We interpret the degrees which arise in Tevelev’s study of scattering amplitudes in terms of moduli spaces of Hurwitz covers. Via excess intersection theory, the boundary geometry of the Hurwitz moduli space yields a simple recursion for the Tevelev degrees (together with their natural two parameter generalisation). We find exact solutions which specialise to Tevelev’s formula in his cases and connect to the projective geometry of lines and Castelnuovo’s classical count of $g^1_d$ ’s in other cases. For almost all values, the calculation of the two parameter generalisation of the Tevelev degree is new. A related count of refined Dyck paths is solved along the way.

We investigate the behaviour of families of meromorphic functions in the neighbourhood of points of non-normality and prove certain covering properties that complement Montel’s Theorem. In particular, we also obtain characterisations of non-normality in terms of such properties.

In this paper we characterize when non-classical polynomials are necessary in the inverse theorem for the Gowers $U^k$ -norm. We give a brief deduction of the fact that a bounded function on $\mathbb F_p^n$ with large $U^k$ -norm must correlate with a classical polynomial when $k\le p+1$ . To the best of our knowledge, this result is new for $k=p+1$ (when $p>2$ ). We then prove that non-classical polynomials are necessary in the inverse theorem for the Gowers $U^k$ -norm over $\mathbb F_p^n$ for all $k\ge p+2$ , completely characterising when classical polynomials suffice.

We consider the three-dimensional sloshing problem on a triangular prism whose angles with the sloshing surface are of the form ${\pi}/{2q}$ , where q is an integer. We are interested in finding a two-term asymptotic expansion of the eigenvalue counting function. When both angles are ${\pi}/{4}$ , we compute the exact value of the second term. As for the general case, we conjecture an asymptotic expansion by constructing quasimodes for the problem and computing the counting function of the related quasi-eigenvalues. These quasimodes come from solutions of the sloping beach problem and correspond to two kinds of waves, edge waves and surface waves. We show that the quasi-eigenvalues are exponentially close to real eigenvalues of the sloshing problem. The asymptotic expansion of their counting function is closely related to a lattice counting problem inside a perturbed ellipse where the perturbation is in a sense random. The contribution of the angles can then be detected through that perturbation.

We show that a rational function f of degree $>1$ on the projective line over an algebraically closed field that is complete with respect to a non-trivial and non-archimedean absolute value has no potentially good reductions if and only if the Berkovich Julia set of f is uniformly perfect. As an application, a uniform regularity of the boundary of each Berkovich Fatou component of f is also established.

We give a new approach to characterising and computing the set of global maximisers and minimisers of the functions in the Takagi class and, in particular, of the Takagi–Landsberg functions. The latter form a family of fractal functions $f_\alpha:[0,1]\to{\mathbb R}$ parameterised by $\alpha\in(-2,2)$ . We show that $f_\alpha$ has a unique maximiser in $[0,1/2]$ if and only if there does not exist a Littlewood polynomial that has $\alpha$ as a certain type of root, called step root. Our general results lead to explicit and closed-form expressions for the maxima of the Takagi–Landsberg functions with $\alpha\in(-2,1/2]\cup(1,2)$ . For $(1/2,1]$ , we show that the step roots are dense in that interval. If $\alpha\in (1/2,1]$ is a step root, then the set of maximisers of $f_\alpha$ is an explicitly given perfect set with Hausdorff dimension $1/(n+1)$ , where n is the degree of the minimal Littlewood polynomial that has $\alpha$ as its step root. In the same way, we determine explicitly the minima of all Takagi–Landsberg functions. As a corollary, we show that the closure of the set of all real roots of all Littlewood polynomials is equal to $[-2,-1/2]\cup[1/2,2]$ .

In this work we generalise the main result of [1] to the family of hyperelliptic curves with potentially good reduction over a p-adic field which have genus $g=({p-1})/{2}$ and the largest possible image of inertia under the $\ell$ -adic Galois representation associated to its Jacobian. We will prove that this Galois representation factors as the tensor product of an unramified character and an irreducible representation of a finite group, which can be either equal to the inertia image (in which case the representation is easily determined) or a $C_2$ -extension of it. In this second case, there are two suitable representations and we will describe the Galois action explicitly in order to determine the correct one.

We prove that the set of all endpoints of the Julia set of $f(z)=\exp\!(z)-1$ which escape to infinity under iteration of f is not homeomorphic to the rational Hilbert space $\mathfrak E$ . As a corollary, we show that the set of all points $z\in \mathbb C$ whose orbits either escape to $\infty$ or attract to 0 is path-connected. We extend these results to many other functions in the exponential family.

A number of spectrum constructions have been devised to extract topological spaces from algebraic data. Prominent examples include the Zariski spectrum of a commutative ring, the Stone spectrum of a bounded distributive lattice, the Gelfand spectrum of a commutative unital C*-algebra and the Hofmann–Lawson spectrum of a continuous frame.

Inspired by the examples above, we define a spectrum for localic semirings. We use arguments in the symmetric monoidal category of suplattices to prove that, under conditions satisfied by the aforementioned examples, the spectrum can be constructed as the frame of overt weakly closed radical ideals and that it reduces to the usual constructions in those cases. Our proofs are constructive.

Our approach actually gives ‘quantalic’ spectrum from which the more familiar localic spectrum can then be derived. For a discrete ring this yields the quantale of ideals and in general should contain additional ‘differential’ information about the semiring.

We prove uniform bounds for the Petersson norm of the cuspidal part of the theta series. This gives an improved asymptotic formula for the number of representations by a quadratic form. As an application, we show that every integer $n \neq 0,4,7 \,(\textrm{mod}\ 8)$ is represented as $n= x_1^2 + x_2^2 + x_3^3$ for integers $x_1,x_2,x_3$ such that the product $x_1x_2x_3$ has at most 72 prime divisors.

Let $B^{H}$ be a fractional Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ of Hurst index $H\in\left(0,1\right)$ , $f\;:\;\left[0,1\right]\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}^{d}$ a Borel function and $A\subset\left[0,1\right]$ a Borel set. We provide sufficient conditions for the image $(B^{H}+f)(A)$ to have a positive Lebesgue measure or to have a non-empty interior. This is done through the study of the properties of the density of the occupation measure of $(B^{H}+f)$ . Precisely, we prove that if the parabolic Hausdorff dimension of the graph of f is greater than Hd, then the density is a square integrable function. If, on the other hand, the Hausdorff dimension of A is greater than Hd, then it even admits a continuous version. This allows us to establish the result already cited.

We establish a normal approximation for the limiting distribution of partial sums of random Rademacher multiplicative functions over function fields, provided the number of irreducible factors of the polynomials is small enough. This parallels work of Harper for random Rademacher multiplicative functions over the integers.