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Substitution Delone Sets
This paper addresses the problem of describing aperiodic discrete structures
that have a self-similar or self-affine structure. Substitution Delone set
families are families of Delone sets (X_1, ..., X_n) in R^d that satisfy an
inflation functional equation under the action of an expanding integer matrix
in R^d. This paper studies such functional equation in which each X_i is a
discrete multiset (a set whose elements are counted with a finite
multiplicity). It gives necessary conditions on the coefficients of the
functional equation for discrete solutions to exist. It treats the case where
the equation has Delone set solutions. Finally, it gives a large set of
examples showing limits to the results obtained.Comment: 34 pages, latex file; some results in Sect 5 rearranged and theorems
reformulate
Hadamard partitioned difference families and their descendants
If is a Hadamard difference set (HDS) in , then
is clearly a partitioned
difference family (PDF). Any -PDF will be said of Hadamard-type
if as the one above. We present a doubling construction which,
starting from any such PDF, leads to an infinite class of PDFs. As a special
consequence, we get a PDF in a group of order and three
block-sizes , and , whenever we have a
-HDS and the maximal prime power divisors of are
all greater than
Frame difference families and resolvable balanced incomplete block designs
Frame difference families, which can be obtained via a careful use of
cyclotomic conditions attached to strong difference families, play an important
role in direct constructions for resolvable balanced incomplete block designs.
We establish asymptotic existences for several classes of frame difference
families. As corollaries new infinite families of 1-rotational
-RBIBDs over are
derived, and the existence of -RBIBDs is discussed. We construct
-RBIBDs for , whose
existence were previously in doubt. As applications, we establish asymptotic
existences for an infinite family of optimal constant composition codes and an
infinite family of strictly optimal frequency hopping sequences.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1702.0750
(Tissue) P Systems with Vesicles of Multisets
We consider tissue P systems working on vesicles of multisets with the very
simple operations of insertion, deletion, and substitution of single objects.
With the whole multiset being enclosed in a vesicle, sending it to a target
cell can be indicated in those simple rules working on the multiset. As
derivation modes we consider the sequential mode, where exactly one rule is
applied in a derivation step, and the set maximal mode, where in each
derivation step a non-extendable set of rules is applied. With the set maximal
mode, computational completeness can already be obtained with tissue P systems
having a tree structure, whereas tissue P systems even with an arbitrary
communication structure are not computationally complete when working in the
sequential mode. Adding polarizations (-1, 0, 1 are sufficient) allows for
obtaining computational completeness even for tissue P systems working in the
sequential mode.Comment: In Proceedings AFL 2017, arXiv:1708.0622
A discrete isodiametric result: the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem for multisets
There are many generalizations of the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem. We give new
results (and problems) concerning families of -intersecting -element
multisets of an -set and point out connections to coding theory and
classical geometry. We establish the conjecture that for such
a family can have at most members
Minimal and maximal constituents of twisted Foulkes characters
We prove combinatorial rules that give the minimal and maximal partitions labelling the irreducible constituents of a family of characters for the symmetric group that generalize Foulkes permutation characters. Restated in the language of symmetric functions, our results determine all minimal and maximal partitions that label Schur functions appearing in the plethysms . As a corollary we prove
two conjectures of Agaoka on the lexicographically least constituents of the plethysms and
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