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Van der Corput sets in Z^d
In this partly expository paper we study van der Corput sets in , with
a focus on connections with harmonic analysis and recurrence properties of
measure preserving dynamical systems. We prove multidimensional versions of
some classical results obtained for in \cite{K-MF} and \cite{R},
establish new characterizations, introduce and discuss some modifications of
van der Corput sets which correspond to various notions of recurrence, provide
numerous examples and formulate some natural open questions
Singularity analysis, Hadamard products, and tree recurrences
We present a toolbox for extracting asymptotic information on the
coefficients of combinatorial generating functions. This toolbox notably
includes a treatment of the effect of Hadamard products on singularities in the
context of the complex Tauberian technique known as singularity analysis. As a
consequence, it becomes possible to unify the analysis of a number of
divide-and-conquer algorithms, or equivalently random tree models, including
several classical methods for sorting, searching, and dynamically managing
equivalence relationsComment: 47 pages. Submitted for publicatio
Semi-classical Orthogonal Polynomial Systems on Non-uniform Lattices, Deformations of the Askey Table and Analogs of Isomonodromy
A -semi-classical weight is one which satisfies a particular
linear, first order homogeneous equation in a divided-difference operator
. It is known that the system of polynomials, orthogonal with
respect to this weight, and the associated functions satisfy a linear, first
order homogeneous matrix equation in the divided-difference operator termed the
spectral equation. Attached to the spectral equation is a structure which
constitutes a number of relations such as those arising from compatibility with
the three-term recurrence relation. Here this structure is elucidated in the
general case of quadratic lattices. The simplest examples of the
-semi-classical orthogonal polynomial systems are precisely those
in the Askey table of hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric orthogonal
polynomials. However within the -semi-classical class it is
entirely natural to define a generalisation of the Askey table weights which
involve a deformation with respect to new deformation variables. We completely
construct the analogous structures arising from such deformations and their
relations with the other elements of the theory. As an example we treat the
first non-trivial deformation of the Askey-Wilson orthogonal polynomial system
defined by the -quadratic divided-difference operator, the Askey-Wilson
operator, and derive the coupled first order divided-difference equations
characterising its evolution in the deformation variable. We show that this
system is a member of a sequence of classical solutions to the
-Painlev\'e system.Comment: Submitted to Duke Mathematical Journal on 5th April 201
Effective Scalar Products for D-finite Symmetric Functions
Many combinatorial generating functions can be expressed as combinations of
symmetric functions, or extracted as sub-series and specializations from such
combinations. Gessel has outlined a large class of symmetric functions for
which the resulting generating functions are D-finite. We extend Gessel's work
by providing algorithms that compute differential equations these generating
functions satisfy in the case they are given as a scalar product of symmetric
functions in Gessel's class. Examples of applications to k-regular graphs and
Young tableaux with repeated entries are given. Asymptotic estimates are a
natural application of our method, which we illustrate on the same model of
Young tableaux. We also derive a seemingly new formula for the Kronecker
product of the sum of Schur functions with itself.Comment: 51 pages, full paper version of FPSAC 02 extended abstract; v2:
corrections from original submission, improved clarity; now formatted for
journal + bibliograph
A Quantitative Study of Pure Parallel Processes
In this paper, we study the interleaving -- or pure merge -- operator that
most often characterizes parallelism in concurrency theory. This operator is a
principal cause of the so-called combinatorial explosion that makes very hard -
at least from the point of view of computational complexity - the analysis of
process behaviours e.g. by model-checking. The originality of our approach is
to study this combinatorial explosion phenomenon on average, relying on
advanced analytic combinatorics techniques. We study various measures that
contribute to a better understanding of the process behaviours represented as
plane rooted trees: the number of runs (corresponding to the width of the
trees), the expected total size of the trees as well as their overall shape.
Two practical outcomes of our quantitative study are also presented: (1) a
linear-time algorithm to compute the probability of a concurrent run prefix,
and (2) an efficient algorithm for uniform random sampling of concurrent runs.
These provide interesting responses to the combinatorial explosion problem
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