In modern block ciphers, S-box plays a very important role in the secrets of symmetric encryption algorithms. Many popular block ciphers have adopted various S-Boxes to design better S-Boxes. Among the researches, Jin et al. proposed a simple scheme to create a new S-box from Rijndael S-box. Only one of the new S-boxes for 29 is a bijection with a better algebraic representation than the original. Therefore, they asked a few questions. In this paper, we answer the following question : When the resulting S-box is bijection?

For a positive integer n, let μd(n) be the number of multiplicative d-dimensional partitions of ${\prod\limits_{i=1}^{n}}p_i$, where pi denotes the ith prime. The number of multiplicative partitions of a square free number with n prime factors is the Bell number μ1(n) = ��n. By the definition of the function μd(n), it can be seen that for all positive integers n, μ1(n) = Tn(1) = ��n, where Tn(x) is the nth Touchard (or exponential ) polynomial. We show that, for a positive n, μ2(n) = 2nTn(1/2). We also conjecture that for all m, μ3(m) ≤ 3mTm(1/3).

We estimate the Bergman metric of the exponentially weighted Bergman space and prove many different geometric characterizations for related Bloch spaces. In particular, we prove that the Bergman metric of the exponentially weighted Bergman space is comparable to some Poincaré type metric.

We discuss the condition that if ab = 0 for elements a, b in a ring R then aIb = 0 for some essential ideal I of R. A ring with such condition is called IEIP. We prove that a ring R is IEIP if and only if Dn(R) is IEIP for every n ≥ 2, where Dn(R) is the ring of n by n upper triangular matrices over R whose diagonals are equal. We construct an IEIP ring that is not Abelian and show that a well-known Abelian ring is not IEIP, noting that rings with the insertion-of-factors-property are Abelian.

Let M be a semi-invariant submanifold of codimension 3 with almost contact metric structure (��, ξ, η, g) in a complex space form Mn+1(c), c ≠ 0. We denote by Rξ = R(·, ξ)ξ and A(i) be Jacobi operator with respect to the structure vector field ξ and be the second fundamental form in the direction of the unit normal C(i), respectively. Suppose that the third fundamental form t satisfies dt(X, Y ) = 2��g(��X, Y ) for certain scalar ��(≠ 2c)and any vector fields X and Y and at the same time Rξ is ��∇ξξ-parallel, then M is a Hopf hypersurface in Mn(c) provided that it satisfies RξA(1) = A(1)Rξ, RξA(2) = A(2)Rξ and ${\bar{r}}-2(n-1)c{\leq}0$, where ${\bar{r}}$ denotes the scalar curvature of M.

In this paper, we investigate the valuation of vulnerable exchange option that has credit risk of option issuer. The reduced-form model is used to model credit risk. We assume that credit event is determined by the jump of the counting process with stochastic intensity, which follows the mean reverting process. We propose a simple approach to derive the closed-form pricing formula of vulnerable exchange option under the reduced-form model and provide the pricing formula as the standard normal cumulative function.

Let K be an imaginary quadratic field with ��K its ring of integers. For a positive integer N, let K(N) be the ray class field of K modulo N��K, and let ��N be the field of meromorphic modular functions of level N whose Fourier coefficients lie in the Nth cyclotomic field. For each h ∈ ��N, we construct a ray class invariant as its special value in terms of the extended form class group, and show that the invariant satisfies the natural transformation formula via the Artin map in the sense of Siegel and Stark. Finally, we establish an isomorphism between the extended form class group and Gal(K(N)/K) without any restriction on K.

Let M be a real hypersurface with almost contact metric structure (��, ξ, ��, g) in a nonflat complex space form Mn(c). We denote S and Rξ by the Ricci tensor of M and by the structure Jacobi operator with respect to the vector field ξ respectively. In this paper, we prove that M is a Hopf hypersurface of type (A) in Mn(c) if it satisfies Rξ�� = ��Rξ and at the same time satisfies $({\nabla}_{{\phi}{\nabla}_{\xi}{\xi}}R_{\xi}){\xi}=0$ or Rξ��S = S��Rξ.

We establish existence and uniqueness of Green functions for flow velocity of stationary Stokes systems, under a continuity assumption of weak solutions to the system, in a bounded domain such that the divergence equation is solvable there. We also obtain pointwise bounds of the Green functions.

In this paper, we introduce the new concept of a cone metric-like space and consider some fixed point theorems for generalized contractive mappings under suitable conditions in cone metric-like spaces. Our results generalize and unify the several main results of [1, 2, 9].

The purpose of this paper is to investigate various kinds of degeneracy of maximal surfaces in ��4 in view of the generalized Gauss map.

In [1], we studied the PDE system with time-varing delay. Time delay occurs due to loosening in a high-speed moving axially directed membrane (string, belt, or plate) at production. Our purpose in this work derives a mathematical model with internal time delay. First, we consider the physical phenomenon of axially moving membrane with respect to kinetic energy, potential energy and work done. By the energy conservation law in physics, we get the second order nonlinear PDE system with internal time delay.