April 2019 arXiv papers — page 10

Carmen Gámez, Miguel Gutiérrez, Juan S. Martínez, Manuel Masip

The production of very high energy muons inside an extensive air shower is observable at $\nu$ telescopes and sensitive to the composition of the primary cosmic ray. Here we discuss five different sources of these muons: pion and kaon decays; charmed hadron decays; rare decays of unflavored mesons; photon conversion into a muon pair; and photon conversion in

Debottam Nandi, L. Sriramkumar

An important property of the three-point functions generated in the early universe is the so-called consistency condition. According to the condition, in the squeezed limit wherein the wavenumber of one of the three modes (constituting the triangular configuration of wavevectors) is much smaller than the other two, the three-point functions can be completely

Kathan Kashiparekh, Jyoti Narwariya, Pankaj Malhotra, Lovekesh Vig

Training deep neural networks often requires careful hyper-parameter tuning and significant computational resources. In this paper, we propose ConvTimeNet (CTN): an off-the-shelf deep convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on diverse univariate time series classification (TSC) source tasks. Once trained, CTN can be easily adapted to new TSC target tasks

Luisa M. Kneer, Eva-Maria Roller, Lucas V. Besteiro, Robert Schreiber

The chiral state of a molecule plays a crucial role in molecular recognition and biochemical reactions. Because of this and owing to the fact that most modern drugs are chiral, the sensitive and reliable detection of the chirality of molecules is of great interest to drug development. The majority of naturally occurring biomolecules exhibit circular dichrois

Luca Basta, Stefano Veronesi, Yuya Murata, Zoe Dubois

Every time a chemical reaction occurs, an energy exchange between reactants and environment exists, which is defined as the enthalpy of the reaction. In the last decades, research has resulted in an increasing number of devices at the micro- or nano-scale. Sensors, catalyzers, and energy storage systems are more and more developed as nano-devices which repre

Kei Akuzawa, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo

Learning domain-invariant representation is a dominant approach for domain generalization (DG), where we need to build a classifier that is robust toward domain shifts. However, previous domain-invariance-based methods overlooked the underlying dependency of classes on domains, which is responsible for the trade-off between classification accuracy and domain

Jianyi Zhang, Xiali Hei, Zhiqiang Wang

Crowdsourcing human-solving or online typing attacks are destructive problems. However, studies into these topics have been limited. In this paper, we focus on this kind of attacks whereby all the CAPTCHAs can be simply broken because of its design purpose. After pursuing a comprehensive analysis of the Typer phenomenon and the attacking mechanism of CAPTCHA

Julián Pozuelo

The purpose of this work is to give a direct proof of the multiplicative Brunn-Minkowski inequality in nilpotent Lie groups based on Hadwiger-Ohmann's one of the classical Brunn-Minkowski inequality in Euclidean space.

Enas Nafar, Said Ghoul

Lots of bio-inspired research works have been conducted in self-adaptive software. They have focused on the external behavior of biological entities without their genetic material that causes this behavior and constitutes the challenge this work dealt with. This paper propose a framework integrating both the external behavior and the genetics material. This

Yixiang Fang, Xin Huang, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang

With the rapid development of information technologies, various big graphs are prevalent in many real applications (e.g., social media and knowledge bases). An important component of these graphs is the network community. Essentially, a community is a group of vertices which are densely connected internally. Community retrieval can be used in many real appli

Valentina Lenarduzzi, Terese Besker, Davide Taibi, Antonio Martini

Background. Software companies need to manage and refactor Technical Debt issues. Therefore, it is necessary to understand if and when refactoring Technical Debt should be prioritized with respect to developing features or fixing bugs. Objective. The goal of this study is to investigate the existing body of knowledge in software engineering to understand wha

Markus Baumeister

We characterise which simplicial surfaces can be folded onto a triangle. We define a notion of folding that incorporates the non-intersection-properties of real materials. All of the surfaces foldable onto a triangle admit a vertex-3-colouring. Based on this colouring, we can describe the surface by three involutions that act on the faces of the surface. A s

Lieven Le Bruyn

Principal $GL_n$-bundles (aka vector bundles) are locally trivial in the Zariski topology, whereas principal $PGL_n$-bundles (aka Azumaya algebras) are not, to the delight of every non-commutative algebraist. Still, this makes the calculation of motives of representation schemes of algebras next to impossible. In very special cases, Brauer-Severi schemes (an

Mingming Sun, Xu Li, Xin Wang, Miao Fan

In this paper, we consider the problem of open information extraction (OIE) for extracting entity and relation level intermediate structures from sentences in open-domain. We focus on four types of valuable intermediate structures (Relation, Attribute, Description, and Concept), and propose a unified knowledge expression form, SAOKE, to express them. We publ

Sinisa Stekovic, Friedrich Fraundorfer, Vincent Lepetit

We propose a simple yet effective method to learn to segment new indoor scenes from video frames: State-of-the-art methods trained on one dataset, even as large as the SUNRGB-D dataset, can perform poorly when applied to images that are not part of the dataset, because of the dataset bias, a common phenomenon in computer vision. To make semantic segmentation

Carsten Lutz, Leif Sabellek

We provide an ultimately fine-grained analysis of the data complexity and rewritability of ontology-mediated queries (OMQs) based on an EL ontology and a conjunctive query (CQ). Our main results are that every such OMQ is in AC0, NL-complete, or PTime-complete and that containment in NL coincides with rewritability into linear Datalog (whereas containment in

Nikolai Leopold, Simone Rademacher, Benjamin Schlein, Robert Seiringer

We prove an adiabatic theorem for the Landau-Pekar equations. This allows us to derive new results on the accuracy of their use as effective equations for the time evolution generated by the Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian with large coupling constant $\alpha$. In particular, we show that the time evolution of Pekar product states with coherent phonon field and the e

Fabio Nicola, S. Ivan Trapasso

We study path integrals in the Trotter-type form for the Schr\"odinger equation, where the Hamiltonian is the Weyl quantization of a real-valued quadratic form perturbed by a potential $V$ in a class encompassing that - considered by Albeverio and It\^o in celebrated papers - of Fourier transforms of complex measures. Essentially, $V$ is bounded and has the

José Manuel Moreno-Fernández

We give a construction of the universal enveloping $A_\infty$ algebra of a given $L_\infty$ algebra, alternative to the already existing versions. As applications, we derive a higher homotopy algebras version of the classical Milnor-Moore theorem, proposing a new $A_\infty$ model for simply connected rational homotopy types, and uncovering a relationship bet

Nikolaos Chalmoukis, Andreas Hartmann, Karim Kellay, Brett Wick

We discuss random interpolation in weighted Dirichlet spaces $\mathcal{D}_\alpha$, $0\leq \alpha\leq 1$. While conditions for deterministic interpolation in these spaces depend on capacities which are very hard to estimate in general, we show that random interpolation is driven by surprisingly simple distribution conditions. As a consequence, we obtain a bre

Friedrich Hegenbarth, Dušan Repovš

This paper presents an alternative approach to controlled surgery obstructions. The obstruction for a degree one normal map $(f,b): M^n \rightarrow X^n$ with control map $q: X^n \rightarrow B$ to complete controlled surgery is an element $\sigma^c (f, b) \in H_n (B, \mathbb{L})$, where $M^n, X^n$ are topological manifolds of dimension $n \geq 5$. Our proof u

Evgenii Chzhen, Christophe Denis, Mohamed Hebiri

In this work we study the semi-supervised framework of confidence set classification with controlled expected size in minimax settings. We obtain semi-supervised minimax rates of convergence under the margin assumption and a H{\"o}lder condition on the regression function. Besides, we show that if no further assumptions are made, there is no supervised metho

Paolo Di Caro, Giuseppe Pernagallo, Antonino Damiano Rossello, Benedetto Torrisi

Various works have already showed that common shocks and cross-country financial linkages caused the banking systems of several countries to be highly interconnected with the result that during bad times, banking crises may arise simultaneously in different countries. Our aim is to provide further evidence on the topic using a dataset made by dichotomous ban

Ahmed Bouziad

A uniform space $X$ is said to be proximally fine if every proximally continuous map on $X$ into a uniform is uniformly continuous. We supply a proof that every topological group which is functionnaly generated by its precompact subsets is proximally fine with respect to its right uniformity. On the other hand, we show that there are various permutation grou

Mohamed Jleli, Bessem Samet, Dong Ye

We consider blow-up results for a system of inhomogeneous wave inequalities in exterior domains. We will handle three type boundary conditions: Dirichlet type, Neumann type and mixed boundary conditions. We use a unified approach to show the optimal criteria of Fujita type for each case. Our study yields naturally optimal nonexistence results for the corresp

Martin Bauer, Boris Kolev, Stephen Preston

Of concern is the study of the long-time existence of solutions to the Euler--Arnold equation of the right-invariant $H^{3/2}$-metric on the diffeomorphism group of the circle. In previous work by Escher and Kolev it has been shown that this equation admits long-time solutions if the order $s$ of the metric is greater than $3/2$, the behaviour for the critic

Jieun Lee, Doohee Lee, Joon Yul Choi, Dongmyung Shin

Purpose: To demonstrate the application of artificial-neural-network (ANN) for real-time processing of myelin water imaging (MWI). Methods: Three neural networks, ANN-IMWF, ANN-IGMT2, and ANN-II, were developed to generate MWI. ANN-IMWF and ANN-IGMT2 were designed to output myelin water fraction (MWF) and geometric mean T2 (GMT2,IEW), respectively whereas AN

Debasmita Maiti, Manoranjan Kumar

The ground state properties of a frustrated spin-1/2 system is studied on a trellis ladder which is composed of two zigzag ladders interacting through rung interactions. The presence of rung interaction between the zigzag ladders induces a non-magnetic ground state, although, each of zigzag ladders has ferromagnetic order in weak antiferromagnetic leg intera

A. I. Molev

We consider the affine vertex algebra at the critical level associated with the centralizer of a nilpotent element in the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{gl}_N$. Due to a recent result of Arakawa and Premet, the center of this vertex algebra is an algebra of polynomials. We construct a family of free generators of the center in an explicit form. As a corollary, we ob

E. Hodille, N Fernandez, Z. Piazza, M. Ajmalghan

In this work, we combine Density Functional Theory data with a Thermodynamic and a kinetic model to determine the total concentration of hydrogen implanted in the sub-surface of tungsten exposed to a hydrogen flux. The sub-surface hydrogen concentration is calculated given a flux of hydrogen, a temperature of implantation, and the energy of the incoming hydr

Ben Snow, Andrew Hillier

Slow-mode shocks are important in understanding fast magnetic reconnection, jet formation and heating in the solar atmosphere, and other astrophysical systems. The atmospheric conditions in the solar chromosphere allow both ionised and neutral particles to exist and interact. Under such conditions, fine substructures exist within slow-mode shocks due to the

Anna S. E. Laws, Joseph L. Hora, Qizhou Zhang

G79.3+0.3 is an infrared dark cloud in the Cygnus-X complex that is home to massive deeply embedded young stellar objects (YSOs). We have produced a submillimeter array (SMA) 1.3 mm continuum image and $^{12}$CO line maps of the eastern section of G79.3+0.3 in which we detect five separate YSOs. We have estimated physical parameters for these five YSOs and o

Teruyuki Kitabayashi

The clockwork mechanism provides a natural way to obtain hierarchical masses and couplings in a theory. We propose a clockwork model that has nine clockwork generations. In this model, the candidates of the origin of the neutrino mixings are nine Yukawa mass matrix elements $Y^{a\beta}$ that connect neutrinos and clockwork fermions, nine clockwork mass ratio

Maria Spies, Jakub Polaczyński, Akhil Ajay, Dipankar Kalita

Nanowire photodetectors are investigated because of their compatibility with flexible electronics, or for the implementation of on-chip optical interconnects. Such devices are characterized by ultrahigh photocurrent gain, but their photoresponse scales sublinearly with the optical power. Here, we present a study of single-nanowire photodetectors displaying a

Mohammed Bachir, Nazaret Bruno

We prove that, in the space of all probabilistic continuous functions from a probabilistic metric space G to the set $\Delta$ + of all cumulative distribution functions vanishing at 0, the space of all 1-Lipschitz functions is compact if and only if the space G is compact. This gives a probabilistic Arzela-Ascoli type Theorem.

Silvia Columbu, Valentina Mameli, Monica Musio, A. Philip Dawid

Likelihood-based estimation methods involve the normalising constant of the model distributions, expressed as a function of the parameter. However in many problems this function is not easily available, and then less efficient but more easily computed estimators may be attractive. In this work we study stationary time-series models, and construct and analyse

A. Ferreri, V. Ansari, C. Silberhorn, P. R. Sharapova

The two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is a pure quantum effect which indicates the degree of indistinguishability of photons. The four-photon HOM interference exhibits richer dynamics in comparison to the two-photon interference and simultaneously is more sensitive to the input photon states. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally an expl

Setsuro Fujiié, André Martinez, Takuya Watanabe

We study the existence and location of the resonances of a $2\times 2$ semiclassical system of coupled Schr\"odinger operators, in the case where the two electronic levels cross at some point, and one of them is bonding, while the other one is anti-bonding. Considering energy levels just above that of the crossing, we find the asymptotics of both the real pa

Henrik Garde, Nuutti Hyvönen

The inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography is severely ill-posed. In particular, the resolution of images produced by impedance tomography deteriorates as the distance from the measurement boundary increases. Such depth dependence can be quantified by the concept of distinguishability of inclusions. This paper considers the distinguishability of

Ernst Joachim Weniger

Podolsky and Pauling (Phys. Rev. \textbf{34}, 109 - 116 (1929)) were the first ones to derive an explicit expression for the Fourier transform of a bound-state hydrogen eigenfunction. Y\"{u}k\c{c}\"{u} and Y\"{u}k\c{c}\"{u}, who were apparently unaware of the work of Podolsky and Pauling or of the numerous other earlier references on this Fourier transform,

Alain Le Bot, Julien Scheibert, Artem Vasko, Oleg Braun

Recent years have witnessed the development of so-called relaxation tribometers, the free oscillation of which is altered by the presence of frictional stresses within the contact. So far, analysis of such oscillations has been restricted to the shape of their decaying envelope, to identify in particular solid or viscous friction components. Here, we present

Andrew Butler, Minh Huynh, Anna Kapinska, Ivan Delvecchio

The evolution of the comoving kinetic luminosity densities ($\Omega_{\rm{kin}}$) of the radio loud (RL) high-excitation radio galaxies (RL HERGs) and the low-excitation radio galaxies (LERGs) in the XXL-S field is presented. The wide area and deep radio and optical data of XXL-S have allowed the construction of the radio luminosity functions (RLFs) of the RL

Amir Algom

Let $\mu$ be a probability measure on $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$ that is ergodic under the $\times p$ map, with positive entropy. In 1995, Host showed that if $\gcd(m,p)=1$ then $\mu$ almost every point is normal in base $m$. In 2001, Lindenstrauss showed that the conclusion holds under the weaker assumption that $p$ does not divide any power of $m$. In 2015, H

Naoyuki Shibata, Hosho Katsura

We study a quantum Ising chain with tailored bulk dissipation, which can be mapped onto a non-Hermitian Ashkin-Teller model. By exploiting the Kohmoto-den Nijs-Kadanoff transformation, we further map it to a staggered XXZ spin chain with pure-imaginary anisotropy parameters. This allows us to study the eigenstates of the original Liouvillian in great detail.

Chengkang Xu

Let $\mathbb C_Q$ denote a rational quantum torus with $d$ variables, and $\mathcal Z$ be the centre of $\mathbb C_Q$. In this paper we give a explicit description of the structure of the cuspidal modules for the derivation Lie algebra $\mathcal D$ over $\mathbb C_Q$, with an extra associative $\mathcal Z$-action.

Thomas Bläsius, Philipp Fischbeck, Tobias Friedrich, Maximilian Katzmann

The VertexCover problem is proven to be computationally hard in different ways: It is NP-complete to find an optimal solution and even NP-hard to find an approximation with reasonable factors. In contrast, recent experiments suggest that on many real-world networks the run time to solve VertexCover is way smaller than even the best known FPT-approaches can e

Nicolas Ponthus, Julien Scheibert, Kjetil Thøgersen, Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

When a rigid rough solid slides on a rigid rough surface, it experiences a random motion in the direction normal to the average contact plane. Here, through simulations of the separation at single-point contact between self-affine topographies, we characterize the statistical and spectral properties of this normal motion. In particular, its rms amplitude is

Safeeullah Soomro, Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum, Zainab Alansari, Mahdi H Miraz

In the domain of Software Engineering, program analysis and understanding has been considered to be a very challenging task since decade, as it demands dedicated time and efforts. The analysis of source code may occasionally be comparatively easier due to its static nature, however, the back end code (Bytecode), especially in terms of Java programming, is co

Julien Baste

Given two integers $\ell$ and $p$ as well as $\ell$ graph classes $\mathcal{H}_1,\ldots,\mathcal{H}_\ell$, the problems $\mathsf{GraphPart}(\mathcal{H}_1, \ldots, \mathcal{H}_\ell,p)$, \break $\mathsf{VertPart}(\mathcal{H}_1, \ldots, \mathcal{H}_\ell)$, and $\mathsf{EdgePart}(\mathcal{H}_1, \ldots, \mathcal{H}_\ell)$ ask, given graph $G$ as input, whether $V

Xiao-Yong Feng, Jianhui Dai

In strongly correlated electron systems the constraint which prohibits the double electron occupation at local sites can be realized by either the infinite Coulomb interaction or the correlated hopping interaction described by the Hubbard operators, but they both render the conventional field theory inapplicable. Relaxing such the constraint leads to a class

Katarzyna Malek, Veronique Buat, Denis Burgarella, Yannick Roehlly

The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP) focuses to publish an astronomical multiwavelength catalogue of millions of objects over 1300~deg$^2$ of the Herschel Space Observatory survey fields. Millions of galaxies with ultraviolet--far infrared photometry {make} HELP a perfect sample for testing spectral energy distribution fitting models, and to prep

Ondřej Chrenko, Michiel Lambrechts

Context. The dynamics of a low-mass protoplanet accreting solids is influenced by the heating torque, which was found to suppress inward migration in protoplanetary disks with constant opacities. Aims. We investigate the differences of the heating torque between disks with constant and temperature-dependent opacities. Methods. Interactions of a super-Earth-s

Roman N. Lee, Andrei A. Pomeransky

We consider $L$-loop two-point tadpole (watermelon) integral with arbitrary masses, regularized both dimensionally and analytically. We derive differential equation system and recurrence relations (shifts of dimension and denominator powers). Since the $L$-loop sunrise integral corresponds to the $(L+1)$-loop watermelon integral with one cut line, our result

A. V. Gorshkov

In this article we derive the explicit solution of 2-D Stokes system in exterior of the disc with no-slip condition on inner boundary and given velocity $\mathbf{v}_\infty$ at infinity. It turned out it is the first application of the associated Weber-Orr transform to mathematical physics in comparison to classical Weber-Orr transform which is used in many r

Yuan Yang, Shi-Ju Ran, Xi Chen, Zhengzhi Sun

For the Haldane phase, the magnetic field usually tends to break the symmetry and drives the system into a topologically trivial phase. Here, we report a novel reentrance of the Haldane phase at zero temperature in the spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on sawtooth chain. A partial Haldane phase is induced by the magnetic field, which is the combinati

Benedetto Bozzini, Bertrand Busson, Audrey Gayral, Christophe Humbert

In this paper we report an in situ electrochemical Sum-/Difference Frequency Generation (SFG/DFG) spectroscopy investigation of the adsorption of nitrile and CN -- from the ionic liquid 1-butyl-1-methyl-pyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl) amide ([BMP][TFSA]) containing 4-{2-[1-(2-cyanoethyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolin-6-yl]-diazenyl}benzonitrile (CTDB

Pan He, Chuang-Han Hsu, Shuyuan Shi, Kaiming Cai

The nature of Fermi surface defines the physical properties of conductors and many physical phenomena can be traced to its shape. Although the recent discovery of a current-dependent nonlinear magnetoresistance in spin-polarized non-magnetic materials has attracted considerable attention in spintronics, correlations between this phenomenon and the underlying

A. R. Swann, G. F. Gribakin

A model-potential approach has been developed to study positron interactions with molecules. Binding energies and annihilation rates are calculated for positron bound states with a range of alkane molecules, including rings and isomers. The calculated binding energies are in good agreement with experimental data, and the existence of a second bound state for

Yunxiao Qin, Chenxu Zhao, Xiangyu Zhu, Zezheng Wang

Face anti-spoofing is crucial to the security of face recognition systems. Most previous methods formulate face anti-spoofing as a supervised learning problem to detect various predefined presentation attacks, which need large scale training data to cover as many attacks as possible. However, the trained model is easy to overfit several common attacks and is

Kai Yang, Xi Chen, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Xiao-Qiong Li

We performed a systematic 6.7 GHz Class \uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2} methanol maser survey using the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope toward targets selected from the all-sky \emph{Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)} point catalog. In this paper, we report the results from the survey of those at high Galactic latitudes, i.e. $|b|>$ 2$^\circ$

Erlend Magnus Viggen, Lars Hoff

The 42nd Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics was held at Geilo, Norway from January 27 to January 30, 2019. It was arranged by the Acoustics and Optics group of the Norwegian Physical Society, and was coordinated by Geir Pedersen and Lars Hoff. The symposium gathered 52 registered participants, holding a total of 31 presentations covering various to

Bin Cui, Xingwen Zheng, Jianfeng Wang, Desheng Liu

Lieb lattice, a two-dimensional edge-depleted square lattice, has been predicted to host various exotic electronic properties due to its unusual band structure, i.e., Dirac cone intersected by a flat band (Dirac-flat bands). Until now, although a few artificial Lieb lattices have been discovered in experiments, the realization of a Lieb lattice in a real mat

Hilel Hagai Diamandi, Yosef London, Gil Bashan, Avi Zadok

The analysis of surrounding media has been a long-standing challenge of optical fiber sensors. Measurements are difficult due to the confinement of light to the inner core of standard fibers. Over the last two years, new sensor concepts have enabled the analysis of liquids outside the cladding boundary, where light does not reach. Sensing is based on opto-me

Haroune Houamed

In this paper, we study some conditions related to the question of the possible blow-up of regular solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. In particular, up to a modification in a proof of a very recent result from \cite{Isab}, we prove that if one component of the velocity remains small enough in a sub-space of $\dot{H}^{\frac{1}{2}}$ "almost" scaling

Ambuja Bhushan Jaiswal, Ravi Prakash, Akhilesh Pandey

We study the ensemble of complex symmetric matrices. The ensemble is useful in the study of effect of dissipation on systems with time reversal invariance. We consider the nearest neighbor spacing distribution and spacing ratio to investigate the fluctuation statistics and show that these statistics are similar to that of dissipative chaotic systems with tim

Assaf Hoogi, Brian Wilcox, Yachee Gupta, Daniel L. Rubin

We propose a novel architecture for object classification, called Self-Attention Capsule Networks (SACN). SACN is the first model that incorporates the Self-Attention mechanism as an integral layer within the Capsule Network (CapsNet). While the Self-Attention mechanism supplies a long-range dependencies, results in selecting the more dominant image regions

Harshit Bisht, Amit Kuber

We generalize the Arrow's impossibility theorem--a key result in social choice theory--to the setting where the arity $k$ of the relation under consideration is greater than $2$. Some special but natural properties of $k$-ary relations are considered, as well as an analogue for such $k$-ary relations of Endriss and Grandi's result on graph aggregation is pro

Morgane Hamon, Emma Chabani, Philippe Giraudeau

Lucid dreaming (LD) is a phenomenon during which the person is aware that he/she dreaming and is able to control the dream content. Studies have shown that only 20% of people can experience lucid dreams on a regular basis. However, LD frequency can be increased through induction techniques. External stimulation technique relies on the ability to integrate ex

Qiang Jia, J. X. Lu, Zihao Wu, Xiaoying Zhu

We compute the closed-string cylinder amplitude between one Dp brane and the other Dp$\prime$ brane, placed parallel at a separation, with each carrying a general constant worldvolume flux and with $p - p' = 0, 2, 4, 6$ and $p \le 6$. For the $p = p'$, we show that the main part of the amplitude for $p = p' < 5$ is a special case of that for $p = p' = 5$ or

Toshiya Yurikusa

We study $g$-vector cones associated with clusters of cluster algebras defined from a marked surface $(S,M)$ of rank $n$. We determine the closure of the union of $g$-vector cones associated with all clusters. It is equal to $\mathbb{R}^n$ except for a closed surface with exactly one puncture, in which case it is equal to the half space of a certain explicit

B. Santhosh Kumar, C. Venkateswaran

We report the observation of metal-like to insulator transition (MTI) in the 3dpyrochlore oxide Tb2Ti2O7 at 603 K due to the interaction of empty 3d orbitals of Ti4+ with O2- ions, evidenced by the transition in resistivity. Magnetisation, specific heat capacity and differential scanning calorimetry support the MTI, and the transition is of second order. An

Nicolas Chamel, John Michael Pearson, Alexander Y. Potekhin, Anthea F. Fantina

The role of the symmetry energy on the internal constitution and the global structure of a cold nonaccreted neutron star is studied using a set of unified equations of state. Based on the nuclear energy-density functional theory, these equations of state provide a thermodynamically consistent treatment of all regions of the star and were calculated using the

Martina Cardillo

In the last decades, the improvement of high energy instruments has enabled a deeper understanding of the Cosmic Ray origin issue. In particular, the gamma-ray satellites AGILE (Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero) and Fermi-LAT (Fermi-Large Area Telescope) have strongly contributed to the confirmation of direct involvement of Supernova Remnants in Cos

Tao Jiang, Yuanming Shi

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) becomes a promising approach for fast wireless data aggregation via exploiting the superposition property in a multiple access channel. To further overcome the unfavorable signal propagation conditions for AirComp, in this paper, we propose an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided AirComp system to build controllable w

Jack D. Evans, Bikash Garai, Helge Reinsch, Weijin Li

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are constructed from a combination of inorganic and organic units to produce materials which display high porosity, among other unique and exciting properties. MOFs have shown promise in many wide-ranging applications, such as catalysis and gas separations. In this review, we highlight MOF research conducted by Germany-based r

P. Y. Wen, K. -T. Lin, A. F. Kockum, B. Suri

Virtual photons can mediate interaction between atoms, resulting in an energy shift known as a collective Lamb shift. Observing the collective Lamb shift is challenging, since it can be obscured by radiative decay and direct atom-atom interactions. Here, we place two superconducting qubits in a transmission line terminated by a mirror, which suppresses decay

E. C. Elson, A. J. Baker, S. L. Blyth

We present the results of a set of mock experiments aimed at quantifying the accuracy of results derived from HI spectral line stacking experiments. We focus on the effects of spatial and spectral aperture sizes and redshift uncertainties on co-added HI spectra, and by implication on the usefulness of results from HI line spectral stacking experiments. Using

P. Morfouace, C. Y. Tsang, Y. Zhang, W. G. Lynch

Efficiency corrected single ratios of neutron and proton spectra in central $^{112}$Sn+$^{112}$Sn and $^{124}$Sn+$^{124}$Sn collisions at 120 MeV/u are combined with double ratios to provide constraints on the density and momentum dependencies of the isovector mean-field potential. Bayesian analyses of these data reveal that the isoscalar and isovector nucle

Asher Wilk

The cyberspace and development of intelligent systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates new challenges to computer professionals, data scientists, regulators and policy makers. For example, self-driving cars raise new technical, ethical, legal and public policy issues. This paper proposes a course named Computers, Ethics, Law, and Public Policy, and

Xueting Wang, Zhun Liu, Xin-Gang Zhao, Jian Lv

Binary tin sulfides are appealing because of their simple stoichiometry and semiconducting properties and are potentially cost-effective optoelectronic materials. The multivalency of Sn allows yet more intermediate compositions, Sn$_x$S$_y$, whose structures and properties are of interest.Sn$_2$S$_3$ is already under consideration as a mixed-valence semicond

Genqiang Liu, Yang Li

In this paper, we study the BGG category $\mathcal{O}$ for the quantum Schr{\"o}dinger algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{s})$, where $q$ is a nonzero complex number which is not a root of unity. If the central charge $\dot z\neq 0$, using the module $B_{\dot z}$ over the quantum Weyl algebra $H_q$, we show that there is an equivalence between the full subcategory $\mat

Zhen Dong, Zhewei Yao, Amir Gholami, Michael Mahoney

Model size and inference speed/power have become a major challenge in the deployment of Neural Networks for many applications. A promising approach to address these problems is quantization. However, uniformly quantizing a model to ultra low precision leads to significant accuracy degradation. A novel solution for this is to use mixed-precision quantization,

Srikrishnan Divakaran

In this paper we present a fast scalable heuristic for bin packing that partitions the given problem into identical sub-problems of constant size and solves these constant size sub-problems by considering only a constant number of bin configurations with bounded unused space. We present some empirical evidence to support the scalability of our heuristic and

Jian Liu, Wenjie Hou, En Wang, Shengjie Zhang

Weyl semimetals exhibitinging the topologically nontrivial touching points in electronic band dispersion of solids pave the wave way to novel electronic devices and functionalities. Here, we demonstrate the signature of topologically nontrivial Weyl points (WPs) in phonon dispersion of solids through a first-principles investigations. ofT noncentrosymmetric

David Zimmermann

We investigate how asymmetrizing an impurity function affects the choice of optimal node splits when growing a decision tree for binary classification. In particular, we relax the usual axioms of an impurity function and show how skewing an impurity function biases the optimal splits to isolate points of a particular class when splitting a node. We give a ri

Zongping Gong, Naoto Kura, Masatoshi Sato, Masahito Ueda

A quantum quench is the simplest protocol to investigate nonequilibrium many-body quantum dynamics. Previous studies on the entanglement properties of quenched quantum many-body systems mainly focus on the growth of entanglement entropy. Several rigorous results and phenomenological guiding principles have been established, such as the no-faster-than-linear

Minjeong Kim, Yujin Kwon, Yongdae Kim

Stellar is one of the top ten cryptocurrencies in terms of market capitalization. It adopts a variant of Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT), named federated Byzantine agreement (FBA), which generalizes the traditional BFT algorithm to make it more suitable for open-membership blockchains. To this end, FBA introduces a quorum slice concept, which consists of a s

Kathrin Maurischat

We define Sturm's operator on vector valued Siegel modular forms obtaining an explicit description of their holomorphic projection in case of large absolute weight. However, for small absolute weight, Sturm's operator produces phantom terms in addition. This confirms our earlier results for scalar Siegel modular forms.

Dong Liu, Yue Li, Jianping Lin, Houqiang Li

The past decade has witnessed great success of deep learning technology in many disciplines, especially in computer vision and image processing. However, deep learning-based video coding remains in its infancy. This paper reviews the representative works about using deep learning for image/video coding, which has been an actively developing research area sin

Nhan-Phu Chung, Thanh-Son Trinh

In this article, using ideas of Liero, Mielke and Savar\'{e} in [21], we establish a Kantorovich duality for generalized Wasserstein distances $W_1^{a,b}$ on a generalized Polish metric space, introduced by Picolli and Rossi. As a consequence, we give another proof that $W_1^{a,b}$ coincide with flat metrics which is a main result of [25], and therefore we g

Mohammad Jamali, Yousef Jamali, Mehdi Golshani

Cyborg in the brain-machine interface field has attracted more attention in recent years. To control a creature via a machine called cyborg method, three stages are considerable: stimulation of neurons, neural response, and the behavioral reaction of the subject. Our main concern was to know how electrical stimulation induces neural activity and leads to a b

Sudip Roy, Ram C. Tripathi, N. Balakrishnan

In this paper, we propose a closed form approximation to the mean and variance of a new generalization of negative binomial (NGNB) distribution arising from the Extended COM-Poisson (ECOMP) distribution developed by Chakraborty and Imoto (2016)(see [4]). The NGNB is a special case of the ECOMP distribution and was named so by these authors. This distribution

Yukihiro Fujimoto, Tomonori Inoue, Makoto Sakamoto, Kazunori Takenaga

In this paper, we investigate a five-dimensional Dirac fermion on a quantum graph that consists of a single vertex and $N$ loops. We find that the model possesses a rich structure of boundary conditions for wavefunctions on the quantum graph and they can be classified into $(2N+1)$ distinct categories. It is then shown that there appear degenerate four-dimen

D. A. Rusova, L. M. Martyushev

Thermal dendrites (fractal-like structures) on the surface of water and some water solutions are found with an infrared camera. They are observed with specific sizes and temperature differences in the liquid and are not associated with the movement of the liquid.

Yousef Jamali, Mohammad Jamali, Mehdi Golshani

Nerve stimulation via micro-electrode implants is one of the neurostimulation approaches which is used frequently in the medical treatment of some brain disorders, neural prosthetics, brain-machine interfaces and also in the cyborg. In this method, the electrical stimulation signal can be categorized by the frequency band: low frequency, high frequency, and

Richard Adams

For any real numbers $a,\ b$, and $c$, we form the sequence of polynomials $\{P_n(z)\}_{n=0}^\infty$ satisfying the four-term recurrence \[ P_n(z)+azP_{n-1}(z)+bP_{n-2}(z)+czP_{n-3}(z)=0,\ n\in\mathbb{N}, \] with the initial conditions $P_0(z)=1$ and $P_{-n}(z)=0$. We find necessary and sufficient conditions on $a,\ b$, and $c$ under which the zeros of $P_n(

Xuhao Wu, Akira Ohnishi, Hong Shen

We study the equation of state of neutron-star matter including the effects of isovector-vector coupling in quark matter. We employ the relativistic mean-field theory with an extended TM1 parameter set to describe hadronic matter and the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with isovector-vector and hypercharge-vector couplings to describe the quark matter. The de

Navinder Singh

Related to the electronic structure of cuprate high-Tc superconductors there are two prevailing views: In one view, Pines and collaborators argue that cuprates consist of two electronic subsystems: one with localized spins and the other having itinerant character. Contrary to that, Phil Anderson has argued for one-component or one-band model for cuprates. Th

Sanghita Sengupta

We devise a theory of adsorption of low-energy atoms on suspended graphene membranes maintained at 10 K based on a model of atom-acoustic phonon interactions. Our primary technique includes a non-perturbative method which treats the dynamics of the multiple phonons in an exact manner within the purview of the Independent Boson Model. We present a study on th

Eskandar Ahmadi Pouya, Ali Akbar Rajabi

In order to study the bound-state structure of the Helium halo nuclei, the 8-nucleon Yakubovsky formalism has been implemented for 8He in a 5-body sub-cluster model, i.e. alpha+n+n+n+n. In this case, the 8-nucleon Yakubovsky equations has been obtained in the form of two coupled equations, based on the two independent components. In addition, by removing the