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On the number of intersections of two polygons

Jakub Černý, Jan Kára, Daniel Kráľ, Pavel Podbrdský, Miroslava Sotáková, Robert Šámal (2003)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We study the maximum possible number f ( k , l ) of intersections of the boundaries of a simple k -gon with a simple l -gon in the plane for k , l 3 . To determine the number f ( k , l ) is quite easy and known when k or l is even but still remains open for k and l both odd. We improve (for k l ) the easy upper bound k l - l to k l - k / 6 - l and obtain exact bounds for k = 5 ( f ...

On the spectrum of the Thue-Morse quasicrystal and the rarefaction phenomenon

Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Jean-Louis Verger-Gaugry (2008)

Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux

The spectrum of a weighted Dirac comb on the Thue-Morse quasicrystal is investigated by means of the Bombieri-Taylor conjecture, for Bragg peaks, and of a new conjecture that we call Aubry-Godrèche-Luck conjecture, for the singular continuous component. The decomposition of the Fourier transform of the weighted Dirac comb is obtained in terms of tempered distributions. We show that the asymptotic arithmetics of the p -rarefied sums of the Thue-Morse sequence (Dumont; Goldstein, Kelly and Speer; Grabner;...

On tropical Kleene star matrices and alcoved polytopes

María Jesús de la Puente (2013)

Kybernetika

In this paper we give a short, elementary proof of a known result in tropical mathematics, by which the convexity of the column span of a zero-diagonal real matrix A is characterized by A being a Kleene star. We give applications to alcoved polytopes, using normal idempotent matrices (which form a subclass of Kleene stars). For a normal matrix we define a norm and show that this is the radius of a hyperplane section of its tropical span.

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