February 2019 arXiv papers — page 76

Charles Fefferman, Garving K. Luli

Fix $m\geq 0$, and let $A=\left( A_{ij}\left( x\right) \right) _{1\leq i\leq N,1\leq j\leq M}$ be a matrix of semialgebraic functions on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ or on a compact subset $E \subset \mathbb{R}^n$. Given $f=\left( f_{1},\cdots ,f_{N}\right) \in C^{\infty }\left( \mathbb{R}^{n},\mathbb{R}^{N}\right) $, we consider the following system of equations \begin

Kaveh Akbari Hamed, Vinay R. Kamidi, Abhishek Pandala, Wen-Loong Ma

This paper aims to develop distributed feedback control algorithms that allow cooperative locomotion of quadrupedal robots which are coupled to each other by holonomic constraints. These constraints can arise from collaborative manipulation of objects during locomotion. In addressing this problem, the complex hybrid dynamical models that describe collaborati

Kristen W. Carlson

Background. Expert observers and artificial intelligence (AI) progression metrics indicate AI will exceed human intelligence within a few decades. Whether general AI that exceeds human capabilities (AGI) will be the single greatest boon in history or a disaster is unknown. No proofs exist that AGI will benefit humans or that AGI will not harm or eliminate hu

Peng Wang, Wei Chu, Wenbo Li, Yuanxin Tan

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has allowed for production of geometrically complex 3D objects with extreme flexibility, which is currently undergoing rapid expansions in terms of materials, functionalities, as well as areas of application. When attempting to print 3D microstructures in glass, femtosecond laser induced chemical etching (FLICE) has proved its

Lav Gupta, Raj Jain, Mohammed Samaka

Application Service Providers (ASPs) obtaining resources from multiple clouds have to contend with different management and control platforms employed by the cloud service providers (CSPs) and network service providers (NSP). Distributing applications on multiple clouds has a number of benefits but the absence of a common multi-cloud management platform that

Behnoush Rostami, Seyed Iman Mirzaei, Atieh Zamani, A. Simchi

We have developed a new method for fabrication of ultra-low noise silver-silver chloride (Ag-AgCl) reference electrode with dramatically high stability, useful in biomedical precise measurements. Low noise level and high stability are the most important features when evaluating reference electrode for example when used as a half-cell at electrochemical cells

Daniel Perez, Ivana Gasulla, Jose Capmany

Here, we review present and future work in the next photonic IC generation aiming at integration of multi-functional software-defined systems for signal processing operations.

Daniel Perez, Ivana Gasulla, Jose Capmany

We review the recent advances reported in the field of integrated photonic waveguide meshes, both from the theoretical as well as from the experimental point of view. We show how these devices can be programmed to implement both traditional signal processing structures, such as finite and infinite impulse response filters, delay lines, beamforming networks a

Alonso-Marroquin Fernando, Arias-Calluari Karina, Harre Michael, Najafi Morteza N.

We analyze the Standard & Poor's 500 stock market index from the last 22 years. The probability density function of price returns exhibits two well-distinguished regimes with self-similar structure: the first one displays strong super-diffusion together with short-time correlations, and the second one corresponds to weak super-diffusion with weak time co

Jacob Haqq-Misra

Earth's future detectability depends upon the trajectory of our civilization over the coming centuries. Human civilization is also the only known example of an energy-intensive civilization, so our history and future trajectories provide the basis for thinking about how to find life elsewhere. This special issue of Futures features contributions that con

Iqbal H. Sarker

Real-life mobile phone data may contain noisy instances, which is a fundamental issue for building a prediction model with many potential negative consequences. The complexity of the inferred model may increase, may arise overfitting problem, and thereby the overall prediction accuracy of the model may decrease. In this paper, we address these issues and pre

Revanth Reddy, Sarath Chandar, Balaraman Ravindran

Graphs are increasingly becoming ubiquitous as models for structured data. A generative model that closely mimics the structural properties of a given set of graphs has utility in a variety of domains. Much of the existing work require that a large number of parameters, in fact exponential in size of the graphs, be estimated from the data. We take a slightly

Fanbo Sun, Zhixiang Gu, Bo Feng

Yelp has been one of the most popular local service search engine in US since 2004. It is powered by crowd-sourced text reviews and photo reviews. Restaurant customers and business owners upload photo images to Yelp, including reviewing or advertising either food, drinks, or inside and outside decorations. It is obviously not so effective that labels for foo

Q. Sun, E. Klaseboer, B. C. Khoo, D. Y. C. Chan

We study the forces and torques experienced by pill-shaped Janus particles of different aspect ratios where half of the surface obeys the no-slip boundary condition and the other half obeys the Navier slip condition of varying slip lengths. Using a recently developed boundary integral formulation whereby the traditional singular behaviour of this approach is

Daniel T. Chang

Probabilistic generative deep learning for molecular design involves the discovery and design of new molecules and analysis of their structure, properties and activities by probabilistic generative models using the deep learning approach. It leverages the existing huge databases and publications of experimental results, and quantum-mechanical calculations, t

Maryam Samadi, Shahram Abbassi, Wei-Min Gu

By taking into account photon absorption, we investigate the vertical structure of accretion flows with comparable radiation and gas pressures. We consider two separate energy equations for matter and radiation in the diffusion limit. In order to solve the set of radiation hydrodynamic equations in steady state and axisymmetric configuration, we employ self-

Lile Wang, Fei Dai

`Super-puffs' are planets with anomalously low mean densities ($\lesssim 10^{-1}~{\rm g\ cm}^{-3}$). With a low surface gravity, the extended atmosphere is susceptible to extreme hydrodynamic mass loss (`boil off') on a timescale much shorter than the system's age. Even more puzzling, super-puffs are estimated to have a scale height of $\sim 3000

Jianbo Chen, Michael I. Jordan

We study the problem of interpreting trained classification models in the setting of linguistic data sets. Leveraging a parse tree, we propose to assign least-squares based importance scores to each word of an instance by exploiting syntactic constituency structure. We establish an axiomatic characterization of these importance scores by relating them to the

Hiroyuki Kasai, Bamdev Mishra

Dictionary leaning (DL) and dimensionality reduction (DR) are powerful tools to analyze high-dimensional noisy signals. This paper presents a proposal of a novel Riemannian joint dimensionality reduction and dictionary learning (R-JDRDL) on symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifolds for classification tasks. The joint learning considers the interaction betw

T. W. Milbourne, R. D. Haywood, D. F. Phillips, S. H. Saar

State of the art radial-velocity (RV) exoplanet searches are currently limited by RV signals arising from stellar magnetic activity. We analyze solar observations acquired over a 3-year period during the decline of Carrington Cycle 24 to test models of RV variation of Sun-like stars. A purpose-built solar telescope at the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet

A. C. Alvarez, G. T. Goedert, D. Marchesin

In this paper, we describe certain crucial steps in the development of an algorithm for finding the Riemann solution in systems of conservation laws. We relax the classical hypotheses of strict hyperbolicity and genuine nonlinearity of Lax. First, we present a procedure for continuing wave curves beyond points where characteristic speeds coincide, i.e., at w

Nikki Lijing Kuang, Clement H. C. Leung

In reinforcement learning, a decision needs to be made at some point as to whether it is worthwhile to carry on with the learning process or to terminate it. In many such situations, stochastic elements are often present which govern the occurrence of rewards, with the sequential occurrences of positive rewards randomly interleaved with negative rewards. For

Nikki Lijing Kuang, Clement H. C. Leung, Vienne W. K. Sung

In reinforcement learning episodes, the rewards and punishments are often non-deterministic, and there are invariably stochastic elements governing the underlying situation. Such stochastic elements are often numerous and cannot be known in advance, and they have a tendency to obscure the underlying rewards and punishments patterns. Indeed, if stochastic ele

Yacine Barhoumi-Andréani, Christoph Koch, Hong Liu

We study arithmetic progressions $\{a,a+b,a+2b,\dots,a+(\ell-1) b\}$, with $\ell\ge 3$, in random subsets of the initial segment of natural numbers $[n]:=\{1,2,\dots, n\}$. Given $p\in[0,1]$ we denote by $[n]_p$ the random subset of $[n]$ which includes every number with probability $p$, independently of one another. The focus lies on sparse random subsets,

Sourav Nandy, K. Sengupta, Diptiman Sen

We study transport across ballistic junctions of materials which host pseudospin-one fermions as emergent low-energy quasiparticles. The effective low-energy Hamiltonians of such fermions are described by integer spin Weyl models. We show that current conservation in such integer spin-$s$ Weyl systems requires continuity across a boundary of only $2s$ (out o

Li Li, Zhu Li, Shan Liu, Houqiang Li

The state-of-the-art video-based point cloud compression scheme projects the 3D point cloud to 2D patch by patch and organizes the patches into frames to compress them using the efficient video compression scheme. Such a scheme shows a good trade-off between the number of points projected and the video continuity to utilize the video compression scheme. Howe

David Kalaj

We study the global Lipschitz character of minimisers of the Dirichlet energy of diffeomorphisms between doubly connected domains with smooth boundaries from Riemann surfaces. The key point of the proof is the fact that minimisers are certain Noether harmonic maps, with Hopf differential of special form, a fact invented by Iwaniec, Koh, Kovalev and Onninen i

Lin Yan, Tinggui Wang, Jiang Ning, Daniel Stern

We present a detailed study of a transient in the center of SDSS1115+0544 based on the extensive UV, optical, mid-IR light curves (LC) and spectra over 1200 days. The host galaxy is a quiescent early type galaxy at $z$ = 0.0899 with a blackhole mass of $2\times10^7M_\odot$. The transient underwent a 2.5 magnitude brightening over $\sim120$ days, reaching a p

Tomasz Downarowicz, Jacek Serafin

A recent result of Downarowicz and Serafin (DS) shows that there exist positive entropy subshifts satisfying the assertion of Sarnak's conjecture. More precisely, it is proved that if $y=(y_n)_{n\ge 1}$ is a bounded sequence with zero average along every infinite arithmetic progression (the Möbius function is an example of such a \sq\ $y$) then for every

Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan, Kaushik Roy

In this work, we propose ReStoCNet, a residual stochastic multilayer convolutional Spiking Neural Network (SNN) composed of binary kernels, to reduce the synaptic memory footprint and enhance the computational efficiency of SNNs for complex pattern recognition tasks. ReStoCNet consists of an input layer followed by stacked convolutional layers for hierarchic

T. Moraschini, J. G. Raftery

It is proved that every prevariety of algebras is categorically equivalent to a "prevariety of logic", i.e., to the equivalent algebraic semantics of some sentential deductive system. This allows us to show that no nontrivial equation in the language "meet, join, and relational product" holds in the congruence lattices of all members of every

T. Moraschini, J. G. Raftery, J. J. Wannenburg

A quasivariety K of algebras has the joint embedding property (JEP) iff it is generated by a single algebra A. It is structurally complete iff the free countably generated algebra in K can serve as A. A consequence of this demand, called "passive structural completeness" (PSC), is that the nontrivial members of K all satisfy the same existential posi

Raul Michel, Francesco Acerbi, Carlo Barani, Massimiliano Martignoni

The first multicolor observations, and light curve solutions, of the eclipsing binary systems V1009~Per and CRTS~J031642.2+332639 are presented. Using the 2005 version of the Wilson-Devinney code, both systems are found to be W UMa contact binaries. V1009~Per has a mass ratio of $q = 0.362 \pm 0.002$ and a shallow fill out parameter of $f = 11.8 \pm 0.6\%$ w

Oleg Kochukhov, Denis Shulyak

YY Gem is a short-period eclipsing binary system containing two nearly identical, rapidly rotating, very active early-M dwarfs. This binary represents an important benchmark system for calibrating empirical relations between fundamental properties of low-mass stars and for testing theories of interior structure and evolution of these objects. Both components

Pengjie Wang, Ke Huang, Jian Sun, Jingjin Hu

Piezo-driven rotator is convenient for tilted magnetic field experiments due to its precise angle control. However, the rotator itself and the sample mounted on it are difficult to be cooled down because of extra heat leaks and presumably bad thermal contacts from the piezo. Here, we report a piezo-driven sample rotation system designed for ultra-low tempera

Yi-Chieh Liu, Hao-Hsiang Yang, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Jia-Hong Huang

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is an asymptomatic retinal disease which may result in loss of vision. There is limited access to high-quality relevant retinal images and poor understanding of the features defining sub-classes of this disease. Motivated by recent advances in machine learning we specifically explore the potential of generative modeling

Dehia Ait-Ferhat, Vincent Juliard, Gautier Stauffer, Juan Andres Torres

In this paper, we investigate the manufacturing of vias in integrated circuits with a new technology combining lithography and Directed Self Assembly (DSA). Optimizing the production time and costs in this new process entails minimizing the number of lithography steps, which constitutes a generalization of graph coloring. We develop integer programming formu

Rhongho Jang, Seongkwang Moon, Youngtae Noh, Aziz Mohaisen

In the zettabyte era, per-flow measurement becomes more challenging owing to the growth of both traffic volumes and the number of flows. Also, swiftness of detection of anomalies (e.g., DDoS attack, congestion, link failure, and so on) becomes paramount. For fast and accurate anomaly detection, managing an accurate working set of active flows (WSAF) from mas

Sibylle Driezen, Alexander Sevrin, Daniel C. Thompson

We construct integrable deformations of the $λ$-type for asymmetrically gauged WZW models. This is achieved by a modification of the Sfetsos gauging procedure to account for a possible automorphism that is allowed in $G/G$ models. We verify classical integrability, derive the one-loop beta function for the deformation parameter and give the construction of i

R. Michel, Q. -Q Xia., J Higuera

New light curves and photometric solutions of FP Lyn, FV CVn and V354 UMa are presented. It is found that these three systems are W-subtype shallow contact binaries. In addition, it is obvious that the light curves of FP Lyn and V354 UMa are asymmetric. Therefore, a hot spot was added on the primary star of FP Lyn and a dark spot was added on the secondary s

Veeru Talreja, Fariborz Taherkhani, Matthew C. Valenti, Nasser M. Nasrabadi

With benefits of fast query speed and low storage cost, hashing-based image retrieval approaches have garnered considerable attention from the research community. In this paper, we propose a novel Error-Corrected Deep Cross Modal Hashing (CMH-ECC) method which uses a bitmap specifying the presence of certain facial attributes as an input query to retrieve re

Maria Kanidi, Alva Dagkli, Nikolaos Kelaidis, Dimitrios Palles

Integrating graphene with plasmonic nanostructures results in multifunctional hybrid systems with enhanced performance for numerous applications. In this work, we take advantage of the remarkable mechanical properties of graphene to combine it with scalable 3D plasmonic nanostructured silicon substrates, which enhance the interaction of graphene with electro

A. Moya, N. Kemnade, M. R. Osorio, A. Cherevan

Hybridisation is a powerful strategy towards the next generation of multifunctional materials for environmental and sustainable energy applications. Here, we report a new inorganic nanocarbon hybrid material prepared with atomically controlled deposition of a monocrystalline TiO2 layer that conformally coats a macroscopic carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber. Through

Carolina Araujo, Thiago Fassarella, Inder Kaur, Alex Massarenti

Fix $n\geq 5$ general points $p_1, \dots, p_n\in\mathbb{P}^1$, and a weight vector $\mathcal{A} = (a_{1}, \dots, a_{n})$ of real numbers $0 \leq a_{i} \leq 1$. Consider the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{A}}$ parametrizing rank two parabolic vector bundles with trivial determinant on $\big(\mathbb{P}^1, p_1,\dots , p_n\big)$ which are semistable with re

Afshin Pendashteh, Evgeny Senokos, Jesus Palma, Marc Anderson

Supercapacitors capable of providing high voltage, energy and power density but yet light, low volume occupying, flexible and mechanically robust are highly interesting and demanded for portable applications. Herein, freestanding flexible hybrid electrodes based on MnO2 nanoparticles grown on macroscopic carbon nanotube fibers (CNTf-MnO2) were fabricated, wi

Benedikt Wirth

We provide an elementary derivation of the Green's function for Poisson's equation with Neumann boundary data on balls of arbitrary dimension, which was recently found in [Sadybekov et al., Eurasian Math. J. 7(2):100-105, 2016]. The underlying idea consists of first computing the Green's function for the electroencephalography (EEG) equation (Poi

Maria Psaraki, Yannis Tzitzikas

Large amounts of RDF/S data are produced and published lately, and several modern applications require the provision of versioning and archiving services over such datasets. In this paper we propose a novel storage index for archiving versions of such datasets, called CPOI (compact partial order index), that exploits the fact that an RDF Knowledge Base (KB),

H. Yue, V. Reguero, E. Senokos, A. Monreal-Bernal

Macroscopic fibres of carbon nanotubes are hierarchical structures combining long building blocks preferentially oriented along the fibre axis and a large porosity arising from the imperfect packing of bundles. Synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering SAXS measurements show that such structure is a surface fractal with fractal dimension (Ds) of 2.5 for MWCNT

Enrico Pasqualetto

The aim of this note is to study existence and main properties of direct and inverse limits in the category of normed $L^0$-modules (in the sense of Gigli) over a metric measure space.

Masatoshi Imanishi, Kouichiro Nakanishi, Takuma Izumi

We present the results of our ALMA HCN J=3-2 and HCO+ J=3-2 line observations of a uniformly selected sample (>25) of nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at z < 0.15. The emission of these dense molecular gas tracers and continuum are spatially resolved in the majority of observed ULIRGs for the first time with achieved synthesized beam sizes of

Gang Bao, Tao Yin, Fang Zeng

This paper concerns the reconstruction of multiple elastic parameters (Lamé parameters and density) of an inhomogeneous medium embedded in an infinite homogeneous isotropic background in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The direct scattering problem is reduced to an equivalent system on a bounded domain by introducing an exact transparent boundary condition and the wellposed

D. Cieri, S. Abovyan, V. Danielyan, M. Fras

Single muon triggers are crucial for the physics programmes at hadron collider experiments. To be sensitive to electroweak processes, single muon triggers with transverse momentum thresholds down to 20 GeV and dimuon triggers with even lower thresholds are required. In order to keep the rates of these triggers at an acceptable level these triggers have to be

Evgeny Senokos, Víctor Reguero, Laura Cabana, Jesus Palma

This work presents a scalable method to produce robust all-solid electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs), compatible with roll-to-roll processes and structural laminate composite fabrication. It consists in sandwiching and pressing an ionic liquid (IL) based polymer electrolyte membrane between two CNT fiber sheet electrodes at room temperature, and laminat

R. Lallement, C. Babusiaux, J. L. Vergely, D. Katz

Gaia data are revolutionizing our knowledge of the evolutionary history of the Milky Way. 3D maps of the interstellar dust provide complementary information and are a tool for a wide range of uses. We aimed at building 3D maps of the dust in the Local arm and surrounding regions. To do so, Gaia DR2 photometric data were combined with 2MASS measurements to de

Rami Shnaiderman, Georg Wissmeyer, Héctor Estrada, Daniel Razansky

Point-like broadband ultrasound detection can significantly increase the resolution of ultrasonography and optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging, yet current ultrasound detectors cannot be miniaturised sufficiently. Piezoelectric transducers lose sensitivity quadratically with size reduction, while optical micro-ring resonators and Fabry-Pérot etalons fail to

L. S. Wu, S. E. Nikitin, Z. Wang, W. Zhu

Low dimensional quantum magnets are interesting because of the emerging collective behavior arising from strong quantum fluctuations. The one-dimensional (1D) S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet is a paradigmatic example, whose low-energy excitations, known as spinons, carry fractional spin S = 1/2. These fractional modes can be reconfined by the application

Mohammed M. Alani

Machine learning techniques have had a long list of applications in recent years. However, the use of machine learning in information and network security is not new. Machine learning and cryptography have many things in common. The most apparent is the processing of large amounts of data and large search spaces. In its varying techniques, machine learning h

Fernando Marchesano, Raffaele Savelli, Sebastian Schwieger

We study T-branes on compact Kaehler surfaces, in the presence of fields localised at curves. If such fields are treated as defects, their vevs induce delta-function sources for the 7-brane background, possibly leading to profiles with poles. We find that the presence of defect sources relaxes the constraints on globally well-defined T-brane configurations,

Michael Hauser

The purpose of this work is to test and study the hypothesis that residual networks are learning a perturbation from identity. Residual networks are enormously important deep learning models, with many theories attempting to explain how they function; learning a perturbation from identity is one such theory. In order to answer this question, the magnitudes o

Gang Bao, Liwei Xu, Tao Yin

In this paper, we consider the boundary integral equation (BIE) method for solving the exterior Neumann boundary value problems of elastic and thermoelastic waves in three dimensions based on the Fredholm integral equations of the first kind. The innovative contribution of this work lies in the proposal of the new regularized formulations for the hyper-singu

C. Aerts, M. G. Pedersen, E. Vermeyen, L. Hendriks

Space asteroseismology reveals that stellar structure and evolution models of intermediate- and high-mass stars are in need of improvement in terms of angular momentum and chemical element transport. We aim to probe the interior structure of a hot massive star in the core-hydrogen burning phase of its evolution. We analyse CoRoT space photometry, Gaia DR2 sp

G. Cugno, S. P. Quanz, R. Launhardt, A. Musso Barcucci

Within the NaCo-ISPY exoplanet imaging program, we aim at detecting and characterizing the population of low-mass companions at wide separations ($\gtrsim$10AU), focusing in particular on young stars either hosting a known protoplanetary disk or a debris disk. R CrA is one of the youngest (1-3 Myr) and most promising objects in our sample because of two prev

Alessia Franchini, Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow

We investigate the formation and evolution of misaligned accretion discs around the secondary component of a binary through mass transfer driven by Kozai-Lidov oscillations of the circumprimary disc&#39;s eccentricity and inclination. We perform SPH simulations to study the amount of mass transferred to the secondary star as a function of both the disc and b

Youkyung Ko, Myung Gyoon Lee, Hong Soo Park, Sungsoon Lim

We survey globular clusters (GCs) in M85 using $ugi$-band images of a $1^{\circ} \times 1^{\circ}$ field obtained with the MegaCam at the 3.6 m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. We identify 1318 GC candidates with 20.0 mag $< g_0 <$ 23.5 mag in the entire survey region. Their radial number density profile is well fit by a S{é}rsic profile with $n$ = 2.58$^{+0.

Mahmuda Afrin Badhan, Eric T. Wolf, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Giada Arney

Transit spectroscopy of terrestrial planets around nearby M dwarfs is a primary goal of space missions in coming decades. 3-D climate modeling has shown that slow-synchronous rotating terrestrial planets may develop thick clouds at the substellar point, increasing the albedo. For M dwarfs with Teff > 3000 K, such planets at the inner habitable zone (IHZ) hav

Julian Georg, Brandon Melcher, Scott Watson

Models of Co-Decaying dark matter lead to an early matter dominated epoch -- prior to BBN -- which results in an enhancement of the growth of dark matter substructure. If these primordial structures collapse further they can form primordial black holes providing an additional dark matter candidate. We derive the mass fraction in these black holes (which is n

Luca Matrà, Mark C. Wyatt, David J. Wilner, William R. F. Dent

The inclination distribution of the Kuiper belt provides unique constraints on its origin and dynamical evolution, motivating vertically resolved observations of extrasolar planetesimal belts. We present ALMA observations of millimeter emission in the near edge-on planetesimal belt around $β$ Pictoris, finding that the vertical distribution is significantly

Michael Matty, Yi Zhang, Zlatko Papic, Eun-Ah Kim

While the non-perturbative interaction effects in the fractional quantum Hall regime can be readily simulated through exact diagonalization, it has been challenging to establish a suitable diagnostic that can label different phases in the presence of competing interactions and disorder. Here we introduce a multi-faceted framework using a simple artificial ne

Kyra Dame, Claudia Belardi, Mukremin Kilic, Armin Rest

We present minute cadence photometry of 31732 point sources observed in one 3 $deg^{2}$ DECam pointing centred at RA = 09:03:02 and Dec = -04:35:00 over eight consecutive half-nights. We use these data to search for eclipse-like events consistent with a planetary transit of a white dwarf and other sources of stellar variability within the field. We do not fi

Susanne Höfner, Bernd Freytag

Dust grains forming in the extended atmospheres of AGB stars are critical for the heavy mass loss of these cool luminous giants, as they provide radiative acceleration for the stellar winds. Characteristic mid-IR spectral features indicate that the grains consist mainly of silicates and corundum. The latter species seems to form in a narrow zone within about

Inbar Seroussi, Nir Levy, Elad Yom-Tov

Understanding the dynamics of infectious disease spread in a heterogeneous population is an important factor in designing control strategies. Here, we develop a novel tensor-driven multi-compartment version of the classic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model and apply it to Internet data to reveal information about the complex spatial structure of dise

J. Q. Adashev, L. M. Camacho, B. A. Omirov

The present article is a part of the study of solvable Leibniz algebras with a given nilradical. In this paper solvable Leibniz algebras, whose nilradicals is naturally graded $p$-filiform non-Lie Leibniz algebra $(n-p\geq4)$ and the complemented space to nilradical has maximal dimension, are described up to isomorphism. Moreover, among obtained algebras we

Saikat Bhattacharjee, Debashis Roy, Sirshendu De

Microchannel with porous wall has various microfluidic applications including iontophoresis, diagnostic devices, etc. In order to have an efficient and better design of such devices, exact quantification of velocity field in the microchannel needs to be established. In the present study, an analytical solution of velocity field in a microchannel with porous

Abubakr O. Al-Abbasi, Vaneet Aggarwal, Moo-Ryong Ra

Internet video traffic has been been rapidly increasing and is further expected to increase with the emerging 5G applications such as higher definition videos, IoT and augmented/virtual reality applications. As end-users consume video in massive amounts and in an increasing number of ways, the content distribution network (CDN) should be efficiently managed

Diana Valencia, Emaad Paracha, Alan P. Jackson

Planetary-scale collisions are common during the last stages of formation of solid planets, including the Solar system terrestrial planets. The problem of growing planets has been divided into studying the gravitational interaction of embryos relevant in million year timescales and treated with N-body codes and the collision between objects with a timescale

Ian Zemke

We prove that the map on knot Floer homology induced by a ribbon concordance is injective. As a consequence, we prove that the Seifert genus is monotonic under ribbon concordance. We also generalize a theorem of Gabai about the super-additivity of the Seifert genus under band connected sum. Our result gives evidence for a conjecture of Gordon that ribbon con

Nabil Ibtehaz, M. Sohel Rahman

In recent years Deep Learning has brought about a breakthrough in Medical Image Segmentation. U-Net is the most prominent deep network in this regard, which has been the most popular architecture in the medical imaging community. Despite outstanding overall performance in segmenting multimodal medical images, from extensive experimentations on challenging da

Maxime Bergeron, Lior Silberman

Let $Γ=\langle a,b | a b^{p} a^{-1} = b^{q}\rangle$ be a Baumslag--Solitar group and $G$ be a complex reductive algebraic group with maximal compact subgroup $K<G$. We show that, when $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime with distinct absolute values, there is a strong deformation retraction retraction of $Hom(Γ,G)$ onto $Hom(Γ,K)$.

Youngkyoon Jang, Hatice Gunes, Ioannis Patras

In this paper, we present a novel single shot face-related task analysis method, called Face-SSD, for detecting faces and for performing various face-related (classification/regression) tasks including smile recognition, face attribute prediction and valence-arousal estimation in the wild. Face-SSD uses a Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCNN) to detect m

D. Bazeia, Adalto R. Gomes, K. Z. Nobrega, Fabiano C. Simas

In this work we study kink-antikink and antikink-kink collisions in hyperbolic models of fourth and sixth order. We compared the patterns of scattering with known results from polynomial models of the same order. The hyperbolic models considered here tend to the polynomial $ϕ^4$ and $ϕ^6$ models in the limit of small values of the scalar field. We show that

Binod K. Rai, Andrew D. Christianson, David Mandrus, Andrew F. May

Co substituted Ni$_{1-x}$Co$_x$Br$_2$ (0 $\leq~x~\leq$ 1) single crystals were synthesized using vapor transport. The physical properties of the crystals were characterized by x-ray powder diffraction, magnetization, and specific heat measurements. Room temperature x-ray powder diffraction data indicate a change from the CdCl$_2$ structure type to the CdI$_2

M. Goebel, A. Flenner, L. Nataraj, B. S. Manjunath

The authenticity of images posted on social media is an issue of growing concern. Many algorithms have been developed to detect manipulated images, but few have investigated the ability of deep neural network based approaches to verify the authenticity of image labels, such as event names. In this paper, we propose several novel methods to predict if an imag

Kevin Jenni, Stefan Kunkemöller, Daniel Brüning, Thomas Lorenz

The magnon dispersion of ferromagnetic SrRuO$_3$ was studied by inelastic neutron scattering experiments on single crystals as function of temperature. Even at low temperature the magnon modes exhibit substantial broadening pointing to strong interaction with charge carriers. We find an anomalous temperature dependence of both the magnon gap and the magnon s

Mohammad Farazmand, Themistoklis Sapsis

We study the horizontal dispersion of passive tracer particles on the free surface of gravity waves in deep water. For random linear waves with the JONSWAP spectrum, the Lagrangian particle trajectories are computed using an exact nonlinear model known as the John--Sclavounos equation. We show that the single-particle dispersion exhibits an unusual super-dif

C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist, D. M. Asner

Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 C$_3$F$_8$ dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of C$_3$F$_8$ located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The chamber was operated at thermodynamic thresholds as low as 1.2 keV without loss of stability. A new blind 1404-kg-day exposure at 2.45 keV threshold was acquired with appr

Tim Lichtenberg, Gregor J. Golabek, Remo Burn, Michael R. Meyer

In contrast to the water-poor inner solar system planets, stochasticity during planetary formation and order of magnitude deviations in exoplanet volatile contents suggest that rocky worlds engulfed in thick volatile ice layers are the dominant family of terrestrial analogues among the extrasolar planet population. However, the distribution of compositionall

Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer

We consider the Fröhlich model of a polaron, and show that its effective mass diverges in the strong coupling limit.

Dogan Ulus, Calin Belta

This paper presents an application of specification based runtime verification techniques to control mobile robots in a reactive manner. In our case study, we develop a layered control architecture where runtime monitors constructed from formal specifications are embedded into the navigation stack. We use temporal logic and regular expressions to describe sa

Ted Dunning, Otmar Ertl

We present on-line algorithms for computing approximations of rank-based statistics that give high accuracy, particularly near the tails of a distribution, with very small sketches. Notably, the method allows a quantile $q$ to be computed with an accuracy relative to $\max(q, 1-q)$ rather than absolute accuracy as with most other methods. This new algorithm

Matteo Pancaldi, Naëmi Leo, Paolo Vavassori

Thermal relaxation of nanoscale magnetic islands, mimicking Ising macrospins, is indispensable for studies of geometrically frustrated artificial spin systems and low-energy nanomagnetic computation. Currently-used heating schemes based on contact to a thermal reservoir, however, lack the speed and spatial selectivity required for the implementation in techn

Thomas C. O&#39;Connor, Nicolas J. Alvarez, Mark O. Robbins

The preceding Comment by Xu et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 059803 (2019); arXiv:1808.05390) erroneously applies the entropic stress expression in our Letter (T.C. O&#39;Connor et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047801 (2018); arXiv:1806.09509) to transient stress. In addition, the authors only apply this expression at extreme extension rates where we clearly showe

Chenbo Zhang, Yintao Song, Maike Wegner, Eckhard Quandt

We propose a pyroelectric energy conversion device that converts heat directly to electricity. In contrast to conventional pyroelectric energy conversion designs, this energy harvesting system is detached from any external power sources, operating only under periodically varying temperature. Such detachment unambiguously attributes the converted electricity

Angel Otarola, Carlos De Breuck, Tony Travouillon, Satoki Matsushita

Atmospheric water vapor is the main limiting factor of atmospheric transparency in the mm and submm wavelength spectral windows. Thus, dry sites are needed for the installation and successful operation of radio astronomy observatories exploiting those spectral windows. Temperature and wind are variables of special consideration when planning the installation

Thais de Lima Silva, Emile R. F. Taillebois, Rafael. M. Gomes, Stephen P. Walborn

We present a classical optics simulation of the one-dimensional Dirac equation for a free particle. Positive and negative energy components are represented by orthogonal polarizations of a free propagating beam, while the spatial profile represents the spatial wave function of the particle. Using a completely tunable time parameter, we observed the oscillati

Bo-Hae Im, Michael Larsen

This paper surveys the methods that have been used to attack the conjecture, still open, that an abelian variety over a characteristic $0$ field with finitely generated Galois group is always of infinite rank.

Maria Laura De Bellis, Andrea Bacigalupo, Giorgio Zavarise

In the framework of energy scavenging for applications in flexible/strechable electronics, hybrid piezoelectric nanogenerators, made up with Zinc oxyde nanorods, embedded in a polymeric matrix, and growth on a flexible polymeric support, are investigated. The ZnO nanorods are arranged in clusters, forming nearly regular distributions, so that periodic topolo

Zhihong Tian, Yanbin Sun, Shen Su, Mohan Li

The 5th generation (5G) network adopts a great number of revolutionary technologies to fulfill continuously increasing requirements of a variety of applications, including ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, ultra-massive device access, ultra-reliability, and so on. Correspondingly, traditional security focuses on the core network, and the logical (non-

Satyaki Kar

A recent density functional theory (DFT) based analysis, complemented with Quantum Monte Carlo calculations revealed a highly spin-frustrating nature of the one-dimensional spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ compound $Cs_2CuAl_4O_8$ that comprises of unique bond alternations and relatively strong next nearest neighbor interactions. This article gives a brief account on poss

Francisco Jauffred, Roberto Onofrio, Bala Sundaram

We discuss the scaling of the interaction energy with particle numbers for a harmonically trapped two-species mixture at thermal equilibrium experiencing interactions of arbitrary strength and range. In the limit of long-range interactions and weak coupling, we recover known results for the integrable Caldeira-Leggett model in the classical limit. In the cas

P. W. Gorham, P. Allison, O. Banerjee, L. Batten

The ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) NASA long-duration balloon payload completed its fourth flight in December 2016, after 28 days of flight time. ANITA is sensitive to impulsive broadband radio emission from interactions of ultra-high-energy neutrinos in polar ice (Askaryan emission). We present the results of two separate blind analyses searc