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Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Zahid Raza , Anjum Iqbal

Zeckendorf's theorem states that every positive integer can be uniquely decomposed into nonadjacent Fibonacci numbers. On the other hand, Chung and Graham proved that every positive integer can be uniquely written as a sum of even-indexed…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Lucas Bustos , Hung Viet Chu , Minchae Kim , Uihyeon Lee , Shreya Shankar , Garrett Tresch

A famous conjecture of Erd\H os and Straus is that for every integer $n\ge2$, $4/n$ can be represented as $1/x+1/y+1/z$, where $x,y,z$ are positive integers. This conjecture was generalized to $5/n$ by Sierpi\'nski, and then Schinzel…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Carl Pomerance , Andreas Weingartner

For any positive integers $n \ge 3$ and $r \ge 1$, we prove that the number of monic irreducible polynomials of degree $n$ over $\mathbb{F}_{2^r}$ in which the coefficients of $T^{n-1}$, $T^{n-2}$ and $T^{n-3}$ are prescribed has period…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Ofir Gorodetsky

By the classic results of Fricke and Klein, for every word $w$ in the free group $F(a,b)$ there exists a unique integer \it{trace polynomial} $f_w(x,y,z)\in Z[x,y,z]$ such that $Tr(w(A,B))=f_w(Tr A,Tr B,Tr AB)$. for all $A,B\in SL(2,C)$. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Ilya Kapovich

Let $f_W(n)$ be the number of different factors of length $n$ appearing in $W$. A classical result of Morse and Hedlund, stated in 1938, asserts that an infinite word $W$ is ultimately periodic if and only if $f_W(n)\leq n$ for some $n\in…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-05-04 M. A. Khrystik

Rational wave numbers are periodic sequences ${\mathbf \omega}={\bf A}{\bf w}(f,g)$ in which amplitude ${\bf A}$ a product of powers of trigonometric sequences and ${\bf w}(f,g)=\exp({\bf {i2}\pi ( f {\mathbf \xi} \oplus g{\bf 1})})$ is a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Terence R. Smith

Fix integers $r \ge 2$ and $1\le s_1\le \cdots \le s_{r-1}\le t$ and set $s=\prod_{i=1}^{r-1}s_i$. Let $K=K(s_1, \ldots, s_{r-1}, t)$ denote the complete $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph with parts of size $s_1, \ldots, s_{r-1}, t$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dhruv Mubayi

In this paper we consider the question of when a strongly regular graph with parameters $((s+1)(st+1),s(t+1),s-1,t+1)$ can exist. These parameters arise when the graph is derived from a generalized quadrangle, but there are other examples…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Ivan Guo , Jack H. Koolen , Greg Markowsky , Jongyook Park

Frid, Puzynina and Zamboni (2013) defined the palindromic length of a finite word $w$ as the minimal number of palindromes whose concatenation is equal to $w$. For an infinite word $u$ we study $PL_{u}$, that is, the function that assigns…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Petr Ambrož , Edita Pelantová

In 2012, Sagan and Savage introduced the notion of $st$-Wilf equivalence for a statistic $st$ and for sets of permutations that avoid particular permutation patterns which can be extended to generalized permutation patterns. In this paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Naiomi Cameron , Kendra Killpatrick

We prove that many sequences of positive numbers $(a_n)$ defined by finite linear difference equations $a_{n+k}=c_{k-1}a_{n+k-1}+...+c_0a_n$ with suitable non negative reals coefficients $c_i$ satisfy Bendford's Law on the first digit in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-08-18 Hugues Deligny , Paul Jolissaint

Let $a,b,c$ be relatively prime positive integers such that $a^{2}+b^{2}=c^{2}.$ In 1956, Je\'{s}manowicz conjectured that for any positive integer $n$, the only solution of $(an)^{x}+(bn)^{y}=(cn)^{z}$ in positive integers is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Min Tang , Jian-Xin Weng

One of the most challenging problems in enumerative combinatorics is to count Wilf classes, where you are given a pattern, or set of patterns, and you are asked to find a "formula", or at least an efficient algorithm, that inputs a positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Brian Nakamura , Doron Zeilberger

In 1937, Lothar Collatz conjectured that the sequence generated by the rule $f(n)=3n+1$ for $n\in\mathbb{N}$ odd, $f(n)=n/2$ for $n\in\mathbb{N}$ even, starting in any positive integer $n$ produces $1$. This is equivalent to (1) there are…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Ivan Slapnicar

Let $J$ denote the interval either $(0,1]$ or $ [1, \infty)$. A positive function $f$ on $J$ with $f(1) =1$ is reffered to as a Weierstrass function if it fulfils the double inequality for $x,y \in J$: $$f(x) + f(y) -1 \leq f(xy) \leq…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Halina Wiśniewska

In this paper, we prove similar results for odd and even cycle lengths. Let $L_o(G)$ denote the set of odd cycle lengths of $G$ and $\ell_o(G)$ denote the longest odd cycle length. In 1992, Gy\'arf\'as proved that $\chi(G)\leq 2|L_o(G)|+2$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Xiaolin Wang

In this paper, we develop Furstenberg's proof of infinity of primes, and prove several results about prime divisors of sequences of integers, including the celebrated Schur's theorem. In particular, we give a simple proof of a classical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Xianzu Lin

Call a (strictly increasing) sequence $(r_{n})$ of natural numbers \emph{regular} if it satisfies the following condition: $r_{n+1}/r_{n}\to\theta\in\mathbb{R}^{>1}\cup\{\infty\}$ and, if $\theta$ is algebraic, then $(r_{n})$ satisfies a…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Quentin Lambotte , Françoise Point

For any positive integer $r$, the $r$-Fubini number with parameter $n$, denoted by $F_{n,r}$, is equal to the number of ways that the elements of a set with $n+r$ elements can be weak ordered such that the $r$ least elements are in distinct…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Amir Abbas Asgari , Majid Jahangiri