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We evaluate the number of monic polynomials (of arbitrary degree $N$) the zeros of which equal their coefficients when these are allowed to take arbitrary complex values. In the following, we call polynomials with this property {\em…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Francesco Calogero , Francois Leyvraz

The well known binary and decimal representations of the integers, and other similar number systems, admit many generalisations. Here, we investigate whether still every integer could have a finite expansion on a given integer base b, when…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-03 Christiaan van de Woestijne

A group of matrices $G$ with entries in a number field $K$ is defined to be numerical if $G$ has a finite index subgroup of matrices whose entries are algebraic integers. It is shown that an irreducible or completely reducible subgroup of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-27 María Teresa Lozano , José María Montesinos-Amilibia

To determine whether a number is congruent or not is an old and difficult topic and progress is slow. The paper presents a new theorem when a prime number is a congruent number or not. The proof is not necessarily any simpler or shorter…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Jorma Jormakka , Sourangshu Ghosh

Systems of germs of sets in infinite-dimensional spaces are introduced and studied. Such a system corresponds to a local zero-set of an ideal of the ring of analytic functions of infinite number of variables. Conversely, this system of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dorota Mozyrska , Zbigniew Bartosiewicz

We study an infinite countable iteration of the natural product between ordinals. We present an "effective" way to compute this countable natural product, in the non trivial cases the result depends only on the natural sum of the degrees of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Paolo Lipparini

We define a class of rational numbers including, as a particular case, the classical harmonic numbers. For one particular instance we apply it to the expansion into powers series of a special function, and also detail its relashionship with…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Juan Pla

An algebraic tree T is one determined by a finite system of fixed point equations. The frontier \Fr(T) of an algebraic tree t is linearly ordered by the lexicographic order \lex. When (\Fr(T),\lex) is well-ordered, its order type is an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-08 S. L. Bloom , Z. Esik

We propose a reinterpretation of the continuum grounded in the stratified structure of definability rather than classical cardinality. In this framework, a real number is not an abstract point on the number line, but an object expressible…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Stanislav Semenov

This report presents an expression for the number of a multiset's sub-multisets of a given cardinality as a function of the multiplicity of its elements. This is also the number of distinct samples of a given size that may be produced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-20 Sebastiano Ferraris , Alex Mendelson , Gerardo Ballesio , Tom Vercauteren

We give sufficient conditions allowing one to build a C*-algebraic structure on a self-adjoint linear subspace of a C*-algebra in such a way that the subspace is naturally identified with the resulting C*-algebra via a completely positive…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Kristin Courtney , Wilhelm Winter

We introduce and study the class of spherically ordered groups. The notions of spherically ordered groups and their spectra of spherical orderability are introduced. Values of these spectra are found for a series of natural groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Sergey V. Sudoplatov

We consider first the zero-nonzero determination problem, which consists in determining the list of zero-nonzero conditions realized by a finite list of polynomials on a finite set Z included in C^k with C an algebraic closed field. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-20 Daniel Perrucci , Marie-Francoise Roy

Minor totals of natural sequence were shown to possess some properties in respect to their units digits. Depending on numeral system applied the units digits may take any digit of the system or there may be exclusions. i.e. some system…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Vladimir L. Gavrikov

It is known that the ordered Bell numbers count all the ordered partitions of the set $[n]=\{1,2,\dots,n\}$. In this paper, we introduce the deranged Bell numbers that count the total number of deranged partitions of $[n]$. We first study…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Hacéne Belbachir , Yahia Djemmada , László Németh

A Friedman number is a positive integer which is the result of an expression combining all of its own digits by use of the four basic operations, exponentiation and digit concatenation. A "nice" Friedman number is a Friedman number for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-10 Michael Brand

If the list of binary numbers is read by upward-sloping diagonals, the resulting ``sloping binary numbers'' 0, 11, 110, 101, 100, 1111, 1010, ... (or 0, 3, 6, 5, 4, 15, 10, ...) have some surprising properties. We give formulae for the n-th…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 David Applegate , Benoit Cloitre , Philippe Deléham , N. J. A. Sloane

We study harmonic mappings of the form $f(z) = h(z) - \overline{z}$, where $h$ is an analytic function. In particular we are interested in the index (a generalized multiplicity) of the zeros of such functions. Outside the critical set of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Robert Luce , Olivier Sète

In the course of many mathematical developments involving 'number systems' like $\mathbb{N}, \mathbb{Z}, \mathbb{Q}, \mathbb{R}, \mathbb {C}$ etc., it sometimes becomes necessary to abstract away and study certain properties of the number…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Alec Rhea

We discuss a formal system of mathematics. We use it to construct the natural numbers.

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Christoph Thiele