July 2019 arXiv papers — page 73

M. Ilyas

We investigate the different energy conditions in nonlocal gravity, which is obtained by adding an arbitrary function of d'Alembertian operator, $f(\Box^{-1})$, to the Hilbert- Einstein action. We analyze the validity of four different energy conditions and illustrate the different constraints over parameters of the power law solution as well as de Sitte

Kin Sum Liu, Chien-Chun Ni, Yu-Yao Lin, Jie Gao

We propose a new graph kernel for graph classification and comparison using Ollivier Ricci curvature. The Ricci curvature of an edge in a graph describes the connectivity in the local neighborhood. An edge in a densely connected neighborhood has positive curvature and an edge serving as a local bridge has negative curvature. We use the edge curvature distrib

François Delgove

In this paper, we prove the existence of a Kahler Ricci soliton on any smooth Fano horospherical manifold by a study of the Kahler-Ricci flow. Indeed, we prove that the renormalized Kahler Ricci flow converges in the sense of Cheeger Gromov and that this limit is a Kahler-Ricci soliton.

Ali Tehrani, Mohammed Khaleel, Reza Akbari, Ali Jannesari

With the proliferation of multi-core hardware, parallel programs have become ubiquitous. These programs have their own type of bugs known as concurrency bugs and among them, data race bugs have been mostly in the focus of researchers over the past decades. In fact, detecting data races is a very challenging and important task. There have been several researc

Jean Barbier

We consider Bayesian inference of signals with vector-valued entries. Extending concentration techniques from the mathematical physics of spin glasses, we show that the matrix-valued minimum mean-square error concentrates when the size of the problem increases. Such results are often crucial for proving single-letter formulas for the mutual information when

Justo Puerto, Moises Rodríguez-Madrena, Andrea Scozzari

Given a set of assets and an investment capital, the classical portfolio selection problem consists in determining the amount of capital to be invested in each asset in order to build the most profitable portfolio. The portfolio optimization problem is naturally modeled as a mean-risk bi-criteria optimization problem where the mean rate of return of the port

Stefano V. Albrecht, Subramanian Ramamoorthy

While many multiagent algorithms are designed for homogeneous systems (i.e. all agents are identical), there are important applications which require an agent to coordinate its actions without knowing a priori how the other agents behave. One method to make this problem feasible is to assume that the other agents draw their latent policy (or type) from a spe

Qunjie Liu, Shun Zhang

In this paper, two flux-only least-squares finite element methods (LSFEM) for the linear hyperbolic transport problem are developed. The transport equation often has discontinuous solutions and discontinuous inflow boundary conditions, but the normal component of the flux across the mesh interfaces is continuous. In traditional LSFEMs, the continuous finite

Arfon M. Smith, Dara Norman, Kelle Cruz, Vandana Desai

Software is a critical part of modern research, and yet there are insufficient mechanisms in the scholarly ecosystem to acknowledge, cite, and measure the impact of research software. The majority of academic fields rely on a one-dimensional credit model whereby academic articles (and their associated citations) are the dominant factor in the success of a re

Sergey Kryzhevich, Sergey Pilyugin

We study various weaker forms of inverse shadowing property for discrete dynamical systems on a smooth compact manifold. First, we introduce the so-called Ergodic Inverse Shadowing property (Birhhoff averages of continuous functions along the exact trajectory and the approximating one are close). We demonstrate that this property implies continuity of the se

David Lindemann

We construct a compact convex generating set $\mathcal{C}_n$ of the moduli set of closed connected projective special real manifolds of fixed dimension $n$. We show that a closed connected projective special real manifold corresponds to an inner point of $\mathcal{C}_n$ if and only if it has regular boundary behaviour. Our results can be used to describe def

N. M. Jiménez Cruz, Celia Escamilla-Rivera

In this paper we study the cosmological evolution of the universe filled with a perfect fluid in the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. Applying an alternative method in which the evolution of the scale factor for this theory is linked to the cosmographic parameters, we obtain a dynamical dark energy solution where the singularity (through a regular bou

Khaled Elbassioni

We consider robust discrete minimization problems where uncertainty is defined by a convex set in the objective. We show how an integrality gap verifier for the linear programming relaxation of the non-robust version of the problem can be used to derive approximation algorithms for the robust version.

Nilasis Chaudhuri

We study singular limit for scaled barotropic Euler system modelling a rotating, compressible and inviscid fluid, where Mach and Rossby numbers are proportional to a small parameter $ε$. If the fluid is confined to an infinite slab, the limit behaviour is identified as a horizontal motion of an incompressible inviscid system that is analogous to the Euler sy

Peng-Chao Xu, J. W. Rao, Y. S. Gui, Xiaofeng Jin

We investigate long-range coherent and dissipative coupling between two spatially separated magnets while both are coupled to a microwave cavity. A careful examination of the system shows that the indirect interaction between two magnon modes is dependent on their individual mechanisms of direct coupling to the cavity. If both magnon modes share the same for

Soukaina Douissi, Khalifa Es-Sebaiy, Fatimah Alshahrani, Frederi G. Viens

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the quadratic variation for the class of AR(1) processes driven by white noise in the second Wiener chaos. Using tools from the analysis on Wiener space, we give an upper bound for the total-variation speed of convergence to the normal law, which we apply to study the estimation of the model's mean-rever

Kay Brandner, Keiji Saito

We develop a geometric framework to describe the thermodynamics of microscopic heat engines driven by slow periodic temperature variations and modulations of a mechanical control parameter. Covering both the classical and the quantum regime, our approach reveals a universal trade-off relation between efficiency and power that follows solely from geometric ar

Emre Yigitoglu, Mehmet Emre Gursoy, Ling Liu

Location-based queries enable fundamental services for mobile road network travelers. While the benefits of location-based services (LBS) are numerous, exposure of mobile travelers' location information to untrusted LBS providers may lead to privacy breaches. In this paper, we propose StarCloak, a utility-aware and attack-resilient approach to building a

Jason Ku, Alex D. Pon, Sean Walsh, Steven L. Waslander

Accurately estimating the orientation of pedestrians is an important and challenging task for autonomous driving because this information is essential for tracking and predicting pedestrian behavior. This paper presents a flexible Virtual Multi-View Synthesis module that can be adopted into 3D object detection methods to improve orientation estimation. The m

Lukas Iffländer, Alexandra Dmitrienko, Christoph Hagen, Michael Jobst

Ransomware is an emerging threat which imposed a \$ 5 billion loss in 2017 and is predicted to hit \$ 11.5 billion in 2019. While initially targeting PC (client) platforms, ransomware recently made the leap to server-side databases - starting in January 2017 with the MongoDB Apocalypse attack, followed by other attack waves targeting a wide range of DB types

Judith Olson, Richard W. Fox, Tara M. Fortier, Todd F. Sheerin

We demonstrate Ramsey-Bordé (RB) atom interferometry for high performance laser stabilization with fractional frequency instability $<2 \times 10^{-16}$ for timescales between 10 and 1000s. The RB spectroscopy laser interrogates two counterpropagating $^{40}$Ca beams on the $^1$S$_0$ -- $^3$P$_1$ transition at 657 nm, yielding 1.6 kHz linewidth interference

Sara Beery, Dan Morris, Siyu Yang

Biologists all over the world use camera traps to monitor biodiversity and wildlife population density. The computer vision community has been making strides towards automating the species classification challenge in camera traps, but it has proven difficult to to apply models trained in one region to images collected in different geographic areas. In some c

Ruben Becker, Imane Hafnaoui, Michael E. Houle, Pan Li

Axis-aligned subspace clustering generally entails searching through enormous numbers of subspaces (feature combinations) and evaluation of cluster quality within each subspace. In this paper, we tackle the problem of identifying subsets of features with the most significant contribution to the formation of the local neighborhood surrounding a given data poi

Alexander Rudolph, Gibor Basri, Marcel Agüeros, Ed Bertschinger

The purpose of this white paper is to provide guidance to funding agencies, leaders in the discipline, and its constituent departments about strategies for (1) improving access to advanced education for people from populations that have long been underrepresented and (2) improving the climates of departments where students enroll. The twin goals of improving

Raquel A. Martinez, Adam L. Kraus

Direct imaging surveys have discovered wide-orbit planetary-mass companions that challenge existing models of both star and planet formation, but their demographics remain poorly sampled. We have developed an automated binary companion point spread function (PSF) fitting pipeline to take advantage of Spitzer&#39;s infrared sensitivity to planetary-mass objec

Delalcan Kilic

Integration of Kirillov form on a coadjoint orbit of Virasoro algebra yields the coupling of a background field to Polyakov&#39;s two dimensional quantum gravity. This background field is used to be called the diffeomorphism field. Einstein&#39;s gravity is dynamically trivial in two dimensions. Moreover, the diffeomorphism field can be interpreted as the gr

A. Tlaie, I. Leyva, I. Sendiña

We explore the consequences of introducing higher-order interactions in a geometric complex network of Morris-Lecar neurons. We focus on the regime where travelling synchronization waves are observed out of a first-neighbours based coupling, to evaluate the changes induced when higher-order dynamical interactions are included. We observe that the travelling

Anna Sitek, Miguel Urbaneja Torres, Andrei Manolescu

We discuss the low energy electronic states in hexagonal rings. These states correspond to the transverse modes in core-shell nanowires built of III-V semiconductors which typically have a hexagonal cross section. In the case of symmetric structures the 12 lowest states (including the spin) are localized in the corners, while the next following 12 states are

Ruben Carrillo, Miguel Angel Moreles, Rafael Herrera

We show that the Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) method can be cast as the earlier box method for the Poisson problem in the plane. Consequently, error estimates are established, proving that the DEC method is comparable to the Finite Element Method with linear elements. We also discuss some virtues, others than convergence, of the DEC method.

Luigi Ferraro, Ellen Kirkman, W. Frank Moore, Kewen Peng

We present two noncommutative algebras over a field of characteristic zero that each posses a family of actions by cyclic groups of order $2n$, represented in $n \times n$ matrices, requiring generators of degree $3n$.

Chockalingam Senthilnathan, Tal Cohen

Nonlinear evolution of shear waves into shocks in incompressible elastic materials is investigated using the framework of large deformation elastodynamics, for a family of loadings and commonly used hyperelastic material models. Closed form expressions for the shock formation distance are derived and used to construct non-dimensional phase maps that determin

E. S. Ferreira, E. F. Chagas, A. P. Albuquerque, R. J. Prado

We report an experimental study of the CoFe2O4/CoFe2 nanocomposite, a nanostructured material formed by hard (CoFe2O4) and soft (CoFe2) magnetic materials. The precursor material, cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4), was prepared using the conventional stoichiometric gel-combustion method. The nanocomposite material was obtained by reducing partially the precursor mate

Binod Bhattarai, Rumeysa Bodur, Tae-Kyun Kim

Augmenting data in image space (eg. flipping, cropping etc) and activation space (eg. dropout) are being widely used to regularise deep neural networks and have been successfully applied on several computer vision tasks. Unlike previous works, which are mostly focused on doing augmentation in the aforementioned domains, we propose to do augmentation in label

Aluna Rizzoli

Building on the classification of modules for algebraic groups with finitely many orbits on subspaces, we determine all faithful irreducible modules for simple and maximal-semisimple connected algebraic groups that are orthogonal and have finitely many orbits on singular $1$-spaces. This question is naturally connected with the problem of finding for which p

Rebecca A. Koopmann, Thomas J. Balonek, John M. Cannon, David Craig

The NSF-sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Team (UAT) promotes long-term collaborative research opportunities for faculty and students from 23 U.S. public and private primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) within the context of the extragalactic ALFALFA HI blind legacy survey project. Over twelve project years of partnering with Arecibo and Green Bank Obse

Mark Huber

Consider a randomized algorithm that draws samples exactly from a distribution using recursion. Such an algorithm is called a perfect simulation, and here a variety of methods for building this type of algorithm are shown to derive from the same result: the Fundamental Theorem of Perfect Simulation (FTPS). The FTPS gives two necessary and sufficient conditio

Mayank Kejriwal, Peilin Zhou

Humanitarian disasters have been on the rise in recent years due to the effects of climate change and socio-political situations such as the refugee crisis. Technology can be used to best mobilize resources such as food and water in the event of a natural disaster, by semi-automatically flagging tweets and short messages as indicating an urgent need. The pro

Fredric D. Ancel, Pete Sparks

The main result of this article is that among the family of one-relator presentation 2-complexes that might be expected to be finitely unsplittable (not the union of two proper subpolyhedra with finite first homology groups) almost all have this property. Included among these one-relator presentation 2-complexes are all generalized dunce hats. A generalized

Jose Balanza-Martinez, David Caballero, Angel A. Cantu, Luis Angel Garcia

We investigate the problem of assembling general shapes and patterns in a model in which particles move based on uniform external forces until they encounter an obstacle. While previous work within this model of assembly has focused on designing a specific board configuration for the assembly of a specific given shape, we propose the problem of designing uni

Andrei Tkachenka, Gregory Karpiak, Andrey Vakunov, Yury Kartynnik

We present a novel approach for neural network-based hair segmentation from a single camera input specifically designed for real-time, mobile application. Our relatively small neural network produces a high-quality hair segmentation mask that is well suited for AR effects, e.g. virtual hair recoloring. The proposed model achieves real-time inference speed on

Martin Axel Blufstein, Elias Gabriel Minian

We introduce the notion of strictly systolic angled complexes. They generalize Januszkiewickz and Świątkowski&#39;s $7$-systolic simplicial complexes and also their metric counterparts, which appear as natural analogues to Huang and Osajda&#39;s metrically systolic simplicial complexes in the context of negative curvature. We prove that strictly systolic ang

Andrzej Czarnecki, William J. Marciano, Alberto Sirlin

The universal radiative corrections common to neutron and super-allowed nuclear beta decays (also known as ``inner&#39;&#39; corrections) are revisited in light of a recent dispersion relation study that found $+2.467(22)\%$, i.e.~about $2.4σ$ larger than the previous evaluation. For comparison, we consider several alternative computational methods. All empl

Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Romain Vexiau, Ziv Meir, Tomas Sikorsky

Atom-ion interactions occur through the electric dipole which is induced by the ion on the neutral atom. In a Langevin collision, in which the atom and ion overcome the centrifugal barrier and reach a short internuclear distance, their internal electronic states deform due to their interaction and can eventually alter. Here we explore the outcome products an

Vincent Bonini, Conor Carroll, Uyen Dinh, Sydney Dye

We study a modified notion of Ollivier&#39;s coarse Ricci curvature on graphs introduced by Lin, Lu, and Yau in [11]. We establish a rigidity theorem for complete graphs that shows a connected finite simple graph is complete if and only if the Ricci curvature is strictly greater than one. We then derive explicit Ricci curvature formulas for strongly regular

Christian Beck, Fabian Hornung, Martin Hutzenthaler, Arnulf Jentzen

One of the most challenging problems in applied mathematics is the approximate solution of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in high dimensions. Standard deterministic approximation methods like finite differences or finite elements suffer from the curse of dimensionality in the sense that the computational effort grows exponentially in the dim

ATLAS Collaboration

The inclusive cross-section for jet production in association with a Z boson decaying into an electron-positron pair is measured as a function of the transverse momentum and the absolute rapidity of jets using 19.9 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt s = 8$ TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The measured Z + jets

Tairan Liu, Zhensong Wei, Yair Rivenson, Kevin de Haan

We report a framework based on a generative adversarial network (GAN) that performs high-fidelity color image reconstruction using a single hologram of a sample that is illuminated simultaneously by light at three different wavelengths. The trained network learns to eliminate missing-phase-related artifacts, and generates an accurate color transformation for

Yury Kartynnik, Artsiom Ablavatski, Ivan Grishchenko, Matthias Grundmann

We present an end-to-end neural network-based model for inferring an approximate 3D mesh representation of a human face from single camera input for AR applications. The relatively dense mesh model of 468 vertices is well-suited for face-based AR effects. The proposed model demonstrates super-realtime inference speed on mobile GPUs (100-1000+ FPS, depending

Gustavo V. Machado, Ítalo Cunha, Adriano C. M. Pereira, Leonardo B. Oliveira

The competitive dynamics of the globalized market demand information on the internal and external reality of corporations. Information is a precious asset and is responsible for establishing key advantages to enable companies to maintain their leadership. However, reliable, rich information is no longer the only goal. The time frame to extract information fr

Guang Yang, Bee Vang, Zachary Serlin, Calin Belta

Robot motion planning is central to real-world autonomous applications, such as self-driving cars, persistence surveillance, and robotic arm manipulation. One challenge in motion planning is generating control signals for nonlinear systems that result in obstacle free paths through dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose Control Barrier Function guid

Robert Vrabel

This paper deals with an analysis and design of robust, state-feedback control law uniform-asymptotically stabilizing at origin the system consisting of coupled $n$th--order ordinary differential equations in the presence of a non-vanishing at $x=0$ or even unbounded on the time interval $[0,\infty)$ time-varying high-frequency oscillating perturbation $w(t,

Zhizhi Zhang, Michael Vogel, M. Benjamin Jungfleisch, Axel Hoffmann

The propagation of edge localized spin waves (E-SWs) in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) microstripes with/without the proximate magnetic microstructures is investigated by micromagnetic simulations. A splitting of the dispersion curve with the presence of permalloy (Py) stripe is also observed. The E-SWs on the two edges of YIG stripe have different wavelengths, g

Ming Yang, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Bi-Wei Jiang, Jian Gao

We present a clean, magnitude-limited (IRAC1 or WISE1 $\leq$ 15.0 mag) multiwavelength source catalog for the SMC with 45,466 targets in total, with the purpose of building an anchor for future studies, especially for the massive star populations at low-metallicity. The catalog contains data in 50 different bands including 21 optical and 29 infrared bands, r

Erin Bevilacqua, Kapil Chandran, Yunseo Choi

For rational $α$, the fractional partition functions $p_α(n)$ are given by the coefficients of the generating function $(q;q)^α_\infty$. When $α=-1$, one obtains the usual partition function. Congruences of the form $p(\ell n + c)\equiv 0 \pmod{\ell}$ for a prime $\ell$ and integer $c$ were studied by Ramanujan. Such congruences exist only for $\ell\in\{5,7,

Sally Oey, Tom Maccarone, Fred Walter, Charles Bailyn

Open-access telescopes of all apertures are needed to operate a competitive and efficient national science program. While larger facilities contribute light-gathering power and angular resolution, smaller ones dominate for field of view, time-resolution, and especially, total available observing time, thereby enabling our entire, diversely-expert community.

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar

Low background searches for astrophysical neutrino sources anywhere in the sky can be performed using cascade events induced by neutrinos of all flavors interacting in IceCube with energies as low as ~1 TeV. Previously, we showed that even with just two years of data, the resulting sensitivity to sources in the southern sky is competitive with IceCube and AN

Klaus M. Frahm, Leonardo Ermann, Dima L. Shepelyansky

We study numerically the problem of dynamical thermalization of interacting cold fermionic atoms placed in an isolated Sinai-oscillator trap. This system is characterized by a quantum chaos regime for one-particle dynamics. We show that for a many-body system of cold atoms the interactions, with a strength above a certain quantum chaos border given by the Ab

Hans Juergen Luedde, Marko Horbatsch, Tom Kirchner

Net ionization and net capture cross-section calculations are presented for proton collisions from methane molecules and the DNA/RNA nucleobases adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil. We use the recently introduced independent-atom-model pixel counting method to calculate these cross sections in the 10 keV to 10 MeV impact energy range and compare

Juanyong Wang

By applying the positivity theorem of direct images and a pluricanonical version of the structure theorem on the cohomology jumping loci à la Green-Lazarsfeld-Simpson, we show that the klt Kähler version of the Iitaka conjecture $C_{n,m}$ (Ueno, 1975) for $f:X\to Y$ (surjective morphism between compact Kähler manifolds with connected general fibre) holds tru

Pedro Castellucci, Franklina M. B. Toledo, Alysson M. Costa

Research on container loading problems has been proved effective in increasing the filling rate of containers in different practical situations. However, the broader logistic context might pressure the loading process, leading to sub-optimal solutions. Some facilities like cross-docks have reduced storage space which might force early loading activities. We

Jesse Wang, Henry Kautz

A new clinical literature search engine, called CupQ, is presented. It aims to help clinicians stay updated with medical knowledge. Although PubMed is currently one of the most widely used digital libraries for biomedical information, it frequently does not return clinically relevant results. CupQ utilizes a ranking algorithm that filters non-medical journal

M. Prämassing, M. Liebtrau, H. J. Schill, S. Irsen

Plasmonic waveguides are a promising platform for integrated nanophotonic circuits and nanoscale quantum optics. Their use is however often hampered by the limited propagation length of the guided surface plasmon modes. A detailed understanding of the influence of the material quality and the waveguide geometry on the complex mode index is therefore crucial.

Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Hasan Serce

Right-handed neutrinos in supersymmetric models can act as the source of lepton flavor violation (LFV). We present experimental implications of lepton flavor-violating processes within a supersymmetric type-I seesaw framework in the three-extra-parameter non-universal Higgs model (NUHM3) for large (PMNS-like) and small (CKM-like) Yukawa mixing scenarios. We

Tarek Ahmed-Ali, Iasson Karafyllis, Fouad Giri

This paper studies the problem of designing sampled-data observers and observer-based, sampled-data, output feedback stabilizers for systems with both discrete and distributed, state and output time-delays. The obtained results can be applied to time delay systems of strict-feedback structure, transport Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with nonlocal ter

Shihao Ge, Haruna Isah, Farhana Zulkernine, Shahzad Khan

The rapid growth of data in velocity, volume, value, variety, and veracity has enabled exciting new opportunities and presented big challenges for businesses of all types. Recently, there has been considerable interest in developing systems for processing continuous data streams with the increasing need for real-time analytics for decision support in the bus

Samuel A. March, Drew B. Riley, Charlotte Clegg, Daniel Webber

Carrier scattering processes are studied in CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_3$ using temperature-dependent four-wave mixing experiments. Our results indicate that scattering by ionized impurities limits the interband dephasing time (T$_2$) below 30~K, with strong electron-phonon scattering dominating at higher temperatures (with a timescale of 125 fs at 100 K). Our theoret

Emmanouil Zapartas, Selma E. de Mink, Stephen Justham, Nathan Smith

Hydrogen-rich supernovae, known as Type II (SNe II), are the most common class of explosions observed following the collapse of the core of massive stars. We use analytical estimates and population synthesis simulations to assess the fraction of SNe II progenitors that are expected to have exchanged mass with a companion prior to explosion. We estimate that

G. Di Sciascio, Bigongiari Ciro, Bulgarelli Andrea, Camarri Paolo

Extensice Air Shower (EAS) arrays are survey instruments able to monitor continuously all the overhead sky. Their wide field of view (about 2 sr) is ideal to complement directional detectors by performing unbiased sky surveys, by monitoring variable or flaring sources, such as AGNs, and to discover transients or explosive events (GRBs). With an energy thresh

Diaaaldin J. Bisharat, Daniel F. Sievenpiper

The discovery of topological insulators has rapidly been followed by the advent of their photonic analogues, motivated by the prospect of backscattering-immune light propagation. So far, however, implementations have mainly relied on engineering bulk modes in photonic crystals and waveguide arrays in two-dimensional systems, which closely mimic their electro

Adrien Pyskir, Manuel Collet, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Claude-Henri Lamarque

We present a numerical study on an enhanced periodic auxetic metamaterial. Rotating squares mechanism allied to precompression induced buckling give these elastic structures exotic properties. The static properties of the reference structure and the enhanced ones are first compared. After numerical analysis to ascertain the differences between several band c

Javier Reynoso-Cordova, Oleg Burgueño, Alex Geringer-Sameth, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales

We explore two possible scenarios to explain the observed gamma-ray emission associated with the atypical globular cluster Omega-Centauri: emission from millisecond pulsars (MSP) and dark matter (DM) annihilation. In the first case the total number of MSPs needed to produce the gamma-ray flux is compatible with the known (but not confirmed) MSP candidates ob

Guido Falk von Rudorff, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Based on thermodynamic integration we introduce atoms in molecules (AIM) using the orbital-free framework of alchemical perturbation density functional theory (APDFT). Within APDFT, atomic energies and electron densities in molecules are arbitrary because any arbitrary reference system and integration path can be selected as long as it meets the boundary con

Zhang Zhang, Dacheng Tao

Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) extracts slowly varying features from a quickly varying input signal. It has been successfully applied to modeling the visual receptive fields of the cortical neurons. Sufficient experimental results in neuroscience suggest that the temporal slowness principle is a general learning principle in visual perception. In this paper, we

Andre G. S. Landulfo, Stephen A. Fulling, George E. A. Matsas

The interplay between acceleration and radiation harbors remarkable and surprising consequences. One of the most striking is that the Larmor radiation emitted by a charge can be seen as a consequence of the Unruh thermal bath. Indeed, this connection between the Unruh effect and classical bremsstrahlung was used recently to propose an experiment to confirm (

S. Dholakia, S. Dholakia, Ann Marie Cody, Steve B. Howell

The K2 mission has enabled searches for transits in crowded stellar environments very different from the original Kepler mission field. We describe here the reduction and analysis of time series data from K2&#39;s Campaign 0 superstamp, which contains the 150 Myr open cluster M35. We report on the identification of a substellar transiting object orbiting an

Jeong Han Kim, Kyoungchul Kong, Benjamin Nachman, Daniel Whiteson

Searching for two-body resonance decays is a central component of the high energy physics energy frontier research program. While many of the possibilities are covered when the two bodies are Standard Model (SM) particles, there are still significant gaps. If one or both of the bodies are themselves non-SM particles, there is very little coverage from existi

Kenji Hamaguchi, Toru Tanimori, Atsushi Takada, John F. Beacom

A sensitive survey of the MeV gamma-ray sky is needed to understand important astrophysical problems such as gamma-ray bursts in the early universe, progenitors of Type Ia supernovae, and the nature of dark matter. However, the study has not progressed remarkably since the limited survey by COMPTEL onboard CGRO in the 1990s. Tanimori et al. have developed a

John H. Wise

The universe goes through several phase transitions during its formative stages. Cosmic reionization is the last of them, where ultraviolet and X-ray radiation escape from the first generations of galaxies heating and ionizing their surroundings and subsequently the entire intergalactic medium. There is strong observational evidence that cosmic reionization

E. Lachman, N. Maksimovic, R. Kealhofer, S. Haley

Co3Sn2S2 is a ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal that has been the subject of intense scientific interest due to its large anomalous Hall effect. We show that the coupling of this material&#39;s topological properties to its magnetic texture leads to a strongly exchange biased anomalous Hall effect. We argue that this is likely caused by the coexistence of ferroma

Wei Gu, Hadi Parsian, Eric Sharpe

In this paper we extend the nonabelian mirror proposal of two of the authors from two-dimensional gauge theories with connected gauge groups to the case of O(k) gauge groups with discrete theta angles. We check our proposed extension by counting and comparing vacua in mirrors to known dual two-dimensional (S)O(k) gauge theories. The mirrors in question are L

Juan A. Sanchez, Vishnu Reddy, Audrey Thirouin, Edward L. Wright

Main belt asteroid (6478) Gault has been dynamically linked with two overlapping asteroid families: Phocaea, dominated by S-type asteroids, and Tamara, dominated by low-albedo C-types. This object has recently become an interesting case for study, after images obtained in late 2018 revealed that it was active and displaying a comet-like tail. Previous author

Patrick W. Ruch, Rui Hu, Luca Capua, Yuksel Temiz

Electronic tongues based on potentiometry offer the prospect of rapid and continuous chemical fingerprinting for portable and remote systems. The present contribution presents a technology platform including a miniaturized electronic tongue based on electropolymerized ion-sensitive films, microcontroller-based data acquisition, a smartphone interface and clo

S. Crossley, B. Nair, R. W. Whatmore, X. Moya

There is growing interest in heat pumps based on materials that show thermal changes when phase transitions are driven by changes of electric, magnetic or stress field. Importantly, regeneration permits sinks and loads to be thermally separated by many times the changes of temperature that can arise in the materials themselves. However, performance and param

Hangting Chen, Zuozhen Liu, Zongming Liu, Pengyuan Zhang

This technical report describes the IOA team&#39;s submission for TASK1A of DCASE2019 challenge. Our acoustic scene classification (ASC) system adopts a data augmentation scheme employing generative adversary networks. Two major classifiers, 1D deep convolutional neural network integrated with scalogram features and 2D fully convolutional neural network inte

Nic Ormes, Ronnie Pavlov

We prove that every non-minimal transitive subshift $X$ satisfying a mild aperiodicity condition satisfies $\limsup c_n(X) - 1.5n = \infty$, and give a class of examples which shows that the threshold of $1.5n$ cannot be increased. As a corollary, we show that any transitive $X$ satisfying $\limsup c_n(X) - n = \infty$ and $\limsup c_n(X) - 1.5n < \infty$ mu

Kilian Hett, Vinh-Thong Ta, José V. Manjón, Pierrick Coupé

The prediction of subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who will progress to Alzheimer&#39;s disease (AD) is clinically relevant, and may above all have a significant impact on accelerate the development of new treatments. In this paper, we present a new MRI-based biomarker that enables us to predict conversion of MCI subjects to AD accurately. In or

V. Prokofev, A. Zabrodin

We consider solutions of the 2D Toda lattice hierarchy which are trigonometric functions of the ``zeroth&#39;&#39; time $t_0=x$. It is known that their poles move as particles of the trigonometric Ruijsenaars-Schneider model. We extend this correspondence to the level of hierarchies: the dynamics of poles with respect to the $m$-th hierarchical time $t_m$ (r

Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao

In the past a few years, topologically protected mechanical phenomena have been extensively studied in discrete lattices and networks, leading to a rich set of discoveries such as topological boundary/interface floppy modes and states of self stress, as well as one-way edge acoustic waves. In contrast, topological states in continuum elasticity without repea

Vikram Ravi

Fast radio bursts are extragalactic, sub-millisecond radio impulses of unknown origin [1,2]. Their dispersion measures, which quantify the observed frequency-dependent dispersive delays in terms of free-electron column densities, significantly exceed predictions from models [3] of the Milky Way interstellar medium. The excess dispersions are likely accrued a

W. Li, K. Wang, C. Reichhardt, C. J. O. Reichhardt

We investigate the depinning dynamics of two-dimensional dusty plasmas (2DDP) driven over one-dimensional periodic substrates (1DPS) using Langevin dynamical simulations. We find that, for a specific range of substrate strengths, as the external driving force increases from zero, there are three different states, which are the pinned, the disordered plastic

Theresa Ida Götz

Currently, there is a high interest in Lu-177 targeted radionuclide therapies, which could be attributed to favourable results obtained from Lu-177 compounds targeting neuroendocrine and prostate tumours. Generally, it has been recognized that a transition from dosimetry based on planar images towards based on fully-quantitative SPECT is beneficial in terms

Nathan Ng, Kyra Yee, Alexei Baevski, Myle Ott

This paper describes Facebook FAIR&#39;s submission to the WMT19 shared news translation task. We participate in two language pairs and four language directions, English <-> German and English <-> Russian. Following our submission from last year, our baseline systems are large BPE-based transformer models trained with the Fairseq sequence modeling toolkit wh

Ioannis Bargiotas, Argyris Kalogeratos, Myrto Limnios, Pierre-Paul Vidal

Falling in Parkinsonian syndromes (PS) is associated with postural instability and consists a common cause of disability among PS patients. Current posturographic practices record the body&#39;s center-of-pressure displacement (statokinesigram) while the patient stands on a force platform. Statokinesigrams, after appropriate signal processing, can offer nume

Dirk Praetorius, Michele Ruggeri, Ernst P. Stephan

We consider the convergence of adaptive BEM for weakly-singular and hypersingular integral equations associated with the Laplacian and the Helmholtz operator in 2D and 3D. The local mesh-refinement is driven by some two-level error estimator. We show that the adaptive algorithm drives the underlying error estimates to zero. Moreover, we prove that the satura

Matthew Spellings

Neural networks using transformer-based architectures have recently demonstrated great power and flexibility in modeling sequences of many types. One of the core components of transformer networks is the attention layer, which allows contextual information to be exchanged among sequence elements. While many of the prevalent network structures thus far have u

Aaron Winn, John Maier, Andrew Jiao, Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

We study the effect of a magnetic field on topological chiral channels of bilayer graphene at electric domain walls. The persistence of chiral edge states is attributed to the difference in valley Chern number in the regions of opposite electric field. We explore the regime of large electric and magnetic fields perpendicular to the lattice. The magnetic fiel

Avi Cohen, David Peleg

The Hotelling game consists of n servers each choosing a point on the line segment, so as to maximize the amount of clients it attracts. Clients are uniformly distributed along the line, and each client buys from the closest server. In this paper, we study a fault-prone version of the Hotelling game, where the line fails at multiple random locations. Each fa

Qiu-Yue Zhong, Andrew H. Fairless, Jasmine M. McCammon, Farbod Rahmanian

Risk adjustment has become an increasingly important tool in healthcare. It has been extensively applied to payment adjustment for health plans to reflect the expected cost of providing coverage for members. Risk adjustment models are typically estimated using linear regression, which does not fully exploit the information in claims data. Moreover, the devel

Arka Banerjee, Emanuele Castorina, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Travis Court

Nonlinear objects like halos and voids exhibit a scale-dependent bias on linear scales in massive neutrino cosmologies. The shape of this scale-dependent bias is a unique signature of the neutrino masses, but the amplitude of the signal is generally small, of the order of $f_ν$, the contribution of neutrinos to the total matter content ($\lesssim 1\%$). In t

Ivan A. Korneev, Andrei V. Slepnev, Vladimir V. Semenov, Tatiana Vadivasova

The model of a non-autonomous memristor-based oscillator with a line of equilibria is studied. A numerical simulation of the system driven by a periodical force is combined with a theoretical analysis by means of the quasi-harmonic reduction. Both two mechanisms of synchronization are demonstrated: capture of the phase and frequency of oscillations and suppr