We provide a smoothening criterion for group actions on manifolds by singular diffeomorphisms. We prove that if a countable group Gamma has the fixed point property FW for walls (for example, if it has property(T)), every aperiodic action of Gamma by diffe ...
We construct examples of finitely generated infinite simple groups of homeomorphisms of the real line. Equivalently, these are examples of finitely generated simple left (or right) orderable groups. This answers a well known open question of Rhemtulla from ...
A new numerical method based on numerical homogenization and model order reduction is introduced for the solution of multiscale inverse problems. We consider a class of elliptic problems with highly oscillatory tensors that varies on a microscopic scale. W ...
Deriving the time-dependent expected reward function associated with a continuous-time Markov chain involves the computation of its transient deviation matrix. In this paper we focus on the special case of a finite quasi-birth-and-death (QBD) process, moti ...
Let F be a fixed graph. The rainbow Turan number of F is defined as the maximum number of edges in a graph on n vertices that has a proper edge-coloring with no rainbow copy of F (i.e., a copy of F all of whose edges have different colours). The systematic ...
We provide a process on the space of collections of coalescing cadlag stable paths and show convergence in an appropriate topology for coalescing stable random walks on the integer lattice. ...
We present new techniques to analyze natural local search algorithms for several variants of the max-sum diversification problem which, in its most basic form, is as follows: given an n-point set X subset of R-d and an integer k, select k points in X so th ...
In this paper, a new data-driven method for designing robust controllers is proposed for systemswith sector-bounded nonlinearities and multimodel uncertainties. The results from the circle criterion are used to generate necessary and sufficient convex cons ...
We provide upper and lower bounds on the escape rate of the Bhattacharyya process corresponding to polar codes where transmission takes place over the the binary erasure channel. More precisely, we bound the exponent of the number of sub-channels whose Bha ...
