September 2015 arXiv papers — page 23

Rayna Dimitrova, Rupak Majumdar

Extensions to finite-state automata on strings, such as multi-head automata or multi-counter automata, have been successfully used to encode many infinite-state non-regular verification problems. In this paper, we consider a generalization of automata-theoretic infinite-state verification from strings to labeled series-parallel graphs. We define a model of n

Toni Mancini, Federico Mari, Annalisa Massini, Igor Melatti

Many simulation based Bounded Model Checking approaches to System Level Formal Verification (SLFV) have been devised. Typically such approaches exploit the capability of simulators to save computation time by saving and restoring the state of the system under simulation. However, even though such approaches aim to (bounded) formal verification, as a matter o

Christian Wurm

We introduce the class of synchronous subsequential relations, a subclass of the synchronous relations which embodies some properties of subsequential relations. If we take relations of this class as forming the possible transitions of an infinite automaton, then most decision problems (apart from membership) still remain undecidable (as they are for synchro

Philipp Hoffmann

Negotiations, a model of concurrency with multi party negotiation as primitive, have been recently introduced by J. Desel and J. Esparza. We initiate the study of games for this model. We study coalition problems: can a given coalition of agents force that a negotiation terminates (resp. block the negotiation so that it goes on forever)?; can the coalition f

Akio Hosoya

The real part of the weak value is identified as the conditional Bayes probability through the quantum analog of the Bayes relation. We present an explicit protocol to get the the weak values in a simple Mach-Zehnder interferometer model and derive the formulae for the weak values in terms of the experimental data consisting of the positions and momenta of d

Viacheslav V. Zhuravlev

We present not a literature review but a description, as detailed and consistent as possible, of two analytic models of disk accretion onto a rotating black hole: a standard relativistic disk and a twisted relativistic disk. Although one of these models is much older than the other, both are of topical current interest for black hole studies. The way the exp

Yu-Shou Song, Ying-Wei Hou, Li-Yuan Hu, Hui-Lan Liu

The two-body core+$2n$ cluster structure was implemented to describe the two-neutron halo nucleus $^{\mathrm{14}}\mathrm{Be}$, where the core$^{\mathrm{12}}\mathrm{Be}$ was assumed inert and at ground state and the dineutron was assumed at pure $2S_0$ state. Based on such a structure the three-body continuum-discretized coupled-channel (CDCC) calculation was

Federico Marchesin, Peter Koval, Marc Barbry, Javier Aizpurua

The correlation between transport properties across sub-nanometric metallic gaps and the optical response of the system is a complex effect which is determined by the fine atomic-scale details of the junction structure. As experimental advances are progressively accessing transport and optical characterization of smaller nanojunctions, a clear connection bet

A. Collado, R. Gamen, R. H. Barbá, N. Morrell

Double-lined spectroscopic binary systems, containing a Wolf-Rayet and a massive O-type star, are key objects for the study of massive star evolution because these kinds of systems allow the determination of fundamental astrophysical parameters of their components. We have performed spectroscopic observations of the star WR 68a as part of a dedicated monitor

Wei Chen, Changgan Zeng, Efthimios Kaxiras, Zhenyu Zhang

The recently discovered (Li$_{0.8}$Fe$_{0.2}$)OHFeSe superconductor provides a new platform for exploiting the microscopic mechanisms of high-$T_c$ superconductivity in FeSe-derived systems. Using density functional theory calculations, we first show that substitution of Li by Fe not only significantly strengthens the attraction between the (Li$_{0.8}$Fe$_{0

Fabio Bresolin, Robert C. Kennicutt

We acquired spectra of 141 HII regions in ten late-type low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs). The analysis of the chemical abundances obtained from the nebular emission lines shows that metallicity gradients are a common feature of LSBGs, contrary to previous claims concerning the absence of such gradients in this class of galaxies. The average slope, whe

Hajime Muramatsu

I report BESIII preliminary results on: 1 Measurement of sigma(e+e- ->DDbar at Ecm = 3.773 GeV 2 Study of the DDbar production line shape near Ecm = 3.773 GeV 3 The first observation of singly Cabibbo-suppressed decay, D -> omega pi 4 Measurement of BF(Ds+ -> eta' X) and BF(Ds+ -> eta' rho+) .

Adam J. Harper, Youness Lamzouri

We investigate the race between prime numbers in many residue classes modulo $q$, assuming the standard conjectures GRH and LI. Among our results we exhibit, for the first time, prime races modulo $q$ with $n$ competitor classes where the biases do not dissolve when $n, q\to \infty$. We also study the leaders in the prime number race, obtaining asymptotic fo

John E. Gizis, Kyle G. Dettman, Adam J. Burgasser, Sara Camnasio

We present Kepler, Spitzer Space Telescope, Gemini-North, MMT, and Kitt Peak observations of the L1 dwarf WISEP J190648.47+401106.8. We find that the Kepler optical light curve is consistent in phase and amplitude over the nearly two years of monitoring with a peak-to-peak amplitude of 1.4%. Spitzer Infrared Array Camera 3.6 micron observations are in phase

Jun Ohkubo

A new application of duality relations of stochastic processes is demonstrated. Although conventional usages of the duality relations need analytical solutions for the dual processes, we here employ numerical solutions of the dual processes and investigate the usefulness. As a demonstration, estimation problems of hidden variables in stochastic differential

Adrian Dumitrescu, Anirban Ghosh

(I) We exhibit a set of 23 points in the plane that has dilation at least $1.4308$, improving the previously best lower bound of $1.4161$ for the worst-case dilation of plane spanners. (II) For every integer $n\geq13$, there exists an $n$-element point set $S$ such that the degree 3 dilation of $S$ denoted by $δ_0(S,3) \text{ equals } 1+\sqrt{3}=2.7321\ldots

De-Chang Dai

We study the orientation and density profiles of the cosmological voids with SDSS10 data. Using voids to test Alcock-Paczynski effect has been proposed and tested in both simulations and actual SDSS data. Previous observations imply that there exist an empirical stretching factor which plays an important role in the voids' orientation. Simulations indica

Bhaswati Bhattacharyya, Sally Cooper, Mateusz Malenta, Jayanta Roy

We are conducting a survey for pulsars and transients using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky (GHRSS) survey is an off-Galactic-plane (|b|>5) survey in the declination range -40 deg to -54 deg at 322 MHz. With the high time (up to 30.72 micro-sec) and frequency (up to 0.016275 MHz) resolution observing modes, t

James Schneeloch, Samuel H. Knarr, Daniel J. Lum, John C. Howell

Witnessing continuous-variable Bell nonlocality is a challenging endeavor, but Bell himself showed how one might demonstrate this nonlocality. Though Bell nearly showed a violation using the CHSH inequality with sign-binned position-momentum statistics of entangled pairs of particles measured at different times, his demonstration is subject to approximations

Jaimie Murdock, Colin Allen, Simon DeDeo

Search in an environment with an uncertain distribution of resources involves a trade-off between exploitation of past discoveries and further exploration. This extends to information foraging, where a knowledge-seeker shifts between reading in depth and studying new domains. To study this decision-making process, we examine the reading choices made by one o

David Bryant, André Nies, Paul Tupper

The Urysohn space is a separable complete metric space with two fundamental properties: (a) universality: every separable metric space can be isometrically embedded in it; (b) ultrahomogeneity: every finite isometry between two finite subspaces can be extended to an auto-isometry of the whole space. The Urysohn space is uniquely determined up to isometry wit

Gregory D. Wirth, Jonathan R. Trump, Guillermo Barro, Yicheng Guo

We present the Team Keck Redshift Survey 2 (TKRS2), a near-infrared spectral observing program targeting selected galaxies within the CANDELS subsection of the GOODS-North Field. The TKRS2 program exploits the unique capabilities of MOSFIRE, an infrared multi-object spectrometer which entered service on the Keck I telescope in 2012 and contributes substantia

Gábor Székelyhidi, Ben Weinkove

We give a new proof of Bian-Guan's constant rank theorem for nonlinear elliptic equations. Our approach is to use a linear expression of the eigenvalues of the Hessian instead of quotients of elementary symmetric functions.

E. J. Janse van Rensburg, T. Prellberg

Polymers in confined spaces lose conformational entropy. This induces a net repulsive entropic force on the walls of the confining space. A model for this phenomenon is a lattice walk between confining walls, and in this paper a model of an adsorbing partially directed walk is used. The walk is placed in a half square lattice $L^2_+$ with boundary $\partial

Benjamin Dive, Daniel Burgarth, Florian Mintert

We investigate the problem of what evolutions an open quantum system described by a time-local Master equation can undergo with universal coherent controls. A series of conditions are given which exclude channels from being reachable by any unitary controls, assuming that the coupling to the environment is not being modified. These conditions primarily arise

Gavril Farkas, Michael Kemeny

The Prym-Green Conjecture predicts that the resolution of a generic n-torsion paracanonical curve of every genus is natural. The conjecture has mostly been studied so far for level 2, that is, for Prym-canonical curves. Using a construction of Barth and Verra that realizes torsion bundles on sections of special K3 surfaces, we prove the Prym-Green Conjecture

Michael Griffin, Marie Jameson, Sarah Trebat-Leder

Bloch-Okounkov studied certain functions on partitions $f$ called shifted symmetric polynomials. They showed that certain $q$-series arising from these functions (the so-called \emph{$q$-brackets} $\left<f\right>_q$) are quasimodular forms. We revisit a family of such functions, denoted $Q_k$, and study the $p$-adic properties of their $q$-brackets. To do th

Thomas Bothner

We present a method to derive asymptotics of eigenvalues for trace-class integral operators $K:L^2(J;dλ)\circlearrowleft$, acting on a single interval $J\subset\mathbb{R}$, which belong to the ring of integrable operators \cite{IIKS}. Our emphasis lies on the behavior of the spectrum $\{λ_i(J)\}_{i=0}^{\infty}$ of $K$ as $|J|\rightarrow\infty$ and $i$ is fix

Fang Han, Hongkai Ji, Zhicheng Ji, Honglang Wang

In many applications, linear models fit the data poorly. This article studies an appealing alternative, the generalized regression model. This model only assumes that there exists an unknown monotonically increasing link function connecting the response $Y$ to a single index $X^Tβ^*$ of explanatory variables $X\in\mathbb{R}^d$. The generalized regression mod

Hee Su Roh, Yinyu Ye

Pari-mutuel markets are trading platforms through which the common market maker simultaneously clears multiple contingent claims markets. This market has several distinctive properties that began attracting the attention of the financial industry in the 2000s. For example, the platform aggregates liquidity from the individual contingent claims market into th

ATLAS Collaboration

The ATLAS experiment has performed extensive searches for the electroweak production of charginos, neutralinos and staus. This article summarizes and extends the search for electroweak supersymmetry with new analyses targeting scenarios not covered by previously published searches. New searches use vector-boson fusion production, initial-state radiation jets

Lancelot F. James

For $0<α<1,$ and $θ>-α,$ let $(S^{-α}_{α,θ+r})_{\{r\ge 0\}}$ denote an increasing(decreasing) sequence of variables forming a time inhomogeneous Markov chain whose marginal distributions are equivalent to generalized Mittag Leffler distributions. We exploit the property that such a sequence may be connected with the two parameter $(α,θ)$ family of Poisson Di

Yuya Tanizaki, Yoshimasa Hidaka, Tomoya Hayata

The Lefschetz-thimble approach to path integrals is applied to a one-site model of electrons, i.e., the one-site Hubbard model. Since the one-site Hubbard model shows a non-analytic behavior at the zero temperature and its path integral expression has the sign problem, this toy model is a good testing ground for an idea or a technique to attack the sign prob

M. Koprowski, J. S. Dunlop, M. J. Michalowski, I. Roseboom

We investigate the properties of the galaxies selected from the deepest 850-micron survey undertaken to date with SCUBA-2 on the JCMT. This deep 850-micron imaging was taken in parallel with deep 450-micron imaging in the very best observing conditions as part of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. A total of 106 sources were uncovered at 850 microns from ~

L. Herrera, E. Fuenmayor, P. León

We discuss the effect that small fluctuations of local anisotropy of pressure, and energy density, may have on the occurrence of cracking in spherical compact objects, satisfying a polytropic equation of state. Two different kind of polytropes are considered. For both, it is shown that departures from equilibrium may lead to the appearance of cracking, for a

Xing-Hui Feng, Hai-Shan Liu, H. Lü, C. N. Pope

Horndeski gravities are theories of gravity coupled to a scalar field, in which the action contains an additional non-minimal quadratic coupling of the scalar, through its first derivative, to the Einstein tensor or the analogous higher-derivative tensors coming from the variation of Gauss-Bonnet or Lovelock terms. In this paper we study the thermodynamics o

Gilles Pütz, Djeylan Aktas, Anthony Martin, Bruno Fedrici

The demonstration and use of nonlocality, as defined by Bell&#39;s theorem, rely strongly on dealing with non-detection events due to losses and detectors&#39; inefficiencies. Otherwise, the so-called detection loophole could be exploited. The only way to avoid this is to have detection efficiencies that are above a certain threshold. We introduce the interm

A. Gianninas, Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, Paul Canton

We present the discovery of 11 new double degenerate systems containing extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs). Our radial velocity observations confirm that all of the targets have orbital periods $\leq$ 1 day. We perform spectroscopic fits and provide a complete set of physical and binary parameters. We review and compare recent evolutionary calculation

Chad Bustard, Ellen G. Zweibel, Elena D&#39;Onghia

We present a versatile family of model galactic outflows including non-uniform mass and energy source distributions, a gravitational potential from an extended mass source, and radiative losses. The model easily produces steady-state wind solutions for a range of mass-loading factors, energy-loading factors, galaxy mass and galaxy radius. We find that, with

Marius Junge, Renato Renner, David Sutter, Mark M. Wilde

The data processing inequality states that the quantum relative entropy between two states $ρ$ and $σ$ can never increase by applying the same quantum channel $\mathcal{N}$ to both states. This inequality can be strengthened with a remainder term in the form of a distance between $ρ$ and the closest recovered state $(\mathcal{R} \circ \mathcal{N})(ρ)$, where

J. W. Holt, N. Kaiser, G. A. Miller

We compute the isospin-asymmetry dependence of microscopic optical model potentials from realistic chiral two- and three-body interactions over a range of resolution scales $Λ\simeq 400-500$\,MeV. We show that at moderate projectile energies, $E_{\rm inv} = 110 - 200$\,MeV, the real isovector part of the optical potential changes sign, a phenomenon referred

S. V. Demidov, D. G. Levkov

We develop a consistent semiclassical method to calculate the probability of topological soliton-antisoliton pair production in collisions of elementary particles. In our method one adds an auxiliary external field pulling the soliton and antisoliton in the opposite directions. This transforms the original scattering process into a Schwinger pair creation of

Maryam Modjaz, Yuqian Q. Liu, Federica B. Bianco, Or Graur

We present the first systematic investigation of spectral properties of 17 Type Ic Supernovae (SNe Ic), 10 broad-lined SNe Ic (SNe Ic-bl) without observed Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and 11 SNe Ic-bl with GRBs (SN-GRBs) as a function of time in order to probe their explosion conditions and progenitors. We analyze a total of 407 spectra, which were drawn from pub

S. Jouvel, T. Delubac, J. Comparat, A. Carnero

We present the results of the first test plates of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. This paper focuses on the emission line galaxies (ELG) population targetted from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) photometry. We analyse the success rate, efficiency, redshift distribution, and clustering properties of the targets. From the 9000 spectroscopic

Prerit Jaiswal, Patrick Meade, Harikrishnan Ramani

In this paper we demonstrate the agreement of jet-veto resummation and pT resummation for explaining the WW cross sections at Run 1 of the LHC, and in the future. These two resummation techniques resum different logarithms, however via reweighting methods they can be compared for various differential or exclusive cross sections. We find excellent agreement b

Oscar Varela

Explicit formulae are given for the consistent truncation of massive type IIA supergravity on the six-sphere to the SU(3)--invariant sector of $D=4$ ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity with dyonic ISO(7) gauging. These formulae are then used to construct AdS$_4$ solutions of massive type IIA via uplift on $S^6$ of the critical points of the $D=4$ supergravity with at

Thomas G. Wong

Quantum walks are well-known for their ballistic dispersion, traveling $Θ(t)$ away in $t$ steps, which is quadratically faster than a classical random walk&#39;s diffusive spreading. In physical implementations of the walk, however, the particle may need to tunnel through a potential barrier to hop, and a naive calculation suggests this could eliminate the b

Dennis Huang, Tatiana A. Webb, Shiang Fang, Can-Li Song

We use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and quasiparticle interference (QPI) imaging to investigate the low-energy orbital texture of single-layer FeSe/SrTiO$_3$. We develop a $T$-matrix model of multi-orbital QPI to disentangle scattering intensities from Fe $3d_{xz}$ and $3d_{yz}$ bands, enabling the use of STM as a nanoscale detection tool of nematicit

Sayed Kamaledin Ghiasi-Shirazi, Mahdi Mohseni, Majid Darvishan, Reza Yousefzadeh

Runtime reconfiguration is a fundamental requirement of many telecommunication applications which also has been addressed by management standards like CMIP, 3GPP TS 32.602, and NETCONF. Two basic commands considered by these standards are CREATE and DELETE which operate on managed objects inside an application. The available configuration management technolo

David Vaughn, Derek Justice

In recent years, quadratic weighted kappa has been growing in popularity in the machine learning community as an evaluation metric in domains where the target labels to be predicted are drawn from integer ratings, usually obtained from human experts. For example, it was the metric of choice in several recent, high profile machine learning contests hosted on

Y. Ould Agha, O. Demichel, C. Girard, A. Bouhelier

Using the Green&#39;s dyad technique based on cuboidal meshing, we compute the electromagnetic field scattered by metal nanorods with high aspect ratio. We investigate the effect of the meshing shape on the numerical simulations. We observe that discretizing the object with cells with aspect ratios similar to the object&#39;s aspect ratio improves the comput

Stefan Siegert, Philip G. Sansom, Robin Williams

Ensemble forecasts of weather and climate are subject to systematic biases in the ensemble mean and variance, leading to inaccurate estimates of the forecast mean and variance. To address these biases, ensemble forecasts are post-processed using statistical recalibration frameworks. These frameworks often specify parametric probability distributions for the

Alessandro Carlotto

Given a compact 3-manifold N without boundary, we prove that for a bumpy metric of positive scalar curvature the space of minimal surfaces having a uniform upper bound on the Morse index is always finite unless the manifold itself contains an embedded minimal RP^2. In particular, we derive a generic finiteness result whenever N does not contain a copy of RP^

S. Schulz, D. P. Tanner, E. P. O&#39;Reilly, M. A. Caro

In this paper we present a detailed analysis of the structural, electronic, and optical properties of an $m$-plane (In,Ga)N/GaN quantum well structure grown by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy. The sample has been structurally characterized by x-ray diffraction, scanning transmission electron microscopy, and 3D atom probe tomography. The optical properties

John R. Doyle

Given a number field $K$ and a polynomial $f(z) \in K[z]$, one can naturally construct a finite directed graph $G(f,K)$ whose vertices are the $K$-rational preperiodic points of $f$, with an edge $α\to β$ if and only if $f(α) = β$. The dynamical uniform boundedness conjecture of Morton and Silverman suggests that, for fixed integers $n \ge 1$ and $d \ge 2$,

Yuri G. Zarhin

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve without CM that is defined over a number field $K$. For all but finitely many nonarchimedean places $v$ of $K$ there is the reduction $E(v)$ of $E$ at $v$ that is an elliptic curve over the residue field $k(v)$ at $v$. The set of $v$&#39;s with ordinary $E(v)$ has density 1 (Serre). For such $v$ the endomorphism ring $End(E(v))$

Maxwell D. Gregoire, Ivan Hromada, William F. Holmgren, Raisa Trubko

We measured the ground-state static electric-dipole polarizabilities of Cs, Rb, and K atoms using a three-nanograting Mach-Zehnder atom beam interferometer. Our measurements provide benchmark tests for atomic structure calculations and thus test the underlying theory used to interpret atomic parity non-conservation experiments. We measured $α_{\mathrm{Cs}} =

A. M. Veronig, W. Polanec

We study the energy-release process in the confined X1.6 flare that occurred on 22 October 2014 in AR 12192. Magnetic-reconnection rates and reconnection fluxes are derived from three different data sets: space-based data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 1600 Å filter onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and ground-based H$α$ and Ca II K f

M. Bhattacharjee, J. Eschmeier, Dinesh K. Keshari, Jaydeb Sarkar

The objective of this paper is to study wandering subspaces for commuting tuples of bounded operators on Hilbert spaces. It is shown that, for a large class of analytic functional Hilbert spaces $\mathcal{H}_K$ on the unit ball in $\mathbb C^n$, wandering subspaces for restrictions of the multiplication tuple $M_z = (M_{z_1}, \ldots ,M_{z_n})$ can be describ

L. E. de Clercq, R. Oswald, C. Flühmann, B. Keitch

The time evolution of a closed quantum system is connected to its Hamiltonian through Schroedinger&#39;s equation. The ability to estimate the Hamiltonian is critical to our understanding of quantum systems, and allows optimization of control. Though spectroscopic methods allow time-independent Hamiltonians to be recovered, for time-dependent Hamiltonians th

José Orihuela, José Miguel Zapata

Locally $L^0$-convex modules were introduced in [D. Filipovic, M. Kupper, N. Vogelpoth. Separation and duality in locally $L^0$-convex modules. J. Funct. Anal. 256(12), 3996-4029 (2009)] as the analytic basis for the study of conditional risk measures. Later, the algebra of conditional sets was introduced in [S. Drapeau, A. Jamneshan, M. Karliczek, M. Kupper

Zhigang Bao, Laszlo Erdos, Kevin Schnelli

The eigenvalue distribution of the sum of two large Hermitian matrices, when one of them is conjugated by a Haar distributed unitary matrix, is asymptotically given by the free convolution of their spectral distributions. We prove that this convergence also holds locally in the bulk of the spectrum, down to the optimal scales larger than the eigenvalue spaci

Kelum Gajamannage, Erik M. Bollt

If a given behavior of a multi-agent system restricts the phase variable to a invariant manifold, then we define a phase transition as change of physical characteristics such as speed, coordination, and structure. We define such a phase transition as splitting an underlying manifold into two sub-manifolds with distinct dimensionalities around the singularity

Murat Akman

In this paper, we study the set of absolute continuity of p-harmonic measure, $μ$, and $(n-1)-$dimensional Hausdorff measure, $\mathcal{H}^{n-1}$, on locally flat domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\geq 2$. We prove that for fixed $p$ with $2<p<\infty$ there exists a Reifenberg flat domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\geq 2$, with $\mathcal{H}^{n-1}(\partialΩ)<\

Wei-Kuo Chen, Partha Dey, Dmitry Panchenko

We show that the free energy in the mixed $p$-spin models of spin glasses does not superconcentrate in the presence of external field, which means that its variance is of the order suggested by the Poincaré inequality. This complements the result of Chatterjee who showed that the free energy superconcentrates when there is no external field. For models witho

Marius Junge, Bogdan Udrea

We show that the generalized $q$-gaussian von Neumann algebras with coefficients $Γ_q(B,S \otimes H)$ with $B$ a finite dimensional factor, dim$(D_k(S))$ sub-exponential and the dimension of $H$ finite and larger than a constant depending on $q$, have no non-trivial central sequences.

Marius Junge, Bogdan Udrea

We define $Γ_q(B,S \otimes H)$, the generalized $q$-gaussian von Neumann algebras associated to a sequence of symmetric independent copies $(π_j,B,A,D)$ and to a subset $1 \in S = S^* \subset A$ and, under certain assumptions, prove their strong solidity relative to $B$. We provide many examples of strongly solid generalized $q$-gaussian von Neumann algebras

Murat Akman, John Lewis, Andrew Vogel

In this paper we study the Hausdorff dimension of a elliptic measure $μ_{f}$ in space associated to a positive weak solution to a certain quasilinear elliptic PDE in an open subset and vanishing on a portion of the boundary of that open set. We show that this measure is concentrated on a set of $σ-$finite $n-1$ dimensional Hausdorff measure for $p>n$ and the

V. Lebed, L. Vendramin

This paper deals with left non-degenerate set-theoretic solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation (=LND solutions), a vast class of algebraic structures encompassing groups, racks, and cycle sets. To each such solution is associated a shelf (i.e., a self-distributive structure) which captures its major properties. We consider two (co)homology theories for LND so

Barbara Bravi, Peter Sollich, Manfred Opper

We propose an extension of the Plefka expansion, which is well known for the dynamics of discrete spins, to stochastic differential equations with continuous degrees of freedom and exhibiting generic nonlinearities. The scenario is sufficiently general to allow application to e.g. biochemical networks involved in metabolism and regulation. The main feature o

Raul Quiroga-Barranco

We study Toeplitz operators with separately radial and radial symbols on the weighted Bergman spaces on the unit ball. The unitary equivalence of such operators with multiplication operators on $\ell^2$ spaces was previously obtained by analytic methods elsewhere (see the references). We prove that the same constructions can be performed with a purely repres

Kevin Destagnol

Following the line of attack from La Bretèche, Browning and Peyre, we prove Manin&#39;s conjecture in its strong form conjectured by Peyre for a family of Châtelet surfaces which are defined as minimal proper smooth models of affine surfaces of the form $$ Y^2-aZ^2=F(X,1), $$ where $a=-1$, $F \in \mathbb{Z}[x_1,x_2]$ is a polynomial of degree 4 whose factori

James Haglund, Jeffrey Remmel, Andrew Timothy Wilson

We conjecture two combinatorial interpretations for the symmetric function $Δ_{e_k} e_n$, where $Δ_f$ is an eigenoperator for the modified Macdonald polynomials defined by Bergeron, Garsia, Haiman, and Tesler. Both interpretations can be seen as generalizations of the Shuffle Conjecture of Haglund, Haiman, Remmel, Loehr, and Ulyanov, which was proved recentl

Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda, Emanuele Cozzo, Tiago P. Peixoto, Francisco A. Rodrigues

We present a continuous formulation of epidemic spreading on multilayer networks using a tensorial representation, extending the models of monoplex networks to this context. We derive analytical expressions for the epidemic threshold of the SIS and SIR dynamics, as well as upper and lower bounds for the disease prevalence in the steady state for the SIS scen

K. Dybko, P. Pfeffer, M. Szot, A. Szczerbakow

The transverse Nernst Ettingshausen (N-E) effect and electron mobility in Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Se alloys are studied experimentally and theoretically as functions of temperature and chemical composition in the vicinity of vanishing energy gap $E_g$. The study is motivated by the recent discovery that, by lowering the temperature, one can change the band ordering

Karta Kooner, Susha Parameswaran, Ivonne Zavala

The Weak Gravity Conjecture, if valid, rules out simple models of Natural Inflation by restricting their axion decay constant to be sub-Planckian. We revisit stringy attempts to realise Natural Inflation, with a single open string axionic inflaton from D-branes in a warped throat. We show that warping allows the requisite super-Planckian axion decay constant

Leonid Chekhov, Marta Mazzocco

In this paper, we describe a new type of surgery for non-compact Riemann surfaces that naturally appear when colliding two holes or two sides of the same hole in an orientable Riemann surface with boundary (and possibly orbifold points). As a result of this surgery, bordered cusps appear on the boundary components of the Riemann surface. In Poincaré uniformi

Joachim Cuntz

This is a survey of work in which the author was involved in recent years. We consider C*-algebras constructed from representations of one or several algebraic endomorphisms of a compact abelian group - or, dually, of a discrete abelian group. In our survey we do not try to describe the entire scope of the methods and results obtained in the original papers,

Yuheng Bu, Shaofeng Zou, Yingbin Liang, Venugopal V. Veeravalli

The following detection problem is studied, in which there are $M$ sequences of samples out of which one outlier sequence needs to be detected. Each typical sequence contains $n$ independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) continuous observations from a known distribution $π$, and the outlier sequence contains $n$ i.i.d. observations from an outlier dis

A. Baroni, L. Girlanda, S. Pastore, R. Schiavilla

Two-nucleon axial charge and current operators are derived in chiral effective field theory up to one loop. The derivation is based on time-ordered perturbation theory, and accounts for cancellations between the contributions of irreducible diagrams and the contributions due to non-static corrections from energy denominators of reducible diagrams. Ultraviole

Yohan Dubois, Benoît Commerçon

Astrophysical plasmas are subject to a tight connection between magnetic fields and the diffusion of particles, which leads to an anisotropic transport of energy. Under the fluid assumption, this effect can be reduced to an advection-diffusion equation augmenting the equations of magnetohydrodynamics. We introduce a new method for solving the anisotropic dif

Cristian Jimenez-Romero, David Sousa-Rodrigues, Jeffrey H. Johnson

This study explores the design and control of the behaviour of agents and robots using simple circuits of spiking neurons and Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) as a mechanism of associative and unsupervised learning. Based on a &#34;reward and punishment&#34; classical conditioning, it is demonstrated that these robots learnt to identify and avoid obs

M. A. Latif, K. Omukai, M. Habouzit, D. R. G. Schleicher

Observations of quasars at $ z > 6$ suggest the presence of black holes with a few times $\rm 10^9 ~M_{\odot}$. Numerous models have been proposed to explain their existence including the direct collapse which provides massive seeds of $\rm 10^5~M_{\odot}$. The isothermal direct collapse requires a strong Lyman-Werner flux to quench $\rm H_2$ formation in ma

Imane Boudellioua, Rabie Saidi, Maria Martin, Robert Hoehndorf

The widening gap between known proteins and their functions has encouraged the development of methods to automatically infer annotations. Automatic functional annotation of proteins is expected to meet the conflicting requirements of maximizing annotation coverage, while minimizing erroneous functional assignments. This trade-off imposes a great challenge in

Antonio Pasqua, Surajit Chattopadhyay, Davood Momeni, Muhammad Raza

In this paper, we will analyse the cosmological models in Einstein-aether gravity, which is a modified theory of gravity in which a time-like vector field breaks the Lorentz symmetry. We will use this formalism to analyse different cosmological models with different behavior of the scale factor. In this analysis, we will use a certain functional dependence o

Sebastien Vasey

We show how to build primes models in classes of saturated models of abstract elementary classes (AECs) having a well-behaved independence relation: $\mathbf{Theorem.}$ Let $K$ be an almost fully good AEC that is categorical in $\text{LS} (K)$ and has the $\text{LS} (K)$-existence property for domination triples. For any $λ> \text{LS} (K)$, the class of Galo

Chengwei Wang, Celso Grebogi, Murilo S. Baptista

Abrupt changes of behaviour in complex networks can be triggered by a single node. This work describes the dynamical fundamentals of how the behaviour of one node affects the whole network formed by coupled phase-oscillators with heterogeneous coupling strengths. The synchronisation of phase-oscillators is independent of the distribution of the natural frequ

Ashton Roza, Manfredi Maggiore, Luca Scardovi

This paper solves the rendezvous problem for a network of underactuated rigid bodies such as quadrotor helicopters. A control strategy is presented that makes the centres of mass of the vehicles converge to an arbitrarily small neighborhood of one another. The convergence is global, and each vehicle can compute its own control input using only an on-board ca

Shuai-Xia Xu, Dan Dai, Yu-Qiu Zhao

In this paper, we consider polynomials orthogonal with respect to a varying perturbed Laguerre weight $e^{-n(z-\log z+t/z)}$ for $t<0$ and $z$ on certain contours in the complex plane. When the parameters $n$, $t$ and the degree $k$ are fixed, the Hankel determinant for the singular complex weight is shown to be the isomonodromy $τ$-function of the Painlevé

Paolo Cea

We developed a quantum field theoretical description for the surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators. Within the relativistic quantum field theory formulation, we investigated the dynamics of low-lying surface states in an applied transverse magnetic field. We argued that, by taking into account quantum fluctuations, in three-dimensional t

Sheng Chen, Shuiqing Li, Wenwei Liu, Hernán A. Makse

The packing of charged micron-sized particles was investigated using discrete element simulations based on adhesive contact dynamic model. The formation process and the final obtained structures of ballistic packings are studied to show the effect of interparticle Coulomb force. It was found that increasing the charge on particles causes a remarkable decreas

Dengxin Dai, Yujian Wang, Yuhua Chen, Luc Van Gool

Despite the great advances made in the field of image super-resolution (ISR) during the last years, the performance has merely been evaluated perceptually. Thus, it is still unclear whether ISR is helpful for other vision tasks. In this paper, we present the first comprehensive study and analysis of the usefulness of ISR for other vision applications. In par

Chidambaram Annamalai

Haxell&#39;s condition is a natural hypergraph analog of Hall&#39;s condition, which is a well-known necessary and sufficient condition for a bipartite graph to admit a perfect matching. That is, when Haxell&#39;s condition holds it forces the existence of a perfect matching in the bipartite hypergraph. Unlike in graphs, however, there is no known polynomial

Filip Ficek

In this paper I study stationary, spherically symmetric accretion of fluids onto a charged black hole in the presence of the cosmological constant. For some isothermal equations of state it is possible to obtain analytic solutions. In the case of a radiation fluid I point out a connection between locations of the horizons and the sonic (critical) points. In

Virginia Agostiniani, Antonio DeSimone

In the context of finite elasticity, we propose plate models describing the spontaneous bending of nematic elastomer thin films due to variations along the thickness of the nematic order parameters. Reduced energy functionals are deduced from a three-dimensional description of the system using rigorous dimension-reduction techniques, based on the theory of G

Benjamin Miesch

Local-to-global principles are spread all-around in mathematics. The classical Cartan-Hadamard Theorem from Riemannian geometry was generalized by W. Ballmann for metric spaces with non-positive curvature, and by S. Alexander and R. Bishop for locally convex metric spaces. In this paper, we prove the Cartan-Hadamard Theorem in a more general setting, namely

Antonio Lerario, Andrea Mondino

Given a manifold $M$ and a proper sub-bundle $Δ\subset TM$, we study homotopy properties of the horizontal base-point free loop space $Λ$, i.e. the space of absolutely continuous maps $γ:S^1\to M$ whose velocities are constrained to $Δ$ (for example: legendrian knots in a contact manifold). A key technical ingredient for our study is the proof that the base-

Guru Prakash Kadam, Hiranmaya Mishra

We study the effect of temperature (T) and baryon density (μ) dependent hadron masses on the thermodynamics of hadronic matter. We use linear scaling rule in terms of constituent quark masses for all hadrons except for light mesons. T and μ dependent constituent quark masses and the light mesons masses are computed using 2+1 flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) m

I. Brevik, A. V. Timoshkin

We consider the inflation produced by two coupled fluids in the flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. Different cosmological models for describing inflation by use of an inhomogeneous equation of state for the fluid are investigated. The gravitational equations for energy and matter are solved, and analytic representations for the Hubble parameter and th

Pierre Vogel

The purpose of this paper is to give a complete description of the Cohn localization of the augmentation map $Z[G]\rightarrow Z$ when $G$ is any finite group.