G. Kovacs, C.W. Marshal, Classics and Comics

Agnes Kovacs

The estimation of the tensile strength of certain brittle fibers at extremely short lengths from tensile strength measurements of these fibers at longer lengths is of fundamental importance in the theory of modern fiber composite materials. We examine a competing risks model in which the fiber strength arises as the minimum of two (independent) Weibull random variables having distinct Weibull e...

G-complexes with a Compatible Cw-structure

Minimal Cell Structures for G-CW Complexes

In this paper, we consider the minimal cell structure problem forGCW complexes. A CW complex is a nice approximation of general topological spaces, which is constructed by repeating attaching higher dimensional cells to lower ones. A G-CW complex is its generalized version to spaces with a group action. The structure theorem for ordinary CW complexes is well-studied, and we can know the minimal...

Finite Permutation Groups with Large Abelian Quotients L . G . Kovacs and Cheryl

We show that if G is a group of permutations on a set of n points and if \ G/ G'\ denotes the order of its largest abelian quotient, then either \ G/ G'\ = 1 or there is a prime p dividing \ G/ G'\ such that \ G/ G'\ < p . Equality holds if and only if G is a p group which is the direct product of its transitive constituents, with each of those having order /?, except when p = 2 in which case o...

Introducing Comics and Ideology