August 2018 arXiv papers — page 12

Xiaofeng Zhang, Zhangyang Wang, Dong Liu, Qing Ling

Deep learning has revolutionized the performance of classification, but meanwhile demands sufficient labeled data for training. Given insufficient data, while many techniques have been developed to help combat overfitting, the challenge remains if one tries to train deep networks, especially in the ill-posed extremely low data regimes: only a small set of la

Weiye Xu, Handong Xu, Fukun Liu, Xinsheng Yan

The electron cyclotron heating system including four gyrotrons is under developed in the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The filament is an important part of the gyrotron, which is used to heat the cathode. Each gyrotron has a filament power supply to adjust the filament power. The filament power control and measurement system was d

Fabian Gotzens, Heidi Heinrichs, Jonas Hörsch, Fabian Hofmann

In energy modelling, open data and open source code can help enhance traceability and reproducibility of model exercises which contribute to facilitate controversial debates and improve policy advice. While the availability of open power plant databases increased in recent years, they often differ considerably from each other and their data quality has not b

Shuai Li, George Barbastathis

The Phase Extraction Neural Network (PhENN) is a computational architecture, based on deep machine learning, for lens-less quantitative phase retrieval from raw intensity data. PhENN is a deep convolutional neural network trained through examples consisting of pairs of true phase objects and their corresponding intensity diffraction patterns; thereafter, giv

Simone Cassani, Sarah D. Olson

To accelerate the development of strategies for cartilage tissue engineering, models are necessary to study the interactions between cellular dynamics and scaffold (SC) porosity. In experiments, cells are seeded in a porous SC where over a month, the SC slowly degrades while cells divide and synthesize extracellular matrix (ECM) constituents. We use an off-l

Andrew Brockmann

We demonstrate how to efficiently compute the probability of victory in Fire Emblem arena battles. The probability can be expressed in terms of a multivariate recurrence relation which lends itself to a straightforward dynamic programming solution. Some implementation issues are addressed, and a full implementation is provided in code.

Pavel Praks, Dejan Brkic

Widely used in hydraulics, the Colebrook equation for flow friction relates implicitly to the input parameters; the Reynolds number, and the relative roughness of inner pipe surface, with the output unknown parameter; the flow friction factor. In this paper, a few explicit approximations to the Colebrook equation are generated using the ability of artificial

Yuta Ito

The secular evolution of a collisional star cluster of $N$-'point' stars have been conventionally discussed based on cumulative two-body relaxation process. The relaxation process requires a cut-off on the range of two-body encounter between stars in physical space and the relaxation time is characterized by Coulomb logarithm $\ln[N]$; the convention

Ivan Chajda, Jan Kühr

Following [Botur, M., Chajda, I., Halaš, R.: Are basic algebras residuated structures?, Soft Comput. 14 (2010), 251-255] we discuss the connections between left-residuated partially ordered groupoids and the so-called basic algebras, which are a non-commutative and non-associative generalization of MV-algebras and orthomodular lattices.

Alexandros V. Gerbessiotis

Integer sorting on multicores and GPUs can be realized by a variety of approaches that include variants of distribution-based methods such as radix-sort, comparison-oriented algorithms such as deterministic regular sampling and random sampling parallel sorting, and network-based algorithms such as Batcher's bitonic sorting algorithm. In this work we pres

K. Maharana

A chiral alternative to the vierbein field in general relativity was considered by 't Hooft in an attempt to facilitate the construction of a quantum theory of gravity. These objects $ f^a{}_{μν}$ behave like the "cube root" of the metric tensor. We try to construct specific representations of these tensors in terms of Dirac $γ$ matrices in Eucli

Ze Fang Jiang, C. B. Yang, Chi Ding, Xiang-Yu Wu

The charged-particle's final state spectrum is derived from an analytic perturbative solution for the relativistic viscous hydrodynamics. By taking into account the longitudinal acceleration effect in relativistic viscous hydrodynamics, the pseudorapidity spectrum describes well the nucleus-nucleus colliding systems at RHIC and LHC. Based on both the ext

Si Duc Quang

This paper deals with the quantitative Schmidt's subspace theorem and the general from of the second main theorem, which are two correspondence objects in Diophantine approximation theory and Nevanlinna theory. In this paper, we give a new below bound for Chow weight of projective varieties defined over a number field. Then, we apply it to prove a quanti

Lorenzo J. Díaz, Edgar Matias

We consider iterated functions systems (IFS) on compact metric spaces and introduce the concept of target sets. Such sets have very rich dynamical properties and play a similar role as semifractals introduced by Lasota and Myjak do for regular IFSs. We study sufficient conditions which guarantee that the closure of the target set is a local attractor for the

Hui Lei, Yongtang Shi, Zi-Xia Song, Jingmei Zhang

A Gallai coloring is a coloring of the edges of a complete graph without rainbow triangles, and a Gallai $k$-coloring is a Gallai coloring that uses $k$ colors. Given an integer $k\ge1$ and graphs $H_1, \ldots, H_k$, the Gallai-Ramsey number $GR(H_1, \ldots, H_k)$ is the least integer $n$ such that every Gallai $k$-coloring of the complete graph $K_n$ contai

Johannes Kunkel, Benedikt Loepp, Jürgen Ziegler

Recommender systems relying on latent factor models often appear as black boxes to their users. Semantic descriptions for the factors might help to mitigate this problem. Achieving this automatically is, however, a non-straightforward task due to the models' statistical nature. We present an output-agreement game that represents factors by means of sampl

Aboubakr Aqle, Dena Al-Thani, Ali Jaoua

Online news media provides aggregated news and stories from different sources all over the world and up-to-date news coverage. The main goal of this study is to have a solution that considered as a homogeneous source for the news and to represent the news in a new conceptual framework. Furthermore, the user can easily find different updated news in a fast wa

Jiao Shi, Aiqin Wang, Kun Cai

A rotary nanomotor made of carbon nanostructures is introduced here. Through a rotationally symmetrical layout of diamond wedges (or needles) outside of a carbon nanotube and with the [100] direction of diamond along the tube's axial direction, the wedge needle tips can drive the nanotube to rotate at gigahertz frequency at room temperature. During therm

David S. Simon, Shuto Osawa, Alexander V. Sergienko

Working in the context of the Su-Schreiffer-Heeger (SSH) model, the effect of topological transitions on the structure and properties of bulk position-space wavefunctions is studied for a particle undergoing a quantum walk in a one-dimensional lattice. In particular, we consider what happens when the wavefunction reaches a boundary at which the Hamiltonian c

Qing Yang, Guang Cheng

Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a simple method to classify a subject into two populations, and was proven to perform as well as the Bayes rule when the data dimension p is fixed. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the empirical and theoretical behaviors of QDA where p grows proportionally to the sample sizes without imposing any structura

Marc Diesse

We investigate the configuration space of the Delta-Manipulator, identify 24 points in the configuration space, where the Jacobian of the Constraint Equations looses rank and show, that these are not manifold points of the Real Algebraic Set, which is defined by the Constraint Equations.

Sungjin Lee, Rahul Jha

Conversational agents such as Alexa and Google Assistant constantly need to increase their language understanding capabilities by adding new domains. A massive amount of labeled data is required for training each new domain. While domain adaptation approaches alleviate the annotation cost, prior approaches suffer from increased training time and suboptimal c

Samuel A. Hambleton

We give an algebraic identity for cubic polynomials which generalizes Brahmagupta's identity and facilitates arithmetic in cubic fields. We also pose a question about a relationship between the elements of a cubic field of fixed trace and fixed norm and rational points of an elliptic curve.

Rachel Cummings, Sara Krehbiel, Yajun Mei, Rui Tuo

The change-point detection problem seeks to identify distributional changes at an unknown change-point k* in a stream of data. This problem appears in many important practical settings involving personal data, including biosurveillance, fault detection, finance, signal detection, and security systems. The field of differential privacy offers data analysis to

Hongbing Yu, Junliang Liu, Phani Karamched, Angus J. Wilkinson

The full lattice strain tensor and lattice rotations induced by a dislocation in pure tungsten were mapped using high-resolution transmission Kikuchi diffraction (HR-TKD) in a SEM. The HR-TKD measurement agrees very well with a forward calculation using an elastically isotropic model of the dislocation and its Burgers vector. Our results demonstrate that the

I. Dhiman, U. R. Shrestha, D. Bhowmik, D. R. Cole

We have investigated the effect of molecular shape and charge asymmetry on the translation dynamics of confined hydrocarbon molecules having different shapes but similar kinetic diameters, inside ZSM-5 pores using molecular dynamics simulations. The mean square displacement of propane, acetonitrile, acetaldehyde, and acetone in ZSM-5 exhibit two different re

Eugenia Diaz-Gimenez, Ariel Zandivarez, Antonela Taverna

In this work we present an algorithm to identify compact groups (CGs) that closely follows Hickson's original aim and that improves the completeness of the samples of compact groups obtained from redshift surveys. Instead of identifying CGs in projection first and then checking a velocity concordance criterion, we identify them directly in redshift space

Hovhannes Khudaverdian, Theodore Voronov

It is a classical fact in Poisson geometry that the cotangent bundle of a Poisson manifold has the structure of a Lie algebroid. Manifestations of this structure are the Lichnerowicz differential on multivector fields (calculating Poisson cohomology) and the Koszul bracket of differential forms. "Raising indices" by the Poisson tensor maps the de Rha

Imran M. Mirza, Jeremy G. Hoskins, John C. Schotland

We examine the propagation of single photons in periodic and disordered dimer chains coupled to one-dimensional chiral and bidirectional waveguides. Each dimer is composed of two dipole-coupled atoms. In the disordered setting, we separately treat two types of position disorder, namely in dimer length and in dimer separation. The focus of this study is to un

Mohammmad Farhadi Bajestani, Seyed Soroush Heidari Rahmat Abadi, Seyed Mostafa Derakhshandeh Fard, Roozbeh Khodadadeh

Anomaly detection through video analysis is of great importance to detect any anomalous vehicle/human behavior at a traffic intersection. While most existing works use neural networks and conventional machine learning methods based on provided dataset, we will use object recognition (Faster R-CNN) to identify objects labels and their corresponding location i

Li Xiang, Raquel A. Ribeiro, Udhara S. Kaluarachchi, Elena Gati

Measurements of temperature-dependent resistance and magnetization under hydrostatic pressures up to 2.13 GPa are reported for single-crystalline, superconducting BaBi$_3$. A temperature - pressure phase diagram is determined and the results suggest three different superconducting phases $α$, $β$, and $γ$ in the studied pressure range. We further show that o

Toshihisa Kubo, Bent Ørsted

In this paper we give Peter-Weyl type formulas for the space of $K$-finite solutions to intertwining differential operators between degenerate principal series representations. Our results generalize a result of Kable for conformally invariant systems. The main idea is based on the duality theorem between intertwining differential operators and homomorphisms

Caixing Gu, Shuaibing Luo

In this paper we propose a different (and equivalent) norm on $S^{2} ({\mathbb{D}})$ which consists of functions whose derivatives are in the Hardy space of unit disk. The reproducing kernel of $S^{2}({\mathbb{D}})$ in this norm admits an explicit form, and it is a complete Nevanlinna-Pick kernel. Furthermore, there is a surprising connection of this norm wi

Luis Avilés, Hideki Maeda, Cristian Martinez

We present exact dynamical and inhomogeneous solutions in three-dimensional AdS gravity with a conformally coupled scalar field. They contain stealth configurations of the scalar field overflying the BTZ spacetime and also solutions with a non-vanishing energy-momentum tensor. The latter non-stealth class consists of the solution obtained by Xu and its analy

Yohanes S. Gani, D. S. L. Abergel, Enrico Rossi

Hexagonal boron nitride is an ideal dielectric to form two-dimensional heterostructures due to the fact that it can be exfoliated to be just few atoms thick and its a very low density of defects. By placing graphene nanoribbons on high quality hexagonal boron nitride it is possible to create ideal quasi one dimensional (1D) systems with very high mobility. T

Ningfeng Zhu, John L. Orlowski-Scherer, Zhilei Xu, Aamir Ali

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover angular scales between one arcminute and tens of degrees and sample frequencies between 27 and 270 GHz. Here we present the current design of the large aperture telescope receiver (LA

Smriti Vats, Maureen van den Berg, Rudy Wijnands

We present a new X-ray study of NGC188, one of the oldest open clusters known in our Galaxy (7 Gyr). Our observation with the Chandra X-ray Observatory is aimed at uncovering the population of close interacting binaries in NGC188. We detect 84 sources down to a luminosity of Lx ~ 4e29 erg/s (0.3-7 keV), of which 73 are within the half-mass radius rh. Of the

Zinovy Malkin

The link problem between radio (VLBI/ICRF) and optical (Gaia/GCRF) celestial reference frames is analyzed. Both systems should be a realization of the ICRS (International Celestial Reference System) at microarcsecond level of accuracy. Therefore, the link between the ICRF and GCRF should be obtained with similar accuracy, which is not a trivial task due to r

Tien Chih, Demitri Plessas

The Fundamental Morphism Theorem is a categorical version of the First Noether Isomorphism Theorem for categories that do not have kernels or cokernels. We consider two categories of graphs. Both categories will admit graphs with multiple edges and loops, and are distinguished by allowing two different types of homomorphisms, standard graph homomorphisms and

Ahmet Okutan

In recent years, defect prediction has received a great deal of attention in the empirical software engineering world. Predicting software defects before the maintenance phase is very important not only to decrease the maintenance costs but also increase the overall quality of a software product. There are different types of product, process, and developer b

Luiz A. Zanlorensi, Eduardo Luz, Rayson Laroca, Alceu S. Britto

The use of iris as a biometric trait is widely used because of its high level of distinction and uniqueness. Nowadays, one of the major research challenges relies on the recognition of iris images obtained in visible spectrum under unconstrained environments. In this scenario, the acquired iris are affected by capture distance, rotation, blur, motion blur, l

Wang-Cheng Kang, Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social influence (etc.). Typically, research proceeds by showing that making use of a specific signal (within a carefully designed

VERITAS Collaboration, A. Archer, W. Benbow, R. Bird

Cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CREs) at GeV-TeV energies are a unique probe of our local Galactic neighborhood. CREs lose energy rapidly via synchrotron radiation and inverse-Compton scattering processes while propagating within the Galaxy and these losses limit their propagation distance. For electrons with TeV energies, the limit is on the order of a

Pratik Rathore

We call an odd positive integer $n$ a $\textit{Descartes number}$ if there exist positive integers $k,m$ such that $n = km$ and \begin{equation} σ(k)(m+1) = 2km \end{equation} Currently, $\mathcal{D} = 3^{2}7^{2}11^{2}13^{2}22021$ is the only known Descartes number. In $2008$, Banks et al. proved that $\mathcal{D}$ is the only cube-free Descartes number with

Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Raphael Olivier, Pravalika Avvaru, Pengcheng Yin

In models to generate program source code from natural language, representing this code in a tree structure has been a common approach. However, existing methods often fail to generate complex code correctly due to a lack of ability to memorize large and complex structures. We introduce ReCode, a method based on subtree retrieval that makes it possible to ex

Kiersten Ruisard

Conventional particle accelerators use linear focusing forces for transverse confinement. As a consequence of linearity, accelerating rings are sensitive to myriad resonances and instabilities. At high beam intensity, uncontrolled resonance-driven losses can deteriorate beam quality and cause damage or radio-activation in beam line components and surrounding

Alejandra Estefanía Patiño Hoyos, Victor Fossaluza

The Full Bayesian Significance Test (FBST) for precise hypotheses was presented by Pereira and Stern (1999) as a Bayesian alternative instead of the traditional significance test based on p-value. The FBST uses the evidence in favor of the null hypothesis ($H_0$) calculated as the complement of the posterior probability of the highest posterior density regio

Marcin Anholcer, Sylwia Cichacz

We investigate the \textit{edge group irregularity strength} ($es_g(G)$) of graphs, i.e. the smallest value of $s$ such that taking any Abelian group $\mathcal{G}$ of order $s$, there exists a function $f:V(G)\rightarrow \mathcal{G}$ such that the sums of vertex labels at every edge are distinct. In this note we provide some upper bounds on $es_g(G)$ as well

Arazi Pinhas, Benjamin V. Rackham, Nikku Madhusudhan, Dániel Apai

Transmission spectroscopy provides a powerful probe of the atmospheric properties of transiting exoplanets. To date, studies of exoplanets in transit have focused on inferring their atmospheric properties such as chemical compositions, cloud/haze properties, and temperature structures. However, surface inhomogeneities in the host stars of exoplanets in the f

Ronald L. Rivest

We describe a very simple method for `consistent sampling' that allows for sampling with replacement. The method extends previous approaches to consistent sampling, which assign a pseudorandom real number to each element, and sample those with the smallest associated numbers. When sampling with replacement, our extension gives the item sampled a new, lar

Chenxu Liu, M. V. Gurudev Dutt, David Pekker

The implementation of a high-fidelity two-qubit quantum logic gate remains an outstanding challenge for isolated solid-state qubits such as Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. In this work, we show that by driving pairs of NV centers to undergo photon scattering processes that flip their qubit state simultaneously, we can achieve a unitary two-qubit ga

Niket Tandon, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Joel Grus, Wen-tau Yih

Comprehending procedural text, e.g., a paragraph describing photosynthesis, requires modeling actions and the state changes they produce, so that questions about entities at different timepoints can be answered. Although several recent systems have shown impressive progress in this task, their predictions can be globally inconsistent or highly improbable. In

Timur Bazhirov, E. X. Abot

We present example applications of an approach to first-principles calculations of vibrational properties of materials implemented within the Exabyte.io platform. We deploy models based on the Density Functional Perturbation Theory to extract the phonon dispersion relations and densities of states for an example set of 35 samples and find the results to be i

Nicholas Ohi, Kyle Lassak, Ryan Watson, Jared Strader

Precision robotic pollination systems can not only fill the gap of declining natural pollinators, but can also surpass them in efficiency and uniformity, helping to feed the fast-growing human population on Earth. This paper presents the design and ongoing development of an autonomous robot named "BrambleBee", which aims at pollinating bramble plants

Aishwarya Padmakumar, Peter Stone, Raymond J. Mooney

Active learning identifies data points to label that are expected to be the most useful in improving a supervised model. Opportunistic active learning incorporates active learning into interactive tasks that constrain possible queries during interactions. Prior work has shown that opportunistic active learning can be used to improve grounding of natural lang

Marcelo E. Coniglio, Luis Fariñas del Cerro, Newton M. Peron

In 1988, Ivlev proposed four-valued non-deterministic semantics for modal logics in which the alethic T axiom holds good. Unfortunately, no completeness was proved. In previous work, we proved completeness for some Ivlev systems and extended his hierarchy, proposing weaker six-valued systems in which the T axiom was replaced by the deontic D axiom. Here, we

Felice De Luca, Md Iqbal Hossain, Stephen Kobourov, Anna Lubiw

A \emph{Stick graph} is an intersection graph of axis-aligned segments such that the left end-points of the horizontal segments and the bottom end-points of the vertical segments lie on a `ground line,' a line with slope $-1$. It is an open question to decide in polynomial time whether a given bipartite graph $G$ with bipartition $A\cup B$ has a Stick re

Elijah Flenner, Grzegorz Szamel

Translational dynamics of two-dimensional glass forming fluids is strongly influenced by soft, long-wavelength fluctuations first recognized by D. Mermin and H. Wagner. As a result of these fluctuations, characteristic features of glassy dynamics, such as plateaus in the mean squared displacement and the self-intermediate scattering function, are absent in t

A. Martín-Ruiz

Topological insulators (TIs) exhibit a quantized magnetoelectric response when time-reversal symmetry is broken on its surface. This unusual electromagnetic (EM) response is a unique macroscopic manifestation of the quantum Hall effect on the TI surface and it is described by a quantized Chern-Simons theory. In this paper, we construct the Green's functi

Tian Ye, Xiaolong Wang, James Davidson, Abhinav Gupta

Humans have a remarkable ability to use physical commonsense and predict the effect of collisions. But do they understand the underlying factors? Can they predict if the underlying factors have changed? Interestingly, in most cases humans can predict the effects of similar collisions with different conditions such as changes in mass, friction, etc. It is pos

Phu Mon Htut, Kyunghyun Cho, Samuel R. Bowman

A substantial thread of recent work on latent tree learning has attempted to develop neural network models with parse-valued latent variables and train them on non-parsing tasks, in the hope of having them discover interpretable tree structure. In a recent paper, Shen et al. (2018) introduce such a model and report near-state-of-the-art results on the target

Fabio L. Traversa, Massimiliano Di Ventra

Integer linear programming (ILP) encompasses a very important class of optimization problems that are of great interest to both academia and industry. Several algorithms are available that attempt to explore the solution space of this class efficiently, while requiring a reasonable compute time. However, although these algorithms have reached various degrees

Carlos Batista, Gabriel Luz Almeida

A new class of higher-dimensional exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum equation is presented. These metrics are written in terms of the exponential of a symmetric matrix and when this matrix is diagonal the solution reduces to higher-dimensional generalizations of Kasner spacetime with a cosmological constant. On the other hand, the metrics attained when

Zhijie Xu, Paul Meakin

An analytical and computational model for non-reactive solute transport in periodic heterogeneous media with arbitrary non-uniform flow and dispersion fields within the unit cell of length ε is described. The model lumps the effect of non-uniform flow and dispersion into an effective advection velocity Ve and an effective dispersion coefficient De. It is sho

S. Perrotta, V. D'Odorico, F. Hamann, S. Cristiani

We investigate the NV absorption signal along the line of sight of background quasars, in order to test the robustness of the use of this ion as criterion to select intrinsic (i.e. physically related to the quasar host galaxy) narrow absorption lines (NALs). We build composite spectra from a sample of $\sim$ 1000 CIV absorbers, covering the redshift range 2.

S. Valencia, M. J. Calderón, L. López-Mir, Z. Kostantinovic

Spin-orbit coupling in magnetic systems lacking inversion symmetry can give rise to non trivial spin textures. Magnetic thin films and heterostructures are potential candidates for the formation of skyrmions and other non-collinear spin configurations as inversion symmetry is inherently lost at their surfaces and interfaces. However, manganites, in spite of

W. Patrick Hooper, Kasra Rafi, Anja Randecker

We study an interval exchange transformation of [0,1] formed by cutting the interval at the points 1/n and reversing the order of the intervals. We find that the transformation is periodic away from a Cantor set of Hausdorff dimension zero. On the Cantor set, the dynamics are nearly conjugate to the 2-adic odometer.

Jinzhao Wang, Volkher B. Scholz, Renato Renner

Quantum State Tomography is the task of inferring the state of a quantum system from measurement data. A reliable tomography scheme should not only report an estimate for that state, but also well-justified error bars. These may be specified in terms of confidence regions, i.e., subsets of the state space which contain the system's state with high probab

Xiaotong Chen, Xin Lu, Sudipta Dubey, Qiang Yao

Quantum entanglement is a fundamental phenomenon which, on the one hand, reveals deep connections between quantum mechanics, gravity and the space-time; on the other hand, has practical applications as a key resource in quantum information processing. While it is routinely achieved in photon-atom ensembles, entanglement involving the solid-state or macroscop

Antonio Amariti

We claim that 3d monopole quivers, theories with product gauge groups interacting through Affleck-Harvey-Witten superpotentials, are a natural setup for the study of spontaneous breaking 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry. We give evidence of this statement by studying various examples of increasing complexity, considering quivers that are mirror dual to Wess-

Aomawa L. Shields, Regina C. Carns

A possible surface type that may form in the environments of M-dwarf planets is sodium chloride dihydrate, or "hydrohalite" (NaCl $\cdot$ 2H$_2$O), which can precipitate in bare sea ice at low temperatures. Unlike salt-free water ice, hydrohalite is highly reflective in the near-infrared, where M-dwarf stars emit strongly, making the effect of the in

Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Marcus C. Beck, Alexander Arth, Klaus Dolag

We present simulations of isolated disc galaxies in a realistic environment performed with the Tree-SPMHD-Code Gadget-3. Our simulations include a spherical circum-galactic medium (CGM) surrounding the galactic disc, motivated by observations and the results of cosmological simulations. We present three galactic models with different halo masses between 10e1

Davide Ferracin, Andrea Mattioni, Stefano Olivares, Felipe Caycedo-Soler

We show that `which-way' interference within unit-cells enhances the propagation along linear arrays made upon these basic units. As a working example, we address the exciton transfer through linear aggregates of ring-like unit cells, the latter resembling the circular structure of the Light-Harvesting complexes of purple bacteria. After providing an ana

Benjamin Bahr

In this article we prove a formula for the volume of 4-dimensional polytopes, in terms of their face bivectors, and the crossings within their boundary graph. This proves that the volume is an invariant of bivector-coloured graphs in $S^3$.

Stefan Leichenauer, Adam Levine

We prove a lower bound on the integrated null energy along achronal geodesic segments using induced gravity on a brane in AdS/CFT. The bound follows from the assumption that bulk causality respects brane causality, and matches a bound recently conjectured by Freivogel and Krommydas for semiclassical gravity. We also prove a more general upper bound on the sa

Oliver Leicht, Cora Uhlemann, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Sandrine Codis

Intensity mapping surveys will provide access to a coarse view of the cosmic large-scale structure in unprecedented large volumes at high redshifts. Given the large fractions of the sky that can be efficiently scanned using emission from cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI), intensity mapping is ideally suited to probe a wide range of density environments and hence

J. Farihi, R. van Lieshout, P. W. Cauley, E. Dennihy

The infrared dust emission from the white dwarf GD 56 is found to rise and fall by 20% peak-to-peak over 11.2 yr, and is consistent with ongoing dust production and depletion. It is hypothesized that the dust is produced via collisions associated with an evolving dust disk, temporarily increasing the emitting surface of warm debris, and is subsequently destr

Jacques Distler, Raphael Flauger, Bart Horn

We discuss how scattering amplitudes in 4d Minkowski spacetime which involve multiple soft gravitons realize the algebra of BMS charges on the null boundary. In particular, we show how the commutator of two such charges is realized by the antisymmetrized consecutive soft limit of the double soft amplitude. The commutator is found to be robust even in the pre

Christian Bosse, Zi-Xia Song, Jingmei Zhang

A Gallai coloring of a complete graph is an edge-coloring such that no triangle has all its edges colored differently. A Gallai $k$-coloring is a Gallai coloring that uses $k$ colors. Given an integer $k\ge1$ and a graph $H$, the Gallai-Ramsey number $GR_k(H)$ is the least positive integer $n$ such that every Gallai $k$-coloring of the complete graph $K_n$ c

Davide Caruso, Francesco Haardt, Michele Fumagalli, Sebastiano Cantalupo

In a recent paper (Fumagalli et al. 2017) we reported on the detection of a diffuse H$α$ glow in the outskirts of the nearby, edge-on disc galaxy UGC 7321 observed with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the ESO Very Large Telescope. By interpreting the H$α$ emission as fluorescence arising from hydrogen ionised by an external (i.e., extragalact

Sajahan Molla, Rabiul Islam, Md. Abdul Kayum Jafry, Mehedi Kalam

In this article, we introduce a de-sitter model in favor of compact stars in low-mass X-ray binary. Here, we merge the presence of the cosmological constant on a small scale to discussion the stellar structure and conclude that this doping is very well suitable with the familiar physical mode of the low-mass X-ray binary compact stars. We calculate the proba

Guo-Hua Liang, Yong-Long Wang, Meng-Yun Lai, Hui Liu

By considering the spin connection, we deduce the effective equation for a spin-1/2 particle confined to a curved surface with the non-relativistic limit and in the thin-layer quantization formalism. We obtain a pseudo-magnetic field and an effective spin-orbit interaction generated by the spin connection. Geometrically, the pseudo-magnetic field is proporti

I. Kaddoura, B. Mourad

In this paper, we use some extension of the Cayley-Hamilton theorem to find a family of matrices with integer entries that satisfy the non-linear Diophantine equation $ x^{n}+y^{p}=z^{q}$ where $n,p$ and $q$ are arbitrary positive integers.

Nicolas Busca, Christophe Balland

We introduce QuasarNET, a deep convolutional neural network that performs classification and redshift estimation of astrophysical spectra with human-expert accuracy. We pose these two tasks as a \emph{feature detection} problem: presence or absence of spectral features determines the class, and their wavelength determines the redshift, very much like human-e

David R. Ardila, Evgenya Shkolnik, Paul Scowen, April Jewell

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a NASA-funded astrophysics mission, devoted to the study of the ultraviolet (UV) time-domain behavior in low-mass stars. Given their abundance and size, low-mass stars are important targets in the search for habitable-zone, exoplanets. However, not enough is known about the stars flare and quiescent emiss

R. Brits, F. Schulz, C. Toure

We consider a multiplicative variation on the classical Kowalski-Słodkowski Theorem which identifies the characters among the collection of all functionals on a Banach algebra $A$. In particular we show that, if $A$ is a $C^*$-algebra, and if $ϕ:A\mapsto\mathbb C$ is a continuous function satisfying $ϕ(\mathbf 1)=1$ and $ϕ(x)ϕ(y) \in σ(xy)$ for all $x,y\in A

Yu Liu, C. Petrovic

The critical properties and magnetocaloric effect of semiconducting ferrimagnet Mn$_3$Si$_2$Te$_6$ single crystals have been investigated by bulk magnetization and heat capacity around $T_c$. Critical exponents $β= 0.41\pm0.01$ with a critical temperature $T_c = 74.18\pm0.08$ K and $γ= 1.21\pm0.02$ with $T_c = 74.35\pm0.05$ K are deduced by the Kouvel-Fisher

Siddhi Pathak

In an attempt to resolve a folklore conjecture of Erdős regarding the non-vanishing at $s=1$ of the $L$-series attached to a periodic arithmetical function with period $q$ and values in $\{-1, 1 \}$, Livingston conjectured the $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ - linear independence of logarithms of certain algebraic numbers. In this paper, we disprove Livingston's

Colin Cherry, George Foster, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat

Translating characters instead of words or word-fragments has the potential to simplify the processing pipeline for neural machine translation (NMT), and improve results by eliminating hyper-parameters and manual feature engineering. However, it results in longer sequences in which each symbol contains less information, creating both modeling and computation

Nitish Gupta, Mike Lewis

Answering compositional questions requiring multi-step reasoning is challenging. We introduce an end-to-end differentiable model for interpreting questions about a knowledge graph (KG), which is inspired by formal approaches to semantics. Each span of text is represented by a denotation in a KG and a vector that captures ungrounded aspects of meaning. Learne

Leonard Susskind

This is the first of three PiTP lectures on complexity and its role in black hole physics.

Amit Nag, Jay D. Sau

Majorana mode based topological qubits are potentially subject to diabatic errors that in principle can limit the utility of topological quantum computation. Using a combination of analytical and numerical methods we study the diabatic errors in Majorana-based topological Y-junction that are coupled to a Bosonic bath in the Markovian approximation. From the

C. Ayala-Loera, A. Alvarez-Candal, J. L. Ortiz, R. Duffard

The trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are small Solar System bodies at large distances from the Sun. As such, their physical properties are difficult to measure. Accurate determination of their physical parameters is essential to model and theorize the actual composition and distribution of the population, and to improve our understanding of the formation and e

Pinkesh Badjatiya, Litton J Kurisinkel, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma

Text segmentation plays an important role in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks like summarization, context understanding, document indexing and document noise removal. Previous methods for this task require manual feature engineering, huge memory requirements and large execution times. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first one t

Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Alisa Leshchenko

The Mapper algorithm does not include a check for whether the cover produced conforms to the requirements of the nerve lemma. To perform a check for obstructions to the nerve lemma, statistical considerations of multiple testing quickly arise. In this paper, we propose several statistical approaches to finding obstructions: through a persistent nerve lemma,

An Hoa Vu

For an imaginary quadratic field $K$ of discriminant $-D$, let $χ= χ_K$ be the associated quadratic character. We will show that the space of special hermitian Jacobi forms of level $N$ is isomorphic to the space of plus forms of level $DN$ and nebentypus $χ$ (the hermitian analogue of Kohnen's plus space) for any integer $N$ prime to $D$. This generaliz

Guido Brückner, Ignaz Rutter, Peter Stumpf

Recently, Fulek et al. have presented Hanani-Tutte results for (radial) level planarity, i.e., a graph is (radial) level planar if it admits a (radial) level drawing where any two (independent) edges cross an even number of times. We show that the 2-Sat formulation of level planarity testing due to Randerath et al. is equivalent to the strong Hanani-Tutte th

Rui Luo, Kejia Lee, Duncan R. Lorimer, Bing Zhang

Thirty-three fast radio bursts (FRBs) had been detected by March 2018. Although the sample size is still limited, meaningful statistical studies can already be carried out. The normalised luminosity function places important constraints on the intrinsic power output, sheds light on the origin(s) of FRBs, and can guide future observations. In this paper, we m

Xu Wang, Randall A. Berry, Ivan Vukovic, Jayanthi Rao

In this paper, we focus on the performance analysis of a semi-persistent scheduling scheme for vehicular safety communications, motivated by the Mode 4 medium access control protocol in 3GPP Release 14 for Cellular-V2X. An analytical model is built and a fixed point method is used to calculate the collision probability and average delay in both fully connect

Libby Taylor

The determinant method of Kasteleyn gives a method of computing the number of perfect matchings of a planar bipartite graph. In addition, results of Bernardi exhibit a bijection between spanning trees of a planar bipartite graph and elements of its Jacobian. In this paper, we explore an analogue of Bernardi's results, providing a canonical simply transit