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A point-line incidence identity in finite fields, and applications
Let be a set in the 2-dimensional vector space
over a finite field with elements. We prove an identity for the second
moment of its incidence function and deduce a variety of existing results from
the literature, not all naturally associated with lines in , in
a unified and elementary way.Comment: 30 page
Products of Differences over Arbitrary Finite Fields
There exists an absolute constant such that for all and all
subsets of the finite field with elements, if
, then Any suffices for sufficiently large
. This improves the condition , due to Bennett, Hart,
Iosevich, Pakianathan, and Rudnev, that is typical for such questions.
Our proof is based on a qualitatively optimal characterisation of sets for which the number of solutions to the equation is nearly
maximum.
A key ingredient is determining exact algebraic structure of sets for
which is nearly minimum, which refines a result of Bourgain and
Glibichuk using work of Gill, Helfgott, and Tao.
We also prove a stronger statement for when are sets in a prime field,
generalising a result of Roche-Newton, Rudnev, Shkredov, and the authors.Comment: 42 page
Frand v. Compulsory Licensing: The Lesser of the Two Evils
This paper focuses on two types of licenses that can best be described as outliersāFRAND and compulsory licenses. Overall, these two specific forms of licenses share the objective of producing a fair and reasonable license of a technology protected by intellectual property. The comparable objective notwithstanding, each type of license achieves this end using different mechanisms. The FRAND license emphasizes providing the licensee with reasonable terms, e.g., by preventing a standard patent holder from extracting unreasonably high royalty rates. By contrast, compulsory licenses emphasize the public benefit that flows from enabling access to an otherwise inaccessible invention. Ultimately, both forms of license attempt to create a value for the licensed product that can be remarkably different from the productās true market value. Nevertheless, both forms ultimately benefit the end-consumer who pays less to access a product subject to either of these forms of license. In comparing these two forms of licenses, the paper hopes to determine whether one form is better than the other, and if so, from whose perspectiveāthe consumer, the licensor or the licensee. In doing so, this paper compares the different prevailing efforts to embrace such licenses as well as the impact of such licenses on the industry
A robust approach to model-based classification based on trimming and constraints
In a standard classification framework a set of trustworthy learning data are
employed to build a decision rule, with the final aim of classifying unlabelled
units belonging to the test set. Therefore, unreliable labelled observations,
namely outliers and data with incorrect labels, can strongly undermine the
classifier performance, especially if the training size is small. The present
work introduces a robust modification to the Model-Based Classification
framework, employing impartial trimming and constraints on the ratio between
the maximum and the minimum eigenvalue of the group scatter matrices. The
proposed method effectively handles noise presence in both response and
exploratory variables, providing reliable classification even when dealing with
contaminated datasets. A robust information criterion is proposed for model
selection. Experiments on real and simulated data, artificially adulterated,
are provided to underline the benefits of the proposed method
Variations on the sum-product problem II
This is a sequel to the paper arXiv:1312.6438 by the same authors. In this
sequel, we quantitatively improve several of the main results of
arXiv:1312.6438, and build on the methods therein.
The main new results is that, for any finite set , there
exists such that .
We give improved bounds for the cardinalities of and . Also,
we prove that . The latter result is optimal up to the logarithmic
factor.Comment: This paper supersedes arXiv:1603.0682
Variable selection and updating in model-based discriminant analysis for high dimensional data with food authenticity applications
Food authenticity studies are concerned with determining if food samples have been correctly labelled or not. Discriminant analysis methods are an integral part of the methodology for food authentication. Motivated by food authenticity applications, a model-based discriminant analysis method that includes variable selection is presented. The discriminant analysis model is fitted in a semi-supervised manner using both labeled and unlabeled data. The method is shown to give excellent classification
performance on several high-dimensional multiclass food authenticity datasets with more variables than observations. The variables selected by the proposed method provide information about which variables are meaningful for classification purposes. A headlong search strategy for variable selection is shown to be efficient in terms of computation and achieves excellent classification performance. In applications to several food authenticity datasets, our proposed method outperformed default implementations of Random Forests, AdaBoost, transductive SVMs and Bayesian Multinomial Regression by substantial margins
Sites of Historical Amusement: Tourism and the Recontextualization of American History
Through the analysis of a theatrical event staged in Brooklyn, New York, entitled Black America (1895), this thesis interrogates cultural heritage tourism of the past and present and introduces a new classification of tourist site, āsite of historical amusement.ā In this current political moment, one during which regional pride and latent racism are bubbling to the surface, this study advocates for the continued interrogation of how the American story is bought and sold.
Sites of historical amusement are historically themed spaces that sell a recontextualized narrative that strips complexity from history, effectively flattening the past in order to create a cultural product palatable to the masses. Nate Salsburyās Black America was a large scale plantation show that did this by presenting āauthentic Southern Negro culture,ā one that played on common tropes and the political realities of the day. Black Americaās racist presentation attracted thousands of visitors during its short run, reinforcing longstanding and dangerous stereotypes of African Americans and elevating a nationalistic worldview rooted in white supremacy. This study uses Black America as a case study to explore the political and cultural work done at sites of historical amusement. It also identifies similar sites of the past and present, including Buffalo Billās Wild West, The Chicago Worldās Fair, Disneyland, and Disneyās America, a failed 1990s Disney project.
Sites of Historical Amusement: Tourism and the Recontextualization of American History takes an interdisciplinary approach by pairing the previous scholarship on Black America with that of tourism studies scholars, scholars of memory and popular culture, and primary documents from museums and archives. In doing so, new connections between tourism, racial performance, and American history are made
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