March 2017 arXiv papers — page 25

Kun Yao, John Herr, Seth Brown, John Parkhill

Neural networks are being used to make new types of empirical chemical models as inexpensive as force fields, but with accuracy close to the ab-initio methods used to build them. Besides modeling potential energy surfaces, neural-nets can provide qualitative insights and make qualitative chemical trends quantitatively predictable. In this work we present a n

I. A. Bond, D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi, A. Udalski

We report discovery of the lowest mass ratio exoplanet to be found by the microlensing method in the light curve of the event OGLE~2016--BLG--1195. This planet revealed itself as a small deviation from a microlensing single lens profile from an examination of the survey data soon after the planetary signal. The duration of the planetary signal is $\sim 2.5\,

C. D. Ling, M. C. Allison, S. Schmid, M. Adveev

We have experimentally identified a new magnetic ground state for the kagome lattice, in the perfectly hexagonal Fe2+ (3d6, S = 2) compound Fe4Si2Sn7O16. Representational symmetry analysis of neutron diffraction data shows that below T_N = 3.5 K, the spins on 2/3 of the magnetic ions order into canted antiferromagnetic chains, separated by the remaining 1/3

T. Junginger, S. Calatroni, A. Sublet, G. Terenziani

Point contact tunneling (PCT) and low energy muon spin rotation (LE-muSR) are used to probe, on the same samples, the surface superconducting properties of micrometer thick niobium films deposited onto copper substrates using different sputtereing techniques: diode, dc magnetron (dcMS) and HIPIMS. The combined results are compared to radio-frequency tests pe

Miguel A. Cardona, Diego A. Mejía

Yorioka [J. Symbolic Logic 67(4):1373-1384, 2002] introduced a class of ideals (parametrized by reals) on the Cantor space to prove that the relation between the size of the continuum and the cofinality of the strong measure zero ideal on the real line cannot be decided in ZFC. We construct a matrix iteration of ccc posets to force that, for many ideals in t

J. Oñorbe, J. F. Hennawi, Z. Lukić, M. Walther

The latest measurements of CMB electron scattering optical depth reported by Planck significantly reduces the allowed space of HI reionization models, pointing toward a later ending and/or less extended phase transition than previously believed. Reionization impulsively heats the intergalactic medium (IGM) to $\sim10^4$ K, and owing to long cooling and dynam

Seth Baldwin

Let $G:=\widehat{SL_2}$ denote the affine Kac-Moody group associated to $SL_2$ and $\bar{\mathcal{X}}$ the associated affine Grassmannian. We determine an inductive formula for the Schubert basis structure constants in the torus-equivariant Grothendieck group of $\bar{\mathcal{X}}$. In the case of ordinary (non-equivariant) $K$-theory we find an explicit clo

Hao Liao, Mingyang Zhou, Zong-Wen Wei, Rui Mao

As a fundamental challenge in vast disciplines, link prediction aims to identify potential links in a network based on the incomplete observed information, which has broad applications ranging from uncovering missing protein-protein interaction to predicting the evolution of networks. One of the most influential methods rely on similarity indices characteriz

George Alexandru Nemnes, Cristina Besleaga, Viorica Stancu, Lucia Nicoleta Leonat

Hysteretic effects are investigated in perovskite solar cells in the standard FTO/TiO$_2$/CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_{3-x}$Cl$_x$/spiro-OMeTAD/Au configuration. We report normal (NH) and inverted hysteresis (IH) in the J-V characteristics occurring for the same device structure, the behavior strictly depending on the pre-poling bias. NH typically appears at pre-poling

Fatma Ateş, Ismail Gök, Nejat Ekmekci

The purpose of the paper is to construct a new representation of dual quaternions called bi$-$periodic dual Fibonacci quaternions. These quaternions are originated as a generalization of the known quaternions in literature such as dual Fibonacci quaternions, dual Pell quaternions and dual $k-$Fibonacci quaternions. Furthermore, some of them have not been int

Alexander Eckrot, Carina Geldhauser, Jan Jurczyk

We propose a simulated annealing algorithm specifically tailored to optimise total retrieval times in a multi-level warehouse under complex pre-batched picking constraints. Experiments on real data from a picker-to-parts order picking process in the warehouse of a European manufacturer show that optimal storage assignments do not necessarily display features

Khaled Mehrez, Praveen Agarwal

We have recently established some integral inequalities for convex functions via the Hermite-Hadamard's inequalities. In continuation here, we also establish some interesting new integral inequalities for convex functions via the Hermite--Hadamard's inequalities and Jensen's integral inequality. Useful applications involving special means are als

Wolfgang Bock, Torben Fattler

We analyse a diffusion process whose invariant measure is the fractional polymer or Edwards measure for fractional Brownian motion in dimension $d\in\mathbb{N}$ with Hurst parameter $H\in(0,1)$ fulfilling $dH < 1$. We make use of a construction of the diffusion via Dirichlet form techniques in infinite dimensional (Gaussian) analysis. By providing a Fukushim

Yang-Ho Choi

The Sagnac effect has been shown in inertial frames as well as rotating frames. We solve the problem of the generalized Sagnac effect in the standard synchronization of clocks. The speed of a light beam that traverses an optical fiber loop is measured with respect to the proper time of the light detector, and is shown to be other than the constant c, though

Saaketh Desai, Chunyu Li, Tongtong Shen, Alejandro Strachan

Development of high strength carbon fibers (CFs) requires an understanding of the relationship between the processing conditions, microstructure and resulting properties. We developed a molecular model that combines kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) and molecular dynamics (MD) techniques to predict the microstructure evolution during the carbonization process of car

Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu, Selmer Bringsjord

The generally accepted wisdom in computational circles is that pure proof verification is a solved problem and that the computationally hard elements and fertile areas of study lie in proof discovery. This wisdom presumably does hold for conventional proof systems such as first-order logic with a standard proof calculus such as natural deduction or resolutio

Elisa Rojas, Guillermo Ibanez, Jose Manuel Gimenez-Guzman, Juan A. Carral

This paper presents a scalability and load balancing study of the All-Path protocols, a family of distributed switching protocols based on path exploration. ARP-Path is the main protocol and it explores every possible path reaching from source to destination by using ARP messages, selecting the lowest latency path. Flow-Path and Bridge-Path are respectively

Daniel Niesner, Martin Hauck, Shreetu Shrestha, Ievgen Levchuk

Long carrier lifetimes and diffusion lengths form the basis for the successful application of the organic-inorganic perovskite (CH$_3$NH$_3$)PbI$_3$ in solar cells and lasers. The mechanism behind the long carrier lifetimes is still not completely understood. Spin-split bands and a resulting indirect band gap have been proposed by theory. Using near band-gap

Guillem Collell, Teddy Zhang, Marie-Francine Moens

Integrating visual and linguistic information into a single multimodal representation is an unsolved problem with wide-reaching applications to both natural language processing and computer vision. In this paper, we present a simple method to build multimodal representations by learning a language-to-vision mapping and using its output to build multimodal em

Rachel M. Holladay, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

We pioneer a new future in robotic dust collection by introducing passive dust-collecting robots that, unlike their predecessors, do not require locomotion to collect dust. While previous research has exclusively focused on active dust-collecting robots, we show that these robots fail with respect to practical and theoretical aspects, as well as human factor

Adel Alahmadi, Hamed Alsulami, S. K. Jain, Efim Zelmanov

We prove that a countable dimensional associative algebra (resp. a countable semigroup) of locally subexponential growth is $M_\infty$-embeddable as a left ideal in a finitely generated algebra (resp. semigroup) of subexponential growth. Moreover, we provide bounds for the growth of the finitely generated algebra (resp. semigroup). The proof is based on a ne

Thibault Sellam, Martin Kersten

The query log of a DBMS is a powerful resource. It enables many practical applications, including query optimization and user experience enhancement. And yet, mining SQL queries is a difficult task. The fundamental problem is that queries are symbolic objects, not vectors of numbers. Therefore, many popular statistical concepts, such as means, regression, or

Paul Ritter, Stefan Zammert, Bruno Eckhardt, Marc Avila

Turbulent spots surrounded by laminar flow are a landmark of transitional shear flows, but the dependence of their kinematic properties on spatial structure is poorly understood. We here investigate this dependence in pipe flow for Reynolds numbers between 1500 and 5000. We compute spatially localized relative periodic orbits in long pipes and show that thei

Jun Yin, Amilcare Porporato

By reflecting solar radiation and reducing longwave emissions, clouds regulate the earth&#39;s radiation budget, impacting atmospheric circulation and cloud dynamics. Given the diurnal fluctuation of shortwave and longwave radiation, a shift in the cloud cycle phase (CCP) may lead to substantial feedbacks to the climate system. While most efforts have focuse

Gejza Jenča

There is a forgetful functor from the category of generalized effect algebras to the category of effect algebras. We prove that this functor is a right adjoint and that the corresponding left adjoint is the well-known unitization construction by Hedlíková and Pulmannová. Moreover, this adjunction is monadic.

Matt M Coles

Light endowed with orbital angular momentum, commonly termed optical vortex light, has an azimuthal phase indexed by the orbital quantum number $l$. In contrast to the two basis states of the optical spin angular momentum, the interest in the information content of optical vortex beams is centred on the assumption that $\lvert{l}\rangle{}$ forms a countably

Tommy Nilsson

The application of mobile computing is currently altering patterns of our behavior to a greater degree than perhaps any other invention. In combination with the introduction of BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and similar technologies enabling context-awareness, designers are today finding themselves empowered to build experiences and facilitate interactions with

Bert L. Hartnell, Douglas F. Rall, Kirsti Wash

In 1970, Plummer defined a well-covered graph to be a graph $G$ in which all maximal independent sets are in fact maximum. Later Hartnell and Rall showed that if the Cartesian product $G \Box H$ is well-covered, then at least one of $G$ or $H$ is well-covered. In this paper, we consider the problem of classifying all well-covered Cartesian products. In parti

Vladimir Vovk, Glenn Shafer

Without probability theory, we define classes of supermartingales, martingales, and semimartingales in idealized financial markets with continuous price paths. This allows us to establish probability-free versions of a number of standard results in martingale theory, including the Dubins-Schwarz theorem, the Girsanov theorem, and results concerning the Itô i

Jan Pruess, Mathias Wilke

The abstract theory of critical spaces developed in [22] and [20] is applied to the Navier-Stokes equations in bounded domains with Navier boundary conditions as well as no-slip conditions. Our approach unifies, simplifies and extends existing work in the $L_p$-$L_q$ setting, considerably. As an essential step, it is shown that the strong and weak Stokes ope

Matthew D. Goodson, Fabian Heitsch, Karl Eklund, Virginia A. Williams

Turbulence models attempt to account for unresolved dynamics and diffusion in hydrodynamical simulations. We develop a common framework for two-equation Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models, and we implement six models in the Athena code. We verify each implementation with the standard subsonic mixing layer, although the level of agreemen

Daniel Heinlein, Sascha Kurz

It is shown that the maximum size $A_2(8,6;4)$ of a binary subspace code of packet length $v=8$, minimum subspace distance $d=4$, and constant dimension $k=4$ is at most $272$. In Finite Geometry terms, the maximum number of solids in $\operatorname{PG}(7,2)$, mutually intersecting in at most a point, is at most $272$. Previously, the best known upper bound

Kyung Jin Park, Ji-Hyeok Huh, Dae-Woong Jung, Jin-Sung Park

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) nanomanipulation has been viewed as a deterministic method for the assembly of plasmonic metamolecules because it enables unprecedented engineering of clusters with exquisite control over particle number and geometry. Nevertheless, the dimensionality of plasmonic metamolecules via AFM nanomanipulation is limited to 2D, so as to

B. I. Verkin, B. B. Banduryan, A. S. Barylnik, A. G. Batrak

The structure and physical properties of superconducting compounds Y(La)-Ba(Sr)-Cu-O are studied, the compounds being prepared by the method of cryogenic dispersion of a charge consisting of premix oxides and carbonates. Electrical conductivity and critical current density of the superconductors are measured over a wide temperature range of 10~$mK$ to 300~$K

Katja Gabrysch

The greedy walk is a walk on a point process that always moves from its current position to the nearest not yet visited point. We consider here various point processes on two lines. We look first at the greedy walk on two independent one-dimensional Poisson processes placed on two intersecting lines and prove that the greedy walk almost surely does not visit

Sebastian Gehrmann, Franck Dernoncourt, Yeran Li, Eric T. Carlson

Objective: We investigate whether deep learning techniques for natural language processing (NLP) can be used efficiently for patient phenotyping. Patient phenotyping is a classification task for determining whether a patient has a medical condition, and is a crucial part of secondary analysis of healthcare data. We assess the performance of deep learning alg

Leran Cai, Thomas Sauerwald

Iterative load balancing algorithms for indivisible tokens have been studied intensively in the past. Complementing previous worst-case analyses, we study an average-case scenario where the load inputs are drawn from a fixed probability distribution. For cycles, tori, hypercubes and expanders, we obtain almost matching upper and lower bounds on the discrepan

Claudia Borg, Albert Gatt

Maltese is a morphologically rich language with a hybrid morphological system which features both concatenative and non-concatenative processes. This paper analyses the impact of this hybridity on the performance of machine learning techniques for morphological labelling and clustering. In particular, we analyse a dataset of morphologically related word clus

Tomomi Ishikawa, Yan-Qing Ma, Jian-Wei Qiu, Shinsuke Yoshida

In recent years, the quasi parton distribution has been introduced for extracting the parton distribution functions from lattice QCD simulations. The quasi and standard distribution share the same perturbative collinear singularity and the renormalized quasi distribution can be factorized into the standard distribution with a perturbative matching factor. Th

Amir Ghaderi, Srujana Gattupalli, Dylan Ebert, Ali Sharifara

HTKS is a game-like cognitive assessment method, designed for children between four and eight years of age. During the HTKS assessment, a child responds to a sequence of requests, such as &#34;touch your head&#34; or &#34;touch your toes&#34;. The cognitive challenge stems from the fact that the children are instructed to interpret these requests not literal

Cyrus Omar, Ian Voysey, Michael Hilton, Joshua Sunshine

Programming language definitions assign formal meaning to complete programs. Programmers, however, spend a substantial amount of time interacting with incomplete programs -- programs with holes, type inconsistencies and binding inconsistencies -- using tools like program editors and live programming environments (which interleave editing and evaluation). Sem

Seyed Mojtaba Rezaei Sani, Omid Khakpour

Conventional magnetism occurs in systems which contain transition metals or rare earth ions with partially filled $d$ or $f$ shells. It is theoretically predicted that compounds of groups IA and IIA with IV and V, in some structural phases, are ferromagnetic half-metals which made them new candidates for spintronics applications. Employing density functional

F. Govoni, M. Murgia, V. Vacca, F. Loi

We study the intra-cluster magnetic field in the poor galaxy cluster Abell 194 by complementing radio data, at different frequencies, with data in the optical and X-ray bands. We analyze new total intensity and polarization observations of Abell 194 obtained with the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). We use the SRT data in combination with archival Very Large

Dong Wang, Ai-Jun Huang, Ross D. Hoehn, Fei Ming

The uncertainty relation is a fundamental limit in quantum mechanics and is of great importance to quantum information processing as it relates to quantum precision measurement. Due to interactions with the surrounding environment, a quantum system will unavoidably suffer from decoherence. Here, we investigate the dynamic behaviors of the entropic uncertaint

J. Borges, J. Rifà, V. A. Zinoviev

This work is a survey on completely regular codes. Known properties, relations with other combinatorial structures and constructions are stated. The existence problem is also discussed and known results for some particular cases are established. In particular, we present a few new results on completely regular codes with covering radius 2 and on extended com

Hongwei Xi

The framework Pure Type System (PTS) offers a simple and general approach to designing and formalizing type systems. However, in the presence of dependent types, there often exist certain acute problems that make it difficult for PTS to directly accommodate many common realistic programming features such as general recursion, recursive types, effects (e.g.,

J. Miao, X. H. Niu, D. F. Xu, Q. Yao

Here we report the electronic structure of FeS, a recently identified iron-based superconductor. Our high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies show two hole-like ($α$ and $β$) and two electron-like ($η$ and $δ$) Fermi pockets around the Brillouin zone center and corner, respectively, all of which exhibit moderate dispersion along $k_z

Jitendra Kumar

The measurements of open heavy-flavours, i.e. D mesons at central rapidity and leptons from charm and beauty decays at central and forward rapidity was studied in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV using the ALICE detector. The results are presented and compared to model predictions including cold nuclear matter effects.

Guan-Yu Chen, Xiyu Zhu, Huan Yang, Hai-Hu Wen

Specific heat has been measured in FeSe single crystals down to 0.414 K under magnetic fields up to 16 T. A sharp specific heat anomaly at about 8.2 K is observed and is related to the superconducting transition. Another jump of specific heat is observed at about 1.08 K which may either reflect an antiferromagnetic transition of the system or a superconducti

Manuel Rizzo, Francesco Battaglia

When a Genetic Algorithm (GA), or a stochastic algorithm in general, is employed in a statistical problem, the obtained result is affected by both variability due to sampling, that refers to the fact that only a sample is observed, and variability due to the stochastic elements of the algorithm. This topic can be easily set in a framework of statistical and

Debasish Borah, Soumya Sadhukhan, Shibananda Sahoo

We study an extension of the Inert Higgs Doublet Model (IHDM) by three copies of right handed neutrinos and heavy charged leptons such that both the inert Higgs doublet and the heavy fermions are odd under the $Z_2$ symmetry of the model. The neutrino masses are generated at one loop in the scotogenic fashion. Assuming the neutral scalar of the inert Higgs t

Eldad Bettelheim

In quantum mechanics it is often required to describe in a semiclassical approximation the motion of particles moving within a given energy band. Such a representation leads to the appearance of an analogues of fictitious forces in the semiclassical equations of motion associated with the Berry curvature. The purpose of this paper is to derive systematically

S. A. Seyed Fakhari

We give a negative answer to a question proposed in [3], regarding the $h$-vector of ($S_r$) simplicial complexes.

Mauro M. Doria, Rodrigo C. V. Coelho

We propose a general method to construct symmetric tensor polynomials in the D-dimensional Euclidean space which are orthonormal under a general weight. The D-dimensional Hermite polynomials are a particular case of the present ones for the case of a gaussian weight. Hence we obtain generalizations of the Legendre and of the Chebyshev polynomials in D dimens

Dong Wen, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang

Cohesive subgraph detection is an important graph problem that is widely applied in many application domains, such as social community detection, network visualization, and network topology analysis. Most of existing cohesive subgraph metrics can guarantee good structural properties but may cause the free-rider effect. Here, by free-rider effect, we mean tha

Dintomon Joy, Supin P Surendran, Sabir M

We propose two deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) protocols employing three-qubit GHZ-like states and five-qubit Brown states as quantum channels for secure transmission of information in units of two bits and three bits using multipartite teleportation schemes developed here. In these schemes, the sender&#39;s capability in selecting quantum

Nathalie Groß, Dumitru Arian, Ulrich Warttinger, Roland Krämer

Dextran sulfate is semi-synthetic, polydisperse sulfated polysaccharide with important applications in clinical practice, in the manufacturing of plasma derived protein therapeutics and in biomedical research. The sensitive detection of dextran sulfate is relevant to preclinical and clinical drug development projects, the quality control of pharmaceutic form

Christian Dirscherl, Christoph M. Hackl, Korbinian Schechner

This chapter provides an introduction to the modeling and control of power generation from wind turbine systems. In modeling, the focus is on the electrical components: electrical machine (e.g. permanent-magnet synchronous generators), back-to-back converter (consisting of machine-side and grid-side converter sharing a common DC-link), mains filters and idea

Ryosuke Matsuzaki, Haruka Soma, Kanae Fukuoka, Takashi Uchino

Since the seminal observation of room-temperature laser emission from ZnO thin films and nanowires, numerous attempts have been carried out for detailed understanding of the lasing mechanism in ZnO. In spite of the extensive efforts performed over the last decades, the origin of optical gain at room temperature is still a matter of considerable discussion,.

A. D. Alhaidari

Within the recent reformulation of quantum mechanics where a potential function is not required, we show how to reconstruct the potential so that a correspondence with the standard formulation could be established. However, severe restriction is placed by the correspondence on the kinematics of such problems.

David B. A. Epstein, Mike Paterson

This paper attacks the following problem. We are given a large number $N$ of rectangles in the plane, each with horizontal and vertical sides, and also a number $r<N$. The given list of $N$ rectangles may contain duplicates. The problem is to find $r$ of these rectangles, such that, if they are discarded, then the intersection of the remaining $(N-r)$ rectan

Chuili Kong, Amine Mezghani, Caijun Zhong, A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper considers a multipair amplify-and-forward massive MIMO relaying system with one-bit ADCs and one-bit DACs at the relay. The channel state information is estimated via pilot training, and then utilized by the relay to perform simple maximum-ratio combining/maximum-ratio transmission processing. Leveraging on the Bussgang decomposition, an exact ach

Huixia Luo, Judyta Strychalska-Nowak, Jun Li, Jing Tao

2H-NbSe2 is the prototype and most frequently studied of the well-known transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) superconductors. Widely acknowledged to be a conventional superconductor, its transition temperature to the superconducting state (Tc) is 7.3 K - a Tc that is substantially higher than those seen for the majority of TMDCs, where Tcs between 2 and 4

B. J. Carr

There appears to be a duality between elementary particles, which span the mass range below the Planck scale, and black holes, which span the mass range range above it. In particular, the Black Hole Uncertainty Principle Correspondence posits a smooth transition between the Compton and Schwarzschild scales as a function of mass. This suggests that all black

Jie-Xiong Mo, Gu-Qiang Li, Xiao-Bao Xu

We investigate the ratios of critical physical quantities related to the $T-S$ criticality of charged AdS black holes. It is shown that the ratio $\frac{T_cS_c}{Q_c}$ is universal while $\frac{T_cr_c}{Q_c}$ is not. This finding is quite interesting considering the former observation that both the $T-S$ graph and $T-r_+$ graph exhibit reverse van der Waals be

Rongquan Feng, He Huang, Sanming Zhou

A perfect code in a graph $Γ= (V, E)$ is a subset $C$ of $V$ that is an independent set such that every vertex in $V \setminus C$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $C$. A total perfect code in $Γ$ is a subset $C$ of $V$ such that every vertex of $V$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $C$. A perfect code in the Hamming graph $H(n, q)$ agrees with a $q$-a

Hongwei Lou, Jiongmin Yong

An optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic equation of divergence form is considered. Both the leading term and the semilinear term of the state equation contain the control. The well-known Pontryagin type maximum principle for the optimal controls is the first-order necessary condition. When such a first-order necessary condition is singular in so

Daniel Carrera, Melvyn B. Davies, Anders Johansen

The distribution of exoplanet masses is not primordial. After the initial stage of planet formation is complete, the gravitational interactions between planets can lead to the physical collision of two planets, or the ejection of one or more planets from the system. When this occurs, the remaining planets are typically left in more eccentric orbits. Here we

Yohan Jo

I started this work with the hope of generating a text synthesizer (like a musical synthesizer) that can imitate certain linguistic styles. Most of the report focuses on text simplification using statistical machine translation (SMT) techniques. I applied MOSES to a parallel corpus of the Bible (King James Version and Easy-to-Read Version) and that of Wikipe

Shengyan Liu, Tongcang Li, Zhang-qi Yin

An optically levitated nonspherical nanoparticle can exhibit both librational and translational vibrations due to orientational and translational confinements of the optical tweezer, respectively. Usually, the frequency of its librational mode in a linearly-polarized optical tweezer is much larger than the frequency of its translational mode. Because of the

Masamichi J. Miyama, Koji Hukushima

A sparse modeling approach is proposed for analyzing scanning tunneling microscopy topography data, which contains numerous peaks corresponding to surface atoms. The method, based on the relevance vector machine with $\mathrm{L}_1$ regularization and $k$-means clustering, enables separation of the peaks and atomic center positioning with accuracy beyond the

Kyo Nishiyama, Takuya Ohta

We studied an enhanced adjoint action of the general linear group on a product of its Lie algebra and a vector space consisting of several copies of defining representations and its duals. We determined regular semisimple orbits (i.e., closed orbits of maximal dimension) and the structure of enhanced null cone, including its irreducible components and their

F. M. G. Magpantay, A. R. Humphries

We present generalised Lyapunov-Razumikhin techniques for establishing global asymptotic stability of steady-state solutions of scalar delay differential equations. When global asymptotic stability cannot be established, the technique can be used to derive bounds on the persistent dynamics. The method is applicable to constant and variable delay problems, an

Yiling Chen, Bo Waggoner

We propose definitions of substitutes and complements for pieces of information (&#34;signals&#34;) in the context of a decision or optimization problem, with game-theoretic and algorithmic applications. In a game-theoretic context, substitutes capture diminishing marginal value of information to a rational decision maker. We use the definitions to address t

Ruxue Wang, Yong Wang, Douguo Zhang, Guangyuan Si

In this letter, we demonstrate a novel diffraction-free Bloch surface wave (DF-BSW) sustained on all-dielectric multilayers that does not diffract after being passed through three obstacles or across a single mode fiber. It can propagate in a straight line for distances longer than 110 μm at a wavelength of 633 nm and could be applied as an in-plane optical

Pedro Hecht

In this paper, we present a simple bare-bones solution of a Zero-Knowledge authentication protocol which uses non-commutative algebra and a variation of the generalized symmetric decomposition problem (GSDP) as a one-way function. The cryptographic security is assured as long the GSDP problem is computationally hard to solve in non-commutative algebraic stru

D. Russell Luke, Nguyen H. Thao, Matthew K. Tam

We develop a framework for quantitative convergence analysis of Picard iterations of expansive set-valued fixed point mappings. There are two key components of the analysis. The first is a natural generalization of single-valued averaged mappings to expansive, set-valued mappings that characterizes a type of strong calmness of the fixed point mapping. The se

Valerie Domcke, Martin Spinrath

The cosmic neutrino background is a key prediction of Big Bang cosmology which has not been observed yet. The movement of the earth through this neutrino bath creates a force on a pendulum, as if it was exposed to a cosmic wind. We revise here estimates for the resulting pendulum acceleration and compare it to the theoretical sensitivity of an experimental s

Stavros Tsogkas, Sven Dickinson

We introduce Appearance-MAT (AMAT), a generalization of the medial axis transform for natural images, that is framed as a weighted geometric set cover problem. We make the following contributions: i) we extend previous medial point detection methods for color images, by associating each medial point with a local scale; ii) inspired by the invertibility prope

Mukul Agarwal

It will be proved that computing the capacity of a Markoff channel with noiseless feedback is PSPACE-hard.

Ming Yi, Yan Zhang, Zhi-Xun Shen, Donghui Lu

Almost a decade has passed since the serendipitous discovery of the iron-based high temperature superconductors (FeSCs) in 2008. The question of how much similarity the FeSCs have with the copper oxide high temperature superconductors emerged since the initial discovery of long-range antiferromagnetism in the FeSCs in proximity to superconductivity. Despite

Maryclare Griffin, Peter D. Hoff

Consider the problem of estimating the entries of an unknown mean matrix or tensor given a single noisy realization. In the matrix case, this problem can be addressed by decomposing the mean matrix into a component that is additive in the rows and columns, i.e.\ the additive ANOVA decomposition of the mean matrix, plus a matrix of elementwise effects, and as

Mokhtar Z. Alaya, Simon Bussy, Stéphane Gaïffas, Agathe Guilloux

This paper deals with the problem of large-scale linear supervised learning in settings where a large number of continuous features are available. We propose to combine the well-known trick of one-hot encoding of continuous features with a new penalization called \emph{binarsity}. In each group of binary features coming from the one-hot encoding of a single

William Slofstra

We construct a linear system non-local game which can be played perfectly using a limit of finite-dimensional quantum strategies, but which cannot be played perfectly on any finite-dimensional Hilbert space, or even with any tensor-product strategy. In particular, this shows that the set of (tensor-product) quantum correlations is not closed. The constructed

Christopher D Marcotte, Roman O Grigoriev

While spiral wave breakup has been implicated in the emergence of atrial fibrillation, its role in maintaining this complex type of cardiac arrhythmia is less clear. We used the Karma model of cardiac excitation to investigate the dynamical mechanisms that sustain atrial fibrillation once it has been established. The results of our numerical study show that

Charles Schaff, David Yunis, Ayan Chakrabarti, Matthew R. Walter

The ability of robots to estimate their location is crucial for a wide variety of autonomous operations. In settings where GPS is unavailable, measurements of transmissions from fixed beacons provide an effective means of estimating a robot&#39;s location as it navigates. The accuracy of such a beacon-based localization system depends both on how beacons are

Yongbing Zhang

It was proved by Graham and Witten in 1999 that conformal invariants of submanifolds can be obtained via volume renormalization of minimal surfaces in conformally compact Einstein manifolds. The conformal invariant of a submanifold $Σ$ is contained in the volume expansion of the minimal surface which is asymptotic to $Σ$ when the minimal surface approaches t

Shuchi Chawla, Kira Goldner, J. Benjamin Miller, Emmanouil Pountourakis

Most work in mechanism design assumes that buyers are risk neutral; some considers risk aversion arising due to a non-linear utility for money. Yet behavioral studies have established that real agents exhibit risk attitudes which cannot be captured by any expected utility model. We initiate the study of revenue-optimal mechanisms under buyer behavioral model

Eliana Barriga

We study definably compact definably connected groups definable in a sufficiently saturated real closed field $R$. We introduce the notion of group-generic point for $\bigvee$-definable groups and show the existence of group-generic points for definably compact groups definable in a sufficiently saturated o-minimal expansion of a real closed field. We use th

Gennadiy Bagdasarov, Pavel Sasorov, Alexey Boldarev, Olga Olkhovskaya

Plasma properties inside a hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide were modeled with dissipative magnetohydrodynamic simulations to enable analysis of capillaries of circular and square cross-sections implying that square capillaries can be used to guide circularly-symmetric laser beams. When the quasistationary stage of the discharge is reached, the p

Cihang Xie, Jianyu Wang, Zhishuai Zhang, Yuyin Zhou

It has been well demonstrated that adversarial examples, i.e., natural images with visually imperceptible perturbations added, generally exist for deep networks to fail on image classification. In this paper, we extend adversarial examples to semantic segmentation and object detection which are much more difficult. Our observation is that both segmentation a

Iaroslav V. Blagouchine, Marc-Antoine Coppo

In this paper new series for the first and second Stieltjes constants (also known as generalized Euler&#39;s constant), as well as for some closely related constants are obtained. These series contain rational terms only and involve the so-called Gregory coefficients, which are also known as (reciprocal) logarithmic numbers, Cauchy numbers of the first kind

Yu Lei, Srimanta Pakhira, Kazunori Fujisawa, Xuyang Wang

Large-area ($\sim$cm$^2$) films of vertical heterostructures formed by alternating graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenide(TMD) alloys are obtained by wet chemical routes followed by a thermal treatment at low temperature (300 $^\circ$C). In particular, we synthesized stacked graphene and W$_x$Mo$_{1-x}$S$_2$ alloy phases that were used as hydrogen evol

Franc Forstneric

In this paper we prove that every Stein manifold $S$ admits a proper holomorphic immersion into any Stein manifold $X$ of dimension $2\mathrm{dim}S$ enjoying the density property or the volume density property. The case $\mathrm{dim}S=1$ was proved beforehand by Andrist and Wold (Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble), 64(2):681-697, 2014). This result generalizes th

Roberto Camacho Barranco, Arnold P. Boedihardjo, M. Shahriar Hossain

There is an overwhelming number of news articles published every day around the globe. Following the evolution of a news-story is a difficult task given that there is no such mechanism available to track back in time to study the diffusion of the relevant events in digital news feeds. The techniques developed so far to extract meaningful information from a m

Alessandro Baroni, Alessio Conte, Maurizio Patrignani, Salvatore Ruggieri

Attributed graphs model real networks by enriching their nodes with attributes accounting for properties. Several techniques have been proposed for partitioning these graphs into clusters that are homogeneous with respect to both semantic attributes and to the structure of the graph. However, time and space complexities of state of the art algorithms limit t

Zixuan Hu, Gregory S. Engel, Sabre Kais

The efficiency of solar energy harvesting systems is largely determined by their ability to transfer excitations from the antenna to the energy trapping center before recombination. Dark state protection, achieved by coherent coupling between subunits in the antenna structure, can significantly reduce radiative recombination and enhance the efficiency of ene

Julian Adamek, Jacob Brandbyge, Christian Fidler, Steen Hannestad

Newtonian N-body simulations have been employed successfully over the past decades for the simulation of the cosmological large-scale structure. Such simulations usually ignore radiation perturbations (photons and massless neutrinos) and the impact of general relativity (GR) beyond the background expansion. This approximation can be relaxed and we discuss th

Lukas Eugen Marsoner Steinkasserer, Vincent Pohl, Beate Paulus

Graphene pseudohalides are natural candidates for use in molecular sensing due to their greater chemical activity as compared to both graphene halides and pristine graphene. Though their study is still in its infancy, being hindered until recently by the unavailability of both selective and efficient procedures for their synthesis, they promise to considerab

Ron J. Weiss, Jan Chorowski, Navdeep Jaitly, Yonghui Wu

We present a recurrent encoder-decoder deep neural network architecture that directly translates speech in one language into text in another. The model does not explicitly transcribe the speech into text in the source language, nor does it require supervision from the ground truth source language transcription during training. We apply a slightly modified se