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Recently we discovered (cond-mat/0212043) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them,and also…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Simkin , V. P. Roychowdhury

We present a case study in {\it experimental} yet {\it rigorous} mathematics by describing an algorithm, fully implemented in both Mathematica and Maple, that {\it automatically conjectures}, and then {\it automatically proves}, closed-form…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Andrew V. Sills , Doron Zeilberger

A broad set of empirical phenomenon in the study of social, economic and machine behaviour can be modelled as complex systems with averaging dynamics. However many of these models naturally result in consensus or consensus-like outcomes. In…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Orowa Sikder

We report the emergence of a striking new phenomenon in arithmetic, which we call murmurations. First observed experimentally through averages over large arithmetic datasets, murmurations can be detected and analyzed using standard…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Yang-Hui He , Kyu-Hwan Lee , Thomas Oliver , Alexey Pozdnyakov

We provide a method, based on automata theory, to mechanically prove the correctness of many numeration systems based on Fibonacci numbers. With it, long case-based and induction-based proofs of correctness can be replaced by simply…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Jeffrey Shallit , Sonja Linghui Shan

This paper shows that the common method used for making predictions under uncertainty in A1 and science is in error. This method is to use currently available data to select the best model from a given class of models-this process is called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Matthew Self , Peter Cheeseman

There are several extensions of the classical Banach Fixed Point Theorem in technical literature. A branch of generalizations replaces usual contractivity by weaker but still effective assumptions. Our note follows this stream, presenting…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Mihály Bessenyei

We present in this paper a new method to deal with automatic sequences. This method allows us to prove a M\"obius-randomness-principle for automatic sequences from which we deduce the Sarnak conjecture for this class of sequences.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Clemens Müllner

The Union Closed Sets Conjecture states that in every finite, nontrivial set family closed under taking unions there is an element contained in at least half of all the sets of the family. We investigate two new directions with respect to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Nicolas Nagel

An algorithm that outputs predictions about the state of the world will almost always be designed with the implicit or explicit goal of outputting accurate predictions (i.e., predictions that are likely to be true). In addition, the rise of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 David Kinney

The aim of the paper is to establish a convergence theorem for multi-dimensional stochastic approximation when the "innovations" satisfy some "light" averaging properties in the presence of a pathwise Lyapunov function. These averaging…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Sophie Laruelle , Gilles Pagès

A simple proof of Atanassov's Conjecture is presented. Atanassov's Conjecture is a generalization of Sperner's Lemma, a lemma which has been used to prove Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem, among other fixed point theorems. The proof of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Yitzchak Shmalo

The generally accepted wisdom in computational circles is that pure proof verification is a solved problem and that the computationally hard elements and fertile areas of study lie in proof discovery. This wisdom presumably does hold for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu , Selmer Bringsjord

The current state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence is impressive, especially in terms of mastery of language, but not so much in terms of mathematical reasoning. What could be missing? Can we learn something useful about that gap from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yoshua Bengio , Nikolay Malkin

Convoulutional Neural Networks (CNNs) exhibit extraordinary performance on a variety of machine learning tasks. However, their mathematical properties and behavior are quite poorly understood. There is some work, in the form of a framework,…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2016-10-30 Jayanth Koushik

The term Gibbons conjecture is widely used in connection with symmetry results for the Allen-Cahn equation. However, its origin is less transparent than its frequent citation suggests. In this note, we revisit its emergence, tracing it to a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Renan J. S. Isneri

We present the proofs of the conjectures mentioned in the paper published in the proceedings of the 2024 AAAI conference [1], and discovered by the decomposition methods presented in the same paper.

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jovial Cheukam-Ngouonou , Ramiz Gindullin , Nicolas Beldiceanu , Rémi Douence , Claude-Guy Quimper

This is a survey article on selected topics in approximation theory. The topics either use techniques from the theory of several complex variables or arise in the study of the subject. The survey is aimed at readers having an acquaintance…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Norman Levenberg

Mathematicians tend to use the phrase "arbitrarily close" to mean something along the lines of "every neighborhood of a point intersects a set". Taking the latter statement as a technical definition for arbitrarily close leads to an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-08-11 John A. Rock

This is a summary of the proof of BAB conjecture. All material are taken from the two BAB paper in the reference. The aim of this summary is to help reader to understand the more technical side of the proof of BAB.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Yanning Xu