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How much Mathematics does Economy Need? ...Or... Some Brief Epistemological Excursions into the Mathematics located on the border with Social Sciences
In our paper we try to answer to the epistemological question how much mathematics does economy need.economics, economy, mathematics, epistemology
Econophysics: A new discipline
This paper debates the contribution of Econophysics to the economic or
financial domains. Since the traditional approach performed by Economics or
Finance has revealed to be insufficient in fully characterizing and explaining
the correspondingly phenomena, we discuss whether Econophysics can provide a
new insight onto these matters. Thus, an assessment is presented in order to
weight its potential opportunities and limitations. This is particularly
relevant as it is widely recognized that during its yet short existence
Econophysics has experienced a growing interest not only by physicists but also
by economists in searching for new approaches that could help explaining
existing questions. In fact, many papers have been submitted, some books have
been released, new journals have been published, several conferences have been
held, a site is maintained -- http://www.unifr.ch/econophysics where news,
events, book reviews, papers and a blog are exhibited; a 3-year licentiate
studies (University of Silesia [1]) and a B.Sc. course (University of Wroclaw
[2]) have been created and also some Ph.D. thesis have been written. Therefore,
a fundamental question arises: Is this just a fad or is it something much more
consistent that will prevail? This is what this paper addresses
The Complexity of Finding Reset Words in Finite Automata
We study several problems related to finding reset words in deterministic
finite automata. In particular, we establish that the problem of deciding
whether a shortest reset word has length k is complete for the complexity class
DP. This result answers a question posed by Volkov. For the search problems of
finding a shortest reset word and the length of a shortest reset word, we
establish membership in the complexity classes FP^NP and FP^NP[log],
respectively. Moreover, we show that both these problems are hard for
FP^NP[log]. Finally, we observe that computing a reset word of a given length
is FNP-complete.Comment: 16 pages, revised versio
Generalised exponential families and associated entropy functions
A generalised notion of exponential families is introduced. It is based on
the variational principle, borrowed from statistical physics. It is shown that
inequivalent generalised entropy functions lead to distinct generalised
exponential families. The well-known result that the inequality of Cramer and
Rao becomes an equality in the case of an exponential family can be
generalised. However, this requires the introduction of escort probabilities.Comment: 20 page
Duality and interval analysis over idempotent semirings
In this paper semirings with an idempotent addition are considered. These
algebraic structures are endowed with a partial order. This allows to consider
residuated maps to solve systems of inequalities . The
purpose of this paper is to consider a dual product, denoted , and the
dual residuation of matrices, in order to solve the following inequality . Sufficient conditions ensuring the
existence of a non-linear projector in the solution set are proposed. The
results are extended to semirings of intervals
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