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Diophantine equations are multivariate equations, usually polynomial, in which only integer solutions are admitted. A brute force method for finding solutions would be to systematically substitute possible integer solutions and check for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Lara Tatli , Paul Stevenson

We study parameterized Constraint Satisfaction Problem for infinite constraint languages. The parameters that we study are weight of the satisfying assignment, number of constraints, maximum number of occurrences of a variable in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Ruhollah Majdoddin

We investigate the equational theory of Kleene algebra terms with variable complements -- (language) complement where it applies only to variables -- w.r.t. languages. While the equational theory w.r.t. languages coincides with the language…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yoshiki Nakamura , Ryoma Sin'ya

In this paper we consider the Diophantine equation \begin{align*}b^k +\left(a+b\right)^k &+ \cdots + \left(a\left(x-1\right) + b\right)^k=\\ &=d^l + \left(c+d\right)^l + \cdots + \left(c\left(y-1\right) + d\right)^l, \end{align*} where…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-13 A. Bazsó , D. Kreso , F. Luca , Á. Pintér

A circular word, or a necklace, is an equivalence class under conjugation of a word. A fundamental question concerning regularities in standard words is bounding the number of distinct squares in a word of length $n$. The famous conjecture…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Mika Amit , Paweł Gawrychowski

We investigate the solvability of the Diophantine equation in the title, where $d>1$ is a square-free integer, $p, q$ are distinct odd primes and $x,y,a,b$ are unknown positive integers with $\gcd(x,y)=1$. We describe all the integer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Kalyan Chakraborty , Azizul Hoque

Aristotle considered particular quantified sentences in his study of syllogisms and in his famous square of opposition. Of course, the logical formulas in Aristotle work were not modern formulas of mathematical logic, but ordinary sentences…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Fabio Pasquali , Christian Retoré

The solvability of Diophantine quartic equations is a contemporary area of interest due to its connection with generalized Fermat's equation. In this work, we are interested in the integer solutions of a similar Diophantine equation p u^2 =…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Vinodkumar Ghale

We give solutions of a Diophantine equation containing factorials, which can be written as a cubic form, or as a sum of binomial coefficients. We also give some solutions to higher degree forms and relate some solutions to an unsolvable…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Geoffrey B. Campbell , Aleksander Zujev

In a paper published in Information Processing Letters in 2000, Bouajjani et al. presented an automata-based approach to a number of elementary problems on context-free grammars. This approach is of pedagogical interest since it provides a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Javier Esparza , Peter Rossmanith , Stefan Schwoon

This paper contains a survey of recent developments in investigation of word equations in simple matrix groups and polynomial equations in simple (associative and Lie) matrix algebras along with some new results on the image of word maps on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Nikolai Gordeev , Boris Kunyavskii , Eugene Plotkin

The mathematical analysis was conceived in XVII century in Newton and Leibniz works. The problem of logical rigor in definitions was considered by Arnauld and Nicole in "Logique ou l'art de penser". They were the first, who distinguished…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-02-25 G. Sinkevich

Math word problem (MWP) serves as a fundamental research topic in artificial intelligence (AI) dating back to 1960s. This research aims to advance the reasoning abilities of AI by mirroring the human-like cognitive intelligence. The…

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Complex systems, such as life and languages, are governed by principles of evolution. The analogy and comparison between biology and linguistics\cite{alphafold2, RoseTTAFold, lang_virus, cell language, faculty1, language of gene, Protein…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-18 Li-Min Wang , Hsing-Yi Lai , Sun-Ting Tsai , Chen Siang Ng , Kevin Sheng-Kai Ma , Shan-Jyun Wu , Meng-Xue Tsai , Yi-Ching Su , Daw-Wei Wang , Tzay-Ming Hong

We survey solvability of equations in wreath products of groups, and prove that the quadratic diophantine problem is solvable in wreath products of Abelian groups. We consider the related question of determining commutator width, and prove…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Laurent Bartholdi , Ruiwen Dong , Leon Pernak , Jan Philipp Wächter

The Mordell conjecture: origins, approaches, generalizations -- The Mordell conjecture predicts that a diophantine equation defining a smooth projective curve of genus at least two has only finity many solutions in a given number field. The…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Antoine Chambert-Loir

We consider a new family of factorial languages whose subword complexity grows as $\Theta(n^{\alpha})$, where $\alpha$ is the root of some transcendent equation. Analytical methods and in particular, a corollary of the Wiener-Pitt theorem,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Julien Cassaigne , Anna Frid , Fedor Petrov

Solutions to a linear Diophantine system, or lattice points in a rational convex polytope, are important concepts in algebraic combinatorics and computational geometry. The enumeration problem is fundamental and has been well studied,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Guoce Xin

In this paper, elliptic curves theory is used for solving the Diophantine equations X^3+Y^3+Z^3+aU^k=a_0U_0^{t_0}+...+a_nU_n^{t_n}, k=3,4 where n, ti are natural numbers and a, a_i are fixed arbitrary rational numbers. We try to transform…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Farzali Izadi , Mehdi Baghalaghdam