Affine ADE bundles over surfaces with $$ p _{g}=0$$

Given any Kodaira curve C in a complex surface X, we construct a simply-laced affine Lie algebra bundle \(\mathcal {E}\) over X. When \( p _{g}(X)=0\), we construct deformations of holomorphic structures on \(\mathcal {E}\) such that the new bundle is trivial over any ADE curve \( C^{\prime }\) inside C and therefore descends to the singular surface obtained by contracting \(C^{\prime }\).     

Properties of singular integral operators $$\varvec{S}_{\varvec{\alpha ,\beta }}$$

For \(\alpha , \beta \in L^{\infty } (S^1),\) the singular integral operator \(S_{\alpha ,\beta }\) on \(L^2 (S^1)\) is defined by \(S_{\alpha ,\beta }f:= \alpha Pf+\beta Qf\), where P denotes the orthogonal projection of \(L^2(S^1)\) onto the Hardy space \(H^2(S^1),\) and Q denotes the orthogonal projection onto \(H^2(S^1)^{\perp }\). In a recent paper, Nakazi and Yamamoto have studied the normality and self-adjointness of \(S_{\alpha ,\beta }\). This work has shown that \(S_{\alpha ,\beta }\) may have analogous properties to that of the Toeplitz operator. In this paper, we study several other properties of \(S_{\alpha ,\beta }\).     

2-Arc-transitive cyclic covers of $$K_{n,n}$$

In this paper, a complete classification is achieved of all the regular covers of the complete bipartite graphs \(K_{n,n}\) with cyclic covering transformation group, whose fibre-preserving automorphism group acts 2-arc-transitively. All these covers consist of one threefold covers of \(K_{6,6}\), one twofold cover of \(K_{12, 12}\) and one infinite family X(r, p) of p-fold covers of \(K_{p^r,p^r}\) with p a prime and r an integer such that \(p^r\ge 3\). This infinite family X(r, p) can be derived by a very simple and nice voltage assignment f as follows: \(X(r, p)=K_{p^r, p^r}\times _f \mathbb {Z}_p\), where \(K_{p^r, p^r}\) is a complete bipartite graph with the bipartition \(V=\{ \alpha \bigm |\alpha \in V(r,p)\}\cup \{ \alpha '\bigm |\alpha \in V(r,p)\}\) for the r-dimensional vector space V(r, p) over the field of order p and \(f_{\alpha ,\beta '}=\sum _{i=1}^ra_ib_i,\,\, \mathrm{for\,\,all}\,\,\alpha =(a_i)_r, \beta =(b_i)_r\in V(r,p)\).     

The Gray image of constacyclic codes over the finite chain ring $$F_{p^m}[u]/\langle u^k\rangle $$

Let \(\mathbb {F}_{p^m}\) be a finite field of cardinality \(p^m\), where p is a prime, and k, N be any positive integers. We denote \(R_k=F_{p^m}[u]/\langle u^k\rangle =F_{p^m}+uF_{p^m}+\cdots +u^{k-1}F_{p^m}\) (\(u^k=0\)) and \(\lambda =a_0+a_1u+\cdots +a_{k-1}u^{k-1}\) where \(a_0, a_1,\ldots , a_{k-1}\in F_{p^m}\) satisfying \(a_0\ne 0\) and \(a_1=1\). Let r be a positive integer satisfying \(p^{r-1}+1\le k\le p^r\). First we define a Gray map from \(R_k\) to \(F_{p^m}^{p^r}\), then prove that the Gray image of any linear \(\lambda \)-constacyclic code over \(R_k\) of length N is a distance preserving linear \(a_0^{p^r}\)-constacyclic code over \(F_{p^m}\) of length \(p^rN\). Furthermore, the generator polynomials for each linear \(\lambda \)-constacyclic code over \(R_k\) of length N and its Gray image are given respectively. Finally, some optimal constacyclic codes over \(F_{3}\) and \(F_{5}\) are constructed.     

Sandwich semigroups in locally small categories I: foundations

Fix (not necessarily distinct) objects i and j of a locally small category S, and write \(S_{ij}\) for the set of all morphisms \(i\rightarrow j\). Fix a morphism \(a\in S_{ji}\), and define an operation \(\star _a\) on \(S_{ij}\) by \(x\star _ay=xay\) for all \(x,y\in S_{ij}\). Then \((S_{ij},\star _a)\) is a semigroup, known as a sandwich semigroup, and denoted by \(S_{ij}^a\). This article develops a general theory of sandwich semigroups in locally small categories. We begin with structural issues such as regularity, Green’s relations and stability, focusing on the relationships between these properties on \(S_{ij}^a\) and the whole category S. We then identify a natural condition on a, called sandwich regularity, under which the set \({\text {Reg}}(S_{ij}^a)\) of all regular elements of \(S_{ij}^a\) is a subsemigroup of \(S_{ij}^a\). Under this condition, we carefully analyse the structure of the semigroup \({\text {Reg}}(S_{ij}^a)\), relating it via pullback products to certain regular subsemigroups of \(S_{ii}\) and \(S_{jj}\), and to a certain regular sandwich monoid defined on a subset of \(S_{ji}\); among other things, this allows us to also describe the idempotent-generated subsemigroup \(\mathbb E(S_{ij}^a)\) of \(S_{ij}^a\). We also study combinatorial invariants such as the rank (minimal size of a generating set) of the semigroups \(S_{ij}^a\), \({\text {Reg}}(S_{ij}^a)\) and \(\mathbb E(S_{ij}^a)\); we give lower bounds for these ranks, and in the case of \({\text {Reg}}(S_{ij}^a)\) and \(\mathbb E(S_{ij}^a)\) show that the bounds are sharp under a certain condition we call MI-domination. Applications to concrete categories of transformations and partial transformations are given in Part II.     

Continued fractions arising from $${\mathcal F}_{1,3}$$

We calculate the Jacobi Eisenstein series of weight \(k \ge 3\) for a certain representation of the Jacobi group, and evaluate these at \(z = 0\) to give coefficient formulas for a family of modular forms \(Q_{k,m,\beta }\) of weight \(k \ge 5/2\) for the (dual) Weil representation on an even lattice. The forms we construct have rational coefficients and contain all cusp forms within their span. We explain how to compute the representation numbers in the coefficient formulas for \(Q_{k,m,\beta }\) and the Eisenstein series of Bruinier and Kuss p-adically to get an efficient algorithm. The main application is in constructing automorphic products.     

The shape of $$ \mathbb {Z}/\ell \mathbb {Z}$$-number fields

Let \(\ell \) be a prime and let \(L/ \mathbb {Q}\) be a Galois number field with Galois group isomorphic to \( \mathbb {Z}/\ell \mathbb {Z}\). We show that the shape of L, see Definition 1.2, is either \(\frac{1}{2}\mathbb {A}_{\ell -1}\) or a fixed sub-lattice depending only on \(\ell \); such a dichotomy in the value of the shape only depends on the type of ramification of L. This work is motivated by a result of Bhargava and Shnidman, and a previous work of the first named author, on the shape of \( \mathbb {Z}/3 \mathbb {Z}\) number fields.     

Dominating Cycles and Forbidden Pairs Containing $$P_{5}$$

A cycle C in a graph G is dominating if every edge of G is incident with at least one vertex of C. For a set \(\mathcal {H}\) of connected graphs, a graph G is said to be \(\mathcal {H}\)-free if G does not contain any member of \(\mathcal {H}\) as an induced subgraph. When \(|\mathcal {H}| = 2, \mathcal {H}\) is called a forbidden pair. In this paper, we investigate the characterization of the class of the forbidden pairs guaranteeing the existence of a dominating cycle and show the following two results: (i) Every 2-connected \(\{P_{5}, K_{4}^{-}\}\)-free graph contains a longest cycle which is a dominating cycle. (ii) Every 2-connected \(\{P_{5}, W^{*}\}\)-free graph contains a longest cycle which is a dominating cycle. Here \(P_{5}\) is the path of order \(5, K_{4}^{-}\) is the graph obtained from the complete graph of order 4 by removing one edge, and \(W^{*}\) is the graph obtained from two triangles and an edge by identifying one vertex in each.     

A characterization of the desarguesian and the Figueroa planes of order $$q^{3}$$

Let \(\Pi \) be a plane of order \(q^{3}\), \(q>2\), admitting \(G\cong PGL(3,q)\) as a collineation group. By Dempwolff (Geometriae Dedicata 18:101–112, 1985) the plane \(\Pi \) contains a G-invariant subplane \(\pi _{0}\) isomorphic to PG(2, q) on which G acts 2-transitively. In this paper it is shown that, if the homologies of \(\pi _{0}\) contained in G extend to \(\Pi \) then \(\Pi \) is either the desarguesian or the Figueroa plane.     

Density of translates in weighted $${{\varvec{L}}}^{{\varvec{p}}}$$ spaces on locally compact groups

Let G be a locally compact group, and let \(1\leqslant p < \infty \). Consider the weighted \(L^p\)-space \(L^p(G,\omega )=\{f:\int |f\omega |^p<\infty \}\), where \(\omega :G\rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) is a positive measurable function. Under appropriate conditions on \(\omega \), G acts on \(L^p(G,\omega )\) by translations. When is this action hypercyclic, that is, there is a function in this space such that the set of all its translations is dense in \(L^p(G,\omega )\)? Salas (Trans Am Math Soc 347:993–1004, 1995) gave a criterion of hypercyclicity in the case \(G=\mathbb {Z}\). Under mild assumptions, we present a corresponding characterization for a general locally compact group G. Our results are obtained in a more general setting when the translations only by a subset \(S\subset G\) are considered.     

On homogeneous hypersurfaces in $${\mathbb {C}}^3$$

We consider a family \(M_t^n\), with \(n\geqslant 2\), \(t>1\), of real hypersurfaces in a complex affine n-dimensional quadric arising in connection with the classification of homogeneous compact simply connected real-analytic hypersurfaces in  \({\mathbb {C}}^n\) due to Morimoto and Nagano. To finalize their classification, one needs to resolve the problem of the embeddability of \(M_t^n\) in  \({\mathbb {C}}^n\) for \(n=3,7\). In our earlier article we showed that \(M_t^7\) is not embeddable in  \({\mathbb {C}}^7\) for every t and that \(M_t^3\) is embeddable in  \({\mathbb {C}}^3\) for all \(1<t<1+10^{-6}\). In the present paper, we improve on the latter result by showing that the embeddability of \(M_t^3\) in fact takes place for \(1<t<\sqrt{(2+\sqrt{2})/3}\). This is achieved by analyzing the explicit totally real embedding of the sphere \(S^3\) in \({\mathbb {C}}^3\) constructed by Ahern and Rudin. For \(t\geqslant {\sqrt{(2+\sqrt{2})/3}}\), the problem of the embeddability of \(M_t^3\) remains open.     

Rank two aCM bundles on general determinantal quartic surfaces in $${\mathbb {P}^{3}}$$

Let \(F\subseteq {\mathbb {P}^{3}}\) be a smooth determinantal quartic surface which is general in the Nöther–Lefschetz sense. In the present paper we give a complete classification of locally free sheaves \({\mathcal E}\) of rank 2 on F such that \(h^1(F,{\mathcal E}(th))=0\) for \(t\in \mathbb {Z}\).     

On some constacyclic codes over $$\mathbb {Z}_{4}\left[ u\right] /\left\langle u^{2}-1\right\rangle $$, their $$\mathbb {Z}_4$$Z4 images,and new codes

In this paper, we study \(\lambda \)-constacyclic codes over the ring \(R=\mathbb {Z}_4+u\mathbb {Z}_4\) where \(u^{2}=1\), for \(\lambda =3+2u\) and \(2+3u\). Two new Gray maps from R to \(\mathbb {Z}_4^{3}\) are defined with the goal of obtaining new linear codes over \(\mathbb {Z}_4\). The Gray images of \(\lambda \)-constacyclic codes over R are determined. We then conducted a computer search and obtained many \(\lambda \)-constacyclic codes over R whose \(\mathbb {Z}_4\)-images have better parameters than currently best-known linear codes over \(\mathbb {Z}_4\).     

Map determined by rank-$$\varvec{}$$ matrice for relatively mall $$\varvec{}$$

Let n and s be integers such that \(1\le s<\frac{n}{2}\), and let \(M_n(\mathbb {K})\) be the ring of all \(n\times n\) matrices over a field \(\mathbb {K}\). Denote by \([\frac{n}{s}]\) the least integer m with \(m\ge \frac{n}{s}\). In this short note, it is proved that if \(g:M_n(\mathbb {K})\rightarrow M_n(\mathbb {K})\) is a map such that \(g\left( \sum _{i=1}^{[\frac{n}{s}]}A_i\right) =\sum _{i=1}^{[\frac{n}{s}]}g(A_i)\) holds for any \([\frac{n}{s}]\) rank-s matrices \(A_1,\ldots ,A_{[\frac{n}{s}]}\in M_n(\mathbb {K})\), then \(g(x)=f(x)+g(0)\), \(x\in M_n(\mathbb {K})\), for some additive map \(f:M_n(\mathbb {K})\rightarrow M_n(\mathbb {K})\). Particularly, g is additive if \(char\mathbb {K}\not \mid \left( [\frac{n}{s}]-1\right) \).     

A generalization of the normal rational curve in $$\mathop {\mathrm{PG}}(d,q^n)$$ and its associated non-linear MRD codes

Let A and B be two points of \(\mathop {\mathrm{PG}}(d,q^n)\) and let \(\Phi \) be a collineation between the stars of lines with vertices A and B, that does not map the line AB into itself. In this paper we prove that if \(d=2\) or \(d\ge 3\) and the lines \(\Phi ^{-1}(AB), AB, \Phi (AB) \) are not in a common plane, then the set \(\mathcal{C}\) of points of intersection of corresponding lines under \(\Phi \) is the union of \(q-1\) scattered \({\mathbb {F}}_{q}\)-linear sets of rank n together with \(\{A,B\}\). As an application we will construct, starting from the set \(\mathcal{C}\), infinite families of non-linear \((d+1, n, q;d-1)\)-MRD codes, \(d\le n-1\), generalizing those recently constructed in Cossidente et al. (Des Codes Cryptogr 79:597–609, 2016) and Durante and Siciliano (Electron J Comb, 2017).     

New constructions of permutation polynomials of the form $$x^rh\left( x^{q-1}\right) $$ over $${\mathbb F}_{q^2}$$Fq2

Permutation polynomials over finite fields have been studied extensively recently due to their wide applications in cryptography, coding theory, communication theory, among others. Recently, several authors have studied permutation trinomials of the form \(x^rh\left( x^{q-1}\right) \) over \({\mathbb F}_{q^2}\), where \(q=2^k\), \(h(x)=1+x^s+x^t\) and \(r, k>0, s, t\) are integers. Their methods are essentially usage of a multiplicative version of AGW Criterion because they all transformed the problem of proving permutation polynomials over \({\mathbb F}_{q^2}\) into that of showing the corresponding fractional polynomials permute a smaller set \(\mu _{q+1}\), where \(\mu _{q+1}:=\{x\in \mathbb {F}_{q^2} : x^{q+1}=1\}\). Motivated by these results, we characterize the permutation polynomials of the form \(x^rh\left( x^{q-1}\right) \) over \({\mathbb F}_{q^2}\) such that \(h(x)\in {\mathbb F}_q[x]\) is arbitrary and q is also an arbitrary prime power. Using AGW Criterion twice, one is multiplicative and the other is additive, we reduce the problem of proving permutation polynomials over \({\mathbb F}_{q^2}\) into that of showing permutations over a small subset S of a proper subfield \({\mathbb F}_{q}\), which is significantly different from previously known methods. In particular, we demonstrate our method by constructing many new explicit classes of permutation polynomials of the form \(x^rh\left( x^{q-1}\right) \) over \({\mathbb F}_{q^2}\). Moreover, we can explain most of the known permutation trinomials, which are in Ding et al. (SIAM J Discret Math 29:79–92, 2015), Gupta and Sharma (Finite Fields Appl 41:89–96, 2016), Li and Helleseth (Cryptogr Commun 9:693–705, 2017), Li et al. (New permutation trinomials constructed from fractional polynomials, arXiv: 1605.06216v1, 2016), Li et al. (Finite Fields Appl 43:69–85, 2017) and Zha et al. (Finite Fields Appl 45:43–52, 2017) over finite field with even characteristic.     

Generalized Fibonacci numbers of the form $$wx^{2}+1$$

Let \(P\ge 3\) be an integer and let \((U_{n})\) and \((V_{n})\) denote generalized Fibonacci and Lucas sequences defined by \(U_{0}=0,U_{1}=1\); \( V_{0}=2,V_{1}=P,\) and \(U_{n+1}=PU_{n}-U_{n-1}\), \(V_{n+1}=PV_{n}-V_{n-1}\) for \(n\ge 1.\) In this study, when P is odd, we solve the equation \( U_{n}=wx^{2}+1\) for \(w=1,2,3,5,6,7,10.\) After then, we solve some Diophantine equations utilizing solutions of these equations.     

On the family of elliptic curves $$\varvec{y^2=x^3-m^2x+p^2}$$

In this paper, we study the torsion subgroup and rank of elliptic curves for the subfamilies of \(E_{m,p} : y^2=x^3-m^2x+p^2\), where m is a positive integer and p is a prime. We prove that for any prime p, the torsion subgroup of \(E_{m,p}(\mathbb {Q})\) is trivial for both the cases {\(m\ge 1\), \(m\not \equiv 0\pmod 3\)} and {\(m\ge 1\), \(m \equiv 0 \pmod 3\), with \(gcd(m,p)=1\)}. We also show that given any odd prime p and for any positive integer m with \(m\not \equiv 0\pmod 3\) and \(m\equiv 2\pmod {32}\), the lower bound for the rank of \(E_{m,p}(\mathbb {Q})\) is 2. Finally, we find curves of rank 9 in this family.     

A note on compact Weingarten hypersurfaces embedded in $$\mathbb {R}^{n + 1}$$

We prove that the round sphere is the only compact Weingarten hypersurface embedded in the Euclidean space such that \(H_r = aH + b\), for constants \(a, b \in \mathbb {R}\). Here, \(H_r\) stands for the r-th mean curvature and H denotes the standard mean curvature of the hypersurface.     

On codes over $$\mathbb {F}_{q}+v\mathbb {F}_{q}+v^{2}\mathbb {F}_{q}$$

In this paper we investigate linear codes with complementary dual (LCD) codes and formally self-dual codes over the ring \(R=\mathbb {F}_{q}+v\mathbb {F}_{q}+v^{2}\mathbb {F}_{q}\), where \(v^{3}=v\), for q odd. We give conditions on the existence of LCD codes and present construction of formally self-dual codes over R. Further, we give bounds on the minimum distance of LCD codes over \(\mathbb {F}_q\) and extend these to codes over R.