Palindromic companion forms for matrix polynomials of odd degree

The standard way to solve polynomial eigenvalue problems P(λ)x=0 is to convert the matrix polynomial P(λ) into a matrix pencil that preserves its spectral information — a process known as linearization. When P(λ) is palindromic, the eigenvalues, elementary divisors, and minimal indices of P(λ) have certain symmetries that can be lost when using the classical first and second Frobenius companion linearizations for numerical computations, since these linearizations do not preserve the palindromic structure. Recently new families of pencils have been introduced with the goal of finding linearizations that retain whatever structure the original P(λ) might possess, with particular attention to the preservation of palindromic structure. However, no general construction of palindromic linearizations valid for all palindromic polynomials has as yet been achieved. In this paper we present a family of linearizations for odd degree polynomials P(λ) which are palindromic whenever P(λ) is, and which are valid for all palindromic polynomials of odd degree. We illustrate our construction with several examples. In addition, we establish a simple way to recover the minimal indices of the polynomial from those of the linearizations in the new family.     

Sturm bounds for Siegel modular forms of degree 2 and odd weights

Mathematische Zeitschrift - We correct the proof of the theorem in the previous paper presented by Kikuta, which concerns Sturm bounds for Siegel modular forms of degree 2 and of even weights...     

Systems of quadratic Diophantine inequalities and the value distribution of quadratic forms

Let Q ₁,…,Q _r be quadratic forms with real coefficients. We prove that the set {(Q₁(x),?,Q_r(x)) | x ? Bbb Z^s}{(Q_1(x),ldots ,Q_r(x)),vert, xin{Bbb Z}^s} is dense in Bbb R^r{Bbb R}^r , provided that the system Q ₁(x) = 0,…,Q _r (x) = 0 has a nonsingular real solution and all forms in the real pencil generated by Q ₁,…,Q _r are irrational and have rank larger than 8r. Moreover, we give a quantitative version of the above assertion. As an application we study higher correlation functions of the value distribution of a positive definite irrational quadratic form.     

Systems of quadratic Diophantine inequalities and the value distribution of quadratic forms

Let Q ₁,…,Q _r be quadratic forms with real coefficients. We prove that the set is dense in , provided that the system Q ₁(x) = 0,…,Q _r (x) = 0 has a nonsingular real solution and all forms in the real pencil generated by Q ₁,…,Q _r are irrational and have rank larger than 8r. Moreover, we give a quantitative version of the above assertion. As an application we study higher correlation functions of the value distribution of a positive definite irrational quadratic form. Author’s address: Institut für Statistik, Technische Universit?t Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria     

Symmetric modular Diophantine inequalities

In this paper we study and characterize those Diophantine inequalities whose set of solutions is a symmetric numerical semigroup.

     

Systems of diagonal Diophantine inequalities

We treat systems of real diagonal forms of degree , in variables. We give a lower bound , which depends only on and , such that if holds, then, under certain conditions on the forms, and for any positive real number , there is a nonzero integral simultaneous solution of the system of Diophantine inequalities for . In particular, our result is one of the first to treat systems of inequalities of even degree. The result is an extension of earlier work by the author on quadratic forms. Also, a restriction in that work is removed, which enables us to now treat combined systems of Diophantine equations and inequalities.

     

Diophantine inequalities over Piatetski-Shapiro primes

Let c>1 and : We study the solubility of the Diophantine inequality in Piatetski-Shapiro primes p₁,p₂, .., p_s of the form p_j=[m^{\gamma }] for some m\in \mathbb{N}, and improve the previous results in the cases s = 2, 3, 4.     

Diophantine inequalities with mixed powers

It is shown that if λ₁,…, λ₆ are nonzero real numbers, not all of the same sign, such that $\text{λ}{}_1\text{λ}{}_2$ is irrational, then the values taken by λ₁x₁² + λ₂x₂² + λ₃x₃³ + λ₄x₄³ + λ₅x₅⁵ + λ₆x₆⁵ for integral x₁,…, x₆ are everywhere dense on the real line. Similar results are proved with other combinations in place of the two fifth powers.     

Diophantine inequalities with mixed powers

It is shown that λ₁, λ₂,…, λ₆, μ are not all of the same sign and at least one ratio $\text{λ}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{λ}{}_{\mathrm{j}}$ is irrational then the values taken by $\text{λ}{}_1\text{x}{}_1{}^3\text{+ ? + λ}{}_6\text{x}{}_6{}^3\text{+ μy}{}^3$ for integer values of x₁ ,…, x₆, y are everywhere dense on the real line. A similar result holds for expressions of the form $\text{λ}{}_1\text{x}{}_1{}^3\text{+ ? + λ}{}_4\text{x}{}_4{}^3\text{+ μ}{}_1\text{y}{}_1{}^2\text{+ μ}{}_2\text{y}{}_2{}^3$.     

Equivalent proportionally modular Diophantine inequalities

We study Diophantine inequalities of the form ax mod b ≤ cx. In particular, we prove that there exists a positive integer such that for every integer n ≥ N there exist a′, c′ (positive integers dependent of n) such that a′ x mod n ≤ c′ x has the same solutions as the above inequality. Received: 23 March 2007     

Diophantine inequalities with mixed powers

Let {λ_i}_{i = 1}^s (s ≥ 2) be a finite sequence of non-zero real numbers, not all of the same sign and in which not all the ratios $\text{λ}{}_{\mathrm{i}}\text{λ}{}_{\mathrm{j}}$ are rational. A given sequence of positive integers {n_i}_{i = 1}^s is said to have property (P) (($\text{P}{}^1$) respectively) if for any {λ_i}_{i = 1}^s and any real number η, there exists a positive constant σ, depending on {λ_i}_{i = 1}^s and {n_i}_{i = 1}^s only, so that the inequality |η + Σ_{i = 1}^sλ_ix_iⁿⁱ| < (max x_i)^?σ has infinitely many solutions in positive integers (primes respectively) x₁, x₂,…, x_s. In this paper, we prove the following result: Given a sequence of positive integers {n_i}_{i = 1}^∞, a necessary and sufficient condition that, for any positive integer j, there exists an integer s, depending on {n_i}_{i = j}^∞ only, such that {n_i}_{i = j}^{j + s ? 1} has property (P) (or ($\text{P}{}^1$)), is that Σ_{i = 1}^∞n_i^?1 = ∞. These are parallel to some striking results of G. A. Fre?man, E. J. Scourfield and K. Thanigasalam.     

Random Diophantine inequalities of additive type

Using the Davenport–Heilbronn circle method, we show that for almost all additive Diophantine inequalities of degree k in more than 2k variables the expected asymptotic formula for the density of solutions holds true.     

Systems of proportionally modular Diophantine inequalities

The set of integer solutions to the inequality ax mod b≤c x is a numerical semigroup. We study numerical semigroups that are intersections of these numerical semigroups. Recently it has been shown that this class of numerical semigroups coincides with the class of numerical semigroups having a Toms decomposition. The first author was (partially) supported by the Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto (CMUP), financed by FCT (Portugal) through the programmes POCTI and POSI, with national and European Community structural funds. The last three authors are supported by the project MTM2004-01446 and FEDER funds. The authors would like to thank the referee for her/his comments and suggestions.     

Irreducible representations of odd degree

McKay’s original observation on characters of odd degrees of finite groups is reduced to almost simple groups.     

Diophantine inequalities involving several power sums

Let denote the ring of power sums, i.e. complex functions of the form for some and _iA, where is a multiplicative semigroup. Moreover, let We consider Diophantine inequalities of the form where >1 is a quantity depending on the dominant roots of the power sums appearing as coefficients in F(n,y), and show that all its solutions have y parametrized by some power sums from a finite set. This is a continuation of the work of Corvaja and Zannier [4–6] and of the authors [10, 18] on such problems.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):11D45,11D61Revised version: 6 May 2004     

Diophantine inequalities and quasi-algebraically closed fields

Consider a form g(x ₁,...,x _s ) of degree d, having coefficients in the completion of the field of fractions associated to the finite field . We establish that whenever s > d ₂, then the form g takes arbitrarily small values for non-zero arguments . We provide related results for problems involving distribution modulo , and analogous conclusions for quasi-algebraically closed fields in general.