{"title":"The law of large numbers for stochastic rumor models","authors":"Elcio Lebensztayn, Lucas Sousa Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the generalization of the Maki–Thompson model for the spreading of a rumor through a finite population in which each spreader stops transmitting the rumor right after being involved in <span><math><mi>k</mi></math></span> unsuccessful telling interactions. We prove that the proportion of people unaware of the rumor at the end of the process converges in probability to a constant, as the population size goes to <span><math><mi>∞</mi></math></span>. The proof relies on an application of the martingale stopping theorem and is based upon the case <span><math><mrow><mi>k</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></math></span> established by Sudbury (1985), but our approach for proving the convergence is simpler, reducing technicalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125713"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144663132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An explicit classification of dual pairs in exceptional Lie algebras","authors":"Marisa Gaetz","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The primary goal of this paper is to explicitly write down all semisimple <em>dual pairs</em> in the complex exceptional Lie algebras. (A <em>dual pair</em> in a reductive Lie algebra <span><math><mi>g</mi></math></span> is a pair of subalgebras such that each member equals the other’s centralizer in <span><math><mi>g</mi></math></span>.) In a 1994 paper, H. Rubenthaler outlined a process for generating a complete list of candidate dual pairs in each of the complex exceptional Lie algebras. However, the process of checking whether each of these candidate dual pairs is in fact a dual pair is not easy: it requires the development of several distinct methods and the adaptation of results from multiple sources, some of which are not readily available online. In this paper, we carry out this process and explain the relevant concepts as we go. We also give plenty of examples with the hopes of making Rubenthaler’s 1994 result not only more complete but more usable and understandable.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125711"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144596615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Miyanishi conjecture for quasi-projective varieties","authors":"Takumi Asano","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125710","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125710","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Miyanishi conjecture claims that for any variety over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, any endomorphism of such a variety which is injective outside a closed subset of codimension at least 2 is bijective. We prove Miyanishi conjecture for any quasi-projective variety <span><math><mi>X</mi></math></span> which is a dense open subset of a <span><math><mi>Q</mi></math></span>-factorial normal projective variety <span><math><mover><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></math></span> such that <span><math><mrow><mo>codim</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mover><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover><mo>∖</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>≥</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></math></span> with the ample canonical divisor or the ample anti-canonical divisor. Also, we observe Miyanishi conjecture without the conditions of its canonical divisor by using minimal model program. In particular, we prove Miyanishi conjecture in the case that <span><math><mover><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></math></span> has canonical singularities and <span><math><mover><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></math></span> has the canonical model which is obtained by divisorial contractions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125710"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144321886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On real-valued functions of Lipschitz type","authors":"Valentin Gutev","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125701","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125701","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The classical McShane–Whitney extension theorem for Lipschitz functions is refined by showing that for a closed subset of the domain, it remains valid for any interval of the real line. This result is also extended to the setting of locally (pointwise) Lipschitz functions. In contrast to Lipschitz and pointwise Lipschitz extensions, the construction of locally Lipschitz extensions is based on Lipschitz partitions of unity of countable open covers of the domain. Such partitions of unity are a special case of a more general result obtained by Zdeněk Frolík. To avoid the use of Stone’s theorem (paracompactness of metrizable spaces), it is given a simple direct proof of this special case of Frolík’s result. As an application, it is shown that the locally Lipschitz functions are precisely the locally finite sums of sequences of Lipschitz functions. Also, it is obtained a natural locally Lipschitz version of one of Michael’s selection theorems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125701"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144321887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New variational arguments regarding the Blaschke–Lebesgue theorem","authors":"Beniamin Bogosel","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125700","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125700","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The sensitivity of the areas of Reuleaux polygons and disk polygons is computed with respect to vertex perturbations. Computations are completed for both constrained and Lagrangian formulations and they imply that the only critical Reuleaux polygons for the area functional are the regular ones. As a consequence, new variational proofs for the Blaschke–Lebesgue and Firey–Sallee theorems are found.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125700"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144115481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ends and end cohomology","authors":"William G. Bass, Jack S. Calcut","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125692","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125692","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ends and end cohomology are powerful invariants for the study of noncompact spaces. We present a self-contained exposition of the topological theory of ends and prove novel extensions including the existence of an exhaustion of a proper map. We define reduced end cohomology as the relative end cohomology of a ray-based space. We use those results to prove a version of a theorem of King that computes the reduced end cohomology of an end sum of two manifolds. We include a complete proof of Freudenthal’s fundamental theorem on the number of ends of a topological group, and we use our results on dimension-zero end cohomology to prove—without using transfinite induction—a theorem of Nöbeling on freeness of certain modules of continuous functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125692"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143906828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongki Jung , Bartosz Langowski , Alexander Ortiz , Truong Vu
{"title":"Expository article: “Bounded orthogonal systems and the Λ(p)-set problem” by Jean Bourgain","authors":"Hongki Jung , Bartosz Langowski , Alexander Ortiz , Truong Vu","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125691","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125691","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we present an exposition of the work by Jean Bourgain, in which he resolved the well known conjecture posed by Rudin regarding the existence of <span><math><mrow><mi>Λ</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>p</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span>-sets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125691"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143868724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comprehensive approach to multifractal analysis","authors":"Zhiming Li , Bilel Selmi , Haythem Zyoudi","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125690","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125690","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates how specific techniques have been broadened to suit more general contexts. Among them, multifractal analysis stands out for its adaptability and depth, presenting a unified framework to approach these generalizations. We examine the relative multifractal formalism within the context of metric spaces in a general way. The primary aim is to introduce a generalized concept of general relative multifractal Hausdorff and packing measures. In particular, we delve into the characteristics of the generalized multifractal Hausdorff and packing measures and analyze their impact on the broader multifractal spectrum functions. The investigation explores the connection between these generalized multifractal measures and the nature of general multifractal dimensions within this framework. Further, we establish an equivalence relation between general relative multifractal Hausdorff and packing measures by utilizing density theorems. Moreover, we study various properties of the generalized relative multifractal Hausdorff measures, packing measures, and pre-measures. Lastly, our work addresses the question of whether a subset in Euclidean space <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> with infinite positive Hausdorff measure can contain a compact set of positive finite general relative Hausdorff measures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125690"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143868741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a criterion for algebraic independence applied to continued fractions","authors":"Gessica Alecci , Carsten Elsner","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125689","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125689","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>From around 2010 onward, Elsner et al.<!--> <!--> <!-->developed and applied a method in which the algebraic independence of <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span> quantities <span><math><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><mo>…</mo><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span> over a field is transferred to further <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span> quantities <span><math><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><mo>…</mo><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span> by means of a system of polynomials in <span><math><mrow><mn>2</mn><mi>n</mi></mrow></math></span> variables <span><math><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><mo>…</mo><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>Y</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><mo>…</mo><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>Y</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span>. In this paper, we systematically study and explain this criterion and its variants. Moreover, we present new results concerning its application to periodic non-regular continued fractions, namely continued fractions with real numbers as partial quotients. We show that given a continued fraction of this type, this criterion can be applied to prove that not only are the convergents algebraically independent from each other, but they are also algebraically independent from the continued fraction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125689"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143868742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monoids, dynamics and Leavitt path algebras","authors":"Gene Abrams , Roozbeh Hazrat","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125684","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exmath.2025.125684","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leavitt path algebras, which are algebras associated to directed graphs, were first introduced about 20 years ago. They have strong connections to such topics as symbolic dynamics, operator algebras, non-commutative geometry, representation theory, and even chip firing. In this article we invite the reader to sneak a peek at these fascinating algebras and their interplay with several seemingly disparate parts of mathematics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":"43 5","pages":"Article 125684"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}