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White Noise Representation of Gaussian Random Fields
We obtain a representation theorem for Banach space valued Gaussian random
variables as integrals against a white noise. As a corollary we obtain
necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a white noise
representation for a Gaussian random field indexed by a compact measure space.
As an application we show how existing theory for integration with respect to
Gaussian processes indexed by can be extended to Gaussian fields
indexed by compact measure spaces.Comment: 9 page
Effectively Open Real Functions
A function f is continuous iff the PRE-image f^{-1}[V] of any open set V is
open again. Dual to this topological property, f is called OPEN iff the IMAGE
f[U] of any open set U is open again. Several classical Open Mapping Theorems
in Analysis provide a variety of sufficient conditions for openness.
By the Main Theorem of Recursive Analysis, computable real functions are
necessarily continuous. In fact they admit a well-known characterization in
terms of the mapping V+->f^{-1}[V] being EFFECTIVE: Given a list of open
rational balls exhausting V, a Turing Machine can generate a corresponding list
for f^{-1}[V]. Analogously, EFFECTIVE OPENNESS requires the mapping U+->f[U] on
open real subsets to be effective.
By effectivizing classical Open Mapping Theorems as well as from application
of Tarski's Quantifier Elimination, the present work reveals several rich
classes of functions to be effectively open.Comment: added section on semi-algebraic functions; to appear in Proc.
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Some results in probability from the functional analytic viewpoint
This dissertation presents some results from various areas of probability theory, the unifying theme being the use of functional analytic intuition and techniques. We first give a result regarding the existence of certain stochastic integral representations for Banach space valued Gaussian random variables. Next we give a spectral geometric construction of Gaussian random fields over various manifolds that generalize classical fractional Brownian motion. Lastly we present a result describing the limiting distribution for the largest eigenvalue of a product of two random matrices from the β-Laguerre ensemble
Prevalent Behavior of Strongly Order Preserving Semiflows
Classical results in the theory of monotone semiflows give sufficient
conditions for the generic solution to converge toward an equilibrium or
towards the set of equilibria (quasiconvergence). In this paper, we provide new
formulations of these results in terms of the measure-theoretic notion of
prevalence. For monotone reaction-diffusion systems with Neumann boundary
conditions on convex domains, we show that the set of continuous initial data
corresponding to solutions that converge to a spatially homogeneous equilibrium
is prevalent. We also extend a previous generic convergence result to allow its
use on Sobolev spaces. Careful attention is given to the measurability of the
various sets involved.Comment: 18 page
Are galaxy distributions scale invariant? A perspective from dynamical systems theory
Unless there is evidence for fractal scaling with a single exponent over
distances .1 <= r <= 100 h^-1 Mpc then the widely accepted notion of scale
invariance of the correlation integral for .1 <= r <= 10 h^-1 Mpc must be
questioned. The attempt to extract a scaling exponent \nu from the correlation
integral n(r) by plotting log(n(r)) vs. log(r) is unreliable unless the
underlying point set is approximately monofractal. The extraction of a spectrum
of generalized dimensions \nu_q from a plot of the correlation integral
generating function G_n(q) by a similar procedure is probably an indication
that G_n(q) does not scale at all. We explain these assertions after defining
the term multifractal, mutually--inconsistent definitions having been confused
together in the cosmology literature. Part of this confusion is traced to a
misleading speculation made earlier in the dynamical systems theory literature,
while other errors follow from confusing together entirely different
definitions of ``multifractal'' from two different schools of thought. Most
important are serious errors in data analysis that follow from taking for
granted a largest term approximation that is inevitably advertised in the
literature on both fractals and dynamical systems theory.Comment: 39 pages, Latex with 17 eps-files, using epsf.sty and a4wide.sty
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