July 2018 arXiv papers — page 5

Nadezda Sukhorukova

In this paper we extend a number of important results of the classical Chebyshev approximation theory to the case of simultaneous approximation of two or more functions. The need for this extension is application driven, since such kind of problems appears in the area of curve (signal) clustering. In this paper we propose a new efficient algorithm for signal

Guorun Yang, Hengshuang Zhao, Jianping Shi, Zhidong Deng

Disparity estimation for binocular stereo images finds a wide range of applications. Traditional algorithms may fail on featureless regions, which could be handled by high-level clues such as semantic segments. In this paper, we suggest that appropriate incorporation of semantic cues can greatly rectify prediction in commonly-used disparity estimation framew

Guy Hadash, Oren Sar Shalom, Rita Osadchy

The two main tasks in the Recommender Systems domain are the ranking and rating prediction tasks. The rating prediction task aims at predicting to what extent a user would like any given item, which would enable to recommend the items with the highest predicted scores. The ranking task on the other hand directly aims at recommending the most valuable items f

Silvia Bucci, Mohammad Reza Loghmani, Barbara Caputo

Typically a classifier trained on a given dataset (source domain) does not performs well if it is tested on data acquired in a different setting (target domain). This is the problem that domain adaptation (DA) tries to overcome and, while it is a well explored topic in computer vision, it is largely ignored in robotic vision where usually visual classificati

Shaofang Hong, Wei Cao

Borwein and Choi conjectured that a polynomial $P(x)$ with coefficients $\pm1$ of degree $N-1$ is cyclotomic iff $$P(x)=\pm Φ_{p_1}(\pm x)Φ_{p_2}(\pm x^{p_1})\cdots Φ_{p_r}(\pm x^{p_1p_2\cdots p_{r-1}})$$ where $N=p_1p_2\cdots p_{r}$ and the $p_i$ are primes, not necessarily distinct. Here $Φ_p(x):=(x^p-1)/(x-1)$ is the $p-$th cyclotomic polynomial. In \cite

Jay Fraser, Olivia Jeans, Jozef Širáň

The main result of D. Archdeacon, M. Conder and J. Širáň [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 366 (2014) 8, 4491-4512] implies existence of a regular, self-dual and self-Petrie dual map of any given even valency. In this paper we extend this result to any odd valency $\ge 5$. This is done by algebraic number theory and maps defined on the groups ${\rm PSL}(2,p)$ in the

Marcel Krause, Joachim Wolf

Many complex vacuum systems include edge-welded bellows. Their simulation in the molecular flow regime with a Test Particle Monte Carlo (TPMC) code, such as MolFlow+, can take considerable amounts of computing power and time. Therefore we investigated the change of the transmission probability of a bellow compared to a cylindrical tube in TPMC simulations. T

Rupert L. Frank, Phan Thành Nam, Hanne van den Bosch

We prove that in Müller theory, a nucleus of charge $Z$ can bind at most $Z+C$ electrons for a constant $C$ independent of $Z$.

Jatin Garg, Skand Vishwanath Peri, Himanshu Tolani, Narayanan C Krishnan

Learning from different modalities is a challenging task. In this paper, we look at the challenging problem of cross modal face verification and recognition between caricature and visual image modalities. Caricature have exaggerations of facial features of a person. Due to the significant variations in the caricatures, building vision models for recognizing

Long Bai

For $X_i(t), i=1,\ldots, n, t\in [0,T]$ centered Gaussian processes, the chi-square process $\sum_{i=1}^{n}X_i^2(t)$ appears naturally as limiting processes in various statistical models. In this paper, we are concerned with the exact tail asymptotics of the supremum taken over discrete grids of a class of locally stationary chi-square processes where $X_i(t

J. Maíz Apellániz, M. Pantaleoni González

CONTEXT. 2MASS is the reference survey in the NIR part of the spectrum given its whole-sky coverage, large dynamic range, and proven calibration uniformity. However, previous studies disagree in the value of the zero points (ZPs) for its three bands JHK at the hundredth of a magnitude level. The disagreement should become more noticeable now that Gaia provid

Shlomi Dolev, Nisha Panwar

Peripheral authentication is an important aspect in the vehicle networks to provide services to only authenticated peripherals and a security to internal vehicle modules such as anti-lock braking system, power-train control module, engine control unit, transmission control unit, and tire pressure monitoring. In this paper a three-way handshake scheme is prop

Yuki Kanakubo, Toshiki Nakashima

For a Kac-Moody group $G$, double Bruhat cells $G^{u,e}$ ($u$ is a Weyl group element) have positive geometric crystal structures. In arXiv:1210.2533, it is shown that there exist birational maps between `cluster tori' $\mathcal{X}_Σ$ (resp. $\mathcal{A}_Σ$) and $G_{\rm Ad}^{u,e}$ (resp. $G^{u,e}$), and they are extended to regular maps from cluster $\ma

Naoto Tsuji, Masahito Ueda

We derive the fluctuation theorem for quantum-state statistics that can be obtained when we initially measure the total energy of a quantum system at thermal equilibrium, let the system evolve unitarily, and record the quantum-state data reconstructed at the end of the process. The obtained theorem shows that the quantum-state statistics for the forward and

Asifullah Khan, Aneela Zameer, Tauseef Jamal, Ahmad Raza

Wind energy forecasting helps to manage power production, and hence, reduces energy cost. Deep Neural Networks (DNN) mimics hierarchical learning in the human brain and thus possesses hierarchical, distributed, and multi-task learning capabilities. Based on aforementioned characteristics, we report Deep Belief Network (DBN) based forecast engine for wind pow

Yi Zhao, Shinji Takaki, Hieu-Thi Luong, Junichi Yamagishi

Recent neural networks such as WaveNet and sampleRNN that learn directly from speech waveform samples have achieved very high-quality synthetic speech in terms of both naturalness and speaker similarity even in multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis systems. Such neural networks are being used as an alternative to vocoders and hence they are often called neu

Saad Ullah Akram, Talha Qaiser, Simon Graham, Juho Kannala

Mitosis count is an important biomarker for prognosis of various cancers. At present, pathologists typically perform manual counting on a few selected regions of interest in breast whole-slide-images (WSIs) of patient biopsies. This task is very time-consuming, tedious and subjective. Automated mitosis detection methods have made great advances in recent yea

Y-Z. Cai, A. Pastorello, M. Fraser, M. T. Botticella

We report the results of our spectrophotometric monitoring campaign for AT~2017be in NGC~2537. Its lightcurve reveals a fast rise to an optical maximum, followed by a plateau lasting about 30 days, and finally a fast decline. Its absolute peak magnitude ($M_{r}$ $\simeq$ $-$12 $\rm{mag}$) is fainter than that of core-collapse supernovae, and is consistent wi

Raimund Preusser

We compute the $V$-monoid of a weighted Leavitt path algebra of a row-finite weighted graph, correcting a wrong computation of the $V$-monoid that exists in the literature. Further we show that the description of $K_0$ of a weighted Leavitt path algebra that exists in the literature is correct (although the computation was based on a wrong $V$-monoid descrip

Roshanak Zakizadeh, Michele Sasdelli, Yu Qian, Eduard Vazquez

DeepFashion is a widely used clothing dataset with 50 categories and more than overall 200k images where each image is annotated with fine-grained attributes. This dataset is often used for clothes recognition and although it provides comprehensive annotations, the attributes distribution is unbalanced and repetitive specially for training fine-grained attri

Tianqi Wang, Chao-Kai Wen, Shi Jin, Geoffrey Ye Li

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems rely on channel state information (CSI) feedback to perform precoding and achieve performance gain in frequency division duplex (FDD) networks. However, the huge number of antennas poses a challenge to conventional CSI feedback reduction methods and leads to excessive feedback overhead. In this article, w

Futoshi Hayasaka

In this article, we give a condition on the vanishing of finitely many homogeneous components which must imply the asymptotic vanishing for multigraded modules. We apply our result to multi-Rees algebras of ideals. As a consequence, we obtain a result on normality of monomial ideals, which extends and improves the results of Reid-Roberts-Vitulli, Singla, and

Shih-Huan Hsu, Tian-Li Yu

This paper proposes a new evolutionary algorithm, called DSMGA-II, to efficiently solve optimization problems via exploiting problem substructures. The proposed algorithm adopts pairwise linkage detection and stores the information in the form of dependency structure matrix (DSM). A new linkage model, called the incremental linkage set, is then constructed b

Manasi Mandal, Sourav Marik, K. P. Sajilesh, Arushi

This work presents the emergence of superconductivity in Re substituted topological Weyl semimetal MoTe$_{2}$. Re substitution for Mo sites lead to a sizable enhancement in the superconducting transition temperature (T$_{c}$). A record high T$_{c}$ at ambient pressure in a 1T$'$-MoTe$_{2}$ (room temperature structure) related sample is observed for the M

Rajesh Mandal, Rohit Babar, Malvika Tripathi, Shouvik Datta

Boron carbonitride (BxCyNz) represents an interesting family of materials containing all light elements and two dimensional graphene like hybrid layers. Although rich literature exists on this peculiar material in chemically processed form, there are relatively fewer reports on device application-worthy thin film form. This form also offers a natural platfor

S. Mohapatra, S. Mathimalar, S. Chaudhary, K. V. Raman

Understanding depairing effects in a hybrid-superconducting interface utilizing high spin-orbit materials such as topological insulators or 1D semiconducting nanowires is becoming an important research topic in the study of proximity-induced superconductivity. Experimentally, proximity-induced superconductivity is found to suppress at much lower magnetic fie

Herivelto Borges, Satoru Fukasawa

We determine the distribution of Galois points for plane curves over a finite field of $q$ elements, which are Frobenius nonclassical for different powers of $q$. This family is an important class of plane curves with many remarkable properties. It contains the Dickson-Guralnick-Zieve curve, which has been recently studied by Giulietti, Korchmaros, and Timpa

Mani Shankar Pandey, Sumit Kumar Upadhyay, Vipul Kakkar

In this paper, we discuss when a class function on a finite group is a bent function. We have found a necessary condition for a class function on a finite abelian group to be bent. Also, we have found a necessary and sufficient condition for a class function on a finite cyclic group to be bent.

Jian Liu, Shiqing Xin, Zengfu Gao, Kai Xu

We propose to synthesize feasible caging grasps for a target object through computing Caging Loops, a closed curve defined in the shape embedding space of the object. Different from the traditional methods, our approach decouples caging loops from the surface geometry of target objects through working in the embedding space. This enables us to synthesize cag

Dimitar Kumanov, Ling-Hong Hung, Wes Lloyd, Ka Yee Yeung

Cloud computing offers on-demand, scalable computing and storage, and has become an essential resource for the analyses of big biomedical data. The usual approach to cloud computing requires users to reserve and provision virtual servers. An emerging alternative is to have the provider allocate machine resources dynamically. This type of serverless computing

P. W. Zheng, X. Y. Gong, X. Q. Lu, L. H. He

A new synergy mechanism between Ohkawa current drive (OKCD) of electron cyclotron (EC) waves and lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) is discovered and discussed. And the methodology to achieve this synergy effect is also introduced. Improvement of OKCD efficiency can be achieved up to a factor of ~ 2.5 in far off-axis radial region (\r{ho} > 0.6) of tokamak pl

Gaoshun Gou, I. D. Platis

The Korányi ellipsoidal ring $\mathcal{E}$ of radii $B$ and $A$, $0<B<A$, is defined as the image of the Korányi spherical ring of the same radii and centred at the origin via a linear contact map $L$ in the Heisenberg group. If $K\ge 1$ is the maximal distortion of $L$ then we prove that the modulus of $\mathcal{E}$ is equal to $$ {\rm mod}(\mathcal{E})=\le

Yan-Feng Zhou, Zhe Hou, Qing-Feng Sun

We study the transport on the domain wall (DW) in a magnetic topological insulator. The low-energy behaviors of the magnetic topological insulator are dominated by the chiral edge states (CESs). Here, we find that the spectrum and transport of the CESs at the DW are strongly dependent on the DW configuration. For a Bloch wall, two co-propagating CESs at the

Yong-Lei Wang, Xiaoyu Ma, Jing Xu, Zhi-Li Xiao

Geometric frustration emerges when local interaction energies in an ordered lattice structure cannot be simultaneously minimized, resulting in a large number of degenerate states. The numerous degenerate configurations may lead to practical applications in microelectronics, such as data storage, memory and logic. However, it is difficult to achieve extensive

Fei Wang, Liren Chen, Cheng Li, Shiyao Huang

The growing scale of face recognition datasets empowers us to train strong convolutional networks for face recognition. While a variety of architectures and loss functions have been devised, we still have a limited understanding of the source and consequence of label noise inherent in existing datasets. We make the following contributions: 1) We contribute c

Li Ge, Nan Zhao

We propose a way to cool the rotation of a nanodiamond, which contains a NV-center and is levitated by an optical tweezer. Following the rotation of the particle, the NV-center electron spin experiences varying external fields and so leads to spin-rotation coupling. By optically pumping the electrons from a higher energy level to a lower level, the rotation

Yasuhito Miyamoto, Justino Sanchez, Vicente Vergara

The aim of this paper is to deal with the $k$-Hessian counterpart of the Laplace equation involving a nonlinearity studied by Matukuma. Namely, our model is the problem \begin{equation*} (1)\;\;\;\begin{cases} S_k(D^2u)= λ\frac{|x|^{μ-2}}{(1+|x|^2)^{\fracμ{2}}} (1-u)^q &\mbox{in }\;\; B,\\ u <0 & \mbox{in }\;\; B,\\ u=0 &\mbox{on }\partial B, \end{cases} \en

Sifeng He, Bahram Jalali

A hallucination-free and computationally efficient algorithm for enhancing the resolution of brain MRI images is demonstrated.

Andrés Chirre

Let $S(σ,t)=\frac{1}π\argζ(σ+it)$ be the argument of the Riemann zeta function at the point $σ+it$ of the critical strip. For $n\geq 1$ and $t>0$ we define $$ S_{n}(σ,t) = \int_0^t S_{n-1}(σ,τ)\,dτ\, + δ_{n,σ\,}, $$ where $δ_{n,σ}$ is a specific constant depending on $σ$ and $n$. Let $0\leq β<1$ be a fixed real number. Assuming the Riemann hypothesis, we sho

Jiro Kitagawa, Kohei Sakaguchi

Mn-based room-temperature ferromagnets attract considerable attention due to their high ordered Mn moment. We have found that a Pd0.75Mn0.25 alloy with added B (Pd0.75Mn0.25Bx) shows room-temperature soft ferromagnetism, whereas the parent Pd0.75Mn0.25 alloy is a spin-glass system. The saturated Mn moment at room temperature systematically increases to 2.68\

Zhang MeiLing, Li Jin, Liu YuanHua, Shi sha

All existing quantum oblivious transfer protocols are to realize the oblivious transfer of bit or bit-string. In this paper, p-Rabin quantum oblivious transfer of a qubit (abbr. p-Rabin qubit-OT) is achieved by using a probabilistic teleportation (abbr. PT) protocol. Here, this is the first time that the concept of qubit-OT is presented. As the PT protocol i

Qiang Yuan, Lei Feng

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a satellite-borne, high-energy particle and $γ$-ray detector, which is dedicated to indirectly detecting particle dark matter and studying high-energy astrophysics. The first results about precise measurement of the cosmic ray electron plus positron spectrum between 25 GeV and 4.6 TeV were published recently. The

Anton Frisk Kockum, Adam Miranowicz, Simone De Liberato, Salvatore Savasta

Ultrastrong coupling between light and matter has, in the past decade, transitioned from theoretical idea to experimental reality. It is a new regime of quantum light-matter interaction, going beyond weak and strong coupling to make the coupling strength comparable to the transition frequencies in the system. The achievement of weak and strong coupling has l

Zhang Meiling, Shi Sha, Liu Yuanhua, Zheng Qingji

We study the quantum controlled and probabilistic teleportation protocol via a four-cluster state (Front. Phys. (2017) 12: 120306). The protocol cannot achieve the goal that if the teleportation fails, it can be repeated without copies of the teleported state. And the reason is that all the information of the teleported state shifts to the receiver&#39;s par

Yuhao Wen, Xiaodan Zhu, Sudeepa Roy, Jun Yang

We present a system for summarization and interactive exploration of high-valued aggregate query answers to make a large set of possible answers more informative to the user. Our system outputs a set of clusters on the high-valued query answers showing their common properties such that the clusters are diverse as much as possible to avoid repeating informati

Hai Zhong, Shizhu Qiao, Shishen Yan, Hong Zhang

Bloch-Bloembergen-Slonczewski equation is adopted to simulate magnetization dynamics in spin-valve based spin-transfer torque oscillator with synthetic antiferromagnet acting as a free magnetic layer. High frequency up to the terahertz scale is predicted in synthetic antiferromagnet spin-transfer torque oscillator with no external magnetic field if the follo

Shahin Khobahi, Mojtaba Soltanalian

In this paper, we present a consensus-based framework for decentralized estimation of deterministic parameters in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In particular, we propose an optimization algorithm to design (possibly complex) sensor gains in order to achieve an estimate of the parameter of interest that is as accurate as possible. The proposed design algor

Wako Aoki, Tadafumi Matsuno, Satoshi Honda, Miho Ishigaki

We report on the elemental abundances of the carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star J2217+2104 discovered by our metal-poor star survey with LAMOST and Subaru. This object is a red giant having extremely low Fe abundance ([Fe/H]=-4.0) and very large enhancement of C, N, and O with excesses of Na, Mg, Al, and Si. This star is a new example of a small group of

Zeyu Wang, Shiyu Qiu, Qingyang Chen, Alexander Ringlein

Time-based media (videos, synthetic animations, and virtual reality experiences) are used for communication, in applications such as manufacturers explaining the operation of a new appliance to consumers and scientists illustrating the basis of a new conclusion. However, authoring time-based media that are effective and personalized for the viewer remains a

Arpan Chattopadhyay, Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, secure, remote estimation of a linear Gaussian process via observations at multiple sensors is considered. Such a framework is relevant to many cyber-physical systems and internet-of-things applications. Sensors make sequential measurements that are shared with a fusion center; the fusion center applies a certain filtering algorithm to make it

Zohreh Ovaisi, Natasha Devroye, Hulya Seferoglu, Besma Smida

This paper considers packet scheduling over a broadcast channel with packet erasures to multiple receivers with different messages (multiple uni-cast) each with possibly different hard deadline constraints. A novel metric is proposed and evaluated: the global deadline outage probability, which gives the probability that the hard communication deadline is not

Tiexing Wang, Qunwei Li, Donald J. Bucci, Yingbin Liang

This paper studies clustering of data sequences using the k-medoids algorithm. All the data sequences are assumed to be generated from \emph{unknown} continuous distributions, which form clusters with each cluster containing a composite set of closely located distributions (based on a certain distance metric between distributions). The maximum intra-cluster

Shan Jaffry, Syed Faraz Hasan, Xiang Gui

Offloading cellular hotspot regions to small-cells has been the main theme for the fifth generation of cellular network. One such hotspot is the public transport which carries a large number of cellular users who frequently receive low quality of service (QoS) due to vehicular penetration effect (VPE). Hence installation of mobile-cell (MC) within public tra

Kamal Al-Sabahi, Zuping Zhang, Jun Long, Khaled Alwesabi

The fast-growing amount of information on the Internet makes the research in automatic document summarization very urgent. It is an effective solution for information overload. Many approaches have been proposed based on different strategies, such as latent semantic analysis (LSA). However, LSA, when applied to document summarization, has some limitations wh

Vida Dujmović, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Bojan Mohar, David R. Wood

The crossing number of a graph is the minimum number of crossings in a drawing of the graph in the plane. Our main result is that every graph $G$ that does not contain a fixed graph as a minor has crossing number $O(Δn)$, where $G$ has $n$ vertices and maximum degree $Δ$. This dependence on $n$ and $Δ$ is best possible. This result answers an open question o

Matania Ben-Artzi, Michael Ruzhansky, Mitsuru Sugimoto

Smoothing (and decay) spacetime estimates are discussed for evolution groups of self-adjoint operators in an abstract setting. The basic assumption is the existence (and weak continuity) of the spectral density in a functional setting. Spectral identities for the time evolution of such operators are derived, enabling results concerning &#34;best constants&#3

Mingsheng Ying

This paper summarises the results obtained by the author and his collaborators in a program logic approach to the verification of quantum programs, including quantum Hoare logic, invariant generation and termination analysis for quantum programs. It also introduces the notion of proof outline and several auxiliary rules for more conveniently reasoning about

Chung-Nan Tzou, Samuel Stechmann

In multi-phase fluid flow, fluid-structure interaction, and other applications, partial differential equations (PDEs) often arise with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources (e.g., Dirac delta functions). These complexities arise due to changes in material properties at an immersed interface or embedded boundary, which may have an irregular shape. C

Gara Dorta, Sara Vicente, Lourdes Agapito, Neill D. F. Campbell

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are a popular and powerful deep generative model. Previous works on VAEs have assumed a factorized likelihood model, whereby the output uncertainty of each pixel is assumed to be independent. This approximation is clearly limited as demonstrated by observing a residual image from a VAE reconstruction, which often possess a hi

Ruigang Shen, Shi Shu, Ying Yang, Benzhuo Lu

We study a two-grid strategy for decoupling the time-dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations describing the mass concentration of ions and the electrostatic potential. The computational system is decoupled to smaller systems by using coarse space solutions at each time level, which can speed up the solution process compared with the finite element method c

Karthik Elamvazhuthi, Hendrik Kuiper, Matthias Kawski, Spring Berman

In this paper, we investigate the exact controllability properties of an advection-diffusion equation on a bounded domain, using time- and space-dependent velocity fields as the control parameters. This partial differential equation (PDE) is the Kolmogorov forward equation for a reflected diffusion process that models the spatiotemporal evolution of a swarm

Andreas Dedner, Chinedu Nwaigwe

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for coupling 2D/1D shallow water flow models. Efficiently coupling these models is vital for simulating the flow and flooding of open channels. Currently, existing methods couple the models either at the channel lateral boundaries (lateral methods) or at the location, along the channel flow direction, where the two

Stefan Ratschan

An important tool for proving safety of dynamical systems is the notion of a barrier certificate. In this paper we prove that every robustly safe ordinary differential equation has a barrier certificate. Moreover, we show a construction of such a barrier certificate based on a set of states that is reachable in finite time.

Vo Anh Khoa, Le Thi Phuong Ngoc, Nguyen Thanh Long

In this paper we consider a porous-elastic system consisting of nonlinear boundary/interior damping and nonlinear boundary/interior sources. Our interest lies in the theoretical understanding of the existence, finite time blow-up of solutions and their exponential decay using non-trivial adaptations of well-known techniques. First, we apply the conventional

David B. Blasing, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, Yangqian Yan, Sourav Dutta

Coherent control of reactants remains a longstanding challenge in quantum chemistry. In particular, we have studied laser-induced molecular formation (photoassociation) in a Raman-dressed spin-orbit-coupled 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate, whose spin quantum state is a superposition of multiple bare spin components. In contrast to the notably different photoas

A. V. Parafilo, M. N. Kiselev

We investigate quantum interference effects in a superconducting Cooper-pair box by taking into account the possibility of tunneling processes involving one and two Cooper pairs. The quantum dynamics is analysed in a framework of three-level model. We compute Landau-Zener probabilities for a linear sweep of the gate charge and investigate Rabi oscillations i

Nikos Apostolakis

Using the theory of Properly Embedded Graphs developed in an earlier work we define an involutory duality on the set labeled non-crossing trees that lifts the obvious duality in the set of unlabeled non-crossing trees. The set of non-crossing trees is a free ternary magma with one generator and this duality is an instance of a duality that is defined in any

Víctor Montenegro, Raúl Coto, Vitalie Eremeev, Miguel Orszag

Typical of modern quantum technologies employing nanomechanical oscillators is to demand few mechanical quantum excitations, for instance, to prolong coherence times of a particular task or, to engineer a specific non-classical state. For this reason, we devoted the present work to exhibit how to bring an initial thermalized nanomechanical oscillator near to

Johan Öfverstedt, Joakim Lindblad, Nataša Sladoje

Intensity-based image registration approaches rely on similarity measures to guide the search for geometric correspondences with high affinity between images. The properties of the used measure are vital for the robustness and accuracy of the registration. In this study a symmetric, intensity interpolation-free, affine registration framework based on a combi

Ce Jin, Hongxun Wu

Given a multiset $S$ of $n$ positive integers and a target integer $t$, the Subset Sum problem asks to determine whether there exists a subset of $S$ that sums up to $t$. The current best deterministic algorithm, by Koiliaris and Xu [SODA&#39;17], runs in $\tilde O(\sqrt{n}t)$ time, where $\tilde O$ hides poly-logarithm factors. Bringmann [SODA&#39;17] later

I. Y. Park

In a series of recent works based on foliation-based quantization in which renormalizability has been achieved for the physical sector of the theory, we have shown that the use of the standard graviton propagator interferes, due to the presence of the trace mode, with the 4D covariance. A subtlety in the background field method also requires careful handling

Gerardo Barrera, Paulo Manrique

In this paper, we study how the roots of the so-called Kac polynomial $W_n(z) = \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} ξ_k z^k$ are concentrating to the unit circle when its coefficients of $W_n$ are independent and identically distributed non-degenerate real random variables. It is well-known that the roots of a Kac polynomial are concentrating around the unit circle as $n\to\in

K. Moulopoulos

Rarely noted paradoxes and their resolution lead to non-Hermitian behaviors due to boundary terms, even for closed systems and with real potentials. The role played by these non-Hermiticities on quantum mechanical uncertainty relations is discussed, especially in multiply-connected spaces. These subtleties, reflections of topological quantum anomalies (for a

Noah W. Tuchow, Eric B. Ford, Theodore Papamarkou, Alexey Lindo

Transit timing variations (TTVs) are a valuable tool to determine the masses and orbits of transiting planets in multi-planet systems. TTVs can be readily modeled given knowledge of the interacting planets&#39; orbital configurations and planet-star mass ratios, but such models are highly nonlinear and difficult to invert. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) met

J. M. Maillet, G. Niccoli

We present a new approach to construct the separate variables basis leading to the full characterization of the transfer matrix spectrum of quantum integrable lattice models. The basis is generated by the repeated action of the transfer matrix itself on a generically chosen state of the Hilbert space. The fusion relations for the transfer matrix, stemming fr

Frans Pretorius, William E. East

This paper introduces a new effort to study the collision of plane-fronted gravitational waves in four dimensional, asymptotically flat spacetime, using numerical solutions of the Einstein equations. The pure vacuum problem requires singular, Aichelburg-Sexl type sources to achieve finite energy solutions, which are problematic to treat both mathematically a

Rémi Bardenet, Adrien Hardy

A family of Gaussian analytic functions (GAFs) has recently been linked to the Gabor transform of white Gaussian noise [Bardenet et al., 2017]. This answered pioneering work by Flandrin [2015], who observed that the zeros of the Gabor transform of white noise had a very regular distribution and proposed filtering algorithms based on the zeros of a spectrogra

Karol Antczak

Electrocardiographic signal is a subject to multiple noises, caused by various factors. It is therefore a standard practice to denoise such signal before further analysis. With advances of new branch of machine learning, called deep learning, new methods are available that promises state-of-the-art performance for this task. We present a novel approach to de

Matteo Lostaglio

I give a self-contained introduction to the resource theory approach to quantum thermodynamics. I will introduce in an elementary manner the technical machinery necessary to unpack and prove the core statements of the theory. The topics covered include the so-called `many second laws of thermodynamics&#39;, thermo-majorisation and symmetry constraints on the

J. Christopher Mihos, Christopher T. Carr, Aaron E. Watkins, Tom Oosterloo

We report the detection of diffuse starlight in an extragalactic HI cloud in the nearby Leo~I galaxy group. We detect the source, dubbed BST1047+1156, in both broadband optical and GALEX ultraviolet light. Spanning ~ 2 kpc in radius, it has a peak surface brightness of $μ_B$=28.8 mag/arcsec$^2$, making it the lowest surface brightness object ever detected vi

Manuel Krannich, Jens Reinhold

We study smooth bundles over surfaces with highly connected almost parallelizable fiber $M$ of even dimension, providing necessary conditions for a manifold to be bordant to the total space of such a bundle and showing that, in most cases, these conditions are also sufficient. Using this, we determine the characteristic numbers realized by total spaces of bu

Chandra Chekuri, Kent Quanrud

We consider approximation algorithms for covering integer programs of the form min $\langle c, x \rangle $ over $x \in \mathbb{N}^n $ subject to $A x \geq b $ and $x \leq d$; where $A \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}^{m \times n}$, $b \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}^m$, and $c, d \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}^n$ all have nonnegative entries. We refer to this problem as $\operatorn

Sanjeev Kumar Karn, Mark Buckley, Ulli Waltinger, Hinrich Schütze

In this work, we define the task of teaser generation and provide an evaluation benchmark and baseline systems for the process of generating teasers. A teaser is a short reading suggestion for an article that is illustrative and includes curiosity-arousing elements to entice potential readers to read particular news items. Teasers are one of the main vehicle

P. H. Adrian, N. A. Baltzell, M. Battaglieri, M. Bondí

The Heavy Photon Search experiment took its first data in a 2015 engineering run at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, searching for a prompt, electro-produced dark photon with a mass between 19 and 81 MeV/$c^2$. A search for a resonance in the $e^{+}e^{-}$ invariant mass distribution, using 1.7 days (1170 nb$^{-1}$) of data, showed no evide

S. F. Sánchez, V. Avila-Reese, A. Rodríguez-Puebla, H. Ibarra-Medel

We present the results of the archaeological analysis of the stellar populations of a sample of ~4,000 galaxies observed by the SDSS-IV-MaNGA survey using Pipe3D. Based on this analysis we extract a sample of ~150,000 SFRs and stellar masses that mimic a single cosmological survey covering the redshift range between z~0 to z~7. We confirm that the Star-Formi

B. J. Shappee, T. W. -s. Holoien, M. R. Drout, K. Auchettl

On 2018 Feb. 4.41, the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) discovered ASASSN-18bt in the K2 Campaign 16 field. With a redshift of z=0.01098 and a peak apparent magnitude of B_{max}=14.31, ASASSN-18bt is the nearest and brightest SNe Ia yet observed by the Kepler spacecraft. Here we present the discovery of ASASSN-18bt, the K2 light curve, and p

Greg Ashworth, Michele Fumagalli, Angela Adamo, Mark R. Krumholz

We explore the possibility of using UV spectroscopy in combination with broad-band photometry as diagnostic tools for understanding the shape of the Initial Mass Function (IMF) in unresolved stellar populations. Building on our previous work, we extend the Stochastically Lighting Up Galaxies code (slug) to include a high-resolution UV spectral synthesiser an

Patrik Knopf

The aim of various technical applications (for example fusion research) is to control a plasma by magnetic fields in a desired fashion. In our model the plasma is described by the Vlasov-Poisson system that is equipped with an external magnetic field. We will prove that this model satisfies some basic properties that are necessary for calculus of variations.

Samuel Abreu, Ben Page, Mao Zeng

We compute $ε$-factorized differential equations for all dimensionally-regularized integrals of the nonplanar hexa-box topology, which contribute for instance to 2-loop 5-point QCD amplitudes. A full set of pure integrals is presented. For 5-point planar topologies, Gram determinants which vanish in $4$ dimensions are used to build compact expressions for pu

L. P. Csernai, J. I. Kapusta, T. Welle

We propose a dynamical mechanism which provides an interaction between the spins of hyperons and antihyperons and the vorticity of the baryon current in noncentral high energy nuclear collisions. The interaction is mediated by massive vector and scalar bosons which is well known to describe the nuclear spin-orbit force. It follows from the Foldy-Wouthuysen t

Tesshu Hanaka, Ioannis Katsikarelis, Michael Lampis, Yota Otachi

A graph is $d$-orientable if its edges can be oriented so that the maximum in-degree of the resulting digraph is at most $d$. $d$-orientability is a well-studied concept with close connections to fundamental graph-theoretic notions and applications as a load balancing problem. In this paper we consider the d-ORIENTABLE DELETION problem: given a graph $G=(V,E

Kâzım Büyükboduk, Antonio Lei, Guhan Venkat

Let $f$ be a normalized cuspidal eigen-newform of level coprime to $p$ with $a_p(f)=0$. We formulate both integral signed Iwasawa main conjectures and analytic Iwasawa man conjectures attached to the symmetric square motive of $f$ twisted by an auxiliary Dirichlet character. We show that the Beilinson--Flach elements attached to the symmetric square motive f

Keir Darling, Lawrence M. Widrow

We discuss the physical mechanism by which pure vertical bending waves in a stellar disc evolve to form phase space spirals similar to those discovered by Antoja et al. ( arXiv:1804.10196) in Gaia Data Release 2. These spirals were found by projecting Solar Neighbourhood stars onto the $z-v_z$ plane. Faint spirals appear in the number density of stars projec

Katie Anders, Alissa Crans, Briana Foster-Greenwood, Blake Mellor

We study {\em generalized graph splines,} introduced by Gilbert, Viel, and the last author. For a large class of rings, we characterize the graphs that only admit constant splines. To do this, we prove that if a graph has a particular type of cutset (e.g., a bridge), then the space of splines naturally decomposes as a certain direct sum of submodules. As an

Amber Lauer, Emmanouil Chatzopoulos, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Juhan Frank

The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars are rare hydrogen--deficient, carbon--rich supergiants. They undergo extreme, irregular declines in brightness of many magnitudes due to the formation of thick clouds of carbon dust. It is thought that RCB stars result from the mergers of CO/He white dwarf (WD) binaries. We constructed post--merger spherically asymmetric mo

Victor Gorbenko, Slava Rychkov, Bernardo Zan

We discuss walking behavior in gauge theories and weak first-order phase transitions in statistical physics. Despite appearing in very different systems (QCD below the conformal window, the Potts model, deconfined criticality) these two phenomena both imply approximate scale invariance in a range of energies and have the same RG interpretation: a flow passin

Ben Keeshan, Heather E. Logan, Terry Pilkington

We study the effects of custodial symmetry violation in the Georgi-Machacek (GM) model. The GM model adds isospin-triplet scalars to the Standard Model in a way that preserves custodial symmetry at tree level; however, this custodial symmetry has long been known to be violated at the one-loop level by hypercharge interactions. We consider the custodial-symme

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

A nilspace system is a generalization of a nilsystem, consisting of a compact nilspace X equipped with a group of nilspace translations acting on X. Nilspace systems appear in different guises in several recent works, and this motivates the study of these systems per se as well as their relation to more classical types of systems. In this paper we study morp

Dmitry Gourevitch, Siddhartha Sahi

The study of Whittaker models for representations of reductive groups over local and global fields has become a central tool in representation theory and the theory of automorphic forms. However, only generic representations have Whittaker models. In order to encompass other representations, one attaches a degenerate (or a generalized) Whittaker model $W_{\m

Douglas Rennehan, Arif Babul, Philip F. Hopkins, Romeel Davé

Modelling the turbulent diffusion of thermal energy, momentum, and metals is required in all galaxy evolution simulations due to the ubiquity of turbulence in galactic environments. The most commonly employed diffusion model, the Smagorinsky model, is known to be over-diffusive due to its strong dependence on the fluid velocity shear. We present a method for