where I denotes the class of dendrites, II is the regular curves, III is the hereditarily locally connected continua, IV is the rational curves, and V» is the class of continua of dimension not exceeding n. Now it should be remarked that, for each of these classes save the first, if a continuum possesses the defining property in the small then it is a member of the class. That is, a local regul...

Introduction 1. Definitions and Elementary Results 2. When Disconnected Filled-in Julia Sets are Cantor Sets 3. Smooth Julia Sets 4. Fixed Points 5. Remarks on the Topology of the Connectedness Locus Acknowledgements References We consider the rational maps given by z jzj z c, for z and c complex and fixed and real. The case corresponds to quadratic polynomials: some of the well-known results f...

We investigate the computational complexity of spatial logics extended with the means to represent topological connectedness and restrict the number of connected components. In particular, we show that the connectedness constraints can increase complexity from NP to PSpace, ExpTime and, if component counting is allowed, to NExpTime.

We study the probability of connectedness for structures of size n when all components must have size at least m: In the border between almost certain connectedness and almost certain disconnectedness, we encounter a generalized Buchstab function of n=m: r 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

According to the association-induction hypothesis, the core of living phenomena lies in the long-range, one-on-many connectedness among all three major components of living protoplasm: protein, water and K+ (and the controlling agents, called the cardinal adsorbents.) This article describes simple experimental models that could cogently test the theory of this connectedness and its control by d...

In this paper, a certain new connectedness of L-fuzzy subsets inL-topological spaces is introduced and studied by means of preclosed sets. Itpreserves some fundamental properties of connected set in general topology.Especially the famous K. Fan’s Theorem holds.

We develop a natural generalization of vector-valued frame theory, we term operator-valued frame theory, using operator-algebraic methods. This extends work of the second author and D. Han which can be viewed as the multiplicity one case and extends to higher multiplicity their dilation approach. We prove several results for operator-valued frames concerning duality, disjointeness, complementar...

In recent years, an interesting class of communication systems has emerged: Social Awareness (SA) Systems. These systems aim at increasing people’s sense of social connectedness by providing them with peripheral awareness of information about people from their social network (e.g. presence, availability, activities). The interaction principles of these systems are based on the paradigms of Ubiq...

We define direct sums and a corresponding notion of con-nectedness for graph limits. Every graph limit has a unique decomposition as a direct sum of connected components. As is well-known, graph limits may be represented by symmetric functions on a probability space; there are natural definitions of direct sums and connectedness for such functions, and there is a perfect correspondence with the...

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