April 2017 arXiv papers — page 6

D. Frolov, H. Pfeffer, G. Saewert

Using recently available GaN FETs, a 600 Volt three-stage, multi-FET switch has been developed having 2 nanosecond rise time driving a 200 Ohm load with the potential of approaching 30 MHz average switching rates. Possible applications include driving particle beam choppers kicking bunch-by-bunch and beam deflectors where the rise time needs to be custom tai

Jacob Walker, Kenneth Marino, Abhinav Gupta, Martial Hebert

Current approaches in video forecasting attempt to generate videos directly in pixel space using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). However, since these approaches try to model all the structure and scene dynamics at once, in unconstrained settings they often generate uninterpretable results. Our insight is to model th

A. Bulgac, S. Jin, P. Magierski, K. Roche

Two major recent developments in theory and computational resources created the favorable conditions for achieving a microscopic description of nuclear fission almost eighty years after its discovery in 1939 by Hahn and Strassmann (1930). The first major development was in theory, the extension of the Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) to super

B. Wojtsekhowski, V. S. Morozov, Y. S. Derbenev

Current searches for a dark photon in the mass range below 1 GeV require an electron-positron collider with a luminosity at the level of at least $10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. The challenge is that, at such low energies, the collider luminosity rapidly drops off due to increase in the beam sizes, strong mutual focusing of the colliding beams, and enhancement

Sarah I Sadavoy, Steven W. Stahler

We explore the relationship between young, embedded binaries and their parent cores, using observations within the Perseus Molecular Cloud. We combine recently published VLA observations of young stars with core properties obtained from SCUBA-2 observations at 850 um. Most embedded binary systems are found toward the centres of their parent cores, although s

Kevin McGoff, Ronnie Pavlov

For any $d \geq 1$, random $\mathbb{Z}^d$ shifts of finite type (SFTs) were defined in previous work of the authors. For a parameter $α\in [0,1]$, an alphabet $\mathcal{A}$, and a scale $n \in \mathbb{N}$, one obtains a distribution of random $\mathbb{Z}^d$ SFTs by randomly and independently forbidding each pattern of shape $\{1,\dots,n\}^d$ with probability

Giovanni Lo Faro, Antoinette Tripodi

A solution to the existence problem of G-designs with given subdesigns is known when G is a triangle with p=0,1, or 2 disjoint pendent edges: for p=0, it is due to Doyen and Wilson, the first to pose such a problem for Steiner triple systems; for p=1 and p=2, the corresponding designs are kite systems and bull designs, respectively. Here, a complete solution

A. Rettura, R. Chary, J. Krick, S. Ettori

We study the mass-richness relation of 116 spectroscopically-confirmed massive clusters at $0.4 < z < 2$ by mining the $Spitzer$ archive. We homogeneously measure the richness at 4.5$μ$m for our cluster sample within a fixed aperture of $2^{\prime}$ radius and above a fixed brightness threshold, making appropriate corrections for both background galaxies and

Grzegorz Szamel

We propose a simple theory for the dynamics of model glass-forming fluids, which should be solvable using a mean-field-like approach. The theory is based on transparent physical assumptions, which can be tested in computer simulations. The theory predicts an ergodicity-breaking transition that is identical to the so-called dynamic transition predicted within

Wojciech Brzezicki, Andrzej M. Oleś, Mario Cuoco

We investigate the effect of periodic and disordered distributions of pairing centers in a one-dimensional itinerant system to obtain the microscopic conditions required to achieve an end Majorana mode and the topological phase diagram. Remarkably, the topological invariant can be generally expressed in terms of the physical parameters for any pairing center

Sara Bahaadini, Neda Rohani, Scott Coughlin, Michael Zevin

Non-cosmic, non-Gaussian disturbances known as &#34;glitches&#34;, show up in gravitational-wave data of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or aLIGO. In this paper, we propose a deep multi-view convolutional neural network to classify glitches automatically. The primary purpose of classifying glitches is to understand their cha

Sara Venkatesh

We define a quantitative invariant of Liouville cobordisms with monotone filling through an action-completed symplectic cohomology theory. We illustrate the non-trivial nature of this invariant by computing it for annulus subbundles of the tautological bundle over $\mathbb{C} P^1$ and give further conjectural computations based on mirror symmetry. We prove a

Katherine Copenhagen, Gema Malet-Engra, Weimiao Yu, Giorgio Scita

Collective motion of cells is common in many physiological processes, including tissue development, repair, and tumor formation. Recent experiments have shown that certain malignant cancer cells form clusters in a chemoattractant gradient, which display three different phases of motion: translational, rotational, and random. Intriguingly, all three phases ar

Federico Meloni

This paper presents a novel method for the reconstruction of interaction vertices in particle collision data. The algorithm is an agglomerative clustering technique designed for high-luminosity environments in current and future proton-proton colliders. Studies are presented in benchmark scenarios reproducing the LHC data-taking conditions and showing the pe

Gennady Lyubeznik

We show that N. Switala&#39;s Matlis duality for $\mathcal D$-modules yields a generalization of a result of R. Hartshorne and C. Polini.

Johnny Guzman, Ridgway Scott

We prove that the Scott-Vogelius finite elements are inf-sup stable on shape-regular meshes for piecewise quartic velocity fields and higher ($k \ge 4$).

Darko Hric, Kimmo Kaski, Mikko Kivelä

In this study we map out the large-scale structure of citation networks of science journals and follow their evolution in time by using stochastic block models (SBMs). The SBM fitting procedures are principled methods that can be used to find hierarchical grouping of journals into blocks that show similar incoming and outgoing citations patterns. These metho

Damiano Caprioli

We suggest that ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) may be accelerated in ultra-relativistic flows via a one-shot mechanism, the &#34;espresso&#34; acceleration, in which already-energetic particles are generally boosted by a factor of $\simΓ^2$ in energy, where $Γ$ is the flow Lorentz factor. More precisely, we consider blazar-like jets with $Γ\gtrsim

Thomas Hambye, Daniele Teresi

We compute in the density-matrix formalism the baryon asymmetry generated by the decay of the Higgs doublet into a right-handed (RH) neutrino and a Standard Model lepton. The emphasis is put on the baryon asymmetry produced by the total lepton-number violating decay. From the derivation of the corresponding evolution equations, and from their integration, we

Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Enrique Perez, Francisco Prada, Sergio Rodriguez-Torres

We analyze the spectra of 300,000 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) with stellar masses $M_* \gtrsim 10^{11} M_{\odot}$ from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). By studying their star-formation histories, we find two main evolutionary paths converging into the same quiescent galaxy population at $z\sim0.55$. Fast-growing LRGs assemble $80

Chao-Ming Jian, Zhen Bi, Cenke Xu

We ask whether a local Hamiltonian with a featureless (fully gapped and nondegenerate) ground state could exist in certain quantum spin systems. We address this question by mapping the vicinity of certain quantum critical point (or gapless phase) of the $d-$dimensional spin system under study to the boundary of a $(d+1)-$dimensional bulk state, and the latti

S. A. Walker, J. Hlavacek-Larrondo, M. Gendron-Marsolais, A. C. Fabian

Deep observations of nearby galaxy clusters with Chandra have revealed concave &#39;bay&#39; structures in a number of systems (Perseus, Centaurus and Abell 1795), which have similar X-ray and radio properties. These bays have all the properties of cold fronts, where the temperature rises and density falls sharply, but are concave rather than convex. By comp

Sandor J. Kruk, Chris J. Lintott, Brooke D. Simmons, Steven P. Bamford

We use multi-wavelength SDSS images and Galaxy Zoo morphologies to identify a sample of $\sim$$270$ late-type galaxies with an off-centre bar. We measure offsets in the range 0.2-2.5 kpc between the photometric centres of the stellar disc and stellar bar. The measured offsets correlate with global asymmetries of the galaxies, with those with largest offsets

Daniel Russo, David Tse, Benjamin Van Roy

The literature on bandit learning and regret analysis has focused on contexts where the goal is to converge on an optimal action in a manner that limits exploration costs. One shortcoming imposed by this orientation is that it does not treat time preference in a coherent manner. Time preference plays an important role when the optimal action is costly to lea

Juan Edi, Andrés Viso, Eduardo Bonelli

A type system combining type application, constants as types, union types (associative, commutative and idempotent) and recursive types has recently been proposed for statically typing path polymorphism, the ability to define functions that can operate uniformly over recursively specified applicative data structures. A typical pattern such functions resort t

C. Thomas, O. Crauste, B. Haas, P. H. Jouneau

We demonstrate evidences of electronic transport via topological Dirac surface states in a thin film of strained HgTe. At high perpendicular magnetic fields, we show that the electron transport reaches the quantum Hall regime with vanishing resistance. Furthermore, quantum Hall transport spectroscopy reveals energy splittings of relativistic Landau levels sp

Hongxin Yang, Gong Chen, Alexandre A. C. Cotta, Alpha T. N&#39;Diaye

The possibility of utilizing the rich spin-dependent properties of graphene has attracted great attention in pursuit of spintronics advances. The promise of high-speed and low-energy consumption devices motivates a search for layered structures that stabilize chiral spin textures such as topologically protected skyrmions. Here we demonstrate that chiral spin

Xin Liu, Mahesan Niranjan

We address the problem of parameter estimation in models of systems biology from noisy observations. The models we consider are characterized by simultaneous deterministic nonlinear differential equations whose parameters are either taken from in vitro experiments, or are hand-tuned during the model development process to reproduces observations from the sys

Maik Neukirch, Xavier Garcia, Savitri Galiana

The introduction of the Phase Tensor marked a major breakthrough in the understanding, analysis and treatment of galvanic distortion of the electric field in the Magnetotelluric (MT) method. We build upon a recently formulated impedance tensor decomposition into the known Phase Tensor and an Amplitude Tensor that is shown to be complementary and algebraicall

Xu Chen

In this article, we will discuss a localization formulas of equivariant cohomology about two Killing vector fields on the set of zero points ${\rm{Zero}}(X_{M}-\sqrt{-1}Y_{M})=\{x\in M \mid |Y_{M}(x)|=|X_{M}(x)|=0 \}.$ As application, we use it to get formulas about characteristic numbers and to get a Duistermaat-Heckman type formula on symplectic manifold.

Admir Greljo, David Marzocca

We investigate the impact of flavour-conserving, non-universal quark-lepton contact interactions on the dilepton invariant mass distribution in $p~p \to \ell^+ \ell^-$ processes at the LHC. After recasting the recent ATLAS search performed at 13 TeV with 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ of data, we derive the best up-to-date limits on the full set of 36 relevant four-fermion

Michael Jarret, Brad Lackey

In this paper we introduce and formalize Substochastic Monte Carlo (SSMC) algorithms. These algorithms, originally intended to be a better classical foil to quantum annealing than simulated annealing, prove to be worthy optimization algorithms in their own right. In SSMC, a population of walkers is initialized according to a known distribution on an arbitrar

Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith, Jared Tanner, Florian Wechsung

In previous work two of the authors have shown that a vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ with at most $k < n$ nonzeros can be recovered from an expander sketch $Ax$ in $\mathcal{O}(\mathrm{nnz}(A)\log k)$ operations via the Parallel-$\ell_0$ decoding algorithm, where $\mathrm{nnz}(A)$ denotes the number of nonzero entries in $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$. In this

A. Gatti, T. Corti, E. Brambilla

This work analyses the quantum properties of counter-propagating twin beams generated by a Mirrorless Optical Parametric Oscillator in the continuous variable regime. Despite the lack of the filtering effect of a cavity, we show that in the vicinity of its threshold it may generate high levels of narrowband squeezing and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correla

Maciej Skorski

The weak law of large numbers implies that, under mild assumptions on the source, the Renyi entropy per produced symbol converges (in probability) towards the Shannon entropy rate. This paper quantifies the speed of this convergence for sources with independent (but not iid) outputs, generalizing and improving the result of Holenstein and Renner (IEEE Trans.

Jihye Shin, Sungsoo S. Kim, Junichi Baba, Takayuki R. Saitoh

We present hydrodynamic simulations of gas clouds inflowing from the disk to a few hundred parsec region of the Milky Way. A gravitational potential is generated to include realistic Galactic structures by using thousands of multipole expansions that describe 6.4 million stellar particles of a self-consistent Galaxy simulation. We find that a hybrid multipol

M. Lopez-Corredoira, C. M. Gutierrez, R. T. Genova-Santos

The interaction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with the hot gas in clusters of galaxies, the so-called Sunyaev--Zel&#39;dovich (SZ) effect, is a very useful tool that allows us to determine the physical conditions in such clusters and fundamental parameters of the cosmological models. In this work, we determine the dependence of the the SZ surface

Adam J. Hey, Michael A. Heroux

Agile Development is used for many problems, often with different priorities and challenges. However, generalized engineering methodologies often overlook the particularities of a project. To solve this problem, we have looked at ways engineers have modified development methodologies for a particular focus, and created a generalized framework for leveraging

Hélène Fleurbaey, François Biraben, Lucile Julien, Jean-Philippe Karr

We calculate the cross-damping frequency shift of a laser-induced two-photon transition monitored through decay fluorescence, by adapting the analogy with Raman scattering developed by Amaro et al. [P. Amaro et al., PRA 92, 022514 (2015)]. We apply this method to estimate the frequency shift of the 1S-3S transition in hydrogen and deuterium. Taking into acco

Ogbeide Imahe

This is an intuitive introduction to classic sliding mode control that shows how the associated assumptions and condition for its use arise in the context of a derivation of the method. It derives a controller that obviates the need for the assumption of any sign for the control input vector, answers why it is said that it deals only with matched disturbance

W. A. Khan, K. S. Nisar, M. Ahmed

This paper deals with a Euler type integral operator involving k-Mittag-Leffler function defined by Gupta and Parihar [8]. Furthermore, some special cases are also taken into consideration.

Waseem Ahmad Khan, K S Nisar

The main object of this article is to present an interesting double integral involving generalized Bessel-Maitland function defined by Ghaysuddin et al., which is expressed in terms of generalized (Wright) hypergeometric function. We also considered some special cases as an application of the main result.

Alisha M. Humphries, Tao Wang, Eric R. J. Edwards, Shane R. Allen

The spin-orbit interaction enables interconversion between a charge current and a spin current. It is usually believed that in a nonmagnetic metal (NM) or at a NM/ferromagnetic metal (FM) bilayer interface, the symmetry of spin-orbit effects (SOE) requires that the spin current, charge current and spin orientation are all orthogonal to each other. Here we sh

Russell Bradford, James H. Davenport, Matthew England, Hassan Errami

We consider the problem of determining multiple steady states for positive real values in models of biological networks. Investigating the potential for these in models of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) network has consumed considerable effort using special insights into the structure of corresponding models. Here we apply combinations of symbo

Ambra Demontis, Marco Melis, Battista Biggio, Davide Maiorca

To cope with the increasing variability and sophistication of modern attacks, machine learning has been widely adopted as a statistically-sound tool for malware detection. However, its security against well-crafted attacks has not only been recently questioned, but it has been shown that machine learning exhibits inherent vulnerabilities that can be exploite

Kristian Chung, Jeff Greensite

In Coulomb gauge a longitudinal electric field is generated instantaneously with the creation of a static quark-antiquark pair. The field due to the quarks is a sum of two contributions, one from the quark and one from the antiquark, and there is no obvious reason that this sum should fall off exponentially with distance from the sources. We show here, howev

Jian-Jun Shu, Kian-Yan Yong

The correct prediction of protein secondary structures is one of the key issues in predicting the correct protein folded shape, which is used for determining gene function. Existing methods make use of amino acids properties as indices to classify protein secondary structures, but are faced with a significant number of misclassifications. The paper presents

Jinsun Park, Yu-Wing Tai, Donghyeon Cho, In So Kweon

In this paper, we introduce robust and synergetic hand-crafted features and a simple but efficient deep feature from a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for defocus estimation. This paper systematically analyzes the effectiveness of different features, and shows how each feature can compensate for the weaknesses of other features when they are

Erwan Le Merrer, Gilles Trédan

Recommendation plays a key role in e-commerce and in the entertainment industry. We propose to consider successive recommendations to users under the form of graphs of recommendations. We give models for this representation. Motivated by the growing interest for algorithmic transparency, we then propose a first application for those graphs, that is the poten

Mark Scanlon, Xiaoyu Du, David Lillis

Education and training in digital forensics requires a variety of suitable challenge corpora containing realistic features including regular wear-and-tear, background noise, and the actual digital traces to be discovered during investigation. Typically, the creation of these challenges requires overly arduous effort on the part of the educator to ensure thei

J. A. Celis Gil, S. Gomez P., William J. Herrera

We analyze the non-local shot noise in a multi-terminal junction formed by two Normal metal leads con- nected to one superconductor. Using the cross Fano factor and the shot noise, we calculate the efficiency of the Cooper pair splitting. The method is applied to d-wave and iron based superconductors. We de- termine that the contributions to the noise cross-

Francesco Panelli, Carolin Pomrehn

We study the cohomogeneity of possibly reducible representations of copolarity 1 and 2, generalizing results obtained by Claudio Gorodski, Carlos Olmos, Ruy Tojeiro and by Claudio Gorodski, Alexander Lytchak.

H. Bercovici, D. Timotin

Given a contraction A on a Hilbert space H, an operator T on H is said to be A-invariant if <Tx,x>=<TAx,Ax> for every x in H such that ||Ax||=||x||. In the special case in which both defect indices of A are equal to 1, we show that every A-invariant operator is the compression to H of an unbounded linear transformation that commutes with the minimal unitary

Francesco Mulargia

A number of earth&#39;s tremor spectral peaks show a persistent narrow bandwidth incompatible with any geophysical or instrumental origin. These peaks, located at frequencies lower than a few mHz, are in principle consistent with the earth strain waves induced by monochromatic gravitational waves. Exploring this hypothesis under the current cosmological cons

Stephan Welte, Bastian Hacker, Severin Daiss, Stephan Ritter

We demonstrate entanglement generation of two neutral atoms trapped inside an optical cavity. Entanglement is created from initially separable two-atom states through carving with weak photon pulses reflected from the cavity. A polarization rotation of the photons heralds the entanglement. We show the successful implementation of two different protocols and

Tilmann Gneiting

In classification problems, the mode of the conditional probability distribution, i.e., the most probable category, is the Bayes classifier under zero-one or misclassification loss. Under any other cost structure, the mode fails to persist.

Kailong Yang, Lifeng Zhao

In this article, we consider the infinite dimensional vector-valued resonant nonlinear Schrödinger system, which arises from the study of the asymptotic behavior of the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation on &#34;wave guide&#34; manifolds like $\mathbb{R}^2\times \mathbb{T}$ in [7]. We show global well-posedness and scattering for this system by long t

Quentin André, Adrian J. Barker, Stéphane Mathis

Layered semi-convection is a possible candidate to explain Saturn&#39;s luminosity excess and the abnormally large radius of some hot Jupiters. In giant planet interiors, it could lead to the creation of density staircases, which are convective layers separated by thin stably stratified interfaces. We study the propagation of internal waves in a region of la

Abhishek Dhar, Anupam Kundu, Satya N. Majumdar, Sanjib Sabhapandit

We consider a one-dimensional classical Coulomb gas of $N$ like-charges in a harmonic potential -- also known as the one-dimensional one-component plasma (1dOCP). We compute analytically the probability distribution of the position $x_{\max}$ of the rightmost charge in the limit of large $N$. We show that the typical fluctuations of $x_{\max}$ around its mea

Angelique Dremeau, Antoine Deleforge

In this paper, we investigate a new method for phase recovery when prior information on the missing phases is available. In particular, we propose to take into account this information in a generic fashion by means of a multivariate Von Mises dis- tribution. Building on a Bayesian formulation (a Maximum A Posteriori estimation), we show that the problem can

Ronalton Evandro Machado, Lubienska Cristina Lucas Jaquiê Ribeiro, Milena Lopes

The forest plays an important role in a watershed hydrology, regulating the transfer of water within the system. The forest role in maintaining watersheds hydrological regime is still a controversial issue. Consequently, we use the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to simulate scenarios of land use in a watershed. In one of these scenarios we ident

Orest Hryhorchak, Volodymyr Pastukhov

We revised the large-$N$ expansion for a three-dimensional Bose system with short-range repulsion in normal phase. Particularly, for the model potential that is characterised only by the $s$-wave scattering length $a$ the full numerical calculations of the critical temperature in the $1/N$-approximation as a function of the gas parameter $an^{1/3}$ are perfo

Chin-Fei Lee, Zhi-Yun Li, Paul. T. P Ho, Naomi Hirano

In the earliest (so-called &#34;Class 0&#34;) phase of sunlike (low-mass) star formation, circumstellar disks are expected to form, feeding the protostars. However, such disks are difficult to resolve spatially because of their small sizes. Moreover, there are theoretical difficulties in producing such disks in the earliest phase, due to the retarding effect

Jie Yang, Yue Zhang, Fei Dong

Neural word segmentation research has benefited from large-scale raw texts by leveraging them for pretraining character and word embeddings. On the other hand, statistical segmentation research has exploited richer sources of external information, such as punctuation, automatic segmentation and POS. We investigate the effectiveness of a range of external tra

Alain Lasjaunias

The goal of this survey paper is to present, in chronological order, certain research works on continued fractions in power series fields over a finite field, all of them being derivated from some examples introduced thirty years ago by Mills and Robbins.

Arsany Basta, Andreas Blenk, Wolfgang Kellerer, Stefan Schmid

Ideally, by enabling multi-tenancy, network virtualization allows to improve resource utilization, while providing performance isolation: although the underlying resources are shared, the virtual network appears as a dedicated network to the tenant. However, providing such an illusion is challenging in practice, and over the last years, many expedient approa

Roberto Laface, César Martínez

We prove an extension of the Babbage-Enriques-Petri theorem for semi-canonical curves. We apply this to show that the Prym variety of a generic element of a codimension $k$ subvariety of $\mathcal{R}_{g}$ is not isogenous to another distinct Prym variety, under some mild assumption on $k$.

Amit Kumar, Rahul Dutta, Harbhajan Rai

An Intelligent Personal Agent (IPA) is an agent that has the purpose of helping the user to gain information through reliable resources with the help of knowledge navigation techniques and saving time to search the best content. The agent is also responsible for responding to the chat-based queries with the help of Conversation Corpus. We will be testing dif

Chollette C. Olisah, Solomon Nunoo, Peter Ofedebe, Ghazali Sulong

Beneath the uncertain primitive visual features of face images are the primitive intrinsic structural patterns (PISP) essential for characterizing a sample face discriminative attributes. It is on this basis that this paper presents a simple yet effective facial descriptor formed from derivatives of Gaussian and Gabor Wavelets. The new descriptor is coined l

Guanjun Guo, Hanzi Wang, Wan-Lei Zhao, Yan Yan

Color and intensity are two important components in an image. Usually, groups of image pixels, which are similar in color or intensity, are an informative representation for an object. They are therefore particularly suitable for computer vision tasks, such as saliency detection and object proposal generation. However, image pixels, which share a similar rea

Hyun-Joo Koo, Elijah E. Gordon, Myung-Hwan Whangbo

The feasibility of a single-domain ferromagnet based on uniaxial magnetic ions was examined. For a noncentrosymmetric uniaxial magnetic ion of magnetic moment at a site of local electric dipole moment p, it is unknown to date whether the magnetic moment prefers to be parallel or antiparallel to the electric dipole moment. The nature of this magnetoelectric i

Simon Bertrand, Ion Garate, René Côté

It has been recently predicted that the interplay between Coulomb interactions and Berry curvature can produce interesting optical phenomena in topologically nontrivial two-dimensional insulators. Here, we present a theory of the optical absorption for three-dimensional, hole-doped Weyl semimetals. We find that the Berry curvature, Coulomb interactions and t

Van Kien Nguyen, Winfried Sickel

We continue our investigations on pointwise multipliers for Besov spaces of dominating mixed smoothness. This time we study the algebra property of the classes $S^r_{p,q}B(\mathbb{R}^d)$ with respect to pointwise multiplication. In addition if $p\leq q$, we are able to describe the space of all pointwise multipliers for $S^r_{p,q}B(\mathbb{R}^d)$.

Bingwei Long, Jianfeng Wang, Songlin Lyu

It is rare for an $S$-wave resonance to remain narrow while approaching threshold as a result of the interaction parameters being fine tuned. Such an interaction is, however, realized by pion-charmed baryon system $πΣ_c$, which has a narrow resonance $Λ_c^+(2595)$ located a few MeVs above its threshold. We study the consequence of narrowly resonant inter-spe

Anthony Hill

Markov processes are well understood in the case when they take place in the whole Euclidean space. However, the situation becomes much more complicated if a Markov process is restricted to a domain with a boundary, and then a satisfactory theory only exists for processes with continuous trajectories. This research, into non-classical boundary value problems

Jie Ren, Solmaz Torabi, John MacLaren Walsh

A key issue in the control of distributed discrete systems modeled as Markov decisions processes, is that often the state of the system is not directly observable at any single location in the system. The participants in the control scheme must share information with one another regarding the state of the system in order to collectively make informed control

Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Ang Li, Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

We propose a novel approach to enable the coexistence between Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) radar and downlink multi-user Multi-Input-Single-Output (MU-MISO) communication system. By exploiting the constructive multi-user interference (MUI), the proposed approach trades-off useful MUI power for reducing the transmit power, to obtain a power efficient trans

François Fillion-Gourdeau, Florian Hebenstreit, Denis Gagnon, Steve MacLean

We optimize the pulse shape and polarization of time-dependent electric fields to maximize the production of electron-positron pairs via strong field quantum electrodynamics processes. The pulse is parametrized in Fourier space by a B-spline polynomial basis, which results in a relatively low-dimensional parameter space while still allowing for a large numbe

Ole Christensen, Marzieh Hasannasab

The purpose of the paper is to analyze frames $\{f_k\}_{k\in \mathbf Z}$ having the form $\{T^kf_0\}_{k\in\mathbf Z}$ for some linear operator $T: \mbox{span} \{f_k\}_{k\in \mathbf Z} \to \mbox{span}\{f_k\}_{k\in \mathbf Z}$. A key result characterizes boundedness of the operator $T$ in terms of shift-invariance of a certain sequence space. One of the conseq

M. Antonova, R. Asfandiyarov, R Bayes, P. Benoit

Baby MIND is a magnetized iron neutrino detector, with novel design features, and is planned to serve as a downstream magnetized muon spectrometer for the WAGASCI experiment on the T2K neutrino beam line in Japan. One of the main goals of this experiment is to reduce systematic uncertainties relevant to CP-violation searches, by measuring the neutrino contam

Rui Valadas

OSPF currently supports multi-area networking with two severe limitations, due to the distance vector approach taken in the inter-area routing protocol: (i) the multi-area topology is restricted to a two-level hierarchy, and (ii) globally optimal routing may not be achieved. In this letter, we propose an OSPF extension that overcomes these limitations by ado

Fei Ding, Anders Pors, Yiting Chen, Vladimir A. Zenin

Metasurfaces enable exceptional control over the light with surface-confined planar components, offering the fascinating possibility of very dense integration and miniaturization in photonics. Here, we design, fabricate and experimentally demonstrate chip-size plasmonic spectropolarimeters for simultaneous polarization state and wavelength determination. Spe

Simone Scardapane, Jie Chen, Cédric Richard

In this chapter, we analyze nonlinear filtering problems in distributed environments, e.g., sensor networks or peer-to-peer protocols. In these scenarios, the agents in the environment receive measurements in a streaming fashion, and they are required to estimate a common (nonlinear) model by alternating local computations and communications with their neigh

Francesco Ranzato

Abstract interpretation-based static analyses rely on abstract domains of program properties, such as intervals or congruences for integer variables. Galois connections (GCs) between posets provide the most widespread and useful formal tool for mathematically specifying abstract domains. Recently, Darais and Van Horn [2016] put forward a notion of constructi

Hiroaki W. H. Tahara, Jun&#39;ichi Yokoyama

Gravitational waves from inflation induce polarization patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It is known that there are only two types of non-Gaussianities of the gravitaional waves in the most general scalar field theories having second-order field equations. One originates from the inherent non-Gaussianity in general relativity, and the other

Marco Martini

Neutrino oscillations physics entered in the precision era. In this context accelerator-based neutrino experiments need a reduction of systematic errors to the level of a few percent. Today one of the most important sources of systematic errors are the neutrino-nucleus cross sections. The status of our knowledge of these cross sections in the different open

Dominik Kurzydlowski, Wojciech Grochala

Hybrid density functional calculations are performed for a variety of systems containing d9 ions (Cu2+, Ag2+), and exhibiting quasi-one-dimensional magnetic properties. In particular we study fluorides containing these ions in a rarely encountered compressed octahedral coordination which forces the unpaired electron in the d(z2) orbital. We predict that such

Shiro Goto, Ryotaro Isobe, Shinya Kumashiro, Naoki Taniguchi

The notion of generalized Gorenstein local ring (GGL ring for short) is one of the generalizations of Gorenstein rings. In this article, there is given a characterization of GGL rings in terms of their canonical ideals and related invariants.

Shengwen Wang

We show that if the entropy of any closed hypersurface is close to that of a round hyper-sphere, then it is close to a round sphere in Hausdorff distance. Generalizing the result of \cite{BW1} to higher dimensions.

Greig Cowan, Evangelia Drakopoulou, Matthew Needham, Mahdi Taani

Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is a proposed next generation underground water Cherenkov (WCh) experiment. The far detector will measure the oscillated neutrino flux from the long-baseline neutrino experiment using 0.6 GeV neutrinos produced by a 1.3 MW proton beam at J-PARC. It has a broad program of physics and astrophysics mainly focusing on the precise measu

Timothy J. Moroney, Dylan R. Lusmore, Scott W. McCue, D. L. Sean McElwain

We present an approach for computing extensions of velocities or other fields in level set methods by solving a biharmonic equation. The approach differs from other commonly used approaches to velocity extension because it deals with the interface fully implicitly through the level set function. No explicit properties of the interface, such as its location o

Agnieszka Badeńska, Łukasz Błaszczyk

We prove that quaternion Gaussian random matrices satisfy the restricted isometry property (RIP) with overwhelming probability. We also explain why the restricted isometry random variables (RIV) approach is not appropriate for drawing conclusions on restricted isometry constants.

Nozomu Sekino

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a simple closed curve on the boundary of a genus two handlebody to decompose the handlebody into (torus with one boundary component times [0,1]. We use this condition to decide whether a simple closed curve on a genus two Heegaard surface is a GOF-knot (genus one fibered knot) which induces the Heegaard splitt

Nikola Opacak, Vitomir Milanovic, Jelena Radovanovic

Tunneling of electrons through a barrier with complex potential is investigated. We focus on two cases, symmetric double rectangular barrier and double delta potential barrier, and give expressions for resonant transmission probability for both cases. Expressions for reflection amplitude and absorption are also obtained in the case of delta potential. It wil

Phuong Dao, Yoo-Ah Kim, Damian Wojtowicz, Sanna Madan

The analysis of the mutational landscape of cancer, including mutual exclusivity and co-occurrence of mutations, has been instrumental in studying the disease. We hypothesized that exploring the interplay between co-occurrence, mutual exclusivity, and functional interactions between genes will further improve our understanding of the disease and help to unco

Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla, Louis-François Arsenault, Anand Bhattacharya, Peter B. Littlewood

Motivated by recent experiments, we use the $+U$ extension of the generalized gradient approximation to density functional theory to study superlattices composed of alternating layers of LaNiO$_3$ and LaMnO$_3$. For comparison we also study a rocksalt ((111) double perovskite) structure and bulk LaNiO$_3$ and LaMnO$_3$. A Wannier function analysis indicates

Christian Buck

Nuclear reactors are strong, pure and well localized sources of electron antineutrinos with energies in the few MeV range. Therefore they provide a suitable environment to study neutrino properties, in particular neutrino oscillation parameters. Recent predictions of the expected antineutrino flux at nuclear reactors are about 6% higher than the average rate

Xueyong Xing, Jinniu Hu, Hong Shen

Properties of $Λ,~Ξ^0$ hypernuclei and neutron stars are investigated in quark mean field model with pion and gluon corrections. Firstly, $u, ~d$, and $s$ quarks are confined by relativistic harmonic oscillator potentials to generate the baryons, like nucleon, $Λ, ~Σ$, and $Ξ$ hyperons. The effects of pion-quark coupling and one-gluon exchange are considered

M. Boglione, J. O. Gonzalez-Hernandez, R. Taghavi

We study the transverse momentum distributions of single inclusive hadron production in ${e^ + }{e^ - }$ annihilation processes. Although the only available experimental data are scarce and quite old, we find that the fundamental features of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) evolution, historically addressed in Drell-Yan processes and, more recently, in Se

Christian Eggert, Dan Zecha, Stephan Brehm, Rainer Lienhart

Many modern approaches for object detection are two-staged pipelines. The first stage identifies regions of interest which are then classified in the second stage. Faster R-CNN is such an approach for object detection which combines both stages into a single pipeline. In this paper we apply Faster R-CNN to the task of company logo detection. Motivated by its