scholarly journals Orphans in Forests of Linear Fractional Transformations

10.37236/5684 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandie Han ◽  
Ariane M. Masuda ◽  
Satyanand Singh ◽  
Johann Thiel

A positive linear fractional transformation (PLFT) is a function of the form $f(z)=\frac{az+b}{cz+d}$ where $a,b,c$ and $d$ are nonnegative integers with determinant $ad-bc\neq 0$. Nathanson generalized the notion of the Calkin-Wilf tree to PLFTs and used it to partition the set of PLFTs into an infinite forest of rooted trees. The roots of these PLFT Calkin-Wilf trees are called orphans. In this paper, we provide a combinatorial formula for the number of orphans with fixed determinant $D$. In addition, we derive a method for determining the orphan ancestor of a given PLFT. Lastly, taking $z$ to be a complex number, we show that every positive complex number has finitely many ancestors in the forest of complex $(u,v)$-Calkin-Wilf trees.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Mück

Abstract Supersymmetric circular Wilson loops in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory are discussed starting from their Gaussian matrix model representations. Previous results on the generating functions of Wilson loops are reviewed and extended to the more general case of two different loop contours, which is needed to discuss coincident loops with opposite orientations. A combinatorial formula representing the connected correlators of multiply wound Wilson loops in terms of the matrix model solution is derived. Two new results are obtained on the expectation value of the circular Wilson loop, the expansion of which into a series in 1/N and to all orders in the ’t Hooft coupling λ was derived by Drukker and Gross about twenty years ago. The connected correlators of two multiply wound Wilson loops with arbitrary winding numbers are calculated as a series in 1/N. The coefficient functions are derived not only as power series in λ, but also to all orders in λ by expressing them in terms of the coefficients of the Drukker and Gross series. This provides an efficient way to calculate the 1/N series, which can probably be generalized to higher-point correlators.



Author(s):  
A. F. Beardon

AbstractThe unwinding number of a complex number was introduced to process automatic computations involving complex numbers and multi-valued complex functions, and has been successfully applied to computations involving branches of the Lambert W function. In this partly expository note we discuss the unwinding number from a purely topological perspective, and link it to the classical winding number of a curve in the complex plane. We also use the unwinding number to give a representation of the branches $$W_k$$ W k of the Lambert W function as a line integral.



1985 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 11-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeyuki Kondo

A degeneration of K3 surfaces (over the complex number field) is a proper holomorphic map π: X→Δ from a three dimensional complex manifold to a disc, such that, for t ≠ 0, the fibres Xt = π-1(t) are smooth K3 surfaces (i.e. surfaces Xt with trivial canonical class KXt = 0 and dim H1(Xt, Oxt) = 0).



1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio De Angelis

AbstractThe pointwise spectral radii of irreducible matrices whose entries are polynomials with positive, integral coefficients are studied in this paper. Most results are derived in the case that the resulting algebraic function, the beta function of S. Tuncel, is in fact a polynomial. We show that the set of beta functions forms a semiring, and the spectral radius of a matrix of beta functions is again a beta function. We also show that the coefficients of a polynomial beta function p must be real algebraic integers, and p satisfies (after a change of variables if necessary) the inequality for non-zero (and not all positive) complex numbers z1,…,zd. If and the ordered sequence of exponents appearing in p is of the form (m,m+1,…,M−,1,M) for some integers m and M, the same inequality is necessary and sufficient for p to be a beta function.



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