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Publications (25)

math.CV2025

Bounds and asymptotic expansions for the radii of convexity and uniform convexity of normalized Bessel functions

Árpád Baricz, Pranav Kumar, Sanjeev Singh

This paper explores the asymptotic behaviour of the radii of convexity and uniform convexity for normalized Bessel functions with respect to large order. We provide detailed asympt…

hep-th2023

Black holes and the loss landscape in machine learning

Pranav Kumar, Taniya Mandal, Swapnamay Mondal

Understanding the loss landscape is an important problem in machine learning. One key feature of the loss function, common to many neural network architectures, is the presence of…

math.AP2025

Density results of biharmonic functions on symmetric tensor fields and their applications to inverse problems

Divyansh Agrawal, Sombuddha Bhattacharyya, Pranav Kumar

In this article we discuss density of products of biharmonic functions vanishing on an arbitrarily small part of the boundary. We prove that one can use three or more such biharmon…

cs.DC2017

DREMS-OS: An Operating System for Managed Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems

Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Aniruddha Gokhale +2

Distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems executing mixed criticality task sets are increasingly being deployed in mobile and embedded cloud computing platforms, including s…

astro-ph2008

Nucleosynthesis in slowly evolving Cosmologies

Pranav Kumar, Daksh Lohiya

We explore aspects of Cosmological Nucleosynthesis in an FRW universe in which the scale factor evolves linearly with time: . A high Lepton number density during the p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Machine Learning Potentials for Hydrogen Absorption in TiCr Laves Phases

Pranav Kumar, Fritz Körmann, Blazej Grabowski +1

The energetics of hydrogen absorption in C15 cubic and C14 hexagonal TiCrH Laves phases is investigated for with density functional theory (DFT) and machine l…

cs.CV2017

An Unsupervised Approach for Overlapping Cervical Cell Cytoplasm Segmentation

Pranav Kumar, S L Happy, Swarnadip Chatterjee +2

The poor contrast and the overlapping of cervical cell cytoplasm are the major issues in the accurate segmentation of cervical cell cytoplasm. This paper presents an automated unsu…

math.AP2024

Local data inverse problem for the polyharmonic operator with anisotropic perturbations

Sombuddha Bhattacharyya, Pranav Kumar

In this article, we study an inverse problem with local data for a linear polyharmonic operator with several lower order tensorial perturbations. We consider our domain to have an…

astro-ph2006

Variable Chaplygin Gas: Constraints from CMBR and SNe Ia

Geetanjali Sethi, Sushil K. Singh, Pranav Kumar +2

We constrain the parameters of the variable Chaplygin gas model, using the location of peaks of the CMBR spectrum and SNe Ia ``gold '' data set. Equation of state of the model is $…

cs.CR2026

Adding Compilation Metadata To Binaries To Make Disassembly Decidable

Daniel Engel, Freek Verbeek, Pranav Kumar +1

The binary executable format is the standard method for distributing and executing software. Yet, it is also as opaque a representation of software as can be. If the binary format…

math.AP2025

Inverse boundary value problem for the Convection-Diffusion equation with local data

Pranav Kumar, Anamika Purohit

We study a local data inverse problem for the time-dependent Convection-Diffusion Equation (CDE) in a bounded domain where a part of the boundary is treated to be inaccessible. Up…

math.CA2025

Asymptotic behavior of zeros of Bessel function derivatives

Árpád Baricz, Pranav Kumar, Saminathan Ponnusamy

We derive two distinct asymptotic expansions for the zeros of the -th derivative of Bessel function . The first is a McMahon-type expansion for t…

hep-th2023

Non-trivial saddles in microscopic description of black holes

Pranav Kumar, Swapnamay Mondal

Non-trivial gravitational saddles have played a key role in the island proposal for the black hole information paradox. It is worth asking if non-trivial saddles exist in microscop…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Hydrogen diffusion in TiCrH Laves phases: A combined ab initio and machine-learning-potential study

Pranav Kumar, Fritz Körmann, Kaveh Edalati +2

The kinetics of hydrogen diffusion in C15 cubic and C14 hexagonal TiCrH (0 < <= 4) Laves-phase hydrogen storage alloys is investigated with density functional theory (D…

astro-ph2005

A case for nucleosynthesis in slowly evolving models

Geetanjali Sethi, Pranav Kumar, Sanjay Pandey +1

We present a case for Cosmological Nucleosynthesis in an FRW universe in which the scale factor expands linearly with time: . It is demonstrated that adequate amount o…

hep-th2021

Incomplete RG: Hawking-Page transition, C-theorem and relevant scalar deformations of global AdS

Pallab Basu, Pranav Kumar, Chuene Mosomane

We discuss relevant scalar deformations of a holographic theory with a compact boundary. An example of such a theory would be the global AdS with its spatially compact boundary…

astro-ph2003

A Concordant "Freely Coasting Cosmology"

Savita Gehlaut, Pranav Kumar, Geetanjali +1

A strictly linear evolution of the cosmological scale factor is surprisingly an excellent fit to a host of cosmological observations. Any model that can support such a coasting pre…

hep-th2026

Classical Unattainability of Extremality in non-BPS D-brane Systems

Pranav Kumar, Swapnamay Mondal

For the worldline theory of an extremal black hole, extremality amounts to vanishing ground state energy. In light of recent gravity results one would expect much like the ground s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Machine learning via artificial neural networks coupled with density functional theory and experiments for thermodynamic optimization of high-entropy alloys for hydrogen storage at room temperature

Shivam Dangwal, Pranav Kumar, Yuji Ikeda +2

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have received considerable attention for hydrogen storage because of their compositional flexibility; however, designing HEAs with optimal thermodynamics…

math.AP2026

Direct and inverse problem for bi-wave equation with time-dependent coefficients from partial data

Sombuddha Bhattacharyya, Pranav Kumar

In this article, we study a direct and an inverse problem for the bi-wave operator along with second and lower order time-dependent perturbations. In the direct problem,…

cs.AI2026

An Ontology for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials

Daniel Hernández, Jong Hyun Jung, Yuji Ikeda +11

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) approximate quantum-mechanical energies and forces---conventionally computed by density functional theory (DFT) or wave-function met…

cs.RO2026

Event-Grounded Sparse Autoencoders for Vision-Language-Action Policies

Xinchen Jin, Aditya Chatterjee, Pranav Kumar +1

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies translate language and visual inputs into robot actions, where their hidden representations directly shape closed-loop behavior. However, mech…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Machine-learning interatomic potentials achieving CCSD(T) accuracy for systems with extended covalent networks and van der Waals interactions

Yuji Ikeda, Axel Forslund, Pranav Kumar +4

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable large-scale atomistic simulations at moderate computational cost while retaining ab initio accuracy. MLIPs trained on coupled…

math.CA2025

The radius of starlikeness of regular Coulomb wave functions

Árpád Baricz, Pranav Kumar, Sanjeev Singh

Motivated by the pioneering work of M.S. Robertson [Ro54] and R.K. Brown [Br60], [Br62], who examined the geometric properties of some normalised solutions of second-order homogene…

cs.RO2024

Diffusion Meets DAgger: Supercharging Eye-in-hand Imitation Learning

Xiaoyu Zhang, Matthew Chang, Pranav Kumar +1

A common failure mode for policies trained with imitation is compounding execution errors at test time. When the learned policy encounters states that are not present in the expert…