January 2019 arXiv papers — page 49

Meng Yang

This thesis is about local and non-local Dirichlet forms on the Sierpiński gasket and the Sierpiński carpet. We are concerned with the following three problems in analysis on the Sierpiński gasket and the Sierpiński carpet. First, a unified purely \emph{analytic} construction of local regular Dirichlet forms on the Sierpiń-ski gasket and the Sierpiński carpe

A. T. Lytle, C. T. H. Davies, D. Hatton, G. P. Lepage

Lattice QCD provides several avenues for the high precision determination of quark masses. Using the RI-SMOM scheme applied to lattice calculations with the HISQ action, we obtain mass renormalisation factors that we use to provide strange and charm quark masses with 1% precision. The calculation involves the study of various sources of systematic uncertaint

Jean-Philippe Lenain

Blazars are jetted active galactic nuclei with a jet pointing close to the line of sight, hence enhancing their intrinsic luminosity and variability. Monitoring these sources is essential in order to catch them flaring and promptly organize follow-up multi-wavelength observations, which are key to providing rich data sets used to derive e.g., the emission me

Valerio Bioglio, Carlo Condo, Ingmar Land

Product codes are widespread in optical communications, thanks to their high throughput and good error-correction performance. Systematic polar codes have been recently considered as component codes for product codes. In this paper, we present a novel construction for product polar codes based on non-systematic polar codes. We prove that the resulting produc

Yoshikazu Giga, Ryota Nakayashiki, Piotr Rybka, Ken Shirakawa

We combine the total variation flow suitable for crystal modeling and image analysis with the dynamic boundary conditions. We analyze the behavior of facets at the parts of the boundary where these conditions are imposed. We devote particular attention to the radially symmetric data. We observe that the boundary layer detachment actually can happen at concav

Debarchan Das, Dariusz Kaczorowski

We report on the low-temperature physical properties of a novel compound Ce$_{11}$Pd$_4$In$_9$ that crystallizes with the orthorhombic Nd$_{11}$Pd$_4$In$_9$-type crystal structure (space group $Cmmm$). The compound exhibits ferromagnetic ordering at $T_{\rm {C}}$ = 18.6 K and an order-order transition at $T_{\rm {t}}$ $\sim$~1.6 K, as inferred from the low-t

Siniša Tomović, Zoran Ognjanović, Dragan Doder

We present a first-order probabilistic epistemic logic, which allows combining operators of knowledge and probability within a group of possibly infinitely many agents. The proposed framework is the first order extension of the logic of Fagin and Halpern from (J.ACM 41:340-367,1994). We define its syntax and semantics, and prove the strong completeness prope

Erkka Heino, Pekka T. Verronen, Antti Kero, Niilo Kalakoski

Solar proton events (SPEs) cause large-scale ionization in the middle atmosphere leading to ozone loss and changes in the energy budget of the middle atmosphere. The accurate implementation of SPEs and other particle ionization sources in climate models is necessary to understand the role of energetic particle precipitation (EPP) in climate variability. We u

Fabio Calefato, Christof Ebert

Editor Introduction: Today software engineering is characterized by two strong trends: agile and distributed. Both together are increasingly demanded and challenge teams and projects due to lack of discipline, insufficient transparency, agile "ping pong" and thus overheads and rework. Authors Fabio Calefato and I describe current technologies and too

S. Karmakar, S. K. Kundu, G. S. Taki

A novel route for the synthesis of large area graphene by an indigenously built electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) setup has been reported in this work. A unique 2.45 GHz permanent magnet type ECR PECVD system has been designed and developed for the growth of various nano-structures and films. The apparatus h

Vishnuvardhana. S. V., Venkatesha, S. K. Hui

The purpose of the present paper is to study semi-generalized recurrent, semi-generalized Ricci recurrent and conformal Ricci soliton on (LCS)n-manifold.

Debarchan Das, Daniel Gnida, Łukasz Bochenek, Andriy Rudenko

We present the results of our comprehensive investigation on the antiferromagnetic heavy-fermion superconductor Ce$_3$PtIn$_{11}$ carried out by means of electrical transport, heat capacity and ac magnetic susceptibility measurements, performed on single-crystalline specimens down to 50 mK in external magnetic fields up to 9~T. Our experimental results eluci

Peter Lewintan

In this paper we connect classical differential geometry with the concepts from geometric calculus. Moreover, we introduce and analyze a more general Laplacian for multivector-valued functions on manifolds. This allows us to formulate a higher codimensional analog of Jacobi`s field equation.

Tommi Brander

In the roleplaying game Tunnels & Trolls the characteristics of player characters are determined by rolling dice in the following manner: First, one rolls three dice and calculates their sum. If the three dice all give the same result, another three dice are rolled and added to the total. This is continued until the three dice no longer match. We calculate t

Kalevi Kilkki, Benjamin Finley

The area of quality of service (QoS) in communications networks has been the target of research for already several decades with tens of thousands of published journal and conference papers. However, the practical introduction of QoS systems in commercial networks has been limited (with a preference for simple overprovisioning). Despite this dissonance, most

Frederike Jaeger, Omar K. Matar, Erich A. Müller

Equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are used to investigate the effect of phase transitions on the transport properties of highly-confined water between parallel graphene sheets. An abrupt reduction by several orders of magnitude in the mobility of water is observed in strong confinement, as indicated by reduced diffusivity and increased shear viscosi

Jiaojiao Liu, Jin Dai, Jianfeng He, Xubiao Peng

We inquire to what extent protein peptide plane and side chain dynamics can be reconstructed from knowledge of C-alpha dynamics. Due to lack of experimental data we analyze all atom molecular dynamics trajectories from Anton supercomputer, and for clarity we limit our attention to the peptide plane O atoms and side chain C-beta atoms. We try and reconstruct

Silviu Maniu, Pierre Senellart, Suraj Jog

Treewidth is a parameter that measures how tree-like a relational instance is, and whether it can reasonably be decomposed into a tree. Many computation tasks are known to be tractable on databases of small treewidth, but computing the treewidth of a given instance is intractable. This article is the first large-scale experimental study of treewidth and tree

Sebastian Jäger, Sandra Kvedaraitė

The Kaon bag parameter, $B_K$, is a key non-perturbative ingredient in the search for new physics through CP-violation. It parameterizes the QCD hadronic matrix element of the effective weak $ΔS=2$ four-quark operator which can only be computed non-perturbatively on the lattice. The perturbative matching of $B_K$ between the lattice renormalization schemes a

Towe Wang

Assuming $ω=\sum_n C^{(n)}q^{2n}$ in the low-frequency limit, we apply the refined recipe to compute the dispersion relation of shear quasinormal modes of the Gauss-Bonnet black brane. Treating the Gauss-Bonnet parameter $\lagb$ nonperturbatively and the momentum $q$ perturbatively, we work out $C^{(1)}$, $C^{(2)}$, confirm previous results in the literature

Roland Jago, Ermin Malic, Florian Wendler

While the thermoelectric and photoconduction effects are crucial in pristine and low-doped graphene, the bolometric effect is known to dominate the photoresponse in biased graphene. Here, we present a detailed microscopic investigation of the photoresponse due to the bolometric effect in graphene. Based on the semiconductor Bloch equations, we investigate th

Taisiya Sigaeva, Elena Di Martino, Michel Destrade

The opening angle method is a most popular choice in biomechanics to estimate residual stresses in arteries. Experimentally, it means that an artery is cut into rings; then the rings are cut axially: they open up into sectors; and the corresponding opening angles are measured to give residual stress levels by solving an inverse problem. However, in the lab,

J. Terasaki

I propose a new method to determine the strength of the isoscalar proton-neutron pairing interaction by a mathematical identity derived in the quasiparticle random-phase approximation. This method is applied for a few nuclei possibly having the neutrinoless double-$β$ decay. Reduced half-life, the theoretical quantity necessary for determining the effective

Samin Aref

We analyse signed networks from the perspective of balance theory which predicts structural balance as a global structure for signed social networks that represent groups of friends and enemies. The scarcity of balanced networks encouraged us to define the notion of partial balance in order to quantify the extent to which a network is balanced. We evaluate s

Björn Ahlgren, Josefin Larsson, Erik Ahlberg, Christoffer Lundman

It has been suggested that the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) could be described by radiation from the photosphere in a hot fireball. Such models must be tested by directly fitting them to data. In this work we use data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and consider a specific photospheric model, in which kinetic energy of a low-magnetisat

R. K. Maurya, Davinder Singh

Here we investigate the mechanical behavior of the MnTiO3 ceramic. Nanoindentation tests in a manganese titanate polycrystalline sample were performed using a Berkovich indenter with a tip radius of 150 nm. On applying the load, it shows the elastic and plastic behavior. The work done during the elastic and plastic processes are 16757.78 μN.nm and 10045.72 μ

N. A. Silant'ev, G. A. Alekseeva, Yu. K. Ananjevskaja

We consider the influence of Faraday rotation in chaotic magnetic field on the intensity and linear polarization of multiple scattered radiation. All fluctuations are assumed as Gaussian type and isotropic. The values of magnetic field are less than $10^5$Gauss. In this case the parameter $ ω_B/ω=(eB/m_ec)/ω\simeq 0.93\cdot 10^{-8}λ$($μ$m)$B($G$)$ is small a

J. Terasaki

The neutrinoless double-$β$ decay is a hypothetical rare nuclear decay, which can be used for determining the neutrino-mass scale. The scheme to use this decay for determining the neutrino-mass scale is one of few limited methods possible to determine that. Nuclear matrix element of this decay is an important input to this method, and this matrix element can

Andreas Lenz, Paul H. Siegel, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Eitan Yaakobi

Motivated by DNA-based data storage, we investigate a system where digital information is stored in an unordered set of several vectors over a finite alphabet. Each vector begins with a unique index that represents its position in the whole data set and does not contain data. This paper deals with the design of error-correcting codes for such indexed sets in

Gilles Callebaut, Geoffrey Ottoy, Guus Leenders, Bart Thoen

Long range wireless connectivity opens the door for new IoT applications. Low energy consumption is essential to enable long autonomy of devices powered by batteries or even relying on harvested energy. This paper introduces technologies for long-distance interaction with energy-constraint embedded devices. It proposes sleepy strategies for power management

Pu Zhang, Zengyan Si, Jianglong Wu

Let $0<α<n$ and $M_α$ be the fractional maximal function. The nonlinear commutator of $M_α$ and a locally integrable function $b$ is given by $[b,M_α](f)=bM_α(f)-M_α(bf)$. In this paper, we mainly give some necessary and sufficient conditions for the boundedness of $[b,M_α]$ on variable Lebesgue spaces when $b$ belongs to Lipschitz or $BMO(\rn)$ spaces, by w

Hemanth Pruthvi, Nagaraju K., Ravindra B., K. B. Ramesh

Chromospheric magnetic fields are of paramount importance in understanding the dynamics of energetic events in the solar atmosphere. At the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, several polarimeters were developed in the past to study the active region magnetic fields. A new polarimeter has been developed and installed at Kodaikanal Tower-tunnel Telescope to study t

Soumya Basu, David Easley, Maureen O&#39;Hara, Emin Gün Sirer

Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies prioritize transactions based on their fees, creating a unique kind of fee market. Empirically, this market has failed to yield stable equilibria with predictable prices for desired levels of service. We argue that this is due to the absence of a dominant strategy equilibrium in the current fee mechanism. We propose an alter

Dongliang He, Xiang Zhao, Jizhou Huang, Fu Li

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or exhaustively ranking all possible clip-sentence pairs in a pre-segmented video, which inevitably suffer from exhaustively enumer

Duván Cardona, Michael Ruzhansky

In this paper we investigate the Besov spaces on compact Lie groups in a subelliptic setting, that is, associated with a family of vector fields, satisfying the Hörmander condition, and their corresponding sub-Laplacian. Embedding properties between subelliptic Besov spaces and Besov spaces associated to the Laplacian on the group are proved. We link the des

Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Kyrill Winkler

A nonsplit graph is a directed graph where each pair of nodes has a common incoming neighbor. We show that the radius of such graphs is in $O(\log \log n)$, where $n$ is the number of nodes. We then generalize the result to products of nonsplit graphs. The analysis of nonsplit graph products has direct implications in the context of distributed systems, wher

Pingping Zhang, Wei Liu, Huchuan Lu, Chunhua Shen

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to identify and locate the most salient pixels or regions in images, has been attracting more and more interest due to its various real-world applications. However, this vision task is quite challenging, especially under complex image scenes. Inspired by the intrinsic reflection of natural images, in this paper we p

Olena Karlova

We prove that if $X$ is a paracompact space, $Y$ is a metric space and $f:X\to Y$ is a functionally fragmented map, then (i) $f$ is $σ$-discrete and functionally $F_σ$-measurable; (ii) $f$ is a Baire-one function, if $Y$ is weak adhesive and weak locally adhesive for $X$; (iii) $f$ is countably functionally fragmented, if $X$ is Lindelöff. This result genera

Dongyang Xu, Pinyi Ren, James A. Ritcey

Due to the publicly known and deterministic characteristic of pilot tones, pilot authentication (PA) in multi-user multi-antenna orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems is very susceptible to the jamming/nulling/spoofing behaviors. To solve this, in this paper, we develop a hierarchical 2-D feature (H2DF) coding theory that exploits the hidden pil

Seiji Sakoda, Kohei Suzuki

On the basis of the canonical quantization procedure, in which we need the indefinite metric Hilbert space, we formulate field diagonal representation for the scalar Lee-Wick model. Euclidean path integral for the model is then constructed in terms of the eigenvector of field operators. Taking the quantum mechanical Lee-Wick model as an example, we demonstra

Mahesh Babu Vaddi, B. Sundar Rajan

Cycles and Cliques in a side-information graph reduce the number of transmissions required in an index coding problem. Thapa, Ong and Johnson defined a more general form of overlapping cycles, called the interlinked-cycle (IC) structure, that generalizes cycles and cliques. They proposed a scheme, that leverages IC structures in digraphs to construct scalar

Sumit Kumar, Wenhao Luo, George Kantor, Katia Sycara

A looming question that must be solved before robotic plant phenotyping capabilities can have significant impact to crop improvement programs is scalability. High Throughput Phenotyping (HTP) uses robotic technologies to analyze crops in order to determine species with favorable traits, however, the current practices rely on exhaustive coverage and data coll

Mateusz Michalkiewicz, Jhony K. Pontes, Dominic Jack, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Existing 3D surface representation approaches are unable to accurately classify pixels and their orientation lying on the boundary of an object. Thus resulting in coarse representations which usually require post-processing steps to extract 3D surface meshes. To overcome this limitation, we propose an end-to-end trainable model that directly predicts implici

Ali Hyder, Juncheng Wei

In this paper we study the following conformally invariant poly-harmonic equation $$Δ^mu=-u^\frac{3+2m}{3-2m}\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^3,\quad u>0,$$ with $m=2,3$. We prove the existence of positive smooth radial solutions with prescribed volume $\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} u^\frac{6}{3-2m}dx$. We show that the set of all possible values of the volume is a bounded i

Xinsheng Qin, Randall LeVeque, Michael Motley

Solving the shallow water equations efficiently is critical to the study of natural hazards induced by tsunami and storm surge, since it provides more response time in an early warning system and allows more runs to be done for probabilistic assessment where thousands of runs may be required. Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) speeds up the process by grea

Dhruva Kartik, Ashutosh Nayyar, Urbashi Mitra

An active hypothesis testing problem is formulated. In this problem, the agent can perform a fixed number of experiments and then decide on one of the hypotheses. The agent is also allowed to declare its experiments inconclusive if needed. The objective is to minimize the probability of making an incorrect inference (misclassification probability) while ensu

Jin-Xing Liu, Chun-Mei Feng, Xiang-Zhen Kong, Yong Xu

In the context of cancer, internal &#34;checkerboard&#34; structures are normally found in the matrices of gene expression data, which correspond to genes that are significantly up- or down-regulated in patients with specific types of tumors. In this paper, we propose a novel method, called dual graph-regularization principal component analysis (DGPCA). The

Vladimir Petrov Kostov, Boris Zalmanovich Shapiro

Below we summarize some new developments in the area of distribution of roots and signs of real univariate polynomials pioneered by R.~Descartes in the middle of the 17-th century.

Min-Oh Jeong, Song-Nam Hong

In this paper, we present a novel decoding algorithm of a polar code, named SC-Fano decoding, by appropriately incorporating the Fano sequential decoding into the standard successive-cancellation (SC) decoding. The proposed SC-Fano decoding follows the basic procedures of SC decoding with an additional operation to evaluate the reliability (or belief) of a c

Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

The observation of gravitational-waves from merging supermassive black holes will be transformative: the detection of a low-frequency gravitational-wave background can tell us if and how supermassive black holes merge, inform our knowledge of galaxy merger rates and supermassive black hole masses, and enable the possibility of detecting new physics at nanohe

Yu Tian, WanSheng Xiao, DaYong Tan, YunHong He

The non-traditional compound KO4 still existing at ambient conditions was synthesized by the reaction of KCl-O2 under high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) using the diamond anvil cell and the laser heating technology. The KCl-O2 sample was heated at 37 GPa (1800 K) and then the products were measured by Raman technology at room temperature. The acquired

Chunyu Wu, Ze Sun, Xu Wang, Yansheng Wang

Infinitesimal electric and magnetic dipoles are widely used as an equivalent radiating source model. In this paper, an improved method for dipole extraction from magnitude-only electromagnetic-field data based on genetic algorithm and back-and-forth iteration algorithm [1] is proposed. Compared with conventional back-and-forth iteration algorithm, this metho

Jack Collins, Ben Cottier, David Howard

We compare two representations used to define the morphology of legs for a hexapod robot, which are subsequently 3D printed. A leg morphology occupies a set of voxels in a voxel grid. One method, a direct representation, uses a collection of Bezier splines. The second, an indirect method, utilises CPPN-NEAT. In our first experiment, we investigate two strate

Jianan Li, Jimei Yang, Aaron Hertzmann, Jianming Zhang

Layout is important for graphic design and scene generation. We propose a novel Generative Adversarial Network, called LayoutGAN, that synthesizes layouts by modeling geometric relations of different types of 2D elements. The generator of LayoutGAN takes as input a set of randomly-placed 2D graphic elements and uses self-attention modules to refine their lab

Guoxian Song, Jianfei Cai, Tat-Jen Cham, Jianmin Zheng

Teleconference or telepresence based on virtual reality (VR) headmount display (HMD) device is a very interesting and promising application since HMD can provide immersive feelings for users. However, in order to facilitate face-to-face communications for HMD users, real-time 3D facial performance capture of a person wearing HMD is needed, which is a very ch

Anh Duc Le, Bipin Indurkhya, Masaki Nakagawa

Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (HMEs) is a challenging problem because of the ambiguity and complexity of two-dimensional handwriting. Moreover, the lack of large training data is a serious issue, especially for academic recognition systems. In this paper, we propose pattern generation strategies that generate shape and structural variat

Jesús Juyumaya

Notes based on lessons given at {\sc Escuela &#34; Fico González Acuña&#34; de Nudos y 3-variedades}, Mérida Yucatán, México, 7--10 (2015) and {\sc Encuentro de nudos, trenzas y álgebras}, Oaxaca--México, 3--10 October (2018).

SHAN Lu, Wei Hou, Jun Cheng, Hiroshi Kamabe

In this paper, we proposed a construction of a UD $k$-ary $T$-user coding scheme for MAAC. We first give a construction of $k$-ary $T^{f+g}$-user UD code from a $k$-ary $T^{f}$-user UD code and a $k^{\pm}$-ary $T^{g}$-user difference set with its two component sets $\mathcal{D}^{+}$ and $\mathcal{D}^{-}$ {\em a priori}. Based on the $k^{\pm}$-ary $T^{g}$-use

M. Faiz, R. P. Panguluri, B. Nadgorny, B. Balke

The behavior of spin propagation in metals in various measurement schemes is shown to be qualitatively different than a simple exponential decay - due to the backflow effect on spin diffusion in the presence of interfaces. To probe this effect we utilize the spin sensitivity of an Andreev contact between gold films of variable thickness deposited on top of a

Xinwei Yue, Zhijin Qin, Yuanwei Liu, Shaoli Kang

This paper proposes a unified framework of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks. Stochastic geometry is employed to model the locations of spatially NOMA users. The proposed unified NOMA framework is capable of being applied to both code-domain NOMA (CD-NOMA) and power-domain NOMA (PD-NOMA). Since the detection of NOMA users mainly depend on effici

Gang Hu, K. C. S. Kwok

Numerous studies have been carried out to measure wind pressures around circular cylinders since the early 20th century due to its engineering significance. Consequently, a large amount of wind pressure data sets have accumulated, which presents an excellent opportunity for using machine learning (ML) techniques to train models to predict wind pressures arou

Lukas Hewing, Kim P. Wabersich, Melanie N. Zeilinger

We present a stochastic model predictive control (MPC) method for linear discrete-time systems subject to possibly unbounded and correlated additive stochastic disturbance sequences. Chance constraints are treated in analogy to robust MPC using the concept of probabilistic reachable sets for constraint tightening. We introduce an initialization of each MPC i

Jens Kruschwitz, Martin Lind, Adrian Muntean, Omar Richardson

We develop and implement a numerical model to simulate the effect of photovoltaic asphalt on reducing the concentration of nitrogen monoxide due to the presence of heavy traffic in an urban environment. The contributions in this paper are threefold: we model and simulate the spread and breakdown of pollution in an urban environment, we provide a parameter es

Pedro H. J. Nardelli, Hirley Alves, Antti Pinomaa, Sohail Wahid

This paper investigates the possibility of building the Energy Internet via a packetized management of non-industrial loads. The proposed solution is based on the cyber-physical implementation of energy packets where flexible loads send use requests to an energy server. Based on the existing literature, we explain how and why this approach could scale up to

Mathieu Dahan, Saurabh Amin

This article considers a two-player strategic game for network routing under link disruptions. Player 1 (defender) routes flow through a network to maximize her value of effective flow while facing transportation costs. Player 2 (attacker) simultaneously disrupts one or more links to maximize her value of lost flow but also faces cost of disrupting links. Li

Pär Kurlberg, Lior Rosenzweig

We prove a Polya-Vinogradov type variation of the the Chebotarev density theorem for function fields over finite fields valid for "incomplete intervals" $I \subset \mathbb{F}_p$, provided $(p^{1/2}\log p)/|I| = o(1)$. Applications include density results for irreducible trinomials in $\mathbb{F}_p[x]$, i.e. the number of irreducible polynomials in the set $\

Motoaki Bamba, Xinwei Li, Junichiro Kono

Traditionally, strong-field physics explores phenomena in matter (atoms, molecules, and solids) driven by an extremely strong laser field nonperturbatively. However, even in the complete absence of an external electromagnetic field, strong-field phenomena can arise when matter strongly couples with the zero-point field of the quantum vacuum state, i.e., fluc

Olena Burkovska, Max Gunzburger

We consider parametrized problems driven by spatially nonlocal integral operators with parameter-dependent kernels. In particular, kernels with varying nonlocal interaction radius $\delta > 0$ and fractional Laplace kernels, parametrized by the fractional power $s\in(0,1)$, are studied. In order to provide an efficient and reliable approximation of the solut

Aquib Mustafa, Majid Mazouchi, Hamidreza Modares

In this paper, we analyze the adverse effects of cyber-physical attacks as well as mitigate their impacts on the event-triggered distributed Kalman filter (DKF). We first show that although event-triggered mechanisms are highly desirable, the attacker can leverage the event-triggered mechanism to cause non-triggering misbehavior which significantly harms the

Jamison Barsotti

Given a finite group $G$, its double Burnside ring $B(G,G)$, has a natural duality operation that arises from considering opposite $(G,G)$-bisets. In this article, we systematically study the subgroup of units of $B(G,G)$, where elements are inverse to their dual, so called orthogonal units. We show the existence of an inflation map that embeds the group of

Chunmei Wang, Ludmil Zikatanov

We propose a numerical method for convection-diffusion problems under low regularity assumptions. We derive the method and analyze it using the primal-dual weak Galerkin (PDWG) finite element framework. The Euler-Lagrange formulation resulting from the PDWG scheme yields a system of equations involving not only the equation for the primal variable but also i

Ilya Vorobyev

Group testing is a well-known search problem that consists in detecting of $s$ defective members of a set of $t$ samples by carrying out tests on properly chosen subsets of samples. In classical group testing the goal is to find all defective elements by using the minimal possible number of tests in the worst case. In this work, two-stage group testing is co

Serkan Sarıtaş, Philippe Furrer, Sinan Gezici, Tamás Linder

We investigate the equilibrium behavior for the decentralized quadratic cheap talk problem in which an encoder and a decoder, viewed as two decision makers, have misaligned objective functions. In prior work, we have shown that the number of bins under any equilibrium has to be at most countable, generalizing a classical result due to Crawford and Sobel who

Ágnes Cseh, Tamás Fleiner, Petra Harján

We tackle the problem of partitioning players into groups of fixed size, such as allocating eligible students to shared dormitory rooms. Each student submits preferences over the other individual students. We study several settings, which differ in the size of the rooms to be filled, the orderedness or completeness of the preferences, and the way of calculat

Stanislaw Migorski, Akhtar A. Khan, Shengda Zeng

The primary objective of this research is to investigate an inverse problem of parameter identification in nonlinear mixed quasi-variational inequalities posed in a Banach space setting. By using a fixed point theorem, we explore properties of the solution set of the considered quasi-variational inequality. We develop a general regularization framework to gi

S. Lherminier, R. Planet, V. Levy dit Vehel, G. Simon

We introduce a shear experiment that quantitatively reproduces the main laws of seismicity. By continuously and slowly shearing a compressed monolayer of disks in a ring-like geometry, our system delivers events of frictional failures with energies following a Gutenberg-Richter law. Moreover foreshocks and aftershocks are described by Omori laws and inter-ev

Martin Friesen, Yuri Kondratiev

The main aim of this work is to establish an averaging principle for a wide class of interacting particle systems in the continuum. This principle is an important step in the analysis of Markov evolutions and is usually applied for the associated semigroups related to backward Kolmogorov equations, c.f. [Kur73]. Our approach is based on the study of forward

Suhas S Kowshik, Yury Polyanskiy

Consider a (multiple-access) wireless communication system where users are connected to a unique base station over a shared-spectrum radio links. Each user has a fixed number $k$ of bits to send to the base station, and his signal gets attenuated by a random channel gain (quasi-static fading). In this paper we consider the many-user asymptotics of Chen-Chen-

Gabi Pragier, Yoel Shkolnisky

One of the challenges in single particle reconstruction in cryo-electron microscopy is to find a three-dimensional model of a molecule using its two-dimensional noisy projection-images. In this paper, we propose a robust "angular reconstitution" algorithm for molecules with $n$-fold cyclic symmetry, that estimates the orientation parameters of the projection

Rasmus Kyng, Kyle Luh, Zhao Song

We prove a matrix discrepancy bound that strengthens the famous Kadison-Singer result of Marcus, Spielman, and Srivastava. Consider any independent scalar random variables $\xi_1, \ldots, \xi_n$ with finite support, e.g. $\{ \pm 1 \}$ or $\{ 0,1 \}$-valued random variables, or some combination thereof. Let $u_1, \dots, u_n \in \mathbb{C}^m$ and $$ \sigma^2 =

Hsuan-Yin Lin, Siddhartha Kumar, Eirik Rosnes, Alexandre Graell i Amat

Private information retrieval (PIR) protocols make it possible to retrieve a file from a database without disclosing any information about the identity of the file being retrieved. These protocols have been rigorously explored from an information-theoretic perspective in recent years. While existing protocols strictly impose that no information is leaked on

Nicolò Zagni, Paolo Pavan, Muhammad Ashraf Alam

The successful detection of biomolecules by a Field Effect Transistor-based biosensor (BioFET) is dictated by the sensor's intrinsic Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). The detection limit of a traditional BioFET is fundamentally limited by biomolecule diffusion, charge screening, linear charge to surface-potential transduction, and Flicker noise. In this paper, we

O. Malaeb, C. Saghir

We present the Hamiltonian formulation of the Ghost Free Mimetic Massive Gravity theory. The linearized theory is studied and the Hamiltonian equations of motion are analyzed. Poisson brackets are computed and closure is proved. To prove that this theory is ghost-free, the number of degrees of freedom is analyzed showing that we have only five degrees of fre

CMS Collaboration

A search for supersymmetry is presented based on events with at least one photon, jets, and large missing transverse momentum produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ and were recorded at the LHC with the CMS detector in 2016. The analysis characterizes signal

Janosch Doecker, Simone Linz, Charles Semple

Phylogenetic trees canonically arise as embeddings of phylogenetic networks. We recently showed that the problem of deciding if two phylogenetic networks embed the same sets of phylogenetic trees is computationally hard, \blue{in particular, we showed it to be $\Pi^P_2$-complete}. In this paper, we establish a polynomial-time algorithm for this decision prob

N. Falstad, F. Hallqvist, S. Aalto, S. König

Understanding the nuclear growth and feedback processes in galaxies requires investigating their often obscured central regions. One way to do this is to use (sub)millimeter line emission from vibrationally excited HCN (HCN-vib). It has been suggested that the most intense HCN-vib emission from a galaxy is connected to a phase of nuclear growth that occurs b

Matthias Beck, Maryam Farahmand, Gina Karunaratne, Sandra Zuniga Ruiz

Motivated by Dohmen-P\"onitz-Tittmann's bivariate chromatic polynomial $\chi_G(x,y)$, which counts all $x$-colorings of a graph $G$ such that adjacent vertices get different colors if they are $\le y$, we introduce a bivarate version of Stanley's order polynomial, which counts order preserving maps from a given poset to a chain. Our results include decomposi

Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Raphaël Proux, Raphaël Picard, Daniel Andres-Penares

Van der Waals materials offer a wide range of atomic layers with unique properties that can be easily combined to engineer novel electronic and photonic devices. A missing ingredient of the van der Waals platform is a two-dimensional crystal with naturally occurring out-of-plane luminescent dipole orientation. Here we measure the far-field photoluminescence

Long Pei

We improve the decay argument by [Bona and Li, J. Math. Pures Appl., 1997] for solitary waves of general dispersive equations and illustrate it in the proof for the exponential decay of solitary waves to steady Degasperis-Procesi equation in the nonlocal formulation. In addition, we give a method which confirms the symmetry of solitary waves of the maximum h

I H Hutchinson

A detailed comparison is presented of analytical and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation investigation of the transverse instability, in two dimensions, of initially one-dimensional electron phase-space hole equilibria. Good quantitative agreement is found between the shift-mode analysis and the simulations for the magnetic field ($B$) threshold at which the i

Anirudha Menon, Banasri Basu

We study the effect of a perpendicular magnetic fieldBon a multinode Weyl semimetal (mWSM)of arbitrary integer monopole chargen, with the two Weyl multinodes separated ink-space. Besides type-I mWSMs, there exist type-II mWSMs which are characterized by the tilted minimal dispersion for low-energy excitations; the Weyl points in type-II mWSMs are still prote

Marcia Fampa, Daniela Cristina Lubke, Fei Wang, Henry Wolkowicz

We consider a parametric convex quadratic programming, CQP, relaxation for the quadratic knapsack problem, QKP. This relaxation maintains partial quadratic information from the original QKP by perturbing the objective function to obtain a concave quadratic term. The nonconcave part generated by the perturbation is then linearized by a standard approach that

Suela Isaj, Torben Bach Pedersen

Geo-social data has been an attractive source for a variety of problems such as mining mobility patterns, link prediction, location recommendation, and influence maximization. However, new geo-social data is increasingly unavailable and suffers several limitations. In this paper, we aim to remedy the problem of effective data extraction from geo-social data

Li Chen, Hailun Ding, Qi Li, Zhuo Li

Understanding the internal representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) is crucal to explain their behavior. The interpretation of individual units, which are neurons in MLPs or convolution kernels in convolutional networks, has been paid much attention given their fundamental role. However, recent research (Morcos et al. 2018) presented a counterintuitive

Brian Davis, Umang Bhatt, Kartikeya Bhardwaj, Radu Marculescu

In this paper, we present a new approach to interpret deep learning models. By coupling mutual information with network science, we explore how information flows through feedforward networks. We show that efficiently approximating mutual information allows us to create an information measure that quantifies how much information flows between any two neurons

Ilya Khayutin

Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be a number field of degree $n$. We show that if $\operatorname{Reg}(E)\ll_n |\operatorname{Disc}(E)|^{1/4}$ then the fraction of class group characters for which the Hecke $L$-function does not vanish at the central point is $\gg_{n,\varepsilon} |\operatorname{Disc}|^{-1/4-\varepsilon}$. The proof is an interplay between almost equidistri

Benyamin Ghojogh, Aydin Ghojogh, Mark Crowley, Fakhri Karray

This paper is a step-by-step tutorial for fitting a mixture distribution to data. It merely assumes the reader has the background of calculus and linear algebra. Other required background is briefly reviewed before explaining the main algorithm. In explaining the main algorithm, first, fitting a mixture of two distributions is detailed and examples of fittin

Matteo Campo, Simon K. Schnyder, John J. Molina, Thomas Speck

The migration of cells is relevant for processes such as morphogenesis, wound healing, and invasion of cancer cells. In order to move, single cells deform cyclically. However, it is not understood how these shape oscillations influence collective properties. Here we demonstrate, using numerical simulations, that the interplay of directed motion, shape oscill

Yuri Santos Rego

Given a commutative unital ring $R$, we show that the finiteness length of a group $G$ is bounded above by the finiteness length of the Borel subgroup of rank one $\mathbf{B}_2^\circ(R)=\left( \begin{smallmatrix} * & * \\ 0 & * \end{smallmatrix} \right)\leq\mathrm{SL}_2(R)$ whenever $G$ admits certain $R$-representations with metabelian image. Combined with

Mario Ullrich, Jan Vybíral

The dispersion of a point set $P\subset[0,1]^d$ is the volume of the largest box with sides parallel to the coordinate axes, which does not intersect $P$. Here, we show a construction of low-dispersion point sets, which can be deduced from solutions of certain $k$-restriction problems, which are well-known in coding theory. It was observed only recently that