Using variational analysis, we study the linear regularity for a collection of finitely many closed sets. In particular, we extend duality characterizations of the linear regularity for a collection of finitely many closed convex sets to the possibly nonconvex setting. Moreover the sharpest linear regularity constant can also be dually represented under the subsmoothness assumption.

We prove that a locally finitely dimensional shiftinvariant linear space of distributions must be a linear subspace of some shift-invariant space generated by finitely many compactly supported distributions. If the locally finitely dimensional shiftinvariant space is a subspace of the Hölder continuous space C or the fractional Sobolev space L , then the superspace can be chosen to be C or L , ...

In this paper, the notion of maximal m-open set is introduced and itsproperties are investigated. Some results about existence of maximal m-open setsare given. Moreover, the relations between maximal m-open sets in an m-spaceand maximal open sets in the corresponding generated topology are considered.Our results are supported by examples and counterexamples.

We show that finitely generated Abelian groups admit equal growth functions with respect to symmetric generating sets if and only if they have the same rank and the torsion parts have the same parity. In contrast, finitely generated Abelian groups admit equal growth functions with respect to monoid generating sets if and only if they have same rank. Moreover, we show that the size of the torsio...

Support vector machine (SVM) has been a promising method for classification and regression analysis because of its solid mathematical foundation which conveys several salient properties that other methods do not provide. However, despite the prominent properties of SVM, it is not as favored for large-scale data mining as for pattern recognition or machine learning because the training complexit...

In this paper we give non-trivial applications of the thermodynamic formalism to the theory of distribution functions of Gibbs measures (devil’s staircases) supported on limit sets of finitely generated conformal iterated function systems in R. For a large class of these Gibbs states we determine the Hausdorff dimension of the set of points at which the distribution function of these measures i...