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--- abstract: 'Vision science, particularly machine vision, has been revolutionized by introducing large-scale image datasets and statistical learning approaches. Yet, human neuroimaging studies of visual perception still rely on small numbers of images (around 100) due to time-constrained experimental procedures. To a...
--- abstract: 'This paper presents an extension of the OpenAI Gym for robotics using the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the Gazebo simulator. The content discusses the software architecture proposed and the results obtained by using two Reinforcement Learning techniques: Q-Learning and Sarsa. Ultimately, the output o...
--- abstract: | The light cone OPE limit provides a significant amount of information regarding the conformal field theory (CFT), like the high-low temperature limit of the partition function. We started with the light cone bootstrap in the [*general*]{} CFT ${}_2$ with $c>1$. For this purpose, we needed an explici...
--- abstract: 'The classical Cauchy–Davenport theorem implies the lower bound $n+1$ for the number of distinct subsums that can be formed from a sequence of $n$ elements of the cyclic group ${{\mathbb Z}}_p$ (when $p$ is prime and $n<p$). We generalize this theorem to a conjecture for the minimum number of distinct sub...
--- author: - 'G. Mulas' - 'G. Malloci' - 'C. Joblin' - 'D. Toublanc' date: 'Received ?; accepted ?' title: 'Diagnostics for *specific* PAHs in the farIR: searching neutral naphthalene and anthracene in the Red Rectangle' --- [*Context*. In the framework of the interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) hypo...
--- author: - Vytautas Paškūnas title: 'Extensions for supersingular representations of $\operatorname{GL}_2({\mathbb {Q}_p})$' --- Introduction ============ In this paper we study the category $\operatorname{Rep}_G$ of smooth representations of $G:=\operatorname{GL}_2({\mathbb {Q}_p})$ on ${\overline{\mathbb{F}}_{p}...
--- abstract: | With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), IoT intelligence becomes emerging technology. “Curse of Dimensionality” is the barrier of data fusion in edge devices for the success of IoT intelligence. Deep learning has attracted great attention recently, due to the successful applications in sev...
--- author: - 'P. D’Aquino, J. F. Knight, S. Kuhlmann, and K. Lange' title: Real closed exponential fields --- Introduction ============ A *real closed field* is an ordered field in which every non-negative element is a square, and every odd degree polynomial has a root. Tarski’s celebrated elimination of quantifier...
--- abstract: | We study the growth of two competing infection types on graphs generated by the configuration model with a given degree sequence. Starting from two vertices chosen uniformly at random, the infection types spread via the edges in the graph in that an uninfected vertex becomes type 1 (2) infected at r...
--- abstract: 'A coarse grained description of a two-dimensional prey-predator system is given in terms of a 3-state lattice model containing two control parameters: the spreading rates of preys and predators. The properties of the model are investigated by dynamical mean-field approximations and extensive numerical si...
--- abstract: 'We present a perturbation analysis of the semiclassical Wigner equation which is based on the interplay between configuration and phase spaces via Wigner transform. We employ the so-called harmonic approximation of the Schrödinger eigenfunctions for single-well potentials in configuration space, to const...
--- abstract: 'The small group of $\lambda$ Bootis stars comprises late B to early F-type stars, with moderate to extreme (up to a factor 100) surface underabundances of most Fe-peak elements and solar abundances of lighter elements (C, N, O, and S). The main mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon are atmospheric d...
--- author: - 'Rumen S. Bachev' date: 'Received ...; accepted ...' title: 'Quasar optical variability: searching for interband time delays' --- Introduction ============ Although variability is an extensively studied and rather common feature of quasars, little is currently known about the exact nature of the process...
--- abstract: 'Energy, water, health, transportation and emergency services act as backbones for our society. Aiming at high degrees of efficiency, these systems are increasingly automated, depending on communication systems. However, this makes these prone to cyber attacks, resulting in data leaks, reduced performance...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, we study the problem of hyperspectral pixel classification based on the recently proposed architectures for compressive whisk-broom hyperspectral imagers without the need to reconstruct the complete data cube. A clear advantage of classification in the compressed domain is its suitability ...
--- abstract: 'We compute the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the process $e^+e^- \to q\bar q g$. The amplitudes are extracted in a scheme-independent manner from the coefficients appearing in the general tensorial structure for this process. The tensor coefficients are derived from the Feynman graph amplitudes by...
--- author: - Andre Pawlowski - Victor van der Veen - Dennis Andriesse - Erik van der Kouwe - Thorsten Holz - Cristiano Giuffrida - Herbert Bos bibliography: - 'paper.bib' title: | VPS: Excavating High-Level C++ Constructs from\ Low-Level Binaries to Protect Dynamic Dispatching --- &lt;ccs2012&gt; &lt;concept&...
--- abstract: 'Sonography techniques use multiple transducer elements for tissue visualization. Signals detected at each element are sampled prior to digital beamforming. The required sampling rates are up to 4 times the Nyquist rate of the signal and result in considerable amount of data, that needs to be stored and p...
--- author: - 'Freddy Cachazo${}^{a}$, Song He${}^{a,b}$ and Ellis Ye Yuan${}^{a,c}$' bibliography: - 'ScatteringEquations.bib' title: Scattering Equations and KLT Orthogonality --- =1 Introduction ============ Recently the tree-level S-matrix of a variety of theories has been found as an integral over the moduli sp...
--- author: - 'Olga Boyko, Olga Martynyuk, Vyacheslav Pivovarchik   ' title: On spectra of quadratic operator pencils with rank one gyroscopic linear part --- -17mm -10mm 17truecm 23,5truecm \[theorem\][��।������]{} \[theorem\][�����]{} \[theorem\][�।�������]{} Abstract. The spectrum of a selfadjoint quadratic opera...
--- abstract: 'In this paper we study the interior transmission problem and transmission eigenvalues for multiplicative perturbations of linear partial differential operator of order $\ge 2$ with constant real coefficients. Under suitable growth conditions on the symbol of the operator and the perturbation, we show the...
[Roots of 3-manifolds and cobordisms]{} C. Hog-Angeloni[^1], S. Matveev[^2] Introduction ============ Given a set of [*simplifying moves*]{} on 3-manifolds, we apply them to a given 3-manifold $M$ as long as possible. What we get is a [*root*]{} of $M$. For us, it makes sense to consider three types of moves: compre...
--- address: | Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego\ 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 author: - Dan Pirjol title: Rare radiative B decays in perturbative QCD --- Introduction ============ Rare radiative decays of $B$ hadrons have been extensively studied as a possible way of probi...
--- abstract: 'The notion of set-valued Young tableaux was introduced by Buch in his study of the Littlewood-Richardson rule for stable Grothendieck polynomials. Knutson, Miller and Yong showed that the double Grothendieck polynomials of 2143-avoiding permutations can be generated by set-valued Young tableaux. In this ...
--- abstract: 'Nuclei of early-type dwarf galaxies (dEs) are usually younger than the galaxy main body, and such discrepancy in age has been a puzzle. To explore the origin of young nuclei in dEs, we study a sample of dEs having compact star-forming blobs that are visually similar to dEs’ nuclei but by far bluer. We fi...
--- author: - Jakub Mielczarek title: Inflationary power spectra with quantum holonomy corrections --- Introduction ============ Effects of the quantum nature of space at the Planck scale predicted by loop quantum gravity (LQG) [@Ashtekar:2004eh] can be studied by introducing appropriate modifications at the level of...
--- abstract: | We analyse quantum state tomography in scenarios where measurements and states are both constrained. States are assumed to live in a semi-algebraic subset of state space and measurements are supposed to be rank-one POVMs, possibly with additional constraints. Specifically, we consider sets of von Ne...
--- abstract: 'The out-degree distribution of citation networks is investigated. Statistical data of the number of papers cited within a paper (out-degree) for different journals in the period 1991-1999 is reported. The out-degree distribution is characterized by a maximum at intermediate out-degrees. At the left of th...
--- abstract: 'Popular parameterizations of the freeze-out conditions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are discussed. Similarities and differences between the blast-wave model and the single-freeze-out model, both used recently to interpret the RHIC data, are outlined. A non-boost-invariant extension of the single-...
--- abstract: 'Each paper should be preceded by a short Abstract of not more than 150 words, which should be written as a single paragraph and should not contain references.' title: 'Test-beam performance of a tracking TRD prototype' --- J.T. Shank, J.S. Whitaker,V.A. Polychronakos, V. Radeka, D. Stephani, H. Beker, R...
--- abstract: | There are several mathematical models yielding $1/f$ noise. For example, $1/f$ spectrum can be obtained from stochastic sequence of pulses having power-law distribution of pulse durations or from nonlinear stochastic differential equations. We show that a couple of seemingly different models exhibit...
--- abstract: 'We exhibit different examples of minimal sets for an IFS of homeomorphisms with rotation number equal to 0. It is proved that these examples are, from a topological point of view, the unique possible cases.' address: - 'N. Guelman, Universidad de La República. Facultad de Ingenieria. IMERL. Julio Herrera...
--- abstract: 'Radiative strength functions (RSFs) in $^{93-98}$Mo have been extracted using the ($^3$He,$\alpha \gamma$) and ($^3$He,$^3$He$^{\prime} \gamma$) reactions. The RSFs are U-shaped as function of $\gamma$ energy with a minimum at around $E_{\gamma}=3$ MeV. The minimum values increase with neutron number due...
--- abstract: 'Tomography aims to recover a three-dimensional (3D) density map of a medium or an object. In medical imaging, it is extensively used for diagnostics via X-ray computed tomography (CT). Optical diffusion tomography is an alternative to X-ray CT that uses multiply scattered light to deliver coarse density ...
--- abstract: | We propose a new diagram, the Kinematic-Excitation diagram (KEx diagram), which uses the [\[O[III]{}\]]{}/[[H$\beta$]{}]{} line ratio and the [\[O[III]{}\] $\lambda$5007]{}emission line width ($\sigma_{{[O\,{\footnotesize III}]}}$) to diagnose the ionization source and physical properties of the Act...
--- abstract: 'We show that C\*-algebras generated by irreducible representations of finitely generated nilpotent groups satisfy the universal coefficient theorem of Rosenberg and Schochet. This result combines with previous work to show that these algebras are classifiable by their Elliott invariants within the class ...
--- abstract: | We review the energy concept in the case of a continuum or a system of fields. First, we analyze the emergence of a true local conservation equation for the energy of a continuous medium, taking the example of an isentropic continuum in Newtonian gravity. Next, we consider a continuum or a system of...
--- abstract: 'We present a class of asymptotically anti-de Sitter charged rotating black hole solutions in $f(T)$ gravity in $N$-dimensions, where $f(T)=T+\alpha T^{2}$. These solutions are nontrivial extensions of the solutions presented in [@Lemos:1994xp] and [@Awad:2002cz] in the context of general relativity. They...
--- abstract: 'Scene understanding of full-scale 3D models of an urban area remains a challenging task. While advanced computer vision techniques offer cost-effective approaches to analyse 3D urban elements, a precise and densely labelled dataset is quintessential. The paper presents the first-ever labelled dataset for...
--- abstract: 'We determine Kelly criterion for a game with variable pay-off. The Kelly fraction satisfies a fundamental integral equation and is smaller than the classical Kelly fraction for the same game with the constant average pay-off.' address: 'CNRS, LAGA UMR 7539, Université Paris XIII, 99, Avenue J.-B. Clément...
--- abstract: 'Caustic rings of dark matter with *tricusp* cross section were predicted to lie in the galactic disk. Their radii increase on cosmological time scales at a rate of order $1$ kpc/Gyr. When a caustic ring passes through the orbit of a star, the orbit is strongly perturbed. We find that a star moving in a n...
--- abstract: 'We present a study of the structural properties of (x)Na$_2$S-(1-x)GeS$_2$ glasses through DFT-based molecular dynamics simulations, at different sodium concentrations ($0<x<0.5$). We computed the radial pair correlation functions as well as the total and partial structure factors. We also analyzed the e...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, we focus on analyzing the period distribution of the inversive pseudorandom number generators (IPRNGs) over finite field $({\rm Z}_{N},+,\times)$, where $N>3$ is a prime. The sequences generated by the IPRNGs are transformed to $2$-dimensional linear feedback shift register (LFSR) sequence...
--- abstract: 'In an X-ray binary system, the companion star feeds the compact neutron star with plasma materials via accretions. The spinning neutron star is likely covered with a thin “magnetized ocean" and may support [*magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) tidal waves*]{}. While modulating the thermal properties of the ocean, ...
--- abstract: 'This paper deals with complex structures on Lie algebras $\ct_{\pi} \hh=\hh \ltimes_{\pi} V$, where $\pi$ is either the adjoint or the coadjoint representation. The main topic is the existence question of complex structures on $\ct_{\pi} \hh$ for $\hh$ a three dimensional real Lie algebra. First it was ...
--- abstract: 'Conceptually different from the decoherence program, we present a novel theoretical approach to macroscopic realism and classical physics within quantum theory. It focuses on the limits of observability of quantum effects of macroscopic objects, i.e., on the required precision of our measurement apparatu...
--- abstract: 'Social participatory sensing is a newly proposed paradigm that tries to address the limitations of participatory sensing by leveraging online social networks as an infrastructure. A critical issue in the success of this paradigm is to assure the trustworthiness of contributions provided by participants. ...
--- abstract: 'It is known by the author that there exist 20 families of Dehn surgeries in the Poincaré homology sphere yielding lens spaces. In this paper, we give the concrete knot diagrams of the families and extend them to families of lens space surgeries in Brieskorn homology spheres. We illustrate families of len...
--- abstract: 'The flux density from undetected sources in the observing beam of a telescope produces source confusion noise in the resulting maps of the sky, and thus limits sensitivity. In a recent paper [@BIS] we discussed this effect in the millimetre/submillimetre (mm/submm) waveband, using a simple model of galax...
--- abstract: 'A seminal result in operator theory is the Sz.-Nagy–Foias model theory for a completely nonunitary Hilbert-space contraction operator $T$: in short, any completely nonunitary contraction operator $T$ is unitarily equivalent to its functional model $T(\Theta)$ on a certain functional Hilbert space (just a...
--- abstract: 'Using tools from spectral analysis, singular and regular perturbation theory, we develop a systematic method for analytically computing the approximate price of a large class derivative-assets. The payoff of the derivative-assets may be path-dependent. Additionally, the process underlying the derivatives...
--- abstract: 'The statistical shapes of the highest pulse have been studied by aligned method. A wavelet package analysis technique and a developed pulse–finding algorithm have been applied to select the highest pulse from burst profiles observed by BATSE on board CGRO from 1991 April 21 to 1999 January 26. The result...
--- abstract: 'In this paper we consider a correspondence between the holographic dark energy density and interacting generalized Chaplygin gas energy density in FRW universe. Then we reconstruct the potential of the scalar field which describe the generalized Chaplygin cosmology.' author: - | M.R. Setare [^1]\ ...
--- abstract: 'It is generally accepted that the entropy of an asymptotically de Sitter universe is bounded by the area, in Planck units, of the de Sitter horizon. Based on an analysis of the entropy associated to the vacuum quantum fluctuations, we suggest that the existence of such a holographic bound constitutes a p...
--- abstract: 'Let $(M,\omega)$ be a connected symplectic manifold on which a connected Lie group $G$ acts properly and in a Hamiltonian fashion with moment map $\mu:M \lra {\mathfrak{g}}^*$. Our purpose is investigate multiplicity-free actions, giving criteria to decide a multiplicity freenes of the action. As an appl...
--- abstract: | The intrinsic idea of superdense coding is to find as many gates as possible such that they can be perfectly discriminated. In this paper, we consider a new scheme of discrimination of quantum gates, called ancilla-assisted discrimination, in which a set of quantum gates on a $d-$dimensional system ...
--- abstract: 'Conditional domain generation is a good way to interactively control sample generation process of deep generative models. However, once a conditional generative model has been created, it is often expensive to allow it to adapt to new conditional controls, especially the network structure is relatively d...
--- author: - 'Karin de Langis$^{1}$ and Junaed Sattar$^{2}$ [^1]' bibliography: - 'citations.bib' title: | **Real-Time Multi-Diver Tracking and Re-identification\ for Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration** --- [^1]: The authors are with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Minnesota Robotics In...
--- abstract: 'A quantum deformation of three-dimensional de Sitter space was proposed in hep-th/0407188. We use this to calculate the entropy of Kerr-de Sitter space, using a canonical ensemble, and find agreement with the semiclassical result.' author: - 'Michael C. Abbott and David A. Lowe' bibliography: - 'de-sitte...
--- abstract: 'A circle packing is a collection of disks with disjoint interiors in the plane. It naturally defines a graph by tangency. It is shown that there exists $p>0$ such that the following holds for every circle packing: If each disk is retained with probability $p$ independently, then the probability that ther...
--- abstract: 'A Lorentz-noninvariant modification of quantum electrodynamics (QED) is considered, which has photons described by the nonbirefringent sector of modified Maxwell theory and electrons described by the standard Dirac theory. These photons and electrons are taken to propagate and interact in a Schwarzschild...
--- abstract: | We define and study a class of entwined modules (stable anti-Yetter-Drinfeld modules) that serve as coefficients for the Hopf-cyclic homology and cohomology. In particular, we explain their relationship with Yetter-Drinfeld modules and Drinfeld doubles. Among sources of examples of stable anti-Yette...
--- abstract: 'We provide a method to describe quantum nonlocality for $n$-qubit systems. By treating the correlation function as an $n$-index tensor, we derive a generalized Bell inequality. Taking generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state for example, we calculate quantum prediction under a series of measur...
--- abstract: 'After discussing the key idea underlying the Maxwell’s Demon ensemble, we employ this idea for calculating fluctuations of ideal Bose gas condensates in traps with power-law single-particle energy spectra. Two essentially different cases have to be distinguished. If the heat capacity remains continuous a...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, we propose a distributive queue-aware intra-cell user scheduling and inter-cell interference (ICI) management control design for a delay-optimal celluar downlink system with $M$ base stations (BSs), and $K$ users in each cell. Each BS has $K$ downlink queues for $K$ users respectively with...
--- abstract: 'A semi-discrete fourth-order finite volume method is introduced to solve multi-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) problems. This method employs a dimension by dimension approach followed by one dimensional fourth-order centrally weighted essentially non-oscillatory reconstruction (CWENO) to compute hi...
--- address: 'Artem A. Lopatin Omsk Branch of Federal State Budgetary Scientific Establishment Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (OB IM SBRAS). Pevtsova street, 13, 644043, Omsk, Russia. http://www.iitam.omsk.net.ru/\~lopatin' author: - '[Artem A. Lopatin]{}' title: Id...
--- abstract: 'In this letter we explore beyond the Standard Model top-Higgs Yukawa couplings as a function of a CP-mixing parameter $\xi_t$ at the 14 TeV HL-LHC in the process $pp\to thj$. We observe that angular variables of the decay products of the top are non-trivially sensitive to $\xi_t$. This fact is exploited ...
--- abstract: 'Let $\cal M$ be a semi-finite von Neumann algebra equipped with a distinguished faithful, normal, semi-finite trace $\tau$. We introduce the notion of equi-integrability in non-commutative spaces and show that if a rearrangement invariant quasi-Banach function space $E$ on the positive semi-axis is $\alp...
--- abstract: | We present the X-ray data and the optical identifications for a deep ROSAT PSPC observation in the “Marano field”. In the inner region of the ROSAT field (15 radius) we detected 50 X-ray sources with $S_x \ge 3.7 \times 10^{-15}$ . When corrected for the different sensitivity over the field, the est...
--- author: - | Victor Fragoso$^{2,3}$ Chunhui Liu$^1$ Aayush Bansal$^1$ Deva Ramanan$^1$\ $^{1}$ Carnegie Mellon University $^2$ Microsoft C + AI $^3$ Western Virginia University\ bibliography: - 'compnn.bib' title: 'Patch Correspondences for Interpreting Pixel-level CNNs' ---
--- abstract: '*Objective*. Consistently changing physiological properties in developing children’s brains challenges new data heavy technologies, like brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Advancing signal processing methods in such technologies to be more sensitive to developmental changes could help improve their functio...
--- abstract: 'We propose non-stationary spectral kernels for Gaussian process regression. We propose to model the spectral density of a non-stationary kernel function as a mixture of input-dependent Gaussian process frequency density surfaces. We solve the generalised Fourier transform with such a model, and present a...
--- abstract: 'We announce a new type of “Jacobi identity” for vertex operator algebras, incorporating values of the Riemann zeta function at negative integers. Using this we “explain” and generalize some recent work of S. Bloch’s relating values of the zeta function with the commutators of certain operators and Lie al...
--- abstract: 'The Hodge Conjecture is equivalent to a statement about conditions under which a complex vector bundle on a smooth complex projective variety admits a holomorphic structure. In the case of abelian four-folds, recent work in gauge theory suggests an approach using Spin(7) instantons. I advertise a class o...
--- author: - 'Rong-Qiang He' - 'Zhong-Yi Lu' title: Quantum Renormalization Groups Based on Natural Orbitals --- [**Supplementary Material for**]{} In this Supplementary Material, the results from the shortcut NORG calculations for a cluster-impurity model with $2\times 2$ impurity sites and 60 bath sites are prese...
--- abstract: | If you recommend a product to me and I buy it, how much should you be paid by the seller? And if your sole interest is to maximize the amount paid to you by the seller for a sequence of recommendations, how should you recommend optimally if I become more inclined to ignore you with each irrelevant r...
--- abstract: 'We describe early success in the evolution of binary black hole spacetimes with a numerical code based on a generalization of harmonic coordinates. Indications are that with sufficient resolution this scheme is capable of evolving binary systems for enough time to extract information about the orbit, mer...
--- abstract: 'The analysis of linear ill-posed problems often is carried out in function spaces using tools from functional analysis. However, the numerical solution of these problems typically is computed by first discretizing the problem and then applying tools from (finite-dimensional) linear algebra. The present p...
--- abstract: 'A Szegö-type theorem for Toeplitz operators was proved by Boutet de Monvel and Guillemin for general Toeplitz structures. We give a local version of this result in the setting of positive line bundles on compact symplectic manifolds.' author: - 'Roberto Paoletti[^1]' title: | A local Szegö-type theor...
--- abstract: 'Phase locking dynamics of dipolarly coupled vortices excited by spin-polarized current in two identical nanopillars is studied as a function of the interpillar distance $L$. Numerical study and analytical model have proved the remarkable efficiency of magneto-static interaction to achieve phase locking. ...
--- abstract: | We study the formation of magnetic clusters in frustrated magnets in their cooperative paramagnetic regime. For this purpose, we consider the $J_1$-$J_2$-$J_3$ classical Heisenberg model on kagome and pyrochlore lattices with $J_2 = J_3=J$. In the absence of farther-neighbor couplings, $J=0$, the sy...
--- author: - Longjie ZHANG date: - - - | December, 2015\ Corresponding author University:Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo. Address:3-8-1 Komaba Meguro-ku Tokyo 153-8914, Japan. Email:zhanglj@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp, zhanglj919@gmail.com title: Mean curvature flow with driving force ...
--- abstract: 'We prove some isoperimetric type inequalities for real harmonic functions in the unit disk belonging to the Hardy space $h^p$, $p>1$ and for complex harmonic functions in $h^4$. The results extend some recent results on the area. Further we discus some Riesz type results for holomorphic functions.' addre...
--- abstract: | Some basic features of the simultaneous inclusion of discrete fibrations and discrete opfibrations in categories over a base category $X$ are considered. In particular, we illustrate the formulas $$(\down P)x = \ten(x/X,P) \qv (P\rdown)x = \hom(X/x,P)$$ which give the reflection $\down P$ and the co...
--- abstract: 'We investigate the class of the edge-shelling convex geometries of trees. The edge-shelling convex geometry of a tree is the convex geometry consisting of the sets of edges of the subtrees. For the edge-shelling convex geometry of a tree, the size of the stem of any rooted circuit is two. The class of th...
--- author: - 'M. Billò,' - 'F. Fucito,' - 'G.P. Korchemsky,' - 'A. Lerda' - 'and J. F. Morales' title: 'Two-point correlators in non-conformal $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories' --- Introduction {#sec:intro} ============ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories (SYM) have long been considered as an ideal play-ground to get e...
--- abstract: 'In this paper we propose a general algorithmic framework for first-order methods in optimization in a broad sense, including minimization problems, saddle-point problems and variational inequalities. This framework allows to obtain many known methods as a special case, the list including accelerated grad...
--- abstract: 'Given multiple images that describe chaotic reaction-diffusion dynamics, parameters of a PDE model are estimated using autosynchronization, where parameters are controlled by synchronization of the model to the observed data. A two-component system of predator-prey reaction-diffusion PDEs is used with sp...
--- abstract: 'We will argument how infalling information can be chaotized inside realistic quantum black holes.' author: - Andrea Addazi$^1$ title: Aspects of quantum chaos inside black holes --- \#1[| \#1|]{} Introduction and Conclusions ============================ Theoretical physicists are all agreed that Semic...
--- abstract: 'The rising complexity of our terrestrial surrounding is an empirical fact. Details of this process evaded description in terms of physics for long time attracting attention and creating myriad of ideas including non-scientific ones. In this essay we explain the phenomenon of the growth of complexity by c...
--- abstract: 'Mass measurements of gravitational microlenses require one to determine the microlens parallax ${\pi_{\rm E}}$, but precise ${\pi_{\rm E}}$ measurement, in many cases, is hampered due to the subtlety of the microlens-parallax signal combined with the difficulty of distinguishing the signal from those ind...
--- abstract: 'We consider importance sampling (IS) type weighted estimators based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) targeting an approximate marginal of the target distribution. In the context of Bayesian latent variable models, the MCMC typically operates on the hyperparameters, and the subsequent weighting may be b...
--- abstract: 'In the standard $q$-voter model, a given agent can change its opinion only if there is a full consensus of the opposite opinion within a group of influence of size $q$. A more realistic extension is the threshold $q$-voter, where a minimal agreement (at least $0<q_0\le q$ opposite opinions) is sufficient...
--- abstract: 'In many applications that require matrix solutions of minimal rank, the underlying cost function is non-convex leading to an intractable, NP-hard optimization problem. Consequently, the convex nuclear norm is frequently used as a surrogate penalty term for matrix rank. The problem is that in many practic...
--- abstract: 'We study the stability of the equilibrium points of a skew product system. We analyze the possibility to construct a Lyapunov function using a set of conserved quantities and solving an algebraic system. We apply the theoretical results to study the stability of an equilibrium state of a heavy gyrostat i...
--- abstract: 'We present the crumpling transition in three-dimensional Euclidian space of dynamically triangulated random surfaces with edge extrinsic curvature and fixed topology of a sphere as well as simulations of a dynamically triangulated torus. We used longer runs than previous simulations and give new and more...
--- abstract: 'Circuit quantization links a physical circuit to its corresponding quantum Hamiltonian. The standard quantization procedure generally assumes any external magnetic flux to be static. Time dependence naturally arises, however, when flux is modulated or when flux noise is considered. In this case, applicat...
--- abstract: 'K. Nikodem and the present author proved in [@NikWas95] a theorem concerning separation by affine functions. Our purpose is to generalize that result for polynomials. As a consequence we obtain two theorems connected with separation of $n$-convex function from $n$-concave function by a polynomial of degr...
--- abstract: 'Computing smoothing distributions, the distributions of one or more states conditional on past, present, and future observations is a recurring problem when operating on general hidden Markov models. The aim of this paper is to provide a foundation of particle-based approximation of such distributions an...