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The cyclic insertion conjecture of Borwein, Bradley, Broadhurst and Lison\v{e}k states that inserting all cyclic shifts of some fixed blocks of 2's into the multiple zeta value {\zeta}(1,3,...,1,3) gives an explicit rational multiple of a…

Let $F$ be an irreducible binary form attached to a number field $K$ of degree $\geq 3$. Let $\epsilon\not\in \{-1, 1\}$ be a totally real unit of $K$. By twisting $F$ with the powers $\epsilon^a$ of $\epsilon$, ($a\in{\mathbf Z}$), we…

Let R be a commutative ring and let G be a free R-module with positive rank e. For any R-submodule E of G we may consider the image of the symmetric algebra of E by the natural map to the symmetric algebra of G, and then the graded…

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…

Let $F$ be a number field and $\mathcal{O}_F$ its ring of integers. We use Chevalley's ambiguous class number formula to give a criterion for the non-existence of solutions to the unit equation $\lambda + \mu = 1$, $\lambda, \mu \in…

This paper is devoted to the study of the following autonomous Kirchhoff-type equation $$-M\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|\nabla{u}|^2\right)\Delta{u}= f(u),~~~~u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N),$$ where $M$ is a continuous non-degenerate function and…

We refine a result of W.P. Li and Wang on the values of the form $ \lambda_1p_1 + \lambda_2p_2^{2} + \lambda_3p_3^{2} + \mu_1 2^{m_1} +...+ \mu_s 2^{m_s}, $ where $p_1,p_2,p_3$ are prime numbers, $m_1,..., m_s$ are positive integers,…

Let $K$ be a totally real field. By the asymptotic Fermat's Last Theorem over $K$ we mean the statement that there is a constant $B_K$ such that for prime exponents $p>B_K$ the only solutions to the Fermat equation $a^p + b^p + c^p = 0$…

We determine the asymptotic density $\delta_k$ of the set of ordered $k$-tuples $(n_1,...,n_k)\in \N^k, k\ge 2$, such that there exists no prime power $p^a$, $a\ge 1$, appearing in the canonical factorization of each $n_i$, $1\le i\le k$,…

For any real number $s$, let $\sigma_s$ be the generalized divisor function, i.e., the arithmetic function defined by $\sigma_s(n) := \sum_{d \, \mid \, n} d^s$, for all positive integers $n$. We prove that for any $r > 1$ the topological…

We consider a polynomial $P\in \mathbb{R}[x_{1},\cdots, x_{d}]$ of degree $ \delta $ that depends non-trivially on each of $x_1,...,x_d$ with $d\geq 2$. For any integer $t$ with $2\leq t\leq d$, any natural number $n \in \mathbb{N}$, and…

Regularity properties of solutions to variational problems are established for a broad class of strictly convex splitting-type energy densities of the principal form $f$: $\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$, \[ f(\xi_1,\xi_2) = f_1\big( \xi_1…

Let $B_1$ be the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with $N \geq 2$. Let $f\in C^1([0, \infty), \mathbb{R})$, $f(0)=0$, $f(\beta) = \beta, \ f(s)<s\ \text{for}\ s\in (0,\beta), \ f(s)>s\ \text{for}\ s\in (\beta, \infty)$ and…

We consider a class of $n^{\text{th}}$-order linear ordinary differential equations with a large parameter $u$. Analytic solutions of these equations can be described by (divergent) formal series in descending powers of $u$. We demonstrate…

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear elliptic equation with gradient term: \[ \left\{ \begin{gathered} - \Delta u - \frac{1}{2}(x \cdot \nabla u) + (\lambda a(x)+b(x))u = \beta u^q +u^{2^*-1}, \hfill 0<u \in…

We study density and partition properties of polynomial equations in prime variables. We consider equations of the form $a_1h(x_1) + \cdots + a_sh(x_s)=b$, where the $a_i$ and $b$ are fixed coefficients, and $h$ is an arbitrary integer…

We establish some upper bounds for the number of integer solutions to the Thue inequality $|F(x , y)| \leq m$, where $F$ is a binary form of degree $n \geq 3$ and with non-zero discriminant $D$, and $m$ is an integer. Our upper bounds are…

In this paper we address the following Kirchhoff type problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta(g(|\nabla u|_2^2) u + u^r) = a u + b u^p& \mbox{in}~\Omega, u>0& \mbox{in}~\Omega, u= 0& \mbox{on}~\partial\Omega, \end{array}…

When k > 1 and s is sufficiently large in terms of k, we derive an explicit multi-term asymptotic expansion for the number of representations of a large natural number as the sum of s positive integral k-th powers.

We establish the following quantitative form of the Green--Tao theorem: if a set $\mathcal{A}$ of relative density $\delta$ within the primes up to $N$ contains no nontrivial arithmetic progressions of length $k\geq 4$, then $\delta\ll…