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A class of games for finding a leader among a group of candidates is studied in detail. This class covers games based on coin tossing and rock-paper-scissors as special cases and its complexity exhibits similar stochastic behaviors: either of logarithmic mean and bounded variance or of exponential mean and exponential variance. Many applications are also discussed.

In this note we re-examine the analysis of the paper "On the martingale property of stochastic exponentials" by B. Wong and C.C. Heyde, Journal of Applied Probability, 41(3):654-664, 2004. Some counterexamples are presented and alternative formulations are discussed., Comment: To appear in Journal of Applied Probability, 11 pages

The concept of a metaplectic form was introduced about 40 years ago by T. Kubota. He showed how Jacobi-Legendre symbols of arbitrary order give rise to characters of arithmetic groups. Metaplectic forms are the automorphic forms with these characters. Kubota also showed how higher analogues of the classical theta functions could be constructed using Selberg's theory of Eisenstein series. Unfortunately many aspects of these generalized theta series are still unknown, for example, their Fourier coefficients. The analogues in the case of function fields over finite fields can in principle be calculated explicitly and this was done first by J. Hoffstein in the case of a rational function field. Here we shall return to his calculations and clarify a number of aspects of them, some of which are important for recent developments.

AbsrtactStaring form a probability σ on the half-line moments of any order A. G. Pakes has defined probabilities σr, by length biasing order r and gr, by the stationary-excess operation of order r, r = 1, 2,…Examples are given to show that σ can bt determined in the Stieltjes sence while σ1 and g1 are indeterminate in the Stieltjes sence. This shows that a statement in a recent paper by Pakes does not hold.

This paper presents a sufficient condition for a one-dimensional Dirac operator with a potential tending to infinity at infinity to have no eigenvalues. It also provides a quick proof (and suggests variations) of a related criterion given by Evans and Harris.

It is shown that an immersion of n dimensional compact oriented manifold without boundary into the n+1 dimensional Euclidean space, hyperbolic space or open half sphere is a totally umbilic immersion if one of the mean curvature function H_l does not vanish and the ratio H_k/H_l is constant, 1\leq k, l \leq n, k\ne l.

Recently, Saleh claimed to have solved `a long standing open question' in Topology; namely, he proved that every almost continuous function is closure continuous (= $\theta$-continuous). Unfortunately, this problem was settled long time ago and even a better result is known., Comment: 2 pages, to appear in "Glasgow Math. J."

The mechanical procedure of paper folding generates an uncountable family of infinite sequences of fold patterns. We obtain the associated Fourier series and show that the sequences are almost periodic and hence deterministic. Further, we show that paper folding numbers defined by the sequences are all transcendental.

Consider the first order differential equation (1) , where pi, and τi, for i = 1,…,n, are positive constants. To find necessary and sufficient conditions, in terms of the coefficients and the delays only, under which all solutions of (1) oscillate, is a problem of great importence. In a recent paper, Bowcock and Yu claimed that is a necessary and sufficient condition for all solutions of (1) to be oscillatory. In this paper a counterexample shows that the above result is not valid and the error in this paper is indicated.

The utilisation factor for a discrete dam, defined as the stationary probability of non-emptiness of the dam just before release, is obtained for a class of models that includes the Odoom–Lloyd model, the Anis–Lloyd model, the model of Herbert, etc. The method used points to a different approach to measuring dam utilisation via the actual utilisation, which appears to be more fruitful, and this is discussed in the last section.

Let X be a locally compact and σ-compact abelian group and let denote the dual group of X. We denote by ξ a fixed Haar measure on X and by the Haar measure associated with ξ. In [2], we show the followingTheorem. Let (αt)t≧0 be a sub-Markov convolution semi-group on X and let ψ be the negative definite function associated with (αt)t≧0. Then (αt)t≧0 is transient if and only if Re (1/ψ) is locally -summable.

It is shown that a result by Moeckel holds not only for admissible subgroups of SL (2, ℤ), but also for arbitrary subgroups of finite index.

Applying a new and very elegant method of proof of the Schur-Hardy inequality, given by E.R. Love at the Oberwolfach conference on Linear Spaces and Approximation (1977), norm estimates of integral operators with homogeneous kernels are established in the setting of abstract function norms. Applications to Flett's inequality, to integral means, and to fractional integrals are given.

Throughout, (X, ≤ ) denotes a partially ordered set (p. o. set), where X is assumed to be finite. A subset Y of X is called a k-union if Y contains no chain of length K + 1. In particular, therefore, a 1-union is just an antichain; and it is readily seen that Y is a k-union if and only if it is a union of K antichains. (Dually, a subset Z of X is a k-counion if Z contains no antichain of length k + 1.) We denote by dk (X) the maximum cardinality of a k-union in X, with a similar notation for other p. o. sets. Now let be any partition of X into chains, and write.

An elementary proof is given of a result obtained by concerning the sum of an infinite series involving a 4F3.

The objective of the paper Aczél and Ostrowski (1973) is to show in an elementary way that any real-valued function f, defined on (0,1) and satisfying he inquality , where n ≧ 3 is fixed, is necessary of the form .

An associative locally finite algebra which is also an integral domain over an algebraically closed field is isomorphic to the ground field.

In a recent paper (1) Singh and Dhaliwal present an analysis which purports to solve a pair of dual integral equations which occur in crack theory and the object of this note is to demonstrate that their analysis is erroneous.

The author regrets that there are certain errors in [1] and would like to give the following corrections.

In this short paper, we characterise graphs of order $pq$ with $p, q$ prime which are self-complementary and vertex-transitive.

In this short paper we show that if (X, ∥ · ∥) is a Banach space, Γ a norming set for X and C is a nonempty, bounded and Γ sequentially compact subset of X, then in C the Γ-Opial condition for nets is equivalent to the Γ-Opial condition.

The activated sludge process is one of the major aerobic processes used in the biological treatment of wastewater. A significant drawback of this process is the production of excess sludge, the disposal of which can account for 50-60% of the running costs of a plant. Thus there is a growing interest in methods that reduce the volume and mass of excess sludge produced as part of biological wastewater treatment processes. In practice a target value is often set for the sludge content inside the bioreactor. If the sludge content is higher than the target value, the process is stopped and the reactor is cleaned. This is undesirable as it increases running costs. In chapter 2 we investigate a simple model for the activated sludge process in which the influent contains a mixture of soluble and biodegradable particulate substrate. Within the bioreactor the biodegradable particulate substrate is hydrolyzed to form soluble substrate. The soluble organics are used for energy and growth by the biomass. Biomass decay produces soluble substrate in addition to inert material. We use steady-state analysis to investigate how the amount of sludge formed depends upon the residence time and the use of a settling unit. We show that when the steady-state sludge content is plotted as a function of the residence time that there are five generic response diagrams, depending upon the value of the effective recycle parameter. Four of them are desirable because the sludge content is below the target value if the residence time is higher than some critical value that is not ‘too large’ in practice. In chapter 3 we investigate how the volume and mass of excess sludge produced by the activated sludge process can be reduced by coupling the bioreactor used in the process to a sludge disintegration unit. In chapter 4 a seemingly minor modification is made to the model in chapter 2.

Example 1Take a cardboard equilateral triangle. It is well known that this has six symmetries. To display these symmetries we colour the vertices of the triangle on both sides of the card with three different colours.

The renormalization group method has been developed to investigate p-adic q-state Potts models on the Cayley tree of order k. This method is closely related to the examination of dynamical behavior of the p-adic Potts–Bethe mapping which depends on the parameters q, k. In Mukhamedov and Khakimov [Chaotic behavior of the p-adic Potts–Behte mapping. Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst.38 (2018), 231–245], we have considered the case when q is not divisible by p and, under some conditions, it was established that the mapping is conjugate to the full shift on $\kappa _p$ symbols (here $\kappa _p$ is the greatest common factor of k and $p-1$ ). The present paper is a continuation of the forementioned paper, but here we investigate the case when q is divisible by p and k is arbitrary. We are able to fully describe the dynamical behavior of the p-adic Potts–Bethe mapping by means of a Markov partition. Moreover, the existence of a Julia set is established, over which the mapping exhibits a chaotic behavior. We point out that a similar result is not known in the case of real numbers (with rigorous proofs).