March 2017 arXiv papers — page 10

Alexey E. Rastegin

Amplitude amplification is one of primary tools in building algorithms for quantum computers. This technique generalizes key ideas of the Grover search algorithm. Potentially useful modifications are connected with changing phases in the rotation operations and replacing the intermediate Hadamard transform with arbitrary unitary one. In addition, arbitrary i

Toshiki Matsusaka

The elliptic modular j function enjoys many beautiful properties. Its Fourier coefficients are related to the Monster group, and its CM values generate abelian extensions over imaginary quadratic fields. Kaneko gave an arithmetic formula for the Fourier coefficients expressed in terms of the traces of the CM values. In this article, we are concerned with ana

Stefan Klus, Feliks Nüske, Péter Koltai, Hao Wu

In this review paper, we will present different data-driven dimension reduction techniques for dynamical systems that are based on transfer operator theory as well as methods to approximate transfer operators and their eigenvalues, eigenfunctions, and eigenmodes. The goal is to point out similarities and differences between methods developed independently by

Fabien Baradel, Christian Wolf, Julien Mille

We address human action recognition from multi-modal video data involving articulated pose and RGB frames and propose a two-stream approach. The pose stream is processed with a convolutional model taking as input a 3D tensor holding data from a sub-sequence. A specific joint ordering, which respects the topology of the human body, ensures that different conv

Jeremy Sakstein, Mark Trodden

We put forward a new proposal for generating the baryon asymmetry of the universe by making use of the dynamics of a $\mathrm{U}(1)$ scalar field coupled to dark matter. High dark matter densities cause the $\mathrm{U}(1)$ symmetry to break spontaneously so that the field acquires a large vacuum expectation value. The symmetry is restored when the density re

Anne M Green

The differential event rate in Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) direct detection experiments depends on the local dark matter density and velocity distribution. Accurate modelling of the local dark matter distribution is therefore required to obtain reliable constraints on the WIMP particle physics properties. Data analyses typically use a simple S

Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner

Sample Space Reducing (SSR) processes are simple stochastic processes that offer a new route to understand scaling in path-dependent processes. Here we define a cascading process that generalises the recently defined SSR processes and is able to produce power laws with arbitrary exponents. We demonstrate analytically that the frequency distributions of state

V. Vekselman, M. Feurer, T. Huang, B. Stratton

Comprehensive non-invasive spectroscopic techniques and electrical measurements of the carbon arc revealed two distinguishable plasma synthesis regions in the radial direction normal to the arc axis. These regions, which are defined as the arc core and the arc periphery, are shown to have very different compositions of carbon species with different densities

Pierre Heidmann

We construct four-center bubbled BPS solutions with a Gibbons-Hawking base space. We give a systematic procedure to build scaling solutions: starting from three-supertube configurations and using generalized spectral flows and gauge transformations to extend to solutions with four Gibbons-Hawking centers. This allows us to construct very large families of sm

Junyu Luo, Yong Xu, Chenwei Tang, Jiancheng Lv

The inverse mapping of GANs'(Generative Adversarial Nets) generator has a great potential value.Hence, some works have been developed to construct the inverse function of generator by directly learning or adversarial learning.While the results are encouraging, the problem is highly challenging and the existing ways of training inverse models of GANs have

Majid Mohammadi, Amir Ahooye Atashin, Wout Hofman, Yao-Hua Tan

Ontology alignment is widely-used to find the correspondences between different ontologies in diverse fields.After discovering the alignments,several performance scores are available to evaluate them.The scores typically require the identified alignment and a reference containing the underlying actual correspondences of the given ontologies.The current trend

Sergey Slavnov

Pomset logic introduced by Retoré is an extension of linear logic with a self-dual noncommutative connective. The logic is defined by means of proof-nets, rather than a sequent calculus. Later a deep inference system BV was developed with an eye to capturing Pomset logic, but equivalence of system has not been proven up to now. As for a sequent calculus form

Georg W. Winkler, Dániel Varjas, Rafal Skolasinski, Alexey A. Soluyanov

Recent experiments on Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires [Albrecht et al., Nat. 531, 206 (2016)] revealed a surprisingly large electronic Landé g-factor, several times larger than the bulk value - contrary to the expectation that confinement reduces the g-factor. Here we assess the role of orbital contributions to the electron g-factor in nanowires

Yagmur G. Cinar, Hamid Mirisaee, Parantapa Goswami, Eric Gaussier

We propose here an extended attention model for sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural networks (RNNs) designed to capture (pseudo-)periods in time series. This extended attention model can be deployed on top of any RNN and is shown to yield state-of-the-art performance for time series forecasting on several univariate and multivariate time series.

Antonio Alecce, Luca Dell'Anna

We consider the Kitaev chain model with finite and infinite range in the hopping and pairing parameters, looking in particular at the appearance of Majorana zero energy modes and massive edge modes. We study the system both in the presence and in the absence of time reversal symmetry, by means of topological invariants and exact diagonalization, disclosing v

Francesco Dolce, Dominique Perrin, Antonio Restivo, Christophe Reutenauer

A set is called recurrent if its minimal automaton is strongly connected and birecurrent if it is recurrent as well as its reversal. We prove a series of results concerning birecurrent sets. It is already known that any birecurrent set is completely reducible (that is, such that the minimal representation of its characteristic series is completely reducible)

T. Fokkema, K. Schoutens

The M$_k$ models for 1D lattice fermions are characterised by ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetry and by an order-$k$ clustering property. This paper highlights connections with quantum field theories (QFTs) in various regimes. At criticality the QFTs are minimal models of ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric conformal field theory (CFT) - we analyse finite size spectra on op

Valentijn Karemaker, Rachel Pries

We introduce and study a new way to catagorize supersingular abelian varieties defined over a finite field by classifying them as fully maximal, mixed, or fully minimal. The type of $A$ depends on the normalized Weil numbers of $A$ and its twists. We analyze these types for supersingular abelian varieties and curves under conditions on the automorphism group

Sam Geen, Juan D Soler, Patrick Hennebelle

We investigate the origin of observed local star formation relations using radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations with self-consistent star formation and ionising radiation. We compare these clouds to the density distributions of local star-forming clouds and find that the most diffuse simulated clouds match the observed clouds relatively well. We then co

Nora Breton, Tyler Clark, Sharmanthie Fernando

In this paper, we have studied QNM modes and absorption cross sections of Born-Infeld-de Sitter black holes. WKB approximation is employed to compute the QNM modes of massless scalar fields. We have also used null geodesics to compute quasi-normal modes in the eikonal approximation. In the eikonal limit QNMs of black holes are determined by the parameters of

Peng Peng, Ying Wen, Yaodong Yang, Quan Yuan

Many artificial intelligence (AI) applications often require multiple intelligent agents to work in a collaborative effort. Efficient learning for intra-agent communication and coordination is an indispensable step towards general AI. In this paper, we take StarCraft combat game as a case study, where the task is to coordinate multiple agents as a team to de

Carlo Forestiere, Giovanni Miano, Guglielmo Rubinacci, Antonello Tamburrino

In the frame of volume integral equation methods, we introduce an alternative representation of the electromagnetic field scattered by a homogeneous object of arbitrary shape at a given frequency, in terms of a set of modes independent of its permittivity. This is accomplished by introducing an auxiliary eigenvalue problem, based on a volume integral operato

Jean Marie Couteyen Carpaye, Jean Roman, Pierre Brenner

FLUSEPA (Registered trademark in France No. 134009261) is an advanced simulation tool which performs a large panel of aerodynamic studies. It is the unstructured finite-volume solver developed by Airbus Safran Launchers company to calculate compressible, multidimensional, unsteady, viscous and reactive flows around bodies in relative motion. The time integra

Teng Fei, Zhijie Huang, Sebastien Picard

In this paper we construct explicit smooth solutions to the Strominger system on generalized Calabi-Gray manifolds, which are compact non-Kähler Calabi-Yau 3-folds with infinitely many distinct topological types and sets of Hodge numbers.

Yan V Fyodorov, Pierre Le Doussal, Alberto Rosso, Christophe Texier

By extending the Kac-Rice approach to manifolds of finite internal dimension, we show that the mean number $\left\langle\mathcal{N}_\mathrm{tot}\right\rangle$ of all possible equilibria (i.e. force-free configurations, a.k.a. equilibrium points) of an elastic line (directed polymer), confined in a harmonic well and submitted to a quenched random Gaussian pot

Boris Shapiro

A small polarizable object (an atom, molecule or nanoparticle), placed above a medium with flowing dc current in it, is considered. It is shown that the dc current can have a strong effect on the force exerted on the particle. The Casimir-Lifshitz force, well studied in the absence of current, gets modified due to drifting mobile carriers in the medium. Furt

Johann Marton, S. Bartalucci, A. Bassi, M. Bazzi

We are experimentally investigating possible violations of standard quantum mechanics predictions in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy. We test with high precision the Pauli Exclusion Principle and the collapse of the wave function (collapse models). We present our method of searching for possible small violations of the Pauli Exclusion Principl

Yu Qiu, Yu Zhou

We give a finite presentation for the braid twist group of a decorated surface. If the decorated surface arises from a triangulated marked surface without punctures, we obtain a finite presentation for the spherical twist group of the associated 3-Calabi-Yau triangulated category. The motivation/application is that the result will be used to show that the (p

Rashid Alyassi, Majid Khonji, Areg Karapetyan, Sid Chi-Kin Chau

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are being increasingly deployed throughout the globe as a means to streamline monitoring, inspection, mapping, and logistic routines. When dispatched on autonomous missions, drones require an intelligent decision-making system for trajectory planning and tour optimization. Given the limited capacity

Franz Brauße, Florian Steinberg

Kawamura and Cook specified the least set of information about a continuous function on the unit interval which is needed for fast function evaluation. This paper presents a variation of their result. To make the above statement precise, one has to specify what a "set of information" is and what "fast" should mean. Kawamura and Cook use polyn

Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Epifanio G. Virga, Mark Wilkinson, Xiaoyu Zheng

Paradoxes in the impact dynamics of rigid bodies are known to arise in the presence of friction. We show here that, on specificc occasions, in the absence of friction, the conservation laws of classical mechanics are also incompatible with the collisions of smooth, strictly convex rigid bodies. Under the assumption that the impact impulse is along the normal

S. K. Dey, C. C. Dey, S. Saha, J. Belosevic-Cavor

Time-differential perturbed angular correlation (TDPAC) measurements have been carried out in stoichiometric ZrNi$_3$ and HfNi$_3$ intermetallic compounds using $^{181}$Ta probe in the temperature range 77-1073 K considering the immense technological applications of Zr-Ni and Hf-Ni intermetallic compounds. In ZrNi$_3$, four components due to the production o

Maren Mahsereci, Philipp Hennig

In deterministic optimization, line searches are a standard tool ensuring stability and efficiency. Where only stochastic gradients are available, no direct equivalent has so far been formulated, because uncertain gradients do not allow for a strict sequence of decisions collapsing the search space. We construct a probabilistic line search by combining the s

Aníbal Silva, Jorge Páramos

A previous work found that a nonminimally coupled theory of gravity can, under appropriate conditions, give rise to an additional contribution to the field equations interpreted as dark matter [1]: in particular, the density of this dark matter component was found to scale as a power of the density of visible matter. However, no explicit solution for the mod

Antoine Genitrini, Bernhard Gittenberger, Manuel Kauers, Michael Wallner

A compacted binary tree is a graph created from a binary tree such that repeatedly occurring subtrees in the original tree are represented by pointers to existing ones, and hence every subtree is unique. Such representations form a special class of directed acyclic graphs. We are interested in the asymptotic number of compacted trees of given size, where the

Ashley P. Willis, Yohann Duguet, Oleh Omel'chenko, Matthias Wolfrum

Many transitional wall-bounded shear flows are characterised by the coexistence in state-space of laminar and turbulent regimes. Probing the edge boundary between the two attractors has led in the last decade to the numerical discovery of new (unstable) solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. However, the iterative bisection method used to a

Xizhou Zhu, Yujie Wang, Jifeng Dai, Lu Yuan

Extending state-of-the-art object detectors from image to video is challenging. The accuracy of detection suffers from degenerated object appearances in videos, e.g., motion blur, video defocus, rare poses, etc. Existing work attempts to exploit temporal information on box level, but such methods are not trained end-to-end. We present flow-guided feature agg

Jan Klaers, Stefan Faelt, Atac Imamoglu, Emre Togan

The efficient conversion of thermal energy to mechanical work by a heat engine is an ongoing technological challenge. Since the pioneering work of Carnot, it is known that the efficiency of heat engines is bounded by a fundamental upper limit, the Carnot limit. Theoretical studies suggest that heat engines may be operated beyond the Carnot limit by exploitin

Y. H. Miao, Y. Liu, H. B. Li, Y. D. Shen

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of a coronal blowout jet eruption which was associated with an obvious extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wave and one complicated coronal mass ejection (CME) event based on the multi-wavelength and multi-view-angle observations from {\sl Solar Dynamics Observatory} and {\sl Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory}. It is

Demi Allen, Victor Beresnevich

In this paper we establish a general form of the Mass Transference Principle for systems of linear forms conjectured in [1]. We also present a number of applications of this result to problems in Diophantine approximation. These include a general transference of Lebesgue measure Khintchine-Groshev type theorems to Hausdorff measure statements. The statements

Tom Meyerovitch, Ville Salo

We study implications of expansiveness and pointwise periodicity for certain groups and semigroups of transformations. Among other things we prove that every pointwise periodic finitely generated group of cellular automata is necessarily finite. We also prove that a subshift over any finitely generated group that consists of finite orbits is finite, and rela

Jon Johnsen

A study is made of an integral identity of Helffer and Sj{ö}strand, which for some class of probability measures yields a formula for the covariance of two functions (of a stochastic variable). In comparison with the Brascamp--Lieb inequality, this formula is a more flexible and in some contexts stronger means for the analysis of correlation asymptotics in s

Takuma Suda, Jun Hidaka, Wako Aoki, Yutaka Katsuta

We have constructed the database of stars in the local group using the extended version of the SAGA (Stellar Abundances for Galactic Archaeology) database that contains stars in 24 dwarf spheroidal galaxies and ultra faint dwarfs. The new version of the database includes more than 4500 stars in the Milky Way, by removing the previous metallicity criterion of

Jan M. Swart

These lecture notes give an introduction to the theory of interacting particle systems. The main subjects are the construction using generators and graphical representations, the mean field limit, stochastic order, duality, and the relation to oriented percolation. An attempt is made to give a large number of examples beyond the classical voter, contact and

Hideyuki Mizuno, Hayato Shiba, Atsushi Ikeda

The low-frequency vibrational and low-temperature thermal properties of amorphous solids are markedly different from those of crystalline solids. This situation is counter-intuitive because any solid material is expected to behave as a homogeneous elastic body in the continuum limit, in which vibrational modes are phonons following the Debye law. A number of

Mark D. Risser, Christopher J. Paciorek, Daithi Stone

The Weather Risk Attribution Forecast (WRAF) is a forecasting tool that uses output from global climate models to make simultaneous attribution statements about whether and how greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to extreme weather across the globe. However, in conducting a large number of simultaneous hypothesis tests, the WRAF is prone to identifying

Joseph Mecke, Werner Nagel, Viola Weiss

Summarizing results from Joseph Mecke's last fragmentary manuscripts, the generating function and the Laplace transform for nonnegative random variables are considered. The concept of thickening of a random variable, as an inverse operation to thinning (which is usually applied to point processes) is introduced, based on generating functions, and a chara

Ehsan Hatefi

We discuss some physical prospective of the non-BPS effective actions of type IIA and IIB superstring theories. By dealing with the complete all three and four point functions, including a closed string Ramond-Ramond (in terms of both its field strength and its potential), gauge (scalar) fields as well as a real tachyon and under symmetry structures, we find

Albrecht Wolf, Philipp Schulz, Meik Dörpinghaus, José Cândido Silveira Santos Filho

Multi-connectivity (MCo) is considered to be a key strategy for enabling reliable transmissions and enhanced data rates in fifth-generation mobile networks, as it provides multiple links from source to destination. In this work, we quantify the communication performance of MCo in terms of outage probability and throughput. For doing so, we establish a simple

Sreeraj Rajendran, Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Markus Fuchs, Bertold Van den Bergh

While the radio spectrum allocation is well regulated, there is little knowledge about its actual utilization over time and space. This limitation hinders taking effective actions in various applications including cognitive radios, electrosmog monitoring, and law enforcement. We introduce Electrosense, an initiative that seeks a more efficient, safe and reli

Dominique Devriese, Marco Patrignani, Frank Piessens, Steven Keuchel

A compiler is fully-abstract if the compilation from source language programs to target language programs reflects and preserves behavioural equivalence. Such compilers have important security benefits, as they limit the power of an attacker interacting with the program in the target language to that of an attacker interacting with the program in the source

Rongchan Zhu, Xiangchan Zhu

We construct the Dirichlet form associated with the dynamical $Φ^4_3$ model obtained in [Hai14, CC13] and [MW16]. This Dirichlet form on cylinder functions is identified as a classical gradient bilinear form. As a consequence, this classical gradient bilinear form is closable and then by a well-known result its closure is also a quasi-regular Dirichlet form,

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for extra spatial dimensions, quantum black holes, and quark contact interactions in measurements of dijet angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.6 inverse femtobarns. The distributions are found to be

P. J. Storey, Taha Sochi, Robert Bastin

We present the results of a calculation of recombination coefficients for O^{2+} + e^- using an intermediate coupling treatment that fully accounts for the dependence of the distribution of population among the ground levels of O^{2+} on electron density and temperature. The calculation is extended down to low electron temperatures where dielectronic recombi

Shu-jun Rong

In order to induce a family of mixing patterns of leptons which accommodate the experimental data with a simple mathematical construct, we construct a novel object from the hybrid of two elements of a finite group with a parameter $θ$. This construct is an element of a mathematical structure called group-algebra. It could reduce to a generator of a cyclic gr

Anastasia V. Aristova, Vivek K. Bhartiya, Boris V. Fine

We introduce a microscopic model aimed at describing the behavior of fermionic excitations in the background of a magnetic texture called "spin-vortex checkerboard". This texture was proposed previously as a possible alternative to stripes to interpret the experimental phenomenology of spin and charge modulations in 1/8-doped lanthanum cuprates. The

Ariel Rapaport

We construct a planar homogeneous self-similar measure, with strong separation, dense rotations and dimension greater than $1$, such that there exist lines for which dimension conservation does not hold and the projection of the measure is singular. In fact, the set of such directions is residual and the typical slices of the measure, perpendicular to these

David Hofmeyr

Spectral clustering is a popular and versatile clustering method based on a relaxation of the normalised graph cut objective. Despite its popularity, however, there is no single agreed upon method for tuning the important scaling parameter, nor for determining automatically the number of clusters to extract. Popular heuristics exist, but corresponding theore

Gregor Feldbauer, Michael Wolloch, Pedro O. Bedolla, Josef Redinger

The effect of monolayers of oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) on the possibility of material transfer at aluminium/titanium nitride (Al/TiN) and copper/diamond (Cu/C$_{\text{dia}}$) interfaces, respectively, were investigated within the framework of density functional theory (DFT). To this end the approach, contact, and subsequent separation of two atomically flat

Navin Khaneja

The paper describes the design of broadband chirp excitation pulses in NMR. We first develop a three stage model for understanding chirp excitation in NMR. We then show how a chirp $π$ pulse can be used to refocus the phase of the chirp excitation pulse. The resulting magnetization still has some phase dispersion in it. We show how a combination of two chirp

Abhishek Kashyap, Rajesh Singh Parmar, Megha Agrawal, Hariom Gupta

With the headway of the advanced image handling software and altering tools, a computerized picture can be effectively controlled. The identification of image manipulation is vital in light of the fact that an image can be utilized as legitimate confirmation, in crime scene investigation, and in numerous different fields. The image forgery detection techniqu

Min Tsao

It is well known that parameters for strongly correlated predictor variables in a linear model cannot be accurately estimated. We look for linear combinations of these parameters that can be. Under a uniform model, we find such linear combinations in a neighborhood of a simple variability weighted average of these parameters. Surprisingly, this variability w

Ismagil Habibullin, Mariya Poptsova

The main goal of the article is testing a new classification algorithm. To this end we apply it to a relevant problem of describing the integrable cases of a subclass of two-dimensional lattices. By imposing the cut-off conditions $u_{-1}=c_0$ and $u_{N+1}=c_1$ we reduce the lattice $u_{n,xy}=α(u_{n+1},u_n,u_{n-1})u_{n,x}u_{n,y}$ to a finite system of hyperb

Anurag Anshu, Rahul Jain, Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

In this work we consider a quantum generalization of the task considered by Slepian and Wolf [1973] regarding distributed source compression. In our task Alice, Bob, Charlie and Reference share a joint pure state. Alice and Bob wish to send a part of their respective systems to Charlie without collaborating with each other. We give achievability bounds for t

Tatsuo Kobayashi, Osamu Seto, Takuya H. Tatsuishi

In string-inspired supergravity theory, Kähler metric of chiral matter fields often has a pole. Such Kähler metric is interesting from the viewpoint of the framework of the pole inflation, where the scalar potential can be stretched out to be flat around the pole for a canonically normalized field and inflation can be realized. However, when Kähler metric ha

Dragoş Frăţilă

We show that the moduli space of semistable G-bundles on an elliptic curve for a reductive group G is isomorphic to a power of the elliptic curve modulo a certain Weyl group which depend on the topological type of the bundle. This generalises a result of Laszlo to arbitrary connected components and recovers the global description of the moduli space due to F

Oleksandr Borysov

LumiCal is a sampling electromagnetic calorimeter designed for the precise measurement of integrated luminosity in electron positron linear collider experiments. The present report contains a description and results of the first beam test of a multilayer LumiCal prototype with four silicon detector planes. A 5 GeV electron beam from the CERN PS T9 facility w

Niels Jacob, Feng-Yu Wang

Two-sided estimates for higher order eigenvalues are presented for a class of non-local Schrödinger operators by using the jump rate and the growth of the potential. For instance, let $L$ be the generator of a Lévy process with Lévy measure $ν(d z):= ρ(z) d z$ such that $ρ(z)=ρ(-z)$ and $$c_1 |z|^{-(d+α_1)}\le ρ(z)\le c_2|z|^{-(d+α_2)},\ \ |z|\le κ$$ for som

Thibault Manneville, Vincent Pilaud

Consider $2n$ points on the unit circle and a reference dissection $\mathrm{D}_\circ$ of the convex hull of the odd points. The accordion complex of $\mathrm{D}_\circ$ is the simplicial complex of non-crossing subsets of the diagonals with even endpoints that cross a connected subset of diagonals of $\mathrm{D}_\circ$. In particular, this complex is an assoc

Laura Bonavera, Joaquin González-Nuevo, Francisco Argüeso, Luigi Toffolatti

In this work we apply the stacking technique to estimate the average fractional polarisation from 30 to 353 GHz of a primary sample of 1560 compact sources - essentially all radio sources - detected in the 30 GHz Planck all-sky map and listed in the second version of the Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources (PCCS2). We divide our primary sample in two subsamp

Anze Losdorfer Bozic, Rudolf Podgornik

Electrostatic interactions play a fundamental role in the structure and function of proteins. Due to ionizable amino acid residues present on the solvent-exposed surfaces of proteins, the protein charge is not constant but varies with the changes in the environment -- most notably, the pH of the surrounding solution. We study the effects of pH on the charge

Jiaqi Zhang, Kai Zheng, Wenlong Mou, Liwei Wang

In this paper, we consider efficient differentially private empirical risk minimization from the viewpoint of optimization algorithms. For strongly convex and smooth objectives, we prove that gradient descent with output perturbation not only achieves nearly optimal utility, but also significantly improves the running time of previous state-of-the-art privat

Matthew Kwan, Benny Sudakov, Pedro Vieira

We say a family of sets is intersecting if any two of its sets intersect, and we say it is trivially intersecting if there is an element which appears in every set of the family. In this paper we study the maximum size of a non-trivially intersecting family in a natural "multi-part" setting. Here the ground set is divided into parts, and one consider

Viorel Barbu, Chiara Benazzoli, Luca Di Persio

We prove the existence of an optimal feedback controller for a stochastic optimization problem constituted by a variation of the Heston model, where a stochastic input process is added in order to minimize a given performance criterion. The stochastic feedback controller is searched by solving a nonlinear backward parabolic equation for which one proves the

Natalia S. Oreshkina, Stefano M. Cavaletto, Niklas Michel, Zoltán Harman

Numerous few-electron atomic systems are considered which can be used effectively for observing a potential variation of the fine-structure constant $α$ and the electron-proton mass ratio $m_e/m_p$. We examine optical magnetic dipole transitions between hyperfine-structure components in heavy highly charged H-like and Li-like ions with observably high sensit

Martin Bača, Susana-Clara López, Francesc-Antoni Muntaner-Batle, Andrea Semaničová-Feňovčíková

Let $D$ be a digraph, possibly with loops. A queen labeling of $D$ is a bijective function $l:V(G)\longrightarrow \{1,2,\ldots,|V(G)|\}$ such that, for every pair of arcs in $E(D)$, namely $(u,v)$ and $(u',v')$ we have (i) $l(u)+l(v)\neq l(u')+l(v')$ and (ii) $l(v)-l(u)\neq l(v')-l(u')$. Similarly, if the two conditions are satisfied

Torstein Nesse, Jean-Philippe Banon, Bodil Holst, Ingve Simonsen

Grid based binary holography (GBH) is an attractive method for patterning with light or matter waves. It is an approximate technique in which different holographic masks can be used to produce similar patterns. Here we present an optimal design method for GBH masks that allows for freely selecting the fraction of open holes in the mask from below 10% to abov

Pawel Caputa, Yuya Kusuki, Tadashi Takayanagi, Kento Watanabe

In this note we continue analysing the non-equilibrium dynamics in the $(T^2)^n/\mathbb{Z}_n$ orbifold conformal field theory. We compute the out-of-time-ordered four-point correlators with twist operators. For rational $η\ (=p/q)$ which is the square of the compactification radius, we find that the correlators approach non-trivial constants at late time. Fo

Subin Yi, Janghoon Ju, Man-Ki Yoon, Jaesik Choi

Analyzing multivariate time series data is important for many applications such as automated control, fault diagnosis and anomaly detection. One of the key challenges is to learn latent features automatically from dynamically changing multivariate input. In visual recognition tasks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successful to learn generaliz

Simone Borlenghi, Stefano Iubini, Stefano Lepri, Jonas Fransson

We study irreversible processes for nonlinear oscillators networks described by complex-valued Langevin equations that account for coupling to different thermo-chemical baths. Dissipation is introduced via non-Hermitian terms in the Hamiltonian of the model. We apply the stochastic thermodynamics formalism to compute explicit expressions for the entropy prod

Xue-Feng Wu, Jun-Jie Wei, Mi-Xiang Lan, He Gao

Einstein's weak equivalence principle (WEP) states that any freely falling, uncharged test particle follows the same identical trajectory independent of its internal structure and composition. Since the polarization of a photon is considered to be part of its internal structure, we propose that polarized photons from astrophysical transients, such as gam

Hongqiao Wang, Jinglai Li

We consider Bayesian inference problems with computationally intensive likelihood functions. We propose a Gaussian process (GP) based method to approximate the joint distribution of the unknown parameters and the data. In particular, we write the joint density approximately as a product of an approximate posterior density and an exponentiated GP surrogate. W

Qiong Zeng, Baoquan Chen, Yanir Kleiman, Daniel Cohen-Or

Understanding semantic similarity among images is the core of a wide range of computer vision applications. An important step towards this goal is to collect and learn human perceptions. Interestingly, the semantic context of images is often ambiguous as images can be perceived with emphasis on different aspects, which may be contradictory to each other. In

C. D'Ambrosio, R. Cardinale, S. Easo, A. Petrolini

The limitations in performance of the present RICH system in the LHCb experiment are given by the natural chromatic dispersion of the gaseous Cherenkov radiator, the aberrations of the optical system and the pixel size of the photon detectors. Moreover, the overall PID performance can be affected by high detector occupancy as the pattern recognition becomes

Huilong Zhang, Benoîte de Saporta, François Dufour, Dann Laneuville

We present in this paper a numerical method which computes the optimal trajectory of a underwater vehicle subject to some mission objectives. The method is applied to a submarine whose goal is to best detect one or several targets, or/and to minimize its own detection range perceived by the other targets. The signal considered is acoustic propagation attenua

Stephen J. Gardiner, Marius Ghergu, Tomas Sjödin

This paper establishes a conjecture of Gustafsson and Khavinson, which relates the analytic content of a smoothly bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ to the classical isoperimetric inequality. The proof is based on a novel combination of partial balayage with optimal transport theory.

Marco Regis, Laura Richter, Sergio Colafrancesco

We present a deep radio search in the Reticulum II dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy performed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Observations were conducted at 16 cm wavelength, with an rms sensitivity of 0.01 mJy/beam, and with the goal of searching for synchrotron emission induced by annihilation or decay of weakly interacting massive particles (WIM

Nian Qin, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Shuang-Shi Fang, Xiang Zhou

The light unflavoured meson $η/η^{\prime}$ decays are valuable for testing non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics and exploring new physics beyond the Standard Model. This paper describes a series of event generators, including $η/η^{\prime}\toγl^{+}l^{-}$, $η/η^{\prime}\toγπ^{+}π^{-}$, $η^{\prime}\toωe^{+}e^{-}$, $η\toπ^{+}π^{-}π^{0}$, $η/η^{\prime}\toπ^{0

Günther Rüdiger, Marcus Gellert, Rainer Hollerbach, Manfred Schultz

Decades ago S. Lundquist, S. Chandrasekhar, P.H. Roberts and R. J.~Tayler first posed questions about the stability of Taylor-Couette flows of conducting material under the influence of large-scale magnetic fields. These and many new questions can now be answered numerically where the nonlinear simulations even provide the instability-induced values of sever

C. González, J. J. Vilatela, J. M. Molina-Aldareguía, C. S. Lopes

This review paper summarizes the current state-of-art and challenges for the future developments of fiber-reinforced composites for structural applications with multifunctional capabilities. After a brief analysis of the reasons of the successful incorporation of fiber-reinforced composites in many different industrial sectors, the review analyzes three crit

Hazel Doughty, Dima Damen, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

We present a method for assessing skill from video, applicable to a variety of tasks, ranging from surgery to drawing and rolling pizza dough. We formulate the problem as pairwise (who's better?) and overall (who's best?) ranking of video collections, using supervised deep ranking. We propose a novel loss function that learns discriminative features

Tobias Denkinger

We use a non-deterministic variant of storage types to develop a framework for the approximation of automata with storage. This framework is used to provide automata-theoretic views on the approximation of multiple context-free languages and on coarse-to-fine parsing.

Louigi Addario-Berry, Shankar Bhamidi, Sanchayan Sen

We study the fixation time of the identity of the leader, i.e., the most massive component, in the general setting of Aldous's multiplicative coalescent [4, 5], which in an asymptotic sense describes the evolution of the component sizes of a wide array of near-critical coalescent processes, including the classical Erdős-Rényi process. We show tightness o

Dan Mangoubi, Adi Weller-Weiser

Let $Z$ be a quadratic harmonic cone in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. We consider the family $\mathcal{H}(Z)$ of all harmonic functions vanishing on $Z$. Is $\mathcal{H}(Z)$ finite or infinite dimensional? Some aspects of this question go back to as early as the 19th century. To the best of our knowledge, no nondegenerate quadratic harmonic cone exists for which the ans

Eytan Katzav, Ruslan Berdichevsky, Moshe Schwartz

The Percus-Yevick theory for monodisperse hard spheres gives very good results for the pressure and structure factor of the system in a whole range of densities that lie within the liquid phase. However, the equation seems to lead to a very unacceptable result beyond that region. Namely, the Percus-Yevick theory predicts a smooth behavior of the pressure tha

Albert Gatt, Emiel Krahmer

This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG), defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is timely in view of the changes that the field has undergone over the past decade or so, especially in relation to new (usually data-driven) methods, as well as new applications of

Hai-Xiao Wang, Yige Chen, Zhi Hong Hang, Hae-Young Kee

The Dirac equation for relativistic electron waves is the parent model for Weyl and Majorana fermions as well as topological insulators. Simulation of Dirac physics in three-dimensional photonic crystals, though fundamentally important for topological phenomena at optical frequencies, encounters the challenge of synthesis of both Kramers double degeneracy an

A. C. Canbay, U. Kaya, B. Ketenoglu, B. B. Oner

In this study, main parameters of Super proton-proton Collider (SppC) based lepton-proton colliders are estimated. For electron beam parameters, highest energy International Linear Collider (ILC) and Plasma Wake Field Accelerator-Linear Collider (PWFA-LC) options are taken into account. For muon beams, 1.5 TeV and 3 TeV center of mass energy Muon Collider pa

Ismagil Habibullin, Aigul Khakimova

We assign some kind of invariant manifolds to a given integrable PDE (its discrete or semi-discrete variant). First, we linearize the equation around its arbitrary solution $u$. Then we construct a differential (respectively, difference) equation compatible with the linearized equation for any choice of $u$. This equation defines a surface called a generaliz

Abhishek Aich, P. Palanisamy

Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation of multiple narrow-band coherent or partially coherent sources is a major challenge in array signal processing. Though many subspace- based algorithms are available in literature, none of them tackle the problem of resolving coherent sources directly, e.g. without modifying the sample data covariance matrix. Compressive