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The numbers game is a one-player game played on a finite simple graph with certain "amplitudes" assigned to its edges and with an initial assignment of real numbers to its nodes. The moves of the game successively transform the numbers at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-31 Robert G. Donnelly

One way of studying a relational structure is to investigate functions which are related to that structure and which leave certain aspects of the structure invariant. Examples are the automorphism group, the self-embedding monoid, the…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Manuel Bodirsky , Michael Pinsker

Over extended systems of finite type arithmetic, we utilize a formal representation of the outer measure to define a translation which allows for the systematic formalization of probabilistic statements. As a main result, this translation…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Morenikeji Neri , Paulo Oliva , Nicholas Pischke

In previous work on Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, certain remarkable hexagonal arrays of integers are constructed that display behaviors found in Pascal's Triangle. We explain these behaviors further using the binomial transform and discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Robert W. Donley,

In 1901, Bouton proved that a winning strategy of the game of Nim is given by the bitwise XOR, called the nim-sum. But, why does such a weird binary operation work? Led by this question, this paper introduces a categorical reinterpretation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Ryuya Hora

A quantitative model of concurrent interaction is introduced. The basic objects are linear combinations of partial order relations, acted upon by a group of permutations that represents potential non-determinism in synchronisation. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-08 Emmanuel Beffara

In this article we describe properties of the 2-functor from the 2-category of comonads to the 2-category of functors that sends a comonad to its forgetful functor. This allows us to describe contexts where algebras over a monad are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Brice Le Grignou

A class of graphs $\mathscr{C}$ is monadically stable if for any unary expansion $\widehat{\mathscr{C}}$ of $\mathscr{C}$, one cannot interpret, in first-order logic, arbitrarily long linear orders in graphs from $\widehat{\mathscr{C}}$. It…

We show that every NP problem is polynomially equivalent to a simple combinatorial problem: the membership problem for a special class of digraphs. These classes are defined by means of shadows (projections) and by finitely many forbidden…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-06-27 Gabor Kun , Jaroslav Nesetril

Recent advances in our understanding of higher derived limits carry multiple implications in the fields of condensed and pyknotic mathematics, as well as for the study of strong homology. These implications are thematically diverse,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jeffrey Bergfalk , Chris Lambie-Hanson

The principles of density-functional theory are studied for finite lattice systems represented by graphs. Surprisingly, the fundamental Hohenberg-Kohn theorem is found void in general, while many insights into the topological structure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Markus Penz , Robert van Leeuwen

A representation of finite-dimensional probabilistic models in terms of formally real Jordan algebras is obtained, in a strikingly easy way, from simple assumptions. This provides a framework in which real, complex and quaternionic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Alexander Wilce

Given a non-decreasing function $f \colon \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ we define a single player game on (infinite) connected graphs that we call fire retaining. If a graph $G$ admits a winning strategy for any initial configuration (initial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza , Tomasz Prytuła

We introduce the Graph Mixture Density Networks, a new family of machine learning models that can fit multimodal output distributions conditioned on graphs of arbitrary topology. By combining ideas from mixture models and graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Federico Errica , Davide Bacciu , Alessio Micheli

We announce misere-play solutions to several previously-unsolved combinatorial games. The solutions are described in terms of misere quotients--commutative monoids that encode the additive structure of specific misere-play games. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-30 Thane E. Plambeck , Aaron N. Siegel

Game semantics describe the interactive behavior of proofs by interpreting formulas as games on which proofs induce strategies. Such a semantics is introduced here for capturing dependencies induced by quantifications in first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-01-27 Samuel Mimram

We study polynomial comonads and polynomial bicomodules. Polynomial comonads amount to categories. Polynomial bicomodules between categories amount to parametric right adjoint functors between corresponding copresheaf categories. These may…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-25 David I. Spivak , Richard Garner , Aaron David Fairbanks

We prove a theorem computing the number of solutions to a system of equations which is generic subject to the sparsity conditions embodied in a graph. We apply this theorem to games obeying graphical models and to extensive-form games. We…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruchira S. Datta

We study the problem $\#\mathrm{EdgeSub}(\Phi)$ of counting $k$-edge subgraphs satisfying a given graph property $\Phi$ in a large host graph $G$. Building upon the breakthrough result of Curticapean, Dell and Marx (STOC 17), we express the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Norbert Peyerimhoff , Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt , Jakob Stix , Alina Vdovina

Profinite equations are an indispensable tool for the algebraic classification of formal languages. Reiterman's theorem states that they precisely specify pseudovarieties, i.e. classes of finite algebras closed under finite products,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Liang-Ting Chen , Jiri Adamek , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat