On Zudilin's q-question about Schmidt's problem

We propose an elemantary approach to Zudilin's q-question about Schmidt's problem [Electron. J. Combin. 11 (2004), #R22], which has been solved in a previous paper [Acta Arith. 127 (2007), 17--31]. The new approach is based on a q-analogue of our recent result in [J. Number Theory 132 (2012), 1731--1740] derived from q-Pfaff-Saalschutz identity.Comment: 5 page

On continuity of Guo Wuwen function

We show that the functions g and gs introduced by Guo Wuwen in [4] are continuous and semialgebraic. We use this fact to prove that the set Nn of ordered n-tuples of real numbers, realizable by nonnegative matrices, is a closed set

Edge Bipartization Faster Than 2^k

In the Edge Bipartization problem one is given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the question is whether $k$ edges can be deleted from $G$ so that it becomes bipartite. In 2006, Guo et al. [J. Comput. Syst. Sci., 72(8):1386-1396, 2006] proposed an algorithm solving this problem in time $O(2^k m^2)$; today, this algorithm is a textbook example of an application of the iterative compression technique. Despite extensive progress in the understanding of the parameterized complexity of graph separation problems in the recent years, no significant improvement upon this result has been yet reported. We present an algorithm for Edge Bipartization that works in time $O(1.977^k nm)$, which is the first algorithm with the running time dependence on the parameter better than $2^k$. To this end, we combine the general iterative compression strategy of Guo et al. [J. Comput. Syst. Sci., 72(8):1386-1396, 2006], the technique proposed by Wahlstrom [SODA 2014, 1762-1781] of using a polynomial-time solvable relaxation in the form of a Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem to guide a bounded-depth branching algorithm, and an involved Measure & Conquer analysis of the recursion tree

On 2-adic orders of some binomial sums

We prove that for any nonnegative integers $n$ and $r$ the binomial sum $$\sum_{k=-n}^n\binom{2n}{n-k}k^{2r}$$ is divisible by $2^{2n-\min\{\alpha(n),\alpha(r)\}}$, where $\alpha(n)$ denotes the number of 1's in the binary expansion of $n$. This confirms a recent conjecture of Guo and Zeng.Comment: 6 page