April 2015 arXiv papers — page 12

Yuyin Sun, Adish Singla, Dieter Fox, Andreas Krause

Hierarchies of concepts are useful in many applications from navigation to organization of objects. Usually, a hierarchy is created in a centralized manner by employing a group of domain experts, a time-consuming and expensive process. The experts often design one single hierarchy to best explain the semantic relationships among the concepts, and ignore the

Jérémy Barbay, Pablo Pérez-Lantero

The Swap-Insert Correction distance from a string $S$ of length $n$ to another string $L$ of length $m\geq n$ on the alphabet $[1..d]$ is the minimum number of insertions, and swaps of pairs of adjacent symbols, converting $S$ into $L$. Contrarily to other correction distances, computing it is NP-Hard in the size $d$ of the alphabet. We describe an algorithm

Andrew F. Celsus, Alfredo Deaño, Daan Huybrechs, Arieh Iserles

In this paper we investigate algebraic, differential and asymptotic properties of polynomials $p_n(x)$ that are orthogonal with respect to the complex oscillatory weight $w(x)=e^{iωx}$ on the interval $[-1,1]$, where $ω>0$. We also investigate related quantities such as Hankel determinants and recurrence coefficients. We prove existence of the polynomials $p

Mireille Bossy, Jean-Francois Jabir

In this paper, we prove a particle approximation, in the sense of the propagation of chaos, of a Lagrangian stochastic model submitted to specular boundary condition and satisfying the mean no-permeability condition.

Matt Taddy

There have been many recent advances in the structure and measurement of distributed language models: those that map from words to a vector-space that is rich in information about word choice and composition. This vector-space is the distributed language representation. The goal of this note is to point out that any distributed representation can be turned i

Giulio Guzzinati, Laura Clark, Armand Béché, Roeland Juchtmans

In this paper we explore the desirability of a transmission electron microscope in which the phase of the electron wave can be freely controlled. We discuss different existing methods to manipulate the phase of the electron wave and their limitations. We show how with the help of current techniques the electron wave can already be crafted into specific class

Alejandro de la Puente, Alejandro Szynkman

We study the collider signatures of a long-lived massive colored scalar transforming trivially under the weak interaction and decaying within the inner sections of a detector such as ATLAS or CMS. In our study, we assume that the colored scalar couples at tree-level to a top quark and a stable fermion, possibly arising from a dark sector or from supersymmetr

Triloki Nath

We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the differentiability of the distance function generated by a nonempty closed set K in a real normed linear space X under a proximinality condition on K. We do not assume the uniform differentiability constraints on the norm of the space as in Giles [16]. Hence, our result advances that of Giles [16]. We

M. A. Vasiliev

A new construction for gauge invariant functionals in the nonlinear higher-spin theory is proposed. Being supported by differential forms closed by virtue of the higher-spin equations, invariant functionals are associated with central elements of the higher-spin algebra. In the on-shell $AdS_4$ higher-spin theory we identify a four-form conjectured to repres

Luca Peliti

The expressions of momentum and energy of a particle in special relativity are often derived in a quite unconvincing manner in elementary text, by resorting either to electrodynamic or quantum considerations, or via the introduction of the less-than-elementary concept of a four-vector. It is instead possible, by exploiting considerations introduced by P. Eps

Vincenzo De Florio

This document describes the DIR net, a distributed environment which is part of the EFTOS fault tolerance framework. The DIR net is a system consisting of two components, called DIR Manager (or, shortly, the manager) and DIR Backup Agent (shortly, the backup). One manager and a set of backups is located in the system to be `guarded', one component per no

Andre Belotto da Silva, Edward Bierstone, Vincent Grandjean, Pierre D. Milman

The main problem studied is resolution of singularities of the cotangent sheaf of a complex- or real-analytic variety Y (or of an algebraic variety Y over a field of characteristic zero). Given Y, we ask whether there is a global resolution of singularities s: X -> Y such that the pulled-back cotangent sheaf of Y is generated by differential monomials in sui

Alexander Dranishnikov

We present a reduction of the Hilbert-Smith conjecture in the case of the finite dimensional orbit space to some algebraic topology problems.

Dillon Foight, Tolga Guver, Feryal Ozel, Patrick Slane

We present a comprehensive study of interstellar X-ray extinction using the extensive Chandra supernova remnant archive and use our results to refine the empirical relation between the hydrogen column density and optical extinction. In our analysis, we make use of the large, uniform data sample to assess various systematic uncertainties in the measurement of

Wojciech Kotłowski, Krzysztof Dembczyński

We consider optimization of generalized performance metrics for binary classification by means of surrogate losses. We focus on a class of metrics, which are linear-fractional functions of the false positive and false negative rates (examples of which include $F_β$-measure, Jaccard similarity coefficient, AM measure, and many others). Our analysis concerns t

Norbert Klein

The discrepancy between two recently reported experimental values of the gravitational constant G was analysed within a differential version of MOND theory. In contrast to the most commonly accepted interpretation of MOND theory, it is assumed that only the relative gravitational acceleration between a test mass and an array of source masses determines the m

David R. Bergman

Caustic formation occurs within a ray skeleton as optical or acoustic fields propagate in a medium with variable refractive properties and are unphysical, their presence being an artifact of the ray approximation of the field, and methods of correcting the field near a caustic are well known. Differential geometry provides a novel approach to calculating aco

David Mesterházy, Jan H. Stockemer, Yuya Tanizaki

We investigate the transition from unitary to dissipative dynamics in the relativistic $O(N)$ vector model with the $λ(φ^{2})^{2}$ interaction using the nonperturbative functional renormalization group in the real-time formalism. In thermal equilibrium, the theory is characterized by two scales, the interaction range for coherent scattering of particles and

Sonya J. Ridden, Hannah H. Chang, Konstantinos C. Zygalakis, Ben D. MacArthur

Populations of mammalian stem cells commonly exhibit considerable cell-cell variability. However, the functional role of this diversity is unclear. Here, we analyze expression fluctuations of the stem cell surface marker Sca1 in mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells using a simple stochastic model and find that the observed dynamics naturally lie close to a c

Sergi Elizalde

A consecutive pattern in a permutation $π$ is another permutation $σ$ determined by the relative order of a subsequence of contiguous entries of $π$. Traditional notions such as descents, runs and peaks can be viewed as particular examples of consecutive patterns in permutations, but the systematic study of these patterns has flourished in the last 15 years,

Pedro Schwaller

In this work, we show that a large class of models with a composite dark sector undergo a strong first order phase transition in the early universe, which could lead to a detectable gravitational wave signal. We summarise the basic conditions for a strong first order phase transition for SU(N) dark sectors with n_f flavours, calculate the gravitational wave

Daniel Persson, Roberto Volpato

We consider four dimensional CHL models with sixteen spacetime supersymmetries obtained from orbifolds of type IIA superstring on K3 x T^2 by a Z_N symmetry acting (possibly) non-geometrically on K3. We show that most of these models (in particular, for geometric symmetries) are self-dual under a weak-strong duality acting on the heterotic axio-dilaton modul

Lionel Lang

In this paper, we suggest the following generalisation of Mikhalkin's simple Harnack curves: a generalised simple Harnack curve is a parametrised real algebraic curve in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^2$ with totally real logarithmic Gauss map. We investigate which of the many properties of simple Harnack curves survive the latter generalisation. We also show how tropi

Aaron Naber, Daniele Valtorta

If one considers an integral varifold $I^m\subseteq M$ with bounded mean curvature, and if $S^k(I)\equiv\{x\in M: \text{ no tangent cone at $x$ is }k+1\text{-symmetric}\}$ is the standard stratification of the singular set, then it is well known that $\dim S^k\leq k$. In complete generality nothing else is known about the singular sets $S^k(I)$. In this pape

Ben Hoyle

We propose a new method to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxies by using the full galaxy image in each measured band. This method draws from the latest techniques and advances in machine learning, in particular Deep Neural Networks. We pass the entire multi-band galaxy image into the machine learning architecture to obtain a redshift estimate that i

Yang Lei, Simon F. Ross

We consider recently-constructed solutions of three dimensional SL(N,R) x SL(N,R) Chern-Simons theories with non-relativistic symmetries. Solutions of the Chern-Simons theories can generically be mapped to solutions of a gravitational theory with a higher-spin gauge symmetry. However, we will show that some of the non-relativistic solutions are not equivalen

David Sutter, Omar Fawzi, Renato Renner

A central question in quantum information theory is to determine how well lost information can be reconstructed. Crucially, the corresponding recovery operation should perform well without knowing the information to be reconstructed. In this work, we show that the quantum conditional mutual information measures the performance of such recovery operations. Mo

Nina Roth, Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris

We propose a method to generate `genetically-modified' (GM) initial conditions for high-resolution simulations of galaxy formation in a cosmological context. Building on the Hoffman-Ribak algorithm, we start from a reference simulation with fully random initial conditions, then make controlled changes to specific properties of a single halo (such as its

Joel Akeret, Alexandre Refregier, Adam Amara, Sebastian Seehars

Bayesian inference is often used in cosmology and astrophysics to derive constraints on model parameters from observations. This approach relies on the ability to compute the likelihood of the data given a choice of model parameters. In many practical situations, the likelihood function may however be unavailable or intractable due to non-gaussian errors, no

Hooman Davoudiasl, Yue Zhang

We propose and investigate a novel, minimal, and experimentally testable framework for baryogenesis, dubbed dexiogenesis, using baryon number violating effective interactions of right-handed Majorana neutrinos responsible for the seesaw mechanism. The distinct LHC signature of our framework is same-sign top quark final states, possibly originating from displ

L. A. Dal, A. R. Raklev

Antideuterons are a potential messenger for dark matter annihilation or decay in our own galaxy, with very low backgrounds expected from astrophysical processes. The standard coalescence model of antideuteron formation, while simple to implement, is shown to be under considerable strain by recent data from the LHC. We suggest a new empirically based model, w

P. Torne, R. P. Eatough, R. Karuppusamy, M. Kramer

We report on simultaneous observations of the magnetar SGR J1745-2900 at frequencies $ν= 2.54$ to $225\,\rm{GHz}$ using the Nancay 94-m equivalent, Effelsberg 100-m, and IRAM 30-m radio telescopes. We detect SGR J1745-2900 up to 225 GHz, the highest radio frequency detection of pulsed emission from a neutron star to date. Strong single pulses are also observ

Sasha Hinkley, Brendan P. Bowler, Arthur Vigan, Kimberly M. Aller

We present 0.95-1.80 $μ$m spectroscopy of the $\sim$12-27 $M_{\rm Jup}$ companion orbiting the faint ($R$$\sim$13.6), young ($\sim$120 Myr) M-dwarf 2MASS J01225093--2439505 ("2M0122--2439 B") at 1.5 arcsecond separation (50 AU). Our coronagraphic long-slit spectroscopy was obtained with the new high contrast imaging platform VLT-SPHERE during Science

Laura A. Lopez, Brian W. Grefenstette, Stephen P. Reynolds, Hongjun An

We report results from deep observations (~750 ks) of Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) with NuSTAR. Using these data, we produce narrow-band images over several energy bands to identify the regions producing the hardest X-rays and to search for radioactive decay line emission from 44Ti. We find that the hardest (>10 keV) X-rays are concentrated in the sou

Yonit Hochberg, Yue Zhao, Kathryn M. Zurek

We propose and study a new class of superconducting detectors which are sensitive to O(meV) electron recoils from dark matter-electron scattering. Such devices could detect dark matter as light as the warm dark matter limit, mX > keV. We compute the rate of dark matter scattering off of free electrons in a (superconducting) metal, including the relevant Paul

A. Maselli, F. Massaro, R. D'Abrusco, G. Cusumano

Blazars are radio-loud active galactic nuclei well known for their non thermal emission spanning a wide range of frequencies. The Roma-BZCAT is, to date, the most comprehensive list of these sources. We performed the cross-match of several catalogs obtained from recent surveys at different frequencies to search for new blazars. We cross-matched the 1$^{st}$

Eial Teomy, Yair Shokef

We investigate the relation between the cooperative length and the relaxation time, represented respectively by the culling time and the persistence time, in the Fredrickson-Andersen, Kob-Andersen and spiral kinetically-constrained models. By mapping the dynamics to diffusion of defects, we find a relation between the persistence time, $τ_{p}$, which is the

Sarath Chandar, Mitesh M. Khapra, Hugo Larochelle, Balaraman Ravindran

Common Representation Learning (CRL), wherein different descriptions (or views) of the data are embedded in a common subspace, is receiving a lot of attention recently. Two popular paradigms here are Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) based approaches and Autoencoder (AE) based approaches. CCA based approaches learn a joint representation by maximizing cor

Hong-Hao Tu, Germán Sierra

We show that infinite Matrix Product States (MPS) constructed from conformal field theories can describe ground states of one-dimensional critical systems with open boundary conditions. To illustrate this, we consider a simple infinite MPS for a spin-1/2 chain and derive an inhomogeneous open Haldane-Shastry model. For the spin-1/2 open Haldane-Shastry model

Larry McLerran, Bjoern Schenke

We consider the possibility that quark and gluon distributions in the medium created in high energy heavy ion collisions may be modified by a power law tail at energies much higher than the temperature. We parametrize such a tail by Tsallis distributions with an exponent motivated by phenomenology. These distributions are characterized by an effective temper

Vladimir Dragovic, Borislav Gajic, Bozidar Jovanovic

The aim of this note is to present simple proofs of the completeness of Manakov's integrals for a motion of a rigid body fixed at a point in $\mathbb R^n$, as well as for geodesic flows on a class of homogeneous spaces $SO(n)/SO(n_1)\times\dots\times SO(n_r)$.

Luc Deleaval, Nizar Demni, Hassan Youssfi

In this paper, we pursue the investigations started in \cite{Mas-You} where the authors provide a construction of the Dunkl intertwining operator for a large subset of the set of regular multiplicity values. More precisely, we make concrete the action of this operator on homogeneous polynomials when the root system is of dihedral type and under a mild assump

Yuxin Chen, Changho Suh

This paper explores the preference-based top-$K$ rank aggregation problem. Suppose that a collection of items is repeatedly compared in pairs, and one wishes to recover a consistent ordering that emphasizes the top-$K$ ranked items, based on partially revealed preferences. We focus on the Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model that postulates a set of latent prefere

Hans-Ulrich Desgranges

The thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations for the Coqblin-Schrieffer model have been solved for the first time to obtain the magnetic susceptibility in the presence of crystal fields for non-zero temperatures. For the case of N = 4 effective ionic states an analytic expression for the limiting values of the pseudo-energies has been found facilitating the nume

B. Hoare, A. A. Tseytlin

We consider two integrable deformations of 2d sigma models on supercosets associated with AdS_n x S^n. The first, the "eta-deformation" (based on the Yang-Baxter sigma model), is a one-parameter generalization of the standard superstring action on AdS_n x S^n, while the second, the "lambda-deformation" (based on the deformed gauged WZW model)

Michal Kocvara, Michael Stingl

The goal of this paper is to present an overview of the software collection for the solution of linear and nonlinear semidefinite optimization problems PENNON. In the first part we present theoretical and practical details of the underlying algorithm and several implementation issues. In the second part we introduce the particular codes PENSDP, PENBMI and PE

Sergei Rodionov

A new method of regime shift detection in the correlation coefficient is proposed. The method is designed to find multiple change-points with unknown locations in time series. It signals a possible regime shift in real time and allows for its monitoring. The method is tested on randomly generated time series with predefined change-points. It is applied to ex

Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Justin C. W. Song

Vertical heterostructures of van der Waals materials enable new pathways to tune charge and energy transport characteristics in nanoscale systems. We propose that graphene Schottky junctions can host a special kind of photoresponse which is characterized by strongly coupled heat and charge flows that run vertically out of the graphene plane. This regime can

G. Gori, A. Trombettoni

The aim of the paper is to present numerical results supporting the presence of conformal invariance in three dimensional statistical mechanics models at criticality and to elucidate the geometric aspects of universality. As a case study we study three dimensional percolation at criticality in bounded domains. Both on discrete and continuous models of critic

A. Guseva, A. P. Willis, R. Hollerbach, M. Avila

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to be a powerful source of turbulence and momentum transport in astrophysical accretion discs, but obtaining observational evidence of its operation is challenging. Recently, laboratory experiments of Taylor--Couette flow with externally imposed axial and azimuthal magnetic fields have revealed the kinematic

Tyler Foster, Dhruv Ranganathan

We show that the tropicalization of a connected variety over a higher rank valued field is a path connected topological space. This establishes an affirmative answer to a question posed by Banerjee. Higher rank tropical varieties are studied as the images of "Hahn analytifications", introduced in this paper. A Hahn analytification is a space of valua

J. R. L. Santos, P. H. R. S. Moraes

One common approach for cosmic inflation consists in couple Einstein's gravity with a scalar field, often referred to inflaton field. In order to derive analytic simple scenarios, we usually work in the {\it slow-roll} regime. In such an approximation one considers the scalar field potentials to be nearly flat. It is possible to directly generalize such

Thierry Mora

To adapt their behaviour in changing environments, cells sense concentrations by binding external ligands to their receptors. However, incorrect ligands may bind nonspecifically to receptors, and when their concentration is large, this binding activity may interfere with the sensing of the ligand of interest. Here, I derive analytically the physical limit to

Anshuman Maharana, Markus Rummel, Yoske Sumitomo

We study a model of accidental inflation in type IIB string theory where inflation occurs near the inflection point of a small Kähler modulus. A racetrack structure helps to alleviate the known concern that string-loop corrections may spoil Kähler Moduli Inflation unless having a significant suppression via the string coupling or a special brane setup. Also,

Ivan Polekhin

We consider the forced motion of a relativistic particle constrained on a curve and present sufficient conditions for periodic oscillations by means of an illustrative geometrical approach. Obtained result is illustrated by a few examples including the forced relativistic pendulum.

Semyon Klevtsov, Paul Wiegmann

We argue that in addition to the Hall conductance and the nondissipative component of the viscous tensor, there exists a third independent transport coefficient, which is precisely quantized. It takes constant values along quantum Hall plateaus. We show that the new coefficient is the Chern number of a vector bundle over moduli space of surfaces of genus 2 o

Kimmo Kainulainen, Kimmo Tuominen, Jussi Virkajärvi

We consider dark matter in a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) which breaks electroweak symmetry dynamically and leads to a complete unification of the SM and technicolor coupling constants. The unification scale is determined to be $M_{\rm U} \approx 2.2 \times 10^{15}$ GeV and the unified coupling $α_{\rm U} \approx 0.0304$. Moreover, unificatio

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Rabindra N. Mohapatra

A simple TeV scale model for baryon and lepton number violation is presented, where neutrino mass arises via a one-loop radiative seesaw effect and B-violation obeys $ΔB=2$ selection rule. The stability of proton is connected to the neutrino mass generation. Matter-antimatter asymmetry is generated in this model via resonant baryogenesis mechanism.

Brandon K. Wiggins, Victor Migenes, Joseph M. Smidt

Questions surround the connection of luminous extragalactic masers to galactic processes. The observation that water and hydroxyl megamasers rarely coexist in the same galaxy has given rise to a hypothesis that the two species appear in different phases of nuclear activity. The detection of simultaneous hydroxyl and water megamaser emission toward IC694 has

J. A. Gibbard, M. Dethlefsen, M. Kohlhoff, C. J. Rennick

The charge transfer (ionization) of hydrogen Rydberg atoms (principal quantum number $n=25-34$) incident at a Cu(100) surface is investigated. Unlike fully metallic surfaces, where the Rydberg electron energy is degenerate with the conduction band of the metal, the Cu(100) surface has a projected bandgap at these energies, and only discrete image states are

V. V. Miasoyedov

In the article we establish the Hardy-Littlewood inequality $ π(x + y) \leq π(x) + π(y) $. We also prove that the naturally ordered primes $p_1=2,p_2=3,p_3=5,p_4=7,\dots$ satisfy the inequality $ p_ {a + b}> p_a + p_b $ for all $a, \ b \geq 2$.

Tuomas Orponen

First, let $K \subset B(0,1) \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}$ be a set with $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}^{1}(K) \sim 1$, and write $π_{e}(K)$ for the orthogonal projection of $K$ into the line spanned by $e \in S^{1}$. For $1/2 \leq s < 1$, write $$E_{s} := \{e : N(π_{e}(K),δ) \leq δ^{-s}\}, $$ where $N(A,r)$ is the $r$-covering number of the set $A$. It is well-known -- an

Taras V. Zagoskin, Alexander Yu. Korchin

Effects are investigated of CP symmetry violation in the decay of a scalar particle X (the Higgs boson) into two off-mass-shell Z bosons both decaying into a fermion-antifermion pair, $X \to Z_1^* \, Z_2^* \to f_1 \bar{f_1} \, f_2 \bar{f_2}$. The most general form of the amplitude of the transition $X \to Z_1^* Z_2^*$, wherein the boson X may not have defini

Pavel E. Ryabov, Alexander Y. Savushkin

The phase topology of the integrable Hamiltonian system on $e(3)$ found by V.V.Sokolov (2001) and generalizing the Kowalevski case is investigated. The generalization contains, along with a homogeneous potential force field, gyroscopic forces depending on the configurational variables. Relative equilibria are classified, their type is calculated and the char

T. S. Jackson, David Bauer, Rahul Roy

We study how the stability of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is influenced by the geometry of band structure in lattice Chern insulators. We consider the Hofstadter model, which converges to continuum Landau levels in the limit of small flux per plaquette. This gives us a degree of analytic control not possible in generic lattice models, and we ar

Attila Nagy

In this paper we characterize and construct semigroups whose right regular representation is a left cancellative semigroup. These semigroups will be called left equalizer simple semigroups. For a congruence $\varrho$ on a semigroup $S$, let ${\mathbb F}[\varrho]$ denote the ideal of the semigroup algebra ${\mathbb F}[S]$ which determines the kernel of the ex

Attila Nagy

In his paper &#34;On a construction of semigroups&#34;, M. Kolibiar gives a construction for a semigroup $T$ (beginning from a semigroup $S$) which is said to be derived from the semigroup $S$ by a $θ$-construction. He asserted that every semigroup $T$ can be derived from the factor semigroup $T/θ(T)$ by a $θ$-construction, where $θ(T)$ is the congruence on

Xiao-Qi Sun, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Zhong Wang

We study dynamical mass generation and the resultant helical spin orders in topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, including the edge states of quantum spin Hall insulators, the surface states of weak topological insulators, and the bulk materials of Weyl semimetals. In particular, the helical spin textures of Weyl semimetals manifest the spin-momentum locki

F. Febres Cordero, L. Reina

The production of both charged and neutral electroweak gauge bosons in association with $b$ jets has attracted a lot of experimental and theoretical attention in recent years because of its central role in the physics programs of both the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The improved level of accuracy achieved both in the theoretical pre

Asutosh Kumar

Mutual information is the reciprocal information that is common to or shared by two or more parties. Quantum mutual information for bipartite quantum systems is non-negative, and bears the interpretation of total correlation between the two subsystems. This may, however, no longer be true for three or more party quantum systems. In this paper, we propose an

Jeffrey Kuan

We study two generalizations of the asymmetric simple exclusion process with two types of particles. Particles of type 1 can jump over particles of type 2, while particles of type 2 can only influence the jump rates of particles of type 1. We prove that the processes are self-dual and explicitly write the duality function. As an application, an expression fo

E. So, J. A. Gibbard, T. P. Softley

Wavepacket propagation calculations are reported for the interaction of a Rydberg hydrogen atom ($n=2-8)$ with Cu(111) and Cu(100) surfaces (represented by a Chulkov potential), in comparison with a Jellium surface. Both copper surfaces have a projected band gap at the surface in the energy range degenerate with some or all of the Rydberg energies. The charg

Jérémy Ribeiro, Frédéric Grosshans

We use the entanglement sampling techniques developed by Dupuis, Fawzi and Wehner to find a lower bound on the entanglement needed by a coalition of cheater attacking the quantum position verification protocol using the four BB84 states in the scenario where the cheaters have no access to a quantum channel but share a (possibly mixed) entangled state $\tilde

James E. Owen, Marcelo A. Alvarez

We have investigated the evaporation of close-in exoplanets irradiated by ionizing photons. We find that the properties of the flow are controlled by the ratio of the recombination time to the flow time-scale. When the recombination time-scale is short compared to the flow time-scale the the flow is in approximate local ionization equilibrium with a thin ion

Remi Cocou Avohou

Polynomials on stranded graphs are higher dimensional generalization of Tutte and Bollobás-Riordan polynomials [Math. Ann. 323 (2002), 81-96]. Here, we deepen the analysis of the polynomial invariant defined on rank 3 weakly-colored stranded graphs introduced in arXiv:1301.1987. We successfully find in dimension $D\geq3$ a modified Euler characteristic with

Uli Walther

For a germ $f$ on a complex manifold $X$, we introduce a complex derived from the Liouville form acting on logarithmic differential forms, and give an exactness criterion. We use this Liouville complex to connect properties of the $D$-module generated by $f^s$ to homological data of the Jacobian ideal; specifically we show that for a large class of germs the

Martin Hairer, Cyril Labbé

We carry out the construction of some ill-posed multiplicative stochastic heat equations on unbounded domains. The two main equations our result covers are, on the one hand the parabolic Anderson model on $\mathbf{R}^3$, and on the other hand the KPZ equation on $\mathbf{R}$ via the Cole-Hopf transform. To perform these constructions, we adapt the theory of

Gerald John Lapeyre

We present a model of anomalous diffusion consisting of an ensemble of particles undergoing homogeneous Brownian motion except for confinement by randomly placed reflecting boundaries. For power-law distributed compartment sizes, we calculate exact and asymptotic values of the ensemble averaged mean squared displacement and find that it increases subdiffusiv

Jakub Konieczny

We study the number of values taken by the sums $\sum_{i=u}^{v-1} a_i$, where $a_1,a_2,\dots,a_n$ is a permutation of $1,2,\dots,n$ and $1 \leq u < v \leq n+1$. In particular, we show that for a random choice of a permutation, with high probability there are $(\frac{1+e^{-2}}{4} +o(1)) n^2$ such sums. This answers an old question of Erdős and Harzheim. We al

Likai Li, Fangyuan Yang, Guo Jun Ye, Zuocheng Zhang

Development of new, high quality functional materials has been at the forefront of condensed matter research. The recent advent of two-dimensional black phosphorus has greatly enriched the material base of two-dimensional electron systems. Significant progress has been made to achieve high mobility black phosphorus two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) since t

Aki-Hiro Sato, Paolo Tasca, Takashi Isogai

Systemic risk in banking systems remains a crucial issue that it has not been completely understood. In our toy model, banks are exposed to two sources of risks, namely, market risk from their investments in assets external to the banking system and credit risk from their lending in the interbank market. By and large, both risks increase during severe financ

ALICE Collaboration

The transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) dependence of the nuclear modification factor $R_{\rm AA}$ and the centrality dependence of the average transverse momentum $\langle p_{\rm T}\rangle$ for inclusive J/$ψ$ have been measured with ALICE for Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV in the e$^+$e$^-$ decay channel at mid-rapidity ($|y|<0.8$). The $

Sascha Witt

We study the problem of computing all Pareto-optimal journeys in a public transit network regarding the two criteria of arrival time and number of transfers taken. We take a novel approach, focusing on trips and transfers between them, allowing fine-grained modeling. Our experiments on the metropolitan network of London show that the algorithm computes full

Yanhao Tang, Wei Xie, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire

We analyze exciton spin dynamics in GaSe under nonresonant circularly polarized optical pumping with an exciton spin-flip rate-equation model. The model reproduces polarized time-dependent photoluminescence measurements in which the initial circular polarization approaches unity even when pumping with 0.15 eV excess energy. At T = 10 K, the exciton spin rela

Ya. Kononov, A. Morozov

Empirical analysis of many colored knot polynomials, made possible by recent computational advances in Chern-Simons theory, reveals their stability: for any given negative N and any given knot the set of coefficients of the polynomial in r-th symmetric representation does not change with r, if it is large enough. This fact reflects the non-trivial and previo

A. E. Taylor, T. Berlijn, S. E. Hahn, A. F. May

We report elastic and inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the high-TC ferromagnet Mn(1+delta)Sb. Measurements were performed on a large, TC=434 K, single crystal with interstitial Mn content of delta~0.13. The neutron diffraction results reveal that the interstitial Mn has a magnetic moment, and that it is aligned antiparallel to the main Mn moment.

R. Hagala, C. Llinares, D. F. Mota

We investigate statistical properties of the distribution of matter at redshift zero in disformal gravity by using N-body simulations. The disformal model studied here consists of a conformally coupled symmetron field with an additional exponential disformal term. We conduct cosmological simulations to discover the impact of the new disformal terms in the ma

Balázs Bárány, Michał Rams, Károly Simon

In this paper we consider diagonally affine, planar IFS $Φ=\left\{S_i(x,y)=(α_ix+t_{i,1},β_iy+t_{i,2})\right\}_{i=1}^m$. Combining the techniques of Hochman and Feng, Hu we compute the Hausdorff dimension of the self-affine attractor and measures and we give an upper bound for the dimension of the exceptional set of parameters.

Erik Bertram, Ralf S. Klessen, Simon C. O. Glover

We employ the Delta-variance analysis and study the turbulent gas dynamics of simulated molecular clouds (MCs). Our models account for a simplified treatment of time-dependent chemistry and the non-isothermal nature of the gas. We investigate simulations using three different initial mean number densities of n_0 = 30, 100 and 300 cm^{-3} that span the range

Homa Alemzadeh, Daniel Chen, Andrew Lewis, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk

Robotic telesurgical systems are one of the most complex medical cyber-physical systems on the market, and have been used in over 1.75 million procedures during the last decade. Despite significant improvements in design of robotic surgical systems through the years, there have been ongoing occurrences of safety incidents during procedures that negatively im

Yen Do, Richard Oberlin, Eyvindur A. Palsson

For any dynamical system, we show that higher variation-norms for the sequence of ergodic bilinear averages of two functions satisfy a large range of bilinear Lp estimates. It follows that, with probability one, the number of fluctuations along this sequence may grow at most polynomially with respect to (the growth of) the underlying scale. These results str

Laszlo Hollo, Yunfeng Jiang, Andrei Petrovskii

In this paper we consider a special kind of three-point functions of HHL type at weak coupling in N=4 SYM theory and analyze its volume dependence. At strong coupling this kind of three-point functions were studied recently by Bajnok, Janik and Wereszczynski [1]. The authors considered some cases of HHL correlator in the su(2) sector and, relying on their ex

Nandan Pakhira, Ross H. McKenzie

Eighty years ago Eyring proposed that the shear viscosity of a liquid, $η$, has a quantum limit $η\gtrsim n\hbar$ where $n$ is the density of the fluid. Using holographic duality and the AdS/CFT correspondence in string theory Kovtun, Son, and Starinets (KSS) conjectured a universal bound $\fracη{s}\geq \frac{\hbar}{4πk_{B}}$ for the ratio between the shear

Yu-Xiang Zhang, Shengjun Wu, Zeng-Bing Chen

While the novel applications of weak values have recently attracted wide attention, weak measurement, the usual way to extract weak values, suffers from risky approximations and severe quantum noises. In this paper, we show that the weak-value information can be obtained exactly in strong measurement with postselections, via measuring the coupling-deformed p

Ira Herbst, Erik Skibsted

We study exponential decay rates of eigenfunctions of self-adjoint higher order elliptic operators on R^n. We are interested in decay rates as a function of direction. We show that the possible decay rates are to a large extent determined algebraically.

M. Abu-Shady

Heavy quarkonia, Bc-meson, and CS-meson masses are calculated within the framework of the N-dimensional radial Schrodinger equation. The Cornell potential is extended by including the harmonic oscillator potential. The energy eigenvalues and the corresponding wave functions are calculated in the N-dimensional space using the Nikiforov-Uvarov (NV) method. The

Alexandru Dimca

Let $X$ be surface with isolated singularities in the complex projective space $P^3$ and let denote $Y$ the smooth part of $X$. In this note we discuss some aspects of the topology of such quasi-projective surfaces $Y$: the fundamental groups and the associated Galois coverings, the second homotopy groups and the mixed Hodge structure on the first cohomology

T. J. Volkoff

We motivate and introduce a class of &#34;hierarchical&#34; quantum superposition states of $N$ coupled quantum oscillators. Unlike other well-known multimode photonic Schrödinger cat states such as entangled coherent states, the hierarchical superposition states are characterized as two-branch superpositions of tensor products of single-mode Schrödinger cat

Kevin R. Moon, Veronique Delouille, Alfred O. Hero

Meta learning uses information from base learners (e.g. classifiers or estimators) as well as information about the learning problem to improve upon the performance of a single base learner. For example, the Bayes error rate of a given feature space, if known, can be used to aid in choosing a classifier, as well as in feature selection and model selection fo

Yves Colin de Verdière, Luc Hillairet, Emmanuel Trélat

This is the first paper of a series in which we plan to study spectral asymptotics for sub-Riemannian Laplacians and to extend results that are classical in the Riemannian case concerning Weyl measures, quantum limits, quantum ergodicity, quasi-modes, trace formulae.Even if hypoelliptic operators have been well studied from the point of view of PDEs, global