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We investigate necessary and sufficient conditions for the extendibility and boundedness of Gaussian curvature, Mean curvature and principal curvatures near all types of singularities on fronts. We also study the convergence to infinite…

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Positive geometries were introduced by Arkani-Hamed--Bai--Lam as a method of computing scattering amplitudes in theoretical physics. We show that a positive geometry from a polytope admits a log resolution of singularities to another…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Sarah Brauner , Christopher Eur , Elizabeth Pratt , Raluca Vlad

We study the behaviour near a boundary point a of any positive solution of a nonlinear elliptic equations with forcing term which vanishes on the boundary except at a. Our results are based upon a priori estimates for solutions and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marie-Francoise Bidaut-Veron , Augusto Ponce , Laurent Veron

We effectively bound T-singularities on non-rational projective surfaces with an arbitrary amount of T-singularities and ample canonical class. This fully generalizes the previous work for the case of one singularity, and illustrates the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Fernando Figueroa , Julie Rana , Giancarlo Urzúa

$ $[This paper is a (self contained) chapter in a new book, Mathematics and Computation, whose draft is available on my homepage at https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book ]. We survey some concrete interaction areas between computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Avi Wigderson

Recent breakthroughs in the study of scattering amplitudes have uncovered profound and unexpected connections with combinatorial geometry. These connections range from classical structures -- such as polytopes, matroids, and Grassmannians…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Thomas Lam

We discuss the meaning of background independence in quantum theories of gravity where geometry and gravity are emergent and illustrate the possibilities using the framework of quantum causal histories.

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A number of topics involving metrics and measures are discussed, including some of the special structure associated with ultrametrics.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Stephen Semmes

We study and describe possibilities for arities of elementary theories and of their expansions. Links for arities with respect to Boolean algebras, to disjoint unions and to compositions of structures are shown. The dynamics for arities of…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Sergey V. Sudoplatov

Within the context of piecewise linear manifolds we establish reflection positivity with a Hilbert action given in terms of the Regge curvature and a cosmological term. Using this positivity a Hilbert space for a quantum theory is…

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We introduce several highness notions on degrees related to the problem of computing isomorphisms between structures, provided that isomorphisms exist. We consider variants along axes of uniformity, inclusion of negative information, and…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Wesley Calvert , Johanna N. Y. Franklin , Dan Turetsky

Small corrections to the uncertainty relations, with effects in the ultraviolet and/or infrared, have been discussed in the context of string theory and quantum gravity. Such corrections lead to small but finite minimal uncertainties in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Haye Hinrichsen , Achim Kempf

This paper is about positive scalar curvature on a compact manifold $X$ with non-empty boundary $\partial X$. In some cases, we completely answer the question of when $X$ has a positive scalar curvature metric which is a product metric near…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Jonathan Rosenberg , Shmuel Weinberger

In this short note, a brief overview with a critical appraisal of the acclaimed singularity theorems, the most genuine post-Einsteinian result of General Relativity, is presented.

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 José M. M. Senovilla

In the article, we exhibit a series of new examples of rigid plane curves, that is, curves, whose collection of singularities determines them almost uniquely up to a projective transformation of the plane.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Viktor S. Kulikov , Eugenii Shustin

The macroscopic dimensions of space should not be input but rather output of a general model for physics. Here, dimensionality arises from a recently discovered mathematical bifurcation: positive versus indefinite manifold pairings. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-02 Michael Freedman

A few aspects of self-similarity related to complementary components of closed subsets of R^n are briefly discussed.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Stephen Semmes

This is a survey article on Newton-Okounkov bodies in projective geometry focusing on the relationship between positivity of divisors and Newton-Okounkov bodies.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Alex Küronya , Victor Lozovanu

We follow a stream of the history of positive matrices and positive functionals, as applied to algebraic sums of squares decompositions, with emphasis on the interaction between classical moment problems, function theory of one or several…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John William Helton , Mihai Putinar

We outline a new approach to the characterization as well as to the classification of positive maps. This approach is based on the facial structures of the set of states and of the cone of positive maps. In particular, the equivalence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wladyslaw Adam Majewski