arXiv papers from October 2015

Michael W. Schroeder, Rebecca Smith

We consider a sorting machine consisting of two stacks in series where the first stack has the added restriction that entries in the stack must be in decreasing order from top to bottom. The class of permutations sortable by this machine are known to be enumerated by the Schr\"oder numbers. In this paper, we give a bijection between these sortable permutatio

Anshul Gupta, M. S. Krishna Deepak, Bharath Kumar Padarthi, Sven Schewe

We introduce and study incentive equilibria for multi-player meanpayoff games. Incentive equilibria generalise well-studied solution concepts such as Nash equilibria and leader equilibria (also known as Stackelberg equilibria). Recall that a strategy profile is a Nash equilibrium if no player can improve his payoff by changing his strategy unilaterally. In t

Mikhail K. Potapov, Faton M. Berisha, Nimete Sh. Berisha, Reshad Kadriu

In this paper, we give some $l_p$-type inequalities about sequences satisfying certain quasi monotone type properties. As special cases, reverse $l_p$-type inequalities for non-negative decreasing sequences are obtained. The inequalities are closely related to Copson's and Leindler's inequalities, but the sign of the inequalities is reversed.

Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, Erin Gombos, Timothy Bates, Kaitlin Henry

One of the most important tasks in science is to understand the self-organization's arrow of time. To attempt this we utilize the connection between self-organization and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Eric Chaisson calculated an exponential increase of Free Energy Rate Density (FERD) in Cosmic Evolution, from the Big Bang until now, paralleling the increas

Minh Kha

The main purpose of this note is to provide a topological approach to defining additive functions on Riemannian co-compact normal coverings.

Frédéric Haziza, Lukáš Holík, Roland Meyer, Sebastian Wolff

We propose a novel notion of pointer race for concurrent programs manipulating a shared heap. A pointer race is an access to a memory address which was freed, and it is out of the accessor's control whether or not the cell has been re-allocated. We establish two results. (1) Under the assumption of pointer race freedom, it is sound to verify a program runnin

Liangming Shen

Based on C. Li and Y. Rubinstein's upper bisectional curvature bound estimate for the conic K\"ahler metric, we can construct a smoothing sequence for the conic metric with uniformly upper bisectional curvature bound. For the conic metric along a simple normal crossing divisor with triple or higher multiple points we may need to choose a new background K\"ah

Andrew Elliott, Elizabeth Leicht, Alan Whitmore, Gesine Reinert

Our work is motivated by an interest in constructing a protein-protein interaction network that captures key features associated with Parkinson's disease. While there is an abundance of subnetwork construction methods available, it is often far from obvious which subnetwork is the most suitable starting point for further investigation. We provide a method to

Louise Suter

The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment consists of two highly active, finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors located 14.6 mrad off Fermilab's NuMI beam axis, with a Near Detector located at Fermilab, and a Far Detector located 810 km from the target at Ash River, MI. NO$\nu$A released it first preliminary results of the muon neutrino disappearan

Moulay A. Barkatou, Maximilian Jaroschek, Suzy S. Maddah

In this paper, we present an algorithm for computing a fundamental matrix of formal solutions of completely integrable Pfaffian systems with normal crossings in several variables. This algorithm is a generalization of a method developed for the bivariate case based on a combination of several reduction techniques and is implemented in the computer algebra sy

Ciprian Foias, Jing Tian, Bingsheng Zhang

In a series of papers (see \cite{CDT02} and the pertinent references therein) the 3D Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ model were shown to be a useful complement to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations; and in particular, to be a good Reynolds version of the latter equations. In this work, we introduce a simple Reynolds averaging which, due to the wall roughness, transforms

Marianna Gabrielyan

The observed neutrino flavor transitions are currently explained by the three flavor neutrino oscillation phenomenon, considered to be the leading order mechanism behind the flavor transitions. Currently existing data from LSND, MiniBooNE and reactor experiments demonstrate anomalies that could potentially be indications of non-standard neutrino phenomena. M

Long Li

The purpose of this paper is to generalize the convexity of Mabuchi's functional to the conic setting. We first established a frame to study conic cscK metrics, and then the conic Mabuchi functional was introduced in such a way that conic cscK metrics are its critical points. Finally we proved the convexity of the conic Mabuchi functional along any conic geo

Karin Gilje

Measurements of the reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum compared to model predictions have revealed an apparent deficit in the interaction rates of reactor antineutrinos and an unexpected spectral deviation. PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation Spectrum measurement, is designed to make a precision measurement of the antineutrino spectrum from a res

Claude Sabbah

We introduce a category of possibly irregular holonomic D-modules which can be endowed in a canonical way with an irregular Hodge filtration. Mixed Hodge modules with their Hodge filtration naturally belong to this category, as well as their twist by $\exp\varphi$ for any meromorphic function $\varphi$. This category is stable by various standard functors, w

Forrest N. Iandola, Khalid Ashraf, Matthew W. Moskewicz, Kurt Keutzer

Long training times for high-accuracy deep neural networks (DNNs) impede research into new DNN architectures and slow the development of high-accuracy DNNs. In this paper we present FireCaffe, which successfully scales deep neural network training across a cluster of GPUs. We also present a number of best practices to aid in comparing advancements in methods

Baladitya Suri, Zach Keane, Lev S. Bishop, Sergey Novikov

We measure photon-occupancy in a thin-film superconducting lumped element resonator coupled to a transmon qubit at 20$\,$mK and find a nonlinear dependence on the applied microwave power. The transmon-resonator system was operated in the strong dispersive regime, where the ac Stark shift ($2\chi$) due to a single microwave photon present in the resonator was

Yonathan Japha, Shuyu Zhou, Mark Keil, Ron Folman

We examine the role of interactions for a Bose gas trapped in a double-well potential ("Bose-Josephson junction") when external noise is applied and the system is initially delocalized with equal probability amplitudes in both sites. The noise may have two kinds of effects: loss of atoms from the trap, and random shifts in the relative phase or number differ

Georg A. Gottwald, Ian Melbourne

We present results on the broadband nature of the power spectrum $S(\omega)$, $\omega\in(0,2\pi)$, for a large class of nonuniformly expanding maps with summable and nonsummable decay of correlations. In particular, we consider a class of intermittent maps $f:[0,1]\to[0,1]$ with $f(x)\approx x^{1+\gamma}$ for $x\approx 0$, where $\gamma\in(0,1)$. Such maps h

Gerardo Aquino, Ned S. Wingreen, Robert G. Endres

How cells reliably infer information about their environment is a fundamentally important question. While sensing and signaling generally start with cell-surface receptors, the degree of accuracy with which a cell can measure external ligand concentration with even the simplest device - a single receptor - is surprisingly hard to pin down. Recent studies pro

Andy Loo

This paper discusses the question of how many non-empty subsets of the set $[n] = \{ 1, 2, ..., n\}$ we can choose so that no chosen subset is the union of some other chosen subsets. Let $M(n)$ be the maximum number of subsets we can choose. We construct a series of such families, which leads to lower bounds on $M(n)$. We also give upper bounds on $M(n)$. Fi

Mihaï Bostan, Aurélie Finot, Maxime Hauray

We study the finite Larmor radius regime for the Vlasov-Poisson system. The magnetic field is assumed to be uniform. We investigate this non linear problem in the two dimensional setting. We derive the limit model by appealing to gyro-average methods cf. \cite{BosAsyAna}, \cite{BosTraEquSin}. We indicate the explicit expression of the effective advection fie

Subrata Saha, Somnath Naskar, Bimalendu Deb

We show that it is possible to cool interacting pairs of atoms by a lin $\perp$ lin Sisyphus-like laser cooling scheme using counter-propagating photoassociation (PA) lasers. It is shown that the center-of-mass motion (c.m.) of atom pairs can be trapped in molecular spin-dependent periodic potentials generated by the lasers. The proposed scheme is most effec

F. I. Kaya, A. Sarella, D. Wang, M. Tuominen

We propose a mechanism for nucleation and high-density packing of 360{\deg} domain walls (DWs) on planar ferromagnetic nanowires, of 100 nm width, by using circular magnetic fields. The extent of the stray field from a 360{\deg} DW is limited in comparison to 180{\deg} DWs, which allows them to be packed more densely than 180{\deg} DWs in a potential data st

Ian Le, Evan O'Dorney

Positive configurations of points in the affine building were introduced in \cite{Le} as the basic object needed to define higher laminations. We start by giving a self-contained, elementary definition of positive configurations of points in the affine building and their basic properties. Then we study the geometry of these configurations. The canonical func

Bilas Pal

Two-body charmless hadronic decays of $B$ mesons are important for determining Standard Model parameters and for detecting the presence of new physics. We present recent results from the Belle experiment on the charmless hadronic decays $B\rightarrow \eta \pi^0$ and $B\rightarrow \pi^0 \pi^0$.

Robbin Wetter, Valentin L. Popov

In order to examine the influence of system dynamics on sliding friction, we introduce the so-called micro-walking machine. This model consists of a rigid body with a number of elastic contact spots that is pulled by a constantly moving base. The system slides with dry friction on a rigid substrate. The kinematic coupling of the rotation and the translation

Christopher O'Neill

Recent results of Kahle and Miller give a method of constructing primary decompositions of binomial ideals by first constructing "mesoprimary decompositions" determined by their underlying monoid congruences. These mesoprimary decompositions are highly combinatorial in nature, and are designed to parallel standard primary decomposition over Noetherean rings.

Hirotsugu Fujii, Syo Kamata, Yoshio Kikukawa

Based on the Lefschetz thimble formulation of path-integration, we analyze the (0+1) dimensional Thirring model at finite chemical potentials and perform hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) simulations. We adopt the lattice action defined with the staggered fermion and a compact link field for the auxiliary vector field. We firstly locate the critical points (saddle po

Somayeh Jahari, Saeid Alikhani

Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$. The domination polynomial of $G$ is the polynomial $D(G, x)=\sum_{i=1}^n d(G,i) x^i$, where $d(G,i)$ is the number of dominating sets of $G$ of size $i$. The $n$-barbell graph $Bar_n$ with $2n$ vertices, is formed by joining two copies of a complete graph $K_n$ by a single edge. We prove that for every $n\geq 2$, $Bar_

Raymundo Navarrete, Divakar Viswanath

Prediction of dynamical time series with additive noise using support vector machines or kernel based regression has been proved to be consistent for certain classes of discrete dynamical systems. Consistency implies that these methods are effective at computing the expected value of a point at a future time given the present coordinates. However, the presen

Janusz Brzozowski, Sylvie Davies, Bo Yang Victor Liu

A right ideal (left ideal, two-sided ideal) is a non-empty language $L$ over an alphabet $\Sigma$ such that $L=L\Sigma^*$ ($L=\Sigma^*L$, $L=\Sigma^*L\Sigma^*$). Let $k=3$ for right ideals, 4 for left ideals and 5 for two-sided ideals. We show that there exist sequences ($L_n \mid n \ge k $) of right, left, and two-sided regular ideals, where $L_n$ has quoti

Taylor E. Martin

The $n$-solvable filtration of the $m$-component smooth (string) link concordance group, $$\dots \subset \mathcal{F}^m_{n+1} \subset \mathcal{F}^m_{n.5} \subset \mathcal{F}^m_n \dots \subset \mathcal{F}^m_1 \subset \mathcal{F}^m_{0.5} \subset \mathcal{F}^m_0 \subset \mathcal{F}^m_{-0.5} \subset \mathcal{C}^m,$$ as defined by Cochran, Orr, and Teichner, is a

R. Mina, E. Culbertson, M. J. Frank, R. C. Group

The NO$\nu$A collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution and relatively low-energy neutrino thresholds, was designed to observe electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino b

Christos Merkatas, Konstantinos Kaloudis, Spyridon J. Hatjispyros

We propose a Bayesian nonparametric mixture model for the reconstruction and prediction from observed time series data, of discretized stochastic dynamical systems, based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods (MCMC). Our results can be used by researchers in physical modeling interested in a fast and accurate estimation of low dimensional stochastic models whe

H. M. Asatrian, C. Greub, A. Kokulu

In this analysis, we present the contribution associated with the chromomagnetic dipole operator O_8 to the double differential decay width d\Gamma/(ds_1 ds_2) for the inclusive process $\bar{B} \to X_s \gamma \gamma$. The kinematical variables s_1 and s_2 are defined as s_i=(p_b - q_i)^2/m_b^2, where p_b, q_1, q_2 are the momenta of b-quark and two photons.

Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki, Stephen Becker

We analyze a compression scheme for large data sets that randomly keeps a small percentage of the components of each data sample. The benefit is that the output is a sparse matrix and therefore subsequent processing, such as PCA or K-means, is significantly faster, especially in a distributed-data setting. Furthermore, the sampling is single-pass and applica

Eugene M. Luks

In recent work, Rosenbaum and Wagner showed that isomorphism of explicitly listed $p$-groups of order $n$ could be tested in $n^{\frac{1}{2}\log_p n + O(p)}$ time, roughly a square root of the classical bound. The $O(p)$ term is entirely due to an $n^{O(p)}$ cost of testing for isomorphisms that match fixed composition series in the two groups. We focus here

Wenhao Wang, Zhi Sun, Kui Ren, Bocheng Zhu

Wireless Physical Layer Identification (WPLI) system aims at identifying or classifying authorized devices based on the unique Radio Frequency Fingerprints (RFFs) extracted from their radio frequency signals at the physical layer. Current works of WPLI focus on demonstrating system feasibility based on experimental error performance of WPLI with a fixed numb

Wim Ubachs, Jeroen C. J. Koelemeij, Kjeld S. E. Eikema, Edcel J. Salumbides

Spectroscopy of hydrogen can be used for a search into physics beyond the Standard Model. Differences between the absorption spectra of H$_2$ as observed at high redshift and those measured in the laboratory can be interpreted in terms of possible variations of the proton-electron mass ratio. Investigation of some ten of such absorbers in the redshift range

Alaska Subedi

I propose a method for ultrafast switching of ferroelectric polarization using mid-infrared pulses. This involves selectively exciting the highest frequency $A_1$ phonon mode of a ferroelectric material with an intense mid-infrared pulse. Large amplitude oscillations of this mode provides a unidirectional force to the lattice such that it displaces along the

Indre Zliobaite

Nowadays, many decisions are made using predictive models built on historical data.Predictive models may systematically discriminate groups of people even if the computing process is fair and well-intentioned. Discrimination-aware data mining studies how to make predictive models free from discrimination, when historical data, on which they are built, may be

Matt Challacombe

Factorization of the Gaussian RBF kernel is developed for free-mesh interpolation in the flat, polynomial limit corresponding to Taylor expansion and the Vandermonde basis of geometric moments. With this spectral approximation, a top-down octree-scoping of an interpolant is found by recursively decomposing the residual, similar to the work of Driscoll and He

Peter Constantin, Mihaela Ignatova

We prove nonlinear lower bounds and commutator estimates for the Dirichlet fractional Laplacian in bounded domains. The applications include bounds for linear drift-diffusion equations with nonlocal dissipation and global existence of weak solutions of critical surface quasi-geostrophic equations.

Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Reza Babanezhad, Wu Lin, Mark Schmidt

Several recent works have explored stochastic gradient methods for variational inference that exploit the geometry of the variational-parameter space. However, the theoretical properties of these methods are not well-understood and these methods typically only apply to conditionally-conjugate models. We present a new stochastic method for variational inferen

Giacomo Albi, Lorenzo Pareschi, Mattia Zanella

In this work we are interested in the modelling and control of opinion dynamics spreading on a time evolving network with scale-free asymptotic degree distribution. The mathematical model is formulated as a coupling of an opinion alignment system with a probabilistic description of the network. The optimal control problem aims at forcing consensus over the n

Pascal Boyer

A key ingredient in the Taylor-Wiles proof of Fermat last theorem is the classical Ihara's lemma which is used to rise the modularity property between some congruent galoisian representations. In their work on Sato-Tate, Clozel-Harris-Taylor proposed a generalization of the Ihara's lemma in higher dimension for some similitude groups. The main aim of this pa

Joshua Milo Kunkle

Recent measurements of multiboson production from the CMS experiment will be presented, as well as limits on anomalous triple and quartic gauge couplings. Precision measurements of multiboson production allow a basic test of the Standard Model, where higher order QCD and electroweak corrections can be probed. In addition searches of physics beyond the Standa

Seogjoo Jang

This work provides a detailed derivation of a generalized quantum Fokker-Planck equation (GQFPE) appropriate for photo-induced quantum dynamical processes. The path integral method pioneered by Caldeira and Leggett (CL) [Caldeira and Leggett, Physica A 121, 587 (1983)] is extended for a nonequilibrium influence functional, which has been obtained for general

Xinran Ruan, Yongyong Cai, Weizhu Bao

We derive rigorously one- and two-dimensional mean-field equations for cigar- and pancake-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with higher order interactions (HOI). We show how the higher order interaction modifies the contact interaction of the strongly confined particles. Surprisingly, we find that the usual Gaussian profile assumption for the strongly c

Jakob Kisiala

This thesis presents the Conditional Value-at-Risk concept and combines an analysis that covers its application as a risk measure and as a vector norm. For both areas of application the theory is revised in detail and examples are given to show how to apply the concept in practice. In the first part, CVaR as a risk measure is introduced and the analysis cove

Jacques M. Bahi, Nathalie M. -L. Cote, Christophe Guyeux

As protein folding is a NP-complete problem, artificial intelligence tools like neural networks and genetic algorithms are used to attempt to predict the 3D shape of an amino acids sequence. Underlying these attempts, it is supposed that this folding process is predictable. However, to the best of our knowledge, this important assumption has been neither pro

Seogjoo Jang, Gregory A. Voth

The definition of the classical transition state theory (TST) as a t= 0+ limit of the flux-side time correlation function relies on the assumption that simultaneous measurement of population and flux is a well defined physical process. However, the noncommutativity of the two measurements in quantum mechanics makes the extension of such a concept to the quan

Massimo Giovannini

We investigate the production of the hypermagnetic gyrotropy when the electric and magnetic gauge couplings evolve at different rates, as it happens in the the relativistic theory of the Van der Waals forces. If a pseudo-scalar interaction breaks the duality symmetry of the corresponding equations, the gyrotropic configurations of the hypermagnetic fields ca

Timur Nasybullov

We construct the complete invariant for fused links. It is proved that the set of equivalence classes of $n$-component fused links is in one-to-one correspondence with the set of elements of the abelization $UVP_n/UVP_n^{\prime}$ up to conjugation by the elements from the symmetric group $S_n<UVB_n$.

Salwa Al Saleh

In this paper we have shown that squeezed modified quantum vacua have an effect on the background geometry by solving the semi-classical Einstein Field Equations in modified vacuum. The resultant geometry is similar to (anti) de Sitter spacetime. This geometry could explain the change of causal structure - speed of light- in such vacua without violating diff

Sivan Ginzburg, Re'em Sari

Many giant exoplanets in close orbits have observed radii which exceed theoretical predictions. One suggested explanation for this discrepancy is heat deposited deep inside the atmospheres of these "hot Jupiters". Here, we study extended power sources which distribute heat from the photosphere to the deep interior of the planet. Our analytical treatment is a

Andrew P. White

The SiD Detector is one of two validated detector designs for the future International Linear Collider. SiD features a compact, cost-constrained design for precision Higgs couplings determination, and other measurements, and sensitivity to a wide range of possible new phenomena. A robust silicon vertex and tracking system, combined with a 5 Tesla central sol

Vasiliy Usatyuk

Short survey about code on the graph by example of hardware friendly quasi-cycle LDPC code. We consider two main properties of code: weight enumerator (well known from classic code theory) and Trapping sets pseudocodewords weight spectrum (a subgraph in code graph's which become reasone of decoding failure under Belief propagation). In paper we show fast met

Kiwoon Choi, Sang Hui Im

We discuss a scheme to implement the relaxion solution to the hierarchy problem with multiple axions, and present a UV-completed model realizing the scheme. All of the $N$ axions in our model are periodic with a similar decay constant $f$ well below the Planck scale. In the limit $N\gg 1$, the relaxion $\phi$ corresponds to an exponentially long multi-helica

D. Chicherin, V. P. Spiridonov

We construct a hyperbolic modular double -- an algebra lying in between the Faddeev modular double for $U_q(sl_2)$ and the elliptic modular double. The intertwining operator for this algebra leads to an integral operator solution of the Yang-Baxter equation associated with a generalized Faddeev-Volkov lattice model introduced by the second author. We describ

Philipp Hieronymi, Travis Nell

The aim of this note is to determine whether certain non-o-minimal expansions of o-minimal theories which are known to be NIP, are also distal. We observe that while tame pairs of o-minimal structures and the real field with a discrete multiplicative subgroup have distal theories, dense pairs of o-minimal structures and related examples do not.

Filip A. Rasmussen, Per S. Schmidt, Kirsten T. Winther, Kristian S. Thygesen

Calculating the quasiparticle (QP) band structure of two-dimensional (2D) materials within the GW self-energy approximation has proven to be a rather demanding computational task. The main reason is the strong $\mathbf{q}$-dependence of the 2D dielectric function around $\mathbf{q} = \mathbf{0}$ that calls for a much denser sampling of the Brillouin zone tha

Naveen N. Narisetty, Vijayan N. Nair

We propose a new notion called `extremal depth' (ED) for functional data, discuss its properties, and compare its performance with existing concepts. The proposed notion is based on a measure of extreme `outlyingness'. ED has several desirable properties that are not shared by other notions and is especially well suited for obtaining central regions of funct

Rakesh Kumar Mishra, Shesh Nath, Sanjay Kumar

Base-pockets (non-complementary base-pairs) in a double-stranded DNA play a crucial role in biological processes. Because of thermal fluctuations, it can lower the stability of DNA, whereas, in case of DNA aptamer, small molecules e.g. adenosinemonophosphate(AMP), adenosinetriphosphate(ATP) etc, form additional hydrogen bonds with base-pockets termed as "bin

Andre Souza, Divakar Viswanath

Fine scales of turbulent velocity fields, beyond the inertial range and well into the dissipative range, are highly intermittent. It has been hypothesized that complex plane singularities are the principal mechanism behind fine scale intermittency. In this article, we view the velocity field of a turbulent flow as an analytic function of time. Although the f

Vasily Usatyuk

In article present measure code distance algorithm of binary and ternary linear block code using block Korkin-Zolotarev (BKZ). Proved the upper bound on scaling constant for measure code distance of non-systematic linear block code using BKZ-method for different value of the block size. Introduced method show linear decrease of runtime from number of threads

Fei Xu, Jin-hui Chen, Yan-qing Lu

Recently, the strain engineering of two-dimensional materials such as graphene has attracted considerable attention for its great potential in functional nanodevices. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the strain manipulation of a graphene-integrated microfiber system for the first time. We analyze the influential factors of strain tuning,

Henry G. Zot, Javier E. Hasbun, Nguyen Van Minh

Motility is characteristic of life, but a common basis for movement has remained to be identified. Diverse systems in motion shift between two states depending on interactions that turnover at the rate of an applied cycle of force. Although one phase of the force cycle terminates the decay of the most recent state, continuation of the cycle of force regenera

Dahai Yan, Li Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang

In external Compton scenario, we investigate the formation of the very hard electron spectrum in the fast-cooling regime, using a time-dependent emission model. It is shown that a very hard electron distribution $N'_{\rm e}(\gp)\propto\gp^{-p}$ with the spectral index $p\sim1.3$ is formed below the minimum energy of injection electron when inverse Compton sc

Alexandros Karargyris

Deep networks have become very popular over the past few years. The main reason for this widespread use is their excellent ability to learn and predict knowledge in a very easy and efficient way. Convolutional neural networks and auto-encoders have become the normal in the area of imaging and computer vision achieving unprecedented accuracy levels in many ap

Maurice A. de Gosson, Karlheinz Gröchenig, José Luis Romero

We consider Hamiltonian deformations of Gabor systems, where the window evolves according to the action of a Schr\"odinger propagator and the phase-space nodes evolve according to the corresponding Hamiltonian flow. We prove the stability of the frame property for small times and Hamiltonians consisting of a quadratic polynomial plus a potential in the Sj\"o

Airton Kist, Aluisio Pinheiro

We extend the wavelet tests for fixed effects FANOVA models with iid errors, proposed in Abramovich et al, 2004 to FANOVA models with dependent errors and provide an iterative Cochrane-Orcutt type procedure to estimate the parameters and the functional. The function is estimated through a nonlinear wavelet estimator. Nonparametric tests based on the optimal

Jacques M. Bahi, Christophe Guyeux

This paper introduces a new watermarking algorithm based on discrete chaotic iterations. After defining some coefficients deduced from the description of the carrier medium, chaotic discrete iterations are used to mix the watermark and to embed it in the carrier medium. It can be proved that this procedure generates topological chaos, which ensures that desi

Christophe Guyeux, Jacques M. Bahi

This paper introduces a new notion of chaotic algorithms. These algorithms are iterative and are based on so-called chaotic iterations. Contrary to all existing studies on chaotic iterations, we are not interested in stable states of such iterations but in their possible unpredictable behaviors. By establishing a link between chaotic iterations and the notio

Agnieszka Piliszek, Jacek Wesołowski

The paper develops a rather unexpected parallel to the multivariate Matsumoto--Yor (MY) property on trees considered in \cite{MW04}. The parallel concerns a multivariate version of the Kummer distribution, which is generated by a tree. Given a tree of size $p$, we direct it by choosing a vertex, say $r$, as a root. With such a directed tree we associate a ma

Maria V. Perel, Mikhail S. Sidorenko

An asymptotic investigation of monochromatic electromagnetic fields in a layered periodic medium is carried out under the assumption that the wave frequency is close to the frequency of a stationary point of the dispersion surface. We find solutions of Maxwell equations by the method of two-scale asymptotic expansions. We establish that the principal order o

Laurent Charles, Lisa Jeffrey

For any oriented Seifert manifold X and compact connected Lie group G with finite center, we relate the Reidemeister density of the moduli space of representations of the fundamental group of X into G to the Liouville measure of some moduli spaces of representations of surface groups into G.

Alexander E. Litvak, Anna Lytova, Konstantin Tikhomirov, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann

Let ${\mathcal D}_{n,d}$ be the set of all $d$-regular directed graphs on $n$ vertices. Let $G$ be a graph chosen uniformly at random from ${\mathcal D}_{n,d}$ and $M$ be its adjacency matrix. We show that $M$ is invertible with probability at least $1-C\ln^{3} d/\sqrt{d}$ for $C\leq d\leq cn/\ln^2 n$, where $c, C$ are positive absolute constants. To this en

Arkadiusz Biernacki

In the paper, we proposed a novel algorithm dedicated to adaptive video streaming based on HTTP. The algorithm employs a hybrid play-out strategy which combines two popular approaches: an estimation of network bandwidth and a control of a player buffer. The proposed algorithm was implemented in two versions which differ in the method of handling fluctuations

M. Abdelsamea

Image segmentation is the problem of partitioning an image into different subsets, where each subset may have a different characterization in terms of color, intensity, texture, and/or other features. Segmentation is a fundamental component of image processing, and plays a significant role in computer vision, object recognition, and object tracking. Active C

Kota Ogasawara, Tomohiro Harada, Umpei Miyamoto

The center-of-mass energy of two particles can become arbitrarily large if they collide near the event horizon of an extremal Kerr black hole, which is called the Ba$\rm \tilde n$ados-Silk-West (BSW) effect. We consider such a high-energy collision of two particles which started from infinity and follow geodesics in the equatorial plane and investigate the e

Riku Tuovinen, Robert van Leeuwen, Enrico Perfetto, Gianluca Stefanucci

We discuss an extension of our earlier work on the time-dependent Landauer--B\"uttiker formalism for noninteracting electronic transport. The formalism can without complication be extended to superconducting central regions since the Green's functions in the Nambu representation satisfy the same equations of motion which, in turn, leads to the same closed ex

Satoshi Kuriki, Kunihiko Takahashi, Hisayuki Hara

Let $V$ be a finite set of indices, and let $B_i$, $i=1,\ldots,m$, be subsets of $V$ such that $V=\bigcup_{i=1}^{m}B_i$. Let $X_i$, $i\in V$, be independent random variables, and let $X_{B_i}=(X_j)_{j\in B_i}$. In this paper, we propose a recursive computation method to calculate the conditional expectation $E\bigl[\prod_{i=1}^m\chi_i(X_{B_i}) \,|\, N\bigr]$

Yuval Elhanati, Quentin Marcou, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M. Walczak

The diversity of the immune repertoire is initially generated by random rearrangements of the receptor gene during early T and B cell development. Rearrangement scenarios are composed of random events -- choices of gene templates, base pair deletions and insertions -- described by probability distributions. Not all scenarios are equally likely, and the same

Alexei Kulik

For an SDE driven by a rotationally invariant $\alpha$-stable noise we prove weak uniqueness of the solution under the balance condition $\alpha+\gamma>1$, where $\gamma$ denotes the Holder index of the drift coefficient. We prove existence and continuity of the transition probability density of the corresponding Markov process and give a representation of t

Marco Fiore

We report new measurements, based on the Run I dataset collected by the LHCb experiment, of the B0 mixing frequency Dm_d and the CKM matrix element |V_ub| using semileptonic b decays. The former is the most precise measurement ever performed; the latter represents the first determination of |V_ub| using a baryonic decay, and adds an important constraint on a

Daoyuan Wu, Rocky K. C. Chang

Today, much of our sensitive information is stored inside mobile applications (apps), such as the browsing histories and chatting logs. To safeguard these privacy files, modern mobile systems, notably Android and iOS, use sandboxes to isolate apps' file zones from one another. However, we show in this paper that these private files can still be leaked by ind

Zhihua Chen, Zhihao Ma, Ting Gao, Simone Severini

We derive a combinatorial criterion for detecting k-separability of N-partite Dicke states. The criterion is efficiently computable and implementable without full state tomography. We give examples in which the criterion succeeds, where known criteria fail.

Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz, Peter K. S. Dunsby, Sulona Kandhai, Diego Saez-Gomez

Modified gravity has attracted much attention over the last few years and remains a potential candidate for dark energy. In particular, the so-called viable f(R) gravity theories, which are able to both recover General Relativity (GR) and produce late-time cosmic acceleration, have been widely studied in recent literature. Nevertheless, extended theories of

Sulona Kandhai, Peter K. S. Dunsby

A complete analysis of the dynamics of the Hu-Sawicki modification to General Relativity is presented. In particular, the full phase-space is given for the case in which the model parameters are taken to be n=1, c1=1, and several stable de Sitter equilibrium points together with an unstable "matter-like" point are identified. We find that if the cosmological

Garrick Orchard, Jacob G. Martin, R. Jacob Vogelstein, Ralph Etienne-Cummings

Recognition of objects in still images has traditionally been regarded as a difficult computational problem. Although modern automated methods for visual object recognition have achieved steadily increasing recognition accuracy, even the most advanced computational vision approaches are unable to obtain performance equal to that of humans. This has led to th

Sarthak Parui, Anurag Mittal

Proliferation of touch-based devices has made sketch-based image retrieval practical. While many methods exist for sketch-based object detection/image retrieval on small datasets, relatively less work has been done on large (web)-scale image retrieval. In this paper, we present an efficient approach for image retrieval from millions of images based on user-d

Francesco Castaldo, Amir Zamir, Roland Angst, Francesco Palmieri

Matching cross-view images is challenging because the appearance and viewpoints are significantly different. While low-level features based on gradient orientations or filter responses can drastically vary with such changes in viewpoint, semantic information of images however shows an invariant characteristic in this respect. Consequently, semantically label

Jean Paul Mbelek

I have performed an experiment which is a variant of the one suggested recently by F. O. Minotti and T. E. Raptis. The aim of this experiment is to check the generation of a pulsed gravitational potential by a transient magnetic field as predicted by a scalar tensor theory of gravity. Such a scalar tensor theory allows an enhanced coupling of its fundamental

Diana Barseghyan, Pavel Exner, Andrii Khrabustovskyi, Milos Tater

We analyze two-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators with the potential $|xy|^p - \lambda (x^2+y^2)^{p/(p+2)}$ where $p\ge 1$ and $\lambda\ge 0$, which exhibit an abrupt change of its spectral properties at a critical value of the coupling constant $\lambda$. We show that in the supercritical case the spectrum covers the whole real axis. In contrast, for $\lam

Garrick Orchard, Ralph Etienne-Cummings

Visual motion estimation is a computationally intensive, but important task for sighted animals. Replicating the robustness and efficiency of biological visual motion estimation in artificial systems would significantly enhance the capabilities of future robotic agents. 25 years ago, in this very journal, Carver Mead outlined his argument for replicating bio

Tao Li, Fu-Guo Deng

Quantum repeater is one of the important building blocks for long distance quantum communication network. The previous quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optical elements can only be performed with a maximal success probability of 1/2 during the entanglement creation and entanglement swapping procedures. Meanwhile, the polarization noise

Qian Liu, Guan-Yu Wang, Qing Ai, Mei Zhang

Hyperentanglement, the entanglement in several degrees of freedom (DOFs) of a quantum system, has attracted much attention as it can be used to increase both the channel capacity of quantum communication and its security largely. Here, we present the first scheme to completely distinguish the hyperentangled Bell states of two-photon systems in three DOFs wit

Jung-Won Chang, Joon Sung Lee, Tae Ho Lee, Jinhee Kim

We report controlled formation of sub-100 nm-thin electron channels in SrTiO$_3$ by doping with oxygen vacancies induced by Ar$^+$-ion irradiation. The conducting channels exhibit a consistent high electron mobility (~15,000 cm$^2$V$^{-1}$s$^{-1}$), which enables clear observation of magnetic quantum oscillations, and gate-tunable linear magnetoresistance. N