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Jigsaw percolation is a model for the process of solving puzzles within a social network, which was recently proposed by Brummitt, Chatterjee, Dey and Sivakoff. In the model there are two graphs on a single vertex set (the `people' graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Béla Bollobás , Oliver Riordan , Erik Slivken , Paul Smith

We introduce a new broadly unifying family of combinatorial objects, which we call permutation flows, associated to an acyclic directed graph $G$ together with a framing $F$. This new family is combinatorially rich and contains as special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Rafael S. González D'León , Christopher R. H. Hanusa , Martha Yip

As a continuation to our previous work, we consider a generalization of carries process. Our results are : (i) right eigenvectors of the transition probability matrix, (ii) correlation of carries between different steps, and (iii)…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Fumihiko Nakano , Taizo Sadahiro

We study the ring theoretical structures of mixable shuffle algebras and their associated free commutative Rota-Baxter algebras. For this study we utilize the connection of the mixable shuffle algebras with the overlapping shuffle algebra…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-07-22 Li Guo , Bingyong Xie

In 2017, Davis, Nelson, Petersen, and Tenner [Discrete Math. 341 (2018),3249--3270] initiated the combinatorics of pinnacles in permutations. We provide a simple and efficient recursion to compute $p_n(S)$, the number of permutations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Justine Falque , Jean-Christophe Novelli , Jean-Yves Thibon

The jigsaw percolation process, introduced by Brummitt, Chatterjee, Dey and Sivakoff, was inspired by a group of people collectively solving a puzzle. It can also be seen as a measure of whether two graphs on a common vertex set are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Oliver Cooley , Abraham Gutiérrez

We investigate the $k$-cycle shuffle on repeated cards, namely on a deck consisting of $l$ identical copies of each of $m$ card types, with total size $n=ml$. We establish asymptotic results for the total variation mixing of this shuffle,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Jiahe Shen

We investigate the mathematics behind unshuffles, a type of card shuffle closely related to classical perfect shuffles. To perform an unshuffle, deal all the cards alternately into two piles and then stack the one pile on top of the other.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-09 Cornelia A. Van Cott , Katie Wang

In 2003, Haglund's {\sf bounce} statistic gave the first combinatorial interpretation of the $q,t$-Catalan numbers and the Hilbert series of diagonal harmonics. In this paper we propose a new combinatorial interpretation in terms of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Drew Armstrong

The shuffle lattice was introduced by Greene in 1988 as an idealized model for DNA mutation, when he revealed remarkable combinatorial properties of this structure. In this paper, we prove an explicit formula for the $M$-triangle of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Annabel Ma

We consider systems of "pinned balls," i.e., balls that have fixed positions and pseudo-velocities. Pseudo-velocities change according to the same rules as those for velocities of totally elastic collisions between moving balls. The times…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Jayadev S. Athreya , Krzysztof Burdzy , Mauricio Duarte

Linearization of a Hamiltonian system around an equilibrium point yields a set of Hamiltonian-symmetric spectra: If $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of the linearized generator, $-\lambda$ and $\bar{\lambda}$ (hence, $-\bar{\lambda}$) are also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Zensho Yoshida , Philip J. Morrison

The transpose top-$2$ with random shuffle (J. Theoret. Probab., 2020) is a lazy random walk on the alternating group $A_n$ generated by $3$-cycles of the form $(\star,n-1,n)$ and $(\star,n,n-1)$. We obtain the limit profile of this random…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Subhajit Ghosh , Nishu Kumari

Consider a permutation p to be any finite list of distinct positive integers. A statistic is a function St whose domain is all permutations. Let S(p,q) be the set of shuffles of two disjoint permutations p and q. We say that St is shuffle…

We investigate the appearance of the square of a Hamilton cycle in the model of randomly perturbed graphs, which is, for a given $\alpha \in (0,1)$, the union of any $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree $\alpha n$ and the binomial random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Julia Böttcher , Olaf Parczyk , Amedeo Sgueglia , Jozef Skokan

Akbulut has recently shown that an infinite family of Cappell-Shaneson homotopy 4-spheres is diffeomorphic to the standard 4-sphere. In the present paper, a strictly larger family is shown to be standard by a simpler method. This new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Robert E. Gompf

Gibbs random fields corresponding to systems of real-valued spins (e.g. systems of interacting anharmonic oscillators) indexed by the vertices of unbounded degree graphs with a certain summability property are constructed. It is proven that…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-04-22 Yuri Kondratiev , Yuri Kozitsky , Tanja Pasurek

Twisted hypercubes are generalizations of the Boolean hypercube, obtained by iteratively connecting two instances of a graph by a uniformly random perfect matching. Dudek et al. showed that when the two instances are independent, these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Itai Benjamini , Yotam Dikstein , Renan Gross , Maksim Zhukovskii

This paper addresses the issue of inversion in cases where (1) the observation system is modeled by a linear transformation and additive noise, (2) the problem is ill-posed and regularization is introduced in a Bayesian framework by an a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-12 Jean-François Giovannelli

It is proved that Drinfel'd's pentagon equation implies the generalized double shuffle relation. As a corollary, an embedding from the Grothendieck-Teichm\"uller group $GRT_1$ into Racinet's double shuffle group $DMR_0$ is obtained, which…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Hidekazu Furusho