November 2018 arXiv papers — page 38

Javier F. Troncoso, Pablo Aguado-Puente, Jorge Kohanoff

Despite being the archetypal thermoelectric material, still today some of the most exciting advances in the efficiency of these materials are being achieved by tuning the properties of PbTe. Its inherently low lattice thermal conductivity can be lowered to its fundamental limit by designing a structure capable of scattering phonons over a wide range of lengt

Paul Zivick, Nitya Kallivayalil, Gurtina Besla, Sangmo Tony Sohn

We present the first detailed kinematic analysis of the proper motions (PMs) of stars in the Magellanic Bridge, from both the \textit{Gaia} Data Release 2 catalog and from \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} Advanced Camera for Surveys data. For the \textit{Gaia} data, we identify and select two populations of stars in the Bridge region, young main sequence (MS)

Carl Rietschel, Jinsung Yoon, Mihaela van der Schaar

Deep learning models for survival analysis have gained significant attention in the literature, but they suffer from severe performance deficits when the dataset contains many irrelevant features. We give empirical evidence for this problem in real-world medical settings using the state-of-the-art model DeepHit. Furthermore, we develop methods to improve the

Martin Kristensen

The disappearance of flight MH370 is possibly the greatest mystery in aviation history. A large zone in the Southern Indian Ocean was searched unsuccessfully leaving an open case and an unacceptable situation for the family members. We discuss the scientific difficulties with locating the plane through satellite data and develop an improved analysis using le

Alex Debrecht, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Adam Frank, John McCann

The photoionization-driven evaporation of planetary atmospheres has emerged as a potentially fundamental process for planets on short period orbits. While 1-D studies have proven the effectiveness of stellar fluxes at altering the atmospheric mass and composition for sub-Jupiter mass planets, there remains much that is uncertain with regard to the larger-sca

Heinz H. Bauschke, Minh N. Bui, Xianfu Wang

Beck and Teboulle's FISTA method for finding a minimizer of the sum of two convex functions, one of which has a Lipschitz continuous gradient whereas the other may be nonsmooth, is arguably the most important optimization algorithm of the past decade. While research activity on FISTA has exploded ever since, the mathematically challenging case when the origi

Vladimír Holý, Petra Tomanová

When stock prices are observed at high frequencies, more information can be utilized in estimation of parameters of the price process. However, high-frequency data are contaminated by the market microstructure noise which causes significant bias in parameter estimation when not taken into account. We propose an estimator of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process bas

Qunwei Li, Bhavya Kailkhura, Rushil Anirudh, Yi Zhou

Despite the growing interest in generative adversarial networks (GANs), training GANs remains a challenging problem, both from a theoretical and a practical standpoint. To address this challenge, in this paper, we propose a novel way to exploit the unique geometry of the real data, especially the manifold information. More specifically, we design a method to

Bharath Gopalakrishnan, Arun Kumar Singh, K. Madhava Krishna, Dinesh Manocha

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for solving a class of chance constrained optimization under non-parametric uncertainty. Our algorithm is built on the possibility of representing arbitrary distributions as functions in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). We use this foundation to formulate chance constrained optimization as one of minim

Adnan Siraj Rakin, Zhezhi He, Deliang Fan

Recent development in the field of Deep Learning have exposed the underlying vulnerability of Deep Neural Network (DNN) against adversarial examples. In image classification, an adversarial example is a carefully modified image that is visually imperceptible to the original image but can cause DNN model to misclassify it. Training the network with Gaussian n

Mihnea S. Andrei, John S. J. Hsu

The Black-Litterman model combines investors' personal views with historical data and gives optimal portfolio weights. In this paper we will introduce the original Black-Litterman model (section 1), we will modify the model such that it fits in a Bayesian framework by considering the investors' personal views to be a direct prior on the means of the returns

Ina Hönemann, Kirsten Tempest, Stefan Weinzierl

We reconsider the two-loop electron self-energy in quantum electrodynamics. We present a modern calculation, where all relevant two-loop integrals are expressed in terms of iterated integrals of modular forms. As boundary points of the iterated integrals we consider the four cases $p^2=0$, $p^2=m^2$, $p^2=9m^2$ and $p^2=\infty$. The iterated integrals have $

Zhen Wang, Dogancan Temel, Ghassan AlRegib

In the field of seismic interpretation, univariate databased maps are commonly used by interpreters, especially for fault detection. In these maps, contrast between target regions and the background is one of the main factors that affect the accuracy of the interpretation. Since univariate data-based maps are not capable of providing a high contrast represen

Khaled Zennir

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear Love-equation with infinite memory. By certain properties of convex functions, we use an appropriate Lyapunov functional to find a very general rate of decay for energy (2.3).

A. M. Kadigrobov

Structure and coordinate dependence of the reflected wave, as well as boundary conditions for quasi-particles of graphene and the two dimensional electron gas in sheets with abrupt lattice edges are obtained and analyzed by the Green's function technique. In particular, the reflection wave function contains terms inversely proportional to the distance to the

D. S. Rabinovich, I. V. Bobkova, A. M. Bobkov, M. A. Silaev

We demonstrate that the hybrid structures consisting of a superconducting layer with an adjacent spin-textured ferromagnet demonstrate the variety of equilibrium magnetoelectric effects originating from coupling between the conduction electron spin and superconducting current. By deriving and solving the generalized Usadel equation which takes into account t

Edward Givelberg

We define an abstract framework for object-oriented programming and show that object-oriented languages, such as C++, can be interpreted as parallel programming languages. Parallel C++ code is typically more than ten times shorter than the equivalent C++ code with MPI. The large reduction in the number of lines of code in parallel C++ is primarily due to the

Richard de Grijs, Weijia Sun, Chengyuan Li, Licai Deng

Although the formation of blue straggler stars (BSSs) is routinely attributed to stellar interactions in binary systems, the relative importance of the direct collision and slow(er) stellar coalescence formation channels is still poorly understood. We selected a sample of 24 Magellanic Cloud star clusters for which multi-passband Hubble Space Telescope image

Dogancan Temel, Ghassan AlRegib

An average healthy person does not perceive the world in just black and white. Moreover, the perceived world is not composed of pixels and through vision humans perceive structures. However, the acquisition and display systems discretize the world. Therefore, we need to consider pixels, structures and colors to model the quality of experience. Quality assess

Edward Grefenstette, Robert Stanforth, Brendan O'Donoghue, Jonathan Uesato

While deep learning has led to remarkable results on a number of challenging problems, researchers have discovered a vulnerability of neural networks in adversarial settings, where small but carefully chosen perturbations to the input can make the models produce extremely inaccurate outputs. This makes these models particularly unsuitable for safety-critical

Atsushi Nomura, Kazuhiko Yamaya, Shigeru Takayanagi, Koichi Ichimura

By measuring the temperature dependence of the resistance, we investigated the effect of Cu doping on superconductivity (SC) in Cu-doped TaSe$_3$ in which the charge density wave (CDW) transition is induced by Cu doping. We observed an emergence of a region where the SC transition temperature ($T_\mathrm{C}$) decreased in samples with higher Cu concentration

Brian Straughan, Vincenzo Tibullo

We generalize a theory of Biot for a porous solid based on nonlinear elasticity theory to incorporate temperature effects. Acceleration waves are studied in detail in the fully nonlinear theory. The wavespeeds are found explicitly and the amplitudes are then determined. The possibility of shock formation is discussed.

J. J. Bryant, S. M. Croom, J. van de Sande, N. Scott

Misalignment of gas and stellar rotation in galaxies can give clues to the origin and processing of accreted gas. Integral field spectroscopic observations of 1213 galaxies from the SAMI Galaxy Survey show that 11% of galaxies with fitted gas and stellar rotation are misaligned by more than 30 degrees in both field/group and cluster environments. Using SAMI

F. Gobet, M. Comet, J-R. Marques, V. Meot

The energy distributions of Ta ions produced in a nanosecond laser-heated plasma at 4$\times$10$^{15}$ W/cm$^{2}$ are experimentally and theoretically investigated. They are measured far from the target with an electrostatic spectrometer and charge collectors. Shadowgraphy and interferometry are used to characterize the plasma dynamics in the first nanosecon

Martyna Chruslinska

The first detection of gravitational waves from a merging double neutron star (DNS) binary implies a much higher rate of DNS coalescences in the local Universe than typically estimated on theoretical grounds. The recent study by Chruslinska et al.(2018) shows that apart from being particularly sensitive to the common envelope treatment, DNS merger rates appe

Szczepan Głodzik, Tadeusz Domański

We study in-gap states of a single magnetic impurity embedded in a honeycomb monolayer which is deposited on superconducting substrate. The intrinsic spin-orbit coupling induces the quantum spin Hall insulating (QSHI) phase gapped around the Fermi energy. Under such circumstances we consider the emergence of Shiba-like bound states driven by the superconduct

Andrew Zic, Christene Lynch, Tara Murphy, David L. Kaplan

Observations of radio emission in about 10 per cent of ultra-cool dwarfs (UCDs) indicate the presence of strong, persistent magnetic fields in these stars. These results are in contrast to early theoretical expectations on fully-convective dynamos, and to other tracers of magnetic activity, such as H {\alpha} and X-ray luminosity. Radio-frequency observation

Juliet Cooke

We compute the factorisation homology of the four-punctured sphere and punctured torus over the quantum group $\mathcal{U}_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ explicitly as categories of equivariant modules using the framework of `Integrating Quantum Groups over Surfaces' by Ben-Zvi, Brochier, and Jordan. We identify the algebra of invariants (quantum global sections) with

Jan Trienes, Andrés Torres Cano, Djoerd Hiemstra

To foster an active and engaged community, social networks employ recommendation algorithms that filter large amounts of contents and provide a user with personalized views of the network. Popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter generate follow recommendations by listing profiles a user may be interested to connect with. Federated social network

L. Fernandez, A. A. Makarova, C. Laubschat, D. V. Vyalikh

The structural and electronic properties of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) grown on stepped Ni surfaces are systematically investigated using a cylindrical Ni crystal as a tunable substrate. Our experiments reveal homogeneous hBN monolayer coating of the entire Ni curved surface, which in turn undergoes an overall faceting. The faceted system is defined by st

Theopisti Dafni, Ciaran A. J. O'Hare, Biljana Lakić, Javier Galán

Axion helioscopes search for solar axions and axion-like particles via inverse Primakoff conversion in strong laboratory magnets pointed at the Sun. While helioscopes can always measure the axion coupling to photons, the conversion signal is independent of the mass for axions lighter than around 0.02 eV. Masses above this value on the other hand have suppres

Vanessa Koch, John Bulava, Ben Hörz, Francesco Knechtli

The static potential $V(r)$ between a static quark and a static antiquark separated by a distance r is defined as the energy of the ground state of the system. As a consequence of confinement, the energy between the quark-antiquark pair is contained inside a color flux tube, which will break due to pair creation as soon as the energy is high enough. String b

Paulo E. Faria Junior, Davide Tedeschi, Marta De Luca, Benedikt Scharf

The response of semiconductor materials to external magnetic fields is a reliable approach to probe intrinsic electronic and spin-dependent properties. In this study, we investigate the common Zeeman splitting features of novel wurtzite materials, namely InP, InAs, and GaAs. We present values for the effective g-factors of different energy bands and show tha

Adam Nepomuk Otte

We discuss the acceptance and sensitivity of a small air-shower imaging system to detect earth-skimming ultrahigh-energy tau neutrinos. The instrument we study is located on top of a mountain and has an azimuthal field of view of $360^\circ$. We find that the acceptance and sensitivity of such a system is close to maximal if it is located about 2 km above gr

D. O. Jones, D. M. Scolnic, R. J. Foley, A. Rest

Measurements of the dark energy equation-of-state parameter, $w$, have been limited by uncertainty in the selection effects and photometric calibration of $z<0.1$ Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The Foundation Supernova Survey is designed to lower these uncertainties by creating a new sample of $z<0.1$ SNe Ia observed on the Pan-STARRS system. Here, we combine

Kameswar Vaddina, Florian Brandner, Gerard Memmi, Pierre Jouvelot

Optimizing computing and communication systems that host energy-critical applications is becoming a key issue for software developers. In previous work, we introduced and validated the Energy/Frequency Convexity Rule for CPU-bound benchmarks on recent ARM platforms. This rule states that there exists an optimal clock frequency that minimizes the CPU's energy

James Trussler, Roberto Maiolino, Claudia Maraston, Yingjie Peng

Star-forming galaxies can in principle be transformed into passive systems by a multitude of processes that quench star formation, such as the halting of gas accretion (starvation) or the rapid removal of gas in AGN-driven outflows. However, it remains unclear which processes are the most significant, primary drivers of the SF-passive bimodality. We address

Dagoberto Escobar, Fernando Marchesano, Wieland Staessens

We analyse type IIA Calabi-Yau orientifolds with background fluxes and D6-branes. The presence of D6-brane deformation moduli redefines the 4d dilaton and complex structure fields and complicates the analysis of such vacua in terms of the effective Kahler potential and superpotential. One may however formulate the F-term scalar potential as a bilinear form o

Vivian U, Anne M. Medling, Hanae Inami, Lee Armus

The role of feedback in triggering or quenching star formation and hence driving galaxy evolution can be directly studied with high resolution integral field observations. The manifestation of feedback in shocks is particularly important to examine in galaxy mergers, where violent interactions of gas takes place in the interstellar medium during the course o

Efraín Gatuzz, Javier A. García, Timothy R. Kallman

The total amount of OVI present in the interstellar medium (ISM) obtained via absorption measurements in UV and X-ray spectra is currently in disagreement, with the latter being significantly larger (by a factor of 10 or more) than the former. Previous works have proposed that the blend of the OVI Ka line (22.032 A) with the OII Kb-L12 line (22.04 A) could a

Ivanna Escala, Evan N. Kirby, Karoline M. Gilbert, Emily C. Cunningham

Measurements of [Fe/H] and [$\alpha$/Fe] can probe the minor merging history of a galaxy, providing a direct way to test the hierarchical assembly paradigm. While measurements of [$\alpha$/Fe] have been made in the stellar halo of the Milky Way, little is known about detailed chemical abundances in the stellar halo of M31. To make progress with existing tele

Joerg Jaeckel, Lennert J. Thormaehlen

Helioscopes, such as the proposed International Axion Observatory (IAXO), have significant discovery potential for axions and axion-like particles. In this note, we argue that beyond discovery they can resolve details of the model. In particular, in the region suggested by stellar cooling anomalies, there is a good chance to measure the mass of the particle

Samantha Scibelli, Raghvendra Sahai, Mark Morris

The carbon star V Hydrae (V Hya) provides new insight into the nature of the launching mechanism of jet-like outflows that are believed to be the cause of the poorly understood transition phase of AGB stars into aspherical planetary nebulae. V Hya has been shown to periodically eject collimated gas blobs at high velocities ("bullets"). By analyzing data from

John R. McCann, Ruth A. Murray-Clay, Kaitlin Kratter, Mark R. Krumholz

Bathed in intense ionizing radiation, close-in gaseous planets undergo hydrodynamic atmospheric escape, which ejects the upper extent of their atmospheres into the interplanetary medium. Ultraviolet detections of escaping gas around transiting planets corroborate such a framework. Exposed to the stellar environment, the outflow is shaped by its interaction w

Tomohiro Hashizume, Ian P. McCulloch, Jad C. Halimeh

We investigate two separate notions of dynamical phase transitions in the two-dimensional nearest-neighbor transverse-field Ising model on a square lattice using matrix product states and a new \textit{hybrid} infinite time-evolving block decimation algorithm, where the model is implemented on an infinitely long cylinder with a finite diameter along which pe

Peter A. Clarkson, David Gómez-Ullate, Yves Grandati, Robert Milson

This paper focuses on the construction of rational solutions for the $A_{2n}$ Painlev\'e system, also called the Noumi-Yamada system, which are considered the higher order generalizations of PIV. In this even case, we introduce a method to construct the rational solutions based on cyclic dressing chains of Schr\"{o}dinger operators with potentials in the cla

Tomohiro Yamada

We shall show that there exist only finitely many nondegenerate three-term Machin-type formulae and give explicit upper bounds for the sizes of variables.

Jan Minac, Marina Palaisti, Federico W. Pasini, Nguyen Duy Tan

We prove that Galois cohomology satisfies several surprisingly strong versions of Koszul properties, under a well known conjecture, in the finitely generated case. In fact, these versions of Koszulity hold for all finitely generated maximal pro-$p$ quotients of absolute Galois groups which are currently understood. We point out several of these unconditional

Emre Ozfatura, Sennur Ulukus, Deniz Gunduz

Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling servers in distributed computing, with the following limitations: First, they increase decoding complexity. Second, they ignore computations carried out by straggling servers; and they are typically designed to recover the full gradient, and thus, cannot provide a balance between the accuracy

Omar Al-Khatib, Christoph Böttcher, Hans von Berlepsch, Katherine Herman

The adsorption of three different polycations at the negatively charged surface of tubular J-aggregates of the amphiphilic cyanine dye 3,3'-bis(2-sulfopropyl)-5,5',6,6'-tetrachloro-1,1'-dioctylbenzimidacarbocyanine (C8S3) is investigated by means of cryogenic electron microscopy and optical absorption spectroscopy. All three polycations could be adsorbed at

Boumediene Abdellaoui, Abdelhalim Azzouz, Ahmed Bensedik

The present work is concerned with existence of positive solutions for a class of fractional equation involving a Kirchhoff term and singular potential.

Fredrik Eriksson, Erik Fransson, Paul Erhart

The efficient extraction of force constants (FCs) is crucial for the analysis of many thermodynamic materials properties. Approaches based on the systematic enumeration of finite differences scale poorly with system size and can rarely extend beyond third order when input data is obtained from first-principles calculations. Methods based on parameter fitting

T. Faouzi, E. Porcu, M. Bevilacqua, I. Kondrashuk

Positive definite functions are fundamental to many areas of applied mathematics, probability theory, spatial statistics and machine learning, amogst others. Motivated by a problem coming from the maximum likelihood estimation under fixed domain asymptotics, we consider a new operator acting on rescaled weighted differences between two members of the class $

Chun-Khiang Chua

We study color allowed $\Lambda_b\to \Lambda^{(*,**)}_c M^-$, $\Xi_b\to\Xi_c^{(**)} M^-$ and $\Omega_b\to\Omega^{(*)}_c M^-$ decays with $M=\pi, K,\rho, K^*, D, D_s, D^*, D^*_s, a_1$, $\Lambda^{(*,**)}_c=\Lambda_c$, $\Lambda_c(2595)$, $\Lambda_c(2765)$, $\Lambda_c(2940)$, $\Xi_c^{(**)}=\Xi_c, \Xi_c(2790)$ and $\Omega^{(*)}_c=\Omega_c, \Omega_c(3090)$, in thi

Nguyen Minh Chuong, Dao Van Duong, Kieu Huu Dung

In this paper, we first give some new characterizations of Muckenhoupt type weights through establishing the boundedness of maximal operators on the weighted Lorentz and Morrey spaces. Secondly, we establish the boundedness of sublinear operators including many interesting in harmonic analysis and its commutators on the weighted Morrey spaces. Finally, as an

Francesco Arzani, Alessandro Ferraro, Valentina Parigi

We introduce a high-dimensional quantum encoding based on coherent mode-dependent single-photon subtraction from multimode squeezed states. This encoding can be seen as a generalization to the case of non-zero squeezing of the standard single-photon multi-rail encoding. The advantage is that the presence of squeezing enables the use of common tools in contin

Claudia Hagedorn, Johannes König

We construct a supersymmetric model for leptons and quarks with the flavor symmetry Delta(384) and CP. The peculiar features of lepton and quark mixing are accomplished by the stepwise breaking of the flavor and CP symmetry. The correct description of lepton mixing angles requires two steps of symmetry breaking, where tri-bimaximal mixing arises after the fi

B. F. L. Ward

We give a status report on the theory of resummed quantum gravity. We recapitulate the use of our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity to estimate the value of the cosmological constant as $\rho_\Lambda=(0.0024{\mathrm{eV}})^4$. The estimate is made in the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno an

Jiancao Hou, Zhaohui Yang, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient data collection and wireless power transfer (WPT) framework for internet of things (IoT) applications, via a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). To exploit the benefits of UAV-enabled WPT and MIMO FD communications, we allow the MIMO FD UAV charge low-power I

Nathan Brown, Marco Fiscato, Marwin H. S. Segler, Alain C. Vaucher

De novo design seeks to generate molecules with required property profiles by virtual design-make-test cycles. With the emergence of deep learning and neural generative models in many application areas, models for molecular design based on neural networks appeared recently and show promising results. However, the new models have not been profiled on consiste

Diego Gonzalez, Daniel Gutiérrez-Ruiz, J. David Vergara

We present a classical analog of the quantum metric tensor, which is defined for classical integrable systems that undergo an adiabatic evolution governed by slowly varying parameters. This classical metric measures the distance, on the parameter space, between two infinitesimally different points in phase space, whereas the quantum metric tensor measures th

Fan Duosi, Jing-Lei Xu, Matthew X. Yao, Jean-Pierre Hickey

A novel approach to identify internal interfacial layers, or IILs, in wall-bounded turbulent flows is proposed. Using a Fuzzy Cluster Method (FCM) on the streamwise velocity component, a unique and unambiguous grouping of the Uniform Momentum Zones is achieved, thus allowing the identification of the IILs. The approach overcomes some of the key limitations o

J. Vanterler da C. Sousa, D. S. Oliveira, E. Capelas de Oliveira

In this paper, we present a new class of inequality of the Gronwall type and discuss some particular cases. In this sense, we investigate the uniqueness and $\delta$-Ulam-Hyers-Rassias stability of the mild solution for the fractional differential equation with non-instantaneous impulses in a P$\delta$-normed Banach space.

Rodrigo Figueiredo, Hugo Luiz Mariano

In the talk \cite{vandendries-matthias-} presented at Logic and Foundations section of ICM-2018, Rio de Janeiro, the authors analyze, under a model-theoretic perspective, three ways to enrich the real continuum by infinitesimal and infinite quantities. In the present work, we present a first model-theoretic connection of another (but related to the previous

Sicong Huang, Qiyang Li, Cem Anil, Xuchan Bao

In this work, we address the problem of musical timbre transfer, where the goal is to manipulate the timbre of a sound sample from one instrument to match another instrument while preserving other musical content, such as pitch, rhythm, and loudness. In principle, one could apply image-based style transfer techniques to a time-frequency representation of an

D. R. Yafaev

Our goal is to find asymptotic formulas for orthonormal polynomials $P_{n}(z)$ with the recurrence coefficients slowly stabilizing as $n\to\infty$. To that end, we develop spectral theory of Jacobi operators with long-range coefficients and study the corresponding second order difference equation. We suggest an Ansatz for its solutions playing the role of th

Keita Nii

We investigate self-dualities in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. The electric and magnetic theories share the same gauge group. The examples include $SU(2N)$, $SO(7)$ and $SO(8)$ with various matter contents. The duality exchanges the role of the baryon and Coulomb branch operators in some examples. In other examples, the Cou

A. L. Virovlyansky, M. S. Deryabin

It is shown that the use of the equivalent source method allows one to reconstruct the sound field excited by an acoustic radiator in free space from the measurements of the sound filed excited by this radiator in a tank with reflecting boundaries. The key assumption underlying the proposed approach is that the same set of monopoles with the same strengths c

Evgeny Korotyaev

We consider Schr\"odinger operators with complex-valued decreasing potentials on the half-line. Such operator has essential spectrum on the half-line plus eigenvalues (counted with algebraic multiplicity) in the complex plane without the positive half-line. We determine trace formula: sum of Im part of these eigenvalues plus some singular measure plus some i

A. Frasca, D. Montes, J. M. Alcalá, A. Klutsch

The study of contemporaneous variations of the continuum flux and emission lines is of great importance to understand the different astrophysical processes at work in T Tauri stars. In this paper we present the results of a simultaneous $BVRI$ and H$\alpha$ photometric monitoring, contemporaneous to medium-resolution spectroscopy of six T Tauri stars in the

Jesse Beisegel, Carolin Denkert, Ekkehard Köhler, Matjaž Krnc

Graph searches and the corresponding search trees can exhibit important structural properties and are used in various graph algorithms. The problem of deciding whether a given spanning tree of a graph is a search tree of a particular search on this graph was introduced by Hagerup and Nowak in 1985, and independently by Korach and Ostfeld in 1989 where the au

Martin Koehler, Alex Bogatu, Cristina Civili, Nikolaos Konstantinou

The process of preparing potentially large and complex data sets for further analysis or manual examination is often called data wrangling. In classical warehousing environments, the steps in such a process have been carried out using Extract-Transform-Load platforms, with significant manual involvement in specifying, configuring or tuning many of them. Cost

Sayan Chakrabarti, Sumeet Chougule, Debaprasad Maity

Effective theory of fluctuations based on underlying symmetry plays very important role in understanding the low energy phenomena. Using this powerful technique we study the fluctuation dynamics keeping in mind the following central question: does the effective theory of black hole provide any information about the possible existence of hair? Assuming the sy

David Manheim

This paper reviews the reasons that Human-in-the-Loop is both critical for preventing widely-understood failure modes for machine learning, and not a practical solution. Following this, we review two current heuristic methods for addressing this. The first is provable safety envelopes, which are possible only when the dynamics of the system are fully known,

Masaki Saito, Shunta Saito, Masanori Koyama, Sosuke Kobayashi

Training of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) on a video dataset is a challenge because of the sheer size of the dataset and the complexity of each observation. In general, the computational cost of training GAN scales exponentially with the resolution. In this study, we present a novel memory efficient method of unsupervised learning of high-resolution v

Fahdi Kanavati, Shah Islam, Eric O. Aboagye, Andrea Rockall

The analysis of single CT slices extracted at the third lumbar vertebra (L3) has garnered significant clinical interest in the past few years, in particular in regards to quantifying sarcopenia (muscle loss). In this paper, we propose an efficient method to automatically detect the L3 slice in 3D CT images. Our method works with images with a variety of fiel

Dongyang Kuang, Tanya Schmah

We present a new unsupervised learning algorithm, "FAIM", for 3D medical image registration. With a different architecture than the popular "U-net", the network takes a pair of full image volumes and predicts the displacement fields needed to register source to target. Compared with "U-net" based registration networks such as VoxelMorph, FAIM has fewer train

Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang, Min Song

Word sense induction (WSI), or the task of automatically discovering multiple senses or meanings of a word, has three main challenges: domain adaptability, novel sense detection, and sense granularity flexibility. While current latent variable models are known to solve the first two challenges, they are not flexible to different word sense granularities, whi

Verena Bögelein, Frank Duzaar, Christoph Scheven

In this paper we establish in the fast diffusion range the higher integrability of the spatial gradient of weak solutions to porous medium systems. The result comes along with an explicit reverse H\"older inequality for the gradient. The novel feature in the proof is a suitable intrinsic scaling for space-time cylinders combined with reverse H\"older inequal

M. Amini, M. Soltani, M. Sharbafiun

Motivated by recent scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy experiments on probing single vacancies in black phosphorus, we present a theory for Fano antiresonances induced by coupling between vacancy states and edge states of zigzag phosphorene nanoribbons (zPNRs). To this end, in the first step, using the tight-binding Hamiltonian, we obtain an analytic

George Leckie, Harvey Goldstein

In the UK, US and elsewhere, school accountability systems increasingly compare schools using value-added measures of school performance derived from pupil scores in high-stakes standardised tests. Rather than naively comparing school average scores, which largely reflect school intake differences in prior attainment, these measures attempt to compare the av

Umit Karabiyik, Kemal Akkaya

In the last decade, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are proliferated in many domains including critical infrastructures such as energy, transportation and manufacturing. Consequently, most of the daily operations now rely on the data coming from wireless sensors or IoT devices and their actions. In addition, personal IoT

J. Atchison, A. Bhullar, B. Norman, D. Venus

Magnetic susceptibility measurements of 3-4 ML Fe/W(001) ferromagnetic films demonstrate that this is a 2DXY system in which a finite-size Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition occurs. The films are grown in ultrahigh vacuum and their magnetic response is measured using the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE). The analysis of many independently grown films shows

Nikolay Jetchev, Urs Bergmann, Gokhan Yildirim

Parametric generative deep models are state-of-the-art for photo and non-photo realistic image stylization. However, learning complicated image representations requires compute-intense models parametrized by a huge number of weights, which in turn requires large datasets to make learning successful. Non-parametric exemplar-based generation is a technique tha

A. Plastino, M. C. Rocca

Verlinde has recently conjectured, via a Beckenstein-like thought experiment, that gravitation, instead of being an elementary force, is an emergent entropic one. This rather surprising conjecture was actually proved in [Physica A {\bf 505} (2018) 190], in a strictly classical statistical mechanics' environment. In this Communication, we work in a quantum st

Giordano Cotti, Boris Dubrovin, Davide Guzzetti

In this paper we consider a conjecture formulated by the second author in occasion of the 1998 ICM in Berlin (arXiv:math/9807034v2). This conjecture states the equivalence, for a Fano variety $X$, of the semisimplicity condition for the quantum cohomology $QH^\bullet(X)$ with the existence condition of full exceptional collections in the derived category of

G. David, J. -C. Walter, C. P. Broedersz, J. Dorignac

The cellular cytoplasm is organized into compartments. Phase separation is a simple manner to create membrane-less compartments in order to confine and localize particles like proteins. In many cases these particles are bound to fluctuating polymers like DNA or RNA. We propose a general theoretical framework for such polymer-bound particles and derive an eff

Marcin Bienkowski, Jarosław Byrka, Marek Chrobak, Christian Coester

We study online competitive algorithms for the \emph{line chasing problem} in Euclidean spaces $\reals^d$, where the input consists of an initial point $P_0$ and a sequence of lines $X_1,X_2,...,X_m$, revealed one at a time. At each step $t$, when the line $X_t$ is revealed, the algorithm must determine a point $P_t\in X_t$. An online algorithm is called $c$

Soumi De, Christopher M. Biwer, Collin D. Capano, Alexander H. Nitz

This paper presents a parameter estimation analysis of the seven binary black hole mergers---GW170104, GW170608, GW170729, GW170809, GW170814, GW170818, and GW170823---detected during the second observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo observatories using the gravitational-wave open data. We describe the methodology for parameter estimation of compact bi

Anas Shrinah, Kerstin Eder

The verification of planning domain models is crucial to ensure the safety, integrity and correctness of planning-based automated systems. This task is usually performed using model checking techniques. However, unconstrained application of model checkers to verify planning domain models can result in false positives, i.e.counterexamples that are unreachable

Jhinhwan Lee

As the fundamental quantum mechanical theory predicts, it is believed that electronic states can be bound only to potential wells and not to potential barriers in any dimension and their energies should be below the background potential. However, with the help of atomic lattice potentials with a flat electron band in momentum space in the background, an atom

Eric Luçon

The aim of the paper is to address the behavior in large population of diffusions interacting on a random, possibly diluted and inhomogeneous graph. This is the natural continuation of a previous work, where the homogeneous Erd\H os-R\'enyi case was considered. The class of graphs we consider includes disordered $W$-random graphs, with possibly unbounded gra

S. N. Vdovichev, N. S. Gusev, S. A. Gusev, L. I. Budarin

We experimentally study the interlayer interaction in a magnetic multilayer system ferromagnet/insulator/ferromagnet with different spacer thickness. We demonstrate that the sign and the magnitude of the interaction can be deduced from the FMR peak shape rather than from the FMR peak shift. The proposed technique allows studying the interlayer interaction us

K. Gopinadhan, S. Hu, A. Esfandiar, M. Lozada-Hidalgo

It has long been an aspirational goal to create artificial structures that allow fast permeation of water but reject even the smallest hydrated ions, replicating the feat achieved by nature in protein channels (e.g., aquaporins). Despite recent progress in creating nanoscale pores and capillaries, these structures still remain distinctly larger than protein

Chenfeng He

In this paper, by introducing a new operation in the vector space of analytic functions, the author presents a method for derivating the well-known formulas: $\zeta(1-k)=-\frac{B_k}{k}$ and $\zeta(1-n,a)=-\frac{B_n(a)}{n}$ , where $\zeta$, $\zeta(1-n,a)$ denote the Riemann zeta function and the Hurwitz zeta function respectively. $B_k$ is the $k$-th Bernoull

Catalin Badea, Laurian Suciu

We present some 2-isometric lifting and extension results for Hilbert space concave operators. For a special class of concave operators we study their Cauchy dual operators and discuss conditions under which these operators are subnormal. In particular, the quasinormality of compressions of such operators is studied.

Nazar Arakelian, Herivelto Borges, Pietro Speziali

For any smooth Hurwitz curve $\mathcal{H}_n: \, XY^n+YZ^n+X^nZ=0$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{p}$, an explict description of its Weierstrass points for the morphism of lines is presented. As a consequence, the full automorphism group ${\rm Aut}(\mathcal{H}_n)$, as well as the genera of all Galois subcovers of $\mathcal{H}_n$, with $n\neq 3, p^r$, are

Terence Tao

Let $H := \begin{pmatrix} 1 & {\mathbf R} & {\mathbf R} \\ 0 & 1 &{\mathbf R} \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$ denote the Heisenberg group with the usual Carnot-Carath\'eodory metric $d$. It is known (since the work of Pansu and Semmes) that the metric space $(H,d)$ cannot be embedded in a bilipchitz fashion into a Hilbert space; however, from a general theorem o

Maxim Yu. Khlopov

The modern Standard cosmological model of inflationary Unvierse and baryosynthesis deeply involves particle theory beyond the Standard model (BSM). Inevitably, models of BSM physics lead to cosmological scenarios beyond the Standard cosmological paradigm. Scenarios of dark atom cosmology in the context of puzzles of direct and indirect dark matter searches,

Alexander Hinsen, Christian Hirsch, Benedikt Jahnel, Elie Cali

The typical cell is a key concept for stochastic-geometry based modeling in communication networks, as it provides a rigorous framework for describing properties of a serving zone associated with a component selected at random in a large network. We consider a setting where network components are located on a large street network. While earlier investigation