Given a ±1 random completely multiplicative function f, we prove by estimating moments that the limiting distribution of the normalized sum converges to the standard Gaussian distribution as x → ∞ when r restricts summation to n having o(log log log x) prime factors. We also give an upper bound for the large deviations of with the sum restricted to numbers having a fixed number k of prime factors.

We establish that the set of pairs (α, β) of real numbers such that where ‖ · ‖ denotes the distance to the nearest integer, has full Hausdorff dimension in R2. Our proof rests on a method introduced by Peres and Schlag, that we further apply to various Littlewood-type problems.

We define the symmetric Auslander category As(R) to consist of complexes of projective modules whose left- and right-tails are equal to the left- and right-tails of totally acyclic complexes of projective modules.

The symmetric Auslander category contains A(R), the ordinary Auslander category. It is well known that A(R) is intimately related to Gorenstein projective modules, and our main result is that As(R) is similarly related to what can reasonably be called Gorenstein projective homomorphisms. Namely, there is an equivalence of triangulated categories where GMor(R) is the stable category of Gorenstein projective objects in the abelian category Mor(R) of homomorphisms of R-modules.

This result is set in the wider context of a theory for As(R) and Bs(R), the symmetric Bass category which is defined dually.

We consider generalisations of the so-called Euler adic and investigate dynamical properties like ergodicity and total ergodicity. We prove the existence of a unique fully-supported ergodic measure for these generalisations. We also investigate the structure of non-fully-supported ergodic measures and in addition show that each of these measures (fully- and non-fully-supported) is also totally ergodic. In order to determine these dynamical properties we find closed-form expressions for the generalised Eulerian numbers. Additionally we extend a result given by Frick and Petersen to a wider class of adic transformations.

We consider the problem of finding the maximum possible size of a family of d-dimensional subcubes of the n-cube {0, 1}n, none of which is contained in the union of the others. (We call such a family ‘irredundant’). Aharoni and Holzman [1] conjectured that for d > n/2, the answer is (which is attained by the family of all d-subcubes containing a fixed point). We prove this in the case where all the subcubes go through either (0, 0, . . . , 0) or (1, 1, . . . , 1). We also give a new proof of an upper bound of Meshulam [6]. Finally, we consider the case d ≤ n/2. We give a probabilistic construction showing that in this case, Meshulam's upper bound is correct to within a constant factor. When n = 2d, we construct an irredundant family of size .

This paper determines which Stiefel–Whitney numbers can be defined for singular varieties compatibly with small resolutions. First an upper bound is found by identifying the F2-vector space of Stiefel–Whitney numbers invariant under classical flops, equivalently by computing the quotient of the unoriented bordism ring by the total spaces of RP3 bundles. These Stiefel–Whitney numbers are then defined for any real projective normal Gorenstein variety and shown to be compatible with small resolutions whenever they exist. In light of Totaro's result [Tot00] equating the complex elliptic genus with complex bordism modulo flops, equivalently complex bordism modulo the total spaces of 3 bundles, these findings can be seen as hinting at a new elliptic genus, one for unoriented manifolds.

Legendrian contact homology (LCH) is a powerful non-classical invariant of Legendrian knots. Linearization makes the LCH computationally tractable at the expense of discarding nonlinear (and non-commutative) information. To recover some of the nonlinear information while preserving computability, we introduce invariant cup and Massey products – and, more generally, an A∞ structure – on the linearized LCH. We apply the products and A∞ structure in three ways: to find infinite families of Legendrian knots that are not isotopic to their Legendrian mirrors, to reinterpret the duality theorem of the fourth author in terms of the cup product, and to recover higher-order linearizations of the LCH.

The sister of Eisenstein–Picard modular group is described explicitly in [10], whose quotient is a noncompact arithmetic complex hyperbolic 2-orbifold of minimal volume (see [16]). We give a construction of a fundamental domain for this group. A presentation of that lattice can be obtained from that construction, which relates to one of Mostow's lattices.

Let f be a real meromorphic function of infinite order in the plane, with finitely many zeros and non-real poles. Then f″ has infinitely many non-real zeros.

There are various notions of attractor in the literature, including measure (Milnor) attractors and statistical (Ilyashenko) attractors. In this paper we relate the notion of statistical attractor to that of the essential ω-limit set and prove some elementary results about these. In addition, we consider the convergence of time averages along trajectories. Ergodicity implies the convergence of time averages along almost all trajectories for all continuous observables. For non-ergodic systems, time averages may not exist even for almost all trajectories. However, averages of some observables may converge; we characterize conditions on observables that ensure convergence of time averages even in non-ergodic systems.

A coupled cell network is an inflation of if the dynamics of is embedded in as a quotient network. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a strongly connected inflation of a strongly connected network. We provide a simple algorithm for the construction of a strongly connected inflation as a sequence of simple inflations.