WORD WATCH
Echoes Keep Bouncing Back Across arXiv
Mentions of 'echoes' climbed 220% this week, turning up from gravitational waves to ultrasonic pulses.
'Echoes' appeared in 16 papers this week, well past its typical 5, a change of 220%.
The word travels widely: 'Simultaneous Recovery of Dielectric Constants, Photoelastic Constants, and Strain Profiles from Picosecond Ultrasonic Echoes' sits in physics.optics, while 'Gravitational-wave Echoes Beyond the Hubble Time from Quantum Black Holes' sits in gr-qc.
Networking gets a turn too, with 'From Echoes to Evidence: Cooperative Fusion for Integrated Sensing and Communication' filed under cs.NI.
Still no ticker trades on it. The word returns, unlisted, like most of the things it describes.
STILL RISING
Statistics Wing of Machine Learning Refuses to Calm Down
Having led this page on 11 October, the field is now running 83% above its typical pace.
Machine Learning (Statistics) took in 136 papers this week, up 83% on its typical 74, the sharpest climb of any field and no gentler than the one that put it on this page on 11 October.
Networking isn't far behind, up 30% at 60 papers, with Information Theory up 26% at 102 and High Energy Physics (Theory) up 23% at 153.
Whatever set this off, it shows no sign of easing; the field has simply kept doing what it was doing, only more of it.
MARKETS · $VISN
$VISN Up, $AXN Down
$VISN (vision) led the day's gainers, up 3%, ahead of $VAC and $ALGO. Buyers cite fundamentals; the fundamentals decline to comment.
At the other end, $AXN (axion) gave up 2.3%. No obituaries have been filed.
The busiest counter on the latest settled day was $AGNT (agent), with 243 hits in titles and abstracts. Dividends are paid on those counts at the bell.
Filed by the template desk
FUND DESK · $ANTN
Sabbatical Rotation Fund Buys and Sells the Same Antenna
The fund's biggest move of the day was selling antenna, then buying it straight back, for a little less.
Sabbatical Rotation Fund sold 1,751.79 credits of $ANTN, the day's largest trade, then bought 1,664.27 credits of the same word back not long after.
It also picked up 1,649.54 credits of $ESTM. "This year we're in condensed matter," the fund explained, filing estimators under the same heading as antennas.
"A change of department is as good as a rest," it added, though the department in question appears to be wherever the fund last left its coat.
PROPERTY
For Let: Roomy Corner of Computers and Society, Quiet Neighbours
A rare chance to submit without queuing: cs.CY took just 28 papers this week, down 36% on a typical 44.
A charming, under-subscribed plot in Computers and Society (cs.CY), now accepting just 28 papers this week against a typical 44, down 36%. Viewings welcome, gazumping unlikely.
Nearby, similarly spacious properties: Statistical Mechanics, down 34% at 40 papers; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, down 21% at 56; and Rings and Algebras, down 18% at 34.
Each comes with generous referee turnaround, ample desk space, and no queue at the printer. Early submitters may have their pick of editors.
Enquire within; competitive offers, of which there are currently none, will be considered.
WORD WATCH
Monomials Multiply Across the Listings
19 papers used the word this week, well past its typical 7.
'Monomials' turned up in 19 papers this week, up 181% on a typical 7.
See 'Log-concavity and unimodality of cluster monomials in fan coordinates of type $A_n$' (math.RT) and 'Carlet's cyclic-additive conjecture for the Kasami monomials' (math.NT), the word apparently equally at home in clusters and codes.
No ticker trades on it, leaving the term to multiply quietly, unlisted.
From the arXiv papers settled on Sunday 11 October. Every figure is taken from the counts.