Robot's hand and expansions in non-integer bases

We study a robot hand model in the framework of the theory of expansions in non-integer bases. We investigate the reachable workspace and we study some configurations enjoying form closure properties.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figure

A Fibonacci control system with application to hyper-redundant manipulators

We study a robot snake model based on a discrete linear control system involving Fibonacci sequence and closely related to the theory of expansions in non-integer bases. The present paper includes an investigation of the reachable workspace, a more general analysis of the control system underlying the model, its reachability and local controllability properties and the relation with expansions in non-integer bases and with iterated function systems

Quantum entanglement and the Bell Matrix

We present a class of maximally entangled states generated by a high-dimensional generalisation of the \textsc{cnot} gate. The advantage of our approach is the simple algebraic structure of both entangling operator and resulting entangled states. In order to show that the method can be applied to any dimension, we introduce new sufficient conditions for global and maximal entanglement with respect to Meyer and Wallach's measure.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure

Geometrical aspects of expansions in complex bases

We study the set of the representable numbers in base $q=pe^{i\frac{2\pi}{n}}$ with $\rho>1$ and $n\in \mathbb N$ and with digits in a arbitrary finite real alphabet $A$. We give a geometrical description of the convex hull of the representable numbers in base $q$ and alphabet $A$ and an explicit characterization of its extremal points. A characterizing condition for the convexity of the set of representable numbers is also shown.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figure

Internal observability of the wave equation in tiled domains

We investigate the internal observability of the wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in tilings. The paper includes a general result relating internal observability problems in general domains to their tiles, and a discussion of the case in which the domain is the 30-60-90 triangle.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1807.1053

Optimal expansions of Kakeya sequences

We investigate optimal expansions of Kakeya sequences for the representation of real numbers. Expansions of Kakeya sequences generalize the expansions in non-integer bases and they display analogous redundancy phenomena. In this paper, we characterize optimal expansions of Kakeya sequences, and we provide conditions for the existence of unique expansions with respect to Kakeya sequences