November 2016 arXiv papers — page 2

F Goncharov

We propose iterative inversion algorithms for weighted Radon transforms $R_W$ along hyperplanes in $R^3$. More precisely, expandingthe weight $W = W (x, θ), x \in R^3 , θ\in S^2$ , into the series of spherical harmonics in $θ$ and assuming that the zero order term $w_{0,0}(x)$ is not zero at any $x \in R^3$ , we reduce the inversion of $R_W$ to solving a lin

Konstantinos Georgiou, George Karakostas, Evangelos Kranakis

We initiate the study of a new problem on searching and fetching in a distributed environment concerning treasure-evacuation from a unit disk. A treasure and an exit are located at unknown positions on the perimeter of a disk and at known arc distance. A team of two robots start from the center of the disk, and their goal is to fetch the treasure to the exit

T. Kangas, N. Blagorodnova, S. Mattila, P. Lundqvist

We present ultraviolet, optical and infrared photometry and optical spectroscopy of the type Ic superluminous supernova (SLSN) Gaia16apd (= SN 2016eay), covering its evolution from 26 d before the $g$-band peak to 234.1 d after the peak. Gaia16apd was followed as a part of the NOT Unbiased Transient Survey (NUTS). It is one of the closest SLSNe known ($z = 0

Landy Rabehasaina, Jae-Kyung Woo

This paper considers a particular renewal-reward process with multivariate discounted rewards (inputs) where the arrival epochs are adjusted by adding some random delays. Then this accumulated reward can be regarded as multivariate discounted Incurred But Not Reported (IBNR) claims in actuarial science and some important quantities studied in queueing theory

R. Avalos, F. Dahia, C. Romero

We discuss the question of whether or not a general Weyl structure is a suitable mathematical model of space-time. This is an issue that has been in debate since Weyl formulated his unified field theory for the first time. We do not present the discussion from the point of view of a particular unification theory, but instead from a more general standpoint, i

Guido Borghi, Marco Venturelli, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara

Fast and accurate upper-body and head pose estimation is a key task for automatic monitoring of driver attention, a challenging context characterized by severe illumination changes, occlusions and extreme poses. In this work, we present a new deep learning framework for head localization and pose estimation on depth images. The core of the proposal is a regr

Xiao-Mei Kuang, Olivera Miskovic

We study the thermal phase transitions of charged black holes in dimensionally continued gravity in anti-de Sitter space. We find the van der Waals-like phase transition in the temperature-entropy plane of the black holes with spherical horizons in even dimensions, and there is no such phase transition of the black holes with flat and hyperbolic geometries.

Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar, George Kesidis

Net neutrality on the Internet is perceived as the policy that mandates Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all data equally, regardless of the source, destination, or type of transmitted data. In this work, we consider a scheme in which the decision makers of the market are two ISPs, one "big" Content Provider (CP), and a continuum of end-use

Martino Trassinelli

We present an introduction to some concepts of Bayesian data analysis in the context of atomic physics. Starting from basic rules of probability, we present the Bayes' theorem and its applications. In particular we discuss about how to calculate simple and joint probability distributions and the Bayesian evidence, a model dependent quantity that allows t

Nianhong Zhou

Let $F({\bf x})={\bf x}^tQ_{\bf x}+\mathbf{b}^t{\bf x}+c\in\mathbb{Z}[{\bf x}]$ be a quadratic polynomial in $\ell (\ge 3 )$ variables ${\bf x} =(x_{1},...,x_{\ell})$, where $F({\bf x})$ is positive when ${\bf x}\in\mathbb{R}_{\ge 1}^{\ell}$, $Q\in {\rm M}_{\ell}(\mathbb{Z})$ is an $\ell\times\ell$ matrix and its discriminant $\det\left(Q^t+Q\right)\neq 0$.

Andreas Geißler, Walter Hofstetter

In any bosonic lattice system, which is not dominated by local interactions and thus "frozen" in a Mott-type state, numerical methods have to cope with the infinite size of the corresponding Hilbert space even for finite lattice sizes. While it is common practice to restrict the local occupation number basis to $N_c$ lowest occupied states, the prese

Ze Li, Lifeng Zhao

In this paper, we prove that the solution of the Landau-Lifshitz flow $u(t,x)$ from $\mathbb{H}^2$ to $\mathbb{H}^2$ converges to some harmonic map as $t\to\infty$. The essential observation is that although there exist infinite numbers of harmonic maps from $\Bbb H^2$ to $\Bbb H^2$, the heat flow initiated from $u(t,x)$ for any given $t>0$ converges to the

Kazuyuki Sekizawa, Sophia Heinz

Recent experiments revealed intriguing similarities in the $^{64}$Ni+$^{207}$Pb, $^{132}$Xe+$^{208}$Pb, and $^{238}$U+$^{238}$U reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier. The experimental data indicate that for all systems substantial energy dissipation takes place, in the first stage of the reaction, although the number of transferred nucleons is sma

Maryam Kamgarpour, Tyler Summers

We consider the infinite dimensional linear programming (inf-LP) approach for solving stochastic control problems. The inf-LP corresponding to problems with uncountable state and input spaces is in general computationally intractable. By focusing on linear systems with quadratic cost (LQG), we establish a connection between this approach and the well-known R

Ang-Kun Wu, Liang Tian, Yang-Yu Liu

A bridge in a graph is an edge whose removal disconnects the graph and increases the number of connected components. We calculate the fraction of bridges in a wide range of real-world networks and their randomized counterparts. We find that real networks typically have more bridges than their completely randomized counterparts, but very similar fraction of b

Thomas Richez

Let $J$ be the Jacobian of a smooth projective complex curve $C$ which admits non-trivial automorphisms, and let $A(J)$ be the ring of algebraic cycles on $J$ with rational coefficients modulo algebraic equivalence. We present new tautological rings in $A(J)$ which extend in a natural way the tautological ring studied by Beauville (Compos Math 140(3):683-688

Hongwen Zhang, Qi Li, Zhenan Sun, Yunfan Liu

Facial landmark detection is an important yet challenging task for real-world computer vision applications. This paper proposes an effective and robust approach for facial landmark detection by combining data- and model-driven methods. Firstly, a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) is trained to compute response maps of all facial landmark points. Such a data-

Ya-Hui Chen, Fu-Hu Liu, Roy A. Lacey

We analyze the transverse momentum ($p_T$) and rapidity ($y$) spectra of top quark pairs, hadronic top quarks, and top quarks produced in proton-proton ($pp$) collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV. For $p_T$ spectra, we use the superposition of the inverse power-law suggested by the QCD (quantum chromodynamics) calculus and the Erlang distribu

S. E. Jaffa, A. P. Whitworth, O. Lomax

Many young star clusters appear to be fractal, i.e. they appear to be concentrated in a nested hierarchy of clusters within clusters. We present a new algorithm for statistically analysing the distribution of stars to quantify the level of sub-structure. We suggest that, even at the simplest level, the internal structure of a fractal cluster requires the spe

Kazuki Iijima, Kyouhei Sasaki, Yuuki Takahashi, Masahiko Yoshinaga

We prove that the Eulerian polynomial satisfies certain polynomial congruences. Furthermore, these congruences characterize the Eulerian polynomial.

Supratik Chakraborty, Ashutosh Gupta, Rahul Jain

Bit-vector formulas arising from hardware verification problems often contain word-level arithmetic operations. Empirical evidence shows that state-of-the-art SMT solvers are not very efficient at reasoning about bit-vector formulas with multiplication. This is particularly true when multiplication operators are decomposed and represented in alternative ways

Kai-Wen Zhang, Chao-Long Yang, Bin Lei, Pengchao Lu

By using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) / spectroscopy (STS), we systematically characterize the electronic structure of lightly doped 1T-TiSe2, and demonstrate the existence of the electronic inhomogeneity and the pseudogap state. It is found that the intercalation induced lattice distortion impacts the local band structure and reduce the size of the c

A. Mukherjee, S. Schramm, J. Steinheimer

We use an improved version of the SU(3) flavour parity-doublet quark-hadron model to investigate the higher order baryon number susceptibilities near the chiral and the nuclear liquid-gas transitions. The parity-doublet model has been improved by adding higher-order interaction terms of the scalar fields in the effective mean field Lagrangian, resulting in a

Dmitri Pavlov, Jakob Scholbach

We show that the bounded derived category of regular holonomic D-modules on a smooth variety is equivalent to the homotopy catgory of compact (or constructible) modules over the motivic ring spectrum $H_{dR}$ representing algebraic de Rham cohomology. This equivalence is compatible with the six functors on both sides. This way, the classical functors in the

Erkai Chen, Meixia Tao

Multi-group multicast beamforming in wireless systems with large antenna arrays and massive audience is investigated in this paper. Multicast beamforming design is a well-known non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problem. A conventional method to tackle this problem is to approximate it as a semi-definite programming problem via

Yu-Ning Zhang, Qian Liu, Hong-Bang Liu, Yi-Gang Xie

A sealed high gas pressure detector working in pure argon is assembled. It consists of a 5 cm $\times$ 5 cm PCB THGEM (THick Gaseous Electron Multipliers). The detector structure and experimental setup are described. The performances under high pressure of 2 atm mainly consist in selecting optimal voltages for ionization region and induction region. The depe

N. Emi, N. Kawamura, M. Mizumaki, T. Koyama

We report a systematic study of Sm valence in the prototypical intermediate valence compound SmB$_6$. Sm mean valence, $v_{\rm Sm}$, was measured by X-ray absorption spectroscopy as functions of pressure ($1<P<13$ GPa) and temperature ($3<T<300$ K). Pressure induced magnetic order (MO) was detected above $P_c = 10$ GPa by resistivity measurements. A shift to

Grigory Rubtsov, Petr Satunin, Sergey Sibiryakov

We discuss the effect of hypothetical violation of Lorentz invariance at high energies on the formation of atmospheric showers by very-high-energy gamma rays. In the scenario where Lorentz invariance violation leads to a decrease of the photon velocity with energy the formation of the showers is suppressed compared to the Lorentz invariant case. Absence of s

Luis A. Correa, Martí Perarnau-Llobet, Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Senaida Hernández-Santana

We consider the problem of estimating the temperature $ T $ of a very cold equilibrium sample. The temperature estimates are drawn from measurements performed on a quantum probe strongly coupled to it. We model this scenario by resorting to the canonical Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian and find analytically the exact stationary state of the probe for arbitrary

Rémi Boutonnet, Arnaud Brothier

We study actions of locally compact groups on von Neumann factors and the associated crossed-product von Neumann algebras. In the setting of totally disconnected groups we provide sufficient conditions on an action $G\curvearrowright Q$ ensuring that the inclusion $Q \subset Q \rtimes G$ is irreducible and that every intermediate subfactor is of the form $Q

Stephane Bijakowski, Valentin Hernandez

We study $p$-divisible groups $G$ endowed with an action of the ring of integers of a finite (possibly ramified) extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ over a scheme of characteristic $p$. We suppose moreover that the $p$-divisible group $G$ satisfies the Pappas-Rapoport condition for a certain datum $μ$ ; this condition consists in a filtration on the sheaf of differe

Serena Dipierro, Joaquim Serra, Enrico Valdinoci

We prove an improvement of flatness result for nonlocal phase transitions. For a class of nonlocal equations that includes $(-Δ)^{s/2} u = u-u^3$, with~$s\in(0,1)$, we obtain a result in the same spirit of a celebrated theorem of Savin for the equation $-Δu = u-u^3$. As a consequence, we deduce that entire solutions to~$(-Δ)^{s/2} u = u-u^3$ with asymptotica

Korneel Debaene

We prove a bound on the number of primes with a given splitting behaviour in a given field extension. This bound generalises the Brun-Titchmarsh bound on the number of primes in an arithmetic progression. The proof is set up as an application of Selberg&#39;s Sieve in number fields. The main new ingredient is an explicit counting result estimating the number

Stefano Marcugini, Fernanda Pambianco, Hitoshi Kaneta

For every p >= 5, we determine all Z_p-invariant nonsingular quartic surfaces in the three dimensional projective space over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. In some cases, we also determine their full projective automorphism groups.

Agnieszka Luszczak, Henri Kowalski

We analyse, within a dipole model, the final, inclusive HERA DIS cross section data in the low $x$ region, using fully correlated errors. We show, that these highest precision data are very well described within the dipole model framework starting from $Q^2$ values of 3.5 GeV$^2$ to the highest values of $Q^2 =$ 250 GeV$^2$.

M. Malki, G. S. Uhrig

The interest in the properties of edge states in Chern insulators and in $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulator has increased rapidly in recent years. We present calculations on how to influence the transport properties of chiral and helical edge states by modifications of the edges in the Haldane and in the Kane-Mele model. The Fermi velocity of the chiral ed

L. Suárez-Andrés, G. Israelian, J. I. González Hernández, V. Zh. Adibekyan

Context. Carbon, oxygen and nitrogen (CNO) are key elements in stellar formation and evolution, and their abundances should also have a significant impact on planetary formation and evolution. Aims. We present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of 1110 solar-type stars, 143 of which are known to have planetary companions. We have determined the carbon abundan

Seung-Il Choi, Jae-Hoon Kwon

We give a simple crystal theoretic interpretation of the Lascoux&#39;s expansion of a non-symmetric Cauchy kernel $\prod_{i+ j\leq n+1}(1-x_iy_j)^{-1}$, which is given in terms of Demazure characters and atoms. We give a bijective proof of the non-symmetric Cauchy identity using the crystal of Lakshmibai-Seshadri paths, and extend it to the case of continuou

Zuling Chang, Martianus Frederic Ezerman, San Ling, Huaxiong Wang

We propose a construction of de Bruijn sequences by the cycle joining method from linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs) with arbitrary characteristic polynomial $f(x)$. We study in detail the cycle structure of the set $Ω(f(x))$ that contains all sequences produced by a specific LFSR on distinct inputs and provide a fast way to find a state of each cycle.

A. Maragkoudakis, A. Zezas, M. L. N. Ashby, S. P. Willner

We describe a sub-galactic main sequence (SGMS) relating star formation rate surface density ($Σ_{\textrm{SFR}}$) and stellar mass density ($Σ_{\star}$) for distinct regions within star forming galaxies, including their nuclei. We use a sample of 246 nearby star-forming galaxies from the &#34;Star Formation Reference Survey&#34; and demonstrate that the SGMS

Witold Dyrka, François Coste, Olgierd Unold, Łukasz Culer

Context-free and context-sensitive formal grammars are often regarded as more appropriate to model proteins than regular level models such as finite state automata and Hidden Markov Models. In theory, the claim is well founded in the fact that many biologically relevant interactions between residues of protein sequences have a character of nested or crossed

M. A. L. Capri, D. Dudal, A. D. Pereira, D. Fiorentini

In order to construct a gauge invariant two-point function in a Yang-Mills theory, we propose the use of the all-order gauge invariant transverse configurations A^h. Such configurations can be obtained through the minimization of the functional A^2_{min} along the gauge orbit within the BRST invariant formulation of the Gribov-Zwanziger framework recently pu

Shweta Bhandari, Wafa Ben Jaballah, Vineeta Jain, Vijay Laxmi

With the digital breakthrough, smart phones have become very essential component. Mobile devices are very attractive attack surface for cyber thieves as they hold personal details (accounts, locations, contacts, photos) and have potential capabilities for eavesdropping (with cameras/microphone, wireless connections). Android, being the most popular, is the t

F. Cicciarella, M. Pieroni

Several recent works suggested the possibility of describing inflation by means of a renormalization group equation. In this paper we discuss the application of these methods to models of quintessence. In this framework a period of exponential expansion corresponds to the slow evolution of the scalar field in the neighborhood of a fixed point. A minimal set

Luca Ambrogioni, Eric Maris

The construction of synthetic complex-valued signals from real-valued observations is an important step in many time series analysis techniques. The most widely used approach is based on the Hilbert transform, which maps the real-valued signal into its quadrature component. In this paper, we define a probabilistic generalization of this approach. We model th

Yan-Wei Dai, Qian-Qian Shi, Sam Young Cho, Murray T. Batchelor

The finite temperature phase diagram is obtained for an infinite honeycomb lattice with spin-$1/2$ Ising interaction $J$ by using thermal-state fidelity and von Neumann entropy based on the infinite projected entangled pair state algorithm with ancillas. % The tensor network representation of the fidelity, which is defined as an overlap measurement between t

Yashar Akrami, Florian Kuhnel, Marit Sandstad

The existence (and abundance) of primordial black holes (PBHs) is governed by the power spectrum of primordial perturbations generated during inflation. So far no PBHs have been observed, and instead, increasingly stringent bounds on their existence at different scales have been obtained. Up until recently, this has been exploited in attempts to constrain pa

Yu. S. Kalashnikova, A. V. Nefediev

The QCD string model is employed to evaluate the masses of orbitally and radially excited heavy-light mesons and lightest hybrids in the spectrum of charmonium and bottomonium. The number of parameters of the model is reduced to only seven which are the string tension, the two values of the strong coupling constant (one for heavy-light and $\bar{c}c$ mesons

Yu-il Seo, Woo-Jae Choi, Shin-ich Kimura, Yunkyu Bang

We have measured the reflectivity of the optimally doped Ca$_{8.5}$La$_{1.5}$(Pt$_3$As$_8$)(Fe$_{10}$As$_{10}$) single crystal ($T_c$ = 32.8K) over the broad frequency range from 40 to 12000 $cm^{-1}$ and for temperatures from 8 to 300 K. The optical conductivity spectra of the low frequency region ($< 1,000$ $cm^{-1}$) in the normal state (80 K $< T \leq$ 3

Hazim Michman Trao, Gek L. Chia, Niran Abbas Ali, Adem Kilicman

We study extremal type problem arising from the question: What is the maximum number of edge-disjoint non-crossing perfect matchings on a set S of 2n points in the plane such that their union is a triangle-free geometric graph? We approach this problem by considering four different situations of S. In particular, in the general position, we obtain (i) a suff

Sandeep Kumar, Sindhu Padakandla, Chandrashekar L, Priyank Parihar

Hadoop MapReduce is a framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets that is quite popular in big data analytics. It has various configuration parameters (knobs) which play an important role in deciding the performance i.e., the execution time of a given big data processing job. Default values of these parameters do not always result in g

Artem G. Volosniev

We study a strongly interacting system of N identical bosons and one impurity in a one-dimensional trap. First, we assume that the particles have identical masses and analyze the corresponding set-up. After that, we study the influence of a small mass asymmetry on our analysis. In particular, we discuss how the structure of the wave function and the degenera

Kazuo Hida, Ken&#39;ichi Takano

We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of a spin-1 diamond chain. Owing to a series of conservation laws, any eigenstate of this system can be expressed using the eigenstates of finite odd-length chains or infinite chains with spins 1 and 2. The ground state undergoes quantum phase transitions with varying $λ$, a parameter that controls frustration. E

Yasuo Tabei, Simon J. Puglisi

Similarity search over chemical compound databases is a fundamental task in the discovery and design of novel drug-like molecules. Such databases often encode molecules as non-negative integer vectors, called molecular descriptors, which represent rich information on various molecular properties. While there exist efficient indexing structures for searching

Philipp Holl, Friedemann Reinhard

Wireless data transmission systems such as WiFi or Bluetooth emit coherent light - electromagnetic waves with precisely known amplitude and phase. Propagating in space, this radiation forms a hologram - a two-dimensional wavefront encoding a three-dimensional view of all objects traversed by the light beam. Here we demonstrate a scheme to record this hologra

Yu Nakayama

There is a dilemma in constructing interacting scale invariant but not conformal invariant Euclidean field theories. On one hand, scale invariance without conformal invariance seems more generic by requiring only a smaller symmetry. On the other hand, the existence of a non-conserved current with exact scaling dimension $d-1$ in $d$ dimensions seems to requi

Sasha Sodin

A one-parameter family of point processes describing the distribution of the critical points of the characteristic polynomial of large random Hermitian matrices on the scale of mean spacing is investigated. Conditionally on the Riemann hypothesis and the multiple correlation conjecture, we show that one of these limiting processes also describes the distribu

Xin-Gang Zhao, Dongwen Yang, Yuanhui Sun, Tianshu Li

The long-term chemical instability and the presence of toxic Pb in otherwise stellar solar absorber APbX$_{3}$ have hindered their large-scale commercialization. Previously explored ways to achieve Pb-free halide perovskites involved replacing Pb$^{2+}$ with other similar M$^{2+}$ cations in ns$^2$ electron configuration, e.g., Sn$^{2+}$ or by Bi$^{3+}$ (plu

Max Dörner, Hansjörg Geiges, Kai Zehmisch

We survey some results on the existence (and non-existence) of periodic Reeb orbits on contact manifolds, both in the open and closed case. We place these statements in the context of Finsler geometry by including a proof of the folklore theorem that the Finsler geodesic flow can be interpreted as a Reeb flow. As a mild extension of previous results we prese

Frantisek Duris

Testing convergence of infinite series is an important part of mathematics. A very basic test of convergence is to upper-bound a given series with a known series, term by term. In $19^{th}$ century, Kummer proposed a test of convergence for any positive series based on finding a suitable positive sequence $\{p_n\}$ and a suitable real constant $c$. It can be

Kosar Asadi, Kourosh Nozari

Focusing on the local type primordial non-Gaussianities, we study the bispectrum and trispectrum during a non-minimal slow-roll inflation. We use the so-called $δN$ formalism to investigate the super-horizon evolution of the primordial perturbations in this setup. Firstly we obtain the main equations of the model and introduce the framework of the $δN$ forma

Mark Bradshaw, Syed M. Assad, Jing Yan Haw, Si-Hui Tan

We cast the problem of illuminating an object in a noisy environment into a communication protocol. A probe is sent into the environment, and the presence or absence of the object constitutes a signal encoded on the probe. The probe is then measured to decode the signal. We calculate the Holevo information and bounds to the accessible information between the

Qiaoyin Pan, Ue-Li Pen, Derek Inman, Hao-Ran Yu

Reconstruction techniques are commonly used in cosmology to reduce complicated nonlinear behaviours to a more tractable linearized system. We study a new reconstruction technique that uses the Moving-Mesh algorithm to estimate the displacement field from nonlinear matter distribution. We show the performance of this new technique by quantifying its ability t

Jonathan Huang, Vivek Rathod, Chen Sun, Menglong Zhu

The goal of this paper is to serve as a guide for selecting a detection architecture that achieves the right speed/memory/accuracy balance for a given application and platform. To this end, we investigate various ways to trade accuracy for speed and memory usage in modern convolutional object detection systems. A number of successful systems have been propos

Alexander I. Nesterov, Yuri S. Orlov, Sergey G. Ovchinnikov, Sergey V. Nikolaev

Within the framework of a realistic multi-band p-d-model, we derived an effective Hamiltonian to describe the exchange interaction effects near the spin crossover in magnetic Mott-Hubbard insulators under pressure. It is shown that single-ion mechanism of spin crossover under change of the crystal field does not lead to a thermodynamic phase transition, howe

Hilla De-Leon, Lucas Platter, Doron Gazit

We calculate the $β$-decay of tritium at next-to-leading order in pionless effective field theory. At this order, a low-energy parameter $L_{1, A}$ enters the calculation that is also relevant for a high-accuracy prediction of the solar proton-proton fusion rate. We use the tritium half-life to determine this parameter and provide uncertainty estimates. We s

Song-Ying Li, Guijuan Lin, Duong Ngoc Son

We give sharp and explicit upper bounds for the first positive eigenvalue $λ_1(\Box_b)$ of the Kohn-Laplacian on compact strictly pseudoconvex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{C}^{n+1}$ in terms of their defining functions. As an application, we show that in the family of real ellipsoids, $λ_1(\Box_b)$ has a unique maximum value at the CR sphere.

Fuyu Sun, Dong Hou, Qingsong Bai, Xianhe Huang

We present a technique for measuring microwave (MW) field based on Rabi resonances induced by the interaction of atoms with a phase-modulated MW field. A theoretical model of field measurement is used to calculate Rabi frequency. Single-peak feature of the measurement model makes the technique a valuable tool for simple and fast field measurement. As an exam

Changrim Ahn

We compute Luscher corrections for a giant magnon in the η-deformed (AdS_5\times S^5)_η using the su(2|2)_q-invariant S-matrix at strong coupling and compare with the finite-size effect of the corresponding string state, derived previously. We find that these two results match and confirm that the su(2|2)_q-invariant S-matrix is describing world-sheet excita

Jing Zhang, Tiancai Zhang, Jie Li

Wave function collapse models are considered as the modified theories of standard quantum mechanics at the macroscopic level. By introducing nonlinear stochastic terms in the Schrödinger equation, these models make predictions, differently from those of standard quantum mechanics, that it is fundamentally impossible to prepare macroscopic systems in macrosco

Jakub Konieczny

We estimate Gowers uniformity norms for some classical automatic sequences, such as the Thue-Morse and Rudin-Shapiro sequences. The methods can also be extended to other automatic sequences. As an application, we asymptotically count arithmetic progressions in the set of integers $\leq N$ where the Thue-Morse (resp. Rudin-Shapiro) sequence takes the value $+

Yuguang F. Ipsen, Ross A. Maller

When $S=(S_t)_{t\ge 0}$ is an $α$-stable subordinator, the sequence of ordered jumps of $S$, up till time $1$, omitting the $r$ largest of them, and taken as proportions of their sum $^{(r)}S_t$, defines a 2-parameter distribution on the infinite dimensional simplex, $\nabla_{\infty}$, which we call the $\mathrm{PD}_α^{(r)}$ distribution. When $r=0$ it reduc

S. Olmschenk, P. Becker

We use a pulsed nitrogen laser to produce atomic ions by laser ablation, measuring the relative ion yield for several elements, including some that have only recently been proposed for use in cold trapped ion experiments. For barium, we monitor the ion yield as a function of the number of applied ablation pulses for different substrates. We also investigate

Dariusz Graczyk, Piotr Konorski, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Wolfgang Gieren

In this study we investigate the calibration of surface brightness--color (SBC) relations based solely on eclipsing binary stars. We selected a sample of 35 detached eclipsing binaries with trigonometric parallaxes from Gaia DR1 or Hipparcos, whose absolute dimensions are known with an accuracy better than 3% and that lie within 0.3 kpc from the Sun. For the

Won-Gi Paeng, Mannque Rho

With a light dilaton $σ$ and the light-quark vector mesons $V=(ρ,ω)$ incorporated into an effective scale-invariant hidden local symmetric Lagrangian, scale-chiral symmetry -- hidden in QCD -- arises at a high density, $n_{1/2}$, as an &#34;emergent&#34; symmetry, a phenomenon absent in standard chiral perturbative approaches but highly relevant for massive

Nan Gao, Chrysostomos Psaroudakis

In this paper we characterize when a recollement of compactly generated triangulated categories admits a ladder of some height going either upwards or downwards. As an application, we show that the derived category of the preprojective algebra of Dynkin type $\mathbb{A}_n$ admits a periodic infinite ladder, where the one outer term in the recollement is the

Asad Haris, Ali Shojaie, Noah Simon

We consider the problem of non-parametric regression with a potentially large number of covariates. We propose a convex, penalized estimation framework that is particularly well-suited for high-dimensional sparse additive models. The proposed approach combines appealing features of finite basis representation and smoothing penalties for non-parametric estima

Eduardo Dueñez, José N. Iovino

We study Tao&#39;s finitary viewpoint of convergence in metric spaces, as captured by the notion of metastability. We adopt the perspective of continuous model theory. We show that, in essence, metastable convergence with a given rate is the only formulation of metric convergence that can be captured by a theory in continuous first-order logic, a result we c

Chao Yang, Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, Eli Shechtman

Recent advances in deep learning have shown exciting promise in filling large holes in natural images with semantically plausible and context aware details, impacting fundamental image manipulation tasks such as object removal. While these learning-based methods are significantly more effective in capturing high-level features than prior techniques, they can

Bart Ripperda, Oliver Porth, Chun Xia, Rony Keppens

Magnetic reconnection and non-thermal particle distributions associated with current-driven instabilities are investigated by means of resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations combined with relativistic test particle methods. We propose a system with two parallel, repelling current channels in an initially force-free equilibrium, as a simplified repr

Carlos Gustavo Moreira, Sergio Augusto Romaña Ibarra, Waliston Luiz Silva

In this paper we prove using quite elementary methods, with a combinatorial nature, two general results related to Marstrand&#39;s projection theorem in a quite general formulation over metric spaces under a suitable transversality condition (the &#34;projections&#34; are in principle only continuous, and the transversality condition gives flexibility in exp

Young-jun Yu

In order to study the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to dental imaging, we applied AI technology to classify a set of panoramic radiographs using (a) a convolutional neural network (CNN) which is a form of an artificial neural network (ANN), (b) representative image cognition algorithms that implement scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), an

Ehsan Amid, Nikos Vlassis, Manfred K. Warmuth

We describe a new method called t-ETE for finding a low-dimensional embedding of a set of objects in Euclidean space. We formulate the embedding problem as a joint ranking problem over a set of triplets, where each triplet captures the relative similarities between three objects in the set. By exploiting recent advances in robust ranking, t-ETE produces high

Nicholas R. MacDonald, Alan P. Marscher

Low ($\lesssim 1\%$) levels of circular polarization (CP) detected at radio frequencies in the relativistic jets of some blazars can provide insight into the underlying nature of the jet plasma. CP can be produced through linear birefringence, in which initially linearly polarized emission produced in one region of the jet is altered by Faraday rotation as i

Nicholas R. MacDonald, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher

Blazars exhibit flares across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Many $γ$-ray flares are highly correlated with flares detected at longer wavelengths; however, a small subset appears to occur in isolation, with little or no correlated variability at longer wavelengths. These &#34;orphan&#34; $γ$-ray flares challenge current models of blazar variability, mo

Mike Steel, Christoph Leuenberger

The reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from discrete character data typically relies on models that assume the characters evolve under a continuous-time Markov process operating at some overall rate $λ$. When $λ$ is too high or too low, it becomes difficult to distinguish a short interior edge from a polytomy (the tree that results from collapsing the edge

D. H. Slichter, V. B. Verma, D. Leibfried, R. P. Mirin

We demonstrate superconducting nanowire single photon detectors with 76 +/- 4 % system detection efficiency at a wavelength of 315 nm and an operating temperature of 3.2 K, with a background count rate below 1 count per second at saturated detection efficiency. We propose integrating these detectors into planar surface electrode radio-frequency Paul traps fo

Fionn Murtagh, Mohsen Farid

The relevance and importance of contextualizing data analytics is described. Qualitative characteristics might form the context of quantitative analysis. Topics that are at issue include: contrast, baselining, secondary data sources, supplementary data sources, dynamic and heterogeneous data. In geometric data analysis, especially with the Correspondence Ana

Yasaman K. Yazdi, Achim Kempf

We show that the Feynman propagator (or the d&#39;Alembertian) of a causal set contains the complete information about the causal set. Intuitively, this is because the Feynman propagator, being a correlator that decays with distance, provides a measure for the invariant distance between pairs of events. Further, we show that even the spectra alone (of the se

May Alhazzani, Fahad Alhasoun, Zeyad Alawwad, Marta C. González

Understanding the dynamics by which urban areas attract visitors is significant for urban development in cities. In addition, identifying services that relate to highly attractive districts is useful to make policies regarding the placement of such places. Thus, we present a framework for classifying districts in cities by their attractiveness to visitors, a

Özge Ekin Gün

In quantum gravity space and time lose their status as fundamental parts of the physical reality. However, according to Kant, space and time are the a priori conditions of our experience. Does Kantian characterization of these notions give constraints to quantum gravity, or does quantum gravity make Kantian characterization of space and time an invalid appro

Yanxia Ye, Xiuming Dou, Kun Ding, Yu Chen

We report an efficient method to observe single photon emissions in monolayer WSe2 by applying hydrostatic pressure. The photoluminescence peaks of typical two-dimensional (2D) excitons show a nearly identical pressure-induced blue-shift, whereas the energy of pressure-induced discrete emission lines (quantum emitters) demonstrates a pressure insensitive beh

Or Yair, Ronen Talmon, Ronald R. Coifman, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

The discovery of physical laws consistent with empirical observations lies at the heart of (applied) science and engineering. These laws typically take the form of nonlinear differential equations depending on parameters, dynamical systems theory provides, through the appropriate normal forms, an &#34;intrinsic&#34;, prototypical characterization of the type

Rahil Sharma

The first part of this report describes the following result that, logarithmic approximation factor for hard capacitated set cover can be achieved from Wolsey&#39;s work [9], using a simpler and more intuitive analysis. We further show in our work, that O(log n) approximation factor can be achieved for the same problem by applying analysis of general set cov

Sperello di Serego Alighieri

Since more than a century astronomers measure the position angle of the major axis of the polarization ellipse starting from the North direction and increasing counter-clockwise, when looking at the source. This convention has been enforced by the IAU with a Resolution in 1973. Much later the WMAP satellite, which has observed the polarization of the cosmic

François Bruno, Jérôme Laurent, Paul Jehanno, Daniel Royer

Optimization of Lamb modes induced by laser can be achieved by adjusting the spatial source distribution to the mode wavelength ($λ$). The excitability of Zero-Group Velocity (ZGV) resonances in isotropic plates is investigated both theoretically and experimentally for axially symmetric sources. Optimal parameters and amplitude gains are derived analytically

Tetuya Kawamura, Anna Kuwana, Yusaku Nagata, Mayumi Saitou

A simulation of the hydrodynamics on the two dimensional non-commutative space is performed, in which the space coordinates $(x, y)$ are non-commutative, satisfying the commutation relation $[x, y]=i θ$. The Navier-Stokes equation has an extra force term which reflects the non-commutativity of the space, being proportional to $θ^2$. This parameter $θ$ is rel

Norman Poh, Simon Bull, Santosh Tirunagari, Nicholas Cole

In order for clinicians to manage disease progression and make effective decisions about drug dosage, treatment regimens or scheduling follow up appointments, it is necessary to be able to identify both short and long-term trends in repeated biomedical measurements. However, this is complicated by the fact that these measurements are irregularly sampled and

Eszter Gselmann

The aim of this paper is to prove characterization theorems for higher order derivations. Among others we prove that the system defining higher order derivations is stable. Further characterization theorems in the spirit of N.~G.~de Bruijn will also be presented.

Sergey V. Avgustinovich, Denis S. Krotov, Anastasia Yu. Vasil&#39;eva

A set $C$ of vertices of a simple graph is called a completely regular code if for each $i=0$, $1$, $2$, \ldots and $j = i-1$, $i$, $i+1$, all vertices at distance $i$ from $C$ have the same number $s_{ij}$ of neighbors at distance $j$ from $C$. We characterize the completely regular codes in the infinite hexagonal grid graph.