Consider a power series f ∈ R[[z]], which is obtained by a precise mathematical construction. For instance, f might be the solution to some differential or functional initial value problem or the diagonal of the solution to a partial differential equation. In cases when no suitable method is beforehand for determining the asymptotics of the coefficients fn, but when many such coefficients can b...

Let G be a sofic group, and let Σ “ pσnqně1 be a sofic approximation to it. For a probability-preserving G-system, a variant of the sofic entropy relative to Σ has recently been defined in terms of sequences of measures on its model spaces that ‘converge’ to the system in a certain sense. Here we prove that, in order to study this notion, one may restrict attention to those sequences that have ...

For a market with an atomless continuum of assets, we formulate the intuitive idea of a ‘‘well-diversified’’ portfolio, and present a notion of ‘‘exact arbitrage’’, strictly weaker than the more conventional notion of ‘‘asymptotic arbitrage’’, and necessary and sufficient for the validity of an APT pricing formula. Our formula involves ‘‘essential’’ risk, one based on a specific index portfolio...

We study the spectral geometric properties of the scalar Laplace-Beltrami operator associated to the Weil-Petersson metric gWP on Mγ , the Riemann moduli space of surfaces of genus γ > 1. This space has a singular compactification with respect to gWP, and this metric has crossing cusp-edge singularities along a finite collection of simple normal crossing divisors. We prove first that the scalar...

I provide a background of groups viewed as metric spaces to introduce the notion of asymptotic dimension of a group. I analyze the asymptotic dimension of Z ⊕ Z and the free group on two generators to better understand the concept of asymptotic dimension. The asymptotic dimension of the Heisenberg group, H, asdimH, has been shown to be three using advanced mathematics. I will try to show that a...

It has been observed repeatedly that the standard safety-liveness classi cation for properties of reactive systems does not t for real-time properties. This is because the implicit \liveness" of time shifts the spectrum towards the safety side. While, for example, response | that \something good" will happen eventually | is a classical liveness property, bounded response | that \something good"...

Two-sample tests for multivariate and especially for non-Euclidean data are not fully explored. This paper presents a novel test based on a similarity graph constructed on the pooled observations from the two samples. It can be applied to multivariate data and non-Euclidean data as long as a dissimilarity measure on the sample space can be defined, which can usually be provided by domain expert...