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Quantitative Mapping of the Loeb Scale
Oem Trivedi, Abraham Loeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06253 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06253

Quantitative Mapping of the Loeb Scale
The recent discovery of a third interstellar object (ISO) 3I/ATLAS, following 1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, has raised questions about the nature and origin of these enigmatic objects. With the Vera C. Rubin Observatory expected to discover dozens of new ISOs over the next decade, it is timely to use a classification scheme for their nature in the context of the recently proposed Loeb scale. Here, we provide a formalism for ranking ISOs quantitatively on the Loeb Scale in analogy to Sagan's form…

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Wenting Zhao, Pranjal Aggarwal, Swarnadeep Saha, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jason Weston, Ilia Kulikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06870

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Scaling up test-time compute, by generating multiple independent solutions and selecting or aggregating among them, has become a central paradigm for improving large language models (LLMs) on challenging reasoning tasks. While most prior work relies on simple majority voting or reward model ranking to aggregate solutions, these approaches may only yield limited benefits. In this work, we propose to learn aggregation as an explicit reasoning skill: given a set of candidate solutions, we train an…

Quantum sensing with ultracold simulators in lattice and ensemble systems: a review
Keshav Das Agarwal, Sayan Mondal, Ayan Sahoo, Debraj Rakshit, Aditi Sen De, Ujjwal Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06348

Quantum sensing with ultracold simulators in lattice and ensemble systems: a review
Sensing of parameters is an important aspect in all disciplines, with applications ranging from fundamental science to medicine. Quantum sensing and metrology is an emerging field that lies at the cross-roads of quantum physics, quantum technology, and the discipline in which the parameter estimation is to be performed. While miniaturization of devices often requires quantum mechanics to be utilized for understanding and planning of a parameter estimation, quantum-enhanced sensing is also possi…

Proper conflict-free degree-choosability of outerplanar graphs
Masaki Kashima, Riste \v{S}krekovski, Rongxing Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06280 https://a…

Proper conflict-free degree-choosability of outerplanar graphs
A proper coloring $ϕ$ of $G$ is called a proper conflict-free coloring of $G$ if for every non-isolated vertex $v$ of $G$, there is a color $c$ such that $|ϕ^{-1}(c)\cap N_G(v)|=1$. As an analogy to degree-choosability of graphs, the authors recently, in a previous paper, introduced the notion of proper conflict-free $({\rm degree}+k)$-choosability of graphs. For a non-negative integer $k$, a graph $G$ is proper conflict-free $({\rm degree}+k)$-choosable if for any list assignment $…

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AFC West Preseason Position Rankings: Where Does Geno Smith Land? https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/07/afc-west-preseason-position-rankings-where-does-geno-smith-land/

The Light Echo of a High-Redshift Quasar mapped with Lyman-$\alpha$ Tomography
Anna-Christina Eilers, Minghao Yue, Jorryt Matthee, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies, Robert A. Simcoe, Richard Teague, Rongmon Bordoloi, Gabriel Brammer, Yi Kang, Daichi Kashino, Ruari Mackenzie, Rohan P. Naidu, Benjamin Navarrete
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

The Light Echo of a High-Redshift Quasar mapped with Lyman-$α$ Tomography
Ultra-violet (UV) radiation from accreting black holes ionizes the intergalactic gas around early quasars, carving out highly ionized bubbles in their surroundings. Any changes in a quasar's luminosity are therefore predicted to produce outward-propagating ionization gradients, affecting the Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) absorption opacity near the quasar's systemic redshift. This "proximity effect" is well-documented in rest-UV quasar spectra but only provides a one-dimensional probe along our line-of-s…

Subconvexity for Rankin Selberg L-Functions at Special Points
Sayan Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02223 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02223

Subconvexity for Rankin Selberg L-Functions at Special Points
Let $f$ and $g$ be normalized Hecke-Maass cusp forms for the full modular group having spectral parameters $t_f$ and $t_g$ respectively with $t_f,t_g\asymp T\rightarrow \infty $. In this paper we show that the Rankin Selberg $L$-function associated to the pair $(f,g)$ at the special points $t=\pm(t_f+t_g)$, satisfies the subconvex bound \begin{align*} L\left(\frac{1}{2}+it,f\otimes g\right)\ll_{\eps} T^{61/84+\eps}. \end{align*} Additionally at the points $t=\pm(t_f-t_g)\asymp T^ν$ with $2/3+\…

Time-dependent 3D oscillator with Coulomb interaction: an alternative approach for analyzing quark-antiquark systems
Jeong Ryeol Choi, Salim Medjber, Salah Menouar, Ramazan Sever
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04541

Time-dependent 3D oscillator with Coulomb interaction: an alternative approach for analyzing quark-antiquark systems
In this work, the dynamics of quark-antiquark pair systems is investigated by modelling them as general time-dependent 3D oscillators perturbed by a Coulomb potential. Solving this model enables the prediction of key mesonic properties such as the probability density, energy spectra, and quadrature uncertainties, offering theoretical insights into the confinement of quarks via gluon-mediated strong interactions. To tackle the mathematical difficulty raised by the time dependence of parameters i…