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This celebratory article contains a personal and idiosyncratic selection of a few open problems in discrete probability theory. These include certain well known questions concerning Lorentz scatterers and self-avoiding walks, and also some…

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Complete and joint mixability has raised considerable interest in recent few years, in both the theory of distributions with given margins, and applications in discrete optimization and quantitative risk management. We list various open…

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A discursive, non-technical, analysis is made of some of the basic issues that arise in almost any approach to quantum gravity, and of how these issues stand in relation to recent developments in the field. Specific topics include the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Isham

We study open zooming systems and potentials with uniqueness of equilibrium states. The uniqueness is established for a certain class of zooming potentials when the map is topologically exact, including the null one. Also, with equilibrium…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Rafael A. Bilbao , Eduardo Santana

This note describes several open questions concerning scaling limits of queue-length processes of symmetric queues in heavy traffic, distinguishing between service-time distributions with finite and infinite variance.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Bert Zwart

These notes derive a number of technical results on nonlinear contraction theory, a comparatively recent tool for system stability analysis. In particular, they provide new results on the preservation of contraction through system…

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We consider stability and network capacity in discrete time queueing systems. Relationships between four common notions of stability are described. Specifically, we consider rate stability, mean rate stability, steady state stability, and…

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This paper deals with stability of a certain class of fractional order linear and nonlinear systems. The stability is investigated in the time domain and the frequency domain. The general stability conditions and several illustrative…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-04-08 Ivo Petras

This is a brief review of the present status, of some recent developments and of the open challenges in string/M theory.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Bachas

We consider entailment problems involving powerful constraint languages such as guarded existential rules, in which additional semantic restrictions are put on a set of distinguished relations. We consider restricting a relation to be…

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In this talk I will introduce the principle of stochastic stability and discussing its consequences both at equilibrium and off-equilibrium.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Giorgio Parisi

A method is suggested for treating those complicated physical problems for which exact solutions are not known but a few approximation terms of a calculational algorithm can be derived. The method permits one to answer the following rather…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

This white paper collects some open questions in several different aspects of axion theories. The questions are related to quantization of axion couplings, axion-magnetic monopole systems, axions in quantum gravity theory, axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-16 Prateek Agrawal , Kim V. Berghaus , JiJi Fan , Anson Hook , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Tom Rudelius

This review aims to provide a comprehensive update on the progress made on the Sequential Testing problem (STP) in the last 20 years after the review, [1] was published. Many studies have provided new theoretical results, extensions of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Tonguç Ünlüyurt

A fluid queuing network constitutes one of the simplest models in which to study flow dynamics over a network. In this model we have a single source-sink pair and each link has a per-time-unit capacity and a transit time. A dynamic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Roberto Cominetti , José Correa , Neil Olver

We present the explicit construction of a stable queue with several servers and impatient customers, under stationary ergodic assumptions. Using a stochastic comparison of the (multivariate) workload sequence with two monotonic stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Pascal Moyal

This paper is a personal overview of the efforts over the last half century to understand fluid turbulence in terms of simpler coherent units. The consequences of chaos and the concept of coherence are first reviewed, using examples from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-18 Javier Jimenez

In this note, we have shown special case on Routh stability criterion, which is not discussed, in previous literature. This idea can be useful in computer science applications.

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-04-28 T. D. Roopamala , S. K. Katti

A list of open problems on global behavior in time of some evolution systems, mainly governed by P.D.E, is given together with some background information explaining the context in which these problems appeared. The common characteristic of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Alain Haraux

Linear systems governed by continuous-time difference equations cover a wide class of linear systems. From the Lyapunov-Krasovskii approach, we investigate stability for such a class of systems. Sufficient conditions, and in some particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-30 S. Damak , M. Di Loreto , W. Lombardi , V Andrieu