Let [x] be the integral part of x. Let p > 5 be a prime. In the paper we mainly determine P[p/4] x=1 1 xk (mod p2), p−1 [p/4] (mod p3), Pp−1 k=1 2 k (mod p3) and Pp−1 k=1 2 k2 (mod p2) in terms of Euler and Bernoulli numbers. For example, we have

In this paper we study the dynamic behavior of an isotropic KirchhoffLove beam and investigate the equilibrium position of an Euler-Bernoulli beam. Using the discrete Euler-Lagrange and Lagrange-d’Alembert principles, we simulate the behavior by means of variational integrators and, in particular, AVIs (Asynchronous Variational Integrators). We place special emphasis on the geometric structure ...

Previous work showed that every pair of nontrivial Bernoulli shifts over a fixed free group are orbit equivalent. In this paper, we prove that if G 1 , G 2 are nonabelian free groups of finite rank then every nontrivial Bernoulli shift over G 1 is stably orbit equivalent to every nontrivial Bernoulli shift over G 2. This answers a question of S. Popa.

The following result is proven. Let G 1 T 1 (X 1 , µ 1) and G 2 T 2 (X 2 , µ 2) be orbit-equivalent, essentially free, probability measure preserving actions of countable groups G 1 and G 2. Let H be any countable group. For i = 1, 2, let Γ i = G i * H be the free product. Then the actions of Γ 1 and Γ 2 coinduced from T 1 and T 2 are orbit-equivalent. As an application, it is shown that if Γ i...