arXiv papers from June 2018

Andrey Gritsenko, Martin A. Lindquist, Gregory R. Kirk, Moo K. Chung

A key strength of twin studies arises from the fact that there are two types of twins, monozygotic and dizygotic, that share differing amounts of genetic information. Accurate differentiation of twin types allows efficient inference on genetic influences in a population. However, identification of zygosity is often prone to errors without genotying. In this

Jeremy R. Ash Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver

The goal of chemmodlab is to streamline the fitting and assessment pipeline for many machine learning models in R, making it easy for researchers to compare the utility of new models. While focused on implementing methods for model fitting and assessment that have been accepted by experts in the cheminformatics field, all of the methods in chemmodlab have br

P. M. M. Correia, J. Menoita, A. L. M. Silva, N. Romanyshyn

EasyPET is a new concept of a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner using an innovative acquisition method based on two rotation axes for the movement of detector pairs. Due to its simplicity, it is suitable for education purposes, to teach students about the PET technology and its basic concepts, from the radiation detecting and analogue pulse analysis

Shu-Kun Si, Yan-Qing Qi, Feng-Xia Xue, Ya-Jie Liu

Well-sampled optical light curves of 50 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with plateau features are compiled from the literature. By empirical fitting, we obtained the parameters of the optical plateaus, such as the decay slopes ($\alpha_{\rm 1}$ and $\alpha_{\rm 2}$), the break times ($T_{\rm b}$), and the corresponding optical fluxes ($F_{\rm b}$) at the break times

Robert J. Williams, Zhenxu Bai, Soumya Sarang, Ondrej Kitzler

The coherent interaction between optical and acoustic waves via stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is a fundamental tool for manipulating light at GHz frequencies. Its narrowband and noise-suppressing characteristics have recently enabled microwave-photonic functionality in integrated devices based on chalcogenide glasses, silica and silicon. Diamond poss

Daniel Cibotaru, Sergiu Moroianu

On any odd-dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold we define a volume form, which we call the odd Pfaffian, through a certain invariant polynomial with integral coefficients in the curvature tensor. We prove an intrinsic Chern-Gauss-Bonnet formula for incomplete edge singularities in terms of the odd Pfaffian on the fibers of the boundary fibration. The for

A. A. Billur, M. Koksal, A. Gutierrez-Rodriguez, M. A. Hernandez-Ruiz

To improve the theoretical prediction of the anomalous dipole moments of the $\tau$-neutrino, we have carried out a study through the process $\gamma e^- \to \tau \bar\nu_\tau \nu_e$, which represents an excellent and useful option in determination of these anomalous parameters. To study the potential of the process $\gamma e^- \to \tau \bar\nu_\tau \nu_e$,

Hirofumi Kakemoto

We report the calculation results of specific heat ($c_v$), and thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) by using Einstein, and Debye models about rock salt (NaCl), oxides: Na$_x$CoO$_2$, SrTiO$_3$, and LiNbO$_3$. In calculation, the longitudinal (L), and transverse (T) sound velocities ($v_T$, $v_L$) were estimated from acoustic phonons' dispersion's (~$\omega$/$K$)

Michael J. Willatt, Félix Musil, Michele Ceriotti

Machine-learning of atomic-scale properties amounts to extracting correlations between structure, composition and the quantity that one wants to predict. Representing the input structure in a way that best reflects such correlations makes it possible to improve the accuracy of the model for a given amount of reference data. When using a description of the st

N. V. Kuznetsov, T. N. Mokaev

For the R\"ossler system we verify Eden's conjecture on the maximum of local Lyapunov dimension. We compute numerically finite-time local Lyapunov dimensions on the R\"ossler attractor and embedded unstable periodic orbits. The UPO computation is done by Pyragas time-delay feedback control technique.

T. Yung Kong, Homeira Pajoohesh, Gabor T. Herman

Algorithms for convex feasibility find or approximate a point in the intersection of given closed convex sets. Typically there are only finitely many convex sets, but the case of infinitely many convex sets also has some applications. In this context, a \emph{string} is a finite sequence of points each of which is obtained from the previous point by consider

Rui Han, Marius Lemm, Wilhelm Schlag

We study the one-dimensional discrete Schr\"odinger operator with the skew-shift potential $2\lambda\cos\left(2\pi \left(\binom{j}{2} \omega+jy+x\right)\right)$. This potential is long conjectured to behave like a random one, i.e., it is expected to produce Anderson localization for arbitrarily small coupling constants $\lambda>0$. In this paper, we introduc

Constantia Alexandrou, Krzysztof Cichy, Martha Constantinou, Karl Jansen

We present the first direct calculation of the transversity parton distribution function within the nucleon from lattice QCD. The calculation is performed using simulations with the light quark mass fixed to its physical value and at one value of the lattice spacing. Novel elements of the calculations are non-perturbative renormalization and extraction of a

Y. S. Hou, J. H. Yang, H. J. Xiang, X. G. Gong

Honeycomb iridate Na2IrO3, a Jeff=1/2 magnet, is a potential platform for realizing the quantum spin liquid. Many experiments have shown that its magnetic ground state has a zigzag antiferromagnetic (AFM) order. However, there is still a lack of consensus on the theoretical model explaining such order, since its second nearest neighbor (NN) and long-range th

Bruno Korbar, Du Tran, Lorenzo Torresani

There is a natural correlation between the visual and auditive elements of a video. In this work we leverage this connection to learn general and effective models for both audio and video analysis from self-supervised temporal synchronization. We demonstrate that a calibrated curriculum learning scheme, a careful choice of negative examples, and the use of a

Siddharth Dhomkar, Harishankar Jayakumar, Pablo R. Zangara, Carlos A. Meriles

Although the spin properties of superficial shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers have been the subject of extensive scrutiny, considerably less attention has been devoted to studying the dynamics of NV charge conversion near the diamond surface. Using multi-color confocal microscopy, here we show that near-surface point defects arising from high-density ion

Yunpu Ma, Volker Tresp, Erik Daxberger

In recent years a number of large-scale triple-oriented knowledge graphs have been generated and various models have been proposed to perform learning in those graphs. Most knowledge graphs are static and reflect the world in its current state. In reality, of course, the state of the world is changing: a healthy person becomes diagnosed with a disease and a

A. Figueroa, O. Castanos, R. Lopez-Pena

We establish a novel procedure to analyze the entanglement properties of extremal density matrices depending on the parameters of a finite dimensional Hamiltonian. It was applied to a general 2-qubit Hamiltonian which could exhibit Kramers degeneracy. This is done through the extremal density matrix formalism, which allows to extend the conventional variatio

Phan Nguyen, Rosemary Braun

Accurate gene regulatory networks can be used to explain the emergence of different phenotypes, disease mechanisms, and other biological functions. Many methods have been proposed to infer networks from gene expression data but have been hampered by problems such as low sample size, inaccurate constraints, and incomplete characterizations of regulatory dynam

M. Cristina Diamantini, Carlo A. Trugenberger, Valeri M. Vinokur

One of the most profound aspects of the standard model of particle physics, the mechanism of confinement binding quarks into hadrons, is not sufficiently understood. The only known semiclassical mechanism of confinement, mediated by chromo-electric strings in a condensate of magnetic monopoles still lacks experimental evidence. Here we show that the infinite

H. Selvi, E. W. Hill, P. Parkinson, T. J. Echtermeyer

Graphene-silicon (GS) Schottky junctions have been demonstrated as an efficient architecture for photodetection. However, the response speed of such devices for free space light detection has so far been limited to 10's-100's of kHz for wavelength $\lambda >$ 500nm. Here, we demonstrate graphene-silicon Schottky junction photodetectors fabricated on a silico

Farshid Alambeigi, Mahsan Bakhtiarinejad, Armina Azizi, Rachel Hegeman

Internal fixation is a common orthopedic procedure in which a rigid screw is used to fix fragments of a fractured bone together and expedite the healing process. However, the rigidity of the screw, geometry of the fractured anatomy (e.g. femur and pelvis), and patient age can cause an array of complications during screw placement, such as improper fracture h

Karel Kouřil, Hana Kouřilová, Samuel Bartram, Malcolm H. Levitt

In dissolution-dynamic nuclear polarization, nuclear spins are hyperpolarized at cryogenic temperatures using radicals and microwave irradiation. The hyperpolarized solid is dissolved with hot solvent and the solution is transferred to a secondary magnet where strongly enhanced magnetic resonance signals are observed. Here we present a method for transferrin

Issam Naghmouchi

In this paper, we prove first that the space of minimal sets of any homeomorphisms $f:X\to X$ of a regular curve $X$ is closed in the hyperspace $2^X$ of closed subsets of $X$ endowed with the Hausdorff metric, and the non-wandering set $\Omega (f)$ is equal to the set of recurrent points of $f$. Second, we study the continuity of the map $\omega_f:X\to 2^X;

Xu-Qian Zheng, Jaesung Lee, Subrina Rafique, Md Rezaul

We report on the first beta gallium oxide (\beta-Ga2O3) crystal feedback oscillator built by employing a vibrating \beta-Ga2O3 nanoresonator as the frequency reference for real-time middle ultraviolet (MUV) light detection. We fabricate suspended \beta-Ga2O3 nanodevices through synthesis of \beta-Ga2O3 nanoflakes using low-pressure chemical vapor deposition

Nitish Mital, Katina Kralevska, Deniz Gunduz, Cong Ling

Repair of multiple partially failed cache nodes is studied in a distributed wireless content caching system, where $r$ out of a total of $n$ cache nodes lose part of their cached data. Broadcast repair of failed cache contents at the network edge is studied; that is, the surviving cache nodes transmit broadcast messages to the failed ones, which are then use

Burak Erdogan, Michael Goldberg, William R. Green

We investigate $L^1\to L^\infty$ dispersive estimates for the massless two dimensional Dirac equation with a potential. In particular, we show that the Dirac evolution satisfies the natural $t^{-\frac12}$ decay rate, which may be improved to $t^{-\frac12-\gamma}$ for any $0\leq \gamma<\frac{3}{2}$ at the cost of spatial weights. We classify the structure of

Antonio Bernal

Absolutely maximally entangled, AME, states are pure multipartite states that give rise to the maximally mixed states when half or more of the parties are traced out. AME states find applications in fields like teleportation or quantum secret sharing, and the problem of finding conditions on their existence has been considered in a number of papers. We consi

C. Pallis

We show that models of chaotic inflation based on the phi^p potential and a linear non-minimal coupling to gravity, fR=1+cR phi, can be done consistent with data in the context of Supergravity, retaining the perturbative unitarity up to the Planck scale, if we employ logarithmic Kahler potentials with prefactors -p(1+n) or -p(n+1)-1, where -0.035<= n<=0.007

Kamel Abdelouahab, François Berry, Maxime Pelcat

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are computationally intensive algorithms that currently require dedicated hardware to be executed. In the case of FPGA-Based accelerators, we point-out in this work the challenge of Multi-Operand Adders (MOAs) and their high resource utilization in an FPGA implementation of a CNN. To address this challenge, two optimizati

Pieter Belmans, Swarnava Mukhopadhyay

We show that the Poincar\'e bundle gives a fully faithful embedding from the derived category of a curve of sufficiently high genus into the derived category of its moduli space of bundles of rank $r$ with fixed determinant of degree 1. Moreover we show that a twist of the embedding, together with 2 exceptional line bundles, gives the start of a semi-orthogo

Peter Clote

A network is scale-free if its connectivity density function is proportional to a power-law distribution. Scale-free networks may provide an explanation for the robustness observed in certain physical and biological phenomena, since the presence of a few highly connected hub nodes and a large number of small- degree nodes may provide alternate paths between

Hermine Biermé, Olivier Durieu, Yizao Wang

This article introduces the operator-scaling random ball model, generalizing the isotropic random ball models investigated recently in the literature to anisotropic setup. The model is introduced as a generalized random field and results on weak convergence are established in the space of tempered distributions.

M. Abdollahi Zadeh, A. Sheykhi

We investigate the ghost model of dark energy in the framework of DGP braneworld. We explore the cosmological consequences of this model by determining the equation of state parameter, $\omega_D$, the deceleration and the density parameters. We also examine the stability of this model by studying the squared of the sound speed in the presence/absence of inte

Serhiy O. Semerikov, Vladyslav S. Pototskyi, Kateryna I. Slovak, Svitlana M. Hryshchenko

It is shown that the calculation of scientometric indicators of the scientist and also the scientific journal continues to be an actual problem nowadays. It is revealed that the leading scientometric databases have the capabilities of automated metadata collection from the scientific journal website by the use of specialized electronic document management sy

E. Lavrik, I. Panasenko, H. R. Schmidt

We describe a setup for optical quality assurance of silicon microstrip sensors. Pattern recognition algorithms were developed to analyze microscopic scans of the sensors for defects. It is shown that the software has a recognition and classification rate of $>$~90\% for defects like scratches, shorts, broken metal lines etc. We have demonstrated that advanc

Wenyuan Zhang, K. Kalashnikov, Wen-Sen Lu, P. Kamenov

We have studied superconducting coplanar-waveguide (CPW) resonators fabricated from disordered (granular) films of Aluminum. Very high kinetic inductance of these films, inherent to disordered materials, allows us to implement ultra-short (200 $\mu$m at a 5GHz resonance frequency) and high-impedance (up to 5 k$\Omega$) half-wavelength resonators. We have sho

S. A. Rakityansky, S. N. Ershov

Experimental data on the n-alpha and dt collisions in the quantum state J^pi=3/2+ near the dt-threshold are fitted using the semi-analytic multi-channel Jost matrix with proper analytic structure and some adjustable parameters. Then the spectral points are sought as zeros of the Jost matrix determinant (which correspond to the S-matrix poles) at complex ener

Luka Humski, Damir Pintar, Mihaela Vranić

In the last few decades sociologists were trying to explain human behaviour by analysing social networks, which requires access to data about interpersonal relationships. This represented a big obstacle in this research field until the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), which vastly facilitated the process of collecting such data. Nowadays, by crawl

Elahe Rezaei, Hafez Eslami Manoochehri, Babak Hossein Khalaj

Caching networks are designed to reduce traffic load at backhaul links, by serving demands from edge-nodes. In the past decades, many studies have been done to address the caching problem. However, in practice, finding an optimal caching policy is still challenging due to dynamicity of traffic and scalability caused by complex impact of caching strategy chos

Suman K. Dhakal, Georgios Chintzoglou, Jie Zhang

We report a study of a compound solar eruption that was associated with two consecutively erupting magnetic structures and correspondingly two distinct peaks, during impulsive phase, of an M-class flare (M8.5). Simultaneous multi-viewpoint observations from $\textit{SDO}$, $\textit{GOES}$ and $\textit{STEREO-A}$ show that this compound eruption originated fr

Ibrahim Numanagić, Alim S. Gökkaya, Lillian Zhang, Bonnie Berger

Segmental duplications (SDs), or low-copy repeats (LCR), are segments of DNA greater than 1 Kbp with high sequence identity that are copied to other regions of the genome. SDs are among the most important sources of evolution, a common cause of genomic structural variation, and several are associated with diseases of genomic origin. Despite their functional

Hamid Hezari, Hang Xu

We give upper bounds for the Bergman kernels associated to tensor powers of a smooth positive line bundle in terms of the rate of growth of the Taylor coefficients of the K\"ahler potential. As applications, we obtain improved off-diagonal rate of decay for the classes of analytic, quasi-analytic, and more generally Gevrey potentials.

Ildoo Kim

We discuss two distinct spatial structures of vortex streets. The `conventional mushroom' structure is commonly discuss in many experimental studies, but the exotic `separated rows' structure is characterized by a thin irrotational fluid between two rows of vortices. In a two-dimensional soap film channel, we generated the exotic vortex arrangement by using

Yu Liu, Guanlong Zhao, Boyuan Gong, Yang Li

Here we explore two related but important tasks based on the recently released REalistic Single Image DEhazing (RESIDE) benchmark dataset: (i) single image dehazing as a low-level image restoration problem; and (ii) high-level visual understanding (e.g., object detection) of hazy images. For the first task, we investigated a variety of loss functions and sho

Cosmin Pohoata, Adam Sheffer

We study Extremal Combinatorics problems where local properties are used to derive global properties. That is, we consider a given configuration where every small piece of the configuration satisfies some restriction, and use this local property to derive global properties of the entire configuration. We study one such Ramsey problem of Erd\H{o}s and Shelah,

Jiten C Kalita

In this short note we provide clarification to the comments made in Z. Angew. Math. Phys. (2018) 69:64 on our work "Finiteness of corner vortices" [ Z. Angew. Math. Phys. (2018) 69:37].

Christina Wadsworth, Francesca Vera, Chris Piech

Recidivism prediction scores are used across the USA to determine sentencing and supervision for hundreds of thousands of inmates. One such generator of recidivism prediction scores is Northpointe's Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) score, used in states like California and Florida, which past research has shown to

Jitendar K Tiwari, Ajay Mandal, N Sathish, Venkat A N Ch

Accumulative Roll Bonding(ARB) process was used to develop few-layer graphene nano platelets reinforced aluminum matrix (GNPs/Al) composite in the form of sheets. Annealed Al sheets were ARB processed up to 6 pass along with coating of graphene between stacked sheets in first and second pass. Another set was prepared with same process parameter in the absenc

J. K. Singh, Kazuharu Bamba, Ritika Nagpal, S. K. J. Pacif

A cosmological model with a specific form of the Hubble parameter is constructed in a flat homogeneous, and isotropic background in the framework of $f(R, T)$ gravity, where $R$ is the scalar curvature and $T$ is the trace of the stress-energy-momentum tensor. The proposed functional form of the Hubble parameter is taken in such a way that it fulfills the su

Lineia Schutz, Janaína P. Zingano, Paulo R. Zingano

We show that t^{3/4}|| u(.,t) ||_{sup} --> 0 as t --> infty for all (global) Leray solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in R3. It is also shown that t || u(.,t) - v(.,t) ||_{sup} --> 0 as t --> infty, where v(.,t) is the Stokes approximation, as well as other fundamental results. In spite of the difficulty of these questions, our approach

Kunjal Dave, Wageesh Mishra, Nandita Srivastava, R. M. Jadhav

It has been established that Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) may have significant impact on terrestrial magnetic field and lead to space weather events. In the present study, we selected several CMEs which are associated with filament eruptions on the Sun. We attempt to identify the presence of filament material within ICME at 1AU. We discuss how different ICM

Pedro A. Ortega, Shane Legg

How can one detect friendly and adversarial behavior from raw data? Detecting whether an environment is a friend, a foe, or anything in between, remains a poorly understood yet desirable ability for safe and robust agents. This paper proposes a definition of these environmental "attitudes" based on an characterization of the environment's ability to react to

Giovanni Scilla

We study the motion of discrete interfaces driven by ferromagnetic interactions on the two-dimensional triangular lattice by coupling the Almgren, Taylor and Wang minimizing movements approach and a discrete-to-continuum analysis, as introduced by Braides, Gelli and Novaga in the pioneering case of the square lattice. We examine the motion of origin-symmetri

Patrick Concha, Diego M. Peñafiel, Evelyn Rodríguez

The construction of the three-dimensional Chern-Simons supergravity theory invariant under the minimal Maxwell superalgebra is presented. We obtain a supergravity action without cosmological constant term characterized by three coupling constants. We also show that the Maxwell supergravity presented here appears as a vanishing cosmological constant limit of

P. Richard, A. van Roekeghem, X. Shi, P. Seth

We report an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of KFe$_2$As$_2$ and CsFe$_2$As$_2$, revealing the existence of a van Hove singularity affecting the electronic properties. As a result of chemical pressure, we find a stronger three-dimensionality in KFe$_2$As$_2$ than in CsFe$_2$As$_2$, notably for the 3$d_{z^2}$ states responsible for th

Keisuke Ishihara, Elly M. Tanaka

Recent 3D organ reconstitution studies show that a group of stem cells can establish a body axis and acquire different fates in a spatially organized manner. How such symmetry breaking happens in the absence of external spatial cues, and how developmental circuits are built to permit this is largely unknown. Here, we review spontaneous symmetry breaking phen

Richard Cleyton, Andrei Moroianu, Uwe Semmelmann

A geometry with parallel skew-symmetric torsion is a Riemannian manifold carrying a metric connection with parallel skew-symmetric torsion. Besides the trivial case of the Levi-Civita connection, geometries with non-vanishing parallel skew-symmetric torsion arise naturally in several geometric contexts, e.g. on naturally reductive homogeneous spaces, nearly

Ozgur Sevinc, Ekrem Aydiner

In this study, the mechanism of particle creation using varying gravitational and cosmological constants and deceleration parameter has been studied for Friedman-Robertson-Walker at high dimensions to explain early deceleration and present accelerating phases. In order to investigate the dynamics of two phases, we have considered two different ansatz for the

John Ellis, Rostislav Konoplich, Nikolaos E. Mavromatos, Linh Nguyen

Models of quantum gravity suggest that the vacuum should be regarded as a medium with quantum structure that may have non-trivial effects on photon propagation, including the violation of Lorentz invariance. Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance, via studies of energy-dependent tim

S. C. Maree, T. Alderliesten, D. Thierens, P. A. N. Bosman

This report presents benchmarking results of the latest version of the Hill-Valley Evolutionary Algorithm (HillVallEA) on the CEC2013 niching benchmark suite. The benchmarking follows restrictions required by the GECCO 2018 competition on Niching methods for Multimodal Optimization. In particular, no problem dependent parameter tuning is performed. A number

S. Schiller, V. I. Korobov

We consider the application of a basic principle of quantum theory, the tracelessness of a certain class of hamiltonians, to the precision spectroscopy of the molecular hydrogen ions. We show that it is possible to obtain the spin-averaged transition frequencies between states from a simple weighted sum of experimentally accessible spin-dependent transition

Brice Bastian, Stefan Hohenegger, Amer Iqbal, Soo-Jong Rey

The web of dual gauge theories engineered from a class of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds is explored. In previous work, we have argued for a triality structure by compiling evidence for the fact that every such manifold $X_{N,M}$ (for given $(N,M)$) engineers three a priori different, weakly coupled quiver gauge theories in five dimensions. The strong coupling

Taimur Ahmed, Sumeet Walia, Edwin L. H. Mayes, Rajesh Ramanathan

Functional oxides based resistive memories are recognized as potential candidate for the next-generation high density data storage and neuromorphic applications. Fundamental understanding of the compositional changes in the functional oxides is required to tune the resistive switching characteristics for enhanced memory performance. Herein, we present the mi

Alexander Kiselev

We review recent advances in understanding singularity and small scales formation in solutions of fluid dynamics equations. The focus is on the Euler and surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equations and associated models.

D0 Collaboration

We present evidence for the exotic charged charmonium-like state $Z_c^{\pm}(3900)$ in semi-inclusive weak decays of $b$-flavored hadrons. The signal is correlated with a $J/\psi \pi^+ \pi^-$ system in the invariant mass range 4.2$-$4.7~GeV and includes the sequential process $b$-quark hadron $ \rightarrow Y(4260) +$ anything, $Y(4260) \rightarrow Z_c^{\pm}(3

Yuanliang Chen, Yu Jiang, Fuchen Ma, Jie Liang

Fuzzing is widely used for software vulnerability detection. There are various kinds of fuzzers with different fuzzing strategies, and most of them perform well on their targets. However, in industry practice and empirical study, the performance and generalization ability of those well-designed fuzzing strategies are challenged by the complexity and diversit

Ted Underwood

Measuring similarity is a basic task in information retrieval, and now often a building-block for more complex arguments about cultural change. But do measures of textual similarity and distance really correspond to evidence about cultural proximity and differentiation? To explore that question empirically, this paper compares textual and social measures of

Daniel Flores-Alfonso, Hernando Quevedo

Partition functions can be calculated by saddle point approximations whenever regular solutions exist, as they dominate the path integral. We examine a regular Taub-Bolt dyon of Einstein-Born-Infeld theory which has electric and magnetic flux proportional to each other. Magnetic flux is found to be essentially a winding number and the electric flux turns out

Orlando Luongo, Marco Muccino

We revise the cosmological standard model presuming that matter, i.e. baryons and cold dark matter, exhibits a non-vanishing pressure mimicking the cosmological constant effects. In particular, we propose a scalar field Lagrangian $\mathcal L_1$ for matter with the introduction of a Lagrange multiplier as constraint. We also add a symmetry breaking effective

Nikolay Achasov

I. Light Scalars as Four-quark States II. Isotensor Tensor Tensor E(1500-1600) State III. X(3872) State as Charmonium \chi_{c1}(2P) IV. Two-gluon Annihilation of Charmonium \chi_{c2}(2P) There are considered problems of the exotic states, in which the author with his collaborators has made clear physical predictions, considerable part of wich is supported by

Yoichiro Mori, Laurel Ohm, Daniel Spirn

Slender body theory facilitates computational simulations of thin fibers immersed in a viscous fluid by approximating each fiber using only the geometry of the fiber centerline curve and the line force density along it. However, it has been unclear how well slender body theory actually approximates Stokes flow about a thin but truly three-dimensional fiber,

Luka C. Popovic, Victor L. Afanasiev, Djordje Savic

We present a new method for supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass measurements in Type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using polarization angle across broad lines. This method gives measured masses which are in a good agreement with reverberation estimates. Additionally, we explore the possibilities and limits of this method using the STOKES radiative transfer

Md Sanam Suraj, Euaggelos E. Zotos, Charanpreet Kaur, Rajiv Aggarwal

The Newton-Raphson basins of convergence, corresponding to the coplanar libration points (which act as attractors), are unveiled in the Copenhagen problem, where instead of the Newtonian potential and forces, a quasi-homogeneous potential created by two primaries is considered. The multivariate version of the Newton-Raphson iterative scheme is used to reveal

Nilmani Mathur, M. Padmanath

We present the energy spectra of the low lying doubly-charmed baryons using lattice quantum chromodynamics. We precisely predict the ground state mass of the charmed-strange Omega(cc) (1/2+) baryon to be 3712(11)(12) MeV which could well be the next doubly-charmed baryon to be discovered at the LHCb experiment at CERN. We also predict masses of other doubly-

Vyacheslav Kungurtsev, Tomas Pevny

Machine Learning models incorporating multiple layered learning networks have been seen to provide effective models for various classification problems. The resulting optimization problem to solve for the optimal vector minimizing the empirical risk is, however, highly nonconvex. This alone presents a challenge to application and development of appropriate o

Martin Leckey

The central idea of this work is the concept of prespace, a hypothetical structure that is postulated to underlie the fabric of space or space-time. I consider how such a structure could relate to space and space-time, and the implications of the existence of this structure for quantum theory. I compare space and space-time to other spaces used in physics, s

Vyacheslav Kungurtsev, Tomas Pevny

Machine Learning models incorporating multiple layered learning networks have been seen to provide effective models for various classification problems. The resulting optimization problem to solve for the optimal vector minimizing the empirical risk is, however, highly nonlinear. This presents a challenge to application and development of appropriate optimiz

Damian Ejlli, Venugopal R. Thandlam

In the era of gravitational wave (GW) detection from astrophysical sources by LIGO/VIRGO, it is of great importance to take the quantum gravity effect of graviton-photon (GRAPH) mixing in the cosmic magnetic field to the next level. In this work, we study such an effect and derive for the first time perturbative solutions of the linearized equations of motio

Artur Poplawski

Paper develops axiomatic characterization of the family of majority vote rules in the way alternative to characterization of the majority vote given in paper of Kenneth O. May in the 1952. This, similar but different, axiomatics focuses on the consistency of the voting procedure. Both approaches are compared. Relation to famous Kenneth J. Arrow's Impossibili

Jeroen Zuiddam

We introduce the asymptotic spectrum of graphs and apply the theory of asymptotic spectra of Strassen (J. Reine Angew. Math. 1988) to obtain a new dual characterisation of the Shannon capacity of graphs. Elements in the asymptotic spectrum of graphs include the Lov\'asz theta number, the fractional clique cover number, the complement of the fractional orthog

Mäx Blauth, Marius Jürgensen, Gwenaëlle Vest, Oliver Hartwig

We report the observation of the generation and routing of single plasmons generated by localized excitons in a WSe$_2$ monolayer flake exfoliated onto lithographically defined Au-plasmonic waveguides. Statistical analysis of the position of different quantum emitters shows that they are $(3.3 \pm 0.7)\times$ more likely to form close to the edges of the pla

Yin-Bi Li, A-Li Luo, Gang Zhao, You-Jun Lu

In this paper, we report the discovery of a new late-B type unbound hyper-runaway star (LAMOST-HVS4) from the LAMOST spectroscopic surveys. According to its atmospheric parameters, it is either a B-type main sequence (MS) star or a blue horizontal branch (BHB) star. Its Galactocentric distance and velocity are 30.3 +/- 1.6 kpc and 586 +/- 7 km/s if it is an

Edvige Corbelli, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Jonathan Braine, David Thilker

The probability distribution functions (PDFs) for atomic, molecular, and total gas surface densities of M33 are determined at a resolution of about 50~pc over regions that share coherent morphological properties to unveil fingerprints of self-gravity across the star-forming disk. Most of the total gas PDFs from the central region to the edge of the star-form

M. Sumetsky

It is shown that a broad class of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) problems - which consider the resonant propagation of a single photon interacting with quantum emitters (QEs), such as atoms, quantum dots, or vacancy centers - can be solved directly without application of the second quantization formalism. In the developed approach, the Hamiltonian is e

Vikram Garg, Girish Sathyanarayana, Sumit Borar, Aruna Rajan

Fashion preference is a fuzzy concept that depends on customer taste, prevailing norms in fashion product/style, henceforth used interchangeably, and a customer's perception of utility or fashionability, yet fashion e-retail relies on algorithmically generated search and recommendation systems that process structured data and images to best match customer pr

John van de Wetering

The fundamental identity of quadratic Jordan algebras $Q_{Q_a b} = Q_aQ_bQ_a$ is commonly proven as a consequence of MacDonalds theorem or using more analytic methods. In this short note we give a self-contained purely algebraic proof using just a few easily proven identities and a Python script that follows a simple randomised logic to reduce expressions of

Omar El Housni, Vineet Goyal

In this paper, we study the performance of affine policies for two-stage adjustable robust optimization problem with fixed recourse and uncertain right hand side belonging to a budgeted uncertainty set. This is an important class of uncertainty sets widely used in practice where we can specify a budget on the adversarial deviations of the uncertain parameter

Lucas Dahinden

A positive contactomorphism of a contact manifold $M$ is the end point of a contact isotopy on $M$ that is always positively transverse to the contact structure. Assume that $M$ contains a Legendrian sphere $\Lambda$, and that $(M,\Lambda)$ is fillable by a Liouville domain $(W,\omega)$ with exact Lagrangian $L$ such that $\omega|_{\pi_2(W,L)}=0$. We show th

Wenxi Lai, Yuquan Ma, W. M. Liu

We show conduction bands of artificial gauge field assisted atom flow in triangle optical lattice. The conduction bands are result from periodicity boundary condition of artificial magnetic flux induced phases of atoms. The positions of conduction bands depend on geometry of the atom trajectory. We consider a cell of the triangle optical lattice which is a o

Michael Kapovich, Bernhard Leeb

We propose several common extensions of the classes of Anosov subgroups and geometrically finite Kleinian groups among discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups. We relativize various dynamical and coarse geometric characterizations of Anosov subgroups given in our earlier work, extending the class from intrinsically hyperbolic to relatively hyperbolic sub

A. Bauval, D. L. Gonçalves, C. Hayat

Let M be a Seifert manifold which belongs to the geometry Flat. In this work we determine all the free involutions {\tau} on M, and the Borsuk-Ulam indice of (M,{\tau}).

Shane Kelly

In order to work with non-Nagata rings which are Nagata "up-to-completely-decomposed-universal-homeomorphism", specifically finite rank hensel valuation rings, we introduce the notions of pseudo-integral closure and pseudo-normalisation. We use this notion to give a much more direct and shorter proof that $H^n_{cdh}(X, F) = H^n_{ldh}(X, F)$ for homotopy shea

M. Tsouchnika, M. Kanetidis, P. Argyrakis, R. Kopelman

In present models cloud based lightning forms as a consequence of the earth's gravitational and/or electromagnetic fields. Our simplified field-free model probes the random aggregation of a neutral ensemble consisting of a random distribution of equal numbers of equally charged positive and negative "frozen droplets", given a bivariate sticking probability.

A. Cossidente, F. Pavese

An $m$-$cover$ of lines of a finite projective space ${\rm PG}(r,q)$ (of a finite polar space $\cal P$) is a set of lines $\cal L$ of ${\rm PG}(r,q)$ (of $\cal P$) such that every point of ${\rm PG}(r,q)$ (of $\cal P$) contains $m$ lines of $\cal L$, for some $m$. Embed ${\rm PG}(r,q)$ in ${\rm PG}(r,q^2)$. Let $\bar{\cal L}$ denote the set of points of ${\r

S. Jejčič, P. Heinzel, N. Labrosse, A. N. Zhukov

We determine an optimal width and shape of the narrow-band filter centered around the He\,{\sc i} D$_{3}$ line for prominence and coronal mass ejection (CME) observations with the ASPIICS ({\it Association of Spacecraft for Polarimetric and Imaging Investigation of the Corona of the Sun}) coronagraph onboard the PROBA-3 ({\it Project for On-board Autonomy})

Cristina Conati, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Manolis Mavrikis

Interpretability of the underlying AI representations is a key raison d'\^{e}tre for Open Learner Modelling (OLM) -- a branch of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) research. OLMs provide tools for 'opening' up the AI models of learners' cognition and emotions for the purpose of supporting human learning and teaching. Over thirty years of research in ITS (als

Brice Le Grignou

The goal of this article is to emphasize the role of cubical sets in enriched categories theory and infinity-categories theory. We show in particular that categories enriched in cubical sets provide a convenient way to describe many infinity-categories appearing in the context of homological algebra.

I. P. Costa e Silva, J. L. Flores, J. Herrera

We give new definitions of null infinity and black hole in terms of causal boundaries, applicable to any strongly causal spacetime $(M,g)$. These are meant to extend the standard ones given in terms of conformal boundaries, and use the new definitions to prove a classic result in black hole theory for this more general context: if the null infinity is regula

C. Grunspan, R. Pérez-Marco

We propose a decentralized routing algorithm that can be implemented in Bitcoin Lightning Network. All nodes in the network contribute equally to path searching. The algorithm is inspired from ant path searching algorithms.