May 2020 arXiv papers — page 28

Detlef-M. Smilgies

Flux as well as spatial and angular resolution for a microbeam small-angle x-ray scattering set-up comprising Laue optics and multiple focusing elements are modeled within five-dimensional phase space analysis. A variety of x-ray optics configurations for highest angular resolution and for highest spatial resolution are analyzed.

V. Domček, J. Vink, J. V. Hernández Santisteban, T. Delaney

Synchrotron radiation from supernova remnants are caused by electrons accelerated through diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). The standard DSA theory predicts an electron spectral index of $p=2$, corresponding to a radio spectral index of $\alpha=-0.5$. An extension of DSA predicts that the accelerated particles changes the shock structure, resulting in a sp

Zachary Ratliff, Joud Khoury

This paper describes techniques to help with COVID-19 automated contact tracing, and with the restoration efforts. We describe a decentralized protocol for ``proof-of-contact'' in zero knowledge where a person can publish a short cryptographic proof attesting to the fact that they have been infected and that they have come in contact with a set of people wit

Edir Junior F. Leite

In this paper we develop a detailed study on maximum and comparison principles for a degenerate elliptic system. Explicit lower bounds for principal eigenvalues of this system in terms of the measure of $\Omega$ are also proved.

D. Sokolovski

We analyse a proposition which considers quantum theory as a mere tool for calculating probabilities for sequences of outcomes of observations made by an Observer, who him/herself remains outside the scope of the theory. Predictions are possible, provided a sequence includes at least two such observations. Complex valued probability amplitudes, each defined

E. Artal Bartolo, S. Bannai, T. Shirane, H. Tokunaga

There is a close relationship between the embedded topology of complex plane curves and the (group-theoretic) arithmetic of elliptic curves. In a recent paper, we studied the topology of some arrangements of curves which include a special smooth component, via the torsion properties induced by the divisors in the special curve associated to the remaining com

Michael Peper, Johannes Deiglmayr

We present the formation of homonuclear Cs2, K2, and heteronuclear CsK long-range Rydberg molecules in a dual-species magneto-optical trap for 39K and 133Cs by one-photon UV photoassociation. The different ground-state-density dependence of homo- and heteronuclear photoassociation rates and the detection of stable molecular ions resulting from auto-ionizatio

Eduardo Mendive-Tapia, Julie B. Staunton

We describe magneto-, baro- and elastocaloric effects (MCEs, BCEs and eCEs) in materials which possess both discontinuous (first-order) and continuous (second-order) magnetic phase transitions. Our ab initio theory of the interacting electrons of materials in terms of disordered local moments (DLMs) has produced explicit mechanisms for the drivers of these t

Alexandre Blais, Arne L. Grimsmo, S. M. Girvin, Andreas Wallraff

Quantum mechanical effects at the macroscopic level were first explored in Josephson junction-based superconducting circuits in the 1980's. In the last twenty years, the emergence of quantum information science has intensified research toward using these circuits as qubits in quantum information processors. The realization that superconducting qubits can be

Kristof Dekimpe, Joeri Van der Veken

A marginally trapped surface in a spacetime is a Riemannian surface whose mean curvature vector is lightlike at every point. In this paper we give an up-to-date overview of the differential geometric study of these surfaces in Minkowski, de Sitter, anti-de Sitter and Robertson-Walker spacetimes. We give the general local descriptions proven by Anciaux and hi

Saikatul Haque

We establish inhomogeneous Strichartz Estimates for the Schr{\"o}dinger equation with singular and time dependent potentials for non-admissible pairs. Our work extends the results provided by Vilela [23] and Foschi [6] where they proved the results in the absence of potential. It also extends the works of Pierfelice [20] and Burq, Planchon, Stalker, Tahvilda

Noboru Ito, Jun Yoshida

In this paper, we discuss degree 0 crossing change on Khovanov homology in terms of cobordisms. Namely, using Bar-Natan's formalism of Khovanov homology, we introduce a sum of cobordisms that yields a morphism on complexes of two diagrams of crossing change, which we call the "genus-one morphism." It is proved that the morphism is invariant under the moves o

Lukas Körber, Katrin Schultheiss, Tobias Hula, Roman Verba

We present a combined numerical, theoretical and experimental study on stimulated three-magnon splitting in a magnetic disk in the vortex equilibrium state. Our micromagnetic simulations and Brillouin-light-scattering results confirm that three-magnon splitting can be triggered even below threshold by exciting one of the secondary modes by magnons propagatin

Zihao Wang, Clair Vandersteen, Thomas Demarcy, Dan Gnansia

Signed distance map (SDM) is a common representation of surfaces in medical image analysis and machine learning. The computational complexity of SDM for 3D parametric shapes is often a bottleneck in many applications, thus limiting their interest. In this paper, we propose a learning based SDM generation neural network which is demonstrated on a tridimension

Alessio Monti, Alessia Bertugli, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara

Understanding human motion behaviour is a critical task for several possible applications like self-driving cars or social robots, and in general for all those settings where an autonomous agent has to navigate inside a human-centric environment. This is non-trivial because human motion is inherently multi-modal: given a history of human motion paths, there

Paschalis Bizopoulos

We propose a Makefile for developing containerized $\LaTeX$ technical documents. The Makefile allows the author to execute the code that generates variables, tables and figures (results), which are then used during the $\LaTeX$ compilation, to produce either the draft (fast) or full (slow) version of the document. We also present various utilities that aid i

Eduardo Mendive-Tapia, Durga Paudyal, Leon Petit, Julie B. Staunton

Around discontinuous (first-order) magnetic phase transitions the strong caloric response of materials to the application of small fields is widely studied for the development of solid-state refrigeration. Typically strong magnetostructural coupling drives such transitions and the attendant substantial hysteresis dramatically reduces the cooling performance.

Tobias K. S. Ritschel, Frances Weiß, Manuel Baumann, Sara Grundel

In this work, we present a nonlinear model reduction approach for reducing two commonly used nonlinear dynamical models of power grids: the effective network (EN) model and the synchronous motor (SM) model. Such models are essential in real-time security assessments of power grids. However, as power grids are often large-scale, it is necessary to reduce the

Xin Yao, Lifeng Sun

Federated learning (FL) refers to the learning paradigm that trains machine learning models directly in the decentralized systems consisting of smart edge devices without transmitting the raw data, which avoids the heavy communication costs and privacy concerns. Given the typical heterogeneous data distributions in such situations, the popular FL algorithm \

Marvin Lavechin, Ruben Bousbib, Hervé Bredin, Emmanuel Dupoux

Spontaneous conversations in real-world settings such as those found in child-centered recordings have been shown to be amongst the most challenging audio files to process. Nevertheless, building speech processing models handling such a wide variety of conditions would be particularly useful for language acquisition studies in which researchers are intereste

Iniyan Natarajan, Roger Deane, Ilse van Bemmel, Huib Jan van Langevelde

We propose a probabilistic framework for performing simultaneous estimation of source structure and fringe-fitting parameters in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. As a first step, we demonstrate this technique through the analysis of synthetic short-duration Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of various geometric source models at

Stefan Donsa, Manuel Ederer, Renate Pazourek, Joachim Burgdörfer

Recent angle-resolved RABBITT experiments have shown that the photoionization time delay depends on the emission angle of the photoelectron. In this work we demonstrate that for photoemission from helium accompanied by shake-up (correlation satellites), the angular variation of the time delay is dramatically enhanced by the dipolar coupling between the photo

D. Gadkari, K. S. Shanks, H. T. Philipp, M. W. Tate

Optimization of an area detector involves compromises between various parameters like frame rate, read noise, dynamic range and pixel size. We have implemented and tested a novel front-end binning design in a photon-integrating hybrid pixel array detector using the MM-PAD-2.0 pixel architecture. In this architecture, the pixels can be optionally binned in a

Olgur Celikbas, Toshinori Kobayashi

In this paper we are concerned with a long-standing conjecture of Huneke and Wiegand. We introduce a new class of ideals and prove thateach ideal from such class satisfies the conclusion of the conjecture in question. We also study the relation between the class of Burch ideals and that of the ideals we define, and construct several examples that corroborate

David Puljiz, Franziska Krebs, Fabian Bösing, Björn Hein

Classical methods of modelling and mapping robot work cells are time consuming, expensive and involve expert knowledge. We present a novel approach to mapping and cell setup using modern Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) that possess self-localisation and mapping capabilities. We leveraged these capabilities to create a point cloud of the environment and build an

Sadiq Al-Nassir

This paper aims to introduce a concept of an equilibrium point of a dynamical system which will call it almost global asymptotically stable. A biological prey-predator model is also analyzed with a modification function growth in prey species. The conditions of the local stable and existence of all its equilibria are given. After that the model is extended t

Alistair Letcher

Under mild regularity conditions, gradient-based methods converge globally to a critical point in the single-loss setting. This is known to break down for vanilla gradient descent when moving to multi-loss optimization, but can we hope to build some algorithm with global guarantees? We negatively resolve this open problem by proving that desirable convergenc

Berenger Bramas, Quentin Bramas

In this paper, we present several improvements in the parallelization of the in-place merge algorithm, which merges two contiguous sorted arrays into one with an O(T) space complexity (where T is the number of threads). The approach divides the two arrays into as many pairs of partitions as there are threads available; such that each thread can later merge a

Konstantin Posch, Christian Truden, Philipp Hungerländer, Jürgen Pilz

Accurate demand forecasting is one of the key aspects for successfully managing restaurants and staff canteens. In particular, properly predicting future sales of menu items allows a precise ordering of food stock. From an environmental point of view, this ensures maintaining a low level of pre-consumer food waste, while from the managerial point of view, th

Nimish Mahapatra, Prem Prakash Pandey, Mahesh Ram

We study the class number one problem for real quadratic fields $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{9m^2+ 4m})$, where $m$ is an odd integer. We show that for $m \equiv 1 \pmod 3$ there is only one such field with class number one and only one such field with class number two.

Young-Jun Choi, Sungmin Yoo

Let $\pi:\mathbb{C}^n\times\mathbb{C}\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ be the projection map onto the second factor and let $D$ be a domain in $\mathbb{C}^{n+1}$ such that for $y\in\pi(D)$, every fiber $D_y:=D\cap\pi^{-1}(y)$ is a smoothly bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain in $\mathbb{C}^n$ and is diffeomorphic to each other. By Chau's theorem, the K\"ahler-Ricci fl

Rahime Belen Saglam, Jason R. C. Nurse

Conversational agents open the world to new opportunities for human interaction and ubiquitous engagement. As their conversational abilities and knowledge has improved, these agents have begun to have access to an increasing variety of personally identifiable information and intimate details on their user base. This access raises crucial questions in light o

Yuriy G. Pogorelov, Vadim M. Loktev, Denis Kochan

Unique electronic band structure of graphene with its semi-metallic features near the charge neutrality point is sensitive to impurity effects. Using the Lifshitz and Anderson impurity models, we study in detail the disorder induced spectral phenomena in the electronic band structure of graphene, namely, the formation of resonances, quasi-gaps, bound states,

Shota Kikuchi, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Shintaro Takada, Takuya H. Tatsuishi

We study the modular symmetry in $T^2$ and orbifold comfactifications with magnetic fluxes. There are $|M|$ zero-modes on $T^2$ with the magnetic flux $M$. Their wavefunctions as well as massive modes behave as modular forms of weight $1/2$ and represent the double covering group of $\Gamma \equiv SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$, $\widetilde{\Gamma} \equiv \widetilde{SL}(

Hidetoshi Matsui

We extend the varying coefficient functional linear model to the nonlinear model and propose a varying coefficient functional additive model. The proposed method can represent the relationship between functional predictors and a scalar response where the response depends on an exogenous variable.It captures the nonlinear structure between variables and also

Thomas K. Dasaklis, Fran Casino, Constantinos Patsakis

As the digitization of information-intensive processes gains momentum in nowadays, the concern is growing about how to deal with the ever-growing problem of cybercrime. To this end, law enforcement officials and security firms use sophisticated digital forensics techniques for analyzing and investigating cybercrimes. However, multi-jurisdictional mandates, i

Anna Kuzina, Evgenii Egorov, Evgeny Burnaev

Automatic segmentation methods based on deep learning have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance, outperforming the ordinary methods. Nevertheless, these methods are inapplicable for small datasets, which are very common in medical problems. To this end, we propose a knowledge transfer method between diseases via the Generative Bayesian Prior ne

Eustasio del Barrio, Paula Gordaliza, Jean-Michel Loubes

A review of the main fairness definitions and fair learning methodologies proposed in the literature over the last years is presented from a mathematical point of view. Following our independence-based approach, we consider how to build fair algorithms and the consequences on the degradation of their performance compared to the possibly unfair case. This cor

Dainis Zegners, Uwe Sunde, Anthony Strittmatter

This paper presents a novel approach to analyze human decision-making that involves comparing the behavior of professional chess players relative to a computational benchmark of cognitively bounded rationality. This benchmark is constructed using algorithms of modern chess engines and allows investigating behavior at the level of individual move-by-move obse

Miriam Hägele

This article studies asymptotic approximations of ruin probabilities of multivariate random walks with heavy-tailed increments. Under our assumptions, the distributions of the increments are closely connected to multivariate subexponentiality and admit dependence between components. Keywords: subexponential distribution, ruin probability, multivariate random

Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski, Zoltan Szabo

Shape constraints (such as non-negativity, monotonicity, convexity) play a central role in a large number of applications, as they usually improve performance for small sample size and help interpretability. However enforcing these shape requirements in a hard fashion is an extremely challenging problem. Classically, this task is tackled (i) in a soft way (w

Tsuneya Yoshida, Koji Kudo, Hosho Katsura, Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Despite previous extensive analysis of open quantum systems described by the Lindblad equation, it is unclear whether correlated topological states, such as fractional quantum Hall states, are maintained even in the presence of the jump term. In this paper, we introduce the pseudo-spin Chern number of the Liouvillian which is computed by twisting the boundar

Evangelos Magirou

We analyze an optimal control version of a simple SIRS epidemiology model. The policy maker can adopt policies to diminish the contact rate between infected and susceptible individuals, at a specific economic cost. The arrival of a vaccine will immediately end the epidemic. Total or partial immunity is modeled, while the contact rate can exhibit a (user spec

Melvin M. Vopson, Nassina Rogers, Ian Hepburn

Lindemann developed the melting temperature theory over 100 years ago, known as the Lindemann criterion. Its main assumption is that melting occurs when the root-mean-square vibration amplitude of ions and atoms in crystals exceeds a critical fraction, h of the inter-atomic spacing in crystals. The Lindemann coefficient h is undefined and scientific papers r

Xuelin Qian, Wenxuan Wang, Li Zhang, Fangrui Zhu

Person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to match a target person across camera views at different locations and times. Existing Re-ID studies focus on the short-term cloth-consistent setting, under which a person re-appears in different camera views with the same outfit. A discriminative feature representation learned by existing deep Re-ID models is thus domi

Fabio Massimo Zennaro, Laszlo Erdodi

Penetration testing is a security exercise aimed at assessing the security of a system by simulating attacks against it. So far, penetration testing has been carried out mainly by trained human attackers and its success critically depended on the available expertise. Automating this practice constitutes a non-trivial problem, as the range of actions that a h

Hiranya Kishore Dey, Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian

Central Limit Theorems are known for the Eulerian statistic "descent" (or "excedance") in the symmetric group $\SSS_n$. Recently, Fulman, Kim, Lee and Petersen gave a Central Limit Theorem for "descent" over the alternating group $\AAA_n$ and also gave a Carlitz identity in $\AAA_n$ using descents. In this paper, we give a Central Limit Theorem in $\AAA_n$ i

Mohamed Taha Rouabah, Abdellah Tounsi, Nacer Eddine Belaloui

A dynamical epidemic model optimized using genetic algorithm and cross validation method to overcome the overfitting problem is proposed. The cross validation procedure is applied so that available data are split into a training subset used to fit the algorithm's parameters, and a smaller subset used for validation. This process is tested on the countries of

Suchismita Sahoo, Anupama Bhol

We scrutinize the impact of various relevant scalar leptoquarks on the physical observables associated with the rare semileptonic decay processes of $B_s$ meson involving $b \to (u, c) l\bar \nu_l$ quark level transitions. We constrain the new parameter space consistent with the experimental limit on Br($B_{u,c} \to \tau \nu_l$), Br($B \to \pi \tau \bar \nu_

Fabian R. Lux, Pascal Prass, Stefan Blügel, Yuriy Mokrousov

Smoothly varying magnetization textures such as domain walls, skyrmions or hopfions serve as promising candidates for the information bits of the future. Understanding their physical properties is both a major field of interest and a theoretical challenge, involving the physics on different length scales. Here, we apply the phase space formulation of quantum

Giacomo Ascione, Yuliya Mishura, Enrica Pirozzi

In this paper we study some properties of the generalized Fokker-Planck equation induced by the time-changed fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. First of all, we exploit some sufficient conditions to show that a mild solution of such equation is actually a classical solution. Then we discuss an isolation result for mild solutions. Finally, we prove the we

Fazeleh Sadat Hoseini, Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

Minimax distance measure extracts the underlying patterns and manifolds in an unsupervised manner. The existing methods require a quadratic memory with respect to the number of objects. In this paper, we investigate efficient sampling schemes in order to reduce the memory requirement and provide a linear space complexity. In particular, we propose a novel sa

S. Mironov, V. Rubakov, V. Volkova

We study the superluminality issue in beyond Horndeski theory with additional scalar field, which is minimally coupled to gravity and has no second derivatives in the Lagrangian. We present the quadratic action for perturbations in cosmological backgrounds, stability conditions and expressions for sound speeds. We find that in the case of conventional additi

Bernd Kolar, Markus Schöberl

It is well-known that the controllability of finite-dimensional nonlinear systems can be established by showing the controllability of the linearized system. However, this classical result does not generalize to infinite-dimensional nonlinear systems. In this paper, we restrict ourselves to semilinear infinite-dimensional systems, and show that the exact con

P. Bergman, E. M. L. Humphreys

Here we aim to characterise submillimetre water masers at 437, 439, 471, and 474 GHz towards a sample of evolved stars. We used the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) to observe submillimetre water transitions and the CO (4-3) line towards 11 evolved stars. The sample included semi-regular and Mira variables, plus a red supergiant star. We performed radiat

Sebastian Brandt, Julian Portmann, Jara Uitto

We study the problem of exploring an oriented grid with autonomous agents governed by finite automata. In the case of a 2-dimensional grid, the question how many agents are required to explore the grid, or equivalently, find a hidden treasure in the grid, is fully understood in both the synchronous and the semi-synchronous setting. For higher dimensions, Dob

Mayur R. Bakrania, I. Jonathan Rae, Andrew P. Walsh, Daniel Verscharen

Solar wind electron velocity distributions at 1 au consist of a thermal "core" population and two suprathermal populations: "halo" and "strahl". The core and halo are quasi-isotropic, whereas the strahl typically travels radially outwards along the parallel and/or anti-parallel direction with respect to the interplanetary magnetic field. With Cluster-PEACE d

Alexander Mishev, Ilya Usoskin

The global neutron monitor network has been successfully used over several decades to study cosmic ray variations and fluxes of energetic solar particles. Nowadays, it is used also for space weather purposes, e.g. alerts and assessment of the exposure to radiation. Here, we present the current status of the global neutron monitor network. We discuss the abil

Masahiro Tanaka

A local projection model is defined by a set of linear regressions that account for the associations between exogenous variables and an endogenous variable observed at different time points. While it is standard practice to separately estimate individual regressions using the ordinary least squares estimator, some recent studies treat a local projection mode

Riccardo Doyle

Interbank contagion can theoretically exacerbate losses in a financial system and lead to additional cascade defaults during downturn. In this paper we produce default analysis using both regression and neural network models to verify whether interbank contagion offers any predictive explanatory power on default events. We predict defaults of U.S. domiciled

Dick Carrillo Melgarejo, Charalampos Kalalas, Arthur Sousa de Sena, Pedro H. J. Nardelli

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as one of the emerging technologies for future communication systems by leveraging the tuning capabilities of their reflecting elements. In this paper, we investigate the potential of an RIS-based architecture for uplink sensor data transmission in an ultra-reliable low-latency communic

Shulei Cao, Joseph Ryan, Bharat Ratra

We use HII starburst galaxy apparent magnitude measurements to constrain cosmological parameters in six cosmological models. A joint analysis of HII galaxy, quasar angular size, baryon acoustic oscillations peak length scale, and Hubble parameter measurements result in relatively model-independent and restrictive estimates of the current values of the non-re

Matthew J. Green, Thomas R. Marsh, Philip J. Carter, Danny Steeghs

Ultracompact accreting binary systems each consist of a stellar remnant accreting helium-enriched material from a compact donor star. Such binaries include two related sub-classes, AM CVn-type binaries and helium cataclysmic variables, in both of which the central star is a white dwarf. We present a spectroscopic and photometric study of six accreting binari

K. Tustain, B. Ward-O'Brien, F. Bert, T. -H. Han

We report a comprehensive muon spectroscopy study of the Zn-barlowite series of $S={\frac{1}{2}}$ kagom\'e antiferromagnets, Zn$_x$Cu$_{4-x}$(OH)$_{6}$FBr, for $x=0.00$ to $0.99(1)$. By combining muon spin relaxation and rotation measurements with state-of-the-art density-functional theory muon-site calculations, we observe the formation of both $\mu$--F and

Joar Bagge, Anna-Karin Tornberg

Boundary integral methods are highly suited for problems with complicated geometries, but require special quadrature methods to accurately compute the singular and nearly singular layer potentials that appear in them. This paper presents a boundary integral method that can be used to study the motion of rigid particles in three-dimensional periodic Stokes fl

Chang Liu, Kun Xu

The flow regime of micro flow varies from collisionless regime to hydrodynamic regime according to the Knudsen number. On the kinetic scale, the dynamics of micro flow can be described by the linearized kinetic equation. In the continuum regime, hydrodynamic equations such as linearized Navier-Stokes equations and Euler equations can be derived from the line

Ville Vuorinen, Mia Aarnio, Mikko Alava, Ville Alopaeus

We provide research findings on the physics of aerosol dispersion relevant to the hypothesized aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2. We utilize physics-based modeling at different levels of complexity, and literature on coronaviruses, to investigate the possibility of airborne transmission. The previous literature, our 0D-3D simulations by various physics-base

Yirui Zhang, Konrad Giżyński, Anna Maciołek, Robert Hołyst

We study a quantity $\mathcal{T}$ defined as the energy U, stored in non-equilibrium steady states (NESS) over its value in equilibrium $U_0$, $\Delta U=U-U_0$ divided by the heat flow $J_{U}$ going out of the system. A recent study suggests that $\mathcal{T}$ is minimized in steady states (Phys.Rev.E.99, 042118 (2019)). We evaluate this hypothesis using an

S. A. Franchino-Viñas, S. Mignemi

We show that two indistinguishable aspects of the divergences occurring in the Casimir effect, namely the divergence of the energy of the higher modes and the non-com\-pact\-ness of the momentum space, get disentangled in a given noncommutative setup. To this end, we consider a scalar field between two parallel plates in an anti-Snyder space. Additionally, t

Romolo Savo, Andrea Morandi, Jolanda S. Müller, Fabian Kaufmann

High-quality crystals without inversion symmetry are the conventional platform to achieve optical frequency conversion via three wave-mixing. In bulk crystals, efficient wave-mixing relies on phase-matching configurations, while at the micro- and nano-scale it requires resonant mechanisms that enhance the nonlinear light-matter interaction. These strategies

Motohiko Ezawa

We propose a general scheme to construct a Hamiltonian $H_{\text{root}}$ describing a square root of an original Hamiltonian $H_{\text{original}}$ based on the graph theory. The square-root Hamiltonian is defined on the subdivided graph of the original graph of $H_{\text{original}}$, where the subdivided graph is obtained by putting one vertex on each link i

Markus Borg, Joakim Wernberg, Thomas Olsson, Ulrik Franke

As Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen famously remarked in 2011, software is eating the world - becoming a pervasive invisible critical infrastructure. Data on the distribution of software use and development in society is scarce, but we compile results from two novel surveys to provide a fuller picture of the role software plays in the public and private s

I. Y. Vasko, I. V. Kuzichev, A. V. Artemyev, S. D. Bale

The recent simulations showed that the whistler heat flux instability, which presumably produces the most of quasi-parallel coherent whistler waves in the solar wind, is not efficient in regulating the electron heat conduction. In addition, recent spacecraft measurements indicated that some fraction of coherent whistler waves in the solar wind may propagate

Hao Wu

Let $f$ be a holomorphic automorphism of a compact K\"ahler manifold. Assume moreover that $f$ admits a unique maximal dynamic degree $d_p$ with only one eigenvalue of maximal modulus. Let $\mu$ be its equilibrium measure. In this paper, we prove that $\mu$ is exponentially mixing for all d.s.h.\ test functions.

Milen Ivanov, Nadia Zlateva

We consider the classical Inverse Function Theorem of Nash and Moser from the angle of some recent development by Ekeland and the authors. Geometrisation of tame estimates coupled with certain ideas coming from Variational Analysis when applied to a directionally differentiable function, produce very general surjectivity result and, if injectivity can be ens

Chenglong Bao, Chang Chen, Kai Jiang

In this paper, we compute the stationary states of the multicomponent phase-field crystal model by formulating it as a block constrained minimization problem. The original infinite-dimensional non-convex minimization problem is approximated by a finite-dimensional constrained non-convex minimization problem after an appropriate spatial discretization. To eff

Endre Csóka, Zoltán L. Blázsik, Zoltán Király, Dániel Lenger

A necklace can be considered as a cyclic list of $n$ red and $n$ blue beads in an arbitrary order, and the goal is to fold it into two and find a large cross-free matching of pairs of beads of different colors. We give a counterexample for a conjecture about the necklace folding problem, also known as the separated matching problem. The conjecture (given ind

Manuela Aguiar, Ana Dias, Pedro Soares

We consider homogeneous coupled cell networks with asymmetric inputs. We obtain general results concerning codimension-one steady-state bifurcations for networks with any number of cells and any number of asymmetric inputs. These results rely solely on the network adjacency matrices eigenvalue structure and the existence, or not, of network synchrony subspac

Thomas B. Berrett, Cristina Butucea

We find separation rates for testing multinomial or more general discrete distributions under the constraint of local differential privacy. We construct efficient randomized algorithms and test procedures, in both the case where only non-interactive privacy mechanisms are allowed and also in the case where all sequentially interactive privacy mechanisms are

Hiroya Taniguchi, Ken Yamada

The era of technological change entails complex patterns of changes in wages and employment. We develop a unified framework to evaluate the effects of capital-embodied technological change on, as well as the contributions of factor inputs to, the relative wages and income shares of different types of labor. We obtain the aggregate elasticities of substitutio

Christos K. Verginis, Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper considers the problem of robot motion planning in a workspace with obstacles for systems with uncertain 2nd-order dynamics. In particular, we combine closed form potential-based feedback controllers with adaptive control techniques to guarantee the collision-free robot navigation to a predefined goal while compensating for the dynamic model uncert

Xing-Wei He, Feng-Min Wu, Hua-Rong Wei, Bi-Hai Hong

We describe the transverse momentum (or mass) spectra of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $p$, and $\bar{p}$ produced in central gold-gold (Au-Au), central lead-lead (Pb-Pb), and inelastic proton-proton ($pp$) collisions at different collision energies range from the AGS to LHC by using a two-component (in most cases) Erlang distribution in the framework of multi-source

Taizhang Shang, Qiuju Dai, Shengchen Zhu, Tong Yang

Perceptual Extreme Super-Resolution for single image is extremely difficult, because the texture details of different images vary greatly. To tackle this difficulty, we develop a super resolution network with receptive field block based on Enhanced SRGAN. We call our network RFB-ESRGAN. The key contributions are listed as follows. First, for the purpose of e

André M. Silva, Sérgio G. Sousa, Nuno Santos, Olivier D. S. Demangeon

High precision time series photometry from space is being used for a number of scientific cases. In this context, the recently launched CHEOPS (ESA) mission promises to bring 20 ppm precision over an exposure time of 6 hours, when targeting nearby bright stars, having in mind the detailed characterization of exoplanetary systems through transit measurements.

Jifeng Liu, Zheng Zheng, Roberto Soria, Jesus Aceituno

The mass, origin and evolutionary stage of the binary system LB-1 has been the subject of intense debate, following the claim that it hosts an $\sim$70$M_{\odot}$ black hole, in stark contrast with the expectations for stellar remnants in the Milky Way. We conducted a high-resolution, phase-resolved spectroscopic study of the near-infrared Paschen lines in t

Ken Ohashi, Hiroaki Menjo, Yoshitaka Itow, Takashi Sako

The mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is important for understanding their origin. Owing to our limited knowledge of the hadronic interaction, the interpretations of the mass composition from observations include several open problems, such as the inconsistent interpretations of $\langle X_{\mathrm{max}}\rangle $ and $\langle X_{\mathrm{max}}

Bruno Bouchard, Adil Reghai, Benjamin Virrion

We consider a multi-step algorithm for the computation of the historical expected shortfall such as defined by the Basel Minimum Capital Requirements for Market Risk. At each step of the algorithm, we use Monte Carlo simulations to reduce the number of historical scenarios that potentially belong to the set of worst scenarios. The number of simulations incre

Kostiantyn Omelianchuk, Vitaliy Atrasevych, Artem Chernodub, Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi

In this paper, we present a simple and efficient GEC sequence tagger using a Transformer encoder. Our system is pre-trained on synthetic data and then fine-tuned in two stages: first on errorful corpora, and second on a combination of errorful and error-free parallel corpora. We design custom token-level transformations to map input tokens to target correcti

Philipp Reinke, Fouad Benkhelifa, Lutz Kirste, Heiko Czap

Vertical diamond Schottky diodes with blocking voltages $V_{\text{BD}} > 2.4 \text{ kV}$ and on-resistances $R_{\text{On}} < 400 \text{ m}\Omega \text{cm}^{2}$ were fabricated on homoepitaxially grown diamond layers with different surface morphologies. The morphology (smooth as-grown, hillock-rich, polished) influences the Schottky barrier, the carrier trans

Pascal Millet

The main topic is the Goursat problem at the horizons for the Klein-Gordon equation on the De Sitter-Kerr metric when the angular momentum per unit of mass of the black hole is small. We solve the Goursat problem for fixed angular momentum n of the field (with the restriction that n is non zero in the case of a massless field).

Tobias Weth, Tolga Yesil

We establish weighted $L^p$-Fourier-extension estimates for $O(N-k) \times O(k)$-invariant functions defined on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{N-1}$, allowing for exponents $p$ below the Stein-Tomas critical exponent $\frac{2(N+1)}{N-1}$. Moreover, in the more general setting of an arbitrary closed subgroup $G \subset O(N)$ and $G$-invariant functions, we stud

Raphaël Cohen, Eric Féron, Pierre-Loïc Garoche

Advanced embedded algorithms are growing in complexity and they are an essential contributor to the growth of autonomy in many areas. However, the promise held by these algorithms cannot be kept without proper attention to the considerably stronger design constraints that arise when the applications of interest, such as aerospace systems, are safety-critical

Eleonora Di Valentino, Ankan Mukherjee, Anjan A. Sen

We investigate the possibility of phantom crossing in the dark energy sector and solution for the Hubble tension between early and late universe observations. We use robust combinations of different cosmological observations, namely the CMB, local measurement of Hubble constant ($H_0$), BAO and SnIa for this purpose. For a combination of CMB+BAO data which i

Asla Husgard, Martin A. Olsen, Rebekka Frøystad, Jonas P. Hyatt

We model the effect of ground movement, based on empirical experience, on the transport properties of long neutron guides by ray-tracing simulations. Our results reproduce the large losses found by an earlier study for a simple model, while for a more realistic engineering model of guide mounting, we find the losses to be significantly smaller than earlier p

Feng Ye, Zhijie Xia, Min Dai, Zhisheng Zhang

Sensor signals acquired in the industrial process contain rich information which can be analyzed to facilitate effective monitoring of the process, early detection of system anomalies, quick diagnosis of fault root causes, and intelligent system design and control. In many mechatronic systems, multiple signals are acquired by different sensor channels (i.e.

Paolo Vannucci

The timber roofing structure (charpente or combles, in French) of the cathedral Notre-Dame, destroyed by the fire of April 15th, 2019, is studied. The aim is twofold: on the one hand, it is interesting to evaluate the structural behavior of the original wooden structure in view of the reconstruction of the cathedral's roof. On the other hand, its structural

Bertrand Lods, Mustapha Mokhtar-Kharroubi

This paper gives a spectral approach to time asymptotics of collisionless transport semi-groups with general diffuse boundary operators. The strong stability of the invariant density is derived from the classical Ingham theorem. A recent quantitative version of this theorem provides algebraic rates of convergence to equilibrium.

Thomas Ehrhard

In probabilistic coherence spaces, a denotational model of probabilistic functional languages, morphisms are analytic and therefore smooth. We explore two related applications of the corresponding derivatives. First we show how derivatives allow to compute the expectation of execution time in the weak head reduction of probabilistic PCF (pPCF). Next we apply

B. Dagallier

We study large deviations for a Markov process on curves in $\mathbb{Z}^2$ mimicking the motion of an interface. Our dynamics can be tuned with a parameter $\beta$, which plays the role of an inverse temperature, and coincides at $\beta$ = $\infty$ with the zero-temperature Ising model with Glauber dynamics, where curves correspond to the boundaries of dropl

Sel Ly, Nicolas Privault

We derive sufficient conditions for the convex and monotonic g-stochastic ordering of diffusion processes under nonlinear g-expectations and g-evaluations. Our approach relies on comparison results for forward-backward stochastic differential equations and on several extensions of convexity, monotonicity and continuous dependence properties for the solutions