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Well-posedness Issues For the Half-Wave Maps Equation With Hyperbolic And Spherical Targets

This thesis is a study of the global well-posedness of the Cauchy problems for half-wave maps from the Minkowski space of dimension n+1 to the 2-dimensional sphere and the hyperbolic plane. The work is mainly based on the results from Krieger-Sire 17' in ...

EPFL2023

Spectral Hypergraph Sparsifiers of Nearly Linear Size

Mikhail Kapralov, Jakab Tardos

Graph sparsification has been studied extensively over the past two decades, culminating in spectral sparsifiers of optimal size (up to constant factors). Spectral hypergraph sparsification is a natural analogue of this problem, for which optimal bounds on ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Geometric Percolation of Spherically Symmetric Fractal Aggregates

Claudio Grimaldi

The connectedness percolation threshold (phi(c)) for spherically symmetric, randomly distributed fractal aggregates is investigated as a function of the fractal dimension (d(F)) of the aggregates through a mean-field approach. A pair of aggregates (each of ...

SPRINGER2022

Perturbed Fourier uniqueness and interpolation results in higher dimensions

Martin Peter Stoller, Joao Pedro Gonçalves Ramos

We obtain new Fourier interpolation and uniqueness results in all dimensions, extending methods and results by the first author and M. Sousa [11] and the second author [12]. We show that the only Schwartz function which, together with its Fourier transform ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Fourier uniqueness and interpolation in Euclidean space

Martin Peter Stoller

We prove that every Schwartz function in Euclidean space can be completely recovered given only its restrictions and the restrictions of its Fourier transform to all origin-centered spheres whose radii are square roots of integers. In particular, the only ...

EPFL2022

Voss surfaces: A design space for geodesic gridshells

Olivier Baverel, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Nicolas Robin Montagne

The design of envelopes with complex geometries often leads to construction challenges. To overcome these difficulties, resorting to discrete differential geometry proved successful by establishing close links between mesh properties and the existence of g ...

2021

Cryogenic CMOS Circuits and Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in Designing the Electronic Interface for Quantum Processors

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

Quantum computing could potentially offer faster solutions for some of today's classically intractable problems using quantum processors as computational support for quantum algorithms [1]. Quantum processors, in the most frequent embodiment, comprise an a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

SPHARMA approximations for stationary functional time series on the sphere

Alessia Caponera

In this paper, we focus on isotropic and stationary sphere-cross-time random fields. We first introduce the class of spherical functional autoregressive-moving average processes (SPHARMA), which extend in a natural way the spherical functional autoregressi ...

2021

Fourier Interpolation From Spheres

Martin Peter Stoller

In every dimension d >= 2, we give an explicit formula that expresses the values of any Schwartz function on R-d only in terms of its restrictions, and the restrictions of its Fourier transform, to all origin-centered spheres whose radius is the square roo ...

2021

Voss Surfaces: A Design Space for Geodesic Gridshells

Olivier Baverel, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Nicolas Robin Montagne

The design of envelopes with complex geometries often leads to construction challenges. To overcome these difficulties, resorting to discrete differential geometry proved successful by establishing close links between mesh properties and the existence of g ...

2020

Thermal coarsening of individual titanate nanowires and their assemblies: Surface vs. bulk diffusion

Luca Rossi, László Forró, Xavier Berdat, Massimo Spina, Endre Horvath, Laurent Syavoch Bernard, Sergiy Katrych

The thermal coarsening of titanate nanowires was investigated from room temperature to 1000 degrees C by AFM, SEM, XRD and Raman spectroscopy. Phase transformation kinetics and the external morphology were studied in two configurations: i) as individual an ...

2020

Geometric ergodicity for some space-time max-stable Markov chains

Erwan Fabrice Koch

Max-stable processes are central models for spatial extremes. In this paper, we focus on some space-time max-stable models introduced in Embrechts et al. (2016). The processes considered induce discrete-time Markov chains taking values in the space of cont ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Are Photonic Nanojets Achromatic?

Myun Sik Kim, Toralf Scharf, Michail Symeonidis

In this work we study the evolution of the photonic nanojet (PNJ) phenomenon as the ratio of the sphere's diameter over the illumination wavelength changes, for microspheres with diameters from 2 mu m to 100 mu m. We measure the focal point position by usi ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

The core of the massive cluster merger MACS J0417.5-1154 as seen by VLT/MUSE

Johan Richard, Johannes Richard Cornelis Geerit Kruis, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Richard Massey, David Richard Harvey, Mathilde Jauzac

We present a multiwavelength analysis of the core of the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0417.5-1154 (z = 0.441). Our analysis takes advantage of Very Large Telescope/Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer observations which allowthe spectroscopic confirmation of ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

On the effect of ligand shell heterogeneity on nanoparticle/protein binding thermodynamics

Francesco Stellacci, Ahmet Bekdemir, Suiyang Liao

Nonspecific protein adhesion to nanoparticle (NP) has been proven to have important implications in nanomedicine. However, there are only a few examples of careful studies relating protein binding thermodynamics to NP physicochemical features. In particula ...

2019

On the diametric compression strength test of brittle spherical particles

Andreas Mortensen, Václav Pejchal, Goran Zagar

Diametric compression testing can be used to measure the hoop strength of spherical particles if one uses platens whose deformation behaviour is tailored in a way that allows the particles to sink sufficiently far into the platens before particle fracture ...

2018

Quantification of stored red blood cell fluctuations by time-lapse holographic cell imaging

Gerardo Turcatti, Pierre Marquet, Michel Prudent, Benjamin Rappaz, Manon Sandra Bardyn

We propose methods to quantitatively calculate the fluctuation rate of red blood cells with nanometric axial and millisecond temporal sensitivity at the single-cell level by using time-lapse holographic cell imaging. For this quantitative analysis, cell me ...

2018

When droplets deform, break up and propel microswimmers

Giacomo Gallino

This thesis investigates the motion and breakup of droplets in low-Reynolds-number flows, focusing on two aspects. In the first part, we study the breakup of droplets in subcritical flow conditions, when there exists a linearly stable solution for the drop ...

EPFL2018

Methods and apparatuses for versatile beamforming

Paul Hurley, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Giovanni Cherubini

The present invention is directed to methods and apparatuses for beamforming signals or compute beamformed signals. The present approach is to determine a series of beams from or for a set of devices configured for receiving signals from and/or transmittin ...

2017

Incidences between points and generalized spheres over finite fields and related problems

Van Thang Pham

Let F-q be a finite field of q elements, where q is a large odd prime power and Q = a(1)x(1)(c1) + ..... + a(d)x(d)(cd) is an element of F-q[x(1) ,...,x(d)], where 2

Walter De Gruyter Gmbh2017