January 2015 arXiv papers — page 8

Douglas J. Ashton, Robert L. Jack, Nigel B. Wilding

We study indented spherical colloids, interacting via depletion forces. These systems exhibit liquid-vapor phase transitions whose properties are determined by a combination of strong "lock-and-key" bonds and weaker non-specific interactions. As the propensity for lock-and-key binding increases, the critical point moves to significantly lower density

Yunyan Yang

Motivated by a recent work of X. Chen and M. Zhu (Commun. Math. Stat., 1 (2013) 369-385), we establish a Trudinger-Moser inequality on compact Riemannian surface without boundary. The proof is based on blow-up analysis together with Carleson-Chang's result (Bull. Sci. Math. 110 (1986) 113-127). This inequality is different from the classical one, which i

Hamed Zamani, Azadeh Shakery, Pooya Moradi

User engagement refers to the amount of interaction an instance (e.g., tweet, news, and forum post) achieves. Ranking the items in social media websites based on the amount of user participation in them, can be used in different applications, such as recommender systems. In this paper, we consider a tweet containing a rating for a movie as an instance and fo

Hyeonbae Kang, Hyundae Lee, Shigeru Sakaguchi

We consider the neutral inclusion problem in three dimensions which is to prove if a coated structure consisting of a core and a shell is neutral to all uniform fields, then the core and the shell must be concentric balls if the matrix is isotropic and confocal ellipsoids if the matrix is anisotropic. We first derive an over-determined boundary value problem

Emilie Charlier, Tero Harju, Svetlana Puzynina, Luca Zamboni

A finite word u is said to be bordered if u has a proper prefix which is also a suffix of u, and unbordered otherwise. Ehrenfeucht and Silberger proved that an infinite word is purely periodic if and only if it contains only finitely many unbordered factors. We are interested in abelian and weak abelian analogues of this result; namely, we investigate the fo

Pierluigi Cesana, Neal Bitter

The fluid-structure interaction is studied for a system composed of two coaxial pipes in an annular geometry, for both homogeneous isotropic metal pipes and fiber-reinforced (anisotropic) pipes. Multiple waves, traveling at different speeds and amplitudes, result when a projectile impacts on the water filling the annular space between the pipes. In the case

Benedict Geihe, Martin Rumpf

A posteriori error estimates are derived in the context of two-dimensional structural elastic shape optimization under the compliance objective. It is known that the optimal shape features are microstructures that can be constructed using sequential lamination. The descriptive parameters explicitly depend on the stress. To derive error estimates the dual wei

Michal Kotrbcik, Martin Skoviera

The maximum genus $γ_M(G)$ of a graph G is the largest genus of an orientable surface into which G has a cellular embedding. Combinatorially, it coincides with the maximum number of disjoint pairs of adjacent edges of G whose removal results in a connected spanning subgraph of G. In this paper we prove that removing pairs of adjacent edges from G arbitrarily

Christian J. Shultz, Jozef J. Dudek, Robert G. Edwards

We explore the use of optimized operators, designed to interpolate only a single meson eigenstate, in three-point correlation functions with a vector-current insertion. These operators are constructed as linear combinations in a large basis of meson interpolating fields using a variational analysis of matrices of two-point correlation functions. After perfor

Sendy Phang, Ana Vukovic, Stephen Creagh, Trevor M. Benson

The paper reports on the coupling of Parity-Time (PT)-symmetric whispering gallery resonators with realistic material and gain/loss models. Response of the PT system is analyzed for the case of low and high material and gain dispersion, and also for two practical scenarios when the pump frequency is not aligned with the resonant frequency of the desired whis

T. Braun, V. Baumann, O. Iff, S. Höfling

We report on the enhancement of the spontaneous emission in the visible red spectral range from site-controlled InP/GaInP quantum dots by resonant coupling to Tammplasmon modes confined beneath gold disks in a hybrid metal/semiconductor structure. The enhancement of the emission intensity is confirmed by spatially resolved microphotoluminescence area scans a

V. E. Lobanov, G. Lihachev, T. J. Kippenberg, M. L. Gorodetsky

We predict the existence of a novel type of the flat-top dissipative solitonic pulses, "platicons", in microresonators with normal group velocity dispersion (GVD). We propose methods to generate these platicons from cw pump. Their duration may be altered significantly by tuning the pump frequency. The transformation of a discrete energy spectrum of d

Marta Kowalczyk

In this article we study topological bifurcations of critical orbits of equivariant gradient equations. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of global bifurcations of solutions of these equations. Moreover, we apply these abstract results to the study of bifurcations of new families of planar central configurations of the N-body prob

Igor Goychuk, Andriy Goychuk

We consider a simple Markovian class of the stochastic Wilson-Cowan type models of neuronal network dynamics, which incorporates stochastic delay caused by the existence of a refractory period of neurons. From the point of view of the dynamics of the individual elements, we are dealing with a network of non-Markovian stochastic two-state oscillators with mem

Keisuke Harigaya, Tsutomu T. Yanagida, Norimi Yokozaki

Gaugino mediation is very attractive since it is free from the serious flavor problem in the supersymmetric standard model. We show that the observed Higgs boson mass at around 125 GeV and the anomaly of the muon g-2 can be easily explained in gaugino mediation models. It should be noted that no dangerous CP violating phases are generated in our framework. F

Joshua O. Island, Anastasia Holovchenko, Max Koole, Paul F. A. Alkemade

We report on the fabrication of hybrid molecular devices employing multilayer graphene (MLG) flakes which are patterned with a constriction using a helium ion microscope (HIM) or an oxygen plasma etch. The patterning step allows for the localization of a few-nanometer gap, created by electroburning, that can host single molecules or molecular ensembles. By c

M. Suendorf, T. Schemme, A. Thomas, J. Wollschläger

A well ordered Fe(001) ultra thin film epitaxially grown on MgO(001) has been oxidized by post deposition annealing in oxygen atmosphere. LEED patterns indicate the formation of magnetite (Fe$_3$O$_4$) after one hour of oxygen exposure. The LEED pattern remains stable despite annealing the sample for further four hours. In contrast X-ray Photoelectron Spectr

Nora Lützgendorf, Markus Kissler-Patig, Karl Gebhardt, Holger Baumgardt

The study of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is a young and promising field of research. Formed by runaway collisions of massive stars in young and dense stellar clusters, intermediate-mass black holes could still be present in the centers of globular clusters, today. Our group investigated the presence of intermediate-mass black holes for a sample of

Julien Mineraud, Oleksiy Mazhelis, Xiang Su, Sasu Tarkoma

This document regroups a representative, but non-exhaustive, list of contemporary IoT platforms. The platforms are ordered alphabetically. The aim of this document is to provide the a quick review of current IoT platforms, as well as relevant information.

Dmitry B. Rokhlin, Georgii Mironenko

We consider a class of exit time stochastic control problems for diffusion processes with discounted criterion, where the controller can utilize a given amount of resource, called "fuel". In contrast to the vast majority of existing literature, concerning the "finite fuel" problems, it is assumed that the intensity of fuel consumption is boun

Jorick S. Vink

Accretion is the prime mode of star formation, but the exact mode has not yet been identified in the Herbig Ae/Be mass range. We provide evidence that the the maximum variation in mass-accretion rate is reached on a rotational timescale, which suggests that rotational modulation is the key to understanding mass accretion. We show how spectropolarimetry is un

F. J. Botella, G. C. Branco, António M. Coutinho, M. N. Rebelo

In the context of two Higgs doublet models, we study the conditions required in order to have stable quasi-alignment in flavour space. We show that stability under the RGE imposes strong constraints on the flavour structure of the Yukawa couplings associated to each one of the Higgs doublets. In particular, we find a novel solution, where all Yukawa coupling

Krzysztof Gawȩdzki, Clément Tauber

We consider a model of quantum-wire junctions where the latter are described by conformal-invariant boundary conditions of the simplest type in the multicomponent compactified massless scalar free field theory representing the bosonized Luttinger liquids in the bulk of wires. The boundary conditions result in the scattering of charges across the junction wit

Jorick S. Vink

Various theories have been proposed to predict how mass loss depends on the stellar rotation rate, both in terms of its strength, as well as its latitudinal dependence, crucial for our understanding of angular momentum evolution. Here we discuss the tool of linear spectropolarimetry that can probe the difference between mass loss from the pole versus the equ

Bappaditya Ghosh

We discuss the structure of negacyclic codes of odd length over the ring $\mathbb{F}_p[u, v]/ \langle u^2, v^2, uv-vu \rangle$. We find the unique generating set, the rank and the minimum distance for these negacyclic codes.

Sin Kyu Kang, Morimitsu Tanimoto

We consider minimal modifications to tribimaximal (TBM) mixing matrix which accommodate non-zero mixing angle $θ_{13}$ and CP violation. We derive four possible forms for the minimal modifications to TBM mixing in a model with $A_4$ flavor symmetry by incorporating symmetry breaking terms appropriately. We show how possible values of the Dirac-type CP phase

Pramod Kumar, Rachana Kumar

Here we report magneto-thermal properties of Gd3Ir compounds using magnetic and heat capacity data. We observed large isothermal entropy change, adiabatic temperature change and relative cooling power are 4.1J/Kg, 4K and 437J/Kg on 50KOe respectively.

A. V. Poshakinskiy, A. N. Poddubny, M. Hafezi

We propose a method of measuring topological invariants of a photonic crystal through phase spectroscopy. We show how the Chern numbers can be deduced from the winding numbers of the reflection coefficient phase. An explicit proof of existence of edge states in system with nonzero reflection phase winding number is given. The method is illustrated for one- a

Alejandro Torreño, Eva Onaindia, Óscar Sapena

Multi-agent planning (MAP) approaches are typically oriented at solving loosely-coupled problems, being ineffective to deal with more complex, strongly-related problems. In most cases, agents work under complete information, building complete knowledge bases. The present article introduces a general-purpose MAP framework designed to tackle problems of any co

Kohta Ishikawa, Ikuro Sato, Mitsuru Ambai

Binary Hashing is widely used for effective approximate nearest neighbors search. Even though various binary hashing methods have been proposed, very few methods are feasible for extremely high-dimensional features often used in visual tasks today. We propose a novel highly sparse linear hashing method based on pairwise rotations. The encoding cost of the pr

Smruti R. Sarangi, Rajshekar Kalayappan, Prathmesh Kallurkar, Seep Goel

In this report we show results that validate the Tejas architectural simulator against native hardware. We report mean error rates of 11.45% and 18.77% for the SPEC2006 and Splash2 benchmark suites respectively. These error rates are competitive and in most cases better than the numbers reported by other contemporary simulators.

Yunyun Li, Nianbei Li, Baowen Li

In contrary to other 1D momentum-conserving lattices such as the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam $β$ (FPU-$β$) lattice, the 1D coupled rotator lattice is a notable exception which conserves total momentum while exhibits normal heat conduction behavior. The temperature behavior of the thermal conductivities of 1D coupled rotator lattice had been studied in previous works tr

Christoph Hirche, Ciara Morgan

We present a new achievable rate region for the two-user binary-input classical-quantum broadcast channel. The result is a generalization of the classical Marton-Gelfand-Pinsker region and is provably larger than the best previously known rate region for classical-quantum broadcast channels. The proof of achievability is based on the recently introduced pola

R. H. H. Scott

A novel scheme for the creation of a convergent, or focussing, fast-electron beam generated from ultra-high-intensity laser-solid interactions is described. Self-consistent particle-in-cell simulations are used to demonstrate the efficacy of this scheme in two dimensions. It is shown that a beam of fast-electrons of energy 500 keV - 3 MeV propagates within a

Arpad Hegedus

In this paper the hybrid-NLIE approach of [38] is extended to the ground state of a D-brane anti-D-brane system in AdS/CFT. The hybrid-NLIE equations presented in the paper are finite component alternatives of the previously proposed TBA equations and they admit an appropriate framework for the numerical investigation of the ground state of the problem. Stra

M. G. Madritsch, R. F. Tichy

We give a survey on classical and recent applications of dynamical systems to number theoretic problems. In particular, we focus on normal numbers, also including computational aspects. The main result is a sufficient condition for establishing multidimensional van der Corput sets. This condition is applied to various examples.

Ashish Pathak

The main objective of this paper is to define the mother wavelet on local fields and study the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and some of their basic properties. its inversion formula, the Parseval relation and associated convolution are also studied.

I. Altarev, P. Fierlinger, T. Lins, M. G. Marino

An increasing number of measurements in fundamental and applied physics rely on magnetically shielded environments with sub nano-Tesla residual magnetic fields. State of the art magnetically shielded rooms (MSRs) consist of up to seven layers of high permeability materials in combination with highly conductive shields. Proper magnetic equilibration is crucia

M. Ammler-von Eiff, D. Sebastian, E. W. Guenther, B. Stecklum

Planetary transits detected by the CoRoT mission can be mimicked by a low-mass star in orbit around a giant star. Spectral classification helps to identify the giant stars and also early-type stars which are often excluded from further follow-up. We study the potential and the limitations of low-resolution spectroscopy to improve the photometric spectral typ

Tony J. Puthenpurakal

Let $(A,\mathfrak{m})$ be a complete intersection ring of dimension $d$ and let $I$ be an $\mathfrak{m}$-primary ideal. Let $M$ be a maximal \CM \ $A$-module. For $i = 0,1,\cdots,d$, let $e_i^I(M)$ denote the $i^{th}$ Hilbert -coefficient of $M$ with respect to $I$. We prove that for $i = 0, 1, 2$, the function $j \mapsto e_i^I(Syz_j^A(M))$ is of quasi-polyn

Johannes Hain, Tom Fischer

Much research in systemic risk is focused on default contagion. While this demands an understanding of valuation, fewer articles specifically deal with the existence, the uniqueness, and the computation of equilibrium prices in structural models of interconnected financial systems. However, beyond contagion research, these topics are also essential for risk-

Markus Huber, Björn Gmeiner, Ulrich Rüde, Barbara Wohlmuth

With the increasing number of components and further miniaturization the mean time between faults in supercomputers will decrease. System level fault tolerance techniques are expensive and cost energy, since they are often based on redundancy. Also classical check-point-restart techniques reach their limits when the time for storing the system state to backu

Joan Serrà, Josep Lluis Arcos

Efficiently finding similar segments or motifs in time series data is a fundamental task that, due to the ubiquity of these data, is present in a wide range of domains and situations. Because of this, countless solutions have been devised but, to date, none of them seems to be fully satisfactory and flexible. In this article, we propose an innovative standpo

G. Ciovati

This contribution provides a brief introduction to AC/RF superconductivity, with an emphasis on application to accelerators. The topics covered include the surface impedance of normal conductors and superconductors, the residual resistance, the field dependence of the surface resistance, and the superheating field.

D. Baker, D. H. Brooks, P. Démoulin, S. L. Yardley

Solar coronal plasma composition is typically characterized by first ionization potential (FIP) bias. Using spectra obtained by Hinode's EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) instrument, we present a series of large-scale, spatially resolved composition maps of active region (AR) 11389. The composition maps show how FIP bias evolves within the decaying AR from

Tony J. Puthenpurakal

In this paper we show that a large class of one-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay local rings $(A,\mathfrak{m})$ has the property that if $M$ is a maximal Cohen-Macaulay $A$-module then the Hilbert function of $M$ ( with respect to $\mathfrak{m}$) is non-decreasing. Examples include (1) Complete intersections $A = Q/(f,g)$ where $(Q,\mathfrak{n})$ is regular local

A. Alekseev

This chapter gives an overview of the principles of low temperature refrigeration and the thermodynamics behind it. Basic cryogenic processes - Joule-Thomoson process, Brayton process as well as Claude process - are described and compared. A typical helium laboratory refrigerator based on Claude process is used as a typical example of a low-temperature refri

Benjamin Ivorra, Juana López Redondo, Ángel M. Ramos, Juan G. Santiago

We consider a microfluidic mixer based on hydrodynamic focusing, which is used to initiate the folding process of individual proteins. The folding process is initiated by quickly diluting a local denaturant concentration, and we define mixing time as the time advecting proteins experience a specified to achieve a local drop in denaturant concentration. In pr

U. Scheithauer, G. Meyer, M. Henzler

A new instrument for spot profile analysis of electron diffraction - SPA-LEED - has been set up. The instrument works either with a transparent phosphor screen for visual inspection of the pattern or in its main mode with a channeltron for the measurement of the intensity. The diffraction pattern is recorded with a fixed channeltron position by scanning the

E. O. Kamenetskii, M. Berezin, R. Shavit

In a single-element structure we obtain a radiation pattern with a squint due to chiral microwave near fields originated from a magnetostatic-mode ferrite disk. At the magnetostatic resonances, one has strong subwavelength localization of energy of microwave radiation. Magnetostatic oscillations in a thin ferrite disk are characterized by unique topological

Paolo Facchi, Marilena Ligabò, Sergio Solimini

In this article we present a review of the Radon transform and the instability of the tomographic reconstruction process. We show some new mathematical results in tomography obtained by a variational formulation of the reconstruction problem based on the minimization of a Mumford-Shah type functional. Finally, we exhibit a physical interpretation of this new

Walter Dittrich

A comparative study is undertaken that brings to light the two different methods of how to treat the many-body problem in quantum field theory. The two main researchers who published the first versions of how to quantize a many-body assembly were P. Jordan and P.A.M. Dirac. What they understood by the so-called "second quantization" will be the subje

D. Osmanovic, M. Kerr-Winter, R. C. Eccleston, B. W. Hoogenboom

The statistical theory of polymers tethered around the inner surface of a cylindrical channel has traditionally employed the assumption that the equilibrium density of the polymers is independent of the azimuthal coordinate. However, simulations have shown that this rotational symmetry can be broken when there are attractive interactions between the polymers

Carlo Fuerst, Maciej Pacut, Stefan Schmid

Efficient embedding virtual clusters in physical network is a challenging problem. In this paper we consider a scenario where physical network has a structure of a balanced tree. This assumption is justified by many real- world implementations of datacenters. We consider an extension to virtual cluster embedding by introducing replication among data chunks.

Peter Kritzer, Friedrich Pillichshammer

We study quasi-Monte Carlo integration in a weighted anchored Sobolev space. As the underlying integration nodes we consider Halton sequences in prime bases $\boldsymbol{p}=(p_1,\ldots,p_s)$ which are shifted with a $\boldsymbol{p}$-adic shift based on $\boldsymbol{p}$-adic arithmetic. The error is studied in the worst-case setting. In a recent paper, Hellek

Michele Benzi, Valeria Simoncini

We present decay bounds for a broad class of Hermitian matrix functions where the matrix argument is banded or a Kronecker sum of banded matrices. Besides being significantly tighter than previous estimates, the new bounds closely capture the actual (non-monotonic) decay behavior of the entries of functions of matrices with Kronecker sum structure. We also d

M. Beneke

The combination of collinear factorization with effective field theory originally developed for soft interactions of heavy quarks provides the foundations of the theory of exclusive and semi-inclusive B decays. In this article I summarize some of the later conceptual developments of the so-called QCD factorization approach that make use of soft-collinear eff

Grzegorz Kępa

Flag kernels are tempered distributions which generalize these of Calderon-Zygmund type. For any homogeneous group $\mathbb{G}$ the class of operators which acts on $L^{2}(\mathbb{G})$ by convolution with a flag kernel is closed under composition. In the case of the Heisenberg group we prove the inverse-closed property for this algebra. It means that if an o

G. M. Coclite, L. di Ruvo

We consider the Rosenau-Korteweg-de Vries-regularized long wave and Rosenau- Korteweg-de Vries equations, which contain nonlinear dispersive effects. We prove that, as the diffusion parameter tends to zero, the solutions of the dispersive equations converge to the unique entropy solution of a scalar conservation law. The proof relies on deriving suitable a p

M. Beneke

Unstable particles are notorious in perturbative quantum field theory for producing singular propagators in scattering amplitudes that require regularization by the finite width. In this review I discuss the construction of an effective field theory for unstable particles, based on the hierarchy of scales between the mass, M, and the width,Gamma, of the unst

J. M. Rathborne, S. N. Longmore, J. M. Jackson, J. M. D. Kruijssen

G0.253+0.016 is a molecular clump that appears to be on the verge of forming a high mass, Arches-like cluster. Here we present new ALMA observations of its small-scale (~0.07 pc) 3mm dust continuum and molecular line emission. The data reveal a complex network of emission features, the morphology of which ranges from small, compact regions to extended, filam

Sandeep Singh, Deepak Gumber

Let $G$ be a finitely generated group and let $C^*$ denote the group of all central automorphisms of $G$ fixing the center of $G$ elementwise. Azhdari and Malayeri [J. Algebra Appl., {\bf 6}(2011), 1283-1290] gave necessary and sufficient conditions on $G$ such that $C^* \simeq \mathrm{Inn}(G)$. We prove a technical lemma and, as a consequence, obtain a shor

Vaidehi S. Paliya, S. Sahayanathan, C. S. Stalin

The well studied blazar 3C 279 underwent a giant $γ$-ray outburst in 2014 March-April. The measured $γ$-ray flux (1.21 $\pm$ 0.10 $\times$ 10$^{-5}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ in 0.1-300 GeV energy range) is the highest detected from 3C 279 by Fermi Large Area Telescope. Hour scale $γ$-ray flux variability are observed, with a flux doubling time as short as 1.19

Othmane Alaoui-Fdili, Patrick CORLAY, Youssef Fakhri, François-Xavier Coudoux

In this paper, we propose a novel cross-layer ap-proach for video delivery over Wireless Video Sensor Networks (WVSN)s. We adopt an energy efficient and adaptive video compression scheme dedicated to the WVSNs, based on the H.264/AVC video compression standard. The encoder operates using two modes. In the first mode, the nodes capture the scene following a l

Yanyan Yuan, Karine Le Guen, Jean-Michel André, Christian Mény

We study the interface evolution of a series of periodic Co/Mo2C multilayers as a function of the annealing temperature up to 600{\textdegree}C. Different complementary techniques are implemented to get information on the phenomenon taking place at the interfaces of the stack. The periodical structure of Co/Mo2C multilayer is proven by Time-of-flight seconda

Wen Chean Teh

Hindman's Theorem says that every finite coloring of the positive natural numbers has a monochromatic set of finite sums. Ramsey algebras, recently introduced, are structures that satisfy an analogue of Hindman's Theorem. It is an open problem posed by Carlson whether every Ramsey algebra has an idempotent ultrafilter. This paper developes a general

D. Chattaraj, Ram Avtar Jat, S. C. Parida, Renu Agarwal

The ZrCo intermetallic was proposed as tritium storage material in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactors (ITER) project. The thermodynamic properties of ZrCo intermetallic were investigated both experimentally and theoretically to determine its applicability for the storage of hydrogen isotopes. The enthalpy increments of ZrCo were measured u

Bo Liu, Wenlian Lu, Licheng Jiao, Tianping Chen

In this paper, we propose a new self-triggered consensus algorithm in networks of multi-agents. Different from existing works, which are based on the observation of states, here, each agent determines its next update time based on its coupling structure. Both centralized and distributed approaches of the algorithms have been discussed. By transforming the al

Xujin Chen, Xiaodong Hu, Changjun Wang

Given a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and a positive integer $k\le n$, a subgraph of $G$ on $k$ vertices is called a $k$-subgraph in $G$. We design combinatorial approximation algorithms for finding a connected $k$-subgraph in $G$ such that its density is at least a factor $Ω(\max\{n^{-2/5},k^2/n^2\})$ of the density of the densest $k$-subgraph in $G$

Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Zi-Yu Cao, Chun-Gang Duan

The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in single-layer iron selenide has generated significant experimental interest for optimizing the superconducting properties of iron-based superconductors through the lattice modification. For simulating the similar effect by changing the chemical composition due to S doping, we investigate the superc

S. Alireza Ghasemi, Albert Hofstetter, Santanu Saha, Stefan Goedecker

Based on an analysis of the short range chemical environment of each atom in a system, standard machine learning based approaches to the construction of interatomic potentials aim at determining directly the central quantity which is the total energy. This prevents for instance an accurate description of the energetics of systems where long range charge tran

Nahid Walji

Given a pair of n-dimensional complex Galois representations over Q, we define their matching density to be the density, if it exists, of the set of places at which the traces of Frobenius of the two Galois representations are equal. We will show that the set of matching densities of such pairs of irreducible Galois representations (for all n) is dense in th

Goo Ishikawa, Tatsuya Yamashita

We give the complete solution to the local diffeomorphism classification problem of generic singularities which appear in tangent surfaces, in as wider situations as possible. We interpret tangent geodesics as tangent lines whenever a (semi-)Riemannian metric, or, more generally, an affine connection is given in an ambient space of arbitrary dimension. Then,

Alexander Rakhlin, Karthik Sridharan

We analyze the problem of sequential probability assignment for binary outcomes with side information and logarithmic loss, where regret---or, redundancy---is measured with respect to a (possibly infinite) class of experts. We provide upper and lower bounds for minimax regret in terms of sequential complexities of the class. These complexities were recently

Jimmy SJ. Ren, Li Xu

We recently have witnessed many ground-breaking results in machine learning and computer vision, generated by using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). While the success mainly stems from the large volume of training data and the deep network architectures, the vector processing hardware (e.g. GPU) undisputedly plays a vital role in modern CNN implemen

Ahmed A. Emran, Maha Elsabrouty

In this paper, we propose a novel low complexity scaling strategy of min-sum decoding algorithm for irregular LDPC codes. In the proposed method, we generalize our previously proposed simplified Variable Scaled Min-Sum (SVS-min-sum) by replacing the sub-optimal starting value and heuristic update for the scaling factor sequence by optimized values. Density e

Tayo Charles Adefokun, Deborah Olayide Ajayi

An $L(1,1)$-labeling of a graph $G$ is an assignment of labels from $\{0,1 \cdots, k \}$ to the vertices of $G$ such that two vertices that are adjacent or have a common neighbor receive distinct labels. The $λ_1^1-$ number, $λ_1^1(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum value $k$ such that $G$ admits an $L(1,1)$ labeling. We establish the $λ_1^1-$ numbers for direct prod

V. A. Oliveira

A comparative the telescope twin P-E, one is in Observatório Pico dos Dias, Brazil, other in Observatoire Mont-Mégantic, Québec, Canada. The same project, the same beginning configuration but different stories, different solutions for the problems by the years.

Marta Colleoni, Leor Barack

We study the scenario in which a massive particle is thrown into a rapidly rotating Kerr black hole in an attempt to spin it up beyond its extremal limit, challenging weak cosmic censorship. We work in black-hole perturbation theory, and focus on non-spinning, uncharged particles sent in on equatorial orbits. We first identify the complete parameter-space re

Peter J. Smith, Callum T. Neil, Mansoor Shafi, Pawel A. Dmochowski

In this paper we examine convergence properties of massive MIMO systems with the aim of determining the number of antennas required for massive MIMO gains. We consider three characteristics of a channel matrix and study their asymptotic behaviour. Furthermore, we derive ZF SNR and MF SINR for a scenario of unequal receive powers. In our results we include th

J. S. M. Ginges, V. A. Dzuba

We apply a version of the recently developed approach combining the correlation potential, linearized singles-doubles coupled-cluster, and the configuration interaction methods to the spectra of the heavy alkaline earths barium, radium, and element 120. Quantum electrodynamics radiative corrections are included. We have found unprecedented agreement between

Josef F. Dorfmeister, Jun-ichi Inoguchi, Shimpei Kobayashi

In this note we present a short alternative proof for the Bernstein problem in the three-dimensional Heisenberg group ${\rm Nil}_3$ by using the loop group technique.

Pinhas Grossman, Masaki Izumi, Noah Snyder

The classification of subfactors of small index revealed several new subfactors. The first subfactor above index 4, the Haagerup subfactor, is increasingly well understood and appears to lie in a (discrete) infinite family of subfactors where the Z/3Z symmetry is replaced by other finite Abelian groups. The goal of this paper is to give a similarly good desc

Peng Wang, Guoqiang Mao, Zihuai Lin, Ming Ding

Raptor codes have been widely used in many multimedia broadcast/multicast applications. However, our understanding of Raptor codes is still incomplete due to the insufficient amount of theoretical work on the performance analysis of Raptor codes, particularly under maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding, which provides an optimal benchmark on the system performanc

S. -J. Dong, B. -H. Liu, Y. -N. Sun, Y. -J. Han

The non-Markovianity is a prominent concept of the dynamics of the open quantum systems, which is of fundamental importance in quantum mechanics and quantum information. Despite of lots of efforts, the experimentally measuring of non-Markovianity of an open system is still limited to very small systems. Presently, it is still impossible to experimentally qua

Kristen. B. W. McQuinn, John M. Cannon, Andrew E. Dolphin, Evan D. Skillman

The Survey of HI in Extremely Low-mass Dwarfs (SHIELD) is an on-going multi-wavelength program to characterize the gas, star formation, and evolution in gas-rich, very low-mass galaxies that populate the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function. The galaxies were selected from the first ~10% of the HI ALFALFA survey based on their low HI mass and low bary

Mert Bastug, Mihaly Petreczky, Rafael Wisniewski, John Leth

Two moment-matching methods for model reduction of linear switched systems (LSSs) are presented. The methods are similar to the Krylov subspace methods used for moment matching for linear systems. The more general one of the two methods, is based on the so called "nice selection" of some vectors in the reachability or observability space of the LSS.

Paul Tranquilli, Adrian Sandu

This paper develops a new class of exponential-type integrators where all the matrix exponentiations are performed in a single Krylov space of low dimension. The new family, called Lightly Implicit Krylov-Exponential (LIKE), is well suited for solving large scale systems of ODEs or semi-discrete PDEs. The time discretization and the Krylov space approximatio

Paul Tranquilli, Adrian Sandu

This paper develops a new class of Rosenbrock-type integrators based on a Krylov space solution of the linear systems. The new family, called Rosenbrock-Krylov (Rosenbrock-K), is well suited for solving large scale systems of ODEs or semi-discrete PDEs. The time discretization and the Krylov space approximation are treated as a single computational process,

Thomas Kluge, Josefine Metzkes, Karl Zeil, Michael Bussmann

The interaction of ultra-intense lasers with solid foils can be used to accelerate ions to high energies well exceeding 60 MeV. The non-linear relativistic motion of electrons in the intense laser radiation leads to their acceleration and later to the acceleration of ions. Ions can be accelerated from the front surface, the foil interior region, and the foil

J. von Hardenberg, D. Goluskin, A. Provenzale, E. A. Spiegel

We simulate three-dimensional, horizontally periodic Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip horizontal plates, rotating about a distant horizontal axis. When both the temperature difference between the plates and the rotation rate are sufficiently large, a strong horizontal wind is generated that is perpendicular to both the rotation vector and the gra

U. D. Jentschura

We consider the gravitational correction to (electronic) vacuum polarization in the presence of a gravitational background field. The Dirac propagators for the virtual fermions are modified to include the leading gravitational correction (potential term) which corresponds to a coordinate-dependent fermion mass. The mass term is assumed to be uniform over a l

M. Luengo-Kovac, M. Macmahon, S. Huang, R. S. Goldman

We report on the modification of the g-factor by an in-plane electric field in an In$_{0.031}$Ga$_{0.969}$As epilayer. We performed external magnetic field scans of the Kerr rotation of the InGaAs film in order to independently determine the g-factor and the spin-orbit fields. The g-factor increases from $-0.4473\pm0.0001$ at 0 V/cm to $-0.4419\pm0.0001$ at

Marko Slapar

We show that a compact orientable 4-manifold M has a CR regular immersion into C3 if and only if both its first Pontryagin class and its Euler characteristic vanish, and has a CR regular embedding into C3 if and only if in addition the second Stiefel-Whitney class of M vanishes.

Gabriele Di Cerbo, Andrea Fanelli

We obtain an effective version of Matsusaka's theorem for arbitrary smooth algebraic surfaces in positive characteristic, which provides an effective bound on the multiple which makes an ample line bundle D very ample. The proof for pathological surfaces is based on a Reider-type theorem. As a consequence, a Kawamata-Viehweg-type vanishing theorem is pro

Yuxuan Wang, Daniel F. Agterberg, Andrey Chubukov

We analyze incommensurate charge-density-wave (CDW) and pair-density-wave (PDW) orders with transferred momenta $(\pm Q,0)$/$(0,\pm Q)$ in underdoped cuprates within the spin-fermion model. Both orders appear due to exchange of spin fluctuations before magnetic order develops.We argue that the ordered state with the lowest energy has non-zero CDW and PDW com

Jason F. Rowe, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Victoria Antoci, Thomas Barclay

The Kepler mission discovered 2842 exoplanet candidates with 2 years of data. We provide updates to the Kepler planet candidate sample based upon 3 years (Q1-Q12) of data. Through a series of tests to exclude false-positives, primarily caused by eclipsing binary stars and instrumental systematics, 855 additional planetary candidates have been discovered, bri

Gil Young Cho, Chang-Tse Hsieh, Takahiro Morimoto, Shinsei Ryu

Twisting symmetries provides an efficient method to diagnose symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. In this paper, edge theories of (2+1)-dimensional topological phases protected by reflection as well as other symmetries are studied by twisting reflection symmetry, which effectively puts the edge theories on an unoriented spacetime, such as the Klein b

Hendrik Weimer

We study the non-equilibrium steady state arising from the interplay between coherent and dissipative dynamics in strongly interacting Rydberg gases using a recently introduced variational method [H. Weimer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 040402 (2015)]. We give a detailed discussion of the properties of this novel approach, and we provide a comparison with methods r

S. C. Ellis, J. Bland-Hawthorn

The formation of Ps in our Galaxy is well measured, and has led to important and unanswered questions on the origin of the positrons. In principle it should be possible to form analogous systems from mu and tau leptons, viz. true muonium and true tauonium. However the probability of formation for these systems is greatly reduced due to the intrinsically shor