May 2020 arXiv papers — page 43

Valentin Konakov, Vladimir Panov, Vladimir Piterbarg

In this paper, we consider the distribution of the supremum of non-stationary Gaussian processes, and present a new theoretical result on the asymptotic behaviour of this distribution. Unlike previously known facts in this field, our main theorem yields the asymptotic representation of the corresponding distribution function with exponentially decaying remai

Payel Das, Tom Sercu, Kahini Wadhawan, Inkit Padhi

De novo therapeutic design is challenged by a vast chemical repertoire and multiple constraints, e.g., high broad-spectrum potency and low toxicity. We propose CLaSS (Controlled Latent attribute Space Sampling) - an efficient computational method for attribute-controlled generation of molecules, which leverages guidance from classifiers trained on an informa

Martin Balla, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez-Liebana

The General Video Game Artificial Intelligence (GVGAI) competition has been running for several years with various tracks. This paper focuses on the challenge of the GVGAI learning track in which 3 games are selected and 2 levels are given for training, while 3 hidden levels are left for evaluation. This setup poses a difficult challenge for current Reinforc

Quentin Paletta, Joan Lasenby

Despite the advances in the field of solar energy, improvements of solar forecasting techniques, addressing the intermittent electricity production, remain essential for securing its future integration into a wider energy supply. A promising approach to anticipate irradiance changes consists of modeling the cloud cover dynamics from ground taken or satellite

David Grow, Donnie Myers

We consider an aspect of the open problem: Does every square-integrable function on SU(2) have an almost everywhere convergent Fourier series? Let 0 < alpha < 1. We show that to each countable set E in SU(2) there corresponds an alpha-Holder continuous function on SU(2) whose Fourier series diverges on E. We also show that the Fourier series of each alpha-Ho

Xinyang Wang

If agents cooperate only within small groups of some bounded sizes, is there a way to partition the population into small groups such that no collection of agents can do better by forming a new group? This paper revisited f-core in a transferable utility setting. By providing a new formulation to the problem, we built up a link between f-core and the transpo

Maggie Miller, Alexander Zupan

The stable Kauffman conjecture posits that a knot in $S^3$ is slice if and only if it admits a slice derivative. We prove a related statement: A knot is handle-ribbon (also called strongly homotopy-ribbon) in a homotopy 4-ball $B$ if and only if it admits an R-link derivative; i.e. an $n$-component derivative $L$ with the property that zero-framed surgery on

André L. G. Mandolesi

Grassmann angles improve upon similar concepts of angle between subspaces that measure volume contraction in orthogonal projections, working for real or complex subspaces, and being more efficient when dimensions are different. Their relations with contractions, inner and exterior products of multivectors are used to obtain formulas for computing these or si

Antonio Quintero-Rincón, Carlos D'Giano, Hadj Batatia

This paper deals with the detection of mu-suppression from electroencephalographic (EEG) signals in brain-computer interface (BCI). For this purpose, an efficient algorithm is proposed based on a statistical model and a linear classifier. Precisely, the generalized extreme value distribution (GEV) is proposed to represent the power spectrum density of the EE

Marcelo M. Leite

We formulate the simplest minimal subtraction version for massive $\lambda \phi^4$ scalar fields with $O(N)$ symmetry for generic anisotropic Lifshitz space-times. An appropriate partial$-p$ operation is applied in the bare two-point vertex function diagrams, which separates the original diagram into a sum of two different integrals which are the coefficient

Hendrick Maia

In [15] a homotopic variation for locality of logics was presented, namely a Quillen model category-based framework for locality under logical equivalence, for every primitive-positive sentence of quantifier-rank $k$. In this paper, we will present some of the implications and possible themes for investigations that arise from the aforementioned framework.

Prarit Agarwal, Sunjin Choi, Joonho Kim, Seok Kim

We study the index of 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills theory with $U(N)$ gauge group, focussing on the physics of the dual BPS black holes in $AdS_5\times S^5$. Certain aspects of these black holes can be studied from finite $N$ indices with reasonably large $N^2$. We make numerical studies of the index for $N\leq 6$, by expanding it up to reasonably high orde

Nikolay Banar, Walter Daelemans, Mike Kestemont

Neural machine translation (NMT) is nowadays commonly applied at the subword level, using byte-pair encoding. A promising alternative approach focuses on character-level translation, which simplifies processing pipelines in NMT considerably. This approach, however, must consider relatively longer sequences, rendering the training process prohibitively expens

Sotiris Droulias

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional analogues of metamaterials, are ideal platforms for sensing molecular chirality at the nanoscale, e.g. of inclusions of natural optically active molecules, as they offer large accessible areas (they are essentially surfaces) and can accommodate the necessary strong resonances for coupling the probing radiation with the chira

Roland Katz, Caio A. G. Prado, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Alexandre A. P. Suaide

One of the fundamental signatures of the Quark Gluon Plasma has been the suppression of heavy flavor (specifically D mesons), which has been measured via the nuclear modification factor, $R_{AA}$ and azimuthal anisotropies, $v_n$, in large systems. However, multiple competing models can reproduce the same data for $R_{AA}$ to $v_n$. In this talk we break dow

Julian Scheuer

This paper deals with locally constrained inverse curvature flows in a broad class of Riemannian warped spaces. For a certain class of such flows we prove long time existence and smooth convergence to a radial coordinate slice. In the case of two-dimensional surfaces and a suitable speed, these flows enjoy two monotone quantities. In such cases new Minkowski

G. Hernández-Tomé, J. I. Illana, M. Masip

The presence of massive sterile neutrinos $N$ mixed with the active ones induces flavor violating processes in the charged lepton sector at the loop level. In particular, the amplitude of $H^0\to \bar{\ell}_i\ell_j$ is expected to be proportional to the product of heavy-light Yukawa couplings $y_iy_j=2 \,s_{\nu_i} s_{\nu_j}\, m_N^2/v^2$, where $s_{\nu_{i,j}}

Jacek Białek, Maciej Beręsewicz

Scanner data offer new opportunities for CPI or HICP calculation. They can be obtained from a~wide variety of~retailers (supermarkets, home electronics, Internet shops, etc.) and provide information at the level of~the barcode. One of~advantages of~using scanner data is the fact that they contain complete transaction information, i.e. prices and quantities f

Alexander Barvinok, Nicholas Barvinok

We consider the problem of computing the partition function $\sum_x e^{f(x)}$, where $f: \{-1, 1\}^n \longrightarrow {\Bbb R}$ is a quadratic or cubic polynomial on the Boolean cube $\{-1, 1\}^n$. In the case of a quadratic polynomial $f$, we show that the partition function can be approximated within relative error $0 < \epsilon < 1$ in quasi-polynomial $n^

Walaa I. Eshraim

We resume the investigation of the ground-state pseudoscalar glueball, $J^{PC}=0^{-+}$, by computing its two- and three-body decays into vector and axial-vector quark-antiquark meson fields additional to scalar and pseudoscalar mesons through the construction of an interaction chiral Lagrangian that produces these decays. We evaluate the branching ratio, via

Florian Luca, Sibusiso Mabaso, Pantelimon Stanica

In this paper, for a positive integer $n\ge 1$, we look at the size and prime factors of the iterates of the Ramanujan $\tau$ function applied to $n$.

Arafat Abbar, Yulia Kuznetsova

Let $\omega$ be a weight function defined on a locally compact group $G$, $1\le p<+\infty$, $S\subset G$ and let us assume that for any $s\in S$, the left translation operator $T_s$ is continuous from the weighted $L^p$-space $L^p(G,\omega)$ into itself. For a given set $\Gamma\subset\mathbb{C}$, a vector $f\in L^p(G,\omega)$ is said to be $(\Gamma,S)$-dense

Pablo Cubides Kovacsics, Mário Edmundo, Jinhe Ye

We develop a sheaf cohomology theory of algebraic varieties over an algebraically closed non-trivially valued non-archimedean field $K$ based on Hrushovski-Loeser's stable completion. In parallel, we develop a sheaf cohomology of definable subsets in o-minimal expansions of the tropical semi-group $\Gamma_\infty$, where $\Gamma$ denotes the value group of $K

V. Das Swain, H. Kwon, S. Sargolzaei, B. Saket

A comprehensive understanding of collocation can help understand performance outcomes. For university cohorts, this needs data that describes large groups over a long period. Harnessing user devices to infer this, while tempting, is challenged by privacy concerns, power consumption, and maintenance issues. Alternatively, embedding new sensors in the environm

Thomas A. Wright, Charlotte Parry, Oliver R. Gibson, Robert J. A. Francis-Jones

We report a resource-efficient scheme in which a single pump laser was used to achieve frequency conversion by Bragg-scattering four-wave mixing in a photonic crystal fiber. We demonstrate bidirectional conversion of coherent light between Sr+ P1/2 - D3/2 emission wavelength at 1092 nm and the telecommunication C band with conversion efficiencies of 4.2 % an

Yasmine Sara Amhis

LHCb is one of the four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN), dedicated to the study of b-hadrons. Throughout my research, I studied in particular b-baryons which are abundantly produced at the LHCb. My habilitation summarises the studies of fundamental properties of these particles within the Standard Model. In particular, I discuss both lifetime

Michael Daas, Yannick Dieter, Jochen Dingfelder, Markus Frohne

BDAQ53 is a readout system and verification framework for hybrid pixel detector readout chips of the RD53 family. These chips are designed for the upgrade of the inner tracking detectors of the ATLAS and CMS experiments. BDAQ53 is used in applications where versatility and rapid customization are required, such as in laboratory testing environments, test bea

N. Slavnov, A. Zabrodin, A. Zotov

We obtain a determinant representation of normalized scalar products of on-shell and off-shell Bethe vectors in the inhomogeneous 8-vertex model. We consider the case of rational anisotropy parameter and use the generalized algebraic Bethe ansatz approach. Our method is to obtain a system of linear equations for the scalar products, prove its solvability and

Yunchang Zhu, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng

The abductive natural language inference task ($\alpha$NLI) is proposed to evaluate the abductive reasoning ability of a learning system. In the $\alpha$NLI task, two observations are given and the most plausible hypothesis is asked to pick out from the candidates. Existing methods simply formulate it as a classification problem, thus a cross-entropy log-los

Jirawat Tangpanitanon, Supanut Thanasilp, Ninnat Dangniam, Marc-Antoine Lemonde

Parameterized quantum evolution is the main ingredient in variational quantum algorithms for near-term quantum devices. In digital quantum computing, it has been shown that random parameterized quantum circuits are able to express complex distributions intractable by a classical computer, leading to the demonstration of quantum supremacy. However, their chao

MD Rubel Ahmed, Hao Zheng, Parijat Mukherjee, Mahesh C. Ketkar

Comprehensive and well-defined specifications are necessary to perform rigorous and thorough validation of system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Message flows specify how components of an SoC design communicate and coordinate with each other to realize various system functions. Message flow specifications are essential for efficient system-level validation and debug

Geonseok Seo, Jaeyoung Yoo, Jaeseok Choi, Nojun Kwak

The learning of the region proposal in object detection using the deep neural networks (DNN) is divided into two tasks: binary classification and bounding box regression task. However, traditional RPN (Region Proposal Network) defines these two tasks as different problems, and they are trained independently. In this paper, we propose a new region proposal le

Björn Biltzinger, Felix Kunzweiler, Jochen Greiner, Kilian Toelge

We present the first physically motivated background model for the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi satellite. Such a physically motivated background model has the potential to significantly improve the scientific output of Fermi/GBM, as it can be used to improve the background estimate for spectral analysis and localization of Gamma-Ray Burst

Wei Xia, Danny Ho, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed

While software development productivity has grown rapidly, the weight values assigned to count standard Function Point (FP) created at IBM twenty-five years ago have never been updated. This obsolescence raises critical questions about the validity of the weight values; it also creates other problems such as ambiguous classification, crisp boundary, as well

Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Sandesh Ghimire, Pradeep Bajracharya, Zhiyuan Li

Computer-aided diagnosis via deep learning relies on large-scale annotated data sets, which can be costly when involving expert knowledge. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) mitigates this challenge by leveraging unlabeled data. One effective SSL approach is to regularize the local smoothness of neural functions via perturbations around single data points. In th

Anjalie Field, Sascha Rothe, Simon Baumgartner, Cong Yu

We evaluate the performance of transformer encoders with various decoders for information organization through a new task: generation of section headings for Wikipedia articles. Our analysis shows that decoders containing attention mechanisms over the encoder output achieve high-scoring results by generating extractive text. In contrast, a decoder without at

Sabine Bellstedt, Simon P. Driver, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Luke J. M. Davies

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly Survey (GAMA) covers five fields with highly complete spectroscopic coverage ($>95$ per cent) to intermediate depths ($r<19.8$ or $i < 19.0$ mag), and collectively spans 250 square degrees of Equatorial or Southern sky. Four of the GAMA fields (G09, G12, G15 and G23) reside in the ESO VST KiDS and ESO VISTA VIKING survey footprin

Saikat Chakraborty Thakur, Michael J. Simmonds, Juan F. Caneses, Fengjen Chang

Radio-frequency (RF) driven helicon plasma sources can produce relatively high-density plasmas (n > 10^19 m-3) at relatively moderate powers (< 2 kW) in argon. However, to produce similar high-density plasmas for fusion relevant gases such as hydrogen, deuterium and helium, much higher RF powers are needed. For very high RF powers, thermal issues of the RF-t

Denis Lebedev, Paul Goulart, Kostas Margellos

We consider dynamic programming problems with finite, discrete-time horizons and prohibitively high-dimensional, discrete state-spaces for direct computation of the value function from the Bellman equation. For the case that the value function of the dynamic program is concave extensible and submodular in its state-space, we present a new algorithm that comp

M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, P. Adlarson, S. Ahmed

We report the first measurement of the absolute branching fraction of the inclusive decay $\Lambda_c^+ \to K_S^0X$. The analysis is performed using an $e^+e^-$ collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 567 pb$^{-1}$ taken at $\sqrt{s}$ = 4.6 GeV with the BESIII detector. Using eleven Cabibbo-favored $\bar{\Lambda}_c^-$ decay modes an

J. Henderson

Nuclei exhibit both single-particle and collective degrees of freedom, with the latter often subdivided into vibrational and rotational motions. Experimentally identifying the relative roles of these collective modes is extremely challenging, particularly in the face of possible shape coexistence. Model-independent, invariant quantities describing the deform

Sarah Millholland, Erik Petigura, Konstantin Batygin

While the Solar System contains no planets between the sizes of Uranus and Saturn, our current exoplanet census includes several dozen such planets with well-measured masses and radii. These sub-Saturns exhibit a diversity of bulk densities, ranging from ~$0.1-3\ \rm{g\ cm}^{-3}$. When modeled simply as hydrogen/helium envelopes atop rocky cores, this divers

J. Ballet, T. H. Burnett, S. W. Digel, B. Lott

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR2, for Data Release 2) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first ten years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it uses the same analysis methods as the 4FGL catalog did for eight years of data. The spectral parameters, spectral energy distributions and associations

Juba Bouaziz, Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz, Filipe S. M. Guimarães, Samir Lounis

Quantum fluctuations are ubiquitous in physics. Ranging from conventional examples like the harmonic oscillator to intricate theories on the origin of the universe, they alter virtually all aspects of matter -- including superconductivity, phase transitions and nanoscale processes. As a rule of thumb, the smaller the object, the larger their impact. This pos

Yazhou Chen, Qiaolin He, Bin Huang, Xiaoding Shi

The Cauchy problem for non-isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system with degenerate heat-conductivity $\kappa(\theta)=\tilde{\kappa}\theta^\beta$ in 1-d is discussed in this paper. This system is widely used to describe the motion of immiscible two-phase flow in numerical simulation. The wellposedness for strong solution of this problem is est

Ashkan Javaherian, Felix Lucka, Ben Cox

Ultrasound Tomography has seen a revival of interest in the past decade, especially for breast imaging, due to improvements in both ultrasound and computing hardware. In particular, three-dimensional ultrasound tomography, a fully tomographic method in which the medium to be imaged is surrounded by ultrasound transducers, has become feasible. In this paper,

Alexandre Pitti, Mathias Quoy, Catherine Lavandier, Sofiane Boucenna

In order to keep trace of information and grow up, the infant brain has to resolve the problem about where old information is located and how to index new ones. We propose that the immature prefrontal cortex (PFC) use its primary functionality of detecting hierarchical patterns in temporal signals as a second purpose to organize the spatial ordering of the c

Tomislav Petković, Jakub Hvězda, Tomáš Rybecký, Ivan Marković

With the substantial growth of logistics businesses the need for larger and more automated warehouses increases, thus giving rise to fully robotized shop-floors with mobile robots in charge of transporting and distributing goods. However, even in fully automatized warehouse systems the need for human intervention frequently arises, whether because of mainten

José Miguel Ponciano, Juan Adolfo Ponciano, Juan Pablo Gómez, Robert D. Holt

Latin America is experiencing severe impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, but poverty and weak public health institutions hamper gathering the kind of refined data needed to inform classical SEIR models of epidemics. We present an alternative approach that draws on advances in statistical ecology and conservation biology to enhance the value of sparse data in

Mahir Bilen Can, Yiyang She, Liron Speyer

The multiplicity-free subgroups (strong Gelfand subgroups) of wreath products are investigated. Various useful reduction arguments are presented. In particular, we show that for every finite group $F$, the wreath product $F\wr S_\lambda$, where $S_\lambda$ is a Young subgroup, is multiplicity-free if and only if $\lambda$ is a partition with at most two part

Václav Vavryčuk

Recent observations indicate that the Universe is not transparent but partially opaque due to absorption of light by ambient cosmic dust. This implies that the Friedmann equations valid for the transparent universe must be modified for the opaque universe. The paper studies a scenario when the opacity steeply rises with redshift. In this case, the light-matt

D. Kinzebulatov, Yu. A. Semenov

We establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the heat kernel of the fractional Laplace operator perturbed by Hardy-type drift by transferring it to appropriate weighted space with singular weight.

Lucas Bremer, Ksenia Weber, Sarah Fischbach, Simon Thiele

User-friendly single-photon sources with high photon-extraction efficiency are crucial building blocks for photonic quantum applications. For many of these applications, such as long-distance quantum key distribution, the use of single-mode optical fibers is mandatory, which leads to stringent requirements regarding the device design and fabrication. We repo

Sneha Mehta, Bahareh Azarnoush, Boris Chen, Avneesh Saluja

Black-box machine translation systems have proven incredibly useful for a variety of applications yet by design are hard to adapt, tune to a specific domain, or build on top of. In this work, we introduce a method to improve such systems via automatic pre-processing (APP) using sentence simplification. We first propose a method to automatically generate a la

Bo Cai, Chuanpeng Hao, Zheru Qiu, Qianqian Yu

We report an all-optical atomic vector magnetometer using dual Bell-Bloom optical pumping beams in a Rb vapor cell. This vector magnetometer consists of two orthogonal optical pumping beams, with amplitude modulations at $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb Larmor frequencies respectively. We simultaneously detect atomic signals excited by these two pumping beams using a

Rui Yao, Shlomo Bekhor

Innovative shared mobility services provide on-demand flexible mobility options and have the potential to alleviate traffic congestion. These attractive services are challenging from different perspectives. One major challenge in such systems is to find suitable ride-sharing matchings between drivers and passengers with respect to the system objective and co

Charlie Kirkwood

Where data is available, it is desirable in geostatistical modelling to make use of additional covariates, for example terrain data, in order to improve prediction accuracy in the modelling task. While elevation itself may be important, additional explanatory power for any given problem can be sought (but not necessarily found) by filtering digital elevation

Alexander Rashkovskii, Alexander Ulanovskii, Ilya Zlotnikov

Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for several families of planar curves to form a set of stable sampling for the Bernstein space $\mathcal{B}_{\Omega}$ over a convex set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$. These conditions "essentially" describe the mobile sampling property of these families for the Paley-Wiener spaces $\mathcal{PW}^p_{\Omega},1\l

Bin Wang, Xiaofei Zhao

In this work, we consider the error estimates of some splitting schemes for the charged-particle dynamics under a strong magnetic field. We first propose a novel energy-preserving splitting scheme with computational cost per step independent from the strength of the magnetic field. Then under the maximal ordering scaling case, we establish for the scheme and

Davide Gagliardi, Giovanni Russo

This paper is concerned with the design of control policies from example datasets. The case considered is when just a black box description of the system to be controlled is available and the system is affected by actuation constraints. These constraints are not necessarily fulfilled by the (possibly, noisy) example data and the system under control is not n

Duo Xu, Atul Varshney, Xingyu Ma, Baofang Song

Pulsating flows through tubular geometries are laminar provided that velocities are moderate. This in particular is also believed to apply to cardiovascular flows where inertial forces are typically too low to sustain turbulence. On the other hand flow instabilities and fluctuating shear stresses are held responsible for a variety of cardiovascular diseases.

Wouter Lueks, Iñigo Querejeta-Azurmendi, Carmela Troncoso

The strongest threat model for voting systems considers coercion resistance: protection against coercers that force voters to modify their votes, or to abstain. Existing remote voting systems either do not provide this property; require an expensive tallying phase; or burden users with the need to store cryptographic key material and with the responsibility

Torben Hagerup

A level-ancestor or LA query about a rooted tree $T$ takes as arguments a node $v$ in $T$, of depth $d_v$, say, and an integer $d$ with $0\le d\le d_v$ and returns the ancestor of $v$ in $T$ of depth $d$. The static LA problem is to process a given rooted tree $T$ so as to support efficient subsequent processing of LA queries about $T$. All previous efficien

Rui Yao, Shlomo Bekhor

Several route choice models developed in the literature were based on a relatively small number of observations. With the extensive use of tracking devices in recent surveys, there is a possibility to obtain insights with respect to the traveler's choice behavior. In this paper, different path generation algorithms are evaluated using a large GPS trajectory

Yuemin Ding, Jin-Long Liu, Xiaohui Li, Yu-Chu Tian

Multifractal analysis (MFA) is a useful tool to systematically describe the spatial heterogeneity of both theoretical and experimental fractal patterns. One of the widely used methods for fractal analysis is box-covering. It is known to be NP-hard. More severely, in comparison with fractal analysis algorithms, MFA algorithms have much higher computational co

Evangelos Galaris, Ioannis Gallos, Ivan Myatchin, Lieven Lagae

We localize the sources of brain activity of children with epilepsy based on EEG recordings acquired during a visual discrimination working memory task. For the numerical solution of the inverse problem, with the aid of age-specific MRI scans processed from a publicly available database, we use and compare three regularization numerical methods, namely the s

Danni Liu, Gerasimos Spanakis, Jan Niehues

Encoder-decoder models provide a generic architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as speech recognition and translation. While offline systems are often evaluated on quality metrics like word error rates (WER) and BLEU, latency is also a crucial factor in many practical use-cases. We propose three latency reduction techniques for chunk-based incremen

Hemant Yadav, Sreyan Ghosh, Yi Yu, Rajiv Ratn Shah

Named entity recognition (NER) from text has been a widely studied problem and usually extracts semantic information from text. Until now, NER from speech is mostly studied in a two-step pipeline process that includes first applying an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system on an audio sample and then passing the predicted transcript to a NER tagger. In s

Nathan McDannold, P. Jason White, G. Rees Cosgrove

Neurosurgery targets in the thalamus can be challenging to identify during transcranial MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thermal ablation due to poor image quality. They also neighbor structures that can result in side effects if damaged. Here we demonstrate that the phase data obtained during MRgFUS for MR temperature imaging (MRTI) contains anatomic

Armando G. M. Neves, Gustavo Guerrero

The presence of a large number of infected individuals with few or no symptoms is an important epidemiological difficulty and the main mathematical feature of COVID-19. The A-SIR model, i.e. a SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Removed) model with a compartment for infected individuals with no symptoms or few symptoms was proposed by Giuseppe Gaeta, arXiv:2003.08720

A. Ridnaia, D. Svinkin, D. Frederiks, A. Bykov

Fast radio bursts are bright, millisecond-scale radio flashes of yet unknown physical origin. Recently, their extragalactic nature has been demonstrated and an increasing number of the sources have been found to repeat. Young, highly magnetized, isolated neutron stars - magnetars - have been suggested as the most promising candidates for fast radio burst pro

Umair Qazi, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli

The past several years have witnessed a huge surge in the use of social media platforms during mass convergence events such as health emergencies, natural or human-induced disasters. These non-traditional data sources are becoming vital for disease forecasts and surveillance when preparing for epidemic and pandemic outbreaks. In this paper, we present GeoCoV

Irina Nikishina, Varvara Logacheva, Alexander Panchenko, Natalia Loukachevitch

This paper describes the results of the first shared task on taxonomy enrichment for the Russian language. The participants were asked to extend an existing taxonomy with previously unseen words: for each new word their systems should provide a ranked list of possible (candidate) hypernyms. In comparison to the previous tasks for other languages, our competi

Samir Kumar, Kyoko Namura, Daisuke Kumaki, Shizuo Tokito

We report the fabrication of a low cost, and highly reproducible large scale surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrate using an inkjet-printed Ag nanoparticle ink (AgNI). The AgNI SERS substrates were evaluated for SERS using BPY as a molecular probe. The printed AgNI dot arrays exhibit an excellent SERS performance and reproducibility. The batch to batc

Marios Zacharias, Pantelis C. Kelires

Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) have been under active investigation in the last decades and have been considered as a promising candidate for many optoelectronic applications including highly-efficient solar cells. Some of the fundamental properties of interest in these nanostructures is the temperature dependence of their optical absorption onset, and how thi

Christian Budde

In this paper, we consider positive Desch-Schappacher perturbations of bi-continuous semigroups on $\mathrm{AM}$-spaces with an additional property concerning the additional locally convex topology. As an examples, we discuss perturbations of the left-translation semigroup on the space of bounded continuous function on the real line and on the space of bound

Yusuke Sakumoto, Hiroyuki Ohsaki

Various graph algorithms have been developed with multiple random walks, the movement of several independent random walkers on a graph. Designing an efficient graph algorithm based on multiple random walks requires investigating multiple random walks theoretically to attain a deep understanding of their characteristics. The first meeting time is one of the i

Yuya Shinohara, Taito Osaka, Ichiro Inoue, Takuya Iwashita

With their brilliance and temporal structure, X-ray free-electron laser can unveil atomic-scale details of ultrafast phenomena. Recent progress in split-and-delay optics (SDO), which produces two X-ray pulses with time-delays, offers bright prospects for observing dynamics at the atomic-scale. However, their insufficient pulse energy has limited its applicat

Thomas Oksenhendler

Ultra-high intensity femtosecond lasers at focus are now routinely used for relativistic motion of charged particles with peak intensities over 10^18W/cm^2. Such high-field experiments are very sensitive to the value of the peak intensity. Therefore, precise knowledge of the pulse intensity is a key prerequisite for the correct interpretation of experimental

Christian Göttel, Lars Nielsen, Niloofar Yazdani, Pascal Felber

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the ever growing number of connected devices observed in recent years and foreseen for the next decade suggests that more and more data will have to be transmitted over a network, before being processed and stored in data centers. Generalized deduplication (GD) is a novel technique to effectively reduce the da

Aswin Gopakumar, Kirthana Rajasekar, Shrihari Sridharan

In this paper, we consider finitely many interval maps simultaneously acting on the unit interval $I = [0, 1]$ in the real line $\mathbb{R}$; each with utmost finitely many jump discontinuities and study certain important statistical properties. Even though we use the symbolic space on $N$ letters to reduce the case of simultaneous dynamics to maps on an app

A. Skopenkov

This note is purely expository and is an extended version of math review to the paper [AP19]=arXiv:1901.07918v3 by S. Abramyan and T. Panov published in Proc. of Steklov Math. Inst. 305 (2019). The authors construct simplicial complexes for whose moment-angle complexes certain homotopy classes are non-trivial. I present in a shorter and clearer way the main

Hailan Ma, Chang-Jiang Huang, Chunlin Chen, Daoyi Dong

Quantum autoencoders which aim at compressing quantum information in a low-dimensional latent space lie in the heart of automatic data compression in the field of quantum information. In this paper, we establish an upper bound of the compression rate for a given quantum autoencoder and present a learning control approach for training the autoencoder to achie

Shun Asano, Kenji Ishii, Kohei Yamagami, Jun Miyawaki

Oxygen $K$-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements were conducted on T*-type La$_{1-x/2}$Eu$_{1-x/2}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ (LESCO) to estimate the hole density ($n_{\rm h}$) and investigate the oxidation annealing effect on $n_{\rm h}$. A drastic increase in $n_{\rm h}$ due to annealing was found. The increase in $n_{\rm h}$ cannot be explained solely by the

Tomasz Szydlo, Joanna Sendorek, Robert Brzoza-Woch, Mateusz Windak

Number of IoT devices is constantly increasing which results in greater complexity of computations and high data velocity. One of the approach to process sensor data is dataflow programming. It enables the development of reactive software with short processing and rapid response times, especially when moved to the edge of the network. This is especially impo

Misha Rudnev, Sophie Stevens

We improve the best known sum-product estimates over the reals. We prove that \[ \max(|A+A|,|AA|)\geq |A|^{\frac{4}{3} + \frac{2}{1167} - o(1)}\,, \] for a finite $A\subset \mathbb R$, following a streamlining of the arguments of Solymosi, Konyagin and Shkredov. We include several new observations to our techniques. Furthermore, \[ |AA+AA|\geq |A|^{\frac{127

Serhii Borysenko, Alexander Baransky, Elena Musiichuk

We present an analysis of the photometric data of comets 47P/Ashbrook -Jackson, 65P/Gunn, 362P/2008 GO98, and P/2017 S5 (ATLAS) observed at Kyiv Comet Station (MPC code - 585) in 2017. The upper limits of radii for cometary nuclei, Afrho parameters, and color-indexes are measured.

Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Federico Nanni, Kaspar Beelen, Kasra Hosseini

This paper proposes a new approach to animacy detection, the task of determining whether an entity is represented as animate in a text. In particular, this work is focused on atypical animacy and examines the scenario in which typically inanimate objects, specifically machines, are given animate attributes. To address it, we have created the first dataset fo

R. Stepanov, N. I. Bondar', M. M. Katsova, D. Sokoloff

The bulk of available stellar activity observations is frequently checked for the manifestation of signs in comparison with the known characteristic of solar magnetic modulation. The problem is that stellar activity records are usually an order of magnitude shorter than available observations of solar activity variation. Therefore, the resolved time scales o

Masato Takei

We study linearly edge-reinforced random walks on $\mathbb{Z}_+$, where each edge $\{x,x+1\}$ has the initial weight $x^{\alpha} \vee 1$, and each time an edge is traversed, its weight is increased by $\Delta$. It is known that the walk is recurrent if and only if $\alpha \leq 1$. The aim of this paper is to study the almost sure behavior of the walk in the

Zheng Zhou, Dong-Xu Liu, Zheng Yan, Yan Chen

Incommensurability plays a critical role in many strongly correlated systems. In some cases, the origin of such exotic order can be theoretically understood in the framework of 1d line-like topological excitations known as ``quantum strings''. Here we study an extended transverse field Ising model on a triangular lattice. Using the large scale quantum Monte

Holger Dette, Florian Heinrichs

In the common time series model $X_{i,n} = \mu (i/n) + \varepsilon_{i,n}$ with non-stationary errors we consider the problem of detecting a significant deviation of the mean function $\mu$ from a benchmark $g (\mu )$ (such as the initial value $\mu (0)$ or the average trend $\int_{0}^{1} \mu (t) dt$). The problem is motivated by a more realistic modelling of

ALICE Collaboration

The elliptic and triangular flow coefficients $v_2$ and $v_3$ of prompt D$^{0}$, D$^{+}$, and D$^{*+}$ mesons were measured at midrapidity ($|y|<0.8$) in Pb-Pb collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The D mesons were reconstructed via their hadronic decays in the transverse m

ALICE Collaboration

The elliptic flow of electrons from beauty hadron decays at midrapidity ($|y|$ $<$ 0.8) is measured in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The azimuthal distribution of the particles produced in the collisions can be parameterized with a Fourier expansion, in which the second harmonic coefficient represents

Jaehyeon Kim, Sungwon Kim, Jungil Kong, Sungroh Yoon

Recently, text-to-speech (TTS) models such as FastSpeech and ParaNet have been proposed to generate mel-spectrograms from text in parallel. Despite the advantage, the parallel TTS models cannot be trained without guidance from autoregressive TTS models as their external aligners. In this work, we propose Glow-TTS, a flow-based generative model for parallel T

ALICE Collaboration

The polarization of inclusive J/$\psi$ and $\Upsilon(1{\rm S})$ produced in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV at the LHC is measured with the ALICE detector. The study is carried out by reconstructing the quarkonium through its decay to muon pairs in the rapidity region $2.5<y<4$ and measuring the polar and azimuthal angular distributions of

Naotomo Takemura, Masato Takiguchi, Masaya Notomi

A driven high-Q Si microcavity is known to exhibit limit cycle oscillation originating from carrier-induced and thermo-optic nonlinearities. We propose a novel nanophotonic device to realize synchronized optical limit cycle oscillations with coupled silicon (Si) photonic crystal (PhC) microcavities. Here, coupled limit cycle oscillators are realized by using

ALICE Collaboration

Measurement of Z-boson production in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=8.16$ TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV is reported. It is performed in the dimuon decay channel, through the detection of muons with pseudorapidity $-4 < \eta_{\mu} < -2.5$ and transverse momentum $p_{\rm T}^{\mu} > 20$ GeV/$c$ in the laboratory frame

Petteri Laakkonen

The aim of this paper is in developing unifying frequency domain theory for robust regulation of MIMO systems. The main theoretical results achieved are a new formulation of the internal model principle, solvability conditions for the robust regulation problem, and a parametrization of all robustly regulating controllers. The main results are formulated with

ALICE Collaboration

The first measurements of the scattering parameters of $\Lambda$K pairs in all three charge combinations ($\Lambda$K$^{+}$, $\Lambda$K$^{-}$, and $\Lambda\mathrm{K^{0}_{S}}$) are presented. The results are achieved through a femtoscopic analysis of $\Lambda$K correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV recorded by ALICE at the LHC