The aim of this paper is to study the categorical relations betweenmatroids, Goetschel-Voxman’s fuzzy matroids and Shi’s fuzzifying matroids.It is shown that the category of fuzzifying matroids is isomorphic to that ofclosed fuzzy matroids and the latter is concretely coreflective in the categoryof fuzzy matroids. The category of matroids can be embedded in that offuzzifying matroids as a simul...

This paper presents an original definition of data representativeness. The representativeness of each datum in a dataset is a meaningful notion quantified by a degree computed by aggregating fuzzy subsets. These fuzzy subsets are obtained by fuzzifying data in a robust way. We illustrate the usefulness of the representativeness by presenting applications for statistical location estimation,and ...

The group of rational points on an elliptic curve is one of the more fascinating number theoretic objects studied in recent times. The description of this group in terms of the special value of the L-function, or a derivative of some order, at the center of the critical strip, as enunciated by Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer is surely one of the most beautiful relationships in all of mathematics; als...

As a generalization of the Dedekind zeta function, Weng defined the high rank zeta functions and proved that they have standard properties of zeta functions, namely, meromorphic continuation, functional equation, and having only two simple poles. The rank one zeta function is the Dedekind zeta function. For the rank two case, the Riemann hypothesis is proved for a general number field. Recently...

We discuss the relationship between matroid rank functions and a concept of discrete concavity called M-concavity. It is known that a matroid rank function and its weighted version called a weighted rank function are M-concave functions, while the (weighted) sum of matroid rank functions is not M-concave in general. We present a sufficient condition for a weighted sum of matroid rank functions ...

Uncertainty is an inherent property of all living systems. Curiously enough, computational models inspired by biological systems do not take, in general, under consideration this essential aspect of living systems. In this paper, after introducing the notion of a multi-fuzzy set (i.e. an orthogonal approach to the fuzzification of multisets), we introduce two variants of P systems with fuzzy co...

We present several explicit constructions of hyperelliptic function fields whose Jacobian or ideal class group has large 3-rank. Our focus is on finding examples for which the genus and the base field are as small as possible. Most of our methods are adapted from analogous techniques used for generating quadratic number fields whose ideal class groups have high 3-rank, but one method, applicabl...

Since the paper [KM1] was released much progress has been made on the problem of bounding the analytic rank of automorphic forms on average. For example, in [KMV], a uniform bound for the square of the analytic rank of automorphic L-functions was obtained. This was used in getting a sharp numerical upper bound for average of the analytic rank. However, this improvement used only a slight varian...