March 2017 arXiv papers — page 6

Mehdi Ganji, Hamid Jafarkhani

There has been extensive research on large scale multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems recently. Researchers have shown that there are great opportunities in this area, however, there are many obstacles in the way to achieve full potential of using large number of receive antennas. One of the main issues, which will be investigated thor

D. M. Ghilencea, Hyun Min Lee

We investigate the ultraviolet (UV) behaviour of 6D N=1 supersymmetric effective (Abelian) gauge theories compactified on a two-torus ($T_2$) with magnetic flux. To this purpose we compute offshell the one-loop correction to the Wilson line state self-energy. The offshell calculation is actually necessary to capture the usual effective field theory expansion

Samuel P. Nolan, Stuart S. Szigeti, Simon A. Haine

Useful quantum metrology requires nonclassical states with a high particle number and (close to) the optimal exploitation of the state's quantum correlations. Unfortunately, the single-particle detection resolution demanded by conventional protocols, such as spin squeezing via one-axis twisting, places severe limits on the particle number. Additionally,

Praveen P D'Souza, Antony Prakash Monteiro, K. B. Vijaya Kumar

We investigate the spectrum and decay rates of low lying charmonium states within the framework of the non relativistic quark model by employing a Coulomb like potential from the perturbative one gluon exchange and the linear confining potential along with the potential derived from instanton vacuum to account for the hyperfine mass splitting of charmonium s

Tomokazu Kashio

Let $F$ be a totally real field. For each ideal class $c$ of $F$ and each real embedding $ι$ of $F$, Hiroyuki Yoshida defined an invariant $X(c,ι)$ as a finite sum of log of Barnes' multiple gamma functions with some correction terms. Then the derivative value of the partial zeta function $ζ(s,c)$ has a canonical decomposition $ζ'(0,c)=\sum_ιX(c,ι)$,

Soumendu Ghosh, Shubhadeep Patra, Debashish Chowdhury

Transcription of the genetic message encoded chemically in the sequence of the DNA template is carried out by a molecular machine called RNA polymerase (RNAP). Backward or forward slippage of the nascent RNA with respect to the DNA template strand give rise to a transcript that is, respectively, longer or shorter than the corresponding template. We model a R

Alex Westström, Teemu Ojanen

Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials supporting emergent relativistic fermions in the vicinity of band-crossing points known as Weyl nodes. The positions of the nodes and the low-energy spectrum depend sensitively on the time-reversal (TR) and inversion (I) symmetry breaking in the system. We introduce the concept of Weyl metamaterials where the

Kai Ma, Ya-Jie Ren, Ya-Hui Wang

We study the physical properties of the persistent charged current in a metal ring on a noncommutative phase space, and temperature dependence of the noncommutative corrections are also analyzed. We find that the coordinate noncommutativity only affects the total magnitude of the current, and it is difficult to observe it. In contrast, the momentum noncommut

Giuseppe Calajò, Lucia Rizzuto, Roberto Passante

We consider the spontaneous emission of a two-level quantum emitter, such as an atom or a quantum dot, in a modulated time-dependent environment with a photonic band gap. An example of such an environment is a dynamical photonic crystal or any other environment with a bandgap whose properties are modulated in time, in the effective mass approximation. After

John Asher Johnson, Erik A. Petigura, Benjamin J. Fulton, Geoffrey W. Marcy

We present stellar and planetary properties for 1305 Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) hosting 2025 planet candidates observed as part of the California-Kepler Survey. We combine spectroscopic constraints, presented in Paper I, with stellar interior modeling to estimate stellar masses, radii, and ages. Stellar radii are typically constrained to 11%, compared

Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, John Asher Johnson

The California-Kepler Survey (CKS) is an observational program to improve our knowledge of the properties of stars found to host transiting planets by NASA's Kepler Mission. The improvement stems from new high-resolution optical spectra obtained using HIRES at the W. M. Keck Observatory. The CKS stellar sample comprises 1305 stars classified as Kepler Ob

Rens W. van der Heijden, Ala'a Al-Momani, Frank Kargl, Osama M. F. Abu-Sharkh

The integrity of messages in vehicular ad-hoc networks has been extensively studied by the research community, resulting in the IEEE~1609.2 standard, which provides typical integrity guarantees. However, the correctness of message contents is still one of the main challenges of applying dependable and secure vehicular ad-hoc networks. One important use case

Imam Makhfudz

We propose in this work an effective field theory description of the chiral spin liquid state in Heisenberg spin system on kagomé lattice.To this end, we derive the low-energy effective theory of kagomé (isotropic) Heisenberg antiferromagnet around its ordered ground states found numerically and show that quantum fluctuations induced by further neighbor spin

Hisayuki Tsukuma, Tatsuya Kubokawa

This paper deals with the problem of estimating predictive densities of a matrix-variate normal distribution with known covariance matrix. Our main aim is to establish some Bayesian predictive densities related to matricial shrinkage estimators of the normal mean matrix. The Kullback-Leibler loss is used for evaluating decision-theoretical optimality of pred

S. Rathna Kumar

In this work, we propose refinements to the difference-smoothing algorithm for measurement of time delay from the light curves of the images of a gravitationally lensed quasar. The refinements mainly consist of a more pragmatic approach to choose the smoothing time-scale free parameter, generation of more realistic synthetic light curves for estimation of ti

Beatriz Elizaga Navascués, Mercedes Martín-Benito, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

This work pioneers the quantization of primordial fermion perturbations in hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). We consider a Dirac field coupled to a spatially flat, homogeneous, and isotropic cosmology, sourced by a scalar inflaton, and treat the Dirac field as a perturbation. We describe the inhomogeneities of this field in terms of creation and annihilat

N. Kivel, M. Vanderhaeghen

We present a discussion of radiative decays $χ_{cJ}\rightarrowγρ(ω, ϕ)$. The decay amplitudes are computed within the QCD factorisation framework. NRQCD has been used in the heavy meson sector as well as a collinear expansion in order to describe the overlap with light mesons in the final state. The colour-singlet contributions to all helicity amplitudes hav

Flavien Breuvart, Giulio Manzonetto, Domenico Ruoppolo

We study the relational graph models that constitute a natural subclass of relational models of lambda-calculus. We prove that among the lambda-theories induced by such models there exists a minimal one, and that the corresponding relational graph model is very natural and easy to construct. We then study relational graph models that are fully abstract, in t

Ke Chen, Xin Lu, Kang Zuo

In this paper we study various aspects of the Ekedahl-Serre problem. We formulate questions of Ekedahl-Serre type and Coleman-Oort type for general weakly special subvarieties in the Siegel moduli space, propose a conjecture relating these two questions, and provide examples supporting these questions. The main new result is an upper bound of genera for curv

Philip Boalch

The theory of Hitchin systems is something like a "global theory of Lie groups", where one works over a Riemann surface rather than just at a point. We'll describe how one can take this analogy a few steps further by attempting to make precise the class of rich geometric objects that appear in this story (including the non-compact case), and disc

Benjamin J. Fulton, Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson

The size of a planet is an observable property directly connected to the physics of its formation and evolution. We used precise radius measurements from the California-Kepler Survey (CKS) to study the size distribution of 2025 $\textit{Kepler}$ planets in fine detail. We detect a factor of $\geq$2 deficit in the occurrence rate distribution at 1.5-2.0 R$_{\

Andrea Soltoggio, Kenneth O. Stanley, Sebastian Risi

Biological plastic neural networks are systems of extraordinary computational capabilities shaped by evolution, development, and lifetime learning. The interplay of these elements leads to the emergence of adaptive behavior and intelligence. Inspired by such intricate natural phenomena, Evolved Plastic Artificial Neural Networks (EPANNs) use simulated evolut

Subham Sarkar

In this paper we construct certain higher Chow cycles in the $K_{1}$ of the Jacobian of Fermat curves, generalising a construction of Collino. We further compute the regulator of these elements in terms of special values of hypergeometric functions. Otsubo has computed the regulator of certain elements of $K_0$ and $K_2$ of Fermat varieties and this paper is

Nikos Irges, Fotis Koutroulis

We perform an old school, one-loop renormalization of the Abelian-Higgs model in the Unitary and $R_ξ$ gauges, focused on the scalar potential and the gauge boson mass. Our goal is to demonstrate in this simple context the validity of the Unitary gauge at the quantum level, which could open the way for an until now (mostly) avoided framework for loop computa

Thomas Kalmes, Alois Pichler

We introduce Banach spaces of vector-valued random variables motivated from mathematical finance. So-called risk functionals are defined in a natural way on these Banach spaces and it is shown that these functionals are Lipschitz continuous. The risk functionals cannot be defined on strictly larger spaces of random variables which creates a particular intere

Jen-Cheng Hou, Syu-Siang Wang, Ying-Hui Lai, Yu Tsao

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual deep CNNs (AVDCNN) SE model, which incorpo

M. C. Camara, G. L. Cardoso, T. Mohaupt, S. Nampuri

We construct rotating extremal black hole and attractor solutions in gravity theories by solving a Riemann-Hilbert problem associated with the Breitenlohner-Maison linear system. By employing a vectorial Riemann-Hilbert factorization method we explicitly factorize the corresponding monodromy matrices, which have second order poles in the spectral parameter.

Daniel W. Heck, Antony M. Overstall, Quentin F. Gronau, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

Bayesian analysis often concerns an evaluation of models with different dimensionality as is necessary in, for example, model selection or mixture models. To facilitate this evaluation, transdimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) relies on sampling a discrete indexing variable to estimate the posterior model probabilities. However, little attention has

Masanori Asakura

We discuss Beilinson's regulator on K_2 of certain fibrations of algebraic varieties which we call the hypergeomtric fibrations. The main result is to describe regulators via the hypergeometric functions 3F2 or 4F3. We also discuss the Beilinson conjecture on the special values of L-functions.

Fanzhi Chen, Michael Herrmann

We prove the existence of solitary waves in the KdV limit of two-dimensional FPU-type lattices using asymptotic analysis of nonlinear and singularly perturbed integral equations. In particular, we generalize the existing results by Friesecke and Matthies since we allow for arbitrary propagation directions and non-unidirectional wave profiles.

Lior Fritz, David Burshtein

A simplified speech recognition system that uses the maximum mutual information (MMI) criterion is considered. End-to-end training using gradient descent is suggested, similarly to the training of connectionist temporal classification (CTC). We use an MMI criterion with a simple language model in the training stage, and a standard HMM decoder. Our method com

X. Y. Gao, C. P. Shen, C. Z. Yuan

The vector charmoniumlike state $Y(4220)$ was reported recently in the cross sections of $e^+e^-\to ωχ_{c0}$, $π^+π^-h_c$, $π^+π^- J/ψ$, and $D^0 D^{*-}π^+ + c.c.$ measured by the BESIII experiment. A combined fit is performed to the cross sections of these four final states to extract the resonant parameters of the $Y(4220)$. We determine a mass $M=(4219.6\

Thomas A. Hulse, Chan Ieong Kuan, David Lowry-Duda, Alexander Walker

The generalized Gauss circle problem concerns the lattice point discrepancy of large spheres. We study the Dirichlet series associated to $P_k(n)^2$, where $P_k(n)$ is the discrepancy between the volume of the $k$-dimensional sphere of radius $\sqrt{n}$ and the number of integer lattice points contained in that sphere. We prove asymptotics with improved powe

Besnik Fetahu, Katja Markert, Wolfgang Nejdl, Avishek Anand

An important editing policy in Wikipedia is to provide citations for added statements in Wikipedia pages, where statements can be arbitrary pieces of text, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph. In many cases citations are either outdated or missing altogether. In this work we address the problem of finding and updating news citations for statements in enti

Zhichao Li, Yi Yang, Xiao Liu, Feng Zhou

We propose a dynamic computational time model to accelerate the average processing time for recurrent visual attention (RAM). Rather than attention with a fixed number of steps for each input image, the model learns to decide when to stop on the fly. To achieve this, we add an additional continue/stop action per time step to RAM and use reinforcement learnin

Debayan Das, Shovan Maity, Saad Bin Nasir, Santosh Ghosh

With the advancement of technology in the last few decades, leading to the widespread availability of miniaturized sensors and internet-connected things (IoT), security of electronic devices has become a top priority. Side-channel attack (SCA) is one of the prominent methods to break the security of an encryption system by exploiting the information leaked f

Yodai Watanabe

Randomness extraction against side information is the art of distilling from a given source a key which is almost uniform conditioned on the side information. This paper provides randomness extraction against quantum side information whose extractable key length is given by a quantum generalization of the collision entropy, which is smoothed and conditioned

Min Hoon Kim, David Krcatovich, JungHwan Park

We give infinitely many $2$-component links with unknotted components which are topologically concordant to the Hopf link, but not smoothly concordant to any $2$-component link with trivial Alexander polynomial. Our examples are pairwise non-concordant.

Dinh-Thi Nguyen

We study minimizers of the pseudo-relativistic Hartree functional $$\mathcal{E}_{a}(u):=\|(-Δ+m^{2})^{1/4}u\|_{L^{2}}^{2}-\frac{a}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}(\left|\cdot\right|^{-1}\star |u|^{2})(x)|u(x)|^{2}{\rm d}x+\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}V(x)|u(x)|^{2}{\rm d}x$$ under the mass constraint $\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|u(x)|^2{\rm d}x=1$. Here $m>0$ is the mass of particl

S. S. Agaev, K. Azizi, H. Sundu

Investigation of the resonances $X(4140)$ and $X(4274)$, which were recently confirmed by the LHCb Collaboration [1], is carried out by treating them as the color triplet and sextet $[cs][\bar{c}\bar {s}]$ diquark-antidiquark states with the spin-parity $J^{P}=1^{+}$, respectively. We calculate the masses and meson-current couplings of these tetraquarks in t

Rohit Chhiber, Prachanda Subedi, Arcadi V. Usmanov, William H. Matthaeus

We use a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the solar wind to calculate cosmic ray diffusion coefficients throughout the inner heliosphere ($2~R_\odot - 3$ AU). The simulation resolves large-scale solar wind flow, which is coupled to small-scale fluctuations through a turbulence model. Simulation results specify background solar wind fields

Sung-Han Lin, Ranjan Pal, Marco Paolieri, Leana Golubchik

Small-scale clouds (SCs) often suffer from resource under-provisioning during peak demand, leading to inability to satisfy service level agreements (SLAs) and consequent loss of customers. One approach to address this problem is for a set of autonomous SCs to share resources among themselves in a cost-induced cooperative fashion, thereby increasing their ind

Denghui Zhang, Manling Li, Yantao Jia, Yuanzhuo Wang

Knowledge graph embedding aims to embed entities and relations of knowledge graphs into low-dimensional vector spaces. Translating embedding methods regard relations as the translation from head entities to tail entities, which achieve the state-of-the-art results among knowledge graph embedding methods. However, a major limitation of these methods is the ti

Guillermo Capobianco, Walter Reartes

In this paper we study the quantum evolution in a flat Riemannian manifold. The holomorphic functions are defined on the cotangent bundle of this manifold. We construct Hilbert spaces of holomorphic functions in which the scalar product is defined using the exponential map. The quantum evolution is proposed by means of an infinitesimal propagator and the hol

Seonghoon Woo, Kyung Mee Song, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions are swirling magnetic textures with novel characteristics suitable for future spintronic and topological applications. Recent studies confirmed the room-temperature stabilization of skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnets. However, such ferromagnetic skyrmions show undesirable topological effect, the skyrmion Hall effect, which leads to their

Takashi Okada, Atsushi Mochizuki

In living cells, biochemical reactions are catalyzed by specific enzymes and connect to one another by sharing substrates and products, forming complex networks. In our previous studies, we established a framework determining the responses to enzyme perturbations only from network topology, and then proved a theorem, called the law of localization, explainin

Shuang Gao, He Zhao, Hang Yang, Ran Gao

The fraction of binary stars (fb) is one of most valuable tool to probe the star formation and evolution of multiple systems in the Galaxy. We focus on the relationship between fb and stellar metallicity ([Fe/H]) by employing the differential radial velocity (DRV) method and the large sample observed by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Tel

Chao Song, Kai Xu, Wuxin Liu, Chuiping Yang

Here we report on the production and tomography of genuinely entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states with up to 10 qubits connecting to a bus resonator in a superconducting circuit, where the resonator-mediated qubit-qubit interactions are used to controllably entangle multiple qubits and to operate on different pairs of qubits in parallel. The resultin

Longxiang Liu, Hongwei Wang, Yugang Ma, Xiguang Cao

In order to measure the total cross section for thermal neutrons, a photoneutron source (PNS, phase 1) has been developed for the acquisition of nuclear data for the Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR) at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP). PNS is an electron LINAC pulsed neutron facility that uses the time-of-flight (TOF) technique. It records

David Yan, M. C. Pugh, F. P. Dawson

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations with generalized Frumkin-Butler-Volmer boundary conditions (PNP-FBV) describe ion transport with Faradaic reactions, and have applications in a number of fields. In this article, we develop an adaptive time-stepping scheme for the solution of the PNP-FBV equations based on two time-stepping methods: a fully implicit (BDF2)

Lachlan Tychsen-Smith, Lars Petersson

We define the object detection from imagery problem as estimating a very large but extremely sparse bounding box dependent probability distribution. Subsequently we identify a sparse distribution estimation scheme, Directed Sparse Sampling, and employ it in a single end-to-end CNN based detection model. This methodology extends and formalizes previous state-

Fabio Cinti, Massimo Boninsegni

We study by quantum Monte Carlo simulations the ground state of a harmonically confined dipolar Bose gas with aligned dipole moments, and with the inclusion of a repulsive two-body potential of varying range. Two different limits can be clearly identified, namely a classical one in which the attractive part of the dipolar interaction dominates and the system

Dharm Veer Singh, Naveen K. Singh

In this paper, we discuss the possibility of the anti-evaporation of degenerate Bardeen de-Sitter black hole. We solve the perturbation equations around the Nariai space-time. The solution of one of the perturbations related to the horizon size demonstrates that horizon of such black hole is constant. The other perturbation is also found to be stable. We fur

Marcela Peláez, Urko Reinosa, Julien Serreau, Matthieu Tissier

We study the long-distance properties of quantum chromodynamics in an expansion in powers of the three-gluon, four-gluon, and ghost-gluon couplings, but without expanding in the quark-gluon coupling. This is motivated by two observations. First, the gauge sector is well-described by perturbation theory in the context of a phenomenological model with a massiv

Arpita Varadwaj, Pradeep R. Varadwaj, Koichi Yamashita

The esoteric importance of intermolecular hydrogen bonding interaction to design novel methylammonium trihalide organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cell materials is uncovered, establishing the unified structure-property relationship between the calculated Y...H intermolecular hydrogen bonding distance and the experimentally reported onset of optical a

SungWon Kwak, Woong-Tae Kim, Soo-Chang Rey, Suk Kim

A fraction of early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster have a disk component and even possess disk features such as bar, lens, and spiral arms. In this study, we construct 15 galaxy models that resemble VCC856, considered to be an infalling progenitor of disk dwarf galaxies, within observational error ranges, and use $N$-body simulations to study their

Mark O. Riedl, Brent Harrison

Autonomous systems that operate around humans will likely always rely on kill switches that stop their execution and allow them to be remote-controlled for the safety of humans or to prevent damage to the system. It is theoretically possible for an autonomous system with sufficient sensor and effector capability that learn online using reinforcement learning

Ruslan Brilenkov, Maxim Eingorn

In the $Λ$CDM framework, presenting nonrelativistic matter inhomogeneities as discrete massive particles, we develop the second-order cosmological perturbation theory. Our approach relies on the weak gravitational field limit. The derived equations for the second-order scalar, vector and tensor metric corrections are suitable at arbitrary distances including

Kenny C. Y. Ng, John F. Beacom, Annika H. G. Peter, Carsten Rott

As is well known, dark matter direct detection experiments will ultimately be limited by a "neutrino floor," due to the scattering of nuclei by MeV neutrinos from, e.g., nuclear fusion in the Sun. Here we point out the existence of a new "neutrino floor" that will similarly limit indirect detection with the Sun, due to high-energy neutrinos f

Ward Struyve

Loop quantum gravity is believed to eliminate singularities such as the big bang and big crunch singularity. This belief is based on studies of so-called loop quantum cosmology which concerns symmetry-reduced models of quantum gravity. In this paper, the problem of singularities is analysed in the context of the Bohmian formulation of loop quantum cosmology.

Vahid Moosavi

In this paper, we show how using publicly available data streams and machine learning algorithms one can develop practical data driven services with no input from domain experts as a form of prior knowledge. We report the initial steps toward development of a real estate portal in Switzerland. Based on continuous web crawling of publicly available real estat

Jeffrey C. Jackson

General acceptance of a mathematical proposition $P$ as a theorem requires convincing evidence that a proof of $P$ exists. But what constitutes "convincing evidence?" I will argue that, given the types of evidence that are currently accepted as convincing, it is inconsistent to deny similar acceptance to the evidence provided for the existence of pro

D. Petrascheck, R. Folk

Helmholtz decomposition theorem for vector fields is usually presented with too strong restrictions on the fields and only for time independent fields. Blumenthal showed in 1905 that decomposition is possible for any asymptotically weakly decreasing vector field. He used a regularization method in his proof which can be extended to prove the theorem even for

Antonio Ambrosio, Luis A. Jauregui, Siyan Dai, Kundan Chaudhary

Mid-infrared nano-imaging and spectroscopy of two-dimensional (2D) materials have been limited so far to scattering-type Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (s-NSOM) experiments where light from the sample is scattered by a metallic-coated Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) tip interacting with the material at the nanoscale. These experiments have recently all

Evgeny G. Fateev

The possibility in principle is shown for the existence of Casimir electromotive force (EMF) in a configuration with parallel nanosized metal plates which are shifted relative one another. The effect is theoretically demonstrated for a configuration with two plates (wings) of finite length, the particular case of which is classical Casimir configuration with

E. B. Tchawou Tchuisseu, D. Gomila, D. Brunner, P. Colet

Power grid frequency control is a demanding task requiring expensive idle power plants to adapt the supply to the fluctuating demand. An alternative approach is controlling the demand side in such a way that certain appliances modify their operation to adapt to the power availability. This is specially important to achieve a high penetration of renewable ene

Russell Sandstrom, Li Ke, Aiden Martin, Ziyu Wang

Optical properties of color centers in diamond have been the subject of intense research due to their promising applications in quantum photonics. In this work we study the optical properties of Xe related color centers implanted into nitrogen rich (type IIA) and an ultrapure, electronic grade diamond. The Xe defect has two zero phonon lines at ~ 794 and 811

Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner

The Farr-Bertillon law states that the mortality rate of single and widowed persons is about three times the rate of married people of same age. This excess mortality can be measured with good accuracy for all ages except for young widowers. The reason is that, at least nowadays, very few people become widowed under the age of 30. Here we show that disabilit

Yann Brenier, Xianglong Duan

Optimal transport theory has been a powerful tool for the analysis of parabolic equationsviewed as gradient flows of volume forms according to suitable transportation metrics.In this paper, we present an example of gradient flows for closed (d-1)-forms in theEuclidean space R^d. In spite of its apparent complexity, the resulting verydegenerate parabolic syst

Markus Fierz, Guglielmo Pasa

In the free case, it is possible to define quantum fields which describe particles with integer or half-integer spin larger than one. It is shown that particles with integer spin must have Bose statistic and particles with half-integer-spin must follow Fermi-Dirac statistic. In the free case, the fields with spin smaller or equal to one are already well defi

Denny Vitasari, Simon Cox

We describe the extension of a "viscous froth" model to the dynamics of a wet foam in a Hele-Shaw cell. The two-dimensional model includes the friction experienced by the soap films as they are dragged along the cell walls, while retaining accurate geometrical information. To explore the consequences of changing the liquid content in this situation,

Matej Hudak, Ondrej Hudak

The problem of effective shear and bulk moduli, of an effective Poison's ratio and of an effective dielectric response in microcomposites of the ferroelastic-dielectric type was studied by us recently. Recently one of us, M. Hudak, studied static mechanical properties of the EVA material theoretically and experimentally. We extend our mentioned study of

Farzali Izadi, Mehdi Baghalaghdam

We show how sums of some $5th$ powers can be written as sums of some cubics

A. S. Trotter, D. E. Reichart, R. E. Egger, J. Stýblová

Based on five years of observations with the 40-foot telescope at Green Bank Observatory (GBO), Reichart & Stephens (2000) found that the radio source Cassiopeia A had either faded more slowly between the mid-1970s and late 1990s than Baars et al. (1977) had found it to be fading between the late 1940s and mid-1970s, or that it had rebrightened and then resu

Donghyun Kim, Matthias Hernandez, Jongmoo Choi, Gerard Medioni

We propose a novel 3D face recognition algorithm using a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) and a 3D augmentation technique. The performance of 2D face recognition algorithms has significantly increased by leveraging the representational power of deep neural networks and the use of large-scale labeled training data. As opposed to 2D face recognition, t

Jiancheng Zhuang

This paper describes an approach of using dynamic Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis to estimate the connectivity networks from resting-state fMRI data measured by a multiband EPI sequence. Two structural equation models were estimated at each voxel with respect to the sensory-motor network and default-mode network. The resulting connectivity maps i

Yangyu Kuang, Huazhong Tang

The paper proposes a second-order accurate direct Eulerian generalized Riemann problem (GRP) scheme for the radiation hydrodynamical equations (RHE) in the zero diffusion limit. The difficulty comes from no explicit expression of the flux in terms of the conservative vector. The characteristic fields and the relations between the left and right states across

Simon Bance, Florian Bittner, Thomas G. Woodcock, Ludwig Schultz

We quantify and explain the effects of both anti-phase boundaries and twin defects in as-transformed $τ$-MnAl by carrying out micromagnetic simulations based closely on the results of microstructural characterization. We demonstrate that magnetic domain walls nucleate readily at anti-phase boundaries and are strongly pinned by them, due to anti-ferromagnetic

Longjie Zhang

In this paper, we consider the mean curvature flow with driving force on fixed extreme points in the plane. We give a general local existence and uniqueness result of this problem with $C^2$ initial curve. For a special family of initial curves, we classify the solutions into three categories. Moreover, in each category, the asymptotic behavior is given.

L. Hao, R. Yan, J. Li, W. D. Liu

We developed a new nonlinear fluid laser-plasma-instability code (FLAME) using a multi-fluid plasma model combined with full electromagnetic wave equations. The completed one-dimensional (1D) version of FLAME was used to study laser-plasma instabilities in shock ignition. The simulations results showed that absolute SRS modes growing near the quarter-critica

Longjie Zhang

We consider a family of axisymmetric curves evolving by its mean curvature with driving force in the half space. We impose a boundary condition that the curves are perpendicular to the boundary for $t>0$, however, the initial curve intersects the boundary tangentially. In other words, the initial curve is oriented singularly. We investigate this problem by l

Luís F Seoane, Jorge Mira

Recent contributions address the problem of language coexistence as that of two species competing to aggregate speakers, thus focusing on the dynamics of linguistic traits across populations. They draw inspiration from physics and biology and share some underlying ideas -- e. g. the search for minimal schemes to explain complex situations or the notion that

Matti Lassas, Gunther Uhlmann, Yiran Wang

We study inverse problems for the Einstein-Maxwell equations. We prove that it is possible to generate gravitational waves from the nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic waves. By sending electromagnetic waves from a neighborhood of a freely falling observer and taking measurements of the gravitational perturbations in the same neighborhood, one can dete

Tiwei Zhao, Marco A. Pérez

In this paper, we introduce the notions of ${\rm FP}_n$-injective and ${\rm FP}_n$-flat complexes in terms of complexes of type ${\rm FP}_n$. We show that some characterizations analogous to that of injective, FP-injective and flat complexes exist for ${\rm FP}_n$-injective and ${\rm FP}_n$-flat complexes. We also introduce and study ${\rm FP}_n$-injective a

S. Ya. Yanchenko

We establish the exact-order estimates of the best approximations of the functions from anisotropic Nikol'skii-Besov classes of several variables by entire functions in the Lebesgue spaces.

Damian Ruck, R. Alexander Bentley, Alberto Acerbi, Philip Garnett

Here we test Neutral models against the evolution of English word frequency and vocabulary at the population scale, as recorded in annual word frequencies from three centuries of English language books. Against these data, we test both static and dynamic predictions of two neutral models, including the relation between corpus size and vocabulary size, freque

Chung Duc Ho, Hien Quoc Ngo, Michail Matthaiou, Trung Q. Duong

This paper considers a decode-and-forward (DF) multi-way massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay system where many users exchange their data with the aid of a relay station equipped with a massive antenna array. We propose a new transmission protocol which leverages successive cancelation decoding and zero-forcing (ZF) at the users. By using prop

Sonja Hohloch

We generalize Cohen & Jones & Segal's flow category whose objects are the critical points of a Morse function and whose morphisms are the Morse moduli spaces between the critical points to an n-category. The n-category construction involves repeatedly doing Morse theory on Morse moduli spaces for which we have to construct a class of suitable Morse funct

Adam C. S. Davis

In these proceedings, we explore the possible reach of the LHCb dataset in the area of charm semileptonic decays. Specifically, we give prospects for the measurement of $|V_{cs}|/|V_{cd}|$ using $\mathcal{B}(D^0\to K^-μ^+ν_μ)/\mathcal{B}(D^0\toπ^-μ^+ν_μ)$ with Run I data. Preliminary projections show that the LHCb Run I dataset would give a relative statisti

Quentin Kral, Luca Matra, Mark Wyatt, Grant Kennedy

This paper uses observations of dusty debris discs, including a growing number of gas detections in these systems, to test our understanding of the origin and evolution of this gaseous component. It is assumed that all debris discs with icy planetesimals create second generation CO, C and O gas at some level, and the aim of this paper is to predict that leve

Hasan M. Jamil

Increasingly, keyword, natural language and NoSQL queries are being used for information retrieval from traditional as well as non-traditional databases such as web, document, image, GIS, legal, and health databases. While their popularity are undeniable for obvious reasons, their engineering is far from simple. In most part, semantics and intent preserving

E. A. Moravec, F. Hamann, D. M. Capellupo, S. M. McGraw

Quasar outflows have been posited as a mechanism to couple super-massive black holes to evolution in their host galaxies. We use multi-epoch spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories to study the outflows in seven quasars that have CIV outflow lines ranging from a classic BAL to weaker/narrower "mini-BALs" across rest wav

Artem Borin, Eugene Sukhorukov

The Fermi edge singularity (FES) is a prominent manifestation of the Coulomb interaction. It can be observed in a controllable way by studying the transport through a quantum dot (QD), which is electrostatically coupled to the leads. In this paper we study how FES affects higher order tunneling processes (cotunneling). To address this problem we use the boso

Saeed Alaei, Pooya Jalaly, Eva Tardos

Market equilibria of matching markets offer an intuitive and fair solution for matching problems without money with agents who have preferences over the items. Such a matching market can be viewed as a variation of Fisher market, albeit with rather peculiar preferences of agents. These preferences can be described by piece-wise linear concave (PLC) functions

W. R. Webber, T. L. Villa

The cosmic ray electrons measured by Voyager 1 between 3-70 MeV beyond the heliopause have intensities several hundred times those measured at the Earth by PAMELA at nearly the same energies. This paper compares this new V1 data with data from the earth-orbiting PAMELA experiment up to energies greater than 10 GeV where solar modulation effects are negligibl

Kieran C. R. Fox

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has begun to narrow down the neural correlates of self-generated forms of thought, with current evidence pointing toward central roles for the default, frontoparietal, and visual networks. Recent work has linked the arising of thoughts more specifically to default network activity, but the limited temporal resolut

Pooya Jalaly, Eva Tardos

We study the problem of a budget limited buyer who wants to buy a set of items, each from a different seller, to maximize her value. The budget feasible mechanism design problem aims to design a mechanism which incentivizes the sellers to truthfully report their cost, and maximizes the buyer's value while guaranteeing that the total payment does not exce

James T. Liu, Pranav V. Rao

We introduce a perturbation $h_{μν}$ onto a background Lifshitz spacetime and examine some of its consequences. In particular, we consider a radially localized perturbation and compute the resulting holographic Green's function to linearized order. At leading order, the Lifshitz Green's function demonstrates suppression of spectral weight at low freq

Pooya Jalaly, Denis Nekipelov, Eva Tardos

In this paper, we study behavior of bidders in an experimental launch of a new advertising auction platform by Zillow, as Zillow switched from negotiated contracts to using auctions in several geographically isolated markets. A unique feature of this experiment is that the bidders in this market are real estate agents that bid on their own behalf, not using

Sonja Hohloch

In an earlier work, we constructed the almost strict Morse $n$-category $\mathcal X$ which extends Cohen $\&$ Jones $\&$ Segal's flow category. In this article, we define two other almost strict $n$-categories $\mathcal V$ and $\mathcal W$ where $\mathcal V$ is based on homomorphisms between real vector spaces and $\mathcal W$ consists of tuples of posit