September 2015 arXiv papers — page 21

Paul Gartside, Max F. Pitz, Rolf Suabedissen

The deck of a topological space $X$ is the set $\mathcal{D}(X)=\{[X \setminus \{x\}] \colon x \in X\}$, where $[Z]$ denotes the homeomorphism class of $Z$. A space $X$ is topologically reconstructible if whenever $\mathcal{D}(X)=\mathcal{D}(Y)$ then $X$ is homeomorphic to $Y$. It is shown that all metrizable compact connected spaces are reconstructible. It f

Igor Pikovski, Magdalena Zych, Fabio Costa, Časlav Brukner

In a series of comments, Bonder et al. criticized our work on decoherence due to time dilation [Nature Physics 11, 668-672 (2015)]. First the authors erroneously claimed that our results contradict the equivalence principle, only to "resolve" the alleged conflict in a second note. The resolution - relativity of simultaneity - was already explained in

Jorge R. Vergara, Pablo A. Estévez

In this work we present a review of the state of the art of information theoretic feature selection methods. The concepts of feature relevance, redundance and complementarity (synergy) are clearly defined, as well as Markov blanket. The problem of optimal feature selection is defined. A unifying theoretical framework is described, which can retrofit successf

Vishesh Vikas, Paul Templeton, Barry Trimmer

Soft materials have many important roles in animal locomotion and object manipulation. In robotic applications soft materials can store and release energy, absorb impacts, increase compliance and increase the range of possible shape profiles using minimal actuators. The shape changing ability is also a potential tool to manipulate friction forces caused by c

Tri Lai, Jörg Endrullis, Lawrence S. Moss

A majority digraph is a finite simple digraph $G=(V,\to)$ such that there exist finite sets $A_v$ for the vertices $v\in V$ with the following property: $u\to v$ if and only if "more than half of the $A_u$ are $A_v$". That is, $u\to v$ if and only if $ |A_u \cap A_v | > \frac{1}{2} \cdot |A_u|$. We characterize the majority digraphs as the digraphs w

Radosław Adamczak, Witold Bednorz, Paweł Wolff

We study a class of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities with a general form of the energy functional. The class generalizes various examples of modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities considered previously in the literature. Refining a method of Aida and Stroock for the classical logarithmic Sobolev inequality, we prove that if a measure on $\mathbb{R}^n$ sat

Robert J. Lauer

The High altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has been completed and began full operation in early 2015. Located at an elevation of 4,100 m near the Sierra Negra volcano in the state of Puebla, Mexico, HAWC consists of 300 water tanks instrumented with 4 PMTs each. The array is optimized for detecting air showers produced by gamma rays with energies b

Catherine Bruce

We provide an expanded and clarified proof of the famous result of Bowen and Ruelle giving an asymptotic formula for the Hausdorff dimension of quasi-circles corresponding to the Julia sets of $f(z)=z^2+c$ for small $c$. The proof does not contain new material but has been rewritten to make it more accessible to MSc or PhD students with an interest in dimens

Eugênio R. Bezerra de Mello, Aram A. Saharian, Azadeh Mohammadi

Here we analyze the finite temperature expectation values of the charge and current densities for a massive fermionic quantum field with nonzero chemical potential, $μ$, induced by a magnetic flux running along the axis of an idealized cosmic string. These densities are decomposed into the vacuum expectation values and contributions coming from the particles

Maxime Leroux, Karen J. Kihlstrom, Sigrid Holleis, Martin W. Rupich

We demonstrate that 3.5-MeV oxygen irradiation can markedly enhance the in-field critical current of commercial 2nd generation superconducting tapes with an exposure time of just one second per 0.8 cm2. The speed demonstrated here is now at the level required for an industrial reel-to-reel post-processing. The irradiation is made on production line samples t

P. C. Thomas, R. Tajeddine, M. S. Tiscareno, J. A. Burns

Several planetary satellites apparently have subsurface seas that are of great interest for, among other reasons, their possible habitability. The geologically diverse Saturnian satellite Enceladus vigorously vents liquid water and vapor from fractures within a south polar depression and thus must have a liquid reservoir or active melting. However, the exten

Koichi Kanazawa, Andreas Metz, Yuji Koike, Daniel Pitonyak

We present our recent analysis on the transverse single-spin asymmetry (SSA) in inclusive pion and direct-photon production in pp collisions for RHIC kinematics. The analysis includes the contributions from twist-3 quark-gluon-quark correlations in the proton and twist-3 fragmentation effects for the pion. Some of the functions appearing in the formula for t

Joshua D. Guttman, Moses D. Liskov, John D. Ramsdell, Paul D. Rowe

Many cryptographic protocols are designed to achieve their goals using only messages passed over an open network. Numerous tools, based on well-understood foundations, exist for the design and analysis of protocols that rely purely on message passing. However, these tools encounter difficulties when faced with protocols that rely on non-local, mutable state

Keith Pedersen, Zack Sullivan

We present a new scheme for tagging high-$p_{T}$ bottom and charm jets using energetic muons. Contemporary track-based $b$ tags lose their ability to reject light jet background as jet $p_{T}\rightarrow\mathcal{O}(\mathrm{TeV})$, where the massive boost exposes fundamental limits in tracking resolution. For our "$μ_{x}$" tag, the signal efficiency an

Michael Bishop, Bruno Nachtergaele, Amanda Young

We analyze a class of quantum spin models defined on half-spaces in the $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice bounded by a hyperplane with inward unit normal vector $m\in\mathbb{R}^d$. The family of models was previously introduced as the single species Product Vacua with Boundary States (PVBS) model, which is a spin-$1/2$ model with a XXZ-type nearest neighbor

Xuan Thinh Duong, Ji Li, Lixin Yan

The main aim of this article is to establish boundedness of singular integrals with non-smooth kernels on product spaces. Let $L_1$ and $L_2$ be non-negative self-adjoint operators on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^{n_1})$ and $L^2(\mathbb{R}^{n_2})$, respectively, whose heat kernels satisfy Gaussian upper bounds. First, we obtain an atomic decomposition for functions in $

Reza Sepehrinia

We present a rigorous study of quantum diffusion of a relativistic particle subjected to a time-dependent random potential with $δ$ correlation in time. We find that in the asymptotic time limit the particle wave packet spreads ballistically in contrast with the nonrelativistic case, which in the same situation exhibits superballistic diffusion. The relativi

M. J. Aschwanden, P. Boerner, A. Caspi, J. M. McTiernan

We compare the ability of 11 Differential Emission Measure (DEM) forward-fitting and inversion methods to constrain the properties of active regions and solar flares by simulating synthetic data using the instrumental response functions of SDO/AIA, SDO/EVE, RHESSI, and GOES/XRS. The codes include the single-Gaussian DEM, a bi-Gaussian DEM, a fixed-Gaussian D

William Heinzer, Bruce Olberding, Matthew Toeniskoetter

We consider infinite sequences {R_n} of successive local quadratic transforms of a regular local ring. Let S denote the directed union of the sequence of regular local rings R_n. We previously showed the existence of a unique limit point V of the family of order valuation rings of the sequence. In this paper, we examine asymptotic properties of this family o

Bang-Rong Zhou

A theoretical research on possible effects of the Fierz transformations on the ground states (vacua) of some 2-flavor and $N_c$-color four-fermion (quark) interaction models has been systematically conducted. It has been shown that, based on the known criterions of the interplay between the antiquark-quark ($\bar{q}$-$q$) and diquark ($q$-$q$) condensates, i

Andreas Veit, Michael Wilber, Rajan Vaish, Serge Belongie

When crowdsourcing systems are used in combination with machine inference systems in the real world, they benefit the most when the machine system is deeply integrated with the crowd workers. However, if researchers wish to integrate the crowd with "off-the-shelf" machine classifiers, this deep integration is not always possible. This work explores t

Jeremy Horwitz, Ali Mani

In this work, we propose and test a method for calculating Stokes drag applicable to particle-laden fluid flows where two-way momentum coupling is important. In the point-particle formulation, particle dynamics are coupled to fluid dynamics via a source term that appears in the respective momentum equations. When the particle Reynolds number is small and the

Xiangshi Yin, Valentino R. Cooper, Hanno H. Weitering, Paul C. Snijders

The chemical bonding of adsorbate molecules on transition-metal surfaces is strongly influenced by the hybridization between the molecular orbitals and the metal d-band. The strength of this interaction is often correlated with the location of the metal d-band center relative to the Fermi level. Here, we exploit finite size effects in the electronic structur

Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei, Carlo Fischione, Petar Popovski, Michele Zorzi

Increased density of wireless devices, ever growing demands for extremely high data rate, and spectrum scarcity at microwave bands make the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies an important player in future wireless networks. However, mmWave communication systems exhibit severe attenuation, blockage, deafness, and may need microwave networks for coordination

Xiaoying Xu, Shih-Che Lin, Quanshui Li, Zhili Zhang

We introduce the concept of optical control of the fluorescence yield of CdSe quantum dots through plasmon-induced structural changes in random semicontinuous nanostructured gold films. We demonstrate that the wavelength- and polarization dependent coupling between quantum dots and the semicontinuous films, and thus the fluorescent emission spectrum, can be

Vedad Pasic, Elvis Barakovic

The approach of metric-affine gravity initially distinguishes it from Einstein's general relativity. Using an independent affine connection produces a theory with 10+64 unknowns. We write down the Yang-Mills action for the affine connection and produce the Yang-Mills equation and the so called complementary Yang-Mills equation by independently varying wi

Sayantan Banerjee, Rehan Akbani, Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani

We present clustering methods for multivariate data exploiting the underlying geometry of the graphical structure between variables. As opposed to standard approaches that assume known graph structures, we first estimate the edge structure of the unknown graph using Bayesian neighborhood selection approaches, wherein we account for the uncertainty of graphic

Martin Dubs, Peter Schlatter

The analysis of meteor spectra (photographic, CCD or video recording) is complicated by the fact that spectra obtained with objective gratings are curved and have a nonlinear dispersion. In this paper it is shown that with a simple image transformation the spectra can be linearized in such a way that individual spectra over the whole image plane are parallel

N. Bartel, M. F. Bietenholz, D. E. Lebach, R. R Ransom

We review the radio very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the guide star, IM Peg, and three compact extragalactic reference sources, 3C 454.3, B2250+194, and B2252+172, made in support of the NASA/Stanford gyroscope relativity mission, GP-B. The main goal of the observations was the determination of the proper motion of IM Peg relative to

Paul Mollière, Roy van Boekel, Cornelis Petrus Dullemond, Thomas Henning

Many parameters constraining the spectral appearance of exoplanets are still poorly understood. We therefore study the properties of irradiated exoplanet atmospheres over a wide parameter range including metallicity, C/O ratio and host spectral type. We calculate a grid of 1-d radiative-convective atmospheres and emission spectra. We perform the calculations

Yang Bai, Zhenyu Han, Ran Lu

We propose a new global jet-finding algorithm for reconstructing two-prong objects like hadronic weak gauge bosons at a hadron collider. The selection of particles in a two-prong jet is required to maximize a $J_{E_T}^{\rm II}$ function, which contains a modified second Fox-Wolfram moment and prefers a two-prong structure for a fixed jet mass. Compared to th

Ryo Namba, Marco Peloso, Maresuke Shiraishi, Lorenzo Sorbo

We consider a model in which a pseudo-scalar field $σ$ rolls for some e-folds during inflation, sourcing one helicity of a gauge field. These fields are only gravitationally coupled to the inflaton, and therefore produce scalar and tensor primordial perturbations only through gravitational interactions. These sourced signals are localized on modes that exit

Laura M. Pérez, Claire J. Chandler, Andrea Isella, John M. Carpenter

We present new results from the Disks@EVLA program for two young stars: CY Tau and DoAr 25. We trace continuum emission arising from their circusmtellar disks from spatially resolved observations, down to tens of AU scales, at λ = 0.9, 2.8, 8.0, and 9.8 mm for DoAr25 and at λ = 1.3, 2.8, and 7.1 mm for CY Tau. Additionally, we constrain the amount of emissio

Jiamin Zhu, Emmanuel Trélat, Max Cerf

We study the minimum time control problem of the launchers. The optimal trajectories of the problem may contain singular arcs, and thus chattering arcs. The motion of the launcher is described by its attitude kinematics and dynamics and also by its trajectory dynamics. Based on the nature of the system, we implement an efficient indirect numerical method, co

Thomas Creutzig, Yasuaki Hikida, Peter B. Ronne

We study theories with W-algebra symmetries and their relation to WZNW models on (super-)groups. Correlation functions of the WZNW models are expressed in terms of correlators of CFTs with W-algebra symmetry. The symmetries of the theories involved in these correspondences are related by the Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction of Lie algebras to W-algebras. The W-alg

Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Gus Hahn-Powell, Mihai Surdeanu

This document describes the Odin framework, which is a domain-independent platform for developing rule-based event extraction models. Odin aims to be powerful (the rule language allows the modeling of complex syntactic structures) and robust (to recover from syntactic parsing errors, syntactic patterns can be freely mixed with surface, token-based patterns),

Davide Fiacconi, Elena M. Rossi

The formation of supermassive black holes is still an outstanding question. In the quasi-star scenario, black hole seeds experience an initial super-Eddington growth, that in less than a million years may leave a $10^4-10^5$ M$_{\odot}$ black hole at the centre of a protogalaxy at $z \sim 20-10$. Super-Eddington accretion, however, may be accompanied by vigo

Lei Gong, James M. Flegal, Stephen R. Spindler, Patricia L. Mote

We propose a novel Bayesian model selection technique on linear mixed-effects models to compare multiple treatments with a control. A fully Bayesian approach is implemented to estimate the marginal inclusion probabilities that provide a direct measure of the difference between treatments and the control, along with the model-averaged posterior distributions.

J. C. Beamín, V. D. Ivanov, D. Minniti, R. L. Smart

The census of the solar neighborhood is almost complete for stars and becoming more complete in the brown dwarf regime. Spectroscopic, photometric and kinematic characterization of nearby objects helps us to understand the local mass function, the binary fraction, and provides new targets for sensitive planet searches. We aim to derive spectral types and spe

Anna Patej, Abraham Loeb

Recent simulations have indicated that the dark matter halos of galaxy clusters should feature steep density jumps near the virial radius. Since the member galaxies are expected to follow similar collisionless dynamics as the dark matter, the galaxy density profile should show such a feature as well. We examine the potential of current datasets to test this

L. Lentati, R. M. Shannon

We extend the recently introduced Bayesian framework `Generative Pulsar Timing Analysis' to incorporate both pulse jitter (high frequency variation in the arrival time of the pulse) and epoch to epoch stochasticity in the shape of the pulse profile. This framework allows for a full timing analysis to be performed on the folded profile data, rather than t

Philip J. Carter, Zoë M. Leinhardt, Tim Elliott, Michael J. Walter

The Earth appears non-chondritic in its abundances of refractory lithophile elements, posing a significant problem for our understanding of its formation and evolution. It has been suggested that this non-chondritic composition may be explained by collisional erosion of differentiated planetesimals of originally chondritic composition. In this work, we prese

Carl J. Grillmair, Lauren Hetherington, Raymond G. Carlberg, Beth Willman

Using a shallow, two-color survey carried out with the Dark Energy Camera, we detect the southern, possibly trailing arm of the Orphan Stream. The stream is reliably detected to a declination of $-38^\circ$, bringing the total known length of the Orphan stream to $108^\circ$. We find a slight offset or "S" shape in the stream at $δ\simeq -14^\circ$ t

Michael Kreshchuk

We extend the class of QM problems which permit for quasi-exact solutions. Specifically, we consider planar motion of two interacting charges in a constant uniform magnetic field. While Turbiner and Escobar-Ruiz (2013) addressed the case of the Coulomb interaction between the particles, we explore three other potentials. We do this by reducing the appropriat

Bhabani Prasad Mandal, Brijesh K. Mourya, Kawsar Ali, Ananya Ghatak

We study a massless Dirac particle with PT symmetric non-Hermitian Rashba interaction in the background of Dirac oscillator potential to show the PT phase transition in a (2+1) dimensional relativistic system analytically. PT phase transition occurs when strength of the (i) imaginary Rashba interaction or (ii) transverse magnetic field exceed their respectiv

Mun-Hyok Ri, Chol-Jun Yu, Yong-Man Jang, Song-Un Kim

We report a computational study of the adsorption of zoledronic acid molecule on hydroxyapatite (001) surface within ab initio density functional theory. The systematic study has been performed, from hydroxyapatite bulk and surface, and zoledronic acid molecule to the adsorption of the molecule on the surface. The optimized bond lengths and bond angles were

W. Hare, H. Song

Positive bases, which play a key role in understanding derivative free optimization methods that use a direct search framework, are positive spanning sets that are positively linearly independent. The cardinality of a positive basis in $\R^n$ has been established to be between $n+1$ and $2n$ (with both extremes existing). The lower bound is immediate from be

Cameron Franc, Geoffrey Mason

If $ρ$ denotes a finite dimensional complex representation of $\textbf{SL}_2(\textbf{Z})$, then it is known that the module $M(ρ)$ of vector valued modular forms for $ρ$ is free and of finite rank over the ring $M$ of scalar modular forms of level one. This paper initiates a general study of the structure of $M(ρ)$. Among our results are absolute upper and l

Glen Evenbly

We discuss in detail algorithms for implementing tensor network renormalization (TNR) for the study of classical statistical and quantum many-body systems. Firstly, we recall established techniques for how the partition function of a 2D classical many-body system or the Euclidean path integral of a 1D quantum system can be represented as a network of tensors

Bin Wu

I give a self-contained review on radiative p_T-broadening and radiative energy loss of high-energy partons in QCD matter. The typical p_T^2 of high-energy partons receives a double logarithmic correction due to the recoiling effect of medium-induced gluon radiation. Such a double logarithmic term, averaged over the path length of the partons, can be taken a

Zhiguang Wang, Tim Oates

We propose an off-line approach to explicitly encode temporal patterns spatially as different types of images, namely, Gramian Angular Fields and Markov Transition Fields. This enables the use of techniques from computer vision for feature learning and classification. We used Tiled Convolutional Neural Networks to learn high-level features from individual GA

J. D. Hernández Velázquez, S. Mejía-Rosales, A. Gama Goicochea

The rheological properties of brushes of different length on the surface of human epithelial cancerous cells are studied here by means of coarse grained numerical simulations, where the surface of the cell is subjected to an external oscillatory force acting on the plane of the cell surface. We model explicitly the tip of an atomic force microscope and the c

Shi Qi

Standard candles are one of the most important tools to study the universe. In this paper, the constraints of standards candles on the cosmological parameters are estimated for different cases. The dependence of the constraints on the intrinsic scatter of the luminosity relation and the redshift distribution of the standard candles is specifically investigat

Xi Chen, Igor C. Oliveira, Rocco A. Servedio, Li-Yang Tan

We show that any depth-$d$ circuit for determining whether an $n$-node graph has an $s$-to-$t$ path of length at most $k$ must have size $n^{Ω(k^{1/d}/d)}$. The previous best circuit size lower bounds for this problem were $n^{k^{\exp(-O(d))}}$ (due to Beame, Impagliazzo, and Pitassi [BIP98]) and $n^{Ω((\log k)/d)}$ (following from a recent formula size lowe

Andreas Veit, Balazs Kovacs, Sean Bell, Julian McAuley

With the rapid proliferation of smart mobile devices, users now take millions of photos every day. These include large numbers of clothing and accessory images. We would like to answer questions like `What outfit goes well with this pair of shoes?' To answer these types of questions, one has to go beyond learning visual similarity and learn a visual noti

Rupert Allison, Paul Caucal, Erminia Calabrese, Joanna Dunkley

Future cosmological measurements should enable the sum of neutrino masses to be determined indirectly through their effects on the expansion rate of the Universe and the clustering of matter. We consider prospects for the gravitationally lensed Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the galaxy distribution, examining how

Yan-Yu Zhang, Hong-Yi Yu, Jian-Kang Zhang, Yi-Jun Zhu

In this paper, we consider a multiple-input-multiple-output optical wireless communication (MIMO-OWC) system in the presence of log-normal fading. In this scenario, a general criterion for the design of full-diversity space code (FDSC) with the maximum likelihood (ML) detector is developed. This criterion reveals that in a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) re

Joel Mallory, Vladimir Mandelshtam

The Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method is applied to compute the ground state energies of the water monomer and dimer and their D 2 O isotopomers using MB-pol; the most recent and most accurate ab inito- based potential energy surface (PES). MB-pol has already demonstrated excellent agreement with high level electronic structure data, as well as agreement wi

Ilya Belopolski, Su-Yang Xu, Daniel Sanchez, Guoqing Chang

The recent experimental discovery of a Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a Weyl fermion in nature and demonstrates a novel type of anomalous surface state band structure, consisting of Fermi arcs. So far, work has focused on Weyl semimetals with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). However, Weyl semimetals with weak SOC may allow tunable

Denis Bonheure, Silvia Cingolani, Manon Nys

In this paper, we study the semiclassical limit for the stationary magnetic nonlinear Schrödinger equation \begin{align}\label{eq:initialabstract}\left( i \hbar \nabla + A(x) \right)^2 u + V(x) u = |u|^{p-2} u, \quad x\in \mathbb{R}^{3},\end{align}where $p\textgreater{}2$, $A$ is a vector potential associated to a given magnetic field $B$, i.e $\nabla \times

R. L. J. Qiu, N. J. Goble, A. Serafin, L. Yin

How the two dimensional (2D) quantum Wigner crystal (WC) transforms into the metallic liquid phase remains to be an outstanding problem in physics. In theories considering the 2D WC to liquid transition in the clean limit, it was suggested that a number of intermediate phases might exist. We have studied the transformation between the metallic fluid phase an

Jean-Luc Guermond, Bojan Popov

We propose a numerical method to solve general hyperbolic systems in any space dimension using forward Euler time stepping and continuous finite elements on non-uniform grids. The properties of the method are based on the introduction of an artificial dissipation that is defined so that any convex invariant sets containing the initial data is an invariant do

Nicolas Ariel Capitelli, Elias Gabriel Minian

We prove that a connected simplicial complex is uniquely determined by its complex of discrete Morse functions. This settles a question raised by Chari and Joswig. In the 1-dimensional case, this implies that the complex of rooted forests of a connected graph G completely determines G.

Sanjay Krishnan, Jiannan Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Ken Goldberg

Materialized views (MVs), stored pre-computed results, are widely used to facilitate fast queries on large datasets. When new records arrive at a high rate, it is infeasible to continuously update (maintain) MVs and a common solution is to defer maintenance by batching updates together. Between batches the MVs become increasingly stale with incorrect, missin

Peter Driscoll, Rory Barnes

The internal thermal and magnetic evolution of rocky exoplanets is critical to their habitability. We focus on the thermal-orbital evolution of Earth-mass planets around low mass M stars whose radiative habitable zone overlaps with the "tidal zone". We develop a thermal-orbital evolution model calibrated to Earth that couples tidal dissipation, with

Deepjyoti Deka, Sriram Vishwanath

Natural Disasters like hurricanes, floods or earthquakes can damage power grid devices and create cascading blackouts and islands. The nature of failure propagation and extent of damage is dependent on the structural features of the grid, which is different from that of random networks. This paper analyzes the structural vulnerability of real power grids to

N. Lawson, A. Strugarek, P. Charbonneau

We investigate the possible development of magnetohydrodynamical instabilities in the EULAG-MHD "millenium simulation" of Passos & Charbonneau (2014). This simulation sustains a large-scale magnetic cycle characterized by solar-like polarity reversals taking place on a regular multidecadal cadence, and in which zonally-oriented bands of strong magnet

Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Heine A. Hansen, Jens K. Nørskov

Water is a life-giving source, fundamental to human existence, yet, over a billion people lack access to clean drinking water. Present techniques for water treatment such as piped, treated water rely on time and resource intensive centralized solutions. In this work, we propose a decentralized device concept that can utilize sunlight to split water into hydr

I. S. S. de Oliveira, R. H. Miwa

We use ab initio simulations to investigate the incorporation of pyridine molecules (C$_5$H$_5$N) in the van der Waals gaps of Bi$_2$Se$_3$. The intercalated pyridine molecules increase the separation distance between the Bi$_2$Se$_3$ quintuple layers (QLs), suppressing the parity inversion of the electronic states at the $Γ$-point. We find that the intercal

Denis Michel

Chromatin remodeling machineries are abundant and diverse in eukaryotic cells. They have been involved in a variety of situations such as histone exchange and DNA repair, but their importance in gene expression remains unclear. Although the influence of nucleosome position on the regulation of gene expression is generally envisioned under the quasi-equilibri

Jianwen Jie, Yawen Zhang, Peng Zhang

The Fano effect (U. Fano, Phys. Rev. \textbf{15},1866 (1961) shows that an inelastic scattering process can be suppressed when the output channel (OC) is coupled to an isolated bound state. In this paper we investigate the application of this effect for the suppression of two-body collisional losses of ultracold atoms. The Fano effect is originally derived v

Zhanar Berikkyzy, Ryan R. Martin, Chelsea Peck

The edit distance between two graphs on the same labeled vertex set is defined to be the size of the symmetric difference of the edge sets. The edit distance function of a hereditary property $\mathcal{H}$ is a function of $p\in [0,1]$ that measures, in the limit, the maximum normalized edit distance between a graph of density $p$ and $\mathcal{H}$. In this

Bart M. P. Jansen, Astrid Pieterse

We present several sparsification lower and upper bounds for classic problems in graph theory and logic. For the problems 4-Coloring, (Directed) Hamiltonian Cycle, and (Connected) Dominating Set, we prove that there is no polynomial-time algorithm that reduces any n-vertex input to an equivalent instance, of an arbitrary problem, with bitsize O(n^{2-e}) for

Jennifer Gamble, Harish Chintakunta, Adam Wilkerson, Hamid Krim

This study relates the local property of node dominance to local and global properties of a network. Iterative removal of dominated nodes yields a distributed algorithm for computing a core-periphery decomposition of a social network, where nodes in the network core are seen to be essential in terms of network flow and global structure. Additionally, the con

Alexey A. Tal, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Marcus Ekholm, Johan Jönsson

Pressure induced interaction between core electrons, the core level crossing (CLC) transition has been observed in hcp Os at P~400 GPa [L. Dubrovinksy, et al., Nature 525, 226-229 (2015)]. In this work, we carry out a systematic study of the influence of pressure on the electronic structure in all metals of the 5d series (Hf,Ta,W,Re,Os,Ir,Pt,Au) using first-

A. Humphrey, M. Villar-Martín, C. Ramos Almeida, C. N. Tadhunter

We present optical imaging and long slit spectroscopic observations of 9 luminous type 2 AGNs within the redshift range 0.3<z<0.6 based on VLT-FORS2 data. Most objects (6/9) are high luminosity Seyfert 2, and three are type 2 quasars (QSO2), with our sample extending to lower luminosity than previous works. Seven out of nine objects (78%) show morphological

Barbora Candráková, Robert Lukoťka

We show that every bridgeless cubic graph $G$ with $m$ edges has a cycle cover of length at most $1.6 m$. Moreover, if $G$ does not contain any intersecting circuits of length $5$, then $G$ has a cycle cover of length $212/135 \cdot m \approx 1.570 m$ and if $G$ contains no $5$-circuits, then it has a cycle cover of length at most $14/9 \cdot m \approx 1.556

Yu. E. Titarenko, V. F. Batyaev, M. V. Chauzova, I. A. Kashirin

Results of t production in Al foil monitors are presented. These foils have been irradiated by protons of different energies in a range of 0.04 - 2.6 GeV. The irradiations were carried out at the ITEP accelerator U-10 under the ISTC Project 3266 during 2006 - 2009. t has been extracted from Al foils using an A307 Sample Oxidizer. The values of the Al(p,x)t c

Hua Zhou, Liuyi Hu, Jin Zhou, Kenneth Lange

Variance components estimation and mixed model analysis are central themes in statistics with applications in numerous scientific disciplines. Despite the best efforts of generations of statisticians and numerical analysts, maximum likelihood estimation and restricted maximum likelihood estimation of variance component models remain numerically challenging.

Hui Zhao, Xinyu Yu, Naihuan Jing

We construct a class of entangled states in $\mathcal{H}=\mathcal{H}_{A}\otimes\mathcal{H}_{B}\otimes\mathcal{H}_{C}$ quantum systems with $dim\mathcal{H}_{A}=dim\mathcal{H}_{B}=dim\mathcal{H}_{C}=2$ and classify those states with respect to their distillability properties. The states are bound entanglement for the bipartite split$(AB)-C$. The states are NPT

Guan Du, Zengyi Du, Xiong Yang, Enyu Wang

The topological insulator and strong electronic correlation effect are two important subjects in the frontier studies of modern condensed matter physics. A topological insulator exhibits a unique pair of surface conduction bands with the Dirac dispersion albeit the bulk insulating behaviour. These surface states are protected by the topological order, and th

Craig Wilson, Venugopal V. Veeravalli

A framework is introduced for solving a sequence of slowly changing optimization problems, including those arising in regression and classification applications, using optimization algorithms such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD). The optimization problems change slowly in the sense that the minimizers change at either a fixed or bounded rate. A method b

A. M. van Genderen, H. Nieuwenhuijzen, A. Lobel

We re-examined photometry (VBLUW, UBV, uvby) of the yellow hypergiant HR 5171A made a few decades ago. In that study no proper explanation could be given for the enigmatic brightness excesses in the L band (VBLUW system, lambda_eff=3838 A). In the present paper, we suggest that this might have been caused by blue luminescence (BL), an emission feature of neu

Howard S. Cohl, Sean J. Nair, Rebekah M. Palmer

Based on known definite integrals of Bessel functions of the first kind, we obtain exact solutions to unknown definite integrals using the method of integral transforms from Hankel&#39;s transform.

R. D&#39;Souza, S. Vegetti, G. Kauffmann

We derive average flux corrections to the \texttt{Model} magnitudes of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies by stacking together mosaics of similar galaxies in bins of stellar mass and concentration. Extra flux is detected in the outer low surface brightness part of the galaxies, leading to corrections ranging from 0.05 to 0.32 mag for the highest st

Giovanni Catino

We prove that a $n$-dimensional, $4 \leq n \leq 6$, compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton satisfying a $L^{n/2}$-pinching condition is isometric to a quotient of the round $\mathbb{S}^{n}$. The proof relies mainly on sharp algebraic curvature estimates, the Yamabe-Sobolev inequality and an improved rigidity result for integral pinched Einstein metrics.

Adil Ali

We apply some ideas of Bombieri and Garrett to construct natural self-adjoint operators on spaces of automorphic forms whose only possible discrete spectrum is $λ_{s}$ for $s$ in a subset of on-line zeros of an $L$-function, appearing as a compact period of cuspidal-data Eisenstein series on $GL_{4}$. These ideas have their origins in results of Hejhal and C

Robert Koenig, Volkher B. Scholz

We establish rigorous error bounds for approximating correlation functions of conformal field theories (CFTs) by certain finite-dimensional tensor networks. For chiral CFTs, the approximation takes the form of a matrix product state. For full CFTs consisting of a chiral and an anti-chiral part, the approximation is given by a finitely correlated state. We sh

Toshiaki Shoji

Kostka functions $K^{\pm}_{λ, μ}(t)$ associated to complex reflection groups are a generalization of Kostka polynomials, which are indexed by a pair $λ, μ$ of $r$-partitions and a sign $+, -$. It is expected that there exists a close connection between those Kostka functions and the intersection cohomology associated to the enhanced variety $X$ of level $r$.

Pritam Khan, Rituraj Sharma, Uday Deshpande, K. V. Adarsh

Ge rich ternary chalcogenide glasses (ChG) exhibit photobleaching (PB) when illuminated with bandgap light and such an effect is originating from the combined effect of intrinsic structural changes and photo-oxidation. In a sharp contradict to these previous observations, in this letter, we demonstrate for the first time that Ge rich Ge25As10Se65 ChG thin fi

Richard Stanton, Mike Brookes

Reverberation is damaging to both the quality and the intelligibility of a speech signal. We propose a novel single-channel method of dereverberation based on a linear filter in the Short Time Fourier Transform domain. Each enhanced frame is constructed from a linear sum of nearby frames based on the channel impulse response. The results show that the method

G. Cynolter, E. Lendvai

A Lorentz and gauge symmetry preserving regularization method is discussed in four dimension based on momentum cutoff. We use the conditions of gauge invariance or equivalently the freedom of shift of the loop momentum to define the evaluation of the terms carrying even number of Lorentz indices, e.g. proportional to $k_μk_ν$. The remaining scalar integrals

Tsz Ho Chan

In this paper, we study how small a box contains at least two points from a modular hyperbola $x y \equiv c \pmod p$. There are two such points in a square of side length $p^{1/4 + ε}$. Furthermore, it turns out that either there are two such points in a square of side length $p^{1/6 + ε}$ or the least quadratic nonresidue is less than $p^{1/(6 \sqrt{e}) + ε

Massimo Ostilli, Wagner Figueiredo

We consider a simple model of communities interacting via bilinear terms. After analyzing the thermal equilibrium case, which can be described by an Hamiltonian, we introduce the dynamics that, for Ising-like variables, reduces to a Glauber-like dynamics. We analyze and compare four different versions of the dynamics: flow (differential equations), map (disc

Eunjung Kim, Christophe Paul, Ignasi Sau, Dimitrios M. Thilikos

In this paper we design {\sf FPT}-algorithms for two parameterized problems. The first is \textsc{List Digraph Homomorphism}: given two digraphs $G$ and $H$ and a list of allowed vertices of $H$ for every vertex of $G$, the question is whether there exists a homomorphism from $G$ to $H$ respecting the list constraints. The second problem is a variant of \tex

Johan Bijnens, Karol Kampf, Alexey Vladimirov

This talk describes the work done in calculating leading logarithms in massive effective field theories. We discuss shortly leading logarithms in renormalizable theories and how they can be calculated using only one-loop calculations in effective field theories. The remainder of the talk discusses masses, decay constants, condensates and anomalous processes

E. Giallongo, N. Menci, A. Grazian, R. Fassbender

We have discovered 11 ultra-faint ($r\lesssim 22.1$) low surface brightness (LSB, central surface brightness $23\lesssim μ_r\lesssim 26$) dwarf galaxy candidates in one deep Virgo field of just $576$ arcmin$^2$ obtained by the Large Binocular Camera (LBC) at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). Their association with the Virgo cluster is supported by their d

Bartłomiej Szczygieł, Marek Dudyński, Kamil Kwiatkowski, Maciej Lewenstein

We consider a family of percolation models in which geometry and connectivity are defined by two independent random processes. Such models merge characteristics of discrete and continuous percolation. We develop an algorithm allowing effective computation of both universal and modelspecific percolation quantities in the case when both random processes are Po

Imanol Albarran, Mariam Bouhmadi-López, Francisco Cabral, Prado Martín-Moruno

We analyse the quantum behaviour of the &#34;Little Sibling&#34; of the Big Rip singularity (LSBR) [1]. The quantisation is carried within the geometrodynamical approach given by the Wheeler--DeWitt (WDW) equation. The classical model is based on a Friedmann--Lemaître--Robertson--Walker Universe filled by a perfect fluid that can be mapped to a scalar field

Giang Le

We deduce an effective version of Schmidt&#39;s subspace theorem on a smooth projective variety X over function fields of characteristic zero for hypersurfaces located in N-subgeneral position with respect to X.