In this paper, we study a class of
In this paper, we study a class of
We give a self-contained proof of the strongest version of Mason’s conjecture, namely that for any matroid the sequence of the number of independent sets of given sizes is ultra log-concave. To do this, we introduce a class of polynomials, called completely log-concave polynomials, whose bivariate restrictions have ultra log-concave coefficients. At the heart of our proof we show that for any matroid, the homogenization of the generating polynomial of its independent sets is completely log-concave.
We prove that for any fixed unitary matrix
In this paper, we consider
We address the problem of when the tensor product of two finitely generated modules over a Cohen-Macaulay local ring is Ulrich in the generalized sense of Goto et al., and in particular in the original sense from the 80’s. As applications, besides freeness criteria for modules, characterizations of complete intersections, and an Ulrich-based approach to the long-standing Berger’s conjecture, we give simple proofs that two celebrated homological conjectures, namely the Huneke-Wiegand and the Auslander-Reiten problems, are true for the class of Ulrich modules.
In 1996 Stolz [Math. Ann. 304 (1996), pp. 785–800] conjectured that a string manifold with positive Ricci curvature has vanishing Witten genus. Here we prove this conjecture for toric string Fano manifolds and for string torus manifolds admitting invariant metrics of non-negative sectional curvature.
In this note, we establish a vanishing result for telescopically localized topological restriction homology TR. More precisely, we prove that
We investigate the large values of class numbers of cubic fields, showing that one can find arbitrary long sequences of “close” abelian cubic number fields with class numbers as large as possible. We also give a first step toward an explicit lower bound for such extreme values of class numbers of abelian cubic fields.

