Han and Xiong recently extended the Gaussian binomial coefficient $\genfrac{[}{]}{0pt}{}{r+k}{k}_{q}$ to positive rational $r$ and conjectured that its integer trace, the integer-exponent part of the resulting power series, is coefficientwise largest at $r=1/2$. We prove a support-dominance theorem comparing rational parameters under an explicit divisibility condition. It settles the conjecture for every $r\geq 1/2$ and reduces the full conjecture to the unit fractions $r=\frac{1}{2m}$, only finitely many of which are nontrivial for each fixed $k$. A computer computation then verifies the conjecture for every positive rational $r$ and every $k\leq 200$. The theoretical results were autonomously produced and verified in Lean by AxiomProver.
We give explicit complex polynomials $P,Q$ in three independent standard real Gaussian variables such that \[ {\mathbb E}(P^m)=0,\qquad {\mathbb E}(QP^m)=m!\neq0 \] for every $m\geq1$. In natural complex linear coordinates, $P$ has five terms and total degree $4$. Hence the Gaussian Moments Conjecture is false in every...
For $m\geq 2$, let $c_p(m)$ be the all-dimensional best constant in $$ \left\|\sum_{k=1}^m A_k\right\|_p \leq c_p(m)\left\|\sum_{k=1}^m |A_k|\right\|_p. $$ Tang and Zhang conjectured an explicit formula for every finite $p>1$. We disprove the conjecture with two explicit real $2\times 2$ rank-one matrices at $p=3/2$. T...
Let $X_1,X_2,\ldots$ be independent $\mathrm{Bernoulli}(\theta)$ random variables, and let $\bar X_n = n^{-1}(X_1 + \cdots + X_n)$. We prove that, for every real $p \geq 1$, the sequence $\{\mathsf{E}(\bar X_n^p)\}_{n \geq 1}$ is log-convex. This proves the Bernoulli case of a conjecture of Lamkin and Tkocz [Canad. Mat...
Harwit and Sloane conjectured that every nonsingular entrywise-nonnegative matrix $A\in\mathbb R^{n\times n}$ satisfies $\|A^{-1}\|_F\ge 2n(n+1)^{-1}\|A\|_{\max}^{-1}$, with equality precisely for positive multiples of $S$-matrices. Cheng proved the conjecture in odd dimensions, while Frankel and Urschel proved the eve...
Let $p$ be an odd prime and let $H_{p^3}=\operatorname{UT}_3(\mathbb{F}_p)$ be the Heisenberg group of order $p^3$ and exponent $p$. We prove $\mathsf{d}(H_{p^3})=3p-3$. The main ingredient of the proof is an order-value growth theorem. If $B$ is a noncollinear zero-sum sequence of $n$ nonzero vectors in $\mathbb{F}_p^...
We prove the $p$-Frobenius problems proposed as Conjectures 7.1 and 7.5 developed by T. Komatsu and R. Pandey (Bull. Korean Math. Soc. 2025;62:1397--1409.) for two families of consecutive odd integers. For integers $r,L,n\ge0$, the bounded restricted partition function $p_{\le r}^{(\le L)}(\le n)$ counts partitions of...
