The paper aims at finding widely and smoothly defined nonparametric location and scatter functionals. As a convenient vehicle, maximum likelihood estimation of the location vector μ and scatter matrix Σ of an elliptically symmetric t distribution on R with degrees of freedom ν > 1 extends to an M-functional defined on all probability distributions P in a weakly open, weakly dense domain U . Her...

C. Akemann and G.K. Pedersen [Duke Math. J. 40 (1973), 785– 795.] defined three concepts of semicontinuity for self-adjoint elements of A∗∗, the enveloping von Neumann algebra of a C∗-algebra A. We give the basic properties of the analogous concepts for elements of pA∗∗p, where p is a closed projection in A∗∗. In other words, in place of affine functionals on Q, the quasi–state space of A, we c...

This thesis is devoted to the study of mathematical properties of exact minimizers for the K–,L–, and E– functionals of the theory of real interpolation. Recently exact minimizers for these functionals have appeared in important results in image processing. In the thesis, we present a geometry of optimal decomposition for L– functional for the couple (`2, X), where space `2 is defined by the st...

Given a Hilbert space (H, 〈·, ·〉), and interval Λ ⊂ (0, +∞) and a map K ∈ C(H,R) whose gradient is a compact mapping, we consider the family of functionals of the type: I(λ, u) = 1 2 〈u, u〉 − λK(u), (λ, u) ∈ Λ×H. As already observed by many authors, for the functionals we are dealing with the (PS) condition may fail under just this assumptions. Nevertheless, by using a recent deformation Lemma ...

K. Mehlhorn introduced a class of polynomial time computable operators in order to study poly time reducibilities between functions. This class is deened using a generalization of A. Cobham's deenition of feasibility for type 1 functions to type 2 functionals. Cobham's feasible functions are equivalent to the familiar poly time functions. We generalize this equivalence to type 2 functionals. Th...

The conditions under which, multilinear forms (the symmetric case and the non symmetric case),can be written as a product of linear forms, are considered. Also we generalize a result due to S.Kurepa for 2n-functionals in a group G.

Estimating density functionals of analog sources is an important problem in statistical signal processing and information theory. Traditionally, estimating these quantities requires either making parametric assumptions about the underlying distributions or using non-parametric density estimation followed by integration. In this paper we introduce a direct nonparametric approach which bypasses t...

In this paper we study the generating functionals of several random packing processes: the classical Matérn hard-core model; its extensions, the k-Matérn models and the ∞-Matérn model, which is an example of random sequential packing process. We first give a sufficient condition for the ∞-Matérn model to be well-defined (unlike the other two, the latter may not be well-defined on unbounded spac...

We study the thermodynamics of Na8 and Na20 clusters using multiple-histogram methods and an ab initio treatment of the valence electrons within density functional theory. We consider the influence of various electron kinetic-energy functionals and pseudopotentials on the canonical ionic specific heats. The results for all models we consider show qualitative similarities, but also significant t...

The volume of the Lp-centroid body of a convex body K ⊂ Rd is a convex function of a time-like parameter when each chord of K parallel to a fixed direction moves with constant speed. This fact is used to study extrema of some affine invariant functionals involving the volume of the Lp-centroid body and related to classical open problems like the slicing problem. Some variants of the Lp-Busemann...