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--- author: - Stéphane Corbel - 'Stephen S. Eikenberry[^1]' date: 'Received: ; Accepted: ' title: 'The Connection between W31, SGR 1806-20, & LBV 1806-20: Distance, Extinction, and Structure ' --- Introduction ============ W31 is one of the largest  complexes in the Galaxy, with intense star-forming regions that have...
--- abstract: 'Solid state materials hosting pseudospin-1 quasiparticles have attracted a great deal of recent attention. In these materials, the energy band contains of a pair of Dirac cones and a flat band through the connecting point of the cones. As the “caging” of carriers with a zero group velocity, the flat band...
--- abstract: 'During the last five years, serial femtosecond crystallography using x-ray laser pulses has developed into a powerful technique for determining the atomic structures of protein molecules from micrometer and sub-micrometer sized crystals. One of the key reasons for this success is the “self-gating" pulse ...
--- abstract: 'Some interesting consequences of spacelike matter shells are presented, in particular the possibility of travelling through Cauchy horizons and violating the strong cosmic censorship hypothesis. These show that the weak energy condition does not guarentee cosmic censorship.' address: ' Department of Phys...
--- abstract: | Three different cluster expansions for the evaluation of correlated one-body properties of s-p and s-d shell nuclei are compared. Harmonic oscillator wave functions and Jastrow type correlations are used, while analytical expressions are obtained for the charge form factor, density distribution, and...
--- abstract: 'Quantum spin liquid is an enigmatic entity that is often hard to characterize within the conventional framework of condensed matter physics. We here present theoretical and numerical evidence for the characterization of a quantum spin liquid phase extending from the exact ground state to a finite critica...
--- abstract: 'Ion-exchange is commonly used to chemically strengthen glasses, by replacing small atoms by larger ones at sub T$_g$ temperature, thereby inducing a compressive stress. However, the resulting expansion of the glass remains lower than that predicted by the difference of molar volumes of the as-cooled glas...
--- abstract: 'We present *Stamp-it*, a new, concurrent, lock-less memory reclamation scheme with amortized, constant-time (thread-count independent) reclamation overhead. Stamp-it has been implemented and proved correct in the C++ memory model using as weak memory-consistency assumptions as possible. We have likewise ...
--- abstract: 'The results of the paper concern the topological structure of complete riemannian manifolds with cyclic holonomy groups and low-dimensional orientable complete flat manifolds. We also discuss related results such as the affine classification of orientable complete flat $4$-manifolds, an algebraic criteri...
--- author: - Sebastian Peitz - 'Kai Sch[ä]{}fer' - 'Sina Ober-Bl[ö]{}baum' - Julian Eckstein - 'Ulrich K[ö]{}hler' - Michael Dellnitz bibliography: - 'arXiv\_bibliography.bib' title: A Multiobjective MPC Approach for Autonomously Driven Electric Vehicles --- Introduction {#sec:Introduction} ============ In many appl...
--- abstract: | Operator precedence grammars define a classical Boolean and deterministic context-free family (called Floyd languages or FLs). FLs have been shown to strictly include the well-known visibly pushdown languages, and enjoy the same nice closure properties. We introduce here Floyd automata, an equivalen...
--- abstract: 'What is the luminosity needed for discovering new physics if the electroweak scale is to remain stable? In this work we study this question, with the example of a real singlet scalar which couples to the Higgs field already at the renormalizable level. Observing that the electroweak scale remains stable ...
--- abstract: 'Track detectors in high energy physics experiments require an accurate determination of a large number of alignment parameters. A general method has been developed, which allows the determination of up to several thousand alignment parameters in a simultaneous linear least squares fit of an arbitrary num...
--- abstract: 'The POINT-AGAPE collaboration is currently searching for massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) towards the Andromeda galaxy (M31). The survey aims to exploit the high inclination of the M31 disk, which causes an asymmetry in the spatial distribution of M31 MACHOs. Here, we investigate the effects of halo...
--- abstract: | The class ${{\sf FORMULA}}[s] \circ \mathcal{G}$ consists of Boolean functions computable by size-$s$ de Morgan formulas whose leaves are any Boolean functions from a class $\mathcal{G}$. We give *lower bounds* and (SAT, Learning, and PRG) *algorithms* for ${{\sf FORMULA}}[n^{1.99}]\circ \mathcal{G}...
--- author: - | \ Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton DESY, 22603 Hamburg, Germany\ E-mail: title: | Transverse momentum of partons:\ from low to high pT --- Motivation ========== This talk is concerned with the transverse-momentum dependence of particles produced in scattering processes involving a h...
--- abstract: 'In the hope of stimulating discussion, we present a heuristic decision tree that designers can use to judge the likely suitability of a P2P architecture for their applications. It is based on the characteristics of a wide range of P2P systems from the literature, both proposed and deployed.' author: - | ...
--- author: - Florian Goertz title: 'An Indirect Handle on the Down-Quark Yukawa Coupling' --- Introduction ============ While the LHC and a future linear collider are expected to determine the Yukawa couplings of the heavy third-generation fermions at the ${\cal O}$(%) level, see e.g. [@Peskin:2012we; @Peskin:2013xr...
--- abstract: | This paper presents a non-parametric classification technique for identifying a candidate bi-allelic genetic marker set that best describes disease susceptibility in gene-gene interaction studies. The developed technique functions by creating a mapping between inferred haplotypes and case/control st...
--- author: - 'Bar Light[^1]   and Andres Perlroth[^2]' bibliography: - 'alphaconvex.bib' title: | The Family of Alpha,\[a,b\] Stochastic Orders:\ Risk vs. Expected Value --- <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Abstract</span>: > In this paper we provide a novel family of stochastic orders, which we call t...
--- abstract: 'Recent surveys seem to support bulk peculiar velocities well in excess of those anticipated by the standard cosmological model. In view of these results, we consider here some of the theoretical implications of large-scale drift motions. We find that observers with small, but finite, peculiar velocities ...
--- abstract: | This paper is devoted to the study, with variational technique, of the following quasilinear elliptic problem: $$\begin{cases} -\Delta_p u - \beta \Delta_q u =g(u) & \hbox{in} \ {{\mathbb{R}^N}}, \\ u(x)\to 0 & \hbox{as }|x|\to +\infty, \end{cases}$$ where $N \ge 3$, $1<p<q$ and $p<...
--- abstract: 'We sift the impact of the recent Higgs precise measurements, and recent dark matter direct detection results, on the dark sector of an electroweak extension of the Standard Model that has a complex scalar as dark matter. We find that in this model the Higgs decays with a large branching ratio into dark m...
--- abstract: 'In the present study, the anisotropic resistivity of the monolayer graphene has been obtained in semiclassical regime beyond the Dirac point approximation. In particular, detailed investigations were made on the dependence of conductivity on the Fermi energy. At low energies, in the vicinity of the Dirac...
--- abstract: 'The signal measured with a curvature sensor is here analyzed. In the outset, we derive the required minimum number of sensing elements at the pupil edges, in dependence on the total number of sensing elements. The distribution of the sensor signal is further characterized in terms of its mean, variance, ...
--- abstract: 'The nonnegativity of the density operator of a state is faithfully coded in its Wigner distribution, and this places constraints on the moments of the Wigner distribution. These constraints are presented in a canonically invariant form which is both concise and explicit. Since the conventional uncertaint...
--- abstract: 'We propose a class of single-field, slow-roll inflation models in which a typical number of [$e$-folds]{}can be extremely large. The key point is to introduce a very shallow local minimum near the top of the potential in a hilltop inflation model. In particular, a typical number of [$e$-folds]{}is enhanc...
--- abstract: 'We consider the quasispecies description of a population evolving in both the “master sequence” landscape (where a single sequence is evolutionarily preferred over all others) and the REM landscape (where the fitness of different sequences is an indipendent, identically distributed, random variable). We ...
--- abstract: 'In this work, we investigate four-dimensional planar black hole solutions in anti-de Sitter spacetimes in light of the so-called scale-dependent scenario. To obtain this new family of solutions, the classical couplings of the theory, i.e., the gravitational coupling $G_0$ and the cosmological constant $\...
Introduction ============ The detection of gravitational radiation by either laser interferometers or resonant cryogenic bars will, it is widely stated, usher in a new era of gravitational-wave astronomy [@Thorne1987]. Furthermore, according to conventional wisdom, it will yield new and interesting tests of general re...
--- abstract: 'A multi-cell mobile edge computing network is studied, in which each user wishes to compute the product of a user-generated data matrix with a network-stored matrix through data uploading, distributed edge computing, and output downloading. Assuming randomly straggling edge servers, this paper investigat...
--- abstract: 'In engineering applications almost all processes are described with the aid of models. Especially forming machines heavily rely on mathematical models for control and condition monitoring. Inaccuracies during the modeling, manufacturing and assembly of these machines induce model uncertainty which impair...
--- abstract: 'Ca$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$RuO$_3$, which is ferromagnetic for Sr concentration $x$ $>$ 0.3, has been studied by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) in Ru $3p$ and O $1s$ core-level x-ray absorption. XMCD signals appear at $x$ $\sim$ 0.3 and monotonically increases with $x$ in the ferromagnetic phase. While th...
--- abstract: 'We present a fast and robust cluster update algorithm that is especially efficient in implementing the task of image segmentation using the method of superparamagnetic clustering. We apply it to a Potts model with spin interactions that are are defined by gray-scale differences within the image. Motivate...
--- abstract: 'We comment on the implications of the recently measured CP asymmetry in $B \to \Phi K_S$ decay. The data disfavor the Standard Model at 2.7 $\sigma$ and -if the trend persists in the future with higher statistics - require the existence of CP violation beyond that in the CKM matrix. In particular, the $b...
--- abstract: 'The Closed Cluster method (CC method) is applied to find solutions for various calculation problems of the energy band structure of graphene. The essence of the CC method consists in the addition of closing bonds between edge atoms to the usual cluster method in order to eliminate the “dangling” bonds on...
--- abstract: 'Building on the success of Quantum Monte Carlo techniques such as diffusion Monte Carlo, alternative stochastic approaches to solve electronic structure problems have emerged over the last decade. The full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC) method allows one to systematically approach...
--- abstract: 'We consider the approval-based model of elections, and undertake a computational study of voting rules which select committees whose size is not predetermined. While voting rules that output committees with a predetermined number of winning candidates are quite well studied, the study of elections with v...
--- abstract: 'A group is said to be strongly amenable if each of its proximal topological actions has a fixed point. We show that a finitely generated group is strongly amenable if and only if it is virtually nilpotent. More generally, a countable discrete group is strongly amenable if and only if none of its quotient...
--- abstract: 'In an incoherent dictionary, most signals that admit a sparse representation admit a unique sparse representation. In other words, there is no way to express the signal without using strictly more atoms. This work demonstrates that sparse signals typically enjoy a higher privilege: each nonoptimal repres...
--- abstract: 'We present HORNET, a system that enables high-speed end-to-end anonymous channels by leveraging next-generation network architectures. HORNET is designed as a low-latency onion routing system that operates at the network layer thus enabling a wide range of applications. Our system uses only symmetric cry...
--- abstract: 'Very light pseudoscalars can arise from the symmetry-breaking sector in many extensions of the Standard Model. If their mass is below $200$ MeV, they can be long-lived and have interesting phenomenology. We discuss the experimental constraints on several models with light pseudoscalars, including one in ...
--- abstract: | We consider asymptotically autonomous semilinear parabolic equations $$u_t + Au = f(t,u).$$ Suppose that $f(t,.)\to f^\pm$ as $t\to\pm\infty$, where the semiflows induced by $$\label{eq:140602-1511} u_t + Au = f^\pm(u) \tag{*}$$ are gradient-like. Under certain assumptions, it is shown that ...
--- abstract: 'We study the dust present in 56 Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) through their iron depletion factors, their C/O abundance ratios (in 51 objects), and the dust features that appear in their infrared spectra (for 33 objects). Our sample objects have deep optical spectra of good quality, and most of them a...
--- abstract: 'In this work we propose a new method to optimize the architecture of an artificial neural network. The algorithm proposed, called Greedy Search for Neural Network Architecture, aims to minimize the complexity of the architecture search and the complexity of the final model selected without compromising t...
--- author: - | Xiaofeng Xue [^1]\ Beijing Jiaotong University\ Yumeng Shen [^2]\ Beijing Jiaotong University title: '**Large and Moderate Deviation Principles for the SIR Epidemic in a Random Environment**' --- [**Abstract:**]{} In this paper, we are concerned with SIR epidemics in a random environmen...
--- abstract: 'Gromov constructed uncountably many pairwise non-isomorphic discrete groups with Kazhdan’s property $\mathrm{(T)}$. We will show that no separable $\mathrm{II}_1$-factor can contain all these groups in its unitary group. In particular, no separable $\mathrm{II}_1$-factor can contain all separable $\mathr...
--- abstract: 'Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element (DGFE) methods offer a mathematically beautiful, computationally efficient, and efficiently parallelizable way to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). These properties make them highly desirable for numerical calculations in relativistic astrophysics and many...
--- abstract: 'In this paper we prove the following generalization of a result of Hartshorne: Let $T$ be a commutative Noetherian local ring of dimension at least two, $R=T[x_1,\dots,x_n]$, and $I=(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$. Let $f$ be a homogeneous element of $R$ such that the coefficients of $f$ form a system of parameters fo...
--- abstract: 'I review what we currently do and do not know about the masses of disk galaxies and their dark matter halos. The prognosis for disks is good: the asymptotic rotation velocity provides a good indicator of total disk mass. The prognosis for halos is bad: cuspy halos provide a poor description of the data, ...
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--- abstract: 'Inspired by recent experiments and simulations on pattern formation in biomolecules by optical tweezers, a theoretical description based on the reference interaction site model (RISM) is developed to calculate the equilibrium density profiles of small polyelectrolytes in an external potential. The formal...
--- author: - Johan Kåhrström title: | Tensoring with infinite-dimensional\ modules in ${\ensuremath{\mathcal{O}}}_0$ --- Introduction {#sec:intro} ============ When studying the category ${{\ensuremath{\mathcal{O}}}}$ for a semisimple Lie algebra ${\mathfrak}g$, tensoring with finite dimensional ${\mathfrak}...
--- abstract: | A [*vector space partition*]{} is here a collection $\mathcal P$ of subspaces of a finite vector space $V(n,q)$, of dimension $n$ over a finite field with $q$ elements, with the property that every non zero vector is contained in a unique member of $\mathcal P$. Vector space partitions relates to fi...
--- author: - 'Mingliang Zhang, Ling-Yi Huang, Xu Zhang and Gang Lu$^{\ast}$' date: 'July 17, 2016' title: 'Comment on Linear Scaling of the Exciton Binding Energy versus the Band Gap of Two-Dimensional Materials\' --- In a recent Letter, Choi *et al.* have performed first-principles GW-Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE...
--- abstract: 'In this paper we give two characterisations of the class of reflexive graphs admitting [*distributive lattice polymorphisms*]{} and use these characterisations to address the problem of recognition: for a reflexive graph $G$ in which no two vertices have the same neighbourhood, we find a polynomial time ...
--- abstract: 'Accuracy of a simulation is strongly depend on the grid quality. Here, quality means orthogonality at the boundaries and quasi-orthogonality within the critical regions, smoothness, bounded aspect ratios, solution adaptive behaviour, etc. We review various functionals for generating high quality structur...
--- abstract: 'Long ($>$ 200 ms) audio inpainting, to recover a long missing part in an audio segment, could be widely applied to audio editing tasks and transmission loss recovery. It is a very challenging problem due to the high dimensional, complex and non-correlated audio features. While deep learning models have m...
--- abstract: 'We define a normal form for Clifford circuits, and we prove that every Clifford operator has a unique normal form. Moreover, we present a rewrite system by which any Clifford circuit can be reduced to normal form. This yields a presentation of Clifford operators in terms of generators and relations.' add...
--- abstract: 'Although blazar variability is probably dominated by emission from relativistic jets, accretion disks should be present in all blazars. These disks produce emission over most of the electromagnetic spectrum; various unstable processes operate in those disks which will lead to variable emission. Here I su...
--- author: - | Matthew Dowling, Jorge Mond[é]{}jar, and Andrzej Czarnecki\ University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G7\ E-mail: , , , title: | \ Two-loop corrections to the Lamb shift --- Introduction ============ The Lamb shift in hydrogen was discovered in 19...
--- abstract: 'DNA code design aims to generate a set of DNA sequences (codewords) with minimum likelihood of undesired hybridizations among sequences and their reverse-complement (RC) pairs (cross-hybridization). Inspired by the distinct hybridization affinities (or stabilities) of perfect double helix constructed by ...
--- abstract: 'The space-like hypersurface of the Universe at the present cosmological time is a three-dimensional manifold. A non-trivial global topology of this space-like hypersurface would imply that the apparently observable universe (the sphere of particle horizon radius) could contain several images of the singl...
--- abstract: 'In this note we address the problem of unconventional charmonium-like levels from the standpoint of level spacing theory. The level distribution of the newly discovered vector resonances is compared to that of standard charmonia analyzing their spectral rigidities. It is found that the unconventional cha...
--- address: | European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2,\ D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany\ E-mail: gmeylan@eso.org author: - 'G. Meylan' title: The Internal Dynamics of Globular Clusters --- Introduction ============== There are about 150 globulars orbiting in the halo of our...
--- abstract: 'We present a high dispersion optical spectrum of St 34 and identify the system as a spectroscopic binary with components of similar luminosity and temperature (both M3$\pm$0.5). Based on kinematics, signatures of accretion, and location on an H-R diagram, we conclude that St 34 is a classical T Tauri sta...
--- abstract: 'We show that if the permittivity profile of a planar dielectric medium is an analytic function in the upper (lower) half complex *position* plane then it won’t reflect radiation incident from the left (right), whatever the angle of incidence. Consequently, using the spatial Kramers–Kronig relations one c...
--- author: - Qian Lei - 'Marek A. Abramowicz' - 'P. Chris Fragile' - 'Ji[ř]{}[í]{} Hor[á]{}k' - Mami Machida - Odele Straub date: 'Received ????; accepted ???? ' subtitle: ' I. The angular momentum distribution and equipressure surfaces ' title: The Polish doughnuts revisited --- Introduction ============ In accre...
--- abstract: 'In this work we construct a general class of exactly solvable non-relativistic bi-dimensional quantum systems with position-dependent masses (PDM). These systems are isospectral to a given system with constant mass. The case of a charged particle with a PDM interacting with an external magnetic field is ...
--- abstract: '> Coordinating agents to complete a set of tasks with intercoupled temporal and resource constraints is computationally challenging, yet human domain experts can solve these difficult scheduling problems using paradigms learned through years of apprenticeship. A process for manually codifying this domain...
--- abstract: 'In this article, we study the fluctuation of linear eigenvalue statistics of symmetric circulant matrices $(SC_n)$ with independent entries which satisfy some moment conditions. We show that $\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} \Tr \phi(SC_n)$ obey the central limit theorem (CLT) type result, where $\phi$ is a nice test ...
--- abstract: 'In recent experiments, the relaxation dynamics of highly oblate, turbulent Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) was investigated by measuring the vortex decay rates in various sample conditions \[Phys. Rev. A $\bf 90$, 063627 (2014)\] and, separately, the thermal friction coefficient $\alpha$ for vortex moti...
--- abstract: | The problem of detecting buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) is addressed with a sensor deployed from a shallow-draft surface vessel. This sonar system produces three-dimensional synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery of both surficial and buried UXO across a range of environments. The sensor’s hardwar...
--- author: - 'Olivier <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Garet</span>' bibliography: - 'ccv.bib' date: | Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Applications et Physique Mathématique d’Orléans UMR 6628\ Université d’Orléans\ B.P. 6759\ 45067 Orléans Cedex 2 France\ E-Mail: Olivier.Garet@univ-orleans.fr ...
--- abstract: 'In this Letter, we propose a new generalized Ricci dark energy (NGR) model to unify Ricci dark energy (RDE) and XCDM. Our model can distinguish between RDE and XCDM by introducing a parameter $\beta$ called weight factor. When $\beta=1$, NGR model becomes the usual RDE model. The XCDM model is correspond...
--- abstract: 'This technical report describes two methods that were developed for Task 2 of the DCASE 2020 challenge. The challenge involves an unsupervised learning to detect anomalous sounds, thus only normal machine working condition samples are available during the training process. The two methods involve deep au...
UMDEPP 09-029\ SUNY-O/672 [**A Superfield for Every Dash-Chromotopology** ]{}\ [**C.F.Doran$^a$, M.G.Faux$^b$, S.J.Gates, Jr.$^c$, T.Hübsch$^d$, K.M.Iga$^e$ and G.D.Landweber$^f$**]{}\ [ *$^a$Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences,\ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G1 Canada\ [doran@math.ual...
--- abstract: 'December Monocerotids and November Orionids are weak but established annual meteor showers active throughout November and December. Analysis of a high quality orbits subset of the SonotaCo video meteor database shows that the distribution of orbital elements, geocentric velocity and also the orbital evol...
--- author: - | Asiya Ejaz$^1$, H. Gohar$^1$, Hai Lin$^{2,3}$, K. Saifullah$^{1,2,4}$, Shing-Tung Yau$^{2,3}$\ $^1$Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan\ $^2$Department of Physics, and Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature,\  Harvard University, MA 02138, USA\ $...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, we describe a new neuro-inspired, hardware-friendly readout stage for the liquid state machine (LSM), a popular model for reservoir computing. Compared to the parallel perceptron architecture trained by the *p*-delta algorithm, which is the state of the art in terms of performance of reado...
--- abstract: 'Driven condensed matter systems consistently pose substantial challenges to theoretical understanding. Progress in the study of such systems has been achieved using the Floquet formalism, but certain aspects of this approach are not well understood. In this paper, we consider the exceptionally simple cas...
--- abstract: 'We propose a construction of quantum hypergroups using conditional expectations on compact quantum groups. Using this construction, we describe several series of non-trivial finite-dimensional quantum hypergroups via conditional expectations of Delsart type on non-trivial Kac algebras obtained by twistin...
--- abstract: | We obtain the energy distribution of a Schwarzschild black hole in a magnetic universe in the Tolman prescription. PACS: 04. 20.-q; 04. 70.-s Keywords: energy, Schwarzschild black hole author: - 'I. Radinschi[^1]' - '”Gh. Asachi” Technical University, Iasi, Romania' title: Energy Distribut...
--- abstract: 'The analysis of Proxima Centauri’s radial velocities recently led @nature to claim the presence of a low mass planet orbiting the Sun’s nearest star once every 11.2days. Although the a-priori probability that Proxima b transits its parent star is just 1.5%, the potential impact of such a discovery would ...
--- author: - | Roberto Vio\ Chip Computers Consulting s.r.l.\ Viale Don L. Sturzo 82, S.Liberale di Marcon, 30020 Venice, Italy\ \ Paola Andreani\ ESO\ Karl Schwarzschild strasse 2, 85748 Garching, Germany\ \ title: | Comments on arXiv:1811.00154 \[astro-ph.IM\]\ “AGN Variabilit...
--- abstract: 'In this paper, we consider the localization of a five-dimensional gravitino field on $f(R)$ thick branes. We get the coupled chiral equations of the Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes of gravitino by choosing the gauge condition $\Psi_z=0$. It is found that the chiral equations of the gravitino KK modes are almost ...
--- abstract: 'Heavy vector-like quarks with electric charge $Q=2/3$ (also called *heavy tops*) appear naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model. Although these typically predict the existence of further particles below the TeV scale, direct searches for heavy tops have been performed assuming that they decay ...
\ [**Proton Decay Signatures of Orbifold GUTs**]{}\ [Arthur Hebecker and John March-Russell]{}\ [*Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland*]{}\ (April 3, 2002)\ [**Abstract**]{} In grand unified theories based on orbifold constructions in higher dimensions, Higgsino-mediated proton decay is absent. Howev...
--- abstract: 'The dynamics of a 2[*D*]{} site percolation model on a square lattice is studied using the hierarchical approach introduced by Gabrielov et al., [*Phys. Rev. E*]{}, [**60**]{}, 5293-5300, 1999. The key elements of the approach are the tree representation of clusters and their coalescence, and the Horton-...
--- abstract: 'This paper presents a randomization-based framework for estimating causal effects under interference between units. We develop the case of estimating average unit-level causal effects from a randomized experiment with interference of arbitrary but known form. We illustrate and assess empirical performanc...
--- abstract: 'We report searches for $B$-meson decays to the charmless final states $\rho K^*$ and $f_0(980) K^*$ with a sample of 232 million pairs collected with the  detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collider at SLAC. We measure the following branching fractions in units of $10^{-6}$: ${\cal B} (B^+...
--- abstract: 'We investigate Josephson currents in mesoscopic rings with a weak link which are in or near a topological superconducting phase. As a paradigmatic example, we consider the Kitaev model of a spinless $p$-wave superconductor in one dimension, emphasizing how this model emerges from more realistic settings ...
--- author: - | Stefano Frixione$^a$ and Alexander Mitov$^b$\ $^a$ PH Department, TH Unit, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland\ $^b$ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK title: Determination of the top quark mass from leptonic observables --- Introduction\[sec:intro\] =====...
--- abstract: 'The discovery of acceleration and dark energy arguably constitutes the most revolutionary discovery in astrophysics in recent years. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) played a key role in this amazing discovery through three systematic supernova surveys organized by staff astronomers: the “T...
--- abstract: | We study ex-post fairness in the object allocation problem where objects are valuable and commonly owned. A matching is fair from individual perspective if it has only inevitable envy towards agents who received most preferred objects – *minimal envy matching*. A matching is fair from social perspec...
--- abstract: 'A stream attention framework has been applied to the posterior probabilities of the deep neural network (DNN) to improve the far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in the multi-microphone configuration. The stream attention scheme has been realized through an attention vector, which is ...
--- abstract: 'An algorithm for a constraint satisfaction problem is called robust if it outputs an assignment satisfying at least $(1-g(\varepsilon))$-fraction of the constraints given a $(1-\varepsilon)$-satisfiable instance, where $g(\varepsilon) \rightarrow 0$ as $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$. Guruswami and Zhou conj...
--- abstract: | In this paper, we are concerned with the global existence and blowup of smooth solutions to the multi-dimensional compressible Euler equations with time-depending damping $$\left\{ \enspace \begin{aligned} &{\partial}_t\rho+\opdiv(\rho u)=0,\\ &{\partial}_t(\rho u)+\opdiv\left(\rho u...
--- abstract: 'Using exact numerical techniques we investigate the nature of excitonic (electron-hole) bound states and the development of exciton coherence in the one-dimensional half-filled extended Falicov-Kimball model. The ground-state phase diagram of the model exhibits, besides band insulator and staggered orbit...
--- abstract: | We study, using information quantifiers, the dynamics generated by a special Hamiltonian that gives a detailed account of the interaction between a classical and a quantum system. The associated, very rich dynamics displays periodicity, quasi-periodicity, not-boundedness, and chaotic regimes. Chaoti...