January 2017 arXiv papers — page 14

Constantin Popa

In this paper we make a theoretical analysis of the convergence rates of Kaczmarz and Extended Kaczmarz projection algorithms for some of the most practically used control sequences. We first prove an at least linear convergence rate for the Kaczmarz-Tanabe and its Extended version methods (the one in which a complete set of projections using row/column inde

D. T. Nguyen, E. Wandersman, A. Prevost, Y. Le Chenadec

We report on measurements of the local friction law at a multi-contact interface formed between a smooth rubber and statistically rough glass lenses, under steady state friction. Using contact imaging, surface displacements are measured, and inverted to extract both distributions of frictional shear stress and contact pressure with a spatial resolution of ab

Luke Hutton, Tristan Henderson

Companies and academic researchers may collect, process, and distribute large quantities of personal data without the explicit knowledge or consent of the individuals to whom the data pertains. Existing forms of consent often fail to be appropriately readable and ethical oversight of data mining may not be sufficient. This raises the question of whether exis

Elina Lindfors

Active galactic nuclei, hosting supermassive black holes and launching relativistic jets, are the most numerous objects on the gamma-ray sky. At the other end of the mass scale, phenomena related to stellar mass black holes, in particular gamma-ray bursts and microquasars, are also seen on the gamma-ray sky. While all of them are thought to launch relativist

Talvikki Hovatta

According to the currently favored picture, relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are launched in the vicinity of the black hole by magnetic fields extracting energy from the spinning black hole or the accretion disk. In the past decades, various models from shocks to magnetic reconnection have been proposed as the energy dissipation mechanism in

Kiran Kumar Behera, A. Swaminathan

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate some structural and qualitative aspects of two different perturbations of the parameters of $g$-fractions. In this context the concept of \emph{gap} $g$-fractions is introduced. While tail sequences of a continued fraction play a significant role in the first perturbation, Schur fractions are used in the sec

C Bahadoran, H Guiol, K Ravishankar, E Saada

We review a (constructive) approach first introduced in [6] and further developed in [7, 8, 38, 9] for hydrodynamic limits of asymmetric attractive particle systems, in a weak or in a strong (that is, almost sure) sense, in an homogeneous or in a quenched disordered setting.

Marco Casazza, Pierre Fouilhoux, Mathieu Bouet, Stefano Secci

Virtual Network Functions as a Service (VNFaaS) is currently under attentive study by telecommunications and cloud stakeholders as a promising business and technical direction consisting of providing network functions as a service on a cloud (NFV Infrastructure), instead of delivering standalone network appliances, in order to provide higher scalability and

D. T. Nguyen, P. Paolino, M-C. Audry, A. Chateauminois

This paper addresses the issue of the determination of the frictional stress distribution from the inversion of the measured surface displacement field for sliding interfaces between a glass lens and a rubber (poly(dimethylsiloxane)) substrate. Experimental results show that high lateral strains are achieved at the periphery of the sliding contacts. As a con

Charles Morris, Ali Taheri

Let $\X = \X[a, b] = \{x: a<|x|<b\}\subset \R^n$ with $0<a<b<\infty$ fixed be an open annulus and consider the energy functional, \begin{equation*} {\mathbb F} [u; \X] = \frac{1}{2} \int_\X \frac{|\nabla u|^2}{|u|^2} \, dx, \end{equation*} over the space of admissible incompressible Sobolev maps \begin{equation*} {\mathcal A}_ϕ(\X) = \bigg\{ u \in W^{1,2}(\X

Alexey Balitskiy, Roman Karasev, Alexander Tsigler

We consider geometrical optimization problems related to optimizing the error probability in the presence of a Gaussian noise. One famous questions in the field is the &#34;weak simplex conjecture&#34;. We discuss possible approaches to it, and state related conjectures about the Gaussian measure, in particular, the conjecture about minimizing of the Gaussia

Xiaoyang Chen, Jianyu Ou

An isometric compact group action $G \times (M,g) \rightarrow (M,g)$ is called polar if there exists a closed embedded submanifold $Σ\subseteq M$ which meets all orbits orthogonally. Let $Π$ be the associated generalized Weyl group. We study the properties of the lifting action $G$ on the cotangent bundle $T^*M$. In particular, we show that the restriction m

Hongbo Fu, Li Wan, Jicheng Liu, Xianming Liu

This article deals with the weak errors for averaging principle for a stochastic wave equation in a bounded interval $[0,L]$, perturbed by a oscillating term arising as the solution of a stochastic reaction-diffusion equation evolving with respect to the fast time. Under suitable conditions, it is proved that the rate of weak convergence to the averaged effe

Vahid Aref, Zhenhua Dong, Henning Buelow

We explain how to optimize the nonlinear spectrum of multi-soliton pulses by considering the practical constraints of transmitter, receiver, and lumped-amplified link. The optimization is applied for the experimental transmission of 2ns soliton pulses with independent on-off keying of 10 eigenvalues over 2000 km of NZ-DSF fiber spans.

Janez Mrcun

For any topological groupoid G and any homomorphism from a locally compact Hausdorff topological group K to G, we construct an associated monodromy group. We prove that Morita equivalent topological groupoids have the same monodromy groups. We show how the monodromy groups can be used to test if a Lie groupoid lacks faithful representations.

Adrian-Maria Scheerer

We construct an absolutely normal number whose continued fraction expansion is normal in the sense that it contains all finite patterns of partial quotients with the expected asymptotic frequency as given by the Gauss-Kuzmin measure. The construction is based on ideas of Sierpinski and uses a large deviations theorem for sums of mixing random variables.

S. S. Savchenko, V. P. Reshetnikov

Based on SDSS data, we have considered the spatial environment of galaxies with extended polar rings. We used two approaches: estimating the projected distance to the nearest companion and counting the number of companions as a function of the distance to the galaxy. Both approaches have shown that the spatial environment of polar-ring galaxies on scales of

Andrés Viña

Let $X$ be Calabi-Yau manifold acted by a group $G$. We give a definition of $G$-equivariance for branes on $X$, and assign to each equivariant brane an element of the equivariant cohomology of $X$ that can be considered as a charge of the brane. We prove that the spaces of strings stretching between equivariant branes support representations of $G$. This fa

Joseph J. Boutros, Fanny Jardel, Cyril Méasson

We generalize probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) with binary codes to the case of non-binary codes defined over prime finite fields. Firstly, we introduce probabilistic shaping via time sharing where shaping applies to information symbols only. Then, we design circular quadrature amplitude modulations (CQAM) that allow to directly generalize PAS to prime

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov, F. Cervelli

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab looks for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) improving by 4 orders of magnitude the current experimental sensitivity for the muon to electron conversion in a muonic atom. A positive signal could not be explained in the framework of the current Standard Model of particle interactions and therefore would be a clear indicatio

Anton Frisk Kockum, Vincenzo Macrì, Luigi Garziano, Salvatore Savasta

We propose a new method for frequency conversion of photons which is both versatile and deterministic. We show that a system with two resonators ultrastrongly coupled to a single qubit can be used to realize both single- and multiphoton frequency-conversion processes. The conversion can be exquisitely controlled by tuning the qubit frequency to bring the des

Harald Bernhard, Bikramjit Das

It is well-known that large deviations of random walks driven by independent and identically distributed heavy-tailed random variables are governed by the so-called principle of one large jump. We note that further subtleties hold for such random walks in the large deviation scale which we call hidden large deviation. We apply this idea in the context of que

Hemant Khatri, Jai Sukhatme, Abhishek Kumar, Mahendra K. Verma

Enstrophy, kinetic energy (KE) fluxes and spectra are estimated in different parts of the mid-latitudinal oceans via altimetry data. To begin with, using geostrophic currents derived from sea-surface height anomaly data provided by AVISO, we confirm the presence of a strong inverse flux of surface KE at scales larger than approximately 250 km. We then comput

Radu Miculescu, Alexandru Mihail

Taking as model the attractor of an iterated function system consisting of phi-contractions on a complete and bounded metric space, we introduce the set-theoretic concept of family of functions having attractor. We prove that, given such a family, there exist a metric on the set on which the functions are defined and take values and a comparison function phi

Ion Chiţescu, Loredana Ioana, Radu Miculescu, Lucian Niţă

We consider iterated function systems (finite or countable), together with linear and continuous operators on Hilbert spaces, which enable us to construct Markov-type operators. Under suitable conditions, these Markov-type operators have fixed points, which are self-similar (invariant) vector measures, thus generalizing the classic Hutchinson self-similar me

Kiran Kumar Behera, A. Swaminathan

In recent years, chain sequences and their perturbations have played a significant role in characterising the orthogonal polynomials both on the real line as well as on the unit circle. In this note, a particular disturbance of the chain sequence related to orthogonal polynomials having their true interval of orthogonality as a subset of $[0,\infty)$ is stud

N. O. Agasian, M. S. Lukashov, Yu. A. Simonov

The $SU(3)$ equation of state ($P(T),\,s(T),\,I(T)$) are calculated within the Field Correlator Method both in the confined and the deconfined phases. The basic dynamics in our approach is contained in the vacuum correlators, both of the colorelectric (CE) and colormagnetic (CM) types, which ensure CE and CM confinement below $T_c$ and CM confinement and Pol

Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko

We consider $ε$-equilibria notions for constant value of $ε$ in $n$-player $m$-actions games where $m$ is a constant. We focus on the following question: What is the largest grid size over the mixed strategies such that $ε$-equilibrium is guaranteed to exist over this grid. For Nash equilibrium, we prove that constant grid size (that depends on $ε$ and $m$,

Syed Mehedi Hasan Nirob, Md. Kazi Nayeem, Md. Saiful Islam

Trending topic of newspapers is an indicator to understand the situation of a country and also a way to evaluate the particular newspaper. This paper represents a model describing few techniques to select trending topics from Bangla Newspaper. Topics that are discussed more frequently than other in Bangla newspaper will be marked and how a very famous topic

Dmitry Ananichev

We present a new series of examples of binary slowly synchronizing automata with sink state. The reset threshold of the $n$-state automaton in this series is $\frac{n^2}{4}+2n-9$. This improves on the previously known lower bound for the maximum reset threshold of binary synchronizing $n$-state automata with sink state.

Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We have a new observation that near horizon symmetry generators, corresponding to diffeomorphisms which leave the horizon structure invariant, satisfy noncommutative Heisenberg algebra. The results are valid for any null surfaces (which has Rindler structure in the near null surface limit) and in any spacetime dimensions. Using Sugawara construction techniqu

Yasuki Tachibana, Ning-Bo Chang, Guang-You Qin

We study the nuclear modifications of full jets and their structures in relativistic heavy-ion collisions including the effect of hydrodynamic medium response to jet quenching. To study the evolutions of the full jet shower and the traversed medium with energy and momentum exchanges between them, we formulate a coupled jet-fluid model consisting of a set of

Norio Konno, Hayato Saigo, Hiroki Sako

The subject of this paper is the simple random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$. We give a very simple answer to the following problem: under the condition that a random walk has already spent $α$-percent of the traveling time on the positive side $\mathbb{Z}_{\ge 0}$, what is the probability that the random walk is now on the positive side? The symmetric random walks w

Qi Ding

In Theorem 3.1 of [12], we proved a rigidity result for self-shrinkers under the integral condition on the norm of the second fundamental form. In this paper, we relax the such bound to any finite constant (see Theorem 4.4 for details).

Ka Ho Yuen, A. Lazarian

The advancement of our understanding of MHD turbulence opens ways to develop new techniques to probe magnetic fields. In MHD turbulence, the velocity gradients are expected to be perpendicular to magnetic fields and this fact was used by Gonsalvez-Casanova & Lazarian to introduce a new technique to trace magnetic fields using velocity centroid gradients. The

Shunsuke Ichiki

Generalized distance-squared mappings are quadratic mappings of $\mathbb{R}^m$ into $\mathbb{R}^\ell$ of special type. In the case that matrices $A$ constructed by coefficients of generalized distance-squared mappings of $\mathbb{R}^2$ into $\mathbb{R}^\ell$ ($\ell \geq3$) are full rank, the generalized distance-squared mappings having a generic central poin

David Ellerman

Given an equivalence relation ~ on a set U, there are two abstract notions of an element of the quotient set U/~. The #1 abstract notion is a set S=[u] of equivalent elements of U (an equivalence class); the #2 notion is an abstract entity u_{S} that is definite on what is common to the elements of the equivalence class S but is otherwise indefinite on the d

Zhaoliang Liao, Rongying Jin, E. W. Plummer, Jiandi Zhang

The coupling between the electrical transport properties of La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) thin films and structural phase transitions of SrTiO3 (STO) substrates at Ts = 105 K has been investigated. We found that the electrical resistivity of LSMO films exhibit a cusp at Ts, which is greatly amplified by tuning films to the verge of metallic and insulating phases, i.

Zhaoliang Liao, Nicolas Gauquelin, Robert J. Green, Sebastian Macke

Thickness driven electronic phase transitions are broadly observed in different types of functional perovskite heterostructures. However, uncertainty remains whether these effects are solely due to spatial confinement, broken symmetry or rather to a change of structure with varying film thickness. Here, we present direct evidence for the relaxation of oxygen

Arturo Alvarez Cruz, Myriam Mondragón

In this work we use previous results on the masses and mixing of neu- trinos of an S3 model with three right-handed Majorana neutrinos and three Higgs doublets, to reduce one parameter in the case when two of the right-handed neutrinos are mass degenerate. We derive a new param- eterization for the VP M N S mixing matrix, with a new set of parameters, in the

Isaac Goldbring, Bradd Hart, Henry Towsner

Recently, Boutonnet, Chifan, and Ioana proved that McDuff&#39;s examples of continuum many pairwise non-isomorphic separable II$_1$ factors are in fact pairwise non-elementarily equivalent. Their proof proceeded by showing that any ultrapowers of any two distinct McDuff examples are not isomorphic. In a paper by the first two authors of this paper, Ehrenfeuc

Catherine Dubois, Paolo Masci, Dominique Méry

This volume contains the proceedings of F-IDE 2016, the third international workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment, which was held as an FM 2016 satellite event, on November 8, 2016, in Limassol (Cyprus). High levels of safety, security and also privacy standards require the use of formal methods to specify and develop compliant software (sub)

Ivan S. Cojocaru, Sergey V. Pyatchenkov, Stepan A. Snigirev, Ilya A. Luchnikov

We studied light assisted collisions of Tm atoms in a magneto optical trap (MOT) for the first time, working on a weak cooling transition at 530.7 nm $(4f^{13}(^2F^0)6s^2,J=7/2,F=4$ to $4f^{12}(^3H_6)5d_{5/2}6s^2,J=9/2,F=5)$. We observed a strong influence from radiation trapping and light assisted collisions on the dynamics of this trap. We carefully separa

Yongzhuo Li, Jianxing Zhang, Dandan Huang, Hao Sun

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide the most efficient optical gain materials and have potential for making nanolasers with the smallest gain media with lowest energy consumption. But lasing demonstrations based on TMDs have so far been limited to low temperatures. Here, we demonstrate the first room-temperature laser operation in the i

Daniele Bertolini, Mikhail P. Solon, Jonathan R. Walsh

Standard QCD resummation techniques provide precise predictions for the spectrum and the cumulant of a given observable. The integrated spectrum and the cumulant differ by higher-order terms which, however, can be numerically significant. In this paper we propose a method, which we call the $σ\text{-improved}$ scheme, to resolve this issue. It consists of tw

Gretel Quintero Angulo, Aurora Perez Martinez, Hugo Perez Rojas

We study the equation of motion of neutral vector bosons bearing a magnetic moment (MM). The effective rest mass of vector bosons is a decreasing function of the magnetic field intensity. Consequently a diffuse condensation of the bosons appears below a critical value of the field. For typical values of densities and magnetic fields the magnetization is posi

Ryota Iwamoto, Takeshi Koshiba

Non-malleable code is a relaxed version of error-correction codes and the decoding of modified codewords results in the original message or a completely unrelated value. Thus, if an adversary corrupts a codeword then he cannot get any information from the codeword. This means that non-malleable codes are useful to provide a security guarantee in such situati

F. Guzmán, N. R. Badnell, M. Chatzikos, P. A. M. van Hoof

Accurate rates for energy-degenerate l-changing collisions are needed to determine cosmological abundances and recombination. There are now several competing theories for the treatment of this process, and it is not possible to test these experimentally. We show that the H I two-photon continuum produced by astrophysical nebulae is strongly affected by l-cha

Richard Ellard, Helena Šmigoc

If a real polynomial $f(x)=p(x^2)+xq(x^2)$ is Hurwitz stable (every root if $f$ lies in the open left half-plane), then the Hermite-Biehler Theorem says that the polynomials $p(-x^2)$ and $q(-x^2)$ have interlacing real roots. We extend this result to general polynomials by giving a lower bound on the number of real roots of $p(-x^2)$ and $q(-x^2)$ and showi

Dilina Perera, Don M. Nicholson, Markus Eisenbach, G. Malcolm Stocks

Using an atomistic model that simultaneously treats the dynamics of translational and spin degrees of freedom, we perform combined molecular and spin dynamics simulations to investigate the mutual influence of the phonons and magnons on their respective frequency spectra and lifetimes in ferromagnetic bcc iron. By calculating the Fourier transforms of the sp

Tianyi Chen, Qing Ling, Georgios B. Giannakis

Existing approaches to online convex optimization (OCO) make sequential one-slot-ahead decisions, which lead to (possibly adversarial) losses that drive subsequent decision iterates. Their performance is evaluated by the so-called regret that measures the difference of losses between the online solution and the best yet fixed overall solution in hindsight. T

Matthias Wiesenberger, Markus Held, Lukas Einkemmer

We propose a new numerical algorithm to construct a structured numerical elliptic grid of a doubly connected domain. Our method is applicable to domains with boundaries defined by two contour lines of a two-dimensional function. The resulting grids are orthogonal to the boundary. Grid points as well as the elements of the Jacobian matrix can be computed effi

Matthew J. Colbrook, Xiangcheng Ma, Philip F. Hopkins, Jonathan Squire

Passive scalar mixing (metals, molecules, etc.) in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) is critical for abundance patterns of stars and clusters, galaxy and star formation, and cooling from the circumgalactic medium. However, the fundamental scaling laws remain poorly understood in the highly supersonic, magnetized, shearing regime relevant for the ISM. W

Frédéric Couderc, Arnaud Duran, Jean-Paul Vila

We present an explicit scheme for a two-dimensional multilayer shallow water model with density stratification, for general meshes and collocated variables. The proposed strategy is based on a regularized model where the transport velocity in the advective fluxes is shifted proportionally to the pressure potential gradient. Using a similar strategy for the p

Hillel Aharoni, Thomas Machon, Randall D. Kamien

Smectic liquid crystals are charcterized by layers that have a preferred uniform spacing and vanishing curvature in their ground state. Dislocations in the smectics play an important role in phase nucleation, layer reorientation, and dynamics. Typically modeled as possessing one line singularity, the layer structure of a dislocation leads to a diverging comp

Emilie Devijver, Mélina Gallopin, Emeline Perthame

Quantitatively predicting phenotype variables by the expression changes in a set of candidate genes is of great interest in molecular biology but it is also a challenging task for several reasons. First, the collected biological observations might be heterogeneous and correspond to different biological mechanisms. Secondly, the gene expression variables used

Felix M. Haehl, R. Loganayagam, Mukund Rangamani

We make a detailed comparison between two attempts in recent years to construct hydrodynamic effective actions: we compare our work [1-7] with that of Crossley-Glorioso-Liu [8] and Glorioso-Liu [9]. The general philosophy espoused by the two approaches has a degree of overlap, despite various differences. We will try to outline the similarities to eke out th

Adarsh Barik, Jean Honorio, Mohit Tawarmalani

We analyze the necessary number of samples for sparse vector recovery in a noisy linear prediction setup. This model includes problems such as linear regression and classification. We focus on structured graph models. In particular, we prove that sufficient number of samples for the weighted graph model proposed by Hegde and others is also necessary. We use

Alejandro Cabo-Bizet, Victor I. Giraldo-Rivera, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

We compute the topologically twisted index for general $\mathcal{N} = 2$ supersymmetric field theories on $\mathbb{H}_2\times S^1$. We also discuss asymptotically $AdS_4$ magnetically charged black holes with hyperbolic horizon, in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 2$ gauged supergravity. With certain assumptions, put forward by Benini, Hristov and Zaffaroni,

Jean-Christophe Feauveau

Elliptic functions are largely studied and standardized mathematical objects. The two usual approaches are due to Jacobi and Weierstrass. From a contour integral which allowed us to unify many summation formulae (Euler-MacLaurin, Poisson, Voronoï or Circle formulae), we will find the entirety of the elliptic functions, proposed either in the shape of Jacobi

A. Lazarian, Ka Ho Yuen, Hyeseung Lee, Jungyeon Cho

On the basis of the modern understanding of MHD turbulence, we propose a new way of using synchrotron radiation, namely using synchrotron intensity gradients for tracing astrophysical magnetic fields. We successfully test the new technique using synthetic data obtained with the 3D MHD simulations and provide the demonstration of the practical utility of the

Vicente Cortés, Malte Dyckmanns, Michel Jüngling, David Lindemann

We classify all complete projective special real manifolds with reducible cubic potential, obtaining four series. For two of the series the manifolds are homogeneous, for the two others the respective automorphism group acts with co-homogeneity one. Complete projective special real manifolds give rise to complete quaternionic Kähler manifolds via the supergr

Gerard Rinkus

The brain is believed to implement probabilistic reasoning and to represent information via population, or distributed, coding. Most previous population-based probabilistic (PPC) theories share several basic properties: 1) continuous-valued neurons; 2) fully(densely)-distributed codes, i.e., all(most) units participate in every code; 3) graded synapses; 4) r

Martin Arjovsky, Soumith Chintala, Léon Bottou

We introduce a new algorithm named WGAN, an alternative to traditional GAN training. In this new model, we show that we can improve the stability of learning, get rid of problems like mode collapse, and provide meaningful learning curves useful for debugging and hyperparameter searches. Furthermore, we show that the corresponding optimization problem is soun

John F. Cherry, Shunsaku Horiuchi

We perform an exhaustive scan of the allowed resonant production regime for sterile neutrino dark matter in order to improve constraints for dark matter structures which arise from the non-thermal sterile neutrino energy spectra. Small-scale structure constraints are particularly sensitive to large lepton asymmetries/small mixing angles which result in relat

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi

An amplitude analysis of the decay $Λ_b^0\to D^0 p π^-$ is performed in the part of the phase space containing resonances in the $D^0 p$ channel. The study is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions recorded by the LHCb experiment. The spectrum of excited $Λ_c^+$ states that decay into $D^0 p$ is s

Yeow Meng Chee, Tuvi Etzion, Han Mao Kiah, Alexander Vardy

High temperatures have dramatic negative effects on interconnect performance and, hence, numerous techniques have been proposed to reduce the power consumption of on-chip buses. However, existing methods fall short of fully addressing the thermal challenges posed by high-performance interconnects. In this paper, we introduce new efficient coding schemes that

F. Cullen, R. J. McLure, S. Khochfar, J. S. Dunlop

We present the results of a study investigating the dust attenuation law at $z\simeq 5$, based on synthetic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) calculated for a sample of N=498 galaxies drawn from the First Billion Years (FiBY) simulation project. The simulated galaxies at $z\simeq 5$, which have M$_{1500} \leq -18.0$ and $7.5 \leq \rm{log(M/M}_{\odot}\rm{)

Daniela De Silva, Fausto Ferrari, Sandro Salsa

We develop further the strategy implemented in our series of papers on inhomogeneous two-phase fee boundary problems, to show that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of such problems are locally $C^{2,γ}.$

Adrien Sauvaget

We introduce a space of stable meromorphic differentials with poles of prescribed orders and define its tautological cohomology ring. This space, just as the space of holomorphic differentials, is stratified according to the set of multiplicities of zeros of the differential. The main goal of this paper is to compute the Poincaré-dual cohomology classes of a

Kimball Martin

We prove many simultaneous congruences mod 2 for elliptic and Hilbert modular forms among forms with different Atkin--Lehner eigenvalues. The proofs involve the notion of quaternionic $S$-ideal classes and the distribution of Atkin--Lehner signs among newforms.

Ricardo Zarzuela, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We investigate the formation and dynamics of spin textures in antiferromagnetic insulators adjacent to a heavy-metal substrate with strong spin-orbit interactions. Exchange coupling to conduction electrons engenders an effective anisotropy, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, and a magnetoelectric effect for the Néel order, which can conspire to produce nont

Ryan M. Evans, David A. Edwards

Optical biosensors are often used to measure kinetic rate constants associated with chemical reactions. Such instruments operate in the \textit{surface-volume} configuration, in which ligand molecules are convected through a fluid-filled volume over a surface to which receptors are confined. Currently, scientists are using optical biosenors to measure the ki

Elvira R. Sayfutyarova, Qiming Sun, Garnet K. -L. Chan, Gerald Knizia

We introduce the atomic valence active space (AVAS), a simple and well-defined automated technique for constructing active orbital spaces for use in multi-configuration and multireference (MR) electronic structure calculations. Concretely, the technique constructs active molecular orbitals capable of describing all relevant electronic configurations emerging

Michael Doebeli, Iaroslav Ispolatov

We study macroevolutionary dynamics by extending microevolutionary competition models to long time scales. It has been shown that for a general class of competition models, gradual evolutionary change in continuous phenotypes (evolutionary dynamics) can be non-stationary and even chaotic when the dimension of the phenotype space in which the evolutionary dyn

Robert Stelzer, Johanna Vestweber

For the multivariate COGARCH(1,1) volatility process we show sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique stationary distribution, for the geometric ergodicity and for the finiteness of moments of the stationary distribution by a Foster-Lyapunov drift condition approach. The test functions used are naturally related to the geometry of the cone of posi

Giuseppe Puglisi, Giulio Fabbian, Carlo Baccigalupi

We present a model for simulating Carbon Monoxide (CO) rotational line emission in molecular clouds, taking account of their 3D spatial distribution in galaxies with different geometrical properties. The model implemented is based on recent results in the literature and has been designed for performing Monte-Carlo simulations of this emission. We compare the

P. C. Lou, W. P. Beyermann, S. Kumar

In Si, spin-phonon interaction is the primary spin relaxation mechanism. At low temperatures, the absence of spin-phonon relaxation will lead to enhanced spin accumulation. Spin accumulation may change the electro-thermal transport within the material, and thus may serve as an investigative tool for characterizing spin-mediated behavior. Here we present the

Jeff Heaton

Machine learning models, such as neural networks, decision trees, random forests, and gradient boosting machines, accept a feature vector, and provide a prediction. These models learn in a supervised fashion where we provide feature vectors mapped to the expected output. It is common practice to engineer new features from the provided feature set. Such engin

Dmitry Petrov, Boris Gutman, Alexander Ivanov, Joshua Faskowitz

In this work, we study the extent to which structural connectomes and topological derivative measures are unique to individual changes within human brains. To do so, we classify structural connectome pairs from two large longitudinal datasets as either belonging to the same individual or not. Our data is comprised of 227 individuals from the Alzheimer&#39;s

Scott Carnahan

We give a new, simpler proof that the canonical actions of finite groups on Fricke-type Monstrous Lie algebras yield genus zero functions in Generalized Monstrous Moonshine, using a Borcherds-Kac-Moody Lie algebra decomposition due to Jurisich. We describe a compatibility condition, arising from the no-ghost theorem in bosonic string theory, that yields the

Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, Håvard Rue

The Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) has established itself as a widely used method for approximate inference on Bayesian hierarchical models which can be represented as a latent Gaussian model (LGM). INLA is based on producing an accurate approximation to the posterior marginal distributions of the parameters in the model and some other quanti

Arjun Radhakrishna, Nicholas V. Lewchenko, Shawn Meier, Sergio Mover

Event-driven programming frameworks, such as Android, are based on components with asynchronous interfaces. The protocols for interacting with these components can often be described by finite-state machines we dub *callback typestates*. Callback typestates are akin to classical typestates, with the difference that their outputs (callbacks) are produced asyn

Jessica S. Schonhut-Stasik, Christoph Baranec, Daniel Huber, Carl Ziegler

We used the Robo-AO laser adaptive optics system to image 99 main sequence and subgiant stars that have Kepler-detected asteroseismic signals. Robo-AO allows us to resolve blended secondary sources at separations as close as 0.15&#34; that may contribute to the measured Kepler light curves and affect asteroseismic analysis and interpretation. We report 8 new

R. S. Beckmann, J. Devriendt, A. Slyz, S. Peirani

The observed massive end of the galaxy stellar mass function is steeper than its predicted dark matter halo counterpart in the standard $Λ$CDM paradigm. In this paper, we investigate the impact of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback on star formation in massive galaxies. We isolate the impact of AGNs by comparing two simulations from the HORIZON suite, whi

Andrei Catuneanu, Youhei Yamaji, Gideon Wachtel, Yong Baek Kim

The spin liquid phase is one of the prominent strongly interacting topological phases of matter whose unambiguous confirmation is yet to be reached despite intensive experimental efforts on numerous candidate materials. Recently, a new family of correlated honeycomb materials, in which strong spin-orbit coupling allows for various bond-dependent spin interac

Inti Sodemann, Zheng Zhu, Liang Fu

We study broken symmetry states at integer Landau level fillings in multivalley quantum Hall systems whose low energy dispersions are anisotropic. When the Fermi surface of individual pockets lacks twofold rotational symmetry, like in Bismuth (111) and in Sn$_{1-x}$Pb$_x$Se (001) surfaces, interactions tend to drive the formation of quantum Hall ferroelectri

Alyson M. Brooks, Emmanouil Papastergis, Charlotte R. Christensen, Fabio Governato

Within a Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) scenario, we use high resolution cosmological simulations spanning over four orders of magnitude in galaxy mass to understand the deficit of dwarf galaxies in observed velocity functions. We measure velocities in as similar a way as possible to observations, including generating mock HI data cubes for our simulated gal

Matteo Ippoliti, Scott D. Geraedts, R. N. Bhatt

We perform density-matrix renormalization group studies of a two-dimensional electron gas in a high magnetic field and with an anisotropic band mass. At half-filling in the lowest Landau level, such a system is a Fermi liquid of composite fermions. By measuring the Fermi surface of these composite fermions, we determine a relationship between the anisotropy

Chao Liu, Yan Xu, Jun-Chen Wan, Hai-Feng Wang

We present a statistical method to derive the stellar density profiles of the Milky Way from spectroscopic survey data, taking into account selection effects. We assume that the selection function of the spectroscopic survey is based on photometric colors and magnitudes and possibly altered during observations and data reductions. Then the underlying selecti

Pallab Goswami, Hart Goldman, Srinivas Raghu

Metallic phases have been observed in several disordered two dimensional (2d) systems, including thin films near superconductor-insulator transitions and quantum Hall systems near plateau transitions. The existence of 2d metallic phases at zero temperature generally requires an interplay of disorder and interaction effects. Consequently, experimental observa

Adithan Kathirgamaraju, Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Dimitrios Giannios

Numerous tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates originating from galactic centres have been detected (e.g., by ${\it Swift}$ and ASASSN). Some of their host galaxies show typical characteristics of a weak active galactic nucleus (AGN), indicative of a pre-existing accretion disc around the supermassive black hole (SMBH). In this work, we develop an analytic

S. Cielo, V. Antonuccio-Delogu, J. Silk, A. D. Romeo

Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) inflate large cavities in the hot gas environment around galaxies and galaxy clusters. The large-scale gas circulation promoted within such cavities by the jet itself gives rise to backflows that propagate back to the center of the jet-cocoon system, spanning all the physical scales relevant for the AGN. Using an Adapti

Michael Holzhauser, Sven O. Krumke

In this paper, we investigate the parametric knapsack problem, in which the item profits are affine functions depending on a real-valued parameter. The aim is to provide a solution for all values of the parameter. It is well-known that any exact algorithm for the problem may need to output an exponential number of knapsack solutions. We present a fully polyn

Tian Lan, Xiao-Gang Wen

We generalize the hierarchy construction to generic 2+1D topological orders (which can be non-Abelian) by condensing Abelian anyons in one topological order to construct a new one. We show that such construction is reversible and leads to a new equivalence relation between topological orders. We refer to the corresponding equivalent class (the orbit of the h

Yuho Sakatani, Shozo Uehara

In the exceptional field theory, there are two natural parameterizations for the generalized metric; in terms of bosonic fields in the eleven-dimensional supergravity (M-theory parameterization) and the type IIB supergravity (type IIB parameterization). In order to translate various results known in the M-theory to the type IIB theory or vice versa, an expli

Renaud Detcherry, Efstratia Kalfagianni, Tian Yang

We obtain a formula for the Turaev-Viro invariants of a link complement in terms of values of the colored Jones polynomial of the link. As an application we give the first examples for which the volume conjecture of Chen and the third named author\,\cite{Chen-Yang} is verified. Namely, we show that the asymptotics of the Turaev-Viro invariants of the Figure-

Paolo Glorioso, Michael Crossley, Hong Liu

In this paper we further develop the fluctuating hydrodynamics proposed in arXiv:1511.03646 in a number of ways. We first work out in detail the classical limit of the hydrodynamical action, which exhibits many simplifications. In particular, this enables a transparent formulation of the action in physical spacetime in the presence of arbitrary external fiel

S. Cordero, E. Nahmad-Achar, O. Castaños, R. López-Peña

A dynamic procedure is established within the generalised Tavis-Cummings model to generate light states with discrete point symmetries, given by the cyclic group ${\cal C}_n$. We consider arbitrary dipolar coupling strengths of the atoms with a one-mode electromagnetic field in a cavity. The method uses mainly the matter-field entanglement properties of the

Jian-Huang She, Michael J. Lawler, Eun-Ah Kim

Despite its seemingly simple composition and structure, the pairing mechanism of FeSe remains an open problem due to several striking phenomena. Among them are nematic order without magnetic order, nodeless gap and unusual inelastic neutron spectra with a broad continuum, and gap anisotropy consistent with orbital selection of unknown origin. Here we propose