April 2015 arXiv papers — page 14

Najib Kacem, Sébastien Baguet, Laurent Duraffourg, Guillaume Jourdan

Dynamic stabilization by simultaneous primary and superharmonic resonances for high order nonlinearity cancellation is demonstrated with an electrostatically-actuated, piezoresistively-transduced nanomechanical resonator. We prove experimentally how the combination of both the third-order nonlinearity cancellation and simultaneous resonances can be used to l

Bakir Farhi

The aim of this note is to show that any even perfect number, other than $6$, can be written as the sum of 5 cubes of natural numbers. We also conjecture that any even perfect number, other than $6$, can be written as the sum of only 3 cubes of natural numbers.

Niangjun Chen, Xiaoqi Ren, Shaolei Ren, Adam Wierman

Data centers have emerged as promising resources for demand response, particularly for emergency demand response (EDR), which saves the power grid from incurring blackouts during emergency situations. However, currently, data centers typically participate in EDR by turning on backup (diesel) generators, which is both expensive and environmentally unfriendly.

V. F. Babenko, V. V. Babenko, M. V. Polischuk

Generalizations of some known results on the best, best linear and best one-sided approxima- tions by trigonometric polynomials of the classes of 2π- periodic functions presented in the form of convolutions to the case of set-valued functions are obtained

Yuri Orlov

This paper considers two sets of formulas related to a Spin Coherence Time (SCT) case with only vertical oscillations in a purely electric ring, the first derived by the author for the field index m > 0 and the second by Ivan Koop for the field index m = 0. I argue that a continuous transition can exist from one set to the other (contrary to appearances), an

Carmen Cortázar, Manuel Elgueta, Fernando Quirós, Noemi Wolanski

We study the long time behavior of bounded, integrable solutions to a nonlocal diffusion equation, $\partial _t u=J*u-u$, where $J$ is a smooth, radially symmetric kernel with support $B_d(0)\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. The problem is set in an exterior two-dimensional domain which excludes a hole $\mathcal{H}$, and with zero Dirichlet data on $\mathcal{H}$. In the

Luqi Yuan, Shanhui Fan

We consider a system of dynamically-modulated photonic resonator lattice undergoing photonic transition, and show that in the ultra-strong coupling regime such a lattice can exhibit non-trivial topological properties, including topologically non-trivial band gaps, and the associated topologically-robust one-way edge states. Compared with the same system oper

João Marcos do Ó, Olímpio H. Miyagaki, Marco Squassina

We investigate the existence of ground state solutions for a class of nonlinear scalar field equations defined on whole real line, involving a fractional Laplacian and nonlinearities with Trudinger-Moser critical growth. We handle the lack of compactness of the associated energy functional due to the unboundedness of the domain and the presence of a limiting

Jeremy F. Alm, David A. Andrews

We construct an edge-coloring of $K_{N}$ (for $N = 3432$) in colors red, dark blue, and light blue, such that there are no monochromatic blue triangles and such that the coloring satisfies a certain strong universal-existential property. The edge-coloring of $K_{N}$ depends on a cyclic coloring of $K_{17}$ whose two color classes are $K_{4}$-, $K_{4,3}$-, an

Yuji Urata, Kuiyun Huang, Ryo Yamazaki, Takanori Sakamoto

We verified the off-axis jet model of X-ray flashes (XRFs) and examined a discovery of off-axis orphan gamma-ray burst (GRBs) afterglows. The XRF sample was selected on the basis of the following three factors: (1) a constraint on the lower peak energy of the prompt spectrum $E^{src}_{obs}$, (2) redshift measurements, and (3) multi-color observations of an e

K. Schnuelle, J. -U. Pott, H. -W. Rix, B. M. Peterson

A hot, dusty torus located around the outer edge of the broad-line region of AGNs is a fundamental ingredient in unified AGN models. While the existence of circumnuclear dust around AGNs at pc-scale radii is now widely accepted, questions about the origin, evolution and long-term stability of these dust tori remain unsettled.\\ We used reverberation mapping

Laurent Bruneau, Vojkan Jakšić, Yoram Last, Claude-Alain Pillet

We characterize the absolutely continuous spectrum of the one-dimensional Schrödinger operators $h=-Δ+v$ acting on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z}_+)$ in terms of the limiting behavior of the Landauer-Büttiker and Thouless conductances of the associated finite samples. The finite sample is defined by restricting $h$ to a finite interval $[1,L]\cap\mathbb{Z}_+$ and the co

Aayush Bansal, Abhinav Shrivastava, Carl Doersch, Abhinav Gupta

Building on the success of recent discriminative mid-level elements, we propose a surprisingly simple approach for object detection which performs comparable to the current state-of-the-art approaches on PASCAL VOC comp-3 detection challenge (no external data). Through extensive experiments and ablation analysis, we show how our approach effectively improves

Thomas Sandholm, Julie Ward, Filippo Balestrieri, Bernardo A. Huberman

The current Cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) market employs a resource-based selling model: customers rent nodes from the provider and pay per-node per-unit-time. This selling model places the burden upon customers to predict their job resource requirements and durations. Inaccurate prediction by customers can result in over-provisioning of resources, or

P. N. Abufager, R. Robles, N. Lorente

Metallorganic molecules have been proposed as excellent spin filters in molecular spintronics because of the large spin-polarization of their electronic structure. However, most of the studies involving spin transport, have disregarded fundamental aspects such as the magnetic anisotropy of the molecule and the excitation of spin-flip processes during electro

I. Lo Vecchio, L. Baldassarre, F. D'Apuzzo, O. Limaj

Vanadium sesquioxide V2O3 is considered a textbook example of Mott-Hubbard physics. In this paper we present an extended optical study of its whole temperature/doping phase diagram as obtained by doping the pure material with M=Cr or Ti atoms (V1-xMx)2O3. We reveal that its thermodynamically stable metallic and insulating phases, although macroscopically equ

Vipul Arora, Laxmidhar Behera, Ajay Pratap Yadav

A control theoretic approach is presented in this paper for both batch and instantaneous updates of weights in feed-forward neural networks. The popular Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation has been used to generate an optimal weight update law. The remarkable contribution in this paper is that closed form solutions for both optimal cost and weight update

D. Gavriil, G. Manolakos, G. Orfanidis, G. Zoupanos

We first review the Coset Space Dimensional Reduction (CSDR) programme and present the best model constructed so far based on the $\mathcal{N} = 1$, $10$-dimensional $E_8$ gauge theory reduced over the nearly-Kähler manifold $SU(3)/U(1)\times U(1)$ with the additional use of the Wilson flux mechanism. Then we present the corresponding programme in the case t

Mehrshad Mehboudi, Kainen Utt, Humberto Terrones, Edmund O. Harriss

Lattice {\em Kirigami}, ultra-light metamaterials, poly-disperse aggregates, ceramic nano-lattices, and two-dimensional (2-D) atomic materials share an inherent structural discreteness, and their material properties evolve with their shape. To exemplify the intimate relation among material properties and the local geometry, we explore the properties of phosp

Ido Ben-Dayan, Ryuichi Takahashi

We provide predictions on small-scale cosmological density power spectrum from supernova lensing dispersion. Parameterizing the primordial power spectrum with running $α$ and running of running $β$ of the spectral index, we exclude large positive $α$ and $β$ parameters which induce too large lensing dispersions over current observational upper bound. We ran

Ariane Luzia dos Santos, Luiz A. B. San Martin

In this paper we continue to develop the topological method started in Santos-San Martin \cite{ariasm} to get semigroup generators of semi-simple Lie groups. Consider a subset $Γ\subset G$ that contains a semi-simple subgroup $G_{1}$ of $G$. Then $Γ$ generates $G$ if $\mathrm{Ad}\left( Γ\right) $ generates a Zariski dense subgroup of the algebraic group $\ma

N. Dinesh Reddy, Prateek Singhal, Visesh Chari, K. Madhava Krishna

Image based reconstruction of urban environments is a challenging problem that deals with optimization of large number of variables, and has several sources of errors like the presence of dynamic objects. Since most large scale approaches make the assumption of observing static scenes, dynamic objects are relegated to the noise modeling section of such syste

Lesley A. Simanton, Rupali Chandar, Bradley C. Whitmore

We present a new photometric catalog of 326 candidate globular clusters (GCs) in the nearby spiral galaxy M101, selected from B, V, and I Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys images. The luminosity function (LF) of these clusters has an unusually large number of faint sources compared with GCLFs in many other spiral galaxies. Accordingly, we se

Teresa L. Ross, Jon A. Holtzman, Abhijit Saha, Barbara J. Anthony-Twarog

We present stellar metallicities in Leo I, Leo II, IC 1613, and Phoenix dwarf galaxies derived from medium (F390M) and broad (F555W, F814W) band photometry using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. We measured metallicity distribution functions (MDFs) in two ways, 1) matching stars to isochrones in color-color diagram

H. Belich, K. Bakke

The behaviour of a relativistic scalar particle subject to a scalar potential under the effects of the violation of the Lorentz symmetry in the cosmic string spacetime is discussed. It is considered two possible scenarios of the Lorentz symmetry breaking in the CPT-even gauge sector of the Standard Model Extension defined by a tensor $\left(K_{F}\right)_{μνα

Alexander V. Sobolev

For self-adjoint operators $A, B$, a bounded operator $J$, and a function $f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb C$ we obtain bounds in quasi-normed ideals of compact operators for the difference $f(A)J-Jf(B)$ in terms of the operator $AJ-JB$. The focus is on functions $f$ that are smooth everywhere except for finitely many points. A typical example is the function $f(t) =

Heike Benninghoff, Harald Garcke

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for active contours with free endpoints. A scheme is presented for image segmentation and restoration based on a discrete version of the Mumford-Shah functional where the contours can be both closed and open curves. Additional to a flow of the curves in normal direction, evolution laws for the tangential flow of t

A. Milsted, L. Seabra, I. C. Fulga, C. W. J. Beenakker

We investigate the effect of interactions on the stability of a disordered, two-dimensional topological insulator realized as an array of nanowires or chains of magnetic atoms on a superconducting substrate. The Majorana zero-energy modes present at the ends of the wires overlap, forming a dispersive edge mode with thermal conductance determined by the centr

V. V. Bavula

Let $R$ be a ring, $\CC_R$ and $\pCCR$ be the set of regular and left regular elements of $R$ ($\CC_R\subseteq \pCCR$). Goldie's Theorem is a semisimplicity criterion for the classical left quotient ring $Q_{l,cl}(R):=\CC_R^{-1}R$. Semisimplicity criteria are given for the classical left regular left quotient ring $'Q_{l,cl}(R):=\pCCR^{-1}R$. As a co

C. Ledoux, P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, R. Srianand

We present the results of a search for cold gas at high redshift along QSO lines-of-sight carried out without any a priori assumption on the neutral atomic-hydrogen (HI) content of the absorbers. To do this, we systematically looked for neutral-carbon (CI) 1560,1656 transition lines in low-resolution QSO spectra from the SDSS database. We built up a sample o

B. Marcote, M. Ribó, J. M. Paredes, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

We have studied in detail the 0.15-15 GHz radio spectrum of the gamma-ray binary LS 5039 to look for a possible turnover and absorption mechanisms at low frequencies, and to constrain the physical properties of its emission. We have analysed two archival VLA monitorings, all the available archival GMRT data and a coordinated quasi-simultaneous observational

P. Romano

Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs) are HMXBs with OB supergiant companions. I review the results of the Swift SFXT Project, which since 2007 has been exploiting Swift's capabilities in a systematic study of SFXTs and supergiant X-ray binaries (SGXBs) by combining follow-ups of outbursts, when detailed broad-band spectroscopy is possible, with long-

Renyue Cen

We reason that, without physical fine-tuning, neither the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) nor the stellar bulges can self-regulate or inter-regulate by driving away already fallen cold gas to produce the observed correlation between them. We suggest an alternative scenario where the observed mass ratios of the SMBHs to bulges reflect the angular momentum di

Kyuseok Oh, Sukyoung K. Yi, Kevin Schawinski, Michael Koss

We have newly identified a substantial number of type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) featuring weak broad-line regions (BLRs) at z < 0.2 from detailed analysis of galaxy spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These objects predominantly show a stellar continuum but also a broad H-alpha emission line, indicating the presence of a low-luminosi

C. -H. Lee, A. Riffeser, S. Seitz, R. Bender

We present the results of the decade-long M31 observation from the Wendelstein Calar Alto Pixellensing Project (WeCAPP). WeCAPP has monitored M31 from 1997 till 2008 in both R- and I-filters, thus provides the longest baseline of all M31 microlensing surveys. The data are analyzed with the difference imaging analysis, which is most suitable to study variabil

Camilla Penzo, Andrea V. Macciò, Marco Baldi, Luciano Casarini

We present the first numerical simulations in coupled dark energy cosmologies with high enough resolution to investigate the effects of the coupling on galactic and sub-galactic scales. We choose two constant couplings and a time-varying coupling function and we run simulations of three Milky-Way-size halos ($\sim$10$^{12}$M$_{\odot}$), a lower mass halo (6$

Morten N. Støstad, Tuan Do, Norm Murray, Jessica R. Lu

We present new near-infrared spectroscopic observations of the outer edges of the young stellar cluster around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. The observations show a break in the surface-density profile of young stars at approximately 13 arcsec (0.52 pc). These observations spectroscopically confirm previous suggestions of a break based

Ping Li

We study the use of &#34;sign $α$-stable random projections&#34; (where $0<α\leq 2$) for building basic data processing tools in the context of large-scale machine learning applications (e.g., classification, regression, clustering, and near-neighbor search). After the processing by sign stable random projections, the inner products of the processed data app

Yuantao Cai, Marco Donatelli, Davide Bianchi, Ting-Zhu Huang

Thresholding iterative methods are recently successfully applied to image deblurring problems. In this paper, we investigate the modified linearized Bregman algorithm (MLBA) used in image deblurring problems, with a proper treatment of the boundary artifacts. We consider two standard approaches: the imposition of boundary conditions and the use of the rectan

Simon C. Davenport, Nigel R. Cooper

We study a model of a 2D ultracold atomic gas subject to an &#34;optical flux lattice&#34;: a laser configuration where Raman-dressed atoms experience a strong artificial magnetic field. This leads to a bandstructure of narrow energy bands with non-zero Chern numbers. We consider the case of two-level (spin-$1/2$) fermionic atoms in this lattice, interacting

Jae K. Jang, Miro Erkintalo, Kathy Luo, Gian-Luca Oppo

We report studies of controlled interactions of localized dissipative structures in a system described by the AC-driven damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Extensive numerical simulations reveal a diversity of interaction scenarios that are governed by the properties of the system driver. In our experiments, performed with a nonlinear optical Kerr resonat

Su-Jie Lin, Xiao-Jun Bi, Peng-Fei Yin, Zhao-Huan Yu

The AMS-02 collaboration has just released the cosmic antiproton to proton ratio $\bar{p}/p$ with a high precision up to $\sim 450$ GeV. In this work, we calculate the secondary antiprotons generated by cosmic ray interactions with the interstellar medium taking into account the uncertainties from the cosmic ray propagation. The $\bar{p}/p$ ratio predicted b

Ines de Vega, Mari-Carmen Bañuls

We consider a thermofield approach to analyze the evolution of an open quantum system coupled to an environment at finite temperature. In this approach, the finite temperature environment is exactly mapped onto two virtual environments at zero temperature. These two environments are then unitarily transformed into two different chains of oscillators, leading

Mina Karzand, Lav R. Varshney

The possibility of latency arbitrage in financial markets has led to the deployment of high-speed communication links between distant financial centers. These links are noisy and so there is a need for coding. In this paper, we develop a gametheoretic model of trading behavior where two traders compete to capture latency arbitrage opportunities using binary

Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard, Simon J. A. Malham, Frederic Patras, Anke Wiese

For stochastic systems driven by continuous semimartingales an explicit formula for the logarithm of the Ito flow map is given. A similar formula is also obtained for solutions of linear matrix-valued SDEs driven by arbitrary semimartingales. The computation relies on the lift to quasi-shuffle algebras of formulas involving products of Ito integrals of semim

Maíra Dutra, C. A. de S. Pires, P. S. Rodrigues da Silva

We consider the Singlet Majorana fermion dark matter model, in which the standard model particles interact with the dark sector through the mixing of a singlet scalar and the Higgs boson. In this model both the dark matter and the singlet scalar carry lepton number, the latter being a bilepton. We suppose the existence of a $Z_2$ symmetry, remnant of some hi

Raffaele Romano, Domenico D&#39;Alessandro

In this paper we solve two equivalent time optimal control problems. On one hand, we design the control field to implement in minimum time the SWAP (or equivalent) operator on a two-level system, assuming that it interacts with an additional, uncontrollable, two-level system. On the other hand, we synthesize the SWAP operator simultaneously, in minimum time,

John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos

The Higgs boson was postulated in 1964, and phenomenological studies of its possible production and decays started in the early 1970s, followed by studies of its possible production in electron-positron, antiproton-proton and proton-proton collisions, in particular. Until recently, the most sensitive searches for the Higgs boson were at LEP between 1989 and

Samuele Mongodi, Zbigniew Slodkowski, Giuseppe Tomassini

A weakly complete space is a complex space admitting a (smooth) plurisubharmonic exhaustion function. In this paper, we classify those weakly complete complex surfaces for which such exhaustion function can be chosen real analytic: they can be modifications of Stein spaces or proper over a non compact (possibly singular) complex curve or foliated with real a

N. S. Witte

The diagonal spin-spin correlations $ \langle σ_{0,0}σ_{N,N} \rangle $ of the Ising model on a triangular lattice with general couplings in the three directions are evaluated in terms of a solution to a three-variable extension of the sixth Painlevé system, namely a Garnier system. This identification, which is accomplished using the theory of bi-orthogonal

Andreas Neuenkirch, Taras Shalaiko

We study the relationship between mixed stochastic differential equations and the corresponding rough path equations driven by standard Brownian motion and fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H>1/2$. We establish a correction formula, which relates both types of equations, analogously to the Itō-Stratonovich correction formula. This correction f

Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Min-Yen Kan, Bernard C. Y. Tan, Kiruthika Ragupathi

With large student enrollment, MOOC instructors face the unique challenge in deciding when to intervene in forum discussions with their limited bandwidth. We study this problem of instructor intervention. Using a large sample of forum data culled from 61 courses, we design a binary classifier to predict whether an instructor should intervene in a discussion

Adam L. Bruce

We show the traditional rocket problem, where the ejecta velocity is assumed constant, can be reduced to an integral quadrature of which the completely non-relativistic equation of Tsiolkovsky, as well as the fully relativistic equation derived by Ackeret, are limiting cases. By expanding this quadrature in series, it is shown explicitly how relativistic cor

Abhishek Agarwal, V. P. Nair

A gauge-invariant reformulation of QCD in three spacetime dimensions is presented within a Hamiltonian formalism, extending previous work to include fermion fields in the adjoint and fundamental representations. A priori there are several ways to define the gauge-invariant versions of the fermions; a consistent prescription for choosing the fermionic variabl

V. Stepkova, P. Marton, J. Hlinka

Phase-field simulations demonstrate that the polarization order-parameter field in the Ginzburg-Landau-Devonshire model of rhombohedral ferroelectric BaTiO3 allows for an interesting linear defect, stable under simple periodic boundary conditions. This linear defect, termed here as Ising line, can be described as about 2 nm thick intrinsic paraelectric nanor

C. M. Bhat, B. E. Chase, S. J. Chaurize, F. G. Garcia

We have measured the total energy spread (99 persent energy spread) of the Booster beam at its injection energy of 400 MeV by three different methods - 1) creating a notch of about 40 nsec wide in the beam immediately after multiple turn injection and measuring the slippage time required for high and low momentum particles for a grazing touch in line-charge

Marcos Portnoi, Chien-Chung Shen

This work presents an application of the highly expressive Attribute-Based Encryption to implement Secure Zones for firearms. Within these zones, radio-transmitted local policies based on attributes of the user and the firearm are received by embedded hardware in the firearms, which then advises the user about safe operations. The Secure Zones utilize Attrib

Marcos Portnoi, Chien-Chung Shen

This work presents a mobile sign-on scheme, which utilizes Bluetooth Low Energy beacons for location awareness and Attribute-Based Encryption for expressive, broadcast-style key exchange. Bluetooth Low Energy beacons broadcast encrypted messages with encoded access policies. Within range of the beacons, a user with appropriate attributes is able to decrypt t

D. A. Zocco, J. J. Hamlin, K. Grube, J. -H. Chu

We present electrical resistivity and ac-susceptibility measurements of GdTe$_3$, TbTe$_3$ and DyTe$_3$ performed under pressure. An upper charge-density-wave (CDW) is suppressed at a rate of $\mathrm{d}T_{\mathrm{CDW,1}}/\mathrm{d}P$ = $-$85 K/GPa. For TbTe$_3$ and DyTe$_3$, a second CDW below $T_{\mathrm{CDW,2}}$ increases with pressure until it reaches th

David Emmanuel-Costa, Nuno Rosa Agostinho, J. I. Silva-Marcos, Daniel Wegman

We study leptonic CP violation from a new perspective. For Majorana neutrinos, a new parametrization for leptonic mixing of the form $V=O_{23} O_{12} K_{a}^{i}\cdot O$ reveals interesting aspects that are less clear in the standard parametrization. We identify several important scenario-cases with mixing angles in agreement with experiment and leading to lar

Jan A. Bergstra

For money-like informational commodities the notions of architectural adequacy and evolutionary adequacy are proposed as the first two stages of a moneyness maturity hierarchy. Then three classes of informational commodities are distinguished: exclusively informational commodities, strictly informational commodities, and ownable informational commodities. Fo

Ji Wu, Miao Li, Chin-Hui Lee

In this paper, we present a probabilistic framework for goal-driven spoken dialog systems. A new dynamic stochastic state (DS-state) is then defined to characterize the goal set of a dialog state at different stages of the dialog process. Furthermore, an entropy minimization dialog management(EMDM) strategy is also proposed to combine with the DS-states to f

Renaud Gueroult, David T. Hobbs, Nathaniel J. Fisch

Nuclear waste cleanup is challenged by the handling of feed stocks that are both unknown and complex. Plasma filtering, operating on dissociated elements, offers advantages over chemical methods in processing such wastes. The costs incurred by plasma mass filtering for nuclear waste pretreatment, before ultimate disposal, are similar to those for chemical pr

Masayoshi Miyanishi

Recent developments of affine algebraic geometry, especially the theory of open algebraic surfaces, provide means to systematically explore geometric and topological properties of polynomials in two variables. Nevertheless, there is one unsurmountable problem remained even in the case of two variables, which has been unsolved since 1939, that is the Jacobian

J. P. B. C. de Melo, Anacé N. da Silva, Clayton S. Mello, T. Frederico

For the vector sector, i.e, mesons with spin-1, the electromagnetic form factors and anothers observables are calculated with the light-front approach. However, the light-front quantum field theory have some problems, for example, the rotational symmetry breaking. We solve that problem added the zero modes contribuition to the matrix elements of the electrom

C. M. Bhat

A new beam injection scheme is proposed for the Fermilab Booster to increase beam brightness. The beam is injected on the deceleration part of the sinusoidal magnetic ramp and capture is started immediately after the injection. During the entire capture process we impose Pdot=0 in a changing B field. Beam dynamics simulations clearly show that this method is

Lidia Angeleri Hügel, Frederik Marks, Jorge Vitória

There are well-known constructions relating ring epimorphisms and tilting modules. The new notion of silting module provides a wider framework for studying this interplay. To every partial silting module we associate a ring epimorphism which we describe explicitly as an idempotent quotient of the endomorphism ring of the Bongartz completion. For hereditary r

Spyros Angelopoulos

This paper addresses two classes of different, yet interrelated optimization problems. The first class of problems involves a robot that must locate a hidden target in an environment that consists of a set of concurrent rays. The second class pertains to the design of interruptible algorithms by means of a schedule of contract algorithms. We study several va

L. G. Cao, X. Roca-Maza, G. Colo&#39;, H. Sagawa

We investigate the impact of the neutron-skin thickness Delta(R) on the energy difference between the anti-analog giant dipole resonance (AGDR), E(AGDR), and the isobaric analog state (IAS), E(IAS), in a heavy nucleus such as 208Pb. For guidance, we first develop a simple and analytic, yet physical, approach based on the Droplet Model that linearly connects

R. G. Burkovsky, D. Andronikova, Yu. Bronwald, M. Krisch

We report the results of an inelastic X-ray scattering study of the lattice dynamics in the paraelectric phase of the antiferroelectric lead hafnate PbHfO$_3$. The study reveals an avoided crossing between the transverse acoustic and transverse optic phonon modes propagating along the [1 1 0] direction with [1 -1 0] polarization. The static susceptibility wi

A. A. Masharov, R. A. Sharipov

A perfect cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped whose edges, whose face diagonals, and whose space diagonal are of integer lengths. The problem of finding such cuboids or proving their non-existence is not solved thus far. The second cuboid conjecture specifies a subclass of perfect cuboids described by one Diophantine equation of tenth degree and claims th

Matthew J. O&#39;Dowd, Nicholas F. Bate, Rachel L. Webster, Kathleen Labrie

We present new integral field spectroscopy of the gravitationally lensed broad absorption line (BAL) quasar H1413+117, covering the ultraviolet to visible rest-frame spectral range. We observe strong microlensing signatures in lensed image D, and we use this microlensing to simultaneously constrain both the broad emission and broad absorption line gas. By mo

Xiaochuan Fan, Kang Zheng, Yuewei Lin, Song Wang

We propose a new learning-based method for estimating 2D human pose from a single image, using Dual-Source Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DS-CNN). Recently, many methods have been developed to estimate human pose by using pose priors that are estimated from physiologically inspired graphical models or learned from a holistic perspective. In this paper,

George Dragomir

In this note, we prove the existence of a closed geodesic of positive length on any compact developable orbifold of dimension 3, 5, or 7. The argument uses the stratification of the singular locus, and reduces the problem of existence of a closed geodesic on a compact developable orbifold to the case of even dimensional orbifolds with zero-dimensional singul

Dzevdan Kapetanovic, Gan Zheng, Fredrik Rusek

This article discusses opportunities and challenges of physical layer security integration in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMIMO) systems. Specifically, we first show that MaMIMO itself is robust against passive eavesdropping attacks. We then review a pilot contamination scheme which actively attacks the channel estimation process. This pilot con

Tonatiuh Rangel, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Valerio Olevano

Using benzene-diamine and benzene-dithiol molecular junctions as benchmarks, we investigate the widespread analysis of the quantum transport conductance $\mathcal{G}(ε)$ in terms of the projected density of states (PDOS) onto molecular orbitals (MOs). We first consider two different methods for identifying the relevant MOs: 1) diagonalization of the Hamilton

Hui Chen, F. Fiuza, A. Link, A. Hazi

We report new experimental results obtained on three different laser facilities that show directed laser-driven relativistic electron-positron jets with up to 30 times larger yields than previously obtained and a quadratic (~ E^2) dependence of the positron yield on the laser energy. This favorable scaling stems from a combination of higher energy electrons

Jian-Fu Zhang, Wei-Min Gu, Tong Liu, Li Xue

By proposing a pure leptonic radiation model, we study the potential gamma-ray emissions from jets of the low-mass X-ray binaries. In this model, the relativistic electrons that are accelerated in the jets are responsible for radiative outputs. Nevertheless, dynamics of jets are dominated by the magnetic and proton-matter kinetic energies. The model involves

N. Traverso Ziani, F. Crépin, B. Trauzettel

The properties of the strongly interacting edge states of two dimensional topological insulators in the presence of two particle backscattering are investigated. We find an anomalous behavior of the density-density correlation functions, which show oscillations that are neither of Friedel nor of Wigner type: they instead represent a Wigner crystal of fermion

Nadia Ilash

Explicit formulas for computation of the Poincaré series for the algebras of joint $SL_2$-invariants and covariants of $n$ linear forms in terms of Narayana polynomials are found. Also, for these algebras we calculate the degrees and asymptotic behavious of the degrees.

Jesús Alva-Samos, Juan José Montellano-Ballesteros

An arc-coloured digraph $D$ is said to be \emph{rainbow connected} if for every two vertices $u$ and $v$ there is an $uv$-path all whose arcs have different colours. The minimun number of colours required to make the digraph rainbow connected is called the \emph{rainbow connection number} of $D$, denoted $\stackrel{\rightarrow}{rc}(D)$. In \cite{Dorbec} it w

Timo Seppäläinen, Yun Zhai

We study the invariant distributions of Hammersley&#39;s serial harness process in all dimensions and height fluctuations in one dimension. Subject to mild moment assumptions there is essentially one unique invariant distribution, and all other invariant distributions are obtained by adding harmonic functions of the averaging kernel. We identify one Gaussian

Francois Bergeron

We enumerate interlaced pairs of parking functions whose underlying Dyck path has a bounded height. We obtain an explicit formula for this enumeration in the form of a quotient of analogs of Chebicheff polynomials having coefficients in the ring of symmetric functions.

Yann Disser, Max Klimm, Elisabeth Lübbecke

We study the fundamental problem of scheduling bidirectional traffic along a path composed of multiple segments. The main feature of the problem is that jobs traveling in the same direction can be scheduled in quick succession on a segment, while jobs in opposing directions cannot cross a segment at the same time. We show that this tradeoff makes the problem

Leszek Gasieniec, Tomasz Jurdzinski, Russell Martin, Grzegorz Stachowiak

We study a distributed coordination mechanism for uniform agents located on a circle. The agents perform their actions in synchronised rounds. At the beginning of each round an agent chooses the direction of its movement from clockwise, anticlockwise, or idle, and moves at unit speed during this round. Agents are not allowed to overpass, i.e., when an agent

Yuji Omura

We introduce an explicit supersymmetric unification model where grand unified gauge symmetry breaking and supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking are caused by the same field. Besides, the SM-charged particles are also predicted by the symmetry breaking sector, and their loop corrections induce the soft SUSY breaking terms. Especially, nonzero A-term and B-term are ge

Emily Jane McTavish, Mike Steel, Mark T. Holder

Statistically consistent estimation of phylogenetic trees or gene trees is possible if pairwise sequence dissimilarities can be converted to a set of distances that are proportional to the true evolutionary distances. Susko et al. (2004) reported some strikingly broad results about the forms of inconsistency in tree estimation that can arise if corrected dis

Yunhui Wu

In this article we show that any finite cover of the moduli space of closed Riemann surfaces of $g$ genus with $g\geq 2$ does not admit any complete finite-volume Hermitian metric of non-negative scalar curvature. Moreover, we also show that the total mass of the scalar curvature of any almost Hermitian metric, which is equivalent to the Teichmüller metric,

Dustin A. Gilbert, Li Ye, Aïda Varea, Sebastià Agramunt-Puig

Magnetic vortices have generated intense interest in recent years due to their unique reversal mechanisms, fascinating topological properties, and exciting potential applications. Additionally, the exchange coupling of magnetic vortices to antiferromagnets has also been shown to lead to a range of novel phenomena and functionalities. Here we report a new mag

Peter Crowther, Francesco Turci, C. Patrick Royall

Geometric frustration is an approach to the glass transition based upon the consideration of locally favoured structures (LFS), which are geometric motifs which minimise the local free energy. Geometric frustration proposes that a transition to a crystalline state is frustrated because these LFS do not tile space. However, this concept is based on icosahedra

Zoltán Osváth, András Deák, Krisztián Kertész, György Molnár

Graphene covered metal nanoparticles constitute a novel type of hybrid materials, which provide a unique platform to study plasmonic effects, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and metal-graphene interactions at the nanoscale. Such a hybrid material is fabricated by transferring graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition onto closely spaced gold nano

K. Nozari, V. Hosseinzadeh, M. A. Gorji

In this paper, we formulate the statistical mechanics in Snyder space that supports the existence of a minimal length scale. We obtain the corresponding invariant Liouville volume which properly determines the number of microstates in the semiclassical regime. The results show that the number of accessible microstates drastically reduces at the high energy r

Xiaohui Ling, Xunong Yi, Zhiping Dai, Youwen Wang

We propose that the full Poincaré beam with any polarization geometries can be pictorially described by the hybrid-order Poincaré sphere whose eigenstates are defined as a fundamental-mode Gaussian beam and a Laguerre-Gauss beam. A robust and efficient Sagnac interferometer is established to generate any desired full Poincaré beam on the hybrid-order Poincar

Yu. N. Uzikov, A. A. Temerbayev

The integrated cross section $\widetildeσ$ for a special type of double polarized proton-deuteron scattering constitutes a null test forvtime-invariance violating but P-parity conserving effects. Using the Glauber theory for the $pd$ elastic scattering and different types of phenomenological T-odd P-even NN-interactions we show that the contribution of the l

Wei Yan, Martijn Wubs, N. Asger Mortensen

Quantum effects of plasmonic phenomena have been explored through ab-initio studies, but only for exceedingly small metallic nanostructures, leaving most experimentally relevant structures too large to handle. We propose instead an effective description with the computationally appealing features of classical electrodynamics, while quantum properties are des

Yanqiao Ding, Jianxun Hu

In this paper, using pseudo-holomorphic curve method, one proves the Weinstein conjecture in the product $P_1\times P_2$ of two strongly geometrically bounded symplectic manifolds under some conditions with $P_1$. In particular, if $N$ is a closed manifold or a noncompact manifold of finite topological type, our result implies that the Weinstein conjecture i

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

In General Relativity the metric can be recovered from the structure of the lightcones and a measure giving the volume element. Since the causal structure seems to be simpler than the Lorentzian manifold structure, this suggests that it is more fundamental. But there are cases when seemingly healthy causal structure and measure determine a singular metric. H

Jun Hee Lee, Randy S. Fishman

The spin-driven polarizations of type-I multiferroics are veiled by the preexisting ferroelectric (FE) polarization. Using first-principles calculations combined with a spin model, we uncover two hidden but huge spin-driven polarizations in the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3. One is associated with the global inversion symmetry broken by a FE distortio

Shoichi Kashiwase

A radiative seesaw model with an inert doublet dark matter is a promising candidate which could explain the existence of neutrino masses, dark matter and baryon number asymmetry of the Universe, simultaneously. In addition to these issues, inflation should also be explained since the recent CMB observations suggest the existence of the inflationary era at th

Johannes Aastrup, Jesper M. Grimstrup

We present quantum holonomy theory, which is a non-perturbative theory of quantum gravity coupled to fermionic degrees of freedom. The theory is based on a C*-algebra that involves holonomy-diffeomorphisms on a 3-dimensional manifold and which encodes the canonical commutation relations of canonical quantum gravity formulated in terms of Ashtekar variables.