Peter Marquard, Alexander V. Smirnov, Vladimir A. Smirnov, and Matthias Steinhauser Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany Scientific Research Computing Center, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik, Karlsruhe Institu...

The classical tests of homogeneity, such as the twosample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, do not have a natural extension to comparing two multivariate populations. G. J. Székely and N. K. Bakirov have proposed a new test based on Euclidean distance between sample elements. This test can be applied to testing homogeneity of any two multivariate populations with finite second moments, and the test is r...

We consider the problem of …nding the best analytic approximation in Smirnov and Bergman norm to general monomials of the type znzm. We show that in the case of approximation to z in the annulus (and the disk) the best approximation is the same for all values of p. Moreover, the best approximations to z in Smirnov and Bergman spaces characterize disks and annuli.

1.1 Graded associative algebras. A nite Z-grading of an algebra A is a decomposition A = L n i=?n A i such that A i A j A i+j , where A i = 0 for jij > n. From now on a grading means a nite Z-grading. I am interested in associative graded algebras because they arise naturally in study of Lie algebras, although the subject is certainly interesting in its own right. A classiication of gradings of...

Divergence date estimates are central to understand evolutionary processes and depend, in the case of molecular phylogenies, on tests of molecular clocks. Here we propose two non-parametric tests of strict and relaxed molecular clocks built upon a framework that uses the empirical cumulative distribution (ECD) of branch lengths obtained from an ensemble of Bayesian trees and well known non-para...