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Empirical likelihood is a popular nonparametric or semi-parametric statistical method with many nice statistical properties. Yet when the sample size is small, or the dimension of the accompanying estimating function is high, the…

Let $Q(n)$ denote the number of integers $1 \leq q \leq n$ whose prime factorization $q= \prod^{t}_{i=1}p^{a_i}_i$ satisfies $a_1\geq a_2\geq \ldots \geq a_t$. Hardy and Ramanujan proved that $$ \log Q(n) \sim \frac{2\pi}{\sqrt{3}}…

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It is well known that the golden ratio $\phi$ is the ''most irrational'' number in the sense that its best rational approximations $s/t$ have error $\sim 1/(\sqrt{5} t^2)$ and this constant $\sqrt{5}$ is as low as possible. Given a prime…

Let $F(x)$ be an analytical, real valued function defined on a compact domain $\mathcal {B}\subset\mathbb{R}$. We prove that the problem of establishing the irrationality of $F(x)$ evaluated at $x_0\in \mathcal{B}$ can be stated with…

The approximate Carath\'eodory problem in general form is as follows: Given two symmetric convex bodies $P,Q \subseteq \mathbb{R}^m$, a parameter $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $\mathbf{z} \in \textrm{conv}(X)$ with $X \subseteq P$, find…

We study the applicability of Pade Approximants (PA) to estimate a "sum" of asymptotic series of the type appearing in QCD. We indicate that one should not expect PA to converge for positive values of the coupling constant and propose to…

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