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The authors review extant research on threats, approaches, attacks, and assassinations of public figures in the United States. Despite the limited number of studies, data exist concerning: 1) threatening letters and approaches to celebrities; 2) attacks and assassinations of public figures, usually the President of the United States; 3) threats and approaches to legislative members of state and...

This paper explores the mixing time of the random transposition walk on the symmetric group Sn. While it has long been known that this walk mixes in O(n log n) time, this result has not previously been attained using coupling. A coupling argument showing the correct order mixing time is presented. This is accomplished by first projecting to conjugacy classes, and then using the Bubley-Dyer path...

In general, not much is known about the arithmetic of K3 surfaces. Once the geometric Picard number, which is the rank of the Néron-Severi group over an algebraic closure of the base field, is high enough, more structure is known and more can be said. However, until recently not a single K3 surface was known to have geometric Picard number one. We give explicit examples of such surfaces over th...

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are becoming increasingly important for time series-related applications which require efficient and real-time implementations. The recent pruning based work ESE (Han et al., 2017) suffers from degradation of performance/energy efficiency due to the irregular network structure after pruning. We propose block-circulant matrices for weight matrix representation in...

Let E be an optimal elliptic curve over Q of conductor N having analytic rank zero, i.e., such that the L-function LE(s) of E does not vanish at s = 1. Suppose there is another optimal elliptic curve over Q of the same conductor N whose Mordell-Weil rank is greater than zero and whose associated newform is congruent to the newform associated to E modulo a power r of a prime p. The theory of vis...