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Continued fraction for formal laurent series and the lattice structure of sequences
Besides equidistribution properties and statistical independence the lattice profile, a generalized version of Marsaglia's lattice test, provides another quality measure for pseudorandom sequences over a (finite) field. It turned out that the lattice profile is closely related with the linear complexity profile. In this article we give a survey of several features of the linear complexity profile and the lattice profile, and we utilize relationships to completely describe the lattice profile of a sequence over a finite field in terms of the continued fraction expansion of its generating function. Finally we describe and construct sequences with a certain lattice profile, and introduce a further complexity measure
Diptych varieties. I
We present a new class of affine Gorenstein 6-folds obtained by smoothing the
1-dimensional singular locus of a reducible affine toric surface; their
existence is established using explicit methods in toric geometry and serial
use of Kustin-Miller Gorenstein unprojection. These varieties have applications
as key varieties in constructing other varieties, including local models of
Mori flips of Type A.Comment: 50 pages. The webpage at www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~magdb/aflip.html
contains links to auxiliary materia
Discrete integrable systems generated by Hermite-Pad\'e approximants
We consider Hermite-Pad\'e approximants in the framework of discrete
integrable systems defined on the lattice . We show that the
concept of multiple orthogonality is intimately related to the Lax
representations for the entries of the nearest neighbor recurrence relations
and it thus gives rise to a discrete integrable system. We show that the
converse statement is also true. More precisely, given the discrete integrable
system in question there exists a perfect system of two functions, i.e., a
system for which the entire table of Hermite-Pad\'e approximants exists. In
addition, we give a few algorithms to find solutions of the discrete system.Comment: 20 page
Discrete integrable systems, positivity, and continued fraction rearrangements
In this review article, we present a unified approach to solving discrete,
integrable, possibly non-commutative, dynamical systems, including the - and
-systems based on . The initial data of the systems are seen as cluster
variables in a suitable cluster algebra, and may evolve by local mutations. We
show that the solutions are always expressed as Laurent polynomials of the
initial data with non-negative integer coefficients. This is done by
reformulating the mutations of initial data as local rearrangements of
continued fractions generating some particular solutions, that preserve
manifest positivity. We also show how these techniques apply as well to
non-commutative settings.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figure
Q-systems, Heaps, Paths and Cluster Positivity
We consider the cluster algebra associated to the -system for as a
tool for relating -system solutions to all possible sets of initial data. We
show that the conserved quantities of the -system are partition functions
for hard particles on particular target graphs with weights, which are
determined by the choice of initial data. This allows us to interpret the
simplest solutions of the Q-system as generating functions for Viennot's heaps
on these target graphs, and equivalently as generating functions of weighted
paths on suitable dual target graphs. The generating functions take the form of
finite continued fractions. In this setting, the cluster mutations correspond
to local rearrangements of the fractions which leave their final value
unchanged. Finally, the general solutions of the -system are interpreted as
partition functions for strongly non-intersecting families of lattice paths on
target lattices. This expresses all cluster variables as manifestly positive
Laurent polynomials of any initial data, thus proving the cluster positivity
conjecture for the -system. We also give an alternative formulation in
terms of domino tilings of deformed Aztec diamonds with defects.Comment: 106 pages, 38 figure
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