In recent work on the area of approximation methods for the solution of nonlinear differential equations, it has been suggested that the so-called generalized Taylor series approach is equivalent to the homotopy analysis method. In the present paper, we demonstrate that such a view is only valid in very special cases, and in general the homotopy analysis method is far more robust. In particular...

The theory of local homology modules was initiated by Matlis in 1974. It is a dual version of the theory of local cohomology modules. Mohammadi and Divaani-Aazar (2012) studied the connection between local homology and Gorenstein flat modules by using Gorenstein flat resolutions. In this paper, we introduce generalized local homology modules for complexes and we give several ways for computing ...

Abstract. We give a polynomial-time algorithm of computing the classical Hurwitz numbers Hg,d, which were defined by Hurwitz 125 years ago. We show that the generating series of Hg,d for any fixed g > 2 lives in a certain subring of the ring of formal power series that we call the Lambert ring. We then define some analogous numbers appearing in enumerations of graphs, ribbon graphs, and in the ...