Bounded local G-shtuka are function field analogs for p-divisible groups with extra structure. We describe their deformations and moduli spaces. The latter are analogous to Rapoport-Zink spaces for p-divisible groups. The underlying schemes of these moduli spaces are affine DeligneLusztig varieties. For basic Newton polygons the closed Newton stratum in the universal deformation of a local G-sh...

In this paper, we develop a finite horizon model predictive control algorithm which is robust to model uncertainties. A moving average system matrix is constructed to capture model uncertainties and facilitate future output predictions. The paper is focused on step tracking control. Using linear matrix inequality techniques, the design is converted into a semi-definite optimization problem. Clo...

This paper examines the relationship between the automorphism group of a hyperelliptic curve defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic two and the 2-rank of the curve. In particular, we exploit the wild ramification to use the Deuring-Shafarevich formula in order to analyze the ramification of hyperelliptic curves that admit extra automorphisms and use this data to impose res...

? 10n is effected by crawling on the balls of the eet and on the hands. Lathyrism was first recognised in Europe over yo. hundred and fifty years ago, and it is pvious that even in those early and unscientific ^lrnes it was ascribed to the ingestion of the ^eeds of various species of the genus Lathyrus, Gcause as early as 1671 the Duke of Wurtum^GlS issued an edict forbidding the use of these ^...

BACKGROUND The classic infratemporal fossa type A approach (IFTA-A) permits superior and anterior exposure of the jugular foramen. The transcondylar-transtubercular extension facilitates posteroinferior and medial access to the jugular foramen. The purpose of this study was to present the IFTA-A with transcondylar-transtubercular extension and to assess its surgical results. METHODS A review ...

A dynamic and stochastic distribution problem with a number of terminals and a eet of vehicles is analyzed. Customers request the transportation of batches of loads between diierent origins and destinations. A request can be accepted or rejected; if the request is accepted, a reward is received. Holding costs for vehicles and loads at terminals as well as transportation costs are included in th...

Connection management ensures that each message of a connection is ac cepted at most once and that a connection is not closed before all messages and acknowledgements are received We introduce a connection management protocol that is based on timers the use of approximately synchronized clocks and unique connection identi ers Synchronized clocks support accurate end to end lifetime enforcement ...

Furuta in [19] had obtained an estimate b (X) ≥ 2+ 10 8 ·|signature (X) | for spin manifolds with arbitrary fundamental groups and nonzero signature. The main theorem 2.1 in this note generalizes Furuta’s 10/8-theorem to the case of spin four-manifolds bounding disjoint unions of rational homology spheres. Theorem 1.1 is deduced from this generalized 10/8-theorem. To get an idea, how this comes...

Benedetti and Petronio developed in [1] a so called o-Graph Calculus, where a compact oriented 3-manifold with nonempty boundary could be described by a quadrivalent graph together with some extra structure. Using this calculus, we will show how to glue in a full cylinder along an embedded closed curve in a boundary component. This enables us to describe in the o-graphs how to close boundary co...

We propose a canonical tranformation approach to the effective interaction Weff between two holes, based on the three-band Hubbard model but ready to include extra interactions as well. An effective two-body Hamiltonian can in principle be obtained including any kind of virtual intermediate states. We derive the closed-form analytic expression of the effective interaction including 4-body virtu...