Consider the difference equation $$\Delta x\left(n\right)+\sum _{i=1}^m{p}_i\left(n\right)x\left({\tau }_i\left(n\right)\right)=0,n\ge 0\left[\nabla x\left(n\right)-\sum _{i=1}^m{p}_i\left(n\right)x\left({\sigma }_i\left(n\right)\right)=0,n\ge 1\right],$$ where $\left(p_i\left(n\right)\right)$, $1\le i\le m$ are sequences of nonnegative real numbers, ${\tau }_i\left(n\right)$ [${\sigma }_i\left(n\right)$], $1\le i\le m$ are general retarded (advanced) arguments and $\Delta$ [$\nabla$] denotes the forward (backward) difference operator $\Delta x\left(n\right)=x(n+1)-x\left(n\right)$ [$\nabla x\left(n\right)=x\left(n\right)-x(n-1)$]. New oscillation criteria are established when the well-known oscillation conditions $$\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; sup}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=\tau \left(n\right)}^n{p}_i\left(j\right)>1\left[\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; sup}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=n}^{\sigma \left(n\right)}{p}_i\left(j\right)>1\right]$$ and $$\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j={\tau }_i\left(n\right)}^{n-1}{p}_i\left(j\right)>\frac{1}{\mathrm{e}}\left[\underset{n\to \infty }{lim\; inf}\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=n+1}^{{\sigma }_i\left(n\right)}{p}_i\left(j\right)>\frac{1}{\mathrm{e}}\right]$$ are not satisfied. Here $\tau \left(n\right)={max}_{1\le i\le m}{\tau }_i\left(n\right)$ $[\sigma \left(n\right)={min}_{1\le i\le m}{\sigma }_i\left(n\right)]$. The results obtained essentially improve known results in the literature. Examples illustrating the results are also given.

A generalized form of the usual Lognormal distribution, denoted with ${}_{\gamma }$, is introduced through the γ-order Normal distribution ${}_{\gamma }$, with its p.d.f. defined into (0,+∞). The study of the c.d.f. of ${}_{\gamma }$ is focused on a heuristic method that provides global approximations with two anchor points, at zero and at infinity. Also evaluations are provided while certain bounds are obtained.

This paper discusses $n$-island finite automata whose transition graphs can be expressed as $n$-member sequences of islands $i_1,i_2,\cdots ,i_n$, where there is a bridge leaving $i_j$ and entering $i_{j+1}$ for each $1\le j\le n-1$. It concentrates its attention on even computation defined as any sequence of moves during which these automata make the same number of moves in each of the islands. Under the assumption that these automata work only in an evenly computational way, the paper proves its main result stating that $n$-island finite...

Assuming that $C_{X,Y}$ is the copula function of $X$ and $Y$ with marginal distribution functions $F_X\left(x\right)$ and $F_Y\left(y\right)$, in this work we study the selection distribution $Z\stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{=}\left(X\right|Y\in T)$. We present some special cases of our proposed distribution, among them, skew-normal distribution as well as normal distribution. Some properties such as moments and moment generating function are investigated. Also, some numerical analysis is presented for illustration.

The Tracy–Widom $\beta$ distribution is the large dimensional limit of the top eigenvalue of $\beta$ random matrix ensembles. We use the stochastic Airy operator representation to show that as $a\to \infty$ the tail of the Tracy–Widom distribution satisfies $$P({\mathrm{𝑇𝑊}}_{\beta }gt;a)=a^{-(3/4)\beta +\mathrm{o}\left(1\right)}exp\left(-\frac{2}{3}\beta a^{3/2}\right).$$

We prove the existence of a limit distribution of the normalized well-distribution measure $W\left(E_N\right)/\sqrt{N}$ (as $N\to \infty$) for random binary sequences $E_N$, by this means solving a problem posed by Alon, Kohayakawa, Mauduit, Moreira and Rödl.

We consider the summation equation, for $t\in {[\mu -2,\mu +b]}_{{\mathbb{N}}_{\mu -2}}$, $$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill y\left(t\right)={\gamma }_1\left(t\right)H_1\left(\sum _{i=1}^n{a}_{i}y\left({\xi }_i\right)\right)& +{\gamma }_2\left(t\right)H_2\left(\sum _{i=1}^m{b}_{i}y\left({\zeta }_i\right)\right)\hfill & \hfill +\lambda \sum _{s=0}^{b}G(t,s)f(s+\mu -1,y(s+\mu -1))\end{array}$$ in the case where the map $(t,s)\mapsto G(t,s)$ may change sign; here $\mu \in (1,2]$ is a parameter, which may be understood as the order of an associated discrete fractional boundary value problem. In spite of the fact that $G$ is allowed to change sign, by introducing a new cone we are able to establish the existence of at least one positive solution to this problem by imposing some growth conditions on the functions $H_1$ and $H_2$. Finally, as an application of the abstract existence...

Various techniques are presented for constructing $\Lambda$ (p) sets which are not $\Lambda (p+ϵ)$ for all $ϵ\>0$. The main result is that there is a $\Lambda$ (4) set in the dual of any compact abelian group which is not $\Lambda (4+ϵ)$ for all $ϵ\>0$. Along the way to proving this, new constructions are given in dual groups in which constructions were already known of $\Lambda$ (p) not $\Lambda (p+ϵ)$ sets, for certain values of $p$. The main new constructions in specific dual groups are: – there is a $\Lambda$ (2k) set which is not $\Lambda (2k+ϵ)$ in $\mathbf{Z}\left(2\right)\oplus \mathbf{Z}\left(2\right)\oplus \cdots$ for all $2\le k$, $k\in \mathbf{N}$ and...

The aim of this paper is to find the necessary and sufficient conditions and inclusion relations for Pascal distribution series to be in the classes ${\mathrm{𝒮𝒫}}_p(\alpha ,\beta )$ and ${\mathrm{𝒰𝒞𝒱}}_p(\alpha ,\beta )$ of uniformly spirallike functions. Further, we consider an integral operator related to Pascal distribution series. Several corollaries and consequences of the main results are also considered.

We show the change of coordinates that maps the maximally symmetric $(2,3,5)$-distribution given by solutions to the $k=\frac{2}{3}$ and $k=\frac{3}{2}$ generalised Chazy equation to the flat Cartan distribution. This establishes the local equivalence between the maximally symmetric $k=\frac{2}{3}$ and $k=\frac{3}{2}$ generalised Chazy distribution and the flat Cartan or Hilbert-Cartan distribution. We give the set of vector fields parametrised by solutions to the $k=\frac{2}{3}$ and $k=\frac{3}{2}$ generalised Chazy equation and the corresponding Ricci-flat conformal scale...

We extend Champernowne’s construction of normal numbers to base b to the ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ case and obtain an explicit construction of a generic point of the ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ shift transformation of the set ${0,1,...,b-1}^{{\mathbb{Z}}^d}$.