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In this paper, we construct a derivative-free multi-step iterative scheme based on Steffensen’s method. To avoid excessively increasing the number of functional evaluations and, at the same time, to increase the order of convergence, we freeze the divided differences used from the second step and use a weight function on already evaluated operators. Therefore, we define a family of multi-step methods with convergence order $2m$, where $m$ is the number of steps, free of derivatives, with several parameters and with dynamic behaviour, in some cases, similar to Steffensen’s method. In addition, we study how to increase the convergence order of the defined family by introducing memory in two different ways: using the usual divided differences and the Kurchatov divided differences. We perform some numerical experiments to see the behaviour of the proposed family and suggest different weight functions to visualize with dynamical planes in some cases the dynamical behaviour.

We prove that $\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }\left(\frac{n+k-1}{k-1}\right)\frac{k^{k-2}}{{(x+k)}^{n+k}}<\frac{1}{x^{n+1}}$holds for all integers $n\ge 0$ and real numbers $x>0$. This extends a result of Ramanujan, who submitted the inequality with $n=0$ as a problem to the “Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society”.

Recent papers by Markman and O’Grady give, besides their main results on the Hodge conjecture and on hyperkähler varieties, surprising and explicit descriptions of families of abelian fourfolds of Weil type with trivial discriminant. They also provide a new perspective on the well-known fact that these abelian varieties are Kuga Satake varieties for certain weight two Hodge structures of rank six.

In this paper we give a pedestrian introduction to these results. The spinor map, which is defined using a half-spin representation of $SO\left(8\right)$, is used intensively. For simplicity, we use basic representation theory and we avoid the use of triality.

In 1996, it was published the seminal work of Rochberg “Higher order estimates in complex interpolation theory” (Rochberg, 1996). Among many other things, the paper contains a new method to construct new Banach spaces having an intriguing behaviour: they are simultaneously interpolation spaces and twisted sums of increasing complexity. The fundamental idea of Rochberg is to consider for each $z\in S$ the space formed by the arrays of the truncated sequence of the Taylor coefficients of the elements of the Calderón space. What was probably unforeseen is that the Rochberg constructions would lead to a deep theory connecting Interpolation theory, Homology, Operator Theory and the Geometry of Banach spaces. This work aims to synthetically present such connections, an up-to-date account of the theory and a list of significative open problems.

Let $h$ be a connective homology theory. We construct a functorial relative plus construction as a Bousfield localization functor in the category of maps of spaces. It allows us to associate to a pair $(X,H)$, consisting of a connected space $X$ and an $h$-perfect normal subgroup $H$ of the fundamental group ${\pi }_1\left(X\right)$, an $h$-acyclic map $X\to X_H^{+h}$ inducing the quotient by $H$ on the fundamental group. We show that this map is terminal among the $h$-acyclic maps that kill a subgroup of $H$. When $h$ is an ordinary homology theory with coefficients in a commutative ring with unit $R$, this provides a functorial and well-defined counterpart to a construction by cell attachment introduced by Broto, Levi, and Oliver in the spirit of Quillen’s plus construction. We also clarify the necessity to use a strongly $R$-perfect group $H$ in characteristic zero.

The nerve theorem is a basic result of algebraic topology that plays a central role in computational and applied aspects of the subject. In topological data analysis, one often needs a nerve theorem that is functorial in an appropriate sense, and furthermore one often needs a nerve theorem for closed covers as well as for open covers. While the techniques for proving such functorial nerve theorems have long been available, there is unfortunately no general-purpose, explicit treatment of this topic in the literature. We address this by proving a variety of functorial nerve theorems. First, we show how one can use elementary techniques to prove nerve theorems for covers by closed convex sets in Euclidean space, and for covers of a simplicial complex by subcomplexes. Then, we establish a more general, “unified” nerve theorem that subsumes many of the variants, using standard techniques from abstract homotopy theory.

We provide a construction which covers as special cases many of the topologies on integers one can find in the literature. Moreover, our analysis of the Golomb and Kirch topologies inserts them in a family of connected, Hausdorff topologies on $Z$, obtained from closed sets of the profinite completion $\hat{Z}$. We also discuss various applications to number theory.

We give a new elementary proof of the parallelizability of closed orientable 3-manifolds. We use as the main tool the fact that any such manifold admits a Heegaard splitting.