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  1. Xue Liu, Chunlei Yue, Sergey V. Erohin, Yanglin Zhu

    In a topological semimetal with Dirac or Weyl points, the bulk edge correspondence principle predicts a gapless edge mode if the essential symmetry is still preserved at the surface. The detection of such topological surface state has been considered as the fingerprint prove for crystals with nontrivial topological bulk band. On the contrary, it has been pro

  2. Rashid Alawadhi, David S. Berman, Bill Spence, David Peinador Veiga

    The double copy formalism provides an intriguing connection between gauge theories and gravity. It was first demonstrated in the perturbative context of scattering amplitudes but recently the formalism has been applied to exact classical solutions in gauge theories such as the monopole and instanton. In this paper we will investigate how duality symmetries i

  3. Jonathan Tidor, Yufei Zhao

    Fix a prime $p$ and a positive integer $R$. We study the property testing of functions $\mathbb F_p^n\to[R]$. We say that a property is testable if there exists an oblivious tester for this property with one-sided error and constant query complexity. Furthermore, a property is proximity oblivious-testable (PO-testable) if the test is also independent of the

  4. Santiago Badia, Jesús Bonilla, Sibusiso Mabuza, John N. Shadid

    This work presents the design of nonlinear stabilization techniques for the finite element discretization of Euler equations in both steady and transient form. Implicit time integration is used in the case of the transient form. A differentiable local bounds preserving method has been developed, which combines a Rusanov artificial diffusion operator and a di

  5. Vanja Doskoč, Tobias Friedrich, Andreas Göbel, Frank Neumann

    We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone submodular function under multiple knapsack constraints. We propose a simple discrete greedy algorithm to approach this problem, and prove that it yields strong approximation guarantees for functions with bounded curvature. In contrast to other heuristics, this requires no problem relaxation to continuous dom

  6. Mathias Becker, Wei-Chih Huang

    We propose a novel mechanism to realize two-component asymmetric dark matter of very different mass scales through bound state formation and late freeze-in decay. Assuming a particle-antiparticle asymmetry is initially shared by SM baryons and two dark matter components, we demonstrate that the existence of bound states formed by the heavy component can effi

  7. Nick Dorey, Daniel Zhang

    We consider supersymmetric quantum mechanics on a Kähler cone, regulated via a suitable resolution of the conical singularity. The unresolved space has a $\mathfrak{u}(1,1|2)$ superconformal symmetry and we propose the existence of an associated quantum mechanical theory with a discrete spectrum consisting of unitary, lowest weight representations of this al

  8. Akshay Kulkarni, Navid Panchi, Sharath Chandra Raparthy, Shital Chiddarwar

    Despite the success of Deep Learning (DL), the deployment of modern DL models requiring large computational power poses a significant problem for resource-constrained systems. This necessitates building compact networks that reduce computations while preserving performance. Traditional Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods that transfer knowledge from teacher

  9. Jan Plefka, Canxin Shi, Tianheng Wang

    We construct the gravitational theory emerging from the double-copy of massive scalar quantum chromodynamics in general dimensions. The resulting two-form-dilaton-gravity theory couples to flavored massive scalars gravitationally and via the dilaton. It displays scalar self-interaction terms of arbitrary even order in the fields but quadratic in derivatives.

  10. Alex Robson, Mahdi Jamei, Cozmin Ududec, Letif Mones

    With increasing share of renewables in power generation mix, system operators would need to run Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems closer to real-time to better manage uncertainty. Given that OPF is an expensive optimization problem to solve, shifting computational effort away from real-time to offline training by machine learning techniques has become an int

  11. P. Humire, C. Henkel, Y. Gong, S. Leurini

    Methanol (CH3OH) is one of the most abundant interstellar molecules, offering a vast number of transitions to be studied, including many maser lines. While the strongest Galactic CH3OH lines, the so-called class II masers, show no indications for the presence of superluminous counterparts in external galaxies, the less luminous Galactic class I sources appea

  12. Denis D. Patterson, Simon A. Levin, A. Carla Staver, Jonathan D. Touboul

    Deterministic models of vegetation often summarize, at a macroscopic scale, a multitude of intrinsically random events occurring at a microscopic scale. We bridge the gap between these scales by demonstrating convergence to a mean-field limit for a general class of stochastic models representing each individual ecological event in the limit of large system s

  13. Luis A. Pereyra, Mario A. Sgró, Manuel E. Merchán, Federico A. Stasyszyn

    In this work, we identify and analyse the properties of cluster-cluster filaments within a cosmological simulation assuming that they are structures connecting maxima of the density field defined by dark matter halos with masses $M \, \ge 10^{14}\, h^{-1} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$. To extract these filaments we develop an identification algorithm based on two stan

  14. Mike Entwistle, Rex Godby

    We present a simple geometrical "fluidic" approximation to the non-adiabatic part of the Kohn-Sham potential, $v_{\mathrm{KS}}$, of time-dependent density functional theory. This part of $v_{\mathrm{KS}}$ is often crucial, but most practical functional approximations utilize an adiabatic approach based on ground-state DFT. For a variety of prototype

  15. João R. Carmo, S. Waleed Noor

    A Hilbert space operator $U$ is called universal (in the sense of Rota) if every Hilbert space operator is similar to a multiple of $U$ restricted to one of its invariant subspaces. It follows that the Invariant Subspace Problem for Hilbert spaces is equivalent to the statement that all minimal invariant subspaces for $U$ are one dimensional. In this article

  16. Erik Burman, Rebecca Durst, Johnny Guzman

    We analyze a splitting method for a canonical fluid structure interaction problem. The splittling method uses a Robin-Robin boundary condition, explicit strategy. We prove the method is stable and, furthermore, we provide an error estimate that shows the error at the final time $T$ is $O(\sqrt{TΔt})$ where $Δt$ is the time step.

  17. Javier Gómez-Serrano, Gerard Orriols

    Despite the moduli space of triangles being three dimensional, we prove the existence of two triangles which are not isometric to each other for which the first, second and fourth Dirichlet eigenvalues coincide, establishing a numerical observation from Antunes-Freitas [P. R. S. Antunes and P. Freitas. Proc. R. Soc. Lond.Ser. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci., 467(213

  18. Carlo Baldassi, Riccardo Della Vecchia, Carlo Lucibello, Riccardo Zecchina

    The geometrical features of the (non-convex) loss landscape of neural network models are crucial in ensuring successful optimization and, most importantly, the capability to generalize well. While minimizers' flatness consistently correlates with good generalization, there has been little rigorous work in exploring the condition of existence of such mini

  19. Quanlong Wang

    ZX-calculus is a graphical language for quantum computing which is complete in the sense that calculation in matrices can be done in a purely diagrammatic way. However, all previous universally complete axiomatisations of ZX-calculus have included at least one rule involving trigonometric functions such as sin and cos which makes it difficult for application

  20. Chanyoung Park, Donghyun Kim, Jiawei Han, Hwanjo Yu

    Nodes in a multiplex network are connected by multiple types of relations. However, most existing network embedding methods assume that only a single type of relation exists between nodes. Even for those that consider the multiplexity of a network, they overlook node attributes, resort to node labels for training, and fail to model the global properties of a

  21. Augusto Fasano, Daniele Durante, Giacomo Zanella

    Modern methods for Bayesian regression beyond the Gaussian response setting are often computationally impractical or inaccurate in high dimensions. In fact, as discussed in recent literature, bypassing such a trade-off is still an open problem even in routine binary regression models, and there is limited theory on the quality of variational approximations i

  22. Cécilia Lancien, Christian Majenz

    Unitary $t$-designs are the bread and butter of quantum information theory and beyond. An important issue in practice is that of efficiently constructing good approximations of such unitary $t$-designs. Building on results by Aubrun (Comm. Math. Phys. 2009), we prove that sampling $d^t\mathrm{poly}(t,\log d, 1/ε)$ unitaries from an exact $t$-design provides

  23. Maria Castaldo, Costanza Catalano, Giacomo Como, Fabio Fagnani

    The Bonacich centrality is a well-known measure of the relative importance of nodes in a network. This notion is, for example, at the core of Google's PageRank algorithm. In this paper we study a network formation game where each player corresponds to a node in the network to be formed and can decide how to rewire his m out-links aiming at maximizing his

  24. Ana Bernal

    The Mullineux involution is a relevant map that appears in the study of the modular representations of the symmetric group and the alternating group. The fixed points of this map are certain partitions of particular interest. It is known that the cardinality of the set of these self-Mullineux partitions is equal to the cardinality of a distinguished subset o

  25. Gerard Freixas I Montplet, Dennis Eriksson, Christophe Mourougane

    The mathematical physicists Bershadsky-Cecotti-Ooguri-Vafa (BCOV) proposed, in a seminal article from '94, a conjecture extending genus zero mirror symmetry to higher genera. With a view towards a refined formulation of the Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem, we offer a mathematical description of the BCOV conjecture at genus one. As an application of the ari

  26. Maciej Dołęga, Thomas Gerber, Jacinta Torres

    We prove a conjecture of Lecouvey, which proposes a closed, positive combinatorial formula for symplectic Kostka-Foulkes polynomials, in the case of rows of arbitrary weight. To show this, we construct a new algorithm for computing cocyclage in terms of which the conjecture is described. Our algorithm is free of local constraints, which were the main obstacl

  27. Jie Hou, Yu-Wei You, Xiang-Shan Kong, Jun Song

    Knowledge on structures and energetics of nanovoids is fundamental to understand defect evolution in metals. Yet there remain no reliable methods able to determine essential structural details or to provide accurate assessment of energetics for general nanovoids. Here, we performed systematic first-principles investigations to examine stable structures and e

  28. Julien Scheibert, Riad Sahli, Michel Peyrard

    Modelling of rough frictional interfaces is often based on asperity models, in which the individual behaviour of individual microjunctions is assumed. In the absence of local measurements at the microjunction scale, quantitative comparison of such models with experiments is usually based only on macroscopic quantities, like the total tangential load resisted

  29. Andrii M. Sokolov, Eugene V. Stolyarov

    We study the dispersive readout of a qubit in the ultimate limit of a single-photon probe. The use of a single-photon probe avoids the errors due to nonorthogonality of coherent states. A photodetector is used in the scheme we consider. The dynamics of the system is studied using the Heisenberg-Langevin equations. We treat the counter-rotating terms in the H

  30. Sebastian Blauth, Christian Leithäuser, René Pinnau

    We model a microchannel cooling system and consider the optimization of its shape by means of shape calculus. A three-dimensional model covering all relevant physical effects and three reduced models are introduced. The latter are derived via a homogenization of the geometry in 3D and a transformation of the three-dimensional models to two dimensions. A shap

  31. Alessandro Casa, Luca Scrucca, Giovanna Menardi

    With the recent growth in data availability and complexity, and the associated outburst of elaborate modelling approaches, model selection tools have become a lifeline, providing objective criteria to deal with this increasingly challenging landscape. In fact, basing predictions and inference on a single model may be limiting if not harmful; ensemble approac

  32. Max Hinne, David Leeftink, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Luca Ambrogioni

    Quasi-experimental research designs, such as regression discontinuity and interrupted time series, allow for causal inference in the absence of a randomized controlled trial, at the cost of additional assumptions. In this paper, we provide a framework for discontinuity-based designs using Bayesian model comparison and Gaussian process regression, which we re

  33. J. Avan, L. Frappat, E. Ragoucy

    The algebraic structure underlying the classical $r$-matrix formulation of the complex sine-Gordon model is fully elucidated. It is characterized by two matrices $a$ and $s$, components of the $r$ matrix as $r=a-s$. They obey a modified classical reflection/Yang--Baxter set of equations, further deformed by non-abelian dynamical shift terms along the dual Li

  34. C. Reichhardt, C. J. O. Reichhardt

    We examine driven skyrmion dynamics in systems with inhomogeneous pinning where a strip of strong pinning coexists with a region containing no pinning. For driving parallel to the strip, we find that the initial skyrmion motion is confined to the unpinned region and the skyrmion Hall angle is zero. At larger drives, a transition occurs to a phase in which mo

  35. Flavien Mabilat

    We characterize sequences of positive integers (c 1 , c 2 , ..., cn) for which the (2 x 2)-matrix c 1 --1 1 0 $\times$ $\times$ $\times$ cn --1 1 0 belongs to the principal congruence subgroup of level 2 in SL(2, Z). The answer is given in terms of dissections of a convex n-gon into a mixture of triangles and quadrilaterals.

  36. Kumar Goutam, Vineet Goyal, Agathe Soret

    Assortment optimization is an important problem that arises in many industries such as retailing and online advertising where the goal is to find a subset of products from a universe of substitutable products which maximize seller's expected revenue. One of the key challenges in this problem is to model the customer substitution behavior. Many parametric

  37. Lassi Paunonen

    We study the well-posedness and asymptotic behaviour of selected PDE-PDE and PDE-ODE systems on one-dimensional spatial domains, namely a boundary coupled wave-heat system and a wave equation with a dynamic boundary condition. We prove well-posedness of the models and derive rational decay rates for the energy using an approach where the coupled systems are

  38. Rafael Celestre, Sebastien Berujon, Thomas Roth, Manuel Sanchez del Rio

    Compound refractive lenses (CRL) offer outstanding potential for probe formation in X-ray micro- and nano-analysis as well as for imaging applications, but effective aberration-free focusing of X-rays is a key consideration when high spatial resolution and intensities are required. Available refractive optics have non-negligible aberrations which degrade the

  39. Federica Pasquotto, Thomas O. Rot

    Consider a connected manifold of dimension at least two and the group of compactly supported diffeomorphisms that are compactly supported isotopic to the identity. This group acts $n$-transitive: Any tuple of $n$ points can be moved to any other tuple of $n$ points by a compactly supported diffeomorphism that is compactly supported isotopic to the identity.

  40. Emanuele Aliverti, Jeff Tilson, Dayne Filer, Benjamin Babcock

    Biomedical research often produces high-dimensional data confounded by batch effects such as systematic experimental variations, different protocols and subject identifiers. Without proper correction, low-dimensional representation of high-dimensional data might encode and reproduce the same systematic variations observed in the original data, and compromise

  41. Alyssa Adams, Bonnie Jacob

    Let $D$ be a simple digraph (directed graph) with vertex set $V(D)$ and arc set $A(D)$ where $n=|V(D)|$, and each arc is an ordered pair of distinct vertices. If $(v,u) \in A(D)$, then $u$ is considered an \emph{out-neighbor} of $v$ in $D$. Initially, we designate each vertex to be either filled or empty. Then, the following color change rule (CCR) is applie

  42. Alice Di Tucci, Jean-Luc Lehners, Laura Sberna

    We analyse the impact of various boundary conditions on the (minisuperspace) Lorentzian gravitational path integral. In particular we assess the implications for the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary wavefunction. It was shown recently that when this proposal is defined as a sum over compact metrics, problems arise with the stability of fluctuations. These difficul

  43. Marc Dinh, Vincent Fromion

    The purpose of this paper is to show that it is possible to replace Monod's type model of a chemostat by a constraint based model of bacteria at the genome scale. This new model is an extension of the RBA model of bacteria developed in a batch mode to the chemostat. This new model, and the associated framework, leads to a dramatic improvement in the pred

  44. Andrea Giusti

    General fractional calculus offers an elegant and self-consistent path toward the generalization of fractional calculus to an enhanced class of kernels. Prabhakar's theory can be thought of, to some extent, as an explicit realization of this scheme achieved by merging the Prabhakar (or, three-parameter Mittag-Leffler) function with the general wisdom of

  45. Joanna Piotrowska, Asa F. L. Bluck, Roberto Maiolino, Alice Concas

    In order to investigate the importance of different proposed quenching mechanisms, we use an indirect method to estimate gas masses for ~62,000 SDSS DR7 galaxies. We infer gas surface densities from dust column densities as traced by extinction within the fibre, applying a metallicity correction to account for varying dust-to-gas ratios. We find that both ga

  46. Blake Barker, Benjamin Melinand, Kevin Zumbrun

    We treat the 1D shock tube problem, establishing existence of steady solutions of full (nonisentropic) polytropic gas dynamics with arbitrary noncharacteristic data. We present also numerical experiments indicating uniqueness and time-asymptotic stability of such solutions. At the same time, we give an example of an (artificial) equation of state possessing

  47. Hsien-Kuei Hwang, Emma Yu Jin

    A direct saddle-point analysis (without relying on any modular forms, identities or functional equations) is developed to establish the asymptotics of Fishburn matrices and a large number of other variants with a similar sum of-finite-product form for their (formal) general functions. In addition to solving some conjectures, the application of our saddle-poi

  48. Daniel F. Urrego, Dorilian Lopez-Mago, Verónica Vicuña-Hernández, Juan P. Torres

    Distinguishing between strings of data or waveforms is at the core of multiple applications in information technologies. In a quantum language the task is to design protocols to differentiate quantum states. Quantum-based technologies promises to go beyond the capabilities offered by technologies based on classical principles. However the implementation of t

  49. Laura Natali, Lorenzo Caprini, Fabio Cecconi

    We study the dynamics of a polymer, described as a variant of a Rouse chain, driven by an active terminal monomer (head). The local active force induces a transition from a globule-like to an elongated state, as revealed by the study of the end-to-end distance, whose variance is analytically predicted under suitable approximations. The change in the relaxati

  50. Vladimir S. Dotsenko

    Under the assumption that the product of two spin operators decomposes uniquely into the degenerate conformal fields $\{Φ_{n',n}\}$, the general expression for the correlation function of four spins is defined for the $q$ states Potts model with $q$ taking general values in the interval $1 \leq q \leq 4$. The limit of $q \rightarrow 1$ is considered in d

  51. Maziar Heidari, Kurt Kremer, Ramin Golestanian, Raffaello Potestio

    We propose an open-boundary molecular dynamics method in which an atomistic system is in contact with an infinite particle reservoir at constant temperature, volume and chemical potential. In practice, following the Hamiltonian adaptive resolution strategy, the system is partitioned into a domain of interest and a reservoir of non-interacting, ideal gas, par

  52. MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli

    Extreme high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are blazars which exhibit extremely energetic synchrotron emission. They also feature non-thermal gamma-ray emission whose peak lies in the very high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) range, and in some sources exceeds 1TeV: this is the case of hard-TeV EHBLs such as 1ES 0229+200. With the aim of increasing the EH

  53. Sean Augenstein, H. Brendan McMahan, Daniel Ramage, Swaroop Ramaswamy

    To improve real-world applications of machine learning, experienced modelers develop intuition about their datasets, their models, and how the two interact. Manual inspection of raw data - of representative samples, of outliers, of misclassifications - is an essential tool in a) identifying and fixing problems in the data, b) generating new modeling hypothes

  54. Avanish Kumar, Manas Kulkarni, Anupam Kundu

    In this paper, we develop a large-$N$ field theory for a system of $N$ classical particles in one dimension at thermal equilibrium. The particles are confined by an arbitrary external potential, $V_\text{ex} (x)$, and repel each other via a class of pairwise interaction potentials $V_\text{int}(r)$ (where $r$ is distance between a pair of particles) such tha

  55. Juan Juan Cai

    Clustering of extreme events can have profound and detrimental societal consequences. The extremal index, a number in the unit interval, is a key parameter in modelling the clustering of extremes. The study of extremal index often assumes a local dependence condition known as the $D^{(d)}(u_n)$ condition. In this paper, we develop a hypothesis test for $D^{(

  56. Zeng Yang, Jin-Long Wu, Heng Xiao

    Generative adversarial networks (GANs) were initially proposed to generate images by learning from a large number of samples. Recently, GANs have been used to emulate complex physical systems such as turbulent flows. However, a critical question must be answered before GANs can be considered trusted emulators for physical systems: do GANs-generated samples c

  57. Zuling Chang, Martianus Frederic Ezerman, Pinhui Ke, Qiang Wang

    We put forward new general criteria to design successor rules that generate binary de Bruijn sequences. Prior fast algorithms based on successor rules in the literature are then shown to be special instances. We implemented the criteria to join the cycles generated by a number of simple feedback shift registers (FSRs) of order $n$. These include the pure cyc

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

    The SU(3)-flavor violating decay $J/ψ\toΞ(1530)^{-}\barΞ^{+}+c.c.$ is studied using $(1310.6\pm7.0)\times 10^{6} ~J/ψ$ events collected with the BESIII detector at BEPCII and the branching fraction is measured to be ${\cal{B}}(J/ψ\toΞ(1530)^{-}\barΞ^{+}+c.c.)=(3.17\pm0.02_{\rm stat.}\pm0.08_{\rm syst.})\times10^{-4}$. This is consistent with previous measure

  59. Satya N. Majumdar, Baruch Meerson

    We study the distribution of first-passage functionals ${\cal A}= \int_0^{t_f} x^n(t)\, dt$, where $x(t)$ is a Brownian motion (with or without drift) with diffusion constant $D$, starting at $x_0>0$, and $t_f$ is the first-passage time to the origin. In the driftless case, we compute exactly, for all $n>-2$, the probability density $P_n(A|x_0)=\text{Prob}.(

  60. Youngwan Lee, Jongyoul Park

    We propose a simple yet efficient anchor-free instance segmentation, called CenterMask, that adds a novel spatial attention-guided mask (SAG-Mask) branch to anchor-free one stage object detector (FCOS) in the same vein with Mask R-CNN. Plugged into the FCOS object detector, the SAG-Mask branch predicts a segmentation mask on each box with the spatial attenti

  61. Mamoru Ueda

    In this paper, we define the affine super Yangian $Y_{\varepsilon_1,\varepsilon_2}(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(m|n))$ with a coproduct structure. We also obtain an evaluation homomorphism, that is, an algebra homomorphism from $Y_{\varepsilon_1,\varepsilon_2}(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(m|n))$ to the completion of the universal enveloping algebra of $\widehat{\mathf

  62. Jirui Guo, Satoshi Nawata, Runkai Tao, Hao Derrick Zhang

    By studying the infra-red fixed point of an $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ Landau-Ginzburg model, we find an example of modular invariant partition function beyond the ADE classification. This stems from the fact that a part of the left-moving sector is a new conformal field theory which is a variant of the parafermion model.

  63. Carlos Galindo, Francisco Monserrat, Carlos-Jesús Moreno-Ávila

    Non-positive at infinity valuations are a class of real plane valuations which have a nice geometrical behavior. They are divided in three types. We study the dual graphs of non-positive at infinity valuations and give an algorithm for obtaining them. Moreover we compare these graphs attending the type of their corresponding valuation.

  64. ATLAS Collaboration

    A search for the direct production of the supersymmetric partners of $τ$-leptons (staus) in final states with two hadronically decaying $τ$-leptons is presented. The analysis uses a dataset of $pp$ collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $139$ fb$^{-1}$, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy

  65. Somya Mani, Tsvi Tlusty

    Development combines three basic processes asymmetric --- cell division, signaling and gene regulation --- in a multitude of ways to create an overwhelming diversity of multicellular life-forms. Here, we attempt to chart this diversity using a generative model. We sample millions of biologically feasible developmental schemes, allowing us to comment on the s

  66. Carolyn E. Wood, Magdalena Zych

    Composite particles---atoms, molecules, or microspheres---are unique tools for testing joint quantum and general relativistic effects, macroscopic limits of quantum mechanics, and searching for new physics. However, all studies of the free propagation of these particles find that they delocalise into separate internal energy components, destroying their spat

  67. Murad Alim, Florian Beck, Laura Fredrickson

    The non-abelian Hodge correspondence identifies complex variations of Hodge structures with certain Higgs bundles. In this work we analyze this relationship, and some of its ramifications, when the variations of Hodge structures are determined by a (complete) one-dimensional family of compact Calabi-Yau manifolds. This setup enables us to apply techniques fr

  68. Dirk Zeindler

    We study the asymptotic behavior of the long cycles of a random permutation of $n$ objects with respect to multiplicative measures with polynomial growing cycle weights. We show that the longest cycle and the length differences between the longest cycles converge, after suitable normalisation, in distribution to iid random variables $(Z_j)_{j\in\mathbb{N}}$

  69. Max Hahn-Klimroth, Philipp Loick

    The group testing problem is concerned with identifying a small number $k \sim n^θ$ for $θ\in (0,1)$ of infected individuals in a large population of size $n$. At our disposal is a testing procedure that allows us to test groups of individuals. This paper considers two-stage designs where the test results of the first stage can inform the design of the secon

  70. David Cortes

    This work proposes a non-iterative strategy for missing value imputations which is guided by similarity between observations, but instead of explicitly determining distances or nearest neighbors, it assigns observations to overlapping buckets through recursive semi-random hyperplane cuts, in which weighted averages are determined as imputations for each vari

  71. Okan Köpüklü, Xiangyu Wei, Gerhard Rigoll

    Spatiotemporal action localization requires the incorporation of two sources of information into the designed architecture: (1) temporal information from the previous frames and (2) spatial information from the key frame. Current state-of-the-art approaches usually extract these information with separate networks and use an extra mechanism for fusion to get

  72. Zhiyue Liu, Jiahai Wang, Zhiwei Liang

    Generating multiple categories of texts is a challenging task and draws more and more attention. Since generative adversarial nets (GANs) have shown competitive results on general text generation, they are extended for category text generation in some previous works. However, the complicated model structures and learning strategies limit their performance an

  73. Raffael Stenzel

    Univalence, originally a type theoretical notion at the heart of Voevodsky's Univalent Foundations Program, has found general importance as a higher categorical property that characterizes descent and hence classifying maps in $(\infty,1)$-categories. Completeness is a property of Segal spaces introduced by Rezk that characterizes those Segal spaces which ar

  74. Jongho Park

    In this paper, we propose an overlapping additive Schwarz method for total variation minimization based on a dual formulation. The $O(1/n)$-energy convergence of the proposed method is proven, where $n$ is the number of iterations. In addition, we introduce an interesting convergence property called pseudo-linear convergence of the proposed method; the energ

  75. Josh Merel, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, Arun Ahuja, Yuval Tassa

    We address the longstanding challenge of producing flexible, realistic humanoid character controllers that can perform diverse whole-body tasks involving object interactions. This challenge is central to a variety of fields, from graphics and animation to robotics and motor neuroscience. Our physics-based environment uses realistic actuation and first-person

  76. Klaas Landsman, Kitty Rang

    Wigner's Theorem states that bijections of the set P_1(H) of one-dimensional projections on a Hilbert space H that preserve transition probabilities are induced by either a unitary or an anti-unitary operator on H (which is uniquely determined up to a phase). Since elements of P_1(H) define pure states on the C*-algebra B(H) of all bounded operators on H

  77. Chao Li, Yixiao Yang, Kun He, Stephen Lin

    We address the problem of removing undesirable reflections from a single image captured through a glass surface, which is an ill-posed, challenging but practically important problem for photo enhancement. Inspired by iterative structure reduction for hidden community detection in social networks, we propose an Iterative Boost Convolutional LSTM Network (IBCL

  78. Andrew D. Gilbert, Jacques Vanneste

    We develop a geometric formulation of fluid dynamics, valid on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds, that regards the momentum-flux and stress tensors as 1-form valued 2-forms, and their divergence as a covariant exterior derivative. We review the necessary tools of differential geometry and obtain the corresponding coordinate-free form of the equations of motion

  79. Yusuf Turek

    In general, the state of a quantum system represented by density operator and its determination is a fundamental problem in quantum mechanics. A method of direct measurement of matrix element of density operator of a single two dimensional quantum system using weak measurement was theoretically proposed[Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 070402(2012)] and experimentally

  80. Shafqat Riaz, Dimitry Ayzenberg, Cosimo Bambi, Sourabh Nampalliwar

    X-ray reflection spectroscopy (or iron line method) is a powerful tool to probe the strong gravity region of black holes, and currently is the only technique for measuring the spin of the supermassive ones. While all the available relativistic reflection models assume thin accretion disks, we know that several sources accrete near or above the Eddington limi

  81. Xander M. de Wit, Andrés J. Aguirre Guzmán, Matteo Madonia, Jonathan S. Cheng

    Recent studies of rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection at high rotation rates and strong thermal forcing have shown a significant discrepancy in total heat transport between experiments on a confined cylindrical domain on the one hand and simulations on a laterally unconfined periodic domain on the other. This paper addresses this discrepancy using direct num

  82. Stéphane Vannitsem, Wansuo Duan

    The use of coupled Backward Lyapunov Vectors (BLV) for ensemble forecast is demonstrated in a coupled ocean-atmosphere system of reduced order, the Modular Arbitrary Order Ocean-Atmosphere Model (MAOOAM). It is found that overall the best set of BLVs to initialize a (multiscale) coupled ocean-atmosphere forecasting system are the ones associated with near-ne

  83. J. Arrieta, A. Sevilla

    The inverse Leidenfrost regime occurs when a heated object in relative motion with a liquid is surrounded by a stable vapour layer, drastically reducing the hydrodynamic drag at large Reynolds numbers due to a delayed separation of the flow. To elucidate the physical mechanisms that control separation, here we report a numerical study of the boundary-layer e

  84. Monica Nonino, Francesco Ballarin, Gianluigi Rozza, Yvon Maday

    In this work we focus on reduced order modelling for problems for which the resulting reduced basis spaces show a slow decay of the Kolmogorov $n$-width, or, in practical calculations, its computational surrogate given by the magnitude of the eigenvalues returned by a proper orthogonal decomposition on the solution manifold. In particular, we employ an addit

  85. Michael P. Tuite, Michael Welby

    We describe Zhu recursion for a vertex operator algebra (VOA) on a general genus Riemann surface in the Schottky uniformization where $n$-point correlation functions are written as linear combinations of $(n-1)$-point functions with universal coefficients. These coefficients are identified with specific geometric structures on the Riemann surface. We apply Z

  86. Andrew D. Gilbert, Jacques Vanneste

    This paper considers magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and some of its applications from the perspective of differential geometry, considering the dynamics of an ideal fluid flow and magnetic field on a general three-dimensional manifold, equipped with a metric and an induced volume form. The benefit of this level of abstraction is that it clarifies basic aspects o

  87. Xiaodan Li, Yuefeng Chen, Yuan He, Hui Xue

    Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples---maliciously crafted examples that can trigger the target model to misbehave by adding imperceptible perturbations. Existing attack methods for k-nearest neighbor~(kNN) based algorithms either require large perturbations or are not applicable for large k. To handle this problem, t

  88. Juan Miguel Nieto, Alessandro Torrielli

    We compute scalar products and norms of Bethe vectors in the massless sector of AdS_3 integrable superstring theories, by exploiting the general difference form of the S-matrix of massless excitations in the pure Ramond-Ramond case, and the difference form valid only in the BMN limit in the mixed-flux case. We obtain determinant-like formulas for the scalar

  89. Ritabrata Biswas, Promila Biswas, Parthajit Roy

    Viscous accretion flow around a rotating supermassive black hole sitting in a quintessence tub is studied in this article. To introduce such a dark energy contaminated black hole's gravitational force, a new pseudo-Newtonian potential is used. This pseudo-Newtonian force can be calculated if we know the distance from the black hole's center, spin of

  90. Gülin Ercan, İsmail Ş. Güloğlu, Enrico Jabara

    Let $G$ and $A$ be finite groups with $A$ acting on $G$ by automorphisms. In this paper we introduce the concept of "good action"; namely we say the action of $A$ on $G$ is good, if $H=[H,B]C_H(B)$ for every subgroup $B$ of $A$ and every $B$-invariant subgroup $H$ of $G.$ This definition allows us to prove a new noncoprime Hall-Higman type theorem. I

  91. Nicolás Andruskiewitsch, Iván Angiono, Fiorela Rossi Bertone

    Let ${\mathcal B}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ be a finite-dimensional Nichols algebra of diagonal type with braiding matrix $\mathfrak{q}$, let $\mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}}$ be the corresponding Lusztig algebra as in arXiv:1501.04518 and let $\operatorname{Fr}_{\mathfrak{q}}: \mathcal{L}_{\mathfrak{q}} \to U(\mathfrak{n}^{\mathfrak{q}})$ be the corresponding quantum Frob

  92. Mari Myllymäki, Tomáš Mrkvička

    This work describes the R package GET that implements global envelopes for a general set of $d$-dimensional vectors $T$ in various applications. A $100(1-\alpha)$% global envelope is a band bounded by two vectors such that the probability that $T$ falls outside this envelope in any of the $d$ points is equal to $\alpha$. The term 'global' means that this pro

  93. Lie Fu, Robert Laterveer, Charles Vial

    Given a smooth projective variety, a Chow-Künneth decomposition is called multiplicative if it is compatible with the intersection product. Following works of Beauville and Voisin, Shen and Vial conjectured that hyper-Kähler varieties admit a multiplicative Chow-Künneth decomposition. In this paper, based on the mysterious link between Fano varieties with co

  94. Mahya Sadaghiani, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Peter Schilke, Hauyu Baobab Liu

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  95. Sarah Winkler, Georg Moser

    Earlier work on machine learning for automated reasoning mostly relied on simple, syntactic features combined with sophisticated learning techniques. Using ideas adopted in the software verification community, we propose the investigation of more complex, structural features to learn from. These may be exploited to either learn beneficial strategies for tool

  96. Zeren Simon Wang, Kechen Wang

    At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), several far detectors such as FASER and MATHUSLA have been proposed to target the long-lived particles (LLPs) featured with displaced vertices. Naturally one question arises as to the feasibility of installing similar far detectors at future lepton colliders like the CEPC and FCC-ee. Because of the different kinematics of

  97. Willem A. de Graaf, Alessio Marrani

    We give tables of noncompact real forms of maximal reductive subalgebras of complex simple Lie algebras of rank up to 8. These were obtained by computational methods that we briefly describe. We also discuss applications in theoretical physics of these embeddings.

  98. Salvatore Floccari, Lie Fu, Ziyu Zhang

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  100. Jerzy Łuczka

    It is shown that the recently proposed quantum analogue of classical energy equipartition theorem for two paradigmatic, exactly solved models (i.e., a free Brownian particle and a dissipative harmonic oscillator) also holds true for all quantum systems which are composed of an arbitrary number of non-interacting or interacting particles, subjected to any con