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Topological Prismatoids and Small Simplicial Spheres of Large Diameter
We introduce topological prismatoids, a combinatorial abstraction of the
(geometric) prismatoids recently introduced by the second author to construct
counter-examples to the Hirsch conjecture. We show that the `strong -step
Theorem' that allows to construct such large-diameter polytopes from
`non--step' prismatoids still works at this combinatorial level. Then, using
metaheuristic methods on the flip graph, we construct four combinatorially
different non--step -dimensional topological prismatoids with
vertices. This implies the existence of -dimensional spheres with
vertices whose combinatorial diameter exceeds the Hirsch bound. These examples
are smaller that the previously known examples by Mani and Walkup in 1980 (
vertices, dimension ).
Our non-Hirsch spheres are shellable but we do not know whether they are
realizable as polytopes.Comment: 20 pages. Changes from v1 and v2: Reduced the part on shellability
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Some critics to the contagion correlation test
The term contagion is generally used to refer to the spread3 of market shocks from one country to another. However, identifying what is meant by contagion and its consequences has become in recent years a literature in itself4, given the importance of such consequences on economies all over the world. Despite the lack of theoretical consensus, some authors try to measure contagion through the use of correlation tests. The aim of my work is to raise a technical and conceptual critique concerning these models. To support my concerns I provide a broad vision and background of contagion literature and an insight in the particular field of contagion correlation test. The work is organized in four parts. Firstly, an overview of definitional issues concerning contagion, as presented in the literature, is explained together with the different crisis transmission channels that authors have identified. Secondly, a detailed description of the contagion correlation test âas the most common means to search for contagionâis presented, giving a full overview of the models used in the literature. Thirdly, I will express my concerns about the test and the models of the previous section. Finally, some conclusions are stated.
Norm Monitoring under Partial Action Observability
In the context of using norms for controlling multi-agent systems, a vitally
important question that has not yet been addressed in the literature is the
development of mechanisms for monitoring norm compliance under partial action
observability. This paper proposes the reconstruction of unobserved actions to
tackle this problem. In particular, we formalise the problem of reconstructing
unobserved actions, and propose an information model and algorithms for
monitoring norms under partial action observability using two different
processes for reconstructing unobserved actions. Our evaluation shows that
reconstructing unobserved actions increases significantly the number of norm
violations and fulfilments detected.Comment: Accepted at the IEEE Transaction on Cybernetic
Temporal and spatial homogeneity in air pollutants panel EKC estimations: Two nonparametric tests applied to Spanish provinces
Although panel data have been used intensively by a wealth of studies investigating the GDP-pollution relationship, the poolability assumption used to model these data is almost never addressed. This paper applies a strategy to test the poolability assumption with methods robust to functional misspecification. Nonparametric poolability tests are performed to check the temporal and spatial homogeneity of the panel and their results are compared with the conventional F-tests for a balanced panel of 48 Spanish provinces on four air pollutant emissions (CH4, CO, CO2 and NMVOC) over the 1990-2002 period. We show that temporal homogeneity may allow the pooling of the data and drive to well-defined nonparametric and parametric cross-sectional U-inverted shapes for all air pollutants. However, the presence of spatial heterogeneity makes this shape compatible with different timeseries patterns in every province - mainly increasing or decreasing depending on the pollutant. These results highlight the extreme sensitivity of the income-pollution relationship to region- or country-specific factors.Environmental Kuznets Curve; Air pollutants; Non/Semiparametric estimations; Poolability tests
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