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Representation Theory

Combinatorics of Mirković-Vilonen cycles in twisted affine Grassmannians

We investigate the explicit geometric and combinatorial structure of Mirković-Vilonen (MV) cycles in twisted affine Grassmannians associated with special parahoric group schemes. Using the twist map on configuration spaces of decorated flags, we obtain an explicit parametrization of twisted MV cycles by Lusztig data. We show that the changes between reduced words are governed by the usual Lusztig transformations for the reductive group arising from ramified geometric Satake correspondence. As a consequence, the moment polytopes of twisted MV cycles coincide with the usual MV polytopes for this group. Our construction applies to all special parahoric subgroups in the tamely ramified setting.
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Mathematical Physics · Cross-listed from hep-th

Majorana bilinears, compact modular seeds and the approach to the Tsirelson bound

In this work we study the Bell-CHSH inequality in the vacuum of the free massive Majorana field in $1+1$ dimensions, taking as the dichotomic observables of the two parties even bilinears of smeared fields localized in the right and in the left Rindler wedges. The test functions are generated from seeds in the modular-frequency variable through the Tomita-Takesaki operator of the right wedge and, on the side of the left wedge, through its adjoint multiplied by $i$, which accounts for twisted duality. For seeds supported at positive modular frequency the one-particle overlaps between the two parties do not depend on the modular weights, and we obtain the Bell parameter in closed form. When the seeds are phase rotations of a single compact bump, the bilinears generate a copy of the Pauli algebra in each wedge, and we compute exactly the correlation matrix of the vacuum restricted to the two copies. The optimal settings violate the classical bound up to spectral widths more than twice as large as those reached with planar settings. We also show that the Tsirelson bound is never attained in the wedge vacuum for any choice of dichotomic observables, and that approaching it forces the modular spectral weight of the Bell vectors to concentrate at the spectral point $\lambda=1$ of the modular operator. This establishes in a precise way how the even sector of the free Majorana field realizes the Summers-Werner mechanism.
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Optimization and Control · Cross-listed from cs.RO

Emergent Underactuation in Fully Actuated Multirotors by Minimizing a Homogeneous Allocation Cost

Full actuation is commonly valued for independent position and attitude tracking. This work establishes a complementary principle: when only a position trajectory is prescribed, minimizing a positively homogeneous allocation cost selects underactuated-like behavior on a fully actuated multirotor. This cost class includes norms and power laws, including standard minimum-norm pseudoinverse allocation. We use fiberwise infimization to transport the actuator-output cost to wrench space, yielding a homogeneous infimal allocation cost. Restriction to unit zero-moment forces defines a directional landscape whose minimizing directions are independent of force magnitude. We show that aligning any fixed minimizing direction with the required world-frame force minimizes instantaneous and integrated zero-moment allocation costs. The resulting body force remains in a fixed one-dimensional subspace without transverse components. We derive an exact optimality-gap decomposition quantifying the additional cost of every other attitude trajectory and characterizing the minimum-cost class. When a disturbance or prescribed-motion change modifies the required-force direction, a fully actuated platform can immediately generate the modified force using transverse authority and reorient toward the new minimum-cost family. A structurally underactuated platform must reorient before generating that force. Thus, homogeneous allocation-cost minimization explains why optimal nominal motion can be underactuated-like, while full actuation remains valuable for disturbance rejection and transient force generation.
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Mathematical Physics · Cross-listed from cond-mat.mes-hall

Anisotropic Friedel oscillations and isoperimetric transport in two-dimensional free lattice Fermi seas

Two physical consequences of the recent topological classification of 2d Fermi seas for free particles based on flat orbifolds $\mathbb{R}^2/\Gamma$ of discrete symmetry $\Gamma$, are explored. The first is a study of the spatial density behavior inside the mesoscopic window enclosed by the Fermi and (infinite) thermal lengths. It is shown that the single-particle density matrix exhibits a sharp directional anisotropy, encoding a real space diffraction pattern, i.e., a Fraunhofer-like diagram of the Fermi sea, that reveals the point-group symmetries of the background lattice $\Gamma$ in the form of anisotropic Friedel oscillations. As examples, the special cases of the $p4m$ and $p6m$ crystallographic flat orbifolds are treated in some detail. The second physical consequence is the establishment of an explicit geometric correspondence between momentum-space packing and electrical transport. A mean-field expression for the longitudinal electrical conductivity $\sigma_{xx}$ as a function of the isoperimetric parameter $\cal{I}$ of the occupied orbifold domain by utilizing geometric measure theory is presented, satisfiying the scaling law $ \sigma_{xx} \propto 1/\sqrt{\cal{I}}$. The topological transport formula naturally incorporates the vanishing conductivity ($\sigma_{xx} \to 0$) of the previously described “geometric insulators,” promoting the isoperimetric parameter as an efficient descriptor for topological and geometric phases in conductors.
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Information Theory

Learning OTA: A Unified Framework for Edge Sensing, Computation, and Communication

Most federated learning (FL) studies implicitly assume that training data is readily available at participating edge devices. In practice, this data must first be acquired through heterogeneous sensors with potentially different measurement modalities, and the quality and cost of this acquisition process can directly affect the learning performance. This dependence creates a coupled relationship among sensing, computation, and communication, necessitating a system model that captures their joint effect on resource efficiency and learning accuracy. This paper develops such a unified treatment for an over-the-air (OTA) FL system in which each device configures its sensing modality, power, resolution, and sample size, with aggregations conducted OTA at the server. We derive models for sensing noise, energy consumption, latency, and OTA aggregation distortion, and establish a non-convex convergence bound quantifying how these factors influence the global model trajectory. Guided by this analysis, we formulate a per-round optimization that balances energy, latency, and learning quality under physical device constraints. The resulting mixed optimization is addressed through an alternating procedure with closed-form and one-dimensional updates for continuous variables and a lightweight discrete search. Numerical experiments corroborate the advantage of jointly optimizing sensing, computation, and communication decisions.
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Optimization and Control

GPU-Accelerated Bregman Douglas-Rachford Splitting for Discrete Optimal Transport

We present GPU-accelerated Bregman Douglas–Rachford splitting algorithm (BDRS) for discrete optimal transport problem in three input formats: an explicit cost matrix, a point cloud with a ground cost between them, and a separable cost on a regular grid. For each input format, we propose hardware-aware designs of mathematically equivalent representations for the BDRS iterations to enhance numerical stability and empirical runtime. We benchmark the three proposed implementations against eight GPU baseline solvers from the literature on the same device. We demonstrate that our implementations of BDRS achieve state-of-the-art performance on their respective input formats. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first cross-solver study of GPU DOT solvers with a unified measure of optimality.
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Optimization and Control

Box-iLQR: Constraint-Aware Feedback via Finite-Barrier Trajectory Optimization

Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) and Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) are attractive trajectory-optimization methods because their backward recursions provide both nominal trajectories and local time-varying feedback laws. Hard state and input constraints, however, can drive solutions toward constraint boundaries where little corrective authority remains during closed-loop execution. This paper presents Box-iLQR, a log-barrier iLQR method for box-constrained states and controls, with emphasis on the resulting feedback policy. Barrier gradients bias nominal trajectories away from constraint boundaries, while barrier curvature enters the Riccati recursion that determines the feedback gains. We show that control-barrier curvature smoothly attenuates feedback as an actuator approaches saturation, while state-barrier curvature propagates backward through the value function to shape feedback before future state constraints are encountered. This motivates retaining a finite barrier rather than always driving the barrier parameter toward zero, thereby preserving state and actuator margin. Comparisons with CL-DDP and ALTRO are presented on pendulum, cart-pole, Acrobot, and car-parking problems. Monte Carlo experiments demonstrate improved closed-loop behavior with finite barriers, while a six-input MuJoCo fish example demonstrates data-driven Box-iLQR using dynamics Jacobians estimated from simulator rollouts. Box-iLQR achieves convergence comparable to, and in some cases better than, the baseline methods. Moreover, the feedback policy obtained with a finite barrier ensures constraint satisfaction even under execution uncertainty.
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Rings and Algebras

Formal Matrix Rings with the Involution Property

We study formal matrix rings with the involution property, that is, rings in which every element can be represented as the sum of an invertible element and an involution. After recalling the construction of formal matrix rings via Morita contexts, we describe involutions in triangular formal matrix rings and establish a criterion for upper triangular rings of order two. We then prove that a formal matrix ring of arbitrary finite order has the involution property whenever all of its diagonal rings have this property. Several examples and counterexamples are included to illustrate the obtained results.
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Algebraic Geometry

Cyclic automorphisms beyond the canonical bound

Let X be a smooth projective curve of genus g >= 2 over an algebraically closed field K, and suppose that Aut(X) contains a cyclic subgroup G of order N > 2g - 2. The cases N >= 2g + 1 are known. We treat the two boundary values N = 2g and N = 2g - 1. In the tame case we obtain an explicit finite list of ramification signatures. In odd characteristic we prove that the Sylow p-subgroup of G has order p and determine all wild boundary cases by a direct ramification analysis; the resulting curves are Artin-Schreier-Kummer fiber products. In characteristic two we prove that the 2-part has order at most four and classify all wild boundary cases, including Artin-Schreier-Witt normal forms for the C4 and C12 cases.
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Information Theory · Cross-listed from quant-ph

Stabilizer codes over general phase spaces

We develop a theory of stabilizer codes whose stabilizer groups consist of commuting qudit Paulis, oscillator displacements, and/or planar-rotor displacements. We consider codes whose stabilizer groups form generalized lattices in quantum phase space, a condition that guarantees a finite logical dimension. We construct oscillator-rotor, rotor-qudit, and oscillator-rotor-qubit codes that cannot be decomposed into separate subsystems by generalized Clifford transformations. We also introduce an oscillator-qubit code arising from a partially lifted Golay code, where Construction A is applied to half of the Golay code coordinates. We derive analytical forms of logical operators from the symplectic dual lattice, determine Clifford-Gaussian gates from lattice symmetries, show that the code dimension equals the covolume of the stabilizer lattice, and organize the syndrome subspaces into a vector bundle. Our technique builds on earlier non-commutative geometric results by Rieffel, but it can often be interpreted simply as concatenating a given stabilizer code with a Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code, applying conventional lattice-theoretic results, and unconcatenating. We formulate distances, optimal decoding, and quantum weight enumerators, recovering the Pauli, qudit, and GKP versions together with known MacWilliams identities. We construct finite-energy codewords whose encoding is an isometry up to an error exponentially small in the inverse damping parameter.
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Mathematical Physics

Alternative Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Approaches for Constrained Systems

While standard Hamiltonian and Lagrangian methods are powerful for unconstrained classical systems, they are not directly suited to constrained ones, despite the existence of well-established treatments in the literature. In this paper, we present an alternative approach to deriving a generalized Hamiltonian and Lagrangian framework, based on the revised Barcelos-Wotzasek (BW) symplectic algorithm. This method enables a consistent and successful construction of the standard Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions for constrained systems.
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Optimization and Control

On randomized batch-sampling coordinate descent methods for solving linear least-squares problems

This paper refines randomized block coordinate descent by introducing a coordinate-level batch-sampling distribution characterization, yielding a fine-grained randomized batch-sampling coordinate descent framework, which applies to any block coordinate descent method under an arbitrary static stochastic sampling rule for solving large-scale linear least-squares problems. Based on this framework, we derive new linear convergence rate bounds that are invariant to the column scaling of data matrices. Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments validate that the new bounds are significantly sharper than existing results and better aligned with the practical convergence rate. Furthermore, we proposed a learning-based sampling strategy by parameterizing the batch-sampling distribution and optimizing its parameters through gradient-based training. Preliminary numerical results on computed tomography (CT) reconstruction problems demonstrate that the resulting method converges significantly faster than variants using other fixed sampling rules, and outperforms tested adaptive coordinate descent methods and full gradient descent in computational efficiency, confirming that learned sampling distributions can effectively capture problem-specific structure to accelerate convergence within the framework.
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Differential Geometry

Analyticity and tautness of smooth Dupin hypersurfaces

We prove that smooth immersed Dupin submanifolds of Euclidean space are locally Nash in arbitrary codimension and that every compact embedded Dupin submanifold is taut. These conclusions follow from our hypersurface results by the tube construction. For hypersurfaces, we require the Dupin condition only where the principal multiplicities are locally constant. No local finiteness assumption on this regular locus, or regularity assumption on its complement, is required. The proof combines a dimension-dependent degree bound on proper Dupin pieces with a continuation argument using finite jets and resultants. An analytic Hessian criterion then implies that all squared distance functions are Morse-Bott, and hence that every compact embedded hypersurface in this class is taut. In each dimension there are only finitely many such hypersurfaces up to Nash isotopy through embedded Dupin hypersurfaces. We also obtain finiteness results for taut submanifolds in arbitrary codimension and derive topological restrictions from classical classification theorems for taut embeddings.
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Number Theory

Few small primes suffice to cover unit groups

Klurman, Shparlinski and Teräväinen showed that there is a set of at most $(\log Q)^{1+\varepsilon}$ primes of polylogarithmic size whose subset products cover the unit group $(\mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z})^\times$ for almost all moduli $q\le Q$. We show that $(1/\log2+o(1))\log Q$ primes suffice, which is optimal to first order, since $m$ primes have at most $2^m$ subset products. The proof combines a doubling argument of Erdős–Rényi type for random subset products in a finite abelian group, modified to tolerate a small set of exceptional characters, with a one-time “repair” of the few primitive characters whose $L$-functions have zeros near $s=1$. An exact weighted repair gives a variant with at most $(2/\log2+o(1))\log Q$ primes and an exceptional set described explicitly.
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Combinatorics

Domination and Total Domination in Johnson graphs

In this paper we study domination and total domination of Johnson graphs $J(n,k)$. We establish monotonicity results proving that both $\gamma(J(n,k))$ and $\gamma_t(J(n,k))$ are non-decreasing with respect to $n$. We compute exact values for $\gamma_t(J(n,k))$ in specific cases, showing that $\gamma_t(J(n,2))=\lceil\frac{2}{3}(n-1)\rceil$ for $n\geq 4$, and determining $\gamma_t(J(n,3))$ for $n\geq 6$, which depends quadratically on $n$.
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Classical Analysis and ODEs

On pointwise convergence of singular integrals of Christ-Journé type

The primary objective of this paper is to establish the pointwise almost everywhere convergence of the singular integrals of Christ-Journé type. To this end, we prove the weak type $(1,1)$ estimate for the corresponding maximal operator defined as \[ T^*[a] f(x):= \sup_{r>0}\left|\int_{|x-y| > r} K(x-y) \int_0^1 a(tx + (1-t)y)\, dt f(y)\, dy\right|, \] where $K$ is a Calderón–Zygmund kernel and $a\in L^\infty$. This result resolves a problem posed by Seeger (Rev. Mat. Iberoam., 2014).
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Optimization and Control

Asking the Crowd the Right Question: Bias-Cancelling Weights for Federated Learning

A federated objective is a weighted sum of client risks, and the weights are almost always fixed in advance. We treat them instead as the only instrument of a wisdom-of-crowds mechanism: clients are noisy views of one truth, each seeing it through an independent distortion that is unbiased across the crowd. That the optimal weights are inversely proportional to the clients' error energies is classical; we begin at the question that answer presupposes, which energies belong there and whether a crowd can recover them from itself. Excess risk on the truth is of the exact order of the aggregate bias energy, so no optimizer can repair a bad weight vector; the truth itself is identifiable only up to a linear tilt, so subtracting estimated client biases provably reproduces uniform weighting. The expected per-client second moments, however, are exactly identified from the law of the crowd's disagreement by a well-conditioned linear inversion, a step random-effects meta-analysis cannot take because a source reports once; their realized counterparts are estimable up to an incoherence floor the algorithm can measure. This yields CROWD, which reads the disagreement off the optimization trajectory at no extra cost and matches a Bayesian minimax lower bound in the same constant: per instance as the horizon grows, and unconditionally as the prior becomes diffuse. For arbitrary distortions it stays competitive with the optimal weights, at a ratio governed by a geometric incoherence the algorithm can measure. On real scans split into sites with their own miscalibrated detectors it attains the oracle excess risk; on a companion federation that pulls bias and noise apart, weighting by noise variance is worse than not weighting at all, and CROWD is not.
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All authors Ilya Kuruzov, Dmitrii Vishovan, Kirill Novoselov, Yuriy Dorn, Darina Dvinskikh, Alexander Gasnikov

Information Theory · Cross-listed from quant-ph

Quantum-State Oblivious Transfer over Quantum Erasure Channels

We study quantum-state oblivious transfer over the quantum erasure channel under information-theoretic security guarantees. Specifically, Alice holds two quantum systems, Bob wishes to recover one of them, and the parties have access to independent channel uses and authenticated public classical communication, with no initial shared entanglement. We consider both honest-but-curious and malicious behavior. We establish finite-blocklength converse and achievability bounds, which match in the honest-but-curious setting. The malicious setting construction combines interactive hashing with tests of whether Bob received selected channel outputs, and distributes each input across several qubits so that erasures conceal an entire input from a dishonest receiver, even when the inputs are entangled with an external reference. We also derive fixed-error asymptotic expansions and show that both malicious and honest-but-curious settings have the same capacity.
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Combinatorics

The asymptotic maximum oriented diameter of graphs

The oriented diameter of a connected bridgeless graph is the minimum diameter of a strong orientation. Let $f(d)$ be the maximum oriented diameter among all such graphs of diameter $d$. In 1978, Chvátal and Thomassen proved $f(d)\le2d^2+2d$ and constructed graphs showing that any quadratic upper bound on $f(d)$ must have leading coefficient at least $1/2$. We prove that $f(d)\le \tfrac12d^2+7d$ for every integer $d\ge1$. This matches the leading coefficient of their lower bound and establishes $f(d)=\tfrac12d^2+O(d)$, determining the optimal quadratic coefficient. Our proof gives a polynomial-time algorithm that constructs a strong orientation satisfying the stated bound.
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All authors Jiangdong Ai, Yaokun Feng, Hui Lei, Zijian Ren

Mathematical Physics

Dynamical quasi-symmetry of the classical Kepler-Coulomb problem and the conservation of the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector

The paper studies a classical non-relativistic particle moving in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $(N\geqslant2)$, in the presence of the Kepler-Coulomb force $\boldsymbol{F}(\boldsymbol{r})=\alpha\boldsymbol{r}/r^{3}$, $(\alpha\neq0)$. It is shown that the extended-configuration-space transformation involving the projective transformation of the radius vector $\boldsymbol{r}\to\boldsymbol{R}=\boldsymbol{r}/(1+\boldsymbol{c}\cdot\boldsymbol{r})$ and the differential time scaling $\mathrm{d}t\to\mathrm{d}T=\mathrm{d}t/(1+\boldsymbol{c}\cdot\boldsymbol{r})^{2}$, where $\boldsymbol{c}$ is a real vector-valued parameter with dimensions of inverse length, constitutes a dynamical quasi-symmetry in the sense that it maps Newton's equation of motion $m(\mathrm{d}^{2}\boldsymbol{r}/\mathrm{d}t^{2})=\alpha\boldsymbol{r}/r^{3}$ into the equation $m(\mathrm{d}^{2}\boldsymbol{R}/\mathrm{d}T^{2})=(\alpha\boldsymbol{R}/R^{3}) \operatorname{sgn}(1-\boldsymbol{c}\cdot\boldsymbol{R})$. This quasi-symmetry is independent of, yet complementary to, the well-known Kepler-Coulomb dynamical symmetry, which is SO($N+1$) for negative energies and SO($N,1$) for positive energies. A detailed analytical and graphical analysis of induced mappings between non-degenerate conic trajectories associated with the original and transformed systems is presented. Mappings between velocity hodographs are also briefly discussed. It is then proved that the conservation of energy in the transformed motion implies the conservation of the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector in the original dynamics.
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Combinatorics

Proof of the mad conjecture and its coloring applications

For a finite graph $G$, the maximum average degree $\operatorname{mad}(G)$ is the largest average degree of a nonempty subgraph of $G$. Hendrey, Norin and Wood asked whether this parameter is partitionable, that is, whether for all positive reals $a,b$ every graph $G$ with $\operatorname{mad}(G)<a+b$ admits a vertex partition $V(G)=A\cup B$ with $\operatorname{mad}(G[A])<a$ and $\operatorname{mad}(G[B])<b$. In this note, we answer this question affirmatively. Moreover, we generalize this to an arbitrary number of partition classes. The clustered chromatic number $\chi_\star(\mathrm{G})$ of a graph class $\mathrm{G}$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that, for some integer $c$, every graph in $\mathrm{G}$ has a $k$-coloring in which every monochromatic component has at most $c$ vertices. We apply this result to show that $\chi_\star(\mathrm{A}_m)=\left\lfloor\frac{m}{2}\right\rfloor+1$, where $\mathrm{A}_m$ is the family of graphs $G$ with $\operatorname{mad}(G)\leq m$. This solves an open problem posed in Wood's survey and highlighted by Hendrey and Wood. As another application of our general partition result for $\operatorname{mad}$, we obtain a bound for relaxed colorings. Namely, for non-negative integers $d_1,\ldots,d_k$, every graph $G$ with \[\operatorname{mad}(G)<\sum_{i=1}^k \frac{2d_i+2}{d_i+2}\] admits a partition $V(G)=V_1\cup\ldots\cup V_k$ such that $\Delta(G[V_i])\leq d_i$ for each $i\in[k]$. In particular, this provides the first non-trivial bounds for $k\ge3$ with arbitrary $d_i$ and improves the previously known bound for $(d+1,d)$-colorings with $d \ge 2$.
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All authors Andrzej Grzesik, Lenka Kopfová, Gaurav Kucheriya, Binlong Li, Magdalena Prorok

Optimization and Control · Cross-listed from cs.LG

Policy as Data: Replay-Based Policy Dual Averaging via Advantage Regression

Actor-critic methods reuse past experience to improve sample efficiency. However, historical data are typically regarded as off-policy samples for the current policy-improvement update. This work introduces Regularized Dual Averaging Actor Critic (RDA2C), which assigns a distinct role to replay. In regularized dual averaging, the subsequent policy is determined by accumulated policy-improvement feedback, so historical advantage estimates contribute directly to the actor objective rather than solely to the most recent update. RDA2C stores state-action samples with critic-estimated advantage labels, fits a dual score model $Z_\theta$ to the aggregated dataset, and derives the current policy from the accumulated score model using the entropy mirror map. In this way, replay defines an empirical dual objective from which the policy is computed. To analyze RDA2C, we establish a finite-time value-gap decomposition, separating the regularized dual-averaging term from errors due to stale-replay supervised fitting, critic bias, finite-buffer variance, and replay coverage, and stating the assumptions under which each error is bounded. RDA2C accepts advantage labels from any critic. With GAE labels, RDA2C outperforms PPO on six of eight MuJoCo tasks and eight of twelve Atari games. RDA2C also outperforms AAPDA, the closest dual-averaging baseline, on six of eight MuJoCo tasks. With twin-$Q$ labels, RDA2C matches SAC at matched batch size and update frequency.
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Functional Analysis

Operator representations of Herglotz-Nevanlinna functions in several variables

In this paper, we present an operator representation for Herglotz-Nevanlinna functions in several variables using self-adjoint linear relations. Moreover, a description of the reproducing kernel Hilbert space corresponding to a Herglotz-Nevanlinna function of several variables is also presented, along with a comparison to some existing result concerning the class of Loewner functions.
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Geometric Topology

Exotic S^2 x S^2 candidates that are just fake

We show that two infinite families of homology $S^2\times S^2$'s presented in \cite{FPS, AP}, originally proposed as exotic candidates, are aspherical. In particular, none of these manifolds is an exotic $S^2\times S^2$. We prove this by reconstructing them from aspherical building blocks, following Edmonds. The same arguments apply to and rule out further candidates for simply connected exotica. We also give counterexamples to the conjecture that Luttinger surgery preserves symplectic asphericity.
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Analysis of PDEs

Remarks on a multi-dimensional transport equation with nonlocal velocity

In this paper, we revisit a multi-dimensional nonlocal transport equation of the form \begin{eqnarray*} \partial_t\rho+g\mathcal{R}_a\rho\cdot \nabla\rho= 0,~\rho(\cdot,0)=\rho_{0}, \end{eqnarray*} where the transform $\mathcal{R}_a$ is defined by \begin{eqnarray*} \mathcal{R}_a\rho(x,t)=\frac{\Gamma(\frac{n+1}{2})}{\pi^{\frac{n+1}{2}}}P.V.\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}^n}\Big(\frac{x-y}{|x-y|^{n+1}}-\frac{x-y}{(|x-y|^2+a^2)^{\frac{n+1}{2}}}\Big)\rho(y,t)dy. \end{eqnarray*} This model was first introduced in [W. Zhang, J. Differential Equations 467 (2026) 114275] as a natural generalization of the well-known Kiselev-Sarsam equation proposed in [A. Kiselve and N.A. Sarsam, Nonlinearity 38 (2025) 055018]. By using an improved pointwise inequality for the transform $\mathcal{R}_a$, we obtain a better and more natural version of a nonlinear integral inequality proved in Zhang [31] for the transform $\mathcal{R}_a$. In addition, we also establish a new weighted nonlinear inequality for the transform $\mathcal{R}_a$ implying the finite-time blow-up for a class of smooth radial initial data.
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Numerical Analysis · Cross-listed from cs.LG

The Numerical Linear Algebra of Large Language Models

Numerical Linear Algebra (NLA) has consistently played a vital role in advancing science by providing tools to solve fundamental problems encountered in scientific and engineering applications. Over the decades, it has continually evolved to meet the demands driven by successive waves of scientific discovery. For instance, during the 1950s and 1960s, substantial efforts were devoted to developing methods for solving eigenvalue problems that emerged from the rapidly growing field of aerodynamics. This led to the discovery of the LR and QR algorithms. Later the attention turned to the solution of sparse linear systems that were common in applications like computational aerodynamics. Today we are experiencing yet another wave of major scientific advancement and NLA is once more at the heart of its development. This Machine Learning (ML) wave is proving to be utterly disruptive in science and engineering. Many tools in ML particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) are grounded in matrix and tensor methods. As we are approaching Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), it is clear that matrix methods will be called to play an even more significant role. For the numerical linear practitioner the speed of the current change makes it particularly challenging to adapt. This is a survey article that centers on machine learning techniques, with a particular focus on large language models. It has two main objectives. The first is to clarify the core concepts behind Large Language Models in a manner accessible to specialists in numerical methods. The second is to examine the key Numerical Linear Algebra concepts employed by LLM techniques, while also highlighting several significant recent contributions of NLA to the field.
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Mathematical Physics

Covariant Euler-Poincaré Reduction for Field Theories on Centered Semidirect Products

Let $G$ be a Lie group equipped with commuting left and right linear representations on a vector space $V$, and let $G\Join V$ be the associated centered semidirect product. We develop a reduction scheme for covariant field theories on principal bundles with structure group $G\Join V$ from both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian perspectives, obtaining the reduced Euler-Poincaré and Lie-Poisson field equations decomposed into their $\mathfrak g$- and $V$-components, where $\mathfrak g$ is the Lie algebra of $G$. We also derive the reduced multisymplectic form formula, as well as the Noether and energy-momentum balance laws. Our reduction results are compared with those for principal bundles with standard semidirect-product structure groups, and the role of the centered variables is investigated: they retain the original two-sided geometric data and separate the left and right contributions via the heart and diamond operators. The framework is then applied to a two-sided matrix microstructural model and to the second-order jet group on $\mathbb R^r$, $G_r^2$. For the matrix model, the conjugation representation decomposes $\operatorname{Mat}(3)$ into scalar, vector, and symmetric-traceless sectors, clarifying its precise relation to director and alignment-tensor variables without identifying it with standard nematodynamics. For the one-dimensional jet group on a $(1+1)$-dimensional Minkowski base, we obtain a semilinear symmetric-hyperbolic system and an exact traveling conversion front with explicit energy-momentum exchange between the linear- and quadratic-jet sectors. Its hyperbolic-target interpretation yields a conserved positive energy for the linearized perturbations. A nonlinear numerical experiment illustrates the reduced evolution and reconstruction of the group-valued field, with consistency assessed through mesh refinement and an independent wave-map computation.
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Information Theory

Fluid Antenna Secure Channel-driven Constellation (FASCC): a Physical Layer Security approach

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have recently emerged as a promising technology for future wireless networks due to their ability to access a large number of channel realizations using a single radio-frequency chain. This capability creates new opportunities for physical-layer security beyond conventional beamforming and artificial-noise approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel Fluid Antenna Secure Channel-driven Constellation (FASCC) framework for downlink communications, in which information is conveyed through channel-domain constellation points generated by FAS port selection and phase adaptation. Two complementary FASCC schemes are developed, depending on the availability of eavesdropper's channel state information. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed FASCC framework achieves significant secrecy gains in terms of bit error rate and mutual-information secrecy performance, even when Eve is significantly closer to the base station than Bob.
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Algebraic Geometry

Subspace concentration condition and Bogomolov–Gieseker inequality

We provide a necessary condition for integral polytopes to satisfy subspace concentration type inequalities, by mean of a convex geometric interpretation of the Bogomolov–Gieseker inequality.

Functional Analysis

Optimal Embeddings of Campanato and Morrey Spaces

We investigate Campanato and Morrey spaces on metric-measure spaces and establish their relationships with Hölder spaces. In particular, we show that the embedding of a Campanato space into a Hölder space is equivalent to the existence of a lower bound for the underlying measure. Several examples are provided to illustrate the results.
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