initiality Lutz Schröder, Horst Herrlich Abstract. We study morphisms that are initial w.r.t. all functors in a given conglomerate. Several results and counterexamples are obtained concerning the relation of such properties to different notions of subobject. E.g., strong monomorphisms are initial w.r.t. all faithful adjoint functors, but not necessarily w.r.t. all faithful monomorphism-preservi...

Ω 7−→ λ1(Ω) , under the volume constraint Vol(Ω) = α (where α ∈ (0,Vol(M)) is fixed) are called extremal domains. Smooth extremal domains are characterized by the property that the eigenfunctions associated to the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator have constant Neumann boundary data [2]. In other words, a smooth domain is extremal if and only if there exists a positive function ...

For bivariate heavy tailed data, the extremes may carry distinctive dependence information not seen from moderate values. For example, a large value in one component may help cause a large value in the other. This is the idea behind the notion of extremal dependence. We discuss ways to detect and measure extremal dependence. We apply the techniques discussed to internet data and conclude that f...

We generalize the notions of the Futaki invariant and extremal vector field of a compact Kähler manifold to the general almost-Kähler case and show the periodicity of the extremal vector field when the symplectic form represents an integral cohomology class modulo torsion. We also give an explicit formula of the hermitian scalar curvature in Darboux coordinates which allows us to obtain example...

For one-dimensional p-Laplacian with weights in Lγ : L 0, 1 ,R 1 ≤ γ ≤ ∞ balls, we are interested in the extremal values of the mth positive half-eigenvalues associated with Dirichlet, Neumann, and generalized periodic boundary conditions, respectively. It will be shown that the extremal value problems for half-eigenvalues are equivalent to those for eigenvalues, and all these extremal values a...

We construct interpolating solutions describing single-center static extremal non-supersymmetric black holes in four-dimensional N = 2 supergravity theories with cubic prepotentials. To this end, we derive and solve first-order flow equations for rotating electrically charged extremal black holes in a Taub-NUT geometry in five dimensions. We then use the connection between fiveand four-dimensio...

Here we study the Brill–Noether theory of “extremal” Cornalba’s theta-characteristics on stable curves C of genus g, where “extremal” means that they are line bundles on a quasi-stable model of C with ](Sing(C)) exceptional components.