258 research outputs found

    On the harmonic Boltzmannian waves in laser-plasma interaction

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    We study the permanent regimes of the reduced Vlasov-Maxwell system for laser-plasma interaction. A non-relativistic and two different relativistic models are investigated. We prove the existence of solutions where the distribution function is Boltzmannian and the electromagnetic variables are time-harmonic and circularly polarized

    Difference system for Selberg correlation integrals

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    The Selberg correlation integrals are averages of the products s=1ml=1n(xszl)μs\prod_{s=1}^m\prod_{l=1}^n (x_s - z_l)^{\mu_s} with respect to the Selberg density. Our interest is in the case m=1m=1, μ1=μ\mu_1 = \mu, when this corresponds to the μ\mu-th moment of the corresponding characteristic polynomial. We give the explicit form of a (n+1)×(n+1)(n+1) \times (n+1) matrix linear difference system in the variable μ\mu which determines the average, and we give the Gauss decomposition of the corresponding (n+1)×(n+1)(n+1) \times (n+1) matrix. For μ\mu a positive integer the difference system can be used to efficiently compute the power series defined by this average.Comment: 21 page

    Holonomic functions of several complex variables and singularities of anisotropic Ising n-fold integrals

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    Lattice statistical mechanics, often provides a natural (holonomic) framework to perform singularity analysis with several complex variables that would, in a general mathematical framework, be too complex, or could not be defined. Considering several Picard-Fuchs systems of two-variables "above" Calabi-Yau ODEs, associated with double hypergeometric series, we show that holonomic functions are actually a good framework for actually finding the singular manifolds. We, then, analyse the singular algebraic varieties of the n-fold integrals χ(n) \chi^{(n)}, corresponding to the decomposition of the magnetic susceptibility of the anisotropic square Ising model. We revisit a set of Nickelian singularities that turns out to be a two-parameter family of elliptic curves. We then find a first set of non-Nickelian singularities for χ(3) \chi^{(3)} and χ(4) \chi^{(4)}, that also turns out to be rational or ellipic curves. We underline the fact that these singular curves depend on the anisotropy of the Ising model. We address, from a birational viewpoint, the emergence of families of elliptic curves, and of Calabi-Yau manifolds on such problems. We discuss the accumulation of these singular curves for the non-holonomic anisotropic full susceptibility.Comment: 36 page

    Meta-analysis: COVID-19 diagnosis in chest CT�master key for radiologists

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    Background: COVID-19 was discovered in February in China. Due to the high prevalence of the disease, early detection and rapid isolation of patients are the vital points for controlling the outbreak. The purpose of this study was to determine the correct location of chest CT scan in the diagnosis of COVID-19. Main text: The current study is a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2959 papers were found in all national and international databases. The study has been reported based on the PRISMA checklist. All analyses were done by CMA Ver. 2 software. The statistical analysis results show that the GGO observation level in the available shape was 46 in CT scan results, and the consolidation observation level in the general form was 33 in CT scan results. Pleural effusion was 7, and linear opacity observation level was 24 in CT scan results in the general form. The CT scan test sensitivity level was gained 94.7, and PCR test sensitivity level was achieved as 94.8. This level was 89 in the early stage. Conclusion: The chest CT has about 24 higher diagnostic sensitivity than the PCR test, in the early stage. GGO revealed a declining process and also indicates that GGO is an early symptom of the disease in CT scan. Linear opacity is the reason behind the initial dyspnea in coronavirus suffering patients referring to the medical centers. The extra-pulmonary lesions increase in the last stage of the disease that makes the patient�s worse. © 2021, The Author(s)

    Developing a Human Balance Test System (DETES) in Order to Investigate Control Mechanisms of Human Erect Posture

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    An originally designed 3-dof (2-dof perturbation platform and 1-dof cabin) human balance testing system (DETES) has been developed for delivering mechanical and perceptual stimuli in a controlled embedding environment in order to investigate sensory-motor control of human erect posture at physiological and/or pathological conditions. The human balance (especially studying vestibular system involved mechanisms) demonstrating complex (nonlinear) dynamical behavior in the context of postural adjustments having ecological roots/meanings (information) is to be tested (by means of quiet and perturbed stance) and analyzed for supporting (differential) diagnosis, monitoring/following the progress of the disease, and creating the new adaptive motor learning protocols for rehabilitation

    Solving Phase Retrieval with a Learned Reference

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    Fourier phase retrieval is a classical problem that deals with the recovery of an image from the amplitude measurements of its Fourier coefficients. Conventional methods solve this problem via iterative (alternating) minimization by leveraging some prior knowledge about the structure of the unknown image. The inherent ambiguities about shift and flip in the Fourier measurements make this problem especially difficult; and most of the existing methods use several random restarts with different permutations. In this paper, we assume that a known (learned) reference is added to the signal before capturing the Fourier amplitude measurements. Our method is inspired by the principle of adding a reference signal in holography. To recover the signal, we implement an iterative phase retrieval method as an unrolled network. Then we use back propagation to learn the reference that provides us the best reconstruction for a fixed number of phase retrieval iterations. We performed a number of simulations on a variety of datasets under different conditions and found that our proposed method for phase retrieval via unrolled network and learned reference provides near-perfect recovery at fixed (small) computational cost. We compared our method with standard Fourier phase retrieval methods and observed significant performance enhancement using the learned reference.Comment: Accepted to ECCV 2020. Code is available at https://github.com/CSIPlab/learnPR_referenc

    How to generate all possible rational Wilf-Zeilberger pairs?

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    A Wilf--Zeilberger pair (F,G)(F, G) in the discrete case satisfies the equation F(n+1,k)F(n,k)=G(n,k+1)G(n,k) F(n+1, k) - F(n, k) = G(n, k+1) - G(n, k). We present a structural description of all possible rational Wilf--Zeilberger pairs and their continuous and mixed analogues.Comment: 17 pages, add the notion of pseudo residues in the differential case, and some related papers in the reference, ACMES special volume in the Fields Institute Communications series, 201

    Measurements of π±\pi^\pm, K±K^\pm, pp and pˉ\bar{p} spectra in 40^{40}Ar+45^{45}Sc collisions at 13AA to 150AA GeV/cc

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    The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron studies the onset of deconfinement in strongly interacting matter through a beam energy scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei of varied sizes. This paper presents results on inclusive double-differential spectra, transverse momentum and rapidity distributions and mean multiplicities of π±\pi^\pm, K±K^\pm, pp and pˉ\bar{p} produced in 40^{40}Ar+45^{45}Sc collisions at beam momenta of 13AA, 19AA, 30AA, 40AA, 75AA and 150AA GeV/cc. The analysis uses the 10% most central collisions, where the observed forward energy defines centrality. The energy dependence of the K±K^\pm/π±\pi^\pm ratios as well as of inverse slope parameters of the K±K^\pm transverse mass distributions are placed in between those found in inelastic pp+pp and central Pb+Pb collisions. The results obtained here establish a system-size dependence of hadron production properties that so far cannot be explained either within statistical (SMES, HRG) or dynamical (EPOS, UrQMD, PHSD, SMASH) models

    Measurements of π+\pi^+, π\pi^-, pp, pˉ\bar{p}, K+K^+ and KK^- production in 120 GeV/cc p + C interactions

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    This paper presents multiplicity measurements of charged hadrons produced in 120 GeV/cc proton-carbon interactions. The measurements were made using data collected at the NA61/SHINE experiment during two different data-taking periods, with increased phase space coverage in the second configuration due to the addition of new subdetectors. Particle identification via dE/dxdE/dx was employed to obtain double-differential production multiplicities of π+\pi^+, π\pi^-, pp, pˉ\bar{p}, K+K^+ and KK^-. These measurements are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in intervals of laboratory polar angle covering the range from 0 to 450 mrad. They provide crucial inputs for current and future long-baseline neutrino experiments, where they are used to estimate the initial neutrino flux
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