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This paper considers the notion of herdability, a set-based reachability condition, which asks whether the state of a system can be controlled to be element-wise larger than a non-negative threshold. The basic theory of herdable systems is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Sebastian F. Ruf , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

Erling Folner proved that the amenability or nonamenability of a countable group depends on the complexity of its finite subsets. Complexity has three measures: maximum Folner ratio, optimal cooling function, and minimum cooling norm. Our…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-04 J. W. Cannon , W. J. Floyd , W. R. Parry

In the past few decades, much has been done regarding the descriptive set theory of separable Banach spaces. However, the descriptive properties of separable Fr\'echet spaces have not yet been investigated. In these notes, we look at this…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Bruno de Mendonça Braga , Willian Hans Goes Corrêa , Valentin Ferenczi

In recent years, much work in descriptive set theory has been focused on the Borel complexity of naturally occurring classification problems, in particular, the study of countable Borel equivalence relations and their structure under the…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Jay Williams

We formalize constraint-based structure learning of the "true" causal graph from observed data when unobserved variables are also existent. We provide conditions for a "natural" family of constraint-based structure-learning algorithms that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Kayvan Sadeghi , Terry Soo

Recent developments in the formalisation of quantum causal structures have made it possible to test and compare hypotheses about causal structure empirically, rather than being a-priori assumptions. Such differences in causal structure may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Declan Maguire , Fabio Costa

We characterize when the elementary diagram of a mutually algebraic structure has a model complete theory, and give an explicit description of a set of existential formulas to which every formula is equivalent. This characterization yields…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Michael C. Laskowski

In this work, we propose an ensemble of classification trees (CT) and artificial neural networks (ANN). Several statistical properties including universal consistency and upper bound of an important parameter of the proposed classifier are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Tanujit Chakraborty , Ashis Kumar Chakraborty , C. A. Murthy

We introduce a family of discrete context-specific models, which we call decomposable. We construct this family from the subclass of staged tree models known as CStree models. We give an algebraic and combinatorial characterization of all…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Yulia Alexandr , Eliana Duarte , Julian Vill

We define and study expansion problems on countable structures in the setting of descriptive combinatorics. We consider both expansions on countable Borel equivalence relations and on countable groups, in the Borel, measure and category…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Michael Wolman

We analyze the dichotomy amenable/paradoxical in the context of (discrete, countable, unital) semigroups and corresponding semigroup rings. We consider also F{\o}lner's type characterizations of amenability and give an example of a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Pere Ara , Fernando Lledó , Diego Martínez

We consider actions of completely metrisable groups on simplicial trees in the context of the Bass--Serre theory. Our main result characterises continuity of the amplitude function corresponding to a given action. Under fairly mild…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-01 Christian Rosendal

We give a descriptive construction of trees for multi-ended graphs, which yields yet another proof of Stallings' theorem on ends of groups. Even though our proof is, in principle, not very different from already existing proofs and it draws…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Anush Tserunyan

We show that the universal minimimal proximal flow and the universal minimal strongly proximal flow of a discrete group can be realized as the Stone spaces of translation invariant Boolean algebras of subsets of the group satisfying a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Matthew Kennedy , Sven Raum , Guy Salomon

Asking which sets are fixed-parameter tractable for a given parameterization constitutes much of the current research in parameterized complexity theory. This approach faces some of the core difficulties in complexity theory. By focussing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Jouke Witteveen , Leen Torenvliet

We completely characterize connected Lie groups all of whose countable subgroups are weakly amenable. We also provide a characterization of connected semisimple Lie groups that are weakly amenable. Finally, we show that a connected Lie…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Søren Knudby

This is an expostion of various aspects of amenability and paradoxical decompositions for groups, group actions and metric spaces. First, we review the formalism of pseudogroups, which is well adapted to stating the alternative of Tarski,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein , Rostislav I. Grigorchuk , Pierre de la Harpe

We introduce a reducibility on classes of structures, essentially a uniform enumeration reducibility. This reducibility is inspired by the Friedman-Stanley paper on using Borel reductions to compare classes of countable structures. This…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-03-25 Wesley Calvert , Desmond Cummins , Sara Miller , Julia F. Knight

In this paper, we study a family of finitely generated elementary amenable iet-groups. These groups are generated by finitely many rationals iets and rotations. For them, we state criteria for not virtual nilpotency or solvability, and we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Nancy Guelman , Isabelle Liousse

Since the early Sixties and Seventies it has been known that the regular and context-free languages are characterized by definability in the monadic second-order theory of certain structures. More recently, these descriptive…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 James Rogers