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If the series Σ pᵃ⁽ʷ⁾·xᴵʷᴵ is rational, is Σ a(w)·xᴵʷᴵ also rational (summation over words w in a regular language)?
Let $p$ be a prime number and let $a_i$ be a sequence of natural numbers such that the series $\sum_{i=1}^\infty p^{a_i} x^i$ is rational. A warm-up question:
Question 1. Does it follow that the ...
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Regular languages of matrices and their generating functions
My question is somewhat related to this question.
Let us fix natural numbers $k$ and $C$. Let $A$ be an automaton whose alphabet consists of $k\times k$ matrices with integer coefficients of ...
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The orthogonal of $[A,B]$ in $M_n(k)$
Let ${\mathcal A}$ be the algebra spanned by the words in two letters $x$ and $y$. Its (infinite) basis is $1,x,y,x^2,xy,yx,y^2,...$
Let ${\mathcal A}_0$ be the sub-space (warning: not the sub-...
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Minimizing quadratic form over permutations
Let $Q$ be an $n \times n$ real symmetric matrix and $x$ an $n \times 1$ real vector. Consider the following minimization problem:
$\min_{\pi \in S_n} ~(\pi x)^{\rm T} Q (\pi x)$,
where $S_n$ ...
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Combinatorics of signed oriented graphs/skew-symmetric matrices
Consider a "complete" signed graph on $n$ vertices indexed by
$1,2,\dots,n$, that is, a graph in which any two distinct vertices $i$ and $j$ are connected by an oriented edge.
For each pair of ...
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