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  1. Craig Huneke, Linquan Ma, Pham Hung Quy, Ilya Smirnov

    We explore the classical Lech's inequality relating the Hilbert--Samuel multiplicity and colength of an $\mathfrak{m}$-primary ideal in a Noetherian local ring $(R,\mathfrak{m})$. We prove optimal versions of Lech's inequality for sufficiently deep ideals in characteristic $p>0$, and we conjecture that they hold in all characteristics. Our main techn

  2. Laura Sevilla-Lara, Shengxin Zha, Zhicheng Yan, Vedanuj Goswami

    Understanding temporal information and how the visual world changes over time is a fundamental ability of intelligent systems. In video understanding, temporal information is at the core of many current challenges, including compression, efficient inference, motion estimation or summarization. However, in current video datasets it has been observed that acti

  3. Marcel Jackson, Tim Stokes

    Override and update are natural constructions for combining partial functions, which arise in various program specification contexts. We use an unexpected connection with combinatorial geometry to provide a complete finite system of equational axioms for the first order theory of the override and update constructions on partial functions, resolving the main

  4. CMS Collaboration

    A measurement is presented of differential cross sections for $t$-channel single top quark and antiquark production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. From a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$, events containing one muon or electron and two or three jets are ana

  5. Daniel Boyanovsky, David Jasnow, Xiao-Lun Wu, Rob C. Coalson

    We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of relaxation and dressing of a mobile impurity suddenly immersed--or quenched-- into a zero temperature homogeneous Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) with velocity $v$. A many body generalization of Weisskopf-Wigner theory is implemented to obtain the impurity fidelity, reduced density matrix and entanglement entropy. The

  6. Shirly Wang, Matthew B. A. McDermott, Geeticka Chauhan, Michael C. Hughes

    Robust machine learning relies on access to data that can be used with standardized frameworks in important tasks and the ability to develop models whose performance can be reasonably reproduced. In machine learning for healthcare, the community faces reproducibility challenges due to a lack of publicly accessible data and a lack of standardized data process

  7. Mehmet Emre Tasgin

    Recent studies show that a maximally entangled Schwinger pair creates a nontraversable Einstein-Rosen~(ER) bridge (wormhole) in the gravitational theory, which bridges causally not connected parts of the AdS spacetime~[PRL 111, 211603 and 211602]. Same authors raise the possibility of a general correspondence between a weaker entanglement and curvature. Here

  8. Joaquim Kessongo, Yoenls Bahu, Margarida Inacio, Pedro Almeida

    The primary motivation for this work is the evaluation of the radon concentration in portable water for human consumption in Bibala, a municipality in Angola, where granitic rocks are common, and contain a high concentration of uranium that can be mobilized in underground water. Radon is the largest contributor of radioactive pollution in underground water.I

  9. Hyun Jay Kang, Jae-Won Yang, Byung Jae Chun, Heesuk Jang

    Phase-coherent transfer of optical frequencies over a long distance is required for diverse photonic applications, including optical clock signal dissemination and physical constants measurement. Several demonstrations have been made successfully over fiber networks, but not much work has been done yet through the open air where atmospheric turbulence prevai

  10. Laurance R. Doyle

    We describe the Discovery of Kepler-16b, the first widely accepted detection of a circumbinary planet.

  11. Giuseppe Marra, Andrea Zugarini, Stefano Melacci, Marco Maggini

    In the last few years, neural networks have been intensively used to develop meaningful distributed representations of words and contexts around them. When these representations, also known as "embeddings", are learned from unsupervised large corpora, they can be transferred to different tasks with positive effects in terms of performances, especiall

  12. Yingwei Zhou

    Object Detection has been a significant topic in computer vision. As the continuous development of Deep Learning, many advanced academic and industrial outcomes are established on localising and classifying the target objects, such as instance segmentation, video tracking and robotic vision. As the core concept of Deep Learning, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) a

  13. Adam Morrissett, Roja Eini, Mostafa Zaman, Nasibeh Zohrabi

    Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) and other smart-city technologies are increasingly advancing in capability and complexity. While simulation environments continue to improve, their fidelity and ease of use can quickly degrade as newer systems become increasingly complex. To remedy this, we propose a hardware- and software-based traffic management sy

  14. Anti Ingel, Ilya Kuzovkin, Raul Vicente

    In this work, a classification method for SSVEP-based BCI is proposed. The classification method uses features extracted by traditional SSVEP-based BCI methods and finds optimal discrimination thresholds for each feature to classify the targets. Optimising the thresholds is formalised as a maximisation task of a performance measure of BCIs called information

  15. Ibrahim Al-Nahhal, Masoud Alghoniemy, Adel B. Abd El-Rahman, Zen Kawasaki

    A modified zero-forcing (MZF) decoder for ill-conditioned Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) channels is proposed. The proposed decoder provides significant performance improvement compared to the traditional zero-forcing decoder by only considering the well-conditioned elements of the channel matrix. This is achieved by reformulating the QR decomposition of th

  16. Camille Roth

    The possible impact of algorithmic recommendation on the autonomy and free choice of Internet users is being increasingly discussed, especially in terms of the rendering of information and the structuring of interactions. This paper aims at reviewing and framing this issue along a double dichotomy. The first one addresses the discrepancy between users' i

  17. Juan Cortina

    The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of two arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) at the northern and southern hemispheres. CTA will feature IACTs with mirrors of three different sizes optimized to cover different energy ranges. The proposed sub-arrays of four Large Size Telescopes (LST) at CTA-North and CTA-South target the

  18. Shrawan Kumar, Sean Rogers

    For any reductive group G and a parabolic subgroup P with its Levi subgroup L, the first author in [Ku2] introduced a ring homomorphism $ ξ^P_λ: Rep^\mathbb{C}_{λ-poly}(L) \to H^*(G/P, \mathbb{C})$, where $ Rep^\mathbb{C}_{λ-poly}(L)$ is a certain subring of the complexified representation ring of L (depending upon the choice of an irreducible representation

  19. Jinming Duan, Jo Schlemper, Chen Qin, Cheng Ouyang

    In this work, we propose a deep learning approach for parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, termed a variable splitting network (VS-Net), for an efficient, high-quality reconstruction of undersampled multi-coil MR data. We formulate the generalized parallel compressed sensing reconstruction as an energy minimization problem, for which a v

  20. Juan Luis Gonzalo, Claudio Bombardelli

    An approximate analytical solution for the two body problem perturbed by a radial, low acceleration is obtained, using a regularized formulation of the orbital motion and the method of multiple scales. Formulating the dynamics with the Dromo special perturbation method allows us to separate the two characteristic periods of the problem in a clear and physica

  21. Jayampathy Ratnayake, Annanthakrishna Manokaran, Romaine Jayewardene

    This paper presents the Sierpinski Gasket ($\mathbb{S}$) as a final coalgebra obtained by Cauchy completing the initial algebra for an endofunctor on the category of tri-pointed one bounded metric spaces with continuous maps. It has been previously observed that $\mathbb{S}$ is bi-Lipschitz equivalent to the coalgebra obtained by completing the initial algeb

  22. Jan Mostowski, Joanna Pietraszewicz

    Angular momentum in classical and quantum mechanics is carried out beyond textbooks frames. We compare angular distribution of particle position with classical probabilistic approach. Addition of angular momenta is also discussed together with approximation to Clebsh-Gordan coefficients.

  23. Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Neska El-Haouij, Rosalind Picard

    Affective states have a critical role in driving performance and safety. They can degrade driver situation awareness and negatively impact cognitive processes, severely diminishing road safety. Therefore, detecting and assessing drivers' affective states is crucial in order to help improve the driving experience, and increase safety, comfort and well-bei

  24. A. J. Roberts

    These are lecture notes for five sessions in the AMSI Winter School on 'Computational Modelling of Heterogeneous Media' held at QUT in July 2019 [https://ws.amsi.org.au/]. Aim: Discuss a mix of new mathematical approaches for multiscale modelling, heterogeneous material in particular, along with corresponding novel computational techniques and issues

  25. Elaheh Barati, Xuewen Chen

    In reinforcement learning algorithms, leveraging multiple views of the environment can improve the learning of complicated policies. In multi-view environments, due to the fact that the views may frequently suffer from partial observability, their level of importance are often different. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning method and an a

  26. Simone Gelmini, Giulio Panzani, Sergio Savaresi

    The automatic dial of an emergency call - eCall - in response to a road accident is a feature that is gaining interest in the intelligent vehicle community. It indirectly increases the driving safety of road vehicles, but presents the technical challenge of developing an algorithm which triggers the emergency call only when needed, a non-trivial task for two

  27. Xiu Ye, Shangyou Zhang

    A new stabilizer free weak Galerkin (WG) method is introduced and analyzed for the biharmonic equation. Stabilizing/penalty terms are often necessary in the finite element formulations with discontinuous approximations to ensure the stability of the methods. Removal of stabilizers will simplify finite element formulations and reduce programming complexity. T

  28. Srabanti Maji, Soumen Kanrar

    The primary step in search of the gene prediction is an identification of the coding region from genomic DNA sequence. Gene structure in the case of a eukaryotic organism is composed of promoter, intron, start codon, exons, stop codon, etc. Splice site prediction, which separates the junction between exon and intron, though the sequence beside. The splice si

  29. Lee F. Richardson

    When doing data science, it's important to know what you're building. This paper describes an idealized final product of a data science project, called a Continuously Updated Data-Analysis System (CUDAS). The CUDAS concept synthesizes ideas from a range of successful data science projects, such as Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight. A CUDAS can be bui

  30. B. U. V Prashanth, Mohammed Riyaz Ahmed

    The model presented in this research predicts ideal chiral crystal and propose a new direction of designing chiral crystals. Skyrmions are topologically protected and structurally assymetric materials with an exotic spin composition. This work presents deep learning method for skyrmion material design of chiral crystals. This paper presents an approach to co

  31. Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Amir Mosavi, Kwok-wing Chau

    Intelligent algorithms are recently used in the optimization process in chemical engineering and application of multiphase flows such as bubbling flow. This overview of modeling can be a great replacement with complex numerical methods or very time-consuming and disruptive measurement experimental process. In this study, we develop the adaptive network-based

  32. Gerardo E. Pradillo, Hamid Karani, Petia M. Vlahovska

    The Quincke effect is an electrohydrodynamic instability which gives rise to a torque on a dielectric particle in a uniform DC electric field. Previous studies reported that a sphere initially resting on the electrode rolls with steady velocity. We experimentally find that in strong fields the rolling becomes unsteady, with time-periodic velocity. Furthermor

  33. Anvarjon Ahmedov, Norashikin Abdul Aziz, Mohd Noriznan Mohtar

    In this paper we investigate the principle of the generalised localisation for spectral expansions of the polyharmonic operator, which coincides with the multiple Fourier integrals summed over the domains corresponding to the surface levels of the polyharmonic polynomials. It is proved that the partial sums of the multiple Fourier integrals of a function f\i

  34. David M W Powers

    Storytelling is fundamental to language, including culture, conversation and communication in their broadest senses. It thus emerges as an essential component of intelligent systems, including systems where natural language is not a primary focus or where we do not usually think of a story being involved. In this paper we explore the emergence of storytellin

  35. Shalosh B. Ekhad, Doron Zeilberger

    In a delightful article that recently appeared in Mathematics Magazine, David and Lori Mccune analyze the board game "Count Your Chickens!", recommended to children three and up. Alas, they use the advanced theory of Markov chains, that presupposes a knowledge of linear algebra, that few three-years-olds are likely to understand. Here we present a mu

  36. A. Nepomuk Otte, Anthony M. Brown, Michele Doro, Abe Falcone

    Trinity is a proposed air-shower imaging system optimized for the detection of earth-skimming ultrahigh energy tau neutrinos with energies between $10^7$ GeV and $10^{10}$ GeV. Trinity will pursue three major scientific objectives. 1) It will narrow in on possible source classes responsible for the astrophysical neutrino flux measured by IceCube. 2) It will

  37. Edward A. Pluhar, Carsten A. Ullrich

    In spin-density-functional theory for noncollinear magnetic materials, the Kohn-Sham system features exchange-correlation (xc) scalar potentials and magnetic fields. The significance of the xc magnetic fields is not very well explored; in particular, they can give rise to local torques on the magnetization, which are absent in standard local and semilocal ap

  38. Shashi Narayan, Shay B. Cohen, Mirella Lapata

    We introduce 'extreme summarization', a new single-document summarization task which aims at creating a short, one-sentence news summary answering the question ``What is the article about?''. We argue that extreme summarization, by nature, is not amenable to extractive strategies and requires an abstractive modeling approach. In the hope of d

  39. Mayank Baranwal, Amber Srivastava, Srinivasa Salapaka

    This work presents a maximum entropy principle based algorithm for solving minimum multiway $k$-cut problem defined over static and dynamic {\em digraphs}. A multiway $k$-cut problem requires partitioning the set of nodes in a graph into $k$ subsets, such that each subset contains one prespecified node, and the corresponding total cut weight is minimized. Th

  40. Vinicius F. Arruda, Thiago M. Paixão, Rodrigo F. Berriel, Alberto F. De Souza

    Deep learning techniques have enabled the emergence of state-of-the-art models to address object detection tasks. However, these techniques are data-driven, delegating the accuracy to the training dataset which must resemble the images in the target task. The acquisition of a dataset involves annotating images, an arduous and expensive process, generally req

  41. Bing Li, B. G. Ueland, W. T. Jayasekara, D. L. Abernathy

    Whereas magnetic frustration is typically associated with local-moment magnets in special geometric arrangements, here we show that SrCo$_{2}$As$_{2}$ is a candidate for frustrated itinerant magnetism. Using inelastic neutron scattering (INS), we find that antiferromagnetic (AF) spin fluctuations develop in the square Co layers of SrCo$_{2}$As$_{2}$ below $T

  42. Jun Dai, Roman V. Krems

    Gaussian process regression has recently emerged as a powerful, system-agnostic tool for building global potential energy surfaces (PES) of polyatomic molecules. While the accuracy of GP models of PES increases with the number of potential energy points, so does the numerical difficulty of training and evaluating GP models. Here, we demonstrate an approach t

  43. He Zhang, Santosh Kumar, Yu-Ping Huang

    We experimentally study a nonlinear optical approach to selective manipulation and detection of structured images mixed with turbulent noise. Unlike any existing adaptive-optics method by applying compensating modulation directly on the images, here we account for the turbulence indirectly, by modulating only the pump driving the nonlinear process but not th

  44. Helen M Byrne, Heather A Harrington, Ruth Muschel, Gesine Reinert

    Understanding how the spatial structure of blood vessel networks relates to their function in healthy and abnormal biological tissues could improve diagnosis and treatment for diseases such as cancer. New imaging techniques can generate multiple, high-resolution images of the same tissue region, and show how vessel networks evolve during disease onset and tr

  45. Heather A. Dye, Aaron Kaestner

    In this paper, we define the parity virtual Alexander polynomial following the work of BDGGHN [1] and Kaestner and Kauffman [10]. The properties of this invariant are explored and some examples are computed. In particular, the invariant demonstrates that many virtual knots can not be unknotted by crossing change on only odd crossings.

  46. Mehmet Emin Aktas, Esra Akbas, Ahmed El Fatmaoui

    Information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, and biological networks. The primary challenge in this domain is measuring similarity or distance between networks based on topology. However, classical graph-theoretic measures are usually local and

  47. Liting Sun, Wei Zhan, Yeping Hu, Masayoshi Tomizuka

    Understanding human driving behavior is important for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we propose an interpretable human behavior model in interactive driving scenarios based on the cumulative prospect theory (CPT). As a non-expected utility theory, CPT can well explain some systematically biased or ``irrational'' behavior/decisions of human that

  48. Eleazar Cuautle, Edgar Dominguez, Ivonne Maldonado

    Forward-backward multiplicity correlations have been studied in electron-positron, proton-proton and more recently in lead-lead collisions. For the proton-proton case, comparison of experimental results to different models reveals an incomplete understanding of the physical phenomenon associated with these correlations. In this work, we present a study of fo

  49. Tie Liu, Di Li, David Eden, James Di Francesco

    This white paper gives a brief summary of Galactic continuum surveys with the next generation 850 micron camera at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in the next decade. This new camera will have mapping speeds at least 10-20 times faster than the present SCUBA-2 camera, and will enable deep (<10 mJy/beam) and extensive continuum surveys such as a wide

  50. Kalyan Chakrabarti, Vincenzo Laporta, Jonathan Tennyson

    The hydroxyl radical, OH, is an important component of many natural and technological plasmas but there is little available information on processes involving its collisions with low-energy electrons. Low-energy electron collisions with OH are studied in the framework of the R-matrix method. Potential energy curves of some of the low lying target states of d

  51. Frank Calegari

    We prove a non-minimal modularity lifting theorem for ordinary Galois representations over imaginary quadratic fields, conditional on a local-global compatibility conjecture for ordinary torsion classes.

  52. Frank Calegari, David Geraghty, Michael Harris

    We prove a special case of the Bloch-Kato conjecture for adjoint motives associated to modular abelian surfaces.

  53. Gioia Rau, Keiichi Ohnaka, Markus Wittkowski, Vladimir Airapetian

    Molecules and dust produced by the atmospheres of cool evolved stars contribute to a significant amount of the total material found in the interstellar medium. To understand the mechanism behind the mass loss of these stars, it is of pivotal importance to investigate the structure and dynamics of their atmospheres. Our goal is to verify if the extended molec

  54. C. W. Sandbo Chang, Carlos Sabín, P. Forn-Díaz, Fernando Quijandría

    Spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) has been a key enabling technology in exploring quantum phenomena and their applications for decades. For instance, traditional SPDC, which splits a high energy pump photon into two lower energy photons, is a common way to produce entangled photon pairs. Since the early realizations of SPDC, researchers have thoug

  55. Carlos A. Argüelles, Mauricio Bustamante, Ali Kheirandish, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

    The astrophysical neutrinos discovered by IceCube have the highest detected neutrino energies --- from TeV to PeV --- and likely travel the longest distances --- up to a few Gpc, the size of the observable Universe. These features make them naturally attractive probes of fundamental particle-physics properties, possibly tiny in size, at energy scales unreach

  56. Robert G. Buckley, Eric M. Schlegel

    Several authors have previously shown that Gpc-scale void based on the spherically symmetric LTB model can provide a good fit to certain cosmological data, including the SNIa data, but it is only consistent with the observed CMB dipole if we are located very close to the center, in violation of the Copernican principle. In this work we investigate the more g

  57. S. Tasnim, Iver H. Cairns, B. Li, M. S. Wheatland

    Mapping of magnetic field lines is important for studies of the solar wind and the sources and propagation of energetic particles between the Sun and observers. A recently developed mapping approach is generalised to use a more advanced solar wind model that includes the effects of solar wind acceleration, non-radial intrinsic magnetic fields and flows at th

  58. Rémi Abgrall, Élise Le Mélédo, Philipp Öffner

    We present a class of discretisation spaces and H(div)-conformal elements that can be built on any polytope. Bridging the flexibility of the Virtual Element spaces towards the element&#39;s shape with the divergence properties of the Raviart-Thomas elements on the boundaries, the designed frameworks offer a wide range of H(div)-conformal discretisations. As

  59. Robert J. Griffin, Georg Wiedebach, Stephen McCrory, Sylvain Bertrand

    To increase the speed of operation and reduce operator burden, humanoid robots must be able to function autonomously, even in complex, cluttered environments. For this to be possible, they must be able to quickly and efficiently compute desired footsteps to reach a goal. In this work, we present a new A* footstep planner that utilizes a planar region represe

  60. Michael Färber

    Crunchbase is an online platform collecting information about startups and technology companies, including attributes and relations of companies, people, and investments. Data contained in Crunchbase is, to a large extent, not available elsewhere, making Crunchbase to a unique data source. In this paper, we present how to bring Crunchbase to the Web of Data

  61. B. W. Holwerda, Jonathan Fraine, Nelly Mouawad, Joanna S. Bridge

    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will observe several stars for long cumulative durations while pursuing exoplanets as primary science targets for both Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) and very likely General Observer (GO) programs. Here we argue in favor of an automatic default parallels program to observe e.g., using the F200W/F277W filters or grism

  62. Avner Peleg, Debananda Chakraborty

    We study the dynamics of emission of radiation (small-amplitude waves) in fast collisions between two solitons of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation in the presence of weak cubic loss. We calculate the radiation dynamics by a perturbation technique with two small parameters: the cubic loss coefficient $ε_{3}$ and the reciprocal of the group velocity di

  63. Alexa J. Halford, Adam C. Kellerman, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Jeffrey Klenzing

    The space physics community continues to grow and become both more interdisciplinary and more intertwined with commercial and government operations. This has created a need for a framework to easily identify what projects can be used for specific applications and how close the tool is to routine autonomous or on-demand implementation and operation. We propos

  64. W. Cosyn, B. Pire, L. Szymanowski

    Transversity generalized parton distributions (GPDs) can be probed in diffractive electro- and photoproduction of two vector mesons on a hadron in kinematics where the two vector mesons are separated by a large rapidity gap. We report on calculations for this process in the case of coherent $ρ^0-ω$ meson production on a deuteron target. Our cross section res

  65. Yichi Zhang, Yiting Zhang, Zhiyao Duan

    Searching sounds by text labels is often difficult, as text descriptions cannot describe the audio content in detail. Query by vocal imitation bridges such gap and provides a novel way to sound search. Several algorithms for sound search by vocal imitation have been proposed and evaluated in a simulation environment, however, they have not been deployed into

  66. Zhiliang Deng, Xiaomei Yang, Jiangfeng Huang

    The reconstruction of the unknown acoustic source is studied using the noisy multiple frequency data on a remote closed surface. Assume that the unknown source is coded in a spatial dependent piecewise constant function, whose support set is the target to be determined. In this setting, the unknown source can be formalized by a level set function. The functi

  67. Walter Veit

    Unlike any other field, the science of morality has drawn attention from an extraordinarily diverse set of disciplines. An interdisciplinary research program has formed in which economists, biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and even philosophers have been eager to provide answers to puzzling questions raised by the existence of human morality. Mode

  68. Dany Haddad, Joydeep Ghosh

    The limited availability of ground truth relevance labels has been a major impediment to the application of supervised methods to ad-hoc retrieval. As a result, unsupervised scoring methods, such as BM25, remain strong competitors to deep learning techniques which have brought on dramatic improvements in other domains, such as computer vision and natural lan

  69. Michel Laurent, Arnaldo Nogueira

    Let $f : [0,1)\rightarrow [0,1)$ be a $2$-interval piecewise affine increasing map which is injective but not surjective. Such a map $f$ has a rotation number and can be parametrized by three real numbers. We make fully explicit the dynamics of $f$ thanks to two specific functions $δ$ and $ϕ$ depending on these parameters whose definitions involve Hecke-Mahl

  70. Ganlin Song, Zhou Fan, John Lafferty

    We investigate a sequential optimization procedure to minimize the empirical risk functional $f_{\hatθ}(x) = \frac{1}{2}\|G_{\hatθ}(x) - y\|^2$ for certain families of deep networks $G_θ(x)$. The approach is to optimize a sequence of objective functions that use network parameters obtained during different stages of the training process. When initialized wit

  71. Khushbu Agarwal, Tome Eftimov, Raghavendra Addanki, Sutanay Choudhury

    Representation learning methods that transform encoded data (e.g., diagnosis and drug codes) into continuous vector spaces (i.e., vector embeddings) are critical for the application of deep learning in healthcare. Initial work in this area explored the use of variants of the word2vec algorithm to learn embeddings for medical concepts from electronic health r

  72. A. Mukherjee, J. Seo, M. M. Arik, H. Zhang

    By measuring the polarization changes in THz, infrared, and visible radiation over an extended energy range (3-2330 meV), we observe symmetry-breaking in cuprate high temperature superconductors over wide energy, doping, and temperature ranges. We measure the polarization rotation and ellipticity of transmitted radiation though thin films as the sample is ro

  73. Dana Yang, John Lafferty, David Pollard

    Quantile regression is a tool for learning conditional distributions. In this paper we study quantile regression in the setting where a protected attribute is unavailable when fitting the model. This can lead to &#34;unfair&#39;&#39; quantile estimators for which the effective quantiles are very different for the subpopulations defined by the protected attri

  74. Li Xiang, Elena Gati, Kathryn Neilson, Sergey L. Bud&#39;ko

    We present a study of electrical transport properties of $R$Bi$_2$ ($R$ = La, Ce) under hydrostatic pressure up to $\sim$ 2.5 GPa. These measurements are complemented by thermodynamic measurements of the specific heat on CeBi$_2$ at different pressures up to 2.55 GPa. For CeBi$_2$, we find a moderate increase of the antiferromagnetic transition, $T_\text N$,

  75. Piotr Ługiewicz, Lech Jakóbczyk, Andrzej Frydryszak

    We consider the possible quantum effect for infinite systems produced by variations of the Planck&#39;s constant. Using the algebraic formulation of quantum theory we study behaviour of states $ω$ defined as positive, normalized functionals on the canonical commutation relations algebra (CCR-algebra) under the changes of the defining relations of the CCR. Th

  76. Victor Peterson

    Philosophically, a repertoire of signifying practices as constitutive of a cultural endowment was said to be ambiguous or unworthy of pursuit. Currently, a unique capacity of the mind is considered to be its ability to produce a digital infinity. The infinity produced, here an operation expressing subjectivity, follows a simple principle according to which a

  77. Oscar Castañeda, Maria Bobbett, Alexandra Gallyas-Sanhueza, Christoph Studer

    Processing in memory (PIM) moves computation into memories with the goal of improving throughput and energy-efficiency compared to traditional von Neumann-based architectures. Most existing PIM architectures are either general-purpose but only support atomistic operations, or are specialized to accelerate a single task. We propose the Parallel Processor in A

  78. C. Lampman, C. M. Mynhardt, S. E. A. Ogden

    A total Roman dominating function on a graph $G$ is a function $% f:V(G)\rightarrow \{0,1,2\}$ such that every vertex $v$ with $f(v)=0$ is adjacent to some vertex $u$ with $f(u)=2$, and the subgraph of $G$ induced by the set of all vertices $w$ such that $f(w)>0$ has no isolated vertices. The weight of $f$ is $Σ_{v\in V(G)}f(v)$. The total Roman domination n

  79. Mohammad E. Akhtar

    We show that Fano lattice polygons define a class of balanced quivers with interesting properties. The combinatorics of these quivers is related to singularities of the underlying toric Fano surface. This allows us to show that every Fano polygon defines a point on a certain family of algebraic hypersurfaces. Our quivers admit a generalized mutation which pr

  80. Junhyun Baek, Aeree Chung, Kevin Schawinski, Kyuseok Oh

    We have performed a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey of local (z < 0.05) ultra hard X-ray (14-195 keV) selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) using KVN, KaVA, and VLBA. We first executed fringe surveys of 142 BAT-detected AGN at 15 or 22 GHz. Based on the fringe surveys and archival data, we find 10/27

  81. A. Rodríguez-Casal, P. Saavedra-Nieves

    Given a random sample of points from some unknown distribution, we propose a new data-driven method for estimating its probability support S. Under the mild assumption that S is r-convex, the smallest r-convex set which contains the sample points is the natural estimator. The main problem for using this estimator in practice is that r is an unknown geometric

  82. Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Diego Rybski, Jürgen P. Kropp

    The question of whether urbanization contributes to increasing carbon dioxide emissions has been mainly investigated via scaling relationships with population or population density. However, these approaches overlook the correlations between population and area, and ignore possible interactions between these quantities. Here, we propose a generalized framewo

  83. Sining Wei, Yong Wang

    In this paper, we establish two kinds of Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorems for Dirac operators and signature operators twisted by a vector bundle with a non-unitary connection on six-dimensional manifolds with boundary.

  84. Emilio N. M. Cirillo, Matteo Colangeli, Adrian Muntean, T. K. Thoa Thieu

    We study the pedestrian escape from an obscure corridor using a lattice gas model with two species of particles. One species, called passive, performs a symmetric random walk on the lattice, whereas the second species, called active, is subject to a drift guiding the particles towards the exit. The drift mimics the awareness of some pedestrians of the geomet

  85. Luiz Emilio Allem, Daniel Alejandro Jaume, Gonzalo Molina, Maikon Machado Toledo

    In this work we obtain basis for the null space of unicyclic graphs. We extend the null decomposition of trees from [11] for unicyclic graphs. As an application, we obtain closed formulas for the independence and matching numbers of unicyclic graphs just using the support of the graph.

  86. Yoshitaka Kawashima

    So far, cosmic ray air showers have been detected using scintillation counter arrays on the ground widely. And also air Cherenkov detection method, which is limited its observation period in moonless nights, has been adopted. The detection method of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers is not new, but rather old method. Radio emission from cosmic ray a

  87. Sajad Salami

    In this paper, we are going to calculate the determinant of a certain type of square matrices, which are related to the well-known Cauchy and Toeplitz matrices. Then, we will use the results to determine the rank of special non-square matrices.

  88. Bram Vanhecke, Jutho Haegeman, Karel Van Acoleyen, Laurens Vanderstraeten

    We revisit the question of describing critical spin systems and field theories using matrix product states, and formulate a scaling hypothesis in terms of operators, eigenvalues of the transfer matrix, and lattice spacing in the case of field theories. Critical exponents and central charge are determined by optimizing the exponents such as to obtain a data c

  89. Dilek Yildiz, Marcin Kisiel, Urs Gysin, Oguzhan Gürlü

    Dissipation mechanisms are experimentally studied on topological insulator surfaces of Bi2Te3, where common Joule dissipation was observed to be suppressed due to topologically protected surface states. Thus, a novel type of dissipation mechanism is observed by pendulum AFM, which is related to single electron tunneling resonances into image potential states

  90. Luca Manneschi, Andrew C. Lin, Eleni Vasilaki

    The mushroom body is the key network for the representation of learned olfactory stimuli in Drosophila and insects. The sparse activity of Kenyon cells, the principal neurons in the mushroom body, plays a key role in the learned classification of different odours. In the specific case of the fruit fly, the sparseness of the network is enforced by an inhibito

  91. Jean-François Fortin, Valentina Prilepina, Witold Skiba

    We show how to construct embedding space three-point functions for operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations by employing the formalism developed in arXiv:1905.00036 and arXiv:1905.00434. We study tensor structures that intertwine the operators with the derivatives in the OPE and examine properties of OPE coefficients under permutations of operators. Se

  92. X. Haubois, B. Norris, P. G. Tuthill, C. Pinte

    Theory surrounding the origin of the dust-laden winds from evolved stars remains mired in controversy. Characterizing the formation loci and the dust distribution within approximately the first stellar radius above the surface is crucial for understanding the physics that underlie the mass-loss phenomenon. By exploiting interferometric polarimetry, we derive

  93. Justin Shenk, Mats L. Richter, Anders Arpteg, Mikael Huss

    We propose a metric, Layer Saturation, defined as the proportion of the number of eigenvalues needed to explain 99% of the variance of the latent representations, for analyzing the learned representations of neural network layers. Saturation is based on spectral analysis and can be computed efficiently, making live analysis of the representations practical d

  94. Sravya Polisetty, Andriy Miranskyy, Ayse Bener

    Background: Developers spend a significant amount of time and efforts to localize bugs. In the literature, many researchers proposed state-of-the-art bug localization models to help developers localize bugs easily. The practitioners, on the other hand, expect a bug localization tool to meet certain criteria, such as trustworthiness, scalability, and efficien

  95. Nidhish Raj, Ravi Banavar, Abhishek, Mangal Kothari

    This paper proposes a solution to the attitude tracking problem for a novel quadrotor tailsitter unmanned aerial vehicle called swiveling biplane quadrotor. The proposed vehicle design addresses the lack of yaw control authority in conventional biplane quadrotor tailsitters by proposing a new design wherein two wings with two attached propellers are joined t

  96. Ariel Noyman, Yasushi Sakai, Kent Larson

    Processes of urban planning, urban design and architecture are inherently tangible, iterative and collaborative. Nevertheless, the majority of tools in these fields offer virtual environments and single user experience. This paper presents CityScopeAR: a computational-tangible mixed-reality platform designed for collaborative urban design processes. It portr

  97. Miruna-Stefana Sorea

    The goal of this paper is to measure the non-convexity of compact and smooth connected components of real algebraic plane curves. We study these curves first in a general setting and then in an asymptotic one. In particular, we consider sufficiently small levels of a real bivariate polynomial in a small enough neighbourhood of a strict local minimum at the o

  98. Jonathan Gray, Kavya Srinet, Yacine Jernite, Haonan Yu

    This paper describes an implementation of a bot assistant in Minecraft, and the tools and platform allowing players to interact with the bot and to record those interactions. The purpose of building such an assistant is to facilitate the study of agents that can complete tasks specified by dialogue, and eventually, to learn from dialogue interactions.

  99. Patricia Ribes, Angels Ramos, Laura Tolos, Claudia Gonzalez-Boquera

    We analyze the effects of including $Δ(1232)$ isobars in an equation of state (EoS) for cold, $β$-stable neutron star matter, employing relativistic nuclear mean field theory. The selected EoS reproduces the properties of nuclear matter and finite nuclei and, in the astrophysical context, allows for the presence of hyperons in neutron stars having masses lar

  100. Maxwell Levine, Assaf Rinot

    We address the question of whether a reflecting stationary set may be partitioned into two or more reflecting stationary subsets, providing various affirmative answers in ZFC. As an application to singular cardinals combinatorics, we infer that it is never the case that there exists a singular cardinal all of whose scales are very good.