August 2018 arXiv papers — page 50

Hatem A. Alharbi, Mohamed Musa, Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi, Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

This paper focuses on investigating the direct and life cycle assessment (LCA) emissions in core networks, considering British telecom (BT) core network as a case study. We found that on 1st December 2016, the total BT core network emissions were around 22 tCO2e and 25 tCO2e of direct and LCA emissions, respectively.

Paul Z. Hanakata, Ekin D. Cubuk, David K. Campbell, Harold S. Park

Making kirigami-inspired cuts into a sheet has been shown to be an effective way of designing stretchable materials with metamorphic properties where the 2D shape can transform into complex 3D shapes. However, finding the optimal solutions is not straightforward as the number of possible cutting patterns grows exponentially with system size. Here, we report

Yang Li, Shaoyang Ning, Sarah E. Calvo, Vamsi K. Mootha

Determination of functions for poorly characterized genes is crucial for understanding biological processes and studying human diseases. Functionally associated genes are often gained and lost together through evolution. Therefore identifying co-evolution of genes can predict functional gene-gene associations. We describe here the full statistical model and

Rui Zhang, Weiyi Wang, Thomas Maier, Meng Wang

We use inelastic neutron scattering to study energy and wave vector dependence of the superconductivity-induced resonance in hole-doped Ba$_{0.67}$K$_{0.33}$(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ ($x=0,0.08$ with $T_c\approx 37, 28$ K, respectively). In previous work on electron-doped Ba(Fe$_{0.963}$Ni$_{0.037}$)$_2$As$_2$ ($T_N=26$ K and $T_c=17$ K), the resona

Naresh Manwani, Mohit Chandra

In this paper, we propose exact passive-aggressive (PA) online algorithms for learning to rank. The proposed algorithms can be used even when we have interval labels instead of actual labels for examples. The proposed algorithms solve a convex optimization problem at every trial. We find exact solution to those optimization problems to determine the updated

Dong-Sheng Wang

A preliminary overview of measurement-based quantum computation in the setting of symmetry and topological phases of quantum matter is given. The underlying mechanism for universal quantum computation by teleportation or symmetry are analyzed, with the emphasis on the relation with tensor-network states in the presence of various symmetries. Perspectives are

Ruifang Liu, Hong-Jian Lai, Yingzhi Tian

Let $τ(G)$ and $κ&#39;(G)$ denote the edge-connectivity and the spanning tree packing number of a graph $G$, respectively. Proving a conjecture initiated by Cioaba and Wong, Liu et al. in 2014 showed that for any simple graph $G$ with minimum degree $δ\ge 2k \ge 4$, if the second largest adjacency eigenvalue of $G$ satisfies $λ_2(G) < δ- \frac{2k-1}{δ+1}$, t

Yao Ma, Suhang Wang, Charu C. Aggarwal, Dawei Yin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) leverage the great power in representation learning on regular grid data such as image and video. Recently, increasing attention has been paid on generalizing CNNs to graph or network data which is highly irregular. Some focus on graph-level representation learning while others aim to learn node-level representations. The

Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas

I present a list of minima for 3 Higgs doublet models and 6 Higgs doublet models that are invariant under the discrete symmetries $Δ(3n^2)$ and $Δ(6n^2)$. I use the invariant approach formalism on the scalar sector and, with relevant Spontaneous CP-odd invariants, determine if the minima lead to Spontaneous CP violation. I identify in which cases the VEVs ha

Jie Jiang, Chongyi Ling, Tao Xu, Wenhui Wang

Defect induced trap states are essential in determining the performance of semiconductor photodetectors. The de-trap time of carriers from a deep trap could be prolonged by several orders of magnitude as compared to shallow trap, resulting in additional decay/response time of the device. Here, we demonstrate that the trap states in two-dimensional ReS2 could

Thomas R. Ayres

New Chandra High Resolution Camera pointings on the &#34;non-coronal&#34; red giant Arcturus (HD124897; $α$ Boo: K1.5III) corroborate a tentative soft X-ray detection in a shorter exploratory exposure sixteen years earlier. The apparent source followed the (large) proper motion of the nearby bright star over the intervening years, and there were null detecti

Camden Hine, Tamás Kálmán

We investigate triangulations of the two-dimensional sphere and torus with the faces properly colored white and black. We focus on matchings between white triangles and incident vertices. On the torus our objects are perfect pairings, whereas on the sphere this is only true after removing one triangle and its vertices. In the latter case, such matchings (fir

Adrian Kent

Semi-classical gravity attempts to define a hybrid theory in which a classical gravitational field is coupled to a unitarily evolving quantum state. Although semi-classical gravity is inconsistent with observation, a viable theory of this type might be appealing, since it potentially might preserve the basic features of our two most successful theories while

Hamid-Reza Rastegar-Sedehi, Chandrashekar Radhakrishnan, Samer Intissar Nehme, Liev Birman

Biological systems are typically highly open, non-equilibrium systems that are very challenging to understand from a statistical mechanics perspective. While statistical treatments of evolutionary biological systems have a long and rich history, examination of the time-dependent non-equilibrium dynamics has been less studied. In this paper we first derive a

Yu Wang, Erfu Liu, Anyuan Gao, Tianjun Cao

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures made of two-dimensional materials have been demonstrated to be versatile architectures for optoelectronic applications due to strong light-matter interactions. However, most of light-controlled phenomena and applications in the vdW heterostructures rely on positive photoconductance (PPC). Negative photoconductance (NPC) h

Anca Dumitrache, Oana Inel, Lora Aroyo, Benjamin Timmermans

Typically crowdsourcing-based approaches to gather annotated data use inter-annotator agreement as a measure of quality. However, in many domains, there is ambiguity in the data, as well as a multitude of perspectives of the information examples. In this paper, we present ongoing work into the CrowdTruth metrics, that capture and interpret inter-annotator di

Penpark Sirimark, Alex V. Lukyanov, Tristan Pryer

We have established previously, in a lead-in study, that the spreading of liquids in particulate porous media at low saturation levels, characteristically less than 10% of the void space, has very distinctive features in comparison to that at higher saturation levels. In particular, we have found that the dispersion process can be accurately described by a s

Seulki Roh, Seokbae Lee, Myounghoon Lee, Yu-Seong Seo

We investigated SrFeO$_{3-x}$ thin films on a SrTiO$_3$ (001) substrate prepared via pulsed laser epitaxy using an optical spectroscopy technique. The oxygen vacancy level ($x$) was controlled by post-annealing processes at different oxygen partial pressures. We achieved a brownmillerite(BM) structure at $x =$ 0.5 and observed the evolution of the crystal st

Jyothi Krishna V S, Shankar Balachandran

Scheduling in Asymmetric Multicore Processors (AMP), a special case of Heterogeneous Multiprocessors, is a widely studied topic. The scheduling techniques which are mostly runtime do not usually consider parallel programming pattern used in parallel programming frameworks like OpenMP. On the other hand, current compilers for these parallel programming platfo

X. Z. Zhang, Z. Song

Unlike a Chern number in $2$D and $3$D topological system, Zak phase takes a subtle role to characterize the topological phase in $1$D. On the one hand, it is not a gauge invariant, on the other hand, the Zak phase difference between two quantum phases can be used to identify the topological phase transitions. A non-Hermitian system may inherit some characte

Shiv J. Singh, Matthew Bristow, William Meier, Patrick Taylor

We present a comprehensive study of the critical current densities and the superconducting vortex phase diagram in the stoichiometric superconductor CaKFe$_4$As$_4$ which has a critical temperature of 35 K. We performed detailed magnetization measurements both of high quality single crystals for different orientations in an applied magnetic field up to 16 T

X. Cheng, Y. Li, L. F. Wan, M. D. Ding

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in various astrophysical, space, and laboratory environments. Many pieces of evidence for magnetic reconnection have been uncovered. However, its specific processes that could be fragmented and turbulent have been short of direct observational evidence. Here, we present observations of a super-hot curre

B. Uzakbaiuly, D. B. Tanner, J. Ge, J. Degallaix

This work focuses on the characterization of various bulk silicon (Si) samples using Fourier Transform InfraRed (FTIR) and grating spectrometers in order to get them suitable for applications in astronomy. Different samples at different impurity concentrations were characterized by measuring their transmittance in the infrared region. Various lines due to re

Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert

We present SeVeN (Semantic Vector Networks), a hybrid resource that encodes relationships between words in the form of a graph. Different from traditional semantic networks, these relations are represented as vectors in a continuous vector space. We propose a simple pipeline for learning such relation vectors, which is based on word vector averaging in combi

Koudai Toyota, Zoltan Jurek, Sang-Kil Son, Hironobu Fukuzawa

We develop the XCALIB toolkit to calibrate the beam profile of an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the focal spot based on the experimental charge state distributions (CSDs) of light atoms. Accurate characterization of the fluence distribution at the focal spot is essential to perform the volume integrations of physical quantities for a quantitative compa

Yuxuan Ma, Fei Meng, Yizhou Liu, Fei Zhao

We demonstrate a compact 29.3 GHz visible astro-comb covering the spectrum from 560nm to 700nm. A 837 MHz Yb:fiber laser frequency comb phase locked to a Rb clock served as the seed comb to ensure the frequency stability and high side mode suppression ratio. After the visible super-continuum generation, a cavity-length-fixed Fabry-Perot cavity made by ultra-

Ismail Ipek, Rushan Ziatdinov

The purpose of this study is to discuss instructional design and technology (IDT) model strategies for developing learning and teaching environments, based on philosophical approaches to educational technology theory. The study begins with a discussion of IDT models to define the history of educational technology or instructional technology theories, based o

Ohad Elishco, Farzad Farnoud, Moshe Schwartz, Jehoshua Bruck

We study random string-duplication systems, which we call Pólya string models. These are motivated by DNA storage in living organisms, and certain random mutation processes that affect their genome. Unlike previous works that study the combinatorial capacity of string-duplication systems, or various string statistics, this work provides exact capacity or bou

Hisato Komatsu, Yoshihiko Nonomura, Masamichi Nishino

We study field-induced phase transitions in the two-dimensional dipolar Ising ferromagnet with a specific ratio between the exchange and dipolar constants, $δ=1$, which exhibits a stripe-ordered phase with the width of one lattice unit at low temperatures without magnetic field. By using a mean-field (MF) approximation and a Monte Caro (MC) method with the s

Rushan Ziatdinov, Valerijan G. Muftejev, Rustam I. Akhmetshin, Alexander P. Zelev

This article describes the capabilities of a universal software platform for visualizing class F curves and developing specialized applications for CAD systems based on Microsoft Excel VBA, the software complex FairCurveModeler, and computer algebra systems. Additionally, it demonstrates the use of a software platform for visualizing functional and log-aesth

Michael V. Ushcats, Leonid A. Bulavin

On the example of a lattice-gas model, a convincing confirmation is obtained for the direct relationship between the condensation phenomenon and divergent behavior of the virial expansions for pressure and density in powers of activity. The present study analytically proves the pressure equality for the low-density and high-density virial expansions in power

Rudi Brits, Francois Schulz, Cheick Toure

Following a result of Hatori, Miura and Tagaki ([4]) we give here a spectral characterization of an isomorphism from a $C^\star$-algebra onto a Banach algebra. We then use this result to show that a $C^\star$-algebra $A$ is isomorphic to a Banach algebra $B$ if and only if there exists a surjective function $ϕ:A\rightarrow B$ satisfying (i) $σ\left(ϕ(x)ϕ(y)ϕ

Maneesh Bilalpur, Mohan Kankanhalli, Stefan Winkler, Ramanathan Subramanian

Data Visualization has been receiving growing attention recently, with ubiquitous smart devices designed to render information in a variety of ways. However, while evaluations of visual tools for their interpretability and intuitiveness have been commonplace, not much research has been devoted to other forms of data rendering, eg, sonification. This work is

Ali Arda Gencali, Unal Ertan

At present, J1819-1458 is the only rotating radio transient (RRAT) detected in X-rays. We have studied the long-term evolution of this source in the fallback disc model. The model can reproduce the period, period derivative and X-ray luminosity of J1819-1458 simultaneously in the accretion phase at ages $\sim 2 \times 10^5$ yr. We obtained reasonable model c

L. K. Ma, B. Lei, N. Z. Wang, K. S. Yang

How to control collectively ordered electronic states is a core interest of condensed matter physics. We report an electric field controlled reversible transition from superconductor to ferromagnetic insulator in (Li,Fe)OHFeSe thin flake using solid ion conductor as the gate dielectric. By driving Li ions into and out of the (Li,Fe)OHFeSe thin flake with ele

Alexei Kulik, Michael Scheutzow

We develop a new generalized coupling approach to the study of stochastic delay equations with Hölder continuous coefficients, for which analytical PDE-based methods are not available. We prove that such equations possess unique weak solutions, and establish weak ergodic rates for the corresponding segment processes. We also prove, under additional smoothnes

Zheng Zhu, Qiang Wang, Bo Li, Wei Wu

Recently, Siamese networks have drawn great attention in visual tracking community because of their balanced accuracy and speed. However, features used in most Siamese tracking approaches can only discriminate foreground from the non-semantic backgrounds. The semantic backgrounds are always considered as distractors, which hinders the robustness of Siamese t

Sanggeun Song, Gil-Suk Yang, Seong Jun Park, Ji-Hyun Kim

Even in the steady-state, the number of biomolecules in living cells fluctuates dynamically; and the frequency spectrum of this chemical fluctuation carries valuable information about the mechanism and the dynamics of the intracellular reactions creating these biomolecules. Although recent advances in single-cell experimental techniques enable the direct mon

Qinbo Chen, Wei Cheng, Hitoshi Ishii, Kai Zhao

This paper is devoted to study the vanishing contact structure problem which is a generalization of the vanishing discount problem. Let $H^λ(x,p,u)$ be a family of Hamiltonians of contact type with parameter $λ>0$ and converges to $G(x,p)$. For the contact type Hamilton-Jacobi equation with respect to $H^λ$, we prove that, under mild assumptions, the associa

Harishchandra Dubey, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H. L. Hansen

Speaker Diarization (i.e. determining who spoke and when?) for multi-speaker naturalistic interactions such as Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) sessions is a challenging task. In this study, we propose robust speaker clustering based on mixture of multivariate von Mises-Fisher distributions. Our diarization pipeline has two stages: (i) ground-truth segmentation

Connor Ahlbach, Joshua P. Swanson

We show that the cyclic sieving phenomenon of Reiner--Stanton--White together with necklace generating functions arising from work of Klyachko offer a remarkably unified, direct, and largely bijective approach to a series of results due to Kraskiewicz--Weyman, Stembridge, and Schocker related to the so-called higher Lie modules and branching rules for inclus

D. Strottman, J. D. Vergados

In a separate paper we have discussed the possibility that six quark clusters can affect the rate of double-beta decay. In this article we develop the formalism needed in the evaluation of the energy of all six-quark cluster configurations, which can arise in a harmonic oscillator basis up to $2 \hbar ω$ excitations. The symmetries that were found useful for

Darlington Ahiale Akogo, Vincent Appiah, Xavier-Lewis Palmer

Computer Vision for Analyzing and Classifying cells and tissues often require rigorous lab procedures and so automated Computer Vision solutions have been sought. Most work in such field usually requires Feature Extractions before the analysis of such features via Machine Learning and Machine Vision algorithms. We developed a Convolutional Neural Network tha

Justin Alsing, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Stephen M. Feeney

We derive the optimal proposal density for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) using Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) (or Population Monte Carlo, PMC). The criterion for optimality is that the SMC/PMC-ABC sampler maximise the effective number of samples per parameter proposal. The optimal proposal density represents the optimal trade-off between favoring high

Shigehisa Takakuwa, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Kazuya Saigo, Masao Saito

We present results from our SMA observations and data analyses of the SMA archival data of the Class I protostar IRAS 04169+2702. The high-resolution (~0.5&#34;) $^{13}$CO (3-2) image cube shows a compact ($r$ ~< 100 au) structure with a northwest (blue) to southeast (red) velocity gradient, centered on the 0.9-mm dust-continuum emission. The direction of th

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Xu Shi, Tamar Sofer, Benedict H. W. Wong

It is increasingly of interest in statistical genetics to test for the presence of a mechanistic interaction between genetic (G) and environmental (E) risk factors by testing for the presence of an additive GxE interaction. In case-control studies involving a rare disease, a statistical test of no additive interaction typically entails a test of no relative

Yemeen Ayub, Charles L. Samuels

Suppose that $p$ is an odd prime and $\genfrac{(}{)}{}{}{\cdot}{p}$ denotes the Legendre symbol modulo $p$. If $p$ is has the form $p= n^2+1$ then one easily verifies that $\genfrac{(}{)}{}{}{a}{p} = \genfrac{(}{)}{}{}{-a}{p}$ for all $a\in \mathbb Z/p\mathbb Z$. We identify various symmetry properties of sequential matrices over $\mathbb Z/(n^2+1)\mathbb Z$

Deng Liu, Yanyong Hong, Hao Zhou, Nuan Zhang

In this paper, under some natural condition, a complete classification of compatible left-symmetric conformal algebraic structures on the Lie conformal algebra $\mathcal{W}(a,b)$ is presented. Moreover, applying this result, we obtain a class of compatible left-symmetric algebraic structures on the coefficient algebra of $\mathcal{W}(a,b)$.

Z. M. Abd El-Fattah, M. A. Kher-Elden, I. Piquero-Zulaica, F. J. Garcia de Abajo

Theoretical progress in graphene physics has largely relied on the application of a simple nearest-neighbor tight-binding model capable of predicting many of the electronic properties of this material. However, important features that include electron-hole asymmetry and the detailed electronic bands of basic graphene nanostructures (e.g., nanoribbons with di

Yanyong Hong, Chengming Bai

Conformal classical Yang-Baxter equation and $S$-equation naturally appear in the study of Lie conformal bialgebras and left-symmetric conformal bialgebras. In this paper, they are interpreted in terms of a kind of operators, namely, $\mathcal O$-operators in the conformal sense. Explicitly, the skew-symmetric part of a conformal linear map $T$ where $T_0=T_

Yufei Wang, Zhe Lin, Xiaohui Shen, Jianming Zhang

Existing works on semantic segmentation typically consider a small number of labels, ranging from tens to a few hundreds. With a large number of labels, training and evaluation of such task become extremely challenging due to correlation between labels and lack of datasets with complete annotations. We formulate semantic segmentation as a problem of image se

Noah Kravitz, Ashwin Sah

The Erdős-Burgess constant of a semigroup $S$ is the smallest positive integer $k$ such that any sequence over $S$ of length $k$ contains a nonempty subsequence whose elements multiply to an idempotent element of $S$. In the case where $S$ is the multiplicative semigroup of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$, we confirm a conjecture connecting the Erdős-Burgess consta

Kai Li, Zhengming Ding, Kunpeng Li, Yulun Zhang

Person re-identification (re-ID) has recently been tremendously boosted due to the advancement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). The majority of deep re-ID methods focus on designing new CNN architectures, while less attention is paid on investigating the loss functions. Verification loss and identification loss are two types of losses widely used

Dahai Yan, Shenbang Yang, Pengfei Zhang, Benzhong Dai

The energy dissipation mechanism in blazar jet is unknown. Blazar&#39;s flares could provide insights on this problem. Here we report statistical results of XMM-Newton X-ray flares of Mrk 421. We analyze all public XMM-Newton X-ray observations for Mrk 421, and construct the light curves. Through fitting light curves, we obtain the parameters of flare-profil

Jan Kallberg

It is questionable and even unlikely that cyber supremacy could be reached by overwhelming capabilities manifested by stacking more technical capacity and adding attack vectors. The alternative is to use time as the vehicle to supremacy by accelerating the velocity of the engagements beyond the speed at which the enemy can target, and precisely execute and c

Francisco Ruiz-Escobedo, Miriam Peña, Liliana Hernández-Martínez, Jorge García-Rojas

We present chemical abundance determinations of two H II regions in the dIrr galaxy Leo A, from GTC OSIRIS long-slit spectra. Both H II regions are of low excitation and seem to be ionised by stars later than O8V spectral type. In one of the H II regions we used the direct method: O$^{+2}$ ionic abundance was calculated using an electronic temperature determ

Min-Cheol Lee, Choong H. Kim, Inho Kwak, J. Kim

We employ an optical pump-probe technique to study coherent phonon oscillations in Ca$_2$RuO$_4$. We find that oscillation-amplitude of an $A_g$ symmetric phonon mode is strongly suppressed at 260 K, a putative transition point of orbital ordering. The oscillation also shows a gradual but huge change in its $phase$, such that the oscillation even flips over

Amit Kachroo, Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir, Hatice Tekiner-Mogulkoc

In this study, we describe the behavior of LTE over the sea and investigate the problem of radio resource block allocation in such SINR limited maritime channels. For simulations of such sea environment, we considered a network scenario of Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey with different number of ships ferrying between two ports at a given time. After ex

Emily C. Martin, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Ian S. McLean, Gregory Doppmann

NIRSPEC is a 1-5 micron echelle spectrograph in use on the Keck II Telescope since 1999. The spectrograph is capable of both moderate (R~2,000) and high (R~25,000) resolution observations and has been a workhorse instrument across many astronomical fields, from planetary science to extragalactic observations. In the latter half of 2018, we will upgrade NIRSP

Rebecca G. Martin, Chris Nixon, Fu-Guo Xie, Andrew King

A circumbinary disc around a pair of merging stellar-mass black holes may be shocked and heated during the recoil of the merged hole, causing a near-simultaneous electromagnetic counterpart to the gravitational wave event. The shocks occur around the recoil radius, where the disc orbital velocity is equal to the recoil velocity. The amount of mass present ne

Sateeshkrishna Dhuli, Y. N. Singh

Average consensus algorithms compute the global average of sensor data in a distributed fashion using local sensor nodes. Simple execution, decentralized philosophy make these algorithms suitable for WSN scenarios. Most of the researchers have studied the average consensus algorithms by modeling the network as an undirected graph. But, WSNs in practice consi

Kyle Gerard Felker, James Stone

We present a fourth-order accurate finite volume method for the solution of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The numerical method combines high-order quadrature rules in the solution of semi-discrete formulations of hyperbolic conservation laws with the upwind constrained transport (UCT) framework to ensure that the divergence-free constraint of the magneti

David Krieg, Daniel Rudolf

We present deterministic algorithms for the uniform recovery of $d$-variate rank one tensors from function values. These tensors are given as product of $d$ univariate functions whose $r$th weak derivative is bounded by $M$. The recovery problem is known to suffer from the curse of dimensionality for $M\geq 2^r r!$. For smaller $M$, a randomized algorithm is

Michal Fabinger, E. Glen Weyl

We present functional forms allowing a broader range of analytic solutions to common economic equilibrium problems. These can increase the realism of pen-and-paper solutions or speed large-scale numerical solutions as computational subroutines. We use the latter approach to build a tractable heterogeneous firm model of international trade accommodating econo

Amir Karami, Matthew Collins

Twitter has provided a great opportunity for public libraries to disseminate information for a variety of purposes. Twitter data have been applied in different domains such as health, politics, and history. There are thousands of public libraries in the US, but no study has yet investigated the content of their social media posts like tweets to find their in

Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher

Data analysts often need to work with multiple series of data---conventionally shown as line charts---at once. Few visual representations allow analysts to view many lines simultaneously without becoming overwhelming or cluttered. In this paper, we introduce the DenseLines technique to calculate a discrete density representation of time series. DenseLines no

Diego Milanes, Nestor Quintero

We explore signals of lepton-number-violation in the charm physics sector. We study the four-body $|ΔL|= 2$ decays of the $D^0$ meson, $D^0 \to P^- π^-μ^+ μ^+$ ($P = π, K$) as an alternative evidence of the Majorana nature of neutrinos. We carry out an exploratory study on the potential sensitivity that LHCb experiment could achieve for these $|ΔL|= 2$ proce

Saurabh Deochake, Sumit Maheshwari, Ridip De, Anish Grover

This paper presents a comparative study of virtual machines (VMs) and containers for DevOps developers. The study explores the benefits and drawbacks of each technology in terms of their functionality, performance, security, and resource utilization. The paper examines the underlying architecture of VMs and containers, and how they differ from each other. Th

Vincenzo Arceri, Isabella Mastroeni

In recent years, dynamic languages, such as JavaScript or Python, have been increasingly used in a wide range of fields and applications. Their tricky and misunderstood behaviors pose a hard challenge for static analysis of these programming languages. A key aspect of any dynamic language program is the multiple usage of strings, since they can be implicitly

Matthew D. Duez, Yosef Zlochower

We review the dramatic progress in the simulations of compact objects and compact-object binaries that has taken place in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This includes simulations of the inspirals and violent mergers of binaries containing black holes and neutron stars, as well as simulations of black-hole formation through failed supernov

R. Kerr, W. M. Thomson, D. J. Smith

Chemical clock reactions are characterised by a relatively long induction period followed by a rapid `switchover&#39; during which the concentration of a \emph{clock chemical} rises rapidly. In addition to their interest in chemistry education, these reactions are relevant to industrial and biochemical applications. A substrate-depletive, non-autocatalytic c

A. Shearrow, G. Koolstra, S. J. Whiteley, N. Earnest

Superconducting thin films with high intrinsic kinetic inductance are of great importance for photon detectors, achieving strong coupling in hybrid systems, and protected qubits. We report on the performance of titanium nitride resonators, patterned on thin films (9-110 nm) grown by atomic layer deposition, with sheet inductances of up to 234 pH/square. For

Boris Botvinnik, Jonathan Rosenberg

A (compact) manifold with fibered $P$-singularities is a (possibly) singular pseudomanifold $M_Σ$ with two strata: an open nonsingular stratum $\mathring M$ (a smooth open manifold) and a closed stratum $βM$ (a closed manifold of positive codimension), such that a tubular neighborhood of $βM$ is a fiber bundle with fibers each looking like the cone on a fixe

Tomer Schlank, Lior Yanovski

We define a reduced $\infty$-operad $\mathcal{P}$ to be $d$-connected if the spaces $\mathcal{P}\left(n\right)$, of $n$-ary operations, are $d$-connected for all $n\ge0$. Let $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{Q}$ be two reduced $\infty$-operads. We prove that if $\mathcal{P}$ is $d_{1}$-connected and $\mathcal{Q}$ is $d_{2}$-connected, then their Boardman-Vogt ten

Igor Mezić, Vladimir A. Fonoberov, Maria Fonoberova, Tuhin Sahai

We introduce a new measure of complexity (called spectral complexity) for directed graphs. We start with splitting of the directed graph into its recurrent and non-recurrent parts. We define the spectral complexity metric in terms of the spectrum of the recurrence matrix (associated with the reccurent part of the graph) and the Wasserstein distance. We show

David M. Schmidtt

In this paper we refine and extend the results of arXiv:1701.04138, where a connection between the $AdS_{5}\times S^{5}$ superstring lambda model on $S^{1}=\partial D$ and a double Chern-Simons (CS) theory on $D$ based on the Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{psu}(2,2|4)$ was suggested, after introduction of the spectral parameter $z$. The relation between both th

Michael Björklund, Zemer Kosloff

We provide a simple criterion for a non-singular and conservative Bernouilli action to have a weakly mixing Maharam extension. As an application, we show that every countable amenable group admits a stable type III_1 Bernoulli action, answering a recent question by Vaes and Wahl.

Y. Wang, S. Bihr, M. Rugel, H. Beuther

Radio continuum surveys of the Galactic plane can find and characterize HII regions, supernova remnants (SNRs), planetary nebulae (PNe), and extragalactic sources. A number of surveys at high angular resolution (<25&#34;) at different wavelengths exist to study the interstellar medium (ISM), but no comparable high-resolution and high-sensitivity survey exist

Maxime Leroux, Vivek Mishra, Jacob P. C. Ruff, Helmut Claus

With the discovery of charge density waves (CDW) in most members of the cuprate high temperature superconductors, the interplay between superconductivity and CDW has become a key point in the debate on the origin of high temperature superconductivity. Some experiments in cuprates point toward a CDW state competing with superconductivity, but others raise the

John A. Schneeloch, Chunruo Duan, Xiaoping Wang, Jun Liu

Electronic tunability in crystals with weakly-bound layers can be achieved through layer stacking order. One such example is MoTe$_2$, where the low-temperature orthorhombic T$_d$ phase is topological and host to Weyl quasiparticles. The transition mechanism to the non-trivial topology is elucidated by single crystal neutron diffraction. Upon cooling from th

Leonardo Supán, Gabriela Castelletti, Alberto D. Supanitsky, Michael G. Burton

Using high-resolution data of the $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO ($J$=1-0}) line emission from The Mopra Southern Galactic Plane CO Survey in conjunction with neutral hydrogen observations from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) and mid-infrared Spitzer data, we have explored the large-scale environment of the supernova remnant Kes 41. On the basis of these

Oscar Castillo-Felisola, José Perdiguero, Oscar Orellana

We find possible cosmological models of the Polynomial Affine Gravity described by connections that are either compatible or not with a metric. When possible, we compare them with those of General Relativity. We show that the set of cosmological vacuum solutions in General Relativity are a subset of the solutions of Polynomial Affine Gravity. In our model th

Charles Collot, Tej-Eddine Ghoul, Slim Ibrahim, Nader Masmoudi

We consider the two dimensional unsteady Prandtl system. For a special class of outer Euler flows and solutions of the Prandtl system, the trace of the tangential derivative of the tangential velocity along the transversal axis solves a closed one dimensional equation. First, we give a precise description of singular solutions for this reduced problem. A sta

Chun-Guang Li, Chong You, René Vidal

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is a state-of-the-art method for segmenting a set of data points drawn from a union of subspaces into their respective subspaces. It is now well understood that SSC produces subspace-preserving data affinity under broad geometric conditions but suffers from a connectivity issue. In this paper, we develop a novel geometric ana

Rafael S. Gonçalves, Mark A. Musen

We present an analytical study of the quality of metadata about samples used in biomedical experiments. The metadata under analysis are stored in two well-known databases: BioSample---a repository managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and BioSamples---a repository managed by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). We teste

Chang Feng, Asantha Cooray, Jamie Bock, Tzu-Ching Chang

The near-infrared background between 0.5 $μ$m to 2 $μ$m contains a wealth of information related to radiative processes in the universe. Infrared background anisotropies encode the redshift-weighted total emission over cosmic history, including any spatially diffuse and extended contributions. The anisotropy power spectrum is dominated by undetected galaxies

Ning Bao, Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Jason Pollack, Grant N. Remmen

We interpret the traversable wormhole in AdS/CFT in the context of quantum information theory. In particular, we investigate its properties as both a quantum channel and entanglement witness. We define protocols that allow either the bounding of the channel&#39;s entanglement capacity or the determination of aspects of the entanglement structure between the

A. A. Burkov

Topological metals continue to attract attention as novel gapless states of matter. While there by now exists an exhaustive classification of possible topologically nontrivial metallic states, their observable properties, that follow from the electronic structure topology, are less well understood. Here we present a study of the electromagnetic response of t

Seung-Joo Lee, Wolfgang Lerche, Timo Weigand

We test various conjectures about quantum gravity for six-dimensional string compactifications in the framework of F-theory. Starting with a gauge theory coupled to gravity, we analyze the limit in Kähler moduli space where the gauge coupling tends to zero while gravity is kept dynamical. We show that such a limit must be located at infinite distance in the

Thejs Brinckmann, Deanna C. Hooper, Maria Archidiacono, Julien Lesgourgues

We forecast the sensitivity of thirty-five different combinations of future Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure data sets to cosmological parameters and to the total neutrino mass. We work under conservative assumptions accounting for uncertainties in the modelling of systematics. In particular, for galaxy redshift surveys, we remove the in

Xiao Li, S. Das Sarma

We study theoretically the localization properties of two distinct one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice models with a single-particle mobility edge (SPME) separating extended and localized states in the energy spectrum. The first one is the familiar Soukoulis-Economou trichromatic potential model with two incommensurate potentials, and the second is a syste

Brian Skinner, Jonathan Ruhman, Adam Nahum

We define dynamical universality classes for many-body systems whose unitary evolution is punctuated by projective measurements. In cases where such measurements occur randomly at a finite rate $p$ for each degree of freedom, we show that the system has two dynamical phases: `entangling&#39; and `disentangling&#39;. The former occurs for $p$ smaller than a c

Morgan MacLeod, Eve C. Ostriker, James M. Stone

Recent observations have revealed that the remnants of stellar-coalescence transients are bipolar. This raises the questions of how these bipolar morphologies arise and what they teach us about the mechanisms of mass ejection during stellar mergers and common-envelope phases. In this paper, we analyze hydrodynamic simulations of the lead-in to binary coalesc

Amos Chan, Rahul M. Nandkishore, Michael Pretko, Graeme Smith

Starting from a state of low quantum entanglement, local unitary time evolution increases the entanglement of a quantum many-body system. In contrast, local projective measurements disentangle degrees of freedom and decrease entanglement. We study the interplay of these competing tendencies by considering time evolution combining both unitary and projective

Sally Dawson, Ahmed Ismail

We compute the one-loop corrections to $Z$ decay properties from dimension-6 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) that contribute also to anomalous 3-gauge boson couplings and examine the relative sensitivity of the two processes to the anomalous couplings. The size of the contributions is of order a few percent, of the same size as

Adam S. Jobson, André E. Kézdy

A graph is an apex graph if it contains a vertex whose deletion leaves a planar graph. The family of apex graphs is minor-closed and so it is characterized by a finite list of minor-minimal non-members. The long-standing problem of determining this finite list of apex obstructions remains open. This paper determines the 133 minor-minimal, non-apex graphs tha

Jennifer Lin, Djordje Radicevic

We revisit the issue of defining the entropy of a spatial region in a broad class of quantum theories. In theories with explicit regularizations, working within an elementary but general algebraic framework applicable to matter and gauge theories alike, we give precise path integral expressions for three known types of entanglement entropy that we call full,

Gökalp Alpan

Let $K$ be a non-polar compact subset of $\mathbb{C}$ and $μ_K$ be its equilibrium measure. Let $μ$ be a unit Borel measure supported on a compact set which contains the support of $μ_K$. We prove that a Szegő condition in terms of the Radon-Nikodym derivative of $μ$ with respect to $μ_K$ implies that $$\inf_n \frac{\|P_n(\cdot;μ)\|_{L^2(\mathbb{C};μ)}}{\mat

Daniel Kondor, Paolo Santi, Diem-Trinh Le, Xiaohu Zhang

Parking infrastructure is pervasive and occupies large swaths of land in cities. However, on-demand (OD) mobility -- such as commercial services Uber, Grab or Didi -- has started reducing parking needs in urban areas around the world. This trend is expected to grow significantly with the advent of autonomous driving, which might render on-demand mobility pre

Amir Daneshmand, Ying Sun, Gesualdo Scutari, Francisco Facchinei

This paper studies Dictionary Learning problems wherein the learning task is distributed over a multi-agent network, modeled as a time-varying directed graph. This formulation is relevant, for instance, in Big Data scenarios where massive amounts of data are collected/stored in different locations (e.g., sensors, clouds) and aggregating and/or processing all