Volume 57, Issue 6

The rules of the game MetaSquares as well as computational results suggest to follow a “lattice” strategy. This strategy is presented, and by counting lattice points it is shown to be essentially best possible.

Every root of the top Wronskian of a Wronskian matrix whose rank at the root is equal to the number of columns, is of integer order even if the highest derivatives exist only at the root. If the rank of a Wronskian matrix is constant and smaller than the number of rows, then the number of independent linear relations between the functions in the first row is equal to the number of functions minus the rank. These results were proved under additional assumptions by Bôcher, Curtiss, and Moszner. Their proofs are simplified.

The Hahn definition of the integral is recalled, the requirement of measurability of the integrand omitted. Both the upper and lower integrals comply with this definition and so does any measurable function between them. The outer product measure of the hypograph of a nonnegative bounded nonmeasurable function is equal to the upper integral which is equal to one of the Fan integrals. The outer measure of the graph of a bounded nonmeasurable function is equal to the difference between the upper and lower integrals. A norm for not necessarily measurable functions is defined with the upper integral. The linear space with this norm is complete. The convergence in this space implies the convergence in outer measure. The distance as an outer measure of the symmetric difference of two sets gives us a complete metric space of classes of subsets.

Some properties of orientation-preserving surjections with nonempty set of periodic points are studied. In particular, orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the whole circle S 1 are considered.

We study spaces of multifunctions with closed values, multifunctions with closed graphs, USCO multifunctions, minimal USCO multifunctions and the space of densely continuous forms as metric spaces, equipped with the topology of uniform convergence. We give conditions under which these metric spaces are complete.

The multivariate model, where not only parameters of the mean value of the observation matrix, but also some other parameters occur in constraints, is considered in the paper. Some basic inference is presented under the condition that the covariance matrix is either unknown, or partially unknown, or known.

Relations between generalized effect algebras and the sets of classical and quantum observables endowed with an ordering recently introduced in [GUDDER, S.: An order for quantum observables, Math. Slovaca 56 (2006), 573–589] are studied. In the classical case, a generalized OMP, while in the quantum case a weak generalized OMP is obtained. Existence of infima for arbitrary sets and suprema for above bounded sets in the quantum case is shown. Compatibility in the sense of Mackey is characterized.