This problem can be considered as a nonconvex generalization of the classical variational inequalities of J. L. Lions and G. Stampacchia. For typical examples in connection with mechanics and engineering we refer to the books of Panagiotopoulos [20, 22] and [18]. The techniques used for resolution of hemivariational inequalities are subsequently based on arranging fixed point theorems, Galerkin...

The bounded normal mean problem has important applications in nonparametric function estimation. It is to estimate the mean of a normal distribution whose mean is restricted to a bounded interval. The minimax risk for such a problem is generally unknown. It is shown in Donoho, Liu and MacGibbon(1990) that the linear minimax risk provides a good approximation to the minimax risk. We show in this...

We consider the problem of estimating the underlying graph associated with a Markov random field, with the added twist that the decoding algorithm can iteratively choose which subsets of nodes to sample based on the previous samples, resulting in an active learning setting. Considering both Ising and Gaussian models, we provide algorithm-independent lower bounds for high-probability recovery wi...

a result of dixon‎, ‎evans and smith shows that if $g$ is a locally (soluble-by-finite) group whose proper subgroups are (finite rank)-by-abelian‎, ‎then $g$ itself has this property‎, ‎i.e‎. ‎the commutator subgroup of $g$ has finite rank‎. ‎it is proved here that if $g$ is a locally (soluble-by-finite) group whose proper subgroups have minimax commutator subgroup‎, ‎then also the commutator s...

let $r=oplus_{nin bbb n_0}r_n$ be a noetherian homogeneous ring with local base ring $(r_0,frak{m}_0)$, $m$ and $n$ two finitely generated graded $r$-modules. let $t$ be the least integer such that $h^t_{r_+}(m,n)$ is not minimax. we prove that $h^j_{frak{m}_0r}(h^t_{r_+}(m,n))$ is artinian for $j=0,1$. also, we show that if ${rm cd}(r_{+},m,n)=2$ and $tin bbb n_0$, then $h^t_{frak{m}_0r}(h^2_{...

The problem of estimating the parameter ?, when it is restricted to an interval of the form , in a class of discrete distributions, including Binomial Negative Binomial discrete Weibull and etc., is considered. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for which the Bayes estimator of with respect to a two points boundary supported prior is minimax under squared log error loss function....

A FAMILY of inequalities concerning inner products of vectors and functions began with Cauchy. The extensions and generalizations later led to the inequalities of Schwarz, Minkowski and Holder. The well known Holder inequality involves the inner product of vectors measured by Minkowski norms. In this paper, another step of extension is taken so that a Holder type inequality may apply to general...

MOTIVATION Synthetic biology is to engineer artificial biological systems to investigate natural biological phenomena and for a variety of applications. However, the development of synthetic gene networks is still difficult and most newly created gene networks are non-functioning due to uncertain initial conditions and disturbances of extra-cellular environments on the host cell. At present, ho...