The problem is considered under which conditions a 4-connected planar or projective planar graph has a Hamiltonian cycle containing certain prescribed edges and missing certain forbidden edges. The results are applied to obtain novel lower bounds on the number of distinct Hamiltonian cycles that must be present in a 5-connected graph that is embedded into the plane or into the projective plane ...

We define the Conway skein module C(M) of ordered based links in a 3-manifold M . This module gives rise to C(M)-valued invariants of usual links in M . Let F = Σ× [0, 1] where Σ is the real projective plane or a surface with boundary. In this case C(F ) is in a natural way an algebra. We determine a basis of the Z[z]-module C#(F ) = C(F )/Tor(C(F )). When Σ is the Möbius strip or the projectiv...

In this lecture we continue to study the category O0 and explain some ideas towards the proof of the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture. We start by introducing projective functors Pi : O0 → O0 that act by w 7→ w(1 + si) on K0(O0). Using these functors we produce a projective generator of O0. In Section 2 we explain some of the work of Soergel that ultimately was used by Elias and Williamson to give a ...

Gromov and Thurston in [10] constructed, for each n 4, examples of compact n– manifolds which admit metrics of negative curvature, with arbitrarily small pinching constants, but do not admit metrics of constant curvature. We review these examples in Section 3. The main goal of this paper is to put convex projective structures on Gromov– Thurston examples. Suppose that  RP is an open subset and...

A new modified method based on the Gaussian elimination method for solution of linear system of equations in the projective space is formulated. It is based on application of projective extension of the Euclidean space and use of homogeneous coordinates. It leads to an elimination of division operation and higher precision due to division operation elimination. The approach is based on understa...

Given a complex projective variety V (as defined in [1]), we wish to count the curves in V that satisfy certain prescribed conditions. Let f C denote complex projective -dimensional space. In our first example, V = f C2, the complex projective plane; in the second and third, V is a general hypersurface in f C of degree 2 − 3. Call such V a cubic twofold when  = 3 and a quintic threefold wh...

Let G be a (not necessarily finite) group and p a finite dimensional faithful irreducible representation of G over an arbitrary field; write ~p for p viewed as a projective representation. Suppose that p is not induced (from any proper subgroup) and that ~p~ is not a tensor product (of projective representations of dimension greater than 1 ). Let AT be a noncentral subgroup which centralizes al...

The current study tested the hypothesis that mothers who have experienced child maltreatment and aggression within their adult relationships may be at particular risk for misinterpreting infant emotions, leading to less sensitive parenting behaviors. Participants were 120 pregnant women recruited for a larger, longitudinal study investigating the role of psychosocial and environmental risk on w...

Projective tests are considered to uncover unconscious emotions while avoiding psychological resistance. However, the results of projective tests may be affected by conscious emotions. This study investigates whether self-disclosure, which is a conscious factor, affected the results of a sentence completion test (SCT), which is a projective test. Eighty-five university students completed a ques...

+ S&iX2(Xi — X2)} = 0. Clearly, the quartic degenerates into the #-line of the pencil of cubics, and into a cubic having (si, s2) sz) as the $-point. Hence the THEOREM: Any cubic of the net with a given S-point may be generated by any pencil of cubics within the net, not containing the given cubic, and the projective pencil of lines joining the Spoint of the given cubic to the S-points of the c...