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In this article we give a survey of the various forms of Berthelot's conjecture and some of the implications between them. By proving some comparison results between pushforwards of overconvergent isocrystals and those of arithmetic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Christopher Lazda

We prove a metrical result on a family of conjectures related to the Littlewood conjecture, namely the original Littlewood conjecture, the mixed Littlewood conjecture of de Mathan and Teuli\'e and a hybrid between a conjecture of Cassels…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-05 Alan Haynes , Jonas Lindstrøm Jensen , Simon Kristensen

In the present work we prove a number of surprising results about gaps between consecutive primes and arithmetic progressions in the sequence of generalized twin primes which could not have been proven without the recent fantastic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Janos Pintz

We confirm a conjectural supercongruence involving Catalan numbers, which is one of the 100 selected open conjectures on congruences of Sun. The proof makes use of hypergeometric series identities and symbolic summation method.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Ji-Cai Liu

In this short note we give counterexamples to several results related to extension theorems published recently.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Constantin Zalinescu

In this article we discuss the transcendence of certain infinite sums and products by using the Subspace theorem. In particular we improve the result of Han\v{c}l and Rucki \cite{hancl3}.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Veekesh Kumar , Bill Mance

We give non-torsion counterexamples against the integral Tate conjecture for finite fields. We extend the result due to Pirutka and Yagita for prime numbers 2,3,5 to all prime numbers.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Masaki Kameko

Since their introduction by Erd\H{o}s in 1950, covering systems (that is, finite collections of arithmetic progressions that cover the integers) have been extensively studied, and numerous questions and conjectures have been posed regarding…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Paul Balister , Béla Bollobás , Robert Morris , Julian Sahasrabudhe , Marius Tiba

We show that a problem by Yau can not be true in general. The counterexamples are constructed based on the recent work of Wu and Zheng.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Bo Yang

By using the Rodriguez-Villegas-Mortenson supercongruences, we prove four supercongruences on sums involving binomial coefficients, which were originally conjectured by Sun. We also confirm a related conjecture of Guo on integer-valued…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-31 Ji-Cai Liu

The basic theme of this paper is the fact that if $A$ is a finite set of integers, then the sum and product sets cannot both be small. A precise formulation of this fact is Conjecture 1 below due to Erd\H os-Szemer\'edi [E-S]. (see also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mei-Chu Chang

We apply simple linear programming methods and an LP solver to refute a number of open conjectures in extremal combinatorics.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Adam Zsolt Wagner

A set of integers is primitive if no number in the set divides another. We introduce a new method for bounding Erd\H{o}s sums of primitive sets, suggested from output of GPT-5.4 Pro, based on Markov chains with von Mangoldt weights. The…

An old and well-known conjecture of Frankl and F\"{u}redi states that the Lagrangian of an $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges is maximised by an initial segment of colex. In this paper we disprove this conjecture by finding an infinite…

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We provide a counterexample to the Lagrangian Poincar\'e recurrence conjecture of Ginzburg and Viterbo in all dimensions $6$ and greater.

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We study a type of calculus for proving inequalities between subgraph densities which is based on Jensen's inequality for the logarithmic function. As a demonstration of the method we verify the conjecture of Erd\"os-Simonovits and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-07 J. L. Xiang Li , Balazs Szegedy

This article proposes a unified analytical approach leading to a partial resolution of the Erdos-Straus, Sierpinski conjectures, and their generalization. We introduce an equivalent reformulation of these conjectures while constructing two…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Philemon Urbain Mballa

We prove that, for every theory $T$ which is given by an ${\mathcal L}_{\omega_1,\omega}$ sentence, $T$ has less than $2^{\aleph_0}$ many countable models if and only if we have that, for every $X\in 2^\omega$ on a cone of Turing degrees,…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Antonio Montalban

In this paper we attack the Erdos-Straus conjecture by means of the structure of its solutions, extending and improving the results of a previous paper. Using previous results and supported by the works of Elsholtz and Tao and Monks and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Miguel Angel Lopez

Let $\mathcal{A}\subset\mathbb{R}_{\geqslant1}$ be a countable set such that $\limsup_{x\to\infty}\frac{1}{\log x}\sum_{\alpha\in\mathcal{A}\cap[1,x]}\frac{1}{\alpha}>0$. We prove that, for every $\varepsilon>0$, there exist infinitely many…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Dimitris Koukoulopoulos , Youness Lamzouri , Jared Duker Lichtman