February 2019 arXiv papers — page 49

Chao Lei, Bheema Lingam Chittari, Kentaro Nomura, Nepal Banerjee

We predict that antiferromagnetic bilayers formed from van der Waals (vdW) materials, like bilayer CrI$_3$, have a strong magnetoelectric response that can be detected by measuring the gate voltage dependence of Faraday or Kerr rotation signals, total magnetization, or anomalous Hall conductivity. Strong effects are possible in single-gate geometries, and in

Hassan Jameel Asghar, Dali Kaafar

We describe and evaluate an attack that reconstructs the histogram of any target attribute of a sensitive dataset which can only be queried through a specific class of real-world privacy-preserving algorithms which we call bounded perturbation algorithms. A defining property of such an algorithm is that it perturbs answers to the queries by adding zero-mean

Lisa Carbone, K. N. Raghavan, Biswajit Ransingh, Krishanu Roy

As part of his classification of regular semisimple subalgebras of semisimple Lie algebras, Dynkin introduced the notion of a $\pi$-system. This is a subset of the roots such that pairwise differences of its elements are not roots. These arise as simple systems of regular semisimple subalgebras. Morita and Naito generalized this notion to all symmetrizable K

Lana Sinapayen, Atsushi Masumori, Ikegami Takashi

Complex environments provide structured yet variable sensory inputs. To best exploit information from these environments, organisms must evolve the ability to anticipate consequences of unknown stimuli, and act on these predictions. We propose an evolutionary path for neural networks, leading an organism from reactive behavior to simple proactive behavior an

Robert de Mello Koch, W. LiMing, Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl, Joao P. Rodrigues

We consider the computation of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) in the fishnet theories, with a mass term added. These fields theories are not unitary. We compute the growth exponent, in the planar limit, at any value of the coupling and show that the model exhibits chaos. At strong coupling the growth exponent violates the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford

Binlong Li

A circle of an infinite locally finite graph $G$ is the imagine of a homeomorphic mapping of the unit circle $S^1$ in $|G|$, the Freudenthal compactification of $G$. A circle of $G$ is Hamiltonian if it meets every vertex (and then every end) of $G$. In this paper, we study a method for finding Hamiltonian circles of graphs. We illustrate this by extending s

James Saunderson

A convex optimization problem in conic form involves minimizing a linear functional over the intersection of a convex cone and an affine subspace. In some cases, it is possible to replace a conic formulation using a certain cone, with a 'lifted' conic formulation using another cone that is higher-dimensional, but simpler, in some sense. One situation

T. R. Govindarajan, Jai D. More, P. Ramadevi

Stueckelberg mechanism introduces a scalar field, known as Stueckelberg field, so that gauge symmetry is preserved in the massive abelian gauge theory. In this work, we show that the role of the Stueckelberg field is similar to the Kulish and Faddeev coherent state approach to handle infrared (IR) divergences. We expect that the light-front quantum electrody

C. A. Escobar, A. Martín-Ruiz

We investigate the consequences of Lorentz violation (as expressed within the gravity sector of the Standard-Model Extension) for gravitational quantum states of ultracold neutrons (UCNs). Since our main aim is to compare our theoretical results with the recent high-sensitivity GRANIT experiment, we frame this work according to the laboratory conditions unde

Takuya Murayama

We investigate the relation between the Laplacian-$b$ motion and stochastic Komatu-Loewner evolution (SKLE) on multiply connected subdomains of the upper half-plane, both of which are analogues to SLE. In particular, we show that, if the driving function of an SKLE is given by a certain stochastic differential equation, then this SKLE is the same as a time-c

Alina Ene, Adrian Vladu

The iteratively reweighted least squares method (IRLS) is a popular technique used in practice for solving regression problems. Various versions of this method have been proposed, but their theoretical analyses failed to capture the good practical performance. In this paper we propose a simple and natural version of IRLS for solving $\ell_\infty$ and $\ell_1

Takuya Murayama

This paper studies the behavior of solutions near the explosion time to the chordal Komatu-Loewner equation for slits, motivated by the preceding studies by Bauer and Friedrich (2008) and by Chen and Fukushima (2018). The solution to this equation represents moving slits in the upper half-plane. We show that the distance between the slits and driving functio

Alan Baza, Aaron DeLeon, Angel Harb, Vu Hoang

This paper considers the relativistic motion of charged particles coupled with electromagnetic fields in the higher-order theory proposed by Bopp, Land\'e--Thomas, and Podolsky. We rigorously derive a world-line integral expression for the self-force of the charged particle from a distributional equation for the conservation of four-momentum only. This natur

Andrew Truelove, Farah Naz Chowdhury, Omprakash Gnawali, Mohammad Amin Alipour

Internet of Things (IoT) systems are bundles of networked sensors and actuators that are deployed in an environment and act upon the sensory data that they receive. These systems, especially consumer electronics, have two main cooperating components: a device and a mobile app. The unique combination of hardware and software in IoT systems presents challenges

Leslie Ching Ow Tiong, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Yunli Lee

In spite of the advancements made in the periocular recognition, the dataset and periocular recognition in the wild remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose a multilayer fusion approach by means of a pair of shared parameters (dual-stream) convolutional neural network where each network accepts RGB data and a novel colour-based texture descriptor, name

Gregory Rosenthal

For any fixed graph $G$, the subgraph isomorphism problem asks whether an $n$-vertex input graph has a subgraph isomorphic to $G$. A well-known algorithm of Alon, Yuster and Zwick (1995) efficiently reduces this to the "colored" version of the problem, denoted $G$-$\mathsf{SUB}$, and then solves $G$-$\mathsf{SUB}$ in time $O(n^{tw(G)+1})$ where $tw(G)$ is th

Yu Zhao, Ji Liu

Knowledge graph (KG) refinement mainly aims at KG completion and correction (i.e., error detection). However, most conventional KG embedding models only focus on KG completion with an unreasonable assumption that all facts in KG hold without noises, ignoring error detection which also should be significant and essential for KG refinement.In this paper, we pr

Yoshihiko Hasegawa, Tan Van Vu

The fluctuation theorem is the fundamental equality in nonequilibrium thermodynamics that is used to derive many important thermodynamic relations, such as the second law of thermodynamics and the Jarzynski equality. Recently, the thermodynamic uncertainty relation was discovered, which states that the fluctuation of observables is lower bounded by the entro

Jorge Lauret, Marina Nicolini

Only two examples of extremally Ricci pinched G2-structures can be found in the literature and they are both homogeneous. We study in this paper the existence and structure of such very special closed G2-structures on Lie groups. Strong structural conditions on the Lie algebra are proved to hold. As an application, we obtain three new examples of extremally

Lubjana Beshaj, Artur Elezi, Tony Shaska

Let $\mathcal X$ be a genus 2 curve defined over a field $K$, $\mbox{char} K = p \geq 0$, and $\mbox{Jac} (\mathcal X, \iota)$ its Jacobian, where $\iota$ is the principal polarization of $\mbox{Jac} (\mathcal X)$ attached to $\mathcal X$. Assume that $\mbox{Jac} (\mathcal X)$ is $(n, n)$- geometrically reducible with $E_1$ and $E_2$ its elliptic components.

Erman Cineli, Viktor L. Ginzburg

The focus of the paper is the behavior under iterations of the filtered and local Floer homology of a Hamiltonian on a symplectically aspherical manifold. The Floer homology of an iterated Hamiltonian comes with a natural cyclic group action. In the filtered case, we show that the supertrace of a generator of this action is equal to the Euler characteristic

Stephen C. Anco, M. L. Gandarias, Elena Recio

A family of modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations (mKP) in 2+1 dimensions is studied. This family includes the integrable mKP equation when the coefficients of the nonlinear terms and the transverse dispersion term satisfy an algebraic condition. The explicit line soliton solution and all conservation laws of low order are derived for all equations in th

Alexander K. Ratcliffe, Lachlan M. Oberg, Joseph J. Hope

RF-induced micromotion in trapped ion systems is typically minimised or circumvented to avoid off-resonant couplings for adiabatic processes such as multi-ion gate operations. Non-adiabatic entangling gates (so-called `fast gates') do not require resolution of specific motional sidebands, and are therefore not limited to timescales longer than the trapping p

Zhengyi Zhou

We consider symplectic cohomology twisted by sphere bundles, which can be viewed as an analogue of local systems. Using the associated Gysin exact sequence, we prove the uniqueness of part of the ring structure on cohomology of fillings for those asymptotically dynamically convex manifolds with vanishing property considered in [30,31]. In particular, for sim

Chao Li, Balaji Palanisamy, Runhua Xu

The rise of smart contract systems such as Ethereum has resulted in a proliferation of blockchain-based decentralized applications including applications that store and manage a wide range of data. Current smart contracts are designed to be executed solely by miners and are revealed entirely on-chain, resulting in reduced scalability and privacy. In this pap

R. Cruz-Torres, S. Li, F. Hauenstein, A. Schmidt

We report the first measurement of the $(e,e'p)$ reaction cross-section ratios for Helium-3 ($^3$He), Tritium ($^3$H), and Deuterium ($d$). The measurement covered a missing momentum range of $40 \le p_{miss} \le 550$ MeV$/c$, at large momentum transfer ($\langle Q^2 \rangle \approx 1.9$ (GeV$/c$)$^2$) and $x_B>1$, which minimized contributions from non

Chandrima Ganguly, Marco Bruni

A Bianchi IX Mixmaster spacetime is the most general spatially homogeneous solution of Einstein's equations and it can represent the space-averaged Universe. We introduce two novel mechanisms resulting in a Mixmaster Universe with non-singular bounces which are quasi-isotropic. A fluid with a non-linear equation of state allows non-singular bounces. Using ne

Marcel Kvassay

This contribution examines two radically different explanations of our phenomenal intuitions, one reductive and one strongly non-reductive, and identifies two germane ideas that could benefit many other theories of consciousness. Firstly, the ability of sophisticated agent architectures with a purely physical implementation to support certain functional form

Michael V. Klibanov, Anatoly G. Yagola

The key tool of this paper is a new Carleman estimate for an arbitrary parabolic operator of the second order for the case of reversed time data. This estimate works on an arbitrary time interval. On the other hand, the previously known Carleman estimate for the reversed time case works only on a sufficiently small time interval. First, a stability estimate

Moritz Greif, Carsten Greiner, Björn Schenke, Sören Schlichting

We study the influence and interplay of initial state and final state effects in the dynamics of small systems, focusing on azimuthal correlations at different multiplicities. To this end we introduce a new model, matching the classical Yang-Mills dynamics of pre-equilibrium gluon fields (IP-GLASMA) to a perturbative QCD based parton cascade for the final st

J. LaChapelle

Restricting attention to kinematics, we develop the $C^\ast$-algebraic quantum mechanics of $Sp(8,\mathbb{C})$. The non-compact group does double duty: it furnishes the quantum Hilbert space through induced representations, and it spawns the quantum $C^\ast$-algebra through a crossed product construction. The crossed product contains operators associated wit

Shohei Satake

A tournament is an oriented complete graph. The problem of ranking tournaments was firstly investigated by P. Erdős and J. W. Moon. By probabilistic methods, the existence of "unrankable" tournaments was proved. On the other hand, they also mentioned the problem of explicit constructions. However, there seems to be only a few of explicit construction

Tommaso Polonelli, Davide Brunelli, Achille Marzocchi, Luca Benini

LoRaWAN is one of the most promising standards for long-range sensing applications. However, the high number of end devices expected in at-scale deployment, combined with the absence of an effective synchronization scheme, challenge the scalability of this standard. In this paper, we present an approach to increase network throughput through a Slotted-ALOHA

Marica Minucci

This is the author Master's Thesis and its main purpose is to demonstrate that it is possible to formulate Einstein's field equations as an initial value problem. The first chapter concerns the hyperbolic equations theory. The definition of hyperbolic equation is given and the concept of wavelike propagation is presented. Hence, once Riemann kernel d

Buat, V., Corre, D.

Dust attenuation shapes the spectral energy distributions of galaxies and any modelling and fitting procedure of their spectral energy distributions must account for this process. We present results of two recent works dedicated at measuring the dust attenuation curves in star forming galaxies at redshift from 0.5 to 3, by fitting continuum (photometric) and

Tommaso Polonelli, Davide Brunelli, Andrea Bartolini, Luca Benini

High-performance computing installations, which are at the basis of web and cloud servers as well as supercomputers, are constrained by two main conflicting requirements: IT power consumption generated by the computing nodes and the heat that must be removed to avoid thermal hazards. In the worst cases, up to 60% of the energy consumed in a data center is us

Daniele Casagrande, Daniele Del Santo, Martino Prizzi

We prove continuous dependence on initial data for a backward parabolic operator whose leading coefficients are Osgodd continuous in time. This result fills the gap between uniqueness and continuity results obtained so far.

Hilla De-Leon, Lucas Platter, Doron Gazit

In this paper, we establish a general framework for calculating pionless matrix elements between $A=3$ bound-states up to next-to-leading-order. This framework is useful for pionless calculations of electroweak observables, such as $^3$H,$^3$He magnetic moments and $^3$H $β$ decay. Starting from a Bethe-Salpeter equation, we prove that for a bound-state, the

Maziar Nekovee

In this paper an overview is given of the current status of 5G industry standards, spectrum allocation and use cases, followed by initial investigations of new opportunities for spectrum sharing in 5G and the underlying technologies to enable efficient sharing, considering both licensed and unlicensed scenarios and spectrum both below 6 GHz and in the millim

Laura Anderlucci, Lucia Guastadisegni, Cinzia Viroli

This paper focuses on a comparative evaluation of the most common and modern methods for text classification, including the recent deep learning strategies and ensemble methods. The study is motivated by a challenging real data problem, characterized by high-dimensional and extremely sparse data, deriving from incoming calls to the customer care of an Italia

H. Krebs, E. Epelbaum, U. -G. Meißner

Recently, we have shown that the continuity equation for the nuclear vector and axial current operators acquires additional terms if the latter depend on the energy transfer. We analyze in detail the electromagnetic single-nucleon four-current operators and verify the validity of the modified continuity equation for all one- and two-nucleon contributions up

Youngjoo Jo, Jongyoul Park

We present a novel image editing system that generates images as the user provides free-form mask, sketch and color as an input. Our system consist of a end-to-end trainable convolutional network. Contrary to the existing methods, our system wholly utilizes free-form user input with color and shape. This allows the system to respond to the user's sketch

Michael Zollhöfer

Over the past ten years we have seen a democratization of range sensing technology. While previously range sensors have been highly expensive and only accessible to a few domain experts, such sensors are nowadays ubiquitous and can even be found in the latest generation of mobile devices, e.g., current smartphones. This democratization of range sensing techn

Linhan Lin, Sergey Lepeshov, Alex Krasnok, Taizhi Jiang

Chirality is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the natural world. Many biomolecules without inversion symmetry such as amino acids and sugars are chiral molecules. Measuring and controlling molecular chirality at a high precision down to the atomic scale are highly desired in physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine, however, have remained challenging. Herein, we

Shruti Palaskar, Vikas Raunak, Florian Metze

End-to-end acoustic-to-word speech recognition models have recently gained popularity because they are easy to train, scale well to large amounts of training data, and do not require a lexicon. In addition, word models may also be easier to integrate with downstream tasks such as spoken language understanding, because inference (search) is much simplified co

Wanying Kang, Ming Cai, Eli Tziperman

Planets with high obliquity receive more radiation in the polar regions than at low latitudes, and thus, assuming an ocean-covered surface with sufficiently high heat capacity, their meridional temperature gradient was shown to be reversed for the entire year. The objective of this work is to investigate the drastically different general circulation of such

Derek K. Schwanz, Andres Villa, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Benjamin Helfrecht

We report on a novel approach to synthesize cubic-phase fast ionic conducting garnet-type solid state electrolytes based on Bi doped Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO). Bi aliovalent substitution into LLZO utilizing the Pechini processing method is successfully employed to synthesize Li7-xLa3Zr2-xBixO12 compounds. Ionic conductivities up to 2.0 x 10-4 S/cm are achieved in

Raphaël Clouâtre, Edward J. Timko

We study similarity classes of commuting row contractions annihilated by what we call higher order vanishing ideals of interpolating sequences. Our main result exhibits a Jordan-type direct sum decomposition for these row contractions. We illustrate how the family of ideals to which our theorem applies is very rich, especially in several variables. We also g

Simone Bianconi, Min-Su Park, Hooman Mohseni

Precise control of the conductivity of semiconductors through doping has enabled the creation of advanced electronic devices, similarly, the ability to control the conductivity in oxides can enable novel advanced electronic and optoelectronic functionalities. While this was successfully shown for moderately insulating oxides, such as In2O3, a reliable method

Alex Zihao Zhu, Ziyun Wang, Kostas Daniilidis

In this work, we propose a novel transformation for events from an event camera that is equivariant to optical flow under convolutions in the 3-D spatiotemporal domain. Events are generated by changes in the image, which are typically due to motion, either of the camera or the scene. As a result, different motions result in a different set of events. For lea

Rahul Gupta

Sentiment analysis is a task that may suffer from a lack of data in certain cases, as the datasets are often generated and annotated by humans. In cases where data is inadequate for training discriminative models, generate models may aid training via data augmentation. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one such model that has advanced the state of t

Luiz Emilio Allem, Fernando Tura

A graph is called integral if all the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix are integers. In this paper, we show a cograph that has a balanced cotree $T_{G}(a_{1},\ldots,a_{r-1},0|0,\ldots,0,a_{r})$ is integral computing its spectrum. As an application, these integral cographs can be used to estimate the eigenvalues of any cograph.

Zhenguang Huang, Gabor Toth, Bart van der Holst, Yuxi Chen

We present a six-moment multi-fluid model, which solves the governing equations for both ions and electrons, with pressure anisotropy along and perpendicular to the magnetic field direction, as well as the complete set of Maxwell equations. This set of equations includes the Hall effect, different temperatures for different species and pressure anisotropy. I

Thomas Delzant, Vilmos Komornik

We give a nonlinear representation of the duals for a class of Banach spaces. This leads to classroom-friendly proofs of the classical representation theorems $H'=H$ and $(L^p)'=L^q$. Our proofs extend to a family of Orlicz spaces, and yield as an unexpected byproduct a version of the Helly-Hahn-Banach theorem.

Pablo R. Zangara, Siddharth Dhomkar, Ashok Ajoy, Kristina Liu

A broad effort is underway to improve the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance through the use of dynamic nuclear polarization. Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer an appealing platform because these paramagnetic defects can be optically polarized efficiently at room temperature. However, work thus far has been mainly limited to single crysta

Raymond Bond, Ansgar Koene, Alan Dix, Jennifer Boger

Many industries are now investing heavily in data science and automation to replace manual tasks and/or to help with decision making, especially in the realm of leveraging computer vision to automate many monitoring, inspection, and surveillance tasks. This has resulted in the emergence of the 'data scientist' who is conversant in statistical thinkin

Abram M. Kagan

In estimation a parameter $θ\in{\mathbb R}$ from a sample $(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$ from a population $P_θ$ a simple way of incorporating a new observation $x_{n+1}$ into an estimator $\tildeθ_{n} = \tildeθ_{n}(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$ is transforming $\tildeθ_n$ to what we call the {\it jackknife extension} $\tildeθ_{n+1}^{(e)} = \tildeθ_{n+1}^{(e)}(x_1,\ldots,x_n,x_{n+1}

Tye Lidman

In this short note, we prove that if a knot in the Poincare homology sphere is homotopically essential, then it does not admit any purely cosmetic surgeries.

Abram M. Kagan

For independent random variables $X_1,\ldots, X_n;Y_1,\ldots, Y_n$ with all $X_i$ identically distributed and same for $Y_j$, we study the relation \[E\{a\bar X + b\bar Y|X_1 -\bar X +Y_1 -\bar Y,\ldots,X_n -\bar X +Y_n -\bar Y\}={\rm const}\] with $a, b$ some constants. It is proved that for $n\geq 3$ and $ab>0$ the relation holds iff $X_i$ and $Y_j$ are Ga

Yaguang Zhang, Christopher R. Anderson, Nicolo Michelusi, David J. Love

The goal of this article is to investigate the propagation behavior of 28-GHz millimeter wave in coniferous forests and model its basic transmission loss. Field measurements were conducted with a custom-designed sliding correlator sounder. Relevant foliage regions were extracted from high-resolution LiDAR data and satellite images. Our results show that trad

Daniel Stoller, Simon Durand, Sebastian Ewert

Time-aligned lyrics can enrich the music listening experience by enabling karaoke, text-based song retrieval and intra-song navigation, and other applications. Compared to text-to-speech alignment, lyrics alignment remains highly challenging, despite many attempts to combine numerous sub-modules including vocal separation and detection in an effort to break

Peter W. Graham, David E. Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran

We present a model that naturally tunes a large positive cosmological constant to a small cosmological constant. A slowly rolling scalar field decreases the cosmological constant to a small negative value, causing the universe to contract, thus reheating it. An expanding universe with a small positive cosmological constant can be obtained, respectively, by c

Aurelia Pascut, John P. Hughes

We present deep ($205 \rm ks$), \Chandra observations of the \ab295 binary merging cluster ($z=0.30$). In the X-ray image, the secondary component is clearly visible as a surface brightness peak, while the primary cluster has a flatter distribution. We found cool gas ($\sim 6 \rm keV$) associated with the secondary, while the central temperature of the prima

Hafiz Malik

Voice cloning technologies have found applications in a variety of areas ranging from personalized speech interfaces to advertisement, robotics, and so on. Existing voice cloning systems are capable of learning speaker characteristics and use trained models to synthesize a person's voice from only a few audio samples. Advances in cloned speech generation

Alexander Ostermann, Frédéric Rousset, Katharina Schratz

We present a new filtered low-regularity Fourier integrator for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation based on recent time discretization and filtering techniques. For this new scheme, we perform a rigorous error analysis and establish better convergence rates at low regularity than known for classical schemes in the literature so far. In our error estima

Heidi Howard, Richard Mortier

Distributed consensus, the ability to reach agreement in the face of failures and asynchrony, is a fundamental primitive for constructing reliable distributed systems from unreliable components. The Paxos algorithm is synonymous with distributed consensus, yet it performs poorly in practice and is famously difficult to understand. In this paper, we re-examin

Alberto Dennunzio, Enrico Formenti, Luca Manzoni, Luciano Margara

Higher-order cellular automata (HOCA) are a variant of cellular automata (CA) used in many applications (ranging, for instance, from the design of secret sharing schemes to data compression and image processing), and in which the global state of the system at time $t$ depends not only on the state at time $t-1$, as in the original model, but also on the stat

Dhritiman Chakraborty, Laura de Sousa Oliveira, Neophytos Neophytou

Boundary scattering in hierarchically disordered nanomaterials is an effective way to reduce the thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials and increase their performance. In this work we investigate thermal transport in silicon based nanostructured materials in the presence of nanocrystallinity and nanopores at the range of 300 K to 900 K using a Mont

M. Tsantaki, N. C. Santos, S. G. Sousa, E. Delgado-Mena

High-resolution spectroscopic studies of solar-type stars have revealed higher iron abundances derived from singly ionized species compared to neutral, violating the ionization equilibrium under the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium. In this work, we investigate the overabundances of FeII lines reported in our previous work for a sample of 451 so

Jingdao Chen, Yong K. Cho, Zsolt Kira

Mobile robots need to create high-definition 3D maps of the environment for applications such as remote surveillance and infrastructure mapping. Accurate semantic processing of the acquired 3D point cloud is critical for allowing the robot to obtain a high-level understanding of the surrounding objects and perform context-aware decision making. Existing tech

Christopher Frye, Ilya Feige

Autonomous agents trained via reinforcement learning present numerous safety concerns: reward hacking, negative side effects, and unsafe exploration, among others. In the context of near-future autonomous agents, operating in environments where humans understand the existing dangers, human involvement in the learning process has proved a promising approach t

Raymond C. Simons, Susan A. Kassin, Gregory F. Snyder, Joel R. Primack

The majority of massive star-forming galaxies at $z\sim2$ have velocity gradients suggestive of rotation, in addition to large amounts of disordered motions. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is challenging to distinguish the regular rotation of a disk galaxy from the orbital motions of merging galaxies with seeing-limited data. However, the merger fract

Anson Hook

We demonstrate that the physics which resolves naturalness problems need not take the form of new particles and can sometimes manifest itself as higher dimensional operators. As a proof of principle, we present a simple model where the scale of new particles is parametrically separated from that estimated via naturalness arguments applied to self-quartic cou

Brian Henning, Tom Melia

We consider the construction of operator bases for massless, relativistic quantum field theories, and show this is equivalent to obtaining the harmonic modes of a physical manifold (the kinematic Grassmannian), upon which observables have support. This enables us to recast the approach of effective field theory (EFT) through the lens of harmonic analysis. We

Daniel Kynoch, Martin J. Ward, Andy Lawrence, Alastair G. Bruce

SDSS J2232-0806 (the 'Big Dipper') has been identified as a 'slow-blue nuclear hypervariable': a galaxy with no previously known active nucleus, blue colours and large-amplitude brightness evolution occurring on a timescale of years. Subsequent observations have shown that this source does indeed contain an active galactic nucleus (AGN). Our

Aaron A. Dutton, Andrea V. Macciò, Aura Obreja, Tobias Buck

The phenomenological basis for Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is the radial-acceleration-relation (RAR) between the observed acceleration, $a=V^2_{rot}(r)/r$, and the acceleration accounted for by the observed baryons (stars and cold gas), $a_{bar}=V_{bar}^2(r)/r$. We show that the RAR arises naturally in the NIHAO sample of 89 high-resolution LCDM cosmo

Anna Gorczyca-Goraj, Tadeusz Domanski, Maciej M. Maska

Performing Monte Carlo simulations we study the temperature dependent self--organization of magnetic moments coupled to itinerant electrons in a finite--size one--dimensional nanostructure proximitized to a superconducting reservoir. At low temperature an effective interaction between the localized magnetic moments, that is mediated by itinerant electrons, l

Brian Henning, Tom Melia

We identify a means to explicitly construct primary operators of free conformal field theories (CFTs) in spacetime dimensions $d=2,~3$, and $4$. Working in momentum space with spinors, we find that the $N$-distinguishable-particle Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_N$ exhibits a $U(N)$ action in $d=4$ ($O(N)$ in $d=2,3$) which dually describes the decomposition of $

Kaloian D. Lozanov, Mustafa A. Amin

We study the scalar and tensor perturbations generated by the fragmentation of the inflaton condensate into oscillons or transients after inflation, using nonlinear classical lattice simulations. Without including the backreaction of metric perturbations, we find that the magnitude of scalar metric perturbations never exceeds a few $\times 10^{-3}$, whereas

Joshua P. Swanson

We provide a new proof of a result of Baxter and Zeilberger showing that inv and maj on permutations are jointly independently asymptotically normally distributed. The main feature of our argument is that it uses a generating function due to Roselle, answering a question raised by Romik and Zeilberger.

Ruslan Sharipov

A lower semi-definite self-adjoint linear operator in a Hilbert space is taken whose discrete spectrum is not empty and comprises at least several eigenvalues $λ_{min}=λ_1\leqslant\ldots\leqslantλ_m<σ_{ess}$. The problem of approximation of these eigenvalues by eigenvalues of some linear operator in a finite-dimensional space of the dimension $s$ is consider

Rafael de la Madrid, Fabian Garza, Justin Kirk, Huy Luong

We compare the lateral retention forces on sessile drops (which are drops that are placed on top of a solid surface), pendant drops (which are drops that are placed on the underside of the surface), and inverted sessile drops (which are drops that are first placed on top and then on the underside of the surface by flipping the surface). We have found experim

David A. Barajas-Solano, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky

We present two approximate Bayesian inference methods for parameter estimation in partial differential equation (PDE) models with space-dependent and state-dependent parameters. We demonstrate that these methods provide accurate and cost-effective alternatives to Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. We assume a parameterized Gaussian prior on the unknown fun

M. Durjasz, M. Szymczak, M. Olech

G111.256-0.770 is a high-mass young stellar object associated with a weak 6.7 GHz methanol maser showing strong variability. We present results of a multi-epoch monitoring program of the target, conducted with the Torun 32 m telescope for more than a decade. We found that the isotropic maser luminosity varied by a factor 16 on a timescale of 5-6 yr and indiv

Leonardo Enzo Brito da Silva, Niklas M. Melton, Donald C. Wunsch

Validation is one of the most important aspects of clustering, but most approaches have been batch methods. Recently, interest has grown in providing incremental alternatives. This paper extends the incremental cluster validity index (iCVI) family to include incremental versions of Calinski-Harabasz (iCH), I index and Pakhira-Bandyopadhyay-Maulik (iI and iPB

Hongmei Cao, Hao-Guang Li, Chao-Jiang Xu, Jiang Xu

In this work, we investigate the Cauchy problem for the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Kac equation. If the initial datum belongs to the spatially critical Besov space, we can prove the well-posedness of weak solution under a perturbation framework. Furthermore, it is shown that the solution enjoys Gelfand-Shilov regularizing properties with respect to t

Ioannis Anapolitanos, Mathieu Lewin, Matthias Roth

In this work we improve upon previous results on the expansion of the interaction energy of two atoms. On the one hand we prove the van der Waals-London&#39;s law, assuming that only one of the ground state eigenspaces of the atoms is irreducible in an appropriate sense. On the other hand we prove strict monotonicity of the interaction energy at large distan

Mahdieh Zabihimayvan, Reza Sadeghi, Derek Doran, Mehdi Allahyari

Tor is among most well-known dark net in the world. It has noble uses, including as a platform for free speech and information dissemination under the guise of true anonymity, but may be culturally better known as a conduit for criminal activity and as a platform to market illicit goods and data. Past studies on the content of Tor support this notion, but we

Stephen G. Odaibo, M. D., M. S., M. S.

We report, to our knowledge, the first end-to-end application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) towards the synthesis of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images of the retina. Generative models have gained recent attention for the increasingly realistic images they can synthesize, given a sampling of a data type. In this paper, we apply GANs to a s

Serena Dipierro, Aram L. Karakhanyan, Enrico Valdinoci

We study here a singular perturbation problem of biLaplacian type, which can be seen as the biharmonic counterpart of classical combustion models. We provide different results, that include the convergence to a free boundary problem driven by a biharmonic operator, as introduced in a previous paper of ours, and a monotonicity formula in the plane. For the la

Cori Faklaris, Asa Blevins, Matthew O&#39;Haver, Neha Singhal

Thanks to mobile apps such as Periscope and Facebook Live, live-streaming video is having a moment again. It has not been clear, however, to what extent the current ubiquity of smartphones is impacting this technology&#39;s acceptance in everyday social situations and how mobile contexts or affordances will affect and be affected by shifts in social norms an

Vito Acito, Michele Ciavarella, Alexis M Prevost, Antoine Chateauminois

We study experimentally and theoretically the equilibrium adhesive contact between a smooth glass lens and a rough rubber surface textured with spherical microasperities with controlled height and spatial distributions. Measurements of the real contact area $A$ versus load $P$ are performed under compression by imaging the light transmitted at the microconta

Alessandro Seri, Dario Lago-Rivera, Andreas Lenhard, Giacomo Corrielli

We report on the quantum storage of a heralded frequency-multiplexed single photon in an integrated laser-written rare-earth doped waveguide. The single photon contains 15 discrete frequency modes separated by 261 MHz and spaning across 4 GHz. It is obtained from a non-degenerate photon pair created via cavity-enhanced spontaneous down conversion, where the

Elisardo Antelo

ExaScale systems will be a key driver for simulations that are essential for advance of science and economic growth. We aim to present a new concept of microprocessor for floating-point computations useful for being a basic building block of ExaScale systems and beyond. The proposed microprocessor architecture has a frontend for programming interface based o

Ketil Malde, Rasmus Skern, Kevin A. Glover

The ever-increasing number of genome sequencing and resequencing projects is a central source of insights into the ecology and evolution of non-model organisms. An important aspect of genomics is the elucidation of sex determination systems and identifying genes on sex chromosomes. This not only helps reveal mechanisms behind sex determination in the species

Indranil Biswas, Sorin Dumitrescu

This is largely a survey paper, dealing with Cartan geometries in the complex analytic category. We first remind some standard facts going back to the seminal works of F. Klein, E. Cartan and C. Ehresmann. Then we present the concept of a branched holomorphic Cartan geometry which was introduced by the authors in [BD]. It generalizes to higher dimension the

Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza, Diego Pavón

The second law of thermodynamics is known to hold at small scales also when gravity plays a leading role, as in the case of black holes and self-gravitating radiation spheres. It has been suggested that it should as well at large scales. Here, by a purely kinematic analysis \textemdash based on the history of the Hubble factor and independent of any cosmolog

E. Chatzopoulos, M. S. Gilmer, R. T. Wollaeger, C. Frohlich

Pair-Instability Supernovae (PISNe) may signal the deaths of extremely massive stars in the local Universe or massive primordial stars after the end of the Cosmic Dark Ages. Hydrodynamic simulations of these explosions, performed in 1D, 2D, and 3D geometry, have revealed the strong dependence of mixing in the PISN ejecta on dimensionality. This chemical rear

Shuxia Tao, Ines Schmidt, Geert Brocks, Junke Jiang

Metal-halide perovskites are promising materials for future optoelectronic applications. One intriguing property, important for many applications, is the tunability of the band gap via compositional engineering. While experimental reports on changes in absorption or photoluminescence show rather good agreement for wide variety of compounds, the physical orig

Farhad Allian, Rekha Jain, B. W Hindman

We study intensity variations, as measured by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), in a solar coronal arcade using a newly developed analysis procedure that employs spatio-temporal auto-correlations. We test our new procedure by studying large-amplitude oscillations excited by nearby flaring activity within a