February 2015 arXiv papers — page 6

Akash Das Sarma, Aditya Parameswaran, Jennifer Widom

We study crowdsourcing quality management, that is, given worker responses to a set of tasks, our goal is to jointly estimate the true answers for the tasks, as well as the quality of the workers. Prior work on this problem relies primarily on applying Expectation-Maximization (EM) on the underlying maximum likelihood problem to estimate true answers as well

Luis F. Alday, Agnese Bissi, Tomasz Lukowski

Using conformal field theory (CFT) arguments we derive an infinite number of constraints on the large spin expansion of the anomalous dimensions and structure constants of higher spin operators. These arguments rely only on analiticity, unitarity, crossing-symmetry and the structure of the conformal partial wave expansion. We obtain results for both, perturb

M. Pak, M. Schröck

The chirally symmetric overlap quark propagator is explored in Coulomb gauge for the first time. This gauge is especially well suited for studying the interrelation between confinement and chiral symmetry breaking, since confinement can be attributed to the infrared divergence of the vector dressing function of the inverse quark propagator. Using quenched ga

Sirichai Chongchitnan

Cosmic voids have been shown to be an effective probe of cosmology, complementary to galaxy clusters. In this work, we present a simple theoretical framework for predicting of the size of the largest voids expected within a given redshift and volume. Our model is based on the exact extreme-value statistics which has previously been successfully applied to ma

Rex Lundgren, Gregory A. Fiete

Energy transfer from electrons to phonons is an important consideration in any Weyl or Dirac semimetal based application. In this work, we analytically calculate the cooling power of acoustic phonons, i.e. the energy relaxation rate of electrons which are interacting with acoustic phonons, for Weyl and Dirac semimetals in a variety of different situations. F

A. González-Galán

The aim of this PhD Thesis is to characterize a representative sample of Supergiant X-ray Binaries (SGXBs) formed by 4 sources: XTE J1855-026, a classical SGXB with long-term stable X-ray flux; AX J1841.0-0535 and AX J1845.0-0433, two supergiant fast X-ray transients (SFXTs) with the X-ray emission mostly dominated by flaring; and IGR J00370+6122, something

Benoît Grébert, Eric Paturel, Laurent Thomann

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equation on the spatial domain $\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{T}^d$, and we perturb it with a convolution potential. Using recent techniques of Hani-Pausader-Tzvetkov-Visciglia, we prove a modified scattering result and construct modified wave operators, under generic assumptions on the potential. In particular, this

Daniel M. Kane, Joseph Palmer, Álvaro Pelayo

We present an algebraic method to study four-dimensional toric varieties by lifting matrix equations from the special linear group ${\rm SL}_2({\mathbb Z})$ to its preimage in the universal cover of ${\rm SL}_2({\mathbb R})$. With this method we recover the classification of two-dimensional toric fans, and obtain a description of their semitoric analogue. As

Pierre Gaillard, Sébastien Gerchinovitz

We consider the problem of online nonparametric regression with arbitrary deterministic sequences. Using ideas from the chaining technique, we design an algorithm that achieves a Dudley-type regret bound similar to the one obtained in a non-constructive fashion by Rakhlin and Sridharan (2014). Our regret bound is expressed in terms of the metric entropy in t

M. M. Hedman

The recent discovery of dense rings around the Centaur Chariklo (and possibly Chiron) reveals that complete dense planetary rings are not only found around Saturn and Uranus, but also around small bodies orbiting in the vicinity of those giant planets. This report examines whether there could be a physical process that would make rings more likely to form or

Botond Tyukodi, Sylvain Patinet, Stéphane Roux, Damien Vandembroucq

A mesoscopic model of amorphous plasticity is discussed in the context of depinning models. After embedding in a d + 1 dimensional space, where the accumulated plastic strain lives along the additional dimension, the gradual plastic deformation of amorphous media can be regarded as the motion of an elastic manifold in a disordered landscape. While the associ

Pauline T. McGinnis, Silvia H. P. Alencar, Marcelo M. Guimaraes, Alana P. Sousa

The classical T Tauri star AA Tau presented photometric variability attributed to an inner disk warp, caused by the interaction between the inner disk and an inclined magnetosphere. Previous studies of NGC 2264 have shown that similar photometric behavior is common among CTTS. The goal of this work is to investigate the main causes of the observed photometri

Yuxuan Wang, Andrey Chubukov

We reply to the criticism from the authors of arXiv:1502.02782 of the spin-fluctuation scenario for charge order in the cuprates. The authors of of arXiv:1502.02782 argued that spin-fluctuation exchange cannot give rise to charge order with observed momentum $(Q, 0)/(0, Q)$ due to the absence of nesting for a half of fermions involved. We explicitly show the

Francesco Restuccia, Sajal K. Das, Jamie Payton

Participatory sensing is a powerful paradigm which takes advantage of smartphones to collect and analyze data beyond the scale of what was previously possible. Given that participatory sensing systems rely completely on the users' willingness to submit up-to-date and accurate information, it is paramount to effectively incentivize users' active and r

Eugenio Del Nobile, Graciela B. Gelmini, Andreea Georgescu, Ji-Haeng Huh

We reexamine the interpretation of the annual modulation signal observed by the DAMA experiment as due to WIMPs with a spin-dependent coupling mostly to protons. We consider both axial-vector and pseudo-scalar couplings, and elastic as well as endothermic and exothermic inelastic scattering. We conclude that the DAMA signal is in strong tension with null res

Pejman Jouzdani

We present a toy model with a Hamiltonian $H^{(2)}_T$ on a folded one-dimensional spin chain. The non-trivial ground states of $H^{(2)}_T$ are separated by a gap from the excited states. By analyzing the symmetries in the model, we find that the topological order is protected by a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ global symmetry. However, by using perturbation series and excl

Ricky X. F. Chen, Christian M. Reidys

In this paper, we introduce plane permutations, i.e. pairs $\mathfrak{p}=(s,π)$ where $s$ is an $n$-cycle and $π$ is an arbitrary permutation, represented as a two-row array. Accordingly a plane permutation gives rise to three distinct permutations: the permutation induced by the upper horizontal ($s$), the vertical $π$) and the diagonal ($D_{\mathfrak{p}}$)

K. Neergård

Conservation laws in the $1f_{7/2}$ shell model of $^{48}$Cr found in numeric studies by Escuderos, Zamick and Bayman [A. Escuderos, L. Zamick, and B. F. Bayman, arXiv:0506050 (2005)] and me [K. Neergård, Phys. Rev. C \textbf{90}, 014318 (2014)] are explained by symmetry under particle-hole conjugation and the structure of the irreps of the symplectic group

Rashi Sachdeva, Anmol Thakur, Giovanni Vignale, Amit Agarwal

We explore the collective density oscillations of a collection of charged massive Dirac particles, in one, two and three dimensions and their one dimensional superlattice. We calculate the long wavelength limit of the dynamical polarization function analytically, and use the random phase approximation to obtain the plasmon dispersion. The density dependence

Jingrui Cheng

In this work,we show the long time existence of smooth solu- tions to semigeostrophic equations on a torus when the initial dual density is bounded between two positive constants and smooth.The key ingredient is a more precise estimate on C 2 norm of Monge-Amp`re equations established e in [1] .

Pawel Gawrychowski, Shay Mozes, Oren Weimann

We present an optimal data structure for submatrix maximum queries in n x n Monge matrices. Our result is a two-way reduction showing that the problem is equivalent to the classical predecessor problem in a universe of polynomial size. This gives a data structure of O(n) space that answers submatrix maximum queries in O(loglogn) time. It also gives a matchin

Jeffrey M. Hyde

After inflation, a period of preheating may have produced a stochastic background of high frequency gravitational waves (GWs) that would persist until today. The nature of the inflaton's coupling to Standard Model or other fields is unknown, so it is useful to ask what features such fields may typically have, and how these affect predictions for the GW&#

Luis Pedro Montejano, Ignasi Sau

The \emph{$k$-restricted edge-connectivity} of a graph $G$, denoted by $λ_k(G)$, is defined as the minimum size of an edge set whose removal leaves exactly two connected components each containing at least $k$ vertices. This graph invariant, which can be seen as a generalization of a minimum edge-cut, has been extensively studied from a combinatorial point o

N. I. Stoilova, J. Van der Jeugt

An orthogonal basis of weight vectors for a class of infinite-dimensional representations of the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra osp(2m+1|2n) is introduced. These representations are particular lowest weight representations V(p), with a lowest weight of the form [-p/2,...,-p/2|p/2,...,p/2], p being a positive integer. Explicit expressions for the transforma

Nicolai Friis, Michalis Skotiniotis, Ivette Fuentes, Wolfgang Dür

We address the issue of precisely estimating small parameters encoded in a general linear transformation of the modes of a bosonic quantum field. Such Bogoliubov transformations frequently appear in the context of quantum optics. We provide a set of instructions for computing the quantum Fisher information for arbitrary pure initial states. We show that the

Christian Corda

Some recent important results on black hole (BH) quantum physics concerning the BH effective state and the natural correspondence between Hawking radiation and BH quasi-normal modes (QNMs) are reviewed, clarified and refined. Such a correspondence permits to naturally interpret QNMs as quantum levels in a semi-classical model. This is a model of BH somewhat

Lior Fishman, Keith Merrill, David Simmons

We prove an analogue of a theorem of A. Pollington and S. Velani ('05), furnishing an upper bound on the Hausdorff dimension of certain subsets of the set of very well intrinsically approximable points on a quadratic hypersurface. The proof incorporates the framework of intrinsic approximation on such hypersurfaces first developed in the authors' joi

Yu-Xiang Wang, Stephen E. Fienberg, Alex Smola

We consider the problem of Bayesian learning on sensitive datasets and present two simple but somewhat surprising results that connect Bayesian learning to "differential privacy:, a cryptographic approach to protect individual-level privacy while permiting database-level utility. Specifically, we show that that under standard assumptions, getting one sin

Ryan Robinson

A novel approach for the fusion of detection scores from disparate object detection methods is proposed. In order to effectively integrate the outputs of multiple detectors, the level of ambiguity in each individual detection score (called "uncertainty") is estimated using the precision/recall relationship of the corresponding detector. The proposed

Li Li

In this paper, we consider accessibility percolation on hypercubes, i.e., we place i.i.d. uniform [0,1] random variables on vertices of a hypercube, and study whether there is a path connecting two vertices such that the values of these random variables increase along the path. We establish a sharp phase transition depending on the difference of the values a

Rina Foygel Barber, Mladen Kolar

Undirected graphical models are used extensively in the biological and social sciences to encode a pattern of conditional independences between variables, where the absence of an edge between two nodes $a$ and $b$ indicates that the corresponding two variables $X_a$ and $X_b$ are believed to be conditionally independent, after controlling for all other measu

J. Gonzalez

We study the Quantum Electrodynamics of 2D and 3D Dirac semimetals by means of a self-consistent resolution of the Schwinger-Dyson equations, aiming to obtain the respective phase diagrams in terms of the relative strength of the Coulomb interaction and the number N of Dirac fermions. In this framework, 2D Dirac semimetals have just a strong-coupling instabi

Soham Chakraborty, Thomas A. Henzinger, Ali Sezgin, Viktor Vafeiadis

Linearizability of concurrent data structures is usually proved by monolithic simulation arguments relying on the identification of the so-called linearization points. Regrettably, such proofs, whether manual or automatic, are often complicated and scale poorly to advanced non-blocking concurrency patterns, such as helping and optimistic updates. In response

K. A. Dompreh, N. G. Mensah, S. Y. Mensah, S. S. Abukari

Hypersound Absorption of acoustic phonons having $ql>>1$ in a degenerate Carbon Nanotube (CNT) with linear energy dispersion near the Fermi level was theoretically studied. The general expression for the absorption coefficient ($Γ$) under a non-quantizing electric field ($E$) with drift velocity ($V_D$)was obtained. At $T = 10K$ and scattering angle $θ> 0$,

Michael W. Gaultois, Anton O. Oliynyk, Arthur Mar, Taylor D. Sparks

The experimental search for new thermoelectric materials remains largely confined to a limited set of successful chemical and structural families, such as chalcogenides, skutterudites, and Zintl phases. In principle, computational tools such as density functional theory (DFT) offer the possibility of rationally guiding experimental synthesis efforts toward v

Marc Aiguier, Jamal Atif, Isabelle Bloch, Céline Hudelot

The main result of this paper is to prove the existence of a finite basis in the description logic ${\cal ALC}$. We show that the set of General Concept Inclusions (GCIs) holding in a finite model has always a finite basis, i.e. these GCIs can be derived from finitely many of the GCIs. This result extends a previous result from Baader and Distel, which showe

Benjamin Bein, Hsiang-Chun Hsing, Sara J. Callori, John Sinsheimer

In epitaxially strained ferroelectric thin films and superlattices, the ferroelectric transition temperature can lie above the growth temperature. Ferroelectric polarization and domains should then evolve during the growth of a sample, and electrostatic boundary conditions may play an important role. In this work, ferroelectric domains, surface termination,

Kacper Kornet, Alban Potherat

We present Direct Numerical Simulations of decaying Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number. The domain considered is bounded by periodic boundary conditions in the two directions perpendicular to the magnetic field and by two plane Hartmann walls in the third direction. High magnetic fields (Hartmann number of up to 896) are con

Eric A. Bergshoeff, Keshav Dasgupta, Renata Kallosh, Antoine Van Proeyen

The role of the $\overline{\rm D3}$ brane in providing de Sitter vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry in the KKLT construction is clarified. The first step in this direction was explained in arXiv:hep-th/0301240, arXiv:hep-th/0308055: it was shown there that in the GKP background the bosonic contributions to the vacuum energy from the DBI and WZ ter

Andrew Obus

The Oort conjecture (now a theorem of Obus-Wewers and Pop) states that if k is an algebraically closed field of characteristic p, then any cyclic branched cover of smooth projective k-curves lifts to characteristic zero. This is equivalent to the local Oort conjecture, which states that all cyclic extensions of k[[t]] lift to characteristic zero. We generali

Manfred Hammer, Andre Hildebrandt, Jens Förstner

Sheets of slab waveguides with sharp corners are investigated. By means of rigorous numerical experiments, we look at oblique incidence of semi-guided plane waves. Radiation losses vanish beyond a certain critical angle of incidence. One can thus realize lossless propagation through 90-degree corner configurations, where the remaining guided waves are still

Julian Newman

In this paper, we study geometric features of orientation-preserving random dynamical systems on the circle driven by memoryless noise that exhibit stable synchronisation: we consider crack points, invariant measures, and the link between synchronisation and compressibility of arcs; we also characterise stable synchronisation in additive-noise stochastic dif

Marta Leoni, Andrea Mauri, Alberto Santambrogio

We compute the four-point amplitude with external adjoint particles in $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCQCD at two loops using $\mathcal{N}=1$ superspace Feynman diagrams, extending the results of arXiv:1406.7283. We consider the diagrammatic difference with the corresponding process of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM finding a non vanishing result, which is a non trivial function of

Michael A. Hill, Michael J. Hopkins, Douglas C. Ravenel

We describe the slice spectral sequence of a 32-periodic $C_{4}$-spectrum $K_{[2]}$ related to the $C_{4}$ norm ${N_{C_{2}}^{C_{4}}MU_{\bf R}}$ of the real cobordism spectrum $MU_{\bf R}$. We will give it as a spectral sequence of Mackey functors converging to the graded Mackey functor $\underline{π}_{*}K_{[2]}$, complete with differentials and exotic extens

J. Weberszpil, Matheus Jatkoske Lazo, J. A. Helayël-Neto

Over the recent decades, diverse formalisms have emerged that are adopted to approach complex systems. Amongst those, we may quote the q-calculus in Tsallis' version of Non-Extensive Statistics with its undeniable success whenever applied to a wide class of different systems; Kaniadakis' approach, based on the compatibility between relativity and the

József Balogh, Hong Liu, Maryam Sharifzadeh, Andrew Treglown

Cameron and Erdős asked whether the number of \emph{maximal} sum-free sets in $\{1, \dots , n\}$ is much smaller than the number of sum-free sets. In the same paper they gave a lower bound of $2^{\lfloor n/4 \rfloor }$ for the number of maximal sum-free sets. Here, we prove the following: For each $1\leq i \leq 4$, there is a constant $C_i$ such that, given

C. C. Homes, Y. M. Dai, J. S. Wen, Z. J. Xu

The detailed optical properties of the multiband iron-chalcogenide superconductor FeTe$_{0.55}$Se$_{0.45}$ have been reexamined for a large number of temperatures above and below the critical temperature $T_c=14$ K for light polarized in the a-b planes. Instead of the simple Drude model that assumes a single band, above $T_c$ the normal-state optical propert

Ashkan Ertefaie, Dylan Small, James H. Flory, Sean Hennessy

Instrumental variable (IV) methods are widely used to adjust for the bias in estimating treatment effects caused by unmeasured confounders in observational studies. In this manuscript, we provide empirical and theoretical evidence that the IV methods may result in biased treatment effects if applied on a data set in which subjects are preselected based on th

Jan Drchal, Michal Čertický, Michal Jakob

Activity-based models, as a specific instance of agent-based models, deal with agents that structure their activity in terms of (daily) activity schedules. An activity schedule consists of a sequence of activity instances, each with its assigned start time, duration and location, together with transport modes used for travel between subsequent activity locat

Hang Li, Chuan Huang, Ping Zhang, Shuguang Cui

This paper considers a heterogeneous ad hoc network with multiple transmitter-receiver pairs, in which all transmitters are capable of harvesting renewable energy from the environment and compete for one shared channel by random access. In particular, we focus on two different scenarios: the constant energy harvesting (EH) rate model where the EH rate remain

Luca Scala

We study general symmetric powers $S^k L^{[n]}$ of a tautological bundle $L^{[n]}$ on the Hilbert scheme $X^{[n]}$ of $n$ points over a smooth quasi-projective surface $X$, associated to a line bundle $L$ on $X$. Let $V_L$ be the $\mathfrak{S}_n$-vector bundle on $X^n$ defined as the exterior direct sum $L \boxplus \cdots \boxplus L$. We prove that the Bridg

Cristopher Moore

A $k$-uniform, $d$-regular instance of Exact Cover is a family of $m$ sets $F_{n,d,k} = \{ S_j \subseteq \{1,...,n\} \}$, where each subset has size $k$ and each $1 \le i \le n$ is contained in $d$ of the $S_j$. It is satisfiable if there is a subset $T \subseteq \{1,...,n\}$ such that $|T \cap S_j|=1$ for all $j$. Alternately, we can consider it a $d$-regul

Parviz Gulshani

We derive a microscopic version of the successful phenomenological hydrodynamic model of Bohr-Davydov-Faessler-Greiner for collective rotation-vibration motion of an axially symmetric deformed nucleus. The derivation is not limited to small oscillation amplitude. The nuclear Schrodinger equation is canonically transformed the to collective co-ordinates, whic

J. L. Acosta Avalo, H. Perez Rojas

Chiral magnetic effect exists in an electron-positron strongly magnetized gas in QED. It is induced by an electric field parallel to the external field $\textbf{B}$, like that produced by the pseudovector longitudinal mode propagating along $\textbf{B}$. In the static limit, an electric pseudovector current is obtained in the lowest Landau level. We obtain a

Chandrashekar Devchand, Andrea Spiro

An explicit surjection from a set of (locally defined) unconstrained holomorphic functions on a certain submanifold of (Sp_1(C) \times C^{4n}) onto the set HK_{p,q} of local isometry classes of real analytic pseudo-hyperkähler metrics of signature (4p,4q) in dimension 4n is constructed. The holomorphic functions, called prepotentials, are analogues of Kähler

Oussama Dhifallah, Hayssam Dahrouj, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The cloud-radio access network (CRAN) is expected to be the core network architecture for next generation mobile radio systems. In this paper, we consider the downlink of a CRAN formed of one central processor (the cloud) and several base-station (BS), where each BS is connected to the cloud via either a wireless or capacity-limited wireline backhaul link. T

Wolfgang Lueck

The article consists of a survey on analytic and topological torsion. Analytic torsion is defined in terms of the spectrum of the analytic Laplace operator on a Riemannian manifold, whereas topological torsion is defined in terms of a triangulation. The celebrated theorem of Cheeger and Müller identifies these two notions for closed Riemannian manifolds. We

Daniele Angella, Luis Ugarte

We introduce a property of compact complex manifolds under which the existence of balanced metric is stable by small deformations of the complex structure. This property, which is weaker than the $\partial\overline\partial$-Lemma, is characterized in terms of the strongly Gauduchon cone and of the first $\partial\overline\partial$-degree measuring the differ

Ivan Dokmanic, Yue M. Lu

We propose a sampling scheme that can perfectly reconstruct a collection of spikes on the sphere from samples of their lowpass-filtered observations. Central to our algorithm is a generalization of the annihilating filter method, a tool widely used in array signal processing and finite-rate-of-innovation (FRI) sampling. The proposed algorithm can reconstruct

Ivica Nakić, Christian Rose, Martin Tautenhahn

We prove a Carleman estimate for elliptic second order partial differential operators with Lipschitz continuous coefficients. The Carleman estimate is valid for any complex-valued function $u\in W^{2,2}$ with support in a punctured ball of arbitrary radius. The novelty of this Carleman estimate is that we establish an explicit dependence on the Lipschitz and

Minyuan Jiang, Ligong Bian, Weicong Huang, Jing Shu

With the assistance of a complex singlet, and an effective operator involving CP violations, the dark matter relic abundance and baryon asymmetry of the universe have been addressed simul- taneously. We studied the electroweak baryogenesis mechanism systematically. The electroweak phase transition analysis indicates that the strong first order phase transiti

A. Feijoo, V. K. Magas, A. Ramos

The meson-baryon interaction in s-wave in the strangeness S=-1 sector has been studied, employing a chiral SU(3) Lagrangian up to next-to-leading order (NLO) and implementing unitarization in coupled channels. The parameters of the Lagrangian have been fitted to a large set of experimental data in different two-body channels, paying special attention to the

Martin Aleksandrov, Haris Aziz, Serge Gaspers, Toby Walsh

We study an online model of fair division designed to capture features of a real world charity problem. We consider two simple mechanisms for this model in which agents simply declare what items they like. We analyse several axiomatic properties of these mechanisms like strategy-proofness and envy-freeness. Finally, we perform a competitive analysis and comp

Yu. A. Simonov

A theory of lepton decay constants based on the path-integral formalism is given for chiral and vector mesons. Decay constants of the pseudoscalar and vector mesons are calculated and compared to other existing results.

Xiaofu Wu, Zhen Yan, Cong Ling, Xiang-Gen Xia

Recently, we have developed a PHYsical layer Phase Challenge-Response Authentication Scheme (PHY-PCRAS) for independent multicarrier transmission. In this paper, we make a further step by proposing a novel artificial-noise-aided PHY-PCRAS (ANA-PHY-PCRAS) for practical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission, where the Tikhonov-distribu

Ion I. Cotaescu, Doru-Marcel Baltateanu, Ion Cotaescu

The exact solutions of the complete Dirac equation for fermions moving in ideal Aharonov-Bohm rings are used for deriving the exact expressions of the relativistic partial currents. It is show that as in the non-relativistic case these currents can be related to the derivative of the fermion energy with respect to the flux parameter. A specific relativistic

T. Becker, K. Nelissen, B. Cleuren

We use kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to investigate current fluctuations in boundary driven generalized exclusion processes, in different dimensions. Simulation results are in full agreement with predictions based on the additivity principle and the macroscopic fluctuation theory. The current statistics are independent of the shape of the contacts with the

Trevor Fenner, Mark Levene, George Loizou

The recent interest in human dynamics has led researchers to investigate the stochastic processes that explain human behaviour in various contexts. Here we propose a generative model to capture the dynamics of survival analysis, traditionally employed in clinical trials and reliability analysis in engineering. We derive a general solution for the model in th

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara

We report a measurement of the amplitude ratio $r_S$ of $B^0 \to D^0K^{*0}$ and $B^0 \to \bar{D^0}K^{*0}$ decays with a model-independent Dalitz plot analysis using $D\to K_S^0π^+π^-$ decays. Using the full data sample of $772\times10^6$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at KEKB accelerator the upper limit is $r_S <

T. Lin

This paper studies the problem of model-checking of probabilistic automaton and probabilistic one-counter automata against probabilistic branching-time temporal logics (PCTL and PCTL$^*$). We show that it is undecidable for these problems. We first show, by reducing to emptiness problem of probabilistic automata, that the model-checking of probabilistic fini

F. Giazotto, P. Solinas, A. Braggio, F. S. Bergeret

We present an exhaustive theoretical analysis of charge and thermoelectric transport in a normal metal-ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor (NFIS) junction, and explore the possibility of its use as a sensitive thermometer. We investigated the transfer functions and the intrinsic noise performance for different measurement configurations. A common feature

Sofiane M. Boucenna, Jose W. F. Valle, Avelino Vicente

The simplest realization of the inverse seesaw mechanism in a $SU(3)_C \otimes SU(3)_L \otimes U(1)_X$ gauge theory offers striking flavor correlations between rare charged lepton flavor violating decays and the measured neutrino oscillations parameters. The predictions follow from the gauge structure itself without the need for any flavor symmetry. Such tig

Feng Pan

In this paper with two equivalent representations of the information contained by a SAT formula, the reason why string generated by succinct SAT formula can be greatly compressed is firstly presented based on Kolmogorov complexity theory. Then what strings can be greatly compressed were classified and discussed. In this way we discovered the SAT problem was

Pablo Rocha

In this note we show that if f belongs to Hp(Rn)\capLs(Rn), where 0 < p <= 1 < s < 1, then there exists a (p;infinite)-atomic decomposition which converges to f in Ls(Rn). From this fact, we prove that a bounded operator T on Ls(Rn) can be extended to a bounded operator from Hp(Rn) into Lp(Rn) if and only if T is bounded uniformly in Lp norm on all (p;infini

Ivan Dokmanic, Reza Parhizkar, Juri Ranieri, Martin Vetterli

Euclidean distance matrices (EDM) are matrices of squared distances between points. The definition is deceivingly simple: thanks to their many useful properties they have found applications in psychometrics, crystallography, machine learning, wireless sensor networks, acoustics, and more. Despite the usefulness of EDMs, they seem to be insufficiently known i

Serik Sagitov, Alexey Lindo

The linear-fractional Galton-Watson processes is a well known case when many characteristics of a branching process can be computed explicitly. In this paper we extend the two-parameter linear-fractional family to a much richer four-parameter family of reproduction laws. The corresponding Galton-Watson processes also allow for explicit calculations, now with

Ioannis Florakis

I review recent work on computing radiative corrections to non-abelian gauge couplings in four-dimensional heterotic vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry. The prototype models can be considered as K3 surfaces with additional Scherk-Schwarz fluxes inducing the spontaneous $\mathcal{N}=2 \to \mathcal{N}=0$ breaking. Remarkably, although the gauge thre

Axel Gandy, F. Din-Houn Lau

Resampling is a standard step in particle filters and more generally sequential Monte Carlo methods. We present an algorithm, called chopthin, for resampling weighted particles. In contrast to standard resampling methods the algorithm does not produce a set of equally weighted particles; instead it merely enforces an upper bound on the ratio between the weig

Kathrin Glau

The challenge to fruitfully merge state-of-the-art techniques from mathematical finance and numerical analysis has inspired researchers to develop fast deterministic option pricing methods. As a result, highly efficient algorithms to compute option prices in Lévy models by solving partial integro differential equations have been developed. In order to provid

Sandip Singh

The article [14] gives a list of 51 symplectic hypergeometric monodromy groups corresponding to primitive pairs of degree four polynomials, which are products of cyclotomic polynomials, and for which, the absolute value of the leading coefficient of the difference polynomial is greater than 2. It follows from [12] and [14] that 12 of the 51 monodromy groups

Taegeun Song, Leonid Y. Gorelik, Robert I. Shekhter, Mikhail N. Kiselev

We investigate electron shuttling in three-terminal nanoelectromechanocal device built on a movable metallic rod oscillating between two drains. The device shows a double-well shaped electromechanical potential tunable by a source-drain bias voltage. Four stationary regimes controllable by the bias are found for this device: (i) single stable fixed point, (i

Takuro Abe

We consider the triple $(\mathcal{A},\mathcal{A}&#39;,\mathcal{A}^H)$ of hyperplane arrangements and the division of their characteristic polynomials. We show that the freeness of $\mathcal{A}^H$ and the division of $χ(\mathcal{A};t)$ by $χ(\mathcal{A}^H;t)$ confirm the freeness of $\mathcal{A}$. The key ingredient of this &#34;division theorem&#34; on freen

Angel Ballesteros, Francisco J. Herranz, Pedro Naranjo

We present the generalisation to (3+1) dimensions of a quantum deformation of the (2+1) (Anti)-de Sitter and Poincaré Lie algebras that is compatible with the conditions imposed by the Chern-Simons formulation of (2+1) gravity. Since such compatibility is automatically fulfilled by deformations coming from Drinfel&#39;d double structures, we believe said str

Konrad Schöbel

The fundamental tool in the classification of orthogonal coordinate systems in which the Hamilton-Jacobi and other prominent equations can be solved by a separation of variables are second order Killing tensors which satisfy the Nijenhuis integrability conditions. The latter are a system of three non-linear partial differential equations. We give a simple an

Yoshifumi Nakata, Christoph Hirche, Ciara Morgan, Andreas Winter

Unitary $2$-designs are random unitaries simulating up to the second order statistical moments of the uniformly distributed random unitaries, often referred to as Haar random unitaries. They are used in a wide variety of theoretical and practical quantum information protocols, and also have been used to model the dynamics in complex quantum many-body systems

Ealeal Bear, Noam Soker

We suggest that tidal destruction of Earth-like and icy planets near a white dwarf (WD) might lead to the formation of one or more low-mass - Earth-like and lighter - planets in tight orbits around the WD. The formation of the new WD planetary system starts with a tidal break-up of the parent planet to planetesimals near the tidal radius of about 1Rsun. Inte

Julia Borchardt, Benjamin Knorr

We apply pseudo-spectral methods to construct global solutions of functional renormalisation group equations in field space to high accuracy. For this, we introduce a basis to resolve both finite as well as asymptotic regions of effective potentials. Our approach is benchmarked using the critical behaviour of the scalar $O(1)$ model, providing results for th

Levente Rózsa, László Udvardi, László Szunyogh, István A. Szabó

We present detailed investigations of the magnetic properties of an Fe monolayer on W and Ta (110) surfaces based on the ab initio screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method. By calculating tensorial exchange coupling coefficients, the ground states of the systems are determined using atomistic spin dynamics simulations. Different types of ground states are foun

Hans Konrad Knörr, Peter Otte, Wolfgang Spitzer

According to Anderson&#39;s orthogonality catastrophe, the overlap of the $N$-particle ground states of a free Fermi gas with and without an (electric) potential decays in the thermodynamic limit. For the finite one-dimensional system various boundary conditions are employed. Unlike the usual setup the perturbation is introduced by a magnetic (vector) potent

Michael Penkava, Anne Pichereau

We study $\mathbb Z_2$-graded Poisson structures defined on $\mathbb Z_2$-graded commutative polynomial algebras. In small dimensional cases, we exhibit classifications of such Poisson structures, obtain the associated Poisson $\mathbb Z_2$-graded cohomology and in some cases, deformations of these Poisson brackets and $P_\infty$-algebra structures. We highl

M. Bashkanov, H. Clement, T. Skorodko

Recently it has been shown by exclusive and kinematically complete experiments that the appearance of a narrow resonance structure in double-pionic fusion reactions is strictly correlated with the appearance of the so-called ABC effect, which denotes a pronounced low-mass enhancement in the $ππ$-invariant mass spectrum. Whereas the resonance structure got it

Yosef Caplan, Gideon Wachtel, Dror Orgad

Recent experiments show that charge-density-wave correlations are prevalent in underdoped cuprate superconductors. The correlations are short ranged at weak magnetic fields but their intensity and spatial extent increase rapidly at low temperatures beyond a crossover field. Here we consider the possibility of long-range charge-density-wave order in a model o

Martin Lazar

A method is developed for analysing asymptotic behaviour of terms involving an arbitrary integer order powers of L p functions by means of H-measures. It is applied to the small amplitude homogenisation problem for a stationary diffusion equation, in which coefficients are assumed to be analytic perturbations of a constant, enabling formulæ for higher order

Taras Radul

This paper studies n-player games where players beliefs about their opponents behaviour are capacities. The concept of an equilibrium under uncertainty was introduced J.Dow and S.Werlang (J Econ. Theory 64 (1994) 205--224) for two players and was extended to n-player games by J.Eichberger and D.Kelsey (Games Econ. Behav. 30 (2000) 183--215). Expected utility

Vardan Oganesyan

In this paper we consider differential opeartor L=d^4_x + u(x). We find the commutativity condition for operator L with a differential operator M of order 4g+2, where L and M are operators of rank 2. Some examples are constructed. These examples don&#39;t commute with differential opeartors of odd order.

Mattias Dahl, Anna Sakovich

When working with asymptotically hyperbolic initial data sets for general relativity it is convenient to assume certain simplifying properties. We prove that the subset of initial data sets with such properties is dense in the set of physically reasonable asymptotically hyperbolic initial data sets. More specifically, we show that an asymptotically hyperboli

Thomas Engl, Juan Diego Urbina, Quirin Hummel, Klaus Richter

We show that a theory of complex scattering between many-body (Fock) states can be constructed such that its classical limit is a canonical transformation thus encoding quantum interference in the semiclassical form of the associated unitary operator. Based on this idea, we study the different coherent effects expected under different choices of the many-bod

Zhongchang Liu, Wing Shing Wong, Hui Cheng

This paper considers the cluster synchronization problem of generic linear dynamical systems whose system models are distinct in different clusters. These nonidentical linear models render control design and coupling conditions highly correlated if static couplings are used for all individual systems. In this paper, a dynamic coupling structure, which incorp

Ryosuke Akashi, Masayuki Ochi, Sándor Bordács, Ryuji Suzuki

We find that the motion of the valley electrons -- electronic states close to the ${\rm K}$ and ${\rm K&#39;}$ points of the Brillouin zone -- is confined into two dimension when the layers of MoS$_{2}$ follow the 3R stacking, while in the 2H polytype the bands have dispersion in all the three dimensions. According to our first-principles band structure calc

P. Białas, J. Kowal, A. Strzelecki, T. Bednarski

We present a fast GPU implementation of the image reconstruction routine, for a novel two strip PET detector that relies solely on the time of flight measurements.