February 2015 arXiv papers — page 4

Darach Watson, Lise Christensen, Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen, Johan Richard

Candidates for the modest galaxies that formed most of the stars in the early universe, at redshifts $z > 7$, have been found in large numbers with extremely deep restframe-UV imaging. But it has proved difficult for existing spectrographs to characterise them in the UV. The detailed properties of these galaxies could be measured from dust and cool gas emiss

Mitsuru Kokubo

The physical mechanisms of the quasar ultraviolet (UV)-optical variability are not well understood despite the long history of observations. Recently, Dexter & Agol presented a model of quasar UV-optical variability, which assumes large local temperature fluctuations in the quasar accretion discs. This inhomogeneous accretion disc model is claimed to describ

Jeffery D. McNeal, Dror Varolin

We establish $L^2$ extension theorems for $\bar \partial$-closed $(0,q)$-forms with values in a holomorphic line bundle with smooth Hermitian metric, from a smooth hypersurface on a Stein manifold. Our result extends (and gives a new, perhaps more classical, proof of) a theorem of Berndtsson on compact Kähler manifolds, which itself is a sharpening of the th

Dominik Csiba, Zheng Qu, Peter Richtárik

This paper introduces AdaSDCA: an adaptive variant of stochastic dual coordinate ascent (SDCA) for solving the regularized empirical risk minimization problems. Our modification consists in allowing the method adaptively change the probability distribution over the dual variables throughout the iterative process. AdaSDCA achieves provably better complexity b

I. Kézsmárki, S. Bordács, P. Milde, E. Neuber

Following the early prediction of the skyrmion lattice (SkL) - a periodic array of spin vortices - it has been observed recently in various magnetic crystals mostly with chiral structure. Although non-chiral but polar crystals with C$_{nv}$ symmetry were identifed as ideal SkL hosts in pioneering theoretical studies this archetype of SkL has remained experim

Michael B. Cohen, Brittany Terese Fasy, Gary L. Miller, Amir Nayyeri

Several researchers proposed using non-Euclidean metrics on point sets in Euclidean space for clustering noisy data. Almost always, a distance function is desired that recognizes the closeness of the points in the same cluster, even if the Euclidean cluster diameter is large. Therefore, it is preferred to assign smaller costs to the paths that stay close to

Jeffery D. McNeal, Dror Varolin

This is a survey article about $L^2$ estimates for the $\bar \partial$ operator. After a review of the basic approach that has come to be called the "Bochner-Kodaira Technique", the focus is on twisted techniques and their applications to estimates for $\bar \partial$, to $L^2$ extension theorems, and to other problems in complex analysis and geometr

Piotr Płoński, Dorota Stefan, Robert Sulej, Krzysztof Zaremba

The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) detectors provide excellent imaging and particle identification ability for studying neutrinos. An efficient and automatic reconstruction procedures are required to exploit potential of this imaging technology. Herein, a novel method for segmentation of images from LAr-TPC detectors is presented. The propose

Yanyan Bu, Michael Lublinsky

We extend our study of all-order linearly resummed hydrodynamics in a flat space~\cite{1406.7222,1409.3095} to fluids in weakly curved spaces. The underlying microscopic theory is a finite temperature $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. The AdS/CFT correspondence relates black brane solutions of the Einstein gravity in asymptotically

Mark R. Pederson

It is tacitly accepted that, for practical basis sets consisting of N functions, solution of the two-electron Coulomb problem in quantum mechanics requires storage of O(N^4) integrals in the small N limit. For localized functions, in the large N limit, or for planewaves, due to closure, the storage can be reduced to O(N^2) integrals. Here, it is shown that t

Andrea Addazi, Massimo Bianchi

We show how exotic stringy instantons can generate an effective interaction between color diquark sextets in a Pati-Salam model, inducing a Majorana mass term for the neutron. In particular, we discuss a simple quiver theory for a Pati-Salam like model, as an example in which the calculations of exotic instantons' effects are simple and controllable. We

Jihun Hamm, Mikhail Belkin

In this paper we propose a non-metric ranking-based representation of semantic similarity that allows natural aggregation of semantic information from multiple heterogeneous sources. We apply the ranking-based representation to zero-shot learning problems, and present deterministic and probabilistic zero-shot classifiers which can be built from pre-trained c

V. V. Borzov, E. V. Damaskinsky

We discuss the construction of oscillator-like systems associated with orthogonal polynomials on the example of the Fibonacci oscillator. In addition, we consider the dimension of the corresponding lie algebras.

Dimitris Boskos, Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The purpose of this report is to define abstractions for multi-agent systems under coupled constraints. In the proposed decentralized framework, we specify a finite or countable transition system for each agent which only takes into account the discrete positions of its neighbors. The dynamics of the considered systems consist of two components. An appropria

K. G. Hełminiak, M. Konacki, M. Ratajczak, A. Jordán

For more than three years now we have been conducting a spectroscopic survey of detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) from the All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) database. Thousands of high-resolution spectra of over 300 systems were secured, and used for radial velocity measurements and spectral analysis. In our sample we found a zoo of multiple systems, such as

Alexander Y. Grosberg, Jean-François Joanny

We consider a mixture of passive (i.e., Brownian) and active (e.g., bacterial or colloidal swimmers) particles, and analyze the stability conditions of either uniformly mixed or phase segregated steady states consisting of phases enriched with different types of particles. We show that in sufficiently dilute mixtures the system behaves as if it were exposed

Vu Le Anh, Vo Hoang Hai, Hung Nghiep Tran, Jason J. Jung

In this work, we propose a new approach for discovering various relationships among keywords over the scientific publications based on a Markov Chain model. It is an important problem since keywords are the basic elements for representing abstract objects such as documents, user profiles, topics and many things else. Our model is very effective since it comb

A. A. Shiryaev, A. V. Fisenko, L. F. Semjonova, A. A. Khomich

Photoluminescence spectra show that silicon impurity is present in lattice of some nanodiamond grains (ND) of various chondrites as a silicon-vacancy (SiV) defect. The relative intensity of the SiV band in the diamond-rich separates depends on chemical composition of meteorites and on size of ND grains. The strongest signal is found for the size separates en

Wanjun Jiang, Pramey Upadhyaya, Wei Zhang, Guoqiang Yu

Soap bubbles form when blowing air through a suspended thin film of soapy water and this phenomenon entertains children and adults alike. The formation of soap bubbles from thin films is accompanied by topological transitions, and thus the natural question arises whether this concept is applicable to the generation of other topological states. Here we show h

M. A. Sokolov

In this paper generating functions of three variables Chebyshev polynomials associated with the root system of $A_3$ Lie algebra are obtained.

Teresa Crespo, Zbigniew Hajto, Elzbieta Sowa-Adamus

In this paper, we generalize the definition of the differential Galois group and the Galois correspondence theorem established previously for Picard-Vessiot extensions of real differential fields with real closed field of constants to any Picard-Vessiot extension.

Stephen Griffeth, Armin Gusenbauer, Daniel Juteau, Martina Lanini

We introduce parabolic degenerations of rational Cherednik algebras of complex reflection groups, and use them to give necessary conditions for finite-dimensionality of an irreducible lowest weight module for the rational Cherednik algebra of a complex reflection group, and for the existence of a non-zero map between two standard modules. The latter conditio

M. Mruczkiewicz, P. Gruszecki, M. Zelent, M. Krawczyk

We investigate theoretically skyrmion magnonic crystal, i.e., the dynamics of the magnetization in a chain of the ferromagnetic nanodots being in skyrmion magnetic configuration. We show that collective excitations are possible to be observed in the structure. We present the dispersion relation of the coupled skyrmions. It exhibit a periodical property in de

Ernest Ma, Alexander Natale, Oleg Popov

A special form of the $3 \times 3$ Majorana neutrino mass matrix derivable from $μ- τ$ interchange symmetry accompanied by a generalized $CP$ transformation was obtained many years ago. It predicts $θ_{23} = π/4$ as well as $δ_{CP} = \pm π/2$, with $θ_{13} \neq 0$. Whereas this is consistent with present data, we explore a deviation of this result which occu

V. V. Borzov, E. V. Damaskinsky

In this note we investigate the discrete spectrum of Jacobi matrix corresponding to polynomials defined by recurrence relations with periodic coefficients. As examples we consider a)the case when period $N$ of coefficients of recurrence relations equals three (as a particular case we consider "parametric" Chebyshev polynomials introduced by authors e

D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, K. Szczygielski, U. Vogl, A. Saß

We explore, theoretically and experimentally, a method for cooling a broadband heat reservoir, via its laser-assisted collisions with two-level atoms followed by their fluorescence. This method is shown to be advantageous compared to existing laser-cooling methods in terms of its cooling efficiency, the lowest attainable temperature for broadband baths and i

Finn Lawler

We reconcile the two different category-theoretic semantics of regular theories in predicate logic. A 2-category of `regular fibrations' is constructed, as well as a 2-category of `regular proarrow equipments', and it is shown that the two are equivalent. A regular equipment is a `cartesian equipment' satisfying certain axioms, and a cartesian eq

S. Benchaira, D. Meraghni, A. Necir

We introduce a consistent estimator of the extreme value index under random truncation based on a single sample fraction of top observations from truncated and truncation data. We establish the asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator by making use of the weighted tail-copula process framework and we check its finite sample behavior through some simula

Dima Grigoriev

Tropical differential equations are introduced and an algorithm is designed which tests solvability of a system of tropical linear differential equations within the complexity polynomial in the size of the system and in its coefficients. Moreover, we show that there exists a minimal solution, and the algorithm constructs it (in case of solvability). This ext

Wouter M. Koolen, Tim van Erven

We aim to design strategies for sequential decision making that adjust to the difficulty of the learning problem. We study this question both in the setting of prediction with expert advice, and for more general combinatorial decision tasks. We are not satisfied with just guaranteeing minimax regret rates, but we want our algorithms to perform significantly

Luís Cruz-Filipe, Peter Schneider-Kamp

In recent work, we formalized the theory of optimal-size sorting networks with the goal of extracting a verified checker for the large-scale computer-generated proof that 25 comparisons are optimal when sorting 9 inputs, which required more than a decade of CPU time and produced 27 GB of proof witnesses. The checker uses an untrusted oracle based on these wi

Sid-Ahmed Yahiaoui, Mustapha Bentaiba

Gazeau-Klauder coherent states of the extended trigonometric Scarf potential, underlying the quadratic energy spectrum and associated with Jacobi-type Xm exceptional orthogonal polynomials P(a,b,m) n (x), are constructed. The temporal evolution of wave-packet coherent states are performed by means of an autocorrelation function and the full revival propertie

Franz G. Mertens, Fred Cooper, Niurka R. Quintero, Sihong Shao

We consider the nonlinear Dirac (NLD) equation in 1+1 dimension with scalar-scalar self-interaction in the presence of external forces as well as damping of the form $ f(x,t) - i μγ^0 Ψ$, where both $f$ and $Ψ$ are two-component spinors. We develop an approximate variational approach using collective coordinates (CC) for studying the time dependent response

Laurent Freidel, Robert G. Leigh, Djordje Minic

String theory is canonically accompanied with a space-time interpretation which determines S-matrix-like observables, and connects to the standard physics at low energies in the guise of local effective field theory. Recently, we have introduced a reformulation of string theory which does not rely on an {\it a priori} space-time interpretation or a pre-assum

Johanan L. Codona, Nathan Doble

Differential Optical Transfer Function (dOTF) is an image-based, non-iterative wavefront sensing method that uses two star images with a single small change in the pupil. We describe two possible methods for introducing the required pupil modification to the JWST, one using a small (<lambda/4) displacement of a single segment&#39;s actuator and another that

John-John Cabibihan, Deepak Joshi, Yeshwin Mysore Srinivasa, Mark Aaron Chan

To touch and be touched are vital to human development, well being, and relationships. However, to those who have lost their arms and hands due to accident or war, touching becomes a serious concern that often leads to psychosocial issues and social stigma. In this paper, we demonstrate that the touch from a warm and soft rubber hand can be perceived by anot

Lijie Liu, Yu Gao, Thomas R. Greve

We study the global SF law - the relation between gas and SFRs in a sample of 181 local galaxies with L_IR spanning almost five orders of magnitude, which includes 115 normal galaxies and 66 (U)LIRGs. We derive their atomic, molecular gas and dense molecular gas masses using newly available HI, CO and HCN data from the literature, and SFRs are determined bot

Christopher Blake, Frank R. Kschischang

It is shown that in a sequence of randomly generated bipartite configurations with number of left nodes approaching infinity, the probability that a particular configuration in the sequence has a minimum bisection width proportional to the number of vertices in the configuration approaches $1$ so long as a sufficient condition on the node degree distribution

Benjamin R. Anderson, Ray Gunawidjaja, Hergen Eilers

One of the primary difficulties in the implementation of organic-dye-based random lasers is the tendency of organic dyes to irreversibly photodecay. In this letter we report the observation of &#34;reversible&#34; photodegradation in a Rhodamine 6G and ZrO$_2$ nanoparticle doped polyurethane random laser. We find that during degradation the emission broadens

Irena Orovic, Andjela Draganic, Srdjan Stankovic

Time-frequency distributions have been used to provide high resolution representation in a large number of signal processing applications. However, high resolution and accurate instantaneous frequency (IF) estimation usually depend on the employed distribution and complexity of signal phase function. To ensure an efficient IF tracking for various types of si

Dmitri Nedrenco

In the paper &#34;origami rings&#34; by Joe Buhler et al. the authors investigate the so called origami rings. Taking this paper as a starting point we find some further properties of these rings.

Jie Ma, Lin-Wang Wang

We have proposed a method for correcting the Kohn-Sham eigen energies in the density functional theory (DFT) based on the Koopmans theorem using Wannier functions. The method provides a general approach applicable for molecules and solids for electronic structure calculations. It does not have any adjustable parameters and the computational cost is at the DF

Apostolos Pilaftsis, Daniele Teresi

Resummations of infinite sets of higher-order perturbative contributions are often needed both in thermal field theory and at zero temperature. For instance, the behaviour of the Standard Model (SM) effective potential extrapolated to very high energies is known to be extremely sensitive to higher-order effects. The 2PI effective action provides a systematic

Benjamin R. Anderson, Ray Gunawidjaja, Hergen Eilers

Spatial light modulator (SLM) controlled transmission of light through opaque media is a relatively new experimental method with wide applications in various fields. While there has been a surge in research into the technique, there has been little work reported considering the effects of various experimental parameters on the efficiency of optimization. In

Cheng Wang, Heidi Seinige, Gang Cao, Jian-Shi Zhou

The electronic band gap in conventional semiconductor materials, such as silicon, is fixed by the material&#39;s crystal structure and chemical composition. The gap defines the material&#39;s transport and optical properties and is of great importance for performance of semiconductor devices like diodes, transistors and lasers. The ability to tune its value

I. Bondarenko, D. D&#39;Angeli, E. Rodaro

We construct a bireversible self-dual automaton with $3$ states over an alphabet with $3$ letters which generates the lamplighter group $\mathbb{Z}_3\wr\mathbb{Z}$.

Klimka Szwaykowska, Christoffer Heckman, Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero, Ira B. Schwartz

The self-organizing behavior of swarms of inter- acting particles or agents is a topic of intense research in fields extending from biology to physics and robotics. In this paper, we carry out a systematic study of how the stable spatio-temporal patterns of a swarm depend on the number of agents, in the presence of time-delayed interaction and agent heteroge

Mario Berta, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Mark M. Wilde

Quantum information measures such as the entropy and the mutual information find applications in physics, e.g., as correlation measures. Generalizing such measures based on the Rényi entropies is expected to enhance their scope in applications. We prescribe Rényi generalizations for any quantum information measure which consists of a linear combination of vo

Sergei N. Yurchenko

A new room temperature line list for $^{15}$NH$_3$ is presented. This line list comprised of transition frequencies and Einstein coefficients has been generated using the `spectroscopic&#39; potential energy surface NH3-Y2010 and an ab initio dipole moment surface. The $^{15}$NH$_3$ line list is based on the same computational procedure used for the line lis

Alberto Bemporad, Daniele Bernardini, Panagiotis Patrinos

This paper proposes to decouple performance optimization and enforcement of asymptotic convergence in Model Predictive Control (MPC) so that convergence to a given terminal set is achieved independently of how much performance is optimized at each sampling step. By embedding an explicit decreasing condition in the MPC constraints and thanks to a novel and ve

Eli Bogart, Christopher R. Myers

C4 plants, such as maize, concentrate carbon dioxide in a specialized compartment surrounding the veins of their leaves to improve the efficiency of carbon dioxide assimilation. Nonlinear relationships between carbon dioxide and oxygen levels and reaction rates are key to their physiology but cannot be handled with standard techniques of constraint-based met

S. L. Wu

We apply the time-dependent decoherence-free subspace theory to a Markovian open quantum system in order to present a novel proposal for quantum-state engineering program. By quantifying the purity of the quantum state, we verify that the quantum-state engineering process designed via our method is completely unitary within any total engineering time. Even t

Wei Wang, Vincent K. N. Lau, Mugen Peng

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), the baseband units and radio units of base stations are separated, which requires high-capacity fronthaul links connecting both parts. In this paper, we consider the delay-aware fronthaul allocation problem for C-RANs. The stochastic optimization problem is formulated as an infinite horizon average cost Markov decisio

Miguel Pereira-Santaella, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Luis Colina, Daniel Miralles-Caballero

We present the analysis of the integrated spectral energy distribution (SED) from the ultraviolet (UV) to the far-infrared and H$α$ of a sample of 29 local systems and individual galaxies with infrared (IR) luminosities between 10^11 Lsun and 10^11.8 Lsun. We have combined new narrow-band H$α$+[NII] and broad-band g, r optical imaging taken with the Nordic O

Nelson A. Alves, Lucas D. Morero, Leandro G. Rizzi

Microcanonical thermostatistics analysis has become an important tool to reveal essential aspects of phase transitions in complex systems. An efficient way to estimate the microcanonical inverse temperature $β(E)$ and the microcanonical entropy $S(E)$ is achieved with the statistical temperature weighted histogram analysis method (ST-WHAM). The strength of t

Dominik Rothenhäusler, Nicolai Meinshausen, Peter Bühlmann

One challenge of large-scale data analysis is that the assumption of an identical distribution for all samples is often not realistic. An optimal linear regression might, for example, be markedly different for distinct groups of the data. Maximin effects have been proposed as a computationally attractive way to estimate effects that are common across all dat

Alisa Krishtal, Debalina Sinha, Alessandro Genova, Michele Pavanello

Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to the computation of condensed phase systems, their excited states, and the evaluation of many-body interactions between t

K. Bonson, L. C. Gallo, R. Vasudevan

A multi-epoch, multi-instrument analysis of the Seyfert 1 galaxy HE 0436-4717 is conducted using optical to X-ray data from XMM-Newton and Swift (including the BAT). Fitting of the UV-to-X-ray spectral energy distribution shows little evidence of extinction and the X-ray spectral analysis does not confirm previous reports of deep absorption edges from OVIII.

Pablo Ramos, Markos Papadakis, Michele Pavanello

We have carried out a thorough benchmark of the FDE-ET method for calculating hole transfer couplings. We have considered 10 exchange-correlation functionals, 3 non-additive kinetic energy functionals and 3 basis sets. Overall, we conclude that with a 7% mean relative unsigned error, the PBE functional coupled with the PW91k non-additive Kinetic energy funct

A. S. Mosunov, M. J. Jacobson

We present an improved algorithm for tabulating class groups of imaginary quadratic fields of bounded discriminant. Our method uses classical class number formulas involving theta-series to compute the group orders unconditionally for all $Δ\not \equiv 1 \pmod{8}.$ The group structure is resolved using the factorization of the group order. The $1 \bmod 8$ ca

Javier Rubio

Inflation is nowadays a well-established paradigm consistent with all the observations. The precise nature of the inflaton is however unknown and its role could be played by any candidate able to imitate a scalar condensate in the slow-roll regime. The discovery of a fundamental scalar in the LHC provides the less speculative candidate. Could the Higgs field

Camil I. Aponte Román, Alberto Chiecchio

We prove that, if $A$ is a positively graded, graded commutative, local, finite Hopf algebra, its cohomology is finitely generated, thus unifying classical results of Wilkerson and Hopkins-Smith, and of Friedlander-Suslin. We do this by showing the existence of conormal elementary quotients.

Rui Zhang, Dongliang Gong, Xingye Lu, Shiliang Li

We report elastic neutron scattering and transport measurements on the Ni and Cr equivalently doped iron pnictide BaFe$_{2-2x}$Ni$_{x}$Cr$_{x}$As$_{2}$. Compared with the electron-doped BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$, the long-range antiferromagnetic (AF) order in BaFe$_{2-2x}$Ni$_{x}$Cr$_{x}$As$_{2}$ is gradually suppressed with vanishing ordered moment and N

Shao-Yu Chen, Changxi Zheng, Michael S. Fuhrer, Jun Yan

The two-fold valley degeneracy in two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) (Mo,W)(S,Se)2 is suitable for &#34;valleytronics&#34;, the storage and manupulation of information utilizing the valley degree of freedom. The conservation of luminescent photon helicity in these 2D crystal monolayers has been widely regarded as a b

Jácome Cunha, João Paulo Fernandes, Rui Pereira, João Saraiva

One of the most important assets of any company is being able to easily access information on itself and on its business. In this line, it has been observed that this important information is often stored in one of the millions of spreadsheets created every year, due to simplicity in using and manipulating such an artifact. Unfortunately, in many cases it is

J. V. Buckle, E. Drabek-Maunder, J. Greaves, J. S. Richer

We present 850$μ$m and 450$μ$m data from the JCMT Gould Belt Survey obtained with SCUBA-2 and characterise the dust attributes of Class I, Class II and Class III disk sources in L1495. We detect 23% of the sample at both wavelengths, with the detection rate decreasing through the Classes from I--III. The median disk mask is 1.6$\times 10^{-3}$M$_{\odot}$, an

N. A. Kervalishvili

The results of experimental investigations of inhomogeneities of gas-discharge nonneutral electron plasma obtained by using the nonperturbing experimental methods [N.A. Kervalishvili, arXiv:1502.02516 [physics.plasm-ph] (2015)] have been presented. Inhomogeneities are the dense solitary vortex structures stretched along the magnetic field, the lifetime of wh

Kevin Jamieson, Ameet Talwalkar

Motivated by the task of hyperparameter optimization, we introduce the non-stochastic best-arm identification problem. Within the multi-armed bandit literature, the cumulative regret objective enjoys algorithms and analyses for both the non-stochastic and stochastic settings while to the best of our knowledge, the best-arm identification framework has only b

Massimo Giulietti, Luciane Quoos, Giovanni Zini

For every $q=n^3$ with $n$ a prime power greater than $2$, the GK-curve is an $\mathbb F_{q^2}$-maximal curve that is not $\mathbb F_{q^2}$-covered by the Hermitian curve. In this paper some Galois subcovers of the GK curve are investigated. We describe explicit equations for some families of quotients of the GK-curve. New values in the spectrum of genera of

Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, Chandrali Sarma, Monica Jha

With the huge upsurge of information in day-to-days life, it has become difficult to assemble relevant information in nick of time. But people, always are in dearth of time, they need everything quick. Hence clustering was introduced to gather the relevant information in a cluster. There are several algorithms for clustering information out of which in this

Felix Büttner, Benjamin Krüger, Stefan Eisebitt, Mathias Kläui

The transverse anisotropy constant and the related Döring mass density are key parameters of the one-dimensional model to describe the motion of magnetic domain walls. So far, no general framework is available to determine these quantities from static characterizations such as magnetometry measurements. Here, we derive a universal analytical expression to ca

M. Catapano, F. Romeo, R. Citro, F. Giubileo

We generalize the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory considering non-diagonal boundary conditions in the Bogoliubov-de Gennes scattering problem, to describe anomalous conductance features often reported for normal-metal/superconductor contacts. We calculate the differential conductance spectra showing that conductance dips, not expected in the standard formula

Yiming Wan, Tamas Keviczky, Michel Verhaegen, Fredrik Gustafsson

This paper presents a data-driven receding horizon fault estimation method for additive actuator and sensor faults in unknown linear time-invariant systems, with enhanced robustness to stochastic identification errors. State-of-the-art methods construct fault estimators with identified state-space models or Markov parameters, but they do not compensate for i

Frank Redig, Wioletta Ruszel

In this note we consider non-equilibrium steady states of one-dimensional models of heat conduction (wealth exchange) which are coupled to some reservoirs creating currents. In particular we will give sufficient and necessary conditions which will depend only on the first two moments of the reservoir measures and the redistribution parameter under which the

D. Chicherin, S. Derkachov

We study solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation on a tensor product of an arbitrary finite-dimensional and an arbitrary infinite-dimensional representations of the rank one symmetry algebra. We consider the cases of the Lie algebra sl_2, the modular double (trigonometric deformation) and the Sklyanin algebra (elliptic deformation). The solutions are matrices

Alix Deruelle

We investigate the possibility of desingularizing a positively curved metric cone by an expanding gradient Ricci soliton with positive curvature operator. This amounts to study the deformation of such geometric structures. As a consequence, we prove that the moduli space of conical positively curved gradient Ricci expanders is connected.

Jiajun Zhang

Statistical machine translation models have made great progress in improving the translation quality. However, the existing models predict the target translation with only the source- and target-side local context information. In practice, distinguishing good translations from bad ones does not only depend on the local features, but also rely on the global s

Michał Jachura, Radosław Chrapkiewicz

We report the first observation of Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference of highly indistinguishable photon pairs with spatial resolution. Direct imaging of two-photon coalescence with an intensified sCMOS camera system clearly reveals spatially separated photons appearing pairwise within one of the two modes. With the use of the camera system we quantified the

Szymon Puławski

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In order to reach these goals measurements of hadron production properties are performed in nucleus-nucleus, proton-proton and proton-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and si

Simão Correia

We focus on the study of the stability properties of ground-states for the system of $M$ coupled semilinear Schrödinger equations with power-type nonlinearities and couplings. Our results are generalizations of the theory for the single equation and the technique for this kind of results is simplified. Depending on the power of the nonlinearity, we may obser

C. Yang, E. Zarkadoula, M. T. Dove, I. T. Todorov

We discuss how structural disorder and amorphization affects solid-state diffusion, and consider zirconolite as a currently important case study. By performing extensive molecular dynamics simulations, we disentangle the effects of amorphization and density, and show that a profound increase of solid-state diffusion takes place as a result of amorphization.

Chihiro Sasaki

Chiral thermodynamics of charmed mesons is formulated at finite temperature within a $2+1+1$-flavored effective Lagrangian incorporating heavy quark symmetry. The chiral mass splittings are shown to be less sensitive to the light-quark flavors, attributed to the underlying heavy quark symmetry. Consequently, chiral symmetry restoration is more accelerated in

C. Yang, V. V. Brazhkin, M. T. Dove, K. Trachenko

A new dynamic line, the Frenkel line, has recently been proposed to separate the supercritical state into rigid-liquid and non-rigid gas-like uid. The location of Frenkel line on the phase diagram is unknown for real uids. Here, we map the Frenkel line for three important systems: CO2, H2O and CH4. This provides an important demarcation on the phase diagram

Nicolas Boulanger, Per Sundell, Peter West

We show that the particle states of Maxwell&#39;s theory, in $D$ dimensions, can be represented in an infinite number of ways by using different gauge fields. Using this result we formulate the dynamics in terms of an infinite set of duality relations which are first order in space-time derivatives. We derive a similar result for the three form in eleven dim

Martin Franzen

We investigate the evolution of closed strictly convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, n=3, for contracting normal velocities, including powers of the mean curvature, of the norm of the second fundamental form, and of the Gauss curvature. We prove convergence to a round point for 2-pinched initial hypersurfaces. In $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, n=2, natural quant

Daniel Jeck, Ernst Niebur

Interval jitter and spike resampling methods are used to analyze the time scale on which temporal correlations occur. They allow the computation of jitter corrected cross correlograms and the performance of an associated statistically robust hypothesis test to decide whether observed correlations at a given time scale are significant. Currently used Monte Ca

Leandro Arosio

Abstract basins appear naturally in different areas of several complex variables. In this survey we want to describe three different topics in which they play an important role, leading to interesting open problems.

Gelu Popescu

In this paper, we study free holomorphic functions on regular polyballs and provide analogues of several classical results from complex analysis such as: Abel theorem, Hadamard formula, Cauchy inequality, Schwarz lemma, and maximum principle. These results are used together with a class of noncommutative Berezin transforms to obtain a complete description of

Johannes Berger, Andreas Neufeld, Florian Becker, Frank Lenzen

Accurate camera motion estimation is a fundamental building block for many Computer Vision algorithms. For improved robustness, temporal consistency of translational and rotational camera velocity is often assumed by propagating motion information forward using stochastic filters. Classical stochastic filters, however, use linear approximations for the non-l

Mauritz Andersson, Eilert Berglind, Gunnar Björk

In this short note we derive an approximate expression for the mode density of modes carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a cylindrical cavity which is large compared to the inverse wavevector in any direction. We argue that in the large cavity limit the modes asymptotically converges to the corresponding OAM modes in free space. We compare the result

Leandro Arosio

We give a complete description of the stable subset (the union of all backward orbit with bounded step) and of the pre-models of a univalent self-map $f: X\to X$, where $X$ is a Kobayashi hyperbolic cocompact complex manifold, such as the ball or the polydisc in $C^q$. The result is obtained studying the complex structure of a decreasing intersection of comp

Ilane Schroetter, Nicolas Bouché, Céline Péroux, Michael T. Murphy

The physical properties of galactic winds are of paramount importance for our understanding of galaxy formation. Fortunately, they can be constrained using background quasars passing near star-forming galaxies (SFGs). From the 14 quasar$-$galaxy pairs in our VLT/SINFONI Mgii Program for Line Emitters (SIMPLE) sample, we reobserved the 10 brightest galaxies i

Jun-Ping Wang

Magnetic response of a superconductor depends on the thermodynamic stability of vortex in the material. Here we show that the vortex stability has a close relation with the ratio of the magnetic field at the vortex core center to the thermodynamic critical field. This finding provides a new criterion for the classification of the superconductors according to

Olmer Folleco Solarte, Ivan Shestakov

We obtain classification of the irreducible bimodules over the Jordan superalgebra $Kan(n)$, the Kantor double of the Grassmann Poisson superalgebra $G_n$ on $n$ odd generators, for all $n \geq 2$ and an algebraically closed field of characteristic $\ne 2$. This generalizes the corresponding result of C.Martínez and E.Zelmanov announced in \cite{MZ2} for $n>

Julien Barré, David Chiron, Thierry Goudon, Nader Masmoudi

We study the asymptotic regime of strong electric fields that leads from the Vlasov-Poisson system to the Incompressible Euler equations. We also deal with the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system which induces dissipative effects. The originality consists in considering a situation with a finite total charge confined by a strong external field. In turn, the

Sebastian Enqvist, Fatemeh Seifan, Yde Venema

We characterize the expressive power of the modal mu-calculus on monotone neighborhood structures, in the style of the Janin-Walukiewicz theorem for the standard modal mu-calculus. For this purpose we consider a monadic second-order logic for monotone neighborhood structures. Our main result shows that the monotone modal mu-calculus corresponds exactly to th

Daniel Hoske, Dimitar Lukarski, Henning Meyerhenke, Michael Wegner

Linear system solving is one of the main workhorses in applied mathematics. Recently, theoretical computer scientists have contributed sophisticated algorithms for solving linear systems with symmetric diagonally dominant matrices (a class to which Laplacian matrices belong) in provably nearly-linear time. While these algorithms are highly interesting from a

Yves Auregan, Vincent Pagneux

We consider the acoustic propagation in lined flow duct with a purely reactive impedance at the wall. This reacting liner has the capability to reduce the speed of sound, and thus to enhance the interaction between the acoustic propagation and the low Mach number flow ($M\simeq0.3$). At the lower frequencies, there are typically 4 acoustic or hydrodynamic pr

Jesus M. Rueda-Becerril, Petar Mimica, Miguel A. Aloy

The internal shocks scenario in relativistic jets is used to explain the variability of the blazar emission. Recent studies have shown that the magnetic field significantly alters the shell collision dynamics, producing a variety of spectral energy distributions and light-curves patterns. However, the role played by magnetization in such emission processes i

Antoni Aduszkiewicz

Evidence for the onset of deconfinement in central Pb+Pb collisions was reported by NA49 in fixed target measurements at beam momentum 30A GeV/c. This observation motivated the NA61/SHINE program started in 2009 at the CERN SPS, which, in particular, aims to study properties of the onset of deconfinement by measurements of hadron production in proton-proton,