February 2019 arXiv papers — page 69

Benjamin A. Toms, Karthik Kashinath, Prabhat, Da Yang

We test the reliability of two neural network interpretation techniques, backward optimization and layerwise relevance propagation, within geoscientific applications by applying them to a commonly studied geophysical phenomenon, the Madden-Julian Oscillation. The Madden-Julian Oscillation is a multi-scale pattern within the tropical atmosphere that has been

Michael Damron, Jon Fickenscher

If $\mathcal{A}$ is a finite set (alphabet), the shift dynamical system consists of the space $\mathcal{A}^{\mathbb{N}}$ of sequences with entries in $\mathcal{A}$, along with the left shift operator $S$. Closed $S$-invariant subsets are called subshifts and arise naturally as encodings of other systems. In this paper, we study the number of ergodic measures

Rossella Gamba, Jocelyn S. Read, Leslie E. Wade

The detection of GW170817, the first neutron star-neutron star merger observed by Advanced LIGO and Virgo, and its following analyses represent the first contributions of gravitational wave (GW) data to understanding dense matter. Parameterizing the high density section of the equation of state (EOS) of both neutron stars through spectral decomposition, and

Jaehyuk Park, Ian Wood, Elise Jing, Azadeh Nematzadeh

Groups of firms often achieve a competitive advantage through the formation of geo-industrial clusters. Although many exemplary clusters, such as Hollywood or Silicon Valley, have been frequently studied, systematic approaches to identify and analyze the hierarchical structure of the geo-industrial clusters at the global scale are rare. In this work, we use

Daniel J. Higley, Alex H. Reid, Zhao Chen, Loïc Le Guyader

We report a novel mechanism, consisting of redistribution of valence electrons near the Fermi level, during interactions of intense femtosecond X-ray pulses with a Co/Pd multilayer. The changes in Co 3d valence shell occupation were directly revealed by fluence-dependent changes of the Co L$_3$ X-ray absorption and magnetic circular dichroism spectra near th

Qiang Xiao, Matei I. Radulescu

The present work revisits the problem of modelling the real gaseous detonation dynamics at the macro-scale by simple steady one-dimensional (1D) models. Experiments of detonations propagating in channels with exponentially expanding cross-sections were conducted in the H2/O2/Ar reactive system. Steady detonation waves were obtained at the macro-scale, with c

Yousef AlHassoun, Faisal Alotaibi, Aly El Gamal, Hesham El Gamal

Coded caching techniques have received significant attention lately due to their provable gains in reducing the cost of data delivery in wireless networks. These gains, however, have only been demonstrated under the assumption of a free placement phase. This unrealistic assumption poses a significant limitation, especially in cases where aggressive placement

Adam Lowe, Miguel Ortuno, Igor V Yurkevich

We provide analytical and numerical evidence that the attractive two-dimensional Kitaev model on a lattice with mirror symmetry demonstrates unusual 'intrinsic' phase at half filling. This phase emerges in the phase diagram at the boundary separating two topological superconductors with opposite Chern numbers and exists due to condensation of non-zer

Junwu Tu

In this paper, we present an explicit cyclic minimal $A_\infty$ model for the category of matrix factorizations $\MF(W)$ of an isolated hypersurface singularity. The key observation is to use Kontsevich's deformation quantization technique. Pushing this idea further, we use the Tsygan formality map to obtain a comparison theorem that the categorical Variatio

Ian S. Dunn, Roel Tempelaar, David R. Reichman

The hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) provide a numerically exact approach for computing the reduced dynamics of a quantum system linearly coupled to a bath. We have found that HEOM contains temperature-dependent instabilities that grow exponentially in time. In the case of continuous-bath models, these instabilities may be delayed to later times by in

Zhe Wang, Yingzhou Li, Jianfeng Lu

We develop an efficient algorithm, coordinate descent FCI (CDFCI), for the electronic structure ground state calculation in the configuration interaction framework. CDFCI solves an unconstrained non-convex optimization problem, which is a reformulation of the full configuration interaction eigenvalue problem, via an adaptive coordinate descent method with a

Simona Pirani, Anders Johansen, Bertram Bitsch, Alexander J. Mustill

Pebble accretion is an efficient mechanism able to build up the core of the giant planets within the lifetime of the protoplanetary disc gas-phase. The core grows via this process until the protoplanet reaches its pebble isolation mass and starts to accrete gas. During the growth, the protoplanet undergoes a rapid, large-scale, inward migration due to the in

George Georgiou, Konstantinos Sfetsos

We construct the all loop effective action for WZW models perturbed by current-bilinear terms of the type $J_+J_- $, $J_+J_+ $ and $J_-J_- $, the last two of which explicitly break Lorentz invariance. For isotropic couplings we prove integrability. For the case in which only the first two terms are present we identify a non-perturbative symmetry of the effec

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Kazuo Sorai, Nario Kuno, Kazuyuki Muraoka

We present the results of $^{12}$CO($J$=1-0) and $^{13}$CO($J$=1-0) simultaneous mappings toward the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 4303 as a part of the CO Multi-line Imaging of Nearby Galaxies (COMING) project. Barred spiral galaxies often show lower star-formation efficiency (SFE) in their bar region compared to the spiral arms. In this paper, we examine

Andrew J. Winter, Cathie J. Clarke, Giovanni P. Rosotti

Many stars form in regions of enhanced stellar density, wherein the influence of stellar neighbours can have a strong influence on a protoplanetary disc (PPD) population. In particular, far ultraviolet (FUV) flux from massive stars drives thermal winds from the outer edge of PPDs, accelerating disc destruction. In this work, we present a novel technique for

Lucien Heurtier, Yann Mambrini, Mathias Pierre

The ANITA collaboration recently reported the detection of two anomalous upward-propagating extensive air showers exiting the Earth with relatively large emergence angles and energies in the range $\mathcal{O}(0.5\!-\!1)~\mathrm{EeV}$. We interpret these two events as coming from the decay of a massive dark-matter candidate ($m_\text{DM}\!\gtrsim\! 10^{9}~\m

Elisa Bortolas, Michela Mapelli

One of the most promising gravitational wave (GW) sources detectable by the forthcoming LISA observatory are the so-called extreme-mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. GW-driven inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In this paper, we suggest that supernova (SN) kicks may trigger EMRIs in galactic nuclei by scattering

Jae-hyeon Park

Motivated by the recently proposed de Sitter swampland conjecture, a formally same condition imposed instead on the convex and real exact effective potential is contemplated. Compared to the original conjecture, the modified condition admits a broader class of low-energy effective theories such as those with local maxima and/or false de Sitter vacua with som

Romain A. Meyer, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Richard S. Ellis

We present the results of a model-independent investigation of the rest-frame UV spectra from a comprehensive sample of $394$ quasars in the redshift range $1.5\leq z \leq 7.5$. We fit the main Broad Emission Lines (BELs) in the rest-frame range $1280 \textÅ \leq λ\leq 3000 \textÅ$ (O I, C II, Si IV, C III, C IV and Mg II) with a lightly-supervised spline fi

Bharat Kumar, Philippe Landry

Because all neutron stars share a common equation of state, tidal deformability constraints from the compact binary coalescence GW170817 have implications for the properties of neutron stars in other systems. Using equation-of-state insensitive relations between macroscopic observables like moment of inertia ($I$), tidal deformability ($Λ$) and stellar compa

G. S. H. Cruttwell, J. -S. P. Lemay, R. B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

Integral categories were recently developed as a counterpart to differential categories. In particular, integral categories come equipped with an integration operator, known as an integral transformation, whose axioms generalize the basic integration identities from calculus such as integration by parts. However, the literature on integral categories contain

Danho Ahn, Dojun Youm, Ohjoon Kwon, Woohyun Chung

We demonstrate a superconducting (SC) microwave (mw) cavity that can accelerate the dark matter search by maintaining superconductivity in a high DC magnetic field. We used high-temperature superconductor (HTSC) yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) with a phase transition temperature of 90K to prevent SC failure by the magnetic field. Since the direct depositi

Jorge Alfaro, Mauricio Gamonal

Recent research show that the cosmological components of the Universe should influence on the propagation of Gravitational Waves (GWs) and even it has been proposed a new way to measure the cosmological constant using Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). However, these results have considered very particular cases (e.g. a de Sitter Universe or a mixing with non-rela

Kevin T. Tian, Zhenghan Wang

Entanglement renormalization group flow of the Haah cubic code produces another fracton model with 4 qubits per lattice site, dubbed as the Haah B-code. We provide a schema that generalizes both models to stabilizer codes on any finite group with 2q qubits per site and labeled by multi-subsets of the finite group and a symmetric binary matrix.

Norbert Bodendorfer, Fabio M. Mele, Johannes Münch

The physical interpretation and eventual fate of gravitational singularities in a theory surpassing classical general relativity are puzzling questions that have generated a great deal of interest among various quantum gravity approaches. In the context of loop quantum gravity (LQG), one of the major candidates for a non-perturbative background-independent q

Cyril Marzouk

For non-negative integers $(d_n(k))_{k \ge 1}$ such that $\sum_{k \ge 1} d_n(k) = n$, we sample a bipartite planar map with $n$ faces uniformly at random amongst those which have $d_n(k)$ faces of degree $2k$ for every $k \ge 1$ and we study its asymptotic behaviour as $n \to \infty$. We prove that the diameter of such maps grow like $\sigma_n^{1/2}$, where

Jakob Piribauer, Christel Baier

The paper addresses two variants of the stochastic shortest path problem ('optimize the accumulated weight until reaching a goal state') in Markov decision processes (MDPs) with integer weights. The first variant optimizes partial expected accumulated weights, where paths not leading to a goal state are assigned weight 0, while the second variant con

Jakob Lemvig, Kamilla Haahr Nielsen

We consider Gabor frames $\{e^{2\pi i bm \cdot} g(\cdot-ak)\}_{m,k \in \mathbb{Z}}$ with translation parameter $a=L/2$, modulation parameter $b \in (0,2/L)$ and a window function $g \in C^n(\mathbb{R})$ supported on $[x_0,x_0+L]$ and non-zero on $(x_0,x_0+L)$ for $L>0$ and $x_0\in \mathbb{R}$. The set of all dual windows $h \in L^2(\mathbb{R})$ with sufficie

Luiz F. Ferreira, R. da Rocha

The two flavour AdS/QCD, with chiral and gluon condensates, sets in the description of the pion family and its mass spectra. Using gravity-dilaton-gluon backgrounds, entropic Regge-like trajectories for the pion family are then derived. They relate the $π$ mesons underlying configurational entropy to both the pions excitation wave mode number and the pions e

Juan Ignacio Perotti, Orlando Vito Billoni

Zipf's law is found when the vocabulary of long written texts is ranked according to the frequency of word occurrences, establishing a power-law decay for the frequency vs rank relation. This law is a robust statistical property observed even in ancient untranslated languages. Interestingly, this law seems to be also manifested in music records when seve

Antony Ndolo, Kıvılcım Yüksel Aldoğan

Bending losses are very critical in many application hence should be monitored.

Ting Chen, Wenchang Sun

In [C. E. Kenig and E. M. Stein, Multilinear estimates and fractional integration, Math. Res. Lett., 6(1):1-15, 1999], the following type of multilinear fractional integral \[ \int_{\mathbb{R}^{mn}} \frac{f_1(l_1(x_1,\ldots,x_m,x))\cdots f_{m+1}(l_{m+1}(x_1,\ldots,x_m,x))}{(|x_1|+\ldots+|x_m|)^λ} dx_1\ldots dx_m \] was studied, where $l_i$ are linear maps fr

Ok Song An, Jin U Kang, Jong Chol Kim, Yong Hae Ko

We discuss consistency at the quantum level in the rigid $\mathcal N=1$ supersymmetric field theories with a $U(1)_R$ symmetry in four-dimensional curved space which are formulated via coupling to the new-minimal supergravity background fields. By analyzing correlation functions of the current operators in the $\mathcal{R}$-multiplet, we show that the quantu

Diego Agudelo-España, Sebastian Gomez-Gonzalez, Stefan Bauer, Bernhard Schölkopf

Online detection of instantaneous changes in the generative process of a data sequence generally focuses on retrospective inference of such change points without considering their future occurrences. We extend the Bayesian Online Change Point Detection algorithm to also infer the number of time steps until the next change point (i.e., the residual time). Thi

Yuandong Tian, Jerry Ma, Qucheng Gong, Shubho Sengupta

The AlphaGo, AlphaGo Zero, and AlphaZero series of algorithms are remarkable demonstrations of deep reinforcement learning's capabilities, achieving superhuman performance in the complex game of Go with progressively increasing autonomy. However, many obstacles remain in the understanding of and usability of these promising approaches by the research communi

Yangyiwei Yang, Olav Ragnvaldsen, Yang Bai, Min Yi

Predicting the microstructure during selective laser sintering (SLS) is of great interests, which can compliment the current time and cost expensive trial-and-error principle with an efficient computational design tool. However, it still remains a great challenge to simulate the microstructure evolution during SLS due to the complex underlying physical pheno

Jose Antonio Carrillo, Mattia Zanella

In this paper we introduce and discuss numerical schemes for the approximation of kinetic equations for flocking behavior with phase transitions that incorporate uncertain quantities. This class of schemes here considered make use of a Monte Carlo approach in the phase space coupled with a stochastic Galerkin expansion in the random space. The proposed metho

Abeer ElBahrawy, Laura Alessandretti, Andrea Baronchelli

The production and consumption of information about Bitcoin and other digital-, or 'crypto'-, currencies have grown together with their market capitalisation. However, a systematic investigation of the relationship between online attention and market dynamics, across multiple digital currencies, is still lacking. Here, we quantify the interplay betwe

Francesco Della Pietra, Gianpaolo Piscitelli

Let us consider the following minimum problem \[ \lambda_\alpha(p,r)= \min_{\substack{u\in W_{0}^{1,p}(-1,1)\\ u\not\equiv0}}\dfrac{\displaystyle\int_{-1}^{1}|u'|^{p}dx+\alpha\left|\int_{-1}^{1}|u|^{r-1}u\, dx\right|^{\frac pr}}{\displaystyle\int_{-1}^{1}|u|^{p}dx}, \] where $\alpha\in\mathbb R$, $p\ge 2$ and $\frac p2 \le r \le p$. We show that there exists

Marc Aubreville, Christof A. Bertram, Christian Marzahl, Corinne Gurtner

Manual count of mitotic figures, which is determined in the tumor region with the highest mitotic activity, is a key parameter of most tumor grading schemes. It can be, however, strongly dependent on the area selection due to uneven mitotic figure distribution in the tumor section.We aimed to assess the question, how significantly the area selection could im

Andrii Trelin, Ales Prochazka

Binary Stochastic Filtering (BSF), the algorithm for feature selection and neuron pruning is proposed in this work. The method defines filtering layer which penalizes amount of the information involved in the training process. This information could be the input data or output of the previous layer, which directly leads to the feature selection or neuron pru

Hamidreza Taghvaee, Sergi Abadal, Julius Georgiou, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional counterpart of metamaterials, have caught great attention thanks to their powerful control over electromagnetic waves. Recent times have seen the emergence of a variety of metasurfaces exhibiting not only countless functionalities, but also a reconfigurable or even programmable response. Reconfigurability, however, entails t

Etienne Fieux, Bertrand Jouve

Given a finite undirected graph $X$, a vertex is $0$-dismantlable if its open neighbourhood is a cone and $X$ is $0$-dismantlable if it is reducible to a single vertex by successive deletions of $0$-dismantlable vertices. By an iterative process, a vertex is $(k+1)$-dismantlable if its open neighbourhood is $k$-dismantlable and a graph is $k$-dismantlable if

Geoffrey Compère

The aim of this short review is to give an overview to non-specialists of recent arguments from fundamental physics in favor and disfavor of quantum corrections to black hole horizons. I will mainly discuss the black hole information paradox, its possible resolutions and shortly address its relevance or irrelevance to astronomy.

Jihye Kim, Sumin Seo, Jonghyun Kim, Sungmin Nam

Cellular metabolic rate is a good indicator of the physiological state of cells and its changes, which can be measured by total heat flux accompanying metabolism. Chip calorimeters can provide label-free and high throughput measurements of cellular metabolic rate, however, lack of high power resolution and microfluidic sample handling capability has been pre

Sayan Banerjee, Amarjit Budhiraja

We obtain rates of convergence to stationarity in L^1-Wasserstein distance for a d-dimensional reflected Brownian motion (RBM) in the nonnegative orthant that are explicit in the dimension and the system parameters. The results are then applied to a class of RBMs considered in Blanchet-Chen (2016) and to rank-based diffusions including the Atlas model. In bo

M. Yan

Nanoparticle chain waveguide based on negative-epsilon material is investigated through a generic 3D finite-element Bloch-mode solver which derives complex propagation constant ($k$). Our study starts from waveguides made of non-dispersive material, which not only singles out "waveguide dispersion" but also motivates search of new materials to achiev

Vyacheslav Yu. Shaprynskii, Boris M. Vernikov

We completely determine all cancellable elements in the lattice OC of overcommutative semigroup varieties. In particular, we prove that an overcommutative semigroup variety is a cancellable element of the lattice OC if and only if it is a neutral element of this lattice

T. Tony Cai, Yichen Wang, Linjun Zhang

Privacy-preserving data analysis is a rising challenge in contemporary statistics, as the privacy guarantees of statistical methods are often achieved at the expense of accuracy. In this paper, we investigate the tradeoff between statistical accuracy and privacy in mean estimation and linear regression, under both the classical low-dimensional and modern hig

EJ Janse van Rensburg

A numerical simulation shows that the osmotic pressure of compressed lattice knots is a function of knot type, and so of entanglements. The osmotic pressure for the unknot goes through a negative minimum at low concentrations, but in the case of non-trivial knot types $3_1$ and $4_1$ it is negative for low concentrations. At high concentrations the osmotic p

Tobias Fissler, Johanna F. Ziegel

The debate of what quantitative risk measure to choose in practice has mainly focused on the dichotomy between Value at Risk (VaR) -- a quantile -- and Expected Shortfall (ES) -- a tail expectation. Range Value at Risk (RVaR) is a natural interpolation between these two prominent risk measures, which constitutes a tradeoff between the sensitivity of the latt

V. Hnizdo, G. Vaman

The self-force of a point charge moving on a rectilinear trajectory is obtained, with no need of any explicit removal of infinities, as the negative of the time rate of change of the momentum of its retarded self-field.

Diedre Carmo, Bruna Silva, Clarissa Yasuda, Letícia Rittner

Hippocampus segmentation plays a key role in diagnosing various brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, depression and others. Nowadays, segmentation is still mainly performed manually by specialists. Segmentation done by experts is considered to be a gold-standard when evaluating automated methods, buts it is a

Pedro Agostini, Tolga Altinoluk, Néstor Armesto

We consider the non-eikonal corrections to particle production in the Color Glass Condensate stemming from the relaxation of the shockwave approximation for the target that acquires a finite longitudinal dimension. We derive a modified expression of the Lipatov vertex which takes into account this finite target width. This expression is employed to compute s

A. J. Princep, H. L. Feng, Y. F. Guo, F. Lang

We report magnetic, transport, neutron diffraction, and muon spin rotation data showing that Pb$_2$CoOsO$_6$, a newly synthesized metallic double-perovskite with a centrosymmetric space group at room temperature, exhibits a continuous second-order phase transition at 45 K to a magnetically ordered state with a non-centrosymmetric space group. The absence of

Ji Wang, Miroslav Krstic

We present designs for exponential stabilization of an ODE-heat PDE-ODE coupled system where the control actuation only acts in one ODE. The combination of PDE backstepping and ODE backstepping is employed in a state-feedback control law and in an observer that estimates PDE and two ODE states only using one PDE boundary measurement. Based on the state-feedb

A. Bershadskii

The velocity-vorticity correlation integral (Chkhetiani invariant) is an invariant of a viscous Karman-Howarth equation. In the tree-dimensional space this invariant can naturally determine a turbulent diffusivity (viscosity). It is shown, using results of direct numerical simulations, that distributed chaos dominated by this integral can provide an adequate

Bartosz Kusmierz, Arkadiusz Wojs, Sreejith G J

Trial wavefunctions like the Moore-Read and Read-Rezayi states which minimize short range multibody interactions are candidate states for describing the fractional quantum Hall effects at filling factors $ν= 1/2$ and $ν= 2/5$ in the second Landau level. These trial wavefunctions are unique zero energy states of three body and four body interaction Hamiltonia

Daniel R. Tovey

The transverse mass of semi-invisibly decaying particles, calculated from the transverse momenta of their decay products, has been used in a broad range of searches and measurements at hadron colliders, such as the LHC. This variable is invariant by construction under Lorentz boosts purely in the longitudinal (beam) direction, thereby minimising sensitivity

Balázs Gulácsi, Balázs Dóra

We investigate the light-matter interaction between the edge state of a 2D topological insulator and quantum electromagnetic field. The interaction originates from the Zeeman term between the spin of the edge electrons and the magnetic field, and also through the Peierls substition. The continuous U(1) symmetry of the system in the absence of the vector pote

Viktor Eisler, Erik Tonni, Ingo Peschel

We consider the entanglement Hamiltonian for an interval in a chain of free fermions in its ground state and show that the lattice expression goes over into the conformal one if one includes the hopping to distant neighbours in the continuum limit. For an infinite chain, this can be done analytically for arbitrary fillings and is shown to be the consequence

Hadji El, El Hadji Samb

Let the matrix operator $L = D\partial_{xx} + q(x)A_0$, with $D = diag(1, \nu)$, $\nu \neq 1$, $q \in L^{\infty} (0, $\pi$)$, and $A_0$ is a Jordan block of order 1. We analyze the boundary null controllability for system $y_t - Ly = 0$. When $ \nu \notin \mathbb{Q} ^*_+ $ and $q(x) = 1$, $x $\in$ (0, $\pi$)$, there exists a family of root vectors of $(L * ,

Elisa Davoli, Helene Ranetbauer, Luca Scarpa, Lara Trussardi

Existence and uniqueness of solutions for nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations with degenerate potential is shown. The nonlocality is described by means of a symmetric singular kernel not falling within the framework of any previous existence theory. A convection term is also taken into account. Building upon this novel existence result, we prove convergence of

Pierre Lidon, Etienne Perrot, Abraham D. Stroock

In this paper, we investigate quantitatively the coupling between gradients of temperature and of chemical or water potential under steady state conditions in the vapor phase. This coupling is important for the measurement and modeling of the dynamics of water in unsaturated environments like soils and plants. We focus on a simple non-equilibrium scenario in

Nassim Athmouni, Marwa Ennaceur, Sylvain Golenia

We study perturbations of the discrete Laplacian associated to discrete analogs of cusps and funnels. We perturb the metric and the potential in a long-range way. We establish a propagation estimate and a Limiting Absorption Principle away from the possible embedded eigenvalues. The approach is based on a positive commutator technique.

A. Övgün, İ. Sakallı

In this paper, we apply the topological method to the various black holes to derive their Hawking temperature. We show that the this method can easily be employed to compute the Hawking temperature of black holes having spherically symmetric topology. Therefore, we conclude that the topological method provides a consistent formula to achieve the Hawking temp

Paul Alphonse

We study the partial Gelfand-Shilov regularizing effect and the exponential decay for the solutions to evolution equations associated to a class of accretive non-selfadjoint quadratic operators, which fail to be globally hypoelliptic on the whole phase space. By taking advantage of the associated Gevrey regularizing effects, we study the null-controllability

Hadrien De March, Pierre Henry-Labordere

We consider the classical problem of building an arbitrage-free implied volatility surface from bid-ask quotes. We design a fast numerical procedure, for which we prove the convergence, based on the Sinkhorn algorithm that has been recently used to solve efficiently (martingale) optimal transport problems.

Momchil Hardalov, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov

Recent advances in deep neural networks, language modeling and language generation have introduced new ideas to the field of conversational agents. As a result, deep neural models such as sequence-to-sequence, Memory Networks, and the Transformer have become key ingredients of state-of-the-art dialog systems. While those models are able to generate meaningfu

S. Seyyare Aksu, A. Levent Subaşı, Nader Ghazanfari

The artificial magnetic fields engineered for ultra cold gases depend on the internal structure of the neutral atoms. Therefore the components of a mixture composed of two atomic gases can exhibit a different response to an artificial magnetic field. Such a mixture can be interpreted as a mixture of two atomic gases, carrying different synthetic charges. In

Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Adam Frank, Jason Wright, Caleb Scharf

We model the settlement of the galaxy by space-faring civilizations in order to address issues related to the Fermi Paradox. We explore the problem in a way that avoids assumptions about the intent and motivation of any exo-civilization seeking to settle other planetary systems. We first consider the speed of an advancing settlement via probes of finite velo

Gaurav Bhatnagar, Michael J. Schlosser

We present an infinite family of Borwein type $+ - - $ conjectures. The expressions in the conjecture are related to multiple basic hypergeometric series with Macdonald polynomial argument.

Frank Schoeneman, Jaroslaw Zola

Algorithms for computing All-Pairs Shortest-Paths (APSP) are critical building blocks underlying many practical applications. The standard sequential algorithms, such as Floyd-Warshall and Johnson, quickly become infeasible for large input graphs, necessitating parallel approaches. In this work, we provide detailed analysis of parallel APSP performance on di

Tong Zhou, Yuyu Zhou

This paper investigates observability/controllability of a networked dynamic system (NDS) in which system matrices of its subsystems are expressed through linear fractional transformations (LFT). Some relations have been obtained between this NDS and descriptor systems about their observability/controllability. A necessary and sufficient condition is establi

Sadegh Raeisi, Mária Kieferová, Michele Mosca

Heat-bath algorithmic cooling (HBAC) provides algorithmic ways to improve the purity of quantum states. These techniques are complex iterative processes that change from each iteration to the next and this poses a significant challenge to implementing these algorithms. Here, we introduce a new technique that on a fundamental level, shows that it is possible

G. B. Ventura, D. J. Passos, J. M. Viana Parente Lopes, J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

In this work, we present numerical results for the second and third order conductivities of the plain graphene and gapped graphene monolayers associated with the second and third harmonic generation, the optical rectification and the optical Kerr effect. The frequencies considered here range from the microwave to the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum, the

Silvia Vicentini, Luciano Vanzo, Massimiliano Rinaldi

We study quantum corrections to an inflationary model, which has the attractive feature of being classically scale-invariant. In this model, quadratic gravity plays along a scalar field in such a way that inflation begins near the unstable point of the effective potential and it ends at a stable fixed point, where the scale symmetry is broken and a fundament

Russell Lyons

We show that solutions to multidimensional SDEs with Lipschitz coefficients and driven by Brownian motion never reach the set where all coefficients vanish unless the initial position belongs to that set.

Johan Richter, Sergei Silvestrov, Alex Tumwesigye

In this article we consider the Ore extension Algebra for the algebra $\mathcal{A}$ of functions with finite support on a countable set. We derive explicit formulas for twisted derivations on $\mathcal{A}.$ We give a description for the centralizer of $\mathcal{A},$ and the center of the Ore extension algebra when the derivation is zero.

Paweł Gawrychowski, Seungbum Jo, Shay Mozes, Oren Weimann

Given a string $S$ of $n$ integers in $[0,σ)$, a range minimum query RMQ$(i, j)$ asks for the index of the smallest integer in $S[i \dots j]$. It is well known that the problem can be solved with a succinct data structure of size $2n + o(n)$ and constant query-time. In this paper we show how to preprocess $S$ into a compressed representation that allows fast

Hai-Tian Wang, Zhen Jiang, Alberto Sesana, Enrico Barausse

We investigate the prospects of detecting gravitational waves from coalescing massive black hole binaries in the Universe with the TianQin observatory, a space-based gravitational wave interferometer proposed to be launched in the 2030s. To frame the scientific scope of the mission, in this paper, we carry out a preliminary estimation of the signal-to-noise

Andrew M. Webb, Charles Reynolds, Wenlin Chen, Henry Reeve

End-to-End training (E2E) is becoming more and more popular to train complex Deep Network architectures. An interesting question is whether this trend will continue-are there any clear failure cases for E2E training? We study this question in depth, for the specific case of E2E training an ensemble of networks. Our strategy is to blend the gradient smoothly

Krishna Gopal Benerjee, Sourav Deb, Manish K Gupta

DNA storage has emerged as an important area of research. The reliability of DNA storage system depends on designing the DNA strings (called DNA codes) that are sufficiently dissimilar. In this work, we introduce DNA codes that satisfy a special constraint. Each codeword of the DNA code has a specific property that any two consecutive sub-strings of the DNA

Cyril Simon Wedlund, Etienne Behar, Hans Nilsson, Markku Alho

Solar wind charge-changing reactions are of paramount importance to the physico-chemistry of the atmosphere of a comet. The ESA/Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) provides a unique opportunity to study charge-changing processes in situ. To understand the role of these reactions in the evolution of the solar wind plasma, and interpret th

Ahmed Abusnaina, Aminollah Khormali, Hisham Alasmary, Jeman Park

The main goal of this study is to investigate the robustness of graph-based Deep Learning (DL) models used for Internet of Things (IoT) malware classification against Adversarial Learning (AL). We designed two approaches to craft adversarial IoT software, including Off-the-Shelf Adversarial Attack (OSAA) methods, using six different AL attack approaches, and

Ashok Bandi, Bhavani Shankar Mysore R, Symeon Chatzinotas, Björn Ottersten

The long-term average performance of the MISO downlink channel, with a large number of users compared to transmit antennas of the BS, depends on the interference management which necessitates the joint design problem of scheduling and precoding. Unlike the previous works which do not offer a truly joint design, this paper focuses on formulating a problem ame

Ruggero Lanotte, Massimo Merro, Andrei Munteanu, Luca Viganò

We apply formal methods to lay and streamline theoretical foundations to reason about Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) and physics-based attacks, i.e., attacks targeting physical devices. We focus on a formal treatment of both integrity and denial of service attacks to sensors and actuators of CPSs, and on the timing aspects of these attacks. Our contributions

Tadeas Bilka, Nils Braun, Thomas Hauth, Thomas Kuhr

The GENFIT toolkit, initially developed at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, has been extended and modified to be more general and user-friendly. The new GENFIT, called GENFIT2, provides track representation, track-fitting algorithms and graphic visualization of tracks and detectors, and it can be used for any experiment that determines parameters of cha

Fabrício Cristófani, Fábio Natali, Ademir Pastor

In this paper, we establish a new criterion for the orbital stability of periodic waves related to a general class of regularized dispersive equations. More specifically, we present sufficient conditions for the stability without knowing the positiveness of the associated hessian matrix. As application of our method, we show the orbital stability for the fif

Fiona Sloothaak, James R. Cruise, Seva Shneer, Maria Vlasiou

To reduce carbon emission in the transportation sector, there is currently a steady move taking place to an electrified transportation system. This brings about various issues for which a promising solution involves the construction and operation of a battery swapping infrastructure rather than in-vehicle charging of batteries. In this paper, we study a clos

Arezoo Mokhberi, Jonas Vogel, Justas Andrijauskas, Patrick Bachor

We present an experimental investigation of the Rydberg 23 P$_{1/2}$ state of laser-cooled $^{40}$Ca$^+$ ions in a radiofrequency ion trap. Using micromotion sideband spectroscopy on a narrow quadrupole transition, the oscillating electric field at the ion position was precisely characterised, and the modulation of the Rydberg transition due to this field wa

Fatemeh Elahi, Sara Khatibi

In this paper, we explore a dark sector scenario with a gauged $SU(2)_R$ and a global $U(1)_X \times \mathbb{Z}_2$, where the continuous symmetries are spontaneously broken to a global $U(1)_D$. We show that in various regions of the parameter space we can have two, or three dark matter candidates, where these dark matter particles are either a Dirac fermion

Shinan Liu

We construct a local model for Hilbert-Siegel moduli schemes with $\Gamma_1(p)$-level bad reduction over $\text{Spec }\mathbb{Z}_{q}$, where $p$ is a prime unramified in the totally real field and $q$ is the residue cardinality over $p$. Our main tool is a variant over the small Zariski site of the ring-equivariant Lie complex $_A\underline{\ell}_G^{\vee}$ d

Andrea Brini

I derive explicitly all polynomial relations in the character ring of $E_8$ of the form $χ_{\wedge^k \mathfrak{e}_8} - \mathfrak{p}_{k} (χ_{1}, \dots, χ_{8})=0$, where $\wedge^k \mathfrak{e}_8$ is an arbitrary exterior power of the adjoint representation and $χ_{i}$ is the $i^{\rm th}$ fundamental character. This has simultaneous implications for the theory

Xavier Fontaine, Shie Mannor, Vianney Perchet

We consider the classical problem of sequential resource allocation where a decision maker must repeatedly divide a budget between several resources, each with diminishing returns. This can be recast as a specific stochastic optimization problem where the objective is to maximize the cumulative reward, or equivalently to minimize the regret. We construct an

Geunyeong Byeon, Pascal Van Hentenryck

Bilevel optimization formulates hierarchical decision-making processes that arise in many real-world applications such as in pricing, network design, and infrastructure defense planning. In this paper, we consider a class of bilevel optimization problems where the upper-level problem features some integer variables while the lower-level problem enjoys strong

CMS Collaboration

A measurement for inclusive 2- and 3-jet events of the azimuthal correlation between the two jets with the largest transverse momenta, $Δϕ_{12}$ , is presented. The measurement considers events where the two leading jets are nearly collinear ("back-to-back") in the transverse plane and is performed for several ranges of the leading jet transverse mom

Krishnendu Chatterjee, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady

We consider the classical problem of invariant generation for programs with polynomial assignments and focus on synthesizing invariants that are a conjunction of strict polynomial inequalities. We present a sound and semi-complete method based on positivstellensaetze, i.e. theorems in semi-algebraic geometry that characterize positive polynomials over a semi

Sara Kaviani, Farhad H. Jafarpour

In order to study the stochastic Markov processes conditioned on a specific value of a time-integrated observable, the concept of ensembles of trajectories has been recently used extensively. In this paper, we consider a generic reaction-diffusion process consisting of classical particles with nearest-neighbor interactions on a one-dimensional lattice with p

Susan Friedlander, Anthony Suen

This paper considers a family of non-diffusive active scalar equations where a viscosity type parameter enters the equations via the constitutive law that relates the drift velocity with the scalar field. The resulting operator is smooth when the viscosity is present but singular when the viscosity is zero. We obtain Gevrey-class local well-posedness results