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  1. Rebecca L. Jayne, Kailash C. Misra

    Consider the affine Lie algebra $\hat{s\ell}(n)$ with null root $\delta$, weight lattice $P$ and set of dominant weights $P^+$. Let $V(k\Lambda_0), \, k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 1}$ denote the integrable highest weight $\hat{s\ell}(n)$-module with level $k \geq 1$ highest weight $k\Lambda_0$. Let $wt(V)$ denote the set of weights of $V(k\Lambda_0)$. A weight $\m

  2. Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper

    We present tile2tile, an approach for style transfer between levels of tile-based platformer games. Our method involves training models that translate levels from a lower-resolution sketch representation based on tile affordances to the original tile representation for a given game. This enables these models, which we refer to as filters, to translate level

  3. Elias Trommer, Bernd Waschneck, Akash Kumar

    This work explores the search for heterogeneous approximate multiplier configurations for neural networks that produce high accuracy and low energy consumption. We discuss the validity of additive Gaussian noise added to accurate neural network computations as a surrogate model for behavioral simulation of approximate multipliers. The continuous and differen

  4. Björn J. R. Davidsson, Sona Hosseini

    The observed presence of water molecules in the dayside lunar regolith was an unexpected discovery and remains poorly understood. Standard thermophysical models predict temperatures that are too high for adsorbed water to be stable. We propose that this problem can be caused by the assumption of locally flat surfaces that is common in such models. Here we ap

  5. Joseph M. Monti, Joel T. Clemmer, Ishan Srivastava, Leonardo E. Silbert

    Due to significant computational expense, discrete element method simulations of jammed packings of size-dispersed spheres with size ratios greater than 1:10 have remained elusive, limiting the correspondence between simulations and real-world granular materials with large size dispersity. Invoking a recently developed neighbor binning algorithm, we generate

  6. Blaž Škrlj, Boshko Koloski, Senja Pollak

    Efficiently identifying keyphrases that represent a given document is a challenging task. In the last years, plethora of keyword detection approaches were proposed. These approaches can be based on statistical (frequency-based) properties of e.g., tokens, specialized neural language models, or a graph-based structure derived from a given document. The graph-

  7. Mathew D. Hardy, Bill D. Thompson, P. M. Krafft, Thomas L. Griffiths

    Large-scale social networks are thought to contribute to polarization by amplifying people's biases. However, the complexity of these technologies makes it difficult to identify the mechanisms responsible and to evaluate mitigation strategies. Here we show under controlled laboratory conditions that information transmission through social networks amplifies

  8. A. Bhullar, R. A. Ali, D. L. Welch

    Context. The so-called "light echoes" of supernovae - the apparent motion of outburst-illuminated interstellar dust - can be detected in astronomical difference images; however, light echoes are extremely rare which makes manual detection an arduous task. Surveys for centuries-old supernova light echoes can involve hundreds of pointings of wide-field imagers

  9. Yue Yu, Kartik Nagpal, Skye Mceowen, Behçet Açıkmeşe

    One of the keys to flying quadrotors is to optimize their trajectories within the set of collision-free corridors. These corridors impose nonconvex constraints on the trajectories, making real-time trajectory optimization challenging. We introduce a novel numerical method that approximates the nonconvex corridor constraints with time-triggered convex corrido

  10. Laura Colmenarejo, Rosa Orellana, Franco Saliola, Anne Schilling

    Composing two representations of the general linear groups gives rise to Littlewood's (outer) plethysm. On the level of characters, this poses the question of finding the Schur expansion of the plethysm of two Schur functions. A combinatorial interpretation for the Schur expansion coefficients of the plethysm of two Schur functions is, in general, still an o

  11. D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzyński, C. Galan, J. Southworth

    Surface brightness -- colour relations (SBCRs) are very useful tools for predicting the angular diameters of stars. They offer the possibility to calculate very precise spectrophotometric distances by the eclipsing binary method or the Baade-Wesselink method. Double-lined Detached Eclipsing Binary stars (SB2 DEBs) with precisely known trigonometric parallaxe

  12. Chia Hong Tseng, Jie Zhang, Min-Te Sun, Kazuya Sakai

    Reasoning about vehicle path prediction is an essential and challenging problem for the safe operation of autonomous driving systems. There exist many research works for path prediction. However, most of them do not use lane information and are not based on the Transformer architecture. By utilizing different types of data collected from sensors equipped on

  13. Hiroki Isobe, Naoto Nagaosa

    The relativistic Dirac equation covers the fundamentals of electronic phenomena in solids and as such it effectively describes the electronic states of the topological insulators like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$. Topological insulators feature gapless surface states and, moreover, magnetic doping and resultant ferromagnetic ordering break time-reversal sym

  14. Bryce T. Bolin, T. Ahumada, P. van Dokkum, C. Fremling

    Near-Earth asteroid population models predict the existence of bodies located inside the orbit of Venus. Despite searches up to the end of 2019, none had been found. We report discovery and follow-up observations of (594913) 'Ayl\'o'chaxnim, an asteroid with an orbit entirely interior to Venus. (594913) 'Ayl\'o'chaxnim has an aphelion distance of ~0.65 au, i

  15. Emily Adlam, Niels Linnemann, James Read

    The Ehlers-Pirani-Schild (EPS) constructive axiomatisation of general relativity, published in 1972, purports to build up the kinematical structure of that theory from only axioms which have indubitable empirical content. It is, therefore, of profound significance both to the epistemology and to the metaphysics of spacetime theories. In this article, we cons

  16. Raffaella Mulas, Giulio Zucal

    Inspired by the notion of action convergence in graph limit theory, we introduce a measure-theoretic representation of matrices, and we use it to define a new notion of pseudo-metric on the space of matrices. Moreover, we show that such pseudo-metric is a metric on the subspace of adjacency or Laplacian matrices for graphs. Hence, in particular, we obtain a

  17. Florian Metzler, Camden Hunt, Nicola Galvanetto

    We investigate known mechanisms for enhancing nuclear fusion rates at ambient temperatures and pressures in solid-state environments. In deuterium fusion, on which the paper is focused, an enhancement of >40 orders of magnitude would be needed to achieve observable fusion. We find that mechanisms for fusion rate enhancement up to 30 orders of magnitude each

  18. Nicolàs de Hilster, Siebren van der Werf

    Using the convolution of seeing and diffraction, the relation between seeing and aperture in the visibility of sunspots is explored. It is shown that even telescopes with apertures smaller than 5 centimetres are significantly affected by seeing. Although larger aperture instruments suffer more from seeing than smaller ones, their level of detail always remai

  19. Kody Law, Neil Walton, Shangda Yang

    We analyze the behavior of stochastic approximation algorithms where iterates, in expectation, progress towards an objective at each step. When progress is proportional to the step size of the algorithm, we prove exponential concentration bounds. These tail-bounds contrast asymptotic normality results, which are more frequently associated with stochastic app

  20. Eric D'Hoker, Justin Kaidi

    The goal of these lectures is to present an informal but precise introduction to a body of concepts and methods of interest in number theory and string theory revolving around modular forms and their generalizations. Modular invariance lies at the heart of conformal field theory, string perturbation theory, Montonen-Olive duality, Seiberg-Witten theory, and

  21. Luke Sperling, Nalini Ratha, Arun Ross, Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

    This paper proposes a non-interactive end-to-end solution for secure fusion and matching of biometric templates using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Given a pair of encrypted feature vectors, we perform the following ciphertext operations, i) feature concatenation, ii) fusion and dimensionality reduction through a learned linear projection, iii) scale n

  22. Jiaxuan You, Tianyu Du, Jure Leskovec

    Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied to many real-world static graphs. However, the success of static graphs has not fully translated to dynamic graphs due to the limitations in model design, evaluation settings, and training strategies. Concretely, existing dynamic GNNs do not incorporate state-of-the-art designs from static GNNs, whi

  23. Alessio Caminata, Yairon Cid-Ruiz, Aldo Conca

    We study several properties of multihomogeneous prime ideals. We show that the multigraded generic initial ideal of a prime has very special properties, for instance, its radical is Cohen-Macaulay. We develop a comprehensive study of multidegrees in arbitrary positive multigraded settings. In these environments, we extend the notion of Cartwright-Sturmfels i

  24. Kiran Sharma, Aryabrat Mahapatra, Prasanta K. Panigrahi, Sudhanwa Patra

    Quantum mechanics has always proven emphatically as one of the main cornerstones in all of science since its inception. Initially, it has also faced many skeptics from many scientific proponents of its complete description of reality. However, John Bell once devised a theorem on quantitative grounds to show how local realism is expressed in quantum mechanics

  25. Liang Li, Chenpei Huang, Dian Shi, Hao Wang

    Federated learning (FL) enables mobile devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping data locally. However, there are two major research challenges to practically deploy FL over mobile devices: (i) frequent wireless updates of huge size gradients v.s. limited spectrum resources, and (ii) energy-hungry FL communication and local com

  26. Ellen Piercy, Willy Verstraete, Peter R. Ellis, Johan Rockström

    A waste-to-protein system that integrates a range of waste-to-protein upgrading technologies has the potential to converge innovations on zero-waste and protein security to ensure a sustainable protein future. We present a global overview of food-safe and feed-safe waste resource potential and technologies to sort and transform such waste streams with compos

  27. Gustavo Castelo Branco, M. N. Rebelo

    In this talk we emphasise the importance of vector-like quarks (VLQs) and their potential to solve some of the open questions of the Standard Model. These are, in some sense minimal extensions of the Standard Model, that can be probed in the next round of experiments. We also make an analogy between vector-like quarks(VLQs) and right-handed neutrinos, emphas

  28. Daqing Piao

    We demonstrate a new near-analytical path to the threshold-size of random-lasing for the case of a uniform and isotropic-scattering sphere. We assess a geometric-distribution-probability (GDP) weighted integration of the diffusion-equation derived time-dependent photon fluence-rate at a spherical boundary, in response to uniform, synchronous, and Delta-funct

  29. Vladimir Lenok, Frank G. Schröder

    Digital radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers has emerged as an alternative technique in high-energy astroparticle physics. Estimation of the detection efficiency of cosmic-ray radio arrays is one of the few remaining challenges regarding this technique. To address this problem, we developed a model based on the explicit probabilistic treatment of key el

  30. Bruce Allen, Joseph D. Romano

    Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) detect gravitational waves (GWs) via the correlations they induce in the arrival times of pulses from different pulsars. We assume that the GWs are described by a Gaussian ensemble. The mean correlation $h^2 \mu_{\rm u}(\gamma)$ as a function of the angle $\gamma$ between the directions to two pulsars was predicted by Hellings and

  31. Wei Wang, Zhidan Yan, Lihuan Mao

    The walk matrix of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with adjacency matrix $A$, denoted by $W(G)$, is $[e,Ae,\ldots,A^{n-1}e]$, where $e$ is the all-ones vector. Let $G\circ P_m$ be the rooted product of $G$ and a rooted path $P_m$ (taking an endvertex as the root), i.e., $G\circ P_m$ is a graph obtained from $G$ and $n$ copies of $P_m$ by identifying each vertex of $

  32. Bing Wang, Lu Chen, Bo Yang

    In this paper, we study the problem of 3D scene geometry decomposition and manipulation from 2D views. By leveraging the recent implicit neural representation techniques, particularly the appealing neural radiance fields, we introduce an object field component to learn unique codes for all individual objects in 3D space only from 2D supervision. The key to t

  33. Yiran Cheng, Zhiyuan Li, Haoyu Wu

    Mukai's program seeks to recover a K3 surface $X$ from any curve $C$ on it by exhibiting it as a Fourier-Mukai partner to a Brill-Noether locus of vector bundles on the curve. In the case $X$ has Picard number one and the curve $C\in |H|$ is primitive, this was confirmed by Feyzbakhsh for $g\geq 11$ and $g\neq 12$. More recently, Feyzbakhsh has shown that ce

  34. Étienne Jussiau, Léa Bresque, Alexia Auffèves, Kater W. Murch

    We propose a many-body quantum engine powered by the energy difference between the entangled ground state of the interacting system and local separable states. Performing local energy measurements on an interacting many-body system can produce excited states from which work can be extracted via local feedback operations. These measurements reveal the quantum

  35. Manon P. Bart, Nicholas J. Savino, Paras Regmi, Lior Cohen

    Atmospheric effects, such as turbulence and background thermal noise, inhibit the propagation of coherent light used in ON-OFF keying free-space optical communication. Here we present and experimentally validate a convolutional neural network to reduce the bit error rate of free-space optical communication in post-processing that is significantly simpler and

  36. S. V. Astashkin

    A subspace $H$ of a rearrangement invariant space $X$ on $[0,1]$ is strongly embedded in $X$ if, in $H$, convergence in $X$-norm is equivalent to convergence in measure. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on an Orlicz function $M$, under which the unit ball of an arbitrary strongly embedded subspace in the Orlicz space $L_M$ has equi-absolutely co

  37. Hyun Keun Lee, Hyunsuk Hong, Joonhyun Yeo

    We present an improved and more accurate numerical scheme for a generalization of the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators to the three-dimensional space. The present numerical scheme relies crucially on our observation that the generalized Kuramoto model corresponds to particles on the unit sphere undergoing rigid body rotations with position-depende

  38. Hengyu Zhou

    In this paper, we apply a blow-up method of Schoen and Yau in \cite{SY81} to study a large class of prescribed mean curvature (PMC) Dirichlet problems in $n(n\geq 2)$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. In this process we establish curvature estimates for almost minimizing PMC hypersurfaces, using an approach of Schauder estimates from Simon \cite{Sim76}. We d

  39. Dexi Shao, Junze Deng, Haohao Sheng, Ruihan Zhang

    Two-dimensional (2D) materials have gained lots of attention due to the potential applications. In this work, we propose that based on first-principles calculations, the (2$\times$2) patterned PtTe$_2$ monolayer with kagome lattice formed by the well-ordered Te vacancy (PtTe$_{1.75}$) hosts large spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and excellent hydrogen evolution

  40. T. Angsachon, K. Ruenearom

    In this work, we investigate thermodynamic properties and Hawking-Page phase transition of a black hole in the Schwarzschil-Anti-de Sitter-Beltrami (SAdSB) spacetime. We discuss the Beltrami or inertial coordinates of the Anti-de Sitter(AdS) spacetime. Transformation between the non-inertial and inertial coordinates of the AdS spacetime is formulated to cons

  41. Flávio Coutinho, Luiz Chaimowicz

    Iterating on creating pixel art character sprite sheets is essential to the game development process. However, it can take a lot of effort until the final versions containing different poses and animation clips are achieved. This paper investigates using conditional generative adversarial networks to aid the designers in creating such sprite sheets. We propo

  42. Bakht Hussain, Shahid Qamar, Muhammad Irfan

    We propose a method to enhance bipartite and tripartite entanglement in cavity magnomechanics using an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). We analyze this system and identified parametric regimes where different types of entanglement are enhanced. We show that a proper choice of the phase of the parametric amplifier leads to the enhancement of the bipartite

  43. Francesco Giovanni Celiberto, Michael Fucilla

    We present a novel study on the inclusive production of a heavy quarkonium ($J/\psi$ or $\Upsilon$), in association with a light-flavored jet, as a test field of the high-energy QCD dynamics. The large transverse momenta at which the two final-state objects are detected permits us to perform an analysis in the spirit of the variable-flavor number scheme (VFN

  44. Robert J. Anderson, Charles C. J. Scott, George H. Booth

    We extend the scope of full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) to be applied to coupled fermion-boson hamiltonians, alleviating the a priori truncation in boson occupation which is necessary for many other wave function based approaches to be tractable. Detailing the required algorithmic changes for efficient excitation generation, we app

  45. Zi-Wei Lin, Todd Mendenhall

    The finite nuclear thickness affects the energy density $\epsilon(t)$ and conserved-charge densities such as the net-baryon density $n_B(t)$ produced in heavy ion collisions. While the effect is small at high collision energies where the Bjorken energy density formula for the initial state is valid, the effect is large at low collision energies, where the nu

  46. Zepeng Huai, Zhe Wang, Yifan Zhu, Peng Zhang

    Paper recommendation with user-generated keyword is to suggest papers that simultaneously meet user's interests and are relevant to the input keyword. This is a recommendation task with two queries, a.k.a. user ID and keyword. However, existing methods focus on recommendation according to one query, a.k.a. user ID, and are not applicable to solving this prob

  47. Petar Maksimović, Caroline Cronjäger, Andreas Lööw, Julian Sutherland

    Over-approximating (OX) program logics, such as separation logic (SL), are used for verifying properties of heap-manipulating programs: all terminating behaviour is characterised, but established results and errors need not be reachable. OX function specifications are thus incompatible with true bug-finding supported by symbolic execution tools such as Pulse

  48. Duc A. Hoang

    For a fixed positive integer $d \geq 2$, a distance-$d$ independent set (D$d$IS) of a graph is a vertex subset whose distance between any two members is at least $d$. Imagine that there is a token placed on each member of a D$d$IS. Two D$d$ISs are adjacent under Token Sliding ($\mathsf{TS}$) if one can be obtained from the other by moving a token from one ve

  49. Eileen Sophie Giesel, Basundhara Ghosh, Björn Malte Schäfer

    The Etherington distance duality relation is well-established for metric theories of gravity, and confirms the duality between the luminosity distance and the angular diameter distance through the conservation of surface brightness. A violation of the Etherington distance duality due to lensing in a non-metric spacetime would lead to fluctuations in surface

  50. Chenhao Xu, Youyang Qu, Tom H. Luan, Peter W. Eklund

    Since the traffic conditions change over time, machine learning models that predict traffic flows must be updated continuously and efficiently in smart public transportation. Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning scheme that allows buses to receive model updates without waiting for model training on the cloud. However, FL is vulnerable to

  51. Hannah Bast, Matthias Hertel, Natalie Prange

    We present Elevant, a tool for the fully automatic fine-grained evaluation of a set of entity linkers on a set of benchmarks. Elevant provides an automatic breakdown of the performance by various error categories and by entity type. Elevant also provides a rich and compact, yet very intuitive and self-explanatory visualization of the results of a linker on a

  52. Jannes Nys, Giuseppe Carleo

    Local Hamiltonians of fermionic systems on a lattice can be mapped onto local qubit Hamiltonians. Maintaining the locality of the operators comes at the expense of increasing the Hilbert space with auxiliary degrees of freedom. In order to retrieve the lower-dimensional physical Hilbert space that represents fermionic degrees of freedom, one must satisfy a s

  53. Roldao da Rocha

    Electromagnetic transitions involving nucleons and their resonances are here presented in the fermionic sector of the AdS/QCD soft-wall model, using the differential configurational entropy (DCE) as a measure of information entropy. The DCE is employed to derive adjustable parameters that define the minimal and nonminimal couplings in the nuclear interaction

  54. Kahraman Kostas, Rabia Yasa Kostas, Francisco Zampella, Firas Alsehly

    In recent years WiFi became the primary source of information to locate a person or device indoor. Collecting RSSI values as reference measurements with known positions, known as WiFi fingerprinting, is commonly used in various positioning methods and algorithms that appear in literature. However, measuring the spatial distance between given set of WiFi fing

  55. Zizhen Liu, Si Chen, Jing Ye, Junfeng Fan

    Secure aggregation is widely used in horizontal Federated Learning (FL), to prevent leakage of training data when model updates from data owners are aggregated. Secure aggregation protocols based on Homomorphic Encryption (HE) have been utilized in industrial cross-silo FL systems, one of the settings involved with privacy-sensitive organizations such as fin

  56. Liviu Ornea, Misha Verbitsky

    An LCK (locally conformally Kahler) manifold is a complex manifold admitting a Kahler covering with monodromy acting by homotheties. Hopf manifolds and their submanifolds are the prime examples. This book presents an introduction to the principles of LCK geometry (the first two parts) and its current situation (the last part). It is supposed to be accessible

  57. Tongrui Wang

    Given a compact Riemannian manifold $M^{n+1}$ with dimension $3\leq n+1\leq 7$ and $\partial M\neq\emptyset$, the free boundary min-max theory built by Martin Man-Chun Li and Xin Zhou shows the existence of a smooth almost properly embedded minimal hypersurface with free boundary in $\partial M$. In this paper, we generalize their constructions into equivari

  58. Dongdong Wei, Yun Jiang

    In the first-order phase transitions (PTs) colliding bubble is an important gravitational wave (GW) source. Following bubble collision, domain walls can be formed when degenerate vacua occur as a result of the breaking of a discrete symmetry relevant to new physics at electroweak or higher scales. Using lattice simulations, we study the dynamical evolution o

  59. Rico Schrage, Paul Hendrik Tiemann, Astrid Nieße

    The distributed schedule optimization of energy storage constitutes a challenge. Such algorithms often expect an input set containing all feasible schedules or respectively require to efficiently search the schedule space. It is hardly possible to accomplish this with energy storage due to its high flexibility. In this paper, the problem is introduced in det

  60. David Ziemkiewicz, Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska

    We investigate the propagation of surface plasmons (SPPs) in a thin layer of copper surrounded by copper oxide Cu$_2$O. It is shown that particularly strong excitons in Cu$_2$O can have considerable impact on plasmon propagation, providing many opportunities for plasmon-exciton and plasmon-plasmon interactions. It is demonstrated that by the use of sufficien

  61. Shaul Barkan, Rune Haugseng, Jan Steinebrunner

    We generalize Lurie's construction of the symmetric monoidal envelope of an $\infty$-operad to the setting of algebraic patterns. This envelope becomes fully faithful when sliced over the envelope of the terminal object, and we characterize its essential image. Using this, we prove a comparison result that allows us to compare analogues of $\infty$-operads o

  62. C. P. Lee, N. D. R. Bhat, M. Sokolowski, N. A. Swainston

    We present the first observational study of pulsars performed with the second-generation precursor stations to the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA-Low): the Aperture Array Verification System 2 (AAVS2) and the Engineering Development Array 2 (EDA2). Using the SKA-Low stations, we have observed 100 southern-sky pulsars between 70-35

  63. Hong Peng, Chen Jiang, Jing Cheng, Minghui Zhang

    Magnetic resonance imaging serves as an essential tool for clinical diagnosis. However, it suffers from a long acquisition time. The utilization of deep learning, especially the deep generative models, offers aggressive acceleration and better reconstruction in magnetic resonance imaging. Nevertheless, learning the data distribution as prior knowledge and re

  64. Norine Coenen, Bernd Finkbeiner, Jana Hofmann, Julia Tillman

    Smart contracts are small but highly security-critical programs that implement wallets, token systems, auctions, crowd funding systems, elections, and other multi-party transactions on the blockchain. A broad range of methods has been developed to ensure that a smart contract is functionally correct. However, smart contracts often additionally need to satisf

  65. Emily P. Longley, Chihway Chang, Christopher W. Walter, Joe Zuntz

    Cosmological parameter constraints from recent galaxy imaging surveys are reaching $2-3\%$-level accuracy. The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will produce sub-percent level measurements of cosmological parameters, providing a milestone test of the $\Lambda$CDM model. To supply guidance to the upcoming LSST an

  66. Matthew Groh, Craig Ferguson, Robert Lewis, Rosalind Picard

    How does empathy influence creative problem solving? We introduce a computational empathy intervention based on context-specific affective mimicry and perspective taking by a virtual agent appearing in the form of a well-dressed polar bear. In an online experiment with 1,006 participants randomly assigned to an emotion elicitation intervention (with a contro

  67. Wenting Wang, Ping-Keng Lu, Abhinav Kumar Vinod, Deniz Turan

    High spectral purity frequency agile room temperature sources in the terahertz spectrum are foundational elements for imaging, sensing, metrology, and communications. Here we present a chip scale optical parametric oscillator based on an integrated nonlinear microresonator that provides broadly tunable single frequency and multi frequency oscillators in the

  68. Andrés Córdoba, Joan M. Montes de Oca, Johnson Dhanasekaran, Seth B. Darling

    Bipolar nanochannels comprising two domains of positively and negatively charged walls along the pore axis are known to rectify current when exposed to an electric potential bias. We find that addition of charged nanoparticles can increase rectification considerably, by approximately one order of magnitude. Two bipolar channel geometries are considered here;

  69. Gerd Grubb

    This is a survey on the use of Fourier transformation methods in the treatment of boundary problems for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^a$ (0<a<1), and pseudodifferential generalizations P, over a bounded open set $\Omega$ in $R^n$. The presentation starts at an elementary level. Two points are explained in detail: 1) How the factor $d^a$, with $d(x)=dis

  70. Han Wu, Sareh Rowlands, Johan Wahlstrom

    Object detection systems using deep learning models have become increasingly popular in robotics thanks to the rising power of CPUs and GPUs in embedded systems. However, these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks. While some attacks are limited by strict assumptions on access to the detection system, we propose a novel hardware attack inspired by M

  71. Stephan Baier, Arkaprava Bhandari

    Keating and Rudnick derived asymptotic formulas for the variances of primes in arithmetic progressions and short intervals in the function field setting. Here we consider the hybrid problem of calculating the variance of primes in intersections of arithmetic progressions and short intervals. Keating and Rudnick used an involution to translate short intervals

  72. Luiz P. de Oliveira, Alexandre P. S. Souza, Frederico A. Genezini, Adimir dos Santos

    Neutron imaging is a non-destructive technique for analyzing a wide class of samples, such as archaeological or industrial material structures. In recent decades, technological advances have had a great impact on the neutron imaging technique, which has meant an evolution from simple radiographs using films (2D) to modern tomography systems with digital proc

  73. Hiroki Nakai, Masataka Kawano, Chisa Hotta

    Chiral symmetry in energy bands appears as perfectly symmetric anti-bonding and bonding pairs of energy levels. It has only been observed in a few classes of models with a bipartite lattice structure or Bogoliubov-de-Gennes systems having the pairwise basis. We show that the non-bipartite kagome and pyrochlore lattices can host chiral symmetric bands when th

  74. Victor Pretti

    We provide a systematic way of calculating a quiver region associated to a given exceptional collection, which as an application is used to prove that $\mu$-stable sheaves represented by $2$-step complexes are Bridgeland stable. In the later sections, we focus on the case of even rank $2$ instantons over $\mathbb{P}^3$ and $Q_3$ to prove that the instanton s

  75. Carole H. Sudre, Kimberlin Van Wijnen, Florian Dubost, Hieab Adams

    Imaging markers of cerebral small vessel disease provide valuable information on brain health, but their manual assessment is time-consuming and hampered by substantial intra- and interrater variability. Automated rating may benefit biomedical research, as well as clinical assessment, but diagnostic reliability of existing algorithms is unknown. Here, we pre

  76. Bo Xu, Pengcheng Zhang, Jiankai Zhu, Zuheng Liu

    The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and inspired researchers to venture to new grounds. Scientific feats and technological milestones of miniaturization of mechanical structures have been widely accomplished by advances in mach

  77. Xuejing Lan, Junda Chen, Zhijia Zhao, Tao Zou

    Cooperative guidance of multiple missiles is a challenging task with rigorous constraints of time and space consensus, especially when attacking dynamic targets. In this paper, the cooperative guidance task is described as a distributed multi-objective cooperative optimization problem. To address the issues of non-stationarity and continuous control faced by

  78. Hongwu Liu, Kyeong Jin Kim, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Bruno Clerckx

    In this paper, we propose a cognitive radio-inspired rate-splitting multiple access (CR-RSMA) scheme to assist semi-grant-free (SGF) transmissions in which a grant-based user (GBU) and multiple grant-free users (GFUs) access the base-station (BS) by sharing the same resource block. Using the cognitive radio principle, the GBU and admitted GFU are treated as

  79. Gabriela Ileana Sebe, Dan Lascu

    We present and develop different approaches to study the asymptotic behavior of the distribution functions in the odd continued fractions case. Firstly, by considering the transition operator of the Markov chain associated with these expansions on a certain Banach space of complex-valued functions of bounded variation we make a brief survey of the solution i

  80. Sebastian Wuchterl

    For standard model (SM) processes involving top quarks, such as top quark-antiquark pair production or single top quark production, the theoretical predictions depend on fundamental parameters of the SM like the top quark mass. Using the large data sample collected at the CERN LHC in the second data-taking period by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, these param

  81. Taras Radul

    A characterization of t-normed integrals was obtained in \cite{CLM} for finite compacta and in \cite{Rad} for the general case. Such characterization establishes a correspondence between the space of capacities and homogeneous respect t-norm monotone normed functionals preserving the maximum operation of comonotone functions. In fact these theorems we can co

  82. Zhixiong Chen, Wenqiang Yi, Atm S. Alam, Arumugam Nallanathan

    In multi-access edge computing (MEC), most existing task software caching works focus on statically caching data at the network edge, which may hardly preserve high reusability due to the time-varying user requests in practice. To this end, this work considers dynamic task software caching at the MEC server to assist users' task execution. Specifically, we f

  83. Yohei Sakurai

    In this note, we study the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps from strongly rectifiable spaces into regular balls in $\CAT(1)$ space. Under the setting, we prove that the Korevaar-Schoen energy admits a unique minimizer.

  84. Rene Hudec, Charly Feldman

    This chapter describes the history, principles, and recent developments of large field of view X-ray optics based on lobster eye designs. Most of grazing incidence (reflective) X-ray imaging systems used in astronomy and other applications, are based on the Wolter 1 (or modified) arrangement. But there are also other designs and configurations proposed for f

  85. Daniel Klötzl, Tim Krake, Youjia Zhou, Jonathan Stober

    We present a new topological connection method for the local bilinear computation of Jacobi sets that improves the visual representation while preserving the topological structure and geometric configuration. To this end, the topological structure of the local bilinear method is utilized, which is given by the nerve complex of the traditional piecewise linea

  86. Rohit Sharma, Divya Oberoi, Marina Battaglia, Sam Krucker

    A ubiquitous presence of weak energy releases is one of the most promising hypotheses to explain coronal heating, referred to as the nanoflare hypothesis. The accelerated electrons associated with such weak heating events are also expected to give rise to coherent impulsive emission via plasma instabilities in the meterwave radio band, making this a promisin

  87. Carlos A. Galeano-Rios

    We consider a liquid drop placed on a smooth homogeneous solid substrate as it spreads from rest to its eventual equilibrium state. The problem is studied numerically in the framework of a model where the contact angle formed by the drop's free surface with the substrate is not prescribed as a function of the contact-line speed and has to be found as part of

  88. Rodrigo Arrieta, Carlos Pérez-Arancibia

    This paper presents a second-kind surface integral equation method for the numerical solution of frequency-domain electromagnetic scattering problems by locally perturbed layered media in three spatial dimensions. Unlike standard approaches, the proposed methodology does not involve the use of layer Green functions. It instead leverages an indirect M\"uller

  89. Carl-Fredrik Nyberg-Brodda

    We study the Diophantine problem, i.e. the decision problem of solving systems of equations, for some families of one-relator groups, and provide some background for why this problem is of interest. The method used is primarily the Reidemeister--Schreier method, together with general recent results by Dahmani & Guirardel and Ciobanu, Holt & Rees on the decid

  90. Manmeet Singh, Nachiketa Acharya, Sajad Jamshidi, Junfeng Jiao

    Urban downscaling is a link to transfer the knowledge from coarser climate information to city scale assessments. These high-resolution assessments need multiyear climatology of past data and future projections, which are complex and computationally expensive to generate using traditional numerical weather prediction models. The city of Austin, Texas, USA ha

  91. Byungjin Cho, Yu Xiao, Pan Hui, Daoyi Dong

    The rapid proliferation of learning systems in an arbitrarily changing environment mandates the need for managing tensions between exploration and exploitation. This work proposes a quantum-inspired bandit learning approach for the learning-and-adapting-based offloading problem where a client observes and learns the costs of each task offloaded to the candid

  92. Gonçalo Hora de Carvalho

    This text is concerned with a hypothetical flavour of cognitive blindness referred to in this paper as \textit{C-Causal Blindness} or C-CB. A cognitive blindness where the policy to obtain the objective leads to the state to be avoided. A literal example of C-CB would be \textit{Kurt G\"odel's} decision to starve for \textit{"fear of being poisoned"} - take

  93. Le-Anh Tran, Henock M. Deberneh, Truong-Dong Do, Thanh-Dat Nguyen

    A novel clustering technique based on the projection onto convex set (POCS) method, called POCS-based clustering algorithm, is proposed in this paper. The proposed POCS-based clustering algorithm exploits a parallel projection method of POCS to find appropriate cluster prototypes in the feature space. The algorithm considers each data point as a convex set a

  94. Jia Guo, Jinke Yu, Alexandros Lattas, Jiankang Deng

    Even though 3D face reconstruction has achieved impressive progress, most orthogonal projection-based face reconstruction methods can not achieve accurate and consistent reconstruction results when the face is very close to the camera due to the distortion under the perspective projection. In this paper, we propose to simultaneously reconstruct 3D face mesh

  95. Muhammad Farooq, Vaibhav Kumar, Markku Juntti, Le-Nam Tran

    Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have shown huge advantages in many potential use cases and thus have been considered a promising candidate for next-generation wireless systems. In this paper, we consider an IRS-assisted multigroup multicast (IRS-MGMC) system in a multiple-input single-output (MISO) scenario, for which the related existing literature i

  96. Alexander Kostinskiy

    The dissertation describes in detail the experimental studies of the initiation of unusual plasma formations (UPFs) in the electric field of an artificially charged aerosol cloud. These experiments, together with the latest data from the study of intracloud discharges, make it possible to construct a sequential mechanism for initiating lightning inside a thu

  97. Akhil Kallepalli, David B James, Mark A Richardson

    Today's diagnostics include devices such as pulse oximeters, blood pressure monitors, and temperature measurements. These devices provide vital information to medical personnel when making treatment decisions. Drawing inspiration from the fundamental utility of pulse oximeters, we present a methodology for a robust low-cost approach to imaging subsurface vas

  98. E. F. Talantsev

    The Pauli limiting field represents fundamental magnetic field at which superconducting state collapses due to the spin-paramagnetic Cooper pair-breaking effect. Cao et al [1] reported that the upper critical field (i.e., the magnetic field at which the superconducting state collapses in experiment) in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATNG, N=3) in 2-

  99. Xi-Jun Yuan, Zi-Qiao Chen, Yu-Dan Liu, Zhe Xie

    Aerodynamics plays an important role in aviation industry and aircraft design. Detecting and minimizing the phenomenon of flow separation from scattered pressure data on airfoil is critical for ensuring stable and efficient aviation. However, since it is challenging to understand the mechanics of flow field separation, the aerodynamic parameters are emphasiz

  100. Xinzhu Ma, Yuan Meng, Yinmin Zhang, Lei Bai

    Image-based 3D detection is an indispensable component of the perception system for autonomous driving. However, it still suffers from the unsatisfying performance, one of the main reasons for which is the limited training data. Unfortunately, annotating the objects in the 3D space is extremely time/resource-consuming, which makes it hard to extend the train