November 2018 arXiv papers — page 106

ATLAS Collaboration

This Letter presents a search for the production of a long-lived neutral particle ($Z_d$) decaying within the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter, in association with a Standard Model (SM) $Z$ boson produced via an intermediate scalar boson, where $Z\to l^+l^-$ ($l=e,μ$). The data used were collected by the ATLAS detector during 2015 and 2016 $pp$ collisions with a c

Alexandra Otiman, Matei Toma

We compute the Dolbeault cohomology of geodesically convex domains contained in Cousin groups which satisfy a strong dispersiveness condition. As a consequence we obtain a description of the Dolbeault cohomology of Oeljeklaus-Toma manifolds and in particular the fact that the Hodge decomposition holds for their cohomology.

Gabriele Farina, Christian Kroer, Tuomas Sandholm

Regret minimization is a powerful tool for solving large-scale problems; it was recently used in breakthrough results for large-scale extensive-form game solving. This was achieved by composing simplex regret minimizers into an overall regret-minimization framework for extensive-form game strategy spaces. In this paper we study the general composability of r

Szu-Yeu Hu, Andrew Beers, Ken Chang, Kathi Höbel

In this paper, we propose a new pre-training scheme for U-net based image segmentation. We first train the encoding arm as a localization network to predict the center of the target, before extending it into a U-net architecture for segmentation. We apply our proposed method to the problem of segmenting the optic disc from fundus photographs. Our work shows

Steven S. Gubser, Christian Jepsen, Brian Trundy

We study the holographic dual of the simplest notion of spin in a $p$-adic field theory, namely Green's functions which involve non-trivial sign characters over the $p$-adic numbers. In order to recover these sign characters from bulk constructions, we find that we must introduce a non-dynamical $U(1)$ gauge field on the line graph of the Bruhat-Tits tre

Scott Perkins, Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational waves can probe fundamental physics, leading to new constraints on the mass of the graviton. Previous tests, however, have neglected the effect of screening, which is typically present in modified theories that predict a non-zero graviton mass. We here study whether future gravitational wave observations can constrain the graviton mass when scr

Jerome Feldman

The ancient mind/body problem continues to be one of deepest mysteries of science and of the human spirit. Despite major advances in many fields, there is still no plausible link between subjective experience (qualia) and its realization in the body. This paper outlines some of the elements of a rigorous science of mind (SoM) - key ideas include scientific r

Rodolfo Gutiérrez-Romo

For all $d$ belonging to a density-$1/8$ subset of the natural numbers, we give an example of a square-tiled surface conjecturally realizing the group $\mathrm{SO}^*(2d)$ in its standard representation as the Zariski-closure of a factor of its monodromy. We prove that this conjecture holds for the first elements of this subset, showing that the group $\mathr

Rémi Francis, Tom Ash, Will Williams

In automatic speech recognition (ASR), recurrent neural language models (RNNLM) are typically used to refine hypotheses in the form of lattices or n-best lists, which are generated by a beam search decoder with a weaker language model. The RNNLMs are usually trained generatively using the perplexity (PPL) criterion on large corpora of grammatically correct t

Ran Gelles, Siddharth Iyer

We consider distributed computations between two parties carried out over a noisy channel that may erase messages. Following a noise model proposed by Dani et al. (2018), the noise level observed by the parties during the computation in our setting is arbitrary and a priori unknown to the parties. We develop interactive coding schemes that adapt to the actua

Daniel C. Cole, Scott B. Papp

Breather solitons in passive, driven, Kerr-nonlinear optical resonators are circulating pulses of light that have amplitude, bandwidth, and duration that oscillate in time over the course of many resonator round trips. These breather oscillations emerge spontaneously, and their frequency is determined by the system parameters. Here we propose and theoretical

Miklos Abert, Nicolas Bergeron, Ian Biringer, Tsachik Gelander

We study the convergence of volume-normalized Betti numbers in Benjamini-Schramm convergent sequences of non-positively curved manifolds with finite volume. In particular, we show that if $X$ is an irreducible symmetric space of noncompact type, $X \neq \mathbb H^3$, and $(M_n)$ is any Benjamini-Schramm convergent sequence of finite volume $X$-manifolds, the

Daniel Hemmer, Enrique Montano, Ben Q. Baragiola, Leigh M. Norris

Squeezing of collective atomic spins has been shown to improve the sensitivity of atomic clocks and magnetometers to levels significantly below the standard quantum limit. In most cases the requisite atom-atom entanglement has been generated by dispersive interaction with a quantized probe field, or by state dependent collisions in a quantum gas. Such experi

Vera Djordjilović, Monica Chiogna

In this work, we look at a two-sample problem within the framework of Gaussian graphical models. When the global hypothesis of equality of two distributions is rejected, the interest is usually in localizing the source of difference. Motivated by the idea that diseases can be seen as system perturbations, and by the need to distinguish between the origin of

Ahmad Nimr, Marwa Chafii, Gerhard Fettweis

Most of the conventional multicarrier waveforms explicitly or implicitly involve a generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM)-based modem as a core part of the baseband processing. Some are based on GFDM with a single prototype filter, e.g. orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and others employ multiple filters such as filter bank multic

William Throwe, Saul A. Teukolsky

We present a family of multistep integrators based on the Adams-Bashforth methods. These schemes can be constructed for arbitrary convergence order with arbitrary step size variation. The step size can differ between different subdomains of the system. It can also change with time within a given subdomain. The methods are linearly conservative, preserving a

Giacomo Cherubini, Alberto Perelli

We show that for a positive proportion of Laplace eigenvalues $λ_j$ the associated Hecke-Maass $L$-functions $L(s,u_j)$ approximate with arbitrary precision any target function $f(s)$ on a closed disc with center in $3/4$ and radius $r<1/4$. The main ingredients in the proof are the spectral large sieve of Deshouillers-Iwaniec and Sarnak&#39;s equidistributi

Jishnu Goswami, Frithjof Karsch, Anirban Lahiri, Christian Schmidt

We present results from an ongoing study of the phase diagram of (2+1)-flavor QCD using the HISQ action with smaller than physical light quark masses in the Roberge-Weiss (RW) plane on lattices with temporal extent $N_\tau=4$. We find that the endpoint of the $1^{st}$ order RW transition line remains $2^{nd}$ order at least down to light quark masses corresp

R. Jafari, Henrik Johannesson, A. Langari, M. A. Martin-Delgado

In most lattice models, the closing of a band gap typically occurs at high-symmetry points in the Brillouin zone. Differently, in the Creutz model $-$ describing a system of spinless fermions hopping on a two-leg ladder pierced by a magnetic field $-$ the gap closing at the quantum phase transition between the two topologically nontrivial phases of the model

William J. Wilkinson, Michael Riis Andersen, Joshua D. Reiss, Dan Stowell

In audio signal processing, probabilistic time-frequency models have many benefits over their non-probabilistic counterparts. They adapt to the incoming signal, quantify uncertainty, and measure correlation between the signal&#39;s amplitude and phase information, making time domain resynthesis straightforward. However, these models are still not widely used

O. Sergijenko

We generalize quintom to include the tachyonic kinetic term along with the classical one. For such a model we obtain the expressions for energy density and pressure. For the spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic Universe with Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric of 4-space we derive the equations of motion for the fields. We discuss in detail the reconstruc

Benedykt R. Jany, Arkadiusz Janas, Witold Piskorz, Konrad Szajna

AIII-BV semiconductors have been considered for decades to be a promising material in overcoming the limitations of silicon semiconductor devices. One of the important aspects within AIII-BV semiconductor technology are gold-semiconductor interactions on the nanoscale. We report on investigations into the basic chemical interactions of Au atoms with AIII-BV

Subhajit Pal, Colin Benjamin

A ferromagnetic Josephson junction with a spin-flipper (magnetic impurity) sandwiched in-between acts as a phase battery that can store quantized amounts of superconducting phase difference $Φ_0$ in the ground state of the junction. Moreover, for such $Φ_0$-Josephson junction anomalous Josephson current appears at zero phase difference. We study the properti

Giovanni Morrone, Luca Pasa, Vadim Tikhanoff, Sonia Bergamaschi

In this paper, we address the problem of enhancing the speech of a speaker of interest in a cocktail party scenario when visual information of the speaker of interest is available. Contrary to most previous studies, we do not learn visual features on the typically small audio-visual datasets, but use an already available face landmark detector (trained on a

O. O. Shvetsov, V. D. Esin, A. V. Timonina, N. N. Kolesnikov

We experimentally investigate charge transport through a single planar junction between Cd$_3$As$_2$ Dirac semimetal and a normal Au lead. For non-superconducting bulk Cd$_3$As$_2$ samples, we observe non-Ohmic $dV/dI(V)$ curves, which strongly resemble standard Andreev reflection with well-defined superconducting gap. Andreev-like behavior is demonstrated f

Sebastian von Hausegger, Aske Gammelgaard Ravnebjerg, Hao Liu

Foreground removal techniques for CMB analyses make specific assumptions about the properties of foregrounds in temperature and in polarization. By investigating the statistics of foreground components more understanding about the degree to which these assumptions are valid can be obtained. In this work we investigate $E$- and $B$-mode maps of the two strong

Rubén Arjona, Wilmar Cardona, Savvas Nesseris

We provide explicit formulas for the effective fluid approach of $f(R)$ theories, such as the Hu & Sawicki and the designer models. Using the latter and simple modifications to the CLASS code, which we call EFCLASS, in conjunction with very accurate analytic approximations for the background evolution, we obtain competitive results in a much simpler and less

Dennis Gaitsgory

Given a category C acted on by the loop group G((t)), we define its Whittaker model Whit(C) as C^{N((t)),\chi}, where \chi is a non-degenerate character. We study the properties of this construction. When C is the category of sheaves on the quotient of G((t)) by a congruence subgroup, we find a "finite-dimensional" model for Whit(C); the corresponding geomet

Chunshan Lin

The self-consistent matter coupling is found in a broad class of minimally modified gravity theories which was discovered recently. All constraints in the theories remain first class and thus a graviton has only 2 local degrees of freedom. The cosmological solution of one of the examples in this class, the so-called square root gravity, exhibits a singularit

Jason Michael Starr, Zhiyu Tian, Runhong Zong

For a smooth curve $B$ over an algebraically closed field $k$, for every $B$-flat complete intersection $X_B$ in $B\times_{\text{Spec}\ k} \mathbb{P}^n_k$ of type $(d_1,\dots,d_c)$, if the Fano index is $\geq 2$ and if $\text{char}(k)>\max(d_1,\dots,d_c)$, we prove weak approximation of $\widehat{\mathcal{O}}_{B,b}$-points of $X_B$ by $k(B)$-points at all pl

Tobias Dyckerhoff, Gustavo Jasso, Tashi Walde

We develop a novel combinatorial perspective on the higher Auslander algebras of type $\mathbb{A}$, a family of algebras arising in the context of Iyama&#39;s higher Auslander-Reiten theory. This approach reveals interesting simplicial structures hidden within the representation theory of these algebras and establishes direct connections to Eilenberg-MacLane

Daniel Hernandez, Antonio Khalil Moretti, Ziqiang Wei, Shreya Saxena

Latent variable models have been widely applied for the analysis of time series resulting from experimental neuroscience techniques. In these datasets, observations are relatively smooth and possibly nonlinear. We present Variational Inference for Nonlinear Dynamics (VIND), a variational inference framework that is able to uncover nonlinear, smooth latent dy

Israel Quiros, Roberto De Arcia

Here we follow the mainstream of thinking about physical equivalence of different representations of a theory, regarded as the consequence of invariance of the laws of physics -- represented by an action principle and the derived motion equations -- under given transformations; be it coordinate, gauge or conformal transformations. Accordingly the conformal t

Jarno Alanko, Travis Gagie, Gonzalo Navarro, Louisa Seelbach Benkner

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is an important technique both in data compression and in the design of compact indexing data structures. It has been generalized from single strings to collections of strings and some classes of labeled directed graphs, such as tries and de Bruijn graphs. The BWTs of repetitive datasets are often compressible using run-le

Luis E. Caraballo, José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez, Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Carlos Hidalgo-Toscano

Let $\{p_1,\dots,p_n\}$ and $\{q_1,\dots,q_n\}$ be two sets of $n$ labeled points in general position in the plane. We say that these two point sets have the same order type if for every triple of indices $(i,j,k)$, $p_k$ is above the directed line from $p_i$ to $p_j$ if and only if $q_k$ is above the directed line from $q_i$ to $q_j$. In this paper we give

Rafael Sánchez, Janine Splettstoesser, Robert S. Whitney

Maxwell demons are creatures that are imagined to be able to reduce the entropy of a system without performing any work on it. Conventionally, such a Maxwell demon&#39;s intricate action consists of measuring individual particles and subsequently performing feedback. Here we show that much simpler setups can still act as demons: we demonstrate that it is suf

Ian Petrow, Matthew P. Young

We prove a Weyl-exponent subconvex bound for any Dirichlet $L$-function of cube-free conductor. We also show a bound of the same strength for certain $L$-functions of self-dual $\mathrm{GL}_2$ automorphic forms that arise as twists of forms of smaller conductor.

A. Bershadskii

Predictability horizon properties of chaotic dynamical systems can be related to their spectral properties. It is shown, using this relationship, that the spectral properties of the leading large-scale climate daily indices indicate a smooth predictability: i.e. their intrinsic predictability horizons can be indefinitely extended by reducing the initial erro

Pierrick Bousseau

We explain and generalize a recent result of Reineke-Weist by showing how to reduce it to the Gromov-Witten/Kronecker correspondence by a degeneration and blow-up. We also refine the result by working with all genera on the Gromov-Witten side and with refined Donaldson-Thomas invariants on the quiver side.

Gijs Leegwater

A general argument is presented against relativistic, unitary, single-outcome quantum mechanics. This is achieved by combining the Wigner&#39;s Friend thought experiment with measurements on a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state, and describing the evolution of the quantum state in various inertial frames. Assuming unitary quantum mechanics and single ou

Giandomenico Palumbo, Nathan Goldman

The Berry connection plays a central role in our description of the geometric phase and topological phenomena. In condensed matter, it describes the parallel transport of Bloch states and acts as an effective &#34;electromagnetic&#34; vector potential defined in momentum space. Inspired by developments in mathematical physics, where higher-form (Kalb-Ramond)

Alexander Fedorov, Alexander Yaresko, Erik Haubold, Yevhen Kushnirenko

Nematicity plays an important role in the physics of iron-based superconductors (IBS). Its microscopic origin and in particular its importance for the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity itself are highly debated. A crucial knowledge in this regard is the degree to which the nematic order influences the electronic structure of these materials. Ea

Karl Kunisch, Laurent Pfeiffer

The Receding Horizon Control (RHC) strategy consists in replacing an infinite-horizon stabilization problem by a sequence of finite-horizon optimal control problems, which are numerically more tractable. The dynamic programming principle ensures that if the finite-horizon problems are formulated with the exact value function as a terminal penalty function, t

Elena Farahbakhsh Touli, Yusu Wang

Gromov-Hausdorff (GH) distance is a natural way to measure the distortion between two metric spaces. However, there has been only limited algorithmic development to compute or approximate this distance. We focus on computing the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between two metric trees. Roughly speaking, a metric tree is a metric space that can be realized by the s

Tobias Breiten, Laurent Pfeiffer

Optimal control problems with a very large time horizon can be tackled with the Receding Horizon Control (RHC) method, which consists in solving a sequence of optimal control problems with small prediction horizon. The main result of this article is the proof of the exponential convergence (with respect to the prediction horizon) of the control generated by

Christian Mönch

We show that $\mathbb{P} ( \ell_X(0,T] \leq 1)=(c_X+o(1))T^{-(1-H)}$, where $\ell_X$ is the local time measure at $0$ of any recurrent $H$-self-similar real-valued process $X$ with stationary increments that admits a sufficiently regular local time and $c_X$ is some constant depending only on $X$. A special case is the Gaussian setting, i.e. when the underly

Hector Pasten

For every number field $k$, we construct an affine algebraic surface $X$ over $k$ with a Zariski dense set of $k$-rational points, and a regular function $f$ on $X$ inducing an injective map $X(k)\to k$ on $k$-rational points. In fact, given any elliptic curve $E$ of positive rank over $k$, we can take $X=V\times V$ with $V$ a suitable affine open set of $E$

Dariush Ehsani

We study properties of pseudodifferential operators which arise in their use in boundary value problems. Smooth domains as well as intersections of smooth domains are considered.

Atul Singh Arora, Jérémie Roland, Stephan Weis

We investigate weak coin flipping, a fundamental cryptographic primitive where two distrustful parties need to remotely establish a shared random bit. A cheating player can try to bias the output bit towards a preferred value. For weak coin flipping the players have known opposite preferred values. A weak coin-flipping protocol has a bias $ε$ if neither play

Dominic Joyce, Markus Upmeier

Suppose $(X, g)$ is a compact, spin Riemannian 7-manifold, with Dirac operator $D$. Let $G$ be SU$(m)$ or U$(m)$, and $E\to X$ be a rank $m$ complex bundle with $G$-structure. Write ${\mathcal B}_E$ for the infinite-dimensional moduli space of connections on $E$, modulo gauge. There is a natural principal ${\mathbb Z}_2$-bundle $O^D_E\to{\mathcal B}_E$ param

Sam Hopkins

We prove a conjecture of Reiner, Tenner, and Yong which says that the initial weak order intervals corresponding to certain vexillary permutations have the coincidental down-degree expectations (CDE) property. Actually our theorem applies more generally to certain &#34;skew vexillary&#34; permutations (a notion we introduce), and shows that these posets are

Varun Srivastava, K Rajesh Nayak, Sukanta Bose

We investigate the use of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for detection of gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences. We show that the PSO is fast and effective in searching for gravitational wave signals. The PSO-based aligned-spin coincident multi-detector search recovers appreciably more gravitational-wave signals, for a sign

Niels Jakob Laustsen, Jared T. White

Given a Banach space $E$, we ask which closed subspaces may be realised as the kernel of a bounded operator $E \rightarrow E$. We prove some positive results which imply in particular that when $E$ is separable every closed subspace is a kernel. Moreover, we show that there exists a Banach space $E$ which contains a closed subspace that cannot be realized as

Radu Iosif, Xiao Xu

We introduce first order alternating automata, a generalization of boolean alternating automata, in which transition rules are described by multisorted first order formulae, with states and internal variables given by uninterpreted predicate terms. The model is closed under union, intersection and complement, and its emptiness problem is undecidable, even fo

Massimo Bianchi, Dario Consoli, Alfredo Grillo, Jose F. Morales

Black holes absorb any particle impinging with an impact parameter below a critical value. We show that 2- and 3-charge fuzzball geometries exhibit a similar trapping behaviour for a selected choice of the impact parameter of incoming massless particles. This suggests that the blackness property of black holes arises as a collective effect whereby each micro

Paramanand Chandramouli, Samuel Burri, Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon

Recent advances in photographic sensing technologies have made it possible to achieve light detection in terms of a single photon. Photon counting sensors are being increasingly used in many diverse applications. We address the problem of jointly recovering spatial and temporal scene radiance from very few photon counts. Our ConvNet-based scheme effectively

Xinhai Liu, Zhizhong Han, Yu-Shen Liu, Matthias Zwicker

Exploring contextual information in the local region is important for shape understanding and analysis. Existing studies often employ hand-crafted or explicit ways to encode contextual information of local regions. However, it is hard to capture fine-grained contextual information in hand-crafted or explicit manners, such as the correlation between different

Carlos Sabín, Carlos Sanchidrián Vaca

We propose to exploit the quantum properties of nonlinear media to estimate the parameters of massless wormholes. The spacetime curvature produces a change in length with respect to Minkowski spacetime that can be estimated in principle with an interferometer. We use quantum metrology techniques to show that the sensitivity is improved with nonlinear media a

Jiaxin Shi, Chen Liang, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li

We propose DeepChannel, a robust, data-efficient, and interpretable neural model for extractive document summarization. Given any document-summary pair, we estimate a salience score, which is modeled using an attention-based deep neural network, to represent the salience degree of the summary for yielding the document. We devise a contrastive training strate

Jared T. White

We investigate topologically left Noetherian Banach algebras. We show that if $G$ is a compact group, then $L^{\, 1}(G)$ is topologically left Noetherian if and only if $G$ is metrisable. We prove that, given a Banach space $E$ such that $E&#39;$ has BAP, the algebra of compact operators $\mathcal{K}(E)$ is topologically left Noetherian if and only if $E&#39

Simone Dovetta, Lorenzo Tentarelli

Carrying on the discussion initiated in (Dovetta-Tentarelli&#39;18), we investigate the existence of ground states of prescribed mass for the $L^2$-critical NonLinear Schrödinger Equation (NLSE) on noncompact metric graphs with localized nonlinearity. Precisely, we show that the existence (or nonexistence) of ground states mainly depends on a parameter calle

Jordan Keller, Ye-Kai Wang, Shing-Tung Yau

We calculate the limits of the quasi-local angular momentum and center-of-mass defined by Chen-Wang-Yau \cite{CWY} for a family of spacelike two-spheres approaching future null infinity in an asymptotically flat spacetime admitting a Bondi-Sachs expansion. Our result complements earlier work of Chen-Wang-Yau \cite{CWY2}, where the authors calculate the limit

S. R. Hinton, T. M. Davis, A. G. Kim, D. Brout

We present a new Bayesian hierarchical model (BHM) named Steve for performing type Ia supernova (SNIa) cosmology fits. This advances previous works by including an improved treatment of Malmquist bias, accounting for additional sources of systematic uncertainty, and increasing numerical efficiency. Given light curve fit parameters, redshifts, and host-galaxy

J. Lasker, R. Kessler, D. Scolnic, D. Brout

Calibration uncertainties have been the leading systematic uncertainty in recent analyses using type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) to measure cosmological parameters. To improve the calibration, we present the application of Spectral Energy Distribution (SED)-dependent &#34;chromatic corrections&#34; to the supernova light-curve photometry from the Dark Energy Surv

R. Kessler, D. Brout, C. B. D&#39;Andrea, T. M. Davis

We describe catalog-level simulations of Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) light curves in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), and in low-redshift samples from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP). These simulations are used to model biases from selection effects and light curve analysis, and to determine bias cor

D. Brout, M. Sako, D. Scolnic, R. Kessler

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program&#39;s (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. The photometric pipeline described in this paper produces the calibrated fluxes and associated uncertainties used in the cosmological parameter analysis (Brout et al. 2018-SYS,

D. Brout, D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, C. B. D&#39;Andrea

We present the analysis underpinning the measurement of cosmological parameters from 207 spectroscopically classified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), spanning a redshift range of 0.017<$z$<0.849. We combine the DES-SN sample with an external sample of 122 low-redshift ($z$<0.1) SNe

E. Macaulay, R. C. Nichol, D. Bacon, D. Brout

We present an improved measurement of the Hubble constant (H_0) using the &#39;inverse distance ladder&#39; method, which adds the information from 207 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) at redshift 0.018 < z < 0.85 to existing distance measurements of 122 low redshift (z < 0.07) SNe Ia (Low-z) and measurements of Baryon Acoustic O

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, A. Alarcon, S. Allam

The combination of multiple observational probes has long been advocated as a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, in particular dark energy. The Dark Energy Survey has measured 207 spectroscopically--confirmed Type Ia supernova lightcurves; the baryon acoustic oscillation feature; weak gravitational lensing; and galaxy clustering. Here w

T. M. C. Abbott, S. Allam, P. Andersen, C. Angus

We present the first cosmological parameter constraints using measurements of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). The analysis uses a subsample of 207 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from the first three years of DES-SN, combined with a low-redshift sample of 122 SNe from the literature. Our &#34;DES-SN3YR&#

Patrick P. Potts

We introduce an experimental test for ruling out classical explanations for the statistics obtained when measuring arbitrary observables at arbitrary times using individual detectors. This test requires some trust in the measurements, represented by a few natural assumptions on the detectors. In quantum theory, the considered scenarios are well captured by v

Simone Giombi, Shota Komatsu

We perform exact computations of correlation functions of 1/2-BPS local operators and protected operator insertions on the 1/8-BPS Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. This generalizes the results of our previous paper arXiv:1802.05201, which employs supersymmetric localization, OPE and the Gram-Schmidt process. In particular, we conduct a detailed analysis f

Christian Sieber, Susanna Schwarzmann, Andreas Blenk, Thomas Zinner

Scalable user- and application-aware resource allocation for heterogeneous applications sharing an enterprise network is still an unresolved problem. The main challenges are: (i) How to define user- and application-aware shares of resources? (ii) How to determine an allocation of shares of network resources to applications? (iii) How to allocate the shares p

Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato

We propose a nonmonotonic Description Logic of typicality able to account for the phenomenon of concept combination of prototypical concepts. The proposed logic relies on the logic of typicality ALC TR, whose semantics is based on the notion of rational closure, as well as on the distributed semantics of probabilistic Description Logics, and is equipped with

Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao, Kangwei Ling, Jiangtong Li

Representation learning is the foundation of machine reading comprehension and inference. In state-of-the-art models, character-level representations have been broadly adopted to alleviate the problem of effectively representing rare or complex words. However, character itself is not a natural minimal linguistic unit for representation or word embedding comp

Chongyang Wang, Min Peng, Tao Bi, Tong Chen

Micro-expression, for its high objectivity in emotion detection, has emerged to be a promising modality in affective computing. Recently, deep learning methods have been successfully introduced into the micro-expression recognition area. Whilst the higher recognition accuracy achieved, substantial challenges in micro-expression recognition remain. The existe

Yunfeng You, Xianzhe Chen, Xiaofeng Zhou, Youdi Gu

Magnetotransport is at the center of the spintronics. Mn3Sn, an antiferromagnet that has a noncollinear 120° spin order, exhibits large anomalous Hall effect (AHE) at room temperature. But such a behavior has been remained elusive in Mn3Sn films. Here we report the observation of robust AHE up to room temperature in quasi-epitaxial Mn3Sn thin films, prepared

Ching-Ting Chang, Shun-Po Chuang, Hung-Yi Lee

Code-switching is about dealing with alternative languages in speech or text. It is partially speaker-depend and domain-related, so completely explaining the phenomenon by linguistic rules is challenging. Compared to most monolingual tasks, insufficient data is an issue for code-switching. To mitigate the issue without expensive human annotation, we proposed

Nam Q. Le

We study the solvability of second boundary value problems of fourth order equations of Abreu type arising from approximation of convex functionals whose Lagrangians depend on the gradient variable, subject to a convexity constraint. These functionals arise in different scientific disciplines such as Newton&#39;s problem of minimal resistance in physics and

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

In the Bitcoin system, miners are incentivized to join the system and validate transactions through fees paid by the users. A simple &#34;pay your bid&#34; auction has been employed to determine the transaction fees. Recently, Lavi, Sattath and Zohar [LSZ17] proposed an alternative fee design, called the monopolistic price (MP) mechanism, aimed at improving

J. V. Hernández Santisteban, J. Echevarría, S. Zharikov, V. Neustroev

We analyse new optical spectroscopic, direct-image and X-ray observations of the recently discovered a high proper motion cataclysmic variable V1838 Aql. The data were obtained during its 2013 superoutburst and its subsequent quiescent state. An extended emission around the source was observed up to 30 days after the peak of the superoutburst, interpreted it

Simone Sturniolo, Jonathan Yates

From the inception of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a spectroscopic technique, the local origin of chemical shifts has been a topic of discussion. A useful concept employed to describe it has been that of the &#34;Lorentz sphere&#34;, the approximately spherical volume surrounding a given nucleus in which the electronic currents contribute significantly to t

Michele Conforti, Marianna De Santis, Marco Di Summa, Francesco Rinaldi

We consider the integer points in a unimodular cone K ordered by a lexicographic rule defined by a lattice basis. To each integer point x in K we associate a family of inequalities (lex-cuts) that defines the convex hull of the integer points in K that are not lexicographically smaller than x. The family of lex-cuts contains the Chvatal-Gomory cuts, but does

A. A. Osipov, B. Hiller, P. M. Zhang

An extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model with chiral group $U(2)\times U(2)$ and spin-0 and spin-1 four quark interactions is used to develop the gauge covariant approach to the diagonalization of the $π-a_1$ mixing in the presence of electroweak forces. This allows for manifestly gauge covariant description of both the non-anomalous and anomalous parts of

Nesrine Ben-Khalifa, Mohamad Assaad, Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we study the problem of dynamic channel allocation for URLLC traffic in a multi-user multi-channel wireless network where urgent packets have to be successfully transmitted in a timely manner. We formulate the problem as a finite-horizon Markov Decision Process with a stochastic constraint related to the QoS requirement, defined as the packet

C. Abel, N. J. Ayres, G. Ban, G. Bison

We present the new spectrometer for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) search at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), called n2EDM. The setup is at room temperature in vacuum using ultracold neutrons. n2EDM features a large UCN double storage chamber design with neutron transport adapted to the PSI UCN source. The design builds on experience gained from

Ginestra Bianconi

Recently increasing attention has been addressed to the fluctuations observed in percolation defined in single and multiplex networks. These fluctuations are extremely important to characterize the robustness of real finite networks but cannot be captured by the traditionally adopted mean-field theory of percolation. Here we propose a theoretical framework a

Jiaxin Shi, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu

Sentence embedding is an effective feature representation for most deep learning-based NLP tasks. One prevailing line of methods is using recursive latent tree-structured networks to embed sentences with task-specific structures. However, existing models have no explicit mechanism to emphasize task-informative words in the tree structure. To this end, we pro

Khamphee Karwan, Phongpichit Channuie

We investigate the inflationary attractors in models of inflation inspired from general conformal transformation of general scalar-tensor theories to the Einstein frame. The coefficient of the conformal transformation in our study depends on both the scalar field and its kinetic term. Therefore the relevant scalar-tensor theories display the subset of the cl

William Klostermeyer, Hannah Mendoza

Game coloring is a well-studied two-player game in which each player properly colors one vertex of a graph at a time until all the vertices are colored. An `eternal&#39; version of game coloring is introduced in this paper in which the vertices are colored and re-colored from a color set over a sequence of rounds. In a given round, each vertex is colored, or

Emmanouil Fountoulakis, Qi Liao, Manuel Stein, Nikolaos Pappas

Future mobile networks supporting Internet of Things are expected to provide both high throughput and low latency to user-specific services. One way to overcome this challenge is to adopt network function virtualization and Multi-access edge computing (MEC). In this paper, we analyze an end-to-end communication system that consists of both MEC servers and a

Raditya Weda Bomantara, Longwen Zhou, Jiaxin Pan, Jiangbin Gong

Second-order topological insulators (SOTI) exhibit protected gapless boundary states at their hinges or corners. In this paper, we propose a generic means to construct SOTIs in static and Floquet systems by coupling one-dimensional topological insulator wires along a second dimension through dimerized hopping amplitudes. The Hamiltonian of such SOTIs admits

Hui Li, Chi Wang, Cui Tu, Fei Xu

Solar wind classification is conducive to understand the physical processes ongoing at the Sun and solar wind evolution in the interplanetary space, and furthermore, it is helpful for early warning of space weather events. With rapid developments in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning approaches are increasingly being used for pattern reco

Yang Li, Jiawei Jiang, Yingxia Shao, Bin Cui

The performance of deep neural networks crucially depends on good hyperparameter configurations. Bayesian optimization is a powerful framework for optimizing the hyperparameters of DNNs. These methods need sufficient evaluation data to approximate and minimize the validation error function of hyperparameters. However, the expensive evaluation cost of DNNs le

Wouter van Loon, Marjolein Fokkema, Botond Szabo, Mark de Rooij

In biomedical research, many different types of patient data can be collected, such as various types of omics data and medical imaging modalities. Applying multi-view learning to these different sources of information can increase the accuracy of medical classification models compared with single-view procedures. However, collecting biomedical data can be ex

Chuan-Hung Chen, Takaaki Nomura

We investigate whether a color-sextet scalar diquark (${\bf H}_6$) coupling to the left-handed quarks contributes to the $ΔS=2$ process. It is found that the box diagrams mediated by $W$ and ${\bf H}_6$ bosons have no contributions to $ΔS=2$ when the limit of $m_t=0$ is used, and the flavor mixing matrices for diagonalizing quark mass matrices are introduced

Marie Ioannou, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Nicolas Brunner

Quantum theory allows for randomness generation in a device-independent setting, where no detailed description of the experimental device is required. Here we derive a general upper bound on the amount of randomness that can be generated in such a setting. Our bound applies to any black-box scenario, thus covering a wide range of scenarios from partially cha

Tuğba Aslan, Mohamed Khaled

The classes of relativized relation algebras (whose units are not necessarily transitive as binary relations) are known to be finitely axiomatizable. In this article, we give a new proof for this fact that is easier and more transparent than the original proofs. We give direct constructions for all cases, whereas the original proofs reduced the problem to on

Tony Mroczkowski, Daisuke Nagai, Kaustuv Basu, Jens Chluba

In recent years, observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect have had significant cosmological implications and have begun to serve as a powerful and independent probe of the warm and hot gas that pervades the Universe. As a few pioneering studies have already shown, SZ observations both complement X-ray observations -- the traditional tool for studyin

Ali Reihanian, Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi, Hadi S. Aghdasi

Community detection is one of the most important and interesting issues in social network analysis. In recent years, simultaneous considering of nodes' attributes and topological structures of social networks in the process of community detection has attracted the attentions of many scholars, and this consideration has been recently used in some community de