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Condorcet's paradox is a fundamental result in social choice theory which states that there exist elections in which, no matter which candidate wins, a majority of voters prefer a different candidate. In fact, even if we can select any $k$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Moses Charikar , Prasanna Ramakrishnan , Kangning Wang

Let $G = (A \cup B, E)$ be an instance of the stable marriage problem with strict preference lists. A matching $M$ is popular in $G$ if $M$ does not lose a head-to-head election against any matching where vertices are voters. Every stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Agnes Cseh , Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha , Vladlena Powers

The principle of linearized stability and instability is established for a classical model describing the spatial movement of an age-structured population with nonlinear vital rates. It is shown that the real parts of the eigenvalues of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Christoph Walker

We exhibit a linear threshold function in 5 variables with strictly smaller noise stability (for small values of the correlation parameter) than the majority function on 5 variables, thereby providing a counterexample to the "Majority is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Vishesh Jain

Convex combinations of i.i.d. random variables without a finite mean can behave in a strikingly different way from the finite-mean case: as the weight vector becomes more balanced, the resulting combination may become stochastically larger,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Tommaso Lando , Paulo Eduardo Oliveira

We prove quantitative versions for several results from geometric partial differential equations. Firstly, we obtain a double stability theorem for Serrin's overdetermined problem in spaceforms. Secondly, we prove stability theorems for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Julian Scheuer , Chao Xia

The theory of optimal choice sets offers a well-established solution framework in social choice and game theory. In social choice theory, decision-making is typically modeled as a maximization problem. However, when preferences are cyclic…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-14 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Nikolaos Sampanis

The algebraic stability theorem for $\mathbb{R}$-persistence modules is a fundamental result in topological data analysis. We present a stability theorem for $n$-dimensional rectangle decomposable persistence modules up to a constant…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik

This paper derives two stabilizability theorems for a basic class of discrete-time nonlinear systems with multiple unknown parameters. First, we claim that a discrete-time multi-parameter system is stabilizable if its nonlinear growth rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Zhaobo Liu , Chanying Li

Stability selection (Meinshausen and Buhlmann, 2010) makes any feature selection method more stable by returning only those features that are consistently selected across many subsamples. We prove (in what is, to our knowledge, the first…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-04 Gregory Faletto , Jacob Bien

We conjecture that Borda count is the ranked choice voting method that best preserves the outcome of an election with randomly corrupted votes, among all fair voting methods with small influences satisfying the Condorcet Loser Criterion.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Steven Heilman

We develop a method to prove almost global stability of stochastic differential equations in the sense that almost every initial point (with respect to the Lebesgue measure) is asymptotically attracted to the origin with unit probability.…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ramon van Handel

We introduce a stability criterion for quantum statistical ensembles describing macroscopic systems. An ensemble is called "stable" when a small number of local measurements cannot significantly modify the probability distribution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Walter Hahn , Boris V. Fine

We introduce and study the notion of conic stability of multivariate complex polynomials in $\mathbb{C}[z_1,\ldots, z_n]$, which naturally generalizes the stability of multivariate polynomials. In particular, we generalize Borcea's and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Thorsten Jörgens , Thorsten Theobald

We propose and analyse a novel, fully discrete numerical algorithm for the approximation of the generalised Stokes system forced by transport noise -- a prototype model for non-Newtonian fluids including turbulence. Utilising the Gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Jerome Droniou , Kim-Ngan Le , Jörn Wichmann

Predicting extreme events is important in many applications in risk analysis. The extreme-value theory suggests modelling extremes by max-stable distributions. The Bayesian approach provides a natural framework for statistical prediction.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Simone A. Padoan , Stefano Rizzelli

We prove an invariance principle for functions on a slice of the Boolean cube, which is the set of all vectors {0,1}^n with Hamming weight k. Our invariance principle shows that a low-degree, low-influence function has similar distributions…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Yuval Filmus , Guy Kindler , Elchanan Mossel , Karl Wimmer

Given the significance of physical measures in understanding the complexity of dynamical systems as well as the noisy nature of real-world systems, investigating the stability of physical measures under noise perturbations is undoubtedly a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Weiwei Qi , Zhongwei Shen , Yingfei Yi

We develop a general framework for extracting highly uniform bounds on local stability for stochastic processes in terms of information on fluctuations or crossings. This includes a large class of martingales: As a corollary of our main…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Morenikeji Neri , Thomas Powell

We define a natural notion of higher order stability and show that subsets of $\mathbb{F}_p^n$ that are tame in this sense can be approximately described by a union of low-complexity quadratic varieties, up to linear error. This generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 C. Terry , J. Wolf