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On the difference between permutation polynomials over finite fields
The well-known Chowla and Zassenhaus conjecture, proven by Cohen in 1990,
states that if , then there is no complete mapping polynomial
in \Fp[x] of degree . For arbitrary finite fields \Fq, a
similar non-existence result is obtained recently by I\c s\i k, Topuzo\u glu
and Winterhof in terms of the Carlitz rank of .
Cohen, Mullen and Shiue generalized the Chowla-Zassenhaus-Cohen Theorem
significantly in 1995, by considering differences of permutation polynomials.
More precisely, they showed that if and are both permutation
polynomials of degree over \Fp, with , then the
degree of satisfies , unless is constant. In this
article, assuming and are permutation polynomials in \Fq[x], we
give lower bounds for in terms of the Carlitz rank of
and . Our results generalize the above mentioned result of I\c s\i k et
al. We also show for a special class of polynomials of Carlitz rank that if is a permutation of \Fq, with , then
From van der Corput to modern constructions of sequences for quasi-Monte Carlo rules
In 1935 J.G. van der Corput introduced a sequence which has excellent uniform
distribution properties modulo 1. This sequence is based on a very simple
digital construction scheme with respect to the binary digit expansion.
Nowadays the van der Corput sequence, as it was named later, is the prototype
of many uniformly distributed sequences, also in the multi-dimensional case.
Such sequences are required as sample nodes in quasi-Monte Carlo algorithms,
which are deterministic variants of Monte Carlo rules for numerical
integration. Since its introduction many people have studied the van der Corput
sequence and generalizations thereof. This led to a huge number of results.
On the occasion of the 125th birthday of J.G. van der Corput we survey many
interesting results on van der Corput sequences and their generalizations. In
this way we move from van der Corput's ideas to the most modern constructions
of sequences for quasi-Monte Carlo rules, such as, e.g., generalized Halton
sequences or Niederreiter's -sequences
Self-dual tilings with respect to star-duality
The concept of star-duality is described for self-similar cut-and-project
tilings in arbitrary dimensions. This generalises Thurston's concept of a
Galois-dual tiling. The dual tilings of the Penrose tilings as well as the
Ammann-Beenker tilings are calculated. Conditions for a tiling to be self-dual
are obtained.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
Calabi-Yau Manifolds Over Finite Fields, I
We study Calabi-Yau manifolds defined over finite fields. These manifolds
have parameters, which now also take values in the field and we compute the
number of rational points of the manifold as a function of the parameters. The
intriguing result is that it is possible to give explicit expressions for the
number of rational points in terms of the periods of the holomorphic
three-form. We show also, for a one parameter family of quintic threefolds,
that the number of rational points of the manifold is closely related to as the
number of rational points of the mirror manifold. Our interest is primarily
with Calabi-Yau threefolds however we consider also the interesting case of
elliptic curves and even the case of a quadric in CP_1 which is a zero
dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold. This zero dimensional manifold has trivial
dependence on the parameter over C but a not trivial arithmetic structure.Comment: 75 pages, 6 eps figure
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