We study the topological properties of aggregation maps combining individuals’ preferences over n alternatives, with preference expressed by a real-valued, n-dimensional utility vector u defined on an interval scale. Since any such utility vector is specified only up to arbitrary affine transformations, the space of utility vectors R may be partitioned into equivalence classes of the form fauþ ...

Topological objects of intricate structures have been found in a wide range of systems, like cosmology to liquid crystal1, DNA chains2, superfluid 3He (Ref. 3), quantum Hall magnets4,5, Bose-Einstein condensates6 etc. The topological spin texture in helical magnets, observed in recently7,8, makes a new entry into this fascinating phenomenon. The unusual magnetic behaviour of helimagnet MnSi, no...

We develop further the topological theory of regular variation of [BOst13]. There we established the uniform convergence theorem (UCT) in the setting of topological dynamics (i.e. with a group T acting on a homogenous space X), thereby unifying and extending the multivariate regular variation literature. Here, working with realtime topological ‡ows on homogeneous spaces, we identify an index of...

Kuratowski [6] showed that a continuous compact map f : X → X defined on a closed convex subset X of a Banach space has a fixed point. This theorem has enormous influence on fixed point theory, variational inequalities, and equilibrium problems. In 1968, Goebel [5] established the well-known coincidence theorem, and then there had been a lot of generalization and application (see, [1, 2, 5]). L...

Vector fields defined only over a part of a manifold give rise to indexes and to transfers. These local vector fields form a topological space whose relation to configuration spaces was studied by Dusa McDuff, and whose higher dimensional homotopy and homology promise invariants of parametrized families of local vector fields. We show that the assignment of the transfer to the vector field give...

We clarify the relation between 2-form Einstein gravity and its topological version. The physical space of the topological version is contained in that of the Einstein gravity. Moreover a new vector field is introduced into 2-form Einstein gravity to restore the large symmetry of its topological version. The wave function of the universe is obtained for each model. † Talk given at the Workshop ...