April 2015 arXiv papers — page 18

Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei, Young-Han Kim

The capacity region of the index coding problem is characterized through the notion of confusion graph and its fractional chromatic number. Based on this multiletter characterization, several structural properties of the capacity region are established, some of which are already noted by Tahmasbi, Shahrasbi, and Gohari, but proved here with simple and more d

Amine Ahriche, Kristian L. McDonald, Salah Nasri

In this work, we report on recent analysis of three-loop models of neutrino mass with dark matter. We discuss in detail the model of Krauss-Nasri-Trodden (KNT) [1], showing that it offers a viable solution to the neutrino mass and dark matter problems, and describe observable experimental signals predicted by the model. Furthermore, we show that the KNT mode

Tomoki Nakanishi, Dylan Rupel

We study the $c$-vectors, $g$-vectors, and $F$-polynomials for generalized cluster algebras satisfying a normalization condition and a power condition recovering classical recursions and separation of additions formulas. We establish a relationship between the $c$-vectors, $g$-vectors, and $F$-polynomials of such a generalized cluster algebra and its (left-

Sebastiao Mauro, Roberto Balbinot, Alessandro Fabbri, Ilya L. Shapiro

We consider an auxiliary fields formulation for the general fourth-order gravity on an arbitrary curved background. The case of a Ricci-flat background is elaborated in full details and it is shown that there is an equivalence with the standard metric formulation. At the same time, using auxiliary fields helps to make perturbations to look simpler and the re

Stuart A. Kleinfelder

A monolithic multi-channel analog transient recorder, implemented using switched capacitor sample-and-hold circuits and a high-speed analogically-adjustable delay-line-based write clock, has been designed, fabricated and tested. The 2.1 by 6.9 mm layout, in 1.2 micron CMOS, includes over 31,000 transistors and 2048 double polysilicon capacitors. The circuit

Emiliano Lepore, Francesco Bonaccorso, Matteo Bruna, Federico Bosia

Here, we report the production of silk incorporating graphene and carbon nanotubes directly by spider spinning, after spraying spiders with the corresponding aqueous dispersions. We observe a significant increment of the mechanical properties with respect to the pristine silk, in terms of fracture strength, Young's and toughness moduli. We measure a frac

Maha Alodeh, Symeon Chatzinotas, Bjorn Ottersten

The constructive interference concept in the downlink of multiple-antenna systems is addressed in this paper. The concept of the joint exploitation of the channel state information (CSI) and data information (DI) is discussed. Using symbol-level precoding, the interference between data streams is transformed Under certain conditions into useful signal that c

Maha Alodeh, Symeon Chatzinotas, Bjorn Ottersten

This paper addresses the problem of exploiting interference among simultaneous multiuser transmissions in the downlink of multiple-antenna systems. Using symbol-level precoding, a new approach towards addressing the multiuser interference is discussed through jointly utilizing the channel state information (CSI) and data information (DI). The interference am

Arkady Pikovsky, Michael Rosenblum

In this paper we discuss recent progress in research of ensembles of mean field coupled oscillators. Without an ambition to present a comprehensive review, we outline most interesting from our viewpoint results and surprises, as well as interrelations between different approaches.

Sung Ho Chae, Cheol Jeong

We study the sum degrees of freedom (DoF) of interference channels with hybrid beam-forming in which hybrid beam-forming composed of analog and digital precodings is employed at each node. For the two-user case, we completely characterize the sum DoF for an arbitrary number of antennas and RF chains by developing an achievable scheme optimized for the hybrid

Stanislav Levin, Amiram Yehudai

Software engineers who collaborate to develop software in teams often have to manually merge changes they made to a module (e.g. a class), because the change conflicts with one that has just been made by another engineer to the same or another module (e.g. a supplier class). This is due to the fact that engineers edit code separately, and loosely coordinate

Siddharth Srivastava

This paper studies the robustness of SIFT and SURF against different image transforms (rigid body, similarity, affine and projective) by quantitatively analyzing the variations in the extent of transformations. Previous studies have been comparing the two techniques on absolute transformations rather than the specific amount of deformation caused by the tran

Jamil Hetzel

The trinification model is an interesting extension of the Standard Model based on the gauge group $SU(3)_C\times SU(3)_L\times SU(3)_R$. It naturally explains parity violation as a result of spontaneous symmetry breaking, and the observed fermion masses and mixings can be reproduced using only a few parameters. We study the low-energy phenomenology of the t

Jiaqun Wei

We study singularity categories through Gorenstein objects in triangulated categories and silting theory. Let $ω$ be a semi-selforthogonal (or presilting) subcategory of a triangulated category $\mathcal{T}$. We introduce the notion of $ω$-Gorenstein objects, which is far extended version of Gorenstein projective modules and Gorenstein injective modules in t

Hwihyeon Hwang, Choongyu Hwang

We have investigated the effect of imperfect circular polarization on the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy signal, using graphene as a prototypical system that can be understood within tight-binding formalism. We found that perfect left- and right-circularly polarized lights give the same photoelectron intensity distribution around a constant energy

Anton Kochnev, Nicolai Savelov

In this paper we present two different variants of method for symmetric matrix inversion, based on modified Gaussian elimination. Both methods avoid computation of square roots and have a reduced machine time's spending. Further, both of them can be used efficiently not only for positive (semi-) definite, but for any non-singular symmetric matrix inversi

Howard L. Resnikoff

This paper focuses on curves and surfaces of constant width, with some additional results about general ovals. We emphasize the use of Fourier series to derive properties, some of which are known. Amongst other results, we show that the perimeter of an oval is $π$ times its average width, and provide a bound for the radius of curvature of an oval that depend

Hiroki Morizumi

Nondeterministic circuits are a nondeterministic computation model in circuit complexity theory. In this paper, we prove a $3(n-1)$ lower bound for the size of nondeterministic $U_2$-circuits computing the parity function. It is known that the minimum size of (deterministic) $U_2$-circuits computing the parity function exactly equals $3(n-1)$. Thus, our resu

Federico Marquez, Aftab Ahmad, Michael Buballa, Alfredo Raya

We study the beahviour of the dual quark condensate $Σ_1$ in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model and its nonlocal variant. In quantum chromodynamics $Σ_1$ can be realted to the breaking of the center symmetry and is therefore an (approximate) order parameter of confinement. The deconfinement transition is then signaled by a strong rise of $Σ_1$ as a function

Jonas Richhardt, Sebastian Plitzko, Florian Schwarzmüller, Barbara Drossel

The stability of ecosystems as well as the relation between topology and dynamics on multilayer networks are important questions that are usually discussed in separate communities. Here, we combine these two topics by investigating the influence of the topology of the migration network on the stability of a four-species foodweb module on six patches. The par

Liping Xu

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for (true) hard and moderately soft potentials. We study the pathwise properties of the stochastic process $(V_t)_{t\geq 0}$, which describes the time evolution of the velocity of a typical particle. We show that this process is almost surely multifractal and we compute its spectrum of singularities. F

Wen-ju Gu, Zhen Yi, Li-hui Sun, Da-hai Xu

In the paper we study the nonlinear mechanical cooling processes in the intrinsic quadratically optomechanical coupling system without linearizing the optomechanical interaction. We apply the scattering theory to calculate the transition rates between different mechanical Fock states with the use of the resolvent of Hamiltonian, which allows for a direct ide

Chintamani Pai, Ankush Bhaskar, Virendra Yadav, R. D. Tewari

Visual observations of meteor showers have been carried out for many decades by astronomers. Modern developments in imaging systems have advanced our knowledge about the shower dynamics and their origin. We have made an attempt to make a portable video recording system to observe meteor showers. The system consists of a camera capable of recording the rapid

Jan Wilhelm, Michael Walz, Ferdinand Evers

We calculate the spin-dependent zero-bias conductance $G_{σσ'}$ in armchair graphene nanoribbons with hydrogen adsorbates employing a DFT-based ab initio transport formalism including spin-orbit interaction. We find that the spin-flip conductance $G_{σ\barσ}$ can reach the same order of magnitude as the spin-conserving one, $G_{σσ}$, due to exchange-medi

Smit Marvaniya, Raj Gupta, Anurag Mittal

Matching deformable objects using their shapes is an important problem in computer vision since shape is perhaps the most distinguishable characteristic of an object. The problem is difficult due to many factors such as intra-class variations, local deformations, articulations, viewpoint changes and missed and extraneous contour portions due to errors in sha

Jun Nonaka

In [6], Kellerhals and Perren conjectured that the growth rates of the reflection groups given by hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra are always Perron numbers. We prove that this conjecture is always true for the case of ideal Coxeter polyhedra in $\mathbb{H}^3$. We also find out the ideal Coxeter polyhedron in $\mathbb{H}^3$ with the smallest growth rate. Finally

O. I. Velichko

An analysis of the equations used for modeling thermal arsenic diffusion in silicon has been carried out. It was shown that for arsenic diffusion governed by the vacancy-impurity pairs and the pairs formed due to interaction of impurity atoms with silicon self-interstitials in a neutral charge state, the doping process can be described by the Fick's seco

I. Barsukov, Yu Fu, C. Safranski, Y. -J. Chen

We study thin films and magnetic tunnel junction nanopillars based on Ta/Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$/MgO multilayers by electrical transport and magnetometry measurements. These measurements suggest that an ultrathin magnetic oxide layer forms at the Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$/MgO interface. At approximately 160 K, the oxide undergoes a phase transition from

Shoyu Nagaoka, Sho Takemori

Some explicit expressions are given for the theta series of Niemeier lattices. As an application, we present some of their congruence relations.

A. Vershik, A. Malyutin

We describe the full exit boundary of random walks on homogeneous trees, in particular, on the free groups. This model exhibits a phase transition, namely, the family of Markov measures under study loses ergodicity as a parameter of the random walk changes. The problem under consideration is a special case of the problem of describing the invariant (central)

Debra Dewhurst

Hyper-Kamiokande has been proposed as a next generation neutrino oscillation experiment capable of observing accelerator, atmospheric, solar and astrophysical neutrinos, as well as possible proton decays, providing a rich scientific program. One of the main goals is the study of CP violation in the lepton sector. The Hyper-Kamiokande detector will be an unde

Kiyoharu Kawana

We consider the multiple point principe (MPP), its breaking and the inflation of the gauged B-L model. Our results are based on the two-loop renormalization group equations (RGEs). We find that this model can realize the flat potentials at $Λ_{\text{MPP}}=10^{17}$GeV, and that the unknown parameters of the model are fixed by the MPP. Furthermore, we show tha

Man Kam Kwong

Recently the author established an improvement of the classical Vietoris sine inequality to include sine polynomials with non-monotone coefficients. In this paper two further improvements are presented admitting sine polynomials with non-monotone and non-decaying coefficients. The extremal sums of the two results have the coefficient sequences {2a, a, 4/3, 1

T. Mufakharov, M. Mingaliev, Yu. Sotnikova, Ya. Naiden

We study the correlation between gamma-ray and radio band radiation for 123 blazars, using the Fermi-LAT first source catalog (1FGL) and the RATAN-600 data obtained at the same period of time (within a few months). We found an apparent positive correlation for BL Lac and flat-spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) sources from our sample through testing the value of t

Hemanth Saratchandran

We construct examples of codimension two hyperbolic link complements in closed smooth 4-manifolds with homeomorphism type $\#_{2k}S^2 \times S^2$. All our examples are based on a construction of J. Ratcliffe and S. Tschantz, who constructed 1171 non-compact finite volume hyperbolic 4-manifolds of minimal volume. We then give necessary conditions for a closed

V. G. Baryshevsky

We study the phenomena of spin rotation and depolarization of high-energy particles in crystals in the range of high energies that will be available at Hadron Collider (LHC) and Future Circular Collider (FCC). It is shown that these phenomena can be used to measure the anomalous magnetic moments of short-lived particles in this range of energies. We also dem

Felix L. Rios, John M. Noble, Timo J. T. Koski

The main contribution of this article is a new prior distribution over directed acyclic graphs, which gives larger weight to sparse graphs. This distribution is intended for structured Bayesian networks, where the structure is given by an ordered block model. That is, the nodes of the graph are objects which fall into categories (or blocks); the blocks have

Kedian Mu, Kewen Wang, Lian Wen

Multi-context systems (MCS) presented by Brewka and Eiter can be considered as a promising way to interlink decentralized and heterogeneous knowledge contexts. In this paper, we propose preferential multi-context systems (PMCS), which provide a framework for incorporating a total preorder relation over contexts in a multi-context system. In a given PMCS, its

Guang-Peng Zhang

The back-to-back $J/ψ$ and $π$ associated production at $e^+ e^-$ colliders is proposed to detect the gluon transverse momentum dependent(TMD) fragmentation functions. TMD factorization is assumed for this process. With spinless pion, unpolarized and linearly polarized gluon TMD fragmentation functions can be defined. It is found at parton level the hadronic

A. J. Belov, G. O. Shnider

The paper describes methodology of math education for students interested in chemistry. Suppose we have mathematical circle 2 hours per week. What can be done? We can not provide any systematic study, but we can choose one subject and show that mathematical beauty and sense corresponds to physical sense and this provide new understanding. This sample provide

A. Haungs, J. Bluemer, B. Fuchs, D. Kang

KCDC, the KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre, is a web portal, where data of astroparticle physics experiments will be made available for the interested public. The KASCADE experiment, financed by public money, was a large-area detector for the measurement of high-energy cosmic rays via the detection of air showers. KASCADE and its extension KASCADE-Grande stopp

Sh. Fayazbakhsh, S. Taheri Monfared, M. Mohammadi Najafabadi

The capability of the LHC to study the electromagnetic dipole moments of the top quark is discussed. In particular, the process $pp\to pγγp\to pt\bar{t}p$, which is supposed to be tagged by the forward/backward detectors at the LHC experiments, is used to explore the top quark electric and magnetic moments. We perform analytical calculations and then a numer

Kashif Ammar Yasir, Wu-Ming Liu

We investigate the controllability of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Fano resonances in hybrid optomechanical system which is composed of cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped inside high-finesse Fabry-Pérot cavity driven by a single mode optical field along the cavity axis and a transverse pump field. Here, transverse optic

D. Khomenko, L. Kondaurova, V. S. L'vov, P. Mishra

The quantization of vortex lines in superfluids requires the introduction of their density $\C L(\B r,t)$ in the description of quantum turbulence. The space homogeneous balance equation for $\C L(t)$, proposed by Vinen on the basis of dimensional and physical considerations, allows a number of competing forms for the production term $\C P$. Attempts to choo

Sumesh P. Thampi, Ramin Golestanian, Julia M. Yeomans

We investigate similarities in the micro-structural dynamics between externally driven and actively driven nematics. Walls, lines of strong deformations in the director field, and topological defects are characteristic features of an active nematic. Similar structures form in driven passive nematics when there are inhomogeneities in imposed velocity gradient

Thomas Honold, Michael Kiermaier

A set $\mathcal{F}_q$ of $3$-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{F}_q^7$, the $7$-dimensional vector space over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, is said to form a $q$-analogue of the Fano plane if every $2$-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{F}_q^7$ is contained in precisely one member of $\mathcal{F}_q$. The existence problem for such $q$-analogues remains unso

Yaohua P. Tan, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, Timothy B. Boykin

In this work, transferable empirical tight binding parameters of strained group IV and III-V semiconductors are generated from ab-initio calculations. The empirical tight binding parameters show good transferability when applied to strained bulk materials as well as ultra-thin superlattices.

Alvaro Ramos

On the ambient space of a Lie group with a left invariant metric that is isometric and isomorphic to a semidirect product $\mathbb{R}^2\rtimes_A\mathbb{R}$, we consider a domain $Ω\subseteq \mathbb{R}^2\rtimes_A\{0\}$ and vertical $π$-graphs over $Ω$ and study the partial differential equation a function $u:Ω\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ must satisfy in order to h

Sara Biagini, Teemu Pennanen, Ari-Pekka Perkkiö

This article studies convex duality in stochastic optimization over finite discrete-time. The first part of the paper gives general conditions that yield explicit expressions for the dual objective in many applications in operations research and mathematical finance. The second part derives optimality conditions by combining general saddle-point conditions f

Niangjun Chen, Anish Agarwal, Adam Wierman, Siddharth Barman

Making use of predictions is a crucial, but under-explored, area of online algorithms. This paper studies a class of online optimization problems where we have external noisy predictions available. We propose a stochastic prediction error model that generalizes prior models in the learning and stochastic control communities, incorporates correlation among pr

Shane P. O'Sullivan, B. M. Gaensler, M. A. Lara-López, S. van Velzen

We use the integrated polarized radio emission at 1.4 GHz ($Π_{\rm 1.4\,GHz}$) from a large sample of AGN (796 sources at redshifts $z<0.7$) to study the large-scale magnetic field properties of radio galaxies in relation to the host galaxy accretion state. We find a fundamental difference in $Π_{\rm 1.4\,GHz}$ between radiative-mode AGN (i.e. high-excitatio

Vivek Veeriah, Naifan Zhuang, Guo-Jun Qi

The long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network is capable of processing complex sequential information since it utilizes special gating schemes for learning representations from long input sequences. It has the potential to model any sequential time-series data, where the current hidden state has to be considered in the context of the past hidden states. T

Yanqing Shen, Artem R. Oganov, Guangri Qian, Huafeng Dong

Using ab initio evolutionary simulations, we predict the existence of five novel stable Li-N compounds at pressures from 0 to 100 GPa (Li13N, Li5N, Li3N2, LiN2, and LiN5). Structures of these compounds contain of isolated N ions, N2 dimers, polyacetylene-like N chains and N5 rings, respectively. The structure of Li13N consists of Li atoms and Li12N icosahedr

M. V. Hakobyan, V. M. Red&#39;kov, A. M. Ishkhanyan

A model of the asymmetric coherent scattering process (caused by initial atomic wave-packet splitting in the momentum space) taking place at the large detuning and adiabatic course of interaction for an effective two-state system interacting with a standing wave of laser radiation is discussed. We show that the same form of initial wave-packet splitting may

Megan C. Johnson, Deidre A. Hunter, Sarah Wood, Se-Heon Oh

We present the stellar and gas kinematics of DDO 46 and DDO 168 from the LITTLE THINGS survey and determine their respective Vmax/sigma_z,0 values. We used the KPNO&#39;s 4-meter telescope with the Echelle spectrograph as a long-slit spectrograph. We acquired spectra of DDO 168 along four position angles by placing the slit over the morphological major and m

Jian-Hong Lin, Qiang Guo, Jian-Guo Liu, Tao Zhou

With great theoretical and practical significance, locating influential nodes of complex networks is a promising issues. In this paper, we propose a dynamics-sensitive (DS) centrality that integrates topological features and dynamical properties. The DS centrality can be directly applied in locating influential spreaders. According to the empirical results o

Ivan I. Dyyak, Ihor I. Prokopyshyn, Ivan A. Prokopyshyn

The paper is devoted to the penalty Robin-Robin domain decomposition methods (DDMs), proposed by us for the solution of unilateral multibody contact problems of elasticity. These DDMs are based on the penalty method for variational inequalities and some stationary and nonstationary iterative methods for nonlinear variational equations. The main result of the

Michael R. Line, Johanna Teske, Ben Burningham, Jonathan Fortney

Interpreting the spectra of brown dwarfs is key to determining the fundamental physical and chemical processes occurring in their atmospheres. Powerful Bayesian atmospheric retrieval tools have recently been applied to both exoplanet and brown dwarf spectra to tease out the thermal structures and molecular abundances to understand those processes. In this ma

K. Maeda, T. Hattori, D. Milisavljevic, G. Folatelli

We report the late-time evolution of Type IIb Supernova (SN IIb) 2013df. SN 2013df showed a dramatic change in its spectral features at ~1 year after the explosion. Early on it showed typical characteristics shared by SNe IIb/Ib/Ic dominated by metal emission lines, while later on it was dominated by broad and flat-topped Halpha and He I emissions. The late-

Benjamin Fish, Rajmonda S. Caceres

Oversampling is a common characteristic of data representing dynamic networks. It introduces noise into representations of dynamic networks, but there has been little work so far to compensate for it. Oversampling can affect the quality of many important algorithmic problems on dynamic networks, including link prediction. Link prediction seeks to predict edg

Michael Pust, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu

We present a parser for Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). We treat English-to-AMR conversion within the framework of string-to-tree, syntax-based machine translation (SBMT). To make this work, we transform the AMR structure into a form suitable for the mechanics of SBMT and useful for modeling. We introduce an AMR-specific language model and add data an

Arvind Neelakantan, Benjamin Roth, Andrew McCallum

Knowledge base (KB) completion adds new facts to a KB by making inferences from existing facts, for example by inferring with high likelihood nationality(X,Y) from bornIn(X,Y). Most previous methods infer simple one-hop relational synonyms like this, or use as evidence a multi-hop relational path treated as an atomic feature, like bornIn(X,Z) -> containedIn(

Maciej Balajewicz, Irina Tezaur, Earl Dowell

For a projection-based reduced order model (ROM) of a fluid flow to be stable and accurate, the dynamics of the truncated subspace must be taken into account. This paper proposes an approach for stabilizing and enhancing projection-based fluid ROMs in which truncated modes are accounted for a priori via a minimal rotation of the projection subspace. Attentio

Karen Meagher, Alison Purdy

Let $k$, $t$ and $m$ be positive integers. A $k$-multiset of $[m]$ is a collection of $k$ integers from the set $\{1,...,m\}$ in which the integers can appear more than once. We use graph homomorphisms and existing theorems for intersecting and $t$-intersecting $k$-set systems to prove new results for intersecting and $t$-intersecting families of $k$-multise

Michael Blomqvist, David Kirkby, Julian E. Bautista, Andreu Arinyo-i-Prats

In recent years, the Lyman-$α$ absorption observed in the spectra of high-redshift quasars has been used as a tracer of large-scale structure by means of the three-dimensional Lyman-$α$ forest auto-correlation function at redshift $z\simeq 2.3$, but the need to fit the quasar continuum in every absorption spectrum introduces a broadband distortion that is di

Paul Northrop, Nicolas Attalides, Philip Jonathan

Designs conditions for marine structures are typically informed by threshold-based extreme value analyses of oceanographic variables, in which excesses of a high threshold are modelled by a generalized Pareto (GP) distribution. Too low a threshold leads to bias from model mis-specification; raising the threshold increases the variance of estimators: a bias-v

Johannes Fischer, Travis Gagie, Paweł Gawrychowski, Tomasz Kociumaka

We generalize Karp-Rabin string matching to handle multiple patterns in $\mathcal{O}(n \log n + m)$ time and $\mathcal{O}(s)$ space, where $n$ is the length of the text and $m$ is the total length of the $s$ patterns, returning correct answers with high probability. As a prime application of our algorithm, we show how to approximate the LZ77 parse of a strin

Aiming Yan, Jairo Velasco,, Salman Kahn, Kenji Watanabe

Monolayer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) is a promising two-dimensional direct-bandgap semiconductor with potential applications in atomically thin and flexible electronics. An attractive insulating substrate or mate for MoS2 (and related materials such as graphene) is hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Stacked heterostructures of MoS2 and h-BN have been produced

Nikolay Gromov, Fedor Levkovich-Maslyuk, Grigory Sizov

We developed an efficient numerical algorithm for computing the spectrum of anomalous dimensions of the planar ${\cal N}=4$ Super-Yang--Mills at finite coupling. The method is based on the Quantum Spectral Curve formalism. In contrast to Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz, worked out only for some very special operators, this method is applicable for generic states/

Carlos A. Arguelles, Francis Halzen, Logan Wille, Mike Kroll

By combining the color dipole model of the nucleon with the assumption that cross sections behave asymptotically as $\ln^2(s)$, we are able to describe the data for photon, neutrino and hadron interactions with protons at all energies, $s$ is the center-of-mass energy of the interacting particles. Specifically, we extrapolate the perturbative QCD calculation

Flávio B. Gonçalves, Dani Gamerman

In this paper we present a novel inference methodology to perform Bayesian inference for spatiotemporal Cox processes where the intensity function depends on a multivariate Gaussian process. Dynamic Gaussian processes are introduced to allow for evolution of the intensity function over discrete time. The novelty of the method lies on the fact that no discret

Vipin Kerala Varma, Sebastiano Pilati

Understanding the metal-insulator transition in disordered many-fermion systems, both with and without interactions, is one of the most challenging and consequential problems in condensed matter physics. In this paper we address this issue from the perspective of the modern theory of the insulating state (MTIS), which has already proven to be effective for b

Yixing Fu, Brian T. Welsch

We study the effect of newly emerged solar active regions (ARs) on the large-scale magnetic environment of pre-existing ARs (PEARs). We first present a theoretical approach to quantify the &#34;interaction energy&#34; between new ARs and PEARs as the difference between (i) the summed magnetic energies of their individual potential fields and (ii) the energy

Ning Bao, ChunJun Cao, Sean M. Carroll, Aidan Chatwin-Davies

The Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA) is a tensor network that provides an efficient way of variationally estimating the ground state of a critical quantum system. The network geometry resembles a discretization of spatial slices of an AdS spacetime and &#34;geodesics&#34; in the MERA reproduce the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for the entangle

Oren Salzman, Kiril Solovey, Dan Halperin

We study the problem of motion-planning for free-flying multi-link robots and develop a sampling-based algorithm that is specifically tailored for the task. Our work is based on the simple observation that the set of configurations for which the robot is self-collision free is independent of the obstacles or of the exact placement of the robot. This allows t

Felix Kling, Adarsh Pyarelal, Shufang Su

While current ATLAS and CMS measurements exclude a light charged Higgs ($m_{H^\pm}<160$ GeV) for most of the parameter region in the context of the MSSM scenarios, these bounds are significantly weakened in the Type II 2HDM once the exotic decay channel into a lighter neutral Higgs, $H^\pm \to AW/HW$, is open. In this study, we examine the possibility of a l

Gunnar Möller, Nigel R. Cooper

The Harper-Hofstadter model provides a fractal spectrum containing topological bands of any integer Chern number, $C$. We study the many-body physics that is realized by interacting particles occupying Harper-Hofstadter bands with $|C|>1$. We formulate the predictions of Chern-Simons or composite fermion theory in terms of the filling factor, $ν$, defined as

Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Daniel R. Weisz, Benjamin D. Johnson, James S. Bullock

We infer the UV luminosities of Local Group galaxies at early cosmic times ($z \sim 2$ and $z \sim 7$) by combining stellar population synthesis modeling with star formation histories derived from deep color-magnitude diagrams constructed from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations. Our analysis provides a basis for understanding high-$z$ galaxies - inclu

Yang-Le Wu, B. Estienne, N. Regnault, B. Andrei Bernevig

We provide a detailed explanation of the formalism necessary to construct matrix product states for non-Abelian quasiholes in fractional quantum Hall model states. Our construction yields an efficient representation of the wave functions with conformal-block normalization and monodromy, and complements the matrix product state representation of fractional qu

Yu Feng, Tiziana Di Matteo, Rupert Croft, Ananth Tenneti

Whether among the myriad tiny proto-galaxies there exists a population with similarities to present day galaxies is an open question. We show, using BlueTides, the first hydrodynamic simulation large enough to resolve the relevant scales, that the first massive galaxies to form are %in fact predicted to have extensive rotationally-supported disks. Although t

Penka Georgieva, Aleksey Zinger

We construct positive-genus analogues of Welschinger&#39;s invariants for many real symplectic manifolds, including the odd-dimensional projective spaces and the renowned quintic threefold. In some cases, our invariants provide lower bounds for counts of real positive-genus curves in real algebraic varieties. Our approach to the orientability problem is base

O. Khabarova, G. P. Zank, G. Li, J. A. le Roux

Increases of ion fluxes in the keV-MeV range are sometimes observed near the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) during periods when other sources are absent. These resemble solar energetic particle (SEP) events, but the events are weaker and apparently local. Conventional explanations based on either shock acceleration of charged particles or particle accelera

Sayantani Bhattacharyya, Anandita De, Shiraz Minwalla, Ravi Mohan

We study $SO(d+1)$ invariant solutions of the classical vacuum Einstein equations in $p+d+3$ dimensions. In the limit $d \to \infty$ with $p$ held fixed we construct a class of solutions labelled by the shape of a membrane (the event horizon), together with a `velocity&#39; field that lives on this membrane. We demonstrate that our metrics can be corrected t

Stepan Yu. Orevkov

We give an algorithm to decide whether a given braid with four strings is a product of three factors which are conjugates of standard generators of the braid group. The algorithm is of polynomial time. It is based on the Garside theory. We give also a polynomial algorithm to decide if a given braid with any number of strings is a product of two factors which

John D. Anderson, Gerald Schubert, Virginia Trimble, Michael R. Feldman

About a dozen measurements of Newton&#39;s gravitational constant, G, since 1962 have yielded values that differ by far more than their reported random plus systematic errors. We find that these values for G are oscillatory in nature, with a period of P = 5.899 +/- 0.062 yr, an amplitude of (1.619 +/- 0.103) x 10^{-14} m^3 kg^{-1} s^{-2}, and mean-value cros

Dmytro Mishkin, Jiri Matas, Michal Perdoch, Karel Lenc

We have presented a new problem -- the wide multiple baseline stereo (WxBS) -- which considers matching of images that simultaneously differ in more than one image acquisition factor such as viewpoint, illumination, sensor type or where object appearance changes significantly, e.g. over time. A new dataset with the ground truth for evaluation of matching alg

Keh-Fei Liu

The status of lattice calculations of the quark spin, the quark orbital angular momentum, the glue angular momentum and glue spin in the nucleon is summarized. The quark spin calculation is recently carried out from the anomalous Ward identity with chiral fermions and is found to be small mainly due to the large negative anomaly term which is believed to be

Zhiqi Huang

A recent article by Wojtak {\it et al} (arXiv:1504.00718) pointed out that the local gravitational redshift, despite its smallness ($\sim 10^{-5}$), can have a noticeable ($\sim 1\%$) systematic effect on our cosmological parameter measurements. The authors studied a few extended cosmological models (nonflat $Λ$CDM, $w$CDM, and $w_0$-$w_a$CDM) with a mock su

Michael Epping, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß

Society relies and depends increasingly on information exchange and communication. In the quantum world, security and privacy is a built-in feature for information processing. The essential ingredient for exploiting these quantum advantages is the resource of entanglement, which can be shared between two or more parties. The distribution of entanglement over

Sander Wahls, Son T. Le, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, H. Vincent Poor

Nonlinear and dispersive transmission impairments in coherent fiber-optic communication systems are often compensated by reverting the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which describes the evolution of the signal in the link, numerically. This technique is known as digital backpropagation. Typical digital backpropagation algorithms are based on split-step Four

Jiawang Nie, Xinzhen Zhang

A linear map between real symmetric matrix spaces is positive if all positive semidefinite matrices are mapped to positive semidefinite ones. A real symmetric matrix is separable if it can be written as a summation of Kronecker products of positive semidefinite matrices. This paper studies how to check if a linear map is positive or not and how to check if a

Luís M. Cebola, David Emmanuel-Costa, Ricardo González Felipe

Several popular Ansätze of lepton mass matrices that contain texture zeros are confronted with current neutrino observational data. We perform a systematic $χ^2$-analysis in a wide class of schemes, considering arbitrary Hermitian charged lepton mass matrices and symmetric mass matrices for Majorana neutrinos or Hermitian mass matrices for Dirac neutrinos. O

Ricardo Strausz

In 2003 Daniel K. Biss published, in the Annals of Mathematics, what he thought was a solution of a long standing problem culminating a discovery by Gelfand and MacPherson. Six years later he was encouraged to publish an &#34;erratum&#34; of his prove, observed by Nikolai Mnev; up to now, the homotopy type of the MacPhersonian had remained a mistery... The a

Semyon Dyatlov, Joshua Zahl

We obtain an essential spectral gap for $n$-dimensional convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds with the dimension $δ$ of the limit set close to $(n-1)/2$. The size of the gap is expressed using the additive energy of stereographic projections of the limit set. This additive energy can in turn be estimated in terms of the constants in Ahlfors-David regularity

Monique Laurent, Matteo Seminaroti

Robinsonian matrices arise in the classical seriation problem and play an important role in many applications where unsorted similarity (or dissimilarity) information must be reordered. We present a new polynomial time algorithm to recognize Robinsonian matrices based on a new characterization of Robinsonian matrices in terms of straight enumerations of unit

Małgorzata Śleszyńska-Nowak

An \emph{edge coloring} of a graph $G$ is strong if each color class is an induced matching of $G$. The \emph{strong chromatic index} of $G$, denoted by $χ_{s}^{\prime }(G)$, is the minimum number of colors for which $G$ has a strong edge coloring. The strong chromatic index of $G$ is equal to the chromatic number of the square of the line graph of $G$. The

Jeff Steinhauer

We theoretically study the entanglement of Hawking radiation pairs emitted by an analogue black hole. We find that this entanglement can be measured by the experimentally accessible density-density correlation function, vastly simplifying the measurement. We find that while the Hawking radiation exiting the black hole might be Planck-distributed, the correla

Alexander Gribov

The task of approximating points with circular arcs is performed in many applications, such as polyline compression, noise filtering, and feature recognition. However, the development of algorithms that perform a significant amount of circular arcs fitting requires an efficient way of fitting circular arcs with complexity O(1). The elegant solution to this t

Santiago F. Caballero-Benitez, Igor B. Mekhov

Confining ultracold gases in cavities creates a paradigm of quantum trapping potentials. We show that this allows to bridge models with global collective and short-range interactions as novel quantum phases possess properties of both. Some phases appear solely due to quantum light-matter correlations. Due to global, but spatially structured, interaction, the

Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou

Relation classification is an important semantic processing task for which state-ofthe-art systems still rely on costly handcrafted features. In this work we tackle the relation classification task using a convolutional neural network that performs classification by ranking (CR-CNN). We propose a new pairwise ranking loss function that makes it easy to reduc