November 2018 arXiv papers — page 2

Noah Golmant, Nikita Vemuri, Zhewei Yao, Vladimir Feinberg

Increasing the mini-batch size for stochastic gradient descent offers significant opportunities to reduce wall-clock training time, but there are a variety of theoretical and systems challenges that impede the widespread success of this technique. We investigate these issues, with an emphasis on time to convergence and total computational cost, through an ex

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott

We present results on the mass, spin, and redshift distributions with phenomenological population models using the ten binary black hole mergers detected in the first and second observing runs completed by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We constrain properties of the binary black hole (BBH) mass spectrum using models with a range of parameterizations of t

Philipp M. Preiss, Jan Hendrik Becher, Ralf Klemt, Vincent Klinkhamer

Many-body interference between indistinguishable particles can give rise to strong correlations rooted in quantum statistics. We study such Hanbury Brown-Twiss-type correlations for number states of ultracold massive fermions. Using deterministically prepared $^6$Li atoms in optical tweezers, we measure momentum correlations using a single-atom sensitive tim

Marek Rei, Joshua Oppenheimer, Marek Sirendi

We describe a novel neural network architecture for the prediction of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. The model receives input features that capture the change in RR intervals and ectopic beats, along with features based on heart rate variability and frequency analysis. Patient age is also included as a trainable embedding, while the whole network is optimized

João Caldeira, Alex Fout, Aniket Kesari, Raesetje Sefala

This project presents the results of a partnership between the Data Science for Social Good fellowship, Jakarta Smart City and Pulse Lab Jakarta to create a video analysis pipeline for the purpose of improving traffic safety in Jakarta. The pipeline transforms raw traffic video footage into databases that are ready to be used for traffic analysis. By analyzi

R. J. Foley, A. M. Koekemoer, D. N. Spergel, F. B. Bianco

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. With its wide-field near-infrared (NIR) camera, it will survey the sky to unprecedented detail. As part of normal operations and as the result of multiple expected dedicated surveys, WFIRST will produce several relatively wide-field (tens of square degrees) deep (limiti

Aurel Malapani

The development of mathematics has been characterized by the increasing interconnectivity of seemingly separate disciplines. Such interplay has been facilitated by a massive development in formalism; category theory has provided a common language to the study of mathematics. In the opposite direction, we have seen algebraic topology and category theory synth

Guillermo Angeris, Jelena Vuckovic, Stephen Boyd

Physical design problems, such as photonic inverse design, are typically solved using local optimization methods. These methods often produce what appear to be good or very good designs when compared to classical design methods, but it is not known how far from optimal such designs really are. We address this issue by developing methods for computing a bound

Sergey Mozgovoy

We introduce the notion of (twisted) quiver representations in abelian categories and study the category of such representations. We construct standard resolutions and coresolutions of quiver representations and study basic homological properties of the category of representations. These results are applied in the case of parabolic vector bundles and framed

Fellype do Nascimento, Stanislav Moshkalev, Munemasa Machida

The use of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasmas has become a practical way to carry out surface treatment and one seeks to do it in a more efficient way, which requires to have control of the plasma parameters like rotational and vibrational temperatures (T_rot and T_vib). Since the T_vib of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet is an important parameter

Heeralal Janwa, Steven E. Massey, Julian Velev, Bud Mishra

Biomolecular networks have already found great utility in characterizing complex biological systems arising from pair-wise interactions amongst biomolecules. Here, we review how graph theoretical approaches can be applied not only for a better understanding of various proximate (mechanistic) relations, but also, ultimate (evolutionary) structures encoded in

Arthur Pesah, Antoine Wehenkel, Gilles Louppe

Likelihood-free inference is concerned with the estimation of the parameters of a non-differentiable stochastic simulator that best reproduce real observations. In the absence of a likelihood function, most of the existing inference methods optimize the simulator parameters through a handcrafted iterative procedure that tries to make the simulated data more

Christian Lang, Jan Hendricks, Zhenkun Zhang, Naveen K. Reddy

The linear and nonlinear rheological behavior of two rod-like particle suspensions as a function of concentration is studied using small amplitude oscillatory shear, steady shear and capillary breakup extensional rheometry. The rod-like suspensions are composed of fd virus and its mutant fdY21M, which are perfectly monodisperse, with a length on the order of

D. M. Bowman, C. Aerts, C. Johnston, M. G. Pedersen

Early-type stars are predicted to excite an entire spectrum of internal gravity waves (IGWs) at the interface of their convective cores and radiative envelopes. Numerical simulations of IGWs predict stochastic low-frequency variability in photometric observations, yet the detection of IGWs in early-type stars has been limited by a dearth of high-quality phot

Sau Lan Wu, Tai Tsun Wu, Chen Zhou

The application of fermion-boson symmetry to the standard model leads to the following: first, there are three generations of scalar quarks and scalar leptons in addition to the known quarks and leptons, and, secondly, the divergences in the perturbation series for the standard model are reduced. In the light of experimental data from LEP, Tevatron Collider,

Ondrej Biza, Robert Platt

Abstraction of Markov Decision Processes is a useful tool for solving complex problems, as it can ignore unimportant aspects of an environment, simplifying the process of learning an optimal policy. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for finding abstract MDPs in environments with continuous state spaces. It is based on MDP homomorphisms, a structure-p

Johannes Noller, Andrina Nicola

We present new cosmological parameter constraints for general Horndeski scalar-tensor theories, using CMB, redshift space distortion, matter power spectrum and BAO measurements from the Planck, SDSS/BOSS and 6dF surveys. We focus on theories with cosmological gravitational waves propagating at the speed of light, $c_{\rm GW} = c$, implementing and discussing

Reza Mahjourian, Risto Miikkulainen, Nevena Lazic, Sergey Levine

Training robots with physical bodies requires developing new methods and action representations that allow the learning agents to explore the space of policies efficiently. This work studies sample-efficient learning of complex policies in the context of robot table tennis. It incorporates learning into a hierarchical control framework using a model-free str

Andrew W. Cross, Lev S. Bishop, Sarah Sheldon, Paul D. Nation

We introduce a single-number metric, quantum volume, that can be measured using a concrete protocol on near-term quantum computers of modest size ($n\lesssim 50$), and measure it on several state-of-the-art transmon devices, finding values as high as 16. The quantum volume is linked to system error rates, and is empirically reduced by uncontrolled interactio

Qi-Fan Yang, Boqiang Shen, Heming Wang, Minh Tran

Acquisition of laser frequency with high resolution under continuous and abrupt tuning conditions is important for sensing, spectroscopy and communications. Here, a single microresonator provides rapid and broad-band measurement of frequencies across the optical C-band with a relative frequency precision comparable to conventional dual frequency comb systems

Abubakr Alabbasi, Vaneet Aggarwal

The demand for real-time cloud applications has seen an unprecedented growth over the past decade. These applications require rapidly data transfer and fast computations. This paper considers a scenario where multiple IoT devices update information on the cloud, and request a computation from the cloud at certain times. The time required to complete the requ

Yury F. Pirogov

In the general frameworks of an earlier introduced quartet-metric/multi-component gravity, a theory of a massive scalar graviton supplementing the massless tensor one is consistently deduced. The peculiarities of the scalar-graviton field compared to the canonical scalar one are demonstrated. The light scalar graviton is treated as an emergent dark substance

Masoud Ahookhosh, Ronan M. T. Fleming, Phan T. Vuong

We present two globally convergent Levenberg-Marquardt methods for finding zeros of H\"{o}lder metrically subregular mappings that may have non-isolated zeros. The first method unifies the Levenberg- Marquardt direction and an Armijo-type line search, while the second incorporates this direction with a nonmonotone trust-region technique. For both methods, we

Arianna I. Renzini, Carlo R. Contaldi

We integrate the publicly available O1 LIGO time-domain data to obtain maximum-likelihood constraints on the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB) arising from stochastic, persistent signals. Our method produces sky-maps of the strain intensity $I$ as a function of direction on the sky at a reference frequency $f_0$. The data is integrated assuming a set of fi

Kurt Langfeld

Z3 gauge theory with dynamical (bosonic) matter is studied in 4 dimensions with a finite chemical potential. This theory could be viewed as an effective theory describing the centre vortex picture of QCD colour confinement, but it is studied here with local interactions as theory in its own right. It is shown that the sign-problem can be solved by dualisatio

Anna T. P. Schauer, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen, Daniel Ceverino

How, when and where the first stars formed are fundamental questions regarding the epoch of Cosmic Dawn. A second order effect in the fluid equations was recently found to make a significant contribution: an offset velocity between gas and dark matter, the so-called streaming velocity. Previous simulations of a limited number of low-mass dark matter haloes s

Chi Xiong

We promote the usual QCD $\theta$-parameter to a field and interpret it as the phase of the quark condensate, which becomes nontrivial when topological defects, vortices in our formulation, are induced in the quark condensate by the QCD strings (chromoelectric flux tubes). The QCD topological term emerges naturally as a derivative coupling between the Chern-

J. Magnusson, A. Gonoskov, M. Marklund, T. Zh. Esirkepov

As an alternative to Compton backscattering and bremsstrahlung, the process of colliding high-energy electron beams with strong laser fields can more efficiently provide both cleaner and brighter source of photons in the multi-GeV range for fundamental studies in nuclear and quark-gluon physics. In order to favor the emission of high-energy quanta and minimi

Arnob Ghosh, Vaneet Aggarwal, Feng Qian

We propose a robust scheme for streaming 360-degree immersive videos to maximize the quality of experience (QoE). Our streaming approach introduces a holistic analytical framework built upon the formal method of stochastic optimization. We propose a robust algorithm which provides a streaming rate such that the video quality degrades below that rate with ver

Daniel Muller, Erez Karpas

In many real-world planning problems, action's impact differs with a place, time and the context in which the action is applied. The same action with the same effects in a different context or states can cause a different change. In actions with incomplete precondition list, that applicable in several states and circumstances, ambiguity regarding the impact

Yanpeng Yang, Hossein S. Ghadikolaei, Carlo Fischione, Marina Petrova

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications rely on directional transmissions to overcome severe path loss. Nevertheless, the use of narrow beams complicates the initial access procedure and increase the latency as the transmitter and receiver beams should be aligned for a proper link establishment. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of random beamfor

Wushi Goldring

First the Griffiths line bundle of a $\mathbf Q$-VHS $\mathscr V$ is generalized to a Griffiths character ${\rm grif}(\mathbf G, \mu,r)$ associated to any triple $(\mathbf G, \mu, r)$, where $\mathbf G$ is a connected reductive group over an arbitrary field $F$, $\mu \in X_*(\mathbf G)$ is a cocharacter (over $\overline{F}$) and $r:\mathbf G \to GL(V)$ is an

Pawel Korus

Over the years, researchers have proposed various approaches to JPEG forgery detection and localization. In most cases, experimental evaluation was limited to JPEG quality levels that are multiples of 5 or 10. Each study used a different dataset, making it difficult to directly compare the reported results. The goal of this work is to perform a unified, larg

A. G. Goulart, M. J. Lazo, J. M. S. Suarez

In the present work, we propose a new parameterization for the concentration flux using fractional derivatives. The fractional order differential equation in the longitudinal and vertical directions is used to obtain the concentration distribution of contaminants in the Planetary Boundary Layer. We solve this model and we compare the solution against both re

Carmen Perez-Esparrells, Enrique Orduna-Malea

Technical Universities (TUs) exhibit a distinct ranking performance in comparison with other universities. In this paper we identify 137 TUs included in the THE Ranking (2017 edition) and analyse their scores statistically. The results highlight the existence of clusters of TUs showing a general high performance in the Industry Income category and, in many c

Gerd Röpke, David Blaschke, Tilo Döppner, Chengliang Lin

New facilities explore warm dense matter (WDM) at extreme conditions where the densities are very high (e.g., carbon up to density of 50 g cm$^{-3}$) so that electrons are degenerate even at 100 eV temperature. Whereas in the non-degenerate region correlation effects such as Debye screening and its improvements are relevant for the ionization potential depre

Wesley Davis, Richard Noren, Ke Shi

We begin with a treatment of the Caputo time-fractional diffusion equation, by using the Laplace transform, to obtain a Volterra intego-differential equation where we may examine the weakly singular nature of this convolution kernel.\iffalse The order of fractional derivative, $\alpha$, is tied to finite difference methods and is of great interest.\fi We exa

Astrid Eichhorn, Tim Koslowski, Antonio D. Pereira

A background-independent route towards a universal continuum limit in discrete models of quantum gravity proceeds through a background-independent form of coarse graining. This review provides a pedagogical introduction to the conceptual ideas underlying the use of the number of degrees of freedom as a scale for a Renormalization Group flow. We focus on tens

Mark Allen, Henrik Shahgholian

We introduce a new boundary Harnack principle in Lipschitz domains for equations with right hand side. Our approach, which uses comparisons and blow-ups, will adapt to more general domains as well as other types of operators. We prove the principle for divergence form elliptic equations with lower order terms including zero order terms. The inclusion of a ze

Pavel Shvartsman

For each $p>1$ and each positive integer $m$ we give intrinsic characterizations of the restriction of the homogeneous Sobolev space $L^m_p(R)$ to an arbitrary closed subset $E$ of the real line. We show that the classical one dimensional Whitney extension operator is "universal" for the scale of $L^m_p(R)$ spaces in the following sense: for every $p\in(1,\i

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1$\mathrm{M}_\odot$ during the first and second observing runs of the Advanced gravitational-wave detector network. During the first observing run (O1), from September $12^\mathrm{th}$, 2015 to January $19^\mathrm{th}$, 2016, gravitationa

C. Kelly, C. A. Trugenberger

We review and extend the recently proposed model of combinatorial quantum gravity. Contrary to previous discrete approaches, this model is defined on (regular) random graphs and is driven by a purely combinatorial version of Ricci curvature, the Ollivier curvature, defined on generic metric spaces equipped with a Markov chain. It dispenses thus of notions su

Maleknaz Nayebi, Yuanfang Cai, Rick Kazman, Guenther Ruhe

Architectural debt is a form of technical debt that derives from the gap between the architectural design of the system as it "should be" compared to "as it is". We measured architecture debt in two ways: 1) in terms of system-wide coupling measures, and 2) in terms of the number and severity of architectural flaws. In recent work it was shown that the amoun

Apostolos N. Burnetas, Odysseas Kanavetas, Michael N. Katehakis

This paper introduces the first asymptotically optimal strategy for a multi armed bandit (MAB) model under side constraints. The side constraints model situations in which bandit activations are limited by the availability of certain resources that are replenished at a constant rate. The main result involves the derivation of an asymptotic lower bound for th

Saúl Alonso-Monsalve, Leigh H. Whitehead

We propose and demonstrate the use of a model-assisted generative adversarial network (GAN) to produce fake images that accurately match true images through the variation of the parameters of the model that describes the features of the images. The generator learns the model parameter values that produce fake images that best match the true images. Two case

Francesco Cagnetta, Martin R. Evans, Davide Marenduzzo

We study the statistical mechanics of a single active slider on a fluctuating interface, by means of numerical simulations and theoretical arguments. The slider, which moves by definition towards the interface minima, is active as it also stimulates growth of the interface. Even though such a particle has no counterpart in thermodynamic systems, active slide

Johannes Heinrich Weber, Alexei Bazavov, Peter Petreczky

We calculate the Equation of State at high temperatures in (2+1) flavor QCD using the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action. We study the lattice spacing dependence of the pressure at high temperatures using lattices with temporal extent $N_{\tau}=6,~8,~10$ and $12$ and perform continuum extrapolations. We also give a continuum estimate for the Equat

Yang Zhang, Arnob Ghosh, Vaneet Aggarwal

Amazon EC2 provides two most popular pricing schemes--i) the {\em costly} on-demand instance where the job is guaranteed to be completed, and ii) the {\em cheap} spot instance where a job may be interrupted. We consider a user can select a combination of on-demand and spot instances to finish a task. Thus he needs to find the optimal bidding price for the sp

Chandra Khatri, Behnam Hedayatnia, Rahul Goel, Anushree Venkatesh

As open-ended human-chatbot interaction becomes commonplace, sensitive content detection gains importance. In this work, we propose a two stage semi-supervised approach to bootstrap large-scale data for automatic sensitive language detection from publicly available web resources. We explore various data selection methods including 1) using a blacklist to ran

Pierre Rinkel, Pedro L. S. Lopes, Ion Garate

Weyl semimetals display unusual electronic transport properties when placed under magnetic fields. Here, we investigate how magnetic fields alter the dynamics of long wavelength lattice vibrations in these materials. To that end, we develop a theory for the phonon dispersion, which incorporates contributions from chiral and nonchiral Landau levels, electron-

Smitha Maretvadakethope, Eric E. Keaveny, Yongyun Hwang

Several meters below the coastal ocean surface there are areas of high ecological activity that contain thin layers of concentrated motile phytoplankton. Gyrotactic trapping has been proposed as a potential mechanism for layer formation of bottom-heavy swimming algae cells, especially in flows where the vorticity varies linearly with depth (Durham, Stocker &

Beáta Bényi, Miguel Méndez, José L. Ramírez, Tanay Wakhare

We study set partitions with $r$ distinguished elements and block sizes found in an arbitrary index set $S$. The enumeration of these $(S,r)$-partitions leads to the introduction of $(S,r)$-Stirling numbers, an extremely wide-ranging generalization of the classical Stirling numbers and the $r$-Stirling numbers. We also introduce the associated $(S,r)$-Bell a

Aniello Mennella, Peter Ade, Giorgio Amico, Didier Auguste

In this paper we describe QUBIC, an experiment that will observe the polarized microwave sky with a novel approach, which combines the sensitivity of state-of-the art bolometric detectors with the systematic effects control typical of interferometers. QUBIC unique features are the so-called "self-calibration", a technique that allows us to clean the measured

Samuel Coskey, Bryce Frederickson, Samuel Mathers, Hao-Tong Yan

A set $A$ is said to split a finite set $B$ if exactly half the elements of $B$ (up to rounding) are contained in $A$. We study the dual notions: (1) splitting family, which is a collection of sets such that any subset of $\{1,\ldots,k\}$ is split by a set in the family, and (2) splittable family, which is a collection of sets such that there is a single set

V. Tadayon

This article has been removed by arXiv administrators due to falsified authorship.

Andre Contiero, Aislan Leal Fontes, Jhon Quispe Vargas

The dimension of the moduli space of smooth pointed curves with prescribed Weierstrass semigroup at the market point is computed for three families of symmetric semigroups of multiplicity six. We also collect the dimensions of such moduli spaces for all semigroups of genus not greater than seven. A question related to an improvement of a Deligne--Pinkham's b

Andrea Schiaffino, Cyrus E. Dreyer, David Vanderbilt, Massimiliano Stengel

Within the framework of density functional perturbation theory (DFPT), we implement and test a novel "metric wave" response-function approach. It consists in the reformulation of an acoustic phonon perturbation in the curvilinear frame that is comoving with the atoms. This means that all the perturbation effects are encoded in the first-order variation of th

S. P. de Alwis

The Hartle-Hawking and Tunneling (Vilenkin) wave functions are treated in the Hamiltonian formalism. We find that the leading (i.e. quadratic) terms in the fluctuations around a maximally symmetric background, are indeed Gaussian (rather than inverse Gaussian), for both types of wave function, when properly interpreted. However the suppression of non-Gaussia

Rahul Goel, Shachi Paul, Tagyoung Chung, Jeremie Lecomte

Goal-oriented dialogue systems typically rely on components specifically developed for a single task or domain. This limits such systems in two different ways: If there is an update in the task domain, the dialogue system usually needs to be updated or completely re-trained. It is also harder to extend such dialogue systems to different and multiple domains.

Sarai D. Folkestad, Eirik F. Kjønstad, Henrik Koch

We present an algorithm where only the Cholesky basis is determined in the decomposition procedure. This allows for improved screening and a partitioned matrix decomposition scheme, both of which significantly reduce memory usage and computational cost. After the basis has been determined, an inner projection technique is used to construct the Cholesky vecto

Dzmitry Bahdanau, Shikhar Murty, Michael Noukhovitch, Thien Huu Nguyen

Numerous models for grounded language understanding have been recently proposed, including (i) generic models that can be easily adapted to any given task and (ii) intuitively appealing modular models that require background knowledge to be instantiated. We compare both types of models in how much they lend themselves to a particular form of systematic gener

Mateus Reinke Pelicer, Emmanuel G. de Oliveira, Roman Pasechnik

In this article, we study the fully differential observables of exclusive production of heavy (charm and bottom) quark pairs in high-energy ultraperipheral $pA$ and $AA$ collisions. In these processes, the nucleus $A$ serves as an efficient source of the photon flux, while the QCD interaction of the produced heavy-quark pair with the target ($p$ or $A$) proc

Mohammad Ahmady, Chandan Mondal, Ruben Sandapen

We investigate the importance of dynamical spin effects in the holographic light-front wavefunctions of the pseudoscalar mesons. We find that these effects are crucial to describe the pion data while they are not necessary to describe the available kaon data. For $\eta-\eta^\prime$ system, we find that dynamical spin effects are required to describe their tr

P. S. Sokolov, M. Yu. Petrov, K. V. Kavokin, M. S. Kuznetsova

We use time-resolved detection of the Hanle effect and polarized photoluminescence with dark intervals to investigate the buildup and decay of the spin polarization of nuclei interacting with donor-bound electrons in $n$-doped GaAs. Strong hyperfine coupling defines the millisecond timescale of the spin dynamics of these nuclei, as distinct from the nuclei f

Luca Di Luzio, Matthew Kirk, Alexander Lenz

After reviewing the theoretical uncertainties entering the Standard Model determination of the mass difference of the neutral $B_s$-$\bar B_s$ meson system, $\Delta M_s^{\rm SM}$, we discuss the implications of its updated value for new physics models addressing the experimental anomalies in semi-leptonic $B$ decays. Using the most recent FLAG average of lat

Jisen Wen, Li-Gang Wang, Xihua Yang, Junxiang Zhang

Fractional vortex beams (FVBs) with non-integer topological charges attract much attention due to unique features of propagations, but there still exist different viewpoints on the change of their total vortex strength. Here we have experimentally demonstrated the distribution and number of vortices contained in FVBs at Fraunhofer diffraction region. We have

Dario Berzano, Riccardo Maria Bianchi, Ian Bird, Brian Bockelman

Without significant changes to data organization, management, and access (DOMA), HEP experiments will find scientific output limited by how fast data can be accessed and digested by computational resources. In this white paper we discuss challenges in DOMA that HEP experiments, such as the HL-LHC, will face as well as potential ways to address them. A resear

Christian Lang, Lionel Porcar, Hartmut Kriegs, M. Paul Lettinga

We assess the possibility of shear banding of semidilute rod-like colloidal suspensions under steady shear ow very close to the isotropic-nematic spinodal, using a combination of rheology, small angle neutron scattering, and laser Doppler velocimetry. Model systems are employed which allow for a length and stiffness variation of the particles. The rheologica

M. Georgiev, H. Chamati

We investigate the role of exchange bridges in molecular magnets. We explore their effects on the distribution of the valence electrons and their contribution to the exchange processes. The present study is focused on a spin-half dimer with nonequivalent exchange bridges. Here, we derive an effective Hamiltonian that allows for an accurate estimation of the

Mateo Dulce, Simón Ramírez-Amaya, Álvaro Riascos

Efficient allocation of scarce law enforcement resources is a hard problem to tackle. In a previous study (forthcoming Barreras et.al (2019)) it has been shown that a simplified version of the self-exciting point process explained in Mohler et.al (2011), performs better predicting crime in the city of Bogot\'{a} - Colombia, than other standard hotspot models

Danielle Caled, Mário J. Silva

This paper describes ongoing work on the creation of a multilingual rumour dataset on football transfer news, FTR-18. Transfer rumours are continuously published by sports media. They can both harm the image of player or a club or increase the player's market value. The proposed dataset includes transfer articles written in English, Spanish and Portuguese. I

Seméli Papadogiannakis, Suhail Dhawan, Roberta Morosin, Ariel Goobar

An increase in the number of studied Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) has demonstrated that this class of explosions has a greater diversity in its observables than was previously assumed. The reasons (e.g. the explosion mechanism, progenitor system) for such a diversity remain unknown. Here, we analyse a sample of $r$-band light curves of SNe~Ia, focusing on the

T. Grange, D. Stark, G. Scalari, J. Faist

n-type Ge/SiGe terahertz quantum cascade laser are investigated using non-equilibrium Green's functions calculations. We compare the temperature dependence of the terahertz gain properties with an equivalent GaAs/AlGaAs QCL design. In the Ge/SiGe case, the gain is found to be much more robust to temperature increase, enabling operation up to room temperature

Yinghua Qiu, Zuzanna S. Siwy, Meni Wanunu

Single nanopores have attracted much scientific interest due to their versatile applications. The majority of experiments have been performed with nanopores being in contact with the same electrolyte on both sides of the membrane, while solution gradients across semi-permeable membranes are omnipresent in natural systems. In this manuscript, we studied ionic

Michele Maschio

We study the behavior of the degeneration at the second step of the Fr\"olicher spectral sequence of a $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$ family of compact complex manifolds. Using techniques from deformation theory and adapting them to pseudo-differential operators we prove a result \textit{\`a la Kodaira-Spencer} for the dimension of the second step of the Fr\"olicher

Thomas John Baird, Shengda Hu

The Desale-Ramanan Theorem is an isomorphism between the moduli space of rank two vector bundles over complex hyperelliptic curve and the variety of linear subspaces in an intersection of two quadrics. We prove a real version of this theorem for the moduli space of real vector bundles over a real hyperelliptic curve. We then apply this result to study the to

Clement Berthiere

In quantum field theories defined on a spacetime with boundaries, the entanglement entropy exhibits subleading, boundary-induced corrections to the ubiquitous area law. At critical points described by conformal field theories (CFTs), and when the entangling surface intersects the physical boundary of the space, new universal terms appear in the entropy and e

Ahmed Zerouali, Tom Mens, Gregorio Robles, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona

Packaging software into containers is becoming a common practice when deploying services in cloud and other environments. Docker images are one of the most popular container technologies for building and deploying containers. A container image usually includes a collection of software packages, that can have bugs and security vulnerabilities that affect the

Cary Malkiewich, Kate Ponto

Indexed symmetric monoidal categories are an important refinement of bicategories -- this structure underlies several familiar bicategories, including the homotopy bicategory of parametrized spectra, and its equivariant and fiberwise generalizations. In this paper, we extend existing coherence theorems to the setting of indexed symmetric monoidal categories.

Piotr Mironowicz, Marcin Pawłowski

In this paper we construct a semi-device-independent protocol able to certify the presence of the generalized measurements. We show robustness of the protocol and conclude that it allows for experimental realisations using current technology.

Cary Malkiewich, Kate Ponto

We answer in the affirmative two conjectures made by Klein and Williams. First, in a range of dimensions, the equivariant Reidemeister trace defines a complete obstruction to removing $n$-periodic points from a self-map $f$. Second, this obstruction defines a class in topological restriction homology. We prove these results using duality and trace for bicate

Maria Colombo, Luigi De Rosa

In this work we investigate some regularization properties of the incompressible Euler equations and of the fractional Navier-Stokes equations where the dissipative term is given by $(-\Delta)^\alpha$, for a suitable power $\alpha \in (0,\frac{1}{2})$ (the only meaningful range for this result). Assuming that the solution $u \in L^\infty _t(C^\theta_x)$ for

Evan Sheridan, Cedric Weber, Evgeny Plekhanov, Christopher Rhodes

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is one of the most widely-used methods to treat accurately electron correlation effects in ab-initio real material calculations. Many modern large-scale implementations of DMFT in electronic structure codes involve solving a quantum impurity model with a Continuous-Time Quantum Monte Carlo (CT-QMC) solver. The main advantag

Alexander Landowski, Jonas Gutsche, Stefan Guckenbiehl, Marius Schönberg

We report on the coherent internal-state control of single crystalline nanodiamonds, containing on average 1200 nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, embedded in three-dimensional direct-laser-written waveguides. We excite the NV centers by light propagating through the waveguide, and we show that emitted fluorescence can be efficiently coupled to the waveguide mod

Anton A. Gerasimov, Dmitry R. Lebedev, Sergey V. Oblezin

Given a complex connected reductive Lie group $G$ with a maximal torus $H\subset G$, Tits defined an extension $W_G^T$ of the corresponding Weyl group $W_G$. The extended group is supplied with an embedding into the normalizer $N_G(H)$, such that $W_G^T$ together with $H$ generate $N_G(H)$. In this paper we propose an interpretation of the Tits classical con

Tom Tirer, Raja Giryes

While deep neural networks exhibit state-of-the-art results in the task of image super-resolution (SR) with a fixed known acquisition process (e.g., a bicubic downscaling kernel), they experience a huge performance loss when the real observation model mismatches the one used in training. Recently, two different techniques suggested to mitigate this deficienc

S. A. Grebenev, I. V. Chelovekov

The excess of the rate of type I X-ray bursts over that expected when the matter fallen between bursts completely burns out in a thermonuclear explosion is explained in terms of the model of a spreading layer of matter coming from the accretion disk over the neutron star surface. Such excess is observed in bursters with a high persistent luminosity, $4\times

H. Pişkin, N. Akdoğan

The planar Hall sensitivity of obliquely deposited NiFe(10)/Pt(tPt) /IrMn(8)/Pt(3) (nm) trilayer structures has been investigated by introducing interfacial modification and altering sensor geometry. The peak-to-peak PHE voltage and AMR ratio of the sensors exhibit an oscillatory increase as a function of Pt thickness. This behaviour was attributed to the st

Vladimir Andrievskii

We prove an analogue of the classical Bernstein polynomial inequality on a compact subset $E$ of the real line. The Lipschitz continuity of the Green function for the complement of $E$ with respect to the extended complex plane and the differentiability at a point of $E$ of a special, associated with $E$, conformal mapping of the upper half-plane onto the co

V. M. Rivilla, J. Martín-Pintado, I. Jiménez-Serra, S. Zeng

We report the first detection in the interstellar medium of the Z-isomer of cyanomethanimine (HNCHCN), an HCN dimer proposed as precursor of adenine. We identified six transitions of Z-cyanomethanimine, along with five transitions of E-cyanomethanimine, using IRAM 30m observations towards the Galactic Center quiescent molecular cloud G+0.693. The Z-isomer ha

Pierre-François Loos, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Anthony Scemama, Michel Caffarel

Excited states exhibiting double excitation character are notoriously difficult to model using conventional single-reference methods, such as adiabatic time-dependent density-functional theory (TD-DFT) or equation-of-motion coupled cluster (EOM-CC). In the present work, we provide accurate reference excitation energies for transitions involving a substantial

Yan Peng

We investigate the gravity system constructed with static scalar fields coupled to asymptotically flat regular reflecting stars. We consider the matter field's backreaction on the reflecting star. We analytically show that there is an upper bound on the radius of the reflecting star. When the star radius is above the bound, the reflecting star cannot support

S. Papadogiannakis, A. Goobar, R. Amanullah, M. Bulla

We present the best 265 sampled R-band light curves of spectroscopically identified Type Ia supernovae (SNe) from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF; 2009-2012) survey and the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF; 2013-2017). A model-independent light curve template is built from our data-set with the purpose to investigate average properties and div

Reza Jahanbakhshi, Tamer A. Zaki

Laminar-to-turbulence transition in zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer at Mach 4.5 is studied using direct numerical simulations. For a given level of total disturbance energy, the inflow spectra was designed to correspond to the nonlinearly most dangerous condition that leads to the earliest possible transition Reynolds number. The synthesis of the inlet

I. L. Buchbinder, S. James Gates,, K. Koutrolikos

In recent papers we demonstrated that consistent and non-trivial \emph{linear} transformations of matter supermultiplets generate half-integer superspin supercurrents and the cubic interactions between matter and half-integer superspin supermultiplets. In this work we show that consistent and non-trivial \emph{antilinear} transformations of matter superfield

Ben Davison, Jared Ongaro, Balazs Szendroi

We study generating functions of ordinary and plane partitions coloured by the action of a finite subgroup of the corresponding special linear group. After reviewing known results for the case of ordinary partitions, we formulate a conjecture concerning a factorisation property of the generating function of coloured plane partitions that can be thought of as

Federico Giannoni, Marco Mancini, Federico Marinelli

Insitu sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become more and more popular in the last decade, due to their potential to be used in various applications of many different fields. As of today, WSNs are pretty much used by any monitoring system: from those that are health care related, to those that are used for environmental forecasting or surveilla

Vinicius Henning, Benjamin Spreng, Michael Hartmann, Gert-Ludwig Ingold

We derive the leading-order correction to the proximity force approximation (PFA) result for the electromagnetic Casimir interaction in the plane-sphere geometry by developing the scattering approach in the plane-wave basis. Expressing the Casimir energy as a sum over round trips between plane and sphere, we find two distinct contributions to the correction.

Jolanta Marzec

It is known that among Siegel modular forms of degree $2$ and level $1$ the only functions that violate the Ramanujan conjecture are Saito-Kurokawa lifts of modular forms of level $1$. These are precisely the functions whose Fourier coefficients satisfy Maass relations. More generally, the Ramanujan conjecture for $\mathrm{GSp}_4$ is predicted to fail only i

Fritjof Freise, Rainer Schwabe

We develop $D$-optimal designs for linear models with first-order interactions on a subset of the $2^K$ full factorial design region, when both the number of factors set to the higher level and the number of factors set to the lower level are simultaneously bounded by the same threshold. It turns out that in the case of narrow margins the optimal design is c