Motivated by XTR cryptosystem which is based on an irreducible polynomial $x^3-cx^2+c^px-1$ over $F_{p^2}$, we study polynomials of the form $F(c,x)=x^3-cx^2+c^qx-1$ over $F_{p^2}$ with $q=p^m$. In this paper, we establish a one to one correspondence between the set of such polynomials and a certain set of cubic polynomials over $F_q$. Our approach is rather theoretical and provides an efficient method to generate irreducible polynomials over $F_{p^2}$.

A subset of n tuples of elements of ${\mathbb{Z}}_9$ is said to be a code over ${\mathbb{Z}}_9$ if it is a ${\mathbb{Z}}_9$-module. In this paper we consider an special family of cyclic codes over ${\mathbb{Z}}_9$, namely quadratic residue codes. We define these codes in term of their idempotent generators and show that these codes also have many good properties which are analogous in many respects to properties of quadratic residue codes over finite fields.

A bifurcation problem for nonlinear partial differential equations of the form $$div({\varphi}(|{\nabla}u|){\nabla}u+{\mu}_0{\varphi}(|u|)u=q({\lambda},\;x,\;u,\;{\nabla}u)$$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions is discussed. Using a global bifurcation theorem of Rabinowitz type, we show that under certain conditions on $\varphi$ and q, the above equation has an unbounded connected set of solutions (u, $\lambda$).

Let $\zeta$ be a fixed complex number. In this paper, we study the quantity $S(\zeta,\;n):=mas_{f{\in}{\Lambda}_n}\;|f(\zeta)|$, where ${\Lambda}_n$ is the set of all real polynomials of degree at most n-1 with coefficients in the interval [0, 1]. We first show how, in principle, for any given ${\zeta}\;{\in}\;{\mathbb{C}}$ and $n\;{\in}\;{\mathbb{N}}$, the quantity S($\zeta$, n) can be calculated. Then we compute the limit $lim_{n{\rightarrow}{\infty}}\;S(\zeta,\;n)/n$ for every ${\zeta}\;{\in}\;{\mathbb{C}}$ of modulus 1. It is equal to 1/$\pi$ if $\zeta$ is not a root of unity. If $\zeta\;=\;\exp(2{\pi}ik/d)$, where $d\;{\in}\;{\mathbb{N}}$ and k $\in$ [1, d-1] is an integer satisfying gcd(k, d) = 1, then the answer depends on the parity of d. More precisely, the limit is 1, 1/(d sin($\pi$/d)) and 1/(2d sin($\pi$/2d)) for d = 1, d even and d > 1 odd, respectively.

Let R be a ring. A right R-module M is called perfect if M possesses a projective cover. In this paper, we consider the relationship between the class of perfect modules and other classes of modules. Some known rings are characterized by these relationships.

The element reduction of a multiset S is to reduce the number of repetitions of an element in S by a predetermined number. Privacy-preserving element reduction of a multiset is an important tool in private computation over multisets. It can be used by itself or by combination with other private set operations. Recently, an efficient privacy-preserving element reduction method was proposed by Kissner and Song [7]. In this paper, we point out a mathematical flaw in their polynomial representation that is used for the element reduction protocol and provide its correction. Also we modify their over-threshold set-operation protocol, using an element reduction with the corrected representation, which is used to output the elements that appear over the predetermined threshold number of times in the multiset resulting from other privacy-preserving set operations.

In this paper, a stage-structured predator-prey system with impulsive perturbations and time delays is presented to investigate the ecological problem of how a pest population and natural enemy population can coexist. Sufficient conditions are obtained using a discrete dynamical system determined by a stroboscopic map, which guarantee that a 'predator-extinction' periodic solution is globally attractive. When the impulsive period is longer than some time threshold or the impulsive harvesting rate is below a control threshold, the system is permanent. Our results provide some reasonable suggestions for pest management.

Two new iterative algorithms are provided to find zeros of accretive operators in a Banach space E with a uniformly $G\hat{a}teaux$ differentiable norm. Strong convergence for two iterations is proved and as applications, the viscosity approximation results are obtained also.

A ring is called left P-coherent if every principal left ideal is finitely presented. Let M be a right R-module with the endomorphism ring S. We mainly study the P-coherence of S. It is shown that S is a left P-coherent ring if and only if the left annihilator $ann_S$(X) is a finitely generated left ideal of S for any M-cyclic submodule X of M if and only if every cyclically M-presented right R-module has an M-torsionfree preenvelope. As applications, we investigate when the endomorphism ring S is left PP or von Neumann regular.

A rank one matrix can be factored as $\mathbf{u}^t\mathbf{v}$ for vectors $\mathbf{u}$ and $\mathbf{v}$ of appropriate orders. The perimeter of this rank one matrix is the number of nonzero entries in $\mathbf{u}$ plus the number of nonzero entries in $\mathbf{v}$. A matrix of rank k is the sum of k rank one matrices. The perimeter of a matrix of rank k is the minimum of the sums of perimeters of the rank one matrices. In this article we characterize the linear operators that preserve perimeters of matrices over semirings.

We analytically construct the versal deformation space of resolution of normal isolated singularities based on the formalism in [9].

Let m be a positive integer. We show that for any given real number ${\alpha}\;{\in}\;[0,\;1]$ and complex number $\mu$ with $|\mu|{\leq}1$ which satisfy $e^{2{\pi}i{\alpha}}{\mu}^m\;{\neq}\;1$, there exists a Blaschke product B of degree 2m + 1 which has a fixed point of multiplier ${\mu}^m$ at the point at infinity such that the restriction of the Blaschke product B on the unit circle is a critical circle map with rotation number $\alpha$. Moreover if the given real number $\alpha$ is irrational of bounded type, then a modified Blaschke product of B is quasiconformally conjugate to some rational function of degree m + 1 which has a fixed point of multiplier ${\mu}^m$ at the point at infinity and a Siegel disk whose boundary is a quasicircle containing its critical point.

We study fibred Riemannian spaces with almost complex structures which are induced by the almost complex structure or the almost contact structure on the base and fibre. We show that if the total space is a complex space form, then the total space is locally Euclidean. Moreover, we deal with the fibred Riemannian space with various Kaehlerian structures.

For a positive integer k and an arbitrary integer h, the classical Dedekind sums s(h,k) is defined by $$S(h,\;k)=\sum\limits_{j=1}^k\(\(\frac{j}{k}\)\)\(\(\frac{hj}{k}\)\),$$ where $$((x))=\{{x-[x]-\frac{1}{2},\;if\;x\;is\;not\;an\;integer; \atop \;0,\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;if\;x\;is\;an\;integer.}\$$ J. B. Conrey et al proved that $$\sum\limits_{{h=1}\atop {(h,k)=1}}^k\;s^{2m}(h,\;k)=fm(k)\;\(\frac{k}{12}\)^{2m}+O\(\(k^{\frac{9}{5}}+k^{{2m-1}+\frac{1}{m+1}}\)\;\log^3k\).$$ For $m\;{\geq}\;2$, C. Jia reduced the error terms to $O(k^{2m-1})$. While for m = 1, W. Zhang showed $$\sum\limits_{{h=1}\atop {(h,k)=1}}^k\;s^2(h,\;k)=\frac{5}{144}k{\phi}(k)\prod_{p^{\alpha}{\parallel}k}\[\frac{\(1+\frac{1}{p}\)^2-\frac{1}{p^{3\alpha+1}}}{1+\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{p^2}}\]\;+\;O\(k\;{\exp}\;\(\frac{4{\log}k}{\log\log{k}}\)\).$$. In this paper we give some formulae on the mean value of the Dedekind sums and and Hardy sums, and generalize the above results.

The helicoidal surfaces with pointwise 1-type or harmonic gauss map in Euclidean 3-space are studied. The notion of pointwise 1-type Gauss map is a generalization of usual sense of 1-type Gauss map. In particular, we prove that an ordinary helicoid is the only genuine helicoidal surface of polynomial kind with pointwise 1-type Gauss map of the first kind and a right cone is the only rational helicoidal surface with pointwise 1-type Gauss map of the second kind. Also, we give a characterization of rational helicoidal surface with harmonic or pointwise 1-type Gauss map.