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Quantum criticality in the presence of strong quenched randomness remains a challenging topic in modern condensed matter theory. We show that the topology and anomaly associated with average symmetry can be used to predict certain…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-04 Yasamin Panahi , Subhayan Sahu , Naren Manjunath , Chong Wang

Let $\mbox{Len}(K)$ be the minimum length of a knot on the cubic lattice (namely the minimum length necessary to construct the knot in the cubic lattice). This paper provides upper bounds for $\mbox{Len}(K)$ of a nontrivial knot $K$ in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-10 Kyungpyo Hong , Hyoungjun Kim , Sungjong No , Seungsang Oh

Symmetries are ubiquitous in network systems and have profound impacts on the observable dynamics. At the most fundamental level, many synchronization patterns are induced by underlying network symmetry, and a high degree of symmetry is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-18 Joseph D. Hart , Yuanzhao Zhang , Rajarshi Roy , Adilson E. Motter

An account of the transversality conditions of variational problems gives rise to essential results in the analysis of different physical phenomena. This powerful and elegant approach has proven to be fruitful in a diversity of variational…

Link failures repeatedly induce large-scale outages in power grids and other supply networks. Yet, it is still not well understood, which links are particularly prone to inducing such outages. Here we analyze how the nature and location of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-06 Dirk Witthaut , Martin Rohden , Xiaozhu Zhang , Sarah Hallerberg , Marc Timme

In this paper, we show the equivalency of weak and strong secrecy conditions for a large class of secure network coding problems. When we restrict to linear operations, we show the equivalency of "perfect secrecy and zero-error constraints"…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian , Amin Gohari , Mohammad Reza Aref

We examine synchronization between identical chaotic systems. A rigorous criteria is presented which, if satisfied, guarantees that the coupling produces linearly stable synchronous motion. The criteria can also be used to design couplings…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Reggie Brown , Nikolai F. Rulkov

It is a famous result of Lovasz and Yemini (1982) that 6-connected graphs are rigid in the plane. This was recently improved by Jackson and Jordan (2009) who showed that 6-mixed connectivity is also sufficient for rigidity. Here we give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Viktoria E. Kaszanitzky , Bernd Schulze

The main open problem in geometric knot theory is to provide a tabulation of knots based on an energy criterion, with the goal of presenting this tabulation in terms of global energy minimisers within isotopy classes, often referred to as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-06 José Ayala

Symmetry plays a crucial role in understanding the properties of mathematical structures and optimization problems. Recent work has explored this phenomenon in the context of neural networks, where the loss function is invariant under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Irmi Schneider

The study of knots and links from a probabilistic viewpoint provides insight into the behavior of "typical" knots, and opens avenues for new constructions of knots and other topological objects with interesting properties. The knotting of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Chaim Even-Zohar

In this paper, we investigate three geometrical invariants of knots, the height, the trunk and the representativity. First, we give a conterexample for the conjecture which states that the height is additive under connected sum of knots. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Ryan Blair , Makoto Ozawa

We investigate qualitative properties of positive singular solutions of some elliptic systems in bounded and unbounded domains. We deduce symmetry and monotonicity properties via the moving plane procedure. Moreover, in the unbounded case,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Francesco Esposito

Motivated by the study of ribbon knots we explore symmetric unions, a beautiful construction introduced by Kinoshita and Terasaka 50 years ago. It is easy to see that every symmetric union represents a ribbon knot, but the converse is still…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-09-19 Michael Eisermann , Christoph Lamm

Measure the similarity of the nodes in the complex networks have interested many researchers to explore it. In this paper, a new method which is based on the degree centrality and the Relative-entropy is proposed to measure the similarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

The paper provides bounds for the ropelength of a link in terms of the crossing numbers of its split components. As in earlier papers, the bounds grow with the square of the crossing number; however, the constant involved is a substantial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jason Cantarella , X. W. Faber , Chad A. Mullikin

Synchronization is of central importance in power distribution, telecommunication, neuronal, and biological networks. Many networks are observed to produce patterns of synchronized clusters, but it has been difficult to predict these…

In this note, we prove a lower bound for the positive kinkiness of a closed braid which we then use to derive an estimate for the positive kinkiness of a link in terms of its Seifert system. As an application, we show that certain pretzel…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christian Bohr

In this note we show that ribbon concordance forms a partial ordering on the set of knots, answering a question of Gordon. The proof makes use of representation varieties of the knot groups to $SO(N)$ and relations between them induced by a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Ian Agol

To a special type of grope embedded in 4-space, that we call an admissible grope, we associate a length function for each real number q at least 1. This gives rise to a family of pseudo-metrics d^q, refining the slice genus metric, on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Tim D. Cochran , Shelly Harvey , Mark Powell