November 2016 arXiv papers — page 10

S. Cao, P. Kok, P. Li, A. M. Maiden

We employ ptychography, a phase-retrieval imaging technique, to show experimentally for the first time that a partially coherent high-energy matter (electron) wave emanating from an extended source can be decomposed into a set of mutually independent modes of minimal rank. Partial coherence significantly determines the optical transfer properties of an elect

Arya Mazumdar, Ankit Singh Rawat

An associative memory is a framework of content-addressable memory that stores a collection of message vectors (or a dataset) over a neural network while enabling a neurally feasible mechanism to recover any message in the dataset from its noisy version. Designing an associative memory requires addressing two main tasks: 1) learning phase: given a dataset, l

A. P. Severyukhin, S. Aberg, N. N. Arsenyev, R. G. Nazmitdinov

We study statistical properties of the $0^+$ spectrum of $^{208}$Pb in the energy region $E_x\leq20$ MeV. We use the Skyrme interaction SLy4 as our model Hamiltonian to create a single-particle spectrum and to analyze excited states. The finite-rank separable approximation for the particle-hole interaction enables us to perform the calculations in large conf

Lu Zhou, Ren-Fei Zheng, Weiping Zhang

Based on the spin-orbit coupling recently implemented in a neutral cold-atom gas, we propose a scheme to realize spin-dependent scattering of cold atoms. In particular we consider a matter wave packet of cold-atom gas impinging upon a step potential created by the optical light field, inside of which the atoms are subject to spin-orbit interaction. We show t

Ron Kupfer

We consider the problem of maximizing revenue when selling k items to a single buyer with known valuation distributions. We show that for a single, additive buyer whose valuations for for the items are distributed according to i.i.d. distributions which are known to the seller, the ratio of revenue from selling in a bundle to selling separately is at least 5

Maryam Roghani, Hendrik Weimer

We investigate a one-dimensional atomic lattice laser-driven to a Rydberg state, in which engineered dissipation channels lead to entanglement in the many-body system. In particular, we demonstrate the efficient generation of ground states of a frustration-free Hamiltonian, as well as $W$ states. We discuss the realization of the required coherent and dissip

T. Schneider

We analyze the extended superfluid density data of Božović \textit{ et al}. taken on homogenous thin films to explore the critical properties of the thermal (TSM) and quantum superconductor to metal (QSM) transitions in overdoped La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$. The temperature dependence reveals remarkable agreement with d-wave BCS behavior, where $σ\propto 1/λ

Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We develop a general formalism applying to Newtonian self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates. This formalism may find application in the context of dark matter halos. We introduce a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation including a source of dissipation (damping) and an arbitrary nonlinearity. Using the Madelung transformation, we derive the hydrodynamic

Hua-Yu Zhang, Xiang-Dong Chen, Guang-Can Guo, Fang-Wen Sun

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond has been widely applied for quantum information and sensing in last decade. Based on the laser polarization dependent excitation of fluorescence emission, we propose a super-resolution microscopy of NV center. A series of wide field images of NV centers are taken with different polarizations of the linear polarized

Lana Beck

A combined search for standard model four-top-quark production in the single lepton plus jets and dilepton channels will be presented. The analysis utilises the 2015 dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.6 fb-1. A scheme based on a boosted decision tree algorithm is used to select signal

Sigurd Schneider, Gert Smolka, Sebastian Hack

We study induction on the program structure as a proof method for bisimulation-based compiler correctness. We consider a first-order language with mutually recursive function definitions, system calls, and an environment semantics. The proof method relies on a generalization of compatibility of function definition with the bisimulation. We use the inductive

A. G. Ramm

It is proved that if a smooth function $u(x)$, $x\in \mathbb{R}^3$, such that $\inf_{s\in S}|u_N(s)|>0$, where $u_N$ is the normal derivative of $u$ on $S$, has a closed smooth surface $S$ of zeros, then the function $u(x)+εv(x)$ has also a closed smooth surface $S_ε$ of zeros. Here $v$ is a smooth function and $ε>0$ is a sufficiently small number.

Daisuke Nakauchi, Takashi Hosokawa, Kazuyuki Omukai, Hideyuki Saio

Supermassive stars (SMS; ~ 10^5 M_sun) formed from metal-free gas in the early Universe attract attention as progenitors of supermassive black holes observed at high redshifts. To form SMSs by accretion, central protostars must accrete at as high rates as ~ 0.1-1 M_sun/yr. Such protostars have very extended structures with bloated envelopes, like super-giant

O. L. Dors, G. F. Hagelle, M. V. Cardaci, A. C. Krabbe

The effective temperature (Teff) of the radiation field of the ionizing star(s) of a large sample of extragalactic HII regions was estimated using the R= log([OII](3727)/[OIII]5007) index. We used a grid of photoionization models to calibrate the Teff-R relation finding that it has a strong dependence with the ionizing parameter while it shows a weak direct

A. G. Ramm

It is proved that the set of scattering amplitudes $\{A(β, α, k)\}_{\forall α\in S^2}$, known for all $β\in S^2$, where $S^2$ is the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, $k>0$ is fixed, $k^2$ is not a Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian in $D$, is dense in $L^2(S^2)$. Here $A(β, α, k)$ is the scattering amplitude corresponding to an obstacle $D$, where $D\subset

Jean Dolbeault, An Zhang

This paper collects results concerning global rates and large time asymptotics of a fractional fast diffusion on the Euclidean space, which is deeply related with a family of fractional Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev inequalities. Generically, self-similar solutions are not optimal for the Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev inequalities, in strong contrast with usual

Kseniia V. Baryshnikova, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Alexander S. Shalin

Possibility of magnetic energy accumulation inside silicon nanoparticles at the conditions of resonant optical responses is investigated theoretically. The magnetic field distributions inside silicon nanocylinders with and without coaxial through holes are calculated using full-wave numerical approach. It is demonstrated that such systems can be used for con

José Luis Castiglioni, Hernán Javier San Martín

A hemiimplicative semilattice is a bounded semilattice $(A, \wedge, 1)$ endowed with a binary operation $\to$, satisfying that for every $a, b, c \in A$, $a \leq b \to c$ implies $a \wedge b \leq c$ (that is to say, one of the conditionals satisfied by the residuum of the infimum) and the equation $a \to a = 1$. The class of hemiimplicative semilattices form

Si Liu, Changhu Wang, Ruihe Qian, Han Yu

Surveillance video parsing, which segments the video frames into several labels, e.g., face, pants, left-leg, has wide applications. However,pixel-wisely annotating all frames is tedious and inefficient. In this paper, we develop a Single frame Video Parsing (SVP) method which requires only one labeled frame per video in training stage. To parse one particul

Christopher Helmes, Christian Jost, Bastian Knippschild, Bartosz Kostrzewa

We present results for the interaction of two kaons at maximal isospin. The calculation is based on 2+1+1 flavour gauge configurations generated by the ETM Collaboration (ETMC) featuring pion masses ranging from about 230 MeV to 450 MeV at three values of the lattice spacing. The elastic scattering length $a_0^{I=1}$ is calculated at several values of the ba

O. S. Bayandina, I. E. Val'tts, S. E. Kurtz, G. M. Rudnitskij

We report H$_2$O maser line observations of the bright-rimmed globule IC 1396 N using a ground-space interferometer with the 10-m RadioAstron radio telescope as the space-based element. The source was not detected on projected baselines >2.3 Earth diameters, which indicates a lower limit on the maser size of L >0.03 AU and an upper limit on the brightness te

Kai Yu, Yang Zhou, Da Li, Zhang Zhang

Visual surveillance systems have become one of the largest data sources of Big Visual Data in real world. However, existing systems for video analysis still lack the ability to handle the problems of scalability, expansibility and error-prone, though great advances have been achieved in a number of visual recognition tasks and surveillance applications, e.g.

Erik Thörnblad

Motivated by known results for finite tournaments, we define and study the score functions of tournament kernels and the degree distributions of tournament limits. Our main theorem completely characterises those distributions that appear as the degree distribution of some tournament limit and those functions that appear as the score function of some tourname

Rui-Zhen Huang, Hai-Jun Liao, Zhi-Yuan Liu, Hai-Dong Xie

We propose a generalized Lanczos method to generate the many-body basis states of quantum lattice models using tensor-network states (TNS). The ground-state wave function is represented as a linear superposition composed from a set of TNS generated by Lanczos iteration. This method improves significantly both the accuracy and the efficiency of the tensor-net

V. S. Anoop, S. Asharaf, P. Deepak

With the advent of semantic web, various tools and techniques have been introduced for presenting and organizing knowledge. Concept hierarchies are one such technique which gained significant attention due to its usefulness in creating domain ontologies that are considered as an integral part of semantic web. Automated concept hierarchy learning algorithms f

Byeongjoo Ahn, Tae Hyun Kim, Wonsik Kim, Kyoung Mu Lee

We present a deblurring method for scenes with occluding objects using a carefully designed layered blur model. Layered blur model is frequently used in the motion deblurring problem to handle locally varying blurs, which is caused by object motions or depth variations in a scene. However, conventional models have a limitation in representing the layer inter

Yoji Yamato

Recently, cloud systems composed of heterogeneous hardware have been increased to utilize progressed hardware power. However, to program applications for heterogeneous hardware to achieve high performance needs much technical skill and is difficult for users. Therefore, to achieve high performance easily, this paper proposes a PaaS which analyzes application

Katja Gabrysch, Erik Thörnblad

The greedy walk is a deterministic walk that always moves from its current position to the nearest not yet visited point. In this paper we consider the greedy walk on an inhomogeneous Poisson point process on the real line. Our primary interest is whether the walk visits all points of the point process, and we determine sufficient and necessary conditions on

Walter F. Mascarenhas

We present the library Moore, which implements Interval Arithmetic in modern C++. This library is based on a new feature in the C++ language called concepts, which reduces the problems caused by template meta programming, and leads to a new approach for implementing interval arithmetic libraries in C++.

Muhammad Faheem, M-Tahar Kechadi, Nhien-An Le-Khac

Smartphones have become popular in recent days due to the accessibility of a wide range of applications. These sophisticated applications demand more computing resources in a resource constraint smartphone. Cloud computing is the motivating factor for the progress of these applications. The emerging mobile cloud computing introduces a new architecture to off

Matan Danino, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

The dynamics of two competing species in a finite size community is one of the most studied problems in population genetics and community ecology. Stochastic fluctuations lead, inevitably, to the extinction of one of the species, but the relevant timescale depends on the underlying dynamics. The persistence time of the community has been calculated for neutr

Muhammad Faheem, M-Tahar Kechadi, Nhien-An Le-Khac

Smartphones have created a significant impact on the day to day activities of every individual. Now a days a wide range of Smartphone applications are available and it necessitates high computing resources in order to build these applications. Cloud computing offers enormous resources and extends services to resource-constrained mobile devices. Mobile Cloud

Julen S. Pedernales

This thesis offers novel strategies for the measurement of quantum correlations present in controllable quantum systems, as well as for a full-fledged implementation of the models of light-matter interaction through which these correlations can be generated. We propose the use of an ancillary qubit to efficiently access both time-correlation functions and en

Ileana Cristina Benea Chelmus, Christopher Bonzon, Curdin Maissen, Giacomo Scalari

The quantum nature of photonic systems is reflected in the photon statistics of the light they emit. Therefore, the development of quantum optics tools with single photon sensitivity and excellent temporal resolution is paramount to the development of exotic sources, and is particularly challenging in the THz range where photon energies approach kbT at T=300

Martin Kozák, Joshua McNeur, Kenneth J. Leedle, Huiyang Deng

We demonstrate an experimental technique for both transverse and longitudinal characterization of bunched femtosecond free electron beams. The operation principle is based on monitoring of the current of electrons that obtained an energy gain during the interaction with the synchronized optical near-field wave excited by femtosecond laser pulses. The synchro

Peter Wölfle, Jörg Schmalian, Elihu Abrahams

We present a theory of the scaling behavior of the thermodynamic, transport and dynamical properties of a three-dimensional metal governed by $d$-dimensional fluctuations at a quantum critical point, where the electron quasiparticle effective mass diverges. We determine how the critical bosonic order parameter fluctuations are affected by the effective mass

Sauvik Mukherjee

We prove an analogue of Thurston's h-principle for $2$-dimensional foliations on manifolds of dimension bigger or equal to $4$, in the presence of a fiber-wise non-degenerate $2$-form. This helps us understand the flexibility of rank $2$ regular Poisson structures on open manifolds with dimension bigger or equal to $4$ and it also helps us understand the

M. Mollá, O. Cavichia, R. da Costa, B. K. Gibson

We analyze the evolution of oxygen abundance radial gradients resulting from our chemical evolution models calculated with different prescriptions for the star formation rate (SFR) and for the gas infall rate, in order to assess their respective roles in shaping gradients. We also compare with cosmological simulations and confront all with recent observation

Matthew R. Foreman, David Keng, Eshan Treasurer, Jehovani Lopez

Interactions between whispering gallery modes (WGMs) and small nanoparticles are commonly modelled by treating the particle as a point dipole scatterer. This approach is assumed to be accurate as long as the nanoparticle radius, $a$, is small compared to the WGM wavelength $λ$. In this article, however, we show that the large field gradients associated with

Rahul Chhabra, Arvind Kumar

Using QCD sum rules and chiral SU(3) model, we investigate the effect of temperature, density, strangeness fraction and isospin asymmetric parameter on the shift in masses and decay constants of the pseudoscalar $D$ and $B$ meson in hadronic medium, which consist of nucleons and hyperons. The in-medium properties of $D$ and $B$ mesons within QCD sum rule app

Oscar A. Gonzalez, Victor P. Debattista, Melissa Ness, Peter Erwin

Bulges of edge-on galaxies are often boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS), and unsharp masks reveal the presence of an X shape. Simulations show that these shapes can be produced by dynamical processes driven by a bar which vertically thickens the centre. In the Milky Way, which contains such a B/PS bulge, the X-shaped structure is traced by the metal-rich stars but no

Jason Brown, Aysel Erey

If $G$ is a $k$-chromatic graph of order $n$ then it is known that the chromatic polynomial of $G$, $π(G,x)$, is at most $x(x-1)\cdots (x-(k-1))x^{n-k} = (x)_{\downarrow k}x^{n-k}$ for every $x\in \mathbb{N}$. We improve here this bound by showing that \[ π(G,x) \leq (x)_{\downarrow k} (x-1)^{Δ(G)-k+1} x^{n-1-Δ(G)}\] for every $x\in \mathbb{N},$ where $Δ(G)$

Siyu He, Hongyuan Li, Zhe He, Dmitri V. Voronine

Single molecule detection, sequencing and conformational mapping of aptamers are important for improving medical and biosensing technologies and for better understanding of biological processes at the molecular level. We obtain vibrational signals of single aptamers immobilized on gold substrates using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS). We compare topog

James Burch, Dandan Wen, Xianzhong Chen, Andrea Di Falco

Metasurface holograms are typically fabricated on rigid substrates. Here we experimentally demonstrate broadband, flexible, conformable, helicity multiplexed metasurface holograms operating in the visible range, offering increased potential for real life out-of-the-lab applications. Two symmetrically distributed holographic images are obtained when circularl

Jason Brown, Aysel Erey

A \textit{restraint} $r$ on $G$ is a function which assigns each vertex $v$ of $G$ a finite set of forbidden colours $r(v)$. A proper colouring $c$ of $G$ is said to be \textit{permitted by the restraint r} if $c(v)\notin r(v)$ for every vertex $v$ of $G$. A restraint $r$ on a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices is called a \textit{$k$-restraint} if $|r(v)|=k$ and $

Daphne Davelou, Georgios Kopidakis, Efthimios Kaxiras, Ioannis N. Remediakis

Nanoribbons of MoS$_2$ present a unique electronic structure that consists of a semiconducting bulk bounded by metallic edges; same holds for other Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) (Mo-,W-,S$_{2}$,Se$_{2}$). We perform first-principles calculations for TMD nanoribbons with reconstructed zig-zag metal terminated edges that contain chalcogen adatoms. Al

Tom Zahavy, Alessandro Magnani, Abhinandan Krishnan, Shie Mannor

Classifying products into categories precisely and efficiently is a major challenge in modern e-commerce. The high traffic of new products uploaded daily and the dynamic nature of the categories raise the need for machine learning models that can reduce the cost and time of human editors. In this paper, we propose a decision level fusion approach for multi-m

Oliver Gressel

Protoplanetary disks (PPDs) accrete onto their central T Tauri star via magnetic stresses. When the effect of ambipolar diffusion (AD) is included, and in the presence of a vertical magnetic field, the disk remains laminar between 1-5 au, and a magnetocentrifugal disk wind forms that provides an important mechanism for removing angular momentum. We present g

S. Kumano

We discuss hadron-tomography studies for the nucleon and exotic hadrons by high-energy hadron reactions. First, the constituent-counting rule is explained for determining internal quark configurations of exotic-hadron candidates by scaling properties of high-energy exclusive cross sections. Next, possibilities are discussed for investigating the generalized

Viet Hung Nguyen, Aurélien Lherbier, Jean-Christophe Charlier

When passing an optical medium in the presence of a magnetic field, the polarization of light can be rotated either when reflected at the surface (Kerr effect) or when transmitted through the material (Faraday rotation). This phenomenon is a direct consequence of the optical Hall effect arising from the light-charge carrier interaction in solid state systems

Shuhui Qu, Juncheng Li, Wei Dai, Samarjit Das

Designing appropriate features for acoustic event recognition tasks is an active field of research. Expressive features should both improve the performance of the tasks and also be interpret-able. Currently, heuristically designed features based on the domain knowledge requires tremendous effort in hand-crafting, while features extracted through deep network

Jason Brown, Aysel Erey

The $σ$-polynomial is given by $σ(G,x) = \sum_{i=χ(G)}^{n} a_{i}(G)\, x^{i}$, where $a_{i}(G)$ is the number of partitions of the vertices of $G$ into $i$ nonempty independent sets. These polynomials are closely related to chromatic polynomials, as the chromatic polynomial of $G$ is given by $\sum_{i=χ(G)}^{n} a_{i}(G)\, x(x-1) \cdots (x-(i-1))$. It is known

Shuhui Qu, Juncheng Li, Wei Dai, Samarjit Das

One key step in audio signal processing is to transform the raw signal into representations that are efficient for encoding the original information. Traditionally, people transform the audio into spectral representations, as a function of frequency, amplitude and phase transformation. In this work, we take a purely data-driven approach to understand the tem

Alexander A. Dubinov, Andrey Bylinkin, Vladimir Ya. Aleshkin, Victor Ryzhii

The optimization of laser resonators represents a crucial issue for the design of terahertz semiconductor lasers with high gain and low absorption loss. In this paper, we put forward and optimize the surface plasmonic metal waveguide geometry for the recently proposed terahertz injection laser based on resonant radiative transitions between tunnel-coupled gr

Anjan Soumyanarayanan, Nicolas Reyren, Albert Fert, Christos Panagopoulos

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed in condensed matter systems. In recent years, new phases of matter have emerged from the interplay between SOC and low dimensionality, such as chiral spin textures and spin-polarized sur

Ferdos Rezaei Hosseinabadi

The CMS experiment has measured the electroweak production of top quark in different singly production modes: t-, tW- and s-channel. Recent results on inclusive and differential cross section measurements of t-channel at 13 TeV and of the fiducial cross section at 8 TeV are shown. The search for single top quark production in s-channel at 7 and 8 TeV as well

Gy. J. Vida, E. Simon, L. Rózsa, K. Palotás

We perform a study of domain walls in Co/Ir$_n$/Pt(111) (n = 0,1,...,6) films by a combined approach of first-principles calculations and spin dynamics simulations. We determine the tensorial exchange interactions and the magnetic anisotropies for the Co overlayer in both FCC and HCP geometries, depending on the number of Ir buffer layers. We find strong fer

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lukas Werther

Ancient and medieval harbours connected via navigable and terrestrial routes could be interpreted as elements of complex traffic networks. Based on evidence from three projects in Priority Programme 1630 (Fossa Carolina, Inland harbours in Central Europe and Byzantine harbours on the Balkan coasts) we present a pioneer study to apply concepts and tools of ne

Sunil Simon, Dominik Wojtczak

We study the problem of checking for the existence of constrained pure Nash equilibria in a subclass of polymatrix games defined on weighted directed graphs. The payoff of a player is defined as the sum of nonnegative rational weights on incoming edges from players who picked the same strategy augmented by a fixed integer bonus for picking a given strategy.

Y. Muraki, K. Kamiya, K. Koga, H. Matsumoto

We reported a photon detection at the arrival time of the gravitational wave on December 26th, 2015. According to the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, the gravitational wave was produced by the merging process of the two black holes. The merged time was determined at 03:38:53.6 UT on December 26th. At 03:38:54.05 GPS time, one of the detectors of SEDA-FIB on board

Masoumeh Sadeghi, Amirmasoud Rabiei

A new, fair relay selection scheme is proposed for a dual-hop decode-and-forward network with randomly-distributed relays. Most of the reported works in the literature achieve fairness at the expense of degrading the outage probability performance. In addition, they often assume that the number and locations of the relays are known. In contrast, the proposed

D. Méndez Fernández, S. Wagner

For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a high quality requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understand industrial expectations and problems. Although we are investigating the discipline with a plethora of empirical studies, they still do not allow for empirical generalisations. To lay an empirical and externally va

Shay Deutsch, Antonio Ortega, Gerard Medioni

We propose a new framework for manifold denoising based on processing in the graph Fourier frequency domain, derived from the spectral decomposition of the discrete graph Laplacian. Our approach uses the Spectral Graph Wavelet transform in order to per- form non-iterative denoising directly in the graph frequency domain, an approach inspired by conventional

Hoon Kim, Tetiana V. Slusar, Dirk Wulferding, Ilkyu Yang

In VO$_2$, the explicit origin of the insulator-to-metal transition is still disputable between Peierls and Mott insulators. Along with the controversy, its second monoclinic (M2) phase has received considerable attention due to the presence of electron correlation in undimerized vanadium ions. However, the origin of the M2 phase is still obscure. Here, we s

Gustavo Romero, Markus Boettcher, Sera Markoff, Fabrizio Tavecchio

Collimated outflows (jets) appear to be a ubiquitous phenomenon associated with the accretion of material onto a compact object. Despite this ubiquity, many fundamental physics aspects of jets are still poorly understood and constrained. These include the mechanism of launching and accelerating jets, the connection between these processes and the nature of t

Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Tao Mei

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven highly effective for visual recognition, where learning a universal representation from activations of convolutional layer plays a fundamental problem. In this paper, we present Fisher Vector encoding with Variational Auto-Encoder (FV-VAE), a novel deep architecture that quantizes the local activations of

Duo Zhang, Weidong Mei, Lingxiang Li, Zhi Chen

In this paper, we consider the transmit design for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wiretap channel including a malicious jammer. We first transform the system model into the traditional three-node wiretap channel by whitening the interference at the legitimate user. Additionally, the eavesdropper channel state information (ECSI) may be fully or statistically

Hong Chang, Zhong Huang, Xueliang Li

A path $P$ in an edge-colored graph $G$ is a \emph{proper path} if no two adjacent edges of $P$ are colored with the same color. The graph $G$ is \emph{proper connected} if, between every pair of vertices, there exists a proper path in $G$. The \emph{proper connection number} $pc(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is defined as the minimum number of colors to make

Bappaditya Roy, S. B. Santra

A two parameter percolation model with nucleation and growth of finite clusters is developed taking the initial seed concentration ρand a growth parameter g as two tunable parameters. Percolation transition is determined by the final static configuration of spanning clusters. A finite size scaling theory for such transition is developed and numerically verif

Huifeng Guo, Ruiming Tang, Yunming Ye, Zhenguo Li

It is well known that learning customers' preference and making recommendations to them from today's information-exploded environment is critical and non-trivial in an on-line system. There are two different modes of recommendation systems, namely pull-mode and push-mode. The majority of the recommendation systems are pull-mode, which recommend items

Yuliy Baryshnikov, Boris Shapiro

In this paper, motivated by the classical notion of a Strebel qua- dratic differential on a compact Riemann surface without boundary, we in- troduce several classes of quadratic differentials (called non-chaotic, gradient, and positive gradient) which possess some properties of Strebel differentials and appear in applications. We discuss the relation between

Seyyed Alireza Ahmadi

In this note we study some properties of topological entropy for non-compact non-metrizable spaces. We prove that if a uniformly continuous self-map $f$ of a uniform space has topological shadowing property then the map $f$ has positive uniform entropy, which extends the similar known result for homeomorphisms on compact metric spaces having shadowing proper

Mahendra K. Verma, Abhishek Kumar, Ambrish Pandey

In this paper, we review the recent developments in the field of buoyancy-driven turbulence. Scaling and numerical arguments show that the stably-stratified turbulence with moderate stratification has kinetic energy spectrum $E_u(k) \sim k^{-11/5}$ and the kinetic energy flux $Π_u(k) \sim k^{-4/5}$, which is called Bolgiano-Obukhov scaling. The energy flux f

Alexei Borodin, Alexey Bufetov, Michael Wheeler

We prove that the joint distribution of the values of the height function for the stochastic six vertex model in a quadrant along a down-right path coincides with that for the lengths of the first columns of partitions distributed according to certain Hall-Littlewood processes. In the limit when one of the quadrant axes becomes continuous, we also show that

Shimin Li, Haitao Wang

We consider a problem of dispersing points on disjoint intervals on a line. Given n pairwise disjoint intervals sorted on a line, we want to find a point in each interval such that the minimum pairwise distance of these points is maximized. Based on a greedy strategy, we present a linear time algorithm for the problem. Further, we also solve in linear time t

G. F. Bertsch

Gerry Brown initiated some early studies on the coexistence of different nuclear shapes. The subject has continued to be of interest and is crucial for understanding nuclear fission. We now have a very good picture of the potential energy surface with respect to shape degrees of freedom in heavy nuclei, but the dynamics remain problematic. In contrast, the e

Jeong-Mo Choi, Amy I. Gilson, Eugene I. Shakhnovich

In this work we show that there is a direct relationship between a graph's topology and the free energy of a spin system on the graph. We develop a method of separating topological and enthalpic contributions to the free energy, and find that considering the topology is sufficient to qualitatively compare the free energies of different graph systems at h

Tom Le Paine, Pooya Khorrami, Shiyu Chang, Yang Zhang

This paper presents an efficient implementation of the Wavenet generation process called Fast Wavenet. Compared to a naive implementation that has complexity O(2^L) (L denotes the number of layers in the network), our proposed approach removes redundant convolution operations by caching previous calculations, thereby reducing the complexity to O(L) time. Tim

Fengyu Xu, Anbin Chen

This paper regards feed mine as a mixture of intergrowths and pure non-magnetic mineral particles, presents a method to calculate the evaluation variables such as grade and recovery in high gradient magnetic separation (HGMS). A idealized capture model is constructed in which the interaction between particles is not taken into account and only for the initia

Ramiro Velazquez

Assistive devices are a key aspect in wearable systems for biomedical applications, as they represent potential aids for people with physical and sensory disabilities that might lead to improvements in the quality of life. This chapter focuses on wearable assistive devices for the blind. It intends to review the most significant work done in this area, to pr

Alexey Glazyrin, Wei-Hsuan Yu

The set of points in a metric space is called an $s$-distance set if pairwise distances between these points admit only $s$ distinct values. Two-distance spherical sets with the set of scalar products $\{α, -α\}$, $α\in[0,1)$, are called equiangular. The problem of determining the maximum size of $s$-distance sets in various spaces has a long history in math

Cezar Ionescu, Patrik Jansson

We present the approach underlying a course on "Domain-Specific Languages of Mathematics", currently being developed at Chalmers in response to difficulties faced by third-year students in learning and applying classical mathematics (mainly real and complex analysis). The main idea is to encourage the students to approach mathematical domains from a

Prabhakar Ragde

Proust is a small Racket program offering rudimentary interactive assistance in the development of verified proofs for propositional and predicate logic. It is constructed in stages, some of which are done by students before using it to complete proof exercises, and in parallel with the study of its theoretical underpinnings, including elements of Martin-Lof

Victor Winter, Betty Love, Cindy Corritore

This paper describes the Bricklayer Ecosystem - a freely-available online educational ecosystem created for people of all ages and coding backgrounds. Bricklayer is designed in accordance with a "low-threshold infinite ceiling" philosophy and has been successfully used to teach coding to primary school students, middle school students, university fre

Scott N. Walck

To learn quantum mechanics, one must become adept in the use of various mathematical structures that make up the theory; one must also become familiar with some basic laboratory experiments that the theory is designed to explain. The laboratory ideas are naturally expressed in one language, and the theoretical ideas in another. We present a method for learni

J. Boender, E. Currie, M. Loomes, G. Primiero

We present our approach to teaching functional programming to First Year Computer Science students at Middlesex University through projects in robotics. A holistic approach is taken to the curriculum, emphasising the connections between different subject areas. A key part of the students' learning is through practical projects that draw upon and integrat

Anand Parejiya, Manjeet Chaudhary, Sai Mani Prudhvi Valleti, Marm Dixit

Design and operation of advanced reactors such as fuel reformers require reliable micro-kinetic models that capture the dynamics of the reaction. The negative temperature coefficient phenomenon causes a reduction in mixture temperature for increasing inlet temperatures. However, micro-kinetic models available in the literature have not been critically evalua

Rajko Nenadov, Nemanja Škorić

Conlon, Gowers, Samotij, and Schacht showed that for a given graph $H$ and a constant $γ> 0$, there exists $C > 0$ such that if $p \ge Cn^{-1/m_2(H)}$ then asymptotically almost surely every spanning subgraph $G$ of the random graph $\mathcal{G}(n,p)$ with minimum degree at least $δ(G) \ge (1 - 1/χ_{\mathrm{cr}}(H) + γ)np$ contains an $H$-packing that covers

Rongrong Ma

Measurements of heavy flavor production in heavy-ion collisions have played an important role in understanding the properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in such collision. Due to their large masses, heavy flavor quarks present unique sensitivity to the kinematics as well as the dynamics of the hot and dense medium. In this article, a selection of rece

Shan Su, Jung Pyo Hong, Jianbo Shi, Hyun Soo Park

This paper presents a method to predict the future movements (location and gaze direction) of basketball players as a whole from their first person videos. The predicted behaviors reflect an individual physical space that affords to take the next actions while conforming to social behaviors by engaging to joint attention. Our key innovation is to use the 3D

Xin Huang, Tula R. Paudel, Peter A. Dowben, Shuai Dong

The energetics and the electronic structure of methylammonium lead bromine (CH3NH3PbBr3) perovskite (001) surfaces are studied based on density functional theory. By examining the surface grand potential, we predict that the CH3NH3Br-terminated (001) surface is energetically more favorable than the PbBr2-terminated (001) surface, under thermodynamic equilibr

Karl Bane, Gennady Stupakov, Igor Zagorodnov

We give formulas for the longitudinal, transverse, and quad point charge wakes for a short bunch of electrons passing by one plate of a flat dechirper.

Ravindra B. Bapat, Masoud Karimi, Jia-Bao Liu

The Kirchhoff index of a graph is defined as half of the sum of all effective resistance distances between any two vertices. Assuming a complete multipartite graph G, by methods from linear algebra we explicitly formulate effective resistance distances between any two vertices of G, and its Kirchhoff index. In rest of paper we explore extremal value of Kirch

N. Quang Hung, N. Dinh Dang, T. V. Nhan Hao, L. Tan Phuc

The dipole excitations for calcium and zirconium isotopes are studied within the fully self-consistent Hartree-Fock mean field incorporated with the renormalized random-phase approximation (RRPA) using the Skyrme interaction SLy5. The RRPA takes into account the effect of ground-state correlations beyond RPA owing to the Pauli principle between the particle-

Pengfei Zhang, Zhenhua Yu

A new class of universal "three-body" bound states has been recently predicted theoretically for identical fermions interacting at p-wave resonance in two dimensions. This phenomenon is called the super Efimov effect since the binding energies of the states follow a intriguing double exponential scaling. However, experimental resolution of this scali

Z. C. Shi, W. Wang, X. X. Yi

With the assistance of a pair of Majorana fermions, we propose schemes to entangle two quantum dots by Lyapunov control in the charge and spin degrees of freedom. Four different schemes are considered, i.e., the teleportation scheme, the crossed Andreev reflection scheme, the intradot spin flip scheme, and the scheme beyond the intradot spin flip. We demonst

S. Antoniucci, B. Nisini, T. Giannini, E. Rigliaco

Hydrogen recombination emission lines commonly observed in accreting young stellar objects represent a powerful tracer for the gas conditions in the circumstellar structures. Here we perform a study of the HI decrements and line profiles, from the Balmer and Paschen lines detected in the X-Shooter spectra of a homogeneous sample of 36 T Tauri stars in Lupus,

Kenji Toma, Fumio Takahara

The Blandford-Znajek process, the steady electromagnetic energy extraction from a rotating black hole, is widely believed to work for driving relativistic jets, although it is still under debate where the electric current is driven. We address this issue analytically by investigating the time-dependent state in the Boyer-Lindquist and Kerr-Schild coordinate

P Balasubramanian, N E Mastorakis

Electronic circuits and systems used in mission and safety-critical applications usually employ redundancy in the design to overcome arbitrary fault(s) or failure(s) and guarantee the correct operation. In this context, the distributed minority and majority voting based redundancy (DMMR) scheme forms an efficient alternative to the conventional N-modular red

Kevin K. Chen, Anthony Gamst, Alden Walker

ReLU neural networks define piecewise linear functions of their inputs. However, initializing and training a neural network is very different from fitting a linear spline. In this paper, we expand empirically upon previous theoretical work to demonstrate features of trained neural networks. Standard network initialization and training produce networks vastly