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This article is meant to provide an additional point of view, applying known knowledge, to supply keys that have a series of non-repeating digits, in a manner that is not usually thought of. Traditionally, prime numbers are used in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Givon Zirkind

Number partitioning is one of the classical NP-hard problems of combinatorial optimization. It has applications in areas like public key encryption and task scheduling. The random version of number partitioning has an "easy-hard" phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens

We describe a group theoretic analysis of Shor's algorithm and other related hidden subgroup problems in mathematics and relate these to symmetries of molecular and condensed phase assemblies. By recasting Shor's algorithm through the lens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Srinivasan S. Iyengar , Amr Sabry

The family of Information Dispersal Algorithms is applied to distributed systems for secure and reliable storage and transmission. In comparison with perfect secret sharing it achieves a significantly smaller memory overhead and better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Katarzyna Kapusta , Gerard Memmi , Hassan Noura

Random numbers play a crucial role in science and industry. Many numerical methods require the use of random numbers, in particular the Monte Carlo method. Therefore it is of paramount importance to have efficient random number generators.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Helmut G. Katzgraber

We show that large gaps between smooth numbers are infrequent. The key new tool is a novel mean value bound for a special type of Dirichlet polynomial.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-10 D R Heath-Brown

A compression algorithm is presented that uses the set of prime numbers. Sequences of numbers are correlated with the prime numbers, and labeled with the integers. The algorithm can be iterated on data sets, generating factors of doubles on…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

The successful deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications relies heavily on their robust security, and lightweight cryptography is considered an emerging solution in this context. While existing surveys have been examining…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Arsalan Vahi

Encryption study basically deals with three levels of algorithms. The first algorithm deals with encryption mechanism, second deals with decryption Mechanism and the third discusses about the generation of keys and sub keys used in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Addepalli V. N Krishna , A Vinay Babu

For $a \neq 1$ and $p$ prime, we define numbers of the form $pa^2$ to be Square-Prime (SP) Numbers. For example, 75 = 3 $\cdot$ 25; 108 = 3 $\cdot$ 36; 45 = 5 $\cdot$ 9. These numbers are listed in the OEIS as A228056. We study the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Raghavendra N. Bhat

We construct a smooth real-valued function P(n) in [0,1], defined via a triple integral with a periodic kernel, that approximates the characteristic function of prime numbers. The function is built to suppress when n is divisible by some m…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Stanislav Semenov

It is natural to expect the following loosely stated approximation principle to hold: a numerical approximation solution should be in some sense as smooth as its target exact solution in order to have optimal convergence. For piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-25 So-Hsiang Chou

A classical result due to Deshouillers, Dress and Tenenbaum asserts that on average the distribution of the divisors of the integers follows the arcsine law. In this paper, we investigate the distribution of smooth divisors of the integers,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-18 S. Nyandwi , A. Smati

Real-world data is complex and often consists of objects that can be decomposed into multiple entities (e.g. images into pixels, graphs into interconnected nodes). Randomized smoothing is a powerful framework for making models provably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yan Scholten , Jan Schuchardt , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

We show that smooth numbers are equidistributed in arithmetic progressions to moduli of size $x^{66/107-o(1)}$. This overcomes a longstanding barrier of $x^{3/5-o(1)}$ present in previous works of Bombieri-Friedlander-Iwaniec,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Alexandru Pascadi

In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge. This is usually done for secrecy, and typically for confidential communications. Encryption can also be used for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Kostas Zotos , Andreas Litke

Primality generation is the cornerstone of several essential cryptographic systems. The problem has been a subject of deep investigations, but there is still a substantial room for improvements. Typically, the algorithms used have two parts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Vassil Dimitrov , Luigi Vigneri , Vidal Attias

Pseudorandmness plays an important role in number theory, complexity theory and cryptography. Our aim is to use models of arithmetic to explain pseudorandomness by randomness. To this end we construct a set of models $\cal M$, a common…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Pavel Pudlak

In this paper, we present secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) schemes over the complex numbers with good numerical stability and small mutual information leakage by utilizing polynomial interpolation with roots of unity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti