New elliptic potentials

We construct all tangential covers as zeroes of a particular set of polynomials. The resulting pointed curves give rise, through the Krichever dictionary, to elliptic KP solitons. We then give a criterion to detect the so-called hyperelliptic-tangential covers, which give rise to elliptic KdV solitons. Finally we construct new examples of the latter covers and write down the corresponding (doubly periodic finite-gap) source potentials.Dedicated to the memory of J.-L. Verdier     

Rate of approximation by rectangular partial sums of double orthogonal series

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Dedicated to Professor K. Tandori on his seventieth birthday

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This research was supported in part by Grant # K41 100 of the Joint Fund of the Government of Ukraine and the International Science Foundation.     

On minimizing the jump number for interval orders

The purpose of this paper is to give an effective characterization of all interval orders which are greedy with respect to the jump number problem.This research (Math/1406/30) was supported by the Research Center, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.     

On the Cesàro summability of orthogonal sequences

(C, ). , . 0<<1. 1) - ( _k ), _k =a _k , (C, ), . 2) , , (C, ) ; _k = =¦a _k ¦.     

Holomorphic K-Theory, Algebraic Co-cycles, and Loop Groups

In this paper we study the holomorphic K-theory of a projective variety. This K-theory is defined in terms of the homotopy type of spaces of holomorphic maps from the variety to Grassmannians and loop groups. This theory is built out of studying algebraic bundles over a variety up to algebraic equivalence. In this paper we will give calculations of this theory for flag like varieties which include projective spaces, Grassmannians, flag manifolds, and more general homogeneous spaces, and also give a complete calculation for symmetric products of projective spaces. Using the algebraic geometric definition of the Chern character studied by the authors we will show that there is a rational isomorphism of graded rings between holomorphic K-theory and the appropriate morphic cohomology groups, in terms of algebraic co-cycles in the variety. In so doing we describe a geometric model for rational morphic cohomology groups in terms of the homotopy type of the space of algebraic maps from the variety to the symmetrized loop group U(n)/ _n where the symmetric group _n acts on U(n) via conjugation. This is equivalent to studying algebraic maps to the quotient of the infinite Grassmannians BU(k) by a similar symmetric group action. We then use the Chern character isomorphism to prove a conjecture of Friedlander and Walker stating that if one localizes holomorphic K-theory by inverting the Bott class, then rationally this is isomorphic to topological K-theory. Finally this will allows us to produce explicit obstructions to periodicity in holomorphic K-theory, and show that these obstructions vanish for generalized flag mani-folds.     

A Numerical Comparison of Some Modified Controlled Random Search Algorithms

In this paper we propose a new version of the Controlled Random Search(CRS) algorithm of Price. The new algorithmhas been tested on thirteen global optimization test problems. Numericalexperiments indicate that the resulting algorithm performs considerablybetter than the earlier versions of the CRS algorithms. The algorithm,therefore, could offer a reasonable alternative to many currently availablestochastic algorithms, especially for problems requiring direct searchtype methods. Also a classification of the CRS algorithms is made based onglobal technique – local technique and the relative performance ofclasses is numerically explored.     

Threshold theorems for a stochastic model of an epidemic with natural immunization

A stochastic model of an epidemic is investigated, taking account of the removal of ill members of the population (by death, by recovery with immunization, by isolation) and natural immunization. Limiting distributions are found for the size of the epidemic, the number immunized ₁, and their sum, under the assumption that the original number of susceptible individuals n and the number of ill individuals m , while n 1,n ₀< , where and are the coefficients for the contraction of the disease and of immunization respectively.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 385–392, September, 1970.     

‘Outside’ as a primitive notion in constructive projective geometry

In intuitionistic (or constructive) geometry there are positive counterparts, apart and outside, of the relations = and incident. In this paper it is shown that the relation outside suffices to define incident, apart and equality. The equivalence of the new system with Heyting's system is shown and as a simple corollary one obtains duality for intuitionistic projective geometry.     

A Euclidean interpretation of Dynkin diagrams and its relation to root systems

A simple metric property satisfied by bases of (finite, not necessarily reduced) root systems is used to define sets in Euclidean space that provide models for Dynkin diagrams and their positive semidefinite one-vertex extensions. The theory of root systems can be founded on the study of these Dynkin sets, and conversely the Dynkin sets representing connected diagrams can be characterized as the bases and extended bases of root systems. (By an extended base, we mean a base together with the lowest root of a given length.) In this correspondence the role of nonreduced root systems is natural and important.     

Orthogonal systems invariant under an automorphism

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Some expansion formulae for Fox'sH-function of two variables involving associated Legendre functions

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Risikominimierung bei der Portfolioplanung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung singulärer Kovarianzmatrizen

Zusammenfassung Bisher waren die Untersuchungen über Erwartungswert-Streuungs-effiziente Wertpapiermischungen auf den Fall nichtsingulärer Kovarianzmatrizen beschränkt. Der Fall singulärer Kovarianzmatrizen war bisher nicht konstruktiv behandelt worden. Es wird in dem vorstehenden Papier in einem allgemeinen Ansatz, der auch den Fall singulärer Kovarianzmatrizen zuläßt, die allgemeine Gültigkeit des Separationstheorems und des Zwei-Fonds-Theorems nachgewiesen.

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Summary Previous studies of mean-variance-efficient portfolios got constructive results in the case of non-singular covariance matrices only, singular covariance matrices were not treated in a constructional way. The present paper proves the Separation Theorem and the Two-Fonds-Theorem within a general framework including the case of singular covariance matrices.

     

A Hubert space characterization among function spaces

— [0,1] ,E — - e=1 [0,1]. I — _E =1, E=L ₂ x _e =xL ₂ x E.

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This work was prepared when the second author was a visiting professor of the CNR at the University of Firenze. He was supported by the Soros International Fund.     

Differences of Convex Compact Sets in the Space of Directed Sets. Part I: The Space of Directed Sets

A normed and partially ordered vector space of so-called directed sets is constructed, in which the convex cone of all nonempty convex compact sets in R ⁿ is embedded by a positively linear, order preserving and isometric embedding (with respect to a new metric stronger than the Hausdorff metric and equivalent to the Demyanov one). This space is a Banach and a Riesz space for all dimensions and a Banach lattice for n=1. The directed sets in R ⁿ are parametrized by normal directions and defined recursively with respect to the dimension n by the help of a support function and directed supporting faces of lower dimension prescribing the boundary. The operations (addition, subtraction, scalar multiplication) are defined by acting separately on the support function and recursively on the directed supporting faces. Generalized intervals introduced by Kaucher form the basis of this recursive approach. Visualizations of directed sets will be presented in the second part of the paper.     

Darboux transformations for higher-rank Kadomtsev-Petviashvili and Krichever-Novikov equations

It is shown that the action of a special rank 2 or rank 3 Darboux transformation, calledtransference, upon a pair of commuting ordinary differential operators of orders 4 and 6 implements the Abelian sum on their elliptic joint spectrum. A consequence of this is that, under the deformation of these commuting operators by the KP flow, every rank 2 KP solution corresponds to a solution of the Krichever-Novikov (KN) equation, and vice versa, with the transference process providing the correspondence between (2+1) and (1+1) dimensions. For a singular joint spectrum, it is further shown that transference at the singular point produces a correspondence between solutions of the singular KN equation and those of the KdV equation. These correspondences are illustrated by considering examples of a nondecaying rational KdV or Boussinesq solutions and the corresponding rational, singular-KN and rational KP solutions which the transference process generates.     

Groups acting simply transitively on the vertices of a building of typeà 2, II: The casesq=2 andq=3

If (P, L) is a projective plane and is a triangle presentation compatible with a point-line correspondence :P L, then gives rise to a group and a thick building of typeà ₂ on the vertices of which acts simply transitively. We find all triangle presentations (up to natural equivalence) compatible with some point-line correspondence :P L, when (P, L) is the projective plane of orderq=2 orq=3. For some, but not all, of these , is isomorphic to the building associated withG=PGL(3,K) whereK is a local field with discrete valuation and residual field of orderq. We identify the for which this is the case, and in these cases, find embeddings of intoG. We also describe the arithmetic nature of these groups.     

Interpolation and best polynomial approximation in the domain ofp-adic integers

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The authors are indebted to Professor R. Bojanic for his valuable remarks and suggestions, especially for the simplification of the proof of Theorem 4.     

A Categorical Definition of Semidirect Products

For any punctured category, a definition of a semidirect product and its dual counterpart, a semidirect sum, is given. Several examples are studied, among which are semidirect products of commutative Banach algebras and locally compact topological groups, and semidirect sums of compact Hausdorff spaces with basepoint. Also, further applications to commutative Banach algebras are given.     

Triangular extension identities

It is shown that if the - -bimodule M generates a category of - -bimodules, then the ideal of identities of the triangular extension of the direct sum of algebras and by means of the bimodule M is equal to the product of ideals of identities of the algebras and .Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 132, pp. 5–11, 1983.     

Special Varieties and Classification Theory: An Overview

Lang's conjectures link the geometric, hyperbolic, and arithmetic properties of projective complex varieties of general type. We propose here an extension of these conjectures to arbitrary projective varieties X. This extension rests on the notion of special variety. This class contains manifolds either rationally connected or with vanishing Kodaira dimension. We further construct for any X its core, which is a fibration c _X : XC(X) with general fibre special and orbifold base of general type. This fibration seems to permit us to decompose X according to the dichotomy special vs general type, and not only leads to the above-mentioned extension of Lang's conjectures but also to a simple global view of classification theory.