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We study a cut-off function lemma in projective spaces. We believe that this is well-known. We provide the details of the computation for later uses.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-05-24 Taeyong Ahn

We investigate a quadratic dynamical system known as nonlinear recombinations. This system models the evolution of a probability measure over the Boolean cube, converging to the stationary state obtained as the product of the initial…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Pietro Caputo , Cyril Labbé , Hubert Lacoin

In an earlier paper the authors proved that limits of convergent graph sequences can be described by various structures, including certain 2-variable real functions called graphons, random graph models satisfying certain consistency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-10 László Lovász , Balázs Szegedy

We examine the mixing time for random walks on graphs. In particular we are interested on investigating graphs with bottlenecks. Furthermore, the cutoff phenomenon is examined.

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Ioannis Papageorgiou

Cut-elimination is the bedrock of proof theory. It is the algorithm that eliminates cuts from a sequent calculus proof that leads to cut-free calculi and applications. Cut-elimination applies to many logics irrespective of their semantics.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Agata Ciabattoni , Timo Lang , Revantha Ramanayake

The weighted-Hamming metric generalizes the Hamming metric by assigning different weights to blocks of coordinates. It is well-suited for applications such as coding over independent parallel channels, each of which has a different level of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sebastian Bitzer , Alberto Ravagnani , Violetta Weger

We introduce a general class of algorithms and supply a number of general results useful for analysing these algorithms when applied to regular graphs of large girth. As a result, we can transfer a number of results proved for random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Carlos Hoppen , Nicholas Wormald

Following our earlier work, we construct statistical discrete geometry by applying statistical mechanics to discrete (Regge) gravity. We propose a coarse-graining method for discrete geometry under the assumptions of atomism and background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-01 Seramika Ariwahjoedi , Valerio Astuti , Jusak Sali Kosasih , Carlo Rovelli , Freddy Permana Zen

We develop a theory to measure the variance and covariance of probability distributions defined on the nodes of a graph, which takes into account the distance between nodes. Our approach generalizes the usual (co)variance to the setting of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-19 Karel Devriendt , Samuel Martin-Gutierrez , Renaud Lambiotte

We improve on random sampling techniques for approximately solving problems that involve cuts and flows in graphs. We give a near-linear-time construction that transforms any graph on n vertices into an O(n\log n)-edge graph on the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andras Benczur , David R. Karger

This paper presents a new probabilistic generative model for image segmentation, i.e. the task of partitioning an image into homogeneous regions. Our model is grounded on a mid-level image representation, called a region tree, in which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Shell X. Hu , Christopher K. I. Williams , Sinisa Todorovic

The sequence of $\alpha$-trimmings of empirical probabilities is shown to converge, in the Painlev\'{e}--Kuratowski sense, on the class of probability measures endowed with the weak topology, to the $\alpha$-trimming of the population…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Ignacio Cascos , Miguel López-Díaz

We define the (random) $k$-cut number of a rooted graph to model the difficulty of the destruction of a resilient network. The process is as the cut model of Meir and Moon except now a node must be cut $k$ times before it is destroyed. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Xing Shi Cai , Luc Devroye , Cecilia Holmgren , Fiona Skerman

A matching cut is a partition of the vertex set of a graph into two sets $A$ and $B$ such that each vertex has at most one neighbor in the other side of the cut. The MATCHING CUT problem asks whether a graph has a matching cut, and has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Ignasi Sau

We highlight a topological aspect of the graph limit theory. Graphons are limit objects for convergent sequences of dense graphs. We introduce the representation of a graphon on a unique metric space and we relate the dimension of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-24 László Lovász , Balázs Szegedy

We present a new notion of limits of weighted directed graphs of growing size based on convergence of their random quotients. These limits are specified in terms of random exchangeable measures on the unit square. We call our limits…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Eitan Levin , Venkat Chandrasekaran

We study the directed maximum common edge subgraph problem (DMCES) for the class of directed graphs that are finite, weakly connected, oriented, and simple. We use DMCES to define a metric on partially ordered sets that can be represented…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Robert Nerem , Peter Crawford-Kahrl , Bree Cummins , Tomas Gedeon

Random Projections have been widely used to generate embeddings for various graph learning tasks due to their computational efficiency. The majority of applications have been justified through the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tvrtko Tadić , Cassiano Becker , Jennifer Neville

Many physical systems -- such as optical waveguide lattices and dense neuronal or vascular networks -- can be modeled by metric graphs, where slender "wires" (edges) support wave or diffusion equations subject to Kirchhoff conditions at the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Sidney Holden , Geoffrey Vasil

We investigate the geometrical structure of probabilistic generative dimensionality reduction models using the tools of Riemannian geometry. We explicitly define a distribution over the natural metric given by the models. We provide the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-01 Alessandra Tosi , Søren Hauberg , Alfredo Vellido , Neil D. Lawrence