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We explore the low levels of the structure of the continuous Weihrauch degrees of first-order problems. In particular, we show that there exists a minimal discontinuous first-order degree, namely that of $\accn$, without any determinacy…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Arno Pauly , Giovanni Soldà

We systematically study the completion of choice problems in the Weihrauch lattice. Choice problems play a pivotal role in Weihrauch complexity. For one, they can be used as landmarks that characterize important equivalences classes in the…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Vasco Brattka , Guido Gherardi

We study the equational theory of the Weihrauch lattice with composition and iterations, meaning the collection of equations between terms built from variables, the lattice operations $\sqcup$, $\sqcap$, the composition operator $\star$ and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Cécilia Pradic

The Weihrauch degrees are a tool to gauge the computational difficulty of mathematical problems. Often, what makes these problems hard is their discontinuity. We look at discontinuity in its purest form, that is, at otherwise constant…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Rupert Hölzl , Keng Meng Ng

We study the computational content of the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem in the Weihrauch lattice. Connected choice is the operation that finds a point in a non-empty connected closed set given by negative information. One of our main results…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Vasco Brattka , Stéphane Le Roux , Joseph S. Miller , Arno Pauly

We demonstrate that techniques of Weihrauch complexity can be used to get easy and elegant proofs of known and new results on initial value problems. Our main result is that solving continuous initial value problems is Weihrauch equivalent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Vasco Brattka , Hendrik Smischliaew

We prove the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the linear differential system of the form $x^{\prime}-A(t)x=f$, where $f$ is a distribution and $A$ possesses at most first-kind discontinuities together with all its derivatives…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-16 Damir Kinzebulatov

We obtain conditions for the differentiability of weak solutions for a second-order uniformly elliptic equation in divergence form with a homogeneous co-normal boundary condition. The modulus of continuity for the coefficients is assumed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Robert McOwen , Vladimir Maz'ya

We study the conditions under which the iterated elimination of strictly dominated strategies is order independent and we identify a class of discontinuous games for which order does not matter. In this way, we answer the open problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-29 Monica Patriche

We consider the stability of Robust Optimization problems with respect to perturbations in their uncertainty sets. We focus on Linear Optimization problems, including those with a possibly infinite number of constraints, also known as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Timothy C. Y. Chan , Philip Allen Mar

The intractability of any problem and the randomness of its solutions have an obvious intuitive connection. However, the challenge till now has been that there is no practical way to firmly establish if the solution to a problem is actually…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Arun U

This paper considers discontinuous dynamical systems, i.e., systems whose associated vector field is a discontinuous function of the state. Discontinuous dynamical systems arise in a large number of applications, including optimal control,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Jorge Cortes

We study necessary and sufficient conditions for contraction and incremental stability of dynamical systems with respect to non-Euclidean norms. First, we introduce weak pairings as a framework to study contractivity with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Alexander Davydov , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

We present necessary and sufficient conditions for solving the strongly dependent decision (SDD) problem in various distributed systems. Our main contribution is a novel characterization of the SDD problem based on point-set topology. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Martin Biely , Peter Robinson

We introduce the notions of weakly *-concave and weakly naturally quasi-concave correspondence and prove fixed point theorems and continuous selection theorems for these kind of correspondences. As applications in the game theory, by using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-29 Monica Patriche

We analyze a zero-sum stochastic differential game between two competing players who can choose unbounded controls. The payoffs of the game are defined through backward stochastic differential equations. We prove that each player's priority…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-14 Erhan Bayraktar , Song Yao

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{2}$ be a bounded, Lipschitz domain. We consider bounded, weak solutions ($u\in W^{1, 2}\cap L^{\infty}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^N)$) of the vector-valued, Euler-Lagrange system: \text{div } \big( A(x, u)Du\big)=g(x,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Nirav Shah

The theory of optimal choice sets is a solution theory that has a long and well-established tradition in social choice and game theories. Some of important general solution concepts of choice problems when the set of best alternatives does…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-03-08 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Nikolaos Sampanis

We explore the Weihrauch degree of the problems ``find a bad sequence in a non-well quasi order'' ($\mathsf{BS}$) and ``find a descending sequence in an ill-founded linear order'' ($\mathsf{DS}$). We prove that $\mathsf{DS}$ is strictly…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Jun Le Goh , Arno Pauly , Manlio Valenti

The rigid relation principle, introduced in this article, asserts that every set admits a rigid binary relation. This follows from the axiom of choice, because well-orders are rigid, but we prove that it is neither equivalent to the axiom…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-06-24 Joel David Hamkins , Justin Palumbo
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