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  1. M. A. Yepeza, A. Arellano Ferro, K. P. Schroeder, S. Muneer

    We present new CCD $VI$ photometry of the distant globular cluster Pal 13. Fourier decomposition of the light curves of the three cluster member RRab stars lead to estimations of [Fe/H]=-1.65, and a distance of 23.67$\pm$0.57 kpc. Light and colour near minimum phases for RRab stars leads to an estimate of $E(B-V)$=0.104 $\pm$ 0.001. A $V/(V-I)$ colour-magnit

  2. Gennaro Ciampa, Gianluca Crippa, Stefano Spirito

    In this paper we analyse the selection problem for weak solutions of the transport equation with rough vector field. We answer in the negative the question whether solutions of the equation with a regularized vector field converge to a unique limit, which would be the selected solution of the limit problem. To this aim, we give a new example of a vector fiel

  3. J. J. Grond, R. M. Woods, J. W. Wadsley, H. M. P. Couchman

    We present TREVR (Tree-based REVerse Ray Tracing), a general algorithm for computing the radiation field, including absorption, in astrophysical simulations. TREVR is designed to handle large numbers of sources and absorbers; it is based on a tree data structure and is thus suited to codes that use trees for their gravity or hydrodynamics solvers (e.g. Adapt

  4. Camille Scalliet, Ludovic Berthier

    We show numerically that a three-dimensional model for structural glass displays aging, rejuvenation and memory effects when submitted to a temperature cycle. These effects indicate that the free energy landscape of structural glasses may possess the complex hierarchical structure that characterize materials such as spin and polymer glasses. We use the theor

  5. Anthony Sicilia, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Kirk Goldsberry

    How much is an on-ball screen worth? How much is a backdoor cut away from the ball worth? Basketball is one of a number of sports which, within the past decade, have seen an explosion in quantitative metrics and methods for evaluating players and teams. However, it is still challenging to evaluate individual off-ball events in terms of how they contribute to

  6. S. Lazic, E. Chernysheva, A. Hernández-Mínguez, P. V. Santos

    On-chip quantum information processing requires controllable quantum light sources that can be operated on-demand at high-speeds and with the possibility of in-situ control of the photon emission wavelength and its optical polarization properties. Here, we report on the dynamic control of the optical emission from core-shell GaN/InGaN nanowire (NW) heterostr

  7. Rufat Badal

    We study an $L^{2}$-type gradient flow of an immersed elastic curve in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ whose endpoints repel each other via a Coulomb potential. By De Giorgi's minimizing movements scheme we prove long-time existence of the flow. The work is complemented by several numerical experiments.

  8. Octavian-Eugen Ganea, Sylvain Gelly, Gary Bécigneul, Aliaksei Severyn

    The Softmax function on top of a final linear layer is the de facto method to output probability distributions in neural networks. In many applications such as language models or text generation, this model has to produce distributions over large output vocabularies. Recently, this has been shown to have limited representational capacity due to its connectio

  9. Reed Essick, Daniel E. Holz

    The waveform of a compact binary coalescence is predicted by general relativity. It is therefore possible to directly constrain the response of a gravitational-wave (GW) detector by analyzing a signal's observed amplitude and phase evolution as a function of frequency. GW signals alone constrain the relative amplitude and phase between different frequencies

  10. S. Deser, R. P. Woodard

    We present an improved version of our original cosmological model to explain the current phase of cosmological acceleration without resorting to a cosmological constant or any other mass scale. Like the original, this phenomenological approach is based on an effective quantum gravitational action, but now depends on the original nonlocal dimensionless scalar

  11. R. Gerlach, A. Ziessler, B. Eckhardt, M. Dellnitz

    In this work we present a set-oriented path following method for the computation of relative global attractors of parameter-dependent dynamical systems. We start with an initial approximation of the relative global attractor for a fixed parameter $\lambda_0$ computed by a set-oriented subdivision method. By using previously obtained approximations of the par

  12. Philippe Allard

    This document brings together several articles devoted to manual encryption and introduces new algorithms and ciphers: a permutation algorithm, Spirale (a one-time-pad cipher), a solution to the problem of the ordered route of a table, Diagonales (a cipher by transposition), Carousel (another cipher by transposition), solutions to the problem of creating key

  13. Aritra Chowdhury, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Bulent Yener

    Data science relies on pipelines that are organized in the form of interdependent computational steps. Each step consists of various candidate algorithms that maybe used for performing a particular function. Each algorithm consists of several hyperparameters. Algorithms and hyperparameters must be optimized as a whole to produce the best performance. Typical

  14. Min Jiang, Wenjie Xu, Yunlan Ji, Ji Bian

    Ultralow-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) provides a new regime for many applications ranging from materials science to fundamental physics. However, the experimentally observed spectra show asymmetric amplitudes, differing greatly from those predicted by the standard theory. Its physical origin remains unclear, as well as how to suppress it. Here we p

  15. Zhinan Hu, Weile Zhang

    High-mobility wireless communications have received a lot of attentions in the past few years. In this paper, we consider angle-domain Doppler shifts compensation scheme to reduce the channel time variation for the high-mobility uplink from a high-speed terminal (HST) to a base station (BS). We propose to minimize Doppler spread by antenna weighting under th

  16. Carl Feghali, Jiří Fiala

    The reconfiguration graph $R_k(G)$ of the $k$-colourings of a graph $G$ contains as its vertex set the $k$-colourings of $G$ and two colourings are joined by an edge if they differ in colour on just one vertex of $G$. We show that for each $k \geq 3$ there is a $k$-colourable weakly chordal graph $G$ such that $R_{k+1}(G)$ is disconnected. We also introduce

  17. Reshef Meir

    We consider the facility location problem in a metric space, focusing on the case of three agents. We show that selecting the reported location of each agent with probability proportional to the distance between the other two agents results in a mechanism that is strategyproof in expectation, and dominates the random dictator mechanism in terms of utilitaria

  18. Avery Miller, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Will Rosenbaum

    We consider the Adversarial Queuing Theory (AQT) model, where packet arrivals are subject to a maximum average rate $0\le\rho\le1$ and burstiness $\sigma\ge0$. In this model, we analyze the size of buffers required to avoid overflows in the basic case of a path. Our main results characterize the space required by the average rate and the number of distinct d

  19. Yan Gao, Yang Long, Yu Guan, Anna Basu

    Perinatal stroke (PS) is a serious condition that, if undetected and thus untreated, often leads to life-long disability, in particular Cerebral Palsy (CP). In clinical settings, Prechtl's General Movement Assessment (GMA) can be used to classify infant movements using a Gestalt approach, identifying infants at high risk of developing PS. Training and mainte

  20. Davide Mandelli, Wengen Ouyang, Oded Hod, Michael Urbakh

    Negative friction coefficients, where friction is reduced upon increasing normal load, are predicted for superlubric graphite-hexagonal boron nitride heterojunctions. The origin of this counterintuitive behavior lies in the load-induced suppression of the moir\'e superstructure out-of-plane distortions leading to a less dissipative interfacial dynamics. Ther

  21. S. Geaney, D. Cox, T. Hönigl-Decrinis, R. Shaikhaidarov

    The microwave properties of nano-scale structures are important in a wide variety of applications in quantum technology. Here we describe a low-power cryogenic near-field scanning microwave microscope (NSMM) which maintains nano-scale dielectric contrast down to the single microwave photon regime, up to $10^{9}$ times lower power than in typical NSMMs. We di

  22. T. Kobayashi, A. Leontiev

    We give a Gegenbauer expansion of the two variable function $| s - t |^{\alpha}$ in terms of the ultraspherical polynomials $C_l^{\lambda} (s)$ and $C^{\mu}_m (t)$. Generalization, specialization, and limits of the expansion are also discussed.

  23. Khanh Duy Trinh

    The paper studies the relation between critical simplices and persistence diagrams of the \v{C}ech filtration. We show that adding a critical $k$-simplex into the filtration corresponds either to a point in the $k$th persistence diagram or a point in the $(k-1)$st persistence diagram. Consequently, the number of points in persistence diagrams can be expresse

  24. Yang Gao

    Electron conductivity is an important material property that can provide a wealth of information about the underlying system. Especially, the response of the conductivity with respect to electromagnetic fields corresponds to various nonlinear charge currents, which have distinct symmetry requirements and hence can be used as efficient probes of different sys

  25. Yeping Zhang

    We construct BCOV invariant for Calabi-Yau pairs. The construction covers the classical BCOV invariant and certain equivariant BCOV invariant. The BCOV invariant obtained is expected to be well-behaved under birational equivalence.

  26. Mutsuko Tomokiyo, Mathieu Mangeot, Christian Boitet

    Although classifiers/quantifiers (CQs) expressions appear frequently in everyday communications or written documents, they are described neither in classical bilingual paper dictionaries , nor in machine-readable dictionaries. The paper describes a CQs dictionary, edited from the corpus we have annotated, and its usage in the framework of French-Japanese mac

  27. D. Sokolovski, S. A. Gurvitz

    We present a path analysis of the condition under which the outcomes of previous observation affect the results of the measurements yet to be made. It is shown that this effect, also known as "signalling in time", occurs whenever the earlier measurements are set to destroy interference between two or more virtual paths. We also demonstrate that Feynman's neg

  28. Naruki Masuda, Hugh Thomas, Andy Tonks, Bruno Vallette

    This paper introduces a new method to solve the problem of the approximation of the diagonal for face-coherent families of polytopes. We recover the classical cases of the simplices and the cubes and we solve it for the associahedra, also known as Stasheff polytopes. We show that it satisfies an easy-to-state cellular formula. For the first time, we endow a

  29. A. M. Abdi, N. Boke-Olen, H. Jin, L. Eklundh

    The importance of semi-arid ecosystems in the global carbon cycle as sinks for CO2 emissions has recently been highlighted. Africa is a carbon sink and nearly half its area comprises arid and semi-arid ecosystems. However, there are uncertainties regarding CO2 fluxes for semi-arid ecosystems in Africa, particularly savannas and dry tropical woodlands. In ord

  30. Niril George, Joseph L. Allen, Robert Kosut, Eran Ginossar

    High-fidelity quantum gates are crucial for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing; however, decoherence significantly reduces gate fidelities during long operation times. Although optimal control techniques can theoretically minimize these operation times, they often neglect realistic uncertainties in system parameters. In this work, we demonstrate that

  31. David Cerna, Alexander Leitsch, Anela Lolic

    Proof schemata are infinite sequences of proofs which are defined inductively. In this paper we present a general framework for schemata of terms, formulas and unifiers and define a resolution calculus for schemata of quantifier-free formulas. The new calculus generalizes and improves former approaches to schematic deduction. As an application of the method

  32. Qingbo Li, Hui Ma, Rui-Xin Wu

    Unidirectional waves are the waves propagating only in one direction and prohibited in opposite direction. This kind of waves can be surface waves realized by topological edge state or bulk waves in the media with time reversal and space inversion symmetry broken. Here, we introduce unidirectional waveguide modes in the periodic dielectric chain comprised of

  33. Kevin Buchin, Anne Driemel, Martijn Struijs

    We study the complexity of clustering curves under $k$-median and $k$-center objectives in the metric space of the Fr\'echet distance and related distance measures. Building upon recent hardness results for the minimum-enclosing-ball problem under the Fr\'echet distance, we show that also the $1$-median problem is NP-hard. Furthermore, we show that the $1$-m

  34. Uthman Baroudi, M. Alharbi, K. Alhouty, H. Baafeef

    In this case study, we design, integrate and implement a cloud-enabled autonomous robotic navigation system. The system has the following features: map generation and robot coordination via cloud service and video streaming to allow online monitoring and control in case of emergency. The system has been tested to generate a map for a long corridor using two

  35. Nauman Dawalatabad, Srikanth Madikeri, C Chandra Sekhar, Hema A Murthy

    The two-pass information bottleneck (TPIB) based speaker diarization system operates independently on different conversational recordings. TPIB system does not consider previously learned speaker discriminative information while diarizing new conversations. Hence, the real time factor (RTF) of TPIB system is high owing to the training time required for the a

  36. Jindong Chen, Yizhou Hu, Jingping Liu, Yanghua Xiao

    Short text classification is one of important tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Unlike paragraphs or documents, short texts are more ambiguous since they have not enough contextual information, which poses a great challenge for classification. In this paper, we retrieve knowledge from external knowledge source to enhance the semantic representation

  37. Lamine M. Aouad, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Tahar M. Kechadi

    In this article, we focus on distributed Apriori-based frequent itemsets mining. We present a new distributed approach which takes into account inherent characteristics of this algorithm. We study the distribution aspect of this algorithm and give a comparison of the proposed approach with a classical Apriori-like distributed algorithm, using both analytical

  38. Damir Kahvedzic, Tahar Kechadi

    This paper presents DIALOG (Digital Investigation Ontology); a framework for the management, reuse, and analysis of Digital Investigation knowledge. DIALOG provides a general, application independent vocabulary that can be used to describe an investigation at different levels of detail. DIALOG is defined to encapsulate all concepts of the digital forensics f

  39. Paul Brunet

    We consider algebras of languages over the signature of reversible Kleene lattices, that is the regular operations (empty and unit languages, union, concatenation and Kleene star) together with intersection and mirror image. We provide a complete set of axioms for the equational theory of these algebras. This proof was developed in the proof assistant Coq.

  40. J. -B. Bru, W. de Siqueira Pedra

    We define a Banach space $\mathcal{M}_{1}$ of models for fermions or quantum spins in the lattice with long range interactions and explicit the structure of (generalized) equilibrium states for any $\mathfrak{m}\in \mathcal{M}_{1}$. In particular, we give a first answer to an old open problem in mathematical physics - first addressed by Ginibre in 1968 withi

  41. V. Shpakov, M. P. Anania, M. Bellaveglia, A. Biagioni

    The development of compact accelerator facilities providing high-brightness beams is one of the most challenging tasks in field of next-generation compact and cost affordable particle accelerators, to be used in many fields for industrial, medical and research applications. The ability to shape the beam longitudinal phase-space, in particular, plays a key ro

  42. Cristina Acciarri, Danilo Silveira

    Let $q$ be a prime and $A$ an elementary abelian $q$-group acting as a coprime group of automorphisms on a profinite group $G$. We show that if $A$ is of order $q^2$ and some power of each element in $C_G(a)$ is Engel in $G$ for any $a\in A^{\#}$, then $G$ is locally virtually nilpotent. Assuming that $A$ is of order $q^3$ we prove that if some power of each

  43. V. Eymet, R. Fournier, S. Blanco, J. L. Dufresne

    A boundary-based net-exchange Monte Carlo method was introduced in [1] that allows to bypass the difficulties encountered by standard Monte Carlo algorithms in the limit of optically thick absorption (and/or for quasi-isothermal configurations). With the present paper, this method is extended to scattering media. Developments are fully 3D, but illustrations

  44. Hai-Jun Zhou

    The binary perceptron is the simplest artificial neural network formed by $N$ input units and one output unit, with the neural states and the synaptic weights all restricted to $\pm 1$ values. The task in the teacher--student scenario is to infer the hidden weight vector by training on a set of labeled patterns. Previous efforts on the passive learning mode

  45. Johannes Bund, Christoph Lenzen, Will Rosenbaum

    Synchronizing clocks in distributed systems is well-understood, both in terms of fault-tolerance in fully connected systems and the dependence of local and global worst-case skews (i.e., maximum clock difference between neighbors and arbitrary pairs of nodes, respectively) on the diameter of fault-free systems. However, so far nothing non-trivial is known ab

  46. I. K. Savvas, M. Tahar Kechadi

    In this study, a cluster-computing environment is employed as a computational platform. In order to increase the efficiency of the system, a dynamic task scheduling algorithm is proposed, which balances the load among the nodes of the cluster. The technique is dynamic, nonpreemptive, adaptive, and it uses a mixed centralised and decentralised policies. Based

  47. Aser Cortines, Lisa Hartung, Oren Louidor

    This work is a continuation of the manuscript "the structure of extreme level sets in branching Brownian motion", in which the same authors studied the fine structure of the extreme level sets of branching Brownian motion, namely the sets of particles whose height is within a finite distance from the global maximum. It is well known that such particles congr

  48. Pragnya Alatur, Kfir Y. Levy, Andreas Krause

    We consider a setting where multiple players sequentially choose among a common set of actions (arms). Motivated by a cognitive radio networks application, we assume that players incur a loss upon colliding, and that communication between players is not possible. Existing approaches assume that the system is stationary. Yet this assumption is often violated

  49. Tijmen A. G. Hageman, Marc. P. Pichel, Per A. Löthman, Jiung Cho

    We controlled and observed individual magnetotactic bacteria (Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense) inside a 5 {\mu}m high microfluidic channel for over four hours. After a period of constant velocity, the duration of which varied between bacteria, all observed bacteria showed a gradual decrease in their velocity of about 25 nm/s$^2$. After coming to a full stop

  50. Mila Pandurović

    The potential of measurement of the relative statistical uncertainty of the ${{\sigma}(HZ)\times BR(H \rightarrow WW^{*})}$ decay, at the International Linear Collider (ILC) has been presented. The study is performed at the lowest energy stage of the proposed staged ILC, the 250 GeV stage. Monte Carlo samples representing all SM processes were passed through

  51. Yoan Chabot, Aurélie Bertaux, Christophe Nicollea, Tahar Kechadi

    Having a clear view of events that occurred over time is a difficult objective to achieve in digital investigations (DI). Event reconstruction, which allows investigators to understand the timeline of a crime, is one of the most important step of a DI process. This complex task requires exploration of a large amount of events due to the pervasiveness of new

  52. Richard I. Anderson

    We investigate temporally changing variability amplitudes and the multi-periodicity of the type-I Cepheid Polaris using 161 high-precision radial velocity (RV) and bisector inverse span (BIS) measurements based on optical spectra recorded using Hermes at the 1.2 m Flemish Mercator telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. Using an empirical template fitt

  53. Vera Vértesi

    The support norm $sn(\xi)$ of a contact structure $\xi$ is the minimum of the negative Euler characteristics of the pages of the open books supporting $\xi$. In this paper we prove additivity of the support norm for tight contact structures.

  54. H. E. Swanson, C. D. Bass, T. D. Bass, B. E. Crawford

    Neutron spin rotation is expected from quark-quark weak interactions in the Standard Model, which induce weak interactions among nucleons that violate parity. We present the results from an experiment searching for the effect of parity violation via the spin rotation of polarized neutrons in a liquid $^{4}$He medium. The value for the neutron spin rotation a

  55. Florian Leben, Carsten Trunk

    We consider a second-order differential equation $$ -y''(z)-(iz)^{N+2}y(z)=\lambda y(z), \quad z\in \Gamma $$ with an eigenvalue parameter $\lambda \in \mathbb{C}$. In $\mathcal{PT}$ quantum mechanics $z$ runs through a complex contour $\Gamma\subset \mathbb{C}$, which is in general not the real line nor a real half-line. Via a parametrization we map the pro

  56. Milica Tomasevic

    In Talay and Tomasevic [20] we proposed a new stochastic interpretation of the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system without cutoff. It involved an original type of McKean-Vlasov interaction kernel which involved all the past time marginals of its probability distribution in a singular way. In the present paper, we study this McKean-Vlasov representation i

  57. Sergey Fedoruk, Evgeny Ivanov, Olaf Lechtenfeld

    Novel $\mathcal{N}{=}\,2$ and $\mathcal{N}{=}\,4$ supersymmetric extensions of the Calogero-Sutherland hyperbolic systems are obtained by gauging the ${\rm U}(n)$ isometry of matrix superfield models. The bosonic core of the $\mathcal{N}{=}\,2$ models is the standard $A_{n-1}$ Calogero-Sutherland hyperbolic system, whereas the ${\mathcal N}{=}\,4$ model cont

  58. Paul B. Rimmer, Sarah Rugheimer

    Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is a key feedstock molecule for the production of life's building blocks. The formation of HCN in an N$_2$-rich atmospheres requires first that the triple bond between N$\equiv$N be severed, and then that the atomic nitrogen find a carbon atom. These two tasks can be accomplished via photochemistry, lightning, impacts, or volcanism. Th

  59. Aser Cortines, Lisa Hartung, Oren Louidor

    We consider a one dimensional random-walk-like process, whose steps are centered Gaussians with variances which are determined according to the sequence of arrivals of a Poisson process on the line. This process is decorated by independent random variables which are added at each step, but do not get accumulated. We study the probability that such process, c

  60. Markus Diehl, Jonathan R. Gaunt, Peter Ploessl, Andreas Schafer

    Double parton distributions (DPDs) receive a short-distance contribution from a single parton splitting to yield the two observed partons. We investigate this mechanism at next-to-leading order (NLO) in perturbation theory. Technically, we compute the two-loop matching of both the position and momentum space DPDs onto ordinary PDFs. This also yields the 1 ->

  61. Danilo Bzdok, John Ioannidis

    The last decades saw dramatic progress in brain research. These advances were often buttressed by probing single variables to make circumscribed discoveries, typically through null hypothesis significance testing. New ways for generating massive data fueled tension between the traditional methodology, used to infer statistically relevant effects in carefully

  62. Enrico Celeghini, Manuel Gadella, Mariano A del Olmo

    We revise the symmetries of the Zernike polynomials that determine the Lie algebra su(1,1) + su(1,1). We show how they induce discrete as well continuous bases that coexist in the framework of rigged Hilbert spaces. We also discuss some other interesting properties of Zernike polynomials and Zernike functions. One of the interests of Zernike functions has be

  63. M. Jara, C. Landim, K. Tsunoda

    We consider weakly asymmetric exclusion processes whose initial density profile is a small perturbation of a constant. We show that in the diffusive time-scale, in all dimensions, the density defect evolves as the solution of a viscous Burgers equation.

  64. Taekyun Kim, Dae San Kim, Gwan-Woo Jang

    In this paper, we study the degenerate central complete and incomplete Bell polynomials which are degenerate versions of the recently introduced central complete and incomplete Bell polynomials and also central analogues for the degenerate complete and incomplete Bell polynomials. We investigate some properties and identities for these polynomials.

  65. M. Domokos

    A minimal homogeneous generating system of the algebra of semi-invariants of tuples of two-by-two matrices over an infinite field of characteristic two or over the ring of integers is given. In an alternative interpretation this yields a minimal system of homogeneous generators for the vector invariants of the special orthogonal group of degree four over a f

  66. Antoine Campagne, Roumaissa Hassaini, Ivan Redor, Joel Sommeria

    We investigate experimentally turbulence of surface gravity waves in the Coriolis facility in Grenoble by using both high sensitivity local probes and a time and space resolved stereoscopic reconstruction of the water surface. We show that the water deformation is made of the superposition of weakly nonlinear waves following the linear dispersion relation an

  67. Anton Galajinsky, Ivan Masterov

    The full set of Casimir elements of the centrally extended l-conformal Galilei algebra is found in simple and tractable form.

  68. Yasmine Fittouhi

    Many finite dimensional integrable systems qre expressed with the help of the Lax equation which highlights a spectral parameter and therefore a spectral curve. These spectral curves are the starting point of an algebro-geometric investigation. The algebraic aspect of this investigation will be expressed using the Jacobians of smooth spectral curves and gene

  69. Sergei M. Kuzenko, Michael Ponds

    We develop a manifestly conformal approach to describe linearised (super)conformal higher-spin gauge theories in arbitrary conformally flat backgrounds in three and four spacetime dimensions. Closed-form expressions in terms of gauge prepotentials are given for gauge-invariant higher-spin (super) Cotton and (super) Weyl tensors in three and four dimensions,

  70. Zeyu Cui, Zekun Li, Shu Wu, Xiaoyu Zhang

    With the rapid development of fashion market, the customers' demands of customers for fashion recommendation are rising. In this paper, we aim to investigate a practical problem of fashion recommendation by answering the question "which item should we select to match with the given fashion items and form a compatible outfit". The key to this problem is to es

  71. A. S. Smirnov, A. V. Tumialis, K. S. Golokhvast

    Just as the emergence of personal computers and smartphones has changed the life of modern society, the Internet of Things, augmented reality and ultra-fast and reliable telecommunications networks of the new generation, by combining the physical objects of the real world with the ever-increasing computing power and intelligence of cyberspace, will make the

  72. Florian Bridoux, Maximilien Gadouleau, Guillaume Theyssier

    An Automata Network is a map ${f:Q^n\rightarrow Q^n}$ where $Q$ is a finite alphabet. It can be viewed as a network of $n$ entities, each holding a state from $Q$, and evolving according to a deterministic synchronous update rule in such a way that each entity only depends on its neighbors in the network's graph, called interaction graph. A major trend in au

  73. Ekaterina Fokina, Timo Kötzing, Luca San Mauro

    While most research in Gold-style learning focuses on learning formal languages, we consider the identification of computable structures, specifically equivalence structures. In our core model the learner gets more and more information about which pairs of elements of a structure are related and which are not. The aim of the learner is to find (an effective

  74. Prabhatasree Goel, M. K. Gupta, S. K. Mishra, Baltej Singh

    Metal Chalcogenides have been known for important technological applications and have attracted continuous interest in their structure, electronic, thermal and transport properties. Here we present first principles calculations of the vibrational and thermodynamic properties of NiX (X = S, Se, Te) compounds along with inelastic neutron scattering measurement

  75. Yunxuan Zhang, Weiliang Zhang, Qinyan Zhang, Jijiang Yang

    Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) plays an important role in the diagnoses and treatment of cardiovascular diseases while motion artifacts which are formed during the scanning process of CMR seriously affects doctors to find the exact focus. The current correction methods mainly focus on the K-space which is a grid of raw data obtained from the MR sign

  76. R. Mittal, M. K. Gupta, Baltej Singh, L. Pintschovius

    The orthovanadates are useful as host matrices for immobilization of radioactive wastes. The thermodynamic stability of these materials is crucial for their applications in high pressure and temperatures environment. It is necessary to investigate the phonons in the entire Brillouin zone, beyond the zone-centre phonons accessible in previous Raman and infrar

  77. Aleksei Y. Kondratev, Alexander S. Nesterov

    We study ex-post fairness in the object allocation problem where objects are valuable and commonly owned. A matching is fair from individual perspective if it has only inevitable envy towards agents who received most preferred objects -- minimal envy matching. A matching is fair from social perspective if it is supported by majority against any other matchin

  78. Giovanni Iacobello, Stefania Scarsoglio, J. G. M. Kuerten, Luca Ridolfi

    A temporal complex network-based approach is proposed as a novel formulation to investigate turbulent mixing from a Lagrangian viewpoint. By exploiting a spatial proximity criterion, the dynamics of a set of fluid particles is geometrized into a time-varying weighted network. Specifically, a numerically solved turbulent channel flow is employed as an exempli

  79. Michael Adam Lones

    In recent years, a plethora of new metaheuristic algorithms have explored different sources of inspiration within the biological and natural worlds. This nature-inspired approach to algorithm design has been widely criticised. A notable issue is the tendency for authors to use terminology that is derived from the domain of inspiration, rather than the broade

  80. B. Liu, L. Wang, I. Radelytskyi, Y. Zhang

    Temperature and field-dependent magnetization $M(H,T)$ measurements and neutron scattering study of a single crystal CeSb$_2$ are presented. Several anomalies in the magnetization curves have been confirmed at low magnetic field, i.e., 15.6 K, 12 K, and 9.8 K. These three transitions are all metamagnetic transitions (MMT), which shift to lower temperatures a

  81. Sjoerd Geevers

    In this paper, a novel pre- and post-processing algorithm is presented that can double the convergence rate of finite element approximations for linear wave problems. In particular, it is shown that a $q$-step pre- and post-processing algorithm can improve the convergence rate of the finite element approximation from order $p+1$ to order $p+1+q$ in the $L^2$

  82. Peter Mati

    The thermodynamical properties of the photon-plasma system had been studied using statistical physics approach. Photons develop an effective mass in the medium thus -- as a result of the finite chemical potential -- a photon Bose-Einstein condensation can be achieved by adjusting one of the relevant parameters (temperature, photon density and plasma density)

  83. Chris Prior, David MacTaggart

    Magnetic helicity flux gives information about the topology of a magnetic field passing through a boundary. In solar physics applications, this boundary is the photosphere and magnetic helicity flux has become an important quantity in analysing magnetic fields emerging into the solar atmosphere. In this work we investigate the evolution of magnetic helicity

  84. Yinzhong Yan, Qingming Li

    A shock waveform is proposed based on the mechanical mechanism of shock generation in a structure. The parameters in the shock waveform have clear mechanical meanings about the generation and development of the shock. A shock signal processing method is proposed and applied to represent a pyroshock or ballistic shock signal in both temporal and frequency dom

  85. Yong Zhao, Shibiao Xu, Shuhui Bu, Hongkai Jiang

    SLAM technology has recently seen many successes and attracted the attention of high-technological companies. However, how to unify the interface of existing or emerging algorithms, and effectively perform benchmark about the speed, robustness and portability are still problems. In this paper, we propose a novel SLAM platform named GSLAM, which not only prov

  86. Yasmine Fittouhi

    An integrable system is a dynamic system characterized by the existence of constants of motion and the existence of algebraic invariants, having an origin in algebraic geometry. In the 1970s, Mumford introduced a new completely integrable system defined on a smooth hyperelliptic curve. In the 2000s, Vanhaecke completed the description of the Munford integrab

  87. Lilia Boeri, Giovanni B. Bachelet

    It is a honor to write a contribution on this memorial for Sandro Massidda. For both of us, at different stages of our life, Sandro was first and foremost a friend. We both admired his humble, playful and profound approach to life and physics. In this contribution we describe the route which permitted to meet a long-standing challenge in solid state physics,

  88. Alexander I. Bobenko, Sebastian Heller, Nicholas Schmitt

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  89. Anastasios D. Koulouklidis, Dimitris G. Papazoglou, Vladimir Yu. Fedorov, Stelios Tzortzakis

    We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally that the harmonics from abruptly auto-focusing ring-Airy beams present a surprising property, they preserve the phase distribution of the fundamental beam. Consequently, this "phase memory" inherits to the harmonics the abrupt autofocusing behavior, while, under certain conditions, their foci coincide in s

  90. Ram Brustein, A. J. M. Medved

    The composition as well as the very existence of the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) remains at the forefront of open problems in fundamental physics. To address this issue, we turn to Hawking's "principle of ignorance", which says that, for an observer with limited information, all descriptions that are consistent with known physics are equally

  91. Elena Masciadri, Alessio Turchi, Luca Fini

    (35-words maximum) In this talk I present the scientific drivers related to the optical turbulence forecast applied to the ground-based astronomy supported by Adaptive Optics, the state of the art of the achieved results and the most relevant challenges for future progresses.

  92. Adam Selyem, Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Sarah Croke, Andrew Forbes

    Complex vectorial light fields, non-separable in their polarization and spatial degree of freedom, are of relevance in a wide variety of fields encompassing microscopy, metrology, communication and topological studies. Controversially, they have been suggested as analogues to quantum entanglement, raising fundamental questions on the relation between non-sep

  93. Shah Rukh Qasim, Jan Kieseler, Yutaro Iiyama, Maurizio Pierini

    We explore the use of graph networks to deal with irregular-geometry detectors in the context of particle reconstruction. Thanks to their representation-learning capabilities, graph networks can exploit the full detector granularity, while natively managing the event sparsity and arbitrarily complex detector geometries. We introduce two distance-weighted gra

  94. Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Arash Pourdamghani

    In today's programmable blockchains, smart contracts are limited to being deterministic and non-probabilistic. This lack of randomness is a consequential limitation, given that a wide variety of real-world financial contracts, such as casino games and lotteries, depend entirely on randomness. As a result, several ad-hoc random number generation approaches ha

  95. Yang Gao, Shuming Jiao, Juncheng Fang, Ting Lei

    A cascaded phase-only mask architecture (or an optical diffractive neural network) can be employed for different optical information processing tasks such as pattern recognition, orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode conversion, image salience detection and image encryption. However, for optical encryption and watermarking applications, such a system usually c

  96. J. A. Brons, P. J. Thomas, A. Potherat

    We tackle the question of how anisotropy in flows subject to background rotation favours structures elongated along the rotation axis, especially in turbulent flows. A new, wave-free mechanism is identified that challenges the current understanding of the process. Inertial waves propagating near the rotation axis are generally accepted as the most efficient

  97. Mark Dostalík, Vít Průša, Tomáš Skřivan

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  98. Stergios Amarantidis, José Afonso, Hugo Messias, Bruno Henriques

    We present an exploration of the expected detection of the earliest Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the Universe from state-of-art galaxy formation and evolution semi-analytic models and hydro-dynamical simulations. We estimate the number and radiative characteristics of Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs) at $z\geq 6$, a redshift range that will be intensivel

  99. Mao-Sheng Li, Yan-Ling Wang

    We can only perform a finite rounds of measurements in protocols with local operations and classical communication (LOCC). In this paper, we propose a set of product states, which require infinite rounds of measurements in order to distinguish this given set of states perfectly by LOCC. Therefore, we can conclude that these sets of states are locally indisti

  100. Joshua Morris, Felix A. Pollock, Kavan Modi

    We measure and quantify non-Markovian effects in IBM's Quantum Experience. Specifically, we analyze the temporal correlations in a sequence of gates by characterizing the performance of a gate conditioned on the gate that preceded it. With this method, we estimate (i) the size of fluctuations in the performance of a gate, i.e., errors due to non-Markovianity