{"title":"Letter frequency vs factor frequency in pure morphic words","authors":"Shuo Li","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102834","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We prove that, for any pure morphic word <em>w</em>, if the frequencies of all letters in <em>w</em> exist, then the frequencies of all factors in <em>w</em> exist as well. This result answers a question of Saari in his doctoral thesis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 102834"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143154470","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}
{"title":"Initial values of ML-degree polynomials","authors":"Maciej Gałązka","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102831","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102831","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We prove a conjecture about the initial values of ML-degree polynomials stated by Michałek, Monin, and Wiśniewski.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 102831"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143154473","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}
{"title":"Chordal matroids arising from generalized parallel connections II","authors":"James Dylan Douthitt, James Oxley","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102833","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102833","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In 1961, Dirac showed that chordal graphs are exactly the graphs that can be constructed from complete graphs by a sequence of clique-sums. In an earlier paper, by analogy with Dirac's result, we introduced the class of <span><math><mi>G</mi><mi>F</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>-chordal matroids as those matroids that can be constructed from projective geometries over <span><math><mi>G</mi><mi>F</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> by a sequence of generalized parallel connections across projective geometries over <span><math><mi>G</mi><mi>F</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>. Our main result showed that when <span><math><mi>q</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn></math></span>, such matroids have no induced minor in <span><math><mo>{</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo><mo>,</mo><mi>M</mi><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo><mo>}</mo></math></span>. In this paper, we show that the class of <span><math><mi>G</mi><mi>F</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>-chordal matroids coincides with the class of binary matroids that have none of <span><math><mi>M</mi><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span>, <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>M</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>⁎</mo></mrow></msup><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span>, or <span><math><mi>M</mi><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span> for <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>4</mn></math></span> as a flat. We also show that <span><math><mi>G</mi><mi>F</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>-chordal matroids can be characterized by an analogous result to Rose's 1970 characterization of chordal graphs as those that have a perfect elimination ordering of vertices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 102833"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143154471","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}
{"title":"Consecutive pattern containment and c-Wilf equivalence","authors":"Reza Rastegar","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102829","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102829","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We offer elementary proofs for several results in consecutive pattern containment that were previously demonstrated using ideas from cluster method and analytical combinatorics. Furthermore, we establish new general bounds on the growth rates of consecutive pattern avoidance in permutations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 102829"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153922","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}
{"title":"Simultaneous orderings and combinatorial interpretations of generalized factorials and binomial coefficients","authors":"Lan Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102810","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102810","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we answer several questions raised by Manjul Bhargava concerning <em>p</em>-orderings, <em>p</em>-sequences, and combinatorial interpretations of generalized factorials and binomial coefficients associated with subsets <em>S</em> of <span><math><mi>Z</mi></math></span>. First, we prove some results of Bhargava concerning <em>p</em>-orderings, <em>p</em>-sequences and the integrality of generalized binomial coefficients directly from definitions, answering two questions of Bhargava. As a result, we also obtain some explicit descriptions of the <em>p</em>-sequences associated with <em>p</em>-orderings which do not exist in Bhargava's proofs. Second, we provide some combinatorial interpretations for the generalized factorials and the generalized binomial coefficients associated with subsets of <span><math><mi>Z</mi></math></span> which possess simultaneous <em>p</em>-orderings, answering two other questions raised by Bhargava.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 102810"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153923","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}
{"title":"A direct proof of well-definedness for the polymatroid Tutte polynomial","authors":"Xiaxia Guan , Xian'an Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102809","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For a polymatroid <em>P</em> over <span><math><mo>[</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>]</mo></math></span>, Bernardi et al. (2022) <span><span>[1]</span></span> introduced the polymatroid Tutte polynomial <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> relying on the order <span><math><mn>1</mn><mo><</mo><mn>2</mn><mo><</mo><mo>⋯</mo><mo><</mo><mi>n</mi></math></span> of <span><math><mo>[</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>]</mo></math></span>, which generalizes the classical Tutte polynomial from matroids to polymatroids. They proved the independence of this order by the fact that <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> is equivalent to another polynomial that only depends on <em>P</em>. In this paper, similar to the Tutte's original proof of the well-definedness of the Tutte polynomial defined by the summation over all spanning trees using activities depending on the order of edges, we give a direct and elementary proof of the well-definedness of the polymatroid Tutte polynomial.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 102809"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142722289","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}
{"title":"Existence of solutions to the even Gaussian dual Minkowski problem","authors":"Yibin Feng , Shengnan Hu , Lei Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102808","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102808","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we consider the Gaussian dual Minkowski problem. The problem involves a new type of fully nonlinear partial differential equations on the unit sphere. Our main purpose is to show the existence of solutions to the even Gaussian dual Minkowski problem for <span><math><mi>q</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></math></span>. More precisely, we will show that there exists an origin-symmetric convex body <em>K</em> in <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> such that its Gaussian dual curvature measure <span><math><msub><mrow><mover><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>˜</mo></mrow></mover></mrow><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>γ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>,</mo><mi>q</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>K</mi><mo>,</mo><mo>⋅</mo><mo>)</mo></math></span> has density <em>f</em> (up to a constant) on the unit sphere when <span><math><mi>q</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></math></span> and <em>f</em> has positive upper and lower bounds. Note that if <em>f</em> is smooth then <em>K</em> is also smooth. As the application of smooth solutions, we completely solve the even Gaussian dual Minkowski problem for <span><math><mi>q</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></math></span> based on an approximation argument.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 102808"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142703820","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}
John A. Rhodes , Hector Baños , Jingcheng Xu , Cécile Ané
{"title":"Identifying circular orders for blobs in phylogenetic networks","authors":"John A. Rhodes , Hector Baños , Jingcheng Xu , Cécile Ané","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102804","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102804","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interest in the inference of evolutionary networks relating species or populations has grown with the increasing recognition of the importance of hybridization, gene flow and admixture, and the availability of large-scale genomic data. However, what network features may be validly inferred from various data types under different models remains poorly understood. Previous work has largely focused on level-1 networks, in which reticulation events are well separated, and on a general network's tree of blobs, the tree obtained by contracting every blob to a node. An open question is the identifiability of the topology of a blob of unknown level. We consider the identifiability of the circular order in which subnetworks attach to a blob, first proving that this order is well-defined for outer-labeled planar blobs. For this class of blobs, we show that the circular order information from 4-taxon subnetworks identifies the full circular order of the blob. Similarly, the circular order from 3-taxon rooted subnetworks identifies the full circular order of a rooted blob. We then show that subnetwork circular information is identifiable from certain data types and evolutionary models. This provides a general positive result for high-level networks, on the identifiability of the ordering in which taxon blocks attach to blobs in outer-labeled planar networks. Finally, we give examples of blobs with different internal structures which cannot be distinguished under many models and data types.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 102804"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142703819","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}
{"title":"Triangular partitions: Enumeration, structure, and generation","authors":"Sergi Elizalde , Alejandro B. Galván","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102807","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102807","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A <em>triangular partition</em> is a partition whose Ferrers diagram can be separated from its complement (as a subset of <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>) by a straight line. Having their origins in combinatorial number theory and computer vision, triangular partitions have been studied from a combinatorial perspective by Onn and Sturmfels, and by Corteel et al. under the name <em>plane corner cuts</em>, and more recently by Bergeron and Mazin in the context of algebraic combinatorics. In this paper we derive new enumerative, geometric and algorithmic properties of such partitions.</div><div>We give a new characterization of triangular partitions and the cells that can be added or removed while preserving the triangular condition, and use it to describe the Möbius function of the restriction of Young's lattice to triangular partitions. We obtain a formula for the number of triangular partitions whose Young diagram fits inside a square, deriving, as a byproduct, a new proof of Lipatov's enumeration theorem for balanced words. Finally, we present an algorithm that generates all the triangular partitions of a given size, which is significantly more efficient than previous ones and allows us to compute the number of triangular partitions of size up to 10<sup>5</sup>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 102807"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659973","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}
{"title":"Principal specializations of Schubert polynomials, multi-layered permutations and asymptotics","authors":"Ningxin Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aam.2024.102806","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Let <span><math><mi>v</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> be the largest principal specialization of Schubert polynomials for layered permutations <span><math><mi>v</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>:</mo><mo>=</mo><msub><mrow><mi>max</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>w</mi><mo>∈</mo><msub><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></msub><mo></mo><msub><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>w</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mo>…</mo><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>. Morales, Pak and Panova proved that there is a limit<span><span><span><math><munder><mi>lim</mi><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>→</mo><mo>∞</mo></mrow></munder><mo></mo><mfrac><mrow><mi>log</mi><mo></mo><mi>v</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></mfrac><mo>,</mo></math></span></span></span> and gave a precise description of layered permutations reaching the maximum. In this paper, we extend Morales Pak and Panova's results to generalized principal specialization <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>w</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>,</mo><msup><mrow><mi>q</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>,</mo><mo>…</mo><mo>)</mo></math></span> for multi-layered permutations when <em>q</em> equals a root of unity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50877,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Applied Mathematics","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 102806"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659972","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}