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By formulating N = 1, 2, 4, 8, D = 3, Yang-Mills with a single Lagrangian and single set of transformation rules, but with fields valued respectively in R,C,H,O, it was recently shown that tensoring left and right multiplets yields a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-27 A. Anastasiou , L. Borsten , M. J. Duff , L. J. Hughes , S. Nagy

Permutation matrices play an important role in understand the structure of magic squares. In this work, we use a class of symmetric permutation matrices than can be used to categorize magic squares. Many magic squares with a high degree of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Peter Staab , Charles Fisher , Mark Maggio , Michael Andrade , Erin Farrell , Haley Schilling

Symmetry is an implicit objective in structural form-finding that often reconciles efficiency and aesthetics. This paper identifies the symmetry of polyhedral diagrams in three-dimensional graphic statics (3DGS) as point groups and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yefan Zhi , Yao Lu , Masoud Akbarzadeh

It is unknown at present whether a magic square of squared integers exists. Such an object is defined to be a 3 by 3 grid of 9 distinct integer squares, such that the entries of each row, column, and two main diagonals sum to the same…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Christian Woll

Using a unified formulation of $\mathcal{N} = 1, 2, 4, 8$, super Yang-Mills theories in $D = 3$ spacetime dimensions with fields valued respectively in $\mathbb{R, C, H, O}$, it was shown that tensoring left and right multiplets yields a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-04 A. Anastasiou , L. Borsten , M. J. Duff , A. Marrani , S. Nagy , M. Zoccali

A magic series is a set of natural numbers that, by virtue of its size, sum, and maximum value, could fill a row of a normal magic square. In this paper, we derive an exact two-dimensional integral representation for the number of magic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Michael Quist

Recent work on state sum models of quantum gravity in 3 and 4 dimensions has led to interest in the `quantum tetrahedron'. Starting with a classical phase space whose points correspond to geometries of the tetrahedron in R^3, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 John C. Baez , John W. Barrett

We study an algebraic structure of magical supergravities in three dimensions. We show that if the commutation relations among the generators of the quasi-conformal group in the super-Ehlers decomposition are in a particular form, then one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-10 Shin Fukuchi , Shun'ya Mizoguchi

In this short paper we have produced different kinds of upside down magic squares based on a palindromic day 11.02.2011. In this day appear only the algorisms 0, 1 and 2. Some of the magic squares are bimagic and some are palindromic. Magic…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Inder Jeet Taneja

Let $(\Gamma,+)$ be an Abelian group of order $n^2$ and MS$_{\Gamma}(n)$ be an $n\times n$ array whose entries are all elements of $\Gamma$. Then MS$_{\Gamma}(n)$ is a $\Gamma$-magic square if all row, column, main and backward main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Sylwia Cichacz , Dalibor Froncek

This paper pursues a cohomological formulation for gravitation in which gravity might be expressed in terms of a gravitational potential, much in the spirit of electrodynamics. To this end we introduce a cochain complex consisting of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-13 Richard Atkins

40 is a magic number for tetrahedral symmetry predicted in both nuclear physics and the electronic jellium model. We show that Au40 could be such a a magic cluster from density functional theory-based basin hopping for global minimization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 De-en Jiang , Michael Walter

Motivated by applications in robotics and computer vision, we study problems related to spatial reasoning of a 3D environment using sublevel sets of polynomials. These include: tightly containing a cloud of points (e.g., representing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall , Ameesh Makadia , Vikas Sindhwani

A mechanically-based structural optimization method is utilized to explore the phenomena of jamming for assemblies of frictionless Platonic solids. Systems of these regular convex polyhedra exhibit mechanically stable phases with density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-05-08 Kyle C. Smith , Meheboob Alam , Timothy S. Fisher

This research provides algorithms and numerical methods to geometrically control the magnitude of the internal and external forces in the reciprocal diagrams of 3D/Polyhedral Graphic statics (3DGS). In 3DGS, the form of the structure and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Masoud Akbarzadeh , Marton Hablicsek

We investigate the representation of symmetric polynomials as a sum of squares. Since this task is solved using semidefinite programming tools we explore the geometric, algebraic, and computational implications of the presence of discrete…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Karin Gatermann , Pablo A. Parrilo

Quantum polyhedra constructed from angular momentum operators are the building blocks of space in its quantum description as advocated by Loop Quantum Gravity. Here we extend previous results on the semiclassical properties of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-31 John Schliemann

The basis of the identity representation of a polyhedral group is able to describe functions with symmetries of a platonic solid, i.e., 3-D objects which geometrically obey the cubic symmetries. However, to describe the dynamic of assembles…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Nan Xu

Rotational symmetry plays a central role in physics, providing an elegant framework to describe how the properties of 3D objects -- from atoms to the macroscopic scale -- transform under the action of rigid rotations. Equivariant models of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Michelangelo Domina , Filippo Bigi , Paolo Pegolo , Michele Ceriotti

Magic sets of observables are minimal structures that capture quantum state-independent advantage for systems of $n\ge 2$ qubits and are, therefore, fundamental tools for investigating the interface between classical and quantum physics. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Stefan Trandafir , Petr Lisoněk , Adán Cabello