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  1. Xiaofei Wang, Jinyi Yang, Ruizhi Li, Samik Sadhu

    Quality of data plays an important role in most deep learning tasks. In the speech community, transcription of speech recording is indispensable. Since the transcription is usually generated artificially, automatically finding errors in manual transcriptions not only saves time and labors but benefits the performance of tasks that need the training process.

  2. Marco Rovera, Federico Nanni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

    The progressive digitization of historical archives provides new, often domain specific, textual resources that report on facts and events which have happened in the past; among these, memoirs are a very common type of primary source. In this paper, we present an approach for extracting information from Italian historical war memoirs and turning it into stru

  3. Bruno Korbar, Du Tran, Lorenzo Torresani

    While many action recognition datasets consist of collections of brief, trimmed videos each containing a relevant action, videos in the real-world (e.g., on YouTube) exhibit very different properties: they are often several minutes long, where brief relevant clips are often interleaved with segments of extended duration containing little change. Applying den

  4. Jeff Achter

    Several natural complex configuration spaces admit surprising uniformizations as arithmetic ball quotients, by identifying each parametrized object with the periods of some auxiliary object. In each case, the theory of canonical models of Shimura varieties gives the ball quotient the structure of a variety over the ring of integers of a cyclotomic field. We

  5. L. Moore, H. Melin, J. O'Donoghue, T. Stallard

    Since its discovery in the aurorae of Jupiter ~30 years ago, the H$_{3}^{+}$ ion has served as an invaluable probe of giant planet upper atmospheres. However, the vast majority of monitoring of planetary H$_{3}^{+}$ radiation has followed from observations that rely on deriving parameters from column-integrated paths through the emitting layer. Here, we inve

  6. Yuejie Chi, Maxime Ferreira Da Costa

    Convex optimization recently emerges as a compelling framework for performing super resolution, garnering significant attention from multiple communities spanning signal processing, applied mathematics, and optimization. This article offers a friendly exposition to atomic norm minimization as a canonical convex approach to solve super resolution problems. Th

  7. Jerome P. Gauntlett, Dario Martelli, James Sparks

    We consider $d=3$, $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories arising on membranes sitting at the apex of an arbitrary toric Calabi-Yau 4-fold cone singularity that are then further compactified on a Riemann surface, $Σ_g$, with a topological twist that preserves two supersymmetries. If the theories flow to a superconformal quantum mechanics in the infrared, then they h

  8. Lin Liu, Rajarshi Mukherjee, James M. Robins

    For many causal effect parameters of interest, doubly robust machine learning (DRML) estimators $\hatψ_{1}$ are the state-of-the-art, incorporating the good prediction performance of machine learning; the decreased bias of doubly robust estimators; and the analytic tractability and bias reduction of sample splitting with cross fitting. Nonetheless, even in t

  9. Shehtab Zaman, Wei-Cheng Lee

    We demonstrate that with appropriate quantum correlation function, a real-space network model can be constructed to study the phase transitions in quantum systems. For the three-dimensional bosonic system, the single-particle density matrix is adopted to construct the adjacency matrix. We show that the Bose-Einstein condensate transition can be interpreted a

  10. S. Gurung-Lopez, Alvaro A. Orsi, Silvia Bonoli, Nelson Padilla

    In the near future galaxy surveys will target Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) to unveil the nature of the dark energy. It has been suggested that the observability of LAEs is coupled to the large scale properties of the intergalactic medium. Such coupling could introduce distortions into the observed clustering of LAEs, adding a new potential difficulty

  11. Matthias Niedermaier, Thomas Hanka, Sven Plaga, Alexander von Bodisco

    Owing to a growing number of attacks, the assessment of Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) has gained in importance. An integral part of an assessment is the creation of a detailed inventory of all connected devices, enabling vulnerability evaluations. For this purpose, scans of networks are crucial. Active scanning, which generates irregular traffic, is a me

  12. Animesh Panda, Sumilan Banerjee

    We model a one-dimensional (1D) current-driven interacting disordered system through a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with asymmetric hopping and study the entanglement properties of its eigenstates. In particular, we investigate whether a many-body localizable system undergoes a transition to a current-carrying non-equilibrium steady state under the drive and ho

  13. Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Alberto Zaffaroni

    The entropy of a class of asymptotically AdS$_4$ magnetically charged BPS black holes can be obtained by extremizing the topologically twisted index of the dual three-dimensional field theory. This principle is known as $\mathcal{I}$-extremization. A gravitational dual of $\mathcal{I}$-extremization for a class of theories obtained by twisted compactificatio

  14. David Müller

    The Glasma is a gluonic state of matter which can be created in collisions of relativistic heavy ions and is a precursor to the quark-gluon plasma. The existence of this state is a prediction of the color glass condensate (CGC) effective theory. In many applications of the CGC framework, the boost invariant approximation is employed. It assumes that the long

  15. Pablo Sala, Tibor Rakovszky, Ruben Verresen, Michael Knap

    We show that the combination of charge and dipole conservation---characteristic of fracton systems---leads to an extensive fragmentation of the Hilbert space, which in turn can lead to a breakdown of thermalization. As a concrete example, we investigate the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional spin-1 models that conserve charge (total $S^z$) and it

  16. Federico Capone, Marika Taylor

    Superrotations of asymptotically flat spacetimes in four dimensions can be interpreted in terms of including cosmic strings within the phase space of allowed solutions. In this paper we explore the implications of the inclusion of cosmic branes on the asymptotic structure of vacuum spacetimes in dimension d > 4. We first show that only cosmic (d-3)-branes ar

  17. Peter Arnold

    Consider a high-energy parton showering as it traverses a QCD medium such as a quark-gluon plasma. Interference effects between successive splittings in the shower are potentially very important but have so far been calculated (even in idealized theoretical situations) only in soft emission or large-$N_{\rm c}$ limits, where $N_{\rm c}$ is the number of quar

  18. Mudit Jain, Mark P. Hertzberg

    We compute the distribution of sizes of inflating and non-inflating regions in an eternally inflating Universe. As a first illustrative problem, we study a simple scenario of an eternally inflating Universe in the presence of a massless scalar field $φ$ whose field values lie within some finite domain $φ\in(-φ_{cr},φ_{cr})$, with $\pmφ_{cr}$ marking the onse

  19. Jacob Svensmark, Steen H. Hansen, Davide Martizzi, Ben Moore

    Dark matter dominates the properties of large cosmological structures such as galaxy clusters, and the mass profiles of the dark matter have been measured for these equilibrated structures for years using X-rays, lensing or galaxy velocities. A new method has been proposed, which should allow us to estimate a dynamical property of the dark matter, namely the

  20. Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes, Ignazio Scimemi, Wouter J. Waalewijn, Lorenzo Zoppi

    The extraction of transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) is complicated by the presence of both initial- and final-state nonperturbative physics. We recently proposed measuring jets (instead of hadrons) as a solution, showing that for the Winner-Take-All jet axis the same factorization formulae

  21. Steven B. Giddings, Seth Koren, Gabriel Treviño

    Two new observational windows have been opened to strong gravitational physics: gravitational waves, and very long baseline interferometry. This suggests observational searches for new phenomena in this regime, and in particular for those necessary to make black hole evolution consistent with quantum mechanics. We describe possible features of "compact q

  22. Christopher T. Hill, Pedro A. N. Machado, Anders E. Thomsen, Jessica Turner

    Simple symmetry arguments applied to the third generation lead to a prediction: there exist new sequential Higgs doublets with masses of order $\lesssim 5 $ TeV, with approximately universal Higgs-Yukawa coupling constants, $g\sim 1$. This is calibrated by the known Higgs boson mass, the top quark Higgs-Yukawa coupling, and the $b$-quark mass. A new massive

  23. Wei-Yu Chen, Yen-Cheng Liu, Zsolt Kira, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

    Few-shot classification aims to learn a classifier to recognize unseen classes during training with limited labeled examples. While significant progress has been made, the growing complexity of network designs, meta-learning algorithms, and differences in implementation details make a fair comparison difficult. In this paper, we present 1) a consistent compa

  24. M. A. Anacleto, F. A. Brito, C. V. Garcia, G. C. Luna

    In this paper we explore the effect of the generalized uncertainty principle and modified dispersion relation to compute Hawking radiation from a rotating acoustic black hole in the tunneling formalism by using the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation applied to the Hamilton-Jacobi method. The starting point is to consider the planar acoustic black

  25. Dominik Kempa, Tomasz Kociumaka

    Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) is an invertible text transformation that, given a text $T$ of length $n$, permutes its symbols according to the lexicographic order of suffixes of $T$. BWT is one of the most heavily studied algorithms in data compression with numerous applications in indexing, sequence analysis, and bioinformatics. Its construction is a bott

  26. Kohta Murase, Shigeo S. Kimura, Peter Meszaros

    Mysteries about the origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos have deepened by the recent IceCube measurement of a large diffuse flux in the 10-100 TeV range. Based on the standard disk-corona picture of active galactic nuclei (AGN), we present a phenomenological model enabling us to systematically calculate the spectral sequence of multimessenger emission from

  27. Mateus A. Cavaliere, Sergio Granville, Gerson C. Oliveira, Mario V. F. Pereira

    This work presents a methodology for forward electricity contract price projection based on market equilibrium and social welfare optimization. In the methodology supply and demand for forward contracts are produced in such a way that each agent (generator/load/trader) optimizes a risk adjusted expected value of its revenue/cost. When uncertainties are repre

  28. Nathan Bucki, Mark W. Mueller

    We present a continuous-time collision detection algorithm for quickly detecting whether certain polynomial trajectories in time intersect with convex obstacles. The algorithm is used in conjunction with an existing multicopter trajectory generation method to achieve rapid, obstacle-aware motion planning in environments with both static convex obstacles and

  29. Simón Díaz-García, Sergio Díaz-Suárez, Johan H. Knapen, Heikki Salo

    We study the frequency and dimensions of inner and outer rings in the local Universe as a function of disk parameters and the amplitude of non-axisymmetries. We use the 1320 not-highly inclined disk galaxies ($i<65^{\circ}$) from the S$^4$G survey. The ring fraction increases with bar Fourier density amplitude: this can be interpreted as evidence for the rol

  30. Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

    In this paper we propose a novel environmental sound classification approach incorporating unsupervised feature learning from codebook via spherical $K$-Means++ algorithm and a new architecture for high-level data augmentation. The audio signal is transformed into a 2D representation using a discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The DWT spectrograms are then aug

  31. Elias R. Most, L. Jens Papenfort, Antonios Tsokaros, Luciano Rezzolla

    Following the detection of GW170817 and the accompanying kilonova AT2017gfo, it has become crucial to model and understand the various channels through which mass is ejected in neutron-star binary mergers. We discuss the impact that high stellar spins prior to merger have on the ejection of mass focussing, in particular, on the dynamically ejected mass by pe

  32. Kamal Khuri-Makdisi, Winfried Kohnen, Wissam Raji

    We determine a formula for the average values of L-series associated to eigenforms at complex values.

  33. Sk. Miraj Ahmed, Niladri Ranjan Das, Kunal Narayan Chaudhury

    Consider the problem of registering multiple point sets in some $d$-dimensional space using rotations and translations. Assume that there are sets with common points, and moreover the pairwise correspondences are known for such sets. We consider a least-squares formulation of this problem, where the variables are the transforms associated with the point sets

  34. Daniel Czarnowske, Amrei Stammann

    Empirical economists are often deterred from the application of fixed effects binary choice models mainly for two reasons: the incidental parameter problem and the computational challenge even in moderately large panels. Using the example of binary choice models with individual and time fixed effects, we show how both issues can be alleviated by combining as

  35. Lukas Exl, Norbert J. Mauser, Thomas Schrefl, Dieter Suess

    We establish a time-stepping learning algorithm and apply it to predict the solution of the partial differential equation of motion in micromagnetism as a dynamical system depending on the external field as parameter. The data-driven approach is based on nonlinear model order reduction by use of kernel methods for unsupervised learning, yielding a predictor

  36. Kouichi Taira

    In this note, we study existence of the outgoing/incoming resolvents of repulsive Schr\"odinger operators which may not be essentially self-adjoint on the Schwartz space. Moreover, we recover the classical result: The repulsive Schro\"odinger operators with large repulsive constant is not essentially self-adjoint on the Schwartz space.

  37. Xujia Chen, Aleksey Zinger

    The first author's previous work established Solomon's WDVV-type relations for Welschinger's invariant curve counts in real symplectic fourfolds by lifting geometric relations over possibly unorientable morphisms. We apply her framework to obtain WDVV-style relations for the disk invariants of real symplectic sixfolds with some symmetry, in particular confir

  38. S. Wettermann, M. Brems, J. T. Siebert, G. T. Vu

    We present a minimal computational model, which allows very fast, on-the-fly construction of three dimensional haploid interphase genomes from single cell Hi-C contact maps using the HOOMD-blue molecular dynamics package on graphics processing units. Chromosomes are represented by a string of connected beads, each of which corresponds to 100,000 base pairs,

  39. Hoel Kervadec, Jose Dolz, Jing Yuan, Christian Desrosiers

    This study investigates imposing hard inequality constraints on the outputs of convolutional neural networks (CNN) during training. Several recent works showed that the theoretical and practical advantages of Lagrangian optimization over simple penalties do not materialize in practice when dealing with modern CNNs involving millions of parameters. Therefore,

  40. Valerie Livina, Adam Lewis, Martin Wickham

    We apply tipping point analysis to measurements of electronic components commonly used in applications in the automotive or aviation industries and demonstrate early warning signals based on scaling properties of resistance time series. The analysis utilises the statistical physics framework with stochastic modelling by representing the measured time series

  41. F. Ay, G. İnce, M. E. Kamaşak, K. Y. Ekşi

    Young isolated neutron stars (INS) most commonly manifest themselves as rotationally powered pulsars (RPPs) which involve conventional radio pulsars as well as gamma-ray pulsars (GRPs) and rotating radio transients (RRATs). Some other young INS families manifest themselves as anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) which are common

  42. Barry M. Dillon, Darius A. Faroughy, Jernej F. Kamenik

    We apply techniques from Bayesian generative statistical modeling to uncover hidden features in jet substructure observables that discriminate between different a priori unknown underlying short distance physical processes in multi-jet events. In particular, we use a mixed membership model known as Latent Dirichlet Allocation to build a data-driven unsupervi

  43. Luka Leskovec, Stefan Meinel, Martin Pflaumer, Marc Wagner

    We use lattice QCD to investigate the spectrum of the $\bar{b} \bar{b} u d$ four-quark system with quantum numbers $I(J^P) = 0(1^+)$. We use five different gauge-link ensembles with $2+1$ flavors of domain-wall fermions, including one at the physical pion mass, and treat the heavy $\bar{b}$ quark within the framework of lattice nonrelativistic QCD. Our work

  44. Seungryul Baek, Kwang In Kim, Tae-Kyun Kim

    Estimating 3D hand meshes from single RGB images is challenging, due to intrinsic 2D-3D mapping ambiguities and limited training data. We adopt a compact parametric 3D hand model that represents deformable and articulated hand meshes. To achieve the model fitting to RGB images, we investigate and contribute in three ways: 1) Neural rendering: inspired by rec

  45. Janusz Gwoździewicz, Beata Hejmej, Bernd Schober

    Let $ R $ be a regular local ring with maximal ideal $ \mathfrak{m} $. We consider elements $ f \in R $ such that their Newton polyhedron has a loose edge. We show that if the symbolic restriction of $f$ to such an edge is a product of two coprime polynomials, then $f$ factorizes in the $ \mathfrak{m} $-adic completion.

  46. CMS Collaboration

    A search for new massive particles decaying into a pair of Higgs bosons in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented. Data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. The search is performed for resonances with a mass between 0.8 and 3.5 TeV using events in whi

  47. Vamseedhar Reddyvari Raja, Parimal Parag, Srinivas Shakkottai

    The ability of a P2P network to scale its throughput up in proportion to the arrival rate of peers has recently been shown to be crucially dependent on the chunk sharing policy employed. Some policies can result in low frequencies of a particular chunk, known as the missing chunk syndrome, which can dramatically reduce throughput and lead to instability of t

  48. Victoria Gitman, Joel David Hamkins, Asaf Karagila

    We show that Kelley-Morse set theory does not prove the class Fodor principle, the assertion that every regressive class function $F:S\to\text{Ord}$ defined on a stationary class $S$ is constant on a stationary subclass. Indeed, it is relatively consistent with KM for any infinite $λ$ with $ω\leqλ\leq\text{Ord}$ that there is a class function $F:\text{Ord}\t

  49. Lucca Hirschi

    Quantum protocols such as the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution protocol exchange qubits to achieve information-theoretic security guarantees. Many variants thereof were proposed, some of them being already deployed. Existing security proofs in that field are mostly tedious, error-prone pen-and-paper proofs of the core protocol only that rarely account for other

  50. Sanjay Kumar, Rakhi Tiwari

    The present paper gives an interaction of electromagnetic waves with a smooth convex tri-angular obstacle and its adjacent wedge regions. We attempt to find the power of groove fields under Dirichlet conditions associated with axisymmetric electromagnetic field. A field intensity may be expressed in terms of a damped wave with a space attenuation depending o

  51. Stefan Rex, Igor V. Gornyi, Alexander D. Mirlin

    We consider a superconducting film exchange-coupled to a close-by chiral magnetic layer and study how magnetic skyrmions can induce the formation of Majorana bound states (MBS) in the superconductor. Inspired by a proposal by Yang et al. [Phys. Rev. B 93, 224505 (2016)], which suggested MBS in skyrmions of even winding number, we explore whether such skyrmio

  52. Julio Backhoff-Veraguas, Gudmund Pammer

    Under mild regularity assumptions, the transport problem is stable in the following sense: if a sequence of optimal transport plans $π_1, π_2, \ldots$ converges weakly to a transport plan $π$, then $π$ is also optimal (between its marginals). Alfonsi, Corbetta and Jourdain asked whether the same property is true for the martingale transport problem. This que

  53. Fadi Biadsy, Ron J. Weiss, Pedro J. Moreno, Dimitri Kanevsky

    We describe Parrotron, an end-to-end-trained speech-to-speech conversion model that maps an input spectrogram directly to another spectrogram, without utilizing any intermediate discrete representation. The network is composed of an encoder, spectrogram and phoneme decoders, followed by a vocoder to synthesize a time-domain waveform. We demonstrate that this

  54. Yu Wu, Lu Jiang, Yi Yang

    In Embodied Question Answering (EmbodiedQA), an agent interacts with an environment to gather necessary information for answering user questions. Existing works have laid a solid foundation towards solving this interesting problem. But the current performance, especially in navigation, suggests that EmbodiedQA might be too challenging for the contemporary ap

  55. Tianjing Guo, Christos Argyropoulos

    Black phosphorus (BP), a relative new plasmonic two-dimensional (2D) material, offers unique photonic and electronic properties. In this work, we propose a new tunable and broadband ultrathin coherent perfect absorber (CPA) device operating in the terahertz (THz) frequency range. It is based on a bifacial metasurface made of BP patch periodic arrays separate

  56. Sambhu N. Datta

    An electrodynamical coupled cluster (CC) methodology starting from a covariant formalism and an equal time approximation, and finally based on the Dirac-Fock picture of the electron and positron fields and Coulomb gauge, is given here. The formalism first leads to different physical interactions from the use of an exponential cluster operator for radiative e

  57. Zbigniew J. Jurek

    For the selfdecomposable distributions (random variables) we identified background driving probability distributions in their random integral representations. For log-gamma and their background driving random variables series representations are found.

  58. Philippe Gaucher

    We construct a q-model structure, a h-model structure and a m-model structure on multipointed $d$-spaces and on flows. The two q-model structures are combinatorial and coincide with the combinatorial model structures already known on these categories. The four other model structures (the two m-model structures and the two h-model structures) are accessible.

  59. N. M. Ivochkina, N. V. Filimonenkova

    The paper introduces a new differential-geometric system which originates from the theory of $m$-Hessian operators. The core of this system is a new notion of invariant differentiation on multidimensional surfaces. This novelty gives rise to the following absolute geometric invariants: invariant derivatives of the surface position vector, an invariant connec

  60. Zenghu Li, Etienne Pardoux, Anton Wakolbinger

    For a generalized continuous state branching process with non-vanishing diffusion part, finite expectation and a directed (&#34;left-to-right&#34;) interaction, we construct the height process of its forest of genealogical trees. The connection between this height process and the population size process is given by an extension of the second Ray--Knight theo

  61. Caoxiang Zhu, David A. Gates, Stuart R. Hudson, Haifeng Liu

    Error fields are predominantly attributed to inevitable coil imperfections. Controlling error fields during coil fabrication and assembly is crucial for stellarators. Excessively tight coil tolerance increases time and cost, and, in part, led to the cancellation of NCSX and delay of W7-X. In this paper, we improve the recently proposed Hessian matrix method

  62. Rocio Isabel Paez, Massimiliano Guzzo

    The dynamics near the Lagrange equilibria $L_1$ and $L_2$ of the Circular Restricted Three-body Problem has gained attention in the last decades due to its relevance in some topics such as the temporary captures of comets and asteroids and the design of trajectories for space missions. In this paper we investigate the temporary captures using the tube manifo

  63. Nicholas M. Boffi, Chris H. Rycroft

    Molecular dynamics simulations frequently employ periodic boundary conditions where the positions of the periodic images are manipulated in order to apply deformation to the material sample. For example, Lees-Edwards conditions use moving periodic images to apply simple shear. Here, we examine the problem of precisely comparing this type of simulation to con

  64. J. W. Moffat, V. T. Toth

    We present calculations for the anticipated shadow sizes of Sgr A* and the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 in the context of the MOG modified theory of gravity (also known as Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity, or STVG). We demonstrate that mass estimates derived from stellar and gas dynamics in the vicinity of these black holes are the Newtonian masses

  65. Yi-Bo Yang

    In this contribution, I summarized the recent Lattice QCD consensuses on the quark helicity, plus the investigations on the gluon helicity and orbital angular momenta. The preliminary non-perturbative normalized and renormalized Ji quark and gluon angular momentum results are also reported and compared with the previous 1-loop perturbative renormalized resul

  66. M. Perrier, Z. Amodjee, P. Dussarrat, A. Dareau

    We measure the population distribution in one of the atomic twin beams generated by four-wave mixing in an optical lattice. Although the produced two-mode squeezed vacuum state is pure, each individual mode is described as a statistical mixture. We confirm the prediction that the particle number follows an exponential distribution when only one spatio-tempor

  67. Zohreh Fathi, Sajjad Lakzian

    We introduce a notion of doubly warped product of weighted graphs that is consistent with the doubly warped product in the Riemannian setting. We establish various discrete Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature-dimension bounds for such warped products in terms of the curvature of the constituent graphs. This requires deliberate analysis of the quadratic forms invol

  68. Andrei G. Vladimirov, Anton V. Kovalev, Evgeny A. Viktorov, Natalia Rebrova

    Using a delay differential equation model we study theoretically the dynamics of a unidirectional class-A ring laser with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror. We perform linear stability analysis of the CW regimes in the large delay limit and demonstrate that these regimes can be destabilized via modulational and Turing-type instabilities, as well as by an in

  69. Asaf Noy, Niv Nayman, Tal Ridnik, Nadav Zamir

    Automatic methods for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have been shown to produce state-of-the-art network models. Yet, their main drawback is the computational complexity of the search process. As some primal methods optimized over a discrete search space, thousands of days of GPU were required for convergence. A recent approach is based on constructing a d

  70. O. Sikora, J. Kalt, M. Sternik, A. Ptok

    The structure and dynamical properties of the Fe$_3$Si/GaAs(001) interface are investigated by density functional theory and nuclear inelastic scattering measurements. The stability of four different atomic configurations of the Fe$_3$Si/GaAs multilayers is analyzed by calculating the formation energies and phonon dispersion curves. The differences in charge

  71. Riccardo Barbieri, Robert Ziegler

    A properly defined and suitably broken $U(2)$ flavour symmetry leads to successful quantitative relations between quark mass ratios and CKM angles. At the same time the intrinsic distinction introduced by $U(2)$ between the third and the first two families of quarks and leptons may support anomalies in charged and neutral current semi-leptonic $B$-decays of

  72. Tan Van Vu, Yoshihiko Hasegawa

    Here, we investigate the uncertainty of dynamical observables in classical systems manipulated by repeated measurements and feedback control; the precision should be enhanced in the presence of an external controller but limited by the amount of information obtained from the measurements. We prove that the entropy production and the information quantity cons

  73. Soo-Min Choi, Hyun Min Lee, Yann Mambrini, Mathias Pierre

    We consider a novel scenario for Vector Strongly Interacting Massive Particle (VSIMP) dark matter with local $SU(2)_X\times U(1)_{Z&#39;}$ symmetry in the dark sector. Similarly to the Standard Model, after the dark symmetry is broken spontaneously by the VEVs of dark Higgs fields, the approximate custodial symmetry determines comparable but split masses for

  74. Takayuki Kihara, Keng Meng Ng, Arno Pauly

    The enumeration degrees of sets of natural numbers can be identified with the degrees of difficulty of enumerating neighborhood bases of points in a universal second-countable $T_0$-space (e.g. the $ω$-power of the Sierpiński space). Hence, every represented second-countable $T_0$-space determines a collection of enumeration degrees. For instance, Cantor spa

  75. Alex J. Brown, Igor Snapkov, Rahmad Akbar, Milena Pavlović

    The adaptive immune system is a natural diagnostic and therapeutic. It recognizes threats earlier than clinical symptoms manifest and neutralizes antigen with exquisite specificity. Recognition specificity and broad reactivity is enabled via adaptive B- and T-cell receptors: the immune receptor repertoire. The human immune system, however, is not omnipotent.

  76. Faizuddin Ahmed

    In this work, a four-dimensional cylindrical symmetric and non-static or static space-times in the backgrounds of anti-de Sitter (AdS) space with perfect stiff fluid, anisotropic fluid and electromagnetic field as the stress-energy tensor, is presented. For suitable parameter conditions in the metric function, the solution represents non-static or static non

  77. Jonathan Gratus, Paul Kinsler, Martin W. McCall

    A careful examination of the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory shows that due to the underlying mathematical assumptions required for Stokes' Theorem, global charge conservation cannot be guaranteed in topologically non-trivial spacetimes. However, in order to break the charge conservation mechanism we must also allow the electromagnetic excitation fiel

  78. Ali Momeni, Mahdi Safari, Ali Abdolali, Nazir P. Kherani

    We propose a novel type of bi-anisotropic hybrid metal-dielectric structure comprising dielectric and metallic cylindrical wedges wherein the composite meta-cylinder enables advanced control of electric, magnetic and magnetoelectric resonances. We establish a theoretical framework in which the electromagnetic response of this meta-atom is described through t

  79. Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

    This paper discusses the theoretical construction of thin-shell wormholes from Kiselev black holes. We assume a barotropic equation of state for the exotic matter on the shell. While most of these wormholes are unstable to linearized radial perturbations, a limit argument is used to show that under certain conditions, stable solutions can be found.

  80. Kuan-Yu Chen, Che-Ping Tsai, Da-Rong Liu, Hung-Yi Lee

    Producing a large annotated speech corpus for training ASR systems remains difficult for more than 95% of languages all over the world which are low-resourced, but collecting a relatively big unlabeled data set for such languages is more achievable. This is why some initial effort have been reported on completely unsupervised speech recognition learned from

  81. Daniele Viganò, Ricard Aguilera-Miret, Carlos Palenzuela

    Performing accurate large eddy simulations in compressible, turbulent magnetohydrodynamics is more challenging than in non-magnetized fluids due to the complex interplay between kinetic, magnetic and internal energy at different scales. Here we extend the sub-grid-scale gradient model, so far used in the momentum and induction equations, to account also for

  82. Yang Xiao, Ning Zhang, Wenjing Lou, Y. Thomas Hou

    Since the inception of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology have attracted an increasing interest from both academia and industry. Among various core components, consensus protocol is the defining technology behind the security and performance of blockchain. From incremental modifications of Nakamoto consensus protocol to innova

  83. Taichi Uemura

    We propose an abstract notion of a type theory to unify the semantics of various type theories including Martin-L\"{o}f type theory, two-level type theory and cubical type theory. We establish basic results in the semantics of type theory: every type theory has a bi-initial model; every model of a type theory has its internal language; the category of theori

  84. David Griffiths, Jan Boehm

    Recent developments in the field of deep learning for 3D data have demonstrated promising potential for end-to-end learning directly from point clouds. However, many real-world point clouds contain a large class im-balance due to the natural class im-balance observed in nature. For example, a 3D scan of an urban environment will consist mostly of road and fa

  85. Vladimir Fanaskov

    In this paper, we argue for the utility of deterministic inference in the classical problem of numerical linear algebra, that of solving a linear system. We show how the Gaussian belief propagation solver, known to work for symmetric matrices can be modified to handle nonsymmetric matrices. Furthermore, we introduce a new algorithm for matrix inversion that

  86. Zhou Lan, Brian J. Reich, Joseph Guinness, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay

    Geostatistical modeling for continuous point-referenced data has been extensively applied to neuroimaging because it produces efficient and valid statistical inference. However, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a neuroimaging characterizing the brain structure produces a positive definite (p.d.) matrix for each voxel. Current geostatistical modeling has not b

  87. J. Leroux, M. Praveen, Ph. Schnoebelen, G. Sutre

    We consider numerical functions weakly computable by grammar-controlled vector addition systems (GVASes, a variant of pushdown Petri nets). GVASes can weakly compute all fast growing functions $F_\alpha$ for $\alpha<\omega^\omega$, hence they are computationally more powerful than standard vector addition systems. On the other hand they cannot weakly compute

  88. Mar Bastero-Gil, Arjun Berera, Jaime R. Calderón

    The two approaches to compute perturbations in warm inflation are examined. It is shown that both approaches lead to different expressions for the amplitude of the primordial spectrum, with a difference between them of $Υ/(4H)$ at leading order, where $Υ$ is the dissipation coefficient. In terms of observables, this discrepancy can lead to the spectral index

  89. Francesco Esposito

    We investigate qualitative properties of positive singular solutions of some elliptic systems in bounded and unbounded domains. We deduce symmetry and monotonicity properties via the moving plane procedure. Moreover, in the unbounded case, we study some cooperative elliptic systems involving critical nonlinearities in $\mathbb{R}^n$.

  90. Hunter Spink, Marius Tiba

    Given a collection of colored chain posets, we estimate the number of colored subsets of the boolean lattice which avoid all chains in the collection.

  91. Takahiko Yoshida

    Let $\pi\colon (M,\omega)\to B$ be a non-singular Lagrangian torus fibration on a complete base $B$ with prequantum line bundle $\bigl(L,\nabla^L\bigr)\to (M,\omega)$. Compactness on $M$ is not assumed. For a positive integer $N$ and a compatible almost complex structure $J$ on $(M,\omega)$ invariant along the fiber of $\pi$, let $D$ be the associated Spin${

  92. Jozef Klačka

    The classical gravitational two-body problem is generalized in order to be applicable also to weak gravitational fields. The equation of motion holds both for terrestrial and large cosmic scales, the Newtonian gravitational law represents a mathematical limit of the generalized form. Motivation comes from observational results on rotation curves of galaxies.

  93. E. Kogan

    We consider a general model, describing a quantum impurity with degenerate energy levels, interacting with a gas of itinerant electrons, derive general scaling equation for the model, and analyse the connection between its particular forms and the symmetry of interaction. On the basis of this analysis we write down scaling equations for the Hamiltonians whic

  94. Hassan Asensouyis, Jilali Assim, Youness Mazigh

    Let $F$ be a number field and let $i\geq 2$ be an integer. In this paper, we study the positive étale wild kernel $\mathrm{WK}^{\mbox{ét},+}_{2i-2}F$, which is the twisted analogue of the $2$-primary part of the narrow class group. If $E/F$ is a Galois extension of number fields with Galois group $G$, we prove a genus formula relating the order of the groups

  95. Giuseppe De Laurentis, Daniel Maître

    In this article we present a method to generate analytic expressions for the integral coefficients of loop amplitudes using numerical evaluations only. We use high-precision arithmetic to explore the singularity structure of the coefficients and decompose them into parts of manageable complexity. To illustrate the usability of our method we provide analytica

  96. Maria Chikina, Alan Frieze, Jonathan Mattingly, Wesley Pegden

    We give qualitative and quantitative improvements to theorems which enable significance testing in Markov Chains, with a particular eye toward the goal of enabling strong, interpretable, and statistically rigorous claims of political gerrymandering. Our results can be used to demonstrate at a desired significance level that a given Markov Chain state (e.g.,

  97. Christopher J. Fewster, Kasia Rejzner

    We give a pedagogical introduction to algebraic quantum field theory (AQFT), with the aim of explaining its key structures and features. Topics covered include: algebraic formulations of quantum theory and the GNS representation theorem, the appearance of unitarily inequivalent representations in QFT (exemplified by the van Hove model), the main assumptions

  98. Albert Schwarz

    The quantum theory can be formulated in the language of positive functionals on Weyl or Clifford algebra ($L$-functionals). It is shown that this language gives simple understanding of diagrams of Keldysh formalism (that coincide in our case with the diagrams of thermo-field dynamics). The matrix elements of the scattering matrix in the formalism of $L$-func

  99. László Csató

    Journal ranking is becoming more important in assessing the quality of academic research. Several indices have been suggested for this purpose, typically on the basis of a citation graph between the journals. We follow an axiomatic approach and find an impossibility theorem: any self-consistent ranking method, which satisfies a natural monotonicity property,

  100. Thomas Dybdahl Ahle, Jakob Bæk Tejs Knudsen

    We formulate and optimally solve a new generalized Set Similarity Search problem, which assumes the size of the database and query sets are known in advance. By creating polylog copies of our data-structure, we optimally solve any symmetric Approximate Set Similarity Search problem, including approximate versions of Subset Search, Maximum Inner Product Searc