Abstract The set Γ def = {(z + w, zw) : |z| ≤ 1, |w| ≤ 1} ⊂ C has intriguing complex-geometric properties; it has a 3-parameter group of automorphisms, its distinguished boundary is a ruled surface homeomorphic to the Möbius band and it has a special subvariety which is the only complex geodesic that is invariant under all automorphisms. We exploit this geometry to develop an explicit and detai...

It was Hofstra's ball, fourth and four from the Great Dane 13-yard line. The Hofslra Stadium scoreboard showed l :47 remaining with the visitors on top 32-28. Albany State was silting on a golden opportunity to knock off the undefeated and sixth-ranked Long Island school and prove to the Division 111 critics that the Dane's 3-4 record had something to do with their rugged schedule consisting of...

this study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of joseph conrad’s lord jim. it is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. in other words, it investigates the connection between the narrative strategy and a possible tone of imperialism in conrad’s novel. for the introduction, a brief review of conrad’s manner of writing and his peculiar ambiguity is p...

The sandpile group of a graph G is an abelian group whose order is the number of spanning trees of G. We find the decomposition of the sandpile group into cyclic subgroups when G is a regular tree with the leaves are collapsed to a single vertex. This result can be used to understand the behavior of the rotor-router model, a deterministic analogue of random walk studied first by physicists and ...