Gravitational Positivity for Phenomenologists: Dark Gauge Boson in the Swampland

Kavli Affiliate: Satoshi Shirai | First 5 Authors: Katsuki Aoki, Toshifumi Noumi, Ryo Saito, Sota Sato, Satoshi Shirai | Summary: The gravitational positivity bound gives quantitative "swampland” constraints on low-energy effective theories inside theories of quantum gravity. We give a comprehensive discussion of this bound for those interested in applications to phenomenological model building. We […]


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Gravitational Positivity for Phenomenologists: Dark Gauge Boson in the Swampland

Kavli Affiliate: Satoshi Shirai | First 5 Authors: Katsuki Aoki, Toshifumi Noumi, Ryo Saito, Sota Sato, Satoshi Shirai | Summary: The gravitational positivity bound gives quantitative “swampland” constraints on low-energy effective theories inside theories of quantum gravity. We give a comprehensive discussion of this bound for those interested in applications to phenomenological model building. We […]


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DualVector: Unsupervised Vector Font Synthesis with Dual-Part Representation

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: Ying-Tian Liu, Zhifei Zhang, Yuan-Chen Guo, Matthew Fisher, Zhaowen Wang | Summary: Automatic generation of fonts can be an important aid to typeface design. Many current approaches regard glyphs as pixelated images, which present artifacts when scaling and inevitable quality losses after vectorization. On the other hand, […]


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Super-Resolution Imaging via Angular Magnification

Kavli Affiliate: Yi Zhou | First 5 Authors: Yi Zhou, Dingpeng Liao, Kun Zhang, Zijie Ma, Shikai Wu | Summary: The far-field resolution of optical imaging systems is restricted by the Abbe diffraction limit, a direct result of the wave nature of light. One successful technological approach to circumventing this limit is to reduce the […]


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Improved Bounds for Single-Nomination Impartial Selection

Kavli Affiliate: Felix Fischer | First 5 Authors: Javier Cembrano, Felix Fischer, Max Klimm, , | Summary: We give new bounds for the single-nomination model of impartial selection, a problem proposed by Holzman and Moulin (Econometrica, 2013). A selection mechanism, which may be randomized, selects one individual from a group of $n$ based on nominations […]


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Improved Bounds for Single-Nomination Impartial Selection

Kavli Affiliate: Felix Fischer | First 5 Authors: Javier Cembrano, Felix Fischer, Max Klimm, , | Summary: We give new bounds for the single-nomination model of impartial selection, a problem proposed by Holzman and Moulin (Econometrica, 2013). A selection mechanism, which may be randomized, selects one individual from a group of $n$ based on nominations […]


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Unconfounded Propensity Estimation for Unbiased Ranking

Kavli Affiliate: Dan Luo | First 5 Authors: Dan Luo, Lixin Zou, Qingyao Ai, Zhiyu Chen, Chenliang Li | Summary: The goal of unbiased learning to rank (ULTR) is to leverage implicit user feedback for optimizing learning-to-rank systems. Among existing solutions, automatic ULTR algorithms that jointly learn user bias models (i.e., propensity models) with unbiased […]


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Measuring $μ$-Distortions from the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Kavli Affiliate: Wayne Hu | First 5 Authors: David Zegeye, Thomas Crawford, Wayne Hu, , | Summary: The thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect is a spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) resulting from inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons with electrons in the medium of galaxy clusters. The spectrum of the tSZ effect is […]


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A non-linear solution to the $S_8$ tension II: Analysis of DES Year 3 cosmic shear

Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou | First 5 Authors: Calvin Preston, Alexandra Amon, George Efstathiou, , | Summary: Weak galaxy lensing surveys have consistently reported low values of the $S_8$ parameter compared to the $textit{Planck} Lambdarm{CDM}$ cosmology. Amon & Efstathiou (2022) used KiDS-1000 cosmic shear measurements to propose that this tension can be reconciled if the […]


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Rescaling strange-cluster stars and its implications on gravitational-wave echoes

Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu | First 5 Authors: Chen Zhang, Yong Gao, Cheng-Jun Xia, Renxin Xu, | Summary: Solid states of strange-cluster matter called strangeon matter can form strangeon stars that are highly compact. We show that strangeon matter and strangeon stars can be recast into dimensionless forms by a simple reparametrization and rescaling, through […]


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