An old conjecture of Erdos-Turán on additive bases

There is a 1941 conjecture of Erdos and Turán on what is now called additive basis that we restate:

Conjecture 0.1(Erdos and Turán). Suppose that is an increasing sequence of integers and

Suppose that

If 0$"> for all , then is unbounded.

Our main purpose is to show that the sequence cannot be bounded by . There is a surprisingly simple, though computationally very intensive, algorithm that establishes this.

     

Error bounds for Gauss-Turán quadrature formulae of analytic functions

We study the kernels of the remainder term of Gauss-Turán quadrature formulas

for classes of analytic functions on elliptical contours with foci at , when the weight is one of the special Jacobi weights ; ; , ; , . We investigate the location on the contour where the modulus of the kernel attains its maximum value. Some numerical examples are included.

     

On the minimal polynomial of Gauss periods for prime powers

For a positive integer , set and let denote the group of reduced residues modulo . Fix a congruence group of conductor and of order . Choose integers to represent the cosets of in . The Gauss periods

corresponding to are conjugate and distinct over with minimal polynomial

To determine the coefficients of the period polynomial (or equivalently, its reciprocal polynomial is a classical problem dating back to Gauss. Previous work of the author, and Gupta and Zagier, primarily treated the case , an odd prime, with fixed. In this setting, it is known for certain integral power series and , that for any positive integer

holds in for all primes except those in an effectively determinable finite set. Here we describe an analogous result for the case , a prime power ( ). The methods extend for odd prime powers to give a similar result for certain twisted Gauss periods of the form

where denotes the usual Legendre symbol and .

     

Weak norms of random sums

Let denote a sequence of measurable functions on , and let denote the weak norm. It is shown that

where is a sequence of independent random variables taking on values and with equal probability. Moreover, it is shown that

The paper concludes by providing an example indicating that, if , then the estimate

is the best possible.

     

On the irrationality of a certain multivariate series

We prove that for integers 1,m\geq 1$"> and positive rationals the series

is irrational. Furthermore, if all the positive rationals are less than then the series

is also irrational.

     

Stability analysis for delay differential equations with multidelays and numerical examples

In this paper we are concerned with the asymptotic stability of the delay differential equation

where are constant complex matrices, and 0$"> stand for constant delays . We obtain two criteria for stability through the evaluation of a harmonic function on the boundary of a certain region. We also get similar results for the neutral delay differential equation

where and are constant complex matrices and 0$"> stands for constant delays , . Numerical examples on various circumstances are shown to check our results which are more general than those already reported.

     

On some inequalities for the incomplete gamma function

Let be a positive real number. We determine all real numbers and such that the inequalities

are valid for all . And, we determine all real numbers and such that

hold for all .

     

Gaussian elimination is stable for the inverse of a diagonally dominant matrix

Let be a row diagonally dominant matrix, i.e.,

where with We show that no pivoting is necessary when Gaussian elimination is applied to Moreover, the growth factor for does not exceed The same results are true with row diagonal dominance being replaced by column diagonal dominance.

     

Damped wave equation with a critical nonlinearity

We study large time asymptotics of small solutions to the Cauchy problem for nonlinear damped wave equations with a critical nonlinearity

where 0,$"> and space dimensions . Assume that the initial data

where \frac{n}{2},$"> weighted Sobolev spaces are

Also we suppose that

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where

Then we prove that there exists a positive such that the Cauchy problem above has a unique global solution satisfying the time decay property

for all 0,$"> where

     

New irrationality measures for -logarithms

The three main methods used in diophantine analysis of -series are combined to obtain new upper bounds for irrationality measures of the values of the -logarithm function

when and .