Forcing Effects on Finite-Time Blow-Up in Degenerate and Singular Parabolic Equations

This paper establishes critical exponents that determine whether solutions to a degenerate and singular parabolic equation with a time-dependent forcing term exhibit finite-time blow-up or global existence, proving that blow-up is inevitable for positive forcing exponents while identifying specific thresholds for global solvability under smallness conditions when the forcing is constant or subcritical.

Mohamed Majdoub, Berikbol T. Torebek2026-03-10🔢 math

Rate-Induced Tipping in a Non-Uniformly Moving Habitat and Determination of the Critical Rate

This paper investigates rate-induced tipping in a moving habitat using a non-autonomous reaction-diffusion model, demonstrating that populations face extinction if the habitat's displacement rate exceeds a unique critical threshold, a phenomenon analytically characterized by heteroclinic connections between stable and unstable states.

Blake Barker, Emmanuel Fleurantin, Matt Holzer, Christopher K. R. T. Jones, Sebastian Wieczorek2026-03-10🔢 math

Integrated Investment and Operational Planning for Sugarcane-Based Biofuels and Bioelectricity under Market Uncertainty

This paper presents a two-stage stochastic optimization framework, implemented in the open-source tool *OptBio*, to guide risk-adjusted investment and operational planning for diversified sugarcane-based biofuel and bioelectricity facilities under market uncertainty, demonstrating through a Brazilian case study that risk-averse strategies favor diversification while highlighting the potential viability of biomethane, hydrogen, and biochar.

Carolina Monteiro, Bruno Fanzeres, Rafael Kelman, Raphael Araujo Sampaio, Luana Gaspar, Lucas Bacellar, Joaquim Dias Garcia2026-03-10🔢 math

Kernel Methods for Some Transport Equations with Application to Learning Kernels for the Approximation of Koopman Eigenfunctions: A Unified Approach via Variational Methods, Green's Functions and the Method of Characteristics

This paper presents a unified framework that proves the equivalence of variational, Green's function, and characteristic-based methods for constructing reproducing kernels, enabling a data-driven, mesh-free approach to learning kernels that accurately approximate Koopman eigenfunctions and solve various linear transport equations.

Boumediene Hamzi, Houman Owhadi, Umesh Vaidya2026-03-10🔢 math

Scattering rigidity for Hamiltonian systems with an application to Finsler geometry

This paper establishes the scattering rigidity of positively homogeneous Hamiltonian systems on manifolds with boundary by proving that the Hamiltonian is uniquely determined up to boundary-fixing canonical transformations via the inversion of X-ray and light ray transforms on Hamiltonian curves, a result applied to demonstrate semiglobal lens rigidity for non-trapping Finsler manifolds.

Nikolas Eptaminitakis, Plamen Stefanov2026-03-10🔢 math

Quantifier elimination for lovely pairs of strongly geometric fields

This paper establishes that the theory of lovely pairs of any complete strongly geometric field theory with quantifier elimination admits quantifier elimination when expanded with predicates for linear independence and corresponding coordinate functions, thereby generalizing Delon's results to include dense pairs of real closed and pp-adically closed fields.

Pablo Cubides Kovacsics, Felipe Estrada, Juan Pérez, David Rincón2026-03-10🔢 math

A Note on the Gradient-Evaluation Sequence in Accelerated Gradient Methods

This paper resolves an open question in convex optimization by proving that the gradient-evaluation sequence in Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method, including in projection-based and non-Euclidean settings, achieves the optimal O(L/k2)O(L/k^2) convergence rate for the objective function value, matching the performance of the standard solution sequence.

Yan Wu, Yipeng Zhang, Lu Liu, Yuyuan Ouyang2026-03-10🔢 math