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arXiv2017

Jenkins-Strebel Differentials on the Riemann Sphere with Four Simple Poles

A celebrated and deep theorem in the theory of Riemann surfaces states the existence and uniqueness of the Jenkins-Strebel differentials on a Riemann surface under some conditions, but the proof is non-constructive and examples are difficult to find. This paper deals with an example of a simple case, namely Jenkins-Strebel differentials on the Riemann sphere with four fixed simple poles. We will give explicit expressions of these Jenkins-Strebel differentials by means of the Weierstrass $\wp$ function and expose a simple algorithm determining the correspondence between these differentials and some classes of simple closed curves on the Riemann sphere with four points removed.

math.CV↗
arXiv2017

Light Attenuation Length of High Quality Linear Alkyl Benzene as Liquid Scintillator Solvent for the JUNO Experiment

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino experiment with a 20 kt liquid scintillator detector designed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy, and measure the neutrino oscillation parameters. Linear alkyl benzene (LAB) will be used as the solvent for the liquid scintillation system in the central detector of JUNO. For this purpose, we have prepared LAB samples, and have measured their light attenuation lengths, with one achieving a length of 25.8 m, comparable to the diameter of the JUNO detector.

physics.ins-det↗
arXiv2017

L-packets of quasisplit $GSp(2n)$ and $GO(2n)$

In his monograph (2013) Arthur characterizes the L-packets of quasisplit symplectic groups and orthogonal groups. By extending his work, we characterize the L-packets for the corresponding similitude groups with desired properties. In particular, we show these packets satisfy the conjectural endoscopic character identities.

math.RT↗
arXiv2017

On the cuspidal support of discrete series for $p$-adic quasisplit $Sp(N)$ and $SO(N)$

Zelevinsky's classification theory of discrete series of $p$-adic general linear groups has been well known. Mœglin and Tadic gave the same kind of theory for $p$-adic classical groups, which is more complicated due to the occurrence of nontrivial structure of L-packets. Nonetheless, their work is independent of the endoscopic classification theory of Arthur (also Mok in the unitary case), which concerns the structure of L-packets in these cases. So our goal in this paper is to make more explicit the connection between these two very different types of theories. To do so, we reprove the results of Mœglin and Tadic in the case of quasisplit symplectic groups and orthogonal groups by using Arthur's theory.

math.RT↗
arXiv2017

Photostrictive two-dimensional materials in the monochalcogenide family

Photostriction is predicted for SnS and SnSe monolayers, two-dimensional ferroelectrics with rectangular unit cells (the lattice vector $\mathbf{a}_1$ is larger than $\mathbf{a}_2$) and an intrinsic dipole moment parallel to $\mathbf{a}_1$. Photostriction in these two-dimensional materials is found to be induced by a screened electric polarization in the photoexcited electronic state (i.e., a converse piezoelectric effect) that leads to a compression of $a_1$ and a comparatively smaller increase of $a_2$ for a reduced unit cell area. The structural change documented here is ten times larger than that observed in BiFeO$_3$, making monochalcogenide monolayers an ultimate platform for this effect. This structural modification should be observable under experimentally feasible densities of photexcited carriers on samples that have been grown already, having a potential usefulness for light-induced, remote mechano-opto-electronic applications.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗
arXiv2016

On rational functions with more than three branch points

Let $Λ$ be a collection of partitions of a positive integer $d$ of the form $$(a_1,\cdots, a_p),\,(b_1,\cdots, b_q),\,(m_1+1,1,\cdots,1),\cdots, (m_l+1,1,\cdots,1),$$ where $(m_1,\cdots, m_l)$ is a partition of $p+q-2>0$. We prove that there exists a rational function on the Riemann sphere $\overline{\mathbb{C}}$ with branch data $Λ$ if and only if $$\max\bigl(m_1,\cdots,m_l\bigr) < \frac{d}{{\rm GCD}(a_1,\cdots, a_p,b_1,\cdots, b_q)}.$$ As an application, we give a new class of branch data which can be realized by Belyi functions on the Riemann sphere.

math.GT↗
arXiv2016

Maximum Correntropy Unscented Filter

The unscented transformation (UT) is an efficient method to solve the state estimation problem for a non-linear dynamic system, utilizing a derivative-free higher-order approximation by approximating a Gaussian distribution rather than approximating a non-linear function. Applying the UT to a Kalman filter type estimator leads to the well-known unscented Kalman filter (UKF). Although the UKF works very well in Gaussian noises, its performance may deteriorate significantly when the noises are non-Gaussian, especially when the system is disturbed by some heavy-tailed impulsive noises. To improve the robustness of the UKF against impulsive noises, a new filter for nonlinear systems is proposed in this work, namely the maximum correntropy unscented filter (MCUF). In MCUF, the UT is applied to obtain the prior estimates of the state and covariance matrix, and a robust statistical linearization regression based on the maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) is then used to obtain the posterior estimates of the state and covariance. The satisfying performance of the new algorithm is confirmed by two illustrative examples.

stat.ML↗
arXiv2016

A Low-Cost Tele-Presence Wheelchair System

This paper presents the architecture and implementation of a tele-presence wheelchair system based on tele-presence robot, intelligent wheelchair, and touch screen technologies. The tele-presence wheelchair system consists of a commercial electric wheelchair, an add-on tele-presence interaction module, and a touchable live video image based user interface (called TIUI). The tele-presence interaction module is used to provide video-chatting for an elderly or disabled person with the family members or caregivers, and also captures the live video of an environment for tele-operation and semi-autonomous navigation. The user interface developed in our lab allows an operator to access the system anywhere and directly touch the live video image of the wheelchair to push it as if he/she did it in the presence. This paper also discusses the evaluation of the user experience.

cs.RO↗
arXiv2016

Telepresence Interaction by Touching Live Video Images

This paper presents a telepresence interaction framework based on touchscreen and telepresence-robot technologies. The core of the framework is a new user interface, Touchable live video Image based User Interface, called TIUI. The TIUI allows a remote operator to not just drive the telepresence robot but operate and interact with real objects by touching their live video images on a pad with finger touch gestures. We implemented a telepresence interaction system which is composed of a telepresence robot and tele-interactive objects located in a local space, the TIUI of a pad located in a remote space, and the wireless networks connecting the two spaces. Our system can be a perfect embodiment of a remote operator to do most of daily living tasks, such as opening a door, drawing a curtain, pushing a wheelchair, and other like tasks. The evaluation and demonstration results show the effectiveness and promising applications of our system.

cs.HC↗
arXiv2016

Surface Reactivity Enhancement by O2 Dissociation on a Single-layer MgO Film Deposited on Metal Substrate

Improving reactivity on an insulating surface is crucial due to their important applications in surface catalytic reactions. In this work, we carried out first-principles calculations to investigate the adsorption of O2 on a single-layer MgO(100) film deposited on metal substrate. The adsorption configurations, reaction pathways, molecular dynamics simulations, and electronic properties are reported. We reveal that O2 can completely dissociate on the surface, which is in sharp contrast to that on MgO(100) films thicker than one monolayer. The dissociated O2 tends to penetrate into the interfacial region, behaving like a switch to trigger subsequent chemical reactions. As an example, the interplay between water and the interfacial oxygen results in the formation of hydroxyl radicals. This study paves an avenue to accomplish the desired surface catalytic reactions, especially those involving oxygen.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗
arXiv2016

Kernel Risk-Sensitive Loss: Definition, Properties and Application to Robust Adaptive Filtering

Nonlinear similarity measures defined in kernel space, such as correntropy, can extract higher-order statistics of data and offer potentially significant performance improvement over their linear counterparts especially in non-Gaussian signal processing and machine learning. In this work, we propose a new similarity measure in kernel space, called the kernel risk-sensitive loss (KRSL), and provide some important properties. We apply the KRSL to adaptive filtering and investigate the robustness, and then develop the MKRSL algorithm and analyze the mean square convergence performance. Compared with correntropy, the KRSL can offer a more efficient performance surface, thereby enabling a gradient based method to achieve faster convergence speed and higher accuracy while still maintaining the robustness to outliers. Theoretical analysis results and superior performance of the new algorithm are confirmed by simulation.

stat.ML↗
arXiv2016

Non-monotonic anisotropy in charge conduction induced by antiferrodistortive transition in metallic SrTiO$_{3}$

Cubic SrTiO$_{3}$ becomes tetragonal below 105 K. The antiferrodistortive (AFD) distortion leads to clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation of adjacent TiO$_{6}$ octahedra. This insulator becomes a metal upon the introduction of extremely low concentration of n-type dopants. However, signatures of the structural phase transition in charge conduction have remained elusive. Employing the Montgomery technique, we succeed in resolving the anisotropy of charge conductivity induced by the AFD transition, in the presence of different types of dopants. We find that the slight lattice distortion ($<6 \times 10^{-4}$) gives rise to a twenty percent anisotropy in charge conductivity, in agreement with the expectations of band calculations. Application of uniaxial strain amplifies the detectable anisotropy by disfavoring one of the three possible tetragonal domains. In contrast with all other known anisotropic Fermi liquids, the anisotropy has opposite signs for elastic and inelastic scattering. Increasing the concentration of dopants leads to a drastic shift in the temperature of the AFD transition either upward or downward. The latter result puts strong constraints on any hypothetical role played by the AFD soft mode in the formation of Cooper pairs and the emergence of superconductivity in SrTiO$_3$.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗
arXiv2016

On Ambrosetti-Malchiodi-Ni conjecture on two-dimensional smooth bounded domains

We consider the problem $$ ε^2 Δu-V(y)u+u^p\,=\,0,~~u>0~~\quad\mbox{in}\quadΩ,~~\quad\frac {\partial u}{\partial ν}\,=\,0\quad\mbox{on}~~~\partial Ω, $$ where $Ω$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^2$ with smooth boundary, the exponent $p>1$, $ε>0$ is a small parameter, $V$ is a uniformly positive, smooth potential on $\barΩ$, and $ν$ denotes the outward normal of $\partial Ω$. Let $Γ$ be a curve intersecting orthogonally with $\partial Ω$ at exactly two points and dividing $Ω$ into two parts. Moreover, $Γ$ satisfies stationary and non-degeneracy conditions with respect to the functional $\int_ΓV^σ$, where $σ=\frac {p+1}{p-1}-\frac 12$. We prove the existence of a solution $u_ε$ concentrating along the whole of $Γ$, exponentially small in $ε$ at any positive distance from it, provided that $ε$ is small and away from certain critical numbers. In particular, this establishes the validity of the two dimensional case of a conjecture by A. Ambrosetti, A. Malchiodi and W.-M. Ni(p.327, [4]).

math.AP↗
arXiv2016

On a lifting problem of L-packets

Let $G \subseteq \tilde{G}$ be two quasisplit connected reductive groups over a local field of characteristic zero and $G_{der} = \tilde{G}_{der}$. Although the existence of L-packets is still conjectural in general, it is believed that the L-packets of $G$ should be the restriction of that of $\tilde{G}$. Motivated by this, we hope to construct the L-packets of $\tilde{G}$ from that of $G$. The primary example in our mind is when $G = Sp(2n)$, whose L-packets have been determined by Arthur (2013), and $\tilde{G} = GSp(2n)$. As a first step, we need to consider some well-known conjectural properties of L-packets. In this paper, we show how they can be deduced from the conjectural endoscopy theory. As an application, we obtain some structural information about L-packets of $\tilde{G}$ from that of $G$.

math.RT↗
arXiv2016

The Jacquet Langlands correspondence via twisted descent

The existence of the well-known Jacquet-Langlands correspondence was established by Jacquet and Langlands via the trace formula method in 1970. An explicit construction of such a correspondence was obtained by Shimizu via theta series in 1972. In this paper, we extend the automorphic descent method of Ginzburg-Rallis-Soudry to a new setting. As a consequence, we recover the classical Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for PGL(2) via a new explicit construction.

math.NT↗
arXiv2015

A multiferroic on the brink: uncovering the nuances of strain-induced transitions in BiFeO$_3$

Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO$_3$) is one of the very few known single-phase multiferroic materials. While the bulk compound is rhombohedral (R), the discovery of an epitaxial strain-induced structural transition into a so-called 'super tetragonal-phase' (T-phase) in this material incited a flurry of research activity focused on gaining an understanding of this phase transition and its possible functionalities. This metastable phase of BiFeO$_3$ is also multiferroic, with giant ferroelectric polarization and coexisting antiferromagnetic order, but above all it is the strain relaxation-induced phase mixtures and their outstanding piezoelectric and magnetoelectric responses which continue to intrigue and motivate the physicist and materials scientist communities. Here, we review the research into the T-phase and mixed-phase BiFeO$_3$ system. We begin with a brief summary of the history of the T-phase and an analysis of the structure of the various phases reported in the literature. We then address important questions regarding the symmetry and octahedral rotation patterns and the (as yet underexplored) important role of chemistry in the formation of the metastable T-phase. We follow by describing the phase transitions in this material, and how these may hold promise for large magnetoelectric responses. Finally we point out some experimental challenges inherent to the study of such a system, and potential pathways for how they may be overcome. It is our intention with this work to highlight important issues that, in our opinion, should be carefully considered by the community in order to use this fascinating materials system for a new paradigm of functionality.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗
arXiv2015

Extortion outperforms generosity in iterated Prisoners' Dilemma

Promoting cooperation is an intellectual challenge in the social sciences, for which the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma (IPD) is a fundamental framework. The traditional view that there exists no simple ultimatum strategy whereby one player can unilaterally control the share of the surplus has been challenged by a new class of "zero-determinant" (ZD) strategies raised by Press and Dyson. In particular, the extortionate strategies can subdue the opponent and obtain higher scores. However, no empirical evidence has yet been found to support this theoretical finding. In a long-run laboratory experiment of the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma pairing each human subject with a computer co-player, we demonstrate that the extortionate strategy indeed outperforms the generous strategy against human subjects. Our results show that the extortionate strategy achieves higher scores than the generous strategy, the extortionate strategy promotes the cooperation rate to a similar level as the generous strategy does, and the human subjects' cooperation rates in both the extortionate and generous treatments are increasing over time. While our results imply that the human subjects cared about their earnings as well as fairness or reciprocity, we do observe that subjects learned to become increasingly cooperative over time to increase their own monetary payoffs. Our experiments provide the first laboratory evidence in support of the Press-Dyson theory.

physics.soc-ph↗