Related papers: Close points on a modular hyperbola

In this paper, we study how small a box contains at least two points from a modular hyperbola $x y \equiv c \pmod p$. There are two such points in a square of side length $p^{1/4 + \epsilon}$. Furthermore, it turns out that either there are…

In this paper, we study how small a box contains at least two points from a modular cubic polynomial $y \equiv a x^3 + b x^2 + c x + d \pmod p$ with $(a, p) = 1$. We prove that some square of side length $p^{1/6 + \epsilon}$ contains two…

We give a survey of a variety of recent results about the distribution and some geometric properties of points $(x,y)$ on modular hyperbolas $xy \equiv a \pmod m$. We also outline a very diverse range of applications of such results,…

Given integers $a$ and $m\ge 2$, let $\Hm$ be the following set of integral points $$ \Hm= \{(x,y) \ : \ xy \equiv a \pmod m,\ 1\le x,y \le m-1\} $$ We improve several previously known upper bounds on $v_a(m)$, the number of vertices of the…

We give a lower bound for the number of ordinary lines spanned by a modular hyperbola when the modulus is a prime power. We also give a partial answer to a question of Shparlinski.

In this paper, we continue the study of three close factorizations of an integer and correct a mistake of a previous result. This turns out to be related to lattice points close to the center point $(\sqrt{N}, \sqrt{N})$ of the hyperbola $x…

We derive a new estimate of the size of finite sets of points in metric spaces with few distances. The following applications are considered: (1) we improve the Ray-Chaudhuri--Wilson bound of the size of uniform intersecting families of…

We obtain an upper bound for the number of critical points of the systole function on $\mathcal{M}_g$. Besides, we obtain an upper bound for the number of those critical points whose systole is smaller than a constant.

This paper is a continuation of our paper about boundary rigidity and filling minimality of metrics close to flat ones. We show that compact regions close to a hyperbolic one are boundary distance rigid and strict minimal fillings. We also…

Suppose $C$ is a compact, $n$-edged two-cell of the centered dual decomposition of a locally finite set in the hyperbolic plane, a coarsening of the Delaunay tessellation which was introduced in the author's prior work. We describe an…

Here is a square problem: in a unit square, is there a point with four rational distances to the vertices? A probability argument suggests a negative answer. This paper proves several special cases of the square problem: if the point sits…

Let $X$ be a scheme of finite type over $\mathbf{Z}$. For $p \in \mathcal{P}$ the set of prime numbers, let $N_{X}(p)$ be the number of $\mathbf{F}_{p}$-points of $X/\mathbf{F}_{p}$. For fixed $n\geq 1$ and $a_{1}, \ldots, a_{n} \in…

New exact modular branching rules are obtained for modules over the symmetric groups that are close to completely splittable modules. These results are based on some upper bounds for the Ext^1-spaces between simple modules.

We obtain quantitative estimates of local flatness of zero sets of harmonic polynomials. There are two alternatives: at every point either the zero set stays uniformly far away from a hyperplane in the Hausdorff distance at all scales or…

We prove explicit bounds for the number of sums of consecutive prime squares below a given magnitude.

We consider the possible sizes of large sumfree sets contained in the discrete hypercube $\{1,...,n\}^k$, and we determine upper and lower bounds for the maximal size as $n$ becomes large. We also discuss a continuous analogue in which our…

We investigate the problem of showing that the values of a given polynomial are smooth (i.e., have no large prime factors) a positive proportion of the time. Although some results exist that bound the number of smooth values of a polynomial…

Recently, several bounds have been obtained on the number of solutions to congruences of the type $$ (x_1+s)...(x_{\nu}+s)\equiv (y_1+s)...(y_{\nu}+s)\not\equiv0 \pmod p $$ modulo a prime $p$ with variables from some short intervals. Here,…

We introduce several new methods to obtain upper bounds on the number of solutions of the congruences $f(x) \equiv y \pmod p$ and $f(x) \equiv y^2 \pmod p,$ with a prime $p$ and a polynomial $f$, where $(x,y)$ belongs to an arbitrary square…

We derive upper and lower bounds on the sum of distances of a spherical code of size $N$ in $n$ dimensions when $N\sim n^\alpha, 0<\alpha\le 2.$ The bounds are derived by specializing recent general, universal bounds on energy of spherical…