Publications

The most up-to-date report of my publication status. All titles can be found in both online and locally hosted form. Where different versions of the same work exist, they are indexed with V1, V2, and so on.

Selected publications

A Note on the Approximability of the Balanced Minimum Evolution Problem

Daniele Catanzaro, Raffaele Pesenti, Francesco Pisanu (2026)
Operations Research Letters, Volume 67 (2026, Elsevier)
(preprint)

A horizon tour of box-total dual integrality

Emiliano Lancini, Francesco Pisanu (2026)
Computer Science Review, Volume 61, (2026, Elsevier)
(preprint)

Hard problems on box-totally dual integral polyhedra

Patrick Chervet, Roland Grappe, Mathieu Lacroix, Francesco Pisanu, Roberto Wolfler Calvo (2023)
Discrete Optimization, Volume 50, (Elsevier, 2023)
(preprint)

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Other publications

This section presents some publications related to different projects I had the opportunity to collaborate on in recent years, which fall outside the core of my research.

Stingray 2: A fast and modern Python library for spectral timing

Matteo Bachetti, Daniela Huppenkothen, Abigail Stevens, John Swinbank, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Matteo Lucchini, Eleonora Veronica Lai, Johannes Buchner, Amogh Desai, Gaurav Joshi, Francesco Pisanu, Sri Guru Datta Pisupati, Swapnil Sharma, Mihir Tripathi, Dhruv Vats (2024)
The Journal of Open Source Software, (2024)

Improvements on overdetermined problems associated to the p-Laplacian

Antonio Greco, Francesco Pisanu (2022)
Mathematics in Engineering, 4(3): 1-14, (AIMS Press, 2022)

The Extragalactic Population of Accreting Neutron Stars and the Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Paradigm: from ULTraS to PULSULTraS

GL Israel, A De Luca, M Bachetti, A Belfiore, P Esposito, M Imbrogno, A Miraval Zanon, Francesco Pisanu, GA Rodríguez Castillo, R Salvaterra, A Tiengo, A Wolter, Ultras Team, Pulsultras Team (2022)
Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society, (Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2022)

In preparation

On the Complexity of Degree-Constrained Network Design Problems with Linear and Nonlinear Objectives

Daniele Catanzaro, Gwenaël Joret, Brieuc Pierre, and Francesco Pisanu (2026+)
Submitted in December 2025

On strong integrality properties of the perfect matching polytope

Roland Grappe, Mathieu Lacroix, Francesco Pisanu (2026+)
Submitted in May 2025
Versions: V1, V2