We give a combinatorial interpretation for the positive moments of the values at the edge of the critical strip of the -functions of modular forms of and . We deduce some results about the asymptotics of these moments. We extend this interpretation to the moments twisted by the eigenvalues of Hecke operators.
Floor diagrams are a class of weighted oriented graphs introduced by E. Brugallé and the second author. Tropical geometry arguments lead to combinatorial descriptions of (ordinary and relative) Gromov–Witten invariants of projective spaces in terms of floor diagrams and their generalizations. In a number of cases, these descriptions can be used to obtain explicit (direct or recursive) formulas for the corresponding enumerative invariants. In particular, we use this approach to enumerate rational...
The memoir presented by Lagrange, which this paper examines, is usually considered as an elegant, but scarcely practicable, contribution to numerical analysis. The purpose of this study is to show the significance of the novel mathematical ideas it contains, and in particular to look at this essay from the perspective of generating function theory, for which the theoretical foundations would be laid some little time later by Laplace. This excursus of Lagrange’s does indeed proffer an abundance of...
Let denote the symmetric group with letters, and the maximal order of an element of . If the standard factorization of into primes is , we define to be ; one century ago, E. Landau proved that and that, when goes to infinity, .There exists a basic algorithm to compute for ; its running time is and the needed memory is ; it allows computing up to, say, one million. We describe an algorithm to calculate for up to . The main idea is to use the so-called -superchampion...
Certain generating fuctions for multiple zeta values are expressed as values at some point of solutions of linear meromorphic differential equations. We apply asymptotic expansion methods (like the WKB method and the Stokes operators) to solutions of these equations. In this way we give a new proof of the Euler formula ζ(2) = π²/6. In further papers we plan to apply this method to study some third order hypergeometric equation related to ζ(3).