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In this brief paper we present some results on creating and manipulating spectral gaps for a (regular) quantum graph by inserting appropriate internal structures into its vertices. Complete proofs and extensions of the results are planned…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Ngoc T. Do , Peter Kuchment , Beng Ong

The aim of this short note is to clarify some of the claims made in the comparison made in [S. Lloyd, On the uncomputability of the spectral gap, arXiv:1602.05924] between our recent result [T.S. Cubitt, D. Perez-Garcia, M.M. Wolf,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Toby S. Cubitt , David Perez-Garcia , Michael M. Wolf

This supplement documents the intellectual trajectory that led to the Category Mistake framework and the Forward-In-Time-Only (FITO) analysis presented in our recent arXiv papers. The ideas crystallized over fifteen years of research,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Paul Borrill

We study the adjacent-transposition chain on the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$ with a regular parameter vector $\vec{p} = (p_{i,j})_{i\neq j}$. Fill's spectral gap conjecture, recently resolved in the affirmative by Greaves-Zhu, states…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Vishesh Jain , Clayton Mizgerd

We prove a uniform spectral gap for complex transfer operators near the critical line associated to overlapping $C^2$ iterated function systems on the real line satisfying a Uniform Non-Integrability (UNI) condition. Our work extends that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Simon Baker , Tuomas Sahlsten

In this paper, we study the problem of scattering by several strictly convex obstacles, with smooth boundary and satisfying a non eclipse condition. We show, in dimension 2 only, the existence of a spectral gap for the meromorphic…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Lucas Vacossin

The statistics community, which has traditionally lacked a transparent and open peer-review system, faces a challenge of inconsistent paper quality, with some published work containing substantial errors. This problem resonates with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-10 Zhen Li

The paper is concerned with the number of open gaps in spectra of periodic quantum graphs. The well-known conjecture by Bethe and Sommerfeld (1933) says that the number of open spectral gaps for a system periodic in more than one direction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Pavel Exner , Ondřej Turek

The said paper [2] entitled "Proof Of Two Dimensional Jacobian Conjecture" is with gaps.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. T. Moh

In 1952, Heinrich Scholz published a question in the Journal of Symbolic Logic asking for a characterization of spectra, i.e., sets of natural numbers that are the cardinalities of finite models of first order sentences. G\"unter Asser…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Arnaud Durand , Neil Jones , Johann Makowsky , Malika More

In these notes we describe heuristics to predict computational-to-statistical gaps in certain statistical problems. These are regimes in which the underlying statistical problem is information-theoretically possible although no efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-23 Afonso S. Bandeira , Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein

We establish a sharp lower bound on the spectral gap of the biased adjacent-transposition Markov chain on the symmetric group. As a consequence, we resolve a longstanding conjecture of Fill, proving that among all regular probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Gary R. W. Greaves , Haoran Zhu

The three gap theorem was originally a conjecture by Steinhaus, who asserted that there are at most three distinct gap lengths in the fractional parts of the sequence {\alpha},{2}{\alpha},{\cdots},{N}{\alpha} for any integer {N} and real…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Huixing Zhang

Spectral graph theory is a captivating area of graph theory that employs the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices associated with graphs to study them. In this paper, we present a collection of $20$ topics in spectral graph theory,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Lele Liu , Bo Ning

We prove a spectral gap inequality for the stochastic exchange model studied by Gaspard and Gilbert and by Grigo, Khanin and Sz\'asz in connection with understanding heat conduction in a deterministic billiards model. The bound on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Eric A. Carlen , Gustavo Posta , Imre Péter Tóth

Inference problems with conjectured statistical-computational gaps are ubiquitous throughout modern statistics, computer science and statistical physics. While there has been success evidencing these gaps from the failure of restricted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Matthew Brennan , Guy Bresler

We present a method for bounding, and in some cases computing, the spectral gap for systems of many particles evolving under the influence of a random collision mechanism. In particular, the method yields the exact spectral gap in a model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric A. Carlen , Maria C. Carvalho , Michael Loss

We study an online learning framework introduced by Mannor and Shamir (2011) in which the feedback is specified by a graph, in a setting where the graph may vary from round to round and is \emph{never fully revealed} to the learner. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Alon Cohen , Tamir Hazan , Tomer Koren

We obtain an essential spectral gap for $n$-dimensional convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds with the dimension $\delta$ of the limit set close to $(n-1)/2$. The size of the gap is expressed using the additive energy of stereographic…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Semyon Dyatlov , Joshua Zahl

Motivated by the intriguing behavior displayed in a dynamic network that models a population of extreme introverts and extroverts (XIE), we consider the spectral properties of ensembles of random split graph adjacency matrices. We discover…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-08 Kevin E. Bassler , R. K. P. Zia
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