On the maximum number of tangencies among $1$-intersecting curves

This paper improves the known upper bounds on the maximum number of tangencies among nn 1-intersecting Jordan arcs from O(n7/4)O(n^{7/4}) to O(n5/3)O(n^{5/3}) for the general case and to O(n3/2)O(n^{3/2}) for the strictly 1-intersecting case, while also establishing tighter bounds for specific variants involving xx-monotone curves and proving a new graph-theoretic result.

Eyal Ackerman, Balázs KeszeghFri, 13 Ma🔢 math

Quivers and BPS states in 3d and 4d

This paper proposes and rigorously establishes a symmetrization relation between 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 BPS quivers and 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 symmetric quivers, demonstrating that the wall-crossing structure of 4d Argyres-Douglas theories is isomorphic to the unlinking of their 3d counterparts and that these symmetric quivers successfully capture the Schur indices of the original 4d theories.

Piotr Kucharski, Pietro Longhi, Dmitry Noshchenko + 2 more2026-03-06🔬 physics