61 research outputs found
Transformation design and nonlinear Hamiltonians
We study a class of nonlinear Hamiltonians, with applications in quantum
optics. The interaction terms of these Hamiltonians are generated by taking a
linear combination of powers of a simple `beam splitter' Hamiltonian. The
entanglement properties of the eigenstates are studied. Finally, we show how to
use this class of Hamiltonians to perform special tasks such as conditional
state swapping, which can be used to generate optical cat states and to sort
photons.Comment: Accepted for publication in Journal of Modern Optic
Counting, generating and sampling tree alignments
Pairwise ordered tree alignment are combinatorial objects that appear in RNA
secondary structure comparison. However, the usual representation of tree
alignments as supertrees is ambiguous, i.e. two distinct supertrees may induce
identical sets of matches between identical pairs of trees. This ambiguity is
uninformative, and detrimental to any probabilistic analysis.In this work, we
consider tree alignments up to equivalence. Our first result is a precise
asymptotic enumeration of tree alignments, obtained from a context-free grammar
by mean of basic analytic combinatorics. Our second result focuses on
alignments between two given ordered trees and . By refining our grammar
to align specific trees, we obtain a decomposition scheme for the space of
alignments, and use it to design an efficient dynamic programming algorithm for
sampling alignments under the Gibbs-Boltzmann probability distribution. This
generalizes existing tree alignment algorithms, and opens the door for a
probabilistic analysis of the space of suboptimal RNA secondary structures
alignments.Comment: ALCOB - 3rd International Conference on Algorithms for Computational
Biology - 2016, Jun 2016, Trujillo, Spain. 201
Reactive Control Improvisation
Reactive synthesis is a paradigm for automatically building
correct-by-construction systems that interact with an unknown or adversarial
environment. We study how to do reactive synthesis when part of the
specification of the system is that its behavior should be random. Randomness
can be useful, for example, in a network protocol fuzz tester whose output
should be varied, or a planner for a surveillance robot whose route should be
unpredictable. However, existing reactive synthesis techniques do not provide a
way to ensure random behavior while maintaining functional correctness. Towards
this end, we generalize the recently-proposed framework of control
improvisation (CI) to add reactivity. The resulting framework of reactive
control improvisation provides a natural way to integrate a randomness
requirement with the usual functional specifications of reactive synthesis over
a finite window. We theoretically characterize when such problems are
realizable, and give a general method for solving them. For specifications
given by reachability or safety games or by deterministic finite automata, our
method yields a polynomial-time synthesis algorithm. For various other types of
specifications including temporal logic formulas, we obtain a polynomial-space
algorithm and prove matching PSPACE-hardness results. We show that all of these
randomized variants of reactive synthesis are no harder in a
complexity-theoretic sense than their non-randomized counterparts.Comment: 25 pages. Full version of a CAV 2018 pape
First evidence for Wollemi Pine-type pollen (Dilwynites: Araucariaceae) in South America
We report the first fossil pollen from South America of the lineage that includes the recently discovered, extremely rare Australian Wollemi Pine, Wollemia nobilis (Araucariaceae). The grains are from the late Paleocene to early middle Eocene Ligorio Márquez Formation of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina, and are assigned to Dilwynites, the fossil pollen type that closely resembles the pollen of modern Wollemia and some species of its Australasian sister genus, Agathis. Dilwynites was formerly known only from Australia, New Zealand, and East Antarctica. The Patagonian Dilwynites occurs with several taxa of Podocarpaceae and a diverse range of cryptogams and angiosperms, but not Nothofagus. The fossils greatly extend the known geographic range of Dilwynites and provide important new evidence for the Antarctic region as an early Paleogene portal for biotic interchange between Australasia and South America.Mike Macphail, Raymond J. Carpenter, Ari Iglesias, Peter Wil
Concentration of the intrinsic volumes of a convex body
The intrinsic volumes are measures of the content of a convex body. This paper applies probabilistic and information-theoretic methods to study the sequence of intrinsic volumes. The main result states that the intrinsic volume sequence concentrates sharply around a specific index, called the central intrinsic volume. Furthermore, among all convex bodies whose central intrinsic volume is fixed, an appropriately scaled cube has the intrinsic volume sequence with maximum entropy
How to generate all possible rational Wilf-Zeilberger pairs?
A Wilf--Zeilberger pair in the discrete case satisfies the equation
. 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
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