For graphs $G$, $F_1$, $F_2$, we write $G\to (F_1,F_2)$ if for every red-blue colouring of the edge set of $G$ we have a red copy of $F_1$ or a blue copy of $F_2$ in $G$. The size Ramsey number $\widehat{r}(F_1,F_2)$ is the minimum number of edges of a graph $G$ such that $G\to (F_1,F_2)$. Erdős and Faudree proved that for the cycle $C_n$ of length $n$ and for $t\ge 2$ matchings $t{K}_2$, the size Ramsey number $\widehat{r}(t{K}_2,C_n)<n+(4t+3)\sqrt{n}$. We improve their upper bound for $t=2$ and $t=3$ by showing that $\widehat{r}(2K_2,C_n)\le n+2\sqrt{3n}+9$ for $n\ge 12$ and $\widehat{r}(3K_2,C_n)<n+6\sqrt{n}+9$ for $n\ge 25$.

Let $d$ be a square-free positive integer and $h\left(d\right)$ be the class number of the real quadratic field $\mathbb{Q}\left(\sqrt{d}\right).$ We give an explicit lower bound for $h(n^2+r)$, where $r=1,4$. Ankeny and Chowla proved that if $g>1$ is a natural number and $d=n^{2g}+1$ is a square-free integer, then $g\mid h\left(d\right)$ whenever $n>4$. Applying our lower bounds, we show that there does not exist any natural number $n>1$ such that $h(n^{2g}+1)=g$. We also obtain a similar result for the family $\mathbb{Q}\left(\sqrt{n^{2g}+4}\right)$. As another application, we deduce some criteria for a class group of prime power order to be...

Let $G$ be a finite group. An element $g\in G$ is called a vanishing element if there exists an irreducible complex character $\chi$ of $G$ such that $\chi \left(g\right)=0$. Denote by $\mathrm{Vo}\left(G\right)$ the set of orders of vanishing elements of $G$. Ghasemabadi, Iranmanesh, Mavadatpour (2015), in their paper presented the following conjecture: Let $G$ be a finite group and $M$ a finite nonabelian simple group such that $\mathrm{Vo}\left(G\right)=\mathrm{Vo}\left(M\right)$ and $\left|G\right|=\left|M\right|$. Then $G\cong M$. We answer in affirmative this conjecture for $M=Sz\left(q\right)$, where $q=2^{2n+1}$ and either $q-1$, $q-\sqrt{2q}+1$ or $q+\sqrt{2q}+1$ is a prime number, and $M=F_4\left(q\right)$, where...

By iterating the Bolyai-Rényi transformation $T\left(x\right)={(x+1)}^2(mod1)$, almost every real number $x\in [0,1)$ can be expanded as a continued radical expression $$x=-1+\sqrt{x_1+\sqrt{x_2+\cdots +\sqrt{x_n+\cdots }}}$$ with digits $x_n\in \{0,1,2\}$ for all $n\in \mathbb{N}$. For any real number $x\in [0,1)$ and digit $i\in \{0,1,2\}$, let $r_n(x,i)$ be the maximal length of consecutive $i$’s in the first $n$ digits of the Bolyai-Rényi expansion of $x$. We study the asymptotic behavior of the run-length function $r_n(x,i)$. We prove that for any digit $i\in \{0,1,2\}$, the Lebesgue measure of the set $$D\left(i\right)=\left\{x\in [0,1):\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\frac{r_n(x,i)}{logn}=\frac{1}{log{\theta }_i}\right\}$$ is $1$, where ${\theta }_i=1+\sqrt{4i+1}$. We also obtain that the level set $$E_{\alpha }\left(i\right)=\left\{x\in [0,1):\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\frac{r_n(x,i)}{logn}=\alpha \right\}$$ is of full Hausdorff...

Let $S_n^{\left(2\right)}$ denote the iterated partial sums. That is, $S_n^{\left(2\right)}=S_1+S_2+\cdots +S_n$, where $S_i=X_1+X_2+\cdots +X_i$. Assuming $X_1,X_2,...,X_n$ are integrable, zero-mean, i.i.d. random variables, we show that the persistence probabilities $$p_n^{\left(2\right)}:=\mathbb{P}\left(\underset{1\le i\le n}{max}{S}_i^{\left(2\right)}lt;0\right)\le c\sqrt{\frac{𝔼|S_{n+1}|}{(n+1)𝔼|X_1|}},$$ with $c\le 6\sqrt{30}$ (and $c=2$ whenever $X_1$ is symmetric). The converse inequality holds whenever the non-zero $min(-X_1,0)$ is bounded or when it has only finite third moment and in addition $X_1$ is squared integrable. Furthermore, $p_n^{\left(2\right)}\asymp n^{-1/4}$ for any non-degenerate squared integrable, i.i.d., zero-mean $X_i$. In contrast, we show that for any $0lt;\gamma lt;1/4$ there exist integrable,...

Let $𝕜=\mathbb{Q}\left(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{d}\right)$ be an imaginary bicyclic biquadratic number field, where $d$ is an odd negative square-free integer and ${𝕜}_2^{\left(2\right)}$ its second Hilbert $2$-class field. Denote by $G=\mathrm{Gal}({𝕜}_2^{\left(2\right)}/𝕜)$ the Galois group of ${𝕜}_2^{\left(2\right)}/𝕜$. The purpose of this note is to investigate the Hilbert $2$-class field tower of $𝕜$ and then deduce the structure of $G$.

Let $d$ be a square free integer and $L_d:=\mathbb{Q}({\zeta }_8,\sqrt{d})$. In the present work we determine all the fields $L_d$ such that the $2$-class group, ${\mathrm{Cl}}_2\left(L_d\right)$, of $L_d$ is of type $(2,4)$ or $(2,2,2)$.

Let $f\left(x\right)$ be a cubic, monic and separable polynomial over a field of characteristic $p\ge 3$ and let $E$ be the elliptic curve given by $y^2=f\left(x\right)$. In this paper we prove that the coefficient at $x^{\frac{1}{2}p(p-1)}$ in the $p$–th division polynomial of $E$ equals the coefficient at $x^{p-1}$ in $f{\left(x\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}(p-1)}$. For elliptic curves over a finite field of characteristic $p$, the first coefficient is zero if and only if $E$ is supersingular, which by a classical criterion of Deuring (1941) is also equivalent to the vanishing of the second coefficient. So the...

Let $D_m$ be an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ of the form $y^2=x^3-m^{2}x+m^2$, where $m$ is an integer. In this paper we prove that the two points $P_{-1}=(-m,m)$ and $P_0=(0,m)$ on $D_m$ can be extended to a basis for $D_m\left(\mathbb{Q}\right)$ under certain conditions described explicitly.

A nonincreasing sequence $\pi =(d_1,...,d_n)$ of nonnegative integers is a graphic sequence if it is realizable by a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices. In this case, $G$ is referred to as a realization of $\pi$. Given two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, A. Busch et al. (2014) introduced the potential-Ramsey number of $G_1$ and $G_2$, denoted by $r_{\mathrm{pot}}(G_1,G_2)$, as the smallest nonnegative integer $m$ such that for every $m$-term graphic sequence $\pi$, there is a realization $G$ of $\pi$ with $G_1\subseteq G$ or with $G_2\subseteq \overline{G}$, where $\overline{G}$ is the complement of $G$. For $t\ge 2$ and $0\le k\le \lfloor \frac{t}{2}\rfloor$, let $K_t^{-k}$ be the graph...

Let ${\left(F_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of non-decreasing functions from $[0,+\infty )$ into $[0,+\infty )$. Under some suitable hypotheses of ${\left(F_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$, we will prove that if $g\in L^p\left({ℝ}^N\right)$, $1<p<+\infty$, satisfies ${lim\; inf}_{n\to \infty }{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{F}_n{\left(\right|g\left(x\right)-g\left(y\right)\left|\right)/|x-y|}^{N+p}dxdy<+\infty$, then $g\in W^{1,p}\left({ℝ}^N\right)$ and moreover ${lim}_{n\to \infty }{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{F}_n{\left(\right|g\left(x\right)-g\left(y\right)\left|\right)/|x-y|}^{N+p}dxdy=K_{N,p}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\left|\nabla g\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}dx$, where $K_{N,p}$ is a positive constant depending only on $N$ and $p$. This extends some results in J. Bourgain and H-M. Nguyen [A new characterization of Sobolev spaces, C. R. Acad Sci. Paris, Ser. 343 (2006) 75-80] and H-M. Nguyen [Some new characterizations of Sobolev spaces, J. Funct. Anal. 237 (2006) 689-720]. We also present some...

We study the capitulation of $2$-ideal classes of an infinite family of imaginary bicyclic biquadratic number fields consisting of fields $𝕜=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2pq},\mathrm{i})$, where $\mathrm{i}=\sqrt{-1}$ and $p\equiv -q\equiv 1(mod4)$ are different primes. For each of the three quadratic extensions $𝕂/𝕜$ inside the absolute genus field ${𝕜}^{(*)}$ of $𝕜$, we determine a fundamental system of units and then compute the capitulation kernel of $𝕂/𝕜$. The generators of the groups ${\mathrm{Am}}_s(𝕜/F)$ and $\mathrm{Am}(𝕜/F)$ are also determined from which we deduce that ${𝕜}^{(*)}$ is smaller than the relative genus field ${(𝕜/\mathbb{Q}\left(\mathrm{i}\right))}^{*}$. Then we prove...

For a given positive random variable $V>0$ and a given $Z\sim N(0,1)$ independent of $V$, we compute the scalar $t_0$ such that the distance in the $L^2\left(ℝ\right)$ sense between $Z{V}^{1/2}$ and $Z\sqrt{t_0}$ is minimal. We also consider the same problem in several dimensions when $V$ is a random positive definite matrix.

Condizione necessaria e sufficiente affinché una funzione rapidamente decrescente di variabile reale sia uniformemente analitica è che per i suoi coefficienti ${\gamma }_0,{\gamma }_1,\mathrm{\dots }$ di Fourier-Hermite riesca ${\gamma }_m=0(e^{\sqrt{mt}})$ per $t>0$ abbastanza piccolo.

Let $d$ be an odd square-free integer, $m\ge 3$ any integer and $L_{m,d}:=\mathbb{Q}({\zeta }_{2^m},\sqrt{d})$. In this paper, we shall determine all the fields $L_{m,d}$ having an odd class number. Furthermore, using the cyclotomic ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$-extensions of some number fields, we compute the rank of the $2$-class group of $L_{m,d}$ whenever the prime divisors of $d$ are congruent to $3$ or $5(mod8)$.