We apply the theory of infinite two-person games to two well-known problems in topology: Suslin’s Problem and Arhangel’skii’s problem on the weak Lindelöf number of the $G_{\delta }$ topology on a compact space. More specifically, we prove results of which the following two are special cases: 1) every linearly ordered topological space satisfying the game-theoretic version of the countable chain condition is separable, and 2) in every compact space satisfying the game-theoretic version of the weak...

For paths Pₙ, G. Chartrand, L. Nebeský and P. Zhang showed that $a{c}^{\text{'}}\left(Pₙ\right)\le \left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n-2}{2}\right)+2$ for every positive integer n, where ac’(Pₙ) denotes the nearly antipodal chromatic number of Pₙ. In this paper we show that $a{c}^{\text{'}}\left(Pₙ\right)\le \left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n-2}{2}\right)-n/2-⎣10/n⎦+7$ if n is even positive integer and n ≥ 10, and $a{c}^{\text{'}}\left(Pₙ\right)\le \left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n-2}{2}\right)-(n-1)/2-⎣13/n⎦+8$ if n is odd positive integer and n ≥ 13. For all even positive integers n ≥ 10 and all odd positive integers n ≥ 13, these results improve the upper bounds for nearly antipodal chromatic number of Pₙ.

We study the existence of positive solutions to the fourth-order two-point boundary value problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}{u}^{\text{'}\text{'}\text{'}\text{'}}\left(t\right)+f(t,u\left(t\right))=0,\hfill & 0<t<1,\hfill \\ u^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)=u^{\text{'}}\left(1\right)=u^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(0\right)=0,\hfill & u\left(0\right)=\alpha \left[u\right],\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\alpha \left[u\right]={\int }_0^{1}u\left(t\right)\mathrm{d}A\left(t\right)$ is a Riemann-Stieltjes integral with $A\ge 0$ being a nondecreasing function of bounded variation and $f\in 𝒞([0,1]\times {ℝ}_{+},{ℝ}_{+})$. The sufficient conditions obtained are new and easy to apply. Their approach is based on Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem and the Avery-Peterson fixed point theorem.

Let T: C¹(ℝ) → C(ℝ) be an operator satisfying the “chain rule inequality” T(f∘g) ≤ (Tf)∘g⋅Tg, f,g ∈ C¹(ℝ). Imposing a weak continuity and a non-degeneracy condition on T, we determine the form of all maps T satisfying this inequality together with T(-Id)(0) < 0. They have the form Tf = ⎧ $(H\circ f/H)f^{\text{'}p}$, f’ ≥ 0, ⎨ ⎩ $-A(H\circ f/H)|f^{\text{'}}{|}^p$, f’ < 0, with p > 0, H ∈ C(ℝ), A ≥ 1. For A = 1, these are just the solutions of the chain rule operator equation. To prove this, we characterize the submultiplicative, measurable...

The purpose of this paper is to prove that the common terms of linear recurrences $M(2a,-1,0,b)$ and $N(2c,-1,0,d)$ have at most $2$ common terms if $p=2$, and have at most three common terms if $p>2$ where $D$ and $p$ are fixed positive integers and $p$ is a prime, such that neither $D$ nor $D+p$ is perfect square, further $a,b,c,d$ are nonzero integers satisfying the equations $a^2-D{b}^2=1$ and $c^2-(D+p)d^2=1$.

CONTENTSIntroduction............................................................................................................ 51. The category of $C^N$-systems........................................................................... 82. The problem of split monomorphisms................................................................ 103. Internal hom and tensor product........................................................................... 134. Characterizations of split monomorphisms..........................................................

In this note, we estimate the distance between two $q$-nomial coefficients $\left|{\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n}{k}\right)}_q-{\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n^{\text{'}}}{k^{\text{'}}}\right)}_q\right|$, where $(n,k)\ne (n^{\text{'}},k^{\text{'}})$ and $q\ge 2$ is an integer.

For positive integers $n$, Euler’s phi function and Dedekind’s psi function are given by $$\phi \left(n\right)=n\prod _{\begin{array}{c}p\mid n\\ p\mathrm{prime}\end{array}}\left(1-\frac{1}{p}\right)\text{and}\psi \left(n\right)=n\prod _{\begin{array}{c}p\mid n\\ p\mathrm{prime}\end{array}}\left(1+\frac{1}{p}\right),$$ respectively. We prove that for all $n\ge 2$ we have $${\left(1-\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n-1}{\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n+1}\le {\left(\frac{\phi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\phi \left(n\right)}{\left(\frac{\psi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\psi \left(n\right)}$$ and $${\left(\frac{\phi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\psi \left(n\right)}{\left(\frac{\psi \left(n\right)}{n}\right)}^{\phi \left(n\right)}\le {\left(1-\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n+1}{\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)}^{n-1}.$$ The sign of equality holds if and only if $n$ is a prime. The first inequality refines results due to Atanassov (2011) and Kannan & Srikanth (2013).