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Any strategy and prior probability together are a coherent conditional probability that can be extended, generally not in a unique way, to a full conditional probability. The corresponding class of extensions is studied and a closed form…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Davide Petturiti , Barbara Vantaggi

Algorithmic recourse aims to provide actionable recommendations to individuals to obtain a more favourable outcome from an automated decision-making system. As it involves reasoning about interventions performed in the physical world,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-23 Julius von Kügelgen , Nikita Agarwal , Jakob Zeitler , Afsaneh Mastouri , Bernhard Schölkopf

In this paper, we give an alternative proof of the fact that, when compounding a nonnegative probability distribution, convex ordering between the distributions of the number of summands implies convex ordering between the resulting…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Jean Bérard , Nicolas Juillet

We study how linear orders can be employed to realise choice functions for which the set of potential choices is restricted, i.e., the possible choice is not possible among the full powerset of all alternatives. In such restricted settings,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Kai Sauerwald , Kenneth Skiba , Eduardo Fermé , Thomas Meyer

Reverse mathematics studies which subsystems of second order arithmetic are equivalent to key theorems of ordinary, non-set-theoretic mathematics. The main philosophical application of reverse mathematics proposed thus far is foundational…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Benedict Eastaugh

We present a so-called universal convergence theorem for inexact primal-dual penalty and augmented Lagrangian methods that can be applied to a large number of such methods and reduces their convergence analysis to verification of some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 M. V. Dolgopolik

We address the problem of complementing higher-order patterns without repetitions of existential variables. Differently from the first-order case, the complement of a pattern cannot, in general, be described by a pattern, or even by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-10-22 Alberto Momigliano , Frank Pfenning

When allocating indivisible objects via lottery, planners often use ordinal mechanisms, which elicit agents' rankings of objects rather than their full preferences over lotteries. In such an ordinal informational environment, planners…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-21 Eun Jeong Heo , Vikram Manjunath , Samson Alva

The Kruskal-Friedman theorem asserts: in any infinite sequence of finite trees with ordinal labels, some tree can be embedded into a later one, by an embedding that respects a certain gap condition. This strengthening of the original…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Anton Freund

Let K be an Abstract Elementary Class. Under the asusmptions that K has a nicely behaved forking-like notion, regular types and existence of some prime models we establish a decomposition theorem for such classes. The decomposition implies…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rami Grossberg , Olivier Lessmann

Various structured argumentation frameworks utilize preferences as part of their standard inference procedure to enable reasoning with preferences. In this paper, we consider an inverse of the standard reasoning problem, seeking to identify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Quratul-ain Mahesar , Nir Oren , Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

Lindstr\"om's Theorem characterizes first order logic as the maximal logic satisfying the Compactness Theorem and the Downward L\"owenheim-Skolem Theorem. If we do not assume that logics are closed under negation, there is an obvious…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Saharon Shelah , Jouko Väänänen

We study an alternative model of infinitary term rewriting. Instead of a metric on terms, a partial order on partial terms is employed to formalise convergence of reductions. We consider both a weak and a strong notion of convergence and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Patrick Bahr

A relation extends another relation consistently if its symmetric, respectively its asymmetric, part contains the corresponding part of the smaller relation. It is shown that there exists no finite circular chain made from two transitive…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Tom Fischer

We formulate a precise conjecture that, if true, extends the converse theorem of Hecke without requiring hypotheses on twists by Dirichlet characters or an Euler product. The main idea is to linearize the Euler product, replacing it by…

As one step in a working program initiated by Pudl\'ak [Pud17] we construct an oracle relative to which $\mathrm{P}\ne\mathrm{NP}$ and all non-empty sets in $\mathrm{NP}\cup\mathrm{coNP}$ have $\mathrm{P}$-optimal proof systems.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Titus Dose

The class of abelian $p$-groups are an example of some very interesting phenomena in computable structure theory. We will give an elementary first-order theory $T_p$ whose models are each bi-interpretable with the disjoint union of an…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Matthew Harrison-Trainor

We call an operator algebra A {\em reversible} if A with reversed multiplication is also an abstract operator algebra (in the modern operator space sense). This class of operator algebras is intimately related to the {\em symmetric operator…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-11-24 David P. Blecher

In this paper, we study the recently defined notion of the inverse along an element. An existence criterion for the inverse along a product is given in a ring. As applications, we present the equivalent conditions for the existence and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Huihui Zhu , Pedro Patricio , Jianlong Chen

We show analogues of the classical Krein-Milman theorem for several ordered algebraic structures, especially in a semilattice (non-linear) framework. In that case, subsemilattices are seen as convex subsets, and for our proofs we use…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-30 Paul Poncet