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Let $k$ be a natural number and let $c=2.134693\ldots$ be the unique real solution of the equation $2c=2+\log (5c-1)$ in $[1,\infty)$. Then, when $s\ge ck+4$, we establish an asymptotic lower bound of the expected order of magnitude for the…

This paper proposes an optimum version of the recently advanced scheme for generalized unary coding. In this method, the block of 1s that identifies the number is allowed to be broken up, which extends the count. The result is established…

Let $k\ge 2$ be a positive integer and $P^+(n)$ the greatest prime factor of a positive integer $n$ with convention $P^+(1)=1$. For any $\theta\in \left[\frac 1{2k},\frac{17}{32k}\right)$, set…

In a recent paper we proved that if (*)=\inf_{|z_k|=1}\max_{v=1,...,n^2-n} |\sum_{k=1}^n z_k^v|, then (*)=\sqrt{n-1} if n-1 is a prime power. We proved that a construction of Fabrykowski gives minimal systems (z_1,...,z_n) to this problem.…

The Josephus problem is a well--studied elimination problem consisting in determining the position of the survivor after repeated applications of a deterministic rule removing one person at a time from a given group. A natural probabilistic…

For a positive integer $n>1$ denote by $\omega(n)$ the maximal possible number $k$ of different functions $f_1,\dots,f_k:\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}\mapsto \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ such that each function $f_i-f_j,i<j$, is bijective. Recently A.…

Let $[\, \cdot\,]$ be the floor function. In this paper, we show that when $1<c<37/36$, then every sufficiently large positive integer $N$ can be represented in the form \begin{equation*} N=[p^c_1]+[p^c_2]+[p^c_3]\,, \end{equation*} where…

Let $f_1=1,f_2=2$ and $f_i=f_{i-1}+f_{i-2}$ for $i>2$ be the sequence of Fibonacci numbers. Let $\Phi_h(n)$ be the quantity of partitions of natural number $n$ into $h$ different Fibonacci numbers. In terms of Zeckendorf partition of $n$ I…

We study the best approximation problem: \[ \displaystyle \min_{\alpha\in \mathbb R^m}\max_{1\leq i\leq n}\left|y_i -\sum_{j=1}^m \alpha_j \Gamma_j ({\bf x}_i) \right|. \] Here: $\Gamma:=\left\{\Gamma_1,...,\Gamma_m\right\}$ is a list of…

The cage problem concerns finding $(k,g)$-graphs, which are $k$-regular graphs with girth $g$, of the smallest possible number of vertices. The central goal is to determine $n(k,g)$, the minimum order of such a graph, and to identify…

Gy\'arf\'as investigated a geometric Ramsey problem on convex, separated, balanced, geometric $K_{n,n}$. This led to appealing extremal problem on square $0$-$1$ matrices. Gy\'arf\'as conjectured that any $0$-$1$ matrix of size $n\times n$…

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…

We study graph-theoretic formulations of two fundamental problems in algorithmic differentiation. The first (Structural Optimal Jacobian Accumulation) is that of computing a Jacobian while minimizing multiplications. The second (Minimum…

Floor planning is an important and difficult task in architecture. When planning office buildings, rooms that belong to the same organisational unit should be placed close to each other. This leads to the following NP-hard mathematical…

The height of a rational number $p/q$ is denoted by $h(p/q)$ and equals $\text{max}(|p|,|q|)$ provided p/q is written in lowest terms. The height of a rational tuple $(x_1,...,x_n)$ is denoted by $h(x_1,...,x_n)$ and equals…

Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes, the NP-hard Max-Cut problem asks for a node bipartition such that the sum of edge weights joining the different partitions is maximized. We propose a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm…

We solve the Neumann problem in the half space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+$, for higher order elliptic differential equations with variable self-adjoint $t$-independent coefficients, and with boundary data in the negative smoothness space $\dot…

In this paper, we study a maximization problem on real sequences. More precisely, for a given sequence, we are interested in computing the supremum of the sequence and an index for which the associated term is maximal. We propose a general…

For a positive integer n, let {\theta}(n) denote the smallest positive integer b such that for each system S \subseteq {x_i \cdot x_j=x_k, x_i+1=x_k: i,j,k \in {1,...,n}} which has a solution in positive integers x_1,...,x_n and which has…

A $(k,g,\underline{g+1})$-graph is a $k$-regular graph of girth $g$ which does not contain cycles of length $g+1$. Such graphs are known to exist for all parameter pairs $k \geq 3, g \geq 3 $, and we focus on determining the orders…