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   Hashemi, Aref; Gilman, Edward T.; Khair, Aditya S. (April 2024, The European Physical Journal E)

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2. Existence and stability for the travelling waves of the Benjamin equation

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   Hakkaev, Sevdzhan; Stanislavova, Milena; Stefanov, Atanas G (January 2025, Nonlinearity)

   Abstract In the seminal work of Benjamin (1974Nonlinear Wave Motion(American Mathematical Society)), in the late 70s, he has derived the ubiquitous Benjamin model, which is a reduced model in the theory of water waves. Notably, it contains two parameters in its dispersion part and under some special circumstances, it turns into the celebrated KdV or the Benjamin–Ono equation, During the 90s, there was renewed interest in it. Benjamin (1992J. Fluid Mech.245401–11; 1996Phil. Trans. R. Soc.A3541775–806) studied the problem for existence of solitary waves, followed by works of Bona–Chen (1998Adv. Differ. Equ.351–84), Albert–Bona–Restrepo (1999SIAM J. Appl. Math.592139–61), Pava (1999J. Differ. Equ.152136–59), who have showed the existence of travelling waves, mostly by variational, but also bifurcation methods. Some results about the stability became available, but unfortunately, those were restricted to either small waves or Benjamin model, close to a distinguished (i.e. KdV or BO) limit. Quite recently, in 2024 (arXiv:2404.04711 [math.AP]), Abdallahet al, proved existence, orbital stability and uniqueness results for these waves, but only for large values of $\frac{c}{{\gamma }^2}\gg 1$. In this article, we present an alternative constrained maximization procedure for the construction of these waves, for the full range of the parameters, which allows us to ascertain their spectral stability. Moreover, we extend this construction to allL²subcritical cases (i.e. power nonlinearities $(|u{|}^{p-2}u{)}_x$, $2<p\text{⩽}6$). Finally, we propose a different procedure, based on a specific form of the Sobolev embedding inequality, which works for all powers $2<p<\mathrm{\infty }$, but produces some unstable waves, for largep. Some open questions and a conjecture regarding this last result are proposed for further investigation. 

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   Bui, Hung M; Florea, Alexandra (January 2024, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal))

   Abstract Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis, we study negative moments of the Riemann zeta-function and obtain asymptotic formulas in certain ranges of the shift in $\zeta \left(s\right)${\zeta(s)}. For example, integrating ${\left|\zeta \left(\frac{1}{2}+\alpha +it\right)\right|}^{-2k}${|\zeta(\frac{1}{2}+\alpha+it)|^{-2k}}with respect totfromTto $2T${2T}, we obtain an asymptotic formula when the shift α is roughly bigger than $\frac{1}{\log T}${\frac{1}{\log T}}and $k<\frac{1}{2}${k<\frac{1}{2}}. We also obtain non-trivial upper bounds for much smaller shifts, as long as $\log \frac{1}{\alpha }\ll \log \log T${\log\frac{1}{\alpha}\ll\log\log T}. This provides partial progress towards a conjecture of Gonek on negative moments of the Riemann zeta-function, and settles the conjecture in certain ranges. As an application, we also obtain an upper bound for the average of the generalized Möbius function. 

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4. Enumeration of Rooted Binary Unlabeled Galled Trees

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   Agranat-Tamir, Lily; Mathur, Shaili; Rosenberg, Noah A. (March 2024, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology)

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   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-025-01184-6  

   Bartz, Kollin; Levin, Aaron; Thamminana, Aman_Dhruva (August 2025, The Ramanujan Journal)

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