November 2019 arXiv papers — page 5

Olivier Mila

We determine the adjoint trace field of gluings of general hyperbolic manifolds. This provides a new method to prove the nonarithmeticity of gluings, which can be applied to the classical construction of Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro (and generalizations) as well as certain gluings of pieces of commensurable arithmetic manifolds. As an application we give man

Arunita Banerjee, Anindita Bhadra

The domestic dog is known to have evolved from gray wolves, about 15,000 years ago. They majorly exist as free-ranging populations across the world. They are typically scavengers and well adapted to living among humans. Most canids living in and around urban habitats tend to avoid humans and show crepuscular activity peaks. In this study, we carried out a de

B. L. Werkhoven, R. van Roij

We theoretically study the electrokinetic transport properties of nano-fluidic devices under the influence of a pressure, voltage or salinity gradient. On a microscopic level the behaviour of the device is quantified by the Onsager matrix ${\bf L}$, a generalised conductivity matrix relating the local driving forces and the induced volume, charge and salt fl

Kevin Kells

A practical problem-solving framework is proposed for multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) problem-solving processes involving socio-ecological systems (SES), so-called wicked problems, based on insights borrowed from a model of the individual human, cognitive problem-solving process. The disciplined facilitation of the multi-stakeholder process, adhering to t

Saeid Alikhani, Mohammad R. Piri

Let $G$ be a simple graph. The dominated coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper coloring of $G$ such that each color class is dominated by at least one vertex. The minimum number of colors needed for a dominated coloring of $G$ is called the dominated chromatic number of $G$, denoted by $\chi_{dom}(G)$. In this paper, we examine the effects on $\chi_{dom}(G)$ w

Hong Ren, Cunhua Pan, Yansha Deng, Maged Elkashlan

Ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) is one of three primary use cases in the fifth-generation (5G) networks, and its research is still in its infancy due to its stringent and conflicting requirements in terms of extremely high reliability and low latency. To reduce latency, the channel blocklength for packet transmission is finite, which incurs

Jon E. Gudmundsson

We present a compact two-lens HDPE f/1.6 refractor design that is capable of supporting a 28-deg diffraction-limited field of view at 1-mm wavelengths and contrast it to a similar two-lens refractor using silicon lenses. We compare the optical properties of these two systems as predicted by both geometrical and physical optics. The presented analysis suggest

Daniel Furelos-Blanco, Mark Law, Alessandra Russo, Krysia Broda

In this work we present ISA, a novel approach for learning and exploiting subgoals in reinforcement learning (RL). Our method relies on inducing an automaton whose transitions are subgoals expressed as propositional formulas over a set of observable events. A state-of-the-art inductive logic programming system is used to learn the automaton from observation

Evgeny A. Bespalov, Denis S. Krotov, Aleksandr A. Matiushev, Anna A. Taranenko

We consider the problem of existence of perfect $2$-colorings (equitable $2$-partitions) of Hamming graphs with given parameters. We start with conditions on parameters of graphs and colorings that are necessary for their existence. Next we observe known constructions of perfect colorings and propose some new ones giving new parameters. At last, we deduce wh

Gunnar S. Bali, Lorenzo Barca, Sara Collins, Michael Gruber

We present a new analysis method that allows one to understand and model excited state contributions in observables that are dominated by a pion pole. We apply this method to extract axial and (induced) pseudoscalar nucleon isovector form factors, which satisfy the constraints due to the partial conservation of the axial current up to expected discretization

Johannes Bellm, Stefan Gieseke, Patrick Kirchgaesser

The modelling of multiple parton interactions in Monte Carlo event generators is a crucial part not only for the dressing of signal processes but also to describe data with a minimum bias on the event selection. Much work has and will be put into the theoretical framework and the numerical implementation of these models. In this contribution, we summarize va

Simone Rossi, Sebastien Marmin, Maurizio Filippone

Variational inference offers scalable and flexible tools to tackle intractable Bayesian inference of modern statistical models like Bayesian neural networks and Gaussian processes. For largely over-parameterized models, however, the over-regularization property of the variational objective makes the application of variational inference challenging. Inspired

A. Fasano, M. Aguiar, A. Benoit, A. Bideaud

Mapping millimetre continuum emission has become a key issue in modern multi-wavelength astrophysics. In particular, spectrum-imaging at low frequency resolution is an asset for characterizing the clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev Zeldovich (SZ) effect. In this context, we have built a ground-based spectrum-imager named KIDs Interferometer Spectrum Survey

Hongzhi Chen, De Mi, Manuel Fuentes, David Vargas

The first 5G (5th generation wireless systems) New Radio Release-15 was recently completed. However, the specification only considers the use of unicast technologies and the extension to point-to-multipoint (PTM) scenarios is not yet considered. To this end, we first present in this work a technical overview of the state-of-the-art LTE (Long Term Evolution)

Francesco Cattafi

In this paper we show that Cartan geometries can be studied via transitive Lie groupoids endowed with a special kind of vector-valued multiplicative 1-forms. This viewpoint leads us to a more general notion, that of Cartan bundle, which encompasses both Cartan geometries and G-structures.

Sören Dörscher, Ali Al-Masoudi, Marcin Bober, Roman Schwarz

The frequency stability achieved by an optical atomic clock ultimately depends on the coherence of its local oscillator. Even the best ultrastable lasers only allow interrogation times of a few seconds, at present. Here we present a universal measurement protocol that overcomes this limitation. Engineered dynamic decoupling of laser phase noise allows any op

Saronath Halder, Shiladitya Mal, Aditi Sen De

We characterize the boundary of the convex compact set of absolutely separable states, referred as {\bf AS}, that cannot be transformed to entangled states by global unitary operators, in $2\otimes d$ Hilbert space. However, we show that the absolutely separable states of rank-$(2d-1)$ are extreme points of such sets. We then discuss conditions to examine if

Georgi Ganchev, Krasimir Kanchev

We apply the complex analysis over the double numbers $D$ to study the minimal time-like surfaces in $R^4_2$. A minimal time-like surface which is free of degenerate points is said to be of general type. We divide the minimal time-like surfaces of general type into three types and prove that these surfaces admit special geometric (canonical) parameters. Then

Alane M. de Lima, Murilo V. G. da Silva, André L. Vignatti

In this paper we are interested in a version of the All-pairs Shortest Paths problem (APSP) that fits neither in the exact nor in the approximate case. We define a measure of centrality of a shortest path, related to the ``importance'' of such shortest path in the graph, and propose an algorithm based on the idea of progressive sampling that, for {\it any fi

Krzysztof Bogdan, Michał Bosy, Tomasz Skalski

We characterize the existence of the maximum likelihood estimator for discrete exponential families. Our criterion is simple to apply as we show in various settings, most notably for exponential models of random graphs. As an application, we point out the size of independent identically distributed samples for which the maximum likelihood estimator exists wi

Ottmar Cronie, Mohammad Ghorbani, Jorge Mateu, Jun Yu

This paper treats functional marked point processes (FMPPs), which are defined as marked point processes where the marks are random elements in some (Polish) function space. Such marks may represent e.g. spatial paths or functions of time. To be able to consider e.g. multivariate FMPPs, we also attach an additional, Euclidean, mark to each point. We indicate

Hagen Münkler

These notes provide an introduction toward Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with a focus toward their integrability properties. In addition to a brief discussion of exact results for the circular Wilson loop and the cusp anomalous dimension, the notes focus on non-local symmetries, utilizing the integrability of the minimal surface proble

Wolfgang Pitsch, Jérôme Scherer

Conjugation spaces are topological spaces equipped with an involution such that their fixed points have the same mod $2$ cohomology (as a graded vector space, a ring, and even an unstable algebra) but with all degrees divided by two, generalizing the classical examples of complex projective spaces under complex conjugation. Spaces which are constructed from

Matías Menni

Let ${\cal E}$ be a topos, ${{\rm Dec}({\cal E}) \rightarrow {\cal E}}$ be the full subcategory of decidable objects, and ${{\cal E}_{\neg\neg} \rightarrow {\cal E}}$ be the full subcategory of double-negation sheaves. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a Unity and Identity ${{\cal E} \rightarrow {\cal S}}$ for the two subcategories of E abov

Julien Brasseur

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior as $\varepsilon\to0^+$ of solutions $u\_\varepsilon$ to the nonlocal stationary Fisher-KPP type equation$$ \frac{1}{\varepsilon^m}\int\_{\mathbb{R}^N}J\_\varepsilon(x-y)(u\_\varepsilon(y)-u\_\varepsilon(x))\mathrm{d}y+u\_\varepsilon(x)(a(x)-u\_\varepsilon(x))=0\text{ in }\mathbb{R}^N, $$where $\varepsilon>0$ an

Piotr Kopszak, Marek Mozrzymas, Michał Studziński

In this paper, we discuss positive maps induced by (irreducibly) covariant linear operators for finite groups. The application of group theory methods allows deriving some new results of a different kind. In particular, a family of necessary conditions for positivity, for such objects is derived, stemming either from the definition of a positive map or the n

Hector Rodriguez-Deniz, Mattias Villani, Augusto Voltes-Dorta

Dynamic transportation networks have been analyzed for years by means of static graph-based indicators in order to study the temporal evolution of relevant network components, and to reveal complex dependencies that would not be easily detected by a direct inspection of the data. This paper presents a state-of-the-art probabilistic latent network model to fo

Gabriel Turinici

The quality of generative models (such as Generative adversarial networks and Variational Auto-Encoders) depends heavily on the choice of a good probability distance. However some popular metrics like the Wasserstein or the Sliced Wasserstein distances, the Jensen-Shannon divergence, the Kullback-Leibler divergence, lack convenient properties such as (geodes

Dominik Maile, Sabine Andergassen, Gianluca Rastelli

Double well potentials offer the possibility of coherent state preparation and therefore constitute important building blocks in the analysis of quantum information and quantum engineering devices. Here we present a study of the coherent tunneling in a parabolic double well potential in presence of different dissipative interactions. Specifically, we investi

I. Dimkou, A. Harikumar, F. Donatini, J. Lähnemann

In this paper, we describe the design and characterization of 400-nm-long (88 periods) AlxGa1-xN/AlN (0 < x < 0.1) quantum dot superlattices deposited on self-assembled GaN nanowires for application in electron-pumped ultraviolet sources. The optical performance of GaN/AlN superlattices on nanowires is compared with the emission of planar GaN/AlN superlattic

Mariagrazia Franchini, Carlo Morossi, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Miguel Chavez

This paper focuses on carbon that is one of the most abundant elements in the Universe and is of high importance in the field of nucleosynthesis and galactic and stellar evolution. Even nowadays, the origin of carbon and the relative importance of massive and low- to intermediate-mass stars in producing it is still a matter of debate. In this paper we aim at

Yacouba Boubacar Maïnassara, Youssef Esstafa, Bruno Saussereau

This work considers the problem of modified portmanteau tests for testing the adequacy of FARIMA models under the assumption that the errors are uncorrelated but not necessarily independent (i.e. weak FARIMA). We first study the joint distribution of the least squares estimator and the noise empirical autocovariances. We then derive the asymp-totic distribut

Victor J. W. Guo

By applying Chinese remainder theorem for coprime polynomials and the "creative microscoping" method recently introduced by the author and Zudilin, we establish parametric generalizations of three $q$-supercongruences modulo the fourth power of a cyclotomic polynomial. The original $q$-supercongruences then follow from these parametric generalizations by tak

Marion Maisonobe

This article questions the effects on urban research dynamics of the Big Data and AI turn in urban management. To identify these effects, we use two complementary materials: bibliometric data and interviews. We consider two areas in urban research: one, covering the academic research dealing with transportation systems and the other, with water systems. Firs

Amer Abu Arisheh, Said Mikki, Nihad Dib

Nanoantennas are efficient devices exhibiting large confined electric field enhancements. So far, they have been extensively researched mainly in the receiving mode, which means that the illuminating field is essentially a plane wave. In this paper, we consider the problem of designing an efficient and highly directive transmitting Nanoantenna where the syst

Hongzhi Chen, De Mi, Zheng Chu, Pei Xiao

In this paper, we consider multigroup multicast transmissions with different types of service messages in an overloaded multicarrier system, where the number of transmitter antennas is insufficient to mitigate all inter-group interference. We show that employing a rate-splitting based multiuser beamforming approach enables a simultaneous delivery of the mult

Ari Wugalter, Yashar Komijani, Piers Coleman

This paper studies the two-channel Kondo lattice in the large-N limit at half-filling. In this model, the continuous channel-symmetry is spontaneously broken, forming a channel ferromagnet in which one conduction channel forms a Kondo insulator, while the other remains conducting. The paper discusses how this ground-state can be understood using the concept

A. Rebassa-Mansergas, S. Toonen, S. Torres, P. Canals

We perform an analysis of the single white dwarf and the double degenerate binary populations in the solar neighbourhood following a population synthesis approach to investigate the effects of unresolved double degenerates in the white dwarf luminosity function. We consider all unresolved synthetic binaries to be associated with fictitious effective temperat

Hongzhi Chen, De Mi, Belkacem Mouhouche, Pei Xiao

This paper provides the mobility and coverage evaluation of New Radio (NR) Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) for Point-to-Multipoint (PTM) use cases, e.g., eMBMS (evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services). The evaluation methodology is based on analyses and link level simulations where the channel model includes AWGN, TDL-A, TDL-C as well as a

Guy D. Moore, Niels Schlusser

We present a calculation of the transverse momentum broadening of a high-energy fundamental-representation particle, as calculated nonperturbatively within EQCD using the technique proposed by Caron-Huot and pioneered by Panero, Sch\"afer, and Rummukainen. Our results are continuum extrapolated and provided at four temperatures: 250 MeV, 500 MeV, 1 GeV, and

Niklas Luhmann, Dennis Høj, Markus Piller, Hendrik Kähler

Thermal detectors are a cornerstone of infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) technology due to their broad spectral range. These detectors call for suitable broad spectral absorbers with minimalthermal mass. Often this is realized by plasmonic absorbers, which ensure a high absorptivity butonly for a narrow spectral band. Alternativly, a common approach is based

Paolo Cabras, Florent Nageotte, Philippe Zanne, Christophe Doignon

Background. Flexible bendable instruments are key tools for performing surgical endoscopy. Being able to measure the 3D position of such instruments can be useful for various tasks, such as controlling automatically robotized instruments and analyzing motions. Methods. We propose an automatic method to infer the 3D pose of a single bending section instrument

Ivan Todorov

The exceptional euclidean Jordan algebra of 3x3 hermitian octonionic matrices, appears to be tailor made for the internal space of the three generations of quarks and leptons. The maximal rank subgroup of its automorphism group F4 that respects the lepton-quark splitting is the product of the colour SU(3) with an "electroweak" SU(3) factor. Its intersection

Jaehyuk Choi, Lixin Wu

This study presents new analytic approximations of the stochastic-alpha-beta-rho (SABR) model. Unlike existing studies that focus on the equivalent Black-Scholes (BS) volatility, we instead derive the equivalent constant-elasticity-of-variance (CEV) volatility. Our approach effectively reduces the approximation error in a way similar to the control variate m

Solenne Gaucher, Olga Klopp, Geneviève Robin

Outliers arise in networks due to different reasons such as fraudulent behavior of malicious users or default in measurement instruments and can significantly impair network analyses. In addition, real-life networks are likely to be incompletely observed, with missing links due to individual non-response or machine failures. Identifying outliers in the prese

Pablo Navarro, José Ignacio Orlando, Claudio Delrieux, Emmanuel Iarussi

Finding point-wise correspondences between images is a long-standing problem in image analysis. This becomes particularly challenging for sketch images, due to the varying nature of human drawing style, projection distortions and viewport changes. In this paper we present the first attempt to obtain a learned descriptor for dense registration in line drawing

Richard Tomsett, Dan Harborne, Supriyo Chakraborty, Prudhvi Gurram

Saliency maps are a popular approach to creating post-hoc explanations of image classifier outputs. These methods produce estimates of the relevance of each pixel to the classification output score, which can be displayed as a saliency map that highlights important pixels. Despite a proliferation of such methods, little effort has been made to quantify how g

Mohammadreza Fani Sani, Mathilde Boltenhagen, Wil van der Aalst

Process discovery aims at automatically creating process models on the basis of event data captured during the execution of business processes. Process discovery algorithms tend to use all of the event data to discover a process model. This attitude sometimes leads to discover imprecise and/or complex process models that may conceal important information of

Emile Carbone, Federico D'Isa, Ante Hecimovic, Ursel Fantz

The optical emission spectra of high pressure CO$_2$ microwave plasmas are usually dominated by the C$_2$ Swan bands. In this paper, the use of the C$_2$ Swan bands for estimating the gas temperature in CO$_2$ microwave plasmas is assessed. State by state fitting is employed to check the correctness of assuming a Boltzmann distribution for the rotational and

De Mi, Lei Zhang, Mehrdad Dianati, Sami Muhaidat

In time-division-duplexing (TDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel reciprocity is exploited to overcome the overwhelming pilot training and the feedback overhead. However, in practical scenarios, the imperfections in channel reciprocity, mainly caused by radio-frequency mismatches among the antennas at the base station side, can

Julien Lavauzelle, Pierre Loidreau, Ba-Duc Pham

We present a rank metric code-based encryption scheme with key and ciphertext sizes comparable to that of isogeny-based cryptography for an equivalent security level. The system also benefits from efficient encryption and decryption algorithms, which rely on linear algebra operations over finite fields of moderate sizes. The security only relies on rank metr

Albert Fert, Frédéric Nguyen van Dau

This article aims at giving a general presentation of spintronics, an important field of research developing today along many new directions in physics of condensed matter. We tried to present simply the physical phenomena involved in spintronics -- no equations but many schematics. We also described the applications of spintronics, those of today and those

M. Mühlhauser, M. R. Walther, D. A. Reiss, K. P. Schmidt

The quantum robustness of fracton phases is investigated by studying the influence of quantum fluctuations on the X-Cube model and Haah's code, which realize a type-I and type-II fracton phase, respectively. To this end a finite uniform magnetic field is applied to induce quantum fluctuations in the fracton phase resulting in zero-temperature phase transitio

Shuai Zhao, Piotr Dziurzanski, Leandro Soares Indrusiak

This paper considers manufacturing planning and scheduling of manufacturing orders whose value decreases over time. The value decrease is modelled with a so-called value curve. Two genetic-algorithm-based methods for multi-objective optimisation have been proposed, implemented and deployed to a cloud. The first proposed method allocates and schedules manufac

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, P. Adlarson

Using a 2.93 fb$^{-1}$ data sample of electron-positron collisions taken with the BESIII detector at a center-of-mass energy of 3.773 GeV, which corresponds to $(8296\pm31\pm64)\times10^3 D^+D^-$ pairs, we search for the baryon and lepton number violating decays $D^+\to\bar\Lambda(\bar\Sigma^0)e^+$ and $D^+\to\Lambda(\Sigma^0)e^+$. No obvious signals are fou

Georges Gras

Some PARI programs have bringed out a property for the non-genus part of the class number of the imaginary quadratic fields, with respect to $(\sqrt D\,)^{\varepsilon}$, where $D$ is the absolute value of the discriminant and $\varepsilon \in ]0, 1[$, in relation with the $\varepsilon$-conjecture. The general Conjecture 3.1, restricted to quadratic fields, s

Hongzhi Chen, De Mi, Manuel Fuentes, Eduardo Garro

5G New Radio (NR) Release 15 has been specified in June 2018. It introduces numerous changes and potential improvements for physical layer data transmissions, although only point-to-point (PTP) communications are considered. In order to use physical data channels such as the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), it is essential to guarantee a successful

Rob Arthan, Paulo Oliva

We investigate four well-known negative translations of classical logic into intuitionistic logic within a substructural setting. We find that in affine logic the translation schemes due to Kolmogorov and G\"odel both satisfy Troelstra's criteria for a negative translation. On the other hand, the schemes of Glivenko and Gentzen both fail for affine logic, bu

Jules Simon, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, David Steele, Harshad Mahadik

We propose an explainable model to generate semantic color labels for person search. In this context, persons are described from their semantic parts, such as hat, shirt, etc. Person search consists in looking for people based on these descriptions. In this work, we aim to improve the accuracy of color labels for people. Our goal is to handle the high variab

P. Giacobbe, M. Benedetto, M. Damasso, A. Sozzetti

We present rotation period measurements for 107 M dwarfs in the mass range $0.15-0.70 M_\odot$ observed within the context of the APACHE photometric survey. We measure rotation periods in the range 0.5-190 days, with the distribution peaking at $\sim$ 30 days. We revise the stellar masses and radii for our sample of rotators by exploiting the Gaia DR2 data.

Jason Joseph

In this paper we provide a new obstruction to 0-concordance of knotted surfaces in $S^4$ in terms of Alexander ideals. We use this to prove the existence of infinitely many linearly independent 0-concordance classes and to provide the first proof that the submonoid of 2-knots is not a group. The main result is that the Alexander ideal induces a homomorphism

Ramni Gupta, Salman Khurshid Malik

Charged particle multiplicity fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions are studied for the central events generated using EPOS3 (hydro and hydro+cascade) at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}\text{ = 2.76 TeV}$. Intermittency analysis is performed in the mid-rapidity region in two-dimensional ($\eta$, $\phi$) phase space within the narrow transverse momentum ($p_\rm{{T}}$) bin

Léa Bittmann

We establish a quantum cluster algebra structure on the quantum Grothendieck ring of a certain monoidal subcategory of the category of finite-dimensional representations of a simply-laced quantum affine algebra. Moreover, the (q,t)-characters of certain irreducible representations, among which fundamental representations, are obtained as quantum cluster vari

Alberto Boscaggin, Francesca Colasuonno, Benedetta Noris

In this paper we prove the existence and the multiplicity of radial positive oscillatory solutions for a nonlinear problem governed by the mean curvature operator in the Lorentz-Minkowski space. The problem is set in a ball $B_R$ of $\mathbb R^N$ and is subject to Neumann boundary conditions. The main tool used is the shooting method for ODEs.

J. S. Sanders, K. Dennerl, H. R. Russell, D. Eckert

We demonstrate a novel technique for calibrating the energy scale of the XMM EPIC-pn detector, which allows us to measure bulk flows in the intracluster medium (ICM) of the Perseus and Coma clusters. The procedure uses the instrumental lines present in all observations, in particular, Cu-Ka. By studying their spatial and temporal variations, in addition to i

Harald Hofstätter, Winfried Auzinger, Othmar Koch

This paper discusses an efficient implementation of the generation of order conditions for the construction of exponential integrators like exponential splitting and Magnus-type methods in the computer algebra system Maple. At the core of this implementation is a new algorithm for the computation of coefficients of words in the formal expansion of the local

Lupin Chun-Che Lin, Chin-Ping Hu, Kwan-Lok Li, Jumpei Takata

The long-term Swift monitoring of ESO 243-49 HLX-1 provides an opportunity to investigate the detailed timing and spectral behaviour of this hyper-luminous X-ray source. Swift has detected 7 outbursts since 2009 mid-August. Using different dynamical timing algorithms, we confirm an increasing trend for the time intervals between outbursts, which is manifest

Xin Ru, Li Wei, Youyun Xu

In this paper, we propose a model-driven channel estimation method utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) derived from image super-resolution (SR). Instead of completely abandoning traditional communication modules as data-driven approaches always do, we first obtain rough channel matrix by the simplest least square (LS) channel estimation, and then

Nafise Rezaei, Mojtaba Alaei, Hadi Akbarzadeh

We present \texttt{ESpinS} (Esfahan Spin Simulation) package to evaluate the thermodynamic properties of spin systems described by a spin model Hamiltonian. In addition to the Heisenberg exchange term, the spin Hamiltonian can contain interactions such as bi-quadratic, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya, and single-ion anisotropy. By applying the classical Monte-Carlo si

Tanmoy Pandit, Pritam Chattopadhyay, Goutam Paul

We introduce quantum heat engines that perform quantum Otto cycle and the quantum Stirling cycle by using a coupled pair of harmonic oscillator as its working substance. In the quantum regime, different working medium is considered for the analysis of the engine models to boost the efficiency of the cycles. In this work, we present Otto and Stirling cycle in

Jaelle Scheuerman, Jason L. Harman, Nicholas Mattei, K. Brent Venable

In many collective decision making situations, agents vote to choose an alternative that best represents the preferences of the group. Agents may manipulate the vote to achieve a better outcome by voting in a way that does not reflect their true preferences. In real world voting scenarios, people often do not have complete information about other voter prefe

Flavio Ferrarotti, Senén González, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, José María Turull-Torres

The polylogarithmic time hierarchy structures sub-linear time complexity. In recent work it was shown that all classes $\tilde{\Sigma}_{m}^{\mathit{plog}}$ or $\tilde{\Pi}_{m}^{\mathit{plog}}$ ($m \in \mathbb{N}$) in this hierarchy can be captured by semantically restricted fragments of second-order logic. In this paper the descriptive complexity theory of p

Francesco Cremona, Livio Pizzocchero, Olivier Sarbach

Recently, there has been quite a lot of interest in static, spherical wormhole spacetimes and the question of their stability with respect to time-dependent perturbations. The consideration of linearized perturbations usually leads to a master wave equation with effective potential which can then be analyzed using standard tools from quantum mechanics. Howev

Yaroslav A. Lazovik, Alexey S. Rastorguev, Marina V. Zabolotskikh, Natalia A. Gorynya

Calibration of the period-luminosity relation (PLR) for Cepheids has always been one of the biggest goals of stellar astronomy. Among a considerable number of different approaches, the Baade-Becker-Wesselink (BBW) method stands in the foreground as one of the most universal and precise methods. We present a new realization of the BBW method which is consider

William Shen, Felipe Trevizan, Sylvie Thiébaux

We present the first approach capable of learning domain-independent planning heuristics entirely from scratch. The heuristics we learn map the hypergraph representation of the delete-relaxation of the planning problem at hand, to a cost estimate that approximates that of the least-cost path from the current state to the goal through the hypergraph. We gener

Ke Xu

Let a sequence of conformal Riemannian metrics $\{g_k=u_k^2g_0\}$ be isospectral to $g_0$ over a compact boundaryless smooth 4-dimension manifold $(M,g_0)$. We prove that the subsequence of conformal factors $\{u_k\}$ converges to $u$ weakly in $W^{2,p}_{loc}(M\setminus \mathcal{S})$ for some $p<2$, where $\mathcal{S}$ is a finite set of points and $u\in W^{

Seunghyun Yoon, Subhadeep Dey, Hwanhee Lee, Kyomin Jung

In this work, we explore the impact of visual modality in addition to speech and text for improving the accuracy of the emotion detection system. The traditional approaches tackle this task by fusing the knowledge from the various modalities independently for performing emotion classification. In contrast to these approaches, we tackle the problem by introdu

Marcelo Zanchetta do Nascimento, Valério Ramos Batista

We present a fast and reliable algorithm that gives precise location of breast tumours for a partial mastectomy. Our algorithm is fully implemented in the Surface Evolver, which is a general-purpose simulator of physical experiments. By starting from the X-rays images that show a tumour one takes its 2D coordinates in each view. These views are called CC (Cr

Hooman Hezaveh, Zhisong Qu, Boris N. Breizman, Matthew Hole

A theoretical framework has been developed for an NBI scenario to model the hard nonlinear evolution of Global Alfven Eigenmodes (GAEs) where the adiabatic motion of phase-space sturctures (holes and clumps), associated with the frequency chirping, occurs in generalized phase-space of slowing down energetic particles. The radial profile of the GAE is expande

Abdullahi Ali, Johan Kwisthout

It is currently not clear what the potential is of neuromorphic hardware beyond machine learning and neuroscience. In this project, a problem is investigated that is inherently difficult to fully implement in neuromorphic hardware by introducing a new machine model in which a conventional Turing machine and neuromorphic oracle work together to solve such typ

Rujing Yao, Linlin Hou, Yingchun Ye, Ou Wu

Literature analysis facilitates researchers better understanding the development of science and technology. The conventional literature analysis focuses on the topics, authors, abstracts, keywords, references, etc., and rarely pays attention to the content of papers. In the field of machine learning, the involved methods (M) and datasets (D) are key informat

Andrea Cosso, Francesco Russo

We address our interest to the development of a theory of viscosity solutions {\`a} la Crandall-Lions for path-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs), namely PDEs in the space of continuous paths C([0, T ]; R^d). Path-dependent PDEs can play a central role in the study of certain classes of optimal control problems, as for instance optimal control p

Manfred Küker, Günther Rüdiger, Katalin Oláh, Klaus Strassmeier

Observations of early-type M stars suggest that there are two characteristic cycle times, one of order one year for fast rotators ($P_{\rm rot} < 1$ day) and another of order four years for slower rotators. For a sample of fast-rotating stars, the equator-to-pole differences of the rotation rates up to 0.03 rad d$^{-1}$ are also known from Kepler data. These

Stephan Rosswog

We present the methodology and performance of the new Lagrangian hydrodynamics code MAGMA2, a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code that benefits from a number of non-standard enhancements. By default it uses high-order smoothing kernels and wherever gradients are needed, they are calculated via accurate matrix inversion techniques, but a more conventional fo

J. W. T. Keeble, A. Rios

We use machine learning techniques to solve the nuclear two-body bound state problem, the deuteron. We use a minimal one-layer, feed-forward neural network to represent the deuteron S- and D-state wavefunction in momentum space, and solve the problem variationally using ready-made machine learning tools. We benchmark our results with exact diagonalisation so

Xiaoming Sun, Yufan Zheng

In this paper, we introduce the hybrid query complexity, denoted as $\mathrm{Q}(f;q)$, which is the minimal query number needed to compute $f$, when a classical decision tree is allowed to call $q'$-query quantum subroutines for any $q'\leq q$. We present the following results: $\bullet$ There exists a total Boolean function $f$ such that $\mathrm{Q}(f;1) =

James R. Beattie, Christoph Federrath

Stars form in highly-magnetised, supersonic turbulent molecular clouds. Many of the tools and models that we use to carry out star formation studies rely upon the assumption of cloud isotropy. However, structures like high-density filaments in the presence of magnetic fields, and magnetosonic striations introduce anisotropies into the cloud. In this study we

Yuki Koyano, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Satoshi Nakata, Jerzy Gorecki

We propose a simple mathematical model that describes the time evolution of a self-propelled object on a liquid surface using such variables as the object location, the surface concentration of active molecules and the hydrodynamic surface flow. The model is applied to simulate the time evolution of a rotor composed of a polygonal plate with camphor pills at

Ronniy C. Joseph, C. M. Trott, R. B. Wayth, A. Nasirudin

Detecting a signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) requires an exquisite understanding of galactic and extra-galactic foregrounds, low frequency radio instruments, instrumental calibration, and data analysis pipelines. In this work we build upon existing work that aims to understand the impact of calibration errors on 21-cm power spectrum (PS) measureme

Akam Qader, Hossein Hassani

We present an experimental dataset, Basic Dataset for Sorani Kurdish Automatic Speech Recognition (BD-4SK-ASR), which we used in the first attempt in developing an automatic speech recognition for Sorani Kurdish. The objective of the project was to develop a system that automatically could recognize simple sentences based on the vocabulary which is used in g

Claudia Bucur

We discuss in this note the stickiness phenomena for nonlocal minimal surfaces. Classical minimal surfaces in convex domains do not stick to the boundary of the domain, hence examples of stickiness can be obtained only by removing the assumption of convexity. On the other hand, in the nonlocal framework, stickiness is "generic". We provide various examples f

Alexander Eckl, Luisa Peter, Maximilian Schiffer, Susanne Albers

Coflow scheduling models communication requests in parallel computing frameworks where multiple data flows between shared resources need to be completed before computation can continue. In this paper, we introduce Path-based Coflow Scheduling, a generalized problem variant that considers coflows as collections of flows along fixed paths on general network to

Panyue Zhou

Assume that $(\mathcal{C}, \mathbb{E}, \mathfrak{s})$ is an extriangulated category satisfying Condition (WIC). Let $(\cal Q, \widetilde{\cal R})$ and $(\widetilde{\cal Q}, \cal R)$ be two hereditary cotorsion pairs satisfying conditions $\widetilde{\cal R} \subseteq \cal R$, $\widetilde{\cal Q}\subseteq \cal Q$ and $\widetilde{\cal Q}\cap \cal R = \cal Q \c

Bishnu Patra, Mohammadreza Mehrpoo, Andrea Ruffino, Fabio Sebastiano

This paper presents the characterization of microwave passive components, including metal-oxide-metal (MoM) capacitors, transformers, and resonators, at deep cryogenic temperature (4.2 K). The variations in capacitance, inductance and quality factor are explained in relation to the temperature dependence of the physical parameters and the resulting insights

V. Yu. Irkhin

A scaling theory of the Kondo lattices with frustrated exchange interactions is developed, criterium of antiferromagnetic ordering and quantum-disordered state being investigated. The calculations taking into account magnon and incoherent spin dynamics are performed. Depending on the bare model parameters, one or two quantum phase transitions into non-magnet

Flavio Ferrarotti, Senen Gonzáles, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, José María Turull-Torres

We introduce a restricted second-order logic $\mathrm{SO}^{\mathit{plog}}$ for finite structures where second-order quantification ranges over relations of size at most poly-logarithmic in the size of the structure. We demonstrate the relevance of this logic and complexity class by several problems in database theory. We then prove a Fagin's style theorem sh

Sebastian Cioaba, Lihua Feng, Michael Tait, Xiao-Dong Zhang

A graph on $2k+1$ vertices consisting of $k$ triangles which intersect in exactly one common vertex is called a $k$-fan and denoted by $F_k$. This paper aims to determine the graphs of order $n$ that have the maximum (adjacency) spectral radius among all graphs containing no $F_k$, for $n$ sufficiently large.

L. Hermosa Muñoz, S. Taibi, G. Battaglia, G. Iorio

Dwarf galaxies found in isolation in the Local Group (LG) are unlikely to have interacted with the large LG spirals, and therefore environmental effects should not be the main drivers of their evolution. We aim to provide insight into the internal mechanisms shaping LG dwarf galaxies by increasing our knowledge of the internal properties of isolated systems.

Guido Falk von Rudorff, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

We assess the applicability of Alchemical Perturbation Density Functional Theory (APDFT) for quickly and accurately estimating deprotonation energies. We have considered all possible single and double deprotonations in one hundred small organic molecules drawn at random from QM9 [Ramakrishnan et al, JCTC 2015]. Numerical evidence is presented for 5'160 depro

S. Wallner

COMPASS is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment at CERN aimed at studying the structure and spectrum of hadrons. It has collected the so far world's largest data set on diffractive production of the $K^-\pi^-\pi^+$ decay, which in principle gives access to all kaon states. We performed an elaborate partial-wave analysis, using model-selection techniques t