In [15], Hoffstein and Hulse defined the shifted convolution series of two cusp forms by “shifting” the usual Rankin-Selberg convolution L-series by a parameter h. We use the theory of harmonic Maass forms to study the behavior in h-aspect of certain values of these series and prove a polynomial bound as h → ∞. Our method relies on a result of Mertens and Ono [22], who showed that these values ...

We use both Abel’s lemma on summation by parts and Zeilberger’s algorithm to find recurrence relations for definite summations. The role of Abel’s lemma can be extended to the case of linear difference operators with polynomial coefficients. This approach can be used to verify and discover identities involving harmonic numbers and derangement numbers. As examples, we use the Abel-Zeilberger alg...

We study the factoring with known bits problem, where we are given a composite integer N = p1p2 . . . pr and oracle access to the bits of the prime factors pi, i = 1, . . . , r. Our goal is to find the full factorization of N in polynomial time with a minimal number of calls to the oracle. We present a rigorous algorithm that efficiently factors N given (1− 1 r Hr) log N bits, where Hr denotes ...

§0. Introduction This paper deals with the dynamics of polynomial diffeomorphisms f : C → C. To exclude trivial cases we make the standing assumption that the dynamical degree d = d(f) is greater than one (see Section 1 for a definition). It is often quite useful in dynamics to focus attention on invariant objects. A natural invariant set to consider is K = Kf , the set of points with bounded o...

Bachman and Janiak provided a sketch of the proof that the problem 1|ri,pi(v)1⁄4 ai/v|Cmax is NP-hard in the strong sense. However, they did not show how to avoid using harmonic numbers whose encoding is not pseudo-polynomial, which makes the proof incomplete. In this corrigendum, we provide a new complete proof. Journal of the Operational Research Society (2012) 63, 1018–1020. doi:10.1057/jors...

We prove polynomial and exponential decay at infinity of eigen-vectors of partial differential operators related to radiation problems for time-harmonic generalized Maxwell systems in an exterior domain Ω ⊂ RN , N ≥ 1, with non-smooth inhomogeneous, anisotropic coefficients converging near infinity with a rate r−τ , τ > 1, towards the identity. As a canonical application we show that the corres...

Pairs of SUSY partner Hamiltonians are studied which are interrelated by usual (linear) or polynomial supersymmetry. Assuming the model of one of the Hamiltonians as exactly solvable with known propagator, expressions for propagators of partner models are derived. The corresponding general results are applied to “a particle in a box”, the Harmonic oscillator and a free particle (i.e. to transpa...

Two polynomial expansions of the time-evolution superoperator to directly integrate Markovian Liouville-von Neumann (LvN) equations for quantum open systems, namely the Newton interpolation and the Faber approximation, are presented and critically compared. Details on the numerical implementation including error control, and on the performance of either method are given. In a rst physical appli...

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to certain pairs of commuting nilpotent elements in a semisimple Lie algebra that enjoy quite remarkable properties and which are expected to play a major role in Representation theory. The properties of these pairs and their role is similar to those of the principal nilpotents. To any principal nilpotent pair we associate a two-parameter analogue...

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to certain pairs of commuting nilpotent elements in a semisimple Lie algebra that enjoy quite remarkable properties and which are expected to play a major role in Representation theory. The properties of these pairs and their role is similar to those of the principal nilpotents. To any principal nilpotent pair we associate a two-parameter analogue...