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We introduce a version of the Alexander polynomial for singular knots and tangles and show how it can be strengthened considerably by introducing a perturbation. For singular long knots, we also prove that our Alexander polynomial agrees…

In this paper we proved a new numerically explicit version of the P\'{o}lya--Vinogradov inequality. Our proof is based on the new ideas of V.A. Bykovskii and improves a recent inequality obtained by C. Pomerance.

The present preprint completes the arXiv preprint #2202.11652, entitled "Pseudodifferential arithmetic and the Riemann hypothesis", devoted to a proof of the conjecture. The first 4 pages of that preprint were devoted to a set of necessary…

Fields such as the philosophy of language, continental philosophy, and literary studies have long established that human language is, at its essence, ambiguous and that this quality, although challenging to communication, enriches language…

There has been an upsurge of interest in the consequences for quantum physics of the so-called Wigner's Friend Paradox. In its original formulation, the paradox has been turned inside out, and virtually every aspect of it has been looked…

An indefinite variant of the abstract interpolation problem is considered. Associated to this problem is a model Pontryagin space isometric operator V. All the solutions of the problem are shown to be in a one-to-one correspondence with a…

By integrating curvatures multiplied non-trivial densities, we introduce an integral expression of the Arnold strangeness that is a celebrated plane curve invariant. The key is a partition function by Shumakovitch to reformulate Arnold…

We give positive answer to two conjectures posed by M. E. H Ismail in his monograph [Classical and quantum orthogonal polynomials in one variable, Cambridge University Press, 2005].

Dedicated to George E. Andrews on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Submitted to a special issue for this occasion. We use Andrews' notion of a `signed partition' (i.e. partition where some parts are allowed to be negative) to interpret…

Crossword puzzles lend themselves to mathematical inquiry. Several authors have already described the arrangement of crossword grids and associated combinatorics of answer numbers. In this paper, we present a new graph-theoretic…

In this article, we give proofs on the Arnold Lagrangian intersection conjecture on the cotangent bundles, Arnold-Givental Lagrangian intersection conjecture and the Arnold fixed point conjecture.

In this note we show that the only result of [Rocky Mountain J. Math. 54 (2024), no. 4, 995--1004] is nothing more than a misformulated version of an exercise from classical texts, presented with a flawed proof. To place the matter on…

Two types of Poisson pencils connected to classical R-matrices and their quantum counterparts are considered. A representation theory of the quantum algebras related to some symmetric orbits in $sl(n)^*$ is constructed. A twisted version of…

The paper presents a counterexample to the Hodge conjecture.

This is a typeset version of Alan Turing's declassified Second World War paper \textit{Paper on Statistics of Repetitions}. See the companion paper, \textit{The Applications of Probability to Cryptography}, also available from arXiv at…

We establish fun parallels between coin-weighing puzzles and knights-and-knaves puzzles.

This celebratory article contains a personal and idiosyncratic selection of a few open problems in discrete probability theory. These include certain well known questions concerning Lorentz scatterers and self-avoiding walks, and also some…

We conjecture an exact formula for the Kontsevich integral of the unknot, and also conjecture a formula (also conjectured independently by Deligne) for the relation between the two natural products on the space of Chinese characters. The…

An observation on Hall-Littlewood polynomials.

This note revisits some majorization inequalities for eigenvalues, special attention is given to an elegant theorem of Hiroshima. An extension of the special case of Hiroshima's theorem is presented. Some discussion and open problems are…