ON MODUS PONENS GENERATING FUNCTIONS

Author(s):  
ANA PRADERA ◽  
ENRIC TRILLAS ◽  
SUSANA CUBILLO

This paper investigates the use of functions other than t-norms to model the Modus Ponens rule in a fuzzy inference process. For that purpose, new definitions for fuzzy inference related concepts are suggested, that take into account the possibility of using a larger class of functions. In particular, the concept of "Modus Ponens generating function" is revisited, allowing to find out when and where (in which subset of the defined universe) an operator is able to generate the Modus Ponens scheme. In addition, given such an operator, the conditional relations that may be used along with it to model an inference process are found. These results are applied to some common operators, finding their Modus Ponens generation capacity as well as their corresponding residuated fuzzy conditionals. Finally, the relation between an operator's ability to describe the Modus Ponens rule and its conjunctive/disjunctive behaviour is also studied, by means of a series of sufficient and/or necessary conditions relating both concepts.

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1161
Author(s):  
Hari Mohan Srivastava ◽  
Sama Arjika

Basic (or q-) series and basic (or q-) polynomials, especially the basic (or q-) hypergeometric functions and the basic (or q-) hypergeometric polynomials are studied extensively and widely due mainly to their potential for applications in many areas of mathematical and physical sciences. Here, in this paper, we introduce a general family of q-hypergeometric polynomials and investigate several q-series identities such as an extended generating function and a Srivastava-Agarwal type bilinear generating function for this family of q-hypergeometric polynomials. We give a transformational identity involving generating functions for the generalized q-hypergeometric polynomials which we have introduced here. We also point out relevant connections of the various q-results, which we investigate here, with those in several related earlier works on this subject. We conclude this paper by remarking that it will be a rather trivial and inconsequential exercise to give the so-called (p,q)-variations of the q-results, which we have investigated here, because the additional parameter p is obviously redundant.


1954 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 186-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Lukacs ◽  
Otto Szász

In an earlier paper (1), published in this journal, a necessary condition was given which the reciprocal of a polynomial without multiple roots must satisfy in order to be a characteristic function. This condition is, however, valid for a wider class of functions since it can be shown (2, theorem 2 and corollary to theorem 3) that it holds for all analytic characteristic functions. The proof given in (1) is elementary and has some methodological interest since it avoids the use of theorems on singularities of Laplace transforms. Moreover the method used in (1) yields some additional necessary conditions which were not given in (1) and which do not seem to follow easily from the properties of analytic characteristic functions.


2022 ◽  
Vol Volume 44 - Special... ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreejit Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Ae Yee

Recently, George Beck posed many interesting partition problems considering the number of ones in partitions. In this paper, we first consider the crank generating function weighted by the number of ones and obtain analytic formulas for this weighted crank function under conditions of the crank being less than or equal to some specific integer. We connect these cumulative and point crank functions to the generating functions of partitions with certain sizes of Durfee rectangles. We then consider a generalization of the crank for $k$-colored partitions, which was first introduced by Fu and Tang, and investigate the corresponding generating function for this crank weighted by the number of parts in the first subpartition of a $k$-colored partition. We show that the cumulative generating functions are the same as the generating functions for certain unimodal sequences.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-426
Author(s):  
S. Naderi ◽  
R. Kazemi ◽  
M. H. Behzadi

Abstract The bucket recursive tree is a natural multivariate structure. In this paper, we apply a trivariate generating function approach for studying of the depth and distance quantities in this tree model with variable bucket capacities and give a closed formula for the probability distribution, the expectation and the variance. We show as j → ∞, lim-iting distributions are Gaussian. The results are obtained by presenting partial differential equations for moment generating functions and solving them.


2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (07) ◽  
pp. 1217-1235 ◽  
Author(s):  
VÍCTOR BLANCO ◽  
PEDRO A. GARCÍA-SÁNCHEZ ◽  
JUSTO PUERTO

This paper presents a new methodology to compute the number of numerical semigroups of given genus or Frobenius number. We apply generating function tools to the bounded polyhedron that classifies the semigroups with given genus (or Frobenius number) and multiplicity. First, we give theoretical results about the polynomial-time complexity of counting these semigroups. We also illustrate the methodology analyzing the cases of multiplicity 3 and 4 where some formulas for the number of numerical semigroups for any genus and Frobenius number are obtained.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1057-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER J. GRABNER ◽  
ARNOLD KNOPFMACHER ◽  
STEPHAN WAGNER

We consider statistical properties of random integer partitions. In order to compute means, variances and higher moments of various partition statistics, one often has to study generating functions of the form P(x)F(x), where P(x) is the generating function for the number of partitions. In this paper, we show how asymptotic expansions can be obtained in a quasi-automatic way from expansions of F(x) around x = 1, which parallels the classical singularity analysis of Flajolet and Odlyzko in many ways. Numerous examples from the literature, as well as some new statistics, are treated via this methodology. In addition, we show how to compute further terms in the asymptotic expansions of previously studied partition statistics.


1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Braun

The problem of approximating an arbitrary probability generating function (p.g.f.) by a polynomial is considered. It is shown that if the coefficients rj are chosen so that LN(·) agrees with g(·) to k derivatives at s = 1 and to (N – k) derivatives at s = 0, then LN is in fact an upper or lower bound to g; the nature of the bound depends only on k and not on N. Application of the results to the problems of finding bounds for extinction probabilities, extinction time distributions and moments of branching process distributions are examined.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL M. KANE ◽  
ROBERT C. RHOADES

Our main result establishes Andrews’ conjecture for the asymptotic of the generating function for the number of integer partitions of$n$without$k$consecutive parts. The methods we develop are applicable in obtaining asymptotics for stochastic processes that avoid patterns; as a result they yield asymptotics for the number of partitions that avoid patterns.Holroyd, Liggett, and Romik, in connection with certain bootstrap percolation models, introduced the study of partitions without$k$consecutive parts. Andrews showed that when$k=2$, the generating function for these partitions is a mixed-mock modular form and, thus, has modularity properties which can be utilized in the study of this generating function. For$k>2$, the asymptotic properties of the generating functions have proved more difficult to obtain. Using$q$-series identities and the$k=2$case as evidence, Andrews stated a conjecture for the asymptotic behavior. Extensive computational evidence for the conjecture in the case$k=3$was given by Zagier.This paper improved upon early approaches to this problem by identifying and overcoming two sources of error. Since the writing of this paper, a more precise asymptotic result was established by Bringmann, Kane, Parry, and Rhoades. That approach uses very different methods.


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