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Stable systolic category of the product of spheres
The stable systolic category of a closed manifold M indicates the complexity
in the sense of volume. This is a homotopy invariant, even though it is defined
by some relations between homological volumes on M. We show an equality of the
stable systolic category and the real cup-length for the product of arbitrary
finite dimensional real homology spheres. Also we prove the invariance of the
stable systolic category under the rational equivalences for orientable
0-universal manifolds
Going beyond variation of sets
We study integralgeometric representations of variations of general sets A ⊂ Rn without any regularity assumptions. If we assume, for example, that just one partial derivative of its characteristic function χA is a signed Borel measure on R n with finite total variation, can we provide a nice integralgeometric representation of this variation? This is a delicate question, as the Gauss-Green type theorems of De Giorgi and Federer are not available in this generality. We will show that a ‘measure-theoretic boundary’ plays its role in such representations similarly as for the sets of finite variation. There is a variety of suitable notions of ‘measure theoretic boundary’ and one can address the question to find notions of measure-theoretic boundary that are as fine as possible
Constancy results for special families of projections
Let {\mathbb{V} = V x R^l : V \in G(n-l,m-l)} be the family of m-dimensional
subspaces of R^n containing {0} x R^l, and let \pi_{\mathbb{V}} : R^n -->
\mathbb{V} be the orthogonal projection onto \mathbb{V}. We prove that the
mapping V \mapsto Dim \pi_{\mathbb{V}}(B) is almost surely constant for any
analytic set B \subset R^n, where Dim denotes either Hausdorff or packing
dimension.Comment: 22 pages. v2: corrected typos and improved readability throughout the
paper, to appear in Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. So
Simulating spatial and temporal variation of corn canopy temperature during an irrigation cycle
The canopy air temperature difference (delta T) which provides an index for scheduling irrigation was examined. The Monteith transpiration equation was combined with both uptake from a single layered root zone and change in internal storage of the plant and the continuity equation for water flux in the soil plant atmosphere system was solved. The model indicates that both daily total transpiration and soil induced depression of plant water potential may be inferred from mid-day delta T. It is suggested that for the soil plant weather data used in the simulation, either a mid day spatial variability of about 0.8K in canopy temperatures or a field averaged delta T of 2 to 4K may be a suitable criterion for irrigation scheduling
Managing Invasive Species: How Much Do We Spend?
Invasive species: they’re along roadways and up mountain trails; they’re in lakes and along the coast; chances are
they’re in your yard. You might not recognize them for what they are—plants or animals not native to Alaska,
brought here accidentally or intentionally, crowding out local species. This problem is in the early stages here,
compared with what has happened in other parts of the country. But a number of invasive species are already here,
and scientists think more are on the way. These species can damage ecosystems and economies—so it’s important
to understand their potential economic and other effects now, when it’s more feasible to remove or contain them.
Here we summarize our analysis of what public and private groups spent to manage invasive species in Alaska
from 2007 through 2011. This publication is a joint product of ISER and the Alaska SeaLife Center, and it provides
the first look at economic effects of invasive species here. Our findings are based on a broad survey of agencies
and organizations that deal with invasive species.1 The idea for the research came out of a working group formed
to help minimize the effects of invasive species in Alaska.2 Several federal and state agencies and organizations
funded the work (see back page).Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Ocean Alaska Science and Learning Center.
Alaska Legislative Council.
Bureau of Land Management
Testing surface area with arbitrary accuracy
Recently, Kothari et al.\ gave an algorithm for testing the surface area of
an arbitrary set . Specifically, they gave a randomized
algorithm such that if 's surface area is less than then the algorithm
will accept with high probability, and if the algorithm accepts with high
probability then there is some perturbation of with surface area at most
. Here, is a dimension-dependent constant which is
strictly larger than 1 if , and grows to as .
We give an improved analysis of Kothari et al.'s algorithm. In doing so, we
replace the constant with for arbitrary. We
also extend the algorithm to more general measures on Riemannian manifolds.Comment: 5 page
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