mizrahi

A system of $N$ spin-1/2 particles interacting with a thermal reservoir is used as a pedagogical example for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We introduce and illustrate some methods, approximations, and phenomena related to dissipation and nonlinearity in many-particle physics. We start our analysis from the dynamical Sudarshan-Lindblad quantum

Pengbi Cui, Ming Tang, Zhi-Xi Wu

Recent empirical studies have confirmed the key roles of complex contagion mechanisms such as memory, social reinforcement, and decay effects in information diffusion and behaviour spreading. Inspired by this fact, we here propose a new agent--based model to capture the whole picture of the joint action of the three mechanisms in information spreading, by qu

Zoltán Keresztes, László Á. Gergely

A recently investigated tachyonic scalar field dark energy dominated universe exhibits a bivalent future: depending on initial parameters can run either into a de Sitter exponential expansion or into a traversable future soft singularity followed by a contraction phase. We also include in the model (i) a tiny amount of radiation, (ii) baryonic matter ($Ω_{b}

Michał Jungiewicz, Michał Łopuszyński

In this work, we present an application of the recently proposed unsupervised keyword extraction algorithm RAKE to a corpus of Polish legal texts from the field of public procurement. RAKE is essentially a language and domain independent method. Its only language-specific input is a stoplist containing a set of non-content words. The performance of the metho

Yoon-Ho Choi, Yun Ki Chung, Dongseok Kim

Flat plumbing basket surfaces of links were introduced to study the geometry of the complement of the links. These flat plumbing basket surface can be presented by a sequential presentation known as flat plumbing basket code first found by Furihata, Hirasawa and Kobayashi. The minimum number of flat plumbings to obtain a flat plumbing basket surfaces of a li

Kun Li, Max Q. -H. Meng

In a robot-centered smart home, the robot observes the home states with its own sensors, and then it can change certain object states according to an operator's commands for remote operations, or imitate the operator's behaviors in the house for autonomous operations. To model the robot's imitation of the operator's behaviors in a dynamic ind

Motohiro Enoki, Tomoaki Ishiyama, Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi, Masahiro Nagashima

Recent observations show that the space density of luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) peaks at higher redshifts than that of faint AGNs. This downsizing trend in the AGN evolution seems to be contradictory to the hierarchical structure formation scenario. In this study, we present the AGN space density evolution predicted by a semi-analytic model of gala

Kun Li, Max Q. -H. Meng

To learn object models for robotic manipulation, unsupervised methods cannot provide accurate object structural information and supervised methods require a large amount of manually labeled training samples, thus interactive object segmentation is developed to automate object modeling. In this article, we formulate a novel dynamic process for interactive obj

Jie Xu, Fangfu Ye, Pingwen Zhang

We construct a tensor model for nematic phases of bent-core molecules from molecular theory. The form of free energy is determined by molecular symmetry, which includes the couplings and derivatives of a vector and two second-order tensors, with the coefficients determined by molecular parameters. We use the model to study the nematic phases resulted from th

J. Selva

This paper presents a method to interpolate a periodic band-limited signal from its samples lying at nonuniform positions in a regular grid, which is based on the FFT and has the same complexity order as this last algorithm. This kind of interpolation is usually termed "the missing samples problem" in the literature, and there exists a wide variety o

Patrick Cabau, Fernand Pelletier

This paper is devoted to the framework of direct limit of anchored Banach bundles over a convenient manifold which is a direct limit of Banach manifold. In particular we give a criterion of integrability for distributions on such convenient manifolds which are locally direct limits of particular sequences of Banach anchor ranges.

Songlin Lv, Houwen Wu, Haitang Yang

It is believed that the invariance of the generalised diffeomorphisms prevents any non-trivial dilaton potential from double field theory. It is therefore difficult to include loop corrections in the formalism. We show that by redefining a non-local dilaton field, under strong constraint which is necessary to preserve the gauge invariance of double field the

Saleh Rahimi-Keshari, Austin P. Lund, Timothy C. Ralph

Considering the problem of sampling from the output photon-counting probability distribution of a linear-optical network for input Gaussian states, we obtain results that are of interest from both quantum theory and the computational complexity theory point of view. We derive a general formula for calculating the output probabilities, and by considering inpu

Su Hu, Min-Soo Kim

In this note, we shall provide several properties of hypergeometric Bernoulli numbers and polynomials, including sums of products identity, differential equations and recurrence formulas.

Andrea Bonfiglioli, Annamaria Montanari, Daniele Morbidelli

We prove a quantitative openness theorem for $C^1$ submersions under suitable assumptions on the differential. We then apply our result to a class of exponential maps appearing in Carnot-Carathéodory spaces and we improve a classical completeness result by Palais.

William R. Kelly

In AdS/CFT, how is the bulk first law realized in the boundary CFT? Recently, Faulkner et al. showed that in certain holographic contexts, the bulk first law has a precise microscopic interpretation as a first law of entanglement entropy in the boundary theory. However, the bulk can also satisfy a first law when the boundary density matrix is pure, i.e. in t

Karim Khanaki

This paper has three parts. First, we study and characterize amenable and extremely amenable topological semigroups in terms of invariant measures using integral logic. We prove definability of some properties of a topological semigroup such as amenability and the fixed point on compacta property. Second, we define types and develop local stability in the fr

Bakhrom Yavidov

A single electron in one dimensional lattice is considered within the framework of extended Holstein model at strong-coupling limit. Disordered density-displacement type electron-phonon interaction is proposed. Basic parameters of small polaron formed due to disordered electron-phonon interaction are calculated. It is shown that disordered electron-phonon in

Kazuya Haraguchi

We consider a puzzle such that a set of colored cubes is given as an instance. Each cube has unit length on each edge and its surface is colored so that what we call the Surface Color Condition is satisfied. Given a palette of six colors, the condition requires that each face should have exactly one color and all faces should have different colors from each

Andrew Putman, Steven V Sam

We construct analogues of FI-modules where the role of the symmetric group is played by the general linear groups and the symplectic groups over finite rings and prove basic structural properties such as Noetherianity. Applications include a proof of the Lannes--Schwartz Artinian conjecture in the generic representation theory of finite fields, very general

Zaid J. Towfic, Ali H. Sayed

This work studies distributed primal-dual strategies for adaptation and learning over networks from streaming data. Two first-order methods are considered based on the Arrow-Hurwicz (AH) and augmented Lagrangian (AL) techniques. Several revealing results are discovered in relation to the performance and stability of these strategies when employed over adapti

Erhan Bayraktar, Zhou Zhou

On a filtered probability space $(Ω,\mathcal{F},P,\mathbb{F}=(\mathcal{F}_t)_{t=0,\dotso,T})$, we consider stopper-stopper games $\overline V:=\inf_{\Rho\in\bT^{ii}}\sup_{τ\in\T}\E[U(\Rho(τ),τ)]$ and $\underline V:=\sup_{\Tau\in\bT^i}\inf_{ρ\in\T}\E[U(\Rho(τ),τ)]$ in discrete time, where $U(s,t)$ is $\mathcal{F}_{s\vee t}$-measurable instead of $\mathcal{F}_

Erik Curiel

In the early 1970s it is was realized that there is a striking formal analogy between the Laws of black-hole mechanics and the Laws of classical thermodynamics. Before the discovery of Hawking radiation, however, it was generally thought that the analogy was only formal, and did not reflect a deep connection between gravitational and thermodynamical phenomen

Angel Ballesteros, Francisco J. Herranz, Pedro Naranjo

It is shown that the canonical classical $r$-matrix arising from the Drinfel'd double structure underlying the two-fold centrally extended (2+1) Galilean and Newton-Hooke Lie algebras (with either zero or non-zero cosmological constant $Λ$, respectively) originates as a well-defined non-relativistic contraction of a specific class of canonical $r$-matric

Paramanand Chandramouli, Paolo Favaro, Daniele Perrone

We address for the first time the issue of motion blur in light field images captured from plenoptic cameras. We propose a solution to the estimation of a sharp high resolution scene radiance given a blurry light field image, when the motion blur point spread function is unknown, i.e., the so-called blind deconvolution problem. In a plenoptic camera, the spa

Hooshang Nayyeri, Bahram Mobasher, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Stephane De Barros

We use data taken as part of HST/WFC3 observations of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) to identify massive and evolved galaxies at 3<z<4.5. This is performed using the strength of the Balmer break feature at rest-frame 3648A, which is a diagnostic of the age of the stellar population in galaxies. Using WFC3 H-band

Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche

We characterize the distributions that arise as derivatives of families of probabilities and of positive and signed measures on smooth manifolds.

Yonggun Jun, Momčilo Gavrilov, John Bechhoefer

We confirm Landauer&#39;s 1961 hypothesis that reducing the number of possible macroscopic states in a system by a factor of two requires work of at least kT ln 2. Our experiment uses a colloidal particle in a time-dependent, virtual potential created by a feedback trap to implement Landauer&#39;s erasure operation. In a control experiment, similar manipulat

Ning Hao, Bin Dong, Jianqing Fan

Many high dimensional classification techniques have been proposed in the literature based on sparse linear discriminant analysis (LDA). To efficiently use them, sparsity of linear classifiers is a prerequisite. However, this might not be readily available in many applications, and rotations of data are required to create the needed sparsity. In this paper,

Alexander Mering

In a recent work [1] we presented results for the Bose-Fermi-Hubbard model (BFHM) in the limit of ultrafast fermions. The present work gives an overview over the used methods and an deeper insight into the implications arising from the treated limit. Starting from the discussion of the phase diagram obtained by numerical means, we develop an analytic theory

Alberto Cabada, José Ángel Cid, Gennaro Infante

We present new criteria on the existence of fixed points that combine some monotonicity assumptions with the classical fixed point index theory. As an illustrative application, we use our theoretical results to prove the existence of positive solutions for systems of nonlinear Hammerstein integral equations. An example is also presented to show the applicabi

Gian Luca Delzanno, Xian-Zhu Tang

Dust particulates immersed in a quasineutral plasma can emit electrons in several important applications. Once electron emission becomes strong enough, the dust enters the positively charged regime where the conventional Orbital-Motion-Limited (OML) theory can break down due to potential well effects on trapped electrons. A minimal modification of the trappe

Carlos Caleiro, João Marcos, Marco Volpe

The paper is a contribution both to the theoretical foundations and to the actual construction of efficient automatizable proof procedures for non-classical logics. We focus here on the case of finite-valued logics, and exhibit: (i) a mechanism for producing a classic-like description of them in terms of an effective variety of bivalent semantics; (ii) a mec

Sanam Sadr, Raviraj S. Adve

We propose a four-stage hierarchical resource allocation scheme for the downlink of a large-scale small-cell network in the context of orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA). Since interference limits the capabilities of such networks, resource allocation and interference management are crucial. However, obtaining the globally optimum resource

Heinz H. Bauschke, Yves Lucet, Hung M. Phan

Functions that are piecewise defined are a common sight in mathematics while convexity is a property especially desired in optimization. Suppose now a piecewise-defined function is convex on each of its defining components - when can we conclude that the entire function is convex? In this paper we provide several convenient, verifiable conditions guaranteein

Sonia M. Razavi, Marcial Gonzalez, Alberto M. Cuitino

We propose a general framework for determining optimal relationships for tensile strength of doubly convex tablets under diametrical compression. This approach is based on the observation that tensile strength is directly proportional to the breaking force and inversely proportional to a non-linear function of geometric parameters and materials properties. T

Loren Schwiebert, Eyad Hailat, Kamel Rushaidat, Jason Mick

Maximizing the performance potential of the modern day GPU architecture requires judicious utilization of available parallel resources. Although dramatic reductions can often be obtained through straightforward mappings, further performance improvements often require algorithmic redesigns to more closely exploit the target architecture. In this paper, we foc

Seyed Amir Mousavi Lajimi, Glenn Heppler, Eihab Abdel-Rahman

A new microbeam-rigid-body gyroscope is introduced and its static and dynamic behaviours are studied. The main structure includes a microbeam and an eccentric end-rigid-body influencing the dynamic and static characteristics of the sensor. The sensitivity of the device and the effect of system parameters on the microsystem&#39;s response are investigated.

J. Carbonell, V. A. Karmanov

We present a method to directly solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation in Minkowski space, both for bound and scattering states. It is based on a proper treatment of the singularities which appear in the kernel, propagators and Bethe-Salpeter amplitude itself. The off-mass shell scattering amplitude for spinless particles interacting by a one boson exchange is

Patricia K. Silas, Peter D. Haynes, Jonathan R. Yates

The pressure dependence of the Fermi surface of arsenic is examined using the technique of Wannier interpolation, enabling a dense sampling of the Brillouin zone and the ability to capture fine features within it. Focusing primarily on the A7 to simple-cubic phase transition, we find that this semimetal to metal transition is accompanied by the folding of Fe

Radu Iordanescu, Florin F. Nichita, Ion M. Nichita

Non-associtive algebras is a research direction gaining much attention these days. New developments show that associative algebras and some not-associative structures can be unified at the level of Yang-Baxter structures. In this paper, we present a unification for associative algebras, Jordan algebras and Lie algebras. The (quantum) Yang-Baxter equation and

Sanam Sadr, Raviraj S. Adve

For a wireless multi-tier heterogeneous network with orthogonal spectrum allocation across tiers, we optimize the association probability and the fraction of spectrum allocated to each tier so as to maximize rate coverage. In practice, the association probability can be controlled using a biased received signal power. The optimization problem is non-convex a

Andrei N. Frolov

We obtain new lower and upper bounds for probabilities of unions of events.These bounds are sharp. They are stronger than earlier ones. General bounds maybe applied in arbitrary measurable spaces.We have improved the method that has been introduced in previous papers. We derive new generalizations of the first and second part of the Borel--Cantelli lemma.

Adam T. Neal, Yuchen Du, Han Liu, Peide D. Ye

We have determined the spin-orbit scattering length of two-dimensional layered 2H-TaSe2 metallic crystals by detailed characterization of the weak anti-localization phenomena in this strong spin-orbit interaction material. By fitting the observed magneto-conductivity, the spin-orbit scattering length for 2H-TaSe2 is determined to be 17 nm in the few-layer fi

Sébastien Ouellet

The goal of the present study is to explore the application of deep convolutional network features to emotion recognition. Results indicate that they perform similarly to other published models at a best recognition rate of 94.4%, and do so with a single still image rather than a video stream. An implementation of an affective feedback game is also described

J. Jeronimo-Castro, S. Tabachnikov

The equitangent locus of a convex plane curve consists of the points from which the two tangent segments to the curve have equal length. The equitangent problem concerns the relation between the curve and its equitangent locus. An equitangent n-gon of a convex curve is a circumscribed n-gon whose vertices belong to the equitangent locus. We are interested in

E. V. Mukoseeva, A. I. Nazarov

We study the symmetry/asymmetry of functions providing sharp constants in the embedding theorems ${\stackrel{\circ}{W}}\vphantom{W}_2^r(-1,1)\hookrightarrow{\stackrel{\circ}{W}}\vphantom{W}_\infty^k(-1,1)$ for various $r$ and $k$. The sharp constants for all $r>k$ in the cases $k=4$ and $k=6$ are calculated explicitly as well.

Timothy H. Boyer

It is pointed out that Coleman and Van Vleck make a major blunder in their discussion of the Shockly-James paradox by designating relativistic hidden mechanical momentum as the basis for resolution of the paradox. This blunder has had a wide influence in the current physics literature, including erroneous work on the Shockley-James paradox, on Mansuripur&#39

Timothy H. Boyer

A model calculation using the Darwin Lagrangian is carried out for a magnet consisting of two current-carrying charges constrained by centripetal forces to move in a circular path in the presence of the electric field from a distant external point charge. In the limit that the magnet&#39;s two charges are non-interacting, the calculation recovers the only va

Yangyang Xu, Wotao Yin

Various algorithms have been proposed for dictionary learning. Among those for image processing, many use image patches to form dictionaries. This paper focuses on whole-image recovery from corrupted linear measurements. We address the open issue of representing an image by overlapping patches: the overlapping leads to an excessive number of dictionary coeff

Timothy H. Boyer

In this article, the self-inductance of a circular circuit is treated from an untraditional, particle-based point of view. The electromagnetic fields of Faraday induction are calculated explicitly from the point-charge fields derived from the Darwin Lagrangian for particles confined to move in a circular orbit. For a one-particle circuit (or for N non-intera

Ulrich Langer, Huidong Yang

In this paper, we consider a monolithic approach to handle coupled fluid-structure interaction problems with different hyperelastic models in an all-at-once manner. We apply Newton&#39;s method in the outer iteration dealing with nonlinearities of the coupled system. We discuss preconditioned Krylov sub-space, algebraic multigrid and algebraic multilevel met

Mohammad Alhawarat, Waleed Nazih, Mohammad Eldesouki

Further analysis and experimentation is carried out in this paper for a chaotic dynamic model, viz. the Nonlinear Dynamic State neuron (NDS). The analysis and experimentations are performed to further understand the underlying dynamics of the model and enhance it as well. Chaos provides many interesting properties that can be exploited to achieve computation

W. M. Goss

I will discuss the interactions of a number of individuals that played major roles in the formation of radio astronomy in India in the period 1952-1962, particularly Dr. Joseph L. Pawsey. The story began in 1953-1954: Pawsey brought Govind Swarup to Australia as a Colombo Fellow in 1953, where he worked with Christiansen, Mills, Wild and Bolton. Later, Swaru

Ehtesham Hassan, Gautam Shroff, Puneet Agarwal

Vehicular sensor data consists of multiple time-series arising from a number of sensors. Using such multi-sensor data we would like to detect occurrences of specific events that vehicles encounter, e.g., corresponding to particular maneuvers that a vehicle makes or conditions that it encounters. Events are characterized by similar waveform patterns re-appear

Iuliia V. Voroshylova, Vitaly V. Chaban

Reliable force field (FF) is a central issue in successful prediction of physical chemical properties via computer simulations.

Paweł Fiedor

In our previous studies we have investigated the structural complexity of time series describing stock returns on New York&#39;s and Warsaw&#39;s stock exchanges, by employing two estimators of Shannon&#39;s entropy rate based on Lempel-Ziv and Context Tree Weighting algorithms, which were originally used for data compression. Such structural complexity of t

Yuke Huang, Hanxiong Zhang

In this paper, we consider the factor properties and gap sequence of a special type of cutting sequence with slope $θ=[0;\dot{d}]$, denoted by $F_{d,\infty}$. Let $ω$ be a factor of $F_{d,\infty}$, then it occurs in the sequence infinitely many times. Let $ω_p$ be the $p$-th occurrence of $ω$ and $G_p(ω)$ be the gap between $ω_p$ and $ω_{p+1}$. We define the