We investigate natural dualities for classes of simple graphs. For example, we give a natural duality for the class consisting of all n-colourable graphs and show that, for all n≥3, there is no natural duality for the class consisting of all freely n-colourable graphs. We also prove that there exist arbitrarily long finite chains of 3-colourable graphs that alternate between being dualizable and nondualizable.

For an algebraic structure A denote by d(A) the smallest size of a generating set for A, and let d(A)=(d(A),d(A2),d(A3),…), where An denotes a direct power of A. In this paper we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the sequence d(A) when A is one of the classical structures—a group, ring, module, algebra or Lie algebra. We show that if A is finite then d(A) grows either linearly or logarithmically. In the infinite case constant growth becomes another possibility; in particular, if A is an infinite simple structure belonging to one of the above classes then d(A) is eventually constant. Where appropriate we frame our exposition within the general theory of congruence permutable varieties.

We obtain an atomic decomposition for weighted Triebel–Lizorkin spaces on spaces of homogeneous type, using the area function, the discrete Calderón reproducing formula and discrete sequence spaces.

We state and verify up to weight 172 a conjecture on the existence of a certain generating set for spaces of classical Siegel modular forms. This conjecture is particularly useful for calculations involving Fourier expansions. Using this generating set, we verify the Böcherer conjecture for nonrational eigenforms and discriminants with class number greater than one. As a further application we verify another conjecture for weights up to 150 and investigate an analog of the Victor–Miller basis. Additionally, we describe some arithmetic properties of the basis we found.

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the compactness of differences of composition operators acting on the weighted Bergman spaces in the unit ball. A representation of a composition operator as a finite sum of composition operators modulo compact operators is also studied.

Let X1 and X2 be two independent and nonnegative random variables with distributions F1 and F2, respectively. This paper proves that if both F1 and F2 are of Weibull type and fulfill certain easily verifiable conditions, then the distribution of the product X1X2, called the product convolution of F1 and F2, belongs to the class 𝒮* and, hence, is subexponential.

We show that if G is a group and A⊂G is a finite set with ∣A2∣≤K∣A∣, then there is a symmetric neighbourhood of the identity S such that Sk⊂A2A−2 and ∣S∣≥exp (−KO(k))∣A∣.

Rosen gave a determinant formula for relative class numbers for cyclotomic function fields, which may be regarded as an analogue of the classical Maillet determinant. In this paper, we give a determinant formula for relative congruence zeta functions for cyclotomic function fields. Our formula may be regarded as a generalization of the determinant formula for the relative class number.

We study the Witten multiple zeta function associated with the Lie algebra . Our main result shows that its special values at nonnegative integers are always expressible by alternating Euler sums. More precisely, every such special value of weight w at least 2 is a finite ℚ-linear combination of alternating Euler sums of weight w and depth at most 2, except when the only nonzero argument is one of the two last variables, in which case ζ(w−1) is needed.