March 2017 arXiv papers — page 14

Piotr Pietrulewicz, Daniel Samitz, Anne Spiering, Frank J. Tackmann

Exclusive differential spectra in color-singlet processes at hadron colliders are benchmark observables that have been studied to high precision in theory and experiment. We present an effective-theory framework utilizing soft-collinear effective theory to incorporate massive (bottom) quark effects into resummed differential distributions, accounting for bot

Edward Higson, Will Handley, Mike Hobson, Anthony Lasenby

Sampling errors in nested sampling parameter estimation differ from those in Bayesian evidence calculation, but have been little studied in the literature. This paper provides the first explanation of the two main sources of sampling errors in nested sampling parameter estimation, and presents a new diagrammatic representation for the process. We find no cur

Arjun Mani, Colin Benjamin

A strained graphene monolayer is shown to operate as a highly efficient quantum heat engine delivering maximum power. The efficiency and power of the proposed device exceeds that of recent proposals. The reason for these excellent characteristics is that strain enables complete valley separation in transmittance through the device, implying that increasing s

S. Borowka, G. Heinrich, S. Jahn, S. P. Jones

We present pySecDec, a new version of the program SecDec, which performs the factorisation of dimensionally regulated poles in parametric integrals, and the subsequent numerical evaluation of the finite coefficients. The algebraic part of the program is now written in the form of python modules, which allow a very flexible usage. The optimization of the C++

Shamik Gupta, Stefano Ruffo

In recent years, studies of long-range interacting (LRI) systems have taken centre stage in the arena of statistical mechanics and dynamical system studies, due to new theoretical developments involving tools from as diverse a field as kinetic theory, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and large deviation theory, but also due to new and exciting experime

José Barrientos, Fabrizio Cordonier-Tello, Fernando Izaurieta, Perla Medina

The Horndeski Lagrangian brings together all possible interactions between gravity and a scalar field that yield second-order field equations in four-dimensional spacetime. As originally proposed, it only addresses phenomenology without torsion, which is a non-Riemannian feature of geometry. Since torsion can potentially affect interesting phenomena such as

J. A. Gracey

We renormalize various scalar field theories with a $ϕ^n$ self interaction such as $n$ $=$ $5$, $7$ and $9$ in their respective critical dimensions which are non-integer. The renormalization group functions for the $O(N)$ symmetric extensions are also computed.

Kushal Kafle, Christopher Kanan

In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are evaluated on them. As a result, evaluation scores are inflated and predominantly determined by answering easier questions, makin

M. Farnik, Z. Jelonek, M. A. S. Ruas

We describe the topology of a general polynomial mapping $F=(f, g):X\to\Bbb C^2$, where $X$ is a complex plane or a complex sphere.

Uriel Feige, Anne Kenyon, Shimon Kogan

Let $G$ be a $2$-coloring of a complete graph on $n$ vertices, for sufficiently large $n$. We prove that $G$ contains at least $n^{(\frac{1}{4} - o(1))\log n}$ monochromatic complete subgraphs of size $r$, where \[ 0.3\log n < r < 0.7\log n. \] The previously known lower bound on the total number of monochromatic complete subgraphs, due to Székely was $n^{0.

Maximilian Attems, Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, David Mateos, Daniel Santos-Oliván

We extend our previous analysis of holographic heavy ion collisions in non-conformal theories. We provide a detailed description of our numerical code. We study collisions at different energies in gauge theories with different degrees of non-conformality. We compare four relaxation times: the hydrodynamization time (when hydrodynamics becomes applicable), th

Marek Kaluba, Piotr Nowak

We establish a lower bound on the spectral gap of the Laplace operator on special linear groups using conic optimisation. In particular, this provides a constructive (but computer assisted) proof that these groups have Kazhdan property (T). A software for such optimisation for other finitely presented groups is provided.

Rathul Nath Raveendran, Debika Chowdhury, L. Sriramkumar

Matter bounces refer to scenarios wherein the universe contracts at early times as in a matter dominated epoch until the scale factor reaches a minimum, after which it starts expanding. While such scenarios are known to lead to scale invariant spectra of primordial perturbations after the bounce, the challenge has been to construct completely symmetric bounc

A. Nyholm, J. Sollerman, F. Taddia, C. Fremling

A Type IIn supernova (SN) is dominated by the interaction of SN ejecta with the circumstellar medium (CSM). Some SNe IIn (e.g., SN 2006jd) have episodes of re-brightening (&#34;bumps&#34;) in their light curves. We present iPTF13z, a SN IIn discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) and characterised by several bumps in its light curve.

Kelly Bickel, Michael Hartz, John E. McCarthy

This paper generalizes the classical Sz.-Nagy--Foias $H^{\infty}(\mathbb{D})$ functional calculus for Hilbert space contractions. In particular, we replace the single contraction $T$ with a tuple $T=(T_1, \dots, T_d)$ of commuting bounded operators on a Hilbert space and replace $H^{\infty}(\mathbb{D})$ with a large class of multiplier algebras of Hilbert fu

V. Koukouloyannis, P. G. Kevrekidis, G. P. Veldes, D. J. Frantzeskakis

In the present work, we examine a prototypical model for the formation of bright breathers in nonlinear left-handed metamaterial lattices. Utilizing the paradigm of nonlinear transmission lines, we build a relevant lattice and develop a quasi-continuum multiscale approximation that enables us to appreciate both the underlying linear dispersion relation and t

Chao Li

It is well known that the Euler vortex patch in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ will remain regular if it is regular enough initially. In bounded domains, the regularity theory for patch solutions is less complete. We study here the Euler vortex patch in a disk. We prove global in time regularity by providing the upper bound of the growth of curvature of the patch boundary

Liang Dong

For multi-user transmissions over MIMO interference channels, each user designs the transmit covariance matrix to maximize its information rate. When passive radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesters are present in the network, the transmissions are constrained by both the transmit power limits and the energy harvesting requirements. A passive RF energy harvest

Julien Varennes, Sean Fancher, Bumsoo Han, Andrew Mugler

Multicellular chemotaxis can occur via individually chemotaxing cells that are mechanically coupled. Alternatively, it can emerge collectively, from cells chemotaxing differently in a group than they would individually. Here we consider collective movement that emerges from cells on the exterior of the collective responding to chemotactic signals, whereas bu

ATLAS Collaboration

Jet energy scale measurements and their systematic uncertainties are reported for jets measured with the ATLAS detector using proton-proton collision data with a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb$^{-1}$ collected during 2015 at the LHC. Jets are reconstructed from energy deposits forming topolog

Somphoach Saichaemchan, Burin Gumjudpai

NMDC-Palatini cosmology in slow-roll regime is of our interests. We present flat FLRW cosmological NMDC-Palatini field equations and acceleration condition. Late time trajectory is approximated. Chaotic inflation potential is considered here as it is viable in a range of positive coupling constant as constrained by CMB results. Phase portraits show that the

Dorna Bandari, Shuo Xiang, Jure Leskovec

Different users can use a given Internet application in many different ways. The ability to record detailed event logs of user in-application activity allows us to discover ways in which the application is being used. This enables personalization and also leads to important insights with actionable business and product outcomes. Here we study the problem of

Wolfram Pönisch, Kelly Eckenrode, Khaled Alzurqa, Hadi Nasrollahi

Microcolonies are aggregates of a few dozen to a few thousand cells exhibited by many bacteria. The formation of microcolonies is a crucial step towards the formation of more mature bacterial communities known as biofilms, but also marks a significant change in bacterial physiology. Within a microcolony, bacteria forgo a single cell lifestyle for a communal

Rahman Farnoosh, Amirhossein Sobhani, Hamidreza Rezazadeh

In this article, we present an orthogonal basis expansion method for solving stochastic differential equations with a path-independent solution of the form $X_{t}=ϕ(t,W_{t})$. For this purpose, we define a Hilbert space and construct an orthogonal basis for this inner product space with the aid of 2D-Hermite polynomials. With considering $X_{t}$ as orthogona

F. Galve, J. Alonso, R. Zambrini

Trapped-ion quantum platforms are subject to `anomalous&#39; heating due to interactions with electric-field noise sources of nature not yet completely known. There is ample experimental evidence that this noise originates at the surfaces of the trap electrodes, and models assuming fluctuating point-like dipoles are consistent with observations, but the exac

Antti Kangasrääsiö, Samuel Kaski

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) aims to explain observed strategic behavior by fitting reinforcement learning models to behavioral data. However, traditional IRL methods are only applicable when the observations are in the form of state-action paths. This assumption may not hold in many real-world modeling settings, where only partial or summarized obse

Benjamin Dodson, Jonas Luhrmann, Dana Mendelson

We consider the energy-critical defocusing nonlinear wave equation on $\mathbb{R}^4$ and establish almost sure global existence and scattering for randomized radially symmetric initial data in $H^s_x(\mathbb{R}^4) \times H^{s-1}_x(\mathbb{R}^4)$ for $\frac{1}{2} < s < 1$. This is the first almost sure scattering result for an energy-critical dispersive or hy

Scott Harper

A group is $\frac{3}{2}$-generated if every non-identity element is contained in a generating pair. A conjecture of Breuer, Guralnick and Kantor from 2008 asserts that a finite group is $\frac{3}{2}$-generated if and only if every proper quotient of the group is cyclic, and recent work of Guralnick reduces this conjecture to almost simple groups. In this pap

Ali A. Alabdali, Nigel P. Byott

We investigate Hopf-Galois structures on a cyclic field extension $L/K$ of squarefree degree $n$. By a result of Greither and Pareigis, each such Hopf-Galois structure corresponds to a group of order $n$, whose isomorphism class we call the type of the Hopf-Galois structure. We show that every group of order $n$ can occur, and we determine the number of Hopf

D. G. Pak, Bum-Hoon Lee, Y. Kim, T. Tsukioka

We propose a new class of regular stationary axially symmetric solutions in a pure QCD which correspond to monopole-antimonopole pairs at macroscopic scale. The solutions represent vacuum field configurations which are locally stable against quantum gluon fluctuations in any small space-time vicinity. This implies that the monopole-antimonopole pair can serv

Ian Wagner

We construct two families of harmonic Maass Hecke eigenforms. This construction answers a question of Mazur about the existence of an &#34;eigencurve-type&#34; object in the world of harmonic Maass forms. Using these families, we construct $p$-adic harmonic Maass forms in the sense of Serre.

Mathieu Anel, Georg Biedermann, Eric Finster, André Joyal

We develop an approach to Goodwillie&#39;s calculus of functors using the techniques of higher topos theory. Central to our method is the introduction of the notion of fiberwise orthogonality, a strengthening of ordinary orthogonality which allows us to give a number of useful characterizations of the class of $n$-excisive maps. We use these results to show

Sheean Jolicoeur, Obinna Umeh, Roy Maartens, Chris Clarkson

General relativistic imprints on the galaxy bispectrum arise from observational (or projection) effects. The lightcone projection effects include local contributions from Doppler and gravitational potential terms, as well as lensing and other integrated contributions. We recently presented for the first time, the correction to the galaxy bispectrum from all

Ishtiaq Ahmed, Abdur Rehman

Over the last few years LHCb with present energies found some discrepancies in $b\to s\ell^+\ell^-$ FCNC transitions including anomalies in the angular observables of $B\to K^*μ^+μ^-$, particularly in $P_5^\prime$, in low dimuon mass region. Recently, these anomalies are confirmed by Belle, CMS and ATLAS. As the direct evidence of physics beyond-the-SM is ab

Zhiyuan Shi, Tae-Kyun Kim

Existing RNN-based approaches for action recognition from depth sequences require either skeleton joints or hand-crafted depth features as inputs. An end-to-end manner, mapping from raw depth maps to action classes, is non-trivial to design due to the fact that: 1) single channel map lacks texture thus weakens the discriminative power; 2) relatively small se

Benoît Kloeckner

Applying quantitative perturbation theory for linear operators, we prove non-asymptotic limit theorems for Markov chains whose transition kernel has a spectral gap in an arbitrary Banach algebra of functions X . The main results are concentration inequalities and Berry-Esseen bounds, obtained assuming neither reversibility nor `warm start&#39; hypothesis: th

X. Ding, S. H. Kang

This paper is a survey on exponential integrators to solve cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equations and related stiff problems. In particular, we are interested in accurate computation near the pulsating and exploding soliton solutions where different time scales exist. We explore stepsize-adaptive variations of three types of exponential integrators:

Siyuan Jiang, Ameer Armaly, Collin McMillan, Qiyu Zhi

When learning to use an Application Programming Interface (API), programmers need to understand the inputs and outputs (I/O) of the API functions. Current documentation tools automatically document the static information of I/O, such as parameter types and names. What is missing from these tools is dynamic information, such as I/O examples---actual valid val

Toshiyuki Katsura, Shigeyuki Kondo, Gebhard Martin

We classify supersingular and classical Enriques surfaces with finite automorphism group in characteristic 2 into 8 types according to their dual graphs of all $(-2)$-curves (nonsigular rational curves). We give examples of these Enriques surfaces together with their canonical coverings. It follows that the classification of all Enriques surfaces with finite

Thomas Dreyfus, Alberto Lastra, Stéphane Malek

The analytic and formal solutions of certain family of $q$-difference-differential equations under the action of a complex perturbation parameter is considered. The previous study of the last two authors provides information in the case when the main equation under study is factorizable, as a product of two equations in the so-called normal form. Each of the

Marko Živković

We construct a direct quasi-isomorphism from Kontsevich&#39;s graph complex GC_n to the oriented graph complex OGC_{n+1}, thus providing an alternative proof that the two complexes are quasi-isomorphic. Moreover, the result is extended to the sequence of multi-oriented graph complexes, where GC_n and OGC_{n+1} are the first two members. These complexes play

Klérisson V. R. Paixão, Crícia Z. Felício, Fernanda M. Delfim, Marcelo de A. Maia

Continuous Integration (CI) implies that a whole developer team works together on the mainline of a software project. CI systems automate the builds of a software. Sometimes a developer checks in code, which breaks the build. A broken build might not be a problem by itself, but it has the potential to disrupt co-workers, hence it affects the performance of t

Barbara Baumeister, Thomas Gobet

We show that the simple elements of the dual Garside structure of an Artin group of type $D_n$ are Mikado braids, giving a positive answer to a conjecture of Digne and the second author. To this end, we use an embedding of the Artin group of type $D_n$ in a suitable quotient of an Artin group of type $B_n$ noticed by Allcock, of which we give a simple algebr

Job Feldbrugge, Rien van de Weygaert, Johan Hidding, Joost Feldbrugge

We present a general formalism for identifying the caustic structure of an evolving mass distribution in an arbitrary dimensional space. For the class of Hamiltonian fluids the identification corresponds to the classification of singularities in Lagrangian catastrophe theory. Based on this we develop a theoretical framework for the formation of the cosmic we

Nils Matthes

We describe a decomposition algorithm for elliptic multiple zeta values, which amounts to the construction of an injective map $ψ$ from the algebra of elliptic multiple zeta values to a space of iterated Eisenstein integrals. We give many examples of this decomposition, and conclude with a short discussion about the image of $ψ$. It turns out that the failur

Mihir Durve, Arnab Saha, Ahmed Sayeed

We consider flocking of self-propelling agents in two dimensions, each of which communicates with its neighbors within a limited vision cone. Also, the communication occurs with some delay. The communication among the agents are modeled by Vicsek rules. In this study we explore the effect of non-reciprocal interaction among the agents, induced by their visio

Stefano Gogioso, Fabrizio Genovese

In this work, we use tools from non-standard analysis to introduce infinite-dimensional quantum systems and quantum fields within the framework of Categorical Quantum Mechanics. We define a dagger compact category *Hilb suitable for the algebraic manipulation of unbounded operators, Dirac deltas and plane-waves. We cover in detail the construction of quantum

Marcus Waurick

We present an abstract functional analytic formulation of the celebrated $\dive$-$\curl$ lemma found by F.~Murat and L.~Tartar. The viewpoint in this note relies on sequences for operators in Hilbert spaces. Hence, we draw the functional analytic relation of the div-curl lemma to differential forms and other sequences such as the $\Grad\grad$-sequence discov

Niclas S. Mueller, Sebastian Heeg, Miriam Peña Alvarez, Patryk Kusch

Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the local properties of graphene. Here, we introduce a method for evaluating unknown strain configurations and simultaneous doping. It relies on separating the effects of hydrostatic strain (peak shift) and shear strain (peak splitting) on the Raman spectrum of graphene. The peak shifts from hydrostati

Juha Koivisto, Marko Korhonen, Mikko J. Alava, Carlos P. Ortiz

We investigate the coupling between interstitial medium and granular particles by studying the hopper flow of dry and submerged system experimentally and numerically. In accordance with earlier studies, we find, that the dry hopper empties at a constant rate. However, in the submerged system we observe the surging of the flow rate. We model both systems usin

Przemyslaw Brzykcy

It is demonstrated that, in the framework of the orbit method, a simple and damped harmonic oscillators are indistinguishable at the level of an abstract Lie algebra. This opens a possibility for treating the dissipative systems within the orbit method. In depth analysis of the coadjoint orbits of the $(1+1)$ dimensional Newton-Hooke group are presented. Fur

Maren Mahsereci, Lukas Balles, Christoph Lassner, Philipp Hennig

Early stopping is a widely used technique to prevent poor generalization performance when training an over-expressive model by means of gradient-based optimization. To find a good point to halt the optimizer, a common practice is to split the dataset into a training and a smaller validation set to obtain an ongoing estimate of the generalization performance.

Rome Samanta, Mainak Chakraborty

In a residual $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry approach, we investigate minimally perturbed Majorana neutrino mass matrices. Constraint relations among the low energy neutrino parameters are obtained. Baryogenesis is realized through flavored leptogenesis mechanism with quasi-degenerate right handed (RH) heavy neutrinos.

Llohann D. Sperança

In 86, Ranjan questioned whether a submersion $π: G\to B$ from a compact simple Lie group with bi-invariant metric is a coset foliation or not, provided the submersion is Riemannian with totally geodesic fibers. Here we answer this question affirmatively, even when the submersion is defined only in an open subset of $G$ (assuming suitable hypothesis).

Changyang She, Chenyang Yang, Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we propose a framework for cross-layer optimization to ensure ultra-high reliability and ultra-low latency in radio access networks, where both transmission delay and queueing delay are considered. With short transmission time, the blocklength of channel codes is finite, and the Shannon Capacity cannot be used to characterize the maximal achie

Antonio De Felice, Lavinia Heisenberg, Shinji Tsujikawa

In a model of the late-time cosmic acceleration within the framework of generalized Proca theories, there exists a de Sitter attractor preceded by the dark energy equation of state $w_{\rm DE}=-1-s$, where $s$ is a positive constant. We run the Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo code to confront the model with the observational data of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB

Michael Hinze, Bernd Hofmann, Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

In this paper we investigate the problem of identifying the source term in an elliptic system from a single noisy measurement couple of the Neumann and Dirichlet data. A variational method of Tikhonov-type regularization with specific misfit term of Kohn-Vogelius-type and quadratic stabilizing penalty term is suggested to tackle this linear inverse problem.

Theodoros Kapourniotis, Animesh Datta

Quantum samplers are believed capable of sampling efficiently from distributions that are classically hard to sample from. We consider a sampler inspired by the classical Ising model. It is nonadaptive and therefore experimentally amenable. Under a plausible conjecture, classical sampling upto additive errors from this model is known to be hard. We present a

Zehra Ekinci, Mehmet Önder

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to non-lightlike curve pairs by using integral curves in Minkowski 3-space. We consider direction curve and donor curve to study non-lightlike curve couples such as involute-evolute curves, Mannheim partner curves and Bertrand partner curves. We obtain new methods to construct partner curves of a unit speed non-ligh

Ulrich Menne, Mario Santilli

Defining the $m$-th stratum of a closed subset of an $n$ dimensional Euclidean space to consist of those points, where it can be touched by a ball from at least $n-m$ linearly independent directions, we establish that the $m$-th stratum is second-order rectifiable of dimension $m$ and a Borel set. This was known for convex sets, but is new even for sets of p

Anna Khoreva, Rodrigo Benenson, Eddy Ilg, Thomas Brox

Convolutional networks reach top quality in pixel-level video object segmentation but require a large amount of training data (1k~100k) to deliver such results. We propose a new training strategy which achieves state-of-the-art results across three evaluation datasets while using 20x~1000x less annotated data than competing methods. Our approach is suitable

Christophe Hohlweg, Vincent Pilaud, Salvatore Stella

This paper shows the polytopality of any finite type $\mathbf{g}$-vector fan, acyclic or not. In fact, for any finite Dynkin type $Γ$, we construct a universal associahedron $\mathsf{Asso}_{\mathrm{un}}(Γ)$ with the property that any $\mathbf{g}$-vector fan of type $Γ$ is the normal fan of a suitable projection of $\mathsf{Asso}_{\mathrm{un}}(Γ)$.

N. S. Mankoc Borstnik, H. F. B. Nielsen, M. Y. Khlopov, D. Lukman

The contribution contains the preface to the Proceedings to the 19th Workshop &#34;What Comes Beyond the Standard Models&#34;, Bled, July 11 - 19, 2016, published in Bled workshops in physics, Vol.17, No. 2, DMFA-Zaloznistvo, Ljubljana, Dec. 2016, links to (most of) the published contributions and section (by M.Yu. Khlopov) on VIA at Bled 2016.

Brendan Murphy, Oliver Roche-Newton, Ilya Shkredov

This is a sequel to the paper arXiv:1312.6438 by the same authors. In this sequel, we quantitatively improve several of the main results of arXiv:1312.6438, and build on the methods therein. The main new results is that, for any finite set $A \subset \mathbb R$, there exists $a \in A$ such that $|A(A+a)| \gtrsim |A|^{\frac{3}{2}+\frac{1}{186}}$. We give impr

Clive Emary

Ambiguous measurements do not reveal complete information about the system under test. Their quantum-mechanical counterparts are semi-weak (or in the limit, weak-) measurements and here we discuss their role in tests of the Leggett-Garg inequalities. We show that, whilst ambiguous measurements allow one to forgo the usual non-invasive measureability assumpti

Yongzhe Zhang, Hsiang-Shang Ko, Zhenjiang Hu

Pregel is a popular distributed computing model for dealing with large-scale graphs. However, it can be tricky to implement graph algorithms correctly and efficiently in Pregel&#39;s vertex-centric model, especially when the algorithm has multiple computation stages, complicated data dependencies, or even communication over dynamic internal data structures.

Pratik Chattopadhyay, Ketan M. Patel

The naturalness of electroweak scale in the models of type-I seesaw mechanism with ${\cal O}(1)$ Yukawa couplings requires TeV scale masses for the fermion singlets. In this case, the tiny neutrino masses have to arise from the cancellations within the seesaw formula which are arranged by fine-tuned correlations between the Yukawa couplings and the masses of

Petr Lukáš, Radim Bača, Michal Krátký, Tok Wang Ling

XML query can be modeled by twig pattern query (TPQ) specifying predicates on XML nodes and XPath relationships satisfied between them. A lot of TPQ types have been proposed; this paper takes into account a TPQ model extended by a specification of output and non-output query nodes since it complies with the XQuery semantics and, in many cases, it leads to a

Hamid Ghourchian, Arash Amini, Amin Gohari

The sparsity and compressibility of finite-dimensional signals are of great interest in fields such as compressed sensing. The notion of compressibility is also extended to infinite sequences of i.i.d. or ergodic random variables based on the observed error in their nonlinear k-term approximation. In this work, we use the entropy measure to study the compres

Bahareh Banyassady, Man-Kwun Chiu, Matias Korman, Wolfgang Mulzer

We consider the problem of routing a data packet through the visibility graph of a polygonal domain $P$ with $n$ vertices and $h$ holes. We may preprocess $P$ to obtain a label and a routing table for each vertex of $P$. Then, we must be able to route a data packet between any two vertices $p$ and $q$ of $P$, where each step must use only the label of the ta

Ester Mariucci, Kolyan Ray, Botond Szabo

The estimation of a log-concave density on $\mathbb{R}$ is a canonical problem in the area of shape-constrained nonparametric inference. We present a Bayesian nonparametric approach to this problem based on an exponentiated Dirichlet process mixture prior and show that the posterior distribution converges to the log-concave truth at the (near-) minimax rate

Jürgen Leiterer

R. Guralnick (Linear Algebra Appl. 99, 85-96, 1988) proved that two holomorphic matrices on a noncompact connected Riemann surface, which are locally holomorphically similar, are globally holomorphically similar. We generalize this to (possibly, non-smooth) one-dimensional Stein spaces. For Stein spaces of arbitrary dimension, we prove that global $\mathcal

Abel Gonzalez-Garcia, Davide Modolo, Vittorio Ferrari

We present a semantic part detection approach that effectively leverages object information.We use the object appearance and its class as indicators of what parts to expect. We also model the expected relative location of parts inside the objects based on their appearance. We achieve this with a new network module, called OffsetNet, that efficiently predicts

Anh Tong, Jaesik Choi

Analyzing multivariate time series data is important to predict future events and changes of complex systems in finance, manufacturing, and administrative decisions. The expressiveness power of Gaussian Process (GP) regression methods has been significantly improved by compositional covariance structures. In this paper, we present a new GP model which natura

Yiannis N. Petridis, Morten S. Risager

Mazur, Rubin, and Stein have recently formulated a series of conjectures about statistical properties of modular symbols in order to understand central values of twists of elliptic curve $L$-functions. Two of these conjectures relate to the asymptotic growth of the first and second moments of the modular symbols. We prove these on average by using analytic p

Subir Ghosh

The phenomenon of rotation of a vector under parallel transport along a closed path is known as anholonomy. In this paper we have studied the anholonomy for noncontractible loops - closed paths in a curved surface that do not enclose any area and hence Stokes theorem is not directly applicable. Examples of such closed paths are poloidal and toroidal loops an

Emanuele Dotto, Crichton Ogle

We define a genuine $\mathbb{Z}/2$-equivariant real algebraic $K$-theory spectrum $KR(A)$, for every genuine $\mathbb{Z}/2$-equivariant spectrum $A$ equipped with a compatible multiplicative structure. This construction extends the real $K$-theory of Hesselholt-Madsen for discrete rings and the Hermitian $K$-theory of Burghelea-Fiedorowicz for simplicial rin

Rui Chen, Dong-Hui Xu, Bin Zhou

The recently discovered topological Dirac semimetal represents a new exotic quantum state of matter. Topological Dirac semimetals can be viewed as three dimensional analogues of graphene, in which the Dirac nodes are protected by crystalline symmetry. It has been found that quantum confinement effect can gap out Dirac nodes and convert Dirac semimetal to a b

Xuyang Ding, Feng Xiao, Man Zhou, Zhibo Wang

The DDoS attack is a serious threat to Internet of Things (IoT). As a new class of DDoS attack, Link-flooding attack (LFA) disrupts connectivity between legitimate IoT devices and target servers by flooding only a small number of links. In this paper, we propose an active LFA mitigation mechanism, called Linkbait, that is a proactive and preventive defense t

Dušan Pokorný, Jan Rataj, Luděk Zajíček

WDC sets in ${\mathbb R}^d$ were recently defined as sublevel sets of DC functions (differences of convex functions) at weakly regular values. They form a natural and substantial generalization of sets with positive reach and still admit the definition of curvature measures. Using results on singularities of convex functions, we obtain regularity results on

Jean Schneider

Batygin and Brown (2016) have suggested the existence of a new Solar System planet supposed to be responsible for the perturbation of eccentric orbits of small outer bodies. The main challenge is now to detect and characterize this putative body. Here we investigate the principles of the determination of its physical parameters, mainly its mass and radius. F

Adrien Bironeau, Thomas Salez, Guillaume Miquelard-Garnier, Cyrille Sollogoub

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the existence of a critical layer thickness in nanolayer coextrusion, under which no continuous layer is observed. Polymer films containing thousands of layers of alternating polymers with individual layer thicknesses below 100 nm have been prepared by coextrusion through a series of layer multiplying elem

B. Pozsgay, E. Vernier, M. A. Werner

We revisit the question of whether and how the steady states arising after non-equilibrium time evolution in integrable models (and in particular in the XXZ spin chain) can be described by the so-called Generalized Gibbs Ensemble (GGE). It is known that the micro-canonical ensemble built on a complete set of charges correctly describes the long-time limit of

Sverre Holm

In MR elastography it is common to use an elastic model for the tissue&#39;s response in order to properly interpret the results. More complex models such as viscoelastic, fractional viscoelastic, poroelastic, or poroviscoelastic ones are also used. These models appear at first sight to be very different, but here it is shown that they all may be expressed i

Daniel Meljanac, Stjepan Meljanac, Danijel Pikutić, Kumar S. Gupta

We show that the realizations of noncommutative coordinates that are linear in the Lorentz generators form a closed Lie algebra under certain conditions. The star product and the coproduct for the momentum generators are obtained for these Lie algebras and the corresponding twist satisfies the cocycle and normalization conditions. We also obtain the twisted

Rajeev Ranjan, Carlos D. Castillo, Rama Chellappa

In recent years, the performance of face verification systems has significantly improved using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). A typical pipeline for face verification includes training a deep network for subject classification with softmax loss, using the penultimate layer output as the feature descriptor, and generating a cosine similarity scor

Michel Brion

Let $G$ be a connected algebraic $k$-group acting on a normal $k$-variety, where $k$ is a field. We show that $X$ is covered by open $G$-stable quasi-projective subvarieties; moreover, any such subvariety admits an equivariant embedding into the projectivization of a $G$-linearized vector bundle on an abelian variety, quotient of $G$. This generalizes a clas

Lucy D. Whalley, Jarvist M. Frost, Young-Kwang Jung, Aron Walsh

Organic-inorganic halide perovskites present a number of challenges for first-principles atomistic materials modelling. These `plastic crystals&#39; feature dynamic processes across multiple length-scales and time-scales, which include: (i) transport of slow ions and fast electrons; (ii) highly anharmonic lattice dynamics with short phonon lifetimes; (iii) l

Daniel Ueltschi

These notes describe several loop soup models and their {\it universal behaviour} in dimensions greater or equal to 3. These loop models represent certain classical or quantum statistical mechanical systems. These systems undergo phase transitions that are characterised by changes in the structures of the loops. Namely, long-range order is equivalent to the

Zeki Hayran, Ramon Herrero, Muriel Botey, Hamza Kurt

Designing invisible objects without the usage of extreme materials is a long-sought goal for photonic applications. Invisibility techniques demonstrated so far typically require high anisotropy, gain and losses, while also not being flexible. Here we propose an invisibility approach to suppress the scattering of waves from/to given directions and for particu

Keiichi Sakai, Ryutaro Sugiyama

We define the generalized connected sum for generic closed plane curves, generalizing the strange sum defined by Arnold, and completely describe how the Arnold invariants $J^{\pm}$ and $\mathit{St}$ behave under the generalized connected sums.

F. Dierick, A. -L. Nivard, O. White, F. Buisseret

Locomotion is a natural task that has been assessed since decades and used as a proxy to highlight impairments of various origins. Most studies adopted classical linear analyses of spatio-temporal gait parameters. Here, we use more advanced, yet not less practical, non-linear techniques to analyse gait time series of healthy subjects. We aimed at finding mor

Taiki Haga

We demonstrate a three-dimensional Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition in the random field XY model driven out of thermal equilibrium. By employing the spin-wave approximation and functional renormalization group approach, in the weak disorder regime, the three-dimensional driven random field XY model is found to exhibit a quasi-long-range order phase, where

Mikhail Zotov

TUS is the world&#39;s first orbital detector of extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs), which operates as a part of the scientific payload of the Lomonosov satellite since May 19, 2016. TUS employs the nocturnal atmosphere of the Earth to register ultraviolet (UV) fluorescence and Cherenkov radiation from extensive air showers generated by EECRs as well as UV r

Andrea Armaroli, Maura Brunetti, Jérôme Kasparian

We study a three-wave truncation of the high-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation for deepwater waves (HONLS, also named Dysthe equation). We validate our approach by comparing it to numerical simulation, distinguish the impact of the different fourth-order terms and classify the solutions according to their topology. This allows us to properly define the te

Claudio Landim, Michail Loulakis, Mustapha Mourragui

We consider continuous-time Markov chains which display a family of wells at the same depth. We provide sufficient conditions which entail the convergence of the finite-dimensional distributions of the order parameter to the ones of a finite state Markov chain. We also show that the state of the process can be represented as a time-dependent convex combinati

P. Krehlik, Ł. Buczek, J. Kołodziej, M. Lipiński

The quality of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio observations predominantly relies on precise and ultra-stable time and frequency (T&F) standards, usually hydrogen masers (HM), maintained locally at each VLBI station. Here, we present an operational solution in which the VLBI observations are routinely carried out without use of a local HM, but

Zhi-Gang Wang, Zhi-Hong Liu, Antti Rasila, Yong Sun

In this paper, we give a negative answer to a problem presented by Bharanedhar and Ponnusamy (Rocky Mountain J. Math. 44: 753--777, 2014) concerning univalency of a class of harmonic mappings. More precisely, we show that for all values of the involved parameter, this class contains a non-univalent function. Moreover, several results on a new subclass of clo

Guillaume Garrigos, Lorenzo Rosasco, Silvia Villa

We provide a comprehensive study of the convergence of the forward-backward algorithm under suitable geometric conditions, such as conditioning or Łojasiewicz properties. These geometrical notions are usually local by nature, and may fail to describe the fine geometry of objective functions relevant in inverse problems and signal processing, that have a nice

H1 Collaboration

Measurements of $D^{*}(2010)$ meson production in diffractive deep inelastic scattering $(5<Q^{2}<100~{\rm GeV}^{2})$ are presented which are based on HERA data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 319{\rm~GeV}$ with an integrated luminosity of $287$ pb$^{-1}$. The reaction $ep \rightarrow eXY$ is studied, where the system $X$, containing at least