Let $𝒜$ be a commutative algebraic group defined over a number field $k$. We consider the following question:A complete answer for the case of the multiplicative group ${𝔾}_m$ is classical. We study other instances and in particular obtain an affirmative answer when $r$ is a prime and $𝒜$ is either an elliptic curve or a torus of small dimension with respect to $r$. Without restriction on the dimension of a torus, we produce an example showing that the answer can be negative even when $r$ is a prime. ...

Let $R$ be a prime ring with center $Z\left(R\right)$ and $I$ a nonzero right ideal of $R$. Suppose that $R$ admits a generalized reverse derivation $(F,d)$ such that $d\left(Z\right(R\left)\right)\ne 0$. In the present paper, we shall prove that if one of the following conditions holds: (i) $F\left(xy\right)\pm xy\in Z\left(R\right)$, (ii) $F\left(\right[x,y\left]\right)\pm \left[F\right(x),y]\in Z\left(R\right)$, (iii) $F\left(\right[x,y\left]\right)\pm \left[F\right(x),F(y\left)\right]\in Z\left(R\right)$, (iv) $F(x\circ y)\pm F\left(x\right)\circ F\left(y\right)\in Z\left(R\right)$, (v) $\left[F\right(x),y]\pm [x,F(y\left)\right]\in Z\left(R\right)$, (vi) $F\left(x\right)\circ y\pm x\circ F\left(y\right)\in Z\left(R\right)$ for all $x,y\in I$, then $R$ is commutative.

Given an integer $n\ge 3$, let $u_1,...,u_n$ be pairwise coprime integers $\ge 2$, $𝒟$ a family of nonempty proper subsets of $\{1,...,n\}$ with “enough” elements, and $\epsilon$ a function $𝒟\to \{\pm 1\}$. Does there exist at least one prime $q$ such that $q$ divides ${\prod }_{i\in I}{u}_i-\epsilon \left(I\right)$ for some $I\in 𝒟$, but it does not divide $u_1\cdots u_n$? We answer this question in the positive when the $u_i$ are prime powers and $\epsilon$ and $𝒟$ are subjected to certain restrictions. We use the result to prove that, if ${\epsilon }_0\in \{\pm 1\}$ and $A$ is a set of three or more primes that contains all prime divisors of any...

Let $G$ be a group and $\omega \left(G\right)$ be the set of element orders of $G$. Let $k\in \omega \left(G\right)$ and $m_k\left(G\right)$ be the number of elements of order $k$ in $G$. Let nse$\left(G\right)=\{m_k\left(G\right):k\in \omega \left(G\right)\}$. Assume $r$ is a prime number and let $G$ be a group such that nse$\left(G\right)=$ nse$\left(S_r\right)$, where $S_r$ is the symmetric group of degree $r$. In this paper we prove that $G\cong S_r$, if $r$ divides the order of $G$ and $r^2$ does not divide it. To get the conclusion we make use of some well-known results on the prime graphs of finite simple groups and their components.

Let $r(G_1,G_2)$ be the Ramsey number of the two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$. For $n_1\ge n_2\ge 1$ let $S(n_1,n_2)$ be the double star given by $V\left(S(n_1,n_2)\right)=\{v_0,v_1,...,v_{n_1},w_0$, $w_1,...,w_{n_2}\}$ and $E\left(S(n_1,n_2)\right)=\{v_0{v}_1,...,v_0{v}_{n_1},v_0{w}_0,w_0{w}_1,...,w_0{w}_{n_2}\}$. We determine $r(K_{1,m-1},$ $S(n_1,n_2))$ under certain conditions. For $n\ge 6$ let $T_n^3=S(n-5,3)$, $T_n^{\text{'}\text{'}}=(V,E_2)$ and $T_n^{\text{'}\text{'}\text{'}}=(V,E_3)$, where $V=\{v_0,v_1,...,v_{n-1}\}$, $E_2=\{v_0{v}_1,...,v_0{v}_{n-4},v_1{v}_{n-3}$, $v_1{v}_{n-2},v_2{v}_{n-1}\}$ and $E_3=\{v_0{v}_1,...,v_0{v}_{n-4},v_1{v}_{n-3},$ $v_2{v}_{n-2},v_3{v}_{n-1}\}$. We also obtain explicit formulas for $r(K_{1,m-1},T_n)$, $r(T_m^{\text{'}},T_n)$ $(n\ge m+3)$, $r(T_n,T_n)$, $r(T_n^{\text{'}},T_n)$ and $r(P_n,T_n)$, where $T_n\in \{T_n^{\text{'}\text{'}},T_n^{\text{'}\text{'}\text{'}},T_n^3\}$, $P_n$ is the path on $n$ vertices and $T_n^{\text{'}}$ is the unique tree with $n$ vertices and maximal degree $n-2$.

It is proved that real functions on $ℝ$ which can be represented as the difference of two semiconvex functions with a general modulus (or of two lower $C^1$-functions, or of two strongly paraconvex functions) coincide with semismooth functions on $ℝ$ (i.e. those locally Lipschitz functions on $ℝ$ for which $f_{+}^{\text{'}}\left(x\right)={lim}_{t\to x+}{f}_{+}^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)$ and $f_{-}^{\text{'}}\left(x\right)={lim}_{t\to x-}{f}_{-}^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)$ for each $x$). Further, for each modulus $\omega$, we characterize the class $DS{C}_{\omega }$ of functions on $ℝ$ which can be written as $f=g-h$, where $g$ and $h$ are semiconvex with modulus $C\omega$ (for some $C>0$) using a new...

We consider the equation $$-y^{\text{'}}\left(x\right)+q\left(x\right)y(x-\varphi \left(x\right))=f\left(x\right),x\in ℝ,$$ where $\varphi$ and $q$ ($q\ge 1$) are positive continuous functions for all $x\in ℝ$ and $f\in C\left(ℝ\right)$. By a solution of the equation we mean any function $y$, continuously differentiable everywhere in $ℝ$, which satisfies the equation for all $x\in ℝ$. We show that under certain additional conditions on the functions $\varphi$ and $q$, the above equation has a unique solution $y$, satisfying the inequality $$\parallel y^{\text{'}}{\parallel }_{C\left(ℝ\right)}+{\parallel qy\parallel }_{C\left(ℝ\right)}\le c{\parallel f\parallel }_{C\left(ℝ\right)},$$ where the constant $c\in (0,\infty )$ does not depend on the choice of $f$.

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain of class $C^2$ in $ℝ$N and let $K$ be a compact subset of $\partial \Omega$. Assume that $q\ge (N+1)/\left(N-1\right)$ and denote by $U_K$ the maximal solution of $-\Delta u+u^q=0$ in $\Omega$ which vanishes on $\partial \Omega \setminus K$. We obtain sharp upper and lower estimates for $U_K$ in terms of the Bessel capacity $C_{2/q,q^{\text{'}}}$ and prove that $U_K$ is $\sigma$-moderate. In addition we describe the precise asymptotic behavior of $U_K$ at points $\sigma \in K$, which depends on the “density” of $K$ at $\sigma$, measured in terms of the capacity $C_{2/q,q^{\text{'}}}$.

In this paper, we examine a natural question concerning the divisors of the polynomial $x^n-1$: “How often does $x^n-1$ have a divisor of every degree between $1$ and $n$?” In a previous paper, we considered the situation when $x^n-1$ is factored in $\mathbb{Z}\left[x\right]$. In this paper, we replace $\mathbb{Z}\left[x\right]$ with ${𝔽}_p\left[x\right]$, where $p$ is an arbitrary-but-fixed prime. We also consider those $n$ where this condition holds for all $p$.

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...

Let $R$ be a noncommutative prime ring of characteristic different from 2, with its two-sided Martindale quotient ring $Q$, $C$ the extended centroid of $R$ and $a\in R$. Suppose that $\delta$ is a nonzero $\sigma$-derivation of $R$ such that $a{[\delta \left(x^n\right),x^n]}_k=0$ for all $x\in R$, where $\sigma$ is an automorphism of $R$, $n$ and $k$ are fixed positive integers. Then $a=0$.

Let $\mathbb{Z}$ be the set of integers, ${\mathbb{N}}_0$ the set of nonnegative integers and $F(x_1,x_2)=u_1{x}_1+u_2{x}_2$ be a binary linear form whose coefficients $u_1$, $u_2$ are nonzero, relatively prime integers such that $u_1{u}_2\ne \pm 1$ and $u_1{u}_2\ne -2$. Let $f:\mathbb{Z}\to {\mathbb{N}}_0\cup \left\{\infty \right\}$ be any function such that the set $f^{-1}\left(0\right)$ has asymptotic density zero. In 2007, M. B. Nathanson (2007) proved that there exists a set $A$ of integers such that $r_{A,F}\left(n\right)=f\left(n\right)$ for all integers $n$, where $r_{A,F}\left(n\right)=\left|\{(a,a^{\text{'}}):n=u_{1}a+u_2{a}^{\text{'}}:a,a^{\text{'}}\in A\}\right|$. We add the structure of difference for the binary linear form $F(x_1,x_2)$.

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).