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Recent studies classify the topology of proteins by analysing the distribution of their projections using knotoids. The approximation of this distribution depends on the number of projection directions that are sampled. Here we investigate…

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Lattices of compatibly embedded finite fields are useful in computer algebra systems for managing many extensions of a finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$ at once. They can also be used to represent the algebraic closure $\bar{\mathbb{F}}_p$, and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Luca De Feo , Hugues Randriam , Édouard Rousseau

The lattice formulation provides a way to regularize, define and compute the Path Integral in a Quantum Field Theory. In this paper we review the theoretical foundations and the most basic algorithms required to implement a typical lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 Massimo Di Pierro

In this paper, we discuss the algorithm engineering aspects of an O(n^2)-time algorithm [6] for computing a minimum-area convex polygon that intersects a set of n isothetic line segments.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Xin Wu , Xijie Zeng , Bryan St. Amour , Asish Mukhopadhyay

We propose a novel combinatorial algorithm for efficient generation of Hamiltonian walks and cycles on a cubic lattice, modeling the conformations of lattice toy proteins. Through extensive tests on small lattices (allowing complete…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Rhonald Lua , Alexander L. Borovinskiy , Alexander Yu. Grosberg

In a capacitated directed graph, it is known that the set of all min-cuts forms a distributive lattice [1], [2]. Here, we describe this lattice as a regular predicate whose forbidden elements can be advanced in constant parallel time after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Robert Streit , Vijay K. Garg

A new method to implement an asymmetrical two-dimensional magnetic lattice is proposed. The asymmetrical two-dimensional magnetic lattice can be created by periodically distributing magnetic minima across the surface of magnetic thin film…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Abdelrahman , P. Hannaford M. Vasiliev , K. Alameh

We formulate the blended force-based quasicontinuum (BQCF) method for multilattices and develop rigorous error estimates in terms of the approximation parameters: atomistic region, blending region and continuum finite element mesh.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Derek Olson , Xingjie Li , Christoph Ortner , Brian Van Koten

In this paper, we study a classical construction of lattices from number fields and obtain a series of new results about their minimum distance and other characteristics by introducing a new measure of algebraic numbers. In particular, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Arturas Dubickas , Min Sha , Igor E. Shparlinski

We locate gaps in the spectrum of a Hamiltonian on a periodic cuboidal (and generally hyperrectangular) lattice graph with $\delta$ couplings in the vertices. We formulate sufficient conditions under which the number of gaps is finite. As…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Ondřej Turek

We describe a generalised method for ellipsoid fitting against a minimum set of data points. The proposed method is numerically stable and applies to a wide range of ellipsoidal shapes, including highly elongated and arbitrarily oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Amit Reza , Anand S. Sengupta

We have developed a parallel algorithm that allows us to enumerate the number of self-avoiding polygons on the square lattice to perimeter length 110. We have also extended the series for the first 10 area-weighted moments and the radius of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Iwan Jensen

We present new computations of approximately length-minimizing polygons with fixed thickness. These curves model the centerlines of "tight" knotted tubes with minimal length and fixed circular cross-section. Our curves approximately…

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Topological quantum error correction codes have high thresholds and are well suited to physical implementation. The minimum weight perfect matching algorithm can be used to efficiently handle errors in such codes. We perform a timing…

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We describe algorithms which address two classical problems in lattice geometry: the lattice covering and the simultaneous lattice packing-covering problem. Theoretically our algorithms solve the two problems in any fixed dimension d in the…

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A unified treatment of slip and twinning in Bravais lattices is given, focussing on the case of cubic symmetry, and using the Ericksen energy well formulation, so that interfaces correspond to rank-one connections between the infinitely…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-21 John M. Ball

We consider pairwise interaction energies and we investigate their minimizers among lattices with prescribed minimal vectors (length and coordination number), i.e. the one corresponding to the crystal's bonds. In particular, we show the…

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We study a popular algorithm for fitting polynomial curves to scattered data based on the least squares with gradient weights. We show that sometimes this algorithm admits a substantial reduction of complexity, and, furthermore, find…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-12 N. Chernov , C. Lesort , N. Simanyi

The goal of this short note is to prove that every b-spline curve or surface (generated by uniform knots, without multiplicity) may be defined as minimum of positive quadratic operator.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Svetoslav I. Nenov

We study a variant of the geometric multicut problem, where we are given a set $\mathcal{P}$ of colored and pairwise interior-disjoint polygons in the plane. The objective is to compute a set of simple closed polygon boundaries (fences)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Sujoy Bhore , Fabian Klute , Maarten Löffler , Martin Nöllenburg , Soeren Terziadis , Anaïs Villedieu