We resolve the local semistable reduction problem for overconvergent F -isocrystals at monomial valuations (Abhyankar valuations of height 1 and residue transcendence degree zero). We first introduce a higher-dimensional analogue of the generic radius of convergence for a p-adic differential module, which obeys a convexity property. We then combine this convexity property with a form of the p-a...

Anguina pacificae n. sp. is described and illustrated from stem galls on bluegrass, Poa annua L., from golf courses along coastal California. The females are characterized by constrictions in the anterior and posterior connections of the isthmus with the respective parts of the esophagus, the long multicellular columella, and the sharply pointed tail tip. Males are dorsally curved after death; ...

Following the pioneering work of Schapira, we consider topological Radon-type integral transforms on constructible Z-valued functions using the Euler characteristic as a measure. Contributions include: (1) application of the Schapira inversion formula to target localization and classification problems in sensor networks; (2) extension and application of the inversion formula to weighted Radon t...

In [6] Jorge and Xavier constructed examples of complete nonplanar minimal surfaces contained between two parallel planes in •3. Recently Rosenberg and Toubiana have found complete minimally immersed annuli that are proper in an open slab 1-12]. On the basis of these and other results, the question has arisen as to whether or not there could exist a properly immersed minimal surface in ~3 that ...

Abstract Rigorous, elementary upper and lower bounds upon the Lyapunov exponents of a parametrised family linked twist maps are given, obtained explicitly for specific range parameter values. The method used to obtain utilises existence invariant cones products underlying shear maps, return time partition overlap region two annuli. Improvements accuracy this then by considering preceding sequen...

We study the time evolution of an incompressible fluid with axial symmetry without swirl when vorticity is sharply concentrated on N annuli radii ?r0 and thickness ?. prove that r0 = |log ?|?, ? > 2, field converges as ? ? 0 to point-vortex model, at least for a small but positive time. This result generalizes previous paper assumed power law relation between

A method is presented for estimating the background at a given location on a sky map by interpolating the estimated background from a set of concentric annuli which surround this location. If the background is nonuniform but smoothly varying, this method provides a more accurate (though less precise) estimate than can be obtained with a single annulus. Several applications of multi-annulus back...

The modulus of quasipositivity q(K) of a knot K was introduced as a tool in the knot theory of complex plane curves, and can be applied to Legendrian knot theory in symplectic topology. It has also, however, a straightforward characterization in ordinary knot theory: q(K) is the supremum of the integers f such that the framed knot (K, f) embeds non-trivially on a fiber surface of a positive tor...

We show that the number of lattice points lying in a thin annulus has a Gaussian value distribution if the width of the annulus tends to zero sufficiently slowly as we increase the inner radius.

We describe a new approach to the canonical decompositions of 3–manifolds along tori and annuli due to Jaco–Shalen and Johannson (with ideas from Waldhausen) — the so-called JSJ–decomposition theorem. This approach gives an accessible proof of the decomposition theorem; in particular it does not use the annulus–torus theorems, and the theory of Seifert fibrations does not need to be developed i...