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  1. Dane Taylor, Mason A. Porter, Peter J. Mucha

    Characterizing the importances (i.e., centralities) of nodes in social, biological, and technological networks is a core topic in both network science and data science. We present a linear-algebraic framework that generalizes eigenvector-based centralities, including PageRank and hub/authority scores, to provide a common framework for two popular classes of

  2. Kaidi Xu, Sijia Liu, Gaoyuan Zhang, Mengshu Sun

    It is widely known that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples: images with imperceptible perturbations crafted to fool classifiers. However, interpretability of these perturbations is less explored in the literature. This work aims to better understand the roles of adversarial perturbations and provide visual explanation

  3. Natsuda Klongvessa, Félix Ginot, Christophe Ybert, Cécile Cottin-Bizonne

    We study experimentally a sediment of self-propelled Brownian particles with densities ranging from dilute to ergodic supercooled, to nonergodic glass, to nonergodic polycrystal. In a compagnon letter, we observe a nonmonotonic response to activity of relaxation of the nonergodic glass state: a dramatic slowdown when particles become weakly self-propelled, f

  4. S. E. Skipetrov, I. M. Sokolov

    We demonstrate that the transport of coherent quasiresonant light through a dense cloud of immobile two-level atoms subjected to a static external electric field can be described by a simple diffusion process up to atomic number densities of the order of at least $10^2$ atoms per wavelength cubed. Transport mean free paths well below the wavelength of light

  5. Marco Virgolin, Tanja Alderliesten, Cees Witteveen, Peter A. N. Bosman

    The Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithm (GOMEA) is a model-based EA framework that has been shown to perform well in several domains, including Genetic Programming (GP). Differently from traditional EAs where variation acts blindly, GOMEA learns a model of interdependencies within the genotype, i.e., the linkage, to estimate what patterns to prop

  6. Tarik C. Gouhier, Pradeep Pillai

    We demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by Lefcheck et al. (2019) regarding the positive effects of fish diversity on coral reef ecosystem functioning across scales are flawed because of a series of conceptual and statistical issues that include spurious correlations, the conflation of population size and species diversity effects and a failure to recogniz

  7. Luca Chiantini, Juan Migliore

    The motivating problem addressed by this paper is to describe those non-degenerate sets of points $Z$ in $\mathbb P^3$ whose general projection to a general plane is a complete intersection of curves in that plane. One large class of such $Z$ is what we call $(m,n)$-grids. We relate this problem to the {\em unexpected cone property} ${\mathcal C}(d)$, a spec

  8. E. McLean, C. T. H. Davies, A. T. Lytle, J. Koponen

    We present details of a lattice QCD calculation of the $B_s\to D_s^*$ axial form factor at zero recoil using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) formalism on the second generation MILC gluon ensembles that include up, down, strange and charm quarks in the sea. Using the HISQ action for all valence quarks means that the lattice axial vector current tha

  9. Andrej Depperschmidt, Andreas Greven

    We consider the evolution of the genealogy of the population currently alive in a Feller branching diffusion model. In contrast to the approach via labeled trees in the continuum random tree world, the genealogies are modeled as equivalence classes of ultrametric measure spaces, the elements of the space $\mathbb{U}$. This space is Polish and has a rich semi

  10. Jonathan Vandermause, Steven B. Torrisi, Simon Batzner, Yu Xie

    Machine learned force fields typically require manual construction of training sets consisting of thousands of first principles calculations, which can result in low training efficiency and unpredictable errors when applied to structures not represented in the training set of the model. This severely limits the practical application of these models in system

  11. Nakwoo Kim, Se-Jin Kim

    We apply the recently proposed perturbative technique to solve the supergravity BPS equations of ${\cal N}=1^*$ theories put on $S^4$. In particular, we have calculated the coefficients of the leading quartic terms exactly, in the expression of the universal part for the holographic free energy as a function of the mass parameters. We also report on the coef

  12. Lev Gordeev

    Propositional dynamic logic (PDL) is presented in Schütte-style mode as one-sided semiformal tree-like sequent calculus Seq$_ω^{\text{pdl}}$ with standard cut rule and the omega-rule with principal formulas $\left[ P^{\ast }\right] \!A$. The omega-rule-free derivations in Seq$_{ω}^{\text{pdl}}$ are finite (trees) and sequents deducible by these finite deriva

  13. F. Hejda, J. Bičák, O. B. Zaslavskii

    High-energy collisions can occur for radially moving charged test particles in the extremal Reissner-Nordström spacetime if one of the particles is fine-tuned and the collision point is taken close to the horizon. This is an analogy of the Banados-Silk-West (BSW) effect, first described for extremal Kerr black holes. However, it differs significantly in term

  14. Hanna Geppert, Martin Wilhelm

    Number types for exact computation are usually based on directed acyclic graphs. A poor graph structure can impair the efficency of their evaluation. In such cases the performance of a number type can be drastically improved by restructuring the graph or by internally balancing error bounds with respect to the graph's structure. We compare advantages and dis

  15. Hao Chen, Ilaria Chillotti, Yihe Dong, Oxana Poburinnaya

    The $k$-Nearest Neighbor Search ($k$-NNS) is the backbone of several cloud-based services such as recommender systems, face recognition, and database search on text and images. In these services, the client sends the query to the cloud server and receives the response in which case the query and response are revealed to the service provider. Such data disclo

  16. Tobias Friedrich, Ralf Rothenberger

    Propositional satisfiability (SAT) is one of the most fundamental problems in computer science. Its worst-case hardness lies at the core of computational complexity theory, for example in the form of NP-hardness and the (Strong) Exponential Time Hypothesis. In practice however, SAT instances can often be solved efficiently. This contradicting behavior has sp

  17. Jiayu Li, Ling Xu, Ping Lu, Tingting Liu

    The radio frequency (RF) phase shifter with finite quantization bits in analog beamforming (AB) structure forms quantization error (QE) and causes a performance loss of received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) at the receiver (called Bob). By using the law of large numbers in probability theory, the closed-form expression of SINR performance l

  18. James Smith, Cameron Taylor, Seth Baer, Constantine Dovrolis

    We first pose the Unsupervised Progressive Learning (UPL) problem: an online representation learning problem in which the learner observes a non-stationary and unlabeled data stream, learning a growing number of features that persist over time even though the data is not stored or replayed. To solve the UPL problem we propose the Self-Taught Associative Memo

  19. Afonso Mendes, Shashi Narayan, Sebastião Miranda, Zita Marinho

    We present a new neural model for text summarization that first extracts sentences from a document and then compresses them. The proposed model offers a balance that sidesteps the difficulties in abstractive methods while generating more concise summaries than extractive methods. In addition, our model dynamically determines the length of the output summary

  20. A. Choudhary, T. Renganathan, S. Pushpavanam

    In this work, we analyze the inertial migration of an electrophoretic particle in a 2-D Poiseuille flow with an electric field applied parallel to the walls. For a thin electrical double layer, the particle exhibits a slip-driven electrokinetic motion along the direction of the applied electric field, which causes the particle to lead or lag the flow (depend

  21. Albert Wienczek, Krzysztof Pachucki, Mariusz Puchalski, Vojtěch Patkóš

    We perform quantum electrodynamic calculations of the ionization energy of the $1s3d$ states of the $^4$He atom, including a complete evaluation of the $mα^6$ correction. We find a large contribution from the nonradiative part of this correction, which has not been accounted for in previous investigations. The additional contribution shifts theoretical predi

  22. Valery Shchesnovich

    Experimental demonstration of the quantum advantage over classical simulations with Boson Sampling is currently under intensive investigation. There seems to be a scalability issue to the necessary number of bosons on the linear optical platforms and the experiments, such as the recent Boson Sampling with $20$ photons on $60$-port interferometer by H.~Wang~\

  23. Chengyuan Li, Weijia Sun, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng

    Using {\sl Gaia} Data Release 2 photometry, we report the detection of extended main-sequence turnoff (eMSTO) regions in the color--magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of the $\sim 14$ Myr-old double clusters $h$ and $χ$ Persei (NGC 869 and NGC 884). We find that stars with masses below $\sim$1.3 $M_{\odot}$ in both $h$ and $χ$ Persei populate narrow main sequences (M

  24. Richard Canary, Konstantinos Tsouvalas

    We characterize groups admitting Anosov representations into $\mathsf{SL}(3,\mathbb R)$, projective Anosov representations into $\mathsf{SL}(4,\mathbb R)$, and Borel Anosov representations into $\mathsf{SL}(4,\mathbb R)$. More generally, we obtain bounds on the cohomological dimension of groups admitting $P_k$-Anosov representations into $\mathsf{SL}(d,\math

  25. Piotr Szańkowski

    Here, we explore the prospects of carrying out the single qubit spectroscopy of environmental noise when the resolution of the frequency filters produced by the dynamical decoupling pulse sequences can be set high enough to reveal the discrete structure of the noise spectral density. The standard form of spectroscopy is applicable when the filter is unable t

  26. Kareem Darwish, Peter Stefanov, Michaël Aupetit, Preslav Nakov

    We present a highly effective unsupervised framework for detecting the stance of prolific Twitter users with respect to controversial topics. In particular, we use dimensionality reduction to project users onto a low-dimensional space, followed by clustering, which allows us to find core users that are representative of the different stances. Our framework h

  27. Markus Gahn, Willi Jäger, Maria Neuss-Radu

    In this paper, we construct approximations of the microscopic solution of a nonlinear reaction--diffusion equation in a domain consisting of two bulk-domains, which are separated by a thin layer with a periodic heterogeneous structure. The size of the heterogeneities and thickness of the layer are of order $ε$, where the parameter $ε$ is small compared to th

  28. Lisa Nicklasson

    An ideal $I \subset \mathbb{k}[x_1, \ldots, x_n]$ is said to have linear powers if $I^k$ has a linear minimal free resolution, for all $k$. In this paper we study the Betti numbers of $I^k$, for ideals $I$ with linear powers. The Betti numbers are computed explicitly, as polynomials in $k$, for the ideal generated by all square free monomials of degree $d$,

  29. Austin Osby, Theja N. De Silva

    By constructing a Landau-like energy functional, we investigate the molecular organization of a three-component mixture in cell membranes. In the strongly interacting limit, we model the interaction between molecules using pseudospin variables and convert them into non-interacting variables using a mean-field theory. Next, we construct the two-order paramete

  30. F. Annibali, M. Bellazzini, M. Correnti, E. Sacchi

    We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of a stream-like system associated with the dwarf galaxy DDO 68, located in the Lynx-Cancer Void at a distance of D$\sim$12.65 Mpc from us. The stream, previously identified in deep Large Binocular Telescope images as a diffuse low surface brightness structure, is resolved into individual stars in the F606W

  31. Willem Esterhuizen, Tim Aschenbruck, Stefan Streif

    In this technical communique we study the maximal robust positively invariant set for state-constrained continuous-time nonlinear systems subjected to a bounded disturbance. Extending results from the theory of barriers, we show that this set is closed and that its boundary consists of two complementary parts, one of which we name the invariance barrier, whi

  32. M. Belli, M. Fanciulli, R. de Sousa

    The main feature of amorphous materials is the presence of excess vibrational modes at low energies, giving rise to the so called "boson peak" in neutron and optical spectroscopy. These same modes manifest themselves as two level systems (TLSs) causing noise and decoherence in qubits and other sensitive devices. Here we present an experiment that use

  33. Yasmina Atarihuana, Rubén A. Hidalgo

    If $n \geq 3$, then moduli space ${\mathcal M}_{0,[n+1]}$, of isomorphisms classes of $(n+1)$-marked spheres, is a complex orbifold of dimension $n-2$. Its branch locus ${\mathcal B}_{0,[n+1]}$ consists of the isomorphism classes of those $(n+1)$-marked spheres with non-trivial group of conformal automorphisms. We prove that ${\mathcal B}_{0,[n+1]}$ is conne

  34. Zhen Cheng, Xinrui Hou, Runhuai Li, Yajin Zhou

    We performed the first systematic study of a new attack on Ethereum that steals cryptocurrencies. The attack is due to the unprotected JSON-RPC endpoints existed in Ethereum nodes that could be exploited by attackers to transfer the Ether and ERC20 tokens to attackers-controlled accounts. This study aims to shed light on the attack, including malicious behav

  35. Kamalesh Jana, Amit D. Lad, Moniruzzaman Shaikh, V. Rakesh Kumar

    We present ultrafast pump-probe reflectivity and Doppler spectrometry of a silicon target at relativistic laser intensity. We observe an unexpected rise in reflectivity to a peak approximately $\sim$9 ps after the main pulse interaction with the target. This occurs after the reflectivity has fallen off from the initially high "plasma-mirror" phase. S

  36. Ye-Chao Liu, Xiao-Dong Yu, Jiangwei Shang, Huangjun Zhu

    Among various multipartite entangled states, Dicke states stand out because their entanglement is maximally persistent and robust under particle losses. Although much attention has been attracted for their potential applications in quantum information processing and foundational studies, the characterization of Dicke states remains as a challenging task in e

  37. Zhan Bai, Yu-xin Liu

    We investigate the chemical potential and baryon number density of the hadron-quark phase transition in neutron star matter. The hadron matter is described with relativistic mean field theory, and the quark matter is described with the Dyson-Schwinger equation approach of QCD. In order to study the first-order phase transition, we develop the sound speed int

  38. Zhengping Che, Guangyu Li, Tracy Li, Bo Jiang

    Driving datasets accelerate the development of intelligent driving and related computer vision technologies, while substantial and detailed annotations serve as fuels and powers to boost the efficacy of such datasets to improve learning-based models. We propose D$^2$-City, a large-scale comprehensive collection of dashcam videos collected by vehicles on DiDi

  39. Beatrice Nash, Vlad Gheorghiu, Michele Mosca

    Currently available quantum computing hardware platforms have limited 2-qubit connectivity among their addressable qubits. In order to run a generic quantum algorithm on such a platform, one has to transform the initial logical quantum circuit describing the algorithm into an equivalent one that obeys the connectivity restrictions. In this work we construct

  40. Hao Wang, Cheng Deng, Xinxu Xu, Wei Liu

    Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a task of cross-domain image retrieval from a natural image gallery with free-hand sketch under a zero-shot scenario. Previous works mostly focus on a generative approach that takes a highly abstract and sparse sketch as input and then synthesizes the corresponding natural image. However, the intrinsic visu

  41. Fabian Laudenbach, Christoph Pacher

    The assumption that detection and/or state-preparation devices used for continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) are beyond influence of potential eavesdroppers leads to a significant performance enhancement in terms of achievable key rate and transmission distance. We provide a detailed and comprehensible derivation of the Holevo bound in this

  42. Marco Catillo, Leonid Ya. Glozman, Christian B. Lang

    Truncating the low-lying modes of the lattice Dirac operator results in an emergence of the chiral-spin symmetry $SU(2)_{CS}$ and its flavor extension $SU(2N_F)$ in hadrons. These are symmetries of the quark - chromo-electric interaction and include chiral symmetries as subgroups. Hence the quark - chromo-magnetic interaction, which breaks both symmetries, i

  43. Alexandros Rigos, Erik Mohlin, Enrico Ronchi

    In today's terrorism-prone and security-focused world, evacuation emergencies, drills, and false alarms are becoming more and more common. Compliance to an evacuation order made by an authority in case of emergency can play a key role in the outcome of an emergency. In case an evacuee experiences repeated emergency scenarios which may be a false alarm (e

  44. Konstantinos Skianis, Giannis Nikolentzos, Stratis Limnios, Michalis Vazirgiannis

    In several domains, data objects can be decomposed into sets of simpler objects. It is then natural to represent each object as the set of its components or parts. Many conventional machine learning algorithms are unable to process this kind of representations, since sets may vary in cardinality and elements lack a meaningful ordering. In this paper, we pres

  45. Zafar Ahmed, Sachin Kumar, Tarit Goswami, Sarthak Hajirnis

    We utilize the amenability of the Fermi-type potential profile in Schr{ö}dinger equation to construct a symmetric one dimensional well as $V(x){=}{-}U_n/[1+\exp[(|x|{-}a)/b]], ~ U_n{=}V_n[1+\exp[-a/b]]$. We define $α=a/b, ~β_n {=}b\sqrt{2m U_n}/\hbar$, we find $β_n$ values for which critically the well has $n$-node half bound state at $E{=}0$. Consequently,

  46. Maxime Fortier Bourque

    For any $\varepsilon>0$, we construct a closed hyperbolic surface of genus $g=g(\varepsilon)$ with a set of at most $\varepsilon g$ systoles that fill, meaning that each component of the complement of their union is contractible. This surface is also a critical point of index at most $\varepsilon g$ for the systole function, disproving the lower bound of $2g

  47. Ali Dastgheibi-Fard, Gilles Geribier

    The Spherical gaseous detector (or Spherical Proportional Counter, SPC) has a broad range of applications. In this work, we will focus on the light WIMP Dark Matter particle search, that is, below a few GeV. The NEWS-G collaboration operates a 60 cm diameter detector at Modane underground laboratory (LSM). Running the detector at 3 b of Neon gas, some compet

  48. Aleksandar Bikov, Nedyalko Nenov

    The graph $G$ is called a $(3, 3)$-Ramsey graph if in every coloring of the edges of $G$ in two colors there is a monochromatic triangle. The minimum number of vertices of the $(3, 3)$-Ramsey graphs without 4-cliques is denoted by $F_e(3, 3; 4)$. The number $F_e(3, 3; 4)$ is referred to as the most wanted Folkman number. It is known that $20 \leq F_e(3, 3; 4

  49. H. Suzuki, H. Gretarsson, H. Ishikawa, K. Ueda

    Ruthenium compounds play prominent roles in materials research ranging from oxide electronics to catalysis, and serve as a platform for fundamental concepts such as spin-triplet superconductivity, Kitaev spin-liquids, and solid-state analogues of the Higgs mode in particle physics. However, basic questions about the electronic structure of ruthenates remain

  50. Stephane Chretien, Andrew Thompson, Bogdan Toader

    We study the problem of super-resolution, where we recover the locations and weights of non-negative point sources from a few samples of their convolution with a Gaussian kernel. It has been recently shown that exact recovery is possible by minimising the total variation norm of the measure. An alternative practical approach is to solve its dual. In this pap

  51. Christoph Koutschan, Elaine Wong

    We derive exact and sharp lower bounds for the number of monochromatic generalized Schur triples $(x,y,x+ay)$ whose entries are from the set $\{1,\dots,n\}$, subject to a coloring with two different colors. Previously, only asymptotic formulas for such bounds were known, and only for $a\in\mathbb{N}$. Using symbolic computation techniques, these results are

  52. Sky, Zhang, Hai Xiao, Jun Li

    The Chain-of-states(CoS) methods like nudge elastic band(NEB) method can be used to determine the minimum energy path (MEP) and transition state (TS) between two end local minima. However, the CoS methods are inefficient for difficult cases where the two ends are far apart with chemically insignificant part(s) in the MEP. We present here a method based on sp

  53. Daniel Girela, Noel Merchán

    In this paper we are concerned with two classes of conformally invariant spaces of analytic functions in the unit disc $\D$, the Besov spaces $B^p$ $(1\le p<\infty )$ and the $Q_s$ spaces $(0<s<\infty )$. Our main objective is to characterize for a given pair $(X, Y)$ of spaces in these classes, the space of pointwise multipliers $M(X, Y)$, as well as to stu

  54. G. -S. Zhou, Y. Shen, D. -M. Lu

    In this paper, we establish a structure theorem for connected graded Hopf algebras over a field of characteristic $0$ by claiming the existence of a family of homogeneous generators and a total order on the index set that satisfy some desirable conditions. The approach to the structure theorem is constructive, based on the combinatorial properties of Lyndon

  55. Anup Biswas, Sven Jarohs

    We study the overdetermined problem for a large family of non-local operators given by generators of subordinate Brownian motions. In particular, this family includes the fractional Laplacian, relativistic stable operators etc. We consider these problems in bounded domains, exterior domains, and in annular domains and we show that under suitable conditions,

  56. Wen Huang, Zeng Lian, Xiao Ma, Leiye Xu

    In this article, we consider the weighted ergodic optimization problem of a class of dynamical systems $T:X\to X$ where $X$ is a compact metric space and $T$ is Lipschitz continuous. We show that once $T:X\to X$ satisfies both the {\em Anosov shadowing property }({\bf ASP}) and the {\em Mañé-Conze-Guivarc&#39;h-Bousch property }({\bf MCGBP}), the minimizing

  57. Hiroshi Hirai, Yuni Iwamasa

    A phylogenetic tree is a graphical representation of an evolutionary history of taxa in which the leaves correspond to the taxa and the non-leaves correspond to speciations. One of important problems in phylogenetic analysis is to assemble a global phylogenetic tree from small phylogenetic trees, particularly, quartet trees. {\sc Quartet Compatibility} is th

  58. Sudhir R. Ghorpade, Trygve Johnsen

    We consider the notion of a $(q,m)$-polymatroid, due to Shiromoto, and the more general notion of $(q,m)$-demi-polymatroid, and show how generalized weights can be defined for them. Further, we establish a duality for these weights analogous to Wei duality for generalized Hamming weights of linear codes. The corresponding results of Ravagnani for Delsarte ra

  59. Juan Maldacena, Gustavo J. Turiaci, Zhenbin Yang

    We study some aspects of the de Sitter version of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Though we do not have propagating gravitons, we have a boundary mode when we compute observables with a fixed dilaton and metric at the boundary. We compute the no-boundary wavefunctions and probability measures to all orders in perturbation theory. We also discuss contributions fro

  60. Soumya Tripathy, Juho Kannala, Esa Rahtu

    This paper presents a generic face animator that is able to control the pose and expressions of a given face image. The animation is driven by human interpretable control signals consisting of head pose angles and the Action Unit (AU) values. The control information can be obtained from multiple sources including external driving videos and manual controls.

  61. Fabio Tanania

    Extending [14], we obtain a complete description of the motivic cohomology with ${\mathbb Z}/2$-coefficients of the Nisnevich classifying space of the spin group $Spin_n$ associated to the standard split quadratic form. This provides us with very simple relations among subtle Stiefel-Whitney classes in the motivic cohomology of \v{C}ech simplicial schemes as

  62. Jeonghun Baek, Geewook Kim, Junyeop Lee, Sungrae Park

    Many new proposals for scene text recognition (STR) models have been introduced in recent years. While each claim to have pushed the boundary of the technology, a holistic and fair comparison has been largely missing in the field due to the inconsistent choices of training and evaluation datasets. This paper addresses this difficulty with three major contrib

  63. Giovanni Alberti, Giuseppe Buttazzo, Serena Guarino Lo Bianco, Edouard Oudet

    In this paper we study the optimal reinforcement of an elastic membrane, fixed at its boundary, by means of a network (connected onedimensional structure), that has to be found in a suitable admissible class. We show the existence of an optimal solution that may present multiplicities, that is regions where the optimal structure overlaps. Some numerical simu

  64. David Schaller, Szymon Pach, Gerhard Wolber

    Ligands entering a protein binding pocket essentially compete with water molecules for binding to the protein. Hence, the location and thermodynamic properties of water molecules in protein structures have gained increased attention in the drug design community. Including corresponding data into 3D pharmacophore modeling is essential for efficient high throu

  65. Joyce S. Climaco, Alberto Saa

    We consider the problem of global synchronization in a large random network of Kuramoto oscillators where some of them are subject to an external periodically driven force. We explore a recently proposed dimensional reduction approach and introduce an effective two-dimensional description for the problem. From the dimensionally reduced model, we obtain analy

  66. Wen Hsiang Wei

    The basic results for nonlinear operators are given. These results include nonlinear versions of classical uniform boundedness theorem and Hahn-Banach theorem. Furthermore, the mappings from a metrizable space into another normed space can fall in some normed spaces by defining suitable norms. The results for the mappings on the metrizable spaces can be appl

  67. Rüstem Kaya

    In this note, we give some generalisations of the classical Poincar\'{e} upper half-plane, which is the most popular model of hyperbolic plane geometry. For this, we replace the circular arcs by elliptical arcs with center on the $x-$axis, and foci on the $x-$axis or on the lines perpendicular to the $x-$axis at the center, in the upper half-plane. Thus, we

  68. Eleonora A. Romano, Jarosław A. Wiśniewski

    Let $X$ be a complex projective manifold, $L$ an ample line bundle on $X$, and assume that we have a $\mathbb{C}^*$ action on $(X,L)$. We classify such triples $(X,L,\mathbb{C}^*)$ for which the closure of a general orbit of the $\mathbb{C}^*$ action is of degree $\leq 3$ with respect to $L$ and, in addition, the source and the sink of the action are isolate

  69. Xinjie Li, Chun Yang, Songlu Chen, Chao Zhu

    Naturally, fine-grained recognition, e.g., vehicle identification or bird classification, has specific hierarchical labels, where fine categories are always harder to be classified than coarse categories. However, most of the recent deep learning based methods neglect the semantic structure of fine-grained objects and do not take advantage of the traditional

  70. Fei Xue, Xin Wang, Shunkai Li, Qiuyuan Wang

    Most previous learning-based visual odometry (VO) methods take VO as a pure tracking problem. In contrast, we present a VO framework by incorporating two additional components called Memory and Refining. The Memory component preserves global information by employing an adaptive and efficient selection strategy. The Refining component ameliorates previous res

  71. Damiano Brigo

    We investigate whether it is possible to formulate option pricing and hedging models without using probability. We present a model that is consistent with two notions of volatility: a historical volatility consistent with statistical analysis, and an implied volatility consistent with options priced with the model. The latter will be also the quadratic varia

  72. Tuan-Hung Vu, Himalaya Jain, Maxime Bucher, Matthieu Cord

    Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is important for applications where large scale annotation of representative data is challenging. For semantic segmentation in particular, it helps deploy on real &#34;target domain&#34; data models that are trained on annotated images from a different &#34;source domain&#34;, notably a virtual environment. To this end, m

  73. Sarah Dijols

    Let $a$ be a real euclidean vector space of finite dimension and $\Sigma$ a root system in $a$ with a basis $\Delta$. Let $\Theta \subset \Delta$ and $M = M_{\Theta}$ be a standard Levi of a reductive group $G$ such that $a_\Theta = a_M / a_G$. Let us denote $d$ the dimension of $a_\Theta$, i.e the cardinal of $\Delta - \Theta$ and $\Sigma_{\Theta}$ the set

  74. Q. Chen, J. Chang, L. Ma, C. Li

    Studying optical properties of organic materials is important due to the rapid development of organic light-emitting diodes, solar cells, and photon detectors. Here for the first time we have performed tight-binding calculations for singlet excitons, in combination with first-principles calculations of the excited states in molecular dimers, to describe the

  75. Yann Jullian

    We consider a mathematical model of the breakout game where $\mathbb{R}^2$ is covered by unit square bricks everywhere except in one place. We introduce elementary blocks (particular sets of bricks) in order to describe a family of periodic (in a breakout-appropriate sense) orbits. Necessary and sufficient conditions for slopes (the initial direction of the

  76. Peter J. Haine

    In this note we prove the following useful fact that seems to be missing from the literature: the $\infty$-category of coherent ordinary topoi (in the sense of SGA4) is equivalent to the $\infty$-category of coherent $1$-localic $\infty$-topoi (in Lurie&#39;s sense). We also collect a number of examples of coherent geometric morphisms between $\infty$-topoi

  77. Bin Chen, Peng-Xiang Hao, Wei Song

    The study of Rényi mutual information (RMI) sheds light on the AdS/CFT correspondence beyond classical order. In this article, we study the Rényi mutual information between two intervals at large distance in two-dimensional holographic warped conformal field theory, which is conjectured to be dual to the gravity on AdS3 or warped AdS3 spacetime under the Dir

  78. Emmanuel Cabanillas

    In this article, we propose a variant of the usual Ostrowski $α$-numeration (where $α$ is a real in [0, 1[) that codes integers (positive as well as negative) and reals of [0, 1[ (instead of [--$α$, 1--$α$[), so that for every integer n, n and {n$α$} have the same coding sequence. These coding sequences respect natural lexicographic orders and will be used t

  79. Fabian Hebestreit, Steffen Sagave

    Using the framework for multiplicative parametrized homotopy theory introduced in joint work with C. Schlichtkrull, we produce a multiplicative comparison between the homotopical and operator algebraic constructions of twisted K-theory, both in the real and complex case. We also improve several comparison results about twisted K-theory of C*-algebras to incl

  80. Francesco Grotto, Marco Romito

    We consider Canonical Gibbsian ensembles of Euler point vortices on the 2-dimensional torus or in a bounded domain of R 2 . We prove that under the Central Limit scaling of vortices intensities, and provided that the system has zero global space average in the bounded domain case (neutrality condition), the ensemble converges to the so-called Energy-Enstroph

  81. A. Kazım Çamlıbel

    We explore the idea that cosmic acceleration may be a byproduct of late-time effects like structure formation in two steps. First, we consider the equation of state for an inhomogeneous cosmic fluid, which may lead to a Gedanken-model for cosmic evolution, where dark matter is strongly self-interacting and stays in a plasma state until late stages of the cos

  82. Byeongho Heo, Jeesoo Kim, Sangdoo Yun, Hyojin Park

    We investigate the design aspects of feature distillation methods achieving network compression and propose a novel feature distillation method in which the distillation loss is designed to make a synergy among various aspects: teacher transform, student transform, distillation feature position and distance function. Our proposed distillation loss includes a

  83. Bakht Zaman, Luis Miguel Lopez Ramos, Daniel Romero, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

    Causality graphs are routinely estimated in social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering due to their capacity to efficiently represent the spatiotemporal structure of multivariate data sets in a format amenable for human interpretation, forecasting, and anomaly detection. A popular approach to mathematically formalize causality is based on vector auto

  84. Pranay Patil, Stefanos Kourtis, Claudio Chamon, Eduardo R. Mucciolo

    We introduce a planar embedding of the k-regular k-XORSAT problem, in which solutions are encoded in the ground state of a classical statistical mechanics model of reversible logic gates arranged on a square grid and acting on bits that represent the Boolean variables of the problem. The special feature of this embedding is that the resulting model lacks a f

  85. Xuanlong Ma, Gary L. Walls, Kaishun Wang, Sanming Zhou

    Let $Γ$ be a graph with vertex set $V(Γ)$. A subset $C$ of $V(Γ)$ is called a perfect code in $Γ$ if $C$ is an independent set of $Γ$ and every vertex in $V(Γ)\setminus C$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $C$. A subset $C$ of a group $G$ is called a perfect code of $G$ if there exists a Cayley graph of $G$ which admits $C$ as a perfect code. A group $G$

  86. Imre Ferenc Barna, Mihály András Pocsai, Károly Tőkési

    We present ionization cross sections for antiproton and helium collisions based on ab-initio time-dependent coupled channel method. In our calculations a finite basis set of regular helium Coulomb wave packets and Slater function were used. The semiclassical approximation was applied with the time-dependent Coulomb potential to describe the antiproton electr

  87. Linyu Peng

    In this paper, symmetry analysis is extended to study nonlocal differential equations, in particular two integrable nonlocal equations, the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the nonlocal modified Korteweg--de Vries equation. Lie point symmetries are obtained based on a general theory and used to reduce these equations to nonlocal and local ordinary

  88. E. Ferraro, M. Fanciulli, M. De Michielis

    We study theoretically the phonon-induced relaxation and decoherence processes in the hybrid qubit in silicon. Hybrid qubit behaves as a charge qubit when the detuning is close to zero and as spin qubit for large detuning values. It is realized starting from an electrostatically defined double quantum dot where three electrons are confined and manipulated th

  89. A. V. Kimmel, O. T. Gindele, D. M. Duffy, R. E. Cohen

    Molecular dynamics simulations predict a giant electrocaloric effect at the ferroelectric-antiferroelectric phase boundary in PZT (PbTiO$_3$-PbZrO$_3$). These large-scale simulations also give insights into the atomistic mechanisms of the electrocaloric effect in PZT materials. Studying a range of ferroelectric (FE) and antiferroelectric (AFE) PZT materials

  90. Tal Einav, Rob Phillips

    Although the key promoter elements necessary to drive transcription in Escherichia coli have long been understood, we still cannot predict the behavior of arbitrary novel promoters, hampering our ability to characterize the myriad of sequenced regulatory architectures as well as to design novel synthetic circuits. This work builds upon a beautiful recent exp

  91. Dat Thanh Le, Arne Grimsmo, Clemens Müller, T. M. Stace

    We describe a superconducting circuit consisting of a Josephson junction in parallel with a quantum phase slip wire, which implements a Hamiltonian that is periodic in both charge and flux. This Hamiltonian is exactly diagonalisable in a double-Bloch band, and the eigenstates are shown to be code states of the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill quantum error correcti

  92. Shugang Hao, Lingjie Duan

    Online content platforms are concerned about the freshness of their content updates to their end customers, and increasingly more platforms now invite and pay the crowd to sample real-time information (e.g., traffic observations and sensor data) to help reduce their ages of information (AoI). How much crowdsourced data to sample and buy over time is a critic

  93. Mariam Bouhmadi-López, Claus Kiefer, Prado Martín-Moruno

    Cosmological observations allow the possibility that dark energy is caused by phantom fields. These fields typically lead to the occurrence of singularities in the late Universe. We review here the status of phantom singularities and their possible avoidance in a quantum theory of gravity. We first introduce phantom energy and discuss its behavior in cosmolo

  94. Wen-Hao Zhou, Jun Xu

    Considering that the chiral kinetic equations of motion (CEOM) can be derived from the spin kinetic equations of motion (SEOM) for massless particles with approximations, we simulate the chiral anomalies by using the latter in a box system with the periodic boundary condition under a uniform external magnetic field. We found that the chiral magnetic effect i

  95. Swann Marx, Edouard Pauwels, Tillmann Weisser, Didier Henrion

    We provide a new method to approximate a (possibly discontinuous) function using Christoffel-Darboux kernels. Our knowledge about the unknown multivariate function is in terms of finitely many moments of the Young measure supported on the graph of the function. Such an input is available when approximating weak (or measure-valued) solution of optimal control

  96. Shaofeng Cai, Gang Chen, Beng Chin Ooi, Jinyang Gao

    Deep learning models have been used to support analytics beyond simple aggregation, where deeper and wider models have been shown to yield great results. These models consume a huge amount of memory and computational operations. However, most of the large-scale industrial applications are often computational budget constrained. In practice, the peak workload

  97. Bushra Ali, Shaista Khan, Anuj Chandra, Shakeel Ahmad

    Event-by-event (ebe) fluctuations in mean pseudorapidity values of relativistic charged particles in full phase space is studied by analysing experimental data on $^{16}O-AgBr$ collisions at 14.5A, 60A, and 200A GeV/c and $^{32}S-AgBr$ collisions at 200A GeV/c. The findings are compared with the prediction of A Multi-Phase Transport(\amm) model and those obt

  98. Fabian Hebestreit, Steffen Sagave, Christian Schlichtkrull

    In order to treat multiplicative phenomena in twisted (co)homology, we introduce a new point-set level framework for parametrized homotopy theory. We provide a convolution smash product that descends to the corresponding infinity-categorical product and allows for convenient constructions of commutative parametrized ring spectra. As an immediate application,

  99. Samuel Gozel, Didier Poilblanc, Ian Affleck, Frédéric Mila

    Using the Matrix Product State framework, we generalize the Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) construction to one-dimensional spin liquids with global color ${\rm SU}(N)$ symmetry, finite correlation lengths, and edge states that can belong to any self-conjugate irreducible representation (irrep) of ${\rm SU}(N)$. In particular, ${\rm SU}(2)$ spin-$1$ AKLT

  100. Kyung-Su Kim, Sae-Young Chung

    We consider the problem of sparse phase retrieval from Fourier transform magnitudes to recover the $k$-sparse signal vector and its support $\mathcal{T}$. We exploit extended support estimate $\mathcal{E}$ with size larger than $k$ satisfying $\mathcal{E} \supseteq \mathcal{T}$ and obtained by a trained deep neural network (DNN). To make the DNN learnable, i