August 2018 arXiv papers — page 51

Christopher W. Murphy, Amarjit Soni

We derive model-independent bounds on the form factors for the decay $B_c^+ \to η_c\, \ell^+\, ν$ including full mass effects, i.e. $\ell = e,\, μ, \text{ and } τ$. The bounds are obtained by using the BGL parameterization for the form factors, and fitting to the preliminary lattice data of the HPQCD Collaboration. Our main result after bounding the form fac

Andreas Krug, Jørgen Vold Rennemo

For $X$ a smooth quasi-projective variety and $X^{[n]}$ its associated Hilbert scheme of $n$ points, we study two canonical Fourier--Mukai transforms $D(X)\to D(X^{[n]})$, the one along the structure sheaf and the one along the ideal sheaf of the universal family. For $\dim X\ge 2$, we prove that both functors admit a left-inverse. This means in particular t

David Chodounský, Vera Fischer, Jan Grebík

We investigate maximal free sequences in the Boolean algebra $\mathcal{P}(ω)/\mathrm{fin}$, as defined by D. Monk. We provide some information on the general structure of these objects and we are particularly interested in the minimal cardinality of a free sequence, a cardinal characteristic of the continuum denoted $\mathfrak{f}$. Answering a question of Mo

Jun-Won Rhim, Bohm-Jung Yang

We show that flat bands can be categorized into two distinct classes, that is, singular and nonsingular flat bands, by exploiting the singular behavior of their Bloch wave functions in momentum space. In the case of a singular flat band, its Bloch wave function possesses immovable discontinuities generated by the band-crossing with other bands, and thus the

Koji Tsukuda, Yoichi Nishiyama

In this paper, weak convergences of marked empirical processes in $L^2(\mathbb{R},ν)$ and their applications to statistical goodness-of-fit tests are provided, where $L^2(\mathbb{R},ν)$ is the set of equivalence classes of the square integrable functions on $\mathbb{R}$ with respect to a finite Borel measure $ν$. The results obtained in our framework of weak

Jocelyn T. Chi, Ilse C. F. Ipsen

Linear regression is a classic method of data analysis. In recent years, sketching -- a method of dimension reduction using random sampling, random projections, or both -- has gained popularity as an effective computational approximation when the number of observations greatly exceeds the number of variables. In this paper, we address the following question:

Feng Yang, Yong-Dao Zhou, Aijun Zhang

Follow-up experimental designs are popularly used in industry. In many follow-up designs, some additional factors with two or three levels may be added in the follow-up stage since they are quite important but may be neglected in the first stage. Such follow-up designs are called mixed-level column augmented designs. In this paper, based on the initial desig

Ahmed Hindy, Aria Nosratinia

This paper addresses point-to-point communication over block-fading channels with independent fading blocks. When both channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) and receiver (CSIR) are available, most achievable schemes use separable coding, i.e., coding independently and in parallel over different fading states. Unfortunately, separable coding has

Mahya Ghandehari, Hun Hee Lee, Jean Ludwig, Nico Spronk

We investigate Beurling-Fourier algebras, a weighted version of Fourier algebras, on various Lie groups focusing on their spectral analysis. We will introduce a refined general definition of weights on the dual of locally compact groups and their associated Beurling-Fourier algebras. Constructions of nontrivial weights will be presented focusing on the cases

Ying Zhu

We develop non-asymptotically justified methods for hypothesis testing about the $p-$dimensional coefficients $θ^{*}$ in (possibly nonlinear) regression models. Given a function $h:\,\mathbb{R}^{p}\mapsto\mathbb{R}^{m}$, we consider the null hypothesis $H_{0}:\,h(θ^{*})\inΩ$ against the alternative hypothesis $H_{1}:\,h(θ^{*})\notinΩ$, where $Ω$ is a nonempt

Torsten Bringmann, Paul Frederik Depta, Valerie Domcke, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

The idea of dark matter in the form of primordial black holes has seen a recent revival triggered by the LIGO detection of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. In this context, it has been argued that a large initial clustering of primordial black holes can help alleviate the strong constraints on this scenario. In this work, we show that on t

Feimin Huang, Dehua Wang, Difan Yuan

We are concerned with the vortex sheet solutions for the inviscid two-phase flow in two dimensions. In particular, the nonlinear stability and existence of compressible vortex sheet solutions under small perturbations are established by using a modification of the Nash-Moser iteration technique, where a priori estimates for the linearized equations have a lo

Samarth Gupta, Gauri Joshi, Osman Yağan

We consider a novel multi-armed bandit framework where the rewards obtained by pulling the arms are functions of a common latent random variable. The correlation between arms due to the common random source can be used to design a generalized upper-confidence-bound (UCB) algorithm that identifies certain arms as $non-competitive$, and avoids exploring them.

Horatio Boedihardjo, Xi Geng

We prove that a continuous path with finite length in a real Banach space cannot have infinitely many zero components in its signature unless it is tree-like. In particular, this allows us to strengthen a limit theorem for signature recently proved by Chang, Lyons and Ni. What lies at the heart of our proof is a complexification idea together with deep resul

James Cruise, Stan Zachary

It is likely that electricity storage will play a significant role in the balancing of future energy systems. A major challenge is then that of how to assess the contribution of storage to capacity adequacy, i.e. to the ability of such systems to meet demand. This requires an understanding of how to optimally schedule multiple storage facilities. The present

Huy Tai Ha, Ngo Viet Trung

We present a close relationship between matching number, covering numbers and their fractional versions in combinatorial optimization and ordinary powers, integral closures of powers, and symbolic powers of monomial ideals. This relationship leads to several new results and problems on the containments between these powers.

Slobodan Milovanović, Lina von Sydow

In this paper, we consider the numerical pricing of financial derivatives using Radial Basis Function generated Finite Differences in space. Such discretization methods have the advantage of not requiring Cartesian grids. Instead, the nodes can be placed with higher density in areas where there is a need for higher accuracy. Still, the discretization matrix

Andreas Svensson, Dave Zachariah, Petre Stoica, Thomas B. Schön

In scientific inference problems, the underlying statistical modeling assumptions have a crucial impact on the end results. There exist, however, only a few automatic means for validating these fundamental modelling assumptions. The contribution in this paper is a general criterion to evaluate the consistency of a set of statistical models with respect to ob

Paolo Cremonese, Edvard Mörtsell

The recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) waves originating from the same source marks the start of a new multi-messenger era in astronomy. The arrival time difference between the GW and EM signal can be used to constrain differences in their propagation speed, and thus gravitational theories. We study to what extent a non-ze

Fabio Massimo Zennaro, Magdalena Ivanovska, Audun Jøsang

In this paper we analyze the use of subjective logic as a framework for performing approximate transformations over probability distribution functions. As for any approximation, we evaluate subjective logic in terms of computational efficiency and bias. However, while the computational cost may be easily estimated, the bias of subjective logic operators have

Wouter Bulten, Péter Bándi, Jeffrey Hoven, Rob van de Loo

Prostate cancer (PCa) is graded by pathologists by examining the architectural pattern of cancerous epithelial tissue on hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained slides. Given the importance of gland morphology, automatically differentiating between glandular epithelial tissue and other tissues is an important prerequisite for the development of automated methods

Damien Desfontaines, Andreas Lochbihler, David Basin

Cardinality estimators like HyperLogLog are sketching algorithms that estimate the number of distinct elements in a large multiset. Their use in privacy-sensitive contexts raises the question of whether they leak private information. In particular, can they provide any privacy guarantees while preserving their strong aggregation properties? We formulate an a

Timur Aslyamov, Vera Pletneva, Aleksey Khlyupin

Adsorption properties of chain fluids are of interest from both fundamental and industrial points of view. Density Functional Theory (DFT) based models are among the most appropriate techniques allowing to describe surface phenomena. At the same time Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (SAFT) successfully describes bulk PVT properties of chain-fluids. In th

P. K. Sahoo, I. Radinschi, K. L. Mahanta

We use the Møller and Landau-Lifshitz energy-momentum definitions in General Relativity (GR) to evaluate the energy-momentum distribution of the phantom black hole space-time. The phantom black hole model was applied to the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre. We obtain that in both pseudotensorial prescriptions the energy distribution depends on

Sariel Bier, Arik Yochelis

Stabilization and dispersion of electrical charge by colloids in non-polar media, such as nano-particles or inverse micelles, is significant for a variety of chemical and technological applications, ranging from drug delivery to e-ink. Many applications require knowledge about concentrations near the solid|liquid interface and the bulk, particularly in media

Stefan Ilic, Julia S. Meyer, Manuel Houzet

We calculate the interference correction to the conductivity of doped transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers. Because of the interplay between valley structure and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC), these materials exhibit a rich weak localization (WL) behavior that is qualitatively different from conventional metals or similar two-dimensional m

Maxime Soler, Mélanie Plainchault, Bruno Conche, Julien Tierny

This paper presents a robust and efficient method for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar data. Structures are tracked based on the optimal matching between persistence diagrams with respect to the Wasserstein metric. This fundamentally relies on solving the assignment problem, a special case of optimal transport, for all consecutive timeste

K. Loumou, I. G. Hannah, H. S. Hudson

The heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) is structured into large sectors of positive and negative polarity. The parts of the boundary between these sectors where the change in polarity matches that of the leading-to-following sunspot polarity in that solar hemisphere, are called Hale Sector Boundaries (HSB). We investigate the flare occurrence rate near HSBs a

Lie Fu, Zhiyuan Li

We study symplectic varieties defined over fields of positive characteristics, especially the supersingular ones, generalizing the theory of supersingular K3 surfaces. In this work, we are mainly interested in the following two types of symplectic varieties over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic, under natural numerical conditions: (1)

Nikolay Moshchevitin, Brendan Murphy, Ilya Shkredov

We prove bounds for the popularity of products of sets with weak additive structure, and use these bounds to prove results about continued fractions. Namely, we obtain a nearly sharp upper bound for the cardinality of Zaremba's set modulo $p$.

Minjin Lee, SangHyun Cheon, Sungmin Lee

We investigate how efficient each area of urban street network is connected. Using the detour index, geographic features of street network and pairwise efficiency is studied. To do so, the detour index of 1,832,118 travel route pairs for 85 global cities are explored. We show that the detour index in urban street network is strongly dependent on the angular

Marios Christodoulou, Carlo Rovelli

We analyze the recent proposal of measuring a quantum gravity phenomenon in the lab by entangling two particles gravitationally. We give a generally covariant description of this phenomenon, where the relevant effect turns out to be a quantum superposition of proper times. We point out that measurement of this effect would count as evidence for quantum super

A. V. Syromyatnikov

We present a bond-operator theory (BOT) suitable for description both magnetically ordered phases and paramagnetic phases with singlet ground states in spin-1/2 magnets. Proposed BOT provides a regular expansion of physical quantities in powers of 1/n, where n is the maximum number of bosons which can occupy a unit cell (physical results correspond to n=1).

J. C. Estrada Saldaña, A. Vekris, G. Steffensen, R. Žitko

We demonstrate the Josephson effect in a serial double quantum dot defined in a nanowire with epitaxial superconducting leads. The supercurrent stability diagram adopts a honeycomb pattern with electron-hole and left-right reflection symmetry. We observe sharp discontinuities in the magnitude of the critical current, $I_c$, as a function of dot occupation, r

Ginestra Bianconi, Robert M. Ziff

Simplicial complexes are increasingly used to understand the topology of complex systems as different as brain networks and social interactions. It is therefore of special interest to extend the study of percolation to simplicial complexes. Here we propose a topological theory of percolation for discrete hyperbolic simplicial complexes. Specifically we consi

William G. Cook, Diandian Wang, Ulrich Sperhake

We study gravitational wave emission and the structure and formation of apparent horizons in orbiting black-hole binary systems in higher-dimensional general relativity. For this purpose we present an apparent horizon finder for use in higher dimensional numerical simulations and test the finder's accuracy and consistency in single and binary black-hole

Yi-Te Hsu, Yu-Chen Lin, Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao

Numerous studies have investigated the effectiveness of neural network quantization on pattern classification tasks. The present study, for the first time, investigated the performance of speech enhancement (a regression task in speech processing) using a novel exponent-only floating-point quantized neural network (EOFP-QNN). The proposed EOFP-QNN consists o

David Schug, Vanessa Nadig, Bjoern Weissler, Pierre Gebhardt

For a first characterization, we used the two KETEK-PM3325-WB SiPMs each equipped with a 3x3x5 mm${}^3$ LYSO scintillation crystal provided with the PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC Evaluation Kit. We changed the lower of two discriminator thresholds (D_T1) in the timing branch from vth_t1 = 5 - 30. The overvoltage was varied in a range of 1.25 V - 7.25 V. The ambient te

Magdalena Zych, Łukasz Rudnicki, Igor Pikovski

The equivalence principle in combination with the special relativistic equivalence between mass and energy, $E=mc^2$, is one of the cornerstones of general relativity. However, for composite systems a long-standing result in general relativity asserts that the passive gravitational mass is not simply equal to the total energy. This seeming anomaly is support

Zafar Ahmed, Sachin Kumar

We point out that PT-symmetric potentials $V_{PT}(x)$ having imaginary asymptotic saturation: $V_{PT}(x=\pm \infty) =\pm i V_1, V_1 \in \Re$ are devoid of scattering states and spectral singularity. We show the existence of real (positive and negative) discrete spectrum both with and without complex conjugate pair(s) of eigenvalues (CCPEs). If the states are

Li Cheng, Otto Eberhardt, Christopher W. Murphy

We study theoretical constraints on a model whose scalar sector contains one color octet and one or two color singlet $SU(2)_L$ doublets. Using the unitarity of the theory, we constrain the parameters of the scalar potential for the first time at next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. We also derive new conditions guaranteeing the stability of the pot

Anish Mallick, P A Narayanan

Here, we focus on Anderson type operators over infinite graphs where the randomness acts through higher rank perturbations. We show that for special family of graphs, the operator has non-trivial multiplicity for its pure point spectrum. We, also, show that for some family of graphs, any unitary which fixes the random operator, arising from an automorphism o

Nemanja Djuric, Vladan Radosavljevic, Henggang Cui, Thi Nguyen

We address one of the crucial aspects necessary for safe and efficient operations of autonomous vehicles, namely predicting future state of traffic actors in the autonomous vehicle's surroundings. We introduce a deep learning-based approach that takes into account a current world state and produces raster images of each actor's vicinity. The rasters

Zhenjie Ren, Nizar Touzi, Junjian Yang

The theory of backward SDEs extends the predictable representation property of Brownian motion to the nonlinear framework, thus providing a path-dependent analog of fully nonlinear parabolic PDEs. In this paper, we consider backward SDEs, their reflected version, and their second-order extension, in the context where the final data and the generator satisfy

Alexander Monin

It is shown that higgsplosion scenario is impossible within local QFT framework.

Arvind Ayyer, Caley Finn, Dipankar Roy

We study a multispecies generalization of a left-permeable asymmetric exclusion process (LPASEP) in one dimension with open boundaries. We determine all phases in the phase diagram using an exact projection to the LPASEP solved by us in a previous work. In most phases, we observe the phenomenon of dynamical expulsion of one or more species. We explain the de

Andrei Druzhinin, Håkon Kolderup

We prove that homotopy invariance and cancellation properties are satisfied by any linear category of correspondences that is defined, via Calmès and Fasel's construction, by an underlying cohomology theory. In particular, this includes any category of correspondences arising from the cohomology theory defined by an MSL-algebra.

Huibin Chang, Pable Enfedaque, Stefano Marchesini

Ptychography has risen as a reference X-ray imaging technique: it achieves resolutions of one billionth of a meter, macroscopic field of view, or the capability to retrieve chemical or magnetic contrast, among other features. A ptychographyic reconstruction is normally formulated as a blind phase retrieval problem, where both the image (sample) and the probe

Arpan Kar, Sourav Mitra, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We study the potential of the Square Kilometre Array in the first phase (SKA1) in detecting dark matter annihilation signals from dwarf spheroidals in the form of diffuse radio synchrotron. Taking the minimal supersymmetric standard model as illustration, we show that it is possible to detect such signals for dark matter masses about an order of magnitude be

Sukjin Han, Sungwon Lee

The purpose of this paper is to provide guidelines for empirical researchers who use a class of bivariate threshold crossing models with dummy endogenous variables. A common practice employed by the researchers is the specification of the joint distribution of the unobservables as a bivariate normal distribution, which results in a bivariate probit model. To

Stéphane Le Roux, Arno Pauly, Mickael Randour

We study finite-memory (FM) determinacy in games on finite graphs, a central question for applications in controller synthesis, as FM strategies correspond to implementable controllers. We establish general conditions under which FM strategies suffice to play optimally, even in a broad multi-objective setting. We show that our framework encompasses important

Qingxiuxiong Dong, Marco Túlio Quintino, Akihito Soeda, Mio Murao

Valid transformations between quantum states are necessarily described by completely positive maps, instead of just positive maps. Positive but not completely positive maps such as the transposition map cannot be implemented due to the existence of entanglement in composite quantum systems, but there are classes of states for which the positivity is guarante

Nathan Beaulieu, Nelly Kervarec, Nicolas Thiery, Olivier Klein

Liquid phase epitaxy of an 18 nm thick Yttrium Iron garnet (YIG) film is achieved. Its magnetic properties are investigated in the 100 -- 400 K temperature range, as well as the influence of a 3 nm thick Pt overlayer on them. The saturation magnetization and the magnetocrystalline cubic anisotropy of the bare YIG film behave similarly to bulk YIG. A damping

Werner Haselmayr, Daniel Wiesinger, Michael Lunglmayr

In this work, we present a novel inner product design for stochastic computing. Stochastic computing is an emerging computing technique, that encodes a number in the probability of observing a one in a random bit stream. This leads to reduced hardware costs and high error tolerance. The proposed inner product design is based on a two-line bipolar encoding fo

Anil Goyal, Emilie Morvant, Pascal Germain, Massih-Reza Amini

In this paper we propose a boosting based multiview learning algorithm, referred to as PB-MVBoost, which iteratively learns i) weights over view-specific voters capturing view-specific information; and ii) weights over views by optimizing a PAC-Bayes multiview C-Bound that takes into account the accuracy of view-specific classifiers and the diversity between

Rong-Xin Miao

In this paper, we investigate Casimir effect, Weyl anomaly and displacement operator for boundary conformal field theory in general dimensions. We find universal relations between them. In particular, they are all determined by the central charge of boundary conformal field theory. We verify these relations by studying free BCFTs and holographic BCFTs. As a

Yoshikazu Mizuguchi

In 2012, we discovered superconductivity in Bi4O4S3 and LaO1-xFxBiS2, whose crystal structures are composed of alternate stacks of a BiS2-type conduction layer and a blocking layer. Since the discovery, many related superconductors and functional materials have been synthesized. Furthermore, the possibility of unconventional superconductivity has been propos

Ming-Jun Lai, Daniel Mckenzie

We show how one can phrase the cut improvement problem for graphs as a sparse recovery problem, whence one can use algorithms originally developed for use in compressive sensing (such as SubspacePursuit or CoSaMP) to solve it. We show that this approach to cut improvement is fast, both in theory and practice and moreover enjoys statistical guarantees of succ

Sangil Jung, Changyong Son, Seohyung Lee, Jinwoo Son

Reducing bit-widths of activations and weights of deep networks makes it efficient to compute and store them in memory, which is crucial in their deployments to resource-limited devices, such as mobile phones. However, decreasing bit-widths with quantization generally yields drastically degraded accuracy. To tackle this problem, we propose to learn to quanti

Benjamin S. Grandey, Chien Wang

Using the Community Earth System Model, with the Community Atmosphere Model version 5.3, we investigate the cloud radiative effects of anthropogenic aerosols emitted from different source regions and global shipping. We also analyse aerosol burdens, cloud condensation nuclei concentration, liquid water path, and ice water path. Due to transboundary transport

Sina Molavipour, Germán Bassi, Mikael Skoglund

In this paper, we study the maximum likelihood estimate of the probability mass function (pmf) of $n$ independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables, in the non-asymptotic regime. We are interested in characterizing the Neyman--Pearson criterion, i.e., the log-likelihood ratio for testing a true hypothesis within a larger hypothesis. Wilks

Jamie M. Booth, Salvy P. Russo

This work presents a method of grouping the electron spinors and the acoustic phonon modes of polar crystals such as metal oxides into an SU(2) gauge theory. The gauge charge is the electron spin, which is assumed to couple to the transverse acoustic phonons on the basis of spin ordering phenomena in crystals such as V$_{2}$O$_{3}$ and VO$_{2}$, while the lo

Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Eleanor K. Sansom, Philip A. Bland

Fireball networks establish the trajectories of meteoritic material passing through Earth's atmosphere, from which they can derive pre-entry orbits. Triangulated atmospheric trajectory data requires different orbit determination methods to those applied to observational data beyond the Earth's sphere-of-influence, such as telescopic observations of a

Hiroaki Abuki

We study how an external magnetic field modifies the chiral phase structure of QCD, in particular the phases characterized by inhomogeneous chiral condensates. The magnetic field can be systematically incorporated into a generalized Ginzburg-Landau framework, and it turns out to induce a model independent universal coupling between the magnetic field and the

Ivan Protopopov, Dmitry Abanin

Motivated by the recent experiments that reported signatures of many-body localization of ultracold atoms in optical lattices [M. Schreiber {\it et al.}, Science {\bf 349}, 842 (2015)], we study dynamics of highly excited states in the strongly disordered Hubbard model in one dimension. Owing to the $SU(2)$ spin symmetry, spin degrees of freedom form a deloc

Damjan Pelc, Zachary Anderson, Biqiong Yu, Chris Leighton

A pivotal challenge posed by unconventional superconductors is to unravel how superconductivity emerges upon cooling from the generally complex normal state. Some of the most prominent unconventional superconductors are oxides: strontium titanate, strontium ruthenate, and the cuprates exhibit greatly different superconducting transition temperatures $T_c$, a

Haosen Yang, Robert C. Qiu, Xin Shi, Xing He

With the increase of uncertain elements in power systems and extensive deployment of online monitoring devices, it is necessary to search a more real-time and robust voltage stability assessment method. This study, using PMU monitoring data, explores a novel data-driven approach for long-term voltage stability assessment based on variational autoencoder (VAE

A. Juráňová, N. Werner, M. Gaspari, K. Lakhchaura

The relative importance of the physical processes shaping the thermodynamics of the hot gas permeating rotating, massive early-type galaxies is expected to be different from that in non-rotating systems. Here, we report the results of the analysis of XMM-Newton data for the massive, lenticular galaxy NGC 7049. The galaxy harbours a dusty disc of cool gas and

Yuzhe Ma, Kwang-Sung Jun, Lihong Li, Xiaojin Zhu

We study offline data poisoning attacks in contextual bandits, a class of reinforcement learning problems with important applications in online recommendation and adaptive medical treatment, among others. We provide a general attack framework based on convex optimization and show that by slightly manipulating rewards in the data, an attacker can force the ba

Minghao Hu, Furu Wei, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang

Machine reading comprehension with unanswerable questions aims to abstain from answering when no answer can be inferred. In addition to extract answers, previous works usually predict an additional "no-answer" probability to detect unanswerable cases. However, they fail to validate the answerability of the question by verifying the legitimacy of the

Akira Masuoka, Yuta Takahashi

It was proved by the first-named author and Zubkov [13] that given an affine algebraic supergroup $\mathbb{G}$ and a closed sub-supergroup $\mathbb{H}$ over an arbitrary field of characteristic $\ne 2$, the faisceau $\mathbb{G} \tilde{/} \mathbb{H}$ (in the fppf topology) is a superscheme, and is, therefore, the quotient superscheme $\mathbb{G}/\mathbb{H}$,

Ming Li, Joseph I. Kapusta

Nuclei are nearly transparent to each other when they collide at high energy, but the collisions do produce high energy density matter in the central rapidity region where most experimental measurements are made. What happens to the receding nuclear fireballs? We calculate the energy loss of the nuclei using the color glass condensate model. We then use a si

Ilesanmi Adeboye, McKenzie Wang, Guofang Wei

A classic theorem of Kazhdan and Margulis states that for any semisimple Lie group without compact factors, there is a positive lower bound on the covolume of lattices. H. C. Wang's subsequent quantitative analysis showed that the fundamental domain of any lattice contains a ball whose radius depends only on the group itself. A direct consequence is a po

S. J. Ahmed, C. Boyer, M. Niewczas

The influence of antisite disorder occupancies on the magnetic properties of the half-metallic Co$_2$MnSi compound was studied by experimental techniques and first-principles calculations. The neutron diffraction studies show almost identical amount of Mn and Co disorders of 6.5\% and 7.6\%, which was found to be in good agreement with density functional the

S. J. Ahmed, J. E. Greedan, C. Boyer, M. Niewczas

Transition metal compounds with complex crystal structures tend to demonstrate interesting magnetic coupling resulting in unusual magnetic properties. In this work, the structural and magnetic characterization of a single crystal of the Ni-Mn-Si based G-phase compound, Mn$_6$Ni$_{16}$Si$_7$, grown by the Czochralski method, is reported. In this structure iso

Hoa T. Bui, Alexander Y. Kruger

The core arguments used in various proofs of the extremal principle and its extensions as well as in primal and dual characterizations of approximate stationarity and transversality of collections of sets are exposed, analyzed and refined, leading to a unifying theory, encompassing all existing approaches to obtaining 'extremal' statements. For that,

Frank Nielsen

In this survey, we describe the fundamental differential-geometric structures of information manifolds, state the fundamental theorem of information geometry, and illustrate some use cases of these information manifolds in information sciences. The exposition is self-contained by concisely introducing the necessary concepts of differential geometry, but proo

Viral Thakar, Himani Saini, Walid Ahmed, Mohammad M Soltani

Asset monitoring in construction sites is an intricate, manually intensive task, that can highly benefit from automated solutions engineered using deep neural networks. We use Single-Shot Multibox Detector --- SSD, for its fine balance between speed and accuracy, to leverage ubiquitously available images and videos from the surveillance cameras on the constr

Rodrigo A. Collazo, Jim Q. Smith

The Dynamic Chain Event Graph (DCEG) is able to depict many classes of discrete random processes exhibiting asymmetries in their developments and context-specific conditional probabilities structures. However, paradoxically, this very generality has so far frustrated its wide application. So in this paper we develop an object-oriented method to fully analyse

Jiajie Hua, Qingyun Wang

Let $Θ=(θ_{j,k})_{3\times 3}$ be a non-degenerate real skew-symmetric $3\times 3$ matrix, where $θ_{j,k}\in [0,1).$ For any $\varepsilon>0$, we prove that there exists $δ>0$ satisfying the following: if $v_1,v_2,v_3$ are three unitaries in any unital simple separable $C^*$-algebra $A$ with tracial rank at most one, such that $$\|v_kv_j-e^{2πi θ_{j,k}}v_jv_k\

Ma Luo

Two-dimensional Floquet systems consisting of irradiated valley-polarized metal are investigated. For the corresponding static systems, we consider two graphene models of valley-polarized metal with either a staggered sublattice or uniform intrinsic spin-orbital coupling, whose Dirac point energies are different from the intrinsic Fermi level. If the frequen

Peng-Xiong Ma, Yong-Jie Zhang, Ya-Peng Zhang, Yao Li

The Plastic Scintillator Detector (PSD) of the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is designed to measure cosmic ray charge (Z) and to act as a veto detector for gamma-ray identification. In order to fully exploit the charge identification potential of the PSD and to enhance its capability to identify the gamma ray events, we develop a PSD detector alignme

Hunter Spink, Dennis Tseng

We compute the integral Chow ring of the quotient stack $[(\mathbb{P}^1)^n/PGL_2]$, which contains $\mathcal{M}_{0,n}$ as a dense open, and determine a natural $\mathbb{Z}$-basis for the Chow ring in terms of certain ordered incidence strata. We further show that all $\mathbb{Z}$-linear relations between the classes of ordered incidence strata arise from an

Masafumi Horio, Yukiharu Takeda, Hiromasa Namiki, Takao Katagiri

We have performed x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements on the iron-based superconductor Sr$_2$VFeAsO$_{3-δ}$ to study the origin of weak ferromagnetism (WFM) reported for this compound. While Fe 3$d$ electrons show a magnetic response similar to the other iron pnictides, signals from V 3$d$ electrons remain finite at zero magnetic field and

Masaya Maeda, Hironobu Sasaki, Etsuo Segawa, Akito Suzuki

We consider quantum walks with position dependent coin on 1D lattice $\mathbb{Z}$. The dispersive estimate $\|U^tP_c u_0\|_{l^\infty}\lesssim (1+|t|)^{-1/3} \|u_0\|_{l^1}$ is shown under $l^{1,1}$ perturbation for the generic case and $l^{1,2}$ perturbation for the exceptional case, where $U$ is the evolution operator of a quantum walk and $P_c$ is the proje

James Farre

We explain some interesting relations in the degree three bounded cohomology of surface groups. Specifically, we show that if two faithful Kleinian surface group representations are quasi-isometric, then their bounded fundamental classes are the same in bounded cohomology. This is novel in the setting that one end is degenerate, while the other end is geomet

Sumit Maheshwari, Richard P. Martin

Internet Protocol (IP) is the narrow waist of multilayered Internet protocol stack which defines the rules for data sent across networks. IPv4 is the fourth version of IP and first commercially available for deployment set by ARPANET in 1983 which is a 32 bit long address and can support up to 232 devices. In April 2017, all Regional Internet Registries (RIR

Ezio Di Costanzo, Abdul I. Barakat, Giuseppe Pontrelli

The nucleotides ATP and ADP regulate many aspects of endothelial cell (EC) biology, including intracellular calcium concentrations, focal adhesion activation, cytoskeletal organization, and cellular motility. In vivo, ECs are constantly under flow, and the concentration of ATP/ADP on the EC surface is determined by the combined effects of nucleotide convecti

Ewa Kowalska, Akio Fukushima, Volker Sluka, Ciarán Fowley

Spin-transfer torques (STTs) can be exploited in order to manipulate the magnetic moments of nanomagnets, thus allowing for new consumer-oriented devices to be designed. Of particular interest here are tuneable radio-frequency (RF) oscillators for wireless communication. Currently, the structure that maximizes the output power is an Fe/MgO/Fe-type magnetic t

Alexander A. Chernitskii

The description of gravitation in the framework of soliton interaction is considered for two nonlinear field models. These models are Born -- Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics and so-called Born -- Infeld type scalar field model. The last model can also be called the extremal space-time film one because of the specific form of the appropriate variational prin

Yeman Brhane Hagos, Albert Gubern Merida, Jonas Teuwen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have had a huge success in many areas of computer vision and medical image analysis. However, there is still an immense potential for performance improvement in mammogram breast cancer detection Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) systems by integrating all the information that the radiologist utilizes, such as symmetry and tem

Asad Khattak, Behram Wali

Driving volatility captures the extent of speed variations when a vehicle is being driven. Extreme longitudinal variations signify hard acceleration or braking. Warnings and alerts given to drivers can reduce such volatility potentially improving safety, energy use, and emissions. This study develops a fundamental understanding of instantaneous driving decis

Behram Wali, Asad Khattak, Aemal Khattak

The main objective of this study is to quantify how different policy-sensitive factors are associated with risk of motorcycle injury crashes, while controlling for rider-specific, psycho-physiological, and other observed/unobserved factors. The analysis utilizes data from a matched case-control design collected through the FHWA Motorcycle Crash Causation Stu

V. Dudnikov, R. P. Johnson, B. Han, Y. Kang

Pulsed and CW operation of negative ion radio frequency surface plasma source with a solenoidal magnetic field is described. Dependences of a beam current on RF power, extraction voltage, solenoid magnetic field, gas flow are presented. Compact design of RF SPS is presented.

Steven J. Brams, Mehmet S. Ismail, D. Marc Kilgour, Walter Stromquist

Service sports include two-player contests such as volleyball, badminton, and squash. We analyze four rules, including the Standard Rule (SR), in which a player continues to serve until he or she loses. The Catch-Up Rule (CR) gives the serve to the player who has lost the previous point - as opposed to the player who won the previous point, as under SR. We a

Rudolf Gorenflo, Francesco Mainardi

The main purpose of this note is to point out the relevance of the Mittag-Leffler probability distribution in the so-called thinning theory for a renewal process with a queue of power law type. This theory, formerly considered by Gnedenko and Kovalenko in 1968 without the explicit reference to the Mittag-Leffler function, was used by the authors in the theor

Jeong-Yup Lee, Dong-il Lee, Sungsoon Kim

We construct a Gröbner-Shirshov basis of the Temperley-Lieb algebra $\mathfrak{T}(d,n)$ of the complex reflection group $G(d,1,n)$, inducing the standard monomials expressed by the generators $\{E_i\}$ of $\mathfrak{T}(d,n)$. This result generalizes the one for the Coxeter group of type $B_n$ in \cite{KimSSLeeDI}. We also give a combinatorial interpretation

M. I. Qureshi, Showkat Ahmad Dar

In this paper, we obtain analytical solutions of Laplace transform based some generalized class of the hyperbolic integrals in terms of hypergeometric functions ${}_3F_2 (\pm1)$, ${}_4F_3 (\pm1)$, ${}_5F_4(\pm1)$, ${}_6F_5(\pm1)$, ${}_7F_6(\pm1)$ and ${}_8F_7(\pm1)$ with suitable convergence conditions, by using some algebraic properties of Pochhammer symbol

M. Isabel Garcìa-Planas, Tetiana Klymchuk

Two complex matrix pairs $(A,B)$ and $(A',B')$ are contragrediently equivalent if there are nonsingular $S$ and $R$ such that $(A',B')=(S^{-1}AR,R^{-1}BS)$. M.I. Garc\'ıa-Planas and V.V. Sergeichuk (1999) constructed a miniversal deformation of a canonical pair $(A,B)$ for contragredient equivalence; that is, a simple normal form to which

Paul Fergus, Carl Chalmers, David Tully

This paper describes the Pressure Ulcers Online Website, which is a first step solution towards a new and innovative platform for helping people to detect, understand and manage pressure ulcers. It outlines the reasons why the project has been developed and provides a central point of contact for pressure ulcer analysis and ongoing research. Using state-of-t