The breathing-mode giant monopole resonance is studied within the framework of the rel-ativistic mean-field (RMF) theory. Using a broad range of parameter sets, a systematic analysis of constrained incompressibility and excitation energy of isoscalar monopole states in finite nuclei is performed. A comparison is made with the incompressibility derived from the semi-infinite nuclear matter and w...

We show that the conjectural criterion of p-incompressibility for products of projective homogeneous varieties in terms of the factors, previously known in a few special cases only, holds in general. We identify the properties of projective homogeneous varieties actually needed for the proof to go through. For instance, generically split (nonhomogeneous) varieties also satisfy these properties....

Given a local diffeomorphism f : R → R, we consider certain incompressibility conditions on the parallelepiped Df(x) ([0, 1]) which imply that the pre-image of an affine subspace is non-empty and has trivial homotopy groups. These conditions are then used to establish criteria for f to be globally invertible, generalizing in all dimensions the previous results of Sabatini.

Kolmogorov complexity is a modern notion of randomness dealing with the quantity of information in individual objects; that is, pointwise randomness rather than average randomness as produced by a random source. It was proposed by A.N. Kolmogorov in 1965 to quantify the randomness of individual objects in an objective and absolute manner. This is impossible for classical probability theory. Kol...

We prove the following conjecture due to Bryant Mathews (2008). Let Q be the orthogonal grassmannian of totally isotropic i-planes of a non-degenerate quadratic form q over an arbitrary field (where i is an integer satisfying 1 ≤ i ≤ (dim q)/2). If the degree of each closed point on Q is divisible by 2 and the Witt index of q over the function field of Q is equal to i, then the variety Q is 2-i...