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We exhibit a finitely generated group $G$ and a sequence of finite index normal subgroups $N_n\trianglelefteq G$ such that for every finite generating subset $S\subseteq G$, the sequence of finite Cayley graphs $(G/N_n, S)$ does not…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Goulnara Arzhantseva , Romain Tessera

We study the enumeration of spinal tree-child phylogenetic networks, a rigid family of tree-child networks in which all internal vertices lie on a single root--to--leaf path. We provide two complementary combinatorial frameworks. First, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Pau Vives , Anna de Mier , Gabriel Cardona , Joan Carles Pons

We derive the P-finite recurrences for classes of sequences with ordinary generating function containing roots of polynomials. The focus is on establishing the D-finite differential equations such that the familiar steps of reducing their…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Richard J. Mathar

Inspired by computational complexity results for the quantified constraint satisfaction problem, we study the clones of idempotent polymorphisms of certain digraph classes. Our first results are two algebraic dichotomy, even "gap",…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Catarina Carvalho , Florent Madelaine , Barnaby Martin

Mapping class groups are known to admit geometric (proper, cobounded) actions on injective spaces. Starting with such an action, and relying only on geometric arguments, we show that all finite generating sets resulting from taking large…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Lihuang Ding , Dídac Martínez-Granado , Abdul Zalloum

We show that groups presented by inverse-closed finite convergent length-reducing rewriting systems are characterised by a striking geometric property: their Cayley graphs are geodetic and side-lengths of non-degenerate triangles are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Murray Elder , Adam Piggott

The step-reinforced random walk (SRRW), where each step may replicate a randomly chosen past step, exhibits complex dependencies on the history. This paper introduces a generalized SRRW on groups, incorporating arbitrary transformations of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Yuval Peres , Shuo Qin

Kac's lemma determines the expected return time to a set of positive measure under iterations of an ergodic probability preserving transformations. We introduce the notion of an \emph{allocation} for a probability preserving action of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Tom Meyerovitch , Benjamin Weiss

We use the fact that certain cosets of the stabilizer of points are pairwise conjugate in a symmetric group $S_n$ in order to construct recurrence relations for enumerating certain subsets of $S_n$. Occasionally one can find `closed form'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-18 S. P. Glasby

Let \(G\) be a finite solvable group, and let \(\Delta(G)\) denote the \emph{prime graph} built on the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of \(G\). A fundamental result by P.P. P\'alfy asserts that the complement…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Zeinab Akhlaghi , Carlo Casolo , Silvio Dolfi , Khatoon Khedri , Emanuele Pacifici

We introduce the Insertion Chain Complex, a higher-dimensional extension of insertion graphs, as a new framework for analyzing finite sets of words. We study its topological and combinatorial properties, in particular its homology groups,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Nataša Jonoska , Francisco Martinez-Figueroa , Masahico Saito

A connected graph is called \emph{geodetic} if there is a unique shortest path between each pair of vertices. We introduce a systematic method for constructing new presentations of free products that give rise to previously unknown geodetic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Joshua Abraham , Murray Elder , Adam Piggott , Kane Townsend

Graph-based semantic representations are valuable in natural language processing, where it is often simple and effective to represent linguistic concepts as nodes, and relations as edges between them. Several attempts has been made to find…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Johanna Björklund , Frank Drewes , Anna Jonsson

We investigate the relationship between geometric, analytic and probabilistic indices for quotients of the Cayley graph of the free group ${\rm Cay}(F_n)$ endowed with variable edge lengths, by an arbitrary subgroup $G$ of $F_n$. Our main…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Johannes Jaerisch , Katsuhiko Matsuzaki

Dictionaries are inherently circular in nature. A given word is linked to a set of alternative words (the definition) which in turn point to further descendants. Iterating through definitions in this way, one typically finds that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-03-14 David Levary , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Elisha Moses , Tsvi Tlusty

We consider sequences of degrees of ordinary irreducible $S_n$-characters. We assume that the corresponding Young diagrams have rows and columns bounded by some linear function of $n$ with leading coefficient less than one. We show that any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Antonio Giambruno , Sergey Mishchenko

This paper is about counting the number of distinct (scattered) subwords occurring in a given word. More precisely, we consider the generalization of the Pascal triangle to binomial coefficients of words and the sequence $(S(n))_{n\ge 0}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Julien Leroy , Michel Rigo , Manon Stipulanti

A set $X\subseteq\mathbb N$ is S-recognizable for an abstract numeration system S if the set $\rep_S(X)$ of its representations is accepted by a finite automaton. We show that the growth function of an S-recognizable set is always either…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Emilie Charlier , Narad Rampersad

A finite non-increasing sequence of positive integers $d = (d_1\geq \cdots\geq d_n)$ is called a degree sequence if there is a graph $G = (V,E)$ with $V = \{v_1,\ldots,v_n\}$ and $deg(v_i)=d_i$ for $i=1,\ldots,n$. In that case we say that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Atabey Kaygun

We study the $k$-Bonacci word over the infinite alphabet $\mathbb{N}$. Since the alphabet is infinite, the usual factor complexity is infinite and does not provide any information. We therefore investigate factor occurrence statistics in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Narges Ghareghani , Mehdi Golafshan , Morteza Mohammad-Noori , Pouyeh Sharifani