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Discrete spectral analysis and synthesis study the description of translation invariant function spaces over discrete Abelian groups. The basic building bricks are the exponential monomials. A remarkable result of R. J. Elliot in 1965 claimed that spectral synthesis holds on any Abelian group, which means that the exponential monomials span a dense linear subspace in any pointwise-closed transl...

This paper investigates the determinants of private investment in Senegal over the period of 1970-2000. It first tests the variables for unit root using two, relatively, new tests namely the Dickey-Fuller generalised least square de-trending test proposed by Elliot et al. (1996) and the Ng-Perron test following Ng and Perron (2001). The long run private investment equation is derived using the ...

Suppose that X is an infinite set with |X| ≥ q ≥ א0 and I X is the symmetric inverse semigroup defined on X. In 1984, Levi and Wood determined a class of maximal subsemigroups MA using certain subsets A of X of the Baer-Levi semigroup BL q {α ∈ I X : dom α X and |X \ Xα| q}. Later, in 1995, Hotzel showed that there are many other classes of maximal subsemigroups of BL q , but these are far more...