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A simple proof of exponential decay in the two dimensional percolation model
Kesten showed the exponential decay of percolation probability in the
subcritical phase for the two-dimensional percolation model. This result
implies his celebrated computation that for bond percolation in the
square lattice, and site percolation in the triangular lattice, respectively.
In this paper, we present a simpler proof for Kesten's theorem.Comment: 9 pages and one figur
Context-Aware Single-Shot Detector
SSD is one of the state-of-the-art object detection algorithms, and it
combines high detection accuracy with real-time speed. However, it is widely
recognized that SSD is less accurate in detecting small objects compared to
large objects, because it ignores the context from outside the proposal boxes.
In this paper, we present CSSD--a shorthand for context-aware single-shot
multibox object detector. CSSD is built on top of SSD, with additional layers
modeling multi-scale contexts. We describe two variants of CSSD, which differ
in their context layers, using dilated convolution layers (DiCSSD) and
deconvolution layers (DeCSSD) respectively. The experimental results show that
the multi-scale context modeling significantly improves the detection accuracy.
In addition, we study the relationship between effective receptive fields
(ERFs) and the theoretical receptive fields (TRFs), particularly on a VGGNet.
The empirical results further strengthen our conclusion that SSD coupled with
context layers achieves better detection results especially for small objects
( on MS-COCO compared to the newest SSD), while
maintaining comparable runtime performance
Observe matter falling into a black hole
It has been well known that in the point of view of a distant observer, all
in-falling matter to a black hole (BH) will be eventually stalled and "frozen"
just outside the event horizon of the BH, although an in-falling observer will
see the matter falling straight through the event horizon. Thus in this "frozen
star" scenario, as distant observers, we could never observe matter falling
into a BH, neither could we see any "real" BH other than primordial ones, since
all other BHs are believed to be formed by matter falling towards singularity.
Here we first obtain the exact solution for a pressureless mass shell around a
pre-existing BH. The metrics inside and interior to the shell are all different
from the Schwarzschild metric of the enclosed mass. The metric interior to the
shell can be transformed to the Schwarzschild metric for a slower clock which
is dependent of the location and mass of the shell. Another result is that
there does not exist a singularity nor event horizon in the shell. Therefore
the "frozen star" scenario is incorrect. We also show that for all practical
astrophysical settings the in-falling time recorded by an external observer is
sufficiently short that future astrophysical instruments may be able to follow
the whole process of matter falling into BHs. The distant observer could not
distinguish between a "real" BH and a "frozen star", until two such objects
merge together. It has been proposed that electromagnetic waves will be
produced when two "frozen stars" merge together, but not true when two "real"
bare BHs merge together. However gravitational waves will be produced in both
cases. Thus our solution is testable by future high sensitivity astronomical
observations.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. Proceeding of the conference "Astrophysics of
Compact Objects", 1-7 July, Huangshan, China. Abridged abstrac
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