• A potential reduction algorithm for two-person zero-sum mean payoff stochastic games 

      [OWP-2015-19] Boros, Endre; Elbassioni, Khaled; Gurvich, Vladimir; Makino, Kazuhisa (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015)
      We suggest a new algorithm for two-person zero-sum undiscounted stochastic games focusing on stationary strategies. Given a positive real $\epsilon$, let us call a stochastic game $\epsilon$-ergodic, if its values from any ...
    • Prediction and Quantification of Individual Athletic Performance 

      [OWP-2015-11] Blythe, Duncan A. J.; Király, Franz J. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015-08-27)
      We present a novel, quantitative view on the human athletic performance of individuals. We obtain a predictor for athletic running performances, a parsimonious model, and a training state summary consisting of three numbers, ...
    • A Pseudo-Polynomial Algorithm for Mean Payoff Stochastic Games with Perfect Information and Few Random Positions 

      [OWP-2015-20] Boros, Endre; Elbassioni, Khaled; Gurvich, Vladimir; Makino, Kazuhisa (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015)
      We consider two-person zero-sum stochastic mean payoff games with perfect information, or BWR-games, given by a digraph $G = (V,E)$, with local rewards $r : E \to \mathbb{Z}$, and three types of positions: black $V_B$, ...
    • Realizing Spaces as Classifying Spaces 

      [OWP-2015-01] Lupton, Gregory; Smith, Samuel Bruce (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015-04-10)
      Which spaces occur as a classifying space for fibrations with a given fibre? We address this question in the context of rational homotopy theory. We construct an infinite family of finite complexes realized (up to rational ...
    • Right Unimodal and Bimodal Singularities in Positive Characteristic 

      [OWP-2015-14] Nguyen, Hong Duc (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015-11-18)
      The problem of classification of real and complex singularities was initiated by Arnol'd in the sixties who classified simple, unimodal and bimodal w.r.t. right equivalence. The classification of right simple singularities ...
    • Simulation of Multibody Systems with Servo Constraints through Optimal Control 

      [OWP-2015-18] Altmann, Robert; Heiland, Jan (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015)
      We consider mechanical systems where the dynamics are partially constrained to prescribed trajectories. An example for such a system is a building crane with a load and the requirement that the load moves on a certain path. ...
    • Time and band limiting for matrix valued functions, an example 

      [OWP-2015-08] Grünbaum, F. A.; Pacharoni, I.; Zurrián, Ignacio Nahuel (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015-07-29)
      The main purpose of this paper is to extend to a situation involving matrix valued orthogonal polynomials and spherical functions, a result that traces its origin and its importance to work of Claude Shannon in laying the ...
    • Torsion-free Covers of Solvable Minimax Groups 

      [OWP-2015-15] Kropholler, Peter H.; Lorensen, Karl (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015-11-18)
      We prove that every finitely generated solvable minimax group can be realized as a quotient of a torsion-free solvable minimax group. This result has an application to the investigation of random walks on finitely generated ...
    • Virtual Polytopes 

      [OWP-2015-02] Panina, Gaiane; Streinu, Ileana (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2015-04-10)
      Originating in diverse branches of mathematics, from polytope algebra and toric varieties to the theory of stressed graphs, virtual polytopes represent a natural algebraic generalization of convex polytopes. Introduced as ...