The unitary extension principle (UEP) by Ron and Shen yields conditions for the construction of a multi-generated tight wavelet frame for L2(Rs) based on a given refinable function. In this paper we show that the UEP can be generalized to locally compact abelian groups. In the general setting, the resulting frames are generated by modulates of a collection of functions; via the Fourier transfor...

Over the past two decades, naturalistically minded philosophers have expended a fair amount of ______________________________ This paper presents the leading idea of my doctoral dissertation and thus has been shaped by the reactions of all the members of my thesis committee: Charles Chastain, Walter Edelberg, W. Kent Wilson, Dorothy Grover, and Charles Marks. I am especially grateful for the he...

This paper addresses invariance principles for a certain class of switched nonlinear systems. We provide an extension of LaSalle’s Invariance Principle for these systems and state asymptotic stability criteria. We also present some related results that deal with the compactness of the trajectories of these switched systems and that are interesting by their own.

Transportation models play an important role in logistics and supply chain management for reducing cost and improving service. This paper develops a procedure to derive the fuzzy objective value of the fuzzy transportation problem, in that the cost coefficients and the supply and demand quantities are fuzzy numbers. The idea is based on the extension principle. A pair of mathematical programs i...

This paper studies the problem of providing multiple public goods for agents with single-peaked preferences. A decision rule selects m points for the m identical public goods for every pro le of reported preferences. In Miyagawa (1998c) these multiple public goods are options, i.e., alternatives are compared by the most preferred goods according to the agents' preferences. In this paper agents ...

The increasing variety of semantics proposed in the context of Dung’s theory of argumentation makes more and more inadequate the example-based approach commonly adopted for evaluating and comparing different semantics. To fill this gap, this paper provides two main contributions. First, a set of general criteria for semantics evaluation is introduced by proposing a formal counterpart to several...

In this paper, we show that Markov’s principle is not derivable in dependent type theory with natural numbers and one universe. One tentative way to prove this would be to remark that Markov’s principle does not hold in a sheaf model of type theory over Cantor space, since Markov’s principle does not hold for the generic point of this model. It is however not clear how to interpret the universe...

An explicit method for the construction of a tight wavelet frame generated by the Walsh polynomials with the help of extension principles was presented by Shah (Shah, 2013). In this article, we extend the notion of wavelet frames to periodic wavelet frames generated by the Walsh polynomials on R by using extension principles. We first show that under some mild conditions, the periodization of a...

A unitary extension principle for constructing normalized tight wavelet frames of periodic functions of one or higher dimensions is established. While the wavelets are nonstationary, the method much simplifies their construction by reducing it to a matrix extension problem that involves finite rows of complex numbers. Further flexibility is achieved by reformulating the result as an oblique ext...