April 2019 arXiv papers — page 25

Georgios Chasparis

The problem of efficient resource allocation has drawn significant attention in many scientific disciplines due to its direct societal benefits, such as energy savings. Traditional approaches in addressing online resource allocation problems neglect the potential benefit of feedback information available from the running tasks/loads as well as the potential

Rodolfo Ruben Rosales, Benjamin Seibold, David Shirokoff, Dong Zhou

This paper presents a new class of high order linear ImEx multistep schemes with large regions of unconditional stability. Unconditional stability is a desirable property of a time stepping scheme, as it allows the choice of time step solely based on accuracy considerations. Of particular interest are problems for which both the implicit and explicit parts o

Daniel Huang

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning a first-order theorem prover that uses a representation of beliefs in mathematical claims to construct proofs. The inspiration for doing so comes from the practices of human mathematicians where "plausible reasoning" is applied in addition to deductive reasoning to find proofs. Towards this end, we i

Indrajit Jana

We show that the fluctuations of the linear eigenvalue statistics of a non-Hermitian random band matrix of increasing bandwidth $b_{n}$ with a continuous variance profile $w_{\nu}(x)$ converges to a $N(0,\sigma_{f}^{2}(\nu))$, where $\nu=\lim_{n\to\infty}(2b_{n}/n)\in [0,1]$ and $f$ is the test function. When $\nu\in (0,1]$, we obtain an explicit formula for

Moshe Gai

Statements included in the comment published by Schumann et al. (arXiv:1904.03023v1) are contradicted by documents that were communicated to one of the co-authors of the comment (Dr. Koester). These documents are reviewed but cannot be disclosed here due to copyright (they are available on request). A summary of the scientific dispute between the collaborati

Madeline Locus Dawsey, Ken Ono, Ian Wagner

For a finite group $G$, let $K(G)$ denote the field generated over $\mathbb{Q}$ by its character values. For $n>24$, G. R. Robinson and J. G. Thompson proved that $$K(A_n)=\mathbb{Q}\left (\{ \sqrt{p^*} \ : \ p\leq n \ {\text{ an odd prime with } p\neq n-2}\}\right),$$ where $p^*:=(-1)^{\frac{p-1}{2}}p$. Confirming a speculation of Thompson, we show that arb

Mahdi Abavisani, Vishal M. Patel

We present a transductive deep learning-based formulation for the sparse representation-based classification (SRC) method. The proposed network consists of a convolutional autoencoder along with a fully-connected layer. The role of the autoencoder network is to learn robust deep features for classification. On the other hand, the fully-connected layer, which

A. J. Rogers, C. J. Farrugia, R. B. Torbert

We present a numerical algorithm aimed at identifying ion diffusion regions (IDRs) in the geomagnetic tail, and test its applicability. We use 5 criteria applied in three stages. (i) Correlated reversals (within 90 s) of Vx and Bz (at least 2 nT about zero; GSM coordinates); (ii) Detection of Hall electric and magnetic field signatures; and (iii) strong (>10

Nana Cabo Bizet, Cesar Damian, Oscar Loaiza-Brito, Damian Mayorga Peña

We study a Type IIB isotropic toroidal compactification with non-geometric fluxes. Under the assumption of a hierarchy on the moduli, an effective scalar potential is constructed showing a runaway direction on the real part of the Kähler modulus while the rest of the moduli are stabilized. For the effective model to be consistent it is required that displace

Roberto Díaz, Alvaro Liendo

An ind-variety is an inductive limit of closed embeddings of algebraic varieties and an ind-group is a group object in the category of ind-varieties. These notions were first introduced by Shafarevich in the study of the automorphism group of affine spaces and have been studied by many authors afterwards. An ind-torus is an ind-group obtained as an inductive

Huan Yang

We study the orbital evolution of eccentric binary neutron stars. The orbit is described as a Quasi-Keplarian orbit with perturbations due to tidal couplings. We find that the tidal interaction between stars contributes to orbital precession, in addition to the Post-Newtonian procession. The coupling between the angular and radial motion of the binary also e

Muhan Zhang, Shali Jiang, Zhicheng Cui, Roman Garnett

Graph structured data are abundant in the real world. Among different graph types, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are of particular interest to machine learning researchers, as many machine learning models are realized as computations on DAGs, including neural networks and Bayesian networks. In this paper, we study deep generative models for DAGs, and propos

Gor Oganesyan, Lara Nava, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Andrea Melandri

Information on the spectral shape of prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRB) is mostly available only at energies $\gtrsim10$ keV, where the main instruments for GRB detection are sensitive. The origin of this emission is still very uncertain because of the apparent inconsistency with synchrotron radiation, which is the most obvious candidate, and the resu

H. M. Fried, P. H. Tsang, Y. Gabellini, T. Grandou

Using previously described functional techniques for some non--perturbative, gauge invariant, renormalized QCD processes, a simplified version of the amplitudes --- in which forms akin to Pomerons naturally appear --- provides fits to ISR and LHC--TOTEM $pp$ elastic scattering data. Those amplitudes rely on a specific function $\varphi (\vec b)$ which descri

Yanxuan Shao, Xin Wang, Feng Fu

In recent years, there has been growing interest in studying evolutionary games with environmental feedback. Previous studies exclusively focus on two-player games. However, extension to multi-player game is needed to study problems such as microbial cooperation and crowdsourcing collaborations. Here, we study coevolutionary public goods games where strategi

Adrián Lozano-Durán, Marco Giometto, George I. Park, Parviz Moin

Non-equilibrium wall turbulence with mean-flow three-dimensionality is ubiquitous in geophysical and engineering flows. Under these conditions, turbulence may experience a counter-intuitive depletion of the turbulent stresses, which has important implications for modelling and control. Yet, current turbulence theories have been established mainly for statist

Fabio Martinelli, Assaf Shapira, Cristina Toninelli

We consider the Kob-Andersen model, a cooperative lattice gas with kinetic constraints which has been widely analyzed in the physics literature in connection with the study of the liquid/glass transition. We consider the model in a finite box of linear size $L$ with sources at the boundary. Our result, which holds in any dimension and significantly improves

Shisheng Cui, Uday V. Shanbhag

Classical extragradient schemes and their stochastic counterpart represent a cornerstone for resolving monotone variational inequality problems. Yet, such schemes have a per-iteration complexity of two projections onto a convex set and require two evaluations of the map, the former of which could be relatively expensive if $X$ is a complicated set. We consid

Yan Cui, Jun Yang, Zhou Zhou

Change point detection in time series has attracted substantial interest, but most of the existing results have been focused on detecting change points in the time domain. This paper considers the situation where nonlinear time series have potential change points in the state domain. We apply a density-weighted anti-symmetric kernel function to the state dom

Yonggeun Cho, Kiyeon Lee

The aim of this paper is to show the small data scattering for 2D ICQNLS: $$iu_t=-Δu + K_1(x)|u|^2u+K_2(x)|u|^4u.$$ Under the assumption that $\left| \partial^j K_l \right| \lesssim |x|^{b_l -j}$ for $j=0, 1, 2, l=1, 2$ and $0 \le b_l \le l - \frac23$, we prove the small data scattering in an angularly regular Sobolev space $H_θ^{1,1}$. We use the decaying p

Steven Hurder, Olga Lukina

A Cantor action is a minimal equicontinuous action of a countably generated group G on a Cantor space X. Such actions are also called generalized odometers in the literature. In this work, we introduce two new conjugacy invariants for Cantor actions, the stabilizer limit group and the centralizer limit group. An action is wild if the stabilizer limit group i

Oliver H. E. Philcox, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Ross O'Connell, Alexander Wiegand

To make use of clustering statistics from large cosmological surveys, accurate and precise covariance matrices are needed. We present a new code to estimate large scale galaxy two-point correlation function (2PCF) covariances in arbitrary survey geometries that, due to new sampling techniques, runs $\sim 10^4$ times faster than previous codes, computing fine

Marisa Fernández, Anna Fino, Alberto Raffero

We consider seven-dimensional unimodular Lie algebras $\mathfrak{g}$ admitting exact $G_2$-structures, focusing our attention on those with vanishing third Betti number $b_3(\mathfrak{g})$. We discuss some examples, both in the case when $b_2(\mathfrak{g})\neq0$, and in the case when the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ is (2,3)-trivial, i.e., when both $b_2(\math

Daniel A. Yahalomi, Yossi Shvartzvald, Eric Agol, Avi Shporer

KOI-3278 is a self-lensing stellar binary consisting of a white-dwarf secondary orbiting a Sun-like primary star. Kruse and Agol (2014) noticed small periodic brightenings every 88.18 days in the Kepler photometry and interpreted these as the result of microlensing by a white dwarf with about 63$\%$ of the mass of the Sun. We obtained two sets of spectra for

Matthew England, Dorian Florescu

There has been recent interest in the use of machine learning (ML) approaches within mathematical software to make choices that impact on the computing performance without affecting the mathematical correctness of the result. We address the problem of selecting the variable ordering for cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD), an important algorithm in Sym

Michael P. Leung, Hyungsik Roger Moon

We prove a central limit theorem for network formation models with strategic interactions and homophilous agents. Since data often consists of observations on a single large network, we consider an asymptotic framework in which the network size diverges. We argue that a modification of ``stabilization'' conditions from the literature on geometric graphs prov

Rajat Kumar Pal, Steve Ramsey, Satishkumar Gadhiya, Pierpaolo Cordone

Confined hydration and conformational flexibility are some of the challenges encountered for the rational design of selective antagonists of G-protein coupled receptors. We present a set of C3-substituted (-)-stepholidine derivatives as potent binders of the dopamine D3 receptor. The compounds are characterized biochemically, as well as by computer modeling

Shuaifeng Li, Ingi Kim, Satoshi Iwamoto, Jianfeng Zang

Valley, as a new degree of freedom, raises the valleytronics in fundamental and applied science. The elastic analogs of valley states have been proposed by mimicking the symmetrical structure of either two-dimensional materials or photonic valley crystals. However, the asymmetrical valley construction remains unfulfilled. Here, we present the valley anisotro

Jason Derr, Wendell Horton, Richard Wolf

A geometric wedge model of the near-earth nightside plasma sheet is used to derive a wave equation for low frequency shear flow-interchange waves which transmit $\vec{E} \times \vec{B}$ sheared zonal flows along magnetic flux tubes towards the ionosphere. Discrepancies with the wave equation result used in Kalmoni et al. (2015) for shear flow-ballooning inst

Raul K. C. Araújo, Enrique Fernández-Cara, Diego A. Souza

In this paper, we consider several geometric inverse problems for linear elliptic systems. We prove uniqueness and stability results. In particular, we show the way that the observation depends on the perturbations of the domain. In some particular situations, this provides a strategy that could be used to compute approximations to the solution of the invers

Benjamin Edwards, Jay Jacobs, Stephanie Forrest

Security practices in large organizations are notoriously difficult to assess. The challenge only increases when organizations turn to third parties to provide technology and business services, which typically require tight network integration and sharing of confidential data, potentially increasing the organization's attack surface. The security maturit

Andrés Chirre, Kamalakshya Mahatab

Let $S(t)$ denote the argument of the Riemann zeta-function, defined as $$ S(t)=\dfrac{1}{\pi}\,\Im\log\zeta(1/2+it). $$ Assuming the Riemann hypothesis, we prove that $$ S(t)=\Omega_{\pm}\bigg(\dfrac{\log t\log\log\log t}{\log\log t}\bigg). $$ This improves the classical omega results of Montgomery and matches with the $\Omega$-result obtained by Bondarenko

Suho Oh, Jina Park

We show there is a bijection between the binary necklaces with $n$ black beads and $k$ white beads and certain $(n,k)$-codes when $n$ is prime. The main idea is to come up with a new map on necklaces called slime migration.

Krishna Regmi, Mubarak Shah

The visual entities in cross-view images exhibit drastic domain changes due to the difference in viewpoints each set of images is captured from. Existing state-of-the-art methods address the problem by learning view-invariant descriptors for the images. We propose a novel method for solving this task by exploiting the generative powers of conditional GANs to

Ivan Bardet, Marius Junge, Nicholas LaRacuente, Cambyse Rouzé

Capacities of quantum channels and decoherence times both quantify the extent to which quantum information can withstand degradation by interactions with its environment. However, calculating capacities directly is known to be intractable in general. Much recent work has focused on upper bounding certain capacities in terms of more tractable quantities such

Rey Reza Wiyatno, Anqi Xu

We present a system for generating inconspicuous-looking textures that, when displayed in the physical world as digital or printed posters, cause visual object tracking systems to become confused. For instance, as a target being tracked by a robot's camera moves in front of such a poster, our generated texture makes the tracker lock onto it and allows th

Carla Cederbaum, Oliver Rinne, Markus Strehlau

We investigate Bartnik's static metric extension conjecture under the additional assumption of axisymmetry of both the given Bartnik data and the desired static extensions. To do so, we suggest a geometric flow approach, coupled to the Weyl-Papapetrou formalism for axisymmetric static solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations. The elliptic Weyl-Papapetrou s

Frank Duque, Ruy Fabila-Monroy, César Hernández-Vélez, Carlos Hidalgo-Toscano

A geometric graph is a graph whose vertices are points in general position in the plane and its edges are straight line segments joining these points. In this paper we give an $O(n^2 \log n)$ algorithm to compute the number of pairs of edges that cross in a geometric graph on $n$ points. For layered, and convex geometric graphs the algorithm takes $O(n^2)$ t

Roberto Bonezzi, Olaf Hohm

We formulate gauge theories based on Leibniz(-Loday) algebras and uncover their underlying mathematical structure. Various special cases have been developed in the context of gauged supergravity and exceptional field theory. These are based on `tensor hierarchies', which describe towers of $p$-form gauge fields transforming under non-abelian gauge symmetries

José A. Helayël-Neto, Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

In the presence of Lorentz Symmetry Violation (LSV) associated with the Standard-Model Extension (SME), we have recently shown the non-conservation of the energy-momentum tensor of a light-wave crossing an Electro-Magnetic (EM) background field even when the latter and the LSV are constant. Incidentally, for a space-time dependent LSV, the presence of an EM

Bahareh Behboodi, Hassan Rivaz

Segmentation of ultrasound images is an essential task in both diagnosis and image-guided interventions given the ease-of-use and low cost of this imaging modality. As manual segmentation is tedious and time consuming, a growing body of research has focused on the development of automatic segmentation algorithms. Deep learning algorithms have shown remarkabl

Thomas Mountford, Maria Eulália Vares, Hao Xue

In this article, we consider an anisotropic finite-range bond percolation model on $\mathbb{Z}^2$. On each horizontal layer $\{(x,i): x \in \mathbb{Z}\}$ we have edges $\langle(x, i),(y, i)\rangle$ for $1 \leq |x - y| \leq N$. There are also vertical edges connecting two nearest neighbor vertices on distinct layers $\langle(x, i), (x, i+1)\rangle$ for $x, i

Federico Ardila, Federico Castillo, Christopher Eur, Alexander Postnikov

We describe the cone of deformations of a Coxeter permutahedron, or equivalently, the nef cone of the toric variety associated to a Coxeter complex. This family of polytopes contains polyhedral models for the Coxeter-theoretic analogs of compositions, graphs, matroids, posets, and associahedra. Our description extends the known correspondence between general

Justus A. Kromer, Noelia de la Cruz, Benjamin M. Friedrich

We present a theory of chemokinetic search agents that regulate directional fluctuations according to distance from a target. A dynamic scattering effect reduces the probability to penetrate regions with high fluctuations and thus search success for agents that respond instantaneously to positional cues. In contrast, agents with internal states that initiall

Junshan Lin, Stephen P. Shipman, Hai Zhang

This work concerns resonant scattering by a perfectly conducting slab with periodically arranged subwavelength slits, with two slits per period. There are two classes of resonances, corresponding to poles of a scattering problem. A sequence of resonances has an imaginary part that is nonzero and on the order of the width $\varepsilon$ of the slits; these are

MohammadReza Davari, Leila Kosseim, Tien D. Bui

When analyzing the spread of viruses, epidemiologists often need to identify the location of infected hosts. This information can be found in public databases, such as GenBank, however, information provided in these databases are usually limited to the country or state level. More fine-grained localization information requires phylogeographers to manually re

Mohd Hafiz Hasan, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Antoine Legrain

Parking pressure has been steadily increasing in cities as well as in university and corporate campuses. To relieve this pressure, this paper studies a car-pooling platform that would match riders and drivers, while guaranteeing a ride back and exploiting spatial and temporal locality. In particular, the paper formalizes the Commute Trip Sharing Problem (CTS

Justin T. Webster

We establish the effective {\em finite dimensionality} of the dynamics corresponding to a flow-plate interaction PDE model arising in aeroelasticity: a nonlinear panel, in the absence of rotational inertia, immersed in an inviscid potential flow. An intrinsic component of the analysis is the study of a plate equation with a {\it delay} term---a fundamentally

Jessica K. Werk, Kate H. R. Rubin, Hannah V. Bish, J. X. Prochaska

We address the spatial scale, ionization structure, mass and metal content of gas at the Milky Way disk-halo interface detected as absorption in the foreground of seven closely-spaced, high-latitude halo blue horizontal branch stars (BHBs) with heights z = 3 - 14 kpc. We detect transitions that trace multiple ionization states (e.g. CaII, FeII, SiIV, CIV) wi

Jeffrey P. Thompson, Isaac C. Sanchez

A lower bound on the grand partition function of a classical charge-symmetric system is adapted to the neutral grand canonical ensemble, in which the system is constrained to have zero total charge. This constraint permits us to consider two-body potentials that are only conditionally positive definite.

R. Carlone, M. Correggi, M. Falconi, M. Olivieri

We study the dynamics of the three-dimensional polaron - a quantum particle coupled to bosonic fields - in the quasi-classical regime. In this case the fields are very intense and the corresponding degrees of freedom can be treated semiclassically. We prove that in such a regime the effective dynamics for the quantum particles is approximated by the one gene

Yi Chen, Wei Ruan, Meng Wu, Shujie Tang

Mott insulating behavior is induced by strong electron correlation and can lead to exotic states of matter such as unconventional superconductivity and quantum spin liquids. Recent advances in van der Waals material synthesis enable the exploration of novel Mott systems in the two-dimensional limit. Here we report characterization of the local electronic pro

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Goldstein, Steve Schulze, David K. Khatami

We present detailed observations of ZTF18abukavn (SN2018gep), discovered in high-cadence data from the Zwicky Transient Facility as a rapidly rising ($1.4\pm0.1$ mag/hr) and luminous ($M_{g,\mathrm{peak}}=-20$ mag) transient. It is spectroscopically classified as a broad-lined stripped-envelope supernova (Ic-BL SN). The high peak luminosity ($L_{\mathrm{bol}

Pablo Bueno, Horacio Casini, William Witczak-Krempa

We study the structure of divergences and universal terms of the entanglement and Rényi entropies for singular regions. First, we show that for $(3+1)$-dimensional free conformal field theories (CFTs), entangling regions emanating from vertices give rise to a universal contribution $S_n^{\rm univ}= -\frac{1}{8π}f_b(n) \int_γ k^2 \log^2(R/δ)$, where $γ$ is th

Damian Dąbrowski

A Radon measure $\mu$ is $n$-rectifiable if it is absolutely continuous with respect to $\mathcal{H}^n$ and $\mu$-almost all of $\text{supp}\,\mu$ can be covered by Lipschitz images of $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this paper we give two sufficient conditions for rectifiability, both in terms of square functions of flatness-quantifying coefficients. The first condition

Damian Dąbrowski

A Radon measure $\mu$ is $n$-rectifiable if $\mu\ll\mathcal{H}^n$ and $\mu$-almost all of $\text{supp}\,\mu$ can be covered by Lipschitz images of $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this paper we give a necessary condition for rectifiability in terms of the so-called $\alpha_2$ numbers -- coefficients quantifying flatness using Wasserstein distance $W_2$. In a recent articl

José Benito Llorens, Lior Embon, Alexandre Correa, Jesés David González

A gel consists of a network of particles or molecules formed for example using the sol-gel process, by which a solution transforms into a porous solid. Particles or molecules in a gel are mainly organized on a scaffold that makes up a porous system. Quantized vortices in type II superconductors mostly form spatially homogeneous ordered or amorphous solids. H

Nai-Bo Zhang, Bao-An Li

We study implications of the very recently reported mass $M=2.17^{+0.11}_{-0.10}$M$_\odot$ of PSR~J0740+6620 on the Equation of State (EOS) of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matter with respect to existing constraints on the EOS based on the mass $M=2.01\pm 0.04$M$_\odot$ of PSR~J0348+0432, the maximum tidal deformability of GW170817 and earlier results of

Cécile Carcy, Hugo Cayla, Antoine Tenart, Alain Aspect

We report on the investigation of the three-dimensional single-atom-resolved distributions of bosonic Mott insulators in momentum-space. Firstly, we measure the two-body and three-body correlations deep in the Mott regime, finding a perfectly contrasted bunching whose periodicity reproduces the reciprocal lattice. In addition, we show that the two-body corre

Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Adversarial audio attacks can be considered as a small perturbation unperceptive to human ears that is intentionally added to the audio signal and causes a machine learning model to make mistakes. This poses a security concern about the safety of machine learning models since the adversarial attacks can fool such models toward the wrong predictions. In this

Paul Brook, Aris Karastergiou, Simon Johnston

It is now known that the emission from radio pulsars can vary over a wide range of timescales, from fractions of seconds to decades. However, it is not yet known if long- and short-term emission variability are caused by the same physical processes. It has been observed that long-term emission variability is often correlated with rotational changes in the pu

Hsuan-Hao Fan, Eckhard Krotscheck

We develop the variational and correlated basis functions/parquet-diagram theory of strongly interacting normal and superfluid systems. The first part of this contribution is devoted to highlight the connections between the Euler equations for the Jastrow-Feenberg wave function on the one hand side, and the ring, ladder, and self-energy diagrams of parquet-d

Debbie Leung, Andreas Winter, Nengkun Yu

We start with the task of discriminating finitely many multipartite quantum states using LOCC protocols, with the goal to optimize the probability of correctly identifying the state. We provide two different methods to show that finitely many measurement outcomes in every step are sufficient for approaching the optimal probability of discrimination. In the f

Markus B. Fröb, Jochen Zahn

We calculate the trace (conformal) anomaly for chiral fermions in a general curved background using Hadamard subtraction. While in intermediate steps of the calculation imaginary terms proportional to the Pontryagin density appear, imposing a vanishing divergence of the stress tensor these terms completely cancel, and we recover the well-known result equal t

Juan I. Cayuso, Matthew C. Johnson

Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies on large angular scales have uncovered a number of anomalous features of marginal statistical significance, such as a hemispherical power asymmetry, lack of power on large angular scales, and features in the power spectrum. Because the primary CMB temperature has been measured at

Scott M. Cohen

Given a protocol ${\cal P}$ that implements multipartite quantum channel ${\cal E}$ by repeated rounds of local operations and classical communication (LOCC), we construct an alternate LOCC protocol for ${\cal E}$ in no more rounds than ${\cal P}$ and no more than a fixed, constant number of outcomes for each local measurement, the same constant number for e

Suddhasattwa Brahma, Sarah Shandera

We demonstrate that there is no controlled description of stochastic eternal inflation consistent with the refined swampland de Sitter conjecture.

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh, Edo Berger, Ken K. -Y. Ng, Hsin-Yu Chen

We investigate the ability of current and third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors to determine the delay time distribution (DTD) of binary neutron stars (BNS) through a direct measurement of the BNS merger rate as a function of redshift. We assume that the DTD follows a power law distribution with a slope $Γ$ and a minimum merger time $t_{\rm min}

Marco Meineri, Joao Penedones, Antonin Rousset

We set up a scattering experiment of matter against an impurity which separates two generic one-dimensional critical quantum systems. We compute the flux of reflected and transmitted energy, thus defining a precise measure of the transparency of the interface between the related two-dimensional conformal field theories. If the largest symmetry algebra is Vir

Sara Frederick, Suvi Gezari, Matthew J. Graham, S. Bradley Cenko

We report the discovery of six active galactic nuclei (AGN) caught "turning on" during the first nine months of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The host galaxies were classified as LINERs by weak narrow forbidden line emission in their archival SDSS spectra, and detected by ZTF as nuclear transients. In five of the cases, we found via fol

M. Gaspari, D. Eckert, S. Ettori, P. Tozzi

We carry out a comprehensive Bayesian correlation analysis between hot halos and direct masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), by retrieving the X-ray plasma properties (temperature, luminosity, density, pressure, masses) over galactic to cluster scales for 85 diverse systems. We find new key scalings, with the tightest relation being the $M_\bullet-T_{

Philip C. Argyres, Antoine Bourget, Mario Martone

We classify orbifold geometries which can be interpreted as moduli spaces of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}\geq 3$ superconformal field theories up to rank 2 (complex dimension 6). The large majority of the geometries we find correspond to moduli spaces of known theories or discretely gauged version of them. Remarkably, we find 6 geometries which are not real

Jason A. S. Hunt, Mathew W. Bub, Jo Bovy, J. Ted Mackereth

Gaia DR2 has provided an unprecedented wealth of information about the kinematics of stars in the Solar neighbourhood, and has highlighted the degree of features in the Galactic disc. We confront the data with a range of bar and spiral models in both action-angle space, and the $R_{\mathrm{G}}-v_{\phi}$ plane. We find that the phase mixing induced by transie

Djuna Croon, Rachel Houtz, Veronica Sanz

In this paper we explore the possibility of observable gravitational waves as a manifestation of the QCD axion dynamics. In particular, we focus on dynamical axion models which solve the strong CP problem, and include the confinement of a QCD-like gauge group at the TeV scale. We study the resulting chiral symmetry breaking phase transition for models with $

Gregory Bentsen, Ionut-Dragos Potirniche, Vir B. Bulchandani, Thomas Scaffidi

We show that a class of random all-to-all spin models, realizable in systems of atoms coupled to an optical cavity, gives rise to a rich dynamical phase diagram due to the pairwise separable nature of the couplings. By controlling the experimental parameters, one can tune between integrable and chaotic dynamics on the one hand, and between classical and quan

Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu

The time delay between the arrival of photons of multiple images of time variable sources can be used to constrain absolute distances in the Universe (Refsdal 1964), and in turn obtain a direct estimate of the Hubble constant and other cosmological parameters. To convert the time delay into distances, it is well known that the gravitational potential of the

B. C. Allanach, J. M. Butterworth, Tyler Corbett

We examine current collider constraints on some simple $Z^\prime$ models that fit neutral current $B-$anomalies, including constraints coming from measurements of Standard Model (SM) signatures at the LHC. The `MDM' simplified model is not constrained by the SM measurements but {\em is} strongly constrained by a 139 fb$^{-1}$ 13 TeV ATLAS di-muon search. Con

Janos Englander, Stanislav Volkov, Zhenhua Wang

Let $S$ be the random walk obtained from "coin turning" with some sequence $\{p_n\}_{n\ge 1}$, as introduced in [6]. In this paper we investigate the scaling limits of $S$ in the spirit of the classical Donsker invariance principle, both for the heating and for the cooling dynamics. We prove that an invariance principle, albeit with a non-classical scaling,

Fedor Pakovich

Let $A_1, A_2\in \mathbb C(z)$ be rational functions of degree at least two that are neither Latt\`es maps nor conjugate to $z^{\pm n}$ or $\pm T_n.$ We describe invariant, periodic, and preperiodic algebraic curves for endomorphisms of $(\mathbb P^1(\mathbb C))^2$ of the form $(z_1,z_2)\rightarrow (A_1(z_1),A_2(z_2)).$ In particular, we show that if $A\in \

Yiming Sun, Yang Guo, Charlene Luo, Joel Tropp

This paper describes a new algorithm for computing a low-Tucker-rank approximation of a tensor. The method applies a randomized linear map to the tensor to obtain a sketch that captures the important directions within each mode, as well as the interactions among the modes. The sketch can be extracted from streaming or distributed data or with a single pass o

Hao Zhu, Xinxin Zuo, Sen Wang, Xun Cao

This paper presents a novel framework to recover detailed human body shapes from a single image. It is a challenging task due to factors such as variations in human shapes, body poses, and viewpoints. Prior methods typically attempt to recover the human body shape using a parametric based template that lacks the surface details. As such the resulting body sh

Ankita Pasad, Bowen Shi, Herman Kamper, Karen Livescu

Recent work has shown that speech paired with images can be used to learn semantically meaningful speech representations even without any textual supervision. In real-world low-resource settings, however, we often have access to some transcribed speech. We study whether and how visual grounding is useful in the presence of varying amounts of textual supervis

Walton Green

We establish upper bounds for the decay rate of the energy of the damped fractional wave equation when the averages of the damping coefficient on all intervals of a fixed length are bounded below. If the power of the fractional Laplacian, $s$, is between 0 and 2, the decay is polynomial. For $s \ge 2$, the decay is exponential. Second, we show that our assum

Maria Bauza, Oleguer Canal, Alberto Rodriguez

This work studies the problem of shape reconstruction and object localization using a vision-based tactile sensor, GelSlim. The main contributions are the recovery of local shapes from contact, an approach to reconstruct the tactile shape of objects from tactile imprints, and an accurate method for object localization of previously reconstructed objects. The

Song-Kyoo Kim

This paper deals with the design of the secure network in an Enhanced Internet of Vehicles by using the Blockchain Governance Game (BGG). The BGG is a system model of a stochastic game to find best strategies towards preparation of preventing a network malfunction by an attacker and the paper applies this game model into the connected vehicle security. Analy

S. Bladh, S. Liljegren, S. Höfner, B. Aringer

The purpose of this work is to present an extensive grid of dynamical atmosphere and wind models for M-type AGB stars, covering a wide range of relevant stellar parameters. We used the DARWIN code, which includes frequency-dependent radiation-hydrodynamics and a time-dependent description of dust condensation and evaporation, to simulate the dynamical atmosp

Albert Samoilenka, Egor Babaev

Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory describes a superconducting transition as a single critical point where the gap function or, equivalently, the order parameter vanishes uniformly in the entire system. We demonstrate that in superconductors described by standard BCS models, the superconducting gap survives near the sample boundaries at higher temperatur

Dhritiman Nandan, Anders Schreiber, Anastasia Volovich, Michael Zlotnikov

Massless scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime can be Mellin transformed to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity called celestial amplitudes. We study various properties of massless four-point scalar and gluon celestial amplitudes such as conformal partial wave decomposition, crossing relations and optical th

Anindya Bhadra, Jyotishka Datta, Yunfan Li, Nicholas G. Polson

Since the advent of the horseshoe priors for regularization, global-local shrinkage methods have proved to be a fertile ground for the development of Bayesian methodology in machine learning, specifically for high-dimensional regression and classification problems. They have achieved remarkable success in computation, and enjoy strong theoretical support. Mo

Moritz Hütten, Martin Stref, Céline Combet, Julien Lavalle

The distribution of dark matter (DM) subhalos in our Galaxy remains disputed, leading to varying $\gamma$-ray and $\nu$ flux predictions from their annihilation or decay. In this work, we study how, in the inner Galaxy, subhalo tidal disruption from the Galactic baryonic potential impacts these signals. Based on state-of-the art modeling of this effect from

Matthew A. Norcia, Aaron W. Young, William J. Eckner, Eric Oelker

Optical clocks based on atoms and ions achieve exceptional precision and accuracy, with applications to relativistic geodesy, tests of relativity, and searches for dark matter. Achieving such performance requires balancing competing desirable features, including a high particle number, isolation of atoms from collisions, insensitivity to motional effects, an

Giulia Cavagnari, Antonio Marigonda

In this paper we establish an attainability result for the minimum time function of a control problem in the space of probability measures endowed with Wasserstein distance. The dynamics is provided by a suitable controlled continuity equation, where we impose a nonlocal nonholonomic constraint on the driving vector field, which is assumed to be a Borel sele

Alex Fedorov, R Devon Hjelm, Anees Abrol, Zening Fu

Arguably, unsupervised learning plays a crucial role in the majority of algorithms for processing brain imaging. A recently introduced unsupervised approach Deep InfoMax (DIM) is a promising tool for exploring brain structure in a flexible non-linear way. In this paper, we investigate the use of variants of DIM in a setting of progression to Alzheimer's

Natalie Nikitin

We discuss Lebesgue spaces $\mathcal{L}^p([a,b],E)$ of Lusin measurable vector-valued functions and the corresponding vector spaces $AC_{L^p}([a,b],E)$ of absolutely continuous functions. These can be used to construct Lie groups $AC_{L^p}([a,b],G)$ of absolutely continuous functions with values in an infinite-dimensional Lie group $G$. We extend the notion

Jaedeok Kim, Chiyoun Park, Hyun-Joo Jung, Yoonsuck Choe

Architecture optimization, which is a technique for finding an efficient neural network that meets certain requirements, generally reduces to a set of multiple-choice selection problems among alternative sub-structures or parameters. The discrete nature of the selection problem, however, makes this optimization difficult. To tackle this problem we introduce

Vitor S. Barroso, J. P. M. Pitelli

Initial conditions given on a spacelike, static slice of a non-globally hyperbolic spacetime may not define the fates of classical and quantum fields uniquely. Such lack of global hyperbolicity is a well-known property of the anti-de Sitter solution and led many authors to question how is it possible to develop a quantum field theory on this spacetime. Wald

Yuki Kanakubo, Toshiki Nakashima

The polyhedral realization of crystal base has been introduced by A.Zelevinsky and the second author([T.Nakashima, A.Zelevinsky, Adv. Math. 131, no. 1 (1997)]), which describe the crystal base $B(\infty)$ as a polyhedral convex cone in the infinite $\mathbb{Z}$-lattice $\mathbb{Z}^{\infty}$. To construct the polyhedral realization, we need to fix an infinite

Pierre-François Loos, Bathélemy Pradines, Anthony Scemama, Julien Toulouse

We report a universal density-based basis-set incompleteness correction that can be applied to any wave function method. The present correction, which appropriately vanishes in the complete basis set (CBS) limit, relies on short-range correlation density functionals (with multi-determinant reference) from range-separated density-functional theory (RS-DFT) to

Qian Yang, Yue Shen, Yu-Ching Chen, Xin Liu

We present new Gemini/GMOS optical spectroscopy of 16 extreme variability quasars (EVQs) that dimmed by more than 1.5 mag in the $g$ band between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES) epochs (separated by a few years in the quasar rest frame). The quasar sample covers a redshift range of $0.5 < z < 2.1$. Nearly half of these EV

Bryan T. Gard, Linghua Zhu, George S. Barron, Nicholas J. Mayhall

The variational quantum eigensolver is one of the most promising approaches for performing chemistry simulations using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors. The efficiency of this algorithm depends crucially on the ability to prepare multi-qubit trial states on the quantum processor that either include, or at least closely approximate, the actu