January 2022 arXiv papers — page 100

Jamie M. Karthein, Paolo Alba, Valentina Mantovani-Sarti, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

We investigate the chemical freeze-out in heavy-ion collisions (HICs) and the impact of the hadronic spectrum on thermal model analyses. Detailed knowledge of the hadronic spectrum is still an open question, which has phenomenological consequences on the study of HICs. By varying the number of resonances included in Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) Model calculati

Ken C. L. Wong, Mehdi Moradi

The convolutional layer and loss function are two fundamental components in deep learning. Because of the success of conventional deep learning kernels, the less versatile Gabor kernels become less popular despite the fact that they can provide abundant features at different frequencies, orientations, and scales with much fewer parameters. For existing loss

Nimo Beeren

The design space of visual tools that aim to help people create schemas for property graphs is explored. Interviews are conducted with experts in the domain of property graphs and data management in general. Through this collaboration, we determine how a schema extraction tool can provide value. These insights are used to establish design requirements and de

Rao Li

Let $G$ be a $k$ - connected ($k \geq 2$) graph of order $n$. If $\chi(G) \geq n - k$, then $G$ is Hamiltonian or $K_k \vee (K_k^c \cup K_{n - 2k})$ with $n \geq 2 k + 1$, where $\chi(G)$ is the chromatic number of the graph $G$.

Esther Conrad, Laura Titolo, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Thomas Pressburger

Structured natural languages provide a trade space between ambiguous natural languages that make up most written requirements and mathematical formal specifications such as Linear Temporal Logic. FRETish is a structured natural language for the elicitation of system requirements developed at NASA. The related open-source tool Fret provides support for transl

Gustavo Dotti

These notes follow from a course delivered at the V Jos\'e Pl\'{\i}nio Baptista School of Cosmology, held at Guarapari (Esp\'{\i}rito Santo) Brazil, from 30 September to 5 October 2021. A review of the current status of the linear stability of black holes and naked singularities is given. The standard modal approach, that takes advantage of the background sy

Zeyu Wang, Yu Wu, Karthik Narasimhan, Olga Russakovsky

Retrieving target videos based on text descriptions is a task of great practical value and has received increasing attention over the past few years. Despite recent progress, imperfect annotations in existing video retrieval datasets have posed significant challenges on model evaluation and development. In this paper, we tackle this issue by focusing on the

Decky Aspandi, Sarah Doosdal, Victor Ülger, Lukas Gillich

Current advance of internet allows rapid dissemination of information, accelerating the progress on wide spectrum of society. This has been done mainly through the use of website interface with inherent unique human interactions. In this regards the usability analysis becomes a central part to improve the human interactions. However, This analysis has not ye

Eric J. Mendelsohn, Heidi Jo Newberg, Siddhartha Shelton, Lawrence M. Widrow

We fit the mass and radial profile of the Orphan-Chenab Stream's (OCS) dwarf galaxy progenitor by using turnoff stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Dark Energy Camera (DEC) to constrain N-body simulations of the OCS progenitor falling into the Milky Way on the 1.5 PetaFLOPS MilkyWay@home distributed supercomputer. We infer the internal struc

Tracy X. Chen, Rick Ebert, Joseph M. Mazzarella, Cren Frayer

The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is a comprehensive online service that combines fundamental multi-wavelength information for known objects beyond the Milky Way and provides value-added, derived quantities and tools to search and access the data. The contents and relationships between measurements in the database are continuously augmented and revi

Nazime Sales Filho, Igor Leite Freire

Lie symmetries of a Novikov geometrically integrable equation are found and group-invariant solutions are obtained. Local conservation laws up to second order are established as well as their corresponding conserved quantities. Sufficient conditions for the $L^1$ norm of the solutions to be invariant are presented, as well as conditions for the existence of

Gautier Meyer, Ralf Schweins, Tristan Youngs, Jean-François Dufrêche

Ionic-liquid based acidic aqueous biphasic solutions (AcABS) recently offered a breakthrough in the field of metal recycling. Indeed, the mixture of tributyltetradecylphosphonium chloride (P$_{44414}$Cl) and acid with water content larger than 60 \% presents a phase separation with very good extraction efficiency for metallic ions. Moreover, this ternary sol

Daniel Herden, Jonathan Meddaugh, Mark Sepanski, Isaac Echols

The vertex-edge marking game is played between two players on a graph, $G=(V,E)$, with one player marking vertices and the other marking edges. The players want to minimize/maximize, respectively, the number of marked edges incident to an unmarked vertex. The vertex-edge coloring number for $G$ is the maximum score achievable with perfect play. Bre\v{s}ar et

L. Jens Papenfort, Elias R. Most, Samuel Tootle, Luciano Rezzolla

The gravitational-wave events GW170817 and GW190425 have led to a number of important insights on the equation of state of dense matter and the properties of neutron stars, such as their radii and the maximum mass. Some of these conclusions have been drawn on the basis of numerical-relativity simulations of binary neutron-star mergers with vanishing initial

James Hanson

We investigate the following model-theoretic independence relation: $\def\indbu{{\rlap{\hspace11.9mu\vert}\lower7.5mu\smile}^{\!\mathrm{bu}}} b \indbu_A\hspace3mu c$ if and only if $\mathrm{bdd}^u(Ab)\cap \mathrm{bdd}^u(Ac) = \mathrm{bdd}^u(A)$, where $\mathrm{bdd}^u(X)$ is the class of all ultraimaginaries bounded over $X$. In particular, we sharpen a resul

Sweta Agrawal, John C Tuthill

Like a rocket being propelled into space, evolution has engineered flies to launch into adulthood via multiple stages. Flies develop and deploy two distinct bodies, linked by the transformative process of metamorphosis. The fly larva is a soft hydraulic tube that can crawl to find food and avoid predators. The adult fly has a stiff exoskeleton with articulat

A. Oliveros, Cristhian J. Rodríguez

In this work, we study inflation in a particular scalar-vector-tensor theory of gravitation without the $U(1)$ gauge symmetry. The model is constructed from the more general action introduced in Heisenberg et al. (Phys Rev D 98:024038, 2018) using certain specific choices for the Lagrangians and the coupling functions. Also, for this model we build the expli

Achenef Tesfahun

This paper is concerned with a two dimensional Whitham-Boussinesq system modelling surface waves of an inviscid incompressible fluid layer. We prove that the associated Cauchy problem is well-posed for initial data of low regularity, with existence time of scale $\mathcal O(1/\sqrt{\epsilon})$, where $\epsilon>0$ is a shallowness parameter measuring the rati

Christian Wäckerlin, Aleš Cahlík, Joseba Goikoetxea, Oleksandr Stesovych

One-dimensional metal-organic chains often possess a complex magnetic structure susceptible to be modified by a alteration of their chemical composition. The possibility to tune their magnetic properties provides an interesting playground to explore quasiparticle interactions in low-dimensional systems. Despite the great effort invested so far, a detailed un

Ian Agol

In this note we show that ribbon concordance forms a partial ordering on the set of knots, answering a question of Gordon. The proof makes use of representation varieties of the knot groups to $SO(N)$ and relations between them induced by a ribbon concordance.

Maxime Gheysens, Nicolas Monod

We investigate the group $G \vee H$ obtained by gluing together two groups $G$ and $H$ at the neutral element. This construction curiously shares some properties with the free product but others with the direct product. Our results address among others Property (T), CAT(0) cubical complexes, local embeddability, amenable actions, and the algebraic structure

Konstantinos P. Panousis, Anastasios Antoniadis, Sotirios Chatzis

This work aims to address the long-established problem of learning diversified representations. To this end, we combine information-theoretic arguments with stochastic competition-based activations, namely Stochastic Local Winner-Takes-All (LWTA) units. In this context, we ditch the conventional deep architectures commonly used in Representation Learning, th

Yufei Zhao, Kai Zhang, Jiewen Xiao, Kai Sun

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) generates giant spin polarization in transport through chiral molecules, paving the way for novel spintronic devices and enantiomer separation. Unlike conventional transport, CISS magnetoresistance (MR) violates Onsager's reciprocal relation, exhibiting significant resistance changes when reversing electrode magnetiz

Zeinab Shokrzadeh, Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi, Mohammad-Ali Balafar, Jamshid Bagherzadeh-Mohasefi

Many researchers have used tag information to improve the performance of recommendation techniques in recommender systems. Examining the tags of users will help to get their interests and leads to more accuracy in the recommendations. Since user-defined tags are chosen freely and without any restrictions, problems arise in determining their exact meaning and

Jiuning Hu, Albert F. Rigosi, Mattias Kruskopf, Yanfei Yang

We report the fabrication and measurement of top gated epitaxial graphene p-n junctions where exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is used as the gate dielectric. The four-terminal longitudinal resistance across a single junction is well quantized at the von Klitzing constant R_K with a relative uncertainty of 10-7. After the exploration of numerous par

William F. Braasch, William K. Wootters

We explore a particular way of reformulating quantum theory in classical terms, starting with phase space rather than Hilbert space, and with actual probability distributions rather than quasiprobabilities. The classical picture we start with is epistemically restricted, in the spirit of a model introduced by Spekkens. We obtain quantum theory only by combin

Olga Rozanova

We consider the classical Cauchy problem for a system of equations describing 3D arbitrary electrostatic oscillations of the cold plasma and introduce an iteration procedure that allows estimating the blow-up time from below. This procedure is constructive provided one succeed to obtain a two-sided estimate of an additional quantity depending on the solution

A. O. Macchiavelli, H. L. Crawford, P. Fallon, R. M. Clark

While the phenomenon of one- and two-neutron ground-state halo nuclei is well established, the effects of weak binding on nuclear excitation properties remain largely unexplored. Motivated by this question and by recent data in $^{40}$Mg we investigate the coupling of weakly bound (halo) valence neutrons to a core using the known properties of $^{40}$Mg to e

Mohammadreza Momenifar, Enmao Diao, Vahid Tarokh, Andrew D. Bragg

Analyzing large-scale data from simulations of turbulent flows is memory intensive, requiring significant resources. This major challenge highlights the need for data compression techniques. In this study, we apply a physics-informed Deep Learning technique based on vector quantization to generate a discrete, low-dimensional representation of data from simul

Michelle Pistner Nixon, Kyle C. McGovern, Jeffrey Letourneau, Lawrence A. David

Many scientific fields, including human gut microbiome science, collect multivariate count data where the sum of the counts is unrelated to the scale of the underlying system being measured (e.g., total microbial load in a subject's colon). This disconnect complicates downstream analyses such as differential analysis in case-control studies. This article is

Runshi Geng

There are close relations between tripartite tensors with bounded geometric ranks and linear determinantal varieties with bounded codimensions. We study linear determinantal varieties with bounded codimensions, and prove upper bounds of the dimensions of the ambient spaces. Using those results, we classify tensors with geometric rank 3, find upper bounds of

J. Zachary Gazak, Ian McQuaid, Ryan Swindle, Matthew Phelps

Effective space traffic management requires positive identification of artificial satellites. Current methods for extracting object identification from observed data require spatially resolved imagery which limits identification to objects in low earth orbits. Most artificial satellites, however, operate in geostationary orbits at distances which prohibit gr

Berit H. Goodge, Benjamin Geisler, Kyuho Lee, Motoki Osada

Nickel-based superconductors provide a long-awaited experimental platform to explore possible cuprate-like superconductivity. Despite similar crystal structure and $d$ electron filling, these systems exhibit several differences. Nickelates are the most polar layered oxide superconductor, raising questions about the interface between substrate and thin film -

Ryan Kaveh, Natalie Tetreault, Karthik Gopalan, Julian Maravilla

Medical electrophysiological sensors that can study the body and diagnose diseases depend on consistently low impedance electrode-skin interfaces. Clinical-standard wet electrodes use hydrogels and skin abrasion to improve the interface and thus the recorded signal quality. These electrodes are challenging to self-administer and impede in-home care. Wearable

Michel Steuwer, Thomas Koehler, Bastian Köpcke, Federico Pizzuti

The trend towards specialization of software and hardware - fuelled by the end of Moore's law and the still accelerating interest in domain-specific computing, such as machine learning - forces us to radically rethink our compiler designs. The era of a universal compiler framework built around a single one-size-fits-all intermediate representation (IR) is ov

Rupert L. Frank, Michael Loss

It is shown that $\Vert A \Vert_{L^d}^2 \ge \frac{d}{d-2}\, S_d$ is a necessary condition for the existence of a nontrivial solution of the Dirac equation $\gamma \cdot (-i\nabla -A)\psi = 0$ in $d$ dimensions. Here, $S_d$ is the sharp Sobolev constant. If $d$ is odd and $\Vert A \Vert_{L^d}^2= \frac{d}{d-2}\, S_d$, then there exist vector potentials that al

Kiranjyot Gill, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Edo Berger, Michele Zanolin

The advent of sensitive gravitational wave (GW) detectors, coupled with wide-field, high cadence optical time-domain surveys, raises the possibility of the first joint GW-electromagnetic (EM) detections of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). For targeted searches of GWs from CCSNe optical observations can be used to increase the sensitivity of the search by re

Yair Caro, Mirko Petruševski, Riste Škrekovski

A proper vertex coloring $\varphi$ of graph $G$ is said to be odd if for each non-isolated vertex $x\in V(G)$ there exists a color $c$ such that $\varphi^{-1}(c)\cap N(x)$ is odd-sized. The minimum number of colors in any odd coloring of $G$, denoted $\chi_o(G)$, is the odd chromatic number. Odd colorings were recently introduced in [M.~Petru\v{s}evski, R.~\

Luke C. Ugwuoke, Tjaart P. J. Krüger

We develop a theoretical framework, based on a multipole, quasi-static approach, for the prediction of the localized surface plasmon resonances in Fanoshells formed via geometrical symmetry-breaking in multilayer nanoshells consisting of a metallic core, a dielectric inner shell, and a metallic outer shell. By tuning the core and shell offsets of a gold-sili

Duarte Oliveira, João Fidalgo, Joelma Choma, Eduardo Guerra

Software analytics is a data-driven approach to decision making, which allows software practitioners to leverage valuable insights from data about software to achieve higher development process productivity and improve different aspects of software quality. In previous work, a set of patterns for adopting a lean software analytics process was identified thro

Evdoxia Taka, Sebastian Stein, John H. Williamson

Despite growing interest in probabilistic modeling approaches and availability of learning tools, people with no or less statistical background feel hesitant to use them. There is need for tools for communicating probabilistic models to less experienced users more intuitively to help them build, validate, use effectively or trust probabilistic models. Users'

Sebastian Stein, John H. Williamson

Probabilistic models inform an increasingly broad range of business and policy decisions ultimately made by people. Recent algorithmic, computational, and software framework development progress facilitate the proliferation of Bayesian probabilistic models, which characterise unobserved parameters by their joint distribution instead of point estimates. While

Edgar Shaghoulian, Leonard Susskind

This paper expands on two recent proposals, \cite{Susskind:2021dfc}\cite{Susskind:2021esx} and \cite{Shaghoulian:2021cef}, for generalizing the Ryu-Takayanagi and Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi formulas to de Sitter space. The proposals (called the monolayer and bilayer proposals) are similar; both replace the boundary of AdS by the boundaries of static-patches

A. D. Khokhriakova, S. B. Popov

Recently, several accreting neutron stars (NSs) in X-ray binary systems inside supernova remnants have been discovered. They represent a puzzle for the standard magneto-rotational evolution of NSs, as their ages ($\lesssim 10^5$ years) are much shorter than the expected duration of Ejector and Propeller stages preceding the onset of wind accretion. To explai

Arion Pons, Fehmi Cirak

Modern high-performance combat aircraft exceed conventional flight-envelope limits on maneuverability through the use of thrust vectoring, and so achieve supermaneuverability. With ongoing development of biomimetic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the potential for supermaneuverability through biomimetic mechanisms becomes apparent. So far, this potential ha

E. F. Spring, J. L. Birkby, L. Pino, R. Alonso

The extreme contrast ratios between stars and their planets at optical wavelengths make it challenging to isolate the light reflected by exoplanet atmospheres. Yet, these reflective properties reveal key processes occurring in the atmospheres, and they also span wavelengths that include the potential O$_2$ biosignature. High resolution cross-correlation spec

Tatiana Latychevskaia

Modern microscopy techniques are developing towards high-resolution imaging, and tremendous progress has been made in past decades; however, the imaging of individual biological macromolecules at atomic resolution using short-wavelength radiation such as electrons or X-rays has not yet been achieved. The construction of free-electron lasers in many countries

Guilherme Vale, Filipe Figueiredo Correia, Eduardo Martins Guerra, Thatiane de Oliveira Rosa

The promise of increased agility, autonomy, scalability, and reusability has made the microservices architecture a \textit{de facto} standard for the development of large-scale and cloud-native commercial applications. Software patterns are an important design tool, and often they are selected and combined with the goal of obtaining a set of desired quality

Eva Breznik, Elisabeth Wetzer, Joakim Lindblad, Nataša Sladoje

In tissue characterization and cancer diagnostics, multimodal imaging has emerged as a powerful technique. Thanks to computational advances, large datasets can be exploited to discover patterns in pathologies and improve diagnosis. However, this requires efficient and scalable image retrieval methods. Cross-modality image retrieval is particularly challengin

Steffen Gielen, João Magueijo

We formulate the transition from decelerated to accelerated expansion as a bounce in connection space and study its quantum cosmology, knowing that reflections are notorious for bringing quantum effects to the fore. We use a formalism for obtaining a time variable via the demotion of the constants of Nature to integration constants, and focus on a toy Univer

A. Allouche, D. Dou

In a recent letter, we developed a novel Euclidean time approach to compute R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy on lattices and fuzzy spaces based on Green's function. The present work is devoted in part to the explicit proof of the Green's matrix function formula which was quoted and used in the previous letter, and on the other part to some applications of this

Carolyn A. Raithel, Elias R. Most

The post-merger gravitational wave (GW) emission from a binary neutron star merger is expected to provide exciting new constraints on the dense-matter equation of state (EoS). Such constraints rely, by and large, on the existence of quasi-universal relations, which relate the peak frequencies of the post-merger GW spectrum to properties of the neutron star s

Stefan Weinzierl

This course on Feynman integrals starts from the basics, requiring only knowledge from special relativity and undergraduate mathematics. Topics from quantum field theory and advanced mathematics are introduced as they are needed. The course covers modern developments in the field of Feynman integrals. Topics included in this course are: Representations of Fe

William M. Baker, Roberto Maiolino, Asa F. L. Bluck, Lihwai Lin

We investigate the nature of the scaling relations between the surface density of star formation rate ($\Sigma _{\rm SFR}$), stellar mass ($\Sigma _*$), and molecular gas mass ($\Sigma _{\rm H_2}$), aiming at distinguishing between the relations that are primary, i.e. more fundamental, and those which are instead an indirect by-product of the other relations

J. Silk, L. Stodolsky

Primordial black holes in the solar mass range are a possibly significant component of dark matter. We show how an argument relating the deflection of light by such black holes in the density spike likely to exist around the M87 supermassive black hole, combined with the high resolution observations of the EHT collaboration, can lead to a strong limits on th

Sajjad Nassirpour, Ilan Shomorony, Alireza Vahid

We study the problem of retrieving data from a channel that breaks the input sequence into a set of unordered fragments of random lengths, which we refer to as the chop-and-shuffle channel. The length of each fragment follows a geometric distribution. We propose nested Varshamov-Tenengolts (VT) codes to recover the data. We evaluate the error rate and the co

Samuel J. Swihart, Jay Strader, Elias Aydi, Laura Chomiuk

We have discovered a new X-ray emitting compact binary that is the likely counterpart to the unassociated Fermi-LAT GeV $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J1120.0-2204, the second brightest Fermi source that still remains formally unidentified. Using optical spectroscopy with the SOAR telescope, we have identified a warm ($T_{\textrm{eff}}\sim8500$ K) companion in a 1

A. A. Rota, C. F. Manara, A. Miotello, G. Lodato

The formation of multiple stellar systems is a natural by-product of the star-formation process, and its impact on the properties of protoplanetary discs and on the formation of planets is still to be fully understood. To date, no detailed uniform study of the gas emission from a sample of protoplanetary discs around multiple stellar systems has been perform

Brittany N. Vanderhoof, A. L. Faisst, L. Shen, B. C. Lemaux

We present $10$ main-sequence ALPINE galaxies (log($M/M_{\odot}$) = 9.2-11.1 and ${\rm SFR}=23-190\,{\rm M_{\odot}\,yr^{-1}}$) at $z\sim4.5$ with optical [OII] measurements from Keck/MOSFIRE spectroscopy and Subaru/MOIRCS narrow-band imaging. This is the largest such multi-wavelength sample at these redshifts, combining various measurements in the ultra-viol

Marcela Best, Cristobal Petrovich

The equator of star K2-290A was recently found to be inclined by 124+/-6 degrees relative to the orbits of both its known transiting planets. The presence of a companion star B at ~100 au suggested that the birth protoplanetary disk could have tilted, thus providing an explanation for the peculiar retrograde state of this multi-planet system. In this work, w

M. Sirressi, A. Adamo, M. Hayes, A. Bik

Star formation is a clustered process that regulates the structure and evolution of galaxies. We investigate this process in the dwarf galaxy Haro 11, forming stars in three knots (A, B, C). The exquisite resolution of HST imaging allows us to resolve the starburst into tens of bright star clusters. We derive masses between $10^5$ and $10^7\,\rm M_{\odot}$ a

Francesco Del Porro, Mario Herrero-Valea, Stefano Liberati, Marc Schneider

We discuss particle production in spacetimes endowed with a universal horizon in Einstein--Aether and Horava gravity. We argue that continuity and differentiability of the lapse function require the orientation of the foliation in the interior of the horizon to be reversed with respect to the exterior one. Unless this is allowed, interaction of gravitating s

Sougato Bose, Anupam Mazumdar, Martine Schut, Marko Toroš

This paper points out the importance of the quantum nature of the gravitational interaction with matter in a linearized theory of quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses (QGEM). We will show how the quantum interaction entangles the steady states of a closed system (eigenstates) of two test masses placed in the harmonic traps, and how such a quantum m

Helena Miton, Simon DeDeo

A wide variety of cultural practices take the form of "tacit" knowledge, where the rules and principles are neither obvious to an observer nor known explicitly by the practitioners. This poses a problem for cultural evolution: if beginners cannot simply imitate experts, and experts cannot simply say or demonstrate what they are doing, how can tacit knowledge

V. Pelgrims, E. Ntormousi, K. Tassis

In the context of cosmic microwave background polarization studies and the characterization of the Galactic foregrounds, the power spectrum analysis of the thermal dust polarization sky has led to intriguing evidence of an E/B asymmetry and a positive TE correlation. In this work, we produce synthesized dust polarization maps from a set of global magneto-hyd

ChuanLe Sun, Fuyudi Zhang, Fan Hu, Donglian Xu

Dimuon events induced by charm-quark productions from neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) processes have been studied in traditional DIS experiments for decades. The recent progress in neutrino telescopes makes it possible to search such dimuon events at energies far beyond laboratory scale. In this paper, we construct a simulation framework to calculat

Connor Bottrell, Maan Hani, Hossen Teimoorinia, David R. Patton

One of the central challenges to establishing the role of mergers in galaxy evolution is the selection of pure and complete merger samples in observations. In particular, while large and reasonably pure interacting galaxy pair samples can be obtained with relative ease via spectroscopic criteria, automated selection of post-coalescence merger remnants is res

Joonseok Hur, Diana P. L. Aude Craik, Ian Counts, Eugene Knyazev

Optical precision spectroscopy of isotope shifts can be used to test for new forces beyond the Standard Model, and to determine basic properties of atomic nuclei. We measure isotope shifts on the highly forbidden ${}^2S_{1/2} \rightarrow {}^2F_{7/2}$ octupole transition of trapped $^{168,170,172,174,176}$Yb ions. When combined with previous measurements in Y

Yang Peng

We introduce a new class of out-of-equilibrium noninteracting topological phases, the topological space-time crystals. These are time-dependent quantum systems which do not have discrete spatial translation symmetries, but instead are invariant under discrete space-time translations. Similar to the Floquet-Bloch systems, the space-time crystals can be descri

Nick Ekanger, Mukul Bhattacharya, Shunsaku Horiuchi

We study the nucleosynthesis products in neutrino-driven winds from rapidly rotating, highly magnetised and misaligned protomagnetars using the nuclear reaction network SkyNet. We adopt a semi-analytic parametrized model for the protomagnetar and systematically study the capabilities of its neutrino-driven wind for synthesizing nuclei and eventually producin

Sambit Roychowdhury, Martin J. Meyer, Jonghwan Rhee, Martin A. Zwaan

We measure how the atomic gas (HI) fraction ($f_{HI}={\rm \frac{M_{HI}}{M_{*}}}$) of groups and pairs taken as single units vary with average stellar mass ($\langle {\rm M_*} \rangle$) and average star-formation rate ($\langle {\rm SFR} \rangle$), compared to isolated galaxies. The HI 21 cm emission observation are from (i) archival ALFALFA survey data cover

Tetsuya Hashimoto, Tomotsugu Goto, Bo Han Chen, Simon C. -C. Ho

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond pulses in radio, most of which originate from distant galaxies. Revealing the origin of FRBs is becoming central in astronomy. The redshift evolution of the FRB energy function, i.e., the number density of FRB sources as a function of energy, provides important implications for the FRB progenitors. Here we

Yosef Nir, Inbar Savoray, Yehonatan Viernik

The LHCb experiment measured the time-dependent CP asymmetries $C_{KK}$ and $S_{KK}$ in $B_s\to K^+K^-$ decay. Combining with the corresponding CP asymmetries $C_{\pi\pi}$ and $S_{\pi\pi}$ in $B\to \pi^+\pi^-$ decay, we find that the size of $U$-spin breaking in this system is of order $20\%$. Moreover, the data suggest that these effects are dominated by fa

Daniel Junghans

We argue that dS vacua in the LARGE-volume scenario of type IIB string theory are vulnerable to various unsuppressed curvature, warping and $g_s$ corrections. We work out in general how these corrections affect the moduli vevs, the vacuum energy and the moduli masses in the 4D EFT for the two K\"ahler moduli, the conifold modulus and a nilpotent superfield d

Khyati Malhan, Monica Valluri, Katherine Freese, Rodrigo A. Ibata

The central density profiles in dwarf galaxy halos depend strongly on the nature of dark matter. Recently, in Malhan et al. (2021), we employed N-body simulations to show that the cuspy cold dark matter (CDM) subhalos predicted by cosmological simulations can be differentiated from cored subhalos using the properties of accreted globular cluster (GC) streams

Thomas G. Wilson, Elisa Goffo, Yann Alibert, Davide Gandolfi

We report the discovery and characterisation of a pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 (TIC 79748331), initially detected in TESS photometry. To characterise the system, we performed and retrieved CHEOPS, TESS, and ground-based photometry, HARPS high-resolution spectroscopy, and Gemini speckle imaging. We characterise the host star and

Kwinten Fransen, Daniel R. Mayerson

The equatorial symmetry of the Kerr black hole is generically broken in models of quantum gravity. Nevertheless, most phenomenological models start from the assumption of equatorial symmetry, and little attention has been given to the observability of this smoking gun signature of beyond-GR physics. Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in particular, are kn

Arpit Dua, Tomas Jochym-O'Connor, Guanyu Zhu

Recently, a class of fractal surface codes (FSCs), has been constructed on fractal lattices with Hausdorff dimension $2+\epsilon$, which admits a fault-tolerant non-Clifford CCZ gate. We investigate the performance of such FSCs as fault-tolerant quantum memories. We prove that there exist decoding strategies with non-zero thresholds for bit-flip and phase-fl

Robert J. J. Grand, Simon D. M. White

We compare the surface brightness profile and morphology of the Galactic Centre Excess (GCE) identified in wide-angle $\gamma$-ray maps from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope to dark matter annihilation predictions derived from high-resolution $\Lambda$CDM magnetohydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation. These simulations produce isolated, disc-dominated ga

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams

We report a search for nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) using eight years of TeV-scale atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. By reconstructing incident energies and zenith angles for atmospheric neutrino events, this analysis presents unified confidence intervals for the NSI parameter $\epsilon_{\mu \tau}$. The best-fit

Xiaoyang Huang, Andrew Lucas

We develop a hydrodynamic effective field theory on the Schwinger-Keldysh contour for fluids with charge, energy, and momentum conservation, but only discrete rotational symmetry. The consequences of anisotropy on thermodynamics and first-order dissipative hydrodynamics are detailed in some simple examples in two spatial dimensions, but our construction exte

Prerak Garg, Desika Narayanan, Nell Byler, Ryan L. Sanders

The Baldwin, Philips, & Terlevich diagram of [O III]/H$\beta$ vs. [N II]/H$\alpha$ (hereafter N2-BPT) has long been used as a tool for classifying galaxies based on the dominant source of ionizing radiation. Recent observations have demonstrated that galaxies at $z\sim2$ reside offset from local galaxies in the N2-BPT space. In this paper, we conduct a serie

J. Ryan Peterson, Siegfried Glenzer, Frederico Fiuza

Plasma streaming instabilities play an important role in magnetic field amplification and particle acceleration in relativistic shocks and their environments. However, in the far shock precursor region where accelerated particles constitute a highly relativistic and dilute beam, streaming instabilities typically become inefficient and operate at very small s

Boyi Li, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Serge Belongie, Vladlen Koltun

We present LSeg, a novel model for language-driven semantic image segmentation. LSeg uses a text encoder to compute embeddings of descriptive input labels (e.g., "grass" or "building") together with a transformer-based image encoder that computes dense per-pixel embeddings of the input image. The image encoder is trained with a contrastive objective to align

Zhuang Liu, Hanzi Mao, Chao-Yuan Wu, Christoph Feichtenhofer

The "Roaring 20s" of visual recognition began with the introduction of Vision Transformers (ViTs), which quickly superseded ConvNets as the state-of-the-art image classification model. A vanilla ViT, on the other hand, faces difficulties when applied to general computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. It is the hierarchical T

Alexander Pan, Kush Bhatia, Jacob Steinhardt

Reward hacking -- where RL agents exploit gaps in misspecified reward functions -- has been widely observed, but not yet systematically studied. To understand how reward hacking arises, we construct four RL environments with misspecified rewards. We investigate reward hacking as a function of agent capabilities: model capacity, action space resolution, obser

Furkan Gürsoy, Bertan Badur

Human migration patterns influence the redistribution of population characteristics over the geography and since such distributions are closely related to social and economic outcomes, investigating the structure and dynamics of internal migration plays a crucial role in understanding and designing policies for such systems. We provide an in-depth investigat

Jacques Darné, Martin Palmer, Arthur Soulié

Understanding the lower central series of a group is, in general, a difficult task. It is, however, a rewarding one: computing the lower central series and the associated Lie algebras of a group or of some of its subgroups can lead to a deep understanding of the underlying structure of that group. Our goal here is to showcase several techniques aimed at carr

Ram Brustein, Yoav Zigdon

In string theory, a thermal state is described by compactifying Euclidean time on a thermal circle $S^{1}_{\beta}$, of fixed circumference. However, this circumference is a dynamical field which could vary in space, therefore thermal equilibrium is not guaranteed. We discuss a thermal state of type II string theory near and above the Hagedorn temperature and

Yue Wu, Shimon Kolkowitz, Shruti Puri, Jeff D Thompson

Executing quantum algorithms on error-corrected logical qubits is a critical step for scalable quantum computing, but the requisite numbers of qubits and physical error rates are demanding for current experimental hardware. Recently, the development of error correcting codes tailored to particular physical noise models has helped relax these requirements. In

Mushahid Khan, Jean Paul Latyr Faye, Udson C. Mendes, Andriy Miranskyy

Machine learning (ML) classification tasks can be carried out on a quantum computer (QC) using Probabilistic Quantum Memory (PQM) and its extension, Parameteric PQM (P-PQM) by calculating the Hamming distance between an input pattern and a database of $r$ patterns containing $z$ features with $a$ distinct attributes. For accurate computations, the feature mu

Linxiao Chen

This paper presents a multivariate generalization of Flajolet and Odlyzko's transfer theorem. Similarly to the univariate version, the theorem assumes $\Delta$-analyticity (defined coordinate-wise) of a function $A(z_1,\ldots,z_d)$ at a unique dominant singularity $(\rho_1,\ldots,\rho_d) \in (\mathbb C_*)^d$, and allows one to translate, on a term-by-term ba

João G. Ribeiro, Cassandro Martinho, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo

In this paper, we present a novel Bayesian online prediction algorithm for the problem setting of ad hoc teamwork under partial observability (ATPO), which enables on-the-fly collaboration with unknown teammates performing an unknown task without needing a pre-coordination protocol. Unlike previous works that assume a fully observable state of the environmen

Hadas Benisty, Alexander Song, Gal Mishne, Adam S. Charles

Functional optical imaging in neuroscience is rapidly growing with the development of new optical systems and fluorescence indicators. To realize the potential of these massive spatiotemporal datasets for relating neuronal activity to behavior and stimuli and uncovering local circuits in the brain, accurate automated processing is increasingly essential. In

Allen Scheie, Pontus Laurell, Bella Lake, Stephen E. Nagler

Traditional spectroscopy, by its very nature, characterizes properties of physical systems in the momentum and frequency domains. The most interesting and potentially practically useful quantum many-body effects however emerge from the deep composition of local, short-time correlations. Here, using inelastic neutron scattering and methods of integrability, w

Shiva Maleki, Ali Mohades

Victor Klee introduce the art gallery problem during a conference in Stanford in August 1976 with that question: "How many guards are required to guard an art gallery?" In 1987, Ghosh provided an approximation algorithm for vertex guards problem that achieved $ O(\log n) $ approximation ratio. In 2017, Bhattacharya et. al presented an approximation algorithm

Alex Kruckman, Minh Chieu Tran, Erik Walsberg

We study interpolative fusion, a method of combining theories $T_1$ and $T_2$ in distinct languages in a "generic" way over a common reduct $T_\cap$, to obtain a theory $T_\cup^*$. When each $T_i$ is model-complete, $T_\cup^*$ is the model companion of the union $T_1\cup T_2$. Our goal is to prove preservation results, i.e., to find sufficient conditions und

Uri Shaham, Elad Segal, Maor Ivgi, Avia Efrat

NLP benchmarks have largely focused on short texts, such as sentences and paragraphs, even though long texts comprise a considerable amount of natural language in the wild. We introduce SCROLLS, a suite of tasks that require reasoning over long texts. We examine existing long-text datasets, and handpick ones where the text is naturally long, while prioritizi

Matthew C. Nixon, Nikku Madhusudhan

Atmospheric retrievals of exoplanet transmission spectra allow constraints on the composition and structure of the day-night terminator region. Such retrievals in the past have typically assumed one-dimensional temperature structures which were adequate to explain extant observations. However, the increasing data quality expected from exoplanet spectroscopy

Kasia S. Chmielinski, Sarah Newman, Matt Taylor, Josh Joseph

As the production of and reliance on datasets to produce automated decision-making systems (ADS) increases, so does the need for processes for evaluating and interrogating the underlying data. After launching the Dataset Nutrition Label in 2018, the Data Nutrition Project has made significant updates to the design and purpose of the Label, and is launching a