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How many copies of a fixed odd cycle, $C_{2m+1}$, can a planar graph contain? We answer this question asymptotically for $m\in\{2,3,4\}$ and prove a bound which is tight up to a factor of $3/2$ for all other values of $m$. This extends the…

Let $\mathcal{C}$ denote the family of all coherent distributions on the unit square $[0,1]^2$, i.e. all those probability measures $\mu$ for which there exists a random vector $(X,Y)\sim \mu$, a pair $(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{H})$ of…

Let $M$ be a closed, orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold and $\phi$ a homomorphism of its fundamental group onto $\mathbb{Z}$ that is not induced by a fibration over the circle. For each natural number $n$ we give an explicit lower bound,…

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Let $\Omega$ be a domain in a smooth complete Finsler manifold, and let $G$ be the largest open subset of $\Omega$ such that for every $x$ in $G$ there is a unique closest point from $\partial \Omega$ to $x$ (measured in the Finsler…

For any given compact C^2 hypersurface \Sigma in {\bf R}^{2n} bounding a strictly convex set with nonempty interior, in this paper an invariant \varrho_n(\Sigma) is defined and satisfies \varrho_n(\Sigma)\ge [n/2]+1, where [a] denotes the…

In this note ($R, m$) denotes a complete regular local ring and $B$ mostly denotes its absolute integral closure. The four objectives of this paper are the following: i) to determine the highest non-vanishing local cohomology of…

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Central configurations are solutions of the equations $\lambda m_j\boldsymbol{q}_j = \frac{\partial U}{\partial \boldsymbol{q}_j}$, where $U$ denotes the potential function and each $\boldsymbol{q}_j$ is a point in the $d$-dimensional…

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We consider Nahm's equations on a bounded open interval with first order poles at the ends. By imposing further boundary conditions, extended moduli spaces are identified with spaces of rational maps from $\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^1$ to…

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Locally symmetric spaces like $SL(n,\mathbb Z)\backslash SL_n(\mathbb R)/SO(n)$ contain immersed compact flat manifolds of dimension equal to the real rank. We give a lower bound for the contribution of these cycles to the homology of…

Let $\beta_1,...,\beta_n$ be distinct points in the open unit disc in the complex plane, none of which is the origin, and let $H^1$ be the Hardy space. Define a closed convex set in $\mathbb{C}^{n}$ by $\Lambda = \{…

We prove the existence of nonconstant harmonic maps of optimal regularity from an arbitrary closed manifold $(M^n,g)$ of dimension $n>2$ to any closed, non-aspherical manifold $N$ containing no stable minimal two-spheres. In particular,…

In this paper we explore enumeration problems related to the number of reachable configurations in a chip-firing game on a finite connected graph G. We define an auxiliary notion of debt-reachability and prove that the number of…

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