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arxiv_dataset-104001810.08813
On the semigroup ring of holomorphic Artin L-functions math.NT Let $K/\mathbb Q$ be a finite Galois extension and let $\chi_1,\ldots,\chi_r$ be the irreducible characters of the Galois group $G:=Gal(K/\mathbb Q)$. Let $f_1:=L(s,\chi_1),\ldots,f_r:=L(s,\chi_r)$ be their associated Artin L-functions. For $s_0\in \mathbb C\setminus\{1\}$, we denote $Hol(s_0)$ the semigroup of Artin $L$-functions, holomorphic at $s_0$. Let $\mathbb F$ be a field with $\mathbb C \subseteq \mathbb F \subseteq \mathcal M_{<1}:=$ the field of meromorphic functions of order $<1$. We note that the semigroup ring $\mathbb F[Hol(s_0)]$ is isomorphic to a toric ring $\mathbb F[H(s_0)]\subseteq \mathbb F[x_1,\ldots,x_r]$, where $H(s_0)$ is an affine subsemigroup of $\mathbb N^r$ minimally generated by at least $r$ elements, and we describe $\mathbb F[H(s_0)]$ when the toric ideal $I_{H(s_0)}=(0)$. Also, we describe $\mathbb F[H(s_0)]$ and $I_{H(s_0)}$ when $f_1,\ldots,f_r$ have only simple zeros and simple poles at $s_0$.
arxiv topic:math.NT
arxiv_dataset-104011810.08913
Integrals derived from the doubling method math.NT In this note, we use a basic identity, derived from the generalized doubling integrals of \cite{C-F-G-K1}, in order to explain the existence of various global Rankin-Selberg integrals for certain $L$-functions. To derive these global integrals, we use the identities relating Eisenstein series in \cite{G-S}, together with the process of exchanging roots. We concentrate on several well known examples, and explain how to obtain them from the basic identity. Using these ideas, we also show how to derive a new global integral.
arxiv topic:math.NT
arxiv_dataset-104021810.09013
On a linear functional for infinitely divisible moving average random fields math.PR math.ST stat.TH Given a low-frequency sample of the infinitely divisible moving average random field $\{\int_{\mathbb{R}^d}f(t-x)\Lambda (dx), t\in \mathbb{R}^d\}$, in [13] we proposed an estimator $\hat{uv_0}$ for the function $\mathbb{R}\ni x\mapsto u(x)v_0(x)=(uv_0)(x)$, with $u(x)=x$ and $v_0$ being the L\'{e}vy density of the integrator random measure $\Lambda$. In this paper, we study asymptotic properties of the linear functional $L^2(\mathbb{R})\ni v\mapsto \left \langle v,\hat{uv_0}\right \rangle_{L^2(\mathbb{R})}$, if the (known) kernel function $f$ has a compact support. We provide conditions that ensure consistency (in mean) and prove a central limit theorem for it.
arxiv topic:math.PR math.ST stat.TH
arxiv_dataset-104031810.09113
The Bregman chord divergence cs.LG stat.ML Distances are fundamental primitives whose choice significantly impacts the performances of algorithms in machine learning and signal processing. However selecting the most appropriate distance for a given task is an endeavor. Instead of testing one by one the entries of an ever-expanding dictionary of {\em ad hoc} distances, one rather prefers to consider parametric classes of distances that are exhaustively characterized by axioms derived from first principles. Bregman divergences are such a class. However fine-tuning a Bregman divergence is delicate since it requires to smoothly adjust a functional generator. In this work, we propose an extension of Bregman divergences called the Bregman chord divergences. This new class of distances does not require gradient calculations, uses two scalar parameters that can be easily tailored in applications, and generalizes asymptotically Bregman divergences.
arxiv topic:cs.LG stat.ML
arxiv_dataset-104041810.09213
Digital Quantum Simulation of Hadronization in Yang-Mills Theory quant-ph hep-th A quantum algorithm of SU(N) Yang-Mills theory is formulated in terms of quantum circuits. It can nonperturbatively calculate the Dyson series and scattering amplitudes with polynomial complexity. The gauge fields in the interaction picture are discretized on the same footing with the lattice fermions in momentum space to avoid the fermion doubling and the gauge symmetry breaking problems. Applying the algorithm to the quantum simulation of quantum chromodynamics, the quark and gluon's wave functions evolved from the initial states by the interactions can be observed and the information from wave functions can be extracted at any discrete time. This may help us understand the natures of the hadronization which has been an outstanding question of significant implication on high energy phenomenological studies.
arxiv topic:quant-ph hep-th
arxiv_dataset-104051810.09313
Geometric inequalities for critical metrics of the volume functional math.DG In this article, we investigate the geometry of critical metrics of the volume functional on an $n$-dimensional compact manifold with (possibly disconnected) boundary. We establish sharp estimates to the mean curvature and area of the boundary components of critical metrics of the volume functional on a compact manifold. In addition, localized version estimates to the mean curvature and area of the boundary of critical metrics are also obtained.
arxiv topic:math.DG
arxiv_dataset-104061810.09413
EFT approach to the electron Electric Dipole Moment at the two-loop level hep-ph The ACME collaboration has recently reported a new bound on the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron, $|d_e|< 1.1 \times 10^{-29}\, {\rm e\cdot cm}$ at 90$\%$ confidence level, reaching an unprecedented accuracy level. This can translate into new relevant constraints on theories beyond the SM laying at the TeV scale, even when they contribute to the electron EDM at the two-loop level. We use the EFT approach to classify these corrections, presenting the contributions to the anomalous dimension of the CP-violating dipole operators of the electron up to the two-loop level. Selection rules based on helicity and CP play an important role to simplify this analysis. We use this result to provide new bounds on BSM with leptoquarks, extra Higgs, or constraints in sectors of the MSSM and composite Higgs models. The new ACME bound pushes natural theories significantly more into fine-tune territory, unless they have a way to accidentally preserve CP.
arxiv topic:hep-ph
arxiv_dataset-104071810.09513
Transient stratification force on particles crossing a density interface physics.flu-dyn We perform a series of experiments to measure Lagrangian trajectories of settling and rising particles as they traverse a density interface of thickness $h$ using an index-matched water-salt-ethanol solution. The experiments confirm the substantial deceleration that particles experience as a result of the additional force exerted on the particle due to the sudden change in density. This stratification force is calculated from the measurement data for all particle trajectories. In the absence of suitable parameterizations in the literature, a simple phenomenological model is developed which relies on parameterizations of the effective wake volume and recovery time scale. The model accurately predicts the particle trajectories obtained in our experiments and those of \cite{Fernando1999}. Furthermore, the model demonstrates that the problem depends on four key parameters, namely the entrance Reynolds number $Re_1$, entrance Froude number $Fr$, particle to fluid density ratio $\rho_p/\rho_f$, and relative interface thickness $h/a$.
arxiv topic:physics.flu-dyn
arxiv_dataset-104081810.09613
Refining Santa: An Exercise in Efficient Synchronization cs.PL cs.LO cs.SE The Santa Claus Problem is an intricate exercise for concurrent programming. This paper outlines the refinement steps to develop a highly efficient implementation with concurrent objects, starting from a simple specification. The efficiency of the implementation is compared to those in other languages.
arxiv topic:cs.PL cs.LO cs.SE
arxiv_dataset-104091810.09713
Complex Langevin: Boundary terms and application to QCD hep-lat hep-th We employ the Complex Langevin method for simulation of complex-valued actions. First, we show how to test for convergence of the method by explicitely computing boundary terms and demonstrate this in a model. Then we investigate the deconfinement phase transition of QCD with $N_f=2$ Wilson-fermions using the Complex Langevin Method and. We give preliminary results for the transition temperatures up to $\mu/T_c(\mu=0)\approx 5$ and compute the curvature coefficient $\kappa_2$.
arxiv topic:hep-lat hep-th
arxiv_dataset-104101810.09813
New type of solutions of Yang-Baxter equations, quantum entanglement and related physical models quant-ph math-ph math.MP Starting from the Kauffman-Lomonaco braiding matrix transforming the natural basis to Bell states, the spectral parameter describing the entanglement is introduced through Yang-Baxterization. It gives rise to a new type of solutions for Yang-Baxter equation, called the type-II that differs from the familiar solution called type-I of YBE associated with the usual chain models. The Majorana fermionic version of type-II yields the Kitaev Hamiltonian. The introduced $\ell_1$ -norm leads to the maximum of the entanglement by taking the extreme value and shows that it is related to the Wigner's D-function. Based on the Yang-Baxter equation the 3-body S-Matrix for type-II is explicitly given. Different from the type-I solution, the type-II solution of YBE should be considered in describing quantum information. The idea is further extended to $\mathbb{Z}_3$ parafermion model based on $SU(3)$ principal representation. The type-II is in difference from the familiar type-I in many respects. For example, the quantities corresponding to velocity in the chain models obey the Lorentzian additivity $\frac{u+v}{1+uv}$ rather than Galilean rule $(u+v)$. Most possibly, for the type-II solutions of YBE there may not exist RTT relation. Further more, for $\mathbb{Z}_3$ parafermion model we only need the rational Yang-Baxterization, which seems like trigonometric. Similar discussions are also made in terms of generalized Yang-Baxter equation with three spin spaces $\{1,\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\}$.
arxiv topic:quant-ph math-ph math.MP
arxiv_dataset-104111810.09913
Most Probable Evolution Trajectories in a Genetic Regulatory System Excited by Stable L\'evy Noise q-bio.MN q-bio.SC We study the most probable trajectories of the concentration evolution for the transcription factor activator in a genetic regulation system, with non-Gaussian stable L\'evy noise in the synthesis reaction rate taking into account. We calculate the most probable trajectory by spatially maximizing the probability density of the system path, i.e., the solution of the associated nonlocal Fokker-Planck equation. We especially examine those most probable trajectories from low concentration state to high concentration state (i.e., the likely transcription regime) for certain parameters, in order to gain insights into the transcription processes and the tipping time for the transcription likely to occur. This enables us: (i) to visualize the progress of concentration evolution (i.e., observe whether the system enters the transcription regime within a given time period); (ii) to predict or avoid certain transcriptions via selecting specific noise parameters in particular regions in the parameter space. Moreover, we have found some peculiar or counter-intuitive phenomena in this gene model system, including (a) a smaller noise intensity may trigger the transcription process, while a larger noise intensity can not, under the same asymmetric L\'evy noise. This phenomenon does not occur in the case of symmetric L\'evy noise; (b) the symmetric L\'evy motion always induces transition to high concentration, but certain asymmetric L\'evy motions do not trigger the switch to transcription. These findings provide insights for further experimental research, in order to achieve or to avoid specific gene transcriptions, with possible relevance for medical advances.
arxiv topic:q-bio.MN q-bio.SC
arxiv_dataset-104121810.10013
Holographic duals of 6d RG flows hep-th A notable class of superconformal theories (SCFTs) in six dimensions is parameterized by an integer $N$, an ADE group $G$, and two nilpotent elements $\mu_\mathrm{L,R}$ in $G$. Nilpotent elements have a natural partial ordering, which has been conjectured to coincide with the hierarchy of renormalization-group flows among the SCFTs. In this paper we test this conjecture for $G=\mathrm{SU}(k)$, where AdS$_7$ duals exist in IIA. We work with a seven-dimensional gauged supergravity, consisting of the gravity multiplet and two $\mathrm{SU}(k)$ non-Abelian vector multiplets. We show that this theory has many supersymmetric AdS$_7$ vacua, determined by two nilpotent elements, which are naturally interpreted as IIA AdS$_7$ solutions. The BPS equations for domain walls connecting two such vacua can be solved analytically, up to a Nahm equation with certain boundary conditions. The latter admit a solution connecting two vacua if and only if the corresponding nilpotent elements are related by the natural partial ordering, in agreement with the field theory conjecture.
arxiv topic:hep-th
arxiv_dataset-104131810.10113
How different is the core of $^{25}$F from $^{24}$O$_{g.s.}$? nucl-ex nucl-th The neutron-shell structure of $^{25}$F was studied using quasi-free (p,2p) knockout reaction at 270A MeV in inverse kinematics. The sum of spectroscopic factors of $\pi$0d$_{5/2}$ orbital is found to be $1.0 \pm 0.3$. However, the spectroscopic factor for the ground-state to ground-state transition ($^{25}$F, $^{24}$O$_{g.s.}$) is only $0.36\pm 0.13$, and $^{24}$O excited states are produced from the 0d$_{5/2}$ proton knockout. The result shows that the $^{24}$O core of $^{25}$F nucleus significantly differs from a free $^{24}$O nucleus, and the core consists of 35% $^{24}$O$_{g.s}$. and 65% excited $^{24}$O.
arxiv topic:nucl-ex nucl-th
arxiv_dataset-104141810.10213
The Langevin diffusion as a continuous-time model of animal movement and habitat selection stat.AP stat.ME 1. The utilisation distribution describes the relative probability of use of a spatial unit by an animal. It is natural to think of it as the long-term consequence of the animal's short-term movement decisions: it is the accumulation of small displacements which, over time, gives rise to global patterns of space use. However, most utilisation distribution models either ignore the underlying movement, assuming the independenceof observed locations, or are based on simplistic Brownian motion movement rules. 2. We introduce a new continuous-time model of animal movement, based on the Langevin diffusion. This stochastic process has an explicit stationary distribution, conceptually analogous to the idea of the utilisation distribution, and thus provides an intuitive framework to integrate movement and space use. We model the stationary (utilisation) distribution with a resource selection function to link the movement to spatial covariates, and allow inference into habitat selection. 3. Standard approximation techniques can be used to derive the pseudo-likelihood of the Langevin diffusion movement model, and to estimate habitat preference and movement parameters from tracking data. We investigate the performance of the method on simulated data, and discuss its sensitivity to the time scale of the sampling. We present an example of its application to tracking data of Stellar sea lions (Eumetopiasjubatus). 4. Due to its continuous-time formulation, this method can be applied to irregular telemetry data. It provides a rigorous framework to estimate long-term habitat selection from correlated movement data.
arxiv topic:stat.AP stat.ME
arxiv_dataset-104151810.10313
First and Second Order Shape Optimization based on Restricted Mesh Deformations math.OC We consider shape optimization problems subject to elliptic partial differential equations. In the context of the finite element method, the geometry to be optimized is represented by the computational mesh, and the optimization proceeds by repeatedly updating the mesh node positions. It is well known that such a procedure eventually may lead to a deterioration of mesh quality, or even an invalidation of the mesh, when interior nodes penetrate neighboring cells. We examine this phenomenon, which can be traced back to the ineptness of the discretized objective when considered over the space of mesh node positions. As a remedy, we propose a restriction in the admissible mesh deformations, inspired by the Hadamard structure theorem. First and second order methods are considered in this setting. Numerical results show that mesh degeneracy can be overcome, avoiding the need for remeshing or other strategies. FEniCS code for the proposed methods is available on GitHub.
arxiv topic:math.OC
arxiv_dataset-104161810.10413
Thorium in solar twins: implications for habitability in rocky planets astro-ph.SR astro-ph.EP We have investigated the thorium (Th) abundance in a sample of 53 thin disc solar twins covering a wide range of ages. These data provide constrains on the mantle energy budget of terrestrial planets that can be formed over the evolution of the Galaxy's thin disc. We have estimated Th abundances with an average precision of 0.025\,dex (in both [Th/H] and [Th/Fe]) through comprehensive spectral synthesis of a Th\,II line present at 4019.1290\,{\AA}, using very high resolution (R\,=\,115,000) high quality HARPS spectra obtained at the ESO La Silla Observatory. We have confirmed that there is a large energy budget from Th decay for maintaining mantle convection inside potential rocky planets around solar twins, from the Galactic thin disc formation until now, because the pristine [Th/H]$_{\rm ZAMS}$ is super-solar on average under a uniform dispersion of 0.056\,dex (varying from +0.037 up to +0.138\,dex based on linear fits against isochrone stellar age). Comparing to neodymium (Nd) and europium (Eu), two others neutron-capture elements, the stellar pristine abundance of Th follows Eu along the Galactic thin disc evolution, but it does not follow Nd, probably because neodymium has a significant contribution from the $s$-process (about 60\,per\,cent).
arxiv topic:astro-ph.SR astro-ph.EP
arxiv_dataset-104171810.10513
Between-Ride Routing for Private Transportation Services cs.SY Spurred by the growth of transportation network companies and increasing data capabilities, vehicle routing and ride-matching algorithms can improve the efficiency of private transportation services. However, existing routing solutions do not address where drivers should travel after dropping off a passenger and before receiving the next passenger ride request, i.e., during the between-ride period. We address this problem by developing an efficient algorithm to find the optimal policy for drivers between rides in order to maximize driver profits. We model the road network as a graph, and we show that the between-ride routing problem is equivalent to a stochastic shortest path problem, an infinite dynamic program with no discounting. We prove under reasonable assumptions that an optimal routing policy exists that avoids cycles; policies of this type can be efficiently found. We present an iterative approach to find an optimal routing policy. Our approach can account for various factors, including the frequency of passenger ride requests at different locations, traffic conditions, and surge pricing. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach by implementing it on road network data from Boston and New York City.
arxiv topic:cs.SY
arxiv_dataset-104181810.10613
Convergent and divergent beam electron holography and reconstruction of adsorbates on free-standing two-dimensional crystals cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hall physics.ins-det Van der Waals heterostructures have been lately intensively studied because they offer a large variety of properties that can be controlled by selecting 2D materials and their sequence in the stack. The exact arrangement of the layers as well as the exact arrangement of the atoms within the layers, both are important for the properties of the resulting device. Recently it has been demonstrated that convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) allows quantitative three-dimensional mapping of atomic positions in three-dimensional materials from a single CBED pattern. In this study we investigate CBED in more detail by simulating and performing various CBED regimes, with convergent and divergent wavefronts, on a somewhat simplified system: a 2D monolayer crystal. In CBED, each CBED spot is in fact an in-line hologram of the sample, where in-line holography is known to exhibit high intensity contrast in detection of weak phase objects that are not detectable in conventional in-focus imaging mode. Adsorbates exhibit strong intensity contrast in zero and higher order CBED spots, whereas lattice deformation such as strain or rippling cause noticeable intensity contrast only in the first and higher order CBED spots. The individual CBED spots can be reconstructed as typical in-line holograms, and the resolution of 2.13 A can be in principle achieved in the reconstructions. We provide simulated and experimental examples of CBED of a 2D monolayer crystal. The simulations show that individual CBED spots can be treated as in-line holograms and sample distributions such as adsorbates, can be reconstructed. Individual atoms can be reconstructed from a single CBED pattern provided the later exhibits high-order CBED spots. Examples of reconstructions obtained from experimental CBED patterns, at a resolution of 2.7 A, are shown.
arxiv topic:cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hall physics.ins-det
arxiv_dataset-104191810.10713
A Remarkably Loud Quasi-Periodicity after a Star is Disrupted by a Massive Black Hole astro-ph.HE The immense tidal forces of massive black holes can rip apart stars that come too close to them. As the resulting stellar debris spirals inwards, it heats up and emits x-rays when near the black hole. Here, we report the discovery of an exceptionally stable 131-second x-ray quasi-periodicity from a black hole after it disrupted a star. Using a black hole mass indicated from host galaxy scaling relations implies that, (1) this periodicity originates from very close to the black hole's event horizon, and (2) the black hole is rapidly spinning. Our findings suggest that other disruption events with similar highly sensitive observations likely also exhibit quasi-periodicities that encode information about the fundamental properties of their black holes.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.HE
arxiv_dataset-104201810.10813
Inverse Problems in Topological Persistence math.AT cs.CG In this survey, we review the literature on inverse problems in topological persistence theory. The first half of the survey is concerned with the question of surjectivity, i.e. the existence of right inverses, and the second half focuses on injectivity, i.e. left inverses. Throughout, we highlight the tools and theorems that underlie these advances, and direct the reader's attention to open problems, both theoretical and applied.
arxiv topic:math.AT cs.CG
arxiv_dataset-104211810.10913
Distinct orders dividing each other on both sides math.LO We construct non-isomorphic linear orders X and Y that are both left-hand and right-hand divisors of one another, answering positively a question of Sierpinski.
arxiv topic:math.LO
arxiv_dataset-104221810.11013
Real-space recipes for general topological crystalline states cond-mat.str-el Topological crystalline states are short-range entangled states jointly protected by onsite and crystalline symmetries. While the non-interacting limit of these states, e.g., the topological crystalline insulators, have been intensively studied in band theory and have been experimentally discovered, the classification and diagnosis of their strongly interacting counterparts are relatively less well understood. Here we present a unified scheme for constructing all topological crystalline states, bosonic and fermionic, free and interacting, from real-space "building blocks" and "connectors". Building blocks are finite-size pieces of lower dimensional topological states protected by onsite symmetries alone, and connectors are "glue" that complete the open edges shared by two or multiple pieces of building blocks. The resulted assemblies are selected against two physical criteria we call the "no-open-edge condition" and the "bubble equivalence", which, respectively, ensure that each selected assembly is gapped in the bulk and cannot be deformed to a product state. The scheme is then applied to obtaining the full classification of bosonic topological crystalline states protected by several onsite symmetry groups and each of the 17 wallpaper groups in two dimensions and 230 space groups in three dimensions. We claim that our real-space recipes give the complete set of topological crystalline states for bosons and fermions, and prove the boson case analytically using a spectral sequence expansion of group cohomology.
arxiv topic:cond-mat.str-el
arxiv_dataset-104231810.11113
The complement of a nIL graph with thirteen vertices is IL math.CO math.GT We show that for any simple non-oriented graph G with at least thirteen vertices either G or its complement is intrinsically linked.
arxiv topic:math.CO math.GT
arxiv_dataset-104241810.11213
Relationships between the Distribution of Watanabe-Strogatz Variables and Circular Cumulants for Ensembles of Phase Elements nlin.AO nlin.PS nlin.SI The Watanabe-Strogatz and Ott-Antonsen theories provided a seminal framework for rigorous and comprehensive studies of collective phenomena in a broad class of paradigmatic models for ensembles of coupled oscillators. Recently, a "circular cumulant" approach was suggested for constructing the perturbation theory for the Ott-Antonsen approach. In this paper, we derive the relations between the distribution of Watanabe-Strogatz phases and the circular cumulants of the original phases. These relations are important for the interpretation of the circular cumulant approach in the context of the Watanabe-Strogatz and Ott-Antonsen theories. Special attention is paid to the case of hierarchy of circular cumulants, which is generally relevant for constructing perturbation theories for the Watanabe-Strogatz and Ott-Antonsen approaches.
arxiv topic:nlin.AO nlin.PS nlin.SI
arxiv_dataset-104251810.11313
Cosmology in modified $f(R,T)$-gravity gr-qc In present paper we propose further modification of $f(R,T)$-gravity (where $T$ is trace of energy-momentum tensor) by introducing higher derivatives matter fields. We discuss stability conditions in proposed theory and find restrictions for parameters to prevent appearance of main type of instabilities, such as ghost-like and tachyon-like instabilities. We derive cosmological equations for a few representations of theory and discuss main differences with convenient $f(R,T)$-gravity without higher derivatives. It is demonstrated that in presented theory inflationary scenarios appears quite naturally even in the dust-filled Universe without any additional matter sources. Finally we construct inflationary model in one of the simplest representation of the theory, calculate main inflationary parameters and find that it may be in quite agreement with observations.
arxiv topic:gr-qc
arxiv_dataset-104261810.11413
A Framework for SAR-Optical Stereogrammetry over Urban Areas eess.IV Currently, numerous remote sensing satellites provide a huge volume of diverse earth observation data. As these data show different features regarding resolution, accuracy, coverage, and spectral imaging ability, fusion techniques are required to integrate the different properties of each sensor and produce useful information. For example, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data can be fused with optical imagery to produce 3D information using stereogrammetric methods. The main focus of this study is to investigate the possibility of applying a stereogrammetry pipeline to very-high-resolution (VHR) SAR-optical image pairs. For this purpose, the applicability of semi-global matching is investigated in this unconventional multi-sensor setting. To support the image matching by reducing the search space and accelerating the identification of correct, reliable matches, the possibility of establishing an epipolarity constraint for VHR SAR-optical image pairs is investigated as well. In addition, it is shown that the absolute geolocation accuracy of VHR optical imagery with respect to VHR SAR imagery such as provided by TerraSAR-X can be improved by a multi-sensor block adjustment formulation based on rational polynomial coefficients. Finally, the feasibility of generating point clouds with a median accuracy of about 2m is demonstrated and confirms the potential of 3D reconstruction from SAR-optical image pairs over urban areas.
arxiv topic:eess.IV
arxiv_dataset-104271810.11513
Investigation of re-entrant relaxor behaviour in lead cobalt niobate ceramic cond-mat.mtrl-sci The temperature dependent dielectric properties revealed re-entrant relaxor behaviour (Tm ~130 K and 210 K for 1 kHz) below a high temperature diffused phase transition, Tc ~270 K in lead cobalt niobate (PCN). Multiple positive/negative magnetodielectric effect and deviation from straight line at ~130 K is observed in temperature dependence of inverse susceptibility, which depicts origin of frustration. Microstructure examination depicts closely packed grains with grain size ~8-10 microm and XRD pattern revealed single phase pseudo cubic crystal structure having Pm3m symmetry with lattice constant ~4.0496(2) {\AA}. Rietveld Refinement on XRD data yields larger value of thermal parameters, implying Pb and O are disordered along <111> and <110> directions respectively. Observation of A1g (780 cm-1) mode in Raman spectroscopy and F-spot in SAED pattern along <110> unit axis in TEM suggests presence of nano scale 1:1 Co and Nb non-stoichiometric chemical ordering (CORs), akin to lead magnesium niobate (PMN). K-edge XANES spectra reveals the presence of cobalt in two oxidation states (Co2+ and Co3+); whereas, niobium exists in Nb3+ state. Therefore, these local-average structural properties suggest chemical, structural and spatial heterogeneities. Such multiple heterogeneities are believed to play a crucial role in producing re-entrant relaxor behaviour.
arxiv topic:cond-mat.mtrl-sci
arxiv_dataset-104281810.11613
Learning and Management for Internet-of-Things: Accounting for Adaptivity and Scalability cs.SY cs.DC math.OC Internet-of-Things (IoT) envisions an intelligent infrastructure of networked smart devices offering task-specific monitoring and control services. The unique features of IoT include extreme heterogeneity, massive number of devices, and unpredictable dynamics partially due to human interaction. These call for foundational innovations in network design and management. Ideally, it should allow efficient adaptation to changing environments, and low-cost implementation scalable to massive number of devices, subject to stringent latency constraints. To this end, the overarching goal of this paper is to outline a unified framework for online learning and management policies in IoT through joint advances in communication, networking, learning, and optimization. From the network architecture vantage point, the unified framework leverages a promising fog architecture that enables smart devices to have proximity access to cloud functionalities at the network edge, along the cloud-to-things continuum. From the algorithmic perspective, key innovations target online approaches adaptive to different degrees of nonstationarity in IoT dynamics, and their scalable model-free implementation under limited feedback that motivates blind or bandit approaches. The proposed framework aspires to offer a stepping stone that leads to systematic designs and analysis of task-specific learning and management schemes for IoT, along with a host of new research directions to build on.
arxiv topic:cs.SY cs.DC math.OC
arxiv_dataset-104291810.11713
Covariant Equations of Motion of Extended Bodies with Arbitrary Mass and Spin Multipoles gr-qc This paper employs the post-Newtonian approximations of scalar-tensor theory of gravity along with the Cartesian STF tensors and the Blanchet-Damour multipole formalism to derive translational and rotational equations of motion of N extended bodies with arbitrary distribution of mass and velocity. We assume that spacetime can be covered by a global coordinate chart which is Minkowskian at infinity. We also introduce N local coordinate charts adapted to each body and covering a finite domain of space around the body. Gravitational field of each body is parametrized by an infinite set of the body's mass and spin multipoles and tidal multipoles of external N-1 bodies. The origin of the local coordinates is set moving along accelerated worldline of the center of mass of the body by an appropriate choice of the internal and external dipole moments of its gravitational field. Translational and rotational equations of motion are derived by integrating microscopic equations of matter and applying the method of asymptotic matching. The matching is also used for separating the post-Newtonian self-field effects from the external gravitational environment and for constructing the effective background spacetime manifold. It allows us to present the equations of translational and rotational motion of each body in covariant form by making use of the Einstein principle of equivalence. Our approach significantly generalizes the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon covariant equations of motion with regard to the number of body's multipoles and the post-Newtonian terms taken into account. The equations of translational and rotational motion derived in the present paper include the infinite set of mass and spin multipoles of the bodies and can be used for much more accurate prediction of orbital dynamics of extended bodies in inspiraling binary systems before they merge.
arxiv topic:gr-qc
arxiv_dataset-104301810.11813
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams physics.acc-ph Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is a novel acceleration technique with promising prospects for both particle colliders and light sources. However, PWFA research has so far been limited to a few large-scale accelerator facilities world-wide. Here, we present first results on plasma wakefield generation using electron beams accelerated with a 100-TW-class Ti:Sa laser. Due to their ultrashort duration and high charge density, the laser-accelerated electron bunches are suitable to drive plasma waves at electron densities in the order of $10^{19}$ cm$^{-3}$. We capture the beam-induced plasma dynamics with femtosecond resolution using few-cycle optical probing and, in addition to the plasma wave itself, we observe a distinctive transverse ion motion in its trail. This previously unobserved phenomenon can be explained by the ponderomotive force of the plasma wave acting on the ions, resulting in a modulation of the plasma density over many picoseconds. Due to the scaling laws of plasma wakefield generation, results obtained at high plasma density using high-current laser-accelerated electron beams can be readily scaled to low-density systems. Laser-driven PWFA experiments can thus act as miniature models for their larger, conventional counterparts. Furthermore, our results pave the way towards a novel generation of laser-driven PWFA, which can potentially provide ultra-low emittance beams within a compact setup.
arxiv topic:physics.acc-ph
arxiv_dataset-104311810.11913
On the resonant reflection of weak, nonlinear sound waves off an entropy wave math.AP We derive a degenerate quasilinear Schr\"odinger equation that describes the resonant reflection of very weak, nonlinear sound waves off a weak sawtooth entropy wave.
arxiv topic:math.AP
arxiv_dataset-104321810.12013
Martingale spaces and representations under absolutely continuous changes of probability math.PR In a fully general setting, we study the relation between martingale spaces under two locally absolutely continuous probabilities and prove that the martingale representation property (MRP) is always stable under locally absolutely continuous changes of probability. Our approach relies on minimal requirements, is constructive and, as shown by a simple example, enables us to study situations which cannot be covered by the existing theory.
arxiv topic:math.PR
arxiv_dataset-104331810.12113
Dimension-wise Multivariate Orthogonal Polynomials in General Probability Spaces math.NA math.PR This paper puts forward a new generalized polynomial dimensional decomposition (PDD), referred to as GPDD, comprising hierarchically ordered measure-consistent multivariate orthogonal polynomials in dependent random variables. Unlike the existing PDD, which is valid strictly for independent random variables, no tensor-product structure is assumed or required. Important mathematical properties of GPDD are studied by constructing dimension-wise decomposition of polynomial spaces, deriving statistical properties of random orthogonal polynomials, demonstrating completeness of orthogonal polynomials for prescribed assumptions, and proving mean-square convergence to the correct limit, including when there are infinitely many random variables. The GPDD approximation proposed should be effective in solving high-dimensional stochastic problems subject to dependent variables.
arxiv topic:math.NA math.PR
arxiv_dataset-104341810.12213
Strictification tensor product of 2-categories math.CT Given 2-categories $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{D}$, let $\textrm{Lax}(\mathcal{C},\mathcal{D})$ denote the 2-category of lax functors, lax natural transformations and modifications, and $[\mathcal{C},\mathcal{D}]_\mathrm{lnt}$ its full sub-2-category of (strict) 2-functors. We give two isomorphic constructions of a 2-category $\mathcal{C}\boxtimes\mathcal{D}$ satisfying $\textrm{Lax}(\mathcal{C},\textrm{Lax}(\mathcal{D},\mathcal{E})) \cong [\mathcal{C}\boxtimes \mathcal{D},\mathcal{E}]_\mathrm{lnt}$, hence generalising the case of the free distributive law $1\boxtimes 1$. We also discuss dual constructions.
arxiv topic:math.CT
arxiv_dataset-104351810.12313
$\gamma^\ast \gamma \to \eta, \eta^\prime$ transition form factors nucl-th hep-ex hep-lat hep-ph nucl-ex Using a continuum approach to the hadron bound-state problem, we calculate $\gamma^\ast \gamma \to \eta, \eta^\prime$ transition form factors on the entire domain of spacelike momenta, for comparison with existing experiments and in anticipation of new precision data from next-generation $e^+ e^-$ colliders. One novel feature is a model for the contribution to the Bethe-Salpeter kernel deriving from the non-Abelian anomaly, an element which is crucial for any computation of $\eta, \eta^\prime$ properties. The study also delivers predictions for the amplitudes that describe the light- and strange-quark distributions within the $\eta, \eta^\prime$. Our results compare favourably with available data. Important to this at large-$Q^2$ is a sound understanding of QCD evolution, which has a visible impact on the $\eta^\prime$ in particular. Our analysis also provides some insights into the properties of $\eta, \eta^\prime$ mesons and associated observable manifestations of the non-Abelian anomaly.
arxiv topic:nucl-th hep-ex hep-lat hep-ph nucl-ex
arxiv_dataset-104361810.12413
Lower bounds for Mahler measure that depend on the number of monomials math.NT We prove a new lower bound for the Mahler measure of a polynomial in one and in several variables that depends on the complex coefficients, and the number of monomials. In one variable our result generalizes a classical inequality of Mahler. In $M$ variables our result depends on $\mathbb{Z}^M$ as an ordered group, and in general our lower bound depends on the choice of ordering.
arxiv topic:math.NT
arxiv_dataset-104371810.12513
Weak-supervision for Deep Representation Learning under Class Imbalance cs.LG stat.ML Class imbalance is a pervasive issue among classification models including deep learning, whose capacity to extract task-specific features is affected in imbalanced settings. However, the challenges of handling imbalance among a large number of classes, commonly addressed by deep learning, have not received a significant amount of attention in previous studies. In this paper, we propose an extension of the deep over-sampling framework, to exploit automatically-generated abstract-labels, i.e., a type of side-information used in weak-label learning, to enhance deep representation learning against class imbalance. We attempt to exploit the labels to guide the deep representation of instances towards different subspaces, to induce a soft-separation of inherent subtasks of the classification problem. Our empirical study shows that the proposed framework achieves a substantial improvement on image classification benchmarks with imbalanced among large and small numbers of classes.
arxiv topic:cs.LG stat.ML
arxiv_dataset-104381810.12613
Deep Learning as Feature Encoding for Emotion Recognition cs.LG stat.ML Deep learning is popular as an end-to-end framework extracting the prominent features and performing the classification also. In this paper, we extensively investigate deep networks as an alternate to feature encoding technique of low level descriptors for emotion recognition on the benchmark EmoDB dataset. Fusion performance with such obtained encoded features with other available features is also investigated. Highest performance to date in the literature is observed.
arxiv topic:cs.LG stat.ML
arxiv_dataset-104391810.12713
Determining the core radio luminosity function of radio AGNs via copula astro-ph.GA The radio luminosity functions (RLFs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are traditionally measured based on total emission, which doesn't reflect the current activity of the central black hole. The increasing interest in compact radio cores of AGNs requires determination of the RLF based on core emission (i.e., core RLF). In this work we have established a large sample (totaling 1207) of radio-loud AGNs, mainly consisting of radio galaxies (RGs) and steep-spectrum radio quasars (SSRQs). Based on the sample, we explore the relationship between core luminosity ($L_c$) and total luminosity ($L_t$) via a powerful statistical tool called "Copula". The conditional probability distribution $p(\log L_{c} \mid \log L_{t})$ is obtained. We derive the core RLF as a convolution of $p(\log L_{c} \mid \log L_{t})$ with the total RLF which was determined by previous work. We relate the separate RG and SSRQ core RLFs via a relativistic beaming model and find that SSRQs have an average Lorentz factor of $\gamma=9.84_{-2.50}^{+3.61}$, and that most are seen within $8^{\circ} \lesssim \theta \lesssim 45^{\circ}$ of the jet axis. Compared with the total RLF which is mainly contributed by extended emission, the core RLF shows a very weak luminosity-dependent evolution, with the number density peaking around $z\thicksim 0.8$ for all luminosities. Differences between core and total RLFs can be explained in a framework involving a combination of density and luminosity evolutions where the cores have significantly weaker luminosity evolution than the extended emission.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.GA
arxiv_dataset-104401810.12813
Contextual Hourglass Network for Semantic Segmentation of High Resolution Aerial Imagery cs.CV cs.AI cs.LG Semantic segmentation for aerial imagery is a challenging and important problem in remotely sensed imagery analysis. In recent years, with the success of deep learning, various convolutional neural network (CNN) based models have been developed. However, due to the varying sizes of the objects and imbalanced class labels, it can be challenging to obtain accurate pixel-wise semantic segmentation results. To address those challenges, we develop a novel semantic segmentation method and call it Contextual Hourglass Network. In our method, in order to improve the robustness of the prediction, we design a new contextual hourglass module which incorporates attention mechanism on processed low-resolution featuremaps to exploit the contextual semantics. We further exploit the stacked encoder-decoder structure by connecting multiple contextual hourglass modules from end to end. This architecture can effectively extract rich multi-scale features and add more feedback loops for better learning contextual semantics through intermediate supervision. To demonstrate the efficacy of our semantic segmentation method, we test it on Potsdam and Vaihingen datasets. Through the comparisons to other baseline methods, our method yields the best results on overall performance.
arxiv topic:cs.CV cs.AI cs.LG
arxiv_dataset-104411810.12913
Using convolutional neural networks to predict galaxy metallicity from three-color images astro-ph.GA We train a deep residual convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the gas-phase metallicity ($Z$) of galaxies derived from spectroscopic information ($Z \equiv 12 + \log(\rm O/H)$) using only three-band $gri$ images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. When trained and tested on $128 \times 128$-pixel images, the root mean squared error (RMSE) of $Z_{\rm pred} - Z_{\rm true}$ is only 0.085 dex, vastly outperforming a trained random forest algorithm on the same data set (RMSE $=0.130$ dex). The amount of scatter in $Z_{\rm pred} - Z_{\rm true}$ decreases with increasing image resolution in an intuitive manner. We are able to use CNN-predicted $Z_{\rm pred}$ and independently measured stellar masses to recover a mass-metallicity relation with $0.10$ dex scatter. Because our predicted MZR shows no more scatter than the empirical MZR, the difference between $Z_{\rm pred}$ and $Z_{\rm true}$ can not be due to purely random error. This suggests that the CNN has learned a representation of the gas-phase metallicity, from the optical imaging, beyond what is accessible with oxygen spectral lines.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.GA
arxiv_dataset-104421810.13013
New analysis of the free energy cost of interfaces in spin glasses cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.stat-mech In this work we want to enhance the calculation performed by Franz, Parisi and Virasoro (FPV) to estimate the free energy cost of interfaces in spin glasses and evaluate the lower critical dimension at which replica symmetry is restored. In particular we evaluate the free energy cost for a general class of effective Hamiltonians showing full replica symmetry breaking, and study the dependence of this cost on the order parameter and on the temperature. We confirm the findings of the FPV papers for the scaling of the free energy, recovering a value for the lower critical dimension of $D_{lc} = 2.5$. In addition to their results we find a non-trivial dependence of the free energy density cost on the order parameter and the temperature. Apart from the case of a restricted class of effective Hamiltonians this dependence cannot be expressed in terms of functions with a clear physical interpretation, as is the case in hierarchical models. In addition we connect the results on the lower critical dimension with recent simulations.
arxiv topic:cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.stat-mech
arxiv_dataset-104431810.13113
Giving Space to Your Message: Assistive Word Segmentation for the Electronic Typing of Digital Minorities cs.CL For readability and disambiguation of the written text, appropriate word segmentation is recommended for documentation, and it also holds for the digitized texts. If the language is agglutinative while far from scriptio continua, for instance in the Korean language, the problem becomes more significant. However, some device users these days find it challenging to communicate via key stroking, not only for handicap but also for being unskilled. In this study, we propose a real-time assistive technology that utilizes an automatic word segmentation, designed for digital minorities who are not familiar with electronic typing. We propose a data-driven system trained upon a spoken Korean language corpus with various non-canonical expressions and dialects, guaranteeing the comprehension of contextual information. Through quantitative and qualitative comparison with other text processing toolkits, we show the reliability of the proposed system and its fit with colloquial and non-normalized texts, which fulfills the aim of supportive technology.
arxiv topic:cs.CL
arxiv_dataset-104441810.13213
Arens-Michael envelopes of nilpotent Lie algebras, holomorphic functions of exponential type, and homological epimorphisms math.FA Our aim is to give an explicit description of the Arens-Michael envelope for the universal enveloping algebra of a finite-dimensional nilpotent complex Lie algebra. It turns out that the Arens-Michael envelope belongs to a class of completions introduced by R.~Goodman in 70s. To find a precise form of this algebra we preliminary characterize the set of holomorphic functions of exponential type on a simply connected nilpotent complex Lie group. This approach leads to unexpected connections to Riemannian geometry and the theory of order and type for entire functions. As a corollary, it is shown that the Arens-Michael envelope considered above is a homological epimorphism. So we get a positive answer to a question investigated earlier by Dosi and Pirkovskii.
arxiv topic:math.FA
arxiv_dataset-104451810.13313
Weakly-Gravitating Objects in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity and Constraints with Gravity Probe B gr-qc Solar system observations have traditionally allowed for very stringent tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity. We here revisit the possibility of using these observations to constrain gravitational parity violation as encapsulated in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity. Working in the small-coupling and post-Newtonian approximations, we calculate analytically the scalar field and the gravitomagnetic sector of the gravitational field in the interior and the exterior of an isolated, weakly-gravitating object with uniform rotation and a quadrupolar mass deformation. We find that the asymptotic peeling-off behavior of the exterior fields is consistent with that found for black holes and neutron stars, as well as for non-relativistic objects, with overall coefficients that are different and dependent on the structure of the weak-field source. We then use these fields to explicitly calculate the dynamical Chern-Simons correction to the spin precession of gyroscopes in orbit around Earth, which we find to be in the same direction as the Lense-Thirring effect of General Relativity. We then compare this correction to the spin precession prediction of General Relativity to the results of the Gravity Probe B experiment to place a constraint on dynamical Chern-Simons theory that is consistent with previous approximate estimates. Although we focus primarily on a single body, our methods can be straightforwardly extended to binary systems or N-bodies.
arxiv topic:gr-qc
arxiv_dataset-104461810.13413
Mass Splitting in a Linear Sigma Model hep-lat hep-ph hep-th We derived the tree level spectrum to an extension to the linear sigma model describing an EFT for an $SU(3)_c$ gauge theory with $N_f$ flavors of fermions and $N_1$ fermions have a mass $m_l$ and $N_2$ fermions have a mass $m_h$. We examined the effects of a small mass splitting on single mass data for 8 and 12 flavors of fermions corresponding to the unperturbed case. Our intention is to encourage more simulations of split mass theories with 8, 10 and 12 flavors of fermions.
arxiv topic:hep-lat hep-ph hep-th
arxiv_dataset-104471811.00067
Three-charge superstrata with internal excitations hep-th We construct a new family of three-charge $\frac{1}{8}-$BPS smooth solutions that have the same charges as the supersymmetric D1D5P Black Hole and are non-invariant under rotations of the compact manifold. We work in type IIB string theory on $T^4$ and we show how the supergravity and BPS equations reduce to a linear system, arranged in two `layers' of partial differential equations. We then build two solutions of our system of equations: the first is a superdescendant three-charge solution, obtained by acting with rigid symmetries on a seed two-charge solution, on which we can perform a non-trivial check for the system of equations; the second is a new superstratum solution that has both internal and external excitations. We then describe the CFT heavy states dual to these new geometries.
arxiv topic:hep-th
arxiv_dataset-104481811.00167
Stochastic nonlinear Schroedinger equations in the defocusing mass and energy critical cases math.PR We study the stochastic nonlinear Schroedinger equations with linear multiplicative noise, particularly in the defocusing mass-critical and energy-critical cases. For general initial data, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of solutions in both cases. When the quadratic variation of noise is globally bounded, we also obtain the rescaled scattering behavior of solutions in the spaces $L^2$, $H^1$ as well as the pseudo-conformal space. Moreover, the Stroock-Varadhan type theorem for the topological support of solutions are also obtained in the Strichartz and local smoothing spaces.
arxiv topic:math.PR
arxiv_dataset-104491811.00267
Precise asymptotics: robust stochastic volatility models q-fin.PR math.PR We present a new methodology to analyze large classes of (classical and rough) stochastic volatility models, with special regard to short-time and small noise formulae for option prices. Our main tool is the theory of regularity structures, which we use in the form of [Bayer et al; A regularity structure for rough volatility, 2017]. In essence, we implement a Laplace method on the space of models (in the sense of Hairer), which generalizes classical works of Azencott and Ben Arous on path space and then Aida, Inahama--Kawabi on rough path space. When applied to rough volatility models, e.g. in the setting of [Forde-Zhang, Asymptotics for rough stochastic volatility models, 2017], one obtains precise asymptotic for European options which refine known large deviation asymptotics.
arxiv topic:q-fin.PR math.PR
arxiv_dataset-104501811.00367
Bi-GANs-ST for Perceptual Image Super-resolution cs.CV Image quality measurement is a critical problem for image super-resolution (SR) algorithms. Usually, they are evaluated by some well-known objective metrics, e.g., PSNR and SSIM, but these indices cannot provide suitable results in accordance with the perception of human being. Recently, a more reasonable perception measurement has been proposed in [1], which is also adopted by the PIRM-SR 2018 challenge. In this paper, motivated by [1], we aim to generate a high-quality SR result which balances between the two indices, i.e., the perception index and root-mean-square error (RMSE). To do so, we design a new deep SR framework, dubbed Bi-GANs-ST, by integrating two complementary generative adversarial networks (GAN) branches. One is memory residual SRGAN (MR-SRGAN), which emphasizes on improving the objective performance, such as reducing the RMSE. The other is weight perception SRGAN (WP-SRGAN), which obtains the result that favors better subjective perception via a two-stage adversarial training mechanism. Then, to produce final result with excellent perception scores and RMSE, we use soft-thresholding method to merge the results generated by the two GANs. Our method performs well on the perceptual image super-resolution task of the PIRM 2018 challenge. Experimental results on five benchmarks show that our proposal achieves highly competent performance compared with other state-of-the-art methods.
arxiv topic:cs.CV
arxiv_dataset-104511811.00467
Perturbative Four-Point Functions In Planar N=4 SYM From Hexagonalization hep-th We use hexagonalization to compute four-point correlation functions of long BPS operators with special R-charge polarizations. We perform the computation at weak coupling and show that at any loop order our correlators can be expressed in terms of single-valued polylogarithms with uniform maximal transcendentality. As a check of our results we extract nine-loop OPE data and compare it against sum rules of (squared) structures constants of non-protected exchanged operators described by hundreds of Bethe solutions.
arxiv topic:hep-th
arxiv_dataset-104521811.00567
Radio galaxies - the TeV challenge astro-ph.HE Over the past decade, our knowledge of the \gamma-ray sky has been revolutionized by ground- and space-based observatories by detecting photons up to several hundreds of tera-electron volt (TeV) energies. A major population of the $\gamma$-ray bright objects are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with their relativistic jets pointed along our line-of-sight. Gamma-ray emission is also detected from nearby mis-aligned AGN such as radio galaxies. While the TeV-detected radio galaxies (TeVRad) only form a small fraction of the \gamma-ray detected AGN, their multi-wavelength study offers a unique opportunity to probe and pinpoint the high-energy emission processes and sites. Even in the absence of substantial Doppler beaming TeVRad are extremely bright objects in the TeV sky (luminosities detected up to 10^{45} erg/s), and exhibit flux variations on timescales shorter than the event-horizon scales (flux doubling timescale less than 5 minutes). Thanks to the recent advancement in the imaging capabilities of high-resolution radio interferometry (millimeter very long baseline interferometry, mm-VLBI), one can probe the scales down to less than 10 gravitational radii in TeVRad, making it possible not only to test jet launching models but also to pinpoint the high-energy emission sites and to unravel the emission mechanisms. This review provides an overview of the high-energy observations of TeVRad with a focus on the emitting sites and radiation processes. Some recent approaches in simulations are also sketched. Observations by the near-future facilities like Cherenkov Telescope Array, short millimeter-VLBI, and high-energy polarimetry instruments will be crucial for discriminating the competing high-energy emission models.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.HE
arxiv_dataset-104531811.00667
Treatment Effect Estimation with Noisy Conditioning Variables econ.EM I develop a new identification strategy for treatment effects when noisy measurements of unobserved confounding factors are available. I use proxy variables to construct a random variable conditional on which treatment variables become exogenous. The key idea is that, under appropriate conditions, there exists a one-to-one mapping between the distribution of unobserved confounding factors and the distribution of proxies. To ensure sufficient variation in the constructed control variable, I use an additional variable, termed excluded variable, which satisfies certain exclusion restrictions and relevance conditions. I establish asymptotic distributional results for semiparametric and flexible parametric estimators of causal parameters. I illustrate empirical relevance and usefulness of my results by estimating causal effects of attending selective college on earnings.
arxiv topic:econ.EM
arxiv_dataset-104541811.00767
The notion of closedness and D-connectedness in Quantale-valued approach spaces math.GN math.CT In this paper, we characterize the local T0 and T1 separation axioms for quantale-valued gauge space, show how these concepts are related to each other and apply them to L-approach space and L-approach system. Furthermore, we give the characterization of a closed point and D-connectedness in quantale-valued gauge space. Finally, we compare all these concepts with other.
arxiv topic:math.GN math.CT
arxiv_dataset-104551811.00867
Ferromagnetic ordering of linearly coordinated Co ions in LiSr$_2$[CoN$_2$] cond-mat.mtrl-sci LiSr$_2$[CoN$_2$] single crystals were successfully grown out of Li-rich flux. Temperature- and field-dependent measurements of the magnetization in the range of $T = 2 - 300$ K and up to $\mu_{0}\textit{H} = 7$ T as well as measurements of the heat capacity are presented. Ferromagnetic ordering emerges below $T_C = 44$ K and comparatively large coercivity fields of $\mu_0H = 0.3$ T as well as pronounced anisotropy are observed upon cooling. Polycrystalline samples of the Ca analog LiCa$_2$[CoN$_2$] were obtained and investigated in a similar way. In both compounds Co manifests orbital contributions to the magnetic moment and large single-ion anisotropy that is caused by second-order Spin-orbit coupling. Quantum chemistry calculations reveal a magnetic anisotropy energy of 7 meV, twice as large as the values reported for similar Co $d^{8}$ systems.
arxiv topic:cond-mat.mtrl-sci
arxiv_dataset-104561811.00967
Neural Response Ranking for Social Conversation: A Data-Efficient Approach cs.CL The overall objective of 'social' dialogue systems is to support engaging, entertaining, and lengthy conversations on a wide variety of topics, including social chit-chat. Apart from raw dialogue data, user-provided ratings are the most common signal used to train such systems to produce engaging responses. In this paper we show that social dialogue systems can be trained effectively from raw unannotated data. Using a dataset of real conversations collected in the 2017 Alexa Prize challenge, we developed a neural ranker for selecting 'good' system responses to user utterances, i.e. responses which are likely to lead to long and engaging conversations. We show that (1) our neural ranker consistently outperforms several strong baselines when trained to optimise for user ratings; (2) when trained on larger amounts of data and only using conversation length as the objective, the ranker performs better than the one trained using ratings -- ultimately reaching a Precision@1 of 0.87. This advance will make data collection for social conversational agents simpler and less expensive in the future.
arxiv topic:cs.CL
arxiv_dataset-104571811.01067
Universal Model for the Turn-on Dynamics of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors physics.ins-det physics.optics quant-ph We describe an electrothermal model for the turn-on dynamics of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). By extracting a scaling law from a well-known electrothermal model of SNSPDs, we show that the rise-time of the readout signal encodes the photon number as well as the length of the nanowire with scaling $t_\text{rise}\propto \sqrt{\ell/n}$. We show that these results hold regardless of the exact form of the thermal effects. This explains how SNSPDs have inherent photon-number resolving capability. We experimentally verify the photon number dependence by collecting waveforms for different photon number, rescaling them according to our predicted relation, and performing statistical analysis that shows that there is no statistical significance between the rescaled curves. Additionally, we use our predicted dependence of rise time on detector length to provide further insight to previous theoretical work by other authors. By assuming a specific thermal model, we predict that rise time will scale with bias current, $t_\text{rise}\propto \sqrt{1/I_b}$. We fit this model to experimental data and find that $t_\text{rise}\propto 1/(n^{0.52 \pm 0.03} ~I_b^{0.63 \pm 0.02})$, which suggests further work is needed to better understand the bias current dependence. This work gives new insights into the non-equilibrium dynamics of thin superconducting films exposed to electromagnetic radiation.
arxiv topic:physics.ins-det physics.optics quant-ph
arxiv_dataset-104581811.01167
Analytic treatment of vortex motion in non-inertial Stokes flows physics.flu-dyn We study the steady state motion of incompressible and viscous fluid flow in a rotating reference frame where vortices may take place. An approximated analytic solution of the Stokes flow problem is proposed for situations where the vorticity is highly concentrated along a given direction. The approximation disconnects the component of velocity along the axis of rotation from the momentum equation. This enables to find the vorticity from the solution of the Poisson's equation. We use the Green's function approach to provide solutions of the three-dimensional flow on cylindrical domains with radial inlet/outlet velocity profiles by using an exact expansion of the Green's function. This approximated analytical solution for the vorticity is in good agreement with numerical solutions computed with the Finite Difference Method (FDM). Keywords: Analytic approximations, Stokes flow, Green's function, FDM.
arxiv topic:physics.flu-dyn
arxiv_dataset-104591811.01267
Legible Normativity for AI Alignment: The Value of Silly Rules cs.AI cs.CY cs.HC It has become commonplace to assert that autonomous agents will have to be built to follow human rules of behavior--social norms and laws. But human laws and norms are complex and culturally varied systems, in many cases agents will have to learn the rules. This requires autonomous agents to have models of how human rule systems work so that they can make reliable predictions about rules. In this paper we contribute to the building of such models by analyzing an overlooked distinction between important rules and what we call silly rules--rules with no discernible direct impact on welfare. We show that silly rules render a normative system both more robust and more adaptable in response to shocks to perceived stability. They make normativity more legible for humans, and can increase legibility for AI systems as well. For AI systems to integrate into human normative systems, we suggest, it may be important for them to have models that include representations of silly rules.
arxiv topic:cs.AI cs.CY cs.HC
arxiv_dataset-104601811.01367
Weak universality of the dynamical $\Phi_3^4$ model on the whole space math.PR math.AP We prove the large scale convergence of a class of stochastic weakly nonlinear reaction-diffusion models on $\mathbb{R}^3$ to the dynamical $\Phi^4_3$ model by paracontrolled distributions on weighted Besov space. Our approach depends on the delicate choice of the weight, the localization operator technique and a modification version of the maximal principle from [GH18].
arxiv topic:math.PR math.AP
arxiv_dataset-104611811.01467
The one comparing narrative social network extraction techniques cs.SI physics.soc-ph stat.AP Analysing narratives through their social networks is an expanding field in quantitative literary studies. Manually extracting a social network from any narrative can be time consuming, so automatic extraction methods of varying complexity have been developed. However, the effect of different extraction methods on the analysis is unknown. Here we model and compare three extraction methods for social networks in narratives: manual extraction, co-occurrence automated extraction and automated extraction using machine learning. Although the manual extraction method produces more precise results in the network analysis, it is much more time consuming and the automatic extraction methods yield comparable conclusions for density, centrality measures and edge weights. Our results provide evidence that social networks extracted automatically are reliable for many analyses. We also describe which aspects of analysis are not reliable with such a social network. We anticipate that our findings will make it easier to analyse more narratives, which help us improve our understanding of how stories are written and evolve, and how people interact with each other.
arxiv topic:cs.SI physics.soc-ph stat.AP
arxiv_dataset-104621811.01567
You Only Search Once: Single Shot Neural Architecture Search via Direct Sparse Optimization cs.CV cs.LG cs.NE Recently Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has aroused great interest in both academia and industry, however it remains challenging because of its huge and non-continuous search space. Instead of applying evolutionary algorithm or reinforcement learning as previous works, this paper proposes a Direct Sparse Optimization NAS (DSO-NAS) method. In DSO-NAS, we provide a novel model pruning view to NAS problem. In specific, we start from a completely connected block, and then introduce scaling factors to scale the information flow between operations. Next, we impose sparse regularizations to prune useless connections in the architecture. Lastly, we derive an efficient and theoretically sound optimization method to solve it. Our method enjoys both advantages of differentiability and efficiency, therefore can be directly applied to large datasets like ImageNet. Particularly, On CIFAR-10 dataset, DSO-NAS achieves an average test error 2.84\%, while on the ImageNet dataset DSO-NAS achieves 25.4\% test error under 600M FLOPs with 8 GPUs in 18 hours.
arxiv topic:cs.CV cs.LG cs.NE
arxiv_dataset-104631811.01667
Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions cond-mat.quant-gas physics.atom-ph Quantum many-body systems with kinetic constraints exhibit intriguing relaxation dynamics. Recent experimental progress in the field of cold atomic gases offers a handle for probing collective behavior of such systems, in particular for understanding the interplay between constraints and disorder. Here we explore a spin chain with facilitation constraints --- a feature which is often used to model classical glass formers --- together with disorder that originates from spin-spin interactions. The specific model we study, which is realized in a natural fashion in Rydberg quantum simulators, maps onto an XX-chain with non-local disorder. Our study shows that the combination of constraints and seemingly unconventional disorder may lead to interesting non-equilibrium behaviour in experimentally relevant setups.
arxiv topic:cond-mat.quant-gas physics.atom-ph
arxiv_dataset-104641811.01767
Interpreting Crab Nebula synchrotron spectrum: two acceleration mechanisms astro-ph.HE We outline a model of the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula with two different populations of synchrotron emitting particles, arising from two different acceleration mechanisms: (i) Component-I due to Fermi-I acceleration at the equatorial portion of the termination shock, with particle spectral index $p_I \approx 2.2$ above the injection break corresponding to $\gamma_{wind} \sigma_{wind} \sim 10^5$, peaking in the UV ($\gamma_{wind} \sim 10^2$ is the bulk Lorentz factor of the wind, $\sigma _{wind} \sim 10^3$ is wind magnetization); (ii) Component-II due to acceleration at reconnection layers in the bulk of the turbulent Nebula, with particle index $p_{II} \approx 1.6$. The model requires relatively slow but highly magnetized wind. For both components the overall cooling break is in the infra-red at $\sim 0.01$ eV, so that the Component-I is in the fast cooling regime (cooling frequency below the peak frequency). In the optical band Component-I produces emission with the cooling spectral index of $\alpha_o \approx 0.5$, softening towards the edges due to radiative losses. Above the cooling break, in the optical, UV and X-rays, Component-I mostly overwhelms Component-II. We hypothesize that acceleration at large-scale current sheets in the turbulent nebula (Component-II) extends to the synchrotron burn-off limit of $\epsilon_s \approx 100$ MeV. Thus in our model acceleration in turbulent reconnection (Component-II) can produce both hard radio spectra and occasional gamma-ray flares. This model may be applicable to a broader class of high energy astrophysical objects, like AGNe and GRB jets, where often radio electrons form a different population from the high energy electrons.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.HE
arxiv_dataset-104651811.01867
Open-Circuit Voltage Deficit in Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells by Interface Band Gap Narrowing cond-mat.mtrl-sci There is evidence that interface recombination in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells contributes to the open-circuit voltage deficit. Our hybrid density functional theory calculations suggest that electron-hole recombination at the Cu2ZnSnS4/CdS interface is caused by a deeper conduction band that slows electron extraction. In contrast, the bandgap is not narrowed for the Cu2ZnSnSe4/CdS interface, consistent with a lower open-circuit voltage deficit.
arxiv topic:cond-mat.mtrl-sci
arxiv_dataset-104661811.01967
Enrichment of the hot intracluster medium: observations astro-ph.HE astro-ph.CO Four decades ago, the firm detection of an Fe-K emission feature in the X-ray spectrum of the Perseus cluster revealed the presence of iron in its hot intracluster medium (ICM). With more advanced missions successfully launched over the last 20 years, this discovery has been extended to many other metals and to the hot atmospheres of many other galaxy clusters, groups, and giant elliptical galaxies, as evidence that the elemental bricks of life - synthesized by stars and supernovae - are also found at the largest scales of the Universe. Because the ICM, emitting in X-rays, is in collisional ionisation equilibrium, its elemental abundances can in principle be accurately measured. These abundance measurements, in turn, are valuable to constrain the physics and environmental conditions of the Type Ia and core-collapse supernovae that exploded and enriched the ICM over the entire cluster volume. On the other hand, the spatial distribution of metals across the ICM constitutes a remarkable signature of the chemical history and evolution of clusters, groups, and ellipticals. Here, we summarise the most significant achievements in measuring elemental abundances in the ICM, from the very first attempts up to the era of XMM-Newton, Chandra, and Suzaku and the unprecedented results obtained by Hitomi. We also discuss the current systematic limitations of these measurements and how the future missions XRISM and Athena will further improve our current knowledge of the ICM enrichment.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.HE astro-ph.CO
arxiv_dataset-104671811.02067
Sample Compression, Support Vectors, and Generalization in Deep Learning cs.LG stat.ML Even though Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely celebrated for their practical performance, they possess many intriguing properties related to depth that are difficult to explain both theoretically and intuitively. Understanding how weights in deep networks coordinate together across layers to form useful learners has proven challenging, in part because the repeated composition of nonlinearities has proved intractable. This paper presents a reparameterization of DNNs as a linear function of a feature map that is locally independent of the weights. This feature map transforms depth-dependencies into simple tensor products and maps each input to a discrete subset of the feature space. Then, using a max-margin assumption, the paper develops a sample compression representation of the neural network in terms of the discrete activation state of neurons induced by s ``support vectors". The paper shows that the number of support vectors s relates with learning guarantees for neural networks through sample compression bounds, yielding a sample complexity of O(ns/epsilon) for networks with n neurons. Finally, the number of support vectors s is found to monotonically increase with width and label noise but decrease with depth.
arxiv topic:cs.LG stat.ML
arxiv_dataset-104681811.02167
Study of $CP$ Violation in $B^-\rightarrow K^- \pi^+\pi^-$ and $B^-\rightarrow K^- \sigma(600)$ decays in the QCD factorization approach hep-ph In this work, we study the localized $CP$ violation in $B^-\rightarrow K^-\pi^+\pi^-$ and $B^-\rightarrow K^- \sigma(600)$ decays by employing the quasi two-body QCD factorization approach. Both the resonance and the nonresonance contributions are studied for the $B^-\rightarrow K^-\pi^+\pi^-$ decay. The resonance contributions include those not only from $[\pi\pi]$ channels including $\sigma(600)$, $\rho^0(770)$ and $\omega(782)$ but also from $[K\pi]$ channels including $K^*(892)$, $K_0^*(1430)$, $K^*(1410)$, $K^*(1680)$ and $K_2^*(1430)$. By fitting the experimental data $\mathcal{A_{CP}}(K^-\pi^+\pi^-)=0.678\pm0.078\pm0.0323\pm0.007$ for $m_{K^-\pi^+}^2<15$ $\mathrm{GeV}^2$ and $0.08<m_{\pi^+\pi^-}^2<0.66$ $\mathrm{GeV}^2$, we get the end-point divergence parameters in our model, $\phi_S \in [4.75, 5.95]$ and $\rho_S\in[4.2, 8]$. Using these results for $\rho_S$ and $\phi_S$, we predict that the $CP$ asymmetry parameter $\mathcal{A_{CP}} \in [-0.094, -0.034]$ and the branching fraction $\mathcal{B} \in [1.82, 20.0]\times10^{-5}$ for the $B^-\rightarrow K^-\sigma(600)$ decay. In addition, we also analyse contributions to the localized $CP$ asymmetry $\mathcal{A_{CP}}(B^-\rightarrow K^-\pi^+\pi^-)$ from $[\pi\pi]$, $[K\pi]$ channel resonances and nonresonance individually, which are found to be $\mathcal{A_{CP}}(B^-\rightarrow K^-[\pi^+\pi^-] \rightarrow K^-\pi^+\pi^-)=0.585\pm0.045$, $\mathcal{A_{CP}}(B^-\rightarrow [K^-\pi^+] \pi \rightarrow K^-\pi^+\pi^-)=0.086\pm0.021$ and $\mathcal{A_{CP}}^{NR}(B^-\rightarrow K^-\pi^+\pi^-)=0.061\pm0.0042$, respectively. Comparing these results, we can see that the localized $CP$ asymmetry in the $B^-\rightarrow K^-\pi^+\pi^-$ decay is mainly induced by the $[\pi\pi]$ channel resonances while contributions from the $[K\pi]$ channel resonances and nonresonance are both very small.
arxiv topic:hep-ph
arxiv_dataset-104691811.02267
Time-dependent atomic diffusion in the atmospheres of CP stars. A big step forward: introducing numerical models including a stellar mass loss astro-ph.SR Calculating abundance stratifications in ApBp/HgMn star atmospheres, we are considering mass-loss in addition to atomic diffusion in our numerical code in order to achieve more realistic models. These numerical simulations with mass-loss solve the time dependent continuity equation for plane-parallel atmospheres; the procedure is iterated until stationary concentrations of the diffusing elements are obtained throughout a large part of the stellar atmosphere. We find that Mg stratifications in HgMn star atmospheres are particularly sensitive to the presence of a mass-loss. For main-sequence stars with $T_{\rm{eff}}\approx 12000$ K, the observed systematic mild underabundances of this element can be explained only if a mass-loss rate of around $4.2\,10^{-14}$ solar mass per year is assumed in our models. Numerical simulations also reveal that the abundance stratification of P observed in the HgMn star HD53929 may be understood if a weak horizontal magnetic field of about 75G is present in this star. However, for a better comparison of our results with observations, it will be necessary to carry out 3D modelling, especially when magnetic fields and stellar winds -- which render the atmosphere anisotropic -- are considered together.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.SR
arxiv_dataset-104701811.02367
Scalable Application- and User-aware Resource Allocation in Enterprise Networks Using End-host Pacing cs.NI cs.HC Scalable user- and application-aware resource allocation for heterogeneous applications sharing an enterprise network is still an unresolved problem. The main challenges are: (i) How to define user- and application-aware shares of resources? (ii) How to determine an allocation of shares of network resources to applications? (iii) How to allocate the shares per application in heterogeneous networks at scale? In this paper we propose solutions to the three challenges and introduce a system design for enterprise deployment. Defining the necessary resource shares per application is hard, as the intended use case and user's preferences influence the resource demand. Utility functions based on user experience enable a mapping of network resources in terms of throughput and latency budget to a common user-level utility scale. A multi-objective MILP is formulated to solve the throughput- and delay-aware embedding of each utility function for a max-min fairness criteria. The allocation of resources in traditional networks with policing and scheduling cannot distinguish large numbers of classes. We propose a resource allocation system design for enterprise networks based on Software-Defined Networking principles to achieve delay-constrained routing in the network and application pacing at the end-hosts. The system design is evaluated against best effort networks with applications competing for the throughput of a constrained link. The competing applications belong to the five application classes web browsing, file download, remote terminal work, video streaming, and Voice-over-IP. The results show that the proposed methodology improves the minimum and total utility, minimizes packet loss and queuing delay at bottlenecks, establishes fairness in terms of utility between applications, and achieves predictable application performance at high link utilization.
arxiv topic:cs.NI cs.HC
arxiv_dataset-104711811.02467
The Self-consistent Matter Coupling of a Class of Minimally Modified Gravity Theories gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-th The self-consistent matter coupling is found in a broad class of minimally modified gravity theories which was discovered recently. All constraints in the theories remain first class and thus a graviton has only 2 local degrees of freedom. The cosmological solution of one of the examples in this class, the so-called square root gravity, exhibits a singularity freeness at high energy limit. At low energy limit, the theory smoothly connects to GR. A general feature of the theories in this class, with the self-consistent matter coupling discovered in our current work, is the non-trivial interaction among different components of matter sector. We have also checked the Hamiltonian structure of a scalar QED coupling to the square root gravity in the same manner. All constraints in the theory are first class too and thus the local U(1) gauge symmetry in scalar QED is preserved.
arxiv topic:gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-th
arxiv_dataset-104721811.02567
Self-interacting dark matter with a vector mediator: kinetic mixing with U(1)$_{(B-L)_3}$ gauge boson hep-ph astro-ph.CO A spontaneously broken hidden U(1)$_h$ gauge symmetry can explain both the dark matter stability and the observed relic abundance. In this framework, the light gauge boson can mediate the strong dark matter self-interaction, which addresses astrophysical observations that are hard to explain in collisionless cold dark matter. Motivated by flavoured grand unified theories, we introduce right-handed neutrinos and a flavoured $B - L$ gauge symmetry for the third family U(1)$_{(B-L)_3}$. The unwanted relic of the U(1)$_h$ gauge boson decays into neutrinos via the kinetic mixing with the U(1)$_{(B - L)_3}$ gauge boson. Indirect detection bounds on dark matter are systematically weakened, since dark matter annihilation results in neutrinos. However, the kinetic mixing between U(1)$_{(B - L)_3}$ and U(1)$_Y$ gauge bosons are induced by quantum corrections and leads to an observable signal in direct and indirect detection experiments of dark matter. This model can also explain the baryon asymmetry of the Universe via the thermal leptogenesis. In addition, we discuss the possibility of explaining the lepton flavour universality violation in semi-leptonic $B$ meson decays that is recently found in the LHCb experiment.
arxiv topic:hep-ph astro-ph.CO
arxiv_dataset-104731811.02667
Band Selection from Hyperspectral Images Using Attention-based Convolutional Neural Networks cs.CV cs.LG stat.ML This paper introduces new attention-based convolutional neural networks for selecting bands from hyperspectral images. The proposed approach re-uses convolutional activations at different depths, identifying the most informative regions of the spectrum with the help of gating mechanisms. Our attention techniques are modular and easy to implement, and they can be seamlessly trained end-to-end using gradient descent. Our rigorous experiments showed that deep models equipped with the attention mechanism deliver high-quality classification, and repeatedly identify significant bands in the training data, permitting the creation of refined and extremely compact sets that retain the most meaningful features.
arxiv topic:cs.CV cs.LG stat.ML
arxiv_dataset-104741811.02767
Geometry of $CRS$ bi-warped product submanifolds in Sasakian and cosymplectic manifolds math.DG In this paper, we prove that there are no proper $CRS$ bi-warped product submanifolds other than contact CR-biwarped products in Sasakian manifolds. On the other hand, we prove that if $M$ is a $CRS$ bi-warped product of the form $M=N_T \times_{f_1}N^{n_{1}}_\perp\times_{f_2} N^{n_{2}}_\theta$ in a cosymplectic manifold $\widetilde M$, then its second fundamental form $h$ satisfies the inequality: $$\|h\|^2\geq 2n_1\|\nabla(\ln f_1)\|^2+2n_2(1+2\cot^2\theta)\|\nabla(\ln f_2)\|^2,$$ where $N_T,\, N^{n_{1}}_\perp$ and $N^{n_{2}}_\theta$ are invariant, anti-invariant and proper pointwise slant submanifolds of $\widetilde M$, respectively, and $\nabla(\ln f_1)$ and $\nabla(\ln f_2)$ denote the gradients of $\ln f_{1}$ and $\ln f_{2}$, respectively. Several applications of this inequality are given. At the end, we provide a non-trivial example of bi-warped products satisfying the equality case.
arxiv topic:math.DG
arxiv_dataset-104751811.02867
Dependence of five and six-loop estimated QCD corrections to the relation between pole and running masses of heavy quarks on the number of light flavours hep-ph hep-ex In this paper various theoretical approaches are used to define the dependence of the estimated $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^5_s)$ and $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^6_s)$-corrections to the QCD relation between pole and $\rm{\overline{MS}}$ running masses of heavy quarks on the number of light flavours. It is found that recently studied asymptotic formula for the coefficients of this relation, based on the infared-renormalon method, does not reproduce sign-alternating structure in the flavour-dependence of the five and six-loop corrections, which holds in three other used by us approaches.
arxiv topic:hep-ph hep-ex
arxiv_dataset-104761811.02967
ALMA observations of massive molecular gas reservoirs in dusty early-type galaxies astro-ph.GA Unresolved gas and dust observations show a surprising diversity in the amount of interstellar matter in early-type galaxies. Using ALMA observations we resolve the ISM in z$\sim$0.05 early-type galaxies. From a large sample of early-type galaxies detected in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) we selected five of the dustiest cases, with dust masses M$_d\sim$several$\times10^7$M$_\odot$, with the aim of mapping their submillimetre continuum and $^{12}$CO(2-1) line emission distributions. These observations reveal molecular gas disks. There is a lack of associated, extended continuum emission in these ALMA observations, most likely because it is resolved out or surface brightness limited, if the dust distribution is as extended as the CO gas. However, two galaxies have central continuum ALMA detections. An additional, slightly offset, continuum source is revealed in one case, which may have contributed to confusion in the Herschel fluxes. Serendipitous continuum detections further away in the ALMA field are found in another case. Large and massive rotating molecular gas disks are mapped in three of our targets, reaching a few$\times10^{9}$M$_\odot$. One of these shows evidence of kinematic deviations from a pure rotating disc. The fields of our two remaining targets contain only smaller, weak CO sources, slightly offset from the optical galaxy centres. These may be companion galaxies seen in ALMA observations, or background objects. These heterogeneous findings in a small sample of dusty early-type galaxies reveal the need for more such high spatial resolution studies, to understand statistically how dust and gas are related in early-type galaxies.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.GA
arxiv_dataset-104771811.03067
On the Three Properties of Stationary Populations and knotting with Non-Stationary Populations q-bio.QM q-bio.PE A population is considered stationary if the growth rate is zero and the age structure is constant. It thus follows that a population is considered non-stationary if either its growth rate is non-zero and/or its age structure is non-constant. We propose three properties that are related to the stationary population identity (SPI) of population biology by connecting it with stationary populations and non-stationary populations which are approaching stationarity. One of these important properties is that SPI can be applied to partition a population into stationary and non-stationary components. These properties provide deeper insights into cohort formation in real-world populations and the length of the duration for which stationary and non-stationary conditions hold. The new concepts are based on the time gap between the occurrence of stationary and non-stationary populations within the SPI framework that we refer to as Oscillatory SPI and the Amplitude of SPI. This article will appear in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Springer)
arxiv topic:q-bio.QM q-bio.PE
arxiv_dataset-104781811.03167
Decision Procedures for Path Feasibility of String-Manipulating Programs with Complex Operations cs.FL cs.LO The design and implementation of decision procedures for checking path feasibility in string-manipulating programs is an important problem, whose applications include symbolic execution and automated detection of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. A (symbolic) path is a finite sequence of assignments and assertions (i.e. without loops), and checking its feasibility amounts to determining the existence of inputs that yield a successful execution. We give two general semantic conditions which together ensure the decidability of path feasibility: (1) each assertion admits regular monadic decomposition, and (2) each assignment uses a (possibly nondeterministic) function whose inverse relation preserves regularity. We show these conditions are expressive since they are satisfied by a multitude of string operations. They also strictly subsume existing decidable string theories, and most existing benchmarks (e.g. most of Kaluza's, and all of SLOG's, Stranger's, and SLOTH's). We give a simple decision procedure and an extensible architecture of a string solver in that a user may easily incorporate his/her own string functions. We show the general fragment has a tight, but high complexity. To address this, we propose to allow only partial string functions (i.e., prohibit nondeterminism) in condition (2). When nondeterministic functions are needed, we also provide a syntactic fragment that provides a support of nondeterministic functions but can be reduced to an existing solver SLOTH. We provide an efficient implementation of our decision procedure for deterministic partial string functions in a new string solver OSTRICH. It provides built-in support for concatenation, reverse, functional transducers, and replaceall and provides a framework for extensibility to support further string functions. We demonstrate the efficacy of our new solver against other competitive solvers.
arxiv topic:cs.FL cs.LO
arxiv_dataset-104791811.03267
Stability conditions on threefolds with nef tangent bundles math.AG In this paper, we prove the Bogomolov-Gieseker type inequality conjecture for threefolds with nef tangent bundles. As a corollary, there exist Bridgeland stability conditions on these threefolds.
arxiv topic:math.AG
arxiv_dataset-104801811.03367
Contact Hamiltonian Systems math.SG math-ph math.MP In this paper we study Hamiltonian systems on contact manifolds, which is an appropriate scenario to discuss dissipative systems. We prove a coisotropic reduction theorem similar to the one in symplectic mechanics.
arxiv topic:math.SG math-ph math.MP
arxiv_dataset-104811811.03467
A note on the Alster, Menger and D-type properties math.GN In this paper we give new characterizations for almost Menger and weakly Menger spaces by neighborhood assignments and define a natural weakening of almost D-spaces and weakly D-spaces.
arxiv topic:math.GN
arxiv_dataset-104821811.03567
Biologically-plausible learning algorithms can scale to large datasets cs.LG cs.AI cs.CV cs.NE stat.ML The backpropagation (BP) algorithm is often thought to be biologically implausible in the brain. One of the main reasons is that BP requires symmetric weight matrices in the feedforward and feedback pathways. To address this "weight transport problem" (Grossberg, 1987), two more biologically plausible algorithms, proposed by Liao et al. (2016) and Lillicrap et al. (2016), relax BP's weight symmetry requirements and demonstrate comparable learning capabilities to that of BP on small datasets. However, a recent study by Bartunov et al. (2018) evaluate variants of target-propagation (TP) and feedback alignment (FA) on MINIST, CIFAR, and ImageNet datasets, and find that although many of the proposed algorithms perform well on MNIST and CIFAR, they perform significantly worse than BP on ImageNet. Here, we additionally evaluate the sign-symmetry algorithm (Liao et al., 2016), which differs from both BP and FA in that the feedback and feedforward weights share signs but not magnitudes. We examine the performance of sign-symmetry and feedback alignment on ImageNet and MS COCO datasets using different network architectures (ResNet-18 and AlexNet for ImageNet, RetinaNet for MS COCO). Surprisingly, networks trained with sign-symmetry can attain classification performance approaching that of BP-trained networks. These results complement the study by Bartunov et al. (2018), and establish a new benchmark for future biologically plausible learning algorithms on more difficult datasets and more complex architectures.
arxiv topic:cs.LG cs.AI cs.CV cs.NE stat.ML
arxiv_dataset-104831811.03667
Light Cone Black Holes gr-qc hep-th When probed with conformally invariant matter fields, light cones in Minkowski spacetime satisfy thermodynamical relations which are the analog of those satisfied by stationary black holes coupled to standard matter fields. These properties stem from the fact that light cones are conformal Killing horizons stationary with respect to observers following the radial conformal Killing fields in flat spacetime. The four laws of light cone thermodynamics relate notions such as (conformal) temperature, (conformal) surface gravity, (conformal) energy and a conformally invariant notion related to area change. These quantities do not admit a direct physical interpretation in flat spacetime. However, they become the usual thermodynamical quantities when Minkowski is mapped, via a Weyl transformation, to a target spacetime where the conformal Killing field becomes a proper Killing field. In this paper we study the properties of such spacetimes. The simplest realisation turns out to be the Bertotti-Robinson solution, which is known to encode the near horizon geometry of near extremal and extremal charged black holes. The analogy between light cones in flat space and black hole horizons is therefore strengthened. The construction works in arbitrary dimensions; in two dimensions one recovers the Jackiv-Teitelboim black hole of dilaton gravity. Other interesting realisations are also presented.
arxiv topic:gr-qc hep-th
arxiv_dataset-104841811.03767
Energy-Efficient Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing with Edge-Cloud Collaboration cs.DC Multiple access mobile edge computing is an emerging technique to bring computation resources close to end mobile users. By deploying edge servers at WiFi access points or cellular base stations, the computation capabilities of mobile users can be extended. Existing works mostly assume the remote cloud server can be viewed as a special edge server or the edge servers are willing to cooperate, which is not practical. In this work, we propose an edge-cloud cooperative architecture where edge servers can rent for the remote cloud servers to expedite the computation of tasks from mobile users. With this architecture, the computation offloading problem is modeled as a mixed integer programming with delay constraints, which is NP-hard. The objective is to minimize the total energy consumption of mobile devices. We propose a greedy algorithm as well as a simulated annealing algorithm to effectively solve the problem. Extensive simulation results demonstrate that, the proposed greedy algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm can achieve the near optimal performance. On average, the proposed greedy algorithm can achieve the same application completing time budget performance of the Brute Force optional algorithm with only 31\% extra energy cost. The simulated annealing algorithm can achieve similar performance with the greedy algorithm.
arxiv topic:cs.DC
arxiv_dataset-104851811.03867
Classification of gravitational-wave glitches via dictionary learning astro-ph.IM gr-qc We present a new method for the classification of transient noise signals (or glitches) in advanced gravitational-wave interferometers. The method uses learned dictionaries (a supervised machine learning algorithm) for signal denoising, and untrained dictionaries for the final sparse reconstruction and classification. We use a data set of 3000 simulated glitches of three different waveform morphologies, comprising 1000 glitches per morphology. These data are embedded in non-white Gaussian noise to simulate the background noise of advanced LIGO in its broadband configuration. Our classification method yields a 96% accuracy for a large range of initial parameters, showing that learned dictionaries are an interesting approach for glitch classification. This work constitutes a preliminary step before assessing the performance of dictionary-learning methods with actual detector glitches.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.IM gr-qc
arxiv_dataset-104861811.03967
The Gibbs Paradox and the Physical Criteria for the Indistinguishability of Identical Particles quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech Gibbs paradox in the context of statistical mechanics addresses the issue of additivity of entropy of mixing gases. The usual discussion attributes the paradoxical situation to classical distinguishability of identical particles and credits quantum theory for enabling indistinguishability of identical particles to solve the problem. We argue that indistinguishability of identical particles is already a feature in classical mechanics and this is clearly brought out when the problem is treated in the language of information and associated entropy. We pinpoint the physical criteria for indistinguishability that is crucial for the treatment of the Gibbs' problem and the consistency of its solution with conventional thermodynamics. Quantum mechanics provides a quantitative criterion, not possible in the classical picture, for the degree of indistinguishability in terms of visibility of quantum interference, or overlap of the states as pointed out by von Neumann, thereby endowing the entropy expression with mathematical continuity and physical reasonableness.
arxiv topic:quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech
arxiv_dataset-104871811.04067
Benefits of Coded Placement for Networks with Heterogeneous Cache Sizes cs.IT math.IT In this work, we study coded placement in caching systems where the users have unequal cache sizes and demonstrate its performance advantage. In particular, we propose a caching scheme with coded placement for three-user systems that outperforms the best caching scheme with uncoded placement. In our proposed scheme, users cache both uncoded and coded pieces of the files, and the coded pieces at the users with large memories are decoded using the unicast/multicast signals intended to serve users with smaller memories. Furthermore, we extend the proposed scheme to larger systems and show the reduction in delivery load with coded placement compared to uncoded placement.
arxiv topic:cs.IT math.IT
arxiv_dataset-104881811.04167
Power Normalizing Second-order Similarity Network for Few-shot Learning cs.CV Second- and higher-order statistics of data points have played an important role in advancing the state of the art on several computer vision problems such as the fine-grained image and scene recognition. However, these statistics need to be passed via an appropriate pooling scheme to obtain the best performance. Power Normalizations are non-linear activation units which enjoy probability-inspired derivations and can be applied in CNNs. In this paper, we propose a similarity learning network leveraging second-order information and Power Normalizations. To this end, we propose several formulations capturing second-order statistics and derive a sigmoid-like Power Normalizing function to demonstrate its interpretability. Our model is trained end-to-end to learn the similarity between the support set and query images for the problem of one- and few-shot learning. The evaluations on Omniglot, miniImagenet and Open MIC datasets demonstrate that this network obtains state-of-the-art results on several few-shot learning protocols.
arxiv topic:cs.CV
arxiv_dataset-104891811.04267
Besov class via heat semigroup on Dirichlet spaces I: Sobolev type inequalities math.FA math-ph math.AP math.MG math.MP math.PR We introduce heat semigroup-based Besov classes in the general framework of Dirichlet spaces. General properties of those classes are studied and quantitative regularization estimates for the heat semigroup in this scale of spaces are obtained. As a highlight of the paper, we obtain a far reaching $L^p$-analogue, $p \ge 1$, of the Sobolev inequality that was proved for $p=2$ by N. Varopoulos under the assumption of ultracontractivity for the heat semigroup. The case $p=1$ is of special interest since it yields isoperimetric type inequalities.
arxiv topic:math.FA math-ph math.AP math.MG math.MP math.PR
arxiv_dataset-104901811.04367
Many closed $K$-magnetic geodesics on $\mathbb S^2$ math-ph math.DG math.MP In this paper we adopt an alternative, analytical approach to Arnol'd problem \cite{A1} about the existence of closed and embedded $K$-magnetic geodesics in the round $2$-sphere $\mathbb S^2$, where $K: \mathbb S^2 \rightarrow \mathbb R$ is a smooth scalar function. In particular, we use Lyapunov-Schmidt finite-dimensional reduction coupled with a local variational formulation in order to get some existence and multiplicity results bypassing the use of symplectic geometric tools such as the celebrated Viterbo's theorem and Bottkoll results.
arxiv topic:math-ph math.DG math.MP
arxiv_dataset-104911811.04467
Estimating the radiative part of QED effects in systems with supercritical charge physics.atom-ph hep-th quant-ph The effective interaction of the electron magnetic moment anomaly with the Coulomb field of superheavy nuclei is investigated by taking into account its dynamical screening at small distances. The shift of the electronic levels, caused by this interaction, is considered for H-like atoms and for compact nuclear quasi-molecules, non-perturbatively both in $Z\alpha$ and (partially) in $\alpha/\pi$. It is shown that the levels shift reveals a non-monotonic behavior in the region $Z\alpha>1$ and near the threshold of the lower continuum decreases both with the increasing the charge and with enlarging the size of the system of Coulomb sources. The last result is generalized to the total self-energy contribution to the levels shift and so to the possible behavior of radiative QED effects with virtual photon exchange near the lower continuum in the supercritical region.
arxiv topic:physics.atom-ph hep-th quant-ph
arxiv_dataset-104921811.04567
Time-changed Poisson processes of order $k$ math.PR In this article, we study the Poisson process of order k (PPoK) time-changed with an independent L\'evy subordinator and its inverse, which we call respectively, as TCPPoK-I and TCPPoK-II, through various distributional properties, long-range dependence and limit theorems for the PPoK and the TCPPoK-I. Further, we study the governing difference-differential equations of the TCPPoK-I for the case inverse Gaussian subordinator. Similarly, we study the distributional properties, asymptotic moments and the governing difference-differential equation of TCPPoK-II. As an application to ruin theory, we give a governing differential equation of ruin probability in insurance ruin using these processes. Finally, we present some simulated sample paths of both the processes.
arxiv topic:math.PR
arxiv_dataset-104931811.04667
Review on Multi-Scale Models of Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation physics.chem-ph Electrolyte reduction products form the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) on negative electrodes of lithium-ion batteries. Even though this process practically stabilizes the electrode-electrolyte interface, it results in continued capacity-fade limiting lifetime and safety of lithium-ion batteries. Recent atomistic and continuum theories give new insights into the growth of structures and the transport of ions in the SEI. The diffusion of neutral radicals has emerged as a prominent candidate for the long-term growth mechanism, because it predicts the observed potential dependence of SEI growth.
arxiv topic:physics.chem-ph
arxiv_dataset-104941811.04767
A Hole torn by QCD Fields nucl-th In this paper we determine that a local negative correlation(the Hole) in $\Delta \eta$ $\Delta \phi$ space of Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV is caused by strong color QCD electric and magnetic fields which are present in the Glasma Flux Tubes that are generated by the initial conditions.
arxiv topic:nucl-th
arxiv_dataset-104951811.04867
Arguments Related to the Riemann Hypothesis: New Methods and Results math.NT Four propositions are considered concerning the relationship between the zeros of two combinations of the Riemann zeta function and the function itself. The first is the Riemann hypothesis, while the second relates to the zeros of a derivative function. It is proved that these are equivalent, and that, if the Riemann hypothesis holds, then all zeros of the zeta function on the critical line are simple. The Riemann hypothesis is then shown to imply the third proposition holds, this being a new necessary condition for the Riemann hypothesis. The third proposition is shown to be equivalent to the fourth, and either is shown to yield the result that the distribution of zeros on the critical line of $\zeta (s)$ is that given by the Riemann hypothesis. The results given are obtained from a combination of analytic arguments, experimental mathematical techniques and graphical reasoning.
arxiv topic:math.NT
arxiv_dataset-104961811.04967
The Impact of Timestamp Granularity in Optimistic Concurrency Control cs.DB Optimistic concurrency control (OCC) can exploit the strengths of parallel hardware to provide excellent performance for uncontended transactions, and is popular in high-performance in-memory databases and transactional systems. But at high contention levels, OCC is susceptible to frequent aborts, leading to wasted work and degraded performance. Contention managers, mixed optimistic/pessimistic concurrency control algorithms, and novel optimistic-inspired concurrency control algorithms, such as TicToc, aim to address this problem, but these mechanisms introduce sometimes-high overheads of their own. We show that in real-world benchmarks, traditional OCC can outperform these alternative mechanisms by simply adding fine-grained version timestamps (using different timestamps for disjoint components of each record). With fine-grained timestamps, OCC gets 1.14x TicToc's throughput in TPC-C at 128 cores (previous work reported TicToc having 1.8x higher throughput than OCC at 80 hyperthreads). Our study shows that timestamp granularity has a greater impact than previously thought on the performance of transaction processing systems, and should not be overlooked in the push for faster concurrency control schemes.
arxiv topic:cs.DB
arxiv_dataset-104971811.05067
Shall I Compare Thee to a Machine-Written Sonnet? An Approach to Algorithmic Sonnet Generation cs.AI cs.CL We provide an approach for generating beautiful poetry. Our sonnet-generation algorithm includes several novel elements that improve over the state of the art, leading to metrical, rhyming poetry with many human-like qualities. These novel elements include in-line punctuation, part of speech restrictions, and more appropriate training corpora. Our work is the winner of the 2018 PoetiX Literary Turing Test Award for computer-generated poetry.
arxiv topic:cs.AI cs.CL
arxiv_dataset-104981811.05167
An abelian analogue of Schanuel's conjecture and applications math.NT In this article we study an abelian analogue of Schanuel's conjecture. This conjecture falls in the realm of the generalised period conjecture of Y. Andr{\'e}. As shown by C. Bertolin, the generalised period conjecture includes Schanuel's conjecture as a special case. Extending methods of Bertolin, it can be shown that the abelian analogue of Schanuel's conjecture we consider, also follows from Andr{\'e}'s conjecture. C. Cheng et al. showed that the classical Schanuel's conjecture implies the algebraic independence of the values of the iterated exponential function and the values of the iterated logarithmic function, answering a question of M. Waldschmidt. We then investigate a similar question in the setup of abelian varieties.
arxiv topic:math.NT
arxiv_dataset-104991811.05267
G11.92-0.61 MM 1: A fragmented Keplerian disk surrounding a proto-O star astro-ph.SR astro-ph.GA We present high resolution ($\sim$300 au) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the massive young stellar object G11.92-0.61 MM 1. We resolve the immediate circumstellar environment of MM 1 in 1.3 mm continuum emission and CH$_{3}$CN emission for the first time. The object divides into two main sources - MM 1a, which is the source of a bipolar molecular outflow, and MM 1b, located 0.57'' (1920 au) to the South-East. The main component of MM 1a is an elongated continuum structure, perpendicular to the bipolar outflow, with a size of $0.141'' \times 0.050''$ ($480\times170$ au). The gas kinematics toward MM 1a probed via CH$_{3}$CN trace a variety of scales. The lower energy $J=12-11$ $K=3$ line traces extended, rotating gas within the outflow cavity, while the $v$8=1 line shows a clearly-resolved Keplerian rotation signature. Analysis of the gas kinematics and dust emission shows that the total enclosed mass in MM 1a is $40\pm5$ M$_{\odot}$ (where between 2.2-5.8 M$_{\odot}$ is attributed to the disk), while MM 1b is $<0.6$ M$_{\odot}$. The extreme mass ratio and orbital properties of MM 1a and MM 1b suggest that MM 1b is one of the first observed examples of the formation of a binary star via disk fragmentation around a massive young (proto)star.
arxiv topic:astro-ph.SR astro-ph.GA