Alkaid: Resilience to Edit Errors in Provably Secure Steganography via Distance-Constrained Encoding

The paper proposes Alkaid, a provably secure steganographic scheme that achieves deterministic robustness against edit errors by integrating minimum distance decoding into the encoding process, thereby significantly outperforming state-of-the-art methods in decoding success rates, payload capacity, and encoding speed.

Zhihan Cao, Gaolei Li, Jun Wu, Jianhua Li, Hang Zhang, Mingzhe Chen2026-03-09🔢 math

On the Secrecy Performance of Continuous-Aperture Arrays Over Fading Channels

This paper analyzes the secrecy performance of continuous-aperture array (CAPA) systems over Rayleigh fading channels, deriving theoretical expressions for secrecy rate and outage probability across single, multiple independent, and multiple collaborative eavesdropper scenarios, and demonstrating that CAPA systems outperform traditional spatially-discrete arrays by achieving higher secrecy rates, lower outage probabilities, and a diversity order equal to the spatial degrees of freedom.

Xuan Yang, Chongjun Ouyang, Dongming Li, Yuanwei Liu2026-03-09🔢 math

Sparse Estimation for High-Dimensional Lévy-driven Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes from Discrete Observations

This paper establishes sharp nonasymptotic oracle inequalities and minimax optimal convergence rates for sparse Lasso and Slope estimators of high-dimensional drift matrices in Lévy-driven Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes based on discrete observations, thereby extending high-dimensional statistical theory to systems driven by pure jump noise.

Niklas Dexheimer, Natalia Jeszka2026-03-09🔢 math

A General and Robust 3D Finite Element Dynamics Framework for Railway Vehicle-Bridge Interaction with Nonlinear Wheel-Rail Contact Modeling

This paper presents a novel, general 3D finite element framework for railway vehicle-bridge interaction that utilizes absolute coordinates and tailored constraint equations to rigorously model nonlinear wheel-rail contact, enabling robust simulations of extreme lateral movements without relying on infinitesimal displacement assumptions.

Pablo Antolin, Khanh Nguyen, José M. Goicolea2026-03-09🔢 math