Enum: ArxivCategory
arXiv subject categories for classifying preprints and publications. Categories are organized by major subject groups.
Permissible Values
| Value | Title | Meaning | Description | Close Mappings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cs | Computer Science | Computer science research areas | NCIT:C18145 | |
| econ | Economics | Economics research areas | NCIT:C61331, mesh:D004467 | |
| eess | Electrical Engineering and Systems Science | Electrical engineering and systems science research areas | NCIT:C19349 | |
| math | Mathematics | Mathematics research areas | NCIT:C16825, mesh:D008433 | |
| astro-ph | Astrophysics | Astrophysics research areas | ||
| cond-mat | Condensed Matter | Condensed matter physics research areas | ||
| hep | High Energy Physics | High energy physics research areas | ||
| nlin | Nonlinear Sciences | Nonlinear sciences research areas | ||
| nucl | Nuclear Physics | Nuclear physics research areas | mesh:D009686 | |
| physics | Physics | General physics research areas | NCIT:C16989, mesh:D010825 | |
| q-bio | Quantitative Biology | Quantitative biology research areas | NCIT:C16345, mesh:D001695 | |
| q-fin | Quantitative Finance | Quantitative finance research areas | ||
| stat | Statistics | Statistics research areas | NCIT:C17167 | |
| cs.AI | Artificial Intelligence | Covers all areas of AI except Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning, Multiagent Systems, and NLP. Includes Expert Systems, Theorem Proving, Knowledge Representation, Planning, and Uncertainty in AI. | NCIT:C16309, mesh:D001185 | |
| cs.AR | Hardware Architecture | Covers systems organization and hardware architecture. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Class C.0, C.1, and C.5. | ||
| cs.CC | Computational Complexity | Covers models of computation, complexity classes, structural complexity, complexity tradeoffs, upper and lower bounds. | ||
| cs.CE | Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science | Covers applications of computer science to the mathematical modeling of complex systems in science, engineering, and finance. | ||
| cs.CG | Computational Geometry | Geometric algorithms, discrete differential geometry, and directly related problems. | ||
| cs.CL | Computation and Language | Covers natural language processing. Includes computational linguistics, speech processing, text retrieval and processing. | NCIT:C176260, mesh:D009323 | |
| cs.CR | Cryptography and Security | Covers all areas of cryptography and security including authentication, public key cryptosystems, proof-carrying code, etc. | ||
| cs.CV | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | Covers image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and scene understanding. | ||
| cs.CY | Computers and Society | Covers impact of computers on society, computer ethics, information technology and public policy, legal aspects of computing. | ||
| cs.DB | Databases | Covers database management, datamining, and data processing. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes H.2, H.3, and H.4. | ||
| cs.DC | Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing | Covers fault-tolerance, distributed algorithms, stabilization, parallel computation, and cluster computing. | ||
| cs.DL | Digital Libraries | Covers all aspects of digital library design and document creation. Note this may overlap with other areas. | ||
| cs.DM | Discrete Mathematics | Covers combinatorics, graph theory, applications of probability. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes G.2 and G.3. | ||
| cs.DS | Data Structures and Algorithms | Covers data structures and analysis of algorithms. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes E.1, E.2, F.2.1, and F.2.2. | ||
| cs.ET | Emerging Technologies | Covers approaches to computing based on emerging technologies such as quantum computing, DNA computing, optical computing. | ||
| cs.FL | Formal Languages and Automata Theory | Covers automata theory, formal language theory, grammars, and combinatorics on words. | ||
| cs.GL | General Literature | Covers introductory material, survey material, predictions of future trends, biographies, and miscellaneous computer-science related material. | ||
| cs.GR | Graphics | Covers all aspects of computer graphics. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes I.3.0-I.3.8. | NCIT:C16460 | |
| cs.GT | Computer Science and Game Theory | Covers all theoretical and applied aspects at the intersection of computer science and game theory. | ||
| cs.HC | Human-Computer Interaction | Covers human factors, user interfaces, and collaborative computing. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes H.1.2 and H.5. | ||
| cs.IR | Information Retrieval | Covers indexing, dictionaries, retrieval, content and analysis. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes H.3.0-H.3.4. | ||
| cs.IT | Information Theory | Covers theoretical and experimental aspects of information theory and coding. | ||
| cs.LG | Machine Learning | Papers on all aspects of machine learning research, including supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning, bandit algorithms. | NCIT:C176231, mesh:D000069550 | |
| cs.LO | Logic in Computer Science | Covers all aspects of logic in computer science, including finite model theory, logics of programs, modal logic, and program verification. | ||
| cs.MA | Multiagent Systems | Covers multiagent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, coordinated interactions. | ||
| cs.MM | Multimedia | Covers all aspects of multimedia systems, including hypermedia and information systems design. | ||
| cs.MS | Mathematical Software | Covers aspects of mathematical software for mathematical computation and related support. | ||
| cs.NA | Numerical Analysis | Covers numerical algorithms for problems in analysis and algebra. Includes numerical linear algebra, optimization, and interpolation. | ||
| cs.NE | Neural and Evolutionary Computing | Covers neural networks, connectionism, genetic algorithms, artificial life, adaptive behavior. | ||
| cs.NI | Networking and Internet Architecture | Covers all aspects of computer communication networks, including network architecture and design. | ||
| cs.OH | Other Computer Science | Covers topics not fitting other computer science categories. | ||
| cs.OS | Operating Systems | Covers aspects of operating systems including structure, design, management, and synchronization. | ||
| cs.PF | Performance | Covers performance measurement, simulation, and evaluation methodology. | ||
| cs.PL | Programming Languages | Covers programming language semantics, language features, programming approaches, compilers. | ||
| cs.RO | Robotics | Covers all aspects of robotics, including control, manipulation, planning, and robot learning. | mesh:D012371 | |
| cs.SC | Symbolic Computation | Covers symbolics, including computer algebra systems, implementation, and applications. | ||
| cs.SD | Sound | Covers all aspects of computing with sound, and sound as an information channel. | ||
| cs.SE | Software Engineering | Covers design tools, software metrics, testing and debugging, programming environments, requirements, specifications. | ||
| cs.SI | Social and Information Networks | Covers design, analysis, and modeling of social and information networks, including their applications for online systems. | ||
| cs.SY | Systems and Control | Covers theoretical and practical aspects of systems and control, including control system design. | ||
| econ.EM | Econometrics | Econometric theory and practice, including estimation, hypothesis testing, and forecasting. | ||
| econ.GN | General Economics | General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics. | ||
| econ.TH | Theoretical Economics | Includes decision theory, game theory, mechanism design, and mathematical modeling in economics. | ||
| eess.AS | Audio and Speech Processing | Theory and methods for processing signals representing audio, speech, and language, and their applications. | ||
| eess.IV | Image and Video Processing | Theory, algorithms, and applications for the formation, capture, processing, communication, analysis, and display of images. | ||
| eess.SP | Signal Processing | Theory, algorithms, performance analysis and applications of signal and data analysis. | ||
| eess.SY | Systems and Control | Analysis and design of control systems, covering mathematical modeling and automatic control. | ||
| math.AC | Commutative Algebra | Commutative rings, modules, ideals, homological algebra, computational aspects, local rings. | ||
| math.AG | Algebraic Geometry | Algebraic varieties, stacks, sheaves, schemes, moduli spaces, complex geometry, quantum cohomology. | ||
| math.AP | Analysis of PDEs | Existence and uniqueness, boundary conditions, linear and non-linear operators, stability, soliton theory. | ||
| math.AT | Algebraic Topology | Homotopy theory, homological algebra, algebraic treatments of manifolds. | ||
| math.CA | Classical Analysis and ODEs | Special functions, orthogonal polynomials, harmonic analysis, ODEs, differential relations. | ||
| math.CO | Combinatorics | Discrete mathematics, graph theory, enumeration, combinatorial optimization. | ||
| math.CT | Category Theory | Enriched categories, topoi, abelian categories, monoidal categories, homological algebra. | ||
| math.CV | Complex Variables | Holomorphic functions, automorphic group actions, and their generalizations, complex geometry. | ||
| math.DG | Differential Geometry | Complex, contact, Riemannian, pseudo-Riemannian, symplectic geometry, relativity, gauge theory. | ||
| math.DS | Dynamical Systems | Dynamics of differential equations and flows, mechanics, classical few-body problems. | ||
| math.FA | Functional Analysis | Banach spaces, function spaces, real functions, distributions, measures, integration. | ||
| math.GM | General Mathematics | Mathematical material of general interest, broadly accessible expositions of research results. | ||
| math.GN | General Topology | Continuum theory, point-set topology, spaces with algebraic structure, topological dynamics. | ||
| math.GR | Group Theory | Finite groups, topological groups, representation theory, cohomology, classification. | ||
| math.GT | Geometric Topology | Manifolds, orbifolds, polyhedra, cell complexes, foliations, geometric structures. | ||
| math.HO | History and Overview | Biographies, philosophy of mathematics, mathematics education, recreational mathematics. | ||
| math.IT | Information Theory | Math methods in information theory and coding theory. | ||
| math.KT | K-Theory and Homology | Algebraic and topological K-theory, relations with topology, commutative algebra, index theories. | ||
| math.LO | Logic | Logic, set theory, point-set topology, formal mathematics. | ||
| math.MG | Metric Geometry | Euclidean, hyperbolic, discrete, convex, coarse geometry, comparisons in Riemannian geometry. | ||
| math.MP | Mathematical Physics | Articles in which math methods are used to study physics problems, or math questions arising from physics. | ||
| math.NA | Numerical Analysis | Numerical algorithms for problems in analysis and algebra, scientific computation. | ||
| math.NT | Number Theory | Prime numbers, diophantine equations, analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry. | ||
| math.OA | Operator Algebras | Algebras of operators on Hilbert space, C*-algebras, von Neumann algebras, non-commutative geometry. | ||
| math.OC | Optimization and Control | Operations research, linear programming, control theory, systems theory, optimal control. | ||
| math.PR | Probability | Theory and applications of probability and stochastic processes, including stochastic differential equations. | ||
| math.QA | Quantum Algebra | Quantum groups, skein theories, operadic and diagrammatic algebra, quantum field theory. | ||
| math.RA | Rings and Algebras | Non-commutative rings and algebras, non-associative algebras, universal algebra. | ||
| math.RT | Representation Theory | Linear representations of algebras and groups, Lie theory, associative algebras. | ||
| math.SG | Symplectic Geometry | Hamiltonian systems, symplectic flows, classical integrable systems. | ||
| math.SP | Spectral Theory | Schrodinger operators, differential operators, spectral measures, scattering theory. | ||
| math.ST | Statistics Theory | Applied, computational and theoretical statistics including probability, coverage, learning theory. | ||
| astro-ph.CO | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics | Phenomenology of early universe, cosmic microwave background, cosmological parameters, primordial element abundances. | ||
| astro-ph.EP | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics | Interplanetary medium, planetary physics, terrestrial planets, extrasolar planets, irregular satellites. | ||
| astro-ph.GA | Astrophysics of Galaxies | Phenomena pertaining to galaxies or combinations of galaxies, interstellar medium, star clusters. | ||
| astro-ph.HE | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena | Cosmic ray production, gamma rays, X-rays, charged particles, supernovae, neutron stars, pulsars. | ||
| astro-ph.IM | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics | Detector and calculation design, space and laboratory observatories, data analysis methods. | ||
| astro-ph.SR | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics | White dwarfs, brown dwarfs, stars, solar system, helioseismology, stellar evolution. | ||
| cond-mat.dis-nn | Disordered Systems and Neural Networks | Glasses and spin glasses; random systems; information theory in physics; neural networks. | ||
| cond-mat.mes-hall | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics | Quantum dots and wires, nanotubes, graphene, ballistic transport, mesoscale and nanoscale systems. | ||
| cond-mat.mtrl-sci | Materials Science | Techniques, synthesis, characterization, structure; mechanical and structural phase transitions. | ||
| cond-mat.other | Other Condensed Matter | Work in condensed matter that does not fit into other cond-mat classifications. | ||
| cond-mat.quant-gas | Quantum Gases | Ultracold atomic gases, Bose-Einstein condensation, Feshbach resonances, spinor condensates. | ||
| cond-mat.soft | Soft Condensed Matter | Membranes, emulsions, gels, foams, nematic phases, polymers, liquid crystals. | ||
| cond-mat.stat-mech | Statistical Mechanics | Phase transitions, thermodynamics, field theory, non-equilibrium phenomena, renormalization. | ||
| cond-mat.str-el | Strongly Correlated Electrons | Quantum magnetism, non-Fermi liquid, spin liquids, stripe phases, electron-phonon interactions. | ||
| cond-mat.supr-con | Superconductivity | Superconductivity theory, models, phenomenology, experimental results. | ||
| hep-ex | High Energy Physics - Experiment | Results from high-energy/particle physics experiments at accelerators and observatories. | ||
| hep-lat | High Energy Physics - Lattice | Lattice field theory results with desired precision and algorithmic advances. | ||
| hep-ph | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | Theoretical particle physics and its relation to experiment. Covers Standard Model and beyond. | ||
| hep-th | High Energy Physics - Theory | Formal aspects of quantum field theory, string theory, quantum gravity. | ||
| gr-qc | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | General relativity, gravitational physics, cosmological models, relativistic astrophysics. | ||
| math-ph | Mathematical Physics | Applications of mathematics to problems in physics and development of mathematical methods for such applications. | ||
| quant-ph | Quantum Physics | Quantum foundations, quantum information, quantum computation, quantum mechanics. | NCIT:C19650, mesh:D000098222 | |
| nlin.AO | Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems | Self-organization, adaptation, and autonomous systems. | ||
| nlin.CD | Chaotic Dynamics | Dynamical systems with chaotic behavior, routes to chaos, spectral analysis, Lyapunov exponents. | ||
| nlin.CG | Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases | Cellular automata, lattice Boltzmann, lattice gas automata, signal processing with cellular automata. | ||
| nlin.PS | Pattern Formation and Solitons | Pattern formation, coherent structures, solitons, waves. | ||
| nlin.SI | Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems | Integrable PDEs, integrable ODEs, Painleve analysis, integrable discrete systems. | ||
| nucl-ex | Nuclear Experiment | Experimental results from nuclear physics laboratories, such as heavy-ion collisions. | ||
| nucl-th | Nuclear Theory | Theory of nuclear structure and low-energy reactions, including heavy-ion physics. | ||
| physics.acc-ph | Accelerator Physics | Accelerator theory and target design, beam physics, secondary beams, photon sources. | ||
| physics.ao-ph | Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics | Atmospheric and oceanic processes, climate dynamics, waves, boundary layer physics. | ||
| physics.app-ph | Applied Physics | Applications of physics to new technology, medical physics, instrumentation. | ||
| physics.atm-clus | Atomic and Molecular Clusters | Binding, structure, and properties of clusters, nanoparticles. | ||
| physics.atom-ph | Atomic Physics | Atomic and molecular structure, spectra, collisions, and data. Ultrafast physics, molecular physics. | ||
| physics.bio-ph | Biological Physics | Molecular biophysics, cellular biophysics, single molecule biophysics. | NCIT:C16349, mesh:D001703 | |
| physics.chem-ph | Chemical Physics | Experimental, methods, and results in chemical physics and molecular dynamics. | ||
| physics.class-ph | Classical Physics | Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, special relativity. | ||
| physics.comp-ph | Computational Physics | All aspects of computational science applied to physics problems. | ||
| physics.data-an | Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability | Methods, software, and results in physics data analysis. | ||
| physics.ed-ph | Physics Education | Physics teaching and learning research. | ||
| physics.flu-dyn | Fluid Dynamics | Turbulence, instabilities, incompressible and compressible flows, boundary layers. | ||
| physics.gen-ph | General Physics | General physics that does not fit elsewhere. | ||
| physics.geo-ph | Geophysics | Computational and theoretical geophysics including seismology, potential theory. | ||
| physics.hist-ph | History and Philosophy of Physics | History and philosophy of all aspects of physics. | ||
| physics.ins-det | Instrumentation and Detectors | Instrumentation and detectors for accelerator, astro-, geo-, or particle physics. | ||
| physics.med-ph | Medical Physics | Radiation therapy, biomedical imaging, health physics. | NCIT:C16667 | |
| physics.optics | Optics | Adaptive optics, polarimetry, quantum optics, ultrafast optics, photonics. | ||
| physics.plasm-ph | Plasma Physics | Fundamental plasma physics, magnetic and inertial confinement, astrophysical plasmas. | ||
| physics.pop-ph | Popular Physics | General physics topics for a broad audience. | ||
| physics.soc-ph | Physics and Society | Sociophysics, structure and dynamics of societies, opinion dynamics. | ||
| physics.space-ph | Space Physics | Space plasma physics, magnetospheric physics, solar wind, cosmic rays. | ||
| q-bio.BM | Biomolecules | DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, small molecules; molecular structure and dynamics; molecular engineering. | ||
| q-bio.CB | Cell Behavior | Cell-cell signaling, morphogenesis, development; cell division/cycle; immunology. | ||
| q-bio.GN | Genomics | DNA sequencing and assembly; gene finding; genome structure, organization, and regulation. | NCIT:C84343, mesh:D023281 | |
| q-bio.MN | Molecular Networks | Gene regulation, signal transduction, metabolic networks, kinetics, synthetic biology. | ||
| q-bio.NC | Neurons and Cognition | Synapse, receptor dynamics, learning, neural coding, neuroinformatics. | ||
| q-bio.OT | Other Quantitative Biology | Work in quantitative biology that does not fit in the other q-bio classifications. | ||
| q-bio.PE | Populations and Evolution | Population dynamics, spatio-temporal evolution, migration, phylogeny, biodiversity. | ||
| q-bio.QM | Quantitative Methods | Research papers with experimental, numerical, or statistical contributions of value to biologists. | ||
| q-bio.SC | Subcellular Processes | Subcellular structures, molecular motors, organelle transport, packaging. | ||
| q-bio.TO | Tissues and Organs | Blood flow, biomechanics, tumor growth, tissue morphogenesis. | ||
| q-fin.CP | Computational Finance | Monte Carlo, PDE, and other numerical methods with applications to quantitative finance. | ||
| q-fin.EC | Economics | General economics topics with quantitative approaches. | ||
| q-fin.GN | General Finance | General quantitative financial methodologies covering multiple sub-fields. | ||
| q-fin.MF | Mathematical Finance | Mathematical and analytical methods in finance, stochastic methods, hedging strategies. | ||
| q-fin.PM | Portfolio Management | Security selection and optimization, capital allocation, investment strategies. | ||
| q-fin.PR | Pricing of Securities | Valuation and hedging of financial securities, their derivatives, and structured products. | ||
| q-fin.RM | Risk Management | Measurement and management of financial risks in trading, banking, insurance. | ||
| q-fin.ST | Statistical Finance | Statistical, econometric methods applied to financial markets. | ||
| q-fin.TR | Trading and Market Microstructure | Market microstructure, algorithmic trading, order book dynamics. | ||
| stat.AP | Applications | Biology, education, epidemiology, engineering, environmental sciences, medical, physical sciences. | ||
| stat.CO | Computation | Algorithms, computational methods, simulation, visualization. | ||
| stat.ME | Methodology | Design, surveys, model selection, regression, testing, time series. | ||
| stat.ML | Machine Learning | Covers machine learning papers with a statistical or theoretical grounding. | NCIT:C176231, mesh:D000069550 | |
| stat.OT | Other Statistics | Work in statistics that does not fit into the other stat-* classifications. | ||
| stat.TH | Statistics Theory | Asymptotics, Bayesian inference, decision theory, estimation, foundations, inference. |
Slots
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| arxiv_category | arXiv subject category for a preprint or publication |
| arxiv_primary_category | Primary arXiv subject category |
| arxiv_secondary_categories | Secondary/cross-list arXiv subject categories |
Identifier and Mapping Information
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description: Covers systems organization and hardware architecture. Roughly includes
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cs.CC:
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description: Covers models of computation, complexity classes, structural complexity,
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is_a: cs
title: Computational Complexity
cs.CE:
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cs.CG:
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cs.CL:
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cs.CR:
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is_a: cs
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cs.CV:
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description: Covers image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and
scene understanding.
is_a: cs
title: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
cs.CY:
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description: Covers impact of computers on society, computer ethics, information
technology and public policy, legal aspects of computing.
is_a: cs
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cs.DB:
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description: Covers database management, datamining, and data processing. Roughly
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cs.DC:
text: cs.DC
description: Covers fault-tolerance, distributed algorithms, stabilization, parallel
computation, and cluster computing.
is_a: cs
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cs.DL:
text: cs.DL
description: Covers all aspects of digital library design and document creation.
Note this may overlap with other areas.
is_a: cs
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cs.DM:
text: cs.DM
description: Covers combinatorics, graph theory, applications of probability.
Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes G.2 and G.3.
is_a: cs
title: Discrete Mathematics
cs.DS:
text: cs.DS
description: Covers data structures and analysis of algorithms. Roughly includes
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is_a: cs
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cs.ET:
text: cs.ET
description: Covers approaches to computing based on emerging technologies such
as quantum computing, DNA computing, optical computing.
is_a: cs
title: Emerging Technologies
cs.FL:
text: cs.FL
description: Covers automata theory, formal language theory, grammars, and combinatorics
on words.
is_a: cs
title: Formal Languages and Automata Theory
cs.GL:
text: cs.GL
description: Covers introductory material, survey material, predictions of future
trends, biographies, and miscellaneous computer-science related material.
is_a: cs
title: General Literature
cs.GR:
text: cs.GR
description: Covers all aspects of computer graphics. Roughly includes material
in ACM Subject Classes I.3.0-I.3.8.
is_a: cs
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close_mappings:
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cs.GT:
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cs.HC:
text: cs.HC
description: Covers human factors, user interfaces, and collaborative computing.
Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes H.1.2 and H.5.
is_a: cs
title: Human-Computer Interaction
cs.IR:
text: cs.IR
description: Covers indexing, dictionaries, retrieval, content and analysis. Roughly
includes material in ACM Subject Classes H.3.0-H.3.4.
is_a: cs
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cs.IT:
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is_a: cs
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cs.LG:
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cs.LO:
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description: Covers all aspects of logic in computer science, including finite
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is_a: cs
title: Logic in Computer Science
cs.MA:
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description: Covers multiagent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, intelligent
agents, coordinated interactions.
is_a: cs
title: Multiagent Systems
cs.MM:
text: cs.MM
description: Covers all aspects of multimedia systems, including hypermedia and
information systems design.
is_a: cs
title: Multimedia
cs.MS:
text: cs.MS
description: Covers aspects of mathematical software for mathematical computation
and related support.
is_a: cs
title: Mathematical Software
cs.NA:
text: cs.NA
description: Covers numerical algorithms for problems in analysis and algebra.
Includes numerical linear algebra, optimization, and interpolation.
is_a: cs
title: Numerical Analysis
cs.NE:
text: cs.NE
description: Covers neural networks, connectionism, genetic algorithms, artificial
life, adaptive behavior.
is_a: cs
title: Neural and Evolutionary Computing
cs.NI:
text: cs.NI
description: Covers all aspects of computer communication networks, including
network architecture and design.
is_a: cs
title: Networking and Internet Architecture
cs.OH:
text: cs.OH
description: Covers topics not fitting other computer science categories.
is_a: cs
title: Other Computer Science
cs.OS:
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description: Covers aspects of operating systems including structure, design,
management, and synchronization.
is_a: cs
title: Operating Systems
cs.PF:
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description: Covers performance measurement, simulation, and evaluation methodology.
is_a: cs
title: Performance
cs.PL:
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description: Covers programming language semantics, language features, programming
approaches, compilers.
is_a: cs
title: Programming Languages
cs.RO:
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description: Covers all aspects of robotics, including control, manipulation,
planning, and robot learning.
is_a: cs
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cs.SC:
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description: Covers symbolics, including computer algebra systems, implementation,
and applications.
is_a: cs
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cs.SD:
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channel.
is_a: cs
title: Sound
cs.SE:
text: cs.SE
description: Covers design tools, software metrics, testing and debugging, programming
environments, requirements, specifications.
is_a: cs
title: Software Engineering
cs.SI:
text: cs.SI
description: Covers design, analysis, and modeling of social and information networks,
including their applications for online systems.
is_a: cs
title: Social and Information Networks
cs.SY:
text: cs.SY
description: Covers theoretical and practical aspects of systems and control,
including control system design.
is_a: cs
title: Systems and Control
econ.EM:
text: econ.EM
description: Econometric theory and practice, including estimation, hypothesis
testing, and forecasting.
is_a: econ
title: Econometrics
econ.GN:
text: econ.GN
description: General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics.
is_a: econ
title: General Economics
econ.TH:
text: econ.TH
description: Includes decision theory, game theory, mechanism design, and mathematical
modeling in economics.
is_a: econ
title: Theoretical Economics
eess.AS:
text: eess.AS
description: Theory and methods for processing signals representing audio, speech,
and language, and their applications.
is_a: eess
title: Audio and Speech Processing
eess.IV:
text: eess.IV
description: Theory, algorithms, and applications for the formation, capture,
processing, communication, analysis, and display of images.
is_a: eess
title: Image and Video Processing
eess.SP:
text: eess.SP
description: Theory, algorithms, performance analysis and applications of signal
and data analysis.
is_a: eess
title: Signal Processing
eess.SY:
text: eess.SY
description: Analysis and design of control systems, covering mathematical modeling
and automatic control.
is_a: eess
title: Systems and Control
math.AC:
text: math.AC
description: Commutative rings, modules, ideals, homological algebra, computational
aspects, local rings.
is_a: math
title: Commutative Algebra
math.AG:
text: math.AG
description: Algebraic varieties, stacks, sheaves, schemes, moduli spaces, complex
geometry, quantum cohomology.
is_a: math
title: Algebraic Geometry
math.AP:
text: math.AP
description: Existence and uniqueness, boundary conditions, linear and non-linear
operators, stability, soliton theory.
is_a: math
title: Analysis of PDEs
math.AT:
text: math.AT
description: Homotopy theory, homological algebra, algebraic treatments of manifolds.
is_a: math
title: Algebraic Topology
math.CA:
text: math.CA
description: Special functions, orthogonal polynomials, harmonic analysis, ODEs,
differential relations.
is_a: math
title: Classical Analysis and ODEs
math.CO:
text: math.CO
description: Discrete mathematics, graph theory, enumeration, combinatorial optimization.
is_a: math
title: Combinatorics
math.CT:
text: math.CT
description: Enriched categories, topoi, abelian categories, monoidal categories,
homological algebra.
is_a: math
title: Category Theory
math.CV:
text: math.CV
description: Holomorphic functions, automorphic group actions, and their generalizations,
complex geometry.
is_a: math
title: Complex Variables
math.DG:
text: math.DG
description: Complex, contact, Riemannian, pseudo-Riemannian, symplectic geometry,
relativity, gauge theory.
is_a: math
title: Differential Geometry
math.DS:
text: math.DS
description: Dynamics of differential equations and flows, mechanics, classical
few-body problems.
is_a: math
title: Dynamical Systems
math.FA:
text: math.FA
description: Banach spaces, function spaces, real functions, distributions, measures,
integration.
is_a: math
title: Functional Analysis
math.GM:
text: math.GM
description: Mathematical material of general interest, broadly accessible expositions
of research results.
is_a: math
title: General Mathematics
math.GN:
text: math.GN
description: Continuum theory, point-set topology, spaces with algebraic structure,
topological dynamics.
is_a: math
title: General Topology
math.GR:
text: math.GR
description: Finite groups, topological groups, representation theory, cohomology,
classification.
is_a: math
title: Group Theory
math.GT:
text: math.GT
description: Manifolds, orbifolds, polyhedra, cell complexes, foliations, geometric
structures.
is_a: math
title: Geometric Topology
math.HO:
text: math.HO
description: Biographies, philosophy of mathematics, mathematics education, recreational
mathematics.
is_a: math
title: History and Overview
math.IT:
text: math.IT
description: Math methods in information theory and coding theory.
is_a: math
title: Information Theory
math.KT:
text: math.KT
description: Algebraic and topological K-theory, relations with topology, commutative
algebra, index theories.
is_a: math
title: K-Theory and Homology
math.LO:
text: math.LO
description: Logic, set theory, point-set topology, formal mathematics.
is_a: math
title: Logic
math.MG:
text: math.MG
description: Euclidean, hyperbolic, discrete, convex, coarse geometry, comparisons
in Riemannian geometry.
is_a: math
title: Metric Geometry
math.MP:
text: math.MP
description: Articles in which math methods are used to study physics problems,
or math questions arising from physics.
is_a: math
title: Mathematical Physics
math.NA:
text: math.NA
description: Numerical algorithms for problems in analysis and algebra, scientific
computation.
is_a: math
title: Numerical Analysis
math.NT:
text: math.NT
description: Prime numbers, diophantine equations, analytic number theory, algebraic
number theory, arithmetic geometry.
is_a: math
title: Number Theory
math.OA:
text: math.OA
description: Algebras of operators on Hilbert space, C*-algebras, von Neumann
algebras, non-commutative geometry.
is_a: math
title: Operator Algebras
math.OC:
text: math.OC
description: Operations research, linear programming, control theory, systems
theory, optimal control.
is_a: math
title: Optimization and Control
math.PR:
text: math.PR
description: Theory and applications of probability and stochastic processes,
including stochastic differential equations.
is_a: math
title: Probability
math.QA:
text: math.QA
description: Quantum groups, skein theories, operadic and diagrammatic algebra,
quantum field theory.
is_a: math
title: Quantum Algebra
math.RA:
text: math.RA
description: Non-commutative rings and algebras, non-associative algebras, universal
algebra.
is_a: math
title: Rings and Algebras
math.RT:
text: math.RT
description: Linear representations of algebras and groups, Lie theory, associative
algebras.
is_a: math
title: Representation Theory
math.SG:
text: math.SG
description: Hamiltonian systems, symplectic flows, classical integrable systems.
is_a: math
title: Symplectic Geometry
math.SP:
text: math.SP
description: Schrodinger operators, differential operators, spectral measures,
scattering theory.
is_a: math
title: Spectral Theory
math.ST:
text: math.ST
description: Applied, computational and theoretical statistics including probability,
coverage, learning theory.
is_a: math
title: Statistics Theory
astro-ph.CO:
text: astro-ph.CO
description: Phenomenology of early universe, cosmic microwave background, cosmological
parameters, primordial element abundances.
is_a: astro-ph
title: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
astro-ph.EP:
text: astro-ph.EP
description: Interplanetary medium, planetary physics, terrestrial planets, extrasolar
planets, irregular satellites.
is_a: astro-ph
title: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
astro-ph.GA:
text: astro-ph.GA
description: Phenomena pertaining to galaxies or combinations of galaxies, interstellar
medium, star clusters.
is_a: astro-ph
title: Astrophysics of Galaxies
astro-ph.HE:
text: astro-ph.HE
description: Cosmic ray production, gamma rays, X-rays, charged particles, supernovae,
neutron stars, pulsars.
is_a: astro-ph
title: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
astro-ph.IM:
text: astro-ph.IM
description: Detector and calculation design, space and laboratory observatories,
data analysis methods.
is_a: astro-ph
title: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
astro-ph.SR:
text: astro-ph.SR
description: White dwarfs, brown dwarfs, stars, solar system, helioseismology,
stellar evolution.
is_a: astro-ph
title: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
cond-mat.dis-nn:
text: cond-mat.dis-nn
description: Glasses and spin glasses; random systems; information theory in physics;
neural networks.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
cond-mat.mes-hall:
text: cond-mat.mes-hall
description: Quantum dots and wires, nanotubes, graphene, ballistic transport,
mesoscale and nanoscale systems.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
cond-mat.mtrl-sci:
text: cond-mat.mtrl-sci
description: Techniques, synthesis, characterization, structure; mechanical and
structural phase transitions.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Materials Science
cond-mat.other:
text: cond-mat.other
description: Work in condensed matter that does not fit into other cond-mat classifications.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Other Condensed Matter
cond-mat.quant-gas:
text: cond-mat.quant-gas
description: Ultracold atomic gases, Bose-Einstein condensation, Feshbach resonances,
spinor condensates.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Quantum Gases
cond-mat.soft:
text: cond-mat.soft
description: Membranes, emulsions, gels, foams, nematic phases, polymers, liquid
crystals.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Soft Condensed Matter
cond-mat.stat-mech:
text: cond-mat.stat-mech
description: Phase transitions, thermodynamics, field theory, non-equilibrium
phenomena, renormalization.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Statistical Mechanics
cond-mat.str-el:
text: cond-mat.str-el
description: Quantum magnetism, non-Fermi liquid, spin liquids, stripe phases,
electron-phonon interactions.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Strongly Correlated Electrons
cond-mat.supr-con:
text: cond-mat.supr-con
description: Superconductivity theory, models, phenomenology, experimental results.
is_a: cond-mat
title: Superconductivity
hep-ex:
text: hep-ex
description: Results from high-energy/particle physics experiments at accelerators
and observatories.
is_a: hep
title: High Energy Physics - Experiment
hep-lat:
text: hep-lat
description: Lattice field theory results with desired precision and algorithmic
advances.
is_a: hep
title: High Energy Physics - Lattice
hep-ph:
text: hep-ph
description: Theoretical particle physics and its relation to experiment. Covers
Standard Model and beyond.
is_a: hep
title: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
hep-th:
text: hep-th
description: Formal aspects of quantum field theory, string theory, quantum gravity.
is_a: hep
title: High Energy Physics - Theory
gr-qc:
text: gr-qc
description: General relativity, gravitational physics, cosmological models, relativistic
astrophysics.
is_a: physics
title: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
math-ph:
text: math-ph
description: Applications of mathematics to problems in physics and development
of mathematical methods for such applications.
is_a: physics
title: Mathematical Physics
quant-ph:
text: quant-ph
description: Quantum foundations, quantum information, quantum computation, quantum
mechanics.
is_a: physics
title: Quantum Physics
close_mappings:
- NCIT:C19650
- mesh:D000098222
nlin.AO:
text: nlin.AO
description: Self-organization, adaptation, and autonomous systems.
is_a: nlin
title: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
nlin.CD:
text: nlin.CD
description: Dynamical systems with chaotic behavior, routes to chaos, spectral
analysis, Lyapunov exponents.
is_a: nlin
title: Chaotic Dynamics
nlin.CG:
text: nlin.CG
description: Cellular automata, lattice Boltzmann, lattice gas automata, signal
processing with cellular automata.
is_a: nlin
title: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
nlin.PS:
text: nlin.PS
description: Pattern formation, coherent structures, solitons, waves.
is_a: nlin
title: Pattern Formation and Solitons
nlin.SI:
text: nlin.SI
description: Integrable PDEs, integrable ODEs, Painleve analysis, integrable discrete
systems.
is_a: nlin
title: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
nucl-ex:
text: nucl-ex
description: Experimental results from nuclear physics laboratories, such as heavy-ion
collisions.
is_a: nucl
title: Nuclear Experiment
nucl-th:
text: nucl-th
description: Theory of nuclear structure and low-energy reactions, including heavy-ion
physics.
is_a: nucl
title: Nuclear Theory
physics.acc-ph:
text: physics.acc-ph
description: Accelerator theory and target design, beam physics, secondary beams,
photon sources.
is_a: physics
title: Accelerator Physics
physics.ao-ph:
text: physics.ao-ph
description: Atmospheric and oceanic processes, climate dynamics, waves, boundary
layer physics.
is_a: physics
title: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
physics.app-ph:
text: physics.app-ph
description: Applications of physics to new technology, medical physics, instrumentation.
is_a: physics
title: Applied Physics
physics.atm-clus:
text: physics.atm-clus
description: Binding, structure, and properties of clusters, nanoparticles.
is_a: physics
title: Atomic and Molecular Clusters
physics.atom-ph:
text: physics.atom-ph
description: Atomic and molecular structure, spectra, collisions, and data. Ultrafast
physics, molecular physics.
is_a: physics
title: Atomic Physics
physics.bio-ph:
text: physics.bio-ph
description: Molecular biophysics, cellular biophysics, single molecule biophysics.
is_a: physics
title: Biological Physics
close_mappings:
- NCIT:C16349
- mesh:D001703
physics.chem-ph:
text: physics.chem-ph
description: Experimental, methods, and results in chemical physics and molecular
dynamics.
is_a: physics
title: Chemical Physics
physics.class-ph:
text: physics.class-ph
description: Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics,
special relativity.
is_a: physics
title: Classical Physics
physics.comp-ph:
text: physics.comp-ph
description: All aspects of computational science applied to physics problems.
is_a: physics
title: Computational Physics
physics.data-an:
text: physics.data-an
description: Methods, software, and results in physics data analysis.
is_a: physics
title: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
physics.ed-ph:
text: physics.ed-ph
description: Physics teaching and learning research.
is_a: physics
title: Physics Education
physics.flu-dyn:
text: physics.flu-dyn
description: Turbulence, instabilities, incompressible and compressible flows,
boundary layers.
is_a: physics
title: Fluid Dynamics
physics.gen-ph:
text: physics.gen-ph
description: General physics that does not fit elsewhere.
is_a: physics
title: General Physics
physics.geo-ph:
text: physics.geo-ph
description: Computational and theoretical geophysics including seismology, potential
theory.
is_a: physics
title: Geophysics
physics.hist-ph:
text: physics.hist-ph
description: History and philosophy of all aspects of physics.
is_a: physics
title: History and Philosophy of Physics
physics.ins-det:
text: physics.ins-det
description: Instrumentation and detectors for accelerator, astro-, geo-, or particle
physics.
is_a: physics
title: Instrumentation and Detectors
physics.med-ph:
text: physics.med-ph
description: Radiation therapy, biomedical imaging, health physics.
is_a: physics
title: Medical Physics
close_mappings:
- NCIT:C16667
physics.optics:
text: physics.optics
description: Adaptive optics, polarimetry, quantum optics, ultrafast optics, photonics.
is_a: physics
title: Optics
physics.plasm-ph:
text: physics.plasm-ph
description: Fundamental plasma physics, magnetic and inertial confinement, astrophysical
plasmas.
is_a: physics
title: Plasma Physics
physics.pop-ph:
text: physics.pop-ph
description: General physics topics for a broad audience.
is_a: physics
title: Popular Physics
physics.soc-ph:
text: physics.soc-ph
description: Sociophysics, structure and dynamics of societies, opinion dynamics.
is_a: physics
title: Physics and Society
physics.space-ph:
text: physics.space-ph
description: Space plasma physics, magnetospheric physics, solar wind, cosmic
rays.
is_a: physics
title: Space Physics
q-bio.BM:
text: q-bio.BM
description: DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, small molecules; molecular structure
and dynamics; molecular engineering.
is_a: q-bio
title: Biomolecules
q-bio.CB:
text: q-bio.CB
description: Cell-cell signaling, morphogenesis, development; cell division/cycle;
immunology.
is_a: q-bio
title: Cell Behavior
q-bio.GN:
text: q-bio.GN
description: DNA sequencing and assembly; gene finding; genome structure, organization,
and regulation.
is_a: q-bio
title: Genomics
close_mappings:
- NCIT:C84343
- mesh:D023281
q-bio.MN:
text: q-bio.MN
description: Gene regulation, signal transduction, metabolic networks, kinetics,
synthetic biology.
is_a: q-bio
title: Molecular Networks
q-bio.NC:
text: q-bio.NC
description: Synapse, receptor dynamics, learning, neural coding, neuroinformatics.
is_a: q-bio
title: Neurons and Cognition
q-bio.OT:
text: q-bio.OT
description: Work in quantitative biology that does not fit in the other q-bio
classifications.
is_a: q-bio
title: Other Quantitative Biology
q-bio.PE:
text: q-bio.PE
description: Population dynamics, spatio-temporal evolution, migration, phylogeny,
biodiversity.
is_a: q-bio
title: Populations and Evolution
q-bio.QM:
text: q-bio.QM
description: Research papers with experimental, numerical, or statistical contributions
of value to biologists.
is_a: q-bio
title: Quantitative Methods
q-bio.SC:
text: q-bio.SC
description: Subcellular structures, molecular motors, organelle transport, packaging.
is_a: q-bio
title: Subcellular Processes
q-bio.TO:
text: q-bio.TO
description: Blood flow, biomechanics, tumor growth, tissue morphogenesis.
is_a: q-bio
title: Tissues and Organs
q-fin.CP:
text: q-fin.CP
description: Monte Carlo, PDE, and other numerical methods with applications to
quantitative finance.
is_a: q-fin
title: Computational Finance
q-fin.EC:
text: q-fin.EC
description: General economics topics with quantitative approaches.
is_a: q-fin
title: Economics
q-fin.GN:
text: q-fin.GN
description: General quantitative financial methodologies covering multiple sub-fields.
is_a: q-fin
title: General Finance
q-fin.MF:
text: q-fin.MF
description: Mathematical and analytical methods in finance, stochastic methods,
hedging strategies.
is_a: q-fin
title: Mathematical Finance
q-fin.PM:
text: q-fin.PM
description: Security selection and optimization, capital allocation, investment
strategies.
is_a: q-fin
title: Portfolio Management
q-fin.PR:
text: q-fin.PR
description: Valuation and hedging of financial securities, their derivatives,
and structured products.
is_a: q-fin
title: Pricing of Securities
q-fin.RM:
text: q-fin.RM
description: Measurement and management of financial risks in trading, banking,
insurance.
is_a: q-fin
title: Risk Management
q-fin.ST:
text: q-fin.ST
description: Statistical, econometric methods applied to financial markets.
is_a: q-fin
title: Statistical Finance
q-fin.TR:
text: q-fin.TR
description: Market microstructure, algorithmic trading, order book dynamics.
is_a: q-fin
title: Trading and Market Microstructure
stat.AP:
text: stat.AP
description: Biology, education, epidemiology, engineering, environmental sciences,
medical, physical sciences.
is_a: stat
title: Applications
stat.CO:
text: stat.CO
description: Algorithms, computational methods, simulation, visualization.
is_a: stat
title: Computation
stat.ME:
text: stat.ME
description: Design, surveys, model selection, regression, testing, time series.
is_a: stat
title: Methodology
stat.ML:
text: stat.ML
description: Covers machine learning papers with a statistical or theoretical
grounding.
is_a: stat
title: Machine Learning
close_mappings:
- NCIT:C176231
- mesh:D000069550
stat.OT:
text: stat.OT
description: Work in statistics that does not fit into the other stat-* classifications.
is_a: stat
title: Other Statistics
stat.TH:
text: stat.TH
description: Asymptotics, Bayesian inference, decision theory, estimation, foundations,
inference.
is_a: stat
title: Statistics Theory