July 2018 arXiv papers — page 10

Constantia Alexandrou, Martha Constantinou, Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou, Karl Jansen

In this lattice QCD study we evaluate the nucleon spin decomposition to quarks and gluons contributions. We employ one gauge ensemble of maximally twisted mass fermions with two degenerate light quarks tuned to approximately reproduce the physical pion mass. We find that both spin sum and momentum sum are satisfied within the current statistical and systemat

Guillaume Favelier, Noura Faraj, Brian Summa, Julien Tierny

This paper presents a new approach for the visualization and analysis of the spatial variability of features of interest represented by critical points in ensemble data. Our framework, called Persistence Atlas, enables the visualization of the dominant spatial patterns of critical points, along with statistics regarding their occurrence in the ensemble. The

Andras Gyarfas

A Berge-$K_4$ in a triple system is a configuration with four vertices $v_1,v_2,v_3,v_4$ and six distinct triples $\{e_{ij}: 1\le i< j \le 4\}$ such that $\{v_i,v_j\}\subset e_{ij}$ for every $1\le i<j\le 4$. We denote by $\cal{B}$ the set of Berge-$K_4$ configurations. A triple system is $\cal{B}$-free if it does not contain any member of $\cal{B}$. We prov

Hamza Abd El-Qader, Ahmad Termimi Ab Ghani, Izzat Qaralleh

Many systems are presented using theory of nonlinear operators. A quadratic stochastic operator (QSO) is perceived as a nonlinear operator. It has a wide range of applications in various disciplines, such as mathematics, biology, and other sciences. The central problem that surrounds this nonlinear operator lies in the requirement that behavior should be stu

P. Roth, Y. Chen, M. C. Günendi, R. Beravat

We report a series of experimental, analytical and numerical studies demonstrating strong circular dichroism in helically twisted hollow-core single-ring photonic crystal fiber (SR-PCF), formed by spinning the preform during fiber drawing. In the SR-PCFs studied, the hollow core is surrounded by a single ring of non-touching capillaries. Coupling between the

Kathrin Maurischat, Rainer Weissauer

We give several families of polynomials which are related by Eulerian summation operators. They satisfy interesting combinatorial properties like being integer-valued at integral points. This involves nearby-symmetries and a recursion for the values at half-integral points. We also obtain identities for super Catalan numbers.

Rui Yu, Zhiyong Dou, Song Bai, Zhaoxiang Zhang

Person re-identification (re-ID) is a highly challenging task due to large variations of pose, viewpoint, illumination, and occlusion. Deep metric learning provides a satisfactory solution to person re-ID by training a deep network under supervision of metric loss, e.g., triplet loss. However, the performance of deep metric learning is greatly limited by tra

Xianyan Jia, Shutao Song, Wei He, Yangzihao Wang

Synchronized stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimizers with data parallelism are widely used in training large-scale deep neural networks. Although using larger mini-batch sizes can improve the system scalability by reducing the communication-to-computation ratio, it may hurt the generalization ability of the models. To this end, we build a highly scalabl

Marilena Spavone, Enrichetta Iodice, Massimo Capaccioli, Daniela Bettoni

Most of the galaxies in the Universe at present day are in groups, which are key to understanding the galaxy evolution. In this work we present a new deep mosaic of 1.2 x 1.0 square degrees of the group of galaxies centered on NGC 5018, acquired at the ESO VLT Survey Telescope. We use u, g, r images to analyse the structure of the group members and to estima

Constantia Alexandrou, Martha Constantinou, Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou, Karl Jansen

We present results on the isovector and isoscalar nucleon axial form factors including disconnected contributions,using an ensemble of $N_f =2$ twisted mass clover- improved Wilson fermions simulated with approximately the physical value of the pion mass. The light disconnected quark loops are computed using exact deflation, while the strange and the charm q

Sanoli Gun, M. Ram Murty, Purusottam Rath

While the distribution of the non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function constitutes a central theme in Mathematics, nothing is known about the algebraic nature of these non-trivial zeros. In this article, we study the transcendental nature of sums of the form $$ \sum_{ρ} R(ρ) x^ρ, $$ where the sum is over the non-trivial zeros $ρ$ of $ζ(s)$, $R(x) \in \

Hassan Mohammad, Mohammed Yusuf Waziri

In this paper, we present two choices of structured spectral gradient methods for solving nonlinear least-squares problems. In the proposed methods, the scalar multiple of identity approximation of the Hessian inverse is obtained by imposing the structured quasi-Newton condition. Moreover, we propose a simple strategy for choosing the structured scalar in th

Gabriel Chardin, Giovanni Manfredi

We review the main arguments against antigravity, a different acceleration of antimatter relative to matter in a gravitational field, discussing and challenging Morrison&#39;s, Good&#39;s and Schiff&#39;s arguments. Following Price, we show that, very surprisingly, the usual expression of the Equivalence Principle is violated by General Relativity when parti

Claudio Casetti, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Nuria Molner, Jorge Martin-Perez

A 5G network provides several service types, tailored to specific needs such as high bandwidth or low latency. On top of these communication services, verticals are enabled to deploy their own vertical services. These vertical service instances compete for the resources of the underlying common infrastructure. We present a resource arbitration approach that

Chul-hee Lee

The normalized characters of Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules over a quantum affine algebra have a limit as a formal power series. Mukhin and Young found a conjectural product formula for this limit, which resembles the Weyl denominator formula. We prove this formula except for some cases in type $E_8$ by employing an algebraic relation among these limits, which

Gajanan V Honnavar, Vaibhav Varade, Parul Goel, K P Ramesh

In this communication we report the fluorine ion dynamics in mixed alkali oxyfluro vanadate glasses. We have measured the electrical conductivity using impedance spectroscopy technique Room temperature conductivity falls to 5 orders of magnitude from its single alkali values at 33 mol% of rubidium concentration. We have also estimated the distance between si

J. M. do Ó, J. Giacomoni, P. K. Mishra

In this paper, we show the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions of the following fractional Kirchhoff system\\ \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{rllll} \mc L_M(u)&=λf(x)|u|^{q-2}u+ \frac{2α}{α+β}\left|u\right|^{α-2}u|v|^β& \text{in } Ω,\\ \mc L_M(v)&=μg(x)|v|^{q-2}v+ \frac{2β}{α+β}\left|u\right|^α|v|^{β-2}v & \text{in } Ω,\\ u&=v=0 &\mbox{in

Wenjie Li, Mohamad Assaad

We consider a distributed stochastic optimization problem in networks with finite number of nodes. Each node adjusts its action to optimize the global utility of the network, which is defined as the sum of local utilities of all nodes. Gradient descent method is a common technique to solve the optimization problem, while the computation of the gradient may r

Kağan Kurşungöz

We construct Andrews-Gordon type evidently positive series as generating functions for the partitions satisfying the difference conditions imposed by Capparelli&#39;s identities and Göllnitz-Gordon identities. The construction involves building base partitions, and move parts around subject to certain rules. Some missing cases are also considered, but no new

Soumi Roy Chowdhury, Ranjan Chaudhury

Cooper&#39;s formalism for fermionic pairing has been revisited considering upto 3rd neighbour hopping terms, firstly with a Fermi liquid like background on a square lattice keeping in mind the overdopped cuprates. Then the whole scheme is repeated with a Marginal Fermi liquid- like background, taking into account the self energy correction of the mobile ele

J. M. Ni, Y. Y. Huang, E. J. Cheng, Y. J. Yu

The frustrated pyrochlore iridate Pr$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ was proposed as a metallic quantum spin liquid located at a zero-field quantum critical point. Here we present the ultralow-temperature thermal conductivity measurements on the Pr$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ single crystals to detect possible exotic excitations. In zero field, the thermal conductivity shows a dramatic s

Ruru Yue, Zhe Gao, Na Meng, Yingfei Xiong

When many clones are detected in software programs, not all clones are equally important to developers. To help developers refactor code and improve software quality, various tools were built to recommend clone-removal refactorings based on the past and the present information, such as the cohesion degree of individual clones or the co-evolution relations of

Yantao Shen, Tong Xiao, Hongsheng Li, Shuai Yi

Person re-identification aims to robustly measure similarities between person images. The significant variation of person poses and viewing angles challenges for accurate person re-identification. The spatial layout and correspondences between query person images are vital information for tackling this problem but are ignored by most state-of-the-art methods

Ayça Çeşmelioğlu, Oktay Olmez

A function $F:\mathbb{F}_{p^n}\rightarrow \mathbb{F}_{p^m},$ is a vectorial $s$-plateaued function if for each component function $F_{b}(μ)=Tr_n(αF(x)), b\in \mathbb{F}_{p^m}^*$ and $μ\in \mathbb{F}_{p^n}$, the Walsh transform value $|\widehat{F_{b}}(μ)|$ is either $0$ or $ p^{\frac{n+s}{2}}$. In this paper, we explore the relation between (vectorial) $s$-pl

Yantao Shen, Hongsheng Li, Tong Xiao, Shuai Yi

Person re-identification aims at finding a person of interest in an image gallery by comparing the probe image of this person with all the gallery images. It is generally treated as a retrieval problem, where the affinities between the probe image and gallery images (P2G affinities) are used to rank the retrieved gallery images. However, most existing method

Kairui Feng, Ning Lin

Recent Hurricane Irma (2017) created the most extensive scale of evacuation in Florida&#39;s history, involving about 6.5 million people on mandatory evacuation order and 4 million evacuation vehicles. To understand the hurricane evacuation process, the spatial and temporal evolution of the traffic flow is a critical piece of information, but it is usually n

Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Koji Mori, Takeshi G. Tsuru, Yoshihiro Ueda

FORCE is a 1.2 tonnes small mission dedicated for wide-band fine-imaging x-ray observation. It covers from 1 to 80 keV with a good angular resolution of $15&#34;$ half-power-diameter. It is proposed to be launched around mid-2020s and designed to reach a limiting sensitivity as good as $F_X (10-40~{\rm keV}) = 3 \times 10^{-15}$~erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ keV$^{

Xin Ye, Zhe Lin, Haoxiang Li, Shibin Zheng

We study the problem of learning a navigation policy for a robot to actively search for an object of interest in an indoor environment solely from its visual inputs. While scene-driven visual navigation has been widely studied, prior efforts on learning navigation policies for robots to find objects are limited. The problem is often more challenging than tar

Shweta Yadav, Joy Sain, Amit Sheth, Asif Ekbal

The unprecedented growth of Internet users in recent years has resulted in an abundance of unstructured information in the form of social media text. A large percentage of this population is actively engaged in health social networks to share health-related information. In this paper, we address an important and timely topic by analyzing the users&#39; senti

Chiun-Chang Lee

For the structure of the thin electrical double layer~(EDL) and the property related to the EDL capacitance, we analyze boundary layer solutions (corresponding to the electrostatic potential) of a non-local elliptic equation which is a steady-state Poisson--Nernst--Planck equation with a singular perturbation parameter related to the small Debye screening le

Kallol Paul, Arpita Mal, Pawel Wójcik

We study left symmetric bounded linear operators in the sense of Birkhoff-James orthogonality defined between infinite dimensional Banach spaces. We prove that a bounded linear operator defined between two strictly convex Banach spaces is left symmetric if and only if it is zero operator when the domain space is reflexive and Kadets-Klee. We exhibit a non-ze

Ningning Ma, Xiangyu Zhang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Jian Sun

Currently, the neural network architecture design is mostly guided by the \emph{indirect} metric of computation complexity, i.e., FLOPs. However, the \emph{direct} metric, e.g., speed, also depends on the other factors such as memory access cost and platform characterics. Thus, this work proposes to evaluate the direct metric on the target platform, beyond o

Shirali Kadyrov, Yershat Sapazhanov

For any complex $α$ with non-zero imaginary part we show that Bernstein-Walsh type inequality holds on the piece of the curve $\{(e^z,e^{αz}) : z \in \mathbb C\}$. Our result extends a theorem of Coman-Poletsky \cite{CP10} where they considered real-valued $α$.

Hao-Min Liu, Yi-Hsuan Yang

Research on automatic music generation has seen great progress due to the development of deep neural networks. However, the generation of multi-instrument music of arbitrary genres still remains a challenge. Existing research either works on lead sheets or multi-track piano-rolls found in MIDIs, but both musical notations have their limits. In this work, we

Huan Yang, De-Chao Zhang, Lan Liu, Ya-Xiong Liu

Resonances in ultracold collisions involving heavy molecules are difficult to understand, and have proven challenging to detect. Here we report the observation of magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in ultracold collisions between $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K molecules in the rovibrational ground state and $^{40}$K atoms. We prepare the atoms and molecules in vari

Ceyuan Yang, Zhe Wang, Xinge Zhu, Chen Huang

Due to the emergence of Generative Adversarial Networks, video synthesis has witnessed exceptional breakthroughs. However, existing methods lack a proper representation to explicitly control the dynamics in videos. Human pose, on the other hand, can represent motion patterns intrinsically and interpretably, and impose the geometric constraints regardless of

Tingguang Li, Jin Pan, Delong Zhu, Max Q. -H. Meng

To achieve scenario intelligence, humans must transfer knowledge to robots by developing goal-oriented algorithms, which are sometimes insensitive to dynamically changing environments. While deep reinforcement learning achieves significant success recently, it is still extremely difficult to be deployed in real robots directly. In this paper, we propose a hy

Feilong Liu, Niranjan Kamat, Spyros Blanas, Arnab Nandi

Sampling is often used to reduce query latency for interactive big data analytics. The established parallel data processing paradigm relies on function shipping, where a coordinator dispatches queries to worker nodes and then collects the results. The commoditization of high-performance networking makes data shipping possible, where the coordinator directly

Xiang Guo, Yuchao Dai

Albeit the recent progress in single image 3D human pose estimation due to the convolutional neural network, it is still challenging to handle real scenarios such as highly occluded scenes. In this paper, we propose to address the problem of single image 3D human pose estimation with occluded measurements by exploiting the Euclidean distance matrix (EDM). Sp

S. Ebser, A. Kersting, T. Stöven, Z. Feng

Ocean ventilation is the integrated effect of various processes that propagate surface properties to the ocean interior. Its precise understanding is the prerequisite for addressing essential questions such as oxygen supply, the storage of anthropogenic carbon and the heat budget of the ocean. Currently employed observational methods to infer ventilation uti

Mahito Sasada, Svetlana Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher, Vishal Bala

We analyze the linear polarization of the relativistic jet in BL Lacertae object OJ~287 as revealed by multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) images at 43 GHz and monitoring observations at optical bands. The electric-vector position angle (EVPA) of the optical polarization matches that at 43 GHz at locations that are often in the compact millimeter-wav

Dun Liang

This paper designs an alogrithm to compute the minimal combinations of finite sets in Euclidean spaces, and applys the algorithm of study the moment maps and geometric invariant stability of hypersurfaces. The classical example of cubic curves is repeated by the algorithm. Furhtermore the alogrithm works for cubic surfaces. For given affinely indepdent subse

Duligur Ibeling

Recent authors have proposed analyzing conditional reasoning through a notion of intervention on a simulation program, and have found a sound and complete axiomatization of the logic of conditionals in this setting. Here we extend this setting to the case of probabilistic simulation models. We give a natural definition of probability on formulas of the condi

Amruta Vidwans, Nachiket Deo, Preeti Rao

We investigate methods for the automatic labeling of the taan section, a prominent structural component of the Hindustani Khayal vocal concert. The taan contains improvised raga-based melody rendered in the highly distinctive style of rapid pitch and energy modulations of the voice. We propose computational features that capture these specific high-level cha

Richard Whyman

We present the finite first-order theory (FFOT) machine, which provides an atemporal description of computation. We then develop a concept of complexity for the FFOT machine, and prove that the class of problems decidable by a FFOT machine with polynomial resources is NP intersect co-NP.

Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Richard Hua

Quantum annealing has shown significant potential as an approach to near-term quantum computing. Despite promising progress towards obtaining a quantum speedup, quantum annealers are limited by the need to embed problem instances within the (often highly restricted) connectivity graph of the annealer. This embedding can be costly to perform and may destroy a

Jorge Luiz Deolindo Silva

We establish cross-ratio invariants for surfaces in 4-space in an analogous way to Uribe-Vargas&#39;s work for surfaces in 3-space. We study the geometric locii of local and multi-local singularities of ortogonal projections of the surface. The cross-ratio invariants at $P_3(c)$-points are used to recover two moduli in the 4-jet of the projective parametriza

Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Yossi Shvartzvald, Michael D. Albrow

We present the analysis of a binary microlensing event KMT-2016-BLG-2052, for which the lensing-induced brightening of the source star lasted for 2 seasons. We determine the lens mass from the combined measurements of the microlens parallax $\pie$ and angular Einstein radius $\thetae$. The measured mass indicates that the lens is a binary composed of M dwarf

Chelsea X. Huang, Avi Shporer, Diana Dragomir, Michael Fausnaugh

We present a prediction of the transiting exoplanet yield of the TESS primary mission, in order to guide follow-up observations and science projects utilizing TESS discoveries. Our new simulations differ from previous work by using (1) an updated photometric noise model that accounts for the nominal pointing jitter estimated through simulation prior to launc

Aaron Jaech, Baosen Zhang, Mari Ostendorf, Daniel S. Kirschen

This paper addresses the problem of predicting duration of unplanned power outages, using historical outage records to train a series of neural network predictors. The initial duration prediction is made based on environmental factors, and it is updated based on incoming field reports using natural language processing to automatically analyze the text. Exper

Yuanyuan Shi, Bolun Xu, Yushi Tan, Daniel Kirschen

We study the optimal control of battery energy storage under a general &#34;pay-for-performance&#34; setup such as providing frequency regulation and renewable integration. In these settings, batteries need to carefully balance the trade-off between following the instruction signals and their degradation costs in real-time. Existing battery control strategie

Y. Weng, R. Rajagopal, B. Zhang

Understanding the feasible power flow region is of central importance to power system analysis. In this paper, we propose a geometric view of the power system loadability problem. By using rectangular coordinates for complex voltages, we provide an integrated geometric understanding of active and reactive power flow equations on loadability boundaries. Based

Xiujun Li, Yu Wang, Siqi Sun, Sarah Panda

This proposal introduces a Dialogue Challenge for building end-to-end task-completion dialogue systems, with the goal of encouraging the dialogue research community to collaborate and benchmark on standard datasets and unified experimental environment. In this special session, we will release human-annotated conversational data in three domains (movie-ticket

Jingbo Zhao, Robert S. Allison, Margarita Vinnikov, Sion Jennings

Recent research has proposed teleoperation of robotic and aerial vehicles using head motion tracked by a head-mounted display (HMD). First-person views of the vehicles are usually captured by onboard cameras and presented to users through the display panels of HMDs. This provides users with a direct, immersive and intuitive interface for viewing and control.

William A. Terrano, Jonas Meinel, Natasha Sachdeva, Timothy E. Chupp

Polarized nuclei are a powerful tool in nuclear spin studies and in searches for beyond-the-standard model physics. Noble-gas comagnetometer systems, which compare two nuclear species, have thus far been limited by anomalous frequency variations of unknown origin. We studied the self-interactions in a $^3$He-$^{129}$Xe system by independently addressing, con

Jian Ding, Mateo Wirth

We study level-set percolation for Gaussian free fields on metric graphs. In two dimensions, we give an upper bound on the chemical distance between the two boundaries of a macroscopic annulus. Our bound holds with high probability conditioned on connectivity and the bound is sharp up to a poly-logarithmic factor with an exponent of one-quarter. This substan

Laura Rebollo-Neira, Daniel Whitehouse

Sparse representation of 3D images is considered within the context of data reduction. The goal is to produce high quality approximations of 3D images using fewer elementary components than the number of intensity points in the 3D array. This is achieved by means of a highly redundant dictionary and a dedicated pursuit strategy especially designed for low me

Pengfei Yao

We perform a detailed analysis of the solvability of linear strain equations on hyperbolic surfaces to obtain $L^2$ regularity solutions. Then the rigidity results on the strain tensor of the middle surface are implied by the $L^2$ regularity for non-characteristic regions. Finally, we obtain the optimal constant in the first Korn inequality scales like $h^{

Pengfei Yao

We establish Korn&#39;s interpolation inequalities and the rigidity results of the strain tensor of the middle surface for the parabolic and elliptic shells and show that the best constant in Korn&#39;s inequalities scales like $h^{3/2}$ for the parabolic shell and $h$ for the elliptic shell, removing the main assumption that the middle surface of the shell

Huy Tu, Vivek Nair

Hyperparameter tuning is the black art of automatically finding a good combination of control parameters for a data miner. While widely applied in empirical Software Engineering, there has not been much discussion on which hyperparameter tuner is best for software analytics. To address this gap in the literature, this paper applied a range of hyperparameter

Han Cai, Jinhong Liu, Jinze Wu, Yanyan He

Chiral edge currents play an important role in characterizing topological matter. In atoms, they have been observed at such a low temperature that the atomic motion can be measured. Here we report the first experimental observation of chiral edge currents in atoms at room temperature. Staggered magnetic fluxes are induced by the spatial phase difference betw

Xusheng Li, Zhisheng Hu, Haizhou Wang, Yiwei Fu

Return-oriented programming (ROP) is a code reuse attack that chains short snippets of existing code to perform arbitrary operations on target machines. Existing detection methods against ROP exhibit unsatisfactory detection accuracy and/or have high runtime overhead. In this paper, we present ROPNN, which innovatively combines address space layout guided di

Shin-Ming Huang, Su-Yang Xu, Bahadur Singh, Ming-Chien Hsu

The charge density wave (CDW) in 1T-TiSe2 accompanied by the periodic lattice distortion has a nontrivial symmetry configuration. The symmetry is important as an indication of the mechanism and a cue for experimental probes. We examine the symmetry of the system and clear up the connection of electronic structures between the normal and the CDW states. Espec

Gal Shahaf, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon

Sybil attacks, in which fake or duplicate identities (\emph{sybils}) infiltrate an online community, pose a serious threat to such communities, as they might tilt community-wide decisions in their favor. While the extensive research on sybil identification may help keep the fraction of sybils in such communities low, it cannot however ensure their complete e

Duncan McCoy

A slope $p/q$ is a characterising slope for a knot $K$ in $S^3$ if the oriented homeomorphism type of $p/q$-surgery on $K$ determines $K$ uniquely. We show that when $K$ is a hyperbolic knot its set of characterising slopes contains all but finitely many slopes $p/q$ with $q \geq 3$. We prove stronger results for hyperbolic $L$-space knots, showing that all

Andrew Powell

This is a paper that aims to interpret the cardinality of a set in terms of Baire Category, i.e. how many closed nowhere dense sets can be deleted from a set before the set itself becomes negligible. . To do this natural tree-theoretic structures such as the Baire topology are introduced, and the Baire Category Theorem is extended to a statement that a $\ale

Tianyun Zhang, Shaokai Ye, Kaiqi Zhang, Xiaolong Ma

Weight pruning methods of DNNs have been demonstrated to achieve a good model pruning rate without loss of accuracy, thereby alleviating the significant computation/storage requirements of large-scale DNNs. Structured weight pruning methods have been proposed to overcome the limitation of irregular network structure and demonstrated actual GPU acceleration.

Liam Sharp, Reza Salari, Grace Brannigan

Reconstituted nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) exhibit significant gain-of-function upon addition of cholesterol to reconstitution mixtures, and cholesterol affects organization of nAChRs within domain-forming membranes, but whether nAChR partitions to cholesterol-rich liquid-ordered (&#34;raft&#34; or $l_o$) domains or cholesterol-poor liquid-diso

Bruno Bauwens, Alexander Shen

We consider the notion of information distance between two objects x and y introduced by Bennett, Gács, Li, Vitanyi, and Zurek [1] as the minimal length of a program that computes x from y as well as computing y from x, and study different versions of this notion. It was claimed by Mahmud [11] that the prefix version of information distance equals max(K(x|y)

Ceren B. Dağ, L. -M. Duan

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC), recently being the center of discussion on quantum chaos, are a tool to understand the information scrambling in different phases of quantum many-body systems. We propose a disordered ladder spin model, XX-ladder, which can be designed in a scalable cold atom setup to detect OTOC with a novel sign reversal protocol for t

S. Kumar

The 4th generation light source has achieved tremendous success and leveraged scientific research in material science, biology and chemistry fundamentally. This paper discussed progress in LCLS as introduction and the possibility of accelerating driver beam with plasma wakefield in following section. Several potential applications of next generation light so

Manal Alshuqayr, Toshiki Nakashima

We consider a product of fundamental crystals in monomial realization of type A. Then we shall show that the product holds crystal structure and describe how it is decomposed into irreducible crystals, which is, in general, different from the decomposition for tensor product of the fundamental crystals.

Wei Wei, Deyu Meng, Qian Zhao, Zongben Xu

Single image rain removal is a typical inverse problem in computer vision. The deep learning technique has been verified to be effective for this task and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, previous deep learning methods need to pre-collect a large set of image pairs with/without synthesized rain for training, which tends to make the neural netw

Mirco Ravanelli, Yoshua Bengio

Deep learning is progressively gaining popularity as a viable alternative to i-vectors for speaker recognition. Promising results have been recently obtained with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when fed by raw speech samples directly. Rather than employing standard hand-crafted features, the latter CNNs learn low-level speech representations from wavef

J. Klüter, U. Bastian, M. Demleitner, J. Wambsganss

Context: Astrometric gravitational microlensing is an excellent tool to determine the mass of stellar objects. Using precise astrometric measurements of the lensed position of a background source in combination with accurate predictions of the positions of the lens and the unlensed source it is possible to determine the mass of the lens with an accuracy of a

Mihaela Todorova, Borislav Stoyanov, Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Krasimir Kordov

In this paper, we propose a novel hash function based on irregularly decimated chaotic map. The hash function called SHAH is based on two Tinkerbell maps filtered with irregular decimation rule. Exact study has been provided on the novel scheme using distribution analysis, sensitivity analysis, static analysis of diffusion and confusion, and collision analys

Diego Alonso-Orán, Fernando Chamizo, Ángel D. Martínez, Albert Mas

In this paper the authors present a proof of a pointwise radial monotonicity property of heat kernels that is shared by the euclidean spaces, spheres and hyperbolic spaces. The main result deals with monotonicity from special points on revolution hypersurfaces from which the aforementioned are deduced. The proof relies on a non straightforward but elementary

Haocheng Zhang, Ke Fang, Hui Li

The association of the high-energy neutrino event IceCube-170922A with the flaring blazar TXS~0506+056 indicates that hadronic processes may operate in a blazar jet. We perform semi-analytical spectral fitting of the multi-wavelength emission to obtain estimates of the jet physical parameters, and find that the multi-wavelength emission can be explained by e

Soon-Seo Park, Youngjae Min, Jung-Su Ha, Doo-Hyun Cho

This paper investigates non-myopic path planning of mobile sensors for multi-target tracking. Such problem has posed a high computational complexity issue and/or the necessity of high-level decision making. Existing works tackle these issues by heuristically assigning targets to each sensing agent and solving the split problem for each agent. However, such h

Reyhaneh Hosseini, Mahmoud Zarepour

In this paper, we describe a Bayesian nonparametric approach to make inference for a bivariate spherically symmetric distribution. We consider a Dirichlet invariant process prior on the set of all bivariate spherically symmetric distributions and we derive the Dirichlet invariant process posterior. Indeed, our approach is an extension of Dirichlet invariant

Evelyn King, Joshua S. Schoenfield, M. J. Calderón, Belita Koiller

One obstacle that has slowed the development of electrically gated metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) singlet-triplet qubits is the frequent lack of observed spin blockade, even in samples with large singlet-triplet energy splittings. We present theoretical and experimental evidence that the cause of this problem in MOS double quantum dots is the stray positive

Kaveh Fathian, Sleiman Safaoui, Tyler H. Summers, Nicholas R. Gans

We present a distributed formation control strategy for agents with a variety of dynamics to achieve a desired planar formation. Our approach is based on the barycentric-coordinate-based (BCB) control, which is fully distributed, does not require inter-agent communication or a common sense of orientation, and can be implemented using relative position measur

Wei Li, Brian Mak

This paper investigates a cross-lingual document embedding method that improves the current Neural machine Translation framework based Document Vector (NTDV or simply NV). NV is developed with a self-attention mechanism under the neural machine translation (NMT) framework. In NV, each pair of parallel documents in different languages are projected to the sam

A. Yu. Orlov

We shall consider the product of complex random matrices from the independent complex Ginibre ensembles. The product includes complex matrices $Z_i, Z_i^\dagger, \, i = 1, \ldots, n$ and $2n$ sources (complex matrices $C_i$ and $C_i^*$). Any such product can be represented by a chord diagram that encodes the order of the matrices in the product. We introduce

Luca Alasio, Maria Bruna, José Antonio Carrillo

We show that solutions of nonlinear nonlocal Fokker--Planck equations in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions can be approximated by Cauchy problems with increasingly strong confining potentials defined in the whole space. Two different approaches are analyzed, making crucial use of uniform estimates for $L^2$ energy functionals and free energy

J. M. Yao, J. Engel, L. J. Wang, C. F. Jiao

We use a reference state based on symmetry-restored states from deformed mean-field or generator-coordinate-method (GCM) calculations in conjunction with the in-medium similarity-renormalization group (IMSRG) to compute spectra and matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta ($0νββ$) decay. Because the decay involves ground states from two nuclei, we use ev

Kavindu Dodanduwa, Ishara Kaluthanthri

Authentication and authorization are two key elements of a software application. In modern day, OAuth 2.0 framework and OpenID Connect protocol are widely adopted standards fulfilling these requirements. These protocols are implemented into authorization servers. It is common to call these authorization servers as identity servers or identity providers since

Song He, Chi Zhang

Inspired by the idea of viewing amplitudes in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM as differential forms on momentum twistor space, we introduce differential forms on the space of spinor variables, which combine helicity amplitudes in any four-dimensional gauge theory as a single object. In this note we focus on such differential forms in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM, which can also be tho

Yansong Gao, Marten van Dijk, Lei Xu, Wei Yang

A physical unclonable function (PUF) generates hardware intrinsic volatile secrets by exploiting uncontrollable manufacturing randomness. Although PUFs provide the potential for lightweight and secure authentication for increasing numbers of low-end Internet of Things devices, practical and secure mechanisms remain elusive. We aim to explore simulatable PUFs

Qi-Li Liao, Ya Deng, Yan Yu, Guang-Chuan Wang

The production of the heavy quarkonium, i.e., $|(c\bar{b})[n]\rangle$ (or $|(b\bar{c})[n]\rangle$), $|(c\bar{c})[n]\rangle$, and $|(b\bar{b})[n]\rangle$- quarkonium [$|(Q\bar{Q&#39;})[n]\rangle$-quarkonium for short], through Higgs $H^{0}$ boson semiexclusive decays is evaluated within the NRQCD framework, where $[n]$ stands for the production of the two col

Tiago J. Fonseca

We describe higher dimensional generalizations of Ramanujan&#39;s classical differential relations satisfied by the Eisenstein series $E_2$, $E_4$, $E_6$. Such &#34;higher Ramanujan equations&#34; are given geometrically in terms of vector fields living on certain moduli stacks classifying abelian schemes equipped with suitable frames of their first de Rham

S. I. Mistakidis, G. C. Katsimiga, G. M. Koutentakis, P. Schmelcher

We explore repulsive Fermi polarons in one-dimensional harmonically trapped few-body mixtures of ultracold atoms using as a case example a $^6$Li-$^{40}$K mixture. A characterization of these quasiparticle-like states, whose appearance is signalled in the impurity&#39;s radiofrequency spectrum, is achieved by extracting their lifetime and residua. Increasing

Torsten Mütze, Manfred Scheucher

An L-shaped embedding of a tree in a point set is a planar drawing of the tree where the vertices are mapped to distinct points and every edge is drawn as a sequence of two axis-aligned line segments. There has been considerable work on establishing upper bounds on the minimum cardinality of a point set to guarantee that any tree of the same size with maximu

Jan Kallberg

In the future, the United States government can seek to limit the ownership and usage of cyber weapons. The question is whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution gives a right to bear and own military-grade cyber weapons, and if so, under which conditions. The framers of the Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791, did not limit the right to be

Mohamed Karim Hamdani, Abdellaziz Harrabi

Consider the following $m-$polyharmonic Kirchhoff problem: \begin{eqnarray} \label{ea} \begin{cases} M\left(\int_Ø|D_r u|^{m} +a|u|^m\right)[Δ^r_m u +a|u|^{m-2}u]= K(x)f(u) &\mbox{in}\quad Ω, \\ u=\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial ν}\right)^k u=0, \quad &\mbox{on}\quad \partialΩ, \quad k=1, 2,..... , r-1, \end{cases} \end{eqnarray} where $r \in \N^*$, $m >1$, $

O. B. Zaslavskii

We consider collision of particles in a wormhole near its throat. Particles come from the opposite mouths. If the lapse function is small enough there, the energy $E$ of debris at infinity grows unbounded, so we are faced with the so-called super-Penrose process. This requires the existence of the ergoregion, so a wormhole should be rotating.

S. Mignemi, N. Uras

We introduce a model of noncommutative geometry that gives rise to the uncertainty relations recently derived from the discussion of a quantum clock. We investigate the dynamics of a free particle in this model from the point of view of doubly special relativity and discuss the geodesic motion in a Schwarzschild background.

Guy Louchard

In this paper, we analyze the stochastic properties of some large size (area) polyominoe&#39;s perimeter such that the directed column-convex polyomino, the column-convex polyomino, the directed diagonally-convex polyomino, the staircase (or parallelogram) polyomino, the escalier polyomino, the wall (or bargraph) polyomino. All polyominoes considered here ar

M. Roostaee, Amir M. Abbassi

Considering hybrid F-term inflation in RSII model and using the most recent data from Planck 2018 and in comparison with Planck 2015and WMAP 9-year , we can obtain some interesting constraints on main parameters of the model. Also, we attain convenient compatibility between this model and observational data. We show that this setup provides a successful hybr

Gang Lü, Qin-Qin Zhi

We investigate the direct $CP$ violation for the decay process of $\bar{B}_{s}\rightarrow P(V)π^{0}$ (P,V refer to the pseudoscalar meson and vector meson, respectively) via isospin symmetry breaking effects from the $π^{0}-η-η&#39;$ mixing mechanism in PQCD factorization approach. Isospin symmetry breaking arises from the electroweak interaction and the u-d