Poncelet pairs of a circle and parabolas from a confocal family and Painlevé VI equations

This paper investigates nn-Poncelet pairs formed by a circle and parabolas from a confocal family, proving that such pairs exist for all parabolas in the family only when the circle contains the focus (n=3n=3) or is centered at the focus (n=4n=4), a property termed nn-isoperiodicity which is then used to construct explicit algebraic solutions to Painlevé VI equations.

Vladimir Dragović, Mohammad Hassan Murad2026-03-10🔢 math

The State-Dependent Riccati Equation in Nonlinear Optimal Control: Analysis, Error Estimation and Numerical Approximation

This paper analyzes the theoretical foundations, error bounds, and numerical approximations of the State-Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) approach for nonlinear optimal control, introducing a residual-minimizing decomposition strategy and demonstrating through numerical experiments that the Newton-Kleinman iterative method offers superior stability and cost-effectiveness compared to the offline-online approach.

Luca Saluzzi2026-03-10🔢 math

Scenario Reduction for Distributionally Robust Optimization

This paper introduces a general scenario reduction method for distributionally robust optimization that projects the original ambiguity set onto a reduced set of scenarios, providing theoretical quality bounds and demonstrating significant computational efficiency with minimal loss in solution accuracy across discrete and continuous distributions.

Kevin-Martin Aigner, Sebastian Denzler, Frauke Liers, Sebastian Pokutta, Kartikey Sharma2026-03-10🔢 math

On the DJ+\mathcal{D}^+_J operator on higher-dimensional almost Kähler manifolds

This paper introduces the DJ+\mathcal{D}^+_J operator on higher-dimensional almost Kähler manifolds to investigate the ˉ\bar{\partial}-problem and establish uniqueness and local existence results for a generalized Monge-Ampère equation, ultimately providing an elliptic system for the operator and reorganizing the work of Tosatti-Weinkove-Yau.

Qiang Tan, Hongyu Wang, Ken Wang, Zuyi Zhang2026-03-10🔢 math