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We use valid inequalities (cuts) of the binary integer program for winner determination in a combinatorial auction (CA) as "artificial items" that can be interpreted intuitively and priced to generate Artificial Walrasian Equilibria. We…

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We analyse global export data within the Economic Complexity framework. We couple the new economic dimension Complexity, which captures how sophisticated products are, with an index called logPRODY, a measure of the income of the respective…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-05-26 Orazio Angelini , Matthieu Cristelli , Andrea Zaccaria , Luciano Pietronero

We introduce tropical analogues of the notion of volume of polytopes, leading to a tropical version of the (discrete) classical isoperimetric inequality. The planar case is elementary, but a higher-dimensional generalization leads to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Jules Depersin , Stéphane Gaubert , Michael Joswig

Consider a financial market in which an agent trades with utility-induced restrictions on wealth. By introducing a general convex-analytic framework which includes the class of umbrella wedges in certain Riesz spaces and faces of convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Frank Oertel , Mark P. Owen

We study the classic single-item auction setting of Myerson, but under the assumption that the buyers' values for the item are distributed over finite supports. Using strong LP duality and polyhedral theory, we rederive various key results…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Johannes Hahn

We consider a multidimensional extremal problem formulated in terms of tropical mathematics. The problem is to minimize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined on a finite-dimensional semimodule over an idempotent semifield,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Nikolai Krivulin

Price promotion optimization is a computationally challenging problem central to supermarket operations, requiring simultaneous pricing decisions across multiple products and periods. This paper introduces a novel formulation for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Taotao He , Mohit Tawarmalani

In this paper we develop a combinatorial abstraction of tropical linear programming. This generalizes the search for a feasible point of a system of min-plus-inequalities. It is based on the polyhedral properties of triangulations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Georg Loho

This paper investigates the independence polynomials arising from iterated strong products of cycle graphs, examining their algebraic symmetries and combinatorial structures. Leveraging modular arithmetic and Galois theory, we establish…

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We provide a unified treatment of several commuting tensor products considered in the literature, including the tensor product of enriched categories and the Boardman-Vogt tensor product of operads and symmetric multicategories, subsuming…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Nicola Gambino , Richard Garner , Christina Vasilakopoulou

In this paper, we define and prove basic properties of complement polyhedral product spaces, dual complexes and polyhedral join complexes. Then we compute the universal algebra of polyhedral join complexes under certain split conditions and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Qibing Zheng

Budget constraints are ubiquitous in online advertisement auctions. To manage these constraints and smooth out the expenditure across auctions, the bidders (or the platform on behalf of them) often employ pacing: each bidder is assigned a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xi Chen , Christian Kroer , Rachitesh Kumar

We consider a revenue-maximizing seller with $m$ heterogeneous items and a single buyer whose valuation $v$ for the items may exhibit both substitutes (i.e., for some $S, T$, $v(S \cup T) < v(S) + v(T)$) and complements (i.e., for some $S,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Alon Eden , Michal Feldman , Ophir Friedler , Inbal Talgam-Cohen , S. Matthew Weinberg

Linear spaces with an Euclidean metric are ubiquitous in mathematics, arising both from quadratic forms and inner products. Operators on such spaces also occur naturally. In recent years, the study of multivariate operator theory has made…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Gadadhar Misra

The European power grid can be divided into several market areas where the price of electricity is determined in a day-ahead auction. Market participants can provide continuous hourly bid curves and combinatorial bids with associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Alexander Martin , Johannes C. Müller , Sebastian Pokutta

The tropical vertex is an incarnation of mirror symmetry found by Gross, Pandharipande and Siebert. It can be applied to m-Kronecker quivers K(m) (together with a result of Reineke) to compute the Euler characteristics of the moduli spaces…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-29 Jacopo Stoppa

We equip the tensor algebra of a vector space $U$ over the real or complex field with an alternative product. The new product has the property that if we specialize it to the symmetric tensor algebra becomes the circle product introduced by…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-03-16 V. Anagnostopoulos , Y. Sarantopoulos

We present a possible kind of generalization of the notion of ordered pairs of cyclic maps and coupled fixed points and its application in modelling of equilibrium in oligopoly markets. We have obtained sufficient conditions for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Yulia Dzhabarova , Stanimir Kabaivanov , Margarita Ruseva , Boyan Zlatanov

We study the intersection of an algebraic variety with the maximal compact subgroup of a universal vectorial extension of a product of elliptic curves. For this intersection we show a Manin-Mumford type statement. This answers some…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Gareth Jones , Harry Schmidt

This paper introduces a new structure of commutative semiring, generalizing the tropical semiring, and having an arithmetic that modifies the standard tropical operations, i.e. summation and maximum. Although our framework is combinatorial,…

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