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Submodular functions are a fundamental object of study in combinatorial optimization, economics, machine learning, etc. and exhibit a rich combinatorial structure. Many subclasses of submodular functions have also been well studied and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Nikhil R. Devanur , Shaddin Dughmi , Roy Schwartz , Ankit Sharma , Mohit Singh

Let G be a finite group acting linearly on the polynomial ring with invariant ring R. If the action is small, then a classical result of Auslander gives in dimension two a correspondence between linear representations of G and maximal…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Holger Brenner

Submodular functions are relevant to machine learning for at least two reasons: (1) some problems may be expressed directly as the optimization of submodular functions and (2) the lovasz extension of submodular functions provides a useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Francis Bach

Submodular functions are an important class of functions in combinatorial optimization which satisfy the natural properties of decreasing marginal costs. The study of these functions has led to strong structural properties with applications…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Gagan Goel , Pushkar Tripathi , Lei Wang

The paper presents a new algorithmic construction of a finite generating set of rational invariants for the rational action of an algebraic group on the affine space. The construction provides an algebraic counterpart of the moving frame…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Evelyne Hubert , Irina A. Kogan

This paper is a contribution to the theory of finite semigroups and their classification in pseudovarieties, which is motivated by its connections with computer science. The question addressed is what role can play the consideration of an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Jorge Almeida , Ondřej Klíma

A natural connection between rational functions of several real or complex variables, and subspace collections is explored. A new class of function, superfunctions, are introduced which are the counterpart to functions at the level of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Graeme W. Milton

This paper is, essentially, a survey related to the problem of understanding the combinatorics of the action of the monoidal category of finite dimensional modules over a simple finite dimensional Lie algebra on various categories of Lie…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Volodymyr Mazorchuk , Xiaoyu Zhu

We study group action on bimodules and bimodule categories and prove for them analogues of the results known for representations of skew group algebras, mainly in the case, when the action is separable.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Yuriy A. Drozd

Notions of ordinal submodularity/supermodularity have been introduced and studied in the literature. We consider several classes of ordinally submodular functions defined on finite Boolean lattices and give characterizations of the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Satoru Fujishige , Ryuhei Mizutani

Certain classical generating functions for elements of reflection groups can be expressed using fundamental invariants called exponents. We give new analogues of such generating functions that accommodate orbits of reflecting hyperplanes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Nathan Williams

For every positive integer h, the representation function of order h associated to a subset A of the integers or, more generally, of any group or semigroup X, counts the number of ways an element of X can be written as the sum (or product,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Melvyn B. Nathanson

We consider the 3-category $2\mathfrak{C}at$ whose objects are 2-categories, 1-morphisms are lax functors, 2-morphisms are lax transformations and 3-morphisms are modifications. The aim is to show that it carries interesting…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Fei Xu , Maoyin Zhang

We classify irreducible representations of the special linear groups in positive characteristic with small weight multiplicities with respect to the group rank and give estimates for the maximal weight multiplicities. For the natural…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Alexander Baranov , Anna Osinovskaya , Irina Suprunenko

We formulate some problems and conjectures about semigroups of rational functions under composition. The considered problems arise in different contexts, but most of them are united by a certain relationship to the concept of amenability.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Fedor Pakovich

To illustrate that the notion of convergence of submodular function sequences fits reasonably into the limit theory of graphs, we describe several classes of matroids and other submodular setfunctions for which convergence of appropriate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Kristóf Bérczi , Márton Borbényi , László Lovász , László Márton Tóth

We extend some classical constructions in commutative algebra to the setting of modules over orders in (non-commutative) semisimple algebras. Our theory incorporates, inter alia, `reduced' versions of the notions of higher Fitting…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-16 David Burns , Takamichi Sano

We construct irreducible unitary representations of a finitely generated free group which are weakly contained in the left regular representation and in which a given linear combination of the generators has an eigenvalue. When the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William L. Paschke

Submodular set-functions have many applications in combinatorial optimization, as they can be minimized and approximately maximized in polynomial time. A key element in many of the algorithms and analyses is the possibility of extending the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Francis Bach

We introduce the notion of a subregular subalgebra, which we believe is useful for classification of subalgebras of Lie algebras. We use it to construct a non-regular invariant generalized complex structure on a Lie group. As an…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Evgeny Mayanskiy