February 2019 arXiv papers — page 14

Spiros A. Argyros, Pavlos Motakis

Let $(e_i)_i$ denote the unit vector basis of $\ell_p$, $1\leq p< \infty$, or $c_0$. We construct a reflexive Banach space with an unconditional basis that admits $(e_i)_i$ as a uniformly unique spreading model while it has no subspace with a unique asymptotic model, and hence it has no asymptotic-$\ell_p$ or $c_0$ subspace. This solves a problem of E. Odell

Amrita Ghosh, Satyaki Kar, Sudhakar Yarlagadda

We use Quantum Monte Carlo method employing stochastic-series-expansion technique to study the ground state properties of the $t_2-V_1$ model on a square lattice. We find that, away from half-fillings, the minimal combination of nearest-neighbor repulsion $V_1$ and next-nearest-neighbor hopping $t_2$ may give rise to checkerboard supersolidity. The nature of

Alexander A. Kaurov, Liang Dai, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Jordi Miralda-Escudé

We examine a caustic-straddling arc at $z=0.9397$ in the field of the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 ($z=0.397$) using archival multiband HST images and show that its surface brightness exhibits anomalies that can be explained by a single highly magnified star undergoing microlensing. First, we show that the surface brightness pattern is not perfectly symm

Branislav Kveton, Csaba Szepesvari, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Craig Boutilier

We propose an online algorithm for cumulative regret minimization in a stochastic multi-armed bandit. The algorithm adds $O(t)$ i.i.d. pseudo-rewards to its history in round $t$ and then pulls the arm with the highest average reward in its perturbed history. Therefore, we call it perturbed-history exploration (PHE). The pseudo-rewards are carefully designed

C. Ashall, E. Y. Hsiao, P. Hoeflich, M. Stritzinger

We present the $H$-band wavelength region of thirty post-maximum light near-infrared (NIR) spectra of fourteen transitional and sub-luminous type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), extending from $+$5d to +20d relative to the epoch of $B$-band maximum. We introduce a new observable, the blue-edge velocity, $v_{edge}$, of the prominent Fe/Co/Ni-peak $H$-band emission fe

S. Di Giorgio, P. Mateus, B. Mera

We address the problem of compressing density operators defined on a finite dimensional Hilbert space which assumes a tensor product decomposition. In particular, we look for an efficient procedure for learning the most likely density operator, according to Jaynes' principle, given a chosen set of partial information obtained from the unknown quantum system

Alexander Kott, Ethan Stump

Numerous, artificially intelligent, networked things will populate the battlefield of the future, operating in close collaboration with human warfighters, and fighting as teams in highly adversarial environments. This chapter explores the characteristics, capabilities and intelli-gence required of such a network of intelligent things and humans - Internet of

Sophie F. Weber, Sinéad M. Griffin, Jeffrey B. Neaton

Using first-principles calculations we examine the band structures of ferromagnetic hexagonal manganites $\mathrm{YXO_3}$ (X=V, Cr, Mn, Fe and Co) in the nonpolar nonsymmorphic $P6_3/mmc$ space group. For $\mathrm{YVO_3}$ and $\mathrm{YCrO_3}$ we find a band inversion near the Fermi energy that generates a nodal ring in the $k_z=0$ mirror plane. We perform a

James R. Cruise, Fraser Daly, Bemsibom Toh

Consider a queueing system fed by traffic from $N$ independent and identically distributed marked point processes. We establish several novel sample path large deviations results in the scaled uniform topology for such a system with a small buffer. This includes both the heavily loaded case (the load grows as $N\rightarrow\infty$) and the previously unexplor

Jochen Arlt, Vincent A Martinez, Angela Dawson, Teuta Pilizota

Self-propelled colloids constitute an important class of intrinsically non-equilibrium matter. Typically, such a particle moves ballistically at short times, but eventually changes its orientation, and displays random-walk behavior in the long-time limit. Theory predicts that if the velocity of non-interacting swimmers varies spatially in 1D, $v(x)$, then th

C. Peruzzo, D. T. Cao, E. Milanese, P. Favia

Analytical solutions and a vast majority of numerical ones for fracture propagation in saturated porous media yield smooth behavior while experiments, field observations and a few numerical solutions reveal stepwise crack advancement and pressure oscillations. To explain this fact, we invoke self-organization of rupture observed in fracturing solids, both dr

Hamid Farhadi, Eghbal Ghaderi, Hoger Ghahramani

Let $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{U}$ be Banach algebras and $\theta$ be a nonzero character on $\mathcal{A}$. Then the \textit{Lau product Banach algebra} $\mathcal{A}\times_{\theta}\mathcal{U}$ associated with the Banach algebras $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{U}$ is the $l^1$-direct sum $\mathcal{A}\oplus\mathcal{U}$ equipped with the algebra multiplication $(

Nicolas Durrande, Vincent Adam, Lucas Bordeaux, Stefanos Eleftheriadis

Banded matrices can be used as precision matrices in several models including linear state-space models, some Gaussian processes, and Gaussian Markov random fields. The aim of the paper is to make modern inference methods (such as variational inference or gradient-based sampling) available for Gaussian models with banded precision. We show that this can effi

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for new particles decaying into a pair of top quarks is performed using proton-proton collision data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = $13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$. Events consistent with top-quark pair production and the fully hadronic decay

Sandip Mondal, V Venkataraman

Intrinsic charge trap capacitive non-volatile flash memories take a significant share of the semiconductor electronics market today. It is a challenge to create intrinsic traps in the dielectric layer without high temperature processing steps. While low temperature processed memory devices fabricated from polymers have been demonstrated as an alternative, th

Anders Björn, Jana Björn, Ismail Mirumbe

It was shown in Bj\"orn--Bj\"orn--Korte ("Minima of quasisuperminimizers", Nonlinear Anal. 155 (2017), 264-284) that $u:=\min\{u_1,u_2\}$ is a $\overline{Q}$-quasisuperminimizer if $u_1$ and $u_2$ are $Q$-quasisuperminimizers and $\overline{Q}=2Q^2/(Q+1)$. Moreover, one-dimensional examples therein show that $\overline{Q}$ is close to optimal. In this paper

Maurizio Reduzzi, Paolo Carpeggiani, Sergei Kühn, Francesca Calegari

We review the main research directions ongoing in the development of high-harmonic generation-based extreme ultraviolet sources for the synthesization and application of trains and isolated attosecond pulses to time-resolved spectroscopy. A few experimental and theoretical works will be discussed in connection to well-established attosecond techniques. In th

Franco Flandoli, Dejun Luo

We show that the invariant measure of point vortices, when conditioning the Hamiltonian to a finite interval, converges weakly to the enstrophy measure by conditioning the renormalized energy to the same interval. We also prove the existence of solutions to 2D Euler equations having the energy conditional measure as invariant measure. Some heuristic discussi

Volodimir Begy, Joeri Hermans, Martin Barisits, Mario Lassnig

The data access patterns of applications running in computing grids are changing due to the recent proliferation of high speed local and wide area networks. The data-intensive jobs are no longer strictly required to run at the computing sites, where the respective input data are located. Instead, jobs may access the data employing arbitrary combinations of d

Nora Hollenstein, Ce Zhang

Previous research shows that eye-tracking data contains information about the lexical and syntactic properties of text, which can be used to improve natural language processing models. In this work, we leverage eye movement features from three corpora with recorded gaze information to augment a state-of-the-art neural model for named entity recognition (NER)

T. Krähenmann, S. G. Fischer, M. Röösli, T. Ihn

Quantum Hall edge channels offer an efficient and controllable platform to study quantum transport in one dimension. Such channels are a prospective tool for the efficient transfer of quantum information at the nanoscale, and play a vital role in exposing intriguing physics. Electric current along the edge carries energy and heat leading to inelastic scatter

D. Cordero-Erausquin, B. Klartag, Q. Merigot, F. Santambrogio

We present a short proof of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for mixed volumes of convex bodies.

Liwen Zhang, Jiqing Han

The performance of an Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) system is highly depending on the latent temporal dynamics of the audio signal. In this paper, we proposed a multiple layers temporal pooling method using CNN feature sequence as in-put, which can effectively capture the temporal dynamics for an entire audio signal with arbitrary duration by building

Beibei Liu, Chris W. Ormel, Anders Johansen

Streaming instability is a key mechanism in planet formation, clustering pebbles into planetesimals. It is triggered at a particular disk location where the local volume density of solids exceeds that of the gas. After their formation, planetesimals can grow by feeding from other planetesimals in the birth ring as well as by accreting inwardly drifting pebbl

Peng Yin, Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan, Yin Chen, Xueqian Li

Place recognition and loop closure detection are challenging for long-term visual navigation tasks. SeqSLAM is considered to be one of the most successful approaches to achieving long-term localization under varying environmental conditions and changing viewpoints. It depends on a brute-force, time-consuming sequential matching method. We propose MRS-VPR, a

Peng Yin, Lingyun Xu, Xueqian Li, Chen Yin

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an important component in both computer vision and robotics applications, thanks to its ability to determine whether a place has been visited and where specifically. A major challenge in VPR is to handle changes of environmental conditions including weather, season and illumination. Most VPR methods try to improve the place

D. Sokolovski, X. Gutiérrez de la Cal, M. Pons

It is known that under resonance conditions, a group of strongly interacting bosonic atoms, trapped in a double-well potential, mimics a single particle, performing Rabi oscillations between the wells. By implication, all atoms need to tunnel at roughly the same time, even though the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian accounts only for one-atom-at-a-time transfers. We

J. R. Yusupov, K. K. Sabirov, M. Ehrhardt, D. U. Matrasulov

We consider the reflectionless transport of solitons in networks. The system is modeled in terms of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on metric graphs, for which transparent boundary conditions at the branching points are imposed. This allows to derive simple constraints, which link equivalent usual Kirchhoff-type vertex conditions to the transparent ones

Joydeep Mitra, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath

UX (user experience) designers visually capture the UX of an app via storyboards. This method is also used in Android app development to conceptualize and design apps. Recently, security has become an integral part of Android app UX because mobile apps are used to perform critical activities such as banking, communication, and health. Therefore, securing use

Sergei Sergeev, Zhengliang Liu

We consider the tropical analogues of a particular bilevel optimization problem studied by Dempe and Franke and suggest some methods of solving these new tropical bilevel optimization problems. In particular, it is found that the algorithm developed by Dempe and Franke can be formulated and its validity can be proved in a more general setting, which includes

Ding Ma, Xiangqian Wu

The critical challenge in tracking-by-detection framework is how to avoid drift problem during online learning, where the robust features for a variety of appearance changes are difficult to be learned and a reasonable intersection over union (IoU) threshold that defines the true/false positives is hard to set. This paper presents the TCDCaps method to addre

S. M. Bilenky

First ideas of neutrino masses, mixing and oscillations proposed by Bruno Pontecorvo in 1957 and later development of these ideas are considered in some details. Original ideas of the two-neutrino mixing proposed by Maki, Nakagawa and Sakata in 1962 are also discussed.

Daniel R. Ladiges, Andrew J. Nonaka, John B. Bell, Alejandro L. Garcia

A fluid in a non-equilibrium state exhibits long-ranged correlations of its hydrodynamic fluctuations. In this article, we examine the effect of a transpiration interface on these correlations -- specifically, we consider a dilute gas in a domain bisected by the interface. The system is held in a non-equilibrium steady state by using isothermal walls to impo

Ahmad Biniaz

The unit disk graph (UDG) is a widely employed model for the study of wireless networks. In this model, wireless nodes are represented by points in the plane and there is an edge between two points if and only if their Euclidean distance is at most one. A hop spanner for the UDG is a spanning subgraph $H$ such that for every edge $(p,q)$ in the UDG the topol

Clément Tauber, Pierre Delplace, Antoine Venaille

Topology plays an increasing role in physics beyond the realm of topological insulators in condensed mater. From geophysical fluids to active matter, acoustics or photonics, a growing family of systems presents topologically protected chiral edge modes. The number of such modes should coincide with the bulk topological invariant (e.g. Chern number) defined f

Gabriel Necoechea, Natasha Rozhkovskaya

We connect twisted vertex operator presentation of Hall-Littlewood polynomials with the action of charged free fermions, describe a boson-fermion correspondence that relates twisted vertex operators with classical Heisenberg algebra. We also show that the elements of the orthogonal to Schur functions basis of the one-parameter deformation of the ring of symm

Alejandro Torres-Forné, Pablo Cerdá-Durán, Martin Obergaulinger, Bernhard Müller

State-of-the-art numerical simulations of core-collapse supernovae reveal that the main source of gravitational waves is the excitation of proto-neutron star modes during post-bounce evolution. In this work we derive universal relations that relate the frequencies of the most common oscillation modes observed, i.e. g-modes, p-modes and the f-mode, with funda

Daikang Yan, Lisa M. Gades, Tejas Guruswamy, Umeshkumar M. Patel

Transition-edge sensors are a type of superconducting detector that offers high energy resolution based on their sharp resistance-temperature feature in the superconducting-to-normal transition. TES X-ray microcalorimeters have typically been designed and used for spectroscopic applications. In this work, we present a design optimization for a TES X-ray micr

Moez A. AbdelGawad

Recently we presented a concise survey of the formulation of the induction and coinduction principles, and some concepts related to them, in programming languages type theory and four other mathematical disciplines. The presentation in type theory involved the separate formulation of these concepts, first, in the theory of types of functional programming lan

Jeremy F Alm

In this paper, we give an algorithm for detecting non-trivial 3-APs in multiplicative subgroups of $\mathbb{F}_p^\times$ that is substantially more efficient than the naive approach. It follows that certain Var der Waerden-like numbers can be computed in polynomial time.

LAT collaboration

We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it is the deepest yet in this energy range. Relative to the 3FGL catalog, the 4FGL catalog has twice as much exposure as well as a numbe

Tomasz R. Bielecki, Igor Cialenco, Marcin Pitera, Thorsten Schmidt

In this paper we develop a novel methodology for estimation of risk capital allocation. The methodology is rooted in the theory of risk measures. We work within a general, but tractable class of law-invariant coherent risk measures, with a particular focus on expected shortfall. We introduce the concept of fair capital allocations and provide explicit formul

Moez A. AbdelGawad

Recently we presented a concise survey of the formulation of the induction and coinduction principles, and some concepts related to them, in five different fields mathematical fields, hence shedding some light on the precise relation between these fields. In this article we present few tutorial examples---from set theory, number theory and real analysis---th

Andrew Carr, David Wingate

We introduce Graph Neural Processes (GNP), inspired by the recent work in conditional and latent neural processes. A Graph Neural Process is defined as a Conditional Neural Process that operates on arbitrary graph data. It takes features of sparsely observed context points as input, and outputs a distribution over target points. We demonstrate graph neural p

Mikhail Raskin

Population protocols are a model of distributed computation intended for the study of networks of independent computing agents with dynamic communication structure. Each agent has a finite number of states, and communication opportunities occur nondeterministically, allowing the agents involved to change their states based on each other's states. In the pres

Daisuke Inoue

In this paper, we will construct new examples of derived equivalent Calabi--Yau 3-folds with Picard number greater than one. We also study their mirror Calabi--Yau manifolds and find that they are given by Schoen's fiber products of suitable rational elliptic modular surfaces.

Junsei Tokuda

We derive positivity bounds on low energy effective field theories which admit gapped, analytic, unitary, Lorentz invariant, and possibly non-local UV completions, by considering 2 to 2 scatterings of Jaffe fields whose Lehmann-K\"{a}ll\'{e}n spectral density can grow exponentially. Several properties of S-matrix, such as analyticity properties, are assumed

Manuel Friedrich, Martin Kružík

We apply a quasistatic nonlinear model for nonsimple viscoelastic materials at a finite-strain setting in the Kelvin's-Voigt's rheology to derive a viscoelastic plate model of von K\'arm\'an type. We start from time-discrete solutions to a model of three-dimensional viscoelasticity where the viscosity stress tensor complies with the principle of time-continu

Jialun Li, Gangcheng Wang, Ruoqi Xiao, Chunfang Sun

Multi-qubit quantum Rabi model, which is a fundamental model describing light-matter interaction, plays an important role in various physical systems. In this paper, we propose a theoretical method to simulate multi-qubit quantum Rabi model in a circuit quantum electrodynamics system. By means of external transversal and longitudinal driving fields, an effec

Nicola Cinardi, Andrea Rapisarda, Ginestra Bianconi

Growing network models have been shown to display emergent quantum statistics when nodes are associated to a fitness value describing the intrinsic ability of a node to acquire new links. Recently it has been shown that quantum statistics emerge also in a growing simplicial complex model called Network Geometry with Flavor which allow for the description of

Federico Grasselli, Marcos Curty

Twin-Field (TF) quantum key distribution (QKD) represents a novel QKD approach whose principal merit is to beat the point-to-point private capacity of a lossy quantum channel, thanks to performing single-photon interference in an untrusted node. Indeed, recent security proofs of various TF-QKD type protocols have confirmed that the secret key rate of these s

Abdoulrahim Ibrahim

The McCool group has families of subgroups such as the ordinary pure braid group, the upper triangular McCool group and the partial inner automorphism group. The generalized Andreadakis conjecture holds for the ordinary pure braid group and the upper triangular McCool group. In this paper, we prove a similar result for the partial inner automorphism group an

Yuriy G. Semenov, Xinyi Xu, Ki Wook Kim

The dynamics of a 90$^{\circ }$ domain wall in an antiferromagnetic nanostrip driven by the current-induced spin-orbital torque are theoretically examined in the presence of random thermal fluctuations. A soliton-type equation of motion is developed on the basis of energy balance between the driving forces and dissipative processes in terms of the domain wal

Nikola Milosevic, Cassie Gregson, Robert Hernandez, Goran Nenadic

The scientific literature is growing exponentially, and professionals are no more able to cope with the current amount of publications. Text mining provided in the past methods to retrieve and extract information from text; however, most of these approaches ignored tables and figures. The research done in mining table data still does not have an integrated a

Yair Shenfeld, Ramon van Handel

In a seminal paper "Volumen und Oberfl\"ache" (1903), Minkowski introduced the basic notion of mixed volumes and the corresponding inequalities that lie at the heart of convex geometry. The fundamental importance of characterizing the extremals of these inequalities was already emphasized by Minkowski himself, but has to date only been resolved in special ca

Sakshi Udeshi, Sudipta Chattopadhyay

The massive progress of machine learning has seen its application over a variety of domains in the past decade. But how do we develop a systematic, scalable and modular strategy to validate machine-learning systems? We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first approach, which provides a systematic test framework for machine-learning systems that accep

Vladimir Georgescu, Andrei Iftimovici

We show that the $C^*$-algebra generated by the field operators associated to a symplectic space $\Xi$ is graded by the semilattice of all finite dimensional subspaces of $\Xi$. If $\Xi$ is finite dimensional we give a simple intrinsic description of the components of the grading, we show that the self-adjoint operators affiliated to the algebra have a many

William McNally, Alexander Wong, John McPhee

While depth cameras and inertial sensors have been frequently leveraged for human action recognition, these sensing modalities are impractical in many scenarios where cost or environmental constraints prohibit their use. As such, there has been recent interest on human action recognition using low-cost, readily-available RGB cameras via deep convolutional ne

Monika Eisenmann, Eskil Hansen

Nonlinear parabolic equations are frequently encountered in applications and efficient approximating techniques for their solution are of great importance. In order to provide an effective scheme for the temporal approximation of such equations, we present a sum splitting scheme that comes with a straight forward parallelization strategy. The convergence ana

Diganta Borah, Debaprasanna Kar

We study the boundary limits of the Carath\'eodory and Kobayashi-Eisenman volume elements on smoothly bounded convex finite type domains and also on Levi corank one domains.

Zsolt Bihary, Péter Csóka, Péter Kerényi, Alexander Szimayer

We develop a continuous-time principal-agent model of gig work, where contractual flexibility allows the employer to adjust fixed pay and output-based incentives dynamically. The worker's participation depends on a backward-looking reference value--an exponentially weighted average of net payoff from past employment--capturing a self-respect--driven wage dem

Chengyun Hua, Lucas Lindsay, Xiangwen Chen, Austin Minnich

Phonon heat conduction over length scales comparable to their mean free paths is a topic of considerable interest for basic science and thermal management technologies. Although the failure of Fourier's law beyond the diffusive regime is well understood, debate exists over the proper physical description of thermal transport in the ballistic to diffusive cro

Jamie Rogers, Radu Tatar

We study $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories with gauge nodes forming a $D_n$ Dynkin diagram. The class of good $D_n$ Dynkin quivers is completely characterised and the moduli space singularity structure fully determined for all such theories. The class of good $D_n$ Dynkin quivers is denoted $D_\nu^\mu(n)_p$ where $n \geq 2$ is an integer, $\nu$ and

Kay Rülling

We observe that the classical Grauert-Riemenschneider Vanishing Theorem is a direct consequence of basic results from the theory of modulus sheaves with transfers as developed by Kahn-Saito-Yamazaki. We also obtain a new characterization of rational singularities in characteristic 0.

Hong Xing, Liang Liu, Jie Xu, Arumugam Nallanathan

With the proliferation of computation-extensive and latency-critical applications in the 5G and beyond networks, mobile-edge computing (MEC) or fog computing, which provides cloud-like computation and/or storage capabilities at the network edge, is envisioned to reduce computation latency as well as to conserve energy for wireless devices (WDs). This paper s

F. Da Ros, S. Civelli, S. Gaiarin, E. P. da Silva

Nonlinear distortion experienced by signals during their propagation through optical fibers strongly limits the throughput of optical communication systems. Recently, a strong research focus has been dedicated to nonlinearity mitigation and compensation techniques. At the same time, a more disruptive approach, the nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT), aims at d

Michalis Voutouris, Giovanni Sachi, Hina Afridi

In this paper we investigate a robust method to identify anomalies in complex scenes. This task is performed by evaluating the collective behavior by extracting the local binary patterns (LBP) and Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) features. We fuse both features together which are exploited to train an MLP neural network during the training stage, and the anomaly

Mateusz Soliński, Michał Łepek, Łukasz Kołtowski

We give a short introduction to cough detection efforts that were undertaken during the last decade and we describe the solution for automatic cough detection developed for the AioCare portable spirometry system. In contrast to more popular analysis of sound and audio recordings, we fully based our approach on airflow signals only. As the system is intended

John Armstrong, Damiano Brigo

We show that coherent risk measures are ineffective in curbing the behaviour of investors with limited liability or excessive tail-risk seeking behaviour if the market admits statistical arbitrage opportunities which we term $\rho$-arbitrage for a risk measure $\rho$. We show how to determine analytically whether such $\rho$-arbitrage portfolios exist in com

Paramita Dutta, Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We theoretically predict proximity-induced odd-frequency (odd-$\omega$) pairing on the surface of a Weyl nodal loop semimetal, characterized by a nodal loop Fermi surface and drumhead-like surface states (DSSs), attached to conventional spin-singlet $s$-wave superconducting leads. Due to the complete spin polarization of the DSS, odd-$\omega$ equal-spin trip

Robert Hołyst, Anna Maciołek, Yirui Zhang, Marek Litniewski

Systems kept out of equilibrium in stationary states by an external source of energy store an energy $\Delta U=U-U_0$. $U_0$ is the internal energy at equilibrium state, obtained after the shutdown of energy input. We determine $\Delta U$ for two model systems: ideal gas and Lennard-Jones fluid. $\Delta U$ depends not only on the total energy flux, $J_U$, bu

Anderson Vera

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact connected oriented surface with one boundary component and let $\mathcal{M}$ denote the mapping class group of $\Sigma$. By considering the action of $\mathcal{M}$ on the fundamental group of $\Sigma$ it is possible to define different filtrations of $\mathcal{M}$ together with some homomorphisms on each term of the filtration. The

Megan L. Jones, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Kristina Nyland, Joan M. Wrobel

The nearby galaxy NGC 3115 contains a known radio-emitting, low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN), and was recently claimed to host a candidate AGN displaced 14.3 pc from the galaxy's optical photocenter. Our goal is to understand whether this represents a single offset AGN, an AGN in orbit around a central black hole, or something else. We present a

Christian Cachin, Daniel Collins, Tyler Crain, Vincent Gramoli

Collecting anonymous opinions finds various applications ranging from simple whistleblowing, releasing secretive information, to complex forms of voting, where participants rank candidates by order of preferences. Unfortunately, as far as we know there is no efficient distributed solution to this problem. Previously, participants had to trust third parties,

Feras A. Saad, Cameron E. Freer, Nathanael L. Ackerman, Vikash K. Mansinghka

The objective of goodness-of-fit testing is to assess whether a dataset of observations is likely to have been drawn from a candidate probability distribution. This paper presents a rank-based family of goodness-of-fit tests that is specialized to discrete distributions on high-dimensional domains. The test is readily implemented using a simulation-based, li

Serveh Sharifi Far, Michail Papathomas, Ruth King

Log-linear models are typically fitted to contingency table data to describe and identify the relationship between different categorical variables. However, the data may include observed zero cell entries. The presence of zero cell entries can have an adverse effect on the estimability of parameters, due to parameter redundancy. We describe a general approac

Tithi Chattopadhyay, Nick Feamster, Matheus V. X. Ferreira, Danny Yuxing Huang

We consider the problem of regulating products with negative externalities to a third party that is neither the buyer nor the seller, but where both the buyer and seller can take steps to mitigate the externality. The motivating example to have in mind is the sale of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, many of which have historically been compromised for DDoS

ATLAS Collaboration

Charged-particle fragmentation functions for jets azimuthally balanced by a high-transverse-momentum, prompt, isolated photon are measured in $25$ pb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ and $0.49$ nb$^{-1}$ of Pb+Pb collision data at $5.02$ TeV per nucleon pair recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are compared to predictions of Monte Ca

R. Heveling, J. Richter, J. Schnack

Thermal DMRG is investigated with emphasis of employability in molecular magnetism studies. To this end magnetic observables at finite temperature are evaluated for two one-dimensional quantum spin systems: a Heisenberg chain with nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic interaction and a frustrated sawtooth (delta) chain. It is found that thermal DMRG indeed accu

Maurizio Reduzzi, Johan Hummert, Antoine Dubrouil, Francesca Calegari

The extreme ultraviolet absorption spectrum of an atom is strongly modified in the presence of a synchronized intense infrared field. In this work we demonstrate control of the absorption properties of helium atoms dressed by an infrared pulse by changing the relative polarization of the infrared and extreme ultraviolet fields. Light-induced features associa

Diego González-Moreno, Mucuy-kak Guevara, Juan José Montellano-Ballesteros

A vertex coloring of a strong digraph $D$ is a \emph{strong vertex-monochromatic connection coloring (SVMC-coloring)} if for every pair $u, v$ of vertices in $D$ there exists an $(u,v)$-path having all its internal vertices of the same color. Let $smc_v(D)$ denote the maximum number of colors used in an SVMC-coloring of a digraph $D$. In this paper we determ

Edward M. Sion, Patrick Godon, Joanna Mikolajewska, Marcus Katynski

We present a far ultraviolet spectroscopic analysis of the slowest known symbiotic nova AG Peg (M3/4III giant + hot white dwarf; P = 818.4 days) which underwent a nova explosion in 1850 followed by a very slow decline that did not end until 1996, marking the beginning of quiescence. The 19 years of quiescence ended in June 2015, when AG Peg exhibited a Z And

Maxim Sokol, Jian Wang, Hrishikesh Keshavan, Michel W. Barsoum

Alumina forming, oxidation and thermal shock resistant MAX phases are of a high interest for high temperature applications. Herein we report, on bonding and resulting interactions between a Ni-based superalloy, NSA, and two alumina forming MAX phases. The diffusion couples Cr${_2}$AlC/Inconel-718/Ti${_2}$AlC were assembled and heated to 1000 or 1100{\deg}C i

Sebastian Throm

In this work, we consider self-similar profiles for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation for kernels which are possibly unbounded perturbations of the constant one. For this model, we show that the self-similar solutions for the perturbed kernel are close in weighted $L^1$ spaces to the profile of the unperturbed equation, i.e. the profiles are stable with re

Zsolt Bihary, Attila András Víg

We propose a heterogeneous agent market model (HAM) in continuous time. The market is populated by fundamental traders and chartists, who both use simple linear trading rules. Most of the related literature explores stability, price dynamics and profitability either within deterministic models or by simulation. Our novel formulation lends itself to analytic

Jon Wolfson

Let M be a Riemannian n-manifold with n greater than or equal to 3. For k between 1 and n, we say M has k-positive Ricci curvature if at every point of M the sum of any k eigenvalues of the Ricci curvature is strictly positive. In particular, one positive Ricci curvature is equivalent to positive Ricci curvature and n-positive Ricci curvature is equivalent t

Zhennan Zhu, Tao Chen, Xiaodong Yang, Ji Bian

High-fidelity quantum gates are essential for large-scale quantum computation, which can naturally be realized in a noise-resilient way. Geometric manipulation and decoherence-free subspace encoding are promising ways toward robust quantum computation. Here, by combining the advantages of both strategies, we propose and experimentally realize universal holon

Anna Harutyunyan, Will Dabney, Diana Borsa, Nicolas Heess

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomously discovering behavioral abstractions, or options, for reinforcement learning agents. We propose an algorithm that focuses on the termination condition, as opposed to -- as is common -- the policy. The termination condition is usually trained to optimize a control objective: an option ought to terminate if

Wei Wang, Shuanhong Wang

In this paper, we first discuss some properties of the Galois linear maps. We provide some equivalent conditions for Hopf algebras and Hopf (co)quasigroups as its applications. Then let $H$ be a Hopf quasigroup with bijective antipode and $G$ be the set of all Hopf quasigroup automorphisms of $H$. We introduce a new category $\mathscr{C}_{H}(\alpha,\beta)$ w

Masaki Yoshino

We prove an analogue of the Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence oncompact connected 3-folds that is fibered on orbifold Riemann surfaces and satisfy an integrability condition, which contains compact connected Sasakian 3-folds. We define mini-holomorphic bundles on such 3-folds and the algebraic Dirac-type singularities on mini-holomorphic bundles, and prove th

Sama Arjika

In this paper, we provide a family of generalized discrete $q$-Hermite II polynomials denoted by $\tilde{h}_{n,\alpha}(x,y|q)$. An explicit relations connecting them with the $q$-Laguerre and Stieltjes-Wigert polynomials are obtained. Summation formula is derived by using different analytical means on their generating functions.

Endrit Dosit, Mohammad Shehab, Hirley Alves, Matti Latva-aho

In this paper, we present a finite-block-length comparison between the orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme and the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for the uplink channel. First, we consider the Gaussian channel, and derive the closed form expressions for the rate and outage probability. Then, we extend our results to the quasi-static Rayleigh fadin

Javier Garcia-Barcos, Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Bayesian optimization has become a popular method for high-throughput computing, like the design of computer experiments or hyperparameter tuning of expensive models, where sample efficiency is mandatory. In these applications, distributed and scalable architectures are a necessity. However, Bayesian optimization is mostly sequential. Even parallel variants

Alexander Khrabry, Igor D. Kaganovich, Andrei Khodak, Vlad Vekselman

We performed self-consistent modeling of the atmospheric-pressure plasmas produced by arc discharges. Special numerical procedure for coupling of the plasma current, emission current, ion current, sheath voltage drop, heat fluxes at plasma-electrode interfaces was developed and implemented into the ANSYS CFX code. Validation of the simulation results is perf

Pedro Henrique Sales Girotto, Jorge Henrique Sales

In this paper we used the Fredholm method in Schroedinger's integral equation in the investigation of the scattering effect near the center of it between a stationary quantum wave function and an electrostatic potential. Two potentials are studied one Coulombian and the other Podolsky. The result shows the importance of the proposal of Podolsky to regularize

Maciej Rybczynski, Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

In order to examine a muon excess observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory, detailed Monte Carlo simulations were carried out for primary protons, iron nuclei and strangelets (hypothetical stable lumps of strange quark matter). We obtained a rough agreement between the simulations and the data for ordinary nuclei without any contribution of strangelets in pr

Afreen Fatima, Karl Kratkiewicz, Rayyan Manwar, Mohsin Zafar

Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) is a major configuration of photoacoustic imaging, a hybrid noninvasive modality for both functional and molecular imaging. PACT has rapidly gained importance in the field of biomedical imaging due to superior performance as compared to conventional optical imaging counterparts. However, the overall cost of developing

Swetalina Bhowmik, Ritabrata Biswas

While modelling our late time cosmically accelerated universe, it is popular to involve different dark energy models, the equation of state of which can be taken as a function of the redshift and some unknown parameters. Barboza and Alcaniz have proposed one of a such kind of dark energy's EoS model. We use some new parametrizations like Feng, Shen, Li, Li I

Tom Zahavy, Avinatan Hasidim, Haim Kaplan, Yishay Mansour

We consider a settings of hierarchical reinforcement learning, in which the reward is a sum of components. For each component we are given a policy that maximizes it and our goal is to assemble a policy from the individual policies that maximizes the sum of the components. We provide theoretical guarantees for assembling such policies in deterministic MDPs w

Benoît Pairet

General relativity and quantum mechanics are perhaps the two most successful theories of the XXth century. Despite their impressive accurate predictions, they are both valid at their own scales and do not seem to be expressible using the same framework. It is commonly accepted that in order to create a consistent theory of both quantum mechanics and gravity,