In 1867, Syvlester noted that the Kronecker product of two Hadamard matrices is an Hadamard matrix. This gave a way to obtain an Hadamard matrix of exponent four from two of exponent two. Early last decade, Agayan and Sarukhanyan found a way to combine two Hadamard matrices of exponent two to obtain one of exponent three, and just last year Craigen, Seberry and Zhang discovered how to combine f...

|A new approach for getting upperbounds for the capacity and the error exponent of the Poisson channel is proposed. It is based on a new sphere{packing lowerbound for the error probability. Strong converse for the coding theorem is also established.

We derive upper and lower bounds on the reliability function for the common-message discrete memoryless broadcast channel with variable-length feedback. We show that the bounds are tight when the broadcast channel is stochastically degraded. For the achievability part, we adapt Yamamoto and Itoh’s coding scheme by controlling the expectation of the maximum of a set of stopping times. For the co...

This paper presents evidence of long-range dependence in bid–ask prices for individual equity prices in the Brazilian stock market. Moreover, using the Hurst exponent calculated by the Local Whittle method as a measure of long-range dependence, we find evidence supporting that bid–ask prices shows a stronger long-range dependence than the one usually found in closing and opening prices. Finally...