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    Northshield, Sam (20)
    McGonagle, Annmarie (1)Palacios, Jose Luis (1)SubjectAmenable group (2)Martin boundary (2)random walk (2)amenable group (1)Apollonian circles (1)Binomial coefficient (1)Circle packings (1)commute time (1)cover time (1)covering tree (1)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2014 (9)2000 - 2009 (4)1991 - 1999 (7)

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    Integrating across Pascal's triangle 

    Northshield, Sam (Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2011)
    Sums across the rows of Pascal's triangle yield powers of 2 while certain diagonal sums yield the Fibonacci numbers which are asymptotic to powers of the golden ratio. Sums across other diagonals yield quantities asymptotic ...
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    A Lyness equation for graphs 

    Northshield, Sam (Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 2012)
    The Lyness equation, x(n+1)=(x(n)+k)/x(n-1), can be though of as an equation defined on the 2-regular tree T2: we can think of every vertex of T2 as a variable so that if x and z are the vertices adjacent to y, then x,y,z ...
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    A New Parameterization of Ford Circles 

    Northshield, Sam; McGonagle, Annmarie (Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 2014)
    Lester Ford introduced Ford Circles in 1938 in order to geometrically understand the approximation of an irrational number by rational numbers. We shall construct Ford circles by a recursive geometric procedure and by a ...
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    A root-finding algorithm for cubics 

    Northshield, Sam (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2013)
    Newton's method applied to a quadratic polynomial converges rapidly to a root for almost all starting points and almost all coefficients. This can be understood in terms of an associative binary operation arising from 2 x ...
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    Complex Descartes Circle Theorem 

    Northshield, Sam (American Mathematical Monthly, 2014)
    We present a short proof of Descartes Circle Theorem on the curvature-centers of four mutually tangent circles. Key to the proof is associating an octahedral configuration of spheres to four mutually tangent circles. We ...
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    A short proof and generalization of Lagrange's theorem on continued fractions 

    Northshield, Sam (American Mathematical Monthly, 2011)
    We present a short new proof that the continued fraction of a quadratic irrational eventually repeats. The proof easily generalizes; we construct a large class of functions which, when iterated, must eventually repeat when ...
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    On the spectrum and Martin boundary of homogeneous spaces 

    Northshield, Sam (Statistics and Probability Letters, 1995)
    Given a conservative, spatially homogeneous Markov process X on an homogeneous spaces χ, we show that if the bottom of the spectrum of the generator of X is zero then the Martin boundary of contains a unique point fixed ...
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    Amenability and superharmonic functions 

    Northshield, Sam (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1993)
    Let G be a countable group and u a symmetric and aperiodic probability measure on G . We show that G is amenable if and only if every positive superharmonic function is nearly constant on certain arbitrarily large subsets ...
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    On the Commute Time of Random Walks on Graphs 

    Northshield, Sam; Palacios, Jose Luis (Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 1995)
    Given a simple random walk on an undirected connected graph, the commute time of the vertices x and y is defined as C(x,y) = ExTy+EyTx. We give a new proof, based on the optional sampling theorem for martingales, of the ...
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    Geodesics and Bounded Harmonic Functions on Infinite Graphs 

    Northshield, Sam (1991)
    It is shown there that an infinite connected planar graph with a uniform upper bound on vertex degree and rapidly decreasing Green's function (relative to the simple random walk) has infinitely many pairwise finitely-intersecting ...
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