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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Publisher: Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.5802/JTNB.524
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-01-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2005
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700035048
Abstract: We show that an algorithm of V. Miller to compute the group structure of an elliptic curve over a prime finite field runs in probabilistic polynomial time for almost all curves over the field. Important to our proof are estimates for some isor sums.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 16-08-2012
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAS022
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 10-2010
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 09-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-10-2013
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAS027
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 30-11-2022
Abstract: Fullerenes are used extensively in organic electronics as electron acceptors among other uses however, there are still several key mysteries regarding their formation such as the importance of graphitic intermediates and the thermokinetics of initial cage formation. To this end, we have conducted density functional tight binding molecular dynamics (DFTB-MD) calculations on disintegrated
Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Date: 2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2003
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/11863854_25
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-02-2019
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.4064/AA157-1-3
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: University of Debrecen/ Debreceni Egyetem
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 23-09-2020
DOI: 10.1090/TRAN/7914
Abstract: In a recent work, the authors (2016) have combined classical ideas of A. G. Postnikov (1956) and N. M. Korobov (1974) to derive improved bounds on short character sums for certain nonprincipal characters with powerful moduli. In the present paper, these results are used to bound sums with the Möbius function twisted by characters of the same type, which complements and improves some earlier work of B. Green (2012). To achieve this, we obtain a series of results about the size and zero-free region of L L -functions with the same class of moduli.
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2000
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1992
Publisher: Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.5802/JTNB.880
Publisher: Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.5802/JTNB.303
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-11-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1983
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 14-07-2008
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 02-06-2004
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07133-3
Abstract: We consider Gauss sums of the form \[ G n ( a ) = ∑ x ∈ F p m χ ( x n ) G_n(a) = \sum _{x \in \mathbb {F}_{p^m}} \chi (x^n) \] with a nontrivial additive character χ ≠ χ 0 \chi \ne \chi _0 of a finite field F p m \mathbb {F}_{p^m} of p m p^m elements of characteristic p p . The classical bound | G n ( a ) | ≤ ( n − 1 ) p m / 2 |G_n(a)| \le (n-1) p^{m/2} becomes trivial for n ≥ p m / 2 + 1 n \ge p^{m/2} + 1 . We show that, combining some recent bounds of Heath-Brown and Konyagin with several bounds due to Deligne, Katz, and Li, one can obtain the bound on | G n ( a ) | |G_n(a)| which is nontrivial for the values of n n of order up to p m / 2 + 1 / 6 p^{m/2 + 1/6} . We also show that for almost all primes one can obtain a bound which is nontrivial for the values of n n of order up to p m / 2 + 1 / 2 p^{m/2 + 1/2} .
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-01-2010
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 1992
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2005
Publisher: Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.5802/JTNB.554
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1155/IMRN.2005.1
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1999
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-1992
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700012065
Abstract: We apply Straßmann's theorem to p –adic power series satisfying linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients and note that our approach leads to our estimating the number of integer zeros of polynomials on a given interval and thence to an investigation of the number of p –adic small values of a function on such an interval, that is, of the number of solutions of a congruence modulo p r .
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.4064/AA134-1-6
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 07-2016
DOI: 10.1090/PROC12717
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 1993
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-1993-1176716-3
Abstract: This paper shows that a recently proposed approach of D. Q. Wan to bivariate factorization over finite fields, the univariate factoring algorithm of V. Shoup, and the new bound of this paper for the average number of irreducible isors of polynomials of a given degree over a finite field can be used to design a bivariate factoring algorithm that is polynomial for "almost all" bivariate polynomials.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2002
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2002
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 08-06-2005
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-05-07962-1
Abstract: We investigate the distribution of n − M ( n ) n - M(n) where \[ M ( n ) = max { | a − b | : 1 ≤ a , b ≤ n − 1 \ and\ a b ≡ 1 ( mod n ) } . M(n)=\max \left \{ \, \left | a-b\right |\ :\ 1 \leq a,b\leq n-1 \textrm {\ and\ } ab \equiv 1\pmod n\right \}. \] Exponential sums provide a natural tool for obtaining upper bounds on this quantity. Here we use results about the distribution of integers with a isor in a given interval to obtain lower bounds on n − M ( n ) n - M(n) . We also present some heuristic arguments showing that these lower bounds are probably tight, and thus our technique can be a more appropriate tool to study n − M ( n ) n - M(n) than a more traditional way using exponential sums.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 03-02-2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-09-2019
Abstract: In an earlier paper we considered the distribution of integers $n$ for which Euler’s totient function at $n$ has all small prime factors. Here we obtain an improvement that is likely to be best possible.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-02-2011
DOI: 10.1017/S000497271000198X
Abstract: Given a prime p , the Fermat quotient q p ( u ) of u with gcd ( u , p )=1 is defined by the conditions We derive a new bound on multiplicative character sums with Fermat quotients q p ( ℓ ) at prime arguments ℓ .
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2008
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2002
Publisher: Steklov Mathematical Institute
Date: 30-06-1979
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1996
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Publisher: Steklov Mathematical Institute
Date: 28-02-1990
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2006
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 30-09-2013
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-2013-02780-9
Abstract: We present several general results that show how algebraic dynamical systems with a slow degree growth and also rational automorphisms can be used to construct stronger pseudorandom number generators. We then give several concrete constructions that illustrate the applicability of these general results.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/675
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-11-2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2007
DOI: 10.1017/S1446788700017511
Abstract: Let P denote the set of prime numbers, and let P ( n ) denote the largest prime factor of an integer n 1. We show that, for every real number , there exists a constant c (η) 1 such that for every integer a ≠ 0, the set has relative asymptotic density one in the set of all prime numbers. Moreover, in the range , one can take c (η) = 1+ε for any fixed ε 0. In particular, our results imply that for every real number 0.486 ≤ b.thetav ≤ 0.531, the relation P ( q − a ) ≍ q θ holds for infinitely many primes q . We use this result to derive a lower bound on the number of distinct prime isor of the value of the Carmichael function taken on a product of shifted primes. Finally, we study iterates of the map q ↦ P ( q - a ) for a 0, and show that for infinitely many primes q , this map can be iterated at least (log log q ) 1+o(1) times before it terminates.
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 06-2010
Abstract: An x -pseudopower to base g is a positive integer that is not a power of g , yet is so modulo p for all primes p ≤ x . We improve an upper bound for the least such number, due to E. Bach, R. Lukes, J. Shallit, and H. C. Williams. The method is based on a combination of some bounds of exponential sums with new results about the average behaviour of the multiplicative order of g modulo prime numbers.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-07-2008
DOI: 10.1112/JLMS/JDN031
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 23-02-2021
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972721000083
Abstract: We prove a quantitative partial result in support of the dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture (also known as the DML conjecture ) in positive characteristic. More precisely, we show the following: given a field K of characteristic p , a semiabelian variety X defined over a finite subfield of K and endowed with a regular self-map $\\Phi :X{\\longrightarrow } X$ defined over K , a point $\\alpha \\in X(K)$ and a subvariety $V\\subseteq X$ , then the set of all nonnegative integers n such that $\\Phi ^n(\\alpha )\\in V(K)$ is a union of finitely many arithmetic progressions along with a subset S with the property that there exists a positive real number A (depending only on X , $\\Phi $ , $\\alpha $ and V ) such that for each positive integer M , $$\\begin{align*}\\scriptsize\\#\\{n\\in S\\colon n\\le M\\}\\le A\\cdot (1+\\log M)^{\\dim V}.\\end{align*}$$
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-05-2005
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1999
Publisher: Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.5802/JTNB.436
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-04-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2005
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700038405
Abstract: It is known that Kloosterman sums with prime denominator p take real values, so one can define a sequence of signs of such sums. Several pseudorandom properties of this sequence have recently been studied by Fouvry, Michel, Rivat and Sárközy. Here we use one of their results to estimate a certain important characteristic of this sequence which is also of cryptographic interest.
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4064/AA142-1-5
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2008
DOI: 10.1112/BLMS/BDM111
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 05-04-2005
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 24-09-2021
DOI: 10.1090/PROC/15674
Abstract: We obtain upper bounds on the number of finite sets S \\mathcal {S} of primes below a given bound for which various 2 2 variable S \\mathcal {S} -unit equations have a solution.
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 12-2011
Abstract: We obtain new results about the number of trinomials t n + at + b with integer coefficients in a box ( a , b ) ∈ [ C , C + A ] × [ D , D + B ] that are irreducible modulo a prime p . As a by-product we show that for any p there are irreducible polynomials of height at most p 1/2+ o (1) , improving on the previous estimate of p 2/3+ o (1) obtained by the author in 1989.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-1985
DOI: 10.1007/BF01137461
Publisher: International Press of Boston
Date: 2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium
Date: 02-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-02-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-08-2023
Abstract: We formulate several analogs of the Chowla and Sarnak conjectures, which are widely known in the setting of the Möbius function, in the setting of Kloosterman sums. We then show that for Kloosterman sums, in some cases, these conjectures can be established unconditionally.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2000
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 28-02-1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-01-2010
DOI: 10.1017/S0013091508000771
Abstract: Let E be an ordinary elliptic curve over a finite field q of q elements. We improve a bound on bilinear additive character sums over points on E , and obtain its analogue for bilinear multiplicative character sums. We apply these bounds to some variants of the sum-product problem on E .
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2006
DOI: 10.1007/BF02960862
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-2005
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAH039
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-1987
DOI: 10.1007/BF01138309
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-12-2002
DOI: 10.1002/BIES.10199
Abstract: First isolated in the fly and now characterised in vertebrates, the Slit proteins have emerged as pivotal components controlling the guidance of axonal growth cones and the directional migration of neuronal precursors. As well as extensive expression during development of the central nervous system (CNS), the Slit proteins exhibit a striking array of expression sites in non-neuronal tissues, including the urogenital system, limb primordia and developing eye. Zebrafish Slit has been shown to mediate mesodermal migration during gastrulation, while Drosophila slit guides the migration of mesodermal cells during myogenesis. This suggests that the actions of these secreted molecules are not simply confined to the sphere of CNS development, but rather act in a more general fashion during development and throughout the lifetime of an organism. This review focuses on the non-neuronal activities of Slit proteins, highlighting a common role for the Slit family in cellular migration.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-05-2007
DOI: 10.1112/BLMS/BDM027
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2004
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-1982
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Date: 1992
DOI: 10.1007/BFB0034335
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 16-10-2017
DOI: 10.1142/S179304211750141X
Abstract: We obtain several estimates for double rational exponential sums modulo a prime [Formula: see text] with products [Formula: see text] where both [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] run through short intervals and [Formula: see text] is fixed integer. We also obtain some new estimates for the number of points on exponential modular curves [Formula: see text] and similar.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700038867
Abstract: We use exponential sums to obtain new lower bounds on the number of distinct distances defined by all pairs of points ( a, b ) ∈ A × B for two given sets where is a finite field of q elements and n ≥ 1 is an integer.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-09-2007
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 12-06-2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2003
Publisher: ACM Press
Date: 1993
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2013
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-03-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S10623-023-01209-5
Abstract: We give upper bounds on the power moments of the number of fixed points of a family of subset sum pseudorandom number generators, introduced by Rueppel (Analysis and design of stream ciphers, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986).
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 27-05-2012
DOI: 10.1093/IMRN/RNR097
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-06-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2006
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 12-2004
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700035449
Abstract: We study multiplicative character sums taken on the values of a non-homogeneous Beatty sequence where α,β ∈ ℝ, and α is irrational. In particular, our bounds imply that for every fixed ε 0, if p is sufficiently large and p ½+ε ≤ N ≤ p , then among the first N elements of ℬ α,β , there are N /2+ o ( N ) quadratic non-residues modulo p . When more information is available about the Diophantine properties of α, then the error term o ( N ) admits a sharper estimate.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 05-1996
DOI: 10.1017/S0017089500031372
Abstract: We consider sequences (A h ) defined over the field ℚ of rational numbers and satisfying a linear homogeneous recurrence relation with polynomial coefficients s j . We shall assume without loss of generality, as we may, that the s j , are defined over ℤ and the initial values A 0 A ] …, A n − 1 are integer numbers. Also, without loss of generality we may assume that S 0 and S n have no non-negative integer zero. Indeed, any other case can be reduced to this one by making a shift h → h – l – 1 where l is an upper bound for zeros of the corresponding polynomials (and which can be effectively estimated in terms of their heights)
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1994
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 07-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2005
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 17-03-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-10-2018
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Date: 20-04-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1979
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 21-10-2009
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972709000719
Abstract: For three points $\\vec {u}$ , $\\vec {v}$ and $\\vec {w}$ in the n -dimensional space 𝔽 n q over the finite field 𝔽 q of q elements we give a natural interpretation of an acute angle triangle defined by these points. We obtain an upper bound on the size of a set 𝒵 such that all triples of distinct points $\\vec {u}, \\vec {v}, \\vec {w} \\in \\cZ $ define acute angle triangles. A similar question in the real space ℛ n dates back to P. Erdős and has been studied by several authors.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 31-03-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2006
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-03-2023
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-023-37442-8
Abstract: In chemistry, theory of aromaticity or π bond resonance plays a central role in intuitively understanding the stability and properties of organic molecules. Here we present an analogue theory for σ bond resonance in flat boron materials, which allows us to determine the distribution of two-center two-electron and three-center two-electron bonds without quantum calculations. Based on this theory, three rules are proposed to draw the Kekulé-like bonding configurations for flat boron materials and to explore their properties intuitively. As an application of the theory, a simple explanation of why neutral borophene with ~1/9 hole has the highest stability and the effect of charge doping on borophene’s optimal hole concentration is provided with the assumption of σ and π orbital occupation balance. Like the aromaticity theory for carbon materials, this theory greatly deepens our understanding on boron materials and paves the way for the rational design of various boron-based materials.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-10-2009
Publisher: International Press of Boston
Date: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S1446788712000109
Abstract: We give new bounds on sums of the form ∑ n ≤ N Λ( n )exp (2 πiag n / m ) and ∑ n ≤ N Λ( n ) χ ( g n + a ), where Λ is the von Mangoldt function, m is a natural number, a and g are integers coprime to m , and χ is a multiplicative character modulo m . In particular, our results yield bounds on the sums ∑ p ≤ N exp (2 πiaM p / m ) and ∑ p ≤ N χ ( M p ) with Mersenne numbers M p =2 p −1, where p is prime.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 28-05-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-12-2014
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAU032
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 12-06-2001
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-00-01273-4
Abstract: The inversive congruential method is an attractive alternative to the classical linear congruential method for pseudorandom number generation. In this paper we present the first nontrivial bounds on the discrepancy of in idual sequences of inversive congruential pseudorandom numbers in parts of the period. The proof is based on a new bound for certain incomplete exponential sums.
Publisher: International Press of Boston
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2002
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1515/JMC.2010.007
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2001
Publisher: Mathematical Sciences Publishers
Date: 12-02-2020
Publisher: Steklov Mathematical Institute
Date: 30-04-1984
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 06-2008
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-05-2012
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 02-11-2008
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 10-04-2015
DOI: 10.1090/MCOM/2946
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.4064/AA150-3-5
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 04-2003
Abstract: We extend to the setting of polynomials over a finite field certain estimates for short Kloosterman sums originally due to Karatsuba. Our estimates are then used to establish some uniformity of distribution results in the ring [ x ]/ M ( x ) for collections of polynomials either of the form f −1 g −1 or of the form f −1 g −1 + afg , where f and g are polynomials coprime to M and of very small degree relative to M , and a is an arbitrary polynomial. We also give estimates for short Kloosterman sums where the summation runs over products of two irreducible polynomials of small degree. It is likely that this result can be used to give an improvement of the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem for polynomials over finite fields.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2001
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 2005
Abstract: We study prime isors of various sequences of positive integers A ( n ) + 1 , n = 1 , … , N , such that the ratios a ( n ) = A ( n ) / A ( n − 1 ) have some number-theoretic or combinatorial meaning. In the case a ( n ) = n , we obviously have A ( n ) = n ! , for which several new results about prime isors of n ! + 1 have recently been obtained.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0017089508004382
Abstract: We consider the equation over a finite field q of q elements, with variables from arbitrary sets $\\cA,\\cB, \\cC, \\cD \\subseteq \\F_q$ . The question of solvability of such and more general equations has recently been considered by Hart and Iosevich, who, in particular, prove that if for some absolute constant C 0, then above equation has a solution for any λ ∈ q *. Here we show that using bounds of multiplicative character sums allows us to extend the class of sets which satisfy this property.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-05-2014
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 05-06-2016
DOI: 10.1017/S0013091515000097
Abstract: Given a finite field of q elements, we consider a trajectory of the map associated with a polynomial ]. Using bounds of character sums, under some mild condition on f , we show that for an appropriate constant C 0 no N ⩾ Cq ½ distinct consecutive elements of such a trajectory are contained in a small subgroup of , improving the trivial lower bound . Using a different technique, we also obtain a similar result for very small values of N . These results are multiplicative analogues of several recently obtained bounds on the length of intervals containing N distinct consecutive elements of such a trajectory.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 02-09-2003
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-04-2008
DOI: 10.1112/BLMS/BDN037
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2001
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.4064/AA122-3-1
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
Date: 16-11-2016
DOI: 10.1142/S1793042117500099
Abstract: Assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, we design a deterministic algorithm that, given a prime [Formula: see text] and positive integer [Formula: see text], outputs an elliptic curve [Formula: see text] over the finite field [Formula: see text] for which the cardinality of [Formula: see text] is isible by [Formula: see text]. The running time of the algorithm is [Formula: see text], and this leads to more efficient constructions of rational functions over [Formula: see text] whose image is small relative to [Formula: see text]. We also give an unconditional version of the algorithm that works for almost all primes [Formula: see text], and give a probabilistic algorithm with subexponential time complexity.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-11-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 20-06-2023
DOI: 10.4153/S0008439523000504
Abstract: We use bounds of character sums and some combinatorial arguments to show the abundance of very smooth numbers which also have very few nonzero binary digits.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-02-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1984
Publisher: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics
Date: 21-05-2009
DOI: 10.3336/GM.44.1.02
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 11-03-2011
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-10843-8
Abstract: We improve recent results of D. Gomez and A. Winterhof on the Waring problem with Dickson polynomials in finite fields. Our approach is based on recent advances in arithmetic combinatorics in arbitrary finite fields due to A. Glibichuk and M. Rudnev.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-1990
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 21-03-2019
DOI: 10.1142/S1793042119500246
Abstract: Over the last two decades, there has been a wave of activity establishing the Sato-Tate kind of distribution in various families of elliptic curves over prime fields. Typically the goal here is to prove this for families which are as thin as possible. We consider a function field analogue of this question, that is, for high degree extensions of a finite field where new effects allow us to study families, which are much thinner that those typically investigated over prime fields.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2008
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-11-2016
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 07-2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2006
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 17-10-2001
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-00-01283-7
Abstract: We present a new method to study the power generator of pseudorandom numbers modulo a Blum integer m m . This includes as special cases the RSA generator and the Blum–Blum–Shub generator. We prove the uniform distribution of these, provided that the period t ≥ m 3 / 4 + δ t\\ge m^{3/4 + \\delta } with fixed δ 0 \\delta 0 and, under the same condition, the uniform distribution of a positive proportion of the leftmost and rightmost bits. This sharpens and generalizes previous results which dealt with the RSA generator, provided the period t ≥ m 23 / 24 + δ t\\ge m^{23/24 + \\delta } . We apply our results to deduce that the period of the binary sequence of the rightmost bit has exponential length.
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 09-2011
DOI: 10.1142/S1793042111004484
Abstract: We estimate multiplicative character sums along the orbits of a class of nonlinear recurrence vector sequences. In the one-dimensional case, only much weaker estimates are known and our results have no one-dimensional analogs.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.4064/AA109-4-7
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 21-04-2014
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-11999-X
Abstract: Let F q \\mathbb {F}_q be a finite field of q q elements. E. Howe has shown that there is a natural correspondence between the isogeny classes of two-dimensional ordinary abelian varieties over F q \\mathbb {F}_q which do not contain a principally polarized variety and pairs of positive integers ( a , b ) (a,b) satisfying q = a 2 + b q = a^2 + b , where gcd ( q , b ) = 1 \\gcd (q,b)=1 and all prime isors ℓ \\ell of b b are in the arithmetic progression ℓ ≡ 1 ( mod 3 ) \\ell \\equiv 1 \\pmod 3 . This arithmetic criterion allows us to give good upper bounds, and for many finite fields good lower bounds, for the frequency of occurrence of isogeny classes of varieties having this property.
Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.3934/DCDS.2020070
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/10719839_27
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 06-2010
DOI: 10.1142/S1793042110003290
Abstract: We obtain a lower bound on the multiplicative order of Gauss periods which generate normal bases over finite fields. This bound improves the previous bound of von zur Gathen and Shparlinski.
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 14-03-2014
Abstract: We give an upper bound for the number of elliptic Carmichael numbers n ≤ x that were recently introduced by J. H. Silverman in the case of an elliptic curve without complex multiplication (non CM). We also discuss several possible further improvements.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2002
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-06-2010
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 09-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium
Date: 12-2004
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 2010
Publisher: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2008
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium
Date: 10-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-04-1998
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.4064/CM115-2-1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 22-11-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972719001187
Abstract: A Ducci sequence is a sequence of integer $n$ -tuples obtained by iterating the map $$\begin{eqnarray}D:(a_{1},a_{2},\ldots ,a_{n})\mapsto (|a_{1}-a_{2}|,|a_{2}-a_{3}|,\ldots ,|a_{n}-a_{1}|).\end{eqnarray}$$ Such a sequence is eventually periodic and we denote by $P(n)$ the maximal period of such sequences for given odd $n$ . We prove a lower bound for $P(n)$ by counting certain partitions. We then estimate the size of these partitions via the multiplicative order of two modulo $n$ .
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2000
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2006
DOI: 10.1007/BF02829735
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-08-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1981
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-06-2003
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-1988
DOI: 10.1007/BF01139128
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2017
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2003
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 14-06-2002
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 04-2005
Abstract: For a given elliptic curve E, we obtain an upper bound on the discrepancy of sets of multiples z s G where zs runs through a sequence Z = ( z 1 , … , z T ) such that kz 1 , … , kz T is a permutation of z 1 , … , z T , both sequences taken modulo t , for sufficiently many distinct values of k modulo t . We apply this result to studying an analogue of the power generator over an elliptic curve. These results are elliptic curve analogues of those obtained for multiplicative groups of finite fields and residue rings.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 1999
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04728-0
Abstract: We prove an effective mean-value theorem for the values of a non-degenerate, algebraic exponential polynomial in several variables. These objects generalise simultaneously the fundamental ex les of linear recurrence sequences and sums of S S -units. The proof is based on an effective, uniform estimate for the deviation of the exponential polynomial from its expected value. This estimate is also used to obtain a non-effective asymptotic formula counting the norms of these values below a fixed bound.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 30-06-2013
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.4064/AA170-4-1
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 05-05-2017
DOI: 10.1090/TRAN/6903
Publisher: International Press of Boston
Date: 2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 25-01-2014
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAV039
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 13-07-2001
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-00-01282-5
Abstract: Consider the pseudorandom number generator u n ≡ u n − 1 e ( mod m ) , 0 ≤ u n ≤ m − 1 , n = 1 , 2 , … , \\begin{equation*} u_n\\equiv u_{n-1}^e\\pmod {m},\\quad 0\\le u_n\\le m-1,\\quad n=1,2,\\ldots , \\end{equation*} where we are given the modulus m m , the initial value u 0 = ϑ u_0=\\vartheta and the exponent e e . One case of particular interest is when the modulus m m is of the form p l pl , where p , l p,l are different primes of the same magnitude. It is known from work of the first and third authors that for moduli m = p l m=pl , if the period of the sequence ( u n ) (u_n) exceeds m 3 / 4 + ε m^{3/4+\\varepsilon } , then the sequence is uniformly distributed. We show rigorously that for almost all choices of p , l p,l it is the case that for almost all choices of ϑ , e \\vartheta ,e , the period of the power generator exceeds ( p l ) 1 − ε (pl)^{1-\\varepsilon } . And so, in this case, the power generator is uniformly distributed. We also give some other cryptographic applications, namely, to ruling-out the cycling attack on the RSA cryptosystem and to so-called time-release crypto. The principal tool is an estimate related to the Carmichael function λ ( m ) \\lambda (m) , the size of the largest cyclic subgroup of the multiplicative group of residues modulo m m . In particular, we show that for any Δ ≥ ( log log N ) 3 \\Delta \\ge (\\log \\log N)^3 , we have λ ( m ) ≥ N exp ( − Δ ) \\lambda (m)\\ge N\\exp (-\\Delta ) for all integers m m with 1 ≤ m ≤ N 1\\le m\\le N , apart from at most N exp ( − 0.69 ( Δ log Δ ) 1 / 3 ) N\\exp \\left (-0.69\\left (\\Delta \\log \\Delta \\right )^{1/3}\\right ) exceptions.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 18-06-2016
DOI: 10.1093/IMRN/RNV182
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1987
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-1978
DOI: 10.1007/BF01141537
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 22-02-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2016
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 17-11-2009
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-09-05004-1
Abstract: Given a positive integer n n , a finite field F q \\mathbb F_q of q q elements ( q q odd), and a non-degenerate quadratic form Q Q on F q n \\mathbb {F}_q^n , in this paper we study the largest possible cardinality of subsets E ⊆ F q n \\mathcal {E} \\subseteq \\mathbb {F}_q^n with pairwise integral Q Q -distances that is, for any two vectors {x} = ( x 1 , … , x n ) , {y} = ( y 1 , … , y n ) ∈ E \\textbf {{x}}=(x_1, \\ldots ,x_n), \\textbf {{y}}=(y_1,\\ldots ,y_n) \\in \\mathcal {E} , one has \\[ Q ( {x} − {y} ) = u 2 Q(\\textbf {{x}}-\\textbf {{y}})=u^2 \\] for some u ∈ F q u \\in \\mathbb F_q .
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1996
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1137/14095813X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2007
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado Zrt.
Date: 06-2009
DOI: 10.1556/SSCMATH.46.2009.2.1087
Abstract: We give upper bounds for sums of multiplicative characters modulo an integer q ≧ 2 with the Euler function ϕ ( n ) and with the shifted largest prime isor P ( n ) + a of integers n ≦ x .
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-03-2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2005
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.1109/18.868485
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/10719994_5
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 21-01-2020
DOI: 10.1090/PROC/14928
Abstract: We obtain an improvement and broad generalisation of a result of N. Ailon and Z. Rudnick (2004) on common zeros of shifted powers of polynomials. Our approach is based on reducing this question to a more general question of counting intersections of level curves of complex functions. We treat this question via classical tools of complex analysis and algebraic geometry.
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 03-2001
Abstract: Let p be prime and let be of multiplicative order t modulo p . We consider exponential sums of the form and prove that for any ε 0
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1515/JMC.2007.001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-02-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S1446788708000323
Abstract: We show that, for every x exceeding some explicit bound depending only on k and N , there are at least C ( k , N ) x /log 17 x positive and negative coefficients a ( n ) with n ≤ x in the Fourier expansion of any non-zero cuspidal Hecke eigenform of even integral weight k ≥2 and squarefree level N that is a newform, where C ( k , N ) depends only on k and N . From this we deduce the existence of a sign change in a short interval.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 21-02-2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2005
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1007/11533719_43
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 06-2007
DOI: 10.1142/S0219749907002918
Abstract: The intention of the paper is to move a step towards a classification of network topologies that exhibit periodic quantum dynamics. We show that the evolution of a quantum system whose hamiltonian is identical to the adjacency matrix of a circulant graph is periodic if and only if all eigenvalues of the graph are integers (that is, the graph is integral). Motivated by this observation, we focus on relevant properties of integral circulant graphs. Specifically, we bound the number of vertices of integral circulant graphs in terms of their degree, characterize bipartiteness and give exact bounds for their diameter. Additionally, we prove that circulant graphs with odd order do not allow perfect state transfer.
Publisher: Adam Mickiewicz University (Euclid)
Date: 03-2015
Publisher: Societe Mathematique de France
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.24033/BSMF.2802
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-03-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1007/11506157_5
Publisher: Steklov Mathematical Institute
Date: 30-06-1989
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-02-2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 19-12-2016
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAW054
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 22-08-2018
DOI: 10.1142/S1793042118501312
Abstract: We obtain several estimates for trilinear form with double Kloosterman sums. In particular, these bounds show the existence of nontrivial cancellations between such sums.
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2003
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 29-06-2004
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03612-8
Abstract: We estimate character sums with n ! n! , on average, and in idually. These bounds are used to derive new results about various congruences modulo a prime p p and obtain new information about the spacings between quadratic nonresidues modulo p p . In particular, we show that there exists a positive integer n ≪ p 1 / 2 + ε n\ll p^{1/2+\varepsilon } such that n ! n! is a primitive root modulo p p . We also show that every nonzero congruence class a ≢ 0 ( mod p ) a \not \equiv 0 \pmod p can be represented as a product of 7 factorials, a ≡ n 1 ! … n 7 ! ( mod p ) a \equiv n_1! \ldots n_7! \pmod p , where max { n i | i = 1 , … , 7 } = O ( p 11 / 12 + ε ) \max \{n_i \ |\ i=1,\ldots , 7\}=O(p^{11/12+\varepsilon }) , and we find the asymptotic formula for the number of such representations. Finally, we show that products of 4 factorials n 1 ! n 2 ! n 3 ! n 4 ! , n_1!n_2!n_3!n_4!, with max { n 1 , n 2 , n 3 , n 4 } = O ( p 6 / 7 + ε ) \max \{n_1, n_2, n_3, n_4\}=O(p^{6/7+\varepsilon }) represent “almost all” residue classes modulo p, and that products of 3 factorials n 1 ! n 2 ! n 3 ! n_1!n_2!n_3! with max { n 1 , n 2 , n 3 } = O ( p 5 / 6 + ε ) \max \{n_1, n_2, n_3\}=O(p^{5/6+\varepsilon }) are uniformly distributed modulo p p .
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-11-2007
Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Date: 2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2005
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-12-2019
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 02-2018
DOI: 10.1090/TRAN/7115
Abstract: In this paper, we give several asymptotic formulas for the number of multiplicatively dependent vectors of algebraic numbers of fixed degree, or within a fixed number field, and bounded height.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 29-09-2011
Publisher: ACM
Date: 06-07-2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1155/2007/37853
Abstract: For a prime p , we obtain an upper bound on the discrepancy of fractions r / p , where r runs through all of roots modulo p of all monic univariate polynomials of degree d whose vector of coefficients belongs to a d -dimensional box ℬ . The bound is nontrivial starting with boxes ℬ of size | ℬ | ≥ p d / 2 + ɛ for any fixed ɛ 0 and sufficiently large p .
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2002
Publisher: Adam Mickiewicz University (Euclid)
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972708000695
Abstract: Given two sets ${\\mathcal A}, {\\mathcal B} \\subseteq \\mathbb {F}_q$ of elements of the finite field 𝔽 q of q elements, we show that the product set contains an arithmetic progression of length k ≥3 provided that k p , where p is the characteristic of 𝔽 q , and # 𝒜 # ℬ≥3 q 2 d −2/ k . We also consider geometric progressions in a shifted product set 𝒜ℬ+ h , for f ∈𝔽 q , and obtain a similar result.
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1137/110850414
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 08-2005
DOI: 10.1063/1.1998831
Abstract: We address the problem of constructing positive operator-valued measures (POVMs) in finite dimension n consisting of n2 operators of rank one which have an inner product close to uniform. This is motivated by the related question of constructing symmetric informationally complete POVMs (SIC-POVMs) for which the inner products are perfectly uniform. However, SIC-POVMs are notoriously hard to construct and, despite some success of constructing them numerically, there is no analytic construction known. We present two constructions of approximate versions of SIC-POVMs, where a small deviation from uniformity of the inner products is allowed. The first construction is based on selecting vectors from a maximal collection of mutually unbiased bases and works whenever the dimension of the system is a prime power. The second construction is based on perturbing the matrix elements of a subset of mutually unbiased bases. Moreover, we construct vector systems in Cn which are almost orthogonal and which might turn out to be useful for quantum computation. Our constructions are based on results of analytic number theory.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2007
Publisher: International Press of Boston
Date: 2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 05-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2014
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 2006
Abstract: We use bounds of exponential sums to derive new lower bounds on the number of distinct distances between all pairs of points ( x , y ) ∈ × ℬ for two given sets , ℬ ∈ F q n , where F q is a finite field of q elements and n ≥ 1 is an integer.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/10722028_24
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-06-2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1999
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 02-11-2022
DOI: 10.4153/S0008439521000928
Abstract: We give a corrected version of our previous lower bound on the value set of binomials (Canad. Math. Bull., v.63, 2020, 187–196). The other results are not affected.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 04-03-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1983
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/10718964_31
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-09-2006
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1999
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 18-12-2002
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2000
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-10-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-02-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-09-2023
DOI: 10.1112/MTK.12224
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2004
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 11-01-2011
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05233-5
Abstract: We give asymptotic formulas for the number of biquadratic extensions of Q \\mathbb {Q} that admit a quadratic extension which is a Galois extension of Q \\mathbb {Q} with a prescribed Galois group, for ex le, with a Galois group isomorphic to the quaternionic group. Our approach is based on a combination of the theory of quadratic equations with some analytic tools such as the Siegel–Walfisz theorem and the double oscillations theorem.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 28-12-2018
DOI: 10.1090/PROC/13915
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 20-01-2016
DOI: 10.1090/PROC/12949
Abstract: We use new bounds of double exponential sums with ratios of integers from prescribed intervals to get an asymptotic formula for the number of solutions to congruences \\[ ∑ j = 1 n a j x j y j ≡ a 0 ( mod p ) , \\sum _{j=1}^n a_j \\frac {x_j}{y_j} \\equiv a_0 \\pmod p, \\] with variables from rather general sets.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-02-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 29-11-2005
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 12-2012
Abstract: We obtain nontrivial estimates of quadratic character sums of ision polynomials Ψ n ( P ), n = 1, 2, … , evaluated at a given point P on an elliptic curve over a finite field of q elements. Our bounds are nontrivial if the order of P is at least q 1/2+∈ for some fixed ∈ 0. This work is motivated by an open question about statistical indistinguishability of some cryptographically relevant sequences that was recently brought up by K. Lauter and the second author.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
Date: 10-2008
DOI: 10.1142/S1793042108001687
Abstract: We show that finite fields over which there is a curve of a given genus g ≥ 1 with its Jacobian having a small exponent, are very rare. This extends a recent result of Duke in the case of g = 1. We also show that when g = 1 or g = 2, our lower bounds on the exponent, valid for almost all finite fields 𝔽 q and all curves over 𝔽 q , are best possible.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1995
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 17-01-2014
Publisher: European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.4171/CMH/40
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-2005
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-04-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1982
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-07-2014
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.4064/AA136-1-6
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 30-11-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972711002887
Abstract: Using a recent result on the sum–product problem, we estimate the number of elements γ in a prime finite field such that both γ and γ + γ −1 are of small order.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 09-07-2010
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10561-0
Abstract: Given an integer n ≥ 2 n\\ge 2 , let H n \\mathcal {H}_n be the set \\[ H n = { ( a , b ) : a b ≡ 1 ( mod n ) , 1 ≤ a , b ≤ n − 1 } \\mathcal {H}_n= \\{(a,b) \\ : \\ ab \\equiv 1 \\pmod n,\\ 1\\le a,b \\le n-1\\} \\] and let M ( n ) M(n) be the maximal difference of b − a b-a for ( a , b ) ∈ H n (a,b) \\in \\mathcal {H}_n . We prove that for almost all n n , n − M ( n ) = O ( n 1 / 2 + o ( 1 ) ) . n-M(n)=O\\left (n^{1/2+o(1)}\\right ). We also improve some previously known upper and lower bounds on the number of vertices of the convex closure of H n \\mathcal {H}_n .
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2004
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 26-12-2017
DOI: 10.1090/PROC/13904
Abstract: We present lower bounds for the orbit length of reduction modulo primes of parametric polynomial dynamical systems defined over the integers, under a suitable hypothesis on its set of preperiodic points over C \\mathbb {C} . Applying recent results of Baker and DeMarco (2011) and of Ghioca, Krieger, Nguyen and Ye (2017), we obtain explicit families of parametric polynomials and initial points such that the reductions modulo primes have long orbits, for all but a finite number of values of the parameters. This generalizes a previous lower bound due to Chang (2015). As a by-product, we also slightly improve a result of Silverman (2008) and recover a result of Akbary and Ghioca (2009) as special extreme cases of our estimates.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-07-2006
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2002
DOI: 10.4064/AA105-4-4
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-01-2020
DOI: 10.1112/JLMS.12297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-02-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S0305004111000399
Abstract: Unfortunately, there are two inaccuracies in the argument of [ CLS ]. First, the statements of Lemmas 3, 4, 6, and 7 of [ CLS ] hold only under the additional condition gcd( m , M E ) = 1 for some integer M E ≥ 1 depending only on E . Second, the isibility condition (3·6) in [ CLS ] implies that t b (ℓ) | n E ( p )−1 (rather than t b (ℓ) | n E ( p ), as it was erroneously claimed on p. 519 in [ CLS ]). In particular, instead of the isibility ℓ t b (ℓ) | n E ( p ) (see the last displayed formula on p. 519 in [ CLS ]), we conclude that for every prime ℓ | L there is an integer a ℓ such that (0.1) However, the final result is correct and can easily be recovered. To do so, we remark that under the condition gcd( m , M E ) =1, we have full analogues of Lemmas 6, 7, 9, and 10 of [ CLS ] for the function Π( x m , a ) defined as the number of primes p ≤ x with n E ( p ) ≡ a (mod m ) (rather than just for Π( x m ) = Π( x m ,0) as in [ CLS ]). Define ρ*( n ) as the largest square-free isor of n which is relatively prime to M E . We then derive from (0.1) above that Therefore (0.2) Since we see that (0.2) above implies the bound (3·7) from [ CLS ], and the result now follows without any further changes.
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1137/130924470
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 12-2013
Abstract: We obtain an asymptotic formula for the number of square-free integers in N consecutive values of polynomials on average over integral polynomials of degree at most k and of height at most H , where H ≥ N k-1+ε for some fixed ε 0. In idual results of this kind for polynomials of degree k 3, due to A. Granville (1998), are only known under the ABC-conjecture.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 02-05-2007
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08785-0
Abstract: We give nontrivial bounds in various ranges for character sums of the form \\[ ∑ n ∈ S ( x , y ) χ ( n + a ) , gcd ( a , p ) = 1 , \\sum _{n\\in \\mathcal S(x,y)}\\chi (n +a), \\qquad \\gcd (a,p) = 1, \\] where χ \\chi is a nontrivial multiplicative character modulo a prime p p and S ( x , y ) \\mathcal S(x,y) is the set of positive integers n ≤ x n\\le x that are isible only by primes q ≤ y q \\le y .
Publisher: Mathematical Sciences Publishers
Date: 13-03-2018
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 06-2009
Abstract: We estimate exponential sums with the Fermat-like quotients where g and n are positive integers, n is composite, and P ( n ) is the largest prime factor of n . Clearly, both f g ( n ) and h g ( n ) are integers if n is a Fermat pseudoprime to base g , and if n is a Carmichael number, this is true for all g coprime to n . Nevertheless, our bounds imply that the fractional parts ﹛ f g ( n )﹜ and ﹛ h g ( n )﹜ are uniformly distributed, on average over g for f g ( n ), and in idually for h g ( n ). We also obtain similar results with the functions and .
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-1992
DOI: 10.1007/BF01202000
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-05-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0017089507003977
Abstract: We use a result of Y. Furuta to show that for almost all positive integers m , the cyclotomic field $\\Q(\\exp(2 \\pi i/m))$ has an infinite Hilbert p -class field tower with high rank Galois groups at each step, simultaneously for all primes p of size up to about (log log m ) 1 + o (1) . We also use a recent result of B. Schmidt to show that for infinitely many m there is an infinite Hilbert p -class field tower over $\\Q(\\exp(2 \\pi i/m))$ for some p ≥ m 0.3385 + o (1) . These results have immediate applications to the isibility properties of the class number of $\\Q(\\exp(2 \\pi i/m))$ .
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 05-2007
DOI: 10.1017/S0017089507003734
Abstract: In this note, we show that if we write ⌊ en! ⌋ = s ( n ) u ( n ) 2 , where s ( n ) is square-free then has at least C log log N distinct prime factors for some absolute constant C 0 and sufficiently large N . A similar result is obtained for the total number of distinct primes iding the m th power-free part of s ( n ) as n ranges from 1 to N , where m ≥ 3 is a positive integer. As an application of such results, we give an upper bound on the number of n ≤ N such that ⌊ en! ⌋ is a square.
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.4064/CM107-1-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-08-2008
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAN023
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 28-01-2020
DOI: 10.1090/PROC/14901
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 09-2007
Abstract: We show that, for most of the elliptic curves E over a prime finite field p of p elements, the discriminant D ( E ) of the quadratic number field containing the endomorphism ring of E over p is sufficiently large. We also obtain an asymptotic formula for the number of distinct quadratic number fields generated by the endomorphism rings of all elliptic curves over p .
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2007
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH, Wadern/Saarbruecken, Germany
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-08-2014
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972713000671
Abstract: We use bounds of mixed character sum to study the distribution of solutions to certain polynomial systems of congruences modulo a prime $p$ . In particular, we obtain nontrivial results about the number of solutions in boxes with the side length below ${p}^{1/ 2} $ , which seems to be the limit of more general methods based on the bounds of exponential sums along varieties.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2004
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Date: 06-2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2007
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700039150
Abstract: For a prime p and integers a and b , we consider Salié sums where χ2( x ) is a quadratic character and x¯ is the modular inversion of x , that is, x x¯≡ 1 (mod p ). One can naturally associate with S p ( a, b ) a certain angle θ p ( a, b ) ∈ [0, π]. We show that, for any fixed ε 0, these angles are uniformly distributed in [0, π] when a and b run over arbitrary sets , ℬ ⊆ {0, 1, …, p − 1} such that there are at least p 1+ε quadratic residues modulo p among the products ab , where ( a, b ) ∈ × ℬ.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2000
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-1991
DOI: 10.1007/BF01156612
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 1999
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-1993
DOI: 10.1007/BF01200150
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 26-09-2017
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAX045
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-03-2013
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 12-2008
DOI: 10.1142/S179304210800178X
Abstract: We give bounds on the number of integers 1 ≤ n ≤ N such that p | s(n), where p is a prime and s(n) is the sum of aliquot isors function given by s(n) = σ(n) - n, where σ(n) is the sum of isors function. Using this result, we obtain nontrivial bounds in certain ranges for rational exponential sums of the form [Formula: see text]
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2006
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 10-05-2016
DOI: 10.1142/S179304211650069X
Abstract: Using a recent improvement by Bettin and Chandee to a bound of Duke, Friedlander and Iwaniec [Bilinear forms with Kloosterman fractions, Invent. Math. 128 (1997) 23–43] on double exponential sums with Kloosterman fractions, we establish a uniformity of distribution result for the fractional parts of Dedekind sums [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] running over rather general sets. Our result extends earlier work of Myerson [Dedekind sums and uniform distribution, J. Number Theory 28 (1988) 233–239] and Vardi [A relation between Dedekind sums and Kloosterman sums, Duke Math. J. 55 (1987) 189–197]. Using different techniques, we also study the least denominator of the collection of Dedekind sums [Formula: see text] on average for [Formula: see text].
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-01-2022
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.4064/AA112-4-1
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-10-0012
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAX049
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2005
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-10-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 19-04-2019
DOI: 10.1017/S0305004117000780
Abstract: We obtain a nontrivial upper bound for almost all elements of the sequences of real numbers which are multiplicative and at the prime indices are distributed according to the Sato–Tate density. Ex les of such sequences come from coefficients of several L -functions of elliptic curves and modular forms. In particular, we show that |τ( n )| ⩽ n 11/2 (log n ) −1/2+ o (1) for a set of n of asymptotic density 1, where τ( n ) is the Ramanujan τ function while the standard argument yields log 2 instead of −1/2 in the power of the logarithm. Another consequence of our result is that in the number of representations of n by a binary quadratic form one has slightly more than square-root cancellations for almost all integers n . In addition, we obtain a central limit theorem for such sequences, assuming a weak hypothesis on the rate of convergence to the Sato–Tate law. For Fourier coefficients of primitive holomorphic cusp forms such a hypothesis is known conditionally and might be within reach unconditionally using the currently established potential automorphy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 29-06-2023
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972723000606
Abstract: Let $f(X) \\in {\\mathbb Z}[X]$ be a polynomial of degree $d \\ge 2$ without multiple roots and let ${\\mathcal F}(N)$ be the set of Farey fractions of order N . We use bounds for some new character sums and the square-sieve to obtain upper bounds, pointwise and on average, on the number of fields ${\\mathbb Q}(\\sqrt {f(r)})$ for $r\\in {\\mathcal F}(N)$ , with a given discriminant.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1994
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-02-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-1985
DOI: 10.1007/BF01157011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2000
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2019
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 02-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2011
DOI: 10.1112/BLMS/BDR058
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 28-02-2019
DOI: 10.1090/TRAN/7506
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 03-1996
Abstract: A study is made of sums of reciprocal norms of integral and prime ideal isors of algebraic integer values of a generalised exponential polynomial. This includes the important special cases of linear recurrence sequences and general sums of S-units. In the case of an integral binary recurrence sequence, similar (but stronger) results were obtained by P. Erdős, P. Kiss and C. Pomerance.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-03-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1993
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1515/JMC.2009.016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-06-2022
Abstract: Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with widths of a few nanometers are promising candidates for future nanoelectronic applications due to their structurally tunable bandgaps, ultrahigh carrier mobilities, and exceptional stability. However, the direct growth of micrometer‐long GNRs on insulating substrates, which is essential for the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices, remains an immense challenge. Here, the epitaxial growth of GNRs on an insulating hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) substrate through nanoparticle‐catalyzed chemical vapor deposition is reported. Ultranarrow GNRs with lengths of up to 10 µm are synthesized. Remarkably, the as‐grown GNRs are crystallographically aligned with the h‐BN substrate, forming 1D moiré superlattices. Scanning tunneling microscopy reveals an average width of 2 nm and a typical bandgap of ≈1 eV for similar GNRs grown on conducting graphite substrates. Fully atomistic computational simulations support the experimental results and reveal a competition between the formation of GNRs and carbon nanotubes during the nucleation stage, and van der Waals sliding of the GNRs on the h‐BN substrate throughout the growth stage. This study provides a scalable, single‐step method for growing micrometer‐long narrow GNRs on insulating substrates, thus opening a route to explore the performance of high‐quality GNR devices and the fundamental physics of 1D moiré superlattices.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2006
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 10-2015
Abstract: In this paper, we give a general explicit form of Cassels’ p -adic embedding theorem for number fields. We also give its reûned form in the case of cyclotomic fields. As a byproduct, given an irreducible polynomial f over ℤ, we give a general unconditional upper bound for the smallest prime number p such that f has a simple root modulo p .
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 28-02-1989
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2001
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 31-10-2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-03-2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-2020
Abstract: We sharpen the bounds of J. Bourgain, A. Gamburd and P. Sarnak (2016) on the possible number of nodes outside the ‘giant component’ and on the size of in idual connected components in the suitably defined functional graph of Markoff triples modulo $p$. This is a step towards the conjecture that there are no such nodes at all.
Publisher: European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/909
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 05-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-10-2008
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 20-11-2015
DOI: 10.1090/MCOM3056
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-07-2011
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAP023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 17-04-2009
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972709000033
Abstract: Let P ( k ) be the largest prime factor of the positive integer k . In this paper, we prove that the series is convergent for each constant α /2, which gives a more precise form of a result of C. L. Stewart [‘On isors of Fermat, Fibonacci, Lucas and Lehmer numbers’, Proc. London Math. Soc. 35 (3) (1977), 425–447].
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-1996
DOI: 10.1007/BF01202042
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1112/S1461157015000017
Abstract: For an elliptic curve $E/\\mathbb{Q}$ without complex multiplication we study the distribution of Atkin and Elkies primes $\\ell$ , on average, over all good reductions of $E$ modulo primes $p$ . We show that, under the generalized Riemann hypothesis, for almost all primes $p$ there are enough small Elkies primes $\\ell$ to ensure that the Schoof–Elkies–Atkin point-counting algorithm runs in $(\\log p)^{4+o(1)}$ expected time.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-07-2008
DOI: 10.1093/IMRN/RNN090
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2001
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700019547
Abstract: We obtain lower bounds on the degrees of polynomials representing the Diffie-Hellman mapping ( g x , g y ) → g xy , where g is a primitive root of a finite field q of q elements. These bounds are exponential in terms of log q . In particular, these results can be used to obtain lower bounds on the parallel arithmetic complexity of breaking the Diffie-Hellman cryptosystem. The method is based on bounds of numbers of solutions of some polynomial equations.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-03-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2002
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700040211
Abstract: Ciet, Quisquater, and Sica have recently shown that every elliptic curve E over a finite field 𝔽 p is isomorphic to a curve y 2 = x 3 + ax + b with a and b of size O ( p ¾ ). In this paper, we show that almost all elliptic curves satisfy the stronger bound O ( p ⅔ ). The problem is motivated by cryptographic considerations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 26-02-2009
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972708001020
Abstract: Let q ≥2 and N ≥1 be integers. W. Zhang recently proved that for any fixed ε and q ε ≤ N ≤ q 1/2−ε , where the sum is taken over all nonprincipal characters χ modulo q , L (1, χ ) denotes the L -functions corresponding to χ , and α q = q o (1) is some explicit function of q . Here we improve this result and show that the same asymptotic formula holds in the essentially full range q ε ≤ N ≤ q 1−ε .
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-09-2014
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.4064/AA140-1-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2001
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 24-09-2020
DOI: 10.4153/S0008439519000316
Abstract: We obtain a new lower bound on the size of the value set $\\mathscr{V}(f)=f(\\mathbb{F}_{p})$ of a sparse polynomial $f\\in \\mathbb{F}_{p}[X]$ over a finite field of $p$ elements when $p$ is prime. This bound is uniform with respect to the degree and depends on some natural arithmetic properties of the degrees of the monomial terms of $f$ and the number of these terms. Our result is stronger than those that can be extracted from the bounds on multiplicities of in idual values in $\\mathscr{V}(f)$ .
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 18-01-2005
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 06-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 1990
DOI: 10.1007/BF00971170
Publisher: International Press of Boston
Date: 2012
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1998
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2004
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2003
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 22-01-2014
DOI: 10.1142/S1793042113500863
Abstract: We use bounds of mixed character sum modulo a prime p to study the distribution of points on the hypersurface [Formula: see text] for some polynomials f i ∈ ℤ[X] that are not constant modulo a prime p and integers k i with gcd (k i , p-1) = 1, i = 1, …, n. In the case of [Formula: see text] the above congruence is known as the Markoff–Hurwitz hypersurface, while for [Formula: see text] it is known as the Dwork hypersurface. In particular, we obtain non-trivial results about the number of solution in boxes with the side length below p 1/2 , which seems to be the limit of more general methods based on the bounds of exponential sums along varieties.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 05-2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 18-11-2019
DOI: 10.1093/IMRN/RNZ293
Abstract: We augment the method of Wooley (2016) by some new ideas and in a series of results, improve his metric bounds on the Weyl sums and the discrepancy of fractional parts of real polynomials with partially prescribed coefficients. We also extend these results and ideas to principally new and very general settings of arbitrary orthogonal projections of the vectors of the coefficients $(u_1, \\ldots , u_d)$ onto a lower-dimensional subspace. This new point of view has an additional advantage of yielding an upper bound on the Hausdorff dimension of sets of large Weyl sums. Among other technical innovations, we also introduce a “self-improving” approach, which leads to an infinite series of monotonically decreasing bounds, converging to our final result.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1515/JMC.2009.007
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-2010
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAP001
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-05-2022
Abstract: Graphene, since the first successful exfoliation of graphite, has continuously attracted attention due to its remarkable properties and applications. Recently, the research focus on graphene synthesis has been directed to the controllable synthesis of large‐area and high‐quality graphene. In the last decade, there has been great progress in the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of graphene. Theoretical investigations have led to an enhanced understanding of puzzles on hydrocarbon species stability, key reaction pathways, the role of hydrogen gas, the morphology of graphene islands, and the alignment of graphene on substrates. Experimentally, high‐quality graphene is epitaxially grown on both insulating and metal substrates. Progress has also been reported on low‐temperature graphene growth and on controlling the thickness and stacking of graphene layers. In this review, the authors summarize the previous theoretical and experimental studies on graphene CVD growth and discuss the future challenges on the growth of graphene i) on insulating substrates, ii) at low temperature, iii) with controllable thickness, and iv) with selected stacking twist angles. The authors assert that the key to the continuous advancement of graphene growth is the synergy of experimental and theoretical investigations.
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1137/090770746
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 16-11-2019
DOI: 10.1090/PROC/14289
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-1999
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-02-2015
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 17-03-2022
DOI: 10.1021/JACS.2C00879
Abstract: Despite three decades of intense research efforts, the most fundamental question "why do carbon nanotubes grow?" remains unanswered. In fact, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) should not grow since the encapsulation of a catalyst with graphitic carbon is energetically more favorable than CNT growth in every aspect. Here, we answer this question using a theoretical model based on extensive first-principles and molecular dynamics calculations. We reveal a historically overlooked yet fundamental aspect of the CNT-catalyst interface, viz., that the interfacial energy of the CNT-catalyst edge is contact angle-dependent. The contact angle increases via graphitic cap lift-off, drastically decreasing the interfacial formation energy by up to 6-9 eV/nm, overcoming van der Waals cap-catalyst adhesion, and driving CNT growth. Mapping this remarkable and simple interplay allows us to understand, for the first time, why CNTs grow.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-10-2008
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1137/15M103950X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 15-05-2014
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972714000227
Abstract: We estimate double sums $$\\begin{eqnarray}S_{{\\it\\chi}}(a,{\\mathcal{I}},{\\mathcal{G}})=\\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{x\\in {\\mathcal{I}}}\\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{\\it\\lambda}\\in {\\mathcal{G}}}{\\it\\chi}(x+a{\\it\\lambda}),\\quad 1\\leq a -1,\\end{eqnarray}$$ with a multiplicative character ${\\it\\chi}$ modulo $p$ where ${\\mathcal{I}}=\\{1,\\dots ,H\\}$ and ${\\mathcal{G}}$ is a subgroup of order $T$ of the multiplicative group of the finite field of $p$ elements. A nontrivial upper bound on $S_{{\\it\\chi}}(a,{\\mathcal{I}},{\\mathcal{G}})$ can be derived from the Burgess bound if $H\\geq p^{1/4+{\\it\\varepsilon}}$ and from some standard elementary arguments if $T\\geq p^{1/2+{\\it\\varepsilon}}$ , where ${\\it\\varepsilon} $ is arbitrary. We obtain a nontrivial estimate in a wider range of parameters $H$ and $T$ . We also estimate double sums $$\\begin{eqnarray}T_{{\\it\\chi}}(a,{\\mathcal{G}})=\\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{\\it\\lambda},{\\it\\mu}\\in {\\mathcal{G}}}{\\it\\chi}(a+{\\it\\lambda}+{\\it\\mu}),\\quad 1\\leq a -1,\\end{eqnarray}$$ and give an application to primitive roots modulo $p$ with three nonzero binary digits.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1093/IMRN/RNP041
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-11-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-11-2016
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972715001240
Abstract: We obtain an upper bound for the number of solutions to the system of $m$ congruences of the type $$\\begin{eqnarray}\\displaystyle \\mathop{\\prod }_{i=1}^{{\\it\\nu}}(x_{i}+s_{i})\\equiv {\\it\\lambda}_{j}~(\\text{mod }p)\\quad j=1,\\ldots ,m, & & \\displaystyle \\nonumber\\end{eqnarray}$$ modulo a prime $p$ , with variables $1\\leq x_{i}\\leq h$ , $i=1,\\ldots ,{\\it\\nu}$ and arbitrary integers $s_{j},{\\it\\lambda}_{j}$ , $j=1,\\ldots ,m$ , for a parameter $h$ significantly smaller than $p$ . We also mention some applications of this bound.
Publisher: Project Euclid
Date: 03-2007
DOI: 10.3792/PJAA.83.5
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-11-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2000
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 23-01-2006
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01826-6
Abstract: Given an integer n n , how hard is it to find the set of all integers m m such that φ ( m ) = n \\varphi (m) = n , where φ \\varphi is the Euler totient function? We present a certain basic algorithm which, given the prime number factorization of n n , in polynomial time “on average” (that is, ( log n ) O ( 1 ) (\\log n)^{O(1)} ), finds the set of all such solutions m m . In fact, in the worst case this set of solutions is exponential in log n \\log n , and so cannot be constructed by a polynomial time algorithm. In the opposite direction, we show, under a widely accepted number theoretic conjecture, that the Partition Problem , an NP -complete problem, can be reduced in polynomial (in the input size) time to the problem of deciding whether φ ( m ) = n \\varphi (m) = n has a solution, for polynomially (in the input size of the Partition Problem ) many values of n n (where the prime factorizations of these n n are given). What this means is that the problem of deciding whether there even exists a solution m m to φ ( m ) = n \\varphi (m) = n , let alone finding any or all such solutions, is very likely to be intractable. Finally, we establish close links between the problem of inverting the Euler function and the integer factorization problem.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 09-09-2019
DOI: 10.1090/MCOM/3467
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-07-2012
Publisher: American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Date: 03-05-2018
DOI: 10.1090/TRAN/7437
Abstract: We give bounds for the number and the size of the primes p p such that a reduction modulo p p of a system of multivariate polynomials over the integers with a finite number T T of complex zeros does not have exactly T T zeros over the algebraic closure of the field with p p elements. We apply these bounds to study the periodic points and the intersection of orbits of algebraic dynamical systems over finite fields. In particular, we establish some links between these problems and the uniform dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 04-07-2004
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-1990
DOI: 10.1007/BF01170895
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 23-02-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S0013091510001355
Abstract: We give upper and lower bounds on the count of positive integers n ≤ x iding the n th term of a non-degenerate linearly recurrent sequence with simple roots.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1996
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium
Date: 10-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 27-04-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972720000386
Abstract: We obtain a lower bound on the largest prime factor of the denominator of rational numbers in the Cantor set. This gives a stronger version of a recent result of Schleischitz [‘On intrinsic and extrinsic rational approximation to Cantor sets’, Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. to appear] obtained via a different argument.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1992
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2004
Publisher: Canadian Mathematical Society
Date: 20-11-2018
Abstract: We prove a new bound on collinear triples in subgroups of prime finite fields and use it to give some new bounds on exponential sums with trinomials.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 23-09-2009
DOI: 10.1017/S001309150700123X
Abstract: Let u ( n )= f ( g n ), where g 1 is integer and f ( X ) ∈ ℤ[ X ] is non-constant and has no multiple roots. We use the theory of $\\mathcal{S}$ -unit equations as well as bounds for character sums to obtain a lower bound on the number of distinct fields among $\\mathbb{Q}(\\sqrt{u(n)})$ for n ∈ $\\{M+1,\\dots,M+N\\}$ . Fields of this type include the Shanks fields and their generalizations.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2000
DOI: 10.1007/PL00001600
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/11682462_72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2005
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972700038223
Abstract: We show that any residue class λ modulo p can be represented in the form n 1 ! +…+ n ℓ ! ≡ λ (mod p ) with ℓ = O ((log p ) 3 log log p ).
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BFB0015425
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972708000373
Abstract: Following T. H. Chan, we consider the problem of approximation of a given rational fraction a / q by sums of several rational fractions a 1 / q 1 ,…, a n / q n with smaller denominators. We show that in the special cases of n =3 and n =4 and certain admissible ranges for the denominators q 1 ,…, q n , one can improve a result of T. H. Chan by using a different approach.
Publisher: Michigan Mathematical Journal
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 29-03-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S001708951200002X
Abstract: We recall that a polynomial f ( X ) ∈ K [ X ] over a field K is called stable if all its iterates are irreducible over K . We show that almost all monic quadratic polynomials f ( X ) ∈ ℤ[ X ] are stable over ℚ. We also show that the presence of squares in so-called critical orbits of a quadratic polynomial f ( X ) ∈ ℤ[ X ] can be detected by a finite algorithm this property is closely related to the stability of f ( X ). We also prove there are no stable quadratic polynomials over finite fields of characteristic 2 but they exist over some infinite fields of characteristic 2.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-1996
DOI: 10.1007/BF01293260
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 24-08-2011
DOI: 10.1093/QMATH/HAQ028
Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1137/100798466
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 27-12-2019
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972718001302
Abstract: We improve some previously known deterministic algorithms for finding integer solutions $x,y$ to the exponential equation of the form $af^{x}+bg^{y}=c$ over finite fields.
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 15-12-2022
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-2380764/V1
Abstract: In chemistry, theory of aromaticity and π bond resonance plays a central role in intuitively understanding the stability and properties of organic molecules. Here we present an analogue theory for σ bond resonance in flat boron materials, which allows us to determine the distribution of two-center two-electron and three-center two-electron bonds without quantum calculations. Based on this theory, three rules are proposed to draw the Kekulé-like bonding configurations for flat boron materials and to explore their properties intuitively. As an application of this theory, the mystery of why neutral borophene with ~ 1/9 hole has the highest stability and the effect of charge doping on borophene’s optimal hole concentration are understood with the assumption of σ and π orbital occupation balance. Like the aromaticity theory for carbon materials, this theory greatly deepens our understanding on boron materials and paves the way for the rational design of various boron-based materials.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-11-2011
Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Date: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 07-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2003
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/809
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.4064/AA148-1-7
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 28-02-1992
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.4064/AA148-1-6
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2000
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-04-2005
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-09-2013
DOI: 10.1112/BLMS/BDS084
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 27-05-2019
DOI: 10.1093/IMRN/RNZ091
Abstract: We study multiplicative dependence between elements in orbits of algebraic dynamical systems over number fields modulo a finitely generated multiplicative subgroup of the field. We obtain a series of results, many of which may be viewed as a blend of Northcott’s theorem on boundedness of preperiodic points and Siegel’s theorem on finiteness of solutions to $S$-unit equations.
Publisher: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Date: 2019
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 07-2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 23-10-2018
DOI: 10.1017/S0017089517000222
Abstract: We show, under some natural restrictions, that orbits of polynomials cannot contain too many elements of small multiplicative order modulo a large prime p . We also show that for all but finitely many initial points either the multiplicative order of this point or the length of the orbit it generates (both modulo a large prime p ) is large. The approach is based on the results of Dvornicich and Zannier ( Duke Math. J. 139 (2007), 527–554) and Ostafe (2017) on roots of unity in polynomial orbits over the algebraic closure of the field of rational numbers.
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 11-2018
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