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Combinatorics

On colorful Helly numbers and the growth of Tverberg numbers

We establish new bounds on colorful Helly and Tverberg numbers in abstract convexity spaces with Radon number $r$. We show that the colorful Helly number is at most $(r-1)2^r$, improving Holmsen–Lee's bound $r^{r^{O(\log r)}}$ and matching the known lower bound $2^{r-1}-1$ up to a factor $O(r)$. Furthermore, we prove that the Tverberg number is $r_k=O(r^{\lceil \log_2 r\rceil }k)$, reducing Pálvölgyi's coefficient $r^{r^{r^{O(\log r)}}}$ to a quasipolynomial function of $r$. For $S_4$-separable spaces, we prove $r_k=O(r^2k)$. In the other direction, we construct a sequence of $S_4$-separable spaces with Tverberg number $r_k=\Omega(r^2k)$. This shows that the weak Eckhoff conjecture, asserting that $r_k=O(rk)$ in any abstract convexity space, fails already in separable spaces. The same construction refutes the analogue of Reay's conjecture in separable spaces.
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General Mathematics

Crossed Homomorphisms on associative superalgebras

In this paper, we introduce the notion of crossed homomorphisms on associative superalgebras. We show that crossed homomorphisms are precisely the Maurer–Cartan elements of a naturally associated graded Lie algebra. This characterization enables us to construct a cohomology theory of crossed homomorphisms. We then investigate formal deformations of crossed homomorphisms and derive the corresponding deformation equations. It is proved that the infinitesimal part of a formal deformation is a 1-cocycle in the associated cohomology, while the obstruction to extending a deformation of finite order is a 2-cocycle.
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General Mathematics

Chebyshev Bias for Largest Prime Factors

Let $P^+(n)$ be the largest prime factor of $n$, and let $\chi=\chi_{-4}$ be $1$ on primes $1\pmod4$ and $-1$ on primes $3\pmod4$. For fixed $k\ge2$ we study \[ D_k(x)=\sum_{\substack{n\le x\\ \Omega(n)=k}}\chi(P^+(n)). \] Thus $D_k(x)$ compares the two residue classes according to the largest prime factor of integers having exactly $k$ prime factors, counted with multiplicity. Assuming RH for $\zeta(s)$ and $L(s,\chi)=\beta(s)$, we prove a pointwise explicit formula. The main term is a fixed negative contribution plus an absolutely convergent oscillating sum over the zeros $\rho=\frac12+i\gamma$ of $L(s,\chi)$. The ordering of the prime factors produces $k$ Perron denominators, and the principal coefficient of a zero is $O_k((1+|\gamma|)^{-k})$. We then show that the total size of all zero terms is strictly smaller than the fixed contribution. Hence $D_k(x)<0$ for all sufficiently large $x$. The analogous problem without fixing $k$ is still open.
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Combinatorics · Cross-listed from cs.LO

Solution Space Partitioning for Extremal Set Theory

We present a method for partitioning the solution space of statements in extremal set theory. Compared with domain-agnostic partitioning methods like look-ahead, we perform case analysis on the strategies by which a candidate solution can be constructed. We demonstrate that our approach can decompose problems in extremal set theory more effectively than look-ahead. Combining this new partitioning strategy with an exact proof-producing MILP solver, we are able to verify larger finite cases of Chvátal's Conjecture—a long-standing open question in extremal combinatorics—compared to previous work.
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All authors Jesse Looney, Jonah McDonald, Allison Klingler, Gloria Wu, Jonad Pulaj, Haoze Wu

General Topology

A Coprimality Topology on the Gaussian Integers: Kolmogorov Quotient and Gaussian Prime Density

This article investigates the coprimality topology on the set of non-zero Gaussian integers, $\mathbb{Z}[i]\setminus\{0\}$, generated by the arithmetic basis $\sigma_\alpha=\{\beta\neq 0 : \gcd(\alpha,\beta)\sim 1\}$. By analyzing prime supports up to associates, we establish that two points are topologically indistinguishable if and only if their supports coincide. We demonstrate that the space is both hyperconnected and ultraconnected, and we explicitly characterize its Kolmogorov quotient $X$ as the space of finite subsets of associate classes of Gaussian primes, endowed with the basis $\mathcal{O}_F=\{S\in X:S\cap F=\emptyset\}$ for $F\in X$. Finally, we demonstrate that the set of Gaussian primes is dense in $\mathbb{Z}[i]\setminus\{0\}$ with respect to the coprimality topology, thereby establishing a topological proof of the infinitude of Gaussian primes.
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Combinatorics

Squarefree Matrix Formulas for the CWR Invariant of Alternating Knots and Links

We give weighted-matrix formulas for the components of the $CWR$ invariant of oriented non-split alternating links. After recalling the known trace formulas for $CWR_{2}$ and $CWR_{3}$, we give a construction uniform in $k$: attaching an independent commuting variable to each vertex of a consolidated Tait graph and extracting the squarefree part of the resulting trace isolates simple cycles from closed walks. This yields a formula for $CWR_k$ for every $k\ge 3$, a log-determinant generating polynomial for each of the two Tait graphs, and an equivalent Moebius-inversion formula over principal submatrices. Specializing the uniform formula, we obtain explicit closed weighted formulas for $CWR_{4}$ and $CWR_{5}$. We also record a bipartiteness criterion for the vanishing of all odd components and a characteristic-polynomial formula for the unweighted specialization of the first nonvanishing odd component. The graph-theoretic constructions apply to arbitrary finite simple loopless weighted graphs; the alternating-link hypothesis enters through the invariance theorem for $CWR$.
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Analysis of PDEs

Global weak solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and singular diffusion

We study the initial-boundary value problem for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and singular diffusion at pure phases. This model describes the dynamics of phase separation in polymer blends with associated Flory-Huggins-de Gennes free energy. We prove the existence of global weak solutions in three-dimensional bounded and smooth domains, assuming that the initial datum has finite energy. We show the classical regularity in $L^2(0,T;H^2(\Omega))$ for both the solution $u$ and the function $\phi(u)=\arcsin(u)$ through entropy estimates. In addition, when $\Omega$ is convex, a new elliptic-type argument yields the refined regularity $u, \phi(u) \in L^4(0,T; H^2(\Omega))$.
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Combinatorics

A proof of Andersen's rainbow path conjecture for large $n$

We show that, for sufficiently large $n$, every properly edge-coloured $n$-vertex complete graph contains a path with $n-1$ vertices which uses each colour at most once (that is, a rainbow path). This resolves a conjecture of Andersen from 1989 for all large $n$ and improves previous results of Alon-Pokrovskiy-Sudakov, and then Balogh-Molla, which showed that rainbow paths/cycles of length $n-O(n^{1/2}\log n)$ exist in this setting. Furthermore, with related methods, we show that, for every sufficiently large $n$, every Latin square of order $n$ contains a cycle-free transversal of order $n-2$, confirming a conjecture of Gyárfás and Sárközy from 2014 for large $n$.
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All authors Candida Bowtell, Richard Montgomery, Alp Müyesser, Alexey Pokrovskiy

Analysis of PDEs

Quasiconvexity for the Dacorogna–Marcellini Energy

We prove that the planar Dacorogna–Marcellini energy $f_\gamma(A)=|A|^4-2\gamma|A|^2\det A$ is quasiconvex exactly when it is rank-one convex, i.e. if and only if $|\gamma|\leq\frac{2}{\sqrt3}$. The proof uses a monotonicity property of the energy functional along the componentwise heat flow. As a corollary of our method, we show that for homogeneous quartic polynomials on $2 \times 2$ matrices invariant by left and right rotation, quasiconvexity is equivalent to rank one convexity.
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Algebraic Geometry

Stability of kernel bundles on projective bundles over curves

Let $X$ be a projective bundle over a smooth curve $C$ of genus $g \ge 3$, and consider the relative hyperplane bundle ${\mathcal O}_X (1) \to X$. Let $V \subseteq H^0 ( X , {\mathcal O}_X (1) )$ be a generating subspace. We prove that when $C$, $X$ and $V$ are general in moduli and ${\mathcal O}_X (1)$ is sufficiently ample, the kernel bundle of the system $({\mathcal O}_X (1) , V)$ is ${\mathcal O}_X (1)$-stable.
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Statistics Theory · Cross-listed from cs.LG

An Optimal Agnostic PAC Algorithm

Let $H\subseteq\{-1,+1\}^X$ be a class of finite VC dimension $d\ge1$. Writing $L$ for the binary risk and $L^*=\min_{h\in H}L(h)$, we construct a learner achieving the statistically optimal risk bound: from an i.i.d.\ sample of size $n$, for every $0<\delta\le 1/2$, with probability at least $1-\delta$, \[ L(\widehat h) \le L^*+ 7\cdot10^8\left( \sqrt{\frac{L^*(d+\log(1/\delta))}{n}} +\frac{d+\log(1/\delta)}{n} \right). \] This settles the sample complexity of agnostic PAC learning up to universal constants at every fixed $L^*$, matching the lower bounds of Devroye, Györfi, and Lugosi [A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition, Springer, 1996].
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Combinatorics

Universality in random graphs via optimal linking systems: trees and beyond

We develop a framework for proving universality results in sparse random graphs. As a first application, we show that there exists an absolute constant $C>1$ such that, with high probability, for every fixed constant $\Delta$, the binomial random graph $G(n,C\ln n/n)$ contains every $n$-vertex tree with maximum degree at most $\Delta$. This answers a question of Montgomery (Advances in Mathematics, 2019). We also determine, for every $p$ satisfying $C\ln n/n\leq p=n^{-1+o(1)}$, the minimum girth $\ell$ (up to an absolute multiplicative constant) for which with high probability $G(n,p)$ contains all cycle factors of girth at least $\Omega(\ell)$. In particular, with high probability $G(n,C\ln n/n)$ contains all cycle factors of girth at least $C\ln n/\ln\ln n$, which is optimal up to a constant factor. This extends an earlier result of Ferber, Kronenberg, and Luh (Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2019) and significantly improves a corollary of a deep result of Kahn, Lubetzky, and Wormald (Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2017). One of the key ingredients in the proofs is establishing the optimal depth of linking systems in sparse random graphs.
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Analysis of PDEs

On generalised d'Alembert-type integral representations for damped wave equations on the quarter-plane

We rigorously construct and verify a posteriori new closed-form solutions for the forced Maxwell-Cattaneo-Vernotte equation (also broadly known as the damped wave equation, hyperbolic heat, and telegrapher's equation on lossy transmission lines) posed on the spatiotemporal quarter-plane with general initial and boundary data in classical function spaces. For this purpose, the modern complex-analytic unified transform method of Fokas (originally developed for elliptic PDE and evolution equations with polynomial dispersion relations) is here, for the first time, extended for analysis of hyperbolic-parabolic problems on the semi-infinite interval. Importantly, we then establish theorems which pertain to regularity, boundary and asymptotic properties of the new analytical formulae as well as to well-posedness of the addressed boundary-value problems. Notably, the nature and generality of problems considered, combined with the semi-unboundedness of the domain, induce substantial analytic challenges which demand delicate treatment, both in appropriately interpreting oscillatory integral terms of the solution formulae and in proving the proposed results. In this process, crucially, certain compatibility conditions, between initial, boundary and forcing data at the origin, are revealed, which guarantee the existence of a smooth solution across the whole domain of interest. Our explicit integral representations are of direct utility for numercal benchmarking purposes, for exploring connections with modelling in continuum mechanics, mathematical physics, biology and the natural sciences, and for the investigation of well-posedness for nonlinear counterparts too.
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All authors Andreas Chatziafratis, Claudio Giorgi, Alain Miranville, Federico Zullo

Optimization and Control

The Benefits of an Integrated Approach for Stability-Constrained Power System Planning

Increasing penetration of inverter-based resources in today's power systems requires substitution of the contribution from synchronous generators to dynamic voltage stability and inertial response. However, established approaches for power system planning are sequential, as stabilising measures are only considered at a later stage of the planning process. We investigate the advantages of an integrated approach for power system planning, where stabilising measures are considered simultaneously with the expansion of generation, transmission, and storage systems via simplified stability constraints on inertia and voltage stability. We find that system costs are reduced with the integrated approach and that the dual-use option of grid-forming battery energy storage systems is favoured over other stabilising measures like static synchronous compensators.
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All authors Gereon Recht, Benedikt Jahn, Oussama Alaya, Karl-Kiên Cao, Hendrik Lens

Metric Geometry

Width Laws and Spectral Geometry

We develop a common framework for random width laws, spectral populations, and geometric reconstruction. For a $d$-dimensional orthotope, we prove an exact parity law for the maximal $\pi^{-1}$-grade of every spherical width cumulant, including noncancellation and sign in all dimensions and orders. The first $d$ scalar width moments recover the unordered side vector, and $d-1$ moments are generically insufficient. Each Laplace mode generates an auxiliary width law whose upper endpoint satisfies $M_{n,a} = \lambda_n(a)^{1/2}/\pi$. At high energy the modal coordinate partitions converge to a universal Dirichlet law, while an unsmoothed measure-valued cutoff expansion retains the first geometric memory at face scale. Its simplex moment determines, up to an explicit nonzero factor and a separate off-diagonal argument, a basis-independent projector-gradient Weyl tensor that reconstructs the orthotope. Genuine edge-scale jumps obstruct a third coefficient for the total raw cutoff; exact mixed-boundary Mobius inversion isolates every coordinate stratum and restores a recursive bulk-boundary expansion with a smaller remainder. Beyond orthotopes, we prove direction-labelled identifiability for a canonical linear-quadratic class and finite recovery from direction-sensitive ridge moments under a generator bound. In dimension three, a global great-circle incidence calculus gives the exact step, fold, endpoint-fold, and corner coefficients of reduced zonotopal width densities, including an explicit non-simple corner cancellation. The results distinguish universal aggregation, recoverable geometric memory, and the remaining scalar inverse problem.
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Analysis of PDEs

A General Aubry-Mather Theory

This paper reproduces the front matter — preface, overview and table of contents — of a monograph by the author, submitted for publication under the title Skew Linear Entropies and Kantorovich Operators: A General Aubry-Mather Theory. The book isolates a class of non-linear operators, which we call Kantorovich operators, that are ubiquitous in analysis, probability, dynamical systems, mathematical economics and finance. We develop aspects of their ergodic theory in a way that extends classical ones involving Markov operators, free-energy transfers, or the Hopf–Lax–Oleinik semi-group. Having no adjoint, the duality between such an operator and measures is carried instead via a convex functional on pairs of probability distributions — a source and a target — which we call a skew-linear entropy, and which is a general form of optimal mass transport. The extensive overview reproduced here describes the resulting ergodic theory, in which minimal measures, a Mather constant, weak KAM solutions and an Aubry set are attached to an arbitrary Kantorovich operator, extending Aubry–Mather theory well beyond its origins in Hamiltonian dynamics.
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Statistics Theory · Cross-listed from stat.ML

Scalable estimation of VARMA models

Vector autoregressive moving-average (VARMA) models have long been considered impractical beyond moderate dimensions: the likelihood is non-convex, the parametrization is identified only up to equivalence, and every evaluation costs a pass over the entire series. Yet their moving-average term captures with a few parameters what a pure autoregression matches only with many lags. We introduce an estimation framework that removes this computational barrier: each optimization iteration is independent of the series length $T$. The framework combines a partial-autocorrelation reparametrization that guarantees stationarity and invertibility by construction, Gaussian priors on the reparametrized coefficients with separate scales for diagonal and off-diagonal entries, and losses that depend on the data only through fixed-size sufficient statistics, evaluated by a Parseval (Fourier) identity at near-linear cost in the truncation length. This yields two point estimators: a regularized least-squares fit and a covariance-marginalized maximum-a-posteriori estimator. We prove that both recover the infinite-autoregressive representation of the true process at a near-parametric rate in fixed dimension, so the truncation introduces no asymptotic bias. The same machinery extends, at the same leading cost, to seasonal dynamics, exogenous regressors (VARMAX), and rolling-window refits. Empirically, the estimators stay close to the oracle forecast error from $d=10$ to $d=40$ (where classical conditional MLE returns non-invertible fits whose forecasts diverge) and match or beat VAR, Bayesian-VAR, component-wise ARMA, and sparse-VARMA baselines on retail-demand, meteorological, and air-quality data. This brings likelihood-based VARMA estimation, at a per-iteration cost independent of the series length, to the problem sizes where practitioners have so far relied on VAR models.
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Combinatorics

Circular sorting in the alternating group

The symmetric group $S_n$ is generated by transpositions, and problems of sorting permutations using transpositions are well studied. In recent work, Adin, Alon, and Roichman studied the related problem of sorting $n$ points on a circle, and gave a formula for the maximum number of adjacent swaps required. This is equivalent to the number of adjacent transpositions required to transform any permutation into a power of the cyclic permutation $(1,2,\ldots, n)$. The focus of this work is an analogous question in the alternating group $A_n$, which is generated by $3$-cycles. That is, using 3-cycles instead of transpositions, what is the maximum number of steps required to transform an even permutation into a power of $(1,2,\ldots, n)$ in the alternating group? We determine this number exactly for even $n$ and $n \equiv 1 \pmod{4}$. For $n \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$, we show that the sorting number can take one of two possible values and give explicit constructions demonstrating that the larger value occurs infinitely often.
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Statistics Theory · Cross-listed from stat.ML

Optimal Rates for Learning with Monotone Adversaries

A monotone adversary observes an i.i.d. labeled sample and appends a finite number of further examples of its choice, every one of them labeled correctly by the target hypothesis. The learner sees a uniform shuffle of the combined sample and is scored on the original distribution. Every example is correctly labeled, but the insertions depend on the clean sample, so the combined sample is not exchangeable. Larsen, Pabbaraju, and Shetty, who introduced this model, showed that empirical risk minimization attains expected error $O((d/n)\log(n/d))$ for classes of VC dimension $d$, and that every known optimal learner can be pushed away from the $\Theta(d/n)$ rate, optimal for PAC learning. They asked whether the extra logarithm is an artifact of those particular algorithms or an inherent consequence of the lack of exchangeability. We show that this additional cost is inherent beyond VC dimension one. In the worst case over classes of VC dimension $d$ and over known finite insertion budgets, the minimax expected error is $\Theta(1/n)$ at $d=1$ and $\Theta((d/n)\log(n/d))$ for $d\geq 2$. The same rates hold with Littlestone dimension $d_{\mathrm L}$ in place of $d$, so the clean online-to-batch rate $O(d_{\mathrm L}/n)$ is unattainable as well. Thus, somewhat counterintuitively, adding correctly labeled examples can make learning harder by a logarithmic factor, even for classes that admit finite mistake bounds in online learning. The dimension-one upper bound is achieved by a simple improper learner whose analysis adapts the leave-one-out argument underlying the one-inclusion graph. All of our lower bounds are elementary and come from a single construction: an explicit class and prior on which two target hypothesis, which differ a point of nonnegligible mass, produce the same sample.
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Statistics Theory

A Profile-Separation Framework for Quantitative Convergence of No-U-Turn Samplers

We study multinomial and biased-progressive No-U-Turn Samplers for strongly log-concave targets satisfying $mI_d\preceq \nabla^2U(x)\preceq LI_d,$ and $\|\nabla^2U(x)-\nabla^2U(y)\|_{\mathrm F}\le \gamma L^{3/2}\|x-y\|$ with \(\kappa\coloneqq L/m\). We introduce profile separation, a sufficient sign condition on the stationary mean U-turn diagnostics, and combine it with diagnostic concentration, leapfrog fidelity, and whole-orbit energy control to show that on a high-probability certification event, every doubling realization reaches a common terminal depth through a genuine U-turn. If \(T_\star\) is the selected physical trajectory length and \(a_\star=\sqrt m\,T_\star\), a terminal-depth transfer argument yields restricted conductance and warm-start mixing without lazifying either kernel. Up to logarithmic warm-start and accuracy factors, the transition bounds are \[ \widetilde O\!\left( 1+a_\star^2\kappa^2(1+\gamma)^{4/3} \right) \quad\text{and}\quad \widetilde O\!\left( 1+a_\star^4\kappa^3(1+\gamma)^2 \right) \] for multinomial and biased-progressive selection, respectively. These transition bounds are unconditional. Gradient-work bounds are deterministic when the maximum-depth cap is comparable to the certified depth and otherwise take cap-aware expected and high-probability forms. The framework recovers the Gaussian dimension dependence under these work-accounting conditions, provides population-profile and exact-diagnostic verification for nonlinear product targets, a near-isotropic specialization of the practical-tree certificate, and quantifies when a fixed post-warmup metric removes linear anisotropy.
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Classical Analysis and ODEs

On number of cyclic $n$-roots and disjointness of Fourier supports

A cyclic $n$-root is an $n$-dimensional complex vector that solves a particular set of multivariate homogeneous polynomial equations. There is a one-to-one correspondence between unimodular cyclic $n$-roots and bi-unimodular vectors (CAZAC sequences) with leading entry one. It was conjectured by Björck and Saffari that the set of cyclic $n$-roots is finite if and only if $n$ is square free. It is known that such a set is infinite if $n$ is not square free, and finite if $n$ is prime. A critical reduction in Haagerup's proof for prime $n$ is to show that infinity of cyclic $n$-roots (for any $n$) implies existence of two vectors with disjoint supports in both the time domain and the frequency domain. In this paper we show that such pair of vectors always exist if $n$ is composite, indicating that the original reduction is not adequate for composite square free cases. A discussion on the existence of a single vector whose support is disjoint with its Fourier transform is also included.
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Quantum Algebra

Relative modular categories from $\mathfrak{osp}(2 \vert 2n)$

We construct relative modular categories from the weighted representation theory of the unrolled quantum group of the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{osp}(2 \vert 2n)$.

Functional Analysis

Domain Characterizations of Strong Commutativity\break of Unbounded Self-Adjoint Operators

Let $A$ and $B$ be unbounded self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space. Suppose that there exists a dense linear subspace $D\subseteq D(AB)\cap D(BA)$ such that $ABx=BAx$ for $x \in D$. We give some characterizations of the strong commutativity of $A$ and $B$ in terms of domain equalities.
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Number Theory

The good reduction of generalized Kummer surfaces in the non-supersingular case

In this article, we study the good reduction of generalized Kummer surfaces, which are K3 surfaces obtained as minimal resolutions of quotients of abelian surfaces by finite groups. In particular, we establish a criterion for good reduction when the abelian surface has non-supersingular reduction and the group is cyclic. This extends the result of Lazda and Skorobogatov on Kummer surfaces.
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Probability

Sharp Tail Bounds Beyond Twice the Mean

Consider $n$ independent, non-negative, mean at most one random variables, $X_1,X_2,\ldots$. We show the following bound on the probability of their sum exceeding a threshold $t$: \[ \mathbb{P}\left[\sum_{i=1}^n X_i\ge t\right] \leq 1-\left(1-\frac{1}{t}\right)^n \text{ for all } t\ge 2n+1 \,. \] To prove this, we consider a relaxed optimization problem over a set of sequences of ordered, but non-independent random variables. This allows us to reformulate it recursively as dynamic programming problem. The bound becomes an equality for the binary i.i.d.~random variables satisfying $\mathbb{P}\left[X_i=0\right]= 1-\frac{1}{t}$ and $\mathbb{P}\left[X_i=t\right]=\frac{1}{t}$, which remains the maximizer in the relaxed problem.
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Mathematical Physics · Cross-listed from physics.flu-dyn

Three-layer water flows: Dirichlet-Neumann operators and approximations

The object of investigation in this paper are the nonlinear equations of motion for two-dimensional inviscid water flows with piecewise constant density stratification in a three-layer fluid with a flat bottom, a free surface and two interfaces. We establish a Hamiltonian formulation for the nonlinear governing equations in this setup. The Hamiltonian of the system and the equations of motion of the surface and of the interfaces are expressed with the help of the Dirichlet-Neumann (DN) operators, which are introduced for each of the layers. Then, the linear equations for small amplitudes of the elevation of the surface and of the interfaces in the leading order are derived from which a bi-cubic equation for the dispersion relation is obtained, whose solutions are analysed. The six real solutions for the possible propagation speeds (three positive, related to right-moving waves and three negative, related to left-moving waves) have magnitudes of different order. Upper and lower bounds for the previously mentioned roots are also given in terms of the coefficients of the equation. Subsequently, approximate formulae for the propagation speeds are derived. The importance of the DN operators is further illustrated in a separate analysis of the three-layer model with flat surface (rigid lid). The full nonlinear evolution equations are expressed again in terms of the DN operators, and the equations in the linear regime and the weakly nonlinear propagation regime (the Boussinesq approximation) are derived by a proper expansion of the DN operators. Limits to the two-layer free surface model are obtained as well. The obtained results are applicable to internal waves in lakes and in the ocean as well as to laboratory experiments with three superimposed fluid layers.
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Complex Variables

Relative Cohomology and Deformations of Logarithmic Foliations on Complex Spaces

We study relative cohomology for logarithmic differential forms and meromorphic forms that are relatively closed with respect to the associated logarithmic foliation. Under suitable Diophantine, geometric, and topological hypotheses, we obtain decompositions into a meromorphic multiple of the defining logarithmic form, an exact meromorphic form, and a logarithmic form with constant residues. We establish a meromorphic extension theorem from suitable two-dimensional sections and prove local, polynomial, and homogeneous versions of the relative-cohomology decomposition; the global polynomial result is proved in arbitrary dimension by ambient leafwise continuation and meromorphic extension. Resolution of singularities, non-nodal saturation, and holonomy gluing are used to treat singular logarithmic foliations. As an application, we derive formal normal forms for analytic integrable deformations, including a several-component result in dimension two and a two-component extension in higher dimensions.
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Probability

Exact renewal laws for minimal common-denominator profiles in simultaneous Laurent-series approximation

Let $\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_r$ be independent Haar-random fractional Laurent series over $\mathbb{F}_q$, and let $L_r(n)$ be the least coefficient length of a polynomial denominator that simultaneously cancels the first $n$ negative coefficients. We prove that the minimal kernel is a line and that the residual vectors revealed immediately after the stopping times $T_n=n+L_r(n)-1$ are iid uniform on $\mathbb{F}_q^r$. Hence the jump indicators of $L_r(n)$ are iid Bernoulli variables with parameter $1-q^{-r}$; conditionally on a jump, the residual direction is uniform on $\mathbb P^{r-1}(\mathbb{F}_q)$. We also give an exact kernel-growth clock for positive jump sizes and a geometric tail bound uniform in the depth; for two series the jump is decided at the first or second kernel-growth epoch with probabilities $q^{-1}$ and $1-q^{-1}$. The marked renewal law yields exact binomial and fluctuation laws in the depth variable and the density of newly attained minimal denominator lengths $\frac{1-q^{-r}}{r}$ in the coefficient-length variable. For $r=1$ this is the classical iid partial-quotient degree law in the depth coordinate, for which we give an exact dictionary. The new probabilistic content is the simultaneous common-denominator law for $r\ge2$. We also establish exact profile-correspondence and record-duality formulas with joint linear complexity.
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Analysis of PDEs

Sub-critical well-posedness for the intermediate nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the line

We continue our study of the well-posedness theory for the intermediate nonlinear Schrödinger equation (INLS). Firstly, we prove that INLS is locally well-posed in $H^s (\mathbb{R})$ for any $s>0$. This improves on our previous result of local well-posedness for any $s>\frac 14$, and covers the full scaling-subcritical range for INLS. In particular, we also obtain the local well-posedness for the continuum Calogero-Moser equation without chirality assumption in the full scaling-subcritical range. Our method relies on a gauge transformation, the derivation of a closed system for four auxiliary variables, and nonlinear smoothing estimates, but not on the completely integrable nature of these equations. Secondly, for the integrable models, we prove global well-posedness for $0<s<\frac12$ for initial data with small $L^2$-norm. Moreover, we show that our global well-posedness result applies whenever $L^2$-equicontinuous sets are preserved by the flow, and so the small-data restriction would be removed by an a-priori equicontinuity result. Our argument relies on a novel family of conserved quantities based upon the Lax pair we discovered in our prior work.
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