Related papers: A note on powers of the characteristic function

Let $PD(\mathbb{R})$ be the family of continuous positive definite functions on $\mathbb{R}$. For an integer $n>1$, a $f\in PD(\mathbb{R})$ is called $n$-divisible if there is $g\in PD(\mathbb{R})$ such that $g^n=f$. Some properties of…

Let $f:R\to C$ be the characteristic function of a probability measure. We study the following question: Is it true that for any closed interval $I$ on $R$, which does not contain the origin, there exists a characteristic function $g$ such…

Let $X$ be an arbitrary real-valued random variable (r.v.), with the characteristic function (c.f.) $f$. Integral expressions for the c.f.\ of the r.v.'s $\max(0,X)$ in terms of $f$ are given, as well as other related results. Applications…

I develop a function that, for any integer $n \geq 2$, takes a value of 1 if $n$ is prime, 0 if $n$ is composite. I also discuss two applications: First, the characteristic function provides a new expression for the prime counting function.…

Let $X$ be a positive integer and $t$ a real number great than 1. The family of sets $\left\{\big\lfloor\frac{X}{n^t}\big\rfloor ~:~ 1\leq n\leq X\right\}$ have an interesting prime distribution property. We give an exact formula for the…

Let $q\ge2$ be an integer, $\{X_n\}_{n\geq 1}$ a stochastic process with state space $\{0,\ldots,q-1\}$, and $F$ the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of $\sum_{n=1}^\infty X_n q^{-n}$. We show that stationarity of $\{X_n\}_{n\geq 1}$…

Using GCH, we force the following: There are continuum many simple cardinal characteristics with pairwise different values.

In this paper we investigate some basic properties of fractional powers. In this regard, we show that for any rational number $1\leq {2r+1\over 2s+1}< og(G)$, $G^{{2r+1\over 2s+1}}\longrightarrow H$ if and only if $G\longrightarrow…

Assume that $f$ is the characteristic function of a probability measure $\mu_f$ on $R^n$. Let $\sigma>0$. We study the following extrapolation problem: under what conditions on the neighborhood of infinity $V_{\sigma}=\{x\in R^n:…

The main purpose of this paper is to give characterization theorems on derivations as well as on linear functions. Among others the following problem will be investigated: Let $n\in\mathbb{Z}$, $f, g\colon\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be…

Suppose that $f$ is the characteristic function of a probability measure on the real line $\R$. In this paper, we deal with the following problem posed by N.G. Ushakov: Is it true that $f$ is never determined by its imaginary part $\Im f$?…

We propose a necessary and sufficient condition for a real-valued function on the real line to be a characteristic function of a probability measures. The statement is given in terms of harmonic functions and completely monotonic functions.

We use the theory of cross ratios to construct a real-valued function f of only three variables with the property that for any finite set A of reals, the set f(A) = {f(a,b,c):a,b,c \in A} has cardinality at least C|A|^2/log|A|, for an…

This paper studies the strong fractional choice number $ch^s_f(G)$ and the strong fractional paint number $\chi^s_{f,P}(G)$ of a graph $G$. We prove that these parameters of any finite graph are rational numbers. On the other hand, for any…

Let X be a projective curve defined over Q and t a non-constant Q-rational function on X of degree at least 2. For every integer n pick a point P_n on X such that t(P_n)=n. A result of Dvornicich and Zannier implies that, for large N, among…

We investigate fractional sums of arithmetic functions over products of two or three integers, with emphasis on fixed greatest common divisors and multiplicative weights. Let $f$ be an arithmetic function satisfying $f(n) \ll n^\alpha$ for…

Two meromorphic functions $f$ and $g$ are said to share the set $S\subset \mathbb{C}\cup\{\infty\}$ with weight $l\in\mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}\cup\{\infty\}$, if $E_{f}(S,l)=E_{g}(S,l)$ where $$E_{f}(S,l)=\bigcup\limits_{a \in S}\{(z,t) \in…

Recently it has been proved that, assuming that there is an almost disjoint family of cardinality (2^{\mathfrak c}) in (\mathfrak c) (which is assured, for instance, by either Martin's Axiom, or CH, or even $2^{<\mathfrak c=\mathfrak c$})…

Given a graph $G$ and an integer $r\ge 1$, the $r$th power $G^r$ of $G$ is the graph obtained from $G$ by adding edges for all pairs of distinct vertices at distance at most $r$ from each other. We focus on two basic structural properties…

An equitable colouring of a graph $G$ is a colouring of the vertices of $G$ so that no two adjacent vertices are coloured the same and, additionally, the colour class sizes differ by at most $1$. The equitable chromatic number $\chi_=(G)$…