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math.RT2026

Enumerating iterated tilted algebras in type

Alexander E. Black, Jonathan E. Gordon, Ray Maresca

We show that isoclasses of iterated tilted algebras in type are in bijection with non-crossing spanning trees up to rotation on a convex n+1-gon. This is done by constructing…

math.CO2026

Any Proof of Polynomial Hirsch Must be Completely Incoherent

Alexander E. Black, Lei Xue

The paper constructs families of polytopes for which every coherent monotone path induced by a linear function has exponential length, disproving a polynomial‑Hirsch‑type conjectur…

cs.DS2026

Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book

Eleon Bach, Alexander E. Black, Sophie Huiberts +1

Narrowing the gap between theory and practice is a longstanding goal of the algorithm analysis community. To further progress our understanding of how algorithms work in practice,…

cs.DS2026

Finding Short Paths on Simple Polytopes

Alexander E. Black, Raphael Steiner

We prove that computing a shortest monotone path to the optimum of a linear program over a simple polytope is NP-hard, thus resolving a 2022 open question of De Loera, Kafer, and S…

math.CO2026

Saturation for Non-Symmetric Macdonald Polynomials

Milo Bechtloff Weising, Alexander E. Black

We prove that supports of non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials are -convex. As a consequence, we resolve a 2019 conjecture of Monical, Tokcan, and Yong that they have the saturat…

cs.DS2025

Short circuit walks in fixed dimension

Alexander E. Black, Christian Nöbel, Raphael Steiner

Circuit augmentation schemes are a family of combinatorial algorithms for linear programming that generalize the simplex method. To solve the linear program, they construct a so-ca…