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We continue work on the topology obtained by the convergence $\lambda_{ls}$, which started in \cite{KuPaCZ}, and further investigated in \cite{KuPaFil19}. The main goal is to describe the closed sets and closure operator by the family of…
We introduce new aspects in conformal geometry of some very natural second-order differential operators. These operators are termed shift operators. In the flat space, they are intertwining operators which are closely related to symmetry…
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The active bijection for oriented matroids (and real hyperplane arrangements, and graphs, as particular cases) is introduced and investigated by the authors in a series of papers. Given any oriented matroid defined on a linearly ordered…
We study equivariant projective compactifications of reductive groups obtained by closing the image of a group in the space of operators of a projective representation. We describe the structure and the mutual position of their orbits under…
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The bidual of the closure of smooth functions with respect to the Morrey norm coincides with the Morrey space. This assertion is generalized to some Muckenhoupt weighted Morrey spaces. We combine this fact with basic extrapolation…
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Matroids are a fundamental object of study in combinatorial optimization. Three closely related and important problems involving matroids are maximizing the size of the union of $k$ independent sets (that is, $k$-fold matroid union),…
We introduce a construction of oriented matroids from a triangulation of a product of two simplices. For this, we use the structure of such a triangulation in terms of polyhedral matching fields. The oriented matroid is composed of…
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Consider the following problem: given a set system (U,I) and an edge-weighted graph G = (U, E) on the same universe U, find the set A in I such that the Steiner tree cost with terminals A is as large as possible: "which set in I is the most…
Grasping mechanisms must both create and subsequently hold grasps that permit safe and effective object manipulation. Existing mechanisms address the different functional requirements of grasp creation and grasp holding using a single…
We introduce the notion of a quasi-matroidal class of ordered simplicial complexes: an approximation to the idea of a matroid cryptomorphism in the landscape of ordered simplicial complexes. A quasi-matroidal class contains pure shifted…
We introduce the resolvent composition, a monotonicity-preserving operation between a linear operator and a set-valued operator, as well as the proximal composition, a convexity-preserving operation between a linear operator and a function.…
It is known that it is a very restrictive condition for a frame $\{f_k\}_{k=1}^\infty$ to have a representation $ \{T^n \varphi\}_{n=0}^\infty$ as the orbit of a bounded operator $T$ under a single generator $\varphi\in\mathcal{H}.$ In this…
Let $M$ be a matroid defined on a finite set $E$ and $L\subset E$. $L$ is locked in $M$ if $M|L$ and $M^*|(E\backslash L)$ are 2-connected, and $min\{r(L), r^*(E\backslash L)\} \geq 2$. Locked subsets characterize nontrivial facets of the…
We study possibilities for algebraic closures, differences between definable and algebraic closures in first-order structures, and variations of these closures with respect to the bounds of cardinalities of definable sets and given sets of…
In the context of the $\mathcal{OCA}$ associated to an ${\mathcal{AKS}}$ we introduce a closure operator and two associated maps that replace the closure and the maps defined in \cite{kn:ocar}. We were motivated by the search of a full…