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1. A Feynman–Kac approach to a paper of Chung and Feller on fluctuations in the coin-tossing game

Author

Sergio Grunbaum and F alberto Grunbaum

Subjects
Discrete mathematics, symbols.namesake, Coin flipping, Applied Mathematics, General Mathematics, symbols, Feynman diagram, Mathematics
Abstract

A classical result of K. L. Chung and W. Feller deals with the partial sums S k S_k arising in a fair coin-tossing game. If N n N_n is the number of “positive” terms among S 1 S_1 , S 2 S_2 , …, S n S_n then the quantity P ( N 2 n = 2 r ) P(N_{2n} = 2r) takes an elegant form. We lift the restriction on an even number of tosses and give a simple expression for P ( N 2 n + 1 = r ) P(N_{2n+1} = r) , r = 0 r = 0 , 1 1 , 2 2 , …, 2 n + 1 2n+1 . We get to this ansatz by adaptating the Feynman–Kac methodology.

Published
2022

13. Entropy criteria and stability of extreme shocks: a remark on a paper of Leger and Vasseur

Author

Kevin Zumbrun and Benjamin Texier

Subjects
Conservation law, Kullback–Leibler divergence, Standard molar entropy, Applied Mathematics, General Mathematics, 010102 general mathematics, Mathematical analysis, Mathematics::Analysis of PDEs, Regular polygon, Min entropy, Shock strength, 01 natural sciences, 010101 applied mathematics, Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs, FOS: Mathematics, Uniqueness, 0101 mathematics, Analysis of PDEs (math.AP), Mathematics
Abstract

We show that a relative entropy condition recently shown by Leger and Vasseur to imply uniqueness and stable $L^2$ dependence on initial data of Lax 1- or $n$-shock solutions of an $n\times n$ system of hyperbolic conservation laws with convex entropy implies Lopatinski stability in the sense of Majda. This means in particular that Leger and Vasseur's relative entropy condition represents a considerable improvement over the standard entropy condition of decreasing shock strength and increasing entropy along forward Hugoniot curves, which, in a recent example exhibited by Barker, Freist\"uhler and Zumbrun, was shown to fail to imply Lopatinski stability, even for systems with convex entropy. This observation bears also on the parallel question of existence, at least for small $BV$ or $H^s$ perturbations, Comment: to appear in Proceedings of the AMS

Published
2014

16. Weak friezes and frieze pattern determinants.

Author

Holm, Thorsten and Jørgensen, Peter

Subjects
CLUSTER algebras, SYMMETRIC matrices, GLUE, POLYGONS, MATHEMATICS
Abstract

Frieze patterns have been introduced by Coxeter [Acta Arith. 18 (1971), pp. 297–310] in the 1970's and have recently attracted renewed interest due to their close connection with Fomin-Zelevinsky's cluster algebras. Frieze patterns can be interpreted as assignments of values to the diagonals of a triangulated polygon satisfying certain conditions for crossing diagonals (Ptolemy relations). Weak friezes, as introduced by Çanakçı and Jørgensen [Adv. in Appl. Math. 131 (2021), Paper No. 102253], are generalizing this concept by allowing to glue dissected polygons so that the Ptolemy relations only have to be satisfied for crossings involving one of the gluing diagonals. To any frieze pattern one can associate a symmetric matrix using a triangular fundamental domain of the frieze pattern in the upper and lower half of the matrix and putting zeroes on the diagonal. Broline, Crowe and Isaacs [Geometriae Dedicata 3 (1974), pp. 171–176] have found a formula for the determinants of these matrices and their work has later been generalized in various directions by other authors. These frieze pattern determinants are the main focus of our paper. As our main result we show that this determinant behaves well with respect to gluing weak friezes: the determinant is the product of the determinants for the pieces glued, up to a scalar factor coming from the gluing diagonal. Then we give several applications of this result, showing that formulas from the literature, obtained by Broline-Crowe-Isaacs, Baur-Marsh [J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 119 (2012), pp. 1110–1122], Bessenrodt-Holm-Jørgensen [J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 123 (2014), pp. 30–42] and Maldonado [ Frieze matrices and infinite frieze patterns with coefficients , Preprint, arXiv: 2207.04120 , 2022] can all be obtained as consequences of our result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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19. Remarks on a paper by Chao-Ping Chen and Feng Qi

Author

Koumandos, S. and Koumandos, S. [0000-0002-3399-7471]

Subjects
Discrete mathematics, Ping (video games), Monotonicity, Sequence, biology, Applied Mathematics, General Mathematics, Best bounds, Monotonic function, biology.organism_classification, Upper and lower bounds, Chen, Gamma function, Calculus, Wallis' inequality, Special case, Mathematics
Abstract

In a recent paper, Chao-Ping Chen and Feng Qi (2005) established sharp upper and lower bounds for the sequence P n := 1.3 … ( 2 n − 1 ) 2.4 … 2 n P_{n}:=\frac {1.3\ldots (2n-1)}{2.4\ldots 2n} . We show that their result follows easily from a theorem of G. N Watson published in 1959. We also show that the main result of Chen and Qi’s paper is a special case of a more general inequality which admits a very short proof.

Published
2005