In the absolutely continuous case, order statistics, record values and several other models of ordered random variables can be viewed as special cases of generalized order statistics, which enables a unified treatment of their theory. This paper deals with discontinuous generalized order statistics, continuing on the recent work of Tran (2006). Specifically, we show that in general neither re...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate conditions on the underlying distribution functions and the parameters, on which the generalized order statistics are based on, to establish the usual stochastic and the likelihood ratio orderings of general p-spacings by conditioning on the right tail of another lower indexed generalized order statistics. Some potential applications are also given.

In this article we consider relative iteration of entire functions and studycomparative growth of the maximum term of iterated entire functions withthat of the maximum term of the related functions.

Classical methods to study and solve systems of polynomial equations are based on numerous avatars of Gröbner (standard) basis algorithms or Riquier-Janet type methods (Ritt-Wu’s algorithm). All these methods use implicitly but deeply the dense or sparse representation of multivariate polynomials, which is the computer science counterpart of the expansion of these mathematical objects on the mo...

We study the following questions: (1) What are all solutions to f ◦ f̂ = g ◦ ĝ in complex rational functions f, g ∈ C(X) and meromorphic functions f̂ , ĝ on the complex plane? (2) For which rational functions f(X) and g(X) with coefficients in an algebraic number field K does the equation f(a) = g(b) have infinitely many solutions with a, b ∈ K? We utilize various algebraic, geometric and analyti...