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It is a well-known open problem since the 1970s whether a finitely generated perfect group can be normally generated by a single element or not. We prove that the topological version of this problem has an affirmative answer as long as we exclude infinite ...
This thesis, which presents a new approach to the algebraic K-theory, is divided into two parts. The first one is devoted to the category of small simplicial categories. First, we construct a new model structure on sCat = [Δop,Cat] which is called the diag ...
Given a set P of n points in ℝd, let d1 > d2 >...denote all distinct inter-point distances generated by point pairs in P. It was shown by Schur, Martini, Perles, and Kupitz that there is at most oned-dimensional regular simplex of edge length d1 whos ...
By a polygonization of a finite point set S in the plane we understand a simple polygon having S as the set of its vertices. Let B and R be sets of blue and red points, respectively, in the plane such that is in general position, and the convex hull of B c ...
We demonstrate how the scale axis transform can be used to compute a parameterized family of shape skeletons. The skeletons gradually represent only the most important features of a shape, in a scale-adaptive manner. Here a shape O is any bounded open subs ...
Suppose d > 2, n > d+1, and we have a set P of n points in d-dimensional Euclidean space. Then P contains a subset Q of d points such that for any p ∈ P, the convex hull of Q∪{p} does not contain the origin in its interior.We also show that for non-emp ...
We address the numerical simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems characterized by a strong added-mass effect. We propose a semi-implicit coupling scheme based on an algebraic fractional-step method. The basic idea of a semi-implicit scheme consi ...
We consider a heterogeneous model for the dynamics of a blood solute both in the vascular lumen and inside the arterial wall. In the lumen, we consider an advection-diffusion equation, where the convective field is provided by the velocity of blood, which ...
Randomized stopping points form a convex set associated with the information structure that arises in the context of the optimal stopping problem for two-parameter processes. We study combinatorial properties of this structure when the underlying space is ...
The ompA gene from Salmonella typhimurium, encoding a major heat-modifiable protein of the outer membrane, has been cloned and extensively characterized. When expressed in Escherichia coli the gene directs the synthesis of an OmpA protein which is function ...