On two supercongruences of truncated hypergeometric series $${}_{4}F_{3}$$ 4 F 3

The Ramanujan Journal - In this paper, we prove two supercongruences conjectured by Sun via the Wilf–Zeilberger method. One of them is, for any prime $$p>3$$ , $$begin{aligned}...     

Sharp Inequalities Involving $$(n!)^{1/n}$$

We prove that, for all integers \(n\ge 1\),

$$\begin{aligned} \Big (\sqrt{2\pi n}\Big )^{\frac{1}{n(n+1)}}\left( 1-\frac{1}{n+a}\right) <\frac{\root n \of {n!}}{\root n+1 \of {(n+1)!}}\le \Big (\sqrt{2\pi n}\Big )^{\frac{1}{n(n+1)}}\left( 1-\frac{1}{n+b}\right) \end{aligned}$$

and

$$\begin{aligned} \big (\sqrt{2\pi n}\big )^{1/n}\left( 1-\frac{1}{2n+\alpha }\right) <\left( 1+\frac{1}{n}\right) ^{n}\frac{\root n \of {n!}}{n}\le \big (\sqrt{2\pi n}\big )^{1/n}\left( 1-\frac{1}{2n+\beta }\right) , \end{aligned}$$

with the best possible constants

$$\begin{aligned}&a=\frac{1}{2},\quad b=\frac{1}{2^{3/4}\pi ^{1/4}-1}=0.807\ldots ,\quad \alpha =\frac{13}{6} \\&\text {and}\quad \beta =\frac{2\sqrt{2}-\sqrt{\pi }}{\sqrt{\pi }-\sqrt{2}}=2.947\ldots . \end{aligned}$$

     

Differential equations for the Majorana particle in $${3+1}$$ and $${1+1}$$ dimensions

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics - The relativistic wave equation considered to mathematically describe the Majorana particle is the Dirac equation with a real Lorentz scalar potential plus the...     

Explicit classes of permutation polynomials of $$ \mathbb{F}_{3^{3m} } $$

Permutation polynomials have been an interesting subject of study for a long time and have applications in many areas of mathematics and engineering. However, only a small number of specific classes of permutation polynomials are known so far. In this paper, six classes of linearized permutation polynomials and six classes of nonlinearized permutation polynomials over are presented. These polynomials have simple shapes, and they are related to planar functions. This work was supported by Australian Research Council (Grant No. DP0558773), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10571180) and the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (Grant No. 612405)     

Phylogenetic Invariants for $${\mathbb{Z}_3}$$ Scheme-Theoretically

We study phylogenetic invariants of general group-based models of evolution with group of symmetries \({\mathbb{Z}_3}\). We prove that complex projective schemes corresponding to the ideal I of phylogenetic invariants of such a model and to its subideal \({I'}\) generated by elements of degree at most 3 are the same. This is motivated by a conjecture of Sturmfels and Sullivant [14, Conj. 29], which would imply that \({I = I'}\).     

Syzygies of Multi-Variable Higher Spin Dirac Operators on $$\mathbb{R}^{3}$$

This paper is a short report on the generalization of some results of our previous paper [12] to the case of spin j/2 Dirac operators in real dimension three for arbitrary odd integer j. We use an explicit formula for the local expression of such operators to study their algebraic properties, construct the compatibility conditions of the overdetermined system associated to the operator in several spatial variables, and we prove that its associated algebraic complex, dual do the BGG sequence coming from representation theory, has substantially the same pattern as the Cauchy-Fueter complex. The author is a member of the Eduard Čech Center and his research is supported by the relative grants.     

$$L^{p}$$ L p Norms of the Lattice Point Discrepancy

Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications - We estimate the $$L^{p}$$ norms of the discrepancy between the volume and the number of integer points in $$rOmega -x$$ , a dilated by a factor r and...     

The $$\mathrm {L}_3(4)$$ near octagon

In recent work we constructed two new near octagons, one related to the finite simple group \(\mathrm {G}_2(4)\) and another one as a sub-near-octagon of the former. In the present paper, we give a direct construction of this sub-near-octagon using a split extension of the group \(\mathrm {L}_3(4)\). We derive several geometric properties of this \(\mathrm {L}_3(4)\) near octagon, and determine its full automorphism group. We also prove that the \(\mathrm {L}_3(4)\) near octagon is closely related to the second subconstituent of the distance-regular graph on 486 vertices discovered by Soicher (Eur J Combin 14:501–505, 1993).     

Local Discrepancies in the Problem of the Distribution of the Sequence $${kalpha}$$

Mathematical Notes - The paper deals with local discrepancies in the problem of the distribution of the sequence $${kalpha}$$ , i.e., with the remainder terms in asymptotic formulas for the...     

On the varieties of ai-semirings satisfying $${x^{3}\approx x}$$

The aim of this paper is to study the varieties of ai-semirings satisfying \({x^{3}\approx x}\) . It is shown that the collection of all such varieties forms a distributive lattice of order 179. Also, all of them are finitely based and finitely generated. This generalizes and extends the main results obtained by Ghosh et al., Pastijn and Ren and Zhao.     

$$ H^{p}_{w} - L^{p}_{w} $$ Boundedness of Marcinkiewicz Integral

The Marcinkiewicz integral is essentially a Littlewood-Paley g-function, which plays a very important role in harmonic analysis. In this paper we give weaker smoothness conditions assumed on Ω to imply the boundedness of the Marcinkiewicz integral operator μ_Ω, where w belongs to the Muckenhoupt weight class.     

Primitive semifields of order $$2^{4e}$$

We prove that all sufficient large finite semifields of center \({\mathbb {F}}_{2^e}\) and order \(2^{4e}\) are right and left primitive.     

Paneitz operator for metrics near $$S^{3}$$

We derive the first and second variation formula for the Green’s function pole’s value of Paneitz operator on the standard three sphere. In particular it is shown that the first variation vanishes and the second variation is nonpositively definite. Moreover, the second variation vanishes only at the direction of conformal deformation. We also introduce a new invariant of the Paneitz operator and illustrate its close relation with the second eigenvalue and Sobolev inequality of Paneitz operator.     

A new family of differentially 4-uniform permutations over $$\mathbb{F}_{2^{2k} }$$ for odd k

We study the differential uniformity of a class of permutations over \(\mathbb{F}_{2^n } \) with n even. These permutations are different from the inverse function as the values x^?1 are modified to be (γx)^? on some cosets of a fixed subgroup 〈γ〉 of \(\mathbb{F}_{2^n }^* \). We obtain some sufficient conditions for this kind of permutations to be differentially 4-uniform, which enable us to construct a new family of differentially 4-uniform permutations that contains many new Carlet-Charpin-Zinoviev equivalent (CCZ-equivalent) classes as checked by Magma for small numbers n. Moreover, all of the newly constructed functions are proved to possess optimal algebraic degree and relatively high nonlinearity.     

Tail indices for $$\mathbf{A}\mathbf{X}+\mathbf{B}$$ A X + B Recursion with Triangular Matrices

Journal of Theoretical Probability - We study multivariate stochastic recurrence equations (SREs) with triangular matrices. If coefficient matrices of SREs have strictly positive entries, the...     

Dirac Operators with Singular Potentials Supported on Unbounded Surfaces in $$\mathbb{R}^{3}$$

Functional Analysis and Its Applications - We consider the self-adjointness and essential spectrum of 3D Dirac operators with bounded variable magnetic and electrostatic potentials and with...     

Jumping conics on a smooth quadric in $${\mathbb {P}_3}$$

We investigate the jumping conics of stable vector bundles E of rank 2 on a smooth quadric surface Q with the first Chern class c₁ = O_Q(-1,-1){c_1= \mathcal{O}_Q(-1,-1)} with respect to the ample line bundle O_Q(1,1){\mathcal {O}_Q(1,1)} . We show that the set of jumping conics of E is a hypersurface of degree c ₂(E) − 1 in \mathbb P₃^*{\mathbb {P}_3^{*}} . Using these hypersurfaces, we describe moduli spaces of stable vector bundles of rank 2 on Q in the cases of lower c ₂(E).