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Making use of the total variation of particular functions, we give an explicit formula for the pointwise supremum of the set of all copulas with a given curvilinear section. When the pointwise supremum is a copula is characterized. We also…
The paper gives an overview of the problems and methods of recovery of structure and motion parameters of rigid bodies from multiframes.
Let $w\in L^1\_{loc}(\R^n)$ be apositive weight. Assuming that a doubling condition and an $L^1$ Poincar\'e inequality on balls for the measure $w(x)dx$, as well as a growth condition on $w$, we prove that the compact subsets of $\R^n$…
The aim of this paper is to investigate the contraction properties of $p$-Wasserstein distances with respect to convolution in Euclidean spaces both qualitatively and quantitatively. We connect this question to the question of uniform…
Two examples concerning an application of topology in the study of the dynamics of an inverted plain mathematical pendulum with a pivot point moving along a horizontal straight line are considered. The first example is an application of the…
The deformation of the classical action for a free relativistic particle recently suggested by A. Staruszkiewicz gives rise to a spin structure which constrains the values of the invariant mass and the invariant spin to be the same for any…
In this note we give a quick and simple proof of the existence (and uniqueness) of Zariski decompositions on surfaces. While Zariski's original proof employs a rather sophisticated procedure to construct the negative part of the…
An emended and improved version of the present paper has been archived in math-ph/0505057, and a preliminary account of its content has been published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 92, 60601, (2004). Moreover, in order to prove the relevance of…
Determination of stability and instability of singular points in nonlinear dynamical systems is an important issue that has attracted considerable attention in different fields of engineering and science. So far, different well-defined…
Rigidity conditions for a body considered as a discrete system of relativistic particles are proposed. They by themselves do not yet determine an evolution of the system, and some second-order equations must be added to them.…
The above title is the same, but with "semisimple" instead of "simple," as that of a notice by N. Kowalsky. There, she announced many theorems on the subject of actions of simple Lie groups preserving a Lorentz structure. Unfortunately, she…
We study the motion of an inextensible string (a whip) fixed at one point in the absence of gravity, satisfying the equations $$ \eta_{tt} = \partial_s(\sigma \eta_s), \qquad \sigma_{ss}-\lvert \eta_{ss}\rvert^2 = -\lvert \eta_{st}\rvert^2,…
We use a recently developed action principle in spaces with curvature and torsion to derive the Euler equations of motion for a rigid body within the body-fixed coordinate system. This serves as an example that the particle trajectories in…
A theorem of O. Haupt, rediscovered by M. Kapovich and celebrated by his proof invoking Ratner theory, describes the set of de Rham cohomology classes on a topological orientable surface, which can be realized by an abelian differential in…
After a brief review of topological gravity, we present a superspace approach to this theory. This formulation allows us to recover in a natural manner various known results and to gain some insight into the precise relationship between…
Holomorphic removability is of importance in dynanical systems theory. P.W.Jones found that Sobolev removability can serve as a substitute. He proved a strong strong result for H\"older domains. The present work gives some results on the…
New method of analysing the free and heavy symmetric tops using Euler's equations to perform extraction from the body frame to the lab frame. Subsequent to extraction, the lab frame equations are solved by space phasor method.
Chaplygin's equations describing the planar motion of a rigid body in an unbounded volume of an ideal fluid involved in a circular flow around the body are considered. Hamiltonian structures, new integrable cases, and partial solutions are…
This is an invited commentary on "Geometrically incompatible confinement of solids", B. Davidovitch, Y. Sun and G. M. Grason (PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1815507116 , arxiv:1809.06919).
The Colombo top is a basic model in the rotation dynamics of a celestial body moving on a precessing orbit and perturbed by a gravitational torque. The paper presents a detailed study of analytical solution to this problem. By solving…