arXiv papers from November 2014

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Rajinder Mavi

We establish localization type dynamical bounds as a corollary of positive Lyapunov exponents for general operators with quasiperiodic potentials defined by piecewise Holder functions.

Azer Akhmedov, Damiano Fulghesu

We define a notion of an arithmetic set in an arbitrary countable group and study properties of these sets in the cases of Abelian groups and non-abelian free groups.

Tobias Friedrich, Markus Wagner

Most experimental studies initialize the population of evolutionary algorithms with random genotypes. In practice, however, optimizers are typically seeded with good candidate solutions either previously known or created according to some problem-specific method. This "seeding" has been studied extensively for single-objective problems. For multi-objective p

J. Lenells, A. S. Fokas

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half-line with a given Dirichlet boundary datum which for large $t$ tends to a periodic function. We assume that this function is sufficiently small, namely that it can be expressed in the form $\alpha g_0^b(t)$, where $\alpha$ is a small constant. Assuming that the Neumann boundary value tends for larg

Alan Guo, Swastik Kopparty

Lifted Reed-Solomon codes are a natural affine-invariant family of error-correcting codes which generalize Reed-Muller codes. They were known to have efficient local-testing and local-decoding algorithms (comparable to the known algorithms for Reed-Muller codes), but with significantly better rate. We give efficient algorithms for list-decoding and local lis

J. Lenells, A. S. Fokas

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half-line with a given Dirichlet (Neumann) boundary datum which for large $t$ tends to the periodic function $g_0^b(t)$ ($g_1^b(t)$). Assuming that the unknown Neumann (Dirichlet) boundary value tends for large $t$ to a periodic function $g_1^b(t)$ ($g_0^b(t)$), we derive an easily verifiable condition

James Owen Weatherall

I argue that the Hole Argument is based on a misleading use of the mathematical formalism of general relativity. If one is attentive to mathematical practice, I will argue, the Hole Argument is blocked.

S. Udry, C. Lovis, F. Bouchy, A. Collier Cameron

Exoplanet science is booming. In 20 years our knowledge has expanded considerably, from the first discovery of a Hot Jupiter, to the detection of a large population of Neptunes and super-Earths, to the first steps toward the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. Between today and 2025, the field will evolve at an even faster pace with the advent of seve

M. L. Graham, S. Valenti, B. J. Fulton, L. M. Weiss

We present a time series of the highest resolution spectra yet published for the nearby Type Ia supernova (SN) 2014J in M82. They were obtained at 11 epochs over 33 days around peak brightness with the Levy Spectrograph (resolution R~110,000) on the 2.4m Automated Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory. We identify multiple Na I D and K I absorption fea

Arkady Berenstein, Jacob Greenstein, David Kazhdan

The goal of this note is to study quantum clusters in which cluster variables (not coefficients) commute which each other. It turns out that this property is preserved by mutations. Remarkably, this is equivalent to the celebrated sign coherence conjecture recently proved by M. Gross, P. Hacking, S. Keel and M. Kontsevich

F. J. Herranz, J. de Lucas, C. Sardon

A Lie system is a system of differential equations describing the integral curves of a $t$-dependent vector field taking values in a finite-dimensional real Lie algebra of vector fields, a Vessiot-Guldberg Lie algebra. We define and analyze Lie systems possessing a Vessiot-Guldberg Lie algebra of Hamiltonian vector fields relative to a Jacobi manifold, the h

Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Ye Feng Yu, Reuben M. Bakker

Nonradiating current configurations attract attention of physicists for many years as possible models of stable atoms in the field theories. One intriguing example of such a nonradiating source is known as anapole (which means without poles in Greek), and it was originally proposed by Yakov Zeldovich in nuclear physics. Recently, an anapole was suggested as

Tom Kaufmann, Asmita Mukherjee, Werner Vogelsang

We present a next-to-leading order QCD calculation for the single-inclusive production of collimated jets at hadron colliders, when the jet is defined by maximizing a suitable jet function that depends on the momenta of final-state particles in the event. A jet algorithm of this type was initially proposed by Georgi and subsequently further developed into th

Harith Humadi, J. J. Hoyt, Nikolas Provatas

The long wavelength limit of a recent microscopic phase field crystal (PFC) theory of a binary alloy mix- ture is used to derive an analytical approximation for the segregation coefficient as a function of the interface velocity, and relate it to the two-point correlation function of the liquid and the thermodynamic properties of solid and liquid phases. Our

George Papandreou, Iasonas Kokkinos, Pierre-André Savalle

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) commonly use generic `max-pooling' (MP) layers to extract deformation-invariant features, but we argue in favor of a more refined treatment. First, we introduce epitomic convolution as a building block alternative to the common convolution-MP cascade of DCNNs; while having identical complexity to MP, Epitomic Convol

B. G. Zakharov

We study jet quenching in $pp$ and $pA$ collisions in the scenario with formation of a mini quark-gluon plasma. We find a significant suppression effect. For light hadrons at $p_{T}\sim 10$ GeV we obtained the reduction of the spectra by $\sim [20-30,25-35,30-40]$\% in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=[0.2, 2.76,7]$ TeV. We discuss how jet quenching in $pp$ coll

Tao Xin, Hang Li, Bi-Xue Wang, Gui-Lu Long

The puzzling properties of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality, entanglement and superposition, were dissected experimentally at past decades. However, hidden-variable (HV) models, based on three classical assumptions of wave-particle objectivity, determinism and independence, strive to explain or even defeat them. The development of quantum technologie

Alexander Gonchenko, Sergey Gonchenko, Alexey Kazakov, Dmitry Turaev

We give a qualitative description of two main routes to chaos in three-dimensional maps. We discuss Shilnikov scenario of transition to spiral chaos and a scenario of transition to discrete Lorenz-like and figure-eight strange attractors. The theory is illustrated by numerical analysis of three-dimensional Henon-like maps and Poincare maps in models of nonho

I. V. Bobkova, A. M. Bobkov

We develop a theory of spin relaxation in Zeeman-splitted superconducting films at low temperatures. A new mechanism of spin relaxation, specific only for Zeeman-splitted superconductors is proposed. It can explain the extremely high spin relaxation lengths, experimentally observed in Zeeman-splitted superconductors, and their strong growth with the magnetic

Michael Wibral, Joseph T. Lizier, Viola Priesemann

Computational intelligence is broadly defined as biologically-inspired computing. Usually, inspiration is drawn from neural systems. This article shows how to analyze neural systems using information theory to obtain constraints that help identify the algorithms run by such systems and the information they represent. Algorithms and representations identified

Dirk Kussin

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a noncommutative regular projective curve over a perfect field $k$. We study global and local properties of the Auslander-Reiten translation $\tau$ and give an explicit description of the complete local rings, with the involvement of $\tau$. We introduce the $\tau$-multiplicity $e_{\tau}(x)$, the order of $\tau$ as a functor restricted t

Moslem Zarei

In this work we consider a dipole asymmetry in tensor modes and study the effects of this asymmetry on the angular power spectra of CMB. We derive analytical expressions for the $C_{l}^{TT}$ and $C_{l}^{BB}$ in the presence of such dipole modulation in tensor modes for $l<100$. We also discuss on the amplitude of modulation term and show that the $C_{l}^{BB}

Viacheslav M. Sadykov, Alexander G. Kosovichev

We present results of non-LTE modeling of H-alpha 6563 A and Mg II k&h 2796 A and 2803 A lines. This modeling is important for interpretation of coordinated observations from the recently launched NASA's IRIS mission and from the New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory. Among available codes for the non-LTE modeling, the RH code is chosen as the mo

Marcin Raczkowski, Fakher F. Assaad, Lode Pollet

We use quantum Monte Carlo simulations to study a finite-temperature dimensional-crossover-driven evolution of spin and charge dynamics in weakly coupled Hubbard chains with a half-filled band. The low-temperature behavior of the charge gap indicates a crossover between two distinct energy scales: a high-energy one-dimensional (1D) Mott gap due to the umklap

E. A. K. Adams, Y. Faerman, W. F. Janesh, S. Janowiecki

We present neutral hydrogen (HI) imaging observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope of AGC198606, an HI cloud discovered in the ALFALFA 21cm survey. This object is of particular note as it is located 16 km/s and 1.2 degrees from the gas-bearing ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Leo T while having a similar HI linewidth and approximately twice the flux

S. Paul, A. Datta, H. T. Intema

Galaxy-cluster merger shocks efficiently accelerate the ambient electrons through diffusive shock acceleration and amplify magnetic field by compressing the Inter Cluster Medium. As a result, such objects produce a significant amount of synchrotron radio emission. Radio halo and Mpc scale peripheral radio relics thus help us to trace back the cluster formati

Emeline Bolmont, Sean N. Raymond, Franck Selsis

Our knowledge of planets' orbital dynamics, which was based on Solar System studies, has been challenged by the diversity of exoplanetary systems. Around cool and ultra cool dwarfs, the influence of tides on the orbital and spin evolution of planets can strongly affect their climate and their capacity to host surface liquid water. We illustrate the role of t

Reginald D. Smith

There is no closed form analytical equation or quick method to calculate probabilities based only on the entropy of a signal or process. Except in the cases where there are constraints on the state probabilities, one must typically derive the underlying probabilities through search algorithms. These become more computationally expensive as entropies of highe

Gregory Bulnes Cuetara, Andreas Engel, Massimiliano Esposito

We present the stochastic thermodynamics analysis of an open quantum system weakly coupled to multiple reservoirs and driven by a rapidly oscillating external field. The analysis is built on a modified stochastic master equation in the Floquet basis. Transition rates are shown to satisfy the local detailed balance involving the entropy flowing out of the res

Walter O. Krawec

Semi-quantum key distribution protocols are designed to allow two users to establish a secure secret key when one of the two users is limited to performing certain "classical" operations. There have been several such protocols developed recently, however, due to their reliance on a two-way quantum communication channel (and thus, the attacker's opportunity t

Martino Lupini

By means of Fra\"{i}ss\'{e} theory for metric structures developed by Ben Yaacov, we show that there exists a separable $1$-exact operator system $\mathbb{GS}$---which we call the Gurarij operator system---of almost universal disposition. This means that whenever $E\subset F$ are finite-dimensional $1$-exact operator systems, $\phi :E\rightarrow \mathbb{GS}$

Alexandre Belin, Alexander Maloney

We investigate the stability of massless topological black holes in AdS_d when minimally coupled to a scalar field of negative mass-squared. In many cases such black holes are unstable even though the field is above the BF bound and the geometry is locally AdS. The instability depends on the choice of boundary conditions for the scalars: scalars with non-sta

Valery S. Shchesnovich

We explore the conditions under which identical particles in unitary linear networks behave as the other species, i.e. bosons as fermions and fermions as bosons. It is found that the Boson-Sampling computer of Aaronson & Arkhipov can be implemented in an interference experiment with non-interacting fermions in an appropriately entangled state. Moreover, a sc

Joris Raeymaekers

We discuss the quantization and holographic aspects of a class of conical spaces in 2+1 dimensional pure AdS gravity. These appear as topological solitons in the Chern-Simons formulation of the theory and are closely related to the recently studied conical solutions in higher spin gravity. We discuss the classical fluctuations around these solutions, which f

Jonathan Eckhardt, Aleksey Kostenko, Gerald Teschl

Based on continuity properties of the de Branges correspondence, we develop a new approach to study the high-energy behavior of Weyl-Titchmarsh and spectral functions of $2\times2$ first order canonical systems. Our results improve several classical results and solve open problems posed by previous authors. Furthermore, they are applied to radial Dirac and r

Erkao Bao, Ko Honda

In this paper we give a rigorous definition of cylindrical contact homology for contact $3$-manifolds that admit nondegenerate contact forms with no contractible Reeb orbits, and show that the cylindrical contact homology is an invariant of the contact structure.

Xavier Fernández-Real, Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the regularity up to the boundary of solutions to fractional heat equation in bounded $C^{1,1}$ domains. More precisely, we consider solutions to $\partial_t u + (-\Delta)^s u=0 \textrm{ in }\Omega,\ t > 0$, with zero Dirichlet conditions in $\mathbb{R}^n\setminus \Omega$ and with initial data $u_0\in L^2(\Omega)$. Using the results of the second au

K. Park, I. G. Aznauryan, V. D. Burkert, the CLAS collaboration

Differential cross sections of the exclusive process $e p \to e^\prime \pi^+ n$ were measured with good precision in the range of the photon virtuality $Q^2 = 1.8 - 4.5$ GeV$^2$, and the invariant mass range of the $\pi^+ n$ final state W = 1.6 - 2.0 GeV using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer. Data were collected with nearly complete coverage in the a

Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Varda F. Hagh, Avishek Kumar, M. F. Thorpe

We reveal significant qualitative differences in the rigidity transition of three types of disordered network materials: randomly diluted spring networks, jammed sphere packings, and stress-relieved networks that are diluted using a protocol that avoids the appearance of floppy regions. The marginal state of jammed and stress-relieved networks are globally i

Carlos Florentino, Sean Lawton, Daniel Ramras

Let G be a connected, complex reductive Lie group with maximal compact subgroup K, and let X denote the moduli space of G- or K-valued representations of a rank r free group. In this article, we develop methods for studying the low-dimensional homotopy groups of these spaces and of their subspaces Y of irreducible representations. Our main result is that whe

Ágnes Cseh, David F. Manlove

In the stable marriage and roommates problems, a set of agents is given, each of them having a strictly ordered preference list over some or all of the other agents. A matching is a set of disjoint pairs of mutually accepted agents. If any two agents mutually prefer each other to their partner, then they block the matching, otherwise, the matching is said to

Pietro d'Avenia, Marco Squassina, Marianna Zenari

By means of non-smooth critical point theory we obtain existence of infinitely many weak solutions of the fractional Schr\"odinger equation with logarithmic nonlinearity. We also investigate the H\"older regularity of the weak solutions.

E. Martynov

Quasi-eikonal and quasi-U-matrix unitarization of the standard Regge-pole amplitude for ${\alpha}(0)>1$ have been considered. We show that some violation of unitarity even at high energy exists in both models. We have found in quasi-eikonal model a bump-oscillation structure of ${\rm Im}H(s,b)$ at large values of impact parameter $b$ but where ${\rm Im}H(s,b

Oleg Achakovskiy, Alexander Avdeenkov, Stephane Goriely, Sergei Kamerdzhiev

The pygmy dipole resonances and photon strength functions in stable and unstable Ni and Sn isotopes are calculated within the microscopic self-consistent version of the extended theory of finite fermi systems which includes phonon coupling effects.The Skyrme forces SLy4 is used. A pygmy dipole resonance in $^{72}$Ni is predicted at the mean energy of 12.4 Me

Francisco M. Fernández

We propose a simple pedagogical way of introducing the Euler-MacLaurin summation formula in an undergraduate course on statistical mechanics. We put forward two alternative routes: the first one is the simplest and yields the first two terms of the expansion. The second one is somewhat more elaborate and takes into account all the correction terms. We apply

Timothy B. Armstrong, Michal Kolesár

Kernel-based estimators such as local polynomial estimators in regression discontinuity designs are often evaluated at multiple bandwidths as a form of sensitivity analysis. However, if in the reported results, a researcher selects the bandwidth based on this analysis, the associated confidence intervals may not have correct coverage, even if the estimator i

Dominik Strassel, Peter Kopietz, Sebastian Eggert

Spin dimer systems are a promising playground for the detailed study of quantum phase transitions. Using the magnetic field as the tuning parameter it is in principle possible to observe a crossover from the characteristic scaling near critical points to the behavior of a finite temperature phase transition. In this work we study two-dimensional coupled spin

Sadeep Jayasumana, Richard Hartley, Mathieu Salzmann, Hongdong Li

In this paper, we develop an approach to exploiting kernel methods with manifold-valued data. In many computer vision problems, the data can be naturally represented as points on a Riemannian manifold. Due to the non-Euclidean geometry of Riemannian manifolds, usual Euclidean computer vision and machine learning algorithms yield inferior results on such data

M. Cvetinov, D. Ž. Obadović, M. Stojanović, A. Vajda

In this work, five mixtures with different concentrations of banana-shaped and calamitic compounds have been prepared and subsequently studied by polarizing optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffraction on non-oriented samples. The phase sequences and molecular parameters of the binary systems are presented.

Andrew Roberts

Classical canard explosion results in smooth systems require the vector field to be at least $C^3$, since canard cycles are created as the result of a Hopf bifurcation. The work on canards in nonsmooth, planar systems is recent and has thus far been restricted to piecewise-linear or piecewise-smooth Van der Pol systems, where an extremum of the critical mani

Z. Viskadourakis, S. S. Sunku, S. Mukherjee, B. M. Andersen

Doping a parent antiferromagnetic Mott insulator in cuprates leads to short-range electronic correlations and eventually to high-Tc superconductivity. However, the nature of charge correlations in the lightly doped cuprates remains unclear. Understanding the intermediate electronic phase in the phase diagram (between the parent insulator and the high-Tc supe

Ying Xiang, Yi-Kun Liu, Ágnes Buka, Nándor Éber

Two kinds of electroconvection (EC) patterns in an ether-bridged bent-core nematic liquid crystal material (BCN), which appear in different frequency ranges, are examined and compared in this paper. One is a longitudinal pattern with the stripes parallel to the orientation of the BCN and with a periodicity of approximately the cell thickness, occurring in th

Shirin Jalali, Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi, H. Vincent Poor

Multi-tier cellular communication networks constitute a promising approach to expand the coverage of cellular networks and enable them to offer higher data rates. In this paper, an uplink two-tier communication network is studied, in which macro users, femto users and femto access points are geometrically located inside the coverage area of a macro base stat

V. Tayari, N. Hemsworth, I. Fakih, A. Favron

Black phosphorus (bP) is the second known elemental allotrope with a layered crystal structure that can be mechanically exfoliated down to atomic layer thickness. We have fabricated bP naked quantum wells in a back-gated field effect transistor geometry with bP thicknesses ranging from $6\pm1$ nm to $47\pm1$ nm. Using an encapsulating polymer superstrate, we

Nathaniel Craig, Hou Keong Lou, Matthew McCullough, Arun Thalapillil

The discovery of the Higgs boson opens the door to new physics interacting via the Higgs Portal, including motivated scenarios relating to baryogenesis, dark matter, and electroweak naturalness. We systematically explore the collider signatures of singlet scalars produced via the Higgs Portal at the 14 TeV LHC and a prospective 100 TeV hadron collider. We fo

Justin Gilmer, Swastik Kopparty

In this paper, we prove a local limit theorem for the distribution of the number of triangles in the Erdos-Renyi random graph $G(n,p)$, where $p \in (0,1)$ is a fixed constant. Our proof is based on bounding the characteristic function $\psi(t)$ of the number of triangles, and uses several different conditioning arguments for handling different ranges of $t$

Yi Gu

We prove that for any prime number $p\ge 3$, there exists a positive number $\kappa_p$ such that $\chi(\mathcal{O}_X)\ge \kappa_pc_1^2$ holds true for all algebraic surfaces $X$ of general type in characteristic $p$. In particular, $\chi(\mathcal{O}_X)>0$. This answers a question of N. Shepherd-Barron when $p\ge 3$.

M. C. Rocca, A. R. Plastino, A. Plastino, A. L. De Paoli

In this effort we exactly solve the fractional diffusion-advection equation for solar cosmic-ray transport proposed in \cite{LE2014} and give its {\it general solution} in terms of hypergeometric distributions. Also, we regain all the results and approximations given in \cite{LE2014} as {\it particular cases} of our general solution.

Charles Livingston

The knot concordance invariant Upsilon, recently defined by Ozsvath, Stipsicz, and Szabo, takes values in the group of piecewise linear functions on the closed interval [0,2]. This paper presents a description of one approach to defining Upsilon and of proving its basic properties related to the knot 3-genus, 4-genus, and concordance genus.

François Golse

The kinetic theory of Maxwell and Boltzmann has been the subject of major scientific controversies. The alleged incompatibility between the reversible nature of the equations of classical mechanics and the increase of entropy, which, in the kinetic theory of gases, is a mathematical property of the Boltzmann equation known as the H Theorem, was one of the mo

Junil Choi, David J. Love, D. Richard Brown

The Internet of Things (IoT) could enable the development of cloud multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where internet-enabled devices can work as distributed transmission/reception entities. We expect that spatial multiplexing with distributed reception using cloud MIMO would be a key factor of future wireless communication systems. In this paper,

Daniele Perrone, Paolo Favaro

Blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering a sharp image and a blur kernel from a noisy blurry image. Recently, there has been a significant effort on understanding the basic mechanisms to solve blind deconvolution. While this effort resulted in the deployment of effective algorithms, the theoretical findings generated contrasting views on why these ap

Nicola Scafetta

During the last few years a number of works have proposed that planetary harmonics regulate solar oscillations and the Earth climate. Herein I address some critiques. Detailed analysis of the data do support the planetary theory of solar and climate variation. In particular, I show that: (1) high-resolution cosmogenic 10Be and 14C solar activity proxy record

Andrea Scagliarini, Mauro Sbragaglia, Massimo Bernaschi

We study the Poiseuille flow of a soft-glassy material above the jamming point, where the material flows like a complex fluid with Herschel- Bulkley rheology. Microscopic plastic rearrangements and the emergence of their spatial correlations induce cooperativity flow behavior whose effect is pronounced in presence of confinement. With the help of lattice Bol

Michael J. Lopez, Gregory Matthews

The old adage says that it is better to be lucky than to be good, but when it comes to winning NCAA tournament pools, do you need to be both? This paper attempts to answer this question using data from the 2014 men's basketball tournament and more than 400 predictions of game outcomes submitted to a contest hosted by the website Kaggle. We begin by describin

Matilde Marcolli, Nicolas Tedeschi

We develop notions of Rota-Baxter structures and associated Birkhoff factorizations, in the context of min-plus semirings and their thermodynamic deformations, including deformations arising from quantum information measures such as the von Neumann entropy. We consider examples related to Manin's renormalization and computation program, to Markov random fiel

D. S. Shirokov

In this paper we consider different operators acting on Clifford algebras. We consider Reynolds operator of Salingaros' vee group. This operator average" an action of Salingaros' vee group on Clifford algebra. We consider conjugate action on Clifford algebra. We present a relation between these operators and projection operators onto fixed subspaces of Cliff

Petter Brändén

Recently Marcus, Spielman and Srivastava gave a spectacular proof of a theorem which implies a positive solution to the Kadison-Singer problem. We extend (and slightly sharpen) this theorem to the realm of hyperbolic polynomials. A benefit of the extension is that the proof becomes coherent in its general form, and fits naturally in the theory of hyperbolic

V. K. Oikonomou

In view of the many quantum field theoretical descriptions of graphene in $2+1$ dimensions, we present another field theoretical feature of graphene, in the presence of defects. Particularly, we shall be interested in gapped graphene in the presence of a domain wall and also for superconducting graphene in the presence of a vortex. As we explicitly demonstra

Venelin Kozhuharov

The ratio of the leptonic charged kaon decays $R_K= \Gamma(K^{\pm} \to e^{\pm}\nu) / \Gamma(K^{\pm} \to \mu^{\pm}\nu)$ is sensitive to the structure of the week interactions and can be precisely calculated within the Standard Model. Presence of New Physics can introduce a shift on its value of the order of a percent. The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS used data

Michael Lopez, Roee Gutman

Propensity score methods are common for estimating a binary treatment effect when treatment assignment is not randomized. When exposure is measured on an ordinal scale (i.e., low - medium - high), however, propensity score inference requires extensions which have received limited attention. Estimands of possible interest with an ordinal exposure are the aver

Volker D. Burkert, Hiroyuki Kamano, Eberhard Klempt, Deborah Ronchen

We analyze the current status of three P-wave baryon states $N(1710){1/ 2}^+$, $N(1900){3/2}^+$, and $\Delta(1600){3/2}^+$ as given in the Review of Particles Physics (RPP). Since the evidence for a particle's existence is linked to its RPP "star" rating, we discuss its subjective present definition. We also present the accumulating evidence supporting these

Venelin Kozhuharov

The NA62 experiment at SPS is a continuation of the long standing CERN kaon physics program. The high statistics and the unprecedent precision allow to probe the Standard Model and test the description of the strong interactions at low energy. The final results on the the lepton universality test by measuring the ratio $R_K = \Gamma(K^{+}\to e^{+}\nu) / \Gam

Edward Anderson

Wheeler emphasized the study of Superspace - the space of 3-geometries on a spatial manifold of fixed topology. This is a configuration space for GR; knowledge of configuration spaces is useful as regards dynamics and QM.In this Article I consider furthmore generalized configuration spaces to all levels within the conventional `equipped sets' paradigm of mat

Bilge Can Yildiz, Mehmet Emre Tasgin, Musa Kurtulus Abak, Sahin Coskun

We show that second harmonic generation can be enhanced by Fano resonant coupling of asymmetric plasmonic metal nanostructures. We develop a theoretical model examining the effects of electromagnetic interaction between two metal nanostructures on the second harmonic generation. We compare the second harmonic generation efficiency of a single plasmonic metal

ATLAS Collaboration

A low-background inclusive search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons is presented. The search uses proton-proton collisions corresponding to 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity taken in 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Pairs of isolated leptons with the same electric charge and large transverse

Yiqi Zhang, Milivoj R. Belić, Milan S. Petrović, Huaibin Zheng

We introduce two-dimensional (2D) linear and nonlinear Talbot effects. They are produced by propagating periodic 2D diffraction patterns and can be visualized as 3D stacks of Talbot carpets. The nonlinear Talbot effect originates from 2D rogue waves and forms in a bulk 3D nonlinear medium. The recurrences of an input rogue wave are observed at the Talbot len

Daniela Dragoman, Mircea Dragoman

Proposed configurations for the implementation of graphene-based CNOT and Toffoli gates working at room temperature are presented. These two logic gates, essential for any quantum computing algorithm, involve ballistic Y junctions for qubit implementation, quantum interference for qubit interaction and oblique gates for optimizing the output, and can be fabr

Zhihan Zhu, Wei Gao, Chunyuan Mu, Hongwei Li

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has gained great interest due to its most attractive feature of high dimensionality, and several ground-breaking demonstrations in communication based on OAM multiplexing have been carried out. Accordingly, a rapid data-density growth from OAM multiplexing has posed a great challenge to the signal-processing layer. Meanwhile, i

Anna Choromanska, Mikael Henaff, Michael Mathieu, Gérard Ben Arous

We study the connection between the highly non-convex loss function of a simple model of the fully-connected feed-forward neural network and the Hamiltonian of the spherical spin-glass model under the assumptions of: i) variable independence, ii) redundancy in network parametrization, and iii) uniformity. These assumptions enable us to explain the complexity

Camil I. Aponte Román

We use tools of representation theory to get a better understanding of the cohomology of graded group schemes. For that, we focus our attention on the case in which the base field is of characteristic $p > 0$. Using as inspiration the work of Friedlander, et al, we build the theory of graded $1$-parameter subgroups denoted by $V_r^*(G)$. We give a natural ho

Benjamin V. Holt

We consider several families of palintiples (also known as reverse multiples) whose carries themselves are digits of lower-base palintiples and give some methods for constructing them from fundamental palintiple types. We also continue the study of palinomials introduced in an earlier paper by revealing a more direct relationship between the digits of certai

Kwangyun Jung, Jungwon Kim

We demonstrate a method that enables accurate timing jitter spectral density characterization of free-running mode-locked laser oscillators over more than 10-decade of Fourier frequency from mHz to tens MHz range. The method is based on analyzing both the input voltage noise to the slave laser and the output voltage noise from the balanced optical cross- cor

Dmitry Ioffe

In these lecture notes, which are based on the mini-course given at 2013 Prague School on Mathematical Statistical Physics, we discuss ballistic phase of quenched and annealed stretched polymers in random environment on ${\mathbb Z}^d$ with an emphasis on the natural renormalized renewal structures which appear in such models. In the ballistic regime an irre

D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, A. A. Abdelalim

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology is being considered for the forward muon upgrade of the CMS experiment in Phase 2 of the CERN LHC. Its first implementation is planned for the GE1/1 system in the $1.5 < \mid\eta\mid < 2.2$ region of the muon endcap mainly to control muon level-1 trigger rates after the second long LHC shutdown. A GE1/1 triple-GEM det

Sungwoong Cho, Suyong Choi, Sehwook Lee, JaeHoon Lim

We report a measurement of the fraction of top quark pair events produced via gluon-gluon fusion in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 ~\rm TeV$ in lepton+jets final states using the full RunII data set corresponding to $9.7 ~\rm fb^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected by the D\O\ experiment. We utilize a boosted decision tree to distinguish top q

Pavel Yu. Moshin, Alexander A. Reshetnyak

Following our recent study [P.Yu. Moshin, A.A. Reshetnyak, Nucl. Phys. B 888 (2014) 92], we discuss the notion of finite BRST-antiBRST transformations, with a doublet $\lambda_{a}$, $a=1,2$, of anticommuting (both global and field-dependent) Grassmann parameters. It turns out that the global finite BRST-antiBRST transformations form a 2-parametric Abelian su

Tobias Grafke, Rainer Grauer, Tobias Schäfer, Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Instanton calculations are performed in the context of stationary Burgers turbulence to estimate the tails of the probability density function (PDF) of velocity gradients. These results are then compared to those obtained from massive direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the randomly forced Burgers equation. The instanton predictions are shown to agree with

A. V. Kotikov

We show the results in [1,2] for computing the QCD contributions to the scale evolution of average gluon and quark jet multiplicities. The new results came due a recent progress in timelike small-x resummation obtained in the MSbar factorization scheme. They depend on two nonperturbative parameters with clear and simple physical interpretations. A global fit

Peng Cheng, Xiang Lian, Zhao Chen, Rui Fu

With the rapid development of mobile devices and the crowdsourcig platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community, specifically, spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending a location-based request to workers according to their positions. In this paper, we consider an important spatial crowdsourcing problem, namely r

Gilles Pisier, Eric Ricard

We give a proof of the Khintchine inequalities in non-commutative $L_p$-spaces for all $0< p<1$. These new inequalities are valid for the Rademacher functions or Gaussian random variables, but also for more general sequences, e.g. for the analogues of such random variables in free probability. We also prove a factorization for operators from a Hilbert space

Ahmed Otoom, Issa Atoum

This paper proposes an implementation framework that lays out the ground for a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive approach to implement the National Information Assurance and Cyber Security Strategy (NIACSS) of Jordan. The Framework 1). Suggests a methodology to analyze the NIACSS, 2). Illustrates how the NIACSS analysis can be utilized to design strate

Duong Quang Hai, Pascal J. Thomas

We study the limits of pluricomplex Green functions with four poles tending to the origin in a hyperconvex domain, and the (related) limits of the ideals of holomorphic functions vanishing on those points. Taking subsequences, we always assume that the directions defined by pairs of points stabilize as they tend to $0$. We prove that in a generic case, the l

Barbara H. Jasiulis-Gołdyn

The paper deals with a new class of random walks strictly connected with the Pareto distribution. We consider stochastic processes in the sense of generalized convolution or weak generalized convolution following the idea given in [1]. The processes are Markov processes in the usual sense. Their structure is similar to perpetuity or autoregressive model. We

Tibor Krisztin, Alexander Rezounenko

Classical solutions to PDEs with discrete state-dependent delay are studied. We prove the well-posedness in a set $X_F$ which is an analogous to the solution manifold used for ordinary differential equations with state-dependent delay. We prove that the evolution operators are $C^1$-smooth on the solution manifold.

Alexander V. Evako

Transformations of digital spaces preserving local and global topology play an important role in thinning, skeletonization and simplification of digital images. In the present paper, we introduce and study contractions of simple pair of points based on the notions of a digital contractible space and contractible transformations of digital spaces. We show tha

Emmanuel Bacry, Adrian Iuga, Matthieu Lasnier, Charles-Albert Lehalle

In this paper, we use a database of around 400,000 metaorders issued by investors and electronically traded on European markets in 2010 in order to study market impact at different scales. At the intraday scale we confirm a square root temporary impact in the daily participation, and we shed light on a duration factor in $1/T^{\gamma}$ with $\gamma \simeq 0.

D. Shukla, T. Bhanja, R. P. Malik

We consider the toy model of a rigid rotor as an example of the Hodge theory within the framework of the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) formalism and show that the internal symmetries of this theory lead to the derivation of canonical brackets amongst the creation and annihilation operators of the dynamical variables where the definition of the canonical c

Peter Jorgensen

Higher homological algebra was introduced by Iyama. It is also known as $n$-homological algebra where $n \geq 2$ is a fixed integer, and it deals with $n$-cluster tilting subcategories of abelian categories. All short exact sequences in such a subcategory are split, but it has nice exact sequences with $n+2$ objects. This was recently formalised by Jasso in

Y. Ben-Aryeh

Separability and entanglement for n-qubits systems are quantified by using Hilbert-Schmidt (HS) decompositions in which the density matrices are decomposed into various terms representing certain one qubit, two-qubits,and larger qubits measurements. The present method is more general than previous methods for bipartite systems as it can be used for quantific