Let $R_s\left(n\right)$ denote the number of representations of the positive number n as the sum of two squares and s biquadrates. When $s=3$ or 4, it is established that the anticipated asymptotic formula for $R_s\left(n\right)$ holds for all $n\le X$ with at most $O\left(X^{(9-2s)/8+\epsilon }\right)$ exceptions.

This note presents the study of the conjugacy classes of elements of some given finite order $n$ in the Cremona group of the plane. In particular, it is shown that the number of conjugacy classes is infinite if $n$ is even, $n=3$ or $n=5$, and that it is equal to $3$ (respectively $9$) if $n=9$ (respectively if $n=15$) and to $1$ for all remaining odd orders. Some precise representative elements of the classes are given.

Let ${}_q\left[t\right]$ be the polynomial ring over the finite field ${}_q$, and let ${}_N$ be the subset of ${}_q\left[t\right]$ containing all polynomials of degree strictly less than N. Define D(N) to be the maximal cardinality of a set $A{\subseteq }_N$ for which A-A contains no squares of polynomials. By combining the polynomial Hardy-Littlewood circle method with the density increment technology developed by Pintz, Steiger and Szemerédi, we prove that $D\left(N\right)\ll q^N{\left(logN\right)}^7/N$.

The class of $H^{\left(N\right)}$-sets forms an important subclass of the class of sets of uniqueness for trigonometric series. We investigate the size of this class which is reflected by the family of measures (called polar) annihilating all sets from the class. The main aim of this paper is to answer in the negative a question stated by Lyons, whether the polars of the classes of $H^{\left(N\right)}$-sets are the same for all N ∈ ℕ. To prove our result we also present a new description of $H^{\left(N\right)}$-sets.

Let V ⊂ ℝⁿ, n ≥ 2, be an unbounded algebraic set defined by a system of polynomial equations $h₁\left(x\right)=\cdots =h_r\left(x\right)=0$ and let f: ℝⁿ→ ℝ be a polynomial. It is known that if f is positive on V then ${f|}_V$ extends to a positive polynomial on the ambient space ℝⁿ, provided V is a variety. We give a constructive proof of this fact for an arbitrary algebraic set V. Precisely, if f is positive on V then there exists a polynomial $h\left(x\right)={\sum }_{i=1}^{r}h{²}_i\left(x\right){\sigma }_i\left(x\right)$, where ${\sigma }_i$ are sums of squares of polynomials of degree at most p, such that f(x) + h(x) >...

This paper is devoted to investigating the properties of multilinear $A_{P⃗}$ conditions and $A_{(P⃗,q)}$ conditions, which are suitable for the study of multilinear operators on Lebesgue spaces. Some monotonicity properties of $A_{P⃗}$ and $A_{(P⃗,q)}$ classes with respect to P⃗ and q are given, although these classes are not in general monotone with respect to the natural partial order. Equivalent characterizations of multilinear $A_{(P⃗,q)}$ classes in terms of the linear $A_p$ classes are established. These results essentially improve...

Let $k\ge 5$ be an odd integer and $\eta$ be any given real number. We prove that if ${\lambda }_1$, ${\lambda }_2$, ${\lambda }_3$, ${\lambda }_4$, $\mu$ are nonzero real numbers, not all of the same sign, and ${\lambda }_1/{\lambda }_2$ is irrational, then for any real number $\sigma$ with $0<\sigma <1/\left(8\vartheta \right(k\left)\right)$, the inequality $$|{\lambda }_1{p}_1^2+{\lambda }_2{p}_2^2+{\lambda }_3{p}_3^2+{\lambda }_4{p}_4^2+\mu p_5^k+\eta |<{\left(\underset{1\le j\le 5}{max}{p}_j\right)}^{-\sigma }$$ has infinitely many solutions in prime variables $p_1,p_2,\cdots ,p_5$, where $\vartheta \left(k\right)=3\times 2^{(k-5)/2}$ for $k=5,7,9$ and $\vartheta \left(k\right)=[(k^2+2k+5)/8]$ for odd integer $k$ with $k\ge 11$. This improves a recent result in W. Ge, T. Wang (2018).

G. B. Belyavskaya and G. L. Mullen showed the existence of a complement for a $k$-tuple of orthogonal $n$-ary operations, where $k<n$, to an $n$-tuple of orthogonal $n$-ary operations. But they proposed no method for complementing. In this article, we give an algorithm for complementing a $k$-tuple of orthogonal $n$-ary operations to an $n$-tuple of orthogonal $n$-ary operations and an algorithm for complementing a $k$-tuple of orthogonal $k$-ary operations to an $n$-tuple of orthogonal $n$-ary operations. Also...

The aim of this paper is to characterize the $L^p-L^q$ boundedness of two classes of integral operators from $L^p(𝒰,\mathrm{d}{V}_{\alpha })$ to $L^q(𝒰,\mathrm{d}{V}_{\beta })$ in terms of the parameters $a$, $b$, $c$, $p$, $q$ and $\alpha$, $\beta$, where $𝒰$ is the Siegel upper half-space. The results in the presented paper generalize a corresponding result given in C. Liu, Y. Liu, P. Hu, L. Zhou (2019).

Let ${𝕄}_{n,m}$ be the set of all $n\times m$ real or complex matrices. For $A,B\in {𝕄}_{n,m}$, we say that $A$ is row-sum majorized by $B$ (written as $A{\prec }^{\mathrm{rs}}B$) if $R\left(A\right)\prec R\left(B\right)$, where $R\left(A\right)$ is the row sum vector of $A$ and $\prec$ is the classical majorization on ${ℝ}^n$. In the present paper, the structure of all linear operators $T:{𝕄}_{n,m}\to {𝕄}_{n,m}$ preserving or strongly preserving row-sum majorization is characterized. Also we consider the concepts of even and circulant majorization on ${ℝ}^n$ and then find the linear preservers of row-sum majorization of these relations on ${𝕄}_{n,m}$. ...

In this paper we prove the following theorems in incidence geometry. 1. There is $\delta >0$ such that for any $P_1,\cdots ,P_4$, and $Q_1,\cdots ,Q_n\in {ℂ}^2$, if there are $\le n^{(1+\delta )/2}$ many distinct lines between $P_i$ and $Q_j$ for all $i$, $j$, then $P_1,\cdots ,P_4$ are collinear. If the number of the distinct lines is $<c{n}^{1/2}$ then the cross ratio of the four points is algebraic. 2. Given $c>0$, there is $\delta >0$ such that for any $P_1,P_2,P_3\in {ℂ}^2$ noncollinear, and $Q_1,\cdots ,Q_n\in {ℂ}^2$, if there are $\le c{n}^{1/2}$ many distinct lines between $P_i$ and $Q_j$ for all $i$, $j$, then for any $P\in {ℂ}^2\setminus \{P_1,P_2,P_3\}$, we have $\delta n$ distinct lines between $P$ and $Q_j$. 3. Given...

We show that for any given integer $k$ there exist infinitely many consecutive square-free numbers of the type $x^2+y^2+z^2+k$, $x^2+y^2+z^2+k+1$. We also establish an asymptotic formula for $1\le x,y,z\le H$ such that $x^2+y^2+z^2+k$, $x^2+y^2+z^2+k+1$ are square-free. The method we used in this paper is due to Tolev.

For a finite group $G$ denote by $N\left(G\right)$ the set of conjugacy class sizes of $G$. In 1980s, J. G. Thompson posed the following conjecture: If $L$ is a finite nonabelian simple group, $G$ is a finite group with trivial center and $N\left(G\right)=N\left(L\right)$, then $G\cong L$. We prove this conjecture for an infinite class of simple groups. Let $p$ be an odd prime. We show that every finite group $G$ with the property $Z\left(G\right)=1$ and $N\left(G\right)=N\left(A_i\right)$ is necessarily isomorphic to $A_i$, where $i\in \{2p,2p+1\}$.

Let ${ℱ}_h^i(k,n)$ be the $i$-th ordered configuration space of all distinct points $H_1,...,H_h$ in the Grassmannian $Gr(k,n)$ of $k$-dimensional subspaces of ${ℂ}^n$, whose sum is a subspace of dimension $i$. We prove that ${ℱ}_h^i(k,n)$ is (when non empty) a complex submanifold of $Gr{(k,n)}^h$ of dimension $i(n-i)+hk(i-k)$ and its fundamental group is trivial if $i=min(n,hk)$, $hk\ne n$ and $n\&gt;2$ and equal to the braid group of the sphere $ℂ$ $P^1$ if $n=2$. Eventually we compute the fundamental group in the special case of hyperplane arrangements, i.e. $k=n-1$.

For a fixed positive integer $k$ and $G=(V,E)$ a connected graph of order $n$, whose minimum vertex degree is at least $k$, a set $S\subseteq V$ is a total $k$-dominating set, also known as a $k$-tuple total dominating set, if every vertex $v\in V$ has at least $k$ neighbors in $S$. The minimum size of a total $k$-dominating set for $G$ is called the total $k$-domination number of $G$, denoted by ${\gamma }_{kt}\left(G\right)$. The total $k$-domination problem is to determine a minimum total $k$-dominating set of $G$. Since the exact problem is in general quite difficult...