{"title":"Maps preserving the maximal numerical range of generalized products of operators","authors":"Nan Wang,Guoxing Ji","doi":"10.1080/03081087.2026.2747248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03081087.2026.2747248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49905,"journal":{"name":"Linear & Multilinear Algebra","volume":"51 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improved approximation algorithm for min-max correlation clustering problem with penalties","authors":"Yuebo Huang,Sai Ji,Xiaoyun Tian,Kun Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s10878-026-01496-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-026-01496-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Combinatorial Optimization","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Transcritical Bifurcation at Infinity Governs Plaque Stability in a Lipid-Structured Macrophage Model of Atherosclerosis.","authors":"Emine Atıcı Endes, Neslihan Nesliye Pelen","doi":"10.1007/s11538-026-01751-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-026-01751-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Atherosclerotic plaques are fatty deposits in arterial walls and a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. Macrophage proliferation triggers plaque growth and instability, but the specific conditions that convert stable plaques into unstable ones remain unclear. To provide insight into the conditions for this transition, we apply bifurcation analysis to the lipid-structured atherosclerosis model proposed by Chambers et al. (Bull Math Biol 86(8):104, 2024). We demonstrate that, in the asymptotic regime where macrophage levels become large ( <math><mrow><mi>M</mi> <mo>→</mo> <mi>∞</mi></mrow> </math> ), the model exhibits an asymptotic fast-slow structure that does not hold outside this limit. Within this asymptotic regime, we reduce the full system onto a slow invariant manifold, providing a simplified yet accurate description of the dynamics near the critical proliferation-emigration threshold. We prove, via centre manifold theory, that the positive steady state loses stability through a transcritical bifurcation at infinity at the critical proliferation-emigration threshold <math> <mrow><msub><mi>ρ</mi> <mi>c</mi></msub> <mo>=</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mi>γ</mi></mrow> </math> . The analysis reveals that the positive equilibrium branch approaches and exchanges stability with a boundary equilibrium at infinity, providing a rigorous dynamical explanation for the transition that was identified but left unexplored in the original study. Complementing this analytical contribution, we conduct a global sensitivity analysis using Partial Rank Correlation Coefficients (PRCC), identifying macrophage proliferation, emigration, and efferocytosis as the dominant regulators of plaque dynamics. Targeted parameter investigations near <math><msub><mi>ρ</mi> <mi>c</mi></msub> </math> reveal a regulatory decoupling between macrophage accumulation and necrotic core growth, providing new biological insight into the behaviour of the model near the critical proliferation-emigration threshold.</p>","PeriodicalId":9372,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Mathematical Biology","volume":"88 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149215049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Investigation of a Two-Patch Within-Host Model of Hepatitis B Viral Infection.","authors":"Keoni Castellano, Omar Saucedo, Stanca M Ciupe","doi":"10.1007/s11538-026-01780-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11538-026-01780-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9372,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Mathematical Biology","volume":"88 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13676550/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149214985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrei Moroianu, Miguel Pino Carmona, C. S. Shahbazi
{"title":"Torsionless three-dimensional Heterotic solitons with harmonic curvature are rigid","authors":"Andrei Moroianu, Miguel Pino Carmona, C. S. Shahbazi","doi":"10.1007/s10455-026-10065-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10455-026-10065-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We prove the following rigidity result: every compact three-dimensional Heterotic soliton with vanishing torsion and harmonic curvature is rigid, namely, it is an isolated point in the moduli space.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149189821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimality of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods and Suboptimality of the Sparse-Grid Gauss–Hermite Rule in Gaussian Sobolev Spaces","authors":"Yoshihito Kazashi, Yuya Suzuki, Takashi Goda","doi":"10.1137/25m1794346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/25m1794346","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Volume 64, Issue 5, Page 2123-2150, October 2026. <br/> Abstract. Optimality of several quasi-Monte Carlo methods and suboptimality of the sparse-grid quadrature based on the univariate Gauss–Hermite rule are proved in the Sobolev spaces of mixed dominating smoothness of order [math], where the optimality is in the sense of worst-case convergence rate. For sparse-grid Gauss–Hermite quadrature, lower and upper bounds are established, with rates coinciding up to a logarithmic factor. This common algebraic rate is found to be only [math] with [math] function evaluations, although the optimal rate is known to be [math]. The lower bound is obtained by exploiting the structure of the Gauss–Hermite nodes and is independent of the quadrature weights; consequently, no modification of the weights can improve the rate [math]. In contrast, several quasi-Monte Carlo methods with a change of variables are shown to achieve the optimal rate, some up to, and one including, the logarithmic factor.","PeriodicalId":49527,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimum Randić index of molecular trees with a perfect matching","authors":"Jianwei Du,Xiaoling Sun","doi":"10.1007/s10878-026-01478-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-026-01478-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Combinatorial Optimization","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finite Element Error Analysis for Elliptic Parameter Identification with Power-Type Nonlinearity","authors":"De-Han Chen, Yi-Hsuan Lin, Irwin Yousept","doi":"10.1137/26m1842646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/26m1842646","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Volume 64, Issue 5, Page 2151-2176, October 2026. <br/> Abstract. This paper studies the numerical analysis of a parameter identification problem governed by elliptic equations with power-type nonlinearity. We propose a numerical reconstruction via a suitable least-squares minimization problem based on piecewise linear finite elements. As one of our main novelties, we establish conditional stability estimates at the continuous level, which form the theoretical foundation of the present finite element analysis. Our stability analysis relies on tailored analytical tools, including Hardy-type inequalities, fractional Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities, and weighted spaces with singular distance weights. By invoking the achieved conditional stability together with the Carstensen quasi-interpolation operator and associated estimates in negative Sobolev spaces, we derive a priori error estimates for the proposed finite element approximation in terms of the mesh size, the regularization parameter, the noise level, and the nonlinearity exponent. Our results extend the recent stability and error estimates for the linear case by Jin et al. [] and sharpen their error estimates and convergence order under weaker regularity assumptions.","PeriodicalId":49527,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149187909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computation and analysis of the face index for benzenoid planar octahedron networks","authors":"Jai Parkash,Vijay Kumar Bhat","doi":"10.1007/s10878-026-01483-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-026-01483-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Combinatorial Optimization","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simone De Reggi, Andrea Pugliese, Mattia Sensi, Cinzia Soresina
{"title":"A model for mosquito-borne epidemic outbreaks with information-dependent protective behaviour.","authors":"Simone De Reggi, Andrea Pugliese, Mattia Sensi, Cinzia Soresina","doi":"10.1007/s00285-026-02472-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00285-026-02472-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate a model for a mosquito-borne epidemic in which human hosts may adopt protective behaviour against vector bites in response to information on both past and current disease prevalence. Assuming that mosquitoes can also feed on non-competent hosts (i.e. hosts that do not contribute to disease transmission), we first revisit existing results and show that behaviour-driven protection may either decrease or increase the basic reproduction number, depending on the interaction between behavioural response, host composition, and transmission parameters. Assuming that opinion dynamics evolves on a much faster time scale than disease transmission, we then apply Geometric Singular Perturbation Theory to effectively reduce the original two-group model to a model for a homogeneous host population. The reduced system enables a detailed investigation of the impact of information-induced behavioural changes on the transient dynamics of the epidemic, including scenarios in which protective measures lead to outbreaks with low attack rates. Our analysis shows that behavioural responses may either facilitate epidemic control or prolong disease persistence, potentially generating recurrent damped epidemic waves. Numerical simulations are provided to illustrate and support the analytical findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":50148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mathematical Biology","volume":"93 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13675354/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}