3D dust map of the Milky Way improves resolution and accuracy.
problem Reconstructing the 3D dust distribution in the Milky Way.
method Gaussian process regression on spherical coordinates with iterative grid refinement.
result Improved 3D dust map with increased resolution and accuracy.
Polluting fine dusts in South Korea which are mainly consisted of biomass burning and fugitive dust blown from dust belt is significant problem these days. Predicting concentrations of fine dust particles in Seoul is challenging because they are product of complicate chemical reactions among gaseous pollutants and also…
Match van Stockum dust to vacuum metrics with a single parameter.
problem Matching van Stockum dust to vacuum metrics.
method 1-parametric family of non-static Papapetrou vacuum metrics, Ehlers and Kramer--Neugebauer transformations.
result Explicit examples of matching, including Bonnor metric and Lanczos--van Stockum dust metric.
The study proves strong cosmic censorship violation for spherically symmetric dust clouds.
problem Violation of strong cosmic censorship for spherically symmetric dust clouds.
method Derived an ordinary differential equation for light rays and used it to prove strong cosmic censorship violation.
result Generic violation of strong cosmic censorship for spherically symmetric dust clouds.
Study of caustics in Einstein-dust system, showing spacetime singularities and diverging curvature.
problem Understanding caustics and singularities in the Einstein-dust system.
method Established local existence result for spherically symmetric spacetimes containing caustics, constructed from solutions to a PDE problem.
result Obtained spherically symmetric spacetimes with diverging curvature and singular boundary.
Study of convergence of point-object configurations to a charged dust continuum.
problem Understanding the convergence of discretized point-object configurations to a charged dust continuum.
method Establishing existence and uniqueness of horizons/minimal surfaces, studying geometries of regions exterior to minimal surfaces, and discussing limits.
result Examples of scalar curvature jumps upon taking Gromov-Hausdorff and intrinsic flat limits.
Study timelike bounce in charged null dust collapse, identifying key surfaces.
problem Understanding charged null dust collapse dynamics and bounce surfaces.
method Novel decoupling of equations, constructing spacetime models, solving free boundary problems.
result Timelike bounce surfaces identified in charged null dust collapse, including examples terminating in null points.
A non-elementary Möbius group generated by two-parabolics is determined up to conjugation by one complex parameter and the parameter space has been extensively studied. In this paper, we use the results of \cite{GW} to obtain an additional structure for the parameter space, which we term the {\sl two-parabolic space}. …
We show that there are isometrically nonequivalent Robertson-Walker metrics which have the same set of geodesics. While one of these metrics satisfies the Einstein equations of pure dust without a cosmological constant, all the other describe pure dust with additional energy momentum tensor of cosmological constant typ…
Researchers create a Fredholm module on fractal shapes like the Cantor set.
problem Constructing Fredholm modules on complex fractal structures.
method Combining combinatorial techniques with higher-dimensional analogues.
result Calculated Dixmier trace of operators induced by the module.
The paper finds conditions for pseudosymmetric spacetimes to be perfect fluids.
problem Characterizing pseudosymmetric spacetimes as perfect fluids.
method Analyzes generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes, conformally flat spacetimes, and dust fluids.
result Conditions for pseudosymmetric spacetimes to be perfect fluids are established.
LUNAR uses cellular automata for real-time data classification in fast streams.
problem Real-time machine learning challenges with fast data streams and concept drift.
method Streamified cellular automata approach for incremental learning and adaptation.
result Competitive performance in classification compared to established online learning methods.
Proposes MM-DUST for efficient generalized lasso solution paths.
problem Efficiently solve generalized lasso problems in large-scale and non-linear models.
method Majorization-minimization dual stagewise algorithm incorporating quadratic majorizers and stagewise learning.
result Established the uniform convergence of approximated solution paths.
Som-Raychaudhuri spacetime is a stationary cylindrical symmetric solution of Einstein field equation corresponding to a charged dust distribution in rigid rotation. The main object of the present paper is to investigate the curvature restricted geometric structures admitting by the Som-Raychaudhuri spacetime and it is …
We propose a geometric inequality for two-dimensional spacelike surfaces in the Schwarzschild spacetime. This inequality implies the Penrose inequality for collapsing dust shells in general relativity, as proposed by Penrose and Gibbons. We prove that the inequality holds in several important cases.
An important problem in forensic analyses is identifying the provenance of materials at a crime scene, such as biological material on a piece of clothing. This procedure, known as geolocation, is conventionally guided by expert knowledge of the biological evidence and therefore tends to be application-specific, labor-i…
We prove a sharp inequality for hypersurfaces in the n-dimensional Anti-deSitter-Schwarzschild manifold for general n greater or equal to 3. This inequality generalizes the classical Minkowski inequality for surfaces in the three dimensional Euclidean space, and has a natural interpretation in terms of the Penrose ineq…
We demonstrate an algorithm for learning a flexible color-magnitude diagram from noisy parallax and photometry measurements using a normalizing flow, a deep neural network capable of learning an arbitrary multi-dimensional probability distribution. We present a catalog of 640M photometric distance posteriors to nearby …
There are certain families of words and word sequences (words in the generators of a two-generator group) that arise frequently in the Teichm{ü}ller theory of hyperbolic three-manifolds and Kleinian and Fuchsian groups and in the discreteness problem for two generator matrix groups. We survey some of the families of su…
Lipschitz equivalence of self-similar sets is an important area in the study of fractal geometry. It is known that two dust-like self-similar sets with the same contraction ratios are always Lipschitz equivalent. However, when self-similar sets have touching structures the problem of Lipschitz equivalence becomes much …
In this paper we analyse semi-linear systems of partial differential equations which are motivated by the conformal formulation of the Einstein constraint equations coupled with realistic physical fields on asymptotically Euclidean (AE) manifolds. In particular, electromagnetic fields give rise to this kind of system. …
CosmoVAE uses deep learning to fill in missing parts of the cosmic microwave background map.
problem Missing observations in the CMB map due to thermal dust noise.
method Variational autoencoder (VAE) trained with a new loss function.
result CosmoVAE achieves state-of-the-art performance in CMB map inpainting.
Study of Riemann solitons and η-hyperbolic Ricci solitons on Bochner-flat Lorentzian Kähler spacetime manifolds.
problem Analyzing soliton behaviors on Bochner-flat Lorentzian Kähler spacetime manifolds.
method Deriving explicit formulas for soliton parameters and analyzing their behaviors.
result Criteria for shrinking, steady, and expanding behaviors of solitons.
A modern aircraft may require on the order of thousands of custom shims to fill gaps between structural components in the airframe that arise due to manufacturing tolerances adding up across large structures. These shims are necessary to eliminate gaps, maintain structural performance, and minimize pull-down forces req…
Extends Penrose's method to null shells with pressure and energy flux.
problem Constructing null thin shells with arbitrary gravitational/matter content.
method Derive locally Lipschitz metric and coordinate transformation.
result Example of null shell with non-trivial energy density, flux, and pressure in Minkowski space.
A particular, yet relevant, particular case of the Penrose inequality involves null shells propagating in the Minkowski spacetime. Despite previous claims in the literature, the validity of this inequality remains open. In this paper we rewrite this inequality in terms of the geometry of the surface obtained by interse…
Team aims to predict particulate matter levels on ISS using Bi-GRU.
problem Early warning system for particulate matter on ISS.
method Bi-GRU algorithm analyzing past 90 minutes of data.
result Bi-GRU predicts particulate matter levels up to 1 minute in advance.
Scalar-tensor gravitation theories, such as the Brans-Dicke family of theories, are commonly partly described by a modified Einstein equation in which the Ricci tensor is replaced by the Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor of a Lorentzian metric and scalar field. In physics this formulation is sometimes referred to as the "Jordan…
DI-sNMF uses data imputation to separate circumstellar signals in high contrast imaging.
problem Separating circumstellar signals from non-circumstellar signals in high contrast imaging.
method DI-sNMF converts the signal separation problem into a missing data problem, using non-negative matrix factorization to attribute PSF signals to regions flagged as missing data.
result DI-sNMF can precisely measure circumstellar objects without altering them, as shown in simulations and real GPI observations.
Unified method for constructing non-vacuum initial data sets in general relativity.
problem Constructing solutions of Einstein constraint equations with coupled matter sources.
method Phase space representation and scaling of matter fields.
result Semi-decoupling of conformal constraint equations for constant-mean curvature initial data.
The paper explores solutions to the distributional Bellman equation in reinforcement learning.
problem Distributional reinforcement learning considers complete return distributions, not just expected returns.
method Study existence and uniqueness of solutions to general distributional Bellman equations, linking them to multivariate affine equations.
result Any solution to a distributional Bellman equation can be derived from a multivariate affine distributional equation.
Proposes vMF distribution for skewed elliptical distributions.
problem Skewed distributions not adequately modeled by symmetric distributions.
method Introduces von-Mises-Fisher (vMF) distribution to represent skewed elliptical distributions.
result vMF distribution provides an explicit and simple probability representation of skewed elliptical distributions.
This paper examines how the choice of prior distribution affects likelihoods of out-of-distribution inputs in deep generative models.
problem Mismatch between prior and data distributions causes deep generative models to assign higher likelihoods to out-of-distribution inputs.
method Proposes using a mixture distribution as a prior to make likelihoods of out-of-distribution inputs more sensitive.
result A mixture prior lowers the out-of-distribution likelihood with respect to real image data sets.
Study calculates tail risk for various mixture distributions.
problem Estimating tail risk for complex distribution mixtures.
method Analyzes tail conditional expectation for location-scale mixtures of elliptical distributions.
result Developed methods for calculating tail risk in various distributions.
We realise the first and second Grushin distributions as symmetry reductions of the 3-dimensional Heisenberg distribution and 4-dimensional Engel distribution respectively. Similarly, we realise the Martinet distribution as an alternative symmetry reduction of the Engel distribution. These reductions allow us to derive…
Method uses optimal transport to complete distributional matrices.
problem Matrix completion for distributional data.
method Nearest neighbors in Wasserstein space.
result Method recovers distributions in Wasserstein metric.
Income and wealth distribution affect stability of a society to a large extent and high inequality affects it negatively. Moreover, in the case of developed countries, recently has been proven that inequality is closely related to all negative phenomena affecting society. So far, Econophysics papers tried to analyse in…
Study clusters distributions with known or unknown clusters using distribution testing.
problem Cluster distributions that are ε-far in total variation. method Distribution testing approach to establish upper and lower bounds on sample complexity.
result Achieves tight sample complexity bounds for all regimes (up to a logarithmic factor).
Gradually Truncated Log-normal distribution - Size distribution of firms Abstract Many natural and economical phenomena are described through power law or log- normal distributions. In these cases, probability decreases very slowly with step size compared to normal distribution. Thus it is essential to cut-off these di…
A new distribution family extends the α-stable distribution with a degree of freedom parameter.
problem Lack of moments in the α-stable distribution. method Wright function framework to combine and extend distribution families.
result Generalized α-stable distribution with valid moments. Paper develops a new method to improve model calibration under distribution shifts.
problem Challenges in uncertainty quantification with different training and test distributions.
method Develops multi-domain temperature scaling to handle distribution shifts.
result Outperforms existing methods on in-distribution and out-of-distribution test sets.
A new clustering method preserves data distribution.
problem Distorted cluster centers in k-means clustering.
method Distributional Clustering method ensuring cluster centers mimic data distribution.
result Cluster centers converge to data generating distribution.
New class of heavy-tailed distributions shows weighted averages dominate individual variables.
problem Understanding and comparing risks in heavy-tailed distributions.
method Introducing a new class of heavy-tailed distributions and proving stochastic dominance relations.
result Weighted averages of random variables in this class are stochastically larger than individual variables.
Researchers derived formulas for joint moments of elliptical distributions.
problem Calculating joint moments of elliptical distributions.
method Used Stein's lemma and two different methods to derive expressions.
result New formulae for expectations of product of normally distributed random variables and simplified expressions for other distributions.
Paper proposes a new method for designing materials using deep learning.
problem Designing high-performance material distributions from given distributions.
method Iterative process of selecting, generating, and merging material distributions using a deep generative model.
result The method improves material performance through iterative refinement.
One-shot algorithm for feature-distributed kernel PCA reduces communication costs.
problem Efficiently perform kernel PCA in distributed computing environments.
method Inspired by dual relationship between sample-distributed and feature-distributed scenarios, proposes a one-shot algorithm for feature-distributed kernel PCA.
result The algorithm provides high-quality results with low communication costs, especially when eigenvalues decay fast.
Paper finds how many neurons are needed to approximate histogram distributions.
problem How many neurons are needed to approximate a target probability distribution?
method Examined for uniform input distribution and histogram target distributions, using efficient neural net construction.
result Obtained a new upper bound on the number of required neurons, strictly better than previous bounds.
Paper analyzes origami slope gaps and their distribution, finding a unique pattern.
problem Analyzing slope gaps in origami surfaces.
method Derived slope gap distribution of a specific origami by considering return times under the horocycle flow.
result Found a unique distribution of origami slope gaps, not a sum of scaled Hall distributions.