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--- abstract: 'I present 1.5- and 8.4-GHz observations with all configurations of the NRAO VLA of the wide-angle tail source . The source has a pair of relatively symmetrical, well-collimated inner jets, one of which terminates in a compact hot spot. Archival [*ROSAT*]{} PSPC data confirm that 3C130’s environment is a ...
--- abstract: 'Symplectic N-body integrators are widely used to study problems in celestial mechanics. The most popular algorithms are of 2nd and 4th order, requiring 2 and 6 substeps per timestep, respectively. The number of substeps increases rapidly with order in timestep, rendering higher-order methods impractical....
--- abstract: 'The Inert Doublet Model(IDM) is one of the simplest extensions beyond Standard Model(SM) with an extended scalar sector, which provide a scalar dark matter particle candidate. In this paper, we investigate the double charged Higgs production at $\gamma\gamma$ collider. By scanning the whole parameter spa...
--- abstract: | Let $H$ be a graph on $h$ vertices. The number of induced copies of $H$ in a graph $G$ is denoted by $i_H(G)$. Let $i_H(n)$ denote the maximum of $i_H(G)$ taken over all graphs $G$ with $n$ vertices. Let $f(n,h) = \Pi_{i}^h a_i$ where $\sum_{i=1}^h a_i = n$ and the $a_i$ are as equal as possibl...
--- abstract: | We study the connectedness of the planar self-affine sets $T(A,{\mathcal{D}})$ generated by an integer expanding matrix $A$ with $|\det(A)|=3$ and a non-collinear digit set ${\mathcal D}=\{0, v, kAv\}$ where $k\in {\mathbb Z}\setminus\{0\}$ and $v\in {\mathbb Z}^2$ such that $\{v, Av\}$ is l...
--- abstract: 'We present a new quantum communication complexity protocol, the promise–Quantum Random Access Code, which allows us to introduce a new measure of unbiasedness for bases of Hilbert spaces. The proposed measure possesses a clear operational meaning and can be used to investigate whether a specific number o...
--- abstract: 'We use the newly published 28 observational Hubble parameter data ($H(z)$) and current largest SNe Ia samples (Union2.1) to test whether the universe is transparent. Three cosmological-model-independent methods (nearby SNe Ia method, interpolation method and smoothing method) are proposed through compari...
--- abstract: 'Calculation of the Floquet quasi-energies of a system driven by a time-periodic field is an efficient way to understand its dynamics. In particular, the phenomenon of dynamical localization can be related to the presence of close approaches between quasi-energies (either crossings or avoided crossings). ...
--- abstract: 'We measure the faint end slope of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) for cluster galaxies at $1 < z < 1.5$ using [*Spitzer*]{} IRAC data. We investigate whether this slope, $\alpha$, differs from that of the field LF at these redshifts, and with the cluster LF at low redshifts. The latter is of particul...
--- abstract: 'It was proved by Linares and Ortega in [@LO] that the [*linearized*]{} Benjamin-Ono equation posed on a periodic domain ${\mathbb T}$ with a distributed control supported on an arbitrary subdomain is exactly controllable and exponentially stabilizable. The aim of this paper is to extend those results to ...
--- abstract: | For fixed $m > 1$, we study the product of $m$ independent $N \times N$ elliptic random matrices as $N$ tends to infinity. Our main result shows that the empirical spectral distribution of the product converges, with probability $1$, to the $m$-th power of the circular law, regardless of the joint d...
--- abstract: 'Public policy-makers use cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) to decide which health and social care interventions to provide. Appropriate methods have not been developed for handling missing data in complex settings, such as for CEA that use data from cluster randomised trials (CRTs). We present a multilev...
--- abstract: 'The grand potential of a system of interacting electrons is considered as a stationary point of a self-energy functional. It is shown that a rigorous evaluation of the functional is possible for self-energies that are representable within a certain reference system. The variational scheme allows to const...
--- abstract: 'This paper studies $n$-person simultaneous-move games with linear best response function, where individuals interact within a given network structure. This class of games have been used to model various settings, such as, public goods, belief formation, peer effects, and oligopoly. The purpose of this pa...
--- abstract: | In this paper we will think of certain abelian categories with favorable properties as non-commutative surfaces. We show that under certain conditions a point on a non-commutative surface can be blown up. This yields a new non-commutative surface which is in a certain sense birational to the origina...
--- abstract: 'Co/BaTiO$_3$(001) is one of the most interesting multiferroic heterostructures as it combines different ferroic phases, setting this way the fundamentals for innovative technical applications. Various theoretical approaches have been applied to investigate the electronic and magnetic properties of Co/BaT...
--- abstract: 'The classical theorems about singular perturbation reduction (due to Tikhonov and Fenichel) are concerned with convergence on a compact time interval (in slow time) as a small parameter approaches zero. For unbounded time intervals Hoppensteadt gave a convergence theorem, but his criteria are generally n...
--- abstract: 'Deep learning (deep structured learning, hierarchical learning or deep machine learning) is a branch of machine learning based on a set of algorithms that attempt to model high-level abstractions in data by using multiple processing layers with complex structures or otherwise composed of multiple non-lin...
--- author: - 'Liu Xiong, Li Baode, Qiu Xiaoli and Li Bo$^\ast$\' date: title: '**Estimates for Parametric Marcinkiewicz Integrals on Musielak-Orlicz Hardy Spaces** ' --- Introduction\[s1\] ================== Suppose that $S^{n-1}$ is the unit sphere in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $\rn \ (n\ge2)$. Let $\Ome...
--- abstract: 'Consider the situation where a data analyst wishes to carry out an analysis on a given dataset. It is widely recognized that most of the analyst’s time will be taken up with *data engineering* tasks such as acquiring, understanding, cleaning and preparing the data. In this paper we provide a description ...
--- abstract: 'This paper studies the singularities of Cullen-regular functions of one quaternionic variable, as defined in [@advances]. The quaternionic Laurent series prove to be Cullen-regular. The singularities of Cullen-regular functions are thus classified as removable, essential or poles. The quaternionic analog...
--- abstract: 'Spicules have been proposed as significant contributors to the mass and energy balance of the corona. While previous observations have provided a glimpse of short-lived transient brightenings in the corona that are associated with spicules, these observations have been contested and are the subject of a ...
--- abstract: 'We show how the partition function of a network of parallel superconducting wires weakly coupled together by the proximity effect, subjected a vector potential along the wires can be mapped onto N-distinguishable two dimensional quantum-mechanics problem with a perpendicular imaginary magnetic field. The...
--- abstract: 'A stochastic ordering approach is applied with Stein’s method for approximation by the equilibrium distribution of a birth–death process. The usual stochastic order and the more general $s$-convex orders are discussed. Attention is focused on Poisson and translated Poisson approximation of a sum of depen...
--- abstract: 'For $m,n>0$ or $mn<0$ we estimate the sums $$\sum_{c \leq x} \frac{S(m,n,c,\chi)}{c},$$ where the $S(m,n,c,\chi)$ are Kloosterman sums attached to a multiplier $\chi$ of weight $1/2$ on the full modular group. Our estimates are uniform in $m, n$ and $x$ in analogy with the bounds for the case $mn<0$ due ...
--- abstract: 'In this [*Letter*]{}, we report detections of SiO $v=3$ $J=1\rightarrow 0$ maser emission in very long baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations towards 4 out of 12 long-period variable stars: WX Psc, R Leo, W Hya, and T Cep. The detections towards WX Psc and T Cep are new ones. We also present succes...
--- abstract: 'We complete the study of the topological period-index problem over $8$ dimensional finite CW complexes started in a preceding paper. More precisely, we determine the sharp upper bound of the index of a topological Brauer class $\alpha\in H^3(X;{\mathbb{Z}})$, where $X$ is of the homotopy type of an $8$ d...
--- abstract: 'Let $K$ be a compact subset in the complex plane and let $A(K)$ be the uniform closure of the functions continuous on $K$ and analytic on $K^{\circ}$. Let $\mu$ be a positive finite measure with its support contained in $K$. For $1 \leq q < \infty$, let $A^{q}(K,\mu)$ denote the closure of $A(K)$ in $L^{...
--- abstract: 'We present the results of a broadband simultaneous campaign on the nearby low-luminosity active galactic nucleus M81\*. From February through August 2005, we observed M81\* five times using the *Chandra X-ray Observatory* with the High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer, complemented by ground-base...
--- abstract: 'The most efficient modern optical communication is known as coherent communication and its standard quantum limit (SQL) is almost reachable with current technology. Though it has been predicted for a long time that this SQL could be overcome via quantum mechanically optimized receivers, such a performanc...
--- abstract: 'In hard interactions between external particles incident on a heat-bath, we show that large logarithms are generated when a radiated or absorbed gauge boson is collinear with the initial fermion momentum. These logarithms can be absorbed into process independent splitting/absorption probabilities. Unlike...
--- abstract: 'In this study, two different simple and intuitive semiempirical schemes for computing approximate non-adiabatic coupling vectors (NACVs) between the ground and excited electronic states are presented. The first approximation makes use of Mulliken transition charges, while the second is based on derivativ...
--- abstract: | An eight-parametric family of complex connections on a class complex manifolds with Norden metric is introduced. The form of the curvature tensor with respect to each of these connections is obtained. The conformal group of the considered connections is studied and some conformal invariants are obta...
--- abstract: | Regge action is represented analogously to how the Palatini action for general relativity (GR) as some functional of the metric and a general connection as independent variables represents the Einstein-Hilbert action. The piecewise flat (or simplicial) spacetime of Regge calculus is equipped wi...
--- abstract: 'Compelling evidence–though yet no formal proof–has been adduced that the probability that a generic two-qubit state ($\rho$) is separable is $\frac{8}{33}$ (arXiv:1301.6617, arXiv:1109.2560, arXiv:0704.3723). Proceeding in related analytical frameworks, using a further determinantal moment formula of C. ...
--- abstract: 'Plutonium metal exhibits an anomalously large softening of its bulk modulus at elevated temperatures that is made all the more extraordinary by the finding that it occurs irrespective of whether the thermal expansion coefficient is positive, negative or zero — representing an extreme departure from conve...
--- abstract: 'The evolution of galaxies at Cosmic Noon (1$<$[*z*]{}$<$3) passed through a dust-obscured phase, during which most stars formed and black holes in galactic nuclei started to shine, which cannot be seen in the optical and UV, but it needs rest frame mid-to-far IR spectroscopy to be unveiled. At these freq...
--- abstract: 'By the assumption that the thermodynamics second law is valid, we study the possibility of $\omega=-1$ crossing in an interacting holographic dark energy model. Depending on the choice of the horizon and the interaction, the transition from quintessence to phantom regime and subsequently from phantom to ...
--- abstract: 'We discuss the deconstructed version of a topcolor-assisted technicolor model wherein the mechanism of top quark mass generation is separated from the rest of electroweak symmetry breaking. The minimal deconstructed version of this scenario is a “triangle moose” model, where the top quark gets its mass f...
--- author: - | R. Cowsik$^1$ & B.V.Sreekantan$^2$\ $^1$Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 560 034\ $^2$ National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012 title: A Bound on Violations of Lorentz Invariance --- To test by experiments the limits of validity of Lorentz invariance or indeed an...
--- abstract: 'Combining the usual energy functional with a higher-order conserved quantity originating from integrability theory, we show that the black soliton is a local minimizer of a quantity that is conserved along the flow of the cubic defocusing NLS equation in one space dimension. This unconstrained variationa...
--- abstract: 'By considering the $x$-dependence of $\pi^+$, $\pi^-$, $K^+$, $K^-$, $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $p$, $\bar{p}$ hadron productions in charged lepton semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off nuclear target (using Fe as an example) and deuteron D target, we find that $(\bar{\Lambda}^A/\Lambda^A)/(\bar{...
--- abstract: 'We study two methods for computing network features with topological underpinnings: the Rips and Dowker persistent homology diagrams. Our formulations work for general networks, which may be asymmetric and may have any real number as an edge weight. We study the sensitivity of Dowker persistence diagrams...
--- abstract: 'Let $X$ be a separable Banach space, $Y$ a Banach space and $f: X \to Y$ an arbitrary mapping. Then the following implication holds at each point $x \in X$ except a $\sigma$-directionally porous set:  If the one-sided Hadamard directional derivative $f''_{H+}(x,u)$ exists in all directions $u$ from a set...
--- abstract: | if and only if there is an expansion $T_1$ of $T$ with $|T_1| = |T| $ such that if $M$ is a $\mu$-saturated model of $T_1$ and $|M| \geq \kappa$ then the reduct $ M\restriction L(T)$ is $\kappa$-saturated. We characterize theories which are superstable without f.c.p., or without f.c.p. as, respectiv...
--- abstract: 'Progress is reviewed in the understanding of color confinement.' author: - Adriano Di Giacomo title: 'CONFINEMENT IN QCD: RESULTS AND OPEN PROBLEMS' --- [^1] Introduction ============ History ------- The existence of quarks was first hypothesized by M. Gell-mann in the sixties[@Gell1]. The history of...
--- abstract: 'We present a method to edit a target portrait footage by taking a sequence of audio as input to synthesize a photo-realistic video. This method is unique because it is highly dynamic. It does not assume a person-specific rendering network yet capable of translating arbitrary source audio into arbitrary v...
--- abstract: 'Achieving strong interactions between individual photons enables a wide variety of exciting possibilities in quantum information science and many-body physics. Cold atoms interfaced with nanophotonic structures have emerged as a platform to realize novel forms of nonlinear interactions. In particular, wh...
--- abstract: 'We introduce new observables for the study of the inclusive same sign dileptons production at LHC which are built out of ratios of the observed number of same-sign dileptons, both with same $N(\ell,\ell)$ and different flavor $N(\ell,\ell'')$. As a case study we apply them to the stau coannihilation regi...
--- abstract: 'We derive the optimal proposal density for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) using Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) (or Population Monte Carlo, PMC). The criterion for optimality is that the SMC/PMC-ABC sampler maximise the effective number of samples per parameter proposal. The optimal proposal density...
--- abstract: 'We point out that the measurement of target spin depolarization $D_{nn}$ in the $\bar{p}p\to\bar{\Lambda}\Lambda$ reaction may test dynamical mechanisms invoked to explain the proton spin puzzle revealed by polarized deep–inelastic scattering experiments. In particular, models with [*negatively*]{} polar...
--- abstract: 'Most of the existing work on automatic facial expression analysis focuses on discrete emotion recognition, or facial action unit detection. However, facial expressions do not always fall neatly into pre-defined semantic categories. Also, the similarity between expressions measured in the action unit spac...
--- abstract: 'The probability of quantum relocation of a human body, at a given distance, is estimated using two different methods, giving comparable results. Not only the obtained values for the probabilities are inconceivably small, but assumptions of a sci-fi nature are also necessary to ensure that they are not id...
--- abstract: 'The magnetic breakout model has been widely used to explain solar eruptive activities. Here, we apply it to explain successive filament eruptions occurred in a quadrupolar magnetic source region. Based on the high temporal and spatial resolution, multi-wavelengths observations taken by the Atmospheric Im...
--- author: - 'P. Coelho' - 'B. Barbuy' - 'M.-N. Perrin' - 'T. Idiart' - 'R. P. Schiavon' - 'S. Ortolani' - 'E. Bica' date: 'Received 30 January 2001; accepted 11 June 2001' title: 'Membership of 23 stars towards the bulge globular clusters NGC 6528 and NGC 6553 [^1]' --- Introduction ============ The study of the st...
  and -3.2mm A unified evolutionary scheme that includes post-AGB systems, barium stars, symbiotics, and related systems, explaining their similarites as well as differences. Can we construct it? We compare these various classes of objects in order to construct a consistent picture. Special attention is given to the...
--- abstract: 'I discuss some problems connected with the high precision study of neutrino oscillations. In the general case of $n$-neutrino mixing I derive a convenient expression for transition probability in which only independent terms (and mass-squared differences) enter. For three-neutrino mixing I discuss a prob...
--- abstract: 'Great attention is given to the first star formation and the epoch of reionization as main targets of planned large radio interferometries (e.g. Square Kilometre Array). Recently, it is claimed that the supersonic relative velocity between baryons and cold dark matter can suppress the abundance of first ...
--- abstract: 'A Multiplicative-Exponential Linear Logic (MELL) proof-structure can be expanded into a set of resource proof-structures: its Taylor expansion. We introduce a new criterion characterizing those sets of resource proof-structures that are part of the Taylor expansion of some MELL proof-structure, through a...
--- abstract: 'Recent studies in image classification have demonstrated a variety of techniques for improving the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, attempts to combine existing techniques to create a practical model are still uncommon. In this study, we carry out extensive experiments to val...
--- abstract: | This is the first in a series of at least 4 articles. We will study Carlson’s $<_1$-relation in the whole class of ordinals and later we will link it with ordinals $\alpha \leqslant \left| \Pi^1_1 - {\ensuremath{\operatorname{CA}}}_0 \right|$. The main motivation to study $<_1$ are the works of...
--- abstract: 'The production of $W$ or $Z$ bosons in association with two jets is an important background to the Higgs boson search in vector-boson fusion at the LHC. The purely electroweak component of this background is dominated by vector-boson fusion, which exhibits kinematic distributions very similar to the Higg...
--- abstract: 'We investigate Non-Hermitian quantum field theoretic model with $\iota g\phi^3$ interaction in 6 dimension. Such a model is PT-symmetric for the pseudo scalar field $\phi$. We analytically calculate the 2-loop $\beta$ function and analyse the system using renormalization group technique. Behavior of the ...
--- abstract: 'Automated decision making is used routinely throughout our every-day life. Recommender systems decide which jobs, movies, or other user profiles might be interesting to us. Spell checkers help us to make good use of language. Fraud detection systems decide if a credit card transactions should be verified...
--- abstract: 'Evidence is emerging that the luminous X-ray sources in the cores of globular clusters may often consist of, or perhaps even as a class be dominated by, ultracompact (P1 hr) binary stars. To the two such systems already known, in NGC6624 and NGC6712, we now add evidence for two more. We detect large ampl...
--- author: - 'A. R. Ridden-Harper' - 'I. A. G. Snellen' - 'C. U. Keller' - 'R. J. de Kok' - 'E. Di Gloria' - 'H. J. Hoeijmakers' - 'M. Brogi' - 'M. Fridlund' - 'B. L. A. Vermeersen' - 'W. van Westrenen' bibliography: - '55Cnce.bib' title: 'Search for an exosphere in sodium and calcium in the transmission spectrum of e...
--- author: - 'V. Bosch-Ramon' title: ' Multifrequency Behavior of Microquasars in the GeV–TeV era: A review ' --- Introduction ============ Microquasars are X-ray binaries with non-thermal jets (e.g. @mir99 [@rib05]), being called high-mass microquasars when hosting a massive star, and low-mass microquasars otherwis...
--- abstract: 'We compute the general expression of the one-loop vertex correction in an arbitrary plane-wave background field for the case of two on-shell external electrons and an off-shell external photon. The properties of the vertex corrections under gauge transformations of the plane-wave background field and of ...
--- abstract: 'We prove that a nonempty, proper subset $S$ of the complex plane can be approximated in a strong sense by polynomial filled Julia sets if and only if $S$ is bounded and $\hat{\mathbb{C}} \setminus \textrm{int}(S)$ is connected. The proof that such a set is approximable by filled Julia sets is constructiv...
--- abstract: 'Transceivers operating in frequency division duplex experience a signal into the receiver due to the limited duplexer stop-band isolation. This signal in combination with the second-order nonlinearity of the receive mixer may lead to a with twice the transmit signal bandwidth. In direct conversion receiv...
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--- abstract: 'We study $\{0,\alpha\}$-sets, which are sets of unit vectors of $\mathbb{C}^m$ in which any two distinct vectors have angle 0 or $\alpha$. We investigate some distance-regular graphs that provide new constructions of $\{0,\alpha\}$-sets using a method by Godsil and Roy. We prove bounds for the sizes of $...
--- author: - | Bijan Bagchi$^\circ$ and Andreas Fring$^\bullet$\ $\circ$ Department of Physics, Shiv Nadar University, Dadri, UP 201314, India\ $\bullet$ Department of Mathematics, City, University of London,\ $\,\,$ Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK\ E-mail: bbagchi123@gmail.com, a.fring@cit...
16.5cm 22.5cm 0.cm 0.cm 0.cm PRA-HEP-93/05\ May 1993 \ The importance of properly taking into account the factorization scheme dependence of parton distribution functions is emphasized. A serious error in the usual handling of this topic is pointed out and the correct procedure for transforming parton distribution f...
--- abstract: 'In the previous papers in this series, we have measured the stellar and [ <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">HI</span> ]{} content in a sample of edge-on galaxies. In the present paper, we perform a simultaneous rotation curve and vertical force field gradient decomposition for five of these edge-on ...
--- abstract: 'We explore the interspecies interaction quench dynamics of ultracold spin-polarized few-body mass balanced Fermi-Fermi mixtures confined in a double-well with an emphasis on the beyond Hartree-Fock correlation effects. It is shown that the ground state of particle imbalanced mixtures exhibits a symmetry ...
--- author: - | [^1]\ Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics and Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn\ Nussallee 12, D-53115 Bonn, Germany\ Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas, Instituto Superior Técnico\ Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal\ E-mail: title: 'Reconstructing Dark ...
--- abstract: 'Charmonia spectral functions at finite temperature are studied using QCD sum rules in combination with the maximum entropy method. This approach enables us to directly obtain the spectral function from the sum rules, without having to introduce any specific assumption about its functional form. As a resu...
--- abstract: 'We find the explicit coordinate transformation which links two exact cosmological solutions of the brane world which have been recently discovered. This means that both solutions are exactly the same with each other. One of two solutions is described by the motion of a domain wall in the well-known 5-dim...
--- abstract: 'We derive a bound on the magnetic dipole moment of the top quark in the context of the effective Lagrangian approach by using the ratios $R_b=\Gamma_b/\Gamma_{h}$, $R_l=\Gamma_{h}/\Gamma_l$ and the $Z$ width. We take into account the vertex and oblique corrections.' author: - | R. Martínez$^1$ and J....
--- abstract: 'The triggering mechanism(s) and critical condition(s) of solar flares are still not completely clarified, although various studies have attempted to elucidate them. We have also proposed a theoretical flare-trigger model based on MHD simulations [@kusano12], in which two types of small-scale bipole field...
--- abstract: 'Recent observations have shown that the majority of the Andromeda galaxy’s satellites are aligned in a thin plane. On the theoretical side it has been proposed that galaxies acquire their gas via cold streams. In addition, numerical simulations show that the same streams also deliver gas clumps which cou...
--- abstract: 'Causal inference in multivariate time series is challenging due to the fact that the sampling rate may not be as fast as the timescale of the causal interactions. In this context, we can view our observed series as a *subsampled* version of the desired series. Furthermore, due to technological and other ...
--- abstract: 'The accuracy of object detectors and trackers is most commonly evaluated by the Intersection over Union (IoU) criterion. To date, most approaches are restricted to axis-aligned or oriented boxes and, as a consequence, many datasets are only labeled with boxes. Nevertheless, axis-aligned or oriented boxes...
--- abstract: 'A new method of calculation of amplitudes of different processes in quantum electrodynamics is proposed. The method does not use the Feynman technique of trace of product of matrices calculation. The method strongly simplifies calculation of cross sections for different processes. The effectiveness of th...
--- abstract: 'First, I give an elementary proof for the fact that the minimal crossing number is additive under composition of torus links. This result is generalized to the composition of homogeneous braids with alternating fibered links. Then there follow estimates for the crossing number of satellite knots. In the ...
--- abstract: 'We consider a nonlocal functional $J_K$ that may be regarded as a nonlocal version of the total variation. More precisely, for any measurable function $u\colon \Rd \to \R$, we define $J_K(u)$ as the integral of weighted differences of $u$. The weight is encoded by a positive kernel $K$, possibly singular...
--- abstract: 'We study the minimality of an isometric immersion of a Riemannian manifold into a strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold $M$ endowed with the Webster metric (associated to a fixed contact form on $M$), hence formulate a version of the CR Yamabe problem for CR manifolds-with-boundary. This is shown to be a non...
--- abstract: 'This paper is concerned with the analysis of correlation between two high-dimensional data sets when there are only few correlated signal components but the number of samples is very small, possibly much smaller than the dimensions of the data. In such a scenario, a principal component analysis (PCA) ran...
--- abstract: 'We report low-temperature magnetisation measurements on a large number of purified ropes of single wall carbon nanotubes. In spite of a large superparamagnetic contribution due to the small ferromagnetic catalytical particles still present in the sample, at low temperature ($T < 0.5K$) and low magnetic ...
--- abstract: | We calculate the critical value of the hopping parameter, $\kappa_c$, in Lattice QCD, up to two loops in perturbation theory. We employ the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert (clover) improved action for fermions and the Symanzik improved gluon action with 4- and 6-link loops. The quantity which we study i...
--- abstract: 'The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) automated spectroscopic reduction pipeline provides $>$1.5 million intermediate resolution, $R \simeq 2000$, moderate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), SNR$\sim 15$, astronomical spectra of unprecedented homogeneity that cover the wavelength range $3800-9200\,$Å. However, t...
--- abstract: 'We generalize results by Wakabayashi and Orevkov about rational cuspidal curves on the projective plane to that on ${\mbox{$\mathbb Q$}}$-homology projective planes. It turns out that the result is exactly the same as the projective plane case under suitable assumptions. We also provide examples which de...
--- abstract: 'A modular, maintainable and extensible particle beam simulation architecture is presented. Design considerations for single particle, multi particle, and rms envelope simulations (in two and three dimensions) are outlined. Envelope simulation results have been validated against Trace3D. Hybridization wit...
--- abstract: 'Indoor localization for autonomous micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) requires specific localization techniques, since the Global Positioning System (GPS) is usually not available. We present an efficient *onboard* computer vision approach that estimates 2D positions of an MAV in real-time. This *global* local...
--- abstract: 'We summarize unusual bound or localized states in quantum mechanics. Our guide through these intriguing phenomena is the classical physics of the upside–down pendulum, taking advantage of the analogy between the corresponding Newton’s equation of motion and the time independent Schrödinger equation. We d...
--- abstract: 'We aim at demonstrating the influence of diversity in the ensemble of CNNs on the detection of black-box adversarial instances and hardening the generation of white-box adversarial attacks. To this end, we propose an ensemble of diverse specialized CNNs along with a simple voting mechanism. The diversity...
Introduction ============ Thirty five years ago Wilson and Fisher [@01] emphasized the relevance of the $\varphi^4$-theory to understanding the critical phenomena. Since then, the theory has become one of the most appealing theoretical tools for studying the critical phenomena in a wide variety of systems in statistic...
--- abstract: 'Collapse and reverse to collapse explosion transition in self-gravitating systems are studied by molecular dynamics simulations. A microcanonical ensemble of point particles confined to a spherical box is considered; the particles interact via an attractive soft Coulomb potential. It is observed that the...
--- abstract: | For a closed topological manifold $M$ with $\dim (M) \geq 5$ the topological structure set ${\mathcal{S}}(M)$ admits an abelian group structure which may be identified with the algebraic structure group of $M$ as defined by Ranicki. If $\dim (M) = 2d-1$, $M$ is oriented and $M$ is equipped with a ma...