May 2020 arXiv papers — page 16

Giuseppe Scola

We show the validity of the cluster expansion in the canonical ensemble for the Ising model. We compare the lower bound of its radius of convergence with the one computed by the virial expansion working in the grand-canonical ensemble. Using the cluster expansion we give direct proofs with quantification of the higher order error terms for the decay of corre

Benedikt Boenninghoff, Steffen Zeiler, Robert M. Nickel, Dorothea Kolossa

Traditional computational authorship attribution describes a classification task in a closed-set scenario. Given a finite set of candidate authors and corresponding labeled texts, the objective is to determine which of the authors has written another set of anonymous or disputed texts. In this work, we propose a probabilistic autoencoding framework to deal w

Rahul Kaushik, Manoj K. Yadav

We present a classification of finite $p$-groups $G$ with $\gamma_2(G)$, the commutator subgroup of $G$, of order $p^4$ and exponent $p$ such that not all elements of $\gamma_2(G)$ are commutators.

D. Gil, K. Díaz-Chito, C. Sánchez, A. Hernández-Sabaté

Future SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak COVID-XX might possibly occur during the next years. However the pathology in humans is so recent that many clinical aspects, like early detection of complications, side effects after recovery or early screening, are currently unknown. In spite of the number of cases of COVID-19, its rapid spread putting many sanitary systems

Hitoshi Furuhata, Jun-ichi Inoguchi, Shimpei Kobayashi

We show that the statistical manifold of normal distributions is homogeneous. In particular, it admits a $2$-dimensional solvable Lie group structure. In addition, we give a geometric characterization of the Amari-Chentsov $\alpha$-connections on the Lie group.

Anibal Pacheco-Sanchez, Pedro C. Feijoo, David Jiménez

Straightforward contact resistance extraction methods based on electrical device characteristics are described and applied here to graphene field-effect transistors from different technologies. The methods are an educated adaptation of extraction procedures originally developed for conventional transistors by exploiting the drift-diffusion-like transport in

Ryan J Murphy, Pascal R Buenzli, Ruth E Baker, Matthew J Simpson

We consider a free boundary model of epithelial cell migration with logistic growth and nonlinear diffusion induced by mechanical interactions. Using numerical simulations, phase plane and perturbation analysis, we find and analyse travelling wave solutions with negative, zero, and positive wavespeeds. Unlike classical travelling wave solutions of reaction-d

Ferdaous Idlahcen, Mohammed Majid Himmi, Abdelhak Mahmoudi

Cervical cancer will cause 460 000 deaths per year by 2040, approximately 90% are Sub-Saharan African women. A constantly increasing incidence in Africa making cervical cancer a priority by the World Health Organization (WHO) in terms of screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Conventionally, cancer diagnosis relies primarily on histopathological assessment, a

Claudia de Rham, Jérémie Francfort, Jun Zhang

We investigate the propagation of gravitational waves on a black hole background within the low energy effective field theory of gravity, where effects from heavy fields are captured by higher dimensional curvature operators. Depending on the spin of the particles integrated out, the speed of gravitational waves at low energy can be either superluminal or su

Hadrien Chevalier, A. J. Paige, M. S. Kim

General relativity as a classical field theory does not predict gravitationally induced entanglement, as such, recent proposals seek an empirical demonstration of this feature which would represent a significant milestone for physics. We introduce improvements to a spin witness protocol that reduce the highly challenging experimental requirements. After rigo

Jakub Dargaj, Jakob Grue Simonsen

It is well-known that for infinitely repeated games, there are computable strategies that have best responses, but no computable best responses. These results were originally proved for either specific games (e.g., Prisoner's dilemma), or for classes of games satisfying certain conditions not known to be both necessary and sufficient. We derive a complete ch

Mohamed A. Kassem, Yoshikazu Tabata, Takeshi Waki, Hiroyuki Nakamura

Co3Sn2S2 has generated a growing interest as a rare example of the highly uniaxial anisotropic kagome ferromagnet showing a combination of frustrated-lattice magnetism and topology. Recently, via precise measurements of the magnetization and AC susceptibility we have found a low-field anomalous magnetic phase (A-phase) with very slow spin dynamics that appea

Yasmine L. Sfendla, Christopher G. Baker, Glen I. Harris, Lin Tian

We show that highly confined superfluid films are extremely nonlinear mechanical resonators, offering the prospect to realize a mechanical qubit. Specifically, we consider third-sound surface waves, with nonlinearities introduced by the van der Waals interaction with the substrate. Confining these waves to a disk, we derive analytic expressions for the cubic

Marcin Piotrowski, Jordan Scarabel, Mirko Lobino, Erik Streed

Compact and robust ion traps for thorium are enabling technology for the next generation of atomic clocks based on a low-energy isomeric transition in the thorium-229 nucleus. We aim at a laser ablation loading of single triply ionized thorium in a radio-frequency electromagnetic linear Paul trap. Detection of ions is based on a modified mass spectrometer an

Derek Holt, Sarah Rees

We prove that the compressed word problem in a group that is hyperbolic relative to a collection of free abelian subgroups is solvable in polynomial time.

Haidar Al-Naseri, Jens Zamanian, Robin Ekman, Gert Brodin

When the Zeeman energy approaches the characteristic kinetic energy of electrons, Landau quantization becomes important. In the vicinity of magnetars, the Zeeman energy can even be relativistic. We start from the Dirac equation and derive a kinetic equation for electrons, focusing on the phenomenon of Landau quantization in such ultra-strong but constant mag

Edgar Assing, Valentin Blomer, Junxian Li

Asymptotic formulae for Titchmarsh-type divisor sums are obtained with strong error terms that are uniform in the shift parameter. This applies to more general arithmetic functions such as sums of two squares, improving the error term in the representation of the number as a sum of a prime and two squares, and to Fourier coefficients of cusp forms, generaliz

Julian Koellermeier, Giovanni Samaey

In this paper, we apply projective integration methods to hyperbolic moment models of the Boltzmann equation and the BGK equation, and investigate the numerical properties of the resulting scheme. Projective integration is an explicit, asymptotic-preserving scheme that is tailored to problems with large spectral gaps between slow and (one or many) fast eigen

Ramesh K. Jallu, Sangram K. Jena, Gautam K. Das

In this article, we study a variant of the minimum dominating set problem known as the minimum liar's dominating set (MLDS) problem. We prove that the MLDS problem is NP-hard in unit disk graphs. Next, we show that the recent sub-quadratic time $\frac{11}{2}$-factor approximation algorithm \cite{bhore} for the MLDS problem is erroneous and propose a simple $

Rem-Sophia Mouradi, Cédric Goeury, Olivier Thual, Fabrice Zaoui

In an ever-increasing interest for Machine Learning (ML) and a favorable data development context, we here propose an original methodology for data-based prediction of two-dimensional physical fields. Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE), widely used in the Uncertainty Quantification community (UQ), has long been employed as a robust representation for probabili

Jaydeep Datta, Sridhar Tripathy, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay

This work has been carried out to simulate a Resistive Plate Chamber and corroborate it with experimental measurements in order to develop a numerical tool for studying the performance of the device for any gas mixture. This will allow us to explore the feasibility of operating these chambers in their avalanche mode within the Iron Calorimeter setup at India

José A. Iglesias, Gwenael Mercier

We present some results of geometric convergence of level sets for solutions of total variation denoising as the regularization parameter tends to zero. The common feature among them is that they make use of explicit constructions of variational mean curvatures for general sets of finite perimeter. Consequently, no additional regularity of the level sets of

S. C. Das, J. Sannigrahi, K. Mandal, P. Dutta

We have investigated the detailed magnetic structure of a Fe-doped MnNiGe alloy of nominal composition MnNi$_{0.75}$Fe$_{0.25}$Ge by ambient and high pressure (6 kbar) neutron powder diffraction study. The alloy undergoes a martensitic phase transition between 230 K and 275 K. The low-temperature martensite phase orders antiferromagnetically with helical mod

Bernhard C. Geiger, Ali Al-Bashabsheh

We derive two sufficient conditions for a function of a Markov random field (MRF) on a given graph to be a MRF on the same graph. The first condition is information-theoretic and parallels a recent information-theoretic characterization of lumpability of Markov chains. The second condition, which is easier to check, is based on the potential functions of the

Yaxing Li, Christian Diddens, Tim Segers, Herman Wijshoff

The evaporation of multi-component droplets is relevant to various applications but challenging to study due to the complex physicochemical dynamics. Recently, Li (2018) reported evaporation-triggered segregation in 1,2-hexanediol-water binary droplets. In this present work, we added 0.5 wt% silicone oil into the 1,2-hexanediol-water binary solution. This mi

Lorenzo Privitera, Niccolò Traverso Ziani, Inès Safi, Björn Trauzettel

The spin degree of freedom is crucial for both understanding and exploiting the particular properties of the edges of two-dimensional topological insulators. In the absence of superconductivity and magnetism, Rashba coupling is the most relevant single particle perturbation in this system. Since Rashba coupling does not break time reversal symmetry, its infl

Peter Hillmann, Tobias Uhlig, Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Oliver Rose

For a provider of a Content Delivery Network (CDN), the location selection of mirror servers is a complex optimization problem. Generally, the objective is to place the nodes centralized such that all customers have convenient access to the service according to their demands. It is an instance of the k-center problem, which is proven to be NP-hard. Determini

Sebastian Hönel, Morgan Ericsson, Welf Löwe, Anna Wingkvist

Source code is changed for a reason, e.g., to adapt, correct, or adapt it. This reason can provide valuable insight into the development process but is rarely explicitly documented when the change is committed to a source code repository. Automatic commit classification uses features extracted from commits to estimate this reason. We introduce source code de

Oguz Gezmis

Inspired by the classical setting, Goss defined $L$-series attached to Drinfeld modules. In this paper, for a fixed choice of a power $q$ of a prime number and a given Drinfeld module $\phi$ of rank 2 with a certain condition on its coefficients, we give explicit formulas for the values of Goss $L$-series attached to $\phi$ at positive integers $n$ such that

Tomasz Adamowicz, Antoni Kijowski, Elefterios Soultanis

We consider functions with an asymptotic mean value property, known to characterize harmonicity in Riemannian manifolds, in doubling metric measure spaces. We show that the strongly amv-harmonic functions are H\"older continuous for any exponent below one. More generally, we define the class of functions with finite amv-norm and show that functions in this c

Vikas Kashid, Ersoy Şaşıoğlu, Gustav Bihlmayer, Alexander B. Shick

The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of bulk GdCu (CsCl-type) are investigated using spin density functional theory, where highly localized $4f$ orbitals are treated within LDA+$U$ and GGA+$U$ methods. The calculated magnetic ground state of GdCu using collinear as well as spin spiral calculations exhibits a C-type antiferromagnetic configurat

Lorenz Maximilian Schneider, Shanece Esdaille, Daniel Rhodes, Katayun Barmak

Several theoretical predictions have claimed that the neutral exciton of TMDCs splits into a transversal and longitudinal exciton branch, with the longitudinal one, which is the upper branch, exhibiting an extraordinary strong dispersion in the meV range within the light cone. Historically, this was linked for semiconductor quantum wells to strong far-field

Tatiana Gabruseva, Dmytro Poplavskiy, Alexandr A. Kalinin

Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among young children and one of the top mortality causes worldwide. The pneumonia detection is usually performed through examine of chest X-ray radiograph by highly-trained specialists. This process is tedious and often leads to a disagreement between radiologists. Computer-aided diagnosis systems showed the potential

Cedomir Stefanović, H. Murat Gürsu, Yash Deshpande, Wolfgang Kellerer

In this paper, we analyze binary-tree algorithms in a setup in which the receiver can perform multi-packet reception (MPR) of up to and including K packets simultaneously. The analysis addresses both traffic-independent performance as well as performance under Poisson arrivals. For the former case, we show that the throughput, when normalized with respect to

Kays Haddad, Andreas Helset

We show how to double-copy Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) to Heavy Black Hole Effective Theory (HBET) for spin $s\leq 1$. In particular, the double copy of spin-$s$ HQET with scalar QCD produces spin-$s$ HBET, while the double copy of spin-1/2 HQET with itself gives spin-1 HBET. Finally, we present novel all-order-in-mass Lagrangians for spin-1 heavy pa

Peter Hillmann, Tobias Uhlig, Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Oliver Rose

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a dynamic and complex service system. It causes a huge amount of traffic on the network infrastructure of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Oftentimes, CDN providers and ISPs struggle to find an efficient and appropriate way to cooperate for mutual benefits. This challenge is key to push the quality of service (QoS) for t

Shucong Zhang, Erfan Loweimi, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Recently, self-attention models such as Transformers have given competitive results compared to recurrent neural network systems in speech recognition. The key factor for the outstanding performance of self-attention models is their ability to capture temporal relationships without being limited by the distance between two related events. However, we note th

Joseph E. Lawrence, David E. Manolopoulos

We present a general quantum instanton approach to calculating reaction rates for systems with two electronic states and arbitrary values of the electronic coupling. This new approach, which we call the non-adiabatic quantum instanton (NAQI) approximation, reduces to Wolynes theory in the golden rule limit and to a recently proposed projected quantum instant

Christopher Deninger

Consider a connected topological space $X$ with a point $x \in X$ and let $K$ be a field with the discrete topology. We study the Tannakian category of finite dimensional (flat) vector bundles on $X$ and its Tannakian dual $\pi_K (X,x)$ with respect to the fibre functor in $x$. The maximal pro-\'etale quotient of $\pi_K (X,x)$ is the \'etale fundamental grou

Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Andre S. Sunahara, Jack Sutton, Matjaz Perc

The current outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an unprecedented example of how fast an infectious disease can spread around the globe (especially in urban areas) and the enormous impact it causes on public health and socio-economic activities. Despite the recent surge of investigations about different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we

Ayse Guven, Oscar F. Bandtlow

We introduce compactness classes of Hilbert space operators by grouping together all operators for which the associated singular values decay at a certain speed and establish upper bounds for the norm of the resolvent of operators belonging to a particular compactness class. As a consequence we obtain explicitly computable upper bounds for the Hausdorff dist

Jherek Healy

The traditional way of building a yield curve is to choose an interpolation on discount factors, implied by the market tradable instruments. Since then, constructions based on specific interpolations of the forward rates have become the trend. We show here that some popular interpolation methods on the forward rates correspond exactly to classical interpolat

Ilya Razdolski, Gaspar Armelles, Alfonso Cebollada, Andrey Kirilyuk

Metallic nanostructures exhibit strong nonlinear-optical response at surface plasmon resonances, where the light-matter coupling efficiency is enhanced. An active modulation of this response can be realized by means of an external magnetic field. Here we utilize a nonlinear magneto-refractive effect in spintronic multilayer antennas to achieve a resonant 20\

Haozhe Qi, Chen Feng, Zhiguo Cao, Feng Zhao

Towards 3D object tracking in point clouds, a novel point-to-box network termed P2B is proposed in an end-to-end learning manner. Our main idea is to first localize potential target centers in 3D search area embedded with target information. Then point-driven 3D target proposal and verification are executed jointly. In this way, the time-consuming 3D exhaust

Miguel Antonio Marano Calzolari

We present an elementary proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. No ancillary results are used, not even the most basic ones. The proof directly leads to a contradiction of the Fermat equation in the set of integers.

Grigory Ryabov

An infinite family of nonschurian separable association schemes is constructed.

Qin Gao, Quanting Zhao, Fangyang Zheng

Let the pair $(\mathfrak{g},J)$ be a nilpotent Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ (NLA for short) endowed with a nilpotent complex structure $J$. In this paper, motivated by a question in the work of Cordero, Fern\'andez, Gray and Ugarte, we prove that $2\leq \nu(J) \leq 3$ for $(\mathfrak{g},J)$ when $\nu(\mathfrak{g})=2$, where $\nu(\mathfrak{g})$ is the step of $

Gian Maria Marconi, Lorenzo Rosasco, Carlo Ciliberto

Geometric representation learning has recently shown great promise in several machine learning settings, ranging from relational learning to language processing and generative models. In this work, we consider the problem of performing manifold-valued regression onto an hyperbolic space as an intermediate component for a number of relevant machine learning a

Zhaorun Zhou, Zhenghao Shi, Mingtao Guo, Yaning Feng

Image haze removal is highly desired for the application of computer vision. This paper proposes a novel Context Guided Generative Adversarial Network (CGGAN) for single image dehazing. Of which, an novel new encoder-decoder is employed as the generator. And it consists of a feature-extraction-net, a context-extractionnet, and a fusion-net in sequence. The f

Grigory Ryabov

A finite group $G$ is called a DCI-group if two Cayley digraphs over $G$ are isomorphic if and only if their connection sets are conjugate by a group automorphism. We prove that the group $C_2^5\times C_p$, where $p$ is a prime, is a DCI-group if and only if $p\neq 2$. Together with the previously obtained results, this implies that a group $G$ of order $32p

Adil Erzin, Roman Plotnikov, Alexei Korobkin, Gregory Melidi

Let an oil and gas field consists of clusters in each of which an investor can launch at most one project. During the implementation of a particular project, all characteristics are known, including annual production volumes, necessary investment volumes, and profit. The total amount of investments that the investor spends on developing the field during the

Orlagh Creevey, Frédéric Thévenin, Frank Grundahl, Enrico Corsaro

We have been monitoring the metal-poor Population II giant, HD 122563, for radial velocity variations since 2016 using the SONG telescope on Tenerife. We have detected the global seismic quantity, numax, which provides information related to the stellar parameters. By combining these data with complementary data, we derive a new precise surface gravity, radi

Adil Erzin, Gregory Melidi, Stepan Nazarenko, Roman Plotnikov

We consider a Bar Charts Packing Problem (BCPP), in which it is necessary to pack bar charts (BCs) in a strip of minimum length. The problem is, on the one hand, a generalization of the Bin Packing Problem (BPP), and, on the other hand, a particular case of the Project Scheduling Problem with multidisciplinary jobs and one limited non-accumulative resource.

Thierry Gallay, Romain Joly, Geneviève Raugel

We study the long-time behavior of localized solutions to linear or semilinear parabolic equations in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $n \ge 2$, assuming that the diffusion matrix depends on the space variable $x$ and has a finite limit along any ray as $|x| \to \infty$. Under suitable smallness conditions in the nonlinear case, we prove convergence to

Giacomo Ascione, József Lőrinczi

The purpose of this paper is to give a systematic description of potentials decaying to zero at infinity, which generate eigenvalues at the edge of the absolutely continuous spectrum when combined with non-local operators defined by Bernstein functions of the Laplacian. By introducing suitable H\"{o}lder-Zygmund type spaces with different scale functions tha

Lehel Banjai, Christian Lubich, Joerg Nick

Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes materials with a thin coating (with the thickness of the coating as the small scale) and strongly absorbing materials. For

Yipei Zhang, Zhen Zhan, Francisco Guinea, Jose Angel Silva-Guillen

In the emerging world of twisted bilayer structures, the possible configurations are limitless, which enables for a rich landscape of electronic properties. In this paper, we focus on twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and study its properties by means of an accurate tight-binding model. We build structures with different angles and fin

Zbigniew J. Jurek

For free-probability Voiculescu transforms, analogous to hyperbolic characteristic functions, we show how to get their representing measures in an integral form. For that purpose, it is enough to know those transforms only on the imaginary axis. This is in contrast to a complex analysis where one needs to know them in some domains in the complex plane.

Chengwai Cai, Ali Ahmadi Dastjerdi, Niranjan Saikumar, S. H. HosseinNia

PID controllers cannot satisfy the high performance requirements since they are restricted by the water-bed effect. Thus, the need for a better alternative to linear PID controllers increases due to the rising demands of the high-tech industry. This has led many researchers to explore nonlinear controllers like reset control. Although reset controllers have

Jianwei Shi, Christian Otto, Anett Hoppe, Peter Holtz

Ranking and recommendation of multimedia content such as videos is usually realized with respect to the relevance to a user query. However, for lecture videos and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) it is not only required to retrieve relevant videos, but particularly to find lecture videos of high quality that facilitate learning, for instance, independent

Anna Gusakova, Zakhar Kabluchko, Christoph Thäle

In this paper two new classes of stationary random simplicial tessellations, the so-called $\beta$- and $\beta'$-Delaunay tessellations, are introduced. Their construction is based on a space-time paraboloid hull process and generalizes that of the classical Poisson-Delaunay tessellation. The distribution of volume-power weighted typical cells is explicitly

P. Examilioti, G. M. Kavoulakis

We consider a two-dimensional self-bound quantum droplet, which consists of a mixture of two Bose-Einstein condensates. We start with the ground state, and then turn to the rotational response of this system, in the presence of an external (harmonic) potential. We identify various phases, depending on the atom number, the strength of the external confinement

Maja Feierabend, Samuel Brem, August Ekman, Ermin Malic

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been in focus of current research, among others due to their remarkable exciton landscape consisting of bright and dark excitonic states. Although dark excitons are not directly visible in optical spectra, they have a large impact on exciton dynamics and hence their understanding is crucial for potential

Jakob Bossek, Christian Grimme, Heike Trautmann

In practice, e.g. in delivery and service scenarios, Vehicle-Routing-Problems (VRPs) often imply repeated decision making on dynamic customer requests. As in classical VRPs, tours have to be planned short while the number of serviced customers has to be maximized at the same time resulting in a multi-objective problem. Beyond that, however, dynamic requests

L. K. Dewangan, T. Baug, D. K. Ojha

We present a multi-wavelength investigation of a large-scale physical system containing the W33 complex. The extended system (~50 pc x 37 pc) is selected based on the distribution of molecular gas at [29.6, 60.2] km/s and of 88 ATLASGAL 870 micron dust clumps at d ~2.6 kpc. The extended system/molecular cloud traced in the maps of 13CO and C18O emission cont

Srijonee Shabnam Chaudhury

Let K be an algebraic number field and O_K be its ring of integers. Let S_K be the set of elements in O_K which are sums of squares in O_K and s(O_K) the minimal number of squares necessary to represent -1in O_K. Let g( S_K ) be the smallest positive integer t such that every element in S_K is a sum of t squares in O_K. Here K is generated over field of rati

Nick Gill, Ngwava Arphaxad Kimeu, Ian Short

We prove that the symmetric group $S_n$ has a unique minimal cover $\mathcal{M}$ by maximal nilpotent subgroups, and we obtain an explicit and easily computed formula for the order of $\mathcal{M}$. In addition, we prove that the order of $\mathcal{M}$ is equal to the order of a maximal non-nilpotent subset of $S_n$. This cover $\mathcal{M}$ has attractive p

Zhen Zhan, Yipei Zhang, Pengfei Lv, Hongxia Zhong

Ultraflatbands that have been theoretically and experimentally detected in a bunch of van der Waals stacked materials showing some peculiar properties, for instance, highly localized electronic states and enhanced electron-electron interactions. In this Letter, using an accurate tight-binding model, we study the formation and evolution of ultraflatbands in t

Chenpeng Zhang, Shuai Li, Mao Ye, Ce Zhu

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are widely used as a memory model for sequence-related problems. Many variants of RNN have been proposed to solve the gradient problems of training RNNs and process long sequences. Although some classical models have been proposed, capturing long-term dependence while responding to short-term changes remains a challenge. To t

Takao Watanabe, Takumi Otsuka, Shotaro Hagisawa, Yuta Koshika

Among the Fe-based superconductors, Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{1-x}$Se$_{x}$ is unique in that its crystal structure is the simplest and the electron correlation level is the strongest, and thus it is important to investigate the doping($x$)-temperature ($T$) phase diagram of this system. However, inevitably incorporated excess Fe currently prevents the establishment of

Jakob Bossek, Christian Grimme, Günter Rudolph, Heike Trautmann

We consider a dynamic bi-objective vehicle routing problem, where a subset of customers ask for service over time. Therein, the distance traveled by a single vehicle and the number of unserved dynamic requests is minimized by a dynamic evolutionary multi-objective algorithm (DEMOA), which operates on discrete time windows (eras). A decision is made at each e

Aron Wussler

The paper reviews an implementation of an additional encrypted tunnel within TLS to further secure and authenticate the traffic of personal information between ProtonMail's frontends and the backend, implementing its key exchange, symmetric packet encryption, and validation. Technologies such as Secure Remote Password (SRP) and the Elliptic Curves Diffie Hel

Tsung-Yeh Yang, Andrea Ruffino, John Michniewicz, Yatao Peng

In this letter, we characterize the electrical properties of commercial bulk 40-nm MOSFETs at room and deep cryogenic temperatures, with a focus on quantum information processing (QIP) applications. At 50 mK, the devices operate as classical FETs or quantum dot devices when either a high or low drain bias is applied, respectively. The operation in classical

Jan Kristanto Wibisono, Hsueh-Ming Hang

Recently, Deep-Neural-Network (DNN) based edge prediction is progressing fast. Although the DNN based schemes outperform the traditional edge detectors, they have much higher computational complexity. It could be that the DNN based edge detectors often adopt the neural net structures designed for high-level computer vision tasks, such as image segmentation a

Yasuaki Ogawa

The aim of this paper is to provide an expansion to Abe-Nakaoka's heart construction of the following two different realizations of the module category over the endomorphism ring of a rigid object in a triangulated category: Buan-Marsh's localization and Iyama-Yoshino's subfactor. Our method depends on a modification of Nakaoka-Palu's HTCP localization, a Ga

Y. Wang, A. Owens, J. Tennyson, S. N. Yurchenko

The calcium monohydroxide radical (CaOH) is an important astrophysical molecule relevant to cool stars and rocky exoplanets, amongst other astronomical environments. Here, we present a consistent set of highly accurate rovibronic (rotation-vibration-electronic) energy levels for the five lowest electronic states ($\tilde{X}\,^2\Sigma^+$, $\tilde{A}\,^2\Pi$,

Haoyu Li, Zhi-Qiang Wang

We investigate the structure of nodal solutions for coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations in the repulsive coupling regime. Among other results, for the following coupled system of $N$ equations, we prove the existence of infinitely many nodal solutions which share the same componentwise-prescribed nodal numbers \begin{equation}\label{ab} \left\{ \begi

Andreas Hutzler, Birk Fritsch, Christian D. Matthus, Michael P. M. Jank

The composition of Van-der-Waals heterostructures is conclusively determined using a hybrid evaluation scheme of data acquired by optical microspectroscopy. This scheme deploys a parameter set comprising both change in reflectance and wavelength shift of distinct extreme values in reflectance spectra. Furthermore, the method is supported by an accurate analy

Jan Draisma

This paper concerns matrix decompositions in which the factors are restricted to lie in a closed subvariety of a matrix group. Such decompositions are of relevance in control theory: given a target matrix in the group, can it be decomposed as a product of elements in the subvarieties, in a given order? And if so, what can be said about the solution set to th

Hartmut Surmann, Christian Jestel, Robin Marchel, Franziska Musberg

Deep Reinforcement Learning has been successfully applied in various computer games [8]. However, it is still rarely used in real-world applications, especially for the navigation and continuous control of real mobile robots [13]. Previous approaches lack safety and robustness and/or need a structured environment. In this paper we present our proof of concep

Peter Senger

Laboratory experiments with high-energetic heavy-ion collisions offer the opportunity to explore fundamental properties of nuclear matter, such as the high-density equation-of-state, which governs the structure and dynamics of cosmic objects and phenomena like neutron stars, supernova explosions, and neutron star mergers. A particular goal and challenge of t

Ben Davies, Emma Beasor

The `Red Supergiant Problem' describes the claim that the brightest Red Supergiant (RSG) progenitors to type II-P supernovae are significantly fainter than RSGs in the field. This mismatch has been interpreted by several authors as being a manifestation of the mass threshold for the production of black holes (BHs), such that stars with initial masses above a

Nicholas Pischke

We study abstract intermediate justification logics, that is arbitrary intermediate propositional logics extended with a subset of specific axioms of (classical) justification logics. For these, we introduce various semantics by combining either Heyting algebras or Kripke frames with the usual semantic machinery used by Mkrtychev's, Fitting's or Lehmann's an

Pepe Vila, Andreas Abel, Marco Guarnieri, Boris Köpf

Flushing the cache, using instructions like clflush and wbinvd, is commonly proposed as a countermeasure against access-based cache attacks. In this report, we show that several Intel caches, specifically the L1 caches in some pre-Skylake processors and the L2 caches in some post-Broadwell processors, leak information even after being flushed through clflush

Markus Klein, Elke Rosenberger

In the semiclassical limit h to 0, we analyze a class of self-adjoint Schr\"odinger operators H_h = h^2 L + h W + V id_E acting on sections of a vector bundle E over an oriented Riemannian manifold M where L is a Laplace type operator, W is an endomorphism field and the potential energy V has non-degenerate minima at a finite number of points m_1, ... m_r in

Ian Frankel

We prove a quantitative version of the non-uniform hyperbolicity of the Teichm\"uller geodesic flow. Namely, at each point of any Teichm\"uller flow line, we bound the infinitesimal spectral gap for variations of the Hodge norm along the flow line in terms of an easily estimated geometric quantity on the flat surface, which is greater than or equal to the fl

Yusuke Hama, Kentaro Nomura

We investigate the spin-pumping-induced electric current on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator hybridized with a ferromagnet, namely, ferromagnetic topological insulator. In order to do this, we establish the microscopic formalism and construct the perturbation theory using a Keldysh Green's function approach. We analyze how this electr

A. S. Serdyuk, T. A. Stepaniuk

For the functions $f$, which can be represented in the form of the convolution $f(x)=\frac{a_{0}}{2}+\frac{1}{\pi}\int\limits_{-\pi}^{\pi}\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}e^{-\alpha k^{r}}\cos(kt-\frac{\beta\pi}{2})\varphi(x-t)dt$, $\varphi\perp1$, $\alpha>0, \ r\in(0,1)$, $\beta\in\mathbb{R}$, we establish the Lebesgue-type inequalities of the form \begin{equation

Shiqi Xia, Dario Jukić, Nan Wang, Daria Smirnova

The flourishing of topological photonics in the last decade was achieved mainly due to developments in linear topological photonic structures. However, when nonlinearity is introduced, many intriguing questions arise. For example, are there universal fingerprints of underlying topology when modes are coupled by nonlinearity, and what can happen to topologica

Adeel Malik, Berksan Serbetci, Emanuele Parrinello, Petros Elia

The work establishes the exact performance limits of stochastic coded caching when users share a bounded number of cache states, and when the association between users and caches, is random. Under the premise that more balanced user-to-cache associations perform better than unbalanced ones, our work provides a statistical analysis of the average performance

Masatoshi Goda

The Hawks process is a point process with a self-exciting property. It has been used to model earthquakes, social media events, infections, etc., and is getting a lot of attention. However, as a real problem, there are often situations where we can not obtain data with sufficient observation time. In such cases, it is not appropriate to approximate the error

Haijin Zeng, Xiaozhen Xie, Jifeng Ning

Higher-order low-rank tensor arises in many data processing applications and has attracted great interests. Inspired by low-rank approximation theory, researchers have proposed a series of effective tensor completion methods. However, most of these methods directly consider the global low-rankness of underlying tensors, which is not sufficient for a low samp

Ying Cui, Yingxun Zhang, Zhuxia Li

Transport models cannot simultaneously explain very recent data on pion multiplicities and pion charged ratios of Sn+Sn in the reaction at 0.27 A GeV. This stimulates further investigations on the pion dispersion relation, in-medium $N\pi\to \Delta$ cross sections and $\Delta \to N \pi$ decay widths near the threshold energy or at subthreshold energy of pion

Dieter Rautenbach, Johannes Redl

For a graph $G$, two dominating sets $D$ and $D'$ in $G$, and a non-negative integer $k$, the set $D$ is said to $k$-transform to $D'$ if there is a sequence $D_0,\ldots,D_\ell$ of dominating sets in $G$ such that $D=D_0$, $D'=D_\ell$, $|D_i|\leq k$ for every $i\in \{ 0,1,\ldots,\ell\}$, and $D_i$ arises from $D_{i-1}$ by adding or removing one vertex for ev

K. Neergård

A general theorem due to Howe of dual action of a classical group and a certain non-associative algebra on a space of symmetric or alternating tensors is reformulated in a setting of second quantization, and familiar examples in atomic and nuclear physics are discussed. The special case of orthogonal-orthogonal duality is treated in detail. It is shown that,

Drazen Adamovic, Ante Ceperic

In this paper, we study the family of vertex operator algebras $SF(d)^+$, known as symplectic fermions. This family is of a particular interest because these VOAs are irrational and $C_2$-cofinite. We determine the Zhu's algebra $A(SF(d)^+)$ and show that the equality of dimensions of $A(SF(d)^+)$ and the $C_2$--algebra $\mathcal P(SF(d)^+)$ holds for $d \ge

Dongsung T. Park, Seokyeong Lee, Uhjin Kim, Yunchul Chung

Spatial aspects in quantum mechanics are often difficult to model in geometrically intricate settings that are typical of mesoscopic physics. In such cases, predicting the device behaviors is a vital but difficult challenge. Transverse magnetic focusing (TMF) is a prime example where a classically simple effect becomes difficult to approach in the quantum re

Francesco Della Pietra, Gianpaolo Piscitelli

In this paper we prove an optimal upper bound for the first eigenvalue of a Robin-Neumann boundary value problem for the p-Laplacian operator in domains with convex holes. An analogous estimate is obtained for the corresponding torsional rigidity problem.

Bernardo González Merino

In this article we show the following result: if $C$ is an $n$-dimensional convex and compact subset, $f:C\rightarrow[0,\infty)$ is concave, and $\phi:[0,\infty)\rightarrow[0,\infty)$ is a convex function with $\phi(0)=0$, we then characterize the class of sets and concave functions that attain the supremum \[ \sup_{C,f}\int_C\phi(f(x))dx, \] where the supre

P. Wiecki, A. -A. Haghighirad, F. Weber, M. Merz

We study the elastoresistance of the highly correlated material CsFe2As2 in all symmetry channels. Neutralizing its thermal expansion by means of a piezoelectric-based strain cell is demonstrated to be essential. The elastoresistance response in the in-plane symmetric channel is found to be large, while the response in the symmetry-breaking channels is weake