The sign of a Latin square is −1 if it has an odd number of rows and columns that are odd permutations; otherwise, it is +1. Let LEn and Lon be, respectively, the number of Latin squares of order n with sign +1 and −1. The Alon-Tarsi conjecture asserts that LEn ≠ Lon when n is even. Drisko showed that LEp+1 ≢ Lop+1 (mod p3) for prime p ≥ 3 and asked if similar congruences hold for orders of the form pk + 1, p + 3, or pq + 1. In this article we show that if t ≤ n, then LEn+1 ≢ L0n+1 (mod t3) only if t = n and n is an odd prime, thereby showing that Drisko’s method cannot be extended to encompass any of the three suggested cases. We also extend exact computation to n ≤ 9, discuss asymptotics for Lo/LE, and propose a generalization of the Alon-Tarsi conjecture.

We establish here several “invariance of plurigenera type” theorems for twisted pluricanonical forms and metrics of adjoint ℝ-bundles.

We establish a q-Titchmarsh-Weyl theory for singular q-Sturm-Liouville problems. We define q-limit-point and q-limit circle singularities, and we give sufficient conditions which guarantee that the singular point is in a limit-point case. The resolvent is constructed in terms of Green’s function of the problem. We derive the eigenfunction expansion in its series form. A detailed worked example involving Jackson q-Bessel functions is given. This example leads to the completeness of a wide class of q-cylindrical functions.

It is proved that the pseudodifferential operators σt(X, D) belong to the Schatten p-class Cp, 0 < p ≤ 2, if the symbol σ(x,ω) is in certain modulation spaces on

In this paper we give new lower bounds on the Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity of unmixed nonregular local rings, bounding them uniformly away from 1. Our results improve previous work of Aberbach and Enescu.