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We study the phase transition of the coalitional manipulation problem for generalized scoring rules. Previously it has been shown that, under some conditions on the distribution of votes, if the number of manipulators is $o(\sqrt{n})$,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Elchanan Mossel , Ariel D. Procaccia , Miklos Z. Racz

Bitcoin already faces a quantum threat through Shor attacks on elliptic-curve signatures. This paper isolates the other component that public discussion often conflates with it: mining. Grover's algorithm halves the exponent of brute-force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers , BTQ Technologies Team

In this paper, we use a model of large random network game where the agents plays selfishly and are affected by their neighbors, to explore the conditions under which the Nash equilibrium (NE) of the game is affected by a perturbation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-20 Abhishek Shende , Deepanshu Vasal , Sriram Vishwanath

Motivated by recent works on the high-dimensional logistic regression, we establish that the existence of the maximum likelihood estimate exhibits a phase transition for a wide range of generalized linear models with binary outcome and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Wenpin Tang , Yuting Ye

A universal approach to decoherence control combined with quantum estimation theory reveals a critical behavior, akin to a phase transition, of the information obtainable by a qubit probe concerning the memory time of environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Analia Zwick , Gonzalo A. Alvarez , Gershon Kurizki

A quantum phase transition may occur in a system at zero temperature when a controlling parameter is tuned towards a critical point. An important question is whether such a critical point exists in a particular system and how stable it is.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-28 Gang Chen , Yunxuan Li , Zheyong Fan , Huabi Zeng

Concavity and its refinements underpin tractability in multiplayer games, where players independently choose actions to maximize their own payoffs which depend on other players' actions. In concave games, where players' strategy sets are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Vincent Leon , Iosif Sakos , Ryann Sim , Antonios Varvitsiotis

We introduce and study online conversion with switching costs, a family of online problems that capture emerging problems at the intersection of energy and sustainability. In this problem, an online player attempts to purchase…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in the spin-boson model with/without the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) are systematically investigated through variational calculations using a sub-Ohmic bath with high spectral density. Four cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nengji Zhou , Yulong Shen , Zhe Sun

We investigate a fundamental model from open-pit mining, which is a cyclic system consisting of a shovel, traveling loaded, unloading facility, and traveling back empty. The interaction of these subsystem determines the capacity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Hans Daduna , Ruslan Krenzler , Robert Ritter , Dietrich Stoyan

We revisit the proof of the liquid-vapor phase transition for systems with finite-range interaction by Lebowitz, Mazel and Presutti and extend it to the case where we additionally include a hard-core interaction to the Hamiltonian. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 Elena Pulvirenti , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

The problem of scheduling tasks on $p$ processors so that no task ever gets too far behind is often described as a game with cups and water. In the $p$-processor cup game on $n$ cups, there are two players, a filler and an emptier, that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-11 William Kuszmaul , Alek Westover

We study the computational complexity of an important property of simple, regular and weighted games, which is decisiveness. We show that this concept can naturally be represented in the context of hypergraph theory, and that decisiveness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Andreas Polyméris , Fabián Riquelme

This paper depicts algorithms for solving the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem. An extreme problem is formulated to analyze the complexity of algorithms and the complexity for solving it. A novel and easy reformulation as a lottery…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Carlos Barrón-Romero

We study the impact of transition scenario uncertainty, namely that of future carbon price and electricity demand, on the pace of decarbonization of the electricity industry. To this end, we develop a theory of optimal stopping mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marcos Leutscher , Peter Tankov

In \cite{FOY2014}, a sharp phase transition has been numerically observed when a constrained convex procedure is used to solve the corrupted sensing problem. In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis for this phenomenon.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Huan Zhang , Yulong Liu , Hong Lei

The problem of distributing the workload on a parallel computer to minimize the overall runtime is known as Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem. It is NP-hard, but like many other NP-hard problems, the average hardness of random instances…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-19 Heiko Bauke , Stephan Mertens , Andreas Engel

A mixture of hard squares, dimers and vacancies on a square lattice is known to undergo a transition from a low-density disordered phase to high-density columnar ordered phase. Along the fully packed square-dimer line, the system undergoes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-26 Dipanjan Mandal , R. Rajesh

We propose a solvable model of Quantum Darwinism to encoding transitions -- abrupt changes in how quantum information spreads in a many-body system under unitary dynamics. We consider a random Clifford circuit on an expanding tree, whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Benoît Ferté , Xiangyu Cao

Three solvable models are set out in some detail in reviewing different types of phase transitions. Two of these relate directly to emergent critical phenomena, viz. melting and magnetic transitions in heavy rare-earth metals, and secondly,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-10 N. H. March , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci