Uniqueness of the Canonical Reciprocal Cost

This paper proves that a function penalizing deviations from equilibrium is uniquely determined as the "canonical reciprocal cost" (the difference between arithmetic and geometric means of a ratio and its reciprocal) by combining a d'Alembert-type composition law with a single quadratic calibration, while also demonstrating the necessity of these assumptions for uniqueness and establishing stability properties.

Jonathan Washburn, Milan Zlatanović2026-03-06🔢 math

Reflection Theory of Nichols Algebras over Coquasi-Hopf Algebras with Bijective Antipode

This paper generalizes the reflection theory of Nichols algebras to arbitrary coquasi-Hopf algebras with bijective antipode by establishing a braided monoidal equivalence that links finite-dimensional irreducible Yetter-Drinfeld modules admitting all reflections to semi-Cartan graphs, a framework applied to prove that a specific rank three example constitutes an affine Nichols algebra.

Bowen Li, Gongxiang Liu2026-03-06🔢 math

Generic flatness of the cohomology of thickenings

This paper establishes a generic flatness result for the cohomology of thickenings of smooth projective schemes over characteristic zero Noetherian domains, while simultaneously demonstrating that for nine points in the projective plane, the associated local cohomology module fails to be generically free and possesses infinitely many associated prime ideals, thereby addressing open questions regarding the constancy of the least degree of hypersurfaces with prescribed multiplicities.

Edoardo Ballico, Yairon Cid-Ruiz, Anurag K. Singh2026-03-06🔢 math

Stability and bifurcation analysis in a mechanochemical model of pattern formation

This paper analyzes a mechanochemical model of pattern formation in regenerating tissue spheroids, demonstrating that a feedback loop between mechanical stretching and morphogen production, coupled with global strain conservation, robustly generates stable single-peaked patterns through specific bifurcation structures without requiring a second diffusible inhibitor.

Szymon Cygan, Anna Marciniak-Czochra, Finn Münnich + 1 more2026-03-06🔢 math

Minimal Projective Resolutions, Möbius Inversion, and Bottleneck Stability

This paper establishes a stability theorem for minimal projective resolutions of modules over finite metric posets by proving that a newly defined bottleneck distance between resolutions is bounded above by the Galois transport distance, thereby generalizing classical bottleneck stability to multiparameter persistence and providing a stability framework for Möbius homology.

Hideto Asashiba, Amit K. Patel2026-03-06🔢 math

Reciprocal Polynomials with Zeros on the Unit Circle and Derivatives of Chebyshev Polynomials of the Second Kind

This paper establishes sharp coefficient bounds for reciprocal antisymmetric polynomials with all zeros on the unit circle, provides explicit factorization formulas for the extremal cases involving derivatives of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind, and derives a new identity expressing these derivatives as linear combinations of Chebyshev polynomials.

Dmitriy Dmitrishin, Daniel Gray, Alexander Stokolos2026-03-06🔢 math

Counting surface subgroups in cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds

This paper establishes that the number of quasi-Fuchsian surface subgroups in finite-volume noncompact hyperbolic 3-manifolds grows asymptotically as (cg)2g(cg)^{2g}, a result that implies a similar lower bound for purely pseudo-Anosov surface subgroups in mapping class groups, while also demonstrating the existence of infinitely many conjugacy classes of surface subgroups with accidental parabolics.

Xiaolong Hans Han, Zhenghao Rao, Jia Wan2026-03-06🔢 math

Predictive Coherence and the Moment Hierarchy: Martingale Posteriors for Exchangeable Bernoulli Sequences

This paper demonstrates that for exchangeable Bernoulli sequences, the first posterior moment alone is insufficient to uniquely determine multi-step predictive probabilities, revealing that martingale posterior frameworks generally fail to identify these distributions unless the conditional law of the terminal value is fully specified, as exemplified by Hill's A_n rule under a Jeffreys prior.

Nicholas G. Polson, Daniel Zantedeschi2026-03-06🔢 math