September 2019 arXiv papers — page 5

Hansjörg Geiges, Myeonggi Kwon, Kai Zehmisch

We prove uniqueness, up to diffeomorphism, of symplectically aspherical fillings of certain unit cotangent bundles, including those of higher-dimensional tori.

Federico Ferrari, Ole Sigmund

This work presents a multilevel approach to large--scale topology optimization accounting for linearized buckling criteria. The method relies on the use of preconditioned iterative solvers for all the systems involved in the linear buckling and sensitivity analyses and on the approximation of buckling modes from a coarse discretization. The strategy shows th

Laura Rieger, Chandan Singh, W. James Murdoch, Bin Yu

For an explanation of a deep learning model to be effective, it must provide both insight into a model and suggest a corresponding action in order to achieve some objective. Too often, the litany of proposed explainable deep learning methods stop at the first step, providing practitioners with insight into a model, but no way to act on it. In this paper, we

Dongdong Yu, Kai Su, Hengkai Guo, Jian Wang

Semi-supervised video object segmentation is an interesting yet challenging task in machine learning. In this work, we conduct a series of refinements with the propagation-based video object segmentation method and empirically evaluate their impact on the final model performance through ablation study. By taking all the refinements, we improve the space-time

Maria Huegle, Gabriel Kalweit, Moritz Werling, Joschka Boedecker

The common pipeline in autonomous driving systems is highly modular and includes a perception component which extracts lists of surrounding objects and passes these lists to a high-level decision component. In this case, leveraging the benefits of deep reinforcement learning for high-level decision making requires special architectures to deal with multiple

Mandar Gogate, Ahsan Adeel, Kia Dashtipour, Peter Derleth

This paper presents, a first of its kind, audio-visual (AV) speech enhacement challenge in real-noisy settings. A detailed description of the AV challenge, a novel real noisy AV corpus (ASPIRE), benchmark speech enhancement task, and baseline performance results are outlined. The latter are based on training a deep neural architecture on a synthetic mixture

Kamal Bhattacharyya

A route to evaluate exact sums represented by Dirichlet eta and beta functions, both of which are alternating and divergent at negative integer arguments, is advocated. It rests on precise polynomial extrapolations and stands as a generalization of an early endeavor on lattice sums. Apart from conferring a physical meaning to anti-limits, the scheme advanced

Jie Bai, Linjing Li, Daniel Zeng

Network representation learning has exploded recently. However, existing studies usually reconstruct networks as sequences or matrices, which may cause information bias or sparsity problem during model training. Inspired by a cognitive model of human memory, we propose a network representation learning scheme. In this scheme, we learn node embeddings by adju

Aris Marcolongo, Loris Ercole, Stefano Baroni

Thermal and other transport coefficients were recently shown to be largely independent of the microscopic representation of the energy (current) densities or, more generally, of the relevant conserved densities/currents. In this paper we show how this gauge invariance, which is intimately related to the intrinsic indeterminacy of the energy of isolated atoms

Etienne Bennequin

Few-Shot Learning is the challenge of training a model with only a small amount of data. Many solutions to this problem use meta-learning algorithms, i.e. algorithms that learn to learn. By sampling few-shot tasks from a larger dataset, we can teach these algorithms to solve new, unseen tasks. This document reports my work on meta-learning algorithms for Few

S. Masson, S. K. Antiochos, C. R. DeVore

Impulsive solar energetic particle events are widely believed to be due to the prompt escape into the interplanetary medium of flare-accelerated particles produced by solar eruptive events. According to the standard model for such events, however, particles accelerated by the flare reconnection should remain trapped in the flux rope comprising the coronal ma

Timur Biktagirov, Wolf Gero Schmidt, Uwe Gerstmann

An accurate description of the two-electron density, crucial for magnetic coupling in spin systems, provides in general a major challenge for density functional theory calculations. It affects, e.g., the calculated zero-field splitting (ZFS) energies of spin qubits in semiconductors that frequently deviate significantly from experiment. In the present work (

Lukas Brinkmeyer, Rafael Rego Drumond, Randolf Scholz, Josif Grabocka

Parametric models, and particularly neural networks, require weight initialization as a starting point for gradient-based optimization. Recent work shows that a specific initial parameter set can be learned from a population of supervised learning tasks. Using this initial parameter set enables a fast convergence for unseen classes even when only a handful o

Hui-Min Yang, Hua-Xing Chen, Er-Liang Cui, Atsushi Hosaka

We use the method of light-cone sum rules to study decay properties of $P$-wave bottom baryons belonging to the $SU(3)$ flavor $\mathbf{6}_F$ representation. In Ref.~\cite{Cui:2019dzj} we have studied their mass spectrum and pionic decays, and found that the $\Sigma_{b}(6097)$ and $\Xi_{b}(6227)$ can be well interpreted as $P$-wave bottom baryons of $J^P = 3

Argyris Nicolaidis, Fotis Psomopoulos

Evolution consists of distinct stages: cosmological, biological, linguistic. Since biology verges on natural sciences and linguistics, we expect that it shares structures and features from both forms of knowledge. Indeed, in DNA we encounter the biological "atoms", the four nucleotide molecules. At the same time these four nucleotides may be considered as th

S. A. Trigger, S. A. Maslov

The asymptotic behavior of the equilibrium radiation in Maxwellian plasma is studied for the low--frequency region. It is shown, that the equilibrium radiation can essentially deviate from the Planck law even for a weakly non-ideal plasma. The deviation from the Planck distribution is described by the transverse dielectric permittivity which takes into accou

J. J. Alonso, B. Alles, V. Russier

We study random close packed systems of magnetic spheres by Monte Carlo simulations in order to estimate their phase diagram. The uniaxial anisotropy of the spheres makes each of them behave as a single Ising dipole along a fixed easy axis. We explore the phase diagram in terms of the temperature and the degree of alignment (or texturation) among the easy ax

Abrar Ahmed, Shakeel Mahmood, Farida Tahir, Maimoona Razzaq

We study rare decays of hyperons involving di-neutrinos in the final state in the standard model and compare them with other models. It is claimed that the branching ratio calculated in this article are 2 times the values of 331 model and exceptionally large than the previously calculated values. We explore the nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) and con

A. Vitturi, J. Casal, L. Fortunato, E. G. Lanza

Densities and transition densities are computed in an equilateral triangular alpha-cluster model for $^{12}$C, in which each $\alpha$ particle is taken as a gaussian density distribution. The ground-state, the symmetric vibration (Hoyle state) and the asymmetric bend vibration are analyzed in a molecular approach and dissected into their components in a seri

Matthew J. Trott, Chris A. Hooley

We consider a strongly spin-orbit-coupled metal, one of whose Fermi surfaces is close to a Lifshitz (topological) transition. Via a renormalization group analysis of the square-lattice Hubbard model with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling, we show that such a metal is generically unstable to the formation of mixed-parity superconductivity with a helical tripl

Francesco Iafrate, Enzo Orsingher

In this paper we study the sojourn time on the positive half-line up to time $ t $ of a drifted Brownian motion with starting point $ u $ and subject to the condition that $ \min_{ 0\leq z \leq l} B(z)> v $, with $ u > v $. This process is a drifted Brownian meander up to time $ l $ and then evolves as a free Brownian motion. We also consider the sojourn tim

Kia Dashtipour, Mandar Gogate, Jingpeng Li, Fengling Jiang

Social media hold valuable, vast and unstructured information on public opinion that can be utilized to improve products and services. The automatic analysis of such data, however, requires a deep understanding of natural language. Current sentiment analysis approaches are mainly based on word co-occurrence frequencies, which are inadequate in most practical

Ke Li, Minhui Liao, Kalyanmoy Deb, Geyong Min

The ultimate goal of multi-objective optimisation is to help a decision maker (DM) identify solution(s) of interest (SOI) achieving satisfactory trade-offs among multiple conflicting criteria. This can be realised by leveraging DM's preference information in evolutionary multi-objective optimisation (EMO). No consensus has been reached on the effectiveness b

Ya-Fei Guo, Gao-Chan Yong

Based on the Isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (IBUU) transport model, the isotope Sn+Sn reactions at 270 MeV/nucleon are investigated. It is shown that nucleon and meson observables in the Sn+Sn reactions at 270 MeV/nucleon cannot effectively probe the high-density symmetry energy. These observables, however, are sensitive to the curvature of th

Nikolaos P. Bakas

Function approximation is a generic process in a variety of computational problems, from data interpolation to the solution of differential equations and inverse problems. In this work, a unified approach for such techniques is demonstrated, by utilizing partial sums of Taylor series in high arithmetic precision. In particular, the proposed method is capable

Dimitri Ara, Maxime Lucas

We prove that the folk model category structure on the category of strict $\omega$-categories, introduced by Lafont, M\'etayer and Worytkiewicz, is monoidal, first, for the Gray tensor product and, second, for the join of $\omega$-categories, introduced by the first author and Maltsiniotis. We moreover show that the Gray tensor product induces, by adjunction

Nikolaos P. Bakas, Andreas Langousis, Mihalis Nicolaou, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis

We present a numerical scheme for computation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) weights, which stems from the Universal Approximation Theorem, avoiding laborious iterations. The proposed algorithm adheres to the underlying theory, is highly fast, and results in remarkably low errors when applied for regression and classification of complex data-sets, such

Måns Holmberg, Stefan Leupold

Axial-vector transitions of decuplet to octet baryons are parametrized at low energies guided by a complete and minimal chiral Lagrangian up to next-to-leading order. It is pointed out that beyond the well-known leading-order term, there is only one contribution at next-to-leading order. This contribution is flavor symmetric. Therefore the corresponding low-

Yizhe Wu, Sudhanshu Kasewa, Oliver Groth, Sasha Salter

In this paper we explore the richness of information captured by the latent space of a vision-based generative model. The model combines unsupervised generative learning with a task-based performance predictor to learn and to exploit task-relevant object affordances given visual observations from a reaching task, involving a scenario and a stick-like tool. W

Lorenc Kapllani, Long Teng

The goal of this work is to parallelize the multistep scheme for the numerical approximation of the backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) in order to achieve both, a high accuracy and a reduction of the computation time as well. In the multistep scheme the computations at each grid point are independent and this fact motivates us to select massi

David Sigtermans

We propose a novel tensor-based formalism for inferring causal structures from time series. An information theoretical analysis of transfer entropy, shows that transfer entropy results from transmission of information over a set of communication channels. Tensors are the mathematical equivalents of these multi-channel causal channels. A multi-channel causal

Thomas Eiter, Mads Kyed, Yoshihiro Shibata

This paper is devoted to proving the existence of time-periodic solutions of one-phase or two-phase problems for the Navier-Stokes equations with small periodic external forces when the reference domain is close to a ball. Since our problems are formulated in time-dependent unknown domains, the problems are reduced to quasiliner systems of parabolic equation

Yusuke Kaino, Masayuki Uchida

We consider parametric estimation for a parabolic linear second order stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) from high frequency data which are observed in time and space. By using thinned data obtained from the high frequency data, adaptive estimators of the coefficient parameters including the volatility parameter of a parabolic linear SPDE model

Artur Avila, Bassam Fayad

We construct a $C^1$ symplectic twist map $g$ of the annulus that has an essential invariant curve $\Gamma$ such that $\Gamma$ is not differentiable and $g$ restricted to $\Gamma$ is minimal.

Tarek M. Elgindi, In-Jee Jeong

In a companion paper, we gave a detailed account of the well-posedness theory for singular vortex patches. Here, we discuss the long-time dynamics of some of the classes of vortex patches we showed to be globally well-posed in the companion work. In particular, we give examples of time-periodic behavior, cusp formation in infinite time at an exponential rate

M. Aguareles, S. J. Chapman, T. Witelski

Multiple-spiral-wave solutions of the general cubic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in bounded domains are considered. We investigate the effect of the boundaries on spiral motion under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, for small values of the twist parameter $q$. We derive explicit laws of motion for rectangular domains and we show that the motion o

Sylvain Capponi, Pierre Fromholz, Philippe Lecheminant, Keisuke Totsuka

Chiral Haldane phases are examples of one-dimensional topological states of matter which are protected by projective SU($N$) group (or its subgroup $\mathbb{Z}_N \times \mathbb{Z}_N$) with $N>2$. The unique feature of these symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases is that they are accompanied by inversion-symmetry breaking and the emergence of different l

Luigi Palmieri, Leonard Bruns, Michael Meurer, Kai Oliver Arras

A key challenge in robotics is the efficient generation of optimal robot motion with safety guarantees in cluttered environments. Recently, deterministic optimal sampling-based motion planners have been shown to achieve good performance towards this end, in particular in terms of planning efficiency, final solution cost, quality guarantees as well as non-pro

Kshitij Agrawal, Anbumani Subramanian

Autonomous driving relies on deriving understanding of objects and scenes through images. These images are often captured by sensors in the visible spectrum. For improved detection capabilities we propose the use of thermal sensors to augment the vision capabilities of an autonomous vehicle. In this paper, we present our investigations on the fusion of visib

Max-Heinrich Laves, Sontje Ihler, Karl-Philipp Kortmann, Tobias Ortmaier

Model uncertainty obtained by variational Bayesian inference with Monte Carlo dropout is prone to miscalibration. The uncertainty does not represent the model error well. In this paper, temperature scaling is extended to dropout variational inference to calibrate model uncertainty. Expected uncertainty calibration error (UCE) is presented as a metric to meas

Nian Hong Zhou

Let $f: \mathbb{Z}_+\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_+$ be a polynomial with the property that corresponding to every prime $p$ there exists an integer $\ell$ such that $p\nmid f(\ell)$. In this paper, we establish some equidistributed results between the number of partitions of an integer $n$ whose parts are taken from the sequence $\{f(\ell)\}_{\ell=1}^{\infty}$ and

Fan Yao, Kathy Ngyugen, Sai Santosh Dayapule, Jingxin Wu

Cloud computing based systems, that span data centers, are commonly deployed to offer high performance for user service requests. As data centers continue to expand, computer architects and system designers are facing many challenges on how to balance resource utilization efficiency, server and network performance, energy consumption and quality-of-service (

Jan Wiersig

It is known that the overlap of two energy eigenstates in a decaying quantum system is bounded from above by a function of the energy detuning and the individual decay rates. This is usually traced back to the positive definiteness of an appropriately defined decay operator. Here, we show that the weaker and more realistic condition of positive semi-definite

Benjamin F. Cooke, Don Pollacco, Daniel Bayliss

Context: NASA recently announced an extended mission for TESS. As a result it is expected that the southern ecliptic hemisphere will be re-observed approximately two years after the initial survey. Aims: We aim to explore how TESS re-observing the southern ecliptic hemisphere will impact the number and distribution of mono-transits discovered during the firs

S. Grytsiuk, M. Hoffmann, J. -P. Hanke, P. Mavropoulos

FeGe in the B20 phase is an experimentally well-studied prototypical chiral magnet exhibiting helical spirals, skyrmion lattices and individual skyrmions with a robust length of 70~nm. While the helical spiral ground state can be verified by first-principles calculations based on density functional theory, this feature size could not be reproduced even appro

Yuya Yamakawa, Takayuki Okuno

In this paper, we propose a new sequential quadratic semidefinite programming (SQSDP) method for solving degenerate nonlinear semidefinite programs (NSDPs), in which we produce iteration points by solving a sequence of stabilized quadratic semidefinite programming (QSDP) subproblems, which we derive from the minimax problem associated with the NSDP. Unlike t

Luc Gamperle, Jose Ferradas, Christian Barth, Bernardo Bordini

The development of high-field accelerator magnets capable of providing 16 T dipolar fields is an indispensable technological breakthrough needed for the 100 TeV energy-frontier targeted by the Future Circular Collider (FCC). As these magnets will be based on Nb$_3$Sn Rutherford cables, the degradation of the conductor performance due to the large electro-mag

Jian Li, Junghoon Jahng, Jie Pang, William Morrison

IR spectroscopy has been widely used for chemical identification and quantitative analysis of reactions occurring in a specific time and space domains by measuring an average signal of the entire system1. Achieving IR measurements with nanometer-scale spatial resolution is highly desirable to obtain a detailed understanding of the composition, structure and

Brijnesh Jain, Vincent Froese, David Schultz

Computing a sample mean of time series under dynamic time warping (DTW) is NP-hard. Consequently, there is an ongoing research effort to devise efficient heuristics. The majority of heuristics have been developed for the constrained sample mean problem that assumes a solution of predefined length. In contrast, research on the unconstrained sample mean proble

T. Bickel, J. -C. Loudet, G. Koleski, B. Pouligny

We study the features of a radial Stokes flow due to a submerged jet directed toward a liquid-air interface. The presence of surface-active impurities confers to the interface an in-plane elasticity that resists the incident flow. Both analytical and numerical calculations show that a minute amount of surfactants is enough to profoundly alter the morphology

Andrzej Grzesik, Ervin Győri, Addisu Paulos, Nika Salia

Let $f(n,H)$ denote the maximum number of copies of $H$ possible in an $n$-vertex planar graph. The function $f(n,H)$ has been determined when $H$ is a cycle of length $3$ or $4$ by Hakimi and Schmeichel and when $H$ is a complete bipartite graph with smaller part of size 1 or 2 by Alon and Caro. We determine $f(n,H)$ exactly in the case when $H$ is a path o

Cláudio A. Fernandes, Alexei Yu. Karlovich, Yuri I. Karlovich

We study Fourier convolution operators $W^0(a)$ with symbols equivalent to zero at infinity on a separable Banach function space $X(\mathbb{R})$ such that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is bounded on $X(\mathbb{R})$ and on its associate space $X'(\mathbb{R})$. We show that the limit operators of $W^0(a)$ are all equal to zero.

Kushal Lalwani

In \cite {kl1}, we extended various notions of recurrence for the generalized semigroup analogous to their counterpart in the classical theory of dynamics. In this paper, we shall address the alternative definition of chain recurrent set in terms of attractors, given by Hurley in \cite {mh} following Conley\rq{}s characterization in \cite {conley}. We shall

Joanna Rownicka, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

In this work, we investigate the use of embeddings for speaker-adaptive training of DNNs (DNN-SAT) focusing on a small amount of adaptation data per speaker. DNN-SAT can be viewed as learning a mapping from each embedding to transformation parameters that are applied to the shared parameters of the DNN. We investigate different approaches to applying these t

Stephen Dilworth, Gustavo Garrigos, Eugenio Hernandez, Denka Kutzarova

We present new results regarding Lebesgue-type inequalities for the Weak Chebyshev Greedy Algorithm (WCGA) in uniformly smooth Banach spaces. We improve earlier bounds in Temlyakov (Forum Math Sigma 2014), for dictionaries satisfying a new property introduced here. We apply these results to derive optimal bounds in two natural examples of sequence spaces. In

A. Bondar, A. Buzulutskov, E. Frolov, V. Parkhomchuk

A new technique for ion identification in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) has been proposed by measuring the ion track ranges using a low-pressure TPC. As a proof of principle, a low-pressure TPC with charge readout using a THGEM multiplier was developed. The tracks of alpha particles from various radioactive sources were successfully recorded in the TPC

Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz, Cristiano Nisoli, Charles Reichhardt, Cynthia J. O. Reichhardt

Geometric frustration and the ice rule are two concepts that are intimately connected and widespread across condensed matter. The first refers to the inability of a system to satisfy competing interactions in the presence of spatial constraints. The second, in its more general sense, represents a prescription for the minimization of the topological charges i

Qizhong Lin, Xing Peng

Let $B_n^{(k)}$ be the book graph which consists of $n$ copies of $K_{k+1}$ all sharing a common $K_k$, and let $C_m$ be a cycle of length $m$. In this paper, we first determine the exact value of $r(B_n^{(2)}, C_m)$ for $\frac{8}{9}n+112\le m\le \lceil\frac{3n}{2}\rceil+1$ and $n \geq 1000$. This answers a question of Faudree, Rousseau and Sheehan (Cycle--b

Ervin Győri, Addisu Paulos, Nika Salia, Casey Tompkins

In 1979, Hakimi and Schmeichel considered the problem of maximizing the number of cycles of a given length in an $n$-vertex planar graph. They precisely determined the maximum number of triangles and $4$-cycles and presented a conjecture for the maximum number of pentagons. In this work, we confirm their conjecture. Even more, we characterize the $n$-vertex,

Rico Berner, Jakub Sawicki, Eckehard Schöll

We propose a concept to generate and stabilize diverse partial synchronization patterns (phase clusters) in adaptive networks which are widespread in neuro- and social sciences, as well as biology, engineering, and other disciplines. We show by theoretical analysis and computer simulations that multiplexing in a multi-layer network with symmetry can induce v

Alicia Petronela Rambu, Alin Marian Apetrei, Florent Doutre, Herve Tronche

Highly confining waveguides without degraded nonlinear coefficient and low propagation losses have been fabricated in lithium niobate by a new process that we called High Vacuum Vapor-phase Proton Exchange (HiVac-VPE). Index contrast, index profile, nonlinearity and crystallographic phases are carefully investigated. Original analysis of index profiles indic

Emilio Ciuffoli, Jarah Evslin, Hosam Mohammed

Localized wave packet treatments of neutrino oscillations by various groups lead to mutually inconsistent predictions. The neutrino wave packet description arises as an approximate substitute for the evolution of an entangled state which is not localized. The disagreements arise from qualitative differences in the framework which are not specific to electrow

Arjan Cornelissen

Gradient-based numerical methods are ubiquitous in optimization techniques frequently applied in industry to solve practical problems. Often times, evaluating the objective function is a complicated process, so estimating the gradient of a function with as few function evaluations as possible is a natural problem. We investigate whether quantum computers can

Yusuke Kimura

In this study, we introduce a new class of rational elliptic 3-folds, which we refer to as "1/2 Calabi-Yau 3-folds". We construct elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau 3-folds by utilizing these rational elliptic 3-folds. The construction yields a novel approach to build elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau 3-folds of various Mordell-Weil ranks. Our construction of Cal

T. A. Lopez, S. C. C. Barros, A. Santerne, M. Deleuil

The detection of low-mass transiting exoplanets in multiple systems brings new constraints to planetary formation and evolution processes and challenges the current planet formation theories. Nevertheless, only a mere fraction of the small planets detected by Kepler and K2 have precise mass measurements, which are mandatory to constrain their composition. We

Inasa Nakamura

A torus-covering $T^2$-knot is a surface-knot of genus one determined from a pair of commutative braids. For a torus-covering $T^2$-knot $F$, we determine the number of irreducible metabelian $SU(2)$-representations of the knot group of $F$ in terms of the knot determinant of $F$. It is similar to the result due to Lin for the knot group of a classical knot.

Xin-Yu Tuo, Xu Feng, Lu-Chang Jin

Neutrinoless double beta decay, if detected, would prove that neutrinos are Majorana fermions and provide the direct evidence for lepton number violation. If such decay would exist in nature, then $\pi^-\pi^-\to ee$ and $\pi^-\to\pi^+ ee$ (or equivalently $\pi^-e^+\to\pi^+ e^-$) are the two simplest processes accessible via first-principle lattice QCD calcul

Qing Gao, Guofeng Zhang, Ian R. Petersen

This work extends the previous quantum projection filtering scheme in [Gao Q., Zhang G., & Petersen I. R. (2019). An exponential quantum projection filter for open quantum systems. \emph{Automatica}, 99, 59-68.], by adding an optimality analysis result. A reformulation of the quantum projection filter is derived by minimizing the truncated Stratonovich stoch

V. Cuomo, E. M. Corsini, J. A. L. Aguerri, V. P. Debattista

We present surface photometry and stellar kinematics of NGC 4264, a lenticular galaxy in the region of the Virgo Cluster undergoing a tidal interaction with its neighbour, NGC 4261. We measured the bar radius and strength from SDSS imaging and the bar pattern speed from MUSE integral-field spectroscopy. We find that NGC 4264 hosts a strong and large bar, whi

Shunzhi Yang, Zheng Gong, Kai Ye, Yungen Wei

With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), data is increasingly appearing on the edge of the network. Processing tasks on the edge of the network can effectively solve the problems of personal privacy leaks and server overload. As a result, it has attracted a great deal of attention and made substantial progress. This progress includes efficient convo

Shion Honda, Hirotaka Akita, Katsuhiko Ishiguro, Toshiki Nakanishi

Statistical generative models for molecular graphs attract attention from many researchers from the fields of bio- and chemo-informatics. Among these models, invertible flow-based approaches are not fully explored yet. In this paper, we propose a powerful invertible flow for molecular graphs, called graph residual flow (GRF). The GRF is based on residual flo

Jiajun Zhang, Jingkun Zhao, Terry D. Oswalt, Xiangsong Fang

We identify member stars of more than 90 open clusters in the LAMOST survey. With the method of Fang et al.(2018), the chromospheric activity (CA) indices logR'CaK for 1091 member stars in 82 open clusters and logR'H{\alpha} for 1118 member stars in 83 open clusters are calculated. The relations between the average logR'CaK, logR'H{\alpha} in each open clust

Sho Yoshimura, Masaki Inoue

In this paper, we propose a novel framework of air traffic management (ATM). The framework is in particular characterized by the trajectory planning of weakly supervised aircraft; the air traffic control (ATC) does not completely determine the trajectory of each aircraft unlike conventional planning methods, but determines allowable safe sets of trajectories

Meurig T. Gallagher, Thomas D. Montenegro-Johnson, David J. Smith

The concept of internal anatomical asymmetry is familiar; usually in humans the heart is on the left and the liver is on the right, however how does the developing embryo know to produce this consistent laterality? Symmetry breaking initiates with left-right asymmetric cilia-driven fluid mechanics in a small fluid-filled structure called the ventral node in

Gabriel Kalweit, Maria Huegle, Joschka Boedecker

In the past few years, off-policy reinforcement learning methods have shown promising results in their application for robot control. Deep Q-learning, however, still suffers from poor data-efficiency and is susceptible to stochasticity in the environment or reward functions which is limiting with regard to real-world applications. We alleviate these problems

Zheng Hua, Bernhard Keller

Given a quiver $Q$, a formal potential is called analytic if its coefficients are bounded by the terms of a geometric series. As shown by Toda, the potentials appearing in the deformation theory of complexes of coherent sheaves on complex projective Calabi-Yau threefolds are analytic. Our paper consists of two parts. In the first part, we establish the found

Yao Wan, Jingdong Shu, Yulei Sui, Guandong Xu

Code retrieval techniques and tools have been playing a key role in facilitating software developers to retrieve existing code fragments from available open-source repositories given a user query. Despite the existing efforts in improving the effectiveness of code retrieval, there are still two main issues hindering them from being used to accurately retriev

Sang Yong Song, J. H. J. Martiny, A. Kreisel, B. M. Andersen

Understanding the origin of the magnetism of high temperature superconductors is crucial for establishing their unconventional pairing mechanism. Recently, theory predicts that FeSe is close to a magnetic quantum critical point, and thus weak perturbations such as impurities could induce local magnetic moments. To elucidate such quantum instability, we have

Paul J. Voda, Ján Komara

Herbrand's theorem plays an important role both in proof theory and in computer science. Given a Herbrand skeleton, which is basically a number specifying the count of disjunctions of the matrix, we would like to get a computable bound on the size of terms which make the disjunction into a quasitautology. This is an important problem in logic, specifically i

Stefano Pasetto, Cesare Chiosi, Mark Cropper, Emanuela Chiosi

Convection is one of the fundamental energy transport processes in physics and astrophysics, and its description is central to allstellar models. In the context of stellar astrophysics, the mixing length theory is the most successful approximation to handle theconvection zones inside the stars because of its simplicity and rapidity. The price to pay is the m

Seiji Fujimoto, Masamune Oguri, Tohru Nagao, Takuma Izumi

Gravitational lensing sometimes dominates the observed properties of apparently very bright objects. We present morphological properties in the high-resolution (FWHM $\sim0.''15$) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 1-mm map for an ultra-luminous quasar (QSO) at $z=6.30$, SDSS J010013.02+280225.8 (hereafter J0100+2802), whose black hole mass

Matthieu Brachet, Jean-Paul Chehab

We propose and analyse new stabilized time marching schemes for Phase Fields model such as Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hillard equations, when discretized in space with high order finite differences compact schemes. The stabilization applies to semi-implicit schemes for which the linear part is simplified using sparse pre-conditioners. The new methods allow to signi

Cláudio A. Fernandes, Alexei Yu. Karlovich, Yuri I. Karlovich

Let $X(\mathbb{R})$ be a separable Banach function space such that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator $M$ is bounded on $X(\mathbb{R})$ and on its associate space $X'(\mathbb{R})$. Suppose $a$ is a Fourier multiplier on the space $X(\mathbb{R})$. We show that the Fourier convolution operator $W^0(a)$ with symbol $a$ is compact on the space $X(\mathbb{R})$

Suman Deb, Golam Sarwar, Dhananjaya Thakur, Pavish S.

Recent studies reveal that at high energies, collisions of small system like $p+p$ gives signatures similar to that widely observed in heavy ion collisions hinting towards a possibility of forming a medium with collective behaviour. With this motivation, we have used the Glauber model, which is traditionally applied to heavy ion collisions, in small system u

J. Kluson

In this short note we analyse T-duality properties of non-relativistic String in Torsional Newton-Cartan Background. We also determine condition that ensures that non-relativistic string maps to non-relativistic string under T-duality.

Christian Zingg, Vahan Nanumyan, Frank Schweitzer

To what extent is the citation rate of new papers influenced by the past social relations of their authors? To answer this question, we present a data-driven analysis of nine different physics journals. Our analysis is based on a two-layer network representation constructed from two large-scale data sets, INSPIREHEP and APS. The social layer contains authors

Gideok Kim, Y. Eren Suyolcu, J. Herrero-Martin, D. Putzky

The synthesis of stoichiometric Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ thin films has been a challenge because of the high volatility of ruthenium oxide precursors, which gives rise to ruthenium vacancies in the films. Ru vacancies greatly affect the transport properties and electronic phase behavior of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, but their direct detection is difficult due to their atomic dimen

Jianbo Qin, Xian Zhong Zheng, Stijn Wuyts, Zhizheng Pan

We compare the infrared excess (IRX) and Balmer decrement (${\rm H\alpha/H\beta }$) as dust attenuation indicators in relation to other galaxy parameters using a sample of $\sim$32 000 local star-forming galaxies (SFGs) carefully selected from SDSS, GALEX and WISE. While at fixed ${\rm H\alpha/H\beta }$, IRX turns out to be independent on galaxy stellar mass

Ioannis Contopoulos, Jerome Petri, Petros Stefanou

We continue our investigation of particle acceleration in the pulsar equatorial current sheet (ECS) that began with Contopoulos (2019) and Contopoulos & Stefanou (2019). Our basic premise has been that the charge carriers in the current sheet originate in the polar caps as electron-positron pairs, and are carried along field lines that enter the equatorial c

Tamal Guha, Mir Alimuddin, Preeti Parashar

Thermodynamics is one of the fascinating branches of traditional physics to certify the occurrence of many natural processes. On the other hand, quantum theory is the most acceptable description of the microscopic world. In the present work, we have studied how the structure of quantum theory prohibits cloning or masking of several thermodynamic quantities,

Zur Izhakian, Manfred Knebusch

Rays are classes of an equivalence relation on a module V over a supertropical semiring. They provide a version of convex geometry, supported by a "supertropical trigonometry" and compatible with quasilinearity, in which the CS-ratio takes the role of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. CS-functions which emerge from the CS-ratio are a useful tool that helps to u

Guang-Yuan Hao, Hong-Xing Yu, Wei-Shi Zheng

We focus on explicitly learning disentangled representation for natural image generation, where the underlying spatial structure and the rendering on the structure can be independently controlled respectively, yet using no tuple supervision. The setting is significant since tuple supervision is costly and sometimes even unavailable. However, the task is high

Elena H. Sánchez, Marianna Vasilakaki, Su Seong Lee, Peter S. Normile

Applications based on aggregates of magnetic nanoparticles are becoming increasingly widespread, ranging from hyperthermia to magnetic recording. However, although some uses require a collective behavior, other need a more individual-like response, the conditions leading to either of these behaviors are still poorly understood. Here we use nanoscale-uniform

Sylvain Arlot

This text is the rejoinder following the discussion of a survey paper about minimal penalties and the slope heuristics (Arlot, 2019. Minimal penalties and the slope heuristics: a survey. Journal de la SFDS). While commenting on the remarks made by the discussants, it provides two new results about the slope heuristics for model selection among a collection o

Jun-Li Li, Cong-Feng Qiao

By constructing the quantum state in high-dimensional probability tensor, we find the quantum magic square(QMS) may stand as an ideal means of characterizing the non-local phenomena, i.e. the separability, entanglement, two/one-way steering, and Bell non-locality, etc. In this scheme, different types of non-locality exhibit distinctive inner structures of th

Yao Zhou, Hui Liu, Jarah Evslin

Consider two free Hamiltonians for the same scalar field with two different masses. Wefind a squeeze operator which maps the ground state of one to the other. The operatoris described in both the Dirac and also the Schrodinger wavefunctional formalismsfor quantum field theory. We conjecture that this construction can be generalized toobtain operators which m

T. Ibungochouba Singh, Y. Kenedy Meitei, I. Ablu Meitei

The Hawking radiation of BTZ black hole is investigated based on generalized uncertainty principle effect by using Hamilton-Jacobi method and Dirac equation. The tunneling probability and the Hawking temperature of the spin-1/2 particles of the BTZ black hole are investigated using modified Dirac equation based on the GUP. The modified Hawking temperature fo

Mariusz Radtke, Lara Render, Richard Nelz, Elke Neu

We investigate the influence of plasma treatments, especially a 0V-bias, potentially low damage O$_2$ plasma as well as a biased Ar/SF$_6$/O$_2$ plasma on shallow, negative nitrogen vacancy (NV$^-$) centers. We ignite and sustain using our 0V-bias plasma using purely inductive coupling. To this end, we pre-treat surfaces of high purity chemical vapor deposit

V. I. Korobov, A. V. Eskin, F. A. Martynenko, O. S. Sukhorukova

Muonic molecular ions $^6$Li$^{3+}d\mu$ and $^7$Li$^{3+}d\mu$ are studied numerically. Using the complex coordinate rotation method we found six rotational states (three for each isotope), which are resonant states with the life-time of an order of picoseconds. These molecular systems may be of interest for studying low-energy fusion reactions. A key quantit

Aidana Karipbayeva, Alena Sorokina, Zhenisbek Assylbekov

We critically review the smooth inverse frequency sentence embedding method of Arora, Liang, and Ma (2017), and show inconsistencies in its setup, derivation, and evaluation.