arXiv preprints from January 1, 2026 through September 5, 2026 — 13:08:03 EST
Network Slicing (NS) is a fundamental pillar of 5G and beyond networks, enabling the provisioning of isolated, logical networks tailored to specific Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. While 3GPP standards comprehensively define slicing architectures over cellular access networks, the seamless integration of Non-3GPP technologies...
Assessing vulnerability detection tools for smart contracts requires datasets with known ground truth, yet such datasets are scarce and difficult to build by hand. We propose an approach that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically inject vulnerabilities into Solidity smart contracts, and demonstrate it in a case study...
Voice actors often re-read the same script while modifying their delivery in response to performance directions. We study this setting as direction-following TTS, where a system generates a new utterance that reflects a given direction relative to a reference utterance while preserving speaker identity and linguistic content. A key...
Simulation-based science often requires a distribution over simulator parameters whose push-forward reproduces a set of real observations: this is the source distribution estimation (SDE) problem. Existing methods fit the source against a likelihood surrogate trained once from a fixed proposal prior. Their objective is therefore...
For a bipartite graph $G$ and an integer $t\geq2$, let $\NM_t(G)$ be its $t$-non-matching complex. We prove that adding an edge while preserving bipartiteness induces an injection on reduced homology in degree $2t-3$. Combined with the cyclic-polytope model for non-matching complexes of cycles, this shows that $\NM_t(G)$ has Leray...
Generative AI is changing how cultural artifacts are created and circulated, and with it our understanding of creativity itself. Researchers disagree about whether these tools enrich or impoverish culture, and we argue that much of that disagreement comes from conflating two distinct components of creativity: novelty, a property of...
We use 3D direct numerical simulations to study the effects of vortex promoters in liquid metal duct flow to sustain Q2D states which are formed in the presence of strong magnetic fields, such as those present in cooling blankets of fusion reactors. Both for electrically insulating and conducting walls. In case of insulating walls,...
We study the classical $XY$-model on random geometric graphs $\mathcal{G}_{n, \varepsilon}$, which are obtained by sampling $n \in \mathbb{N}$ independent points in a finite domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 2$, and connecting two points by and edge if their distance is of order $\varepsilon > 0$. We refer to $\mathcal{G}_{n,...
This paper is part of an ongoing series devoted to the classification of automorphisms and isomorphisms of twisted Chevalley groups over commutative rings. In our previous work~\cite{EB&DM1}, we established that over local rings containing $1/2$, all automorphisms of twisted Chevalley groups and their elementary subgroups of type...
Emotion-driven image editing aims to evoke a specified target emotion by modifying emotion-relevant visual cues in a source image, while preserving the overall composition and semantic-structural coherence of the original scene. Existing scene-level editors typically specify the target with a single emotion category and often learn...
To overcome the failure of the conventional non-relativistic description of statistics in strong gravitational fields, we develop a covariant theory for a photon gas in curved spacetime, starting from the Boltzmann equation and employing the relaxation time approximation. The transport coefficients are computed up to second order,...
Tipping points---abrupt, potentially irreversible reorganizations of a system's statistical state---are commonly anticipated through critical slowing down: recovery slows, autocorrelation and variance rise, and spectra redden. This paradigm is powerful near simple equilibrium bifurcations but is not a general theory for stochastic,...
Spatial temperature fields in Brownian heat engines are commonly prescribed \emph{a priori}, and the resulting transport and thermodynamic properties are then calculated. Here we formulate the complementary inverse-design problem: determining the temperature profile and barrier height that optimize a chosen thermodynamic objective. We...
In this work, we study nonnegative viscosity solutions to Hénon-type equations driven by the infinity-Laplacian with a degenerate weight, strong absorption and an additional source term. We focus on free boundary points lying in the degeneracy set of the weight. We prove the degeneracy set comparison principle, which yields uniqueness...
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) traditionally focus their adaptive support on cognitive aspects of learning. Although effective, little is known about how such systems can be enhanced by addressing students' emotional states. In particular, the role of mindful interventions for supporting student learning and experiences in...
We determine the frame set of the first Hermite function, proving a conjecture of Lyubarskii and Nes. We use a characterization of semi-regular Gabor frames due to Gröchenig, Romero, and Stöckler to transform the problem into a question about the existence of a nonzero Gaussian shift-invariant entire function $F$, with bounded...
The yielding transition marks the onset of irreversible plastic deformation in amorphous solids and plays a central role in determining the mechanical stability and failure of metallic glasses, colloidal suspensions, and biological assemblies. Despite extensive research, the microscopic factors governing the nature of yielding,...
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration recently reported one event consistent with a $248$ keV nuclear recoil in a $2.84$ tonne-year exposure, with a maximum local significance of $3.4σ$ and a global significance of $2.6σ$. We investigate whether the dark matter (DM)--nucleon interactions favored by this high-energy event can arise from...
This paper investigates the global dynamics of a doubly degenerate nutrient-taxis system with indirect consumption: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} &u_{t}=\nabla \cdot (uv\nabla u)-\nabla \cdot (u^{2}v\nabla v)+\ell vw,&x\in Ω,\, t>0,\\ & v_{t}=Δv-vw,&x\in Ω,\, t>0,\\ &w_t=Δw-w+u,&x\inΩ,t>0 \end{aligned} \right....
Loneliness is a critical public health issue among older adults, linked to higher risks of depression, cognitive decline, and mortality. Scalable, objective methods for its detection remain limited, particularly in natural conversational contexts. We analyzed speech and language markers of loneliness in 310 older adults using...
The Mini-Girona Intervention Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (I-AUV) represents an advancement in accessible underwater robotics, designed to bridge the gap between costly, specialized research AUVs and basic Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Developed with a focus on affordability and usability, the Mini-Girona, priced at...
We prove the Lonely Runner Conjecture for fourteen runners by a computer-assisted extension of the finite-checking framework of Sungkawichai and Trakulthongchai. With one runner stationary, their thirteen-runner result supplies the induction input, and their reduction leaves finitely many modular calculations indexed by primes. We...
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in their monolayer form offer a premier platform for next-generation optoelectronics, particularly through the local manipulation of their robust excitonic states using nanoscale electric fields. These localized states can be dynamically controlled through spatial structuring as well as through...
We present a systematic study of the transition form factors for the semileptonic decays $D\rightarrow Pe^{+}v_{e}$ and $D\rightarrow Pμ^{+}\bar{v}_μ$ using QCD light-cone sum rules with chiral currents, with emphasis on the nonperturbative structure of the pion. The distribution amplitudes of the meson $π$, including twist-2 and...
The Calderón-Zygmund theory establishes the boundedness of singular integral operators on $L^p$ spaces for $1 < p < \infty$, yet it encounters a failure at the endpoint $p = 1$. While radial counterexamples in $\mathbb{R}^n$ are well-documented, Pan-Shao-Wang-Wu \cite{psww2026} has showed that every nonconstant holomorphic function...