Strongly closed subgroups of finite groups

This paper gives a complete classification of the finite groups that contain a strongly closed p-subgroup for p any prime.     

Differential Posets and Smith Normal Forms

We conjecture a strong property for the up and down maps U and D in an r-differential poset: DU + tI and UD + tI have Smith normal forms over . In particular, this would determine the integral structure of the maps U, D, UD, DU, including their ranks in any characteristic. As evidence, we prove the conjecture for the Young-Fibonacci lattice Y F studied by Okada and its r-differential generalizations Z(r), as well as verifying many of its consequences for Young’s lattice Y and the r-differential Cartesian products Y ^r .     

The continuity of the inversion and the structure of maximal subgroups in countably compact topological semigroups

We search for conditions on a countably compact (pseudocompact) topological semigroup under which: (i) each maximal subgroup H(e) in S is a (closed) topological subgroup in S; (ii) the Clifford part H(S) (i.e. the union of all maximal subgroups) of the semigroup S is a closed subset in S; (iii) the inversion inv: H(S) → H(S) is continuous; and (iv) the projection π: H(S) → E(S), π: x ↦ xx ⁻¹, onto the subset of idempotents E(S) of S, is continuous.      

Frattini子群的推广

本文研究了任意群G的Fratini子群Frat(G)的两种推广形式fnFrat(G)和fcFrat(G),得到了这两类子群与Frat(G)类似的相关性质.     

均值混合正态分布统计量的性质

这篇文章基于基因遗传背景,提出了一类均值混合正态分布,它不同于通常所讨论的方差混合正态分布. 作者研究了这类均值混合正态分布统计量的性质,给出了平移变换群下不变量的稳健性,即它与正态分布下该统计量有相同的性质, 并且讨论了其它统计量的分布.     

正规密码H~#-富足半群的结构

证明了H~#-富足半群S是正规密码H~#-富足半群当且仅当它是完全J~#-单半群的强半格.该结果也是正规密码超富足半群和正规密码群并半群分别在超富足半群和完全正则半群上的相应结构定理的推广.     

T分布族对数似然方程根的大样本性质

对一类具体的分布族——T分布族中的参数θ,证明了存在θ的一个强相合且最优渐近正态估计θn*,它以概率1当n充分大时是对数似然方程的根.     

Second derivatives in generalized Born theory

Generalized Born solvation models offer a popular method of including electrostatic aspects of solvation free energies within an analytical model that depends only upon atomic coordinates, charges, and dielectric radii. Here, we describe how second derivatives with respect to Cartesian coordinates can be computed in an efficient manner that can be distributed over multiple processors. This approach makes possible a variety of new methods of analysis for these implicit solvation models. We illustrate three of these methods here: the use of Newton-Raphson optimization to obtain precise minima in solution; normal mode analysis to compute solvation effects on the mechanical properties of DNA; and the calculation of configurational entropies in the MM/GBSA model. An implementation of these ideas, using the Amber generalized Born model, is available in the nucleic acid builder (NAB) code, and we present examples for proteins with up to 45,000 atoms. The code has been implemented for parallel computers using both the OpenMP and MPI environments, and good parallel scaling is seen with as many as 144 OpenMP processing threads or MPI processing tasks.     

On the minimum of several random variables

For a given sequence of real numbers , we denote the th smallest one by . Let be a class of random variables satisfying certain distribution conditions (the class contains Gaussian random variables). We show that there exist two absolute positive constants and such that for every sequence of real numbers and every , one has

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where are independent random variables from the class . Moreover, if , then the left-hand side estimate does not require independence of the 's. We provide similar estimates for the moments of as well.