Basic Elements of Strong Gravitational Lensing

Kavli Affiliate: Paul L. Schechter | First 5 Authors: Paul L. Schechter, Jeremy D. Schnittman, , , | Summary: Even when used to describe the same phenomenon, equations, graphics and words each give different perspectives and lead to complementary insights. The basic elements of strong gravitational lensing are introduced here favoring words and graphics over […]


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A black hole in a near-pristine galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang

Kavli Affiliate: Debora Sijacki | First 5 Authors: Roberto Maiolino, Hannah Uebler, Francesco D’Eugenio, Jan Scholtz, Ignas Juodzbalis | Summary: The recent discovery of a large number of massive black holes within the first two billion years after the Big Bang, as well as their peculiar properties, have been largely unexpected based on the extrapolation […]


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A black hole in a near-pristine galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang

Kavli Affiliate: Debora Sijacki | First 5 Authors: Roberto Maiolino, Roberto Maiolino, , , | Summary: The recent discovery of a large number of massive black holes within the first two billion years after the Big Bang, as well as their peculiar properties, have been largely unexpected based on the extrapolation of the properties of […]


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A black hole in a near-pristine galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang

Kavli Affiliate: Debora Sijacki | First 5 Authors: Roberto Maiolino, Roberto Maiolino, , , | Summary: The recent discovery of a large number of massive black holes within the first two billion years after the Big Bang, as well as their peculiar properties, have been largely unexpected based on the extrapolation of the properties of […]


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Soliton resolution for the coupled complex short pulse equation

Kavli Affiliate: Ran Wang | First 5 Authors: Nan Liu, Ran Wang, , , | Summary: We address the long-time asymptotics of the solution to the Cauchy problem of ccSP (coupled complex short pulse) equation on the line for decaying initial data that can support solitons. The ccSP system describes ultra-short pulse propagation in optical […]


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Spa-VLM: Stealthy Poisoning Attacks on RAG-based VLM

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Lei Yu, Yechao Zhang, Ziqi Zhou, Yang Wu, Wei Wan | Summary: With the rapid development of the Vision-Language Model (VLM), significant progress has been made in Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks. However, existing VLM often generate inaccurate answers due to a lack of up-to-date knowledge. To […]


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Revisiting the Li abundances of Stars with and without Detected Planets from the High Resolution Spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: Jinxiao Qin, Jinxiao Qin, , , | Summary: Whether the presence of planets affects the lithium (Li) abundance of their host stars is still an open question. To investigate the difference of the Li abundance between planet-host stars (HS) and isolated stars (IS) with no detected planets, […]


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Exact Quantum Many-Body Scars in 2D Quantum Gauge Models

Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | First 5 Authors: Yuan Miao, Linhao Li, Hosho Katsura, Masahito Yamazaki, | Summary: Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) serve as important examples of ergodicity-breaking phenomena in quantum many-body systems. Despite recent extensive studies, exact QMBS are rare in dimensions higher than one. In this paper, we study a two-dimensional quantum $mathbb{Z}_2$ […]


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