August 2014 arXiv papers — page 46

Koji Azuma, Kiyoshi Tamaki, William J. Munro

The time-reversed version of entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD), called measurement-device-independent QKD (mdiQKD), was originally introduced to close arbitrary security loopholes of measurement devices. Here we show that the mdiQKD has another advantage which should be distinguished from the entanglement-based QKD. In particular, an all-phot

Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen, Anil Nerode

We consider the individual points on a Martin-Löf random path of Brownian motion. We show (1) that Khintchine&#39;s law of the iterated logarithm holds at almost all points; and (2) there exist points (besides the trivial example of the origin) having effective dimension $<1$. The proof of (1) shows that for almost all times $t$, the path $f$ is Martin-Löf r

Vivek Athalye, Michael Lustig, Martin Uecker

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data samples are collected in the spatial frequency domain (k-space), typically by time-consuming line-by-line scanning on a Cartesian grid. Scans can be accelerated by simultaneous acquisition of data using multiple receivers (parallel imaging), and by using more efficient non-Cartesian sampling schemes. As shown here, re

M. Amin Rahimian, Victor M. Preciado

In this paper the focus is on the relationship between the occurrence of failures in a (directed or undirected) network of linear single integrator agents and the presence of jump discontinuities in the derivatives of the network output. Based on this relationship, an algorithm for sensor placement is proposed, which enables the designer to detect and isolat

Matthew Fickus, Justin Marks, Miriam J. Poteet

The Schur-Horn theorem is a classical result in matrix analysis which characterizes the existence of positive semidefinite matrices with a given diagonal and spectrum. In recent years, this theorem has been used to characterize the existence of finite frames whose elements have given lengths and whose frame operator has a given spectrum. We provide a new gen

Jessica Hauschild, Jazmin Ortiz, Oscar Vega

We prove that the well-covered dimension of the Levi graph of a point-line configuration (v_r, b_k) is equal to 0, whenever r > 2.

Luca D&#39;Acci

Cities are physical manifestations of our competitive and cooperative behaviours. The tension between these two forces generates dynamic equilibriums whose material expressions are cities and their evolutions. In a Darwinian cooperative view, as Darwinism does not involve only competition, the public benefit obtained by cooperation, return in terms of privat

Awni Y. Hannun, Andrew L. Maas, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng

We present a method to perform first-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using only a neural network and language model. Deep neural network acoustic models are now commonplace in HMM-based speech recognition systems, but building such systems is a complex, domain-specific task. Recent work demonstrated the feasibility of discarding the HMM s

R. K. Puddy, L. W Smith, H. Al-Taie, C. H. Chong

We present a method of forming and controlling large arrays of gate-defined quantum devices. The method uses a novel, on-chip, multiplexed charge-locking system and helps to overcome the restraints imposed by the number of wires available in cryostat measurement systems. Two device innovations are introduced. Firstly, a multiplexer design which utilises spli

Erendira M. Huerta, Yair Krongold, Fabrizio Nicastro, Smita Mathur

We re-analyzed the 9 observations performed on 2006 by XMM-Newton and Chandra in the 0.3 to 10 keV energy band of NGC 3516 (Seyfert 1.5). The best fit model of these observations consists of a continuum emission absorbed by four ionized components and ten narrow emission lines. Three ionized absorbing components produce features in the soft X-ray band. The f

Matteo Ceccarello, Francesco Silvestri

A common approach in the design of MapReduce algorithms is to minimize the number of rounds. Indeed, there are many examples in the literature of monolithic MapReduce algorithms, which are algorithms requiring just one or two rounds. However, we claim that the design of monolithic algorithms may not be the best approach in cloud systems. Indeed, multi-round

Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi, Mohsen Hejazi, Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

In this paper, a new two-way relaying scheme based on compute-and-forward (CMF) framework and relay selection strategies is proposed, which provides a higher throughput than the conventional two-way relaying schemes. Two cases of relays with or without feedback transmission capability are considered. An upper bound on the computation rate of each relay is de

Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi, Mohsen Hejazi, Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

In this paper, we propose different practical distributed schemes to solve the rank failure problem in the compute and forward (CMF)-based multi-user multi-relay networks without central coordinator, in which the relays have no prior information about each other. First, a new relaying strategy based on CMF, named incremental compute-and-forward (ICMF), is pr

Luca Borsato, Francesco Marzari, Valerio Nascimbeni, Giampaolo Piotto

Aims. With the purpose of determining the orbital parameters of exoplanetary systems from observational data, we have developed a software, named TRADES (TRAnsits and Dynamics of Exoplanetary Systems), to simultaneously fit observed radial velocities and transit times data. Methods. We implemented a dynamical simulator for N-body systems, which also fits the

Omer Ben-Neria, Moti Gitik

Let $κ$,$λ$ be regular uncountable cardinals such that $λ> κ^+$ is not a successor of a singular cardinal of low cofinality. We construct a generic extension with $s(κ) = λ$ starting from a ground model in which $o(κ) = λ$ and prove that assuming $\neg 0^¶$, $s(κ) = λ$ implies that $o(κ) \geq λ$ in the core model.

Ignacio García-Mata, Augusto J. Roncaglia, Diego A. Wisniacki

In classical statistical mechanics there is a clear correlation between relaxation to equilibrium and chaos. In contrast, for isolated quantum systems this relation is -- to say the least -- fuzzy. In this work we try to unveil the intricate relation between the relaxation process and the transition from integrability to chaos. We study the approach to equil

L. I. Cleeves, Edwin A. Bergin, Fred C. Adams

The chemical properties of protoplanetary disks are especially sensitive to their ionization environment. Sources of molecular gas ionization include cosmic rays, stellar X-rays and short-lived radionuclides, each of which varies with location in the disk. This behavior leads to a significant amount of chemical structure, especially in molecular ion abundanc

Henry Lin, Abraham Loeb

Since white dwarfs are small, the contrast between the thermal emission of an orbiting object and a white dwarf is dramatically enhanced compared to a main sequence host. Furthermore, rocky objects much smaller than the moon have no atmospheres and are tidally locked to the white dwarf. We show that this leads to temperature contrasts between their day and n

Nick Halmagyi

We complete the study of static BPS, asymptotically AdS$_4$ black holes within N=2 FI-gauged supergravity and where the scalar manifold is a homogeneous very special Kahler manifold. We find the analytic form for the general solution to the BPS equations, the horizon appears as a double root of a particular quartic polynomial whereas in previous work this qu

Clemens Wieck, Martin Wolfgang Winkler

Two of the most attractive realizations of inflation in supergravity are based upon the presence of a constant Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) term. In D-term hybrid inflation it is the FI term itself which sets the energy scale of inflation. Alternatively, the breaking of a U(1) symmetry induced by the FI term can dynamically generate the quadratic potential of chaot

Patrick R. Durrell, Patrick Côté, Eric W. Peng, John P. Blakeslee

We report on a large-scale study of the distribution of globular clusters (GCs) throughout the Virgo cluster, based on photometry from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey, a large imaging survey covering Virgo&#39;s primary subclusters to their virial radii. Using the g&#39;, (g&#39;-i&#39;) color-magnitude diagram of unresolved and marginally-resolved

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Chang-Hun Lee, R. N. Mohapatra

We discuss leptogenesis constraints on the mass of the right-handed $W$-boson ($W_R$) in a TeV-scale Left-Right seesaw model (LRSM) for neutrino masses. For generic Dirac mass of the neutrinos, i.e. with all Yukawa couplings $\lesssim 10^{-5.5}$, it has been pointed out that successful leptogenesis requires a lower bound of 18 TeV on the $W_R$ mass, pushing

John A. Brehm, Steve M. Young, Fan Zheng, Andrew M. Rappe

We calculate the shift current response, which has been identified as the dominant mechanism for the bulk photovoltaic effect, for the polar compounds LiAsS$_\text{2}$, LiAsSe$_\text{2}$, and NaAsSe$_\text{2}$. We find that the magnitudes of the photovoltaic responses in the visible range for these compounds exceed the maximum response obtained for BiFeO$_\t

Knut M. Heidemann, Abhinav Sharma, Florian Rehfeldt, Christoph F. Schmidt

Disordered filamentous networks with compliant crosslinks exhibit a low linear elastic shear modulus at small strains, but stiffen dramatically at high strains. Experiments have shown that the elastic modulus can increase by up to three orders of magnitude while the networks withstand relatively large stresses without rupturing. Here, we perform an analytica

David A. Cox, Anthony A. Iarrobino

The mu-invariant mu = (μ_1,μ_2,μ_3) of a rational space curve gives important information about the curve. In this paper, we describe the structure of all parameterizations that have the same mu-type, what we call a mu-stratum, and as well the closure of strata. Many of our results are based on papers by the second author that appeared in the commutative alg

Alireza Naghizadeh, Tahereh Yourdkhani, Behrooz Razeghi, Ehsan Meamari

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks as distributed solutions are used in a variety of applications. Based on the type of routing for queries among their nodes, they are classified into three groups: structured, unstructured and small-world P2P networks. Each of these categories has its own applications and benefits. Structured networks by using Distributed Hash Tabl

Marcin Wrochna

We consider the following problem for a fixed graph H: given a graph G and two H-colorings of G, i.e. homomorphisms from G to H, can one be transformed (reconfigured) into the other by changing one color at a time, maintaining an H-coloring throughout. This is the same as finding a path in the Hom(G,H) complex. For H=K_k this is the problem of finding paths

Olivier Blondeau-Fournier, Pierre Mathieu

Schur superpolynomials have been introduced recently as limiting cases of the Macdonald superpolynomials. It turns out that there are two natural super-extensions of the Schur polynomials: in the limit $q=t=0$ and $q=t\rightarrow\infty$, corresponding respectively to the Schur superpolynomials and their dual. However, a direct definition is missing. Here, we

Jayadeva

The VC dimension measures the capacity of a learning machine, and a low VC dimension leads to good generalization. While SVMs produce state-of-the-art learning performance, it is well known that the VC dimension of a SVM can be unbounded; despite good results in practice, there is no guarantee of good generalization. In this paper, we show how to learn a hyp

Weiran Li

We study the attractive and repulsive two-component Fermi gas with spin imbalance in two dimensions. Using a generalized $T$-matrix approximation, we examine the thermodynamic properties of both attractive and repulsive contact interacting Fermi gases. The interaction strength, which is characterized by the bound state energy $E_b=\hbar^2/m a_{2d}^2$ in vacu

Nikos Bikakis, Chrisa Tsinaraki, Ioannis Stavrakantonakis, Stavros Christodoulakis

The Web of Data encourages organizations and companies to publish their data according to the Linked Data practices and offer SPARQL endpoints. On the other hand, the dominant standard for information exchange is XML. The SPARQL2XQuery Framework focuses on the automatic translation of SPARQL queries in XQuery expressions in order to access XML data across th

M. Reza Tanhayi

Recently in \cite{Anderson:2013zia, Anderson:2013ila}, it was shown that global de Sitter space is unstable even to the massive particle creation with no self-interactions. In this paper we study the instability by making use of the coordinate-independent plane wave in de Sitter space, within this formalism, we show that the previous results of instability o

Jasel Berra-Montiel, Alberto Molgado, César D. Palacios-García

Starting with the well-defined product of quantum fields at two spacetime points, we explore an associated Poisson structure for classical field theories within the deformation quantization formalism. We realize that the induced star-product is naturally related to the standard Moyal product through an appropriate causal Green&#39;s functions connecting poin

Antonio Segatti, Michael Snarski, Marco Veneroni

We analyze an elastic surface energy which was recently introduced by G. Napoli and L.Vergori to model thin films of nematic liquid crystals. We show how a novel approach that takes into account also the extrinsic properties of the surfaces coated by the liquid crystal leads to considerable differences with respect to the classical intrinsic energy. Our resu

S. Donadi, A. Bassi

We compute the spectrum of emitted radiation by a generic quantum system interacting with an external classic noise. Our motivation is to understand this phenomenon within the framework of collapse models. However the computation is general and applies practically to any situation where a quantum system interacts with a noise. The computation is carried out

Michael S. P. Kelley, Tony L. Farnham, Dennis Bodewits, Pasquale Tricarico

Although the nucleus of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will safely pass Mars in October 2014, the dust in the coma and tail will more closely approach the planet. Using a dynamical model of comet dust, we estimate the impact fluence. Based on our nominal model no impacts are expected at Mars. Relaxing our nominal model&#39;s parameters, the fluence is no gr

F. -X. Duthoit, A. J. Brizard, T. S. Hahm

Compact formulas for bounce and transit orbit averaging of the fluctuation-amplitude eikonal factor in axisymmetric tokamak geometry, which is frequently encountered in bounce-gyrokinetic description of microturbulence, are given in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions and elliptic integrals. These formulas are readily applicable to the calculation of the

Alexander A. H. Graham

We introduce a model which allows the fine structure constant (alpha) to vary throughout space and time due to a coupling to a scalar field with a non-canonical kinetic structure. This provided a new extension of the Bekenstein-Sandvik-Barrow-Magueijo model of alpha variations. The background cosmology is studied in detail using dynamical systems techniques

Terry J. Lyons, Danyu Yang

We embed the rough integration in a larger geometrical/algebraic framework of integrating one-forms against group-valued paths, and reduce the rough integral to an inhomogeneous analogue of the classical Young integral. We define dominated paths as integrals of one-forms, and demonstrate that they are stable under basic operations.

Rafail Ostrovsky, Will Rosenbaum

In their seminal work on the Stable Marriage Problem, Gale and Shapley describe an algorithm which finds a stable matching in $O(n^2)$ communication rounds. Their algorithm has a natural interpretation as a distributed algorithm where each player is represented by a single processor. In this distributed model, Floreen, Kaski, Polishchuk, and Suomela recently

José M. M. Senovilla

I revisit a known solution of the Einstein field equations to show that it describes the formation of non-spherical black holes by the collapse of pure electromagnetic monochromatic radiation. Both positive and negative masses are feasible without ever violating the dominant energy condition. The solution can also be used to model the destruction of naked si

Carsten Schneider

A summation framework is developed that enhances Karr&#39;s difference field approach. It covers not only indefinite nested sums and products in terms of transcendental extensions, but it can treat, e.g., nested products defined over roots of unity. The theory of the so-called $RΠΣ^*$-extensions is supplemented by algorithms that support the construction of

Jaouhar Fattahi, Mohamed Mejri, Hanane Houmani

In this paper, we present a new semi-decidable procedure to analyze cryptographic protocols for secrecy based on a new class of functions that we call: the Witness-Functions. A Witness-Function is a reliable function that guarantees the secrecy in any protocol proved increasing once analyzed by it. Hence, the problem of correctness becomes a problem of proto

Sarah Rajtmajer, Christopher Griffin, Derek Mikesell, Anna Squicciarini

We present a game-theoretic model for the spread of deviant behavior in online social networks. We utilize a two-strategy framework wherein each player&#39;s behavior is classified as normal or deviant and evolves according to the cooperate-defect payoff scheme of the classic prisoner&#39;s dilemma game. We demonstrate convergence of individual behavior over

Hantaek Bae, Rafael Granero-Belinchón

In this paper, we study transport equations with nonlocal velocity fields with rough initial data. We address the global existence of weak solutions of an one dimensional model of the surface quasi-geostrophic equation and the incompressible porous media equation, and one dimensional and $n$ dimensional models of the dissipative quasi-geostrophic equations a

Joseph A. Minahan, Anton Nedelin

In this paper we investigate the large-$N$ behavior of 5-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ super Yang-Mills with a level $k$ Chern-Simons term and an adjoint hypermultiplet. As in three-dimensional Chern-Simons theories, one must choose an integration contour to completely define the theory. Using localization, we reduce the path integral to a matrix model with a

Harish G. Ramaswamy, Shivani Agarwal

We study consistency properties of surrogate loss functions for general multiclass learning problems, defined by a general multiclass loss matrix. We extend the notion of classification calibration, which has been studied for binary and multiclass 0-1 classification problems (and for certain other specific learning problems), to the general multiclass settin

Shi Ang Li, Chong Sheng Li, Hai Tao Li, Jun Gao

We study the dijet production in Randall-Sundrum model at the LHC with QCD next-to-leading(NLO) order accuracy. Our results show that the QCD NLO corrections can increase the total cross sections by more than $80\%$ and reduce the scale dependence. We also explore in detail several important kinematic distributions at the NLO level. Moreover, we discuss the

Aditi Gupta, Christoph Adami

Epistatic interactions between residues determine a protein&#39;s adaptability and shape its evolutionary trajectory. When a protein experiences a changed environment, it is under strong selection to find a peak in the new fitness landscape. It has been shown that strong selection increases epistatic interactions as well as the ruggedness of the fitness land

Robert Oeckl

We construct the coherent states in the sense of Gilmore and Perelomov for the fermionic Fock space. Our treatment is from the outset adapted to the infinite-dimensional case. The fermionic Fock space becomes in this way a reproducing kernel Hilbert space of continuous holomorphic functions.

Saïd Hamadène, Xuzhe Zhao

In this paper we show existence and uniqueness of the solution in viscosity sense for a system of nonlinear $m$ variational integral-partial differential equations with interconnected obstacles whose coefficients $(f_i)_{i=1,\cdots, m}$ depend on $(u_j)_{j=1,\cdots,m}$. From the probabilistic point of view, this system is related to optimal stochastic switch

Tiffany Covolo, Janusz Grabowski, Norbert Poncin

In Physics and in Mathematics $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-gradings, $n \geq 2$, do appear quite frequently. The corresponding sign rules are determined by the `scalar product&#39; of the involved $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-degrees. The present paper is the first of a series on $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-Supergeometry. The new theory exhibits challenging differences with the classical one:

Krzysztof Zajkowski

A variational formula for the Cramér transform of series of weighted, independent symmetric Bernoulli random variables (Rademacher series) is given.

Harald Lampesberger

The evolution of Web and service technologies has led to a wide landscape of standards and protocols for interaction between loosely coupled software components. Examples range from Web applications, mashups, apps, and mobile devices to enterprise-grade services. Cloud computing is the industrialization of service provision and delivery, where Web and enterp

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi

A binned Dalitz plot analysis of $B^\pm \to D K^\pm$ decays, with $D \to K_S π^+π^-$ and $D \to K_S K^+ K^-$, is performed to measure the \CP-violating observables $x_{\pm}$ and $y_{\pm}$, which are sensitive to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa angle $γ$. The analysis exploits a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to 3.0\invfb collected by the

CMS Collaboration

A search for new physics in proton-proton collisions having final states with an electron or muon and missing transverse energy is presented. The analysis uses data collected in 2012 with the CMS detector, at an LHC center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. No significant deviation of the transv

John J. Williamson, Peter D. Olmsted

We derive a mean-field free energy for the phase behaviour of coupled bilayer leaflets, which is implicated in cellular processes and important to the design of artificial membranes. Our model accounts for amphiphile-level structural features, particularly hydrophobic mismatch, which promotes antiregistration (AR), in competition with the `direct&#39; trans-

Julian Adamek, Chris Clarkson, Ruth Durrer, Martin Kunz

The large-scale homogeneity and isotropy of the universe is generally thought to imply a well defined background cosmological model. It may not. Smoothing over structure adds in an extra contribution, transferring power from small scales up to large. Second-order perturbation theory implies that the effect is small, but suggests that formally the perturbatio

Slavko Bogdanov, C. -Y. Ng, Victoria M. Kaspi

Central compact objects (CCOs) constitute a population of radio-quiet, slowly-spinning ($\ge$100 ms) young neutron stars with anomalously high thermal X-ray luminosities. Their spin-down properties imply weak dipole magnetic fields ($\sim$$10^{10-11}$ G) and characteristic ages much greater than the ages of their host supernova remnants (SNRs). However, CCOs

G. Sun, A. K. Kolezhuk, T. Vekua

We clarify the long-standing controversy concerning the behavior of the ground state fidelity in the vicinity of a quantum phase transition of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type in one-dimensional systems. Contrary to the prediction based on the Gaussian approximation of the Luttinger liquid approach, it is shown that the fidelity susceptibility does n

Thomas Lawson

Shor&#39;s factoring algorithm (SFA) finds the prime factors of a number, $N=p_1 p_2$, exponentially faster than the best known classical algorithm. Responsible for the speed-up is a subroutine called the quantum order finding algorithm (QOFA) which calculates the order -- the smallest integer, $r$, satisfying $a^r \mod N =1$, where $a$ is a randomly chosen

Alejandro O. Leon, Marcel G. Clerc

The equivalence between different physical systems permits us to transfer knowledge between them and to characterize the universal nature of their dynamics. We demonstrate that a nanopillar driven by a spin-transfer torque is equivalent to a rotating magnetic plate, which permits us to consider the nanopillar as a macroscopic system under a time-modulated in

Maxim Dvornikov

We study the system of massive and mixed neutrinos interacting with background matter moving with an acceleration. We start with the derivation of the Dirac equation for a single neutrino in the noninertial frame where matter is at rest. A particular case of matter rotating with a constant angular velocity is considered. The Dirac equation is solved and the

Adam D. Helfer

In conventional general relativity without torsion, high-frequency gravitational waves couple to the chiral number density of spin one-half quanta: the polarization of the waves is rotated by $2πN_5 {\ell_{\rm Pl}^2}$, where $N_5$ is the chiral column density and $\ell_{\rm Pl}$ is the Planck length. This means that if a primordial distribution of gravitatio

Elena Agliari, Matteo Altavilla, Adriano Barra, Lorenzo Dello Schiavo

Recent experimental breakthroughs have finally allowed to implement in-vitro reaction kinetics (the so called {\em enzyme based logic}) which code for two-inputs logic gates and mimic the stochastic AND (and NAND) as well as the stochastic OR (and NOR). This accomplishment, together with the already-known single-input gates (performing as YES and NOT), provi

Vladimir V. Konotop, Dmitry A. Zezyulin

It is shown that a general class of complex asymmetric potentials of the form $ w^2(x)-iw_x(x)$, where $w(x)$ is a real function, allows for the existence of one-parametric continuous families of the stationary nonlinear modes bifurcating from the linear spectrum and propagating in Kerr media. As an example, we introduce an asymmetric double-hump complex pot

Danielle McDermott, Kathie E. Newman

We investigate the properties of clusters formed from two connected $\mathrm{Ge_{m}}$ cage-like clusters, such as experimentally synthesized $\mathrm{Au_3Ge_{18}^{5-}}$, using first-principles DFT methods. We focus particularly on $\mathrm{Au_nGe_{12}^{q-}}$ formed from $\mathrm{Ge_{6}}$, where $n=0-3$ and $q=0,2$. We examine the geometries, electronic struc

Vu Dinh, Lam Si Tung Ho, Nguyen Viet Cuong, Duy Nguyen

We prove new fast learning rates for the one-vs-all multiclass plug-in classifiers trained either from exponentially strongly mixing data or from data generated by a converging drifting distribution. These are two typical scenarios where training data are not iid. The learning rates are obtained under a multiclass version of Tsybakov&#39;s margin assumption,

K. A. S. Croker

The hybrid Ricci scalar $R_{μν}η^{μν}$ formed from a Robertson-Walker derived Ricci tensor and a distinct flat space metric becomes a dark, pseudo-isothermal density under asymptotic constraint. While extension of this constraint to more general scenarios is unclear, it is model independent and suggestive of a radical premise: all galactic dark matter halos

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Claudio Castellano, Piet Van Mieghem, Alessandro Vespignani

In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of biological and sociotechnical systems. The complex properties of real-world networks have a profound impact on the behavior of equilibrium and nonequilibrium phenomena occurring in various system

Antoine Deleforge, Radu Horaud, Yoav Schechner, Laurent Girin

This paper addresses the problem of localizing audio sources using binaural measurements. We propose a supervised formulation that simultaneously localizes multiple sources at different locations. The approach is intrinsically efficient because, contrary to prior work, it relies neither on source separation, nor on monaural segregation. The method starts wit

Piyabut Burikham, Chatchai Promsiri

We study the mixed phase of charged AdS black hole and radiation when the total energy is fixed below the threshold to produce a stable charged black hole branch. The coexistence conditions for the charged AdS black hole and radiation are derived for the generic case when radiation particles carry charge. The phase diagram of the mixed phase is demonstrated

Avishy Y. Carmi, Daniel Moskovich

We suggest a diagrammatic model of computation based on an axiom of distributivity. A diagram of a decorated coloured tangle, similar to those that appear in low dimensional topology, plays the role of a circuit diagram. Equivalent diagrams represent bisimilar computations. We prove that our model of computation is Turing complete, and that with bounded reso

Mahir Bilen Can, Roger Howe, Lex Renner

We determine when an antiinvolution on an adjoint semisimple linear algebraic group extends to an antiinvolution on a $J$-irreducible monoid. Using this information, we study a special class of compactifications of symmetric varieties. Extending the work of Springer on involutions, we describe the parametrizing sets of Borel orbits in these special embedding

Osamu Iyama, Dong Yang

It is shown that the silting reduction $\ct/\thick\cp$ of a triangulated category $\ct$ with respect to a presilting subcategory $\cp$ can be realized as a certain subfactor category of $\ct$, and that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of (pre)silting subcategories of $\ct$ containing $\cp$ and the set of (pre)silting subcategories of $\ct

Yuecheng Zhu

We show that Martin Olsson&#39;s compactification of moduli space of polarized abelian varieties in \cite{ols08} can be interpreted in terms of KSBA stable pairs. We find that there is a canonical set of divisors $S(K_2)$ associated with each cusp. Near the cusp, a polarized semiabelic scheme $(\mathcal{X}, G,\mathcal{L})$ is the canonical degeneration given

Masoud Ahookhosh, Susan Ghaderi

Monotonicity and nonmonotonicity play a key role in studying the global convergence and the efficiency of iterative schemes employed in the field of nonlinear optimization, where globally convergent and computationally efficient schemes are explored. This paper addresses some features of descent schemes and the motivation behind nonmonotone strategies and in

Xiaoming Zhang

We study the production of ${\rm K}_{\rm S}^{0}$ mesons and $Λ$ baryons in jets in p--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02$ TeV with ALICE at the LHC. The $p_{\rm T}$-differential density of the particles produced in jets is compared to the inclusive distributions and the $Λ/{\rm K}_{\rm S}^{0}$ ratio is reported in bins of multiplicity of the collisions

Antonios Makrymallis, Serena Viti

Understanding the physical conditions of dark molecular clouds and star forming regions is an inverse problem subject to complicated chemistry that varies non-linearly with time and the physical environment. In this paper we apply a Bayesian approach based on a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for solving the non-linear inverse problems encountered in

Brent Young

We examine the phenomenon of Landau Damping in relativistic plasmas via a study of the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system (rVP) on the torus for initial data sufficiently close to a spatially uniform steady state. We find that if the steady state is regular enough (essentially in a Gevrey class of degree in a specified range) and that the deviation of the in

P. M. Shepley, A. W. Rushforth, M. Wang, G. Burnell

The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy K$_e$$_f$$_f$, magnetization reversal, and field-driven domain wall velocity in the creep regime are modified in Pt/Co(0.85-1.0 nm)/Pt thin films by strain applied via piezoelectric transducers. K$_e$$_f$$_f$, measured by the extraordinary Hall effect, is reduced by 10 kJ/m$^3$ by tensile strain out-of-plane ε$_z$ = 9 x

Navid Talebanfard

Let $m(n, k)$ be the maximum number of prime implicants that any $k$-CNF on n variables can have. We show that $3^{n/3} \le m(n,2) \le (1+o(1))3^{n/3}$.

Tassos Fragos, Jeffrey E. McClintock

Galactic field black hole (BH) low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are believed to form in situ via the evolution of isolated binaries. In the standard formation channel, these systems survived a common envelope phase, after which the remaining helium core of the primary star and the subsequently formed BH are not expected to be highly spinning. However, the mea

Cheng Yang, Xiaoping Yuan

To study the variation problem related to the incompressible fluid mechanics, Brenier brings the concept of generalized flow and shows that the generalized incompressible flow (GIF) is deeply related to the classical solution of the incompressible Euler equations. In this paper, we will study the ergodic theory of the GIF which may help us understand the dyn

Jakob Hammer, Sebastian Thomas, Philipp Weber, Peter Hommelhoff

We demonstrate the splitting of a low-energy electron beam by means of a microwave pseudopotential formed above a planar chip substrate. Beam splitting arises from smoothly transforming the transverse guiding potential for an electron beam from a single-well harmonic confinement into a double-well, thereby generating two separated output beams with $5\,$mm l

Inyong Cho, Naveen K. Singh

We investigate the scalar perturbation of the inflation model driven by a massive-scalar field in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. We focus on the perturbation at the attractor stage in which the first and the second slow-roll conditions are satisfied. The scalar perturbation exhibits the corrections to the chaotic inflation model in general relativit

Chong-Xing Yue, Man-Lin Cui

Considering the constraints of the lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes $μ\rightarrow 3e$ and $τ\rightarrow3μ$ on the LFV couplings $Z&#39;\ell_{i}\ell_{j}$, in the contexts of the $E_{6}$ models, the left-right (LR) models, the &#34;alternative&#34; left-right (ALR) models and the 331 models, we investigate the contributions of the extra gauge boson $Z&#

Matthias Silbernagl, Matthias Huber, René Brandenberg

This paper presents an improved mixed-integer model for the Thermal Unit Commitment Problem. By introducing new variables for the temperature of each thermal unit, the off-time-dependent start-up costs are modeled accurately and with a lower integrality gap than state-of-the-art formulations. This new approach significantly improves computational efficiency

Zhankui Lu, H. J. Mo, Yu Lu

We use a set of observational data for galaxy cold gas mass fraction and gas phase metallicity to constrain the content, inflow and outflow of gas in central galaxies hosted by halos with masses between $10^{11} M_{\odot}$ to $10^{12} M_{\odot}$. The gas contents in high redshift galaxies are obtained by combining the empirical star formation histories of Lu

Semyon Alesker

The space of constructible functions form a dense subspace of the space of generalized valuations. In this note we prove a somewhat stronger property that the sequential closure, taken sufficiently many (in fact, infinitely many) times, of the former space is equal to the latter one. This stronger property is necessary for some applications in the theory of

B. V. Rajarama Bhat, Michael Skeide

We show that pure strongly continuous semigroups of adjointable isometries on a Hilbert C*-module are standard right shifts. By counter examples, we illustrate that the analogy of this result with the classical result on Hilbert spaces by Sz.-Nagy, cannot be improved further to understand arbitrary isometry semigroups of isometries in the classical way.

Joe Kajitani, Takafumi Hiroi, Atsushi Omachi, Osuke Miura

We have systematically investigated the crystal structure and the magnetic properties of BiS2-based superconductor Ce1-xNdxO1-yFyBiS2 (x = 0 - 1.0, y = 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7) and Nd1-zSmzO1-yFyBiS2 (x = 0 - 0.8, y = 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7). In the REOBiS2 system, both crystal structure and physical properties are tunable by mixing the RE (RE = rare earth) site with Ce,

Xiaodong Wang

We establish an integral formula on a smooth, precompact domain in a Kahler manifold. We apply this formula to study holomorphic extension of CR functions. Using this formula we prove an isoperimetric inequality in terms of a positive lower bound for the Hermitian curvature of the boundary. Combining with a Minkowski type formula on the complex hyperbolic sp

Jin-Wu Jiang

The single-layer black phosphorus is characteristic for its puckered structure, which has leaded to highly anisotropy in its optical, electronic, and mechanical properties. We report, using the non-equilibrium Green&#39;s function approach and the first-principles method, that the anisotropy in the thermal conduction is very weak in the single-layer black ph

Pankaj Jain, Gopal Kashyap, Subhadip Mitra

We consider a conformal model involving two real scalar fields in which the conformal symmetry is broken by a soft mechanism and is not anomalous. One of these scalar fields is representative of the standard model Higgs. The model predicts exactly zero cosmological constant. In the simplest version of the model, some of the couplings need to be fine tuned to

Suyan Tian, Chi Wang, Ming-Wen An

Background Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the predominant histological type of lung cancer, accounting for up to 85% of cases. Disease stage is commonly used to determine adjuvant treatment eligibility of NSCLC patients, however, it is an imprecise predictor of the prognosis of an individual patient. Currently, many researchers resort to microarray te

Sergiy Maksymenko

Let $M$ be a smooth compact connected surface, $P$ be either the real line $\mathbb{R}$ or the circle $S^1$ and $f:M\to P$ be a Morse map. Denote by $\mathcal{S}(f)$ and $\mathcal{O}(f)$ the corresponding stabilizer and orbit of $f$ with respect to the right action of the group $\mathcal{D}(M)$ of diffeomorphisms of $M$. In a series of papers the author desc

Ghaith A. Hiary

A deterministic algorithm for factoring $n$ using $n^{1/3+o(1)}$ bit operations is presented. The algorithm tests the divisibility of $n$ by all the integers in a short interval at once, rather than integer by integer as in trial division. The algorithm is implemented.

Mihir R. Khadilkar, Fernando A. Escobedo

Sought-after ordered structures of mixtures of hard anisotropic nanoparticles can often be thermodynamically unfavorable due to the components&#39; geometric incompatibility to densely pack into regular lattices. A simple compatibilization rule is identified wherein the particle sizes are chosen such that the order-disorder transition pressures of the pure c

Seppo Laine, Johan H. Knapen, Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos, Taehyun Kim

We present a catalogue and images of visually detected features, such as asymmetries, extensions, warps, shells, tidal tails, polar rings, and obvious signs of mergers or interactions, in the faint outer regions (at and outside of R_25) of nearby galaxies. This catalogue can be used in future quantitative studies that examine galaxy evolution due to internal