April 2019 arXiv papers — page 35

Woocheol Choi, Youngwoo Koh

In this paper, we establish a convergence result for the operator splitting scheme $Z_τ$ introduced by Ignat, with initial data in $H^1$, for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation : $$ \partial_t u = i Δu + iλ|u|^{p} u,\qquad u (x,0) =ϕ(x), $$ where $(x,t) \in \mathbb{R}^d \times [0,\infty)$, with $0< p < 4/(d-2)$ for $d\geq3$ and $0< p<\infty$ for $d=1,2$. We

Rui Wang, Nan Yang, Joerg Stueckler, Daniel Cremers

Scene understanding from images is a challenging problem encountered in autonomous driving. On the object level, while 2D methods have gradually evolved from computing simple bounding boxes to delivering finer grained results like instance segmentations, the 3D family is still dominated by estimating 3D bounding boxes. In this paper, we propose a novel appro

D. Hurtado-Lange, S. T. Maguluri

We study the heavy-traffic limit of the generalized switch operating under MaxWeight, without assuming that the CRP condition is satisfied and allowing for correlated arrivals. The main contribution of this paper is the steady-state mean of linear combinations of queue lengths in heavy traffic. We showcase the generality of our result by presenting various s

Claudia Mureşan

PBZ*-lattices are bounded lattice-ordered structures endowed with two complements, called Kleene and Brouwer; by definition, they are the paraorthomodular Brouwer-Zadeh lattices in which the pairs of elements with their Kleene complements satisfy the Strong De Morgan condition. These algebras arise in the study of Quantum Logics and they form a variety PBZL*

Igor S. Tupitsyn, Nikolay V. Prokof&#39;ev

The orthogonality catastrophe (OC) problem is considered solved for 50 years. It has important consequences for numerous dynamic phenomena in fermionic systems, including Kondo effect, X-ray spectroscopy, and quantum diffusion of impurities, and is often used in the context of metals. However, the key assumptions on which the known solution is based---impuri

Sachin Shivakumar, Amritam Das, Siep Weiland, Matthew M. Peet

In this paper, we consider input-output properties of linear systems consisting of PDEs on a finite domain coupled with ODEs through the boundary conditions of the PDE. This framework can be used to represent e.g. a lumped mass fixed to a beam or a system with delay. This work generalizes the sufficiency proof of the KYP Lemma for ODEs to coupled ODE-PDE sys

Noah Giansiracusa

There is a family of vector bundles over the moduli space of stable curves that, while first appearing in theoretical physics, has been an active topic of study for algebraic geometers since the 1990s. By computing the rank of the exceptional group $G_2$ case of these bundles in three different ways, we derive a family of summation formulas for Fibonacci num

Erwan Lecarpentier, Emmanuel Rachelson

This work tackles the problem of robust zero-shot planning in non-stationary stochastic environments. We study Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) evolving over time and consider Model-Based Reinforcement Learning algorithms in this setting. We make two hypotheses: 1) the environment evolves continuously with a bounded evolution rate; 2) a current model is know

Brato Chakrabarti, David Saintillan

Using a geometric feedback model of the flagellar axoneme accounting for dynein motor kinetics, we study elastohydrodynamic phase synchronization in a pair of spontaneously beating filaments with waveforms ranging from sperm to cilia and Chlamydomonas. Our computations reveal that both in-phase and anti-phase synchrony can emerge for asymmetric beats while s

Kirill Lazebnik

We construct a transcendental entire $f:\mathbb{C}\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ such that (1) $f$ has bounded singular set, (2) $f$ has a wandering domain, and (3) each singular value of $f$ escapes to infinity under iteration by $f$.

Eric Chatterjee, Daniel B. S. Soh, Christopher Rogers, Dodd J. Gray

The strong Coulomb forces in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides ensure that optical excitation of band electrons gives rise to Wannier-Mott excitonic states, each of which can be conceptualized as a composite of a Gaussian wavepacket corresponding to center-of-mass motion and an orbital state corresponding to the motion of the electron and hole about

Lu Zhang, Steven Swanson

Non-volatile main memory (NVMM) allows programmers to build complex, persistent, pointer-based data structures that can offer substantial performance gains over conventional approaches to managing persistent state. This programming model removes the file system from the critical path which improves performance, but it also places these data structures out of

Tao Wang, Xiansheng Cai, Kun Chen, Nikolay V. Prokof'ev

The quantum-to-classical correspondence (QCC) in spin models is a puzzling phenomenon where the static susceptibility of a quantum system agrees with its classical-system counterpart, at a different corresponding temperature, within the systematic error at a sub-percent level. We employ the bold diagrammatic Monte Carlo method to explore the universality of

Wilmar Bolaños, Guillermo Mantilla-Soler

In the mid 80's Conner and Perlis showed that for cyclic number fields of prime degree $p$ the isometry class of integral trace is completely determined by the discriminant. Here we generalize their result to tame cyclic number fields of arbitrary degree. Furthermore, for such fields, we give an explicit description of a Gram matrix of the integral trace in

William H. Guss, Cayden Codel, Katja Hofmann, Brandon Houghton

Though deep reinforcement learning has led to breakthroughs in many difficult domains, these successes have required an ever-increasing number of samples. As state-of-the-art reinforcement learning (RL) systems require an exponentially increasing number of samples, their development is restricted to a continually shrinking segment of the AI community. Likewi

Keren Gu, Brandon Yang, Jiquan Ngiam, Quoc Le

Human visual systems are robust to a wide range of image transformations that are challenging for artificial networks. We present the first study of image model robustness to the minute transformations found across video frames, which we term &#34;natural robustness&#34;. Compared to previous studies on adversarial examples and synthetic distortions, natural

Snir Ben Ovadia

Let $M$ be a Riemannian, boundaryless, and compact manifold, with $\dim M\geq 2$ and let $f$ be a $C^{1+}$ diffeomorphism. We show that there is a hyperbolic SRB measure if and only if there exists an unstable leaf with a subset of positive leaf volume of hyperbolic points which return to some Pesin set with positive frequency. This answers a question of Pes

Jonathan Ariel Barmak

Every element $w$ in the commutator subgroup of the free group $\mathbb{F}_2$ of rank 2 determines a closed curve in the grid $\mathbb{Z} \times \mathbb{R} \cup \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{Z} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$. The winding numbers of this curve around the centers of the squares in the grid are the coefficients of a Laurent polynomial $P_w$ in two variabl

Marco Guzzi, Nikolaos Kidonakis

We study the production of a single top quark in association with a heavy extra $Z'$ at hadron colliders in new physics models with and without flavor-changing neutral-current (FCNC) couplings. We use QCD soft-gluon resummation and threshold expansions to calculate higher-order corrections for the total cross section and transverse-momentum distributions for

Victor E. Ambruş, Sergiu Busuioc, Alexander J. Wagner, Fabien Paillusson

We develop and implement a novel lattice Boltzmann scheme to study multicomponent flows on curved surfaces, coupling the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations with the Cahn-Hilliard equation to track the evolution of the binary fluid interfaces. Standard lattice Boltzmann method relies on regular Cartesian grids, which makes it generally unsuitable to study

Ugo Bruzzo, Armando Capasso

We consider Higgs bundles satisfying a notion of numerical flatness (H-nflatness) that was previously introduced, and show that they have Jordan-Hölder filtrations whose quotients are stable, locally free and H-nflat. This is applied to show that curve semistable Higgs bundles on simply connected Calabi-Yau manifolds have vanishing discriminant.

Shubham Dwivedi, Panagiotis Gianniotis, Spiro Karigiannis

We study a flow of $G_2$ structures which induce the same Riemannian metric which is the negative gradient flow of an energy functional. We prove Shi-type estimates for the torsion tensor along the flow. We show that at a finite-time singularity the torsion must blow-up, so the flow exists as long as the torsion remains bounded. We prove a Cheeger-Gromov typ

Dahlia Malkhi, Kartik Nayak, Ling Ren

This paper introduces Flexible BFT, a new approach for BFT consensus solution design revolving around two pillars, stronger resilience and diversity. The first pillar, stronger resilience, involves a new fault model called alive-but-corrupt faults. Alive-but-corrupt replicas may arbitrarily deviate from the protocol in an attempt to break safety of the proto

Zbigniew Palmowski, Budhi Surya

This paper discusses the valuation of credit default swaps, where default is announced when the reference asset price has gone below certain level from the last record maximum, also known as the high-water mark or drawdown. We assume that the protection buyer pays premium at fixed rate when the asset price is above a pre-specified level and continuously pays

Clemens Borys

We define the Furstenberg boundary of a locally compact Hausdorff \'etale groupoid, generalising the Furstenberg boundary for discrete groups, by providing a construction of a groupoid-equivariant injective envelope. Using this injective envelope, we establish the absence of recurrent amenable subgroups in the isotropy as a sufficient criterion for the inter

M. Broilo, D. A. Fagundes, E. G. S. Luna, M. J. Menon

Recently the TOTEM experiment at the LHC has released measurements at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV of the proton-proton total cross section, $σ_{tot}$, and the ratio of the real to imaginary parts of the forward elastic amplitude, $ρ$. Since then an intense debate on the $C$-parity asymptotic nature of the scattering amplitude was initiated. We examine the proton-pro

Hafiz Imtiaz, Jafar Mohammadi, Anand D. Sarwate

Many applications of machine learning, such as human health research, involve processing private or sensitive information. Privacy concerns may impose significant hurdles to collaboration in scenarios where there are multiple sites holding data and the goal is to estimate properties jointly across all datasets. Differentially private decentralized algorithms

Theja N. De Silva

By constructing an effective model based on recently calculated \emph{ab }initio bare interaction parameters, we study the phase diagram of alkali doped fullerides as a function of temperature and internal pressure. We use a slave-rotor mean-field approach at the weak and intermediate coupling limits and a variational mean-field approach at the strong coupli

Yizhe Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Bingchen Liu, Ahmed Elgammal

We investigate learning feature-to-feature translator networks by alternating back-propagation as a general-purpose solution to zero-shot learning (ZSL) problems. It is a generative model-based ZSL framework. In contrast to models based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) or variational autoencoders (VAE) that require auxiliary networks to assist the tr

Detlev Buchholz, Fabio Ciolli, Giuseppe Ruzzi, Ezio Vasselli

A recent idea, put forward by Mund, Rehren and Schroer, is discussed; it suggests that in gauge quantum field theory one can replace the point-localized gauge fields by string-localized vector potentials built from gauge invariant observables and a principle of string-independence. Based on a kinematical model, describing unmovable (static) fields carrying o

Sourav Pal, Samriddho Roy

We make sharp estimates to obtain a Schwarz type lemma for the symmetrized polydisc $\gn$ and for the extended symmetrized polydisc $\Gn$. We explicitly construct an interpolating function under certain condition. To do so, we followed the methods described in \cite{Young-LMS}. Also we find a few geometric interplay between the members of the family $\Gn$ an

Yiqiu Zhao, Jonathan Barés, Hu Zheng, Joshua E. S. Socolar

We study the jamming phase diagram of sheared granular material using a novel Couette shear set-up with multi-ring bottom. The set-up uses small basal friction forces to apply a volume-conserving linear shear with no shear band to a granular system composed of frictional photoelastic discs. The set-up can generate arbitrarily large shear strain due to its ci

Junjie Zhang, Hong Zheng, Yu-Sheng Chen, Yang Ren

Single crystals of the metallic Ruddlesden-Popper trilayer nickelates R$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$ (R=La, Pr) were successfully grown using an optical-image floating zone furnace under oxygen pressure (pO$_2$) of 20 bar for La$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$ and 140 bar for Pr$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$. A combination of synchrotron and laboratory x-ray single crystal diffraction, high-res

Andrew Berget, Alex Fink

The group $G = GL_r(k) \times (k^\times)^n$ acts on $\mathbf{A}^{r \times n}$, the space of $r$-by-$n$ matrices: $GL_r(k)$ acts by row operations and $(k^\times)^n$ scales columns. A matrix orbit closure is the Zariski closure of a point orbit for this action. We prove that the class of such an orbit closure in $G$ equivariant $K$-theory of $\mathbf{A}^{r \t

Raju Maiti, Jialiang Li, Priyam Das, Lei Feng

Results from multiple diagnostic tests are usually combined to improve the overall diagnostic accuracy. For binary classification, maximization of the empirical estimate of the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is widely adopted to produce the optimal linear combination of multiple biomarkers. In the presence of large number of bio

Soner Albayrak, Chandramouli Chowdhury, Savan Kharel

In this paper, we present a simple and iterative algorithm that computes Anti-de Sitter space scattering amplitudes. We focus on the vector correlators in AdS in four dimensions in momentum space. These new combinatorial relations will allow one to generate tree level amplitudes algebraically, without having to do any explicit bulk integrations; hence, leadi

Ivan Šupić, Joseph Bowles

Self-testing is a method to infer the underlying physics of a quantum experiment in a black box scenario. As such it represents the strongest form of certification for quantum systems. In recent years a considerable self-testing literature has been developed, leading to progress in related device-independent quantum information protocols and deepening our un

Jared Miller, Yang Zheng, Biel Roig-Solvas, Mario Sznaier

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) often arise in relaxations of some NP-hard problems, and if the solution of the SDP obeys certain rank constraints, the relaxation will be tight. Decomposition methods based on chordal sparsity have already been applied to speed up the solution of sparse SDPs, but methods for dealing with rank constraints are underdeveloped. This

James J. Higgins, Michael J. Higgins, Jinguang Lin

Among plausible causes for replicability failure, one that has not received sufficient attention is the environment in which the research is conducted. Consisting of the population, equipment, personnel, and various conditions such as location, time, and weather, the research environment can affect treatments and outcomes, and changes in the research environ

Lluís Galbany, Chris Ashall, Peter Hoeflich, Santiago González-Gaitán

We present a comprehensive dataset of optical and near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of type~Ia supernova (SN) 2016hnk, combined with integral field spectroscopy (IFS) of its host galaxy, MCG -01-06-070, and nearby environment. Properties of the SN local environment are characterized by means of single stellar population synthesis applied to IFS obser

Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Arif Mahmood, Afsheen Rafaqat Ali

Automatic detection of firearms is important for enhancing the security and safety of people, however, it is a challenging task owing to the wide variations in shape, size, and appearance of firearms. Also, most of the generic object detectors process axis-aligned rectangular areas though, a thin and long rifle may actually cover only a small percentage of t

Jonathan Boretsky, Jenna Zomback

We show that a certain tiling property (which directly implies the pointwise ergodic theorem) holds for pmp actions of amenable groups along increasing Tempelman F{\o}lner sequences, thus providing a short and combinatorial proof of the corresponding pointwise ergodic theorem.

James D. Currie, Lucas Mol

For rational $1<r\leq 2$, an undirected $r$-power is a word of the form $xyx&#39;$, where $x$ is nonempty, $x&#39;\in\{x,x^\mathrm{R}\}$, and $|xyx&#39;|/|xy|=r$. The undirected repetition threshold for $k$ letters, denoted $\mathrm{URT}(k)$, is the infimum of the set of all $r$ such that undirected $r$-powers are avoidable on $k$ letters. We first demonstra

Ilya Kapovich, Joseph Maher, Catherine Pfaff, Samuel J. Taylor

We prove that for the harmonic measure associated to a random walk on Out$(F_r)$ satisfying some mild conditions, a typical tree in the boundary of Outer space is trivalent and nongeometric. This answers a question of M. Bestvina.

M. Tress, I. Ferreras, P. G. Pérez-González, A. Bressan

A diverse range of dust attenuation laws is found in star-forming galaxies. In particular, Tress et al. (2018) studied the SHARDS survey to constrain the NUV bump strength (B) and the total-to selective ratio (Rv) of 1,753 star-forming galaxies in the GOODS-N field at 1.5<z<3. We revisit here this sample to assess the implications and possible causes of the

Bryan Brzycki, John ZuHone

The hot intracluster plasma in clusters of galaxies is weakly magnetized. Mergers between clusters produce gas compression and motions which can increase the magnetic field strength. In this work, we perform high-resolution non-radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations of binary galaxy cluster mergers with magnetic fields, to examine the effects of these mo

JPAC Collaboration, C. Fernandez-Ramirez, A. Pilloni, M. Albaladejo

We study the nature of the new signal reported by LHCb in the J/psi p spectrum. Based on the S-matrix principles, we perform a minimum-bias analysis of the underlying reaction amplitude, focusing on the analytic properties that can be related to the microscopic origin of the Pc(4312) peak. By exploring several amplitude parametrizations, we find evidence for

Gary Nash

In a Lorentzian spacetime there exists a smooth regular line element field $(\bm{X},-\bm{X}) $ and a unit vector $ \bm{u} $ collinear with one of the pair of vectors in the line element field. An orthogonal decomposition of symmetric tensors can be constructed in terms of the Lie derivative along $ \bm{X} $ of the metric and a product of the unit vectors; an

Waleed Abdallah, Sandhya Choubey, Sarif Khan

The non-thermal dark matter (DM) production via the so-called freeze-in mechanism provides a simple alternative to the standard thermal WIMP scenario. In this work, we consider a popular $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension of the standard model (SM) in the context of inverse seesaw mechanism which has at least one (fermionic) FIMP DM candidate. Due to the added $\mathbb{

Kuangen Zhang, Ming Hao, Jing Wang, Clarence W. de Silva

Learning on point cloud is eagerly in demand because the point cloud is a common type of geometric data and can aid robots to understand environments robustly. However, the point cloud is sparse, unstructured, and unordered, which cannot be recognized accurately by a traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) nor a recurrent neural network (RNN). Fortuna

Constantia Alexandrou, Simone Bacchio, Martha Constantinou, Dean Howarth

In this work we present preliminary results on the nucleon axial and tensor charges, the quark momentum fraction and the first moment of the helicity distribution. The simulations have been performed using two $N_f{=}2$ and $N_f{=}2{+}1{+}1$ ensembles. Both ensembles have a twisted mass action with a clover term with the quark masses fixed at their physical

Nicolas Bitar, Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (DLA) is a cluster-growth model that consists in a set of particles that are sequentially aggregated over a two-dimensional grid. In this paper, we introduce a biased version of the DLA model, in which particles are limited to move in a subset of possible directions. We denote by $k$-DLA the model where the particles move only i

Maxwell T. Hansen, Agostino Patella

An analytic expression is derived for the leading finite-volume effects arising in lattice QCD calculations of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution to the muon's magnetic moment, $a_\mu^{\text{HVP,LO}} \equiv (g-2)_\mu^{\text{HVP,LO}}/2$. For calculations in a finite spatial volume with periodicity $L$, $a_\mu^{\text{HVP,LO}}(L)$ admits a transserie

Antonio Amariti, Ivan Garozzo, Gabriele Lo Monaco

It has recently been claimed that a Cardy-like limit of the superconformal index of 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM accounts for the entropy function, whose Legendre transform corresponds to the entropy of the holographic dual AdS$_5$ rotating black hole. Here we study this Cardy-like limit for $\mathcal{N}=1$ toric quiver gauge theories, observing that the correspon

René Bødker Christensen, Olav Geil

In this paper, we study the construction of quantum codes by applying Steane-enlargement to codes from the Hermitian curve. We cover Steane-enlargement of both usual one-point Hermitian codes and of order bound improved Hermitian codes. In particular, the paper contains two constructions of quantum codes whose parameters are described by explicit formulae, a

Sven Bollweg, Manuel Haussmann, Gregor Kasieczka, Michel Luchmann

Bayesian neural networks allow us to keep track of uncertainties, for example in top tagging, by learning a tagger output together with an error band. We illustrate the main features of Bayesian versions of established deep-learning taggers. We show how they capture statistical uncertainties from finite training samples, systematics related to the jet energy

Hossein Hosseinabadi, Mehdi Kargarian

The helical electron states on the surface of topological insulators or elemental Bismuth become unstable toward superconducting pairing formation when coupled to the charge or magnetic fluctuations. The latter gives rise to pairing instability in chiral channels $d_{xy}\pm i d_{x^2-y^2}$, as has been observed recently in epitaxial Bi/Ni bilayer system at re

Doron Kushnir, Boaz Katz

Katz & Zingale (2019, KZ19) recently studied a one-dimensional test problem, intended to mimic the process of detonation ignition in head-on collisions of two carbon--oxygen (CO) white dwarfs. They do not obtain ignition of a detonation in pure CO compositions unless the temperature is artificially increased or 5% He is included. In both of these cases they

Ethan O. Nadler, Vera Gluscevic, Kimberly K. Boddy, Risa H. Wechsler

Alternatives to the cold, collisionless dark matter (DM) paradigm in which DM behaves as a collisional fluid generically suppress small-scale structure. Herein we use the observed population of Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies to constrain the collisional nature of DM, focusing on DM-baryon scattering. We first derive analytic upper limits on the velocity-i

Raghunath Ghara, Garrelt Mellema

The resonance scattering of Ly$\alpha$ photons with neutral hydrogen atoms in the intergalactic medium not only couples the spin temperature to the kinetic temperature but also leads to a heating of the gas. We investigate the impact of this heating on the average brightness temperature of the 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn in the context of the claimed d

Jesús Zavala, Mark R. Lovell, Mark Vogelsberger, Jan D. Burger

Milky Way (MW) satellites reside within dark matter (DM) subhalos with a broad distribution of circular velocity profiles. This diversity is enhanced with the inclusion of ultra-faint satellites, which seemingly have very high DM densities, albeit with large systematic uncertainties. We argue that if confirmed, this large diversity in the MW satellite popula

Yudai Suwa, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Ken&#39;ichiro Nakazato, Yasufumi Takahira

Supernova neutrinos are crucially important to probe the final phases of massive star evolution. As is well known from observations of SN1987A, neutrinos provide information on the physical conditions responsible for neutron star formation and on the supernova explosion mechanism. However, there is still no complete understanding of the long-term evolution o

Paul Romatschke

A famous example of gauge/gravity duality is the result that the entropy density of strongly coupled ${\cal N}=4$ SYM in four dimensions for large N is exactly 3/4 of the Stefan-Boltzmann limit. In this work, I revisit the massless O(N) model in 2+1 dimensions, which is analytically solvable at finite temperature $T$ for all couplings $\lambda$ in the large

Joshua Eby, Patrick J. Fox, Roni Harnik, Graham D. Kribs

We study luminous dark matter signals in models with inelastic scattering. Dark matter $χ_1$ that scatters inelastically off elements in the Earth is kicked into an excited state $χ_2$ that can subsequently decay into a monoenergetic photon inside a detector. The photon signal exhibits large sidereal-daily modulation due to the daily rotation of the Earth an

A. E. Cárcamo Hernández, Juan Marchant González, U. J. Saldaña-Salazar

We formulate a viable low-scale seesaw model, where the masses for the standard model (SM) charged fermions lighter than the top quark emerge from a universal seesaw mechanism mediated by charged vectorlike fermions. The small light active neutrino masses are produced from an inverse seesaw mechanism mediated by right-handed Majorana neutrinos. Our model is

Maurice L. Wilson, Jason D. Eastman, Matthew A. Cornachione, Sharon X. Wang

The MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA) is a dedicated observatory of four 0.7m robotic telescopes fiber-fed to a KiwiSpec spectrograph. The MINERVA mission is to discover super-Earths in the habitable zones of nearby stars. This can be accomplished with MINERVA&#39;s unique combination of high precision and high cadence over long time period

Claude Duhr, Falko Dulat, Bernhard Mistlberger

We present the inclusive cross section at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in perturbative QCD for the production of a Higgs boson via bottom-quark fusion. We employ the five-flavour scheme, treating the bottom quark as a massless parton while retaining a non-vanishing Yukawa coupling to the Higgs boson. We find that the dependence of the hadr

Markus Michael Rau, Simon Wilson, Rachel Mandelbaum

This work uses hierarchical logistic Gaussian processes to infer true redshift distributions of samples of galaxies, through their cross-correlations with spatially overlapping spectroscopic samples. We demonstrate that this method can accurately estimate these redshift distributions in a fully Bayesian manner jointly with galaxy-dark matter bias models. We

Ali Maalaoui

In this paper we study the problem of prescribing the $\bar Q^{\prime}$-curvature on pseudo-Einstein CR 3-manifolds. In the first stage we study the problem in the compact setting and we show that under natural assumptions, one can prescribe any positive CR pluriharmonic function. In the second stage we study the problem in the non-compact setting of the Hei

Alex Buchel

de Sitter vacuum of nonconformal gauge theories is non-equilibrium, manifested by a nonvanishing rate of the comoving entropy production at asymptotically late times. This entropy production rate is related to the entanglement entropy of the de Sitter vacuum of the theory. We use holographic correspondence to compute vacuum entanglement entropy density $s_{e

Clark Barwick, Peter Haine

Pyknotic objects are (hyper)sheaves on the site of compacta. These provide a convenient way to do algebra and homotopy theory with additional topological information present. This appears, for example, when trying to contemplate the derived category of a local field. In this article, we present the basic theory of pyknotic objects, with a view to describing

Richard C. Brower, Anna Hasenfratz, Ethan T. Neil, Simon Catterall

This document is one of a series of whitepapers from the USQCD collaboration. Here, we discuss opportunities for lattice field theory research to make an impact on models of new physics beyond the Standard Model, including composite Higgs, composite dark matter, and supersymmetric theories.

F. R. Klinkhamer, Z. L. Wang

We investigate a particular type of classical nonsingular bouncing cosmology, which results from general relativity if we allow for degenerate metrics. The simplest model has a matter content with a constant equation-of-state parameter and we get the modified Hubble diagrams for both the luminosity distance and the angular diameter distance. Based on these r

Shima Sadat Mousavi, Mohammad Haeri, Mehran Mesbahi

This paper investigates the robustness of strong structural controllability for linear time-invariant and linear time-varying directed networks with respect to structural perturbations, including edge deletions and additions. In this direction, we introduce a new construct referred to as a perfect graph associated with a network with a given set of control n

Greg Anderson, Shankara Pailoor, Isil Dillig, Swarat Chaudhuri

In recent years, the notion of local robustness (or robustness for short) has emerged as a desirable property of deep neural networks. Intuitively, robustness means that small perturbations to an input do not cause the network to perform misclassifications. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for verifying robustness properties of neural networks. Ou

Pablo Marin-Palomo, Juned N. Kemal, Philipp Trocha, Stefan Wolf

Chip-scale frequency comb generators have the potential to become key building blocks of compact wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transceivers in future metropolitan or campus-area networks. Among the various comb generator concepts, quantum-dash (QD) mode-locked laser diodes (MLLD) stand out as a particularly promising option, combining small footprin

Nader H. Bshouty

We give improved and almost optimal testers for several classes of Boolean functions on $n$ inputs that have concise representation in the uniform and distribution-free model. Classes, such as $k$-junta, $k$-linear functions, $s$-term DNF, $s$-term monotone DNF, $r$-DNF, decision list, $r$-decision list, size-$s$ decision tree, size-$s$ Boolean formula, size

Björn Garbrecht, Philipp Klose, Carlos Tamarit

For leptogenesis with heavy sterile neutrinos above the electroweak scale, asymmetries produced at early times (in the relativistic regime) are relevant, if they are protected from washout. This can occur for weak washout or when the asymmetry is partly protected by being transferred to spectator fields. We thus study the relevance of relativistic effects fo

Suvodeep Majumder, Joymallya Chakraborty, Amritanshu Agrawal, Tim Menzies

Prior literature has suggested that in many projects 80\% or more of the contributions are made by a small called group of around 20% of the development team. Most prior studies deprecate a reliance on such a small inner group of "heroes", arguing that it causes bottlenecks in development and communication. Despite this, such projects are very common in open

Bernard Host

We give a short proof of a sumset conjecture of Erd\"os, recently proved by Moreira, Richter and Robertson: every subset of the integers of positive density contains the sum of two infinite sets. The proof is written in the framework of classical ergodic theory.

Nicholas Turner, Kisuk Lee, Ran Lu, Jingpeng Wu

Connectomics aims to recover a complete set of synaptic connections within a dataset imaged by volume electron microscopy. Many systems have been proposed for locating synapses, and recent research has included a way to identify the synaptic partners that communicate at a synaptic cleft. We re-frame the problem of identifying synaptic partners as directly ge

Yang Hu, Guihua Wen, Mingnan Luo, Dan Dai

Despite the tremendous success in computer vision, deep convolutional networks suffer from serious computation costs and redundancies. Although previous works address this issue by enhancing diversities of filters, they have not considered the complementarity and the completeness of the internal structure of the convolutional network. To deal with these prob

Sreemanti Chakraborti, Victoria Martin, Poulose Poulose

We present a novel framework capable of addressing the dark matter problem through freeze-in and freeze-out mechanisms, separately or together, depending on the region of the parameter space considered. In the dark matter dynamics, the model features an interplay of thermal production along with sizeable contribution through feeble decay of associated dark f

Shouxin Chen, Yisong Yang

In this note an analytic integration is obtained for the differential equation governing the scalar-field-dependent mass in a hairy binary black hole model, in the context of the Einstein--Maxwell--dilation theory, which gives a closed-form formula-level description of the mass function. We also identify a particular solution which attracts all solutions of

Sumegha Garg, Michael P. Kim, Omer Reingold

As algorithmic prediction systems have become widespread, fears that these systems may inadvertently discriminate against members of underrepresented populations have grown. With the goal of understanding fundamental principles that underpin the growing number of approaches to mitigating algorithmic discrimination, we investigate the role of information in f

Utuq Ablikim, Cédric Bomme, Timur Osipov, Hui Xiong

We report on the design and performance of a double-sided coincidence velocity map imaging spectrometer optimized for electron-ion and ion-ion coincidence experiments studying inner-shell photoionization of gas-phase molecules with soft X-ray synchrotron radiation. The apparatus employs two microchannel plate detectors equipped with delay-line anodes for coi

Xian-Lei Sheng, Cong Chen, Huiying Liu, Ziyu Chen

A second-order topological insulator (SOTI) in $d$ spatial dimensions features topologically protected gapless states at its $(d-2)$-dimensional boundary at the intersection of two crystal faces, but is gapped otherwise. As a novel topological state, it has been attracting great interest, but it remains a challenge to identify a realistic SOTI material in tw

Meera Hahn, Asim Kadav, James M. Rehg, Hans Peter Graf

Localizing moments in untrimmed videos via language queries is a new and interesting task that requires the ability to accurately ground language into video. Previous works have approached this task by processing the entire video, often more than once, to localize relevant activities. In the real world applications of this approach, such as video surveillanc

Tom Ichibha, Kenta Hongo, Ryo Maezono, Alex J. W. Thom

In quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, energy estimators are calculated as the statistical average of the Markov chain sampling of energy estimator along with an associated statistical error. This error estimation is not straightforward and there are several choices of the error estimation methods. We evaluate the performance of three methods, Straatsma, an a

M. Novak, S. N. Zhang, F. Orbanic, N. Biliskov

We instigate the angle-dependent magnetoresistance (AMR) of the layered nodal-line Dirac semimetal ZrSiS for the in-plane and out-of-plane current directions. This material has recently revealed an intriguing butterfly-shaped in-plane AMR that is not well understood. Our measurements of the polar out-of-plane AMR show a surprisingly different response with a

Rui Chen, Chui-Zhen Chen, Jin-Hua Gao, Bin Zhou

Current understanding of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) is based primarily on crystalline materials. Here, we propose that HOTIs can be realized in quasicrystals. Specifically, we show that two distinct types of second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) can be constructed on the quasicrystalline lattices (QLs) with different tiling patterns. O

Andreas S. Kronfeld, David G. Richards, William Detmold, Rajan Gupta

This document is one of a series of whitepapers from the USQCD collaboration. Here, we discuss opportunities for lattice QCD in neutrino-oscillation physics, which inevitably entails nucleon and nuclear structure. In addition to discussing pertinent lattice-QCD calculations of nucleon and nuclear matrix elements, the interplay with models of nuclei is discus

Jie Han, Patrick Morris, Andrew Treglown

A perfect $K_r$-tiling in a graph $G$ is a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $K_r$ that together cover all the vertices in $G$. In this paper we consider perfect $K_r$-tilings in the setting of randomly perturbed graphs; a model introduced by Bohman, Frieze and Martin where one starts with a dense graph and then adds $m$ random edges to it. Specificall

Jing Guo, Guangyu Sun, Bowen Zhao, Ling Wang

We report heat capacity measurements of SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ under high pressure along with simulations of relevant quantum spin models and map out the $(P,T)$ phase diagram of the material. We find a first-order quantum phase transition between the low-pressure quantum dimer paramagnet and a phase with signatures of a plaquette-singlet state below T = $2$ K

Irwan Bello, Barret Zoph, Ashish Vaswani, Jonathon Shlens

Convolutional networks have been the paradigm of choice in many computer vision applications. The convolution operation however has a significant weakness in that it only operates on a local neighborhood, thus missing global information. Self-attention, on the other hand, has emerged as a recent advance to capture long range interactions, but has mostly been

Zhimeng Jiang, Chen Gong, Guanchu Wang, Zhengyuan Xu

We first investigate two-user nonasymmetric sum-rate Poisson capacity with non-perfect photoncounting receiver under certain condition and demonstrate three possible transmission strategy, including only one active user and both active users, in sharp contrast to Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC) channel. The two-user capacity reduction due to photon-co

Ilkka Helenius, John Lajoie, Joseph D. Osborn, Petja Paakkinen

We explore the possibility of measuring nuclear gluon distributions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) with $\sqrt{s}=200 \, {\rm GeV}$ proton-nucleus collisions. In addition to measurements at central rapidity, we consider also observables at forward rapidity, consistent with proposed upgrades to the experimental capabilities of STAR and sPHENIX.

N. Gavrielov, A. Leviatan, F. Iachello

We explore the situation of intertwined quantum phase transitions (IQPTs), for which a QPT involving a crossing of two configurations is accompanied by a shape evolution of each configuration with its own separate QPT. We demonstrate the relevance of IQPTs to the Zr isotopes, with such coexisting Type I and Type II QPTs, and ground state shapes changing from

Koen Groenland, Carla Groenland, Reinier Kramer

Adiabatic passage techniques, used to drive a system from one quantum state into another, find widespread application in physics and chemistry. We focus on techniques to spatially transport a quantum amplitude over a strongly coupled system, such as STImulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP) and Coherent Tunnelling by Adiabatic Passage (CTAP). Previous resu

K. Azizi, S. S. Agaev, H. Sundu

It is conventionally argued that Dark Matter (DM) has a non-baryonic nature, but if we assume that DM was frozen out before primordial nucleosynthesis and could not significantly impact primordial abundances this argument may be evaded. Then a hypothetical $SU(3)$ flavor-singlet, highly symmetric, deeply bound neutral scalar hexaquark $\mathrm{S}=uuddss$, wh