February 2019 arXiv papers — page 20

H. Duyang, B. Guo, S. R. Mishra, R. Petti

We present a novel method to accurately determine the flux of neutrinos and antineutrinos, one of the dominant systematic uncertainty affecting current and future long-baseline neutrino experiments, as well as precision neutrino scattering experiment. Using exclusive topologies in $\nu(\bar \nu)$-hydrogen interactions, $\nu_\mu p \to \mu^- p \pi^+$, $\bar \n

Jieun Yim, Han Zhao, Bikashkali Midya, Liang Feng

Non-Hermitian systems at the exceptional point (EP) degeneracy are demonstrated to be highly sensitive to environmental perturbation. Here, we propose and theoretically investigate a novel multilayered heterostructure favoring double EPs for a unique set of material parameters at which forward- and backward-reflection coefficients vanish, respectively. Such

Nik Weaver

We introduce a notion of ``hereditarily antisymmetric'' operator algebras and prove a structure theorem for them in finite dimensions. We also characterize those operator algebras in finite dimensions which can be made upper triangular and prove matrix analogs of the theorems of Dilworth and Mirsky for finite posets. Some partial results are obtained in the

Daniela Cadamuro, Wojciech Dybalski

It is physically expected that plane-wave configurations of the electron in QED induce disjoint representations of the algebra of the electromagnetic fields. This phenomenon of velocity superselection, which is one aspect of the infrared problem, is mathematically well established in non-relativistic (Pauli-Fierz type) models of QED. We show that velocity su

Sunil Mohan, Donghui Li

This paper presents the formal release of MedMentions, a new manually annotated resource for the recognition of biomedical concepts. What distinguishes MedMentions from other annotated biomedical corpora is its size (over 4,000 abstracts and over 350,000 linked mentions), as well as the size of the concept ontology (over 3 million concepts from UMLS 2017) an

Lehman H. Garrison, Daniel J. Eisenstein

We present a method for generating suites of dark-matter halo catalogs with only a few $N$-body simulations, focusing on making small changes to the underlying cosmology of a simulation with high precision. In the context of blind challenges, this allows us to reuse a simulation by giving it a new cosmology after the original cosmology is revealed. Starting

William Leeb

We consider the problem of estimating a low-rank matrix from a noisy observed matrix. Previous work has shown that the optimal method depends crucially on the choice of loss function. In this paper, we use a family of weighted loss functions, which arise naturally for problems such as submatrix denoising, denoising with heteroscedastic noise, and denoising w

Jingfan Zhang, Peter Seiler, Joaquin Carrasco

In the existing literature, there are two approaches to estimate tighter bounds of the exponential convergence rate of stable Lure systems. On one hand, the classical integral quadratic constraint (IQC) framework can be applied under loop-transformation, so the stability of the new loop implies the convergence of the original loop. On the other hand, it is p

Nicolas Hölsch, Maximilian Beyer, Edcel J. Salumbides, Kjeld S. E. Eikema

The dissociation energy of H$_2$ represents a benchmark quantity to test the accuracy of first-principles calculations. We present a new measurement of the energy interval between the EF $^1\Sigma_g^+(v=0,N=1)$ state and the 54p1$_1$ Rydberg state of H$_2$. When combined with previously determined intervals, this new measurement leads to an improved value of

L. A. Balona, G. Handler, S. Chowdhury, D. Ozuyar

Light curves and periodograms of 160 B stars observed by the TESS space mission and 29 main-sequence B stars from Kepler and K2 were used to classify the variability type. There are 114 main-sequence B stars in the TESS sample, of which 45 are classified as possible rotational variables. This confirms previous findings that a large fraction (about 40 percent

Abram Demski, Scott Garrabrant

Traditional models of rational action treat the agent as though it is cleanly separated from its environment, and can act on that environment from the outside. Such agents have a known functional relationship with their environment, can model their environment in every detail, and do not need to reason about themselves or their internal parts. We provide an

B. T. Bilalov, A. A. Huseynli, S. R. Sadigova

In the paper it is considered the generalized Faber polynomials defined inside and outside a regular curve on the complex plane. The weighted Smirnov spaces corresponding to bounded and unbounded regions are defined. It is proved that the generalized Faber polynomials forms a basis in weighted Smirnov spaces, if the weight function satisfies the Muckenhoupt

Daniel LeJeune, Richard G. Baraniuk, Reinhard Heckel

Algorithms often carry out equally many computations for "easy" and "hard" problem instances. In particular, algorithms for finding nearest neighbors typically have the same running time regardless of the particular problem instance. In this paper, we consider the approximate k-nearest-neighbor problem, which is the problem of finding a subset of O(k) points

Manuel Mazzara, Ilya Afanasyev, Smruti R. Sarangi, Salvatore Distefano

The vision encompassing Smart and Software-defined Buildings (SSDB) is becoming more and more popular and its implementation is now more accessible due to the widespread adoption of the IoT infrastructure. Some of the most important applications sustaining this vision are energy management, environmental comfort, safety and surveillance. This paper surveys I

Michele Savarese

In this paper, we study generalized line bundles over $C_n$, a primitive multiple curve of arbitrary multiplicity $n$, where $n$ is a positive integer. In particular, we give a structure theorem for them and we characterize their semistability in terms of $n-1$ integral invariants, the indices. These results are used to describe the irreducible components th

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi

In the past years, the IceCube Collaboration has reported in several analyses the observation of astrophysical high-energy neutrino events. Despite a compelling evidence for the first identification of a neutrino source, TXS 0506+056, the origin of the majority of these events is still unknown. In this paper, a possible transient origin of the IceCube astrop

Edoardo G. Carnio, Nicholas D. M. Hine, Rudolf A. Römer

In Refs. [1,2] we have shown how a combination of modern linear-scaling DFT, together with a subsequent use of large, effective tight-binding Hamiltonians, allows to compute multifractal wave functions yielding the critical properties of the Anderson metal-insulator transition (MIT) in doped semiconductors. This combination allowed us to construct large and

Zs. Kővári, K. G. Strassmeier, K. Oláh, L. Kriskovics

On the AGB, low to intermediate mass stars blow away their outer envelopes, forming planetary nebulae. Interaction between the planetary nebula and its central progenitor is poorly understood and even more complex when the central object is a binary star with a magnetically active component, like it is the case for IN Com. We aim to quantify the surface acti

Anthony Francis, Aleksandra Faust, Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Jasmine Hsu

Long-range indoor navigation requires guiding robots with noisy sensors and controls through cluttered environments along paths that span a variety of buildings. We achieve this with PRM-RL, a hierarchical robot navigation method in which reinforcement learning agents that map noisy sensors to robot controls learn to solve short-range obstacle avoidance task

Cyril Pitrou

We review the general construction of distribution functions for gases of fermions and bosons (photons), emphasizing the similarities and differences between both cases. The central object which describes polarization for photons is a tensor-valued distribution function, whereas for fermions it is a vector-valued one. The collision terms of Boltzmann equatio

Ian Stewart, René Flores, Tim Riffe, Ingmar Weber

The degree to which Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are assimilating culturally has been widely debated. To examine this question, we focus on musical taste, a key symbolic resource that signals the social positions of individuals. We adapt an assimilation metric from earlier work to analyze self-reported musical interests among immigrants in Facebook. We use

Arindam Biswas, Jyoti Prakash Saha

Let $W\subseteq \mathbb{Z}$ be a non-empty subset of the integers. A nonempty set $C\subseteq \mathbb{Z}$ is said to be an asymptotic complement to $W$ if $W+C$ contains almost all the integers except a set of finite size. $C$ is said to be a minimal asymptotic complement if $C$ is an asymptotic complement, but $C\setminus \lbrace c\rbrace$ is not an asympto

Mohamad Ali-Dib, Christopher Thompson

This paper identifies constraints on the growth of a small planetary core (0.3 M$_{\oplus}$) that accretes millimeter-sized pebbles from a gaseous disk. We construct time-dependent spherical envelope models that capture physical processes not included in existing global hydrodynamic simulations, including particle size evolution, dust transport, and realisti

Xiaosen Han, Genggeng Huang, Yisong Yang

In this paper we first formulate a dually gauged harmonic map model, suggested from a product Abelian Higgs field theory arising in impurity-inspired field theories, and obtain a new BPS system of equations governing coexisting vortices and antivortices, which are topologically characterized by the first Chern class of the underlying Hermitian bundle and the

Aviral Vaid, Julien Guénolé, Aruna Prakash, Sandra Korte-Kerzel

The mechanical properties of Mg-Al alloys are greatly influenced by the complex intermetallic phase Mg$_{17}$Al$_{12}$, which is the most dominant precipitate found in this alloy system. The interaction of basal edge and 30$^\text{o}$ dislocations with Mg$_{17}$Al$_{12}$ precipitates is studied by molecular dynamics and statics simulations, varying the inter

Josiah Park

An extension is given of a recent result of Glazyrin, showing that an orthonormal basis $\{e_{i}\}_{i=1}^{d}$ joined with the vectors $\{e_{j}\}_{j=1}^{m}$, where $1\leq m < d$ minimizes the $p$-frame potential for $p\in[1,2\log{\frac{2m+1}{2m}}/\log{\frac{m+1}{m}}]$ over all collections of $N=d+m$ vectors $\{x_1,\dots,x_N \}$ in $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$.

Michael B. Weissman

A recent paper in Sci. Adv. by Miller et al. concludes that GREs do not help predict whether physics grad students will get Ph.D.s. The paper makes numerous elementary statistics errors, including introduction of unnecessary collider-like stratification bias, variance inflation by collinearity and range restriction, omission of needed data (some subsequently

Norihiro Hanihara

For a finite dimensional algebra $\Lambda$ of finite representation type and an additive generator $M$ for $\mathrm{mod}\,\Lambda$, we investigate the properties of the Yoneda algebra $\Gamma=\bigoplus_{i \geq 0}\mathrm{Ext}_\Lambda^i(M,M)$. We show that $\Gamma$ is graded coherent and Gorenstein of self-injective dimension at most $1$, and the graded singul

Naimi Takka, Ahmed Bouda

After having obtained previously an extended first approximation of Maxwell's equations in Fock's nonlinear relativity, we propose here the corresponding exact form. In order to achieve this goal, we were inspired mainly by the special relativistic version of Feynman's proof from which we constructed a formal approach more adapted to the noncommutative algeb

Constantine Yannouleas, Uzi Landman

Analytic higher-order momentum correlation functions associated with the time-of-flight spectroscopy of three ultracold fermionic atoms singly-confined in a linear three-well optical trap are presented, corresponding to the W- and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type (GHZ) states that belong to characteristic classes of tripartite entanglement and represent the

Evgueni Dinvay, Sigmund Selberg, Achenef Tesfahun

We regard the Cauchy problem for a particular Whitham-Boussinesq system modelling surface waves of an inviscid incompressible fluid layer. We are interested in well-posedness at a very low level of regularity. We derive dispersive and Strichartz estimates, and implement them together with a fixed point argument to solve the problem locally. Hamiltonian conse

Jonathan M. C. Rawlings, Thomas G. Wilson, David A. Williams

Recent observations made by the Rosetta/ROSINA instrument have detected molecular oxygen in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with abundances at the 1-10% level relative to H2O. Previous studies have indicated that the likely origin of the O2 may be surface chemistry of primordial (dark cloud) origin, requiring somewhat warmer, denser and extreme H

Tanweer Alam, Mohamed Benaida

In the next generation of computing, Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) will play a very important role in the Internet of Things (IoT). The MANET is a kind of wireless networks that are self-organizing and auto connected in a decentralized system. Every device in MANET can be moved freely from one location to another in any direction. They can create a network w

Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Michael Garcia-Ortiz, David Filliat

We consider the problem of building a state representation model for control, in a continual learning setting. As the environment changes, the aim is to efficiently compress the sensory state's information without losing past knowledge, and then use Reinforcement Learning on the resulting features for efficient policy learning. To this end, we propose S-TRIG

Alessia Nota, Raphael Winter, Bertrand Lods

In this paper, we consider the dynamics of a tagged point particle in a gas of moving hard-spheres that are non-interacting among each other. This model is known as the ideal Rayleigh gas. We add to this model the possibility of annihilation (ideal Rayleigh gas with annihilation), requiring that each obstacle is either annihilating or elastic, which determin

Jaehong Yoon, Saehoon Kim, Eunho Yang, Sung Ju Hwang

While recent continual learning methods largely alleviate the catastrophic problem on toy-sized datasets, some issues remain to be tackled to apply them to real-world problem domains. First, a continual learning model should effectively handle catastrophic forgetting and be efficient to train even with a large number of tasks. Secondly, it needs to tackle th

D. J. Mullan, J. MacDonald

Jurcak et al (2018) have reported that, in a sample of more than 100 umbral cores in sunspots, the umbral-penumbral boundary (UPB) is characterized by a remarkably narrowly-defined numerical value (1867 G) of the vertical component of the magnetic field. Gough and Tayler (1966), in their study of magneto-convection, showed that the onset of convection in the

Liangwei Zeng, Jianhua Zeng, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Boris A. Malomed

We elaborate one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) models of media with self-repulsive cubic nonlinearity, whose local strength is subject to spatial modulation that admits the existence of flat-top solitons of various types, including fundamental ones, 1D multipoles, and 2D vortices. Previously, solitons of this type were only produced by models with competi

Md Mursalin, Syed Shamsul Islam, Md Kislu Noman, Adel Ali Al-Jumaily

Epilepsy is a well-known neuronal disorder that can be identified by interpretation of the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. Usually, the length of an EEG signal is quite long which is challenging to interpret manually. In this work, we propose an automated epileptic seizure detection method by applying a two-step minimization technique: first, we reduce th

Arya Dhar, Jami J. Kinnunen

We propose a scheme for controlling the movement of dimers, trimers, and other multimers in optical lattices by modulating the lattice potential. In deep optical lattices the propagation of deeply bound atomic clusters is slowed down by the high energy cost of virtual intermediate states. Adapting the well-known method of lattice modulation spectroscopy, the

Alexander Jurisch

We develop a method that relates the truncated cumulant-function of the fourth order with the L\'evian cumulant-function. This gives us explicit formulas for the L\'evy-parameters, which allow a real-time analysis of the state of a random-motion. Cumbersome procedures like maximum-likelihood or least-square methods are unnecessary. Furthermore, we treat the

C. J. Halcrow, C. King, N. S. Manton

A reinterpretation of the complete energy spectrum of the Oxygen-16 nucleus up to 20 MeV, and partly beyond, is proposed. The underlying intrinsic shape of the nucleus is tetrahedral, as in the na\"ive alpha-particle model and other cluster models, and A, E and F vibrational phonons are included. The A- and F-phonons are treated in the harmonic approximation

Francesca Gerardi, Matteo Martinelli, Alessandra Silvestri

We reconstruct the Equation of State of Dark Energy (EoS) from current data using a non-parametric approach where, rather than assuming a specific time evolution of this function, we bin it in time. We treat the transition between the bins with two different methods, i.e. a smoothed step function and a Gaussian Process reconstruction, investigating whether o

Margaret D. Campbell-Brown

Sixteen years of meteor radar data from the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) were used to investigate the link between observed meteor rates and both solar and geomagnetic activity. Meteor rates were corrected for transmitter power and receiver noise, and seasonal effects were removed. A strong negative correlation is seen between solar activity, as measur

J. Varga, T. Gerják, P. Ábrahám, L. Chen

We studied the disc of the unclassified B[e] star HD 50138, in order to explore its structure, and to find indications for the evolutionary status of this system, whether it is a young Herbig Be or a post-main-sequence star. Using high spatial resolution interferometric measurements from MIDI instrument (N-band) on the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, we

Edoardo Albisetti, Silvia Tacchi, Raffaele Silvani, Giuseppe Scaramuzzi

Integrated optically-inspired wave-based processing is envisioned to outperform digital architectures in specific tasks, such as image processing and speech recognition. In this view, spin-waves represent a promising route due to their nanoscale wavelength in the GHz frequency range and rich phenomenology. Here, we realize a versatile optically-inspired plat

Jacques Duparc, Louis Vuilleumier

We prove that the Wadge order on the Borel subsets of the Scott domain is not a well-quasi-order, and that this feature even occurs among the sets of Borel rank at most 2. For this purpose, a specific class of countable 2-colored posets $\mathbb{P}_{lay}$ equipped with the order induced by homomorphisms is embedded into the Wadge order on the $\boldsymbol{\D

Sebastien Berujon, Ruxandra Cojocaru, Pierre Piault, Rafael Celestre

X-ray near-field speckle-based phase-sensing approaches provide efficient means to characterise optical elements. Here, we present a theoretical review of several of these speckle methods in the frame of optical characterisation and provide a generalization of the concept. As we also demonstrate experimentally in another paper, the methods theoretically deve

Shalini Shrivastava, Tanmay Chavan, Udayan Ganguly

Brain-inspired computation promises complex cognitive tasks at biological energy efficiencies. The brain contains $10^4$ synapses per neuron. Hence, ultra-low energy, high-density synapses are needed for spiking neural networks (SNN). In this paper, we use tunneling enabled CTF (Charge Trap Flash) stack for ultra-low-energy operation (1F); Further, CTF on an

Evan Berkowitz, David Brantley, Kenneth McElvain, André Walker-Loud

Anchoring the nuclear interaction in QCD is a long-outstanding problem in nuclear physics. While the lattice community has made enormous progress in mesonic physics and single nucleon physics, continuum-limit physical-point multi-nucleon physics has remained out of reach. I will review CalLat's strategy for multi-nucleon spectroscopy and our latest results.

Thomas Christopoulos, Odysseas Tsilipakos, Georgios Sinatkas, Emmanouil E. Kriezis

The correct numerical calculation of the resonance characteristics and, principally, the quality factor $Q$ of contemporary photonic and plasmonic resonant systems is of utmost importance, since $Q$ defines the bandwidth and affects nonlinear and spontaneous emission processes. Here, we comparatively assess the commonly used methods for calculating $Q$ using

J. C. Birget

We give a direct proof that all Higman-Thompson groups of the form $G_{k,1}$ (for $k \ge 2$) are embedded in one another, which is a recent result of N. Matte Bon. This extends the embeddings given by Higman in 1974.

Maria-Florina Balcan, Tuomas Sandholm, Ellen Vitercik

In practice, most mechanisms for selling, buying, matching, voting, and so on are not incentive compatible. We present techniques for estimating how far a mechanism is from incentive compatible. Given samples from the agents' type distribution, we show how to estimate the extent to which an agent can improve his utility by misreporting his type. We do so by

Christopher Bouchard, Lu Cao, Patrick Owen

A summary of WG II of the CKM 2018 conference on semileptonic and leptonic $b$-hadron decays is presented. This includes discussions on the CKM matrix element magitudes $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cb}|$, lepton universality tests such as $R(D^{*})$ and leptonic decays. As is usual for semileptonic and leptonic decays, much discussion is devoted towards the interplay

Yoav Len, Martin Ulirsch

We show that the non-Archimedean skeleton of the Prym variety associated to an unramified double cover of an algebraic curve is naturally isomorphic (as a principally polarized tropical abelian variety) to the tropical Prym variety of the associated tropical double cover. This confirms a conjecture by Jensen and the first author. We prove a new upper bound o

Rustem Khasanov, Miloš M. Radonjić, Hubertus Luetkens, Elvezio Morenzoni

The superconductivity in the Bi-II phase of elemental Bismuth (transition temperature $T_{\rm c}\simeq3.92$ K at pressure $p\simeq 2.80$ GPa) was studied experimentally by means of the muon-spin rotation as well as theoretically by using the Eliashberg theory in combination with Density Functional Theory calculations. Experiments reveal that Bi-II is a type-

Stephanie M. LaMassa, Antonis Georgakakis, M. Vivek, Mara Salvato

We report the results of a Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV eBOSS program to target X-ray sources and mid-infrared-selected WISE AGN candidates in a 36.8 deg$^2$ region of Stripe 82. About half this survey (15.6 deg$^2$) covers the largest contiguous portion of the Stripe 82 X-ray survey. This program represents the largest spectroscopic survey of AGN candidates

Paul C. Bell

We consider the computability and complexity of decision questions for Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) with sub-exponential ambiguity. We show that the emptiness problem for strict and non-strict cut-points of polynomially ambiguous commutative PFA remains undecidable, implying that the problem is undecidable when inputs are from a letter monotonic langu

Natan T'Joens, Jasper De Bock, Gert de Cooman

We consider discrete-time uncertain processes with finite state space and study the properties of game-theoretic upper expectations developed by Shafer and Vovk. We start by proving some basic properties, e.g. monotonicity, law of iterated upper expectations,... Afterwards, we show that this operator satisfies several, more involved continuity properties, in

Antonio Bueno, Jose A. Galvez, Pablo Mira

We use a phase space analysis to give some classification results for rotational hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. For the case where the prescribed function is an even function in $\mathbb{S}^n$, we show that a Delaunay-type classification holds for this class of hypersurfaces. We al

Aurora Torrente, Miguel A. López-Castaño, Antonio Lasanta, Francisco Vega Reyes

We report the emergence of a giant Mpemba effect in the uniformly heated gas of inelastic rough hard spheres: The initially hotter sample may cool sooner than the colder one, even when the initial temperatures differ by more than one order of magnitude. In order to understand this behavior, it suffices to consider the simplest Maxwellian approximation for th

Shiv Gupta

In this paper we determine the ordinary irreducible characters of the five-dimensional full linear group over a Galois field of q elements. We use the techniques developed by J. A. Green.

Diego Corro, Jesús Núñez-Zimbrón, Masoumeh Zarei

We obtain an equivariant classification for orientable, closed, four-dimensional Alexandrov spaces admitting an isometric torus action. This generalizes the equivariant classification of Orlik and Raymond of closed four-dimensional manifolds with torus actions. Moreover, we show that such Alexandrov spaces are equivariantly homeomorphic to $4$-dimensional Ri

Oleg Sapunkov, Abhishek Khetan, Vikram Pande, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

Eumelanin is regarded to be an attractive candidate material for biomedical applications. Despite many theoretical studies exploring the structure of eumelanin, an exact mapping of the energetic landscape of the very large phase space of eumelanin is still elusive. In this work, we implement a piecewise Ising Model to predict formation enthalpies of Eumelani

Srihar Pratapa, Dinesh Manocha

We present a new motion-compensated hierarchical compression scheme (HMLFC) for encoding light field images (LFI) that is suitable for interactive rendering. Our method combines two different approaches, motion compensation schemes and hierarchical compression methods, to exploit redundancies in LFI. The motion compensation schemes capture the redundancies i

Mitchell A. Wood, Mary Alice Cusentino, Brian D. Wirth, Aidan P. Thompson

The central approximation made in classical molecular dynamics simulation of materials is the interatomic potential used to calculate the forces on the atoms. Great effort and ingenuity is required to construct viable functional forms and find accurate parameterizations for potentials using traditional approaches. Machine-learning has emerged as an effective

Maarten V. de Hoop, Gunther Uhlmann, Andras Vasy

In this paper we show that in anisotropic elasticity, in the particular case of transversely isotropic media, under appropriate convexity conditions, knowledge of the qSH wave travel times determines the tilt of the axis of isotropy as well as some of the elastic material parameters, and the knowledge of qP and qSV travel times conditionally determines a sub

Serhii Havrylov, Germán Kruszewski, Armand Joulin

There has been considerable attention devoted to models that learn to jointly infer an expression's syntactic structure and its semantics. Yet, \citet{NangiaB18} has recently shown that the current best systems fail to learn the correct parsing strategy on mathematical expressions generated from a simple context-free grammar. In this work, we present a recur

A. Deller, S. D. Hogan

Helium atoms in high- and low-field-seeking Rydberg states with linear and quadratic Stark shifts have been confined in two dimensions and guided over a distance of 150 mm using time-varying inhomogeneous electric fields. This was achieved with an electrode structure composed of four parallel cylindrical rods to which voltages were applied to form oscillatin

Ivan Di Liberti, Julia Ramos González

Let $\kappa$ be a regular cardinal. We study Gabriel-Ulmer duality when one restricts the 2-category of locally $\kappa$-presentable categories with $\kappa$-accessible right adjoints to its locally full sub-2-category of $\kappa$-presentable Grothendieck topoi with geometric $\kappa$-accessible morphisms. In particular, we provide a full understanding of th

Ievgenii Afanasiev

The paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the correlation functions of the characteristic polynomials of non-Hermitian random matrices with independent entries. It is shown that the correlation functions behave like that for the Complex Ginibre Ensemble up to a factor depending only on the fourth absolute moment of the common probability law of

Christian Wischnewski, Elena Zwar, Heinz Rehage, Jan Kierfeld

We present a new system based on alginate gels for the encapsulation of a ferrofluid drop, which allows us to create millimeter-sized elastic capsules that are highly deformable by inhomogeneous magnetic fields. We use a combination of experimental and theoretical work in order to characterize and quantify the deformation behavior of these ferrofluid-filled

Roman Kusche, Martin Ryschka

Full abstract in the manuscript.

Fabien Besnard

We investigate the representation of diffeomorphisms in Connes' Spectral Triples formalism. By encoding the metric and spin structure in a moving frame, it is shown on the paradigmatic example of spin semi-Riemannian manifolds that the bimodule of noncommutative 1-forms $\Omega^1$ is an invariant structure in addition to the chirality, real structure and Kre

Jing Xu, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Sedigheh Mirzaei, Bryan Michalowicz

This paper proposes dynamic treatment regimes for choosing individualized effective treatment strategies of chronic periodontal disease. R codes for implementing the proposed sample size formula are available in GitHub.

Satadal Saha

Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a challenging problem to the research community due to its potential applicability in the diverse geographical condition over the globe with varying license plate parameters. Any ALPR system includes three main modules, viz. localization of the license plate, segmentation of the characters therein and recognition

Roman Kusche, Arthur-Vincent Lindenberg, Sebastian Hauschild, Martin Ryschka

Full abstract in the manuscript.

Amy Zhao, Guha Balakrishnan, Frédo Durand, John V. Guttag

Image segmentation is an important task in many medical applications. Methods based on convolutional neural networks attain state-of-the-art accuracy; however, they typically rely on supervised training with large labeled datasets. Labeling medical images requires significant expertise and time, and typical hand-tuned approaches for data augmentation fail to

Matthew W. Daniels, Weichao Yu, Ran Cheng, Jiang Xiao

Recent advances in the physics of current-driven antiferromagnetic skyrmions have observed the absence of a Magnus force. We outline the symmetry reasons for this phenomenon, and show that this cancellation will fail in the case of spin polarized currents. Pairing micromagnetic simulations with semiclassical spin wave transport theory, we demonstrate that sk

Tommi Gröndahl

Semantic representations are central in many NLP tasks that require human-interpretable data. The conjunctivist framework - primarily developed by Pietroski (2005, 2018) - obtains expressive representations with only a few basic semantic types and relations systematically linked to syntactic positions. While representational simplicity is crucial for computa

Sean Griffin, the AMEGO Team

The gamma-ray sky from several hundred keV to $\sim$ a hundred MeV has remained largely unexplored due to the challenging nature of detecting gamma rays in this regime. At lower energies, Compton scattering is the dominant interaction process whereas at higher energies pair production dominates, with a crossover at a few MeV. Thus, an instrument designed to

Roman Kusche, Paula Klimach, Martin Ryschka

Pulse wave analysis is an important method used to gather information about the cardiovascular system. Instead of detecting the pulse wave via pressure sensors, bioimpedance measurements can be performed to acquire minuscule changes in the conductivity of the tissue, caused by the pulse wave. This work presents a microcontroller-based bioimpedance measuremen

M. Hamed Mohammady, Alessandro Romito

In this paper we investigate the relationship between the efficiency of a cyclic quantum heat engine with the Hilbert space dimension of the thermal baths. By means of a general inequality, we show that the Carnot efficiency can be obtained only when both the hot and cold baths are infinitely large. By further introducing a specific model where the baths are

Ran Ben-Basat, Guy Even, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Gregory Schwartzman

We present a time-optimal deterministic distributed algorithm for approximating a minimum weight vertex cover in hypergraphs of rank $f$. This problem is equivalent to the Minimum Weight Set Cover problem in which the frequency of every element is bounded by $f$. The approximation factor of our algorithm is $(f+\epsilon)$. Our algorithm runs in the CONGEST m

Vamshi M. Katukuri, P. Babkevich, O. Mustonen, H. C. Walker

Establishing the physical mechanism governing exchange interactions is fundamental for exploring exotic phases such as the quantum spin liquids (QSLs) in real materials. In this work, we address exchange interactions in Sr2CuTe$_{1-x}$W$_{x}$O, a series of double perovskites that realize the spin-1/2 square lattice and were suggested to harbor a QSL ground s

Luiz Gustavo Cordeiro

In this article we will study semigroupoids, and more specifically inverse semigroupoids. These are a common generalization to both inverse semigroups and groupoids, and provide a natural language on which several types of dynamical structures may be described. Moreover, this theory allows us to precisely compare and simultaneously generalize aspects of both

Roman Kusche, Sebastian Hauschild, Martin Ryschka

Full abstract in the manuscript.

Robert Shwartz

We consider a generalization of the fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups for some non-abelian groups, which is called OGS. First, we consider the dihedral group, which is a non-abelian extension of an abelian group by an involution. Then, we focus on a special case, where the abelian group is cyclic, which is the two-generated Coxeter gro

M. Almudena Prieto, Juan A. Fernandez-Ontiveros, Gustavo Bruzual, Andreas Burkert

A panchromatic view of the star forming ring and feeding process in the central kpc of the galaxy NGC 1097 is presented. The assembled IR to UV images at $\sim$10 pc resolution allow us to characterise the population of circa 250 clusters in the ring and disentangle the network of filaments of dust and gas that enshroud and feed them. The ring is a place of

Sayani Bera

The purpose of this note is to explore further the rigidity properties of H\'{e}non maps from arXiv:1806.08189. For instance, we show that if $H$ and $F$ are H\'{e}non maps with the same Green measure ($\mu_H=\mu_F$), or the same filled Julia set ($K_H=K_F$), or the same Green function ($G_H=G_F$), then $H^2$ and $F^2$ have to commute. This, in turn, gives t

Gi-Cheon Kang, Jaeseo Lim, Byoung-Tak Zhang

Visual dialog (VisDial) is a task which requires an AI agent to answer a series of questions grounded in an image. Unlike in visual question answering (VQA), the series of questions should be able to capture a temporal context from a dialog history and exploit visually-grounded information. A problem called visual reference resolution involves these challeng

Jireh Loreaux, Ping W. Ng

We look for generalizations of the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore essential codimension result, leading to interesting local uniqueness theorems in $KK$-theory. We also study the structure of Paschke dual algebras.

Tobias Holck Colding, William P. Minicozzi

The classical Liouville theorem states that a bounded harmonic function on all of $\RR^n$ must be constant. In the early 1970s, S.T. Yau vastly generalized this, showing that it holds for manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Moreover, he conjectured a stronger Liouville property that has generated many significant developments. We will first discuss t

Solenn Stoeckel, Barbara Porro, Sophie Arnaud-Haond

Partial clonality is widespread across the tree of life, but most population genetics models are designed for exclusively clonal or sexual organisms. This gap hampers our understanding of the influence of clonality on evolutionary trajectories and the interpretation of population genetics data. We performed forward simulations of diploid populations at incre

Saharnaz E. Dilmaghani, Apivadee Piyatumrong, Pascal Bouvry, Matthias R. Brust

We consider the problem of automatically generating networks from data of collaborating researchers. The objective is to apply network analysis on the resulting network layers to reveal supplemental patterns and insights of the research collaborations. In this paper, we describe our data-to-networks method, which automatically generates a set of logical netw

D. L. Medlin, N. Yang, C. D. Spataru, L. M. Hale

Tetradymite-structured chalcogenides such as bismuth telluride Bi_{2}Te_{3} are of significant interest for thermoelectric energy conversion and as topological insulators. Dislocations play a critical role during synthesis and processing of such materials and can strongly affect their functional properties. The dislocations between quintuple layers present s

Weiping Song, Zhiping Xiao, Yifan Wang, Laurent Charlin

Online communities such as Facebook and Twitter are enormously popular and have become an essential part of the daily life of many of their users. Through these platforms, users can discover and create information that others will then consume. In that context, recommending relevant information to users becomes critical for viability. However, recommendation

Enping Zhou, Antonios Tsokaros, Koji Uryu, Renxin Xu

Rapidly and differentially rotating compact stars are believed to be formed in binary neutron star merger events, according to both numerical simulations and the multi-messenger observation of GW170817. The lifetime and evolution of such a differentially rotating star, is tightly related to the observations in the post-merger phase. Various studies on the ma

Les Hatton, Gregory Warr

A mechanism-free and symbol-agnostic conservation principle, the Conservation of Hartley-Shannon Information (CoHSI) is predicted to constrain the structure of discrete systems regardless of their origin or function. Despite their distinct provenance, genomes and computer software share a simple structural property; they are linear symbol-based discrete syst

Panayiotis Danassis, Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Boi Faltings

We present a novel anytime heuristic (ALMA), inspired by the human principle of altruism, for solving the assignment problem. ALMA is decentralized, completely uncoupled, and requires no communication between the participants. We prove an upper bound on the convergence speed that is polynomial in the desired number of resources and competing agents per resou