October 2015 arXiv papers — page 3

M. Libralato, L. R. Bedin, D. Nardiello, G. Piotto

Kepler and K2 data analysis reported in the literature is mostly based on aperture photometry. Because of Kepler's large, undersampled pixels and the presence of nearby sources, aperture photometry is not always the ideal way to obtain high-precision photometry and, because of this, the data set has not been fully exploited so far. We present a new metho

E. C. Behrman, N. H. Nguyen, J. E. Steck, M. McCann

In previous work, we have proposed an entanglement indicator for a general multiqubit state, which can be "learned" by a quantum system, acting as a neural network. The indicator can be used for a pure or a mixed state, and it need not be "close" to any particular state; moreover, as the size of the system grows, the amount of additional trai

F. Maucher, T. Pohl, S. Skupin, W. Krolikowski

We study the propagation of light beams through optical media with competing nonlocal nonlinearities. We demonstrate that the nonlocality of competing focusing and defocusing nonlinearities gives rise to self-organization and stationary states with stable hexagonal intensity patterns, akin to transverse crystals of light filaments. Signatures of this long-ra

Stefan Ehard, Felix Joos

For a graph $G$ and $p\in [0,1]$, let $G_p$ arise from $G$ by deleting every edge mutually independently with probability $1-p$. The random graph model $(K_n)_p$ is certainly the most investigated random graph model and also known as the $G(n,p)$-model. We show that several results concerning the length of the longest path/cycle naturally translate to $G_p$

A. Leleu, P. Robutel, A. C. M. Correia

We investigate the resonant rotation of co-orbital bodies in eccentric and planar orbits. We develop a simple analytical model to study the impact of the eccentricity and orbital perturbations on the spin dynamics. This model is relevant in the entire domain of horseshoe and tadpole orbit, for moderate eccentricities. We show that there are three different f

C. Spee, J. I. de Vicente, B. Kraus

Entanglement is a resource to overcome the natural restriction of operations used for state manipulation to Local Operations assisted by Classical Communication (LOCC). Hence, a bipartite maximally entangled state is a state which can be transformed deterministically into any other state via LOCC. In the multipartite setting no such state exists. There, rath

Stephen C. Anco, Chaudry Masood Khalique

A complete classification of all low-order conservation laws is carried out for a system of coupled semilinear wave equations which is a natural two-component generalization of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation. The conserved quantities defined by these conservation laws are derived and their physical meaning is discussed.

Stephen C. Anco, Abdul H. Kara

A simple characterization of the action of symmetries on conservation laws of partial differential equations is studied by using the general method of conservation law multipliers. This action is used to define symmetry-invariant and symmetry-homogeneous conservation laws. The main results are applied to several examples of physically interest, including the

Mehrshad Mehboudi, Alex M. Dorio, Wenjuan Zhu, Arend van der Zande

Ridged, orthorhombic two-dimensional atomic crystals with a bulk {\em Pnma} structure such as black phosphorus and monochalcogenide monolayers are an exciting and novel material platform for a host of applications. Key to their crystallinity, monolayers of these materials have a four-fold degenerate structural ground state, and a single energy scale $E_C$ (r

J. -P. Lasota, R. S. S. Vieira, A. Sadowski, R. Narayan

At super-Eddington rates accretion flows onto black holes have been described as slim (aspect ratio $H/R \lesssim 1$) or thick (H/R >1) discs, also known as tori or (Polish) doughnuts. The relation between the two descriptions has never been established, but it was commonly believed that at sufficiently high accretion rates slim discs inflate, becoming thick

S. Grziwa, D. Gandolfi, Sz. Csizmadia, M. Fridlund

We report the discovery of K2-31b, the first confirmed transiting hot Jupiter detected by the K2 space mission. We combined K2 photometry with FastCam lucky imaging and FIES and HARPS high-resolution spectroscopy to confirm the planetary nature of the transiting object and derived the system parameters. K2-31b is a 1.8-Jupiter-mass planet on an 1.26-day-orbi

Meng Wen, Heiko Bauke, Christoph H. Keitel

Different classical theories are commonly applied in various branches of physics to describe the relativistic dynamics of electrons by coupled equations for the orbital motion and spin precession. Exemplarily, we benchmark the Frenkel model and the classical Foldy-Wouthuysen model with spin-dependent forces (Stern-Gerlach forces) to the quantum dynamics as p

Katrin Grunert, Khai T. Nguyen

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of weak entropy solutions to the Burgers-Poisson equation for initial data in L^1(R). Additional an Oleinik type estimate is established and some criteria on local smoothness and wave breaking for weak entropy solutions are provided.

Matt V. Leduc, Ruslan Momot

We study the incentives that agents have to invest in costly protection against cascading failures in networked systems. Applications include vaccination, computer security and airport security. Agents are connected through a network and can fail either intrinsically or as a result of the failure of a subset of their neighbors. We characterize the equilibriu

Lloyd W. Cawthorne, Judith A. McGovern

We present an ongoing project to assess the importance of D-waves and the $Δ(1232)$ resonance for descriptions of neutral pion photoproduction in Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory. This research has been motivated by data published by the A2 and CB-TAPS collaborations at MAMI [1]. This data has reached unprecedented levels of accuracy from threshold th

Alejandro Ayala, C. A. Dominguez, L. A. Hernandez, M. Loewe

We compute the vacuum one-loop quark-gluon vertex correction at zero temperature in the presence of a magnetic field. From the vertex function we extract the effective quark-gluon coupling and show that it grows with increasing magnetic field strength. The effect is due to a subtle competition between the color charge associated to gluons and the color charg

Ruixiang Zhang

We prove the folklore endpoint multilinear $k_j$-plane conjecture originated from the paper \cite{bennett2006multilinear} of Bennett, Carbery and Tao. Along the way we prove a more general result, namely the endpoint multilinear $k_j$-variety theorem. Finally, we generalize our results to the endpoint perturbed Beascamp-Lieb inequality using techniques in th

Peter Fiebig

We introduce subquotient categories of the restricted affine category O at the critical level and show that some of them have a realization in terms of moment graph sheaves.

Andrea Addazi

We show how the horizon geometry and entropy of a Semiclassical Black Hole can be reconstructed from a system of $N>>1$ horizonless conic singularities with average opening angle at the horizon $\langle Θ\rangle=2π$. This conclusion is strongly motivated by a generalized Wheeler-De Witt equation for quantum black holes. We will argument how infalling informa

Tyler Westenbroek, Humberto Gonzalez

We present a numerically tractable formulation for computing the optimal control of the class of hybrid dynamical systems whose trajectories are continuous. Our formulation, an extension of existing relaxed-control techniques for switched dynamical systems, incorporates the domain information of each discrete mode as part of the constraints in the optimizati

Guangxu Zhu, Kaibin Huang

The implementation of wireless power transfer in wireless communication systems opens up a new research area, known as wirelessly powered communications (WPC). In next-generation heterogeneous networks where ultra-dense small-cell base stations are deployed, simultaneous-wireless-information-and-power-transfer (SWIPT) is feasible over short ranges. One chall

Guokuan Shao

We establish an equidistribution theorem for the common zeros of random sections of high powers of several singular Hermitian big line bundles associated to moderate measures.

Damien Imbs, Michel Raynal, Julien Stainer

The BG-simulation is a powerful reduction algorithm designed for asynchronous read/write crash-prone systems. It allows a set of $(t+1)$ asynchronous sequential processes to wait-free simulate (i.e., despite the crash of up to $t$ of them) an arbitrary number $n$ of processes under the assumption that at most $t$ of them may crash. The BG simulation shows th

Smail Bougouffa, Zbigniew Ficek

The link of two concepts, indistinguishability and entanglement, with the energy-time uncertainty principle is demonstrated in a system composed of two strongly coupled bosonic modes. Working in the limit of a short interaction time, we find that the inclusion of the antiresonant terms to the coupling Hamiltonian leads the system to relax to a state which is

Auttakit Chatrabhuti, Vicharit Yingcharoenrat, Phongpichit Channuie

In this paper, we study the Starobinsky model of inflation in the context of gravity's rainbow theory. We propose that gravity rainbow functions can be written in the power-law form of the Hubble parameter. We present a detailed derivation of the spectral index of curvature perturbation and the tensor-to-scalar ratio and compare the predictions of our mo

Fabien Paillusson, Matthew R. Pennington, Halim Kusumaatmaja

We study the phase separation of binary lipid mixtures that form bicontinuous cubic phases. The competition between non-uniform Gaussian membrane curvature and line tension leads to a very rich phase diagram, where we observe symmetry breaking of the membrane morphologies and reentrant phenomena due to the formation of bridges between segregated domains. Upo

Julien Marché

For a 3-manifold $M$ with boundary, we study the Kauffman module with indeterminate equal to $-1+ε$ where $ε^2=0$. We conjecture an explicit relation between this module and the Reidemeister torsion of $M$ which we prove in particular cases. As a maybe useful tool, we then introduce a notion of twisted self-linking and prove that it satisfies the Kauffman re

Nathanaël Fijalkow, Stefan Kiefer, Mahsa Shirmohammadi

Given two labelled Markov decision processes (MDPs), the trace-refinement problem asks whether for all strategies of the first MDP there exists a strategy of the second MDP such that the induced labelled Markov chains are trace-equivalent. We show that this problem is decidable in polynomial time if the second MDP is a Markov chain. The algorithm is based on

Igor Bjelakovic, Jafar Mohammadi, Sławomir Stańczak

We consider a discrete memoryless broadcast channel consists of two users and a sender. The sender has two independent confidential messages for each user. We extend the work of Liu et al.\ on broadcast channels with two confidential messages with weak secrecy criterion to strong secrecy. Our results are based on an extension of the techniques developed by H

Gilles Pütz, Nicolas Gisin

The demonstration and use of Bell-nonlocality, a concept that is fundamentally striking and is at the core of applications in device independent quantum information processing, relies heavily on the assumption of measurement independence, also called the assumption of free choice. The latter cannot be verified or guaranteed. In this paper, we consider a rela

Naoki Masuda

Social dynamics on a network may be accelerated or decelerated depending on which pairs of individuals in the network communicate early and which pairs do later. The order with which the links in a given network are sequentially used, which we call the link order, may be a strong determinant of dynamical behaviour on networks, potentially adding a new dimens

Hanjiang Lai, Shengtao Xiao, Yan Pan, Zhen Cui

We propose a novel end-to-end deep architecture for face landmark detection, based on a deep convolutional and deconvolutional network followed by carefully designed recurrent network structures. The pipeline of this architecture consists of three parts. Through the first part, we encode an input face image to resolution-preserved deconvolutional feature map

Jonas Maziero

The necessity and utility of considering the interaction of a quantum system with its environment when describing its time evolution have been recognized in several branches of physics and of other sciences. The Kraus' representation is a general and succinct approach to describe such open system dynamics in a wide range of relevant physical scenarios. I

Xiang-Yao Wu, Ji Ma, Xiao-Jing Liu, Yu Liang

Under the action of pump light, the conventional photonic crystal can be turned into function photonic crystal. In the paper, we have designed optical triode with one-dimensional function photonic crystal, and analyzed the effect of period number, medium thickness and refractive index, incident angle, the irradiation way and intensity of pump light on the op

Fatma Altunbulak Aksu, David J. Green

We prove that the group algebra of the quaternion group $Q_8$ over any field of characteristic two has ghost number three.

A. Marcos-Caballero, R. Fernández-Cobos, E. Martínez-González, P. Vielva

The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) contribution induced on the cosmic microwave background by the presence of a supervoid as the one detected by Szapudi et al. (2015) is reviewed in this letter in order to check whether it could explain the Cold Spot (CS) anomaly. Two different models, previously used for the same purpose, are considered to describe the matter

Giovanni M. Marchetti, Nanny Wermuth

We introduce and study a subclass of joint Bernoulli distributions which has the palindromic property. For such distributions the vector of joint probabilities is unchanged when the order of the elements is reversed. We prove for binary variables that the palindromic property is equivalent to zero constraints on all odd-order interaction parameters, be it in

Ilya Chevyrev

We consider random walks and Lévy processes in a homogeneous group $G$. For all $p > 0$, we completely characterise (almost) all $G$-valued Lévy processes whose sample paths have finite $p$-variation, and give sufficient conditions under which a sequence of $G$-valued random walks converges in law to a Lévy process in $p$-variation topology. In the case that

L. L. Salcedo

A new technique is explored for the Monte Carlo sampling of complex-valued distributions. The method is based on a heat bath approach where the conditional probability is replaced by a positive representation of it on the complex plane. Efficient ways to construct such representations are also introduced. The performance of the algorithm is tested on small a

Sang Kwan Choi, Chaiho Rim, Hong Zhang

Irregular conformal block is motivated by the Argyres-Douglas type of N=2 super conformal gauge theory. We investigate the classical/NS limit of the irregular conformal block using spectral curve on a Riemann surface with irregular punctures, which is equivalent to the loop equation of irregular matrix model. The spectral curve is reduced to the second order

Christopher J. Fewster, Benito A. Juárez-Aubry, Jorma Louko

Thermal phenomena in quantum field theory can be detected with the aid of particle detectors coupled to quantum fields along stationary worldlines, by testing whether the response of such a detector satisfies the detailed balance version of the KMS condition at a constant temperature. This relation holds when the interaction between the field and the detecto

Nicola Cancian, Davide Frapporti

Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve and $G$ a finite subgroup of $\mathrm{Aut}(C)^2\rtimes \mathbb Z_2$ whose action is \textit{mixed}, i.e.~there are elements in $G$ exchanging the two isotrivial fibrations of $C\times C$. Let $G^0\triangleleft G$ be the index two subgroup $G\cap\mathrm{Aut}(C)^2$. If $G^0$ acts freely, then $X:=(C\times C)/G$ is smooth an

Kolyan Ray, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

We investigate the regularity of the positive roots of a non-negative function of one-variable. A modified Hölder space $\mathcal{F}^β$ is introduced such that if $f\in \mathcal{F}^β$ then $f^α\in C^{αβ}$. This provides sufficient conditions to overcome the usual limitation in the square root case ($α= 1/2$) for Hölder functions that $f^{1/2}$ need be no mor

Prabir Rudra

In this assignment we will present a reconstruction scheme between f(R) gravity with ordinary and entropy corrected (m,n)-type holographic dark energy. The correspondence is established and expressions for the reconstructed f(R) models are determined. To study the evolution of the reconstructed models plots are generated. The stability of the calculated mode

Zhao Dong, Rangrang Zhang

This paper reports the 3D planetary geostrophic viscous model has the exponential ergodicity and global attractor if this model is driven by an additive random noise, which results in the support of the integration of invariant measure for the dynamic is exactly a minimal global attractor. It's worth mentioning that this global attractor has finite Hausd

Satoshi Nakajima

We apply the covariant analytic mechanics with the differential forms to the Dirac field and the gravity with the Dirac field. The covariant analytic mechanics treats space and time on an equal footing regarding the differential forms as the basic variables. A significant feature of the covariant analytic mechanics is that the canonical equations, in additio

Anas Chaaban, Henning Maier, Aydin Sezgin, Rudolf Mathar

A network of 3 nodes mutually communicating with each other is studied. This multi-way network is a suitable model for 3-user device-to-device communications. The main goal of this paper is to characterize the capacity region of the underlying Gaussian 3-way channel (3WC) within a constant gap. To this end, a capacity outer bound is derived using cut-set bou

Nazli Yurdakul, A. Nihat Berker

A comparative study is done of interdisciplinary citations in 2013 between physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, in Brazil, South Korea, Turkey, and USA. Several surprising conclusions emerge from our tabular and graphical analysis: The cross-science citation rates are in general strikingly similar, between Brazil, South Korea, Turkey, and USA. One appa

A. Bravo, S. Encinas, B. Pascual-Escudero

The Nash multiplicity sequence was defined by M. Lejeune-Jalabert as a non-increasing sequence of integers attached to a germ of a curve inside a germ of a hypersurface. M. Hickel generalized this notion and described a sequence of blow ups which allows us to compute it and study its behavior. In this paper, we show how this sequence can be used to compute s

Yehuda Dar, Alfred M. Bruckstein, Michael Elad, Raja Giryes

In this work we propose a novel postprocessing technique for compression-artifact reduction. Our approach is based on posing this task as an inverse problem, with a regularization that leverages on existing state-of-the-art image denoising algorithms. We rely on the recently proposed Plug-and-Play Prior framework, suggesting the solution of general inverse p

Arnaud Durand, Miika Hannula, Juha Kontinen, Arne Meier

We define a variant of team semantics called multiteam semantics based on multisets and study the properties of various logics in this framework. In particular, we define natural probabilistic versions of inclusion and independence atoms and certain approximation operators motivated by approximate dependence atoms of Väänänen.

Kristóf Takács

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) has been one of the most important problems in bioinformatics for more decades and it is still heavily examined by many mathematicians and biologists. However, mostly because of the practical motivation of this problem, the research on this topic is focused on aligning long sequences. It is understandable, since the sequence

Peter Derlet, Robert Maaß

The first plastic event occurring in discrete intermittent plasticity, as for example a pop-in seen in nano-indentation, is evaluated with extreme value statistics. It is found that when the same deformation is repeated many times, the average of the stress at this first event is related to the deforming volume via an exponentially truncated power-law. The p

Jose A. Reinoso, M. C. Torrent, Cristina Masoller

In sensory neurons the presence of noise can facilitate the detection of weak information-carrying signals, which are encoded and transmitted via correlated sequences of spikes. Here we investigate relative temporal order in spike sequences induced by a subthreshold periodic input, in the presence of white Gaussian noise. To simulate the spikes, we use the F

P. Sinkovicz, T. Kiss, J. K. Asbóth

We consider recurrence to the initial state after repeated actions of a quantum channel. After each iteration a projective measurement is applied to check recurrence. The corresponding return time is known to be an integer for the special case of unital channels, including unitary channels. We prove that for a more general class of quantum channels the expec

Tommi Brander, Joonas Ilmavirta, Manas Kar

We detect an inclusion with infinite conductivity from boundary measurements represented by the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the conductivity equation. We use both the enclosure method and the probe method. We use the enclosure method to prove partial results when the underlying equation is the quasilinear $p$-Laplace equation. Further, we rigorously treat t

Konrad Schöbel

We prove that the set of orthogonal separable coordinates on an arbitrary (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold carries a natural structure of a projective variety, equipped with an action of the isometry group. This leads us to propose a new, algebraic geometric approach to the classification of orthogonal separable coordinates by studying the structure of this vari

Nozomi Sugiura

We show that the effective average action and its gradient are useful for solving multiscale data assimilation problems. We also present a procedure for numerically evaluating the gradient of the effective average action, and demonstrate that the variational problem for slow degrees of freedom can be solved properly using the "effective gradient."

L. Elisa Celis, Aida Sadat Mousavifar

We introduce a simple network formation model for social networks. Agents are nodes, connecting to another agent by building a directed edge (or accepting a connection from another agent) has a cost, and reaching (or being reached by) other agents via short directed paths has a benefit; in effect, an agent wants to reach others quickly, but without the cost

Shiro Ishikawa

Recently I proposed the linguistic interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is characterized as the linguistic turn of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. This turn from physics to language does not only extend quantum theory to classical theory but also yield the quantum mechanical world view. Although the wave function collapse is prohibi

Filippo De Lillo, Massimo Cencini, Stefano Musacchio, Guido Boffetta

We investigate the spatial distribution of inertial particles suspended in the bulk of a turbulent inhomogeneous flow. By means of direct numerical simulations of particle trajectories transported by the turbulent Kolmogorov flow, we study large and small scale mechanisms inducing inhomogeneities in the distribution of heavy particles. We discuss turbophores

Javier Molina-Vilaplana

The entanglement renormalization flow of a (1+1) free boson is formulated as a path integral over some auxiliary scalar fields. The resulting effective theory for these fields amounts to the dilaton term of non-critical string theory in two spacetime dimensions. A connection between the scalar fields in the two theories is provided, allowing to acquire novel

Alain Giorgetti, Timothy R. S. Walsh

This paper addresses the enumeration of rooted and unrooted hypermaps of a given genus. For rooted hypermaps the enumeration method consists of considering the more general family of multirooted hypermaps, in which darts other than the root dart are distinguished. We give functional equations for the generating series counting multirooted hypermaps of a give

Katrin Grunert

We present two initial profiles to the Camassa-Holm equation which yield solutions with accumulating breaking times.

Varun Sahni, Anjan A Sen

It is well known that a canonical scalar field is able to describe either dark matter or dark energy but not both. We demonstrate that a non-canonical scalar field can describe both dark matter and dark energy within a unified setting. We consider the simplest extension of the canonical Lagrangian ${\cal L} \propto X^α- V(ϕ)$ where $α\geq 1$ and $V$ is a suf

Flora C. Bowditch, Peter J. Dukes

We compute a minimum degree threshold sufficient for 3-partite graphs to admit a fractional triangle decomposition. Together with recent work of Barber, Kühn, Lo, Osthus and Taylor, this leads to bounds for exact decompositions and in particular the completion problem for sparse partial latin squares. Some extensions are considered as well.

Avi Levy

A $q$-coloring of $\mathbb Z$ is a random process assigning one of $q$ colors to each integer in such a way that consecutive integers receive distinct colors. A process is $k$-dependent if any two sets of integers separated by a distance greater than $k$ receive independent colorings. Holroyd and Liggett constructed the first stationary $k$-dependent $q$-col

Oleg Kogan, Kevin O'Keeffe, Christopher R. Myers

We study the coupling of a Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (FKPP) equation to a separate, advection-only transport process. We find that the front dynamics can be described by an FKPP-like equation only at sufficiently fast diffusion or large coupling strength. For such parameter regimes, we find a mapping to an effective FKPP equation. We also find tha

Matey Neykov, Yang Ning, Jun S. Liu, Han Liu

We propose a new inferential framework for constructing confidence regions and testing hypotheses in statistical models specified by a system of high dimensional estimating equations. We construct an influence function by projecting the fitted estimating equations to a sparse direction obtained by solving a large-scale linear program. Our main theoretical co

Yu Zhang, Guoguo Chen, Dong Yu, Kaisheng Yao

In this paper, we extend the deep long short-term memory (DLSTM) recurrent neural networks by introducing gated direct connections between memory cells in adjacent layers. These direct links, called highway connections, enable unimpeded information flow across different layers and thus alleviate the gradient vanishing problem when building deeper LSTMs. We f

Kooktae Lee, Raktim Bhattacharya

In this note, we present the stability as well as performance analysis of asynchronous parallel computing algorithm implemented in 1D heat equation with CUDA. The primary objective of this note lies in dissemination of asynchronous parallel computing algorithm by providing CUDA code for fast and easy implementation. We show that the simulations carried out o

Chen-Yen Lai, Chih-Chun Chien

Memory effects can lead to history-dependent behavior of a system, and they are ubiquitous in our daily life and have broad applications. Here we explore possibilities of generating memory effects in simple isolated quantum systems. By utilizing geometrical effects from a class of lattices supporting flat-bands consisting of localized states, memory effects

Ming-Jie Tao, Qing Ai, Fu-Guo Deng, Yuan-Chung Cheng

The structure of Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) light-harvesting complex has long been recognized as containing seven bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) molecules. Recently, an additional BChl molecule was discovered in the crystal structure of the FMO complex, which may serve as a link between baseplate and the remaining seven molecules. Here, we investigate excitation

Jinwoo Park, Jaewoo Joo, Alessandro Zavatta, Marco Bellini

We suggest and investigate a scheme for non-deterministic noiseless linear amplification of coherent states using successive photon addition, $(\hat a^{\dagger})^2$, where $\hat a^\dagger$ is the photon creation operator. We compare it with a previous proposal using the photon addition-then-subtraction, $\hat a \hat a^\dagger$, where $\hat a$ is the photon a

Cheng Chang, Su Gao

We prove that the homeomorphism problem for connected compact metric spaces is Borel bireducible with a universal orbit equivalence relation induced by a Borel action of a Polish group.

Himansu S. Pattanaik, Matthew Reichert, David J. Hagan, Eric W. Van Stryland

We utilize the recently demonstrated orders of magnitude enhancement of extremely nondegenerate two-photon absorption in direct-gap semiconductor photodiodes to perform scanned imaging of 3D structures using IR femtosecond illumination pulses (1.6 um and 4.93 um) gated on the GaN detector by sub-gap, femtosecond pulses. While transverse resolution is limited

Linda Ma, Boya Song, Thomas Curran, Nhu Phong

It is challenging to apply the tenets of individuality to filamentous fungi: a fungal mycelium can contain millions of genetically diverse but totipotent nuclei, each capable of founding new mycelia. Moreover a single mycelium can potentially stretch over kilometers and it is unlikely that its distant parts share resources or have the same fitness. Here we d

Pramod N. Achar, Anthony Henderson, Daniel Juteau, Simon Riche

This is an overview of our series of papers on the modular generalized Springer correspondence. It is an expansion of a lecture given by the second author in the Fifth Conference of the Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum, Sanya, December 2014, as part of the Master Lecture `Algebraic Groups and their Representations' Workshop honouring G. Lus

Xiongfeng Ma, Xiao Yuan, Zhu Cao, Bing Qi

Quantum physics can be exploited to generate true random numbers, which play important roles in many applications, especially in cryptography. Genuine randomness from the measurement of a quantum system reveals the inherent nature of quantumness --- coherence, an important feature that differentiates quantum mechanics from classical physics. The generation o

Chuanzhong Li, Jingsong He

In this paper, we construct the Virasoro type additional symmetries of a kind of constrained multi-component KP hierarchy and give the Virasoro flow equation on eigenfunctions and adjoint eigenfunctions. It can also be seen that the algebraic structure of the Virasoro symmetry is kept after discretization from the constrained multi-component KP hierarchy to

V. S. Vijayaraghavan, R. G. James, J. P. Crutchfield

Collective organization in matter plays a significant role in its expressed physical properties. Typically, it is detected via an order parameter, appropriately defined for each given system's observed emergent patterns. Recent developments in information theory, however, suggest quantifying collective organization in a system- and phenomenon-agnostic wa

Meik Dörpinghaus, Édgar Roldán, Izaak Neri, Heinrich Meyr

We provide a novel analysis of Wald's sequential probability ratio test based on information theoretic measures for symmetric thresholds, symmetric noise, and equally likely hypotheses under the assumption that the test exactly terminates at one of the thresholds. This test is optimal in the sense that it yields the minimum mean decision time. To analyze

Boris N. Apanasov

We construct a new type of locally homeomorphic quasiregular mappings in the 3-sphere and discuss their relation to the M.A.Lavrentiev problem, the Zorich map with an essential singularity at infinity, the Fatou's problem and a quasiregular analogue of domains of holomorphy in complex analysis. The construction of such mappings comes from our constructio

Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Tyler Monson, Daniel Zappala

This paper describes MessageGuard, a browser-based platform for research into usable content-based encryption. MessageGuard is designed to enable collaboration between security and usability researchers on long-standing research questions in this area. It significantly simplifies the effort required to work in this space and provides a place for research res

N. S. Mazhari, D. Momeni, R. Myrzakulov, H. Gholizade

An alternative method of developing the theory of non-equilibrium two dimensional holographic superconductor is to start from the definition of a time dependent $AdS_3$ background. As originally proposed, many of these formulae were cast in exponential form, but the adoption of the numeric method of expression throughout the bulk serves to show more clearly

Samuel Cadellin Skipsey, Shaun De Witt, Alastair Dewhurst, David Britton

The Object Store model has quickly become the basis of most commercially successful mass storage infrastructure, backing so-called "Cloud" storage such as Amazon S3, but also underlying the implementation of most parallel distributed storage systems. Many of the assumptions in Object Store design are similar, but not identical, to concepts in the des

Kuantay Boshkayev, Jorge A. Rueda, Bakytzhan Zhami

We consider the effects of rotation and temperature on the structure of white dwarfs in order to compare them with the estimated data from observations.

Bruce K. Driver, Pun Wai Tong

Let $L$ be a linear symmetric differential operators on $L^{2}\left( \mathbb{R}\right) $ whose domain is the Schwartz test function space, $\mathcal{S}.$ For the majority of this paper, it is assumed that the coefficient of $L$ are polynomial functions on $\mathbb{R}.$ We will give criteria on the polynomial coefficients of $L$ which guarantees that $L$ is e

Roman Lukyanenko

Corroboration or confirmation is a prominent philosophical debate of the 20th century. Many philosophers have been involved in this debate most notably the proponents of confirmation led by Hempel and its most powerful criticism by the falsificationists led by Popper. In both cases however the debates were primarily based on the arguments from logic. In this

Georg Stamou, Stylianos Stamatakis, Ioannis Delivos

We consider relative normalizations of ruled surfaces with non-vanishing Gaussian curvature $K$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R} ^{3}$, which are characterized by the support functions $^{\left( α\right) }q=\left \vert K\right \vert ^α$ for $α\in \mathbb{R}$ (Manhart's relative normalizations). All ruled surfaces for which the relative normals, the Pic

Stylianos Stamatakis, Hassan Al-Zoubi

We investigate some relations concerning the first and the second Beltrami operators corresponding to the fundamental forms I, II, III of a surface in the three-dimensional Euclidean space and we study surfaces which are of finite type in the sense of B.-Y. Chen with respect to the fundamental forms II and III.

J. Vandenbroucke, S. BenZvi, S. Bravo, K. Jensen

Camera image sensors can be used to detect ionizing radiation in addition to optical photons. In particular, cosmic-ray muons are detected as long, straight tracks passing through multiple pixels. The distribution of track lengths can be related to the thickness of the active (depleted) region of the camera image sensor through the known angular distribution

Tor Lattimore

Given a multi-armed bandit problem it may be desirable to achieve a smaller-than-usual worst-case regret for some special actions. I show that the price for such unbalanced worst-case regret guarantees is rather high. Specifically, if an algorithm enjoys a worst-case regret of B with respect to some action, then there must exist another action for which the

Ilija Vukotic, Edward Moyse, Riccardo Maria Bianchi

We present ATLASrift - a Virtual Reality application that provides an interactive, immersive visit to ATLAS experiment. We envision it being used in two different ways: first as an educational and outreach tool - for schools, universities, museums and interested individuals, and secondly as an event viewer for ATLAS physicists - for them it will provide a mu

Gianmarc Grazioli, Ioan Andricioaei

The Milestoning method has achieved great success in the calculation of equilibrium kinetic properties such as rate constants from molecular dynamics simulations. The goal of this work is to advance Milestoning into the realm of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, in particular, the calculation of time correlation functions. In order to accomplish this, w

Gianmarc Grazioli, Ioan Andricioaei

The Milestoning algorithm created by Ron Elber et al. is a method for determining the time scale of processes too complex to be studied using brute force simulation methods. The fundamental objects implemented in the Milestoning algorithm are the first passage time distributions between adjacent protein configuration milestones. The method proposed herein ai

H. Esmaielpour, V. R. Whiteside, J. Tang, S. Vijeyaragunathan

InAs/AlAs$_{x}$Sb$_{1-x}$ quantum wells are investigated for their potential as hot carrier solar cells. Continuous wave power and temperature dependent photoluminescence indicate a transition in the dominant hot carrier relaxation process from conventional phonon-mediated carrier relaxation below 90 K to a regime where inhibited radiative recombination domi

Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Murat Kocaoglu, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Sriram Vishwanath

We consider the problem of learning causal networks with interventions, when each intervention is limited in size under Pearl's Structural Equation Model with independent errors (SEM-IE). The objective is to minimize the number of experiments to discover the causal directions of all the edges in a causal graph. Previous work has focused on the use of sep

Marta Galanti, Duccio Fanelli, Francesco Piazza

Chemical reactions involving diffusion of reactants and subsequent chemical fixation steps are generally termed "diffusion-influenced" (DI). Virtually all biochemical processes in living media can be counted among them, together with those occurring in an ever-growing number of emerging nano-technologies. The role of the environment's geometry (o

Xining Chen, Robert Mereau, David L. Feder

The ability to transfer quantum information from one location to another with high fidelity is of central importance to quantum information science. Unfortunately for the simplest system of a uniform chain (a spin chain or a particle in a one-dimensional lattice), the state transfer time grows exponentially in the chain length $N$ at fixed fidelity. In this