September 2018 arXiv papers — page 18

Evan P. Dummit

In a recent paper of the author with D. Dummit and H. Kisilevsky, we constructed a collection of matrices defined by quadratic residue symbols, termed "quadratic residue matrices", associated to the splitting behavior of prime ideals in a composite of quadratic extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$, and proved a simple criterion characterizing such matrices. We

Shusil Dangi, Ziv Yaniv, Cristian A. Linte

Segmentation of the left ventricle and quantification of various cardiac contractile functions is crucial for the timely diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Traditionally, the two tasks have been tackled independently. Here we propose a convolutional neural network based multi-task learning approach to perform both tasks simultaneously, such

Alireza Saffarzadeh, Firuz Demir, George Kirczenow

We explore the thermoelectric properties of gold atomic chains bridging gold electrodes by means of \textit{ab initio} and semi-empirical calculations, and heuristic reasoning. We predict the thermoelectric voltage induced by a temperature difference across such junctions to oscillate, repeatedly changing sign, as a function of the number of atoms $N$ making

Paolo Bonicatto, Nikolay A. Gusev

We consider the continuity equation $\partial_t μ_t + \mathop{\mathrm{div}}(b μ_t) = 0$, where $\{μ_t\}_{t \in \mathbb R}$ is a measurable family of (possibily signed) Borel measures on $\mathbb R^d$ and $b \colon \mathbb R \times \mathbb R^d \to \mathbb R^d$ is a bounded Borel vector field (and the equation is understood in the sense of distributions). If t

Robert Laterveer

We consider surfaces of geometric genus $3$ with the property that their transcendental cohomology splits into $3$ pieces, each piece coming from a $K3$ surface. For certain families of surfaces with this property, we can show there is a similar splitting on the level of Chow groups (and Chow motives).

David Nygren, Yuan Mei

We describe a novel ionization signal capture and waveform digitization scheme for kiloton-scale liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detectors. The scheme is based on a pixel-scale self-triggering `charge integrate/reset' block, local clocks running at unconstrained frequencies and dynamically established data networks. The scheme facilitates deta

E. M. May, T. Gardner, E. Rauscher, J. D. Monnier

We present results for the inflated super-Neptune HATS-8b from MOPSS, The Michigan Optical Planetary Spectra Survey. This program is aimed at creating a database of optical planetary transmission spectra all observed, reduced, and analyzed with a uniform method for the benefit of enabling comparative exoplanet studies. HATS-8b orbits a G dwarf and is a low d

Sarah J. Morrison, Kaitlin M. Kratter

While many observed debris disks are thought to have gaps suggestive of the presence of planets, direct imaging surveys do not find many high mass planets in these systems. We investigate if divergent migration is a viable mechanism for forming gaps in young debris disks with planets of low enough mass to currently elude detection. We perform numerical integ

J. Viirok, U. Nagel, T. Rõõm, D. Farkas

The coexisting magnetic and ferroelectric orders in multiferroic materials give rise to a handful of novel magnetoelectric phenomena, such as the absorption difference for the opposite propagation directions of light called the non-reciprocal directional dichroism (NDD). Usually these effects are restricted to low temperature, where the multiferroic phase de

Yang Li, Zhen Yang, Guoqing Li, Yunfei Mu

In order to coordinate the scheduling problem between an isolated microgrid (IMG) and electric vehicle battery swapping stations (BSSs) in multi-stakeholder scenarios, a new bi-level optimal scheduling model is proposed for promoting the participation of BSSs in regulating the IMG economic operation. In this model, the upper-level sub-problem is formulated t

S. L. Casewell, S. P. Littlefair, S. G. Parsons, T. R. Marsh

We have observed the eclipsing, post-common envelope white dwarf-brown dwarf binary, SDSS141126.20+200911.1, in the near-IR with the HAWK-I imager, and present here the first direct detection of the dark side of an irradiated brown dwarf in the $H$ band, and a tentative detection in the $K_s$ band. Our analysis of the lightcurves and indicates that the brown

Kazumasa Fujiwara

The non-existence of global solutions for semirelativistic equations with non-gauge invariant power type nonlinearity with mass is studied in the frame work of weighted $L^1$. In particular, a priori control of weighted integral of solutions is obtained by introducing a pointwise estimate of fractional derivative of some weight functions. Especially, small d

David Roe

We describe a method for counting the number of extensions of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ with a given Galois group $G$, founded upon the description of the absolute Galois group of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ due to Jannsen and Wingberg. Because this description is only known for odd $p$, our results do not apply to $\mathbb{Q}_2$. We report on the results of counting such extension

Norbert Henze, Günter Last

Passengers board a fully booked airplane in order. The first passenger picks one of the seats at random. Each subsequent passenger takes his or her assigned seat if available, otherwise takes one of the remaining seats at random. It is well known that the last passenger obtains her own seat with probability $1/2$. We study the distribution of the number of i

Suraj Kothawade, Kunjan Mhaske, Sahil Sharma, Furkhan Shaikh

Satellite Remote Sensing Technology is becoming a major milestone in the prediction of weather anomalies, natural disasters as well as finding alternative resources in proximity using multiple multi-spectral sensors emitting electromagnetic waves at distinct wavelengths. Hence, it is imperative to extract water bodies and burnt areas from orthorectified tile

Linfeng Zhang, Weinan E, Lei Wang

We present a deep generative model, named Monge-Ampère flow, which builds on continuous-time gradient flow arising from the Monge-Ampère equation in optimal transport theory. The generative map from the latent space to the data space follows a dynamical system, where a learnable potential function guides a compressible fluid to flow towards the target densit

Yan-Fei Jiang, Matteo Cantiello, Lars Bildsten, Eliot Quataert

(Abridged) Stars more massive than $20-30M_{\odot}$ are so luminous that the radiation force on the cooler, more opaque outer layers can balance or exceed the force of gravity. These near or super-Eddington outer envelopes represent a long standing challenge for calculating the evolution of massive stars in one dimension, a situation that limits our understa

Yuhao Zhang, Peng Qi, Christopher D. Manning

Dependency trees help relation extraction models capture long-range relations between words. However, existing dependency-based models either neglect crucial information (e.g., negation) by pruning the dependency trees too aggressively, or are computationally inefficient because it is difficult to parallelize over different tree structures. We propose an ext

John R. Akeroyd, John B. Conway, Liming Yang

In 1998, John B. Conway and Liming Yang wrote a paper in which they posed a number of open questions regarding the shift on $P^t(μ)$ spaces. A few of these have been completely resolved, while at least one remains wide open. In this paper, we review some of the solutions, mention some alternate approaches and discuss further the problem that remains unsolved

R. Schiavilla, A. Baroni, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli

The magnetic form factors of $^2$H, $^3$H, and $^3$He, deuteron photodisintegration cross sections at low energies, and deuteron threshold electrodisintegration cross sections at backward angles in a wide range of momentum transfers, are calculated with the chiral two-nucleon (and three-nucleon) interactions including $Δ$ intermediate states that have recent

Jaclyn B. Champagne, Roberto Decarli, Caitlin M. Casey, Bram Venemans

Bright high-redshift quasars ($z>6$), hosting supermassive black holes ($\rm M_{BH} > 10^8 M_{\odot}$), are expected to reside in massive host galaxies embedded within some of the earliest and most massive galaxy overdensities. We analyze 1.2\,mm ALMA dust continuum maps of 35 bright quasars at $6<z<7$ and search the primary beam for excess dust continuum em

Stefan Dohr, Christian Kahle, Sergejs Rogovs, Piotr Swierczynski

We study the numerical approximation of linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to the fractional Laplace equation with its spectral definition. We compute an approximation of the state equation using a discretization of the Balakrishnan formula that is based on a finite element discretization in space and a sinc quadrature approximation of the add

R. J. Holt, B. W. Filippone, Steven C. Pieper

The $^{12}$C($α,γ$)$^{16}$O reaction has a key role in nuclear astrophysics. A multilevel R-matrix analysis was used to make extrapolations of the astrophysical S factor for this reaction to the stellar energy of 300 keV. The statistical precision of the S-factor extrapolation was determined by performing multiple fits to existing randomized E1 and E2 ground

N. G. Pavlov, S. Koptyaev, G. V. Lihachev, A. S. Voloshin

Narrow linewidth lasers and optical frequency combs generated with mode-locked lasers revolutionized optical frequency metrology. The advent of soliton Kerr frequency combs in compact crystalline or integrated ring optical microresonators opens new horizons for applications. These combs, as was naturally assumed, however, require narrow-linewidth single-freq

Youssef Rami, Younes Derfoufi

In this paper, we associate to two given continuous maps $f,g: X\rightarrow Z$, on a path connected space $X$, the relative topological complexity $TC^{(f, g, Z)}(X):=TC_X(X\times _ZX)$ of their fiber space $X\times _ZX$. When $g=f$ we obtain a variant of the topological complexity $TC(f)$ of $f: X\longrightarrow Z$ generalizing Farber&#39;s topological comp

Mauro M. Doria

A Drude-Sommerfeld topological model (DSTM) is proposed to describe Weyl fermions under residual collisions. They are nearly free and dressed by their own weak magnetic field that breaks the reflection and time symmetries around a layer. This weak magnetic field brings topological stability to the states through a non-trivial Chern-Simons number which is her

Viet Hung Tran, Wenwu Wang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular method for projecting data onto uncorrelated components in lower dimension, although the optimal number of components is not specified. Likewise, multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm is a popular PCA-based method for estimating directions of arrival (DOAs) of sinusoidal sources, yet it requires the

Ivan Derkach, Vladyslav C. Usenko, Radim Filip

We propose the Gaussian continuous-variable quantum key distribution using squeezed states in the composite channels including atmospheric propagation with transmittance fluctuations. We show that adjustments of signal modulation and use of optimal feasible squeezing can be sufficient to significantly overcome the coherent-state protocol and drastically impr

B. Riaz, W. -F. Thi, P. Caselli

We present results from a study of nitrogen chemistry in Class 0/I proto-brown dwarfs (proto-BDs). We have used the IRAM 30 m telescope to observe the CN (2-1), HCN (3-2), and HNC (3-2) lines in 7 proto-BDs. All proto-BDs show a large CN/HCN abundance ratio of >20, and a HNC/HCN abundance ratio close to or larger than unity. The enhanced CN/HCN ratios can be

B. Rani, G. M. Madejski, R. F. Mushotzky, C. Reynolds

Located at the center of the Perseus cluster, 3C 84 is an extremely bright and nearby radio galaxy. Because of the strong diffuse thermal emission from the cluster in X-rays, the detailed properties and the origin of a power-law component from the central active galactic nucleus (AGN) remains unclear in the source. We report here the first NuSTAR observation

Justin Kaidi, Christoph F. Uhlemann

We establish a close relation between recently constructed AdS$_6$ solutions in Type IIB supergravity, which describe the near-horizon limit of $(p,q)$ 5-brane junctions, and the curves wrapped by M5-branes in the M-theory realization of the 5-brane junctions. This provides a geometric interpretation of various objects appearing in the construction of the Ty

Yisheng Qiu, J. Stuart B. Wyithe, Pascal A. Oesch, Simon J. Mutch

We investigate the dependence of galaxy clustering at $z \sim 4 - 7$ on UV-luminosity and stellar mass. Our sample consists of $\sim$ 10,000 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) in the XDF and CANDELS fields. As part of our analysis, the $M_\star - M_{\rm UV}$ relation is estimated for the sample, which is found to have a nearly linear slope of $d\log_{10} M_\star /

Ritam Dutt, Ashok Deb, Emilio Ferrara

One of the key aspects of the United States democracy is free and fair elections that allow for a peaceful transfer of power from one President to the next. The 2016 US presidential election stands out due to suspected foreign influence before, during, and after the election. A significant portion of that suspected influence was carried out via social media.

Carlo Abate, Onno R. Pols, Richard J. Stancliffe

The chemical enrichments detected in CEMP-$s$ stars are believed to be the consequence of a mass-transfer episode from a now extinct AGB primary star. This hypothesis is borne out by the fact that most CEMP-$s$ stars exhibit RV variations suggesting that they are in binary systems. We use the period distribution of an observed sample of CEMP-$s$ stars to inv

M. Vivek, R. Srianand, K. S. Dawson

We report the discovery of rapid variations of a high-velocity Mg ii broad absorption line (BAL) trough in the quasar SDSS J133356.02+001229.1 (zem ~ 0.9197). Vivek et al. (2012a) revealed the emergence and subsequent near disappearance of a BAL component in this source having an ejection velocity of ~ 28000 km s-1. Our further follow up studies with South A

Aleksander Kubica, John Preskill

We propose a new cellular automaton (CA), the Sweep Rule, which generalizes Toom&#39;s rule to any locally Euclidean lattice. We use the Sweep Rule to design a local decoder for the toric code in $d\geq 3$ dimensions, the Sweep Decoder, and rigorously establish a lower bound on its performance. We also numerically estimate the Sweep Decoder threshold for the

Jordy de Vries, Patrick Draper, Kaori Fuyuto, Jonathan Kozaczuk

In the Standard Model, the renormalization of the QCD vacuum angle $θ$ is extremely tiny, and small $θ$ is technically natural. In the general Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT), however, $Δθ$ is quadratically divergent, reflecting the fact that new sources of hadronic CP-violation typically produce $\mathcal O(1)$ threshold corrections to $θ$. Th

Soudabeh Barghi, Lalet Scaria, Ali Salari, Tristan Glatard

Evaluating the computational reproducibility of data analysis pipelines has become a critical issue. It is, however, a cumbersome process for analyses that involve data from large populations of subjects, due to their computational and storage requirements. We present a method to predict the computational reproducibility of data analysis pipelines in large p

Yu Liu, $^{1}$ Hechang Lei, $^{1}$ Kefeng Wang, $^{1}$ Milinda Abeykoon

We report thermoelectric properties of Ir$_{1-x}$Rh$_x$Te$_2$ ($0 \leqslant x \leqslant 0.3$) alloy series where superconductivity at low temperatures emerges as the high-temperature structural transition ($T_s$) is suppressed. The isovalent ionic substitution of Rh into Ir has different effects on physical properties when compared to the anionic substitutio

A. Maragkoudakis, N. Ivkovich, E. Peeters, D. J. Stock

We present mid-infrared (MIR) spectra of HII regions within star-forming galaxies M83 and M33. Their emission features are compared with Galactic and extragalactic HII regions, HII-type galaxies, starburst galaxies, and Seyfert/LINER type galaxies. Our main results are as follows: (i) the M33 and M83 HII regions lie in between Seyfert/LINER galaxies and HII-

Z. S. Hosseini, A. Khodaei, E. A. Paaso, M. S. Hossan

Microgrids, as small-scale islandable power systems, are considered as viable promotors of renewable energy resources. In particular, microgrids can efficiently integrate solar photovoltaic (PV) as the deployment of this customer-deployed technology is growing in distribution grids. However, there is a limit on how much PV can be hosted by a microgrid. High

A. Sunaga, V. S. Prasannaa, M. Abe, M. Hada

Heavy polar diatomic molecules are currently one of the leading candidates for probing physics beyond the Standard Model via studies of time-reversal (T) and parity (P) violations. In this work, we analyze the effective electric field (Eeff) that is required for determining the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM), and the scalar-pseudoscalar (S-PS) intera

Juzar Thingna, Massimiliano Esposito, Felipe Barra

We show that the dynamics of a driven quantum system weakly coupled to a finite reservoir can be approximated by a sequence of Landau-Zener transitions if the level spacing of the reservoir is large enough. This approximation can be formulated as a repeated interaction dynamics and leads to a quantum master equation for the driven system which is of Lindblad

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Juan Gorraiz, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the capabilities, functionalities and appropriateness of Altmetric.com as a data source for the bibliometric analysis of books in comparison to PlumX. We perform an exploratory analysis on the metrics the Altmetric Explorer for Institutions platform offers for books. We use two distinct datasets of books: the Book Coll

Antonio Lei, Florian Sprung

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve with good reduction at a fixed odd prime $p$ and $K$ an imaginary quadratic field where $p$ splits. We give a growth estimate for the Mordell-Weil rank of $E$ over finite extensions inside the $\mathbb{Z}_p^2$-extension of $K$.

Saurav Islam, Semonti Bhattacharyya, Abhinav Kandala, Anthony Richardella

We report a detailed study on low-frequency 1/f-noise in large-area molecular-beam epitaxy grown thin (10 nm) films of topological insulators as a function of temperature, gate voltage, and magnetic field. When the Fermi energy is within the bulk valence band, the temperature dependence reveals a clear signature of generation-recombination noise in the defec

Sami H. Assaf, David E. Speyer

Schur modules give the irreducible polynomial representations of the general linear group $\mathrm{GL}_t$. Viewing the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_t$ as a subgroup of $\mathrm{GL}_t$, we may restrict Schur modules to $\mathfrak{S}_t$ and decompose the result into a direct sum of Specht modules, the irreducible representations of $\mathfrak{S}_t$. We give a

Andrew Edmonds

The AlCap experiment is a joint venture between the COMET and Mu2e collaborations that will measure the rate and spectrum of particles emitted after nuclear muon capture on aluminium. Both collaborations will search for the charged lepton flavour violating process of neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion by stopping muons in an aluminium target. Knowledge

Yannick Le Cacheux, Hervé Le Borgne, Michel Crucianu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is concerned with the recognition of previously unseen classes. It relies on additional semantic knowledge for which a mapping can be learned with training examples of seen classes. While classical ZSL considers the recognition performance on unseen classes only, generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) aims at maximizing performance on

Jonathan Graham

This research seeks to expose a major weakness in Crypto-ransomware by modeling it as four integral sub-systems consisting of: An Agent, a Command and Control Service (CNC), an anonymous payment channel (APC) and an obfuscated command channel (OCC). We will show that most modern counter-measures focus on either the Agent or the CNC subsystems and usually in

G. C. Privon, C. Ricci, F. E. Bauer, M. A. Perez-Torres

We report a serendipitous hard X-ray (3-24 keV) detection of the blazar LBQS 1319+0039. The X-ray spectrum is consistent with powerlaw emission with a photon index of $Γ= 1.78$. The observed emission and published redshift imply an observed 2-10 keV luminosity of $3.4\times10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$. This is consistent with extrapolations from a previous soft X-r

Michalis Giannopoulos, Grigorios Tsagkatakis, Saverio Blasi, Farzad Toutounchi

Video Quality Assessment (VQA) is a very challenging task due to its highly subjective nature. Moreover, many factors influence VQA. Compression of video content, while necessary for minimising transmission and storage requirements, introduces distortions which can have detrimental effects on the perceived quality. Especially when dealing with modern video c

Dmitri I. Panyushev

Let $\mathfrak g$ be a simple Lie algebra with a Borel subalgebra $\mathfrak b$. Let $Δ^+$ be the corresponding (po)set of positive roots and $θ$ the highest root. A pair $\{η,η&#39;\}\subset Δ^+$ is said to be glorious, if $η,η&#39;$ are incomparable and $η+η&#39;=θ$. Using the theory of abelian ideals of $\mathfrak b$, we (1) establish a relationship of $η

John Ellis, Balakrishnan Nagaraj, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, Keith A. Olive

No-scale supergravity is the appropriate general framework for low-energy effective field theories derived from string theory. The simplest no-scale Kähler potential with a single chiral field corresponds to a compactification to flat Minkowski space with a single volume modulus, but generalizations to single-field no-scale models with de Sitter vacua are al

Sebastian Khan, Katerina Chatziioannou, Mark Hannam, Frank Ohme

The properties of compact binaries, such as masses and spins, are imprinted in the gravitational-waves they emit and can be measured using parameterised waveform models. Accurately and efficiently describing the complicated precessional dynamics of the various angular momenta of the system in these waveform models is the object of active investigation. One o

N. W. Talarico, S. Maniscalco, N. Lo Gullo

In this work we present a numerical method to solve the set of Dyson-like equations arising the context of non-equilibrium Green&#39;s functions. The technique is based on the self-consistent solution of the Dyson equations for the interacting single-particle Green&#39;s function once a choice for the self-energy, functional of the single-particle Green&#39;

Stefan Lanz

The decay $η\to 3 π$ proceeds exclusively through isospin violating operators and is therefore an excellent probe to examine the strength of isospin breaking in the strong interaction. The latter can be expressed through the quark mass ratio $Q^2 = (m_s^2 - \hat{m}^2)/(m_d^2 - m_u^2)$. The main object of this thesis is to analyse the decay $η\to 3 π$ using d

Sirio Legramanti

In this note, we provide and prove exact formulas for the mean and the trace of the covariance matrix of harmonic measure, regarded as a parametric probability distribution.

Philip W. L. Fong

First proposed by Wang and Li in 2007, workflow resiliency is a policy analysis for ensuring that, even when an adversarial environment removes a subset of workers from service, a workflow can still be instantiated to satisfy all the security constraints. Wang and Li proposed three notions of workflow resiliency: static, decremental, and dynamic resiliency.

Philipp Allgeuer, Sven Behnke

The parameterisation of rotations in three dimensional Euclidean space is an area of applied mathematics that has long been studied, dating back to the original works of Euler in the 18th century. As such, many ways of parameterising a rotation have been developed over the years. Motivated by the task of representing the orientation of a balancing body, the

Genoveva Micheva, M. S. Oey, Ryan P. Keenan, Anne E. Jaskot

Low redshift, spatially resolved Lyman continuum (LyC) emitters allow us to clarify the processes for LyC escape from these starburst galaxies. We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3 and ACS imaging of the confirmed low-redshift LyC emitter Tol 1247-232 to study the ionization structure of the gas and its relation to the ionizing star clusters. We perform

Wenhui Chen, Alessandro Palmieri

In this work we determine the critical exponent for a weakly coupled system of semilinear wave equations with distinct scale-invariant lower order terms, when these terms make both equations in some sense parabolic-like. For the blow-up result the test functions method is applied, while for the global existence (in time) results we use L2-L2 estimates with a

Ivan Chajda, Helmut Länger

Using the operators of taking upper and lower cones in a poset with a unary operation, we define operators M(x,y) and R(x,y) in the sense of multiplication and residuation, respectively, and we show that by using these operators, a general modification of residuation can be introduced. A relatively pseudocomplemented poset can be considered as a prototype of

Nikhil Bharadwaj Gosala, Andreas Bühler, Manish Prajapat, Claas Ehmke

In autonomous racing, vehicles operate close to the limits of handling and a sensor failure can have critical consequences. To limit the impact of such failures, this paper presents the redundant perception and state estimation approaches developed for an autonomous race car. Redundancy in perception is achieved by estimating the color and position of the tr

Yaozhong Hu, Khoa Lê

We show that the random field solution to the parabolic Anderson equation $(\partial_t-\frac12 Δ)u=u\diamond \dot{W}$ is jointly Hölder continuous in space and time.

Christopher Daw, Alexander Gorodnik, Emmanuel Ullmo

We conjecture that the set of homogeneous probability measures on the maximal Satake compactification of an arithmetic locally symmetric space $S=Γ\backslash G/K$ is compact. More precisely, given a sequence of homogeneous probability measures on $S$, we expect that any weak limit is homogeneous with support contained in precisely one of the boundary compone

Christoph Schikora, Markus Plack, Andreas Kolb

Extracting reference spectra, or endmembers (EMs) from a given multi- or hyperspectral image, as well as estimating the size of the EM set, plays an important role in multispectral image processing. In this paper, we present condition-residuum-diagrams. By plotting the residuum resulting from the unmixing and reconstruction and the condition number of variou

Matt DeVos, Jessica McDonald, Amanda Montejano

Let $G = (V,E)$ be a simple graph and let $\{R,B\}$ be a partition of $E$. We prove that whenever $|E| + \min\{ |R|, |B| \} > { |V| \choose 2 }$, there exists a subgraph of $G$ isomorphic to $K_3$ which contains edges from both $R$ and $B$. We conjecture a natural generalization to partitions with more blocks.

István Gaál, László Remete

Let $m$ be a square-free integer ($m\neq 0,\pm 1$). We show that the structure of the integral bases of the fields $K=Q(\sqrt[n]{m})$ are periodic in $m$. For $3\leq n\leq 9$ we show that the period length is $n^2$. We explicitly describe the integral bases, and for $n=3,4,5,6,8$ we explicitly calculate the index forms of $K$. This enables us in many cases t

Ayush Jaiswal, Yue Wu, Wael AbdAlmageed, Premkumar Natarajan

Data representations that contain all the information about target variables but are invariant to nuisance factors benefit supervised learning algorithms by preventing them from learning associations between these factors and the targets, thus reducing overfitting. We present a novel unsupervised invariance induction framework for neural networks that learns

S. J. D. Purser, S. L. Lumsden, M. G. Hoare, N. Cunningham

We present sensitive ($σ<10{\rm μJy \, beam^{-1}}$), radio continuum observations using the Australian telescope compact array (ATCA) at frequencies of $6$ and $9$ GHz towards 4 MYSOs. From a previous, less sensitive work, these objects are known to harbour ionized jets associated with radio lobes, which result from shock processes. In comparison with that w

S. P. Giblin, P. See, A. Petrie, T. J. B. M. Janssen

The dynamic capture of electrons in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) by raising a potential barrier is a crucial stage in metrological quantized charge pumping. In this work, we use a quantum point contact (QPC) charge sensor to study errors in the electron capture process of a QD formed in a GaAs heterostructure. Using a two-step measurement protocol to com

Ivan Chajda, Helmut Länger

We prove that the variety V of commutative multiplicatively idempotent semirings satisfying x + y + xyz = x + y is generated by single semirings. Moreover, we describe a normal form system for terms in V and we show that the word problem in V is solvable. Although V is locally finite, it is residually big.

Vahideh Keikha, Mees van de Kerkhof, Marc van Kreveld, Irina Kostitsyna

We consider the problem of testing, for a given set of planar regions $\cal R$ and an integer $k$, whether there exists a convex shape whose boundary intersects at least $k$ regions of $\cal R$. We provide a polynomial time algorithm for the case where the regions are disjoint line segments with a constant number of orientations. On the other hand, we show t

Patricia A. Whitelock

Certain types of large amplitude AGB variable are proving to be powerful distance indicators that will rival Cepheids in the JWST era of high precision infrared photometry. These are predominantly found in old populations and have low mass progenitors. At the other end of the AGB mass-scale, large amplitude variables, particularly those undergoing hot bottom

Rubayet Shafin, Lingjia Liu

In this paper, downlink (DL) precoding and power allocation strategies are identified for a time-division-duplex (TDD) multi-cell multi-user massive Full-Dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO) network. Utilizing channel reciprocity, DL channel state information (CSI) feedback is eliminated and the DL multi-user MIMO precoding is linked to the uplink (UL) direction of arri

István Gaál, László Remete

Let $m$ be an integer, $m\neq -8,-3,0,5$ such that $m^2+3m+9$ is square free. Let $α$ be a root of \[ f=x^6-2mx^5-(5m+15)x^4-20x^3+5mx^2+(2m+6)x+1. \] The totally real cyclic fields $K=Q(α)$ are called simplest sextic fields and are well known in the literature. Using a completely new approach we explicitly give an integral basis of $K$ in a parametric form

Kathryn F. Neugent, Emily M. Levesque, Phil Massey

With the exception of a few well-known and studied systems, the binary population of red supergiants (RSGs) remains relatively uncharacterized. Famous systems such as VV Cep, 31 Cyg and zeta Aur contain RSG + B star binaries and here we explore whether B stars are the main type of companion we expect from an evolutionary point of view. Using the Geneva evolu

Kevin Vermeulen, Stephen D. Strowes, Olivier Fourmaux, Timur Friedman

Since its introduction in 2006-2007, Paris Traceroute and its Multipath Detection Algorithm (MDA) have been used to conduct well over a billion IP level multipath route traces from platforms such as M-Lab. Unfortunately, the MDA requires a large number of packets in order to trace an entire topology of load balanced paths between a source and a destination,

Franz-Xaver Geiger, Ivano Malavolta

Mobile phones and tablets have become the most widely used computing devices, with a large predominance of the Android platform. As a natural evolution, the development of Android applications has surged and has become a major field of study, with research efforts ranging from energy efficiency, to code smells, performance, maintainability, security, etc. Th

Lin Niu, Yi Wang

A nonlinear dynamical system is called eventually competitive (or cooperative) provided that it preserves a partial order in backward (or forward) time only after some reasonable initial transient. We presented in this paper the Non-oscillation Principle for eventually competitive or cooperative systems, by which the non-ordering of (both $ω$- and $α$-) limi

István Gaál, László Remete

We consider infinite parametric families of high degree number fields composed of quadratic fields with pure cubic, pure quartic, pure sextic fields and with the so called simplest cubic, simplest quartic fields. We explicitly describe an integral basis of the composite fields. We construct the index form, describe their factors and prove that the monogenity

S. J. D. Purser, R. E. Ainsworth, T. P. Ray, D. A. Green

DG Tau A, a class-II young stellar object (YSO) displays both thermal, and non-thermal, radio emission associated with its bipolar jet. To investigate the nature of this emission, we present sensitive ($σ\sim2\,μ{\rm Jy \,beam^{-1}}$), Karl G.\ Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) $6$ and $10\,{\rm GHz}$ observations. Over $3.81\,{\rm yr}$, no proper motion is obse

Faiz Faizullah, Ilyas Khan, Mukhtar M. Salah, Ziyad Ali Alhussain

This article investigates the Euler-Maruyama approximation procedure for stochastic differential equations in the framework of G-Browinian motion with non-linear growth and non-Lipschitz conditions. Subject to non-linear growth condition, it is revealed that the Euler-Maruyama approximate solutions are bounded in M^2_G.In view ofnon-linear growth and non-uni

Pierre Janin-Potiron, Patrice Martinez, Marcel Carbillet

Zernike polynomials are widely used to describe the wavefront phase as they are well suited to the circular geometry of various optical apertures. Non-conventional optical systems, such as future large optical telescopes with highly segmented primary mirrors or advanced wavefront control devices using segmented mirror membrane facesheets, use approximate num

Meifeng Liu, Yang Zhang, Ling-Fang Lin, Lin Lin

Layered perovskites $A_3M_2$O$_7$ are known to exhibit the so-called hybrid improper ferroelectricity. Despite experimentally confirmed cases (e.g. nonmagnetic $M$=Ti and Sn), the ferroelectricity in magnetic Ca$_3$Mn$_2$O$_7$ remains a puzzle. Here, the structural, ferroelectric, magnetoelectric, and optical properties of Ca$_3$Mn$_2$O$_7$ are systematicall

Lidia Contreras-Ochando, César Ferri, José Hernández-Orallo, Fernando Martínez-Plumed

Given one or two examples, humans are good at understanding how to solve a problem independently of its domain, because they are able to detect what the problem is and to choose the appropriate background knowledge according to the context. For instance, presented with the string &#34;8/17/2017&#34; to be transformed to &#34;17th of August of 2017&#34;, huma

Piotr Stachura

The $C^*$-algebraic $κ$-Poincaré Group is constructed. The construction uses groupoid algebras of differential groupoids associated to Lie group decomposition. It turns out the underlying $C^*$-algebra is the same as for &#34;$κ$-Euclidean Group&#34; but a comultiplication is twisted by some unitary multiplier. Generators and commutation relations among them

Rucha Deshpande, Vladimir A. Zenin, Fei Ding, N. Asger Mortensen

Metasurfaces based on gap surface-plasmon resonators allow one to arbitrarily control the phase, amplitude and polarization of reflected light with high efficiency. However, the performance of densely-packed metasurfaces is reduced, often quite significantly, in comparison with simple analytical predictions. We argue that this reduction is mainly because of

Miloš S. Kurilić, Aleksandar Pavlović

For the algebraic convergence $λ_{\mathrm{s}}$, which generates the well known sequential topology $τ_s$ on a complete Boolean algebra ${\mathbb B}$, we have $λ_{\mathrm{s}}=λ_{\mathrm{ls}}\cap λ_{\mathrm{li}}$, where the convergences $λ_{\mathrm{ls}}$ and $λ_{\mathrm{li}}$ are defined by $λ_{\mathrm{ls}}(x)=\{ \limsup x\}\!\uparrow$ and $λ_{\mathrm{li}}(x)=

Mostafa Amini, Farzad Yousefian

We study a class of bilevel convex optimization problems where the goal is to find the minimizer of an objective function in the upper level, among the set of all optimal solutions of an optimization problem in the lower level. A wide range of problems in convex optimization can be formulated using this class. An important example is the case where an optimi

Rohan Varma, Jelena Kovačević

In this paper, we extend the sampling theory on graphs by constructing a framework that exploits the structure in product graphs for efficient sampling and recovery of bandlimited graph signals that lie on them. Product graphs are graphs that are composed from smaller graph atoms; we motivate how this model is a flexible and useful way to model richer classe

Helen L Bear, Emmanouil Benetos

We present a new extensible and divisible taxonomy for open set sound scene analysis. This new model allows complex scene analysis with tangible descriptors and perception labels. Its novel structure is a cluster graph such that each cluster (or subset) can stand alone for targeted analyses such as office sound event detection, whilst maintaining integrity o

Seth Gilbert, James Maguire, Calvin Newport

Cellular bioelectricity describes the biological phenomenon in which cells in living tissue generate and maintain patterns of voltage gradients induced by differing concentrations of charged ions. A growing body of research suggests that bioelectric patterns represent an ancient system that plays a key role in guiding many important developmental processes i

Caroline Terquem, John Papaloizou

This paper focuses on two-planet systems in a first-order $(q+1):q$ mean motion resonance and undergoing type-I migration in a disc. We present a detailed analysis of the resonance valid for any value of $q$. Expressions for the equilibrium eccentricities, mean motions and departure from exact resonance are derived in the case of smooth convergent migration.

Markus Kurz, Stefan Scheel

In this work we present the eigenspectra of a novel species of Wannier excitons when exposed to crossed electric and magnetic fields. In particular, we compute the eigenenergies of giant-dipole excitons in $\textrm{Cu}_2\textrm{O}$ in crossed fields. In our theoretical approach, we calculate the excitonic spectra within both an approximate as well as a numer

Maik Druschke, Anna T. P. Schauer, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen

The spin and shape of galaxies at the present day have been well-studied both observationally and theoretically. At high redshifts, however, we have to rely on numerical simulations. In this study, we investigate the shape and spin of minihaloes with masses of $M \sim 10^5$--$10^7 \, {\rm M_{\odot}}$ which are of particular interest as they are the sites whe

Yannis Angelopoulos, Stefanos Aretakis, Dejan Gajic

It is shown that the conserved charges on the event horizon and the Cauchy horizon associated to scalar perturbations on extremal black holes are externally measurable from null infinity. This suggests that these charges have the potential to serve as an observational signature. The proof of this result is based on obtaining precise late-time asymptotics for

Harshal Kaushik, Farzad Yousefian

Motivated by high-dimensional nonlinear optimization problems as well as ill-posed optimization problems arising in image processing, we consider a bilevel optimization model where we seek among the optimal solutions of the inner level problem, a solution that minimizes a secondary metric. Our goal is to address the high-dimensionality of the bilevel problem

Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Hoda Kianirad, Jordi Sort, Carlota Canalias

The propagation front of a crack generates large strain gradients and it is therefore a strong source of gradient-induced polarization (flexoelectricity). Herein, we demonstrate that, in piezoelectric materials, a consequence of flexoelectricity is that crack propagation will be helped or hindered depending on whether it is parallel or antiparallel to the pi