A Pulse-Gated, Predictive Neural Circuit

Recent evidence suggests that neural information is encoded in packets and may be flexibly routed from region to region. We have hypothesized that neural circuits are split into sub-circuits where one sub-circuit controls information propagation via pulse gating and a second sub-circuit processes graded information under the control of the first sub-circuit. Using an explicit pulse-gating mechanism, we have been able to show how information may be processed by such pulse-controlled circuits and also how, by allowing the information processing circuit to interact with the gating circuit, decisions can be made. Here, we demonstrate how Hebbian plasticity may be used to supplement our pulse-gated information processing framework by implementing a machine learning algorithm. The resulting neural circuit has a number of structures that are similar to biological neural systems, including a layered structure and information propagation driven by oscillatory gating with a complex frequency spectrum.Comment: This invited paper was presented at the 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computer

A sharp inequality for the Strichartz norm

Let u:\R \times \R^n \to \C be the solution of the linear Schr\"odinger equation $iu_t + \Delta u =0$ with initial data $u(0,x) = f(x)$. In the first part of this paper we obtain a sharp inequality for the Strichartz norm $\|u(t,x)\|_{L^{2k}_tL^{2k}_x(\R \times\R^n)}$, where $k\in \Z$, $k \geq 2$ and $(n,k) \neq (1,2)$, that admits only Gaussian maximizers. As corollaries we obtain sharp forms of the classical Strichartz inequalities in low dimensions (works of Foschi and Hundertmark - Zharnitsky) and also sharp forms of some Sobolev-Strichartz inequalities. In the second part of the paper we express Foschi's sharp inequalities for the Schr\"odinger and wave equations in the broader setting of sharp restriction/extension estimates for the paraboloid and the cone.Comment: 15 pages. Submitte

Resummation Prediction on Higgs and Vector Boson Associated Production with a Jet Veto at the LHC

We investigate the resummation effects for the SM Higgs and vector boson associated production at the LHC with a jet veto in soft-collinear effective theory using "collinear anomalous" formalism. We calculate the jet vetoed invariant mass distribution and the cross section for this process at Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Logarithmic level, which are matched to the QCD Next-to-Leading Order results, and compare the differences of the resummation effects with different jet veto $p_{T}^{\rm veto}$ and jet radius $R$. Our results show that both resummation enhancement effects and the scale uncertainties decrease with the increasing of jet veto $p_{T}^{\rm veto}$ and jet radius $R$, respectively. When $p_{T}^{\rm veto}=25$ GeV and $R=0.4~(0.5)$, the resummation effects reduce the scale uncertainties of the Next-to-Leading Order jet vetoed cross sections to about $7\%~(6\%)$, which lead to increased confidence on the theoretical predictions. Besides, after including resummation effects, the PDF uncertainties of jet vetoed cross section are about $7\%$.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figures and 2 tables; final version in JHE