Recent research has demonstrated the importance of spatial diffusion and environmental heterogeneity in influencing the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. At the same time, human mobility patterns have been shown to exhibit scale-free, nonlocal dynamics characterized by an anomalous Lévy process diffusion, which is mathematically represented by nonlocal equations involving fractional Laplacian operators. To investigate the effects of environmental heterogeneity and long-range geographical disease transmission, we propose a time-periodic susceptible-infectious-susceptible (SIS) epidemic model that incorporates anomalous diffusion and spatial heterogeneity. The key issues of this paper include the existence and stability of both disease-free and endemic periodic equilibria, as well as the impact of diffusion rates and fractional powers on the spatial distribution of these periodic states. Our analytical findings indicate that spatio-temporal heterogeneity promotes disease persistence and that the fractional power can modulate the transmission threshold.

The compactly supported $\mathbb {A}^1$-Euler characteristic, introduced by Hoyois and later refined by Levine and others, is an analogue in motivic homotopy theory of the classical Euler characteristic of complex topological manifolds. It is an invariant on the Grothendieck ring of varieties $\mathrm {K}_0(\mathrm {Var}_k)$ taking values in the Grothendieck-Witt ring $\mathrm {GW}(k)$ of the base field k. The former ring has a natural power structure induced by symmetric powers of varieties. In a recent preprint, the first author and Pál construct a power structure on $\mathrm {GW}(k)$ and show that the compactly supported $\mathbb {A}^1$-Euler characteristic respects these two power structures for $0$-dimensional varieties, or equivalently étale k-algebras. In this paper, we define the class $\mathrm {Sym}_k$ of symmetrisable varieties to be those varieties for which the compactly supported $\mathbb {A}^1$-Euler characteristic respects the power structures and study the algebraic properties of the subring $\mathrm {K}_0(\mathrm {Sym}_k)$ of symmetrisable varieties. We show that it includes all cellular varieties, and even linear varieties as introduced by Totaro. Moreover, we show that it includes non-linear varieties such as elliptic curves. As an application of our main result, we compute the compactly supported $\mathbb {A}^1$-Euler characteristics of symmetric powers of Grassmannians and certain del Pezzo surfaces.

This is the first part of a series of papers devoted to the study of linear cocycles over chaotic systems. In the present paper, we establish the existence of such cocycles that $\mathcal {C}^\alpha $-stably exhibit fiberwise bounded orbits ($\alpha>0$). The proof is based on a new mechanism which yields stable elliptic-type behavior in $\mathrm {GL}(d,\mathbb {R})$ or $\mathrm {SL}(d,\mathbb {R})$ cocycles. Moreover, we show that this phenomenon is $\mathcal {C}^0$-dense among $\mathrm {SL}(d,\mathbb {R})$ cocycles over a shift of finite type without dominated splitting.

Let $p$ be an odd prime, and let $E_1$ and $E_2$ be two elliptic curves defined over a number field $K$, with good ordinary reduction at $p$. We compare the $\Lambda$-ranks and (generalized) Iwasawa invariants of the Pontryagin duals of the Selmer groups of $E_1$ and $E_2$ over ${\mathbb{Z}}_p^d$-extensions $\mathbb{L}_\infty$ of $K$ for general $d \ge 1$ under the hypothesis that $E_1[p^i] \cong E_2[p^i]$ as Galois modules for a sufficiently large $i$. This generalizes and complements previous work over ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-extensions. The comparison of generalized Iwasawa invariants is related via an up-down approach to the comparison of the variation of classical Iwasawa invariants over the ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-extensions of $K$ which are contained in $\mathbb{L}_\infty$.

This study is concerned with nonnegative solutions of the no-flux initial-boundary value problem for the doubly degenerate nutrient taxis system with a logistic source, as given by

\begin{align*}\left\{\begin{array}{ll}u_t = \nabla\cdot (uv\nabla u) - \nabla\cdot (u^2 v\nabla v)+ u - u^2,\\[1mm]v_t = \Delta v -uv,\end{array} \right.\end{align*}

$\Omega$

$(u,v)|_{t=0}=(u_0,v_0)$

$v_0 \gt 0$

$\overline{\Omega}$

\begin{align*}\int_\Omega \ln u_0~ \gt ~-\infty,\end{align*}

$t\to\infty$

\begin{align*} u(\cdot,t) \rightharpoonup 1 \quad \text{in } L^1(\Omega) \qquad\text{and}\qquad v(\cdot,t)\to 0 \quad \text{in } L^\infty(\Omega). \end{align*}

In this paper, we are mainly devoted to the limiting behaviour of smooth inertial manifolds for a class of random retarded differential equations with a singular parameter $\delta$ and their Galerkin approximations, which have not been considered before. Under appropriate conditions, we show not only that the inertial manifolds for this class of random retarded equations converge pointwise to those of the corresponding stochastic equations driven by white noise as $\delta\rightarrow 0$, but also that the inertial manifolds of their Galerkin approximations converge pointwise to those of stochastic equations driven by white noise described above under the simultaneous limits $\delta\rightarrow 0$ and $M\rightarrow +\infty$, where $M$ denotes the dimension index of the orthogonal projection operator $P_M$ in the Galerkin scheme.

We use spectral theory and algebraic geometry to establish a higher-degree analogue of a Szemerédi–Trotter-type theorem over finite fields, with an application to polynomial expansion.

We study complete noncompact spacelike mean curvature flow solitons (SMCFS) in a standard static spacetime obeying a suitable constraint on the sectional curvature. In this context, we prove a version of the Omori–Yau generalized maximum principle and apply it to deduce that such an SMCFS must be maximal in the sense that its mean curvature vanishes identically. Next, we use other maximum principles which deal with the notions of convergence to zero at infinity and polynomial volume growth to prove rigidity results for SMCFS. Furthermore, we apply our previous results to establish nonexistence results concerning entire Killing graphs constructed over the Riemannian base of a standard static spacetime. Finally, we also exhibit an example showing the relevance of key hypotheses in our results.

Motivated by recent breathtaking progress in the synthetic study of Lorentzian geometry, we investigate the local concavity of time separation functions on Finsler spacetimes as a Lorentzian counterpart to Busemann’s convexity in metric geometry. We show that a Berwald spacetime is locally concave if and only if its flag curvature is nonnegative in timelike directions. We also give another characterization of nonnegative flag curvature by the convexity of future (or past) capsules, inspired by Kristály–Kozma’s result in the positive definite case. These characterizations are new even for Lorentzian manifolds.

Twisted arrow $\infty$-categories of $(\infty ,1)$-categories were introduced by Lurie, and they have various applications in higher category theory. Abellán García and Stern gave a generalization to twisted arrow $\infty$-categories of $(\infty ,2)$-categories. In this paper, we introduce another simple model for twisted arrow $\infty$-categories of $(\infty ,2)$-categories.

Let $p$ be a prime, let $1 \le t \lt d \lt p$ be integers, and let $S$ be a non-empty subset of $\mathbb{F}_p$. We establish that if a polynomial $P:\mathbb{F}_p^n \to \mathbb{F}_p$ with degree $d$ is such that the image $P(S^n)$ does not contain the full image $A(\mathbb{F}_p)$ of any non-constant polynomial $A: \mathbb{F}_p \to \mathbb{F}_p$ with degree at most $t$, then $P$ coincides on $S^n$ with a polynomial that in particular has bounded degree-$\lfloor d/(t+1) \rfloor$-rank in the sense of Green and Tao. Similarly, we prove that if the assumption holds even for $t=d$, then $P$ coincides on $S^n$ with a polynomial determined by a bounded number of coordinates.

This paper studies a time-switching advection-diffusion system modelling the competition between Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in heterogeneous environments. The switching mechanism is induced by periodic releases of sterile Ae. albopictus mosquitoes, which are active only during their sexual lifespan within each release period. By defining a minimal release amount and four critical release period thresholds, we establish the periodic dynamics of the system, providing new insights into optimal control strategies of mosquitoes. Specifically, the trivial steady state is globally asymptotically stable if sterile releases are sufficiently frequent and abundant, which ensures the eradication of both Aedes species. For less frequent sterile releases, we prove the global asymptotic stability of the two semi-trivial periodic solutions and demonstrate the existence of a coexisting periodic solution, indicating cases where mosquito control fails. Numerical simulations are presented to validate our theoretical findings.

We prove under certain conditions that any stable unfolding of a quasi-homogeneous map-germ with finite singularity type is substantial. We then prove that if an equidimensional map-germ is finitely determined, of corank 1, and either it admits a minimal stable unfolding or it is of multiplicity 3, then it admits a substantial unfolding if and only if it is quasi-homogeneous in some coordinate system. Based on this, we pose the following conjecture: a finitely determined map-germ is quasi-homogeneous in some coordinate system if and only if it admits a substantial unfolding.

In this article, we investigate the higher topological complexity of oriented Seifert fibred manifolds that are Eilenberg–MacLane spaces $K(G,1)$ with infinite fundamental group $G$. We first refine the cohomological lower bounds for higher topological complexity by introducing the notion of higher topological complexity weights. As an application, we show that the $r^{\text{th}}$ topological complexity of these manifolds lies in $\{3r-1, 3r, 3r+1\}$, and characterize large families where the value is $3r$ or $3r+1$. Additionally, we establish a sufficient condition for higher topological complexity to be exactly $3r$ when the base surface is orientable and aspherical. Finally, we show that the higher topological complexity of the wedge of finitely many closed, orientable, aspherical $3$-manifolds is exactly $3r+1$.

A set $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ is almost Erdős if, for every $\varepsilon \gt 0$, there exists a set $E \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ of positive Lebesgue measure such that $\{x \in S : ax+b \notin E\}$ is nonempty for all $|a| \gt \varepsilon$ and $b \in \mathbb{R}$. In this note, we show that any decreasing null sequence $(x_n)$ with decay rate greater than $1/2$ is an almost Erdős set.

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of compressible Navier–Stokes equations. Both the anomalous energy dissipation and the vanishing global dissipation are surveyed. First, we construct a family of smooth solutions which exhibit anomalous dissipation when the viscous coefficient $\epsilon$ tends to zero. Second, assume that the weak solutions have additional (uniformly in $\epsilon$) regularity, then the convergence rate of vanishing global dissipation is proportional to a power function of $\epsilon$. The results indicate that the inviscid singularity is caused by the lack of smoothness of solutions, not the viscosity.

Balister, the second author, Groenland, Johnston, and Scott recently showed that there are asymptotically $C4^n/n^{3/4}$ many unordered sequences that occur as degree sequences of graphs with $n$ vertices. Combining limit theory for infinitely divisible distributions with a new connection between a class of random walk trajectories and a subset counting formula from additive number theory, we describe $C$ in terms of Walkup’s number of rooted plane trees. The bijection is related to an instance of the Lévy–Khintchine formula. Our main result complements a result of Stanley, that ordered graphical sequences are related to quasi-forests.