Relations Related to Betweenness: Their Structure and Automorphisms

Relations Related to Betweenness: Their Structure and Automorphisms
Author: Samson Adepoju Adeleke
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 141
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821806238

This volume is about tree-like structures, namely semilinear ordering, general betweenness relations, C-relations and D-relations. It contains a systematic study of betweenness and introduces C- and D- relations to describe the behaviour of points at infinity (leaves or ends or directions of trees). The focus is on structure theorems and on automorphism groups, with applications to the theory of infinite permutation groups.

Relations Related to Betweenness

Relations Related to Betweenness
Author: Samson Adepoju Adeleke
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821863466

This volume is about tree-like structures, namely semilinear ordering, general betweenness relations, C-relations and D-relations. It contains a systematic study of betweenness and introduces C- and D-relations to describe the behavior of points at infinity ("leaves" or "ends" or "directions") of trees. The focus is on structure theorems and on automorphism groups, with applications to the theory of infinite permutation groups.

The Structure of $k$-$CS$- Transitive Cycle-Free Partial Orders

The Structure of $k$-$CS$- Transitive Cycle-Free Partial Orders
Author: Richard Warren
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 183
Release: 1997
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 082180622X

The class of cycle-free partial orders (CFPOs) is defined, and the CFPOs fulfilling a natural transitivity assumption, called k-connected set transitivity (k-CS-transitivity), are analysed in some detail. Classification in many of the interesting cases is given. This work generlizes Droste's classification of the countable k-transitive trees (k>1). In a CFPO, the structure can be branch downwards as well as upwards, and can do so repeatedely (though it neverr returns to the starting point by a cycle). Mostly it is assumed that k>2 and that all maximal chains are finite. The main classification splits into the sporadic and skeletal cases. The former is complete in all cardinalities. The latter is performed only in the countable case. The classification is considerably more complicated than for trees, and skeletal CFPOs exhibit rich, elaborate and rather surprising behaviour.

Flat Extensions of Positive Moment Matrices: Recursively Generated Relations

Flat Extensions of Positive Moment Matrices: Recursively Generated Relations
Author: Raúl E. Curto
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 73
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821808699

In this book, the authors develop new computational tests for existence and uniqueness of representing measures $\mu$ in the Truncated Complex Moment Problem: $\gamma {ij}=\int \bar zizj\, d\mu$ $(0\le i+j\le 2n)$. Conditions for the existence of finitely atomic representing measures are expressed in terms of positivity and extension properties of the moment matrix $M(n)(\gamma )$ associated with $\gamma \equiv \gamma {(2n)}$: $\gamma {00}, \dots ,\gamma {0,2n},\dots ,\gamma {2n,0}$, $\gamma {00}>0$. This study includes new conditions for flat (i.e., rank-preserving) extensions $M(n+1)$ of $M(n)\ge 0$; each such extension corresponds to a distinct rank $M(n)$-atomic representing measure, and each such measure is minimal among representing measures in terms of the cardinality of its support. For a natural class of moment matrices satisfying the tests of recursive generation, recursive consistency, and normal consistency, the existence problem for minimal representing measures is reduced to the solubility of small systems of multivariable algebraic equations. In a variety of applications, including cases of the quartic moment problem ($n=2$), the text includes explicit contructions of minimal representing measures via the theory of flat extensions. Additional computational texts are used to prove non-existence of representing measures or the non-existence of minimal representing measures. These tests are used to illustrate, in very concrete terms, new phenomena, associated with higher-dimensional moment problems that do not appear in the classical one-dimensional moment problem.

Algebraic Structure of Pseudocompact Groups

Algebraic Structure of Pseudocompact Groups
Author: Dikran N. Dikranjan
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 101
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821806297

The fundamental property of compact spaces - that continuous functions defined on compact spaces are bounded - served as a motivation for E. Hewitt to introduce the notion of a pseudocompact space. The class of pseudocompact spaces proved to be of fundamental importance in set-theoretic topology and its applications. This clear and self-contained exposition offers a comprehensive treatment of the question, When does a group admit an introduction of a pseudocompact Hausdorff topology that makes group operations continuous? Equivalently, what is the algebraic structure of a pseudocompact Hausdorff group? The authors have adopted a unifying approach that covers all known results and leads to new ones, Results in the book are free of any additional set-theoretic assumptions.

Invariants under Tori of Rings of Differential Operators and Related Topics

Invariants under Tori of Rings of Differential Operators and Related Topics
Author: Ian Malcolm Musson
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 99
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821808850

If $G$ is a reductive algebraic group acting rationally on a smooth affine variety $X$, then it is generally believed that $D(X) $ has properties very similar to those of enveloping algebras of semisimple Lie algebras. In this book, the authors show that this is indeed the case when $G$ is a torus and $X=k \times (k ) $. They give a precise description of the primitive ideals in $D(X) $ and study in detail the ring theoretical and homological properties of the minimal primitive quotients of $D(X) $. The latter are of the form $B =D(X) /({\germ g}-\chi({\germ g}))$ where ${\germ g}= {\rm Lie}(G)$, $\chi\in {\germ g} ast$ and ${\germ g}-\chi({\germ g})$ is the set of all $v-\chi(v)$ with $v\in {\germ g}$. They occur as rings of twisted differential operators on toric varieties. It is also proven that if $G$ is a torus acting rationally on a smooth affine variety, then $D(X/\!/G)$ is a simple ring.

Differential Equations Methods for the Monge-Kantorovich Mass Transfer Problem

Differential Equations Methods for the Monge-Kantorovich Mass Transfer Problem
Author: Lawrence C. Evans
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 81
Release: 1999
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821809385

In this volume, the authors demonstrate under some assumptions on $f $, $f $ that a solution to the classical Monge-Kantorovich problem of optimally rearranging the measure $\mu{ }=f dx$ onto $\mu =f dy$ can be constructed by studying the $p$-Laplacian equation $- \roman{div}(\vert DU_p\vert p-2}Du_p)=f -f $ in the limit as $p\rightarrow\infty$. The idea is to show $u_p\rightarrow u$, where $u$ satisfies $\vert Du\vert\leq 1, -\roman{div}(aDu)=f -f $ for some density $a\geq0$, and then to build a flow by solving a nonautonomous ODE involving $a, Du, f $ and $f $

The Integral Manifolds of the Three Body Problem

The Integral Manifolds of the Three Body Problem
Author: Christopher Keil McCord
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821806920

The phase space of the spatial three-body problem is an open subset in R18. Holding the ten classical integrals of energu, center of mass, linear and angular momentum fixed defines an eight dimensional manifold. For fixed nonzero angular momentum, the topology of this manifold depends only on the energy. This volume computes the homology of this manifold for all energy values. This table of homology shows that for negative energy, the integral manifolds undergo seven bifurcations. Four of these are the well-known bifurcations due to central configurations, and three are due to "critical points at infinity". This disproves Birkhoffs conjecture that the bifurcations occur only at central configurations.