Abstract. Several concepts of approximate reasoning in uncertainty processing are linked to the processing of distribution functions. In this paper we make use of probabilistic framework of approximate reasoning by proposing a Lebesgue-type approach to integration of non-negative real-valued functions with respect to probabilisticvalued decomposable (sub)measures. Basic properties of the corres...

Verardi’s construction of special groups of prime exponent is generalized, and put into a context that helps to decide isomorphism problems and to determine the full group of automorphisms (or at least the corresponding orbit decomposition). The groups in question may be interpreted as groups of unitriangular matrices over suitable rings. Finiteness is not assumed.

In this paper we consider simultaneously triangularizable collections of compact operators and show that similarities of any finite subcollection can be made arbitrarily close to commuting normal operators. As a consequence, we obtain a variant of a theorem of G.-C. Rota. Also, we give some sufficient conditions for simultaneous triangularization of collections of compact operators. Finally, se...

A triangle is a lower triangular matrix with all principal diagonal entriesbeing nonzero. Given an almost increasing sequence {Xn} and a sequence {λn} satisfying certain conditions, we obtain sufficient conditions for the series ∑ anλn to be absolutely summable of order k ≥ 1 by a triangle T . As a corollary we obtain the corresponding result when T is a weighted mean matrix. Theorem 1 of this ...

Nakajima conjectured in [N] that the transition matrix between certain PBW-basis constructed in [LXZ] and the affine canonical basis is upper triangular with the diagonal entries equal to one and the upper diagonal entries in vZ[v]. In this paper, we show that the transition matrix between the PBW-basis in [LXZ] and the canonical basis is upper triangular with the diagonal entries equal to one ...

We consider the problem of completion of a matrix with a specified lower triangular part to a unitary matrix. In this paper we obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions of existence of a unitary completion without any additional constraints and give a general formula for this completion. The paper is mainly focused on matrices with the specified lower triangular part of a special form. For...