Mythic Cycles in Chingiz Aitmatov’s “Spotted Dog Running Along the Seashore”

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

Analytic residues along algebraic cycles

Let W be a q-dimensional irreducible algebraic subvariety in the affine space AC, P1, ..., Pm m elements in C[X1, ..., Xn], and V (P ) the set of common zeros of the Pj ’s in Cn. Assuming that |W | is not included in V (P ), one can attach to P a family of non trivial W -restricted residual currents in ′D0,k(Cn), 1 ≤ k ≤ min(m, q), with support on |W |. These currents (constructed following an ...

Sums and differences along Hamiltonian cycles

Abstract. Given a finite abelian group G, consider the complete graph on the set of all elements of G. Find a Hamiltonian cycle in this graph and for each pair of consecutive vertices along the cycle compute their sum. What are the smallest and the largest possible number of sums that can emerge in this way? What is the expected number of sums if the cycle is chosen randomly? How the answers ch...

Stealing cycles: Can we get along?

The exploitation of networked workstations as a set of under-util ized computational resources is an attractive idea for cost effective parallel computing. The use of these resources, however, raises a number of interesting policy and performance questions (e.g, what impact will a parallel application have on the normal workstation user, what performance levels can be expected when many users a...

The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction

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