Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These

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Zeros of orthogonal polynomials

Concrete mathematics, a foundation for computer science, by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik. Pp 625. £24·95. 1989. ISBN 0-201-14236-8 (Addison-Wesley)

Determine the value of the variable in each equation.

Basic Algebra = 代数学入門

In this paper I present a history of tractability of continuous problems, which has its beginning in the successful numerical tests for highdimensional integration of finance problems. Tractability results will be illustrated for two multivariate problems, integration and linear tensor products problems, in the worst case setting. My talk at FoCM'08 in Hong Kong and this paper are based on the book Tractability of Multivariate Problems , written jointly with Erich Novak. The first volume of our book has been recently published by the European Mathematical Society. Introduction Many people have recently become interested in studying the tractability of continuous problems. This area of research addresses the computational complexity of multivariate problems defined on spaces of functions of d variables, with d that can be in the hundreds or thousands; in fact, d can even be arbitrarily large. Such problems occur in numerous applications including physics, chemistry, finance, economics, and the computational sciences. As with all problems arising in information-based complexity, we want to solve multivariate problems to within ∈, using algorithms that use finitely many functions values or values of some linear functionals. Let n (∈, d ) be the minimal number of function values or linear functionals that is needed to compute the solution of the d -variate problem to within ∈. For many multivariate problems defined over standard spaces of functions n (∈, d ) is exponentially large in d .

Tractability of Multivariate Problems

Let A_1,...,A_n be finite subsets of a field F, and let f(x_1,...,x_n)=x_1^k+...+x_n^k+g(x_1,...,x_n)\in F[x_1,...,x_n] with deg g<k. We obtain a lower bound for the cardinality of {f(x_1,...,x_n): x_1\in A_1,...,x_n\in A_n, and x_i\not=x_j if i\not=j}. The result extends the Erdos-Heilbronn conjecture in a new way.

A new extension of the Erdos-Heilbronn conjecture

In this paper we establish some new congruences involving central binomial coefficients as well as Catalan numbers. Let $p$ be a prime and let $a$ be any positive integer. We determine $\sum_{k=0}^{p^a-1}\binom{2k}{k+d}$ mod $p^2$ for $d=0,...,p^a$ and $\sum_{k=0}^{p^a-1}\binom{2k}{k+\delta}$ mod $p^3$ for $\delta=0,1$. We also show that $$C_n^{-1}\sum_{k=0}^{p^a-1}C_{p^an+k}=1-3(n+1)((p^a-1)/3) (mod p^2)$$ for every n=0,1,2,..., where $C_m$ is the Catalan number $\binom{2m}{m}/(m+1)$, and (-) is the Legendre symbol.

On some new congruences for binomial coefficients

On disjoint residue classes

Let {Pn} be the Catalan–Larcombe–French numbers given by P0 = 1, P1 = 8 and (n + 1)2P n+1 = 8(3n2 + 3n + 1)P n − 128n2P n−1 (n ≥ 1), and let Sn = Pn/2n. In this paper we obtain some identities and congruences involving {Sn}. In particular, we determine ∑k=0p−12k k Sk mk(modp) for m = 7, 16, 25, 32, 64, 160, 800, 1600, 156832, where p is an odd prime such that p ∤ m.

Identities and congruences for Catalan–Larcombe–French numbers

It is well known that $\zeta(2)=\pi^2/6$ as discovered by Euler. In this paper we present the following two $q$-analogues of this celebrated formula: $$\sum_{k=0}^\infty\frac{q^k(1+q^{2k+1})}{(1-q^{2k+1})^2}=\prod_{n=1}^\infty\frac{(1-q^{2n})^4}{(1-q^{2n-1})^4}$$ and $$\sum_{k=0}^\infty\frac{q^{2k-\lfloor(-1)^kk/2\rfloor}}{(1-q^{2k+1})^2} =\prod_{n=1}^\infty\frac{(1-q^{2n})^2(1-q^{4n})^2}{(1-q^{2n-1})^2(1-q^{4n-2})^2},$$ where $q$ is any complex number with $|q|<1$. We also give a $q$-analogue of the identity $\zeta(4)=\pi^4/90$, and pose a problem on $q$-analogues of Euler's formula for $\zeta(2m)\ (m=3,4,\ldots)$.

Zhi-Wei Sun

Papers

A new extension of the Erdos-Heilbronn conjecture

On some new congruences for binomial coefficients

On disjoint residue classes

Identities and congruences for Catalan–Larcombe–French numbers

Two $q$-analogues of Euler’s formula $\zeta (2)=\pi ^2/6$