August 2018 arXiv papers — page 8

Navinder Singh Bathinda

A key point from the experiment related to the "noise" pattern in figure 3(a) of arXive:1807.08572 is that it is a function of temperature. We put forward a possible explanation. We argue that it is the elasto-magnetic coupling in which the diamagnetic surface currents on the surface of nanoparticles couple to surface phonon modes. As the temperature

Weizheng Yan, Han Zhang, Jing Sui, Dinggang Shen

Brain functional connectivity (FC) extracted from resting-state fMRI (RS-fMRI) has become a popular approach for disease diagnosis, where discriminating subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from normal controls (NC) is still one of the most challenging problems. Dynamic functional connectivity (dFC), consisting of time-varying spatiotemporal dynamic

P. H. Shih, T. N. Do, B. L. Huang, G. Gumbs

We explore the rich and unique magnetic quantization of Si-doped graphene defect systems with various concentrations and configurations using the generalized tight-binding model. This model takes into account simultaneously the non-uniform bond lengths, site energies and hopping integrals, and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field (${B_z\hat z}$). The magne

Lawrence E. Bilton, Kevin A. Pimbblet

We present an analysis of the kinematics of a sample of 14 galaxy clusters via velocity dispersion profiles (VDPs), compiled using cluster parameters defined within the X-Ray Galaxy Clusters Database (BAX) cross-matched with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We determine the presence of substructure in the clusters from the sample as a proxy for

Henning Bruhn, Matthias Heinlein

We prove that every graph $G$ contains either $k$ edge-disjoint $K_4$-subdivisions or a set $X$ of at most $O(k^8 \log k)$ edges such that $G-X$ does not contain any $K_4$-subdivision. This shows that $K_4$-subdivisions have the edge-Erdős-Pósa property.

D. Banas, A. Kubala-Kukus, M. Rybczynski, I. Stabrawa

This paper presents the studies on the influence of the target material impurities on physical observables registered in heavy ion collisions collected by fixed target experiments. It mainly concerns the measures of multiplicity fluctuations which can be used to searches for critical point of strongly interacting matter, e.g. in the {NA61/SHINE} fixed-target

Zhihua Dong, Yao-Lung L. Fang, Xiaojing Huang, Hanfei Yan

Ptychography is an emerging imaging technique that is able to provide wavelength-limited spatial resolution from specimen with extended lateral dimensions. As a scanning microscopy method, a typical two-dimensional image requires a number of data frames. As a diffraction-based imaging technique, the real-space image has to be recovered through iterative reco

Wolfram Bauer, Raffael Hagger, Nikolai Vasilevski

We study $C^*$-algebras generated by Toeplitz operators acting on the standard weighted Bergman space $\mathcal{A}_λ^2(\mathbb{B}^n)$ over the unit ball $\mathbb{B}^n$ in $\mathbb{C}^n$. The symbols $f_{ac}$ of generating operators are assumed to be of a certain product type. By choosing $a$ and $c$ in different function algebras $\mathcal{S}_a$ and $\mathca

W. Jiao, D. Z. Hou, C. Chen, H. Wang

Spin-charge conversion via inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) is essential for enabling various applications of spintronics. The spin Hall response usually follows a universal scaling relation with longitudinal electric resistivity and has mild temperature dependence because elementary excitations play only a minor role in resistivity and hence ISHE. Here we re

Víctor Mayoral Vilches, Alejandro Hernández Cordero, Asier Bilbao Calvo, Irati Zamalloa Ugarte

Rather than programming, training allows robots to achieve behaviors that generalize better and are capable to respond to real-world needs. However, such training requires a big amount of experimentation which is not always feasible for a physical robot. In this work, we present robot_gym, a framework to accelerate robot training through simulation in the cl

Marco Vitturi, James Wright

We consider a class of multiparameter singular Radon integral operators on the Heisenberg group ${\mathbb H}^1$ where the underlying variety is the graph of a polynomial. A remarkable difference with the euclidean case, where Heisenberg convolution is replaced by euclidean convolution, is that the operators on the Heisenberg group are always $L^2$ bounded. T

Vahid Keshavarzzadeh, Robert M. Kirby, Akil Narayan

We present a methodical procedure for topology optimization under uncertainty with multi-resolution finite element models. We use our framework in a bi-fidelity setting where a coarse and a fine mesh corresponding to low- and high-resolution models are available. The inexpensive low-resolution model is used to explore the parameter space and approximate the

Tamara Mchedlidze, Jérôme Urhausen

We consider the problem of extending the drawing of a subgraph of a given plane graph to a drawing of the entire graph using straight-line and polyline edges. We define the notion of star complexity of a polygon and show that a drawing $Γ_H$ of an induced connected subgraph $H$ can be extended with at most $\min\{ h/2, β+ \log_2(h) + 1\}$ bends per edge, whe

Giacomo Ortali, Ioannis G. Tollis

In this paper we present a new approach to visualize directed graphs and their hierarchies that completely departs from the classical four-phase framework of Sugiyama and computes readable hierarchical visualizations that contain the complete reachability information of a graph. Additionally, our approach has the advantage that only the necessary edges are d

Matúš Sulír, Jaroslav Porubän, Ondrej Zoričák

Traditionally, we have two possibilities to design tools for program comprehension and analysis. The first option is to create a standalone program, independent of any source code editor. This way, the act of source code editing is separated from the act of viewing the code analysis results. The second option is to create a plugin for a specific IDE (integra

M. Foglino, A. N. Morozov, D. Marenduzzo

Dense suspensions of soft colloidal particles display a broad range of physical and rheological properties which are still far from being fully understood. To elucidate the role of deformability on colloidal flow, we employ computer simulations to measure the apparent viscosity of a system of droplets of variable surface tension subjected to a pressure-drive

P. V. Pyshkin, A. Gábris, O. Kálmán, I. Jex

We propose a probabilistic quantum protocol to realize a nonlinear transformation of qutrit states, which by iterative applications on ensembles can be used to distinguish two types of pure states. The protocol involves single-qutrit and two-qutrit unitary operations as well as post-selection according to the results obtained in intermediate measurements. We

Katharina von der Lühe

A new proof of pathwise uniqueness for SDEs with Sobolev diffusion and integrable drift term is introduced by extending a method from E. Fedrizzi and F. Flandoli (Pathwise uniqueness and continuous dependence of SDEs with non-regular drift, Stochastics 83 (2011), pp. 241--257) to the case of nonconstant diffusion.

Jean-Christophe Feauveau

The modular discriminant $Δ$ is known to structure the sequence of modular forms $(M_{2k}(SL_2(\mathbb{Z})))_{k\in \; \mathbb{N}^*}$ at level $1$.\\ For all positive integer $N$, we define a strong modular unit $Δ_N$ at level $N$ which enables one to structure the sequence $(M_{2k}(Γ_0(N)))_{k\in \; \mathbb{N}^*}$ in an identical way. We will apply this resu

Matan Ben-Yosef, Daphna Weinshall

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistically looking synthetic images with remarkable success, yet their performance seems less impressive when the training set is highly diverse. In order to provide a better fit to the target data distribution when the dataset includes many different classes, we propose a variant of the ba

Julia Eisenberg, Yuliya Mishura

We consider an economic agent (a household or an insurance company) modelling its surplus process by a deterministic process or by a Brownian motion with drift. The goal is to maximise the expected discounted spendings/dividend payments, given that the discounting factor is given by an exponential CIR process. In the deterministic case, we are able to find e

Yuri V. Kovchegov, Matthew D. Sievert

In our previous work we established a formalism which allows one to determine the small-$x$ asymptotics of any transverse momentum-dependent parton distribution function (TMD PDF) of the proton at small values of strong coupling. In this paper we apply this formalism to the valence quark transversity TMD. We relate the valence quark transversity to the trans

GVD Collaboration, A. D. Avrorin, A. V. Avrorin, V. M. Aynutdinov

Baikal-GVD is a next generation, kilometer-scale neutrino telescope under construction in Lake Baikal. It is designed to detect astrophysical neutrino fluxes at energies from a few TeV up to 100 PeV. GVD is formed by multi-megaton subarrays (clusters). The array construction started in 2015 by deployment of a reduced-size demonstration cluster named "Dub

Albin Andrew Correya, Romain Hennequin, Mickaël Arcos

Cover song detection is a very relevant task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) studies and has been mainly addressed using audio-based systems. Despite its potential impact in industrial contexts, low performances and lack of scalability have prevented such systems from being adopted in practice for large applications. In this work, we investigate whether

Wayne Woods, Greg Calusine, Alexander Melville, Arjan Sevi

Superconducting quantum computing architectures comprise resonators and qubits that experience energy loss due to two-level systems (TLS) in bulk and interfacial dielectrics. Understanding these losses is critical to improving performance in superconducting circuits. In this work, we present a method for quantifying the TLS losses of different bulk and inter

Alexander Garver, Thomas McConville, Kaveh Mousavand

We consider the closure space on the set of strings of a gentle algebra of finite representation type. Palu, Pilaud, and Plamondon proved that the collection of all biclosed sets of strings forms a lattice, and moreover, that this lattice is congruence-uniform. Many interesting examples of finite congruence-uniform lattices may be represented as the lattice

Shounak Datta, Shiladitya Mal, A. S. Majumdar

Quantum temporal correlations exhibited by violations of Leggett-Garg Inequality (LGI) and Temporal Steering Inequality (TSI) are in general found to be non-increasing under decoherence channels when probed on two-qubit pure entangled states. We study the action of decoherence channels, such as amplitude damping, phase-damping and depolarising channels when

CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso

CUORE is a 741 kg array of 988 TeO$_2$ bolometeric crystals designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{130}$Te and other rare processes. CUORE has been taking data since summer 2017, and as of summer 2018 collected a total of 86.3 kg$\cdot$yr of TeO$_2$ exposure. Based on this exposure, we were able to set a limit on the $0νββ$ half-life

Rudolf Weeber, Franziska Nestler, Florian Weik, Michael Pippig

Magnetic gels are soft elastic materials consisting of magnetic particles embedded in a polymer network. Their shape and elasticity can be controlled by an external magnetic field, which gives rise to both, engineering and biomedical applications. Computer simulations are a commonly used tool to study these materials. A well-known bottleneck of these simulat

Kevin Luk, Roger Grosse

Most neural networks are trained using first-order optimization methods, which are sensitive to the parameterization of the model. Natural gradient descent is invariant to smooth reparameterizations because it is defined in a coordinate-free way, but tractable approximations are typically defined in terms of coordinate systems, and hence may lose the invaria

Ratsiri Sanguanwong, Kijti Rodtes

A generalized matrix function $d_χ^G : M_n(\mathbb{C}) \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ is a function constructed by a subgroup $G$ of $S_n$ and a complex valued function $χ$ of $G$. The main purpose of this paper is to find a necessary and sufficient condition for the equality of two generalized matrix functions on the set of all symmetric matrices, $\mathbb{S}_n(\m

Riccardo Rota, Jordi Boronat

We studied the thermal effects on the behavior of incommensurate solid $^4$He at low temperatures using the path integral Monte Carlo method. Below a certain temperature, depending on the density and the structure of the crystal, the vacancies delocalize and a finite condensate fraction appears. We calculated the vacancy formation energy as a function of the

A. Zanella, E. Daddi, G. Magdis, T. Diaz Santos

We present ALMA Band 9 observations of the [C II]158um emission for a sample of 10 main-sequence galaxies at redshift z ~ 2, with typical stellar masses (log M*/Msun ~ 10.0 - 10.9) and star formation rates (~ 35 - 115 Msun/yr). Given the strong and well understood evolution of the interstellar medium from the present to z = 2, we investigate the behaviour of

Thomas Vetterlein, Anna Zamansky

In medicine one frequently deals with vague information. As a tool for reasoning in this area, fuzzy logic suggests itself. In this paper we explore the applicability of the basic ideas of fuzzy set theory in the context of medical assessment questionnaires, which are commonly used, for instance, to support the diagnosis of psychological disorders. The items

Mladen Kovačević, Vincent Y. F. Tan

A (tandem) duplication of length $ k $ is an insertion of an exact copy of a substring of length $ k $ next to its original position. This and related types of impairments are of relevance in modeling communication in the presence of synchronization errors, as well as in several information storage applications. We demonstrate that Levenshtein's construc

Félix Beaudoin, Leigh M. Norris, Lorenza Viola

We quantify the impact of spatio-temporally correlated Gaussian quantum noise on frequency estimation by Ramsey interferometry. While correlations in a classical noise environment can be exploited to reduce uncertainty relative to the uncorrelated case, we show that quantum noise environments with frequency asymmetric spectra generally introduce additional s

Xiaodong Liu, Jürgen Schmidt

Jupiter is one of the major targets for planetary exploration, and dust in the Jovian system is of great interest to researchers in the field of planetary science. In this paper, we review the five dust populations outside the ring system: grains in the region of the Galilean moons, potential dust from plumes on Europa, Jovian stream particles, particles in

Thomas Vetterlein

We present in this paper a universal method of constructing left-continuous triangular norms (l.-c. t-norms). The starting point is an arbitrary, possibly finite, totally ordered monoid fulfilling the conditions that are characteristic for l.-c. t-norms: commutativity, negativity, and quanticity. We show that, under suitable conditions, we can extend this st

Haowen Deng, Tolga Birdal, Slobodan Ilic

We present PPF-FoldNet for unsupervised learning of 3D local descriptors on pure point cloud geometry. Based on the folding-based auto-encoding of well known point pair features, PPF-FoldNet offers many desirable properties: it necessitates neither supervision, nor a sensitive local reference frame, benefits from point-set sparsity, is end-to-end, fast, and

Christopher Scaduto

We show that the set of even positive definite lattices that arise from smooth, simply-connected 4-manifolds bounded by a fixed homology 3-sphere can depend on more than the ranks of the lattices. We provide two homology 3-spheres with distinct sets of such lattices, each containing a distinct nonempty subset of the rank 24 Niemeier lattices.

Thomas Vetterlein

The logic LAE discussed in this paper is based on an approximate entailment relation. LAE generalises classical propositional logic to the effect that conclusions can be drawn with a quantified imprecision. To this end, properties are modelled by subsets of a distance space and statements are of the form that one property implies another property within a ce

Yijie Shen, Xing Fu, Mali Gong

We for the first time report the truncated diffraction with a triangular aperture of the SU(2) geometric modes and propose a method to detect the complicated orbital angular momentum (OAM) of an SU(2) wave-packet, to the best of our knowledge. As a special vortex beam, a nonplanar SU(2) mode carrying special intensity and OAM distributions brings exotic patt

Milan Petr\' ik, Thomas Vetterlein

A totally ordered monoid, or tomonoid for short, is a monoid endowed with a compatible total order. We deal in this paper with tomonoids that are finite and negative, where negativity means that the monoidal identity is the top element. Examples can be found, for instance, in the context of finite-valued fuzzy logic. By a Rees coextension of a negative tomon

Krzysztof Onak, Baruch Schieber, Shay Solomon, Nicole Wein

We consider the problem of maintaining a maximal independent set (MIS) in a dynamic graph subject to edge insertions and deletions. Recently, Assadi, Onak, Schieber and Solomon (STOC 2018) showed that an MIS can be maintained in sublinear (in the dynamically changing number of edges) amortized update time. In this paper we significantly improve the update ti

Valentin Bonzom, Victor Nador, Adrian Tanasa

A crucial result on the celebrated Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model is that its large $N$ limit is dominated by melonic graphs. In this letter we offer a rigorous, diagrammatic proof of that result by direct, combinatorial analysis of its Feynman graphs.

Francesc Esteva, Lluís Godo, Thomas Vetterlein

The Logic of Approximate Entailment (LAE) is a graded counterpart of classical propositional calculus, where conclusions that are only approximately correct can be drawn. This is achieved by equipping the underlying set of possible worlds with a similarity relation. When using this logic in applications, however, a disadvantage must be accepted; namely, in L

Emily Cliff, Thomas Nevins, Shiyu Shen

Let $C$ be a smooth complex projective curve and $G$ a connected complex reductive group. We prove that if the center $Z(G)$ of $G$ is disconnected, then the Kirwan map $H^*\big(\operatorname{Bun}(G,C),\mathbb{Q}\big)\rightarrow H^*\big(\mathcal{M}_{\operatorname{Higgs}}^{\operatorname{ss}},\mathbb{Q}\big)$ from the cohomology of the moduli stack of $G$-bund

Linhu Li, Muhammad Umer, Jiangbin Gong

Higher-order topological phases feature topologically protected boundary states in lower dimensions. Specifically, the zero-dimensional corner states are protected by the $d$th-order topology of a $d$-dimension system. In this work, we propose to predict different configurations of corner states from winding numbers defined for one-dimensional edges of the s

Kaj Hänninen, Hans Hansson, Henrik Thane, Mehrdad Saadatmand

In the early 90s, researchers began to focus on security as an important property to address in combination with safety. Over the years, researchers have proposed approaches to harmonize activities within the safety and security disciplines. Despite the academic efforts to identify interdependencies and to propose combined approaches for safety and security,

Cong Liao, Haoti Zhong, Anna Squicciarini, Sencun Zhu

Deep learning models have consistently outperformed traditional machine learning models in various classification tasks, including image classification. As such, they have become increasingly prevalent in many real world applications including those where security is of great concern. Such popularity, however, may attract attackers to exploit the vulnerabili

Marcelo Botta-Cantcheff, Pedro J. Martínez, Guillermo A. Silva

We present a spherically symmetric aAdS gravity solution with Schwinger-Keldysh boundary condition dual to a CFT at finite temperature defined on a complex time contour. The geometry is built by gluing the exterior of a two-sided AdS Black Hole, the (aAdS) Einstein-Rosen wormhole, with two Euclidean black hole halves. These pieces are interpreted as the grav

L. T. Coutrim, E. M. Bittar, F. Garcia, L. Bufaiçal

The zero-field-cooled exchange bias (ZEB) effect is a remarkable phenomenon recently reported for some reentrant spin glass-like compounds. In this work, the time-evolution of magnetization is thoroughly investigated for two ZEB materials in order to figure out the role played by the spin glass-like phase on such effect. La$_{1.5}$Sr$_{0.5}$CoMnO$_{6}$ and L

Suo Tang, Naveen Kumar

We develop an analytical model for ultraintense attosecond pulse emission in the highly relativistic laser-plasma interaction. In this model, the attosecond pulse is emitted by a strongly compressed electron layer around the instant when the layer transverse current changes the sign and its longitudinal velocity approaches the maximum. The emitted attosecond

Paolo Bellingeri, Luis Paris

Let VB$_n$ be the virtual braid group on $n$ strands and let $\mathfrak{S}_n$ be the symmetric group on $n$ letters. Let $n,m \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $n \ge 5$, $m \ge 2$ and $n \ge m$. We determine all possible homomorphisms from VB$_n$ to $\mathfrak{S}_m$, from $\mathfrak{S}_n$ to VB$_m$ and from VB$_n$ to VB$_m$. As corollaries we get that Out(VB$_n$) i

Michael Feldmann, Christina Kolb, Christian Scheideler

We extend the concept of monotonic searchability for self-stabilizing systems from one to multiple dimensions. A system is self-stabilizing if it can recover to a legitimate state from any initial illegal state. These kind of systems are most often used in distributed applications. Monotonic searchability provides guarantees when searching for nodes while th

Daniel S. Silver, Lorenzo Traldi, Susan G. Williams

The Goeritz matrix of a link is obtained from the Jacobian matrix of a modified Dehn presentation associated to a diagram using Fox's free differential calculus. When the diagram is special the Seifert matrix can also be determined from the presentation.

Shu Cai, S. K. Kushwaha, Jing Guo, Vladimir A. Sidorov

We show that two different superconducting phases exist at high pressures in the optimized tetradymite topological insulators Bi2Te2Se (BTS) and Bi1.1Sb0.9Te2S (BSTS). The superconducting phases emerge at structural phase transitions, the first at 8.4 GPa for BTS and 12.4 GPa for BSTS, and the second at 13.6 GPa for BTS and 20.4 GPa, for BSTS. Electronic str

Jungseek Hwang

Extended Drude model formalism has been successfully utilized for analyzing optical spectra of strongly correlated electron systems including heavy-fermion systems and high-$T_c$ superconducting iron pnictides and cuprates. Furthermore, generalized Allen's formulas has been developed and applied to extract the electron-boson spectral density function fro

Johannes Kraus, Carl-Martin Pfeiler, Dirk Praetorius, Michele Ruggeri

The tangent plane scheme is a time-marching scheme for the numerical solution of the nonlinear parabolic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation (LLG), which describes the time evolution of ferromagnetic configurations. Exploiting the geometric structure of LLG, the tangent plane scheme requires only the solution of one linear variational form per time-step, which

Deepak Ojha, Andres Henao, Thomas D Kühne

Based on quantum-mechanical path-integral molecular dynamics simulations the impact of nuclear quantum effects on the vibrational and hydrogen bond dynamics in liquid water is investigated. The instantaneous fluctuations in the frequencies of the O-H stretch modes are calculated using the wavelet method of time series analysis, while the time scales of the v

Anna Currey, Kenneth Heafield

We introduce a novel multi-source technique for incorporating source syntax into neural machine translation using linearized parses. This is achieved by employing separate encoders for the sequential and parsed versions of the same source sentence; the resulting representations are then combined using a hierarchical attention mechanism. The proposed model im

S. Zhang, Y. G. Ma, J. H. Chen, W. B. He

Recently the ratio of triangular flow to the elliptic flow ($v_3/v_2$) of hadrons was proposed as a probe to detect the pattern of $α$-clustering $^{12}\mathrm{C}$ in $^{12}\mathrm{C}$+$^{197}\mathrm{Au}$ collisions at relativistic energy by a participant plane method (Phys. Rev. C 95, 064904 (2017)). In experimental event plane method, Q-cumulant method and

Luc Brisson, Salomon Ofman

In two articles ([Brisson-Ofman1, 2]), we have analyzed the so-called 'mathematical passage' of Plato's Theaetetus, the first dialogue of a trilogy including the Sophist and the Statesman. In the present article, we study an important point in more detail, the 'definition' of 'powers' ('$δ\upsilonν\acuteαμεις$'). While in

Farah Abdallah, Yacine Chitour, Mouhammad Ghader, Ali Wehbe

In this paper, by means of the Riesz basis approach, we study the stability of a weakly damped system of two second order evolution equations coupled through the velocities. If the fractional order damping becomes viscous and the waves propagate with equal speeds, we prove exponential stability of the system and, otherwise, we establish an optimal polynomial

S. Mancuso, T. S. Lee, C. Taricco, S. Rubinetti

In this work, we apply multichannel singular spectrum analysis (MSSA), a data-adaptive, multivariate, non-parametric technique that simultaneously exploits the spatial and temporal correlations of the input data to extract common modes of variability, to investigate the intermediate quasi-periodicities of the Fe XIV green coronal emission line at 530.3 nm fo

D. Baade, A. Pigulski, Th. Rivinius, L. Wang

In early-type Be stars, groups of nonradial pulsation (NRP) modes with numerically related frequencies may be instrumental for the release of excess angular momentum through mass-ejection events. Difference and sum/harmonic frequencies often form additional groups. The goal of this study is to find out whether a similar frequency pattern occurs in the cooler

Dali Shen

We study geometric structures on the complement of a toric mirror arrangement associated with a root system. Inspired by those special hypergeometric functions found by Heckman-Opdam, as well as the work of Couwenberg-Heckman-Looijenga on geometric structures on projective arrangement complements, we consider a family of connections on a total space, namely,

J. Pietraszewicz, P. Deuar

We study the temperature regimes of the 1d interacting gas to determine when the matter wave (c-field) theory is, in fact, correct and usable. The judgment is made by investigating the level of discrepancy in many observables at once in comparison to the exact Yang-Yang theory. We also determine what cutoff maximizes the accuracy of such an approach. Results

Peng Cheng, Ibrahim Ethem Bagci, Utz Roedig, Jeff Yan

We report the first active acoustic side-channel attack. Speakers are used to emit human inaudible acoustic signals and the echo is recorded via microphones, turning the acoustic system of a smart phone into a sonar system. The echo signal can be used to profile user interaction with the device. For example, a victim's finger movements can be inferred to

Ronghai Wu, Michael Zaiser

Past models of stress-strain response under cyclic loading mainly rely on macroscopic equations which consider microstructure evolution indirectly or simply discard microstructure information. Modern materials science, on the other hand, seeks quantitive descriptions for the relations between microstrucutre and loading response. In the present work, we show

Gerhard Wurm

Much of a planet's composition could be determined right at the onset of formation. Laboratory experiments can constrain these early steps. This includes static tensile strength measurements or collisions carried out under Earth's gravity and on various microgravity platforms. Among the variety of extrasolar planets which eventually form are (Exo)-Me

Younghun Lee, Seunghyun Yoon, Kyomin Jung

The context-dependent nature of online aggression makes annotating large collections of data extremely difficult. Previously studied datasets in abusive language detection have been insufficient in size to efficiently train deep learning models. Recently, Hate and Abusive Speech on Twitter, a dataset much greater in size and reliability, has been released. H

Abasalt Rostami, Javad T. Firouzjaee, Mehdi Golshani

By applying the basic concept of the density matrix in an open quantum system and modification of quantum mechanics, we derive Kossakowski-Lindblad equation and different properties of this equation are reviewed. Next, a pedagogical approach is used to present Ramsey's trick for linear modification of the quantum mechanics. We discuss how an open quantum

Sergey A. Melikhov

Milnor proved two uniqueness theorems for axiomatic (co)homology: one for pairs of compacta (1960) and another, in particular, for pairs of countable simplicial complexes (1961). We obtain their common generalization: the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms along with Milnor's map excision axiom and a (non-obvious) common generalization of Milnor's two additiv

Shijun Mao

Pions in external magnetic field are investigated in the frame of a Pauli-Villars regularized Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The meson propagators in terms of quark bubbles in Ritus and Schwinger schemes are analytically derived, and pion masses are numerically calculated in the Ritus scheme. For neutral and charged pions at finite temperature, there exist respe

Denis Aßmann, Frauke Liers, Michael Stingl, Juan C. Vera

In this paper we study feasibility and infeasibility of nonlinear two-stage fully adjustable robust feasibility problems with an empty first stage. This is equivalent to deciding whether the uncertainty set is contained within the projection of the feasible region onto the uncertainty-space. Moreover, the considered sets are assumed to be described by polyno

Ondřej Klejch, Joachim Fainberg, Peter Bell

The performance of automatic speech recognition systems can be improved by adapting an acoustic model to compensate for the mismatch between training and testing conditions, for example by adapting to unseen speakers. The success of speaker adaptation methods relies on selecting weights that are suitable for adaptation and using good adaptation schedules to

Dolev Bashi, Ravit Helled, Shay Zucker

In this study, we investigated the differences between four commonly-used exoplanet catalogs (exoplanet.eu; exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu; openexoplanetcatalogue.com; exoplanets.org) using a Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test. We found a relatively good agreement in terms of the planetary parameters (mass, radius, period) and stellar properties (mass, temperat

Dong Bai, Zhongzhou Ren

The Woods-Saxon-Gaussian (WSG) potential is proposed as a new phenomenological potential to describe systematically the level scheme, electromagnetic transitions, and alpha-decay half-lives of the alpha-cluster structures in various alpha+closed shell nuclei. It modifies the original Woods-Saxon (WS) potential with a shifted Gaussian factor centered at the n

Laura Venieri

In Carnot groups of step 2 we consider sets having maximal or minimal possible homogeneous Hausdorff dimension compared to their Euclidean one: in the first case we prove that they must be in a sense vertical, that is a large part of these sets can lie off horizontal planes through their points, and in the latter case close to horizontal. The examples that h

Daniel Kulesz, Stefan Wagner

Spreadsheets (sometimes also called Excel programs) are powerful tools which play a business-critical role in many organizations. However, due to faulty spreadsheets many bad decisions have been taken in recent years. Since then, a number of researchers have been studying spreadsheet errors. However, one issue that hinders discussion among researchers and pr

Svante Jonsell

I give an overview of experimental and theoretical results for antiproton and antihydrogen scattering with atoms and molecules (in particular H, He). At low energies ($\lesssim1$~keV) there are practically no experimental data available. Instead I compare the results from different theoretical calculations, of various degrees of sophistication. At energies u

Dong Bai, Zhongzhou Ren

Superstrong static electric fields could deform Coulomb barriers between $α$ clusters and daughter nuclei, and bring up the possibility of speeding up $α$ decays. We adopt a simplified model for the spherical $α$ emitter $^{212}$Po and study its responses to superstrong static electric fields. We find that, superstrong electric fields with field strengths $|

Natasha Dobrinen

This list presents problems in the Reverse Mathematics of infinitary Ramsey theory which I find interesting but do not personally have the techniques to solve. The intent is to enlist the help of those working in Reverse Mathematics to take on such problems, and the myriad of related questions one can infer from them. A short bit of background and starting r

M. C. Ramírez-Tannus, N. L. J. Cox, L. Kaper, A. de Koter

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are broad absorption features measured in sightlines probing the diffuse interstellar medium. Although large carbon-bearing molecules have been proposed as the carriers producing DIBs, their identity remains unknown. The sight line to the young massive star-forming region M17 shows anomalous extinction in the sense that the

Andreas Jechow, Salvador J. Ribas, Ramon Canal-Domingo, Franz Hölker

Artificial skyglow is dynamic due to changing atmospheric conditions and the switching on and off of artificial lights throughout the night. Street lights as well as the ornamental illumination of historical sites and buildings are sometimes switched off at a certain time to save energy. Ornamental lights in particular are often directed upwards, and can the

Teiko Heinosaari, Yui Kuramochi

A finite set of quantum observables (positive operator valued measures) is called compatible if these observables are marginals of a some observable, called a joint observable of them. For a given set of compatible observables, their joint observable is in general not unique and it is desirable to take a minimal joint observable in the post-processing order

Sanemichi Z. Takahashi, Takayuki Muto

Structure formation in young protoplanetary disks is investigated using a one-dimensional model including the formation and the evolution of disks. Recent observations with ALMA found that a ring-hole structure may be formed in young protoplanetary disks, even when the disk is embedded in the envelope. We present a one-dimensional model for the formation of

Yuki Iwamoto, Yoshitaka Tanimura

We consider a two-dimensional rigid rotator system coupled to a two-dimensional heat bath. The Caldeira-Leggett (Brownian) model for the rotator and the spin-Boson model have been used to describe such systems, but they do not possess rotational symmetry, they cannot describe the discretized rotational bands in absorption and emission spectra that have been

Shaohan Feng, Wenbo Wang, Dusit Niyato, Dong In Kim

With the explosive growth of smart IoT devices at the edge of the Internet, embedding sensors on mobile devices for massive data collection and collective environment sensing has been envisioned as a cost-effective solution for IoT applications. However, existing IoT platforms and framework rely on dedicated middleware for (semi-) centralized task dispatchin

Fernando Etayo, Araceli deFrancisco, Rafael Santamaría

Nearly Kähler and Kähler-Codazzi type manifolds are defined in a very similar way. We prove that nearly Kähler type manifolds have sense just in Hermitian and para-Hermitian contexts, and that Kähler-Codazzi type manifolds reduce to Kähler type manifolds in all the four Hermitian, para-Hermitian, Norden and product Riemannian geometries.

C. K. Barman, Chiranjit Mondal, Vijay Singh, Biswarup Pathak

In this article, we predict the occurrence of topological non-trivial phase in hexagonal antiperovskite systems. By carefully investigating the evolution of band structure, we have studied the pressure induced topological phase transition in Ba$_{3}$BiP, Ba$_{3}$BiN, and Sr$_{3}$BiN compounds using the hybrid functional calculations. The non-trivial topology

Samuel A. Hambleton

We show that binary forms of degree n less than seven parameterize rings, generalizing a result of Levi on binary cubic forms parameterizing cubic rings, which can be related to results of Bhargava. The question of whether or not a binary form of degree n parameterizes a ring of rank $n$ depends on a symbolic calculation with matrices.

Michael Scheutzow

It is well-known that random attractors of a random dynamical system are generally not unique. It was shown in recent work by Hans Crauel and the author that if there exist more than one pullback or weak random attractor which attracts a given family of (possibly random) sets, then there exists a minimal (in the sense of smallest) one. This statement does no

Tomasz Klimsiak, Andrzej Rozkosz

We consider a family $\{L_t,\, t\in [0,T]\}$ of closed operators generated by a family of regular (non-symmetric) Dirichlet forms $\{(B^{(t)},V),t\in[0,T]\}$ on $L^2(E;m)$. We show that a bounded (signed) measure $μ$ on $(0,T)\times E$ is smooth, i.e. charges no set of zero parabolic capacity associated with $\frac{\partial}{\partial t}+L_t$, if and only if

Oluwakayode Onireti, Lei Zhang, Ali Imran, Muhammad Ali Imran

In this paper, using the stochastic geometry, we develop a tractable uplink modeling framework for the outage probability of both the single and multi-tier millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks. Each tier's mmWave base stations (BSs) are randomly located and they have particular spatial density, antenna gain, receiver sensitivity, blockage parameter

Matteo Castiglioni, Alberto Marchesi, Nicola Gatti, Stefano Coniglio

We study the problem of computing Stackelberg equilibria Stackelberg games whose underlying structure is in congestion games, focusing on the case where each player can choose a single resource (a.k.a. singleton congestion games) and one of them acts as leader. In particular, we address the cases where the players either have the same action spaces (i.e., th

David MacTaggart

We investigate the onset of the classical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) tearing instability (TI) and focus on non-modal (transient) growth rather than the tearing mode. With the help of pseudospectral theory, the operators of the linear equations are shown to be highly non-normal, resulting in the possibility of significant transient growth at the onset of the T

Yaakov Lumer, Miguel A. Bandres, Matthias Heinrich, Lukas Maczewsky

The use of artificial gauge fields enables systems of uncharged particles to behave as if affected by external fields. Generated by geometry or external modulation, artificial gauge fields have been instrumental in demonstrating topological phenomena in many physical systems, including photonics, cold atoms and acoustic waves. Here, we demonstrate experiment

Pablo Burset, Janne Kotilahti, Michael Moskalets, Christian Flindt

The development of single-electron sources has paved the way for a novel type of experiments in which individual electrons are emitted into a quantum-coherent circuit. In one approach, single-electron excitations are generated by applying Lorentzian-shaped voltage pulses to a contact. Here, we propose to use such voltage pulses for electronic spectroscopy of