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We wish to bring attention to a natural but slightly hidden problem, posed by Erd\H{o}s and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il in the late 1980s, an edge version of the degree--diameter problem. Our main result is that, for any graph of maximum degree…

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We consider an extremum problem posed by Turan. The aim of this problem is to find a maximum mean value of 1-periodic continuous even function such that sum of Fourier coefficient modules for this function is equal to 1 and support of this…

Under general multivariate regular variation conditions, the extreme Value-at-Risk of a portfolio can be expressed as an integral of a known kernel with respect to a generally unknown spectral measure supported on the unit simplex. The…

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