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We treat the boundary of the union of blocks in the Jenga game as a surface with a polyhedral structure and consider its genus. We generalize the game and determine the maximum genus of the generalized game.

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Within the framework of the "complexity equals action" and "complexity equals volume" conjectures, we study the properties of holographic complexity for rotating black holes. We focus on a class of odd-dimensional equal-spinning black holes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Abdulrahim Al Balushi , Robie A. Hennigar , Hari K. Kunduri , Robert B. Mann

We consider in this paper the problem of computing the entropy of a braid. We recall its definition and construct, for each braid, a sequence of real numbers, whose limit is its entropy. We state one conjecture about the convergence speed,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Jacques-Olivier Moussafir

Here we show the connection between topological order and the geometric entanglement, as measured by the logarithm of the overlap between a given state and its closest product state of blocks, for the topological universality class of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-11 Roman Orus , Tzu-Chieh Wei

The entropy of the random walk on the discrete contable group could be used for comparison of the system of the generators. Fundamental inequality between growth, entropy and escape gives the possibility to define "the best" system of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Anatoly M. Vershik

We consider the maximum chromatic number of hypergraphs consisting of cliques that have pairwise small intersections. Designs of the appropriate parameters produce optimal constructions, but these are known to exist only when the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraete

This paper considers $n$-ribbon tilings of general regions and their per-tile entropy (the binary logarithm of the number of tilings divided by the number of tiles). We show that the per-tile entropy is bounded above by $\log_2 n$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Simon Blackburn , Yinsong Chen , Vladislav Kargin

A major line of questions in quantum information and computing asks how quickly locally random circuits converge to resemble global randomness. In particular, approximate k-designs are random unitary ensembles that resemble random circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Nicholas Laracuente

We generalize the notion of orthogonal latin squares to colorings of simple graphs. Two $n$-colorings of a graph are said to be \emph{orthogonal} if whenever two vertices share a color in one coloring they have distinct colors in the other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Serge C. Ballif

We study point sets arising from cut-and-project constructions. An important class is weak model sets, which include squarefree numbers and visible lattice points. For such model sets, we give a non-trivial upper bound on their pattern…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Christian Huck , Christoph Richard

The study of the additive volume of sets can be reduced to the case of one-dimensional sets. The exact values of the volume of extremal sets are given as a conjecture.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Gregory A. Freiman

We study the entropy of the distribution of the set R_n of vertices visited by a simple random walk on a graph with bounded degrees in its first n steps. It is shown that this quantity grows linearly in the expected size of R_n if the graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-13 David Windisch

A subshift with linear block complexity has at most countably many ergodic measures, and we continue of the study of the relation between such complexity and the invariant measures. By constructing minimal subshifts whose block complexity…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Van Cyr , Bryna Kra

We show that the chromatic number of the $n$-dimensional associahedron grows at most logarithmically with $n$, improving a bound from and proving a conjecture of Fabila-Monroy et al. (2009).

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Louigi Addario Berry , Bruce Reed , Alex Scott , David R. Wood

We examine maximum vertex coloring of random geometric graphs, in an arbitrary but fixed dimension, with a constant number of colors. Since this problem is neither scale-invariant nor smooth, the usual methodology to obtain limit laws…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Sem Borst , Milan Bradonjić

We study polynomial identities of finite dimensional simple color Lie superalgebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero graded by the product of two cyclic groups of order $2$. We prove that the codimensions of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Dušan Pagon , Dušan Repovš , Mikhail Zaicev

We afford the problem of counting the blocks of a given length made with symbols drawn from an alphabet and relate this number to Fibonacci-like recurrent relations. The recurrence polynomia allows to calculate the limit ratio of two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-09-03 R. Tonelli

We tackle the problem of sequential brick assembly with LEGO bricks to create combinatorial 3D structures. This problem is challenging since this brick assembly task encompasses the characteristics of combinatorial optimization problems. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Seokjun Ahn , Jungtaek Kim , Minsu Cho , Jaesik Park

In Part I of this paper, we introduced a class of certain algebras of finite dimension over a field. All these algebras are split, symmetric and local. Here we continue to investigate their Loewy structure. We show that in many cases their…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Thomas Breuer , László Héthelyi , Erzsébet Horváth , Burkhard Külshammer

Random tilings are interesting as idealizations of atomistic models of quasicrystals and for their connection to problems in combinatorics and algorithms. Of particular interest is the tiling entropy density, which measures the relation of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Maxwell Hutchinson , Michael Widom