Using a result on arithmetic progressions, we describe a method for finding the rational h–tuples ρ = (ρl,…,ρh) such that all the multiples mρ (for m coprime to a denominator of ρ) lie in a linear variety modulo Z. We give an application to hypergeometric functions.

Let {W(t), t ≥ 0} be a standard Brownian motion. For a positive integer m, define a Gaussian process Watanabe and Lachal gave some asymptotic properties of the process Xm(·), m ≥ 1. In this paper, we study the bounds of its moduli of continuity and large increments by establishing large deviation results.

In this paper we derive a relation between character sums and partial sums of Dirichlet series.

A class of totally disconnected groups consisting of partial direct products on an index set is examined. For such a group, the scale function is found, and for automorphisms arising from permutations of the index set, the tidy subgroups are characterised. When applied to the case where the index set is a finitely-generated free group and the permutation is translation by an element x of the group, the scale depends on the cyclically reduced form of x and the tidy subgroup on the element which conjugates x to its cyclically reduced form.

Two projective nonsingular complex algebraic curves X and Y defined over the field R of real numbers can be isomorphic while their sets X(R) and Y(R) of R-rational points could be even non homeomorphic. This leads to the count of the number of real forms of a complex algebraic curve X, that is, those nonisomorphic real algebraic curves whose complexifications are isomorphic to X. In this paper we compute, as a function of genus, the maximum number of such real forms that a complex algebraic curve admits.