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The weighted set multi-cover problem is a fundamental generalization of set cover that arises in data-driven applications where one must select a small, low-cost subset from a large collection of candidates under coverage constraints. In…

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This paper mainly investigates the circular open dimension problem (CODP), which consists of packing a set of circles of known radii into a strip of fixed width and unlimited length without overlapping. The objective is to minimize the…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Zhanghua Fu , Wenqi Huang , Zhipeng Lv

Results of Sierpinski and others have shown that certain finite-dimensional product sets can be written as unions of subsets, each of which is "narrow" in a corresponding direction; that is, each line in that direction intersects the subset…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Randall Dougherty

We study positive definite kernels pulled back along a finite family of self-maps under a subinvariance inequality for the associated branching operator. Iteration produces an increasing kernel tower with defect kernels. Under diagonal…

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In this paper, we consider approximability issues of the following four problems: triangle packing, full sibling reconstruction, maximum profit coverage and 2-coverage. All of them are generalized or specialized versions of set-cover and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-07 Mary Ashley , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Piotr Berman , Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse , Bhaskar DasGupta , Ming-Yang Kao

We use the method of higher order linearization to study an inverse boundary value problem for the minimal surface equation on a Riemannian manifold $(\mathbb{R}^n,g)$, where the metric $g$ is conformally Euclidean. In particular we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Janne Nurminen

With powerful ability to exploit latent structure of self-representation information, different tensor decompositions have been employed into low rank multi-view clustering (LRMVC) models for achieving significant performance. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yingcong Lu , Yipeng Liu , Zhen Long , Zhangxin Chen , Ce Zhu

It is a celebrated result in early combinatorics that, in bipartite graphs, the size of maximum matching is equal to the size of a minimum vertex cover. K\H{o}nig's proof of this fact gave an algorithm for finding a minimum vertex cover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Jacob Turner

In this paper we study the (equivariant) topological types of a class of 3-dimensional closed manifolds (i.e., 3-dimensional small covers), each of which admits a locally standard $(\mathbb{Z}_2)^3$-action such that its orbit space is a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-04-08 Zhi Lü , Li Yu

These notes contain a brief introduction to the construction of toric Calabi--Yau hypersurfaces and complete intersections with a focus on issues relevant for string duality calculations. The last two sections can be read independently and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Maximilian Kreuzer

We continue to investigate various diagonalization properties for sequences of open covers of separable metrizable spaces introduced in Part I. These properties generalize classical ones of Rothberger, Menger, Hurewicz, and Gerlits-Nagy. In…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Winfried Just , Arnold W. Miller , Marion Scheepers , Paul J. Szeptycki

Submodular optimization is a fundamental problem with many applications in machine learning, often involving decision-making over datasets with sensitive attributes such as gender or age. In such settings, it is often desirable to produce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Wenjing Chen , Shuo Xing , Samson Zhou , Victoria G. Crawford

We prove a rigidity property for mapping tori associated to minimal topological dynamical systems using tools from noncommutative geometry. More precisely, we show that under mild geometric assumptions, an orientation-preserving leafwise…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Hao Guo , Valerio Proietti , Hang Wang

Let $(X,\tau)$ be a Hausdorff space, where $X$ is an infinite set. The compact complement topology $\tau^{\star}$ on $X$ is defined by: $\tau^{\star}=\{\emptyset\} \cup \{X\setminus M, \text{where $M$ is compact in $(X,\tau)$}\}$. In this…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Kyriakos Keremedis , Cenap Özel , Artur Piękosz , Mohammed Al Shumrani , Eliza Wajch

We consider a decision-making problem to evaluate absolute ratings of alternatives from the results of their pairwise comparisons according to two criteria, subject to constraints on the ratings. We formulate the problem as a bi-objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Nikolai Krivulin

We prove that for any tau-symmetric bihamiltonian deformation of the tau-cover of the Principal Hierarchy associated with a semisimple Frobenius manifold, the deformed tau-cover admits an infinite set of Virasoro symmetries.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Si-Qi Liu , Zhe Wang , Youjin Zhang

A topological space is called self-covering if it is a nontrivial cover of itself. We prove that, under mild assumptions, a closed self-covering manifold with an abelian fundamental group fibers over a torus in various senses. As a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Lizhen Qin , Yang Su

We analyze integer linear programs which we obtain after discretizing two-dimensional subproblems arising from a trust-region algorithm for mixed integer optimal control problems with total variation regularization. We discuss NP-hardness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Paul Manns , Marvin Severitt

A number of problems in communication systems demand the distributed allocation of network resources in order to provide better services, sampling and distribution methods. The solution to these issues is becoming more challenging due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo Echenique , Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Alexei Vazquez

For every fixed class of regular languages, there is a natural hierarchy of increasingly more general problems: Firstly, the membership problem asks whether a given language belongs to the fixed class of languages. Secondly, the separation…

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