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Phylogenetic varieties related to equivariant substitution models have been studied largely in the last years. One of the main objectives has been finding a set of generators of the ideal of these varieties, but this has not yet been achieved in some cases (for example, for the general Markov model this involves the open “salmon conjecture”, see [2]) and it is not clear how to use all generator...

Finite state methods for natural language processing often require the construction and the intersection of several automata. In this paper we investigate the question of determining the best order in which these intersections should be performed. We take as an example lexical disambiguation in polarity grammars. We show that there is no efficient way to minimize the state complexity of these i...

The seminal complete intersection theorem of Ahlswede and Khachatrian gives the maximum cardinality of a k-uniform t-intersecting family on n points, and describes all optimal families for t ≥ 2. We extend this theorem to the weighted setting, in which we consider unconstrained families. The goal in this setting is to maximize the μp measure of the family, where the measure μp is given by μp(A)...

In this paper we describe an algorithm for producing infinitely many examples of set-theoretic complete intersection monomial curves in P n+1 , starting with a single set-theoretic complete intersection monomial curve in P n. Moreover we investigate the numerical criteria to decide when these monomial curves can or cannot be obtained via semigroup gluing.