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Integer symmetric matrices having all their eigenvalues in the interval [-2,2]
We completely describe all integer symmetric matrices that have all their
eigenvalues in the interval [-2,2]. Along the way we classify all signed
graphs, and then all charged signed graphs, having all their eigenvalues in
this same interval. We then classify subsets of the above for which the integer
symmetric matrices, signed graphs and charged signed graphs have all their
eigenvalues in the open interval (-2,2).Comment: 33 pages, 18 figure
"Building" exact confidence nets
Confidence nets, that is, collections of confidence intervals that fill out
the parameter space and whose exact parameter coverage can be computed, are
familiar in nonparametric statistics. Here, the distributional assumptions are
based on invariance under the action of a finite reflection group. Exact
confidence nets are exhibited for a single parameter, based on the root system
of the group. The main result is a formula for the generating function of the
coverage interval probabilities. The proof makes use of the theory of
"buildings" and the Chevalley factorization theorem for the length distribution
on Cayley graphs of finite reflection groups.Comment: 20 pages. To appear in Bernoull
On Arnold's 14 `exceptional' N=2 superconformal gauge theories
We study the four-dimensional superconformal N=2 gauge theories engineered by
the Type IIB superstring on Arnold's 14 exceptional unimodal singularities
(a.k.a. Arnold's strange duality list), thus extending the methods of 1006.3435
to singularities which are not the direct sum of minimal ones. In particular,
we compute their BPS spectra in several `strongly coupled' chambers.
From the TBA side, we construct ten new periodic Y-systems, providing
additional evidence for the existence of a periodic Y-system for each isolated
quasi-homogeneous singularity with (more generally, for each N=2
superconformal theory with a finite BPS chamber whose chiral primaries have
dimensions of the form N/l).Comment: 73 pages, 7 figure
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