April 2015 arXiv papers — page 5

V. Silva Aguirre, G. R. Davies, S. Basu, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

We present a study of 33 {\it Kepler} planet-candidate host stars for which asteroseismic observations have sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio to allow extraction of individual pulsation frequencies. We implement a new Bayesian scheme that is flexible in its input to process individual oscillation frequencies, combinations of them, and average asterosei

Paul de Lange, Daniel R. Mayerson, Bert Vercnocke

We investigate the structure of smooth and horizonless microstate geometries in six dimensions, in the spirit of the five-dimensional analysis of Gibbons and Warner [arXiv:1305.0957]. In six dimensions, which is the natural setting for horizonless geometries with the charges of the D1-D5-P black hole, the natural black objects are strings and there are no Ch

Adi Niv, Louis Rowen

We study the pathology that causes tropical eigenspaces of distinct supertropical eigenvalues of a nonsingular matrix $A$, to be dependent. We show that in lower dimensions the eigenvectors of distinct eigenvalues are independent, as desired. The index set that differentiates between subsequent essential monomials of the characteristic polynomial, yields an

Konstantin Zuev, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Dmitri Krioukov

Prediction and control of network dynamics are grand-challenge problems in network science. The lack of understanding of fundamental laws driving the dynamics of networks is among the reasons why many practical problems of great significance remain unsolved for decades. Here we study the dynamics of networks evolving according to preferential attachment, kno

A. R. Aguirre, J. F. Gomes, N. I. Spano, A. H. Zimerman

A new super-Backlund transformation for the N=1 supersymmetric sinh-Gordon equation is constructed. Based on this construction we propose a type-II integrable defect for the supersymmetric sinh-Gordon model consistent with this new transformation through the Lagrangian formalism. Explicit expressions for the modified conserved energy, momentum and supercharg

Steve M. Young, Charles L. Kane

Graphene is famous for being a host of 2D Dirac fermions. However, spin-orbit coupling introduces a small gap, so that graphene is formally a quantum spin hall insulator. Here we present symmetry-protected 2D Dirac semimetals, which feature Dirac cones at high-symmetry points that are \emph{not} gapped by spin-orbit interactions, and exhibit behavior distinc

Thomas Erlebach, Michael Hoffmann, Frank Kammer

A temporal graph is a graph in which the edge set can change from one time step to the next. The temporal graph exploration problem TEXP is the problem of computing a foremost exploration schedule for a temporal graph, i.e., a temporal walk that starts at a given start node, visits all nodes of the graph, and has the smallest arrival time. In the first part

Ubai Sandouk, Ke Chen

Music information retrieval faces a challenge in modeling contextualized musical concepts formulated by a set of co-occurring tags. In this paper, we investigate the suitability of our recently proposed approach based on a Siamese neural network in fighting off this challenge. By means of tag features and probabilistic topic models, the network captures cont

Hosein Majlesi

Stern-Gerlach experiment by free electron is very important experiment because it answered some questions that remain unanswered for almost a century. Bohr and Pauli considered its objective observation as impossible while some other scientists considered such observation as possible. The experiment on free electrons has not been conducted so far because the

S. Hamid Hassanzadeh, Aron Simis

A rational map whose source and image are projectively embedded varieties has an {\em Arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay graph} if the Rees algebra of one (hence any) of its base ideals is a Cohen-Macaulay ring. If the map is birational onto the image one considers how this property forces an upper bound on the degree of a representative of the map. In the plane

Monika Henzinger, Sebastian Krinninger, Danupon Nanongkai

We consider dynamic algorithms for maintaining Single-Source Reachability (SSR) and approximate Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) on $n$-node $m$-edge directed graphs under edge deletions (decremental algorithms). The previous fastest algorithm for SSR and SSSP goes back three decades to Even and Shiloach [JACM 1981]; it has $ O(1) $ query time and $ O (mn

T. J. Oliveira, J. F. Stilck

Using transfer matrix and finite-size scaling methods, we study the thermodynamic behavior of a lattice gas with two kinds of particles on the square lattice. Only excluded volume interactions are considered, so that the model is athermal. Large particles exclude the site they occupy and its four first neighbors, while small particles exclude only their site

Kumar Abhinav, Prasanta K. Panigrahi

It is shown that a charge-neutral spin-1 exciton, realizable only in planar systems like graphene, can effectively be used for controlled spin transport in such media. The excitonic bound state is destabilized by quantum fluctuations, characterized by a threshold for excitation and melts in a smooth manner under thermal fluctuations. This planar exciton diff

Krzysztof Cichy, Elena Garcia-Ramos, Karl Jansen, Konstantin Ottnad

We compute both sides of the Witten-Veneziano formula using lattice techniques. For the one side we perform dedicated quenched simulations and use the spectral projector method to determine the topological susceptibility in the pure Yang-Mills theory. The other side we determine in lattice QCD with $N_f=2+1+1$ dynamical Wilson twisted mass fermions including

Vitaly Zviagin, Peter Richter, Tammo Böntgen, Michael Lorenz

Co$_3$O$_4$, ZnFe$_2$O$_4$, CoFe$_2$O$_4$, ZnCo$_2$O$_4$, and Fe$_3$O$_4$ thin films were fabricated by pulsed laser deposition at high and low temperatures resulting in crystalline single-phase normal, inverse, as well as disordered spinel oxide thin films with smooth surface morphology. The dielectric function, determined by spectroscopic ellipsometry in a

Daniel Elander, Robert Lawrance, Maurizio Piai

We consider a class of simplified models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking built in terms of their five-dimensional weakly-coupled gravity duals, in the spirit of bottom-up holography. The sigma-model consists of two abelian gauge bosons and one real, non-charged scalar field coupled to gravity in five dimensions. The scalar potential is a simple ex

William C. Garrison, Adam J. Lee

Access control is fundamental to computer security, and has thus been the subject of extensive formal study. In particular, *relative expressiveness analysis* techniques have used formal mappings called *simulations* to explore whether one access control system is capable of emulating another, thereby comparing the expressive power of these systems. Unfortun

Le Hou, Dimitris Samaras, Tahsin M. Kurc, Yi Gao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks. However, to recognize cancer subtypes automatically, training a CNN on gigapixel resolution Whole Slide Tissue Images (WSI) is currently computationally impossible. The differentiation of cancer subtypes is based on cellular-level visual features observed on

Khodabakhsh Hessami Pilehrood, Tatiana Hessami Pilehrood

In this paper, we study congruences on sums of products of binomial coefficients that can be proved by using properties of the Jacobi polynomials. We give special attention to polynomial congruences containing Catalan numbers, second-order Catalan numbers, the sequence (\seqnum{A176898}) $S_n=\frac{{6n\choose 3n}{3n\choose 2n}}{2{2n\choose n}(2n+1)},$ and th

Manuel Wüthrich, Sebastian Trimpe, Daniel Kappler, Stefan Schaal

The Gaussian Filter (GF) is one of the most widely used filtering algorithms; instances are the Extended Kalman Filter, the Unscented Kalman Filter and the Divided Difference Filter. GFs represent the belief of the current state by a Gaussian with the mean being an affine function of the measurement. We show that this representation can be too restrictive to

Zhihao Lan, Jiří Minář, Emanuele Levi, Weibin Li

The devil's staircase is a fractal structure that characterizes the ground state of one-dimensional classical lattice gases with long-range repulsive convex interactions. Its plateaus mark regions of stability for specific filling fractions which are controlled by a chemical potential. Typically such staircase has an explicit particle-hole symmetry, i.e.

Andreas Crivellin, Lars Hofer, Joaquim Matias, Ulrich Nierste

LHCb has reported deviations from the Standard Model in $b\to sμ^+μ^-$ transitions for which a new neutral gauge boson is a prime candidate for an explanation. As this gauge boson has to couple in a flavour non-universal way to muons and electrons in order to explain $R_K$, it is interesting to examine the possibility that also lepton flavour is violated, es

B. Boisseau, H. Giacomini, D. Polarski, A. A. Starobinsky

We consider the possibility to produce a bouncing universe in the framework of scalar-tensor gravity models in which the scalar field potential may be negative, and even unbounded from below. We find a set of viable solutions with nonzero measure in the space of initial conditions passing a bounce, even in the presence of a radiation component, and approachi

Rafael Roldán, Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Emmanuele Cappelluti, Francisco Guinea

One of the fascinating properties of the new families of two-dimensional crystals is their high stretchability and the possibility to use external strain to manipulate, in a controlled manner, their optical and electronic properties. Strain engineering, understood as the field that study how the physical properties of materials can be tuned by controlling th

D. A. Dawson, L. G. Gorostiza

We study existence of percolation in the hierarchical group of order $N$, which is an ultrametric space, and transience and recurrence of random walks on the percolation clusters. The connection probability on the hierarchical group for two points separated by distance $k$ is of the form $c_k/N^{k(1+δ)}, δ>-1$, with $c_k=C_0+C_1\log k+C_2k^α$, non-negative c

Maxime Dugave, Frank Göhmann, Karol K. Kozlowski, Junji Suzuki

We consider the spectrum of correlation lengths of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ XXZ chain in the antiferromagnetic massive regime. These are given as ratios of eigenvalues of the quantum transfer matrix of the model. The eigenvalues are determined by integrals over certain auxiliary functions and by their zeros. The auxiliary functions satisfy nonlinear integral e

M. A. Mueed, D. Kamburov, S. Hasdemir, M. Shayegan

We observe geometric resonance features of composite fermions on the flanks of the even denominator ν = 1/2 fractional quantum Hall state in high-mobility two-dimensional electron and hole systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells and subjected to a weak, strain-induced, unidirectional periodic potential modulation. The features provide a measure of how cl

Alet Roux

The pricing, hedging, optimal exercise and optimal cancellation of game or Israeli options are considered in a multi-currency model with proportional transaction costs. Efficient constructions for optimal hedging, cancellation and exercise strategies are presented, together with numerical examples, as well as probabilistic dual representations for the bid an

Ryuji Daido, Naoya Kitajima, Fuminobu Takahashi

We propose a new scenario of baryogenesis, in which annihilation of axion domain walls generates a sizable baryon asymmetry. Successful baryogenesis is possible for a wide range of the axion mass and decay constant, $m \simeq 10^8 -10^{13}$ GeV and $f \simeq 10^{13} - 10^{16}$ GeV. Baryonic isocurvature perturbations are significantly suppressed in our model

Ritwik Mondal, Marco Berritta, Karel Carva, Peter M. Oppeneer

Excitation of a metallic ferromagnet such as Ni with an intensive femtosecond laser pulse causes an ultrafast demagnetization within approximately 300 fs. It was proposed that the ultrafast demagnetization measured in femtosecond magneto-optical experiments could be due to relativistic light-induced processes. We perform an ab initio investigation of the inf

Luke Edholm

The Bergman theory of domains $\{ |{z_{1} |^γ} < |{z_{2}} | < 1 \}$ in $\mathbb{C}^2$ is studied for certain values of $γ$, including all positive integers. For such $γ$, we obtain a closed form expression for the Bergman kernel, $\mathbb{B}_γ$. With these formulas, we make new observations relating to the Lu Qi-Keng problem and analyze the boundary behavior

Chaiho Rim, Hong Zhang

Virasoro irregular conformal block with arbitrary rank is obtained for the classical limit or equivalently Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit using the beta-deformed irregular matrix model (Penner-type matrix model for the irregular conformal block). The same result is derived using the generalized Mathieu equation which is equivalent to the loop equation of the irr

Quynh Nguyen, Antoine Gautier, Matthias Hein

The estimation of correspondences between two images resp. point sets is a core problem in computer vision. One way to formulate the problem is graph matching leading to the quadratic assignment problem which is NP-hard. Several so called second order methods have been proposed to solve this problem. In recent years hypergraph matching leading to a third ord

G. P. Korchemsky, E. Sokatchev

We derive the explicit expression for the four-point correlation function of stress-energy tensors in four-dimensional N=4 superconformal theory. We show that it has a remarkably simple and suggestive form allowing us to predict a large class of four-point correlation functions involving the stress-energy tensor and other conserved currents. We then apply th

Colin Grudzien

This work demonstrates an innovative numerical method for counting and locating eigenvalues with the Evans function. Utilizing the geometric phase in the Hopf bundle, the technique calculates the winding of the Evans function about a contour in the spectral plane, describing the eigenvalues enclosed by the contour for the Hocking-Stewartson pulse of the comp

F. Naderi, A. Rezaei-Aghdam, F. Darabi

We consider a string model at one-loop related to a $σ$-model whose antisymmetric tensor field is constructed as complex structure on the background manifold, specially on a manifold $R\times N$ where $N$ is a complex manifold. As an example, we consider a homogeneous anisotropic $(1+4)$-dimensional $σ$-model where space part of the background is a $4$-dimen

Emine Ertugrul, Levent Akant, Birses Debir

We investigate thermodynamics of a non-interacting quantum field in a static black hole background. The horizon divergences are regulated by the brick wall method, which consists of subjecting the quantum field to Dirichlet boundary conditions on a surface (the brick wall) just outside the horizon. Using heat kernel and Mellin transform methods, we derive hi

Klaus Wehmuth, Éric Fleury, Artur Ziviani

We present the algebraic representation and basic algorithms for MultiAspect Graphs (MAGs). A MAG is a structure capable of representing multilayer and time-varying networks, as well as higher-order networks, while also having the property of being isomorphic to a directed graph. In particular, we show that, as a consequence of the properties associated with

Tsung-Yu Lin, Aruni RoyChowdhury, Subhransu Maji

We present a simple and effective architecture for fine-grained visual recognition called Bilinear Convolutional Neural Networks (B-CNNs). These networks represent an image as a pooled outer product of features derived from two CNNs and capture localized feature interactions in a translationally invariant manner. B-CNNs belong to the class of orderless textu

Kalyan Banerjee, Jaya NN Iyer

In this note we prove that the kernel of the push-forward homomorphism on $d$-cycles modulo rational equivalence, induced by the closed embedding of an ample divisor linearly equivalent to some multiple of the theta divisor inside the Jacobian variety $J(C)$ is trivial. Here $C$ is a smooth projective curve of genus $g$.

K. M. Daily, R. E. Wooten, Chris H. Greene

By separating the Schrödinger equation for $N$ noninteracting spin-polarized fermions in two-dimensional hyperspherical coordinates, we demonstrate that fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states emerge naturally from degeneracy patterns of the antisymmetric free-particle eigenfunctions. In the presence of Coulomb interactions, the FQH states split off from a dege

Andrew Winslow

We give a $O(n)$-time algorithm for determining whether translations of a polyomino with $n$ edges can tile the plane. The algorithm is also a $O(n)$-time algorithm for enumerating all such tilings that are also regular, and we prove that at most $Θ(n)$ such tilings exist.

Simon E. F. Spencer, Steven M. Hill, Sach Mukherjee

Graphical models are widely used to study biological networks. Interventions on network nodes are an important feature of many experimental designs for the study of biological networks. In this paper we put forward a causal variant of dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) for the purpose of modeling time-course data with interventions. The models inherit the simp

Axel Parmentier

Resource constrained shortest path problems are usually solved thanks to a smart enumeration of all the non-dominated paths. Recent improvements of these enumeration algorithms rely on the use of bounds on path resources to discard partial solutions. The quality of the bounds determines the performance of the algorithm. The main contribution of this paper is

Tobias Muller

In the confetti percolation model, or two-coloured dead leaves model, radius one disks arrive on the plane according to a space-time Poisson process. Each disk is coloured black with probability $p$ and white with probability $1-p$. In this paper we show that the critical probability for confetti percolation equals $1/2$. That is, if $p>1/2$ then a.s.~there

W. Creus, Y. Allkofer, C. Amsler, A. D. Ferella

Experiments searching for weak interacting massive particles with noble gases such as liquid argon require very low detection thresholds for nuclear recoils. A determination of the scintillation efficiency is crucial to quantify the response of the detector at low energy. We report the results obtained with a small liquid argon cell using a monoenergetic neu

Amina Kemmar, Samir Loudni, Yahia Lebbah, Patrice Boizumault

Sequential pattern mining under constraints is a challenging data mining task. Many efficient ad hoc methods have been developed for mining sequential patterns, but they are all suffering from a lack of genericity. Recent works have investigated Constraint Programming (CP) methods, but they are not still effective because of their encoding. In this paper, we

Joachim Rosskopf, Korbinian Paul-Yuan, Martin B. Plenio, Jens Michaelis

Analyzing the physical and chemical properties of single DNA based molecular machines such as polymerases and helicases often necessitates to track stepping motion on the length scale of base pairs. Although high resolution instruments have been developed that are capable of reaching that limit, individual steps are oftentimes hidden by experimental noise wh

Vindhyawasini Prasad, Chunxiu Liu, Xiaobin Ji, Weidong Li

We study the photon detection efficiency and position resolution of the electromagnetic calorimeter (EMC) of the BESIII experiment. The control sample of the initial-state-radiation (ISR) process of $e^+e^-\rightarrow γμ^+μ^-$ is used at $J/ψ$ and $ψ(3770)$ resonances for the EMC calibration and photon detection efficiency study. Photon detection efficiency

Junjie Cao, Liangliang Shang, Jin Min Yang, Yang Zhang

Recently the ATLAS collaboration reported a $3σ$ excess in the leptonic-$Z+jets+E_{T}^{miss}$ channel. This may be interpreted in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) by gluino pair production with the decay chain $\tilde{g} \to q \bar{q} \tildeχ_2^0 \to q \bar{q} Z \tildeχ_1^0$, where $\tildeχ_1^0$ and $\tildeχ_2^0$ denote the lightest

X. Ribeyre, M. Lobet, E. D&#39;Humières, O. Jansen

Direct production of electron--positron pairs in two photon collisions, the Breit--Wheeler process, is one of the basic processes in the Universe. However, it has never been observed in laboratory because of absence of the intense gamma-ray sources. Laser induced synchrotron sources emission may open for the first time a way to observe this process. A feasib

Dafei Jin, Qing Hu, Daniel Neuhauser, Felix von Cube

We demonstrate an unexpectedly strong surface-plasmonic absorption at the interface of silver and high-index dielectrics based on electron and photon spectroscopy. The measured bandwidth and intensity of absorption deviate significantly from the classical theory. Our density-functional calculation well predicts the occurrence of this phenomenon. It reveals t

Adam Kasperski, Pawel Zielinski

In this paper a class of discrete optimization problems with uncertain costs is discussed. The uncertainty is modeled by introducing a scenario set containing a finite number of cost scenarios. A probability distribution in the scenario set is available. In order to choose a solution the weighted OWA criterion (WOWA) is applied. This criterion allows decisio

R. Myrzakulov, L. Sebastiani, S. Vagnozzi

We investigate inflation within $f(R,ϕ)$-theories, where a dynamical scalar field is coupled to gravity. A class of models which can support early-time acceleration with the emerging of an effective cosmological constant at high curvature is studied. The dynamics of the field allow for exit from inflation leading to the correct amount of inflation in agreeme

David Kazhdan, Yakov Varshavsky

In this note we construct a &#34;restriction&#34; map from the cocenter of a reductive group G over a local non-archimedean field F to the cocenter of a Levi subgroup. We show that the dual map corresponds to parabolic induction and deduce that parabolic induction preserves stability. We also give a new (purely geometric) proof that the character of normaliz

Manuel Wüthrich, Peter Pastor, Ludovic Righetti, Aude Billard

In this paper, we derive a probabilistic registration algorithm for object modeling and tracking. In many robotics applications, such as manipulation tasks, nonvisual information about the movement of the object is available, which we will combine with the visual information. Furthermore we do not only consider observations of the object, but we also take sp

Golam Mortuza Hossain, Gopal Sardar

Existence of Unruh effect is often understood from the property of two-point function along Rindler trajectory where it satisfies KMS condition. In particular, it exhibits the so-called KMS periodicity along imaginary time direction. Corresponding period is then identified with reciprocal of Unruh temperature times Boltzmann constant. We show here that the t

Gilbert Weinstein, Yosef Strauss, Sergey Bondarenko, Asher Yahalom

Classical chaos is often characterized as exponential divergence of nearby trajectories. In many interesting cases these trajectories can be identified with geodesic curves. We define here the entropy by $S = \ln χ(x)$ with $χ(x)$ being the distance between two nearby geodesics. We derive an equation for the entropy which by transformation to a Ricatti-type

Saheb Soroushfar, Reza Saffari, Jutta Kunz, Claus Lämmerzahl

We consider the motion of test particles in the spacetime of a black hole in f(R) gravity. The complete set of analytic solutions of the geodesic equation in the spacetime of this black hole are presented. The geodesic equations are solved in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions and derivatives of Kleinian sigma functions. The different types of the resul

Ophélia Fabre, S. Shankaranarayanan

The origin of large magnetic fields in the Universe remains currently unknown. We investigate here a mechanism before recombination based on known physics. The source of the vorticity is due to the changes in the photon distribution function caused by the fluctuations in the background photons. We show that the magnetic field generated in the MHD limit, due

Philip Bille, Patrick Hagge Cording, Inge Li Gørtz, Frederik Rye Skjoldjensen

Given a static reference string $R$ and a source string $S$, a relative compression of $S$ with respect to $R$ is an encoding of $S$ as a sequence of references to substrings of $R$. Relative compression schemes are a classic model of compression and have recently proved very successful for compressing highly-repetitive massive data sets such as genomes and

Mingming Cao, Kangwei Li, Qingying Xue

Let $n\ge 2$ and $g_λ^{*}$ be the well-known high dimensional Littlewood-Paley function which was defined and studied by E. M. Stein, \begin{align*} g_λ^{*}(f)(x) =\bigg(\iint_{\mathbb R^{n+1}_{+}} \Big(\frac{t}{t+|x-y|}\Big)^{nλ} |\nabla P_tf(y,t)|^2 \frac{dy dt}{t^{n-1}}\bigg)^{1/2}, \ \quad λ> 1, \end{align*} where $P_tf(y,t)=p_t*f(y)$, $p_t(y)=t^{-n}p(y/

Chuan-Hung Chen, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Takaaki Nomura

We propose a dark matter explanation to simultaneously account for the excess of antiproton-to-proton and positron power spectra observed in the AMS-02 experiment while having the right dark matter relic abundance and satisfying the current direct search bounds. We extend the Higgs triplet model with a hidden gauge symmetry of $SU(2)_X$ that is broken to $Z_

Rui Asaoka, Hiroki Tsuchiura, Makoto Yamashita, Yuta Toga

We study the dynamical instabilities of superfluid flows in the S=1 Bose-Hubbard model. The time evolution of each spin component in a condensate is calculated based on the dynamical Gutzwiller approximation for a wide range of interactions, from a weakly correlated regime to a strongly correlated regime near the Mott-insulator transition. Owing to the spin-

Nitin Ahuja, Matthias Bender, Peter Sanders, Christian Schulz

Given a set of basic areas, the territory design problem asks to create a predefined number of territories, each containing at least one basic area, such that an objective function is optimized. Desired properties of territories often include a reasonable balance, compact form, contiguity and small average journey times which are usually encoded in the objec

Stefano Capparelli, Valentina Pepe

We prove that there do not exist non-Desarguesian symplectic semifield spreads of PG$(5,q^2)$, $q\geq 2^{14}$ even, whose associated semifield has center containing $\mathbb{F}_q$, by proving that the only $\mathbb{F}_q$-linear set of rank 6 disjoint from the secant variety of the quadric Veronese variety of PG$(5,q^2)$ is a plane with three points of the Ve

Stefan Gladisch, Ulrike Kister, Christian Tominski, Raimund Dachselt

Graph exploration and editing are still mostly considered independently and systems to work with are not designed for todays interactive surfaces like smartphones, tablets or tabletops. When developing a system for those modern devices that supports both graph exploration and graph editing, it is necessary to 1) identify what basic tasks need to be supported

Koji Hashimoto, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Akihiko Sonoda

At a meson melting transition in holographic QCD, a weak turbulence of mesons was found with critical embeddings of probe D-branes in gravity duals. The turbulent mesons have a power-law energy distribution $\varepsilon_n \propto (ω_n)^α$ where $ω_n$ is the mass of the $n$-th excited resonance of the meson tower. In this paper, we find that the turbulence po

Radostin D. Simitev, Alexander G. Kosovichev, Friedrich H. Busse

Numerical MHD simulations play increasingly important role for understanding mechanisms of stellar magnetism. We present simulations of convection and dynamos in density-stratified rotating spherical fluid shells. We employ a new 3D simulation code for the solution of a physically consistent anelastic model of the process with a minimum number of parameters.

Ovidiu Radulescu, Satya Swarup Samal, Aurélien Naldi, Dima Grigoriev

We discuss the symbolic dynamics of biochemical networks with separate timescales. We show that symbolic dynamics of monomolecular reaction networks with separated rate constants can be described by deterministic, acyclic automata with a number of states that is inferior to the number of biochemical species. For nonlinear pathways, we propose a general appro

D. Borka, S. Capozziello, P. Jovanović, V. Borka Jovanović

We consider possible signatures for the so called {\it hybrid gravity} within the Galactic Central Parsec. This modified theory of gravity consists of a superposition of the metric Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian with an $f(R)$ term constructed {\it à la Palatini} and can be easily reduced to an equivalent scalar-tensor theory. Such an approach is introduced in

Hiroshi Hirai, Yuni Iwamasa

$k$-submodular functions, introduced by Huber and Kolmogorov, are functions defined on $\{0, 1, 2, \dots, k\}^n$ satisfying certain submodular-type inequalities. $k$-submodular functions typically arise as relaxations of NP-hard problems, and the relaxations by $k$-submodular functions play key roles in design of efficient, approximation, or fixed-parameter

Sara Rebagliati, Emanuela Sasso, Samuele Soraggi

Working on the daily closing prices and logreturns, in this paper we deal with the use of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) to forecast the price of the EUR/USD Futures. The aim of our work is to understand how the HMMs describe different financial time series depending on their structure. Subsequently, we analyse the forecasting methods exposed in the previous li

Ze Li

In this paper, we prove the asymptotic stability of solitary waves to 1D nonlinear Schrödinger equations in the subcritical case with symmetry and spectrum assumptions. One of the main ideas is to use the vector fields method developed by Cuccagna, Georgiev, Visciglia to overcome the weak decay with respect to $t$ of the linearized equation caused by the one

David Moss, Rodion Stepanov, Marita Krause, Rainer Beck

Observations of regular magnetic fields in several nearby galaxies reveal magnetic arms situated between the material arms. The nature of these magnetic arms is a topic of active debate. Previously we found a hint that taking into account the effects of injections of small-scale magnetic fields generated, e.g., by turbulent dynamo action, into the large-scal

Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We propose a heuristic unification of dark matter and dark energy in terms of a single dark fluid with a logotropic equation of state $P=A\ln(ρ/ρ_P)$, where $ρ$ is the rest-mass density, $ρ_P$ is the Planck density, and $A$ is the logotropic temperature. The energy density $ε$ is the sum of a rest-mass energy term $ρc^2$ mimicking dark matter and an internal

R. T. Güray, N. Özkan, C. Yalçın, T. Rauscher

The total cross sections for the $^{152}$Gd(p,$γ$)$^{153}$Tb and $^{152}$Gd(p,n)$^{152}$Tb reactions have been measured by the activation method at effective center-of-mass energies \mbox{$3.47 \leq E_\mathrm{c.m.}^\mathrm{eff}\leq 7.94$ MeV} and \mbox{$4.96 \leq E_\mathrm{c.m.}^\mathrm{eff} \leq 7.94$ MeV}, respectively. The targets were prepared by evapora

Alberto Chiarini, Alessandra Cipriani, Rajat Subhra Hazra

We show that the rescaled maximum of the discrete Gaussian Free Field (DGFF) in dimension larger or equal to 3 is in the maximal domain of attraction of the Gumbel distribution. The result holds both for the infinite-volume field as well as the field with zero boundary conditions. We show that these results follow from an interesting application of the Stein

Dan-Wei Zhang, Shi-Liang Zhu, Z. D. Wang

We propose a scheme to simulate and explore Weyl semimetal physics with ultracold fermionic atoms in a two-dimensional square optical lattice subjected to experimentally realizable spin-orbit coupling and an artificial dimension from an external parameter space, which may increase experimental feasibility compared with the cases in three dimensional optical

G. Seibold, L. Benfatto, C. Castellani, J. Lorenzana

We investigate the disorder dependence of the static density, amplitude and current correlations within the attractive Hubbard model supplemented with on-site disorder. It is found that strong disorder favors a decoupling of density and amplitude correlations due to the formation of superconducting islands. This emergent granularity also induces an enhanceme

Yuki Kanakubo, Toshiki Nakashima

Let $G=Sp_{2r}({\mathbb C})$ be a simply connected simple algebraic group over $\mathbb{C}$ of type $C_r$, $B$ and $B_-$ be its two opposite Borel subgroups, and $W$ be the associated Weyl group. For $u$, $v\in W$, it is known that the coordinate ring ${\mathbb C}[G^{u,v}]$ of the double Bruhat cell $G^{u,v}=BuB\cap B_-vB_-$ is isomorphic to an upper cluster

M. Taut, K. Koepernik

The electronic structure including energy bands, band weights, and local density of states (LDOS) of interfaces between hexagonal (AB) and rhombohedral (ABC) graphite has been has been calculated. The full-potential local-orbital code (FPLO) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to the density functional theory has been used. Both of the two exist

Zhora Nikoghosyan

A vertex of degree one in a tree is called an end vertex and a vertex of degree at least three is called a branch vertex. For a graph $G$, let $σ_2$ be the minimum degree sum of two nonadjacent vertices in $G$. We consider tree problems arising in the context of optical and centralized terminal networks: finding a spanning tree of G (i) with the minimum numb

Young-Hoon Kiem, Kyoung-Seog Lee

In arXiv:1503.00125, the authors proved that every complete intersection smooth projective variety $Y$ is a Fano visitor, i.e. its derived category $D^b(Y)$ is equivalent to a full triangulated subcategory of the derived category $D^b(X)$ of a smooth Fano variety $X$, called a Fano host of $Y$. They also introduced the notion of Fano dimension of $Y$ as the

Fei Gao, Zhen Gao, Xihang Shi, Zhaoju Yang

Topological photonic states, inspired by robust chiral edge states in topological insulators, have recently been demonstrated in a few photonic systems, including an array of coupled on-chip ring resonators at communication wavelengths. However, the intrinsic difference between electrons and photons determines that the topological protection in time-reversal

Ziyan Luo, Liqun Qi

The concept of double nonnegativity of matrices is generalized to doubly nonnegative tensors by means of the nonnegativity of all entries and $H$-eigenvalues. This generalization is defined for tensors of any order (even or odd), while it reduces to the class of nonnegative positive semidefinite tensors in the even order case. We show that many nonnegative s

Vivien Brunel

Most of the banks&#39; operational risk internal models are based on loss pooling in risk and business line categories. The parameters and outputs of operational risk models are sensitive to the pooling of the data and the choice of the risk classification. In a simple model, we establish the link between the number of risk cells and the model parameters by

Jon Keating, Brad Rodgers, Edva Roditty-Gershon, Zeev Rudnick

We study the mean square of sums of the $k$th divisor function $d_k(n)$ over short intervals and arithmetic progressions for the rational function field over a finite field of $q$ elements. In the limit as $q\rightarrow\infty$ we establish a relationship with a matrix integral over the unitary group. Evaluating this integral enables us to compute the mean sq

Simon Stevenson, Frank Ohme, Stephen Fairhurst

The coalescence of compact binaries containing neutron stars or black holes is one of the most promising signals for advanced ground-based laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors, with the first direct detections expected over the next few years. The rate of binary coalescences and the distribution of component masses is highly uncertain, and popul

R. Vilela Mendes

Using projective limits as subsets of Cartesian products of homomorphisms from a lattice to the structure group, a consistent interaction measure and an infinite-dimensional calculus has been constructed for a theory of non-abelian generalized connections on a hypercubic lattice. Here, after reviewing and clarifying past work, new results are obtained for th

Antonella De Pasquale, Davide Rossini, Rosario Fazio, Vittorio Giovannetti

Thermodynamics relies on the possibility to describe systems composed of a large number of constituents in terms of few macroscopic variables. Its foundations are rooted into the paradigm of statistical mechanics, where thermal properties originate from averaging procedures which smoothen out local details. While undoubtedly successful, elegant and formally

Yunsong Liu, Zhifang Zhan, Jian-Feng Cai, Di Guo

Compressed sensing has shown great potentials in accelerating magnetic resonance imaging. Fast image reconstruction and high image quality are two main issues faced by this new technology. It has been shown that, redundant image representations, e.g. tight frames, can significantly improve the image quality. But how to efficiently solve the reconstruction pr

Animesh Agarwal, Luigi Delle Site

Quantum effects due to the spatial delocalization of light atoms are treated in molecular simulation via the path integral technique. Among several methods, Path Integral (PI) Molecular Dynamics (MD) is nowadays a powerful tool to investigate properties induced by spatial delocalization of atoms; however computationally this technique is very demanding. The

V. Hizhnyakov, M. Klopov, A. Shelkan

In this paper an analytical and numerical study of anharmonic vibrations of monatomic chain and graphene in transverse (perpendicular) with respect to the chain/plane direction is presented. Due to the lack of odd anharmonicities and presence of hard quartic anharmonicity for displacements in this direction, there may exist localized anharmonic transverse mo

Liang Zhang, Yuan Yan, Han-Chun Wu, Dapeng Yu

Graphene-based vertical heterostructures, particularly stacks incorporated with other layered materials, are promising for nanoelectronics. The stacking of two model Dirac materials, graphene and topological insulator, can considerably enlarge the family of van der Waals heterostructures. Despite well understanding of the two individual materials, the electr

Tomas Sjödin

Let $(X,d_X,μ)$ be a metric measure space where $X$ is locally compact and separable and $μ$ is a Borel regular measure such that $0 <μ(B(x,r)) <\infty$ for every ball $B(x,r)$ with center $x \in X$ and radius $r>0$. We define $\mathcal{X}$ to be the set of all positive, finite non-zero regular Borel measures with compact support in $X$ which are dominated b

Helios Sanchis-Alepuz, Richard Williams

We present a unified picture of mesons and baryons in the Dyson-Schwinger/Bethe-Salpeter approach, wherein the quark-gluon and quark-(anti)quark interaction follow from a systematic truncation of the QCD effective action and includes all its tensor structures. The masses of some of the ground state mesons and baryons are found to be in reasonable agreement w

Anjana V., E. Harikumar

We derive the modified diffusion equations defined on kappa-space-time and using these, investigate the change in the spectral dimension of kappa-space-time with the probe scale. These deformed diffusion equations are derived by applying Wick&#39;s rotation to the $κ$-deformed Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equations obtained from different choices of Klein-Gordon equ

Tomohiro Abe, Ryosuke Sato

The inert Higgs doublet model is an extension of the standard model with an extra scalar doublet. The extra doublet is $Z_2$ odd while all the other particles are $Z_2$ even, thus the model contains a dark matter candidate. It is known that the spin-independent cross section of the dark matter and the nucleon is highly suppressed for $m_{\text DM} \sim m_h/2

Jason D. Lotay, Yong Wei

We prove that torsion-free G_2 structures are (weakly) dynamically stable along the Laplacian flow for closed G_2 structures. More precisely, given a torsion-free G_2 structure $φ$ on a compact 7-manifold, the Laplacian flow with initial value cohomologous and sufficiently close to $φ$ will converge to a torsion-free G_2 structure which is in the orbit of $φ