Negative Curvature Methods with High-Probability Complexity Guarantees for Stochastic Nonconvex Optimization

This paper proposes a two-step stochastic optimization framework that combines gradient and negative curvature steps with adaptive step sizes and early stopping to achieve high-probability convergence to second-order stationary points, offering complexity guarantees that match deterministic rates up to noise-dependent terms.

Albert S. Berahas, Raghu Bollapragada, Wanping Dong2026-03-05🔢 math

On non-uniqueness of mild solutions and stationary singular solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations

This paper demonstrates the failure of unconditional uniqueness for mild solutions to the Navier-Stokes and fractional Navier-Stokes equations in Besov spaces with negative regularity by constructing non-trivial stationary singular solutions via convex integration, while simultaneously establishing uniqueness for stationary weak solutions in an endpoint critical space.

Alexey Cheskidov, Hedong Hou2026-03-05🔢 math

Frequency Security-Aware Production Scheduling of Utility-Scale Off-Grid Renewable P2H Systems Coordinating Heterogeneous Electrolyzers

This paper proposes a unified co-optimization framework for utility-scale off-grid renewable power-to-hydrogen systems that coordinates heterogeneous electrolyzers and other resources to maximize hydrogen production while ensuring frequency security through a novel system-level response model and stage-wise transient constraints.

Jie Zhu, Yiwei Qiu, Yangjun Zeng + 4 more2026-03-05🔢 math

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

A degeneration of the generalized Zwegers' μμ-function according to the Ramanujan difference equation

This paper introduces the "little μ\mu-function" as a degenerate limit of Zwegers' generalized μ\mu-function, deriving it via qq-Borel summation of a divergent solution to the Ramanujan difference equation and establishing its key properties, including symmetries, connection formulas, and relations to q,tq,t-Fibonacci sequences and the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction.

G. Shibukawa, S. Tsuchimi2026-03-05🔢 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

Small ball probability of collision local time for symmetric stable processes

This paper derives the small ball probability for the collision local time of two independent symmetric α\alpha-stable processes (with parameters α1,α2(0,2]\alpha_1, \alpha_2 \in (0,2] satisfying max{α1,α2}>1\max\{\alpha_1, \alpha_2\} > 1) by analyzing the asymptotic behavior of their moment generating function via contour integration.

Minhao Hong, Qian Yu2026-03-05🔢 math