{"title":"PBIB-Designs from Certain Subsets of Distance-Regular Graphs","authors":"Nan Li, Yan Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s41980-024-00859-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-024-00859-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Partially balanced incomplete block (PBIB)-designs are well known to be the generalization of combinatorial 2-designs. In this paper, we first construct PBIB-designs from diametral paths of distance-regular graphs, which generalizes the result for strongly regular graphs. Furthermore, for Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs associated with regular semilattices, we obtain the construction of PBIB-designs through descendents with fixed dual width.</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139921339","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":"The Ground State Solutions to a Class of Biharmonic Choquard Equations on Weighted Lattice Graphs","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00846-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00846-9","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>In this paper, we consider the biharmonic Choquard equation with the nonlocal term on the weighted lattice graph <span> <span>({mathbb {Z}}^N)</span> </span>, namely for any <span> <span>(p>1)</span> </span> and <span> <span>(alpha in (0,,N))</span> </span><span> <span>$$begin{aligned} Delta ^2u-Delta u+V(x)u=left( sum _{yin {mathbb {Z}}^N,,ynot =x}frac{|u(y)|^p}{d(x,,y)^{N-alpha }}right) |u|^{p-2}u, end{aligned}$$</span> </span>where <span> <span>(Delta ^2)</span> </span> is the biharmonic operator, <span> <span>(Delta )</span> </span> is the <span> <span>(mu )</span> </span>-Laplacian, <span> <span>(V:{mathbb {Z}}^Nrightarrow {mathbb {R}})</span> </span> is a function, and <span> <span>(d(x,,y))</span> </span> is the distance between <em>x</em> and <em>y</em>. If the potential <em>V</em> satisfies certain assumptions, using the method of Nehari manifold, we prove that for any <span> <span>(p>(N+alpha )/N)</span> </span>, there exists a ground state solution of the above-mentioned equation. Compared with the previous results, we adopt a new method to finding the ground state solution from mountain-pass solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139647856","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":"The Average Behaviors of the Fourier Coefficients of j-th Symmetric Power L-Function over Two Sparse Sequences of Positive Integers","authors":"Huafeng Liu, Xiaojie Yang","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00850-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00850-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Suppose that <i>x</i> is a sufficiently large number and <span>(jge 2)</span> is any integer. Let <span>(L(s, textrm{sym}^j f))</span> be the <i>j</i>-th symmetric power <i>L</i>-function associated with the primitive holomorphic cusp form <i>f</i> of weight <i>k</i> for the full modular group SL<span>(_{2}(mathbb {Z}))</span>. Also, let <span>(lambda _{textrm{sym}^j f}(n))</span> be the <i>n</i>-th normalized Dirichlet coefficient of <span>(L(s, textrm{sym}^j f))</span>. In this paper, we establish asymptotic formulas for sums of Dirichlet coefficients <span>(lambda _{textrm{sym}^j f}(n))</span> over two sparse sequences of positive integers, which improves previous results.</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139647836","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":"Strong Edge Geodetic Problem on Complete Multipartite Graphs and Some Extremal Graphs for the Problem","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00849-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00849-6","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>A set of vertices <em>X</em> of a graph <em>G</em> is a strong edge geodetic set if, to any pair of vertices from <em>X</em>, we can assign one (or zero) shortest path between them, such that every edge of <em>G</em> is contained in at least one on these paths. The cardinality of a smallest strong edge geodetic set of <em>G</em> is the strong edge geodetic number <span> <span>(mathrm{sg_e}(G))</span> </span> of <em>G</em>. In this paper, the strong edge geodetic number of complete multipartite graphs is determined. Graphs <em>G</em> with <span> <span>(mathrm{sg_e}(G) = n(G))</span> </span> are characterized and <span> <span>(mathrm{sg_e})</span> </span> is determined for Cartesian products <span> <span>(P_n,square , K_m)</span> </span>. The latter result in particular corrects an error from the literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139647842","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 the Hilbert Function of General Unions of Curves in Projective Spaces","authors":"Edoardo Ballico","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00847-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00847-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span>(X=X_1cup cdots cup X_ssubset mathbb {P}^n)</span>, <span>(nge 4)</span>, be a general union of smooth non-special curves with <span>(X_i)</span> of degree <span>(d_i)</span> and genus <span>(g_i)</span> and <span>(d_ige max {2g_i-1,g_i+n})</span> if <span>(g_i>0)</span>. We prove that <i>X</i> has maximal rank, i.e., for any <span>(tin mathbb {N})</span> either <span>(h^0(mathcal {I}_X(t))=0)</span> or <span>(h^1(mathcal {I}_X(t))=0)</span> if it is so in a few explicit cases in <span>(mathbb {P}^4)</span>. We also prove an unconditional weaker result, maximal rank up to a positive integer <span>(delta _n)</span>.</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139648407","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":"Classification of Initial Energy in a Pseudo-parabolic Equation with Variable Exponents and Singular Potential","authors":"Xizheng Sun, Zhiqing Han, Bingchen Liu","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00844-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00844-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper deals with a pseudo-parabolic equation with singular potential and variable exponents. First, we determine the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in Sobolev spaces with variable exponents. Second, in the frame of variational methods, we classify the blow-up and the global existence of solutions completely using the initial energy. Third, we obtain lower and upper bounds of blow-up time for all possible initial energy. The results in this paper are compatible with the corresponding problems with constant exponents. Part results of the paper extend the recent ones in Lian et al. (J Differ Equ 269:4914–4959, 2020), Xu and Su (J Funct Anal 264:2732–2763, 2013), and Liu and Yu (J Funct Anal 274:1276–1283, 2018).</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579263","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":"Certain Observations on a $${{,mathrm{U_{fin}},}}$$ -Type Selection Principle","authors":"Debraj Chandra, Nur Alam","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00851-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00851-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A weaker variant of the selection principle <span>({{,mathrm{U_{fin}},}}({mathcal {O}},Omega ),)</span> namely <span>({{,mathrm{U_{fin}},}}({mathcal {O}},overline{Omega }),)</span> is investigated in this article. We present situations where <span>({{,mathrm{U_{fin}},}}({mathcal {O}},Omega ))</span> behaves differently from <span>({{,mathrm{U_{fin}},}}({mathcal {O}},overline{Omega }).)</span> Few characterization results are obtained by considering mappings into the Baire space. Several results are presented concerning critical cardinalities. In particular, we perform investigations assuming near coherence of filters (NCF) and semifilter trichotomy. Besides, <span>({{,mathrm{U_{fin}},}}({mathcal {O}},overline{Omega }))</span> is characterized using weakly groupable and related covers. We also exhibit certain game theoretic observations.</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139590347","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":"Fiedler Linearizations of Rectangular Rational Matrix Functions","authors":"Namita Behera, Avisek Bist, Volker Mehrmann","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00843-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00843-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Linearization is a standard approach in the computation of eigenvalues, eigenvectors and invariant subspaces of matrix polynomials and rational matrix valued functions. An important source of linearizations are the so called <i>Fiedler linearizations</i>, which are generalizations of the classical companion forms. In this paper the concept of Fiedler linearization is extended from square regular to rectangular rational matrix valued functions. The approach is applied to Rosenbrock functions arising in mathematical system theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139465199","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":"Finite Group Modular Field Extensions, Green Theory and Absolutely Indecomposable and Simple Modules","authors":"Morton E. Harris","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00838-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00838-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span>(Phi )</span> be a field of prime characteristic <i>p</i> and let <i>G</i> be a finite group. We develop an equivalence relation between the set of isomorphism types of indecomposable (simple) <i>KG</i>-modules, where <i>K</i> is any finite subfield of <span>(Phi )</span>, and relate the equivalence classes to the set of isomorphism types of indecomposable (resp. simple) <span>(Phi G)</span>-modules. When <span>(Phi )</span> is the algebraic closure of a field <i>F</i> of order <i>p</i>, we study indecomposable (resp. simple) <span>(Phi G-)</span>modules and obtain a classification of the isomorphism types of simple <span>(Phi G)</span>-modules and a new formula for the number of such types in each equivalence class.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373719","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":"Embedding Dimensions of Matrices Whose Entries are Indefinite Distances in the Pseudo-Euclidean Space","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s41980-023-00842-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41980-023-00842-z","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>A finite set of the Euclidean space is called an <em>s</em>-distance set provided that the number of Euclidean distances in the set is <em>s</em>. Determining the largest possible <em>s</em>-distance set for the Euclidean space of a given dimension is challenging. This problem was solved only when dealing with small values of <em>s</em> and dimensions. Lisoněk (J Combin Theory Ser A 77(2):318–338, 1997) achieved the classification of the largest 2-distance sets for dimensions up to 7, using computer assistance and graph representation theory. In this study, we consider a theory analogous to these results of Lisoněk for the pseudo-Euclidean space <span> <span>(mathbb {R}^{p,q})</span> </span>. We consider an <em>s</em>-indefinite-distance set in a pseudo-Euclidean space that uses the value <span> <span>$$begin{aligned} || varvec{x}-varvec{y}||&=(x_1-y_1)^2 +cdots +(x_p -y_p)^2 &quad -(x_{p+1}-y_{p+1})^2-cdots -(x_{p+q}-y_{p+q})^2 end{aligned}$$</span> </span>instead of the Euclidean distance. We develop a representation theory for symmetric matrices in the context of <em>s</em>-indefinite-distance sets, which includes or improves the results of Euclidean <em>s</em>-distance sets with large <em>s</em> values. Moreover, we classify the largest possible 2-indefinite-distance sets for small dimensions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9395,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of The Iranian Mathematical Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139103605","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}