The B-quadrilateral lattice (BQL) provides geometric interpretation of Miwa’s discrete BKP equation within the quadrialteral lattice (QL) theory. After discussing the projectivegeometric properties of the lattice we give the algebro-geometric construction of the BQL ephasizing the role of Prym varieties and the corresponding theta functions. We also present the reduction of the vectorial fundam...

In this paper, we obtain two refinements of the ordering relations among Heinz means with different parameters via the Taylor series of some hyperbolic functions and by the way, we derive new generalizations of Heinz operator inequalities. Moreover, we establish a matrix version of Heinz inequality for the Hilbert-Schmidt norm. Finally, we introduce a weighted multivariate geometric mean and sh...

In this work we give precise asymptotic expressions on the probability of the existence of fixed-size components at the threshold of connectivity for random geometric graphs.

This paper deals with non-overlapping constraints between convex polytopes. Non-overlapping detection between fixed objects is a fundamental geometric primitive that arises in many applications. However from a constraint perspective it is natural to extend the previous problem to a non-overlapping constraint between two objects for which both positions are not yet fixed. A first contribution is...

In this note, we present sharp inequalities relating hypergeometric analogues of the arithmetic-geometric mean discussed in [5] and the power mean. The main result generalizes the corresponding sharp inequality for the arithmetic-geometric mean established in [10].

We study a simple geometric model of transportation facility that consists of two points between which the travel speed is high. This elementary definition can model shuttle services, tunnels, bridges, teleportation devices, escalators or moving walkways. The travel time between a pair of points is defined as a time distance, in such a way that a customer uses the transportation facility only i...

We use techniques from geometric analysis to prove that any positive, leafwise superharmonic, measurable function on a Riemannian measurable foliation with transverse invariant measure, finite total volume and complete leaves is, in fact, constant on a.e. leaf.

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A lattice L is uniform, if for any congruence Θ of L, any two congruence classes A and B of Θ are of the same size, that is, |A| = |B| holds. A classical result of R. P. Dilworth represents a finite distributive lattice D as the congruence lattice of a finite lattice L. We show that this L can be constructed as a finite uniform lattice.