Some variations on a theme by Buneman

In 1971, Peter Buneman presented a paper in which he described, amongst other things, a way to construct a tree from a collection of pairwise compatible splits of a finite set. This construction is immediately generalizable to a collection of arbitrary splits, in which case it gives rise to theBuneman graph, a certain connected, median graph representing the given collection of splits in a canonical fashion. In this paper, we look at the complex obtained by filling those faces of the associated hypercube whose vertices consist only of vertices in the Buneman graph, a complex that we call theBuneman complex. In particular, we give a natural filtration of the Buneman complex, and show that this filtration collapses when the system of splitis is weakly compatible. In the case where the family of splits is not weakly compatible, we also see that the filtration naturally gives us a way to associate a graded hierarchy of phylogenetic networks to the collection of splits.     

Some variations on Kac's formula for Brownian motion

We show that under suitable conditions $$\begin{gathered} E_x f\left\{ {a + \int_0^t \beta \left[ {b + \int_0^s {\alpha \left( {X_r } \right)dr, c + s, X_s } } \right]ds, b + \int_0^t {\alpha \left( {X_s } \right)ds, c + t, X_t } } \right\} \hfill \\ = e^{tG} f\left[ {a, b, c, x} \right] \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ whereX _t is a Brownian motion andG is the generator of a (C ₀) contraction semigroupe ^tG.     

Some results on surface measures in calculus of variations

We study some relations between the concepts of perimeter, Hausdorff measure, and Minkowsky content, when R ^N is endowed with a convex Finsler metric depending in a continuous way on the position. We show some connections with the theory of -convergence and with the anisotropic motion of a smooth hypersurface by mean curvature.This work was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-9008999, and by MURST (Progetto Nazionale «Equazioni di Evoluzione e Applicazioni Fisico-Matematiche» and «Analisi Numerica e Matematica Computazionale») and CNR (IAN and Contracts 92.00833.01, 93.00564.01) of Italy.     

On the notion of measurability

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I wish to record my thanks to Dr. Kummer for his constant encouragement and many helpful suggestions in preparing this paper.     

Some variations of the Bohman–Korovkin theorem

In this paper we develop the main aspects of the Bohman–Korovkin theorem on approximation of continuous functions with the use of A-statistical convergence and matrix summability method which includes both convergence and almost convergence. Since statistical convergence and almost convergence methods are incompatible we conclude that these methods can be used alternatively to get some approximation results.     

On the notion of derivo-periodicity

A De Blasi-like differentiable multivalued function is shown to have a periodic derivative (i.e., to be derivo-periodic) if and only if it is a sum of a function of a continuous (single-valued) periodic function, linear function and a bounded interval (a multivalued constant). At the same time, the single-valued part is derivo-periodic a.e. in the usual sense. In the single-valued case, a characterization of a more general class of derivo-periodic ACG_∗-functions is given. Derivo-periodicity in terms of the Clarke subdifferentials and an impossibility of an almost-periodic analogy are also discussed. The obtained results are finally applied to differential equations and inclusions.     

Some results on the Navier-Stokes equations in connection with the statistical theory of stationary turbulence

Some rigorous results connected with the conventional statistical theory of turbulence in both the two- and three-dimensional cases are discussed. Such results are based on the concept of stationary statistical solution, related to the notion of ensemble average for turbulence in statistical equilibrium, and concern, in particular, the mean kinetic energy and enstrophy fluxes and their corresponding cascades. Some of the results are developed here in the case of nonsmooth boundaries and a less regular forcing term and for arbitrary stationary statistical solutions.     

A category-theoretic approach extending the notion of connection in a natural way,and its application to the geometry of differential systems

We give the widest geometrical generalization of the notion of connection in fiber spaces that allows one to adequately construct the geometry of ordinary differential systems of any order. In this area, there is a theory of nonlinear stable connections developed by the first author. Here we apply it to fourth-order systems.     

Some apparent connection between Baxter and averaging operators

A formula for the resolvent R(λ, T) of a Baxter operator T, on a complex Banach algebra $\text{A}$ with identity e, is obtained. With the parameter θ ≠ 0 and e, but under some restriction, this formula is analogous to that for the resolvent of an averaging operator. A counterexample is given, which shows that such a Baxter operator is not averaging in general. When θ is regular in $\text{A}$, a simple representation of T in terms of summation and averaging operators is obtained.     

Some examples and the connection between cylindrical measures and measurable norms

In this paper, we construct an example of a cylindrical measure μ and a norm ‖·‖ such that ∥·∥ is μ-measurable by Dudley et al. and not μ-measurable by Gross and moreover is γ-measurable.