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We consider the design of forecasting competitions in which multiple forecasters make predictions about one or more independent events and compete for a single prize. We have two objectives: (1) to award the prize to the most accurate forecaster, and (2) to incentivize forecasters to report truthfully, so that forecasts are informative and forecasters need not spend any cognitive effort strateg...

The most prominent way to establish trust between buyers and sellers on online auction sites are reputation mechanisms. Two drawbacks of this approach are the reliance on the seller being long-lived and the susceptibility to whitewashing. In this paper, we introduce so-called escrow mechanisms that avoid these problems by installing a trusted intermediary which forwards the payment to the selle...

In the present work, the integrable bi-Hamiltonian hierarchies related to compatible nonlocal Poisson brackets of hydrodynamic type are effectively constructed. For achieving this aim, first of all, the problem on the canonical form of a special type for compatible nonlocal Poisson brackets of hydrodynamic type is solved. The compatible pairs of nonlocal Poisson brackets of hydrodynamic type ha...

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We distinguish a class of random point processes which we call Giambelli compatible point processes. Our definition was partly inspired by determinantal identities for averages of products and ratios of characteristic polynomials for random matrices found earlier by Fyodorov and Strahov. It is closely related to the classical Giambelli formula for Schur symmetric functions. We show that orthogo...

has cardinality r ≥ 1. Let G be the F-rational points of a simple Chevalley group defined over F. In his thesis, Matsumoto [5] gave a beautiful construction for the metaplectic cover G̃ of G, a central extension of G by μr(F) whose existence is intimately connected with the deep properties of the r-th order Hilbert symbol (·, ·)F : F × × F → μr(F). Metaplectic groups figure prominently in the st...

We consider simply-typed lambda calculus with fixpoint operators. Evaluation of a term gives as a result the Böhm tree of the term. We show that evaluation is compatible with monadic secondorder logic (MSOL). This means that for a fixed finite vocabulary of terms, the MSOL properties of Böhm trees of terms are effectively MSOL properties of terms themselves. Theorems of this kind have been know...

In this paper, sufficient conditions for the existence of common fixed points for a compatible pair of self maps of Gregustype in the framework of convex metric spaces have been obtained. Also, established the existence of common fixed points for a pair of compatible mappings of type (B) and consequently for compatible mappings of type (A). The proved results generalize and extend some of the w...