On polling systems with infinitely many stations

The research was financially supported in part by the International Science Foundation (Grant NR8300) and the INTAS (Grant 93-820).     

Toda flows with infinitely many variables

The Toda flow and related flows extend naturally to operators in Hilbert space and the purpose of this paper is to describe these flows and to analyse some of their special properties.     

Integrodifferential systems with infinitely many delays

Summary In this paper we consider the initial-value problems: (P ₁ )X(t)=(AX)(t) for t>0, X(0+)=I, X(t)=0 for t<0 and (P ₂ ) Y(t)=(QY)(t) for t>0, Y(0+)=I, Y(t)=0 for t<0, where A and Q are linear specified operators, I and0 — the identity and null matrices of order n, and X(t), Y(t) are unknown functions whose values are square matrices of order n. Sufficient conditions are established under which the problems (P ₁ ) and (P ₂ ) have the same unique solution, locally summable on the half-axis t ⩾0. Using this fact and some properties of the Laplace transform we find a new proof for the variation of constants formula given in[1, 2]. On the basis of this formula we derive certain results concerning a class of integrodifferential systems with infinite delay. Entrata in Redazione il 2 marzo 1977.     

Vector bundles with infinitely many souls

We construct the first examples of manifolds, the simplest one being , which admit infinitely many complete nonnegatively curved metrics with pairwise nonhomeomorphic souls.

     

Markets with countably infinitely many traders

In this paper we will show how to construct, in a canonical way, a continuous economy in the sense of R. J. Aumann [1]. This construction is based on W. Hildenbrand's [3] definition of “pure competition” for an exchange economy with countably infinitely many participants.     

On balanced games with infinitely many players: Revisiting Schmeidler's result

We consider transferable utility cooperative games with infinitely many players and the core understood in the space of bounded additive set functions. We show that, if a game is bounded below, then its core is non-empty if and only if the game is balanced. This finding generalizes Schmeidler (1967) “On Balanced Games with Infinitely Many Players”, where the game is assumed to be non-negative. We also generalize Schmeidler's (1967) result to the case of restricted cooperation too.     

Affine curves with infinitely many integral points

Let be an irreducible affine curve of (geometric) genus 0 defined by a finite family of polynomials having integer coefficients. In this note we give a necessary and sufficient condition for to possess infinitely many integer points, correcting a statement of J. H. Silverman (Theoret. Comput. Sci., 2000).

     

On roulette which allows stakes on infinitely many holes

It is shown that if a gambleγ stakes positive amounts on infinitely many holes of a subfair roulette-table, then for everyɛ>0, there is a gambleγ * with positive stakes on only a finite number of holes, such thatγQ≦γ*Q+ε for every nondecreasing functionQ bounded above by 1 on [0, ∞]. It is deduced from this proposition that a gambler who wishes to maximize his chances to increase his current fortune by a specified amount, has no advantage in ever placing positive stakes on more than a finite number of holes on any single spin. This result settles a question left open in [1]. This author was on leave from Tel Aviv University when this note was prepared. He wishes to acknowledge the hospitality of the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota. This author is thankful to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for its financial support.     

Risk-neutral valuation with infinitely many trading dates

The first Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing establishes the equivalence between the absence of arbitrage in financial markets and the existence of Equivalent Martingale Measures, if appropriate conditions hold. Since the theorem may fail when dealing with infinitely many trading dates, this paper draws on the A.A. Lyapunov Theorem in order to retrieve the equivalence for complete markets such that the Sharpe Ratio is adequately bounded.     

Three-bridge links with infinitely many three-bridge spheres

We construct infinitely many three-bridge links each of which admits infinitely many three-bridge spheres up to isotopy.     

Quasi-isometries between groups with infinitely many ends

Let G, F be finitely generated groups with infinitely many ends and let? be graph of groups decompositions of F, G such that all edge groups are finite and all vertex groups have at most one end. We show that G, F are quasi-isometric if and only if every one-ended vertex group of is quasi-isometric to some one-ended vertex group of and every one-ended vertex group of is quasi-isometric to some one-ended vertex group of?. From our proof it also follows that if G is any finitely generated group, of order at least three, the groups: and are all quasi-isometric. Received: April 7, 2000; revised version: October 6, 2000     

Free probability on algebras with infinitely many states

We study noncommutative probability spaces endowed with infinite sequences of states. Following ideas of Cabanal-Duvillard we extend the notion of conditional freeness. Free product of such spaces is justified by constructing an appropriate ⋆-representation. Finally, we provide limit theorems and describe the sequences of orthogonal polynomials related to the limit measures. Received: 4 November 1998 / Revised version: 22 April 1999