scholarly journals Enumerating Finite Racks, Quandles and Kei

10.37236/3262 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon R. Blackburn

A rack of order $n$ is a binary operation $\vartriangleright$ on a set $X$ of cardinality $n$, such that right multiplication is an automorphism. More precisely, $(X,\vartriangleright)$ is a rack provided that the map $x\mapsto x\vartriangleright y$ is a bijection for all $y\in X$, and $(x\vartriangleright y)\vartriangleright z=(x\vartriangleright z)\vartriangleright (y\vartriangleright z)$ for all $x,y,z\in X$.The paper provides upper and lower bounds of the form $2^{cn^2}$ on the number of isomorphism classes of racks of order $n$. Similar results on the number of isomorphism classes of quandles and kei are obtained. The results of the paper are established by first showing how an arbitrary rack is related to its operator group (the permutation group on $X$ generated by the maps $x\mapsto x\vartriangleright y$ for $y\in Y$), and then applying some of the theory of permutation groups. The relationship between a rack and its operator group extends results of Joyce and of Ryder; this relationship might be of independent interest.


2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus Pagh

A new hashing primitive is introduced: dispersing hash functions. A family<br />of hash functions F is dispersing if, for any set S of a certain size and random<br />h in F, the expected value of |S|−|h[S]| is not much larger than the expectancy<br />if h had been chosen at random from the set of all functions.<br />We give tight, up to a logarithmic factor, upper and lower bounds on the<br />size of dispersing families. Such families previously studied, for example <br />universal families, are significantly larger than the smallest dispersing families,<br />making them less suitable for derandomization. We present several applications<br /> of dispersing families to derandomization (fast element distinctness, set<br />inclusion, and static dictionary initialization). Also, a tight relationship <br />between dispersing families and extractors, which may be of independent interest,<br />is exhibited.<br />We also investigate the related issue of program size for hash functions<br />which are nearly perfect. In particular, we exhibit a dramatic increase in<br />program size for hash functions more dispersing than a random function.



Filomat ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 2091-2099
Author(s):  
Shuya Chiba ◽  
Yuji Nakano

In 2008, Alspach [The Wonderful Walecki Construction, Bull. Inst. Combin. Appl. 52 (2008) 7-20] defined the matching sequencibility of a graph G to be the largest integer k such that there exists a linear ordering of its edges so that every k consecutive edges in the linear ordering form a matching of G, which is denoted by ms(G). In this paper, we show that every graph G of size q and maximum degree ? satisfies 1/2?q/?+1? ? ms(G) ? ?q?1/??1? by using the edge-coloring of G, and we also improve this lower bound for some particular graphs. We further discuss the relationship between the matching sequencibility and a conjecture of Seymour about the existence of the kth power of a Hamilton cycle.



2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 2337-2352
Author(s):  
STEFANIE ZEGOWITZ

We study the relationship between pairs of topological dynamical systems $(X,T)$ and $(X^{\prime },T^{\prime })$, where $(X^{\prime },T^{\prime })$ is the quotient of $(X,T)$ under the action of a finite group $G$. We describe three phenomena concerning the behaviour of closed orbits in the quotient system, and the constraints given by these phenomena. We find upper and lower bounds for the extremal behaviour of closed orbits in the quotient system in terms of properties of $G$ and show that any growth rate in between these bounds can be achieved.



1988 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-332
Author(s):  
John Rickard ◽  
Allen Russell ◽  
Brett Collins

AbstractWhen two or more independent or component loans are consolidated to form a single composite loan the result is often referred to as a cocktail loan. In this paper we analyse properties of a composite loan induced by properties of the component loans. Of particular interest are the properties of the composite yield in terms of the yields and other characteristics of the component loans. Some upper and lower bounds are also established for the composite yield in terms of the component yields. Of some importance is a sensitivity analysis of the composite yield with respect to various parameters of the component loans.



Mathematics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdollah Alhevaz ◽  
Maryam Baghipur ◽  
Hilal A. Ganie ◽  
Yilun Shang

The generalized distance matrix D α ( G ) of a connected graph G is defined as D α ( G ) = α T r ( G ) + ( 1 − α ) D ( G ) , where 0 ≤ α ≤ 1 , D ( G ) is the distance matrix and T r ( G ) is the diagonal matrix of the node transmissions. In this paper, we extend the concept of energy to the generalized distance matrix and define the generalized distance energy E D α ( G ) . Some new upper and lower bounds for the generalized distance energy E D α ( G ) of G are established based on parameters including the Wiener index W ( G ) and the transmission degrees. Extremal graphs attaining these bounds are identified. It is found that the complete graph has the minimum generalized distance energy among all connected graphs, while the minimum is attained by the star graph among trees of order n.



2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Lei ◽  
Gou Hu ◽  
Zhi-Jie Cao ◽  
Ting-Song Du

Abstract The main aim of this paper is to establish some Fejér-type inequalities involving hypergeometric functions in terms of GA-s-convexity. For this purpose, we construct a Hadamard k-fractional identity related to geometrically symmetric mappings. Moreover, we give the upper and lower bounds for the weighted inequalities via products of two different mappings. Some applications of the presented results to special means are also provided.



Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 512
Author(s):  
Maryam Baghipur ◽  
Modjtaba Ghorbani ◽  
Hilal A. Ganie ◽  
Yilun Shang

The signless Laplacian reciprocal distance matrix for a simple connected graph G is defined as RQ(G)=diag(RH(G))+RD(G). Here, RD(G) is the Harary matrix (also called reciprocal distance matrix) while diag(RH(G)) represents the diagonal matrix of the total reciprocal distance vertices. In the present work, some upper and lower bounds for the second-largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian reciprocal distance matrix of graphs in terms of various graph parameters are investigated. Besides, all graphs attaining these new bounds are characterized. Additionally, it is inferred that among all connected graphs with n vertices, the complete graph Kn and the graph Kn−e obtained from Kn by deleting an edge e have the maximum second-largest signless Laplacian reciprocal distance eigenvalue.



2021 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
NICK GILL ◽  
BIANCA LODÀ ◽  
PABLO SPIGA

Abstract Let G be a permutation group on a set $\Omega $ of size t. We say that $\Lambda \subseteq \Omega $ is an independent set if its pointwise stabilizer is not equal to the pointwise stabilizer of any proper subset of $\Lambda $ . We define the height of G to be the maximum size of an independent set, and we denote this quantity $\textrm{H}(G)$ . In this paper, we study $\textrm{H}(G)$ for the case when G is primitive. Our main result asserts that either $\textrm{H}(G)< 9\log t$ or else G is in a particular well-studied family (the primitive large–base groups). An immediate corollary of this result is a characterization of primitive permutation groups with large relational complexity, the latter quantity being a statistic introduced by Cherlin in his study of the model theory of permutation groups. We also study $\textrm{I}(G)$ , the maximum length of an irredundant base of G, in which case we prove that if G is primitive, then either $\textrm{I}(G)<7\log t$ or else, again, G is in a particular family (which includes the primitive large–base groups as well as some others).



2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-161
Author(s):  
Florian Bourgey ◽  
Stefano De Marco ◽  
Emmanuel Gobet ◽  
Alexandre Zhou

AbstractThe multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method developed by M. B. Giles [Multilevel Monte Carlo path simulation, Oper. Res. 56 2008, 3, 607–617] has a natural application to the evaluation of nested expectations {\mathbb{E}[g(\mathbb{E}[f(X,Y)|X])]}, where {f,g} are functions and {(X,Y)} a couple of independent random variables. Apart from the pricing of American-type derivatives, such computations arise in a large variety of risk valuations (VaR or CVaR of a portfolio, CVA), and in the assessment of margin costs for centrally cleared portfolios. In this work, we focus on the computation of initial margin. We analyze the properties of corresponding MLMC estimators, for which we provide results of asymptotic optimality; at the technical level, we have to deal with limited regularity of the outer function g (which might fail to be everywhere differentiable). Parallel to this, we investigate upper and lower bounds for nested expectations as above, in the spirit of primal-dual algorithms for stochastic control problems.



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