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  1. Nadja Tschentscher, Anja Ruisinger, Helen Blank, Begona Diaz

    Developmental dyslexia is characterized by the inability to acquire typical reading and writing skills. Dyslexia has been frequently linked to cerebral cortex alterations; however recent evidence also points towards sensory thalamus dysfunctions: dyslexics showed reduced responses in the left auditory thalamus (medial geniculate body, MGB) during speech proc

  2. Mariangeles Soldi, Damien Jougnot, Luis Guarracino

    The self-potential (SP) method is a passive geophysical method that relies on the measurement of naturally occurring electrical field. One of the contributions to the SP signal is the streaming potential, which is of particular interest in hydrogeophysics as it is directly related to both the water flow and porous medium properties. The streaming current is

  3. S. N. Klimin, J. Tempere, J. T. Devreese, J. He

    The dielectric function method for superconductivity has been applied to SrTiO$_{3}$ accounting for the non-parabolic dispersion of charge carriers in the conduction band and for the dispersion of optical phonons based on density functional theory calculations. The obtained critical temperatures of the superconducting phase transition in SrTiO$_{3}$ are in a

  4. Alejandra Brewer, Adam Gregory, Quindel Jones, Rigoberto Florez

    A graph $G$ is \textit{asymmetric} if its automorphism group of vertices is trivial. Asymmetric graphs were introduced by Erd\H{o}s and R\'{e}nyi in 1963. They showed that the probability of a graph on $n$ vertices being asymmetric tends to $1$ as $n$ tends to infinity. In this paper, we first give consider the number of asymmetric trees, a question posed by

  5. Jan Steinebrunner

    We define a tracelike transformation to be a natural family of conjugation invariant maps $T_{x,C}: hom_C(x,x) \to hom_C(1,1)$ for all dualisable objects $x$ in any symmetric monoidal infinity-category $C$. This generalises the trace from linear algebra that assigns a scalar $Tr(f) \in k$ to any endomorphism $f:V \to V$ of a finite-dimensional $k$-vector spa

  6. Willian de Oliveira Barreiros Junior, George Teodoro

    With the increasingly availability of digital microscopy imagery equipments there is a demand for efficient execution of whole slide tissue image applications. Through the process of sensitivity analysis it is possible to improve the output quality of such applications, and thus, improve the desired analysis quality. Due to the high computational cost of suc

  7. Joseph A. Minahan, Usman Naseer

    We construct a class of theories with 16 supersymmetries on spheres of dimension nine and less. The gauge coupling and mass terms for the scalar fields depend on the polar angle away from the north pole. Assuming finite coupling on the north pole, this leads to zero coupling at the south pole for $d>4$ and infinite coupling at the south pole for $d<4$. The u

  8. Tien-Hao Hsieh, Naomi Hirano, Arnaud Belloche, Chin-Fei Lee

    We present ALMA long-baseline observations toward the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16253-2429 (hereafter IRAS 16253) with a resolution down to 0.12" (~15 au). The 1.3 mm dust continuum emission has a deconvolved Gaussian size of 0.16" x 0. 07" (20 au x 8.8 au), likely tracing an inclined dusty disk. Interestingly, the position of the 1.38 mm emission is offset fro

  9. Lars J. Bannenberg, Frank Weber, Anton J. E. Lefering, Thomas Wolf

    We present a comprehensive and systematic magnetization and ac susceptibility study of Mn$_{1-x}$Fe$_{x}$Si over an extensive range of ten Fe concentrations between $x$ = 0 - 0.32. With increasing Fe substitution, the critical temperature decreases but the magnetic phase diagrams remain qualitatively unaltered for $x$ $\leq$ $x^*$ $\approx$ 0.11 with clear b

  10. Noha Helal, Matthieu Bloch, Aria Nosratinia

    We study channel resolvability for the discrete memoryless multiple-access channel with cribbing, i.e., the characterization of the amount of randomness required at the inputs to approximately produce a chosen i.i.d. output distribution according to KL divergence. We analyze resolvability rates when one encoder cribs (i) the input of the other encoder; or th

  11. Neslihan Gügümcü, Louis H. Kauffman, Sofia Lambropoulou

    This paper is a survey on the theory of knotoids and braidoids. Knotoids are open ended knot diagrams in surfaces and braidoids are geometric objects analogous to classical braids, forming a counterpart theory to the theory of knotoids in the plane. We survey through the fundamental notions and existing works on these objects as well as their applications in

  12. Qi Zhang, Jiang Zhu, Peter Gerstoft, Mihai-Alin Badiu

    Line spectral estimation (LSE) from multi snapshot samples is studied utilizing the variational Bayesian methods. Motivated by the recently proposed variational line spectral estimation (VALSE) method for a single snapshot, we develop the multisnapshot VALSE (MVALSE) for multi snapshot scenarios, which is important for array processing. The MVALSE shares the

  13. Jian Sun, Weizhi Qu, Eugeniy Mikhailov, Irina Novikova

    Spatially splitting nonclassical light beams is in principle prohibited due to noise contamination during beam splitting. We propose a platform based on thermal motion of atoms to realize spatial multiplexing of squeezed light. Light channels of separate spatial modes in an anti-relaxation coated vapor cell share the same long-lived atomic coherence jointly

  14. Arghyadip Roy, Vivek Borkar, Abhay Karandikar, Prasanna Chaporkar

    To overcome the curse of dimensionality and curse of modeling in Dynamic Programming (DP) methods for solving classical Markov Decision Process (MDP) problems, Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms are popular. In this paper, we consider an infinite-horizon average reward MDP problem and prove the optimality of the threshold policy under certain conditions.

  15. Michael Fröwis, Andreas Fuchs, Rainer Böhme

    We propose and compare two approaches to identify smart contracts as token systems by analyzing their public bytecode. The first approach symbolically executes the code in order to detect token systems by their characteristic behavior of updating internal accounts. The second approach serves as a comparison base and exploits the common interface of ERC-20, t

  16. Li Jing, Rumen Dangovski, Marin Soljacic

    We present a logarithmic-scale efficient convolutional neural network architecture for edge devices, named WaveletNet. Our model is based on the well-known depthwise convolution, and on two new layers, which we introduce in this work: a wavelet convolution and a depthwise fast wavelet transform. By breaking the symmetry in channel dimensions and applying a f

  17. H. Nikolic

    We formulate Bohmian mechanics (BM) such that the main objects of concern are macroscopic phenomena, while microscopic particle trajectories only play an auxiliary role. Such a formulation makes it easy to understand why BM always makes the same measurable predictions as standard quantum mechanics (QM), irrespectively of the details of microscopic trajectori

  18. Alina Czajka

    We review a recent progress on fluid dynamics applied to strongly interacting nuclear matter. The efforts are made to highlight consequences of scale invariance breaking on the hydrodynamic description of a nuclear medium. Both phenomenological and analytical findings are summarized.

  19. Wenyuan Fan, Henryk Anglart

    The volume of fluid (VOF) method is a popular approach for multiphase flow modeling. The open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, OpenFOAM, implements a variety of VOF-based solvers and provides users a wide range of turbulence models. Since isothermal multiphase flows under the VOF framework belong to the variable-density incompressible flow

  20. Christian Wülker, Gregory S. Chirikjian

    Concepts from mathematical crystallography and group theory are used here to quantize the group of rigid-body motions, resulting in a "motion alphabet" with which to express robot motion primitives. From these primitives it is possible to develop a dictionary of physical actions. Equipped with an alphabet of the sort developed here, intelligent actions of ro

  21. S. Widmann, V. Tsurkan, D. A. Prishchenko, V. G. Mazurenko

    Fractionalized excitations are of considerable interest in recent condensed-matter physics. Fractionalization of the spin degrees of freedom into localized and itinerant Majorana fermions are predicted for the Kitaev spin liquid, an exactly solvable model with bond-dependent interactions on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. As function of temperature, the

  22. Y. L. Zhu, J. Hu, F. N. Womack, D. Graf

    Topological materials which are also superconducting are of great current interest, since they may exhibit a non-trivial topologically-mediated superconducting phase. Although there have been many reports of pressure-tuned or chemical-doping-induced superconductivity in a variety of topological materials, there have been few examples of intrinsic, ambient pr

  23. Junyu Zhang, Lin Xiao, Shuzhong Zhang

    The cubic regularized Newton method of Nesterov and Polyak has become increasingly popular for non-convex optimization because of its capability of finding an approximate local solution with second-order guarantee. Several recent works extended this method to the setting of minimizing the average of N smooth functions by replacing the exact gradients and Hes

  24. Harry Sevi, Gabriel Rilling, Pierre Borgnat

    We introduce a novel harmonic analysis for functions defined on the vertices of a strongly connected directed graph of which the random walk operator is the cornerstone. As a first step, we consider the set of eigenvectors of the random walk operator as a non-orthogonal Fourier-type basis for functions over directed graphs. We found a frequency interpretatio

  25. D Ellis Hershkowitz, R. Ravi, Sahil Singla

    In this paper we study how to optimally balance cheap inflexible resources with more expensive, reconfigurable resources despite uncertainty in the input problem. Specifically, we introduce the MinEMax model to study "build versus rent" problems. In our model different scenarios appear independently. Before knowing which scenarios appear, we may build rigid

  26. Zhenkun Li

    In this paper, we explore the interplay between contact structures and sutured monopole Floer homology. First, we study the behavior of contact elements, which were defined by Baldwin and Sivek, under the operation of performing Floer excisions, which was introduced to the context of sutured monopole Floer homology by Kronheimer and Mrowka. We then compute t

  27. Robert Baraldi, Rajiv Kumar, Aleksandr Aravkin

    Level-set optimization formulations with data-driven constraints minimize a regularization functional subject to matching observations to a given error level. These formulations are widely used, particularly for matrix completion and sparsity promotion in data interpolation and denoising. The misfit level is typically measured in the l2 norm, or other smooth

  28. Marc Meléndez, Nerea Alcázar Cano, Raúl Pérez Peláez, Juan José Sáenz

    Previous research has shown that gold nanoparticles immersed in water in an optical vortex lattice formed by the perpendicular intersection of two standing light waves with a \pi/2 rad phase difference will experience enhanced dispersion that scales with the intensity of the incident laser. We show that flexible nanoscale dumbbells (created by attaching two

  29. Manuel Badel, Jan Wiersig

    The perturbation theory by L. Ge et al. [Phys. Rev. A 87, 023833] for transverse-electric polarized modes in weakly deformed microdisks omits terms related to the variation of the normal derivative of the magnetic field along the boundary. Here we show that these terms are necessary to accurately describe microdisks with a strongly winding boundary. In parti

  30. Daniel Bulacu, Blas Torrecillas

    We introduce the notions of sovereign, spherical and balanced quasi-Hopf algebra. We investigate the connections between these, as well as their connections with the class of pivotal, involutory and ribbon quasi-Hopf algebras, respectively. Examples of balanced and ribbon quasi-Hopf algebras are obtained from a sort of double construction which associates to

  31. Bosung Kang, Omar Aldayel, Vishal Monga, Muralidhar Rangaswamy

    We address the problem of designing a transmit beampattern for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar considering co-existence with wireless communication systems. The designed beampattern is able to manage the transmit energy in spatial directions as well as in spectral frequency bands of interest by minimizing the deviation of the designed beampattern

  32. Andreas Schlueter, Andreas H. Fink, Peter Knippertz, Peter Vogel

    Low-latitude rainfall variability on the daily to intraseasonal timescale is often related to tropical waves, including convectively coupled equatorial waves, the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and tropical disturbances. Despite the importance of rainfall variability for vulnerable societies in tropical Africa, the relative influence of tropical waves for

  33. Andreas Schlueter, Andreas H. Fink, Peter Knippertz

    This study presents the first systematic comparison of the (thermo-)dynamics associated with all major tropical wave types causing rainfall modulation over northern tropical Africa: Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO), Equatorial Rossby waves (ERs), mixed Rossby-gravity waves (MRGs), Kelvin waves, tropical disturbances (TDs, including African Easterly Waves), an

  34. Felix Binkowski, Lin Zschiedrich, Sven Burger

    We propose an algorithm for general nonlinear eigenvalue problems to compute physically relevant eigenvalues within a chosen contour. Eigenvalue information is explored by contour integration incorporating different weight functions. The gathered information is processed by solving a nonlinear system of equations of small dimension prioritizing eigenvalues w

  35. Shengzhe Wu, Su Xu, Tatiana L. Zinenko, Vladimir V. Yachin

    We propose a novel design of a true 3D chiral metasurface behaving as a spatial polarization converter with asymmetric transmission. The metasurface is made of a lattice of metallic sesquialteral (one and a half pitch) helical particles. Each particle contains six rectangular bars arranged in a series one above the another creating a helix The proposed metas

  36. Alexander Schindler, Martin Boyer, Andrew Lindley, David Schreiber

    The forensic investigation of a terrorist attack poses a huge challenge to the investigative authorities, as several thousand hours of video footage need to be spotted. To assist law enforcement agencies (LEA) in identifying suspects and securing evidences, we present a platform which fuses information of surveillance cameras and video uploads from eyewitnes

  37. Javier Osca, Llorenç Serra

    The magnetic-induced orbital motion of quasiparticles affects the conductance properties of a hybrid strip of a quantum-anomalous-Hall topological material with induced superconductivity. We elucidate the scenario of topological NSN ideal junctions in presence of orbital magnetic motion, showing how it leads to a halved quantized conductance $0.5e^2/h$ even

  38. Christoph Kühn, Alexander Molitor

    In discrete time markets with proportional transaction costs, Schachermayer (2004) shows that robust no-arbitrage is equivalent to the existence of a strictly consistent price system. In this paper, we introduce the concept of prospective strict no-arbitrage that is a variant of the strict no-arbitrage property from Kabanov, R\'asonyi, and Stricker (2002). T

  39. Waddah Waheeb, Rozaida Ghazali

    Time series forecasting gets much attention due to its impact on many practical applications. Higher-order neural network with recurrent feedback is a powerful technique which used successfully for forecasting. It maintains fast learning and the ability to learn the dynamics of the series over time. For that, in this paper, we propose a novel model which is

  40. Andreas Banlaki, Abhishek Chowdhury, Abhiram Kidambi, Maria Schimpf

    We show that a large number of $CY_3$ manifolds are involved in an intricate way in Mathieu moonshine viz. their Gromov--Witten invariants are related to the expansion coefficients of the twined/ twisted--twined elliptic genera of $K3$. We use the string duality between CHL orbifolds of heterotic string theory on $K3 \times T^2$ and type IIA string theory on

  41. Zhaidary Myrzakulova, Akbota Myrzakul, Gulgassyl Nugmanova, Ratbay Myrzakulov

    In the present paper, we study the integrable 2-layer generalized Heisenberg ferromagnet equation (HFE). The relation between this generalized HFE and differential geometry of curves is established. Using this relation we found the geometrical equivalent counterpart of the 2-layer spin system which is the 2-component KdV equation. Finally, the gauge equivale

  42. Eric Benhamou

    In this paper, we revisit the Kalman filter theory. After giving the intuition on a simplified financial markets example, we revisit the maths underlying it. We then show that Kalman filter can be presented in a very different fashion using graphical models. This enables us to establish the connection between Kalman filter and Hidden Markov Models. We then l

  43. Ignacio S. Gomez, Bruno G. da Costa, M. A. F. dos Santos

    In this work we show how the concept of majorization in continuous distributions can be employed to characterize chaotic, diffusive and quantum dynamics. The key point lies in that majorization allows to define an intuitive arrow of time, within a continuous dynamics, along with an associated majorized Second Law which implies the standard Second Law of ther

  44. Mike Walmsley, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Robert G. Mann, Chris J. Lintott

    Faint tidal features around galaxies record their merger and interaction histories over cosmic time. Due to their low surface brightnesses and complex morphologies, existing automated methods struggle to detect such features and most work to date has heavily relied on visual inspection. This presents a major obstacle to quantitative study of tidal debris fea

  45. Gabriel Hartmann, Zvi Shiller, Amos Azaria

    Autonomous navigation has recently gained great interest in the field of reinforcement learning. However, little attention was given to the time optimal velocity control problem, i.e. controlling a vehicle such that it travels at the maximal speed without becoming dynamically unstable (roll-over or sliding). Time optimal velocity control can be solved numeri

  46. Thomas Deschatre

    We consider a doubly stochastic Poisson process with stochastic intensity $\lambda_t =n q\left(X_t\right)$ where $X$ is a continuous It\^o semimartingale and $n$ is an integer. Both processes are observed continuously over a fixed period $\left[0,T\right]$. An estimation procedure is proposed in a non parametrical setting for the function $q$ on an interval

  47. Mika Rafieferantsoa, Romeel Davé, Thorsten Naab

    We investigate the connection between the HI~content, SFR and environment of galaxies using a hydrodynamic simulation that incorporates scaling relations for galactic wind and a heuristic halo mass-based quenching prescription. We run two zoom-in simulations of galaxy groups with $M_{halo}>10^{13}M_\odot$ at z=0, selected to have quiet merger histories. We t

  48. Joakim Johnander, Martin Danelljan, Emil Brissman, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

    One of the fundamental challenges in video object segmentation is to find an effective representation of the target and background appearance. The best performing approaches resort to extensive fine-tuning of a convolutional neural network for this purpose. Besides being prohibitively expensive, this strategy cannot be truly trained end-to-end since the onli

  49. Fei Jiang, Song Jiang, Weicheng Zhan

    We prove the existence of a unique unstable strong solution in the sense of $L^1$-norm for an abstract Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem arising from stratified viscous fluids in Lagrangian coordinates based on a bootstrap instability method. In the proof, we develop a method to modify the initial data of the linearized abstract RT problem based on an existence

  50. Christopher Eldred, François Gay-Balmaz

    The equations of reversible (inviscid, adiabatic) fluid dynamics have a well-known variational formulation based on Hamilton's principle and the Lagrangian, to which is associated a Hamiltonian formulation that involves a Poisson bracket structure. These variational and bracket structures underlie many of the most basic principles that we know about geophysi

  51. Shazia Akbar, Anne L. Martel

    To alleviate the burden of gathering detailed expert annotations when training deep neural networks, we propose a weakly supervised learning approach to recognize metastases in microscopic images of breast lymph nodes. We describe an alternative training loss which clusters weakly labeled bags in latent space to inform relevance of patch-instances during tra

  52. Yannick Sire, Christopher D. Sogge, Chengbo Wang

    This paper is devoted to several small data existence results for semi-linear wave equations on negatively curved Riemannian manifolds. We provide a simple and geometric proof of small data global existence for any power $p\in (1, 1+\frac{4}{n-1}]$ for the shifted wave equation on hyperbolic space ${\mathbb H}^n$ involving nonlinearities of the form $\pm |u|

  53. Christoph Kawan

    In the context of state estimation under communication constraints, several notions of dynamical entropy play a fundamental role, among them: topological entropy and restoration entropy. In this paper, we present a theorem which demonstrates that for most dynamical systems restoration entropy strictly exceeds topological entropy. This implies that robust est

  54. Philipp Henzler, Niloy Mitra, Tobias Ritschel

    We introduce PlatonicGAN to discover the 3D structure of an object class from an unstructured collection of 2D images, i.e., where no relation between photos is known, except that they are showing instances of the same category. The key idea is to train a deep neural network to generate 3D shapes which, when rendered to images, are indistinguishable from gro

  55. Tadhg M. Garton, Sophie A. Murray, Peter T. Gallagher

    Coronal holes (CHs) are regions of open magnetic flux which are the source of high speed solar wind (HSSW) streams. To date, it is not clear which aspects of CHs are of most influence on the properties of the solar wind as it expands through the Heliosphere. Here, we study the relationship between CH properties extracted from AIA (Atmospheric Imaging Assembl

  56. Christian Wurl, Holger Fehske

    We study the interconversion between photons and phonons coupled via radiation pressure in artificial Dirac materials realized by a honeycomb array of optomechanical cells. In particular we analyze the chiral tunneling of (photon-phonon) polaritons through an oscillating planar barrier. While a static barrier accommodates constructively interfering optical o

  57. Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val, Siyi Luo

    We develop a distribution regression model under endogenous sample selection. This model is a semi-parametric generalization of the Heckman selection model. It accommodates much richer effects of the covariates on outcome distribution and patterns of heterogeneity in the selection process, and allows for drastic departures from the Gaussian error structure,

  58. J. Chantzos, S. Spezzano, C. Endres, L. Bizzocchi

    The ketenyl radical, HCCO, has recently been detected in the ISM for the first time. Further astronomical detections of HCCO will help us understand its gas-grain chemistry, and subsequently revise the oxygen-bearing chemistry towards dark clouds. Moreover, its deuterated counterpart, DCCO, has never been observed in the ISM. HCCO and DCCO still lack a broad

  59. Hendrik Ranocha

    Explicit Runge-Kutta methods are classical and widespread techniques in the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Considering partial differential equations, spatial semidiscretisations can be used to obtain systems of ODEs that are solved subsequently, resulting in fully discrete schemes. However, certain stability investigations of

  60. Xiaoning Wu, Xiao Zhang

    We briefly review of the definitions of the total energy, the total linear momentum and the angular momentum of gravitational field when the cosmological constant is zero. In particular, we show pseudo-tensor's definition of the energy and the momentum given by Prof. Duan in 1963 agree with the ADM total energy-momentum and the Bondi energy-momentum at spati

  61. Guan-Yu Chen, Enyu Wang, Xiyu Zhu, Hai-Hu Wen

    Temperature dependence of resistivity under high pressures with magnetic fields parallel and perpendicular to the FeSe planes are measured in FeSe single crystals. It is found that the structural transition (nematic) temperature is suppressed by pressure and ends at around $P$ = 1.18 GPa. Below around 0.85 GPa, the superconducting transition shows a narrow w

  62. L. Dello Schiavo

    We construct a recurrent diffusion process with values in the space of probability measures over an arbitrary closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $d\ge 2$. The process is associated with the Dirichlet form defined by integration of the Wasserstein gradient w.r.t. the Dirichlet-Ferguson measure, and is the counterpart on multi-dimensional base spaces to t

  63. Pascal Kerschke, Holger H. Hoos, Frank Neumann, Heike Trautmann

    It has long been observed that for practically any computational problem that has been intensely studied, different instances are best solved using different algorithms. This is particularly pronounced for computationally hard problems, where in most cases, no single algorithm defines the state of the art; instead, there is a set of algorithms with complemen

  64. Neil J. Y. Fan, Peter L. Guo

    Buch and Rim\'{a}nyi proved a formula for specializations of double Grothendieck polynomials based on the Yang-Baxter equation related to the degenerate Hecke algebra. A geometric proof was found by Yong and Woo by constructing a Gr\"{o}bner basis for the Kazhdan-Lusztig ideals. In this note, we give an elementary proof for this formula by using only divided

  65. Alexander Kononov, Yulia Kovalenko

    We consider a problem of scheduling rigid parallel jobs on variable speed processors so as to minimize the total energy consumption. Each job is specified by its processing volume and the required number of processors. We propose new constant factor approximation algorithms for the non-migratory cases when all jobs have a common release time and/or a common

  66. Wei Hu, Gusi Te, Ju He, Dong Chen

    Face anti-spoofing plays a crucial role in protecting face recognition systems from various attacks. Previous model-based and deep learning approaches achieve satisfactory performance for 2D face spoofs, but remain limited for more advanced 3D attacks such as vivid masks. In this paper, we address 3D face anti-spoofing via the proposed Hypergraph Convolution

  67. Nikos Bikakis, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunupulos

    Social event planning has received a great deal of attention in recent years where various entities, such as event planners and marketing companies, organizations, venues, or users in Event-based Social Networks, organize numerous social events (e.g., festivals, conferences, promotion parties). Recent studies show that "attendance" is the most common metric

  68. Junwen Zeng, Xin He, Shi-Jun Liang, Erfu Liu

    Nano-structuring is an extremely promising path to high performance thermoelectrics. Favorable improvements in thermal conductivity are attainable in many material systems, and theoretical work points to large improvements in electronic properties. However, realization of the electronic benefits in practical materials has been elusive experimentally. A key c

  69. Shawulienu Kezilebieke, Rok Žitko, Marc Dvorak, Teemu Ojanen

    We investigate the spectral evolution in different metal phthalocyanine molecules on NbSe$_2$ surface using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) as a function of the coupling with the substrate. For manganese phthalocyanine (MnPc), we demonstrate a smooth spectral crossover from Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states to spin-flip excitations. This has not been

  70. D. Russell Luke, Anna-Lena Martins

    Motivated by nonconvex, inconsistent feasibility problems in imaging, the relaxed alternating averaged reflections algorithm, or relaxed Douglas-Rachford algorithm (DR$\lambda$), was first proposed over a decade ago. Convergence results for this algorithm are limited either to convex feasibility or consistent nonconvex feasibility with strong assumptions on

  71. S. K. Roushon

    We observe an inductive structure in a large class of Artin groups and exploit this information to deduce the Farrell-Jones isomorphism conjecture for several classes of Artin groups of finite real, complex and affine types.

  72. Huixia Mo, Zhe Han, Liu Yang

    For a prime number $p,$ let $\mathbb{Q}_p$ be the field of $p$-adic numbers. In this paper, we established the boundedness of a class of $p$-adic singular integral operators on the $p$-adic generalized Morrey spaces. The corresponding boundedness for the commutators generalized by the $p$-adic singular integral operators and $p$-adic Lipschitz functions or $

  73. Gouranga C Nayak

    Recently we have reported the correct formulation of the lattice QCD method at the zero temperature to study the hadron formation from the quarks and gluons by incorporating the non-zero boundary surface term in QCD which arises due to the confinement of quarks and gluons inside the finite size hadron. In this paper we extend this to the finite temperature Q

  74. Tanner Kaptanoglu, Meng Luo, Josh Klein

    Linear alkyl benzene (LAB) has in recent years been used as a solvent for PPO in large-scale scintillation detectors, like Daya Bay and SNO+. The combination has several nice properties, including high light yield, good materials compatibility, and excellent pulse shape discrimination. As charged particles move through the LAB+PPO, both Cherenkov and scintil

  75. Alessio Fascista, Angelo Coluccia, Henk Wymeersch, Gonzalo Seco-Granados

    The paper addresses the problem of determining the unknown position of a mobile station for a mmWave MISO system. This setup is motivated by the fact that massive arrays will be initially implemented only on 5G base stations, likely leaving mobile stations with one antenna. The maximum likelihood solution to this problem is devised based on the time of fligh

  76. Parin Chaipunya

    In this paper, we discuss the fixed point property for an infinite family of order-preserving mappings which satisfy the Lipschitzian condition on comparable pairs. The underlying framework of our main results is a metric space of any global upper curvature bound $\kappa \in \mathbb{R}$, i.e., a $\rm{CAT}(\kappa)$ space. In particular, we prove the existence

  77. Darsh Kodwani, David Alonso, Pedro Ferreira

    Cosmological large-scale structure analyses based on two-point correlation functions often assume a Gaussian likelihood function with a fixed covariance matrix. We study the impact on cosmological parameter estimation of ignoring the parameter dependence of this covariance matrix, focusing on the particular case of joint weak-lensing and galaxy clustering an

  78. P. Schuck

    This contribution gives a short review of recent theoretical advances in most topics of nuclear cluster physics concentrating, however, around {$\alpha$} particle clustering. Along the route, the point of view will be critical mentioning not only progress but also failures and open problems.

  79. Junjie Mao, M. Mehdipour, J. S. Kaastra, E. Costantini

    Our Swift monitoring program triggered two joint XMM-Newton, NuSTAR and HST observations on 11 and 21 December 2016 targeting NGC 3783, as its soft X-ray continuum was heavily obscured. Consequently, emission features, including the O VII radiative recombination continuum, stand out above the diminished continuum. We focus on the photoionized emission featur

  80. Indu Yadav, Prasanna Chaporkar, Abhay Karandikar

    We consider allocation of a resource to multiple interested users with a constraint that if the resource is allocated to user $i$ then it can not be allocated simultaneously to a predefined set of users $\cS_i$ . This scenario arises in many practical systems that include wireless networks and constrained queuing systems. It is known that socially optimal st

  81. Thomas Feuillen, Chunlei Xu, Jérôme Louveaux, Luc Vandendorpe

    In this paper, we investigate a trade-off between the number of radar observations (or measurements) and their resolution in the context of radar range estimation. To this end, we introduce a novel estimation scheme that can deal with strongly quantized received signals, going as low as 1-bit per signal sample. We leverage for this a dithered quantized compr

  82. Andres Sarrazola Alzate

    Let us suppose that $\mathbb{Q}_p$ is the field of $p$-adic numbers and $\mathbb{G}$ is a split connected reductive group scheme over $\mathbb{Z}_p$. In this work we will introduce a sheaf of twisted arithmetic differential operators on the formal flag variety of $\mathbb{G}$, associated to a general character. We will generalize the arguments of C. Huyghe a

  83. Bora Baydar, Savas Ozkan, Gozde Bozdagi Akar

    Automatic segmentation of medical images is among most demanded works in the medical information field since it saves time of the experts in the field and avoids human error factors. In this work, a method based on Conditional Adversarial Networks and Fully Convolutional Networks is proposed for the automatic segmentation of the liver MRIs. The proposed meth

  84. Stefania Dumbrava, Angela Bonifati, Amaia Nazabal Ruiz Diaz, Romain Vuillemot

    The current surge of interest in graph-based data models mirrors the usage of increasingly complex reachability queries, as witnessed by recent analytical studies on real-world graph query logs. Despite the maturity of graph DBMS capabilities, complex label-constrained reachability queries, along with their corresponding aggregate versions, remain difficult

  85. Przemysław Ohrysko, Maria Roginskaya

    In this short note we first extend the validity of the spectral radius formula obtained in \cite{ag} to Fourier--Stieltjes algebras. The second part is devoted to showing that for the measure algebra on any locally compact non-discrete Abelian group there are no non-trivial constraints between three quantities: the norm, the spectral radius and the supremum

  86. Xiling Zhang

    This article presents a coupling approach for the approximation of iterated stochastic integrals of length three. The generation of such integrals is the central problem of higher-order pathwise approximations for SDEs, which still lacks a satisfactory answer due to the restriction of dimensionality and computational load. Here we start from the Fourier repr

  87. Lucas Frérot, Marc Bonnet, Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux

    The contact of solids with rough surfaces plays a fundamental role in physical phenomena such as friction, wear, sealing, and thermal transfer. However, its simulation is a challenging problem due to surface asperities covering a wide range of length-scales. In addition, non-linear local processes, such as plasticity, are expected to occur even at the lighte

  88. Fabio Deelan Cunden, Satya N. Majumdar, Neil O'Connell

    The $\alpha$-determinant is a one-parameter generalisation of the standard determinant, with $\alpha=-1$ corresponding to the determinant, and $\alpha=1$ corresponding to the permanent. In this paper a simple limit procedure to construct $\alpha$-determinantal point processes out of fermionic processes is examined. The procedure is illustrated for a model of

  89. Ramandeep Gill, Jonathan Granot, Pawan Kumar

    Despite being hard to measure, GRB prompt $\gamma$-ray emission polarization is a valuable probe of the dominant emission mechanism and the outflow's composition and angular structure. During the prompt emission the outflow is ultra-relativistic with Lorentz factors $\Gamma\gg1$. We describe in detail the linear polarization properties of various emission me

  90. Mauricio Caicedo, Ángel del Río

    Hans Zassenhaus conjectured that every torsion unit of the integral group ring of a finite group $G$ is conjugate within the rational group algebra to an element of the form $\pm g$ with $g\in G$. This conjecture has been disproved recently for metabelian groups, by Eisele and Margolis. However it is known to be true for many classes of solvable groups, as f

  91. Michael A. Alcorn, Qi Li, Zhitao Gong, Chengfei Wang

    Despite excellent performance on stationary test sets, deep neural networks (DNNs) can fail to generalize to out-of-distribution (OoD) inputs, including natural, non-adversarial ones, which are common in real-world settings. In this paper, we present a framework for discovering DNN failures that harnesses 3D renderers and 3D models. That is, we estimate the

  92. Rino Bandiera, Giovanni Morlino, Sladjana Knežević, John C. Raymond

    The analysis of Balmer-dominated emission in supernova remnants is potentially a very powerful way to derive information on the shock structure, on the physical conditions of the ambient medium and on the cosmic-ray acceleration efficiency. However, the outcome of models developed in plane-parallel geometry is usually not easily comparable with the data, sin

  93. Étienne Jussiau, Masahiro Hasegawa, Robert S. Whitney

    We study a quantum dot coupled to two semiconducting reservoirs, when the dot level and the electrochemical potential are both close to a band edge in the reservoirs. This is modelled with an exactly solvable Hamiltonian without interactions (the Fano-Anderson model). The model is known to show an abrupt transition as the dot-reservoir coupling is increased

  94. P. M. Marychev, D. Yu. Vodolazov

    Temperature induced transition of thin superconductor-ferromagnet-normal (S/F/N) metal hybrid structure to in-plane Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state is accompanied by vanishing of effective inverse magnetic field penetration depth $\Lambda^{-1}$ (Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077002 (2018)). Here we show that $\Lambda^{-1}$ goes to zero only in limit of

  95. Han Yu

    In this paper we study the following set\[A=\{p(n)+2^nd \mod 1: n\geq 1\}\subset [0.1],\] where $p$ is a polynomial with at least one irrational coefficient on non constant terms, $d$ is any real number and for $a\in [0,\infty)$, $a \mod 1$ is the fractional part of $a$. By a Bernoulli decomposition method, we show that the closure of $A$ must have full Haus

  96. Tetsushi Ito, Teruhisa Koshikawa, Yoichi Mieda

    In 1994, van Geemen and Top constructed a non-selfdual motive of rank three over $\mathbb{Q}$ conjecturally associated with a cuspidal non-selfdual automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GL}_3(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}})$ of level $\Gamma_0(128)$. They experimentally confirmed the coincidence of the local $L$-factors at finitely many primes using computer. In t

  97. Hayat Zouiten, Ali Boutoulout, Delfim F. M. Torres

    We introduce the concept of regional enlarged observability for fractional evolution differential equations involving Riemann-Liouville derivatives. The Hilbert Uniqueness Method (HUM) is used to reconstruct the initial state between two prescribed functions, in an interested subregion of the whole domain, without the knowledge of the state.

  98. Peter Lindqvist, Mikko Parviainen

    We study the possibility of prescribing infinite initial values for solutions of the Evolutionary $p$-Laplace Equation in the fast diffusion case $p>2$. This expository note has been extracted from our previous work. When infinite values are prescribed on the whole initial surface, such solutions can exist only if the domain is a space-time cylinder.

  99. Austin R. Benson, Jon Kleinberg

    Data collection often involves the partial measurement of a larger system. A common example arises in collecting network data: we often obtain network datasets by recording all of the interactions among a small set of core nodes, so that we end up with a measurement of the network consisting of these core nodes along with a potentially much larger set of fri

  100. Anna May, Johannes Wachs, Aniko Hannak

    Programming is a valuable skill in the labor market, making the underrepresentation of women in computing an increasingly important issue. Online question and answer platforms serve a dual purpose in this field: they form a body of knowledge useful as a reference and learning tool, and they provide opportunities for individuals to demonstrate credible, verif