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A well-known longstanding conjecture on the supremum of the tails of normalized sums of independent Rademacher random variables is disproved. A related conjecture, also recently disproved, is discussed.

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It is shown that at least 50% of the probability mass of a sum of independent Rademacher random variables is within one standard deviation from its mean. This lower bound is sharp, it is much better than for instance the bound that can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Martien C. A. van Zuijlen

In this note, we establish the validity of a conjecture recently proposed in Mathematics Magazine and connect it to the existing interesting results

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yaakov Malinovsky

We first study the mean value of certain restricted divisor sums involving the Chowla-Walum sums, improving in particular a recent estimate given by Iannucci. The aim of the second part of this work is the generalization of the previous…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Olivier Bordellès

In this paper we prove the WALA conjecture.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Andrea Merlo

An asymptotic formula for the sum of the first n primes is derived. This result improves the previous results of P. Dusart. Using this asymptotic expansion, we prove the conjectures of R. Mandl and G. Robin on the upper and the lower bound…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Nilotpal Kanti Sinha

A discussion of recent work of C.Demeter, L.Guth and the author of the proof of the Vinogradov Main Conjecture using the decoupling theory for curves

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Jean Bourgain

We reexamine Smale's alpha theory as a way to certify a numerical solution to an analytic system. For a given point and a system, Smale's alpha theory determines whether Newton's method applied to this point shows the quadratic convergence…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kisun Lee

The results of several papers concerning the \v{C}ern\'y conjecture are deduced as consequences of a simple idea that I call the averaging trick. This idea is implicitly used in the literature, but no attempt was made to formalize the proof…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-11 Benjamin Steinberg

First we prove a modified version of the famous Lemma on the mean square estimate for exponential sums, by plugging the Cesaro weights in the right hand side of Gallagher's inequality. Then we apply it, in order to establish a mean value…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Giovanni Coppola , Maurizio Laporta

We give a probabilistic interpretation of the coefficients of the elementary symmetric function expansion of the chromatic quasisymmetric function for any unit interval graph. As a corollary, we prove the Stanley--Stembridge conjecture.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Tatsuyuki Hikita

In a recent paper, Svante Janson has considered a conjecture suggested by Va\v{s}ek Chv\a'atal dealing with the probability that a binomial random variable with parameters $n$ and $m/n$ - where $m$ is an integer - exceeds its expectation…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Barabesi Lucio , Pratelli Luca , Rigo Pietro

We give a proof of a Martingale Representation Theorem using the methods of nonstandard analysis.

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Tristram de Piro

In this paper, we consider sums of values of degenerate falling factorials and give a probabilistic proof of a recurrence relation for them. This may be viewed as a degenerate version of the recent probabilistic proofs on sums of powers of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Taekyun Kim , Dae san Kim

In this paper the circulant Hadamard conjecture is proved.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Ronald Orozco López

In this note we show that any proof of Wallis's formula or of the probability integral formula proves both assertions.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-09-27 James R. Schatz

We obtain finite field analogues of a series of recent results on various mean value theorems for Weyl sums. Instead of the Vinogradov Mean Value Theorem, our results rest on the classical argument of Mordell, combined with several other…

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We show that the $\theta=\infty$ conjecture implies the Riemann hypothesis.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Sandro Bettin , Steven M. Gonek

We give a detailed proof, in the identically distributed case, of a conjecture of Feige about the maximum probability that the sum of n independent non-negative integer valued random variables, each of mean 1, exceeds n. The general case is…

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We upgrade [1] to a complete proof of the conjecture NP = PSPACE. [1]: L. Gordeev, E. H. Haeusler, Proof Compression and NP Versus PSPACE, Studia Logica (107) (1): 55-83 (2019)

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