Incomplete Poly-Bernoulli Numbers and Incomplete Poly-Cauchy Numbers Associated to the <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Hurwitz–Lerch Zeta Function

In this paper we introduce a q-analogue of the incomplete poly-Bernoulli numbers and incomplete poly-Cauchy numbers by using the q-Hurwitz–Lerch zeta Function. Then we study several combinatorial properties of these new sequences. Moreover, we give some relations between the q-Hurwitz type incomplete poly-Bernoulli numbers, the q-Hurwitz type incomplete poly-Cauchy numbers and the incomplete Stirling numbers of both kinds.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>, <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Analogue of a linear transformation preserving log-convexity

In this paper, we establish the preserving log-convexity of linear transformation associated with p, q-analogue of Pascal triangle, i.e., if the sequence of nonnegative numbers {x_n}n is logconvex, then \({y_n} = {\sum\nolimits_{k = 0}^n {\left[ {\frac{n}{k}} \right]} _{pq}}{x_k}\) so is it for q ≠ p ≥ 1.     

The q-Versions of the Bernstein Operator: From Mere Analogies to Further Developments

The article exhibits a review of results on two popular q-versions of the Bernstein polynomials, namely, the Lupa? q-analogue and the q-Bernstein polynomials. Their similarities and distinctions are discussed.     

A new proof of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Dixon identity

We give a new and elementary proof of Jackson’s terminating q-analogue of Dixon’s identity by using recurrences and induction.     

Strong factorization property of Macdonald polynomials and higher-order Macdonald’s positivity conjecture

We prove a strong factorization property of interpolation Macdonald polynomials when q tends to 1. As a consequence, we show that Macdonald polynomials have a strong factorization property when q tends to 1, which was posed as an open question in our previous paper with Féray. Furthermore, we introduce multivariate q, t-Kostka numbers and we show that they are polynomials in q, t with integer coefficients by using the strong factorization property of Macdonald polynomials. We conjecture that multivariate q, t-Kostka numbers are in fact polynomials in q, t with nonnegative integer coefficients, which generalizes the celebrated Macdonald’s positivity conjecture.     

Cube root Ramanujan formulas and elementary Galois theory

The cube root Ramanujan formulas are explained from the point of view of Galois theory. Let F be a cyclic cubic extension of a field K. It is proved that the normal closure over K of a pure cubic extension of F contains a certain pure cubic extension of K. The proposed proof can be generalized to radicals of any prime degree q. In the case where the base field K is the field of rational numbers and the field F is embedded in the cyclotomic extension obtained by adding the pth roots of unity, the corresponding simple radical extension of the field of rational numbers is explicitly constructed. The proof of the main result illustrates Hilbert’s Theorem 90. An example of a particular formula generalizing Ramanujan’s formulas for degree 5 is given. A necessary condition for nested radical expressions of depth 2 to be contained in the normal closure of a pure cubic extension of the field F is given.     

Double-bosonization and Majid’s conjecture (IV): Type-crossings from A to BCD

Both in Majid's double-bosonization theory and in Rosso's quantum shuffle theory, the rankinductive and type-crossing construction for U_q(g)'s is still a remaining open question. In this paper, working in Majid's framework, based on the generalized double-bosonization theorem we proved before, we further describe explicitly the type-crossing construction of U_q(g)'s for(BCD)_n series directly from type An-1via adding a pair of dual braided groups determined by a pair of(R, R′)-matrices of type A derived from the respective suitably chosen representations. Combining with our results of the first three papers of this series, this solves Majid's conjecture, i.e., any quantum group U_q(g) associated to a simple Lie algebra g can be grown out of U_q(sl_2)recursively by a series of suitably chosen double-bosonization procedures.     

The generalized Lilbert matrix

We introduce a generalized Lilbert [Lucas-Hilbert] matrix. Explicit formulæ are derived for the LU-decomposition and their inverses, as well as the Cholesky decomposition. The approach is to use q-analysis and to leave the justification of the necessary identities to the q-version of Zeilberger’s celebrated algorithm.     

On Nash and Carlson’s Inequalities for Symmetric <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Integral Transforms

The aim of this paper is to prove an \(\mathcal {L}_q^1 \cap \mathcal {L}_q^2\) versions of Nash and Carlson’s inequalities for a class of q-integral operator \(\mathcal {T}_q\) with a bounded kernel. As applications, we give q-analogues of Nash and Carlson’s inequalities for the q-Fourier-cosine, q-Fourier-sine, q-Dunkl and q-Bessel Fourier transforms.     

Average-value tverberg partitions via finite fourier analysis

The long-standing topological Tverberg conjecture claimed, for any continuous map from the boundary of an N(q, d):= (q-1)(d+1)-simplex to d-dimensional Euclidian space, the existence of q pairwise disjoint subfaces whose images have non-empty q-fold intersection. The affine cases, true for all q, constitute Tverberg’s famous 1966 generalization of the classical Radon’s Theorem. Although established for all prime powers in 1987 by Özaydin, counterexamples to the conjecture, relying on 2014 work of Mabillard and Wagner, were first shown to exist for all non-prime-powers in 2015 by Frick. Starting with a reformulation of the topological Tverberg conjecture in terms of harmonic analysis on finite groups, we show that despite the failure of the conjecture, continuous maps below the tight dimension N(q, d) are nonetheless guaranteed q pairwise disjoint subfaces–including when q is not a prime power–which satisfy a variety of “average value” coincidences, the latter obtained as the vanishing of prescribed Fourier transforms.     

Extended Gelfand–Tsetlin graph,its q-boundary,and q-B-splines

The boundary of the Gelfand–Tsetlin graph is an infinite-dimensional locally compact space whose points parameterize the extreme characters of the infinite-dimensional group U(∞). The problem of harmonic analysis on the group U(∞) leads to a continuous family of probability measures on the boundary—the so-called zw-measures. Recently Vadim Gorin and the author have begun to study a q-analogue of the zw-measures. It turned out that constructing them requires introducing a novel combinatorial object, the extended Gelfand–Tsetlin graph. In the present paper it is proved that the Markov kernels connected with the extended Gelfand–Tsetlin graph and its q-boundary possess the Feller property. This property is needed for constructing a Markov dynamics on the q-boundary. A connection with the B-splines and their q-analogues is also discussed.     

Jacobi translation and the inequality of different metrics for algebraic polynomials on an interval

The sharp inequality of different metrics (Nikol’skii’s inequality) for algebraic polynomials in the interval [?1, 1] between the uniform norm and the norm of the space L _q ^(α,β) , 1 ≤ q < ∞, with Jacobi weight ?^(α,β)(x) = (1 ? x)^α(1 + x)^β α ≥ β > ?1, is investigated. The study uses the generalized translation operator generated by the Jacobi weight. A set of functions is described for which the norm of this operator in the space L _q ^(α,β) , 1 ≤ q < ∞, \(\alpha > \beta \geqslant - \frac{1}{2}\), is attained.     

Schur positivity and the <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-log-convexity of the Narayana polynomials

We prove two recent conjectures of Liu and Wang by establishing the strong q-log-convexity of the Narayana polynomials, and showing that the Narayana transformation preserves log-convexity. We begin with a formula of Brändén expressing the q-Narayana numbers as a specialization of Schur functions and, by deriving several symmetric function identities, we obtain the necessary Schur-positivity results. In addition, we prove the strong q-log-concavity of the q-Narayana numbers. The q-log-concavity of the q-Narayana numbers N _q (n,k) for fixed k is a special case of a conjecture of McNamara and Sagan on the infinite q-log-concavity of the Gaussian coefficients.     

Hochschild cohomology ring modulo nilpotence of a one point extension of a quiver algebra defined by two cycles and a quantum-like relation

We consider a one point extension algebra B of a quiver algebra A _q over a field k defined by two cycles and a quantum-like relation depending on a nonzero element q in k. We determine the Hochschild cohomology ring of B modulo nilpotence and show that if q is a root of unity, then B is a counterexample to Snashall-Solberg’s conjecture.     

A Note on MDS Codes, <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-Arcs and Complete Designs

A generalized incidence matrix of a design over GF(q) is any matrix obtained from the (0, 1)-incidence matrix by replacing ones with nonzero elements from GF(q). The dimension d _q of a design D over GF(q) is defined as the minimum value of the q-rank of a generalized incidence matrix of D. It is proved that the dimension d _q of the complete design on n points having as blocks all w-subsets, is greater that or equal to n ? w + 1, and the equality d _q = n ? w + 1 holds if and only if there exists an [n, n ? w + 1, w] MDS code over GF(q), or equivalently, an n-arc in PG(w ? 2, q).     

On full-rank perfect codes over finite fields

We propose a construction of full-rank q-ary 1-perfect codes. This is a generalization of the construction of full-rank binary 1-perfect codes by Etzion and Vardy (1994). The properties of the i-components of q-ary Hamming codes are investigated, and the construction of full-rank q-ary 1-perfect codes is based on these properties. The switching construction of 1-perfect codes is generalized to the q-ary case. We propose a generalization of the notion of an i-component of a 1-perfect code and introduce the concept of an (i, σ)-component of a q-ary 1-perfect code. We also present a generalization of the Lindström–Schönheim construction of q-ary 1-perfect codes and provide a lower bound for the number of pairwise distinct q-ary 1-perfect codes of length n.     

Structural properties and enumeration of 1-generator generalized quasi-cyclic codes

Let F _q be a finite field of cardinality q, m ₁, m ₂, . . . , m _l be any positive integers, and \({A_i=F_q[x]/(x^{m_i}-1)}\) for i = 1, . . . , l. A generalized quasi-cyclic (GQC) code of block length type (m ₁, m ₂, . . . , m _l ) over F _q is defined as an F _q [x]-submodule of the F _q [x]-module \({A_1\times A_2\times\cdots\times A_l}\). By the Chinese Remainder Theorem for F _q [x] and enumeration results of submodules of modules over finite commutative chain rings, we investigate structural properties of GQC codes and enumeration of all 1-generator GQC codes and 1-generator GQC codes with a fixed parity-check polynomial respectively. Furthermore, we give an algorithm to count numbers of 1-generator GQC codes.     

On a q-analogue for Bernoulli numbers

Inspired by Borwein et al. (Am. Math. Mon., 116(5):387–412, 2009), we define a sequence of q-analogues for the Bernoulli numbers under the framework of Strodt operators. We show that they not only satisfy identities similar to those of the q-analogue proposed by Carlitz (Duke Math. J., 15(4):987–1000, 1948), but also interesting analytical properties as functions of q. In particular, we give a simple analytic proof of a generalization of an explicit formula for the Bernoulli numbers given by Woon (Math. Mag., 70(1):51–56, 1997). We also define a set of q-analogues for the Stirling numbers of the second kind within our framework and prove a q-extension of a related, well-known closed form relating Bernoulli and Stirling numbers.     

Temperature dependence of the photoelastic behaviour of crystals—Part I

A modified form of Filon’s spectrometer method is used to study the variation of the stress-optical constants (q ₁₁-q ₁₂) andq ₄₄ of KCl, KBr, KI, LiF, MgO and NaCl in the temperature range 30° C. to 400° C. It is found that (q ₁₁-q ₁₂) andq ₄₄ generally increase numerically with the increase of temperature except those of NaCl which show a decrease. In KBr and KI,q ₄₄ first increases and then decreases numerically. The potassium halides show an interesting gradation of variation of these constants. In all the crystals studied, which are of NaCl type, the variation in (q ₁₁-q ₁₂) is greater than that inq ₄₄. Mueller’s ultrasonic method is used for measuring the ratio of strain-optical constantsp ₁₂/p ₁₁, in the temperature range 30°C. to 250°C. Combining the results obtained by these two methods, the absolute strain-optical constantsp ₁₁ andp ₁₂ have been evaluated at different temperatures. Curves are given showing the variation ofp ₁₁ andp ₁₂ with temperature. The variation ofp ₁₁ andp ₁₂ with temperature is discussed in terms of the contributions of the various factors considered by Mueller in his theory of photoelastic effect in cubic crystals.     

3<Emphasis Type="Italic">nj</Emphasis>-symbols and identities for <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Bessel functions

The 6j-symbols for representations of the q-deformed algebra of polynomials on \(\mathrm {SU}(2)\) are given by Jackson’s third q-Bessel functions. This interpretation leads to several summation identities for the q-Bessel functions. Multivariate q-Bessel functions are defined, which are shown to be limit cases of multivariate Askey–Wilson polynomials. The multivariate q-Bessel functions occur as 3nj-symbols.