September 2015 arXiv papers — page 3

John K. McSweeney

We consider a dynamic network cascade process developed by Watts applied to a random networks with a specified amount of clustering, belonging to a class of random networks developed by Newman. We adapt existing tree-based methods to formulate an appropriate two-type branching process to describe the spread of a cascade started with a single active node, and

Pawan Setlur, Muralidhar Rangaswamy

Waveform design is a pivotal component of the fully adaptive radar construct. In this paper we consider waveform design for radar space time adaptive processing (STAP), accounting for the waveform dependence of the clutter correlation matrix. Due to this dependence, in general, the joint problem of receiver filter optimization and radar waveform design becom

Nathaniel Schwartz

Symmetric $k$-varieties generalize Riemannian sym\-me\-tric spaces to reductive groups defined over arbitrary fields. For most perfect fields, it is known that symmetric $k$-varieties are in one-to-one correspondence with isomorphy classes of $k$-involutions. Therefore, it is useful to have representatives of each isomorphy class in order to describe the $k$

Hyejin Jang, Joshua D. Wood, Christopher R. Ryder, Mark C. Hersam

We ascertain the anisotropic thermal conductivity of alumina passivated black phosphorus (BP), a reactive 2D nanomaterial with strong in-plane anisotropy. We measure the room temperature thermal conductivity by time-domain thermoreflectance for the three crystalline axes of exfoliated BP. The thermal conductivity along the zigzag direction (86 +/- 8 W/(m*K))

Rajesh Kumar, Dennis Guck, Marielle Stoelinga

The success of a security attack crucially depends on time: the more time available to the attacker, the higher the probability of a successful attack. Formalisms such as Reliability block diagrams, Reliability graphs and Attack Countermeasure trees provide quantitative information about attack scenarios, but they are provably insufficient to model dependent

Natasa Golo

The results of the public opinion poll performed in January 2015, just after the terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket in Paris, when 17 people were killed, showed that a significant number of French citizens held conspiratorial beliefs about it (17 %). This gave reason to an alternative analysis of

Zheng Zhu, Zheng-Yu Weng, Tin-Lun Ho

We show that pronounced modulations in spin and charge densities can be induced by the insertion of a single hole in an otherwise half-filled 2-leg Hubbard ladder. Accompanied with these modulations is a loosely bound structure of the doped charge with a spin-1/2, in contrast to the tightly bound case where such modulations are absent. These behaviors are ca

Justin E. Elenewski, Yanxiang Zhao, Hanning Chen

The accurate simulation of real--time quantum transport is notoriously difficult, requiring a consistent scheme to treat incoming and outgoing fluxes at the boundary of an open system. We demonstrate a method to converge non--equilibrium steady states using non--Hermitian source and sink potentials alongside the application of dynamic density constraints dur

Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah, Issa Khalil

Demands for broadband wireless access services is expected to outstrip the spectrum capacity in the near-term - "spectrum crunch". Deploying additional femotocells to address this challenge is cost-inefficient, due to the backhaul challenge and the exorbitant system maintenance. According to an Alcatel-Lucent report, most of the mobile Internet acces

Friedrich Götze, Dzianis Kaliada, Dmitry Zaporozhets

We give an explicit formula for the correlation functions of real zeros of a random polynomial with arbitrary independent continuously distributed coefficients.

Anthony Ashmore, Daniel Waldram

In this paper we define the analogue of Calabi--Yau geometry for generic $D=4$, $\mathcal{N}=2$ flux backgrounds in type II supergravity and M-theory. We show that solutions of the Killing spinor equations are in one-to-one correspondence with integrable, globally defined structures in $E_{7(7)}\times\mathbb{R}^+$ generalised geometry. Such "exceptional

Dexin Ye, Ling Lu, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić

We introduce a solid material that is itself invisible, possessing identical electromagnetic properties as air (i.e. not a cloak) at a desired frequency. Such a material could provide improved mechanical stability, electrical conduction and heat dissipation to a system, without disturbing incident electromagnetic radiation. One immediate application would be

Jason D. Eastman, Thomas G. Beatty, Robert J. Siverd, Joseph M. O. Antognini

We report the discovery of KELT-4Ab, an inflated, transiting Hot Jupiter orbiting the brightest component of a hierarchical triple stellar system. The host star is an F star with $T_{\rm eff}=6206\pm75$ K, $\log g=4.108\pm0.014$, $\left[{\rm Fe}/{\rm H}\right]=-0.116_{-0.069}^{+0.065}$, ${\rm M_*}=1.201_{-0.061}^{+0.067} \ {\rm M}_{\odot}$, and ${\rm R_*}=1.

A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Jared Kaplan, Matthew T. Walters, Junpu Wang

The Virasoro algebra determines all `graviton' matrix elements in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$. We study the explicit exchange of any number of Virasoro gravitons between heavy and light CFT$_2$ operators at large central charge. These graviton exchanges can be written in terms of new on-shell tree diagrams, organized in a perturbative expansion in $h_H/c$, the heavy

G. Gräfener, J. S. Vink

The progenitors of type-IIb supernovae (SNe) are believed to have lost their H-rich envelopes almost completely in the direct pre-SN phase. Recently the first 'flash spectrum' of a SN IIb (SN2013cu) has been presented, taken early enough to study its immediate circumstellar medium (CSM). Similar to a previous study by Groh (2014) we analyse the struc

Benjamin Pope, Timothy White, Daniel Huber, Simon Murphy

High-precision time series photometry with the Kepler satellite has been crucial to our understanding both of exoplanets, and via asteroseismology, of stellar physics. After the failure of two reaction wheels, the Kepler satellite has been repurposed as Kepler-2 (K2), observing fields close to the ecliptic plane. As these fields contain many more bright star

Olaf Hohm, Barton Zwiebach

We ask to what extent are the higher-derivative corrections of string theory constrained by T-duality. The seminal early work by Meissner tests T-duality by reduction to one dimension using a distinguished choice of field variables in which the bosonic string action takes a Gauss-Bonnet-type form. By analyzing all field redefinitions that may or may not be d

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, W. B. Atwood

Galaxy clusters are one of the prime sites to search for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals. Depending on the substructure of the DM halo of a galaxy cluster and the cross sections for DM annihilation channels, these signals might be detectable by the latest generation of $γ$-ray telescopes. Here we use three years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data

Rajendra Mitharwal, Francesco P. Andriulli

This work presents a Boundary Element Method (BEM) formulation for contactless electromagnetic field assessments. The new scheme is based on a regularized BEM approach that requires the use of electric measurements only. The regularization is obtained by leveraging on an extension of Calderon techniques to rectangular systems leading to well-conditioned prob

Krzysztof Wołk

This research explores the effects of various training settings on a Polish to English Statistical Machine Translation system for spoken language. Various elements of the TED, Europarl, and OPUS parallel text corpora were used as the basis for training of language models, for development, tuning and testing of the translation system. The BLEU, NIST, METEOR a

V. P. Pavlyuchenko, R. M. Martirosov, N. M. Nikolskaya, A. D. Erlykin

The methodical properties of the original difference method for the search of the anisotropy at the knee region of the primary cosmic radiation energy spectrum are analyzed. The main feature of the suggested method is a study of the difference in the EAS characteristics in different directions but not their intensity. It is shown that the method is stable to

Ramakrishnan Kannan, Grey Ballard, Haesun Park

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is the problem of determining two non-negative low rank factors $W$ and $H$, for the given input matrix $A$, such that $A \approx W H$. NMF is a useful tool for many applications in different domains such as topic modeling in text mining, background separation in video analysis, and community detection in social networ

Fabien Buisseret, Nicolas Boulanger

Relying on an effective-string approach in which glueballs --- bound states of pure Yang-Mills theory --- are modelled by closed strings, we give arguments suggesting that anyonic glueballs, \textit{i.e.} glueballs with arbitrary spin, may exist in $(2+1)$-$\,$dimensional Yang-Mills theory. We then focus on the large$\,$-$N_c$ limit of $SU$($N_c$) Yang-Mills

Andrew R. Winters, Gregor J. Gassner

In this work, we design an entropy stable, finite volume approximation for the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. The method is novel as we design an affordable analytical expression of the numerical interface flux function that discretely preserves the entropy of the system. To guarantee the discrete conservation of entropy requires the addition of

Jonatan Öström, Dmitry S. Bezrukov, Gunnar Nyman, Magnus Gustafsson

Reaction rate constants and cross sections are computed for the radiative association of carbon cations ($\text{C}^+$) and fluorine atoms ($\text{F}$) in their ground states. We consider reactions through the electronic transition $1^1Π\rightarrow X^1Σ^+$ and rovibrational transitions on the $X^1Σ^+$ and $a^3Π$ potentials. Semiclassical and classical methods

Jean-Sebastien Gagnon, Juan Perez-Mercader

We study the effect of noise on the renormalizability of a specific reaction-diffusion system of equations describing a cubic autocatalytic chemical reaction. The noise we are using is gaussian with power-law correlations in space, characterized by an amplitude $A$ and a noise exponent $y$. We show that changing the noise exponent is equivalent to the substi

Henry Lamm

Fundamental physics could be described as having a muon problem. Discrepancies between theory and experiment in a number of muonic measurements ($r_P$, $a_μ$, $H\rightarrowμτ$, $\mathcal{R}_K$, $\mathcal{R}_{D^*}$) have been observed in the last decade that demand explanation. True muonium, the bound state of a muon and its antiparticle, has the potential to

DeWayne T. Halfen, Vadim V. Ilyushin, Lucy M. Ziurys

A new interstellar molecule, CH$_3$NCO (methyl isocyanate), has been detected using the 12 m telescope of the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO). CH$_3$NCO was identified in spectra covering 48 GHz (68-116 GHz) in the 3 mm segment of a broadband survey of Sgr B2(N). Thirty very favorable rotational lines (K$_a$ = 0 and K$_a$ = 1 only; E$_u$ < 60 K) originating

Richard C. Bradley

Strictly stationary INAR(1) (&#34;integer-valued autoregressive processes of order 1&#34;) with Poisson innovations are &#34;interlaced rho-mixing&#34;.

Michael Menke

In this paper we show that 0-resolution of a crossing in the Legendrian closure of a positive braid induces a cohomologically faithful $A_\infty$ functor on augmentation categories. In particular, we compute the bilinearized Legendrian contact cohomology of these knots for augmentations induced by 0-resolution.

Sergey Andreev, Olga Galinina, Alexander Pyattaev, Mikhail Gerasimenko

This article addresses the market-changing phenomenon of the Internet of Things (IoT), which relies on the underlying paradigm of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to integrate a plethora of various sensors, actuators, and smart meters across a wide spectrum of businesses. The M2M landscape features today an extreme diversity of available connectivity

Thomas D. Cohen, Srimoyee Sen

The goal of this paper is to arrive at a low energy effective theory of QCD with two massless flavors of quarks at very high isospin density and zero baryon density. In a seminal paper by Son and Stephanov in the year 2001, it was conjectured that the low energy dynamics of QCD with two light flavors at asymptotically high isospin density was described by th

Marion Scheepers

The proof of Theorem 11 of the paper M. Scheepers, Remarks on countable tightness, Topology and its Applications 161 (2014), 407 - 432 relies on Lemma 10 of that paper. The offered proof of Lemma 10 had shortcomings, and I was recently asked for details. This note gives an alternative, complete proof of Lemma 10.

Armin Mustafa, Hansung Kim, Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Adrian Hilton

This paper introduces a general approach to dynamic scene reconstruction from multiple moving cameras without prior knowledge or limiting constraints on the scene structure, appearance, or illumination. Existing techniques for dynamic scene reconstruction from multiple wide-baseline camera views primarily focus on accurate reconstruction in controlled enviro

V. P. Gurarii

The theory of fractional calculus in the complex plane was not built with a specific application in mind. The main obstacle to application was the difficulty with obtaining analytic continuations of fractional derivatives and integrals. It is known that if a function is analytic in a simply connected domain, then its fractional derivatives and integrals are

Eduard Belitser

In the classical many normal means with different variances, we consider the situation when the observer is allowed to allocate the available measurement budget over the coordinates of the parameter of interest. The benchmark is the minimax linear risk over a set. We solve the problem of optimal allocation of observations under the measurement budget constra

Shanying Zhu, Yeng Chai Soh, Lihua Xie

In this paper, we consider a general distributed estimation problem in relay-assisted sensor networks by taking into account time-varying asymmetric communications, fading channels and intermittent measurements. Motivated by centralized filtering algorithms, we propose a distributed innovation-based estimation algorithm by combining the measurement innovatio

Michael R. Vissers, Robert P. Erickson, Hsiang-Sheng Ku, Leila Vale

We have fabricated a wide-bandwidth, high dynamic range, low-noise cryogenic amplifier based on a superconducting kinetic inductance traveling-wave device. The device was made from NbTiN and consisted of a long, coplanar waveguide on a silicon chip. By adding a DC current and an RF pump tone we are able to generate parametric amplification using three-wave m

Ondrej Sluciak

We prove that the Lehmer mean function of two or three positive numbers has always one and only one inflection point. We further show that in case of two numbers, the inflection point is $p^\star = 1$, and we discuss the location of the inflection point in case of three numbers. We furthermore provide an example of a Lehmer mean function with more than one i

P. Ronchese

The latest results of CMS in the area of exotic quarkonium decays will be presented: observation of a peaking structure in $J/ψΦ$ mass spectrum in the decay $B^\pm \rightarrow J/ψΦK^\pm$, search for new bottomonium states in $Υ(1\mathrm{S})π^+π^-$ mass spectrum, measurement of prompt $J/ψ$ pair production.

Yi Jiao

The baseline design for the High Energy Photon Source has been proposed, with an emittance of 60 pm.rad within a circumference of 1.3 kilometers. Nevertheless, the nonlinear performance of the design needs further improvements to enlarge both the dynamic aperture and the momentum acceptance. In this study, genetic optimization of the linear optics is perform

A. V. Faminskii, A. A. Nikolaev

Stationary solutions on a bounded interval for an initial-boundary value problem to Korteweg--de~Vries and modified Korteweg--de~Vries equation (for the last one both in focusing and defocusing cases) are constructed. The method of the study is based on the theory of conservative systems with one degree of freedom. The obtained solutions turn out to be perio

Markus Hausmann

We show that the category of symmetric spectra can be used as a model for global equivariant homotopy theory of finite groups.

Brandon M. Peden, Ryan M. Wilson, Maverick L. McLanahan, Jesse Hall

We present an analytic Bogoliubov description of a BEC of polar molecules trapped in a quasi-2D geometry and interacting via internal state-dependent dipole-dipole interactions. We derive the mean-field ground-state energy functional, and we derive analytic expressions for the dispersion relations, Bogoliubov amplitudes, and dynamic structure factors. This m

Jeffrey Bergfalk

We consider the question of the additivity of strong homology. This entails isolating the set-theoretic content of the higher derived limits of an inverse system indexed by the functions from $\mathbb{N}$ to $\mathbb{N}$. We show that this system governs, at a certain level, the additivity of strong homology over sums of arbitrary cardinality. We show in add

P. Ronchese

The phase $Φ_s$ is the key parameter for the CP-violation of the $B^0_s$-$\bar{B^0_s}$ system. An angular and proper decay time analysis is applied to the $B^0_s \rightarrow J/ψΦ$ events. Using a data sample collected by the CMS and ATLAS experiments in LHC Run1, the $B^0_s$ signal candidates are reconstructed and are used to extract the phase $Φ_s$. We pres

Riikka Korte, Niko Marola, Olli Saari

We provide a new geometric proof of Reimann&#39;s theorem characterizing quasiconformal mappings as the ones preserving functions of bounded mean oscillation. While our proof is new already in the Euclidean spaces, it is applicable in Heisenberg groups as well as in more general stratified nilpotent Carnot groups.

Paweł Keller, Iwona Wróbel

If $A$ is a tridiagonal matrix, then the equations $AX=I$ and $XA=I$ defining the inverse $X$ of $A$ are in fact the second order recurrence relations for the elements in each row and column of $X$. Thus, the recursive algorithms should be a natural and commonly used way for inverting tridiagonal matrices -- but they are not. Even though a variety of such al

Oscar Bruno, Max Cubillos

This paper introduces alternating-direction implicit (ADI) solvers of higher order of time-accuracy (orders two to six) for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in two- and three-dimensional curvilinear domains. The higher-order accuracy in time results from 1) An application of the backward differentiation formulae time-stepping algorithm (BDF) in conju

Steven N. Evans, Ilya Molchanov

A scaling on some space is a measurable action of the group of positive real numbers. A measure on a measurable space equipped with a scaling is said to be $α$-homogeneous for some nonzero real number $α$ if the mass of any measurable set scaled by any factor $t > 0$ is the multiple $t^{-α}$ of the set&#39;s original mass. It is shown rather generally that g

Stephen Kahler, Donald Reames, Edward Cliver

We review recent work on 111 Fe-rich impulsive solar energetic ($\sim$ 3 MeV/nuc) particle (SEP) events observed from 1994 to 2013. Strong elemental abundance enhancements scale with A/Q, the ion mass-to-charge ratio, as (A/Q)$^α$, where 2 $< α<$ 8 for different events. Most Fe-rich events are associated with both flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), an

H. S. Borges, L. Sanz, A. M. Alcalde

The entanglement of an optically generated electron-hole pair in artificial quantum dot molecules is calculated considering the effects of decoherence by interaction with environment. Since the system evolves into a mixed states and due to the complexity of energy level structure, we use the negativity as entanglement quantifier, which is well defined in $d

Antonius Dorda, Irakli Titvinidze, Enrico Arrigoni

In this work we investigate the spectral and transport properties of a single correlated layer attached to two metallic leads, with particular focus on the low-energy physics. A steady state current is driven across the layer by applying a bias voltage between the leads. Extending previous work we introduce a nonzero temperature in the leads, which enables u

Harry Crane, Walter Dempsey

In many applications, it is common practice to obtain a network from interaction counts by thresholding each pairwise count at a prescribed value. Our analysis calls attention to the dependence of certain methods, notably Newman--Girvan modularity, on the choice of threshold. Essentially, the threshold either separates the network into clusters automatically

Benson Farb, Sebastian Hensel

Let $Y\to X$ be a finite normal cover of a wedge of $n\geq 3$ circles. We prove that for any $v\neq 0\in H_1(Y;\mathbb{Q})$ there exists a lift $\widetilde{F}$ to $Y$ of a homotopy equivalence $F:X\to X$ so that the set of iterates $\{\widetilde{F}^d(v): d\in \mathbb{Z}\}\subseteq H_1(Y;\mathbb{Q})$ is infinite. The main achievement of this paper is the use

Angèle M. Hamel, Ronald C. King

We present some corollaries to a symplectic primed shifted tableaux version of Tokuyama&#39;s identity expressed in terms of other combinatorial constructs, namely generalised $U$-turn alternating sign matrices and strict symplectic Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns.

Jing Wan, Yang Li, Jeffrey G. Ulbrandt, Detlef-M. Smilgies

We report an in-situ microbeam grazing incidence X-ray scattering study of 2,7-dioctyl[1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene (C$_8$-BTBT) organic semiconductor thin film deposition by hollow pen writing. Multiple transient phases are observed during the crystallization for substrate temperatures up to $\approx$93$^\circ$C. The layered smectic liquid-crystall

Massoud Mokhtarpour Ghahroodi, Mark Zwolinski

Ultra Deep-Sub-Micron CMOS chips have to function correctly and reliably, not only during their early post-fabrication life, but also for their entire life span. In this paper, we present an architectural-level in-field repair technique. The key idea is to trade area for reliability by adding repair features to the system while keeping the power and the perf

J. Ruppen, J. Teyssier, O. E. Peil, S. Catalano

Using a combination of spectroscopic ellipsometry and DC transport measurements, we determine the temperature dependence of the optical conductivity of NdNiO$_3$ and SmNiO$_{3}$ films. The optical spectra show the appearance of a characteristic two-peak structure in the near-infrared when the material passes from the metal to the insulator phase. Dynamical m

Zhenjun Song, Hu Xu

The dissociation of a hydrogen molecule on MgO(001) films deposited on Mo(001) surface is investigated systematically using periodic density-functional theory method. The unusual adsorption behavior of heterolytic dissociative hydrogen molecule at neighboring surface oxygen and surface magnesium, is clarified here. To my knowledge, this heterolytic dissociat

Yuan Zhou, Anand Rangarajan, Paul Gader

The normal compositional model (NCM) has been extensively used in hyperspectral unmixing. However, most of the previous research has focused on estimation of endmembers and/or their variability. Also, little work has employed spatial information in NCM. In this paper, we show that NCM can be used for calculating the uncertainty of the estimated endmembers wi

Yuan Wu, Yanfei He, Liping Qian, Jianwei Huang

With the rapid growth of mobile traffic demand, a promising approach to relieve cellular network congestion is to offload users&#39; traffic to small-cell networks. In this paper, we investigate how the mobile users (MUs) can effectively offload traffic by taking advantage of the capability of dual-connectivity, which enables an MU to simultaneously communic

Marc-Antoine Lemonde, Nicolas Didier, Aashish A. Clerk

We present an approach for exponentially enhancing the single-photon coupling strength in an optomechanical system using only additional linear resources. It allows one to reach the quantum nonlinear regime of optomechanics, where nonlinear effects are observed at the single photon level, even if the bare coupling strength is much smaller than the mechanical

Paweł Gawrychowski, Tomohiro I, Shunsuke Inenaga, Dominik Köppl

For $α\geq 1$, an $α$-gapped repeat in a word $w$ is a factor $uvu$ of $w$ such that $|uv|\leq α|u|$; the two factors $u$ in such a repeat are called arms, while the factor $v$ is called gap. Such a repeat is called maximal if its arms cannot be extended simultaneously with the same symbol to the right or, respectively, to the left. In this paper we show tha

M. De Pasquale, S. R. Oates, J. L. Racusin, D. A. Kann

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous explosions in the universe, yet the nature and physical properties of their energy sources are far from understood. Very important clues, however, can be inferred by studying the afterglows of these events. We present optical and X-ray observations of GRB 130831A obtained by Swift, Chandra, Skynet, RATIR, Maidana

Yoshiki Osaka, Nobuhiko Yokoshi, Hajime Ishihara

We theoretically investigate optical absorption of molecules embedded nearby metallic antennas by using discrete dipole approximation method. It is found that the spectral peak of the absorption is shifted due to the radiation-induced correlation between the molecules. The most distinguishing feature of our work is to show that the shift is largely enhanced

Ranieri D. Baldi, Ehud Behar, Ari Laor, Assaf Horesh

We report short-cadence monitoring of a radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), NGC7469, at 95 GHz (3 mm) over a period of 70 days with the CARMA telescope. The AGN varies significantly ($\pm3σ$ from the mean) by a factor of two within 4-5 days. The intrinsic 95 GHz variability amplitude in excess of the measurement noise (10%) and relative to the mean flu

Srikrishnan Divakaran

Given a pattern string $P$ of length $n$ and a query string $T$ of length $m$, where the characters of $P$ and $T$ are drawn from an alphabet of size $Δ$, the {\em exact string matching} problem consists of finding all occurrences of $P$ in $T$. For this problem, we present algorithms that in $O(nΔ^2)$ time pre-process $P$ to essentially identify $sparse(P)$

Daniel K Molzahn, Dhagash Mehta, Matthew Niemerg

The power flow equations, which relate power injections and voltage phasors, are at the heart of many electric power system computations. While Newton-based methods typically find the &#34;high-voltage&#34; solution to the power flow equations, which is of primary interest, there are potentially many &#34;low-voltage&#34; solutions that are useful for certai

L. C. Smith, P. W. Lucas, C. Contreras Peña, R. Kurtev

We report the discovery of an L dwarf companion to the A3V star β Circini. VVV J151721.49-585131.5, or β Cir B, was identified in a proper motion and parallax catalogue of the Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea survey as having near infrared luminosity and colour indicative of an early L dwarf, and a proper motion and parallax consistent with that of β Cir. T

Emil Horobet, Jose Israel Rodriguez

For general data, the number of complex solutions to the likelihood equations is constant and this number is called the (maximum likelihood) ML-degree of the model. In this article, we describe the special locus of data for which the likelihood equations have a solution in the model&#39;s singular locus.

Enrico Leuzinger, Robert Young

Let $X=G/K$ be a symmetric space of noncompact type and rank $k\ge 2$. We prove that horospheres in $X$ are Lipschitz $(k-2)$--connected if their centers are not contained in a proper join factor of the spherical building of $X$ at infinity. As a consequence, the distortion dimension of an irreducible $\mathbb{Q}$--rank-$1$ lattice $Γ$ in a linear, semisimpl

SaiDhiraj Amuru, Harpreet S. Dhillon, R. Michael Buehrer

In this paper, we study jamming attacks against wireless networks. Specifically, we consider a network of base stations (BS) or access points (AP) and investigate the impact of a fixed number of jammers that are randomly deployed according to a Binomial point process. We shed light on the network performance in terms of a) the outage probability and b) the e

Antonio Laface, Andrea Luigi Tironi, Luca Ugaglia

\special{html:<a href=&#34;hrefstring&#34;>} Let $Y$ be a del Pezzo variety of degree $d\leq 4$ and dimension $n\geq 3$, let $H$ be an ample class such that $-K_Y=(n-1)H$ and let $Z\subset Y$ be a $0$-dimensional subscheme of length $d$ such that the subsystem of elements of $|H|$ with base locus $Z$ gives a rational morphism $π_Z\colon Y\dashrightarrow{\mat

Gustav Sædén Ståhl

We study the projective spectrum of the Rees algebra of a module, and characterize it by a universal property. As applications, we give descriptions of universal flatifications of modules and of birational projective morphisms.

Klaus Widmayer

We study the stability of special, stratified solutions of a 3d Boussinesq system describing an incompressible, inviscid 3d fluid with variable density (or temperature, depending on the context) under the effect of a uni-directional gravitational force. The behavior is shown to depend on the properties of an anisotropic dispersive operator with weak decay in

Mortaza Abtahi

Let $A$ be a commutative Banach algebra and $X$ be a compact space. The class of Banach $A$-valued function algebras on $X$ consists of subalgebras of $C(X,A)$ with certain properties. We introduce the notion of $A$-characters on an $A$-valued function algebra $\A$ as homomorphisms from $\A$ into $A$ that basically have the same properties as the evaluation

Oscar Bruno, Max Cubillos

The companion paper &#34;Higher-order in time quasi-unconditionally stable ADI solvers for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in 2D and 3D curvilinear domains&#34;, which is referred to as Part I in what follows, introduces ADI (Alternating Direction Implicit) solvers of higher orders of temporal accuracy (orders $s = 2$ to $6$) for the compressible Na

Jarek Duda

There is a common need to search of molecular databases for compounds resembling some shape, what suggests having similar biological activity while searching for new drugs. The large size of the databases requires fast methods for such initial screening, for example based on feature vectors constructed to fulfill the requirement that similar molecules should

José Aliste-Prieto, Anna de Mier, José Zamora

This paper focuses on the well-known problem due to Stanley of whether two non-isomorphic trees can have the same $U$-polynomial (or, equivalently, the same chromatic symmetric function). We consider the $U_k$-polynomial, which is a restricted version of $U$-polynomial, and construct with the help of solutions of the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem, non-isomorp

Edward Nelson

The aim of this work is to show that contemporary mathematics, including Peano arithmetic, is inconsistent, to construct firm foundations for mathematics, and to begin building on these foundations.

Eli Dwek, Johannes Staguhn, Richard G. Arendt, Attila Kovács

Two millimeter observations of the MACS J1149.6+2223 cluster have detected a source that was consistent with the location of the lensed MACS1149-JD galaxy at z=9.6. A positive identification would have rendered this galaxy as the youngest dust forming galaxy in the universe. Follow up observation with the AzTEC 1.1 mm camera and the IRAM NOrthern Extended Mi

Lau Loi So

Thorne elucidated that the relativistic tidal heating is the same as the Newtonian theory. Moreover, Thorne also claimed that the tidal heating is independent of how one localizes gravitational energy and is unambiguously given by a certain formula. Purdue and Favata calculated the tidal heating for different classical pseudotensors including Moller and obta

Sean Prendiville

We survey four instances of the Fourier analytic &#39;transference principle&#39; or &#39;dense model lemma&#39;, which allows one to approximate an unbounded function on the integers by a bounded function with similar Fourier transform. Such a result forms a component of a general method pioneered by Green to count solutions to a single linear equation in a

Anton Kulakov, Mark Zwolinski, Jeff Reeve

With the increasing complexity of computing systems, complete hardware reliability can no longer be guaranteed. We need, however, to ensure overall system reliability. One of the most important features of artificial neural networks is their intrinsic fault-tolerance. The aim of this work is to investigate whether such networks have features that can be appl

Dae san Kim, Taekyun Kim

In this paper, we give some identities of symmetry for the generalized degenerate Euler polynomials attached to chi which are derived from the symmetric properties for certain fermionic p-adic integrals on Zp.

Thierry Platini, Mohammad Soltani, Abhyudai Singh

Gene products (RNAs, proteins) often occur at low molecular counts inside individual cells, and hence are subject to considerable random fluctuations (noise) in copy number over time. Not surprisingly, cells encode diverse regulatory mechanisms to buffer noise. One such mechanism is the incoherent feedforward circuit. We analyze a simplistic version of this

Martin Magnuson, Maurizio Mattesini, Matthieu Bugnet, Per Eklund

The anisotropy in the electronic structure of the inherently nanolaminated ternary phase Cr$_{2}$GeC is investigated by bulk-sensitive and element selective soft x-ray absorption/emission spectroscopy. The angle-resolved absorption/emission measurements reveal differences between the in-plane and out-of-plane bonding at the (0001) interfaces of Cr$_{2}$GeC.

Xiao Chun Fang, Marat Pliev

The aim of this article is to extend results of M.~Popov and second named author about orthogonally additive narrow operators on vector lattices. The main object of our investigations are an orthogonally additive narrow operators between lattice-normed spaces. We prove that every $C$-compact laterally-to-norm continuous orthogonally additive operator from a

Xiuyuan Cheng, Xu Chen, Stephane Mallat

An orthogonal Haar scattering transform is a deep network, computed with a hierarchy of additions, subtractions and absolute values, over pairs of coefficients. It provides a simple mathematical model for unsupervised deep network learning. It implements non-linear contractions, which are optimized for classification, with an unsupervised pair matching algor

Peng Li, Axel Ruehl, Colleen Bransley, Ingmar Hartl

We present a passively mode-locked, tunable soliton Ho:fiber ring oscillator, optimized for seeding of Ho:YLF amplifiers. The oscillator is independently tunable in central wavelength and spectral width from 2040 nm to 2070 nm and from 5 nm to 10 nm, respectively. At all settings the pulse energy within the soliton is around 800 pJ. The soliton oscillator wa

Parampreet Singh

Singularities in general relativity such as the big bang and big crunch, and exotic singularities such as the big rip are the boundaries of the classical spacetimes. These events are marked by a divergence in the curvature invariants and the breakdown of the geodesic evolution. Recent progress on implementing techniques of loop quantum gravity to cosmologica

Nitin Goyal, Srujana Dusari, Jochen Bardong, Farid Medjdoub

In this paper, we present a Pt/Al multilayer stack-based ohmic contact metallization for AlGaN/GaN heterostructures. CTLM structures were fabricated to assess the electrical properties of the proposed metallization. The fabricated stack shows excellent stability after more than 100 hours of continuous aging at 600oC in air. Measured I-V characteristics of th

Maarten L. Van de Put, William G. Vandenberghe, Bart Sorée, Wim Magnus

The tunneling current between two crossed graphene ribbons is described invoking the empirical pseudopotential approximation and the Bardeen transfer Hamiltonian method. Results indicate that the density of states is the most important factor determining the tunneling current between small (nm) ribbons. The quasi-one dimensional nature of graphene nanoribbon

Morteza Faghfouri, Rahim Hosseinoghli

We solve the following problem for $n=2:$ Is any n-dimensional Finsler manifold $(M, F)$ with a function $f$ which is nonconstant and smooth on $M$ satisfying $ \dfrac{\partial g^{ij}}{\partial y^k}\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial x^i}=0, $ a Riemannian manifold? The problem for $n>2$ remains open.

Cono Di Paola, Roberto D&#39;Agosta, Francesca Baletto

The magnetic properties of platinum nano-particles ranging in size from a few to up 300 atoms are investigated through first-principle calculations. It is found that the total magnetization depends strongly on the local atomic rearrangements, with an enhancement around five-fold axis. This is due to an elongation of the nearest neighbor distance together wit

R. Monier

The current need for atomic data to model stellar spectra obtained in various wavelength ranges is described. The level of completeness and accuracy of these data is discussed.

H. H. Wensink, L. Morales-Anda

We theoretically investigate the pitch of lyotropic cholesteric phases composed of slender rods with steric chirality transmitted via a weak helical deformation of the backbone. In this limit, the model is amenable to analytical treatment within Onsager theory and a closed expression for the pitch versus concentration and helical shape can be derived. Within

Helmut Eberl, Vassilis C. Spanos

We present the package GravitinoPack that calculates the two- and three-body decays of unstable supersymmetric particles involving the gravitino in the final or initial state. In a previous paper, we already showed results for the gravitino decays into two and three particles. In this paper, we incorporate the processes where an unstable neutralino, stau or

Maarten De Boeck, Anamari Nakic

A q-design with parameters t-(v,k,lambda_t)_q is a pair (V, B) of the v-dimensional vector space V over GF(q) and a collection B of k-dimensional subspaces of V, such that each t-dimensional subspace of V is contained in precisely lambda_t members of B. In this paper we give new general necessary conditions on the existence of designs over finite fields with