Let $K$ be a locally compact hypergroup with left Haar measure and let $L^1(K)$ be the complex Lebesgue space associated with it. Let $L^infty(K)$ be the dual of $L^1(K)$. The purpose of this paper is to present some necessary and sufficient conditions for $L^infty(K)^*$ to have a topologically left invariant mean. Some characterizations of amenable hypergroups are given.

Let L be a countable language. We characterize, in terms of definable closure, those countable theories Σ of Lω1,ω(L) for which there exists an S∞-invariant probability measure on the collection of models of Σ with underlying set N. Restricting to Lω,ω(L), this answers an open question of Gaifman from 1964, via a translation between S∞-invariant measures and Gaifman’s symmetric measure-models w...

We propose a measure of clutter for real images that can be used to predict search times. This measure uses an efficient segmentation algorithm (P. Felzenszwalb & D. Huttenlocher, 2004) to count the number of regions in an image. This number is not uniquely defined, however, because it varies with the scale of segmentation. The relationship between the number of regions and the scale of segment...