November 2016 arXiv papers — page 3

Hwee-Boon Low, Chi Xiong

This article introduces Kerson Huang's theory on superfluid universe in these aspects: I. choose the asymptotically free Halpern-Huang scalar field(s) to drive inflation; II. use quantum turbulence to create matter; III. consider dark energy as the energy density of the cosmic superfluid and dark matter the deviation of the superfluid density from its eq

A. Mehrkesh, A. T. Karunanithi

Ionic liquids (ILs) are an emerging group of chemical compounds which possess promising properties such as having negligible vapor pressure. These so called designer solvents have the potential to replace volatile organic compounds in industrial applications. A large number of ILs, through the combination of different cations and anions, can potentially be s

S. D. Pathak, M. M. Verma, Shiyuan Li

In this paper we discuss the laws of thermodynamics for interacting tachyonic scalar field. The components of the tachyonic scalar field in the universe are taken to exist in the state of non-equilibrium initially, but due to interaction they undergo a transition towards the equilibrium state. We show that the zeroth law of thermodynamics demands interaction

Michael Gr. Voskoglou

The Center of Gravity (COG) method is one of the most popular defuzzification techniques of fuzzy mathematics. In earlier works the COG technique was properly adapted to be used as an assessment model (RFAM)and several variations of it (GRFAM, TFAM and TpFAM)were also constructed for the same purpose. In this paper the outcomes of all these models are compar

Siyu He, Dmitri V. Voronine

Raman spectroscopy has been widely applied to the chemical analysis of food quality and, in particular, of chocolate. We perform Raman analysis of bloom formation in white and dark chocolates. We show evidence of sugar and fat bloom and investigate spectroscopic signatures of polymorphic changes in different phases.

Jingdong Jia, Pengnan Zhang, Luiz Fernando Capretz

As one of the crucial human aspects, individual decision-making behavior that may affect the quality of a software project is adaptive to the environment in which the individual is. However, no comprehensive reference framework of the environmental factors influencing individual decision-making behavior in software projects is presently available. This paper

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Luiz Fernando Capretz

As software systems are becoming larger, more complex, and dependent on many third-party software components, the chances of their failure are increasing further. This calls for intense efforts to improve the quality of testing in the software development process.

Gerd Gidion, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Michael Grosch, Ke Meadows

Trends in media usage by students can affect the way they learn. Students demand the use of technology, thus institutions and instructors should meet students requests. This paper describes the results of a survey where drivers in the use of media show continuously increasing or decreasing values from the first to the fourth year of study experience at the W

Siddharth Dinesh, Tirtharaj Dash

This paper presents a systematic evaluation of Neural Network (NN) for classification of real-world data. In the field of machine learning, it is often seen that a single parameter that is 'predictive accuracy' is being used for evaluating the performance of a classifier model. However, this parameter might not be considered reliable given a dataset

U. Al Khawaja, M. Al-Refai, Lincoln D. Carr

Fractional nonlinear differential equations present an interplay between two common and important effective descriptions used to simplify high dimensional or more complicated theories: nonlinearity and fractional derivatives. These effective descriptions thus appear commonly in physical and mathematical modeling. We present a new series method providing syst

Gabor Helesfai

Today it still remains a challenge whether quantum mechanics has an underlying statistical explanation or not. While there are and were a lot of models trying to explain quantum phenomena with statistical methods these all failed on certain levels. In this paper a method is proposed that is not only based on a classical statistical framework but it has an un

Peter Trueb

The mathematical constant pi has recently been computed up to 22,459,157,718,361 decimal and 18,651,926,753,033 hexadecimal digits. As a simple check for the normality of pi, the frequencies of all sequences with length one, two and three in the base 10 and base 16 representations are extracted. All evaluated frequencies are found to be consistent with the h

Olga Bessidskaia Bylund

The generation of single top production in the $Wt$ channel at NLO gives rise to doubly-resonant diagrams that overlap with $t \bar t$, and similarly for associated production with a $Z$ or Higgs boson. Several methods exist to remove this overlap, thus avoiding double counting and separating the two processes. In Diagram Removal 1, the amplitudes of doubly-

Hugues Randriambololona

This text has three parts. The first one is largely autobiographical, hence my use of the first person. There I recall how Gerard Cohen influenced important parts of my research. The second is of a more classic mathematical nature. I present a discrete analogue of the Hahn-Banach theorem, which serves as a basis for generalizing the notion of separating syst

Igor Altsybeev, Vladimir Kovalenko

Centrality, as a geometrical property of the collision, is crucial for the physical interpretation of nucleus-nucleus and proton-nucleus experimental data. However, it cannot be directly accessed in event-by-event data analysis. Common methods for centrality estimation in A-A and p-A collisions usually rely on a single detector (either on the signal in zero-

Roman Zapatrin

The ubiquitous nature of modern Information Retrieval and Virtual World give rise to new realities. To what extent are these "realities" real? Which "physics" should be applied to quantitatively describe them? In this essay I dwell on few examples. The first is Adaptive neural networks, which are not networks and not neural, but still provide

Maarten M. Kampert, Jacqueline J. Meulman, Jerome H. Friedman

\texttt{rCOSA} is a software package interfaced to the R language. It implements statistical techniques for clustering objects on subsets of attributes in multivariate data. The main output of COSA is a dissimilarity matrix that one can subsequently analyze with a variety of proximity analysis methods. Our package extends the original COSA software (Friedman

Tejas A. Shastry, Itamar Balla, Hadallia Bergeron, Samuel H. Amsterdam

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently attracted attention due to their superlative optical and electronic properties. In particular, their extraordinary optical absorption and semiconducting band gap have enabled demonstrations of photovoltaic response from heterostructures composed of TMDCs and other organic or inorganic mat

Robert J. Finkelstein

A short autobiography written for a centennial party.

Arnaud Lionnet

We study the numerical strong stability of explicit schemes for the numerical approximation of the solution to a BSDE where the driver has polynomial growth in the primary variable and satisfies a monotone decreasing condition, and we introduce an explicit scheme with adapted time-steps that guarantee numerical strong stability. We then prove the convergence

F. D. M. Haldane

A continuum limit treatment of planar spin chains with arbitrary S is presented. The difference between integer and half-integer spins is emphasised. While isotropic half-integer spin chains are gapless,and have power-law decay of correlations at T = 0 with exponent eta = 1, integer spin systems have a singlet ground state with a gap for S=1 excitations and

Bin Guo, Jian Song

This is the first paper in a series to develop a linear and nonlinear theory for elliptic and parabolic equations on Kähler varieties with mild singularities. Donaldson has established a Schauder estimate for linear and complex Monge-Ampère equations when the background Kähler metrics on $\mathbb{C}^n$ have cone singularities along a smooth complex hypersurf

S. Agrestini, C. -Y. Kuo, M. Moretti Sala, Z. Hu

We have investigated the electronic structure of Sr2IrO4 using core level resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. The experimental spectra can be well reproduced using ab initio density functional theory based multiplet ligand field theory calculations, thereby validating these calculations. We found that the low-energy, effective Ir t2g orbitals are practicall

Jakub Byszewski, Jakub Konieczny

We investigate generalised polynomials (i.e. polynomial-like expressions involving the use of the floor function) which take the value $0$ on all integers except for a set of density $0$. Our main result is that the set of integers where a sparse generalised polynomial takes non-zero value cannot contain a translate of an IP set. We also study some explicit

Mea Bombardelli, Ludmila Nikolova, Sanja Varošanec

In the paper we prove several inequalities involving two isotonic linear functionals. We consider inequalities for functions with variable bounds, for Lipschitz and H\" older type functions etc. These results give us an elegant method for obtaining a number of inequalities for various kinds of fractional integral operators such as for the Riemann-Liouvil

K. A. Janes

In a search of proper motion catalogs for common proper motion stars in the field of the Kepler spacecraft I identified 93 likely binary systems. A comparison of their rotation periods is a test of the gyrochronology concept. To find their periods I calculated the autocorrelation function of the Kepler mission photometry for each star. In most systems for wh

Alex Krolewski, Khee-Gan Lee, Zarija Lukic, Martin White

Many galaxy formation models predict alignments between galaxy spin and the cosmic web (i.e. the directions of filaments and sheets), leading to intrinsic alignment between galaxies that creates a systematic error in weak lensing measurements. These effects are often predicted to be stronger at high-redshifts ($z\gtrsim1$) that are inaccessible to massive ga

Andrew Gillette, Craig Gross, Ken Plackowski

While the use of finite element methods for the numerical approximation of eigenvalues is a well-studied problem, the use of serendipity elements for this purpose has received little attention in the literature. We show by numerical experiments that serendipity elements, which are defined on a square reference geometry, can attain the same order of accuracy

L. C. Davis

Up-to-date information wirelessly communicated among vehicles can be used to select the optimal route between a given origin and destination. To elucidate how to make use of such information, simulations are performed for autonomous vehicles traveling on a square lattice of roads. All the possible routes between the origin and the destination (without backtr

Desmond A. Johnston, Marco Mueller, Wolfhard Janke

We review some recent investigations of the 3d plaquette Ising model. This displays a strong first-order phase transition with unusual scaling properties due to the size-dependent degeneracy of the low-temperature phase. In particular, the leading scaling correction is modified from the usual inverse volume behaviour 1/L^3 to 1/L^2. The degeneracy also has i

Florence Gillibert, Gabriele Ranieri

Let $p \geq 2$ be a prime number and let $k$ be a number field. Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian variety defined over $k$. We prove that if ${\rm Gal} ( k ( {\mathcal{A}}[p] ) / k )$ contains an element $g$ of order dividing $p-1$ not fixing any non-trivial element of ${\mathcal{A}}[p]$ and $H^1 ( {\rm Gal} ( k ( {\mathcal{A}}[p] ) / k ), {\mathcal{A}}[p] )$

Hiroaki Ishizuka

Magnetic anisotropy of spin models with directional-dependent interactions in the high-temperature paramagnetic phase is theoretically studied. Using a high temperature expansion, we show that the Ising type directional-dependent interaction gives rise to magnetic anisotropy which depends on the temperature as $\propto T^{-5}$. This phenomenon arises from th

Gar-Wing Truong, Eleanor M. Waxman, Kevin C. Cossel, Esther Baumann

A fieldable dual-comb spectrometer is described based on a "bootstrapped" frequency referencing scheme in which short-term optical phase coherence between combs is attained by referencing each to a free-running diode laser, whilst high frequency resolution and long-term accuracy is derived from a stable quartz oscillator. This fieldable dual-comb spe

Jun Shintake, Aiguo Ming, Makoto Shimojo

This paper presents aims at mobility improvement of flexible underwater robots. For this purpose, a novel propulsion method using planar structural vibration pattern is proposed, and tested on two kinds of prototypes. The result of experiments showed the possibility of the movements for multiple directions: forward, backward, turn, rotation, drift, and their

R. J. Glinski, M. W. Eller

We explore via spectroscopic modeling whether the highly correlated diffuse interstellar bands at 6613.6 and 6196.0 Å might originate from a single molecule. Efforts were made to simulate the band contours of the DIBs along the three lines-of-sight, which have been observed by others at high resolution: HD179406, HD174165, and Her 36. Reasonable simultaneous

Nickolas Andersen, Kathrin Bringmann, Larry Rolen

In this note we extend integral weight harmonic Maass forms to functions defined on the upper and lower half-planes using the method of Poincaré series. This relates to Rademacher's "expansion of zero" principle, which was recently employed by Rhoades to link mock theta functions and partial theta functions.

Maxim Gilula, Philip T. Gressman, Lechao Xiao

In this paper we establish sharp estimates (up to logarithmic losses) for the multilinear oscillatory integral operator studied by Phong, Stein, and Sturm and Carbery and Wright on any product $\prod_{j=1}^d L^{p_j}(\mathbb R)$ with each $p_j \geq 2$, expanding the known results for this operator well outside the previous range $\sum_{j=1}^d p_j^{-1} = d-1$.

Ray P. Norris

The tens of millions of radio sources to be detected with next-generation surveys pose new challenges, quite apart from the obvious ones of processing speed and data volumes. For example, existing algorithms are inadequate for source extraction or cross-matching radio and optical/IR sources, and a new generation of algorithms are needed using machine learnin

Kaustubh S. Agashe, Jack Collins, Peizhi Du, Sungwoo Hong

Recently (arXiv:1608.00526), a new framework for warped higher-dimensional compactifications with "bulk" standard model (SM) was proposed: in addition to the UV (Planck scale) and IR (a couple of TeV) branes, there is an intermediate brane, taken to be around 10 TeV. The SM matter and Higgs fields propagate from the UV brane down to this intermediate

H. Mäntysaari, B. Schenke

We constrain the average density profile of the proton and the amount of event-by-event fluctuations by simultaneously calculating the coherent and incoherent exclusive diffractive vector meson production cross section in deep inelastic scattering. Working within the Color Glass Condensate picture, we find that the gluonic density of the proton must have lar

Łukasz Kidziński, Piotr Kokoszka, Neda Mohammadi Jouzdani

Within the framework of functional data analysis, we develop principal component analysis for periodically correlated time series of functions. We define the components of the above analysis including periodic, operator-valued filters, score processes and the inversion formulas. We show that these objects are defined via convergent series under a simple cond

Benjamin A Lucas

The effective bandwidth of an energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy system is limited by the timing of incident photons. When multiple photons strike the detector within the processing time of the detector photon pile-up occurs and the signal received by the detector during this interval must be ignored. In conventional ED-XRF systems the probabi

Hossein Sadeghi, Sia Nemat-Nasser

A two-dimensional phononic crystal (PC) can exhibit longitudinal-mode negative energy refraction on its lowest (acoustical) frequency pass band. The effective elastodynamic properties of a typical PC are calculated and it is observed that the components of the effective density tensor can achieve negative values at certain low frequencies on the acoustical b

Eric Libby, Joshua Grochow, Simon DeDeo, David Wolpert

The organism is a fundamental concept in biology. However there is no universally accepted, formal, and yet broadly applicable definition of what an organism is. Here we introduce a candidate definition. We adopt the view that the "organism" is a functional concept, used by scientists to address particular questions concerning the future state of a b

Ryan O'Donnell, John Wright

Following [OW16], we continue our analysis of: (1) "Quantum tomography", i.e., learning a quantum state, i.e., the quantum generalization of learning a discrete probability distribution; (2) The distribution of Young diagrams output by the RSK algorithm on random words. Regarding (2), we introduce two powerful new tools: (i) A precise upper bound on

Yannan Shen, P. G. Kevrekidis, G. P. Veldes, D. J. Frantzeskakis

In the present work, we explore soliton and rogue-like wave solutions in the transmission line analogue of a nonlinear left-handed metamaterial. The nonlinearity is expressed through a voltagedependent and symmetric capacitance motivated by the recently developed ferroelectric barium strontium titanate (BST) thin film capacitor designs. We develop both the c

J. Lekscha, H. Wilming, J. Eisert, R. Gallego

We investigate the limitations that emerge in thermodynamic tasks as a result of having local control only over the components of a thermal machine. These limitations are particularly relevant for devices composed of interacting many-body systems. Specifically, we study protocols of work extraction that employ a many-body system as a working medium whose evo

Alexander Khitun, Guanxiong Liu, Alexander A. Balandin

We propose an oscillatory neural network implemented with two-dimensional tantalum disulfide devices operating in the change density wave regime at room temperature. An elementary cell of the network consists of two 1T-TaS2 devices connected in series. Such a cell has constant output and oscillatory states. All cells have the same bias voltage. There is cons

Tao Liu, Nikolai Zerf

We construct an irreducible s- and t-channel tensor basis for Bhabha scattering like amplitudes based on the properties of the underlying Lorentz symmetry in four space-time dimensions. In the given basis the calculation of amplitude contractions like the amplitude square reduces to the contraction of their corresponding coefficient tensors. Further the basi

Herbert Neuberger

Starting with a general discussion, a program is sketched for a quantization based on dilations. This resolving-power quantization is simplest for scalar field theories. The hope is to find a way to relax the requirement of locality so that the necessity to fine tune mass parameters is eliminated while universality is still preserved.

Andrei Linde

According to the famous Lyth bound, one can confirm large field inflation by finding tensor modes with sufficiently large tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. Here we will try to answer two related questions: Is it possible to rule out all large field inflationary models by not finding tensor modes with $r$ above some critical value, and what can we say about the sca

Yuval Baum, Ady Stern

Non-locality is one of the most striking signatures of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. We propose to probe the non-locality in these materials via a measurement of a magnetic field dependent Coulomb drag between two sheets of graphene which are separated by a three-dimensional slab of Weyl semimetal. We predict a new mechanism of Coulomb drag, bas

Alexandros Metavitsiadis, Sebastian Eggert

The ground state properties of spin-1/2 ladders are studied, emphasizing the role of frustration and ring exchange coupling. We present a unified field theory for ladders with general coupling constants and geometry. Rich phase diagrams can be deduced by using a renormalization group calculation for ladders with in--chain next nearest neighbor interactions a

Shahar Hod

We study analytically the Klein-Gordon wave equation for stationary massive scalar fields linearly coupled to spinning Kerr black holes. In particular, using the WKB approximation, we derive a compact formula for the discrete spectrum of scalar field masses which characterize the stationary composed Kerr-black-hole-massive-scalar-field configurations in the

Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Friedrich K. Roepke, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel

Hydrodynamical simulations of stellar interactions require stable models of stars as initial conditions. Such initial models, however, are difficult to construct for giant stars because of the wide range in spatial scales of the hydrostatic equilibrium and in dynamical timescales between the core and the envelope of the giant. They are needed for, e.g., mode

Denis Krotov

The Doob graph $D(m,n)$ is a distance-regular graph with the same parameters as the Hamming graph $H(2m+n,4)$. The maximum independent sets in the Doob graphs are analogs of the distance-$2$ MDS codes in the Hamming graphs. We prove that the logarithm of the number of the maximum independent sets in $D(m,n)$ grows as $2^{2m+n-1}(1+o(1))$. The main tool for t

Bert Schroer

After some personal recollectioms about Rudolf Haag and his thoughts which led him to "Local Quantum Physics", the present work recalls his ideas about scattering theory, the relation between local observables and localized fields and his contributions to the physical aspects of modular operator theory which paved the way for an intrisic understandin

Inna Los, Gena Puninski

We will describe the Cohen--Macaulay part of the Ziegler spectrum of the D-infinity plane singularity S and calculate the nilpotency index of the radical of the category of finitely generated Cohen--Macaulay S-modules.

D. Mesa, A. Zurlo, J. Milli, R. Gratton

The recent discovery of an earth-like planet around Proxima Centauri has drawn much attention to this star and its environment. We performed a series of observations of Proxima Centauri using SPHERE, the planet finder instrument installed at the ESO Very Large Telescope UT3, using its near infrared modules, IRDIS and IFS. No planet was directly detected but

Andreia Carrillo, Eric Bell, Jeremy Bailin, Antonela Monachesi

The number, distribution, and properties of dwarf satellites are crucial probes of the physics of galaxy formation at low masses and the response of satellite galaxies to the tidal and gas dynamical effects of their more massive parent.To make progress, it is necessary to augment and solidify the census of dwarf satellites of galaxies outside the Local Group

Shinichiro Shirota, Alan E. Gelfand

The log Gaussian Cox process is a flexible class of point pattern models for capturing spatial and spatio-temporal dependence for point patterns. Model fitting requires approximation of stochastic integrals which is implemented through discretization of the domain of interest. With fine scale discretization, inference based on Markov chain Monte Carlo is com

Oluwafemi S. Ojambati, Elahe Yeganegi, Ad Lagendijk, Allard P. Mosk

Structural disorder results in multiple scattering in real photonic crystals, which have been widely used for applications and studied for fundamental interests. The interaction of light with such complex photonic media is expected to show interplay between disorder and order. For a completely disordered medium, the intensity statistics is well-known to obey

Han Chen, Garvesh Raskutti, Ming Yuan

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning high-dimensional tensor regression problems with low-rank structure. One of the core challenges associated with learning high-dimensional models is computation since the underlying optimization problems are often non-convex. While convex relaxations could lead to polynomial-time algorithms they are often slo

Trésor Ekanga

For the weakly interacting one-dimensional multi-particle Anderson model in the continuum space of configurations, we prove the spectral exponential and the strong dynamical localization. The results require the interaction amplitude to be sufficiently small. The general strategy uses the multi-scale analysis bounds. Actually, we show that the multi-scale an

Michele Arzano, Francisco Nettel

We describe a new model of deformed relativistic kinematics based on the group manifold $U(1) \times SU(2)$ as a four-momentum space. We discuss the action of the Lorentz group on such space and and illustrate the deformed composition law for the group-valued momenta. Due to the geometric structure of the group, the deformed kinematics is governed by {\it tw

Kenny De Commer, Paweł Kasprzak, Adam Skalski, Piotr M. Sołtan

To any action of a compact quantum group on a von Neumann algebra which is a direct sum of factors we associate an equivalence relation corresponding to the partition of a space into orbits of the action. We show that in case all factors are finite-dimensional (i.e. when the action is on a discrete quantum space) the relation has finite orbits. We then apply

Oliver López-Corona, Elvia Ramírez-Carrillo, Vanessa Pérez-Cirera, Fernando de León-González

Forests are complex systems, and it is necessary to include this characteristic in every forest definition, in order to consider the restriction that this imposes in terms of prediction and control. This lost of predictability and controllability should be incorporated in every Environmental Impact Assessment or management program. We present two case-studie

Reyhane Askari Hemmat, Abdelhakim Hafid

Service level agreement (SLA) is an essential part of cloud systems to ensure maximum availability of services for customers. With a violation of SLA, the provider has to pay penalties. In this paper, we explore two machine learning models: Naive Bayes and Random Forest Classifiers to predict SLA violations. Since SLA violations are a rare event in the real

Rui Liao, Shun Miao, Pierre de Tournemire, Sasa Grbic

3-D image registration, which involves aligning two or more images, is a critical step in a variety of medical applications from diagnosis to therapy. Image registration is commonly performed by optimizing an image matching metric as a cost function. However, this task is challenging due to the non-convex nature of the matching metric over the plausible regi

James M. Nemec, Luis A. Balona, Simon J. Murphy, Karen Kinemuchi

A spectroscopic and photometric analysis has been carried out for thirty-two candidate SX_Phe variable blue straggler stars in the Kepler-field (Balona & Nemec 2012). Radial velocities (RVs), space motions (U,V,W), projected rotation velocities (v sin i), spectral types, and atmospheric characteristics (T_eff, log g, [Fe/H], xi_t, zeta_RT, etc.) are presente

John Mount, Nina Zumel

We show how the classic Cramer-Rao bound limits how accurately one can simultaneously estimate values of a large number of Google Ad campaigns (or similarly limit the measurement rate of many confounding A/B tests).

Maciej Wielgosz

This paper presents a concept of a novel method for adjusting hyper-parameters in Deep Learning (DL) algorithms. An external agent-observer monitors a performance of a selected Deep Learning algorithm. The observer learns to model the DL algorithm using a series of random experiments. Consequently, it may be used for predicting a response of the DL algorithm

Ioannis Florakis

We compute one-loop quantum corrections to gravitational couplings in the effective action of four-dimensional heterotic strings where supersymmetry is spontaneously broken by Scherk-Schwarz fluxes. We show that in both heterotic and type II theories of this class, no moduli dependent corrections to the Planck mass are generated. We explicitly compute the on

L. W. Goetzke, E. Aprile, M. Anthony, G. Plante

The dependence of the light and charge yield of liquid xenon on the applied electric field and recoil energy is important for dark matter detectors using liquid xenon time projections chambers. Few measurements have been made of this field dependence at recoil energies less than 10 keV. In this paper we present results of such measurements using a specialize

Erik D. Demaine, Joshua Lockhart, Jayson Lynch

We classify the computational complexity of the popular video games Portal and Portal 2. We isolate individual mechanics of the game and prove NP-hardness, PSPACE-completeness, or (pseudo)polynomiality depending on the specific game mechanics allowed. One of our proofs generalizes to prove NP-hardness of many other video games such as Half-Life 2, Halo, Doom

Aljoscha Kress

There is general agreement that the former (breeding) macrohabitat of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (synonym: Stegomyia albopicta) has been described as phytotelmata in the forested areas of Southeast Asia, however, this has changed in the last four decades as it has adapted to more urban areas and antrotelmata. Capable of producing eggs with a

Fiammetta Battaglia, Elisa Prato

In this article, we describe symplectic and complex toric spaces associated to the five regular convex polyhedra. The regular tetrahedron and the cube are rational and simple, the regular octahedron is not simple, the regular dodecahedron is not rational and the regular icosahedron is neither simple nor rational. We remark that the last two cases cannot be t

Mostafa Mahmoud, Andreas Moshovos

This work studies the behavior of state-of-the-art memory controller designs when executing scale-out workloads. It considers memory scheduling techniques, memory page management policies, the number of memory channels, and the address mapping scheme used. Experimental measurements demonstrate: 1)~Several recently proposed memory scheduling policies are not

Lior Gishboliner, Asaf Shapira

A common theme in many extremal problems in graph theory is the relation between local and global properties of graphs. One of the most celebrated results of this type is the Ruzsa-Szemerédi triangle removal lemma, which states that if a graph is $\varepsilon$-far from being triangle free, then most subsets of vertices of size $C(\varepsilon)$ are not triang

Alan Kostelecky, Matthew Mewes

The Newton limit of gravity is studied in the presence of Lorentz-violating gravitational operators of arbitrary mass dimension. The linearized modified Einstein equations are obtained and the perturbative solutions are constructed and characterized. We develop a formalism for data analysis in laboratory experiments testing gravity at short range and demonst

Carlos Gracia-Lázaro, Luis M. Floría, Yamir Moreno

The outcome of many social and economic interactions, such as stock-market transactions, is strongly determined by the predictions that agents make about the behavior of other individuals. Cognitive Hierarchy Theory provides a framework to model the consequences of forecasting accuracy that has proven to fit data from certain types of game theory experiments

Robin Flohr, Jens Rottmann-Matthes

We present a numerical method which is able to approximate traveling waves (e.g. viscous profiles) in systems with hyperbolic and parabolic parts by a direct long-time forward simulation. A difficulty with long-time simulations of traveling waves is that the solution leaves any bounded computational domain in finite time. To handle this problem one should go

Eduardo S. Zeron

We analyse the properties of wave functions $ψ(x,t;y,s)$ that depend at once on two time-position vectors $(x,t)$ and $(y,s)$ with different time entries $t\neq{s}$. In particular, we prove that the existence of such wave functions is indeed incompatible with the superposition property and the technique of separation of variables.

Konstantin Katin, Mikhail Maslov

Density functional theory is applied to study the mechanism of the Stone-Wales defect formation in pure and nitrogen-doped dodecahedral C$_{20}$ fullerenes. The molecular structures of initial and defected cages as well as transition states dividing them are obtained. Depending on the number of nitrogen atoms and their relative position in the cage, Stone-Wa

Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Hua-Sheng Shao

We briefly review recent results which we have obtained in the study of J/psi+Z production at the LHC. Considering our NLO computation in the Colour Evaporation Model (CEM) as an upper theory limit for the single-parton-scattering contributions, we claim that the existing data set from ATLAS points at a dominant double-parton-scattering contribution with an

Qunwei Li, Bhavya Kailkhura, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Zhenliang Zhang

Influential node detection is a central research topic in social network analysis. Many existing methods rely on the assumption that the network structure is completely known \textit{a priori}. However, in many applications, network structure is unavailable to explain the underlying information diffusion phenomenon. To address the challenge of information di

Nadieh Moghadam, Mohammad Mohebbi, Hongxiang Li

In this paper queue stability in a single-hop wireless multicast networks over erasure channels is analyzed. First, a queuing model consisting of several sub-queues is introduced. Under the queueing stability constraint, we adopt Lyapunov optimization model and define decision variables to derive a network coding based packet scheduling algorithm, which has

Vladimir Kalashnikov, Sergey V. Sergeyev, Juan Diego Ania-Castanón, Gunnar Jacobsen

The interplay of such cornerstones of modern nonlinear fiber optics as a nonlinearity, stochasticity and polarization leads to variety of the noise induced instabilities including polarization attraction and escape phenomena harnessing of which is a key to unlocking the fiber optic systems specifications required in high resolution spectroscopy, metrology, b

Pengcheng You, Steven H. Low, Liang Zhang, Ruilong Deng

In Part I of this paper we formulate an optimal scheduling problem for battery swapping that assigns to each electric vehicle (EV) a best station to swap its depleted battery based on its current location and state of charge. The schedule aims to minimize a weighted sum of total travel distance and generation cost over both station assignments and power flow

Ignasi Rosell, Antonio Pich, Joaquin Santos, Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero

Accepting that there is a mass gap above the electroweak scale, the Electroweak Effective Theory (EWET) is an appropriate tool to describe this situation. Since the EWET couplings contain information on the unknown high-energy dynamics, we consider a generic strongly-coupled scenario of electroweak symmetry breaking, where the known particle fields are coupl

Kun Fang, Bing-Bing Wang, Xiao-Jun Bi, Su-Jie Lin

The AMS-02 has measured the cosmic ray electron (plus positron) spectrum up to ~TeV with an unprecedent precision. The spectrum can be well described by a power law without any obvious features above 10 GeV. The satellite instrument Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), which was launched a year ago, will measure the electron spectrum up to 10 TeV with a hi

Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Dieter Lust, Stefano Massai, Christoph Mayrhofer

We study the effect of quantum corrections on heterotic compactifications on elliptic fibrations away from the stable degeneration limit, elaborating on a recent observation by Malmendier and Morrison. We show that already for the simplest non-trivial elliptic fibration the effect is quite dramatic: the $I_1$ degeneration with trivial gauge background dynami

Edward T. Bryden, Marcus A. Khuri

We establish the conjectured area-angular momentum-charge inequality for stable apparent horizons in the presence of a positive cosmological constant, and show that it is saturated precisely for extreme Kerr-Newman-de Sitter horizons. As with previous inequalities of this type, the proof is reduced to minimizing an `area functional' related to a harmonic

Jan Klaers, Martin Weitz

We review recent experiments on the Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in a dye-filled optical microresonator. The most well-known example of a photon gas, photons in blackbody radiation, does not show Bose-Einstein condensation. Instead of massively populating the cavity ground mode, photons vanish in the cavity walls when they are cooled down. The situa

M. Niazi Ardekani, G. Sardina, L. Brandt, L. Karp-Boss

Phytoplankton are the foundation of aquatic food webs. Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton draw down CO2 at magnitudes equivalent to forests and other terrestrial plants and convert it to organic material that is then consumed by other organisms of phytoplankton in higher trophic levels. Mechanisms that affect local concentrations and velocities are of pri

Marco Benini, Matteo Capoferri, Claudio Dappiaggi

Abelian duality is realized naturally by combining differential cohomology and locally covariant quantum field theory. This leads to a C$^*$-algebra of observables, which encompasses the simultaneous discretization of both magnetic and electric fluxes. We discuss the assignment of physically well-behaved states to such algebra and the properties of the assoc

Gautier Hanna

In this article, we prove a theorem à la Mauduit et Rivat (prime number theorem, Moebius randomness principle) for functions that count digital blocks whose length is a growing function tending to infinity. These sequences are not automatic. To obtain our results, we control sums of type I and II and use an adapted and refined version of the carry propagatio

Benjamín Bedregal

In this paper we consider the class of lambda-nondeterministic linear automata as a model of the class of linear languages. As usual in other automata models, lambda-moves do not increase the acceptance power. The main contribution of this paper is to introduce the deterministic linear automata and even linear automata, i.e. the natural restriction of nondet

P. García, M. Röllig, N. Abel, M. Steinke

We investigate the physical conditions of the gas, atomic and molecular, in the filaments in the context of Photo-Dissociation Regions (PDRs) using the KOSMA-PDR mode of clumpy clouds. We also compare the [CII] vs. [NII] integrated intensity predictions in Abel et al. 2005 for HII regions and adjacent PDRs in the Galactic disk, and check for their applicabil

John D. Malcolm, Elisabeth J. Nicol

We calculate and present an analytic form of the magneto-optical conductivity for the gapped low-energy Kane model in two and three dimensions separately. The two-dimensional case maps onto the $α$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ model at a particular value of $α=1/\sqrt{3}$. In two dimensions, two chiral sectors exist, between which there are no optically activated transit