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This paper presents a new modelling framework that uses within‑day human movement to redefine how we measure transmissibility during an outb
This paper studies small disturbances that stay close to a flat surface moving at constant speed through a relativistic medium. Examples inc
Main idea: The paper revisits a previously proposed integrable system connected to BMS3, the symmetry group that describes allowed changes a
This paper shows that the set of non-integers among rational numbers can be described by a single polynomial equation that uses only seven q
A new mathematical example shows that a conjecture attributed to J. C. Maxwell about the number of equilibria of an electric field is false.
This paper computes the spectrum of strict units of TMF, the spectrum of topological modular forms. “Strict units” are a homotopy-theoretic
This paper addresses a practical numerical problem: how to compute the volume enclosed by a temperature isosurface when the temperature is k
This paper is a survey of recent progress in graph theory that used a weak but useful form of connectivity called sublinear expansion. In pl
This paper proposes a new method for describing the probabilities that financial markets use to price options. Instead of working with the u
These notes explain a proof, aimed at non-specialists, of a long-standing geometric statement about Artin groups in the spherical case. Roug