September 2015 arXiv papers — page 10

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev

Elliptic flow (v_2) values for identified particles at midrapidity in Au + Au collisions measured by the STAR experiment in the Beam Energy Scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at sqrt{s_{NN}}= 7.7--62.4 GeV are presented for three centrality classes. The centrality dependence and the data at sqrt{s_{NN}}= 14.5 GeV are new. Except at the lowest beam e

Mitsuru Kakizaki, Shinya Kanemura, Toshinori Matsui

We discuss spectra of gravitational waves which are originated by the strongly first order phase transition at the electroweak symmetry breaking, which is required for a successful scenario of electroweak baryogenesis. Such spectra are numerically evaluated without high temperature expansion in a set of extended scalar sectors with additional N isospin-singl

Chelsea L. MacLeod, Nicholas P. Ross, Andy Lawrence, Mike Goad

We present a systematic search for changing-look quasars based on repeat photometry from SDSS and Pan-STARRS1, along with repeat spectra from SDSS and SDSS-III BOSS. Objects with large, |Δg|>1 mag photometric variations in their light curves are selected as candidates to look for changes in broad emission line (BEL) features. Out of a sample of 1011 objects

Scott Armstrong, Antoine Gloria, Tuomo Kuusi

We show that certain linear elliptic equations (and systems) in divergence form with almost periodic coefficients have bounded, almost periodic correctors. This is proved under a new condition we introduce which quantifies the almost periodic assumption and includes (but is not restricted to) the class of smooth, quasiperiodic coefficient fields which satisf

Yan-Lin Tang, Hua-Lei Yin, Qi Zhao, Hui Liu

Quantum cryptography holds the promise to establish an information-theoretically secure global network. All field tests of metropolitan-scale quantum networks to date are based on trusted relays. The security critically relies on the accountability of the trusted relays, which will break down if the relay is dishonest or compromised. Here, we construct a mea

John Lipor, Brandon Wong, Donald Scavia, Branko Kerkez

Adaptive sampling theory has shown that, with proper assumptions on the signal class, algorithms exist to reconstruct a signal in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ with an optimal number of samples. We generalize this problem to the case of spatial signals, where the sampling cost is a function of both the number of samples taken and the distance traveled during estimation.

Mihalis Mourgoglou, Xavier Tolsa

Let $Ω\subsetneq\mathbb R^{n+1}$ be open and let $μ$ be some measure supported on $\partialΩ$ such that $μ(B(x,r))\leq C\,r^n$ for all $x\in\mathbb R^{n+1}$, $r>0$. We show that if the harmonic measure in $Ω$ satisfies some scale invariant $A_\infty$ type conditions with respect to $μ$, then the $n$-dimensional Riesz transform $$R_μf(x) = \int \frac{x-y}{|x-

William H. Kazez, Rachel Roberts

Suppose that $\mathcal F$ is a transversely oriented, codimension one foliation of a connected, closed, oriented 3-manifold. Suppose also that $\mathcal F$ has continuous tangent plane field and is {\sl taut}; that is, closed smooth transversals to $\mathcal F$ pass through every point of $M$. We show that if $\mathcal F$ is not the product foliation $S^1\ti

Gabor Szabo

We introduce and study strongly self-absorbing actions of locally compact groups on C*-algebras. This is an equivariant generalization of a strongly self-absorbing C*-algebra to the setting of C*-dynamical systems. The main result is the following equivariant McDuff-type absorption theorem: A cocycle action $(α,u): G\curvearrowright A$ on a separable C*-alge

Yang Lu, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu

The convolutional neural network (ConvNet or CNN) has proven to be very successful in many tasks such as those in computer vision. In this conceptual paper, we study the generative perspective of the discriminative CNN. In particular, we propose to learn the generative FRAME (Filters, Random field, And Maximum Entropy) model using the highly expressive filte

Ahmad Mohamadnejad

We study the SU(2) Georgi-Glashow model and suggest a decomposition for its fields and obtain a Lagrangian based on new variables. We use Cho's restricted decomposition as a result of a vacuum condition of the Georgi-Glashow model. This model with no external sources leads us to the Cho extended decomposition. We interpret the puzzling field, $ \textbf{n

Lorenzo Coviello, Massimo Franceschetti, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Iyad Rahwan

The spread of an infection on a real-world social network is determined by the interplay of two processes: the dynamics of the network, whose structure changes over time according to the encounters between individuals, and the dynamics on the network, whose nodes can infect each other after an encounter. Physical encounter is the most common vehicle for the

Robert Cowell

In forensic DNA calculations of relatedness of individuals and in DNA mixture analyses, two sources of uncertainty are present concerning the allele frequencies used for evaluating genotype probabilities when evaluating likelihoods. They are: (i) imprecision in the estimates of the allele frequencies in the population by using an inevitably finite database o

Gabriel Frahm

Bayesian rationality in strategic games presumes that it is possible to translate strategic uncertainty into imperfect information. Correlated equilibrium is guided by the idea that players are Bayes rational, have a common prior, and choose their strategies independently. I show that an essential condition for Bayesian rationality is violated in every game

Yoshihiko Nonomura, Yusuke Tomita

Recently we showed that the critical nonequilibrium relaxation in the Swendsen-Wang algorithm is widely described by the stretched-exponential relaxation of physical quantities in the Ising or Heisenberg models. Here we make a similar analysis in the Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in the two-dimensional (2D) XY model and in the first-order p

Shang-Yung Wang

Dark matter detectors with directional sensitivity have the capability to distinguish dark matter induced nuclear recoils from isotropic backgrounds, thus providing a smoking gun signature for dark matter in the Galactic halo. Motivated by recent progress in graphene and two-dimensional materials research, we propose a novel class of directional dark matter

Ivan Cherednik, Ivan Danilenko

We extend the construction of the DAHA-Jones polynomials for any reduced root systems and DAHA-superpolynomials in type A from the iterated torus knots (our previous paper) to links, including arbitrary algebraic links. Such a passage essentially corresponds to the usage of the products of Macdonald polynomials and is directly connected to the so-called spli

Zhong Tan, Yanjin Wang

This paper concerns the viscous and non-resistive MHD systems which govern the motion of electrically conducting fluids interacting with magnetic fields. We consider an initial-boundary value problem for both compressible and (nonhomogeneous and homogeneous) incompressible fluids in an infinite flat layer. We prove the global well-posedness of the systems ar

Avazbek Nasirov, Bakhodir Kayumov, Yongseok Oh

The probability of the formation and decay of a dinuclear system is investigated for a wide range of relative orbital angular momentum values. The mass and angular distributions of the quasifission fragments are studied to understand the reaction mechanisms of the heavy ion collision of $^{78}$Kr(10$A$ MeV) + $^{40}$Ca within dinuclear system model. The quas

Jeffrey S. Case

Under a spectral assumption on the Laplacian of a Poincaré--Einstein manifold, we establish an energy inequality relating the energy of a fractional GJMS operator of order $2γ\in(0,2)$ or $2γ\in(2,4)$ and the energy of the weighted conformal Laplacian or weighted Paneitz operator, respectively. This spectral assumption is necessary and sufficient for such an

Jalil Modares, Nicholas Mastronarde

We present the University at Buffalo's Airborne Networking and Communications Testbed (UB-ANC Drone). UB-ANC Drone is an open software/hardware platform that aims to facilitate rapid testing and repeatable comparative evaluation of airborne networking and communications protocols at different layers of the protocol stack. It combines quadcopters capable

Emilio Elizalde, Sergei D. Odintsov, Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva, Sergey Yu. Vernov

The possibility to construct an inflationary scenario for renormalization-group improved potentials corresponding to the Higgs sector of finite gauge models is investigated. Taking into account quantum corrections to the renormalization-group potential which sums all leading logs of perturbation theory is essential for a successful realization of the inflati

Hsiang-Fu Yu, Nikhil Rao, Inderjit S. Dhillon

High-dimensional time series prediction is needed in applications as diverse as demand forecasting and climatology. Often, such applications require methods that are both highly scalable, and deal with noisy data in terms of corruptions or missing values. Classical time series methods usually fall short of handling both these issues. In this paper, we propos

Li Ma, Anqiang Zhu

In this note, we answer affirmatively the question if a warped product of a compact manifold with a line as an ancient solution to the Ricci flow is trivial. We also consider the global behavior of the Type III warping product Ricci flow.

Amandine Aftalion, Christos Sourdis

This paper deals with the study of the behaviour of the wave functions of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate near the interface, in the case of strong segregation. This yields a system of two coupled ODE's for which we want to have estimates on the asymptotic behaviour, as the strength of the coupling tends to infinity. As in phase separation model

Anastasis Georgoulas, Jane Hillston, Guido Sanguinetti

We consider continuous time Markovian processes where populations of individual agents interact stochastically according to kinetic rules. Despite the increasing prominence of such models in fields ranging from biology to smart cities, Bayesian inference for such systems remains challenging, as these are continuous time, discrete state systems with potential

J. E. Lang, R. Guichard, S. J. Balian, T. S. Monteiro

Despite the importance of isotopically purified samples in current experiments, there have been few corresponding studies of spin qubit decoherence using full quantum bath calculations. Isotopic purification eliminates the well-studied nuclear spin baths which usually dominate decoherence. We model the coherence of electronic spin qubits in silicon near so c

Jung-Chao Ban, Chih-Hung Chang

This paper studies the entropy of tree-shifts of finite type with and without boundary conditions. We demonstrate that computing the entropy of a tree-shift of finite type is equivalent to solving a system of nonlinear recurrence equations. Furthermore, the entropy of the binary Markov tree-shifts over two symbols is either $0$ or $\ln 2$. Meanwhile, the rea

Joshua A. Schiller, Lucas K. Wagner, Elif Ertekin

We present an analysis of the polymorphic energy ordering and properties of the rock salt and zincblende structures of manganese oxide using fixed node diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC). Manganese oxide is a correlated, antiferromagnetic material that has proven to be challenging to model from first principles across a variety of approaches. Unlike conventional de

Bartlomiej Dyda, Moritz Kassmann

We study weak solutions to nonlocal equations governed by integrodifferential operators. Solutions are defined with the help of symmetric nonlocal bilinear forms. Throughout this work, our main emphasis is on operators with general, possibly singular, measurable kernels. We obtain regularity results which are robust with respect to the differentiability orde

Aaron Tikuisis, Stuart White, Wilhelm Winter

We prove that faithful traces on separable and nuclear C*-algebras in the UCT class are quasidiagonal. This has a number of consequences. Firstly, by results of many hands, the classification of unital, separable, simple and nuclear C*-algebras of finite nuclear dimension which satisfy the UCT is now complete. Secondly, our result links the finite to the gen

Abhaykumar Kumbhar, Farshad Koohifar, Ismail Guvenc, Bruce Mueller

Effective emergency and natural disaster management depend on the efficient mission-critical voice and data communication between first responders and victims. Land Mobile Radio System (LMRS) is a legacy narrowband technology used for critical voice communications with limited use for data applications. Recently Long Term Evolution (LTE) emerged as a broadba

I. Oya, S. Casanova, F. Aharonian, M. Dalton

HESS J1641-463 is a unique source discovered by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescope array in the multi-TeV domain. The source had been previously hidden in the extended tail of emission from the bright nearby source HESS J1640-465. However, the analysis of the very-high-energy (VHE) data from the region at energies above 4 TeV revealed t

Alessio Zappone, Bho Matthiesen, Eduard A. Jorswieck

This paper addresses the problem of resource allocation for systems in which a primary and a secondary link share the available spectrum by an underlay or overlay approach. After observing that such a scenario models both cognitive radio and D2D communications, we formulate the problem as the maximization of the secondary energy efficiency subject to a minim

Elisabeth de Carvalho, Emil Bjornson, Erik G. Larsson, Petar Popovski

Massive MIMO systems, where the base stations are equipped with hundreds of antenna elements, are an attractive way to attain unprecedented spectral efficiency in future wireless networks. In the "classical" massive MIMO setting, the terminals are assumed fully loaded and a main impairment to the performance comes from the inter-cell pilot contaminat

D. Baguette, F. Damanet, O. Giraud, J. Martin

We investigate multiqubit permutation-symmetric states with maximal entropy of entanglement. Such states can be viewed as particular spin states, namely anticoherent spin states. Using the Majorana representation of spin states in terms of points on the unit sphere, we analyze the consequences of a point-group symmetry in their arrangement on the quantum pro

J. A. R. Cembranos, A. L. Maroto, S. J. Núñez Jareño

The fact that fast oscillating homogeneous scalar fields behave as perfect fluids in average and their intrinsic isotropy have made these models very fruitful in cosmology. In this work we will analyse the perturbations dynamics in these theories assuming general power law potentials $V(ϕ)=λ\vertϕ\vert^{n}/n$. At leading order in the wavenumber expansion, a

Amitalok J. Budkuley, Bikash Kumar Dey, Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We study communication systems over state-dependent channels in the presence of a malicious state-aware jamming adversary. The channel has a memoryless state with an underlying distribution. The adversary introduces a jamming signal into the channel. The state sequence is known non-causally to both the encoder and the adversary. Taking an Arbitrarily Varying

Prajwal Mohanmurthy, Dipangkar Dutta, Amrendra Narayan

In the recent times, test of Lorentz Invariance has been used as a means to probe theories of physics beyond the standard model. We describe a simple way of utilizing the polarimeters, which are a critical beam instrument at precision and intensity frontier nuclear physics labs such as the erstwhile Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Jefferson Lab

Eric Jeckelmann, Simone Sanna, Wolf Gero Schmidt, Eugen Speiser

Starting from a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-like model inferred from first-principles simulations, we show that the metal-insulator transition in In/Si(111) is a first-order grand canonical Peierls transition in which the substrate acts as an electron reservoir for the wires. This model explains naturally the existence of a metastable metallic phase over a wide tem

Pablo Jensen, Matteo Morini, Marton Karsai, Tommaso Venturini

The identification of nodes occupying important positions in a network structure is crucial for the understanding of the associated real-world system. Usually, betweenness centrality is used to evaluate a node capacity to connect different graph regions. However, we argue here that this measure is not adapted for that task, as it gives equal weight to "l

Aki Kutvonen, Jonne Koski, Tapio Ala-Nissilä

In his famous letter in 1870, Maxwell describes how Joule's law can be violated "only by the intelligent action of a mere guiding agent", later coined as Maxwell's demon by Lord Kelvin. In this letter we study thermodynamics of information using an experimentally feasible Maxwell's demon setup based a single electron transistor capacitive

Stephan Friedrichs, Michael Hemmer, James King, Christiane Schmidt

In the NP-hard continuous 1.5D Terrain Guarding Problem (TGP) we are given an $x$-monotone chain of line segments in $\mathbb{R}^2$ (the terrain $T$) and ask for the minimum number of guards (located anywhere on $T$) required to guard all of $T$. We construct guard candidate and witness sets $G, W \subset T$ of polynomial size such that any feasible (optimal

Indranil Biswas, Ritwik Mukherjee, Varun Thakre

We obtain a formula for the number of genus one curves with a fixed complex structure of a given degree on a del-Pezzo surface that pass through an appropriate number of generic points of the surface. This enumerative problem is expressed as the difference between the symplectic invariant and an intersection number on the moduli space of rational curves.

Tao Yin, Daniel Cocks, Walter Hofstetter

In this work we study the formation and dynamics of polarons in a system with a few impurities in a lattice immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This system has been experimentally realized using ultracold atoms and optical lattices. Here we consider a two-band model for the impurity atoms, along with a Bogoliubov approximation for the BEC, with pho

Jonathan E. Rubin, Justyna Signerska-Rynkowska, Jonathan Touboul, Alexandre Vidal

This work continues the analysis of complex dynamics in a class of bidimensional nonlinear hybrid dynamical systems with resets modeling neuronal voltage dynamics with adaptation and spike emission. We show that these models can generically display a form of mixed-mode oscillations (MMOs), which are trajectories featuring an alternation of small oscillations

Alexander Schied, Elias Strehle, Tao Zhang

We study the high-frequency limits of strategies and costs in a Nash equilibrium for two agents that are competing to minimize liquidation costs in a discrete-time market impact model with exponentially decaying price impact and quadratic transaction costs of size $θ\ge0$. We show that, for $θ=0$, equilibrium strategies and costs will oscillate indefinitely

Miklós Rásonyi, Hasanjan Sayit

We prove that for a so-called sticky process $S$ there exists an equivalent probability $Q$ and a $Q$-martingale $\tilde{S}$ that is arbitrarily close to $S$ in $L^p(Q)$ norm. For continuous $S$, $\tilde{S}$ can be chosen arbitrarily close to $S$ in supremum norm. In the case where $S$ is a local martingale we may choose $Q$ arbitrarily close to the original

Yongle Jiang

We prove that for a weakly mixing algebraic action $σ: G\curvearrowright(X,ν)$, the $n$-cohomology group $H^n(G\curvearrowright X; \mathbb{T})$, after quotienting out the natural subgroup $H^n(G,\mathbb{T})$, contains $H^n(G,\widehat{X})$ as a natural subgroup for $n=1$. If we further assume the diagonal actions $σ^2, σ^4$ are $\mathbb{T}$-cocycle superrigid

Dániel Gerbner, Balázs Keszegh, Dömötör Pálvölgyi, Balázs Patkós

Suppose we are given a set of $n$ balls $\{b_1,\ldots,b_n\}$ each colored either red or blue in some way unknown to us. To find out some information about the colors, we can query any triple of balls $\{b_{i_1},b_{i_2},b_{i_3}\}$. As an answer to such a query we obtain (the index of) a {\em majority ball}, that is, a ball whose color is the same as the color

Lukas Katthän

Let $S$ be a polynomial ring and let $I \subseteq S$ be a monomial ideal. In this short note, we propose the conjecture that the Betti poset of $I$ determines the Stanley projective dimension of $S/I$ or $I$. Our main result is that this conjecture implies the Stanley conjecture for $I$, and it also implies that \[ \operatorname{sdepth} S/I \geq \operatornam

R. Rosati, F. Dolcini, F. Rossi

A recent study [Rosati, Dolcini, and Rossi, Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 243101 (2015)] has predicted that, while in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) an electronic wave packet experiences the typical spatial diffusion of conventional materials, in metallic SWNTs its shape remains essentially unaltered up to micron distances at room temperature

Graziano Crasta, Virginia De Cicco, Guido De Philippis, Francesco Ghiraldin

We investigate the structure of solutions of conservation laws with discontinuous flux under quite general assumption on the flux. We show that any entropy solution admits traces on the discontinuity set of the coefficients and we use this to prove the validity of a generalized Kato inequality for any pair of solutions. Applications to uniqueness of solution

S. V. Anishchenko, V. G. Baryshevsky

Shot noise, intrinsic to the ensemble of nonisochronous electrons-oscillators, is the cause of statistical fluctuations in cooperative radiation generated by single-pass cyclotron-resonance masers (CRMs). Autophasing time --- the time required for the cooperative radiation power to peak --- is the critical parameter characterizing the dynamics of electrons-o

Tillmann Jentsch

A classical theorem of Riemannian geometry, due in its original form to Cartan, states that the Taylor expansion of the metric in geodesic normal coordinates is a universal formal power series involving only the symmetrizations of the iterated covariant derivatives of the curvature tensor; this is known as the jet isomorphism theorem. In particular, it is in

Nandini Singhal, Sathya Peri, Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram

In this paper, we present multi-threaded algorithms for graph coloring suitable to the shared memory programming model. We modify an existing algorithm widely used in the literature and prove the correctness of the modified algorithm. We also propose a new approach to solve the problem of coloring using locks. Using datasets from real world graphs, we evalua

Belle Collaboration

We report an improved measurement of D0-D0bar mixing and a search for CP violation in D0 decays to CP-even final states K+K- and pi+pi-. The measurement is based on the final Belle data sample of 976/fb. The results are y_CP=(1.11 +- 0.22 +- 0.09)% and A_Gamma=(-0.03 +- 0.20 +- 0.07)%, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.

Khaled Qazaqzeh, Ayman Aboufattoum, Kyle Istvan

We give a congruence relating a one variable specialization of the two variable Kauffman polynomial of any periodic link to that of its mirror image. Consequently, we obtain a new and simple criterion for periodicity of links.

Sanket S. Kalamkar, Adrish Banerjee

The broadcast nature of the wireless medium allows unintended users to eavesdrop the confidential information transmission. In this regard, we investigate the problem of secure communication between a source and a destination via a wireless energy harvesting untrusted node which acts as a helper to relay the information; however, the source and destination n

G. Ishikawa, T. Yamashita

The derivatives of Nash functions are Nash functions which are derived algebraically from their minimal polynomial equations. In this paper we show that, for any non-Nash analytic function, it is impossible to derive its derivatives algebraically, i.e., by using linearity and Leibniz rule finite times. In fact we prove the impossibility of such kind of algeb

V. A. Yerokhin, E. Berseneva, Z. Harman, I. I. Tupitsyn

A weighted difference of the $g$-factors of the H- and Li-like ions of the same element is theoretically studied and optimized in order to maximize the cancelation of nuclear effects between the two charge states. We show that this weighted difference and its combination for two different elements can be used to extract a value for the fine-structure constan

ALICE Collaboration

We report on the inclusive production cross sections of J/$ψ$, $ψ$(2S), $Υ$(1S), $Υ$(2S) and $Υ$(3S), measured at forward rapidity with the ALICE detector in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV. The analysis is based on data collected at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.28 pb$^{-1}$. Quarkonia are reconstructed i

Fergal Byrne

In the decade since Jeff Hawkins proposed Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) as a model of neocortical computation, the theory and the algorithms have evolved dramatically. This paper presents a detailed description of HTM's Cortical Learning Algorithm (CLA), including for the first time a rigorous mathematical formulation of all aspects of the computati

Apoorva Patel, Parveen Kumar

Projective measurement is used as a fundamental axiom in quantum mechanics, even though it is discontinuous and cannot predict which measured operator eigenstate will be observed in which experimental run. The probabilistic Born rule gives it an ensemble interpretation, predicting proportions of various outcomes over many experimental runs. Understanding gra

F. La Barbera, A. Vazdekis, I. Ferreras, A. Pasquali

At present, the main challenge to the interpretation of variations in gravity-sensitive line strengths as driven by a non-universal initial mass function (IMF), lies in understanding the effect of other parameters describing unresolved stellar populations, such as elemental abundance ratios. We combine various TiO-based, IMF-sensitive indicators in the optic

Jonathan J. Bevan

We prove the local Hölder continuity of strong local minimizers of the stored energy functional \[E(u)=\int_{\om}λ|\nabla u|^{2}+h(\det \nabla u) \,dx\] subject to a condition of `positive twist'. The latter turns out to be equivalent to requiring that $u$ maps circles to suitably star-shaped sets. The convex function $h(s)$ grows logarithmically as $s\t

Kostadinka Lapkova

Consider the divisor sum $\sum_{n\leq N}τ(n^2+2bn+c)$ for integers $b$ and $c$ which satisfy certain extra conditions. For this average sum we obtain an explicit upper bound, which is close to the optimal. As an application we improve the maximal possible number of $D(-1)$-quadruples.

Mats Granath, Alvaro Perez-Diaz

We study the equilibrium distribution of relative strategy scores of agents in the asymmetric phase ($α\equiv P/N\gtrsim 1$) of the basic Minority Game using sign-payoff, with $N$ agents holding two strategies over $P$ histories. We formulate a statistical model that makes use of the gauge freedom with respect to the ordering of an agent's strategies to

Lorenzo Piroli, Pasquale Calabrese, Fabian H. L. Essler

We consider quantum quenches from an ideal Bose condensate to the Lieb-Liniger model with arbitrary attractive interaction strength. We focus on the properties of the non-equilibrium steady state reached at late times after the quench. Using recently developed methods based on integrability, we obtain an exact description of the stationary state for a large

Naonori S. Sugiyama, Teppei Okumura, David N. Spergel

Observations of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect measure the density-weighted velocity field, a potentially powerful cosmological probe. This paper presents an analytical method to predict the power spectrum and two-point correlation function of the density-weighted velocity in redshift space, the direct observables in kSZ surveys. We show a s

J. M. M. Hall, D. B. Leinweber

Progress in the calculation of the electromagnetic properties of baryon excitations in lattice QCD is presenting new challenges in the determination of sea-quark loop contributions to matrix elements. A reliable estimation of the sea-quark loop contributions presents a pressing issue in the accurate comparison of lattice QCD results with experiment. In this

Brendan C. Mulkerin, Kristian Fenech, Paul Dyke, Chris J. Vale

Understanding the formation of Cooper pairs and the resulting thermodynamic properties of a low-dimensional Fermi gas is an important area of research, elucidating our understanding of high temperature superconductors. In lower dimensions quantum fluctuations are expected to play an increasingly important role and the reliability of strong-coupling theories

Kevin Kordek

Genus $g$ Torelli space is the moduli space of genus $g$ curves of compact type equipped with a homology framing. The hyperelliptic locus is a closed analytic subvariety consisting of finitely many mutually isomorphic components. We use properties of the hyperelliptic Torelli group to show that when $g\geq 3$ these components do not have the homotopy type of

M. Iskin

We consider a two-component Fermi gas with attractive interactions on a square optical lattice, and study the interplay of Zeeman field, spin-orbit coupling and next-nearest-neighbor hopping on the ground-state phase diagrams in the entire BCS-BEC evolution. In particular, we first classify and distinguish all possible superfluid phases by the momentum-space

Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio, Julien Ugon, David Yost

For a $d$-dimensional polytope with $v$ vertices, $d+1\le v\le2d$, we calculate precisely the minimum possible number of $m$-dimensional faces, when $m=1$ or $m\ge0.62d$. This confirms a conjecture of Grünbaum, for these values of $m$. For $v=2d+1$, we solve the same problem when $m=1$ or $d-2$; the solution was already known for $m= d-1$. In all these cases

Biplab Basak

In this article, we construct a crystallization of the mapping torus of some (PL) homeomorphisms $f:M \to M$ for a certain class of PL-manifolds $M$. These yield upper bounds for gem-complexity and regular genus of a large class of PL-manifolds. The bound for the regular genus is sharp for the mapping torus of some (PL) homeomorphisms $f:M \to M$, where $M$

William Kuszmaul

Given a set $Π$ of permutation patterns of length at most $k$, we present an algorithm for building $S_{\le n}(Π)$, the set of permutations of length at most $n$ avoiding the patterns in $Π$, in time $O(|S_{\le n - 1}(Π)| \cdot k + |S_{n}(Π)|)$. Additionally, we present an $O(n!k)$-time algorithm for counting the number of copies of patterns from $Π$ in each

Satoru Odake

In a previous paper, we presented conjectures of the recurrence relations with constant coefficients for the multi-indexed orthogonal polynomials of Laguerre, Jacobi, Wilson and Askey-Wilson types. In this paper we present a proof for the Laguerre and Jacobi cases. Their bispectral properties are also discussed, which give a method to obtain the coefficients

Kazutaka Takahashi, Masayuki Ohzeki

We consider the optimization of Markovian dynamics to pursue the fastest convergence to the stationary state. The brachistochrone method is applied to the continuous-time master equation for finite-size systems. The principle of least action leads to a brachistochrone equation for the transition-rate matrix. Three-state systems are explicitly analyzed, and w

Bin Liu

The problem of situational awareness (SAW) is investigated from the probabilistic modeling point of view. Taking the situation as a hidden variable, we introduce a hidden Markov model (HMM) and an extended state space model (ESSM) to mathematically express the dynamic evolution law of the situation and the relationships between the situation and the observab

Adel P. Kazemi, Behnaz Pahlavsay, Rebecca J. Stones

A $k$-tuple total dominating set ($k$TDS) of a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices in which every vertex in $G$ is adjacent to at least $k$ vertices in $S$; the minimum size of a $k$TDS is denoted $γ_{\times k,t}(G)$. We give a Vizing-like inequality for Cartesian product graphs, namely $γ_{\times k,t}(G) γ_{\times k,t}(H) \leq 2k γ_{\times k,t}(G \Box H)$ pr

Jonathan Brooks, William Hager, Jiajie Zhu

We consider demand-side primary frequency control in the power grid provided by smart and flexible loads: loads change consumption to match generation and help the grid while minimizing disutility for consumers incurred by consumption changes. The dual formulation of this problem has been solved previously by Zhao et al. in a decentralized manner for consume

Masahiko Egami, Tadao Oryu

We provide, in a general setting, explicit solutions for optimal stopping problems that involve a diffusion process and its running maximum. Besides, a new feature includes absorbing boundaries that vary with the value of the running maximum. The existence of the absorbing boundary of this type makes the problem harder but more practical and flexible. Our ap

Seema Satin

We propose to formulate a theory for Classical Stochastic Gravity for certain applications in Astrophysics and Cosmology.This involves the Langevin approach in curved spacetime, which is introduced here, in the form of a classical Einstein-Langevin equation.The domain of applications of such an approach and possible outcomes of this formulation which are qui

Kenji Kajiwara, Masatoshi Noumi, Yasuhiko Yamada

In this paper a comprehensive review is given on the current status of achievements in the geometric aspects of the Painlevé equations, with a particular emphasis on the discrete Painlevé equations. The theory is controlled by the geometry of certain rational surfaces called the spaces of initial values, which are characterized by eight point configuration o

Harry Crane, Walter Dempsey

Basic principles of statistical inference are commonly violated in network data analysis. Under the current approach, it is often impossible to identify a model that accommodates known empirical behaviors, possesses crucial inferential properties, and accurately models the data generating process. In the absence of one or more of these properties, sensible i

Quan-Hui Liu, Wei Wang, Ming Tang, Hai-Feng Zhang

Information diffusion and disease spreading in communication-contact layered network are typically asymmetrically coupled with each other, in which how an individual being aware of disease responds to the disease can significantly affect the disease spreading. Many recent studies have demonstrated that human behavioral adoption is a complex and non-Markovian

Maxim Eingorn, Ruslan Brilenkov

We make a generalization of a self-consistent first-order perturbation scheme, being suitable for all (sub-horizon and super-horizon) scales, which has been recently constructed for the concordance cosmological model and discrete presentation of matter sources, to the case of extended models with extra perfect fluids and continuous presentation. Namely, we d

Kenneth Bloom

In Run 1 of the Large Hadron Collider, software and computing was a strategic strength of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment. The timely processing of data and simulation samples and the excellent performance of the reconstruction algorithms played an important role in the preparation of the full suite of searches used for the observation of the Higgs boso

Tetu Makino

We investigate the time evolution of a homogeneous isotropic universe which consists of a perfect gas governed by the Einstein-Euler-de Sitter equations. Under suitable assumptions on the equation of state and assumptions on the present states, we give a mathematically rigorous proof of the existence of the Big Bang at the finite past and expanding of the un

Cristi Guevara, Nguyen Cong Phuc

We rule out the existence of Leray's backward self-similar solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations with profiles in $L^{12/5}(\R^3)$ or in the Marcinkiewicz space $L^{q,\infty}(\R^3)$ for $q\in(12/5, 6)$. This follows from a more general result formulated in terms of Morrey spaces and the first order Riesz's potential.

H. Fujii, S. Kamata, Y. Kikukawa

We investigate Lefschetz thimble structure of the complexified path-integration in the one-dimensional lattice massive Thirring model with finite chemical potential. The lattice model is formulated with staggered fermions and a compact auxiliary vector boson (a link field), and the whole set of the critical points (the complex saddle points) are sorted out,

Frédéric Ouimet

This article extends the results of Fang & Zeitouni (2012a) on branching random walks (BRWs) with Gaussian increments in time inhomogeneous environments. We treat the case where the variance of the increments changes a finite number of times at different scales in [0,1] under a slight restriction. We find the asymptotics of the maximum up to an OP(1) error a

Alexei M. Frolov

Basic principles of the Hamilton approach developed for the metric General Relativity (Einstein`s GR) are discussed. In particular, we derive the Hamiltonian of the metric GR in the explicit form. This Hamiltonian is a quadratic function of the momenta $π^{mn}$ conjugate to the spatial components $g_{mn}$ of the metric tensor $g_{αβ}$. The Hamilton approach

Kamiokande Collaboration

Cosmic-ray-muon spallation-induced radioactive isotopes with $β$ decays are one of the major backgrounds for solar, reactor, and supernova relic neutrino experiments. Unlike in scintillator, production yields for cosmogenic backgrounds in water have not been exclusively measured before, yet they are becoming more and more important in next generation neutrin

Youping Wan, Taotao Qiu, Fa Peng Huang, Yi-Fu Cai

It is of great interest to connect cosmology in the early universe to the Standard Model of particle physics. In this paper, we try to construct a bounce inflation model with the standard model Higgs boson, where the one loop correction is taken into account in the effective potential of Higgs field. In this model, a Galileon term has been introduced to elim

Yao Zhou, Yi-Min Huang, Hong Qin, A. Bhattacharjee

Recently a variational integrator for ideal magnetohydrodynamics in Lagrangian labeling has been developed. Its built-in frozen-in equation makes it optimal for studying current sheet formation. We use this scheme to study the Hahm-Kulsrud-Taylor problem, which considers the response of a 2D plasma magnetized by a sheared field under sinusoidal boundary forc

Simon Kaltenbacher, Nicholas H. Kirk, Dongheui Lee

Estimating the internal state of a robotic system is complex: this is performed from multiple heterogeneous sensor inputs and knowledge sources. Discretization of such inputs is done to capture saliences, represented as symbolic information, which often presents structure and recurrence. As these sequences are used to reason over complex scenarios, a more co

Liu Mingshan, Pei Shilun, Munawar Iqbal

We present measurement and analyses of longitudinal timing jitter of Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII) linear accelerator electron gun. We simulated longitudinal jitter effect of the gun using PARMELA about beam performance including beam profile, average energy, energy spread, longitudinal phase of reference particle and XY emittance. The maximum

Vladimir V. Kassandrov, Joseph A. Rizcallah

A natural modification of the equations of covariantly-constant vector fields (CCVF) in Weyl geometry leads us to consider a metric compatible geometry possessing conformal curvature and torsion fully determined by its trace. The latter is interpreted as a form of the electromagnetic (EM) 4-potentials and, on a fixed metric background, turns out to be fully