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Totally symmetric sets are a recently introduced tool for studying homomorphisms between groups. In this paper, we give full classifications of totally symmetric sets in certain families of groups and bound their sizes in others. As a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Kevin Kordek , Qiao Li , Caleb Partin

This paper considers the problem of testing whether there exists a non-negative solution to a possibly under-determined system of linear equations with known coefficients. This hypothesis testing problem arises naturally in a number of…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-09-16 Zheng Fang , Andres Santos , Azeem M. Shaikh , Alexander Torgovitsky

A geometric mechanism that may, in analogy to similar notions in physics, be considered as "symmetry breaking" in geometry is described, and several instances of this mechanism in differential geometry are discussed: it is shown how…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Andreas Fuchs , Udo Hertrich-Jeromin , Mason Pember

Symmetries and isomorphisms play similar conceptual roles when we consider how models represent physical situations, but they are formally distinct, as two models related by symmetries are not typically isomorphic. I offer a rigorous…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Lu Chen

Classical mathematics are founded within set theory, but sets don't have \emph{symmetries}. We conjecture that if we allow sets with symmetries, then many problems such as \emph{Mirror symmetry} or \emph{Homological mirror symmetry} can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Hugo V. Bacard

Linear algebra is a major field of numerical computation and is widely applied. Most linear algebra libraries (in most programming languages) do not statically guarantee consistency of the dimensions of vectors and matrices, causing runtime…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Akinori Abe , Eijiro Sumii

We determine the maximal gap between the optimal values of an integer program and its linear programming relaxation, where the matrix and cost function are fixed but the right hand side is unspecified. Our formula involves irreducible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Serkan Hosten , Bernd Sturmfels

An optimal linear coding solution for index coding problem is established. Instead of network coding approach by focus on graph theoric and algebraic methods a linear coding program for solving both unicast and groupcast index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Pouya Pezeshkpour

Group theory is extremely successful in characterizing the symmetries in quantum systems, which greatly simplifies and unifies our treatments of quantum systems. Here we introduce the concept of the symmetry for a quantum Boltzmann machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Hai-jing Song , D. L. Zhou

In this paper we give some two-dimensional and some three-dimensional examples for the shape of the symmetric solution set of a linear complementarity problem where the given data are not explicitly known but can only be enclosed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Uwe Schäfer

The presence of symmetries of binary programs typically degrade the performance of branch-and-bound solvers. In this article, we derive efficient variable fixing algorithms to discard symmetric solutions from the search space based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jasper van Doornmalen , Christopher Hojny

An isomorphism between two graphs is a bijection between their vertices that preserves the edges. We consider the problem of determining whether two finite undirected weighted graphs are isomorphic, and finding an isomorphism relating them…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Reza Takapoui , Stephen Boyd

This paper is a tutorial in a general and explicit procedure to simplify semidefinite programs which are invariant under the action of a symmetry group. The procedure is based on basic notions of representation theory of finite groups. As…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-24 Frank Vallentin

A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

Let $S(H)$ be the set of all self-adjoint bonded linear operators on $H$ and $\mathcal{V} \subset S(H)$ a subset that is pertinent in mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. A symmetry is a bijective map $\phi :\mathcal{V} \to…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Peter Semrl

The computation of the normaliser of a permutation group in the full symmetric group is an important and hard problem in computational group theory. This article reports on an algorithm that builds a descending chain of overgroups to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans

Symmetry-informed machine learning can exhibit advantages over machine learning which fails to account for symmetry. In the context of continuous symmetry detection, current state of the art experiments are largely limited to detecting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-13 Ben Shaw , Sasidhar Kunapuli , Abram Magner , Kevin R. Moon

We define Boolean algebras in the linear context and study its symmetric powers. We give explicit formulae for products in symmetric Boolean algebras of various dimensions. We formulate symmetric forms of the inclusion-exclusion principle.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-28 Rafael Diaz , Mariolys Rivas

We study the integrality gap of convex mixed-integer programs, that is, the difference between the optimal value of such a problem and the optimal value of its continuous relaxation. We study classes of convex sets whose associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Burak Kocuk , Diego Moran Ramirez

Linear codes play a central role in coding theory and have applications in several branches of mathematics. For error correction purposes the minimum Hamming distance should be as large as possible. Linear codes related to applications in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Sascha Kurz