October 2015 arXiv papers — page 22

Yuri G. Rubo, Alexandra Sheremet, Alexey Kavokin

We develop the theoretical formalism to calculate second-order correlations in dissipative exciton-polariton system and we propose intensity-intensity correlation experiments to reveal the physics of exciton-light coupling in semiconductor microcavities in the Rabi oscillation regime. We predict a counter intuitive behaviour of the correlator between upper a

David Damanik, Anton Gorodetski

We generalize the approach to localization in one dimension introduced by Kunz-Souillard, and refined by Delyon-Kunz-Souillard and Simon, in the early 1980's in such a way that certain correlations are allowed. Several applications of this generalized Kunz-Souillard method to almost periodic Schrödinger operators are presented. On the one hand, we show t

Thomas F. S. Büttner, Christopher G. Poulton, M. J. Steel, Darren D. Hudson

Cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is a complex nonlinear optical process that results in the generation of several optical waves that are frequency shifted by an acoustic resonance frequency. Four-wave mixing (FWM) between these Brillouin shifted optical waves can create an equally spaced optical frequency comb with a stable spectral phase, i.e.

L. D. Anderson, W. P. Armentrout, B. M. Johnstone, T. M. Bania

The WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions contains $\sim2000$ HII region candidates lacking ionized gas spectroscopic observations. All candidates have the characteristic HII region mid-infrared morphology of WISE $12\,\,μ\,m$ emission surrounding $22\,μ\,m$ emission, and additionally have detected radio continuum emission. We here report Green Bank Telescope

Christos H Skiadas

To verify the Global Burden of Disease Study and the provided healthy life expectancy (HALE) estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) we propose a very simple model based on the mortality μx of a population provided in a classical life table and a mortality diagram. We use the abridged life tables provided by WHO. Our estimates are compared with th

Eric Chitambar, Benjamin Fortescue, Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We consider the extraction of shared secret key from correlations that are generated by either a classical or quantum source. In the classical setting, two honest parties (Alice and Bob) use public discussion and local randomness to distill secret key from some distribution $p_{XYZ}$ that is shared with an unwanted eavesdropper (Eve). In the quantum settings

Jing Zhang, Bo Peng, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Yu-xi Liu

Nonreciprocal devices that permit wave transmission in only one direction are indispensible in many fields of science including, e.g., electronics, optics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Manipulating phonons using such nonreciprocal devices may have a range of applications such as phonon diodes, transistors, switches, etc. One way of achieving nonreciprocal

Ying Ling, Tao Wan, Zengchang Qin

In this paper, we investigate stable matching in structured networks. Consider case of matching in social networks where candidates are not fully connected. A candidate on one side of the market gets acquaintance with which one on the heterogeneous side depends on the structured network. We explore four well-used structures of networks and define the social

Stergios M. Antonakoudis

We study isometric maps between Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains in their intrinsic Kobayashi metric. From a complex analytic perspective, these two important classes of geometric spaces have several features in common but also exhibit many differences. The focus here is on recent results proved by the author; we give a list of open questions

Alison Bick, François Boulogne, Alban Sauret, Howard A. Stone

Transport of liquid drops in fibrous media occurs in various engineering systems such as fog harvesting or cleaning of textiles. The ability to tune or to control liquid movement can increase the system efficiency and enable new engineering applications. In this Letter, we experimentally investigate how partially wetting drops on a single fiber can be manipu

Lance L. Littlejohn, Quinn Wicks

As an application of a general left-definite spectral theory, Everitt, Littlejohn and Wellman, in 2002, developed the left-definite theory associated with the classical Legendre self-adjoint second-order differential operator $A$ in $L^{2}(-1,1)$ which has the Legendre polynomials $\{P_{n}% \}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ as eigenfunctions. As a consequence, they explici

Elya Courtney, Amy Courtney, Michael Courtney

Pure theory recognizes the dependence of supersonic drag coefficients on both Mach number and Reynolds number, which includes an implicit dependence of drag coefficient on air density. However, many modern approaches to computing trajectories for artillery and small arms treat drag coefficients as a function of Mach number and assume no dependence on Reynold

Stergios M. Antonakoudis

This paper shows that every totally-geodesic isometry from the unit disk to a finite-dimensional Teichmüller space for the intrinsic Kobayashi metric is either holomorphic or anti-holomorphic; in particular, it is a Teichmüller disk. Additionally, a similar result is proved for a large class of disk-rigid domains, which includes strictly convex bounded domai

Vitaly V. Kocharovsky, Vladimir V. Kocharovsky

We present a microscopic theory of the second order phase transition in an interacting Bose gas that allows one to describe formation of an ordered condensate phase from a disordered phase across an entire critical region continuously. We derive the exact fundamental equations for a condensate wave function and the Green functions, which are valid both insid

Vitaly Bergelson, Joel Moreira

We discuss various forms of the classical van der Corput's difference theorem and explore applications to and connections with the theory of uniform distribution, ergodic theory, topological dynamics and combinatorics.

S. Valenti, D. J. Sand, A. J. Barth, K. Horne

We present the first results from the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Network's Active Galactic Nuclei Key Project, a large program devoted to using the robotic resources of LCOGT to perform time domain studies of active galaxies. We monitored the Seyfert 1 galaxy Arp~151 (Mrk~40) for $\sim$200 days with robotic imagers and with the FLOY

Stergios M. Antonakoudis

This paper shows that, in dimensions two or more, there are no holomorphic isometries between Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains in their intrinsic Kobayashi metrics.

Yanren Hou

Although the numerical results suggest the optimal convergence order of the two-grid finite element decoupled scheme for mixed Stokes-Darcy model with Beaver-Joseph-Saffman interface condition in literatures, the numerical analysis only get the optimal error order for porous media flow and a non-optimal error order that is half order lower than the optimal o

Yutao Tang, Yiguang Hong, Xinghu Wang

In this paper, a distributed output regulation problem is formulated for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to local disturbances. The formulation is given to study a leader-following problem when the leader contains unknown inputs and its dynamics is different from those of the followers. Based on the conventional output regulation a

Tobias Hartung, Simon Scott

Based on Guillemin's work on gauged Lagrangian distributions, we will introduce the notion of a poly-$\log$-homogeneous distribution as an approach to $ζ$-functions for a class of Fourier Integral Operators which includes cases of amplitudes with asymptotic expansion $\sum_{k\in\mathbb{N}}a_{m_k}$ where each $a_{m_k}$ is $\log$-homogeneous with degree of

Andrew Fowlie

We present a new Python module - LHCO_reader - for reading detector-level events in LHCO format generated from detector-simulators such as PGS and Delphes. Emphasis is placed upon ease of use. The module is installed via pip. Once installed, one can read and scrutinize events, with helpful functions and classes for cutting, plotting and inspecting events, an

C. Chicone, B. Mashhoon

We explore some of the cosmological implications of the recent classical nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation in which nonlocality is due to the gravitational memory of past events. In the Newtonian regime of this theory, the nonlocal character of gravity simulates dark matter in spiral galaxies and clusters of galaxies. However, d

Josefran de Oliveira Bastos, Leonardo Nagami Coregliano

In this paper, we present two new results of layered permutation densities. The first one generalizes theorems from Hästö (2003) and Warren (2004) to compute the permutation packing of permutations whose layer sequence is~$(1^a,\ell_1,\ell_2,\ldots,\ell_k)$ with~$2^a-a-1\geq k$ (and similar permutations). As a second result, we prove that the minimum density

Peter K. F. Kuhfittig, Vance D. Gladney

Hawking's proposal that the Universe has no temporal boundary and hence no beginning depends on the notion of imaginary time and is usually referred to as the "no-boundary proposal." This paper discusses a simple alternative approach by means of the five-dimensional Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker model.

Nihat Ay, Jürgen Jost, Hông Vân Lê, Lorenz Schwachhöfer

We develope a new and general notion of parametric measure models and statistical models on an arbitrary sample space $Ω$ which does not assume that all measures of the model have the same null sets. This is given by a diffferentiable map from the parameter manifold $M$ into the set of finite measures or probability measures on $Ω$, respectively, which is di

Alexander Berkovich, Ali Kemal Uncu

This article is an extensive study of partitions with fixed number of odd and even-indexed odd parts. We use these partitions to generalize recent results of C. Savage and A. Sills. Moreover, we derive explicit formulas for generating functions for partitions with bounds on the largest part, the number of parts and with a fixed value of BG-rank or with a fix

Jiuyi Zhu

We investigate the geometric properties of Steklov eigenfunctions in smooth manifolds. We derive the refined doubling estimates and Bernstein's inequalities. For the real analytic manifolds, we are able to obtain the sharp upper bound for the measure of interior nodal sets.

D. De Motte, A. R. Grounds, M. Rehák, A. Rodriguez Blanco

We present a design for the experimental integration of ion trapping and superconducting qubit systems as a step towards the realization of a quantum hybrid system. The scheme addresses two key difficulties in realizing such a system; a combined microfabricated ion trap and superconducting qubit architecture, and the experimental infrastructure to facilitate

Sourav Chatterjee

A general theory for Gaussian mean estimation that automatically adapts to unknown sparsity under arbitrary norms is proposed. The theory is applied to produce adaptively minimax rate-optimal estimators in high dimensional regression and matrix estimation that involve no tuning parameters.

Martin Sulzmann, Peter Thiemann

We consider forkable regular expressions, which enrich regular expressions with a fork operator, to establish a formal basis for static and dynamic analysis of the communication behavior of concurrent programs. We define a novel compositional semantics for forkable expressions, establish their fundamental properties, and define derivatives for them as a basi

Grigoris Paouris, Peter Pivovarov

We prove a randomized version of the generalized Urysohn inequality relating mean-width to the other intrinsic volumes. To do this, we introduce a stochastic approximation procedure that sees each convex body K as the limit of intersections of Euclidean balls of large radii and centered at randomly chosen points. The proof depends on a new isoperimetric ineq

Erik Walsberg

We study the topology of metric spaces which are definable in o-minimal expansions of ordered fields. We show that a definable metric space either contains an infinite definable discrete set or is definably homeomorphic to a definable set equipped with its euclidean topology. This implies that a separable metric space which is definable in an o-minimal expan

Grigoris Paouris, Petros Valettas

We prove that for any $2<p<\infty$ and for every $n$-dimensional subspace $X$ of $L_p$, represented on $\mathbb R^n$, whose unit ball $B_X$ is in Lewis&#39; position one has the following two-level Gaussian concentration inequality: \[ \mathbb P\left( \big| \|Z\| - \mathbb E\|Z\| \big| > \varepsilon \mathbb E\|Z\| \right) \leq C \exp \left (- c \min \left\{

A. R. Mkrtchyan, A. P. Potylitsyn, V. R. Kocharyan, A. A. Saharian

We investigate the transition radiation on a periodically deformed interface between two dielectric media. Under the assumption that the dielectric permittivities of the media are close, a formula is derived for the spectral-angular distribution of the radiated energy in the general case of non-static profile function for the separating boundary. In particul

Grigoris Paouris, Petros Valettas, Joel Zinn

We study the dependence on $\varepsilon$ in the critical dimension $k(n,p,\varepsilon)$ for which one can find random sections of the $\ell_p^n$-ball which are $(1+\varepsilon)$-spherical. We give lower (and upper) estimates for $k(n,p,\varepsilon)$ for all eligible values $p$ and $\varepsilon$ as $n\to \infty$, which agree with the sharp estimates for the e

Asma Hassannezhad, Gerasim Kokarev, Iosif Polterovich

We revisit classical eigenvalue inequalities due to Buser, Cheng, and Gromov on closed Riemannian manifolds, and prove the versions of these results for the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems. Eigenvalue multiplicity bounds and related open problems are also discussed.

Rohini Ramadas

Hurwitz correspondences are certain multivalued self-maps of the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_{0,N}$. They arise in the study of Thurston&#39;s topological characterization of rational functions. We consider the dynamics of Hurwitz correspondences and ask: On which compactifications of $\mathcal{M}_{0,N}$ should they be studied? We compare a Hurwitz corresponde

Cynthia Kop, Aart Middeldorp, Thomas Sternagel

We propose a notion of complexity for oriented conditional term rewrite systems satisfying certain restrictions. This notion is realistic in the sense that it measures not only successful computations, but also partial computations that result in a failed rule application. A transformation to unconditional context-sensitive rewrite systems is presented which

Theo Johnson-Freyd

This note describes a strictly-unital $A_\infty$-category whose representations are exact triangles such that the three-fold symmetry on exact triangles is manifest on the $A_\infty$-category.

Dan Ciubotaru, Eric Opdam

We give a new and independent parameterization of the set of discrete series characters of an affine Hecke algebra $\mathcal{H}_{\mathbf{v}}$, in terms of a canonically defined basis $\mathcal{B}_{gm}$ of a certain lattice of virtual elliptic characters of the underlying (extended) affine Weyl group. This classification applies to all semisimple affine Hecke

J. M. Kwolek, J. E. Wells, D. S. Goodman, W. W. Smith

Simultaneous laser locking of IR and UV lasers to a visible stabilized reference laser is demonstrated via a Fabry-Perot cavity. LabVIEW is used to analyze the input and an internal PID algorithm converts the Fabry-Perot signal to an analog locking feedback signal. The locking program stabilized both lasers to a long term stability of better than 9 MHz, with

Taras Banakh, Igor Belegradek

We determine the homeomorphism type of the space of smooth complete nonnegatively curved metrics on surfaces of positive Euler characteristic equipped with the topology of $C^γ$ uniform convergence on compact sets, when $γ$ is infinite or is not an integer. If $γ=\infty$, the space of metrics is homeomorphic to the separable Hilbert space. If $γ$ is finite a

Bruno Goncalves, Baltazar Jonas Ribeiro Morais, Dante Donizeti Pereira, Mario Marcio Dias Junior

In this work we focus our attention in the inconsistency that appears when the Semi-Exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for the Dirac field interacting with space-time torsion field is performed. In order to solve this problem, we present a new involution operator that makes possible to perform the exact transformation when torsion field is present. Such o

Jovan Odavic, Petar Mali, Jasmina Tekic, Milan Pantic

Dynamics of driven dissipative Frenkel-Kontorova model is examined by using largest Lyapunov exponent computational technique. Obtained results show that besides the usual way where behavior of the system in the presence of external forces is studied by analyzing its dynamical response function, the largest Lyapunov exponent analysis can represent a very con

Costantino Medori, Andrea Spiro

We explicitly determine the structure equations of 5-dimensional Levi 2-nondegenerate CR hypersurfaces, using our recently constructed canonical Cartan connection for this class of CR manifolds. We also give an outline of the basic properties of absolute parallelisms and Cartan connections, together with a brief discussion of the absolute parallelisms for su

Tomáš Opatrný, Hamed Saberi, Etienne Brion, Klaus Mølmer

A method is presented to transfer a system of two-level atoms from a spin coherent state to a maximally spin squeezed Dicke state, relevant for quantum metrology and quantum information processing. The initial state is the ground state of an initial linear Hamiltonian which is gradually turned into a final quadratic Hamiltonian whose ground state is the sele

S. Tesoro, I. Ali, A. N. Morozov, N. Sulaiman

The first level of folding of DNA in eukaryotes is provided by the so called &#39;10 nm chromatin fibre&#39;, where DNA wraps around histone proteins (approx. 10 nm in size) to form nucleosomes, which go on to create a zig zagging bead on a string structure. In this work we present a 1 dimensional statistical mechanics model to study nucleosome positioning w

Sofiane Bouarroudj, Pavel Grozman, Alexei Lebedev, Dimitry Leites

We overview the classifications of simple finite-dimensional modular Lie algebras. In characteristic 2, their list is wider than that in other characteristics; e.g., it contains desuperizations of modular analogs of complex simple vectorial Lie superalgebras. We consider odd parameters of deformations. For all 15 Weisfeiler gradings of the 5 exceptional fami

Jian-Jia Chen

In the federated scheduling approaches in multiprocessor systems, a task either 1) is restricted to execute sequentially on a single processor or 2) has exclusive access to the assigned processors. There have been several positive results to conduct good federated scheduling policies, which have constant speedup factors with respect to any optimal federated

Francesco Tiezzi, Nobuko Yoshida

Session-based communication has gained a widespread acceptance in practice as a means for developing safe communicating systems via structured interactions. In this paper, we investigate how these structured interactions are affected by reversibility, which provides a computational model allowing executed interactions to be undone. In particular, we provide

M. Kuscu, O. B. Akan

Molecular Communication (MC) is a bio-inspired communication method based on the exchange of molecules for information transfer among nanoscale devices. MC has been extensively studied from various aspects in the literature; however, the physical design of MC transceiving units is largely neglected with the assumption that network nodes are entirely biologic

E. Gotsman, E. Levin, U. Maor

We estimate the value of the survival probability for central exclusive production, in a model, which is based on the CGC/saturation approach. Hard and soft processes are described in the same framework. At LHC energies, we obtain a small value for the survival probability. The source of the small value, is the impact parameter dependence of the hard amplitu

Steffen Börm, Sven Christophersen

The efficiency of boundary element methods depends crucially on the time required for setting up the stiffness matrix. The far-field part of the matrix can be approximated by compression schemes like the fast multipole method or $\mathcal{H}$-matrix techniques. The near-field part is typically approximated by special quadrature rules like the Sauter-Schwab t

Monika Moscibrodzka, Heino Falcke, Hotaka Shiokawa

(abridged) The connection between black hole, accretion disk, and radio jet can be best constrained by fitting models to observations of nearby low luminosity galactic nuclei, in particular the well studied sources Sgr~A* and M87. There has been considerable progress in modeling the central engine of active galactic nuclei by an accreting supermassive black

Rong-Gen Cai, Shao-Jiang Wang

It was shown recently that, without jeopardizing the success of the $Λ$ cold dark matter model on cosmic scales, the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) can be derived as an emergent phenomenon when axionlike dark matter particles condense into superfluid on the galactic scales. We propose in this paper a Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) scalar field conformally coupl

R. F. L. Holanda, S. J. Landau, J. S. Alcaniz, I. E. Sanchez G.

We propose a new method to probe a possible time evolution of the fine structure constant $α$ from X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich measurements of the gas mass fraction ($f_{gas}$) in galaxy clusters. Taking into account a direct relation between variations of $α$ and violations of the distance-duality relation, we discuss constraints on $α$ for a class of dilat

A. A. Durmagambetov

Using the example of such a complicated problem as the Cauchy problem for the Navier-Stokes equation, we show how the Poincaré-Riemann-Hilbert boundary value problem enables us to construct effective estimates of solutions for this case. The apparatus of the three-dimensional inverse problem of quantum scattering theory is developing for this. In which it is

David Elkouss, Stephanie Wehner

A key objective in conducting a Bell test is to quantify the statistical evidence against a local-hidden variable model (LHVM) given that we can collect only a finite number of trials in any experiment. The notion of statistical evidence is thereby formulated in the framework of hypothesis testing, where the null hypothesis is that the experiment can be desc

Nobuhiro Honda, Bernd Kreussler

We show that the algebraic dimension of a twistor space over n#CP^2 cannot be two if n>4 and the fundamental system (i.e. the linear system associated to the half-anti-canonical bundle, which is available on any twistor space) is a pencil. This means that if the algebraic dimension of a twistor space on n#CP^2, n>4, is two, then the fundamental system either

Sheng-Sen Lu

We consider the following autonomous Kirchhoff-type equation \begin{equation*} -\left(a+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|\nabla{u}|^2\right)Δu= f(u),~~~~u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N), \end{equation*} where $a\geq0,b>0$ are constants and $N\geq1$. Under general Berestycki-Lions type assumptions on the nonlinearity $f$, we establish the existence results of a ground state and mu

Shane Chern

Let $A_{t,k}(n)$ denote the number of partition $k$-tuples of $n$ where each partition is $t$-core. In this paper, we establish formulas of $A_{t,k}(n)$ for some values of $t$ and $k$ by employing the method of modular forms, which extends Wang&#39;s result for $t=3$ and $k=2,3$.

Guo-liang Yang

First, this paper proposes the definition of directional congestion in certain input and output directions in the framework of data envelopment analysis (DEA). Second, two methods from different viewpoints are also proposed to estimate the directional congestion in a DEA framework. Third, we address the relations among directional congestion and classic cong

Iain Moffatt, Eunice Mphako-Banda

A classic exercise in the topology of surfaces is to show that, using handle slides, every disc-band surface, or 1-vertex ribbon graph, can be put in a canonical form consisting of the connected sum of orientable loops, and either non-orientable loops or pairs of interlaced orientable loops. Motivated by the principle that ribbon graph theory informs delta-m

Y. Ben-Aryeh, A. Mann

Explicitly separable density matrices are constructed for all separable two-qubits states based on Hilbert-Schmidt (HS) decompositions. For density matrices which include only two-qubits correlations the number of HS parameters is reduced to 3 by using local rotations, and for two-qubits states which include single qubit measurements, the number of parameter

G. Whyman, E. Shulzinger, Ed. Bormashenko

The diverse applications of the Benford law attract investigators working in various fields of physics, biology and sociology. At the same time, the groundings of the Benford law remain obscure. Our paper demonstrates that the Benford law arises from the positional (place-value) notation accepted for representing various sets of data. An alternative to Benfo

Pham Van Thang, Le Anh Vinh

Let $\mathcal{R}$ be a finite valuation ring of order $q^r$. In this paper we generalize and improve several well-known results, which were studied over finite fields $\mathbb{F}_q$ and finite cyclic rings $\mathbb{Z}/p^r\mathbb{Z}$, in the setting of finite valuation rings.

Sixue Liu

Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms have exhibited great effectiveness in finding models of random instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). As one of the most widely known and used SLS algorithm, WalkSAT plays a key role in the evolutions of SLS for SAT, and also hold state-of-the-art performance on random instances. This work proposes a n

Shintaro Kuroki

The aim of this paper is to give an upper bound for the dimension of a torus $T$ which acts on a GKM manifold $M$ effectively. In order to do that, we introduce a free abelian group of finite rank, denoted by $\mathcal{A}(Γ,α,\nabla)$, from an (abstract) $(m,n)$-type GKM graph $(Γ,α,\nabla)$. Here, an $(m,n)$-type GKM graph is the GKM graph induced from a $2

Nodoka Yamanaka, Emiko Hiyama

The nuclear electric dipole moment is a very sensitive probe of CP violation beyond the standard model, and for light nuclei, it can be evaluated accurately using few-body calculational methods. In this talk, we present the deuteron, $^3$He, $^3$H, $^6$Li, and $^9$Be electric dipole moments calculated using the Gaussian expansion method with a realistic nucl

Yong-Geun Oh

The paper contains a silly mistake in the usage of the equation (5.4) in the formula (6.5). Due to this mistake, the effect of the transfer map $phi$ is nullified. I am deeply sorry for not being very careful in my submission and making this mistake.

Iván Moyano

In this paper we prove an exact controllability result for the Vlasov-Stokes system in the two-dimensional torus with small data by means of an internal control. We show that one can steer, in arbitrarily small time, any initial datum of class C 1 satisfying a smallness condition in certain weighted spaces to any final state satisfying the same conditions. T

Ali Rejali, Meisam Soleimani Malekan

The concept of configuration was first introduced by Rosenblatt and Willis to give a characterization for the amenability of groups. We show that group properties of being soluble or FC can be characterized by configuration sets. Then we investigate some condition on configuration pairs, which leads to isomorphism. We introduce a somewhat different notion of

Marcelo Fernandes de Almeida, Arlúcio da Cruz Viana

This paper is devoted to global well-posedness, self-similarity and symmetries of solutions for a superdiffusive heat equation with superlinear and gradient nonlinear terms with initial data in new homogeneous Besov-Morrey type spaces. Unlike the heat equation, we need to develop an appropriate decomposition of the two-parametric Mittag-Leffler function in o

Rupert Hölzl, Christopher P. Porter

We study the possible growth rates of the Kolmogorov complexity of initial segments of sequences that are random with respect to some computable measure on $2^ω$, the so-called proper sequences. Our main results are as follows: (1) We show that the initial segment complexity of a proper sequence $X$ is bounded from below by a computable function (that is, $X

Rui Sun, Heng Xiao

Understanding the fundamental mechanisms of sediment transport, particularly those during the formation and evolution of bedforms, is of critical scientific importance and has engineering relevance. Traditional approaches of sediment transport simulations heavily rely on empirical models, which are not able to capture the physics-rich, regime-dependent behav

Cheuk-Yin Wong

In the semi-classical description of the flux-tube fragmentation process for hadron production and hadronization in high-energy $e^+e^-$ annihilations and $pp$ collisions, the rapidity-space-time ordering and the local conservation laws of charge, flavor, and momentum provide a set of powerful tools that may allow the reconstruction of the space-time dynamic

E. Jofré, R. Petrucci, L. García, M. Gómez

We report the discovery of a new exceptional young lithium-rich giant, KIC 9821622, in the \textit{Kepler} field that exhibits an unusually large enhancement of $α$, Fe-peak, and \textit{r}-process elements. From high-resolution spectra obtained with GRACES at Gemini North, we derived fundamental parameters and detailed chemical abundances of 23 elements fro

Surabhi Singh Ludu

This paper reviews literature from 2011 to 2013 on how Latent attributes like gender, political leaning etc. can be inferred from a person&#39;s twitter and neighborhood data. Prediction of demographic data can bring value to businesses, can prove instrumental in legal investigation. Moreover, political leanings can be inferred from the wide variety of user

Decio Krause, Jonas R. B. Arenhart

In this paper we consider the phenomenon of superpositions in quantum mechanics and suggest a way to deal with the idea in a logical setting from a syntactical point of view, that is, as subsumed in the language of the formalism, and not semantically. We restrict the discussion to the propositional level only. Then, after presenting the motivations and a pos

R. Schicker

A review is given on photon-hadron and photon-photon collisions in the ALICE experiment. The physics motivation for studying such reactions is outlined, and the results obtained in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions in Run 1 of the LHC are discussed. The improvement in detector rapidity coverage due to a newly added detector system is presented. The ALICE

Michael B. Heaney

This paper presents a new Relativistic Symmetrical Interpretation (RSI) of the Dirac equation in (1+1)D which postulates: quantum mechanics is intrinsically time-symmetric, with no arrow of time; the fundamental objects of quantum mechanics are transitions; a transition is fully described by a complex transition amplitude density with specified initial and f

Raluca Brad, Lavinia Barac, Remus Brad

Airbags are subject to strict quality control in order to ensure passengers safety. The quality of fabric and sewing thread influence the final product and therefore, sewing defects must be early and accurately detected, in order to remove the item from production. Airbag seams assembly can take various forms, using linear and circle primitives, with threads

Raluca Brad, Milena Dinu

An objective approach to select the best fabric for technical and home textiles consists in mechanical properties evaluation. The goal of this study is to analyze the behavior of knitted fabrics undergoing stretch stress. In this respect, three types of 2 colors Rib structure (backstripes jacquard, twillback jacquard and double-layered 3x3 rib fabric) have b

Thanh Long Vu, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Konstantin Turitsyn

Traditional emergency control schemes in power systems usually accompany with power interruption yielding severely economic damages to customers. This paper sketches the ideas of a viable alternative for traditional remedial controls for power grids with high penetration of renewables, in which the renewables are integrated with synchronverters to mimic the

S. Hussain Raza, Ahmad Humayun, Matthias Grundmann, David Anderson

We present an algorithm for finding temporally consistent occlusion boundaries in videos to support segmentation of dynamic scenes. We learn occlusion boundaries in a pairwise Markov random field (MRF) framework. We first estimate the probability of an spatio-temporal edge being an occlusion boundary by using appearance, flow, and geometric features. Next, w

Russell Miller, Bjorn Poonen, Hans Schoutens, Alexandra Shlapentokh

We construct a fully faithful functor from the category of graphs to the category of fields. Using this functor, we resolve a longstanding open problem in computable model theory, by showing that for every nontrivial countable structure S, there exists a countable field F with the same essential computable-model-theoretic properties as S. Along the way, we d

Yasmine Sara Amhis, Tagir Aushev, Martin Jung

We present the summary of the working group on $B$ mixing and the related CP violation at the CKM 2014 workshop. The contributions reflect the experimental and theoretical progress in the field over the last two years since the last CKM workshop.

S. Hussain Raza, Matthias Grundmann, Irfan Essa

We present a novel algorithm for estimating the broad 3D geometric structure of outdoor video scenes. Leveraging spatio-temporal video segmentation, we decompose a dynamic scene captured by a video into geometric classes, based on predictions made by region-classifiers that are trained on appearance and motion features. By examining the homogeneity of the pr

Ryan Comes, Hongxue Liu, Mikhail Khokhlov, Richard Kasica

CoFe${}_{2}$O${}_{4}$ (CFO)-BiFeO${}_{3}$ (BFO) nanocomposites are an intriguing option for future memory and logic technologies due to the magnetoelctric properties of the system. However, these nanocomposites form with CFO pillars randomly located within a BFO matrix, making implementation in devices difficult. To overcome this, we present a technique to p

S. Hussain Raza, Omar Javed, Aveek Das, Harpreet Sawhney

We present an algorithm to estimate depth in dynamic video scenes. We propose to learn and infer depth in videos from appearance, motion, occlusion boundaries, and geometric context of the scene. Using our method, depth can be estimated from unconstrained videos with no requirement of camera pose estimation, and with significant background/foreground motions

Shlomo E. Chazan, Jacob Goldberger, Sharon Gannot

In this paper we present a single-microphone speech enhancement algorithm. A hybrid approach is proposed merging the generative mixture of Gaussians (MoG) model and the discriminative neural network (NN). The proposed algorithm is executed in two phases, the training phase, which does not recur, and the test phase. First, the noise-free speech power spectral

A. Schlehahn, R. Schmidt, C. Hopfmann, J. -H. Schulze

We report on the generation of single-photon pulse trains at a repetition rate of up to 1 GHz. We achieve this high speed by modulating the external voltage applied on an electrically contacted quantum dot microlens, which is optically excited by a continuous-wave laser. By modulating the photoluminescence of the quantum dot microlens using a square-wave vol

Dorsa Sadigh, Ashish Kapoor

Controller synthesis for hybrid systems that satisfy temporal specifications expressing various system properties is a challenging problem that has drawn the attention of many researchers. However, making the assumption that such temporal properties are deterministic is far from the reality. For example, many of the properties the controller has to satisfy a

Michela Zedda

This paper investigates the $C^\infty$-convergence of the Sasaki $J$-flow. The result is applied to prove a lower bound for the $K$-energy map in the Sasakian context.

Lancelot F. James, Peter Orbanz, Yee Whye Teh

We study random families of subsets of $\mathbb{N}$ that are similar to exchangeable random partitions, but do not require constituent sets to be disjoint: Each element of ${\mathbb{N}}$ may be contained in multiple subsets. One class of such objects, known as Indian buffet processes, has become a popular tool in machine learning. Based on an equivalence bet

Suman Jana, Úlfar Erlingsson, Iulia Ion

Clustering software into peer groups based on its apparent functionality allows for simple, intuitive categorization of software that can, in particular, help identify which software uses comparatively more privilege than is necessary to implement its functionality. Such relative comparison can improve the security of a software ecosystem in a number of ways

Yue Chang, Alejandro González-Tudela, Carlos Sánchez-Muñoz, Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch

The development, characterization and control of $N$-photon sources are instrumental for quantum technological applications. This work constitutes a step forward in this direction, where we propose a cavity quantum electrodynamics setup designed for the generation of photon pairs. We analyze it both via the scattering and master equation formalisms. From the

Mykhailo Tymchenko, J. Sebastiàn Gomez-Diaz, Jongwon Lee, Nishant Nookala

We apply the Pancharatnam-Berry phase approach to plasmonic metasurfaces loaded by highly nonlinear multi-quantum well substrates, establishing a platform to control the nonlinear wavefront at will based on giant localized nonlinear effects. We apply this approach to design flat nonlinear metasurfaces for efficient second-harmonic radiation, including beam s

C. Miguel

For a division ring D, finite dimensional over its center F, we give a condiction for the connectedness of the commuting graph of a matrix ring over $D$. Furthermore, we prove that if the commuting graph is connected, then its diameter is between four and six.

Clay McLeod

In this paper, a framework for testing Deep Neural Network (DNN) design in Python is presented. First, big data, machine learning (ML), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are discussed to familiarize the reader with the importance of such a system. Next, the benefits and detriments of implementing such a system in Python are presented. Lastly, the specifi