We consider Markov chains on partially ordered sets that generalize the success-runs and remaining life chains in reliability theory. We find conditions for recurrence and transience and give simple expressions for the invariant distributions. We study a number of special cases, including rooted trees, uniform posets, and posets associated with positive semigroups. 1 Partially Ordered Sets 1.1 ...

In this paper, some categorical properties of the category { Pre-Dcpo} of all pre-dcpos; pre-ordered sets which are also pre-directed complete, with pre-continuous maps between them is considered. In particular, we characterize products and coproducts in this category. Furthermore, we show that this category is neither complete nor cocomplete. Also, epimorphisms and monomorphisms in {Pre-Dcpo} ...

A topology on a lattice L or more generally on a partially ordered set P is called an intrinsic topology if it is de ned directly from the order Early ex amples of such topologies were the interval topology of O Frink Fr and the order topology introduced by G Birkho Bi The early intrinsic topolo gies were typically symmetric i e the topology de ned on L agreed with the topology de ned on L the ...

we report the direct soft chemical synthesis and characterization of a family of face centered cubic (fcc) and partially ordered face centered tetragonal (fct) fept nanoparticles (nps) suitable for biomedical applications. both fcc and partially ordered fct-fept nps are synthesized by employing a simple polyol method. by using polyvinyl pyrolidone (pvp) as a stabilizer in various ratios during ...

the aim of this paper is to establish random coincidence point results for weakly increasing random operators in the setting of ordered metric spaces by using generalized altering distance functions. our results present random versions and extensions of some well-known results in the current literature.

Let F:X-*X be a multifunction on a partially ordered set (X, ¿). Suppose for each pair «iá*2 and for each yi<EF(xi) there is a yi&F{y¿) such that yièyiThen sufficient conditions are given such that multifunctions F satisfying the above condition will have a fixed point. These results generalize the Tarski Theorem on complete lattices, and they also generalize some results of S. Abian and A. B. ...