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The critical behaviour of three-dimensional disordered systems is investigated by analysing the spectral fluctuations of the energy spectrum. Our results suggest that the initial symmetries (orthogonal, unitary and symplectic) are broken by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-03 E. Hofstetter

We prove that if a family of compact connected sets in the plane has the property that every three members of it are intersected by a line, then there are three lines intersecting all the sets in the family. This answers a question of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Daniel McGinnis , Shira Zerbib

Central configurations play an important role in the dynamics of the $n$-body problem: they occur as relative equilibria and as asymptotic configurations in colliding trajectories. We illustrate how they can be found as projective fixed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-06 D. L. Ferrario

Central configurations have been of great interest over many years, with the earliest examples due to Euler and Lagrange. There are numerous results in the literature demonstrating the existence of central configurations with specific…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-08-06 James Montaldi

Fixed points in three dimensions described by conformal field theories with $MN_{m,n}= O(m)^n\rtimes S_n$ global symmetry have extensive applications in critical phenomena. Associated experimental data for $m=n=2$ suggest the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Johan Henriksson , Andreas Stergiou

For a finite set $P$ of points in the plane in general position, a \emph{crossing family} of size $k$ in $P$ is a collection of $k$ line segments with endpoints in $P$ that are pairwise crossing. It is a long-standing open problem to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Todor Antić , Martin Balko , Birgit Vogtenhuber

This paper investigates asymptotic fixed point results for nonlinear contractions, with emphasis on Kirk-type theorems and their generalizations. A central difficulty in the literature has been the requirement that the mapping possesses a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Hassan Khandani

For a system of second order differential equations we determine a nonlinear connection that is compatible with a given generalized Lagrange metric. Using this nonlinear connection, we can find the whole family of metric nonlinear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-12 Ioan Bucataru

In this paper we define critical graphs as minimal graphs that support a given set of rates for the index coding problem, and study them for both the one-shot and asymptotic setups. For the case of equal rates, we find the critical graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi , Amin Gohari

In 1951, Gabriel Dirac conjectured that every set P of n non-collinear points in the plane contains a point in at least n/2-c lines determined by P, for some constant c. The following weakening was proved by Beck and Szemer\'edi-Trotter:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Michael S. Payne , David R. Wood

Answering a question posed by Adam Epstein, we show that the collection of conjugacy classes of polynomials admitting a parabolic fixed point and at most one infinite critical orbit is a set of bounded height in the relevant moduli space.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Patrick Ingram

A classical theorem of De Bruijn and Erd\H{o}s asserts that any noncollinear set of n points in the plane determines at least n distinct lines. We prove that an analogue of this theorem holds for graphs. Restricting our attention to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Pierre Aboulker , Guillaume Lagarde , David Malec , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

In 2014, Payne-Wood proved that every non-collinear set $P$ of $n$ points in the Euclidean plane contains a point in at least $\dfrac{n}{37}$ lines determined by $P.$ This is a remarkable answer for the conjecture, which was proposed by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Hoang-Ha Pham , Tien-Cuong Phi

Nonexpansive mappings play a central role in modern optimization and monotone operator theory because their fixed points can describe solutions to optimization or critical point problems. It is known that when the mappings are sufficiently…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Salihah Alwadani , Heinz H. Bauschke , Xianfu Wang

We obtain existence and multiplicity results for the solutions of a class of coupled semilinear bi-harmonic Schr\"{o}dinger equations. Actually, using the classical Mountain Pass Theorem and minimization techniques, we prove the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-30 P. Álvarez-Caudevilla , E. Colorado , V. A. Galaktionov

We study the structure of planar point sets that determine a small number of distinct distances. Specifically, we show that if a set P of n points determines o(n) distinct distances, then no line contains \Omega(n^{7/8}) points of P and no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Adam Sheffer , Joshua Zahl , Frank de Zeeuw

In 2001 Sir M. F. Atiyah formulated a conjecture (C1) and later with P. Sutcliffe two stronger conjectures (C2) and (C3). These conjectures, inspired by physics (spin-statistics theorem of quantum mechanics), are geometrically defined for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dragutin Svrtan , Igor Urbiha

The Szemer\'edi-Trotter theorem gives a bound on the maximum number of incidences between points and lines on the Euclidean plane. In particular it says that $n$ lines and $n$ points determine $O(n^{4/3})$ incidences. Let us suppose that an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jozsef Solymosi

In this paper, we mainly investigate the critical points associated to solutions $u$ of a quasilinear elliptic equation with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in a connected domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Based on the fine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Haiyun Deng , Hairong Liu , Long Tian

We prove that various classical conformal diffeomorphism groups, which are known to be essential [1], are in fact properly essential. This is a consequence of a local criterion on a conformal diffeomorphism in the form of a cohomological…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Stefan Müller , Peter Spaeth