March 2017 arXiv papers — page 2

Pavel Exner, Sylwia Kondej, Vladimir Lotoreichik

In this paper we consider the three-dimensional Schrödinger operator with a $δ$-interaction of strength $α> 0$ supported on an unbounded surface parametrized by the mapping $\mathbb{R}^2\ni x\mapsto (x,βf(x))$, where $β\in [0,\infty)$ and $f\colon \mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, $f\not\equiv 0$, is a $C^2$-smooth, compactly supported function. The surfac

Paresh Chandra Rout, Varadharajan Srinivasan

Perovskite metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently emerged as potential candidates for multiferroicity. However, the compounds synthesized so far possess only weak ferromagnetism and low polarization. Additionally, the very low magnetic transition temperatures ($T_c$) also pose a challenge to the application of the materials. We have computationally de

Stjepan Meljanac, Salvatore Mignemi, Josip Trampetic, Jiangyang You

In this article we define and quantize a truncated form of the nonassociative and noncommutative Snyder phi^4 field theory using the functional method in momentum space. More precisely, the action is approximated by expanding up to the linear order in the Snyder deformation parameter beta, producing an effective model on commutative spacetime for the computa

Li-Chia Yang, Szu-Yu Chou, Yi-Hsuan Yang

Most existing neural network models for music generation use recurrent neural networks. However, the recent WaveNet model proposed by DeepMind shows that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can also generate realistic musical waveforms in the audio domain. Following this light, we investigate using CNNs for generating melody (a series of MIDI notes) one bar

Mureed Hussain, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Ali Paracha, Muhammad Jamil Aslam

We established the allowed parameters of two-Higgs doublet model(2HDM) from flavor physics observables, precisely from rare $B$ meson decays. In our analysis most formidable constraints on the 2HDM parameters arise from the branching ratio of rare radiative $B$ meson decay i.e., $B\to X_{s}γ$. However, the constraints arising from the branching ratio of $B_{

Mattia Ornaghi, Laura Pertusi

In the first part of this paper we will prove the Voevodsky's nilpotence conjecture for smooth cubic fourfolds and ordinary generic Gushel-Mukai fourfolds. Then, making use of noncommutative motives, we will prove the Voevodsky's nilpotence conjecture for generic Gushel-Mukai fourfolds containing a $τ$-plane $\G(2,3)$ and for ordinary Gushel-Mukai fo

Donato Bini, Carmen Chicone, Bahram Mashhoon

Within the framework of general relativity, we investigate the tidal acceleration of astrophysical jets relative to the central collapsed configuration ("Kerr source"). We neglect electromagnetic forces throughout. The rest frame of the Kerr source is locally defined via the set of hypothetical static observers in the spacetime exterior to the source

K. E. Polovnikov, M. Gherardi, M. Cosentino-Lagomarsino, M. V. Tamm

The chromosome is a key player of cell physiology, and its dynamics provides valuable information about its physical organization. In both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the short-time motion of chromosomal loci has been described as a Rouse model in a simple or viscoelastic medium. However, little emphasis has been put on the role played by the folded organiza

Arend Bayer, Martí Lahoz, Emanuele Macrì, Paolo Stellari

We introduce a general method to induce Bridgeland stability conditions on semiorthogonal components of triangulated categories. In particular, we prove the existence of Bridgeland stability conditions on the Kuznetsov component of the derived category of Fano threefolds and of cubic fourfolds. As an application, in the appendix, written jointly with Xiaolei

Sunny Vagnozzi

In the past years, a systematic downward revision of the metallicity of the Sun has led to the "solar modeling problem", namely the disagreement between predictions of standard solar models and inferences from helioseismology. Recent solar wind measurements of the metallicity of the Sun, however, provide once more an indication of a high-metallicity

Adolfo Guarino, Javier Tarrio

We present BPS black hole solutions in a four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity with an abelian dyonic gauging of the universal hypermultiplet moduli space. This supergravity arises as the SU(3)-invariant subsector in the reduction of massive IIA supergravity on a six-sphere. The solutions are supported by non-constant scalar, vector and tensor fields

Teruyoshi Kobayashi, Taro Takaguchi

The global financial crisis in 2007-2009 demonstrated that systemic risk can spread all over the world through a complex web of financial linkages, yet we still lack fundamental knowledge about the evolution of the financial web. In particular, interbank credit networks shape the core of the financial system, in which a time-varying interconnected risk emerg

Alexander Sokolov, Sheng Guo, Enrico Ronca, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

In earlier work [J. Chem. Phys. 144, 064102 (2016)], we introduced a time-dependent formulation of the second-order N-electron valence perturbation theory (t-NEVPT2) which (i) had a lower computational scaling than the usual internally-contracted perturbation formulation, and (ii) yielded the fully uncontracted NEVPT2 energy. Here, we present a combination o

F. Couchot, S. Henrot-Versillé, O. Perdereau, S. Plaszczynski

When combining cosmological and oscillations results to constrain the neutrino sector, the question of the propagation of systematic uncertainties is often raised. We address this issue in the context of the derivation of an upper bound on the sum of the neutrino masses ($Σm_ν$) with recent cosmological data. This work is performed within the ${\mathrm{Λ{CDM

Etienne Fieux, Bertrand Jouve

In this note, we prove that a finite vertex-transitive graph which has a clique which intersects all maximal cliques is a complete graph. This gives a positive answer in the case of vertex-transitive graphs to a question raised by Berge and Payan. It also gives a positive answer to a special case of the evasiveness conjecture.

David Langlois, Hongguang Liu, Karim Noui, Edward Wilson-Ewing

Recently, Chamseddine and Mukhanov introduced a higher-derivative scalar-tensor theory which leads to a modified Friedmann equation allowing for bouncing solutions. As we note in the present work, this Friedmann equation turns out to reproduce exactly the loop quantum cosmology effective dynamics for a flat isotropic and homogeneous space-time. We generalize

Florian Ziel, Rick Steinert

The liberalization of electricity markets and the development of renewable energy sources has led to new challenges for decision makers. These challenges are accompanied by an increasing uncertainty about future electricity price movements. The increasing amount of papers, which aim to model and predict electricity prices for a short period of time provided

Xiang-Nan Zhou, Yun-Zhi Du, Hao Yu, Yu-Xiao Liu

In this paper, we consider the localization of a five-dimensional gravitino field on $f(R)$-thick branes. We obtain the coupled chiral equations of the Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes of gravitinos with the gauge condition $Ψ_z=0$. The chiral equations of a gravitino's KK modes are found to be almost identical to those of the Dirac fermion. However, their chiral

Rui M. Costa, João H. Belo, Marcelo B. Barbosa, Pedro A. Algarabel

In this report, a successful thermodynamical model was employed to understand the structural transition in Er$_5$Si$_4$, able to explain the decoupling of the magnetic and structural transition. This was achieved by the DFT calculations which were used to determine the energy differences at 0 K, using a LSDA+U approximation. It was found that the M structure

Benoît Bonnet, Francesco Rossi

Cooperative systems are systems in which the forces among agents are non-repulsive. The free evolution of such systems can tend to the formation of patterns, such as consensus or clustering, depending on the properties and intensity of the interaction forces between agents. The kinetic cooperative systems are obtained as the mean field limits of these system

Gianluca Cassese

We prove some new results related to Tanaka's formula.

Wei-Sheng Lai, Yujia Huang, Neel Joshi, Chris Buehler

We present a system for converting a fully panoramic ($360^\circ$) video into a normal field-of-view (NFOV) hyperlapse for an optimal viewing experience. Our system exploits visual saliency and semantics to non-uniformly sample in space and time for generating hyperlapses. In addition, users can optionally choose objects of interest for customizing the hyper

Maria Schuld, Mark Fingerhuth, Francesco Petruccione

Lately, much attention has been given to quantum algorithms that solve pattern recognition tasks in machine learning. Many of these quantum machine learning algorithms try to implement classical models on large-scale universal quantum computers that have access to non-trivial subroutines such as Hamiltonian simulation, amplitude amplification and phase estim

Wojciech Cygan, Tomasz Grzywny

Let $\mathbf{X}=\{X_t\}_{t\geq 0}$ be a Lévy process in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $Ω$ be an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ with finite Lebesgue measure. The quantity $H (t) = \int_Ω \mathbb{P}^{x} (X_t\in Ω^c) d x$ is called the heat content. In this article we consider its generalized version $H_g^μ(t) = \int_{\mathbb{R}^d}\mathbb{E}^{x} g(X_t)μ( d x )$, where $g$

Zeno Toffano, François Dubois

A method for synthesizing quantum gates is presented based on interpolation methods applied to operators in Hilbert space. Starting from the diagonal forms of specific generating seed operators with non-degenerate eigenvalue spectrum one obtains for arity-one a complete family of logical operators corresponding to all the one-argument logical connectives. Sc

J. M. Carceller, J. I. Illana, M. Masip, D. Meloni

We discuss the spectrum of the different components in the astrophysical neutrino flux reaching the Earth and the possible contribution of each component to the high-energy IceCube data. We show that the diffuse flux from cosmic ray interactions with gas in our galaxy implies just 2 events among the 54 event sample. We argue that the neutrino flux from cosmi

Oliver Breunig, Zhiwei Wang, A. A. Taskin, Jonathan Lux

With the recent discovery of Weyl semimetals, the phenomenon of negative magnetoresistance (MR) is attracting renewed interest. While small negative MR can occur due to the suppression of spin scattering or weak localization, large negative MR is rare in materials, and when it happens, it is usually related to magnetism. The large negative MR in Weyl semimet

Kastytis Zubovas, Martin A. Bourne

AGN outflows can remove large quantities of gas from their host galaxy spheroids, potentially shutting off star formation. On the other hand, they can compress this gas, potentially enhancing or triggering star formation, at least for short periods. We present a set of idealised simulations of AGN outflows affecting turbulent gas spheres, and investigate the

Vladimir Manuilov

Let $A$, $B$ be separable C*-algebras, $B$ stable. Elements of the E-theory group $E(A,B)$ are represented by asymptotic homomorphisms from the second suspension of $A$ to $B$. Our aim is to represent these elements by (families of) maps from $A$ itself to $B$. We have to pay for that by allowing these maps to be even further from $*$-homomorphisms. We prove

Yuri Prokhorov

We classify quasi-simple finite groups of essential dimension 3.

J. N. Abdurashitov, A. I. Belesev, V. G. Chernov, E. V. Geraskin

We present the first measurements of tritium beta-decay spectrum in the electron energy range 16-18.6 keV. The goal is to find distortions which may correspond to the presence of a heavy sterile neutrinos. A possible contribution of this kind would manifest itself as a kink in the spectrum with a similar shape but with end point shifted by the value of a hea

S. S. Popov, M. G. Atluhanov, A. V. Burdakov, M. Yu. Ushkova

The paper presents and experimentally investigates a concept of an efficient radiation trap based on adiabatic photon confinement between curved mirrors. Such a trap is free of restrictions typical to the Fabry-Perot cells, relating to the confined radiation quality and accuracy and stabilization of optical elements. Experiments have demonstrated high effici

Ishai Dan-Cohen, Tomer Schlank

We initiate a study of path spaces in the nascent context of "motivic dga's", under development in doctoral work by Gabriella Guzman. This enables us to reconstruct the unipotent fundamental group of a pointed scheme from the associated augmented motivic dga, and provides us with a factorization of Kim's relative unipotent section conjecture

Zheng-yang Zhou, Mi Chen, Lian-Ao Wu, Ting Yu

Dark state as a consequence of interference between different quantum states has great importance in the fields of chip-scale atomic clock and quantum information. For the $Λ$-type three-level system, this dark state is generally regarded as being dissipation-free because it is a superposition of two lowest states without dipole transition between them. Howe

Yamin Yan, Jie Huang

In this paper, we study the cooperative robust output regulation problem for discrete-time linear multi-agent systems with both communication and input delays by distributed internal model approach. We first introduce the distributed internal model for discrete-time multi-agent systems with both communication and input delays. Then, we define so-called auxil

Masayuki Nagakane, Takahiro Sumi, Naoki Koshimoto, David P. Bennett

We report the discovery of a super-Earth mass planet in the microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-505. This event has the second shortest event timescale of $t_{\rm E}=10 \pm 1$ days where the observed data show evidence of planetary companion. Our 15 minute high cadence survey observation schedule revealed the short subtle planetary signature. The system shows th

Brett McInnes

Heavy ion collisions at the LHC facility generate a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) which, for central collisions, has a higher energy density and temperature than the plasma generated in central collisions at the RHIC. But sufficiently peripheral LHC collisions give rise to plasmas which have the \emph{same} energy density and temperature as the "central"

Varun Pandit, Archan Mukhopadhyay, Sagar Chakraborty

Replicator equation -- a paradigm equation in evolutionary game dynamics -- mathematizes the frequency dependent selection of competing strategies vying to enhance their fitness (quantified by the average payoffs) with respect to the average fitnesses of the evolving population under consideration. In this paper, we deal with two discrete versions of the rep

Jalal Etesami, Kun Zhang, Negar Kiyavash

Measuring conditional dependencies among the variables of a network is of great interest to many disciplines. This paper studies some shortcomings of the existing dependency measures in detecting direct causal influences or their lack of ability for group selection to capture strong dependencies and accordingly introduces a new statistical dependency measure

Brian Lawrence

Let $\{\infty^+, \infty^-\}$ be the two points above $\infty$ on the real hyperelliptic curve $H: y^2 = (x^2 - 1) \prod_{i=1}^{2g} (x - a_i)$. We show that the divisor $([\infty^+] - [\infty^-])$ is torsion in $\operatorname{Jac} J$ for a dense set of $(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_{2g}) \in (-1, 1)^{2g}$. In fact, we prove by degeneration to a nodal $\mathbb{P}^1$ t

K. -H. Chiang, C. -L. Lee, P. -Y. Lai, Y. -F. Chen

We study experimentally and theoretically the steady-state dynamics of a simple stochastic electronic system featuring two resistor-capacitor circuits coupled by a third capacitor. The resistors are subject to thermal noises at real temperatures. The voltage fluctuation across each resistor can be compared to a one-dimensional Brownian motion. However, the c

C. Fairoos, Sudipta Sarkar, K. P. Yogendran

The purely thermal nature of Hawking radiation from evaporating black holes leads to the information loss paradox. A possible route to its resolution could be if (enough) correlations are shown to be present in the radiation emitted from evaporating black holes. A re-analysis of Hawking's derivation including the effects of self-interactions in GR shows

Zhiguang Wang, Jianbo Yang

We proposed a deep learning method for interpretable diabetic retinopathy (DR) detection. The visual-interpretable feature of the proposed method is achieved by adding the regression activation map (RAM) after the global averaging pooling layer of the convolutional networks (CNN). With RAM, the proposed model can localize the discriminative regions of an ret

Lalith Srikanth Chintalapati, Raghunatha Sarma Rachakonda

Spectral clustering has gained importance in recent years due to its ability to cluster complex data as it requires only pairwise similarity among data points with its ease of implementation. The central point in spectral clustering is the process of capturing pair-wise similarity. In the literature, many research techniques have been proposed for effective

Gerard David Howard

Self-adaptive parameters are increasingly used in the field of Evolutionary Robotics, as they allow key evolutionary rates to vary autonomously in a context-sensitive manner throughout the optimisation process. A significant limitation to self-adaptive mutation is that rates can be set unfavourably, which hinders convergence. Rate restarts are typically empl

Runxin He, Humberto Gonzalez

Optimal control remains as one of the most versatile frameworks in systems theory, enabling applications ranging from classical robust control to real-time safe operation of fleets of vehicles. While some optimal control problems can be efficiently solved using algebraic or convex methods, most general forms of optimal control must be solved using memory- ex

Percy Fernández Sánchez, Jorge Mozo Fernández, Hernán Neciosup

We study in this paper several properties concerning singularities of foliations in $(\mathbb{C}^3,\mathbf{0})$ that are pull-back of dicritical foliations in $(\mathbb{C}^2,\mathbf{0})$. Particularly, we will investigate the existence of first integrals (holomorphic and meromorphic) and the dicriticalness of such a foliation. In the study of meromorphic fir

Jhelum Chakravorty, Aditya Mahajan

Sufficient conditions are identified under which the value function and the optimal strategy of a Markov decision process (MDP) are even and quasi-convex in the state. The key idea behind these conditions is the following. First, sufficient conditions for the value function and optimal strategy to be even are identified. Next, it is shown that if the value f

Nicolas Onofrio, David Guzman, Alejandro Strachan

Successful doping of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) remains a formidable barrier to their incorporation into a range of technologies. We use density functional theory to study doping of molybdenum and tungsten dichalcogenides with a large fraction of the periodic table. An automated analysis of the energetics, atomic and electronic stru

Zeng-hui Yang, Mark R. Pederson, John P. Perdew

The Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction cures many common problems associated with semilocal density functionals, but suffers from a size-extensivity problem when Kohn-Sham orbitals are used in the correction. Fermi-Löwdin-orbital self-interaction correction (FLOSIC) solves the size-extensivity problem, allowing its use in periodic systems and resultin

Jiho Song, Junil Choi, Taeyoung Kim, David J. Love

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which utilize a large number of antennas at the base station, are expected to enhance network throughput by enabling improved multiuser MIMO techniques. To deploy many antennas in reasonable form factors, base stations are expected to employ antenna arrays in both horizontal and vertical dimensions, whic

Zeng-hui Yang, Aurora Pribram-Jones, Kieron Burke, Carsten A. Ullrich

A very specific ensemble of ground and excited states is shown to yield an exact formula for any excitation energy as a simple correction to the energy difference between orbitals of the Kohn-Sham ground state. This alternative scheme avoids either the need to calculate many unoccupied levels as in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) or the need

Anibal Velozo

We prove the upper semicontinuity of the measure theoretic entropy for the geodesic flow on complete Riemannian manifolds without focal points and bounded sectional curvature. We then study the relationship between the escape of mass phenomenon and the measure theoretic entropy on finite volume nonpositively curved manifolds satisfying the Visibility axiom.

Lobsang Dhargyal

It has been known that $B \rightarrow D^{(*)} τν_τ$ are good observables in the search for the charged Higgs. The recent obervation of deviation from standard-model by almost 4$σ$ by Babar, Belle and LHCb in $R(D^{(*)})$ revived the interest in possible signal of presence of charged Higgs in these modes. But such a large deviation in the rates, where standar

Kaori Kaki

Reaction cross sections of carbon isotopes for proton scattering are calculated in large energy region. Density distributions of carbon isotopes are obtained from relativistic mean field results. Calculations are based on two procedures: the Glauber theory and relativistic impulse approximation, and results are compared with each other as well as with experi

David Avis, Luc Devroye

Recently Avis and Jordan have demonstrated the efficiency of a simple technique called budgeting for the parallelization of a number of tree search algorithms. The idea is to limit the amount of work that a processor performs before it terminates its search and returns any unexplored nodes to a master process. This limit is set by a critical budget parameter

Donghoon Lee, Sangdoo Yun, Sungjoon Choi, Hwiyeon Yoo

We introduce a new problem of generating an image based on a small number of key local patches without any geometric prior. In this work, key local patches are defined as informative regions of the target object or scene. This is a challenging problem since it requires generating realistic images and predicting locations of parts at the same time. We constru

A. Markhotok

The origin of a vortex structure generated during the shock-plasma interaction is investigated. A two-dimensional model based on the shock refraction mechanism successfully unifies the vortex generation with major co-processes typical for the interaction and thus well fits in their cause-and-consequence relationship. Numerical simulations demonstrated the po

Maximilian L. Allen, Bryn E. Evans, Michael E. Wheeler, Marcus A. Mueller

Carnivores are important components of ecosystems with wide-ranging effects on ecological communities.We studied the carnivore community in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (APIS), where the presence, distribution, and populations of carnivores was largely unknown. We developed a systematic method to deploy camera traps across a grid while targeting fi

Ciprian Chelba, Mohammad Norouzi, Samy Bengio

We investigate the effective memory depth of RNN models by using them for $n$-gram language model (LM) smoothing. Experiments on a small corpus (UPenn Treebank, one million words of training data and 10k vocabulary) have found the LSTM cell with dropout to be the best model for encoding the $n$-gram state when compared with feed-forward and vanilla RNN model

Sergei Tsaturian

An old question in Euclidean Ramsey theory asks, if the points in the plane are red-blue coloured, does there always exist a red pair of points at unit distance or five blue points in line separated by unit distances? An elementary proof answers this question in affirmative.

Oleksii Kuchaiev, Boris Ginsburg

We present two simple ways of reducing the number of parameters and accelerating the training of large Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks: the first one is "matrix factorization by design" of LSTM matrix into the product of two smaller matrices, and the second one is partitioning of LSTM matrix, its inputs and states into the independent groups.

Qiang Zhang, Jiangping Hu

Iron-based superconductors can exhibit different magnetic ground states and are in a critical magnetic region where frustrated magnetic interactions strongly compete with each other. Here we investigate the longitudinal modes of spin fluctuations in an unified effective magnetic model for iron-based superconductors. We focus on the collinear antiferromagneti

Tadahiro Oh, Nikolay Tzvetkov

We study the transport properties of the Gaussian measures on Sobolev spaces under the dynamics of the two-dimensional defocusing cubic nonlinear wave equation (NLW). Under some regularity condition, we prove quasi-invariance of the mean-zero Gaussian measures on Sobolev spaces for the NLW dynamics. We achieve this goal by introducing a simultaneous renormal

David Berthelot, Thomas Schumm, Luke Metz

We propose a new equilibrium enforcing method paired with a loss derived from the Wasserstein distance for training auto-encoder based Generative Adversarial Networks. This method balances the generator and discriminator during training. Additionally, it provides a new approximate convergence measure, fast and stable training and high visual quality. We also

Qian Liu, Yunhua Chen, Steve Furber

We extended the work of proposed activation function, Noisy Softplus, to fit into training of layered up spiking neural networks (SNNs). Thus, any ANN employing Noisy Softplus neurons, even of deep architecture, can be trained simply by the traditional algorithm, for example Back Propagation (BP), and the trained weights can be directly used in the spiking v

Swetava Ganguli, Jared Dunnmon

Bond prices are a reflection of extremely complex market interactions and policies, making prediction of future prices difficult. This task becomes even more challenging due to the dearth of relevant information, and accuracy is not the only consideration--in trading situations, time is of the essence. Thus, machine learning in the context of bond price pred

Yong Wang

We make a mixture of Milner's $π$-calculus and our previous work on truly concurrent process algebra, which is called $π_{tc}$. We introduce syntax and semantics of $π_{tc}$, its properties based on strongly truly concurrent bisimilarities. Also, we include an axiomatization of $π_{tc}$. $π_{tc}$ can be used as a formal tool in verifying mobile systems i

Marta Dobrowolska, Ger J. M. Koper

It is demonstrated that the often observed broadness of the molecular weight distribution obtained from latex particles synthesized by means of surfactant-free emulsion polymerization results from the multistage kinetics. The initial stage of the polymerization, by which the primary particles are formed, is of the 01-kind which means that it can be assumed t

Duc Duy Nguyen, Tian Xiao, Menglun Wang, Guo-Wei Wei

Protein-ligand binding is essential to almost all life processes. The understanding of protein-ligand interactions is fundamentally important to rational drug design and protein design. Based on large scale data sets, we show that protein rigidity strengthening or flexibility reduction is a pivoting mechanism in protein-ligand binding. Our approach based sol

Nizami Mustafa

In this paper, we introduce and investigate two new subclasses of analytic functions in the open unit disk in the complex plane. Several interesting properties of the functions belonging to these classes are examined. Here, sufficient, and necessary and sufficient conditions for the functions belonging to these classes are also given. Moreover, coefficient b

H. K. Avetissian, A. K. Avetissian, G. F. Mkrtchian, B. R. Avchyan

The collective decay of excitons from initial Bose-Einstein condensate state is investigated theoretically. As practically more interesting case we consider excitons of the yellow series in the semiconductor cuprous oxide where we have collective photon and phonon assisted decay of excitons. It is shown that because of intrinsic instability of recoilless two

Tao Zhang, Xiaolei Lv, Bing Han, Bin Lei

This paper reports the repeat-pass interferometric SAR results of Gaofen-3, a Chinese civil SAR satellite, acquired in November 2016 and March 2017 from Ningbo area. With the spatial baseline about 600 m and time baseline 116 days, the coherence of the two images still achieve good enough to generate the digital elevation model (DEM). During the InSAR proces

Kumar Vijay Garapati, Marouane Salhi, Sherwin Kouchekian, George Siopsis

Composite and janus type metallo-dielectric nanoparticles are increasingly considered as a means to control the spatial and temporal behavior of electromagnetic fields in diverse applications such as coupling to quantum emitters, achieve invisibility cloaks, and obtain quantum correlations between qubits. We investigate the surface modes of a toroidal nano-s

Michela Todaro, Gianpiero Buscarino, Luisa Sciortino, Antonino Alessi

HKUST-1 is a metal-organic framework (MOF) which plays a significant role both in applicative and basic fields of research, thanks to its outstanding properties of adsorption and catalysis but also because it is a reference material for the study of many general properties of MOFs. Its metallic group comprises a pair of Cu2+ ions chelated by four carboxylate

Adrian Melott

Frolop and Scott (2016) claim significant 1-1 correspondence between anomalies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the digits of pi, which they call 'Pi in the Sky'. They have without attribution republished the famous work of Joe Hill (Hill 1911), who first proposed this idea, then repudiated it.

Ricardo Almeida

The aim of this work is to show, based on concrete data observation, that the choice of the fractional derivative when modelling a problem is relevant for the accuracy of a method. Using the least squares fitting technique, we determine the order of the fractional differential equation that better describes the experimental data, for different types of fract

Shael Brown

In the sports of soccer, hockey and basketball the most commonly used statistics for player performance assessment are divided into two categories: offensive statistics and defensive statistics. However, qualitative assessments of playmaking (for example making "smart" passes) are difficult to quantify. It would be advantageous to have available a si

Mohammed Maghenem, Dennis W. J. Belleter, Claudio Paliotta, Kristin Y. Pettersen

In this article a solution to the problem of following a curved path in the presence of a constant unknown ocean current disturbance is presented. The path is parametrised by a path variable that is used to propagate a path-tangential reference frame. The update law for the path variable is chosen such that the motion of the path-tangential frame ensures tha

Michael M. Shara, Krystian Ilkiewicz, Joanna Mikolajewska, Ashley Pagnotta

Here we report the recovery of the binary underlying the classical nova of 11 March 1437 A.D. whose age is independently confirmed by proper motion-dating, and show that in the 20th century it exhibits dwarf nova eruptions. The four oldest recovered classical novae are now all dwarf novae. Taken together they strongly suggest that mass transfer rates decreas

Kourosh Meshgi, Maryam Sadat Mirzaei, Shigeyuki Oba, Shin Ishii

Adaptive tracking-by-detection approaches are popular for tracking arbitrary objects. They treat the tracking problem as a classification task and use online learning techniques to update the object model. However, these approaches are heavily invested in the efficiency and effectiveness of their detectors. Evaluating a massive number of samples for each fra

Hieu Le, Vu Nguyen, Chen-Ping Yu, Dimitris Samaras

This paper proposes a geodesic-distance-based feature that encodes global information for improved video segmentation algorithms. The feature is a joint histogram of intensity and geodesic distances, where the geodesic distances are computed as the shortest paths between superpixels via their boundaries. We also incorporate adaptive voting weights and spatia

M. Perrot-Dockès, C. Lévy-Leduc, J. Chiquet, L. Sansonnet

Omic data are characterized by the presence of strong dependence structures that result either from data acquisition or from some underlying biological processes. In metabolomics, for instance, data resulting from Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) -- a technique which gives access to a large coverage of metabolites -- exhibit such patterns. The

Ana Silva, Jans Henke, Jasper van Wezel

Helices of increased electron density can spontaneously form in materials containing multiple, interacting density waves. Although a macroscopic order parameter theory describing this behaviour has been proposed and experimentally tested, a detailed microscopic understanding of spiral electronic order in any particular material is still lacking. Here, we pre

Verena Käfer, Daniel Kulesz, Stefan Wagner

The better developers can learn software tools, the faster they can start using them and the more efficiently they can later work with them. Tutorials are supposed to help here. While in the early days of computing, mostly text tutorials were available, nowadays software developers can choose among a huge number of tutorials for almost any popular software t

Matthew D. Kistler, Hasan Yuksel

Any interpretation of the astrophysical neutrinos discovered by IceCube must accommodate a variety of multimessenger constraints. We address implications of these neutrinos being produced in transient sources, principally if buried within supernovae so that gamma rays are absorbed by the star. This would alleviate tension with the isotropic Fermi GeV backgro

Ofer Lahav

The Cosmological Constant $Λ$, in different incarnations, has been with us for 100 years. Many surveys of dark energy are underway, indicating so far that the data are consistent with a dark energy equation of state of $w=-1$, i.e. a $Λ$ term in Einstein's equation, although time variation of $w$ is not yet ruled out. The ball is now back in the theoreti

R. Retes-Romero, Y. D. Mayya, A. Luna, L. Carrasco

We study the star formation (SF) law in 12 Galactic molecular clouds with ongoing high-mass star formation (HMSF) activity, as traced by the presence of a bright IRAS source and other HMSF tracers. We define the molecular cloud (MC) associated to each IRAS source using 13CO line emission, and count the young stellar objects (YSOs) within these clouds using G

D. Céolin, N. V. Kryzhevoi, Ch. Nicolas, W. Pokapanich

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and KLL Auger spectra of aqueous KCl solution were measured for the K$^+$ and Cl$^-$ edges. While the XPS spectra of potassium and chloride have similar structures, both exhibiting only weak satellite structures near the main line, the Auger spectra of these isoelectronic ions differ dramatically. A very strong satellit

Zixuan Cang, Guo-Wei Wei

Although deep learning approaches have had tremendous success in image, video and audio processing, computer vision, and speech recognition, their applications to three-dimensional (3D) biomolecular structural data sets have been hindered by the entangled geometric complexity and biological complexity. We introduce topology, i.e., element specific persistent

Pierre Germain, Fabio Pusateri, Frederic Rousset

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a potential in one space dimension. Under the assumptions that the potential is generic, sufficiently localized, and does not have bound states, we obtain the long time asymptotic behavior of small solutions. In particular, we prove that, as time goes to infinity, solutions exhibit nonlinear phase cor

E. M. Lobodzinska

In this contribution, Double Parton Scattering processes observed with the ATLAS detector at LHC are discussed. Results of five analyses are presented: production of W boson in association with 2 jets, production of J/psi meson in association with W boson, J/psi production with Z boson, J/psi pair production and four jet events.

Makoto Kobayashi, Ryo Murakami, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Takashi Watanabe

Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of battery-powered mobile devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, sensors, and laptops, which leads a significant demand for high capacity wireless communication with high energy efficiency. Among technologies to provide the efficiency is full-duplex wireless communication. Full-duplex wireless enhances capacity by si

Sidney S. Avancini, Márcio Ferreira, Helena Pais, Constança Providência

The pasta phases are calculated for warm stellar matter in a framework of relativistic mean-field models, including the possibility of light cluster formation. Results from three different semiclassical approaches are compared with a quantum statistical calculation. Light clusters are considered as point-like particles, and their abundances are determined fr

Kanato Goto, Tadashi Takayanagi

We present a new method for reconstructing CFT duals of states excited by the bulk local operators in the three dimensional AdS black holes in the AdS/CFT context. As an important procedure for this, we introduce a map between the bulk points in AdS and those on the boundary where CFT lives. This gives a systematic and universal way to express bulk local sta

Katharina Kann, Ryan Cotterell, Hinrich Schütze

We present a novel cross-lingual transfer method for paradigm completion, the task of mapping a lemma to its inflected forms, using a neural encoder-decoder model, the state of the art for the monolingual task. We use labeled data from a high-resource language to increase performance on a low-resource language. In experiments on 21 language pairs from four d

Yury A. Neretin

The Plancherel decomposition of $L^2$ on a pseudo-Riemannian symmetric space $GL(n,C)/GL(n,R)$ has spectrum of $[n/2]$ types. We write explicitly orthogonal projectors separating spectrum into uniform pieces

Paul Horn, Lauren M. Nelsen

A rainbow spanning tree in an edge-colored graph is a spanning tree in which each edge is a different color. Carraher, Hartke, and Horn showed that for $n$ and $C$ large enough, if $G$ is an edge-colored copy of $K_n$ in which each color class has size at most $n/2$, then $G$ has at least $\lfloor n/(C\log n)\rfloor$ edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees. Her

Rafael de la Madrid

We express the resonant energies of the delta-shell potential in terms of the Lambert $W$ function, and we calculate their decay widths and decay constants. The ensuing numerical results strengthen the interpretation of such decay widths and constants as a way to quantify the coupling between a resonance and the continuum. We calculate explicitly the decay e

Hui He, Matthias Winkel

In this paper we study the vertex cut-trees of Galton-Watson trees conditioned to have $n$ leaves. This notion is a slight variation of Dieuleveut's vertex cut-tree of Galton-Watson trees conditioned to have $n$ vertices. Our main result is a joint Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov convergence in the finite variance case of the Galton-Watson tree and its vertex