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Lin Jiu

Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications


A central limit theorem for a card shuffling problem

Journal Article Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A · August 1, 2025 Given a positive integer n, consider a permutation of n objects chosen uniformly at random. In this permutation, we collect maximal subsequences consisting of consecutive numbers arranged in ascending order called blocks. Each block is then merged, and aft ... Full text Cite

Information geometry and alpha-parallel prior of the beta-logistic distribution

Journal Article Communications in Statistics Theory and Methods · January 1, 2025 The hyperbolic secant distribution has several generalizations with applications in, for example, finance. In this study, we explore the dual geometric structure of one such generalization: the beta-logistic distribution. Within this family, two special ca ... Full text Cite

Multi-headed lattices and Green functions

Journal Article Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · November 15, 2024 Lattice geometries and random walks on them are of great interest for their applications in different fields such as physics, chemistry, and computer science. In this work, we focus on multi-headed lattices and study properties of the Green functions for t ... Full text Cite

Hankel determinants and Jacobi continued fractions for q-Euler numbers

Journal Article Comptes Rendus Mathematique · January 1, 2024 The q-analogs of Bernoulli and Euler numbers were introduced by Carlitz in 1948. Similar to recent results on the Hankel determinants for the q-Bernoulli numbers established by Chapoton and Zeng, we perform a parallel analysis for the q-Euler numbers. It i ... Full text Cite

HANKEL DETERMINANTS OF CERTAIN SEQUENCES OF BERNOULLI POLYNOMIALS: A DIRECT PROOF OF AN INVERSE MATRIX ENTRY FROM STATISTICS

Journal Article Contributions to Discrete Mathematics · January 1, 2024 We calculate the Hankel determinants of certain sequences of Bernoulli polynomials. This corresponding Hankel matrix comes from statistically estimating the variance in nonparametric regression. Besides its entries’ natural and deep connection with Bernoul ... Cite

Compatibility of the method of brackets with classical integration rules

Journal Article Open Mathematics · January 1, 2023 The method of brackets is a symbolic approach to the computation of integrals over R n {{\mathbb{R}}}^{n} based on a deep result by Ramanujan. Its usefulness to obtain new and difficult integrals has been demonstrated many times in the last few years. This ... Full text Cite

HANKEL DETERMINANTS OF SHIFTED SEQUENCES OF BERNOULLI AND EULER NUMBERS

Journal Article Contributions to Discrete Mathematics · January 1, 2023 Hankel determinants of sequences related to Bernoulli and Euler numbers have been studied before, and numerous identities are known. However, when a sequence is shifted by one unit, the situation often changes significantly. In this paper we use classical ... Full text Cite

Hankel determinants of sequences related to Bernoulli and Euler polynomials

Journal Article International Journal of Number Theory · March 1, 2022 We evaluate the Hankel determinants of various sequences related to Bernoulli and Euler numbers and special values of the corresponding polynomials. Some of these results arise as special cases of Hankel determinants of certain sums and differences of Bern ... Full text Cite

LOOP DECOMPOSITIONS OF RANDOM WALKS AND NONTRIVIAL IDENTITIES OF BERNOULLI AND EULER POLYNOMIALS

Journal Article Integers · January 1, 2022 Let a and b, with a < b, be two level sites of a general random walk. If we partition [a, b] into n arbitrary subintervals with endpoints a < a1 < a2 < · · · < an−1 < b, then the hitting time from a to b can also be decompo ... Cite

Orthogonal polynomials and Hankel determinants for certain Bernoulli and Euler polynomials

Journal Article Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications · May 1, 2021 Using continued fraction expansions of certain polygamma functions as a main tool, we find orthogonal polynomials with respect to the odd-index Bernoulli polynomials B2k+1(x) and the Euler polynomials E2k+ν(x), for ν=0,1,2. In the pro ... Full text Cite

An extension of the method of brackets. Part 2

Journal Article Open Mathematics · September 16, 2020 AbstractThe method of brackets, developed in the context of evaluation of integrals coming from Feynman diagrams, is a procedure to evaluate definite integrals over the half-line. This method consists of a s ... Full text Cite

Calculation and Properties of Zonal Polynomials

Journal Article Mathematics in Computer Science · September 1, 2020 We investigate the zonal polynomials, a family of symmetric polynomials that appear in many mathematical contexts, such as multivariate statistics, differential geometry, representation theory, and combinatorics. We present two computer algebra packages, i ... Full text Cite

Analytic continuation for multiple zeta values using symbolic representations

Journal Article International Journal of Number Theory · April 2020 We introduce a symbolic representation of [Formula: see text]-fold harmonic sums at negative indices. This representation allows us to recover and extend some recent results by Duchamp et al., such as recurrence relations and generating functions ... Full text Cite

Matrix representations for multiplicative nested sums

Journal Article Colloquium Mathematicum · 2019 Full text Cite

A symbolic approach to multiple zeta values at negative integers

Journal Article Journal of Symbolic Computation · January 2018 Full text Cite

An extension of the method of brackets. Part 1

Journal Article Open Mathematics · September 27, 2017 AbstractThe method of brackets is an efficient method for the evaluation of alarge class of definite integrals on the half-line. It is based on a small collection of rules, some of which are heuristic. The extension discus ... Full text Cite

Optimal control on special Euclidean group via natural gradient algorithm

Journal Article Science China Information Sciences · November 2016 Full text Cite

A symbolic approach to some identities for Bernoulli–Barnes polynomials

Journal Article International Journal of Number Theory · May 2016 The Bernoulli–Barnes polynomials are defined as a natural multidimensional extension of the classical Bernoulli polynomials. Many of the properties of the Bernoulli polynomials admit extensions to this new family. A specific expression involving th ... Full text Cite

Pochhammer symbol with negative indices. A new rule for the method of brackets

Journal Article Open Mathematics · January 1, 2016 AbstractThe method of brackets is a method of integration based upon a small number of heuristic rules. Some of these have been made rigorous. An example of an integral involving the Bessel function is used ... Full text Cite

THE FINITE FOURIER TRANSFORM OF CLASSICAL POLYNOMIALS

Journal Article Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society · April 2015 AbstractThe finite Fourier transform of a family of orthogonal polynomials is the usual transform of these polynomials extended by Full text Cite

The unimodality of a polynomial coming from a rational integral. Back to the original proof

Journal Article Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications · December 2014 Full text Cite

Recursion rules for the hypergeometric zeta function

Journal Article International Journal of Number Theory · November 2014 The hypergeometric zeta function is defined in terms of the zeros of the Kummer function M(a, a+b; z). It is established that this function is an entire function of order 1. The classical factorization theorem of Hadamard gives an expression as an ... Full text Cite

Identities for generalized Euler polynomials

Journal Article Integral Transforms and Special Functions · October 3, 2014 Full text Cite

A Natural Gradient Algorithm for Stochastic Distribution Systems

Journal Article Entropy · August 4, 2014 In this paper, we propose a steepest descent algorithm based on the natural gradient to design the controller of an open-loop stochastic distribution control system (SDCS) of multi-input and single output with a stochastic noise. Since the control ... Full text Cite

The arc length variational formula on the exponential manifold

Journal Article Mathematica Slovaca · October 1, 2013 AbstractIn this paper, we mainly consider the first and second arc length variational problems on the exponential statistical manifold, and give the variational formulae. ... Full text Cite