Irreducible polynomials from a cubic transformation

Let $R(x)=g(x)/h(x)$ be a rational expression of degree three over the finite field ${\mathbb{F}}_q$. We count the irreducible polynomials in ${\mathbb{F}}_q[x]$, of a given degree, that have the form $h{(x)}^{\mathrm{deg}f}\cdot f(R(x))$ for some $f(x)\in {\mathbb{F}}_q[x]$. As an example of application of our results, we recover the number of irreducible transformation shift registers of order three, which were computed by Jiang and Yang in 2017.     

Existence for evolutionary problems with linear growth by stability methods

We establish that solutions to the Cauchy–Dirichlet problem

${?}_{t}u?\mathrm{div}(D_{\xi }f(x,Du))=0$

for functionals $f:\mathrm{\Omega }\times {\mathbb{R}}^{N\times n}\to [0,\infty )$ of linear growth can be obtained as limits of solutions to flows with p-growth in the limit $p\downarrow 1$. The result can be interpreted on the one hand as a stability result. On the other hand it provides an existence result for general flows with linear growth.     

The Whitehead group of (almost) extra-special p-groups with p odd

Let p be an odd prime number. We describe the Whitehead group of all extra-special and almost extra-special p-groups. For this we compute, for any finite p-group P, the subgroup $C{l}_1(\mathbb{Z}P)$ of $S{K}_1(\mathbb{Z}P)$, in terms of a genetic basis of P. We also introduce a deflation map $C{l}_1(\mathbb{Z}P)\to C{l}_1(\mathbb{Z}(P/N))$, for a normal subgroup N of P, and show that it is always surjective. Along the way, we give a new proof of the result describing the structure of $S{K}_1(\mathbb{Z}P)$, when P is an elementary abelian p-group.     

Algebraic jump loci for rank and Betti numbers over Laurent polynomial rings

Let C be a chain complex of finitely generated free modules over a commutative Laurent polynomial ring $L_s$ in s indeterminates. Given a group homomorphism $p:{\mathbb{Z}}^s?{\mathbb{Z}}^t$ we let $p_{!}(C)=C{?}_{L_s}{L}_t$ denote the resulting induced complex over the Laurent polynomial ring $L_t$ in t indeterminates. We prove that the Betti number jump loci, that is, the sets of those homomorphisms p such that $b_k(p_{!}(C))>b_k(C)$, have a surprisingly simple structure. We allow non-unital commutative rings of coefficients, and work with a notion of Betti numbers that generalises both the usual one for integral domains, and the analogous concept involving McCoy ranks in case of unital commutative rings.     

On discrete Brunn-Minkowski and isoperimetric type inequalities

We show that the lattice point enumerator ${\mathrm{G}}_n(?)$ satisfies${\mathrm{G}}_n{(tK+sL+{(?1,?t+s?)}^n)}^{1/n}\ge t{\mathrm{G}}_n{(K)}^{1/n}+s{\mathrm{G}}_n{(L)}^{1/n}$ for any $K,L?{\mathbb{R}}^n$ bounded sets with integer points and all $t,s\ge 0$.We also prove that a certain family of compact sets, extending that of cubes ${[?m,m]}^n$, with $m\in \mathbb{N}$, minimizes the functional ${\mathrm{G}}_n(K+t{[?1,1]}^n)$, for any $t\ge 0$, among those bounded sets $K?{\mathbb{R}}^n$ with given positive lattice point enumerator.Finally, we show that these new discrete inequalities imply the corresponding classical Brunn-Minkowski and isoperimetric inequalities for non-empty compact sets.     

Spectral strengthening of a theorem on transversal critical graphs

A transversal set of a graph G is a set of vertices incident to all edges of G. The transversal number of G, denoted by $\tau (G)$, is the minimum cardinality of a transversal set of G. A simple graph G with no isolated vertex is called τ-critical if $\tau (G?e)<\tau (G)$ for every edge $e\in E(G)$. For any τ-critical graph G with $\tau (G)=t$, it has been shown that $|V(G)|\le 2t$ by Erd?s and Gallai and that $|E(G)|\le \left(\begin{array}{c}t+1\\ 2\end{array}\right)$ by Erd?s, Hajnal and Moon. Most recently, it was extended by Gyárfás and Lehel to $|V(G)|+|E(G)|\le \left(\begin{array}{c}t+2\\ 2\end{array}\right)$. In this paper, we prove stronger results via spectrum. Let G be a τ-critical graph with $\tau (G)=t$ and $|V(G)|=n$, and let ${\lambda }_1$ denote the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of G. We show that $n+{\lambda }_1\le 2t+1$ with equality if and only if G is $t{K}_2$, $K_{s+1}\cup (t?s)K_2$, or $C_{2s?1}\cup (t?s)K_2$, where $2\le s\le t$; and in particular, ${\lambda }_1(G)\le t$ with equality if and only if G is $K_{t+1}$. We then apply it to show that for any nonnegative integer r, we have $n(r+\frac{{\lambda }_1}{2})\le \left(\begin{array}{c}t+r+1\\ 2\end{array}\right)$ and characterize all extremal graphs. This implies a pure combinatorial result that $r|V(G)|+|E(G)|\le \left(\begin{array}{c}t+r+1\\ 2\end{array}\right)$, which is stronger than Erd?s-Hajnal-Moon Theorem and Gyárfás-Lehel Theorem. We also have some other generalizations.     

Free boundary problem for a fully nonlinear and degenerate parabolic equation in an angular domain

This paper concerns with the problem of how to running an insurance company to maximize his total discounted expected dividends. In our model, the dividend rate is limited in $[0,M]$ and the company is allowed to transfer any proportion of risk by reinsuring. So there are two strategies which we call dividend strategy and reinsurance strategy. The objective function and the corresponding optimal two strategies are the solution and the two free boundaries of the following Barenblatt parabolic equation

$v_t?\underset{0\le a\le 1}{\max }?(\frac{1}{2}{a}^2{\sigma }^2{v}_{xx}+a\mu v_x)+cv?\underset{0\le l\le M}{\max }?[(1?v_x)l]=0$

under certain boundary conditions on an angular domain

$Q_T=\{(x,t)|0<x<Mt,0<t\le T\}.$

The main effort is to analyze the properties of the solution and the free boundaries to show the optimal decision for the insurance company.     

The Poincaré–Bendixson theorem for a class of delay equations with state-dependent delay and monotonic feedback

We consider the real-valued differential equation

$x^{\prime }(t)=f(x(t),x(t?d(x_t)))$

with state-dependent delay, where f is strictly monotonic in its second argument. We describe a class of such equations for which a version of the Poincaré–Bendixson theorem holds.     

Regularity of optimal sets for some functional involving eigenvalues of an operator in divergence form

In this paper we consider minimizers of the functional$\min \{{\lambda }_1(\mathrm{\Omega })+\cdots +{\lambda }_k(\mathrm{\Omega })+\mathrm{\Lambda }|\mathrm{\Omega }|,:\mathrm{\Omega }\subset D\text{ open}\}$ where $D\subset {\mathbb{R}}^d$ is a bounded open set and where $0<{\lambda }_1(\mathrm{\Omega })\le \cdots \le {\lambda }_k(\mathrm{\Omega })$ are the first k eigenvalues on Ω of an operator in divergence form with Dirichlet boundary condition and with Hölder continuous coefficients. We prove that the optimal sets ${\mathrm{\Omega }}^{⁎}$ have finite perimeter and that their free boundary $\partial {\mathrm{\Omega }}^{⁎}\cap D$ is composed of a regular part, which is locally the graph of a $C^{1,\alpha }$-regular function, and a singular part, which is empty if $d<d^{⁎}$, discrete if $d=d^{⁎}$ and of Hausdorff dimension at most $d-d^{⁎}$ if $d>d^{⁎}$, for some $d^{⁎}\in \{5,6,7\}$.