We complete the details of a theory outlined by Kontsevich and Soibelman that associates to a semi-algebraic set a certain graded commutative differential algebra of “semi-algebraic differential forms” in a functorial way. This algebra encodes the real homotopy type of the semialgebraic set in the spirit of the DeRham algebra of differential forms on a smooth manifold. Its development is needed...

Abstract. The semi-topological K-theory K ∗ (X) of a quasi-projective complex algebraic variety X is based on the notion of algebraic vector bundles modulo algebraic equivalence. This theory is given as the homotopy groups of an infinite loop space K(X) which is equipped with maps K(X) → K(X), K(X) → Ktop(Xan) whose composition is the natural map from the algebraic K-theory of X to the topologi...

Product Distribution(PD) theory is a new framework for doing distributed, adaptive control of a multiagent system(MAS). We introduce the technique of “coordinate transformations” in PD theory gradient descent. These transformations selectively couple a few agents with each other into ”meta-agents”. Intuitively, this can be viewed as a generalization of forming binding contracts between those ag...

2014 Some properties of semi-dilute poor and good solvent polymer solutions are examined within the framework of the field-theoretic formulism. The uncontrollable polydispersivity inherent in the field-theoretic formulism is shown to produce no errors if the quantity under investigation is molecular weight independent. A renormalization group cross-over calculation correct to order 03B5 is perf...

To Ivan Koll a r on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The usual jets were introduced by C. Ehresmann as a fundamental tool in Diierential Geometry. They permit to globalize the theory of diierential systems and to give a formulation of the \innnite groups" of E. Cartan; this leads to the theory of Lie pseudogroups; initiated by C. Ehresmann, this theory was studied by many mathematicians (the ...

Abstract: We prove that the theory of rough paths, which is used to define path-wise integrals and path-wise differential equations, can be used with continuous semi-martingales. We provide then an almost sure theorem of type Wong-Zakai. Moreover, we show that the conditions UT and UCV, used to prove that one can interchange limits and Itô or Stratonovich integrals, provide the same result when...

Based on the concept of double central extension from categorical Galois theory, we study a notion of commutator which is defined relative to a Birkhoff subcategory B of a semi-abelian category A. This commutator characterises Janelidze and Kelly’s B-central extensions; when the subcategoryB is determined by the abelian objects inA, it coincides with Huq’s commutator; and when the category A is...

The semi-topological K-theory of real varieties, KR(−), is an oriented multiplicative (generalized) cohomology theory which extends the authors’ earlier theory, K(−), for complex algebraic varieties. Motivation comes from consideration of algebraic equivalence of vector bundles (sharpened to real semi-topological equivalence), consideration of Z/2-equivariant mapping spaces of morphisms of alge...

Semi-contraction is a withdrawal operation defined by Fermé in “On the logic of theory change: Contraction without recovery.” In this paper we propose: (1) an axiomatic characterization of semi-contraction; (2) an alternative construction for semi-contraction based on semi-saturatable sets, inspired by Levi’s saturatable sets; (3) a special kind of semi-contraction that satisfies the Lindström ...