How inertia affects autotoxicity-mediated vegetation dynamics: from close-to to far-from-equilibrium patterns

This study investigates how inertial effects influence autotoxicity-mediated vegetation patterns on sloped arid terrains using a hyperbolic extension of the Klausmeier model, revealing that inertia acts as a destabilizing mechanism that enlarges the parameter range for uphill migrating bands, can induce hysteresis by reversing bifurcation regimes near onset, and increases pulse speeds in far-from-equilibrium conditions.

Giancarlo Consolo, Carmela Currò, Gabriele Grifò, Annalisa Iuorio, Giovanna Valenti, Frits VeermanThu, 12 Ma🌀 nlin

A no-go theorem for irreversibility along single-branch collapse dynamics

This paper proves that for finite-dimensional quantum systems undergoing single-branch collapse dynamics without information erasure, operational irreversibility is structurally impossible because every physically admissible collapse selector contains a forward-invariant subset of states that can be connected with arbitrarily high precision and negligible energy cost, thereby establishing islands of quasi-reversibility.

A. Della Corte, L. Guglielmi, M. FarottiMon, 09 Ma🔢 math

Non-Monotone Traveling Waves of the Weak Competition Lotka-Volterra System

This paper establishes the existence of traveling wave solutions, including non-monotone waves and front-pulse waves, for the two-species weak competition Lotka-Volterra system across all wave speeds sss \geq s^*, with a rigorous proof for the critical speed case and the first-time demonstration of front-pulse waves in the critical weak competition regime.

Chiun-Chuan Chen, Ting-Yang Hsiao, Shun-Chieh WangMon, 09 Ma🔢 math

Strong Approximation for the Character Variety of the Four-Times Punctured Sphere

This paper establishes that for most parameter sets, the symmetry group of Markoff-type equations acts transitively on the majority of solutions modulo pp for a density one set of primes, with specific applications proving near-complete transitivity results for the QQ-classification conjecture in SL2(Fp)\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{F}_p) and for solutions arising from generalized cluster algebras.

Nathaniel Kingsbury-NeuschotzMon, 09 Ma🔢 math