MathematikaPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12278
J. Robert Johnson, Mark Walters
{"title":"Optimal resistor networks","authors":"J. Robert Johnson, Mark Walters","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12278","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given a graph on <span></span><math></math> vertices with <span></span><math></math> edges, each of unit resistance, how small can the average resistance between pairs of vertices be? There are two very plausible extremal constructions — graphs like a star, and graphs which are close to regular — with the transition between them occurring when the average degree is 3. However, in this paper, we show that there are significantly better constructions for a range of average degree including average degree near 3. A key idea is to link this question to a analogous question about rooted graphs — namely ‘which rooted graph minimises the average resistance to the root?’. The rooted case is much simpler to analyse that the unrooted, and the one of the main results of this paper is that the two cases are asymptotically equivalent.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12278","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142152263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12279
Pedro-José Cazorla García
{"title":"Asymptotic Fermat's last theorem for a family of equations of signature","authors":"Pedro-José Cazorla García","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12279","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we study the integer solutions of a family of Fermat-type equations of signature <span></span><math></math>, <span></span><math></math>. We provide an algorithmically testable set of conditions which, if satisfied, imply the existence of a constant <span></span><math></math> such that if <span></span><math></math>, there are no solutions <span></span><math></math> of the equation. Our methods use the modular method for Diophantine equations, along with level lowering and Galois theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12274
Gergely Ambrus, Rainie Bozzai
{"title":"Colorful vector balancing","authors":"Gergely Ambrus, Rainie Bozzai","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12274","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We extend classical estimates for the vector balancing constant of <span></span><math></math> equipped with the Euclidean and the maximum norms proved in the 1980s by showing that for <span></span><math></math> and <span></span><math></math>, given vector families <span></span><math></math> with <span></span><math></math>, one may select vectors <span></span><math></math> with\u0000\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12274","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142089869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12275
R. C. Vaughan, Yu. G. Zarhin
{"title":"A note on the squarefree density of polynomials","authors":"R. C. Vaughan, Yu. G. Zarhin","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12275","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The conjectured squarefree density of an integral polynomial <span></span><math></math> in <span></span><math></math> variables is an Euler product <span></span><math></math> which can be considered as a product of local densities. We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for <span></span><math></math> to be 0 when <span></span><math></math> is a polynomial in <span></span><math></math> variables over the integers, is that either there is a prime <span></span><math></math> such that the values of <span></span><math></math> at all integer points are divisible by <span></span><math></math> or the polynomial is not squarefree as a polynomial. We also show that generally the upper squarefree density <span></span><math></math> satisfies <span></span><math></math>.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12275","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-08-25DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12277
Thomas Karam
{"title":"The interplay between bounded ranks of tensors arising from partitions","authors":"Thomas Karam","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12277","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span></span><math></math> be integers. Using a fragmentation technique, we characterise <span></span><math></math>-tuples <span></span><math></math> of non-empty families of partitions of <span></span><math></math> such that it suffices that an order-<span></span><math></math> tensor has bounded <span></span><math></math>-rank for each <span></span><math></math> for it to have bounded <span></span><math></math>-rank. On the way, we prove power lower bounds on suitable products of diagonal tensors, providing a qualitative answer to a question of Naslund.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-08-25DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12276
Tomasz Kowalczyk, Piotr Miska
{"title":"On Waring numbers of henselian rings","authors":"Tomasz Kowalczyk, Piotr Miska","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12276","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span></span><math></math> be a positive integer. Let <span></span><math></math> be a henselian local ring with residue field <span></span><math></math> of <span></span><math></math>th level <span></span><math></math>. We give some upper and lower bounds for the <span></span><math></math>th Waring number <span></span><math></math> in terms of <span></span><math></math> and <span></span><math></math>. In large number of cases, we are able to compute <span></span><math></math>. Similar results for the <span></span><math></math>th Waring number of the total ring of fractions of <span></span><math></math> are obtained. We then provide applications. In particular, we compute <span></span><math></math> and <span></span><math></math> for <span></span><math></math> and any prime <span></span><math></math>.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12270
Sebastian Manecke, Raman Sanyal
{"title":"Inscribable fans I: Inscribed cones and virtual polytopes","authors":"Sebastian Manecke, Raman Sanyal","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12270","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate polytopes inscribed into a sphere that are normally equivalent (or strongly isomorphic) to a given polytope <span></span><math></math>. We show that the associated space of polytopes, called the <i>inscribed cone</i> of <span></span><math></math>, is closed under Minkowski addition. Inscribed cones are interpreted as type cones of ideal hyperbolic polytopes and as deformation spaces of Delaunay subdivisions. In particular, testing if there is an inscribed polytope normally equivalent to <span></span><math></math> is polynomial time solvable. Normal equivalence is decided on the level of normal fans and we study the structure of inscribed cones for various classes of polytopes and fans, including simple, simplicial, and even. We classify (virtually) inscribable fans in dimension 2 as well as inscribable permutahedra and nestohedra. A second goal of the paper is to introduce inscribed <i>virtual</i> polytopes. Polytopes with a fixed normal fan <span></span><math></math> form a monoid with respect to Minkowski addition and the associated Grothendieck group is called the <i>type space</i> of <span></span><math></math>. Elements of the type space correspond to formal Minkowski differences and are naturally equipped with vertices and hence with a notion of inscribability. We show that inscribed virtual polytopes form a subgroup, which can be nontrivial even if <span></span><math></math> does not have actual inscribed polytopes. We relate inscribed virtual polytopes to routed particle trajectories, that is, piecewise-linear trajectories of particles in a ball with restricted directions. The state spaces gives rise to connected groupoids generated by reflections, called <i>reflection groupoids</i>. The endomorphism groups of reflection groupoids can be thought of as discrete holonomy groups of the trajectories and we determine when they are reflection groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141991604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12267
Antonio Greco, Benyam Mebrate
{"title":"An overdetermined problem related to the Finsler -Laplacian","authors":"Antonio Greco, Benyam Mebrate","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12267","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we consider the Finsler <span></span><math></math>-Laplacian torsion equation. The domain of the problem is bounded by a conical surface supporting a Neumann-type condition, and an unknown surface supporting both a Dirichlet and a Neumann condition. The case when the cone coincides with the punctured space is included. We show that the existence of a weak solution implies that the unknown surface lies on the boundary of a Finsler-ball. Incidentally, some properties of the Finsler–Minkowski norms are proved here under mild smoothness assumptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12267","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12272
Mohd Harun, Sumit Kumar, Saurabh Kumar Singh
{"title":"Hybrid subconvexity bound for -functions: and level aspect","authors":"Mohd Harun, Sumit Kumar, Saurabh Kumar Singh","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12272","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we will get nontrivial estimates for the central values of degree six Rankin–Selberg <span></span><math></math>-functions <span></span><math></math> associated with a <span></span><math></math> form <span></span><math></math> and a <span></span><math></math> form <span></span><math></math> using the delta symbol approach in the hybrid <span></span><math></math> level and <span></span><math></math>-aspect.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12271
Yann Bugeaud, Guo-Niu Han
{"title":"Explicit continued fraction expansion of a rational root of over","authors":"Yann Bugeaud, Guo-Niu Han","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12271","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span></span><math></math> be a prime number, <span></span><math></math> and <span></span><math></math> positive integers coprime with <span></span><math></math>. We provide the explicit continued fraction expansion of the <span></span><math></math>th root of <span></span><math></math> in the power series field <span></span><math></math>. We determine its irrationality exponent.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}