We establish a one to one correspondence between a set of certain bounded partitions and a set of two-rowed standard Young tableaux of skew shape. Then we obtain a formula for a number which enumerates these partitions. We give two proofs for this formula, one by applying the above correspondence, the other by using the reflection principle. Finally, we give another expression for this number i...

The symmetry principle is described in this paper. The full details are given in the book: J.

When firms make a decision about irreversible investment, they may not have complete confidence about their perceived probabilitymeasure describing future uncertainty. Theymay think other probabilitymeasures perturbed from the original one are also possible. Such uncertainty, characterized by not a single probability measure but a set of probability measures, is called “Knightian uncertainty.” ...

In this paper, we develop Terence Tao’s harmonic analysis method and apply it to restricted sumsets. The well known Cauchy-Davenport theorem asserts that if ∅ 6= A,B ⊆ Z/pZ with p a prime, then |A+ B| > min{p, |A|+ |B| − 1}, where A + B = {a + b : a ∈ A, b ∈ B}. In 2005, Terence Tao gave a harmonic analysis proof of the Cauchy-Davenport theorem, by applying a new form of the uncertainty princip...

Research has shown that after observing a sequence of object-related actions, young children sometimes imitate the goal-directed aspects of the actions only, but other times faithfully imitate all aspects of the actions. In this study we explore whether this mixture of goal-directed and faithful imitation is based in part on individual differences between children. Forty-eight 2-year-old childr...

We study the problem of designing auctions for agents who incur a cost if they choose to learn about their own preferences. We reformulate the revelation principle for use with such deliberative agents. Then we characterize the set of single-good auctions giving rise to dominant strategies for deliberative agents whose values are independent and private. Interestingly, this set of dominant-stra...

The fundamental updating process in the tmnsfemble belief model is related to Lhe concept of specialization and can be described by a specialization matrix. The degree of belief in the truth of a proposition is a degree of justified support. The Principle of Minimal Commitment implies that one should never give more support to the truth of a proposition than justified. We show that Dempster's r...