Measures on Cameron's treelike classes and applications to tensor categories

This paper completes the classification of measures on Cameron's elementary treelike Fraïssé classes by establishing a bijection for nn-colored rooted binary trees that yields infinite families of novel semisimple tensor categories with superexponential growth, while simultaneously proving the nonexistence of such measures on nn-colored and labeled tree classes for n2n \geq 2.

Thanh Can, Thomas Rüd2026-03-05🔢 math

When Relaxation Does Not Help: RLDCs with Small Soundness Yield LDCs

This paper demonstrates that any non-adaptive qq-query relaxed locally decodable code (RLDC) with sufficiently small soundness error can be converted into a standard qq-query locally decodable code (LDC) with comparable parameters, thereby generalizing previous separation results and yielding improved lower bounds for RLDCs, relaxed locally correctable codes (RLCCs), and probabilistically checkable proofs of proximity (PCPPs).

Kuan Cheng, Xin Li, Songtao Mao2026-03-05🔢 math

On the Adjacency spectra of alternating-oriented nn-gonal staircase digraphs

This paper investigates the adjacency spectra of alternating-oriented nn-gonal staircase digraphs by demonstrating that their nonzero eigenvalues form regular nn-gons derived from a totally nonnegative core, establishing a three-term recursion for their characteristic polynomials, and proving that their spectral radius converges to (27/4)1/n(27/4)^{1/n} as the staircase length increases.

Hiroki Minamide2026-03-05🔢 math

The Gaussian Wave for Graphs of Finite Cone Type

This paper generalizes Backhausz and Szegedy's result on the infinite regular tree by proving that the Gaussian wave is the unique typical process with Green's function covariance for any infinite tree of finite cone type satisfying mild expansion, thereby establishing the convergence of local eigenvector distributions to the Gaussian wave for random bipartite biregular graphs and generic configuration models.

Amir Dembo, Theo McKenzie2026-03-05🔬 physics