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  • Integrable Abelian vortex-like solitons 

    Contatto, Felipe (ElsevierPhysics Letters B, 2017-05-10)
    We propose a modified version of the Ginzburg–Landau energy functional admitting static solitons and determine all the Painlevé-integrable cases of its Bogomolny equations of a given class of models. Explicit solutions are ...

  • On Multi-Level Thinking and Scientific Understanding 

    McIntyre, Michael Edgeworth (SpringerSpringerAdvances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2017-10)
    Professor Duzheng YE’s name has been familiar to me ever since my postdoctoral years at MIT with Professors Jule CHARNEY and Norman PHILLIPS, back in the late 1960s. I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Professor YE ...

  • Bayesian Nonparametric Ordination for the Analysis of Microbial Communities 

    Ren, Boyu; Bacallado, Sergio; Favaro, Stefano; Holmes, Susan; Trippa, Lorenzo (Taylor & FrancisJournal of the American Statistical Association, 2017-07-10)
    Human microbiome studies use sequencing technologies to measure the abundance of bacterial species or Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) in samples of biological material. Typically the data are organized in contingency ...

  • Theory of Shape-Shifting Droplets 

    Haas, Pierre; Goldstein, Raymond Ethan; Smoukov, Stoyan Kostadinov; Cholakova, D; Denkov, N (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review Letters, 2017-02-24)
    Recent studies of cooled oil emulsion droplets uncovered transformations into a host of flattened shapes with straight edges and sharp corners, driven by a partial phase transition of the bulk liquid phase. Here, we explore ...

  • Infinite loop spaces and positive scalar curvature 

    Botvinnik, B; Ebert, J; Randal-Williams, Oscar (SpringerInventiones Mathematicae, 2017-09-01)
    We study the homotopy type of the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature on high-dimensional compact spin manifolds. Hitchin used the fact that there are no harmonic spinors on a manifold with positive scalar curvature ...

  • Clustering instability of focused swimmers 

    Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie; Nadal, F (IOP PublishingEurophysics Letters, 2017-02-09)
    One of the hallmarks of active matter is its rich nonlinear dynamics and instabilities. Recent numerical simulations of phototactic algae showed that a thin jet of swimmers, obtained from hydrodynamic focusing inside a ...

  • Einstein–Weyl spaces and near-horizon geometry 

    Dunajski, Maciej Lukasz; Gutowski, J; Sabra, W (IOP PublishingClassical and Quantum Gravity, 2017-02-02)
    We show that a class of solutions of minimal supergravity in five dimensions is given by lifts of three-dimensional Einstein–Weyl structures of hyper-CR type. We characterise this class as most general near-horizon limits ...

  • Homological stability for moduli spaces of high dimensional manifolds. II 

    Galatius, S; Randal-Williams, Oscar
    We prove a homological stability theorem for moduli spaces of manifolds of dimension 2$\textit{n}$, for attaching handles of index at least $\textit{n}$, after these manifolds have been stabilised by countably many copies ...

  • Undecidability and the developability of permutoids and rigid pseudogroups 

    Bridson, MR; Wilton, Henry John (Cambridge University PressForum of Mathematics, Sigma, 2017-03-20)
    A $\textit{permutoid}$ is a set of partial permutations that contains the identity and is such that partial compositions, when defined, have at most one extension in the set. In 2004 Peter Cameron conjectured that there ...

  • Four-Dimensional Weakly Self-avoiding Walk with Contact Self-attraction 

    Bauerschmidt, Roland; Slade, G; Wallace, BC (SpringerJournal of Statistical Physics, 2017-04-01)
    We consider the critical behaviour of the continuous-time weakly self-avoiding walk with contact self-attraction on $\mathbb{Z}$$^{4}$, for sufficiently small attraction. We prove that the susceptibility and correlation ...

  • Nonthermal fixed points in quantum field theory beyond the weak-coupling limit 

    Berges, J; Wallisch, Benjamin (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2017-02-22)
    Quantum systems in extreme conditions can exhibit universal behavior far from equilibrium associated to nonthermal fixed points with a wide range of topical applications from early-Universe inflaton dynamics and heavy-ion ...

  • Geometric tuning of self-propulsion for Janus catalytic particles 

    Michelin, S; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie (Nature Publishing GroupScientific Reports, 2017-02-13)
    Catalytic swimmers have attracted much attention as alternatives to biological systems for examining collective microscopic dynamics and the response to physico-chemical signals. Yet, understanding and predicting even the ...

  • Random-projection ensemble classification 

    Cannings, Timothy Ivor; Samworth, Richard John
    We introduce a very general method for high-dimensional classification, based on careful combination of the results of applying an arbitrary base classifier to random projections of the feature vectors into a lower-dimensional ...

  • Tropical Amplitudes 

    Tourkine, Piotr
    In this work, we argue that the α′→0 limit of closed string theory scattering amplitudes is a tropical limit. The motivation is to develop a technology to systematize the extraction of Feynman graphs from string theory ...

  • Elliptic curves over Q$_{∞}$ are modular 

    Thorne, Jack Arfon
    We show that if $\textit{p}$ is a prime, then all elliptic curves de ned over the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}$$_{p}$-extension of Q are modular.

  • More Abelian dualities in 2 + 1 dimensions 

    Karch, A; Robinson, B; Tong, David (SpringerJournal of High Energy Physics, 2017-01-01)
    We expand on the recent derivation of 3d dualities using bosonization. We present in some detail a general class of Abelian duals.

  • Connective constants and height functions for Cayley graphs 

    Grimmett, Geoffrey Richard; Li, Z (American Mathematical SocietyTransactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2017-03-31)
    The connective constant $μ$($G$) of an infinite transitive graph $G$ is the exponential growth rate of the number of self-avoiding walks from a given origin. In earlier work of Grimmett and Li, a locality theorem was proved ...

  • Dynamical symmetries in Brans-Dicke cosmology 

    Papagiannopoulos, G; Barrow, John David; Basilakos, S; Giacomini, A; Paliathanasis, A (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2017-01-20)
    In the context of generalized Brans-Dicke cosmology we use the Killing tensors of the minisuperspace in order to determine the unspecified potential of a scalar-tensor gravity theory. Specifically, based on the existence ...

  • Non-diagonal four-dimensional cohomogeneity-one Einstein metrics in various signatures 

    Dunajski, Maciej Lukasz; Tod, P (ElsevierDifferential Geometry and its Application, 2016-11-11)
    Most known four-dimensional cohomogeneity-one Einstein metrics are diagonal in a basis defined by the left-invariant one-forms, though some essentially non-diagonal ones are known. We consider the problem of explicitly ...

  • K-stability for Kähler manifolds 

    Dervan, Ruadhai; Ross, Julius Andrew (International PressMathematical Research Letters, 2017-09)
    We formulate a notion of K-stability for Kähler manifolds, and prove one direction of the Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture in this setting. More precisely, we prove that the Mabuchi functional being bounded below (resp. ...