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1. Jacobian determinants for nonlinear gradient of planar ∞-harmonic functions and applications

   https://doi.org/10.1515/crelle-2024-0016  

   Dong, Hongjie; Peng, Fa; Zhang, Yi Ru-Ya; Zhou, Yuan (April 2024, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal))

   Abstract We introduce a distributional Jacobian determinant $detD{V}_{\beta }\left(Dv\right)$\det DV_{\beta}(Dv)in dimension two for the nonlinear complex gradient $V_{\beta }\left(Dv\right)={\left|Dv\right|}^{\beta }(v_{x_1},-v_{x_2})$V_{\beta}(Dv)=\lvert Dv\rvert^{\beta}(v_{x_{1}},-v_{x_{2}})for any $\beta >-1$\beta>-1, whenever $v\in W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,2}$v\in W^{1\smash{,}2}_{\mathrm{loc}}and $\beta {\left|Dv\right|}^{1+\beta }\in W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,2}$\beta\lvert Dv\rvert^{1+\beta}\in W^{1\smash{,}2}_{\mathrm{loc}}.This is new when $\beta \ne 0$\beta\neq 0.Given any planar ∞-harmonic function 𝑢, we show that such distributional Jacobian determinant $detD{V}_{\beta }\left(Du\right)$\det DV_{\beta}(Du)is a nonnegative Radon measure with some quantitative local lower and upper bounds.We also give the following two applications. Applying this result with $\beta =0$\beta=0, we develop an approach to build up a Liouville theorem, which improves that of Savin.Precisely, if 𝑢 is an ∞-harmonic function in the whole ${\mathbb{R}}^2$\mathbb{R}^{2}with $\underset{R\to \mathrm{\infty }}{lim\; inf}\underset{c\in \mathbb{R}}{inf}\frac{1}{R}{⨍}_{B(0,R)}\left|u\left(x\right)-c\right|dx<\mathrm{\infty },$\liminf_{R\to\infty}\inf_{c\in\mathbb{R}}\frac{1}{R}\barint_{B(0,R)}\lvert u(x)-c\rvert\,dx<\infty,then $u=b+a\cdot x$u=b+a\cdot xfor some $b\in \mathbb{R}$b\in\mathbb{R}and $a\in {\mathbb{R}}^2$a\in\mathbb{R}^{2}.Denoting by $u_p$u_{p}the 𝑝-harmonic function having the same nonconstant boundary condition as 𝑢, we show that $detD{V}_{\beta }\left(D{u}_p\right)\to detD{V}_{\beta }\left(Du\right)$\det DV_{\beta}(Du_{p})\to\det DV_{\beta}(Du)as $p\to \mathrm{\infty }$p\to\inftyin the weak-⋆ sense in the space of Radon measure.Recall that $V_{\beta }\left(D{u}_p\right)$V_{\beta}(Du_{p})is always quasiregular mappings, but $V_{\beta }\left(Du\right)$V_{\beta}(Du)is not in general. 

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2. Partitioned matching games for international kidney exchange

   https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-025-02200-9  

   Benedek, Márton; Biró, Péter; Kern, Walter; Pálvölgyi, Dömötör; Paulusma, Daniel (February 2025, Mathematical Programming)

   Abstract We introduce partitioned matching games as a suitable model for international kidney exchange programmes, where in each round the total number of available kidney transplants needs to be distributed amongst the participating countries in a “fair” way. A partitioned matching game (N, v) is defined on a graph$$G=(V,E)$$ $G=(V,E)$with an edge weightingwand a partition$$V=V_1 \cup \dots \cup V_n$$ $V=V_1\cup \cdots \cup V_n$. The player set is$$N = \{ 1, \dots , n\}$$ $N=\{1,\cdots ,n\}$, and player$$p \in N$$ $p\in N$owns the vertices in$$V_p$$ $V_p$. The valuev(S) of a coalition $$S \subseteq N$$ $S\subseteq N$is the maximum weight of a matching in the subgraph ofGinduced by the vertices owned by the players in S. If$$|V_p|=1$$ $|V_p|=1$for all$$p\in N$$ $p\in N$, then we obtain the classical matching game. Let$$c=\max \{|V_p| \; |\; 1\le p\le n\}$$ $c=max\left\{\right|V_p\left|\right|1\le p\le n\}$be the width of (N, v). We prove that checking core non-emptiness is polynomial-time solvable if$$c\le 2$$ $c\le 2$but co--hard if$$c\le 3$$ $c\le 3$. We do this via pinpointing a relationship with the known class ofb-matching games and completing the complexity classification on testing core non-emptiness forb-matching games. With respect to our application, we prove a number of complexity results on choosing, out of possibly many optimal solutions, one that leads to a kidney transplant distribution that is as close as possible to some prescribed fair distribution. 

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3. Kasner Bounces and Fluctuating Collapse Inside Hairy Black Holes with Charged Matter

   https://doi.org/10.1007/s40818-024-00192-x  

   Li, Warren; Van_de_Moortel, Maxime (June 2025, Annals of PDE)

   Abstract We study the interior of black holes in the presence of charged scalar hair of small amplitude$$\epsilon $$ $ϵ$on the event horizon and show their terminal boundary is a crushing Kasner-like singularity. These spacetimes are spherically symmetric, spatially homogeneous and they differ significantly from the hairy black holes with uncharged matter previously studied in[M. Van de Moortel, Violent nonlinear collapse inside charged hairy black holes, Arch. Rational. Mech. Anal., 248, 89, 2024]in that the electric field is dynamical and subject to the backreaction of charged matter. We prove this charged backreaction causes drastically different dynamics compared to the uncharged case that ultimately impact the formation of the spacelike singularity, exhibiting novel phenomena such asCollapsed oscillations: oscillatory growth of the scalar hair, nonlinearly induced by the collapseAfluctuating collapse: The final Kasner exponents’ dependency in$$\epsilon $$ $ϵ$is via an expression of the form$$|\sin \left( \omega _0 \cdot \epsilon ^{-2}+ O(\log (\epsilon ^{-1}))\right) |$$ $|sin\left({\omega }_0,·,{ϵ}^{-2},+,O,(log\left({ϵ}^{-1}\right))\right)|$.AKasner bounce: a transition from an unstable Kasner metric to a different stable Kasner metricThe Kasner bounce occurring in our spacetime is reminiscent of the celebrated BKL scenario in cosmology. We additionally propose a construction indicating the relevance of the above phenomena – including Kasner bounces – to spacelike singularities inside more general (asymptotically flat) black holes, beyond the hairy case. While our result applies to all values of$$\Lambda \in \mathbb {R}$$ $\Lambda \in R$, in the$$\Lambda <0$$ $\Lambda <0$case, our spacetime corresponds to the interior region of a charged asymptotically Anti-de-Sitter stationary black hole, also known as aholographic superconductorin high-energy physics, and whose exterior region was rigorously constructed in the recent mathematical work [W. Zheng,Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Spherically Symmetric Hairy Black Holes, arXiv.2410.04758]. 

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4. Carleson’s $$\varepsilon ^{2}$$ conjecture in higher dimensions

   https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-025-01337-w  

   Fleschler, Ian; Tolsa, Xavier; Villa, Michele (July 2025, Inventiones mathematicae)

   Abstract In this paper we prove a higher dimensional analogue of Carleson’s$$\varepsilon ^{2}$$ ${\epsilon }^2$conjecture. Given two arbitrary disjoint Borel sets$$\Omega ^{+},\Omega ^{-}\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$$ ${\Omega }^{+},{\Omega }^{-}\subset R^{n+1}$, and$$x\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$$ $x\in R^{n+1}$,$$r>0$$ $r>0$, we denote$$ \varepsilon _{n}(x,r) := \frac{1}{r^{n}}\, \inf _{H^{+}} \mathcal{H}^{n} \left ( ((\partial B(x,r)\cap H^{+}) \setminus \Omega ^{+}) \cup (( \partial B(x,r)\cap H^{-}) \setminus \Omega ^{-})\right ), $$ ${\epsilon }_n(x,r):=\frac{1}{r^n}\underset{H^{+}}{inf}{H}^n\left(\right(\left(\partial B\right(x,r)\cap H^{+})\setminus {\Omega }^{+})\cup (\left(\partial B\right(x,r)\cap H^{-})\setminus {\Omega }^{-}\left)\right),$where the infimum is taken over all open affine half-spaces$$H^{+}$$ $H^{+}$such that$$x \in \partial H^{+}$$ $x\in \partial H^{+}$and we define$$H^{-}= \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \setminus \overline{H^{+}}$$ $H^{-}=R^{n+1}\setminus \overline{H^{+}}$. Our first main result asserts that the set of points$$x\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$$ $x\in R^{n+1}$where$$ \int _{0}^{1} \varepsilon _{n}(x,r)^{2} \, \frac{dr}{r}< \infty $$ ${\int }_0^1{\epsilon }_n{(x,r)}^2\frac{dr}{r}<\infty$is$$n$$ $n$-rectifiable. For our second main result we assume that$$\Omega ^{+}$$ ${\Omega }^{+}$,$$\Omega ^{-}$$ ${\Omega }^{-}$are open and that$$\Omega ^{+}\cup \Omega ^{-}$$ ${\Omega }^{+}\cup {\Omega }^{-}$satisfies the capacity density condition. For each$$x \in \partial \Omega ^{+} \cup \partial \Omega ^{-}$$ $x\in \partial {\Omega }^{+}\cup \partial {\Omega }^{-}$and$$r>0$$ $r>0$, we denote by$$\alpha ^{\pm }(x,r)$$ ${\alpha }^{\pm }(x,r)$the characteristic constant of the (spherical) open sets$$\Omega ^{\pm }\cap \partial B(x,r)$$ ${\Omega }^{\pm }\cap \partial B(x,r)$. We show that, up to a set of$$\mathcal{H}^{n}$$ $H^n$measure zero,$$x$$ $x$is a tangent point for both$$\partial \Omega ^{+}$$ $\partial {\Omega }^{+}$and$$\partial \Omega ^{-}$$ $\partial {\Omega }^{-}$if and only if$$ \int _{0}^{1} \min (1,\alpha ^{+}(x,r) + \alpha ^{-}(x,r) -2) \frac{dr}{r} < \infty . $$ ${\int }_0^{1}min(1,{\alpha }^{+}(x,r)+{\alpha }^{-}(x,r)-2)\frac{dr}{r}<\infty .$The first result is new even in the plane and the second one improves and extends to higher dimensions the$$\varepsilon ^{2}$$ ${\epsilon }^2$conjecture of Carleson. 

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5. Measurement of non-prompt $${{\textrm{D}}^{0}}$$-meson elliptic flow in Pb–Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} = 5.02$$ TeV

   https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12259-3  

   Acharya, S; Adamová, D; Aglieri_Rinella, G; Agnello, M; Agrawal, N; Ahammed, Z; Ahmad, S; Ahn, S U; Ahuja, I; Akindinov, A; et al (December 2023, The European Physical Journal C)

   Abstract The elliptic flow$$(v_2)$$ $\left(v_2\right)$of$${\textrm{D}}^{0}$$ ${\text{D}}^0$mesons from beauty-hadron decays (non-prompt$${\textrm{D}}^{0})$$ ${\text{D}}^0)$was measured in midcentral (30–50%) Pb–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair$$\sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} = 5.02$$ $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The$${\textrm{D}}^{0}$$ ${\text{D}}^0$mesons were reconstructed at midrapidity$$(|y|<0.8)$$ $\left(\right|y|<0.8)$from their hadronic decay$$\mathrm {D^0 \rightarrow K^-\uppi ^+}$$ $D^0\to K^{-}{\pi }^{+}$, in the transverse momentum interval$$2< p_{\textrm{T}} < 12$$ $2<p_{\text{T}}<12$ GeV/c. The result indicates a positive$$v_2$$ $v_2$for non-prompt$${{\textrm{D}}^{0}}$$ ${\text{D}}^0$mesons with a significance of 2.7$$\sigma $$ $\sigma$. The non-prompt$${{\textrm{D}}^{0}}$$ ${\text{D}}^0$-meson$$v_2$$ $v_2$is lower than that of prompt non-strange D mesons with 3.2$$\sigma $$ $\sigma$significance in$$2< p_\textrm{T} < 8~\textrm{GeV}/c$$ $2<p_{\text{T}}<8\text{GeV}/c$, and compatible with the$$v_2$$ $v_2$of beauty-decay electrons. Theoretical calculations of beauty-quark transport in a hydrodynamically expanding medium describe the measurement within uncertainties. 

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