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math.NT2016★ 29 cited

Planck-scale mass equidistribution of toral Laplace eigenfunctions

Andrew Granville, Igor Wigman

We study the small scale distribution of the -mass of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the the two-dimensional flat torus. Given an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions, Lest…

math-ph2016★ 14 cited

A superintegrable model with reflections on and the higher rank Bannai-Ito algebra

Hendrik De Bie, Vincent X. Genest, Jean-Michel Lemay +1

A quantum superintegrable model with reflections on the -sphere is presented. Its symmetry algebra is identified with the higher rank generalization of the Bannai-Ito algebr…

math.CV2016

The initial and terminal cluster sets of an analytic curve

Paul M. Gauthier

For an analytic curve $γ:(a,b)\rightarrow \C,$ the set of values approached by as and as can be any two continuua of $\C\cup\{\infty\}.$

astro-ph.SR2016★ 12 cited

V473 Lyr, a modulated, period-doubled Cepheid, and U TrA, a double-mode Cepheid observed by MOST

L. Molnár, A. Derekas, R. Szabó +36

Space-based photometric measurements first revealed low-amplitude irregularities in the pulsations of Cepheid stars, but their origins and how commonly they occur remain uncertain.…

hep-th2016★ 14 cited

Holographic torus entanglement and its RG flow

Pablo Bueno, William Witczak-Krempa

We study the universal contributions to the entanglement entropy (EE) of 2+1d and 3+1d holographic conformal field theories (CFTs) on topologically non-trivial manifolds, focusing…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 11 cited

Stagnant Shells in the Vicinity of the Dusty Wolf-Rayet-OB Binary WR 112

R. M. Lau, M. J. Hankins, R. Schödel +3

We present high spatial resolution mid-infrared images of the nebula around the late-type carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet (WC)-OB binary system WR~112 taken by the recently upgraded VLT spe…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 99 cited

ALMA observations of massive molecular gas filaments encasing radio bubbles in the Phoenix cluster

H. R. Russell, M. McDonald, B. R. McNamara +11

We report new ALMA observations of the CO(3-2) line emission from the molecular gas reservoir in the central galaxy of the Phoenix c…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 31 cited

Mass Constraints of the WASP-47 Planetary System from Radial Velocities

Evan Sinukoff, Andrew W. Howard, Erik A. Petigura +19

We report precise radial velocity (RV) measurements of WASP-47, a G star that hosts three transiting planets in close proximity (a hot Jupiter, a super-Earth and a Neptune-sized pl…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 13 cited

A Distant Mirror: Solar Oscillations Observed on Neptune by the Kepler K2 Mission

P. Gaulme, J. F. Rowe, T. R. Bedding +24

Starting in December 2014, Kepler K2 observed Neptune continuously for 49 days at a 1-minute cadence. The goals consisted of studying its atmospheric dynamics (Simon et al. 2016),…

math-ph2016★ 9 cited

Tridiagonal representations of the q-oscillator algebra and Askey-Wilson polynomials

Satoshi Tsujimoto, Luc Vinet, Alexei Zhedanov

A construction is given of the most general representations of the q-oscillator algebra where both generators are tridiagonal. It is shown to be connected to the Askey-Wilson polyn…

stat.ML2016★ 4 cited

Generalizable Features From Unsupervised Learning

Mehdi Mirza, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio

Humans learn a predictive model of the world and use this model to reason about future events and the consequences of actions. In contrast to most machine predictors, we exhibit an…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 4 cited

BRITE observations of classical Cepheids

R. Smolec, P. Moskalik, N. R. Evans +2

We briefly summarize the BRITE observations of classical Cepheids. Possible detection of modulation in a fundamental mode Cepheid, T Vul, and of additional non-radial modes in firs…

cs.CV2016★ 5 cited

A Benchmark for Endoluminal Scene Segmentation of Colonoscopy Images

David Vázquez, Jorge Bernal, F. Javier Sánchez +5

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third cause of cancer death worldwide. Currently, the standard approach to reduce CRC-related mortality is to perform regular screening in search for…

hep-ex2016★ 60 cited

Measurement of the cross-section for producing a boson in association with a single top quark in collisions at TeV with ATLAS

ATLAS Collaboration

The inclusive cross-section for the associated production of a boson and top quark is measured using data from proton-proton collisions at TeV. The dataset corr…

hep-ex2016★ 36 cited

Measurements of top quark spin observables in events using dilepton final states in TeV collisions with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Measurements of top quark spin observables in events are presented based on 20.2 fb of TeV proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detecto…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 74 cited

Oxidation dynamics of ultrathin GaSe probed through Raman spectroscopy

Alaric Bergeron, John Ibrahim, Richard Leonelli +1

Gallium selenide (GaSe) is a 2D material with a thickness-dependent gap, strong non-linear optical coefficients and uncommon interband optical selection rules, making it interestin…

cs.CV2016★ 5 cited

Unsupervised Perceptual Rewards for Imitation Learning

Pierre Sermanet, Kelvin Xu, Sergey Levine

Reward function design and exploration time are arguably the biggest obstacles to the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the real world. In many real-world tasks,…

stat.ME2016★ 29 cited

A New Bayesian Approach to Robustness Against Outliers in Linear Regression

Philippe Gagnon, Alain Desgagné, Mylène Bédard

Linear regression is ubiquitous in statistical analysis. It is well understood that conflicting sources of information may contaminate the inference when the classical normality of…

stat.ME2016★ 6 cited

Weak Convergence and Optimal Tuning of the Reversible Jump Algorithm

Philippe Gagnon, Mylène Bédard, Alain Desgagné

The reversible jump algorithm is a useful Markov chain Monte Carlo method introduced by Green (1995) that allows switches between subspaces of differing dimensionality, and therefo…

hep-ex2016★ 37 cited

Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the channel in collisions at TeV using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This article presents measurements of differential cross-sections in a fiducial phase-space region, using an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb of proton--proton dat…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 43 cited

Mass and Eccentricity Constraints in the WASP-47 Planetary System from a Simultaneous Analysis of Radial Velocities & Transit Timing Variations

Lauren M. Weiss, Katherine Deck, Evan Sinukoff +9

Measuring precise planet masses, densities, and orbital dynamics in individual planetary systems is an important pathway toward understanding planet formation. The WASP-47 system h…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 8 cited

Probing Anderson Localization using the Dynamics of a Qubit

Hichem Eleuch, Michael Hilke, Richard MacKenzie

Anderson localization is a consequence of coherent interference of multiple scattering events in the presence of disorder, which leads to an exponential suppression of the transmis…

hep-ex2016★ 40 cited

Measurements of top-quark pair to -boson cross-section ratios at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Ratios of top-quark pair to -boson cross sections measured from proton--proton collisions at the LHC centre-of-mass energies of TeV, 8TeV, and 7TeV are presented by…

hep-ex2016★ 212 cited

Precision measurement and interpretation of inclusive , and production cross sections with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

High-precision measurements by the ATLAS Collaboration are presented of inclusive , and () Drell-Yan production cros…