In this paper, we study an special type of cyclic codes called skew cyclic codes over the ring ${\mathbb{F}}_p+v{\mathbb{F}}_p+v^2{\mathbb{F}}_p$, where p is a prime number. This set of codes are the result of module (or ring) structure of the skew polynomial ring (${\mathbb{F}}_p+v{\mathbb{F}}_p+v^2{\mathbb{F}}_p$)[$x;{\theta}$] where $v^3=1$ and ${\theta}$ is an ${\mathbb{F}}_p$-automorphism such that ${\theta}(v)=v^2$. We show that when n is even, these codes are either principal or generated by two elements. The generator and parity check matrix are proposed. Some examples of linear codes with optimum Hamming distance are also provided.

In this paper, we initiate the study of boundary value problems involving Hilfer fractional derivatives. Several new existence and uniqueness results are obtained by using a variety of fixed point theorems. Examples illustrating our results are also presented.

Let $P_r$ denote an almost-prime with at most r prime factors, counted according to multiplicity. In this paper, it is proved that for every sufficiently large even integer N, the equation $$N=x^2+p_1^2+p_2^3+p_3^3+p_4^4+p_5^4$$ is solvable with x being an almost-prime $P_4$ and the other variables primes. This result constitutes an improvement upon that of $L{\ddot{u}}$ [7].

We consider the minimum order of a graph G with a given lazy cop number $c_L(G)$. Sullivan, Townsend and Werzanski [7] showed that the minimum order of a connected graph with lazy cop number 3 is 9 and $k_3{\square}k_3$ is the unique graph on nine vertices which requires three lazy cops. They conjectured that for a graph G on n vertices with ${\Delta}(G){\geq}n-k^2$, $c_L(G){\leq}k$. We proved that the conjecture is true for k = 4. Furthermore, we showed that the Petersen graph is the unique connected graph G on 10 vertices with ${\Delta}(G){\leq}3$ having lazy cop number 3 and the minimum order of a connected graph with lazy cop number 4 is 16.

New inclusion sets are obtained for the eigenvalues of real matrices for which the all 1's vector is an eigenvector, i.e., the constant row-sum real matrices. A number of examples are provided. This paper builds upon the work of the authors in [7]. The results of this paper are in terms of $Ger{\check{s}}gorin$ discs of the second type. An application of the main theorem to bounding the algebraic connectivity of connected simple graphs is obtained.

The main aim of this paper is to study the fourth Hankel determinant for the class of functions with bounded turning. We also investigate for 2-fold symmetric and 3-fold symmetric functions.

We study the one-sided regularity of matrices in upper triangular matrix rings in relation with the structure of diagonal entries. We next consider a ring theoretic condition that ab being regular implies ba being also regular for elements a, b in a given ring. Rings with such a condition are said to be commutative at regular product (simply, CRP rings). CRP rings are shown to be contained in the class of directly finite rings, and we prove that if R is a directly finite ring that satisfies the descending chain condition for principal right ideals or principal left ideals, then R is CRP. We obtain in particular that the upper triangular matrix rings over commutative rings are CRP.

In this paper, we characterize the graded post-Lie algebra structures on the W-algebra W(2, 2). Furthermore, as applications, the homogeneous Rota-Baxter operators on W(2, 2) and solutions of the formal classical Yang-Baxter equation on $W(2,2){\ltimes}_{ad^*} W(2,2)^*$ are studied.

If a graph G is both claw-free and gap-free, then E. Nevo showed that the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the associated edge ideal I(G) is at most three. Later Dao, Huneke and Schwieg gave a simpler proof of this result. In this paper we introduce a class of edge ideals with Castelnuovo-Munmford regularity at most four.

In this paper, we investigate a certain type of q-difference Riccati equation in the complex plane. We prove that q-difference Riccati equation possesses a one parameter family of meromorphic solutions if it has three distinct meromorphic solutions. Furthermore, we find that all meromorphic solutions of q-difference Riccati equation and corresponding second order linear q-difference equation can be expressed by q-gamma function if this q-difference Riccati equation admits two distinct rational solutions and $q{\in}{\mathbb{C}}$ such that 0 < ${\mid}q{\mid}$ < 1. The growth and value distribution of differences of meromorphic solutions of q-difference Riccati equation are also treated.

The Radon transform introduced by J. Radon in 1917 is the integral transform which is widely applicable to tomography. Here we study the discrete version of the Radon transform. More precisely, when $C({\mathbb{Z}}^n_p)$ is the set of complex-valued functions on ${\mathbb{Z}}^n_p$. We completely determine the subset of $C({\mathbb{Z}}^n_p)$ whose elements can be recovered from its Radon transform on ${\mathbb{Z}}^n_p$.

This paper treats the class of normalized logharmonic mappings $f(z)=zh(z){\overline{g(z)}}$ in the unit disk satisfying ${\varphi}(z)=zh(z)g(z)$ is analytically typically real. Every such mapping f admits an integral representation in terms of its second dilatation function and a function of positive real part with real coefficients. The radius of starlikeness and an upper estimate for arclength are obtained. Additionally, it is shown that f maps the unit disk into a domain symmetric with respect to the real axis when its second dilatation has real coefficients.

Let T be the singular integral operator with nonsmooth kernel which was introduced by Duong and McIntosh, and $T_q(q{\in}(1,{\infty}))$ be the vector-valued operator defined by $T_qf(x)=({\sum}_{k=1}^{\infty}{\mid}T\;f_k(x){\mid}^q)^{1/q}$. In this paper, by proving certain weak type endpoint estimate of L log L type for the grand maximal operator of T, the author establishes some quantitative weighted bounds for $T_q$ and the corresponding vector-valued maximal singular integral operator.

In this paper, we exhibit the explicit forms of continued fraction expansions of a family of algebraic power series over a finite field and we study their asymptotic distribution of approximation exponents.

The position vector field x is the most elementary and natural geometric object on a Euclidean submanifold M. The position vector field plays very important roles in mathematics as well as in physics. Similarly, the tangential component $x^T$ of the position vector field is the most natural vector field tangent to the Euclidean submanifold M. We simply call the vector field $x^T$ the canonical vector field of the Euclidean submanifold M. In earlier articles [4,5,9,11,12], we investigated Euclidean submanifolds whose canonical vector fields are concurrent, concircular, torse-forming, conservative or incompressible. In this article we study Euclidean submanifolds with conformal canonical vector field. In particular, we characterize such submanifolds. Several applications are also given. In the last section we present three global results on complete Euclidean submanifolds with conformal canonical vector field.

In this paper, finite p-groups G satisfying $N_G(H){\leq}H^G$ for every non-normal subgroup H of G are completely classified. This solves a problem proposed by Y. Berkovich.

This paper is to consider the generalized Fermat difference equations with different types which ever considered by Li [14], Ishizaki and Korhonen [9], Zhang [26] and Liu [15-18], respectively. Some new observations and results on these equations will be given.

In the present paper, we have proved the sharp inequality ${\mid}H_{3,1}(f){\mid}{\leq}4$ and ${\mid}H_{3,1}(f){\mid}{\leq}1$ for analytic functions f with $a_n:=f^{(n)}(0)/n!$, $n{\in}{\mathbb{N}},$, such that $$Re\frac{f(z)}{z}>{\alpha},\;z{\in}{\mathbb{D}}:=\{z{\in}{\mathbb{C}}:{\mid}z{\mid}<1\}$$ for ${\alpha}=0$ and ${\alpha}=1/2$, respectively, where $$H_{3,1}(f):=\left|{\array{{\alpha}_1&{\alpha}_2&{\alpha}_3\\{\alpha}_2&{\alpha}_3&{\alpha}_4\\{\alpha}_3&{\alpha}_4&{\alpha}_5}}\right|$$ is the third Hankel determinant.

We are concerned with the following fractional p-Laplacian inclusion: $$(-{\Delta})^s_pu+V(x){\mid}u{\mid}^{p-2}u{\in}{\lambda}[{\underline{f}}(x,u(x)),\;{\bar{f}}(s,u(x))]$$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$, where $(-{\Delta})^s_p$ is the fractional p-Laplacian operator, 0 < s < 1 < p < $+{\infty}$, sp < N, and $f:{\mathbb{R}}^N{\times}{\mathbb{R}}{\rightarrow}{\mathbb{R}}$ is measurable with respect to each variable separately. We show that our problem with the discontinuous nonlinearity f admits at least one or two nontrivial weak solutions. In order to do this, the main tool is the Berkovits-Tienari degree theory for weakly upper semicontinuous set-valued operators. In addition, our main assertions continue to hold when $(-{\Delta})^s_pu$ is replaced by any non-local integro-differential operator.

In this paper, we investigate the existence of an S-shaped connected component in the set of positive solutions of the Dirichlet problem of the one-dimension Minkowski-curvature equation $$\{\(\frac{u^{\prime}}{\sqrt{1-u^{{\prime}2}}}\)^{\prime}+{\lambda}a(x)f(u)=0,\;x{\in}(0,1),\\u(0)=u(1)=0$$, where ${\lambda}$ is a positive parameter, $f{\in}C[0,{\infty})$, $a{\in}C[0,1]$. The proofs of main results are based upon the bifurcation techniques.

In the paper, the authors find a common solution to three series of differential equations related to the generating function of the Bernoulli numbers of the second kind and present a recurrence relation, an explicit formula in terms of the Stirling numbers of the first kind, and a determinantal expression for the Bernoulli numbers of the second kind.

We consider a functional difference equation and use fixed point theory to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic stability of its zero solution. At the end of the paper we apply our results to nonlinear Volterra infinite delay difference equations.