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A method is described to count simple diagonal walks on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with a fixed starting point and endpoint on one of the axes and a fixed winding angle around the origin. The method involves the decomposition of such walks into smaller…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Timothy Budd

We address the enumeration of walks with small steps confined to a two-dimensional cone, for example the quarter plane, three-quarter plane or the slit plane. In the quarter plane case, the solutions for unweighted step-sets are already…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Andrew Elvey Price

Whittaker functions are special functions that arise in $p$-adic number theory and representation theory. They may be defined on representations of reductive groups as well as their metaplectic covering groups: fascinatingly, many of their…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Ilani Axelrod-Freed , Claire Frechette , Veronica Lang

This expository article is an introduction to logarithmic Gromov--Witten (GW) theory. We discuss how to study the GW theory of a smooth projective variety via simple normal crossings degenerations. We survey several approaches to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Dhruv Ranganathan

A generalized continuum framework for the theory of solute transport in fluids is proposed and systematically developed. This framework rests on the introduction of a generic force balance for the solute, a balance distinct from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-29 Eliot Fried , Shaun Sellers

In a recent article a generalization of the binomial distribution associated with a sequence of positive numbers was examined. The analysis of the nonnegativeness of the formal expressions was a key-point to allow to give them a statistical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Bergeron , E. M. F. Curado , J. P. Gazeau , Ligia M. C. S. Rodrigues

The Mertens function, $M(x) := \sum_{n \leq x} \mu(n)$, is defined as the summatory function of the classical M\"obius function. The Dirichlet inverse function $g(n) := (\omega+1)^{-1}(n)$ is defined in terms of the shifted strongly…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Maxie Dion Schmidt

We formulate a general method for perturbative evaluations of statistics of smoothed cosmic fields, and provide useful formulas in application of the perturbation theory to various statistics. This formalism is an extensive generalization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takahiko Matsubara

We derive out naturally some important distributions such as high order normal distributions and high order exponent distributions and the Gamma distribution from a geometrical way. Further, we obtain the exact mean-values of integral form…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Cheng-shi Liu

It is a remarkable fact that for many statistics on finite sets of combinatorial objects, the roots of the corresponding generating function are each either a complex root of unity or zero. These and related polynomials have been studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Sara C. Billey , Joshua P. Swanson

In this paper we present a thorough study on the existence of traveling waves in a mathematical model of dispersal in a partially sedentary age-structured population. This type of model was first proposed by Veit and Lewis in [{\it Am.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-11-12 Thuc Manh Le , Frithjof Lutscher , Nguyen Van Minh

The Lee-Yang theory of adsorbing self-avoiding walks is presented. It is shown that Lee-Yang zeros of the generating function of this model asymptotically accumulate uniformly on a circle in the complex plane, and that Fisher zeros of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 EJ Janse van Rensburg

We study a process of generating random positive integer weight sequences $\{ W_n \}$ where the gaps between the weights $\{ X_n = W_n - W_{n-1} \}$ are i.i.d. positive integer-valued random variables. We show that as long as the gap…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Erin Crossen Brown , Sevak Mkrtchyan , Jonathan Pakianathan

Many widely used network centralities are based on counting walks that meet specific criteria. This paper introduces a systematic framework for walk enumeration using generating functions. We introduce a first-passage decomposition that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-14 Yang Sun , Wei Zhao , Junjie Zhou

Generation of Wigner functions of Landau levels and determination of their symmetries and generic properties are achieved in the autonomous framework of deformation quantization. Transformation properties of diagonal Wigner functions under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Demircioglu , A. Vercin

Hecke studies the distribution of fractional parts of quadratic irrationals with Fourier expansion of Dirichlet series. This method is generalized by Behnke and Ash-Friedberg, to study the distribution of the number of totally positive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Tianyi Mao

We introduce a deductive statistical mechanics approach for granular materials which is formally built from few realistic physical assumptions. The main finding is an universal behavior for the distribution of the density fluctuations. Such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-25 T. Aste , T. Di Matteo

The distribution of the number of points of the closed simple random walk, visited a given number of times (the k-multiple point range) is analysed by a graph based approach. A general expression for the moments is derived. In this paper…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Daniel Hoef

A non-Markovian counting process, the `generalized fractional Poisson process' (GFPP) introduced by Cahoy and Polito in 2013 is analyzed. The GFPP contains two index parameters $0<\beta\leq 1$, $\alpha >0$ and a time scale parameter.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Thomas M. Michelitsch , Alejandro P. Riascos

We recall that a parking function of length $n+1$ is said to be prime if removing any instance of 1 yields a parking function of length $n$. In this article, we study prime parking functions from multiple lenses. We derive an explicit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Pamela E. Harris , Selvi Kara , Erin McNicholas , Kathryn Nyman , Mei Yin