September 2015 arXiv papers — page 13

Vladyslav Yaskin, Ning Zhang

We study the following open problem, suggested by Barker and Larman. Let $K$ and $L$ be convex bodies in $\mathbb R^n$ ($n\ge 2$) that contain a Euclidean ball $B$ in their interiors. If $\mathrm{vol}_{n-1}(K\cap H) = \mathrm{vol}_{n-1}(L\cap H)$ for every hyperplane $H$ that supports $B$, does it follow that $K=L$? We discuss various modifications of this p

Junjie Zhu

I summarize an extensive ATLAS and CMS electroweak physics program that involves a variety of single boson, diboson, triboson, and vector boson scattering measurements. The relevance of these studies to our understanding of the electroweak sector and electroweak symmetry breaking is emphasized. I describe the recent results and prospects for future measureme

Shuangyou Zhang, Wanpeng Yang, Jianye Zhao

We present experiments demonstrating an enhancement of resonant two-photon transition rate in 87Rb utilizing spectral phase manipulation of the excitation frequency comb. By selectively removing certain comb teeth, the resonant two-photon transition rate can be improved, and reach a factor of more than 1.8. The femtosecond pulse-train excitation of two-photo

Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh, Ramon B. Salazar, Gerhard Klimeck, Rajib Rahman

In this work, an analytic model is proposed which provides in a continuous manner the current-voltage characteristic (I-V) of high performance tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) based on direct bandgap semiconductors. The model provides closed-form expressions for I-V based on: 1) a modified version of the well-known Fowler-Nordheim (FN) formula (in

Nathalie Bertrand, Mirco Tribastone

This volume contains the proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems (QAPL 2015), held in London, UK, on 11 and 12 April, 2015. QAPL 2015 was a satellite event of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) focussing on quantitative aspects of computation. The Program Commi

Tian You Fan, Xian Fang Li

The mistakes of the classical solution of screw dislocations in smectic-A liquid crystals are pointed out. This reveals a serious problem of the well-known theory, which may be named de Gennes-Kleman-Pershan paradox, for many decades in the scientific community of liquid crystal study. The correct solution is given in this letter in terms of simplest, elemen

Rahul Mazumder, Arkopal Choudhury, Garud Iyengar, Bodhisattva Sen

We study the nonparametric least squares estimator (LSE) of a multivariate convex regression function. The LSE, given as the solution to a quadratic program with $O(n^2)$ linear constraints ($n$ being the sample size), is difficult to compute for large problems. Exploiting problem specific structure, we propose a scalable algorithmic framework based on the a

Marcin Piatek, Artur R. Pietrykowski

The Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit of the N=2 SU(2) pure gauge (Omega-deformed) super Yang-Mills theory encodes the information about the spectrum of the Mathieu operator. On the other hand, the Mathieu equation emerges entirely within the frame of two-dimensional conformal field theory (2d CFT) as the classical limit of the null vector decoupling equation for s

Enes Makalic, Daniel F. Schmidt

In this note we derive a simple Bayesian sampler for linear regression with the horseshoe hierarchy. A new interpretation of the horseshoe model is presented, and extensions to logistic regression and alternative hierarchies, such as horseshoe$+$, are discussed. Due to the conjugacy of the proposed hierarchy, Chib's algorithm may be used to easily comput

Jeremy E. Kozdon, Lucas C. Wilcox

A methodology for handling block-to-block coupling of nonconforming, multiblock summation-by-parts finite difference methods is proposed. The coupling is based on the construction of projection operators that move a finite difference grid solution along an interface to a space of piecewise defined functions; we specifically consider discontinuous, piecewise

M. T. Hale, M. Egerstedt

Multi-agent coordination problems often require agents to exchange state information in order to reach some collective goal, such as agreement on a final state value. In some cases, it is feasible that opportunistic agents may deceptively report false state values for their own benefit, e.g., to claim a larger portion of shared resources. Motivated by such c

CMS Collaboration

This paper presents the search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark (tHq), using data collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. The search exploits a variety of Higgs boson decay modes resulting in final states with phot

Sara M. Clifton, Rosemary I. Braun, Daniel M. Abrams

Species spanning the animal kingdom have evolved extravagant and costly ornaments to attract mating partners. Zahavi's handicap principle offers an elegant explanation for this: ornaments signal individual quality, and must be costly to ensure honest signalling, making mate selection more efficient. Here we incorporate the assumptions of the handicap pri

David Mateo, Yoke Kong Kuan, Roland Bouffanais

Social interaction increases significantly the performance of a wide range of cooperative systems. However, evidence that natural swarms limit the number of social connections suggests potentially detrimental consequences of excessive social activity. Using a canonical model of collective motion, we find that the responsiveness of a swarm to local perturbati

Beipeng Mu, Matthew Giamou, Liam Paull, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

Active SLAM is the task of actively planning robot paths while simultaneously building a map and localizing within. Existing work has focused on planning paths with occupancy grid maps, which do not scale well and suffer from long term drift. This work proposes a Topological Feature Graph (TFG) representation that scales well and develops an active SLAM algo

Kathryn Hess, Magdalena Kedziorek, Emily Riehl, Brooke Shipley

A common technique for producing a new model category structure is to lift the fibrations and weak equivalences of an existing model structure along a right adjoint. Formally dual but technically much harder is to lift the cofibrations and weak equivalences along a left adjoint. For either technique to define a valid model category, there is a well-known nec

Mostafa Fazly, Henrik Shahgholian

Consider the following coupled elliptic system of equations \begin{equation*} \label{} (-Δ)^s u_i = (u^2_1+\cdots+u^2_m)^{\frac{p-1}{2}} u_i \quad \text{in} \ \ \mathbb{R}^n , \end{equation*} where $0<s\le 2$, $p>1$, $m\ge1$, $u=(u_i)_{i=1}^m$ and $u_i:\mathbb R^n\to \mathbb R$. The qualitative behavior of solutions of the above system has been studied from

Kevin Kordek

Mess showed that the genus 2 Torelli group $T_2$ is isomorphic to a free group of countably infinite rank by showing that genus 2 Torelli space is homotopy equivalent to an infinite wedge of circles. As an application of his computation, we compute the homotopy type of the zero locus of any classical genus 2 theta function in $\mathfrak{h}_2 \times \mathbb{C

Laszlo Bela Kish, Claes-Goran Granqvist

We introduce two new Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) secure key distribution schemes which are generalizations of the original KLJN scheme. The first of these, the Random-Resistor (RR-) KLJN scheme, uses random resistors with values chosen from a quasi-continuum set. It is well-known since the creation of the KLJN concept that such a system could work in

Xin Chen, Li-Gang Xia

The prospects of searching for the flavor changing neutral current effect in the decay of $t\to H c, H\to ττ$ are investigated with the simulated $p-p$ collision data for the ATLAS detector at the LHC, where the Higgs mass is assumed to be 125~GeV. A fit based on the constraints from the Higgs mass and the tau decay kinematics is performed for each event, wh

Abhishek Kar, Shubham Tulsiani, João Carreira, Jitendra Malik

We consider the problem of enriching current object detection systems with veridical object sizes and relative depth estimates from a single image. There are several technical challenges to this, such as occlusions, lack of calibration data and the scale ambiguity between object size and distance. These have not been addressed in full generality in previous

Gautier Marti, Frank Nielsen, Philippe Donnat

This paper presents a new methodology for clustering multivariate time series leveraging optimal transport between copulas. Copulas are used to encode both (i) intra-dependence of a multivariate time series, and (ii) inter-dependence between two time series. Then, optimal copula transport allows us to define two distances between multivariate time series: (i

Tadahiro Oh

In this note, we consider the ill-posedness issue for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. In particular, we prove norm inflation based at every initial condition in negative Sobolev spaces below or at the scaling critical regularity.

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for a singly produced excited bottom quark (b*) decaying to a top quark and a W boson in the all-hadronic, lepton + jets, and dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns are used. No signific

Jaywan Chung, Zihua Guo, Soonsik Kwon, Tadahiro Oh

We consider the quadratic derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation (dNLS) on the circle. In particular, we develop an infinite iteration scheme of normal form reductions for dNLS. By combining this normal form procedure with the Cole-Hopf transformation, we prove unconditional global well-posedness in $L^2(\mathbb{T})$, and more generally in certain Fourier

L. C. Comandar, M. Lucamarini, B. Fröhlich, J. F. Dynes

Security in quantum cryptography is continuously challenged by inventive attacks targeting the real components of a cryptographic setup, and duly restored by new counter-measures to foil them. Due to their high sensitivity and complex design, detectors are the most frequently attacked components. Recently it was shown that two-photon interference from indepe

Egor Yasinsky

In this paper we describe conjugacy classes of finite subgroups of odd order in the group of birational automorphisms of the real projective plane.

Nazmi Burak Budanur, Predrag Cvitanović

Systems such as fluid flows in channels and pipes or the complex Ginzburg-Landau system, defined over periodic domains, exhibit both continuous symmetries, translational and rotational, as well as discrete symmetries under spatial reflections or complex conjugation. The simplest, and very common symmetry of this type is the equivariance of the defining equat

Andreas Adelmann

Using a cyclotron based model problem, we demonstrate for the first time the applicability and usefulness of a uncertainty quantification (UQ) approach in order to construct surrogate models for quantities such as emittance, energy spread but also the halo parameter, and construct a global sensitivity analysis together with error propagation and $L_{2}$ erro

Diogo Boito, Anthony Francis, Maarten Golterman, Renwick Hudspith

We determined the NLO chiral low-energy constant $L_{10}$, and various combinations of NNLO chiral low-energy constants employing recently revised ALEPH results for the non-strange vector (V) and axial-vector (A) hadronic tau decay distributions and recently updated RBC/UKQCD lattice data for the non-strange V-A two-point function. In this talk, we explain t

Kelly Bodwin, Kai Zhang, Andrew Nobel

Given data obtained under two sampling conditions, it is often of interest to identify variables that behave differently in one condition than in the other. We introduce a method for differential analysis of second-order behavior called Differential Correlation Mining (DCM). The DCM method identifies differentially correlated sets of variables, with the prop

R. V. Bessonov, R. V. Romanov

Let $μ$ be a measure on the real line $\mathbb{R}$ such that $\int_{\mathbb{R}}\frac{dμ(t)}{1+t^2} < \infty$ and let $a>0$. Assume that the norms $\|f\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R})}$ and $\|f\|_{L^2(μ)}$ are comparable for functions $f$ in the Paley-Wiener space $PW_{a}$ and that $PW_a$ is dense in $L^2(μ)$. We reconstruct the canonical Hamiltonian system $JX&#39; = zH

C. Yang, R. F. Archibald, J. K. Vogel, H. An

We report on simultaneous NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the magnetar 1E 1048.1$-$5937 obtained in July 2013, along with Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) data for the same source obtained from December 2002 through March 2012. The NuSTAR data provide a clear detection of this magnetar&#39;s persistent emission up to 20 keV. We detect a previously un

Sunghyun Hong, Soonsik Kwon

We prove the nonsqueezing property of the coupled Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. Relying on Gromov&#39;s nonsqueezing theorem for finite dimensional Hamiltonian systems, the argument is to approximate the solutions to the original infinite dimensional Hamiltonian system by a frequency truncated finite dimensional system, and then the nonsqueezing property

Wojciech M. Zabolotny

Balancing (equalization) of latency in parallel paths in the pipelined data processing system is an important problem. Without that the data from different paths arrive at the processing blocks in different clock cycles, and incorrect results are produced. Manual correction of latencies is a tedious and error-prone work. This paper presents an automatic meth

Zura Kakushadze, Igor Tulchinsky

We analyze empirical data for 4,000 real-life trading portfolios (U.S. equities) with holding periods of about 0.7-19 trading days. We find a simple scaling C ~ 1/T, where C is cents-per-share, and T is the portfolio turnover. Thus, the portfolio return R has no statistically significant dependence on the turnover T. We also find a scaling R ~ V^X, where V i

Laba Handique, Subrata Chakraborty

A new family of continuous distribution is proposed by using Kumaraswamy-G (Cordeiro and de Castro, 2011) distribution as the base line distribution in the Marshal-Olkin (Marshall and Olkin, 1997) construction. A number of known distributions are derived as particular cases. Various properties of the proposed family like formulation of the pdf as different m

Martin Bucher, Benjamin Racine, Bartjan van Tent

We describe the details of the binned bispectrum estimator as used for the official 2013 and 2015 analyses of the temperature and polarization CMB maps from the ESA Planck satellite. The defining aspect of this estimator is the determination of a map bispectrum (3-point correlator) that has been binned in harmonic space. For a parametric determination of the

Jianping Pan, Travis Scrimshaw

We show the natural embedding of weight lattices from a diagram folding is a virtualization map for the Littelmann path model, which recovers a result of Kashiwara. As an application, we give a type independent proof that certain Kirillov--Reshetikhin crystals respect diagram foldings, which is a known result on a special case of a conjecture given by Okado,

Shin Ando

The nearest neighbor rule is a classic yet essential classification model, particularly in problems where the supervising information is given by pairwise dissimilarities and the embedding function are not easily obtained. Prototype selection provides means of generalization and improving efficiency of the nearest neighbor model, but many existing methods as

Matus Telgarsky

This note provides a family of classification problems, indexed by a positive integer $k$, where all shallow networks with fewer than exponentially (in $k$) many nodes exhibit error at least $1/6$, whereas a deep network with 2 nodes in each of $2k$ layers achieves zero error, as does a recurrent network with 3 distinct nodes iterated $k$ times. The proof is

Xueying Tang, Ke Li, Malay Ghosh

This paper considers Bayesian multiple testing under sparsity for polynomial-tailed distributions satisfying a monotone likelihood ratio property. Included in this class of distributions are the Student&#39;s t, the Pareto, and many other distributions. We prove some general asymptotic optimality results under fixed and random thresholding. As examples of th

Ju-Jun Xie, E. Oset

We study the role of the $f_1(1285)$ resonance in the decays of $J/ψ\to ϕ\bar{K} K^*$ and $J/ψ\to ϕf_1(1285)$. The theoretical approach is based on the results of chiral unitary theory where the $f_1(1285)$ resonance is dynamically generated from the $K^* \bar{K} - c.c.$ interaction. In order to further test the dynamical nature of the $f_1(1285)$ state, we

D. Ebert, K. G. Klimenko, P. B. Kolmakov, V. Ch. Zhukovsky

In this paper we consider a class of (2+1)D schematic models with four-fermion interactions that are effectively used in studying condensed-matter systems with planar crystal structure, and especially graphene. Symmetry breaking in these models occurs due to a possible appearance of condensates. Special attention is paid to the symmetry properties of the app

Pinghui Wang, Jing Tao, Junzhou Zhao, Xiaohong Guan

Counting the frequencies of 3-, 4-, and 5-node undirected motifs (also know as graphlets) is widely used for understanding complex networks such as social and biology networks. However, it is a great challenge to compute these metrics for a large graph due to the intensive computation. Despite recent efforts to count triangles (i.e., 3-node undirected motif

Alfredo Luis, Gonzalo Donoso

We derive suitable uncertainty relations for characteristics functions of phase and number variables obtained from the Weyl form of commutation relations. This is applied to finite-dimensional spin- like systems, which is the case when describing the phase difference between two field modes, as well as to the phase and number of a single-mode field. Some con

Martin Welk

Multivariate median filters have been proposed as generalisations of the well-established median filter for grey-value images to multi-channel images. As multivariate median, most of the recent approaches use the $L^1$ median, i.e.\ the minimiser of an objective function that is the sum of distances to all input points. Many properties of univariate median f

Pavel Safronov

We give a definition of coisotropic morphisms of shifted Poisson (i.e. $P_n$) algebras which is a derived version of the classical notion of coisotropic submanifolds. Using this we prove that an intersection of coisotropic morphisms of shifted Poisson algebras carries a Poisson structure of shift one less. Using an interpretation of Hamiltonian spaces as coi

Sarosh N. Fatakia, Ishita S. Mehta, Basuthkar J. Rao

We investigate a densely packed, non-random arrangement of forty-six chromosomes (46,XY) in human nuclei. Here, we model systems-level chromosomal crosstalk by unifying intrinsic parameters (chromosomal length and number of genes) across all pairs of chromosomes in the genome to derive an extrinsic parameter called effective gene density. The hierarchical cl

Tianfu Wu, Yang Lu, Song-Chun Zhu

This paper presents a method, called AOGTracker, for simultaneously tracking, learning and parsing (TLP) of unknown objects in video sequences with a hierarchical and compositional And-Or graph (AOG) representation. %The AOG captures both structural and appearance variations of a target object in a principled way. The TLP method is formulated in the Bayesian

Albert Schwarz

We formulate axioms of conformal theory (CT) in dimensions $>2$ modifying Segal&#39;s axioms for two-dimensional CFT. (In the definition of higher-dimensional CFT one includes also a condition of existence of energy-momentum tensor.) We use these axioms to derive the AdS/CT correspondence for local theories on AdS . We introduce a notion of weakly local quan

Sergey Berezin, Oleg Zayats

We study a friction controlled slide of a body excited by random motions of the foundation it is placed on. Specifically, we are interested in quantities such as displacement, traveled distance, and energy loss due to friction. Assuming that the random excitation is switched off at some time, it is shown that the problem can be treated in an analytic, explic

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for highly ionizing particles produced in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV center-of-mass energy is performed by the ATLAS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 7.0 fb$^{-1}$. A customized trigger significantly increases the sensitivity, permitting a search for such particles wi

V. Heinonen, C. V. Achim, J. M. Kosterlitz, See-Chen Ying

We use the amplitude expansion in the phase field crystal framework to formulate an approach where the fields describing the microscopic structure of the material are coupled to a hydrodynamic velocity field. The model is shown to reduce to the well known macroscopic theories in appropriate limits, including compressible Navier-Stokes and wave equations. Mor

Kun Zhang, Biwei Huang, Jiji Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf

It is commonplace to encounter nonstationary data, of which the underlying generating process may change over time or across domains. The nonstationarity presents both challenges and opportunities for causal discovery. In this paper we propose a principled framework to handle nonstationarity, and develop some methods to address three important questions. Fir

I. L. Buchbinder, N. G. Pletnev, K. V. Stepanyantz

We formulate the higher covariant derivative regularization for N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in N=2 harmonic superspace. This regularization is constructed by adding the N=2 supersymmetric higher derivative term to the classical action and inserting the N=2 supersymmetric Pauli--Villars determinants into the generating functional for removing one-loop d

Samrith Ram

Helmke et al. have recently given a formula for the number of reachable pairs of matrices over a finite field. We give a new and elementary proof of the same formula by solving the equivalent problem of determining the number of so called zero kernel pairs over a finite field. We show that the problem is equivalent to certain other enumeration problems and o

Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, Ian Shipman

The goals of this article are as follows: (1) To determine the irreducible components of the affine varieties parametrizing the representations of $ Λ$ with dimension vector d, where $ Λ$ traces a major class of finite dimensional algebras; (2) To generically describe the representations encoded by the components. The target class consists of those truncated

Lifan Guan, Jun Yu

We prove that the set of (r_1,r_2,..,r_{d})-badly approximable vectors is a winning set if r_1=r_2=...=r_{d-1}\geq r_{d}.

Gaochao Liu, Youjun Lu, Lizhi Xie, Xuelei Chen

Massive luminous red galaxies (LRGs) are believed to be evolving passively and can be used as cosmic chronometers to estimate the Hubble constant. However, different LRGs may be located in different environments. The environmental effects may limit the use of the LRGs as cosmic chronometers. We aim to investigate the environmental and mass dependence of the

John T. Anderson, Alexander J. Izzo

It is shown that if $A$ is a uniform algebra generated by real-analytic functions on a suitable compact subset $K$ of a real-analytic variety such that the maximal ideal space of $A$ is $K$, and every continuous function on $K$ is locally a uniform limit of functions in $A$, then $A=C(K)$. This gives an affirmative answer to a special case of a question from

Robert Szalai

In this paper a model reduction technique is introduced for piecewise-smooth (PWS) vector fields, whose trajectories fall into a Banach space, but the domain of definition of the vector fields is a non-dense subset of the Banach space. The vector fields depend on a parameter that can assume different discrete values in two parts of the phase space and a cont

Dipanshu Bansal, Gary F. Dargush, Amjad J. Aref, Ali R. Hadjesfandiari

Beginning with Cosserat theory in the early 20th century, there have been several different formulations for size-dependent elastic response. In this paper, we concentrate on the application of classical Cauchy theory and the recent parsimonious consistent couple stress theory to model a homogeneous linear elastic solid, exemplified by a pure single crystal

Sergio Consoli, Josè Andrès Moreno Pèrez

In this paper we describe an extension of the Variable Neighbourhood Search (VNS) which integrates the basic VNS with other complementary approaches from machine learning, statistics and experimental algorithmic, in order to produce high-quality performance and to completely automate the resulting optimization strategy. The resulting intelligent VNS has been

A. V. Kpadonou, M. J. S. Houndjo, M. E. Rodrigues

We investigate in this paper the structures of neutron and quark stars in f(T) theory of gravity where T denotes the torsion scalar. Attention is attached to the TOV type equations of this theory and numerical integrations of these equations are performed with suitable EoS. We search for the deviation of the mass-radius diagrams for power-law and exponential

Michael Alexander Waddell, Sebastian Edmundo Barriga

This paper outlines a closed solution to an open problem in Graph Theory concerning the classification of the successful initial distributions of k items in N vertices, where $k = N$, that lead to the terminal set $N_k = \{ n_i\} $, where $n_i=1$ and $i=1,2,3,...,k$. First, each successful initial distribution is enumerated using an algorithm. The closed sol

Juan Magaña, V. Motta, Victor H. Cardenas, T. Verdugo

In this paper we constrain four alternative models to the late cosmic acceleration in the Universe: Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL), interacting dark energy (IDE), Ricci holographic dark energy (HDE), and modified polytropic Cardassian (MPC). Strong lensing (SL) images of background galaxies produced by the galaxy cluster Abell $1689$ are used to test these

Hélène Esnault, Lars Kindler

As is well known, the Lefschetz theorems for the étale fundamental group of SGA1 do not hold. We fill a small gap in the literature showing they do for tame coverings. Let $X$ be a regular projective variety over a field $k$, and let $D\hookrightarrow X$ be a strict normal crossings divisor. Then, if $Y$ is an ample regular hyperplane intersecting $D$ transv

Samuele Anni

In this article we give a criterion for a mod $\ell$ eigenvalue system attached to a mod $\ell$ Katz cuspform to arise from lower level or weight. Namely, we prove the following: the eigenvalue system associated to a ring homomorphism $f:\mathbb{T }\to \overline{\mathbb{F}}_\ell$ from the Hecke algebra of level $Γ_1(n)$ and weight $k$ to $\overline{\mathbb{F

Sonia Bacca, Rishi Sharma, Achim Schwenk

We review our recent calculations of neutrino-antineutrino pair production from bremsstrahlung processes in hadronic collisions at temperature and densities relevant for core-collapse supernovae. We focus on neutron-neutron and neutron-alpha collisions.

Fernando Andrés Gallego, Ademir Fernando Pazoto

In this paper we are concerned with the well-posedness and the exponential stabilization of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries Burgers equation, posed on the whole real line, under the effect of a damping term. Both problems are investigated when the exponent p in the nonlinear term ranges over the interval $[1,5)$. We first prove the global well-posedness in

Saber Mirzaei, Assaf Kfoury

We study the Optimal Linear Arrangement (OLA) problem of Halin graphs, one of the simplest classes of non-outerplanar graphs. We present several properties of OLA of general Halin graphs. We prove a lower bound on the cost of OLA of any Halin graph, and define classes of Halin graphs for which the cost of OLA matches this lower bound. We show for these class

E. Ansari Piri, S. Nouri

In this paper we introduce a new property for normed algebras. This property which we call it stability, plays a key role in the studying of the theory of almost multiplier maps. In this note we study some of the basic properties of this notion and characterize stable algebras among similar algebras.

Anupam Roy, Samaresh Guchhait, Rik Dey, Tanmoy Pramanik

Reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), vibrating sample magnetometry and other physical property measurements are used to investigate the structure, morphology, magnetic and magneto-transport properties of (001)-oriented Cr$_2$Te$_3$ thin films grown on Al$_2$O$_3$(0001) and Si(111)-(7$\times$7) surfaces by

Marko Raseta

We prove a strong invariance principle for the sums PN k=1 f(nkx), where f is a smooth periodic function on R and (nk)k?1 is an increasing random sequence. Our results show that in contrast to the classical Salem-Zygmund theory, the asymptotic properties of lacunary series with random gaps can be described very precisely without any assumption on the size of

Simone Balmelli, Thibault Damour

We present a new effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian with next-to-leading order (NLO) spin-spin coupling for black hole binaries endowed with arbitrarily oriented spins. The Hamiltonian is based on the model for parallel spins and equatorial orbits developed in [Physical Review D 90, 044018 (2014)], but differs from it in several ways. In particular, the NL

Sagar Vijay, Liang Fu

We propose a physical realization of a commuting Hamiltonian of interacting Majorana fermions realizing $Z_{2}$ topological order, using an array of Josephson-coupled topological superconductor islands. The required multi-body interaction Hamiltonian is naturally generated by a combination of charging energy induced quantum phase-slips on the superconducting

N. Lazaryan, H. Sedaghat

We study the dynamics of a second-order difference equation that is derived from a planar Ricker model of two-stage (e.g. adult, juvenile) biological populations. We obtain sufficient conditions for global convergence to zero in the non-autonomous case. This gives general conditions for extinction in the biological context. We also study the dynamics of an a

Paul C. Canfield, Tai Kong, Udhara S. Kaluarachchi, Na Hyun Jo

Solution growth of single crystals from high temperature solutions often involves the separation of residual solution from the grown crystals. For many growths of intermetallic compounds, this separation has historically been achieved with the use of plugs of silica wool. Whereas this is generally efficient in a mechanical sense, it leads to a significant co

Xián O. Camanho

This thesis is divided in two separate parts, the first concerned with gravitational aspects of Lovelock theories, the second with some of their holographic applications.

Tian-Jun Li, Weiwei Wu

We generalize Bangert&#39;s non-hyperbolicity result for uniformly tamed almost complex structures on standard symplectic $R^{2n}$ to asymtotically standard symplectic manifolds.

Lance J. Dixon, Matt von Hippel, Andrew J. McLeod

We use the hexagon function bootstrap to compute the ratio function which characterizes the next-to-maximally-helicity-violating (NMHV) six-point amplitude in planar $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at four loops. A powerful constraint comes from dual superconformal invariance, in the form of a $\bar{Q}$ differential equation, which heavily constrai

Shijing Sun, Satoshi Tominaka, Jung-Hoon Lee, Fei Xie

Organic-inorganic halide perovskites, especially methylammonium lead halide, have recently led to a remarkable breakthrough in photovoltaic devices. However, due to the environmental and stability concerns of the heavy metal, lead, in these perovskite based solar cells, research in the non-lead perovskite structures have been attracting increasing attention.

Ofer Grossman, Dana Moshkovitz

We present techniques for decreasing the error probability of randomized algorithms and for converting randomized algorithms to deterministic (non-uniform) algorithms. Unlike most existing techniques that involve repetition of the randomized algorithm and hence a slowdown, our techniques produce algorithms with a similar run-time to the original randomized a

Stefano Gherardini, Shamik Gupta, Francesco Saverio Cataliotti, Augusto Smerzi

Quantum measurements are crucial to observe the properties of a quantum system, which however unavoidably perturb its state and dynamics in an irreversible way. Here we study the dynamics of a quantum system while being subject to a sequence of projective measurements applied at random times. In the case of independent and identically distributed intervals o

J. B. Santos-Filho, J. A. Plascak

A simple site-diluted classical XY model is proposed to study the magnetic properties of the ferromagnetic polycrystalline Fe[Se$_2$CN(C$_2$H$_5$)$_2$]$_2$Cl diluted with diamagnetic Zn[S$_2$CN(C$_2$H$_5$)$_2$]$_2$. An extra superexchange interaction is assumed between next-nearest-neighbors on a simple cubic lattice, which are induced by a diluted ion. The

Khoa Lê

We consider the parabolic Anderson model which is driven by a Gaussian noise fractional in time and having certain scaling property in the spatial variables. Recently, Xia Chen has obtained exact Lyapunov exponent for all moments of positive integer orders. In this note, we explain how to extend Xia Chen&#39;s result for all moments of order $p$, where $p$ i

Yiping Wang, Yunfeng Shi, Guoqing Xin, Jie Lian

The exploration of emerging materials physics and prospective applications of two-dimensional materials greatly relies on the growth control of their thickness, phases, morphologies and film-substrate interactions. Though substantial progresses have been made for the development of two-dimensional films from conventional layered bulky materials, particular c

Wei Min Chan, Ravishankar Sundaraman

The ability to fabricate dense small features over a large area is important for graphene plasmonics. We present the first self-assembled graphene plasmonic resonators operating in the mid-IR. The resonators are 35 nm in diameter with 20 nm spacing and cover a centimeter sized area. The resonators exhibit a very broad resonance. We fit our data using a drude

S. Frauendorf, F. Doenau

The quasiparticle random phase approximation is used to study the properties of the wobbling bands in $^{163}$Lu. Assuming that the wobbling mode represents pure isoscalar orientation oscillations results in too low wobbling frequencies and too strong M1 transitions between the one- and zero-phonon wobbling bands. The inclusion of an LL interaction, which co

Naveed Ahmed, Ishtiaq Ahmed, M. Jamil Aslam

The exclusive semileptonic $B\to K_{1}(1270) \ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ ($\ell=μ, τ$) decays are analyzed in variants of two Higgs double models (THDMs). The mass eigenstates $K_{1}(1270)$ and $K_{1}(1400)$ are the mixture of two axial-vector SU(3) $^{1}{P}_{1}$ and $^{3}{P}_{1}$ states with the mixing angle $θ_{K}$. Making use of the form factors calculated in the L

Phool Preet, Sanjit Singh Batra, Jayadeva

Hyperspectral data consists of large number of features which require sophisticated analysis to be extracted. A popular approach to reduce computational cost, facilitate information representation and accelerate knowledge discovery is to eliminate bands that do not improve the classification and analysis methods being applied. In particular, algorithms that

Yuri Yu. Tarasevich, Irina V. Vodolazskaya

We simulated an experiment in which a thin colloidal sessile droplet is allowed to dry out on a horizontal hydrophilic surface when a mask just above the droplet predominantly allows evaporation from the droplet free surface directly beneath the holes in the mask [Harris D J, Hu H, Conrad J C and Lewis J A 2007 \textit{Phys. Rev. Lett.} \textbf{98} 148301].

Stefano Bianchi, Luca Biferale, Antonio Celani, Massimo Cencini

We study the evolution of turbulent puffs by means of high-resolution numerical simulations. Puffs are bunches of passive particles released from an initially spherical distribution at regular time intervals of the order of the Kolmogorov time. The instantaneous shapes of particle puffs, in particular their asphericity and prolateness, are characterized by m

Çağkan Yapar, Volker Pohl, Holger Boche

This contribution proposes a two stage strategy to allow for phase retrieval in state of the art sub-Nyquist sampling schemes for sparse multiband signals. The proposed strategy is based on data acquisition via modulated wideband converters known from sub-Nyquist sampling. This paper describes how the modulators have to be modified such that signal recovery

Maryam Eidini

The Japanese art of turning flat sheets into 3D intricate structures, origami, has inspired design of mechanical metamaterials. Mechanical metamaterials are artificially engineered materials with uncommon properties. Miura-ori is a remarkable origami folding pattern with metamaterial properties and a wide range of applications. In this study, by dislocating

Albert Roura

Atom interferometry tests of universality of free fall based on the differential measurement of two different atomic species provide a useful complement to those based on macroscopic masses. However, when striving for the highest possible sensitivities, gravity gradients pose a serious challenge. Indeed, the relative initial position and velocity for the two

Jan-David Hardtke

Given a Banach space $X$, we consider Cesàro spaces $\text{Ces}_p(X)$ of $X$-valued functions over the interval $[0,1]$, where $1\leq p<\infty$. We prove that if $X$ has the Opial/uniform Opial property, then certain analogous properties also hold for $\text{Ces}_p(X)$. We also prove a result on the Opial/uniform Opial property of Cesàro spaces of vector-val

S. Hellmüller, D. Bischoff, T. Müller, M. Beck

We report the observation of an unusually large number of consecutive spin pairs in a weakly coupled many-electron GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot. The pairs are identified due to pairwise parallel shifts of Coulomb resonances in a perpendicular magnetic field. Using a nearby quantum point contact for time-resolved charge detection, the tunneling rates are investiga

Laura Alessandretti, Márton Karsai, Laetitia Gauvin

Multimodal transportation systems can be represented as time-resolved multilayer networks where different transportation modes connecting the same set of nodes are associated to distinct network layers. Their quantitative description became possible recently due to openly accessible datasets describing the geolocalised transportation dynamics of large urban