Random groups arising as graph products

In this paper we study the hyperbolicity properties of a class of random groups arising as graph products associated to random graphs. Recall, that the construction of a graph product is a generalization of the constructions of right-angled Artin and Coxeter groups. We adopt the Erdos - Renyi model of a random graph and find precise threshold functions for the hyperbolicity (or relative hyperbolicity). We aslo study automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups associated to random graphs. We show that with probability tending to one as $n\to \infty$, random right-angled Artin groups have finite outer automorphism groups, assuming that the probability parameter $p$ is constant and satisfies $0.2929 <p<1$

Documents on Western Burmese Economic History, edited by Michael W. Charney

Extract of a Letter dated Nagore, 7th July 1761 by William Turner; Memorandum of Arracan Trade, circa 1770s; History of the Mugs, 1777; Memorandum Regarding the Trade of Arracan and the Port of Akyab in the East Indies, Lat. 20q S’N Long 92q 56 1⁄4 E. (1849) by W. F. Nuthall. Edited for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research by Michael W. Charney

Certaine Words in the Pegu Language (1603), edited by Michael W. Charney

This world list was included in the back matter of A True and Large Discourse of the Voyage of the Whole Fleete of Ships Set forth the 20 of Aprill 1601 by the Government and Assistants of the East Indian Marchants in London, to the East Indies, published for Thomas Thorpe by William Alpley of London in 1603. Curiously, the mission, which did come across ships in the Straits of Melaka, does not appear to have visited Pegu. There is no indication in the text of how or where the world list was obtained. It may be possible the it was gathered from Peguan traders on ships encountered at sea or in a local trading port

Prospects for Burma After Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release (ARI)

Aung San Suu Kyi’s release coincided with the holding of national elections for a military-designed state to provide the ruling junta with a veneer of legitimacy. Nevertheless, the lifting of sanctions will remain the central issue facing Burma’s relations with foreign countries, which will have to balance out human rights issues and investment opportunities. Aung San Suu Kyi and her treatment by the new government will play a determining role in deciding this issue