We present a $p$-adic algorithm to recover the lexicographic Gr\"obner basis $\mathcal G$ of an ideal in $\mathbb Q[x,y]$ with a generating set in $\mathbb Z[x,y]$, with a complexity that is less than cubic in terms of the dimension of $\mathbb Q[x,y]/\langle \mathcal G \rangle$ and softly linear in the height of its coefficients. We observe that previous results of Lazard's that use Hermite normal forms to compute Gr\"obner bases for ideals with two generators can be generalized to a set of $t\in \mathbb N^+$ generators. We use this result to obtain a bound on the height of the coefficients of $\mathcal G$, and to control the probability of choosing a \textit{good} prime $p$ to build the $p$-adic expansion of $\mathcal G$.
The iterates $h_0,h_1,h_2,\dotsc$ constructed in [6] and converging to the (only) solution $g=h\colon[0,1]\to[0,1]$ of the iterative differential equation $-\gamma g'= g^{-1}$, $\gamma>0$, are parametrised by polynomials over $\Bbb Q$, and the corresponding constant $\gamma=\kappa\approx0.278877$ is estimated by rational numbers.
We study the notion of $k$-stabilizer universal quantum state, that is, an $n$-qubit quantum state, such that it is possible to induce any stabilizer state on any $k$ qubits, by using only local operations and classical communications. These states generalize the notion of $k$-pairable states introduced by Bravyi et al., and can be studied from a combinatorial perspective using graph states and $k$-vertex-minor universal graphs. First, we demonstrate the existence of $k$-stabilizer universal graph states that are optimal in size with $n=\Theta(k^2)$ qubits. We also provide parameters for which a random graph state on $\Theta(k^2)$ qubits is $k$-stabilizer universal with high probability. Our second contribution consists of two explicit constructions of $k$-stabilizer universal graph states on $n = O(k^4)$ qubits. Both rely upon the incidence graph of the projective plane over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. This provides a major improvement over the previously known explicit construction of $k$-pairable graph states with $n = O(2^{3k})$, bringing forth a new and potentially powerful family of multipartite quantum resources.
We analyze an algorithmic question about immersion theory: for which $m$, $n$, and $CAT=\mathbf{Diff}$ or $\mathbf{PL}$ is the question of whether an $m$-dimensional $CAT$-manifold is immersible in $\mathbb{R}^n$ decidable? As a corollary, we show that the smooth embeddability of an $m$-manifold with boundary in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is undecidable when $n-m$ is even and $11m \geq 10n+1$.
Given integers $n > k > 0$, and a set of integers $L \subset [0, k-1]$, an $L$-system is a family of sets $\mathcal{F} \subset \binom{[n]}{k}$ such that $|F \cap F'| \in L$ for distinct $F, F'\in \mathcal{F}$. $L$-systems correspond to independent sets in a certain generalized Johnson graph $G(n, k, L)$, so that the maximum size of an $L$-system is equivalent to finding the independence number of the graph $G(n, k, L)$. The Lov\'asz number $\vartheta(G)$ is a semidefinite programming approximation of the independence number of a graph $G$. In this paper, we determine the order of magnitude of $\vartheta(G(n, k, L))$ of any generalized Johnson graph with $k$ and $L$ fixed and $n\rightarrow \infty$. As an application of this theorem, we give an explicit construction of a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with large gap between the Lov\'asz number and the Shannon capacity $c(G)$. Specifically, we prove that for any $\epsilon > 0$, for infinitely many $n$ there is a generalized Johnson graph $G$ on $n$ vertices which has ratio $\vartheta(G)/c(G) = \Omega(n^{1-\epsilon})$, which greatly improves on the best known explicit construction.
We introduce off-policy distributional Q($\lambda$), a new addition to the family of off-policy distributional evaluation algorithms. Off-policy distributional Q($\lambda$) does not apply importance sampling for off-policy learning, which introduces intriguing interactions with signed measures. Such unique properties distributional Q($\lambda$) from other existing alternatives such as distributional Retrace. We characterize the algorithmic properties of distributional Q($\lambda$) and validate theoretical insights with tabular experiments. We show how distributional Q($\lambda$)-C51, a combination of Q($\lambda$) with the C51 agent, exhibits promising results on deep RL benchmarks.
Let $\mathbf{G}:=(G_1, G_2, G_3)$ be a triple of graphs on the same vertex set $V$ of size $n$. A rainbow triangle in $\mathbf{G}$ is a triple of edges $(e_1, e_2, e_3)$ with $e_i\in G_i$ for each $i$ and $\{e_1, e_2, e_3\}$ forming a triangle in $V$. The triples $\mathbf{G}$ not containing rainbow triangles, also known as Gallai colouring templates, are a widely studied class of objects in extremal combinatorics. In the present work, we fully determine the set of edge densities $(\alpha_1, \alpha_2, \alpha_3)$ such that if $\vert E(G_i)\vert> \alpha_i n^2$ for each $i$ and $n$ is sufficiently large, then $\mathbf{G}$ must contain a rainbow triangle. This resolves a problem raised by Aharoni, DeVos, de la Maza, Montejanos and \v{S}\'amal, generalises several previous results on extremal Gallai colouring templates, and proves a recent conjecture of Frankl, Gy\"ori, He, Lv, Salia, Tompkins, Varga and Zhu.
Classical Krylov subspace projection methods for the solution of linear problem $Ax = b$ output an approximate solution $\widetilde{x}\simeq x$. Recently, it has been recognized that projection methods can be understood from a statistical perspective. These probabilistic projection methods return a distribution $p(\widetilde{x})$ in place of a point estimate $\widetilde{x}$. The resulting uncertainty, codified as a distribution, can, in theory, be meaningfully combined with other uncertainties, can be propagated through computational pipelines, and can be used in the framework of probabilistic decision theory. The problem we address is that the current probabilistic projection methods lead to the poorly calibrated posterior distribution. We improve the covariance matrix from previous works in a way that it does not contain such undesirable objects as $A^{-1}$ or $A^{-1}A^{-T}$, results in nontrivial uncertainty, and reproduces an arbitrary projection method as a mean of the posterior distribution. We also propose a variant that is numerically inexpensive in the case the uncertainty is calibrated a priori. Since it usually is not, we put forward a practical way to calibrate uncertainty that performs reasonably well, albeit at the expense of roughly doubling the numerical cost of the underlying projection method.
We expound on some known lower bounds of the quadratic Wasserstein distance between random vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with an emphasis on affine transformations that have been used in manifold learning of data in Wasserstein space. In particular, we give concrete lower bounds for rotated copies of random vectors in $\mathbb{R}^2$ by computing the Bures metric between the covariance matrices. We also derive upper bounds for compositions of affine maps which yield a fruitful variety of diffeomorphisms applied to an initial data measure. We apply these bounds to various distributions including those lying on a 1-dimensional manifold in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and illustrate the quality of the bounds. Finally, we give a framework for mimicking handwritten digit or alphabet datasets that can be applied in a manifold learning framework.
The well-known Cluster Vertex Deletion problem (CVD) asks for a given graph $G$ and an integer $k$ whether it is possible to delete a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices of $G$ such that the resulting graph $G-S$ is a cluster graph (a disjoint union of cliques). We give a complete characterization of graphs $H$ for which CVD on $H$-free graphs is polynomially solvable and for which it is NP-complete. Moreover, in the NP-completeness cases, CVD cannot be solved in sub-exponential time in the vertex number of the $H$-free input graphs unless the Exponential-Time Hypothesis fails. We also consider the connected variant of CVD, the Connected Cluster Vertex Deletion problem (CCVD), in which the set $S$ has to induce a connected subgraph of $G$. It turns out that CCVD admits the same complexity dichotomy for $H$-free graphs. Our results enlarge a list of rare dichotomy theorems for well-studied problems on $H$-free graphs.
We introduce $\varepsilon$-approximate versions of the notion of Euclidean vector bundle for $\varepsilon \geq 0$, which recover the classical notion of Euclidean vector bundle when $\varepsilon = 0$. In particular, we study \v{C}ech cochains with coefficients in the orthogonal group that satisfy an approximate cocycle condition. We show that $\varepsilon$-approximate vector bundles can be used to represent classical vector bundles when $\varepsilon > 0$ is sufficiently small. We also introduce distances between approximate vector bundles and use them to prove that sufficiently similar approximate vector bundles represent the same classical vector bundle. This gives a way of specifying vector bundles over finite simplicial complexes using a finite amount of data, and also allows for some tolerance to noise when working with vector bundles in an applied setting. As an example, we prove a reconstruction theorem for vector bundles from finite samples. We give algorithms for the effective computation of low-dimensional characteristic classes of vector bundles directly from discrete and approximate representations and illustrate the usage of these algorithms with computational examples.