November 2016 arXiv papers — page 7

Oliver Porth, Hector Olivares, Yosuke Mizuno, Ziri Younsi

We present the black hole accretion code (BHAC), a new multidimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics module for the MPI-AMRVAC framework. BHAC has been designed to solve the equations of ideal general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in arbitrary spacetimes and exploits adaptive mesh refinement techniques with an efficient block-based approach.

Giuseppe Cannizzaro, Konstantin Matetski

We study a general family of space-time discretizations of the KPZ equation and show that they converge to its solution. The approach we follow makes use of basic elements of the theory of regularity structures [M. Hairer, A theory of regularity structures, Invent. Math. 2014] as well as its discrete counterpart [M. Hairer, K. Matetski, Discretizations of ro

Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan, Alban Desmaison, Rudy Bunel, Mathieu Salzmann

The fully connected conditional random field (CRF) with Gaussian pairwise potentials has proven popular and effective for multi-class semantic segmentation. While the energy of a dense CRF can be minimized accurately using a linear programming (LP) relaxation, the state-of-the-art algorithm is too slow to be useful in practice. To alleviate this deficiency,

Meghna G. Mankalale, Zhaoxin Liang, Zhengyang Zhao, Chris Kim

This work proposes CoMET, a fast and energy-efficient spintronics device for logic applications. An input voltage is applied to a ferroelectric (FE) material, in contact with a composite structure - a ferromagnet (FM) with in-plane magnetic anisotropy (IMA) placed on top of an intra-gate FM interconnect with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). Through t

A. Phipps, A. Juillard, B. Sadoulet, B. Serfass

We present the measured baseline ionization resolution of a HEMT-based cryogenic charge amplifier coupled to a CDMS-II detector. The amplifier has been developed to allow massive semiconductor dark matter detectors to retain background discrimination at the low recoil energies produced by low-mass WIMPs. We find a calibrated baseline ionization resolution of

Delyan R. Hristov, Dong Ye, Joao Medeiros de Araújo, Colby Ashcroft

Comprehensive characterization of nanomaterials for medical applications is a challenging and complex task due to the multitude of parameters which need to be taken into consideration in a broad range of conditions. Routine methods such as dynamic light scattering or nanoparticle tracking analysis provide some insight into the physicochemical properties of p

J. F. Ogilvie

Based on an exposition of the underlying physics and applied mathematics in arXiv:1603.00899, this paper in five separate parts presents a description of the properties of the amplitude functions of the hydrogen atom according to wave mechanics in the coordinate representation in all four systems of coordinates in which Schroedinger's equations are separ

Stefan Meinel

The first lattice QCD calculation of the form factors governing $Λ_c \to Λ\ell^+ ν_\ell$ decays is reported. The calculation was performed with two different lattice spacings and includes one ensemble with a pion mass of 139(2) MeV. The resulting predictions for the $Λ_c \to Λe^+ ν_e$ and $Λ_c \to Λμ^+ ν_μ$ decay rates divided by $|V_{cs}|^2$ are $0.2007(71)

Nima Farahmand Bafi, Ania Maciołek, Siegfried Dietrich

Tricritical Casimir forces in $^3\text{He}$ -$^4\text{He}$ wetting films are studied, within mean field theory, in therms of a suitable lattice gas model for binary liquid mixtures with short--ranged surface fields. The proposed model takes into account the continuous rotational symmetry O(2) of the superfluid degrees of freedom associated with $^4\text{He}$

Karen Badikyan

The possibility of channeling the low-energy relativistic positrons around separate crystallographic axes with coaxial symmetry of negative ions in some types of crystals is shown. The process of annihilation of positrons with electrons of medium was studied in detail.

Zh. A. Devizorova, V. A. Volkov

We propose an analytical model describing Fermi arc surface states observed in the recent investigations of Weyl semimetals. The effective two-valley Hamiltonian is supplemented by the boundary conditions taking into account both the intravalley and intervalley interfacial interaction. We demonstrate that the latter is crucial for the formation of the surfac

Nathaniel Rupprecht, Dervis Can Vural

Theoretical models of populations and swarms typically start with the assumption that the motion of agents is governed by the local stimuli. However, an intelligent agent, with some understanding of the laws that govern its habitat, can anticipate the future, and make predictions to gather resources more efficiently. Here we study a specific model of this ki

Walter Tewes, Oleg Buller, Andreas Heuer, Uwe Thiele

We employ kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations and a thin-film continuum model to comparatively study the transverse (i.e., Plateau-Rayleigh) instability of ridges formed by molecules on pre-patterned substrates. It is demonstrated that the evolution of the occurring instability qualitatively agrees between the two models for a single ridge as well as for t

Caroline Heneka, Asantha Cooray, Chang Feng

We study 21cm and Ly$\mathrmα$ fluctuations, as well as H$\mathrmα$, while distinguishing between Ly$\mathrmα$ emission of galactic, diffuse, and scattered intergalactic medium (IGM) origin. Cross-correlation information about the state of the IGM is obtained, testing neutral versus ionized medium cases with different tracers in a seminumerical simulation se

Andreas Maurischat, Rudolph Perkins

Let $\mathfrak{p}$ be a monic irreducible polynomial in $A:=\mathbb{F}_q[θ]$, the ring of polynomials in the indeterminate $θ$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, and let $ζ$ be a root of $\mathfrak{p}$ in an algebraic closure of $\mathbb{F}_q(θ)$. For each positive integer $n$, let $λ_n$ be a generator of the $A$-module of Carlitz $\mathfrak{p}^n$-torsion

Shin Hayashi

Periodic Hamiltonians on a three-dimensional (3-D) lattice with a spectral gap not only on the bulk but also on two edges at the common Fermi level are considered. By using K-theory applied for the quarter-plane Toeplitz extension, two topological invariants are defined. One is defined for the gapped bulk and edge Hamiltonians, and the non-triviality of the

Foisal B. T. Siddiki, A. A. Mamun, M. R. Amin

The basic features of linear and nonlinear quantum electron-acoustic (QEA) waves in a degenerate quantum plasma (containing non-relativistically degenerate electrons, superthermal or $κ$-distributed electrons, and stationary ions) are theoretically investigated. The nonlinear Schödinger (NLS) equation is derived by employing thereductive perturbation method.

Y. Tao, R. Hagmeijers, H. M. J. Bastiaens, S. J. Goh

We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from noble gas clusters in a supersonic gas jet. To identify the contribution of harmonic generation from clusters versus that from gas monomers, we measure the high-order harmonic output over a broad range of the total atomic number density in the jet (from 3*10^16 cm^{-3} to 3x10^18 cm{-3}) at two differe

Robert Buschlinger, Michael Lorke, Ulf Peschel

We present a model to describe the spatiotemporal evolution of guided modes in semiconductor nanowires based on a coupled mode formalism. Light-matter interaction is modelled based on semiconductor Bloch equations, including many-particle effects in the screened Hartree-Fock approximation. Appropriate boundary conditions are used to incorporate reflections a

Tibor Rakovszky, Janos K. Asboth, Andrea Alberti

We show that the bulk winding number characterizing one-dimensional topological insulators with chiral symmetry can be detected from the displacement of a single particle, observed via losses. Losses represent the effect of repeated weak measurements on one sublattice only, which interrupt the dynamics periodically. When these do not detect the particle, the

Alexander Ovseevich, Aleksey Fedorov

Problem of damping of an arbitrary number of linear oscillators under common bounded control is considered. We are looking for a feedback control steering the system to the equilibrium. The obtained control is asymptotically optimal: the ratio of motion time to zero with this control to the minimum one is close to 1, if the initial energy of the system is la

Pavel Safronov

We relate the brace construction introduced by Calaque and Willwacher to an additivity functor. That is, we construct a functor from brace algebras associated to an operad $O$ to associative algebras in the category of homotopy $O$-algebras. As an example, we identify the category of $P_{n+1}$-algebras with the category of associative algebras in $P_n$-algeb

Christopher J. Monahan, Heechang Na, Chris M. Bouchard, G. Peter Lepage

We present a calculation of the form factors, $f_0$ and $f_+$, for the $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)}$ semileptonic decays. Our work uses the MILC $n_f=2+1$ AsqTad configurations with NRQCD and HISQ valence quarks at four values of the momentum transfer $q^2$. We provide results for the chiral-continuum extrapolations of the scalar and vector form factors.

Sebastian Baum, Luca Visinelli, Katherine Freese, Patrick Stengel

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), which are among the best motivated dark matter (DM) candidates, could make up all or only a fraction of the total DM budget. We consider a scenario in which WIMPs are a sub-dominant DM component; such a scenario would affect both current direct and indirect bounds on the WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section. In

Frédéric Maffray, Lucas Pastor

We give a polynomial time algorithm that finds the maximum weight stable set in a graph that does not contain an induced path on seven vertices or a bull (the graph with vertices $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$, $e$ and edges $ab$, $bc$, $cd$, $be$, $ce$). With the same arguments with also give a polynomial algorithm for any graph that does not contain $S_{1,2,3}$ or a b

ATLAS Collaboration

During 2015 the ATLAS experiment recorded 3.8 fb$^{-1}$ of proton--proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The ATLAS trigger system is a crucial component of the experiment, responsible for selecting events of interest at a recording rate of approximately 1 kHz from up to 40 MHz of collisions. This paper presents a short overview of the c

Aliou LY, Christophe Siour, Fabien Bretenaker

We built a 1-watt cw singly resonant optical parametric oscillator operating at an idler wavelength of 1.65~$μ$m for application to quantum interfaces. The non resonant idler is frequency stabilized by side-fringe locking on a relatively high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity, and the influence of intensity noise is carefully analyzed. A relative linewidth down to

Xi Luo, Yue Yu

The dispersionless longitudinal photon in Maxwell theory is thought of as a redundant degree of freedom due to the gauge symmetry. We find that when there exist exactly flat bands with zero energy in a condensed matter system, the fermion field may locally transform as a gauge field and the system possesses a gauge symmetry. As the longitudinal photon, the r

Stefano Scrobogna

We prove that the primitive equations without vertical diffusivity are globally well-posed (if the Rossby and Froude number are sufficiently small) in suitable Sobolev anisotropic spaces. Moreover if the Rossby and Froude number tend to zero at a comparable rate the global solutions of the primitive equations converge globally to the global solutions of a su

Amir Djalalian-Assl

For distances less 10 nm, a total energy transfer occurs from a quantum emitter to a nearby metallic surface, producing evanescent surface waves that are plasmonic in nature. When investigating a metallic nanohole supported on an optically dense substrate (such as diamond with nitrogen vacancy center), the scattering occurred preferentially from the diamond

Aurélie Hourlier-Fargette, Arnaud Antkowiak, Antoine Chateauminois, Sébastien Neukirch

We report an unexpected behavior in wetting dynamics on soft silicone substrates: the dynamics of aqueous droplets deposited on vertical plates of such elastomers exhibits two successive speed regimes. This macroscopic observation is found to be closely related to microscopic phenomena occurring at the scale of the polymer network: we show that uncrosslinked

Yuansen Xiong, Ai Yamakage, Shingo Kobayashi, Masatoshi Sato

Majorana Kramers pairs emerged on surfaces of time-reversal-invariant topological crystalline superconductors show the Ising anisotropy to an applied magnetic field. We clarify that crystalline symmetry uniquely determines the direction of the Majorana Ising spin for given irreducible representations of pair potential, deriving constraints to topological inv

Elena Guardo, Martin Kreuzer, Tran N. K. Linh, Le Ngoc Long

Let $X$ be a set of $K$-rational points in $P^1 \times P^1$ over a field $K$ of characteristic zero, let $Y$ be a fat point scheme supported at $ X$, and let $R_Y$ be the bihomogeneus coordinate ring of $Y$. In this paper we investigate the module of Kaehler differentials $Ω^1_{R_Y/K}$. We describe this bigraded $R_Y$-module explicitly via a homogeneous shor

Bogeun Gwak

The validity of the cosmic censorship conjecture for the Kerr-Sen black hole, which is a solution to the low-energy effective field theory for four-dimensional heterotic string theory, is investigated using charged particle absorption. When the black hole absorbs the particle, the charge on it changes owing to the conserved quantities of the particle. Change

Weikun He

We generalize Bourgain's discretized sum-product theorem to matrix algebras.

Hong-Ming Zhu, Yu Yu, Ue-Li Pen, Xuelei Chen

We present a direct approach to nonparametrically reconstruct the linear density field from an observed nonlinear map. We solve for the unique displacement potential consistent with the nonlinear density and positive definite coordinate transformation using a multigrid algorithm. We show that we recover the linear initial conditions up to the nonlinear scale

Thomas John Baird

Consider a Riemann surface $X$ of genus $g \geq 2$ equipped with an antiholomorphic involution $τ$. This induces a natural involution on the moduli space $M(r,d)$ of semistable Higgs bundles of rank $r$ and degree $d$. If $D$ is a divisor such that $τ(D) = D$, this restricts to an involution on the moduli space $M(r,D)$ of semistable Higgs bundles of rank $r

Maxim A. Ivashkovskii

Immersions of graphs to the projective plane are studied. A classification of immersions up to regular homotopy is given. A complete invariant of immersions up to regular homotopy is constructed. Equivalence classes are described.

Dmitriy Traytel

Traditionally, formal languages are defined as sets of words. More recently, the alternative coalgebraic or coinductive representation as infinite tries, i.e., prefix trees branching over the alphabet, has been used to obtain compact and elegant proofs of classic results in language theory. In this article, we study this representation in the Isabelle proof

Jakub M. Tomczak, Max Welling

Variational auto-encoders (VAE) are scalable and powerful generative models. However, the choice of the variational posterior determines tractability and flexibility of the VAE. Commonly, latent variables are modeled using the normal distribution with a diagonal covariance matrix. This results in computational efficiency but typically it is not flexible enou

Byung-Geel Yu, Kook-Jin Kong

A Regge approach to the reaction processes $γp\toπ^-Δ^{++}$ and $γp\toπ^+Δ^0$ is presented for the description of existing data up to $E_γ= 16$ GeV. The model consists of the $t$-channel $π(139)+ρ(775)+a_2(1320)$ exchanges which are reggeized from the relevant Born amplitude. Discussion is given on the minimal gauge prescription for the $π$ exchange to rende

Asier Lopez-Eiguren, Jon Urrestilla, Ana Achúcarro

We present an estimation of the average velocity of a network of global monopoles in a cosmological setting using large numerical simulations. In order to obtain the value of the velocity, we improve some already known methods, and present a new one. This new method estimates individual global monopole velocities in a network, by means of detecting each mono

Xiao Lin, Yi Yang, Nicholas Rivera, Josue J. Lopez

A fundamental building block for nanophotonics is the ability to achieve negative refraction of polaritons, because this could enable the demonstration of many unique nanoscale applications such as deep-subwavelength imaging, superlens, and novel guiding. However, to achieve negative refraction of highly squeezed polaritons, such as plasmon polaritons in gra

Andrés Aristizábal, Dariusz Biernacki, Sergueï Lenglet, Piotr Polesiuk

We present sound and complete environmental bisimilarities for a variant of Dybvig et al.'s calculus of multi-prompted delimited-control operators with dynamic prompt generation. The reasoning principles that we obtain generalize and advance the existing techniques for establishing program equivalence in calculi with single-prompted delimited control. Th

Annette Cazaubiel, Alessandra F. Lütz, Jeferson J. Arenzon

Predators may attack isolated or grouped prey in a cooperative, collective way. Whether a gregarious behavior is advantageous to each species depends on several conditions and game theory is a useful tool to deal with such a problem. We here extend the Lett-Auger-Gaillard model [Theor. Pop. Biol. 65 (2004) 263] to spatially distributed populations and compar

A. Hutsalyuk, A. Liashyk, S. Z. Pakuliak, E. Ragoucy

We find Bethe vectors for quantum integrable models associated with the supersymmetric Yangians $Y(\mathfrak{gl}(m|n)$ in terms of the current generators of the Yangian double $DY(\mathfrak{gl}(m|n))$. More specifically, we use the method of projections onto intersections of different type Borel subalgebras in this infinite dimensional algebra to construct t

Arthur Lubovsky, Travis Scrimshaw

We construct a model for $B(\infty)$ using the alcove path model of Lenart and Postnikov. We show that the continuous limit of our model recovers a dual version of the Littelmann path model for $B(\infty)$ given by Li and Zhang. Furthermore, we consider the dual version of the alcove path model and obtain analogous results for the dual model, where the conti

Eimear Byrne

We consider distance functions on a quotient module $M/K$ induced by distance functions on a module $M$. We define error-correction for codes in $M/K$ with respect to induced distance functions. For the case that the metric is induced by a homogeneous weight, we derive analogues of the Plotkin and Elias-Bassalygo bounds and give their asymptotic versions. Th

Luoqin Liu, Jiezhi Wu, Weidong Su, Linlin Kang

In a recent paper, Liu, Zhu and Wu (2015, {\it J. Fluid Mech.} {\bf 784}: 304) present a force theory for a body in a two-dimensional, viscous, compressible and steady flow. In this companion paper we do the same for three-dimensional flow. Using the fundamental solution of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations, we improve the force formula for incompressib

R. Hiller, P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev Fedorov, O. A. Gress

The Tunka-Radio extension (Tunka-Rex) is a radio detector for air showers in Siberia. From 2012 to 2014, Tunka-Rex operated exclusively together with its host experiment, the air-Cherenkov array Tunka-133, which provided trigger, data acquisition, and an independent air-shower reconstruction. It was shown that the air-shower energy can be reconstructed by Tu

F. G. Schröder, P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev, O. Fedorov

Tunka-Rex, the Tunka Radio extension at the TAIGA facility (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) in Siberia, has recently been expanded to a total number 63 SALLA antennas, most of them distributed on an area of one square kilometer. In the first years of operation, Tunka-Rex was solely triggered by the co-located air-Cherenk

Marina Kozhevnikova, Armen Oganesian, Oleg Teryaev

In this work the behavior of power corrections to Adler finction in operator product expansion (OPE) is studied, in particular the possible contribution of operator of dimension 2. The OPE terms of dimension 4 and 6 are taken into account. Various experimental data on reactions of $e^+e^-$-annihilation to pion channels ($π^+π^-$, $2π^+2π^-$, $π^+π^-2π^0$, $3

Frank G. Schröder

This proceeding gives a summary of the current status and open questions of the radio technique for cosmic-ray air showers, assuming that the reader is already familiar with the principles. It includes recent results of selected experiments not present at this conference, e.g., LOPES and TREND. Current radio arrays like AERA or Tunka-Rex have demonstrated th

J. Fernando G. Barbero, Juan Margalef-Bentabol, Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

We discuss the unitarity of the quantum evolution between arbitrary Cauchy surfaces of a 1+1 dimensional free scalar field defined on a bounded spatial region and subject to several types of boundary conditions including Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin.

Wen Wei, Shanhua Zhu, Yi Xie, Baoquan Ou

In the field of non-equilibrium phase transitions, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) is undoubtedly an important discovery, pointing out that some universal scaling rules are applied to a wide range of physical systems from quantum to the cosmos in complex non-equilibrium continuous phase transitions. However, except for some scaling relations in specific cas

Runze Chen, Jianhui Wang, Hongbin Sun

The natural gas and electricity systems are now becoming more and more strongly coupled. While gas-fired units (GFUs) are replacing the retired coal plants, the power systems are also increasingly dependent on the flexibilities provided by GFUs to accommodate intermittent renewable energies. The GFUs' capability of power generation relies on the availabi

Daniel Santos, Yves Elskens

We discuss the self-consistent dynamics of plasmas by means of hamiltonian formalism for a system of $N$ near-resonant electrons interacting with a single Langmuir wave. The connection with the Vlasov description is revisited through the numerical calculation of the van Kampen-like eigenfrequencies of the linearized dynamics for many degrees of freedom. Both

A. Yu. Annenkov, S. V. Gerus, E. H. Lock

The visualized diffraction patterns of surface spin wave excited by arbitrarily oriented linear transducer are investigated experimentally in the plane of tangentially magnetized ferrite film for the case where the transducer length D is much larger than the wavelength L. It is shown experimentally and theoretically that the angular width of diffracted surfa

Manimala Mitra, Saurabh Niyogi, Michael Spannowsky

We investigate multilepton signatures, arising from the decays of doubly charged and singly charged Higgs bosons in the Type-II Seesaw model. Depending on the vacuum expectation value of the triplet $v_Δ$, the doubly and singly charged Higgs bosons can decay into a large variety of multi-lepton final states. We explore all possible decay modes corresponding

S. E. Derkachov, A. N. Manashov

Gustafson's integrals are multidimensional generalizations of the classical Mellin-Barnes integrals. We show that some of these integrals arise from relations between matrix elements in Sklyanin's representation of Separated Variables in spin chain models. We also present several new integrals.

Georges Gras

Let k be a totally real number field ant let k$\infty$ be its cyclotomic Zp-extension for a prime p\textgreater{}2. We give (Theorem 3.2) a sufficient condition of nullity of the Iwasawa invariants lambda, mu, when p totally splits in k, and we obtain important tables of quadratic fields and p for which we can conclude that lambda = mu=0.We show that the num

Virendra Sule

This paper develops a parallel computational solver for computing all satifying assignments of a Boolean system of equations defined by Boolean functions of several variables. While there are we known solvers for satisfiability of Boolean formulas in CNF form, these are designed primarily for deciding satisfiability of the formula and do not address the prob

Alejandro Cholaquidis, Ricardo Fraiman, Ernesto Mordecki, Cecilia Papalardo

We consider the estimation of the drift and the level sets of the stationary distri- bution of a Brownian motion with drift, reflected in the boundary of a compact set $S\subset R^d$ , departing from the observation of a trajectory of this process. We obtain the uniform consistency and rates of convergence for the proposed kernel based estimators. This probl

Lin Zhang, Seunghun Hong

The purpose of this article is to investigate the geometry of the set of locally diagonalizable bipartite quantum states. We have the following new results: the Hilbert-Schmidt volume of all locally diagonalizable states, and a necessary and sufficient condition for local diagonalizability in the qubit-qubit case. Besides, we partition the set of all locally

Ernesto C. Mistretta, Stefano Urbinati

A vector bundle on a smooth projective variety, if it is generically generated by global sections, yields a rational map to a Grassmannian, called Kodaira map. We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the Kodaira maps for the symmetric powers of a vector bundle, and we show that these maps stabilize to a map dominating all of them, as it happens for a line

Toshiyuki Arai, Choon-Lin Ho, Yusuke Ide, Norio Konno

In this paper, we consider periodicity for space-inhomogeneous quantum walks on the cycle. For isospectral coin cases, we propose a spectral analysis. Based on the analysis, we extend the result for periodicity for Hadamard walk to some isospectral coin cases. For non-isospectral coin cases, we consider the the system that uses only one general coin at the o

Raphaël Zacharias

We evaluate some twisted fourth moment of Dirichlet $L$-functions at the central point s=1/2 and for prime moduli q. The principal tool is a careful analysis of a shifted convolution problem involving the divisor function using spectral theory of automorphic forms and bounds for bilinear forms in Kloosterman sums. Having in mind simultaneous non vanishing re

Baojie Feng, Botao Fu, Shusuke Kasamatsu, Suguru Ito

Topological nodal line semimetals, a novel quantum state of materials, possess topologically nontrivial valence and conduction bands that touch at a line near the Fermi level. The exotic band structure can lead to various novel properties, such as long-range Coulomb interaction and flat Landau levels. Recently, topological nodal lines have been observed in s

Iryna Korshunova, Wenzhe Shi, Joni Dambre, Lucas Theis

We consider the problem of face swapping in images, where an input identity is transformed into a target identity while preserving pose, facial expression, and lighting. To perform this mapping, we use convolutional neural networks trained to capture the appearance of the target identity from an unstructured collection of his/her photographs.This approach is

Ulrike Herzog

We consider the problem of optimally identifying the state of a probe qudit, prepared with given prior probability in a pure state belonging to a finite set of possible states which together span a D-dimensional subspace of the d-dimensional Hilbert space the qudit is defined in.It is assumed that we do not know some or all of the states in the set, but for

Ruben Minasian, Soumya Sasmal, Raffaele Savelli

We examine SL(2, Z) anomalies in ten and eight-dimensional supergravities, the induced local counterterms and their realization in string theory. Composite connections play an important role in the cancellation mechanism. At the same time their global properties lead to novel non-trivial consistency constraints on compactifications.

Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Giuseppe Serra, Rita Cucchiara

Data-driven saliency has recently gained a lot of attention thanks to the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for predicting gaze fixations. In this paper we go beyond standard approaches to saliency prediction, in which gaze maps are computed with a feed-forward network, and present a novel model which can predict accurate saliency maps by incorporating ne

Yoji Yamato

In this paper, we propose a server structure proposal and automatic performance verification technology which proposes and verifies an appropriate server structure on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud with baremetal servers, container based virtual servers and virtual machines. Recently, cloud services have been progressed and providers provide not on

Steve Hofmann, José María Martell, Tatiana Toro

We consider a certain class of second order, variable coefficient divergence form elliptic operators, in a uniform domain $Ω$ with Ahlfors regular boundary, and we show that the $A_\infty$ property of the elliptic measure associated to any such operator and its transpose imply that the domain is in fact NTA (and hence chord-arc). The converse was already kno

Stefano Bonzio, Andrea Loi, Luisa Peruzzi

We establish a natural duality between the category of involutive bisemilattices and the category of semilattice inverse systems of Stone spaces, using Stone duality from one side and the representation of involutive bisemilattices as Płonka sum of Boolean algebras, from the other. Furthermore, we show that the dual space of an involutive bisemilattice can b

Burak Benligiray, Cihan Topal

Nonlinear lens distortion rectification is a common first step in image processing applications where the assumption of a linear camera model is essential. For rectifying the lens distortion, forward distortion model needs to be known. However, many self-calibration methods estimate the inverse distortion model. In the literature, the inverse of the estimate

Mario G. Silveirinha

Here, we study the role of topological edge states of light in the transport of thermally generated radiation in a closed cavity at a thermodynamic equilibrium. It is shown that even in the zero temperature limit - when the field fluctuations are purely quantum mechanical - there is a persistent flow of electromagnetic momentum in the cavity in closed orbits

Victor Przyjalkowski, Constantin Shramov

We prove that if a smooth variety with non-positive canonical class can be embedded into a weighted projective space of dimension $n$ as a well formed complete intersection and it is not an intersection with a linear cone therein, then the weights of the weighted projective space do not exceed $n+1$. Based on this bound we classify all smooth Fano complete i

Rashi Sachdeva, Thomas Busch

Artificial gauge fields are versatile tools that allow to influence the dynamics of ultracold atoms in Bose-Einstein condensates. Here we discuss a method of artificial gauge field generation stemming from the evanescent fields of the curved surface of an optical nanofibre. The exponential decay of the evanescent fields leads to large gradients in the genera

Adar Sonn-Segev, Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Yael Roichman

It is well known that many biochemical processes in the cell such as gene regulation, growth signals and activation of ion channels, rely on mechanical stimuli. However, the mechanism by which mechanical signals propagate through cells is not as well understood. In this review we focus on stress propagation in a minimal model for cell elasticity, actomyosin

Massimo Cicognani, Daniel Lorenz

We consider the Cauchy problem for strictly hyperbolic $m$-th order partial differential equations with coefficients low-regular in time and smooth in space. It is well-known that the problem is $L^2$ well-posed in the case of Lipschitz continuous coefficients in time, $H^s$ well-posed in the case of Log-Lipschitz continuous coefficients in time (with an, in

Semyon Alesker

For any closed smooth Riemannian manifold H. Weyl has defined a sequence of numbers called today intrinsic volumes. They include volume, Euler characteristic, and integral of the scalar curvature. We conjecture that absolute values of all intrinsic volumes are bounded by a constant depending only on the dimension of the manifold, upper bound on its diameter,

Vidak Vujicic, Aravind P. Anthur, Alexander Gazman, Colm Browning

Due to the growing popularity of optical superchannels and software defined networking, reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) architectures for superchannel switching have recently attracted significant attention. ROADMs based on micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) and liquid crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) technologies are predominantly used. Mot

S. Adrián-Martínez, M. Ageron, S. Aiello, A. Albert

Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multimegaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursued by the future KM3NeT/ORCA water Cherenkov detector in the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper, the processes that limit the obtainable resolution in both energy and direction in cha

D. Guénot, D. Gustas, A. Vernier, B. Beaurepaire

Laser-plasma acceleration is an emerging technique for accelerating electrons to high energies over very short distances. The accelerated electron bunches have femtosecond duration, making them particularly relevant for applications such as ultrafast imaging or femtosecond X-ray generation. Current laser-plasma accelerators are typically driven by Joule-clas

Jeremiah Li, Felix X. -F. Ye, Hong Qian, Sui Huang

There is a growing awareness that catastrophic phenomena in biology and medicine can be mathematically represented in terms of saddle-node bifurcations. In particular, the term `tipping', or critical transition has in recent years entered the discourse of the general public in relation to ecology, medicine, and public health. The saddle-node bifurcation

Daniele D'Angeli, Emanuele Rodaro, Jan Philipp Wächter

In this paper, we study the word problem for automaton semigroups and automaton groups from a complexity point of view. As an intermediate concept between automaton semigroups and automaton groups, we introduce automaton-inverse semigroups, which are generated by partial, yet invertible automata. We show that there is an automaton-inverse semigroup and, thus

Andre Hessler, Alejandro Ibarra, Emiliano Molinaro, Stefan Vogl

We analyse the signatures at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the scotogenic model, when the lightest Z2-odd particle is a singlet fermion and a feebly interacting massive particle (FIMP). We further assume that the singlet fermion constitutes the dark matter and that it is produced in the early Universe via the freeze-in mechanism. The small couplings req

Simon N. Chandler-Wilde, David P. Hewett

We consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering by planar sound-soft (Dirichlet) and sound-hard (Neumann) screens embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n = 2$ or $3$. In contrast to previous studies in which the screen is assumed to be a bounded Lipschitz (or smoother) relatively open subset of the plane, we consider screens occupying an arbitrary bounded subset of

D. Chaitanya Kumar Rao, Srinibas Karmakar, S. K. Som

The present investigation deals with the puffing and micro-explosion characteristics in the combustion of a single droplet comprising butanol/Jet A-1, acetone-butanol-ethanol (A-B-E)/Jet A-1 blends, and A-B-E. The onset of nucleation, growth of vapor bubble and subsequent breakup of droplet for various fuel blends have been analyzed from the high-speed image

A. G. Mal'shukov

The spin-galvanic (inverse Edelstein) and inverse spin-Hall effects are calculated for a hybrid system that combines thin superconductor and Rashba-metal layers. These effects are produced by a nonequilibrium spin polarization which is injected into the normal metal layer. This polarization gives rise to an electric potential that relaxes within some charact

Hao Lin, Xiumei Wang

In connection with Fulkerson's conjecture on cycle covers, Fan and Raspaud proposed a weaker conjecture: For every bridgeless cubic graph $G$, there are three perfect matchings $M_1$, $M_2$, and $M_3$ such that $M_1\cap M_2 \cap M_3=\emptyset$. We call the property specified in this conjecture the three matching intersection property (and 3PM property fo

Francesco Pace, Daniele Venzano, Damiano Carra, Pietro Michiardi

This work addresses the problem of scheduling user-defined analytic applications, which we define as high-level compositions of frameworks, their components, and the logic necessary to carry out work. The key idea in our application definition, is to distinguish classes of components, including rigid and elastic types: the first being required for an applica

Y. Kazarina, P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev, O. A. Gress

The Tunka-Rex experiment (Tunka Radio Extension) has been deployed in 2012 at the Tunka Valley (Republic of Buryatia, Russia). Its purpose is to investigate methods for the energy spectrum and the mass composition of high-energy cosmic rays based on the radio emission of air showers. Tunka-Rex is an array of 25 radio antennas distributed over an area of 3 km

Eva Kopfer

We introduce notions of dynamic gradient flows on time-dependent metric spaces as well as on time-dependent Hilbert spaces. We prove existence of solutions for a class of time dependent energy functionals in both settings. In particular we are interested in the case when the underlying spaces are metric measure spaces and the energy functional is given by th

Tomoyasu Horikawa, Yukiyasu Kamitani

Dreaming is generally thought to be generated by spontaneous brain activity during sleep with patterns common to waking experience. This view is supported by a recent study demonstrating that dreamed objects can be predicted from brain activity during sleep using statistical decoders trained with stimulus-induced brain activity. However, it remains unclear w

Z. G. Dai, J. S. Wang, X. F. Wu

Recently, DeLaunay et al. (2016) discovered a gamma-ray transient, Swift J0644.5-5111, associated with the fast radio burst (FRB) 131104. They also reported follow-up broadband observations beginning two days after the FRB and provided upper limits on a putative afterglow of this transient. In this paper, we show that if such a transient drives a relativisti

Anita Buckley, Klemen Šivic

New families of nonnegative biquadratic forms that have 8, 9 or 10 real zeros in $\mathbb{P}^2\times \mathbb{P}^2$ are constructed. These are the first examples with 8, 9 or 10 real zeros. It is known that nonnegative biquadratic forms with finitely many real zeros can have at most 10 zeros; our examples show that the upper bound is obtained. Such biquadrati

Yang Li, Yuetian Luo, Davide Ferrari, Xiaonan Hu

In this article, we introduce the concept of model confidence bounds (MCB) for variable selection in the context of nested models. Similarly to the endpoints in the familiar confidence interval for parameter estimation, the MCB identifies two nested models (upper and lower confidence bound models) containing the true model at a given level of confidence. Ins

Gianfranco Casnati

Let $S$ be a geometrically ruled surface with invariant $e$ on a curve $C$. We deal with Ulrich line bundles and $μ$-stable special Ulrich bundles of rank $2$ on $S$ when $e\ge0$, slightly extending a recent result due to M. Aprodu, L. Costa and R.M. Miró-Roig. If $C$ is elliptic, we also prove that $S$ always supports Ulrich bundles of rank at most $2$, wit