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A protocol for considering decoherence in quantum games is presented. Results for two-player, two-strategy quantum games subject to decoherence are derived and some specific examples are given. Decoherence in other types of quantum games is…
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This paper studies "pro-excision" for the K-theory of one-dimensional (usually semi-local) rings and its various applications. In particular, we prove Geller's conjecture for equal characteristic rings over a perfect field of finite…
This is a pedagogical article cited in the foregoing research note, quant-ph/9911050
The Bermond-Thomassen conjecture states that, for any positive integer $r$, a digraph of minimum out-degree at least $2r-1$ contains at least $r$ vertex-disjoint directed cycles. In 2014, Bang-Jensen, Bessy and Thomass\' e proved the…
We prove the K-theoretic Farrell-Jones Conjecture for hyperbolic groups with (twisted) coefficients in any associative ring with unit.
In this note we point out an error in the above paper and refer to some papers where this error is corrected and a more general theorem is proved.
The paper suggests a family of paired comparison-based scoring procedures for ranking the participants of a Swiss system chess team tournament. We present the challenges of ranking in Swiss system, the features of individual and team…
Correction to The Annals of Statistics (2006) 34, 1013--1044 [URL: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1151418250]
Based on known methods for computing the number of distinct score sequences for $n$-vertex tournaments, we develop algorithms for computing the number of distinct score sequences for self-complementary tournaments, strong tournaments, and…
We prove two single-parameter q-supercongruences which were recently conjectured by Guo, and establish their further extensions with one more parameter. Crucial ingredients in the proof are the terminating form of q-binomial theorem and a…
Landau \cite{Landau1953} showed that a sequence $(d_i)_{i=1}^n$ of integers is the score sequence of some tournament if and only if $\sum_{i\in J}d_i \geq \binom{|J|}{2}$ for all $J\subseteq \{1,2,\dots, n\}$, with equality if $|J|=n$. Moon…
We deal with inverse maximum theorems, which are inspired by the ones given by Aoyama, Komiya, Li et al., Park and Komiya, and Yamauchi. As a consequence of our results, we state and prove an inverse maximum Nash theorem and show that any…
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This short note establishes an abstract Hales--Jewett theorem for semigroups equipped with a finite family of retractions. The proof relies on the interplay between retractions and tensor products of ultrafilters.
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