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Alternative assets such as mines, power plants, or infrastructure projects are often large, heterogeneous bundles of resources, rights, and outputs whose value is difficult to trade or fractionalize under traditional frameworks. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ailiya Borjigin , Cong He , Charles CC Lee , Wei Zhou

Category theory provides a compact method of encoding mathematical structures in a uniform way, thereby enabling the use of general theorems on, for example, equivalence and universal constructions. In this article we develop the method of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. V. Golubtsov , S. S. Moskaliuk

In this paper, we analyze the Ethereum blockchain using the complex networks modeling framework. Accounts acting on the blockchain are represented as nodes, while the interactions among these accounts, recorded on the blockchain, are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Stefano Ferretti , Gabriele D'Angelo

Stablecoins are one of the most widely capitalized type of cryptocurrency. However, their risks vary significantly according to their design and are often poorly understood. We seek to provide a sound foundation for stablecoin theory, with…

General Economics · Economics 2020-10-30 Ariah Klages-Mundt , Dominik Harz , Lewis Gudgeon , Jun-You Liu , Andreea Minca

Due to their immutable log of information, blockchains can be considered as a transparency-enhancing technology. The immutability, however, also introduces threats and challenges with respect to privacy laws and illegal content. Introducing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Erik Daniel , Florian Tschorsch

Sharding distributed ledgers is a promising on-chain solution for scaling blockchains but lacks formal grounds, nurturing skepticism on whether such complex systems can scale blockchains securely. We fill this gap by introducing the first…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Georgia Avarikioti , Antoine Desjardins , Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias , Roger Wattenhofer

Blockchain is a decentralized ledger used to securely exchange digital currency, perform deals and transactions efficient manner, each user of the network has access to the least copy of the encrypted ledger so that they can validate a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bosubabu Sambana

We develop a compositional framework for generalized reversible computing using copy-discard categories and resource theories. We introduce partitioned matrices between partitioned sets as subdistribution matrices which preserve the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Clémence Chanavat , Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

Various start-up developers and academic researchers have investigated the usage of blockchain as a data storage medium due to the advantages offered by its tamper-proof and decentralized nature. However, there have not been many attempts…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Mustafa Bal , Caitlin Ner

A categorical principal bundle is a structure comprised of categories that is analogous to a classical principal bundle; examples arise from geometric contexts involving bundles over path spaces. We show how a categorical principal bundle…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Saikat Chatterjee , Amitabha Lahiri , Ambar N. Sengupta

Identifying the structural dependence between the cryptocurrencies and predicting market trend are fundamental for effective portfolio management in cryptocurrency trading. In this paper, we present a unified Bayesian framework based on…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-08-03 Anoop C , Neeraj Negi , Anup Aprem

Many clustering schemes are defined by optimizing an objective function defined on the partitions of the underlying set of a finite metric space. In this paper, we construct a framework for studying what happens when we instead impose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-12-01 Gunnar Carlsson , Facundo Memoli

The advent of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies enable IoT and smart city application developers to conceive new types of applications and solutions for identity management, trust, and data monetization. However, architecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Gowri Sankar Ramachandran , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Permisionless decentralized ledgers ("blockchains") such as the one underlying the cryptocurrency Bitcoin allow anonymous participants to maintain the ledger, while avoiding control or "censorship" by any single entity. In contrast,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Maurice Herlihy , Mark Moir

This paper introduces a novel architecture for a distributed ledger, commonly referred to as a "blockchain", which is organized in the form of directed acyclic graph (DAG) with UTXO transactions as vertices, rather than as a chain of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Evaldas Drasutis

Blockchain technology has experienced substantial growth in recent years, yet the diversity of blockchain applications has been limited. Blockchain provides many desirable features for applications, including being append-only, immutable,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Collin Connors , Dilip Sarkar

In [1] we introduced the concept of structured space, which is a topological space that locally resembles some algebraic structures. In [2] we proceeded the study of these spaces, developing two cohomology theories. The aim of this paper is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Manuel Norman

In recent years, cryptocurrencies have enjoyed increased popularity in all domains. Thus, in this context, it is important to understand how these digital assets can be transmitted, both legally and efficiently, in the event of the death of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Cristina Carata , Ana-Luisa Chelaru

This paper argues that mathematical objects are constructions and that constructions introduce a flexibility in the ways that mathematical objects are represented (as sets of binary sequences for example) and presented (in a particular…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Andrew Powell

The intention of this article is to make an attempt of classification of transitive Lie algebroids and on this basis to construct a classifying space. The realization of the intention allows to describe characteristic classes of transitive…

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