Fredholm integral equations arise naturally in the context of ordinary and partial differential equations: Two-point boundary value problems can be reformulated as Fredholm integral equations, whose kernels are continuous but have finite jump discontinuities in their derivatives. Two-dimensional elliptic boundary problems can be reformulated as Fredholm integral equations with kernels that have...

We show that the E +-class can be decided by a liftable order, when it is applied a posteriori. This is a surprising result, because the E +-class was one of the motivations for the study of non-liftable orders. Also surprising is the behaviour of the resolution process. Initially the variable depth of the clauses may grow, but it will not grow deeper than a certain bound. We do not make use of...

and |g′′(x)| = M. We will show that |f(x)| ≤ g(x) on [0, 1]. The desired conclusion follows. Suppose however that this is false, that there is a number q ∈ [0, 1] for which f(q) > g(q). (The other case, f(q) < −g(q), is similar.) Our strategy will be to show that there are real numbers s and t with s < t such that f ′(s) > g′(s) and f ′(t) < g′(t). See figure. We will then apply the Mean Value ...

We systematically study wreath product Schur functions and give a combinatorial construction using colored partitions and tableaux. The Pieri rule and the Littlewood-Richardson rule are studied. We also discuss the connection with representations of generalized symmetric groups.

This paper provides a characterization of dominant strategy mechanisms with quasi-linear utilities and multi-dimensional types for a variety of preference domains. These characterizations are in terms of a monotonicity property on the underlying allocation rule.

Zipf’s law appears in many application areas but does not have a closed form expression, which may make its use cumbersome. Since it coincides with the truncated version of the Zeta distribution, in this paper we propose three approximate closed form expressions for the truncated Zeta distribution, which may be employed for Zipf’s law as well. The three approximations are based on the replaceme...

Are Plurality voting, the Kemeny rule, Approval voting, and the Borda Mean Dichotomy rule all versions of the same voting rule? Yes, in a sense. In an extension of work by Barthélemy and Monjardet [3], we consider functions F that assign real number scoring weights F (R1, R2) to pairs of binary relations on a finite set A of alternatives, serving as symmetric measures of similarity between R1 a...

this paper investigates existence and uniqueness results for the first order fuzzy integro-differential equations. then numerical results and error bound based on the left rectangular quadrature rule, trapezoidal rule and a hybrid of them are obtained. finally an example is given to illustrate the performance of the methods.

We consider the possible ways of the homogenization of nongraded non-commutative algebra and show that it should be combined with the cancellation rule to get the mathematically adequate correspondence between graded and non-graded algebras.