July 2019 arXiv papers — page 26

Dario Buttazzo, Luca Di Luzio, Giacomo Landini, Alessandro Strumia

We show that a new gauge group with one new scalar leads to automatically stable Dark Matter candidates. We consider theories where the Higgs phase is dual to the confined phase: it is known that SU(2) gauge theories with a scalar doublet (like the Standard Model) obey this non-trivial feature. We provide a general criterion, showing that this self-duality h

Suman Baral, Walter Wilcox

The possibility of the existence of mesons with two or more quark-antiquark pairs is investigated with a new application of the Thomas-Fermi (TF) statistical quark model. Quark color couplings are treated in a mean field manner similar to a previous application to baryons, and short and concise expressions for energies are derived. We find that, on average,

V. P. Cuenca-Gotor, J. A. Sans, O. Gomis, A. Mujica

We report a joint experimental and theoretical study of the structural, vibrational, and electronic properties of layered monoclinic arsenic sulfide (alpha-As2S3), aka mineral orpiment, under compression. X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering measurements performed in orpiment samples at high pressure and combined with ab initio calculations have allowed us

Jonathan D. Hood, Yichao Yu, Yen-Wei Lin, Jessie T. Zhang

The multichannel Na-Cs interactions are characterized by a series of measurements using two atoms in an optical tweezer, along with a multichannel quantum defect theory (MQDT). The triplet and singlet scattering lengths are measured by performing Raman spectroscopy of the Na-Cs motional states and least-bound molecular state in the tweezer. Magnetic Feshbach

Raymond van Bommel, Ariyan Javanpeykar, Ljudmila Kamenova

Motivated by conjectures of Demailly, Green-Griffiths, Lang, and Vojta, we show that several notions related to hyperbolicity behave similarly in families. We apply our results to show the persistence of arithmetic hyperbolicity along field extensions for projective normal surfaces with nonzero irregularity. These results rely on the mild boundedness of semi

Marco Chianese, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Gennaro Miele, Stefano Morisi

The origin of neutrino flux observed in IceCube is still mainly unknown. Typically two flux components are assumed, namely: atmospheric neutrinos and an unknown astrophysical term. In principle the latter could also contain a top-down contribution coming for example from decaying dark matter. In this case one should also expect prompt and secondary gammas as

Wojciech Brzezicki, Timo Hyart

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, containing dimerized hopping and a constant onsite energy, has become a paradigmatic model for one-dimensional topological phases, soliton excitations and fractionalized charge in the presence of chiral symmetry. Motivated by the recent developments in engineering artificial lattices, we study an alternative model where

Ya-Wen Pan, Ming-Zhu Liu, Fang-Zheng Peng, Mario Sánchez Sánchez

The LHCb collaboration has recently observed three narrow pentaquark states --- the $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$, and $P_c(4457)$ ---that are located close to the $\bar{D} \Sigma_c$ and $\bar{D}^* \Sigma_c$ thresholds. Among the so-far proposed theoretical interpretations for these pentaquarks, the molecular hypothesis seems to be the preferred one. Nevertheless

Vladimir V. Luković, Balakrishna S. Haridasu, Nicola Vittorio

In this work we utilise the most recent publicly available type Ia supernova (SN Ia) compilations and implement a well formulated cosmological model based on Lema\^{i}tre-Tolman-Bondi metric in presence of cosmological constant $\Lambda$ ($\Lambda$LTB) to test for signatures of large local inhomogeneities at $z\leq0.15$. Local underdensities in this redshift

Thomas Kirchartz, David Cahen

Cui et al. describe the fabrication and characterization of planar pn-junction solar cells based on lead-halide perovskites. The doping densities measured using Hall effect measurements vary from $N_D = 10^{12} cm^{-3}$ to $8\times 10^{12} cm^{-3}$ for the solution-processed n-type layer and $N_A = 8\times 10^9 cm^{-3}$ for the evaporated p-type layer. While

Fang Zhang, Cupjin Huang, Michael Newman, Junjie Cai

We report, in a sequence of notes, our work on the Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform(AC-QDP). AC-QDP provides a set of tools for aiding the development of both quantum computing algorithms and quantum processors, and is powered by a large-scale classical simulator deployed on Alibaba Cloud. In this note, we report the computational experiments demon

Shoubo Hu, Kun Zhang, Zhitang Chen, Laiwan Chan

Domain generalization (DG) aims to incorporate knowledge from multiple source domains into a single model that could generalize well on unseen target domains. This problem is ubiquitous in practice since the distributions of the target data may rarely be identical to those of the source data. In this paper, we propose Multidomain Discriminant Analysis (MDA)

Alex Ravsky

The note contains a few results related to separation axioms and automatic continuity of operations in compact-like semitopological groups. In particular, is presented a semiregular semitopological group $G$ which is not $T_3$. We show that each weakly semiregular compact semitopological group is a topological group. On the other hand, constructed examples o

J. E. G. Silva, R. V. Maluf, C. A. S. Almeida

In this work, we study the symmetries of a Lorentz violating bipartite-Finsler spacetime. By using the Finslerian Killing equation for the bipartite-Finsler metric, we analyze how the anisotropy of the bipartite spacetime modifies the local Lorentz symmetries. The symmetries of the Finsler metric allow us to obtain the bipartite algebra and interpreted it as

Marwa Mannaï, Sonia Haddad

We study the interplay between a uniaxial strain and the topology of the Haldane and the modified Haldane models which, respectively, exhibit chiral and antichiral edge modes. The latter were, recently, predicted by Colom\'es and Franz (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 120}, 086603 (2018)) and expected to take place in the transition metal dichalcogenides. Using the co

Tejin Cai, Xianguo Lu, Daniel Ruterbories

In neutrino-nucleus interactions, a proton produced with a correlated pion might exhibit a left-right asymmetry relative to the lepton scattering plane even when the pion is absorbed. Absent in other proton production mechanisms, such an asymmetry measured in charged-current pionless production could reveal the details of the absorbed-pion events that are ot

Elena Gati, Li Xiang, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Paul C. Canfield

The tetragonal-to-orthorhombic phase transition at $T_s$, which precedes the antiferromagnetic phase transition at $T_N$ in many iron-based superconductors, is considered as one of the manifestations of electronic \textit{nematic} order. By constructing temperature-pressure phase diagrams of pure and Co-doped BaFe$_2$As$_2$, we study the relation of $T_s$ an

Pei-Hong Gu

We present a minimal inverse seesaw mechanism by resorting to a $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge symmetry. In order to cancel the gauge anomalies, we introduce seven neutral fermions among which four participate in the inverse seesaw to induce two nonzero neutrino mass eigenvalues, two forms a stable Dirac fermion to become a dark matter, while the last one keeps massless

Pei-Hong Gu

A TeV-scale Higgs doublet with a small mixing to the standard model Higgs doublet can have the sizable Yukawa couplings to several right-handed neutrinos and the standard model lepton doublets. This provides a testable Dirac neutrino mass generation. We further consider a seesaw mechanism involving a $U(1)_{B-L}^{}$ gauge symmetry, which predicts the existen

Feng Shi, Ziheng Xu, Tao Yuan, Song-Chun Zhu

As a type of prominent studies in deep learning, generative models have been widely investigated in research recently. Two research branches of the deep learning models, the Generative Networks (GANs, VAE) and the Semantic Segmentation, rely highly on the upsampling operations, especially the transposed convolution and the dilated convolution. However, these

Mohit Singh

We give a characterization result for the integrality gap of the natural linear programming relaxation for the vertex cover problem. We show that integrality gap of the standard linear programming relaxation for any graph G equals $\left(2-\frac{2}{\chi^f(G)}\right)$ where $\chi^f(G)$ denotes the fractional chromatic number of G.

David Augustin, Marius Hofmann, Ulrich Konigorski

The vision of automated driving is to increase both road safety and efficiency, while offering passengers a convenient travel experience. This requires that autonomous systems correctly estimate the current traffic scene and its likely evolution. In highway scenarios early recognition of cut-in maneuvers is essential for risk-aware maneuver planning. In this

James Pritts, Zuzana Kukelova, Viktor Larsson, Yaroslava Lochman

This paper introduces the first minimal solvers that jointly estimate lens distortion and affine rectification from the image of rigidly-transformed coplanar features. The solvers work on scenes without straight lines and, in general, relax strong assumptions about scene content made by the state of the art. The proposed solvers use the affine invariant that

J. A. Casas, M. Chakraborti, J. Quilis

The $Z'$-portal is one of most popular and well-explored scenarios of dark matter (DM). To avoid the strong constraints coming from dilepton resonance searches at the LHC and direct detection of DM, it is usually required that in addition to being leptophobic, the $Z'$ is axially coupled to either the (fermionic) DM or the standard model (SM) quarks. The fir

Tsvi Kopelowitz, Ely Porat

In the 3SUM-Indexing problem the goal is to preprocess two lists of elements from $U$, $A=(a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_n)$ and $B=(b_1,b_2,...,b_n)$, such that given an element $c\in U$ one can quickly determine whether there exists a pair $(a,b)\in A \times B$ where $a+b=c$. Goldstein et al.~[WADS'2017] conjectured that there is no algorithm for 3SUM-Indexing which us

Xiaojie Wang, Chulong Liang, Li Ping, Stephan ten Brink

We establish a multiuser extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart area theorem for the interleave-division multiple access (IDMA) scheme, a special form of superposition coding, in multiple access channels (MACs). A low-cost multi-user detection (MUD) based on the Gaussian approximation (GA) is assumed. The evolution of mean-square errors (MSE) of the GA-

Hazem Sallouha, Alessandro Chiumento, Sreeraj Rajendran, Sofie Pollin

Localization in long-range Internet of Things networks is a challenging task, mainly due to the long distances and low bandwidth used. Moreover, the cost, power, and size limitations restrict the integration of a GPS receiver in each device. In this work, we introduce a novel received signal strength indicator (RSSI) based localization solution for ultra nar

Alain J. Brizard

A new representation of electromagnetic gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell theory is presented in which the gyrocenter equations of motion are expressed solely in terms of the perturbed electric and magnetic fields. In this representation, the gyrocenter symplectic (Poisson-bracket) structure and the gyrocenter Jacobian contain electric and magnetic perturbation ter

J. -F. Pommaret

In 1916, F.S. Macaulay developed specific localization techniques for dealing with "unmixed polynomial ideals" in commutative algebra, transforming them into what he called "inverse systems" of partial differential equations. In 1970, D.C. Spencer and coworkers studied the formal theory of such systems, using methods of homological algebra that were giving r

ShengYuan Zhao

Let $\mathbf{K}$ be an algebraically closed field. The Cremona group $\operatorname{Cr}_2(\mathbf{K})$ is the group of birational transformations of the projective plane $\mathbb{P}^2_{\mathbf{K}}$. We carry out an overall study of centralizers of elements of infinite order in $\operatorname{Cr}_2(\mathbf{K})$ which leads to a classification of embeddings of

Ligong Han, Yang Zou, Ruijiang Gao, Lezi Wang

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims at inferring class labels for unlabeled target domain given a related labeled source dataset. Intuitively, a model trained on source domain normally produces higher uncertainties for unseen data. In this work, we build on this assumption and propose to adapt from source to target domain via calibrating their predicti

Weitong Wang, Melanie Matchett Wood

The goal of this paper is to prove theorems that elucidate the Cohen-Lenstra-Martinet conjectures for the distributions of class groups of number fields, and further the understanding of their implications. We start by giving a simpler statement of the conjectures. We show that the probabilities that arise are inversely proportional the to number of automorp

Adam Allevato, Elaine Schaertl Short, Mitch Pryor, Andrea L. Thomaz

As researchers teach robots to perform more and more complex tasks, the need for realistic simulation environments is growing. Existing techniques for closing the reality gap by approximating real-world physics often require extensive real world data and/or thousands of simulation samples. This paper presents TuneNet, a new machine learning-based method to d

Sabine Hittmeir, Rupert Klein, Jinkai Li, Edriss S. Titi

In this work we study the global solvability of the primitive equations for the atmosphere coupled to moisture dynamics with phase changes for warm clouds, where water is present in the form of water vapor and in the liquid state as cloud water and rain water. This moisture model contains closures for the phase changes condensation and evaporation, as well a

Sebastian Engel, Philip Trautmann, Boris Vexler

This work discusses the finite element discretization of an optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with time-dependent controls of bounded variation. The main focus lies on the convergence analysis of the discretization method. The state equation is discretized by a space-time finite element method. The controls are not discretized. Under suita

Alexander G. Abanov, Tankut Can, Sriram Ganeshan, Gustavo M. Monteiro

We consider an isotropic compressible non-dissipative fluid with broken parity subject to free surface boundary conditions in two spatial dimensions. The hydrodynamic equations describing the bulk dynamics of the fluid as well as the free surface boundary conditions depend explicitly on the parity breaking non-dissipative odd viscosity term. We construct a v

Xiao Wang, Zhijie Wang, Yolande M. Pengetnze, Barry S. Lachman

Pediatric asthma is the most prevalent chronic childhood illness, afflicting about 6.2 million children in the United States. However, asthma could be better managed by identifying and avoiding triggers, educating about medications and proper disease management strategies. This research utilizes deep learning methodologies to predict asthma-related emergency

Kushagra Chandak, Tanumoy Mandal, Subhadip Mitra

The LHC search strategies for leptoquarks that couple dominantly to a top quark are different than for the ones that couple mostly to the light quarks. We consider charge $1/3$ ($\phi_1$) and $5/3$ ($\phi_5$) scalar leptoquarks that can decay to a top quark and a charged lepton ($t\ell$) giving rise to a resonance system of a boosted top and a high-$p_{\rm T

Carlos A. Argüelles, Hrvoje Dujmovic

The nature of dark matter remains one of the most important open questions in physics. Although dark matter effects have only been observed gravitationally, the order-one ratio between conventional matter and dark matter hints to a non-gravitational link between them. In this contribution, we search for such a link using the IceCube high-energy starting even

E. Compaan, R. Lucà, G. Staffilani

In this paper we address the question of the pointwise almost everywhere limit of nonlinear Schr\"odinger flows to the initial data, in both the continuous and the periodic settings. Then we show how, in some cases, certain smoothing effects for the non-homogeneous part of the solution can be used to upgrade to a uniform convergence to zero of this part, and

C. Dutreix, R. Avriller, B. Lounis, F. Pistolesi

We investigate theoretically the dynamics of two quasidegenerate mechanical modes coupled through an open quantum two-level system. A mean-field approach shows that by engineering the retarded response of the two-level system with a coherent drive, the non-Hermitian mechanical spectrum exhibits an exceptional degeneracy point where the two modes coalesce. We

Raimundo Bastos, Carmine Monetta

Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $G$ be a group. We denote by $\nu(G)$ a certain extension of the non-abelian tensor square $G \otimes G$ by $G \times G$. Set $T_{\otimes}(G) = \{g \otimes h \mid g,h \in G\}$. We prove that if the size of the conjugacy class $\left |x^{\nu(G)} \right| \leq n$ for every $x \in T_{\otimes}(G)$, then the second derived sub

Daniele Angella, Nicolina Istrati, Alexandra Otiman, Nicoletta Tardini

We study the Euler-Lagrange equation for several natural functionals defined on a conformal class of almost Hermitian metrics, whose expression involves the Lee form $\theta$ of the metric. We show that the Gauduchon metrics are the unique extremal metrics of the functional corresponding to the norm of the codifferential of the Lee form. We prove that on com

Donald L. Kreher, Douglas R. Stinson, Shannon Veitch

A directed triple system of order $v$ (or, DTS$(v)$) is decomposition of the complete directed graph $\vec{K_v}$ into transitive triples. A $v$-good sequencing of a DTS$(v)$ is a permutation of the points of the design, say $[x_1 \; \cdots \; x_v]$, such that, for every triple $(x,y,z)$ in the design, it is not the case that $x = x_i$, $y = x_j$ and $z = x_k

M. J. Neubelt, A. Sampino, J. Hudson, K. Tezgin

The form factors of the energy-momentum tensor can be accessed via studies of generalized parton distributions in hard exclusive reactions. In this talk we present recent results on the energy-momentum tensor form factors and densities in the bag model formulated in the large-$N_c$ limit. The simplicity and lucidity of this quark model allow us to investigat

Yiwei Yang, Eser Kandogan, Yunyao Li, Walter S. Lasecki

While the role of humans is increasingly recognized in machine learning community, representation of and interaction with models in current human-in-the-loop machine learning (HITL-ML) approaches are too low-level and far-removed from human's conceptual models. We demonstrate HEIDL, a prototype HITL-ML system that exposes the machine-learned model through hi

Sergey Avvakumov, Roman Karasev

In this paper we study envy-free division problems. The classical approach to such problems, used by David Gale, reduces to considering continuous maps of a simplex to itself and finding sufficient conditions for this map to hit the center of the simplex. The mere continuity of the map is not sufficient for reaching such a conclusion. Classically, one makes

Jonathan Jaquette, Benjamin Schweinhart

We propose that the recently defined persistent homology dimensions are a practical tool for fractal dimension estimation of point samples. We implement an algorithm to estimate the persistent homology dimension, and compare its performance to classical methods to compute the correlation and box-counting dimensions in examples of self-similar fractals, chaot

Johannes Erdmann, Tim Kallage, Kevin Kröninger, Olaf Nackenhorst

The reconstruction of top-quark pair-production ($t\bar{t}$) events is a prerequisite for many top-quark measurements. We use a deep neural network, trained with Monte-Carlo simulated events, to reconstruct $t\bar{t}$ decays in the lepton+jets final state. Comparing our approach to a widely-used kinematic fit, we find significant improvements in the correct

Karol Kurach, Anton Raichuk, Piotr Stańczyk, Michał Zając

Recent progress in the field of reinforcement learning has been accelerated by virtual learning environments such as video games, where novel algorithms and ideas can be quickly tested in a safe and reproducible manner. We introduce the Google Research Football Environment, a new reinforcement learning environment where agents are trained to play football in

David R. Large, Gary Burnett, Leigh Clark

This paper draws from literature and our experience of conducting Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) studies using natural language, conversational user interfaces (CUIs) in the automotive domain. These studies have revealed positive effects of using in-vehicle CUIs on issues such as: cognitive demand/workload, passive task-related fatigue, trust, acceptance and environment

Maria Fernanda DJonsiles, Gustavo Ernesto Galizzi, Andres Ezequiel Dolinko, María Victoria Novas

Currently, the detection of endophytic fungi is determined mostly by invasive methods, including direct isolation of fungal organismsfrom plant tissue in growth media, molecular detection of endophyticfungi DNA from plant material by PCR, or evaluation under microscopy techniques.In this work we explore the potential of laser biospeckle activity (LBSA) to be

Ryan C. Ogliore, Donald E. Brownlee, Kazuhide Nagashima, Dave J. Joswiak

Filamentary enstatite crystals are found in interplanetary dust particles of likely cometary origin but are very rare or absent in meteorites. Crystallographic characteristics of filamentary enstatites indicate that they condensed directly from vapor. We measured the O isotopic composition of an enstatite ribbon from a giant cluster interplanetary dust parti

A. A. Kamashev, N. N. Garif'yanov, A. A. Validov, J. Schumann

We report the superconducting properties of the Co$_2$Cr$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$Al$_y$/Cu/Ni/Cu/Pb spin-valve structure which magnetic part comprises the Heusler alloy layer HA = Co$_2$Cr$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$Al$_y$ with a high degree of spin polarization (DSP) of the conduction band and the Ni layer of variable thickness. We obtained that the separation between the supercond

Roman Karasev

In this note we give a version of Hao Huang's proof of the sensitivity conjecture, shedding some light on the origin of the magical matrix $A$ in that proof. For the history of the subject and the importance of this conjecture to the study of boolean functions, we refer to the original paper. Here we only state the main result: Consider the boolean cube $Q_n

Shubham Tripathi, Jianhua Xing, Herbert Levine, Mohit Kumar Jolly

Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT), and the corresponding reverse process, Mesenchymal-Epithelial Transition (MET), are dynamic and reversible cellular programs orchestrated by many changes at biochemical and morphological levels. A recent surge in identifying the molecular mechanisms underlying EMT/MET has led to the development of various mathematical

Gustavo P. de Brito, Astrid Eichhorn, Antonio D. Pereira

Constraining quantum gravity from observations is a challenge. We expand on the idea that the interplay of quantum gravity with matter could be key to meeting this challenge. Thus, we set out to confront different potential candidates for quantum gravity -- unimodular asymptotic safety, Weyl-squared gravity and asymptotically safe gravity -- with constraints

Gao Xu, Yanyu Liu, Jiawang Hong, Daining Fang

It is of critical importance to understand the mechanical properties change of electrode materials during lithium intercalation in the mechanical design of Li-ion batteries, for the purpose of the high reliability and safety in their applications. Here, we investigated the mechanical properties of both bulk and single layer phosphorus during the lithium inte

Jesús E. Fajardo, Julián Galván, Fernando Vericat, Carlos M. Carlevaro

An inverse method for parameters estimation of infinite cylinders (the dielectric properties, location, and radius) in two dimensions from amplitude-only microwave information is presented. To this end two different Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) topologies are compared; Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Several simulati

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering, Stephen Bailey

MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts at 2<z<5. A 6.5-m Magellan telescope will be coupled with DESI spectrographs to achieve multiplexing of 20,000. MegaMapper would be located at Las Campanas Observatory to fully access LSST imaging for target selection.

Habib Ammari, Oscar Bruno, Kthim Imeri, Nilima Nigam

It is well known that changing boundary conditions for the Laplacian from Dirichlet to Neumann can result in significant changes to the associated eigenmodes, while keeping the eigenvalues close. We present a new and efficient approach for optimizing the transmission signal between two points in a cavity at a given frequency, by changing boundary conditions.

S. Bastami, H. Avakian, A. V. Efremov, A. Kotzinian

We explore the complete cross-section for the production of unpolarized hadrons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering up to power-suppressed $\mathcal{O}(1/Q^2)$ terms in the Wandzura-Wilczek-type (WW-type) approximation, which consists in systematically assuming that $\bar{q}gq$-correlators are much smaller than $\bar{q}q$-correlators. Under the appli

Jayanta Dey, Sarthak Satapathy, Prasanta Murmu, Sabyasachi Ghosh

We have explored the shear viscosity and electrical conductivity calculations for bosonic and fermionic medium, which goes from without to with magnetic field picture and then their simplified massless expressions. In presence of magnetic field, 5 independent velocity gradient tensors can be designed, so their corresponding proportional coefficients, connect

Jason G Parker, PhD, Emily E Diller, MS

We propose a statistical multiscale mapping approach to identify microscopic and molecular heterogeneity across a tumor microenvironment using multiparametric MR (mp-MR). Twenty-nine patients underwent pre-surgical mp-MR followed by MR-guided stereotactic core biopsy. The locations of the biopsy cores were identified in the pre-surgical images using stereota

Philip K. Hotchkiss

The Rascal Triangle was introduced by three middle school students in 2010, and in this paper we describe number triangles that are generalizations of the Rascal Triangle and show that these Generalized Rascal Triangles are characterized by arithmetic sequences on all diagonals as well as a Rascal-like multiplication and addition rules.

Fariz Ikhwantri

Manually annotated corpora for low-resource languages are usually small in quantity (gold), or large but distantly supervised (silver). Inspired by recent progress of injecting pre-trained language model (LM) on many Natural Language Processing (NLP) task, we proposed to fine-tune pre-trained language model from high-resources languages to low-resources lang

Joschka Roffe

Quantum error correction protocols will play a central role in the realisation of quantum computing; the choice of error correction code will influence the full quantum computing stack, from the layout of qubits at the physical level to gate compilation strategies at the software level. As such, familiarity with quantum coding is an essential prerequisite fo

Ron Belyansky, Jeremy T. Young, Przemyslaw Bienias, Zachary Eldredge

We propose a protocol for sympathetically cooling neutral atoms without destroying the quantum information stored in their internal states. This is achieved by designing state-insensitive Rydberg interactions between the data-carrying atoms and cold auxiliary atoms. The resulting interactions give rise to an effective phonon coupling, which leads to the tran

Raffaele Folino, Ramón G. Plaza, Marta Strani

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to describe a variety of phenomena such as pattern formation and front propagation in biological, chemical and physical systems. In the one-dimensional model with a balanced bistable reaction function, it is well-known that there is persistence of metastable patterns for an exponentially long time, i.e. a time pro

Riccardo La Placa, Pavel Bakala, Luigi Stella, Maurizio Falanga

In this research note we introduce a new approximation of photon geodesics in Schwarzschild spacetime which is especially useful to describe highly bent trajectories, for which the angle between the initial emission position and the line of sight to the observer approaches $\pi$: this corresponds to the points behind the central mass of the Schwarzschild met

Eyal Bairey, Chu Guo, Dario Poletti, Netanel H. Lindner

Recent works have shown that generic local Hamiltonians can be efficiently inferred from local measurements performed on their eigenstates or thermal states. Realistic quantum systems are often affected by dissipation and decoherence due to coupling to an external environment. This raises the question whether the steady states of such open quantum systems co

Alexander Mikhaylov, Victor Mikhaylov

We consider the Hamburger, Stieltjes and Hausdorff moment problems, that are problems of the construction of a Borel measure supported on a real line, on a half-line or on an interval $(0,1)$, from a prescribed set of moments. We propose a unified approach to these three problems based on using the auxiliary dynamical system with the discrete time associated

Eero Raty

Consider the following game played by Maker and Breaker on the vertices of the cycle $C_{n}$, with first move given to Breaker. The aim of Maker is to maximise the number of adjacent pairs of vertices that are both claimed by her, and the aim of Breaker is to minimise this number. The aim of this paper is to find this number exactly for all $n$ when both pla

Aeryeong Seo

In 1985 Diederich and Ohsawa proved that every disc bundle over a compact K\"ahler manifold is weakly 1-complete. In this paper, under certain conditions we generalize this result to the case of fiber bundles over compact K\"ahler manifolds whose fibers are bounded symmetric domains. Moreover if the bundle is obtained by the diagonal action on the product of

Reuben Dorent, Samuel Joutard, Marc Modat, Sébastien Ourselin

We propose a new deep learning method for tumour segmentation when dealing with missing imaging modalities. Instead of producing one network for each possible subset of observed modalities or using arithmetic operations to combine feature maps, our hetero-modal variational 3D encoder-decoder independently embeds all observed modalities into a shared latent r

Philip Boalch, Daisuke Yamakawa

In this announcement a diagram will be defined for each nonabelian Hodge space on the affine line.

David M. Mahler, Julian-Benedikt Mayer, Philipp Leubner, Lukas Lunczer

Preceded by the discovery of topological insulators, Dirac and Weyl semimetals have become a pivotal direction of research in contemporary condensed matter physics. While easily accessible from a theoretical viewpoint, these topological semimetals pose a serious challenge in terms of experimental synthesis and analysis to allow for their unambiguous identifi

Murium Iqbal, Kamelia Aryafar, Timothy Anderton

We propose Style Conditioned Recommendations (SCR) and introduce style injection as a method to diversify recommendations. We use Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) architecture, where both the encoder and decoder are conditioned on a user profile learned from item content data. This allows us to apply style transfer methodologies to the task of reco

Habib Ammari, Kthim Imeri, Nilima Nigam

This paper examines the Laplace equation with mixed boundary conditions, the Neumann and Steklov boundary conditions. This models a container with holes in it, like a pond filled with water but partly covered by immovable pieces on the surface. The main objective is to determine the right extent of the covering pieces, so that any shock inside the container

Benjamin R. Cowan, Philip Doyle, Justin Edwards, Diego Garaialde

The assumptions we make about a dialogue partner's knowledge and communicative ability (i.e. our partner models) can influence our language choices. Although similar processes may operate in human-machine dialogue, the role of design in shaping these models, and their subsequent effects on interaction are not clearly understood. Focusing on synthesis design,

Frederic Vanderveken, Hasnain Ahmad, Marc Heyns, Bart Sorée

The characteristics of spin waves in ferromagnetic waveguides with nonuniform magnetization have been investigated for situations where the shape anisotropy field of the waveguide is comparable to the external bias field. Spin-wave generation was realized by the magnetoelastic effect by applying normal and shear strain components, as well as by the Oersted f

Donald L. Kreher, Douglas R. Stinson, Shannon Veitch

A directed triple system of order $v$ (or, DTS$(v)$) is a decomposition of the complete directed graph $\vec{K_v}$ into transitive triples. An $\ell$-good sequencing of a DTS$(v)$ is a permutation of the points of the design, say $[x_1 \; \cdots \; x_v]$, such that, for every triple $(x,y,z)$ in the design, it is $not$ the case that $x = x_i$, $y = x_j$ and

Kristine W. F. Lam, Judith Korth, Kento Masuda, Szilárd Csizmadia

K2-146 is a cool, 0.358 M_sun dwarf that was found to host a mini-Neptune with a 2.67-days period. The planet exhibited strong transit timing variations (TTVs) of greater than 30 minutes, indicative of the presence of a further object in the system. Here we report the discovery of the previously undetected outer planet, K2-146 c, in the system using addition

Lei Liu, Chen Chen, Qingqi Pei, Sabita Maharjan

As one key enabler of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) has received remarkable interest from academia and industry. The emerging vehicular applications and the exponential growing data have naturally led to the increased needs of communication, computation and storage resources, and also to strict performance requirem

V. N. Glazkov, Yu. V. Krasnikova, I. K. Rodygina, J. Chovan

Low-temperature magnetic resonance study of the quasi-two-dimensional antiferromagnet Cu(en)(H$_2$O)$_2$SO$_4$ (en = C$_2$H$_8$N$_2$) was performed down to 0.45~K. This compound orders antiferromagnetically at 0.9K. The analysis of the resonance data within the hydrodynamic approach allowed to identify anisotropy axes and to estimate the anisotropy parameter

Lau Skorstengaard

Logical relations (LR) have been around for many years, and today they are used in many formal results. However, it can be difficult to LR beginners to find a good place to start to learn. Papers often use highly specialized LRs that use the latest advances of the technique which makes it impossible to make a proper presentation within the page limit. This n

Nikolay Bobev, Friðrik Freyr Gautason, Krzysztof Pilch, Minwoo Suh

We show that for every Sasaki-Einstein manifold, $M_5$, the AdS$_5\times M_5$ background of type IIB supergravity admits two universal deformations leading to supersymmetric AdS$_4$ solutions. One class of solutions describes an AdS$_4$ domain wall in AdS$_5$ and is dual to a Janus configuration with $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetry. The other class of backgrou

Takehisa Hasegawa, Shogo Mizutaka

We examine the structure of the percolating cluster (PC) formed by site percolation on a random clustered network (RCN) model. Using the generating functions, we formulate the clustering coefficient and assortative coefficient of the PC. We analytically and numerically show that the PC in the highly clustered networks is clustered even at the percolation thr

Casey Kneale, Kolia Sadeghi

On the path to establishing a global cybersecurity framework where each enterprise shares information about malicious behavior, an important question arises. How can a machine learning representation characterizing a cyber attack on one network be used to detect similar attacks on other enterprise networks if each networks has wildly different distributions

Natsumi Ikeno, Lianrong Dai, Eulogio Oset

We perform a calculation of the strong interaction effects between the $B$ and $D$ mesons in the $\bar{B} \to D \bar{\nu} \ell$ reaction, as a crossing process of reactions with $BD$ in the final state, where the strong interaction between the mesons leads to a bound $BD$ state. We find corrections to the tree level amplitude of the order of $15-25\%$. We fu

Wei Wang, Bernard Bonello, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Yan Pennec

We present the realization of the topological valley-protected zero-order antisymmetric (A0) or symmetric (S0) and zero-order shear-horizontal (SH0) Lamb waves at different domain walls based on topologically distinct asymmetric double-sided pillared phononic crystals. The elastic periodic structures have either the triangular or the honeycomb symmetry and g

Zach Eaton-Rosen, Thomas Varsavsky, Sebastien Ourselin, M. Jorge Cardoso

Counting is a fundamental task in biomedical imaging and count is an important biomarker in a number of conditions. Estimating the uncertainty in the measurement is thus vital to making definite, informed conclusions. In this paper, we first compare a range of existing methods to perform counting in medical imaging and suggest ways of deriving predictive int

Clément Cancès, Claire Chainais-Hillairet, Jürgen Fuhrmann, Benoît Gaudeul

In this paper, we consider an unipolar degenerated drift-diffusion system where the relation between the concentration of the charged species $c$ and the chemical potential $h$ is $h(c)=\log \frac{c}{1-c}$. We design four different finite volume schemes based on four different formulations of the fluxes. We provide a stability analysis and existence results

Project 8 Collaboration, A. Ashtari Esfahani, S. Böser, N. Buzinsky

The Locust simulation package is a new C++ software tool developed to simulate the measurement of time-varying electromagnetic fields using RF detection techniques. Modularity and flexibility allow for arbitrary input signals, while concurrently supporting tight integration with physics-based simulations as input. External signals driven by the Kassiopeia pa

David Applebaum, Rosemary Shewell Brockway

We consider isotropic L\'evy processes on a compact Riemannian manifold, obtained from an $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued L\'evy process through rolling without slipping. We prove that the Feller semigroups associated with these processes extend to strongly continuous contraction semigroups on $L^p$, for $1\leq p<\infty$, and that they are self-adjoint when $p=2$. Whe

Domenico Felice, Nihat Ay

A recent canonical divergence, which is introduced on a smooth manifold $\mathrm{M}$ endowed with a general dualistic structure $(\mathrm{g},\nabla,\nabla^*)$, is considered for flat $\alpha$-connections. In the classical setting, we compute such a canonical divergence on the manifold of positive measures and prove that it coincides with the classical $\alph

Mihai Halic

We obtain criteria for detecting complete intersections in projective varieties. Motivated by a conjecture of Hartshorne concerning subvarieties of projective spaces, we investigate situations when two-codimensional smooth subvarieties of rational homogeneous varieties are complete intersections.

Martin Winter

We investigate point arrangements $v_i\in\mathbb R^d,i\in \{1,...,n \}$ with certain prescribed symmetries. The arrangement space of $v$ is the column span of the matrix in which the $v_i$ are the rows. We characterize properties of $v$ in terms of the arrangement space, e.g. we characterize whether an arrangement possesses certain symmetries or whether it c

Le Chen, Davar Khoshnevisan, David Nualart, Fei Pu

Consider a parabolic stochastic PDE of the form $\partial_t u=\frac{1}{2}\Delta u + \sigma(u)\eta$, where $u=u(t\,,x)$ for $t\ge0$ and $x\in\mathbb{R}^d$, $\sigma:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ is Lipschitz continuous and non random, and $\eta$ is a centered Gaussian noise that is white in time and colored in space, with a possibly-signed homogeneous spati

Alison Sills

We present a new approach to understanding star-to-star helium abundance variations within globular clusters. We begin with detailed radiation hydrodynamics simulations of cluster formation within giant molecular clouds, and investigate the conditions under which multiple populations could be created. Chemical enrichment occurs dynamically as the cluster is