Many biological characteristics of evolutionary interest are not scalar variables but continuous functions. Given a dataset of function-valued traits generated by evolution, we develop a practical, statistical approach to infer ancestral function-valued traits, and estimate the generative evolutionary process. We do this by combining dimension reduction and phylogenetic Gaussian process regress...

In motion Kinematics, it is well-known that the time derivative of a 3 × 3 rotation matrix equals a skew-symmetric matrix multiplied by the rotation matrix where the skew symmetric matrix is a linear (matrix-valued) function of the angular velocity and the rotation matrix represents the rotating motion of a frame with respect to a reference frame. The equation is widely used in engineering, e.g...

The notion of monotonic independence, introduced by N. Muraki, is considered in a more general frame, similar to the construction of operatorvalued free probability. The paper presents constructions for maps with similar properties to the H and K transforms from the literature, semi inner-product bimodule analogues for the monotone and weakly monotone product of Hilbert spaces, an ad-hoc versio...