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Given a combinatorial triangulation of an $n$-gon, we study (a) the space of all possible drawings in the plane such the edges are straight line segments and the boundary has a fixed shape, and (b) the algebraic variety of possibilities for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Aaron Abrams , James Pommersheim

We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a (tight) geodesic between two curves in the curve graph. As well as enabling us to compute the distance between a pair of curves, this has several applications to mapping classes. For…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

Modeling of microlensing events poses computational challenges for the resolution of the lens equation and the high dimensionality of the parameter space. In particular, numerical noise represents a severe limitation to fast and efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 V. Bozza , V. Saggese , G. Covone , P. Rota , J. Zhang

We present a polynomial time algorithm to approximately scale tensors of any format to arbitrary prescribed marginals (whenever possible). This unifies and generalizes a sequence of past works on matrix, operator and tensor scaling. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Peter Bürgisser , Cole Franks , Ankit Garg , Rafael Oliveira , Michael Walter , Avi Wigderson

This note is an elaboration of the ideas and intuitions of Grothendieck and Weil concerning the "arithmetic topology". Given 3-dimensional manifold M fibering over the circle we introduce an real quadratic number field K with discriminant…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-01-21 Igor Nikolaev

Littlewood-Richardson, Kronecker and plethysm coefficients are fundamental multiplicities of interest in Representation Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics. Determining a combinatorial interpretation for the Kronecker and plethysm…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Greta Panova

Let K be an algebraic number field of degree d and discriminant D over Q. Let A be an associative algebra over K given by structure constants such that A is isomorphic to the algebra M_n(K) of n by n matrices over K for some positive…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Gábor Ivanyos , Lajos Rónyai , Josef Schicho

Given a k-uniform hypergraph on n vertices, partitioned in k equal parts such that every hyperedge includes one vertex from each part, the k-dimensional matching problem asks whether there is a disjoint collection of the hyperedges which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Andreas Björklund

We devise an algorithm which allows one to count the number of Killing vectors for a Lorentzian manifold of dimension 3. Our algorithm relies on the principal traces of powers of the Ricci tensor and branches intricately according to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Masato Nozawa , Kentaro Tomoda

The Matrix Torsion Problem (MTP) is: given a square matrix M with rational entries, decide whether two distinct powers of M are equal. It has been shown by Cassaigne and the author that the MTP reduces to the Matrix Power Problem (MPP) in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Francois Nicolas

Allcock-Carlson-Toledo defined a period map for cubic threefolds which takes values in a ball quotient of dimension 10. A theorem of Voisin implies that this is an open embedding. We determine its image and show that on the algebraic level…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eduard Looijenga , Rogier Swierstra

We give a polynomial-time dynamic programming algorithm for solving the linear complementarity problem with tridiagonal or, more generally, Hessenberg P-matrices. We briefly review three known tractable matrix classes and show that none of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Bernd Gärtner , Markus Sprecher

We investigate the correspondence between the time and space recognition complexity of languages. For this purpose, we will code the long-continued computations of deterministic two-tape Turing machines by the relatively short-length…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ivan V. Latkin

We devise a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the classical geometric problem of finding an approximate short path amid weighted regions. In this problem, a triangulated region P comprising of n vertices, a positive weight associated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-08 R Inkulu , Sanjiv Kapoor

More analysis of operator determinants on homogeneous three dimensional lens spaces is presented with the emphasis on numerics so that Laplacians for massive fields can be dealt with. Polyhedral quotients are also briefly considered.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. S. Dowker

This paper uses mathematics to analyze the challenges of geometrically noisy environments on triangulation. Given widely accepted algorithmic triangulation methods, such as O (n ln n) or a simpler O (n^3) method, we can mathematically prove…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Noah M. Kenney

We introduce an algorithm to decompose orthogonal matrix representations of the symmetric group over the reals into irreducible representations, which as a by-product also computes the multiplicities of the irreducible representations. The…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Sheehan Olver

It's important to design polynomial time algorithms to test if two graphs are isomorphic at least for some special classes of graphs. An approach to this was presented by Eugene M. Luks(1981) in the work \textit{Isomorphism of Graphs of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Adria Alcala Mena

A function $f\colon\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$ is called \emph{$k$-monotone} if it is $(k-2)$-times differentiable and its $(k-2)$nd derivative is convex. A point set $P\subset\mathbb R^2$ is \emph{$k$-monotone interpolable} if it lies on a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Josef Cibulka , Jiří Matoušek , Pavel Paták

We present an algorithm for sampling tightly confined random equilateral closed polygons in three-space which has runtime linear in the number of edges. Using symplectic geometry, sampling such polygons reduces to sampling a moment…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Clayton Shonkwiler , Kandin Theis