Open Access Repositories: Recent submissions
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Instabilities and Solitons in Minimal Strips
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review Letters, 2016-07-01)We show that highly twisted minimal strips can undergo a nonsingular transition, unlike the singular transitions seen in the Möbius strip and the catenoid. If the strip is nonorientable, this transition is topologically ...
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PRECESSION: Dynamics of spinning black-hole binaries with python
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2016-06-27)We present the numerical code precession, a new open-source python module to study the dynamics of precessing black-hole binaries in the post-Newtonian regime. The code provides a comprehensive toolbox to (i) study the ...
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Directed collective motion of bacteria under channel confinement
(Institute of PhysicsNew Journal of Physics, 2016-07-01)Dense suspensions of swimming bacteria are known to exhibit collective behaviour arising from the interplay of steric and hydrodynamic interactions. Unconfined suspensions exhibit transient, recurring vortices and jets, ...
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Non-trivial Phase Coupling in Polariton Multiplets
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review X, 2016)We investigate the phase coupling between spatially separated polariton condensates under non-resonant optical pulsed excitation. In the simple case of two condensates, we observe phase locking either in symmetric or ...
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Towards Practical Theory: Bayesian Optimization and Optimal Exploration
(2016-05-26)This thesis discusses novel principles to improve the theoretical analyses of a class of methods, aiming to provide theoretically driven yet practically useful methods. The thesis focuses on a class of methods, called ...
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Quantifying eddy feedbacks and forcings in the tropospheric response to stratospheric sudden warmings
(American Meteorological SocietyJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2016-08-26)The equatorward shift of the zonal mean midlatitude tropospheric jet following a stratospheric sudden warming in a comprehensive, stratosphere-resolving model is found to be well quantified by a simple model, due to Lorenz ...
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Stochastic cycle selection in active flow networks
(National Academy of Sciences of the USAProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016)Active biological flow networks pervade nature and span a wide range of scales, from arterial blood vessels and bronchial mucus transport in humans to bacterial flow through porous media or plasmodial shuttle streaming in ...
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A Fully Automatic Theorem Prover with Human-Style Output
(SpringerJournal of Automated Reasoning, 2016-06-11)This paper describes a program that solves elementary mathematical problems, mostly in metric space theory, and presents solutions that are hard to distinguish from solutions that might be written by human mathematicians.
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Time-domain implementation of an impedance boundary condition with boundary layer correction
(ElsevierJournal of Computational Physics, 2016-06-08)A time-domain boundary condition is derived that accounts for the acoustic impedance of a thin boundary layer over an impedance boundary, based on the asymptotic frequency-domain boundary condition of Brambley [2011, AIAA ...
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Two–dimensional viscoplastic dambreaks
(Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2016-12-01)We report the results of computations for two–dimensional dambreaks of viscoplastic fluid, focusing on the phenomenology of the collapse, the mode of initial failure, and the final shape of the slump. The volume-of-fluid ...
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Decay of the Cosmic Vacuum Energy
(SpringerFestschrift, 2016)In his 2005 review, $\textit{Gravity and the Thermodynamics of Horizons}$, Paddy suggested that a vacuum in thermal equilibrium with a bath of radiation should have a gradually diminishing energy. We work through the ...
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Homological Stability for Spaces of Embedded Surfaces
(Mathematical Sciences PublisherGeometry & Topology, 2016)We study the space of oriented genus $\textit{g}$ subsurfaces of a fixed manifold $\textit{M}$, and in particular its homological properties. We construct a “scanning map” which compares this space to the space of sections ...
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TORSION GALOIS REPRESENTATIONS OVER CM FIELDS AND HECKE ALGEBRAS IN THE DERIVED CATEGORY
(Cambridge University PressForum of Mathematics, Sigma, 2016-07-21)We construct algebras of endomorphisms in the derived category of the cohomology of arithmetic manifolds, which are generated by Hecke operators. We construct Galois representations with coefficients in these Hecke algebras ...
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Higher spins from Nambu-Chern-Simons theory
(SpringerCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 2016)We propose a new theory of higher spin gravity in three spacetime dimensions. This is defined by what we will call a Nambu-Chern-Simons (NCS) action; this is to a Nambu 3-algebra as an ordinary Chern-Simons (CS) action is ...
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A comparative perspective on the evolution of Romance clausal structure
(John Benjamins PublishingDiachronica, 2016-12-19)This article presents a comparative analysis of the diachronic evolution of Romance clausal structure from Classical Latin through to the late medieval period, with particular reference to the Verb Second (V2) property. ...
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Deep Learning without Poor Local Minima
(2016-05-23)In this paper, we prove a conjecture published in 1989 and also partially address an open problem announced at the Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) 2015. For an expected loss function of a deep nonlinear neural network, ...
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Global Rates of Convergence in Log-Concave Density Estimation
(Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAnnals of Statistics, 2016)The estimation of a log-concave density on $\Bbb R$$^d$ represents a central problem in the area of nonparametric inference under shape constraints. In this paper, we study the performance of log-concave density estimators ...
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Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics: Recent Developments
(World ScientificInternational Journal of Modern Physics D, 2016-07-15)We review recent progress in the application of numerical relativity techniques to astrophysics and high-energy physics. We focus on recent developments regarding the spin evolution in black hole binaries, high-energy black ...
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The work of Lucio Russo on percolation
The contributions of Lucio Russo to the mathematics of percolation and disordered systems are outlined. The context of his work is explained, and its ongoing impact on current work is described and amplified.
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The Importance of the Unsteady Kutta Condition when Modelling Gust-Aerofoil Interaction
(ElsevierJournal of Sound and Vibration, 2016-06-01)The Kutta condition is applied to aerofoils with sharp trailing edges to allow for viscous effects to be considered within a simplified system of equations that are inviscid. This paper discusses in detail the inclusion ...
