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Results in the mentioned paper do not seem valid.
This paper has been withdrawn.
The author regrets that after discussion of the results with B. L. Feigin a serious error has shown up. The proof of the results we presented in the paper is wrong. We thank B. L. Feigin for the discussion.
We explore the Collatz conjecture and its variants through the lens of termination of string rewriting. We construct a rewriting system that simulates the iterated application of the Collatz function on strings corresponding to mixed…
This text highlights issues present in the proof of Lemma 6.10 of the Baumgartner (1943 -- 2011) article "Almost disjoint sets, the dense set problem and the partition calculus" of 1976, and intends to present a correction at the same time…
We formulate the knapsack problem (KP) as a statistical physics system and compute the corresponding partition function as an integral in the complex plane. The introduced formalism allows us to derive three statistical-physics-based…
This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error in the Proof of Theorem 0.3
This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error in the proof of Lemma 2.2.
It has been pointed out to the author by David Glickenstein that the proof of the (closely related) Lemmas 1.2 and 3.2 in the title paper is incorrect. The statements of both Lemmas are correct, and the purpose of this note is to give a…
We prove that the Laptev--Safronov conjecture (Comm. Math. Phys., 2009) is false in the range that is not covered by Frank's positive result (Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 2011). The simple counterexample is adaptable to a large class of…
In this article, we give two different proofs of why the Collatz Conjecture is false.
This work investigates dense packings of congruent hard infinitesimally--thin circular arcs in the two-dimensional Euclidean space. It focuses on those denotable as major whose subtended angle $\theta \in \left ( \pi, 2\pi \right ]$.…
We prove that for all integers $2\leq m\leq d-1$, there exists doubling measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with full support that are $m$-rectifiable and purely $(m-1)$-unrectifiable in the sense of Federer (i.e. without assuming…
Packing problems, even of objects with regular geometries, are in general non-trivial. For few special shapes, the features of crystalline as well as random, irregular two-dimensional (2D) packings are known. The packing of 2D crosses does…
The random Lorentz gas (RLG) is a minimal model of both percolation and glassiness, which leads to a paradox in the infinite-dimensional, $d\rightarrow\infty$ limit: the localization transition is then expected to be continuous for the…
Does there exist a Lipschitz injection of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ into the open set of a site percolation process on $\mathbb{Z}^D$, if the percolation parameter p is sufficiently close to 1? We prove a negative answer when d=D and also when…
We reprove and extend a result of David Krebes (J. Knot Theory Ramif. 8 (1999), 321-352) giving an obstruction to embedding a tangle T into a link L. Closing the tangle up in the two obvious ways gives rise to two links, the numerator and…
This paper has been withdrawn by the author, due to a crucial error in page 5.
Zhang found a simple, elegant argument deducing the non-existence of an infinite open cluster in certain lattice percolation models (for example, p=1/2 bond percolation on the square lattice) from general results on the uniqueness of an…
The conventional rounding error analysis provides worst-case bounds with an associated failure probability and ignores the statistical property of the rounding errors. In this paper, we develop a new statistical rounding error analysis for…